William Meader: Answering the Spiritual Call

yeah so answering the spiritual call what I'd like to do tonight is to give you a deeper sense of how this philosophy looks at that question of what is my spiritual purpose it's destiny how to understand it in terms of recognition within and I'd also like to talk about it within the context of society itself because in this philosophy it's really under important to understand that when we talk about trying to find ways of living your spiritual life in a purposeful service way it always has to be understood within the context of where humanity is at any given time in history there's a direct relationship between the plight of the human condition and the nature of service that is more likely to be rendered at any given time and so I don't know if you've noticed it but it's kind of getting a little weird out there have you noticed and so I I have to say that in a certain sense service today is so crucial because the need is so great humanity is going through a crisis as you can clearly see and it's it's a crisis that applies very much to this country but actually the whole world and so I also want to give you a contextual understanding of that as we move into the subject of your deeper impulse to serve okay and I think I'll sit down with if you can see me okay one of the things that this philosophy teaches that is that the soul in each of us is governed by a variety of laws a variety of laws and actually seven to be exact and the third law is called the law of service every human soul in its essential nature wants to express its wisdom and its love through the personality the lower self it wants to do it without the lower self getting in the way by the way that's the challenge and by so doing it wants to make an uplifting contribution to something beyond oneself and that service so service is actually core to understanding the importance of living your soulful life if you're really aligning with your soul the urge to serve is naturally going to arise and and it might be a good idea if as we think about this realize that as I talk about service the presumption is that a person has some measure of awakening to their own soul because that too is a big event in the evolution of human consciousness you know for thousands of lives although you have a soul you have a causal body it's unconscious to you you you have a personality a lower self an ego that is being developed over many many lifetimes and the soul is behind-the-scenes and there comes a point in the long evolutionary journey that you become awakened to that soul within for the first time we call that the awakening and that's a monumental event in the life of an individual because it's it's it's the awakening is when you have some sort of an inner experience that awakens you you as a personality awakens you to a something inside you that feels almost christ-like something inside you that seems to go beyond just your knowledge but actually a kind of innate intuitive wisdom starts to be recognized what's happening is you're discovering your own duality for the first time you're discovering that you have both a higher and lower part of your consciousness and I often think about the if I don't know if you've read Gibran and the prophets so many years ago there's a quote in there that is very fitting he says something like and I paraphrase something like you discover the God within you and the pigmy in the mist and and so you discover your own duality and that's the that's a pivotal point because what then happens is that over time you start to realize that that higher thing that you're sensing that maybe that's actually the being this that you're destined to become so you become more disciplined in your spiritual life you become more can more conviction to to try to live that and do the hard work of transform transforming the lower so that it becomes the rightful servant to the higher because that's the destined thing that's the destiny of your personality by the way the destiny of your personality is to simply be the outer garment used by the soul as a function of service to the larger whole and and yet that personality has a mind of its own and and a lot of the journey has to has to do with purifying your lower self so that it's a more effective instrument in support of the higher and that to slowly teach your lower self that it's not an independent agent but is actually merely an appendage to the soul but after that awakening takes place that's when service as we're going to talk about it today really takes hold that's when it counts so there are certain things that will help us to understand service and I want to list a few ideas for you to think about in terms of how it might be playing out inside you and one of the first and most important things is to realize something about the nature of the soul itself we often think about the soul as being this agency of christ-like love and it is but it's also a container of wisdom you know you're we call it the causal body the causal body is the container deep inside you on the level of the higher mental plane and that causal body is containing what we would call soul consciousness it's literally holding it on the higher mental plane and that causal body is an agency of both love and wisdom now the love part of your soul is is a kind of higher love it is said that the love of the soul is comparatively impersonal but at the same time that it's impersonal it's the most broadly inclusive the love of the personality is the kind of love that says I love you but not you but the love of the soul transcends that differentiation the love of the soul is really recognizing the oneness of humanity and a love of humanity a love of the one and it's in that kind of love that should be that that becomes the basis the foundation that gives rise to the urge to serve that more impersonal wide broad inclusive love it doesn't negate the value and the specialness of personal love but we're talking about a higher kind of experience of love and there's a point in the journey when that love that is felt helps you to really feel the oneness of humanity because you see in this philosophy it's understood that all of humanity is actually a single being an entity and it has a soul and it has a personality and it's struggling to transform it slower on behalf of its higher just like you and me and so the principle of the evolution of humanity as a whole and that struggle between higher and lower is precisely the same by analogy as what happens to an individual and when you start really awakening to that love of that higher kind of love you start to sense or field not just theoretically but experientially you start to feel that underlying the diversity of life circumstance culture society all of the diversity there's this underlying sense of living a living unit of field and that living unit of field is is what is relating you to the soul of humanity and it's that soul the soul of humanity that in the ultimate sense is the thing you're trying to serve in in the ultimate sense you see so the heart that portion of your soul is what helps you sense the oneness of humanity and it is said at a certain point we are told the disciple begins to and I'm going to use an actual quote here assume the burden of the future to assume the burden of the future what does that mean well it means that you start to assume a sense of deep responsibility for the welfare of the larger whole but only but within the context of the immediacy of your life you start to recognize that it's not just about I I I want to serve and make a difference it's that it's almost as if there's a sense of I have no choice because the deeper part of me is that it's not about wanting that it is that you see and so that service urge leads you to sense that there's a heavy weight out there the burden the burden of the future but it also along gates your understanding of how to serve in the context of time