The Light Bearers

The year 2025 is drawing to a close, a year during which the Conclave of the Hierarchy of Masters – held once every century – has turned its attention particularly towards Humanity; this date is also indicated by esoteric Teaching as propitious for outlining the steps of the future Externalisation of the Hierarchy. (1)
In this year, which has seen consciousnesses and hearts shaken and frightened, it is becoming increasingly urgent and necessary to invoke the Light and, at the same time, to take up and continue the legacy of those who, over the centuries, have taken on the role of Light Bearers.
The Teaching reminds us that: “The evidence of enlightenment is the best gift to evolution. The Command of cosmic life is a summons to light-sustaining achievement, and this mission is affirmed only by Light.” (2)
“Only the followers of the Hierarchy of Good can harness all energies into a channel of good. Indeed, only the fiery consciousness can take in the horizon of the World; therefore the events which are sweeping away the old accumulations elude the enemy. The manifestation of foresight really can be applied only through the focus of vision of the builders. Thus, the Fiery World has been predestined by the Bearers of Light.” (3)

Lifting our eyes to Heaven, the seat of all Light, our inner gaze, guided by the Soul, sees Saturn (4) crossing the gates of electric fire of Aries, the Initiator, the shining Homeland of Ideas, and in that fiery substance igniting the flame of creative Intelligence, the supernal Light that bursts into human consciousnesses and fills their chalices.
For the evolution of consciousness, Saturn represents the Light of Intelligence and the creative power of manas (5); consciousnesses purified and grown with disciplined awareness have freed themselves from the chilling and depriving influence of the Lord of karma (Saturn) and have “freed” themselves from the gravity of matter, setting out in full responsibility to cross that door that leads into the unlimited, into the “timeless”, into the Light supernal.
Saturn in Aries renews matter from within and leads it towards the celestial heights that make it transparent, purified by the fire of sacrifice, ready to unleash its virtues forged in harsh earthly experience, virtues that can now shine as pure Light and feed the spiritual flame that burns in every human being.

Humanity is the child of Heaven (Uranus, the primordial Light) and Earth (Gaia, the substantial matrix). In the image of the original offspring of the divine spouses, as recounted in Greek mythology (6) and in Plato’s myth of the cave (7), Humanity is initially kept hidden in the dark womb of Mother Gaia because it is inadequate in the eyes of the father, as well as chained in the darkness of matter and unable to turn its eyes, deluded by the changing forms, towards the sun of the spirit.
Each of us, immersed in material density and oblivious to the sky, is initially denied the celestial light that is ultimately conquered through suffering and conscious sacrifice.
But when light has made its way into human consciousness, the Light Bearers arise, first isolated, then increasingly numerous.
“… the Spirits who are Bearers of Light, filled with self-sacrifice, rush to the Earth for purpose of salvation.” (8)

The Light Bearers walk the earthly paths without fearing the darkness of matter. They have experienced the harshness of the material world but have been able to burn away the dross that hinders the splendour of the soul in the fire of Service and Unity.
“All the existing laws of Cosmic Construction indicate this unbreakable unity. How otherwise could the events of the world be explained? All Light-bearers manifest vigilance for this unity. Nourished by the unity of Cosmic Fire, each spirit compares equally with a spark of Fohat. On the path to the Fiery World let us strive with regenerated consciousness for union with the Cosmos.” (9)

The Light Bearers walk the paths of men in joy. Their hymns intertwine with the beauty of the flowers, the brightness of the stars, the purity of waters; their steps are capable of engraving the mark of the spirit in forms and transforming the dragging of existence into the light and luminous rhythm of Being.
Their companions are the dancing Muses, inspirers of solemn musicality, and their Masters Mercury and Venus (10), advocates of fusion and enlightenment.
“How necessary it is to get used to understanding everything spiritual! We can expect nothing from the heart if our thought does not find cause to rejoice in the very mention of anything spiritual. Indeed, we must attain the stage where we radiate light from our innermost being, for it is then that we are true coworkers with the higher worlds. Radiating the light of Grace, we are at the same time doctors, creators, and protectors on the descending line of the Hierarchy. First we see the outer light, and then we come to know the light within ourselves; but only after the kindling of the “torch” can we radiate Light.” (11)

The Light Bearers see the future, whose features are beginning to emerge from the grey rubble of the present. In their gaze there is no anxiety, no judgement, no vengeance.
They proceed steadfastly in the splendour of their vision and lay the first stones of the New Culture and Civilisation, certain that the seeds they have sown in space will blossom in due course, covering the desert with a mantle of life; “… in flowers Heaven settles onto Earth”. (12)
They advance in the footsteps of the Masters, honouring the work of those who came before them, forging new paths for those who will come after them, working tirelessly, in Beauty and Light, to erect the planetary Temple.
“We end one phase with a holiday and begin the next phase with work. Let us determine what to do—to act. In this eternal action is Our holiday. Only, in following Our example you should act without getting upset. Desire to act in calmness, knowing that Our spring trickles through you ceaselessly. And when you ask yourself, “Where are the Ones who made the promises?” We are standing right behind you. And We rejoice, measuring how much the flower of your aura has grown, for this is Our Garden. Beyond the distant horizon, Light unites hearts.” (13)

