The Keynote 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, as souls connect 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 civilisations that allow humanity as a whole to move forward. Throughout time we can trace these seeds of civilisation 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 ritualised and formalised in ways that are more easily assimilated into the society into which they enter.

 As civilisations 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 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 upon both form and 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 become more and more 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 widespread realisation of planetary soul purpose: The collective comprehension and implementation of the multi-incarnational purpose of the Earth as a conscious entity in cosmos.