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JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2005

CONTENTS:

Cultivating the Habit of Solitude -- Editorial
Solitude then is a medium, a soil in which growth and movement toward the light can take place. If solitude is the soil that nurtures spiritual growth, it appears that much of our lives are paved over with back to back activities and stimuli leaving no open, fertile ground. In our rush, rush day-to-day, cultivating solitude is similar to cultivating the practice of meditation-intention and persistence are required even when no immediate and spectacular results are seen.

Principles and Personalities - Part II-Djwhal Khul

The Next Phase of Esotericism - Further Thoughts-Simons Roof
Oneness energy is not a new and unknown energy. Ask great mystics and esotericists such as Saint John, Saint Augustine, Meister Eckhardt, Jan von Ruysbroek, Shankara, Buddhagosa, the Buddhist teacher of Tibet, Chinam Japan and the Sufi Masters. Oneness energy is new in the sense that a far larger number of aspirants and disciples will become aware of it, have their first experiential tastes of it, and work deliberately to release and express it.

Theosophy and the Unity of World Religions-Zachary F. Lansdowne
The history of the Theosophical Society during the past 125 years can be an extraordinary teaching example. Blavatsky tried to establish a society in which its members would overcome the fetters of creeds and dogmas among themselves and would then help to burst those fetters for everyone else. Yet, past theosophists, in spite of Blavatsky's intentions and clear warnings, have used her writings in a sectarian way; that is, they have used Blavatsky's writings to create new creeds and dogmas that separated themselves from other theosophists and from everyone else...

The Way to Higher Fiery Consciousness - Part I-Maria Lenos
The highest possible discipline of thought and visualisation will inevitably lead up to the highest fiery spheres, and we are expected to build the "fiery bridge" first within ourselves, then within groups with which we serve, thereby contributing to the correct and exactingly adequate implementation of the Plan.

Freedom-John March
We use the analytical, lower mind to compare ourselves to others and in this we give up our freedom. We become slaves to what others think, to what society thinks, to what others tell us to think. Absolutely everything we do as humans is compared to someone or something. It never ends and we have become slaves to it.

Regarding the Soul's Purpose-R. Andrew Griffiths
From a purely technical standpoint, the only moment one can say with relative certainty that what is reflected within the astrological natal chart or other medium, that any soul's purpose is the way it may appear in the chart, is at the moment of birth itself. Thereafter, such a purpose is "on the table" for re-interpretation by a soul, in light of the continuous flux and change of human life.

Joel S. Goldsmith (1892-1964) - a Forerunner-Susan MacKay
Goldsmith envisioned groups of people worldwide dedicated to daily realisation in meditation of the Christ consciousness in connection with world problems. Believing that humanity is a unified whole, not simply an aggregation of many separate human beings, he recommended this meditation as the only way in which the evils at work in the world can by remedied.