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Many religions believe in a World
Teacher, knowing him under such names as the Lord Maitreya, the Imam
Mahdi and the Messiah, and these terms can be used in Hindu, Buddhist,
Muslim and Jewish versions of this meditation.
Suggestions:
- It is suggested that you do
this meditation once every week, each Thursday in the place of your
usual meditation; endeavor to assume an attitude of aspiration,
devotion, prayer and fixed intention (in this order), prior to
following the outline. Esoteric students need the heart approach, as
well as the mental approach, in order to make this meditation the
powerful instrument which it can be.
- Between Thursdays endeavor to
carry out the results of the reflection expressed in this meditation.
Lay practical plans and then review each week the planned activities
when you sit down to this meditation, in the light of your expressed Intention.
- Make this meditation brief and
dynamic. After doing it a few times, this should be easily possible;
forget the various stages and be impelled by the sequence and the
synthesis of the form.
Stage I.
After achieving a positive and
intended personality quietness, formulate clearly to yourself in your own
words, the answers to the following questions:
- As a member of the New Group
of World Servers, what is my specific fixed intention at this moment
of dedicated contact with my soul?
- Is my concentrated and
expressed personality purpose in line with hierarchical intention - as
far as I am permitted to know it?
- Have I - in my own personal
daily life - earned the right (because of definite effort and not so
much because of success) to stand with those Servers who are now
undertaking the work of Preparation?
This is the one time in the
meditation where you think of yourself and it is here because it is a
method of personality, focused attention and aligns your personality upon
the mental plane.
Stage II.
Having answered these three
questions in the light of the soul, then say with emphasis:
"Forgetting the things
which lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual
possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One
and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event.
I have no other life intention."
PAUSE
Stage III.
- Visualize the world situation
as best you can and in terms of your major world interest and with
what knowledge of world affairs you may possess. See the mass of
people everywhere glowing with a dim light and, here and there, points
of brighter light where members of the New Group of World Servers and
men and women of spiritual intention and of loving hearts are working
for humanity.
- Then visualize (through the
creative imagination) the vivid light of the Hierarchy, streaming
towards humanity and slowly merging with the light which is already in
men. Then say the first stanza of the Invocation:
"From the point of
Light within the Mind of God
Let Light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth."
- Then ponder upon the
reappearance of the Christ; realize that no matter by what name He may
be called in the many world religions, He is still the same great
Identity; reflect and speculate upon the possible results of His
appearance. Then say the second stanza of the Invocation:
"From the point of
Love within the Heart of God
Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth."
- Endeavor to concentrate your
fixed intention to serve and to spread love in your surroundings and realize
that in so far as you can do these things you are
attempting to blend your personal will with the divine Will. Then say
the third stanza of the Invocation:
"From the Centre where
the Will of God is known
Let Purpose guide the little wills of men -
The Purpose which the Masters know and serve."
- Consider practically what you
can do in the coming week to further the preparations for the coming
of the Christ.
PAUSE
Then sound the OM three times,
dedicating the threefold personality to the work of preparation.
(Alice A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, Vol.11, pp.226-28)
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