STEPPING OUT OF THE OLD AEON INTO THE NEW Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

          STEPPING OUT OF THE OLD AEON INTO THE NEW


      Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.

     As all of you should know, we have entered a New Aeon. A
Higher  Truth  has  been  given  to  the World. This truth is
waiting in readiness for all those who will conciously accept
it,  but  it  has to be realised before it is understood, and
day  by  day those who have accepted this Law, and are trying
to  live  it,  realize  more  and  more  of  its  Beauty  and
Perfection.
     The  new teaching appears strange at first; and the mind
is  unable  to  grasp  more than a fragment of what it really
means.  Only  when  we  are  living the Law can that fragment
expand into the infiniate conception of the whole.
     I  want you to share with me one little fragment of this
great  Truth  which  has  been  made clear to me this Sun-Day
morning:  I  want you to come with me-if you will-just across
the  border-line of the Old Aeon and gaze for a moment at the
New.  Then,  if the aspect pleases you, you will stay, or, it
may  be, you will return there for a while, but the road once
open and the Path plain, you will always be able to get there
again,  in  the twinkling of an eye, just by readjusting your
inner sight to the Truth.
     You  know  how deeply we have always been impressed with
the  ideas  of  Sun-rise  and  Sun-set,  and  how our ancient
brethren, seeing the sun disappear at night and rise again in
the  morning,  based  all  their  religious ideas in this one
conception  of  a Dying an Re-arisen God. This is the central
idea  of  the  religion  of the Old Aeon, but we have left it
behind  us  because  although it seemed to be based on Nature
(and  Nature's symbols are always true), yet we have outgrown
this idea which is only apparently true in Nature. Since this
great  Ritual  of  Sacrifice  and  Death  was  conceived  and
perpetuated,  we,  through  the  observation  of  our  men of
science, have come to know that it is not the Sun which rises
and  sets,  but  the earth on which we live which revolves so
that  its shadow cuts us off from the sunlight during what we
call night. The Sun does not die, as the ancients thought; It
is  always shining, always radiating Light and Life. Stop for
a  moment  and  get a clear conception of this Sun, how He is
shining  in the early morning, shining at mid-day, shining in
the evening, and shining in the night. Have you got this idea
clearly  in  your minds? YOU HAVE STEPPED OUT OF THE OLD AEON
INTO THE NEW.
     Now  let  us consider what has happened. In order to get
this mental picture of the ever-shining Sun, what did you do?
You  identified yourself with the Sun. You stepped out of the
conciousness  of  this  planet;  and  for a moment you had to
consider  yourself  a  Solar Being. Then why step back again?
You  may have done so involuntarily, because the Light was so
great  that it seemed as Darkness. But do it again, this time
more  fully,  and  let  us  consider  what the changes in our
concept of the Universe will be.
     The  moment  we  identify  ourselves  with  the  Sun, we
realize  that we have become the source of Light, that we too
are  now  shining  gloriously,  but  we also realize that the
Sunlight  is  no  longer for us, for we can no longer see the
Sun,  any  more  than  in our little old-aeon conciousness we
could see ourselves. All around us is perpetual Night, but it
is  the  Starlight  of  the Body of Our Lady Nuit in which we
live  and  move and have our being. Then, from this height we
look back upon the little planet Earth, of which we, a moment
ago,  were a part, and think of Ourself as shedding our Light
upon  all  those  individuals we have called our brothers and
sisters,  the  slaves  that  serve. But we do not stop there.
Imagine  the  Sun  concentrating His rays for a moment on one
tiny  spot,  the  Earth.  What happens? It is burnt up, it is
consumed,  it  disappears.  But  in our Solar Conciousness is
Truth, and though we glance for a moment at the little sphere
we have left behind us, and it is no more, yet there is "that
which  remains."  What remains? What has happened? We realize
that "every man and every woman is a star." We gaze around at
our  wider heritage, we gaze at the Body of Our Lady Nuit. We
are  not  in  darkness;  we  are much nearer to Her now. What
(from the little planet) looked like specks of light, are now
blazing  like  other  great  Suns,  and  these  are truly our
brothers  and  sisters,  whose essential ans Starry nature we
had  never  before seen and realized. These are the 'remains'
of those we thought we had left behind.
     There  is  plenty  of room here, each one travels in His
true Path, all is Joy.
     Now,  if you want to step back into the Old Aeon, do so.
But try and bear in mind that those around you are in reality
Suns  and  Stars, not shivering little slaves. If you are not
ready to be a King yourself, still recognise that they have a
right  to  Kingship,  even  as you have, whenever you wish to
accept  it.  And the moment you desire to do so you have only
to remember this-LOOK AT THINGS FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE
SUN.
              Love is the law, love under will