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the chaos [33] and the turmoil incident upon the clashing of the
forces of the sixth and the seventh rays. As one ray passes out
and another comes into manifestation and their impact upon the
earth and upon all the forms in all the kingdoms of nature has
reached the point where the two influences are equalized, then
a definite point of crisis is reached. This is what has occurred
today, and humanity, subjected to two types or forms of energy,
is thrown "off center" and hence the intense difficulty
and tension of the present world period. The cause of this is
not only the impact of the two types of energy, beating upon the
forms of life with equal force, but also that the energy of humanity
itself (which is a combination of the fourth and fifth rays) is
swept into the conflict. To this, must also be added the energy
of the animal kingdom (again a combination of the energies of
the third, fifth and sixth rays) for this governs the animal or
physical form of every human being. You have, therefore, a meeting
of many conflicting forces and the world Arjuna is faced with
a stupendous battle - one that is recurrent and cyclic but which
will, in this particular era, prove a decisive and determining
factor in the age old conflict between material domination and
spiritual control. The forces playing upon the planet at this
time are of supreme importance. If you will bear in mind that
the sixth ray works through and controls the solar plexus (being
closely related to the astral plane, the sixth level of awareness)
and that the seventh ray controls the sacral center, you will
see why there is so much emotion, so much idealism and so much
desire mixed up in connection with the world conflict and why
also - apart from the storms in the political arena and the religious
field - that sex and its various problems has reached a point
of interest in the human consciousness where a solution of these
difficulties, a fresh understanding of the [34] underlying implications
and a frank dealing with the situation is inevitable and immediate.
Four problems will be solved in the next two centuries:
- The
problem of territorial possessions which is the group correspondence
within the family of nations to the materiality of the individual.
- The
problem of sex which will involve a truer understanding of
the law of attraction.
- The
problem of death, which is in reality the problem of the relation
between the subjective and the objective, between the tangible
and the intangible, and between life and form. This problem
will be solved in the realm of psychology by scientific recognition
of the true nature of the individual or soul and of the persona.
- The
problem of the Jews which is symbolically the problem of humanity
as a whole. It is today for the first time definitely a humanitarian
problem and one which is closely tied up with the fourth kingdom
in nature because that kingdom is the meeting-place of the
three divine aspects. The Jew, with his emphasis upon his
position as one of the "chosen people," has stood
symbolically throughout the centuries as the representative
of the wandering, incarnating soul, but the Jewish people
have never recognized the symbolic mission with which their
race was entrusted, and they have taken to themselves the
glory and the honor of the Lord's elect. The Jew made this
mistake and, as an Oriental race, the Jews have failed to
hold before the Orient the divine nature of mankind as a whole,
for all are equally divine and all are the Lord's elect. Calvin
and all who followed his lead made the same mistake and instead
of holding before the people of the Occident the realization
that those [35] who recognized their essential divinity did
so symbolically on behalf of all the developing, incarnating
sons of God, they regarded themselves as the Chosen People
and all who did not think as they did are regarded as lost.
When the Jew and the narrow-minded religious devotees recognize
their identity with all other people and express this identity
through right relationship, we shall see a very different
world. The world problem is essentially a religious problem
and behind all strife in every department of world thought
today is to be found the religious element.
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