Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VI (The Seven Laws of the Soul)

(HZ: Please note that this ten-part series is just a review of Alice A Bailey’s Esoteric Works in respect to this ten cycles and stages review with a few additions plus some experiential heuristic observations and as a rule does not contain reified source impressions received during meditation.)

Laws of the Soul & The One Divine Psyche

The Seven Laws of the Soul were first introduced by A.A.B. in Esoteric Psychology Volume II. These seven laws are expressive of the group life of the soul on its own plane which is reflected in the personality life in terms of symbolic will direction, qualitative group feeling, qualitative group thought-form creations, group processes and group events. There are no other laws more important to understand and work with as an aspirant. The laws are also causative of opportunities to receive presented or spiritual attributes or spirit-soul-personality potentates. These laws or stages upon the spiritual path of the individual human soul are actively demonstrating and qualifies likewise a particular planetary integration stage. The later laws of the soul are inclusive of the earlier soul law influences.  Thus, they correlate to the major stages of evolution and likewise major stages of the Path in terms of opportunities.  They proffer a reason for and an understanding of the spiritualization of form, integration of soul and body, and the general unfoldment of the individual soul-personality over time. The laws of the soul also define the nature of the subjective service activity and livingness potential of the soul within the larger groupings of souls.  They permit one to sequentially move into an expanding inner plane awareness’s within the world of values, world of meaning, world of significance and the world of causation. They in effect permit those souls who conform to these laws to potentially access all seven sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. It is the human souls and their varying groupings that is the focus of the divine Will and divine Psyche reflected in the divine Activity of the Holy Spirit. The activity of the Holy Spirit is the organizer of substance based upon the divine Pattern held within the divine Mind.

These….laws give us the key to the entire psychological problem of every human being, and there is no condition which is not produced by the conscious or unconscious reaction of man, to these basic influences—the natural and spiritual laws. EP II, p.151

All of the types of cycles and stages herein have been correlated to six or seven basic stages and all have been likewise correlated so far to the seven laws of the soul ruled or conditioned by the seven rays. The seventh state depicts the assimilation stage of the earlier six stages, or the forward progressive point reached. The inference quote above captures the underlying causative framework of the onward march or evolution of consciousness depicted through the fruits produced by way of the various esoteric cycles.  The laws of the soul and their inter-relationship activity depict the evolutionary framework as a dialectical progressive expansion influence on substance through or along a symbolic spiral-cyclical forward conical movement produced by the working inter-relationships of the three-fold aspects of deity working through the seven laws of the soul along their ray conditioning and expressive patterns.

This causative framework is the underlying causative framework of Hegel’s dialectical process related to the overall major progressive environmental influence on the second aspect (quality of consciousness) through the interactions of the first and third aspects. His three aspects are represented in this case as thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. It is basically the type of logic by which the astral vehicle functions and thus required for self- identify learning.  Just as the abstract mind functions through analogical logic, the concrete mind functions through deductive logic, and the brain through inductive logic.

The laws of the soul are respectively given as being ruled by the fourth (4th), second (2nd), sixth (6th), first (1st), seventh (7th), third (3rd), and fifth (5th) rays. This 4, 6, 2, 1, 7, 3, 1 ray series was earlier shown to correlate with the cycle of integration stages of alignment, crisis, light, revelation, integration, and transition to a greater more inclusive life leading to assimilation. Thus, each cycle of integration leads to a new sub-cycle of evolution and a cycle of inspiration in general.

The cycles of integration are progressively conditioned by each of the seven laws of the soul and also conditioned by their ray sequence – four, two, six, one, seven, three and five as emanating and qualifying energies. This unique ray formula, out of many, itself gives a clue as to its effectiveness in the fusing of polarized opposites thus it is a process also organized under the Science of Triangles and can be understood as that which conditions all other cycles and crises leading to the expansion of soul and personality consciousness.

In effect, the laws of the soul also determine the type and nature of the road signs of the divine journey discovered by way of the cycles of Jupiter through the zodiacal constellations transmitting their influences and also through them the influences from the three major constellations and the seven solar systems to the spiritual soul of the initiate while in body.

