INDIVIDUAL AND WORLD CRISIS FOR ADJUSTMENT

When I deal with a crisis in my life I try to see the crisis in the light of the following words as given by Master DK:

“A crisis is brought about by a certain habit of mind, developed in the vehicle; it is surmounted in time only by a certain habit and rhythm of the spiritual content of the man's nature. It is the establishing of a certain objective rhythm which produces a crisis; it is the emergence of a particular subjective rhythm which enables a man to surmount the crisis and to capitalise on the opportunity. Please bear this in mind.”

“Shirk not these crises, hard and difficult though they may appear to be. Difficult they are. Forget not that the habit of confronting crises is a long-established one within the consciousness of humanity. Man has the "habit of crisis," if I may so call it. They are only the points of examination as to strength, purpose, purity and motive and the intent of the soul. They evoke confidence when surmounted and produce greatly expanded vision. They foster compassion and understanding, for the pain and inner conflict they have engendered is never forgotten, for they draw upon the resources of the heart. They release the light of wisdom within the field of knowledge and the world is thereby enriched.”

 

As I went through the media reports a week or two ago a thought came to me that it looks like the world, as a whole, is picking up on the fight between good and evil. These days in the news you can read a lot about people and representatives of countries referring to the USA as evil or as the Satan. Even the USA itself, under Bush revered to an axis of evil. Evil is rampant on all sides and in all countries; but we can also see the good at work although not referred to in the media as often as they refer to the evil side. A friend asked me why my emails that I send are always about the dark forces in the world and what they are doing. She thought that I should concentrate more on the light and the good things.

This made me think that I am not only acting out in my private life what I perceive in the media, but that I have a crisis of right and wrong, good and evil in my own life. This has been going on for a long time and I have put myself on the side of right where I am always trying to fight this evil in the world. It started early in my life, even before I joined the police force in South Africa as a young man. I also learned there that there was not a lot I could do, accept my duty as I saw it. I have become more tolerant over the years and realised that the world needs evil for many reasons. For one, it is the learning tool for the ignorant masses; it is their wakeup call. Evil creates crises that force us to act. We are just not ready to be without it…….I think my crisis is more in the will to understand and make sense out of this fight between good and evil, my search for truth and reality. What is behind it all? How does it work? Why? Why? And Why? - This drives me, a consciousness of warring dualities.

It looks to me as if Humanity itself as the world Disciple is also going through this crisis. Humanity is being driven by dark or materialistic forces so that we can all get an overdose of it. I think World War III is becoming a reality for the near future if this has to end with a Big Bang to inaugurate the New Age. If you take a look at the “world leaders” today; it looks as if some of them are using everything in their power to achieve just that, World War. There is a force behind all this riots and so-called revolutions and unrest that we see all over the world today. Good or bad; or good and bad.

 

Maybe this is all under control of spiritual forces that want to clean up and clear the way for the coming of Christ. This is also the way some Church-leaders are looking at it now. Some of them even talk of Armageddon.

I also see it all as a chessboard with black and white pieces or forces everywhere scheming, acting and counter acting each other for supremacy. This continuous creation of crisis after crisis to replace one crisis with another crisis that gives birth to another crisis is what we call life on earth today; the workings of the Spiritual Hierarchy – the true Illuminati. We were made to absorb or handle all of this. It is our destiny for development.

The world needs all this for the building of the world antahkarana because quite a large number of people are busy developing it in their lives and are thus having a pulling effect on the whole world. This is also part of the Plan of the Spiritual Hierarchy.

We must try to be the detached observer by raising the focus of our attention to a higher altitude and not be subjected to glamour. We must not get under the impression that we have the solutions to world problems; it is much bigger than what we see in world events or in the media alone. 

Humanity or the world is at that stage of development where it is also preparing for the new age of Aquarius under the entire range of spiritual vibrations in our solar system, the countless combinations of forces and energies – ray, planetary zodiacal and cosmic. In a sense you can say that we have brought ourselves here through the workings of evolution or the clock of evolution where we have an alignment of different cycles at this moment.

