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THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR 
 
 PART I. 
 
 THE WAR 
 
 "The world is a field of battle where liberty strug- 
 gles with inertia by the opposition of active force." 
 Transcendental Magic, Levi, 31. 
 
 "It is only by the attractive force of the contrasts 
 that the two opposites Spirit and Matter can be ce- 
 mented together on Earth, and, smelted in the fire of 
 self-conscious experience and suffering, find themselves 
 wedded in Eternity. This will reveal the meaning of 
 many hitherto incomprehensible allegories, foolishly called 
 'fables.' " The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, Vol. II, 108. 
 
 The chaotic conditions now existing in Eu- wbu 
 rope have elicited many questions from our War* 
 students, especially those in European coun- 
 tries, as to the mystical meaning and the phi- 
 losophical reason for the apparent necessity 
 for war, and why it is permitted by a God of 
 Love and Wisdom. In other words, What is 
 the reason for and the place of war in the 
 Cosmic Scheme or the Grand Plan of the 
 Universe? This lesson is an attempt, in a 
 few paragraphs, to outline asnd make com- 
 prehensible a stupendous subject whose roots 
 go deep into the beginnings of manifestation. 
 For the War is an expression of cosmic law. 
 
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It is an axiom in occult philosophy that 
 
 Divine til 
 
 Realities there can be no manifestation without dual- 
 ity, no shadow without its Reality. In philos- 
 ophy everything that manifests descends from 
 above, its expression on earth being but the 
 shadow or reflection of a Reality in the 
 higher realms. u St. Paul . . . called 
 our World, 'the enigmatical mirror of pure 
 truth/ and St. Gregory of Nazianzen corro- 
 borated Hermes by stating that: 'Things 
 visible are but the shadow and delineation of 
 things that we cannot see.' . . . 'All 
 that is on earth, saith the Lord (Ormazd), 
 is the shadow of something that is in the 
 superior spheres.' . . . It is an eternal 
 combination, and images are repeated from 
 the higher rung of the Ladder of Being 
 down to the lower . . . the lower 'mir- 
 ror' disfiguring the image of the superior 
 'mirror.' ni And the Zohar also holds strong- 
 ly to the idea that everything manifested in 
 the Universe is the shadow of the Eternal 
 Light or Deity, separated by the prism of 
 Matter into its seven rays, each with its dual 
 principle of light and shadow. Of what, then, 
 is war on earth the shadow? 
 
 l The Secret Doctrine, Blavatsky, Vol. II, 280. 
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The first emanation from the Absolute 
 coming into manifestation necessarily had its 
 positive and negative aspects or poles, Spirit 
 and Substance. From the very dawn of the 
 going forth of the Manifested from out the 
 bosom of the Unmanifested, the state of per- 
 fect equilibrium was disturbed and the 
 mighty urge toward union and a restoration 
 of the primordial equilibrium came into man- 
 ifestation. It is this urge toward the resto- 
 ration of the Projected to its Source, the call 
 of the Spirit to Matter, the Father to the 
 Son, the Heavenly Man to the human, the 
 Higher Self to the lower personality, that is 
 the cause back of all war, all desire, hence 
 back of all evolution. For only in a union 
 with its Cause can the Cycle of Necessity be 
 ended, the desire be satisfied and become one 
 with the Will of the Father, the War ended 
 and the evolution be completed. 
 
 But the impelling Force which caused the 
 Outgoing or downward arc of the projection 
 into Manifestation resists the Indrawing 
 power or upward arc of Realization which 
 is necessary to complete the At-one-ment. 
 This resistance to the uplifting, dematerial- 
 izing and indrawing force constitutes and is 
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the basic principle back of all reflections or 
 inertia phases of the War. In the physical world this 
 resistance is expressed as the war between 
 Matter Spirit and Matter; the resistance due to the 
 density and inertia of Matter to the unfold- 
 ment and expression of the Spirit which, with 
 the descent of the Light, clothed itself in 
 Matter that it might evolve up through it 
 and by so doing spiritualize it and return it 
 to its primordial state. It is the inability of 
 the lower vibrations of Matter to respond to 
 the higher vibrations of Spirit until, through 
 the subliming and etherializing process which 
 results from the friction thus engendered, 
 Matter becomes finer and more plastic and 
 thus more responsive to the expressions of 
 Spirit. Hence in all cosmogonies, " 'There 
 were many Wars,' all referring to the strug- 
 gles of adjustment, spiritual, cosmical and 
 astronomical, but chiefly to the mysteries of 
 the evolution of man, as he is now." 2 The 
 point we wish to emphasize is that these 
 "wars" are all necessary factors in the ad- 
 justment which must occur ere the close of 
 any and every cycle. 
 
 "There are accounts of three distinct Wars 
 
 2 S. D., Vol. I, 215. 
 
to be traced in almost every cosmogony. The 
 first War happened in the night of time, be- War 
 tween the Gods and the (A) -suras, and eoyc 
 lasted for a period of one Divine Year." 3 
 Thus the War began with the "War in 
 Heaven" or the resistance of certain expres- 
 sions of the Godhead to carrying out the 
 Divine Will; again the resistance of the lower 
 to the higher Will. This is far more than 
 merely an expression of the Sun-Myth or the 
 personification of the forces of nature, the 
 war between Light and Darkness. For the 
 various versions of the Sun-Myth are but al- 
 legories expressing the cosmic principle of 
 the resistance of Matter to the expression of 
 Spirit, whether it be represented by the Chris- 
 tian Michael, the Angel of the Sun, slaying 
 the Apocalyptic Dragon; Horus, the Egyp- 
 tian Sun-god, slaying Typhon, the Dragon 
 Apophis; Hercules strangling the Python in 
 his cradle or u Phoibos-Apollo, the Greek 
 Helios, the Sun, 'the Light and Life of the 
 World' . . . who at the moment of his 
 birth asks for his bow to kill Python, the 
 Demon Dragon." They all symbolize the 
 eternal struggle for light, progress and evo- 
 
 3 Ibid, Vol. I, 451. A Divine Year is 360 times a Day of 
 Brahm (4,320,000,000 years). 
 
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lution which constitutes the war between the 
 Light of Wisdom and the Darkness of Ignor- 
 ance; between unselfishness and selfishness; 
 the good of the whole and the ambitions of 
 the few; between civilization and barbarism; 
 between the Angel of Peace and the Dragon 
 of Material Force embodied in Militarism; 
 between Right and might, etc. 
 
