Cavern de lumière
La « Cavern de Lumière » est la retraite du Grand Directeur Divin au cœur de l'Himalaya, en Inde. Sa deuxième demeure spirituelle de lumière est le Manoir Rakoczy dans les Carpates, en Transylvanie. Chananda est le hiérarque de la Caverne de Lumière, située dans la montagne derrière sa retraite, le Palais de Lumière.
Objectifs de la Caverne de Lumière
Le Grand Directeur Divin est un grand initiateur sur le chemin de l'ascension, et l'un des objectifs de la Caverne de Lumière est de mener des activités visant à préparer et à accélérer l'ascension des candidats. Ici, le Grand Directeur Divin utilise son autorité pour purifier les quatre corps inférieurs des initiés avancés d'une partie de leur karma restant, afin de leur donner des véhicules purifiés pour rendre un service cosmique dans le monde de la forme avant leur ascension.
À l'occasion, les courants de vie non ascensionnés sont emmenés dans leurs corps les plus subtils vers les retraites de la Fraternité afin d'y être formés à un service spécial dans le monde de la forme qui exige une force surhumaine et certaines disciplines qui ne peuvent être transmises aux initiés non ascensionnés que dans les retraites. Ainsi, Jésus fut emmené dans la Retraite du Temple de l'Ascension à Louxor et dans le Temple du Lotus Bleu avant son ministère final de trois ans.
Certains qui avaient été chargés d'aller de l'avant au nom de la Fraternité et qui n'avaient pas encore transmuté leur karma résiduel reçurent l'aide qui fut accordée dans la Caverne de Lumière à Godfre, Rex et Nada Rayborn, ainsi que Bob et Pearl Singleton et ont ainsi vu leurs quatre corps inférieurs purifiés et alignés afin qu'ils puissent devenir les réceptacles immaculés de la conscience christique. Lorsque cette dispensation est accordée à des chelas dignes, leur service restant à la vie est accompli de manière magnifique, car leur conscience est devenue le point focal parfait dans le monde de la forme pour la libération de tout l'Esprit de la Grande Fraternité Blanche. Les miracles, les démonstrations d'alchimie et le contrôle des forces naturelles et de la vie élémentaire deviennent la marque de ceux qui ont la chance d'être « perfectionnés » avant leur initiation finale et leur ascension dans la lumière.
Dans « The Magic Presence », Godfré Ray King décrit comment il a été escorté jusqu'à la Caverne de Lumière par Chananda, en compagnie de Rex, Nada, Bob et Pearl. Il décrit ce lieu de retraite comme une caverne d'une « beauté merveilleuse », incrustée d'une substance cristalline éblouissante, semblable à la Caverne des Symboles en Amérique. En s'enfonçant dans la caverne, ils arrivèrent devant des portes en or massif. À l'intérieur, cela ressemblait à la chaleur blanche d'un grand fourneau. Deux jours et deux nuits plus tard, ils émergèrent de cette Flamme Éternelle revêtus de « nouveaux corps d'une endurance immortelle ».[1]
Le Grand Directeur Divin a parlé de certains des magnifiques foyers de lumière au sein de sa retraite :
Do you know also that even in the Cave of Light in India there are replicas of light-magnificence concerning liberty and freedom? Do you know that the replicas and symbols of divine light for and on behalf of America were created by the ascended masters, and they are talismans of great power. Out of these talismans, beamed by the angelic beings and focused by a greater power than in the ancient Atlantean crystals, manifests the intention of Almighty God for this nation![2]
The secret chamber
Mother Mary has spoken of the Cave of Light as symbolizing the secret chamber of the heart. The Blessed Mother explains that “only in the secret chamber is there safety when outer turmoil prevails in the seven bodies of earth, in the seven layers, even above the surface of the earth. Therefore, you see, my secret chamber is also as a secret chamber in a great pyramid, a secret chamber in the mountain of God.
In all eras, initiates processioning into the interior place prepared have signified that the hour is come when for the individual and even for a civilization there is the great inbreath—not that which draws in all of a cosmos, but that drawing in, beloved, of the seven rays of attainment that these might be condensed into the crystal that is formed in this interior castle.
There comes the hour when the expansive manifestations of attainment, of God-mastery, even the accumulation of abundance must now be condensed. And that which is the heart and the essence of the harvest then becomes the nucleus of crystal, harder than rock or diamond. This substance, beloved, begins to form the cave of light.
Now you understand the use of the term “Cave of Light” by the Great Divine Director. Blessed ones, his Cave of Light is a consecration to the eighth-ray chakra and the secret chamber of the heart. Not only is it a place of safety, a haven of initiation, not only is it the place where the soul puts on, enters into [the Christ consciousness], but as Christ assimilates her, so the soul and the Christ become one. Thus, in the next round, when going forth from the secret chamber as from the tomb itself, beloved, the soul steps forth fully the manifestation of Christ, the Body and Blood of Christ, the Sacred Heart of Christ.
Thus may you understand a mother’s teaching in this hour of the commencement of initiation of the five secret rays—five levels, then, of the secret chamber of the heart, as though five spherical, interlocking chambers. May you enter. May you understand. May you know.
Going to the Heart of the Inner Retreat is another symbolical and actual entering in. Blessed ones, I bring this initiation to your attention, for the hour is coming when you will know the meaning of the word “safety in the ark of the LORD.” The secret chamber of my heart is the place of safety.[3]
Attending the retreat
Many ascended masters frequent the Cave of Light. Saint Germain spends a great deal of time there. Chananda tells us that he will be there to welcome us also, in the name of the Great Divine Director. Leto also calls us to this retreat, describing it as “a home of light that you will scarcely desire to leave. The Cave of Light is a forcefield incomparable; an invitation to be there is worth gold itself.... Forget not to call to me in the hour of your journey to the Cave of Light, and I will come with angels shining with a purple light to arc your soul to the special room and the special chair.[4]
The Great Divine Director himself invites us to his retreat, but asks us to first prepare ourselves by devotion to the will of God. He says:
I bid you to come to the Cave of Light when you are ready. And I say, do not come until you are ready, for the doors will not open and the welcome mat will not be out unless you have fully prepared to surrender your all, your life, your service, your will to the will of God. And then we may require that you serve a time in another retreat before you are accepted into that Cave of Light.
Thus realize that the disciplines of our branch of the hierarchy involve the tethering of the soul to divine direction. If you cannot hear that direction, you will not be ready for our retreat. Thus, you see, you must he tutored in developing the sensitivities of the soul consciousness so that you can be certain when the LORD God, through one of his emissaries, places the rod of power upon you and gives you the key of light and the rod of power that you will detect that direction and follow it to the fullest capability of your consciousness.
Thus, discerning God-direction is a science in itself, and you will learn much of that science at the ascended masters’ university. You will also learn it in the retreats of the violet flame presided over by Lord Zadkiel and by Saint Germain, for these prepare souls for the Cave of Light. And thus these hierarchs should be appealed to. As you retire each night and take your leave of your physical body, the soul travels in its etheric envelope. And if you invoke these masters ere you leave, they will guide you unerringly to the place prepared, the manger, the haven of light in one of the retreats of the Brotherhood where the Christ can be born in you and where you can bear the Christ for all mankind.[5]
Sources
Mark L. Prophet and Elizabeth Clare Prophet, The Masters and Their Retreats, s.v. “Cave of Light.”