FAITH

We are told that it is from the Center of Love that all Saviors throughout the ages and in all countries went forth, taking with Them the message of Compassion, the message of Beauty, Service, Sacrifice, Simplicity, and Fearlessness.

It is said that Christ is on the way back to the world of humanity to renew in our hearts a greater hope, a greater faith, and a greater love.

AA BaileyAlice Bailey, in The Externalization of the Hierarchy said: “…The ‘point of decision,’ as it is called in all hierarchical circles, was reached during the period between the Full Moon of June, 1936 and the Full Moon of June, 1945. The point of decision resulted in the decision by the Christ to re-appear or return to a visible presence on Earth as soon as possible, and considerably earlier than had been planned.”[1] In The Reappearance of the Christ[2] Alice Bailey said this decision was necessarily made in consultation with the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days.

To have faith means to have belief, belief in something greater than today, greater than yesterday, greater than tomorrow. To have faith means to have an unshakable belief in something, a belief that no earthquake, no flood, no crises, no loss can remove from you.

Faith is found in the beauty of one’s heart.

TagoreRabindranath Tagore said: “Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

We often hear stated the phrase: “Blind Faith.” Faith, according to popular thinking, implies a perpetual state of blindness, of not knowing or comprehending, groping in the dark, floating in a groundless, unreal way of belief. It is therefore extremely important to differentiate between the false concept of faith and the real concept of faith.

There is an aphorism, which says: “As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.” Our heart is the sanctuary where the Lord of the World dwells in all His glory. If you feel that the Most High exists within your heart, then you understand the beauty of faith.

If you feel that the Most High exists within your heart, you will start living a life of faith, you will start living a life of beauty, of light, love and power for such a life is not made of masks, of fears, or artificiality and pseudo images. The one of faith is messenger of the Great Ones.

Every year at Christmas we celebrate the birth of the Christ – the Great Flame. This is our legacy – a reminder that each of us is, in essence, a living flame, a Spark of God. In that knowledge we celebrate the next Coming; to renew in our hearts a greater hope, a greater faith, and a greater love. In this knowledge we place our Faith.

Do you have faith? Do you have a deep faith in the Divine Power? If you do, you have faith in Invisible Powers. For to you, these powers are not invisible, but rather visible, for you see how Divinity works in the world of mankind. You see life through your heart. As a Man Thinketh in his heart, so is he.

Pope John Paul iiPope John Paul the second said, “Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.” If you have a closed heart, you will not have faith. If your mind rules your heart, you will not have faith.

Martin Luther KingMartin Luther King said, “Faith is the opening of all sides, and at every level of one’s life – to the divine inflow.

A person who is all mind will rely only on historical fact. A person who has faith is, through his or her heart, open to the divine inflow of the power of Christ.

Do you have faith? Really have faith? If you do, you know that “faith moves mountains.” Christ was known for his healing powers. One day He heard someone say, “Thank you for healing me.” Christ looked at him and said, “Your faith healed you.”

Do you need healing? Physical healing, emotional healing, mental healing, spiritual healing? To be healed, you must have faith.

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People lose all their money, and they become faithless in life. They lose their minds and they become faithless; they lose their degreed paying jobs, and lose their faith in life; their husband or wife leaves them, and they lose their faith in life.

What is most interesting to me is that often times as a person is experiencing loss, if there is any kind of element of faith in his heart, it will draw someone into his life which increases that kernel of faith. If not, in time he will become “cold-hearted,” an agnostic, or atheist.

A few weeks ago young man called to tell me his sister’s husband was in the last few hours of life; a 35 year old man with Cancer. The sister was angry, afraid and apparently faithless. As the brother and I talked, he was afraid that his sister, because of all the drugs in the house, would take her life for she had a history of suicide. As we continued to talk he told me a story about a neighbor whose 15 year old daughter had survived bone Cancer. The neighbor found faith in the faith of his friends. When his daughter survived, he vowed he would help anyone he could who was in similar crises. The neighbor had moved to Michigan and now lives only one block from this boy’s sister. Thursday the man went to the sister’s home and asked if he could spend time with her and the husband. At first the sister refused; but the man was not going to give up; finally the sister invited him in. Praying for her husband and trying to ignite the kernel of faith in the sister’s heart. When I heard this story I knew his sister was going to be fine…for an ‘angel in disguise’ found his way to his sister’s home. She will be alright…for through this most faithful man, the woman’s faith is going to be ignited from the seed of faith in her heart.

