The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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The Inner Life

THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1934

“These latter, who are being influenced by the members of the One Group, are as yet only a few thousand and some millions of men. Out of approximately 400 men and women who are working consciously with the Plan, only about 150 are so constituted that they can work in this Group of world mystics. Others must be trained and developed so that they too can cooperate.

“These constitute the nucleus of what will some day be a dominant world force. During the next 25 years their influence will become potent enough to attract political attention, provided those who have seen the vision of a powerful subjective body of thinking Souls can speak the needed words, and outline those concepts which will hasten the work of integration, and put the units in this Group in touch with one another.

“The picture to be held before our eyes is that of a vast network of groups, working along the many possible lines, but having at their heart or behind them—working silently and persistently influencing through soul contact—one or more members of the new slowly emerging Group. These focal points through which the Spiritual Hierarchy is now seeking to work stand together telepathically. Exoterically they must work in the completest understanding, preserving always an attitude of non-interference, and leaving each worker free to teach in his own group as he sees fit. The terms used, the methods employed, the types reached, the truths taught, the discipline of life demonstrated concern no one but the working disciple.

“The members of this Group of New Age Workers will however possess certain general characteristics. They will impose no enforced dogmas of any kind, and will lay no emphasis upon any doctrine or authority. They are not interested in having any personal authority, nor do they rest back upon traditional authority, whether religious, scientific, cultural or any other form of imposed truth. Modes of approach to reality will be recognized and each will be free to choose his own. No discipline will be imposed by these workers upon those who seek to cooperate with them. The ideas of any one person or leader as to how the units in his particular


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