Grounding Wesak and Easter through the Festival of the Christ

IntroductionThe Christ Evolution

He Who anchored the Will of God, in the matrix of love, and Who pointed the way through the needles eye giving entrance to the passage through the Pyramid1 leading, to the Fathers House.2 He Who also opened the door, to the third initiation.3 None has shone, as He has done. No World Savior having grounded the Higher Way upon the plains of Earth has been equaled and yet, He returns today though in fact, has never left us. Nonetheless, He returns for establishing for the first time in the long history of the race the Christ Kingdom consciously within, the fourth kingdom. The new group of world Servers is one vehicle. His own incarnation or close working through One of equal rank, another through which, the most momentous of events on earth, now, takes place. His new Message, through the new world Religion the Will, divinely expressed working out as goodwill for the masses including the following of the Mystic Way leading eventually to soul contact, whilst, the will-to-good, for the more advanced types employing Antahkarana or, that passage through the Pyramid via the Higher Way, where leads, to the Fathers House are two ways, this expression maybe seen. The divine simplicity of the new Message on inner planes, must be heard: That the invocative cry by the masses as part of, and towards that greater Life,4 must needs, be sounded even if, but unconsciously. That the evocative response by the greater Life to that cry through them, is felt, experienced, leading eventually to a knowledge and conviction based on a growing polarisation of the mind held steady in the Light: mental focus superceding emotional appeal establishing thereby contact with,
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The Spiritual Triad the threefold vehicle or sheath, for pure Spirit, the Monad. Shamballa, the centre where the Will of God is known. 3 The Transfiguration. This paragraph barring a few words comes slightly adapted from The Rays and the Initiations by Alice A. Bailey:527. 4 That which comes from the Fathers House, as that of the Will, divinely expressed for example.

the Master, the Soul within, and eventually to taking initiation presided over by the Master of Masters the Christ, or World Teacher.5 Divine simplicity evokes, a presentation of similarities: the divine note, within the masses letting in, the Light . . . We might otherwise describe this by saying that the word faith voiced by the great initiate Paul, in the injunction, that faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things unseen maybe replaced, by the word Light for alternately conveying such a meaning. This maybe further understood, where we are seeing a more mentally polarised humanity emerge today on a higher turn of the spiral. The effect being, that inner light of the Soul as it represents or interprets reality as a consequence of the already divine within, aligned thereto, shines light, onto things, formerly unseen. Stepping up St. Pauls injunction to the higher demand of the race: the evocation of the Sons of Light the Christ Evolution. We are thus all Sons of Light (gradually emerging), as incontrovertible fact: For not only is the statement by astronomers we are all bearers of light, from the light-energy of stars an amazing pronouncement but even more amazing are WE, bearers, of a higher light . . . from a higher Christ-Light Evolution6 or as pertains, to the Doctrine of Avatars or World Saviours. Under emanation theory our spiritual essence is an emanation or outbreath of a greater Life. We are the Sparks, of the One Flame to such Life. It is through the Lord of the Worlds Great Sacrifice (which is actually one of His names) of taking incarnation onto the physical plane or of the Earth and the providing of physical forms in the various kingdoms of nature that His great Christ nature7 could bestow, as through the earlier animal-man form, the Spark of Mind, the Son of Mind or Light, for the commencement of the Christ or Soul Kingdom on earth to evolve.8 Whether we are religiously focused (which today means a more definite mental orientation though still including the emotional as through, that tremendous creative faculty the imagination) or , are scientifically
The World Teacher is known by many names amongst which, are Lord Maitreya, the Bodhisattva, Imam Mahdi, the Messiah, the Desire of all Nations and so on, and so forth. 6 Or as maybe otherwise stated, from a higher Saving- or Teaching-Light Evolution. 7 Or Soul nature. 8 All esoteric schools confirm this under the technical process humanity underwent over 18 million years ago called, individualization.
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oriented, matters not. We are all higher Sons of Light, or Mind (not merely of the lower concrete mind) contributing to building a Temple or Edifice for the Master Builder of all Master Builders upon the plains of earth, under the All-Seeing Eye, of the Most High the Lord of the World. Such an overarching Master Builder the Christ was the very first of humanity to link humanity with the Soul Kingdom (or the Spiritual Hierarchy) and the latter with, the Fathers House or Shamballa through the life He lived, and the teachings He gave. Amongst the new group of world servers the early stages of restoring the Esoteric Schools, and the pouring in, of new life for the new world Religion and to revitalizing the Freemasonic movement are three aspects to one great reconstructive Edifice or Temple, the Kingdom of Souls today taking place, through humanity. For those with eyes to see, ears to hear, the work proceeds apace. That perfection is not yet with us is no deterrent to the fiery galvanizing spirit that may overcome, all obstacles. The ingathering of the Christ forces grows daily. So let us all . . do our part. Let Participation not omission of the Christ evolution, issue forth!

