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NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2001
CONTENTS:
Editorial – "Goal and Direction"
The Masters teach by conveying hints because advancement on the spiritual path must be an invocative/evocative process. As one responds to the invocative appeal of the soul, deepening awareness of the soul’s intention is evoked. Step by step, through experience, trial and error, the aspirant moves forward. This is where the importance of formulating spiritual intention enters in. Having a goal in mind helps to organise and magnetise spiritual energy, generating the needed tension which galvanises and propels.
From Individualisation to Initiation—Part III – Djwhal Khul
Ritual Drama – John R. Sinclair
According to the capacity of any mind or group of minds for absorbing the inner quality within any particular symbolic or allegorical teaching so will be the consequent reception of truth.
In the Beginning There was a Word - Harold McCollum
The development of speech appears to have paralleled the progressive expansion of the Word itself as it became ever more complex in its widening descent through the levels of Creation. One form of this expansion took place on the way down—the involutionary path—and the other is still in progress on the way back up. It is also becoming apparent, on the path of ascension, that an inevitable return to brevity and simplicity in the area of verbal expression is part of the program.
Subjecting One’s Life to a Plan – Sarah McKechnie
…the spiritual path is always evolutionary, progressive and unfolding, and the vision must always lie ahead as a beacon, cool and remote rather than a warm glow to bask in. You cannot remain at a particular point of achievement—even a high one; you have to move on. And sometimes moving on feels like coming down from the mountain of vision and revelation to the flat, dull plains of earth.
Letting Go of Resentment—A Bridge-Building Exercise – Terry Blaine
Acknowledging our resentments and understanding what they mean to us—good and bad—helps give us an honest glimpse of the past while keeping an eye toward the future.
Worry – John March
Worry is something we all learn to do in the world of form and it can be used as a tool for salvation. Think of worry as a signpost that ties one to the world of form and by doing this, we can all use worry to shift our consciousness automatically to the joy of life. This is the key to worry, to use it as a tool of transformation rather than a tool of further form entrenchment.
I Stand and Wait – Alice Bailey
Patterns of Universality – Gay Witherington
Guido of Arezzo – Darius Vaughan-Scott
Music, inspired by the sound of the soul, has a definite effect of helping to free the aspirant from the obstacles that lie between the soul and the little self.
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