Peace No Matter What!

At last it seems that spring has come (here in the UK)! At the outer level nature is busy

with flowers and leaves bursting forth. It always seems to me that at this time of year there is a particular busy-ness in our outer lives too, with lots of stresses and challenges. The full moon when the Sun is in Taurus has just passed by and in White Eagle’s teaching this is traditionally the Wesak Festival linked with the Lord Buddha. White Eagle says: ‘The meditation at this time is of utter stillness and surrender, and of the one-ness of all life.’  Yes, at the inner level, if we can touch it, there is this feeling of great serenity and peace, and yet outwardly so much is happening.  So I think it is a time when we have a particular opportunity to find our own inner strength, our own inner place of peace, no matter what is going on around us. At this time of year I always try to make a particular point of meditating on the still flame, and there is a passage of White Eagle’s teaching that I often think of to help me.  I share it with you here: ‘It is not what is happening around you that is important. It is the way you deal with such happenings. You can get worked up and make yourselves ill, as some of you have done, and may do again; or you can keep very still, and continually seek the place of silence and strength. Having stilled the emotions, the next step is to reach the innermost centre of communion and the intaking of strength. You can then examine your problem and say, “Dear God, I would have the strength to handle this as the Master would handle it”. In the presence of the Master anger and resentment dissolve. You are raised above the pulls and antagonisms of the earthly plane. You are filled with peace, overcome with adoration and love. If you are big and wise enough to do what we say, you will never again be torn by emotion, nor will you be puzzled; because there, within yourself, you will find the still, ever-burning flame, so bright, a flame of the spiritual sun. As you concentrate on that pure, bright, white flame, you will feel the majesty of the sun in yourself: you will know you are master of your body and the conditions of your life. Nothing can touch you. That Presence deep, deep within you is the I AM. “Be still and know that I AM God”.’          (From ‘Heal Thyself’)

Happy sun-filled days at our Americas Temple!

I have just returned from several happy days at our Americas Temple in Montgomery, Texas. This Temple is named ‘The Temple of the Golden Rose’ and it is a truly apt name. Every time I visit, it seems the ‘golden light’ has grown! Again this year I was visiting for our annual Board and Council meetings and our special guest this time was Gay Robinson, Co-leader and Mother of our Australasian Temple. (Last year it was her sister Lyn who joined us.)

This meeting of representatives from three continents and our triangle of three Temples feels very special and our day of meetings was blessed with both heavenly and earthly sunshine. A special joy was the amazing flowering of Bluebonnets and other wild flowers on ‘Temple Hill’ and all around the beautiful labyrinth, ‘masterminded’ in its design and creation by Jane, our Americas Mother. This is indeed a stunning feature of the sacred land here and I was inspired greatly each morning in my meditations. Do visit if you can. I know you will love it and be inspired too. (See our Americas website for details and upcoming retreats http://www.whiteaglelodge.org.)

I also hope you will enjoy the photos coming shortly.

Thoughts on the Crisis in Korea

As we pray about the situation in North Korea and hold everyone concerned in the light of the shining Christ Star, my feeling is that it is really important to try and let go thoughts about the rights and wrongs, and remain very still and poised, trying to be as White Eagle says in the Quiet Mind (the chapter is: ’Is a Tower of Strength and Light’):

'Do not despair; do not dwell on the negative side of any situation, for you do no good by this. Always put into operation the forces of construction. Believe that good will come, that the best is coming, and it will...When you are in the shadows, or you feel that the shadows are near, remember to look up, to visualize the blazing Star above you in the spirit spheres, and to feel its strength, its steadiness, its radiance, pouring into your heart. Go forward in confidence and in full consciousness of the light of this Star shining upon you.'

Happy Easter!

Wishing you a very happy Easter, and I really hope it will be a time of spiritual renewal and inspiration for you. In the April issue of Stella Polaris I have written about the fact that the Christian festival of Easter was placed at a time of traditional celebration of new life and rebirth. As some of you will know, the date of Easter is always at the full moon when the Sun is in Aries and as this is the first sign of the zodiac, it brings an energy of fiery creativity and new inspiration. I love the idea that this energy is not dependant on seasons, so it applies as much to those living in the Southern Hemisphere as those in the North, where of course in nature there is so much outer manifestation of new life!

