WE BEGIN EVERY DAY WITH THE DAILY MEDITATION FOR EASTER VIGIL WEEK - See the NEW TAB titled Daily Meditation for the Week — Monday thru Saturday.

As we continue with the MEDITATION that appeared on Sunday, we deepen Soul contact in the Peace and Presence of the Soul Star Group and Christ as Teacher and leader of Angels and Human. We are learning to stand together in the dynamic Presence of the Spiritual Hierarchy.

TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY

SERVICE

“Humanity is on its way to a right understanding of service; it is becoming responsive to this new law [The Law of Service, the Third Law of “The Laws of the Soul”] and is learning to react to the steadily imposing will of that great Life who informs the constellation Aquarius, just as our solar Logos informs our solar system, and our planetary Logos informs our earth planet.

“The idea of service is, at this time, the major idea to be grasped for (in grasping it) we open ourselves wide to the new incoming influences. The Law of Service is the expression of the energy of a great Life, who, in cooperation with Him "in Whom we live and move and have our being", is subjecting the human family to certain influences and streams of energy which will eventually do three things:—

1. Awaken the heart center in all aspirants and disciples.

2. Enable emotionally polarized humanity to focus intelligently in the mind.

3. Transfer the energy of the solar plexus into the heart.

This unfolding of what we might call "the consciousness of the heart" or the development of true feeling is the first step towards group awareness. This group awareness and this identification with the feeling aspect of all groups is the quality which leads to service—a service to be rendered as the Masters render it, and as the Christ demonstrated it for us in Galilee.” Esoteric Psychology-II, 122

PURIFICATION AND TRANSFORMATION

“… Under the impact of the evolutionary urge God moves towards fuller recognition. "Purification" is the word generally used to cover the process whereby the medium of divine expression is prepared for use. The Galilee experience, and the daily effort to live and meet the eventualities of human existence (which appear to grow more drastic and disciplinary as the great wheel of life turns, and, turning, carries humanity onward), bring man to the point where this purification is not simply the result of life itself, but is something which is definitely imposed by man upon his own nature.”

“When this process is self-initiated, then the speed with which the work is carried forward is greatly accentuated. This produces a transformation of the outer man of great significance. The caterpillar becomes transformed into the butterfly. Deep in man lies this hidden beauty, unrealised, but struggling for release.” (FBTC, 145/7)

◊ SERVICE ◊ HUMILITY ◊ TREADING THE PATH OF INITIATION

SERVICE

“…Immediately, on the descent from the mountain-top [of the Transfiguration Initiation], Christ began again to serve. He was met, as well we know, by a person in distress, and He at once responded to the need. One of the outstanding characteristics of each initiation is the increased capacity and ability of the initiate to serve. Christ demonstrated an entirely new and unique way in which to speak and to meet the masses, as well as to teach privately and personally His chosen few. His power to heal still continued, but His work shifted into a field of new values, and He spoke those words and enunciated those truths which have proved the foundation of the belief of those who have had the insight to penetrate the theological presentation of Christianity and there find reality. His service consisted primarily at the time in teaching and speaking. But such is the wisdom and the beauty of His presentation of truth, He couched divinity in forms which the average man could grasp. He bridged the old and the new, and gave out that new truth and that special revelation which were needed at the time to unite the ancient wisdom and the more modern hope.” FBTC, 166/7 LET US REFLECT HOW TRUE THIS IS WHEN CONSIDERING THE TEACHINGS WE ARE RECEIVING TODAY.

“Christ sounded with clarity the note which can usher in the new civilisation and the new order, and a close study of the ideals and ideas which today, without exception, underlie every one of the great experiments undertaken by the various nations, will show that they are based, in essence, upon some definitely Christlike concept. ...When these basic ideas are transmuted into world ideals by the consecrated thinkers of the race, and applied in the spirit in which Christ conceived of them, then we shall indeed inaugurate a new world order.” LET US REFLECT UPON HOW THIS IS TRUE TODAY BY THE ENLIGHTENED AMONG US.

