Course XXIV - Teaching 7: Lunar Initiates

In the course of civilizations, Lunar Initiates come many times to incarnate on Earth. Neither the number of those who came can be determined nor can all of them be known.

These semi-divine beings are entities extraordinarily developed in the precedent Lunar chain; so they are free of karma. Knowledge and memory of suffering of a mankind that struggles make them put aside the peace of eternity and live again among men by helping them in their progress.
It is very great the sacrifice of these Initiates when they incarnate. Since they have to develop ideas and events related to certain sector –national, ethical, religious or artistic– and to found certain human dynasties, They close themselves mentally in the circle in which they act, forgetting sometimes, apparently, the beauty of the unique truth.
Occasionally Lunar Initiates are adversaries of circles that do not favor their action and, since they have to make their way at the price of cruel fights, usually they become unfair and dogmatic.
These great Beings are deified by their followers and admirers, and execrated by those who are very fond of contrary ideas or sects; and they bring with themselves an outstanding mental power. Their aura has such a size that it could comprise the whole Earth; however, they do not do so; they just comprise and give life to that part of Earth where beings entrusted to them are living. By reflection, their adepts propagate the light of the Lunar aura of the Initiate, and drive it throughout all terrestrial environments.
The labor of these Beings manifests in different fields, through multiple aspects, even in destructive movements.
From higher worlds, when the Lunar Initiate is about to incarnate, he closes himself in the ethereal circle that has to charge him with necessary energies to achieve his work. He concentrates his strength in such a way that multiplies it in the field of his influence. His greatest sacrifice is when, wrapped by ethereal and heavy matter, he experiences the heaviness that separates him from the Great Work like a circle of fire. But, at once, after his death, he is divinely rewarded, this circle previously traced disappears and he gets rid of karmic bonds. The Lunar Initiate immediately pays the karma for his own works, since this privilege is the fruit of the sacrifice of his voluntary incarnation. Therefore, in dying free of any tie, he can return to the divine planes or remain, as some of them do, in higher spheres, by protecting or assisting Humanity.
These beings animate multitudes in moments of decadence and drive them toward new conquests; their words are like a hypnotic lightening that electrifies masses and stimulates their works. They take religions and transform them into dynasties and powers, crystallize old ideas in new necessary laws for a civilization for which they live, and sometimes destroy these laws and establish other new laws that may be more opportune and suitable.
Continuously they promote new ideological concepts, create new philosophies and stimulate new forces for the human evolution.