Christ Festival - White Eagle Lodge

Christ Festival

The festival in May is a preparation, being the festival of the Lord Buddha—of wisdom, of the preparation of the mind. The mind reaches a certain point in readiness for the coming of something else. After that the souls which can participate in this great festival are taken to pay homage and to adore. They wait at a certain level, tuned up, as it were. Some of you here may respond to this sense of attunement. You may feel it in a sensitive nervous system or you may feel irritable, feel the world is rather harsh and trying, or on the other hand you may feel a great singing in your heart because of the coming of spring. You may be glorying in the beauty of nature and so you are poised at a certain level, a higher level of consciousness, waiting for the next outpouring, the manifestation of the risen sun, for in the next full moon in June the great Christ Festival is held. There on that higher plane comes another great outpouring of the Christ essence. You remember that the Christ life is the spiritual Sun, the essence of the Sun. But it also takes the human form because God sent to man His Son in His own image. You all inherit that image of the Father, and you partake of the same image as the Son. See then the arisen Christ in the midst of a vast company of angels and archangels and planetary beings, right down to the very humblest, the simple human souls—one of which may be you. So the Wesak Festival is in a sense a preparation, a period of stillness before the coming of the dawn with the golden light of the Eternal Sun, the truth, the spirit, the life. We suggest that at the time of the full moon next month you remember what has been said tonight and train yourselves to be quiet before resting. Fill your mind with thoughts of God and these inner truths of life. Relax and seek the way to that vast festival of the arisen Christ on earth.