SEVENTH DAY OF NGWS'S FESTIVAL WEEK
EXTERNALISATION OF HIERARCHY &
RESTORATION OF MYSTERIES
Students
must not proceed on the assumption that in the process of externalisation there
is a general moving forward of the entire Hierarchy onto the physical plane.
Such is not the case.
…There is a first group which struggles with the immediate problem in the outer world…
and the second group —still within the confines of the Hierarchy Itself— makes due interior preparation and applies to its chosen membership the needed training and the desired reorientation
the Christ and the Masters are occupied with the task of preparing for the restoration of the Mysteries.
This restoration will fall into three phases and will cover and include in its symbolism all phases of human unfoldment. The story of mankind will be pictorialised. These three phases correspond broadly and in a general sense to the three degrees of the Blue Lodge in Masonry. The analogy is not entirely accurate, owing to the unavoidable degeneracy of Masonry, but with the restoration of the Mysteries, Masonry also will come into its own. These phases are:
1. The stage of a general recognition of light in all departments of human living. This is inferred in the first stanza of the new Invocation. If the ritual of the E.A. is studied in the light of this information the significance will emerge. The poor and destitute candidate emerges into the light.
…There is a first group which struggles with the immediate problem in the outer world…
and the second group —still within the confines of the Hierarchy Itself— makes due interior preparation and applies to its chosen membership the needed training and the desired reorientation
the Christ and the Masters are occupied with the task of preparing for the restoration of the Mysteries.
This restoration will fall into three phases and will cover and include in its symbolism all phases of human unfoldment. The story of mankind will be pictorialised. These three phases correspond broadly and in a general sense to the three degrees of the Blue Lodge in Masonry. The analogy is not entirely accurate, owing to the unavoidable degeneracy of Masonry, but with the restoration of the Mysteries, Masonry also will come into its own. These phases are:
1. The stage of a general recognition of light in all departments of human living. This is inferred in the first stanza of the new Invocation. If the ritual of the E.A. is studied in the light of this information the significance will emerge. The poor and destitute candidate emerges into the light.
2.
The stage of complete economic reorientation; in this, humanity is relieved of
all economic anxiety and is free to [EI, Page 575] receive its due wages and
the right reward of all service rendered in the building of the Temple of the
Lord; this building proceeds with rapidity.
3.
The stage wherein the reward of light is received and the reward of service
rendered; spiritual status is recognised through the medium of what is regarded
as a major initiation, for which the first two initiatory degrees are only preparatory.
This first great initiation will be objectively staged and the general public
will recognise it as the major rite and ritual of the new religious institution
of the period. This is the stage where the forces of resurrection are active,
when the Lord is with His people and Christ has returned to earth. Religion is
then recognised as an attitude governing all phases of human experience.
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