The Return of The Christ

THE RETURN OF THE CHRIST

When this information was given to Alice A. Bailey in the late 1940's by The Tibetan, The World Teacher at the time was Lord Maitreya. The World Teacher is also known in The Occident as The Christ and holds The Office of The Christ Consciousness in The Spiritual Hierarchy of Planet Earth. It was Maitreya Who entered and then fully overshadowed The Consciousness of Jesus at The Baptism in The River Jordan and remained for the 3 years of His Ministry until The Crucifixion.

Lord Maitreya had held The Office of The Christ for approximately 3,000 years, and in the 1940's it was expected by Djwhal Khul that The Returning One during The Aquarian Age would naturally be Maitreya, The Master of The Masters and Teacher alike of Angels and men. More rapid advancement than expected was evidenced, however, and Maitreya took a Higher Initiation (The 7th) in the 1970's to move closer in responsibility to The Lord of The World, Sanat Kumara. His closest Disciple, Kuthumi, took The 6th Initiation and assumed The Position of Chohan of The 2nd Ray and World Teacher at that time. The Coming One and next Avatar of The Christ Consciousness, of Whom Djwhal Khul speaks, will be The Lord Kuthumi, and The Externalization of The Spiritual Hierarchy as physical Beings upon the planet will take place in preparation for His Coming, what Christians refer to as The Second Coming.

The One Who incarnated as Jehoshua Ben Yussef (Jesus) will not be The One Who is expected to come as the returning Christ. Many religions of the world have prophecy and anticipation of a coming Great Teacher -- The Imam Mahdi, The Boddhisattva of Compassion, The Avatar, The Messiah, The Christos. All of those titles refer to the same Being, and That One will be Lord Kuthumi!!

J.O. Cyr, M.D.

The Doctrine of The Coming One

"When the times are ripe, the invocation of the masses is strident enough, and the faith of those who know is keen enough, then always He has come and today will be no exception to this ancient rule or to this Universal Law. For decades, the reappearance of The Christ, The Avatar, has been anticipated by the faithful in both hemispheres, not only by the Christian faithful but by those who look for Maitreya and for The Boddhisattva as well as those who expect The Imam Mahdi."

"This doctrine of Mediators, of Messiahs, of Christs, and of Avatars can be found running like a golden thread through all the world faiths and scriptures. The scriptures of the world are full of the intervention of some Being, originating from some Source higher than the strictly human. Always the appropriate mechanism is found through which Divinity can reach and communicate with Humanity, and it is with this communication and these Instruments of Divine Energy that The Doctrine of Avatars or of Divine Coming Ones has to do."

"An Avatar is One Who has a peculiar capacity, besides a self-initiated task and a pre-ordained destiny, to transmit Energy or Divine Power. The Christ, for the first time in planetary history as far as we know, transmitted The Divine Energy of Love directly to our planet and in a most definite sense to Humanity."

"Down the ages, great and Divine Representatives of God embody divine purpose and affect the entire world in such a manner that their names and their influence are known and felt thousands of years after They no longer walk among men. Again and again, They have come and have left a changed world and some new world religion behind Them."

"The word, Avatar, is a Sanskrit word meaning, literally, 'coming down from far away'. Ava expresses the idea of off, away, down. Avataram expresses farther away. The root, AV, seems at all times to denote the idea of protection from above. The root word can be said to mean, 'coming down with the approval of The Higher Source from Which it came and with benefit to the place at which it arrives'."

"An Avatar or a Christ comes forth for 2 reasons: one, the inscrutable and unknown Cause prompts Him to do so, and the other is the demand or the invocation of Humanity Itself. An Avatar is consequently a spiritual event, coming to us to bring about great changes or major restorations, to inaugurate a new civilization, or to restore the 'ancient landmarks' and lead Man nearer to The Divine."

"They come in times of crisis. They frequently create crisis in order to bring to an end the old and the undesirable and make way for new and more suitable forms for the evolving life of God Immanent in Nature."

"Avatars are of all degrees and kinds. Some of Them are of great planetary importance because They express whole cycles of future developement within Themselves and strike the note and give the teaching which will bring in a New Age and a New Civilization. Certain Avatars express in Themselves the sumtotal of human achievement and of racial perfection and thus become the 'Ideal Men' of the ages. Others, greater still, are permitted to be The Custodians of some Divine Principle or some Divine Quality which needs fresh presentation and expression upon Earth. This They can be because They have achieved perfection and have attained to the highest possible Initiations."

"They have the gift of being these embodied spiritual qualities, and because They have in fullness expressed such a specific principle or quality, They can act as channels for its transmission from The Center of all Spiritual Life. Such a one was The Christ. He was twice an Avatar because He not only struck the keynote of The New Age (The Piscean Age) but He also, in some mysterious and incomprehensible manner, embodied in Himself The Divine Principle of Love (The Second Aspect of The Godhead)."

"We are all Gods, all the children of The One Father, as the latest of The Avatars, The Christ, has told us. It is that divine center in every human heart which, when awakened into activity, can call forth response from The High Place where The Coming One awaits his hour of appearance. It is only the united demand of Humanity, its massed intent, which can precipitate the descent (as it is called) of an Avatar."

"Ever down the ages and at every great human crisis, always in the hours of necessity, at the founding of a new Race, or in the awakening of a prepared Humanity to a new and wider vision, The Heart of God -- impelled by The Law of Compassion -- sends forth a Teacher, a World Savior, an Illuminator, an Avatar, a transmitting Intermediary, a Christ. He gives the message which will heal, which will indicate the next step to be taken by The Race of Men, which will illumine a dark world problem and give to Man an expression of some hitherto unrealized Aspect of Divinity. The order has gone forth from 'The Center where The Will of God is known' (Shamballa) that The Avatar should come again."

"The Avatars most easily known and recognized are The Buddha in The East and The Christ in The West. Their messages are familiar to all, and the fruits of their lives and words have conditioned the thinking and civilizations of both hemispheres. The nucleus of spiritual energy which each of Them set up is beyond our measuring. The establishment of a nucleus of persistent energy, spiritually positive, is the constant task of an Avatar. He focuses or anchors a dynamic truth, a potent thoughtform, or a vortex of magnetic energy in the world of human living."

"History is after all only the record of humanity's cyclic reaction to some inflowing Divine Energy, to some inspired leader, or to some Avatar."

"An Avatar is, at present, usually a Representative of The 2nd Divine Aspect, that of Love-Wisdom (The 2nd Ray), The Love of God. He will manifest as The Savior, The Builder, The Preserver."

"Humanity needs love, understanding, and right human relations as an expression of attained divinity. It was this need which brought The Christ to us before as The Avatar of Love. The Christ (Lord Maitreya through Jesus) transmitted to Humanity an aspect and a potency of The Nature of God Himself, The Love Principle of Deity."

"The Buddha came and demonstrated in his own life the fact of God Immanent as well as God Transcendent, of God in The Universe and of God within Humanity. The Selfhood of Deity and The Self in the heart of individual man became a factor in human consciousness. It was a relatively new truth to Man."

"However, until Christ came and lived a life of love and service and gave men the new command to love one another, there had been very little emphasis upon God as Love in any of the world scriptures. This Divine Quality Christ revealed and emphasized and thus altered all human living, goals, and values."

"The reason He has not come again is that the needed work has not been done by his followers in all countries. His coming is largely dependent, as we shall later see, upon the establishing of right human relations. This The Church has hindered down the centuries and has not helped because of its fanatical zeal to make 'Christians' of all peoples and not followers of The Christ. It has emphasized theological doctrine and not love and loving understanding as Christ exemplified it. The Church has preached the fiery Saul of Tarsus (St. Paul) and not the gentle Carpenter of Galilee. And so He has waited."

"His coming is dependent upon the appeal (the often voiceless appeal) of all who stand with massed intent. It is dependent also upon the better establishment of right human relations and upon certain work being done at this time by Senior Members of The Kingdom of God, The Church Invisible, The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet. It is dependent also upon the steadfastness of the Christ's disciples in the world at this time and his Initiate-Workers, all working in the many groups, religious, political, and economic."

"When The Christ, The Avatar of Love, makes his reappearance then will the 'Sons of men who are now The Sons of God (Ascended Masters) withdraw their faces from the shining light and radiate that light upon the sons of men who know not yet they are The Sons of God. Then shall The Coming One appear, his footsteps hastened through the valley of the shadow by The One of Awful Power (Sanat Kumara) Who stands upon the mountain top, breathing out love eternal, light supernal, and peaceful, silent Will. Then will the sons of men respond. Then will a new light shine forth into the dismal, weary vale of Earth. Then will new life course through the veins of men, and then will their vision encompass all the ways of what may be. So peace will come again on Earth but a peace unlike aught known before. Then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding and understanding blossom as goodwill in men'."

Christ's Unique Occasion

"The Christ will come to a world which is essentially one world. His reappearance and his consequent work cannot be confined to one small locality, as was the case when He was here before. The radio, the press, and the dissemination of news will make His Coming different to that of any previous Messenger. Through television his face can be made familiar to all, and verily 'every eye shall see Him'."

"When He came before, Palestine was held in the vicious grasp of the Jewish religious leaders, and the Pharisees and the Sadducees were to the people of that land what the potentates of The Church are to the people in the world today."

"The priests, the Levites, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees were not the ones who recognized Him when He came before. They feared Him. And it is highly improbable that the reactionary churchmen will be the ones to recognize Him today. He may reappear in a totally unexpected guise. It is a fallacy to believe, as some do, that the main trend of Christ's work will be through the medium of the churches or the world religions. He will use all possible channels whereby the consciousness of Man may be enlarged and right orientation be brought about. It is truer to say that it is as World Teacher that He will consistently work."

"He will be limited by the quality and the calibre of the invocative appeal of Humanity and that, in its turn, is conditioned by the attained point in evolution."

"In The Middle Ages of history and earlier, it was the churches and the schools of philosophy which provided the major avenues for his subjective activity, but it will not be so when He is objectively and actually here. There is now a shift of his emphasis and attention into 2 new fields of endeavor: world-wide education and those activities which come under the department of government. It is therefore realized by The Hierarchy that before the cycle of true democracy can come into being, the education of the masses in cooperative statesmanship, in economic stabilization through right sharing, and in clean, political interplay is imperatively necessary."

"He will not come as The Restorer of any of the ancient religions, including Christianity, but He will come to restore man's faith in The Father's Love, in the fact of the livingness of The Christ, and in the close, subjective and unbreakable relationship of all men everywhere. Another unique factor which will distinguish His Coming will be the fact that much is today known and taught about The Kingdom of God or The Spiritual Hierarchy of the planet."

"Countless millions down the ages have recognized The Buddha as The Light Bearer from On High. His 4 Noble Truths exposed the causes of human trouble and pointed to the cure. He taught: cease to identify yourselves with material things or with your desires; gain a proper sense of value; cease regarding possessions and earthly existence as of major importance; follow The Noble 8-fold Path, which is The Path of right relations -- right relations to God and right relations to your fellow men -- and thus be happy."

"The steps on this Path are: 1. Right Values 2. Right Speech 3. Right Modes of Living 4. Right Thinking 5. Right Aspiration 6. Right Conduct 7. Right Effort 8. Right Rapture or Happiness. It is on the foundation of this teaching that Christ will raise the superstructure of The Brotherhood of Man, for right human relations are an expression of The Love of God. They will constitute man's major and next demonstration of Divinity."

"It is the invocative appeal of the many groups working on behalf of Humanity (consciously or unconsciously made) which will bring Him forth. Those who carry out this great act of invocation are the spiritually-minded people, the enlightened statesmen, the religious leaders, and the men and women whose hearts are full of goodwill. They will evoke Him if they can stand with massed intent, with hope, and with expectancy."

"The success of the effort now being planned by Christ and The Spiritual Hierarchy is dependent upon the ability of Mankind to use what Light it already has in order to establish right relations in their families, their community, in the nation, and in the world."

