Some Letters
from the Master Djwhal Khul (D.K.)
to Roberto Assagioli (F.C.D.) with Unpublished Portions.
The following material was extracted from the commentary by Michael D. Robbins
on the instructions given by the Master Djwhal Khul to the disciple F.C.D. and
published in the book Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II. This
commentary is available at the Makara website homepage,
(http://www.makara.us/04mdr/02comment/dina/DINA_iiFCD2.htm).
The first of the following three letters is preceded by Michael D. Robbins’s
words: “In the following letter, some portions of letters to FCD which, for
various reasons, had been deleted from his letters will be included for their
explanatory value. As a member of the Jewish group, I take the responsibility
of discussing these matters in the hope that there may ensue some necessary
clarifications and a deeper understanding.” The inclusions appear here in blue.
September 1943
MY BROTHER AND MY CO-WORKER:
I am not telling your co-disciples whether
you are on this side of the separating veil or not. I am not informing them
whether you have crossed the “bridge of light,” to which I referred in my last
communication to you. You need their protective love, no matter whether you are
here or there; the turmoil on the other side is so great—as great as the turmoil
on the physical plane. Whether you are in the body or out of the body, you are
therefore peculiarly vulnerable, because, my brother (as I have told you oft
during the past years), your intense sensitivity has complicated your life
problem. Your karma, your race (to which you do not belong except through
physical heredity) holds you back from that complete freedom and liberation
which you deeply desire. Only those who have achieved freedom can return to
that group with immunity and helpfulness in their hands—the group from which
they have been freed.
I have for you a suggestion. I will not call it an order, for no Master ever
gives commands, and in any case you belong to the Ashram of K.H. and will have
received your instructions direct from Him. He feels as I do, that in the
pressure and anxiety and in your psychic participation in the fate of your
country and in your sensitive reaction to racial strain, the import of
His conversation with you a year ago may not have registered adequately. It has
been difficult for you and well-nigh impossible to concentrate on planning. I
am therefore going to summarise for you what He then said. The group protection
accorded you (greater than perhaps you realise) enables me to reach you more
easily at this time than can any other member of the Hierarchy. I can find and
reach you with a minimum expenditure of force.
Your Master, K.H., asked you at that time if you were ready to begin work in
preparation for a definite assignment upon the Path of World Saviours.
Assignment after assignment in connection with groups, nations, races and
increasingly large units is ever the mode of developing a world Saviour until
the time comes when he can make a world impact and achieve a measure of
world salvaging. Many times in the past, I have pointed out to you that you
were on that most difficult path of service. K.H. desired to find out if you
were prepared to accept your first major assignment upon that Way. When you
assented and told Him that you would do what you could but that you had no
inner confidence in yourself, owing to the pressures of the time which appeared
to you to have a definitely disintegrating effect on your vehicles, He
reassured you and told you that the potent inner unfoldment of your love nature
and your complete decentralisation were a vital protection. He also informed
you that—at the stage of spiritual development which you had attained—the aura
of His Ashram and the aura of mine would act as a shield, and that the
resources of both Ashrams were behind you. This, my brother, you know well, and
to this fused efficiency you can testify.
KH then proceeded to tell you that the Jewish race, by means of the
fires of purification, would (at the end of the war and prior to 1945) be ready
for instruction and for that teaching which , as a race, they have never had
and which, when given them, they will at first resent. For this resentment,
all workers among the Jews must be ready. This teaching must be brought to them
by one who loves them greatly, who is of their race and, at the same time, not
of their race, who has suffered so deeply that naught can again touch him to
any drastic extent and one also who has the power of the Hierarchy back of him.
All these requirements are met by you and you can—from the standpoint of your present
life position and during your next immediate incarnation—act as the Teacher of
the new dispensation for the Jews; you can, at least, give them that
instruction which, during the next one hundred years, will change their point
of view and attitude of life. Thereby you will salvage thousands; thereby
you will begin your chosen task and fulfil your self-determined destiny;
thereby you will lift off the shoulders of many disciples the burden of this
peculiar phase of world salvage—for the Jews need salvaging. I do not refer
to physical conditions which ever engross the attention of the Jew, oft to the
exclusion of the spiritual values.
I have said enough here to enable you again to resume your active position as a
pledged initiate-disciple (a position which your co-disciples have ever
recognised as yours), and I have shown you definitely how valuable has been to
you the last immediate experience.
A.A.B. has a very clear understanding of the Jewish problem, character, and
racial trends; she has learnt in the ashramic instructions to which she has
applied herself, something of the esoteric history of the Jewish peoples; their
place, position, background and destiny is known to her in broad and general
outline and in the Ashram of K.H. where you meet freely and frequently and
at other times, you should talk freely with her. There are no barriers up
between you two not only because you are co-disciples in the same Ashram but
because your attitude to the Jewish problem is the same and you are both aware
of the point of view of K.H. and of myself. Though you are a trained disciple
of K.H., you are still working in my Ashram, as I remain in close touch with
world affairs in relation to their immediate working out, whilst K.H., being a
Chohan, is more active in the handling of the deeper incentives and purposes,
and of those matters which will not materialise until such time as the work
done by me, and others associated with the Great White Lodge and of like rank
and of lesser rank, is completed or at least well on the way to fruition.
The work assigned to you, my beloved brother, will be work of profoundest
difficulty. You will meet with rebuff from those you seek to help and from your
own race; you will find very little understanding; you will meet with
encouragement and assistance from the enlightened among the New Group of World
Servers who are non-Hebrew in origin; this will make your work possible but it
will also greatly handicap you. The intense pride of the Jewish
people, their fixed and ancient stubbornness (closely allied in their
case to the instinct of self-preservation), their mental approach to all subjects, their inherent weakness in the face of difficult situations
which leads them ever to choose the easy way out and not the strong way, and
the height of their racial walls will tend at first to baffle you.
Their natural separativeness, based on either sensitivity or orthodoxy,
will create difficulties and make your task extremely hard. The beauty of
their creative life, their ability to bring through ideas into forms of
grandeur on the physical plane, their close unshatterable family relations,
their dogged adherence to their divine heritage, so-called, their sympathetic
handling of all life materials and their philanthropy and group enterprises for
welfare and helpfulness are great spiritual assets with which you must work. Their vices must be transmuted into virtues and their virtues must be
expanded into world usefulness. They must be lifted out of the past which they
ever over-emphasised and the future must be held before them as one of
radiance.
The Jewish dreams of an Utopia wherein they return to their ancient home
must be relinquished; the goal of the orthodox Jew for centuries has been a
basically material one—the repossession of territory to which they have had no
rights for many many centuries. The trumpet call to them which you and those
who help you must sound is that of the Kingdom of God without location but to
be found everywhere as is the Jew who can, if he so choose, be the symbol of
that spiritual race of men—of every nation and creed—who love and think
divinely and who are to be found scattered in every nation and race and in
every part of the planet.
The symbol governing all Jewish thought should be that of the exodus but this time not the exodus out of Egypt, or the exile from Palestine and the
great dispersal from the Mesopotamia valley, but the dispersal of the Sons
of God throughout the world with the emphasis upon spiritual purpose and not
upon material possessions and upon the fact of divine parentage (along with
all other races) instead of the orthodox belief in the fact of the Jew being
the Chosen People.
Are you big enough for this inadequately outlined task, my brother? Is your
stamina, your inner spiritual orientation and your fixed psychic determination
adequate to the undertaking? Can you do it with your present psychic equipment,
or must you build new bodies for integration, use and service? The decision
rests with you, for those who tread the Way of a World Saviour are left
peculiarly free (owing to certain difficulties in time and space within the
planetary life) and must work as they will, with what they choose to
offer and with a trained understanding of their task.
Such was
the gist of your interview with your Master. You can now go forth from where
you are with the endorsement of your Master, with the aid and backing of myself
and of A.A.B. and, at all times, the protective aura of K.H.; and—with
reverence I would call your attention to this—an aspect of the aura of the
Christ is incorporated in that lesser aura.
In my last communication to you I stated that “love is thy note and wisdom is
thy guide. You need naught else but fire.” That fire, my brother, is the
residue of the pure fire which is left when you have trodden upon and passed
the burning ground, through the Portal into the PRESENCE. That you have done.
The fire is there, and on it you can count if you seek to destroy opposition,
to burn down barriers (inherent in yourself or presented by others), and also
to blaze a trail straight from your heart into the heart of others.
The Jew
needs to love without superiority or separativeness. Had the Jew loved more
widely, generally and generously down the ages, his plight today would not be
what it is and this in spite of his strange and peculiar destiny.
The
Jewish people have been ever governed by the statements of transmitted prophecy
and by an anticipated destiny. A defiance of prophecy and a planned control
of destiny, plus an immovable purpose to demonstrate the expansiveness of love
should be the clue to future racial development during the coming five hundred
years. Each Jew who masters his individual tendencies passes out of the
racial group as you did many lives ago. You position as a Jew is today one of
your free choosing and a decision upon you desire to be of service in the
salvaging of a race.
I stand by you, my brother, unalterably and at all times, and on this you can
count. Such is also the wish of K.H., my Brother and also my Master. On that
you can count. I am giving you no set form of meditation. Reflection and deep,
considered concentration upon the work which I have outlined to you, and which
your Master wants to see you do, is for you adequate spiritual focussing. The
deep love of all your group brothers is yours, and many, many people are today
sending love to you and many, many minds are thinking of you with thoughts of
gratitude, of strength, of faith and hope. On this too you must count. The path
of a world Saviour is, as you know, a hard one, but of compensations which far
outweigh the difficulty. My blessing is yours and my hand is ever stretched out
to you in helping.”
August 1946
MY
BELOVED BROTHER:
You will have, by now, read and absorbed
the papers and communications which have been held for you until the close of
the war and the attainment of physical safety for you. There has been no great
need for me to express myself on the situation which has existed, for the
closeness of the link between the Master K.H., myself and you ensures
understanding and precludes waste of time.
