Mankind
(The Way of Man, 3.19) Our Unique Mankind
(3.19.1) Mankind has not reached farther than that hatred rules between individuals, families, classes, nations, races, religions, the two sexes, etc. And then man is defined as a being equipped with reason. It is a very narrowly developed reason, exclusively concentrated on physical material reality. The consciousness aspect of existence is scarcely discovered yet. So-called psychology is a miserable business.
(3.19.2) Mankind could have been given all knowledge of life by its planetary hierarchy. In their striving after power men knew how to arrange their lives and banished their teachers of wisdom. During twelve thousand years we have reaped our own sowing.
(3.19.3) “The history of the entire evolution on our planet is a taking and a giving, to receive and give out. The explanation of the troubles of mankind is that it has taken and not given, received and not shared.” (D.K.) When we do not demand more than our necessary share there is abundance for all. The more we get the greater is our responsibility to manage it in the right way so that it benefits as many as possible and above all those who are most in need, which by no means is easy to decide.
(3.19.4) Life supplies the material (worlds, envelopes, energies, etc.) for men to use in the right manner and in so doing to develop consciousness. Man’s every consciousness expression entails an energy effect. It is men that have made physical life a hell by their expressions of hatred (everything is hatred that is not love). Then they accuse god of having created such a world. He has not done it. Man’s god is a monster of his own imagination. There are planets where the monads’ consciousness development goes on without friction. They are examples of paradisiac life. Our planet is not included among them.
(3.19.5) In no other place in our solar system and, according to what has been intimated, in our seven-globe of solar systems, is there such a mankind as ours. People arrive here from other solar systems to watch a mankind whose match in stupidity and brutality they have never seen. So the planetary hierarchy and planetary government have certainly assumed an exorbitant burden: to lead this mankind forward to unity. To bring monads of repulsive basic tendency together and turn them into “human beings” may be likened to a Sisyphean labour. Twice it has been necessary to drown mankind and a future third drowning is not precluded.
(3.19.6) Human life contains many incomprehensible facts. A man who has once been standing before the highest divinity of our planet may later in life regard that experience as an illusion and deny the hereafter. Krishnamurti is an instance of this.