On the
day of the Goodwill full moon, groups and individuals are invited
to hold a meditative focus and for 24 hours, to sound The Great
Invocation on the quarter hour over a period of time while spending
the 15 minute interval in prayer or meditation for a world culture
of cooperation.
We at SouledOut.org plan to be in meditation during three time slots in conjunction with the Gemini~Goodwill Full Moon and World Invocation Day, and all who wish to join in for this meditation are welcome to do so:
1. Thursday, June 8 at 9:00 and 9:15 pm PDT / 04:00 and 04:15 UT Friday, June 9
2. Friday, June 9 at 9:00 and 9:15 am PDT / 16:00 and 16:15 UT
(the exact time of the full moon is 6:10 am PDT / 13:10 UT)
3. Friday, June 9 at 9:00 and 9:15 pm PDT / 04:00 and 04:15 UT Saturday, June 10
We will sound The Great Invocation at the beginning and end of each of these 15-minute intervals. All are welcome to join us at these designated times, and as inspired.
Since
1952 the full moon of Gemini has also been observed as World Invocation
Day ~ a world day of prayer
when people of every spiritual path join in a universal appeal to divinity
through use of The Great
Invocation.
Together they focus the invocative demand of humanity for the light,
the love and the spiritual direction needed to build a world of
justice,
unity and peace.
The
Great Invocation, given to humanity in 1945, is an integral
part of the three Spiritual Festivals of Aries, Taurus, and
Gemini. The massed
intention reaches its highest point each year during the period of
the three major planetary Festivals ... at The Festival of the
Risen
One in Aries and celebrated in the Western part of the world as Easter;
a month later at The Festival of The Wesak, The Festival of
The Buddha
and widely celebrated in the Eastern world; and climaxes a month
after that, with World Invocation Day during The
Goodwill Festival,
known as The
Festival of The Christ,
with the keynotes of Goodwill and Humanity.
2017
marks the 72nd anniversary of The Great Invocation we use
(first
version, given in 1936)
World
Invocation Day has three central features:
First,
the use of The Great Invocation, the world prayer which expresses
truths central to all the major religions of the world.
Second,
the spiritual cooperation of people of goodwill of every faith,
joining in a united act of invocation of Divinity.
Third,
the distribution into human consciousness of the spiritual energies
evoked during The Easter and Wesak Festivals.
Will
you join us in observing World Invocation Day through the united use
of The Great Invocation, and will you help to make this day widely
known?