 The second great phase of the War, as 
 reflected in humanity, occurred at the creation 
 of man, when the resistance set up by the de- 
 sires of the lower to the Will of the Higher 
 was exemplified in the struggle which took 
 place between the Lunar and Solar Fathers. 
 Occult philosophy teaches that the physical 
 body or animal man was projected as a 
 "shadow" or was "created" by the Hier- 
 archy of the Lunar Fathers. 4 But the 
 "man" so created was but a human animal 
 without intellect or the spark of self-con- 
 sciousness; he had not yet become "a living 
 soul." As soon as the human animal had 
 been perfected the Hierarchy of the Solar 
 Fathers called "Sons of Mind" projected 
 into that animal form a "Ray" of themselves 
 which became the Divine Spark, .the individ- 
 
 *For The Origin of Man, see chapter xvii in The Voice of 
 Isis, Curtiss. 
 
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ual, immortal Spiritual Ego or, as the Bible 
 puts it, they: "Breathed into his nostrils the ^ 8in 
 Breath of Life (breath always being a sym- Suffer. 
 bol of Spirit) ; and (only then) man became rn * 
 a living (immortal) Soul." 5 Man was thus 
 the product of two distinct lines of creative 
 forces, a semi-terrestrial and a Divine; just 
 as a mother brings forth (creates) the terres- 
 trial body of her child, yet has nothing to 
 do with making it u a living Soul." With the 
 incarnating of the Spirit and the lighting of 
 the spark of self-consciousness in man this 
 second phase of the War began, i. e. y the ef- 
 fort of the spiritual Solar Fathers, through 
 the incarnated Ray or Real Man, to control 
 and guide the animal man, to the end that he 
 might respond to the higher law or Divine 
 Will. The control of the Lunar Fathers had 
 been through instinct and did not admit of 
 the power of choice, while the control of the 
 Solar Fathers was and is through the free- 
 will choice of man, even though through his 
 refusal to choose the higher guidance he cre- 
 ates the suffering by which he learns the wis- 
 dom of that choice. The struggle was brought 
 about, therefore, by the resistance offered by 
 
 ^Genesis 11, 7. 
 
the animal instincts and the desires of the 
 senses to voluntarily submitting to the uplift- 
 ing and spiritualizing control of the Divine 
 Will of the Real Man or Father-in-heaven. 
 Origin In the mental world the War manifests 
 as the resistance of the Intellect to the 
 promptings of Intuition; the temporary re- 
 fusal of the Head to obey the promptings of 
 the Heart. Until the self-conscious stage of 
 man was reached the resistance was more or 
 less passive or the resistance of inertia, but 
 with the dawn of free-will and the power of 
 choice the resistance became active and the 
 element of antagonism was added to the 
 inertia. Although the light of self-conscious- 
 ness and the development of the Intellect was 
 the direct result of the incarnating Spirit 
 gradually evolving an adequate instrument by 
 means of which it could relate itself in con- 
 ciousness to the conditions of material mani- 
 festation and through which it could express 
 itself in such conditions, as soon as the spark 
 of Divine Mind burst into the flame of self- 
 consciousness, the human animal thus awak- 
 ened to itself but as yet unable to recognize 
 its Divine Parent placed Intellect upon the 
 throne as the source of its highest guidance. 
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St. Paul refers to this phase of the War 
 when he says: "Whenl would do good (i.e., officc 
 follow the Intuitions from the Higher Self), of the 
 behold evil (or the desires of the lower man) /nte//e ' 
 is present with me." It is the War between 
 Higher and Lower Manas or the resistance 
 of the human or intellectual consciousness to 
 the Illumination and guidance of the Divine. 
 And this phase of the War will continue in 
 man until, by the subliming and spiritualizing 
 process due to the friction ( suffering) en- 
 gendered, the Intellect will admit that it is 
 but the creature and instrument, and must 
 become the willing servant, of the Real Man 
 or Higher Self, to translate the Inspiration 
 of the Spirit into terms of human conscious- 
 ness which shall enable the human personal- 
 ity consciously to follow the Divine Guid- 
 ance. Of all creatures man alone has within 
 him both the Higher Mind the embodied 
 Ray from the Divine Mind and also the 
 Lower Mind which is synthesized by the ani- 
 mal soul and has its highest expression 
 through Intellect. Hence man is the Arbitra- 
 tor, for he can reach up and comprehend 
 God and also reach down into the animal 
 consciousness and comprehend the resistance 
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of matter and the views and arguments of the 
 Lower Mind. 
 
 By the creative power of his thought he 
 cw* e leaves the impress of his stage of evolution 
 upon all the lower kingdoms. For just as 
 the War in heaven was reflected in man, so 
 has man reflected the War that is going on 
 within himself, upon the lower kingdoms. 
 So it is through man, who has stamped the 
 impress of his imperfections the incomplete 
 stage of his spiritual unfoldment upon ani- 
 mal, vegetable and mineral as antagonism, 
 hatred, disease and death, that the curse has 
 been fulfilled: u Cursed is the ground for 
 thy sake, . . . thorns also and thistles 
 shall it bring forth to thee ; ... in the 
 sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till 
 thou return unto the ground (his Source) ; 
 for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou 
 art and unto dust shalt thou return." 6 Look- 
 ing at the War as symbolized by this so- 
 called curse, with the eye of Spirit we see 
 that this curse contains a prophecy of the end 
 of the War, i. e. y the ultimate victory of the 
 Spiritual over the mere animal man. Only 
 that which is made of cosmic dust or Matter 
 
 ^Genesis II, 7. 
 
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can be cursed by man's disobedience to the ^ 
 Divine Will. In other words only that which 'Promise 
 man received from his Lunar ancestors his 
 physical, astral and desire bodies can be 
 said to be made of "dust" or the unredeemed 
 matter of former world-periods 7 which 
 formed the chaos into which the spiritual 
 Light descended at the beginning of this cos- 
 mic Day of Evolution. Hence the so-called 
 curse may be turned into a blessing, since it 
 assures us that ultimately all that is dust 
 (matter) will be returned to its Source at the 
 end of the War, but with the results of 
 man's higher spiritual understanding of the 
 great mystery of transmutation or redemp- 
 tion impressed upon it. The curse also tells 
 us in a few cryptic words that the cause of 
 the War is the effort of Spirit to redeem 
 (literally "buy back" or return to its Source) 
 Matter. 
 
