Shamballa: The Holy of Holies

Shamballa, the Holy of Holies, is one of the names of the "centre where the Will of God is known". Here dwells the Lord of the World, Who holds all planetary life in the circle of His divine love. In both the Old and the New Testaments, He is spoken of as 'Melchizedek', "King of Salem, Priest of the Most High God.... Being without father or mother or ancestry, having neither beginning of days nor end of life ... He remains a priest in perpetuity." Gradually, there is dawning in human consciousness an awareness of this 'bright centre', Shamballa, where the mystery and divine Intention of our informing planetary Life will one day be revealed in all its consummate beauty. As we sound the Great Invocation in our daily Triangles ritual, we, too, as a global subjective group affirm this centre and respond to its unfolding, unalterable purpose.

Humanity, today, is awakening to the profound sense of interconnectedness of all life. For we are, in essence, one. We, and all that exists, are indissolubly linked by the beneficent Will of "the One in Whom we live and move and have our being". The intuitive responsiveness of humanity to the impulses emanating from the Kingdom of Souls, the Hierarchy, is evidence of the rapid growth in human consciousness over the past few hundred years, and especially in this troubled century. And it is through the Hierarchy that energy from Shamballa flows to 'soften' or step down its impact on the human family. We understand that only four times in the long history of the race has the Shamballa force flowed directly into the human centre without first being stepped down by the spiritual Hierarchy. Though, it is testimony to the increasing maturity of the human family that twice this century (during the world war 1939-1945 and in 1975) humanity has been the recipient of this beneficent dynamic energy. Next year also, in the year 2000, we can expect the direct inflow of Shamballa energy to touch all levels of human experience.

Each time the Shamballa energy impacts it strikes deeper into human consciousness, revealing in new and potent livingness the Purpose of Deity. It will, once again, stimulate the developing creativity of the human family to respond to the sacred Call of God, which sounds from the innermost sanctum of the Holy of Holies. It will prepare the way for the renewing of human living, so that a deeper spiritual ethos, morality and sense of values will condition the consciousness of the race. For, inevitably, the effect of Shamballa leads to the clarifying of issues, the presenting of opportunity and the purifying of human thinking. It will, perhaps, above all stretch the human creative imagination to sense the divine unity of all life upon our small planet. The intensive conscious interrelationship of the three major centres - Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity - is stimulating the soul of the lower kingdoms in nature. This potent interaction is slowly swinging all of life upon our planet into a cohesive, unified spiritual organism, under the direct impression of the Lord of the World in Shamballa, Who under eternal Law acts as "the Sun and light of the planet until the Day be with us and the night of pralaya¹ descends upon His finished task."

1. Pralaya: An interlude between two periods of manifestation.