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Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter I - The Egoic Ray - The Seven Laws of Soul or Group Life
a. Some Questions on Service Therefore, the service rendered today is what it is because the response of men to these new Aquarian influences is being registered at present in the astral body and is working out through the solar plexus. This accounts for the emotional nature of most of the service rendered in the world at this time; it is responsible for the hatred engendered by those who react sensitively to suffering and who, because of their emotional identification with suffering, lay the blame for the distressing conditions encountered upon a person or a group of persons. It is responsible also for the generally unsatisfactory nature of much of that which is now being done to relieve conditions. It is unsatisfactory from the higher angle of the soul. When, however, the service rendered is based upon a mental response to humanity's need, then the whole problem is lifted out of the veil of illusion and out of the valley of the world glamor. Then the impulses to serve are registered in the heart center and not in the solar plexus, and when this is more generally the case, then we shall have a happier and more successful demonstration of service. In this Treatise I seek to be intensely practical, for this new science of service must be based on right foundations and on sound understanding. Perhaps the simplest way in which I can handle a theme so new and yet so hackneyed is by formulating certain questions and then answering them as fully and as concisely as possible. [124] How do we define the word "service"? What is the field of this science and why do we call it a science? What are the characteristics of the true server? What effect does service have On the mind? On the emotions? On the etheric body? Does this science prove that the seven key or ray types employ distinctive methods in their service? The consideration of these questions will enable me to do three things: Show in my answers to each question that service is not a sentiment or an ideal, but that it is an effect and a scientific procedure at the same time. Indicate the need today for the right understanding of a technique which, when applied by the New Group of World Servers, will lead humanity into the world of true meaning and of real values. I will seek to show how the New Group of World Servers will work. Give some idea of how certain groups of the Masters of the Wisdom serve upon our planet at this time. In answering these questions, we will proceed to take them one by one.
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