| ( °° Notes for previous page: I. From Letters of Helena Roerich I: “The majority … are wearing the grey garments of nonresistance. Some do it in subconscious hypocrisy, others in faint- heartedness, still others in ignorance or fear. But the results of this nonresistance or lukewarmness are always the same, precisely the destiny predicted in the Apocalypse: "So then because thou art [you are] lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth." [Revelation 3:16]” II. From Master DK: “The great error of the neutrally minded and of the pacifist is his refusal to identify himself constructively with human pain. Even when he reacts with violent emotion over the suffering, for instance, of little children in this great war, and of the defenceless refugee, he does not truly care enough to do anything about the situation, involving as it does sacrifice. This sounds harsh, but is a needed statement of fact. “Sympathy which does not produce positive action of some kind becomes a festering sore.” ) - - - |
| 88.) From Agni Yoga: a.) “Some think that collaborating with the Brotherhood will evoke the fury of darkness, but it would be nearer the truth to say that each good deed attracts the fury of the dark ones. “Timid souls will probably wish to refrain from performing good deeds for safety's sake, and there are many such people who for this reason refuse to be compassionate. They have extinguished their fires and merged with the darkness. But the ghosts of darkness are repellent, and whoever fears goodness will sink into chaos.” (Supermundane, 168.) b.) “Even when facing the greatest battle, we must continue to follow our usual daily plan. It would not be correct for a battle to disrupt the current of life. Battle is our destiny, and one must simply include it in the daily plan.” (Agni Yoga, 179.) c.) “We must welcome all the dear ones, close in spirit; “But all the destroying ones, those who bring division, must be either driven away or put in their places.” (LoHR I) |
| 87.) Master DK explained that: [The Spiritual] Hierarchy is a great fighting body today, ● Fighting for the souls of men, ● Fighting all that blocks the expansion of the human consciousness, ● Fighting all that limits human freedom (I said not license)‡, ● And fighting to remove those factors and barriers which militate against the return of the Christ and the emergence of the Hierarchy as a fully functioning body on earth. ● There is nothing weak, vacillating, sentimental or neutral in the attitude of the Hierarchy; this must be grasped by humanity, and the strength and insight as well as the love of the Hierarchy must be counted upon. |
( ‡ “Where there is freedom (which is so utterly, absolutely necessary for man, for his growth, for his flowering, for his goodness) there must go with it: love, responsibility and action.” “It does not mean doing what each one likes which has led man to this present state of chaos, to his present state of degeneration, to this collapse of civilisation, of a culture.” ( J. Krishnamurti Public Talk 1 (1980) [ Audio ] ) ) |
