| Before we take up these points, however, I have
a few introductory comments to make. These it is essential that
you should study and comprehend for upon their right acceptance
and understanding will depend the benefit you will gain from my
teaching upon these points.
It is a truism to remark that the history of the world is based
on the emergence of ideas, their acceptance, their transformation
into ideals, and their eventual superseding by the next imposition
of ideas. It is in this realm of [8] ideas that humanity
is not a free agent. This is an important point to note. Once
an idea becomes an ideal, humanity can freely reject or accept
it, but ideas come from a higher source and are imposed upon
the racial mind, whether men want them or not. Upon the use
made of these ideas (which are in the nature of divine emanations,
embodying the divine plan for planetary progress) will depend
the rapidity of humanity's progress or its retardation for lack
of understanding.
Humanity is today more sensitive to ideas than ever before,
and hence the many warring ideologies and hence the fact that
- in defense of their plans - even the most recalcitrant of
the nations has to discover some idealistic excuse to put before
the other nations when occupied with any infringement of recognized
law. This is a fact of great significance to the Hierarchy for
it indicates a point reached. The major ideas in the world today
fall into five categories which it would be well for you to
bear in mind:
- The ancient and inherited ideas which have controlled the
racial life for centuries - aggression for the sake of possession
and the authority of a man or a group or a church which represents
the State. For purposes of policy such powers may work behind
the scenes but their tenets and motives are easily recognizable
- selfish ambition and a violently imposed authority.
- Those ideas which are relatively new such as Nazism, Fascism,
and Communism, though they are not really as new as people
are apt to think. They are alike on one important point, i.e.
The State or community of human beings counts as of importance
whilst the individual does not; he can be sacrificed at any
time for the good of the State or for the so-called general
good. [9]
- The idea, neither old nor particularly new, of democracy
in which (supposedly but as yet never factually) the people
govern and the government represents the will of the people.
- The
idea of a world state, divided into various great sections.
This is the dream of the inclusively-minded few, for which
many regard humanity as yet unready. Towards this the entire
world is headed in spite of its many ideologies, each fighting
with each other for supremacy and oblivious of the important
fact that all these ideologies may be temporarily adapted
to the groups or nations who adopt them. They are none of
them suitable for general use (and I say this equally of democracy
as of any other ideology); they suit well in all probability
the nations who accept them and mould their national life
on their premises; they are only transitory substitutes in
this transition period between the Piscean and the Aquarian
ages and cannot permanently last. Nothing as yet is permanent.
When permanency is reached, evolution will cease and God's
plan will be consummated. And then? The greatest revelation
of all will come at the close of this world period when the
human mind, intuition and soul consciousness is such that
understanding will be possible.
- The
idea of a spiritual Hierarchy which will govern the people
throughout the world and will embody in itself the best elements
of the monarchial, the democratic, the totalitarian and the
communistic regimes. Most of these groups of ideologies
have latent in them much beauty, strength and wisdom, and
also a profound and valuable contribution to make to the whole.
Each will eventually see its contribution embodied under
the control of the Hierarchy of the Lords of Compassion and
[10] the Masters of the Wisdom. The restoration of the ancient
Atlantean control by the spiritual forces is still in the
future but the Aquarian Age will see the restitution of this
inner and spiritual guidance on a higher turn of the spiral.
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