Three times the Shamballa energy has directly impacted the human kingdom “unimpeded and untransmuted.”1 In May—the year 2000—the Tibetan instructs that another such occurrence will take place, bringing with it a crisis for humanity—a crisis that can serve as a great opportunity for the advancement of humanity if it is prepared.
Shamballa energy is Will energy. “It is the purest Will that exists on the planet.” It is an energy charged with Purpose, and is a fiery creative energy. In order to assimilate the released fiery stream of energy, aspirants and disciples around the world must have, in readiness, formulated groups that are united and pure, fused with higher purpose and values. If this is done, humanity will utilize this energy to experience right human relations, peace, health, and Joy; it will see expansion of consciousness and improvement in its educational system, economics, politics and religion.
If humanity is unable to absorb the fiery energy, using it destructively, it will see an increase in aberrant sexual crimes, AIDS and other auto-immune diseases, distorted consciousness, and mental illness; it will experience an increase in criminal behavior as a result of drug abuse, alcohol, and gambling; it will see an increase of materialism— greed, jealousy, separatism, hatred and revenge; terrorism and wars; epidemics; insanity and wrong human relations.
In order to assimilate and digest the Will energy and use it creatively, aspirants and disciples must be in touch with the Core of their nature—light, love and willpower—they must, through their study, meditation and service be prepared, vigilant, and observant because the forces of darkness will also be in a position of readiness to seize this as an opportunity to contradict the Plan of evolution and Laws of the Spirit.
Those disciples, the men and women all over
the world who will stand united in taking responsibility for the protection
of humanity and the Hierarchical Plan, those servers of Christ, and the
abode of Light in Shamballa—the Center where the Will of God is known—are:
“the New Group of World Servers, the World disciples who will be receptive
to the guidance, and the men and women of goodwill who will be in responsive
activity.”2
To utilize the released fiery energy of Will from Shamballa
constructively we must:
* sound the Great Invocation daily
* live a life of sacrificial service
* be daring and courageous
* awaken the Spirit of joy & peace
* balance heart and mind, beauty, & freedom in others
* demonstrate control over the lower nature
* live economically & simply
* be progressively creative
* meditate, study & serve
* demonstrate mental clarity and emotional stability
* expand our consciousness
* live an orderly life, with purpose
* build continuity of consciousness
* live in the Spirit of synthesis
* be joyful
Joleen Dianne Du Bois
President
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1. Excerpted from Externalisation of the Hierarchy, A.A.B. (New York:
Lucis Trust Publishing, 1957), p. 438.
2. Ibid., p. 439.
The Legend of the Tower of Shamballa
The Ruler of Shamballa
For some, Shamballa is the Truth. For others, Shamballa is a utopia. For some, the Ruler of Shamballa is a venerable sage. For others, the Ruler of Shamballa is the manifestation of riches. For some, the Ruler of Shamballa is a bedecked idol. For others, the Ruler of Shamballa is the Ruler of all Planetary Spirits. But We shall say, The Ruler of Shamballa is the fiery Impeller of Life and of the Fire of the Mother of the World. His Breath is ablaze with flame and His Heart is aglow with the fire of the Silvery Lotus.
The Ruler of Shamballa lives and breathes in the Heart of the Sun. The Ruler of Shamballa is the Invoker and the Invoked. The Ruler of Shamballa is the Sender of the Arrow and the Receiver of all arrows. The Ruler of Shamballa breathes the Truth and affirms the Truth. The Ruler of Shamballa is invincible, turning destruction into construction. The Ruler of Shamballa is the Crest of the Banner and the Summit of Life. Accept the Ruler of Shamballa as the manifestation of life; thrice I say—of life! For Shamballa is the guaranty of human aspirations.... (Hierarchy, para. 5)
Where
is Shamballa, the Legend about which we read? “We are told that above the Gobi
Desert, in the second ether, there is a great center of energies which is called
Shamballa, or the Head Center of the planet, through which issues the directing
Will of our Planetary Logos. Only very high Initiates have permission to enter
there, attend the great Council, and be instructed in the Will of God.
