The Inner Government Of The World AnnieBesant

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The Inner Government of the World by Annie Besant

The Inner Government of the World

by Annie Besant

Lectures delivered at the North Indian Convention, T.S.,held at aranasi, Se!tember, "#$%

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CONTENTS

L(CT45( I Ishvara /a0e "

The Builders of a Cosmos

The 1ierarchy of our World

The 5ulers

The Teachers

The 'orces

L(CT45( $ The ethod of (volution /a0e $6

The Buildin0 of an

The Buildin0 of 5aces and Sub75aces

The anus

L(CT45( The *ivine /lan /a0e 8&

Its Sections

5eli0ions and Civilisations

The /resent /art of the /lan

The Choices of the Nations

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LECTURE I

IshvaraThe Builders of a Cosmos

1ierarchy of our WorldThe 5ulers

The Teachers

The 'orces

'5I(N*S)

I 9ant to !ut before you, if I can in these three lectures, a certain vie9 of the 9orld, and of the 9ay in9hich that 9orld is 0uided and directed. As this meetin0 is a !ublic meetin0, there is one statement I thinthat I ou0ht to ma:e, 9hich it 9ould not be necessary to ma:e, if it 9ere com!osed of members of theTheoso!hical Society. It is im!ortant to remember that in the Theoso!hical Society 9e have no authorityon matters of o!inion. (very member is free to 9or: out his o9n theory of life, to choose his o9n line ofthou0ht, and no one has the smallest ri0ht to dictate to any member 9hat he should choose or 9hat he

should thin:. In the Theoso!hical Society there is only one condition 9hich binds a member, namely, thereco0nition of 4niversal Brotherhood. ;utside that every member is absolutely free. 1e may belon0 toany reli0ion, or he may belon0 to no reli0ion at all. If he belon0s to a reli0ion, he is never as:ed to leaveit, to chan0e it, but only to try to live u! to its the :no9led0e of 1im by 9hom all thin0s are :no9n?. It is a difficulty rather oour lan0ua0e that 9e s!ea: in that sense of >:no9led0e?, because :no9led0e im!lies a duality, or indeea tri!licity 7 the @no9er, the @no9n, and the 5elation bet9een them 7 9hereas 9hen the S!irit of man,

9ho comes forth from Ishvara, realises his o9n nature, it is no lon0er a case of thin:in0 or of :no9in0. Itis a case of realisin0 that identity. ou :no9 it is 9ritten a0ain in the 4!anishad) >1e 9ho says I :no9,he :no9s not,? because the very 9ord :no9led0e is an error in this realisation. In that, 9e do not say, >I:no9?+ 9e say, >I am?. This 0ives the !rimary meanin0 of the 9ord >Theoso!hy?. Then it is also used in asecondary sense) a certain body of teachin0s. No one of these !articular teachin0s is bindin0 on anymember. The 9hole of these teachin0s to0ether are the teachin0s the Society is formed to !ut for9ard inthe 9orld, but it does not ma:e them bindin0 on its members. That !olicy


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0reat reli0ion. If, for


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the faculty, ho9 much time they are ready to 0ive to the study, ho9 far they are conformin0 to the ruleslaid do9n by eD!erts for be0inners in the study, and so on. But admittin0 that there is a 0reat differencebet9een the rece!tion 0iven to occult science and the rece!tion 0iven to astronomical statements madeby eD!erts, everybody, !ractically every educated !erson, is 9illin0 to receive the testimony of the0reatest astronomers to facts 9hich they are themselves unable to observe or to verify. It is not a matterof life and death if they are 9ron0. But 9hen you come to deal 9ith statements of occult science, some o9hich you find in the 0reat Scri!tures of the 9orld, some of 9hich you find in the ancient histories of the

9orld, there is much unfair sce!ticism in modern thin:ers. 1istories are thro9n aside as le0endary andmythical. Scri!tures are thro9n aside as su!erstition, thou0h they contain the ideas of ancient !eo!les,much more learned than ourselves. 1ence the difficulty of ;ccultism in Eustifyin0 itself+ a man must ta:eEust on the lines I have !ut to you as to astronomical science. But the man of the day is ready to receivescience 9hich are based on


