Today marks the beginning of The Community’s annual Convocation of Associates, Consociates and Ministers of the Second Advent. Represented are members of The Community from various parts of the world including Canada, Mexico, Japan, New Zealand, France, Ireland and, of course, the United States.

This year’s schedule consists of a welcoming reception at the Rectory-Abbey on Mt. Carmel overlooking the Truckee Meadows; four sunrise Divine services at the Cathedral Church of the Americas at the Red Rock Consecrated Sanctuary; Communion of Fellowship in the Chapel of the Holy Child along with ordinations into the Jamilian Order; a Light and Sound Healing Forum to beheld at the Steamboat Hot Springs; as well as several presentations delivered by various individuals, including Rt. Rev. Yukinori Matsushita, Rev. Dr. Gary Buchanan, Dr. Karl Maret, Rev. Ted Staver, and Rev. Bruce Kanzelmeyer.

This year, I will be delivering three Counsels, instead of the usual two. They will focus on the importance of Academy students advancing into higher studies in the Sacred College of Jamilian Theology, as well as the importance of participating in the liturgy of the Church with more in-depth techniques for personal and collective transformation. I will also be commemorating the 10th anniversary of my late father’s passing on September 11, 2007 with a dissertation on his life’s spiritual quest and mission with an emphasis on his explorations in Peru and the sailing of the three Ships of Light – Feathered Serpents I, II and III. I know it will be a most fulfilling and inspiring week.

After Convocation, I will be on sabbatical for the remainder of September, resuming my usual duties when I return. Until then, this will be my last communication with you until October. Upon my return, I will be focusing on growing our student base within the Jamilian University and making our web sites more visible to the general public. I hope soon, also, to have initial plans for our project in Mexico. We have contracted with a designer-builder in Los Barriles, a graduate of Stanford University, who is working on our project and has become part of our team. I will keep you informed as things progress.

In the meantime, I send you my personal blessings and best wishes. I leave you with this passage from the Prophecy of the End Times which complements some of what I will be speaking about this week:

“In the eighteenth year of the Great Work, The Man returned to the Ship of Light. And the Mariners received him with joy, for they would sail to the Emerald Isles [Hawaii] to comply with the prophecies. And on the eleventh day of May, with the setting of the sun and the rising of the moon, the helmsman pointed the oaken bow of the oracle ship towards the sea, sailing out of the harbor of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

“On this day of sailing The Man was completing the fifty-second year of his life. Like the older ship fashioned fifty-four years before, he was destined to make this symbolic voyage. Impelled by a divine force, the ship’s hull strained against the sea, her unsinkable timbers pointed towards the isles three thousand miles distant over the western horizon.

“It was ten years before that The Man had sailed the first ship from Peru to Panama. Twenty years had elapsed since the birth of The Child Jamil + . These time periods were fixed cycles of renewal, and he knew that a change was to come over The Community. The next three years would be a calling out of his disciples, those who would constitute the heart of this nuclear religion of Light. After that, the Great Teaching would begin in the world.”

I encourage you to read the remainder of the Prophecy given on the Ship of Light, the Feathered Serpent II. It can be found in the text in Chapter 82: Bound for the Emerald Isles. Enjoy the reading. It is quite inspirational.

This week, I’d like to concentrate on a few points having to do with the Eight Aspects of the spiritual Sun. Before doing so, let me emphasize, as hard as it is to believe in the world today in its present condition, that Man and Woman need only but accept God’s Love and the helping hands of the Angels of Light who exist to assist us in the Ultimate Advent of God’s Appearance, which we call the Second Advent.

The religions of the world, who were guardians of the previous revelations given to the Holy Ones of former generations, also need to embrace the new Holy Visitation within their own traditions, customs and languages in order that the New Revelations given afresh fulfill the them — the older religions. The Child, Jamil, who was and is the Servant and Messenger of God, is the Protector of all religions, if they but accept God’s Gift, which is the Sun of Righteousness, that acts as a shield against oppressors and Dark Powers that even now conspire against them and the people seeking to let loose its reign or terror. We see this happening almost on a daily basis.

If the religions look to the Guardian of the Revelations, the Wondrous Child, for instruction and fellowship, searching their own scripture for confirmation of his coming, then God, as Supreme Peacemaker, will unite all the religions into One True Religion of Light as a unifying principle. This is the Will of the Light.

Exemplification of The Child is an act of universality which prepares us to live The Way under the Sun. And those who live The Way are prepared to behold the Light of God’s Appearance under the New Covenant. For God has removed the veil from the face of the sun so that the righteous might see The Image and hear The Word. Only the righteous have eyes to see and ears to hear. Those of wickedness and darkness do not.

But, God, out of benevolent Goodness, shines His Love equally on every living creature. This is the true Equality even though each person is free to live the Way of God or the ways of the world. The Light of God’s Justice is manifest in the Sun. God comes to rule those of Light, not those of Darkness. He comes to save the Good from the Dark in order that Goodness can live in Peace forever.

God is Good. God is Love. Those who yearn and want to know God must live The Way, which is to live in imitation of The Child and the Eight Appearances to the best of our abilities. This does not require us to be perfect. However, those reborn as the Image of God and filled with His Word are One with Him. That is you and me. Let’s live The Way together the best we can. God and the Light will bless us for it.