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Short Overview of the
Brotherhoods The
Ultimate Frontier is written
primarily towards people who believe that they can change themselves and
uplift civilization, and it talks about one of the principle purposes of a
group of men and women who are known as the Brotherhoods, to develop a Nation
in the near future which will assist mankind similar to what we have in the
way of a Peace Corp today—to uplift the entire world in some way towards
getting back to a civilization similar to what we have today and to move
beyond that in the event that there is a cataclysmic change in the continents
as we know them today. In as
much as the earth has had a long history of land which is above the ocean
sinking and those things which are presently under the sea rising, as anybody
who has seen all of the strata in some place like Grand Canyon, that this
sort of thing continues for a long time. The qualification
for the people who belong to this Brotherhood, which is primarily of
scientists and philosophers, is that they be clairvoyant and be able to
communicate with one another in telepathic means, which people have long
since referred to as a Communion of Saints—the method by which those who have
some special spiritual development have maintained a way of working together
regardless of where they are in the world. Some of the main premises
of this Brotherhood are that all of us who are
living on the planet have lived many times before and will live many times in
the future. That we work on learning all there is to know of this physical
plane of existence before we can move on to higher levels of consciousness
and to take on even greater work than what we could accomplish here on this
physical plane. That they have provided everything we need
to know to learn all of these things and that we have the assistance of those
who have gone this path before us to tell us the shortcuts, give us the
tools, the psychological techniques, information which is based on ultimate
reality so that we can deal with the truth as much as possible in developing
ourselves and moving forward to higher levels of civilization. There is a great deal more
to be said about this whole philosophy in addition
to that but that gives you kind of the rough background of what it is that we
are dealing with and trying to accomplish.
(04-1983) The Brotherhoods Next
were several questions about the organization and work of the
Brotherhoods. Richard
elucidated by explaining that the Brotherhoods are divided into the Seven
Lesser Brotherhoods and the Five Greater Brotherhoods so that each nay
concentrate on a specific aspect of the overall plan for the advancement of
the Egos associated with the Earth. The Greater Brotherhoods have as members
only Masters, and Their work does not require the use of physical bodies. The
Lesser Brotherhoods, composed of Masters, Adepts and Egos of lesser degrees,
work among the remainder of Egos on Earth to advance themselves
toward Mastership and uplift mankind. Until recently, the oldest of the Seven
Lesser Brotherhoods initiated only Fourth Degree and higher Egos, while the
other six Lesser Brotherhoods almost never initiated Egos above the Fourth
Degree. All
Masters have almost the same appearance in Their astral auras because They
have achieved equivalent balance in Their lives. Their auras are always
white. Since Egos of lower degrees have predominant personality traits, the
Brotherhoods are each organized according to their “mystery”—such as balance
or precision or practicality—and sometimes are referred to according to the
corresponding color (ray) of that mystery—such as green for balance. When a
person was ready for Initiation, it was granted through the
Brotherhood of the ray most predominant in his personality and aura. The
Five Greater Brotherhoods, although composed entirely of Masters of perfect
balance, are organized into five because of the
specialized work of each. The Great White Brotherhood, or the Thirteenth, is
the council of Masters which coordinates the work of
all the Brotherhoods.
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