The Great Invocation - now being used by so many - has greatly facilitated the receptivity of men; the creative appearance of effective goodwill can, however, be some time in manifesting. Nevertheless, nothing can arrest its subtle working and its eventual widespread appearance, on a scale great enough to be effective throughout the whole world. This greatly to be desired expression of divine purpose will be fulfilled if humanity (as a whole) stands in steady expectancy, wise activity, and makes broad and brotherly decisions. As I have often told you, the final decisions in world affairs have to be made through mankind's deliberate choice; no compulsion is ever exerted by the Hierarchy or by the disciples of the Christ to force men to take some desirable action. Man's free will must be preserved. In an unique manner, men are today facing a period of the freeing of the human soul, or a period of its imprisonment indefinitely; the right decision will lead to the Kingdom of God, and the other to a retrogression which will deify the past and prolong past wrong action. --The Externalization of the Hierarchy, p. 643
Mantrams are like chemical or geometrical formulas; changing one word gives the mantram an entirely different result, or makes it misleading, dangerous, or useless. Mantrams are transmitters of energy. When the transmitter is not constructed in a particular order, the energies can be destructive or negative, creating confusion and chaos in the subtle planes of human endeavor. Many mental disorders are the result of a misuse of prayers, mantrams, and chanting. Let us not forget that the Hierarchy uses the Great Invocation in its original form everyday.
Those who, with good intentions, want to change the Great Invocation, would do better to create a totally different invocation of their own- instead of distorting a masterpiece with their unskilled brush. The most important and powerful line of the Great Invocation is: May Christ return to Earth
Curiously enough, it is this line which is under attack. By changing this formula, the Great Invocation no longer exists. This is what the distorters want.
… We are told that Christ sounds the Great Invocation every day with the entire Hierarchy. “It is used with constancy, exactitude, and power.” It is very powerful to feel, at the time of saying the Great Invocation, that we are joined with the Hierarchy as a whole.
… (B)y thinking and meditating upon the Great Invocation, and by using it, we bring down Hierarchical energies and impressions into our mind, passing them along to our etheric body, then through our etheric body into the etheric body of the planet.
The knowledge of the Masters in the Hierarchy about Shamballa has been greatly increased since the victory of the Forces of Light in 1942 so that interrelation of humanity, Hierarchy, and Shamballa will be conscious in man. This three-fold relationship is essential for the manifestation of the purpose for which our solar system was created. The effectiveness of the Lord of the World , Sanat Kumara, in aiding the solar purpose will be helped because the ignorance of mankind about these matters will be relieved. The use of the Great Invocation by humanity will aid Sanat Kumara.
In June, 1945, at the time of the full moon (so significant a day in the spiritual experience of the Christ), He definitely and consciously took over His duties and responsibilities as the Teacher and Leader during the Aquarian solar cycle. He is the first of the great world Teachers to cover two zodiacal cycles - the Piscean and the Aquarian. This is a statement easily made and written down, but again it involves the three modes or techniques of appearance to which I have already referred. His outpouring love and spiritual vitality (augmented by the energies of the Spirit of Peace, the Avatar of Synthesis and the Buddha) were refocused and channeled into a great stream, pulled through into expression (if I may word it so inadequately) by the words of the Invocation, "Let love stream forth into the hearts of men... Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth."
In those three words - light, love and power - the energies of His three Associates (the great Triangle of Force which stands in power behind Him) are described:
the energy of the Buddha: Light, for the light ever comes from the East;
the energy of the Spirit of Peace: Love, establishing right human relations;
the energy of the Avatar of Synthesis: Power, implementing both light and love.
At the center of this Triangle the Christ took His stand; from that point His Aquarian work began, and it will continue for two thousand five hundred years. Thus He inaugurated the new era and, upon the inner spiritual planes, the new world religion began to take form. The word "religion" concerns relationship, and the era of right human relations and of a right relation to the Kingdom of God began. Such a statement as this is easily made but its implications are far-reaching and stupendous.
