October-December 2022

CONTENTS:

Editorial – New Shoots of Consciousness
This Beacon celebrates the power of sacrament and massed invocation, as well as those forerunners whose very lives creatively embodied a sustained alignment with an inner purpose.

Service – Djwhal Khul
It is the outstanding characteristic of the soul, just as desire is the outstanding characteristic of the lower nature. It is group desire, just as in the lower nature it is personality desire.

New Sacrament – Isha Strasser
At this current time of constant crisis, we entrain our ears and turn our hopeful eyes toward a much needed new revelation: toward ‘Olam haBa’, Hebrew for the world to come.

Standing Shoulder to Shoulder – Jennifer Loui
What happens when a million people invoke the same future? What happens when there is no focus but one focus and all present are connected by an unseen web of power?

The Spiritual Influence of the Life and Work of Paramahansa Yogananda – Kevin Patten
Of all the works that affected my whole way of thinking was the Autobiography of a Yogi, the life story of ... Paramahansa Yogananda.

Fusion and Occult Knowledge – M E Haselhurst
What fusion achieves is the removal of limitation, with consequent revelation of the new arcs of consciousness ... wherein the Self may carry forward Its divine experiment.

The Invisible World Made Visible – Colleen Maguire
For true vision, it is incumbent to develop both faculties – the eye of vision and the intuitive understanding of the heart.

The Forgotten Significance of Quickening – Rae Lake Costas
The soul ‘hovers’ until the physical fetal brain is sufficiently matured to accept such an energy fusion or transference safely.

Art and Revelation – Anders Liden
We may eventually discover that we can perceive more than we ever knew was existent or perceptible but, at the same time, that we only perceive something that has always been there.

Flowers and Souls – Paulo Tonhasolo 
To find the full way to heal, we need to learn and see plants in their entirety, and it is the essence of the plant which is revealed in the flower, that has the ability to heal so intensely.

Agostinho da Silva – a Forerunner, Natália Ferreira.
Detached and not interested in material goods, Agostinho da Silva was an original and daring thinker, and can be considered a practical philosopher.