When you compose a poem of beauty…that beauty remains with you and gives you faith in the spiritual power of beauty. When you compose music heard in the Higher Worlds, the language of the Higher Worlds will remain with you giving you faith in the Higher Worlds. When you commune with God in all His glory, you have faith in the continuity and immortality of life.

FaithFaith is a word, but the power of faith is beyond words: it is experience; it is knowingness; it is beingness.

 

 

As always, comments are not only welcomed but invited!

With Love,

Joleen

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[1] Externalization of the Hierarchy p. 493-494 Alice A. Bailey. © 1957 Lucis Trust

[2] Reappearance of the Christ, The. P. 69 Alice A. Bailey. © 1948, 1976 Lucis Trust

 

The Winter Solstice & the Spiritual Seeker

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The winter solstice this year for Mountain Standard time is Monday, Dec 21st at 9:49 PM. December 22nd, Tuesday, at 4:49 AM GMT.This day is the shortest day of this year. 

The winter solstice is a time to be “born anew.” It is at this time that the planet is given a spiritual impulse that adds to its light and strengthens the Love Principle in the heart of humanity.

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Historically the Winter Solstice was observed in Rome as the Feast of Saturn, with a mystic marriage dramatizing the marriage of the earth and the Sun…representing the new birth, or “initiation.”

In Egypt the Winter Solstice was celebrated with state ceremonials in homage to the divine Mother Isis and her new-born son Horus. They chanted: “The Virgin has brought forth. The Light is waxing.”

Holy Night in Greece was greeted by songs in the key of Capricorn to the accompaniment of a flute. At a certain time Neophytes descended with lighted torches to an underground chapel and paid reverence to the image of the Babe whose brow was a shining cross of gold.

winter sceneChristmas time every year is always a vital time, but this year and in the coming years it will be even more vital for Christmas time is now the time of transformation. It is a very serious time, where our inner illumination, where our inner giant, the Christ, must take birth and, eventually transfigure our personality.”

In a few years time, in a few decades, in a few lifetimes, you will really actualize the manifestation of that Spark that is within each of you.

spiritual seekerMy intention today is to encourage you, to challenge the fire that is within you so that eventually you feel that that Spark, the Core, will start to revive within you and seek to manifest itself.
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My aspiration is “that we hold together as sisters, brothers, and friends,” and strive the best we can so that we do not remain at the level we are. This is the whole meaning of Christmas. Christmas time is really a time to sanctify ourselves, to raise ourselves above the level where we are and touch a new level of consciousness.”

Blessing_The_Travelers-mmiThe Great Sage M.M. it says, “Wayfarer, friend, let us travel together…” as animals, as man, as angels, as cats and as a nation together, as one humanity together…. Togetherness is so beautiful. Do not create divisions and cleavages between you.

As an exercise, starting the day of the winter solstice, for those of you who want to participate, we can align the Sun (the Christ) within ourselves to the Source of Life and to think as if we are “The Life;” that we are not the physical body, but the Life.

light of universe and heartIf you start synchronizing yourself with the electricity of the Universe, with the Light of the Universe…you are going to bloom. You are going to manifest color and sound. You are going to become influential in the Life. You are going to become creative.

In addition to aligning yourself to the Sun, another thing you can try from the 21st through the 26th is to every morning raise your right hand at sunrise. Then hold your left hand out and say: “My Lord, pour down your blessings so that I pass them on to the world.” Feel it. This is so beautiful. This was used in ancient times by great priests. For example, they used to go to the top of the pyramid and invoke the sun. Zoroastrian priests, Tibetans in the Himalayas, in Greece, in North and South America did this.

orionstarmanTradition at the time of the Winter Solstice says that our Solar Logos extends His Hand to the Great Sun, Sirius – symbolically, of course. Then He gets a Spark from that Great Sun and extends the next Hand to the Three Kings, which we call Orion.

