Wesak and Buddha
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Writings by Ann Ree Colton
Wesak, occurring in the first Full Moon in the sign of Taurus, is a sacred time of Initiation for those who offer themselves to the Lord. The powerful Rays of the Christ and of Buddha are conjoined each year in the Inner Planes the first Full Moon in the sign of Taurus. In this time, the preachers of the Initiates are chosen to become guardians of the Dharma. Wesak is the gathering of the brethren and the calling of the preachers.
The one known as Buddha, who lived approximately 500 years before Jesus, now dwells in the First Heaven, called Nirvana in the Eastern teachings. Working with the Lord Buddha are many Bodhisattvas or Sacred Men. The Bodhisattvas in the First Heaven sound the tone of Om, thereby helping to sustain the reflected archetypes overdwelling the First Heaven.
One side of Jesus' mission was to unite the soul-flow between the East and the West. As Buddha came to India to shatter crystallized concepts and to cleanse and purify the mind channels for truth, thereby overcoming the blind reliance upon the lesser deities, so did Jesus come to the West to overcome the limitation in the ceremonial ritual priesthood and the rigid dogma.
Jesus came to begin, Buddha to end, a great Age. Buddha was the last sage of the Rishis, and came to end a certain thing man had accomplished in the earth. Buddha came to teach self-salvation. Christ came to give us world-salvation. Buddha was aware that the Christ is the One - he came to prepare for the Christ.
Buddha teaches one how to live with karma and to withdraw from it. Jesus teaches how to overcome it and to aid all mankind to overcome theirs. Buddha brings self-salvation in his 8-fold Path. Cosmic Adept action is contained in the Beatitudes of Jesus in Saint Matthew.
Buddha gave to man the 8-fold Path by which one could unite consciously with the Cosmic Mind. Jesus gave to all men of the earth the opening of the twelve chakra gates of the soul whereby man could consciously unite with God as a Cosmos Being. Buddha gave to man Mind-Realization and Self-Realization. Jesus gave to man God-Realization. Through God-Realization, man achieves Being rather than ego.
In the Far East, Buddha is sometimes portrayed with enlarged ears. This symbolically portrays the extended sense of spiritual hearing reaching into dimensions of sound little known by the outer sense of hearing. The ear is structured to record vibration and sound that the mind of man may respond to the great audible sound used by the Holy Ghost.
The solar-plexus chakra is the center for desire; it is the central heart of the desire-system and emotional body. The Lord Buddha came to teach men of the desireless life; for this, he gave the Eight-fold Path. Each petal of the solar-plexus chakra - of which there are eight - is a balancing scale for polarization, whereby man's desire is measured. By mastering the eight steps of initiation, one attains the desireless nature. To dwell upon the eight steps of initiation through the third-chakra path is to be in alignment with the Lord Buddha, who is in command of the First Heaven.
Jesus came as an enlightened, established Cosmos Saviour and Avatar. Buddha gave the Eightfold Path by which man could reach for the superconscious state of Samadhi.
Jesus unites the immortal or superconsciousness in the soul of man with "our Father in Heaven." Buddha unites man as an ego with the mental psyche or psychological functioning processes of the soul. Jesus had command of all twelve chakras. Buddha had command of ten initiatory chakras, with emphasis on the third chakra. Those who follow the Buddha-Path work with emphasis upon the third chakra. This work begins in the first and second chakras, finally attaining mastery in the third.
"For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be." (St. Matthew 24:27) Buddha is the Bodhisattva Love within the lightning between the East and the West. Jesus is the Cosmos Love within the lightning between the East and the West.
Jesus acts as the etheric body of the earth. Buddha acts as the emotional body of the earth. Our Father acts as the soul body for all souls within the humanity of the earth. God is the Spirit body of the total earth and all who inhabit His worlds. These are the Transcendental Bodies of the earth.
The First Heaven is the high side of Eden. Buddha is the center in the First Heaven, and the Bodhisattvas are his rosary or necklace companions.
When Eternal Spirit seeks to unite the combined soul-forces within the etheric planes, Jesus provides the way one receives the supernatural etheric vitalities. When Eternal Spirit moves into the pure emotions of mankind, Buddha's emotional body and the emotional bodies of all those who would serve as did Buddha become a matrix love-body through which man receives the emotional initiatory processes within the astral planes.
The Path of Buddha and the Path of Jesus are both essential Path-ways to the Esse Dharma, or the Real. Both may be simultaneously realizable when one begins to move beyond the secular religious vestments representing Buddha and Jesus.
Man as an ego experiences Cosmic Mind through consciousness. Man experiences Universal Being through Selfhood. These two Paths are seeking to blend in the present period. Limited conceptual interpretation of Buddha and of Jesus has veiled the oneness of these two vital aspects of life shaping and forming the souls of all men.
With the beginning of meditation, one encounters the necessity to lean on the law of the subtle consciousness as given in the Dharma through Buddha, and also to lean on the law, the love and the ethic through Jesus. Both seek to lead all to the Christ Spirit - the true Enlightener of the body, emotions, mind, soul and spirit.
Jesus is the Door; Buddha, the Path to the Door. Christ, the true Light that lighteth the world, is gained by the quickening upward flow of the Holy Spirit condensed within the Lightning Rod of the Kundalini.