 Perhaps the position of man in this great 
 struggle can be better comprehended if we 
 consider an earthly simile. In an earthly 
 war only one who has had experience on both 
 sides or who is so gifted that he can enter 
 fully and understandingly into the point of 
 
 7 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapter XXIV. 
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jttan v * ew ^ both combatants, is fitted to become 
 an Arbitrator. In the mighty war between 
 
 Arbar a . Spirit and Matter man is such an Arbitra- 
 tor; for he can, if he will, reach up into the 
 Spiritual Consciousness and comprehend the 
 Divine Plan of Redemption, the power of 
 the Spiritual Consciousness to uplift the ani- 
 mal consciousness; can grasp the reality of 
 the transmuting power of Divine Love, and 
 understand that only through the reign of 
 the Heart can there be peace; for the Intel- 
 lect, when its dominance is insisted upon, can 
 only prolong the War. He can also make 
 his Intellect a powerful servant which can 
 descend into the most microscopic details of 
 Matter and understand the point of view and 
 the cause for which the lower man fights. 
 Through the Light of Intuition he can ascend 
 into the higher realms and grasp the macro- 
 cosmic details of the Grand Plan and realize 
 that through Intellect alone he can never cor- 
 relate with the Spirit of that which the In- 
 tellect has discovered. Thus from his posi- 
 tion as Arbitrator he can not only look down 
 into the suffering, misery and crime created 
 by the resistance of the selfish animal desires, 
 but can also see how only through the spirit 
 
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of Love and Harmony and through Obe- 
 dience to the guidance of the Spirit can man Remol 
 and nature be redeemed and the curse be re- 
 moved. The victories of the lower mind are 
 precipitated in its home-world, the physical 
 consciousness, as mental and emotional 
 storms, while the victories of the Higher 
 Mind are accumulated in its home-world as 
 so much added power of the Spirit to mani- 
 fest on earth both for the individual, the 
 Race and the planet 
 
 The War between the Higher and Lower 
 Selves therefore began when the child of the 
 Lunar Fathers became also the child of the 
 Solar Fathers. Hence we find throughout 
 all myth and allegory the frequent reference 
 to wars between the Sun-gods and the Moon- 
 gods or between the Priests of the Sun and 
 the Priests of the Moon. And in the early 
 races, when the Sun-gods u walked and talked 
 with men," that is, when through their Divine 
 Incarnations as great Spiritual Teachers, the 
 Sun-gods taught the intellectually infant hu- 
 manity the principles of all arts, sciences and 
 philosophies many of which are today tem- 
 porarily lost because of the present wave of 
 materialism the great mass of the Race was 
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unable to respond to that higher guidance 
 except for a short time, and there arose a 
 division into two groups, the smaller of 
 which still followed the Divine Teachers, 
 and the larger which followed the call of 
 sense gratification and selfishness represented 
 by the Priests of the Moon-god. As Eliphas 
 Levi says: u Men grew weary of the light, 
 took refuge in the shadow of bodily sub- 
 stance ; the dream of the void, which is filled 
 by God, soon appeared to be greater than 
 God himself in their eyes and thus Hell was 
 created." 
 
 The third great phase of the War there- 
 Havana fore manifested on earth in the terrible strug- 
 gle which took place at the close of the 
 Fourth or Atlantean Race between Rama, 
 the first of the Divine Dynasty or Solar Kings 
 of the early Aryan Race, and Ravana, the 
 leader of the scorcery-working Atlanteans. 
 As The Secret Doctrine tells us 8 : "With the 
 Fifth, our own Race, the Lunar-solar wor- 
 ship divided the nations into distinct, antago- 
 nistic camps. It led to the events described 
 eons later in the Mahabharatan War." 9 
 Whether we take this in its historical aspect 
 
 *S. D., Vol. I, 426. 
 
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or as a legendary reference to the escape of 
 the Aryans from Atlantis ; as Moses leading 1 ' 
 the Children of Israel out of Egypt; as the w*raoh 
 escape of the higher faculties from the bond- 
 age of the senses, or purely as an allegorical 
 expression of the Sun-Myth, in each instance 
 we have a leader who represents the Divine 
 Dynasty or Light, Progress and Evolution 
 the upward and indrawing power which is the 
 cause of all evolution, civilization, progress 
 and who always leads his followers in tri- 
 umph over the hosts of opposition, which are 
 inevitably swallowed up in the sea. In the 
 Bible account this leader is called Moses, the 
 Law-giver, while in the individual those fac- 
 ulties which choose to follow the Divine Law 
 become the u chosen people." By following 
 the Divine Guidance they are led out of the 
 bondage of the senses and escape from the 
 power of King Desire, 10 represented by 
 Pharaoh. But King Desire is loath to let 
 them escape him and pursues after them, 
 
 9 "This served as a prototype ... for the Western na- 
 tions to build their War of the Titans upon. . . . The War 
 of the Titans is but a legendary and deified copy of the real war 
 that took place. . . . It is the record of the terrible strife 
 between the 'Sons of God* and the 'Sons of Shadow* of the 
 Fourth and Fifth Races. It is on these two events . . . 
 that every subsequent national tradition on the subject has been 
 .-milt." S. >., Vol. II, 525. 
 
 10 See lesson on King Desire, Curtiss. Sent free on request. 
 
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who only to be swallowed up in the waters o: 
 Mu3t the Great Sea, even as the hosts o: 
 Ravana were swallowed up by the sinking o: 
 Atlantis. Therefore in all wars, on even 
 plane of manifestation, the forces which rep 
 resent the Sun-god; which fight for progress 
 enlightenment, civilization, the Brotherhooc 
 of Man and of Nations; which truly figh 
 on the side of St. George against the Dragon 
 must ultimately win, for they become chan 
 nels through which the constructive, uplift 
 ing and spiritualizing currents of the Cosmi< 
 Forces can find expression and manifest or 
 earth. 
 
 As we have already said, before any cycl< 
 can close and the circle return to its primor 
 dial state of equilibrium, everything that per 
 sistently stands in the way and prevents th< 
 manifestation of Divine Will, or the Idea 
 of that particular cycle; everything that re 
 sists the indrawal and union; that refuses t( 
 respond to the higher vibration or key-not< 
 of that cycle, in other words which refuse: 
 to be redeemed, must be wiped out of th< 
 path of that closing cycle and make way fo] 
 the manifestation of the new. Therefon 
 there must be a great adjustment at the clos< 
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of every cycle, whether it be of Race, sub- 
 race, nation or individual. If the cycle is suf- QH it 
 ficiently advanced to permit the adjustment / 
 to be made by responding to the Law of **' 
 Harmony expressed through Love, Toler- 
 ance, Brotherhood and Unselfishness, wheth- 
 er of individuals, nations or Races, then 
 there need be no war, for the resistance has 
 been overcome. But if the resistance to the 
 Divine has built up such a mass of inharmony 
 (evil) that the spiritual force of that cycle 
 is not sufficient to redeem it, then the adjust- 
 ment must come as a physical precipitation of 
 the stored up inharmony, through the avenue 
 of physical conflict or war; just as a cloud 
 which is so saturated with moisture that the 
 sun cannot absorb (redeem) it must be preci- 
 pitated as rain, hail or snow ere the light of 
 the sun can manifest on earth. 
 
 In the physical body the War is expressed 
 through certain storms of bodily inharmony, 
 illness or disaster which sweep over those 
 who are endeavoring to follow the Higher 
 Guidance and striving to "live the life." 
 When the ideal of a higher life is set up by 
 the consciousness, it sounds a new and higher 
 key-note throughout the body. Those atoms 
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The which can respond answer the call and follow 
 War the new Law-giver and are led out of bond- 
 " j* age into the freedom of a new cycle or expres- 
 sion of Life. While in those atoms which 
 belong wholly to the old dispensation, which 
 have fulfilled their mission and are not suf- 
 ficiently evolved to take on the higher vibra- 
 tion and enter the new cycle, the resistance 
 to the higher call is so great that it brings 
 on the War in which they are vanquished 
 and sloughed out of the body through a 
 cleansing cataclysm of illness which, while it 
 leaves the body temporarily devastated and 
 weak, has nevertheless cleared the field of 
 opposition and prepared for the manifesta- 
 tion of a higher expression of Life. 
 
 Strife and war among nations are simply 
 evidences of inharmony and sickness in the 
 body of humanity; an effort of the body pol- 
 itic to slough out those atoms which refuse 
 to respond to the higher key-note of civiliza- 
 tion that is struck by the more advanced con- 
 ceptions of Harmony, Brotherhood and Co- 
 operation among nations. 11 War may be 
 
 H The atoms thus sloughed out are not the individual lives 
 sacrificed in war, but are the false ideals of selfish isolation and 
 
 is a 
 
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 individual aggrandizement regardless of others, that obstruct th< 
 upward evolution of humanity as a whole. 
 
likened to the cruel lancet of the surgeon 
 which opens a festering boil. It causes tem-y/ Wmate 
 porary suffering and bloodshed, but it per- 
 mits the escape of the mass of inharmony 
 and corruption which, if retained, would 
 poison the entire body. And no real healing 
 can take place until the focus of infection is 
 utterly wiped out. 
 
 In the daily battles for poise, control and 
 harmony which the individual begins con- 
 sciously to fight as soon as he endeavors to 
 follow a higher ideal, he may possibly find 
 himself worsted in some of the skirmishes of 
 the early stages, and evil and inharmony may 
 accumulate until it can no longer be held 
 back and must find physical expression for 
 it is a well known principle of psychology 
 that thoughts express themselves through 
 their creators in terms of action, unless coun- 
 teracted by opposite thoughts of greater 
 power but no matter how many skirmishes 
 are lost, if he persistently follows the Light 
 of his highest Ideal, be it ever so primitive to 
 others, it will lead him step by step to ulti- 
 mate victory. If he finds himself facing such 
 an outbreak, it means that he has created 
 more inharmony or evil than his present stage 
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of spiritual unfoldment is able to transmute, 
 hence the precipitation. 
 
 In the mental world the outlet will be 
 found through the emotions. The expres- 
 Emotion sion of these emotions becomes a storm which 
 sweeps away the control of those who open 
 the door of their minds through irritation, 
 impatience, anger, jealousy, envy, animal de- 
 sires, etc., and leaves them devastated, yet 
 relieved and ready, in the next time of trial, 
 for an encounter which shall be more suc- 
 cessful, in proportion to the effort made to 
 conquer in the past. This, however, should 
 not be made an excuse for giving way to emo- 
 tional excitement of any kind, for a strong 
 effort should always be made for control and 
 peace, i. e. y to transmute inharmony and turn 
 its perverted forces into constructive and use- 
 ful channels. But if a storm should gather 
 and burst, be ready to set a higher standard 
 and a greater degree of achievement in the 
 period of reconstruction. 
 
 The War is also reflected in the terrible 
 struggles through which the candidate for 
 Mastery must pass during his Initiation; the 
 struggle of The Christ within to slay the 
 dragon of self; the Guardian Angel to slay 
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 the Dweller on the Threshold. It is also 
 exemplified in the resistance of humanity to H QS 
 new or higher spiritual teachings; the misun- /?e ^ /on 
 derstanding, misrepresentation, condemna- 
 tion, slander, persecution, final crucifixion but 
 ultimate triumph, through which every Light- 
 bearer who comes to humanity has to pass. 
 
 From the principles outlined above it will 
 be seen that the wars among nations which 
 make for enlightenment, civilization, free- 
 dom, the independence of each nation and 
 the general advance of mankind, are not evi- 
 dences of the failure of civilization or the 
 failure of the particular religion which pre- 
 vails at the time. They are but skirmishes 
 in the War; expressions of the Cosmic Law 
 of adjustment called Karma, by which that 
 which is created by mankind must be faced 
 and redeemed; that which is sown must be 
 reaped. There must be periodic manifesta- 
 tions of the War as long as Matter resists 
 Spirit; as long as barbarism resists civiliza- 
 tion; civilization resists the Brotherhood of 
 Nations; industry resists co-operation; mate- 
 rialism resists altriusm and idealism, in short, 
 as long as any phase of manifestation resists 
 the call of the Divine. But the conflicts should 
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grow fewer and fewer and the periods of 
 peace be more and more prolonged in each 
 succeeding upward cycle, until the Golden 
 Age of the Seventh Great Race of man 12 is 
 reached; until we return again to the rule of 
 the Divine Kings the u Sons of God" as the 
 Bible calls them among men, not as parents 
 ruling over children, as in the beginning, but 
 as Elder Brothers or Senior Partners whose 
 experience and wisdom we gladly accept and 
 follow. 
 
 The great lesson to be learned from the 
 War is that it is a very real and personal 
 issue with each awakened Soul who has 
 awakened to the call of the Divine and 
 donned the armour of The Christ and be- 
 come a Soldier of the Cross. Each Soul is 
 judged at the close of each life-cycle by the 
 sum total of how much it has overcome, how 
 much of the lower self it has illumined by the 
 higher spiritual consciousness. And strange 
 as it may seem to some, evolution in man is 
 gauged by how successfully he has fulfilled 
 his mission as Arbitrator between Spirit and 
 matter, between the higher kingdoms and 
 the lower, giving to each its rightful place 
 
 12 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapter XV. 
 
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while he himself stands calm and unmoved 
 in the midst of the War, confidently know- 
 ing that back of all the turmoil, inharmony 
 and strife are u the everlasting arms" of Di- 
 vine Love and that the true Peace is ever hov- 
 ering, like the Breath of God, over the seem- 
 ing chaos. 
 
 It is man, therefore, responding of his 
 own free-will to the guidance of the Divine, Man 
 who must bring about u Peace on earth, good <$l/ee 
 will toward men," and not the dictates of an er 
 arbitrary Being who imposes his Will upon 
 a helpless humanity. Hence there is not a 
 single man or woman who cannot be an ac- 
 tive factor in bringing the Golden Age of 
 Love, Peace, Harmony and Brotherhood 
 into manifestation the sooner, through the 
 controlling of thoughts, words and emotions, 
 and by overcoming his or her resistance, and 
 responding more and more understandingly 
 and gladly, to the upward urge of the Divine. 
 
 Written September 30, 1914. 
 
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THE PHILOSOPHY OF WAR 
 
 PART II. 
 
 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 
 
 "To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they 
 
 may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they 
 
 cannot harken: behold the word of the L/ord is unto them 
 
 a reproach; they have no delight in it." Jeremiah, VI, 10. 
 
 "And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out 
 of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the 
 beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For 
 they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go 
 forth unto the kings of the whole earth and of the whole 
 world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of 
 God Almighty. . . . And he gathered them together 
 into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." 
 Revelation, XVI, 13-16. 
 
 The literal meaning of Armageddon is 
 u on the heights" or u on high/' and in this 
 sense it is used to designate the invisible re- 
 alms of the astral-plane. The hosts which 
 are gathered to this great battle are the hosts 
 of the accumulated thought-forms of lust, 
 greed, envy, hate, selfishness and unbrother- 
 liness engendered by the wrong thinking of 
 humanity from the beginning, as well as the 
 results of their evil words and deeds, all of 
 26 
 
which are ever seeking expression through 
 their creators. Jeremiah specifically refers to 
 these forces as causes when he says: u Hear, 
 O earth : behold, I will bring evil upon this 
 people, even the fruit of their thoughts, be- 
 cause they have not hearkened unto my 
 words, nor my law, but rejected it." 1 During 
 this battle all the stored up evil must have a 
 focus through which it can pour itself out 
 upon the lowest or physical-plane where its 
 precipitation will end the cycle of its mani- 
 festation, adjust the Karma and permit the 
 good aspect of the forces involved to be ex- 
 tracted, just as ore is crushed or melted that 
 the gold may be extracted. Hence, while 
 many are referring to the present European 
 conflict as Armageddon, the meaning of the 
 word shows that the present war is but one 
 reflection or outpouring on earth of the real 
 battle that has been raging in the higher 
 realms. 
 
 These forces have accumulated because, 
 during the childhood of the Race the Mas- 
 ters of Wisdom and the Rulers of the sub- 
 races have held them back until the Race 
 grew strong enough to bear them upon its 
 
 ^Jeremiah, VI, 19. 
 
 27 
 
own shoulders ; grew up as it were. But the 
 Race has now grown up. The cycle is closing 
 and the time for the adjustment is at hand. 
 "Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord 
 (Law) ; I am weary with holding in: I will 
 pour it out upon the children abroad, and 
 upon the assembly of young men together." 2 
 The working out and adjustment of these 
 karmic forces must take place at the close of 
 each Race, and in a lesser degree at the close 
 of each sub-race. This adjustment precipi- 
 tates the great race wars which are followed 
 by the cataclysms which mark the close of 
 sub-races and Races; for every particle of 
 matter composing the Race-continents, as 
 well as every particle in the body of individ- 
 ual man, must have its own individual bal- 
 ancing, purification, readjustment and ulti- 
 mate redemption. 
 
 The last great Armageddon occurred just 
 before the sinking of the continent of Atlan- 
 tis, at the close of the cycle of the Fourth 
 Great Race (Atlantean). "This hints at the 
 struggle between the 'Sons of God' and the 
 Sons of the Dark Wisdom our forefathers; 
 or the Atlantean and the Aryan Adepts. The 
 
 nm, vi, 11. 
 
 28 
 
whole history of that period is allegorized in DMn 
 the Ramayana which is the mystic narrative #' 
 in epic form of the struggle between Rama 
 - the first king of the Divine Dynasty of the 
 early Aryans- and Ravana, the symbolic per- 
 sonification of the Atlantean (Lanka) Race. 
 The former were the incarnations of the 
 Solar Gods; the latter, of the Lunar Devas. 
 This was the great battle between Good and 
 Evil, between White and Black Magic, for 
 the supremacy of the divine forces over the 
 lower terrestrial, or cosmic powers." 3 The 
 sinking of the continent of Atlantis which 
 followed was the balancing of the accounts 
 of the entire Fourth Race. It was a neces- 
 sary preparation (through the purifying ac- 
 tion of the salt water) of the continent for a 
 future Race. The survivors, those who were 
 sufficiently spiritualized, awakened and obe- 
 dient to follow their Divine Rulers, were 
 picked out, separated and trained by the 
 Masters long before the sinking of the con- 
 tinent, and became the seed of the present 
 Fifth (Aryan) Great Race, just as some are 
 now being chosen and trained for a similar 
 function. 
 
 3 The Secret Doctrine Blavatsky, Vol. II, 520. 
 
 29 
 
Ere this present Fifth Race ends and we 
 are now just entering upon its sixth sub-race 4 
 . a s ; m ;i ar adjustment of its Race Karma 
 must take place. The great European war 
 now raging offers a focal point through which 
 the Karma of the fifth sub-race of the Aryans 
 can be precipitated on the physical-plane and 
 adjusted. Europe is the focal point because it 
 was in Europe that the greater part of that 
 Karma was engendered, i.e., through the 
 many bitter political wars which drenched its 
 soil in blood; through the sectarian wars car- 
 ried on in the name of the Church, but which 
 perverted religion and made priest-craft a 
 curse; and through the intolerance, selfish- 
 ness, mental and spiritual blindness of the re- 
 ligious leaders which manifesetd in the men- 
 tal war which was finally culminated in the 
 most inhuman persecutions the civilizied 
 world has ever known the Inquisition. The 
 present war is the beginning of the period 
 which will mark the close of the Fifth Great 
 Race. While this present conflict seems 
 wholly evil, it is not entirely so for the Race; 
 for not only will the old karmic debts be ad- 
 justed and thus allow the contending nations 
 to enter into a federation in which the inde- 
 
 4 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, Chapter XVII. 
 
 30 
 
pendence of each nation or people will be 
 guaranteed as brothers, some older, some 
 younger, in the great social family and thus 
 will prevent war for a long period and enter 
 the new era with a clean slate as it were, but 
 the war is developing in the Race as a whole, 
 an enormous amount of the feminine quali- 
 ties love, compassion, sympathy, devotion, 
 unselfishness and service so necessary as the 
 Race enters the Aquarian or Woman's Age, 
 the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens. 
 
