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Happy
Birthday to all those born in May & June
May Birthstone: Emerald May Flower: Lily of the Valley
June Birthstone: Pearl June Flower: Rose
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Contributors
Column: Submitted by Alice Sperl
Miraculous Flowers Sprout On Gold Statue In South Korea
Flowers that bloom only once every 3,000
years are budding on the head of a sacred Buddhist
statue. Buddhist priests in South Korea say the legendary
flowers blossoming on the forehead of Kuan Yin "The
Compassionate" only appear "when the Sage King of the
Future' comes into the world," which one Buddhist leader
called, "a delight that gives joy beyond description." The
"Miracle of the Flowers", happened in the Choggyesa temple
in a suburb of Seoul, the capital of South Korea. "Tens of
thousands of pilgrims are flocking to see the white blossoms on the
tip of the eyebrow of the shining, gilded statue of Kuan Yin, a
gentle Buddhist deity who refused to enter paradise because she heard
the cries of suffering humanity," says religious expert Dr.
Kenneth Ireland. "She is acknowledged to save the soul of
everyone on Earth, turning her back on none." Many are now
saying that the monastery of Chonggye-sa could become the Buddhist
Lourdes because many cures are being performed there. According
to the monks, 21 threadlike stems are growing from the statue of Juan
Yin, each with a tiny white flower no bigger than the tip of a
ballpoint pen. This is the first time in the 1,000-year history of
the monastery that the flowers have blossomed. Buddhists say
sighting the flowers is like witnessing the birth of Buddha.
Experts say it is unthinkable that the 500-year old statue of Kuan
Yin, gilded every three years over the original woodwork, could
produce growing flowers without divine intervention.
"Botanically, the flower is related to the ficus," says
botanist William Grant. "There is just no way it could take root
in the statue." Dr. Ireland says the flowers are regarded as
divine in India, Japan and China and are believed to bloom only when
a momentous event is about to happen. Buddhists monks are
currently keeping a prayer vigil at the statue, waiting for the event
that will change mankind's future forever.
Submitted to The International Spiritualist Federation,
by Ellie Fristensky
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Esoterica
"One point I wish to make
here is this: every initiation has to be self-initiated. That final
stage
when definite help is brought to us from outside sources is not
achieved because there are great Beings anxious to help us, Who come
to us where we are and seek to lift us. It comes to us because we
have done the necessary work, and nothing can stop it coming. It is
our right. Those who have achieved can and will and do aid and assist
us, but Their hands are tied until we have done our share of the
undertaking. Nothing, therefore, that we do to increase our
usefulness in the world, no steps that we take to build better
bodies, no effort that we make to gain self-control and to equip our
mental body, is ever lost; it is all something which we are adding to
the total we are piling up, which will some day bring us to a great
revelation, and every hourly, daily effort that we make, swells the
tide of energy which will sweep us to the portal of initiation. The
meaning of the word "initiation" is "to go into."
It means simply that an initiate is one who has taken the first steps
into the spiritual kingdom, and has had the first series of spiritual
revelations, each one of which is a key to a still greater
revelation." Alice A. Bailey - The Consciousness
of the Atom
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Quote
Corner:
He is not Godless who scorns
the God
of the multitudes. He is Godless who accepts the opinions of the
multitudes concerning
their God. - Epicurus
Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are
taught in falsehood
schools. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at
once a lunatic and fool. -
Plato
Those who seek outside themselves will never truly find the answers,
for you are not in
the world, but the world is in you. - John
Carlo
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