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Transmission Meditation
As a group, to recite the Great Invocation and then hold attention at the ajna centre so that, in Creme’s account, the Masters ‘step down’ and transmit spiritual energies through the group as planetary service.
Gather three or more. Recite the Great Invocation aloud together. Then hold a soft attention at the ajna centre between the eyebrows; when the mind drifts, sound “OM” silently just to bring attention back — don’t dwell on it. Stay receptive, not directive; let the session run its agreed length and close.
What it is
Transmission Meditation is a group practice introduced by Benjamin Creme in London in 1974. It is deliberately simple: a small group recites the Great Invocation together, then each person holds attention at the ajna centre (the point between the eyebrows) while, in Creme’s teaching, the Masters of Wisdom “step down” and direct spiritual energies through the group as a service to the world.
The meditator’s only job is to maintain alignment — “the Masters do the work of transmitting the energies. Simplicity is the keynote.“ Creme presents it as “world service” meditation. It operationalises attention (The Inner Creates the Outer), a vibration/energy model (The Inner Creates the Outer), and the “act and allow” balance (The Inner Creates the Outer): the group provides the willed alignment; grace (the Masters) supplies the rest.
The Method
From Creme’s Transmission: A Meditation for the New Age and Share International’s published instructions:
- Form a group of three or more. “A group may begin with as few as three people.” Meeting physically together is said to add “an ‘X’ factor of potency.”
- Sit comfortably in a quiet space; no special posture or prior meditation skill is required (“no special expertise in meditation is required”).
- Recite the Great Invocation aloud, together, to “link the group with the Masters of Wisdom.” This non-denominational invocation calls forth Light, Love and the divine Plan (it is the same 1945 Alice Bailey text). Saying it together opens the session.
- Hold attention at the ajna centre. Fix the attention on the point between the eyebrows — “a simple aligning meditation — the alignment of the physical brain and the soul by the act of holding the attention at the ajna centre.”
- Use OM only to recover focus. “Simultaneously sound the mantram ‘OM’ silently, mentally.” Crucially: “do not meditate on the OM — just use it to bring your attention back.” When attention wanders, gently sound OM again and re-fix on the centre.
- Stay receptive, not directive. You don’t visualise, push, or steer energies; you simply maintain the alignment and let the transmission happen through you. Passive, positive attention is the keynote.
- Continue for the agreed time. A group may set a length (e.g. one hour) at first; experienced groups “continue until the energy flow ceases.” Then close. (Sourcing note: the ajna focus, the silent OM-as-recovery-word, the Great Invocation opening, and the “Masters do the work” framing are Creme’s published instructions; quoted phrases are short and attributed. The Great Invocation itself is summarised, not reproduced.)
Source & Lineage
Benjamin Creme (1922-2016), a Scottish artist and esoteric lecturer steeped in Blavatsky and especially Alice Bailey, introduced Transmission Meditation in 1974 and from 1975 lectured worldwide on the imminent reappearance of “Maitreya.” He founded the magazine Share International (1982).
The practice fuses Bailey’s alignment/invocation meditation (the ajna focus and the Great Invocation come straight from her stream) with the Theosophical Spiritual-Hierarchy doctrine, reframing meditation as collective “energy transmission.” It is a direct descendant of Bailey’s occult meditation.
Common refinements
Meditating on the OM. Creme is explicit: OM is only a tool to re-fix attention at the ajna centre, not an object to dwell on.
- Trying to “send” or steer energy. The posture is receptive alignment, not active projection; effort to direct it is counter-productive in the Atlas.
- Straining the brow. “Holding attention” at the ajna centre is a soft mental orientation, not a muscular squint — over-tensing brings headaches.
- Doing it solo and expecting the same. Creme frames it as inherently a group service practice; the minimum is three.