For we know, and work: From the point of Light within the Mind of God [To] let light stream forth, into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Earth. From the point of Love within the Heart of God [To] let love stream forth, into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth. From the centre where the Will of God is known9 [To] let purpose guide, the little wills of men The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

Or at least, with this adapted Great Invocation the implied lower correspondences of the Divine Will energy or dynamic from such centre applies as for example: the spiritual Hierarchy as a whole, ones ray Ashram, ones spiritual or wholistic group affiliated to in the outer world, ones spiritual Triad as much, ones egoic Lotus.

From the centre which we call the race of men [To] let the Plan of Love, and Light work out. And may it seal the door where evil dwells. Let Light and Love and Power, restore the Plan on Earth.10

On a final point here and related to the growing application and realisation of the three major and the nine (sometimes ten) minor spiritual Festivals each year emerging, under the new world Religion. It is recognized that humanity must use the mode of emotional appeal within the field of religion for some time though not necessarily is this static, or the end of the story. Many perhaps millions today in some shape or form participate in a higher mental focus held steady in the light of the Soul, for evoking from its united Hall or Kingdom of Wisdom the solutions to many problems, on every side. Through perfecting the great creative sphere of the emotional vehicle especially through the imagination directed to higher purposes and aims, the mental orientation is invoked, and finds its place, though neither to the killing out, of all imagination or to all which is desirably good, or wholesome.

The Three Major Spiritual Festivals

The Three Major Spiritual Festivals for humanity have been universally recognized for decades as forming part of the emerging New World Religion and comprising that, of Easter, the great western Festival or Approach, the Wesak Festival the great Eastern counterpart and thirdly in a way which blends the both, and known, by various names, as the Festival of Goodwill, of Humanity, of the Christ,11 or as World Invocation Day. These three great Approaches follow in an ordered sequence from the first full moon of Aries to that in Taurus and to their final grounding in Gemini, now upon us. So what briefly, have we here? The Festival of Easter at the Aries Full Moon prepares us through right polarization and this around firstly the Aries concept of serving as the birthplace of ideas whilst secondly around, the risen Christ of history and
The Great Invocation here has been adapted merely for the continuity of the text and is not suggestive for the employment of such, as a voiced invocation/meditation. 11 Other titles for representing such figure or rather a title of Office could be employed, as for example, Lord Maitreya, the World Teacher, Imam Mahdi, the Messiah and so on.
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more broadly the risen Soul or Christ aspect within humanity and every individual. (Note well, these latter examples under the second point are equally from their beginnings indeed, ideas. Whilst for millennia have they furthermore worked out, through ideals and for the first time in human history en masse, the manifestation of this new or fifth kingdom of Souls, the Christ aspect bears the fruit, of earlier work.) An alignment or polarisation therefore, aligning us with that great principle of directed Purpose of the Christ, that galvanises the Soul to transcend the limitations of daily living to that deeper under-standing or -note, which stands behind the outer world and is the cause of its existence: and all this, in readiness for, that sublime spiritual high point of the year, the Wesak Festival. The major spiritual centre on our inconspicuous little globe that corresponds to the Easter Approach, is the (spiritual) Hierarchy of the planet, the Heart centre.

Wesak I have already somewhat covered, in another of my papers herewith, by the same name. However, we should also add, that at this most august Approach vast opportunity is provided for those having duly prepared towards the deeper mysteries of being, and a key note or method here, may be given, as penetration. If Easter represented the Soul and the personality (or lower Self) with an emphasis on the latter, being transcended. At Wesak, the focus is more between, Soul and Spirit, or between the Ego and the Monad (or the Father in heaven aspect) within man. Similarly if understanding (aligned to the Love aspect) represents a main theme for the Easter Festival might we well say, that focused intention sounds a predominant theme at Wesak or especially from the angle where Shamballa is said to be, the major point of (positive spiritual) tension, upon the planet. Which is even further corroborated under the planetary centre correspondence for Wesak namely that, of Shamballa, the centre where the Will of God is known, the Head centre. And that will, tension or intention are all along the same line, or similar ilk.
Finally comes the landing of the two great Approaches, via the Hierarchy and Shamballa into Humanity and its third Major Spiritual Festival call it what we will, that of Goodwill, of the Christ, of Humanity or of World Invocation Day, matters not. A keynote to this festival is very much a precipitation of the underlying will or purpose (the highest aspect) through, the third, or intelligence aspect. We start with the general idea or understanding of such purpose at Easter which prepares us for the highest absorption, penetration or tension to this will or purpose at Wesak, to then make, the eventual or consummated

