The Externalization of Hierarchy (continued)
We now come
to a consideration of the vast Ashram controlled by the Master R. He is the
Lord of Civilisation and His is the task of bringing in the new civilisation
for which all men wait. It is a third ray Ashram, and therefore enfolds within
its ring-pass-not all the Ashrams to be found upon the third Ray of Active
Intelligence, upon the fifth Ray of Concrete Science and upon the seventh Ray
of Ceremonial Order. All these Ashrams are working under the general direction
of the Master R. He works primarily through the Masters of these three types of
ray energy. He Himself at this time is occupied with seventh ray energy, which
is the order-producing energy upon our planet.
This is the
Ray of Ceremonial Order, and through the activity of its energy, when correctly
directed and used, a right rhythm is being imposed upon all aspects of human [Page 668] living. An effort is being constantly made
to arrest the ugly chaos of the present and to produce the ordered beauty of
the future. The major weapon now being used by the combined Forces of Evil is
chaos, disruption, lack of established security, and consequent fear. The
potency of these evil forces is exceedingly great because they belong to no one
group of people and to all the ideologies. The chaos produced by indifference,
the chaos produced by uncertainty, the chaos produced by fear, by starvation,
by insecurity, by watching others suffer innocently, and the chaos produced by
the warring and conflicting ambitious elements in every nation (without
exception)—these are the factors with which the Master R. is attempting to
deal; the task is one of supreme difficulty. The entire rhythm of international
thinking has to be altered, and that constitutes a slow and arduous task; the
evil personalities which, in every country, are responsible for the chaos and
uncertainty, have eventually to be replaced by those who can work in
cooperation with the rhythm of the seventh ray, and thus produce ordered
beauty.
The task is
further complicated by the fact that in the substitution of order for chaos,
national cultures must be preserved and the outline of the new civilisation
presented to the people. This major Ashram is therefore confronted with two
elements in every land and nation: those people who hold on to the bad old
things of the past, and those who work for the extreme opposite of this point
of view and for that which is new. Under the influence of this seventh ray
energy balance has to be brought about and preserved, so that the "noble
middle way" of right action and of right human relations can be safely
trodden. The task of the Master R. is, however, lightened by the fact that the
seventh ray is now coming into activity and its potency is increasing year by
year. His task is also aided by the intelligent work done by the Ashram of the
English Master Who works consistently with the awakening and the arising
masses.
Every
October and every March, the Master R. gathers [Page 669]
together His council of helpers, the Masters and the senior initiates in the
Ashrams of the third, the fifth and the seventh rays. Though He is the Head of
the third Ray of Aspect and is in control, therefore, of the two Rays of
Attribute mentioned above, He does not Himself wield these forces, because He
is One of the three Heads of the Hierarchy and His work cannot be confined to
the activity of any one ray. He works through the Ashrams of these rays, but He
Himself works primarily in cooperation with the Christ and the Manu.
Now we come
to the work which I (D.K.), a second ray Master, am attempting to do. With what
energies am I working? What is the goal towards which I am striving under the
direction of the three great Lords of the Hierarchy? I am working with the energy
of right human relations; this is a definite and integral part of the energy of
the second ray. It is a magnetic type of energy and draws men together for
betterment and for right understanding. It is also related in a peculiar way to
the energy of the first Ray of Will or Power. Perhaps this will be clearer to
you if I point out that the will-to-good is an aspect of the Ray of Will, but
that goodwill is an attribute of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom, thus relating
that ray to the first ray.
There is no
need for me to enlarge upon the work which I am doing in and through my Ashram;
you know it well, for I have frequently outlined it, and my books present the
goal adequately for this generation.
In this
particular though relatively short cycle, my Ashram is in a key position. It is
closely linked to the first ray Ashram of the Master Morya, through the work of
Men of Goodwill and through all goodwill movements in the world at this time.
Goodwill is essentially an expression of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom, and is
therefore an aspect of all the Ashrams in that great second ray Ashram, the
Hierarchy. But all goodwill work is today being galvanised also into violent
activity through the dynamic energy of the first ray, expressing the
will-to-good.
You have,
therefore, this dynamic type of energy channelled [Page
670] through the Ashram for which I am responsible. This Ashram works
also in close cooperation with that of the Master R. because the intelligent
activity of the energy of goodwill is our objective, and its expression through
intelligence, applied with wisdom and with skill in action, is the task
demanded of all men and women of goodwill throughout the world. When the Labour
Movement is swept by the energy of goodwill, basic changes in world affairs
will take place. I would ask all workers for goodwill to attempt to reach
labour in all countries with these ideas, correctly presented.
