{"content":[{"text":"energetic that it causes the previously expelled gas to brightly fluoresce. The interesting thing about \n this photo is that the Helix Nebula is the nearest such nebula to our own planet Earth (about 700 light \n years away) and it lies towards the constellation of Aquarius, designated in the NASA description as \n the “Water Bearer.”","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.047765,"width":0.906287,"height":0.078207}},{"text":"I chose this photo for our work today because to me it serves as a symbol of the fact that the Age of \n Aquarius is the Age of the flowering of the Soul — the hidden life-giving essence pulsating at the heart \n of all life.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.139912,"width":0.9059780000000001,"height":0.05802999999999997}},{"text":"Interestingly, knowledge of the Soul can be traced back to the dawn of time. For instance, The \n Emerald Tablets of Thoth, the Atlantean Priest-King, which some claim date back some 36,000 years \n B.C. include in Tablet 11, for example, appreciation of Spirit-Soul, the immortal body of light, not \n subject to the limitations of the three dimensional physical world. This Tablet poetically affirms the \n importance of the Soul:","bbox":{"left":0.056912,"top":0.212033,"width":0.9138390000000001,"height":0.09833299999999998}},{"text":"\"Hear ye and liste ye, O children of Khem....When ye as men can learn that nothing but \n progress of Soul can count in the end, then truly ye are free from all bondage, free to work in \n a harmony of Law.\"","bbox":{"left":0.117686,"top":0.324343,"width":0.8473590000000001,"height":0.058030000000000026}},{"text":"Dear Friends, as we know, Soul unfoldment is, after all, but one of the great processes of nature and \n whereas belief in the Soul flourished in what is now, after 2,000 plus years, the waning Age of Pisces, \n so will knowledge of the Soul flourish in this evolving Age of Aquarius.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.396313,"width":0.906131,"height":0.05802999999999997}},{"text":"The first volume of Esoteric Psychology provides this comprehensive description: “the soul is light \n essentially, both literally from the vibratory angle, and philosophically from the angle of constituting \n the true medium of knowledge. The soul is light symbolically, for it is like the rays of the sun, which \n pour out into the darkness; the soul, through the medium of the brain, causes revelation.","bbox":{"left":0.056912,"top":0.468434,"width":0.907872,"height":0.07820700000000003}},{"text":"“It throws its light into \n illumined.” (p. 132)","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.560581,"width":0.219538,"height":0.03787800000000008}},{"text":"the","bbox":{"left":0.289155,"top":0.560581,"width":0.028187000000000018,"height":0.01772700000000005}},{"text":"brain, and","bbox":{"left":0.328155,"top":0.560581,"width":0.09667200000000004,"height":0.01772700000000005}},{"text":"thus","bbox":{"left":0.435542,"top":0.560581,"width":0.03756599999999999,"height":0.01772700000000005}},{"text":"the way","bbox":{"left":0.483765,"top":0.560581,"width":0.07247100000000006,"height":0.01772700000000005}},{"text":"of","bbox":{"left":0.566858,"top":0.560581,"width":0.01834800000000003,"height":0.01772700000000005}},{"text":"the human being becomes increasingly","bbox":{"left":0.595832,"top":0.560581,"width":0.36871,"height":0.01772700000000005}},{"text":"Whereas the brain is like the eye of the soul, looking out into the physical world, so the Soul is the \n eye of the greater Monad, and in a curious and occult sense, the fourth kingdom in nature constitutes \n on our planet the eye of the planetary Deity. (ibid.)","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.612399,"width":0.9059330000000001,"height":0.058030000000000026}},{"text":"All, dear Friends, is interrelated; is it not? We exist in one unimaginably vast and universal network \n of interrelationships and interdependence — all of us part of each other and part of the pulsation of \n the infinite grandeur of the Cosmos.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.684369,"width":0.906007,"height":0.058030000000000026}},{"text":"Eye of the Monad or the vital flower of Love and wisdom — both, I think, can be envisioned in this \n cosmic photo.","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.756528,"width":0.9056540000000001,"height":0.03787800000000008}},{"text":"Of course, there is so much more that we can say about the Soul, but, for now, let’s pause for a \n moment, as we normally do, and together sound the Noon-time recollection. Can we remember, as \n we do, that it is the free and unimpeded circulation of energy among the three planetary centres of \n Shamballa, Hierarchy and humanity - that through this monthly work, we are striving to achieve - \n which is the underlying motive behind this mantric thought?","bbox":{"left":0.058824,"top":0.808346,"width":0.9063460000000001,"height":0.09817600000000004}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.506944,"top":0.9175,"width":0.009804000000000035,"height":0.020212000000000008}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}