because what happens when you really wake up to that deeper service call what happens is you start to think about service with a multi-generational perspective multi-generational you know we live in such an instant gratification society and we want things now particularly in the West but the long view is what really counts and I always think of some of the Native American tribes who took seven generations in mind when making any major decision we've lost that we've lost that and yet that concept is something that we need to reintegrate and it automatically starts to happen for you when you are much more living from your sole nature and and you might say looking out at the world through the lens of your soul consciousness the reason why you start to think multi-generationally at terms of service is because you're your own soul is has a multi incarnation of you itself it has the longview you see now so that that's all part of the love quality that should drive your service urge but then there's the wisdom quality of it that's also contained in this causal body now that the love part of the causal body is innate in other words you don't have to develop higher love you don't it's it's in your causal body already is higher love it is said that the causal body is made up of a type of rarefied intelligent living substance that is particularly sensitive to the Christ principle indeed your soul your causal body is the Christ in you it is the Christ in you you have to find that love you have to lift yourself you have to go to find that deep subtle place where you become more participating in that vibration of higher love but you don't have to build it it's there on the other hand the wisdom part of your causal body that's different that's not something that is just there that's something that has to be earned every incarnation every incarnation you have lessons you've learned over the crucible of countless incarnations the struggle of life the the the lessons learned through through life all of that there's a process by which all of that gets stored and transformed into wisdom and is stored as wise faculty in your causal body that will be there every incarnation but when we talk about reincarnation what's reincarnating it's the causal body it's going from this life to this life to this life and every incarnation you will have a better stocked causal body you will have more wisdom stored in it because you've earned more in that process but what's so interesting about that is that that wisdom is unique to you well so the causal body in a love sense is not new unique to you it's true for everybody but from a wisdom perspective there's a uniqueness there's a uniqueness because no two people have ever had exactly the same incarnation Algeria with exactly the same lessons learned so one of the big things to keep in mind in this philosophy when it comes to service is that it's both and it's it's has to do with your higher mind and your heart that the soul is both an agency of christ-like love and an agency of earned wisdom and higher mind both both sometimes I like to use a simple analogy of a dove think of the soul is like a dove with two wings one wing is love and the other is higher mind and if both wings aren't equally strong it just flies in a circle okay it's as flies on a circle and so recognize the sacredness of your heart and your mind both are going to be needed to really do the work of being a redeeming force for humans humanity's betterment another thing that is so important when we think about service is that it's important to see service how to put this well okay when you and I immediately when we hear the word service and we think about our service there's a tendency to think about it this way like this is my soup this is what I'm going to do that okay I'm gonna go that way okay in a technical sense that's not really your purpose nor your service it's it's better to think of this it this way instead of thinking through your path this way think of your path this way think of it in word it is said that that that beingness comes first service becomes an effect that naturally arises from beingness so the real path is actually an inner path it's a path to blaze deep within you and to find that causal body to find that deep profoundly sacred place that is the eternal you and from that to the extent you can hold that to that extent life conspires and unfold certain patterns within the field that open you up to the next step to this kind of walking so that so this is not purpose this is simply an effect that arises from true purpose do you follow that everybody does that make sense but it's a reversal of thinking isn't it because we usually think it's this way and much of the spiritual path has to do with reversing cause and effect thought in a lot of things and this is just one example of that the other thing I want you to keep in mind is you think about your services that this philosophy teaches us that there are actually seven types of souls seven types you know we think that us a soul as a soul as a soul okay it's got unique wisdom but there's more to it than that you know it is so you take it into the big pick for sure picture for just a moment in this philosophy it's believed that in the ultimate ultimate ultimate sense there's just really one thing just one living principle one beingness some people call it God other people might call it Brahma others universal intelligence you know call it what you like but this this one singularity of life often in in esotericism we we we call it the one life the one life and that one life it is believed in Carnot's itself in and as cosmos it's the one becoming the many with one becoming the many so this philosophy is not saying there's a God and creation it's not saying God and creation it's saying God as creation God has creation and that's a whole different paradigm of understanding who you are in relationship to this greater life you see you're not separate from divinity in the highest deepest sense your array of divinity indeed you are the divinity you seek in a certain sense you see and it is believed that as that one becomes the many there's kind of a sequence that is thought to happen and it divides itself into seven qualities of itself and those seven qualities are often called the seven rays and why that's important to you and I is because it's believed that every human soul is found upon or conditioned by one of those rays and to know your ray type is to know not just the nature of your purpose and your service for this life but for hundreds of lifetimes and so these rays or these so these causal bodies you might say have a quality of difference think about a ray I think about array as being a lens through which life looks out at the world and or it's sometimes a ray is called an organizing principle it organizes perception and it conditions the way you see the world how you act interact and react in relationship to the outer world it also defines your spiritual interests your serve you tempt your ray or the ray of your soul will incline you to navigate towards fields in the outer world that are of similar vibration so that like for instance I would imagine that many people in this room are what we call a second ray soul a second ray the second ray is called array of love and wisdom and many people who are second race holes and by the way I'm assuming that we're talking about a person that's awaking is awake to their soul okay that that second ray soul is filled with wisdom filled with christ-like love but has a unique patterning of perception that leads that person to often want to serve through education teaching the healing profession and many of the fundamental helping professions in society our natural gateways of service to at that type of soul a first race soul that's called the ray of will and power that inclines people to want to server their inner call feels much more about executive tendency a sense of a demand