This course teaches the student the extent to which the Hierarchy and other centers of life on the planet are dependent upon the unpredictable and often irresponsible factor of the human free will. According to law, the Hierarchy - even at danger point - could not infringe on human free will and dictate or impose a course of action based on their own deeper knowledge and more profound insight. We are helped to understand what the interdependence of life on this planet really signifies in terms of love, sacrifice and service by the part to the needs of the whole.

This course teaches the student: the period of transition, the present urgency, seed groups in the New Age of the Aquarius, the immediate task, the causes of the world difficulty, the spiritual trend of human destiny, the world crises, the Great Invocation, the call to a united act of service, the coming world order, the world crisis from a Hierarchical viewpoint, forces behind the evolutionary progress of the race, the doctrine of Avatars, the work of reconstruction, the way to victory, the cause of the world catastrophe, the new world religion, the tasks of implementing the will-to-good, the externalization of the Ashram, Hierarchical preparation at the Wesak festival, the preparation for the return of the Christ, work in the coming decades, organizing the Ashrams into form on Earth, the effects of the externalization, and Ashramic adjustment to esoteric living. Open book examination.