Pisces is seen as the head of the list of astrological signs because it is governing the present great astrological world cycle of 25800 years. We are currently moving on this greater wheel from Pisces to Aquarius, a process that takes approximately 2150 years. The wheel that governs the Hierarchy, the lesser cycle, is also moving from Pisces to Aquarius. Therefore, the two cycles are aligned, the wheel that governs Shamballa, on the greater cycle, is aligned with the Hierarchy on the lesser cycle and, therefore, it is a time of unprecedented opportunity. The Hierarchy is now becoming receptive to the second aspect of the Monad, the aspect that relates to the perfection of form. The third aspect of the Monad, the creative aspect, influenced the Piscean era. We also have the seventh ray coming into manifestation and so on….

We, some of us, are only now starting to make sense of all this; thus the need to develop the antahkarana and to connect the higher mind with the lower mind. The individual disciple and the world disciple are in need to do this because our morals and spiritual knowledge must go ahead of our technological inventions to prevent us from becoming a thread to ourselves and the planet as a whole. At the moment it looks like it is the other way around. We still have savages living in jungles, [including concrete jungles], while some of us are manufacturing nuclear weapons and walking on the moon.

In the wake of our modern developed communication networks the world has become a Global Village and gossip is spreading fast and is even translated into all languages. The people are definitely getting aware of the Hidden Hand in everything on the world stage.

I came across the following words of the Master DK in DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE, on page 187, which opened up my mind to a lot of things:

“Be not weighed down or over-distressed by the weight of the ignorance and the lack of development of the masses whom you see around you. The psychic atmosphere of the countries in which you work is peculiar and most difficult for the disciples who are working in connection with us, the workers in the Great White Lodge. It is easier for chelas who work in connection with the . . . . . . Brotherhood (a branch of our activities).  Such chelas do not, however, work with the intelligentsia or with the pioneers of the race or with the thinking aspirants. They work with the quality of spiritual aspiration to be found in the herd, in the mass, and not with or in the individual. They do not work with the type of person whom you can reach. I mention this because I know well the deep discouragement which can assail you as you react to the massed psychic impression. Release yourself from it in the assurance that the Great White Lodge is working for the aspirants and that the . . . . . . Brotherhood is working with the illiterate and ignorant masses. It is one work but delegated to different groups who work in the closest possible association.”

If the “Brotherhood” to which Master DK is refereeing to here is the Dark Brotherhood, then it makes a lot of sense to me.

This also makes me understand that the “Dark” brotherhood is not actually dark or evil for some people. It is more the materialistic forces in us and our surroundings and the sources of Cosmic Evil, that Master DK refer to elsewhere in his books with AAB, which use these forces that are evil. The “Dark” Brotherhood works it’s evil to free the little ones while the Evil forces of materialism work to enslave them.

You can say that the Dark Brotherhood throws the little ones in the pit; the White Brotherhood helps them out of the pit; while the Cosmic Evil who lives in the pit, fights to keep them there. This is just another way of looking at it and the analogy might not be perfect.

I wrote a lot about all this on my website at:

 http://edgeba.webs.com/blackandwhitelodges.htm

 

BLACK AND WHITE LODGES-17

Black magicians and materialists

Are running this world like imperialist

They are extending their power

Over governments by the hour

They control nearly all the Banks

And keep adding to their ranks

While they control the Military Industrial Complex

We have no time to relax

About them there in nothing illuminating

And they have nothing worth celebrating

On Earth they are the Dark Brotherhood

That works for the Black Brotherhood

They want to replace the coming New World Order

With their own Evil World Order

By taking away the light from the East

And giving you the mark of the beast

These are the un-illuminated ones

And apposing them are the illuminated ones

Christ and the Masters of Wisdom

Who run our Spiritual Kingdom

Their teachings have led to illumination

Ever since the dawn of creation

Now They are instigating the New Age

As a new evolutionary stage

Where Their teachings and light

Will make the Age of Aquarius bright

So that man can stop to roam

And find his way back home

The White Brotherhood has been behind

Religions and Secret Societies of all kind

Always keeping the light burning

For those who reached the point of turning

The Brotherhood is now in preparation

For the Hierarchy’s externalisation

The coming of Christ on Earth

As been propagated since His birth

 

