How it Started

Twelves had its genesis in 1981, on New Year’s Eve, at the exact moment of midnight, when Steven, the founder of Twelves, received his first spiritual communication instructing him to “find the point within the Triangle Divine.” Steven was meditating with his close friend, Robert Adams, around this time. The two continued their weekly meditations and received further instructions. Unsure what to do they continued their weekly meditations and more information was forthcoming. This was totally unexpected and later The Initiate (in his Chinese body) would visit them in London.

These instructions culminated in the formation of Groups of Twelve, who would come together as an experiment to act as a conduit for Hierarchical ashramic energy. Twelves would expand on the Triangles meditation work performed daily in groups of three by those committed to building a spiritual bridge for humanity along the lines given by Alice A. Bailey in her books with Djwhal Khul.

The Twelves experiment came to be known as the “Twelves Group”, as this was a reflection of the group’s purpose, which involved direct spiritual contact and distribution of spiritual energies for specific purposes.

Steven received almost all of the teachings needed to conduct Twelves from 1982 to 1986. He received those teachings from the Second Ray ashram of Koot Hoomi (KH), through an individual now known as ‘The Initiate’ throughout the work. The Initiate is a senior coworker in KH’s ashram and has rejoined our efforts today. Steven and Robert met him, physically, in the 1980s and he retains his sponsorship of the group today. It is often the case with senior masters that They delegate this type of coordination to a trusted Initiate whilst They keep an energetic link from afar.

The spiritual work was conducted on the inner planes and for twenty years the Twelves Group practiced a weekly ashramic meditation and met every year at Wesak, mostly in Glastonbury, England.

The work was outlined, in May 1982, as having three ‘Stages’:

1. Preparatory – from 1980 until 2000
2. Implementory – today’s work
3. Revelatory – future work involving The World Teacher

The Twelves experiment came to be known as the "Twelves Group", as this was a reflection of the group's purpose, which involved direct spiritual contact and distribution of spiritual energies for specific purposes.

Members were slowly attracted to the group. Dr Peter Maslin, a medical Doctor and serious student of DK, soon joined, as did many others. Before long, the Twelves Group became global with around two hundred members. Newsletters, booklets and leaflets were produced. The group was financed by donations.