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| The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section IV - Stages in the Externalization |
| Disciples in these ashrams have been in training for nearly
one hundred and fifty years to do this work; some have managed to keep the originating
idea and impulse clear and untainted by their own thinking, and have adhered - even in
their own intimate thoughts - to the hierarchical program, as presented to them by their
Masters or the senior initiates. Others have not possessed so clear a reasoning faculty or
so active an intuitive perception and - whilst grasping certain major concepts such as
world unity or hierarchical gradations and control - have distorted the truth and produced
the many ideologies which have wracked the world during the past century; even this
distortion is, however, being turned to good, for it produced a redoubled effort on the
part of the Hierarchy to offset it; it led to an increased forcing process by means of
which many earnest and willing aspirants reached the grade of accepted disciple; it
produced also a ferment of thought in the world which has served to awaken the mentality
of the masses to possibilities and to horizons hitherto only visioned by advanced and
initiate thinkers. The man in the street today has absorbed ideologies to an unforeseen
extent, and the attempt to make him an active factor in our modern civilization is not too
harmful in view of the time element, as divinely conceived, and from the point of view of
the staunch and basic integrity of the divine human being. [678] Time and divinity, events
and instinctual goodness, will in the long run triumph. The intermediate agonies are
distressing but not final, and they are not triumphant from the angle of the dark Forces.
These Forces face (as a result of the war and of the resurrecting human spirit) a vista of
nearing and inevitable defeat. Already the centers in London and in New York are showing signs of life, and disciples are active in both places and along all lines of human expression. The center in Geneva is also active, but not so thoroughly and inclusively; it waits for a greater calm and a firmer sense of security in Europe. The center in Darjeeling is what is termed occultly "vibrating", but this is in response to the relative nearness and propinquity of the Himalayan Brotherhood; whilst in Tokyo there is small activity as yet, and what there is is of no great moment. The work at this center will actually be brought into being through the work of the Triangles. By that I do not mean that it will be a center of the Triangle work, but that the concentrated meditative activity of the people engaged in the Triangle activities will magnetically draw out that which must appear when a center is organized. They are in fact creating the needed atmosphere, and that is ever a preliminary step. Once the atmosphere or the air in which to breathe and move is existent, then the living form can appear. Objectively, therefore, the second ray work of teaching is the first to be organized. Subjectively, the first ray workers are already active, for the work of the first ray with its disturbing, and destroying activity prepares the way; pain and disruption ever precede birth, and the agents of the first ray have been working for nearly two hundred years. The agents of the second ray started their preparation around the year 1825 and moved outward in force soon after 1860. From that date on, great concepts and new ideas, and the modern ideologies and arguments for and against aspects of the truth, have characterized modern thought and produced the present [679] mental chaos and the many conflicting schools and ideologies, with their attendant movements and organizations; out of all these, order and truth and the new civilization will emerge. This civilization will emerge as the result of mass thinking; it will no longer be a civilization "imposed" by an oligarchy of any kind. This will be a new phenomenon and one for which the Hierarchy has had to wait, prior to reappearing. Had the Hierarchy come before this era of thought and of massed discussion and the fight to further creative ideas, the tenets and the truths for which the Hierarchy stands could be regarded as being also "imposed" upon humanity, and therefore as infringing human freedom. This will not now be the case, and the Hierarchy will come forth into exoteric manifestation because humanity has, of its own free will, developed a quality analogous to that of the Hierarchy and therefore magnetic to that spiritual organization. Goodwill will draw forth from its holy secret hiding place the Exponents of Love, and thus the new world will come into being. |
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