Identification with the soul frees the individual from the control of the laws of matter and the laws of nature, or releases its identification with form consciousness, and with this release, the diffusion of the soul’s energies propels the disciple into various levels of subjective group consciousness and subjective group activity under the Law of Groups and the Law of Destiny. The laws of the soul permit one to establish relationship with all subjective groupings on any dimension and to work intelligently together to meet real needs and unfold the Plan. They determine right group relations within the Hierarchy of Souls realized over time as one is integrated into the One Group, One Soul, and the One Life through self-choice.

The twelve zodiacal constellations’ influences were surmised to be correlated with a cycle of integration that has an interesting relationship to the seven laws of the soul depicting together a complete cycle of evolution as the Laws of the soul condition all the stages of the path from individualization through Adeptship to Buddhahood. Every cycle of integration can be understood to first be initiated by the zodiacal influences, exoterically, esoterically, and occultly considered, through their evolving planetary rulers. Each, of the trinity of constellations below is given as being analogically related to respectively to the order of Life, Quality, and Appearance. Each, of the trinity of constellations has been given by A.A.B. in her book on Esoteric Astrology as transmitting a particular Ray for the duration of the Aquarian Age for the next 2000 years by which the Ray is conditioned and being conditioned by the constellations.

The laws of the soul will not be discussed in any great detail as it would require a work of itself.  Throughout the various chapters their related road signs will be noted and summarized. Each initiate who discovers the higher initiation field is aware of the influence on their consciousness indirectly by the workings of these seven laws of the soul but the understanding of why is not understood other than these soul laws are the evolved instincts of the second aspect of the planetary Soul. The following is an attempt to surmise the basis for the workings of the seven laws of the soul that the initiate has responded to and organized his new livingness and contacts. The astrological science necessary to understand this has yet to be divulged but many of these related astrological influences were apperceived and will be discussed later in Part 8.

Each of these trinity of ray related constellations conditions the group souls and the individual units, particularly along some ray method and activity line, enabling more specific responses to their conditioning effects altering the nature of their dimensional sheath substance.  Over time, these sheaths become responsive to the organizing livingness nature or patterns of all twelve constellations and all seven Rays. Each of the laws of the soul is surmised to organize the awareness of these souls and groups of Souls along their own patterns of group beingness by way of Ray and astrological influences. The seven rays work together to synthesize these lives back into an identification with the One Soul by way conditioning their livingness and thus their consciousness.  Thus, in summary, the conditioning organizing effects of each law, conditioned by a ray, is also conditioned by the given trinity of ray related constellations which qualify and organize the sensitivity of the subjective substance of the vehicles or sheaths which effects their contacts and modes of working as a group and this qualified and organized response or mode of livingness is reflected in their outer three-world sheaths during manifestation.

The soul, during some three-world personality manifestation, working through the consciousness conditioning sheath substance by way of the unfolding sheath related spirillae/centers gives rise to contact from recognized objective impacts on these sheaths. These impacts invoke an awareness which reflexes this back on substance producing a reaction and over time manifests some potential new type of livingness whether it is new contacts, capacities, or gifts that were not available before but seem to appear without any particular apperceived occult cause.  And if one has no demonstrable science of the Path paradigm, they will go their whole life without putting it into a correct perspective. Given the initial difficulty of apperceiving of their effects occultly working their way from the inner to the outer; it is difficult to know for sure when the pattern was initiated and how much overlap is present. The laws of the soul can only be understood through the indirect influences they appear to have per their ray related modes of organizing the focus and livingness expressions of their manifested personalities on the outer planes who responds to and/or identifies with their souls. The esoteric names of the seven laws of the soul capture and symbolize the nature of these modes of organizing the focus of conscious activity and of the livingness expressions – sacrifice or those whose choose to die, magnetic impulse or polar union, the water and the fishes or service, repulse or the destroying angels, group progress or elevation, expansive response or unknown, and the lower four or etheric union.

Laws of the Soul – Correlations

Putting the relative truth of the sequential effect of the Seven Laws of the Soul analysis model construct aside one can also observe and infer the operations of the various laws of the soul within a greater cycle of planetary integration if they are also on the Path of Initiation.  This means also that if one is recapitulating an earlier planetary integration within their re-appropriation cycle, or cycles of maturation, the various laws of the soul will be sequentially demonstrated in their lives in a certain time frame linked to their point in evolution.  There is for each age a generalized time frame due to the ongoing evolution of the human race in general. Whether one is aware of this is contingent upon various factors – point in evolution, soul status, ray make-up, karma, and knowledge base.  It is this cycle operating within another cycle that adds much confusion to one’s clarity of analysis and understanding.  In other words, the laws of the soul produce different levels of consciousness and inclusiveness per some cycle of planetary integration and thus available “contacts” and service potential upon the Dharmic Cross.

