The Joy of Christ's Coming
by the late Reverend Howard Ray Carey

This book is joyfully dedicated to the Christ and the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet Earth, with gratitude for the generous help They beam to all disciples as we seek to transmit Their energies to a needy humanity.            

Author's Note

These articles first appeared in Share International magazine between February 1982 and December 1987. Biblical quotations are taken from the Revised Standard version unless otherwise indicated.

 
Howard Ray Carey is that unusual combination: a Methodist minister who is also a student of the esoteric teachings, and so can shine the revealing light of the esoteric tradition on the symbolic stories and events of the Christian Bible. His is thus a most valuable service. We have been privileged to publish these articles in the monthly magazine Share International, where they have rightly proved enormously informative and inspiring. We are glad to have the opportunity of presenting them in this collected form.

Benjamin Creme

The Great Invocation

• 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 center 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 center 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.

The Great Invocation, used by the Christ for the first time in June 1945, was released by him to humanity to enable man himself  to invoke the energies which would change our world, and  make possible the return of the Christ and Hierarchy. This is not   the form of it used by the Christ. He uses an ancient formula,  seven mystic phrases long, in an ancient sacerdotal tongue. It  has been translated (by Hierarchy) into terms which we can use  and understand, and, translated into many languages, is used today  in every country in the world.

It can be made even more potent. Used in triangular formation  it becomes very potent. If you wish to work this way, arrange  with two friends to use the Invocation, aloud, daily. You  need not be in the same town, or country, or say it at the same  time of day. Simply say it when convenient for each one, and,   linking-up mentally with the two other members, visualize a triangle  of white light circulating above your heads and see it linked to a network of such triangles covering the world.

Alice A. Bailey, A Treatise on the Seven Rays:
Vol. I Esoteric Psychology (London: Lucis Press, 1936) 
Vol. II Esoteric Psychology (London: Lucis Press, 1942)
Vol. III Esoteric Astrology (London: Lucis Press, 1951)
Vol. IV Esoteric Healing (London: Lucis Press, 1953)
Vol. V Rays and Initiations (London: Lucis Press, 1960)
From Bethlehem to Calvary (London: Lucis Press, 1937)
Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II (London: Lucis Press, 1944)
The Reappearance of the Christ (London: Lucis Press, 1948)
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire (London: Lucis Press, 1925)
John Gaynor Banks, Healing Everywhere (San Diego, CA: St. Luke's Press, 1953)
Sherwood Eddy, You Will Survive After Death (Evanston, IL: Clark Publishing Co., 1965)
Joseph Head and S. L. Cranston, Reincarnation----The Phoenix Fire Mystery (New York: Julian Press, 1977)
Geoffrey Hodson, The Hidden Wisdom in the Holy Bible, Vol. I (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1967)
C.W. Leadbeater, The Masters and the Path (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House, First Ed. 1925, Reprinted 1973)
Howard Murphet, Sai Baba Avatar (San Diego, CA: Birth Day Publishing Co., 1977)

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