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The Wesak Festival

You are invited to the Wesak Festival. There is no outer invitation to the Wesak Festival, the Light within the heart draws the wayfarers and pilgrims both in their inner and outer bodies to the place where it is held. There is never a mention made as to the exact location where the Visitation will take place, but the tribes and nomads and disciples of Lord Gautama start into motion in March and April and are led only by the prayer in their hearts which points their feet toward the great Light which is the only magnet and invitation that can draw them without compass or guide - with the whole of Asia beneath them. Their initiation is to allow the heart to join the greater manifestation of the Self which, accordingly, brings the body with it. 

The pupils in the West, whose Light is great and who are drawn by that Light and whose inner bodies are a part of the receiving as well as the outpouring of the energy, are ofttimes entirely unconscious of the tremendous experience which has bathed their souls in the Celestial and Eternal Light and they return to their mundane tasks and duties greatly enriched by their experience. 

In describing to you some of the festivities of the Wesak Valley Festival which takes place each year at the time of the full moon in the month of May, we would like to draw your minds toward that Valley and allow you to contact in a moment of silence the great outpouring of the Lord of the World, Gautama, as the moon reaches its fullest radiation. Why do we choose the time of the full moon? Because every emotional body is at its greatest tide and there is more opportunity to pour the radiation from Above. The pilgrimage is not charted by any Master where the Brotherhood do honor to Lord Gautama and where he, in turn, creates a visible Luminous Form in the atmosphere with his glorious Causal Body, pouring through the Brotherhood and those fortunate enough to be there in their physical forms, as well as the chelas who are able to attend in their inner bodies, the benediction of his Presence. 

The preparations are made by the conscious chelas who create the stone altar and bring the golden chaste bowl and fill it with the beautiful lotus of the East in honor of the coming of Lord Gautama. 

The great Angelic Beings and Builders of Form supervise the spiritual activity and Great Beings at the cardinal points of the Valley; magnetize on Chamuel's Ray the pilgrims by an added heart pull. 

Will you pray with us that all who are earnest, honest and sincere may find their way to that Valley! It is the voice of Asia that is the prayer in the heart of thousands that the Flame in their hearts may lead to the Presence of the Beloved Gautama.

(Reprinted by request: from May 1960 BRIDGE)