"During the coming century (21st Century), we shall begin to learn the meaning of the word, resurrection, and The New Age will begin to reveal its deep purpose and intention. The first step will be the emergence of Humanity from the death of its civilization, of its old ideas and modes of living, the relinquishing of its materialistic goals and its damning selfishness, and its moving forward into the clear light of the resurrection. Christ taught us when He came before the true meaning of Renunciation or of The Crucifixion (The 4th Initiation). This time his message will be concerned with the resurrection life."

"Christ said that 'if any man will do The Will of God (Sanat Kumara), he shall know'. That was how The Christ Himself learned, and that is the mode He assures us will be successful for each of us. 'Father, not my will but Thine be done'. These words indicate the determination on the part of The Christ that there should be no opposition between his will and that of God. Suddenly, He received a Vision of the emerging, divine intention for Humanity and, through Humanity, for the planet as a whole."

"At the particular stage of spiritual developement which Christ had then attained and which had made Him The Head of The Spiritual Hierarchy, The One Who engineered the emergence of The Kingdom of God and established Him as The Masters of all The Masters and The Teacher of Angels and men, His Consciousness was absolutely at one with The Divine Plan (on Earth)."

"The Plan, its goals, its techniques and its laws, its energy (that of love), and the close and growing relation between The Spiritual Hierarchy and Humanity were known to Him and fully understood. At the highest point of this consummated knowledge and at the moment of his complete surrender to the necessary sacrifice of His Life to the fulfilling of this Plan, suddenly a great expansion of consciousness took place (4th Initiation for Jesus and 6th Initiation for Maitreya at The Crucifixion). The significance, the intention, the purpose of it all, and the comprehensive Divine Idea (as it existed in the mind of The Father) dawned upon His Soul (not on his mind), for the revelation was far greater than that. He saw still further into the meaning of Divinity than had ever before seemed possible."

"For the first time, the relation of The Will (The 1st Ray), which had hitherto expressed itself in his life through love and the creative work of inaugurating The New Dispensation, became clear to Him. At this point, He passed through The Gethsemane of Renunciation. The greater, the larger, and the more inclusive was revealed to Him, and all that hitherto seemed so vital and important was lost to sight in the greater Vision. It is this living realization of being and of identification with The Divine Intention of God Himself, The Father, The Lord of The World (Sanat Kumara) upon levels of awareness of which we know nothing which constituted the unfolding awareness of The Christ upon The Way of The Higher Evolution. He knew, in a sense hitherto unknown to Him, what God intended and what human destiny meant and the part that He had to play in the working out of that destiny."

"He now knows the meaning of Intelligence (3rd Ray). He realizes the significance of Love (2nd Ray) and its attractive quality. Now, because of these 2 recognitions, He becomes aware of the potency of Will (1st Ray) and of the reality of The Divine Intention which that Will must, at any cost, implement. This was the major crisis of The Christ. There are 4 recorded moments wherein this universal or monadic realization showed itself:

1. There is his statement to his parents in The Temple, 'Wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?' We should note here that He was 12 years old at the time and, therefore, the work with which He had been occupied as a Soul was finished. Twelve is the number of completed work, as witness the 12 labors of Hercules, another Son of God. He was in The Temple of Solomon, which is the symbol of the perfect life of The Soul. Christ was, therefore, speaking on Soul Levels and not only as The Spiritual Man on Earth. These points indicate his recognition of his work as a World Teacher, becoming conscious, for the first time in his physical brain, of Divine Intention or of The Divine Will (The 1st Ray).

2. Next comes his statement to his disciples, 'I must go up to Jerusalem'. The only place of complete peace (which is the meaning of the name, Jerusalem) is the 'Center where The Will of God is known' (Shamballa). Christ had oriented Himself to that Divine Center which has in the ancient scriptures been called the 'place of serene determination and of poised, quiescent Will'.

3. Then in The Garden of Gethsemane, He said, 'Father, not my will but Thine be done', thus indicating his realization of Divine Destiny. The meaning of these words is not (as is so often stated by Christian theologians) a statement of acceptance of pain and of an unpleasant future and of death. It was an exclamation evoked surely by his realization of the universal implication of his mission and the intense focusing of his life in a universal sense.

4. The final words of The Christ to his apostles were, 'Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the end of The Age' or Cycle. Here He was speaking as The Head of The Spiritual Hierarchy and expressing His Divine Will (at-one now with The Will of God or Sanat Kumara) to inform and pervade continuously the world of men with his overshadowing Consciousness. This affirmation has made all things possible."

"It was also to the magnetic power of The Will that Christ referred when He said, 'I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me'. This had no reference to The Crucifixion but to the magnetic Will of The Christ to draw all men, through the life of the indwelling Christ in every heart, out of the world of material values into the world of spiritual recognitions."

"In the past, the keynote of The Christian Religion has been death, symbolized for us in the death of Christ and much distorted by St. Paul (incarnation of Lord Hilarion) in his effort to blend the new religion which Christ brought with the old blood religion of the Jews. In the Cycle which Christ will inaugurate after His Reappearance, the goal of all the religious teaching in the world will be the resurrection of the spirit in Mankind. The emphasis will be upon the livingness of The Christ Nature in every human being and upon the use of the will in bringing about this living transfiguration of the lower nature."

"The agony of The World War and the distress of the entire Human Family led Christ, in the year 1945, to come to a great decision, a decision which found expression in 2 most important statements. He announced to the assembled Spiritual Hierarchy and to all his servants and disciples on Earth that He had decided to emerge again into physical contact with Humanity, if they would bring about the initial stages of establishing right human relations. Secondly, He gave to the world one of the oldest prayers ever known but one which hitherto had not been permitted to be used except by the most exalted Spiritual Beings. He used it Himself for the first time, we are told, at the time of The Full Moon of June, 1945, which is recognized as The Full Moon of The Christ, just as The Full Moon of May is that of the Buddha (Wesak Festival)."

"The Great Invocation has been translated as follows:

From The Point of Light within The Mind of God, let Light stream forth into the minds of men. Let Light descend on Earth.
From The Point of Love within The Heart of God, let Love stream forth into the hearts of men. May Christ return to Earth.
From The Center where The Will of God is known, let purpose guide the little wills of men, the purpose which The Masters know and serve.
From The Center which we call The Race of Men, let The Plan of Love and Light work out. And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore The Plan on Earth."

"The Members of The Hierarchy also use this Great Invocation, and not a day goes by that The Christ Himself does not sound it forth."

"On the surface, the beauty and the strength of this Invocation lie in its simplicity and in its expression of certain central truths which all men, innately and normally, accept -- the truth of the existence of a basic Intelligence to Whom we vaguely give the name of God; the truth that behind all outer seeming, the motivating power of The Universe is Love; the truth that a great Individuality came to Earth, called by Christians The Christ, and embodied that love so that we could understand; the truth that both love and intelligence are effects of what is called The Will of God; and finally the self-evident truth that only through Humanity Itself can The Divine Plan work out."

"The use of this Invocation or Prayer and the rising expectancy of The Coming of The Christ hold out the greatest hope for Mankind today. Great Sons of God have ever come on humanity's demand and always will, and He for Whom all men wait today is on his way."

The Reappearance of The Christ

"God Transcendent, greater, vaster, and more inclusive than his created world, is universally recognized and has been generally emphasized. All faiths can say with Sri Krishna (speaking as God The Creator) that 'having pervaded the whole Universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain'."

"Slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of Humanity the great paralleling truth of God Immanent, divinely pervading all forms, conditioning from within all Kingdoms in Nature, expressing innate divinity through human beings. Today, there is entering into the minds of men everywhere a new concept: that of 'Christ in us, the hope of glory'. There is a growing and developing belief that Christ is in us, as He was in The Master Jesus, and this belief will alter world affairs and mankind's entire attitude to life."

"The love He demonstrated still holds the thinking world in thrall, even though relatively few have really attempted to demonstrate the same quality of love as He did, a love that leads unerringly to world service, to complete self-forgetfulness, and to radiant, magnetic living. The words He spoke were few and simple, and all men can understand them, but their significance has been largely lost in the intricate legalities and discussions of St. Paul and in the lengthy disputation of theological commentators since Christ lived and left us -- or apparently left us."

"God Transcendent is working through The Christ and The Spiritual Hierarchy to bring relief. God Immanent in all men is standing on the verge of certain stupendous recognitions."

"The Buddha Himself is standing behind The Christ in humble recognition of the divine task which He is on the verge of consummating and because of the imminence of that spiritual accomplishment. The Spiritual Line of Succession, from the throne of The Ancient of Days (Sanat Kumara) down to the humblest disciple, gathered with others at the feet of The Christ, is today focused on the task of helping Humanity."

"The great moment for which He has so patiently waited has almost arrived, the 'end of The Age' (Piscean Age) to which He referred when speaking to his small group of disciples. 'Lo! I am with you all the days even unto the end of The Age'."

"Right through The Spiritual Succession of The Sons of God there is naught to be seen and felt but expectancy and preparation. The Hierarchy waits. It has done all that is possible from the angle of the present opportunity. The Christ stands in patient silence, attentive to the effort that will make his work materialize on Earth and enable Him to consummate the effort He made 2000 years ago in Palestine. The Buddha hovers over the planet, ready to play his part if the opportunity is offered to Him by Mankind. Everything now depends upon the right action of the men of goodwill."

"From The Father's House (The Center where The Will of God is known or Shamballa of the esotericist) the fiat has gone forth. The hour has come. From The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy) where reigns The Christ the answer has been flung back, 'Father, thy will be done'. Down in our struggling, bewildered, unhappy world of men, the cry is ceaselessly rising, 'May Christ return to Earth'. For the 3 Great Spiritual Centers -- The Father's House, The Kingdom of God, and awakening Humanity -- there is but one purpose, one idea, and one united expectancy."

"Many know that the time is ripe and that the appeal of simple, faithful hearts has penetrated to The Highest Spiritual Sphere and set in motion energies and forces which cannot now be stopped. The invocative cry of distressed Humanity is today of such a volume and sound that, united to the wisdom and the knowledge of The Spiritual Hierarchy, it has given rise to certain activities in The Father's House (Shamballa, The Home of Sanat Kumara at The Aetheric Level). These will result in the transformation of The Divine Will-to-Good into human goodwill and resultant peace on Earth."

"A new chapter in the great book of spiritual living is about to be written. A new expansion of consciousness is an imminent happening. A fresh recognition of divine attentiveness is now possible to Humanity, and a revealing expectancy will prove the accuracy of the biblical statement, 'every eye shall see Him'."

"Some Great Teacher, some Savior, Revealer, Lawgiver, or Divine Representative must come forth from the world of Spiritual Realities because of human need and human demand. Always down the centuries, at the hour of man's greatest need and in response to his voiced demand, a Divine Son of God has come forth and under many different names. Then The Christ came and apparently left us, with his work unfinished and his vision for Mankind not yet consummated."

"His world mission necessitated 3 conditions: first, a general planetary condition which has unfortunately (owing to man's selfishness) proved to be so catastrophic in nature that Humanity has been forced to recognize the cause and source of the disaster; secondly, a spiritual awakening which would have its impulse in the deepest depth of man's consciousness; thirdly, a steadily mounting invocative cry, prayer, or demand directed toward High Spiritual Sources no matter by what name such Sources may be called. Today these 3 conditions have been fulfilled and Humanity faces renewed opportunity."

"The idea of The Return of Christ is a most familiar one, and the concept of The Son of God returning in response to human need has its place in the teaching of the majority of the world faiths. 'In such an hour as ye think not, He will come'."

"A truth hard for the orthodox thinker of any faith to accept is the fact that Christ cannot return because He has always been here upon our Earth, watching over the spiritual destiny of Humanity. He has never left us but, in physical body and securely concealed, He has guided the affairs of The Spiritual Hierarchy and those of his disciples and workers who are unitedly pledged with Him to earth service. He can only re-appear."

"The general staff of The Christ is already active in the form of The New Group of World Servers. They are as potent a body of forerunners as has ever preceded a Great World Figure into the arena of mankind's living. Their work and influence is already seen and felt in every land, and nothing can destroy that which they have accomplished."

