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| The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section II - The General World Picture |
| Hovering today within the aura of our planet are certain great
spiritual Forces and Entities, awaiting the opportunity to participate actively in the
work of world redemption, readjustment and reconstruction. Their Presence is sensed at
times by the spiritually-minded people of the world, and Their reality is recognized by
the mystics and occultists working in every land. Men and women express this recognition
according to the trend of their religious and psychological training and their particular
mental or emotional bias. The advent of Christ, or His "second coming," is
anxiously anticipated by many orthodox Christians, who regard this world war as indicating
the end of the world and as preparatory to the appearance of the Christ, to bring peace on
earth. Others, more orientally minded, await the appearance of an Avatar Who will transmit
from God the needed world message or new type of energy. Prophecy and astrology indicate a
Coming One and their many differing opinions seem to converge on Him; occultists invoke
everywhere the Forces of Light and call for the appearance of that extra-planetary Potency
to Whom they give the title, "Spirit of Peace." Those with no religious or
metaphysical bias recognize, however, that all times of emergency seem ever to evoke some
Liberator or some man or group of men who are capable of changing world affairs and
inaugurating - under the stress and strain of the times - the new and needed fresh cycle
of civilization and culture. Many refrain from specification of the requirements of such a
Coming One today, because of the magnitude and planetary nature of His task, but they
secretly hope and pray for His appearing. Still others regard such an idea and hope as
simply a psychological fulfilment and the embodiment of the wish-life of the people - this
time of humanity as a whole, for the first time in racial history. Such people are apt to
feel that this embodiment has no true substance or place in the life of mankind, but wish
that it had. They forget that when a thought-form has been constructed of sufficient
potency and [223] has been built over a long period of time by the people of the world, a
further and final stage becomes ever possible. The form can be rendered so magnetic that
it can attract an Energy which will inform it and give it active potency; it can then
become a vital link between the subjective world of energy and the objective world of
forces and a thing of power, of impelling and guiding activity, and therefore the
expression of a Life. This thought-form, duly informed, becomes a mediating factor,
constructed by humanity but animated by the will-to-good of some great and spiritual
Entity. That thought-forms, embodying evil lives can be and are constructed is equally
true, but with these we are not at this time dealing. We come now to the significant point of what I have to say today in this connection. A great and vital thought-form is in process of construction upon our planet and within our planetary aura. It is being built by the power of sound, by the magnetic pull of invocation leading to eventual evocation, and by the force of desire-substance, animated by the power of thought. It is being constructed by the united efforts of the Hierarchy, of the world disciples and aspirants, of the men and women of goodwill in all nations, and also through the inchoate longings of men everywhere, of all religious beliefs, political views and group loyalties. It is safely anchored upon the physical plane, is of vast proportions upon the astral or emotional plane, but lacks vitality and power, upon the mental plane. It is here, within the realm of thought substance, that the weakness of the structure of this thought-form becomes apparent. It is already potent spiritually, owing to the scientific work of the occult Hierarchy and Their trained helpers. This spiritual life relates the thought-form to the waiting extra-planetary Forces and can make Their work possible and effective. It is potent physically and emotionally through the work of the lovers of humanity, the well-meaning efforts of the emotionally oriented people and the agonized longings of the masses, who [224] hate war, desire quiet, and demand peace and good living conditions. There is, however, a gap or hiatus upon the mental plane, for the minds of men are not functioning correctly. The disciples and world aspirants are not thinking with clarity, nor are they working in unity. They are evading issues or are thinking separatively or nationally or fanatically; they are not convinced of the potency of invocation or of prayer; they are failing to realize that it is possible to work ardently for those conditions which will lead to peace, and yet fight simultaneously so that those conditions may be available; they fail to love all men without exception in their longing to see their own loyalties emerge triumphant; they work doubtingly, hoping for the best but believing in the worst; they use the method of prayer and of invocation because such methods seem to have been successful in the past, and because they are told that "faith can move mountains," but they feel inwardly quite hopeless and uninspired and are not at all sure what faith intrinsically is; they realize that a united front and a spirit of joyous certainty are psychological assets of well-nigh invincible potency, but they feel unable to arouse within themselves the slightest enthusiasm. It is this negative and lukewarm attitude, this mental uncertainty and this failure to link up the spiritual and the physical worlds in a positive relationship which is holding back the Forces of Light and the actual presence of the Spirit of Peace, and thus negativing a possible divine intervention. It is the test of group work. The faith of many individuals is real and deep, but they stand alone; the knowledge that the few have of the nature of the waiting Forces of intervention is being negated by the faithlessness of the world disciples and aspirants, weighed down by world karma, by their own physical fatigue and by their horror of the present situation, plus the difficulties of individual circumstance. |
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