The Externalization of Hierarchy (continued)
We come now
to the preparatory work being done by the Master Who started what is called by
you "the labour movement." This is regarded by the Hierarchy as one
of the most successful attempts in all history to awaken the masses of men (in
the brackets called middle class and lower class) to general betterment, and
thus set up a momentum which would, occultly speaking, "swing them into
light."
Along with
the development of the labour movement, mass education came into being, with
the result that—from the angle of developed intelligence—the entire level of
conscious awareness was universally raised. There is still much illiteracy, but
the average citizen in all the western democracies and in the Soviet Union is
as well educated as the intellectual man in the Middle Ages. You have, in this
activity, an outstanding instance of how the Masters work, for (to the average
onlooker) the labour movement arose from within the masses and the working
classes; it was a spontaneous development, based upon the thinking and the
teaching of a mere handful of men who were regarded primarily as agitators and
trouble makers; they were in reality a group of disciples (many of them
unconscious of their esoteric status) who were cooperating with the Law of
Evolution and also with the hierarchical Plan. They were not particularly
advanced disciples, but they were affiliated with some Ashram (according to
their ray), and were therefore subject to impression. Had they been advanced
disciples or initiates, their work would have been futile, for their
presentation of the Plan would not have been adapted to the level of the
intelligence of the then totally uneducated masses composing labour.
This Master
works primarily with the intelligentsia, and He is therefore a third ray
Master—upon the Ray of Active Intelligence. His Ashram is occupied with the
problems [Page 665] of industry, and the goal of
all the thinking, all the planning and all the work of impressing receptive
minds is directed towards spiritualising the concepts of the labour party in
every country, and of industrialists, thus turning them towards the goal of
right sharing, as a major step towards right human relations. This Master
therefore cooperates with the Master R.—Who is the Head of the third ray
Ashram, and Who is also one of the Triangle of Forces which controls the
greater Ashram of the Hierarchy Itself. The Ashram of this Master (Who has
always withheld His name from public knowledge) is a lesser Ashram within the
major third ray Ashram, just as my Ashram lies within the ring-pass-not of the
Ashram of the Master K.H. This Master is necessarily an Englishman, for the
industrial revolution started nearly one hundred years ago in England, and the
potency of the work done is related to its mass effect and to the results
achieved in every land by labour and its methods. All the great labour
organisations, national and international, are loosely knit together
subjectively, because in each group this Master has His disciples who are
working constantly to hold the movement in line with the divine Plan. It is
well to bear in mind that all great movements on earth demonstrate both good
and evil; the evil has to be subdued and dissipated, or relegated to its right
proportional place, before that which is good and in line with hierarchical
planning can find true expression. What is true of the individual is true also
of groups. Before the soul can express itself through the medium of the
personality, that personality has to be subdued, controlled, purified and
dedicated to service. It is this controlling, subduing process which is going
on now, and it is vociferously fought by the selfish and ambitious elements.
Nevertheless,
the work of this Master is outstandingly successful in preparing the
intellectual principle of the masses for eventual right recognition of the
Christ. A right sense of values is being developed, and in the right direction of
this potent labour group in every land lies the foundation of the new
civilisation.
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666]
The Ashram
of this Master is therefore occupied with worldwide economic problems, and also
with a direct attack upon the basic materialism to be found in the modern
world. The problems of barter and exchange, the significance of money, the
value of gold (a basic symbol of the third Ray of Active Intelligence), the
production of right attitudes towards material living, and the entire process
of right distribution are among the many problems dealt with in this Ashram;
the work done is enormous and of great importance in preparing men's mind for
the return of the Christ and for the New Age which He will inaugurate.
Capitalists and labour leaders, financial experts and thinking workers, and
members of all the differing ideologies which are prevalent in the world today
are to be found actively working within this Ashram. Many of them are what the
orthodox religious man or the hide-bound occult student would regard as
non-spiritual, yet all of them are in reality deeply spiritual in the correct
sense, but they care not for labels, for schools of thought nor for academic,
esoteric teaching. They exemplify within themselves a livingness which is the
hallmark of discipleship.
The time
has come when the first and major principle governing true esotericism must be
grasped as conditioning all hierarchical workers: Right Motive.
The time
has come when the quality of ashramic work is recognised, first of all, as
being: Selfless Service.
The time
has come when men everywhere must realise that entry into a Master's Ashram is
dependent upon Intelligence, plus right motive and service.
When these
three factors are present in any human being, the Masters know that good
material is presented to Them for training. Today the world is full of such men
and women, and in them lies the dominant hope of the future.
One more
point I would like to discuss. Through the work of this Master and His Ashram
the "sealing of the door where evil dwells" will come about, because
it is essentially this group which (if I dare so express it) is coping [Page 667] with raw materialism and the false values
which it engenders. The door has to be sealed by a vast mass of coordinated
human forces, and not by one or two enlightened men. This fact must be grasped
by you. The energy of love-wisdom, the energy of the second ray, can and will
bring in the Kingdom of God; the energy of the divine will can and will
galvanise with its dynamic potency the entire human family to the point where a
group transition will take place from the fourth into the fifth kingdom. It is
nevertheless this third ray energy, as wielded in the Ashram of this English
Master, under the direction of the Mahachohan, the Lord of Civilisation, which
will force a right attitude toward materialism, which will bring about a
balance between the material values and the spiritual, and which will
eventually thrust back into futility the Forces of Evil which have for so long
distracted the world of men. I am choosing my words with care.
You will
note, therefore, how the three divine aspects are united in one great movement
to bring in the Kingdom of God, and that the first step towards this longed-for
consummation is the appearance of the Masters upon the physical plane, and
then, somewhat later, the reappearance of the Christ.
(A. Bailey, The Externalization of Hierarchy, pp. 663-667)
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