October-December 2025

CONTENTS:

Editorial – Fiery Ordeals.
Beacon articles concern ideas and experience understood through the lens of esoteric teachings. Familiar words often convey deeper meaning in esoteric texts...

Humanity’s Rapid Progress upon the Upward Way – Dwjhal Khul
For ages it remained a question whether humanity would choose the slow but safe method of achievement. Yet in the past two hundred years, unforeseen even by the Hierarchy, the entire picture has been altered...

Esoteric Opera – Anne Woodward
The subjective union between the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer and the composer Richard Wagner finds expression in Wagner’s monumental Ring Cycle. Performed in the magical Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, this six-day drama offers both unimaginable beauty and profound esoteric knowledge.

Discipleship as a Self-Imposed Experiment – Eduardo Gramaglia
Self imposition, as a “useful experiment,” is in fact an intelligent and bold use of the “As If” technique... it is “bold” because it carries a potentially destructive effect on old patterns of reaction and behavior, thus producing a crisis.

Time and Its Cycles – by a Student
Spiritual evolution for any individual occurs over a great deal of time, within a succession of bodies that exist in space, on this planet. Paradoxically, neither time nor space exist...

Sentinels of the Soul: Minorities and the Hidden Currents of World Power – Barry Horton
From the standpoint of the Ageless Wisdom teachings, racial difference is a superficial aspect of the greater human identity. Humanity is a single spiritual entity evolving through time, and diversity of form is part of the richness of that unfolding.

Crisis – Incubator for Transformation – Dermot Carroll
The words ‘crisis’ and ‘chrysalis’ not only carry a similar sound but also a similar meaning. Like the chrysalis of metamorphosis, crisis becomes a metaphor for life transition.

Republican Virtue Revisited in the New Age – Colleen Maguire
Republican Virtue is defined as the core values that citizens of a republic must uphold in the performance of civic duties to ensure its proper functioning and stability. The Founding Fathers believed this virtue essential to government and sought to build in safeguards for the future.

Music that never stops – David Svetly
A short and moving anecdote on understanding death.

Alvin Toffler – A Forerunner – Kim Sangbok
An appreciation of the work of the American author and futurist whose work focused on the impact of modern technologies on global culture.