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!lanets. We :no9, so far, that the sun and these !lanets are com!osed of certain :inds of matter. It hasbeen found out by science that the constitution of the matter of every !lanet contains substances 9hich9e find in our o9n. But they are in very different conditions. ;ne or t9o may be man7bearin0, may havehumanity develo!in0 u!on them. ;thers obviously cannot have anythin0 li:e humanity such as 9e :no9it here. These va0ue statements are made as all that eD!erts are able to 0ive even about our o9n solarsystem. When 9e come to the 0reat Scri!tures of the 9orld, 9e find a very definite assertion that all


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So far you are dealin0 9ith very lar0e Fuestions. As to the sun there is much discussion 0oin0 on.


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Cosmos are those 0reat and mi0hty *evas, 9ho are brou0ht over by the Ishvara of the Cosmos asBuilders of 1is 9orlds. 1ere a0ain 9e s!ea: on the authority of the 0reat Scri!tures, and on other occulteachin0s.

I am for the moment concerned 9ith our o9n solar system. No9, in the hi0hest sense of the 9ord, the;ccult 1ierarchy of the Cosmos 9ould


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We are not concerned today 9ith that or0anism of man, thou0h you must bear it in mind, but 9ith theeDistence on our 0lobe of an ;ccult 1ierarchy, loo:in0 bac:9ards?, and to read 9hat

are called the >;ccult 5ecords? of the 9orld far beyond ordinary history+ 0oin0 bac: to those, to that9hich science is be0innin0 to call the >memory of the 9orld?, it is be0innin0 to reco0nise it as a realitythat all events remain in that memory of the 9orld+ science ma:es 9hat seems at first the rather startlin0statement that if you could 0o out to a certain distance from our 9orld to some other 0lobe+ you mi0htthere see the events 9hich ha!!ened in our 9orld thousands of years a0o. It sounds a little startlin0 ifyou ha!!en to hear it for the first time. Si0ht de!ends on the travelin0 of li0ht. But vision, as 9e :no9 it,could not cross the hu0e s!aces reFuired. But if it could, a !erson on a distant 0lobe 9ould see events9hich had ha!!ened here lon0 after they had ha!!ened. Why do you hear the sound of 0un7fire ana!!reciable time after you see the flash, since flash and sound are simultaneous Because sound travemore slo9ly than li0ht. Li0ht travels so s9iftly that 9e do not a!!reciate the time bet9een the 0un7fireand its flash a mile or so a9ay. Still li0ht travels at a certain definite rate. A >li0ht7year? is the distance in


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middle of the evolution of that


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!erfect. So it is 9ritten) >As above, so belo9?. We come thus to our o9n ;ccult 1ierarchy, 9hom youthin: of as 5shis, the mi0hty ;nes 9ho a!!ear from time to time in your /uranas and Itihasas, in theearly days 9al:in0 amon0 men, consolin0 men, hel!in0 men, 9hen each 5ace is bein0 founded. ;fcourse the lecture of toni0ht is one as to 9hich, for most of you, verification is im!ossible, but the s:etchof these thin0s is necessary in order that you may have a bi0 !icture, and then come do9n throu0h that!icture to our o9n little s!ot of 9orld 7 Fuite an insi0nificant !lace in the enormous universe. 1ere 9eshould be able to study more closely. 1ere 9e should be able to find out really 9hat is 0oin0 on, the

'orces behind those 9ho are a!!arently the rulers, the teachers and the actor in our 9orld, the true InnGovernment of the World, by /o9er, by Wisdom, by Activity, as manifested in the ;ccult 1ierarchy of ou9orld, 9ith the 'our @umaras at its head.


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LECTURE

The ethod of (volution+The Buildin0 of an+

The Buildin0 of 5aces and Sub75aces+The anus.

