Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00457)

Hallo Daniel; on the message 10619 from Theos-Talk the url 
bernie.cncfamily.com is out of the picture.
Here I sent the page of The reappaerance of the christ chapterIII 
from http://www.lucistrust.org/arcane/rocexcerpts.shtml

It is fine you compare from Blavatsky and Bailey, so we can look over 
it.Also message 10662 and 10703.(HerbertArmstrong I read before I 
knew aboutTheosofy)
Thanx.
In Holland this question is up to date now.

By the way I am also interested what Frank R "Rings the Bell" has to 
say on your message 15413-14, we will see!!!!!!
Bye, Christina.

adapted from Chapter III of the book
The Reappearance of the Christ by Alice A. Bailey)

Throughout the ages the coming of an Avatar, the advent of a Coming 
One and the reappearance of the Christ have been the keynotes of the 
prevalent expectancy. The reappearance of the Christ, the Avatar, has 
long been anticipated by the faithful in both hemispheres--not only 
by Christians, but by those who look for the Maitreya and for the 
Bodhisattva as well as those who expect the Imam Mahdi. The doctrine 
of Mediators, of Messiahs, of Christs and of Avatars runs like a 
golden thread through all the world faiths and scriptures. When the 
times are ripe, the invocation of the masses is strident enough and 
the faith of those who know is keen enough, then always He has come 
and today will be no exception to this ancient rule, a universal law.

It is the physical Presence upon our planet of such recognised 
spiritual figures as the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days; the 
seven Spirits Who are before the throne of God; the Buddha, the 
spiritual leader of the East, and the Christ, the spiritual leader of 
the West—all of Whom are brought at this climaxing time to our 
attention. The vague belief in Their existence, the dreamy 
speculations as to Their work and Their interest in human welfare, 
and the unconvinced, yet hopeful, wishful thinking of believers (and 
also unbelievers), will soon give place to certain knowledge, to 
visual recognition, to provable signs of executive work and to the 
reorganisation (by people of unusual potency) of the political, 
religious, economic and social life of humanity.

All this will not come as the result of some proclamation or some 
stupendous planetary event which will force human beings everywhere 
to say: "Lo: He is there! Lo: Here are the signs of His divinity!" 
for that would evoke only antagonism and laughter, resistance or 
fanatical credulity. It will come as a recognition of potency in 
leadership, through dynamic but logical changes in world affairs, and 
through action taken by the masses of the people from the depths of 
their own consciousness.

God Transcendent, greater, vaster and more inclusive than His created 
world, is universally recognised and has been generally emphasised; 
all faiths can say with Shri Krishna (speaking as God, the Creator) 
that "having pervaded the whole universe with a fragment of Myself, I 
remain." This God Transcendent has dominated the religious thinking 
of millions of simple and spiritually minded people down the 
centuries which have elapsed since humanity began to press forward 
towards divinity.

Slowly, there is dawning upon the awakening consciousness of 
humanity, the great paralleling truth of God Immanent—
divinely "pervading" all forms, conditioning from within all kingdoms 
in nature, expressing innate divinity through human beings and—two 
thousand years ago—portraying the nature of that divine Immanence in 
the Person of the Christ. Today, as an outcome of this unfolding 
divine Presence, there is entering into the minds of people 
everywhere a new concept: that of "Christ in us, the hope of glory." 
(Col. 1.27.) There is a growing and developing belief that Christ is 
in us, as He was in the Master Jesus, and this belief will alter 
world affairs and humanity's entire attitude to life.

Today Christ is nearer to humanity than at any other time in human 
history; He is closer than the most aspiring and hopeful disciple 
knows, and can draw closer still if what is here written is 
understood and brought to the attention of people everywhere. For 
Christ belongs to humanity, to the world of human beings, and not 
alone to the churches and religious faiths throughout the world.
Today, another recognition is becoming possible. It is the 
recognition everywhere of the imminent return of Christ (if such a 
phrase can be true of someone Who has never left us!) and of the new 
spiritual opportunities which this event will make possible.