The biggest ally of evil is ignorance and the biggest effort, of evil, is to keep as many people in ignorance as possible. Most of the people in the world are ignorant and has to learn through the school of hard knocks. Thus they develop and something good comes out of ignorance or a lack of schooling. But, there is also an evil force that wants to keep people in ignorance so that they, some rulers and their clans, cannot lose their power over them. Here people must learn to stand up to the evil ones and install new leaders….a vicious cycle that starts all over again.

 

We can now talk of Media Wars, where the Main stream media, mostly controlled by Jews, is losing its grip over intelligent people all over the world. Alternative News through the internet is playing a great part in this. The current world crisis in Ukraine, and Syria, is opening the eyes of the world to the hypocrisy of the west.

I do everything in my power to make people aware of this eternal battle between good and evil through the articles I post on my blog and website, as well as in my poems.

My website:  http://edgeba.webs.com/index.htm

 

My Blog: http://esoterictruth-seeker-edgeba.blogspot.com.au/

 

I try to make them aware of the spiritual forces involved in our everyday struggles and of the fact that our destinies are under control of higher forces than what the world media is holding out to us.

I try to understand this proses, through self-education, and I want to share my knowledge about it with others so that they two, can make sense of the world in the light of spiritual knowledge and can come to the conclusion that they are not alone and that there is hope for a better future; even if that future is not in our time and still far away. The main idea is to come to the understanding that there is a Plan, the Big Picture, the Will of God behind all this, implemented by and under the control of the Spiritual Hierarchy, under the Christ, the Master of the Masters. He never left and never lost control.

EDGEBA

 

A MEDITATION TO BRING ABOUT ALIGNMENT BETWEEN PERSONALITY AND SOUL

In the production of alignment during meditation, I will ask you to do the following exercises, in breathing and in focussing. You know well, do you not, my friend and brother, that the more disciples are aligned and coordinated, the greater will be their power in service.

 

Therefore, attempt the following breathing exercise, paying particular attention to the interlude, and to the line of thought which you carry forward during these interludes. This is, for you, a somewhat difficult task, yet the interlude should be the easiest and most effective part of the meditation work. An interlude, properly held and utilised, is one of the preparatory steps towards that occult phenomenon, called by the oriental teachers, samadhi....

 

Then meditate deeply during the next six months on the following six phrases, holding the consciousness as high in the head as possible, and attempting to hold the mind steady in the light and aligned with the brain.

 

1st month—May the light of the soul illumine my mind, and shed a light upon the way of others.

 

2nd month—May the love of the soul control my lower nature, and guide me in the way of love.

 

3rd month—May I act as a soul in all my ways, and thus awaken others to a right activity.

 

4th month—I teach the way to others. I seek to contact souls, not minds.

 

5th month—As a soul, I serve my fellowmen.

 

6th month—I place the torch of truth in other hands, and from my torch they light their light.

 

If you follow these simple suggestions, my brother, you will be surprised at the results which will appear in a year's time. Simplicity is the way of soul growth. Be simple.

 

Each month, write a simple summation of your thoughts and service as you work with the monthly seed thoughts. Endeavour to make these six papers of real mental value to others, and also see, if possible, that they have a magnetic value [Page 194] and that they breathe out, not only mental understanding, but also an emotional appeal. Attend likewise to the form in which you cast them for that will be the symbol on the physical plane of your inner alignment.

