Thus reconstruction must begin from the very hearth, from daily life.

80.  Until recently the sensitivity of plants was considered to be just instinct, but after investigation one now can attribute this "instinct" to the domain of thought.  Hence one must observe upward and downward. The human creature shows a characteristic error in presuming to himself the exclusive ability to think. By the most simple examples one can demonstrate how human thought is affected by age, circumstances and nationality.  It is striking to see how weak is the rudimentary thinking of the average man; yet anonymously-sent spatial thoughts will uplift his spirit.  You know that a radio, with slight alteration, can receive thoughts from space.  And thoughts as living matter can both nourish and be nourished.                -M:  Agni Yoga 1929
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173.  Thus reconstruction must begin from the very hearth, from daily life.  One must not wait for movements of entire nations; on the contrary the life principle will be rectified in the entire world outside of nationality, along the personal channel. Thus one ought to remember first of all that it is not the former narrow boundaries that will divide the world.  The basis of finer energy is not limited to a specific nation but will find a completely different world design.      

        -Morya:  Heart 1932                                       -N. Roerich:  Sergius the Builder, 1925
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There are two types of patriotism:  that which stems from the holy flame of freedom itself and pure cosmic honor, and that which is an emotional drive based upon the nationalistic spirit of the individual as he identifies with group and national consciousness….The great symbol of the eagle in America is a high-flying image which surpasses national pride and, penetrating the blue heaven, exerts a pressure to honor those qualities which make men truly free.

(…when) a phoenix generation…once before stood at the doorway of great achievement.  They knocked upon the golden door of that achievement and sought then to lift high the torch, and failed**.   And the darkened ages followed.           

                                    -Saint Germain:       Pearls of Wisdom 8:27    

 **Marie Corelli wrote The Secret Power (1921)--at pp. 224-32 tells of a golden city in the Sahara.