“We are told that Christ is a member of the Shamballa
Center and that He occasionally attends meetings there.”(Christ the
Avatar of Sacrificial Love, p. 201)
Shambhala on Earth
“Lama, how does it happen that Shambhala on earth is still undiscovered by travellers? On maps you may see so many routes of expeditions. It appears that all heights are already marked and all the valleys and rivers explored.”
“Verily, there is much gold in the earth; and many diamonds and rubies in the mountains, and every one is so eager to possess them! And so many people try to find them! But as yet these people have not found all things—so, let a man try to reach Shambhala without a call! You have heard about the poisonous streams which encircle the uplands. Perhaps you have even seen people dying from these gases when they come near them. Perhaps you have seen how animals and people begin to tremble when they approach certain localities. Many people try to reach Shambhala, uncalled. Some of them have disappeared forever. Only a few of them reach the holy place, and only if their karma is ready.” (Himalayas, Abode of Light, Nicholas Roerich, p. 86)
The
Borders of Shambhala
Lama, we know the greatness of Shambhala. We know the reality of this indescribable realm. But we also know about the reality of the earthly Shambhala. We know how some high lamas went to Shambhala, how along their way they saw the customary physical things. We know the stories of the Buryat lama, of how he was accompanied through a very narrow secret passage. We know how another visitor saw a caravan of hill-people, with salt from the lakes on the very borders of Shambhala. Moreover, we ourselves have seen a white frontier post of one of the three outposts of Shambhala. So, do not speak to me about the heavenly Shambhala only, but also about the one on earth; because you know as well as I, two worlds are unified. (Shambhala, Nicholas Roerich, pp. 2–3)
Earthly Stronghold
…It is necessary to keep in mind that here, in the Earthly Stronghold of the Brotherhood, the Arhats remain in solitude, as the service to humanity demands. Each one of Them undertakes his specific mission and carries out most difficult tasks. The souls nearest to Them, who are karmically connected with Them, incarnate on earth during the fulfillment of a new plan of evolution; and they, while moving the human consciousness along the new evolutionary lines, preserve the bond with the Arhats and fulfill Their Will. The manifoldness of the tasks requires various conditions. Therefore, some of the Arhats remain in the densified astral form, and only a small group of Them, because of special missions, preserve their physical bodies. Verily, the burden of their work for the General Good is beyond the imagination!
I should add that the Community is the lighthouse and the sole anchor of humanity. Thus, the best people are under obligation to ease their unbearable burden. And how immense should be our gratitude to these High Spirits who for centuries have sacrificed Themselves. (Letters of Helena Roerich, Vol. I, pp. 459–460)
Shambhala the White Island
Shambhala, or the White Island, is indicated
to the West of Himavat. One must respect the caution with which the approximate
locality of this remarkable sanctuary is divulged.
Bhante-Yul and Dejung are also synonyms for the White
Island.
To the north of Kailas, towards Kun-Inn and Cherchen, was the so-called Aryavarsha, from where the Kalki Avatar is expected.
“The Place of the Three Secrets,” “The Valley
of the Initiation of Buddha”—these indications impel the consciousness
of the people to the same direction, beyond the white ranges of the Himalayas.
Shambhala itself is the Holy Place, where the earthly
world links with the highest states of consciousness. In the East they
know that there exists two highest states of consciousness. In the East
they know that there exists two Shambhalas—an earthly and an invisible
one. Many speculations have been made about the location of the earthly
Shambhala. Certain indications put this place in the extreme North, explaining
that the rays of Aurora Borealis are the rays of the invisible Shambhala.
This attribution to the North is easily understood—the ancient name of
Shambhala is Chang-Shambhala, and this means the Northern Shambhala. The
origin of this name is explained as follows: The Teaching originally was
manifested in India, to which everything emanating from beyond the Himalayas
is naturally North. North of Benares is a village, Shambhala, connected
with the legend of Maitreya. Hence it is apparent why the Trans-Himalayan
Shambhala is called Northern Shambhala.
