I venture to say that everyone... will have been taught as a matter of basic education that humanity is the 4th Kingdom. We have the mineral, vegetable, animal and human. Humanity is the name of the Fourth Kingdom.

...However, if one were to speak publicly in almost any venue other than a religious or "spiritual" one, about a 5^th kingdom, about the gentlest thing that would happen would be that one would be ignored.

Why is this? Why is it not considered intelligent or sane even to speak of a 5th Kingdom outside of the churches or classrooms in religion or philosophy. A fifth Kingdom is a scientific concept, supported by reason, logic, commonsense and intuition. The existence of a fifth or spiritual or non-material kingdom has played a major role in all recorded Human history. Although it has been transmitted to us very largely through the medium of paint or ink or stone, the Spiritual Kingdom has never been anything that you could put a coat of paint on or weigh. But that is its reality. It is formless. It was reported on by the artists, the poets, the thinkers, the intuitives, the foremost visionaries or scientists of the times through the mediums they could manage. They did not know quantum Mechanics.

True, the historical record which is in many cases 3 to 5000 years old deals in things miraculous, in incredibly fanciful stuff, Gods and creatures that defy the known physical laws of nature. I think these are simply symbolic representations, or formulations of the mystic’s or thinker’s or intuitive’s contact with a formless Kingdom. The older and more fanciful ones were made to communicate concepts that are eternal and that exist to people who really did not think at all let alone know anything about Quantum Mechanics or Quarks. I mean if you were a thinker of say 4000 years ago and neither you or the people you were trying to communicate with knew anything about quantum physics and you encountered in your meditations an idea about justice or truth, or goodness or beauty how would you formulate it?

On the other hand if, in a much later period, you were a scientist like Galileo say, and you did discover a new fact regarding the physical plane and you dared to communicate this to the by now institutionalized church, you would get burned or something. I never read anywhere that Galileo doubted the existence of a spiritual Kingdom. He was simply trying to straighten out some of the facts vis-à-vis the physical plane. His new and correct information in no way contradicts the idea of the existence of God.

Interesting, is it not? The forces of retrogression controlled the growing light through the materialization or formalization or institutionalization, all these words are synonymous, of the churches of the world. They turned the Church from an organic, living, emerging, concept into what was/is basically a dead or at least a static object. Church leaders materialized what were basically living myths, living, symbolic, stories made up by wise or holy men who were the thinkers, intuitives, the scientists of their times, to communicate timeless truths to their people, by raising these tales to the level of static Divine and Unquestionable Facts. They then proclaimed any hint of a scientific fact that they perceived as a threat to their power base as evil and black magic and darkness.

I do not think that the Church Fathers were evil or bad guys, at least not most of them. They believed - more or less had to believe, if they were going to maintain their power positions - that they had the Truth. I mean if you had spent 40 years studying a belief system and had become an authority with a good job and some power in your community, you too would have a strong tendency to believe what was underpinning you, and to see anything that threatened your "truths" as a danger if not evil.

In spite of all of this control, the Light grew, or one could say the planet evolved or unfolded according to the Plan. The advances in science are only breath taking. One could go back to Galileo’s time and chronicle the advances, many of which were made at the cost of the scientist’s life, but for illustration purposes lets start with 1903. We have gone from the first sustained flight of an airplane at Kitty Hawk to arguing about the safety of taking a rocket ship which has a plutonium device on board, and which, coming from a few trips around the sun, is already going 42,000 miles an hour and slingshoting it around our planet Earth so that it can gain enough velocity to reach Saturn. That is pretty far to go in 93 years. I have already mentioned the astonishing developments in electronic computing and communications. This is all evidence of Humanity’s growing mastery of the mental plane. It is startling. A person who was living as recently as the mid 1800’s would think he was on another planet.

But now, it seems that the worm has, ironically, turned. It is the materialization, formalization or institutionalization of science which is trying to control the growing light and protect its materialistic base by ridiculing and making it dangerous for people to speak of intuitions, revelations and discoveries in non-physical arenas. It is strongly disputed that there even is a non-physical arena.

Curious, the men and women with traditional scientific training who are able to look into the formless worlds, into the Fifth Kingdom, are finding themselves in the place occupied by the scientists of old. Only now it is their own institution that they fear. Like the church leaders of old, who believed they were protecting Truth the leaders in the institutions of science have raised similar materialistic barriers to the light, a light that in no way would detract from the facts of physical science, but would immeasurably expand the field of investigation. And like those leaders of old, these leaders are not evil or bad persons; they are simply short-sightedly protecting the forms that have and do give them personal meaning and power.

We need to make it O.K. for men and women of the planetary intelligentsia, and especially those who are trained in the physical sciences, to think and speak about these things with out fear of some kind of ridicule or termination. It is the planetary intelligentsia, thinkers, visionaries and intuitives who using the bridge of the mind will reveal the Fifth Kingdom. It is my thought, or maybe just my wish and hope that this unfolding revelation will have the backing of the institutionalized scientific community. Or, if it does not, like the New World Religion is surrounding the church of old, a new science will be born, and the old science will gradually be absorbed or wither away. Is not this the way evolution works, has always worked?

In the esoteric community, we talk about the externalization of the Hierarchy and the reappearance of the Christ. (I do not know where the name Hierarchy, any more than I know where the name Humanity came from.) Externalization and reappearance are precisely used words. They are akin to revelation. A revelation is the externalization or the appearance of what has always been but not seen. Light is the cause; revelation is the effect.

In the case of the Hierarchy and the Christ, reappearance or externalization means the realization on the part of men everywhere, but especially by the mental apprehension of the intelligentsia that there is a spiritual realm that is not material, that a significant identifiable area of this realm is named Hierarchy, that these propositions are facts as substantial as any fact recognized by materialism.

We must bring the light of mind into the issue of the externalization and reappearance. The spiritual realm exists as concept, as idea. Its externalization or revelation must follow the same path into form that all concepts follow. It must manifest on the mental plane first. It must be a "respectable" idea. To make it so, the grip of materialism which makes it virtually impossible to speak of these ideas, but which is in a state of extreme crystallization, must be shattered.

Once the idea of the Hierarchy gains respectability, gains acceptance as an idea worth considering by the intelligentsia and the scientific community it will manifest, or it will be allowed to manifest or, more accurately, the fact of its ongoing externalization will become apparent.

So, we return, it comes back to us, to those for whom a Fifth Kingdom is not an absurdity, or a dream or a hope, but a living Reality. Going there, having been there, it is our duty, our solemn and noble charge to help the light of that Kingdom to stream forth into the minds of men. For then will, Christ the Avatar of Love, reappear on Earth. We know the purpose. That is part of the fruit of going there. We know, that it is only from the center which we call the race of man that the Plan of Love and Light can work out. It is in our hands, we can, if we have the courage, and the will to grasp and wield the power of light and love, shatter the grip of materialism, seal the door where evil dwells and restore the Plan on earth.

I’d like to end this talk tonight by quoting a passage from an ancient Hierarchical archive. It concerns the reappearance of Christ, the avatar of Love who is the forerunner of an even greater Avatar. It says that when the Christ makes his reappearance, then will the "Sons of men, who are now the sons of god, withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are the sons of God. Then shall the coming one appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by the one of awful power who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal and peaceful, silent will."

Then will the sons of men respond. Then will a newer light shine forth into the dismal, weary vale of earth. Then will new life course through the veins of men and then will their vision compass all the ways of what may be."

"So peace will come again on earth. But a peace unlike ought known before. Then will the Will-To-Good flower forth as understanding and understanding blossom as goodwill in men."