THE SEVEN DAY FULL MOON RITUAL APPROACH FOR LEO, 2016 Planetary and solar fire rituals are part of the emerging New World Religion. As such, it is a Soul-imperative to organize our lives to participate in and take full advantage of the rituals in the life of Sanat Kumara the Lord of the World. Regardless of what we are doing outwardly in the world, an interior Soul focus is what is demanded of us during these sacred times. And thus we serve. A FULL MOON RITUAL OBSERVANCE A Path of Approach to the Spiritual Hierarchy - the Kingdom of Souls Participating in the Solar Fire Full Moons, we come into closer contact with the Spiritual Hierarchy and the Ashram of the Christ Who stands in Its Center. As Souls, we are building fuller Soul consciousness, which will serve to evoke the One Soul of Humanity. Every full moon period has three phases: Preparation, Contact/Registration and Distribution for Giving Blessing giving forth to Humanity and the world that which has been contacted and received. 1
The Master DK wrote that the Preparation phase is designed to enable "confident aspiration to hold the mind steady in the light" of the Soul (the Soul-Mind-Brain alignment). We will add that participating in the Full Moon Approach, month after month, year after year, produces Competence, and becomes a real aid to the inner life and work of workers in the invisible realms. For a fuller and deeper understanding of the depth of The Full Moon Approaches, you can read more in the Supplemental Reading tab by this name. The work we are doing together during the three-phase Approach is best described in Stage III of that document; it also describes (most remarkably and profoundly) the work we are doing throughout the spiritual seasons of the year; as we make ourselves available as a dedicated group to ritual service in the spirit of the New World Religion we avail ourselves of fresh incoming energies directed by the Spiritual Hierarchy for the outworking of the Plan. This is a bold statement, but our experience has born the truth of it. In these rituals, we make extensive use of the Sacred Word, OM, we work with the breath as the life, and we cooperate with the presiding Angel of the Light of the respective Sign who stimulates the Mind of Christ in You with 12 significant Soul powers ; this month we are unfolding and exercising the 5 th power of the True Soul (the spiritual Triad of the Monad, God Immanent) through the sign Leo. You can read more about the correct use of Sounding Forth the OM and communicating with the Angel/Deva Evolution in the Supplemental Reading tab. What follows is a Seven Day Full Moon Ritual Observance. (You may participate in a shorter ritual of 5 days or 3 days by combining the meditations and practices, each containing three Phases: Preparation, Day of Contact, and Distribution) Seven Day ritual service: three days of Preparation before the Full Moon Day, the Full Moon day of Contact, and three days of Distribution after the Full Moon Day. Five day ritual service: two days of Preparation before the Full Moon Day, the Full Moon day of Contact, and two days of Distribution after the Full Moon Day. Three day ritual service: one day of Preparation before the Full Moon Day, the Full Moon day of Contact, and one day of Distribution after the Full Moon Day. 2
The Seven Day Full Moon ritual observance for Leo begins on Monday, August 15 in the northern hemisphere. The exact Day of the Full Moon in the sign Leo is Thursday, August 18 - in the northern hemisphere; the exact times are as follows for the U.S., Europe and the South Pacific: UNITED STATES: 2:28 AM, Pacific and 5:28 AM Eastern Time Zones EUROPE: 9:28 AM, GMT and 10:28 AM, BST Dunedin, NZ: 9:28 PM, on August 19 Reminder: Be in meditation a minimum of 30 minutes before the exact moment of the Full Moon, at which time the Great Invocation is sounded. At the sounding of the Great Invocation, we are consciously linked with all Participating Souls around the world, inner and outer, and the Spiritual Hierarchy within whose center stands the Christ the Coming One. Last Edited: 8/15/16; 8:28 PM Pacific Time 3
DAY I: PREPARATION - Building Confidence and Competence: Aligning Soul, mind and brain To do this fully, 1) we remind ourselves of the purpose of the Breath, 2) we engage the spiritual power of the sacred Word, OM, sounded forth audibly and silently, and 3) we make a felt contact with the Angel or Angelic Energy of the sign (for Leo, it is the 5 th petal of the Heart in the Head Center). A few suggestive thoughts about each (from the Ageless Wisdom Teachings) now follow. Please read what follows meditatively, before beginning the formal meditation. THE PURPOSE OF THE BREATH "The breath is the life and pours through all the centers." (Rays and Initiations, 161) All our breaths during meditation will be taken with this awareness - that the breath is the life pouring through all of our centers. When we sound forth the sacred word, OM, it is as a sacred breath of Life. THE SACRED WORD, OM, SOUNDED FORTH The Sound or the Sacred Word when correctly used has various effects which might be touched upon here. OM sounded forth, with intent thought behind it, acts as a disturber