Le foyer de l'illumination
Maitreya a fondé sa première école du mystère sur Lemuria, l'ancien continent qui a sombré là où se trouve aujourd'hui l'océan Pacifique, afin de sauver les porteurs de lumière d'une civilisation de ténèbres et des êtres déchus. Depuis lors, l'école mystique de Maitreya s'est retirée dans l'octave éthérique, dans l'Himalaya, et seules quelques rares âmes de lumière ont été autorisées à s'y rendre pour trouver Maitreya et étudier sous sa direction.
Le 9 avril 1971, Maitreya invita les étudiants des maîtres à visiter sa retraite, le « Centre d'illumination » :
Votre conscience peut voyager sur les ailes d'une harmonie infinie jusqu'à notre domaine ; et alors, je suis sûr que nous serons en mesure de vous enseigner de manière à vous libérer des scories de vos propres sentiments humains, illusions, confusions et problèmes.
Ici, vous serez libre de recevoir la bénédiction d'une initiation supérieure qui vous sera d'abord conférée sous forme d'idée, de concept. Vous recevrez de notre part l'instruction de retourner dans vos temples corporels, sachant que vos pieds, ayant foulé le marbre blanc de notre retraite, auront reçu la bénédiction de notre lumière — non seulement vos pieds, mais aussi toute votre conscience, afin que vous compreniez que le chemin vers l'initiation cosmique consiste à vous associer à ces êtres de lumière, cette bande de saints lumineux qui m'accompagnent...
The white-robed ones are in place, and the flame is upon the altar—the flame of initiation, the flame of purity. Many of the cosmic monks, so-called, the devotees of the Spirit (I think you would call them “cosmic monks”), are now trooping into the vast marble chapel we have erected here in the etheric realm in the Himalayas.
Come! Let us arise and enter into the temple in the skies over the Himalayas and be at peace. The formation of the cosmic figure of Kuan Yin is upon the altar. She will soon replace it by her gracious presence, and the oil in the lamps of mercy will be lit....
I extend to you evolving upon this planetary body, from the Far East, from our etheric home of light, a welcome to visit us often in your finer bodies while your physical bodies sleep. And then let your souls awaken within our retreat that you may have the knowledge and the desire and the beautiful concepts we desire to convey to you.
For initiation is the conferment of mantles of accomplishment, of cosmic achievement. Initiation is the personal accomplishment of the soul, one with the Holy Christ Self, wedded to the God Presence and invoking in the human levels of thought and feeling those transcendental experiences that are the forte of our radiance released unto humanity today....
The dawning doorway of our initiation is ever before you! Let none ever forget that magnificent doorway with those beautiful carvings of cosmic crosses upon it. Let them never forget the angels of record who stand to the right and to the left of that doorway, and let them never forget that lamp of cosmic knowledge that is carved just above the lintel itself.
O beloved ones, you are welcome here again and again and again—until at last the refreshment of your souls has gained for you a crown that will not perish from the universe, that is a crown of personal achievement under the aegis of the spiritual Brotherhood and the fraternity of light who are with you now and confer upon you the mantle of our blessing.[1]
See also
Maitreya's retreat over Tientsin, China
Sources
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Maitreya’s Retreat in the Himalayas.”
- ↑ Lord Maitreya, “The Call to Come to Our Retreat in the Far East,” Pearls of Wisdom, vol. 27, no. 38, July 22, 1984.