January-March 2019

CONTENTS:

Editorial – Liberators, past and present
As we move into 2019 and embrace the opportunities which this heralds, we might think of the group of world servers whose Festival is celebrated at the end of this year. This subjective group forerunner plays a vital role sculpting the form of the new civilisation in this time of transition. The group’s essence and ideas irradiate the many serving groups around the world as, undeterred, they realise their purpose “to uphold the vision” and to “release the prisoners of the planet” in line with the divine Plan.

The Attitude of the Disciple – Djwhal Khul
It is essential that servers everywhere—the intelligent men and women of good will—get a grasp, fresh and clear, of the work to be done and that they become “relaying channels and not delaying points of selfish interest” in the divine flow. This takes vision and courage. It takes courage to adjust their lives—daily and in all relations—to the need of the hour and to the service of mankind; it takes courage to attack life problems on behalf of others and to obliterate one’s own personal wishes in the emergency and need, and to do so consistently and persistently.

The Trumpeted Sound: A Formula for Transfiguration – Laurence Newey
Amongst the host of abstract truths and principles in the Ageless Wisdom teachings, there are two fundamental attributes of Life that will be familiar to everyone – sound and motion. Everything in the universe moves and, as it does so, it emits a sound, no matter how quietly it may tread or how still it may think itself to be. More than this, every sound made, every hushed whisper, every thought and desire, resonates throughout creation to those who are listening, who hear and respond.

The Voice of the Silence – Margaret Haselhurst
Long ago, St Paul, writing to disciples in Thessalonia, used the unusual and striking phrase, ‘Study to be quiet’. It is an injunction disciples of the present day, beset by noise on the physical plane, and plagued by manifold emotional and mental stresses, might well take to heart, especially when pondering on the significance of the familiar but not always understood phrase, The Voice of the Silence.

Creating Life, Negating Conception; Part 2 – Leah Rae Lake
Conception, whether deliberate or not, is a human effect (not necessarily reflecting a personal or a moral decision) based on the ordained nature of physical matter that a fertile heterosexual mating be productive. Governed under the Principle of Conflict, matter, not spirit, makes this decision. Choice based on hormonal self-control involves recognising and making conscious yes or no choices at every stage of pregnancy. These are the progressive stages of reproductive decision.

Subjective Influences through the Ten Seed Groups – David Hopper
Humanity is in the midst of a great transition that will herald a new and evolutionary shift in individual human consciousness from astral tendencies to realizing our deepest spiritual nature. This marks a move towards greater group awareness represented by the Aquarian principle and the influence of sharing. With the two great Ages of Pisces and Aquarius overlapping each other, we are now at the midway point of this transition.

Tests: Opportunities for the Transformation of Consciousness – Andrew Griffiths
The purpose of a crisis in our life, is to elicit the opportunity to transform consciousness by evoking the use of soul resources. It often indicates a deviation from our straighter path; that the path we’re on is no longer the right one, such that the soul no longer has any use for it. There are some who consider a crisis a great blessing.

William E.B. Du Bois, Forerunner of the American Civil Rights Movement – Clint Galvin
The story of William Du Bois’s life is reflected in the stories he told as a writer, an author and a speaker. He spoke and wrote intelligently, and without seeming fear, about what it was like to be black in America at the turn of the 20th Century some 35 years after the end of the Civil War. W.E.B. Du Bois was one who set the stage for the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. He demanded equality for African Americans at a time when many white people viewed them as something less than human and treated them accordingly.

BOOK REVIEWS
The Simpol Solution; Solving Global Problems Could Be Easier Than We Think. By John Bunzl and Nick Duffell. Peter Owen. 2017 (simpol.org)
Red Tree, White Tree, Faeries and Humans in Partnership, by Wendy Berg.