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| The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section II - The General World Picture |
| The Hierarchy of Light is seeking to arouse men everywhere to
the basic dualism underlying this conflict and to the essential significance of the issues
with which humanity is faced. Hence the emphasis which I am laying upon the need to face
the problem, to think clearly and intelligently about what is going on around you, and to
take right and cooperative action. The whole world problem will be clarified [219] and the
end of the conflict more rapidly reached when there are only two parties and not three.
The recognition of this underlying dualism is necessary prior to the shifting of
humanity's consciousness away from its major preoccupation - acquisitive material desire,
aggressively obtained - into soul consciousness, with its correlations, group interests,
the meeting of group need, and the functioning of a steady group cooperation on a world
scale. This is true of individuals, of nations and of races; as you, an individual, work
out your own problem in your daily life, you are helping to solve the world problem. This is the situation as the Hierarchy sees it today and with which it challenges all men and women of goodwill. They ask you to share in the conflict in some way, and remind you of the occult significance of those oft misunderstood words of Christ, "He that is not with me, is against me." In closing these remarks upon clear thinking I would add two more. There is some confusion arising out of the basic idealism which underlies the activities of many people in many countries. It is the importance of the somewhat new ideal of the good of the state as a whole versus the good of the individual and the good of humanity. The state becomes almost a divine entity in the consciousness of the idealist. This is necessarily part of the evolutionary plan, but in so far as it constitutes a problem, is too big for the individual to solve alone and unaided. Of one fundamental truth I can, however, assure you. When men everywhere - within the boundaries of their particular state and whilst upholding its authority and its civilization - begin to think in terms of mankind, then public opinion will become so potent and so right in its inclusiveness that state policies must inevitably conform to the larger ideal, and the sacrifice of the individual and of humanity in large numbers to the individual state will no longer be possible. The part will be seen in its proper relation to the larger whole. It is this arousing of public opinion to world rights, to inclusive human interests and to international cooperation that is the true goal of all present spiritual endeavor. Eventually it will be [220] realized that the responsibility for what governments do rests squarely upon the shoulders of the individual citizens who put governments in their position of power. This is a responsibility from which no citizens of any nation are or should be exempt, and to this all national thinking of the right kind is fortunately awakening. |
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