and a loosener of the coarse matter of the body of thought, of emotion, and of the physical body. When sounded forth with intense spiritual aspiration behind it, it acts as an attractive medium, and gathers in particles of pure matter to fill the places of those earlier thrown out. Students should strive to have these two activities in their minds as they use the sacred Word in their meditation. This utilization of the Word is of practical value, and results in the building of good bodies for the use of the soul. The use of the OM serves also to indicate to the workers on the universal planes, and to those in the outer world who are gifted with spiritual perception that a disciple is available for work and can be utilized actively in the needed places of the earth. This should be borne in mind by all aspirants and should serve as an incentive in making the outer phenomenal life coincide with the spiritual impulse. (Treatise on White Magic, 140/141) 4
FELT CONTACT with the ANGEL or Energy of the Sign corresponding to the petal of the Heart in the Head Center. It might be of interest here to point out that when He comes Whom angels and men await, and Whose work it is to inaugurate the new age and so complete the work He began in Palestine two thousand years ago, He will bring with Him some of the great Angels, as well as certain of the Masters. The angels have ever been active in Biblical history, and will again enter into the lives of human beings with more power than has lately been the case. The call has gone out for them again to approach humanity, and with their heightened vibration and superior knowledge unite their forces with those of the Christ and His disciples for the helping of the race. (Externalization of the Hierarchy, 508) With the coming in of this seventh Ray of Ceremonial Magic the deva [angelic] and human evolution will, during the next five hundred years, become more conscious of each other, and be able therefore more freely to co-operate the benefit to both groups will be mutual. The human evolution should give strength to the deva, and the deva, joy to the human. Man should communicate to the devas the objective point of view, while they in turn will pour in on him their healing magnetism. They are the custodians of prana, magnetism and vitality, just as man is the custodian of the fifth principle, or manas. (Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 183) SUGGESTION regarding the MEDITATION proper: Hold these meditation instructions lightly. They are a form and as is true of all forms, they must naturally be adapted to the need and demand of the moment. Allow the meditation to serve as a guide, but no more. Also, be aware of what is happening rather than trying to make something happen. In this way, you will be allowing what really wants to happen to do so. Do the meditation as described and simultaneously let go. allowing the Angel to do its work. For example, when visualizing the light pouring down from the Crown Chakra through the central column, the Angel took over and greatly broadened the channel column... 5
MEDITATION DAY ONE Track 06 - The Drone the original Harold Moses Begin with the following Seed Thoughts: Leo develops the Light of the Soul. Throughout the universe, it is the Soul which is the conscious, sensitive theme of the divine plan. "The breath is the life and pours through all the centers." (R&I, 161) Take in a deep breath the Breath of Life. Sounding forth a sacred OM, come into conscious alignment with the Soul, the Christ in you. Bring your awareness into the center of the head. Using the creative imagination, visualize light. With a deep breath of life, sound forth the sacred OM allowing its vibration to flow forth through you and expanding the light into a bright and radiant sphere of love and light. Pause. Sounding forth a sacred OM, lift the sphere of light into the Crown Center above the head seeing it rest within the Heart in the Head Center the 12-petaled Lotus". Sounding forth a silent OM, intend for the OM to vibrationally resonate with the Energy of the 5 th petal that is governed by the Angel of Leo. Join with the joyous presence and magical powers of the intelligent and loving Angel of Light working with you now. With the next in-breathe, breathe in the life-giving powers and qualities of the Angel of the fifth petal. On the out-breath, visualize the energy contacted flowing down through your central spinal column gently infusing all the etheric centers of your 6
