It has been said that the New Group of World Servers (NGWS) is the most powerful group of forerunners that has ever preceded the entry of a World Teacher into the arena of human endeavor. We know that the group should not be formed or organized, because it already exists. Therefore, no one should assume responsibilities to organize it. Still, we must heed the Hierarchy’s call to discover NGWS members where possible to strengthen their hands. Moreover, it is necessary that the isolated disciples working in all countries of the world be aware of each other and enter into telepathic relationships.
What is its historical background?
Sixteenth Century Summit (circa 1500): Organizational preparations began for the manifestation on Earth of “the scientific brotherhood” that during the Aquarian Age would raise the consciousness of humanity definitively to the mental plane and break down the barriers of separateness, isolation and prejudice. GROUP work was inaugurated in four main fields: cultural, political, religious and scientific, followed by the remaining three: philosophical, psychological and financial. Two famous groups, one cultural and one political, brought the Renaissance and the French Revolution. Seven groups of thinkers were thus established as humanity was comprised of two main camps: the reactionaries and the visionaries.
Twentieth Century Summit (circa 1925): Establishment of a group of “conditioning souls” acting under the name of the New Group of World Servers (NGWS) — also referred to as group avatar, saviors of the world, intellectual mystics, practical mystics, members of one another, the knowers of reality, the builders of the New Age, obedient workers and servants of the Word, balancing group, bridge of souls and servers, the Voice of the Center — which gather and unify the various influential threads of energy and the different tendencies of the power of thought produced by the work of the groups since the year 1500, to preserve the spirit of truth and reorganize the thoughts of men, to refine the mind of humanity and bring it to that meditative and reflective condition that will enable it to recognize the coming unfolding of the divinity.
How do they contact each other?
They are linked by an internal mental structure and by a telepathic means of interrelation, WITHOUT having an external organization that integrates them. They are closely related as an organism. As such, they are in constant contact and harmony with each other due to unity of purpose, consonant methods, diversity of techniques and goodwill.
What are their characteristics?
Synthesis, inclusiveness, intellectuality, excellent mental development. They are inevitably advanced thinkers with creative goals, truly intelligent and have added to their intelligence the expanding love. Their work is not secret.
What is their main duty?
Preserve internal sensitivity, serving as channels of relationship, precipitating IDEAS into IDEALS that in turn become the desired objectives of intellectuals, who inculcate them in the middle class, creating new world systems of government and religion, thus forming the basis of the new social order to which the people are gradually incorporated.
What are the membership requirements?
There are three: i) unification between the soul and its expression; (ii) telepathically sensitive brain; iii) capacity for abstract or synthetic thought. The essential requirement is MEDITATION, but not necessarily that established by occult schools and churches, rather the development of a decentralized reflective spirit in a certain line of human understanding, the power to focus attention and the compassionate recognition of human need.
What are the impediments to membership?
There are four: (i) an uncoordinated personality; (ii) a sense of separateness, differentiation and superiority; (iii) possession of a creed or dogmatic formulation of truth; (iv) pride and ambition.
What is their group creed?
They profess no creed except that of the Brotherhood based on the One Life. They recognize no authority except that of their own souls, nor obedience to any Master, except the group they seek to serve and humanity, which they love deeply.
The Three Truths – The Idyll of the White Lotus
There are three truths which are absolute, and which cannot be lost, but yet may remain silent for lack of speech.
- The soul of man is immortal, and its future is the future of a thing whose growth and splendor has no limit.
- The principle which gives life dwells in us, and without us, is undying and eternally beneficent, is not heard or seen or smelt, but is perceived by the man who desires perception.
- Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
These truths, which are as great as is life itself, are as simple as the simplest mind of man. Feed the hungry with them.
Mabel Collins [the words “man” is used in its generic and Sanskrit meaning: manas, “thinker”]
How to qualify oneself?
The RULES are three and simple: i) practice harmlessness; ii) renounce the desire for the separate self; iii) look for the sign of divinity in everything.
What is HARMLESSNESS?
The harmlessness to which I refer in connection with you is not negative, or sweet or kindly activity, as so many believe; it is a state of mind and one which in no way negates firm or even drastic action; it concerns motive and involves the determination that the motive behind all activity is goodwill. That motive might lead to positive and sometimes disagreeable action or speech, but as harmlessness and goodwill condition the mental approach, nothing can eventuate but good.
Harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who realizes himself to be everywhere, who lives consciously as a soul, whose nature is love, whose method is inclusiveness, and to whom all forms are alike in that they veil and hide the light, and are but externalizations of the one Infinite Being. This realization, let me remind you, will demonstrate in a true comprehension of a brother’s need, divorced from sentiment and expediency. It will lead to that silence of the tongue which grows out of non-reference to the separate self. It will produce that instantaneous response to true need which characterizes the Great Ones who (passing beneath the outer appearance) see the inner cause which produces the conditions noted in the outer life, and so, from that point of wisdom, true help and guidance can be given. Harmlessness brings about in the life caution in judgment, reticence in speech, ability to refrain from impulsive action, and the demonstration of a non-critical spirit. So, free passage can be given to the forces of true love, and to those spiritual energies which seem to vitalize the personality, leading consequently to right action.