The Light Bearers are the workers in the Lord’s “field”.
They know the Plan and help to bring Light and Love to building sites around the world. Their wage is joy, the “special wisdom” that resonates within them, and they know nothing of denial or impatience.
Little by little, they recognise each other and rebuild the ancient partnerships that have already seen them work together in the past for the common Good.

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.

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01. According to esoteric Teachings, 2025 will see the centenary Conclave of the Masters of the Hierarchy. As explained by the Tibetan Master, the planetary Logos of the Earth, Sanat Kumara, periodically emits a “Sound”, the imprint of his Will, to which the members of the Hierarchy respond. This impulse: “… is held at one hundred year intervals, and as far as our modern humanity is concerned, these Councils have been held—under our arbitrary dates—in 1725, 1825, 1925. At these Councils, Those Who are responsible for the planetary development, along certain predetermined lines, make Their reports; decision is made as to new unfoldments; certain types of energy, cosmic and solar, are made available for the carrying forward of the Plans which implement the Purpose; the evolution of consciousness in the three worlds receives, necessarily, major attention.” (from A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 207) Between 1940 and 1950, the Tibetan Master also clarified the future externalisation of the members of the Hierarchy: “Thus a great and new movement is proceeding and a tremendously increased interplay and interaction [between Humanity and Hierarchy] is taking place. This will go on until A.D. 2025. During the years intervening between now and then very great changes will be seen taking place, and at the great General Assembly of the Hierarchy—held as usual every century—in 2025 the date in all probability will be set for the first stage of the externalisation of the Hierarchy.” (from A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 530)
02. Agni Yoga Series, Hierarchy § 24
03. Fiery World III § 6
04. Today’s entry of Saturn into Aries relates to the perspective of heliocentric astrology.
05. In Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Glossary, we read that Manas is: “the mind”, the mental faculty which makes of man an intelligent and moral being, and distinguishes him from the mere animal; a synonym of Mahat. Esoterically, however, it means, when unqualified, the Higher EGO, or the sentient reincarnating Principle in man. When qualified it is called by Theosophists Buddhi-Manas or the Spiritual Soul in contradistinction to its human reflection—Kâma-Manas.
06. In Hesiod’s Theogony, it is said that the children born to Uranus and Gaia (the Titans, the Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires), appearing monstrous in the eyes of their father, were kept hidden in the dark bowels of the earth, preventing them from coming to light. Gaia, enraged by this behaviour, asked her children to punish their father who was forcing them to remain in her womb; the last of the Titans, Kronos, accepted his mother’s appeal and one night, as soon as Uranus lay down on Gaia to impregnate her, he castrated him with a flint sickle.
07. In his dialogue The Republic, Plato introduces the myth of the cave, which tells the story of prisoners chained since childhood at the back of a cave and able to look only at the wall in front of them. Behind them burns a fire and runs a raised road where men pass carrying various shapes which, through a play of reflections, are projected onto the wall. The prisoners, knowing nothing of this coming and going, believe that the shadows projected on the wall are reality. If a prisoner were freed and could turn his face towards the exit of the cave, he would first be dazzled by the light and his eyes would suffer. He would then notice the shapes carried by the men and would be incredulous and doubtful because they would appear less real to him than those he had contemplated until then on the wall. If this prisoner were then able to leave the cave and be exposed to the light of the Sun, he would not be able to see anything at first because he would be completely dazzled, but eventually he would be able to see the Sun itself and come to understand that it is the Sun that governs the events of the visible world and is the cause of everything that he and his companions saw.
08. Fiery World III § 92
09. Ibid. § 316
10. Again according to the heliocentric perspective, on 5 November we will have the conjunction between Mercury and the asteroids Urania and Euterpe in Pisces, and the conjunction between Venus and the asteroid Terpsichore in Libra. Remember that the names of these asteroids refer to the names of the Muses, the Olympian entities generated by Zeus and Mnemosyne. Venus and Mercury, the factors of illumination, intuition and fusion, thus unite with principles such as the Power of Heaven (Urania), the Light of Sound (Euterpe) and the Light of Motion (Terpsichore). All this is in accordance with the Teaching, which states that “the development of illumination through an awakened intelligence is the first goal of humanity.” (from A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 37)
11. Heart § 38
12. Illumination § 291
13. Ibid. § 124