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In our
age the missionary spirit is strong. The Western churches are sending
missionaries all over the world to convert the people of every nation to a
belief in their creeds; nor are they alone in their proselyting efforts. The
East has commenced a strong invasion of Western fields, and many Christians who
have become dissatisfied with the creeds and dogmas taught by the clergy and
impelled to search for truth to satisfy the demands of the intellect for an
adequate explanation of the problems of life, have familiarized themselves
with, and in many cases accepted, the Eastern teachings of Buddhism, Hinduism,
etc.
From an occult point of view, this missionary effort, whether
from East to West or vice versa, is not desirable, because it is
contrary to the trend of evolution. The great Leaders of humanity Who are in
charge of our development give us every aid necessary to that end. Religion is
one of these aids, and there are excellent reasons why the Bible, containing
not only one, but both the Jewish and Christian religions, should have been
given to the West. If we earnestly seek for light we shall see the Supreme
Wisdom which has given us this double religion and how no other religion of the
present day is suitable to our peculiar needs. To this end we will in this
chapter touch again upon certain points previously brought out in various
places and connections.
In the Polarian, Hyperborean and Lemurian Epochs the task of
leading humanity was a comparatively easy one, for man was then without mind,
but when that disturbing element came in during the first part of the Atlantean
Epoch, he developed Cunning, which is the product of the mind unchecked by the
spirit. Cunning acts as an aid to desire, regardless of whether the desire is
good or bad, whether it will bring joy or sorrow.
In the middle of the Atlantean Epoch the spirit had drawn
completely into its vehicles and commenced to work in the mind to produce Thought
and Reason: the ability to trace a given cause to its inevitable effect, and to
deduce from a given effect the cause which produced it. The faculty of
Reasoning or Logic was to become more fully developed in the Fifth Epoch, and
therefore the Original Semites (the fifth race of the Atlantean Epoch) were a
"chosen people," to bring out that germinal faculty to such a
ripeness that it would be impregnated into the very fibre of their descendants,
who would thus become the New Race.
To transmute Cunning into Reason proved no easy task. The earlier
changes in man's nature had been easily brought about. He could then be led
without difficulty because he had no conscious desire, nor mind to guide him,
but by the time of the Original Semites he had become cunning enough to resent
limitations of his liberty and to circumvent repeatedly the measures taken to
hold him in line. The task of guiding him was all the more difficult because it
was necessary he should have some liberty of choice, that he might in time
learn self-government. Therefore a law was enacted which decreed immediate
rewards for obedience and instant punishment for disregard of its
provisions. Thus was man taught, coaxed and coerced into reasoning in a limited
manner that "the way of the transgressor is hard," and that he must
"fear God," or the Leader Who guided him.
Out of all who were chosen as "seed" for the new Race,
but few remained faithful. Most of them were rebellious and, so far as they
were concerned, entirely frustrated the purpose of the Leader by intermarrying
with the other Atlantean Races, thus bringing inferior blood into their
descendants. That is what is meant in the Bible where the fact is recorded that
the sons of God married the daughters of men. For that act of disobedience were
they abandoned and "lost." Even the faithful died, according to the
body, in the Desert of Gobi (the "Wilderness") in Central Asia, the
cradle of our present Race. They reincarnated, as their own descendants of
course, and thus inherited the "Promised Land," the Earth as it is
now.
In such cases as that and the San Francisco disaster, the
inner spiritual nature of man becomes more in evidence than under any other
circumstances, and the close observer may then discern the trend of evolution.
The fact then becomes manifest that though in the stress of ordinary life our
actions may deny it, nevertheless at heart we know and acknowledge the great
truth that we are brothers and the hurt of one is really felt by all. Such
incidents, therefore, point out the direction of evolution. The control of man
by Reason must be succeeded by that of Love, which at present acts independent
of and sometimes even contrary to the dictates of Reason. The anomaly arises
from the fact that Love, at present, is rarely quite unselfish and our Reason
is not always true. In the "New Galilee," the coming Sixth Epoch,
Love will become unselfish and Reason will approve its dictates. Universal
Brotherhood shall then be fully realized, each working for the good of all,
because self-seeking will be a thing of the past.
That this much-to-be-desired end may be attained, it will be
necessary to select another "chosen people" from the present stock to
serve as a nucleus from which the new Race shall spring. This choosing is not
to be done contrary to the will of the chosen. Each man must choose for
himself; he must willingly enter the ranks.
Races are but an evanescent feature of evolution. Before the end
of the Lemurian Epoch there was a "chosen people," different from the
ordinary humanity of that time, who became the ancestors of the Atlantean
Races. From the fifth race of those another "chosen people" was
drawn, from which the Fifth Epoch Races descended, of which there have been
five and will be two more. Before a new Epoch is ushered in, however, there
must be "a new Heaven and a new earth"; the physical features of the
Earth will be changed and its density decreased. There will be one Race at the
beginning of the next Epoch, but after that every thought and feeling of Race
will disappear. Humanity will again constitute one vast Fellowship, regardless
of all distinctions. Races are simply steps in evolution which must be taken,
otherwise there will be no progress for the spirits reborn in them. But, though
necessary steps, they are also extremely dangerous ones, and are therefore the
cause of grave concern to the Leaders of mankind. They call these sixteen Races
"the sixteen paths to destruction," because, while in previous Epochs
the changes came after such enormous intervals that it was easier to get the
majority of the entities in line for promotion, it is different with the Races.
They are comparatively evanescent; therefore extra care must be taken that as
few of the spirits as possible become enmeshed in the fetters of Race.
The Christian teaching of the New
Testament belongs particularly to the pioneer Races of the Western World. It is
being specially implanted among the people of the United States, for as the
object of the new Race of the Sixth Epoch will be the unification of all the
Races, the United States is becoming the "melting pot" where all the
nations of the earth are being amalgamated and from this amalgamation will the
next "chosen people," the nucleus, be chiefly derived.
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