| These three groups of people, influenced by the
sixth and seventh rays or who are bewildered by the impact of
forces generated by those rays, are those who must together, with
understanding and clear vision, bring order out of the present
chaos. They must materialize those new and desirable conditions
which will conform to the subjective pattern in the minds of the
illumined people of the world and to [31] the spiritual plan as
it exists in the consciousness of the members of the Hierarchy.
The new age with its peculiar civilization and culture will be
brought into manifestation through the collaboration of the well-intentioned
many, responsive increasingly to the good of the whole and not
of the individual; they are the idealistic but practical thinkers,
influenced by the pattern of things to come and the world disciples,
impressed by the plans and under the instruction of the Hierarchy
which is directing and controlling all.
It is with these three groups of people and with the work upon
which they are engaged that any prevision I may evidence will
consistently deal. All changes in connection with the human
family, the fourth kingdom in nature, are always dependent upon
three factors:
- Those outer physical events which are definitely "acts
of God" and over which no human being has the slightest
authority.
- The activity of human beings themselves, working on all
the different rays but in any given time and in any particular
period conditioned by:
- The preponderance of egos to be found on any particular
ray. There are a very large number of second ray egos
in incarnation today and their work and their lives will
facilitate the coming Great Approach.
- The nature and the quality of the predominating personality
rays of the majority. At this time there are a vast number
of souls in incarnation whose personality rays are either
the sixth or the third. They condition the coming civilization
outstandingly including all educational and financial
enterprises, just as the influence of those who have soul
contact and can express soul quality condition and determine
the current culture. [32]
- The activity of the fifth principle, that of the mind.
This mind principle is peculiarly active today in a broad
and general sense. If I might put it symbolically the
vertical activity of the mind which has affected
individuals everywhere down the ages has always produced
the mental guides, the directors and the leaders of humanity.
Today, the horizontal activity of the mind, embracing
huge masses of the populace and sometimes entire nations
and races, can everywhere be seen and this must lead inevitably
to events and effects hitherto unvisioned and impossible.
- The influence of the outgoing and the incoming rays at any
time. You have often been told that these events - for the
emergence or disappearance of a ray influence is an event
in time - are a matter of slow development, are psychic in
nature, and are governed by law. The length of time in which
a ray appears, manifests and does its work and finally disappears
is one of the secrets of initiation, but - as time elapses
and the nature of time itself is better understood - the period
and the time equation of the minor rays of attribute will
be established but that time is not yet, although the intense
interest taken today in the phenomena of time indicates a
growing awareness of the problem itself and of the need for
understanding the relation of time, both to space and to event.
It will be realized before long that time is entirely a brain
event; a study of the sense of speed as registered by the
brain, plus the capacity or incapacity of a human being to
express this speed, will, when properly approached, reveal
much that today remains a mystery.
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