"For the first time in human history the demand of the people of The Earth is so potent and so in line with divine direction, in time and space, that the end is inevitably sure. The looked-for Spiritual Representative must come forth. This time He will not come alone but will be accompanied by Those whose lives and words will evoke recognition in every department of human thinking." (The Externalization of The Spiritual Hierarchy or White Brotherhood)

"The Wesak Festival (full moon in Taurus or month of May) has been held down the centuries in the well-known valley in The Himalayas in order:

1. To substantiate the fact of Christ's physical existence among us ever since his so-called departure.

2. To prove (on The Physical Plane) the factual solidarity of the Eastern and Western approaches to God. Both The Christ and The Buddha are present.

3. To form a rallying point and a meeting place for those who annually, in synthesis and symbolically, link up and represent The Father's House, The Kingdom of God, and Humanity.

4. To demonstrate the nature of the work of Christ as the great and chosen Intermediary, standing as The Representative of The Spiritual Hierarchy and as The Leader of The New Group of World Servers. In His Person, He voices their demand for the recognition of the factual existence of The Kingdom of God here and now."

"Many years ago I indicated that The Christ would come in 3 ways, or rather that the fact of His Presence could be proved in 3 distinctive phases. It was pointed out then that the first move which The Christ would make would be the stimulation of the spiritual consciousness in Man, the evocation of humanity's spiritual demands on a large scale, and the nurturing on a worldwide scale of The Christ Consciousness in the human heart. This has already been done and with most effective results."

"That phase of the preparatory work which is indicative of His Coming has now reached a stage where nothing can arrest its progress or slow down its momentum. In spite of appearances, this uprising of The Christ Consciousness has been successful, and what may appear as reverse activity is of no importance in the long run but is only of a temporary nature."

"The second indicated move of The Hierarchy would be the impressing of the minds of enlightened men everywhere by spiritual ideas embodying the new truths, by the descent (if I may so call it) of the new concepts which will govern human living, and by the overshadowing of all world disciples and The New Group of World Servers by The Christ Himself. This planned move of The Hierarchy is progressing well."

"Thirdly, we are told that Christ might come in Person and walk among men as He did before. This has not yet taken place, but plans are being laid which will enable Him to do so. Those plans do not involve the birth of some nice child in some nice home on Earth. How He will come and in what manner is not yet stated. The exact moment has not yet arrived nor has the method of His Appearance been determined."

"Let us summarize certain aspects of the work He set in motion 2,000 years ago, because they hold the clue to his future work. Teachers of The Christian Faith have made his work appear difficult for Man to grasp, and the undue emphasis laid upon his divinity (an emphasis which He Himself never made) has made it appear that He and He only and no one else could possibly do the same works. Theologians have forgotten that He Himself stated that 'greater things shall ye do, because I go unto my Father'. He here indicates that this passing to The Father's House (Shamballa and proximity to Sanat Kumara) would result in such an inflow of spiritual strength, insight, and creative accomplishment for Man that their deeds would surpass his."

"Let me relate some of the things He did which we can do and which He will aid."

"1. For the first time in human history, The Love of God was embodied in a Man, and Christ inaugurated the era of love. That expression of Divine Love is still in the making."

"2. Christ taught also that The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy) was on Earth and told us to seek that Kingdom first and let all things be of secondary importance for its sake. That Kingdom has ever been with us, composed of all Those Who down the ages have sought spiritual goals and liberated Themselves (by way of The Path of Initiation) from the limitations of the physical body, emotional controls, and the obstructive mind. Its Citizens are Those Who today (unknown to the majority) live in physical bodies, work for the welfare of Humanity, use love instead of emotion as their general technique, and compose that Great Body of 'Illumined Minds' which guides the destiny of the world."

"Christ and His Disciples are known by many to be physically present on Earth, and The Kingdom which They rule, with its laws and modes of activity, is familiar to many and has been throughout the centuries."

"Christ is The World Healer and Savior. He works today, as He worked in Palestine 2,000 years ago, through groups. There He worked through the 3 beloved disciples, through the 12 apostles, through the chosen 70, and the interested 500. Now He works through His Masters and their groups and thereby greatly intensifies his efforts. He can and will work through all groups just insofar as they fit themselves for planned service, for the distribution of love, and come into conscious alignment with the great potency of The Inner Groups."

"3. At The Transfiguration, Christ revealed the glory which is innate in all Men. In that moment, wherein Christ Immanent (Lord Maitreya in Jesus) was in incarnation, wherein Humanity was represented by the 3 apostles, a voice came from The Father's Home (Shamballa) in the recognition of the revealed Divinity and The Sonship of The Transfigured Christ. On this innate Divinity, upon this recognized Sonship is the brotherhood of all men based -- one life, one glory which shall be revealed, and one divine relationship."

"Why this triumph of The Christ Consciousness must always be spoken of in terms of religion, of church-going, and of orthodox belief is one of the incredible triumphs of The Forces of Evil. To be a citizen of The Kingdom of God does not mean that one must necessarily be a member of some one of the orthodox churches. The Divine Christ in the human heart can be expressed in many different departments of human living -- in politics, in the arts, in economic expression and in true social living, in science, and in religion. It might be wise here to remember that the only time it is recorded that Christ (as an adult) visited The Temple of The Jews, He created a disturbance!" (among the money changers)

"4. Finally, in the triumph of The Crucifixion or (as it is more accurately called in The East) The Great Renunciation, Christ, for the first time, anchored on Earth a tenuous thread of The Divine Will (The First Ray) as it issued from The Father's House (Shamballa and Sanat Kumara), passed into the understanding custody of The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy) and, through the medium of The Christ, was brought to the attention of Mankind."

"Through the instrumentality of certain Great Sons of God, The 3 Divine Aspects (The First 3 Rays) or Characteristics of The Divine Trinity -- Will, Love, and Intelligence -- have become a part of human thinking and aspiration. Christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of The Christ was not that spent upon the cross but those spent in The Garden of Gethsemane. Then his will, in agony and almost despair, was submerged in That of The Father (Sanat Kumara). 'Father', He said, 'not my will but Thine be done'."

"Something new, yet planned for from the very depth of time, happened in that quiet garden. Christ, representing Mankind, anchored or established The Father's Will on Earth and made it possible for intelligent Humanity to carry it out. Hitherto, that Will had been known in The Father's House. It had been recognized and adapted to world need by The Spiritual Hierarchy, working under The Christ, and thus took shape as The Divine Plan. Today, because of what Christ did in his moment of crisis hundreds of years ago, Humanity can add its efforts to the working out of that Plan."

"Let us forget distance, remoteness, and vagueness and realize that we are talking of exact and literal happenings on our planet. The Christ of history and The Christ in the human heart are planetary facts."

"From the quiet mountain retreat (Shigatse, Tibet) where He has waited, guided, and watched over Humanity and where He has trained his disciples, Initiates, and The New Group of World Servers, He must come forth and take his place prominently on the world stage, take his part in the great drama which is there being played. This time, He will play his part, not in obscurity as He previously did but before the eyes of the entire world."

"He does not come as the omnipotent God of man's ignorant creation but as The Christ, The Founder of The Kingdom of God on Earth, to complete the work He started and again to demonstrate Divinity in far more difficult circumstances."

"He comes to correct the mistakes and the misrepresentations of those who have dared to interpret his simple words in terms of their own ignorance and to recognize those whose faithful service has made His Return possible. He too is facing a major test, preparatory to a Great Initiation (The 7th, Which He has taken and passed), and when He has passed the test and fulfilled his task, He will pass to a still more exalted Position in The Father's House or to some distant place of service where only the most Exalted can follow Him. His present Position (as World Teacher) will then be taken by The One (Kuthumi) Whom He has prepared and trained."

"He will gather around Him, in the flesh, his chosen associates and advisors. These will not be the ones who gathered around in those earlier, simpler days but those members of our human family who today recognize Him and are preparing to work with Him as far as in them lies. His major task is surely the establishing of right human relations in every department of human living."

"The generally accepted idea that He will return as a triumphant warrior, omnipotent and irresistible, has surely no basis in fact. That He will ultimately lead his people, Humanity, into Jerusalem is a fact founded on a secure foundation, but it will not be into a Jewish city called Jerusalem but into 'The Place of Peace' as the word, Jerusalem, means."

"He will re-appear and guide Mankind into a civilization and a state of consciousness in which right human relations and worldwide cooperation for the good of all will be the universal keynote. He will, through The New Group of World Servers and the men of goodwill, complete his association with The Will of God (His Father's business) in such a manner that the eternal will-to-good will be translated by Humanity into goodwill and right relations. Then his task will be done. He will be free again to leave us but this time not to return but to leave The World of Men in the hands of that Great Spiritual Server Who will be the new Head of The Hierarchy, The Church Invisible (Lord Kuthumi)."

"Shamballa, The Spiritual Hierarchy, and Humanity (The Father's House, The Kingdom of God, and The World of Men) are all striving in one vast movement for an intensification of The Light of The World. This Light will irradiate (in a fashion unknown before) not only The Father's House, Which is The Source of all our planetary Light, but also The Spiritual Center from Which have come all those Teachers and World Saviors Who have stood before men and said, as did Hermes, The Buddha, and The Christ, 'I am The Light of The World'. This Light will now flood The World of Men, bringing illumination to men's minds and light into the dark places of human living."

"Through Him, Light and Life are on their way, to be interpreted and applied in terms of goodwill and of right human relations. For this The Spiritual Hierarchy is preparing. This time The Christ will not come alone, for His Co-Workers (The Initiates of The Great White Brotherhood) will come with Him. His experience and theirs will be the reverse of the previous one, for this time every eye wil see Him. Every ear will hear Him, and every mind will pass judgement upon Him."

"We can freely aid in the reconstruction work which The Christ proposes if we will familiarize ourselves and all men whom we can contact with the following facts:

1. That The Reappearance of Christ is imminent.

2. That The Christ, immanent in every human heart, can be evoked in recognition of His Appearance.

3. That the circumstances of His Return are only symbolically related in the world scriptures. This may produce a vital change in the preconceived ideas of Humanity.

4. That the major required preparation is a world at peace, however that peace must be based on an educated goodwill, which will lead inevitably to right human relations and, therefore, to the establishment (figuratively speaking) of lines of Light between nation and nation, religion and religion, group and group, and man and man."

"The Christ Who will return will not be like The Christ Who (apparently) departed. He will not be a 'Man of sorrows'. He will not be a silent, pensive figure. He will be the enunciator of spiritual statements which will not necessitate interpretation and receive the wrong interpretation, because He will be present to indicate the true meaning."

"He has been for 2,000 years The Supreme Head of The Church Invisible, The Spiritual Hierarchy, composed of Disciples of all faiths. He recognizes and loves those who are not Christian but who retain their allegiance to their Founders, The Buddha, Mohammed, and Others. He cares not what the faith is if the objective is love of God and of Humanity. If men look for The Christ Who left his disciples centuries ago, they will fail to recognize The Christ Who is the process of returning (Lord Kuthumi, the next Avatar of The Christ Consciousness). The Christ has no religious barriers in His Consciousness. It matters not to Him of what faith a man may call himself."

"The Son of God is on his way, and He cometh not alone. His Advance Guard is already here, and The Plan which They must follow is already made and clear. Let recognition be the aim."

The Work of The Christ

"As we approach the theme of his work, it is essential that we remember that The Eastern Teacher (The Buddha) embodied in Himself The Wisdom of God, of which human intelligence (The 3rd Aspect of Divinity) is an expression; that through Christ, The 2nd Divine Aspect was revealed in its perfection; and in Him 2 Aspects therefore, Light and Love (3rd and 2nd Aspects), received full expression. It remains now for the highest of The Divine Aspects, The Will of God (The 1st Ray or Aspect), to receive embodiment and for this The Christ is preparing."

"The uniqueness of the impending Mission of The Christ and the uniqueness of his opportunity consist in the fact that He is able, in Himself, to give expression to 2 Divine Energies: The Energy of Love and The Energy of Will, the magnetic potency of Love and the dynamic effectiveness of Divine Will. Never before in the long, long history of Humanity has such a revelation been possible."