'5I(N*S)

ou 9ill remember that last ni0ht 9e left off, at the !oint 9here 9e 9ere considerin0 the es!ecialGovernment of our o9n 9orld, the ;ccult 1ierarchy as it is called, the Bein0s com!osin0 that havin0come to our earth in the middle of the third human 5ace from the !lanet Shu:ra Henus. I !ointed out toyou that you 9ill find in the 1ierarchy the threefold division 9hich is the refleDion of Ishvara 1imself in ththree as!ects in 9hich 1e reveals 1imself. Thin:in0 for a moment of the Su!reme Brahman, theBrahman 9ith Fualities, the Sa0una Brahman, 9e notice that there 9e had this tri!le division that rea!7!ears all the 9ay do9n on the Life7side, the Consciousness7side, of bein0s in the @osmos, so far as 9e:no9 anythin0 about it, and !resumably it 9ould be found outside our Cosmos in the same 9ay, as theinevitable result of the 4nity of the Su!reme 9ith 1is three As!ects, neither more nor less. Then thin:in0

of the Ishvara of a sin0le system, a sin0le solar system Why did God emanate, or create, the 9orld? We finthe ans9er 0iven) >Because the Su!reme Love, God, desired to be loved?, and as the lives that came

forth from 1im 9ere the fra0ments of 1is o9n Life, by that very unity of ori0in, there 9as the love to 1imfrom 9hom they came of the intelli0ent bein0s thus emanated. That is only one of the many ans9ers, abeautiful and !oetical one, containin0 a !rofound truth, that the 0reat mar: of the Love of the *eity issho9n in 1is Activity. ou 9ill find in the different reli0ions of the 9orld that they all reco0nise this Activityand /o9er and Wisdom on the !art of the Su!reme Lord of the 4niverse+ but some, 9ith re0ard to theActivity, !refer to call it Love, creation bein0 the 0reat si0n of love, loo:in0 at it from the stand!oint ofourselves+ then the As!ects are called /o9er, Wisdom and Love. ou 9ill find in other reli0ions, as forinstance the Gree:, the idea that one of the


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manifestation. And that vie9 of *ivinity has been re!eated and reiterated by modern science. The morescience investi0ates into the innumerable bein0s that are the embodiments of the divine Love in our9orld, the more does science find that Beauty is their inevitable si0n of manifestation. ou may 0obeyond the !o9er of human si0ht. ou may call u!on the microsco!e to hel! you in studyin0 that 9hich too minute for the unassisted human eye to see. The hi0her the !o9er of the microsco!e the more9ondrous is the detail in the manifestation of the Beauty. So that in these invisible obEects 9hich no eyeof man can see 9ithout this mechanical ma0nifyin0 !o9er, you 9ill find beautiful forms traced on the

surface of the body, livin0 creatures 9ith 9onderful forms of curves, an0les and lines delicately arran0edin admirable !erfection, so that 9hen the Gree: tells us that >God manifests as Beauty?, 9e find that 1ismanifestation in 1is universe bears out 9ell the old Gree: idea. It is ri0ht that 9e should not for0et that,because in the more modern reli0ion of Christianity, there 9as a 0reat revolt a0ainst this idea of theloveliness of the universe and the beauty of the human body, 9hich 9as !art of the ins!irin0 thou0ht ofthe Gree: 9orld. We find in that vie9 that beauty is a thin0 that leads man a9ay


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order in time is only a succession of the true measure of time in moods of consciousness, not themovement of the Sun, the oon and the Stars. These are only ado!ted by the human mind in order thatthey may have a fiDed measure, but one to 9hich the truth does not corres!ond. And so 9e have thisidea of the (ternal, 9ho is beyond time, and to 9hom all succession is simultaneity, 9ho is sometimess!o:en of as the >(ternal No9?. Their conce!tion is one. We have to try, ho9ever feebly, to 0ras! it 9iththis limited consciousness of ours, 9hich s!ea:s of a !ast, a !resent and a future. It is not realised thatthere is a !ossibility of the 9hole three bein0 really simultaneous, and mutually affectin0 each other, the

future affectin0 the !ast, as the !ast is said also to influence the future. But that is a thin0 more for us tothin: out for ourselves in contem!lation than to try to eD!lain to each other. ;ur lan0ua0e, 9hich hasbeen founded on the very idea of succession, cannot eD!ress in any intelli0ible fashion that 9heresuccession is not. And the (ternal is the only 9ord 9e have !ractically, 9hich conveys, ho9ever dimly,ho9ever !oorly, that 0reat thou0ht No9?. So that that 9ord (ternal is never to be confused9ith everlastin0, 5emember that 9ord is the 9ord ri0htly 0iven to that 0reat Bein0 beyond our :no9in0,9ho is s!o:en of in the /uranas as the (ldest @umara, the 0reat Bein0 9e call Sanat @umara, The(ternal. Then the Three 9ho are 9ith 1im, d9ellers in that mystic City of Shamballa, the White Islandouth, are the remainin0 @umaras, called the /u!ils of 1im 9ho is the 1ead of the Inner Government ofour World.