The basis for this recognition lies in the deep-seated conviction, 
innate in the human consciousness, that some great Teacher, some 
Saviour, Revealer, Lawgiver or divine Representative must come forth 
from the world of spiritual realities, because of human need and 
human demand. Always down the centuries, at the hour of humanity's 
greatest need and in response to its voiced demand, a divine Son of 
God has come forth and under many different names. Then the Christ 
came and apparently left us, with His work unfinished and His vision 
for humanity not yet consummated. For two thousand years it has 
seemed as if all His work had been blocked, frustrated, and of no 
avail, for the growth of the churches during the centuries is no 
guarantee of the spiritual success at which He aimed. It needed more 
than theological interpretations and the numerical growth of the 
world religions (including Christianity and Buddhism) to prove His 
world mission successfully carried forward. It all seemed impossible, 
necessitating three conditions; under these a test of His work could 
be attempted; today these three conditions are proven facts. First, 
as we have seen, a general planetary condition which has 
unfortunately (owing to men and women's selfishness) proved to be so 
catastrophic in nature that humanity has been forced to recognise the 
cause and source of the disaster; secondly, a spiritual awakening 
which would have its impulse in the deepest depths of human 
consciousness and such is the case today as a result of the World War 
(1914-1945); thirdly, a steadily mounting invocative cry, prayer or 
demand, directed toward high spiritual sources, no matter by what 
name such sources may be called.

The idea of the return of Christ is a most familiar one, and the 
concept of the Son of God returning in response to human need has its 
place in the teaching of the majority of the world faiths. Ever since 
He apparently departed to the sphere where the faithful have put Him, 
little groups of these people have reasoned themselves into the 
belief that on such and such a date He will come back, and ever their 
prophecies and expectancies have been doomed to failure. He has not 
come. Such people have been laughed at by the crowd and rebuked by 
the intelligent. Their eyes have not seen Him and there has been no 
tangible indication of His Presence. Today, thousands know that He 
will come; that plans for His coming are already set on foot, but 
they set no date or hour. The time is known only to the two or three, 
but "in such an hour as ye think not, He will come." (Matt. XXIV.44.)

A truth hard for the orthodox thinker of any faith to accept is the 
fact that Christ cannot return because He has always been here upon 
our Earth, watching over the spiritual destiny of humanity; He has 
never left us but, in physical body and securely concealed (though 
not hidden), He has guided the affairs of the Spiritual Hierarchy, of 
His disciples and workers Who are unitedly pledged with Him to Earth 
service. He can only re-appear. It is a spiritual fact that those who 
have passed from the cave of the tomb into the fullness of the 
resurrection life can be seen and at the same time evade the vision 
of the believer. Seeing and recognition are two very different 
things, and one of the great recognitions of mankind in the near 
future is the recognition that always He has been with us, sharing 
with us the familiar usefulness and peculiar characteristics of our 
civilisation and its many gifts to humanity.

The early signs of His approach with His disciples can already be 
discerned by those who note and rightly interpret the signs of the 
times. There is (among these signs) the coming together spiritually 
of those who love their fellow men and women. This is in reality the 
organising of the outer physical army of the Lord—an army which has 
no weapons but those of love, of right speech and right human 
relations. This unknown organisation has proceeded with phenomenal 
speed during the aftermath of war, because humanity is sick of hate 
and controversy.

The general staff of the Christ is already active in the form of the 
New Group of World Servers; they are as potent a body of forerunners 
as has ever preceded a great world Figure into the arena of human 
living. Their work and influence is already seen and felt in every 
land, and nothing can destroy that which they have accomplished. The 
spiritual and organising effect of expressed and voiced invocation 
has been also attempted since 1935, and the energy of the invocative 
cry of humanity has been directed into those channels which reach 
from Earth to that High Place where dwells the Christ. From there, it 
has been transmitted to those still higher spheres where the 
attention of the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, the Father 
of all, plus the Creative Energies and Living Beings Who dwell there 
with Him, can be focussed on humanity and those steps can be taken 
which will embody more rapidly the Purposes of God.

