This course is designed to help students gain a solid grounding in esoteric meditation, creative visualisation, and an overview of the occult principles of the Ageless Wisdom.
It focuses especially on two books written by Alice Bailey.
Firstly, Initiation: Human and Solar. This book describes the evolutionary process of the consciousness of man, and the different stages of this process, called initiations. It also covers the Spiritual Hierarchy of Ascended Masters,
The second book which the course covers, is From Intellect to Intuition. In this book Bailey covers meditation, the most important spiritual discipline which is foundational for spiritual growth. This subject is comprehensively covered in this course, and students are guided through the process.
Students are encouraged to purchase these books and read them. However a workbook comes with the course.
Method of Operation:
1. The course is part of the Morya Federation Schools of Meditation, which is an online school based on the Ageless Wisdom philosophy.
So students will need access to a computer, and an email account. Full instructions will be given to new students to help them navigate through the Morya School levels, to access and download assignments, and post assignments.
2. There are five higher levels in Morya Federation. Graduation from one level, automatically qualifies entre into the next higher level if the student should want to keep progressing forward.
3. A mentor / teacher will be assigned to work with each student for the period that the student remains in Morya Federation.
4. The course is six months long, and each study – meditation period is one month long. The study periods run from full moon to full moon.
5. New students will download their first months work when they join (full moon one), then at the following full Moon, post their completed assignments online. There will be two reports, one covers meditation progress, and the other the responses to study questions. Faculty will respond to the report within a few days.
6. At the completion of the course, if the student wishes to continue study through the higher levels of Morya Federation, then further meditations will be given through whatever months there are remaining before the start of the new school year which occurs at the December solstice.
7. The school operates entirely on a donation basis.
8. If you would like to join the Great Quest journey, then please complete the following Application Form.
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“Preparing for the Great Quest” Application
SECTION I – General Information
(Please copy the application to your computer, complete, and email back).
1. Full Name: Surname, First, Middle. Male ( ), Female ( )
2. Postal Address: City, State, Country
3. Telephone Number(s)
4. Email Address(s)
5. Birth Data: Complete to the Best of your Knowledge
a. Date of Birth
b. Time of Birth (am or pm). Be as Exact as Possible (indicate whether the birth time you are using is from a birth certificate, family Bible, remembered by parents or relatives, a guess by yourself, a psychic impression, or a rectification, etc.)
c. Place of Birth
6. Time Availability:
Do you have sufficient time available to perform daily morning meditation, and at least one to two hours of study a day, or seven to fourteen hours a week?
7. Nationality
a. In what country(s) are you a legal citizen?
b. In what country(s) do you hold residency?
8. Family of Origin
a. Major national and ethnic lineages of your mother.
b. Major national and ethnic lineages of your father.
9. Marital Status, Children, Living situation
a. Are you single, or in a long-term, committed personal relationship?
b. Do you have children? If so, please provide their birthdates (which are useful for your chart rectification). Do they live with you?
c. Overall, would you say your living environment is relatively stress free or crisis prone? Do you feel in control of your time and do you have private space in your home for purposes of meditation and study?
10. State of Health
a. List any previous or existing illnesses, physical or mental irregularities. Have any of these required admission to a hospital or significant recovery periods?
b. What is the general state of your physical health? Do you experience debilitating headaches, insomnia, nausea, etc? Is there anything about your present physical condition which would prevent you from following a rigorous course of meditative and academic training with the Morya Federation?
c. Are you currently taking any doctor-prescribed medications? If so, what are the names of these medications, how long have you been taking them, and for what diagnosis are they prescribed? (‘Birth Control’ pills need not be listed.)
d. Do you regularly use alcohol, recreational drugs, or tobacco? (If you have an addiction, or respond “Yes” for any reason, are you willing to address this professionally or abstain for the duration of the Morya Federation Program if your use is excessive, debilitating, or you wish to quit?)
11. Education and Computer Literacy
a. At what age did you leave formal (state or private) schooling? Did you graduate?
b. Have you attended advanced college, university, or post-graduate study? If so, list the institutions attended, location, and major areas of study. Please list all degrees held with the year of conferral.
c. List other major workshops, classes, or training programs in which you have participated for professional or personal development.
d. Do you own and use a computer regularly? If not, do you have easy access to a computer, and your own email account?
e. List the website browser, email account, and primary programs you regularly use, e.g., Internet Explorer or Firefox, AOL or gmail or a client program like Outlook or Thunderbird, Microsoft Word or another word processing program, etc. Explain your degree of fluency with these, and your general comfort level in using computers.
f. Morya Federation utilizes an ‘online campus program’, which will require you to become familiar with navigating a unique website to access class material, download documents, communicate with fellow students and post monthly reports to various forums. Do you anticipate that your level of computer literacy will enable you to perform this easily, or do you find learning new computer programs to be challenging or stressful?
