Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Astrology - VII - The Nature of the Will
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Esoteric Astrology - The Rays, Constellations and Planets - The Nature
of the Will
These three aspects are all related to the three divine
expressions of spirit, soul and body, of life, consciousness and form, of life, quality
and appearance. This phase of Christ's life expression has never been properly studied,
yet even a little grasp and understanding of it would aid humanity to drive evil
(individual, group and planetary) back to the place from whence it came and would aid in
the release of humanity from the terror which is today stalking abroad, defying God and
man.The Shamballa energy is, therefore, that which is related to the livingness
(through consciousness and form) of humanity; we need not consider its relation to the
rest of the manifested world; it concerns the establishing of right human relations and is
that condition of being which eventually negates the power of death. It is, therefore,
incentive and not impulse; it is realized purpose and not the expression of desire. Desire
works from and through the material form upwards; Will works downwards into form,
bending form consciously to divine purpose. The one [584] is invocative and the other is
evocative. Desire, when massed and focused, can invoke will; will, when evoked, ends
desire and becomes an immanent, propulsive, driving force, stabilizing, clarifying, and -
among other things - finally destroying. It is much more than this, but this is all that
man can grasp at this time and all for which he has, as yet, the mechanism of
comprehension. It is this will - aroused by invocation - which must be focused in the
light of the soul, and dedicated to the purposes of light and for the purpose of
establishing right human relations which must be used (in love) to destroy all that is
hindering the free flow of human life and that is bringing death (spiritual and real) to
humanity. This Will must be invoked and evoked.
I am not
referring here to the use of either of the two Great Invocations or to the third which has
lately been given. I refer to the focused consciousness of the men and women of goodwill,
whose lives are conditioned by the will to carry forward the purposes of God in love, who
seek selflessly to understand those purposes, and who are fearless of death.
There are two great handicaps to the free expression of the Shamballa force in its true
nature. One is the sensitivity of the lower nature to its impact and its
consequent prostitution to selfish ends, as in the case of the sensitive, negative German
people and its use by the Axis nations for material objectives. The second is the
blocking, hindering, muddled but massed opposition of the well-meaning people of the world
who talk vaguely and beautifully about love, but refuse to consider the techniques of the
will of God in operation. According to them, that will is something with which they
personally have naught to do; they refuse to recognize that God works out His will through
men, just [585] as He is ever seeking to express His love through men; they will not
believe that that will could possibly express itself through the destruction of evil with
all the material consequences of that evil. They cannot believe that a God of Love could
possibly employ the first divine aspect to destroy the forms which are obstructing the
free play of the divine spirit; that will must not infringe upon their interpretation of
love. Such people are individually of small moment and of no importance but their massed
negativity was a real detriment to the ending of this war, just as the massed negativity
of the German people and their inability to take right action when Hitler's purposes were
disclosed made possible the great inflow of ancient and focused evil which has brought
the present catastrophe to man. Such people are like a millstone around the neck of
humanity, crippling true effort, murmuring "Let us love God and each other," but
doing nothing but murmuring prayers and platitudes whilst humanity is dying.
You can
easily appreciate the fact that the evocation of the energy of the will and its effect
upon the unprepared, materialistically minded person might and would prove a disaster. It
would simply serve to focus and strengthen the lower self-will, which is the name we give
to realized and determined desire. It could then create such a driving force, directed to
selfish ends, that the person might become a monster of wickedness. In the history of the
race, one or two advanced personalities have done this with dire results both to
themselves and to the people of their time. One such figure in ancient times was Nero; the
modern example is Hitler. What, however, has made the latter so dangerous an enemy of the
human family is that during the last two thousand years mankind has advanced to a point
where it can also be responsive to certain aspects of this first ray [586] force. Hitler,
therefore, found associates and cooperators who added their receptivity to his so that an
entire group became the responsive agents of the destructive energy, expressing itself in
its lowest aspect. This is what enabled them to work ruthlessly, powerfully, selfishly,
cruelly and successfully at the destruction of all that attempted to impede their projects
and desires.
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