to lead or a or a tendency toward a kind of alpha energy to move things to get things going and from an institutional perspective it's the first Rea type that are most inclined to move into governance government government whether we're talking about a primitive nation or an advanced nation the urge to lead the urge to be alpha energy in support of the movement of that society that's first-rate and people with first-rate souls who are awake naturally have an inclination to gravitate in that same direction you tend to look through that lens and see what societal structures out there are of like nature I mean you're not consciously saying that to yourself but it just sort of is an automatic defining of interest everybody still with me you probably miss a third race so I'm kind of jumping around here but a third race hole is that's called the array of active intelligence and adaptability now that particular type of soul it's calling its tendency is to look at the world through a lens that creates what we call systems thinking systems thinking the idea that that kind of soul wants you to see the outer world and see how all parts within a system are living and everything's connected everything else this idea that if I change this well this will change and this will change and everything will change everything's connected to everything else third-rate people can be very philosophic but they can also be it happens that the third ray typed today is very involved in the in the world of economics and in the world of business many many CEOs of corporations some really advanced souls corporations are third race holes many unadvised CEOs are also its third race oh okay but that's true by the way of all of them okay but sometimes people come to mind okay and and the point is that business for instance is absolutely as sacred as a societal institution as religion as as government as education everything that particular group in the long run its role is to create right distribution of resources to help ensure the sustenance of all life on this planet and no institution is more understanding of the role of resources and distribution than the world of business true it is that a lot of business tends to hoard that's true but that's the lower distorted aspects of the third-rate tendency it's higher mandate is in phenomenal ok the 4th ray is called the ray of harmony through conflict but it's also the ray that has a lot to do with the arts and culture so some of the greatest creative people in history have been forth ray types as they see and into that type of person it's as if there's a fundamental kind of inner orientation that says that beauty and truth are synonymous terms and a desire to demonstrate that through art through dance through literature through through the beauty of culture a fifth-rate type is their calling is going to be much more along the lines of science it's called the ray of concrete knowledge and science some of the some really advanced fifth ray people are working in science and medicine and in in physics and their lens is all about trying to reveal what is what is intellectually true from what is only seemingly true let's say a sixth ray soul is the type that it's called idealism and devotion people in that line are usually there call when they feel it when they move and goes usually in one of two directions that either goes the way of theology in fact all religions all religions are governed by the sixth ray let me put it another way Oh think of a religion it's not just this institution think of it also as a living entity every religion is a being in a certain sense every religion has a soul every religion has a personality - and and usually the personality ray is going to be different than the soul ray but you know it's a ray of idealism and devotion and if you really study world religions you realize that at the core of most of them is a sense of devotion to a set of ideals or devotion to a text a guru or teaching a Savior you see so some people with that lens their call is to really much more immerse themselves into what we call the department of religion and that's what it is from the Masters point of view religion is simply a department just as government is a department just as education is a department but sometimes that call for a sixth ray person will not go the way of theology but instead go the way of causations what I mean by that is that some six ray people in their urge to serve are very sensitive to where they're suffering and in the world and or or there's some sort of violation of an ideal because a sixth ray person that lens once you wants to help you understand how to serve by helping you realize the sacredness of ideals and that to live toward or commit yourself to a set of ideals is like the gate to God and to write service and so you've got some six or eight people that instead their inner call is to instead of religion it's fight for a cause save the whales starvation and Africa social welfare the sixth ray is sometimes called the Ray of the saving force many people that have that kind of sensitivity to where there's real suffering in the world are have that sixth ray urge you see seventh ray people the seventh ray is called array of ceremonial order and magic and that particular type is a type of lens that calls a person to serve with an attitude of a kind of practical mystical attitude it's called the Ray of the practical mystic it's it's been called that because it has a lot to do with having a deep mr. connect mystical connection to the soul and beyond inwardly but having a kind of determine logical practical intelligent grounded emphasis of application it is said that the seventh ray wants to bring heaven to earth it wants to it tends to cause a person to want to in a practical reasonable way repattern the way we outwardly live in our society our structures our patterns so that it brings that we build a society and a culture that is much more able to encourage the best of the human spirit to be lived through those called those new patterns so it's it has to do with redesigning so those are seven major lenses now I thought was a quick overview I could spend a couple days on all of those but I just want to give you a taste of this and and maybe give you some thoughts about you know where do you fall in that now I guess the real reason I wanted to bring that up too is because it has to do with an ashram you know the term ashram I've heard the term ashram ashram means spiritual home okay now usually we in the West when we think of ashram we think of India we think of go to India find the Guru finally ashram well guess what that's not the ashram it's a good place to go for spiritual enrichment but that's not the real ashram the real ashram is not in India and dare I say it's not in Wheaton Illinois either there I say it's not there either it's actually deep inside you deep inside you your soul issues forth from an inner ashram and that inner ashram Israel and Racal so let's say that if you're a second-rate soul you're part of the second Rea ashram and your spiritual purpose and your spiritual what you think is your call is really not your purpose it's really the purpose of the ashram and that you inwardly are simply an outer agent on its behalf and so the ashram is found on the buddhic plain some of you who have studied the planes of consciousness in the world of theosophy will know what i mean by that it's higher it's deeper it's deeper than your own soul and that ashram has also souls from those that are not even awake yet to those that are full masters it's the full spectrum and those ashrams incarnate but in different proportions at different times in human history so don't think that these seven groups of souls who all have a beautiful gift to give to the world in terms of offering their lens of wisdom don't think that they're all existing in equal proportion they're not these these ashrams are far more complex than that they