It useful to assign the following levels of understanding per the sequential cycles of planetary integration in respect to the levels or types consciousness awareness given as – mental, occult, spiritual, hierarchical, and triadal.  Stating this, not-with-standing, these types of awareness’s and thus qualitative interpretations of events to some extent are also inherent within the stages of a cycle of planetary integration or initiation, but more and more so over time, thus the confusion. Each progressive cycle of initiation will demonstrate one type of causative model interpretation more than the other.

I discuss the various worlds and their related patterns throughout this analysis, but the point here is to ascertain one’s point upon the ladder of evolution by way of the Laws of the Soul which will be understood as basically the cause for this point upon the ladder. It is these laws that produce the “format” of the various revelations available to the disciple as he penetrates, polarizes and precipitates from these various worlds or planes and in this process unfolds and masters subplane by subplane and expands his service potential.

1. The mental, occult, spiritual, hierarchical and triadal facts it embodies. Every revelation has its own format, for all our planes—so steadily being revealed—are the subplanes of the cosmic physical plane.
2. The meaning which the facts and the format veil and hide and for which the one who is being enlightened must search.
3. The effect which the revelation is intended to make in the daily life and service and the ashramic relationships of the disciple or initiate.
4. The germ, seed thought, key form and invocative potency of that which has been revealed. Every revelation has its place in a great series of revelations and enlightenments; the disciple has to find, within the form of the revelation, that which he must use in order to achieve the next destined point of attained revelation. (Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age II, 1955, p. 308)

As an example of a cycle of integration within a larger cycle of integration the analysis model outline provided above can be useful to generalize in respect to the science of the path stages.  If one attributes the factor of time spent in one cycle experientially then they can better isolate soul status per understanding their point on the path in terms of potential service. Initially, the World of Meaning is slowly demonstrating more and more as the Law of Service becomes the soul’s focus. Time spent or attributed to a particular law of the soul is theoretically indicative of point in a larger cycle of integration; thus, in mastering the second and the third cycle of planetary integration.  As an example, the Law of Repulse becomes more and more demonstrated over time as one’s unique contribution to the Plan is isolated and embodied service is undertaken. The Law of Group Progress is moved in and through the progressive identification with one’s Egoic Group Ray which enhances entry into and through the World of Significances into the World of Causation.

Each of the soul laws correlates to a particular initiation being prepared for and/or demonstrated within a particular cycle of planetary integration, per its unique set of requirements in respect to demonstration of the group life. There are no hard boundaries and can be better understood as a probability curve. Each law can be understood to have its mastery stage in that soul law which they demonstrate in a continuous basis while they are developing their demonstration of a more inclusive higher soul law.  Thus, the so called mastery stage of a law leads to a cycle of transition into a greater life representing the demonstration of new capacities or from a dialectical framework the movement from thesis to antithesis to synthesis which will become the new focus and livingness thesis. Each higher law is built upon the integrative demonstration of the lower laws.  The transition into a greater life represents the identity necessary for the final stage of assimilation in any cycle of planetary integration which falls under the respective sub-stage of Expansive Response and of Etheric Union in respect only to sub-cycles of integration within a larger law of the soul cycle.

Under the stage of transition into a greater life corresponding to the conditioning effects of the Law of the Unknown the disciple is able to move his awareness and identification from the fourth kingdom to the higher kingdoms.  To fully embody a cycle of planetary integration stage one has to FULLY demonstrate in body the respectful Transition to a Greater Life integration stage in a stabilized manner on its associated plane.   This will make sense if one understands that the requirements for each initiation needs to be understood from many points of reference such as center unfoldment, integration of the fires, subplane mastery and proportions, microcosmic sense unfoldment, dharma expression, et.al.