Several indications, blended in symbols, place Shambhala
on the Pamir, in Turkestan or Central Gobi….
The many misconceptions about the geographical location
of Shambhala have natural reasons. In all books on Shambhala, as well as
in all the narrated legends about it, its location is described in most
symbolic language, almost undecipherable to the uninitiate.
For instance, take the translation by Prof. Grunwedel of The Path to Shambhala, the famous book written by the Third Tashi Lama. You are overwhelmed by the number of geographical indications, so blended and mixed, that only great knowledge of old Buddhist places and of local names can assist you to disentangle its complicated web.
Quite easily, one may understand why such a veil was needed. One of the Mahatmas was asked why They so carefully hide Their Ashrams. The Mahatma answered:
“Otherwise an endless procession from West and East, North and South would overflow our remote places, where, uninvited, nobody may disturb our studies.” (Heart of Asia, pp. 132–33)
Geographical Location
Bear in mind that the exact geographical location of the main Stronghold can never be given, not even those of the individual Ashrams. (Letters of Helena Roerich, Vol. I, p. 255)
Reaching the Community
Trace how the word Shambhala is uttered in
the East. Try to penetrate, even in a small way, into the ideology of this
concept. Try to understand the rhythm of structure of speech about Shambhala,
and you will perceive a great reality which causes the harp strings of
humanity to vibrate. Let reason help you to ponder on the values accumulated
by the best strivings. In the book, “Community” the concept of Shambhala
cannot be omitted.
Friends, apprehend what a tensed and beautiful time the
present is!
Departing from Our mountains, you will inevitably experience a feeling of anguish. This sensation, with a psychic basis, is unavoidably augmented by the impossibility of relating what has taken place. Apart from exceptional, indicated cases, no one who has been with Us will tell anything.
I advise him who wishes to reach Our Community to add to his knowledge. After the general school education, the people of the West usually forsake knowledge, or else they draw out from knowledge a tenuous thread of specialization instead of weaving the whole network of the catch.
When we say, “Know,” We are insisting upon
a many-sided survey and mastery of possibilities.
The dream to return to the mountain valley, where it
is possible to increase knowledge, will constantly lead to the attainment.
It is necessary to remember that the influx of knowledge should be incessant.
Chiefly, preserve the striving which propels all the systems of cognition.
Striving is the key to the lock. (New Era Community, para. 242–243)
We are told that Shamballa is the Father’s Home, the Stronghold, the head center of the planet, where the Will of God is known. It is formed by great streams of energy, in the whirlpool of which great Initiates function. It is the Highest Measure because it leads the evolution of all kingdoms in Nature.
All Nature aspires toward Shamballa. This is the Center of highest achievement on this planet, which inspires vision, bestows revelations and extends the call for conscious evolution. This Center is, in a way, the last home of a human being on this planet. It is his future. All conscious evolution is directed toward that Center, toward that Achievement.
Mankind is divided into two groups of people:
those who deny Shamballa as the possibility of ultimate achievement and
those who are conscious of Shamballa as the guiding star to their Selves,
age after age.
Once when I was giving a lecture a young boy asked, “Why
are the Great Ones called Masters?” I said, “A Master is your future. Eventually
you will be so beautiful, so graceful, so powerful, so righteous and so
victorious that people will look upon you as their ideal, as their dream,
as their future. When you become such a person, would it be wrong if people
who are in your present stage of consciousness called you a Master?”
Shamballa is the future. It stands for the great revelations to come, for great achievements of human beings to come. Those who function in Shamballa were once men and women like you and I, but throughout many centuries, They mastered life. This is our glorious future, too.
Those who do not believe in Shamballa deny
their own future. Once Christ said, “In the future, you will do greater
things than I did.” This is a great affirmation of the future of the human
being. Our future achievement will be so great that eventually we will
become petals in the head center of the planet. (Talks On Agni,
pp. 40–41)
In a remote part of the Himalayas is a sacred valley in which Great Beings gather to invoke energy from the Most High. The legend tells us that Christ comes and blesses all initiates, disciples and aspirants for one minute. In actuality that one-minute blessing lasts for an eternity. The Wesak ceremony has many symbols. The participants chant great mantrams. There is actually a profound electrical power that is found in the sounding of the mantrams, a power similar to what is radiated when a group sounds the Great Invocation with great concentration….