Practice that positive harmlessness which works out in right thought (because based on intelligent love), right speech (because governed by self-control), and right action (because founded on an understanding of the Law), and he will find that the attempt will call forth all the resources of his being and take much time to achieve. It is not the harmlessness that comes from weakness and sentimental loving disposition, which dislikes trouble because it upsets the settled harmony of life and leads to consequent [Page 318] discomfort. It is not the harmlessness of the little evolved negative impotent man or woman, who has not the power to hurt because possessing so little equipment wherewith damage can be done.
It is the harmlessness that springs from true understanding and control of the personality by the soul, that leads inevitably to spiritual expression in every-day life. It emanates from a capacity to enter into the consciousness and to penetrate into the realisation of one’s brother, and when this has been accomplished—all is forgiven and all is lost sight of in the desire to aid and to help.
Excerpted and adapted from the writings of the Tibetan Master through Alice Bailey
Harmlessness — the most potent expression of goodwill in the world today — is the attitude that speaks no word that can damage another person, that thinks no thought which could poison or produce misunderstanding, and which does no action which could hurt, maintaining a solid policy of non-aggression. No democratic leader, nation or race should be attacked or defamed. This practice does not inhibit the NGWS from teaching to recognize undesirable methods and techniques of government (e.g., authoritarianism and totalitarianism) and religion, which are undesirable because they are detrimental to world understanding, international goodwill and spiritual friendship. They will not be a threat to any democratic government, nor will they work against the established order. They will insist on not pronouncing a word, nor developing an action that produces separation or generates antipathy. Despite this, their attitude does not constitute one of neutrality or “passive resistance.” With positive harmlessness, they actively work to balance the forces of the world and to increase the pool of those who postulate goodwill, understanding and brotherhood. In short, only universally applicable principles should be expressed and no partisanship is permitted.
Values to Live By
- A Love of Truth—essential for a just, inclusive and progressive society.
- A Sense of Justice—recognition of the rights and needs, of all.
- Spirit of Cooperation—based on active goodwill and the principle of right human relationships.
- A Sense of Personal Responsibility—for group, community and national affairs.
- Serving the Common Good—through the sacrifice of selfishness. Only what is good for all is good for each one.
These are spiritual values, inspiring the conscience and the consciousness of those who serve to create a better way of life.
World Goodwill
What is their group motto?
The motto is: The Glory of the One
What is their mission?
Their mission is: i) to assist in the externalization of the spiritual Hierarchy on the physical plane; (ii) to educate the public in the principle of non-separateness; (iii) to promote the energy of the will-to-good in the world; and, iv) to prepare humanity for the reappearance of the World Teacher. However, their success does not depend on the world servers’ obedience to a spiritual Hierarchy, but on their receptivity to spiritual impression.
The task is NOT to spread esoteric or occult information, but to bring together all the agents of goodwill who respond to the divine of the will-to-good to materialize — as concrete and demonstrated factors — ideas, such as synthesis, understanding and collaborative goodwill, so far presented in terms of feeling, idealism and mystical aspiration.
I would have you remember that the teaching which I have given out has been intermediate in nature, just as that given by H.P.B., under my instruction, was preparatory. The teaching planned by the Hierarchy to precede and condition the New Age, the Aquarian Age, falls into three categories:
- Preparatory, given 1875-1890…written down by H.P.B.
- Intermediate, given 1919-1949…written down by A.A.B.
- Revelatory, emerging after 1975…to be given on a worldwide scale via the [internet].
In the next century and early in the [21st] century an initiate will appear and will carry on this teaching. It will be under the same “impression,” for my task is not yet completed and this series of bridging treatises between the material knowledge of man and the science of the initiates has still another phase to run. The remainder of this century, as I told you elsewhere, must be dedicated to rebuilding the shrine of man’s living, to reconstructing the form of humanity’s life, to reconstituting the new civilisation upon the foundations of the old, and to the reorganising of the structures of world thought, world politics, plus the redistribution of the world’s resources in conformity to divine purpose. Then and only then will it be possible to carry the revelation further.
The Tibetan Master via Alice A. Bailey, Rays and Initiations, p. 255
What does the word “spiritual” mean?
This group gives a broad meaning to the word “spiritual”, because they believe that it means an inclusive effort towards human improvement, inspiration and understanding, it gives it meaning of tolerance, international synthetic communion, religious inclusiveness and all currents of ideas that concern the inner development of the human being.
What is their source of power?
Two sources of power: i) the “raincloud of knowable things” stewarded by a group of enlightened Beings called the planetary spiritual Hierarchy; (ii) men and women of goodwill in the world. Hence, the duty to preserve internal sensitivity and the need to attract material resources, such as money, to reach the interested public.
Is there a cyclical rhythm of work?
