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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2003
CONTENTS:
Editorial -- Invoking the Future
In this issue the article taken from the Tibetan’s writings, "The Next Two Hundred Years", speculates about the coming cycle if humanity plays its intended part. To the uninformed person who first encounters the term "Plan", the assumption is often that this Plan is foreordained. Some even react negatively, with a sense that man’s free will is somehow coerced or supervened. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. The Plan is the blueprint of divine Purpose for the coming cycle, held "in solution" by the spiritual Hierarchy pending the recognition and cooperation of humanity.
The Next Two Hundred Years -- Djwhal Khul
The Human Soul—Part I -- John Nash
The human soul develops as the result of the individual’s own choices—a consideration that provides a remarkable example of humanity’s controls over its own evolution. The soul can unfold to the extent that the individual’s priorities shift from the lower separative nature and its needs toward the higher nature and a broader array of needs: those of the community, the nation, and even humanity as a whole. Concern may extend to the natural environment and eventually to the totality of Life.
Recognition – Michal Eastcott
Such commonly used words as insight, vision, revelation are constant reminders of the fields around awaiting recognition, and also our own potential as discoverers. This lifts even the most humdrum life onto a new level of interest and vitality, for we are probably never as circumscribed and limited as we think we are. Beyond each inscrutable darkness lie new vistas, and there is scope for deeper penetration and the experience of new subtleties on every side.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Three Bardos–Part II -- J.S. Bakula, Ph.D.
Fear causes people not to recognise their own spiritual natures and to flee from the brilliance of these bardos—fear, ignorance and lack of preparation. What is required is that we recognise and identify with our own highest essential spiritual natures: abstract, impersonal, detached and formless, yet of complete, pristine, all-inclusive beauty. What is required is that we recognise our own perfect spirit and can embrace it—merge with it as our own self, realising that we are that and all else is illusory and impermanent. For this to occur we must have recognised, at least partially, these states during life, states usually cultivated in meditation practices based upon revealed teachings or teachings of enlightened beings.
Freedom From Fear -- Ida Urso
…the spiritual work of the United Nations and the "liberation of humanity" go hand in hand. In this Aquarian Age, the UN is as a Temple for Humanity. The work accomplished within and around this world body by its personnel, by the representatives and leaders of the member States and by many of the 1400 plus civil society organisations affiliated with the UN is truly spiritual work.
Abraham Lincoln – Mary Senter
Because Lincoln never joined any church, he lacked the support of the ministry. He doubted the possibility of settling religion in the models of man-made creeds and dogmas, but he did believe, "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." That to him was a practical truth and a divine law.
Freedom and Liberation -- Richard Bryant-Jefferies
The esoteric server is one who works behind appearances and, increasingly, behind meaning. Such servers seek to work with the significance of Life, with a reality that transcends human thoughts and feeling, and to which only the soul can register a response.
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