At the solstitial incipit, we solemnly sound the Christic Assertion associated with the Sign of Capricorn (see the introductory article and the Ritual Celebration online).
I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE
“Many Sons of God, down the ages, have given to humanity a progressively revealing vision of the ‘heights of possibility’, interpreting God’s Plan to the race in terms suited to each age and temperament. (A. A. Bailey, From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 57)
“In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God… and the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us”
Two thousand years ago Christ, the Master of Masters, the incarnation of the cosmic Principle of Love (Buddhi in Sanskrit), the Word made flesh, “made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.” [1]
He blazed the trail to the higher spheres of revelation, provided Love and embodied its great cosmic principle. “He demonstrated in Himself the visioned perfection and then presented to humanity an example—in full manifestation—of every possibility latent in man up to that time. The achieving of the perfection of the Christ-consciousness became the emphasised goal of humanity… But He did far more than just this… He pointed out to His disciples that they could do ‘greater things’ than He had done, because He was going ‘to the Father’. He, in those words, pointed beyond Himself to the One Who was responsible for His Being, and to the Way of the Higher Evolution… and also to the fact that He Himself was only ‘on His Way’.” (A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 521-2)
Belief in the spiritual realities and the essential divinity of humanity is the prerequisite for embarking on the path, which is the WAY indicated by the great World Teacher [2]. His Words of power: “I am the Way and the Truth and the Life” [3] still vibrate and inspire all those who seek to demonstrate the same qualities: a radiant and magnetic life, consecrated to serve humanity and to be the Path itself, a loving heart and an enlightened mind well oriented towards the truth.
“Today Christ is nearer to humanity than at any other time in human history… For Christ belongs to humanity, to the world of men, and not alone to the churches and religious faiths throughout the world.” (A. A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 37)
Christ “has linked us to Himself through His perfected humanity; He has linked us to God through His expressed divinity… When He said, ‘I am the way, the truth and the life’… He knew that He synthesised in Himself the soul of the past and the spirit of the future…”. (A. A. Bailey, From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 39)
The living words and the spirit of beauty of the powerful formula synthesised by Christ are to be manifested every day with renewed generative power.
Today, in the Supernal Light of Capricorn, ‘the Gateway of the Gods’, where solar and human powers can meet to collaborate on planetary development plans, we sound throughout the living Space this Assertion, also through the definitions given in the Genesis of Ideas:
- the Way is the bridge between worlds
- the Truth is the essence of divine Will
- the Life IS: “there is one Boundless Immutable Principle; one Absolute Reality which, antecedes all manifested conditioned Being. It is beyond the range and reach of any human thought or expression. The manifested Universe is contained within this Absolute Reality and is a conditioned symbol of it.” (A. A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 3)
Life, that absolute Mystery that animates and dwells in every atom, has been defined by an enlightened Thinker of our time with a sublime theorem:
“That energy which generates and multiplies itself is called Life” (E. Savoini, Lecture notes of the 3rd Septennium. The Year of Four, unpublished paper, January 2004)
“The life of Christ is a life to be lived today… It leaves us an example that we should follow His steps, and carry on the work which He initiated.” (A. A. Bailey, From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 79)
In order to make it precipitate on earth and make the work of Christ effective, it is important to acquire group consciousness and action, a work made possible by the self-initiated effort of individual disciples that leads to the complete subordination of the personality and the individual to the common interest and good.
“It is the initiate in you, the Christ in you, which is now called to this collective service and the radiation today of the Christ spirit, actively present in the hearts of all disciples is the one thing which can salvage mankind, enable humanity to move forward on to the Path of Discipleship and thus evoke that new spirit which can and will build the new world.” (A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age vol. II, p. 244)
In order to make plans and build the new world, new groups must learn the basics of creative work and collaborate with the Hierarchy, which is “an intrinsic quality of psychic Space, through which every element is arranged according to the value of its function and collaborates in the life of the whole without reservations or vetoes.” (from Asserting the Planetary Plan, Goal 2.7)
Each step taken in co-ordinated collaboration with the Guides of evolutionary advancement brings us closer to the essence of the divine Will: Truth can be defined as “the diamond whose infinite facets are grasped gradually as we develop an understanding of the essential relationships of the cosmos, bringing together the creative design work, conducted as an ordered group, inspired by the luminous Model of the higher worlds.”
“At present, what is called creative work by men is in reality an expression of themselves and of their appreciation of beauty as they see it, of truth as they grasp it, of psychology as they interpret it, of nature as they scientifically interpret it. According to their spiritual development and their intelligent perception, so will be the quality and the nature of their expression—but it will be theirs.