The NGWS should work in three-year cycles: (i) Consolidation; (ii) Expansion, (iii) Impact on public awareness. As we are told that in May 1936 one of these cycles ended, therefore, a year of expansion will begin in May 2024. The work must be done by means of the written word, then by means of the spoken word.
Suffice it for the rest of those in the Hierarchy—the initiates and disciples in their ordered ranks and various gradings—to cooperate with that immediate aspect of the Plan which they can grasp and which comes down to them through the inspired minds of their Directors at certain stated times, and in certain specific years. Such a year was 1933. Such another will be the year 1942. At those times, when the Hierarchy meets in silent conclave, a part of God’s vision, and His formulation [Page 242] of that vision for the immediate present, is revealed for the next nine year cycle. They then, in perfect freedom and with full mutual cooperation lay Their plans to bring about the desired objectives of the Heads of the Hierarchy, as They in Their turn cooperate with still higher Forces and Knowers.
EP II
Three, Seven (in red) and Nine Year Cycles of the New Group of World Servers
[The previous spiritual year ends, and the next one begins,
at the peak of the higher interlude (Wesak, usually in May) each year]
The Rhythm of Creation
Note: The cyclic nature of this magical work of the soul — always GROUP work — is to be emphasized. The “consolidation” phase is both the result of an emerging precipitation, as well as the beginning of a new cycle. The White magician contemplates the consolidation (precipitation) of the newly created form as it generates a new cycle of growth in service. A second interlude is implicit in the third stage (contemplation), as in the 4-fold breathing cycle of the year: Spring (higher interlude), Summer (breathing out), Fall (lower interlude) and Winter (breathing in).
Forget not, all creative processes proceed with a cyclic rhythm. The rhythm set by the New Group of World Servers is a three year cycle and to this rhythm you will find yourself conforming. The end of one such cycle came in May, 1936. Another towards which we will proceed in a mounting crescendo of work and of success will be in May, 1939. The third will come in May, 1942. Have these dates carefully in mind and thus lay your plans for the future. Thus will you be working with the law and along the lines of least resistance.
Make each three-year cycle conform to the rhythm of creation. In the first year, lay your emphasis upon the activity of the manifesting principle, using that which appears and with which you must work. In the second year, let the clarity and the quality of the note to be sounded by the manifesting appear and be heard. In the third year, behind the form and expressing itself through the quality, let the livingness and the work of the indwelling life emerge for all to see. Bear this in mind as you consolidate the work. The keynote of the first year’s work is consolidation, that of the second year must be expansion whilst the keynote of the third year must be the making of a definite impact upon the public consciousness, by the sounding and the emphasizing of one clear note. If this cyclic measure is kept thus in mind, no serious mistakes will be made…. The New Group of World Servers must work in these three-year cycles and the foundation of cyclic attainment must be laid. This cyclic rhythm will release from strain and yet enable the workers in the Group to feel that there is no failure. It is impossible to do good work where a sense of failure or lack of attainment is found. -DINA I, 165
Spiritual Cycles
by Foster Bailey
In all great movements you have some thought or aggregation of thoughts cast into the minds of the so-called idealists by the Great White Brotherhood. The idea is sounded forth by Them. They choose a man or a group of men and cast into their minds some idea. There it germinates and is embodied by them in other thoughts, not so pure or so wise but necessarily colored by the individuality of the thinker. These thought-forms are, in their turn, picked up by the concrete thinkers of the world who—grasping the main outline of the idea—crystallize it and build it into more definite shape, into one more easily apprehended by the general public. It has therefore now reached the lower levels of the mental plane, and a further development becomes possible. It is then seized upon as desirable by those who are focused upon the astral plane; to them it makes an emotional appeal, becoming public opinion. It is now practically ready to take shape upon the physical plane, and we have the practical adaptation of an ideal to the needs of the physical life. It has been stepped down; it has lost much of its original beauty; it is not as pure and as lovely as when first conceived, and it is distorted from its original shape but it is, nevertheless, more adapted to public use and can be employed as a stepping-stone to higher things. (TWM 131)
“I make no further appeal for your help. I have been endeavoring to educate you in the new ideals and in the work of the New Group of World Servers. The responsibility for right action and for the effort to reach the public rests upon the aspirants and disciples of the world who read my words. There is nothing that I, personally can do. It is your time (and all of you, without exception, can give some) for which Christ and humanity are today calling. It is your activity and skill in reaching those you can reach for which we make [Page 751] demand. It is your money that is needed to enable us to reach the interested public. It is your meditation and intense inner cooperation which will construct that channel through which the spirit of peace can work and the forces of Light enter. The Hierarchy waits. It has done all that is possible from the angle of Its opportunity. The Christ stands in patient silence, attentive to the effort that will make His work materialise on earth and enable Him to consummate the effort He made 2000 years ago in Palestine. The Buddha hovers over the planet, ready to play His part if the opportunity is offered to Him by mankind. I beg you to note what I here have said. Everything now depends upon the right action of the men of good will.“ (EP II)
Excerpts adapted from the writings of the Tibetan Master through Alice Bailey
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