You can learn of this spiritual and sacred ceremony
throughout history in both legend and tradition. But in 
reality
some people actually see and/or participate in the exact ceremony. We are told,
for example, that Helena Roerich, and H. P. Blavatsky had memories of attending
the ceremony. Some disciples consciously attend the ceremony in their astral
body, others in their mental body, and the more advanced ones, in their spiritual
body. If you attend the ceremony, you may have a conscious memory of the experience
or you may attend without the memory of the experience. Memory depends upon
the purity of your consciousness and the level of your contact with higher planes.
Whether in attendance of the ceremony or not, the effects of the ceremony are
experienced all over the world.
The Wesak Festival is held on the physical, emotional, mental and intuitional planes— four different levels of consciousness. If you want to attend the ceremony on the physical plane, you need to secure a means of travel to arrive at the Himalayan Mountains. The same is true with subjective travel. If you want to attend the ceremony on the emotional plane you must have experience and knowledge in how to use the emotional body as a vehicle, or mechanism, in which to “travel.” If you want to enter into the higher worlds, you must know how to engage your mental vehicle.
If you only have a physical vehicle, you will see the physical part of the ceremony. A few years ago some students of the Ageless Wisdom made a video of their trek to the Wesak Festival. We were able to view the ceremony as it took place upon the physical plane. But in order to attend the other aspects of the ceremony, for example, the astral level of the ceremony, requires that you have an emotional vehicle that travels in a very pure emotional world, not laden with glamors, low level desires, etc. The same law applies to the mental equivalent of that event: if your mental vehicle is built and pure, you can experience the ceremony on that level. If your intuitional body is built, you can view the entire solemnity, beauty and magnificence of the whole of the Wesak ceremony. You can observe the whole process. You will recognize the subtle magnetic sphere the Masters created in the valley of the Himalayas; you can see the distribution of the energy as it affects and relates to disciples everywhere. You can see the Great Chohans in their subtle bodies and even the protective invisible electric wall that surrounds the valley, repelling all those who try to attend the ceremony, those whose readiness is not yet qualified.
To have a memory of the experience you must have continuity of consciousness, a constructed bridge between the lower and higher mind. Without the constructed bridge, when you return from the ceremony, there is no way to record the experience. Such a person will retain the energy of beauty, joy and bliss, but not have any memory of the experience.
Many people have a glamor about attending the Wesak Festival. But actually until our lives are constructed from the fabric of service, selflessness, solemnity, and used as an instrument of the Great Ones, it is more important to work on ourselves and get our physical, emotional and mental bodies in a harmonious pattern. We must start to purify our bodies and build the bridge, sometimes called the Rainbow Bridge, through occult meditation.
In the book Symphony of the Zodiac by Torkom Saraydarian, we are given a few ways that a person can participate in the ceremony. The wisest action that you can take, each year, is to set aside the seven days of the Wesak Festival as the most holy days of your life and use them to work upon yourself. This year the seven-day period begins Sunday, May 15 and continues through Saturday, May 21.
The first three days can be days dedicated to right living, purification, and sublimation of all that works against the purpose of your physical, emotional and mental nature and transformation of the lower vehicles. On the day of contact, the actual day of the Wesak Festival, align your entire nature toward all that is beautiful and to all that is good and honest. On this day of contact you can strive to make contact with your Soul. At the moment of contact, your Master will focus his eyes upon you and you will feel the energies penetrating into your aura causing a moment of supreme enlightenment—enlightenment of your mind and consciousness, a moment when the hidden light in the atoms and cells of your vehicles will be released. You will feel like a part of you has been born again. (Total transfiguration takes place when your soul takes the Third Initiation.)
The actual day of Wesak and the three days following the day of contact can be used to give your love, beauty and compassion to your family, your group and to the world. Send it to the Hierarchy, to your Teachers, to the New Group of World Servers and to humanity.