1./.B. s!ea:s of the Three, and of Their name derived from Buddhism, 9hich s!ea:s of Them as the/ratye:a Buddhas, the >Solitary Buddhas?. It is not at all a 0ood name+ it is a name 9hich has been 0ivea connotation 9holly ina!!licable to that 0reat hei0ht of su!er7human eDistence. But They are 0iven thename, because the 9ord Buddha has been a!!lied s!ecially to the Su!reme Teacher. And because Thedid not teach, Their 9or: bein0 that of the 5ulers and not of the Teachers, men in their blindness, dimly0ro!in0 after the fact of this 0reat eDistence, s!o:en of Them as solitary Buddhas 7 alone, isolated, andeven 9ent so far as to a!!ly to them the monstrous adEective >selfish?. So foolish, so childish, are humabein0s in tryin0 to Eud0e of Lives so far eDalted beyond their o9n. The Secret Doctrineuses the !hrase)>1i0her than the Three is only ;ne, in 1eaven and in (arth?. any students 9onder 9hat the !hrasemeans. 1./.B. often too: her 9ords from statements


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char0ed 9ith the care of the lar0er !art of the !o!ulation of the 0lobe. 1e loo:s after those hundreds ofmillions of Asiatic !eo!les, of 9hom the chief are the Chinese and the -a!anese, the -a!anesecom!aratively small in number, but 0reat in develo!ment and in !o9er. The -a!anese cau0ht hold of9estern ideas, suc:ed them dry, and then thre9 them a9ay a0ain, havin0 utilised all that 9as useful forthemselves in those ideas, and every one that they acce!ted they stam!ed 9ith their o9n mar:, Eust asyou mi0ht stam! coin made of 0old from any mint. If you 9ant to coin it, you send it to the mint, and haveit stam!ed 9ith the ima0e of your o9n Nation. So the -a!anese have done 9ith 9estern thou0ht and

or0anisation. They, under the direction of their anu, the im!ulse that 1e sent to them throu0h theirearthly ruler sent all over the 9estern 9orld numbers of their cleverest men, sent them on a 0reat missioto the West, to learn ho9 they mana0ed their affairs, ho9 they or0anised, and There isonly one thin0 that God on the *ay of -ud0ment 9ill never for0ive the -a!anese?. I said in ans9er) >Whais that, r. S9inburne? because I :ne9 he did not believe in the *ay of -ud0ment. I rather 9ondered9hat he 9as drivin0 at. 1e half shut his eyes in the Fueer dreamy 9ay that I have Eust mentioned, and

s!o:e of the -a!anese ado!tion of the 9estern dress. S9inburne 9as a 0reat lover of beauty. The thin0that dis0usted him in the ne9 -a!anese civilisation 9as this !hase of it. They !ut aside their o9nbeautiful mens and 9omens dress, and dressed in the fashion of /aris, 9hich made them u0ly insteadof beautiful. 1e 9as very much dis0usted 9ith them. There 9as a truth in his Fuaint remar:, because!ersistence in that 9ould have denationalised the -a!anese, and they 9ould have no lon0er struc: theiro9n note in the chord of the music of the 9orld. But they soon thre9 aside all


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but one of all livin0 Nations. -ust then Theoso!hy 9as sent to her, sent to ma:e 1indus realise that theyhad a treasure, and that it 9as from the 1indus that the rest had learnt, There 9as resentment in manyFuarters about this and es!ecially one 9riter, Sir alentine Chirol, said that Indians 9ere bein0 tau0ht by9estern !eo!le that their reli0ion 9as the 0reatest in the 9orld, and that they 9ere the teachers ofreli0ion,


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dis!osition of land and 9ater. ;ur Third 5ace be0an in 9hat the scientists call Lemuria. That 9as a 0reacontinent stretchin0 throu0h 9hat 9e no9 call the island of Ceylon south9ards to the /acific, 9hen the1imalayas 9ere 9ashed by the 0reat 9aves of /acific seas,


