The Wesak Festival of 2013 is rapidly approaching. This festival is considered to be one of the two most important festivals of each year. The other one is the Festival of the Christ on May 25.The Buddha and the Christ are recognised as two great spiritual brothers working in the closest co-operation to serve our planetary life The Buddha and the Christ are recognised as two great spiritual brothers working in the closest co-operation to serve our planetary life. I felt compelled to offer a place for meditating together dduring this sacred spiritual event. It is said that the Buddha returns for 8 minutes, meets with the Christ and a powerful blessing for happiness and peace to humanity is sent forth.  Following the ceremony water is drawn from a large crystal bowl in the northern edge of the Himalayan Mountains, All who seek to love and serve are merged into one great force for good, for peace and joy. Everyone attending receives a few sips of this water which has been blessed by these two great saviors of humanity. Listen to a description of the Wesak ceremony in the Himalayan mountains.
 
We are hosting a three-day meditation workshop and retreat beginning the evening of April 23. Those attending are registering at the Wyndham Park Central hotel. There is no registration fee for this event. All are welcome to join us.
 
See below for a description of the three spring Spiritual Festivals and the 2013 dates.

At this time, as the Full Moon is approaching, the Great Ones, the Initiates and disciples are forming a great field of energy in the Himalayas, through their meditation, contemplation, mystical and sacred rituals, and through Their great striving, invocations and contacts.

This is the field which will be charged more and more by the presence of Christ, and through the blessings of the Great Lord Buddha; it will provide a chalice for cosmic energy, and a channel through which these energies can pass to the kingdoms of nature.

This energy field is formed of the four cosmic ethers and, as a huge cloud formation, spreads itself all over the world.

All those who are sensitive enough to this energy field, will slowly notice that seeds of great beauty, truth and goodness start to bloom within their hearts. All those who love their fellow man, all those who really work for the unity of mankind, who really strive beyond their physical satisfactions to reach and touch this field of energy, will be impressed by new age visions, ideas and goals.

When all these people work in their own fields and in their own ways to express these energies, they will create another field of energy which we may call the “Hope of Humanity.” ….The greatest moment of contact of the year will be recognized as the Day of the Wesak Full Moon, the day on which the three great centers on the planet, Humanity, Hierarchy and the Father’s Hoe are linked and fused with cosmic centers, thus releasing potent energies over our planet earth.”

… Actually, the Wesak ceremony is a great labor of building a communication line between matter and spirit, or among the seven planes of existence. The ceremonies that the Masters are performing with advanced Initiates and disciples is a process to create a tremendous electromagnetic field, to invoke, to evoke, to receive, to assimilate and radiate these energies on all planes, not only on the human level but also upon all the seven cosmic physical planes.

~ Torkom Saraydarian, Cosmos in Man
 
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THE EBB AND FLOW OF SPIRITUAL ENERGIES The flow of spiritual energies reaches a peak during the full moon period. At these times we can – particularly as a group – touch spiritual realities and energies that are normally not so easily available. Our path of approach to the higher worlds then becomes a lighted channel through which these energies can be anchored on earth and radiated through the minds and hearts of all humanity. The goal is to stimulate vision and support the growing awareness of the unity of all life and our responsibilities towards it.
 
THREE SPIRITUAL FESTIVALS

The annual cycle of full moons reaches its high point in the triple sequence of the Easter Festival, the Wesak Festival, and the Festival of Goodwill. The Easter and Wesak festivals celebrate the lives and inspiration of two of the greatest spiritual leaders and avatars.

Easter, the risen living Christ Festival, the expression of the love of God. It is determined by the date of the full moon of Aries and is the great Western and Christian Festival. (March 27, 2013)

Wesak, the Festival of the Buddha, is the great Eastern celebration. It is observed at the Taurus full moon. The Buddha is the expression of the wisdom of God, the embodiment of light and "the indicator of divine purpose". Esoteric tradition speaks of an annual ceremony in the Himalayas, where the Buddha appears before the Christ and the Hierarchy. (April 25, 2013)

Christ’s festival, the third festival celebrating humanity’s innate goodwill, takes place over the full moon of Gemini. This is the festival of our basic aspiration towards human and spiritual unity. It gives voice to a deep invocative appeal to the spiritual Hierarchy for light, love and the will-to-good. This Festival is also observed as World Invocation Day, when a special focus is placed upon the world-wide use of the Great Invocation. (May 25, 2013)

 HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THESE FESTIVALS

All who want to lift humanity can contribute to the powerful inflow of lighted energies at these three Festivals, and to humanity’s spiritual progress in building right human relations. How each of us does this is our own choice, but here are some suggestions:

  • For two days before the full moon, on the day of the full moon itself, and for the next two days use a world prayer, the Great Invocation, at sunrise, noon, five o’clock pm, and sunset, plus the exact time of the full moon. Do this with the intention to invoke and anchor in human consciousness the potent spiritual energies available.
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  • Find out if a group of people in your area already hold Full Moon meetings and join them. Many groups are listed here.
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  • Start a Full Moon meditation group in your area. Information and suggested meditation outlines are available at lucistrust.org/startagroup or write to us.
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  • Help spread the word online. Advertise in local media: like and share Facebook pages

If people "of all faiths and all religions…and all esoteric groups were to keep the three great Festivals of Invocation, simultaneously and with understanding of the far-reaching implications, a great spiritual unity would be achieved; if they unitedly invoked the spiritual Hierarchy and sought consciously to contact its Head a great and general inflow of spiritual light and love would occur…" (A. A. Bailey)