Beyond the Veil

The veils that separate the inner and outer worlds are not literally veils as we normally understand them but rather they are in the nature of opposing forces that inhibit us as we seek to move forward on the path.1  They are said to be essentially physical forces, “unrealized, unseen obstacles to …progress” and stand between the inner realms and the physical brain.2  When the demand for greater light is strong enough and the will of the spiritual worker keen enough, there then arises the opportunity for what is called in esoteric parlance, a “rending of the veils.”  These rents have been undertaken throughout time by such powerful seekers as Christ, Moses, and St. Paul .  Each one of them effected a powerful alignment through which they were able to penetrate into an extremely high level of consciousness by the use of the spiritual will. Their attainments were not related to themselves and were undertaken on behalf of humanity. 

What is occurring now is that we’re entering into a preparatory period for what could be called, for no better words, a “collective rending” that will be undertaken by the esoteric groups that work as outposts of the inner ashrams, standing with “massed intent” to invoke the light. When the demand for light and the number of people who can release that light becomes powerful enough, an opportunity for planetary redemption occurs.  This will take place as the Hierarchy begins the process of moving outward onto the physical plane sometime after the 2025 conclave but its seeds are being planted now. 

The opportunity offered to us, especially to those of us who come together in groups to support and strengthen each others’ efforts, is to attempt to approximate upon the physical plane that condition of “ashramic sharing” of which the Tibetan Master wrote.  This sharing enables the group workers to strengthen and sustain one another so that added light can be “endured.”  In a certain sense, and especially at those heightened moments of group work that occur during the period of the higher interlude, the lines of demarcation between the brothers recede increasingly into the background as their identity becomes merged and fused within the larger whole.

This ashramic sharing means that each of us must begin to accept greater responsibility.  Responsibilities that in the past would have been assumed by the inner teachers are no longer possible of accomplishment because they have assumed other work in preparation for their emergence onto the world scene.  It is, therefore, left up to the initiates and disciples of the world to undertake the needed educational work at this time.  And there is much work to be done.  As the Tibetan wrote, “Those who are not ready for the coming events will be blinded by the emerging light and bewildered by the revealing wonder;  they will be swept  by the living breath of God, and it is to you that we look to fit them for the event.”3

As we move through this period after the higher interlude, let us stand as vehicles for this inpouring light to be distributed into the heart of humanity, by holding fast to the strength conferred to us by the united group effort.  This is the Great Service in which we are all engaged.

1. Alice Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p. 195
2. Ibid.
3. Alice Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, Vol. I, p. 189

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