"He is The World Teacher and not a Christian Teacher. He Himself told us that He had other folds, and to them He has meant as much as He has meant to the orthodox Christian. They may not call Him Christ, but they have their own name for Him and follow Him as truly and faithfully as their Western brethren."

"The symbolism of that gospel story, an ancient story-presentation often presented down the ages prior to The Coming of The Christ in Palestine, has been twisted and distorted by theologians until the crystalline purity of the early teaching and the unique simplicity of The Christ have disappeared in a travesty of errors and in a mummery of ritual, money, and human ambitions."

"The Church of Christ has made itself famous and futile for its narrow creed, its wrong emphasis, its clerical pomp, its spurious authority, its material riches, and its presentation of a dead Christ. His Resurrection is accepted, but the major appeal of the churches has been upon his death."

"Christ has been for 2,000 years a silent, passive Figure hidden behind a multitude of words written by a multitude of men (commentators and preachers). The Church has pointed us to the dying Christ upon the cross and not to the living, working, active, present Christ Who has been with us in body Presence (according to his promise) for 20 centuries."

"It is not the accepting of any historical fact or theological creed which places us en rapport with Christ. The citizens of The Kingdom of God are all those who are deliberately seeking The Light and attempting (through self-imposed discipline) to stand before The One Initiator (Sanat Kumara, The Lord of The World, during the ceremony of Initiation)."

"In the future, the eyes of Humanity will be fixed upon Christ and not upon any such manmade institutions as The Church and its dignitaries. Christ will be seen as He is in reality, working through His disciples, through The Masters of The Wisdom (Ascended Masters), and through his followers who toil unseen behind world affairs. The sphere of his activity will be known to be the human heart and also the crowded market places of the world but not some stone edifice and not the pomp and ceremony of any ecclesiastical headquarters."

"Our study of the future work of The Christ is necessarily based upon 3 assumptions:

1. That The Reappearance of The Christ is inevitable and assured.

2. That He is today and has been actively working, through the medium of The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet of which He is The Head, for the welfare of Humanity.

3. That certain teachings will be given and certain energies will be released by Him in the routine of his work and Coming. People are apt to forget that The Coming of The Christ necessitates a period of intensive preparation by Him. He too works under Law and is subject to control from various Sources (e.g. The Lords of Karma, The Solar Logos, etc.), just as are all human beings but in a much lesser degree."

"His Reappearance is conditioned and determined by the reaction of Humanity Itself. By that reaction He must abide. His work is subject also to certain phases of spiritual and cyclic timing and to impressions from Sources to be found on Higher Levels than those upon which He normally works."

"The human side or nature of The Christ, perfected and sensitive, responds to the invocation and to the appeal of Men. His Divine Side or Nature is equally responsive to the impact of Energies, issuing from 'The Center where The Will of God is known' (Shamballa). Between these 2, He has to make adjustments and bring about right timing."

"In the life of every disciple, particularly of those who face certain great expansions of consciousness, a point of crisis will come about. In that point of crisis, decisions are voluntarily or involuntarily made. Having made them, the disciple then stands at a point of tension, with the decision behind him and the next step to be taken becoming clearer to his mental perception and influencing his attitude to the future. When the work is done in the period of tension, then there comes what we might call the point of emergence. This is both an emergence from and also an emergence into a field of experience."

"The point of crisis, producing the point of tension to which The Christ may be regarded as voluntarily subjecting Himself, is a Hierarchical matter or event, because the entire Hierarchy is involved in the crisis. The reason for this is simple. The Christ and His Workers know only the experience of group consciousness. A separative participation and attitude is unknown to Them, for their state of awareness is inclusive and in no way exclusive."

"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 covered, therefore, 9 years (a relatively brief time). It resulted in the decision arrived at by The Christ to reappear or return to visible Presence on Earth as soon as possible and considerably earlier than had been planned."

"This decision was necessarily made in consultation with The Lord of The World, 'The Ancient of Days' of The Old Testament, and 'The One in Whom we live and move and have our being' of The New Testament (Sanat Kumara). He is The Custodian of The Will of God. It was also made with the full understanding and cooperation of The Masters and The Senior Initiates. This was inevitably so, because their participation and help were imperative."

"The Christ's comprehension and his appreciation of The Will of God is deeper, and his fulfillment of that Will is more in line with The Divine Purpose than it was in Palestine 2,000 years ago."

"No longer need Christ in agony say, 'Father, not my will but Thine be done'. He has today no personal will, but only The Will of His Father animates Him and the ability to make decisions which are a full expression of that Divine Will. It was this divine unfoldment which made it possible for Him to make right choice, not only for Himself but also for The Spiritual Hierarchy during the years of decision prior to June, 1945."

"Under The Divine Will, He had to reappear on Earth in visible Presence. He had to preside over The Materialization of The Kingdom of God on Earth (The Externalization of The Spiritual Hierarchy), and He had to re-institute The Mysteries of Initiation (teaching of The Path of Initiation) in such a form that they would prove the basis of The New World Religion. Above all, He had to reveal the nature of The Will of God (The 1st Ray)."

"When the lure of substance is overcome and desire dies, then the attractive power of The Soul (The Higher Self, The Atman) becomes dominant, and the emphasis (so long laid upon individual form and individual living and activity) gives place to group form and group purpose. Then the attractive power of The Hierarchy and of The Masters' Groups of Disciples supersedes the lower attractions and the lesser focal points of interest. When these then assume their rightful place in consciousness, then the dynamic pull of The Will Aspect of Divinity can be felt."

"In the light of The Will of God, Christ made certain basic decisions and determined to carry them out in the relatively immediate future. The work initiated by Him 2,000 years ago must be completed. The New World Religion must be inaugurated. The needs of a demanding, invocative Humanity cannot be ignored."

"The reward accorded to The Christ, as He announced his decision as final and irrevocable, was the right to use a certain Great Invocation (so announced to the world by Djwhal Khul), never before granted. The right to use certain great Words of Power or 'Stanzas of Direction' is never lightly accorded. The decision of Christ to appear again among Men, bringing His Disciples with Him, drew forth this permission from The Lord of The World, The Ancient of Days."

"Ever since The Full Moon of June, 1945, 3 events of great moment in the living experience of Christ (and therefore of The Hierarchy) have taken place, and their effects are in the process of consolidation. These 3 events can be described as follows."

"1. The Spirit of Peace descended upon Christ. This Spirit is a Being of tremendous cosmic potency and is today overshadowing The Christ in much the same manner as Christ (Lord Maitreya) overshadowed or worked through The Master Jesus. He is, in a sense, The Spirit of Equilibrium. He works with The Law of Action and Reaction, and the inevitability of his activity will be recognized. His work will demonstrate in 2 ways fully when The Christ appears among Men and slowly and gradually until that time:

a. The chaos, turmoil, emotional disturbance, and mental unbalance found in the world today will be (under this Law) balanced by a corresponding cycle of calm, emotional quiet, and mental poise.

b. The hate which is so dominant in the world today will, through The Life of The Spirit of Peace, working through The Christ, The Embodiment of The Love of God, be balanced by an expressed goodwill. A proportionate measure of The Energy of Love will demonstrate later as a result of the acitivity of The Spirit of Peace, working through The Prince of Peace as Christ has sometimes been called. This Spiritual Being will not descend from The High Place whereon He works and from whence His Energy is directed, but The Christ will act and serve as The Channel for his directed potency. The inflow of His Divine Energy is destined to bring peace eventually upon Earth through the expression of goodwill. This goodwill will bring about right human relations."

"2. The evolutionary Force to which we give the name, The Christ Consciousness, focused Itself in The Person of The Christ in a manner hitherto unknown. During the present period of hierarchical tension and as a result of his decision to reappear, Christ became The Embodiment of this Energy and thus entered into a closer relation to Humanity. This Energy creates a living bridge from The Human Kingdom to The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy), from The 4th Kingdom in Nature to The 5th. The Christ is The Custodian of this Energy but only temporarily and for the period of this human crisis."

"3. As a result of Christ's decision and his 'spiritual fusion' with The Will of God, The Avatar of Synthesis has become, for the time being, his close Associate. This is an event of supreme and planetary importance. His relationship and planned help date from the time of the pronouncing of The Great Invocation (1945) and its use by men everywhere. Owing to the stupendous task confronting Christ, The Avatar of Synthesis will fortify Him, and He will be buttressed by this Silent Avatar.

This Being is closely related to The Will Aspect (First Ray) of Divinity, and his cooperation has been made possible through Christ's own attainment along the line of the highest Spiritual Will. He works under the great natural Law of Synthesis, producing at-one-ment, unification, and fusion. The focal point of his effort and the agent through which distribution of His Energy can be made is The New Group of World Servers. This Group is uniquely related to this Avatar of Synthesis. Their work falls into the following parts, functions, and activities:

a. The production of a human synthesis or unity which will lead to an universal recognition of the One Humanity, brought about through right human relations.

b. The establishing of right relations with the sub-human Kingdoms in Nature, leading to the universal recognition that there is One World.

c. The anchoring of The Kingdom of God, The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, in open expression on Earth, thus leading to the universal recognition that the sons of men are one.

These objectives The Avatar of Synthesis will foster and aid, and for this purpose He has associated Himself with The Christ, working through The Hierarchy under instruction from The Center where The Will of God is known (Shamballa)."

"What was the sin of The Children of Israel in the desert (during the time of Moses) but a reversion to the old Mithraic Worship which distinguished the time when the sun was in The Sign of Taurus the Bull? They fell down and worshipped the golden calf and forgot the new teaching of The Age of Aries the Ram into which they were entering, the teaching of the scapegoat which colors Jewish history."

"The fact that Christ was The Teacher of the new Period into which the sun was entering, The Period of Pisces, is forgotten but is clearly evidenced in the fish symbology which runs consistently through all 4 gospels. The symbol of the Fish is the astrological symbol for The Sign Pisces and has been for untold ages. But Christ also looked ahead to the work He would have to do in The Aquarian Age, in the next sign into which the sun would enter."

"Prior to his 'disappearance', He referred to the symbol of The Aquarian Age and to the task He would then perform. With his 12 disciples, He enacted a dramatic episode which epitomizes the work which He would later undertake when the 2,000 years of The Piscean Era would have passed away. He told his disciples to go into the city and that there they would meet a man carrying a pitcher of water, that they should follow him to the upper room and there make ready the communion feast in which He and they would share. This they did, and The Last Supper took place. The ancient symbol for The Sign Aquarius is that of The Water-carrier, the man with a pitcher of water."

"The great spiritual achievement and evolutionary event of that Age will be the communion and human relationships established among all peoples, enabling men everywhere to sit down together in The Presence of The Christ and share the bread and wine (symbols of nourishment)."

"If the word, initiation, signifies the processes of entering into, then it is indeed true today that Humanity is undergoing a true initiation as it enters into The New Age of Aquarius. It will then be subjected to those Energies and Forces which will break down the barriers of separation and which will blend and fuse the consciousness of all men into that unity which is distinctive of The Christ Consciousness."

"In June, 1945, The Christ's outpouring love and spiritual vitality, augmented by The Energies of The Spirit of Peace, The Avatar of Synthesis, and The Buddha, were refocused and channeled into a great stream, pulled through into expression by the words of The Invocation, 'Let love stream forth into the hearts of Men. Let Light and Love and Power restore The Plan on Earth'."

"In those 3 words -- Light, Love, and Power -- The Energies of his 3 Associates (The Great Triangle of Force which stands in power behind Him) are described: The Energy of The Buddha, Light (3rd Ray), for the light ever comes from the east; The Energy of The Spirit of Peace, Love (2nd Ray), establishing right human relations; The Energy of The Avatar of Synthesis, Power (1st Ray), implementing both Light and Love. At the center of this Triangle, The Christ took his stand. From that point, his Aquarian work began, and it will continue for 2,500 years."

