As one contemplates the
New
Group of World Servers in its many departments—scattered all over the
world and embracing the true and earnest seekers in every nation—there
can be seen a body of men and women whose numbers and spheres of influence
are entirely adequate to bring about the desired changes, if they care
enough, are ready enough to make the needed sacrifices, and are
willing to sink their organization differences in the needed activity
which would salvage the world, educate the race in a few simple and basic
essentials, and so cooperate with each other that there would emerge a
united inner movement—working out through the separated outer groups...
Let us state what I see to
be possible, and what can be done. If we—each and all—face the issue,
deal with the opportunity presented on the basis of responsibility, and
come to regard our world service...as a necessary part of our spiritual
life, demanding from us, all that we have to give, plus that supreme extra
effort which spells success in every case. This extra effort and this
response to the demand for full cooperation, very few of us have yet
given...Any intelligent man or woman can surely see that it is going to
take the united sacrificing effort of every unit in the whole body
corporate to promote good will as a healing factor (perhaps the only
healing factor) in humanity.
The following suggestions
are offered to those who seek to join in this service:
Meditation groups could
carry forward their meditations in such a manner that an inner fusion
can take place, producing the awakening of the heart centers of
the members, and the consequent urge to go forth into the world of daily
living to love, to give and to stimulate.
Privately, and in group
gatherings, the Great Invocation could be said, including the final
words: "So let it be and help us to do
our part."...
What can we do?
Let us, in full surrender of
our personal desires and wishes, join in the common task of leading
humanity into the fields of peace!
Where, at
this time, do you place your life emphasis?
Answering the question in
the light of your soul...will greatly clarify your mind and your way of
living and working...It is necessary for everybody to take stock of
himself and turn his spiritual theories and his humanitarian longings into
FACTS demonstrated in the life of every day...
| Turn your spiritual
theories into FACTS demonstrated in the life of every day... |
A man's political and
religious affiliations can be strongly held and inspire his true loyalty,
and yet need in no way prevent his being an active part of the New Group
of World Servers. They need not deter him from being actively on the side
of world good will...The members of the New Group of World Servers embrace
every political creed and recognize the authority of every imaginable
religion. Men and women of good will can be discovered functioning in
every group, no matter what its ideology or creed or belief.
Thus we find, as well you
know, members of the New Group of World Servers scattered everywhere...To
them is committed the task of doing the following things:
1. Restoring the world
balance through understanding and good will.
2. Bringing harmony and
unity among men and nations by the revelation of the widespread good
will everywhere existent.
3. Precipitating, through
spiritual perception and correct interpretation, the kingdom of God on
earth.
...The power to be released
can and will heal humanity's wounds and will bind all men together...
As you know, the NGWS has
its members in every land. A vast number are known. They are practical
intelligent people, not visionary idealistic mystics, working towards an
object which may appear inaccessible, but towards one which is capable of
immediate and practical application. They are talking of understanding and
cooperation in all fields of human thought and life, and are emphasizing
the future...
| Talk of
understanding and cooperation... |
These servers and men of
goodwill belong to all the nations, groups, ideologies and religions on
both sides of the different cleavages, and yet hold firmly to the
principles of good will and understanding...They hold out the hands of
love and understanding to each other across the gulf of differences. They
meet in thought upon the subjective level of the true realities—which are
synthetic and eternal—and ignore all outer barriers and separative
differences in mental ideas and material ways of living...
...[A world
server will encourage the] practical utilization of
every possible agency—the press, correspondence, personal contacts, [tv,
radio and the internet]—and the avoidance of all the old methods—such
as attack on persons, peoples, nations and ideologies, of force and
coercion and of separative techniques...
Look out for such people
[with the qualities of a world server] and work with them...It is for us,
to do the moving forward. It is for us to evidence intelligent
understanding and to set the needed example by submerging our own ideas
and personal desires in the good of the whole.
There must be on our part,
the re-orientation of our entire lives,...the readjustment to the new
impulses;...the elimination of the nonessentials so that we can find time
for the task...It is your time (and all of you, without exception, can
give some), it is your activity and skill in reaching those
you can reach...It is your money that is needed to...reach the interested
public. It is your meditation and intense inner cooperation which will
construct that channel through which the spirit of peace can work and the
forces of Light enter.
Esoteric Psychology -
Volume 2 pgs 726-51 A. A. Bailey