they this some have huge cycles of manifestation where millions of souls at different levels of evolution are incarnated from an ashram over many many many centuries where it's emphasized others have shorter cycles in this philosophy the there's one ashram that's pulling back it began its pull back in the year 1625 we're given to understand and it has another we think another hundred years to go another ashram is not even here right now but it will start reappearing soon in the next few years actually some have long cycles some have short cycles so see see these ashrams as being like a tapestry that our that is incarnated at a particular time those that are the strongest the strongest ashrams in the incarnation are the ashrams where that type of lens that type of consciousness is understood as particularly important at this time in human history so it's design it's not random the the ashram the Masters themselves the liberated masters who are the heads of these ashrams all under the purview of the Bodhisattva the Christ they these are decisions about how what ashrams need to be emphasized at any particular time in human history see and you're part of that you're part of that so it you know never forget that internally is where your real home is and when we talk about the evolution of your consciousness we're rather really talking about the evolution of your ability to go back home and and hold your consciousness as deep as you can in the neighborhood of that ashram you see so survey think of service as something bigger than just I'm going to do this out there you're part of a group you're part of a huge group and they whatever ashram you're from there are millions of souls at any given time in history we'll particularly now that are coming forward representing those lenses in exactly the right place but I have to tell you that to understand these rays and and how they play out you have to also understand that they are the animating principle underlying larger living systems well Latin that a moment ago when I said that for instance politics I serve government I said his first ray education his second ray economics is third rate cetera what I'm really saying is that social systems are living entities - and they have a soul enable personality and they're struggling between their higher and lower just like you and I but so do nations the United States to use our country as an example it's not just a country it too is a being it too has a soul we know the United States as a second-rate soul and it has a 6-3 personality and every country has a higher nature and a lower nature a soul ray and a personality ray and every nature in its own way is struggling to transform the lower in support of the higher just like you just like me just like us and and so when you serve and you think about how to make a difference in the world what I'm trying to share with you is a bigger picture because the more you can understand the larger drama of what's happening the more you can better understand your place within it you know there's an old saying that context gives meaning to content big picture helps us understand little picture and so that's what I'm trying to share with you today is big picture now back to the world situation to give you some perspective on this one of the reasons why humanity is going through such such a difficult time which is therefore calling you stronger than ever and I got to tell you this is your time I mean really this is your time and the reason is that humanity is in it is in a great transition period in two ways we are in a transition period from an astrological perspective moving from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius and that doesn't just one doesn't turn off and the other turn on there's a huge overlap astrologers have different views of how big that overlap is but most of the people that that I associated with kind of feel that it's probably around a 200 year mark 200 year overlap and we're about at the very middle of it right now and because the middle is where the the that's where the tension is going to be the highest so there's there's there's a astrological overlap and transition and then there's a Rea illogical the Rhea illogical has to do with it is understood that we are moving from a sixth rage to a seventh rage now now I'm talking about sort of big-picture perspective I'm not talking about sixth raise souls to seventh ray souls I'm talking about a vibration that is underlying all of evolution for a period of time and those two overlaps and let's use the astrology overlap to help us better understand this what it means is that for 2000 years approximately the quality of Pisces it's vibrational influence has set up a variety of patterns of consciousness within the collective consciousness of humanity but at the same time we've got Aquarius and it's has a whole different patterning of consciousness and it too is imbuing itself within the mental plane of the collective consciousness of humanity and they're quite different and because we have two major astrological forces creating that conditioning of the consciousness of the collective it's leading to heightened polarization have you noticed because there are two big categories of consciousness that underlie at all Pisces and Aquarius and some people have a tendency to sense that Aquarian rhythm and feel connected to it and other people are more likely to attach themselves or their identity or their sense of understanding themselves in life they will look at it from a Piscean perspective from a certain point of view regardless if they're born in Pisces or not don't get caught up in that I'm just generally saying this so that tension is what is actually being witnessed here on a global level and so it's important to understand that your service whatever that might be is going to have to do with in some subtle way being a resolving agency having to do with that tension whether it plays out in education science the arts whatever but one of the things that is also so important to understand is that I mentioned to you that back to the Rays for just a minute I mentioned to you that each like a country is governed by a soul ray and a personality ray but also so our kingdoms of nature kingdoms of nature so I mentioned at the very beginning I said to you that in this philosophy it's understood that all of humanity in its totality is a single being right remember single being it has a soul it has a personality and the the key to understanding is what is the array of the soul of humanity I'll total and humanity has a fourth ray soul the reason is because we're the fourth kingdom of nature the first Kingdom is the mineral the second is plant third is animal fourth is human and by the way there are three above that but the fourth ray is so central to what it means to live life through the human domain and that Ray has a name that's called the ray of Harmony through conflict that's what it's called harmony through conflict it's not called the Ray of harmony and conflict it's only in the human domain where life which is the core of your being life as it evolves through that Kingdom it's it's it's in the human Kingdom where a kind of inner battle naturally takes place as a function of evolution and next step it's kind of like I don't know if you've ever studied physics there's a whole thing called chaos theory where out of chaos comes a higher organization in a way it's the kind of the same idea in the human Kingdom out of crisis and chaos and conflict comes a higher or organization but it's painful witness the news and you see what I'm saying and so you have to understand that this challenge that humanity is facing is because it's the same issue that is causing you and I individually in our spiritual journey to go period through periods of spiritual crisis see because what happens is this I said earlier that there's this thing called the awakening that happens you waken to your duality