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Discipleship in the New Age II - Teachings on Meditation - Part VIII |
Even Christ himself struggled with the problem of the divine
will, and addressed himself to the Monad at the moment when he first realized the extent
and the complexity of his mission as World Savior. He then cried aloud: "Father, not
my will but thine be done." Those words marked the relinquishing of the vehicles
through which he had been attempting to salvage humanity; it indicated to him what might
at that time have appeared to be an apparent failure and that his mission was not
accomplished. For nearly two thousand years he has waited to bring that mission to
fruition; it has marked also for him the entrance into a new cycle of activity; this cycle
will culminate during the next three hundred years in success if this Invocation - as used
by all of you and by the Hierarchy - proves its effectiveness. He cannot proceed with his
assigned mission without reciprocal action by humanity. This mantram is peculiarly and essentially Christ's own mantram and its "sound has gone forth" to the entire world through the medium of his enunciation of it and through its use by the Hierarchy. Now its words must go out throughout the entire world by means of its enunciation by men everywhere, and its meaning must be expressed by the masses in due time. Then Christ can again "return to Earth" and "see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied." The final line of the last stanza is also perhaps in need of explanation. It speaks of the task of the Plan as implemented by humanity to "seal the door where evil dwells." This is (needless to say) a symbolic way of expressing the idea of rendering evil purposes both inactive and ineffectual. There is no particular location where evil dwells; the New Testament in the Book of Revelations speaks of evil and of the destruction of the devil and of the rendering of Satan impotent. Those passages all refer to the same time cycle with which this Invocation deals and which it seeks to bring about. The "door where evil dwells" is kept open by humanity through its selfish desire, its hatreds and its separateness, by [174] its greed and its racial and national barriers, its low personal ambitions and its love of power and cruelty. As goodwill and light stream forth into the minds and hearts of men, these evil qualities and these directed energies which keep the door of evil open will give place to a longing for right human relations, to a determination to create a better and more peaceful world and to a worldwide expression of the will-to-good. As these qualities supersede the old and undesirable ones, the door where evil dwells will symbolically slowly close through the sheer weight of public opinion and through right human desire. Nothing can possibly stop it. Thus the original Plan will be restored on Earth; this is symbolically referred to in the Bible as the Garden of Eden; the Angel with the Flaming Sword will no longer guard the Door of Initiation into the Kingdom of God, but will be transformed into the Angel of the Presence. Simultaneously, the door into the world of spiritual reality will open before mankind, and the door where evil dwells will be closed. These few thoughts may serve to make this Invocation live afresh in your minds and take on a new and vital livingness. It is uniquely related to all true and ancient beliefs; it holds out hope for the future, and it is of present import and of practical importance. Your meditation work should be confined exclusively to a deep understanding of this stanza [Here the Tibetan refers to this Invocation in its entirety as one stanza, the third and final of three "stanzas" or Invocations. He gave out the first one, beginning with the line, "Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind," in 1935, and the second in 1940, beginning, "Let the Lords of Liberation issue forth."] of the Great Invocation, and of the production within yourself of the invocative spirit. I am going to give you today a very ancient mantram which is called the Affirmation of a Disciple. It has been used by disciples in the Masters' Ashrams for thousands of years and is today given out by me to all true disciples; it can now be used by them upon the outer plane and incorporated daily in their meditation. During this coming year I would like you to follow a meditation procedure as outlined below, the intention of which is to strengthen your pledge through [175] affirmation, stabilize your orientation and give you intuitive insight into this new Invocation.
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