For the first time in human history, the demand of the people of the 
Earth is so potent and so in line with divine direction, in time and 
space, that the end is inevitably sure; the looked-for spiritual 
Representative must come forth; this time He will not come alone but 
will be accompanied by Those Whose lives and words will evoke 
recognition in every department of human thinking. The symbolic 
prophecies found in all the world Scriptures anent this imminent 
event will prove their veracity; their symbolism will nevertheless 
elicit re-interpretation; circumstances and happenings will not 
necessarily be exactly as the Scriptures would appear to indicate. 
For instance, He will come indeed in the "clouds of the air" (Matt. 
XXVI.64), as the Christian Scriptures say, but of what great interest 
is that when millions come and go in the clouds, each hour of the day 
and of the night? I mention this as one of the outstanding prophecies 
and one of the most familiar; it is, however, one which means little 
in our modern civilisation. The fact of importance is that He will 
come.

It is light and—above all else—"life more abundantly" which Christ 
will bring, and until He brings it we know not what it signifies; we 
cannot realise the revelation which this will entail and the new 
possibilities which will open up before us. But through Him, light 
and life are on their way, to be interpreted and applied in terms of 
goodwill and of right human relations. For this the Spiritual 
Hierarchy is preparing. This time the Christ will not come alone for 
His co-workers will come with Him. His experience and Theirs will be 
the reverse of the previous one, for this time every eye will see 
Him, every ear will hear Him and every mind will pass judgment upon 
Him.

He has been for two thousand years the supreme Head of the Church 
Invisible, the Spiritual Hierarchy, composed of disciples of all 
faiths. He recognises and loves those who are not Christian but who 
retain their allegiance to Their Founders—the Buddha, Mohammed and 
others. He cares not what the faith is if the objective is love of 
God and of humanity. If people look for the Christ Who left His 
disciples centuries ago, they will fail to recognise the Christ Who 
is in process of returning. The Christ has no religious barriers in 
His consciousness. It matters not to Him of what faith a person 
follows.

Today, therefore, we wait for the new Appearing. The Christ is 
universally expected, and where there is expectancy, where there is 
uniformity of testimony and of prediction, and where all the 
indications of "the time of the end" are with us, is it not 
reasonable to believe that a great event is in process of taking 
place? If there is to be found a living faith (and there is such a 
faith everywhere) and a burning zeal which pierces through the 
darkness to the centre of light, does that not warrant the assumption 
that this faith and this zeal are founded on a deep intuitive 
knowledge. May it not be a divine fact that "faith is the substance 
of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen?" (Hebrews XI.1.)

The Son of God is on His way and He cometh not alone. His advance 
guard is already here and the Plan which they must follow is already 
made and clear. Let recognition be the aim.












--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel H. Caldwell" 
<danielhcaldwell@y...> wrote:
> In light of the discussions concerning Alice Bailey's claims and
> teachings, one might want to consider the issues from a broader
> perspective (that is, looking at the claims of many of the latter-
days
> messengers of the Masters). See the following webpage:
>  
> "Blavatsky's Occult Status and the Claims of Latter-Day Messengers 
of the Masters"
>  
> http://www.theosophy.info/latermessengers.htm
>  
> or
>  
> http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/latermessengers.htm
>  
> Daniel
>  
> Daniel H. Caldwell
> BLAVATSKY STUDY CENTER/BLAVATSKY ARCHIVES
> http://blavatskyarchives.com/introduction.htm
> 
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> "...Contrast alone can enable us to appreciate things at
> their right value; and unless a judge compares notes and
> hears both sides he can hardly come to a correct decision."
> H.P. Blavatsky. The Theosophist, July, 1881, p. 2
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> See also THEOSOPHY: FROM LONG-SEALED ANCIENT FOUNTAINS
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