On the New Group of World Servers - Hellas

FIRST DAY OF NGWS'S FESTIVAL WEEK

NGWS: THE FORERUNNERS OF THE CHRIST

Recognition of the successful work of the New Group of World Servers will be accorded by the Hierarchy, and the testimony of the recognition will be the appearing of a symbol in the aura of the group—of the entire group.  This will be a symbol projected by the Hierarchy, specifically by the Christ.  What that symbol will be it is not for me to say.  It is not yet fully earned, and only its dim and uncertain outline can be seen from the level on which the Masters work, and not at all from the level on which the group itself works.  It is "the mark of a Saviour" and it will embody the mark or indication (the signature as medieval occultists used to call it) of a new type of salvation or salvage.  Up till now the mark of the Saviour has been the Cross, and the quality of the salvation offered has been freedom from substance  or the lure of matter and from its hold—a freedom only to be achieved at a great cost.  The future holds within its silence other modes of saving humanity.  The cup of sorrow and the agony of the Cross are well-nigh finished.  Joy and strength will take their place.  Instead of sorrow we shall have a joy which will work out in happiness and lead eventually to bliss.  We shall have a strength which will know naught but victory and will not recognise disaster.  Even the Black Lodge knew of this change in the mode of salvation, and hastily founded its groups of youths, banded together by the motto "joy through strength and strength through joy."  It seems to be a law for group development to receive recognition from the side of evil, prior to that recognition coming from the good.  But "after weeping cometh joy, and that joy cometh in the morning."  Only the dawn is with us as yet—the dawn of the Aquarian Age.  The full tide of light is inevitably moving upon its way towards us.

(Alice Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p. 233)

For the first time in human history, the demand of the people of the Earth is so potent and so in line with divine direction in time and space that the end is inevitably sure; the looked-for spiritual Representative must come forth, and this time He will not come alone but will be accompanied by Those Whose lives and words will evoke recognition in every department of human thinking. The symbolic prophecies found in all the world Scriptures anent this imminent event will prove their veracity; their symbolism will nevertheless elicit re-interpretation, and circumstances and happenings will not necessarily be exactly as the Scriptures would appear to indicate. For instance, He will come indeed "in the clouds of the air" as the Christian Scriptures say (Matt. XXIV. 64), but of what great interest is that when millions come and go in the clouds each hour of the day and of the night? I mention this as one of the outstanding prophecies and one of the most familiar; it is, however, one which means little in our modern civilisation. The fact that is of importance is that He will come.

(Alice Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 598)