Imagine 2000 & Beyond

By Raymond Wolf

Many years ago I was wondering, How is the future created? Then as if by magic I could feel, sense how the collective intention of humanity created a psychic opening. It was like the imaginative power of the mind actually opened and created a pathway from the present moment into the future. I had a tangible experience of how our future is literally created. It has often been said that the science fiction of 50 years ago is the science of today. I could feel in that moment how this was true. I could feel that the future was the intention of thousands of people using their minds, intentions, feelings, and bodies to create the future.

The calendar day of 2000 was celebrated around the world with much joy. The new millennium is full of hope, full of opportunities. There is hope for the individual, hope for the entire planet, and hope for humanity as a civilization. What do we wish to create as a collective consciousness? What is the potential for humanity upon earth? Will the collective consciousness of humanity focus its energies upon peace and joy for all? Is that the gift which awaits us?

Major transitions usually don't happen on a single day, but over a period of time. This is one of those times, and one of those changes is the transition from the Sixth Ray to the Seven Ray and the opportunities which that brings.

The Sixth Ray contains the properties of Idealism and Devotion. This Ray's influence can be seen in many ways. In a world of polarity we can see the effect of man's response to these great forces carried to their extremes. As an example, in the field of religion, an aspect of devotion can be seen as the love people show for their religion and God. Another aspect of devotion can be seen in the conflict of people and nations focused on the single pointedness and narrowness of a religious doctrine. Polarities can reveal both the truth and the distortion of a quality like devotion.

The Seventh Ray is called the Ray of Ceremonial Magic. The meaning of ceremonial magic will be as diverse in its application as the human spirit is creative. For some it might mean a return to the ways of nature and away from our technological society. For others it might mean using our technologies to delve ever deeper into the mystery of life. Ritual and ceremony is a matter of intention, and honoring and identifying with the mystery of life.

One of the archetypes associated with the Seventh Ray is Merlin the Magician, a master of Alchemy. The alchemist of the past literally and symbolically strived to turn base minerals to gold. In my imagining, the alchemist of the 21st Century will be the master of the world of polarities in our bodies, emotions, minds, and societies.

There is still monumental work yet to be done. As we create our global society, the opportunity for massive wealth are still very present. However the goal will be to make wealth available for all. Poverty can be eliminated. Education and housing can be available for all. Wealth brings an abundance of opportunity to manifest our creativity. We just need to see that wealth extended to all. The means to realize ourselves should be available to each in the unique ways our cultures can provide, and each should have the opportunity to realize their God given uniqueness.

None should live at the expense of another. None should dominate another, whether it be physical, emotional, cultural, economic, or spiritual. This is the great hurdle. We have masterfully explored hate-love, poor-rich, on the individual level and on the world scale. All the gifts of polarity which have been so present will be seen for what they are: polar opposites of an idea or an emotion carried out to its furthest. The master magician is the one who has mastered him/herself and the material world in relationship to these polarities in body, emotion, mind, and soul.

The future, what shall it be? Shall it be peace upon earth? Shall it be the flowering of all societies, beings, life forms? Shall it be the harmonious relationship between the mother earth and humanity? Shall it be a most glorious manifestation of life where all species can communicate and share, and we can participate in the joy of all life forms? Where our consciousness can go for a swim with the whales, or a flight into the sky with the birds, or crawling through the earth? Perhaps peace will be the collective achievement which allows humanity to progress to the point where, what once would have seemed like a miracle, can be our everyday reality.

As my souls says, "You can indeed mingle and share with the elves, with the angels, with the life in and upon earth, and earth itself. You can begin to reach upward and share with the Logos, share in the conscious creating of the divine blue print for each, which He holds. And it is most glorious. It is most divine. The blue print is filled with the grandest manifestation of human potential. The energies sing with the most glorious testimony to the infinite consciousness, creativity, unlimited capacity, grace, beauty, and truth of God's being. We could say it a half a dozen times and still we cannot truly give words which represent and contain the potential gifts which await humanity and earth."

The energies and Rays open a vast array of human potential and cooperation, to the magical beings that we are, and what Life is. It is up to us. It is for each to choose their path, and to make their contribution to the whole. What shall we envision and put our creativity, our strength, our will to? The master, the individual which we can become, radiates Peace on Earth and Good Will to All.

A version of this article first appeared in the April issue of NewTimes.