You have come through a period of great difficulty and danger with no loss of
your spiritual grip upon essential reality or of your spiritual vision; your
strength has been such that you have lifted your family with you and
safeguarded them also all the time. Having achieved one pinnacle of spiritual
success, another can be glimpsed, and between the two pinnacles lies a field of
service, a sphere of danger, a land of glamour and deep morasses through which
you must struggle, until the point of attainment planned by your soul for this
life is yours. You can achieve, and for your aiding, I and A.A.B. stand ready.
A debate arose between your Master (K.H.) and myself. You had been sent (or loaned
if I might call it so) to aid in my Ashram. We discussed the subject as to
whether the sufferings of the past few years did not warrant your return to the
Ashram of K.H.; the work there would be hard but not of the same kind, and
there would not be so much need for contact work on the physical plane. I
claimed that you were strong enough for the dual test; K.H. felt that you
probably were, but that there was no need to ask a disciple always to drink
the cup of sacrifice to its very last drop—not at least until the crucifixion
initiation is your right. The task today proffered you, and its incidental
strain and suffering, will be of another kind and the pain endured will be
largely mental, but “you can take it,” as the saying is. It was decided to let
you attempt the task demanded for three years or for seven (according to your
own choice) and then, if you decide to do no more along the indicated lines,
you can relinquish the task with no sense of failure.
As you know, the task consists in the effort to help the Jewish people to
see their plight in a different light. They must register the situation in the
light of truth. This work can be undertaken only by people who, like
yourself, have taken a Jewish body but have not Jewish consciousness, who
repudiate without any difficulty the dreadful and revengeful Jehovah of the
Jewish religion and who never act or think as does the average Jew. You, my
brother, meet all these requirements, though R.K does not. This work is
most definitely part of my work ... and I shall be in touch with you at
frequent intervals. On that statement you can emphatically rely.
I would ask you to hold conversation with A.A.B. on this matter for (as I told
you in earlier papers) she knows more about the problem than most people and
has always loved the Jews and worked for them. In the enormous task of extricating
the Jews from their ancient complexes and liberating them from a carefully
cultivated persecution mania—a cultivation and a mania which their
religious rituals have perpetuated for three thousand years—strong measures are
and have been needed.
The article I wrote wherein I appealed to the Jew to recognise his
responsibility and to realise the existence of faults in the Jewish race,
which he must change and for which he has pain penalty over the ages, has been
well received by the younger Jews, but violently repudiated by older Jews, such
as R.K. and some of her family. The “attack” made by me upon the churchianity
of Christianity is far more drastic than that made upon the Jews.
You will have to be much thinking and studying, my brother, before you
start contacting the various heads of Jewry; the Zionist movement is an
impossible point at which to make a beginning, for their aim is not
humanitarian but purely political in intent. So study, think, meditate,
write, make contacts and lay a sound foundation for future work. Most of the
work you plan to do will only begin at the close of about three years study,
and will last around five years; in those years the Jews will come to recognise
a new voice, a clear note and a sound policy.
This is all that I have to indicate here.
A.A.B. will send you some books and papers, for it is no longer possible for
her to help in this work which is a phase of my work. It would profit you much
to go through my books and papers and pamphlets and collect into one volume of
script all that I have said. A.A. B. has made a beginning here, but it is very
poor as she has not due time. This work is more definitely part of my work,
for there will be no true world peace until the Jewish problem is solved. More Gentiles, true friends of the Jews, such as A.A.B., see this correctly;
the Jews seem unable to grasp it.
I shall be in touch with you, my brother, and at frequent intervals. On that
statement you can emphatically rely.
Your meditation work must keep pace with
your vision. I suggest for you the following outline.
The Pinnacles
1. Imagine yourself standing at the top of a
mountain shaped like a pinnacle, facing another, seemingly miles away.
a.
A vast struggling mass can be seen in the lowland in between the two
pinnacles.
b. One group of
struggling people emerge more clearly in your vision than the rest; they carry
the yellow flag, marked with a six-pointed star. On this phenomenon you ponder.
(Let not the thoughtform of the Jewish people engulf your consciousness. Stand
on your pinnacle and let not the potency of their struggle distract your
attention from your mission and the goal.)
2. In your meditation you plan guidance for
their guidance. Ponder long and deeply on these plans.
3. Then see yourself returning to my Ashram
for conference deep. Later imagine yourself passing along the path which leads
to the Ashram of K.H., entering the door which A.A.B. is always to be found. Go
then with her to K.H. Give much time here for quiet thought and for
impression. This is one of the most important parts of the meditation.
Glamour will disappear, light shine, plans receive acknowledgement, and
strength for the next step be given.
4. Then return consciously to the place where
you daily work and KNOW the guidance will be given—step by step as needed.
My love enfolds you, and the way into my
Ashram stands open wide for you.
Your friend and co-disciple in the Ashram
of K.H.
DJWHAL KHUL
_________________________
November 1948
MY BROTHER AND MY FRIEND:
It is two years since I last communicated
with you, via A.A.B., and they have been years of great stress and strain for
you. Every disciple in these troubled times carries three kinds of stress; no,
my brother, I would say the major stresses are of four kinds:
1. There are the stresses and the strains
incident to the disciple’s family life or his immediate daily relationships,
and of these you have had your full share.
2. There are stresses and strains due to
the deep interior life of soul relation; these bring with them their own unique
difficulties which can be shared with no one (except the Master, when the
disciple has reached the point of unfoldment which you have now reached), and
yet which bring about a life of inner tension which can lead inevitably to the
next point of revelation.
3. There are the problems and circumstances
which arise out of the period in which our modern humanity lives; these today
are unique and of disturbing importance; they involve the balancing of values
which is going on in every department of human living and which evokes in the
disciple an almost unendurable pain and anxiety.
4. There are also
peculiar complications and tests which have their origin in ashramic
relationships which the disciple realises through his contact with the Ashram.
These are the result of his attempt to lift the burden of humanity and the
measure of his understanding of the Plan, in unison with the entire Hierarchy.
This produces an inevitable crisis and constitutes a load which—when added to
the other three spheres of difficulty—often make the disciple feel that his
cross (his vertical and his horizontal life) is more than he can bear. The
Fixed Cross becomes a reality, and he begins to learn its true meaning.
All these four types of difficulties are further enhanced when you consider the
fact that they are felt in all three aspects of the disciple’s personality
simultaneously. There is a reaction in his etheric body, in his emotional
vehicle and in his mind. This makes what is sometimes called the “seven divine
sorrows”; these are symbolically and most inaccurately depicted in the
Christian discipline as the seven stations of the Cross. As I told you
elsewhere “from the standpoint of Christian symbolism (even though the interpretation is
as yet inadequate) these seven crises correspond to the seven stations of the
Cross which mark the way of an advancing world Saviour.” Here again you have
the four and the three brought together in a synthesis of service, of
discipline and of unfoldment.
All these factors have been active in your life, my brother and co-disciple. I
would like to commend you on one point. You have proceeded with your Ashram
work, your thinking and your service in spite of all that has been going on.
This has been noted by us and it is for this quality of spiritual stability
that we watch. The field of your work remains the same; it is part of your
karmic obligation which may not be avoided, but the mode of work and the nature
of the work which should be done will have to be altered for reasons
which I am confident you will understand.
Just as humanity is always left free to make its own choices and decisions, so
is a branch of the human family or a group within that family left free to
determine its own destiny. The Zionists have proved susceptible to that
remnant of evil which is not yet “sealed” behind the door where evil dwells.
They are today a point of infection and of danger to the rest of the world, and
this is due to their lack of truth, their unbridled cruelty, and their biased
hate. They are as much aggressors as were the Germans, and are working
under the evil control of the same forces. The whole situation must be
judged and gauged from the karmic angle; the Zionists are endeavoring to repeat
the horror of their first invasion of Palestine, of which you may read in The
Old Testament. There they behaved with unspeakable cruelty but were
given the opportunity to offer the nations of the world—through the synthesis
of Jewish culture—the fruitage of their third and fourth ray development: i.e.,
their comprehension of money and its intelligent use. This is possible to
them because they are the remnant of the humanity of the first solar system
which makes them (as souls) the oldest group on earth; this also gives them their
essential creative and artistic value which is the result of their
participation in the evolutionary processes of this planetary humanity.
They made, however, a false move in Old Testament days and since then
their ways have been devious and wandering; they are unquestionably the
most reactionary group on earth. Their desire for dominance in all
fields can be seen founded in the Ten Commandments which are voiced
in terms of an authoritative negation and in their clinging to an outworn and
separative faith—all the tenets of which, the rituals and prohibitions serving
to build a wall around the Jewish consciousness. The Jews are not a nation;
esoterically, they are the seed or originating germ of mankind and hence their
scattering in every nation in the hope that they would in due course of
evolution cease to be Jews—as you have ceased to be Jew. But they have held
on throughout the centuries to the infantile segregation and to the protective
taboos which were necessary in the early days, five thousand years ago. Hence the trouble today and even the Hierarchy knows not what end shall be.
Their major spiritual test will come in their reaction to the Christ when
again He comes and it will be a terrific test because they have never—as a
race and during their long evolution—recognised a single one of the World
Teachers. I am entering into these details so that you may see more
clearly where the trend of your work should lie.
The last two years have demonstrated that the Jews (through the
activities of the Zionists) have learnt little during the past 3000 years; they
are still engulfed in the glamour of territorial acquisition and nationhood; they have, nevertheless, had the opportunity of being the group which could
have (because of their wide dispersion and their international citizenship)
demonstrated the factual nature of the One Humanity and be recognised because
of their cultural life. They have no national importance.
Your task, my brother, because of Zionist compelling action, is not [?] to
find and link together those Jews in every land whose relationships are
cultural and spiritual and who are free in their consciousness of all
claims of territorial possession. Think this out. Territories and
national boundaries are symbolic of separativeness and aggression and
frequently of theft and murder. Therefore, the sin of the Zionists becomes
clear when—during this time when the United Nations are in process of
forming—they fall back on old ways of fighting for a land which is no longer
theirs. It is an effort of evil forces to render the United Nations a negative
body and to offset the new ideals of the One Humanity and the One World.