"By His Physical Presence, He will become The Dispenser of The Water of Life. Through the overshadowing of those sensitive to his impression and of his focused mind, He becomes what is technically known as The Nourisher of The Little Ones. In the coming Era, He will therefore be known as:

1. The Point within The Triangle.

2. The Dispenser of The Water of Life.

3. The Nourisher of The Little Ones."

"As The Point within The Triangle, Christ becomes The Awakener of the hearts of Men and The One Who institutes right human relations by being simply what He is and by standing unmoved where He is. This He accomplishes by transmitting The Energies from The 3 Points of the surrounding Triangle to Humanity. This blended, impersonal Energy, triple in nature, will be spread abroad universally, producing evolutionary growth, attracting people and nations magnetically to each other, and automatically causing the unfoldment of the sense of synthesis, of provable unity, and of a desirable fusion."

"As Dispenser of The Water of Life, his work is most mysterious and not at all easy to comprehend. In his public work 2,000 years ago, He said, 'I am come that they may have Life and that they may have it more abundantly'. The Life Aspect, from the angle of the vision of The Christ, expresses itself in 3 ways:

1. As physical life, nourishing the cells of the body. This life is found within each atom of substance as the central point of living light.

2. As livingness, seen as love and light within the heart. When this livingness is present and expressing itself, the human atom becomes a part of The Spiritual Hierarchy.

3. As Life more abundantly. This Life can be known as Light, Love, and Power within and above the head of the disciple of The Christ. This abundant Life enables him to cooperate, not only with Humanity and with The Spiritual Hierarchy but also with Shamballa Itself, The Center of Life in its purest essence."

"This inflow of Aquarian Energy is one of the factors which will enable The Christ to complete his task as World Savior and World Teacher. It was to the definite performance of his duties as Distributor, Nourisher, and Dispenser that He pledged Himself in June, 1945, and entered upon his responsibilities as The Forerunner and The Teacher of The Aquarian Age."

"As Nourisher of The Little Ones, we are dealing with an aspect of Christ's work which involves the stimulation of the consciousness of his disciples as they prepare to undergo Initiation (see 'The Path of Initiation') or to enter into deeper phases of spiritual awareness. The result of his work in The Triangle with the masses of men will be the presentation of The 1st Initiation, The Birth of The Christ in the cave of the heart, as the basic ceremony in The New World Religion."

"This New Birth is what esotericists mean when they speak of The 1st Initiation. It will not, in the future, be the experience of the occasional disciple but the general experience of countless thousands towards the close of The Aquarian Age. The purifying waters of The Baptism Initiation (The 2nd Initiation) will submerge hundreds of aspirants in many lands, and these 2 Initiations, which are preparatory to true service, and The 3rd Initiation of The Transfiguration will set the seal on Christ's Mission as The Agent of The Great Spiritual Triangle which He represents."

"The major work of Christ, however, as far as the disciples and the definitely spiritually-minded people of the world are concerned plus the hundreds of thousands of advanced Humanity, is so to nourish their spiritual consciousness and life that they will be enabled to take The 3rd and 4th Initiations, Those of The Transfiguration (The Soul Merge) and The Renunciation (or Crucifixion)."

"As esotericists know, the term 'little ones' refers to those disciples who are 'babes in Christ' and who have taken The First 2 Initiations of The Birth and The Baptism. Christ must prepare these aspirants for The Higher Initiations and so nourish and aid them that they can stand before The One Initiator (Sanat Kumara, The Hierophant beginning with The 3rd Initiation) and become pillars in The Temple of God."

"In The First 2 Initiations, aspirants (trained by Senior Disciples) find their way to Christ, Who administers The First 2 Initiations. Through these Initiations, administered by The Christ, The Disciple becomes an Agent of The Love of God (2nd Ray). The Higher Initiations enable Him, however, to become, stage by stage, an Agent of The Will of God (1st Ray)."

"Through the coming work of Christ, The 3 Divine Aspects (The Trinity or Triune Godhead), recognized by all the world religions -- Intelligence or The Universal Mind (3rd Ray), Love (2nd Ray), and Will (1st Ray) -- will be consciously developed in Mankind. Humanity, The Spiritual Hierarchy, and The Center where The Will of God is known (Shamballa) will be brought into a more open and general relationship."

"As evolution proceeds and individual men and women achieve power and expression, their use of energy is frequently of major importance. They become dynamic centers of energy distribution, and their words (spoken and written) plus their activities produce wide effects and momentous results. The Hierarchy is a Great Energy Center, and through The Christ its Energy reaches Humanity. This is the significance of his words, 'I am come that they might have Life'. Life and Energy are synonymous terms."

"The New Group of World Servers holds steadily to The Noble Middle Way (as The Buddha called It) and seeks the decent burial of old forms, the implementation of that which is new, and the restoration of that which has, in the past, proved useful and good and which could form the living germ of The New Creation."

"At the time of The Full Moon of April, 1945, during The Easter Season of that year and covering approximately a period of 5 weeks, The Forces of Restoration (3rd Ray) began their work, emerging first upon The Subtler Planes of human experience. This type of Energy is peculiarly creative in nature and carries the 'Life which produces the birth of forms'. This Energy is a Mass Energy and is related to the stimulation of the mass intelligence. This is The Energy which makes men think, plan, and take action. It produces neither bad nor good results but simply brings about the awakening of men's minds so that they take intelligent action."

"Following this inflow, at the time of The Full Moon of The Buddha in May, 1945, The Forces of Enlightenment (2nd Ray) became active, and Light began to stream into the minds of men. These are, in reality, The Energies which initiate the new world education. These Energies of enlightenment reach Humanity via The New Group of World Servers who are very susceptible to their impact and who are in a position to distribute Them."

"The Forces of Restoration are related to and emanate from The Mind of God (The 3rd Aspect or Ray) and are connected with The Intelligence Principle in the divine nature. The intellect is that divine aspect which distinguishes Man from all other forms in Nature. The Forces of Enlightenment come from The Heart of God (The 2nd Aspect or Ray) and are related to divine understanding and can, therefore, reach and strengthen all those who love and serve their fellowmen. This Energy is related to The Second Aspect or Principle of Divinity, Love-Wisdom, of which The Buddha and The Christ are the 2 outstanding Divine Expressions (on this planet)."

"The Buddha and The Christ combined The Way of The Mind and The Way of The Heart in their perfection and towered above their fellowmen from the heights of their achievement. They swayed hemispheres and centuries, whereas lesser Sons of God sway countries and shorter periods of time."

"In June, 1945, Christ set in motion The Forces of Reconstruction (1st Ray), which are related to The Will Aspect of Divinity and which remain as yet the least powerful of The 3 Streams of Energy released during the 3 Full Moon Festivals in 1945. These Forces of Reconstruction are effective mainly in relation to those entities which we call nations. Nations are the expression today of the massed self-centeredness of a people and of their instinct to self-preservation. These Energies can, therefore, increase that aspect of their lives. The main object of The Hierarchy is to so distribute these constructive, synthesizing Energies that the theory of unity may slowly be turned into practice, and the word, united, may come to have a true significance and meaning. It is with this type of Energy that The Avatar of Synthesis is peculiarly allied."

"All we know at this time is that The Christ will fuse and blend within Himself 3 Principles of Divinity (The First 3 Rays or Aspects). When He appears, 'The Light that always has been will be seen; The Love that never ceases will be realized; and The Radiance, deep concealed, will break forth into being'. We shall then have a New World, one which will express The Light, The Love, and The Knowledge of God in a crescendo of revelation. The beauty of this synthesis which Christ will manifest and the wonder of the presented opportunity must surely be apparent to all of us."

"The Buddha is closely allied with The Christ in this process of His Reappearing, though He will not be involved or active during the entire period of Christ's coming active work on Earth. As you know, He too has not relinquished his contact and relationship with Humanity, though He relinquished his physical (aetheric) body centuries ago. He did this in order to accomplish certain assigned work which had in it activities connected with the work of The Christ, with the immediacy of His Coming, and with certain plans for the coming civilization of The Aquarian Age. As many millions in the world know, each year at the time of The Wesak Festival at the May Full Moon He communicates with Humanity and the assembled, attentive Hierarchy via The Christ."

"All the work now being done by these 2 Great Sons of God is concerned with the distribution of Energy, The Energy of Light (3rd Ray) and The Energy of Love (2nd Ray). It is through The Triangle, earlier mentioned, that The Energy of Will (1st Ray) eventually will be distributed, and one of these Divine Distributors is The Buddha."

"Actually the work of The Buddha for Humanity is nearly over, and his long alliance with The Race of Men has nearly come to an end. The moment that The Appearance of The Christ is an accomplished fact and the rule of right human relations is beginning definitely to condition human living, then The Buddha will pass to the work which awaits Him. One of The Senior Disciples of The Christ, ranking next to The Christ in Hierarchical Status, will take his Place and carry on the work connected with Mankind."

"By the time this particular Master takes over His Task, the intelligence principle or knowledge, which is the outstanding characteristic of Humanity, will have been to a large extent transmuted into wisdom by the world intelligentsia, though not as yet by the masses of men. Wisdom is the predominant characteristic of The Buddha, and the momentum of this Wisdom Energy will eventually be so strong that it will need no further distribution or control by The Buddha. He can then re-orient Himself to Higher Spheres of activity where his true work lies and begin to work with an aspect of Wisdom of which we know nothing."

"The true meaning of the biblical story of Christ's being crucified upon the cross of wood is related, in reality, to the decision made by Christ in The Garden of Gethsemane to take over the building or reconstruction work in Aquarius and thus complete the task which He attempted to do in The Piscean Age. He and His Disciples and The New Group of World Servers are the pledged Builders of The New Civilization, the new 'House of Humanity'."

"This greatest of The Sons of God, The Christ, Representative of Humanity and of The 2nd Divine Aspect (Love-Wisdom), will demonstrate within Himself, during The Aquarian Age and after His Reappearance, certain major fused and blended qualities:

1. The fusion of The 2nd Divine Aspect of Love and The 1st Divine Aspect of Will -- The Will-to-Good.

2. The fusion of Love and Wisdom, enabling Him to be The Builder of The New Age and Civilization.

3. The fusion of Piscean Energy, generated during the past 2,000 years of Christ's spiritual activity, and The Aquarian Energies to be generated and active on Earth during the next 2,000 or 2,500 years."

"He can become, in a sense hitherto unknown to Him, The Focal Point and The Transmitting Agent for all these 5 Divine Energies: 1. The Energy of Love (2nd Ray). 2. The Energy of Will (1st Ray). 3. The Energy of Intelligence (3rd Ray). 4. Piscean Energy, generated during The Christian Era. 5. Aquarian Energy, already generating upon The Inner Planes of thought and feeling and to be generated during the centuries ahead of us."

"In Palestine, His Appearance was mainly prophetic and his work primarily that of laying the foundation for the activities which will follow His Reappearance, plus the sowing of the seed, the harvest of which He will garner in The New Age. The tragedy of His Appearance 2,000 years ago has colored the presentation of truth by the theologians and made them posit an unhappy story, producing a miserable and unhappy world. This tragedy was based on:

1. His discovery that Humanity was not ready for that which He came to give and that for centuries much experience, teaching, trial, and testing would be needed before his real work could begin.

2. His recognition that He Himself needed a deeper relation with that Center which He always referred to as The Father's House (Shamballa). It was this realization which led to his comments that his disciples could and would do 'greater things' than He had done and that He had to go to His Father (Sanat Kumara).

3. His arriving at the conclusion that He must have more trained and dedicated workers and agents than at that time was possible or has proved possible since, hence the gathering out and the training of The New Group of World Servers. When there are enough of these servers and enlightened workers, He will come and nothing can arrest His Approach.

4. He discovered also that men were not then desperate enough to 'take The Kingdom of Heaven by violence'. It is only in desperation and when completely at the end of his tether that the disciple finds his way into that Kingdom and is ready to relinquish the old ways. What is true of the individual must also be true, on a larger scale, of Humanity."

"It is to the whole world that Christ comes and not just to the Christian world. He comes to The East and to The West and has foreseen this 'Time of The End' -- with its planetary catastrophies, phenomenal disasters, despair, and invocation -- arising from both The East and West. He knew that in the time of final crisis and tension, Humanity Itself would force His Emergence."