 

[DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE, p193]

FIERY CREATIVENESS OF THE HEART [a poem]

Creativeness incorporates the heart

Or rather, the sacred fire of the heart
Which radiates a special light       
That shines in nerve substance ever bright

This is a fiery potentiality of a magnate
Of creativeness that will never stagnate 
For a heart consecrated to righteousness
Will radiate it in its creativeness

We must prepare for higher realisations

By bringing new consciousness to our vibrations
Only the heart can be the accumulator
That brings Fohat to the illuminator

Affirm thought as the power and co-creator

Of existence while acting as our translator
Into a realisation of spiritual creativeness
Under the heart’s persuasiveness

When the stage of creativeness has been reached

You better practice what you preached
Or be retarded for many lives to come
By a rhythm hard to be undone

It’s not always fair to the good souls

To absorb the evil of the bad souls
That is why we have Karma
To force us to do our dharma

We create through psychic sensitised vibrations

Thus each work becomes a source of subtle vibrations
Where quality will be the foundation of cooperation
With cosmos that speaks through every creation

The highest energy creates only under tension

When life brings feelings of contention
So absorb everything life can teach
To bring great creations within your reach

The creative feeling is creativeness of thought

While reason without heart will come to nought
Purification of the heart brings sensitiveness
That leads to the renewal of consciousness

Ignorance disturbs the ascent of the hart

When this ally of the dark force plays its part

EDGEBA

[Based on the Agni Yoga Teachings]
  

THE RELATION OF THE INTUITION TO ILLUSION

Intuition is a spiritual perception which gives right direction and a higher state of consciousness; it results in the pouring down through the mind of a stream of pure intelligent reason that is emotionally stabilised and poised, and which comes direct from the intuitional or buddhic plane.

The intuition is one of the latent faculties of the mind and that which enables the Spiritual Triad to make its presence objectively felt; it will develop into activity and usefulness by following the prescribed methods for its cultivation. By means of this faculty, man can have direct access to Truth, without the preliminary necessity of research and intellectual discrimination, these being then superseded.

Illusion is a mental misinterpretation of facts of life. According to the teachings of the Occult Philosophy, there is only one Reality, i.e. the One Cause, the universal Consciousness, which the orthodox call God. Outside of this One Great Changeless Mind, there is nothing but its manifestations; these are in a constant state of flux and change and under the influence of the law of Evolution. These manifestations, therefore, are not real, the final Reality being that which will Be – at the close of the evolutionary process. In so far as the human mind assumes these temporary manifestations to be permanent, it is subject to illusion.

Throughout centuries of belief in the reality of the material world, humanity has become confirmed in its belief of its reality. Because of this, it is with the utmost difficulty that the individual can be brought to suspect that his concepts of Reality are not true.

The student of psychology observe that the individual – as he develops the power of the mind – finds that the ideas he held, while functioning purely on the lower levels of the emotions and of thought, become untrue as his consciousness shifts to higher levels. A child has his definite concepts of Truth and Reality, but these concepts prove illusory as the child emerges into manhood. The concepts held by mature humanity and believe to be true prove illusory also as he gains in knowledge and begins to transmute experience into wisdom. In old age, if wisdom has been achieved and the fruits of experience are garnered, he will then look upon the concepts of early life and maturity as materialistic and largely untrue.

What is true of the individual is also true of the race. The concepts and the beliefs of one age prove illusory in a subsequent age and are discarded for the new. This is so because [as the mind evolves and develops] it comes closer to the world of truth. When the mind of the individual finally comes under the influence of the intuition and of the higher mind, he will know the truth with immediacy and will discard as illusion his former concepts and beliefs.