This (7th) ray provides at this time an active and necessary grouping of disciples who are eager to aid the Plan. Their work lies naturally on the physical plane. They can organize the evoked ideal which will embody as much of the idea of God as the period and humanity can evidence and produce in form upon the earth. Their work is potent and necessary and calls for much skill in action. This is the ray that is coming into power. None of these ray participants in the hierarchical crusade today can really work without each other, and no group can carry on alone. The difference between the methods of the old age and that of the new can be seen expressed in the idea of leadership by one and leadership by a group. It is the difference between the imposition of an individual's response to an idea upon his fellow men and the reaction of a group to an idea, producing group idealism and focalizing it into definite form, carrying forward the emergence of the idea without the dominance of any one individual. This is the major task today of the seventh ray disciple, and to this end he must bend every energy. He must speak those Words of Power which are a group word, and embody the group aspiration in an organized movement, which, it will be noted is quite distinct from an organization. A striking instance of the use of such a Word of Power being enunciated by a group has lately been given in the Great Invocation which has been used with marked effect. It should continue to be used, for it is the inaugurating mantram of the incoming seventh ray. This is the first time such a mantram has been brought to the attention of humanity.
This mantram is peculiarly and essentially Christ's own mantram and its "sound has gone forth" to the entire world through the medium of his enunciation of it and through its use by the Hierarchy. Now its words must go out throughout the entire world by means of its enunciation by men everywhere, and its meaning must be expressed by the masses in due time. Then Christ can again "return to Earth" and "see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied." (emphasis in original)
… (B)y thinking and meditating upon the Great Invocation, and by using it, we bring down Hierarchical energies and impressions into our mind, passing them along to our etheric body, then through our etheric body into the etheric body of the planet.
… We are told that Christ sounds the Great Invocation every day with the entire Hierarchy. “It is used with constancy, exactitude, and power.” It is very powerful to feel, at the time of saying the Great Invocation, that we are joined with the Hierarchy as a whole.
The Great Invocation is a potent mantram of healing. It cleans away all obstacles in the three worlds of the personality, lets the divine energy flow through the personality vehicles and carries the healing, unifying and transforming fire through all human and planetary forms.
The Great Invocation builds bridges or communication lines between the etheric heart, throat, and head centers, and radiations of these centers interpenetrate one another and create an electric shield of protection around the personality.
The time has to come wherein candidates for admission into an Ashram, and later, for initiation, must realize that their limitations, their relatively petty points of view and their circumscribed attitudes are a hindrance to ashramic progressive events. If the principle of sharing has any significance whatsoever, these are points of great importance and are supremely worthy of consideration. An illustration of this can be seen in the response of this group to the work which I have asked you to undertake over the years. A tiny handful of you have responded and have made sacrifices and worked hard to further the Triangle work, to spread the Invocation and to help in the Goodwill work, but it is a very tiny minority. The rest have either been interested intellectually but could not make the needed sacrifices, or they refused to put first things first, and secondary issues occupied their lives. This limitation, as you may realize, has handicapped the ashramic plans, and those who whole-heartedly have worked (and they know I know who they are) have had to share - with pain and distress - in the limitation. I have frequently stated that on entrance into an Ashram the disciple leaves behind him his personality life and enters as a soul. What I have stated in the above paragraph in no way contradicts this fact. It must, however, be remembered that a disciple has become what he is as a result of his personality aspiration, his struggles in the three worlds, and an attained point of spiritual unfoldment. Therefore, though he may leave behind his personality with its faults and problems, he indicates clearly to his co-disciples and to those more advanced than he is, exactly what is lacking in his equipment, what is his point in evolution, and what stage of discipleship he has achieved. In this connection, I recommend the rereading of all that is said anent the six stages of discipleship in Discipleship in the New Age (Vol. I);the material given there is of great importance here.
The various plans under consideration for the furthering and growth of the New Group of World Servers, should and will go steadily forward. The ideas briefly outlined above should be worked out in detail. People must be trained to work for the expansion of these ideas. The general public must be educated as to the aims and objectives of the new group. Meditation groups should be formed, dedicated to the work of contacting the vision and of drawing in the needed wisdom and power. The Great Invocation should be increasingly used, and daily and hourly must the Invocation be sent forth. The gist of that which is here set forth should be rearranged and readapted for the use of the general public for it is only through constant reiteration that men learn, and these things must be said again and again before the real work of the New Group of World Servers can make itself felt.
Every man who uses the Great Invocation is helping his fellowmen. Every man who brings the Great Invocation to the attention of others is cooperating with the planetary Hierarchy and with the head of that Hierarchy, the Christ.
Also, we were used as a group to inaugurate the worldwide use of the Great Invocation. Much evidence of its tremendous influence and usefulness comes to us constantly. It is spiritually epoch-making. Its increasing use is the greatest aid to Hierarchy that humanity has ever given. This use by humanity of the Great Invocation is the strongest aid the Christ has in his work for us.