“It is of supreme value for us to realise that what Christ really did was to usher in the era of Service, even if we are only beginning today (two thousand years after He set us an example) to grasp the implications …” “That of course is the basis of service. It must be, as it was in the case of Jesus Christ, a spontaneous outcome of divinity.“

“One of the strongest arguments for the divine unfoldment of man is the emergence on a large scale of this tendency to serve. We are just beginning to get a faint vision of what Christ meant by service. He "carried this actuating motive of service to the extent of saying that when the common good and your personal success or welfare conflicted, you must sacrifice and not sacrifice the other man." This idea of service is of course in complete conflict with the usually competitive attitude to life and the selfishness generally shown by the average man. But to the man who seeks to follow Christ, and who aims eventually at climbing the Mount of Transfiguration, service leads inevitably to increased illumination, and illumination in its turn must find its expression in renewed and consecrated service, and thus we find our way—through service to our fellowmen—into the Way that Christ trod. Following in His steps, we achieve eventually the power to live as illumined and Christlike men and women in our normal everyday surroundings.” (FBTC, 167/70)

◊ CONTEMPLATE — “service leads inevitably to increased illumination, and illumination in its turn must find its expression in renewed and consecrated service, and thus we find our way—through service to our fellowmen—into the Way that Christ trod.”

◊ CONTEMPLATE — “we achieve eventually the power to live as as illumined and Christlike men and women in our normal everyday surroundings.”

HUMILITY

Humility is a necessary soul virtue that allows for openings to dimensions of Divinity that are otherwise closed to the way of the true server.

“Perhaps the most important lesson the candidate for Initiation has to learn is humility and the willingness and readiness to serve each and all. Not until this lesson has been mastered is man properly qualified to rule or to wield with safety the powers that Initiation bestows upon him. It is a fundamental law of evolution that the most advanced continue their further progress only as they stoop to serve the lowliest and to help them to rise to higher levels. Self-sacrifice lies at the heart of all true attainment. It was in obedience to this cosmic law that the footwashing preceded the most exalted teaching which the Master gave to HIs innermost circle in the whole of His earthly ministry. “If I wash thee not,” said He when Peter protested that the Master should not so humble Himself, “thou hast no part with me.” Humility and forgetfulness of self are passwords to the highest attainment. It is he who becomes as nothing who attains to all.”

“The Christ knew the high destiny awaiting Peter when his pride and impetuosity would be replaced by serene humility. Consequently Peter becomes the central figure in the footwashing scene in which all disciples … are given the supreme object lesson in humility as a prerequisite to true spiritual attainment.”

In Corinne Heline’s book, New Age Bible Interpretation — Mystery of the Christos. Vol VII, p 82, she writes:

WASHING THE FEET

WISDOM TEACHINGS AND CONTEMPLATIONS

There are multiple meanings in the Washing of the Feet.  In the examples that follow —Jesus washes the feet of his disciples and Mary Magdalene washes the feet of Jesus with her tears.

The first is a Blessing given by the Master consecrating a disciple for sanctified service in the world.  A life well-lived is spent in service, joyfully giving and bettering the life around us, humanity and all life on earth, symbolized for us by the man carrying the Aquarian water pot pouring forth all he has for a thirsty humanity. 

It is also a reminder of God’s continuous care.  As links in the great chain of Being, high to low and low to high, the Holy Mother’s countless manifestations of form open to an endless variety of universes, seemingly without end. The Plan in our universe and on our level is to consciously join that chain, and to tend, nourish and serve the deeper needs of life in that chain. Opportunities are provided for us every day whether subtle or physical.  

We see examples of Christ Jesus bending low to serve the "little ones".  When the "little ones" grow into mature Christhood, they in turn nurture and tend the needs of those who follow. Illumined ones who have “achieved” before us have always demonstrated the way forward. All that is needed for the great work of redemption of the returning nirvanee is 'written' and 'coded into the fabric’ of Being upon the Way, reflected throughout the universe in story, prose, geometry, color, number and signature of Spirit. In our search for truth, humility opens wide the doors to the higher inner worlds — and is key to keeping them open because one must let go of the known to receive the new. This was once a secret, hidden, but now is widely known among seers and the Great Ones who have gone before us. 

