1. Remember you are sharing your effort with thousands of other men and women of goodwill.

2. Realise that essentially you are a soul and as such have telepathic rapport with all souls.

3. Remember that energy follows thought.

4. Remember that meditation is not a passive, reflective form of devotion, but a positive, creative use of the mind, actively linking the inner and the outer worlds.

5. Use the creative imagination to see yourself at one with all humanity and with all that is progressive, spiritual and working for human welfare and right human relations.

6. Adopt a confident attitude, knowing that you are acting as a channel for the energy of goodwill. This 'as if' attitude can produce potent results.

MEDITATION ON GOODWILL

Stage I

1. Link up in thought with all those people throughout the world who are working with this Goodwill Meditation Group.

2. Reflect upon the fact of relationship. You are related to:

• your family
• your community
• your nation
• the world of nations
• the One Humanity made up of all races and nations.

3. Use this mantram of unification:

The souls of men are one and I am one with them.
I seek to love, not hate;
I seek to serve and not exact due service;
I seek to heal, not hurt.

Let pain bring due reward of light and love.
Let the soul control the outer form,
And life, and all events,
And bring to light the Love
That underlies the happenings of the time.

Let vision come and insight.
Let the future stand revealed.
Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone.
Let love prevail.
Let all men love.

Stage II

1. Reflect upon your own and humanity's relationship with the spiritual Hierarchy - the inner Government of the planet.

2. Imagine that you are standing within the centre of the spiritual Hierarchy and are immersed in the consciousness of the Christ, the Heart of Love within the Hierarchy.

3. Maintaining that high point of contact, let your thoughts reach out to include all members of the human family in whom the energy of goodwill is active.

4. Silently voice the affirmation:

In the centre of all love I stand;
From that centre I, the soul, will outward move;
From that centre I, the one who serves, will work.
May the love of the divine Self be shed abroad
In my heart, through my group, and throughout the world.

Stage III

1. Visualise the energy of love flowing from the spiritual Hierarchy, through the men and women of goodwill, and into human hearts and minds, infusing them with goodwill and creating loving and harmonious human relationships.

2. Meditate on ways of spreading goodwill, creating right human relationships and restoring peace on Earth.

3. Realise that you are helping to build a channel between the spiritual Hierarchy and humanity, through which the energy of goodwill may flow, uniting the human family, solving its problems and healing all differences and cleavages.

4. Linked in thought with men and women of goodwill all over the world, say the Great Invocation. Say it with deliberation and full commitment to its meaning, knowing that you are radiating its potent energies to humanity:

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.

From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men -
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

OM OM OM