Return of the Christ

“Return of the Christ”* is the second Goal of the Plan for Humanity, intuited and formalised in 1990 by an enlightened thinker, E. Savoini, who ordered in a Pythagorean Lambdoma of numerical and sound intervals the indications given by the Tibetan Master regarding the work of the Hierarchy which has, among its tasks, as we are told, that of elaborating and updating the planetary Plan for Humanity. This action was a response to the Master, a candidacy for a possible collaboration with the Hierarchy and a commitment to assert a part of the Plan of Liberation of the New Era.

In this first human Formulation of the Plan, the Return of the Christ is the central magnet, the pivot of current planetary evolution.**

According to the indications of the esoteric Teaching, the One who never left us returns, the Master of masters, Lord of Space and of Love-Wisdom, the evolutionary force (buddhi) to which we give the name of “Christ consciousness”, focused for us in the planetary Christ. It is the latent power in every human heart, which St. Paul described as “Christ in us, the hope of glory” and which by evolutionary law leads man to the kingdom of God and “to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”.

“Return means revival, new beginning, other openings, expansion, rhythmic growth. It is not a repetition, it is the cosmic advent of the new. (…) These are days when the everyday, the usual, the normal collide with the exceptional, the prodigious, the sublime. It is a double Return: the Christ descends again among men, and they return to Him. The second Advent sees a cosmic and unitary Force meeting with a multitude of human forces on the planetary scene. Christ, the Unknown, becomes the Friend”. (Calendars, unpublished text by E. Savoini)

Such is the urgency of human necessity today, and such the opportunity, that we realise that its tremendous invocative force requires the most intelligent, loving and unfailing preparation on the part of those who await it, the New Group of World Servers and all men of good will.

“For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matthew, 18:20)

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Some extracts from the texts of the Ancient Wisdom testify to the inevitability of this great spiritual event, so awaited or invoked, so necessary and supreme.

Here they are divided into 7 parts, each of them with a formula designed to release its essence:

“Human history has been essentially the history of great spiritual Messengers Who—from time to time, in the hours of human crisis—have come forth from the secret place of the Most High to aid, inspire, reveal, lead and direct. It is the history of the presentation of ideas, brought to the attention of humanity and gradually developed into civilisations and cultures.” (A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 76)

“The Mystery of the Ages is, through the reappearance of the Christ, on the verge of revelation. Through the revelation of the soul that Mystery (which soul knowledge veils) will stand revealed. (…) The work of the Christ (two thousand years ago) was to proclaim certain great possibilities and the existence of great powers. His work when He reappears will be to prove the fact of these possibilities and to reveal the true nature and potency of man. The proclamation He made that we were all sons of God and own one universal Father will, in the near future, no longer be regarded as a beautiful, mystical and symbolic statement, but will be regarded as a proved scientific pronouncement. Our universal brotherhood and our essential immortality will be proven to be facts in nature. The ground is being prepared at this time for the great restoration [of the Mysteries] which the Christ will engineer. (Ibidem, pp. 123-4)

“(…) The sequence of the Mysteries which each of the signs of the Zodiac embodies will be clarified for us by the Christ, because the public consciousness today demands something more definite and spiritually real than modern astrology, or all the pseudo-occultism so widely extant.

(…) When the searchlight of the mind is penetrating slowly into hitherto unrecognised aspects of the divine mind, when the magnetic qualities of the heart are awakening and becoming sensitively responsive to both the other aspects, then the man becomes able to function in the new unfolding realms of light, love and service. He is initiate. These are the mysteries with which the Christ will deal; His acknowledged Presence with us and the presence of His disciples will make possible a far more rapid development than would otherwise be the case.” (Ibidem, pp. 127-8)

“The uniqueness of the impending mission of the Christ and the uniqueness of His opportunity consist in the fact that He is able—in Himself—to give expression to two divine energies: the energy of love and the energy of will, the magnetic potency of love and the dynamic effectiveness of the divine will. Never before, in the long long history of humanity, has such a revelation been possible.” (Ibidem, p. 62)

“He will re-appear and guide mankind into a civilisation and a state of consciousness in which right human relations and worldwide cooperation for the good of all will be the universal keynote. He will—through the New Group of World Servers and the men of goodwill—complete His association with the Will of God (His Father’s business) in such a manner that the eternal will-to-good will be translated by humanity into goodwill and right relations. Then His task will be done; He will be free again to leave us, but this time not to return but to leave the world of men in the hands of that great spiritual Server Who will be the new Head of the Hierarchy, the Church Invisible.” (Ibidem, p. 57)

1) The evolutionary Purpose elicits the Return to the Father’s Home:

the Will of Christ, blended with the Will of the Father, frees the eternal will-to-good through human goodwill.

