Gaps are beginning to appear in the old ways as experienced by each of us in our daily living.
These apparently isolated and personal events are in fact part of a new tide in human relations that is rising on the impetus of a love that goes beyond the personal
Men are rapidly developing an understanding goodwill. The world is full of movements for relief and for the amelioration of human distress, and this from the point of small and large communities and also nationally and internationally. To this the Red Cross, UNRRA and many analogous and well-intentioned affiliations of men everywhere bear witness. This indicates not only a mental polarisation but responsiveness to the love nature of God; these together indicate a fusion and a sensitivity which is new in human history and which is most encouraging, testifying as it does to the success, at last, of the evolutionary process.β Discipleship in the New Age II, page 295
The Tibetan also instructed one of his disciples about the underlying power of love:
Love more, my brother. You only deeply love two or three people; let that limited love be the seed which will produce the flowering forth of a loving spirit. Disciples need to remember that love brings all earthly karma to an end. Love induces that radiation which invokes and evokes not only the heart of God but the heart of humanity also. Love is the cause of all creation and the sustaining factor in all livingβ¦ Make your remaining years expressive of radiating loveβ¦. Say not always the nice or loving thing, but learn to say the hard things with unalterable loveβ Discipleship in the New Age II, page 541-2
It is the civilisation of the heart and soul of humanity gradually coming into its own.
The word mother (mater) is related to the word matter. In his Mother, the God of heaven, the infinite God, made himself small, he became matter, not only to be with us but also to be like us. This is the miracle, the great novelty! Man is no longer alone; no more an orphan, but forever a child.
β¦ βMary kept all these things, pondering them in her heartβ (Lk 2:19). She kept them. She simply kept; Mary does not speak. The Gospel does not report a single word of hers in the entire account of Christmas. Here too, the Mother is one with her Son: Jesus is an βinfantβ, a child βunable to speakβ. The Word of God, who βlong ago spoke in many and various waysβ (Heb 1:1), now, in the βfullness of timeβ (Gal 4:4), is silent. The God before whom all fall silent is himself a speechless child. His Majesty is without words; his mystery of love is revealed in lowliness. This silence and lowliness is the language of his kingship. His Mother joins her Son and keeps these things in silence.
β¦ To set aside a moment of silence each day to be with God is to βkeepβ our soul; it is to βkeepβ our freedom from being corroded by the banality of consumerism, the blare of commercials, the stream of empty words and the overpowering waves of empty chatter and loud shouting.
β¦ Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart. What were these things? They were joys and sorrows. On the one hand, the birth of Jesus, the love of Joseph, the visit of the shepherds, that radiant night. But on the other, an uncertain future, homelessness βbecause there was no place for them in the innβ (Lk 2:7), the desolation of rejection, the disappointment of having to give birth to Jesus in a stable. Hopes and worries, light and darkness: all these things dwelt in the heart of Mary. What did she do? She pondered them, that is to say she dwelt on them, with God, in her heart. She held nothing back; she locked nothing within out of self-pity or resentment. Instead, she gave everything over to God. That is how she βkeptβ those things. We βkeepβ things when we hand them over: by not letting our lives become prey to fear, distress or superstition, by not closing our hearts or trying to forget, but by turning everything into a dialogue with God. God, who keeps us in his heart, then comes to dwell in our lives.
β¦ The heart makes us look to the core of the person, his or her affections and life.
β¦ Looking to the Mother, we are asked to leave behind all sorts of useless baggage and to rediscover what really matters. The gift of the Mother, the gift of every mother and every woman, is most precious… for she too is mother and woman. While a man often abstracts, affirms and imposes ideas, a woman, a mother, knows how to βkeepβ, to put things together in her heart, to give life. If our faith is not to be reduced merely to an idea or a doctrine, all of us need a motherβs heart, one which knows how to keep the tender love of God and to feel the heartbeat of all around us. May the Mother, Godβs finest human creation, guard and keep this year, and bring the peace of her Son to our hearts and to our world.β For the full text visit: – http://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2018-01/pope-homily-new-year-2018-mother-of-god-full-text.html
And in the Agni Yoga writings we are told of the coming time of the Mother:
I have already told you that the Mother of the World conceals Her Name. I have already shown you how the Mother of the World veils Her Face. I have already made mention about the Mother of Buddha and Christ.
Indeed it is time to point out that the one Mother of both Lords is not a symbol but a Great Manifestation of the Feminine Origin, in which is revealed the spiritual Mother of Christ and Buddha.
She it was Who taught and ordained Them for achievement.
From times immemorial the Mother of the World has sent forth to achievement. In the history of humanity, Her Hand traces an unbreakable thread.
On Sinai Her Voice rang out. She assumed the image of Kali. She was at the basis of the cult of Isis and Ishtar. After Atlantis, when a blow was inflicted upon the cult of the spirit, the Mother of the World began to weave a new thread, which will now begin to radiate. After Atlantis the Mother of the World veiled Her Face and forbade the pronouncement of Her Name until the hour of the constellations should strike. She has manifested Herself only partly; never has She manifested Herself on a planetary scale.
One may cite many examples when even high Magi left behind them unexpected consequences and a desire to find support in the lower strata of matter. Such perversion could be termed the channel of the intellect, and can arrest for a long time the communion with other worlds.
Now people mechanically search for the already spiritually predestined.
The Teaching of the Future Epoch will be re-union of the spirit and intellect.
The course of the planets permits the hastening of the communion between the worlds, and the development of the human spirit will proceed along new ways.
The luminaries permit the acceleration of the course of humanity.β Leaves of Moryaβs Garden II, sl 220Verily the Era of the Mother of the World is based upon the realization of the Heart.β Heart, sl 106
Entering into our true being as souls we approach the Kingdom of Souls and a pathway opens up between. By this means shall the One βWhom angels and men awaitβ return to us.
Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.β
~ Rumi
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