Introduction
to the Wesak Festival – Full Moon of May 2015
The Wesak Festival is the most
important of the three major ascended master festivals. It is the time of the year at the Taurus full
moon when humanity receives the highest frequency of light. Wesak is a living event based on current
astrological cycles, not past events that occurred centuries ago, as most religions celebrate. The Wesak Festival is the Festival of
the Buddha, commemorating the anniversary of his birth, this attainment of
buddhahood and his ascension. The
Buddha, the perfect expression of the wisdom aspect of God, is the embodiment
of light and divine purpose.
This is the great Eastern
festival, and servers to show the solidarity of East and West. The term “Wesak” refers to the Wesak Valley
in the Himalayas, where every year all the ascended masters gather on both the
inner and outer planes to share in a sacred ceremony. At the precise rising of the full moon in
May, the Manu Allah Gobi; Lord Maitreya, the Christ; and Saint Germain, the
Mahachohan, stand in a triangular formation around a bowl of water,
transmitting cosmic energies into the water and through Lord Maitreya to be
disseminated to the Spiritual Hierarchy and the initiates, disciples and new
group of World Servers.
At the end of the ceremony the
water is shared by all those in attendance.
Wesak is also the time when initiations are given to the disciples on
Earth by Lord Maitreya, Lord Buddha and more recently by Lord Melchizadek, the
Universal Logos.
The Wesak is a time of great
renewal and celebration. The quality of energy
is the “force of enlightenment.” This
energy emanates from the heart of God and is related to divine understanding
and the love/wisdom aspect of God. On a
planetary level it initiates the new world education.
This affects educational
movement, values, literature, publishing, television, radio, newspaper,
magazines, writiers, teachers and speakers on the entire planet. This force of enlightenment so prevalent at
Wesak is why large groups coming together at this time can be such an awesome
experience. Wesak is where the greatest
window for mass enlightenment can occur on a planetary level.
During the ceremony Buddha sounds
forth a great mantra and becomes an absorbing agent for the first-ray
force. Buddha then uses the magnetic
power of the second ray to attract this force to himself. He holds it steady and then redirects it to
Lord Maitreya, who is the receiving agent of this energy. This energy is then disseminated to the seven
chohans and their ashrams for a sevenfold expression and direction into the
world.
All the disciples and initiates
on Earth are invited to come to the Wesak Valley, attend this sacred ceremony
and join in the festivities. This is
also a time to come and stand before Lord Maitreya, Lord Buddha and Sanat
Kumara to give your vows of service and receive special blessings.
The Wesak Festival has been
regarded by the inner-plane ascended masters to be of paramount importance in
world affairs. Through the two
representatives of deity on our planet, the worlds of spiritual realities and
human affairs are being brought closer and closer together.
Many people have dreamed of this
event but have not known its spiritual significance and where or why they were
doing what they were doing in the dream.
At Wesak a channel is opened for humanity that allows disciples and
initiates to contact certain energies not normally available or as easily
accessible. This allows great expansions
of consciousness to take place.
Djwhal Khul has also stated that
“It is the intention of the Buddha and the Christ that in each country there
shall eventually be someone who will act as their representative at the time of
the two festivals, so that the distribution of spiritual energy form the first
great aspect or ray will be directed from the Buddha to the Christ and then
from the Christ to those initiates in every country who can be overshadowed,
and so act as channels for the direct current of energy.” This references the Festival of the Christ
(The full moon in April) and the Wesak Festival.
Djwhal Khul, in the Alice Bailey
book, Ponder on This, also has said
about the Wesak: “No costs is too great
to pay in order to be of use to the Spiritual Hierarchy at the time of the full
moon in May, the Wesak Festival. No
price is too high in order to gain the spiritual illumination which can be
possible, particularly at that time.”
The Wesak has four basic
functions:
1. To substantiate Christ’s continued physical
appearance on Earth.
2. To
physically prove the solidarity of the Eastern and Western approaches to God.
3. To
form a rallying point and meeting place for those who annually, both literally
and symbolically, link up and represent the Father’s house, the kingdom of God
and humanity.
4. To
demonstrate the nature of the work of Christ as the great and chosen intermediary
and leader of the Spiritual Hierarchy and the disciples and initiates on
Earth. He voices the Hierarchy’s demand
for the recognition of the factual existence of the kingdom of God here and now
(see Alice Bailey’s Ponder on This,
pp. 422-423).
The purposes of the Wesak
Festival are as follows:
1. The releasing of certain transmissions of
energy to humanity that will stimulate the spirit of love, brotherhood and
goodwill.
2. The
fusion of all men and women of goodwill into a responsive, integrated whole.
3. The
invocation and response from certain cosmic beings if prior goals are achieved.
Through the Buddha the wisdom of
God is poured forth. Through the Christ,
Maitreya, the love of God is made manifest to humanity. This festival links the work of the Buddha
and the Lord Maitreya symbolically and literally.
(This is not the first time that
Lord Maitreya and the Lord Buddha have joined together. It should be remembered by those who have
studied Eastern religion that Lord Maitreya was the great avatar Lord Krishna
in a past life and Buddha was at that time his disciple, Arjuna. Their work together continues now in a much
more cosmic and expanded form.)
This is a time of enormous
blessings being poured forth to the disciples, initiates, a new group World
Servers and humanity on Earth. As the
masters, initiates and disciples leave the ceremony, they are filled with a
sense of renewed strength to undertake another year of world service. Are you
beginning to see, my friends, the enormous importance of the Wesak Festival?
From the perspective of the
ascended masters, it is the single greatest event on our planet, one that has
the greatest effect on the human race.
It is also in this time that the lodge of masters meets on the inner
plane for the following four reasons (outlined by Djwhal Khul in the Alice
Bailey books): “To contact spiritual
force, which is transmitted to our planet through the medium of the Buddha and
the Christ; to confer together as to the immediate necessity and the work to be
done for humanity; to admit to initiation those who are ready; and to stimulate
their disciples to increased activity and service.”
Can you imagine the effects on
this planet when all humanity consciously celebrates the Wesak Festival? In recent times a call has been sent out by
the entire Spiritual Hierarchy of ascended master to all initiates and
disciples and new group of World Servers to prepare themselves at teach May
full moon for an intensive holy month accelerated service. This effort is to increase the receptivity of
humanity to the new spiritual forces released at this time.
The actual Wesak focus has
recently been extended to cover five days for work and services: the two days prior to the full moon, the day
of the festival itself and the two days after the Wesak Ceremony. The two days of preparation are called the
Days of Renunciation and Detachment. The
day of the festival is called the Day of Safeguarding, and the two succeeding
days are called the Days of Distribution. This demands five days of intensive
service.
Source – How to
Teach Ascension Classes by Dr. Joshua David Stone Page 77
Note: Before his
transition, Dr. Stone, faithfully conducted the Wesak Festival at Mt. Shasta, CA
I follow the Ceremony and Meditation every year in his
memory:
