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This, consequently, necessitates the materialisation of things. They have a most difficult task and that is why it is only during the past one hundred and fifty years that the science of world finance has made its appearance. They will deal with the divine aspect of money. They will regard money as the means whereby divine purpose can be carried forward. They will handle money as the agency through which the building forces of the universe can carry forward the work needed; and (herein lies the clue) those building forces will be increasingly occupied with the building of the subjective Temple of the Lord rather than with the materialising of that which meets mans desire. This distinction merits consideration.

IV.  They are the externalisation of an inner existing condition. It must be realized that these Groups are not a cause but an effect. That they may themselves have an initiatory effect as they work upon the Physical plane is no doubt true, but they themselves are the product of inner activity and of subjective aggregations of force which must perforce become objective. The work of the group members is to keep, as a group, in close rapport with the inner groups, which form nevertheless, one large, active group. This central group force will then pour through the groups in so far as the group members, as a group:

• Keep en rapport with the inner sources of power.

• Never lose sight of the group objective, whatever that objective may be.

• Cultivate a dual capacity to apply the laws of the Soul to the individual life, and the laws of the group to the group life.

• Use all forces which may flow into the group in service, and learn, therefore, to register that force and use it correctly.

Other factors to keep in mind are:

1. Each group has its inner counterpart.

2. This inner counterpart is a complete whole. The outer result is only partial.

3. These inner groups, forming one group, are each of them expressive of, or governed by certain laws, embodying, the controlling factors in group work. A law is only an expression or manifestation of force, applied under the power of thought by a thinker or group of thinkers.

4. These inner groups, embodying differing types of force, and working synthetically to express certain laws, are an effort to bring in new and different conditions, and hence produce a new civilisation. This is the New Age that the Aquarian Age will see consummated.

5. The outer groups are a tentative and experimental effort to see how far humanity is ready for such an endeavor.

They are also an experiment which has for its objective the manifestation of certain types of energy which will produce cohesion, or an at-one-ment, upon earth. The present distraught condition in the world, the international impasse, the religious dissatisfaction, the economic and social upheaval of the past few decades, are all the result of energies that are so potent owing to their immense momentum— that they can only be brought into rhythmic activity by the imposition of stronger and more definitely directed energies.

When the groups are functioning adequately and have achieved, not only an internal group unity, but also harmony between the groups themselves, then some peculiar and esoteric work can be done. Such are some of the plans which the Hierarchy are attempting to carry forward and in which all true disciples and aspirants can have a part. They are brought to our attention in order to evoke our lasting cooperation.

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