The Will-To-Good Group

- a virtual organization -

Special Topics

On World Leaders

"The physical plane events and precipitations are carried forward and made possible through focal points of energy who are the world dictators, the world statesmen, and the outstanding groups which are actively working in every country for their own ends or - as is more often the case - under the influence of some group ideal or wisdom plus personal ambition, personal will-to-power and personal aggrandizement.  We call these people dictators, demagogues, inspired leaders, or just and wise men, according to our peculiar ideology, tradition, attitudes to our fellowmen and our particular political, economic and religious training.  But all these leaders are simply human beings and like other men - idealistic, mistaken, lovers of their country, egoists, impressionable, foolish, cunning, powerful, focused on some goal or ambition, with clear vision and at the same time myopic reactions, cruel or wise as the case may be - but, in the last analysis, highly developed personalities.  They are being used to engineer great and needed changes and to alter the face of civilisation.  The wrong methods employed and the evil things done are the fault of humanity as a whole, and of the habits of thought which have made mankind selfish and cruel and cause this great and universal spirit of the will-to-change to manifest so powerfully and cruelly.

Blame not the personalities involved or the men who produce these events before which we stand today bewildered and appalled.  They are only the product of the past and the victims of the present.  At the same time, they are the agents of destiny, the creators of the new order and the initiators of the new civilisation;  they are the destroyers of what must be destroyed before humanity can go forward along the Lighted Way.   They are the embodiment of the personality of humanity.  Blame yourselves, therefore, for what is today transpiring and seek not to evade responsibility by placing it upon the shoulders of spectacular men or any statesmen, dictator or upon any group.  Look not to one person or to one group of persons and accuse them of causing the present world condition.  Look not also to any one person or group to bring liberation or to find a solution of the world problem.  That is for humanity itself to do.  Humanity must take action and will do so, when the right time comes."

- The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p 136-137,  by Alice A. Bailey

"In every nation there are those who see a better vision of a better world, who are thinking and talking and planning in terms of humanity, and who realize that those who form the various groups- political, religious, educational and labor - are men and women and essentially, if unconsciously, brothers...

They realize that the only true hope is an enlightened public opinion and that this must be the result of sound educational methods and just and exact propaganda."

- Problems of Humanity p 94, by Alice A. Bailey