"In symbolic form, the legend runs that when The Buddha reached enlightenment and experience on Earth could teach Him no more, He looked ahead to the time when His Brother, The Christ, would be active in The Great Service, as it is called. In order, therefore, to aid The Christ, He left behind Him what are mysteriously called 'his vestures'. He bequeathed and left in some place the sumtotal of his emotional-intuitive nature, called by some The Astral Body, and the sumtotal of his knowledge and his thought, called his mind or Mental Body. These, the legend says, will be assumed by The Coming One and will prove of service, supplementing Christ's own Emotional and Mental Equipment and providing Him with what He needs as The Teacher of The East as well as of The West."

"Thus The Christ, with the fused Energies of Love and Wisdom, with the aid of The Avatar of Synthesis and of The Buddha, and under the influence of The Spirit of Peace and Equilibrium, can implement and direct The Energies which will produce the coming New Civilization. He will see, demonstrating before his eyes, the true resurrection, the emergence of Mankind from the imprisoning cave of materialism. Thus He will 'see of the travail of His Soul and shall be satisfied'."

The Teachings of The Christ

"When The Sons of God come, their aim is to meet the immediate need in such a fashion that the ideas presented may become ideals to which eventually the life of Mankind would later conform and bring about a better civilization."

"All The Cyclic Teachers (to differentiate Them from the many lesser Teachers) have mastered life for Themselves in The 3 Worlds of human evolution (Physical, Emotional, and Mental), have achieved control of the physical level of consciousness, of their emotional-feeling nature, and have attained mental understanding and finally enlightenment."

"The problem of The Hierarchy has been, and still is, how much exact truth Humanity can comprehend and to what extent absolute truth can be presented to their awakening minds. They have to decide which aspect of universal truth will enable Man to emerge out of his difficulties and thus move forward on The Path of Return to God."

"Hitherto, the presented concepts have been formulated by The World Teachers of the period and presented to a picked and chosen few (in The Mystery Schools) whose task it has been to take the newly presented idea and promulgate it among those men who are enlightened enough to accept it, to spread it, to live it, and to make it popular. This They have done for ages with more or less success."

"The first such Teacher is of such ancient date that it is not possible to say when He truly lived. Even his name is a modernized one, given to an ancient Hero/Teacher. His name is Hercules (Herakles). He is presented to the world through the form of a pictorial and world drama concept (symbolic in nature) of a great objective (The Path of Discipleship toward The Path of Initiation), only to be reached as the result of struggle and difficulty. He pointed to a goal toward which men must make their way no matter what the obstacles. These obstacles He portrayed in The 12 Labors of Hercules, which were dramas and not factual occurrences."

"He depicted The Prodigal Son's journey back to The Father's House and the tests and trials which all disciples and aspirants and Initiates have to face and which all Those Who today compose the Spiritual Hierarchy have already faced."

"At some also unknown date, Hermes (Thoth or Tehuti) came and, so the records say, was the first to proclaim Himself as 'The Light of The World'. Later, The Great Teacher, Vyasa, appeared. He gave one simple and needed message: that death is not the end. From his time, the thinking of Humanity about the possible immortality of The Soul can be seen to stem."

"Buddha is the next Teacher to Whom we should refer, though there were many between his time and that of Vyasa. During those centuries wherein history is relatively dim and faint in its outlines, the intelligence of men had been rapidly growing, and the inquiring perception of Mankind came into increasingly active use."

"The Buddha came forth to give the answer and to lay the foundation for a more enlightened approach to life, giving the teaching which would open the door to the work of The Christ (Lord Maitreya through Jesus) Who would, He knew, follow in his steps."

"It is interesting to remember that when The Buddha came, approximately 500 years before Christ, the first dim influences of The Piscean Age could be felt, impinging upon the powerful quality of The Age of Aries the Scapegoat or Ram. It was the influence of this Age (Aries), persisting throughout The Jewish Dispensation, which led eventually to the distortion of the simple teaching of The Christ when He came. He was erroneously presented to the world as the living Scapegoat, bearing away the sins of the people and thus originating the doctrine of the vicarious at-one-ment. It was St. Paul who was responsible for this emphasis."

"A paralleling instance of a similar distortion was also of Jewish origin and appeared in the early stages of The Cycle of Aries the Ram. We are told that The Children of Israel fell down and worshipped the golden calf, the symbol of Taurus the Bull. This was the preceding astronomical cycle. In the early stages of Aries, the teaching reverted to that of Taurus, and in the early stages of Pisces, it reverted to that of Aries and thus set the seal of retrogression upon the teaching which now controls so many orthodox Christians."

"Buddha answered the questions posited in his time by giving out The 4 Noble Truths, which satisfactorily and eternally answer man's demand of why. These Truths can be summarized as follows: The Buddha taught that misery and suffering were of man's own making and that the focusing of human desire upon the undesirable, the ephemeral, and the material was the cause of all despair, all hatred and competition, and the reason why Man found Himself living in the realm of death, the realm of physical living which is the true death of The Spirit."

"Between the times of these 2 Great Teachers, The Buddha and The Christ, lesser Teachers appeared to amplify and add to the already given basic truths. Of these, Shankaracharya was one of the most important, giving, as He did, deep instruction upon the nature of The Self (The Atman or Higher Self). Also, The Teacher in The Bhagavad Gita, Sri Krishna, must be noted, for many believe Him to be a previous incarnation of The Christ (Maitreya)."

"In due time, Christ (The Christos) came and gave out to the world (mainly through his disciples) 2 major truths: the fact of the existence of The Human Soul and, secondly, the system of service as a mode of establishing right human relations to God and to one's fellowmen. He told men that they were all The Sons of God in the same sense that He was. He told them in many symbolic ways who and what He was and assured them that they could do even greater things than He had done, because they were divine as He was."

"He taught them that service was the key to the life of liberation, teaching them the technique of service through his own life as He went about doing good, healing the sick, as well as preaching and teaching the things of The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierachy) and feeding the hungry, both physically and spiritually. He made the life of every day a divine sphere of spiritual livingness, thus emphasizing the teaching of The Buddha through desiring nothing for the separated self. Thus The Christ taught, loved, and lived, carrying forward the great continuity of revelation and of hierarchical teaching."

"He entered for us within The Veil, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps, follow Him in his belief in Divinity, in his service, and in the ability to penetrate into that area of consciousness and that field of activity which we call The True Church of Christ, The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, The True Kingdom of God. The Veil that hides that Real Church from us in now in the process of disappearing, and Christ is on the verge of reappearing."

"In the light of the past, therefore, and of humanity's present need, which Christ and The Hierarchy must meet, what will be the teaching which He will this time give? The probability is that his teaching will fall into 4 parts. We would do well to consider each of them and do our best to understand and prepare the human mind for the reception of what He has to give."

A. The Establishing of Right Human Relations

"He will not come as The Messiah of the Jews to save the so-called Holy Land and the City of Jerusalem for the Jews, because He belongs to the whole world, and no Jews nor any other people have special rights or unique privileges or may claim Him as their own. He will not come to convert the 'heathen' world, for in the eyes of The Christ and of his True Disciples no such world exists, and the so-called heathen have demonstrated historically less of the evil of vicious conflict than has the militant Christian World. The history of The Christian Nations and of The Christian Church has been one of an aggressive militancy, the last thing desired by The Christ when He sought to establish The Church on Earth."

"The major effect of His Appearance will surely be to demonstrate in every land the effects of a spirit of inclusiveness, an inclusiveness which will be channeled or expressed through Him. All who seek right human relations will be gathered automatically to Him, whether they are in one of the great world religions or not."

"Standing as The Focal Point of The Inner Triangle of The Buddha, of The Spirit of Peace, and of The Avatar of Synthesis, Christ will let loose into the world of men the potency and the distinctive energy of Intuitive Love. The results of the distribution of this Energy of Love will be two-fold:

1. Countless men and women in every land will form themselves into groups for the promotion of goodwill and for the production of right human relations.

2. This active energy of loving understanding will mobilize a tremendous reaction against the potency of hate."

"The power of the hierarchical spiritual impact, focused through Christ and his working Disciples, will be so great that the usefulness, the practicality, and the naturalness of right human relations will become so evident that world affairs will rapidly be adjusted, and the The New Era of Goodwill and Peace on Earth will be inaugurated."

"In the presentation of true livingness which The Christ will demonstrate to the world of thinking men, there is necessarily no room for exclusiveness or for separativeness, because that 'life more abundantly' which He seeks to channel to us is a free and flowing current, sweeping away obstructions and barriers and establishing an unimpeded circulation of truth and life itself -- the essential quality of both being love."

"The Reappearance of Christ will establish the fact of this divine livingness. The work which He will accomplish, with the aid of His Disciples, will demonstrate the love and the divine purpose which lie behind all phenomenal experience."

"The establishing of right human relations is an aspect of The Divine Will for Humanity and the next facet of The Divine Expression to manifest itself in human affairs -- individual, communal, national, and international."
"In establishing right human relations, relinquishment, renunciation, submission to existent facts, and obedient acquiescence to Divine Law are all involved. These are the things which Christ earlier demonstrated on Earth, and they are the things which He will help Humanity to accept with enthusiasm and understanding. This will produce happiness. Christ, however, is not coming simply to teach men the need for right human relations. He is coming to teach them how to establish it successfully themselves."

B. Christ Will Teach The Law of Rebirth

"This Law is the major corollary of The Law of Evolution. It has never been grasped or properly understood in The West, and in The East, where it is acknowledged as a governing principle of life, it has not proved useful because it has been soporific in its effect and a detriment to progress. The eastern student regards it as giving plenty of time. This has negated the driving effort to achieve a goal. The average Christian confuses The Law of Rebirth with what he calls 'the transmigration of souls' and frequently believes that The Law of Rebirth signifies the passing of human beings into the bodies of animals or of lower forms of life. Such is by no means the case."

"As The Life of God progresses onwards through form after form, that life in the subhuman Kingdoms of Nature proceeds progressively from mineral forms into plant forms and from these plant forms into animal forms. From the animal form stage, The Life of God passes into The Human Kingdom and becomes subject to The Law of Rebirth and not The Law of Transmigration."

"This doctrine will be one of the keynotes of The New World Religion as well as the clarifying agent for a better understanding of world affairs. When Christ was here in person before, He told men to 'Be ye, therefore, perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect'. This time, He will teach men the method whereby this possibility can become accomplished fact, through the constant return of the incarnating Soul to The School of Life on Earth, there to undergo the perfecting process of which He was the outstanding example. That is the meaning and teaching of reincarnation."

"The Law of Rebirth exists. Only a few things can be said with accuracy about It, and these few warrant no contradiction:

1. The Law of Rebirth is a great natural Law upon our planet.

2. It is a process, instituted and carried forward under The Law of Evolution.

3. It is closely related to and conditioned by The Law of Cause and Effect.

4. It is a process of progressive developement, enabling men to move forward from the grossest forms of unthinking materialism to a spiritual perfection and an intelligent perception which will enable a man to become a Member of The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy).

5. It accounts for the differences among men and, in connection with The Law of Cause and Effect (called The Law of Karma in The East), it accounts for differences in circumstances and attitudes to life.

6. It is the expression of The Will Aspect (1st Ray) of The Soul and is not the result of any form decision. It is The Soul (The Higher Self) in all forms which reincarnates, choosing and building suitable physical, emotional, and mental vehicles through which to learn the next needed lessons.

7. The Law of Rebirth (as far as Humanity is concerned) comes into activity upon The Soul Plane. Incarnation is motivated and directed from The Soul Level, upon The Mental Plane (5th Density).

8. Souls incarnate in groups, cyclically, under law and in order to achieve right relations with God and with their fellowmen.

9. Progressive unfoldment under The Law of Rebirth is largely conditioned by the mental principle, for 'as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he'. These few brief words need most careful consideration.

10. Under The Law of Rebirth, man slowly developes mind. Then mind begins to control the feeling-emotional nature and finally reveals The Soul and its nature and environment to man.

11. At that point in his developement, the man begins to tread The Path of Return and orients himself gradually (after many lives) to The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy).

12. When, through a developed mentality, wisdom, practical service, and understanding, a man has learned to ask nothing for the separated self, he then renounces desire for life in The 3 Worlds (Physical, Emotional, and Mental) and is freed from The Law of Rebirth.