These correlations , although inferential, are also based upon much experimentation and experience with transiting through various planetary cycles of integration. The outline model provided does not reflect the fact as it is simplified to high-light other possible relationships and truths.  In other words, as an example, if one’s point in evolution of consciousness was between the second initiation and the third initiation than one’s outline model in a strict sense would only have the first five sub-stages or representative laws of the soul conditioning one’s major life integration cycle.  The five, six or seven sub-stages can also be understood to be the cause for the five, six or seven revelations between major revelations linked to each initiation.  This means that each given law of the soul as a major category can also represent a sub-stage also depending on one’s point in evolution similar to the given five-points of revelation. As mentioned earlier, we are basically preparing for all five or seven initiations or nine initiation in one way or another at the same time (given the larger the threefold incarnations of the Purpose for the Solar Scheme linked to the fourth Creative Hierarchy and this is factored in also mostly for educational, analytical, experiential explanatory purposes. Please remember also that each creative hierarchy is composed likewise of three major aspects which themselves are three-fold and thus nine stages of expansion are required to pass through any creative hierarchy.

The theoretical constructs of the integration or initiation model as presented by Master D.K. are derived and limited by the fact that his training focus was up to and inclusive particularly of the third cycle of planetary integration.

In respect to ray analysis it is significant to understand the many rays influencing us at different stages to better discriminate their truer and intended influences.  It is most confusing to approach a correct analysis without this understanding, thus this particular model.  It is easy to underestimate these influences especially if under the impact of glamour and illusion.  The ray energy coming in through these laws of the soul in fact appears to be one of the major ray related influence’s in one’s life at that time as each of us can testify. They act as major conditioning sub-rays to the soul ray as do all other influences coming through the microcosmic “sun” and in effect, each act as a conditioning influence, which culminate in a stage of planetary integration. They likewise represent the conditioning effect of the sub-stages of a cycle of planetary integration or initiation and as such are aligned with the points of revelations.

What I have to say concerning each ray and its work with the individuals upon it in integrating the personalities, will be conveyed by means of a formula of integration.  This will itself be divided into two parts, dealing with those processes in time and space which bring about the integration of the personality.

The words, covering the process in every case, are Alignment, Crisis, Light, Revelation, Integration.  Under the heading of each ray we shall have therefore:

1. The formula of integration.
2. Its dual application of destruction and rebuilding, with a brief indication of the process and the result.
3. The final stage of the process wherein the man
4. Brings the three bodies into alignment.
5. Passes through a crisis of evocation, thus, as the Bhagavad Gita says, becoming “manifest through the magical power of the soul”.
6. Enters into a phase of light, wherein the man sees clearly the next step to be taken.
7. Receives the revelation of the Plan and of what he has to do in connection with it.
8. Integrates the three bodies into one synthetic whole, and is therefore ready for the Technique of Fusion, which is suited to his ray type.

This will bring us to our second point which concerns the Technique of Fusion and the emergence into activity of the personality ray. EPII, pp.347-348

There is also a very intimate relationship between the laws of the soul and the preparations for the various planetary integrations which I outlined in the suggested ray analysis outline provided above. The following Laws of the Soul leads respectively to the following initiations slowly perfected over time in practical demonstrations:

Interestingly, there is a relationship also between the Laws of the Soul and the Supreme Science of Contact sub-sciences which represent the subjective pathway of evolution of consciousness in general and indirectly the pathway out of form identification.  This subjective pathway of evolution of consciousness provides the training necessary at different grades or points of spirit-soul-personality integration are the sub-sciences of the Supreme Science of Contact in general and are given below. The Supreme Science of Contact also depicts the operational focus of the initiate in the redemption and salvation of consciousness and substance.

Ray Modes of Organizing of Focus and Livingness

We are told which three constellations pass through and are likewise conditioned by which rays during the next 2000 years under Aquarius influences.  Each of the three constellations analogically is associated with one of the major three-fold aspects of a Ray Life in terms of their conditioning influences – Life, Quality and Appearances. Furthermore, under the science of triangles, the orientation of the human units focus determines which of the three periodic vehicles ‘s (aspects of each of the three constellations) one is responding to inferentially in context to one of the Ray expressions. We have also been given which ray conditions each law of the soul. Given this information we can better evaluate the influences at any one point in a cycle of crisis – maturation, integration, or initiation.

