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JULY/AUGUST 2003
CONTENTS:
Editorial -- Identity: Doorway to the One
The Ageless Wisdom provides a key to the resolution of the apparent conflict between individual and group identity, and it lies in the correct understanding of identity itself. To have an identity is to be awake and aware—a responsive, responsible point within the sphere of Being. As the Buddha declared, and as his very name affirms, "I am awake".
The Culture of the Individual -- Djwhal Khul
The Buddha’s Four Noble Truths for Today! -- Olivia Hansen
Truth is simple—yet hard to live. The teaching is simple to hear—yet very difficult to follow—because the Four Noble Truths contain the key to liberation. If we can actually live this message, then it takes us through the third initiation and beyond, to mastery and higher spiritual realms.
The Heart’s Design – Ken Archer
Mme Roerich’s writings signaled that man now has the opportunity to practise a new yoga, Agni Yoga, which bestows the benefits of the earlier yogas in addition to its own unique gift. Through the study of Agni Yoga—the yoga of fire—man can gain knowledge and eventual mastery of the fiery cosmic energies which flow through space to the earth. Agni Yoga, the yoga of synthesis, is the yoga for the future, the yoga for the new era, the era of fire.
Genetic Engineering in a Spiritual Setting -- S.A. Ward
Does there have to be a first cause? Even with our limited consciousness it can be very difficult to conceptualise a void, and then to visualise something being created out of nothing. There appears to be an acknowledgment that Life has always existed, and because there is general agreement that our universe did start in a condensed state, it is a very plausible proposition that a creative force is immanent in all life-forms.
Depression and the Path -- Kathy Newburn
The most difficult sacrifices demanded on the path almost always manifest in unexpected, subtle and nebulous ways, creating conditions that take much time and experience to overcome. For some, one of those unexpected costs is depression. Often, as the emotional life is gradually transmuted and life assumes a more mental orientation, there ensues a period of difficulty as life loses some of its luster and excitement, however ephemeral that excitement may have been.
The One and the Tree of Knowledge – Ruth Kelland
As consciousness branches out into finer and finer strands, it becomes increasingly flexible, sensitive and responsible to the environment it explores. Interplay between explorer and environment reveals misunderstandings and stagnant thought. Explorers bring fresh sap into the branch-lines, by communicating the Oneness discovered on the return path from fine branch back to the main trunk and thence into the ground of all Being.
The Problem of the Churches -- A Student
We should remember that out of unity comes diversity and that diversity is merely the rich and seamless outer garment of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being. The true spiritual search of the time lies in finding a new revelation that will open the way in freedom of conscience to the understanding of our common status as children of one Father/Mother God.
William Blake 1757-1827—A Forerunner -- Rosemary Wilkie
[Blake] saw and spoke with angels from the age of four until he died. He had insight into human psychology, warned of the dangers of spiritual disconnectedness, and predicted the rise of materialism. From diverse sources and his own visions he created a unique and universal mythology that still has the power to excite and disturb today.
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