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constitution of your o9n body you have a !icture of the evolution of the 5aces. ou have a !hysical bodyThat 9as the first to be 0radually evolved throu0h the mineral, ve0etable and animal Go

and thin: about it?. The result is that in the eastern boo:s you do not 0et a clear !resentment


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alon0 Northern Africa and the Islands of the editerranean. They left a


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develo!in0 another side. ou are thro9n to0ether to 0et rid of !reEudice and narro9ness, and theotherland has been the meltin0 !ot of all these sub7races. They all :ee! comin0 here, some 0o a9aya0ain and some remain. ou have the fourth sub7race !eo!le here, the /ortu0uese, the 'rench. ouhave had in the old days the Gree:s. ou had the fifth sub7race !eo!le, the *utch and the (n0lish. Theyhave come and 9ill 0o, each 0ivin0 somethin0 and havin0 made a little tie bet9een the Nations, 9hich0radually 9ill 0ro9 stron0er and stron0er, if 9e follo9 the im!ulse of the Inner 5ulers, and do not flin0a0ainst each the racial hatred that destroys.

It is a very !ractical subEect. The more you :no9 it, the more you realise ho9 !ractical it is.

The 9hole unrest and trouble of the 9orld today are the mar:s of the transition !eriod throu0h 9hich 9eare !assin0, 9here one civilisation is be0innin0 to !ass a9ay, 9here another civilisation is 0ettin0 readyto be born, and 9here you, the


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LECTURE #

The *ivine /lan+Its Sections+

5eli0ions and Civilisations+The /resent /art of the /lan+

The Choice of the Nations.

'5I(N*S)

In s!ea:in0 yesterday, I had to leave out the last 9ord of my ori0inal !ro0ramme of the second lecture. Isaid nothin0 about the Buddhas. I must !ause for a moment on that, for the Buddha7to7be, or the Bodhisattva, is the 1ead of the Teachin0 Grou!. ou remember ho9 in the first lecture 9e had 5ulers,Teachers and the 'orces, the Activity. No9 the Buddha7to7be holds to the 0reat 0rou! of Teachers thesame !osition that the anu holds to the 0reat 0rou! of 5ulers. -ust as the 9hole of the InnerGovernment of the 9orld dealin0 9ith the evolution of 5aces, the confi0uration of continents, etc., of9hich I s!o:e yesterday, as the 9hole of that, is 9or:ed out by the 0reat 0rou! of 5ulers, of 9hom theanu is the re!resentative in every 5oot75ace, so 9e find in connection 9ith the 0rou! of Teachers that

one 0reat fi0ure stands out, the Buddha7to7be. No9 1e is not the Teacher of a 5ace, as the anu is the5uler of a 5ace. The last Buddha7to7be, for instance, the Lord Gautama,


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remains are still bein0 unburied, full of ;ccultism, 9ritten on the !a!yrus of (0y!t, and found infra0ments in the s9athin0s of the mummies, and !ut to0ether as the Book of the Dead. That 0reatscientific and occult 9isdom of (0y!t came from 1im 9ho 9as Thoth, the essen0er, Graecised into1ermes, the essen0er. Then 1e came a0ain to /ersia as Jarathushtra, an0licised into Joroaster, the'ounder of the s!lendid Joroastrian 5eli0ion, the 5eli0ion of the 'ire. As re0ards the antiFuity of thisreli0ion, it is rather interestin0 that lately amon0 the /arsis there arose a /arsi historian, 9ho studied thehistory of his ancient reli0ion and the !olity that 0re9 out of that reli0ion, and he !ut the date of the

(m!ire of /ersia as about t9enty thousand years before the Christian era 7 a date 9hich is re0arded asaccurate in the ;ccult 5ecord, 9hich had been 0iven by some of our o9n students before, on a historicabasis, it 9as 9or:ed out by this Bombay /arsi. Then 1e came a0ain as ;r!heus to Greece, the founderof the ;r!hic ysteries, 9hence the later ysteries 9ere derived+ al9ays the foundin0 of ysteriescomes out in connection 9ith the -a0at0uru. In 0ivin0 a reli0ion, 1e al9ays 0ives the inner hidden life,9hich is 1is Life, 9hich :ee!s it in touch 9ith the invisible 9orld, 9hich in the early days at least is theheart and stren0th of the reli0ion. That 9as 1is last


