123 - Millenium Message

Holiday Greetings from Pir Vilayat

Although the threshold leading into the Millenium does not correspond to a significant astrological conjunction, nor to the actual birth of Christ, we have created that quantum leap in our minds: therefore for us it has an important significance if we will take heed of what it is telling us. Its message: the future is not there for us to enter into, we create it. The collective thinking of the Planet is beckoning upon us, warning us to change.

The whole universe has contributed to the way humanity thinks today. If the Planet did not have an intelligence, it could not have intelligent beings on it. The collective working of several minds and the activity of the whole world in one direction are governed by the intelligence of the Planet.

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

When one turns a new page, particularly a new chapter, one needs to let go of the previous page even though it is still in the book. However in real life the past itself has changed. From your car window, the landscape you left behind may still linger in your mind, but from the overview of a helicopter you can see that it has changed - a car may cross the road. Interestingly, our memory is gifted with the faculty of extracting the gist of the experience of the past. The task for our mind is now to interfuse the insight gained by the legacy of the past with the prospects of the future.

The soul manifests in the world in order that it may experience the different phases of manifestation, and yet not lose its way, but regain its original freedom, in addition to the experience and knowledge it has gained in the world.

Our motto for the Millenium is in the words of Euler: "the pull of the future is stronger than the push of the past." Since we create the future, it is our New Year resolutions, actually: our New Millenium resolutions - our pledges that will open the door to change.

True exaltation of the spirit resides in the fact that it has come to earth and has realized there its spiritual existence.

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

Our soul-searching concerning the spoliation of our beautiful planet, crime, vulgarity, point to the challenge before us. To trigger off change, there is first work to do with ourselves: rise above resentment. The tour de force is to love people who make it difficult to love them without capitulating to their domination and thereby abandoning our values. It is our sense of the sacred that is the door out of the imbroglio - glorification lifts us above our selfishness and greed and invests us with spiritual authority.

A new spirituality is emerging out of the religions of the past free from dogmas, prescriptions, gurus, the institutionalization of religions, calling upon us to take responsibility, honor our values, celebrate the marvel of life and realize the privilege of participating in the cosmic celebration right in the middle of the drama of humanity.

In man is awakened that spirit by which the whole universe was created.

Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan

You may recognize in this vision for the future of spirituality, the features of the Message brought by Hazrat Inayat Khan - a message for our time. A pioneer, he foresaw this perspective, in advance of his time: it is the Universel - the message for the Millenium of spiritual freedom, honoring the divinity of the human status, mastery through accomplishment.

It carries a heartening energy: re-enchantment.
