A World Teacher
Behind the outer chaos and confusion in the world, a definitive
turning point in human consciousness is taking place. Outworn,
separative thinking is starting to give way to a spirit of
inclusiveness, tolerance and understanding. Yet, notwithstanding
all the outstanding constructive work in the world, there is a
growing awareness by spiritual thinkers that only the appearance
of a world Teacher can truly reveal to humanity a spiritual direction
and sound a new note of such purity and potency that the human
family will recognise the practical simplicity, yet profound wisdom
and beauty of the expressed truths. Those familiar with the Alice
Bailey teachings are conversant with the idea of the Christ, as a
world Teacher. Those from other spiritual traditions and faiths use
other names, such as the Lord Maitreya, the Imam Mahdi, or the Messiah
to depict this same great divine Identity, who sees no distinction
between colour, race or religion, and who views the human race as one
family—a vibrant creative centre of energy in the life of the
“One in Whom we live and move and have our being.”
Throughout the long course of evolution, spiritual representatives of God
have emanated from realms beyond our awareness to guide humanity into a
greater measure of light and to maintain the continuity of spiritual
revelation that has ever emerged from the “secret Place of the Most
High” at crucial periods of planetary and human development. Great
luminaries such as Hermes, the Buddha, the Christ, Moses, Mohammed and other
great servers have lighted the way of countless millions down the ages. In
one respect, humanity, today, is no different to our forebears in needing
spiritual direction and sustenance. As a race, we have accumulated great
knowledge and technical skills, but has this pace in intellectual development
matched our capacity for loving, wise skill in action? Has our mastery of the
outer world matched our inner spiritual development? Sadly not, and left to
our own devices, it is probably true to say that this imbalance of human nature
would continue.
To a number of spiritual thinkers, only the spiritual stature of a world
Teacher, acting as a divine intermediary, between God and humanity, has
the capacity to understand the needs of the human family and to guide it
into a new phase of spiritual livingness, the Aquarian dispensation.
No doubt one of the first indications of the approach of the Christ to humanity
will be a sustained and potent release of goodwill. All those who are spiritually
responsive to his advancing note will recognise the moral imperative to foster
right relations in all human affairs. Also, the visionary thinkers and the
spiritual workers throughout the world will be greatly stimulated, strengthened
and inspired by the all-enfolding radiance of the Christ. It is not too far-fetched
to speculate that these processes are already underway. In the last two decades
or so, the proliferation of individuals and groups dedicated to serving world
need is a real indication that a spirit of goodwill is permeating human
consciousness.
At the dawn of a golden age, now, as never before, new constructive thinking on
the idea of the emergence of a world Teacher on the global stage is needed. It
is a message that evokes response from the Christ within each of us, the soul,
for the Christ is a Person, a Presence and a Principle; the divine intermediary
between God and humanity, and the mediating spiritual principle within us,
linking spirit and matter.
As a global spiritual meditating group, we are in a unique position to prepare
the consciousness of humanity for the appearance of a world Teacher. Every day,
when we sound the Great Invocation, we invoke the return of the Christ, the
Coming One, constructing a path of light between the Christ and humanity.
“The fiat of the Lord has gone forth; Christ stands attentive to the
demand of humanity. That demand is rising and mounting every day and ‘in
such an hour as you think not, He will come.’”
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