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continually hel!s and blesses all the 0reat reli0ions of the 9orld, and 1is love is all7embracin0. But toeach sub7race 1e comes visibly, to 0ive it a reli0ion best suited to its evolution. The sub7races are not as9idely different from each other as are the 5oot75aces. If you ta:e for instance a Chinaman belon0in0 tthe 'ourth 5oot75ace and a @ashmiri Brahmana belon0in0 to the 'ifth 5oot75ace, you 9ill at once seethe very 0reat difference of human ty!e. ou could not confuse the t9o. ou 9ould at once realise that inthe latter, the @ashmiri Brahmana, you had a ne9 ty!e of humanity as com!ared 9ith the Chinese, the-a!anese, the on0ol and the Tartar of Central Asia. They are all different from the Aryan ty!e. ou hav

not in the Aryans the hi0h chee:7bones of the Tartar or the on0ol+ nor the settin0 of the eyes that yousee in the Asian sub7races of the 'ourth 5oot75ace. ou do not have the same sha!e of the nose, northe same sha!e of the head, nor the same ty!e of the fi0ure. These outer differences 0o hand in hand9ith the


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the masculine and feminine bodies, they 9ill tell you that the feminine body has a much lar0erdevelo!ment of the 0landular system, 9hile in the man there is a much 0reater develo!ment of themuscular system. And these fundamental !hysiolo0ical differences bet9een man and 9oman arenecessary, in order that the Fualities corres!ondin0 to these may be develo!ed in the 5ace. 5ememberthe 9ords of the anu) >'or fathers 9ere men created, as for mothers 9omen?. That is the mar: ofdifference 9hich 0overns the body of each. When you come to the emotional develo!ment, that 0oes9ith the 0landular system, 9hich nourishes+ you find it 0reater than the


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!hase of the same. The Will as!ect of man is only the other side of the Immanence of God, and it iseD!ressed in the characteristic 9ord of 1induism, the characteristic idea of *harma. ou cannot translatthat 9ord. No 9estern lan0ua0e can translate it. ou may call it, as you do, sometimes reli0ion,sometimes ma0ic? of (0y!t, based on thatscientific study, 9as the 9onder of its day. (0y!t has !assed a9ay, and her remains must be sou0ht inher se!ulchers. No one no9 9orshi!s Thoth, or 1ermes, the Gree: name of that mi0hty -a0at0uru. Thecivilisation of (0y!t is dead and buried, and is only unburied by bein0 brou0ht out by the investi0ations archaeolo0ists and mytholo0ists. I as: you to mar: that disa!!earance, for it is vital for the a!!reciationof our subEect. If you 0o to /ersia, there you 9ill find another note, that of @no9led0e and /urity. That hacome do9n to our o9n day 7 !ure thou0ht, !ure 9ord !ure deed. ou must not defile the elements ofnature. ou must not defile the (arth, the Water, or the 'ire. So the Joroastrian 9ill not bury or burn or

dro9n his dead, because it 9ill be !ollutin0 one of the elements. So he leaves his dead to be torn into!ieces and be carried a9ay by the birds. It also has !erished save for the


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arisin0 the second 0reat teachin0 of Christianity 7 for0otten at that earlier !eriod. >1e that is stron0 shoubear the infirmities of the 9ea:?. >Let him that is 0reatest be as he that doth serve+ behold, I am amon0you as he that serveth.? That is the second 0reat ins!iration of Christianity, the yo:in0 of the stron0 to thservice of others+ that is be0innin0 to sho9 itself amid all the stru00les. ou 9ill find in Christendom that9hat is called !ublic s!irit is much stron0er than here) the 9illin0ness to hel! others, altruism as they cait. The duty of service has been reco0nised there, ho9ever !artially.