My suggestion to you, therefore, (as regards your future work) is to gather
together those Jews out of every nation who seek cultural but not national
unity and who—because they are not strictly orthodox—can begin to accept the
premise of a returning One for Whom they may prepare. Begin, my brother,
with the utmost caution, discovering the views of such men as Dr. …, certain
Jewish writers with whom you may already be in touch, and with the leaders of
the Council for Judaism, with whom A.A.B. and F. B. have ben in touch. Begin
with the cultural angle only and NOT as yet with the preparation for the
Christ. You need only a group of seven men to begin with and you
should have no difficulty in finding them. Move forward with optimism but with
caution and also with no undue haste. You are one who is authorised
subjectively by the Hierarchy to help build up the true nature of the Jewish
group; you are well equipped to do so.
You can write in several languages and you move at times in and out of many
different countries. Gather together into one folio (if you have not already
done so) all that I have said anent the Jews; arrange them into proper
sequential form and use it with discretion as wisely as possible. Be not
discouraged, but work as if the Zionists did not exist; waste no time on
them but aid the true Jews, the people who were chosen to form the nucleus of
the One Humanity; let them learn what is the real objective of their
existence and realise how wrong they have been in creating the separative
element which has infected the whole body of humanity. This trend of theirs
goes back into Atlantean history and lies outside the pale of our modern
historical records.
I have, as you will have noted, said little to you about yourself and your own
spiritual development. The war taught many disciples that it is in serving and
in thinking through that true wisdom comes; they came to realise that in
enlightening others the radiance of the glory of God can be revealed. This
you have learned and from henceforth you enter in a new stage of discipleship and can be regarded as one who can teach himself.
The work outlined for you will require only one discipline for you and that is
a hard one. It is the drastic organising of your time, irrespective of
personality claims, or the hindrances of an etheric body which is too loosely
knit, and a sensitivity which makes life very hard for you. The great need of
the service which you can render and the desperate task involved in the
reorganisation of your time and plans will do much to offset the above difficulties
and—in time—to cure them. You do not, my brother, belong to your family
any more. You belong to humanity—a lesson which A.A.B. had much difficulty in
learning.
I give you no meditation to follow. You may feel it necessary to make certain
changes in the one you are now doing; feel free to change where you deem it
desirable and seek constantly and daily a closer contact with your Master and
with mine—the Master K.H.
Keep in touch with A.A.B. for whether she is here on earth or elsewhere in the
Great Service, she stands every ready to stand by you. Her link with the Jews
is close, because of her link with the Master K.H. and with the Christ.
Daily I look towards
you, brother of mine, and that is no idle statement on my part. Rest back on my
understanding and call on me at need. Develop telepathic sensitivity to my
voice—as I have developed it to yours.
Michael D. Robbins (MDR) Commentary
It is interesting that a number of DK’s disciples were
born in Jewish bodies but had no true relation to the Jewish group, per se. Among
these were FCD, RSU and RVB.
It appears that FCD’s feelings on the matter are very definite.
He feels strongly that, even though he was born into the Hebrew race, he has
little or no real relation to the Jewish people, and DK confirms his opinion.
We will see when analyzing DK’s instructions to FCD in
DINA II, that FCD was born a Jew for important inner reasons relating to his
potential work for the Hierarchy. Such work, however, would require that
(although biologically a member of the Hebrew race) he be inwardly
disidentified from the Jews. Only thus would he be in a position to help
them.
143. DK is encouraging FCD to achieve a
new freedom so that he may “return to that group [the Jewish people] with
immunity and [with] helpfulness” in his hands. This is the beginning of an
important and sensitive discussion about a type of service which FCD is uniquely
fit to render—the elevation of the Jewish people.
144. DK is suggesting that FCD must free
himself completely from the Jewish group if he is to be in a position which can
really help them.
145. It must be said that, as the
possibility for this type of service begins to present itself to FCD,
transiting Chiron (indicating the Master, the healer and the guide) is
returning to the cusp of the fourth house of the chart, indicating one’s
individual heredity, including one’s racial heredity. It would seem that
FCD is being prepared to face some deep-seated issues within the psyche of
humanity, within the psyche of the Jewish people, and within his own psyche
(all indicated by the fourth house).
KH then proceeded to tell you that
the Jewish race, by means of the fires of purification, would (at the end of
the war and prior to 1945) be ready for instruction and for that teaching which
, as a race, they have never had and which, when given them, they will at first
resent. For this
resentment, all workers among the Jews must be ready. This teaching must be brought to them by one who
loves them greatly, who is of their race and, at the same time, not of their
race, who has suffered so deeply that naught can again touch him to any drastic
extent and one also who has the power of the Hierarchy back of him.
163. The Jews suffered
intensely during World War II, as did millions of others who passed through the
fires of the global Holocaust.
164. It is always hard for
humanity to see and understand from a Shamballic perspective, but the Chohan,
Master KH, a member of Shamballa (because He is a Chohan) informed FCD that the
“fires of purification” would have prepared the Jewish race for an important
teaching at the end of the war, and even prior to 1945—the year when the war
ended. Thus, the teaching intended for the Jewish people was to begin reaching
them before the end of the war.
165. The teaching now
intended has never been given to them in any concerted way. Perhaps the
Kabbalah (in which FCD was deeply interested) had supplied a few spiritual
hints. The new teaching, however, would emanate from the enlightened perspective
of the Trans-Himalayan Lodge and would surely bring forth the centrality of the
Christ, the Lord Maitreya, by whatever name He might be described (for
instance, the “Coming One”).
166. Naturally, then, given
the prevailing consciousness of victimization within the Jewish group
(especially in the wake of a terrible war), this teaching would be resented.
Resentment is a solar plexus reaction, and we remember, that, according
to Master DK, the Jews (correlated as a group with the third and seventh
rays—cf. EXH 89) represent the solar plexus of humanity.
167. The inevitable
resentment is related to a well-known persecution complex (which, itself, is
based upon insufficient self-knowledge). The race, as a whole, does not know
where it has been and what it has done. It feels wronged by others and by the
blows of fate, little realizing the nature and purpose of the retributive karma
it has earned.
168. On a personal note (and
having been raised as a Jew within the Jewish thoughtform) I must concur with
Master KH’s prognostication, though, today, the situation is somewhat better
among many progressive Jews who are not of the orthodox persuasion. There are
many Jews today, even inside Israel, who represent the best of the Jewish
consciousness and who are more than open to the spiritual perspectives of the
Trans-Himalayan Lodge. There has been a tremendous revolution in consciousness
beginning in the mid-1960s and thousands of Jews have been swept along in the
great wave towards enlightenment. Generalization is always a danger.
169. Master KH’s logic
proceeds. There are very few who are qualified to bring a new message to the
Jewish group. The requirements are high. Such a one
a. must love the Jewish
people
b. must be one of their race and yet
not of their race
c. must have suffered so
deeply that naught can again touch him to any drastic extent
d. and must be supported by the
Hierarchy.
170. It must have been
apparent to FCD how closely he fulfilled the requirements. When an assignment
is offered on the Path of World Saviours, it could, of course, be refused. But
fate, the soul and the Master combine forces to engineer such an opportunity,
and I would judge that refusal is rare indeed.
All these requirement are met by you and you can
– from the standpoint of your present life position and during your next
immediate incarnation – act as the Teacher of the new dispensation for the
Jews; you can, at least, give them that instruction which, during the next one
hundred years, will change their point of view and attitude of life. Thereby you will salvage thousands; thereby you will begin your chosen
task and fulfil your self-determined destiny; thereby you will list off the
shoulders of many disciples the burden of this peculiar phase of world salvage
– for the Jews need salvaging. I do not
refer to physical conditions which ever engross the attention of the Jew, oft
to the exclusion of the spiritual values.
176. The Jewish Problem is,
in the annals of humanity, a heavy one with deep implications concerning the
relations between the Moon-chain and the Earth-chain, and the first solar
system and the second (i.e., our solar system). Many disciples struggle
under the weight of this problem, and FCD is being presented the opportunity to
lift that weight off the shoulders of a number of his fellow disciples.
177. Solving the “Jewish
Problem” (a problem far deeper than any normal member of that race can possibly
suspect) is what is called “a peculiar phase of world salvage”. DK tells us
that the Jews need salvaging. They need saving (not as the fundamentalist
Christian might think, but in a far deeper, psychological sense).
178. The salvaging required
has nothing to do with physical conditions. These, the Jews have always been
able to manage, due to their close ties to the first and third rays and to the
practical, material signs Capricorn (the personality sign of the Jews) and to
Virgo (their soul sign). Their attention is already focussed on material
matters and in them they have always succeeded, often to the detriment of the
higher spiritual values, we are told.
I have said enough here to enable you again to
resume your active position as a pledged initiate-disciple (a position which
your co-disciples have ever recognised as yours), and I have shown you
definitely how valuable has been to you the last immediate experience.
A.A.B. has a very clear understanding of the
Jewish problem, character, and racial trends; she has learnt in the ashramic
instructions to which she has applied herself, something of the esoteric
history of the Jewish peoples; their place, position, background and destiny is
known to her in broad and general outline and in the Ashram of K.H. where you
meet freely and frequently and at other times, you should talk freely with her. There are no barriers up between you two not
only because you are co-disciples in the same Ashram but because your attitude
to the Jewish problem is the same and you are both aware of the point of view
of K.H. and of myself.Though you are a trained disciple of K.H., you are still working
in my Ashram, as I remain in close touch with world affairs in relation to their immediate working
out, whilst K.H., being a Chohan, is more
active in the handling of the deeper incentives and purposes, and of
those matters which will not materialise until such time as the work done by
me, and others associated with the Great White Lodge and of like rank and of
lesser rank, is completed or at least well on the way to fruition.
186. FCD and AAB are fellow
disciples in Master KH’s Ashram, with AAB holding, perhaps, a slightly senior
rank.
187. Although it might not
be suspected, and although AAB has often been accused of anti-Semitism, DK on
several occasions assures us of AAB’s love for the Jewish people and for her
deep understanding of their psyche and their situation. She has, apparently,
studied the matter ashramically and esoterically. She has something of value to
communicate to FCD.
