| When the nature of the present struggle is better
understood and its subjective causes are considered instead of
the superficial objective reasons, then real progress will be
made in the process of releasing humanity from the thralldom and
the narrowness of the present civilization and from the influence
of the forces and energies which are responsible for the situation.
These will be understood, correctly handled and rightly directed
towards constructive and desirable ends. In the realm of this
conflict, the great and fundamental law that "energy follows
thought" always holds good, and one of the conditions which
is inducing the present stress and strain is due to the fact that
so many millions of people are beginning to think. This means
that the ancient simplicity which has held good up to five hundred
years ago is no longer controlling and the situation is much more
complex. In ancient days the forces were largely controlled by
the Lords of Materiality (those whom the ignorant and the prejudiced
esotericist call "the black forces"); the forces of
spirituality plus the thought of a handful of advanced men in
the different nations were not so potent as they are today. The
situation was then relatively simple. It was part of the [36]
evolutionary plan that matter and substance should temporarily
control and that spirit should learn to "mount on the shoulders
of matter" as the Ancient Wisdom puts it. Now, however, owing
to the widespread education of the masses and the many means of
worldwide propaganda, these masses are themselves either thinking
independently or are thinking as directed by the powerful minds
everywhere to be found and which are seeking to control world
events. Hence the increasing difficulty of the problem and one
that is equally difficult for the Lords of the Left Hand Way as
it is for the Great White Lodge. This is a point which you should
consider and discover the implications.
Humanity itself is rapidly arriving at the point where its
united will will be the determining factor in world affairs
and this will be due to the unfoldment of the mind through the
success of the evolutionary process. It is right here that many
experiments will be made (and are being made today) and many
mistakes must inevitably take place. The major requirement therefore
at this time is the rapid educating of the people in the Plan
and in the nature of the forces which are controlling evolution
and their directing agencies. The fact of the Hierarchy must
be announced in no uncertain terms, thereby arousing public
interest, public investigation and public recognition. In the
process of so doing much will be learnt of the balancing group
of initiates and adepts who work entirely with the material
side of life and in whom (for this major world cycle) the love
aspect of the soul remains totally undeveloped, whereas the
mind nature is potently expressing itself. If you will study
what I have earlier given anent certain of the higher and lower
expressions of the rays you will see how these two fields of
endeavor - that of the Hierarchy, animated by love and that
of the opposite pole, the Black Lodge, working entirely [37]
through mind and substance - are engaged and their close relationship
will emerge. You will realize then that the margin of difference
is very slight and is to be found solely in intention, in
the underlying purpose and the concrete objectives which this
group of material workers have set themselves. The major instrument
of the Black Lodge is the organizing power of the mind and not
the coherent influence of love, as is the case with the Masters
of the Wisdom. Yet in the natural process of form evolution,
these workers on the darker side of life have their useful function.
Because they are working predominantly through the mental principle,
we find the susceptibility of the untrained masses to this mental
imposition and the facility with which they can be regimented
and standardized. They have no power to think with clarity for
themselves and their minds are consequently plastic and receptive
to the powerful forces directed by the two contributing groups
- the spiritual workers of the planet and the material workers.
Because the bulk of human beings are still materially focused,
the forces which work on the side of matter find a line of least
resistance which is not available to the Masters of the Great
White Lodge. This danger is, however, lessening decade by decade.
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