We celebrate today the Wesak Festival, at the Taurus Full Moon (April 23, h 11.50pm GMT, April 24 h 1.50am CET), indicated as the day of greatest spiritual opportunity in the year. For Buddhists Wesak marks the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha. In the Ageless Wisdom it is a living event, a time when the Hierarchy and Shamballa, our planetary Heart and Head Centers, strengthen Their Relationship, and a great blessing is poured forth upon the world by the Buddha. This blessing results in an unusual inflow of life and spiritual stimulation, vitalizing the aspiration of all people of goodwill everywhere.
Therefore, Wesak is the highpoint of the spiritual year. Legend speaks of a sacred ceremony in which the Buddha, the Christ and enlightened Beings at the heart of all faiths deliver a special blessing to the world. We are One with this Event – a great channel of Light that uplifts all life.
Here are a few excerpts from the esoteric Teachings to illustrate the relationship between these two great planetary Centres:
“Space is etheric in nature and—so we are told in the occult science—Space is an Entity… [Man] can imagine this space as the field of divine living activity, full of active intelligent forms, each placed in the etheric body of this unknown Entity, each related to each other through the potency which not only holds them in being but which preserves their position in relation to each other… [Space] is the recipient of many types of informing and penetrating energies, and it is also the field for the intelligent activity of the indwelling Lives of the Universe, of the many constellations, of the distant stars, of our solar system, of the planets within the system, and of all that constitutes the sum total of these separated living forms. The factor which relates them is consciousness and nothing else…” [1]
“[The] One Life [is] flowing through all forms and all kingdoms, or through all the diverse planetary evolutions (of which you know nothing) and thus creating in time and space a living intelligent planetary Entity of systemic maturity, qualified by immense attractive and integrating energies, motivated by a supreme Purpose—a Purpose which is part of the vast purpose of the solar Logos, working through the planetary Logoi… The relation evoked is, as you can well imagine, inter-planetary and extra-planetary… the effect of these relationships, carried on through this medium, is the gradual development and progressive unfoldment of the three divine Aspects… The contributing factor, therefore, within and upon our planet is what we might regard as the three major centres of the planetary Logos:
- The Head Centre, the dynamic Agent of the extra-planetary Purpose, the expression of the divine planetary Will as focussed in Shamballa. This is the energy of Synthesis…
- The Heart Centre, the Agent of the Plan of evolution. This is the expression of divine Love or pure Reason, the Hierarchy. It is essentially the energy of Attraction…
- The Throat Centre, the Agent of all the three Aspects in relation to the three subhuman kingdoms in nature, the expression also of the divine Intelligence, Humanity. This is the energy of active Mind… [2]
“Little is known of Shamballa except by Members of the Hierarchy to Whom that centre is the goal in the same way that the Hierarchy is, at this time, the goal for humanity. Shamballa is the directing centre for the Hierarchy. Little is really known of the will of God except by Those Whose function it is to interpret and express that will through love, intelligently applied. They know what the immediate purpose is and Their major occupation is the working out of that will into manifestation.” [3]
“That which impresses Shamballa and is received by the Grand Council of the Lord of the World, comes via Sanat Kumara [the Entity which is the Personality of our planetary Logos] because HE is in close contact with other planetary Logoi or groups of planetary Logoi, wielding a united, focussed, intelligent Will. It is Sanat Kumara Whose task it is to impress the Lives Who meet periodically in the Council Chamber with the next phase of unfolding Purpose. This Purpose is later “occultly reduced” or stepped down until it emerges as the hierarchical Plan… The Hierarchy is no group of mystical workers; only those aspects of divine Purpose which can be immediately grasped and developed and which are patently valuable to humanity—when presented in right form by the Hierarchy—are registered by Them… This “impression” emanating from Shamballa takes the form of a focussed emanation…” [4]
“The energy flowing through the Hierarchy at this time — the energy of love — is seeking to blend with that which is flowing out of Shamballa and is needed in order to make the desired application of it. The problem of the Hierarchy at this time is to produce a wise and adequate fusion of the Shamballa and the hierarchial energies and thus temper destruction and bring to the fore the spirit of construction, setting in motion the building and re-habilitating forces of the second ray energy. The Shamballa energy prepares the way for the energy of the Hierarchy.” [5]
“Today, as… the inflow of spiritual energy from Shamballa into the hierarchical Centre becomes greater, there is a great keying up of human receptivity and a greatly augmented stimulation is taking place with varying effects. This involves an intensified aspiration and spiritual determination. It also signifies an opportunity of an unprecedented nature.” [6]
