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DYBWAD BROCHMANN THE ART OF READING
THE BIBLE Chapter
6 Two Different Views of Life and Their Logical
Consequences Now I must share with my readers an example from my own life, because
this shows the benefits of reading The Bible correctly. In 1933, in Norway, there was a rather popular movement around the
interpretation of The Bible and guidance for life that I had tried to spread
using the written and spoken word. At the same time, Quisling began to organize the “National Assembly” (the Norwegian
Nazi Party). Then his friends came to me and asked: “Do you also want a
national assembly?” We said yes. “Well, try to agree with Quisling. We don’t
need two opposition parties in the country”. I agreed for two reasons. 1.
First, because I had no desire to be “nominated”. Then, as always, all I have
wanted to do was to be able to write and speak freely without “supporters”
who would “use their right to vote” and turn me into “the leader”. 2. As soon
as I would speak in the Parliament, people would perceive me as being at the
head of a politically inspired group, and nothing was more remote, and no one
was less qualified than me, to do this. (When Pastor Hans Bauge, unlike other pastors,
wanted to take up the struggle against the golden calf, I asked him to be the
leader of the party. He was much more qualified than I was; however, “the
pastor” in him created many difficulties for him). There was a conference with
Quisling, but nothing happened, and thereafter Quisling and I conferred
together, just the two of us. I criticized Quisling’s choice of resources, especially the way he tried to provoke the
Communists and others, and told him that it would lead to civil war. He
accused me of being an idealist and that my methods weren’t successful. I
asked him if he didn’t see that a national assembly had to be or become a product of a new orientation? I
further added that we already had that orientation. The light of truth gathers and unites people. Delusion and violent
tactics divide and separate. The good things that you want to happen,
won’t happen. The trouble that you want to avoid, will come. Quisling replied
by saying that this was just what the Communists wanted; look at Hitler. His
methods are successful. You (BDB) mean well, and certainly have thought long
and hard over things, but you are too “good” for this world. You are not
realistic enough. Our conference ended by my giving him my book “The Living
Society” and we left. His anti-Semitic viewpoint also divided us. I don’t see
any enemy who is made of flesh and bone. After that, the first
“election” showed that Quisling’s party went down from about 28,000 votes to
about 18,000, and my “party” went up from 15,000 to 45,000 votes. Now I had
proof that the people did want what was good, when they could hear and
understand what was right. We
visited all kinds of people and discussed the social, economic, and ethical
problems with the Communists, as well as everybody else. In spite of overwhelming sabotage by all of the Norwegian press, and
the systematic sabotage by the Parliament and the Norwegian Broadcasting
Company, our new orientation to life was successful, and it went so quickly
that, with a just and fair election system, we would have had five
representatives in the Parliament. When Hambro saw this, the Parliament’s own suggestion regarding “election by the proportional
representation method” was shelved, and the Parliament re-elected itself in
1939. So there wasn’t any new election. The Norwegian anti-Semites, who
regarded Hambro as a dangerous man, should remember that when the Jews were
persecuted in Norway, Hambro, the Jew, unconsciously and involuntarily arranged that Quisling was in the
spotlight, and that we who were the largest party in opposition, not
enemies of the Jews, and really a new orientations party,
were in the background. That means that Hambro, the Jew, worked against
himself and other Jews. I personally know many Norwegian Jews, who are
excellent people, and don’t look at them as enemies. It pained me very much
to see how the “National Assembly” (the Norwegian Nazi Party) allowed them to
be persecuted. How did that happen? Now,
at this writing (1945) civil war is developing rapidly, Norwegians are
killing Norwegians, and those who said they were “the newly oriented”
asserted ancient ideas and delusions. Since they hated the Jews, they didn’t
really understand The Bible, and certainly didn’t have any new light or new
ways in their way of being. The Norwegians in London made a “raid” in Norway
and captured some of Quisling’s supporters and took them as prisoners to
other countries. Civil war is going strong. Look at the picture by my
friend Einarson. (The caption
reads: “and then there was an assembly”). This was drawn and made
public many years before “the National Assembly” came to power with the help
of foreign weapons and injustice in our country. How did we know this? We
used the same knowledge about the
inherent orderliness of life that
Moses used when he prophesied that the Jews would be killing each other.
If you don’t want to accept the story in Exodus as a literal event, you can at least see it as a “drama in one act” invented by a seer.
Another Bible story, about the tower of Babel, can be understood in the same
way, as we soon shall see. By sharing an example of my
own experiences in Norway, I wanted to show: 1. The absolute truth and
reliability in The Bible regarding the internal automatic legalities and
undeniable holy order of life. 2. The Spirit of God doesn’t just write His
“laws”; He also sees that the laws are
obeyed. No nation in history, who has danced around the golden calf, has
avoided the same destiny. Think about Jerusalem, Carthage, Rome, Spain, and any other
ancient culture. Can empirical science soon “experience” this? 3. Which
method was shown to be most realistic – mine or Quisling’s? Quisling’s method
rationally developed into the expected results. He worked hand and glove with
the Parliament and the spirit of the time, and was proven right. He was the man of the hour, just like Aaron
who went along with the spirit of the times – the public mood. However, I was
also right because the methods I showed were the same as building on the exact reality. (The Bible calls it
(the rock”). Quisling built on sand, as a typical daydreamer would. He
accepted false reality and therefore others knew his destiny ahead of time.
4. When Hitler has gone as far as he can, will the world then learn what
violent methods and the military system mean and contain? Will people have
learned to understand The Bible’s teaching about the law and order of life,
or will people continue like flies, to fly around their own innate dynamic
powers, without acknowledging their own capacity, faith or will to be in
control? Will empiric science reap this “experience”, or will it continue to
call their delusions for experiences? Although “the state’s”
clergy don’t agree with me, I maintain that it is possible to teach all
children at the age of 15 years of age as much as possible about the law
and order of life, so that they can understand how it all hangs together. The
young candidates for confirmation can, if need be, “take it over” as many
times as necessary so that they can clearly
explain by themselves about the automatic almighty spiritual activity in
human beings. This is just as easy to understand as the school studies in
physics, or how a radio is put together and works. It is also possible to
give people such a thorough orientation and self-control, that Pastor Aaron
will be immediately stopped when he tries to ”teach people about the spiritual
life of dreams” and in the socio-economic playground, that has to do with
building symbols. It’s even
possible to teach the Germans in a reasonable amount of time to be on guard
against demagogues. Workers and citizens can even be taught that all “differences of opinion” are only artificial and made-up phenomenon
that are caused by the unclear vision of guides and leaders, and that every
organization of people, in reality, is the beginning of enslavement and force
– the opposite of liberty. Lastly, every difference of opinion only appears
that way. It is a delusion that has its beginning somewhere or another in
another involuntary or uncontrolled play with symbols. This is a true and realistic orientation to reality.
This is true and living Christianity. This is the correct way to read The
Bible. This is the correct science about mankind, its creation, its realm,
and, at the same time, its perilous nature. |