PENTECOST – REFERENCES OF INTEREST
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REFERENCES TO THE NUMBER 50
Pentecost is 50 days after Easter
The number five represents the perfected man.
In the Gemini Festival, Christ stands before the spiritual Hierarchy representing humanity as the “leader of His people” and the “Eldest in a great family of brothers” symbolizing for us the perfected Man – the God Man. Christ was “the perfect expression” of goodwill. [Book, Problems of Humanity, 164]
The number 5: the esoteric ruler of Gemini is Venus which
conducts and conveys 5th ray energy – the higher or abstract Mind and
the lowest anchor point for the Higher Man. Venus refers to the Soul. On the
“map” (the constitution of man chart), the body of the Soul (the Solar Angel) is
found here, is anchored here on the second sub-plane of the mental plane,
through which the Soul can enter and flow into the feeling nature (the astral
body) and the physical etheric body - of the whole person.
5 is the number of Man, the Perfected Man – Manas. Manas is Mind. Man is Aryan - Mind.
5 is the number for Mind or the 5th plane.
10 x 5 = 50 days from Easter to Pentecost – a 5th ray cycle in time.
Man must stand in the five-fold energy field of the
Pentagram - for his own safety, for the perfecting of his vehicles, and for
mastering the lower sub-planes.
Treatise in White Magic, 35
a. The soul therefore is neither spirit nor matter but is the relation between them.
b. The soul is the mediator between this duality; it is the middle principle, the link between God and His form.
c. Therefore the soul is another name for the Christ principle, whether in nature or in man.
Treatise in White Magic, 199/200
As the heart center is awakened and the throat center swings into creative work, a definite relation is set up and there is an interplay of energy between the two. This activity in its turn brings about a response from that aspect of the thousand petalled lotus (a synthetic lotus) through which the energy always animating the heart and throat centers normally passes. This responsive [Page 199] activity and inter-action brings about two results, and these should be most carefully noted.
First, the light in the head makes its appearance. A sparking (if I might so express it) is set up between the higher positive over-shadowing energy as it is centralized within the form of the thousand-petalled lotus, and the steadily heightening vibration of the heart and throat centers or lotuses. These two lower centers in their turn are responding to the energies being lifted and raised from the centers below the diaphragm.
Secondly, the center between the eyebrows also begins to make its presence felt, and this significant two-petalled lotus begins to vibrate. It symbolizes the work of at-one-ing the soul and the body, the subjective and the objective. In some occult books it is called the lotus with the ninety-six petals, but this is only a differentiation dealing with the energies focused in the two petals. It will be noted that the sum total of the force petals in the centers (excluding the two head centers) amount in all to forty-eight petals. These energies in their two aspects of physical vital energy and soul qualities make up the ninety-six aspects or vibrations of the two petals of the Ajna or eyebrow center. It must be remembered also that the word 'petal' only symbolizes an expression of force and its apparent effect in matter.
The five centers with their forty-eight petals are synthesized therefore into the two-petalled lotus, and then we have forty-eight plus two equals fifty, the number of the perfected personality, for five is the number of man and ten is that of perfection. Symbolically also, if the sum total of the forty-eight petals of the five centers is added to the ninety-six petals of the center between the eyebrows, the number one hundred and forty-four appears. This number signifies the completed work of the twelve creative Hierarchies, twelve times twelve, and thus the bringing together of the subjective soul and the objective body in perfect union and at-one-ment. This is the consummation. To these figures, one hundred and forty-four add that of the number one thousand (the number of the petals in the lotus of the head center) and you have the number of the saved in the Book of Revelations, the one hundred and forty-four thousand who can stand before God, for the three ciphers which are found indicate the personality. When man has completed within himself the great work, when the number one hundred and forty-four thousand is seen as symbolizing his point of attainment, then he can stand before God—standing now not only before the Angel of the Presence, but before the very Presence Itself.”
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Pentecost and The PEACE DOVE
"The Prince of Peace" is one of several names attributed to Christ, the Lord of Love.
The Dove is associated with the Soul, with Venus, with Love.
The Holy Spirit is symbolized by the Dove. The Holy Spirit descended over the multitude in the upper chamber, swirling like a Dove.
Pentecost - Bible, Acts 2:
"And when the day of Pentecost was fully come,
they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from
heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were
sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat
upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to
speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance."
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Pentecost will increasingly be associated with the Gemini Festival of Humanity at which time LOVE pours into our solar system through the 2nd Ray, originating from the great constellations The Great Bear - the Seven Brothers or Rishis, and the Pleiades – the Seven Sisters.
The Pleiades are associated with Doves: “Pleiades, `flock of doves', consistent with the Sisters' mythological transformation.” (Internet)
The Pleiades galaxy is the hub and center of our Universe, around which our Solar System revolves. Our Solar God is a God of Love, our Solar System is a Love system receiving the energy of Love from what some esotericists speculate is Cosmic LOVE emanating from the Pleiades, from the Cosmic Buddhic plane – via the star Sirius - the Cosmic Christ.
Christ, an Avatar of Love, embodies the cosmic principle of Love.
Peace, the Dove, the Holy Spirit, the Monad – either represent or are “holy “fires” on different subtle dimensions of Being.
This beautiful image of the Pleiades cluster was produced by David Malin of the Anglo-Australian Observatory and is the copyright of the Anglo-Australian Observatory and the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
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The biblical narrative of Pentecost is given in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. Present were about one hundred twenty followers of Christ (Acts 1:15), including his core group of twelve Disciples (Acts 1:13, 26), his mother Mary and various other women disciples (Acts 1:14). Their reception of Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Upper Room is recounted in Acts 2:1–6:
And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other languages, as the Spirit gave them utterance. And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.
While those on whom the Spirit had descended were speaking in many languages, the Apostle Peter stood up with the eleven and proclaimed to the crowd that this event was the fulfillment of the prophecy ("I will pour out my spirit"). In Acts 2:17, it reads: "'And in the last days,' God says, 'I will pour out my spirit upon every sort of flesh, and your sons and your daughters will prophesy and your young men will see visions and your old men will dream dreams." He also mentions (2:15) that it was the third hour of the day (about 9:00 AM). Acts 2:41 then reports: "Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls."
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“Easter and Pentecost will be the "two outstanding days of the religious year“. Pentecost is … the symbol of right human relations in which all men and nations will understand each other and – though speaking in many and diverse languages – will know only one spiritual speech.” Destiny of the Nations, AB
Pentecost in the Churches
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJcBgcHkdac]
This is the Icon of the Descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles.
At the bottom is an allegorical figure, called Kosmos, which symbolizes the world.
Grounding the LIGHT
Pentecost: Five, the Star of Sanat Kumara, bestowed to the Christ to officiate the birth and baptism initiations.
Fifty is five to the power of two, twice.
Fifty is also (6+4)*5, bringing together the Deva (6) and the Human (4) Kingdoms. Five is the midpoint between the four and the six.
The musical fifth (G) is the Son, of the Mother (F), and the Father (C).
Light, Love, Power
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