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Discipleship in the New Age I - Talks to Disciples - Part III |
Second: It is necessary for working disciples at this
time to appreciate the immediate emergency. There is a crisis in the affairs of men. This
crisis must be viewed in terms of opportunity and not in terms of cataclysm or
catastrophe. Just as in the life of an aspirant to discipleship, there comes a life or a
series of lives wherein there is direct conflict between the soul and the lower nature, so
there is now an analogous crisis upon our planet. The object in both cases is that the
soul may assume an increasing control over the form aspect. Looking at it from another angle, this planetary soul - functioning as a Hierarchy of Masters - is in direct conflict with the forces of evil. It should, however, be borne in mind that those forces also constitute a hierarchy of entities, constituting the material forms and, therefore, in their place, true and correct. It is a question, in reality, of what is the objective in any particular time cycle. The present objective is that the human family should now, as a whole, do three things and anything which militates against this is evil.
Third: Disciples must now organize for a steady united effort. This must take the form of a closer cooperation between all groups and a standing together in a closer relationship, thus strengthening each others' hands and, where possible, pooling resources. It should result also in a united push forward of all spiritual and occult agencies and the carrying of the truth along all possible lines, down among the masses of men. Just as in Atlantean days, spiritual forces were subordinated to the selfish desires of men, so today, they are being subordinated to the minds and the ambitions of men and the results will be profoundly evil. The world situation today demonstrates this. For though material benefit and physical prosperity might eventually emerge from certain countries where great experiments are being undertaken, they will only exemplify the triumph of the form and will finally come to naught. Just as every human being struggles through in some one life to personality achievement so it is among the nations. Yet at the heart of every nation lies latent the mystical soul and eventually - after dire struggle and distress - all will be well. Tendencies towards materialism and towards personality achievement must, under the larger plan and the will-to-good, be offset by a counter move of spiritual living and this must be the objective of all working disciples. Let such working disciples see to it, therefore, that their love for all beings deepens and that the growth of their love comes through their tapping the group love which lies back of all world happenings. My brothers, when will the time come when the world will realize that the love aspect of the Logos - as it affects the human kingdom - is focused through the inner subjective group of workers? That love is now in the stage of anchoring itself physically through the new groups (such as this group) which are in process of forming all over the world. These new groups are centers (or should be) of divine love, magnetic, constructive and pure. See to it, therefore, that your conformity to the requirement is met in the measure of your [21] physical strength, bearing ever in mind that you are equal to more effort and to greater strain than ever before. |
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