The Soul Of Our World - A White Eagle Teaching

From White Eagle’s ‘Developing the Feeling Nature’ in ‘The Lightbringer’ comes the following wisdom: ‘The individual cannot find God by intellect alone. People are trying so to do at the present time, however. Many are seeking to intellectualise God; but no-one, we repeat, can find God through the intellect alone. Everyone has to go through a development of their soul, [learning to feel] their feelings and their love first. You can only lastingly find God through life, through your feelings, through your soul, so that the soul becomes like a bridge between heaven and Earth, bringing humanity back again to God. ‘The soul is the bridge. It enables the child of Earth to contact God again. We are trying to convey the nature of this divine Trinity of Father, Mother and Son, the perfect and holy Trinity of life. We are endeavouring to show the necessity for that [sacred] marriage or union between spirit and soul [that needs] to take place within every human being.

‘It is the woman aspect, the Divine Mother aspect, which is the tenderness, the love and the gentleness in life, the tenderness without which Spiritual death must ensue. Do you see the importance of woman’s place in the scheme of things? First let us say that women, those who are in the highly-privileged position on Earth of being in a woman’s body with womanly qualities, have great responsibilities. They do not all recognise such responsibilities, for they allow their lower or weaker self to take possession of them instead of realizing their noble and divine attribute, the attribute of the Divine Mother.

‘The work of the woman in you [the feminine, caring and nurturing side, which both genders contain] – whether you are physically a mother or not in this world – is to give love and motherhood, [to nurture and care for, in other words] to mother all life; to express motherhood with tender love and sympathy – and with wisdom which is as important as the love. Finding the woman within you, you must endeavour to develop the qualities of the Divine Mother. Can you see that the Divine Mother is herself the soul of humanity? It is the soul, and the soul is the intermediary between the individual self and the First Principle or Will of God.

‘When you arise and manifest [from within yourself] the dignity of the divine principle that is behind womanhood, wars will cease because the soul (or the woman) desires neither strife nor war. The soul is peace-loving; the soul yearns for beauty, harmony and perfection; the soul, being intuitive, can look into the future desiring to protect the race, not to destroy it. We speak most earnestly to all women, urging them to develop the qualities of the noble, the holy Mary, the mother aspect.’ Words in square brackets have been added by me in the hope of further clarifying White Eagle’s wisdom.