I like to make use of the energy of this Easter festival time (and throughout the period when the Sun is in Aries) to set aside time each day to contemplate the golden flame of divine love burning brightly within my own inner ‘temple’.

Although our Spring here in the UK is very late due to all the cold weather, as I’m writing this the sun is shining and New Lands gardens are turning gold with the daffodils coming into bloom—outward symbols of the recreation of life. It reminds me of the following passage from White Eagle:

‘Within you lies the power to change the very atoms of your body. Healing is the intake into the body of the eternal Sun, the light. If you can call upon this light and breathe it in; if you can live consciously in this light, it will actually control the cells of the physical body. The body is so heavy, material life so strong—but remember the power of God which can recreate the living cells of your body.’

Thoughts on White Eagle

I am writing this on the train coming back from our Ipswich Lodge for a Retreat Day this Sunday on the theme of White Eagle and His Work of Brotherhood Down the Ages. Our Lodge there, (the heart of what we now call our East Anglia Regional Centre) is one of our oldest established Centres. As I went into their beautiful sanctuary I felt immediately the amazing power of the light, generated by the dedication of all who have served there down the years, but also a touching purity. They really love White Eagle and what his teaching has brought into their lives, and this touched my heart deeply.

We began our day together reflecting on all the qualities everyone felt White Eagle and his philosophy had brought into their lives. We looked at his portrait—his lovely twinkling eyes, and smiling face and shared what we felt. Here is our list which I hope you enjoy contemplating. Maybe you have other qualities to add to it?

Gentleness

Love

Strength

Wisdom

Compassion and Understanding

Humour

Simplicity

Clarity and purity of language

Humility

Naturalness / down to earth

Practical

Non-judgemental

Grace and serenity

Openness

Eternal Truth

Patience/encouragement

Faith

Far sightedness

Trust

Threads of all world religions.

Five Generations Celebrate Mothers Day!

I was so happy to have the opportunity to be together physically on the Isle of Wight with my daughter Sara and granddaughters Daisy (13) and Ellie (10) to celebrate Mothers’ Day (Sunday 10^th March in the UK). It was lovely also to have the awareness of my own mother in spirit (Joan Hodgson) joining us as we lunched in one of her favourite cafes and walked a walk she loved. Minesta (Grace Cooke) joined the walk in her body of light too. It was she who had first taken our family to ‘the Island’. So we became FIVE generations celebrating together in the sunshine. For me it was not only a very happy and memorable family day, but another experience of the interpenetration of heaven and earth. Truly, as Minesta so often used to say to me, where there is love, there need be no separation just because the physical body has ‘died’. Life and love are eternal.

Being A Star Pilgrim

Dear Friends,

On Sunday I was at our London Centre. We had an afternoon on the theme of Earth healing, and being a Star Pilgrim. Many of you know how the Star is such a powerful and magical symbol and helps us really focus as a united group to make a real contribution to healing and uplifting our world.

It was many years ago now that we first printed a leaflet entitled There IS Something You Can Do Now—about the power of the Star and encouraging everyone to join in. In preparation for my talk on being a pilgrim of the Star I looked again at the words and loved these: ‘A part of the power of the Star is that through this symbol a connection is made with the great angels of the Christ Star who help the magic happen.’

The great angels of the Christ Star felt particularly radiant to me on Sunday, and at last we were blessed with physical sunshine too! White Eagle also seemed to come into the centre of the group on a ray of heavenly sunshine! His message to us all was, and is, ‘Never doubt the power of God to work through you’, and that every one of us can make a powerful contribution to heal and uplift our planet and work ever more closely with the great angels.

I think that a wonderful thing about working with the Star is that we can do it anywhere at any time, it doesn’t matter where we live or whether we are confined by physical circumstances. We can all be Star pilgrims and make an inner journey to spread the light of the Star to every troubled country and heart.

With my love and encouragement,

Jenny