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“The religious livingness or spiritual history of mankind can be summarised for us by a series of recognitions—recognition of Those Who, down the ages, have constituted the Apostolic Succession, culminating for us in the great religious leaders who have come out among us since 700 B.C. and founded the great modern world faiths, and—above all else—in the Christ Himself Who embodied the perfection of God Immanent, plus awareness of God Transcendent; recognition of those major spiritual concepts of love, life and relationship which have hovered ever in the background of man’s thinking and which are now on the verge of right expression; recognition of the true brotherhood of man, based on the one divine life, working through the one soul and expressing itself through the one humanity; recognition, therefore, of relationship both to the divine life throughout the world and to mankind itself. It is this developing spiritual attitude which will lead to right human relations and eventual world peace.

Today, another recognition is becoming possible. It is the recognition everywhere of the imminent return of Christ (if such a phrase can be true of someone Who has never left us!) and of the new spiritual opportunities which this event will make possible.

The basis for this recognition lies in the deep-seated conviction, innate in the human consciousness, that some great Teacher, some Saviour, Revealer, Lawgiver or divine Representative must come forth from the world of spiritual realities, because of human need and human demand. Always down the centuries, at the hour of man’s greatest need and in response to his voiced demand, a divine Son of God has come forth and under many different names.” (Ibidem, p.41)

“It is for humanity to solve its serious problems on the basis of brotherhood, and so bring in a way of living which will provide adequate supply of the necessities of life through the proper organising of time, labour and goods. This will lead to an interplay between the citizen and the state which will evoke the service of the individual and the right protection of the state. (…) Such a way of life can be made possible if the men and women of goodwill, of intelligence and of idealism can begin the task of inaugurating the new world order.” (The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 203)

“Steadily and as a result of the work of the New Group of World Servers, humanity is awakening to the possibilities ahead.

The awakening of the intelligentsia in all countries to the recognition of humanity is a prelude to the establishment of brotherhood.

The unity of the human family is recognised by man, but before that unity can take form in constructive measures, it is essential that more and more of the thinking men and women throughout the world should break down the mental barriers existing between races, nations and types; it is essential that the New Group of World Servers should itself repeat in the outer world that type of activity which the Hierarchy expressed when it developed and materialised the New Group of World Servers. Through the impression and expression of certain great ideas, men everywhere must be brought to the understanding of the fundamental ideals which will govern the new age. This is the major task of the New Group of World Servers.” (The Reappearance of the Christ, pp. 184-5)

2) A vital and sure faith in humanity as a single whole nourishes the Field of the Return:

the recognition of the One Humanity is a prelude to the realisation of Brotherhood.

“The bringing together of all the agents of goodwill (who are responsive to the energy of the divine will-to-good) constitutes the major objective of the New Group of World Servers and always has been. Their work can now be constructively and creatively intensified through the association of the Avatar of Synthesis with the Christ. Their task is to usher in the New Age; in that New Age, the five Kingdoms in Nature will begin to function as one creative whole. Their work falls into the following parts, functions or activities:

1. The production of a human synthesis or unity which will lead to an universal recognition of the one humanity, brought about through right human relations.
2. The establishing of right relations with the subhuman kingdoms in nature, leading to the universal recognition that there is One World.
3. The anchoring of the Kingdom of God, the spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, in open expression on Earth, thus leading to the universal recognition that the sons of men are one.

These objectives the Avatar of Synthesis will foster and aid and for this purpose He has associated Himself with the Christ, working through the Hierarchy, under instruction from the “centre where the will of God is known” [Shamballa]. These three related events and distributing points of energy have all come into activity during the point of tension in which Christ and the Hierarchy are at this time held.” (Ibidem, p. 78)

(…) “He saw the Spirit of God, descending like a dove and alighting upon Him” (St. Matt. III.16.). This Spirit is a Being of tremendous cosmic potency and is today overshadowing the Christ in much the same manner as Christ (two thousand years ago) overshadowed or worked through the Master Jesus. This Spirit of Peace (…) is, in a mysterious sense, the Spirit of Equilibrium; He works with the Law of Action and Reaction and the inevitability of His activity will be recognised. His work will demonstrate in two ways—fully when the Christ appears among men and slowly and gradually until that time (…).

