July-September 2021

CONTENTS:

The Dynamic of Discipleship - Editorial
Discipleship is gradually – very gradually – becoming the keynote for humanity as a whole at the present time. Over the past 2,000 years, this word has maintained the almost exclusive religious connotation of following a spiritual teacher with obedience and discipline. To offset this narrow perception, the ethos of modern spirituality has evolved to expand the world’s understanding that discipleship actually embraces every field of human interest and activity – as it always has in truth.

A Disciple Described - Djwhal Khul
The path of the disciple is a thorny one; briars beset his every step, and difficulties meet him at every turn. Yet in the treading of the path, in the overcoming of the difficulties, and in a single-hearted adherence to the good of the group, with a proportionate attention to the individuals and their evolutionary development, comes at length fruition, and the attainment of the goal. A SERVER of the race stands forth. He is a server because he has no ends of his own to serve, and from his lower sheaths goes out no vibration which can beguile him from his chosen path. He serves, because he knows what is in man, and because for many lives he has worked with individuals and with groups, gradually expanding the range of his endeavour until he has gathered around him those units of consciousness whom he can energise, and use, and through whom he can work out the plans of his superiors. Such is the goal, but the intermediate stages are fraught with difficulty for all who stand on the verge of self-discovery,

Spiritual Impression and the Complementary Relationship of Magnetism and Radiation - Katherine Hendon
The relationship and interdependence between magnetism and radiation may be best understood by considering the nature of the human heartbeat. In fact, Alice Bailey characterizes evolution in our universe as a diastole/systole system of evolution, also alluding to the Second Ray nature of this Solar System. Magnetism and radiation are esoterically interdependent, just like the in/out pulses of the heartbeat. Put in esoteric rather than strictly scientific terms, the method of invocation and evocation underlies the entire process of evolution. In comparing invocation and evocation to radiation and magnetism, we find one of the few definitive statements which clarifies the distinction between the two qualities: Invocation is related to radiation; evocation is related to magnetism.

Creativeness - The Language of the Heart - Michael Brehme
The Soul unifies the magnetism of the universal heart (love) with the fire of universal mind as one sphere of creative potential. It is the divine impression, the universal heart’s magnetic power to form the universal mind’s fire. These two universal aspects form the first two unfolding spheres of the Soul; they produce a tension, a point of conscious sensitivity to Will. When the three cosmic aspects are held consciously, they form the jewel, the crossing point, the disciple.

Reflections of the Soul - Barbara Allen
The existence of the soul is a fact that is difficult to prove if the intelligence of the mind is considered to be limited to the belief that all there is to be known can only be known through the experience of thought informed by the five senses, the basis of scientific methodology. This is a basic premise that can be challenged, as it cannot in and of itself be proven. That being said, the beauty of science lies in its curious nature and the desire to experiment and intellectually explore the world of matter using the mechanism of thought based on information the brain receives from the senses of touch, taste, smell, hearing and most importantly, sight. Seeing is believing is a basic premise of science. The love of science is its attractive pull towards the mysterious unknown, towards something dimly sensed yet hidden or unseen.

Magical Symbolism in Egyptian Hieroglyphs - Wendy Berg
The essence of the Egyptian spiritual system is purity and simplicity. Its intrinsic qualities are clarity and radiance. It is rooted in the natural things of the earth: the desert, the river Nile and the abundance of green and growing life along its banks, the birds and animals and the simple objects of everyday life beneath the sun and the stars. Yet it has eternal relevance in its revelation of the relationship between humanity, the natural environment – particularly that of the unique landscape of Egypt – and the spiritual realities of the heavenly worlds that shine through earthly things.

Model the Reality You Prefer - John Rasmussen
In the light of everyday events, all of us witness the global failure of right human relationships; all of us behold the ubiquitous state of war and poverty, the slow collapse of the ecosystem, and the diminishment of democratic values. These problems of humanity do not occur in isolation, rather they present themselves as a confluence of crises arising from a single cause. The root metaphysical cause of human suffering is selfishness; the root practical cause of humanity’s social and economic problems is the unjust distribution of global resources. The solution to these problems will only be found in social and economic policies that promote the fair distribution of the world’s wealth and technologies to all human beings.

The Occultism in Job,  Part 3 - Alice Bailey
We have seen how all the lower voices have been stilled and the warring claims of Job’s personal lower self have died away into silence. The futility of the personality to bring peace and light has become apparent, and out of the silence which can later be recognized as sound, a Voice is heard. The voices are superseded by the Voice. Job’s inner ear is now opened to a message which can only be given when the disciple has come utterly to an end of himself. The moment has come when he can see things in their true perspective, and where the distinction between the Real and the unreal, between the Self and the not-self becomes apparent. The object of the evolutionary process is ever to bring man to just this point.

Virginia Woolf : A Forerunner - Elise Carr
Born Adeline Virginia Stephen, on the 25th of January, 1882, Woolf became recognised as a prime twentieth-century author. She was highly respected as a major essayist and critic with a special interest and commitment to contemporary literature, in particular women’s writing. This is noted in her commentaries on ‘Women and Fiction’, ‘Professions for Women’ and ‘The Intellectual Status of Women’, though Virginia Woolf’s greatest and most popular works are her books, including; A Room of One’s Own, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Waves, and To the Lighthouse.