The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | OCTOBER 1934
with equal facility in two directions. It will be able to turn outward into the world of manifested forms, and inward into the world of synthesis, of unity and of spirit. There will be a fresh attitude towards life which will evidence itself in a better sense of value, for life will have a meaning hitherto unknown, and we shall have an interpretation of that meaning which will enrich our daily experience. Toward this end, all true workers are now bending every effort.
THE PROBLEM OF IDEAS
IN THE final analysis, the main problem of world government is the wise use of ideas. It is here that the power of speech makes itself felt, just as in the department of religion or of education the power of the written word is mainly felt. In the field of politics, the masses are swayed by their orators and never more so than now through the use of the radio. Great ideas are dinned into the ear of the public without cessation—theories as to dictatorship, communism, nazism, fascism, marxism, nationalism, and democracy. Methods of rule by this or that group of thinkers are constantly presented to the public, leaving them little time for consideration, or for clear thinking.
In the aggregate of this playing with ideas and in the constant impact upon the human consciousness of the great concepts which lie back of our evolutionary process, there is a deep underlying power to think, to choose, and to build a sure foundation. Through the evolutionary presentation of ideas, there is a steady march toward a liberty of thought (through the method of experiment, of discard and of renewed effort with ever newer concepts) which will enable mankind to build true to the great thought patterns which underlie the outer structure of our world.
The attentive minds of the age are constantly being made sensitive to these patterns, so that the individual mind can recognize them and wrest them out of darkness into the light of day. Thus will the true patterns be made available, and play their part in leading the race towards its destiny, towards those deeper realizations which underlie the racial types, and towards that synthesis of understanding which will result in a realization of Brotherhood. Thus thoughts play their part, and the problem of ideas will be increasingly understood until the time will come when we shall have our trained intuitives and thinkers who will be able to
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