THE RAINBOW SWASTIKA - Scattered Seed Ministries

4b. Here is the text from 1945, identical to that promoted in the World Goodwill Newsletter
(issued 1997, vol.2). The footnote and capitalizing are in the original. [Please do not use this
in prayer or even read it out loud - treat it as the idolatrous incantation it is. I would not even
be including it, if I were not convinced that this is a case of pikuach nefesh, with many lives in
the balance.]
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From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ* return to Earth.
From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men -
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.
*In some translations of the Great Invocation the name by which the Coming One is known in
different religions is used, eg. the Lord Maitreya, Krishna, the Imam Mahdi and the Messiah.
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Bailey explains two key concepts to be emphasized "once it is permissible" to use the prayer
publicly (_Discipleship_, p.149-150):
1. "May Christ return to Earth."... What is referred to is the externalisation of the Hierarchy
and its exoteric appearance on Earth... under its Head, the Christ, [who will] function openly
and visibly on Earth. This will happen when the purpose of the divine Will, and the plan
which will implement it, are better understood....
2. "May it seal the door where evil dwells."... The evil referred to has nothing to do with the
evil inclinations, [etc.] found in the hearts and minds of human beings... [but rather] the
loosed forces of evil... [the neutralizing of which] requires the imposition of a power beyond
the human.... These evil potencies will be occultly "sealed" within their own place: what this
exactly means has naught to do with humanity. [Never mind that only a few pages later, "it is
not the Hierarchy which forces evil back into the place from whence it comes. It is struggling,
aspiring and suffering humanity to whom the task is committed." (p.159)]
As the old values like "separateness" are replaced with the new, "the door where evil dwells"
will close "through the sheer weight of public opinion and through right human desire.
Nothing can possibly stop it." (p.175)
Following is a brief glossary of other coded phrases in the text of the Invocation. Note the
capitalized words; these refer to divine entities or attributes, as opposed to the same word
without caps, meaning earthly or human replications. Most of these key words are found in
Bailey's description of the "Planetary Logos". The rest can be deduced from her worldview.