193. It is also apparent
that FCD is beginning a process of ashramic education which is necessary before
he can carry out the task of racial salvage to which he has assented (and to
which, it seems, he has been assigned by his soul/Solar Angel).
The work assigned to you, my beloved brother,
will be work of profoundest difficulty. You will meet with rebuff from those
you seek to help and from your own race; you will find very little
understanding; you will meet with encouragement
and assistance from the enlightened among the New Group of World Servers who
are non-Hebrew in origin; this will make your work possible but it will also
greatly handicap you. The intense pride
of the Jewish people, their fixed and ancient stubbornness (closely allied in
their case to the instinct of self-preservation), their mental approach to all
subjects, their inherent weakness in the face of difficult situations which
leads them ever to choose the easy way out and not the strong way, and the
height of their racial walls will tend at first to baffle you. Their natural
separativeness, based on either sensitivity or orthodoxy, will create
difficulties and make your task extremely hard. The beauty of their creative life, their ability to bring through ideas
into forms of grandeur on the physical plane, their close unshatterable family
relations, their dogged adherence to their divine heritage, so-called, their
sympathetic handling of all life materials and their philanthropy and group
enterprises for welfare and helpfulness are great spiritual assets with which
you must work. Their vices must be transmuted into virtues and their virtues
must be expanded into world usefulness. They must be lifted out of the past which they ever
over-emphasised and the future must be held before them as one of radiance.
194. DK enters realistically
into the nature of the work asked of FCD; it will “be work of the profoundest
difficulty”. FCD is to expect to be rebuffed and rejected. This was the fate of
the Christ when He sought to help humanity: “He was despised and rejected of
men”.
195. DK is playing the role
of seer; He knows, along general lines, what will eventuate as FCD begins to
carry out His mission.
196. The enlightened among
the NGWS, especially those who are not Hebrew in origin, will encourage and
assist, but this may also prove a handicap. DK does not say why, but we may
presume that the Jewish group would not appreciate one who is encouraged (by
well-meaning Gentiles) to help the Jews change their ancient ways.
197. The Tibetan now
launches into a fair-minded assessment of the weakness and virtues of the
Jewish people. The first list would be exceedingly unpalatable to most Jewish
readers; the second list would meet, I think, with their gratified recognition.
198. Pride, stubbornness,
overemphasis on mentality, expediency, walls and barriers—these liabilities
result from the combination of first and third rays and a deficiently of the
second ray.
199. DK does not write as a
critic, but one with deep understanding. He knows that the traits of fixity and
stubbornness are linked to survival issues. He knows that what He calls the
“natural separativeness” of the Jews is based not only on orthodoxy but on
sensitivity. There is much of the contradictory fourth ray in the Jewish
people, and hence their “baffling” nature.
200. On what basis does
Master DK speak? He knows the ancient history of the Jewish people, far more
than they do. As a Master, He is in a position to see what even the
highly intelligent human being cannot see. He bases His assessment on the
“reading of the record”, and will thus be criticized and misunderstood, and,
certainly, disbelieved. We can reject out of hand what He says, as it may seem
so “far fetched”. Or, having learned to trust Him and His truthfulness in so
many other matters, we may give Him the credit for knowing whereof He speaks.
We may also observe and evaluate with fair-minded intelligence to see whether
His assessment seems to us true or false.
201. Master DK is, however,
definitely fair-minded, and He balances the liabilities of the Jewish people
(as He seems them) with a list of great virtues which are surely spiritual in
nature and which can be used on behalf of humanity, and which, in fact, are already in use.
202. The Jews have a
creative life of great beauty; they have a sense of grandeur in manifestation;
their family relations are so close as to be unshatterable, and they adhere to
their divine heritage as they conceive it; as well, they are generous,
philanthropic and support group enterprises for human welfare; they also handle
life materials sympathetically (a most interesting quality). We can never
accuse Master DK or AAB of “hating the Jews”. They see the soul and spirit of
Judea in all its beauty and they affirm that beauty.
203. FCD is to help release
the Jews from their vices, help them transmute vices into virtues, and assisted
them to see how their virtues can be applied in “world usefulness”. The Jewish
past is to be deemphasized and the possibility of a future “of radiance”
strongly emphasized.
204. The plan is clear, but
the obstacles are formidable to say the least.
The Jewish dreams of an Utopia wherein they
return to their ancient home must be relinquished; the goal of the orthodox Jew for centuries has been a basically material
one – the repossession of territory to which they have had no rights for many
many centuries. The trumpet call to them
which you and those who help you must sound is that of the Kingdom of God
without location but to be found everywhere as is the Jew who can, if he so
choose, be the symbol of that spiritual race of men – of every nation and creed
– who love and think divinely and who are to be found scattered in every nation
and race and in every part of the planet. The
symbol governing all Jewish thought should be that of the exodus but this time
not the exodus out of Egypt, or the exile from Palestine and the great
dispersal from the Mesopotamia valley, but the dispersal of the Sons of God
throughout the world with the emphasis upon spiritual purpose and not upon
material possessions and upon the fact of divine parentage (along with all
other races) instead of the orthodox belief in the fact of the Jew being the
Chosen People.
205. We see that DK is
engaged in discussing “world work” with FCD; world work is the true preoccupation
of the Ashram. FCD has transcended the phase in which he needs to be reminded
of his own personal liabilities. As a profound psychologist, he understands
them all too well. The discussion, instead, focusses on the work to be done and how it is to be done.
206. The concept of Utopia
exists strongly in the Jewish consciousness. Much needed, however, is a
reinterpretation of the meaning of Utopia. It must not be understood in
material terms. The “repossession of territory” has nothing to do with the real
meaning of Utopia or of Jerusalem (for which “Shamballa” is another name).
208. DK offers great
possibilities for the Jewish people if they can spiritualize the vision of
their objectives. They can become “the symbol of that spiritual race of men –
of every nation and creed – who love and think divinely and who are to be found
scattered in every nation and race and in every part of the planet”. This is a
high destiny and worthy of the aspiration of ever progressive Jewish person.
209. We see DK taking
certain great themes in Jewish history, the “Exodus”, the “Diaspora”,
Utopia-as-Jerusalem and the “Promised Land”, and reinterpreting them in far
more spiritual and philosophical terms. The third ray (and the first solar
system under the third ray) has contributed to a heavy layer of materiality in
the Jewish consciousness. This layer must be lifted if the process of
redemption is to succeed.
210. A great and new
thoughtform is to be substituted for the out-worn world-view uncritically
accepted and constantly reemphasized by so many Jews. The spiritual Exodus is to be the Exodus into the world (and not out of the
Land of Egypt) so that the Sons of God may be found everywhere and understood
as One World Humanity. Spiritual purpose is to replace the ancient emphasis
upon material possessions, and the divine parentage of all races is to
be understood, and not alone the separative idea of one “Chosen People”.
211. This is a tremendous
task in the reconditioning of consciousness, but is inevitable if there is to
be peace in the world.
212. We see DK offering FCD
the main ideas for his approach to the Jews. AAB, who has studied the problem
much, will also have ideas of value. As well, FCD must engage in much study
before he can successfully carry out his first “assignment”. It must have
seemed to him a daunting prospect.
Are you big enough for this inadequately
outlined task, my brother? Is your stamina, your inner spiritual orientation
and your fixed psychic determination adequate to the undertaking? Can you do it
with your present psychic equipment, or must you build new bodies for
integration, use and service? The decision rests with you, for
those who tread the Way of a World Saviour are left peculiarly free (owing to
certain difficulties in time and space within the planetary life) and must work
as they will, with what they choose to offer and with a trained understanding
of their task.
221. In
the context of considering FCD’s first “assignment”, it may be significant to
realize that (probably in 1951 or just after) he established the “Foundation
for an Italian Union for Progressive Judaism”. Little is reported about this
foundation, and mention of its existence was found only in an obscure German
summary of the highpoints of FCD’s life. It may reasonably be said, however,
that the establishment of such a Foundation can be seen as directly correlated
with the decision he was asked to make as a result of his interview with Master
KH in 1942.
234. FCD will need this fire
as he seeks to win the hearts of the Jewish people. Only if their heart is
awakened will they accept the redemptive world view he will seek to offer.
The
Jew needs to love without superiority or separativeness. Had the Jew loved more
widely, generally and generously down the ages, his plight today would not be
what it is and this in spite of his strange and peculiar destiny.
235. The energies of the
first and third rays often inhibit the expression of love. One glamor of the
first ray (the soul ray of the Jewish people) is the glamor of superiority.
Both the first and third rays (the ray of the Jewish personality) may feed the
glamor of separativeness. The Jew must overcome these ray tendencies and learn
to love without falling victim to either liability. If love is expressed in a
way that is tainted by an attitude of superiority or separativeness, it is not
true love.
236. Master DK makes an
interesting retrospective assessment. Looking at the terribly unhappy plight of
the Jewish people, He concludes that a more generous attitude of love down the
ages (love from the Jew to others) would have done much to avoid the present
horror. He seems to be saying that the Holocaust could have been avoided had
the Jew expressed more love more widely—all this despite the “strange and
peculiar destiny” of the Jew (related, it would seem, to the origin of that
group of souls in the first solar system). What that destiny is, we are not given
to know. We know something of the peculiar origin of the ‘race’, but not
what they are intended to become. A hint may have been given, however,
when, in various sections of the Teaching, the Jew is considered to be
prototypical humanity itself. Are the Jews intended to become the
“symbol of [a] spiritual race of men”?
PL: Generosity is the mantra of Rabbi Lerner and it is so true. Given the
unbelievably selfish and cruel actions of the past 60 years, and increasingly
so in the last few years, is another holocaust of some sort on the way?
237. As well, one must think
of the Jew as bringing gifts of great value from the first solar system to the
second. The nature of those gifts must be pondered.
The Jewish people have been ever governed by the
statements of transmitted prophecy and by an anticipated destiny. A defiance of prophecy and a planned control of destiny, plus an
immovable purpose to demonstrate the expansiveness of love should be the clue
to future racial development during the coming five hundred years. Each Jew who masters his individual tendencies passes
out of the racial group as you did many lives ago. You position as a Jew is today one of your free
choosing and a decision upon you desire to be of service in the salvaging of a
race.