He gets the three gifts from these Three Great Lives, and then He turns to Virgo, the Virgin, and gives these gifts. He then takes the gifts from Virgo and then gives them to our planet. This is forming a Five-Pointed Star. At the time of this formation a tremendous energy comes to our planet. If humanity does the needed preparations – mental preparation, emotional and spiritual preparation – humanity will feel, tremendously, the energies flooding the planet. This is called, in Cosmos, the Birth of the Cosmic Light.

With Love,

Joleen

The fire of Agni

The New Group of World Servers

 

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Let me begin today’s writing about the New Group of World Servers with a quote from the Tibetan D.K.

“There are always Forces of Enlightenment present on Earth on a small scale; forces engaged in:

“Influencing the minds of the new group of world servers, the selfless workers for humanity, and the thinkers in every school of thought, working in every field of human betterment; they work upon and through all who truly love their fellowmen.

“They are unable to influence the minds of the closed egocentric person; they can do little with the separative isolationist; they are ineffectual where the theologian of all groups -political, religious or social – is concerned, and they can do little with the type of mind that is concentrated upon personal or group problems (their group, expressing their ideas and working their way) and who fail to see themselves or the group in relation to the whole of humanity.”[1]

Lotus 03In our mental realm there is a lotus and this lotus slowly, slowly opens. This lotus has twelve petals. The outer petals are called petals of knowledge. The next petals are called petals of love. The next ones are called petals of sacrifice. The inner-most petals are the petals of of will, love, and light that charge the outer petals.

There is another beautiful lotus in the world and it is already in formation. It is a lotus formed by those disciples, aspirants, and Initiates who are called the New Group of World Servers. The Teachings tells us that when the lotus is ready, the innermost light will manifest, and that inner light is known as the Hidden Christ.

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The members of the NGWS are all third degree initiates and higher; yet these initiates have assistants called aspirants and disciples who are recognizable in their own right. By their own hands and feet they selflessly dedicate themselves to serving those who are already working for humanity. Who, according to the level of their awareness, are supporting and assisting the thinkers in every school of thought, and of those who are working in every field of human betterment. In fact these dedicated servers, who though are not yet third degree initiates…are moving in that direction finding the petals of their Lotus in the process of unfoldment.

Let me give a little bit of information about a third degree initiate – so we can recognize them, and if called, ready to assist them in their endeavors.

First – they are free from the ancient authority of their threefold personality. They can stop their negative thinking, their worrying and immediately start to work on something very creative. They can see or intuitively sense the divine Plan working in the history of humanity; they can also see or intuitively sense the vision behind the Plan, which is the Purpose of God. They are beginning to see why this world was created, why we are here, and how we can go forward toward that Purpose. Their imagination is not blurring their consciousness. Their minds are open and clear, like a sky with no clouds present. Clouds are illusions.

Illusions are those distorted truths that a person retains in his or her mental body as facts, as realities, and deductions which cause their decisions to be wrong because their calculations were based on wrong figures. You could say those who function under illusions is like having a malfunctioning computer where everything that he decides is corrupted by the wrong foundation.

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A third degree initiate is a translator of higher concepts. He has met his Solar Angel face to face. His Solar Angel is his first source of inspiration, ideas, and vision. In fact his personality is now fused with his Solar Angel.

The Third degree initiate is gradually unfolding his mental (higher) powers as he tries to penetrate into the laws of Nature and has a vision of his true essence.

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During the time of his of initiation ceremony the physical, emotional and mental nature was flooded with a great light and energy coming from his Lotus. This enables the Initiate to stand in the presence of his/her Solar Angel, to have direct communication with Him, and to bring through service the Intelligence, the Love, and the Will energy to humanity and in his field of human endeavor.

The initiation process expanded the service of the Initiate into greater light, greater vision and in fuller response to Hierarchy, the Lord of the World and Shambhala.

Such a person is a member of the New Group of World Servers.

As always, your questions and comments about today’s blog are most welcomed.

With Love,

Joleen

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[1] The Externalization of the Hierarchy – Section III – Forces behind the Evolutionary Process. P. 462