Because of the exigencies of the present time, the Hierarchy – through their teachers – are transmitting, through various ways and means, the manner in which this Great Illusion can be dispelled. Through self-discipline, right orientation, the practice of meditation and detachment from personality claims, the consciousness is raised to ever higher levels until the intuitional level can be reached. There, knowledge and understanding reveal to the individual that there is no Reality except the One Changeless Eternal Mind and all else is illusion. The aim is then to enter into that divine and universal Mind and learn co-operation with the purposes, the plans and the laws of that Mind. Everything else is regarded as unstable, temporary and illusory. The mind suddenly discovers and KNOWS that certain things are true without further investigation or enquiry and proceeds to govern action upon the assumption of their truth.

The relation of the intuition to illusion is one of living in a life which will clear the way for the acquiring of knowledge and intelligence; then that which is illusion will be easily discerned and finally dispersed, through the use of the intuition. The technique of the life of the disciplined disciple is to learn “to stand in spiritual being”.

The result of the pouring in of the intuition will be ILLUMINATION. It takes the form of the impression of the Light and Wisdom of the soul upon the quiescent [still] mind. This is one of the factors which will dispel glamour. Glamour is an astral or emotional force which makes the aspirant the victim of his own false emotional concepts and desires. Glamour can be likened to the conduct of a people living in the valleys, enmeshed in fog and mists. Due to their inability to see clearly through the fogs, they imagine they see various forms, fearsome or otherwise, and then imagine these forms of their own emotional-mental approach to be real. The morning sun, rising in glory above the horizon, disperses these fogs of the night, revealing the illusions and glamours under which people have been labouring. This is what happens to the human consciousness when the Light of the Intuition or the Light of the Soul [which is actually the Light of the Spiritual Triad working through the Soul], pours through into the mind of the aspirant.

D. P .R.  [Student]

EVIL WARS [a poem]

When we see evil
Or hear about evil
We just want to fight it
Or we want to destroy it

This enemy of out race

Who has no face
We cannot fight 
And walk in the light

For when we fight it

We shall become it
We must fight it inside ourselves
And not outside ourselves

If we kill the instrument it deployed

Evil itself, will not be destroyed
It will jump from the host of evil
To possess the “destroyer” of evil

Because the evil of Nazism

Is now in Zionism
And in the victors of every war
There truly are no victors in war

This is a lesson for those without light

Where ignorance is evil’s host and our plight
That must be overcome by all means and might
By spreading education and shining God’s light

We need good and evil to overcome stagnation

Positive and negative are the two poles of creation
The one, spirit, pulls and teaches us
The other, materialism, will test and retard us

Everybody will, like Jesus, eventually pass

After absorbing all the lessons of their past
Only when no atom of your being harbours evil
Can you truly overcome and triumph over evil

This also goes for humanity as a whole

Where we can talk of a planetary soul
The triumphs and failures of every personality
Are also the triumphs and failures of our humanity

With wisdom earned through purification

We can end wars and achieve liberation

EDGEBA

ALLAH HU AKBAR [a poem]

Yes, we know, “God is Great”
But, do we know, ‘how Great’?
My body have many sells but we are one
God’s body have many spirits and They are One

Your spirit is one of Them, as is all humanity

And so it will be for all eternity
Our body sells have a spark of consciousness
While God’s spirits have self-consciousness

There is spirit in every atom in the physical solar system

Each belonging to a spirit or deva in the spiritual solar system
The soul represents the spirit in every living body
While the spirit represents God in everybody

“Matter is spirit in its densest form

And spirit is matter in its finest form
Or matter is spirit in its lowest vibration
And spirit is matter in its highest vibration”

While Spirit is the first principle of the Holy Trinity

Matter is the third principle of the Holy Trinity
Christ the second principle as the son
Is the Force that binds the two into One

“I and my Father are One”

Are words destined for the lips of everyone
When we realise this as fact
While we go through the act

As your body has a Spirit

So does each planet have a Spirit
And so does the Sun have a Spirit
All answering to the one Spirit

The Spirit that uses the Sun as his body of manifestation

Is our highest God giving life to everything in His creation
While on earth our destinies and our evolution
Is controlled by God that uses Earth as His body for His evolution