as an individual then eventually you discover that that higher part of you is the thing you want to strive for so you start saying that's what I'm gonna do I'm gonna commit myself to that higher impulse and you start to adopt some spiritual disciplines maybe you'll start to meditate maybe you'll start to study maybe you'll start to commit yourself to heartfelt service to humanity all of those things are indications of a kind of deeper commitment to that higher part of you but when you do that all of a sudden the personality it jumps up and says hold on buddy not so fast the personality says you know you got to remember I've been running the show for a long time a long time and now just because you hear a little faint voice you think I'm gonna let go of the steering wheel forget it says the personality and a battle will begin it's a battle between your soul and personality it's a battle between love and desire it's a battle between wisdom and knowledge it's a battle between the future and the past harmony through conflict you see and you see it in yourself too have you ever noticed that you know let's say that you had a wonderful meditation today you just had a fantastic meditation you know that kind of meditation where you finished the meditation and you feel like oh you can still feel it you're on the beam you're on the beam you know and you and you your personality jumps in and says to itself I must be that close to enlightenment amazing it's amazing yeah and then later on you plummet you know you plummet and for whatever reason and you start to you know you start to go deep enough and you start to say am I even on the path at all or you could go deeper and say have I entered the animal kingdom again I don't know but you know it's this have you ever noticed that the spiritual journey is a bit like a wave there's a kind of hill and valley journey in it okay okay well the reef there's a don't beat yourself up with that because it's inescapable because why do you get pulled back because your personality my personality our personally has the historical advantage it's been the strongest center of identity for thousands of years and so it's well developed and so you have those deep soulful moments but then the personality says not so fast I'm gonna pull you back down and so it's back down and then down again and up again down again and so it's this way it's this is how the path is only in the human Kingdom by the way I can talk about the plant kingdom the animal kingdom the mineral kingdom and the evolution of life the life the spark of life in all of those are really interesting too but here in the human Kingdom it's governed by this pull of this duality about high and low and I see each of us and the pull back and forth even the Christ even the Buddha Shri Krishna all of them would have been riding that roller coaster in that light he's been in good company good company so don't yourself up but realized that if that principle if you understand that and you can identify it with it and I I'm assuming you can but all I know is I can that it's by analogy it's the same thing in humanity it's the same thing what's happening today is that the sould of humanity is to try is trying to impress more of its sense of itself into the personality of humanity and when that happens that's cause what we call the process of soul personality fusion which is also happening in each of you that's part of how much fusion is there actually determines where you are on the path but as that soul of humanity tries to imbue its love and wisdom into the personality of humanity that jars loose shadow issues from the collective personalities of the different cultures it's as if love and wisdom forces shadow out of the shadows forces the darkness out of the shadows and that's why and it rises up in defiance that's why we for the last few years we've seen the worst of religion seen the worst of government we've seen the worst of business and I think if we're really honest with ourselves I'll bet we can say we've seen the worst of ourselves at times to really and and so it's in the physics of the evolution of consciousness that this is how it works that you that light forces the darkness out of the shadows and that's why in a certain sense all of this stuff that's going on that's so atrocious in a way all of that stuff has been there all along but under the surface so that we couldn't see it but now we see it more and you can't change anything unless you see it so how do we recognize the soul of humanity what is it what is it well it represents the it represents a few things but one of the most important thing it represents the collective impact the the the higher value system that we recognize coming into our awareness it recognize it represents the principle of oneness but record a oneness that is not based upon conformity but a oneness based upon an honoring of diversity its oneness realized through diversity not through sameness about through diversity it's a it's a it is it's it's the sum total of the best of human consciousness trying to bring forth a higher value system and transform the lower but naturally the lower is going to put up a fight because it's been driving the car and it's going to put up a fight and again just look at yourself I'm sure you know what I'm talking about and so kind of understand the this difficult painful process of service is built in it and how crisis actually is also a gateway to initiation in fact it is believed that humanity as a whole is approaching a great initiative that has never happened in history ever ever and that that is called the first initiation which is in a simple sense the first initiation has much to do with humanity recognizing its oneness and really really rec realizing that we got to be in this together as a humanity and that's the only way we're gonna make it and it's governed by love and wisdom and so much of the work today is helping humanity prepare for this great initiative and you are part of that it is said that that before that initiative takes place and it's believed by many to probably happen in this century possibly within our lifetime we'll see but it is said that we're in what is called the era of the forerunner the era of the forerunner now if we look at Christianity the ear the you may recall that in the life of Jesus the forerunner was John the Baptist John the Baptist but today as we move into the Aquarian age because John the Baptist was the forerunner that was sounding the note in support of the dawning Piscean age which by the way is why Christianity inaugurated it and that's why the fish is the oldest symbol in Christian thinking that's why the disciples were fishermen it's the sign of the fish that's when water baptisms were initiated prior to that it was burnt offerings and the the the the age of Aries governed by the Jewish dispensation but today we're moving into the Age of Aquarius and Aquarius is the group consciousness and so what does that mean what's the forerunner it's a group it's a group and in this philosophy that group actually has a name it's called the new group of world servers and I'm going to define that group to you the new group of world servers represents the sum total of all people on the planet who have had some measure of awakening to their Souls consciousness have had some measure of conviction that that higher part of them is the thing that she should try to live more and more and to try to transform the lower part of them so that the higher has a more useful instrument to express and who have a growing conviction of wanting to commit their lives to some measure of service to uplift others in some way and they come from all those seven ashrams so the new group of world servers are all the disciples in the world all the people who have some measure of awakening from all of those ashrams together and they're the forerunners and if you want to know who they are more specifically I just have one