The happiness that you get from money or even relationships cannot compare to the happiness that you will eventually feel through doing the right thing; through making your life first and foremost about helping others to realize their divinity.

As we approach the Christmas season it is always good to remind ourselves of what it is that we are actually celebrating and why.

In our mad world it can be all too easy to toss the turkey in the oven and at the same time throw the baby out of the manger.

We are talking of course about a baby whose initial birth and subsequent life was shrouded in mystery, and is still very little understood even today.

How can we respond to disasters when they unfold, as indeed they have most recently with the terrible attacks in Paris; but also in the future, either in the form of so-called “man-made” disasters or otherwise?

There is a tendency to believe that all we have to do to make our prayers work is say the right words, and then it’s up to God.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

How effective our prayers are depends on how well we perform the practice of prayer.

This is because prayer is not a supernatural appeal to a whimsical God – it is an invocation of spiritual energy from the Divine Source.

This energy is no less real than an energy like electricity, and there will come a time when science will be able to detect and measure this energy.

The first step is to use a prayer technique that will make spiritual energy flow freely through us. The best technique that I know of is that taught by Dr. George King described on our Getting Started page.

In this blogpost I will share with you my experience of how you can make your prayers even more effective, using Dr. King’s amazing prayer technique and benefiting from his remarkable insights into how prayer really works.

It is shocking to see how prayer has been abused over the centuries – and is still being abused today in many religions around the world.

Let us think about what prayer is. It is an appeal to the Supreme Being. To that which precedes time and is more infinite that space. To that which created us and all things countless aeons ago. To that which is our essence, and, ultimately, after millions of lives of experience and evolution – is our destiny.

Underlying every aspect of the profound change our world finds itself now experiencing is one essential, unifying thread: that it is humanity which is in crisis. We have lost our sense of identity, of who we are and of what this existence called Life is really all about.

However, we can take some solace from the observation of Carl Jung more than sixty years ago when he wrote: “It seems to me that we are only at the threshold of a new spiritual epoch.” In much the same vein, his long‐standing and no less brilliant friend Albert Einstein, similarly observed “that the religion of the future will be a cosmic religion…”

Last week I talked with Andre Van Zyl, a lay-member of The Vedanta Society of Southern California.

He gave me his Vedantic perspective of The Twelve Blessings, the profound spiritual truths given by the Cosmic Avatar, the Master Jesus, through Master of Yoga Dr. George King in 1958, two thousand years after he had appeared on Earth.

Our conversation was a beautiful affirmation of the perspective on Cosmic Oneness we both share. And it was not the only one we did share…

“Thrice Blessed are those who send their Power and Love to the Devas.” – The Master Jesus, from The Fifth Blessing

When we pray what we are doing is sending out a beam of mental energy – of love energy – to the object of our prayer.

But that vibration is also going out to our environment where it is picked up and manipulated by the Devic Kingdom who dwell throughout nature.

At the very heart of traditional Christian teaching is the so-called Sermon on the Mount. According to the Gospel of Saint Matthew, Jesus delivered this to his disciples on a mountain. They would not have been able to write it down as he gave it – in fact it is possible that none of those present were literate.

This lengthy discourse would have had to be committed to memory and then passed down orally, possibly for decades, before it was put in writing. There is no suggestion that either the disciples or those they taught had the faculty of perfect recall, as was claimed in Vedic times for example, so it is inevitable that a number of errors must have crept in.

There is then the process of translation from one language to another, e.g. Aramaic Greek to Latin to seventeenth-century English. As it passed through various documents, there would be plenty of room for further mistakes both in determining the exact meaning of certain words and in transcribing them correctly.

Most corrosive of all was the direct and deliberate interference in Christian teachings by the politically-motivated Councils of the early Church. Who knows what alterations they might have made to whatever documents came under their purview? Sadly this leaves us with a Sermon somewhat different from that which was originally spoken on the Mount.

This is the Violet Flame.

It comes from the beloved Mother Earth, the holiest being we will ever physically touch.

In fact The Seventh Blessing tells us more about the Mother Earth than we’ve heard before – and from a Master – the Master Jesus – who really knows.

This sacrificing being of love is always willing to let us share and experience – and use – the protective presence of Her Violet Flame.

Easter has traditionally been seen as the most important festival in the Christian calendar, but until now it has not been fully understood.

We are very fortunate in these days to have been given a full explanation by one who really knows, Dr. George King. In doing so, the Aquarian Master of logic has revealed the true mission of the Piscean Master of love.

Increasingly biblical scholars and historians are questioning the orthodox account of the events leading up to the crucifixion. When facts are staring you in the face you can’t alter them by looking the other way.

The current post-2012 era and full solar eclipse represents the ultimate meeting of the individual and the collective. It is a time of transformation.

I believe this era will go down as one of the most important in our long history on this planet.

And I do not believe that it was by chance The Twelve Blessings was delivered to this Earth in 1958, just a few years before the beginning of the cosmic dance of the two planets of transformation – Uranus and Pluto in the 1960s.

Perhaps even more significantly, The Twelve Blessings was given 52 years before it was originally intended.

In my last post I told you about an experience that I had at University, which set me on the road to dynamic prayer and The Twelve Blessings.

This week we’re going to try an experiment with two willing cooperators, Pete and Noemi, who are both very experienced with The Twelve Blessings but, perhaps like yourself, have never done this particular exercise before.

The idea is to help everyone to realize the reality of the power of prayer, and the reality of the universal life force which flows throughout the cosmic system and can be invoked by YOU.

We’re going to see as we film it whether it works and what effect it has. This is something you might want to try at home with somebody who is open minded and willing to do this with you.

I first discovered what we call dynamic prayer attending a talk at Hull University, where I was a student of music and drama in the early 70’s. What I experienced changed my life forever. It could change yours too.

The Aetherius Society speaker told us all, members of the Buddhist and Vedanta Society, which I belonged to in those days, how to send energy out to the world – and I’m going to show you exactly what he taught us then.

We filmed this post in July 2014, but the message is as relevant now as it ever was when we first recorded it.

There is an urgency with The Twelve Blessings today. It is how we can infuse that pure, potent, mystical – beautiful – energy of Love so desperately needed into the madness of our world. And this is what we are all being called to do at this time.

This work is the real White Magic of ancient yoga philosophy and western mysticism – how everyone, inspired with a pure motive, can send out spiritual energy to the world.