Thus all spirits are on their way to the Sun

For “God is a consuming fire” the spirit of the Sun
So, as you can see, we truly are one
For God, in his Greatness, covers everything under the Sun

“Man know they self”

And become one with they Higher-self

EDGEBA

CHRISTMAS

CHRIST AND THE COMING NEW AGE

As we come to an end of our consideration of the world today and its dominating rays, working through the nations and conditioning the people, there is a final point which I would like to make; it lies in the realm of religion and concerns the significance of Christmas.  From the very night of time, as well you know, the period wherein the sun moves northward again has been regarded as a festival season; for thousands of years it has been associated with the coming of the Sun-God to save the world, to bring light and fruitfulness to the Earth and through the work of the Son of God to bring hope to humanity.  The Christmas season is regarded by those who do not know any better as uniquely the Festival of the Christ, and this the Christian churches have emphasised and to this all churchmen testify.  This is both true and false.  The Founder of the Christian Church — God in the flesh — availed Himself of this period and came to us in the dark of the year and initiated a new era in which light was to be the distinguishing note.  This has been true from several angles, even from the purely physical, for today we have a lighted world; everywhere lights are to be seen and the pitch dark nights of olden times are fast disappearing.  Light has also descended on the earth in the form of the "light of knowledge."  Today, education whose objective is to lead all men on to a "lighted way," is the keynote of our civilisation and is a major pre-occupation in all countries.  The removal of illiteracy, the development of a true culture and the ascertaining of truth in all fields of thought and of research are of paramount importance in all lands.

Thus, when Christ proclaimed (as He assuredly did), along with all world Saviours and Sun-Gods, that He was the Light of the worlds, He inaugurated a marvellous period in which humanity has been widely and universally enlightened.  This period dates from Christmas Day, two thousand years ago, in Palestine.  That was the greatest of all Christmas Days and its emanating influence was more potent than was any previous arrival of a Bearer of Light, because humanity was more ready for the light.  Christ came in the sign of Pisces, the Fishes — the sign of the divine Intermediary in the highest sense, or of the medium in the lower; it is the sign of many of the world Saviours and of those Revealers of divinity Who establish world relationships.  I would have you note that phrase.  The major impulse driving the Christ towards special work was the desire to establish right human relations; it is also the desire — realised or unrealised — of humanity, and we know that some day the Desire of all nations will come, that right human relations will be found everywhere and that goodwill will implement that fulfilment, leading to peace in all lands and among all peoples.

Down through the ages, Christmas Day has been recognised and kept as a season of new beginnings, of better human contacts and of happier relations among families and communities.  Yet just as the churches have descended into a profoundly materialistic presentation of Christianity, so the simple Christmas Day which would have pleased the heart of Christ has degenerated into an orgy of spending, of acquiring good things, and is regarded as a period which is "good for trade."  We need, therefore, to remember that when any phase of life-inspired religion is interpreted entirely materially, when any civilisation and culture loses its sense of spiritual values and responds mainly to the material values, then it has served its usefulness and must pass away, and this in the interests of life itself and progress.

The message of the birth of Christ rings ever new but is not today understood.  The emphasis during the Aquarian Age, the age into which we are fast entering, will shift away from Bethlehem to Jerusalem, and from the infant Saviour to the Risen Christ.  Pisces has seen, during two thousand years, the spreading light; Aquarius will see the Rising Light, and of both of these the Christ is the eternal symbol.

The ancient story of the Birth will become universalised and be seen as the story of every disciple and initiate who takes the first initiation and in his time and place becomes a server and a lightbearer.  In the Aquarian Age two momentous developments will take place:

1. The Birth Initiation will condition human thinking and aspiration everywhere.

2. The religion of the Risen Christ, and not of the newly born Christ or of the crucified Christ, will be the distinctive keynote.