body then flowing out through the small chakras in the bottom of your feet into and blessing the earth. With the next in-breath and outbreath, sound forth a silent OM, once again visualizing the energies passing down from the Crown Center this time pausing briefly at the Ajna Center (center of forehead), the Throat center, and the Heart center before continuing on down and passing through the remaining centers, heightening each with a new vibration before passing through the small chakras in the feet to bless the earth (this can be done in one sweeping movement, or you may take more time where more than one in and out-breath is needed). Contemplate: The Soul is the Mind of Christ in you. As the Soul-Mind-Brain is aligned and functioning as One our minds and brains open to and are further infused with the Mind of Christ that lifts the matter of each subtle body to a higher vibration. We become increasingly embodied by the living Christ Presence walking the planes of earth. The Mind of Christ in you is infused by the essence, energy, sound, vibration, qualities and gifts, and specific potencies that are inherent in each of the Petals of the Heart in the Head. Sound a silent OM to seal in this realization. (Repeat often). Be grateful. Listen for the Voice and vibration of the Christ... now and throughout the days ahead. Listen for the Voice of the inner Master. Know that the Breath of Life that is vivifying the substance of the forms we inhabit is also magnifying the light of your awareness and opening your Heart of Love wider to accept and reveal the inner God and the Love of God for all beings. Vow to walk and live this day (and the days ahead) as never before, preserving your At- One-Ment (of the Soul-Mind-Brain) with the living Presence of the Christ in you in all as a steady-state vibration. Sound forth the sacred OM (softly or silently). Let the Sound of your Day be an inner...sacred sounding... of Silence. Sound the Great Invocation (provided below). (Above Meditation was edited on 8/15/16 8:32 PM, Pacific Time) 7
MEDITATION DAY TWO Let us begin with the following thoughts in mind: As a group we are building and amplifying our Group Soul with other Group Souls around the world, and that greater group known as the (New) Group of World Servers. The field of love we create through united group meditations and heart-inspired Love awakens and cultivates the Soul of Humanity. Contemplate: The heart center corresponds to the Heart of the Sun and therefore to the spiritual source of light and love. (Esoteric Healing, 156) MEDITATION: The Breath is the Life pouring through all the centers. Take in a deep breath as the Breath of Life. Visualize our sun as a radiant solar orb forever giving forth Life. Breathe in the breath of life from the Heart of the Sun, our source of Life. (Do this for several breaths (giving sufficient time) until you have a felt sense of the life of the Sun radiating throughout your etheric body). Receive from the heart of the sun its life-giving powers of Livingness radiant Light. magnanimous Love. 8
As we breathe in the breath of life from the heart of the sun, every conscious in-breath becomes a deeper and truer contact with Reality the Love Energy from the Heart of the Sun. With every conscious outbreath, we send forth radiant essence throughout our being, into the world through the greater Group, into the Heart of Humanity Know this deeply as a fact. Sound forth a silent OM to seal in this vibration. Focus on the Soul Star Group Briefly focus on the central white and blue Star at the center of the Soul Star Group to acknowledge and appreciate the presence of the Christ Who is sending forth rays of Love, Inspiration and Gratitude to all who turn towards Him and resonate with His vibration. Focused on the Soul Star Group, Taking a slow deep Breath, on the out-breath see yourself as a sphere of radiant Christ light standing in a large luminous circle of Light with and among all participating Souls who have gathered to comprise the Soul Star Group. OM. With a ray of lighted Love, connect heart to heart with all Participating Souls. Visualizing one simultaneous raying forth, Soul to Soul, to 1000 radiant spheres of lighted Love. See the Soul Star group absorbing all the colored Rays of all our Souls - each a resonating Sound of Soul notes, vibrating an essential essence... blending into a harmonious Unity... emitting a 'singing sounding symphony... 9
See the group Light and Love expanding... and intensifying. As a group Soul, let us recognize that a living Presence is embodying this form... Feel its life, giving and growing. Recognize its power to Illumine, Love and heal. Let the power of this Love resound in the Heart and Soul of Humanity. Let the Heart of Humanity be infused and irradiated with the Love of the Christ Through our sensed visualization, the soul of Humanity is evoked into fuller expression. Let this increasing vibration of Beauty reach the Heart of the Spiritual Hierarchy Let this Love beam forth into the Heart of He Who stands at Its Center the Christ Teacher and Leader alike of Angels and of Men (Humanity). Let us see our Soul Star Group giving and receiving That Heart Let us see the Soul Star Group nestled within the matrix of the Seven times Seven Ashrams of the Christ and growing with useful purpose. Let us sound forth a silent OM sealing in this new vibration. On this Day, let us walk the planes of Earth as if we are living from the Heart of the Sun the Heart of Love Wisdom. Today we are participating in creating a sacred space to live from the Heart of the Sun. Today, may the Heart of the Christ and the Heart of the Sun sound and resound in the Group Heart and our individual hearts - each alive with new life, new love and new light. Throughout this day, come here often consciously entering the perfume of the Magnanimous Soul Star intensifying with living, lighted, loving power. SOUND THE GREAT INVOCATION (provided below) OM Edited 8/16/16 3:49 PM Pacific Time; Edited 8/16/16 7:03 PM Pacific Time 10