thing to say that uh you are you are to the extent that your heart is ablaze with Christ to the extent that you know you know that you've got wisdom you've got something to make a difference out there and that to the extent that you're actually allow navigating your life with that conviction you're part of the group and that group is now in their millions and and it's so interesting because you know we're told that the Masters the liberated masters of the hierarchy of masters they don't see that group as a million people they actually have another name for it they call it the world disciple they see one entity one entity and that world disciple is the agency that the hierarchy of masters through those ashrams is trying to inspire trying to use intuition to help you to recognize through your lens whatever your causal body is through that lens how to shape new and progressive ideas that have the power to uplift that's what this is really about friends it really is and and and that and that that group in many many ways the success of humanity taking the first initiation rests on the shoulders of that group have I burned you yet I'm working on it I'm working at it that's okay and that's you well that's you so so the so as you think about that realize that that new group of rural servers is responding needs to go right into the flame of the crisis in different phases of facets of it you know it is said that the crisis humanity faces has an ancient name it's called the burning ground and humanity today is walking across hot coals and it's the disciples of the world people like yourselves people who have a conviction that there's a spiritual calling that you have and you want to bring that into the world you're part of that new group which means that you're trying to attend to the transformation of the thing that is creating that burning ground and the suffering that is happening whether it's in politics science the arts education whatever all of that all of that is resting on our collective shoulders you're part of the new group I'm part of the new club we are the new group of world servers and so this is your time now just and I'm gonna open it up for questions in a minute but I just want to make one last point here in some of the literature it has been suggested that the era of the forerunner actually can be laid into a range of years and that it is said that between 1945 and 2025 that's called the era of the forerunner and that we were given to understand that after 1975 the initiative would pick up speed we're only six years away friends six years away that's why I want you to know that this next six years is truly could be the most important years of your life if you rise to the occasion if you rise to it this is no force here at all you have to feel it you have to feel a call to really dedicate yourself and when when we talk about that and we talk about you committing yourself I want you to keep a couple things in mind to be more effective one is to to realize that when you think about your work in the world and your contribution as a member of the new group of world servers when you think about that realize that your personality your lower self will define its spiritual success in in a different way than your soul will define spiritual success in other words the soul and the personality use a different measure for what constitutes spiritual success the personality wants to use quantitative measures the soul wants to use quality measures the personality in you is saying how many how often how much the soul in you is not saying that at all the soul in you is saying how well the soul in you is saying is all about a conviction of radiating its love and wisdom through the fabric of your life in every circumstances your your life with less and less Distortion but it's not looking at how many people are you going to speak to because we do have a tendency to think that real spiritual success is when you can attract millions or thousands or whatever nonsense some of the most advanced people in the planet you never see they're working behind the scenes it has nothing to do with quantity ever it has to do with quality so make sure you just that's a distinction by the way of helping you to understand when's my personality speaking when's my soul speaking you see also realize that it's it's about it's not about going out to do something out there it's about realizing that you live in a circumstance cribe world you you each each of us have a life we have a life we have a we have a a kind of a container of what constitutes the extension of our life and it's dharmic and the thing is that that's exactly where it's supposed to happen whatever that life is whatever that life is that's where it's supposed to happen so you don't have to go anywhere to do the work it's about it's right here it's right now right here right now okay thank you very much it was very very interesting and I have a question you mentioned Seoul has seven loss by which one it was governed you just mentioned third one service can you quick say seven of them I can give you five of them the two who are yet to be unfolded in in collective humanity the first law is called the law of sacrifice the second law is called the law of magnetic appeal the third law is though when I told you the law of service the fourth law is called the law of repulse and the fifth law is called the law of group endeavor as I recall I hope I got the wording right but I think that's it yeah group endeavor the other two laws the sixth and the seventh we just have little bits of it because those are said predicted that in the distant future in many thousands of years humanity's consciousness and soul consciousness will take on a new expansive quality we're in what we call the fifth route racial period is huge and so five of the seven laws are being emphasized at this time in human history and I can't go into what the fifth root race means but it's I'll just say this the fourth root race was what we called Atlantis the third root race is what we call Lemuria so we're in the fifth root race and until we move into the sixth root race which is another few thousand years that sixth principle or law until then that one sort of is in dormancy you might say I question is like can every human being or every personality can have more than one quality of a soul or is it a struggle between the personality or a soul like my example like my question with an example is like one person wants to do a business and also wanted to do arts or dance or wanted to ever so is it like a struggle between the soul of and the personality or is it is it like it could be both he could be both okay that's a great question and it's one of those questions that the answer is yes yes in the sense that you have a soul ray that is what it is and it's going to be with you for thousands of lifetimes but every lifetime you have a different personality ray and that personality ray the soul is learning how to interface with that personality ray and that actually helps your soul evolve because it learns how to express itself through seven different types of personalities over the vastness of time okay now the goal is to begin to infuse them so there's something called soul personality fusion so when let's say that you let's use your example the first people one of the parts of it was the arts right what was the other part you asked about ok business so let's say that sounds like third ray fourth ray so you could let's say that you were a third ray soul okay so that is that's what it is and that's gonna be for many lifetimes but let's say in this particular life that soul has chosen to create an outer garment that's a fourth-rate personality this life now when the so what the soul wants to do is to begin to infuse and transform that personality so that it becomes a cooperative agent so that might manifest as interest into things and when they come together it could actually be a fusion - so for instance it could be interest in the arts and establishing a business so that everybody else can enjoy the Arts you see what I'm saying so don't think that it has to be one or the other you want to recognize that synthesis is the way of the future okay yeah I remember coming to your talk about the seven race and you did mention at that time that there's a Rea personality or soul that has not incriminating and that will incarnate in 2025 which one that was please sure okay uh yeah there's an ashram that's not here and that's the fourth Rea ashram no I got a stop because that might confuse you is I just told you that all of humanity was forthright well that's what the the soul of humanity as a whole is forth Rea but then there's a group of souls individual causal bodies that in their own right our fourth Rea that particular ashram has a much shorter cycle it comes and goes in a shorter way and there's theories about why that is it's the shortest cycle of all but the last time that ashram incarnated it's what launched the Rene sons of Europe so many of the people like da Vinci and Bach and Beethoven those were great for three souls but as you rightly said apparently I mentioned this at a previous talk that in the year 2025 we're given to understand that that ashram will begin to externalize again and that we anticipate that by the middle of the century the first wave of 4/3 souls will reach maturity or adulthood so that by that time a kind another kind of human being will be back with us and it would it should be in effect the effect of that in terms of these lenses coming into the world the effect of that should be to enrich the whole department of the arts in every facet but particularly we're told that two facets of artistic expression will be the first to be emphasized and developed the first is the art of language and the second is the art of living and so again 2025 plays a huge role 25 to 25 is big another thing about 2025 is that it's also it is said that every 100 years on the 25th year of a century the Masters headed by the the christ meet in Conclave they call it the Great Council to make decisions collectively that support humanity's evolution for the next 100 years and so that's another reason why I'm saying the next six years are really important because if that's true and I have a hope I have a whole workshop where we get into the what was the effect of the 1925 Conclave what was the effect of the 1825 1725 because there's notable outcomes in the way Humanity became lived as a result of those but in 2025 major decisions we are told we are given to understand in that Conclave will have to do with humanity's readiness for the first initiation and the work of the new group of world servers you is is instrumental in the nature of how that will go and what decisions will be made so I can't stress enough the absolute magnitude of how how much you are needed now really now because we want we want to do the best we can so that how that Conclave goes will usher us into it help us first into a new and dawning age so you know just keep that in mind I was wondering if the awakening happens in just one incarnation and then follows your soul through all the other incarnations and if that is true which I think it I think that's what you were saying how how do you know how do you know when that happens when we say you awaken in one life the next life there's a faster reawakening and each life you will have a deeper kind of steadiness so it is said that okay it said that in the center of your head is what is called the lighted lamp and the lighted lamp is an actual very faint area that is in a fear acceptance that is said to begin to flicker when you have your your awakening occur but it's flickering okay and that's why after the awakening the awakening is fleeting it you have an experience and then you lose it and then you start to figure out how can I recapture it so you'll a person will do a variety of things to try to figure out a way to go into a spiritual context to recapture that deep spiritual awakening experience but the thing is that eventually that light begins to become stabilized over repetition and working on yourself and each incarnation of the become more stable now it's an etheric light' it's not a real light but it's in the center of your head in the region that is of the the the pineal gland it's in my book I call it the region of the cave but all the action is in the center of the head now that light gets steadier and brighter and the brightness of it thira CLE the brightness of it is what defines where you are on the path and you know the in iconography you know the whole story about what a halo is a halo is simply the lighted lamp in its full radiance and that's a master you see so you're slowly building a halo and and but it starts as a flicker off and on off and on steadies as a steady but faint flame and then slowly increases as you work on yourself as you purify yourself as you commit yourself to trying to bring the best of you forward all of that is going to help increase the radiance of that lighted lamp okay yeah what the Aquarius Age Herrera have a messiah or an avatar such as okay yes yes actually I actually but I wouldn't call it Messiah but I would it is the Christ you know it is said that the Christ well the word Christ is used in three ways and don't think of Christianity when we use the word Christ Christ is a word that's much older than Christianity it means Christos The Anointed or The Anointed it's actually Greek it's much older but Christ is is a term used in three ways in this philosophy your own soul is the Christ in you there is there's also the Cosmic Christ that is to say the principle of love and unity and creation that's a Christ and then there's also an office called the Christ the office and that's when people in our culture talk about Christ they're talking about the office holder the Christ is the head of all the ashrams so each of these seven ashrams has a great master most of them are well known in theosophy the big players master morya master cuckoomy master Serapis Bey master hilari and master Jesus these are all great masters they each oversee an entire ashram but over them is one being called the Christ or some people in the East might want to call that the Bodhisattva it's okay the terminology is irrelevant and that's a that's a position and an office and it normally changes the Monad the being that holds the office normally holds it for the cycle of one astrological Age so the current holder of that is often called the Maitreya Maitreya Christ and for reasons I do not know but there's some for some reason this particular office holder is holding it for two astrological cycles both the last one and the new one and so to add to our conversation about 2025 now that you bring that up we're given to understand that at that conflate the Christ will also make a decision about the circumstances of coming forward to inaugurate the dawning age and the key principle that the Christ is going to try to sound forth for Humanity is different than it was 2,000 years ago 2,000 years ago it was all about introducing the principle of love and compassion that was the mandate this time it's not going to be that it's a different principle it's called the principle of sharing the principle of sharing and that idea has to be so integrated into humanity because if we don't we may not make it do you know what I mean you can see it first love then sharing and so that was the primary note that we are told the Christ will bring forward to sound that note as a part of the dawning Aquarian age and it will synchronize with humanity taking the first initiation so yeah unfortunately on the doorstep of this great initiation for Humanity we have two spectacular failures if we were striving for a collective integration we had the Soviet Union and the United States they were both trying to create a unified consciousness in Soviet Union