In the case of hierarchical workers however, the situation is different. They work to express that which the Ashram, through its group of workers, is seeking to express they seek to express the Plan, or as much of it as they can grasp; they are occupied with the expression of soul as that soul should be known in the culture and the civilisation immediately to be developed… They are not occupied with form, but with life, with organism rather than organisation, with ideas rather than ideals, and with essential truth rather than with carefully formulated theologies.
Christ expressed in Himself [I am the Way] and refrained from putting it into form; He Himself was the truth, yet inevitably (because of its inherent life) that which He expressed took form and has greatly modified and coloured human thinking and planning, and this will be increasingly so.” (A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 295-6)
“It is the life of Christ in each of us which makes us sons of the Father, not His death which makes us sons… It is the Christ life in all forms which constitutes the evolutionary urge. It is the Christ life which… brings him eventually to the point where he transits out of the human kingdom (when the work of normal evolution has done its part) and leads him into the kingdom of spirit.” (A. A. Bailey, From Bethlehem to Calvary, p. 162)
The evolutionary thrust operates when as a group we give life to the “Way of the Christ”, the source of the “more abundant Life” foreseen for the coming Age of Aquarius, when we act from the point of tension of the Will to Be, at the service of the essential Unity that underlies all creation.
The Christ “anchored on Earth “the Will of God in the matrix of love”… and pointed the way… through the Pyramid (the symbol of the Spiritual Triad in this case) which leads out on to the Way which terminates in Shamballa [the solar Government of the Earth]… He presented the first thread of living substance, irradiated by love, intelligently woven and energised by will, which any human being of our Earth humanity had interwoven with the planetary antahkarana.” (A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 527-8)
The New Group of World Servers, whose purpose is to be a centre of light in the world of mankind, is learning to use the Will, the energy that leads to initiation, in order to build that arch of the antahkarana bridge that connects Humanity to Shamballa and to help create, consciously and in a united breath and unified rhythm with the solar musical scores, a new Culture and Civilisation, so that the Plan of Love and Light may be restored on Earth.
“Love governs the Way into the life of the Hierarchy [the heart centre of the Planetary Logos] and is the foundation for all approach to, and appreciation and acceptance of truth. Will governs the Way into Shamballa and is the foundation for all approach to, appreciation of and identification with, Being [Life].” (A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 46)
Those who respond to the Call and wish to take on a role of greater planetary responsibility and offer themselves as distributors of Life to carve the Way of the Future and lay the foundations for a New Culture/Civilisation, will be able to join the common action of the New Group of World Servers, in loving cooperation and “in the Spirit of Oneness”, collaborating with the Order of divine Creators, who have always been (and forever will be) at our side to unveil the infinite facets of the one Truth. “What the new formulation of truth will be, who can say? But the light is slowly pouring into men’s hearts and minds, and in this lighted radiance they will vision the new truths and arrive at a fresh enunciation of the ancient wisdom.” (A. A. Bailey, Da Betlemme al Calvario, Collezione Lucis, 20)
“The final words of the Christ to His apostles, gathered together in the upper chamber (in the Hierarchy, symbolically) were, ‘Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the end of the age’, or cycle. Here He was speaking as Head of the Hierarchy, which constitutes His Ashram, and also speaking as the Monad [the Father that is in heaven] and expressing His divine Will to pervade or inform the world continuously and endlessly with His overshadowing consciousness; He expressed universality and the ceaseless continuity and contact which is the characteristic of monadic life—of life itself. It was also a tremendous affirmation, sent forth on the energy of the will, and making all things new and all things possible.” (A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 315)
In the ancient wisdom texts it is written that every human being, incarnate or not, is a fragment of the Universal Mind or soul of the world, an outpost of divine Consciousness. We are sparks of the one Fire, we are the Way, the Truth and the Life. We are the Christ in us, certainty of Glory.
“How will you do this hardest of all tasks, O triumphing disciple?
By letting it be seen I am myself the truth;
by living as a fragment of that Presence and seeing all its parts.” [4]
I am you, and you are me, parts of the Divine Self
See the calendar of all the celebrations online (passages into the 12 Signs and Solar Festivals of the full and new moons 2023 – in UTC hour) – with related links:
The videos of the online ritual Celebrations of the Entries into the 12 Signs with the Christic Assertions are available at the following Playlist: Ritual·e · Rituel – Zodiac 2023.
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[1] Gospel according to John – 1, 14
[2] “The World Teacher — takes office cyclically. The World Teacher gives out the keynote for the various religions and is the emanating source for periodical religious impulses. The duration of his cycles are not given out. The Buddha held office prior to the present World Teacher and upon his Illumination His place was taken by the Lord Maitreya whom the Occidentals call the Christ.” (Alice A. Bailey — A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 210 footnote 90)
[3] Gospel according to John – 14, 6
[4] Alice A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 303