A proportionate measure of the energy of love will demonstrate later as the result of the activity of the Spirit of Peace, working through the Prince of Peace, as Christ has sometimes been called. (Is. IX.6.) (…).

This spiritual Being will not descend from the high place whereon He works and from whence His energy is directed, but the Christ will act and serve as the channel for His directed potency. The inflow of His divine energy (extra-planetary energy) is destined to bring peace eventually upon Earth, through the expression of goodwill. This goodwill will bring about right human relations.” (Ibidem, pp. 74-5)

“Within the world of glamour—the world of the astral plane and of the emotions—appeared, centuries ago, a point of light; the Lord of Light, the Buddha, undertook to focus in Himself the illumination which would eventually make possible the dissipation of glamour. Within the world of illusion, the world of the mental plane, appeared the Christ, the Lord of Love Himself. He undertook to dispel illusion by drawing to Himself (by the attractive potency of love) the hearts of all men, and stated this determination in the words, “I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me” (John XII.32).

The combined work of these two great Sons of God, concentrated through the world disciples and through Their initiates must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamour—the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it, and the other by the pouring in of the light of the reason. The Buddha made the first planetary effort to dissipate world glamour; the Christ made the first planetary effort towards the dispelling of illusion. Their work must now be intelligently carried forward by a humanity wise enough to recognise its duty. (…)

When the work of the Buddha (or of the embodied wisdom principle) is consummated in the aspiring disciple and his integrated personality, then the full expression of the work of the Christ (the embodied principle of love) can also be consummated then both of these potencies—Light and Love—will find radiant expression in the transfigured disciple. What is true, therefore, of the individual is true also of humanity as a whole; today humanity (having reached maturity) can “enter into realisation” and consciously take part in the work of enlightenment and of spiritual, loving activity. The practical effects of this process will be the dissipation of glamour and the release of the human spirit from the thraldom of matter; it will produce also the dispelling of illusion and the recognition of the truth as it exists in the consciousness of those who are polarised in the awareness of the Christ.” (Ibidem, pp. 133-4)

“When He came before He said (and the words have been sadly misread): “I come not to bring peace but a sword” (Matt. X.34). This will be true especially during the early days of His advent. The sword which He wields is the sword of the Spirit; it is that sword which produces cleavage between a true spirituality and an habitual materialism. The major effect of His appearance will surely be to demonstrate in every land the effects of a spirit of inclusiveness—an inclusiveness which will be channelled or expressed through Him.

All who seek right human relations will be gathered automatically to Him, whether they are in one of the great world religions or not; all who see no true or basic difference between religion and religion or between man and man or nation and nation will rally around Him; those who embody the spirit of exclusiveness and separativeness will stand automatically and equally revealed and all men will know them for what they are. The cleaving sword of the spirit will—without wounding—bring revelation and indicate the first needed step towards human regeneration.

Standing as the focal point of the inner Triangle—of the Buddha, of the Spirit of Peace and of the Avatar of Synthesis—the consequent outpouring potency of the Christ will be so great that the distinction between love and hate, between aggression and freedom, and between greed and sharing will be made lucidly clear to the eyes and minds of all men and, therefore, the distinction between good and evil will be made equally clear. The invocative prayer, “From the point of love within the heart of God, let love stream forth into the hearts of men” will meet with fulfilment. Christ will let loose into the world of men the potency and the distinctive energy of intuitive love.” (Ibidem, pp. 110-1)

3) A powerful Triangle of Force acts with Christ at the Centre: the Light of the Buddha, of Enlightenment; the Love of the Spirit of Peace, which establishes right human relationships; the Power of the Avatar of Synthesis, which generates light and love.

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The Ray of Love-Wisdom governs the Ray of Harmony through Conflict and “implements the Return of the Christ:

(…) We have now reached a point where the inevitability of Christ’s return is established, scientifically and under law; this constitutes a call which He may not deny and one which He must obey. This fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict [the ray that governs the soul of the fourth kingdom of nature] works (where the initiatory process is concerned) through the heart, or through what esotericists call “the heart centre”—the focal point through which the energy of love can flow. When the Christ founds His focal point on Earth, it will be in the nature of a tiny heart centre through which the love energy of the Hierarchy can persistently flow. The harmony (which the Principle of Conflict produces) causes an alignment, so that the love—streaming forth from the Heart of God—enters the hearts of men; so that the Hierarchy (which is the heart centre or the place where love prevails upon our planet) is brought into relationship with humanity; so that the New Group of World Servers (implementing the love of God and enlightened by the Mind of God) are brought also into relation with the men and women of goodwill in all lands whose task it is to make men’s hearts responsive to and receptive of the love of God; this is another way of saying receptive to the consciousness of the Christ.

