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The Externalization of the Hierarchy - Section I - Introductory Remarks
My sole responsibility is to put the opportunity before the world aspirants, to point out to them the inherent possibilities of this particular situation, to indicate lines of helpful activity, and then (having so done) to withdraw the power of my mind and thought, and so leave each aspirant free to come to his own decisions.

The pamphlet The Next Three Years is going forth today upon its mission. Its objective is to educate public opinion. It carries both inspiration and the power to produce cleavages in the life - cleavages which will produce new activities and the cessation of old attitudes of mind. A possible happening is indicated - the formation upon the physical plane of that group of aspirants and disciples which, [23] given time and opportunity, can salvage a distressed world and bring light and understanding to humanity. As to this, I need say no more.

All of you have read the plan as it is embodied in the pamphlet, and the challenge to faith and the appeal to your service is before you. The next two years will see the decision as to whether the fusion of the inner and the outer groups of world servers can be made, or whether more time must elapse before the earlier ancient cooperation between the Hierarchy and humanity can be re-established.

I speak with love and almost anxiety, and with a wider knowledge of the present urgency than you can possibly have. I couch what I have to say to you in the form of certain questions, which I ask that you should put to yourselves with quietness and sincerity.

  1. Do I really and in truth desire the establishment of this closer interplay between the inner and outer worlds? If so, what am I prepared to do in order to bring this about?
  2. Is there any way in which I can make a definite contribution towards this desired end? Recognizing my special circumstances what more can I give in
    1. Meditation
    2. Understanding of the Plan
    3. Love of my fellowmen?

Forget not that meditation clarifies the mind as to the fact and nature of the Plan, that understanding brings that Plan into the world of desire, and that love releases the form which will make the Plan materialize upon the physical plane. To these three expressions of your soul I call you. All of You, without exception, can serve in these three ways, if you so desire.

  1. The objective of all the work to be done at this time is to educate public opinion and to familiarize the thinking people of the world with the urgency and the opportunity of the next two years. If this is indeed so, what am I doing to make this possible? To elaborate this question: [24]
    1. Have I spoken to all I could in my environment, or have I been held back by fear?
    2. Have I made possible the wide distribution of the pamphlet on this subject? Its distribution in its present form is possible only until the fall of 1936, and the time is therefore short.
    3. Have I aided in a material and financial way as far as is possible? Can I do more than I have done so far to help to meet this requirement?
    4. What more of my time can I give to help this work, to aid those who are distributing the pamphlet, or to gather people together for discussion? Can I not dedicate some time every day to this definite idea and service?

Responding to my appeal will involve sacrifice, but all who grasp the Plan are today spending themselves in the effort to lift humanity up to another rung of the ladder and into greater light. Their hands need strengthening, their work needs helping, and there is not one of you who cannot do more than you are doing, through the aid of meditation, money and thought, to salvage the world, to educate public opinion and so bring in the New Day.
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