The Directorate (IV)

excerpt from Ernest Scott's The People of the Secret 
(Octagon Press, 1983):



THE EXECUTIVE OF THE PEOPLE
OF THE SECRET



To those who claim logic as the highest principle, the
material we have collected will be wholly unconvincing. It will
appear no more than special pleading and proof by selected
instances.


Yet logic at its limits can demonstrate no more than the
consistency or otherwise of a closed system. Plato's firelit cave
is a closed system and its prisoners find logic adequate to
explain all that they experience. No logic can trigger off the
intuitive leap which would suggest to them the existence of a
reality greater than their world of flickering shadows. And
shadows may be thrown by neon lights no less than by cave
fires.


To those predisposed to occultism, all that we have tried to
bring forward will probably confirm existing subjective preferences.
It may also, most regrettably, provide material for
developing others.


But there may be readers less decisively committed; readers
prepared to try and extrapolate from logic.


They may feel that the material collected here suggests a
wholly unsuspected viewpoint; a framework within which the
scientist and the priest may sit in peace together: a universe in
which freewill and determinism can coexist.


With rashness both unpardonable and unavoidable we
suggest the following tentative conclusions.


History is not the equilibrant of chance and hazard. It does
not just happen. The script for the long human story was
written by intelligences much greater than man's own.


Certain gains and goals for mankind - and for the biosphere
of Earth - must be attained within certain intervals of Earth
time. These gains are essential for the balance and growth of
the solar system of which the Earth is a part. The solar system
may itself be subject to a similar pressure in the interest of
the galaxy of which it is a part.


The direction, speed and end of this process is "the Will of
God".


The Will of God is the aspiration of Divinity that the
universal process shall proceed in a certain way to a certain
end while leaving open the possibility that it may elect to
proceed quite otherwise to quite else.


Very high intelligences direct the evolution of the universe
in an attempt to ensure that the Divine aspiration shall be
realized.


These intelligences are coercive in proportion as their
material is unconscious. They are persuasive in proportion as
their material is conscious.


The universe is a gradient of consciousness and on this
gradient the earth occupies a low level. Its highest raw
material is mankind. Mankind is collectively unconscious of
the evolutionary process of which he is a part and he is
subject therefore to determinism approaching a hundred per
cent.


Even so, the direction imposed on mankind is only relatively
coercive. Because of the high energies which are
potential in him, man may not be compulsively directed.
Means have to be employed which do not outrage the
integrity of his potential nature.


This is achieved by arranging a bias in favour of those
situations which contain developmental possibilities and by
limiting man's opportunities for making involutionary choices.
About this line there may be marginal interplay of determinism
and free will.


On the "present moment" of a man or a generation of men
these pressures may appear both random and hostile.


Responsibility for this process on Earth lies with an
Intelligence which has been called The Hidden Directorate.
This may correspond to the level symbolized in occult legend
as an Individual (e.g., "The Regent" or "The Ancient of
Days", etc.). It is to be equated either with Demi-Urgic level
or with the level immediately below.


No grounds exist for an opinion as to whether this
Intelligence is, in any sense, comprehensible to man, a single
or a composite Intelligence, or whether it is discarnate or
corporeal.


Below this level, certain members of ordinary humanity, in
whom qualitative changes have taken place, are in touch with
the Directorate and may at intervals share its consciousness.


This group of advanced human individuals is what has been
referred to as the Hidden Executive. It is the reality behind all
legends of "masters" and "initiates" from earliest historical
times to the present.


There may be several Centres on earth from which the
Executive operates, corresponding to the division of responsibility
for humanity assigned before the Withdrawal of
12,000 years ago.


One such Centre is - or was - in Afghanistan and
corresponds to the legend of the Markaz ("Powerhouse").
There may be other Centres corresponding to various ethnic
groups.


The Executive works to implement the overall plan of the
Directorate. This activity is at extra-sensory level.


The Executive also operates at the level of ordinary life
through a descending order of initiated subordinates. These
take part in the ordinary life of nations and are almost wholly,
but not quite, unsuspected. These are the Secret People.


Those active within ordinary life have been known by many
names at various periods of history - and pre-history. Those
under a chain of command from the Afghanistan Centre have
been known as Sufis.


Side by side with action on humanity-in-the-mass, the
Executive and its subordinates are concerned with local
attempts to raise the conscious level of individual men
exceptionally.


Such specially selected ordinary individuals may aspire to
qualify for participation in the work of the Executive. The
process by which they may so qualify is the Magnum Opus -
the "Great Work". This is equivalent to a vertical ascent to a
higher level as opposed to a gradual rise with the evolutionary
tide.


Opportunities through which ordinary men who have
"begun to suspect" may qualify to enlist in The Great Work are
never wholly absent at any time in history, but in terms of the
Earth's time-scale, they occur irregularly. Such occasions are
related to extra-terrestrial events and these events are not at the
discretion even of the Directorate.


When "the solar wind blows", a major operation of soulmaking
is begun by the Directorate. As a result, a relatively
large number of human individuals may complete a significant
part of The Great Work in a single generation. A small number
may reach completion. Both categories will serve the
evolutionary process of mankind thereafter, but their postmortem
situations may be different.


Knowledge of such matters has never at any time in history
been absent, but it has always been available in the form of
allegory, never explicitly. Many of the Greek myths are
allegorical descriptions of sequences in the Magnum Opus. In
recent historical times, corresponding to the development of
intellect, suggestions have become increasingly explicit. They
have probably never been more explicit that at the present
time. This may suggest that the end of a major era is envisaged.


There are indications that an "Occasion" is currently
developing and that its possibilities are being focused chiefly in
the West. It is not possible to conjecture whether this is a major
or a relatively minor event. It seems safe to assert that it exists.
If this is so, and if it is true that information about these
matters is now explicit, it may be objected that it is hardly
explicit enough to indicate a line of action to those who might
be ready to respond.


It may be that matters will never be more explicit than they
are and that a successful search for a Source is - and always has
been - the minimum price of admission.





The People of the Secret