landing of directed purpose, at the Festival of Humanity. Here we see, the divine Will formerly penetrated working out, via a capacity to direct energy through (understanding and intent, along with,) the vast and growing numbers of the men and women of goodwill for general application whilst, the will-to-good for its higher, more inclusive paralleling effort for the more advanced, the disciples of the world: and all here implicitly aligned or working out, through the overarching Ordered Purpose, of the Most High, in Shamballa. The Gemini Festival embodying as it does the grounding of right human relations as depicted by the symbol of the brothers is most lucidly depicted, in its seed thought or mantram: I recognize my other self, and in the waning of that self, I grow and glow. Parts of the first section of this essay deal with this be that, at the higher level of the older Brother, the Monad recognizing the Soul the younger brother especially at the Wesak full moon (in the threefold process of major festivals) or equally here, in Gemini through the landing of the fruits of either the Monad or the Soul, into the growing Soul-Infused Personality at the expense or waning of, the personality-imprisoned Soul focus, so to speak. This is particularly implied in the nature of theAntakarana itself 12 the great resolving duality mechanism within man, and macrocosm alike. In fact, the symbol of Gemini esoterically speaking stands for, the antahkarana, the two Brothers or Pillars of our being forming, a complete fusion [once fully constructed] of the unified personality and soul, with the unified Monad and Spiritual Triad.13 The new World Religion embodying its new Message of the Will, divinely expressed is well placed for bringing such more advanced technique of approach into the light of day under whats called the Science of Invocation and Evocation. Gradually step-by-step the parts to the divine Jigsaw or Plan fall in, to place. Yet small step by small step must be, our starting point. The growth of the Christ Evolution or the older Brother grows apace. Yet we who align with such things of meditation along with great hopes and opportunity the new World Religion so-called affords must needs also well realize, that in this,

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A more advanced meditation practice. The Rays and the Initiations by Alice A. Bailey:497.

[the Christ principle, spirit or evolution] is evident in the universal interest in goodwill, leading eventually to peace; this desire for peace may be based on individual or national selfishness, or upon a true desire to see a happier world wherein man can lead a fuller spiritual life and base his efforts on truer values; it can be seen in all the planning which is going on for a new world order, based on human liberty, belief in human rights and right human relations; it is demonstrating also in the work of the great humanitarian movements, the welfare organisations, and the widespread evocation of the human mind through the network of educational institutions throughout the world. The Christ spirit is expressively present, and the failure to recognise this fact has been largely due to the prevalent human effort to explain and interpret this phrase solely in terms of religion, whereas the religious interpretation is but one mode of understanding Reality. There are others of equal importance. All the great avenues of approach to Reality are spiritual in nature and interpretive of divine purpose, and whether the religious Christian speaks of the Kingdom of God, or the humanitarian emphasises the brotherhood of man, or the leaders against evil head the fight for the new world order or for the Four Freedoms or the Atlantic Charter, they all express the emergence of the love of God in its form of the spirit of Christ. (Ibid:499-500.)

From this statement given by the Tibetan14 might we more usefully see and appreciate the clearer place the esoteric Schools and a revitalized Masonry are today making in the broader context. Such a theme is also definitely apropos for the landing so vitally required through all humanity or approaches to God so well epitomized equally through, this third or final major Spiritual Festival of Humanity in Gemini. To this end, may all strive as serving a key part to the larger Plan through uplifting and strengthening our love for humanity that much more, or as to make, the difference between, humanity failing, or moving on due to, the living example of those whom having trod the way before her did, the work, that indeed, the former, could follow.

Stephen P. Thane June 2012

The Tibetan as Hes often affectionately known otherwise highly regarded, as the Tibetan High Lama and Master Djwhal Khul having provided for a vast amount of teachings on the newer outpourings given to Humanity from that boundless repository, of the Ageless Wisdom. The excerpt here cited was given out, over sixty years ago.

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