Discipleship in the
New Age ΙΙ, σελ. 437
Αs the initiate proceeds on the Way and comes to
the critical stage where "he recognises revelation." I would ask you
to think carefully about these three words because they involve the perception
of some truths which are apt to be forgotten. For instance, the truth that
revelation is the revelation of that which is ever present; it is not in
reality the revelation of something new and hitherto unknown. To put this in
its simplest terms: the initiate discovers he can perceive more than he ever
knew was existent or perceptible but that he is only perceiving something that
has always been there. The limitation, he discovers, is in himself, and the Way
of Revelation is through the discovery and the discarding of his own personal,
or rather, individual limitations..
Problems of Humanity, pp.
140-141
The day is dawning
when all religions will be regarded as emanating from one great spiritual
source; all will be seen as unitedly providing the one root out of which the
universal world religion will inevitably emerge. Then there will be neither
Christian nor heathen, neither Jew nor Gentile, but simply one great body of
believers, gathered out of all the current religions. They will accept the same
truths, not as theological concepts but as essential to spiritual living; they
will stand together on the same platform of brotherhood and of human relations;
they will recognize divine sonship and will seek unitedly to cooperate with the
divine Plan, as it is revealed to them by the spiritual leaders of the race,
and as it indicates to them the next step to be taken on the Path of Approach
to God. Such a world religion is no idle dream but something which is
definitely forming today.
A second emerging guide to the spiritual life is the hope of revelation. Never before has man's need been greater and never has the surety of revelation been more certain; never has the spirit of man been more invocative of divine aid than it is today and, therefore, never before has a greater revelation been on its way. What that revelation will be, we cannot know. The revelation [Page 141] of the nature of God has been a slow unfolding process, paralleled by the evolutionary growth of the human consciousness. It is not for us to define or limit it with our concrete thinking but to prepare for it, to unfold our intuitive perception and to live in expectation of the revealing light.
The Reappearance of the Christ, pp.
148-149
Another great Approach
of divinity and another spiritual revelation are now possible. A new revelation
is hovering over mankind and the One Who will bring it and implement it is
drawing steadily nearer to us. What [Page 149]
this great approach will bring to mankind, we do not yet know. It will surely
bring us as definite results as did all the earlier revelations and the
missions of Those Who came in response to humanity's earlier demands. The World
War has purified mankind. A new heaven and a new earth are on their way. What
does the orthodox theologian and churchman mean when he uses the words "a
new heaven"? May these words not
signify something entirely new and a new conception as to the world of
spiritual realities? May not the Coming
One bring us a new revelation as to the very nature of God Himself? Do we yet
know all that can be known about God? If so, God is very limited. May it not be
possible that our present ideas of God, as the Universal Mind, as Love and as
Will may be enriched by some new idea or quality for which we have as yet no
name or word, and of which we have no slightest understanding. Each of the
three present concepts of divinity—of the Trinity—were entirely new when first
sequentially presented to the mind or consciousness of man.
For some years now the
spiritual Hierarchy of our planet has been drawing nearer to humanity and its
approach is responsible for the great concepts of freedom which are so close to
the hearts of men everywhere. The dream of brotherhood, of fellowship, of world
cooperation and of a peace, based on right human relations, is becoming clearer
in our minds. We are also visioning a new and vital world religion, a universal
faith which will have its roots in the past, but which will make clear the new
dawning beauty and the coming vital revelation.
Glamour: A World Problem, pp. 185-186
I would point out that
the two greatest revealing Agents Who have ever come to Earth within the range
of modern history made the following simple revelations to humanity:
1. The cause of all
human suffering is desire and personal selfishness. Give up desire and you will
be free. 2. There is a way of liberation and it leads to illumination. 3. It
profits a man nothing to gain the whole world and lose his soul. 4. Every human
being is a Son of God. 5. There is
a way of liberation and it is the way of love and sacrifice.
The lives of these
Revealers were symbolic representations of that which They taught, and the rest
of Their teaching but an extension of Their central themes. Their contribution
was an integral part of the general revelation of the ages which has led men
from the primitive state of human existence to the complex state of modern
civilisation. This general revelation can be called the Revelation of the Path
which leads out of form to the Centre of all life; the purity of this
revelation has been preserved down the ages by a small handful of disciples,
initiates and true esotericists who have always been present upon the
Earth—defending the simplicity of that teaching, seeking for those who could
respond to and recognise the germ or seed of truth, and training men to take
Their place and to tread the way of intuitive perception. One of the major
tasks of the Hierarchy is to seek for and find those who are sensitive to
revelation [Page 186] and whose minds are
trained so that they can formulate the emerging truths in such a way that they
reach the ears of the world thinkers, relatively unchanged. All revelation,
however, when put into words and word forms, loses something of its divine
clarity.
Much of the revelation
of the past has come along the lines of the religious impulse and, as the
illusion has deepened and grown in time, the original simplicity (as it was
conveyed by its Revealers) has been lost. All basic revelations are presented
in the simplest forms. Accretion after accretion crept in; the minds of men made
the teaching complex through their mental dissertations until the great
theological systems were built up which we call, for instance, the Christian
Church and the Buddhist system. Their Founders would have much difficulty in
recognising the two or three fundamental and divine facts or truths which They
sought to reveal and emphasise, so great is the mantle of illusion which has
been thrown over the simple pronouncements of the Christ and of the Buddha. The
vast cathedrals and the pompous ceremonies of the orthodox are far removed from
the humble way of the life of the Christ, the Master of all the Masters and the
Teacher alike of angels and of men, and from the simplicity of His present way
of life as He watches and waits for the return of His people to the simple way
of spiritual realisation.
Glamour: A World Problem, pp. 187-189
A World Problem, pp. 187-188Much of the true revelation since the time of Christ has come to the world along the line of science. […] The revelations of science when basic and fundamental are as divine as those of religion, but both have been prostituted to meet human demand. The era is [Page 188] close at hand when science will bend every effort to heal humanity's sores and build a better and happier world.
Glamour: A World Problem, p. 189
[…] there is a little
less illusion gathered around the revelations of science than has gathered
around the revelations of what humanity calls the more definitely spiritual
truths. One reason lies in the fact that the last great spiritual revelation,
given by the Christ, was given two thousand years ago, and the development of
man's mind and his responsiveness to truth has grown greatly since that time.
Again, the revelations of science are largely the result of group tension,
eventually focussed in one intuitive recipient, and the revelation is thereby
protected..
Glamour: A World Problem, p. 205
The Path of Evolution is in fact the path of recognitions, leading to revelation […] From light to light we pass, from revelation to revelation until we pass out of the realm of light into the realm of life which is, as yet to us, pure darkness.
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