Spiritual Care at the End of Life, Reflections of a Death Doula
The Merging of Hierarchy and Humanity
Kathy Newburn
We work today at the time of the Gemini Festival, an auspicious moment to gather together as Triangles partners. Through this coming together as a united group we contribute to the work being carried forward by countless individuals and groups who are playing their part in raising the planet into the light whether or not they are conscious of the subjective forces at play.
The Gemini Festival takes place over three full days we’re told. The usual one day of safeguarding of the full moon period is here extended to three days, hence the tremendous potency of the inpouring energies at this culminating period of the higher interlude of the spiritual year. And while on the one hand when we’re following a spiritual path to not look for results for the separated self, at other times we are enjoined to expect them. During this year of Conclave would seem to be one such time when results can be expected–a time when we can cultivate faith in the response of Deity to the invocative cry of humanity. Such results, however, might not appear immediately, nor in the form that we expect. The workings of the soul quite often have an agenda that is quite different to that of the personality. To see through the eyes of the soul calls for discriminative powers, for those who can project the line of light beyond the confines of the lower mind with its fogs and mists and crystallized forms and become able to enter into the light that is rising upon the horizon.
The sign of Gemini is the purest expression of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom within the entire zodiacal year. On each day of this Festival period a solemn ceremony is held in a hidden valley in the East and at its close the Christ intones the Great Invocation, followed by its sounding by the collected Hierarchy. Interestingly, the Tibetan suggests that those who are interested in the work of Triangles and the Goodwill movement hold them in mind when sounding the first and third stanzas of the Invocation. And then, when sounding the second stanza, he suggests the new group of world servers be held in mind. This recommendation highlights the importance which the Hierarchy places on these activities.
On this final festival of the higher interlude we recognize both the Christ’s humanity and humanity’s divinity. The Christ ever held out the recognition that humanity would do greater things than He. And the destiny of humanity is great–to become a station of light within the solar system and beyond. This destiny is way beyond the scope of a few individuals and will only be possible through the collective effort of humanity working as a unified field. The Triangles network and World Invocation Day stand as forerunners of this eventual destiny that will take a major step forward during the Aquarian age, the sign of group consciousness.
These days of the Gemini Festival provide an opportunity for alignment between the three planetary centers. The duality in synthesis which is the keynote of Gemini becomes possible through its linking nature. Gemini stands as the third point of the Triangle that links all pairs of opposites and, as a result, the unified field can be overshadowed by the energy of synthesis, which opens a portal that serves to lift or elevate the whole under the Law of Elevation.
A consideration of the pairs of opposites aids us to realize that humanity moves forward through opposition and crisis. Within the conflicting forces there will inevitably emerge points of crisis, which lead to periods of tension and an eventual emergence through which an impact upon public consciousness is made and another step forward is taken. Tension and strife are part of the evolutionary process, the means to a higher goal, for they are needed at times to break the spell of stagnation and crystallized forms.
Human living is not static and is rather composed of the constant movement between tamas and rajas, inertia and activity, and yet beneath the surface of the outer fragmentation there exists an underlying sattvic, or harmonious current flowing strong. It is ever with us but we have to find it amidst the rubble of the pushing and pulling of the world.
At this Festival a merging takes place between Humanity and Hierarchy – a reflection of what is unfolding on a grander scale over the ages to come. The situation could be likened to an eclipse period, when through a gradual, yet growing interface betweem two spheres of energy, a higherfield is created that makes possible the entry of the overshadowing synthetic energy from Shamballa. Standing withIn the intersection or midway point between Hierarchy and Humanity, stands the new group of world servers, the linking agents. As the merging of this eclipse period grows stronger, it becomes the dominant note and eventually Hierarchy will disappear as a separate kingdom in nature and the whole note of humanity will be lifted up.