238. A contrast between past
practice and a new approach to the future is offered. What DK says here is
really profound. In the past and the present the Jews have been governed, and
are governed, “by statements of transmitted prophecy and by an anticipated
destiny”. Their entire attitude, says DK, must be reversed and become, instead,
“a defiance of prophecy and a planned control of destiny…” They are to
repudiate the promises made by the “wrathful Jehovah”; neither are they to
passively anticipate the arrival of a promised destiny. They are to use the
love-illumined will to control their destiny. A certain strange
passivity must come to an end.
239. The words here are so
well chosen. The next five hundred years of racial development are to see, for
the Jew, “an immovable purpose to demonstrate the expansiveness of love”. This
is an amazing statement. We can see in it the combination of the first and
second rays. With the first ray the Jews are abundantly endowed, for the first
ray is the ray of the “Soul of Judea”. It is, however, the expansive,
Jupiterian second ray which they need (despite the fact that there are many
within the ranks of the Jews who express this ray admirably).
40. It also becomes clear
that the Jewish people are not slated to disappear any time soon, for DK speaks
of the development of the race for five hundred years to come.
241. A suggestion is made
that FCD has been a Jew before—long ago. At that time he mastered his
individual tendencies and passed out of the racial group. This is the pattern
to be followed by progressive Jews today: master individual tendencies and
leave the racial group behind—in consciousness.
242. DK may also be saying
that anyone who masters the individualism of the personality, thereby,
passes out of any racial grouping, for those groupings have their major
impact upon personalities rather than souls.
243. In RSU’s instructions,
DK informed her that she had little real connection with the Jewish people even
though she felt herself closely identified with them. In this instruction, He
is informing FCD, that his present membership in the Jewish group occurred as a
result of his own free choice to be an agent of service and salvage to that
race.
271. We must pause to
question. We know that the Christ (and the Buddha) achieved the third degree in
Atlantean times, but what about the fourth degree (which meant adeptship in
Atlantean times, but not in Aryan times). At least, in Aryan times, it is often
the initiate of the fifth degree who is called the Adept.
272. Did the Christ take the
fourth degree as Krishna or was it well before that time? This question cannot
easily be answered. If we look at the life of Krishna, we shall see that He had
certainly attained the fourth degree. He also sacrificed His life, as fourth
degree initiates will often do. But Krishna did not live in Atlantean times,
but only in rather recent Aryan times! We must leave this question temporarily
unanswered until more is known.
319. In any case, the task
which FCD has been offered (and is still offered as a result of Master DK’s and
Master KH’s decision) involved redemptive work with the Jewish people. It was
decided between DK and KH to let FCD work at this for three years or perhaps
seven years, and then to decide whether he wished to continue with it. Three
years would take him to 1949; seven years to 1953. In the early 1950’s, some
time after the death of FCD’s son in 1951, the Foundation for an Italian Union
for progressive Judaism was founded, so FCD must have persisted with this task
for some time beyond the shorter of the two spans (the three year span).
As you know, the task consists in
the effort to help the Jewish people to see their plight in a different light.
They must register the situation in the light of truth. This work can be
undertaken only by people who, like yourself, have taken a Jewish body
but have not Jewish consciousness, who repudiate without any difficulty the
dreadful and revengeful Jehovah of the Jewish religion and who never act or
think as does the average Jew. You, my brother, meet all these requirements, though
R.K (i.e., RSU) does not. This work is most definitely part of my work ... and
I shall be in touch [Page 471] with you at frequent intervals. On that
statement you can emphatically rely.
The
edited and altered text that appeared in DINA II was as follows: [ “This work
can be undertaken only by people who, like yourself, repudiate without any
difficulty all separative attitudes and who ever act and think in terms of the
one humanity and with inclusive love. You, my brother, meet all these
requirements....”]
324. DK comes back to the
main issue which He has been discussing with FCD for the last few
communications (whether or not FCD had actually read these communications
shortly after they were transcribed). We can see DK’s essentially benevolent
attitude to the Jewish people, even though His frankness offends some with high
solar plexus sensitivity. That the Jews are deeply immersed in a “plight” is
acknowledged, but the way through it, is to see the plight “in a different
light”. A program of re-education must be undertaken so the Jews can understand
their condition in the light of a wider truth.
325. It makes sense that no
group will take initially unpalatable advice from an ‘outsider’. FCD, because
his mother was Jewish, is an ‘insider’. The fact that he is Jewish by heredity
makes him far more acceptable to the Jews than if he had been a Gentile.
326. But his consciousness
is not Jewish, and like so many thinking people in the modern world, he
rejects “the dreadful and revengeful Jehovah of the Jewish religion”. HPB has
much to say of Jehovah as a lunar deity, and not an especially high one. Those
with no knowledge of occultism will not be able to see to the truth of the
matter.
327. FCD meets the
requirements. R.K (also known as RSU—Regina Keller), so we are told, does not
meet these requirement, for although she is Jewish, she is overly identified
with the limited perspective and ‘wounded’ psyche Jewish people. She
identifies, as DK says, as a “persecuted Jew”. Therefore she lacks the
necessary objectivity on the Jewish problem, and cannot see things as the
Hierarchy sees them. Therefore, she cannot represent Them.
328. It would seem that FCD cannot
easily avoid the responsibility which has come his way, even though his free
choice in the matter is affirmed by the very Masters Who have presented him
with this “assignment”.
I would ask you to hold conversation with A.A.B.
on this matter for (as I told you in earlier papers) she knows more about the
problem than most people and has always loved the Jews and worked for them. In the enormous task of extricating the Jews from their ancient complexes
and liberating them from a carefully cultivated persecution mania – a
cultivation and a mania which their religious rituals have perpetuated for
three thousand years – strong measures are and have been needed. The article I wrote wherein I appealed to the Jew to
recognise his responsibility and to realise the existence of faults in the
Jewish race, which he must change and for which he has pain penalty over the
ages, has been well received by the younger Jews, but violently repudiated by
older Jews, such as R.K. (RSU) and some of her family. The “attack” made by me upon the churchianity of
Christianity is far more drastic than that made upon the Jews.
329. We read of AAB’s love
of the Jews: “she…has always loved the Jews and worked for them”. This is
exactly opposite to what many people have come to believe! She can counsel FCD
on the matter because she knows much about the problem.
330. Facing FCD is an
“enormous task”, although it does not face him alone. He can be a significant
teacher in the process of “extricating the Jews from their ancient complexes
and liberating them from a carefully cultivated persecution mania…”
331. Complexes are
unconscious thought patterns which live a semi-autonomous life in the
unconscious psyche. Any kind of ritual, oft repeated, is an agency of
reinforcement, and Jewish rituals, says the Tibetan, reinforce the ancient
complexes.
332. It is interesting that
the number “3000” is given, when the usual history of the Jews dates from 4000
years ago or even earlier. Three thousand years takes us back to the time of
the great Hebrew kings and to Joshua (an earlier incarnation of the Master
Jesus) whose armies slaughtered thousands in aggressive wars to seize the
“Promised Land”, ‘promised’ to the Jews by Jehovah (admittedly, a jealous,
blood-thirsty, revengeful god). The major ‘sins’ committed by the Hebrews date
from this period.
333. Is somehow fitting that
much of this enormous task of psychological redemption falls upon one of
the finest, deepest and most spiritual of the world’s psychologists.
334. Master DK has written
much on the Jewish Problem, and has been much criticized for doing so. Perhaps,
AAB has been even more criticized, for it is assumed by many that it is her attitudes (not those of the Tibetan) that come through the words which
have been written on the subject.
335. We see that, in DK’s
view, one of His very own and most trusted disciples (RSU) has violently
repudiated His analysis of the Jewish Problem. It is obvious that He considers
this repudiation a serious mistake.
336. DK closes with an
important and, perhaps, surprising statement: in His eyes, the so-called
“‘attack’ made by me upon the churchianity of Christianity is far more drastic
than that made upon the Jews.” A careful reading of all that Master DK has said
about the present state of the Church will confirm His assessment. The reason
for the over-reaction of Jewish people and passionate sympathizers is that
there are very many Christians and only relatively few Jews. The atrocities of
the Second World War (also, let us remember, perpetrated against Christians of
conscience) did much to feed the over-reaction. Then, there is the highly
sensitive Jewish solar plexus, as the Jews are said to be, by DK, the solar
plexus of humanity.
337. It is obvious that this
over-sensitivity must be dropped if the Jews are to fulfill their planetary
purpose as a symbol of planetary, spiritual man.
You will have
to be much thinking and studying, my brother, before you start contacting the
various heads of Jewry; the Zionist movement is an
impossible point at which to make a beginning, for their aim is not
humanitarian but purely political in intent. So study, think, meditate,
write, make contacts and lay a sound foundation for future work. Most of the work you plan to do will only begin at
the close of about three years study, and will last around five years; in those years the Jews will come to recognise a new
voice, a clear note and a sound policy.
” "The danger
of "Imperil," as the Master Morya has called it. This is somewhat
erroneously interpreted as irritation by the neophyte, but it is not in fact
irritation in the ordinary connotation of the word. The surface ripples of
ordinary irritation and the evanescent angers to which all disciples are prone
are relatively of small importance. They pass and, in the sum total of the
soul's attitudes to the personality, evoke no response or registration
whatsoever. What is referred to is the reaction of the disciple to world evil.
This produces uncertainty as to the future, annoyance at what is being done
throughout the planet by non-disciples, criticism of national and international
planning and a general atmosphere of unhappiness, plus a sense of superior
knowledge. All this is expressed in a negative, unconstructive manner. To
this many disciples are today prone; they need to realise that world
affairs are not and cannot be moulded or determined by any hierarchical
knowledge in the possession of the disciple. World affairs and
conditions have necessarily to be based upon the demand and the point in
evolution of the mass of humanity, working through their representatives,
chosen or imposed, in every country. This demand can be and is affected,
modified and spiritualised by the attitude and the teaching of disciples
everywhere who are vocal and of humanitarian instinct.
