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“Our maturity is evidenced by our beginning to take responsibility for the planet on a global scale, albeit in a very tentative, barely discernible way. We are beginning to see what we are doing to this living, breathing, evolving, body of expression of a Great Cosmic Being, which is our planet. Only the awakening soul can see.
We are realusing that we cannot go on despoiling the planet, polluting the air, rivers and oceans. More and more, concerned groups have brought this to the attention of governments. At long last, many governments meet on a more or less regular basis to discuss the problems and see what can be done about them.
That is a new maturity, a growing sense by humanity that it is One, brothers and sisters of one humanity on the planet to carry out some plan, some role, which is as yet dimly felt by most people. That we are, at last, taking seriously what individual groups have for long brought to the notice of governments is a sign that we are recognizing our vulnerability and also our oneness. We are maturing.
For about a century and a half, we have thought it perfectly in order to ravage and despoil the planet for short-term gains — making money, driving industry, all the forces and ideas which brought about the industrial revolution. Now we are faced with the post-industrial revolution, which is a new concept. We are past the age of 19th century industrialization and its refinement in the 20th century, and we do not know what lies ahead. There must be the creation of goods, but most people do not know that it will take a completely different form, using completely different methods which will not despoil the planet. We are now awakening to the urgency of this planetary, ecological problem.
We are even beginning to recognize, on a mass scale — not everywhere but generally speaking — that war is not an answer to our problems. If America wants to go one way and the Soviet Union (as it was) wants to go another, they have to find some compromise, and not just destroy everything in their path to prove a point.
Co-operation is beginning to take place. Competition in economics is still there, but in a deeper sense co-operation is raising its beautiful head. The Masters see that, and They nod Their heads with joy. The Masters see that everywhere people are beginning to realize the fundamentals — that co-operation will succeed when nothing else will. We are not yet sharing the resources of the world, but we are talking about it.
It was forecasted by the Wise in the late 1980s that the developed world would cancel the debts of the developing world, as the only way forward. There is no possibility that the developing-world countries can repay the debts. The British Government at the time decided that this was indeed the mode to be followed. The Chancellor of the Exchequer (the Minister who deals with money and taxes) started a worldwide initiative advocating the cancellation of debt. Up until then, the British were one of the most recalcitrant governments relative to the debt problem. America, Britain, and a few others were well behind many governments in advocating cancellation as the only way to deal with the debt of the developing world.
It could be said for humanity that just as individuals are more mature than they think, the Masters see that the soul itself — the soul in incarnation, that is — is learning, growing and maturing. There is a deeper, esoteric, sense in which the Masters see the new maturity of humanity. They see, for the first time, on a world scale, the correct integration of man’s vehicles/bodies in relation to the soul. This is a great evolutionary advance.”
(Fr. a dedicated disciple)
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