The Key Note of The Modern Mystery School

The process of revelation is continuous. Humanity has never
been left without evolutionary guidance in the inner and the
outer worlds. Mystery schools are merely those places where
the cutting edge of that guidance is contacted and tested
out through experiment.

These little pockets of experimentation are like the small
mutations in nature which allow the forces of natural
selection to work in the biological world.

Many appear to be 'failures' in that the mutations are found
to have no real evolutionary value to the gene pool, but
nature as a whole is learning and moving forward to
perfection. Humanity is of course a part of nature - the
part in fact that bridges the inner and outer worlds. Humans
are able to connect through their consciousness, or souls
with the One universal life force which is guiding evolution
and , as a result either speed up the process by becoming co
creators, or as is also often the case in experiments,
interfere with the process.

Some of these experiments are successful - pushing forward
into new and advanced ways of understanding and living - and
these become the seeds for new civilizations that allow
humanity as a whole to move forward. Throughout time we can
trace these seeds of civilization to individuals and small
communities who were able to break new ground in
consciousness. This work of 'soul penetration' provides the
entry point for spiritual energy into the world. That energy
then clothes itself in esoteric formulas ( like E = mc2) for
example, new ideas and concepts that then become ritualized
and formalized in ways that are more easily assimilated into
the society into which they enter.

As civilizations rise and fall, these rituals and formulas
echo on through time preserved on the physical plane in
ancient texts, and monuments. They also linger in the field
of human consciousness as symbols in the collective mind and
memories preserved in the ethers accessible through past
life recall and meditative exploration.

These are all pathways that lead us back into to those holes
or entry points in the collective human psyche where those
energies first entered. Evolution proceeds however, and the
one life makes new wholes in the web of human thought and
finds new places for the next revelations that are needed
for growth to occur.

Of course long before the new consciousness is adopted as
the official view there have been pockets of individuals and
groups who have been living it and demonstrating its
evolutionary value on the planet. These form the long
lineage of warrior souls who have been ahead of their time
and by their sacrifices and successes, accelerate the
evolution of consciousness and help in the planting of
future spiritual seeds.

The keynote of the mystery schools in recent times has been
the development of 'soul' , or consciousness or
'love-wisdom'. There is a new note emerging in the modern
day mystery school - and that is the note of the 'monad' -
of Will - of spiritual power and purpose. It builds upon and
will ultimately help to synthesise the emphasis that has
previously been made on both form and upon consciousness.

Matter is now widely seen as a subset of consciousness.
Consciousness is gradually being revealed as a subset of
Will - the purpose behind consciousness is gradually
emerging into consciousness itself. The previous Mystery
Schools planted seeds of consciousness. That consciousness
has spread so that we now have a planet that has gradually
more and more become self aware through the human kingdom.
That awareness is on the verge of a planet wide 'self
realisation' where the planetary identity awakes and knows
itself to be a soul. Soul values will then begin to govern
upon the outer plane and we can see signs of that beginning
to happen now.

The work of the modern day mystery school is to plant the
seeds of will. These seeds will flower in the future as the
wide spread realization of planetary soul purpose. The
collective comprehension and implementation of the multi
incarnational purpose of the Earth as a conscious entity in
cosmos.

Bruce Lyon