Sealing the Door

One of the most powerful safeguards on the path of spiritual development is the cultivation of the heart.   Through the heart pours the energy of love divine that connects us all within the pulsating web of relationship. The Sufis say that when you begin to take your spiritual life seriously, you polish the mirror of the heart.  This work, undertaken by many people today--across racial, generational and religious lines--is forging a new power base within the planet. 

This is a relatively new development.  For aeons of time humanity had chosen not to exert itself spiritually and fell prey repeatedly to that which is material.  We walked the “broad and easy way” and did not rise to the spiritual challenge that had been offered to us.   This spiritual lassitude, coupled with the strong mental focus that developed during the passing Piscean Age, resulted in a situation in which the mind became the slayer of the Real.  This led to the widespread repudiation of the Hierarchy and the resultant short-sightedness that characterizes so much of contemporary life. 

As a result, the Hierarchy (much against its will), was forced to withdraw some of the protective measures that it had long held in relation to humanity.  We’re told that the way to “the door where evil dwells” was unimpeded and humanity opened it wide.  This opening allowed for an entry into our planet of a type of energy with which we were never intended to deal. The Tibetan tells us that the entrance of this energy, known as cosmic evil, first appeared during the time of the Roman Empire, and again during the corrupt regimes of France. Today this door has been opened wider still by men and women with evil intentions in all lands.  1

These negative conditions are expressed primarily through wrong thinking, false values and materialistic selfishness and separativeness. They precipitated World War II and thankfully it was humanity’s realization of what was occurring that led to the creation of that global unity that, at least temporarily, was able to arrest, drive back and defeat the negative forces.  The unity was, however, short-lived.  The opposing forces have continued to wreck havoc in our world.  But while humanity opened this door, it cannot close or seal it.  And the Tibetan tells us that even the Hierarchy cannot do so.  This problem lies, therefore, principally in the hands of the august Council Chamber of Shamballa, the center of the peaceful, silent will.

But we can aid the work that needs to be done by establishing those conditions within consciousness through which the higher energies can work out.  In effect our task is simple, but we can only be successful as we learn to hold the point of tension which, we are told, is the great releasing factor.  As we become more centered in reality (as far as it can be revealed to us), it strengthens our aspiration and our resolve to serve and enables us to work more effectively to let in the light—by facing it, appropriating it, and turning it towards the dispelling of the darkness of our world. 

We are asked to do all we can to establish right human relations--by spreading the news of the approach of the spiritual Hierarchy and by working to prepare the way for the reappearance of the World Teacher.  These are tasks that the esoteric workers of the world can do as they “modify, qualify, and adapt” the teaching so that it can reach out to a new generation of seekers.

A well used saying states that when one door closes, another one opens.  Sometimes there is deep symbolic meaning in simple aphorisms.  As humanity works to assume its responsibility and throws the weight of its collective focus into planetary redemption, this concerted action will create a channel through which the sealing of the door can take place.  At the same time, this closing will result in the opening of another door, the Door of Initiation, the “narrow gate,” through which all may enter who “tread this way, the ways of men, and know the ways of God.”

Footnotes:

1. Alice A. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, Lucis Publishing Company, 1960, p. 753

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