It is seldom realised that hundreds of thousands of people in every land have taken, or are preparing to take, this first initiation, called the Birth at Bethlehem, the House of Bread.  Humanity, the world disciple, is now ready for this.  Indications of the accuracy of the above statement can be seen in the re-orientation of people everywhere to things spiritual, their interest in human good and human welfare, the perseverance they show in their search for light and their longing and desire for a true peace, based on right human relations, implemented by goodwill.  This "mind as it is in Christ" can be seen in their revolt against materialistic religion and in the widespread effort to be seen in Europe and elsewhere to return the land (Mother-Earth, the true Virgin Mary) to the people.  It can be seen in the constant movement of people throughout the world from place to place, symbolised in the Gospel story by the journey of Mary with the infant Jesus into Egypt.

Then followed, as we are told in the New Testament, a cycle of thirty years wherein all we know is that the infant Jesus grew to manhood and could then take the second initiation, the Baptism in Jordan, and begin His public service.  Today the many who in this life have taken the first initiation are entering the long silence of that symbolic thirty years wherein they too will grow to manhood and take the second initiation.  This initiation demonstrates the complete control of the emotional nature and of all Piscean characteristics.  The thirty years can be looked upon as a period of spiritual unfoldment during the three divisions into which Aquarius (and consequently the New Age now upon us) will be divided.  I refer to what is technically known as the three decans of each sign.  In this sign the waters of the Piscean age will, symbolically speaking, be absorbed into the water-pot carried on the shoulder of Aquarius in the symbol which is distinctive of this sign, for Aquarius is the water-carrier, bringing the water of life to the people — life more abundantly.

In the Aquarian Age, the Risen Christ is Himself the Water-Carrier; He will not this time demonstrate the perfected life of a Son of God, which was His main mission before; He will appear as the supreme Head of the Spiritual Hierarchy, meeting the need of the thirsty nations of the world — thirsty for truth, for right human relations and for loving understanding.  He will be recognised this time by all and in His Own Person will testify to the fact of the resurrection, and hence demonstrate the paralleling fact of the immortality of the soul, of the spiritual man.  The emphasis during the past two thousand years has been on death; it has coloured all the teaching of the orthodox churches; only one day in the year has been dedicated to the thought of the resurrection.  The emphasis in the Aquarian Age will be on life and freedom from the tomb of matter, and this is the note which will distinguish the new world religion from all that have preceded it.

The Festival of Easter and the Feast of Pentecost will be the two outstanding days of the religious year.  Pentecost is, as you must well know, the symbol of right human relations in which all men and nations will understand each other and — though speaking in many and diverse languages — will know only one spiritual speech.

It is significant that two important episodes are related in the final part of the Gospel story — one preceding and one following immediately after the apparent death of the Christ.  They are:

1. The story of the upper chamber to which the man carrying the water pot and typifying Aquarius led the disciples, and in which the first communion service was held, participated in by all and foretelling that great relationship which will distinguish humanity in the coming age, after the tests of the Piscean Age.  Such a communion service has never yet been held, but the New Age will see it take place.

2. The story of the upper chamber in which the disciples met and arrived at a true recognition of the Risen Christ and at a perfect and complete understanding of each other in spite of the symbolic diversity of tongues.  They had a touch of prevision, of prophetic insight, and foresaw a little of the wonder of the Aquarian Age.

The vision in men's minds today is that of the Aquarian Age, even if they recognise it not.  The future will see right relationships, true communion, a sharing of all things (wine, the blood, the life and bread, economic satisfaction) and goodwill; we have also a picture of the future of humanity when all nations are united in complete understanding and the diversity of languages — symbolic of differing traditions, cultures, civilisations and points of view — will provide no barrier to right human relations.  At the centre of each of these pictures is to be found the Christ.

Thus the expressed aims and efforts of the United Nations will be eventually brought to fruition and a new church of God, gathered out of all religions and spiritual groups, will unitedly bring to an end the great heresy of separateness.  Love, unity, and the Risen Christ will be present, and He will demonstrate to us the perfect life.

[THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS, p147/52]