Discipleship in the New Age II - Talks to Disciples - Group Instruction - Alice Bailey
November 1944 http://www.caligastia.fr/

TO MY GROUP OF AFFILIATED DISCIPLES:

It is more than a year since you received your last set of instructions from me - a year of momentous happenings upon earth and of significant changes in the hierarchical relation to humanity. There is, as a result of the war, a much closer rapport and spiritual confidence apparent between those pledged disciples who have been faithful to their [42] asignments and those of Us who are seeking to use them in the service of world betterment; there is a more definite recognition of emerging spiritual values among aspirants everywhere and a greater readiness to relinquish hindrances to service; the plans of the Christ for humanity's release are more matured for these had to wait until such time that the trend of human aspiration became more clearly emphatic; the new era with its latent possibilities, can be seen upon the horizon, stripped of the veils of glamor and wishful thinking which obscured it ten years ago.
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The significant spiritual effects of the war can now be clearly seen, and I can begin to consider with you (earlier than I had anticipated) some of the problems with which you - as potential servers of the race and pledged disciples - can now deal. I could wish, as far as the immediate present is concerned that you were all younger and had availed yourselves more definitely of the teaching I have sought to give you these past years. Above everything else, I wish you were more courageous. Does that word surprise you, my brothers? In considering this year as a whole, I question not your devotion or your steadfastness;