Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Problems of Humanity - II - The Problem of the
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Problems of Humanity - Chapter II - The Problem of the Children of the
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Education in the hands of any church would spell disaster. It
would feed the sectarian spirit, foster the conservative, reactionary attitudes so
strongly endorsed, for instance, by the Catholic Church and the fundamentalists in the
Protestant churches. It would train bigots, build barriers between man and man and
eventually lead to a powerful and inevitable swing away from all religion on the part of
those who would finally learn to think as they reach adult manhood. This is not an
indictment of religion. It is an indictment of the past methods of the churches and of the
old theologies which have failed to present Christ as He essentially is, which have worked
for riches, prestige, and political power and which have striven with all available means
to increase their membership and to imprison the free spirit in man. There are wise and
good churchmen today who realize this and who are [35] steadfastly working for the new age
approach to God, but they are relatively few in number. Nevertheless, they are waging war
against theological crystallization and academic pronouncements. They will inevitably
succeed and thus salvage the religious spirit.Then let us endeavor to see what the goal
of the new educational movement should be and what are the signposts on the way to that
goal. Let us try to formulate a long range plan which will meet with no hindrance from the
methods immediately employed, which will link the past and the future by using all that is
true, beautiful and good (inherited from the past) but which will emphasize certain basic
objectives which have hitherto been largely ignored. These newer techniques and methods
must be developed gradually and will hasten the process of integrating the whole man.
There is no hope for the future world except in a humanity which accepts the fact of
divinity, even whilst repudiating theology, which recognizes the presence of the living
Christ, whilst rejecting man-made interpretations of Him and of His message, and which
emphasizes the authority of the human soul.
The future which lies ahead is full of promise. Let us base our optimism upon humanity
itself. Let us recognize the self-proven fact that there is a peculiar quality in every
man, an innate, inherent characteristic to which one may give the name "mystical
perception". This characteristic connotes an undying, though oft unrecognized, sense
of divinity; it involves the constant possibility to vision and contact the soul and to
grasp (with increasing aptitude) the nature of the universe. It enables the philosopher to
appreciate the world of meaning and - through that perception - to touch Reality. It is,
above all else, the power to love and to go out towards that which is other than the self.
It confers the ability to grasp ideas. The history of mankind is [36] fundamentally the
history of the growth of ideas, progressively realized and of man's determination to live
by them; with this power goes the capacity to sense the unknown, to believe in the
unproveable, to seek, search and demand the revelation of that which is hidden and
undiscovered and which - century after century owing to this demanding spirit of
investigation - is revealed. It is the power to recognize the beautiful, the true
and the good and by means of the creative arts to prove their existence. It is this
inherent, spiritual faculty which has produced all the great Sons of God, all truly
spiritual people, all artists, scientists, humanitarians and philosophers and all who,
with sacrifice, love their fellowmen.
Here lie
the grounds for optimism and courage on the part of all true educators and here is the
true incentive to all their efforts.





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