A NEW DAWN
It happens, almost without your knowing it: the rising sun. In the pale light of the early morning, before you’ve had a chance to notice, it happens: the new day is full of brilliant light. In those few moments of early dawn the earth turned, and your world is transformed from darkness to light. In one degree of earth-turn great changes take place. All up and down the hemisphere, millions of people like you are suddenly motivated to get up and start a new day. It is a small change but it has widespread results.
A similar effect can be seen when a person shifts his or her personality focus one degree inward towards the soul. That small turn of the personality life is sufficient to let a considerable amount of light into that person’s consciousness. The light of the soul is illuminating and enables a person to see the world in a new way, with new eyes. This small expansion of awareness can produce a major change in the way one conducts his or her outer life. And one illuminating lifetime may be all it takes to set the expansion process in motion. One lifetime is but a moment in the long history of the soul. But, as with the rising sun, great changes take place in that small turn of the personality life.
Spiritual initiatives, such as Triangles, are helping to deepen the rapport between the lighted and the material realms. This awakening of the individual personality life is not an isolated event; in fact it’s happening worldwide. Millions of people are becoming more sensitive to the soul’s light. And this illumination is creating, in many countries, progressive changes. It is the collective effect of millions of people turning towards the light that creates a critical mass of sufficient intensity to express a new quality in human consciousness. This has led, for example, to a tremendous worldwide growth in philanthropy, in service and aid agencies and in the founding of thousands of NGOs. This growth in the collective will to share resources and meet human need—a definite soul quality—is seen in the huge spontaneous worldwide outpouring of money and aid for the victims of tragedies and natural disasters. Tremendous energies are released by the movement of the earth’s tectonic plates. Likewise, human energies are released when the crisis of death evokes the soul of the world. It happened before anyone could notice it: the earth moved, literally, and a new consciousness appeared on the horizon.
As consciousness turns inward—even by a small degree—the inpouring light sensitizes the heart into action. The ability to feel deep compassion is more widespread than we realise. It is evidence that the mind that is in Christ is emerging. Just by being who we really are—spontaneous, sharing souls—we are creating that pathway of light for the feet of the Coming One, the World Teacher.
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If the light rises in the Sky of the heart… and, in the utterly pure inner man attains the brightness of the sun or many suns… then his heart is nothing but light, his subtle body is light, his material covering is light, his hearing, his sight, his hand, his exterior, his interior, are nothing but light.
Najm Razi, 1256