The Festival of Humanity
DEA READER: In this final column on the Full Moon Festivals let me begin with a quote from the same booklet: "The Three Festivals of Spring" (MGNA. Box 566, Ojai, CA, 93023.)
"The Full Moon of June is recognized as that of the Christ, just as the full Moon of May is that of the Buddha. It has long been a legend (and who shall say that it is not a fact?) that at each Full Moon of June, Christ repeats and preaches again to the hearts and minds of men the last sermon of the Buddha, thus linking the full enlightenment of the pre-Christian era and the vision of the Buddha to the cycle of the distribution of the energy of love, for which Christ is responsible. On this Festival, for two thousand years, the Christ has represented humanity and has stood before the Hierarchy and in the sight of Shamballa as the God-Man, the leader of His people and the 'Eldest in a great family of brothers'.
"This is, therefore, a festival of deep invocation and appeal, of a basic spiritual aspiration toward fellowship, of human and spiritual unity, and represents the effect in the human consciousness of the work of the Buddha and of the Christ. It is known also as the Festival of Unification or the Festival of Goodwill.
"During this transitional period in history, at the beginning of one age and the end of another, the past and the future have swung into conflict. The Piscean influence is not yielding without struggle to the potent Aquarian energies, and the immediate effect is the destruction of the old forms so the new can be built. Men know fear and separateness. The problems of war seem insoluble, yet all the while the rush for money and material possessions, and the search for pleasure, continue. At the same time more and more people are seeking for spiritual Reality, and a great expansion of consciousness is taking place."
There is more in this booklet that I would like to share with you but space does not permit. The most important thing at this time is for you to become aware consciously that great changes are taking place in the world as we know it, including in our forms of religious observations.
This does not mean that all the old will be 'thrown out' for there is much that is good in that with which we are familiar, but it does mean that it is important for each of us to take our 'blinders' off and realize that there is also much that is good in other practices with which we are unfamiliar.
If at all possible, I urge you to find a group (probably they will be linked with a Light Center, some esoteric group, etc.) who will be celebrating these Festivals in your community. Enter wholeheartedly into this experience and feel for yourself the enriching, enlightening, inspiring energies that will be available to you.