Esoteric Work in the 21st Century
How can we best use the energy of our thinking to usher in a more enlightened age of love and sharing that we all long to see? Holding onto the vision requires much spiritual stamina when wars and terrorism still take place in the world and materialistic ideologies condition international affairs. How can the vision be sustained in a world of physical and psychic pollution, where Western teenage culture is so heavily sexualised, and science and philosophy are fragmented by a reductive rationalism that cannot see the wood for the trees?
To make sense of these confusing times we can bear in mind the many changes taking place on the inner side of life all of which cause temporary upheaval. These have been expounded by the Tibetan throughout his teachings: most significantly, in 1942, he referred to a powerful line of descending energy which had its origin outside our planetary life altogether. It involved the emanating Avatar and his relationship to our planetary Logos, and included such high beings as the Lords of Liberation whose power is such that even in Shamballa “the life aspect was almost violently stimulated through their action.” This line of energy passed through the human kingdom right down into the subhuman realms, and was the cause of the dramatic changes from which mankind was suffering at that time – for it swung into immediate conflict the past and the future. At the time of writing the Tibetan remarked that these energies had reached their lowest point of descent anchoring new inspirations and new seeds of hope on which the future depended. Their point of ascension had begun, producing transmutation and abstraction.*
Since 1942, the culminating moment when the forces of light triumphed over those of evil, the planetary inflow of light has been steadily increasing, both spiritually and physically. The intensity of this light shining into the collective subconscious has set in motion a constant stream of redemptive moments as aspects of the racial Dweller on the Threshold are brought before the public eye for resolution.1
The role of an esoteric group is not to focus its power specifically on an area of planetary crisis as this may even feed the conflict, but rather to work with established pathways of planetary energy in a more general manner to strengthen the effectiveness of light and goodwill wherever it is found. This involves an alignment with the underlying evolutionary Purpose directed from Shamballa, amplified by the Hierarchy and directed in the service of humanity at this particular time.
Social evolution (which concerns the united antahkarana of humanity as a whole) has progressed in leaps and bounds since the time of the Tibetan’s writing. Added to this, the internet’s capacity to instantaneously bring international events right into people’s homes is sensitising even the hardest of hearts to the plight of others around the world. Harrowing natural disasters, many more of which are predicted around this time by the Tibetan, are engendering a sense of communal suffering as one global family; and as this sensitising grows, it is imperative that the New Group of World Servers upholds the vision in keeping with its motto, the “Glory of the One”.
The ajna centre of the Lord of the World is now focusing light through the New Group of World Servers with laser like clarity, and the mental plane is consequently teeming with seed ideas and new thinking on the problems of humanity. We can see evidence of this in the prodigious activity of the NGO community; by general consensus, there are around 40,000 working internationally and literally millions that operate at national levels. All of this represents a huge undertaking of goodwill.
We also see the influence of the New Group of World Servers in the redirection of money for spiritual purposes – expressed in the turnover growth of the global non-profit sector, this is estimated to be over a $1 trillion industry which, if it were a nation, would make it the world’s eighth largest economy.2 In 6 of the 16 countries for which UN data is available, “non profits employ 10 percent or more of the total workforce, making them one of the largest employers of any industry in these countries.”3 Bearing in mind that money is crystallised prana and that its selfish accumulation is tantamount to blocking the divine circulatory flow, this is an encouraging sign of a growing trend towards a future of cooperative sharing. Combined with other factors such as the spirited public events that are constantly taking place for charitable causes, a growing momentum is building towards the time when the lust for gold will be superseded by the spiritual cry: “Let the fires of divinity burn out all dross. Let the pure gold emerge. Give me the gold of living love to shower upon the sons of men.”
As the ajna centre of members of the New Group of World Servers comes into rapid alignment with the creative purpose of the Lord of the World, this group is indeed becoming a living organism “rushing forward upon a straight line with its one eye fixed upon the goal and beaming light”. Amongst other things, this light is preparing the way for the reappearance of the World Teacher; for the ajna centre is especially related to the right eye through which the energy of buddhi is transmitted. Vision is a two-way process and this eye of love transmits the light by which He will be seen and recognised for who He is.
* ref: Introductory statement to The Rays and the Initiations
- The Externalisation of the Hierarchyp 494
- Global Civil Society – Dimensions of the Non Profit Sector, pp 8-9 http://ccss.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2011/08/Global-Civil-Society-I.pdf
- Johns Hopkins Institute for Policy Studies report http://www.jhsph.edu/news/news-releases/2013/lester_nonprofits.html