Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - The Externalization of the Hierarchy - IV - The
Effects of the Externalization
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The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section IV - Stages in the
Externalization
These subsidiary ashrams are already being attempted in
various parts of the world. It is necessary for you to remember that the members of these
ashrams will not all be on the teaching line, but will be composed of disciples upon many
rays; the attempt to form coherent and integrated ashrams is based upon the recognition of
the initial difficulty of the various ray aspirants to comprehend each other's point of
view and mode of working, and to think in the many differing terms and modes of thought.
There are, however, three fundamental requirements which must condition and color all the
ashrams, no matter what the ray:
An internal
group unity, conducive to a synthesis of understanding between the various ashrams. There
spring out of a unified group objective a sense of loyalty to the Hierarchy and a
uniformly disciplined life. I said uniform, brother of mine, for the discipline
is that of spiritual inclination and an inspired intention which produces a similarity in
the [680] livingness of the units in the ashram; this is, of course, diversified by the
ray quality of the aspirants and disciples and by personality tradition. Ponder
on those last two words.
Similarity
of objective. By that I mean an apprehension and appreciation of the hierarchical Plan and
of the contribution each ashram has to make for its materialization on earth; to this must
be added an united ashramic similarity of instinctual and intuitive telepathic rapport
with the senior Members of the ashram - the Masters and initiates of high degree, and
through Them - with the Christ. I would here call to your attention that the mental
inclination of all the esotericists in the world for the past one hundred years has been
directed towards individual rapport with a Master, and this because of the necessity of
discovering the ashram with which the aspirant must make contact.
This
attitude has now widened in its approach mentally, by the many diversified disciples in
the many different ashrams, into a group movement or a group inclination towards the
Christ, the major and most important factor in the implementation of the hierarchical
Plan. This mental approach is not the same thing as the constant aspirational
preoccupation of the earnest Christian follower with the thought of Christ. It is
something quite different.
It is a unified group endeavor, generated in each ashram and fostered by all alike, to
bring the entire group - as a band of world servers - into the aura of the thought
currents of the Christ, as He formulates His ideas, creates the thought-forms needed prior
to manifestation, and makes His arrangements for His reappearing. This is not the same
thing as establishing a telepathic rapport between an individual disciple and the Christ,
for that is not needed or desirable. The unity of aim, the desire to serve, the
recognition of the present focused intention of the Hierarchy (under the guidance of the
Christ), become an invocative, magnetic state of group consciousness; this evokes from the
Christ and His informed Masters an identification of Their united thought with the group
aspiration. This is the higher spiritual correspondence of what is called in the three
worlds kama-manas. [681]
This is
not, I realize, an easy thing to understand when divorced from the usual Christian concept
of the relation of Christ to the individual aspirant. The idea may perhaps be clarified
for you by reminding yourselves that some who read these words know me and have found your
way into my ashram, under the guidance of your own soul and my ready recognition. Others
all over the world, through their spiritual intuition and their desire to serve and to
know, have brought into their recognized area of consciousness the teaching which is given
in my books. Their relation to me is symbolic of the type of relation which disciples and
aspirants can and do establish with the Christ. Though the analogy is far from perfect, it
is possible to recognize the correspondence in its many gradations of reciprocal
sensitivity.
A
fundamental and basic similarity of sympathetic response by the units in all ashrams to
the needs of humanity, to the quality of the program for their development which the
objective demands, and to the nature of goodwill and understanding (intelligently
applied); all these qualities are not handicapped by undue emotional sensitivity.
These three
conditions will be found in all the ashrams and will unite the members within any ashram
to those in other ashrams in a measure or rhythm of telepathic relation. From this unified
and central position a rapidly deepening telepathic relation will inevitably be
established and sustained by the group, with the ashram and with the Christ, on the
one hand, and with humanity, on the other. With this as a foundational and conditioning
quality, the work can proceed as required.
You will note, therefore, why I have so consistently emphasized, during the past thirty
years of teaching, the necessity for the development of a truly spiritual and psychic
sensitivity, plus the unfoldment of the faculty of a scientific telepathic rapport. I have
thereby laid the foundation of the Science of Impression, with the illumined and rightly
oriented mind as the interpreter, the analyzer and the transmitter. [682]
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