Certain aspects of the Buddhistic Mahayana system of enlightenment or Dharma have surfaced in psychiatry and psychology in the Western subconscious. From age to age, it is inevitable in the wellsprings of enlightenment that Truth, serving man, is drawn upward from the Source from which man obtains the supports rooted deeply within the compulsion-need to know and to survive. Learning comes coupled with the necessity for experience. Experience and learning are the wisdom-twins whereby man expands as a conscious rationalizing being of earth and of heaven.
The inevitability of basic similarities exists in the procedures of instruction to gain enlightenment because Truth is One within the One. Truth is ever the same, even though appearing differently according to the vessel and the era or time.
Buddha, living before Jesus, came to prepare man for the Christ-Spirit Avatar Light of Jesus. Buddha united the mankind-ego with the Psyche mind-functioning of the Soul. In Buddha's own enlightenment, he opened ten of his chakras, with emphasis upon the third chakra. His exploration-initiations gave him contact with, and command of, the third-chakra gate of all mankind. Buddha, as a directing, mind-illuminating Being, now dwells centered in the First Heaven, where all third-chakra action is mastered. All Bodhisattva-action under Buddha functions through the third chakra.
The Buddha line under the direction of the Adi-Buddha line provides one with the power to manifest one's own Buddhi powers of the soul. All souls contain this power.
The Eastern schools, since Buddha, have emphasized that man must through responsibility dissolve his own karma. In the West, one believes that Jesus and the Father, through confession and forgiveness, erase sins. In the East, one believes that he erases his own sins through the direct and personal use of the Dharma. When one comes into the Unifying understanding, he realizes that both beliefs are true and do not contradict each other.
The Eastern chela, while sitting at the feet of a living physical guru for instruction, looks directly to the guru for divine intervention. While intercession is understood and revered through the Buddhistic testimony, the chela seeks to resolve his own karma, being directly and personally responsible for existing negativities within his own life.
In the West, man is more inclined to look upon the Lord as a personalized Being. In the East, man looks upon the Lord in two manners: as God Absolute and as the conditioned God. Also in the East, one is aware of the Divine Mother Principle ever present in Nature and in human affairs. Presently, the souls of all men are seeking to blend the essential and basic formulas in religion.
Jesus, spoken of by Buddha as the Lord of Kindness, is the head of the Bodhisattva-Line. In the Bodhisattva-Line, one becomes Saint-saturated or anointed; he plunges into the elixir-sea of Saintly consciousness, where the soul-light combinings of the divine Companions or Saints produce the great elixirs of Buddhic light. being the recipient of the Bodhisattva distilled-elixirs of consciousness makes one a guardian of the pure and true Word.
The distilled Bodhisattva-elixirs of consciousness flow toward the vibrational expectancies of all souls who would be pure. He who disburses the distilled spiritual elixirs is in a state of purity and devotion. Without ceasing, he is the elixir. As a distilling vehicle of consciousness and of light, one produces the illuminating harmony in body, mind and soul.
Buddha was Lunar Avatar; Jesus was a Solar Avatar. The eight-petaled lotus in the solar plexus relates to the Eightfold Path of Buddha. Buddha, as a Lunar Avatar, came to give the right law for behavior. The twelve-petaled lotus of the heart relates to the twelve zodiacal prototypes where the prototypal-association initiation powers are to be mastered. Jesus, as a Solar Avatar, is in command of the heart chakra.
In the solar plexus, the heavier or gross vibrations of the planets must be mastered through the Eightfold Path of Buddha. In the heart or Anahata chakra, the higher constellation vibrational refined energies of the galaxies are mastered through the Jesus prototypal association ethic: "Love ye one another."
Men are presently working to polarize the Lunar-Avatar light with the Solar-Avatar light. The Lunar powers of Buddha are open to one being initiated through the third chakra lunar-light. This lunar light unites one with the First Heaven, where Buddha is in command as the central Avatar.
Jesus is the God-centered Cosmos-Being, connecting all souls to the Christ-Samadhi state. To take the dust from His feet in reverent salutation is to unite with the Universal Cosmos Mind supporting the energy life of this eternity system. To kneel in reverence, speaking His Name as a holy mantra, linking Christ with His Name, is to raise the third chakra lunar Buddha-light into the Jesus Solar-Avatar Light within the heart.
The two Hierarchs in this earth are Jesus and the Father, making twelve Hierarchs all together. Buddha worked with the ten Hierarchy powers. He had no knowledge of the two Hierarchs: Jesus and the Father.
The Buddha chain of the avatars ended a great cycle of Hierarchy functioning for mankind of the earth. With the coming of Jesus working with our Father which art in heaven, the Buddha knowledge flowed into the potential Jesus Hierarchy-powers latent in all souls.
With all of His perfection and insight, Buddha did not attain full Hierarchy potential in his own
nature. Those who are dependent upon the Buddha-chain of enlightenment are limited to the ten Hierarchy prototypal powers in their natures.
Buddha came to prepare men for the Jesus Hierarchy-powers. To be enlightened in the Buddha-chain is to prepare for Jesus Hierarchy-nature in one's own being.
-- Ann Ree Colton: Wesak and Buddha
