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Viewed from the form side, this faculty of planning leads to separative and selfish activity. Viewed from the life side, it leads to a blended cooperation which swings each unit of energy in every form, in all its subjective and unified aspects, into the task of unification. This is potently taking place in the world today. It is the tendency to at-one-ment which leads the human being, first of all, to the development of an integrated personality, and then to the submergence of that personality in the good of the greater whole.

a. This constitutes the basic cause of evolution itself—individual, planetary and systemic.

b. This instinct is the result of the development of manas, or mind, and the emergence of the

                intelligence. It is the peculiar quality or instinctual nature through the means of which humanity

                empresses the first Ray of Willed Intent, fostered by desire, and transmuted into intelligent activity.

1. The urge to creative life, through the divine faculty of imagination. This urge is, as can easily be seen,

        closely connected with the fourth Ray of Harmony, producing unity and beauty, won through conflict.

1. This, on the form side, leads to warfare, struggle and the building of forms which must later be destroyed. On the life side, it leads to quality, vibratory radiance and the revelation upon earth of the world of meaning.

2. It is therefore the basic cause of that subtle essence or revelation which is seeking expression through every form in each kingdom in nature. There seems to be no better term by which to express this hidden wonder which must be revealed than the revelation of meaning. This is beginning to happen today.

3. It is the result of the ability—sometimes adequate and sometimes inadequate—of the inner consciousness to reveal its measure of control by the Plan, and its response to the larger intent. It is upon this response that the Members of the Hierarchy are today counting, as They endeavor to bring the hidden meaning to the fore in the consciousness of man.

2. The factor of analysis. This factor may surprise those who suffer from the misuse of the power to

        discriminate, to analyse and to criticise. It is, however, a basic, divine quality, producing wise

        participation in the Plan and skill in action.

a.   On the form side, it manifests as the tendency to separate, divide and to place in contradictory

positions. On the life side, it leads to that understanding which tends to identification, through the wider choice and comprehension.

b.   It is the basic cause and impulse which will lead to the eventual appearance of the kingdom in

                nature, higher than the human, which is strictly that of the Soul, and will produce the manifestation

                upon earth of the fifth kingdom in nature, that of the kingdom of gods. This phrase should be noted.

c.   It is the result of the active work of the sons of God, the sons of mind, and is the part which they are

        contributing to the total planetary contribution, as part of the great systemic Plan. The Hierarchy

        itself is the outer and inner manifestation of the sacrifice of the divine Manasaputras, and its

        members respond to Their sensed vision of the Plan for the whole. The Hierarchy is essentially the

        germ or nucleus of the fifth kingdom in nature.

3. The quality, innate in man, to idealise. This is founded upon the success of the Plan itself. This Plan

        sought originally to awaken in man the following responses: right desire, right vision and right creative

        activity, based upon right interpretation of ideals. This triplicity of purpose merits thoughtful

        consideration.

1. On the form side, this has worked out as material desire, leading eventually to cruelty and

        frequently to an extreme sadistic expression. On the life side, it has led to sacrifice, one pointed

        purpose, progress on the path, and devotion.

2. It is the basic cause of all organisation and of cooperation. The ideal before the Hierarchy is the

                realized Plan. This is brought to humanity in the form of ideas, which become, in time, ideals—to be

                desired and fought for. In order to materialise these ideals, the trend to organise comes into being.

3. It is the result—curiously enough—of the work of a peculiar group of world workers, who are

        recognised by humanity under the name of World Saviours. These are the Founders of those forms

        through which the divine ideas become the ideals of the masses, in all realms of human thought.

4. Every great world leader is necessarily a "suffering Saviour."

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