This is a time of preparation not only for a new civilisation and culture in a new world order, but also for the coming of a new spiritual dispensation. Humanity is not following an uncharted course. There is a divine Plan in the cosmos of which we are a part. At the end of an age human resources and established institutions seem inadequate to meet world needs and problems. At such a time the advent of a Teacher, a spiritual leader, or Avatar, is anticipated and invoked by the masses of humanity in all parts of the world.
The massed invocation reaches its highest point each year during the period of three great spiritual festivals: at the great western festival of Easter; a month later at the eastern festival of Wesak, the festival of the Buddha; and climaxes a month after that at World Invocation Day during the festival of the Christ which has keynotes of goodwill and humanity.
In building a more just, interdependent and caring global society what humanity needs above all, is more light, love and spiritual will.
On World Invocation Day people of goodwill from all parts of the world, and from different religious and spiritual backgrounds unite in invoking these higher energies by using the Great Invocation.
The use of the Great Invocation, a world prayer which expresses truths central to all major religions.
The spiritual co-operation of men and women of goodwill of every faith joining in an act of invocation to divinity.
The distribution into human consciousness of the spiritual energies evoked during the festivals of Easter and Wesak.
Today the reappearance of the World Teacher - the Christ - is expected by millions, not only by those of Christian faith but by those of every faith who expect the Avatar under other names such as the Lord Maitreya, Krishna, the Messiah, the Imam Mahdi and the Bodhisattva.
Glamour and distortion surround this central fact of divine response to human need. This is inevitable but unimportant. The fact of transition into a new age is important. Preparation by men and women of goodwill is needed to introduce new values for living, new standards of behaviour, new attitudes of non-separateness and co-operation, leading to right human relations and a world at peace. The coming World Teacher will be mainly concerned, not with the result of past error and inadequacy but with the requirements of a new world order and with the reorganisation of the social structure.
Will you join in observing World Invocation Day through the united use of the Great Invocation, and will you join in making this day widely known?
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