This alignment is now in process of being made; it will be brought about automatically when the effectiveness of the Principle of Conflict in producing liberation is generally recognised. Thus the hearts of men, the heart of the planet, i.e., the Hierarchy, and the heart of the Hierarchy, the Christ, are in a state of positive contact; when this channel is open and unobstructed, then the Christ will come. Nothing can stop His appearance and—under law—He may not turn His back upon the presented opportunity.

Thus, eventually, the Lord of Love—in response to the invocative cry of humanity, aroused by the Principle of Conflict—must “proceed again to the high place of sacrifice and walk openly with men on Earth“. His heart, embodying as it does the love of God, is drawn forth from the heart of the planet (the Hierarchy) to the hearts of men, and the path of His return to Earth service stands unchallenged and unobstructed. (…) (Rays and the Initiations, pp. 618-19)

4) “What man thinks and decides in his heart determines the future of humanity” — the Return will mark the breaking in of the secret current of the Heart:

“The good, the true and the beautiful” are coming and humanity, not a divine intervention from the outside, is responsible for them.

“Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you” (James IV.8) is the great injunction, emanating in new and clear tones from Christ and the spiritual Hierarchy at this time.

The great theme of the new world religion will be the recognition of the many divine approaches and the continuity of revelation which each of them conveyed; the task ahead of the spiritually minded people of the world today is to prepare humanity for the imminent and (perhaps) the greatest of all the Approaches. The method employed will be the scientific and intelligent use of Invocation and Evocation and the recognition of their tremendous potency.” (The Reappearance of the Christ, pp. 150-1)

“The development of the Science of Invocation and Evocation as a means and method of approach to divinity. (…) Prayer and meditation are the preliminary steps to this emerging science, and what is vaguely called “worship” is the group effort to establish some form of united approach to the spiritual Hierarchy, functioning under the guidance and control of the Christ and related to the highest spiritual centre, Shamballa, through its most advanced individuals, just as humanity is related to the Hierarchy by its spiritually minded people. (The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 416)

“The new religion will be one of Invocation and Evocation, of bringing together great spiritual energies and then stepping them down for the benefiting and the stimulation of the masses. The work of the new religion will be the distribution of spiritual energy and the protecting of humanity from energies and forces which they are not, at the particular time, fitted to receive. (…) The new world religion must be based upon those truths which have stood the test of the ages (…):

1. The fact of God (God Transcendent)
2. Man’s relationship to the divine (God Immanent)
3. The fact of immortality
4. The Brotherhood of man (God in expression)
5. The existence of the Way to God
6. The historicity of the two great Approaches and the possibility of a third and imminent Approach. [Buddha, Christ, Maitreya] (Ibidem, pp. 400 | 404 |415)

“Religion is the name given to the invocative appeal of humanity and the evocative response of the greater Life to that cry.

It is, in fact, the recognition by the part of its relationship to the Whole, plus a constantly growing demand for increased awareness of that relation; it draws forth the recognition of the Whole that the demand has been made. It is the impact of the vibration of humanity—oriented specifically to the Great Life of which it feels itself a part—upon that Life and the responsive impact of that “All-surrounding Love” upon the lesser vibration. It is only now that the impact of the human vibration can dimly be sensed in Shamballa; hitherto its most potent activity has only reached the Hierarchy. Religion, the science of invocation and evocation as far as humanity is concerned, is the approach (in the coming New Age) of a mentally polarised humanity.” (The Reappearance of the Christ, pp. 157-8)

“Christ, in His high place, cares not whether men accept the theological interpretations of scholars and churchmen, but He does care whether the keynote of His life of sacrifice and service is reproduced among men; it is immaterial to Him whether the emphasis laid upon the detail and the veracity of the Gospel story is recognised and accepted, for He is more interested that the search for truth and for subjective spiritual experience should persist; He knows that within each human heart is found that which responds instinctively to God, and that the hope of ultimate glory lies hid in the Christ-consciousness.

