SYDNEY GOODWILL NEWSLETTER PP 297537/00068
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Fax: (02) 9524 0025No 159 / February 2000
Dear Friends,
The recent New Year's celebrations around the globe demonstrated the magical unification of our world with a celebration of light. No matter the variations in place, season, time of day, culture or language, the same excitement mixed with solemnity and ritual gave harmonious expression to the spirit of humanity and its hope for a united future in which all take up their rightful place in the planetary purpose.
The explosion of light, the celebration of global unity, the round-the-world and round-the-clock broadcasts signal the inner realisation by humanity - as a whole - of its enlightening role in the synthesis of planetary life. "Goodwill toward men" is the radiating energy of the moment and having now experienced it at a global level we cannot fall to be a part of the inflow of the will-to-good of the planetary Life. This brings to mind the words of Christ when he said: "I am come that they may have Life and have it more abundantly."
As we approached the end of the millennium the lessons of life came both more quickly and more clearly. We have experienced a "speeding up" of the cycles of events. Cause and effect have been clearly linked together thus throwing attention back on cause or motive as the prime issue in affairs. We scrutinise politicians and leaders as to their ambitions. We are becoming unafraid in questioning and resisting motives based on separate and selfish desire. We are becoming discriminating as to the real purpose guiding action and outcome.
Ultimate purpose and initiating cause are becoming synthetically linked in consciousness. At the same time cause and effect are no longer seen as separate. Thus we annihilate time. In bridging this gap we are building the realisation of the synthesis of Life and the revelation of oneness. The apparent dichotomy of Spirit and Matter is then revealed as a unity and we approach the realisation contained in the tremendous assertion of H. P. Blavatsky: "Matter is spirit at its lowest point of manifestation and spirit is matter at its highest."
The connecting spark is within humanity. In our consciousness oneness manifests and unity in diversity appears on Earth. We reveal or obscure this truth depending on our response to desire. In the book, Agni Yoga, we read:
"Can one live without desire when even the spirit is incarnated by desire? Desires are like sparks igniting motion. Then what does it mean to say that a yogi is free of desire? . . a yogi is free, not from desires as such but from their burden. He knows himself to be free because he is not a slave to desire. On the path . . a yogi . . relinquishes desires in the name of the most essential. This ability to change easily is at the core of the yogi's liberation. Nothing hinders his progress.
It is precisely the inert, stillborn desires that become the chains of bondage for humanity. . Either incaution or the karma of others brings on the infection of desire, and a person, instead of progressing, loses all ability to change... What forces diverted them from the contemplation and understanding of the world? The most minute, almost indistinguishable, desire burdened them and obscured their vision... Desire can be worms and chains, or sparks and wings. The liberated one soars in realisation. The one enslaved wails in despair."
As the enlightened human being is unburdened by the desire nature he is free to participate in the great diversity of life, in all its dimensions and aspects, without experiencing any separation. He lives with' the oneness of spirit yet expresses through the diversity of material forms. "Nowhere is it said that the yogi must be physically alone, but for him solitude of spirit is inevitable ... And the more generously he gives, the more he remains untouched."He is untouched because he is identified with the source of all things and is not bound by desire to any one thing or another. The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul, pinpoints the difficulty:
"The greatest problem facing aspirants and disciples . . is that of comprehending the nature of identification. This concerns . . the relation of the self to the Self and of all selves to the all- inclusive SELF. It involves the mystery of duality with which they are occupied, and the very moment that theory as to essential unity becomes definite realisation, then the realm of synthesis is entered. For that type of realisation, language as we now have it has no words, and it is impossible to formulate concepts to interpret the consequent and resultant state of being. "Identification with" is the phrase which approaches the closest to the initial idea, and until man has grasped his identical at-oneness with even one human being, it is not possible even for him to think about it in any truly constructive manner."Christ enunciated as best He could the extent of this realisation in the words: "I and the Father are One." The Tibetan also attempts to express something of the experience of the newly initiate:
"It is a blinding conviction of an unalterable will, carrying all before it, oblivious of time and space, aware only of the intensity of direction, and carrying with it two major qualifications or basic recognitions to the initiate: a sense of essential being which obliterates all the actions and reactions of time and space, and a focussed will-to-good which is so dynamic in its effect that evil disappears. Evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action."And so humanity's consciousness has the capacity to bridge all time and space - all that appears to separate but which is in reality the field of the divine expression of Life. The apparent separation of Spirit and Matter creates a field of tension in which the realisation of oneness is achieved. The outer world into which we have come is the world of crisis requiring us to draw on the inner reservoir of reality, of joy and bliss, in order to transform and transcend the outer seeming. We are the linchpin in the Divine Plan which, as presently sensed, has been described as:
"the production of a subjective synthesis in humanity and of a telepathic interplay which will annihilate time. It will make available to every man all past achievements and knowledges, it will reveal to man the true significance of his mind and brain and make him the master of that equipment and will make him therefore omnipresent and eventually open the door to omniscience. The next development of the plan "I produce in man an understanding - intelligent and cooperative - of the divine purpose for which the One in Whom we live and move and have our being has deemed it wise to submit to incarnation."* * * * * *
The Festival in Aquarius will be celebrated at a meditation meeting to be held at 8pm on Friday, 21 January, at the YWCA, 5 - 11 Wentworth Avenue, Sydney. The theme for reflection is:
" Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty men "
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