CHRIST’S FESTIVAL: GEMINI

The higher interlude of the spiritual year culminates in the Gemini full moon – in a Festival which celebrates the spiritual potential of humanity to unify the personal will with the Will of God. On this day the Christ stands before God as the representative of humanity, the “eldest in a great family of brothers,” and focalises the united aspiration of humanity into an invocative demand for more Light and Love. Through Christ, the response of deity pours forth into humanity, uplifting human consciousness and establishing a culture of goodwill and right human relations on earth.

This invocation and evocation of deity circulates life throughout creation and provides the evolutionary impulse by which the Divine Plan works out. This Plan requires that the Principle of Life mount upon the shoulders of matter through the development of human consciousness. Thus, humanity is vital in the working out of the Divine Plan.

Today, however, humanity remains divided and so cannot stand as the lighted house through which spiritual consciousness finds expression. This Festival augments the Principle of Unification which brings the higher and lower aspects of humanity into closer relationship; the light of the soul waxes and increases while the light inherent in matter wanes. This facilitates the expression of a spiritual unity and the annihilation of separatism.

This Festival marks the culmination of the work of the Buddha, focalized through Christ and expressed through Humanity. It also initiates a future approach to divinity wherein invocation – the conscious focalization of one’s spiritual aspiration – is paired with the expression of spiritual consciousness through right human living. It is for this reason that World Invocation Day, a time when we are asked to do all we can to promote the widest use of the Great Invocation, occurs on this day.