When men realise the benefits of co-operation they will adopt it naturally as the most pleasant and intelligent way to proceed. Gone for ever will be the hardship and tension of constant competition, the strain of which saps the joy of work and makes each day a struggle for existence. Of course, there are many who adore this competitive struggle, who find in competition the stimulus that for them makes life worth living, pitting their frail egos against the rest. They need competition to register themselves to themselves. However, in the time immediately ahead, men, more and more responding to the beneficent energies of Aquarius, will realise the divisive nature of competition and will gladly acquire the habit of co-operation. In this way the world will reap an enormous benefit, as men work together as equals in the many tasks of reconstruction which will await their service. Thus will the world be transformed by willing hands. Thus will the new world be wrought.
Aquarius is another word for unity, and through its gift of co-operation that unity will gradually become manifest. Unity will be the hallmark of the new time.

The choice today

For countless thousands of years, competition has held sway. Many are the achievements by which the habit of competition has enriched the forward striving of the race, but significant as these may be, they are as naught against the possibilities which co-operation would have allowed. As civilisations have marked the progress of man, the highest inspirations have sprung from co-operative effort, and have beckoned men forward. Today humanity has come to a turning point. Man’s ever-enquiring mind and competitive spirit have brought the race to its most dangerous point in history. The desire for ultimate power in its most material form has given us the atomic bomb and a life of misery for millions. Man has thus to enter gladly a new path that will bring an end to destructive rivalry and war, or face oblivion itself. This is the choice which now faces the race of men. Each one must think deeply and take his stand.

[This article from Share International magazine, June 2012 , is by a senior member of the Hierarchy of Masters of Wisdom. His name, well-known in esoteric circles, is not yet being revealed. Benjamin Creme, a principal spokesman about the emergence of Maitreya, is in constant telepathic contact with

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