VIRGO SOLAR FESTIVAL
East to West coast USA - and GMT. Add 1 hour for Daylight Savings Time.
Keynote of Virgo Festival: "I am the mother and the child, I spirit, I matter am."
A meditation meeting for Virgo Full Moon will be held in Ashland Sept 11 - Sunday at 7:00 pm.
(Call 541-488-1322 for directions.)
Those groups and individuals who reflect upon the incoming energies of Virgo and speak aloud the Great Invocation at the moment of the full moon, are adding to the light and love in the world. They are magnetically drawn into the light of this world invocation being sounded frequently around the world in more than 80 languages. These spiritual energies powerfully stimulate the spirit of goodwill.
Whenever possible, meet with others in your community to bring these energies of direction to humanity. Hundreds of thousands of awakening souls are working with higher frequencies of light and millions are sensitive to this dynamic and magnetic energy — and can send it on to those in their own groups.
The approach to higher spiritual energies are at their peak two days before the full moon, the day of the full moon, and two days after.This is because the moon is out of the way of the Spiritual Sun and temporarily not blocking it. Whenever possible, meditate at the exact time of the full moon when the door is open for those groups who serve through directed united focus and love. When you link with a spiritual group, this energy is greatly magnified. You have a clearer contact and can reach levels that are not possible at other times.
One of the purposes of meditation at the time of the full moon is to recognize and understand each one of the key qualities streaming into the planet. These qualities lift us and carry us through the major challenges of the soul during its earth life. You can use them to accelerate your soul’s path and journey home. By focusing on these qualities each month during the full moon, you not only can bring them into your life, you can distribute them with your group, to humanity as a whole.
Humanity is in a state of turmoil today in preparation for a great step forward. Advanced humanity and the disciples of the world are equally in a state of turmoil, being tested and tried, in preparataion to taking a major step forward.
Preparation suggestions for the inflowing spiritual energies.
1. Focus on the need of humanity for a new direction that brings cooperation and goodwill.
2. Focus on the necessity of providing a group channel-for the spiritual forces to be poured through the whole body of humanity under the expert guidance of the members of the Hierarchy.
3. Make a decision to overcome all obstacles to your usefulness as a channel of spiritual light and love.
4. Seek to dwell each day at the center during the five-day period before and after the full moon.
5. Seek to blend the personality light with the clear light of the soul.
6. Arrange daily affairs so that the week of this full moon can yield to you the fullest opportunity to cooperate.
7. If possible, arrange to be in meditation (in group formation or visualizing yourself as part of a spiritual group when the full moon peaks. Say the Great Invocation at the exact time of the full moon, to best use the energies available. Use spiritual influence to create a public demand for universal united will to cooperate in creating a new and peaceful world culture.
8. Use prayer, illumined thought and intense aspirational longing for the world as you meditate. Focus on our group purpose of sending spiritual energy out to humanity.
This group meditation is based on the science of energy, which recognises that all is energy and energy follows thought. Even the smallest atom of substance contains within it that which can respond to spiritual energy and stimulation.
MEDITATION FOR VIRGO
1. Enter into quietness with seven deep breaths. Sound the sacred word of OM seven times, once with each deep breath.
Align your physical body, emotional body, and mental body with the soul.
2. Establish your consciousness in the center of Love and say this mantram aloud:
"In the center of all Love I stand:
From that center, I, the soul, will outward move;
From that center, I, the one who serves, will work.
May the love of the divine Self be shed abroad
In my heart, through my group, and throughout the world."
3. Link with our spiritual group and then with all spiritual groups meditating with you at this time.
4. Link with the Hierarchy of Masters.
5. Link with the energy of Love streaming in
6. Visualize the one world soul. Focusing deeply within, open to the flame within your heart that is ignited by this powerful spiritual energy and contemplate the seed thought for 10 ot 20 minutes:
I am the mother and the child. I spirit, I matter am.
7. Sound aloud the Great Invocation, either the alternative version or the original version.
Repeat the last line of each verse as you visualize it happening.
The Great Invocation (Original )
From the point of Light within the Mind of God,
Let Light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God,
Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men
May Christ return to earth.
From the center where the Will of God is known,
Let purpose guide the little wills of men,
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the center which we call the race of men,
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.
The Great Invocation (Alternate)
From the point of Light within the mind of God,
let Light stream forth into human minds.
Let Light descend on earth.
From the point of Love within the heart of God,
let Love stream forth into human hearts.
May the Coming One return to earth.
From the center where the Will of God is known,
let Purpose guide the little human wills,
the Purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the center which we call the human race,
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.
O.M. O.M. O.M.
ESOTERIC NOTES ON THE LIGHT OF VIRGO
(Notes from Esoteric Astrology by Alice Bailey)
"The sign Virgo is one of the most significant in the zodiac. Its symbolism concerns the goal of the whole evolutionary process which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality.
"In Virgo, matter exchanges its service with spirit and each serves the other. In Sagittarius, we find emerging the service of the One Life in terms of the service of the Hierarchy, the planetary expression of the idea of service, whilst in Pisces, there appears—as a result of the entire evolutionary process—the dedicated, trained and tested world Server or Saviour. It has been said that Virgo "involves the service of the immediately present" or in other words that God immanent evokes reaction from the form side and is thereby served.
"The early Fathers recognised this truth, and realised that the story written in the heavens had a definite relation to humanity and to the evolution of human souls. Clement of Alexandriatells us that "the path of souls to ascension lies through the twelve signs of the zodiac," and the church festivals today are based, not upon historical dates in connection with the outstanding religious figures to which they refer, but upon the times and the seasons. We saw how in the Birth at Bethlehemthe date was fixed astronomically nearly four centuries after Christ was born. The combination of Virgo with the Star in the East (Sirius), and the Three Kings (symbolised by Orion's belt) was the determining factor. The Virgin was seen in the east, with the line of the horizon passing through her centre, and this is one of the factors determining the doctrine of the Virgin birth.
In God's plan as we at present can sense, the Virgin (Virgo) stands for the womb of time and passes the personality-soul (Leo-Virgo) through the three above stages or cycles. She stands also for the womb of form and for the nurturing mother, guarding the Christ principle within her own material substance until in "the fullness of time" she can give birth to the Christ child. Virgo symbolises depths, darkness, quiet and warmth; it is the valley of deep experience wherein secrets are discovered and eventually "brought to light"; it is the place of slow, gentle and yet powerful crises and periodic developments which take place in the dark and yet which lead to light.
Virgo stands for the "womb of time" wherein God's plan (the mystery and the secret of the ages) is slowly matured and—with pain and discomfort and through struggle and conflict—brought into manifestation at the end of the appointed time. The keynote is also "Christ in you, the hope of glory."
There is no clearer or more adequate definition of this sign than that."Virgo holds the mystery of the Sphinx, connected with the relation of Leo and Virgo, and tied up with the secret of the solar Angels. This is not the mystery of soul and form, but the mystery of the higher and the lower mind and their relation to each other."
The books given to Bailey by the Tibetan Master D.K. are to assist humanity. You may purchase these books to better understand and use spiritual energies to unfold the divine essence within you, www.lucistrust.org. Lucis also offers a 12 DVD set, with meditations for each Solar Festival.
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