If, however, the will and knowledge of disciples in all nations were to
condition world affairs and control entirely the political, economic and social
life of the people, it would produce a far more serious cleavage
than now exists, for instance between the rich and the poor, or between
the classes and the castes. It would produce a pronounced line of
demarcation between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of men. This
would run counter to hierarchical intention, which is rapidly healing the
existent breach, and thus offset the work which Christ set out to do on Earth.
This point is often overlooked by well-intentioned disciples. It is humanity
which determines its own destiny. Disciples point the way, indicate the vision,
set a needed example and emphasise the ancient
landmarks". Discipleship in the New Age Vol. II, p. 68.
338. FCD cannot leap into
the redemptive process immediately. Much deep study must precede his first
approaches, so enormous is the task and so defensive the Jewish psyche.
339. We can see that much contact will be required. FCD will have to contact the various “heads of Jewry”. It is
hardly a task which can be handled from an ivory tower. The outer contact
required identifies the task as closely related to DK’s Ashram.
340. DK always distinguishes
between the Zionists and the true Jews. From His perspectives, the Zionists are
a politically motivated, reactionary group who work without humanitarian
motives. It would be hopeless to begin with them. Their mind is made up. Later,
He gives His assessment of who the Zionists really were—historically and
reincarnationally.
341. DK seems, temporally,
to circumscribe FCD’s work in this regard. It is not to begin for another three
years (after much study) and will last around five years. This means that it
begins in 1949 (interestingly, a year in which Uranus by transit crosses
FCD’s natal Ascendant). In 1952, we do note a solar eclipse on FCD’s natal
Sun and Ascendant. We do not know the exact year in which the Foundation for an
Italian Union of Progressive Judaism was begun, but we do know that it was
after his son’s death in 1951. Such an eclipse would have indicated important
opportunities in this regard. As well, during 1950, 1951 and part of 1952, the
progressing Moon was to be found in Capricorn, the sign which rules the
personality of the Jews.
342. We can see that Master
DK was somewhat optimistic about the possibilities, for He foresaw that “in
those years the Jews will come to recognize a new voice, a clear note and a
sound policy”. Unfortunately, this was not to be, for the Zionists moved
powerfully in 1946 and 1947, and in 1948, the State of Israel was established
amidst war, political maneuverings and general turmoil.
343. The consolidation of a
national homeland for the Jews probably limited the scope of FCD’s intended
work. The imagination of Jewry was captured by the founding of Israel and no
new voice or clear note could be heard. From the perspective of the Spiritual
Hierarchy, the establishment of the land of Israel was not “sound
policy”.
344. This, of course, is
still a subject over which the greatest passions rise, as we can see from the
terribly conflicted situation in the Middle East today. No one (not even
Hierarchy) knows where the present situation, so filled with mutual
hostilities, will end. What is clear is that certain superpowers, and world
Jewry (in general), moved in exactly the ‘wrong’ direction from the perspective
of Hierarchy. Now, there is no going back, and resolution will have to be found
in another way. Fortunately, Sanat Kumara is that great Being Who has the power
to promote the emergence of the “Good” from all distressed and darkened
situations.
This is all that I have to indicate here. A.A.B.
will send you some books and papers, for it is no longer possible for her to
help in this work which is a phase of my work. It would profit you much to go
through my books and papers and pamphlets and collect into one volume of script
all that I have said. A.A. B. has made a beginning here, but it is very poor as
she has not due time. This work is more definitely
part of my work, for there will be no true world peace until the Jewish problem
is solved. More Gentiles, true
friends of the Jews, such as A.A.B., see this correctly; the Jews seem unable
to grasp it.
347. The work with the
Jewish people, we are told, is definitely a part of Master DK’s work. Why? Because
“there will be no true world peace until the Jewish problem is solved”. This
means that Master DK’s work, and the work of His Ashram, are clearly involved
with the attempt to create “world peace”.
348. This would make sense
if, as Marion Walters (RSW) used to say, Master DK’s Ashram is ruled by Libra.
349. FCD’s job will be to
help the Jews grasp what so many Gentiles, who are true friends of the Jew’s
already grasp.
The
Pinnacles
1. Imagine yourself
standing at the top of a mountain shaped like a pinnacle, facing another,
seemingly miles away.
352. This is a very
important mediation given to FCD to promote success in his important
“assignment”. It was not included in the DINA books because the whole
discussion of his responsibility in relation to the Jews was deleted.
353. A pinnacle is a summit.
It represents a mountain peak, higher than which it is impossible to go
(without descending and then re-ascending a still higher mountain).
354. We can think of a
pinnacle as cone-shaped. The cone suggests a vortex and a spiral action which
tightens and increases in speed until the topmost point is reached.
355. FCD stands on the first
pinnacle. This suggests that he has taken the third initiation and is now
transfigured.
356. Far away, “seemingly
miles away” is another pinnacle, representing, one would think, the fourth
initiation. The term, “seemingly” is important, because, perhaps, the next
pinnacle is not as far away as it seems. This idea relates to
whether it would be possible for FCD to take the fourth initiation in the
present life.
357. From certain respects,
his horoscope is more favorably configured for the fourth initiation than for
the third.
a. A vast struggling mass
can be seen in the lowland in between the two pinnacles.
358. When FCD descends the
mountain, he will encounter many who must be elevated and, eventually, ‘saved’.
These are the “struggling mass”—those laboring under mass consciousness and
victim of their lunar natures.
b. One group of struggling people
emerge more clearly in your vision than the rest; they carry the yellow flag,
marked with a six-pointed star. On this phenomenon you ponder. (Let not the
thoughtform of the Jewish people engulf your consciousness. Stand on your
pinnacle and let not the potency of their struggle distract your attention from
your mission and the goal.)
359. One who is intent on
salvage cannot salvage all—unless that One is of the calibre of a Christ.
360. We can see that group
of struggling people who emerge with greater clarity in FCD’s vision is the
Jewish people.
361. They carry a yellow flag. Yellow is, from different perspectives, the color of both the third and
fourth rays—two rays prominent in the previous solar system and with which the
Jews are strongly identified.
362. Yellow is also
connected to Gemini and to Mercury, both of which influences are important for
the Jews. Mercury, a highly mental planet, is one of the rulers of Virgo, which
is the soul-sign of the Jews. Mercury is also involved in a triangle connecting
it to the Pleiades and Capricorn (and also to humanity, per se, of which the
Jews are the eternal symbol).
363. The six-pointed star is
King Solomon’s Seal, and is always associated with the Jews, although its
antiquity and its significance are far greater. It was the symbol of Akbar, who
would be associated with King Solomon (if both of these kings were incarnations
of the Master M.)
364. The six-pointed star
can be considered the star of form with which the Jewish group is so
identified.
365. We are not told in what
color the six-pointed appears; only that the flag is yellow.
366. The personality ray of
the Jews is the third ray, associated in Esoteric Psychology I, with the
color yellow. The great artistic development of the Jews may indicate a fourth
ray monad (since they were the “bridge” from the first solar system to the
second). In most of the Tibetan’s writings, the color yellow is assigned to the
fourth ray.
367. Yellow is a color of
both pain and harmony, as well of brilliant mentality. Yellow is, therefore, an
appropriate color for the Jewish group. For Master DK, ‘personally’, yellow is
also important, as He is associated with Gemini and with Mercury because He is
the “Messenger” of the Masters.
368. DK warns that FCD is
not to be engulfed by the thoughtform of the Jewish people. It is a powerful thoughtform and has already engulfed RSU, limiting her service.
369. If he stands on his
pinnacle (third degree consciousness), he will not be dragged down, and will be
able to preserve his vision of his mission and goal. He must resist being lured
from his pinnacle by sympathy for the struggle and suffering of the Jew. This
type of resistance has not been easy for FCD to develop, because he identifies
to readily with human suffering.
2. In your meditation you
plan guidance for their guidance. Ponder long and deeply on these plans.
370. This is a mental and
planning phase of the meditation. It is a stage of enlightened brooding on
possible futures.
3. Then see yourself
returning to my Ashram for conference deep. Later imagine yourself passing
along the path which leads to the Ashram of K.H., entering the door which
A.A.B. is always to be found. Go then with her to K.H. Give much time here for
quiet thought and for impression. This is one of the most important
parts of the meditation. Glamour
will disappear, light shine, plans receive acknowledgement, and strength for
the next step be given.
416. DK returns to FCD’s
intended work with the psyche and consciousness of the Jewish people. We learn
that it is, in fact, for FCD, a “karmic obligation”. DK hinted that FCD had been a member of the Jewish group but had worked his way out of it long ago.
417. It is interesting that
in 1942 FCD was given an “assignment”, the following of which seemed at the
time optional. Now (1948) he is told that it is part of a karmic obligation
which may not be avoided.
418. There have been many
developments with respect to the Jews. The State of Israel has been founded on
May 14th or 15th, 1948. The context in which FCD’s
redemptive work could be done has changed dramatically. These are the reasons
to which DK obliquely refers.
Just as humanity is always left free to make its
own choices and decisions, so is a branch of the human family or a group within
that family left free to determine its own destiny. The Zionists have proved susceptible to that remnant of evil which is not
yet “sealed” behind the door where evil dwells. They are today a point of
infection and of danger to the rest of the world, and this is due to their lack
of truth, their unbridled cruelty, and their biased hate. They are as
much aggressors as were the Germans, and are working under the evil control of
the same forces. The whole
situation must be judged and gauged from the karmic angle; the Zionists are
endeavoring to repeat the horror of their first invasion of Palestine, of which
you may read in The Old Testament. There they behaved with unspeakable
cruelty but were given the opportunity to
offer the nations of the world – through the synthesis of Jewish culture – the
fruitage of their third and fourth ray development: i.e., their comprehension
of money and its intelligent use. This is
possible to them because they are the remnant of the humanity of the first
solar system which makes them (as souls) the oldest group on earth; this also gives them their essential creative and
artistic value which is the result of their participation in the evolutionary
processes of this planetary humanity.
