The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | JULY 1933
of the chapter containing the above statements. You will note the author realizes that the methods pursued in Atlantis are not appropriate for this age, but as you will read below, what we are going through now is but a repetition during fifty to one hundred years of what took them thousands of years to learn. But that is accounted for by former Atlanteans coming again into incarnation and seeking to improve upon their mistakes of the past.
If there has been interposed new conditions, unheard of in Atlantis, which prevent the majority of electors today from obtaining what they want at the polls, it only means they must learn to be the master over conditions and things. The oppressor must learn what is not permitted by God or The Law, even as the oppressed must learn to use the power and the rights given them by The Law. If through the perverted use of the power of the press and of all means of publicity men are being deceived into their undoing, they must learn to stand up and use their rights and take over from the enemy the power thus wrongfully used, and make it serve them instead of despoiling them.
Such in the main were the chief features of the industrial world in Poseid. The old-time strikes and riots out of which these laws were born disappeared and peace took its way. The change was beneficent, indeed, yet always the strong looked to see how they might evade the law, and though they did not succeed to a harmful extent, still the wish on their part entered the sum of karma. So when the modern world of the Christian epoch came to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly the last named, then began the reincarnation of this Poseid era; and for a time the tendency to oppression again came uppermost.
But over-riding this tendency now faintly appears the willingness to do right for the sake of right, which, as applied to industrial matters, has of very, very recent years been manifested—
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