- The
Teaching on the new Astrology. This teaching too has gone out to a few hundred
students before its publication in book form. This new astrology has been hitherto [253]
ignored by those astrologers who have read it and (with the exception of four astrologers
who have deeply appreciated it but who wish I would be more explicit) see little in it. I
have given enough, could the open-minded astrologer but realize, to establish the coming
astrology on a firm basis; the accuracy of what I have given will in the course of time be
ascertained when astrologers who are dealing with the horoscopes of advanced people and
disciples will use the esoteric planets as given by me, and not the orthodox planets as
usually used. The accuracy of their deductions will necessarily depend upon their own
point of development and also upon their ability to recognize an advanced person, a
disciple or an initiate when they meet him, and undertake to cast his horoscope. If they
are themselves advanced disciples, they may have a tendency to set too rigid a standard
for those seeking astrological deduction, and thus fail to recognize a disciple; if they
are not advanced, they may regard people as advanced who are far from being even true
aspirants. In either case then the horoscope may prove inaccurate. It is of no use to use
the esoteric planets in relation to the average man.
- Information
about the New Group of World Servers and their work. This information includes
- The recognition of this group as intermediate between the Hierarchy and Humanity.
- The nature of their work as it influences the human soul and as it seeks through the
instrumentality of the men and women of goodwill to determine the period in which we live.
- The Triangle work which embodies two phases of their work, i.e., the forming of the
network of light as the channel of communication between the Hierarchy and Humanity, and
the forming simultaneously of the network of goodwill, which is the objective expression
of the subjective influence of light. Ponder on this statement.
The
attempt to form an exoteric branch of the inner Ashrams. This is evidenced in the work
I have done with a [254] special group of aspirants and accepted disciples whose
instructions, emanating from my Ashram, have been embodied in the book Discipleship in
the New Age (Vol. I and II).
Teaching
upon the new world religion, with its emphasis upon the three major Full Moon periods
(Aries, Taurus, Gemini, falling usually in April, May and June respectively) and the nine
(occasionally ten) minor Full Moons each year. This leads to a consequent relation being
established between the work of the Christ and of the Buddha in the minds of spiritually
inclined people everywhere, with the result of a great broadening of the human aspiration.
This work is as yet embryonic, but it should receive increasing attention. Eventually it
will demonstrate as the main linking unit between the East and the West, particularly if
Shri Krishna is shown to be an earlier incarnation of the Lord of Love, the Christ.
Thereby three major world religions - the Christian, the Hindu and the Buddhist - will be
intimately related, whilst the Mahommedan faith will be found to be linked to the
Christian faith because it embodies the work of the Master Jesus as He over-shadowed one of
His senior disciples, a very advanced initiate, Mahomet.
A close
study of all the above will indicate to you the lines along which I would like to see the
work expand in future years. I would ask for a careful study of these words, for I regard
this as an important instruction and one which could be regarded as the skeleton outline
of the work I wish to see done. It will involve an intensification of the work of the
advanced section in the Arcane School, a greater emphasis upon the Full Moon meetings, a
careful organization of the Triangle work and the Goodwill work as an added effort to aid
the work of the New Group of World Servers, plus an attempt to recognize the members of
the New Group whenever and wherever contacted. This will not be at all an easy task, my
brothers, if you look only for those who think and work your way, or who recognize the
Hierarchy as you recognize it, or if you exclude those who labor in relation to religious
and other fields in a manner different [255] to yours. Forget not, as an instance of this,
that the great Labor Movement in the world was initiated by one of the Masters and is
implemented from His Ashram at this time.
We come now
to a detailed analysis of Rule XIII. In the foregoing pages I gave you certain broad
principles and outlined a new aspect of the work which I had undertaken to do for humanity
- under instruction from the Hierarchy. The teaching I gave there is very abstruse; little
of it can as yet be of real service to the majority of aspirants but a wide and general
idea can take form and provide the immovable background for later teaching. I would have
you remember that the teaching which I have given out has been intermediate in nature,
just as that given by H.P.B., under my instruction, was preparatory. The teaching planned
by the Hierarchy to precede and condition the New Age, the Aquarian Age, falls into three
categories:
- Preparatory, given 1875 - 1890...written down by H.P.B.
- Intermediate, given 1919 - 1949...written down by A.A.B.
- Revelatory, emerging after 1975...to be given on a worldwide scale via the radio.
In the next century and early in the century an initiate will appear and will carry on
this teaching. It will be under the same "impression," for my task is not yet
completed and this series of bridging treatises between the material knowledge of man and
the science of the initiates has still another phase to run. The remainder of this
century, as I told you elsewhere (Destiny of the Nations, Page 106), must be
dedicated to rebuilding the shrine of man's living, to reconstructing the form of
humanity's life, to reconstituting the new civilization upon the foundations of the old,
and to the reorganizing of the structures of world thought, world politics, plus the
redistribution of the world's resources in conformity to divine purpose. Then and only
then will it be possible to carry the revelation further. |