It might be wise here to elucidate somewhat the idea underlying ceremonial and ritual. There is so much revolt at this time against ceremonial, and so many good and well-meaning people regard themselves as having outgrown and transcended ritual. The refusal therefore to participate in uniformity of action is no sign of a liberated soul. The Great White Brotherhood has its rituals, but they are rituals which have for their objective the inauguration and the assistance of various aspects of the Plan, and of the varying cyclic activities of that Plan. But where it is demonstrated that ritual and organized ceremonies are but the evidence of a custody of forces and energies, then the idea is constructive in its working out, cooperation with the Plan becomes possible, and the aim of all the divine service begins to demonstrate.
All service is governed by ritual.
Send forth those energies which will produce in some one or other of the kingdoms of nature effects of a desirable and beneficent aspect. Call in and redistribute the energies which are present in all the forms in the various subhuman kingdoms. Heal through a scientific method of bringing together soul and body. Produce illumination through right understanding of the energy of Light. Evolve that coming ritual which will eventually reveal the true significance of water, which will revolutionize its uses and open to man the free passage to the astral plane.