Out of the democratic unrest, out of the present turmoil and chaos, will arise the future world condition which will have for its keynote co-operation and not competition, distribution, and not centralization. 

As of October 2013, nearly a year after the Mayan calendar ended on December 21^st, 2012—which some say marks “the Biggest Non Event in History”—many have lost faith in the possibility of meaningful change on our planet.  They see a world in chaos, teetering on the brink of war and economic collapse, and say, “Nothing has changed.”  Selfishness and greed run rampant.  A global corporatocracy¹ continues to perpetuate the advancement of the few at the expense of the many.  “A stateless global archipelago of privilege,” as Ravi Bhandari² has called it, appears bent on controlling the world.

Many people in the mass media, political parties, and religious institutions have succumbed to a one-pointed, fanatical quest to achieve worldly success at the expense of others.  The world appears off course, divorced from higher ideals, headed for disaster.  The hoped for emergence into a new era of light and global interdependence envisioned by many with the end of the Mayan calendar (12-21-2012) has not yet come to pass.  “Nothing appears to have changed.  It is only getting worse!”  So cry many idealists disillusioned that the long-anticipated change has failed to materialize.  It seems that the globalization of capitalism and a worldwide plutocracy—without national boundaries or loyalties—is here to stay.

Is this true?  Has the vision been lost?  Are we now on the brink of a much feared “new world order” in which a tiny global elite dominates all the peoples of the nations?  Or is there still cause for hope that a new world of beauty, harmonious interdependence, and divine order can be realized?  Has the ideal of a future based on cooperation and sharing been ified or has it simply been delayed pending the breakdown of a predatory system?

The Ageless Wisdom teachings assure us of the ultimate success of the Divine Plan in the Aquarian age—the new era of universality now emerging.

With these words the Tibetan master, Djwhal Khul, presents what he calls “a little of the wonder of the Aquarian Age.”⁵  It is a vision of unprecedented human possibility, which millions across the world have already embraced in some real measure.  Yet it appears thwarted by the “forces of materialism.”

Interestingly enough, the Tibetan commented on a similar situation during the period of World Wars in which he related the incoming seventh ray⁶ energies associated with the emerging Aquarian era with the fulfillment of prophecy.  In the same section of Esoteric Psychology (published in 1936) where he affirmed “nothing can prevent that which the stars decree” he made the following statement:

We might assume that among the prophesied “new executives” were John F. Kennedy and Dag Hammarskjold.  Kennedy served as a United States Senator from 1953-1960 and as President from ‘60-‘63.  Hammarskjold served as Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1953 to 1961.  Both were high idealists.  Both had a significant impact upon the world and both died suddenly in the early 1960s.  Kennedy was assassinated and Hammarskjold died under suspicious circumstances in a plane crash.⁸  The world integration and international understanding envisioned by the Tibetan were clearly affected by the deaths of such individuals and other world leaders of their time.

Students of history may someday examine in detail other events occurring after the Great War⁹ that temporarily derailed the plans of the Hierarchy.  It would be fascinating to understand the happenings that may have changed the course of history.  We do not know precisely what the Tibetan had in mind when he made the prophetic statement above,¹⁰ but we do know that he anticipated the possibility that his prediction might not come to pass.  He sensed the skepticism in the minds of the disciples to whom he was making these remarks and told them:

“Delay may eventuate.”  Is this not what we are in fact experiencing today?  A delay in the cosmic plan due to the resistance of material forces—resistance to the inevitable triumph of good?   In light of what the Tibetan is telling us, could we not say that we are experiencing what Mary Bailey¹⁷ once called “the last ditch effort of the forces of materialism”?  If so, then what we are encountering—what we are asked to endure as material oligarchs continue to brandish power—is simply a delay in the implementation of the Divine Plan.  This plan will inevitably be fulfilled.  It is only a matter of time.

The vision of Aquarius lives on, unchanged by the tumult of the times.  The Masters of Wisdom Who guide the race—the Custodians of the unfolding Plan (enlightened teachers such as the Tibetan master)—gauge the future from a vast perspective.  They study the “stars in their courses,” examine great cycles of progress and growth, and view evolutionary trends on a planetary, solar, and cosmic scale. Yet even They cannot know the exact timing of future events. “The time is known only to the two or three…”¹⁸ the Master states about the reappearance of the Christ which, we are told, will follow the establishment by humanity of “right human relations” in the world.

The reason why the precise timing of future events is unknown has to do with the free will of human beings.  Every individual is free to choose what energy he or she will bring to a given situation—what force for good or ill he or she will engender in response to the events of the time.

Knowing this to be so, we would do well to recognize that although powerful oligarchies continue to amass power and worldly forces stubbornly resist evolutionary change, “God will not be mocked”…as the old-time religious preachers used to say.  The Piscean Age is passing away.  The “coming into power of the Aquarian Age…will make the new world order possible.”¹⁹  And, as the Tibetan goes on to say:

See also:

The Evolutionary Plan