Russia

 I always felt the Higher Love as the creation of God, as the Approach of Christ. Instantly there happens something so great, that a few flashes like these can change the Earth. And these changes are performed by Mother of the Hierarchy Who is coming to the Earth nowadays.

In fact, we have a very special time now. Our epoch has brought into present incarnation women – the bearers of the highest missions. Descending from the level of the Solar System, through Shamballa, down the Hierarchic steps there come into incarnation the greatest Monads; and Russia, governed by the Seventh Ray as the Soul, bears the marks of the present time.

 The beginning of work with humanity (in our era) was laid through Blavatsky. Later - through the Theosophical Society principles given by the Masters. Equality, brotherhood and comprehension of the inner human nature were embodied in Soviet Russia. Russia received the Atmic Ladder joined by many Jews: revolutionaries, cultural and scientific workers. Then, in the Great Patriotic War, they gave the greatest percentage of the heroes of the Soviet Union. That is, the energies of the Atma circled up the Jewish power into the Ring.¹¹⁰

A Russian man with his desire to meet ideals is especially "shepherded" by the Christ. A Russian man is the most yearning one... Even the most ordinary people demonstrate a special understanding as soon as you speak about longing for the Soul. I have seen it both in the Urals, in Siberia, and in the North. His house is not yet built but he is worried about the Soul. This quality of being watchful to phrases such as "Versilov^6* is of no origin", this kind of watchfulness to a word about the Soul - is very important.

 Today it would appear, from all the indications and from the dominant world trends, that the still unconquered greed of certain of the more powerful nations is undeniably rampant, and that we are therefore facing another period of frustration and of major world difficulty. Feeling against Russia is running high among the Western Powers and is largely her own fault, though it is primarily based upon two main factors—one of them bad and the other good.

The bad reaction is based on the same old triplicity of fear, greed and jealousy and—from the angle of those three phases of selfishness—is entirely justified. That fact, in itself, supplies a major difficulty. Think this out.

The good reaction is based on the frustration of the idea or concept of developing a unified peaceful world—a world in which there would be no war and in which men could live at peace with each other and in security, and in which men everywhere could work, relatively unopposed, towards right human relations. This super-world and this unified humanity is a true ideal, but is not a feasible project.⁷⁵

 The major sin of Russia, and that which has prostituted and warped the initial divine impulse underlying the ideology of that country, is the determination she demonstrates at this time to be separative and to shut the Russian people away from world contact, using the implements of deception and the withholding of information. It is not the totalitarian nature of the Russian government which is the prime disaster; it is the refusal to develop the universal consciousness. Many governments today are totalitarian in nature, either openly or subtly, but—at the same time—their peoples have free access to press and radio and are not kept in ignorance of world events. Russia is drifting into a pronounced expression of the great heresy of separateness. There lies her problem—a problem which is refused recognition by her rulers.

The existence of a closed mind on a national scale is dangerous in the extreme, just as the individual is in a dangerous "state of mind" when he closes it to world contact, world news and world understanding, and when he refuses to admit new ideas and new modes of behaviour.⁶²