SECTION ONE - INTRODUCTORY REMARKS The
Period of Transition
March 1934
One of the results of the world condition at this time is the speeding up of all the
atomic lives upon and within the planet. This necessarily involves the increased vibratory
activity of the human mechanism, with a consequent effect upon the psychic nature,
producing an abnormal sensitivity and psychic awareness. It would be of value here to
remember that the condition of humanity at this time is not the result of simply one
factor, but of several - all of them being active simultaneously, because this period
marks the close of one age and the inauguration of the new.
The factors to which I refer are, primarily, three in number:
- This is a transition period between the passing out of the Piscean Age, with its
emphasis upon authority and belief, and the coming in of the Aquarian Age, with its
emphasis upon individual understanding and direct knowledge. The activity of these forces,
characteristic of the two signs, produces in the atoms of the human body a corresponding
activity. We are on the verge of new knowledges and the atoms of the body are being tuned
up for reception. Those atoms which are predominantly Piscean are beginning to slow down
their activity and to be "occultly withdrawn," as it is called, or abstracted,
whilst those which are responsive to the New Age tendencies are, in their turn, being
stimulated and their vibratory activity increased. [4]
- The world war marked a climax in the history of mankind, and its subjective effect was
far more potent than has hitherto been grasped. Through the power of prolonged sound,
carried forward as a great experiment on the battlefields all over the world during a
period of four years (1914-1918), and through the intense emotional strain of the entire
planetary populace, the web of etheric matter (called the "veil of the temple")
which separates the physical and astral planes was rent or torn asunder, and the amazing
process of unifying the two worlds of physical plane living and of astral plane experience
was begun and is now slowly going on. It will be obvious, therefore, that this must bring
about vast changes and alterations in the human consciousness. Whilst it will usher in the
age of understanding, of brotherhood and of illumination, it will also bring about states
of reaction and the letting loose of psychic forces which today menace the uncontrolled
and ignorant, and warrant the sounding of a note of warning and of caution.
- A third factor is as follows. It has been known for a long time by the mystics of all
the world religions and by esoteric students everywhere, that certain members of the
planetary Hierarchy are approaching closer to the earth at this time. By this I want you
to infer that the thought, or the mental attention, of the Christ and of certain of His
great disciples, the Masters of the Wisdom, is directed or focused at this time on human
affairs, and that some of Them are also preparing to break Their long silence and may
appear later among men. This necessarily has a potent effect, first of all upon Their
disciples and on those who are attuned to and synchronized with Their Minds, and secondly,
it should be remembered that the energy which flows through these focal points of the
Divine Will will have a dual effect and be destructive as well as constructive, according
to the quality of the bodies which react to it. Different types of men respond
distinctively to any inflow of energy, and a tremendous psychic stimulation is at this
time going on, with results both divinely beneficent and sadly destructive. [5]
It might be added also that certain astrological relationships between the
constellations are releasing new types of force which are playing through our solar system
and on to our planet and thereby making possible developments hitherto frustrated in
expression, and bringing about the demonstration of latent powers and the manifestation of
new knowledges. All this must be most carefully borne in mind by the worker in the field
of human affairs if the present crisis is to be rightly appreciated and its splendid
opportunities rightly employed. I have felt it wise to write a few words concerning the
condition to be found in the world today especially in connection with esoteric, occult
and mystical groups and the spiritualistic movement. |