| These three groups of people, influenced by the sixth and
seventh rays or who are bewildered by the impact of forces generated by those rays, are
those who must together, with understanding and clear vision, bring order out of the
present chaos. They must materialize those new and desirable conditions which will conform
to the subjective pattern in the minds of the illumined people of the world and to [31]
the spiritual plan as it exists in the consciousness of the members of the Hierarchy. The
new age with its peculiar civilization and culture will be brought into manifestation
through the collaboration of the well-intentioned many, responsive increasingly to the
good of the whole and not of the individual; they are the idealistic but practical
thinkers, influenced by the pattern of things to come and the world disciples, impressed
by the plans and under the instruction of the Hierarchy which is directing and controlling
all. It is with these three groups of people and with the work upon which they are
engaged that any prevision I may evidence will consistently deal. All changes in
connection with the human family, the fourth kingdom in nature, are always dependent upon
three factors:
- Those outer physical events which are definitely "acts of God" and over which
no human being has the slightest authority.
- The activity of human beings themselves, working on all the different rays but in any
given time and in any particular period conditioned by:
- The preponderance of egos to be found on any particular ray. There are a very large
number of second ray egos in incarnation today and their work and their lives will
facilitate the coming Great Approach.
- The nature and the quality of the predominating personality rays of the majority. At
this time there are a vast number of souls in incarnation whose personality rays are
either the sixth or the third. They condition the coming civilization outstandingly
including all educational and financial enterprises, just as the influence of those who
have soul contact and can express soul quality condition and determine the current
culture. [32]
- The activity of the fifth principle, that of the mind. This mind principle is peculiarly
active today in a broad and general sense. If I might put it symbolically the vertical
activity of the mind which has affected individuals everywhere down the ages has
always produced the mental guides, the directors and the leaders of humanity. Today, the horizontal
activity of the mind, embracing huge masses of the populace and sometimes entire
nations and races, can everywhere be seen and this must lead inevitably to events and
effects hitherto unvisioned and impossible.
- The influence of the outgoing and the incoming rays at any time. You have often been
told that these events - for the emergence or disappearance of a ray influence is an event
in time - are a matter of slow development, are psychic in nature, and are governed by
law. The length of time in which a ray appears, manifests and does its work and finally
disappears is one of the secrets of initiation, but - as time elapses and the nature of
time itself is better understood - the period and the time equation of the minor rays of
attribute will be established but that time is not yet, although the intense interest
taken today in the phenomena of time indicates a growing awareness of the problem itself
and of the need for understanding the relation of time, both to space and to event. It
will be realized before long that time is entirely a brain event; a study of the sense of
speed as registered by the brain, plus the capacity or incapacity of a human being to
express this speed, will, when properly approached, reveal much that today remains a
mystery.
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