Therefore, in the new world order, spirituality will supersede theology; living experience will take the place of theological acceptances. The spiritual realities will emerge with increasing clarity and the form aspect will recede into the background; dynamic, expressive truth will be the keynote of the new world religion. (…) Only those will remain as guides and leaders of the human spirit who speak from living experience, and who know no creedal barriers; they will recognise the onward march of revelation and the new emerging truths. These truths will be founded on the ancient realities but will be adapted to modern need and will manifest progressively the revelation of the divine nature and quality. God is now known as Intelligence and Love. That the past has given us. He must be known as Will and Purpose, and that the future will reveal.” (The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 201-2)

“A dominant feature of the future religion (and its glory) will be the cult of Space, recognized as divine love, and of Light, understood as divine intelligence. And this not merely in a symbolic sense, but starts from their physical manifestations. This will be the real revolution in the religious approach.” (from Asserting the Planetary Plan)

5) The science of invocation and evocation is the new religion of the mentally polarised humanity.

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“… this New Group of World Servers has been reorganised and revitalised; the knowledge of its existence is spreading all over the world. It is today a group of men and women of every nation and race and of all religious organisations and humanitarian movements who are fundamentally oriented towards the Kingdom of God or who are in process of thus orienting themselves. They are disciples of the Christ, working consciously and frequently unconsciously for His reappearance; they are spiritual aspirants, seeking to serve and make real the Kingdom of God on Earth; they are men of goodwill and intelligence who are trying to increase understanding and right human relations among men. This group is divided into two major divisions:

1. A group composed of the disciples of the Christ who are consciously working with His plans, and of those who, instructed by them, are consciously and voluntarily cooperating. In this latter category we can find ourselves if we so desire, and if we are willing to make the necessary sacrifices.
2. A group composed of aspirants and world conscious men and women, who are working unconsciously under the guidance of the spiritual Hierarchy. There are many such, particularly in high places today, who are fulfilling the part of destroyers of the old form or of builders of the new. They are not conscious of any inner synthetic plan, but are selflessly occupied in meeting world need as best they may, with playing parts of importance in national dramas, or with working persistently in the field of education.

The first group is in touch with the spiritual Hierarchy to some extent and to a large extent where true disciples are concerned; its members work under spiritual inspiration. The second group is in closer touch with the masses of men; it works more definitely under the inspiration of ideas. The first group is occupied with the Plan of the Christ as far as its members can grasp its essentiality, whilst the second group works with the new concepts and hopes which are emerging in the consciousness of mankind, as men begin subjectively and often unconsciously to respond to the preparations for the coming of the Christ. Steadily and as a result of the work of the New Group of World Servers, humanity is awakening to the possibilities ahead.” (The Reappearance of the Christ, pp. 183-4)

6) The New Group of World Servers, under the direction of the visibly present Christ, will save the world.

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“Christ taught us when He came before the true meaning of Renunciation or of the Crucifixion; this time His message will be concerned with the resurrection life.” (Ibidem, p. 23)

“In the cycle which Christ will inaugurate after His reappearance, the goal of all the religious teaching in the world will be the resurrection of the spirit in mankind; the emphasis will be upon the livingness of the Christ nature in every human being, and upon the use of the will in bringing about this living transfiguration of the lower nature. The proof of it will be the risen Christ. This “Way of Resurrection” is the radiant Way, the lighted Way which leads from one great expression of divinity in man to another; it is the way which expresses the light of the intelligence, the radiant substance of true love, and the inflexible will which permits of no defeat or withdrawal. These are the characteristics which will be declarative of the Kingdom of God.” (Ibidem, pag. 30)

“He will see, demonstrating before His eyes the true resurrection—the emergence of mankind from the imprisoning cave of materialism. Thus He will ‘see of the travail of His soul and shall be satisfied’.” (Is. LIII.11.)

7) May the spirit of Christ rise in human hearts!

“The Spirit of Christ breathes across the desert of life.
Like a spring It wears Its way through the solid rocks.
In the milky firmament It radiates in lights beyond counting,
and rises upward in the stem of every flower.”
(Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 72, Agni Yoga Series)

 

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* According to the esoteric wisdom Tradition, Christ is a cosmic Principle, Buddhi or Love-Wisdom, the Second Ray, which “resides at the centre of each atom”, as the universal Motive of Life and which periodically incarnates in the Fourth Human Hierarchy (Fourth Ray), the Initiates, at the Service of Evolution.

** This article is published on the day of the annual alignment between Sun/Vulcan-Earth-Jupiter, the Second Ray Luminary, magnet of solar Love and Space. Jupiter is the heart of the System or solar Christ that promotes every process of growth and expansion of Consciousness.