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Steps in
the Externalisation Process
For some
time, ever since 1425 A.D., ( a date to which I referred earlier) the Hierarchy
has been aware that the time would come when this projected move would take
place. Preparations have gone steadily forward. A point to be remembered is
that this impulsed intention (emanating in the first place from Shamballa) came
as a major disturbance to the rhythm of many tens of thousands of years; it has
been a basic conditioning factor. The Masters, however, Who will make the move
outwards into contact with the world are not the Ones Who registered the
initial impulse from Shamballa, nor are the three Heads of the great
departments the same. The earlier Masters initiated the needed steps of
preparation, and the work has gone steadily forward since.
You might
well ask what were these steps and along what lines has the preparation gone?
The first steps concerned internal preparation. Though the Masters of the
Wisdom have all passed through the human experience and are simply men who have
achieved a relative measure of perfection, there are aspects of physical
contact which They have completely transcended and utterly negated. There is
nothing in the three worlds with which They have any affinity, except the
affinity of life and the impulse of love for all beings. Recovery of certain
facilities of activity has been deemed necessary. For instance, the five
senses, where a Master is concerned, exist and are used at need, but the
contact established and maintained with disciples and senior aspirants in the
world (through whom They primarily work) is largely telepathic; hearing and
sight, as you understand [Page 569] their uses,
are not involved. The science of impression, with its greatly increased
effectiveness over individual contact through the senses, has entirely
superseded the more strictly human method. Except in the case of Masters
working on the physical plane and in a physical body, the outer physical senses
are in abeyance; for the majority of Masters Who still use these senses, the
use is strictly limited; Their work is still almost entirely subjective and the
mode of telepathic interplay and of impression is practically all the means
which They employ to reach Their working agents. Therefore, the recovery of
past usages of a more physical nature has been one of the preparatory moves.
Another has
been the achievement of a wide culture and understanding of the current
civilisation which will be coming into activity and control when the intended
project is carried out. You have been told—and told correctly—that the Masters
do not trouble Themselves to attain proficiency in all educational subjects—in
modern history, for instance, or the newest scientific procedures, or in the
use of foreign languages. In all Their Ashrams there are those who can supply
Them with any specified knowledge which They may need at any given time or for
any specific purpose. This will still remain true of Those Who have attained
the rank of Master, but it is not true of all the senior initiates, many of
whom, as they passed into higher grades and under instruction from a Master,
have retained their worldly knowledge, besides specialising in certain strictly
mundane approaches to worldly affairs. For instance, there are adepts who are
authorities upon modern financial matters, and these initiates of the fourth
degree are competently preparing to institute later those newer techniques and
modes of financial interplay which will supersede the present disastrous
methods; they will inaugurate a system of barter and exchange, of which modern
money is the travestied symbol. This newer method of financial relationships
will be comprehensively human and it will supersede big business and private
enterprise. It will at the same time, however, retain those phases of modern
enterprise which will draw out the initiative and [Page
570] the resourcefulness of the individual. Other initiates have
specialised in the various languages, and two of them are authorities in basic
English; this is the form of the English language which will eventually take
the place of other languages in all forms of international and business
intercourse without in any way obliterating the individual national languages
in daily use in any country.
Two things
must be realised as the interested student considers this event of
externalisation:
1. The
senior Members of the Hierarchy will not at first be the ones who will make the
needed approach. Under Their direction and Their close supervision, this
approach will be made—in the early stages—by initiates of and under the degree
of the third initiation, and also by those disciples who will be chosen and
designated to implement Their efforts and so will work under Their direction.
It is only in the later stages, and when the time has come for the return into
recognised physical expression of the Christ, leading to the definite
restoration of the Mysteries, that certain of the senior Members of the
Hierarchy will appear and take outer and recognisable physical control of world
affairs. The time for this will be dependent necessarily upon the success of
the steps taken by the members of the Hierarchy who are not so advanced.
2. Members
of the Hierarchy, whether working in the early stages or later when the true
externalisation takes place, will work as members of the human family and not
as proclaimed members of the kingdom of God or of souls, known to us as the
Hierarchy; they will appear in office of some kind or another; they will be the
current politicians, business men, financiers, religious teachers or churchmen;
they will be scientists and philosophers, college professors and educators;
they will be the mayors of cities and the custodians of all public ethical
movements. The spiritual forcefulness of their lives, their clear, pure wisdom,
the sanity and the modern acceptableness of their proposed measures in any
department in which they choose to function, will be so [Page 571] convincing that little impediment will be set in the way
of their undertakings.
