'Nothing happens out of order, or by chance.'

‘Nothing happens out of order or by chance, and the great law brings those very conditions in your life which you need for growth. So accept with love all that happens. Look for the lesson that has to be learnt from the experience. Look up to God daily, hourly, and be filled with the divine light and love. It pours like a golden ray into the heart and head centre, cleansing, healing, uplifting, steadying, giving you control.’

Last week, as many of you know, there was a tragic happening. In early morning fog a helicopter crashed into a crane on a building site in central London. I happened to be watching Breakfast News just after the accident occurred. It particularly caught my attention because it was adjacent to the large office block where my son, Michael, works (for a big UK Charity, Macmillan Cancer Care). As the story unfolded, and it became clear that the helicopter went down into the street nearby, obviously I was especially concerned for him and his colleagues. It was a relief when he texted me that he and they were safe, but in those moments of waiting for his reply, I was supported by my great faith in the ‘power of the Star’ and absolute belief that ‘nothing happens by chance’. A little later in the day the crane driver, Vicky Biagoni, who would normally have been in the crane at that time, was interviewed. Extraordinarily, his alarm clock had not gone off that morning, so he overslept and was late to work!

I am sure many of us have escaped ‘near misses’ in our lives—ourselves or loved ones, or people we know. We also often hear stories of freak accidents which cause death or change the course of people’s lives. Maybe fear, of one sort or another, is an ongoing challenge for most of us, but a wonderful thing about White Eagle’s teaching is that it offers us absolute security in God’s care, and the knowledge that nothing really happens by chance.

Another of my favourite sayings is: ‘He who knows not of God’s love fears for his life, but not a son/daughter of light.’ So it made me even more determined to live life, as White Eagle advises, in the consciousness of the light and love of God enfolding and protecting us, and with confidence, not fear, no matter what conditions or events I find myself facing. With White Eagle’s help we know we can ‘look up to God daily, hourly, and be filled with the divine light and love’.

My love and prayers are also with the families of those who passed and I know that our faith in God's care and that life is eternal will mean that we are better channels for that Light to reach and help them at this difficult time.

With my love,

Jenny

A Heavenly Rainbow for the New Year!

Warm New Year greetings and good wishes to all and I do pray that 2013—the start of a whole new era according to the Mayan calendar!—brings new inspiration and blessing into your life.

My new year began in a beautiful way. By chance I was able to witness an extraordinary sunrise on the morning of 2^nd January. I watched the sun rise up out of the sea into a bank of cloud which was spectacularly illumined by the light. Then I turned, and behind me was a glorious full semi-circle rainbow. Its beauty touched my heart and lifted my spirit to heaven. It seemed to me a symbol of the dawning of our new Golden Age of Brotherhood—the gold at the end of the rainbow. It seems to me that when we have the experience of witnessing a particularly beautiful manifestation of natural beauty, this truly can ‘open our heart to God’, and help uplift us through darker times. 

As White Eagle says in the sayings in his little book The Source of All our Strength, entitled ‘The Rainbow’: ‘A sorrow can be like a rainy day with sunlight shining through. And sun through rain creates a rainbow. So it is with human life. Look to the sunlight of God, knowing that your Father-Mother will send you nothing but good, that your loved ones are in God’s care, and that God’s love for them is greater than your own.’

Just a couple of days after my ‘rainbow experience’ I had the opportunity to see a remarkable movie, ‘The Life of Pi’, the adaptation of the 2001 highly acclaimed novel by Yarin Martel which has been translated into 42 languages. The film has been described as: epic, transcendent, ground-breaking, and a visionary journey of self-discovery. In my opinion it really does live up to all these descriptive words and is so well worth seeing. It opened my heart even more to a realisation of God’s extraordinary care for us all and the happiness which can come when in spite of all the tests we are able to surrender everything back to God. The story of the friendship between man and tiger whilst adrift on the ocean for many days, and the utter surrender to God that the young man Pi experienced, is deeply moving and, I think, a lesson for us all. So this is a New Year resolution I’m working on and would like to share with you—to be able to keep our hearts open to God at all times, and surrender all into His/Her loving care.