 Among the contending nations the Eng- 
 lish, French and Germans have reached the 
 zenith of their cycles as nations and hence 
 must be tested ere they can enter the new 
 cycle. They are classed among the nations 
 which represent the highest stage of civil- 
 ization, culture, intellectual and material ad- 
 vance on the planet today, but they must now 
 prove the truth of their proud boasts; must 
 prove whether their civilization and culture 
 is the result of true spiritual growth or 
 whether it is the mere veneer of intellectual 
 and material attainment without correspond- 
 ing spiritual unfoldment. Has their so- 
 called advance in civilization brought their 
 people into a greater realization of the spir- 
 31 
 
ituat basis of all manifestation? Has it led 
 them to strive for a more conscious commun- 
 ion with the realms of spiritual consciousness 
 as a daily personal experience? Has it 
 taught them the folly of seeking to satisfy 
 the ceaseless craving of the Soul for union 
 with its Source, through the gratification of 
 the senses or the possession of material 
 things? Has their scientific study of the 
 wonderful co-operation and brotherhood ex- 
 isting among the cells, tissues and organs of 
 every unit of organic life led them if for 
 no other reason, as a matter of efficiency to 
 follow the same law and express greater tol- 
 erance, co-operation and brotherhood among 
 themselves as members of the body of hu- 
 manity? Have their studies led them to 
 recognize the true position of woman as the 
 Priestess of the household, to complement 
 and co-worker with man; the spiritual head 
 of the family, as man is the material; the 
 inspirer and leader in all spiritual, ethical 
 and moral problems? In time of emergency, 
 stress and strain, when there is scarcely time 
 for thought, will the culture of these nations 
 enable them instinctively to display more 
 love, compassion, self-sacrifice and human- 
 
 32 
 
ity, simply because man is man, than the less 
 cultured nations would under similar condi- 
 tions? Or will they relapse to the level of 
 the uncultured animal man who fights solely 
 for self? This is the test which their civil- 
 ization must stand. And those nations 
 which show most conclusively that these high- 
 er qualities have been built into their national 
 consciousness must be the ones to dominate 
 and manifest these qualities more perfectly 
 in the world's arena during the coming cycle 
 of the new age. The Slavonic nations, on the 
 other hand, have not reached the zenith of 
 their evolution, but are on the upward arc. 
 Hence the more primitive qualities of their 
 civilization may be used by the Great Law 
 as instruments with which to accomplish the 
 testing of the more advanced, and to make 
 possible the inauguration of the new era. 
 
 When the physical conflict is over a ter- 
 rible mental revolt against all forms of re- 
 straint, both in government and religion, will 
 burst forth. It will be a period of extremes, 
 extremes of individualism; a period when the 
 opposition against all systematized or organ- 
 ized spiritual teachings, which is even now 
 manifesting under various doctrines of relig- 
 33 
 
ious and so-called "soul freedom," will find 
 extreme expression. It will be a period both 
 of extreme agnosticism and extreme individ- 
 ualistic teaching, when any fantastic theory, 
 even without a rational or philosophic basis, 
 will find a hearing and followers. At the 
 same time there will be a strong feeling upon 
 the part of those who cling to the old con- 
 ceptions that it is their duty to humanity to 
 enforce the old religious ideals. Hence all 
 churches, orders, movements and societies 
 professing a spiritual basis will on the one 
 hand have radicals whose extremes will bring 
 them into disrepute, while on the other hand 
 they will have those who will laugh at, rid- 
 icule, discredit, oppose and persecute them. 
 And the same fire that has manifested as 
 physical war will again sweep the world as a 
 mental, spiritual and psychic conflict. It will 
 be a time when all spiritual movements will 
 be under a cloud, when spiritually u The 
 brother shall betray the brother to death, 
 and the father the son: and children shall 
 rise against their parents, and shall cause 
 them to be put to death." Therefore it will 
 be a period of great testing; a period when 
 every heart who has realized the reality of 
 34 
 
the spiritual world and its forces must be 
 securely grounded in the philosophy, stand 
 firmly and unshakably for his or her beliefs, 
 even though to do so involves ridicule, perse- 
 cution and mental suffering. For every sys- 
 tem of teaching not founded upon the rock 
 of divine reality and expressed in terms suit- 
 able to the new conditions must pass away 
 to make room for the new. 
 
 These conditions will be so terrible that 
 they will last only a very few years, perhaps 
 only two or three, for we are told that "for 
 the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. 
 . . . And except those days should be 
 shortened, there should be no flesh saved." 
 The only way that the "elect" can prove 
 themselves is by their sincerity, their stead- 
 fastness, their trust and their determination 
 to hold calmly to their spiritual ideals and to 
 rely absolutely upon their divine, inner guid- 
 ance. Words and arguments will be of no 
 avail. The truth of their beliefs can be 
 proved only by living them. All such will be 
 like bright and shining lights in this period of 
 mental and spiritual darkness, or more cor- 
 rectly, blindness. It will be at the close of 
 this period that the long expected Great 
 35 
 
Teacher, the Avatar, will appear to reassure 
 distracted humanity of the spiritual basis of 
 all manifestation and to outline a new and 
 higher conception of the spiritual life and its 
 forms of expression. 
 
 The battles of the physical world are 
 fought on the physical-plane with physical 
 weapons, but the battle of Armageddon must 
 j 3e f ou ght first upon the astral-plane with 
 thoughts and psychic forces for weapons, the 
 conflict now raging being but a pouring out 
 of the evil and a gathering together of the 
 forces of Good for the final battle on the 
 higher planes. This battle has already be- 
 gun, and it will continue throughout the sixth 
 sub-race of this Aryan Great Race. Its prog- 
 ress will be marked by tremendous disasters 
 precipitated upon the physical-plane wars, 
 earthquakes, cyclones, volcanic eruptions and 
 meteoric showers, floods, etc. of more or 
 less severity until the final battle and catacl- 
 ysm in which the battlefield and the defeated 
 army will be swallowed up and a new and 
 purified land (the old Lemurian continent in 
 the Pacific) shall rise out of the waters for 
 the new Sixth Great Race to inhabit. 
 The victors will remain as the seed of 
 36 
 
the new race to people the new land. Just 
 as these changes must take place for the 
 planet, so must they take place in humanity 
 through bloody wars, strikes and other con- 
 flicts which will continue until all conflicts of 
 man with man, and man's resistance to the 
 Divine are swallowed up, and out of the 
 waters of affliction there shall arise a new 
 and greater humanity with true Brotherhood, 
 Love, Peace and Harmony as its watchword. 
 The time has now come when the accumul- 
 ated mass of old Race Karma must be defi- 
 nitely met and conquered ere humanity can 
 enter upon the new sub-race, its next step in 
 evolution. This, in a measure, is to the 
 world what the Dweller on the Threshold is 
 to the neophyte. And as with the neophyte 
 before each important step is taken, it must 
 be met and conquered. For just as the neo- 
 phyte, through his evil thoughts, words and 
 acts, has created an entitized form of evil 
 his indiviual Dweller 5 so the planet has 
 been pouring out its evils throughout its long 
 cycle until they have become entitized as a 
 u dark planet" with a living Ruler, the Anti- 
 Christ. This planet may be called the Dwel- 
 
 5 See The Voice of Isis, Curtiss, p. 64. 
 37 
 
ler on the Threshold for humanity as a 
 whole. 
 