419. This paragraph contains
Master DK’s harshest indictment of the Zionists, but, let us note, not of the Jews (especially, the “true Jews”). At various points He takes great
pains to make the distinction.
420. Humanity has come of
age and must make its own decisions which will determine its destiny. The same
may be said for groups of human beings within humanity. The Zionist group is
one such.
421. The attempt was made
during the Second World War to “seal the door where evil dwells”. It was very
nearly done, but the door was left ajar, so FCD noted elsewhere, by the
Zionists.
422. DK gives an occult
analysis. This group “proved susceptible to that remnant of evil which is not
yet ‘sealed’ behind the door where evil dwells.” This is a shocking statement
and demands reflection. The nature of the Zionists is never portrayed in this
manner; how could it be? Occult understanding and the ability to “read the
record” is missing in all conventional assessments.
423. DK says that the
Zionists represent a “point of infection” and are danger to the rest of the
world.
424. In the Bailey Teaching
we learned that Germans and the Jews were brothers and, as it were, members of
the same family. We learned that, from the reincarnational perspective, Germans
had been Jews and Jews, Germans. The great contention between them during WWII
was a family quarrel.
“Like frequently repudiates and swings away from like, and the Germans and the
Jews are curiously alike. Just as many British people and the preponderance of
the British race are reincarnated Romans, so many Germans are reincarnated
Jews. Hence the similarity of their points of view. It is a family quarrel and
there is nothing more terrible than this.” (GWP 147)
425. The mediumistic German
nation (with its mediumistic Pisces personality) was obsessed by the Forces of
Darkness. DK tells us (to the shock, horror and disbelief of many) that the
Zionists were working under the same impression.
426. We have no way to prove
the veracity of this statement, but when one looks at the world situation
today, and the great danger to humanity posed by the Middle East situation, one
can see the hand of the Dark Forces at work. They have set up a new front for
their attack against humanity.
427. The condemnation of the
Zionists (again, not the Jews) is uncompromising: they are accused of
“lack of truth”, of “unbridled cruelty”, and of “biased hate”. A thorough
condemnation! We must remember that Master DK does not exaggerate. He speaks
truth as He sees it. If any group inspires from Him such a condemnation, it
cannot be taken lightly.
428. DK resorts to an
analysis of the problem from the karmic angle. DK seems to equate the Zionists
with those who invaded Palestine at least three thousand years ago in the time
of Joshua (the successor to Moses). We may think of these two great figures as
the later Masters, Morya and Jesus.
429. The invasion of Canaan
is a historical-biblical fact. The Hebrews of the time took Canaan (the
“Promised Land”) by the sword and neither man, woman or child was spared. This
is why DK tells of the “unspeakable cruelty” of “their” invasion of
Palestine. By the word “their”, He means that the Zionists are the reincarnated
aspects of the early invaders. Obviously, none of this will make any sense to
those who do not accept the veracity of the doctrine of reincarnation and will
be rejected as the wildest, anti-Semitic fantasy.
430. The guerilla wars
fought before the establishment of the State of Israel, and the conventional
wars fought after that establishment are, from the Tibetan’s point of view, a
replay of that early invasion. These wars have been, relatively, more
restrained, with far less slaughter, but the continued wars and hostilities
between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries are filled with ongoing
horror and deep frustration for all who work for world peace. These wars and
have held the world stage for over half a century.
431. We can only listen
carefully to what the Tibetan is saying, and then see if, intuitively, it
carries the ring of truth. We are not in a position to estimate whether the
Zionists are the same souls who took Canaan by the sword more than three
thousand years ago. If they are, however, an entirely new light on the founding
of Israel is shed, and not a happy light.
432. The Hebrews of those
ancient times acted, says DK, “with unspeakable cruelty”, but were given (in
the hope of compensation) an opportunity to offer to humanity the fruitage of
their culture based upon the third and fourth rays. We have remarked that the
personality ray of Judea is the third and speculated that its monadic ray may
be the fourth. This group possesses the “comprehension of money and its
intelligent use”. This was, potentially, one of the gifts to be given to
humanity.
433. The Jews (as a group),
are, we are told, part of the remnants of the first solar system—souls knows as
the “ancestors”. This makes them, according to the Tibetan, “(as souls) the
oldest group on earth”. This is an amazing thought and suggests that humanity
does not learn its lessons rapidly—especially some sectors of humanity who are
strongly conditioned by the energies of the first solar system.
434. Their great creative
and artistic value is affirmed. Interestingly, this value is said to result
from their participation in the “evolutionary processes of this planetary
humanity”. It is as if much along the artistic and creative paths was learned
during the fourth round of the fourth chain—our Earth-chain. These “ancestors”,
as they are sometimes called, are said to have entered evolution on this chain
and in this round before the individualization of Earth-chain
humanity—another astonishing thought.
They made, however, a false move in Old Testament days and since then their ways have been devious and
wandering; they are unquestionably the most reactionary group on earth. Their desire for dominance
in all fields can be seen founded in the Ten Commandments which are voiced in
terms of an authoritative negation and in their clinging to an outworn and
separative faith – all the tents of which, the rituals and prohibitions serving
to build a wall around the Jewish consciousness. The Jews are not a nation; esoterically, they are the seed or
originating germ of mankind and hence their scattering in every nation in the
hope that they would in due course of evolution cease to be Jews – as you have
ceased to be Jew. But they have held on
throughout the centuries to the infantile segregation and to the protective
taboos which were necessary in the early days, five thousand years ago. Hence
the trouble today and even the Hierarchy knows not what end shall be.
435. DK is still talking of
those who manifest as the present Zionists (especially, the ones who paved the
way for the founding of Israel through violence and machination). There are some in the Jewish group who are strongly identified with its strange history. They
are the true “ancestors”, although, it must be said, that many “ancestors” have
moved on, have changed their motivations and identifications entirely, and have
‘graduated’ from this planetary school. DK is speaking of the most resistant
group, which He calls “the most reactionary group on earth”. For such
statements, He will wrongfully be accused of anti-Semitism. In fact, He is
looking at a vast panorama, unavailable to any strictly human researcher, and
is evaluating in an objective manner the origin and destiny of races, peoples
and nations.
436. It must certainly be
clear that not every member of the Jewish people is a reactionary
“ancestor”—i.e., a soul who individualized in the first solar system and who
has remained identified with that orientation throughout its development on the
Earth-chain. Souls are constantly changing races and subraces and only a Master
of the Wisdom can decipher the soul’s history on this planet and on an earlier
chain or solar system.
437. The whole problem can
be solved through dis-identification from the not-Self. Consciousnesses who are
identified exclusively with the form through which they manifest, and with the
hereditary history of those forms, have yet very much to learn about the
spiritual aspects of evolution.
438. DK speaks of a “false
move in Old Testament days”. Presumably, this was the invasion of
Canaan, now Palestine. This led, eventually, to the karma of the Diaspora, and
to the over-emphasis of the devious third ray personality. The first ray Soul
of Judea had been vanquished by the Romans, and for two millennia after their
conquest by the Romans and the destruction of the Temple, the majority of Jews
were forced to live more according to their personality ray than by the first
ray of the soul.
439. In modern times, with
the rise to power of the Zionists (a group strengthened by world reaction
against the repugnant horrors of the Holocaust) the first ray Soul of Judea has
again reasserted itself, in a manner very little influenced by the love aspect
(which has been growing in most human groupings under the Piscean influence for
the past two thousand years). These Zionists, it seems, were ancient warriors
upon the first ray, and represented a certain aspect of the first ray Soul of
Judea, though not its best aspect.
440. The first ray, when
unmoderated by the ray of love and wisdom, insists on dominance. The Ten
Commandments, with its “authoritative negations”, the Tibetan tells us,
demonstrate this will-to-dominate. The first ray is a ray of isolation as well.
DK tells us that a wall has been built around the Jewish consciousness and held
in place over centuries by means of the rituals and prohibitions of the
orthodox Jewish religion, thus perpetuating an “outworn and separative faith”.
Many Jews will instinctively and violently recoil from such an assessment; only
once they have observed the panorama revealed by the esoterically-trained mind,
will they give such views a hearing.
441. DK tells us that the
Jews are not a nation, per se. Their nature is far more occultly based;
“…esoterically, they are the seed or originating germ of mankind and
hence their scattering in every nation…”
442. DK says that it has
been hoped, apparently by the Directors of our planetary process that,
eventually, the Jews would cease to be Jews. Immediately, thoughts of genocide
will enter some minds, and the prospect will be seen horrifically inhumane.
443. But the suggestion has
nothing to do with any cruelty or intended annihilation (as was enforced by the
barbarism of the German nation responsive to impression of the Black Forces).
Rather, it is question of the gradual assimilation of the best that the
Jewish people has to offer, and their harmonious blending with the newer human
group—the humanity of the Earth-chain and of the second solar system.
444. Such an assimilation or
blending would be a project overseen by the Department of the Manu as He seeks
to build a racial form which ensures the best possible vehicles for the
incarnating human race. The Jews are carriers of a great treasures for humanity—creativity,
artistry and great intelligence. DK has named many virtues of the Jewish people
and said they were spiritually based. These qualities have to be preserved and
eventually blended with the energies which characterize the humanity of our
present chain and solar system.
445. Humanity comprises some
sixty billion souls. These souls will be taking incarnation for millions of
years in all manner of races and subraces. For the psychological health of
humanity, it is important that souls cease to identify with the forms through
which they manifest.
446. DK speaks of the
“infantile segregation” and “protective taboos” of the Jewish group, necessary,
perhaps, five thousand years ago, but no longer necessary. These must be
released. They are a obstructive concretion in the psyche of humanity. There
are far better possibilities for humanity ahead. The invocation and
manifestation of such possibilities is the real project for the human race. The
old and outworn can only be preserved for so long.
447. The best that the
Jewish people, or any people, have to offer the ‘new racial amalgamation’ must
be offered. The great spiritual, psychological and artistic riches of the
Jewish group will make their indispensable contribution to what humanity must
become. There is nothing anti-Jewish in this point of view. The treasures of
consciousness carried by the Jews are acknowledged and the contribution of
these subtle treasures to the human race eagerly anticipated. It is just that
outworn identifications with ancient forms and rituals must go (however
gradually, naturally, harmoniously and lovingly)—for the welfare of humanity as
a whole.