A commonly accepted understanding of the symbol of washing the feet is of course service, continuous purification and most important of all is the symbolic connecting of the lower with the higher. The fulfillment of the Great Redeeming Work is deeply layered and subtle on every turn of our refining conscious awareness. 

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THE MYSTERY OF THE FEET 

Select a CONTEMPLATION or REFLECTION for TODAY

◊ (DNA-II, 479/80) “The Sandals on the Feet” — “ponder upon the Path in three ways:

a. The Path which you have travelled to my Ashram. This will involve the Past.  

b. The Path of Service which you seek to travel now, moving freely in and out of my Ashram. This involves the Present.

c. The Path of Initiation for which you are being prepared. This involves the Future—your future and its goal. You begin to realise yourself as a pledged, devoted servant.”

In these statements we see a principle of continuity running through the great chain of Being on the upward ascent.   We see the grapevine of continuity carrying the wine of life through time, in and out of incarnation, generation after generation, building Humanity as a divine Center in the body of God.

◊ “ . . . Let love stream out today—from out my eyes, my hands, my feet, because my heart beats with the love of God.” (DNA-II, 716)

REFLECT:  Esoterically, the feet symbolize treading the Path of Initiation and the responsibilities that come with it. In every spiral ascent upon the mountains of Consciousness, a corresponding responsibility to serve and to give (the meaning of sacrifice) is assumed. The ‘power to serve’ is conferred upon the way. "It is the way."

◊ “Initiation” leads to accelerated evolution and expanded stages of consciousness. It leads “to the stream that once entered, sweeps a man onward until it carries him to the feet of the Lord of the World, to the feet of His Father in Heaven, to the feet of the three-fold Logos.” (Initiation Human and Solar (IHS), 14).  

REFLECT: Christ opened the door for the Saving Force to extend into the depths of matter. The higher ones serve the little ones lifting all upon the way of Light and Love, leading to Life Itself.

◊ Re-Consecrate thy path, O Pilgrim on the Way.  Be an anointed one, walking straight and narrow the golden Path of Truth — with Beauty in mind, love in heart, and loving Service demonstrated along the way. These shall take you all the way, as was taught and demonstrated by the Lord of Love Who so loved the world He gave His life, daily, as a natural outflow of His Being.

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◊ As we intentionally walk in the Light of deeper Truths — such as ‘the ineradicable nature of Goodness’, ‘the ultimate triumph of the Good’ and ‘the secret of the Will’, we are affirmed and strengthened on the path of Discipleship and Initiation into the Mysteries.

◊ As Pilgrims upon the Way, re-consecrated in our stream of service, we more fully express the sun-like Giving quality of Deity. 

◊ Infused with the Christ Spirit, the waters of life flow through us in clear channels.

◊ Thus affirmed, we are directed forward every day in every way in the renewing Light of the True Soul. Forward movement is the way of the Initiate who does not look back.

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(FOR WEDNESDAY)

SERVICE AS KEY TO LIBERATION

SUPPLEMENTAL TEACHINGS AND CONTEMPLATIONS

“Service as the Key to Liberation, Spiritual Livingness and Carrying Forward the Great Continuity of Revelation”

“… In due time, Christ came and gave out to the world (mainly through His disciples) two major truths: the fact of the existence of the human soul and, secondly, the system of service (this phrase is used advisedly) 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. These greater things, humanity has already accomplished upon the physical plane and in its control of nature, as Christ knew men would, because He knew the workings of the Law of Evolution.  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 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.”   (ROC, 107/8)

◊ “The fact of the soul” and “the system of service as a mode of establishing right human relations to God and each other" are “key to the life of liberation” and two of the major Truths Christ taught to continue “revelation” for an evolving humanity. Reflect on your own experience. How have these truths "‘when lived’ established your relationship to God and to your relationships with others?

CONSIDER Service as the key to a life of liberation. Visualize yourself liberated from the downward pulls and impulses of the lower nature when “lost in service”.

◊ “He made the life of every-day a divine sphere of spiritual livingness”. There are those who consciously emulate the Christ to make this a possibility in their lives. Are we valuing enough the opportunities offered to us every day to do the same? ◊ Who else in our contemporary society lives this way? Reflect on their life and their effect on you and others.

