Transparency - The Glass Lake Like Crystal

So how bad can it get?

Outright we have powerful leaders of what are either actual nations or groups of them, encouraging talk of nuclear war.

Can it happen?

Let us look together towards revealing the meaning of certain passages in what are quite impenetrable texts.

Firstly, there is a 'Beast.' This is in many cultures, not just the Western one. This (Beast) means a moving material form, a structure that is animated in some way.

The future,
is closer than you think.

And then there is contention between a primordial 'Dragon' that has given its power to said 'Beast.

The Dragon is of course, dead. Dead in the sense that it has been consigned to the third of the Three Realms in the Chinese system, but which are actually the same ideas as contained in the Ancient Greek and the Vedic systems.

The concept of contention implies the desire of both sides to prevail, and to materially exist, of course. It's not a Nihilistic thing at all. 

So what you can logically draw from this is that no matter how dire things are, how disastrous they get, both sides are intent on keeping at least sufficient of their followers alive.

There are certainly implications in all of the deep texts across many cultures, about something that affects a lot of people with what could easily be presumed to be radiation poisoning effects, but then so too could they be accounted for by the use of biological weaponry.

The main Western such of these 'End of Days' texts (because there is another one which is quite similar, and from which the Islamic world gets it's idea of the Dajjal - which is in fact taken from a Farsi word meaning a deceiver; the 'khar-dajjal' being the Zoroastrian idea about some 'donkey on which the Great Deceiver rides'), includes the idea that two types of people live in and live on through the disastrous circumstances:

The Temple of Venus
in Rome.
Was dedicated 46 BC
by Julius Caesar.
Never make the mistake 
of thinking that just because
some great and good leader got 
assassinated we were not
watching...

One, those who are committed to the 'Beast;' and who therefore suffer the worst because in fact the plagues and violence are deliberately arranged by a Divine form of Judgment against the world and the people of the world -,

And Two, those who overcome the fear (which is stated as the active principal by which the Beast rules) which the worldly rulers and that system use, and who then stand above, something, as if 'on a glass lake transparent like crystal.'

Everybody's intentions need to be transparent to you.

That is the meaning.

There is a dynamic in the human race which is a dichotomy of forces between the natural demands of material benefit, and the need for assessing the moral costs of satisfying any particular one of them; IE in fact all of them.

Why is it so intrinsic that there should be such a contest?

Because unless you know where people stand in practice, then you are never able to trust them at all in theory, especially not over the very long term - since human beings are not archetypes themselves; neither in the sense of perfect examples of anything, nor in the sense of un-moving statues simply representing ideas or themes of certain things. 

Human beings are living things, who are dynamically active along a path of development, progress, interactions, infinite interaction, in fact. So it's their true internal nature, not their temporary superficial actions, that matter.

The only distinction the Western Christian cosmological commentary makes between those who 'attain' the Divine Estate, and the mortal people - is precisely that thing: they change physically into a living body entity which is more permanent.

It is expressly that in 1 Corinthians 15: 51 - 52.

One day you will
drink the best
water in the world,
and you will think:
'hang on a minute!'

This is far from an unscientific notion either - the latest advances in research science makes claims that it is possible to switch off the 'aging gene' mechanism altogether and to reliably promote SIRT-6 enzymes which maintain telomeres and conduct DNA repair - but interestingly, mediate stress responses which impact aging. So that's even just on one level of the idea of 'human life.' 

One of the straightforward ways that you can de-venom fear, is to enable maximum transparency to the actions of every person and every societal structure and institution that you encounter.

It's actually a mistaken perspective of the logic on moral absolutism, to think that lots of people suddenly being killed off indiscriminately, will therefore add up to a world population that is more amenable to something like a decent human society.

We have to understand things in terms of the real age of the Universe, the likelihood that many many societies and species before us, existed, and still exist.

And so we should be looking at what would look like an acceptable forward moving scenario in the mind of a more morally sound advanced intelligent species that might be looking over this planet in a benevolent way:

...namely, that you do not get killed by a nuclear weapon or by some biological plague weapon despite that that is the direction in which the world at large is going.

And that you do not either, get consumed by doubt, fear, anxiety and impossible economic circumstances.

It must become utterly transparent, why there are so-called 'world leaders' who wish to destroy everything and make everyone downtrodden and subservient to them, despite that they are themselves not very intelligent people (regardless that they are usually quite verbose and noisy) and not naturally entitled to lead anything! 

Some things should be saved.
1933 Delage.

You must settle in your mind, that just because someone looks superficially, like you, it doesn't mean that they are actually like you. And certainly never make the serious mistake of seeing their material position or their material wealth, or the appearance of it, and becoming en-glamoured by all of that.

And never therefore, think they 'can be saved' because they cannot.

So do not mourn them when they fall.

Many things must happen first, before all will be revealed at last.