13. He is now group conscious, is aware of his Soul Group and of The Soul in all forms, and has attained, as Christ had requested, a stage of Christ-like perfection reaching unto the 'measure of the stature of the fullness of The Christ'."

C. Revelation of The Mysteries of Initiation

"Much that is here written is in reality concerned with The Appearance of The Kingdom of God. The Hierarchy plans to emerge when Christ appears and restores the rule of The Spirit on Earth. The hour for the restoration of The Ancient Mysteries (of Initiation) has arrived."

"In Atlantean days, Divinity was then present in physical form (The Divine Philosopher-Kings), and The Members of The Spiritual Hierarchy were openly guiding and directing the affairs of Humanity as far as man's innate freedom permitted. Now, in the immediate future, and on a higher turn of the spiral of life, this will again happen. The Masters will walk openly among men. The Christ will reappear in physical Presence (Lord Kuthumi). Another thing that will happen will be that The Ancient Mysteries will be restored. The ancient landmarks will again be recognized, those landmarks which Masonry has so earnestly preserved and which have been hitherto securely embalmed in the Masonic rituals, waiting the day of restoration and of resurrection."

"These Ancient Mysteries were originally given to Humanity by The Hierarchy and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words, and in symbology. These veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing to him, in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread back into The Light. They provide also, when rightly interpreted and correctly represented, the teaching which Humanity needs in order to pass from darkness to Light, from the unreal to The Real, and from death into Immortality."

"It is these Mysteries which Christ will restore upon His Reappearance, thus reviving the churches in a new form and restoring the hidden Mystery which they long have lost through their materialism. Masonry has also lost the true livingness it once possessed, but in its forms and rituals the truth is preserved and can be recovered. This Christ will do."

"Only when The Hierarchy is present visibly on Earth and The Mysteries, of which The Disciples of The Christ are The Custodians, are given openly to the world will the true secret and nature of electrical phenomena be revealed."

"The Mysteries (of Initiation) are, in the last analysis, the true source of revelation. It can only be when the mind and the will-to-good are closely fused and blended and are thus conditioning human behavior that the extent of the coming revelation can be safely grasped."

"The Mystery of The Ages is, through The Reappearance of The Christ, on the verge of revelation. The scriptures of the world have ever prophesied that at the end of The Age (of Pisces) we shall see the revelation of that which is secret and the emergence of that which has hitherto been concealed into the light of day."

"The work of The Christ 2,000 years ago was to proclaim certain great possibilities and the existence of great powers. His work when He reappears will be to prove the fact of these possibilities and to reveal the true nature and potency of Man."

"As an ancient scripture says: 'That which has been a mystery shall no longer be so, and that which has been veiled will now be revealed. That which has been withdrawn will emerge into the light and will then enhance that light, and all men will see and together will rejoice. The time will come when destruction will have wrought its beneficent work. Then men, through suffering, will seek that which they have discarded. In vain pursuit they sought that which was near at hand and easy of attainment. Possessed, they found that it proved an agency of death. Yet all the time they sought for life not death'."

"There is much talk these days concerning The Mysteries of Initiation. All this flood about The Mysteries of Initiation has definitely prepared Humanity for the teaching it is believed Christ will give when again here with us in physical Presence."

"As little as the orthodox Christian may care to admit it, the entire gospel story in its 4 forms or presentations contains little else except symbolic details about The Mysteries which are, as far as Humanity is concerned, 5 in all (5 Initiations from The Birth to The Ascension). These Mysteries indicate, in reality, 5 important points in the spiritual history of an aspirant. They indicate also 5 important stages in the progress of human consciousness. This advance will become definite and clear in a manner not understood today at some point during The Aquarian Age."

"Each Age has left a reflection of a modern 5-fold developement upon it. Four Ages have just passed away, astronomically speaking: Gemini, Taurus, Aries, and Pisces. Today Aquarius, the 5th Age, is coming into power. In Gemini, its symbolical sign of the 2 pillars set its seal upon The Masonic Fraternity of the time, and the 2 pillars of Jachin and Boaz -- to give them their Jewish names which are, of course, not their real names -- came into being approximately 8,000 years ago. Then came Taurus the Bull, wherein Mithra came as The World Teacher and instituted The Mysteries of Mithras with an apparent worship of the Bull."

"Next followed Aries the Ram, which saw the start of The Jewish Dispensation which is of importance to the Jews and unfortunately of importance to The Christian Religion but of no importance to the untold millions in the other parts of the world. During this Cycle came The Buddha, Sri Krishna, and Shankaracharya. Finally, we have The Age of Pisces the Fishes, which brought to us The Christ. The sequence of The Mysteries which each of the signs of The Zodiac embodies will be clarified for us by The Christ."

"In The Era which lies ahead, after The Reappearance of The Christ, hundreds of thousands of men and women everywhere will pass through some one or other of The Great Expansions of Consciousness (called Initiations). These are The Mysteries with which The Christ will deal. His acknowledged Presence with us and The Presence of His Disciples (Initiates of The Great White Brotherhood) will make possible a far more rapid developement than would otherwise be the case. Materialism as a mass principle will be rejected, and the major spiritual values will assume greater control."

"History will some day be based and written upon the record of the initiatory growth of Humanity. Prior to that, we must have a history which is constructed around the developement of Humanity under the influences of great and fundamental ideas."

"The production of the culture of any given period is simply the reflection of the creative ability and the precise consciousness of The Initiates of the time, Those Who knew they were Initiate and Who were also conscious of admittance into direct relation with The Hierarchy. Civilization is the reflection in the mass of men of some particular cyclic influence, leading to an Initiation."

"The Reappearance of The Christ is indicative of a closer relation between the outer and inner worlds of thought. The world of meaning and the world of experience will be obviously blended through the stimulation of The Advent of The Hierarchy and of its Head, The Christ. A tremendous growth of understanding and of relationships will be the major result."

D. The Dispelling of Glamor

"The word, 'glamor', the outstanding characteristic of The Astral Plane, has never been correctly employed, and it is a pity that it was ever used in the early days of the esoteric teachings. The so-called Astral Plane is simply the name given to that sumtotal of sentient reactions, of feeling-responsiveness, and of emotional substance which Man has Himself so powerfully created and so successfully projected."

"Once that 'mind is in us which is also in Christ', we shall find that the control of this emotional nature and this sentient area of consciousness (The Astral Plane, if you prefer the term) becomes complete. Then this past sentient control and its entire area of influence no longer exists. The greatest service a man can render to his fellowmen is to free himself from the control of that Plane by himself directing its energies through the power of The Christ within. He will then find that the self-centered forces and the energies of personal desire and of emotional love will be superseded by a Living Energy which can be sensed in a large way, though it cannot as yet be appropriated in its pure essence."

"This Energy we call The Love of God. It is that free-flowing, outgoing, magnetically attractive Force which leads each pilgrim back to The Father's House (Shamballa). It is that Force which stirs in the heart of Humanity and finds expression through the medium of such great Avatars as The Christ."

"Of this world of glamor and illusion, Christ knew much and in Himself demonstrated that True Love could control it. Part of The 3 Great Temptations of The Christ in the wilderness (after The Baptism in The River Jordan) was based upon the 3 aspects of world glamor: the illusions which the mind creates, the glamor of The Emotional Plane of experience, and the maze of earthly circumstances. These all threatened to bewilder Him. He met each of them in turn with the enunciation of a clear-cut principle and not with the wordy arguments of an analytical mind. From that field of 3-fold experience, He went forth to love, to teach, and to heal."

"Christ is the great dispeller of world glamor when He comes, and in this work The Buddha has previously prepared the way. The possibility of such a dispelling and dissipation is, therefore, definitely centered in The 2 Avatars, The Buddha and The Christ."

"Within the world of glamor, the world of The Astral Plane and of the emotions, appeared centuries ago a Point of Light. The Lord of Light, The Buddha, undertook to focus in Himself the illumination which would eventually make possible the dissipation of glamor. Within the world of illusion, the world of The Mental Plane, appeared The Christ, The Lord of Love Himself. He undertook to dispel illusion by drawing to Himself (by the attractive potency of love) the hearts of all men and stated this determination in the words, 'I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me'."

"The combined work of these 2 Great Sons of God, concentrated through the world disciples and through their Initiates, must and will inevitably shatter illusion and dispel glamor, the one by the intuitive recognition of reality by minds attuned to it and the other by the pouring in of the light of reason. The Buddha made the first planetary effort to dissipate world glamor. The Christ made the first planetary effort towards the dispelling of illusion."

"When the personality has reached a point of purification, of dedication, and of illumination, then the attractive power of The Soul, whose nature is Love and Understanding, can function, and fusion of these 2 will take place. This is what The Christ proved and demonstrated."

"When the work of The Buddha (or of the embodied Wisdom Principle) is consummated in the aspiring disciple and his integrated personality, then the full expression of the work of The Christ (the embodied Principle of Love) can also be consummated. Then both of these potencies, Light and Love, will find radiant expression in the tranfigured disciple."

"This process was initiated upon The Astral Plane (4th Density) by The Buddha and on The Mental Plane (5th Density) when Christ manifested on Earth. It indicated the approaching maturity of Humanity. The process has been slowly gathering momentum as these 2 Great Beings have gathered around Them their disciples and Initiates during the past 2,000 years."

"The moment that the hearts of men (Anahata Chakras) are active, that moment sees the termination of emotional, Solar Plexus (Manipura Chakra) activity. That is a statement of fact. It is the hearts of men which respond to the call of Christ, and it is those hearts which are becoming invocative today."

The New World Religion

"The presentation of divine truth as given by the churches in The West and by the teachers in The East has not kept pace with the unfolding intellect of the human spirit. The same old formulas, the same old theologies, and the same old interpretations are deemed adequate to meet man's modern needs and inquiries. They are not. The Church of today is the tomb of The Christ, and the stone of theology has been rolled to the door of the sepulchre."

"Surely, The Christ must feel (with an aching heart) that the simplicity which He taught and the simple way to God which He emphasized have disappeared into the fogs of theology (initiated by St. Paul) and in the discussions of churchmen throughout the centuries."

"Is it not possible that The Christ may regard the separative life of the churches and the arrogance of the theologians as wrong and undesirable, dividing, as they have, the world into believer and unbeliever, into Christian and heathen, into the so-called enlightened and the so-called benighted."

"Churchmen have expended effort and executive ability in raising funds for the building of stone edifices whilst God's children everywhere went hungry and unclothed and so lost their belief in divine love."

"How can the need of Humanity for spiritual guidance be met when the leaders of the churches are occupied with temporal concerns, when the emphasis is laid in The Roman Catholic, The Greek Orthodox, and The Protestant Churches upon pomp and ceremonies, on great churches and stone cathedrals, upon gold and silver communion sets, on scarlet birettas, on jewelled vestments, and upon all the paraphernalia so cherished by the ecclesiastically minded?"

"How can light shine again in the minds of men when churchmen keep the people in a state of fear unless they accept the old theological interpretations and the old ways of approaching God?"

"The delicate flower of The Christ Life has been stunted and arrested in the dark caves of man's thinking. Fanatical adherence to human interpretations has taken the place of Christian living. Millions of books have obliterated the living words of Christ. The arguments and discussions of priests have put out the light which The Buddha brought, and The Love of God as revealed by The Life of Christ has been forgotten whilst men have quarrelled over meanings, over phrases and words. In the meantime, men have agonized, starved, suffered, demanded help and instruction and, unsatisfied, have lost faith."

"When The Christ reappears, the fundamentals of faith will remain, upon which He can build that New World Religion for which all men wait. That New World Religion must be based upon those truths which have stood the test of ages and which have brought assurance and comfort to men everywhere. These surely are:

1. The Fact of God

First and foremost, there must be recognition of the fact of God. Consciously or unconsciously, all men recognize God Transcendent and God Immanent. The eastern faiths have ever emphasized God Immanent, deep within the human heart, 'nearer than hands and feet', The Self, The One, The Atma, smaller than the small, yet all-comprehensive. The western faiths have presented God Transcendent, outside His Universe, an Onlooker."

