THE WORK OF THE SPIRITUAL HIERARCHY OF THE PLANET

   The outstanding and dramatic feature of hierarchical action in the
present era is the preparation now underway in the Hierarchy for its
return to outer plane activity.  It is important, therefore, that more
people know about the fact of the Hierarchy and about what sort of men
the Masters of the Wisdom really are.

  The Nature of the Spiritual Hierarchy

   The spiritual Hierarchy of the Earth is the aggregate of those of
humanity who have triumphed over matter, who have achieved the goal of
self-mastery by the same path that individuals tread today.  These
spiritual personalities have wrestled and fought for victory and
mastery upon the physical plane, and struggled with the miasmas, foge,
and dangers, troubles and sorrows of everyday living.  They have
trodden every step of the way of suffering, have undergone every
experience, have surmounted every difficulty, and have won through.
Herein lies their right to serve, and the strength and reality of their
relationship to a still struggling humanity.  They know the
quintessence of pain, and can exquisitely measure their methods to the
need of the individual.  They are characterised by a love which
endures, which acts always for the good of the whole; by a knowledge
gained through living; by experience based on the evolution of time; by
courage as a result of that experience; by a purpose which is
enlightened and intelligent and adjusted to the purpose of the
planetary Logos, and a dynamic will that brooks no interference to the
eventual carrying out of that divine purpose.
   The spiritual Hierarchy is the result of human activity, aspiration
and achievement; it has been created by and of humanity.  The members
of the Hierarchy have achieved a complete control of the personality,
or lower self.  They are no longer centred in the individualised
consciousness but have entered into the wider realisation of the
planetary group life, which includes all stages, from that tiny sense
of social responsibility of the man or woman taking the first steps
upon the path of spiritual maturity, to the inclusive comprehension of
the Christ himself.
   The members of the Hierarchy are the Masters of the Wisdom.  Just as
a Master's degree in the academic field indicates one who has achieved
proficiency, or mastery, in one particular area of human understanding,
tne Master of the Wisdom is one who has, through self-mastery, achieved
mastery within the whole field of human evolution.  Because of an
individual natural predisposition to certain lines of work, they each
have a special contribution to make towards human progress in one of
the seven major fields of world work: political, religious,
educational, scientific, philosophical, psychological or economic.

The Planned Work of the Hierarchy

   The Masters are a worldwide group of executives, adept and skilled
in the various fields of work in the modern world, organised into a
close network of communication throughout the world, with
representatives in all nations, both east and west, and working in the
closest co-operation.
   The overall hierarchical organisation has three major divisions: one
having responsibility for teaching in its true sense; the second having
responsibility for teaching ints three aspects, education, religion,
and healing; and a third division having responsibility for all
economic progresss, finance as it pertains to all fields, intellectual
culture, and the arts.  This third division is the largest of the
three, with many different departments of work.
     The Masters of the Wisdom are far more practical and realistic
than the most efficient big business executives in our modern world.
They are far more potent in affecting world events than are the most
powerful leaders of any nation or government in the world.  They make a
constant study of human affairs, watching human trends and human
planning for world betterment.
   The Masters work according to plan and are known as the "Custodians
of the Plan".  The Plan is for all men everywhere in the world; it
works out under the impelling power of evolution itself.
   They work under law and never coerce or pressure humanity.
Individual freedom, particularly mental freedom, is never infringed.
   Anything which is really good for humanity as a whole is a
legitimate aid to their work and fits in to the fundamental purpose of
the Plan itself.  For example, the establishing of right human
relations between races and nations and groups of every kind; the
substitution of cooperation for competition in all departments of human
affairs;  the growth of the recognition and use of the power of
goodwill.
   The work since the 15th century has been carried forward by the
sending out of senior disciples, qualified and trained to work in these
particular fields.  A number of such disciples appeared at about the
same time, sometimes in different parts of the world, working
separately, but producing an effect upon human consciousness.  Today,
all of the work is interrelated and coordinated into one worldwide
group effort, and the senior members of this group who are responsible
for the implementing of the Plan in these various fields have been
called the New Group of World Servers.
   The results of the work accomplishedin these seven fields can be
clearly seen

  a.  The entire level of human intelligence has been raised and the
minds of men made generally more active in all races everywhere.
Humanity has progressed to a state where an intelligent public can
discuss world problems.
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  b.  Basic cleavages and separateness unrecognised 500 years ago are
now recognised as harmful and remedies are being sought.
  c.  World interrelation, intercommunication and economic interdepence
have been achieved, thus guaranteeing ultimate world unity.
  d.  Progress from the old w3ays and ideas into the new has produced a
natural division of intelligent men and women into two general and
basic attitudes, the conservative and the progressive.  This applies in
all fields of human affairs producing clarifying comparisons which
bring opportunity for improvement.
  e.   A widespread philanthropic enterprise utterly unknown before
the year 1500 has appeared which is the practical result of the growth
of the concept of the brotherhood of humanity.

   Two Basic Needs
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   A main hindrance to the Plan is the spiritual inertia of the men of
goodwill.  Two basic needs today  are for trained workers and adequate
financing.  The Hierarchy works through its disciples and co-workers in
all countries, and never before have there benn so many endeavouring to
fit themselves for this function in the world as 'transmitters of the
Plan', and never before has there existed such a strong inner integrity
and subjective relation between workers in all fields in all parts of th
e world.  For the first time in history there is a coherent world
group; but the need for trained workers was never greater nor so
widespread nor so urgent as now.
   When the hierarchical worker is an advanced worker, he is aware of
the source of his guidance and co-operates consciously with the plans
of the Hierarchy.  Such workers gather around them others who will work
along the same lines, through community of interest and humanitarian
conviction.  They may be quite unconscious of any hierarchical guidance
or spiritual objective, except the recognition that they love their
fellow men, and this love conditions all they do and motivates their
every effort.  From the standpoint of the Master, they can be reached,
impressed, and directed; and most definitely they are so reached.
   A second basic need is for adequate financing of hierarchical work.
The crux of the problem of spiritual work in the world today is a
financial one.  Workers need to recognise that money is the
consolidation of the living energy of divinity, and that the greater
the realisation and expression of love the freer will be the inflow of
that which is needed to carry forward the work.  It still remains for
the crystallised aspect of this energy of creative intelligence, money,
to be used on a large scale for the furtherance of the work of the
spiritual Hierarchy.  It is at this point and in connection
with money that the great test of goodwill in any individual, group or
nation demonstrates.