LETTING IN THE LIGHT
Many decades ago, in the difficulties of the World War years, an eminent spiritual teacher urged all those who love humanity to act with steadfastness, service and sacrifice. And, although the world is not at war today, at least not physically in the same way, these words seem equally appropriate in our tumultuous times. Most would agree that it requires sacrifice to stand steady in a spirit of love and not become indifferent to the injustices and deepening crises in the world. In response to the pressing needs and challenges confronting humanity, many thinking people of goodwill are learning to serve rhythmically with the ebb and flow of spiritual energy.
Many Triangles members will be familiar with the pattern of the yearly spiritual cycle. Each month, at the full moon, divine energies are available for planetary and human transformation. During these periods, there is an unimpeded alignment between the sun and our planet. And, in particular, at the time of the full moons at the Festival of Easter (Aries), the Festival of Wesak (Taurus), and the Festival of Goodwill (Gemini), there exists a special opportunity to co-operate. Collectively, these three spiritual Festivals constitute a “unified spiritual approach of humanity” to work at a deeper level so that the light can shine in a dark place.
The inflow of light into the human kingdom is not only revealing the good, the beautiful and the true, but also exposing the inadequacies in human society. It seems that all the conventional pillars of the world order are in a perilous state, whether it is in religion, economics and finance, law and order, science, or governance. The old structures have become inadequate to reflect the higher vision, and the new incoming energies require new forms through which they can work to create a better world for all people and the earth itself. There is no doubt that visionary and intuitive minds need to clearly formulate and hold before the gaze of humanity the archetypal pattern through which the new world order can emerge. And the time for this is now.
In the face of unprecedented global challenges, one of the needed services we can offer is to stand with steadfastness in the radiance of the group work and so allow the clear light of the Triangles Network to irradiate spiritual values and human choices. The Network, created and vitalised by selfless human thought over many decades, acts as a planetary interface. And it is through this portal of enlightened goodwill that the higher impressions embodying spiritual ideas can inspire the thinking needed to rebuild the shrine of human living. The brilliance of this piercing light is disturbing age-old traditions, and nothing ultimately can arrest this progress.
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“Long patience will be needed. Mistakes will be made. There will be periods of indecision, of ineffective action and of negative yet deep discouragement. Workers will be prone to attitudes of despair, and at times the task will appear to them to demand too much, to be too difficult and the forces opposing what they seek to do too strong. But behind all the reconstruction with which humanity is faced is the potency of inevitable resurrection, the constant flow of enlightened thinking into and directing the mass consciousness, plus a growing realisation that humanity is not alone, that the spiritual values are the only real values, and that the Hierarchy stands, immovable in its spiritual strength, steadily oriented towards world salvation, and acting ever under the direction of that great divine yet human Leader, the Christ.”
The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 487, A. A. Bailey