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The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section IV - Stages in the Externalization |
It would be wise, therefore, to keep the following ideas
constantly in mind; I will enumerate them sequentially and for the sake of clarity: 1. The work of the Hierarchy, throughout the ages, has been fundamentally threefold in nature:
There are many other aspects of the hierarchical constitution and objectives, but these three are the ones with which we are at this time the most concerned. 2.
Today, the relation of Shamballa to the Hierarchy is closer than at any previous time,
owing to the following factors: 3. The recognition by a very much larger number of the general public of the fact
of the Hierarchy; this has established a new type of relation between the Hierarchy and
humanity. Hitherto the relation was dependent upon recognition, by advanced aspirants, of
the nature of their position in relation to the Hierarchy; today, the recognition of
thousands who are not in any way advanced aspirants or in any sense prepared for
affiliation with the Hierarchy has created a new type of problem; it connotes to the
Hierarchy a promising development, though at the same time an embarrassing one, requiring
as it does a different mode of adjustment to human demands than that entailed by the
admittance of disciples to Their Ashrams; it requires the attention of certain disciples
and initiates in all the Ashrams and the ability of the Hierarchy to penetrate and
dissipate the thick cloud of inchoate thought-forms which the bewildered, interested and
curious public have created anent Them. 4. The use by the Hierarchy of the destroyer aspect of divinity, the first Ray, in such
a manner that it is in fact a creative factor and one which, in the last analysis, not
only releases the life from its previous limitations, but also calls in - under the Law of
Balance - the building activity of the second Ray. The work of destruction is now
practically accomplished and over, and the work of the Builders is beginning. 5. The new group of world servers has been created as an [566] intermediate body
between the Hierarchy and the general public. This group is divided into two lesser
groups:
These two groups unitedly form a transmitting agency through which the Hierarchy can reach the mass of men with the new concepts, the techniques of the new civilization and the basic propositions under which humanity will move forward into greater light. 6. The recognition by humanity of its major problems, and the increasing ability of the general public to view these problems in terms of One Humanity, of the whole. This ability indicates to the Hierarchy the position of Humanity upon the Path at this time and the readiness of mankind for the new revelation - to be followed later by the restoration of the Mysteries. 7. The new orientation of the human family within itself to the concept of the One Humanity and the intensely alert spiritual demand which is today distinctive of mankind everywhere, and which has forced the Hierarchy to come to certain basic decisions and to readjust Itself to a much closer cooperation with the human center of life and purpose. |
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