The Great Approach

“Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Our entry into the fullness of the Aquarian age is undertaken as a group.  This is the new development within human consciousness and one that is only beginning to take shape at this time. The new groups will operate in different ways; they will be simpler and more organic in nature, moving in concert with the intuitive impress that emanates from the group life and heart.  The new groups, therefore, will not be so concerned with the outer displays and lines of authority but will instead be composed of free souls who recognize the authority of their own soul and the part which each can play in the general progress of the group.  They will submit themselves to the group’s greater authority and submerge themselves within its life. 

The keynote of Aquarius is freedom, not the freedom of license but rather the freedom that comes through conformity to spiritual law. The particular Law which governs the incoming groups is sometimes called the Law of Elevation, which is also known as the Law of Group Progress--one of the Seven Laws of the Soul.  This Law posits that the elevation of the individual unit within the group has a ripple-like effect that impacts not only all members of the group itself, but also humanity.  This Law is conditioned by the seventh ray and its symbol is the mountain and the goat, thus aligning it with the constellation Capricorn.  Capricorn, through the powerful influence of the planet Saturn, brings with it the power to liberate the group members from beneath the limiting mountain of karma, setting them free to ascend the mountain of initiation. As the Tibetan wrote, “No man liveth to himself, and the crucifixion of the units throughout the aeons, and their realization of their essential nature, only in order to offer up the best they have and realize to the interests of the group, are but the methods whereby the work of liberation is carried forward.”

The primary work of the new groups lies in the contacting, holding and distribution of spiritual energy in conformity with the Plan. This essentially subjective focus will make it possible for increasing numbers of groups to form in the decades to come, because the present financial constraints that have conditioned the Piscean groups functioning largely under the impress of third ray energy, will give way to a primarily second ray focus under the aura of the Coming One, freeing them to work “outside” the confines of time and space.  This is not to say that the groups will not exist upon the physical plane, although some may not, but rather that their material focus will lessen as they will essentially be concerned with quality rather than quantifiable forms. And although the groups are many, their underlying objective is one. Within the realm of consciousness there is a blending and merging of the many strands within the one strand, the harmonizing of the many notes into the one sound and the blending of the many colors into the medley of the rainbow bridge.

These groups that are presently scattered throughout all parts of the world have been compared to germinating seeds, taking root “below” and bearing fruit “upwards.” As this work proceeds it will eventually produce a flowering that will “cover the earth with verdure.”  As the Tibetan wrote, “One small plant which, in its turn, succeeds in producing a seed, through rightful fruition can thus reproduce itself in multiple order.  Be not therefore unduly impressed by the smallness of the effort.  A tiny seed is a potent force—if duly tended, rightly nurtured and ripened by sun and water within the soil—its potencies are unpredictable.”