The Way of Truth,

Your Path of Wisdom.

And, there is but one injunction…

In world after world,

Through form after form,

There is only this journey,

And so you must,

“Walk on”.

 

But you will nev­er walk alone,

For you are formed by, move through and

Are in Truth a sparkling dew drop of the One Light.

This Uni­verse is a spi­ral­ing, sparkling Riv­er of Life, and

The whole Cos­mos is com­posed of count­less self-unfold­ing cen­ters of awareness,

Who are the body in Space-Time of the One.

Stars in for­ma­tion, your Dia­mond Bod­ies are inspired, guid­ed and loved by,

Those who came this way before…long, long ago.

For stretch­ing out behind and before, and beyond your knowing,

There is only the One Real­i­ty, there is only Life-Consciousness-Spirit,

Revealed in this Self-lumi­nous Hier­ar­chy of Light and Love.

 

The Watch­ers will wait for you,

For that spe­cial sparkling ray,

The dawn of your understanding.

They will wait patient­ly and faith­ful­ly, for they know,

That you too will one day awaken…

It is your Destiny.

You will Know, and you will Understand…

And just so, like them, you will turn.

You will smile to those who fol­low, and

You will extend a help­ing hand.

 

These are the Keep­ers of the Flame, and

They will ever send their emissaries,

Many you know, most you do not, for they are,

The Teach­ers, the Wise Ones…the helpers,

Who in every world and life,

Lift the Veil and reveal the Won­der of this Cosmos.

They remind you, again and again,

That there is but one Life,

There is but one Spirit,

And all of this, and all of you,

Are here because of Love.

 

In this vast hier­ar­chy of Light and Love,

Among all the count­less beings who have come this way before,

Today we cel­e­brate and hon­or one of our “own”.

For today is the Day of the Bud­dha, the Self-Awak­ened One.

 

Why is the Bud­dha special?

Why?…Because he was the first.

He is the first of our kind to com­plete the task,

He is the Self-Awak­ened, a freed monad…a Jivanmukta.

He is the one who came before.

 

He stands now, at the por­tal of self-transcendence,

And will wait for each of you to make your way.

For this is the Great Sac­ri­fice, this is true love.

He waits for you to be ful­ly human,

He waits for you,

To be the Self-Awak­ened too.

 

Today is the Full Moon in the time of Tau­rus, it is the Full Moon of Scor­pio. All around the world there will be cel­e­bra­tions and cer­e­monies, for this is the fes­ti­val known as Wesak, this is the Full Moon of the Buddha.

The sto­ry we are told is that Sid­dhārtha was born at, achieved enlight­en­ment dur­ing, and final­ly left his mor­tal frame dur­ing such a full moon as tonight’s. Today, Seers, Teach­ers and Stu­dents will bow their heads and give thanks and praise to he who was the first to lift him­self out of spir­i­tu­al bondage, to become Self-Awak­ened, to become the first tru­ly Self-ful­filled human.

The Spir­i­tu­al mean­ing artic­u­lat­ed by any Full Moon con­cerns the inte­gral Truths formed by two Astrol­o­gy Signs, one for the Sun the oth­er for the Moon. No Sign can be tru­ly expe­ri­enced in iso­la­tion from any oth­er, they all form res­o­nances with one anoth­er, cre­at­ing a com­plex web of life and meaning.

We find our­selves now in the time of Tau­rus, and it is the most earthy or mate­ri­al­iz­ing moment in the Zodi­ac, the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones. Though you are an Immor­tal, you will move from World to World, from Form to Form, and in Life after Life through mor­tal frames. As you move into these realms of the mate­r­i­al, you are able to learn and so to mas­ter your­self and your pow­ers of cre­ation. But you may also become too enam­ored of or attached to any one form…

And so you must equal­ly learn that in order for you to “walk on”, you must equal­ly strive to “let go…and grow”. This is a fun­da­men­tal part of the teach­ing that the Bud­dha offers, that there is noth­ing per­ma­nent or “last­ing” in these mate­r­i­al realms, they are all com­pos­ites, held togeth­er ulti­mate­ly by the Intel­li­gence, Love and Will that resides at the heart of every mote and speck of this Uni­verse. It is that Spir­i­tu­al Core or Essence which moves from World to World, through Life after Life. The vehi­cles or bod­ies must be free also to evolve into new forms, just as their Spir­i­tu­al Cen­ters like­wise grow into the greater splendor…So that each, the Spir­i­tu­al Heart and the Mate­r­i­al Body can be re-formed again and again into ever more mean­ing­ful forms of spir­i­tu­al self-realization.

This is what you need to con­sid­er today, that you are an Immor­tal in a Mor­tal frame, and that you are to move through these tem­po­ral realms with ever greater Intel­li­gence, Love and Will. You must hold; and You must let go. You breathe in; You breathe out. You learn to love and cher­ish the forms in which you abide, to love and pro­tect your­selves and your beau­ti­ful world too…but you are here to grow, so you must also release these won­drous forms and move into ever more sub­lime realms, for­ev­er and ever.

Today, tonight you should con­sid­er this Divine jour­ney of Life-Con­scious­ness-Spir­it, and join with many, many souls and recite, as will many fel­low seek­ers and aspi­rants, mas­ters and chelas, what is known as the Great Invocation:

 

THE GREAT INVOCATION

From the point of light with­in the Mind of God

Let Light stream forth into our minds

Let LIGHT descend on Earth.

From the point of love with­in the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into our hearts

May LOVE increase on Earth.

From the cen­ter where the Will of God is known

Let pur­pose guide our wills

The PURPOSE which the mas­ters know and serve.

From the cen­ter which we call Humanity

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.