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LORD BUDDHA AND THE WESAK FESTIVAL
Full Moon, May 28th, 1953
On the night of the Full Moon in the Mystic Month of May, pilgrims from all over
Asia, particularly, and some few spiritual seekers from other parts of the
world, gather together to receive the Blessings and Benedictions of the Beloved
Lord Gautama Buddha, whose annual Visitation has brought much of the spiritual
substance and subtle God-ethers from the Higher Realms into the atmosphere of
earth, where it can be assimilated by the consciousness of the evolving human
race.
At the completion of his great Mission, Lord Buddha received permission from the
Cosmic Law to return once in every twelve month cycle and bless the people of
earth. The Members of the Great White Brotherhood and the Illuminati of earth,
responding to the magnetic power of his love, with only the Light in their own
hearts as the compass, start out on a pilgrimage toward the plateau where the
Visitation is to take place. There is no map, no guide, no assurance of ultimate
success in reaching the goal. Each man depends entirely upon the promptings of
his own heart Flame and follows it across the trackless wastes of the Tibetan
Mountains; through the endless burning sands of the deserts; across the jungles
and morasses of India, and each one, according to his ability to listen to and
follow the promptings of his own heart, finds success or failure in his journey.
For the one pilgrim, fortunate enough to come into the Presence of the Masters,
thousands return to their homes in disappointment, but the very fact that they
have made the pilgrimage has blessed their lifestreams accordingly and built the
momentum which will one day be great enough to warrant them an Audience with the
Holy Ones.
For twenty-four hours before the night of the full moon, the tents of the nomads
begin to rise on the plateau and the vast groups of blessed ones begin to gather
and meditate and prepare themselves for the Visitation.
This year, however, the Presence of the Lord Buddha will be felt and seen in his
own glorious Ascended Master body, rather than the large, luminous Light
Presence, which he has projected in previous years. The reason for the
tremendous blessing that will be accorded the people of earth is that when the
Goddess of Mercy opened the Temple of Mercy at Peking to the Great White
Brotherhood on February 15th, 1953, and the unascended members of the human race
consciously and willingly offered their own life and breath to carry the Mercy
Flame around the world, such a magnetic pull rose from the earth toward the
Great Silence that all the Beings who had entered Nirvana and the Heart of the
Cosmic Christ were stirred and responded to that call. Among these exalted Ones
was the Lord Buddha, who, with Ananda, following the Ray of the Mercy Call
rising from the children of earth, entered the Temple of Mercy in their own
Ascended Master bodies, on the night of February 21st, 1953, and then followed
the Current and Flame of Mercy around the world.
The Lord Buddha said that as long as the children of earth in themselves desired
Mercy for all life, he would remain in the atmosphere of earth continuously for
the next twenty year period which forms the spiritual crisis through which our
planet must pass successfully in order to qualify for its Ascension in the
Light.
This year, when Lord Maitreya, carrying the Rod of Power from Shamballa, appears
at the Mystic Plateau, and the beams of the Full Moon light up the Altar of
Lotus and Lily and reflect on the white garments of the Brotherhood and the
chelas gathered in their physical bodies or their inner bodies (as the case may
be) , the Lord Buddha will appear, together with Ananda, and bless all the
august company there assembled with his Visible, Tangible, Ascended Master
Presence, and his feeling of the Love of God and the Nature of God Incarnate in
his Blessed Self.
Oh! Gentle Lord Buddha! Thou who didst love Life so much, that
renunciation of human pleasures was naught to thee! Thou, who didst become that
one whom thou adored! Bless the earnest children of earth who gather together
this Holy Night to share in the Sweet Essence of that Spiritual Anointing from
thy Sacred Heart of Love!