I am writing this short piece in response to a cry from within the heart of the community as to what is the Christ and what the nature of the Second Coming. Nor is this to be understood as an all encompassing answer. Many aspects which are given the title Christ and Christhood are beyond the scope of these few lines.

As we stand wondering whether Russia and China will blow up the world about us we find the old is struggling to let go of its patterns to enter into a new relationship with Earth. Perhaps it will take a full 2000 years to actually move to a new relationship with the creatures and intelligences with which we share the planet. However some expect that return to awareness to be much more swift. Meanwhile here is a view I hope you will be able to embrace.

When the Findhorn Community and Garden experiment began the world was shivering in the dread of nuclear war. During the 1950s the full extent of the horror of the holocaust in Japan became known. For people living in a divided Germany the threat was tangible. They feared that karmically they deserved to be sacrificed in the event of a clash between the major world powers for the terrible things that occurred in the camps under Hitler, and they were awake enough to realise that they were the frontline of any assault from Russia and the Soviet Block. Yet in October 1962, when the Beatles released their first single ‘Love me do’ and only a month before Peter, Eileen and Dorothy moved to the rubbish dump on the Findhorn Bay Caravan Park, the world was gripped by the threat of Russian nuclear missiles being placed in Cuba. The threat had become tangible for America. Even though I was only 11 at the time I woke one night with a flight of jet aircraft going through my dreams with sufficient fear involved to waken me.

Today, in 2023, we stand on the brink of War with one leader threatening the use of nuclear weapons again against a smaller less aggressive neighbour.

While the founders of the Findhorn Community worked on building a Network of Light around the world and strengthening the idea in the communal mind that we are One Human Family, the emphasis among many spiritual movers in the world, was of the Second Coming and what form that would take and who he was? Would he be recognised? Sir Anthony Brooke travelled the world meeting spiritual leaders of various faiths to see if he could identify the return of the Christ.

From 1965 as the founders became more involved with the Universal Link organisation of Liebie Pugh. Again the idea was re-enforced that the Christ was imminent. What we realise now, following the end of the Mayan Calendar and the beginning of a new cycle, is that the vibration was rising all the time. What had been appropriate in the 1920s, in the form of trance mediumship, or the 1960s as channelling became the expression, is no longer appropriate because the veil is so much thinner. The problems in the world seemed so huge at the time that surely only Divine intervention would be enough to push humanity to the brink and separate the goats from the sheep. It was expected, in Christian countries at least, that it would see the fulfilment of Biblical prophecy in the return of Jesus.

As Lark Batteau tells us in her book Lark Ascending, so strong was the need to fulfil the prophecy that one day Eileen Caddy, who had been right in so much, declared that David Spangler was indeed the Christ figure returned and that only his guidance was to be followed from that time forward. Quite what prompted this declaration is unclear. What is clear is that, within a few months of the declaration being made, many of the creative members left the community together, forming the Lorian Association on their return to America. Dorothy Maclean went with them.

I have written quite extensively about the Change of the Age in the document ‘The Findhorn Garden In Context’ but wish to write here specifically of the change of Age as it effects humanity. First a little astronomy is needed.

During the change from Aries to Pisces the major planets Uranus and Neptune were in opposition to one another. This caused the isolation of spirit from the broad spectrum of society. Many, seeing the figure of Jesus raised ‘above matter’ as Rudolf Steiner has said, are expecting a similar expression of spirit today. However there is a major difference in that Uranus and Neptune were conjunct in 1993. This means an encompassing inclusive movement. Spirit rises in Humanity as a whole.

The long wait for the return of the Christ, the Second coming, is echoed by a similar longing in other traditions. The Once and Future King of the Britons, Arthur; the return of the Imam Mahdi; the appearance of the Messiah; the Prophet; Maitreya. Some are waiting for Christ to arrive on a space ship, sailing down on a cloud of light to put the world to rights. Separating the sheep from the goats, winnowing the wheat from the chaff and all that is held in the idea of Judgement Day. As Bob Marley sings in Redemption Song ‘How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look? Some say its just a part of it, we got to fulfil the book.’ My question is why?

Others are declaring that it is not a single person but a general movement within humanity itself with every person a potential Christ. Others are so dis-spirited with the religious expressions they see about them that they turn their backs on their own spiritual identity, looking only to their own lives and what they can do materially to make them, and the lives of those around them, better.

We hear statements such as ‘The Christ is now overlighting the etheric body of the Earth’ with little explanation or understanding attached to the phrases used. There is a general sense that something is moving within humanity as a whole, that heralds a new awareness. But there is also a lot of ignorance masquerading as ‘the promise fulfilled’ whether in an individual or movement as a whole. Time and again the pattern has to be reset.