Today we should have the churches presenting a synthesis of these 2 ideas which have been summed up for us in the statement of Sri Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita: 'Having pervaded this whole Universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain'. God, greater than the created whole, yet God present also in the part.

2. Man's Relationship to God

The second truth to which all give allegiance, no matter what the faith, is that of man's essential relationship to God. Inherent in the human consciousness, inchoate often and undefined, is a sense of divinity.

3. The Fact of Immortality and of Eternal Persistence

The Spirit in man is undying. It forever endures, progressing from point to point and stage to stage upon The Path of Evolution, unfolding steadily and sequentially the divine attributes and aspects. This truth involves necessarily the recognition of 2 Great Natural Laws, The Law of Rebirth and The Law of Cause and Effect.

'Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap' is a truth which needs re-emphasizing. In these words, St. Paul phrases for us the ancient and true teaching of The Law of Cause and Effect, called in The Orient The Law of Karma.

The immortality of The Human Soul and the innate ability of the spiritual, inner man to work out his own salvation under The Law of Rebirth, in response to The Law of Cause and Effect, are the underlying factors governing all human conduct and all human aspiration. These 2 Laws no man can evade. They condition him at all times until he has achieved the desired and the designed perfection and can manifest on Earth as a rightly functioning Son of God.

4. The Continuity of Revelation and The Divine Approaches

Never has there been a time, Cycle, or World Period when there was not the giving out of the teaching and spiritual help which human need demanded. Never did the hearts and minds of men go out towards God but that Divinity Itself came nearer to Man. Always The Savior, The Avatar, or The World Teacher issued forth from The Secret Place of The Most High and brought to Man fresh revelation, fresh hope, and a fresh incentive towards fuller spiritual living.

Those Who come as The Revealers of The Love of God come from that Spiritual Center to which The Christ gave the name, 'The Kingdom of God'. It is spoken of as The Spiritual Hierarchy, as The Abode of Light, as The Center where The Masters of The Wisdom are to be found, as The Great White Lodge. From It come Those Who act as Messengers of The Wisdom of God, Custodians of the truth as it is in Christ, and Those whose task is to save the world, to impart the next revelation, and to demonstrate Divinity.

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."

"The keynote of The New World Religion will be Divine Approach. 'Draw near to Him, and He will draw near to you' is the great injunction, emanating in new and clear tones from Christ and The Spiritual Hierarchy at this time."

"The great theme of The New World Religion will be the recognition of the many Divine Approaches and the continuity of revelation which each of Them conveyed. The task ahead of the spiritually-minded people of the world today is to prepare Humanity for the imminent and perhaps the greatest of all The Approaches. The method employed will be the scientific and intelligent use of invocation and evocation and the recognition of their tremendous potency. The science of invocation and evocation will take the place of what we now call prayer and worship."

"Invocation is of 3 kinds. There is the massed demand, unconsciously voiced, and the crying appeal, wrung from the hearts of men in all times of crisis such as the present. This invocative cry rises ceaselessly from all men living in the midst of disaster. Then there is the invocational spirit, evidenced by sincere men as they participate in the rites of their religion and take advantage of the opportunity of united worship and prayer to lay their demands for help before God. Then, lastly, there are the trained disciples and aspirants of the world who use certain forms of words, certain carefully defined invocations and who, as they do this, focus the invocative cry and the invocative appeal of the other 2 groups, giving it right direction and power."

"This new religious science, for which prayer, meditation, and ritual have prepared Humanity, will train its people to present, at stated periods throughout the year, the voiced demand of the people of the world for relationship with God and for a closer spiritual relation to each other. This work, when rightly carried forward, will evoke response from the waiting Hierarchy and from its Head, The Christ."

"The expansion of the human consciousness which will take place as a result of the coming Great Approach will enable Humanity to grasp not only its relation to The Spiritual Life of our planet, 'The One in Whom we live and move and have our being' (The Planetary Logos, The Higher Self of Sanat Kumara), but will also give a glimpse of the relation of our planet to the circle of Planetary Lives (Planetary Logoi) moving within the orbit of The Sun (The Solar Logos) and the still greater circle of Spiritual Influences Which contact our system as it pursues its orbit in The Heavens (The 12 Constellations of The Zodiac)."

"The establishing of certain major festivals in relation to the moon and in a lesser degree to The Zodiac will bring about a strengthening of the spirit of invocation and the resultant inflow of evoked influences. The truth lying behind all invocation is based upon the power of thought, particularly in its telepathic nature, rapport, and aspect."

"In the future world, when organized, all men of spiritual inclination and intention everywhere will keep the same Holy Days. This will bring about a pooling of spiritual resources and a united spiritual effort, plus a simultaneous spiritual invocation. The potency of this will be apparent."

"There will be 3 such major Festivals each year, concentrated in 3 consecutive months and leading, therefore, to a prolonged annual spiritual effort which will affect the remainder of the year. These will be:

1. The Festival of Easter. This is The Festival of The Christ, The Teacher of all men and The Head of The Spiritual Hierarchy. He is The Expression of The Love of God. On this day The Spiritual Hierarchy, which He guides and directs, will be recognized, and the nature of God's Love will be emphasized. This Festival is determined always by the date of the first Full Moon of Spring (after The Vernal Equinox).

2. The Festival of Wesak. This is The Festival of The Buddha, The Spiritual Intermediary between The Highest Spiritual Center, Shamballa, and The Hierarchy. The Buddha is The Expression of The Wisdom of God, The Embodiment of Light, and The Indicator of The Divine Purpose. This will be fixed annually in relation to the Full Moon of May.

3. The Festival of Goodwill. This will be The Festival of the spirit of Humanity, aspiring towards God, seeking conformity with The Will of God, and dedicated to the expression of right human relations. This will be fixed annually in relation to the Full Moon of June. It will be a day whereon the spiritual and divine nature of Mankind will be recognized. On this Festival, for 2,000 years, The Christ has represented Humanity and has stood before The Hierarchy and in the sight of Shamballa as The God-Man, The Leader of his people, and 'The Eldest in a great family of brothers'.

Each year at that time, He has preached the last sermon of The Buddha before the assembled Hierarchy. This will, therefore, be a Festival of deep invocation and appeal, of a basic aspiration towards fellowship, of human and spiritual unity, and will represent the effect in the human consciousness of the work of The Buddha and of The Christ."

"The time is coming when all 3 Festivals will be kept throughout the world, and by their means a great spiritual unity will be achieved, and the effects of The Great Approach, so close to us at this time, will be stabilized by the united invocation of Humanity throughout the planet."

"The remaining full moons will constitute lesser Festivals but will be recognized to be also of vital importance. They will establish The Divine Attributes (Rays 4 through 7) in the consciousness of Man, just as The Major Festivals establish The 3 Divine Aspects (The First 3 Rays). These aspects and qualities will be arrived at and determined by a close study of the nature of a particular constellation or constellations influencing those months. For instance, Capricorn will call attention to The 1st Initiation, The Birth of The Christ in the cave of the heart, and indicate the training needed to bring about that great Spiritual Event in the life of the individual man."

"Thus, the 12 annual Festivals will constitute a revelation of Divinity. The minor Festivals will emphasize the inter-relation of The Whole, thus lifting the divine presentation out of the individual and the personal into that of The Universal Divine Purpose. The relationship of The Whole to the part and of the part to that Whole will be thereby fully expressed."

"Humanity will, therefore, invoke the spiritual power of The Kingdom of God, The Hierarchy. The Hierarchy will respond, and God's Plans will then be worked out on Earth. The Hierarchy, on a higher turn of the spiral, will invoke The Center where The Will of God is known (Shamballa), thus invoking The Purpose of God (First Ray). Thus will The Will of God be implemented by Love and manifested intelligently."

"The definition of religion which will in the future prove of greater accuracy than any yet formulated by the theologians might be expressed as follows: Religion is the name given to the invocative appeal of Humanity and the evocative response of The Greater Life to that cry."

"It is only now that the impact of the human vibration can dimly be sensed in Shamballa. Hitherto, its most potent activity has only reached The Hierarchy. Religion, the science of invocation and evocation as far as Humanity is concerned, is the approach (in the coming New Age) of a mentally polarized Humanity. In the past, religion has had an entirely emotional appeal."

"Christ came to end the cycle of this emotional approach which had existed since Atlantean days. He demonstrated in Himself the visioned perfection and then presented to Humanity an example, in full manifestation, of every possibility latent in Man up to that time. The achieving of the perfection of The Christ Consciousness became the emphasized goal of Humanity."

"Nothing under heaven can arrest the progress of The Human Soul on its long pilgrimage from darkness to Light, from the unreal to The Real, from death to Immortality, and from ignorance to Wisdom. Nothing can keep The Spirit of Man from God."

"God works in many ways, through many faiths and religious agencies. This is one reason for the elimination of non-essential doctrines. By the emphasizing of the essential doctrines and in their union will the fullness of truth be revealed. This, The New World Religion will do, and its implementation will proceed apace after The Reappearance of The Christ."

Preparation For The Christ

"He will come unfailingly when a measure of peace has been restored, when the principle of sharing is at least in process of controlling economic affairs, and when churches and political groups have begun to clean house. Then He can and will come. Then The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy) will be publicly recognized and will no longer be a thing of dreams and of wishful thinking and orthodox hope. The main objective of The Christ will not be to demonstrate power but to make public the already existent Kingdom of God."

"The Christ and The Spiritual Hierarchy never, no matter how great the need or important the incentive, infringe upon the divine right of men to make their own decisions, to exert their own free will, and to achieve freedom by fighting for freedom, individually, nationally, and internationally. When true freedom covers The Earth, we shall see the end of tyranny, politically, religiously, and economically. I refer to a period which will surely come in which an enlightened people will rule. These people will not tolerate authoritarianism in any church or totalitarianism in any political system. They will not accept or permit the rule of any body of men who undertake to tell them what they must believe in order to be saved or what government they must accept."

"It is not essential or necessary that all these desirable objectives should be accomplished facts upon Earth before Christ again moves amongst us. It is, however, necessary that this attitude to religion and politics is generally regarded as desirable and that steps have been successfully taken in the direction of right human relations. A right and constructive attitude must also be based on an innate recognition of the existence of The Christ and of His Presence with us at all times."

"There exist no circumstances in which the spirit of man can be defeated or in which the aspirant cannot meditate, think, talk, and prepare the way for The Coming of The Christ, provided he cares enough and knows the meaning of sacrifice and silence. Circumstances and environment offer no true obstacle to the spiritual life."

"I speak to the thousands of ailing men and women who are pre-occupied with taking care of themselves and who so waste hours of the time which could be given to the service of Humanity. I speak here not of definite disease or of serious physical liabilities. To these, right care and attention must be duly given. Those who are seeking to tread The Path of Discipleship should release those many hours spent in needless self-care into the service of The Hierarchy."

"There are, at the present time, 3 great activities going on:

First, the activity to be felt in 'The Center where The Will of God is known' (Shamballa), that will-to-good which has carried all Creation on toward a greater glory and a steadily deepening, intelligent responsiveness. This today is creatively endeavoring to bring in The New World Order, The Order of The Kingdom of God under the physical supervision of The Christ. This might be regarded as The Externalization of The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet. Of this, The Return of The Christ to visible activity will be the sign and the symbol.

Secondly, the critical activity which is conditioning The Spiritual Hierarchy, from The Christ Himself down to the lowest aspirant to be found on the periphery of that 'Center where The Love of God' has full play (The Spiritual Hierarchy). There, it is fully realized that (in the words of St. Paul) 'the whole Creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now, waiting for the manifestation of The Sons of God'. It is for that manifestation They now prepare, these 'Sons of God Who are The Sons of Men'. It is for this coming forth to outer active service that They are already, one by one, entering into outer activity upon The Physical Plane. They are not recognized for what They are, but They go about the Father's business, demonstrating goodwill, seeking to enlarge the horizon of Humanity, and thus prepare the way for The One Whom They serve, The Christ, The Master of all The Masters and Teacher alike of Angels and men.