The Golden Thread
Since the dawn
of time, the human family has ever been guided by the elders
of the race, those liberated souls whose vision and wisdom have
acted as a beacon of light to struggling humanity. A golden thread
of spiritual revelation through the written and the spoken word
has pervaded human thinking throughout the ages. Great spiritual
teachers and teachings have emerged from time to time offering
spiritual guidance to a perplexed world. The role of these divine
intermediaries has ever been to anchor “a dynamic truth,
a potent thoughtform or a vortex of magnetic energy in the world
of human living.” This potent flow of spiritual energy into
the outer world stimulates human thinking to express some divine
idea, which over a period of time develops a civilisation. In
the long history of humanity, many civilisations have come and
gone, each one contributing to the overall development of the
human family.
The flow of spiritual
truth has traditionally emanated from the East. The sacred scriptures
of ancient India—the spiritual pearls of the Upanishads,
the Bhagavad Gita, the Song of God, and the Yoga Sutras
of Patanjali—have contributed to revealing the nature
of divinity in the universe and in human form. The Stanzas
of Dzyan too, have shone like a shaft of light giving in
symbolic form the cosmogenesis, the evolution of the cosmos,
and the anthropogenesis, the spiritual development of a human
being. The Egyptian, Greek, Judeo-Christian and Islamic spiritual
traditions have also contributed to a deeper understanding of
the spiritual realities of life. Other presentations of spiritual
reality likewise have enriched human thinking, giving inner meaning
and spiritual direction to many throughout the world. Each revelation
of truth conveys a part of an emerging spiritual pattern.
The two greatest
spiritual teachers of our age, the Christ and the Buddha, revealed
to humanity that God is Love and that God is Light. These two
truths have been foundational in their importance to human thinking
and action. Even today, as a race, we are only just beginning
to recognise the ramifications of these revelations. Love or
goodwill is becoming instrumental in the way we respond to the
inner and the outer worlds. Light, too, is revealing the true
nature of our global home, with all its positive and negative
aspects, bidding humanity to re-evaluate the real needs in society,
free from prejudiced thinking.
Other shining
luminaries have imparted to humanity spiritual values and philosophies
that have stood the test of time. Hercules was such a server
of the race, depicting in the Twelve Labours of Hercules
“the nature of the problem to be solved upon the Path of
Return to God.” Hermes, too, came and went, and was the
first great teacher to affirm himself as “the light of the
world.” Later still, the great initiate, Vyasa, revealed
one simple message—the immortality of the soul. These
and other great servers of the race, with the Christ and the
Buddha, spanning great cycles of time, have provided a conscious
linking from “God in the ‘secret Place of the Most
High’ to the humblest human being, living and struggling
and sorrowing on earth.”
The sacred teachings
and philosophies of the ages have brought humanity to a stage
of spiritual maturity, of an understanding and of a sense of
responsibility to ourselves and to the natural world, a responsibility
we share with the Kingdom of God, the Elders of the Race. Throughout
all the spiritual scriptures of the world weaves a golden thread,
linking them with the Father’s House, Shamballa, the Seat
of the Lord of the World, Who “knows His own Mind, radiates
the highest quality of love and focuses His Will in His Own high
Place within the centre where the Will of God is known.”
Whenever there
is a withering of the law and an uprising of lawlessness on all
sides, then I manifest Myself.
For the salvation
of the righteous and the destruction of such as do evil, for
the firm establishing of the Law, I come to birth age after age.
The Bhagavad Gita
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