‘The Star is the Creator of Miracles’

These words from White Eagle came into my mind as I was preparing for our Festival of Carols in the London Lodge on Sunday 16^th December. I have honestly found that no matter what problem we are facing individually or worldwide, if we can concentrate our thoughts upon a shining six-pointed Star it can indeed bring about miracles—changes in understanding, forgiveness, healing and peace. I’d like to share with you White Eagle’s inspiring interpretation of the inner meaning of the three gifts of the Wise Men which I spoke about during the London service. 

In the traditional Christmas story the three Wise Men followed the Star to find the birth place of Jesus. White Eagle says that the gifts they brought him are symbolic of the gifts given to all human beings when they come into incarnation on earth. They are symbolic as well, I think, of the gifts that we can give to the world as we ‘follow the Star’.

The third gift of myrrh is deeply significant—the gift of pain as White Eagle explains, but through this comes deepening understanding—our hearts are opened one for another (as has been happening recently with the tragic shootings in America). This gift of deeper understanding is one that we can give to everyone around us at Christmas time. The gift of Frankincense brings the wisdom and inspiration of heaven through its sweetness. I feel sure that our minds will be filled with the sweetness of the spirit this Christmas time and it will enable us to, in turn, give this gift to all our loved ones and friends, and it’s special gentleness and wisdom will radiate out in the light we send to the world. And then, that amazing gift of gold!—the unconditional love and light of God which we can give from our hearts at all times and particularly over Christmas.

White Eagle’s words about these gifts—see below—come from his book Festivals & Celebrations available from (www.whiteaglepublishing.org)

The Wise Men

‘When the Wise Men came to Jesus they brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. The treasure which mystics of all ages seek is the gold within the soul. All true aspirants seek to transmute the base metal within their being into pure gold of the spirit, and the Wise Men bring to you the gold which enables you to transmute the base metal in your souls into pure gold.

They bring you frankincense too, the gift of gentleness and sweetness. This sweet fragrance the wise teachers, the radiant ones, bring to you for you to absorb into your soul.

They bring yet another gift, the gift of myrrh, bitterness. Some people call it sorrow and pain. All brothers, at some time, feel pain, and this brings understanding and sympathy; pain is necessary for the soul, so that it may grow spiritually and emotionally. Through what you call sorrow, the soul enters into joy.

These beautiful gifts the Wise Men bring to the Christ child which is born in the cave. In the cave of the heart, the Christ child is born: deep, deep within your own soul. And to everyone, when the Christ child awakens, or is born in the heart, there follows the visitation of the Wise Men with their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Therefore, my children, we welcome with deep gratitude these gifts, which bring to us the way of illumination, the way of life, the way of happiness.

Also on our website you will find information about our special Winter Solstice attunement in the Temple at New Lands on Friday 21^st December at 11.50am and don’t forget our special Festival of Carols in the Temple on Sunday 23^rd December at 4.30pm! Come early…it is always full!

I send you all, from my heart, love and warm Christmas greetings.

Magical Days in Denmark

My cousin Jeremy and I have just spent five magical days at our Star Centre in Denmark. Visiting at this Advent time is very special. Winter sunshine and glistening snow have lit up the beautiful countryside and seashore where our ‘Polaris Centre’ is sited (about an hour’s drive outside Copenhagen). Just near the Centre is an ancient standing stone (see picture). Our leader, Grethe, reminded me that this (with its cross within the circle symbol ingrained in the stone) was one of the ‘signs’ which confirmed for her (and her husband Rolf, now in spirit) that this was the place for the White Eagle home in Denmark. 

Now, nearly fifteen years later, the Pole Star does indeed shine brightly there, leading ‘wise men and women’ forward on their spiritual pilgrimage. Amazingly, and cleverly created within the Centre’s building, is a beautiful ‘Wisdom Temple’ with zodiac signs around the dome and winged disc above the entrance. Rolf—the creator of this—now works in his body of light in the heavenly Wisdom Temple and his presence was very evident to me during our visit. He left his physical body in January this year, but his ‘earthly Temple’ is his lasting gift of extraordinary artistry and creativity and I know it will uplift and inspire many hearts throughout the years ahead. I have such a strong feeling of thankfulness to our beloved Brother Nobleheart! (as White Eagle calls him).