 The astronomers of Harvard University 
 Confirm* have already discovered the influence of this 
 dark planet the Destroyer which, if en- 
 countered, means the destruction of the 
 earth. Astronomer Serviss is quoted as say- 
 ing that the earth and this whole solar system 
 has gone astray and is trailing off away from 
 its path around the great sun Alcyone in the 
 Pleiades, toward the constellation Andro- 
 meda in the Milky Way. These are but as- 
 tronomical confirmations of the fact that we 
 have entered the sixth sub-race, and that the 
 hosts are rapidly gathering for the great Bat- 
 tle of Armageddon. The earth is being 
 driven through space in this new direction by 
 the character of the thought-force of its col- 
 lective humanity. But there is another planet, 
 not yet recognized by science, which is a 
 bright planet the Redeemer to be drawn 
 into whose aura means salvation. These two 
 planets may be called the camping grounds 
 of the opposing forces, with the earth be- 
 tween as the battle ground. But back of and 
 within the outer cause, as the propelling 
 power, will be the preponderating force of 
 38 
 
good or evil thoughts engendered by human- 
 ity. Therefore the real battle is to be fought 
 on the mental and astral-planes with thoughts 
 and psychic forces, good and bad, as weap- 
 ons, and later will be reflected and precipi- 
 tated on and in the earth. Hence all ad- 
 vanced students, who consciously determine 
 to make Love, Brotherhood, Purity and 
 Peace their standards of life, enroll them- 
 selves among the Hosts of the Lord and be- 
 come Soldiers of the Cross. 
 
 The Dragon symbolizes the synthesis of 
 the world's perverted thoughts of sex and is 
 commonly called the Devil. The three un- 
 clean spirits like frogs which come from his 
 mouth symbolize the three great expressions 
 of the dragon-force, i.e., (a) sex impurity, 
 suppression and perversion; (b) the creation 
 of disease by such perversion, and (c) insan- 
 ity or psychic obsession resulting from astral 
 entities -or individual Dwellers on the Thres- 
 hold utilizing sensitive but negative victims 
 through which they can satisfy their desires. 
 The Beast is a symbol of Mammon or greed, 
 expressing through the Money Power. The 
 three evil spirits issuing from his mouth com- 
 prise all the miseries and sorrows that arise 
 39 
 
as a result of greed and injustice in their 
 threefold expressions of (a) war, prosecuted 
 for territorial or commercial expansion, stim- 
 ulated and financed by the Money Power; 
 (b) poverty, resulting from the unjust distri- 
 bution of wealth, which distribution is con- 
 trolled by the Money Power; and (c) all the 
 train of evils resulting from bodily and indus- 
 trial slavery. The False Prophet symbolizes 
 all the false teachings which have been given 
 out in the name of religion or spiritual teach- 
 ing to justify and uphold both the Dragon 
 and the Beast, but which have misled human- 
 ity and held it back from manifesting 
 Peace, Love and Brotherhood. From his 
 mouth come forth the three frogs of (a) 
 materialized religion, priestcraft and tem- 
 poral power; (b) spiritual pride; and (c) in- 
 tolerance and its handmaiden, religious per- 
 secution. This pride, intolerance and perse- 
 cution did not die out with the Inquisition, 
 but is still active today. It is now directed 
 not so much against the physical bodies of 
 its victims, but is carried on mentally and 
 psychicly through the slanders, scandal and 
 malicious misrepresentation carried on 
 through various publications and commonly 
 40 
 
called u brutal journalism/' All these fac- 
 tors, as the passage quoted plainly tells us, 
 work for the King of this World, King De- 
 sire and his allies and their cohorts. 
 
 One of the first rules impressed upon the 
 spiritual aspirant is that to attain at-one-ment fc 
 by the path of Love and Purity he must lay F 
 down all carnal weapons. Jesus emphasized 
 this rule when He said to Peter: "Put up 
 again thy sword into his place: for all they 
 that take the sword shall perish with the 
 sword." 6 Yet we find the disciple spoken of 
 as a Soldier of the Cross and commanded to 
 array himself as a fighting factor in the 
 world's salvation. Jesus also said: "I came 
 not to send peace, but a sword." 7 Behind this 
 paradox lies a great truth, the understanding 
 of which is necessary ere any decided con- 
 scious advance in the spiritual unfoldment of 
 either the individual or the Race can take 
 place, i.e., the conquering must take place on 
 the plane where the causes are engendered, 
 and the weapons are Love and Purity. This 
 means that thoughts of Love and Purity must 
 be sent out in such numbers and with such 
 positive spiritual force that they will sur- 
 
 *Matth. XXVI, 52. 
 7 Matth. X, 34. 
 
 41 
 
round and transmute the impure and antag- 
 Howtc onistic forces, following the same tactics as 
 the white warrior cells (phagocytes) of the 
 blood use in meeting an invasion of disease 
 germs, i.e., not deny the evil, but surround 
 and transmute the evil into Good. The Voice 
 of the Silence tells us: u Strive with thy 
 thoughts unclean before they overpower 
 thee. Use them as they will thee, for if thou 
 sparest them and they take root and grow, 
 know well these thoughts will overpower and 
 kill thee. 1 ' 8 If you find them persistently 
 clinging to you, send out an army of pure and 
 loving thoughts to absorb and transmute 
 them. Science recognizes the fact that, dur- 
 ing epidemics of disease, the mere thinking 
 and talking about the disease will make nega- 
 tive persons more susceptible to it. This 
 does not mean that all disease is merely men- 
 tal, but that by negative thoughts you open 
 a door in your aura through which the dis- 
 ease can enter. This effect is still more evi- 
 dent in moral epidemics and in the epidemics 
 of war-thoughts which sweep over nations. 
 Therefore the spiritual aspirant should lay 
 down all carnal weapons or he will surely 
 
 8 Blavatsky f p. 12. 
 
 42 
 
perish by the sword, overcome by the hosts 
 of evil thought-forms he has drawn into his 
 aura. 
 
 Applied to warring nations this principle 
 indicates that we should not waste time and 
 force in specifically directing our prayers and 
 thought forces to the European nations that 
 they shall cease fighting, for they are acting 
 under the tremendous urge of long pent-up 
 karmic readjustment which must take place, 
 and cannot respond to our prayers until after 
 that karmic readjustment has been worked 
 out. There is only one efficacious way to 
 pray for peace and that is to pray that the 
 Will of the Father shall be done on earth, 
 even as it is in heaven. That Divine Will is 
 Love, first, last and all the time. And having 
 prayed thus believe and know that this 
 Divine Love is back of the entire world of 
 manifestation, and that it is ever working to 
 bring about the reign of universal Love, 
 Peace and Harmony, even though it be nec- 
 essary to sweep from its path all that opposes 
 that reign. The terrible conditions which pre- 
 vail today are not the Will of the Father, but 
 are the creations of man; the result of his 
 resistance and opposition to the Divine Will; 
 43 
 