◊ As we reflect on the paragraph above (with bolded lines), let us utilize this form of “high thinking” AS KEYS — serving us as guiding principles and values to upgrade our lives and make everyday a “sphere of spiritual livingness”. The Keyword of the Soul for Aries is “I Come Forth and From the Plane of Mind I Rule” — The “I” is the Soul directing everyday living — through the mind of Thought and High Thinking — as spiritual values and principles become our sole Guide.

◊ As we let go of the unreal — past mistakes, misperceptions, lesser values, … we are released from illusion, from astral conditionings, from the grip of the lower world — enabling us to walk in the great freedom of the Soul.  Here now again "‘the feet’ bring us forward to walk in greater freedom’ "upon the way." ◊ Is there a situation in your life, or in the world, calling for “walking in greater freedom”? REFLECT See them free.

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GOLD — The “Law of Repulse” functions under the great Law of Love. The Soul repulses that which no longer serves spiritual progress. For the soul in form, the personality is cleansed, purified and rendered ‘vibrationally pure’ of the past.  Expanded consciousness, widened perception, greater degrees of spiritual livingness follow “repulse”.  What is oft experienced as painful passages of ‘letting go,’ the release from a life we have known and loved but no longer need brings freedom.  The gifts that follow bring directed Soul purpose, simplification and one-pointedness.  The quality of “lightness”, of etheric livingness, of energetic freedom circulates unobstructed through an unloaded (purified and lightened) system. As force flows freely, the Disciple is acquainted with Power.

CONTEMPLATE

NEW ◊ Could this be what is meant by the ‘greater freedom of liberation’ – To Be who and what we are, in fact and in truth?  ◊ Another meaning to 'washing the feet of his disciples' demonstrated by the Christ was to free them from “maya, glamour and illusion” (the 18 lower sub-planes) — thereby empowering them for future service. He cleansed them from the pulls of matter. He evoked their courage and strengthened their “consciousness in the heart.” He removed age-old misperceptions crystallized in the mind. He resurrected their Souls to live beyond their former shadow selves and know the joy and freedom of the Soul.

“ … As a soul, you are strong in knowledge; as a soul, you love all beings; as a soul, there are no circumstances which you cannot handle; as a soul, you can dominate dynamically your environment.” (DNA-I, 526) 

◊ Christ through Jesus was a Teacher and model for the perfected man. Spiritual livingness is “the Way, the Truth and the Life’. He prepared His disciples for a new Jerusalem — a higher vibrational City.  Washing their feet, Christ demonstrated not only humility (the greater serves the lesser) but transferred into them a new and higher power of Service to bring forth a new world. 

Let us consider Discipleship with these new understandings, fitting us for the new Age that has been unfolding.  Let us ask: What are we asked to be like as the old world passes away and the new brings in new Aquarian energies?

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STAGES OF CHRISTHOOD CONTEMPLATION:  The Christ–child is not mistaken for the Christ–man, nor is early Christhood the same as Christhood crowned in the “fullness of days".  There are Degrees of realization.  In earlier stages, we learn about the Soul's powers, in later stages we learn to use these powers for redemptive purposes in service.  Waters of purification become soul inspirations, and later still become the Wine of divine Power given and released to accomplish the Redemption of the human race.  We become the Path Itself as we identify with and become the Life, the Truth, the Way – Christs walking the planes of earth. Let us remember the Signature of Christhood — “It Is Written” in the flesh.

CONTEMPLATE

Healing the Sick

CHRIST WILL COME AGAIN WHEN …

"The knowledge that He is ready and anxious publicly to appear to His loved Humanity only adds to the sense of general frustration, and another very vital question arises: For what period of time must we endure, struggle and fight? The reply comes with clarity: 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 will be publicly recognized and will no longer be a thing of dreams and of wishful thinking and orthodox hope". (Reappearance of the Christ (ROC), 163 by DK/Alice A Bailey)

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The Great Bell Chant (The End Of Suffering)

COPY AND PASTE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1ZwaEzMtJw

To the sounding bell chant, we can bless areas in world need.

Taizé - Nada te turbe

COPY AND PASTE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go1-BoDD7CI