Temple of Light
July Monthly Service Notice
July 16, 2022
Good morning everyone — On July 26th our friends Deborah Starrs from Tucson, Arizona and Anne Blaney from Salmon Arm, British Columbia will focus this service time and lead us into the period of radiant response that follows.
Moving passionately in the period of recreation that these Temple services allow, in alignment with the overlighting Cosmic Cycle of Recreation, changes are coming thick and fast. These words from Martin Cecil, spoken in 1981, emphasize so clearly what is required of each of us as we blend and create together spiritually in service times, and in every moment of daily living:
“I stand at the center and the light shines all around me. Only when a person does stand at the center can the light shine all around him. Clearly if there is a center at which to stand, only in that position is there a complete circle around one. Anywhere else but at that point of center it will only be a partial extension of whatever light there is. That light grows dimmer the farther one is away from the center; so there is less light and less area possible of illumination. You can only see all around at the peak of the mountain. In our services together, I always seek to stand at the center so that the light may shine all around and there may be a balanced view, a true perspective; and the invitation is, to all concerned, also to stand at the center. After the service we have what have been called comment periods, during which most of those who speak say something of what they had seen of what I had said—each one saying in effect, “This is what I saw in what you said.” We do not really share a time together in order for this sort of approach to be taken. It may be the initial approach, but if one remains in that stance as an observer of what is being offered and then outlining one’s interpretation of it, the purpose of being together would have been lost. We are here to stand at the center together. I stand at the center, you individually stand at the center, and if we do that we are all at the center and the light shines round about. We see what should be seen and we see this in a balanced way, in true perspective. If you have something to say after a service it wouldn’t be, “Well this is what I saw in what you said.” You would say, if you are going to say anything, “This is what I say from my position at the center.” Only on that basis can there be agreement. There is no agreement in the human world because each individual sees in his own way, but if the person who is seeing on this basis doesn’t have adequate light because he is not standing at the center and he does not have a balanced view, then what he sees will be at best distorted—a very shadowy view. An invitation is constantly extended to stand at the center where one’s own light shines round about. You cannot be at the center and depend on anyone else’s light. When you are at the center there is the light shining round about and you see what is there and understand what is there, because the only position that this is possible is at the center.”
It is a profound pleasure to welcome Anne and Deborah to focus this service, and welcome all of you to join and provide a unified body, where we stand at the Center and let the Light shine all around. David Barnes
These are the Temple service dates selected for the next two months:
Sunday, July 24, 2022 @ 10 a.m. Pacific Time 1 p.m. Eastern Time Anne Blaney, Salmon Arm, British Columbia
Sunday, August 21, 2022 @ 5:30 p.m. Pacific Time 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time 9:30 a.m. Korea Time Jae Hyoung Lee and Duk Hee Kang, Jeju Island, South Korea (our Temple service will be on Sunday evening in order to accommodate the time zone difference)
Sunday, September 18, 2022 @ 10 a.m. Pacific Time 1 p.m. Eastern Time Arno Van Haght, David Barnes and Robert Merriman will hold the space and steward movement through the Anniversary Service, as we discover what takes form and through whom.
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