Let us be clear on one thing. God never abandons his Creation. You are never alone. God is always present in every situation. Just hope you are not on the wrong side of Him. The application of the law of Karma can be a cruel one. Yet it is never unjust, even though it may appear so to those suffering the ill effects of past deeds long forgotten.

Unlike other ages the current age is overlighted by what I call the Avatar of Aquarius. The Water -pourer. Not to be confused with St Germain who is ushering in a change. In the original zodiac of the Hindus, inherited and somewhat changed by the Babylonians and Greeks, Aquarius is not shown tipping water from a jug, but as a potter. Pure and simple. A man making pots. Clearly the association of ideas drew this secondary meaning of holding water (or oil) and pouring it gently on troubled waters. The symbol for Aquarius is two wavy lines moving in parallel, one above the other. As Paul Simon wrote ‘Like a Bridge over troubled waters I will lay me down’.

So we see the figure, not of the Christ, a crucified broken man on a hill top far away, but as the mighty holder of the Chalice from which the waters of grace from the Galaxy pour down upon this Earth.

The Spiritual hierarchy, and there is no getting away from it, it is a hierarchy, expresses itself in various forms according to the level at which it is operating. In this understanding the head of the Hierarchy is called ‘The Christ’ and is basically the Chairman of the board. Yet the Christ is also a department within the hierarchy.

Similarly the Manu is a single person but also the name of an office in which disciples of that one implement the directives of the Manu Himself. The hierarchy consists of various levels as well as various departments. This is not the place to explore the Seven Rays however, god knows there is enough material available on that topic of more or lesser quality.

There is the Planetary hierarchy, the least, one might say, of all the hierarchies. This may comprise the politicians and business men who wield great power in the world. Though they are not bereft of leaders who direct them and who, in turn, belong to the Solar Hierarchy. This comprises more than simply the Masters of the Halls of Sacred planets and includes all the souls incarnating and taking a role in the world at large. Some choose their moments to appear – or have it chosen for them – and meanwhile carry on their work on the inner planes, forming friendships, inspiring others in their researches and skills, and generally carrying on the work of a soul, rather than a personality. As individual souls we can move between schools according to their needs, and our own skills and requirements. One prominent figure within the Findhorn Foundation was surprised when I mentioned that Peter and Eileen, as well as ROC, were still working closely with the unfoldment of the Findhorn experiment. It appeared that, for her at least, they were dead and gone. I was surprised that such a thought should have seemed so alien to her.

Then there is the Cosmic hierarchy, which basically includes those greater masters and figures who hold a wider responsibility within Creation, or at least the Galaxy to which we belong. It is of this order that the Avatar of Aquarius approaches the Earth. Guardian of the Good and champion of the down trodden, this being comes as an instrument of the Galaxy herself, not alone but surrounded by those who also wish to establish on Earth the kingdom of the righteous for the betterment and justice of all.

It is these Masters who surround him, the Imam Mahdi, the Prophet and the rest. It is indeed the Great White Brotherhood. Neither, let it be clearly understood, are all these figures masculine.

This great master, the Avatar of Aquarius, towers over the Solar System pouring the Waters of the Galaxy into the very heart of the planet, not some vague sort of cloud hanging about the globe, but a stream of purity pours very deeply into the heart of the Earth, to a level beneath the atomic structure of matter which composes the world within which we live. One foot standing on the heart of the Nebula, the other resting lightly on the Sun, this one kneels and dispenses the waters of grace upon the Earth. Drink deeply that it may nourish you.

Nor be confused that a single figure can do this. As was said above the Christ is also an office with attendant workers implementing the directives received for the benefit of all. If the Christ is the Spiritual Hierarch, the High Priest of the souls in our system, then that one also calls upon, and prays to, those greater sources which direct the stars and keep the planets turning in their traces. The figures spoken of in esoteric writings as AgniChaitans and others, come in response to the prayers spoken. Not beholden to the Will of any Man or person incarnate. These actions occur at the level of the Soul and beyond. While glimpses may be gathered of the activity of the Soul these are few and fleeting and it is readily recognised that the personality knows little of the Action of the Soul no matter how closely one may feel they have drawn to it.

For Peter, Eileen, and now Dorothy, the work is far from ended. One does not engage in a project like the Findhorn Garden experiment only to throw it aside and hurry on to the next job. Just as seedlings need attention when they are bursting so, too the experiment needs tending to ensure it is not swamped by the weeds that grow around it. One image that was alive in the 1980s was of the Rainbow Bridge, as a series of rainbow bridges that bounced around the world formed the paths people travelled on. For a while the Findhorn Foundation was such a destination, as were Hawaii, and Auroville. But as the era unfolded so these bridges became more and smaller. The entire planet is now aglow and we, receiving this energy, awaken within ourselves to the greater Reality that is Creation and this extraordinary Time in which we live. Make the most of it.