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Dear Friends,
The past few weeks, since the elections in Australia and the
US, have seen much revelation, interpretation and much "soul
searching" by politicians and public alike. We watch the
ripples of change flowing like cyclic breath through the fabric
of the world - and still our sense of who we are expands and
seeks its centre of being. Sometimes we look back to find the
comfort of familiarity… sometimes we dare to rend the veil
of the future and allow it entrance. Always we are in a moment
between. This can be a moment of chaos and fear if we cling to
outmoded patterns or it can be a moment of power and promise
when freed into Life's flow through the known patterns, as it
continually re-forms them towards the divine blueprint emerging
in our world.
If we could release all accustomed and known extensions into
the world of matter and form - and stand at that centre of all
being, a centre which has no form or material location but is
a point out from which our awareness expands to embrace the universe
- if we look out from there we can begin to see the real world,
the real events and the divine pattern taking shape in human
affairs. This may not be as our ordinary daily selves may wish
it (steeped as we can be in old conditionings, patterns of thought
and feeling) but as it truly is and is being revealed by our
expanding awareness. The following sloca from "Leaves of
Morya's Garden I" holds the promise:
"I promise the growth of consciousness.
It comes gradually, unnoticed, like the growth of grass.
First let us affirm disdain for unneeded food.
Just as the fallen fruit is collected in a basket and
carried away, so are our outgrown thoughts also discarded.
So, your sense of human imperfection has ever existed,
but this fruit is also fallen.
At the gates of the New World the crowds gather.
Yet they perceive not the portals.
But easy are the steps of the spirit.
By a single wish can worldly things be seen
as they are.
Blessed are you who aspire to Beauty."
The power of simplicity expresses as it breaks through the
distracting phantasmagoria of the external world. Such simplicity
brings us closer to Spirit. The Tibetan Master, Djwahl Khul,
explains:
"Simplicity and unity are related; simplicity is one-pointedness
of outlook, free from glamour and the intricacies of the thoughtform-making
mind; simplicity is clarity of purpose and steadfastness in intention
and in effort, untrammelled by questioning and devious introspection;
simplicity leads to simple loving, asking nothing in return;
simplicity leads to silence - not silence as an escape mechanism,
… Simplicity connotes the blueprint which 'substands' the
outer structure of creation, of living, of loving and of service,
and this is true of a solar system, a planet, humanity or the
individual."
The challenge and opportunity in the constant change of our
daily form life is to observe it in context of an expanding human
consciousness. When we think we know what the best form outcome
can be we are already locked into a blind alley and our vision
has been narrowed to tunnel down to that outcome. A series of
"dead ends" is a reminder that the way is not visible
from within the narrow streets and corridors of mental rationalisation
nor is it arrived at through a logic based only on the past,
the known and the familiar. The new is revealed to new eyes -
new in scope, new in freedom, new in wholeness. It is perceived
from an aerial view of the whole by a universal, Aquarian consciousness
that we share. From there we may see the way through all current
impasses. Space is our ship and time the oar to steer our way
through.
The changes moving through human consciousness are not necessarily
translatable into a re-arrangement of the known concepts, ideologies,
institutions and procedures or their representatives. They are
all-embracing of past and future intention and may transform
our world in new and unexpected ways. Ultimately change is the
effect of the Law of Abstraction. We associate it with loss and
death when identified with the forms we inhabit and we grieve
for the passing of the familiar and bemoan and cling to forms
from which the life has already been freed. Yet "death"
is part of the expanding impact of the Law of Life. The Tibetan
explains:
" The processes of abstraction are … connected with
the life aspect, are set in motion be an act of the spiritual
will, and constitute the 'resurrection principle which lies hidden
in the work of the Destroyer', as an old esoteric saying expresses
it. The lowest manifestation of this principle is to be seen
in the process of what we call Death - which is in reality a
means of abstracting the life principle, informed by consciousness,
from the form or the bodies in the three worlds. ... Thus the
great synthesis emerges, and destruction, death and dissolution
are in reality naught but life processes. Abstraction is indicative
of process, progress and development. … In cases of death
in war … it is not then a case of the individual will-to-withdraw,
but an enforced participation in a great group abstraction. From
its own place, the soul of the individual man recognises the
end of a cycle of incarnation and recalls its life."
The pulse of life is the cyclic inflow of inspiration represented
in time as moments, ages and eons - each bringing the new and
releasing the old. Each cyclic inflow has its outflow as old
forms are released to make way for the new. Between inflow and
outflow is the interlude, the point of being, life and power.
The Tibetan explains that the interludes are the "seeds
of Samadhi" which He describes as:
"those interludes in the initiate's life of service wherein
he withdraws all his forces into a 'well of silence' - a well
full of the water of life. In this state of consciousness two
definite activities transpire: Tension and Recognition. Without
these interludes of abstraction, his work would slowly weaken
as the tension, earlier initiated, weakened: his ability to attract
and hold others true to the vision would likewise slowly disappear,
as his power to recognise became myopic. The initiate, therefore,
… withdraws at the needed times. As he inhales the life
(of Spirit) … and as he exhales the essence into the 'world
of serving lives', he becomes steadily more and more dependent
upon the 'interludes' wherein both these phases of activity cease
and he becomes immersed in Being and in Consciousness - the intrinsic
parts of the animating Whole. I use this phrase 'animating Whole'
advisedly to indicate that the points of interlude are not related
to form life at all, but to the life of Life itself."
Life flows through the interstices of space. It is not contained
by any one form or moment in time - it permeates all.
Modern physics reveals the potency and potentiality of the spaces
between atomic particles - a revelation that explodes our illusions
about the solidity and permanence of the form. The more dimensions
our consciousness infiltrates, the closer we come to the centre
of life and the more clearly we see in proportion to the whole.
Everything then takes on its true relevance, its true beauty
and purpose. We can see the way through the petty issues of the
day but these are no longer of key relevance in the greater vision
- just as a child's vision gives way to the adult's. There is
always a new goal but Life IS.
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The books quoted in this newsletter are available from Sydney
Goodwill. Referenced in this issue:
Leaves of Morya's Garden I - published by the Agni Yoga
Society. (Sloca 271)
Discipleship in the New Age II - by Alice A. Bailey. (Pages
451 & 518)
The Rays and the Initiations - by Alice A Bailey. (page
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