A Meditation on Thankfulness

On the day I am writing this, we are blessed with glorious winter sunshine. I have just been walking on the Downs beside the sea in one of my favourite earthly places in all the world. A gentle breeze was blowing on my face. I listened to the sound of the sea breaking on the shore below me and sea gulls calling. I looked spellbound at the glorious views in the misty early morning light. ‘This is heaven on earth’, I thought. ‘When I die, this is where I shall be, with loved ones at my side’. (I had felt them there with me in their ‘bodies of light’ as I walked in my physical body.)

Remembrance Sunday has only just passed by—a day of remembrance and thankfulness for loved ones and many lives of service. The theme of thankfulness was deep in my soul as I walked, and I started to list all the things for which I wanted to say ‘thank you God’. I’m sure many of you have done this, but if not maybe you’d like to try it next time you go for a walk in nature, or an inner walk in your body of light! I find it really wonderful the way a simple ‘thank you God’ opens the mind and heart to receive even more blessing, deep peace and true and lasting happiness.

Remembrance Time

I write this on Remembrance Sunday as I prepare to go to the Temple at New Lands for our Remembrance Service. This beautiful day of late Autumn sunshine lifts my heart. It is easy to believe in heaven and eternal life. As I sit outside the Temple in the golden sunshine, golden beech leaves drift down upon our beautiful gardens... like a shower of golden petals from heaven. White Eagle has often told us that whereas the red poppy of Remembrance Day is a symbol of our remembrance of the physical life of loved ones, golden rose petals are a symbol of eternal life. Today our Temple altar steps have both symbols upon them... as we remember our loved ones and commune with them in the heavenly ‘Infinite and Eternal Garden of Reunion’.

As White Eagle says (in his Little Book of Comfort for the Bereaved from which I am reading at the service):

‘We should like to say one thing in particular to those of you who are bereaved. It is that in every case release has been the most beautiful experience for each of those individuals. It has been as easy as sleeping and awakening into the eternal and infinite garden and to life in the spirit world. Be thankful for the love and the life that you have enjoyed with them. More than this, be thankful for their release into a world of indescribable beauty and peace, happiness and fresh opportunity.’

The Purpose of Evil and Darkness

White Eagle says: ‘The real purpose of so-called evil or darkness is to bring forth good. In the beginning there was darkness, but also in the beginning God said: “Let there be light”, and there was light. All the dark conditions and inharmonies of earth are really for human benefit.’

When we hear on the news of terrible things happening, such as the abduction of the little girl April, it can be difficult not to question, ‘How can God and the angels allow such a thing as this to happen?’  I have been thinking about this a lot in the last few days, as no doubt you have too. I have just opened the October issue of our magazine Stella Polaris and read White Eagle’s words in this on the subject of darkness and light, and I do recommend this to you and also what I have written in my ‘Links of Light’ opening letter in the same issue.

Returning to the story of April, I truly believe the best thing we can all do is to try to concentrate all our attention on sending healing light to all involved, and keep our thoughts centred on the Star. It is indeed hard to come to terms with the question of why, and not fall into judgement, blame or fear, but somehow I feel we must try to be constant in our belief in God’s love and that ultimately valuable lessons are learned through awful things, and our hearts are opened in deeper compassion and unconditional love. It is also a call to our faith in the principle White Eagle has given us that the essence of every human being is love and goodness, even if this is obscured and covered up. This does not, of course, condone acts of cruelty, but I believe it is our work to serve the Master in looking to the light within everyone and helping to bring it forth by our belief in it and by our thoughts, so that the pull towards violence of any kind loses its hold.

‘Within you all are the two aspects of life, the positive and negative, wisdom and ignorance, light and darkness, spirit and the pull of the body; of earthiness. Your true purpose is to develop the son of God within your soul. We understand the conflict which ever rages in the hearts of men and women. We do not blame. We do not condemn. We see instead a process of spiritual unfoldment taking place.’  White Eagle