“From Shamballa itself. This is a flow of energising life or of what we might call “unfettered enlightenment”; this impresses the purpose or the will of the Lord of the World upon the united Hierarchy in a manner incomprehensible to you; it also creates a dynamic magnetic impulse which enables the graded initiates, through the medium of the Ashrams, to organise the Plan and set it in motion, so that the Purpose gradually materialises on earth.” [7]
“The Hierarchy is the Custodian of that aspect of the cyclic, planetary Purpose which is called the Plan; this covers such relatively brief periods as civilisations—where humanity is concerned. In relation to Shamballa, the intermediate group of meditating, creative Workers is called into activity in order to receive impression of the immediate, desired hierarchical activity, to transmit the needed energies from Shamballa to the united Ashrams and thus, esoterically, “inform” the Hierarchy of that which merits immediate attention.” [8]
“His major task as Head of the Hierarchy [Christ-Bodhisattva] is to evoke the electric fire of Shamballa, the energy of the divine Will, and this in such a form that the Hierarchy can be drawn nearer to the source of Life… He now seeks to relate more closely, with the aid of the Buddha, the Hierarchy to Shamballa, love to will, electric fire to solar fire.” [9]
“Meditation is the instinctual mode whereby the Hierarchy—in response to the invocation from the three worlds [mental, astral and etheric/physical]—approaches the higher Centre, Shamballa; then the Hierarchy evokes the energies, the Beings and the spiritual inflow which hierarchical service in the immediate future requires.” [10]
“There are crisis points at times of superlative tension in the meditative work of all hierarchical Ashrams. At the times of the new moon and of the full moon, all members of all the Ashrams meditate deeply in an invocative and evocative manner… Three times a year—at the April, May and June Festivals (the full moon of Aries or Easter, of Taurus or Wesak, and of Gemini or of the Spirit of Goodwill)—there is a united hierarchical meditation led by the Christ; these Festivals are invocative of Shamballa or of that which lies beyond the Nirmanakayas and can only be safely carried forward in united meditation, under directed guidance and the highest possible inspiration… only the entire group of Ashrams, the Hierarchy as a whole, can approach Shamballa.” [11]
“This process of protection and of distribution is one of the functions of the great meeting of all the Hierarchy, under the aegis of the three Great Lords (the Manu, the Mahachohan and the Christ) in that high and sacred valley in the Himalayas where annually—after due preparation—the Hierarchy makes contact with Shamballa and a relationship is then set up between the “bright and living centre” and the “radiating and magnetic centre”, in order that the “acquiescent waiting centre” [Humanityt] may be stimulated to move forward upon the ladder of evolution.” [12]
“Hence we have the activity of the Buddha at the May Full Moon and that of the Christ at the following June Full Moon. Their united activity serves to bring about a much closer approach between the Lord of the World and the Hierarchy, via His four Representatives: the Buddha, the Christ, the Manu, and the Mahachohan—the five points of energy which are creating the five-pointed star of Humanity at this time.” [13]
“When humanity has been led on in its consciousness from one stage of understanding to another and of recognised interrelation, the kingdom of God will be established upon Earth and the Ruler of the Earth will then work through the Hierarchy to produce that synthetic living creative response from nature (of which humanity is a part) which will enable each kingdom fully to reveal the glory of God. Shamballa will work through the Hierarchy and the Hierarchy, in its turn, will reach the various kingdoms in nature through the medium of Humanity, which will then enter into its pre-ordained and destined function. It is for this that all is taking place.” [14]
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let Purpose guide the little wills of men
The Purpose which the Masters know and serve
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1. A. Bailey – Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, p. 178
2. A. Bailey – Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, p. 124/125
3. A. Bailey – The Destiny of the Nations, p. 24
4. A. Bailey – Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, p. 68/70
5. A. Bailey – The Destiny of the Nations, p. 18
6. A. Bailey – Discipleship in the New Age I, p. 695
7. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations, p. 370
8. A. Bailey – Discipleship in the New Age II, p. 223
9. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations, p. 91/2
10. A. Bailey – Discipleship in the New Age II, p. 199
11. A. Bailey – Discipleship in the New Age II, p. 217
12. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations, p. 68
13. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations, p. 90
14. A. Bailey – The Destiny of the Nations, p. 25
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