crea ti ns f unbrotherliness, selfishness 
 and greed, not altogether on the part of 
 those instrumental in precipitating or now 
 participating in the present conflict, but the 
 accumulation of selfishness and greed of the 
 Race, all of which must come up for adjust- 
 ment now at the close of the cycle of the fifth 
 sub-race or the end of the old dispensation, 
 just as the rash must come out in measles, 
 scarlet fever, etc., ere the real healing can 
 begin. Therefore while you pray for the 
 greater Peace, know that that Peace must 
 first come in the hearts of the people of all 
 the nations involved and of the whole world. 
 Try not to think of individuals except in 
 compassion, knowing that the Great Law will 
 adjust their conditions in its own good time. 
 Those who are dying for their ideals, even 
 though those ideals be but of local patriot- 
 ism and loyalty to an earthly ruler, are in a 
 measure redeemers for the Race; for they 
 are dying that the Race may be purged from 
 the war-thought, the war-ideal and the curse 
 of militarism. Hence in the next incarnation 
 they will receive the just reward for their 
 sacrifice. By their suffering and dying they 
 have brought the world to a greater realiza- 
 44 
 
tion of the utter folly and needlessness of 
 war if the Divine Will were followed. By j 
 their sacrifice they have wiped out much of ^ on 
 the individual and racial Karma and will 
 receive their compensation by being enabled 
 to incarnate the next time under far more ad- 
 vanced conditions of civilization than they 
 could have experienced had they remained a 
 few years longer in the present life. Send 
 your forces of Love, Peace and Brotherhood 
 into the higher realms where they will aggre- 
 gate into a mighty force which shall swallow 
 up all future thoughts of national selfishness 
 and aggrandizement and be a powerful fac- 
 tor in forming a federation of European na- 
 tions on the grounds of common humanity 
 and brotherhood which shall make it impos- 
 sible for the ambitions or passions of a few 
 to plunge nations into bloody and need- 
 less conflicts, and which shall be an important 
 factor in preparing for the coming of the 
 Avatar. 
 
 All persons who are sensitive have real- 
 ized for some time that there is a terrible 
 commotion in the mental and astral worlds 
 which is now intensified by the physical con- 
 flict going on in Europe and also by the 
 45 
 
thousands of Souls suddenly thrown out of 
 incarnation carrying with them all the excite- 
 ment, antagonism and hatred which animated 
 them as they fought. This composite force 
 is like a tension or steady pressure upon all 
 humanity tending to make all persons more 
 irritable and excited. Therefore it is the 
 duty of every advanced student to take spe- 
 cial pains to see that he does not make an 
 opening in his aura through which such 
 forces can manifest by giving way to impa- 
 tience, irritation and emotion or to partisan- 
 ship and race antagonism. Instead he should 
 consciously strive to make himself a center 
 from and through which the constructive 
 forces of Peace, Harmony, Love and Broth- 
 erhood can radiate in his family and imme- 
 diate environment and on out into all the 
 world. 
 
 Arrayed against the hosts of evil stand the 
 thought-creations of Love, Harmony and 
 Purity and upliftrnent of the Race sent out in 
 a steady stream by the Lodge of Masters and 
 by all Great Teachers since the world began, 
 as well as by all who have been able to think 
 vitalized thoughts of Love and Purity, Har- 
 mony and Brotherhood. All humanity have 
 46 
 
added and are still adding their quota to one 
 side or the other. It is the destiny of the 
 fifth sub-race to see the beginning of this 
 great and decisive battle between Good and 
 evil or, to be more explicit, between Purity 
 and impurity. Hence it is time that all who 
 desire the salvation of the Race and the 
 planet should awaken to the grave conditions 
 we have outlined herein, and determinately 
 array themselves on the side of Good by 
 sending their individual, pure and vital love- 
 force to swell the Hosts of the Lord. For 
 you cannot say a loving word or do a loving 
 deed, even to an animal, without having a 
 loving thought behind it. And every loving 
 and peaceful thought adds strength to the 
 Army of the Good. As the Christ says: "In 
 as much as ye have done it unto one of the 
 least of these my brethren, ye have done it 
 unto me." 
 
 The pure Hosts of the Lord are mustered 
 in serried ranks according to natural law and 
 order, while the forces of evil, being a per- 
 version of nature and abnormal, are not or- 
 ganized. A well known principle of warfare 
 is that a small but well organized army can 
 overcome a much larger force that is unor- 
 47 
 
ganized. And as evil and impure forces are 
 sent out by haphazard impulse they may be 
 compared to an unorganized mob, while 
 thoughts of Good, because they require will 
 and effort, are consciously created, and can 
 be gathered together by the Masters and 
 formed into a well drilled, well disciplined 
 and well officered army, always in good fight- 
 ing condition. Good is stronger than evil be- 
 cause it is constructive and works in harmony 
 with the Great Law. 
 
 The Masters of the Great White Lodge, 
 altho small in numbers as compared with the 
 multitudes of humanity, are, nevertheless, 
 able to engender and consciously use a far 
 greater degree of creative force on the side 
 of Purity, Peace, Love and Brotherhood. 
 But even They must work with the Law as 
 Karma and may not forcibly prevent a Race 
 or sub-race from experiencing its karmic ret- 
 ribution and readjustment. But Their ef- 
 forts, being consciously directed and wisely 
 applied, weigh heavily in the scale. They do 
 not act on the physical-plane however, except 
 through Their disciples and those who re- 
 spond to Their inspiring currents of force. 
 Hence Their great need today of those who 
 48 
 
will consciously make themselves centers of 
 Peace, Purity, Harmony and Love and be ^ ecom 
 more or less conscious instruments through a 
 which They can work. They are the di- Helfier 
 recting force, comparable to the officers of 
 an army, but the disciples must consciously 
 become willing volunteers who shall compose 
 the great body of fighting units which the 
 Masters shall train and direct. Therefore, 
 instead of devoting all your efforts toward 
 unfolding your faculties and developing your 
 personality, set to work earnestly and con- 
 sciously create warriors for the Army of the 
 Lord to the end that not only the Race but 
 the planet itself, shall be saved from destruc- 
 tion. 
 
 (Written May, 1909. Revised Sept. 30, 1914.) 
 
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 "Among the many occult volumes before the public 
 . . . I know of none more useful and admirable than 
 the work now before me." W. J. Colville 
 
 "Many biblical and other problems are handled clearly 
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 in full mental liberty. Mystic Light Library Bulletin 
 
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 occult science." Portland Oregonian 
 
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 bear every mark of culture, of sincerity, and of a lofty 
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 Every question receives a clear and careful answer which 
 must have satisfied the enquirer." American Theosophist 
 
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 when the chapter on THE SEX PROBLEM is reached 
 there is found some strong food for a strong man with a 
 strong mind. The tone of the whole subject is Purity." 
 
 Edwards Paul Jones 
 
 "Its warnings against the dangers of psychism, and its 
 frank and rational discussion of the sex question . . . 
 are to be commended. Editor O. E. S. Critic 
 
 "Every question receives a clear and careful answer." 
 The American Theosophist 
 
 "The beautiful truths expressed in beautiful diction 
 cannot help but appeal to the soul which is seeking the 
 higher things of life." Unity 
 
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