THREE SPIRITUAL FESTIVALS 2008

Meditation meetings for the Three Spiritual Festivals are held by groups around the world. Meetings organised by the Lucis Trust in New York, London Geneva and New York will be held as follows:

The Easter Festival

The great western festival and spiritual high point of the Christian year has the keynote of love and is always fixed by the date of the full moon of Aries, the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

Aries full moon March 21, 2008 1:41 p.m. US EST, 6:41 p.m. GMT

NOTE: When and where Daylight Saving Time is in use, add one hour to the above times.

NEW YORK	LONDON	GENEVA
Friday, March 20, at 7:00 p.m. Williams Club, 24 East 39th Street (between Madison & Park), New York, New York	Friday, March 21 at 6.30 p.m. Thistle Hotel Victoria 101 Buckingham Palace Rd London SW1W OSJ (adjacent to Victoria Underground and railway stations)	Friday, March 21, at 18:30 h 1 rue de Varembé, (ground floor), 1202 Geneva

The Wesak Festival

The great eastern festival of the Buddha expresses the keynotes of wisdom and divine purpose, and follows one month after Easter at the time of the Taurus full moon.

Taurus full moon April 20, 2008, 5:26 a.m. US EST, 10:26 a.m. GMT

NOTE: When and where Daylight Saving Time is in use, add one hour to the above times.

NEW YORK	LONDON	GENEVA
Saturday, April 19 at 3:00 p.m. Williams Club, 24 East 39th Street (between Madison & Park), New York, New York	Saturday April 19, at 2 .30 p.m. Thistle Hotel Victoria 101 Buckingham Palace Rd London SW1W OSJ (adjacent to Victoria Underground and railway stations)	Saturday, April 19 18:30 h. 1 rue de Varembé, (ground floor), 1202 Geneva

Second full moon in Taurus

Taurus full moon May 19, 2008, 9:12 p.m. US EST, May 20 2:12 a.m. GMT

NOTE: When and where Daylight Saving Time is in use, add one hour to the above times.

This year we have the unusual occurrence of two full moons in the sign Taurus. Therefore, we are observing the first full moon of Taurus as the Wesak Festival, one month after Easter, and the second Taurus full moon as an opportunity for refocussing the energies and qualities of the Wesak Festival, augmenting the flow of light and the forces of Enlightenment, towards the full release of energy by the Christ at the Festival in Gemini.

NEW YORK	LONDON	GENEVA
Monday, May 19, at 7:00 p.m. Williams Club, 24 East 39th Street (between Madison & Park), New York, New York	Monday May 19, at 18.30 p.m. Thistle Hotel Victoria 101 Buckingham Palace Rd London SW1W OSJ (adjacent to Victoria Underground and railway stations)	Monday, May 19, 18:30 h. 1 rue de Varembé, (ground floor), 1202 Geneva

The Christ's Festival

The Festival of the Christ follows one month after Wesak at the time of the full moon of Gemini. It has the keynote of “humanity, aspiring to God” and blending many different spiritual approaches in one united act of invocation. It has been observed since 1952 as World Invocation Day.

Gemini full moon, June 18, 2007, 12:32 p.m. US EST, 17:32 p.m. GMT

NOTE: When and where Daylight Saving Time is in use, add one hour to the above times.

World Invocation Day will be observed worldwide on Wednesday, June 18

NEW YORK	LONDON	GENEVA
Wednesday, June 18 at 7:00 pm Williams Club, 24 East 39th Street (between Madison & Park), New York, New York	Wednesday, 18 June at 6.30 p.m. Thistle Hotel Victoria 101 Buckingham Palace Rd London SW1W OSJ (adjacent to Victoria Underground and railway stations)	Wednesday, 18 June at 18:30 h. 1 rue de Varembé, (ground floor), 1202 Geneva

A gigantic group meditation is going on in many different phases upon our planet. All the meditating units and reflective groups are related to each other through unity of spiritual motive; they are seeking closer cooperation and endeavoring to bring their meditation work - consciously or unconsciously - into a state of universal quiet, so that the formulation of spiritual desire can be carried successfully forward, and the reception of spiritual energies can be a united reception.

For two days prior to the full moon, on the day of the full moon itself, and for the two succeeding days (five days) endeavor at sunrise, at noon, at five o'clock p.m., and at sunset, plus the exact time of the full moon in your own land, to say the Great Invocation with the intent to invoke, precipitate and anchor in outer manifestation the waiting potencies. Do this aloud when possible, and in group formation whenever feasible. It is the focused power of unemotional thought which will bridge the present existing gap and link more closely the two worlds of spiritual activity and of human demonstration.

A paper on the significance of these three spiritual Festivals is available on request; also a booklet on meditation at the full moon. Further information can be found in the books The Reappearance of the Christ and Discipleship in the New Age, Volume II, by Alice A. Bailey.