September 1941

It will be obvious to you that there is little that I can say as to exact procedure until such time as humanity itself has decided the future conditions of human living. I mean exactly that, my brother. The war is not yet decided. There is a widespread feeling that God (as we call the Central Power of Life itself) will or should intervene; there is a vague demand that right should triumph and a desperate hope that something unexpected will happen that will give victory to the arms of the Forces of Light. This attitude of painful expectancy is universal among the masses - both those in the fighting countries and the neutrals also. In the neutral countries (of which the United States is the largest and the most important) there are two factors conditioning the thinking of the people:

First, a deep seated though not unnatural selfishness, which prompts the determination to take no real part in the war, except what can be done safely and at the least possible cost, and secondly, a steadily emerging cleavage between the relatively few who have vision and want actively to help the embattled Allies (the agents of the Forces of Light), and the selfish many who - for political, religious or personal reasons - will fight every effort to commit their country further than it is at this time committed, and who hope nevertheless to share in the benefits of victory.

The Coming One will make His appearance when the tide of battle has definitely turned and the forces of evil are being driven back to their own place. I have made no pronouncement as to time, person or place. I have simply indicated that there is a possibility (subsequent to right action) of the appearing of the One for Whom the centuries have long waited, to Whom prophecy in all lands, the rapidly developing intuition of the people, and established precedent, all bear constant witness. His hour is near, provided the needed steps in preparation are taken, and it is for that that I have approached you. I have not indicated the place of His appearing, the nature of His emergence, or the country of His choice. These are the details which concern Him and not you. Your task is to get ready for His coming. This involves right understanding and increasing labor for humanity as a result of the experience of love within your own individual consciousness. This I emphasize.

I have suggested three preparatory steps to the group of aspirants with whom I am in touch:

1. The use of the great mantram or invocation - in two parts (see Pages 144, 249). The first was used in 1936 and the second in 1940, and is still in use. The first was intended to centralize human desire, and the second was intended to utilize what mental power was available to invoke Those Who (on the inner spiritual side of life) are waiting to help. This They cannot do unless the way is made possible for Them by humanity itself. Such is the law.
2. A general process of educating the public in the fact and use of goodwill. A great but undeveloped potency is still locked up in mankind which, if evoked by man himself, will prove adequate to do two things,
   1. Lay the foundation for a stable peace - active and positive because the result of active and positive action - after the Forces of Light have won the victory upon the physical plane.
   2. Provide the subjective synthesis or network of light, [322] embodying the force of goodwill as the expression of right human relations. This will guarantee a workable world order and not an imposed tyranny or a mystical and impossible dream.
3. The realization of a general outline of that coming world order which will be in line with humanity's need, basic in its implications, and which will provide that structure of living interrelation which will foster latent love, intuitional understanding and the creative power in man.