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3. Esoteric Schools in the Future

These schools will be truly esoteric for humanity will then be ready.  The higher consciousness of the disciple will be evoked and trained.  He will be taught to work consciously on spiritual levels and to act as a soul in the three worlds of human evolution, through the medium of a highly intelligent personality.  Disciples will be prepared for initiation, and initiates will be trained to take the higher major initiations.  Emphasis will be laid upon the right handling of energies and forces, upon wisdom as the result of applied knowledge and upon the work and plans of the Hierarchy.  The intuition will be developed and a still higher fusion brought about—between the spiritual man and the universal One.

I would like to divide what I have to say about the schools into the following divisions:

I. Some definitions of esotericism.

II. How an esoteric school is formed.

III. The fundamental truths taught in the new schools.

A study of these themes will help us to know what esoteric teaching is and aid us to work as esotericists, taking the needed training and learning to tread the WAY correctly.  Leaders and teachers in the present so-called esoteric schools must face the facts—hard as they [266] [266] may be.  If they are true and sincere, they will do so gladly and will adapt themselves to the need of the times; they will evaluate correctly their place upon the ladder of evolution and thus decide where their effort should be placed.   Nothing can arrest the hierarchical plans as outlined above.  Those who cannot face themselves and rate their work at its true value, will find their schools in the discard—and this can be seen happening everywhere today.  Those who can realise the situation and can register the vision of the future will move forward to increased usefulness, to vital reconstruction and to greater service.