448. The problem is one of
the utmost seriousness. DK does not exaggerate when He says, “even the Hierarchy
knows not what end shall be”. Upon this rock, humanity could be broken
and might not recover for millennia, if then. DK warns of a next war which must not be fought. In such a war, religious passions would be ascendant, and
hatred of unimagined proportions released. We can see that ancient
religious approaches, whether pertaining to Judaism, Christianity or Islam,
must go. They have nothing to do with the elevation of human consciousness into
that state of transcendent realization characteristic of the Spiritual
Hierarchy.
Their major spiritual test will come in their
reaction to the Christ when again He comes and it will be a terrific test
because they have never – as a race and during their long
evolution –recognised a single one of the World Teachers. I am entering into these details so
that you may see more clearly where the trend of your work should lie.
449. The major test for the
Jewish people has not yet arrived. The Christ is expected to reappear in
physical form some time after 2025—members of humanity do not know exactly
when. Perhaps the Christ, Himself, does not know the day or the hour, but He
certainly knows the prevailing conditions which will allow Him to reemerge.
450. DK told of us of the
changes in consciousness which should occur for the Jewish people over the next
five hundred years. The Jewish people will persist into the future for an
unspecified time. But positive changes in their consciousness and psyche are
possible and highly desirable.
451. DK promises a “terrific
test” for the Jews when the Christ reappears. As one with access to the
“akashic record”, He tells us that they have never – as a race and during their
long evolution – recognized a single one of the World Teachers”. This is
another amazing statement and obviously is a historical perspective which
includes Atlantean and Lemurian times. One day we shall see the “record” He
references when He relates this information.
452. We can anticipate that
this terrific test will occur during the next one hundred years. It probably
will occur before the Age of Aquarius begins in earnest in the year 2117—which
fact was imparted by DK to FCD in a letter responding to FCD’s enquiry about
the actual astronomical beginning of the New Age.
453. The test will, it is
anticipated, be part of the clearing of Piscean karma (and of much karma
from the preceding Age of Aries), for we are still in the five hundred
year overlap period between the outgoing Piscean Age and the incoming Aquarian
Age.
454. FCD is having his work
outlined for him with the greatest care. The historical context of his work is
revealed in a way that no conventional historical analysis could describe. As a
trained esotericist, He will see the reasonableness of the analysis. He could
not, however, speak in such terms to those he would seek to help. He would not
be believed and he would certainly be resented. In fact, he would be considered
a madman.
The last two years have demonstrated that the
Jews (through the activities of the Zionists) have learnt little during the
past 3000 years; they are still engulfed in the glamour of territorial
acquisition and nationhood; they have, nevertheless, had the
opportunity of being the group which could have (because of their wide
dispersion and their international citizenship) demonstrated the factual nature
of the One Humanity and be recognised because of their cultural life. They have no national importance.
455. Hierarchy’s view on the
founding of the State of Israel is apparent. The Jews have been misled by the
Zionists—a very intelligent, ruthless and aggressive group. They have fallen
under the glamour of “territorial acquisition and nationhood”.
456. Although intelligent
and perceptive world Jewry does not share the perspectives of the Zionists and
of many Israeli governments, we could say that within the Jewish consciousness,
the glamor here named still prevails. It is, I would think, a great deterrent
to the progress of humanity.
457. This does not, in my
view, exonerate the policies of various Arab nations who have resorted to
countermeasures which are abusive, aggressive, and cynically manipulative. The
virulent determination to “push the Zionist Entity into the sea” is equally
odious and heedless of the lives of thousands of good people who are working in
Israel for peace and cooperation with all Arab nations.
458. If Germans have been
Jews and Jew, Germans, I will hazard a guess that Arabs have been Jews and
Jews, Arabs. It seems to be another desperate family quarrel!
459. Again DK holds out a vision
of what the Jews might have become and, perhaps, can still become: “they have,
nevertheless, had the opportunity of being the group which could have (because
of their wide dispersion and their international citizenship) demonstrated the
factual nature of the One Humanity and be recognised because of their cultural
life.”
This is a beautiful destiny. Can it be appreciated by world Jewry? There is
still a chance that many Jews scattered in the various nations of the world can
relate to it and see its planetary purpose. It would be a fitting and climactic
destiny for the world’s oldest group of human beings.
460. The Jews, then, are
to excel through the medium of culture rather than nationhood. This would indicate a response to their deeply recessed fourth ray, rather than
a personal response to their first ray soul. When there is a true soul
response to the first ray, they will seek to know the Will of the Planetary
Logos (certainly not Jehovah) and will abide faithfully by that Will.
Your task, my brother, because of Zionist
compelling action, is not to find and link together those Jews in every land whose
relationships are cultural and spiritual and who are free in their
consciousness of all claims of territorial possession. Think this out. Territories and national boundaries are symbolic of separativeness and
aggression and frequently of theft and murder. Therefore, the sin of the
Zionists becomes clear when – during this time when the United Nations are in
process of forming – they fall back on old ways of fighting for a land which is
no longer theirs. It is an effort of
evil forces to render the United Nations a negative body and to offset the new
ideals of the One Humanity and the One World.
461. The “Zionist compelling
action” has been the forceful founding of Israel.
462. FCD is put into an
emergency mode. He must work with Jews “whose relationships are cultural and
spiritual and who are free in their consciousness of all claims of
territorial possession”. The glory and beauty of the Jewish people is that
there are many Jews who fulfill these requirements.
463. DK seeks to lay clear
the “sin” of the Zionists. It is a sin against humanity which, as a whole, is
seeking to cooperate and harmonize through the United Nations. At a time of
such great promise for the rest of the human race, the Zionists “fall back on
old ways of fighting for a land which is no longer theirs”.
464. Behind the Zionists,
the Tibetan sees the “an effort of evil forces to render the United Nations a
negative body and to offset the new ideals of the One Humanity and the One
World”. We can see why He is so forceful in His condemnation of this ancient
and aggressive group.
465. We can understand that
FCD is meeting his destiny in this request for aid by Master DK and KH. When
the fourth degree is involved, the area of sacrificial service becomes the world and humanity.
My suggestion to you, therefore, (as regards
your future work) is to gather together those Jews out of every nation who seek
cultural but not national unity and who – because they are not strictly orthodox
– can begin to accept the premise of a retuning One for Whom they may prepare. Begin, my brother, with the utmost caution, discovering the views of such
men as Dr. …, certain Jewish writers with whom you may already be in touch, and
with the leaders of the Council for Judaism, with whom A.A.B. and F. B. have
ben in touch. Begin with the cultural
angle only and NOT as yet with the
preparation for the Christ. You need
only a group of seven men to begin with and you should have no difficulty in
finding them. Move forward with optimism
but with caution and also with no undue haste. You are one who is authorised subjectively by the Hierarchy to help build
up the true nature of the Jewish group; you are well equipped to do so. You can write in several languages and you move at
times in and out of many different countries. Gather together into one folio (if you have not already done so) all
that I have said anent the Jews; arrange them into proper sequential form and
use it with discretion as wisely as possible. Be not discouraged, but work as if the Zionists did not exist; waste no
time on them but aid the true Jews, the
people who were chosen to form the nucleus of the One Humanity; let them learn what is the real objective of their
existence and realise how wrong they have been in creating the separative
element which has infected the whole body of humanity. This trend of theirs goes back into Atlantean history
and lies outside the pale of our modern historical records.
466. FCD receives important
practical instructions. He is to gather together those Jews of every nation
“who seek cultural but not national unity”. This will be a theme for the future
as well (and will probably involve FCD in his next incarnation, which, at the
time of the writing of this commentary, may already have begun).
467. The idea of the “Coming
One” or a “returning One” must also be promoted among those who are not
strictly orthodox. Orthodox Jews also believe in a Messiah, but their views are
far at variance with the understanding of the Trans-Himalayan Lodge.
468. DK directs FCD towards
certain specific individuals and bodies.
469. He is to work occultly
with a group of “seven men”. Perhaps, FCD would be one of the seven. We cannot
tell whether DK means both men and women; times were different fifty-six years
ago.
470. We remember that
Hitler, too, knew how to work occultly, and gathered around him an “evil gang”
(as DK calls them) to reinforce his purposes.
471. DK leaves no question
about FCD’s authorization to do this particular kind of work: “You are one who
is authorised subjectively by the Hierarchy to help build up the true nature of
the Jewish group; you are well equipped to do so.” Many energies, forces and
spiritual factors have come together to present FCD with this opportunity. One
may imagine that a candidate for the fourth initiation will find himself to be
the right person, in the right place, at the right time for an extremely
difficult task demanding great sacrifice—if not the sacrifice of all.
472. FCD is to ignore the
Zionists and aid the “true Jews”. We should fix in our minds DK’s definition of
the true Jews: “… the true Jews, the people who were chosen to form the nucleus
of the One Humanity;” If the monadic ray of the Jews is the fourth ray
(and, in any case, the fourth ray is powerful in the Jewish expression) that
monadic ray will correlate with the ray of humanity which is also the fourth ray. We can understand how the Jew can be understood as prototypical of
humanity. The history of the Jews, as DK presents it, seems to confirm
this. The true Jew is a ‘non-local’ being and has the capacity to identify with
all human states and conditions. This deep comprehension of all manner
of human expression is often seen in the great motion pictures produced and
directed by Jews.
473. DK wants the Jews to
understand the nature of the glamor of separateness—derived from the Great
Heresy of Separateness. They are to repudiate the “separative element” by means
of which they (through their most reactionary members) have “infected” all of
humanity. Among the “true Jews”, who are more enlightened beings, this
repudiation is certainly possible. In fact, there is promising movement in this
direction.
474. DK traces the trend to
separatism to Atlantean history; naturally, modern historical research cannot
investigate the happenings of such remote times associated with a civilization
which most suspect never existed! The revelatory historical records do, however,
exist, in the annals of the Masters. Before long some of these archives may be
opened to prove the point.