No9 the !oint that I 9ant to brin0 out of all this is that, u! to the !resent time, every reli0ion and everycivilisation born of reli0ion has !erished+ until no9, eDce!t 1induism, the root7stoc:, everythin0 hasdisa!!eared. Contem!orary 9ith Babylon and (0y!t, it is contem!orary today 9ith (n0land, 'rance andAmerica. Ta:e the civilisations that eDisted. Where is (0y!t Where is the civilisation of (0y!t *ead.The civilisation of /ersia *ead. The civilisations of Greece and 5ome *ead. Nothin0 remains but theruins, and their literature and their art. And Christendom had a thousand years of i0norance behind itbefore it too: u! the discoveries of Greece and (0y!t, and carried them on afresh. That is 9hat hasha!!ened throu0h all the !ast. The Fuestion is) >Is it 0oin0 to ha!!en over a0ain Is this fifth sub7race


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0ro9in0 stron0er and stron0er every day+ so you have The 4nited States, the 0reat 5e!ublic of the Wesand every9here in the 9orld 'reedom, Liberty, is the breath of the Ne9 (ra and the death7stro:e of theold. So far as the 9ar 9ent, the Fuestion is over. There autocracy is slain. The ne9 sub7race, 9hich iscomin0 to birth and bein0 born, received an immense reinforcement in the 9ar by that 0reat slau0hter othe youn0 that too: !lace, those that 9ere 9illin0 to 0ive even their lives in order that the !eo!le of the9orld mi0ht live 7 a ma0nificent s!ectacle, if you thin: of it from that stand!oint, the youth of all Nations0oin0 to death, and to mutilation 9orse than death, for the sa:e of a s!lendid ideal. And amon0 these,

Lord aivasvata anu found the souls that 1e needed for 1is siDth sub7race 7 those 9ho cared for anideal more than for self, those 9ho cared for the liberty of the !eo!le more than for the trium!h ofindividual rulers. That s!lendid vision of the 9ar has been very much blurred in the later stru00le. uchof the s!irit that has been destroyed in Germany seems to have come over to the victors, and they havebeen 'rom everyone accordin0 to his ca!acity, to every oneaccordin0 to his needs?. That is the rule of the hi0her Socialism. It is only the family eDtended to theNation. /art of the 9or: of India, and her mission to the rest of the 9orld, 9ill be to brin0 bac: to the

9orld the ideal of the Nation as the family, enlar0ed civic virtues as the virtues of the family, made0eneral and !ermanent. In that remar:able boo: of Babu Bha0avan *as Sahab, The Science of the(motions, he dealt, !ractically for the first time, 9ith the t9o 0reat root emotions of Love and 1ate, andsho9ed ho9 the love in the family, 9hich 0ro9s out of :inshi! and blood, turns in the State into virtuesand the State becomes a 0reat family. That is the ri0ht idea, the old Indian idea that the family is the unitand not the individual. This is one of the !arts of the 9or: 9hich India has to !reach to the 9hole 9orld.The sta0e of the /lan at the moment is !ractically this) ou have the (uro!ean countries in a state of 9iunrest+ 9herever there has been tyranny there has


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or0anisations combine and stri:e for some common !ur!ose, outside trade and industry, and then theysay) >If you dont yield to our vie9s, 9e 9ill starve you into submission?. The old !lan of the em!loyer isno9 bein0 used by the em!loyed, a section of the !eo!le tyrannisin0 over the 9hole !eo!le, over a!eo!le re!resented in the 1ouse of Commons, and over members elected by the !eo!le. *irect Actioncomes from a class or section of the !eo!le claimin0 to im!ose their o9n 9ill u!on the Nation by threat starvation. It is valuable in one sense. It teaches the hi0her classes ho9 de!endent they are u!on the9or:ers, and ho9 badly they have used them in the !ast. But it 9ould be fatal, if successful. The one

country in (uro!e 9hich is ca!able of ma:in0 the transition to democracy


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mastery. ;ne test there is) Where there are love and union, there the Sons of the Li0ht are strivin0 tohel! and save+ 9here there are hatred and division, there the Children of *ar:ness are tryin0 to holdbac: the evolution of the 9orld. That is the real test for the movements round us. That 9hich dra9sto0ether, that 9hich stren0thens brotherhood and mutual service, that is on the side of the victory of theLi0ht+ all that !reaches hatred and tal:s about the s9ord, and s!ea:s about 0ivin0 9arnin0 to (uro!eanbefore the s9ord is dra9n, all that see:s to coerce o!inion

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