12. Employment and Employment History
a. What is your present occupation or primary means of earning income or sustaining your material support? What do you enjoy the most about your current occupation? The least? Do you feel that your present occupation is the “work of your soul”, the “work of your personality” or some combination of the two?
b. If you are retired, or not employed, please explain. Are you seeking employment, or receiving any state benefits?
c. If not employed currently, or your current work is not fully engaging, or you have had more significant employment in the past, what has been the most and least enjoyable aspects of those jobs?
13. Avocations, Interests, Language Fluency
a. List your skills, talents, interest and hobbies.
b. What languages do you know well? Please list them in order of fluency.
SECTION II – The Dynamics of Your Inner Life
1. Spiritual Creativity
a. Please list any books or articles you have written, lectures you have given, artistic creation – which seem important to you and which touch on the life of spirituality.
b. What reading have you done along esoteric, occult, philosophical, theosophical, spiritual, new age, trans-personal, etc., lines? Please list major authors (other than Alice A. Bailey), titles, and/ or subject matter which most impressed you and, briefly, why.
c. Are you familiar with the writings of Alice Bailey? Please list the titles of the Bailey Books which you have read.
d. Have you studied astrology, esoteric astrology, or esoteric psychology?
e. Have you heard of or studied the seven rays? If you have an opinion of your ‘ray makeup’, which rays express through your soul, personality and three personality vehicles? Why do you think so?
f. How would you define “soul?”
2. Religion and Pathways to Spiritual Understanding
a. Did you grow up in a certain religious background?
b. Do you now consider yourself a member of any religious tradition or spiritual group or pathway? If so, when did you join this tradition? How do you find it fulfilling?
c. Are you currently observing any practices/ disciplines in this tradition? Please explain.
d. If it is found that any such practices interfere with the esoteric meditations which you will be pursuing if accepted into the Morya Federation, do you think you would be willing to change or relinquish such practices? (It is well established that certain meditation practices may work at cross purposes, and cannot be safely or productively followed simultaneously.)
e. The method of meditation and study followed in Morya Federation, is an admixture of esoteric Buddhism and Vedanta – particularly the Eight Means of Raja Yoga. Can you accept concepts as working hypotheses, even if they don't seem consistent with your previous training?
f. An important goal in this work is to develop spiritual discernment or discrimination, to rely on your own judgment – with the goal in mind of achieving Self-realisation – that is, realisation of oneself as a higher spiritual being. The primary method to achieving this is esoteric meditation – seeking to establish a working relationship with your soul.
This is very different from lower psychism, or “sitting for development” which develops the lower psychic powers and which cultivates communication with discarnate beings. Be very clear on this, because if this latter point is your goal, this course of study will not suit you.
Is your goal Self-realisation through esoteric meditation?
g. Do you believe in the existence of the Masters of the Wisdom and a Spiritual Hierarchy of such Masters upon our planet? If this concept is new to you, do you have an open mind about such concepts?
h. Do you believe in reincarnation, or at least have an open mind about the doctrine of rebirth?
3. Meditation
- What role has prayer and/or meditation played in your past? If you are now or have meditated in the past, what is your motive for practicing meditation?
- If you are now meditating, how frequently, and for what average length of time?
- If you have had formal training in meditation, what methods have you practiced? If you are self-taught in meditation, what techniques or methods have you evolved?
- What if any meditational approaches or techniques do you presently practice? Do you meditate regularly? Do you find meditation easy or hard or somewhere in-between? How do you think your meditation could be improved or deepened? Please discuss.
- Have you ever experienced over-stimulation – or any other problems, due to meditation? Please explain. What are the general results of your meditation?
- Have you ever or are you currently practicing any pranayama or breathing exercises? If so please explain.
4. Sources of Motivation:
- Are you deeply interested in esoteric or spiritual teaching?
- Are you aspiring to “something higher and finer?” Please explain.
c. Are you attempting to discipline yourself in order to achieve greater beauty of life?
d. What do you believe to be your motive for seeking to enroll in the Morya Federation?
SECTION III – Practical Matters
1. Are you willing and able to commit yourself to regular study and meditation offered by the Morya Federation?
2. Are you willing to help donate financially (according to your sense of the need and your ability to do so) to the sustainment of the Morya Federation Program in which you will be a full-time participant?
Your decision to apply to participate in this esoteric educational process can represent a significant spiritual step in your life and deserves the most careful internal consideration as well as a very realistic assessment of life practicalities.
You will hear from us regarding your admission within two weeks of submitting your application.
In Light, Love and Power,
The Directors and Faculty of the Morya Federation of Esoteric Schools of Meditation
Please send your completed application along with a recent photograph of yourself to leoni@bigpond.net.au and Infinitize@aol.com
