A Time of Illumination

The following remarks were broadcast in the Triangles Webinar on January 8, 2018:

In our work together in Triangles we mediate between the light and the dark-- breaking up existing glamours and dissipating ancient deceptive thoughtforms--releasing in their stead light and peace into the world.  It is a work of joint illumination in response to a united vision and a shared effort to realize it.  We tread and hold within our hearts the way of world peace. Our end is not Illumination per se, but this is the result of the work. As the Tibetan says,  “illumination is inevitable but incidental”--incidental to the doing of the work (Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. 1, p. 79).  Illumination is said to come as a result of the head and heart vibrating together, merging their corresponding energy fields.  

This merging occurs as we learn over time to “think within the heart” and move beyond feeling into a type of soul-centered thinking which awakens the heart center within the head.  Then the lower mind is no longer an obstacle to the light, no longer a slayer of the Real of which Blavatsky warned, but becomes instead its revealer. As a consequence, light is thrown upon problems large and small and the way forward becomes clear, both for the individual and the group.

In order for illumination to control we have to learn to stand steady at the centre and from that point let the love and light of the soul flow outward into our environment.  As we so stand we attract what we need for the work to be done--in one mantram the Tibetan defines these needs as the qualities of an understanding heart, a quiet mind, and being ourselves.

Illumination is particularly a quality of the fifth ray, for this ray is associated with an intensity of light. It relates to pondering, a quality that the Tibetan says “permits the individual who has it, to stand steady in the light, to rest in pure being, and to become the true Observer” (Ibid., p. 317).

Venus is the planet on the fifth ray line and so it, too, is related to this quality of illumination. Its symbol is the pentagram--the shape formed by the combining of the triangle and the square and therefore related to the working out of the Plan and to Triangles. The fifth plane of mind is where the three aspects of mind are brought together. This ray also has a connection with both the fifth root-race and the fifth kingdom and, consequently, with the mind’s ability to enable us to enter into that kingdom.

The fifth ray Lord is described as a Being of “the intensest spiritual light.”  Through his quality of mind, this Ray Lord is said to be a pure channel for the divine will.  Some of the many names for this Ray are:

The Revealer of Truth, The great Connector, The Divine Intermediary, The Cloud upon the Mountaintop, The Rose of God, The Beloved of the Logos, The Brother from Sirius

Tomorrow morning we have another opportunity for alignment, one which serves as a potent focal point, bringing into our field of influence the energy of Venus, as the Sun, Venus and the Earth are aligning in the heavens. This alignment occurs, rhythmically, every nine months and it would seem to be a powerful opportunity to link with this event as we know from the teachings that Venus is a significant planet in relationship to Earth as she stands as our higher self, our soul, and so these alignments surely strengthen the soul of our planet to come into greater prominence.  And this particular alignment is enhanced and magnified by its exact conjunction with the powerful non-sacred first ray planet Pluto, the planet related to the spiritual will. Pluto aids in stripping away obstacles.  So perhaps at this time it is permitting a fuller access to the pure energy of illumination that Venus conveys, freeing the lower mind, at least temporarily, from its limitations so it can work more effectively as an agent of the building forces, as an agent of light.  

This particular conjunction is known as a superior conjunction, when Venus is on the far side of the sun (in relationship to the Earth).  So we could say we are in the “full Venus” moment, the time of perhaps greatest inspiration for Venus to realize herself spiritually, without, we might say, the drag of the Earth. Venus is related to the mind and heart and since we are encouraged, as this new age unfolds, to observe and pay close attention to the cycles of Venus, this is one such cycle that demands that we can incorporate to align with this rhythm. There are observations of ancient peoples recording of Venus’s movements from around 1700 B.C. E. These records included the rise times of Venus and its first and last visibility on the horizon before or after sunrise and sunset. These records have come to be known as the Venus Tablet.

Venus was instrumental in that most important event in our planetary life known as individualisation, when the animal men of the day were fecundated by the spark of mind, many millions of year ago.  Now, Venus and the Lords of the Flame are said to be entering upon the purpose for which they first entered into our planetary life, the great flowering of the egoic lotuses that is now taking place. The present sparking, on a higher turn of the spiral, is enabling humanity to take initiation. So Venus’s cycles are surely a rhythm that can influence us on soul levels.  This alignment will be exact tomorrow morning at approximately 1:32 Eastern Standard time.  This is a time for meditative silence, a time to bring about a fuller influx of manasic love into our system, via Capricorn, Venus, the Heart of the sun, and the Earth.  Surely this alignment is aiding our planet in its task of synchronizing the cosmic heart, the heart systemic, and the little human heart so they can beat as one.

Kathy Newburn