The Washington herald., 1914-08-16
Nv pn. w. w. BAKER.


that One shall come, in the power OF
whose word is salvation for all men.
Hinduism prophesies that the next Ava
tara is Kalki, who shall come riding on
white horse; Buddhism foretells the COM
ing Of the Teacher of gods and men,
the Bodhisattva Maiterya- The Zoroas-
trian is taught to look to the coming OF
the Saoshyant, ''the Saviour" the Jews
10 expect the Messiah, and the Chris
tians. the Christ. MohammedShism, TOO,
speaks Of the coming Of another Prophet
OF God, and already by the side OF Mu-
hammad's grace at Medina is prepared
an empty tomb where shall lie thef body
OF the Lord after His death; in Persia
ana elsewhere the Shiahs know well OF
the Imam Mahdi, who in $40 A D. disap-
pesred from the sight OF men, but now
awaits, in the mysterious city OF ia
bulka. to come once again, when ialth
wanes, to lead men to God
When He that is thus proPhesled IN all
religions shall appear, who VIII ac-
l,oHledEe him? without great gift OF
prophecy we can surely already foreten
who will acknowledge Him and VINO VIII
not: for human nature has but little
changed since Zoroaster~ gave HIS mes
sage and was reviled for II; since the
Buddha gave the law and was denounced
for His aIl-embracing love, and Christ
showed the way and men killed Him.
Hierarchy of Order.
Rsfore we turn to that burning aues-
tion of TODAY. let us for a moment rise
above the outer story of events that men
cau history. and turn our eyes to Those
who guide the events in history, VINO
shane human evolution, who aomlnlsIei
the laws of nature. There Is oeyono anu
behind all physical happenings a mlgny
Hierarchy Of order, in the nanos-Si ', y. u
lies the government, the direction OF Ihe
world A great Hierarchy which has
,,1Ided our race and shaped its destinles
from the birth of our humanity ooWh 10
the nresent day, and which Will gulde IN
the future as it has guided IN the pas
Thar mighty Hierarchy has TWO chLeI s,
denartments concerned with the grown
- tba evolution of man-one the de-
aa-+rent that guides the outer eVoIu-
ZION that shapes the forms OF races Ihat
raises and casts down ciVlnzauohs' 70
whom, kings and the nations OF the WoIlu
are as pawns in the mighty game OF nc
the other the department OF teachlis'
which gives religion a1ter relIsioh a.
world as the world has neeO VI ~
,,,bic,, holding in its hands the vast circle
~ tba truth. gives out portions OF that
Truth from time to time IN lorms 10 oe
understood by the people; which gives 10
the world its spiritual teachers the iOuii- m
ders of all its faiths. and guioes an lts
eniritIal and moral unfolding. An IN
tbnss two great departments, visible
tbroUrbout human history by their
o-l-inp Won have in each OF them
Head. who uses the force Of the Whole,
who directs their energies to foreseeh
ends. ,.,-.o-.
A. the head Of the ruling department
so far as appearance IN the WoTio Is - -
cerne5-stands the mighty Being from
,Tborn our very name of man Is drawn:
Dc is the Manu-, The Man, the type OF
Zach race as it is gradually builded' the
,erfect man Of every race, who develops
IN the race the qualities emoooleo IN
Himself. And as the name OF Nan Nan
means the thinker, the intelligent one
.Ljs name Of the typical man, the
Nm stands for the Ruler, the Law
gfver of the race.
s;5e ~, side with him, his Brother in
The preat work of evolution, stands the
worId-Teacher, called by that name IN
so1,a Of the ancient books of earth,
Ioyn as the one who embodles IN HIM
self the wisdom which Is the truth that
fesds the human race. And those two,
the Ruler and the World-Teacher, stand
at the head of the two departments OF
which have spoken, stand as types OF
the Hierarchy as a whole in its rullng
and its teaching power. In the Scrip
tures of the faiths from time to time thls
comes out although unless you know
the underlying truth, the fact as It oc-
ours in history may not strike you with
i-s full significance. And yet to those
~ Won who have been brought up from
cbiidbood on the Christian Bible, the
Jewish Bible. this fact ought TO come
out as natural and customary; FOR you
see at the head of the young Jewish ma
tion the two types of which I am speak
ing. in the familiar names Of Moses, the
Iawfiver and Aaron the High Priest OF
the Jewish people; for in all these Scrip
trres YOU have represented over and over
again the same great facts Of human
evolution And under those two names
the same facts come out Of the Lawgiver
and the Teacher. the Head Of the State
and the Head of the Religion The mes
sengers of the Great White Lodge are
ever moving among men, bringing TO
them the truth Of which the age has need.
In the old days, the messengers were
honored, the teachers were welcomed
and revered. Only with the growth
of the concrete mind in man, that self
assertfve individuality which is price
less for the evolution OF man, although
in many Of its manifestations repugnant
and distressing have the messengers
been despised instead of welcomed.
Hence the danger today, that the story
Of the mighty Teacher, who came to
the childhood of the fifth subrace, the
Teutonic, of which the English and
German are families may be repeated
again in our own days when that sub
race has almost reached its maturity;
for the story of the messengers since
Christ came to earth has been a story
Of persecution, Of torture, Of murder, Of
uttermost rejection. One wonders,
looking over the recent past, whether
the world be ready for the coming of
a World-Teacher once again.
The world-Teacher is the one who is
the Founder and the central figure OF
each great faith in turn; for each sub
race has its own religion, given to II
in its early days, moulding and shaping
its expression as it grows to youth and
to maturity.
CIoaI<ed in Mysteries.
He is always connected with what are
called the Mysteries: that is the Secret
reaching, the esoteric side of the re-
IiRion which is given to those strong
enough to receive IT, old enough to un-
derstand it, the backbone of every
exoteric religion. that which origen
called Gnosticism, the knowledge, with
out which a religion tends gradually
to decay and to pass away. The World
Teacher, ever gives to the religion its
MYSTERIES, in and by which the truth
shall be kept alive. Ready We are to
recognize that in the past history OF
faiths older than our own; but many
do not realize that the Christ, when He
came re-established for Christianity the
Mysteries that the elder faiths also had
enjoyed, and that, in the writings OF
the early Church those Mysteries are