MEDITATION DAY THREE Let us begin with the following SEED thoughts in mind: Throughout the universe, it is the Soul which is the conscious, sensitive theme of the divine Plan. The whole story can be summed up in the word "sensitivity" and this sensitivity can be studied in four stages: 1. Sensitivity to the environment; 2. Sensitivity to the will, wishes and desires of the personality; 3. Sensitivity to the Soul; 4. The spiritual sensitivity of the God-Man (the soul and personality fused) to the environment - the liberated man who is not conditioned by his environment but begins the arduous task of conditioning it in relation to the divine plan and purpose, and at the same time cultivating sensitivity to the higher impacts of those worlds which lead to the final goal. (Esoteric Astrology, 295) MEDITATION: The Breath is the Life pouring through all the centers. Take in a deep breath, the Breath of Life. On the outbreath, sound forth the OM, loosening and discarding atoms of lower vibration making it possible to draw in atoms of higher vibration atoms that are fit for this day and every day hereafter. Visualize our sun as a radiant solar orb forever giving forth It s Life. Breath in the breath of Life from the heart of the sun Receive the life-giving powers of Livingness of radiant Light. of magnanimous Love. (Allow sufficient time for this exercise - for a felt sense of the life of the Sun radiating throughout your etheric body). 11
As we breathe in the breath of life from the heart of the sun, every conscious in-breath becomes a deeper and truer contact with Reality the Love Energy from the Heart of the Sun. With every conscious outbreath, send forth radiant life essence throughout our being, into the world, through the greater Group, into the Heart of Humanity Know this deeply as a fact. Sound forth a silent OM to seal in this vibration. Let us focus on the Soul Star Group Let us see gathered 1000 radiant spheres of light of Participating Souls. From your heart to theirs, see a simultaneous raying forth of lighted Love, Soul to Soul. Take time now to feel into and sense the Soul Star Group as One whole pulsing as one beating, unified heart filled-full with virtues through our unified connection. Let us visualize the Soul Star group linking in vibrational resonance with the great potency of the Inner Groups the Ashrams of the Masters of Love-Wisdom standing round the Christ. Sounding forth a Sacred OM, send forth a ray of Love and Gratitude to the central Star the Heart of the group where stands the Christ. 12
Sound forth a sacred OM and on that Sound let us open to and be impressed by the higher sensitivity that the sign Leo engenders for All Souls. Throughout the universe, it is the Soul which is the conscious, sensitive theme of the divine Plan. Sensitivity is a felt sense of the subtle energies of the Soul on all planes. Let us recognize that every soul expansion occurs through increased Soul Sensitivity. Today, let us prepare for the Full Moon energies tomorrow today, let us cultivate the two higher aspects of sensitivity Sensitivity to the Soul, and, the Spiritual Sensitivity of the God-Man who is simultaneously conditioning the environment for the outworking of the divine Plan and Purpose, and cultivating a sensitivity to the higher impacts of those worlds which lead to the final goal. Today, let us stand increasingly open and sensitive to the light and love of the energies of the Christ through which flows the Love of God from the Heart Center of the Sun. On this day, let us move deeper into the aura of the Christ embraced by His unifying Love, illuminating Light and purposeful Will. Throughout this day, come here often consciously enter the perfume of the Magnanimous Soul Star a Star that is intensifying with living, lighted, loving power to be made useful for the purpose of the Christ. SOUND THE GREAT INVOCATION (provided below) OM LAST EDITED: 8/16/16 8:00 PM Pacific Time 13
DAY FOUR: FULL MOON DAY DAY OF CONTACT and SAFEGUARDING DAYS OF REGISTRATION/DISTRIBUTION DAYS FIVE, SIX and SEVEN 14
(The Great Invocation below combines the alternate version [in brackets]) THE GREAT INVOCATION From the point of Light within the Mind of God Let light stream forth into the minds of men [into human minds]. Let Light descend on Earth. From the point of Love within the Heart of God Let love stream forth into the hearts of men [into human hearts]. May Christ [the Coming One] return to Earth. From the center where the Will of God is known Let purpose guide the little wills of men [guide human will ] The purpose which the Masters know and serve. From the center which we call the race of men [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 Sound forth a sacred Om (embodying and distributing the Light of God) Sound forth a sacred Om (embodying and distributing the Love of God) Sound forth a sacred Om (embodying and distributing the Life, Will and Purpose of God) 15
And Help Us To Do Our Part The Great Invocation is a World Prayer sounded forth daily by the Christ and Disciples around the World. 16