It is woman who is physical representation of that very ideal.  When a woman has four children, she does not favor one.  She does not decide to feed one and starve the others.  She, instinctively, has a democratic view of all life-- that is the idea of the feminine energies -- to nourish, to succor, to elevate all in the form of growing, nurturing, regeneration, and birth and to ensure rebirth of the future.

On the planet now, these struggles are death struggles.  The very cultures that revolve around the patriarchal central personality (remember that the masculine does represent action in the outer world), are in a death struggle.

Fundamentalism (ideas that support the authoritarian single central figure or set of rules) is in conflict with democracy.  The hope of the world and its future rests on the countries which did experience World War II.  They must get involved with these smaller wars because the transition is not yet finished.  The feminine system will triumph.  In doing so the very fabric of many cultures will become undone; many cultures will die out.  It may be so karmically difficult to change human consciousness that many people will not survive.  Hence, there will be a mass exiting of human beings who cannot evolve fast enough.

The feminine system will come into acceptance and predominate until a balance between the two systems is achieved.  It will be a time of detoxification, purification, and clearing.  The Hindus call this the age of the Kali Yuga.  When you read the book of Revelations in the Bible, it refers to this purification calling it the end of the world.  It is the end of the dominance of the masculine and a transition into a balance of the feminine and masculine.  The feminine system is the kingdom of God on Earth.  But there will be destruction, death, and detoxification in a world that cannot change itself into this new order of thinking and consciousness.  So much of the negativity of Revelations is merely the vision of a system changing -- the friction of change.

Karmically there are two main challenges presented to humanity -- the tyranny of the mind (false concepts) being broken by the wisdom of the heart and the concept of an "open heart."  Our global challenge is the reality of poverty, disease, starvation, homelessness, torture, and oppression of freedoms.  The reality of human beings going without while there is so much abundance on the planet is appalling.  This truth is coming into the world's consciousness.  And its solution is the test or initiation of the heart chakra.  The death of the ego (which is centered in the mind) must occur so we can enter into the fourth initiation -- the initiation of the "open heart."

Many seers have been predicting economic shifts and a possible worldwide depression.  Why?  It is the way of karma to shift the economic priorities by forcing humanity to share with one another.  That is what depressions and economic collapses are all about; they are great levelers.  The great worldwide collapse of the economies is neither avoidable nor inevitable.  Sooner or later the planet will have no boundaries, we will be all one people.  There will be cultural differences, but a globally based standard of ethics and values will exist.

The practice of torturing and killing people for ideas will eventually disappear.  But we must begin now, as a whole planet, to repudiate the practice.  In World War II, people died for ideas.  In the next initiation, no one must die for an idea.....

     --  Ransom & Bernstein, "The Crone Oracles"