SOUND THE NOTE OF LOVE,
INVOKE THE SOUL RAY,
PERMIT THE CHRIST SPIRIT ENTRANCE
Sunday, March 30, 2025
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HIERARCHICAL PREPARATION AT THE WESAK FESTIVAL
Continuing from the book "Externalisation of the Hierarchy", A.A.Bailey
April-May 1946
I have
delayed writing my usual Wesak message until this late date because of a
certain event in the Hierarchy which was maturing and which necessitated my
entire attention. This event was connected with the Wesak Festival and involved
among other matters the formation of a new Ashram in which the Wisdom aspect
would be of particular importance and not the Love aspect; this Ashram would
also be related in a peculiar manner to the Buddha. It had to be formed at this
time in order to be the recipient, and then the custodian, of certain
"endowments" which the Buddha will bring at the time of the May Full
Moon. The endowments concern the will-to-good of the Lord of the World, the
Ancient of Days, though they do not concern goodwill as you understand that
phrase. This Ashram, when duly formed and established, will enable the Members
of the Hierarchy to respond to this aspect of the divine Purpose—the Purpose
which as you know lies behind and implements the Plan; this Ashram, related to
the Buddha, will be specifically under the close supervision of the Christ, and
also of the Lord of Civilisation—at this time the Master R. They are the only
two Members of the Hierarchy able to register the divine Purpose (in regard to
its immediate objectives) in such a manner that the entire Hierarchy can be
informed and can then work unitedly and intelligently at its implementation.
More than this I may not tell you about this particular hierarchical move,
affecting as it does both Shamballa and the Hierarchy.
This Wesak Festival is of supreme importance because it is the first Festival since the war ended, because it takes place at a time when a definite orientation of the Hierarchy will take place, and because a fresh tide of spiritual impulse and directed second ray energy will flood the entire Hierarchy; the work, therefore, to be done by the Hierarchy will be far more effective. This you may anticipate and upon this you can count. [Page 542]
But—as you
may well have surmised—it is the Full
Moon of June which is (this year) the season of prime and outstanding
importance; it is in many ways easier for Western believers and esotericists to
tune in and participate in the activities of the Hierarchy when closely
connected with the Christ than it is in those related to the Buddha. The main
intention in these early stages of keeping the Eastern Festival of Wesak is to
familiarise the Western world with the fact of the presence of the Buddha and
with His activities in connection with humanity. Such great progress has,
however, taken place in the spiritual development of humanity that the Buddha
need no longer continue with His task unless He so desires—and then only for a
period of years, known to Him and the Lord of the World. He could cease His
annual contact with the Hierarchy at this time, if He so chose, owing to the
direct contact now established between the Hierarchy and Shamballa. This,
however, He does not immediately choose to do. For a few decades longer He will
cooperate with the Christ in widening the channel of contact between Shamballa,
the Hierarchy and Humanity. After that, He will "proceed to His Own place"
in the solar Hierarchy and will no longer visit the Himalayas annually, as has
been His custom for so many centuries. The Eastern Festival of Wesak (Vaisaka)
and the Christian day of remembrance, Good Friday, will fade out of the
consciousness of humanity in due time; they are both festivals related to
aspects of the first Ray of Power or Will. The abolition of the fear of death
and the establishment of a close relation of the Hierarchy with Shamballa will
render obsolete these ancient ceremonial rites.
In this
message I would like to consider with you primarily the Festival of the Christ,
held at the time of the Full Moon of June, and the work of the Christ as He
prepares Himself for the fulfilment of His true mission on Earth. The Christian
Church has so distorted that mission and ruthlessly perverted the intention for
which He originally manifested that a consideration of that mission is deeply
needed and should be revolutionary in its effects. Starting [Page 543] with St. Paul, the theologians interpreted
His words in such a manner that they served to bridge the gap between the
spiritual future of the world and the Jewish dispensation which should have
been passing out. So effective has been their work that the teachings of the
loving, simple Son of God have been largely ignored; the failure of
Christianity can be traced to its Jewish background (emphasised by St. Paul),
which made it full of propaganda instead of loving action, which taught the
blood sacrifice instead of loving service, and which emphasised the existence
of a wrathful God, needing to be placated by death, and which embodied the
threats of the Old Testament Jehovah in the Christian teaching of hell fire.
This
situation is one which the Christ is seeking to alter; it has been in
preparation for His instituting a new and more correct presentation of divine
truth that I have sought—with love and understanding—to point out the faults of
the world religions, with their obsolete theologies and their lack of love, and
to indicate the evils of Judaism. The present world faiths must return to their
early simplicity, and orthodox Judaism, with its deep-seated hate, must slowly
disappear; all must be changed in preparation for the revelation which Christ
will bring.
The first
things which the Christ will do, beginning with this full Moon of June, will be
to prepare all people everywhere (if possible through their regenerated,
religious institutions) for the revelation for which all humanity waits.
It is this
revelation which lies behind all the activities which now engross the attention
of the Hierarchy. There have been many revelations of divine purpose down the
ages, each of which uniquely altered the point of view and the pattern of
living for men everywhere. There was the ancient revelation, given through the
people of India, as to the existence of the Self and the Not-Self—a revelation
which is now coming to have meaning through the teaching of modern psychology;
there was the revelation of the Ten Commandments, given through the Jews
and—because of the negativity shown then and today by the Jews—given [Page 544] in a negative and not a positive form. The
Christ endeavoured to offset and bring to an end the need for the Ten
Commandments, by giving us the eleventh commandment; this, if kept, would
entail the keeping of all the others. There was the revelation which Christ
Himself gave, summing it up for us in His life of service, in the love which He
preached and in His constant repudiation of theological Judaism (the Sadducees
and the Pharisees). This difficulty with Judaism still persists and is
symbolised for us in the failure to recognise the Messiah when He came to them
in their own country and let it be known that He came to the whole world and
not to the Jews alone.
For this new
revelation the Christ is preparing as are all the members of the Hierarchy,
from the highest Chohan down to the humblest accepted disciple; it is for this
that all the ashrams are getting ready; it is for this also that (in a weak and
feeble manner) Christian people, those of the other world faiths, and
spiritually minded people are likewise preparing.
Therefore, we have isolated (if I may use such a word) three activities
to which the Christ is at this time dedicated:
1. The reorganisation of the world religions—if in any way possible—so that their out-of-date theologies, their narrow-minded emphasis and their ridiculous belief that they know what is in the Mind of God may be offset, in order that the churches may eventually be the recipients of spiritual inspiration.
2. The gradual dissolution—again if in any way possible—of the orthodox Jewish faith, with its obsolete teaching, its separative emphasis, its hatred of the Gentiles and its failure to recognise the Christ. In saying this I do not fail to recognise those Jews throughout the world who acknowledge the evils and who are not orthodox in their thinking; they belong to the aristocracy of spiritual belief to which the Hierarchy itself belongs. [Page 545]
3. Preparation for a revelation which will inaugurate the new era and set the note for the new world religion.
To these
three efforts of the Hierarchy, superintended by the Christ, another two must
be added, of perhaps even greater importance. The first one is the reaction of
the Hierarchy itself to the new relationship established between It and
Shamballa and to that new, direct and potent channel which has lately been
induced by the efforts of the Hierarchy and human invocativeness. The second
activity is one leading towards a much closer relation between the Hierarchy
and Humanity; this will lead eventually to the externalisation of certain of
the Ashrams, and later to the appearance of the Hierarchy on earth, bringing
the new revelation.
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