PART II
At the Wesak ceremony when the Great One comes, he does not come in a human image, but in a condensed Light. This Light is then transferred to members of Shamballa. The Purpose of the Light is the Will of God. Once the Hierarchy receives the Light, the Will of God, they discuss it. They discuss how the Will of God and the Purpose of Life can slowly be taught to Humanity. Then, the Purpose changes into a Plan, in which each level must be considered. They create a Plan that is tied to Purpose and to human need. They make a balance sheet—they think about what has been accomplished in the past and what They can do now. They think, “How can we plan and organize our armies to live in brotherhood in all fields of human endeavor?
After They make the Plan, the Plan is projected
to Initiates, then to Disciples, then to Aspirants and then to humanity.
What is projected? A strong, electrical, powerful energy is projected,
and the impact on humanity creates two results:
The Hierarchy Also Looks at the Balance Sheets
Self-Examination at Wesak
The man became indignant. “Instead of my gold, a stone is given to me. What is a far-off star to me?” And in dejection he cast the stone into the mountain stream.
But the Teacher came and said, “How did you find the Treasure? In the stone was contained the most precious diamond, sparkling beyond all earthly gems.”
In despair the man rushed to the stream. And following the current he descended lower and lower, but the ripples of the waves forever hid the treasure.
Take a look at yourself—your ego, your vanity, your viewpoint. You can renounce certain things from yourself. This Wesak, renounce 25%, next Wesak another 25%, and so on. Look at your balance sheet to see how much of you is spiritual and how much material. If our image begins to degenerate, we know we are selling ourselves. If we are blooming, we know we are assimilating the energy from the Most High.
Masters and Hierarchy
A Sunday Talk by Joleen Du Bois
We are told, “Hierarchy is
the living Headquarters of a World Educational Group.”
“Most of the members of the Hierarchy live
in the world now or in the past. They have mastered Their lives, Their
personalities, Their minds, Their bodies, and became perfect on all levels
of consciousness. They have bodies like us. Some have bodies, which are
etherically composed; others can materialize and look like we do.”
We are given stories about how some members of the Hierarchy
came and appeared and talked about matters of great national or international
importance and then disappeared. Helena Roerich, in one of her unpublished
letters to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, told him about these Great
Ones.
In writing to President Roosevelt, Madame Roerich says she is offering him the Highest Help, the “Help which since time immemorial stands on constant Vigil, observing and directing the march of world events into the saving channels.”
She relates how the Higher Help is made manifest in “most unexpected and manifold aspects, through forwarding and counsels.”
Among the many examples she gives to Pres. Roosevelt are the warnings that came from the Count Saint Germain, a member of the Himalayan Community, to the ill-fated Marie Antoinette—frequent warnings by letters, personal visits and so forth, about the danger threatening the country, the Royal House and its friends. But all his saving warnings and advices were regarded as offences and fraud.
There were the warnings given to Napoleon, who during the first years of his glory liked to mention his Guiding Star, but who, nevertheless, did not accept the entire Advice. Driven by pride, Napoleon went against the essential condition to abstain from attacking Russia. He neglected the benevolent warning and, of course, the defeat of his army and his own tragic end is well known.
President George Washington had counsel from a mysterious Professor…. Thus his success.
Likewise during the Historical Assembly, at the creation of America’s Declaration of Independence, the fact was registered as to how at the crucial moment of hesitation and indecisiveness, from amidst the audience rose a tall stranger who finished his flaming speech with the call: “America shall be free!” The enthusiasm of the Assembly was kindled and the Declaration of Independence was signed. When those who were present wished to greet “him who had helped them accept this great decision,” the stranger could no more be found; he had disappeared.
The threatening events in America that Abraham Lincoln confronted during his presidency caused him to say, “Those events have come and the forerunners of the decisive hour are crowding at the threshold!” But the same Higher source from the Hierarchy affirms: “America has reached the boundary of the turning point in her history. Precisely, America can reach her great significance and peaceful bounty. The Counsel is ready for America and it is useful for her to accept it, for else, many are the examples of grave consequences of rejection.”
