Mantrams
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Mantrams and Meditations
Reflective Meditation Upon Preparation for the Reappearance of the World Teacher Stage I After achieving a positive and intended personality quietness, formulate clearly to yourself in your own words, the answers to the following questions:
This is the one time in the meditation where you think of yourself, and it is here because it is a method of personality, focussed attention and aligns your personality upon the mental plane. Stage II Having answered these three questions in the light of the soul, then say with emphasis:
PAUSE Stage III
3. Then ponder upon the reappearance of the World Teacher and realize that no matter by what name He may be called in the many world religions, He is still the same great Identity; reflect and speculate upon the possible results of His appearance. Then say the second stanza of the Invocation:
4. Endeavour to concentrate your fixed intention to serve and to spread love in your surroundings and realise that in so far as can do these things you are attempting to blend your personal will with the divine Will. Then say stanza three of the Invocation:
5. Consider practically what you can do in the coming week to further the preparations for the coming of the World Teacher. PAUSE Then sound the OM three times, dedicating the threefold personality to the work of preparation. Suggestions: 1. It is suggested that you do this meditation once every week, each Thursday, in the place of your usual meditation; endeavour to assume an attitude of aspiration, devotion, prayer and fixed intention (in this order), prior to following the outline. Esoteric students need the heart approach, as well as the mental approach, in order to make this meditation the powerful instrument which it can be. 2. Between Thursdays endeavour to carry out the results of the reflection expressed in this meditation. Lay practical plans and then review each week the planned activities when you sit down to this meditation, in the light of your expressed Intention. 3. Make this meditation brief and dynamic. After doing it a few times, this should be easily possible; forget the various stages and be impelled by the sequence and the synthesis of the form. Adapted from Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II, pp. 226-28
Printed with the permission of the Lucis Publishing Company that holds copyright.
We know, O Lord of Life and Love, about the
need; It is this thought of the free circulation of energy between the three world centres which motivates this mantric sentence. A study of this will show you how the implication and significance of apparently simple words may be far deeper and far more wide-reaching in effect than you have been able to conceive. A recognition of this and a creative impassioned use of the imagination may serve to add greater potency to your thought and to your personal will-to-good as you use the Great Invocation and its subsidiary mantram. The keynote of the first aspect is Sacrifice, and of the second, Love. The words therefore "that we too may love and give" can produce a contact between the two. The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 154 Printed with the permission of the Lucis Publishing Company that holds copyright.
The Mantram of the New Group of World Servers It would be of value if each student would link up every day at five o'clock by an act of the will with this rapidly integrating group of servers, mystics and brothers. To this end it might be wise to commit to memory the following brief dedication to be said silently at that hour with the attention focussed in the head:
Then carry the thought forward from the rapidly forming group of world-servers to the Great Ones who stand back of our world evolution. This can be done in a few seconds of time wherever one may be and in whatever company, and will not only aid in the magical work of the forces of light, but will serve to stabilize the individual, to increase his group consciousness, and to teach him the process of carrying forward interior subjective activities in the face of and in spite of outer exoteric functioning. A Treatise on White Magic, p. 261
From the point of Light within the Mind
of God From the point of Love within the Heart of
God From the centre where the Will of God is known From the centre which we call the race of men Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
The Great Invocation is said to be the most powerful tool we have to help prepare human consciousness for the return of the World Teacher. It is sometimes called “Christ’s own Mantram.” It is of ancient origin and its potency is so great that conditions had to be right within the planet before it could be given out and those conditions have now been established. While many prayers are personal in their intention, the power of the Invocation lies in its impersonality; it is not focused upon the needs and wants of the individual, but rather, on the larger concerns of the collective body of humanity and the planet as a whole. No organization, religion or spiritual group “owns” the Invocation--it is a non-sectarian prayer for all humanity. It is predicted, in fact, that is will become to the Aquarian age what the Lord’s prayer was to the Christian era. It is not, however, a Christian prayer and can and should be used by people of all faiths and also those who hold to no particular faith at all. Invocation, the collective use of a powerful spiritual mantram, is something that has rarely been undertaken by large numbers of humanity. We haven’t tested its effectiveness but it’s said that through such actions humanity can become a direct channel for the inflowing energies of light, love and power—a channel that could, in fact, bring about a process of global change and transformation, such is the strength of this Invocation for Power and Light. The Invocation has currently been translated into over 70 languages and is used in most countries in the world.
The Keynotes for Full Moon Meditations Aries: I come forth, and from the plane of mind I rule. Taurus:I see, and when the eye is opened, all is illumined. Gemini: I recognise my other self and in the waning of that self I grow and glow. Cancer: I build a lighted house and therein dwell. Leo: I am That and That am I. Virgo: I am the Mother and the Child, I God, I matter am. Libra: I choose the Way that leads between the two great lines of force. Scorpio: Warrior I am, and from the battle I emerge triumphant. Sagittarius: I see the goal. I reach the goal and see another. Capricorn: Lost am I in light supernal and on that light I turn my back. Aquarius: Water of life am I, poured forth for thirsty men. Pisces: I leave the Father's home and turning back, I save. A Treatise on White Magic, p. 441 |
