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The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section III - Forces behind the Evolutionary Process |
All of these spiritual forces, working as they are at this
time under the direction of the Leader of the Forces of Light, the Christ, are closely
related and their activity is most intimately synchronized. In a deeply occult sense, they
are all working together, because in the human family there are those who are at
every stage of responsiveness. This triple work of the Hierarchy, therefore, proceeds
simultaneously - from the standpoint of time. The Forces of Restoration are - on a small
scale - evoking response from the members of the new group of world servers and from
disciples everywhere. As their psychological "morale" stiffens and their
will-to-live and their will-to-good is strengthened, an immediate effect will be felt on a
larger scale; the work of the Spirit of Resurrection will intensify, and is already making
its presence felt. More and more people are beginning to be forward-looking and to hope
with greater conviction and courage for a better world set-up; their hitherto wishful
thinking and their emotional desire are slowly giving place to a more practical attitude;
their clear thinking and their fixed determination are far more active and their plans
better laid because both their thinking and their planning are today based on facts; they
are also beginning to recognize those factors and conditions which must not be
restored, and this is a point of major importance. At the stage which we are now passing through, these responsive people fall into three categories: The visionary dreamer or the well-intentioned but impractical person whose ideas and world plans and suggestions as to the new world order litter the desks of world leaders and of those groups and organizations who are attempting practically to blueprint the future. Their dreams and ideas deal with projects for which the world of today is not ready and will not be ready for several thousand years. It is an easy thing for them to present impossible Utopias which have not the faintest relation to things which are needed today and [460] which could be made possible. The name of these people is legion, and at this time they constitute a definite hindrance. A vision of the impossible is not the type of vision which will keep the people from perishing. Because of an inability to compromise and to face up to things as they are, these people and those whom they influence are landed in despair and disillusionment. The intelligent people of the world who are actuated by the spirit of goodwill and by the conviction that things must be changed. They are often staggered by the magnitude of the task to be undertaken, and this frequently leads them to take one of three positions:
Those partisan
and nationally minded persons who will attempt to exploit the world situation for
their own immediate ends and for the benefiting of their particular nation or group. These
people, and they are found in every nation, are selfishly motivated; they do not care for
humanity as a whole and have no liking or interest in anything or anyone [461] but their
political party and the reactionary interests of some national group. They see in the
present world situation a grand opportunity to engineer moves which will benefit an
individual, a class or a nation. In doing this, they frequently have a wide grasp of
affairs and are keen politicians, but all they know is to be used and so implemented that
it attains their narrow ends, no matter at what cost to the rest of the world. These
people are usually a large majority. Their attitude leads inevitably to trouble and
hinders the work of restoration; it handicaps those who are seeking to establish the
entire human family in a sounder way of life than heretofore, and to give a saner and
wiser motivation to international relationships. |
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