To Light a Thousand Lamps - The Theosophical Society

Who Will Save Us? / 165
of material interests, and our personal self which for a time
tries to ignore its guidance. But our Ariadne will never let
us quite forget — it cannot, for we are bound to it irrevocably.
It is none other than our sūtrātman, the ‘‘thread of
radiance’’ that unites us to our god-self. More wondrous
still, it also links us to the god-self or ātman of every human
being who has ever lived on earth — a cosmic oneness that
is beyond the power of man, god, or demon to annihilate.
Not everyone, however, is able to respond constructively
to the tumult of change. Many are baºed and, as a result,
veer between the secure dogmas of the past and every avantgarde
notion that captures their fancy. Where is the saving
middle way that will steadily enhance the transmutation
process from dependence on external guidance to reliance
on the savior within?
It would be a pitiless universe had humanity to wait
many thousands of years for the golden age to return before
receiving help. Could we see our human evolution from
the origins of this earth cycle as in a panorama, we would
know that a hierarchy of Compassionate Ones keeps a protective
watch over all of earth’s children. Aside from their
cyclical seeding of the world consciousness with as much of
cosmic truth as humanity’s karma will permit, periodically
they send one or more of their number to incarnate among
mankind and enjoin nations and races to live in harmony,
order, and peace one with another. To establish a universal
brotherhood on earth is their continuing dream. Nor is it
an impossible dream by virtue of our common origin in
divinity — on this basis we are brothers.
By the law of magnetic attraction, when the call from