At the
present stage of preparation, the task of the disciple who is charged with
laying the foundation for the New Age methods and with the labour of getting
ready for the first group of Ashram members, is hard indeed. He stands for so much
that is deemed visionary and impossible; the difficulties which confront him
seem impossible; he teaches truths whose first effect is necessarily
destructive, because he endeavours to rid humanity of old forms of religious,
economic and political doctrine; his impersonality—which recognises faults as
well as virtues—enrages many and often those from whom he had expected
understanding and a true impartiality; his failure to be impressed or attentive
to old rites and ceremonies, to ancient and obsolete but precious ideas, and
his constant warfare on conditioning glamours and illusions meet, in these
early stages, with little encouragement. He works frequently alone and usually
with little recognition and lacks time for his own personal hierarchical contacts;
he is not necessarily connected with any so-called esoteric groups and—if he
is—his task is that much harder; only advanced disciples with a full and
conscious constant contact with their particular Ashram are able to work in
this way. Occult bodies and esoteric groups are, at this time, the most
glamoured of any of the world groups; the work of any disciple in such groups
is bound, in the early stages, to be destructive. The present occult groups
which came into existence prior to 1919 will eventually all disappear; the
members who are true and sound, broad-minded and sane, and rightly oriented and
dedicated, will find their way into esoteric bodies which are free from
dogmatism and doctrines and which are recipients of hierarchical life.
The
preparatory work of externalisation, therefore, falls into three phases or
stages, as far as relation to mankind is concerned:
First. The
present stage in which a few isolated disciples and initiates, scattered all
over the world, are doing [Page 572] the
important task of destruction, plus the enunciation of principles. They are
preparing the way for the first organised body of disciples and initiates
who—coming from certain Ashrams—will proceed with the next phase of the work.
Second. The
stage of the first real externalisation upon a large and organised scale will
succeed upon the above endeavours. These disciples and initiates will be the
real Builders of the new world, of the new civilisation; they will assume
leadership in most countries and take high office in all departments of human
life. This they will do by the free choice of the people and by virtue of their
advanced and proven merit. By this means, gradually the Hierarchy will take
over the control upon the physical plane—subjectively as well as objectively—of
the direction of human affairs. This direction will be in virtue of their known
and approved capacity and will not involve the imposition of any hierarchical
control or authority; it will simply signify the free recognition by free
people of certain spiritual qualities and effective activities which they
believe signify that these men are adequate to the demanded job, and whom they
therefore choose as directing agents in the new and coming world. Freedom of
choice under the authority of a spiritual livingness which demonstrates
competency will be distinctive of the attitude of the general public. Men will
be put into high office and into positions of power not because they are
disciples or initiates, but because they are wise and intelligent servants of
the public, with an internal awareness, a deeply religious and inclusive
consciousness, and a well-trained mind with an obedient brain.
This stage
of hierarchical appearance is dependent upon the effective service of the first
group of isolated and hard-working disciples who are the senior members of the
New Group of World Servers and who are today working among the sons of men.
This second group will take over from them, and theirs will be the task of
instituting a more unified preparation for the return of the Christ. The first
group prepare humanity for the possibility; the second group [Page 573] definitely prepare for the return itself.
They will build for a future which will arise out of the wreckage of the past,
which wreckage they will remove; they will instill certain basic concepts anent
right human relations into men's minds. Their immediate group work, when they
are coming into power and recognition, will consist of a sweetening and a
clarification of the political situation and the presentation of those ideas
which will eventually lead to a fusion of those principles which govern a
democracy and which also condition the hierarchical method—which is somewhat
different; this effort will produce a third political situation which will not
be entirely dependent upon the choices of an unintelligent public or on the
control which the hierarchical technique evidently involves. The mode of this
new type of political guidance will later appear.
This second
group will implement the new religion; by the time they come into control the
old theological activities will have been completely broken; Judaism will be
fast disappearing; Buddhism will be spreading and becoming increasingly
dogmatic; Christianity will be in a state of chaotic divisions and upheavals.
When this takes place and the situation is acute enough, the Master Jesus will
take certain initial steps towards reassuming control of His Church; the Buddha
will send two trained disciples to reform Buddhism; other steps will also be
taken in this department of religions and of education, over which the Christ
rules, and He will move to restore the ancient spiritual landmarks, to
eliminate that which is nonessential, and to reorganise the entire religious
field—again in preparation for the restoration of the Mysteries. These
Mysteries, when restored, will unify all faiths.
Groups of
spiritually-minded financiers who are conscious members of an Ashram will take
hold of the world economic situation and bring about great and needed changes.
All these activities, built upon the preparatory work of the first group, are
also preparatory in nature.
Third. The
stage wherein Christ and the Masters of [Page 574]
the Wisdom can make public appearance and begin to work publicly, openly and
outwardly in the world of men. The time of Their coming will be dependent upon
the success of the work undertaken by the first two groups; it is not possible
for me to prophesy anent this matter. So many factors are involved: the earnest
work of the two groups, the readiness and the willingness of mankind to learn,
the rapidity with which the forces of restoration and of resurrection can
rehabilitate the world, the responsiveness of advanced humanitarians and
intelligentsia to the opportunity to rebuild, to recreate and to reorganise the
factors which the new culture and the new civilisation will demand. Even the
Hierarchy Itself, with all Its sources of information, does not know how long
this will take, but They are ready to move at any time.
("Externalisation of the Hierarchy", A.A.Bailey, pp. 569-573)