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To All Who Would Understand and Serve the Intent of Hierarchy:
Most of the seething unrest that permeates the atmosphere of the planet today is a manifestation of that human selfishness which seeks to manipulate men. This type of control works through cleverness of wit and sophistication that always takes into account man's susceptibility to pride and what is referred to as "snob appeal." People are being forced by their own vanities and emotions into the position of being manipulated, and they have allowed themselves to become puppets of their own limited imaginations.
The Great White Brotherhood is currently seeking effective means of bridging the chasm between popular opinion and the progressive instruction which the masters seek to convey to mankind. Thus it is our hope to restore a climate of spiritual receptivity that may be accelerated into a golden-age understanding that will promote peace and harmony upon earth.
The hungers in the hearts of men for spiritual bread gnaw at their serenity and often drive them to commit acts of which they are later ashamed. Humanity's destructive momentums of self-condemnation are often shifted to a collective scapegoat or to an individual who becomes the target of the personal malice of millions.
The solutions to mankind's present problems are not apparent to those who are embroiled in them. These problems are compounded on the one hand by an extreme narrow-mindedness, and on the other by a fanatical liberalism. To have what we may term a hard core of knowledgeable disciples upon the planet, who are devoted to enlightened humanistic interests, does not guarantee that the remainder of the population will adopt the correct attitudes which will bring about improved conditions in human relations.
We must be able to use those in different states of spiritual awareness, according to their highest capacities, who will act as mediators in the world of form. These must act neither on the basis of fear nor on that of misguided love, but on the hierarchical principle of a chaste intent. This is the intent whose only goal is the enlightenment of humanity and the creation of a broad spectrum of tolerances that will not be found so far afield of true freedom as to give no voice to the discrimination of the Christ mind.
Naturally, we are interested in all people. And we are interested in establishing a rapport between differing modes of spiritual thought that will bring about a long overdue synthesis of understanding, including a codification of religious terminologies with a view to making what we may term "the occult" more easily assimilable by an evolving humanity. It is unfortunate that through the years many have been used to complicate the structure of the teachings which we have sought to build as a bridge of comprehension over which a bewildered and seeking humanity might pass.
One of the messages that we must get across, with the help of our disciples, is the practicality of the councils of the Great White Brotherhood. The most complex problems are seen through our eyes as resolvable through reasonability, affability, and mankind's own willingness to implement the solutions we offer. Therefore, in the final hours of this year, we enlist the aid of the students in spreading abroad the good news of the higher teachings of Christ to all who will give ear to the voice of God that still speaks in the wilderness of humanity's consciousness, saying: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord."1
We cannot condone the actions of those who thrive upon the poison of malicious gossip, nor do we hold guiltless those who spread lies about others. If those who consider themselves to be among the vanguard of the spiritual forces of the world are to remain effectively aligned with the hierarchy in their outer service, they must hold to the cardinal principles of virtue in their dealings with one another. At the same time, they must exhibit internally an attitude of compassionate comprehension toward those whose zeal at the beginning of the Path causes them to feel, albeit sometimes rashly, that they are more efficient standard-bearers than those who have for many years been continuously engaged in a form of service to humanity.
It is not necessary for a student on the Path to judge the merit of another disciple or of another movement in order to be effective in his own particular calling. We of the hierarchy are not so much concerned that people work together in the same avenue of expression as we are that they learn to concentrate their energies and their attention on the purification of their individual worlds and whatever avenue they have chosen as an outlet for their expression of the Christ. Only when individual man has resolved his personal problems by improving his attitude toward his fellowmen can he become an effective mediator in the arena of world action where he will encounter many schools of thought.
The time has come for visionaries to understand that it is not necessary for them to build a house in which all of the people of the world can live. These must understand what we have termed the Law of the Wheel within the Wheel.2 This law has to do with the interchange of the microcosm and the Macrocosm, and it reveals that all manifestation must be patterned "as above, so below." Pur et simple this means that any endeavor, regardless of its size, can manifest the same cardinal virtue of sincerity which the Brotherhood advocates; for all who would embrace the truth can learn to outpicture within their own field of service an aspect of the design of the universal temple.
Millions can drink from one spring if the water be pure; for there joy is conveyed, and this is the purpose of our Brotherhood. Men and women do not need to be joined together as an incongruous pile of lumber haphazardly nailed together. But they do need the essential spiritual conveyances of service and of technique which bring peace to the heart and expand their knowledge of the mysteries of the Christ. Working with the central purposes of hierarchy, they will then draw forth the necessary harmonizing factors that will make all life one. On the other hand, attempts to integrate religious groups and ideas often bring about a segregation of both, as people, through encounter, may become less tolerant of one another and less inclined to accept one another's concepts and goals.
Evolution, in a spiritual sense, comes either gradually or suddenly to men; and it is difficult for those in either category to appreciate the progress of those in the other. How wise was he who said, "With all thy getting get understanding."3 The business of educating humanity along the spiritual path is a great necessity at the present hour; therefore, we are most concerned with the cutting edge of the sword of the Spirit that is held in the hand of the devotee, for it is the correct implementation of the Word, referred to in the Scriptures as the "sword of the Spirit,"4 that is all important to the evolving soul.
Whether you fight under one flag or another, as long as you are true to yourself and to the activation of the power of faith within your heart, as long as you are unfolding the principles of higher wisdom and removing the impediments of dogmatic interpretation that have prevented your acceptance of truth through the years, as long as you are amplifying a selfless love that recognizes what is real in the scientific manifestation of being, you are a part of our vanguard. We want you to feel, each and every one of you, that the need for individual spiritual unfoldment is paramount. Then we want you to see the value of collective associations and examinations of truth that follow the theme of the hour which must ever be acknowledged as Christly discrimination.
Many rash deeds are done in the name of altruism whereas, if a little foresight had been exercised, much pain would have been spared to the self and to others. Our concerns, then, lie in the forward movement of mankind in a service that is guided by the wholeness of cosmic reasonability and justice and in a purity that is free from personal pride, a purity that adheres with maximum effort to the principles of honesty for which there are no substitutes.
As it has been said, "God give us the freedom to do the right as we see it." May we, then, call forth in all of you the blessing of freedom to see with the eyes of the Spirit the vision of one man transposed to become one world. For only through the life patterns of the Masters of Wisdom, only through living in keeping with the pure truth of being will man and what he does become permanent. He will not have to backtrack or to recycle old errors, for he will have transcended the world and all that's in it.
Press on. Keep on keeping on. Only victory lies ahead!
For the hierarchy, I remain graciously