they had the ideal of the Soviet man and they tried to integrate the various ethnicities and races into this one collective unfortunately use done by force in America you had the myth of the melting pot which it was voluntary but it's also appearing not to succeed just as the Soviet model didn't succeed so it augurs ill for the next step if we're going to this collective unity of sharing and integrating people's you know we have a rough step ahead of us well that's a given but but have it also keep in mind that one of the things I mentioned earlier is that the that neither country got it right enough is the idea of unity through diversity through diversity and the idea of oneness the current concern for the welfare of the whole and the honoring of your individual liberty are equally sacred and so that the big challenge is how do we honor our individuality and at the same time recognize the profound singularity that is where it's all going to and so but you're right it's all part of the crisis it's all part of the burning ground so yeah you're right it's tough right now but we will get there we will get there humanity if you look at the history of humanity and it the rise and fall of cultures and civilizations and so forth you see that the humanity as bad as it can get at times it actually has an amazing resilience so I'm actually optimistic in the long run pessimistic in the short run but optimistic in the long run you mentioned before that love and wisdom forces the shadows out that the shadows are there all along but now we can see them is I'm not sure how to phrase it but is fixing the shadows or attending to them going to be the primary goal in the Aquarian age great question I wouldn't say fixing I would use the word transforming because how to put this everything is part of the one everything including the thing you most despise okay the thing is that just realize that let's say that you've got well back up humanity evolves through its relationship to ID in other words the way the human Kingdom evolves is through intuition and the development of the mind and insights we get new ideas we are enriched by those new ideas we apply them to the different departments of humanity and we all benefit from that but every idea will eventually outlive its usefulness and that's by the way one of the definitions of evil evil it could be defined as the good that has outlived its usefulness but as a as a as an idea after it's given us all that it can then it's important to adopt the next paradigm but because we've habitual eyes dour self with the old it's hard to move and we have our fear of moving into the new and that too creates a lot of the tension in the world but even the old idea has a sacred eternal principle of its core so when we talk about transforming the shadow what we really mean is it's important to look out at the thing that you disagree with that you know is holding us back and first using your third eye and intuition and suspending judgment look deep and see if you can sense what the Tibetan in the Alice Bailey writings calls find the golden thread of truth within illusion find the golden thread of truth within the very thing that you were opposed to because that golden thread is actually sacred it's sacred in the past it's sacred in the present it's sacred in the future what makes it dark is not the golden thread but the form that is currently occupied in so when we say to transform the shadow we're talking about transforming a form a pattern away something manifests so that it it takes on a new form of a higher order that's more appropriate to the the age we live in so as a simple quick example if you look at one of the great examples we always use is Adolf Hitler okay now Nazism nazism what is that that's a thought that's a set of thought forms it is it's a set of thought forms and and if you look at the those thought forms at face value they're horrendous okay but when you look at Nazism and you look at it you suspend judgment see if you can find the golden thread of truth so let's use Hitler's approach one of the things that is a sacred principle inherent in Nazism is the principle of purification now the principle of purification is as sacred as the principle of love but it took on a form that was grossly distorted and it led to the purification of racial types but the principle of purification is absolutely eternally sacral it's just the form that is that that is the darker that's the darkness the darkness is not the essence the darkness is the form the essence is encased within so that's what you have to that's what we all have to work at transforming transforming the form so that the the essence of truth within it can be given a new garment to wear that's what we mean by transformation and that's part of the magical process when you study spiritual creativity there's a step where you have to really understand that's called the ancient fires the angel how do you transform the ancient fires the fire inherent and old ideas well that just made me think one of I mean if you can like look at society and say well one of the things that's really wrong today in society is the severe materiality or greed or the big divisions between the rich and the poor so how would you go about just for instance with that theme of materiality where is the sacred thread in that and how do you find it and transform it what a great did you all hear that which is and not it not a simple quick answer but I'll give you a way of looking at it what is the sacred principle between materiality let's well let's look at what causes materiality materiality is based upon in one sense it's based upon the tendency to believe that the more you have the more whole you are in other words I you know it's like have you ever noticed that the more that you acquire them that there's the sense that if I have these things I'll be whole and one of the tests in your life is to look at how you relate to things that come into your life so for instance let's say that I'm gonna make a simple example let's say that you are at a store and you have that there's this beautiful new TV and it's got some gadgets that you think would be really interesting to have you don't really need one because you have a television but boy that's a tenet there's a pull you can feel that desire is pull so you end up choosing to buy that because somehow you feel that will enrich your identity better let me give you a sense of more wholeness but then what happens often is that after you get the television home after a little while somehow that kind of magnetic pole of importance diminishes and and so one of the measures of am i bringing the right things into my life at the right proportion it should be based upon your capacity to serve and does does it have a diminishing effect after you've possessed it but basically its materiality reality is just the notion that I find myself through and my self value through what I possess but the truth is that the sacred principle that at the core is the sacred principle of identity that's you are divine you have a sacred identity that is eternal the distortion is the belief that you can understand and end and come into that identity by gathering things around you you don't need that but the lower self believes you need that and so but the core principle that is eternally sacral sacred this is the principle of eternal identity yeah you have to dig deep that's right that's right see the duality and it's your third eye that helps you do that because your third eye that many things but one of the things about the third eye is it helps you see the soul hidden within form and so it is a the more your third eye is functioning the more you can see beyond the form of something to start the sense what is that sacred principle that sacred thing that is in there but is hard to see because the form has clouded it over and you can't see it you see you

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