I have
tried here to give you some idea of the synthesis of this hierarchical work for
humanity, and thereby give to all men and women of goodwill the needed courage
to go forward.
You ask me
(and rightly) of what use is all this information to men and to the aspirant
who is trying to serve? The one thing which humanity needs today is the
realisation that there IS a Plan which is definitely working out through all
world happenings, and that all that has occurred in man's historical past, and
all that has happened lately, is assuredly in line with that Plan. Necessarily
also, if such a Plan exists, it presupposes Those Who are responsible for the
originating of the Plan and for its successful carrying forward. From the
standpoint of average humanity, who think in terms of earthly happiness, the
Plan should be something joyful and something which would make material life easier.
To the spiritual Hierarchy, the Plan involves those arrangements or
circumstances which will raise and expand the consciousness of mankind and
enable men, therefore, to discover the spiritual values for themselves and to
make the needed changes of their own free will, and thus produce the demanded
betterment of the environment, consistent with the unfolding spiritual
recognition.
Under the
totalitarian system, freedom is curtailed or abolished, the free will of the
individual is denied and prevented expression, the individual is regarded as
the appurtenance of the all-powerful State and held in that position by police
regimentation; individual development is of value only in so far as the
interests of the State are served, but the individual himself—as an independent
divine unit of humanity—is non-existent, from the totalitarian point of view.
Would you, therefore, have the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet work along
totalitarian lines, enforcing peace and comfort, taking steps to arrest evil by
force and working for the material well-being of men? Or would you have the
Masters lead humanity itself, through right understanding, to take the needed
action, even if it involves trial and error and a much slower process? Would
you have mankind standing on its own feet as intelligent agents of the divine
Plan? Or would you have them treated as irresponsible children who must be
energetically protected against themselves? Is it not better for the rapidly
awakening intelligence and activity of men (in every land) to be trained to
recognise the essential unity of all human beings, and so be led to take the
action needed which will endorse that unity, which will work for the entire
group of human beings in all lands everywhere, and which will also and at the same
time preserve the individual and the national cultures, alongside a universal
civilisation and a world-wide system of divine recognition? It is toward this
general freedom and the intelligent activity of the free individual that the
Hierarchy is steadily and successfully working; the concept of unity and of
united activity for the good of all is far more widely grasped and understood
than you perhaps realise. The totalitarian approach works toward an imposed
unity and one which will include all peoples and bind them down to a uniformity
of belief—politically, economically and socially—and which will and does
basically ignore the spiritual values, putting the State in the place of that
divine spiritual centre where spiritual reality is to be found.
Under the
totalitarian system, freedom is curtailed or abolished, the free will of the
individual is denied and prevented expression, the individual is regarded as
the appurtenance of the all-powerful State and held in that position by police
regimentation; individual development is of value only in so far as the
interests of the State are served, but the individual himself—as an independent
divine unit of humanity—is non-existent, from the totalitarian point of view.
Would you, therefore, have the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet work along
totalitarian lines, enforcing peace and comfort, taking steps to arrest evil by
force and working for the material well-being of men? Or would you have the
Masters lead humanity itself, through right understanding, to take the needed
action, even if it involves trial and error and a much slower process? Would
you have mankind standing on its own feet as intelligent agents of the divine
Plan? Or would you have them treated as irresponsible children who must be
energetically protected against themselves? Is it not better for the rapidly
awakening intelligence and activity of men (in every land) to be trained to
recognise the essential unity of all human beings, and so be led to take the
action needed which will endorse that unity, which will work for the entire
group of human beings in all lands everywhere, and which will also and at the same
time preserve the individual and the national cultures, alongside a universal
civilisation and a world-wide system of divine recognition? It is toward this
general freedom and the intelligent activity of the free individual that the
Hierarchy is steadily and successfully working; the concept of unity and of
united activity for the good of all is far more widely grasped and understood
than you perhaps realise. The totalitarian approach works toward an imposed
unity and one which will include all peoples and bind them down to a uniformity
of belief—politically, economically and socially—and which will and does
basically ignore the spiritual values, putting the State in the place of that
divine spiritual centre where spiritual reality is to be found.
(A. Bailey, The Externalization of Hierarchy, pp. 667-671)
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