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World Servers
of the 20th Century
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Introduction
Happy New
Millennium!
During this
time of reflections on the year gone by and resolutions for the
year to come, we thought it would be appropriate to hold up, as
inspiration, those among us who, by their lives and their work,
have had a profoundly positive effect on our planet.
This issue exploresprimarily
through the writings of A. A. Baileyways
to recognize a true world server and valuable things we can do
to support them when we find them. In the end, the greatest
service we can perform is to become one ourselves.
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"On earth peace, good will toward men."
"The call is not for fanatics or for the rabid
devotee who, in attempting to express it, has so marred divinity. The call
is for sane and normal men and women who can comprehend the situation,
face what must be done, and then give their lives to expressing for the
world the qualities of the citizens of the kingdom of Souls: wisdom,
silence, non-separativeness and freedom from hatreds and partisan, creedal
beliefs. When such men can be gathered together in large numbers (and they
are gathering rapidly) we shall have the fulfulment of the angels' song at
Bethlehem, "On earth peace, good will toward men."From Bethlemhem to Calvary by Alice A. Bailey
page 284
Marie Curie1903 and 1911
Nobel Peace Prize winner
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"Members of the New Group of
World Servers are working in every land to spread good will, world
understanding and religious unity."
Desmund Tutu
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 Eleanor
Roosevelt and Helen KellerNobel
Peace Prize winners.....
What are the characteristics of the true
server?
These characteristics can be easily and briefly noted. They are
not exactly what one may have been led to believe...[The] major
characteristics will then be three in number:
1. [The true server] will be distinguished, as might be expected, by the
quality of harmlessness, and by an active refraining from
those acts and that speech which might hurt or cause any
misunderstanding. By no word, suggestion, innuendo or voiced
dissatisfaction will [they] hurt [their] group. You will note that I
do not say "will not hurt any individual." Those working
under the Law of Service need no reminder not to hurt any
individual. They often need, under the exuberance of spiritual
stimulation and the intensity of their aspiration, to be reminded to
demonstrate group harmlessness.
2. The second characteristic is a
willingness to let
others serve as seems best to them, knowing that the life
flowing through the individual server must find its own channels and
outlets, and that direction of these currents can be dangerous and
prevent the rendering of the intended service. The server's efforts
will be turned in two directions:
1. To the task of helping others to "stand in spiritual
being", as he himself is learning to stand.
2. To aiding the individual to express...service in
[their]
chosen field as [they] desire to express it, and not as the on
looking helper deems [they] should do it.
...The work of the new type of server is directed towards those
who are establishing soul contact...This centers around the
capacity to stand, not only in spiritual being, but together with
others, working with them subjectively, telepathically, and
synthetically. This distinction merits attention for one can easily
waste effort by entering fields already well handled from the point
of view of the attainment of the units in that field.
3. The third characteristic of the new server is joyfulness.
This takes the place of criticism (that dire creator of misery) and
is the silence that sounds.
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Service
itself is definitely the result of a tremendous inner
happening... |
...We have seen that service is not simply an activity of
some person or group doing something with good intention for another
person or group. Service itself is definitely the result of a
tremendous inner happening, and when that result is brought about,
it will be found to have produced a number of creative secondary
causes. These are, primarily, a change in the lower consciousness, a
tendency to turn away from the things of the personal self to the
larger issues of the group, a reorientation which is real and
expressive and a power to change conditions (through creative
activity) which is the demonstration of something dynamically new.
As this inner event stabilizes into an equilibrized inner condition,
the demonstration of the above changes becomes more regular and less
spasmodic and the effects of the new forces flowing into the
personality to be later used creatively, will be seen...Thus the
true server comes into...service, and thenceforth creative
work...can go forward...
Esoteric Psychology Vol. 2 pg. 131 by
A. A. Bailey
 Mikhail
Sergeyevich Gorbachev
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world, and is recognised as one who can be depended upon
to serve. Men turn to him for assistance and help
along his recognised line, and he begins to sound forth
his note so as to be heard...This he does, at this stage,
through the pen in literature, through the spoken word in
lecturing and teaching, through music, painting and art.
He reaches the hearts of men in some way or another, and
becomes a helper and server of his race.
Treatise on Cosmic Fire page
885-86 by A. A. Bailey
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 "The hope of the
world today lies in the development of good willnot peace as the
word is usually interpreted, to mean merely an enforced freedom
from war, and an expediently enforced pacifism, but the
cultivation of a spirit of good will, intelligently applied, and
worked out with purpose into the fabric of the individual and
national life."
Florence
Nightengale
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The
Right
Livelihood Award Foundation
was established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, a Swedish-German
writer, philatelic expert and former Member of the European
Parliament, to honour and support those offering practical and
exemplary answers to the crucial problems facing the world today.
Since then 75 individuals and organizations from some 60 different
countries have been chosen to receive the Right Livelihood Award,
which has become widely known as "The Alternative Nobel
Prize".
In addition to
supporting the recipients directly, an important purpose of the
Right Livelihood Award is to spread their knowledge and experience
and to show that problems which often look intractable can be
confronted by individuals or small groups acting together and
mobilising others for the common good.
The Award also aims to stimulate a debate about social values and
goals. It brings together people working in many different fields:
for social justice and human rights, for peace and disarmament,
the protection of minorities, care of the environment and many
aspects of human development, ranging from cultural and spiritual
renewal to science and technology for people's welfare. What
unites them is the vision of an indivisible humanity, a commitment
to careful stewardship of our small planet and an ethic of justice
and sustainability.
The Right Livelihood
Award exists to strengthen the social forces that they represent
and to provide the support and inspiration needed to make them a
model for the future.
The concept of
'Right Livelihood' is ancient. It reflects a belief that each
person should follow an occupation consistent with the principles
of honest living, treating with respect other people and the
natural world. It means being responsible for the consequences of
one's actions, living lightly on the earth and taking no more than
a fair share of its resources.
Taken
from the Right Livelihood Awards web page |
 Albert
Schweitzer
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