“In the Far East, the great Mongol emperor, King Akbar, was continuously in contact with Hierarchy. Once he was hunting, and his party surrounded many deer and wild animals. This large party of people intended to kill the animals. Suddenly the voice of Akbar’s Master came. He said, ‘Meet Me under that tree.’ What they conversed about was not written down, but when Akbar came back he said, ‘We are not going to kill animals anymore.’
“The hunting party dispersed. They said, ‘We were ready to kill all of these animals.’ ‘You know, they are treasures,’ King Akbar said. ‘We will stop killing them.’ From that date on he made many changes in the palace and in the government. He was so benevolent, so beautiful.”
“We are told that many millions of years ago Great Ones came to infant humanity to teach them. They came from another planet and incarnated on this planet. They became the Kings and Queens and Teachers of humanity. How did they get started? They started with dances, dramas, recitations, chanting, discipline, education, and slowly, slowly, They energized the fire in humanity.
“Behind all progress in humanity we are told that we will find a Master, a Great One, Who inspires humanity.
“The members of the Hierarchy will walk among us. There will be no mine and yours, my religion, my race, my nationality, my country, but there will be a real united symphony of the cream of humanity.”
IN HISTORY
We read that most of these great members of the Hierarchy Who came to the world and gave a higher teaching to us were born from the same Mother. For example,
“They belong to all religions.” Christ had only one religion, which was “love each other as I love you.” Create right human relations, peace on earth, and glory to God. That was His religion.”
“If we keep the simplicity of Christ, how He lived, how He cared for everyone, how He was crucified and suffered for us, we will not speak about preaching and giving sermons. We will love and help each other.
IMMORTALITY
“The members of the Hierarchy were all like us. Eventually some of Them built Their soul. People all over the world think that they are immortal human beings. You will never be immortal until you reach immortality through your own striving, labor, sacrifice, service, and by being a soul.”
In order to become immortal, you must have a connection with your higher principles so that when you die, you are not obliterated and annihilated, but instead you are conscious of the infinite path.
“All members of the Hierarchy demonstrate a life of sacrificial service. All of Them render sacrificial and dedicated service to humanity, not to Their nation only, but to all humanity. They render service to the planet, to the trees, to the rivers and lakes, to the animals, to the angels.”
All of them challenge us to become immortal. Their main topic was [is] to urge us to prepare ourselves for immortality. When They asked Christ how to reach the Kingdom of God—which was asking, How can we reach immortality?— He said, “You can take the Kingdom of God (immortality) by violence.” What is violence? Heavy labor and striving.
“Study, meditate, work, sacrifice, and labor. You are going to work to change yourself. Unless you work and change yourself, you are going to be like a dry leaf that the wind will come and blow away.”
THREE MAIN LABORS
The Hierarchy, we are told, have three main labors:
Christ said in the New Testament “Be courageous; I overcame the world.”
“Be courageous. The work of Great Ones is to create courage in us so that we go home and say, ‘You know, I do not want to stay as I am.’ Once you start not liking yourself, you are stepping on the path of perfection. If you are satisfied with your legs, hair and think that everything is beautiful, you are going to be a stagnated lake, nothing else.
“You are going to leave your image behind
and seek a new image. That is how you advance.”
“ANSWER: Wherever you have a contact with Them, they are there. For us, we think in terms of location. They speak about space being Their home because They are in immediate communication. They are with each other even if They work in different locations on earth. They can see and hear each other any moment, anywhere.
The consciousness of the Higher Adepts has no location. This is a serious concept. Their consciousness functions in all the planes of the Cosmic Physical Plane, as if They were the planes. Non-locality is the characteristic of Their consciousness. They can live in the physical plane but act in the Intuitional Plane. They are always in contact with each other in all planes.
An Adept knows what His disciple is doing at any time, when the disciple thinks about Him, or when the disciple’s mind gives Him a call.
Space and time vanish before a developing consciousness and the consciousness merges into awareness.”
All art used by permission of the Nicholas Roerich Museum.
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