In other words, as an example, we are told that the fourth ray comes through three separate constellations (see tabulation below), but which influence does the soul respond to if an average person, an aspirant, a disciple versus an initiate – Taurus, Scorpio or Sagittarius during the crisis of maturation and integration?

 Given this Esoteric Astrology inference we can surmise possible influences during a cycle of crisis. These crises are crises in identification and are related to consciousness – personality, soul, and spirit. Given all three major periodic vehicles are involved it might be reasonable to surmise that all three of the major ray related constellations are likewise involved in the conditioning of spirit, soul, and body in the order given below and thus these influences would be coming through their respected planetary rulers thus effecting all nine-fold sheaths related to these three major periodic vehicles? There is not yet enough experiential information to ascertain this, but it is an interesting supposition to entertain as to which are the major constellation influences at each of the integration stages for each of the initiations.

Pragmatic Examples of Ray Modes of Focus and Organizing of Livingness Activities for a Disciple

Even though this following supposition is not herein pursued there is given below an experiential ray related set of variables one might consider or understand that demonstrate the purposes of the rays in context to some service activities. They also might be considered as also being related to the three distinct levels of the Hierarchy (or its three aspects) and also the fourteen rules for initiation. An example of these potential service activities is given below in order of their influence aligned to the seven laws of the soul and a stage of integration related also to some point in evolution. These particular activities are more closely related to the seven forms of esoteric healing. Healing is basically another word for integration into the larger group livingness and purposefulness.

Ray Four

Through Scorpio, Ray IV is focussing esoterically the work of the world disciples, preparing them for initiation. EA, p.491

Each ray has its own integration or healing or integration related pattern (in context also to initiate healing techniques) and intent which can be seen to be conditioned also by one of the three constellations. Please keep in mind that the order given of the constellations is that given to us in the tabulation above and the order received in brain awareness of ray influenced healing or integration patterns is given below.  The reading will need to determine if there is a correlation between the two as given or not.

In the case of the fourth ray esoteric healing or integration technique, its three major uses can be understood to be as follows:

Ray Four (Taurus, Scorpio, Sagittarius)

To be accepted into the presence of the Hierophant.

To be accepted into another location of space.

To be accepted into the mysteries of the ashram.

Ray Two

Ray Two (Gemini, Virgo, Pisces)

To request guidance and grace from the Master.

To request an interview within the Hierarchy.

To enhance the subjective control of form.

Ray Six

Ray Six (Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces)

To enhance evolutionary process of a life unit.

To maximize potential of a life unit through inspiration.

To protect the integrity of a life unit.

Ray One

Ray One (Aries, Leo, Capricorn)

To align the group will to Shamballa.

To increase the livingness of form through the renting of the four veils.

To precipitate at spiritual festivals.

Ray Seven

Ray Seven (Aries, Cancer, Capricorn)

To communicate with all other Lives.

To align the various vehicles within a life unit.

To magnetically align and fuse the greater pattern with the lessor.

Ray Three

Ray Three (Cancer, Libra, Capricorn)

To produce alignment between the fourth and fifth Creative Hierarchy to create correct dharmic pattern.

To unfold the sacrificial will by the co-creating identification with the Plan and the fifth Creative Hierarchy.

To polarize the creative imagination and produce the healing waters.

Ray Five

Ray Five (Leo, Sagittarius, Aquarius)

To increase the livingness through the use of existing healing modalities.

To bring into form the existing Laws of Spirit.

To integrate and raise the consciousness of the lessor lives under impact of radiation.

The corresponding influence of the three-fold major aspects of the seven Rays expressing themselves through the corresponding three constellations denoted above are arranged as given per their intended function operating under the Science of Triangles. The three primary assigned functions above is denoting a healing related use context for the advanced disciple initiate as an example. They are not necessarily given in the corresponding order of the Life, Quality and Appearance aspects of the three constellations manifesting a Ray Life as was given in Esoteric Astrology tabulation quoted above but the order is surmised to be correct in terms of their conditioning ray related qualities per the functions indicated.

The three constellations are therefore qualifying the three-fold vehicle substance of those evoking these qualified energy and forces involved. It is significant to understand and that the particular three-fold ray expression aspects of the Ray Life are evoked separately over time as the disciple and initiate is able to resonate with the transmitted intent through the unfoldment of his own consciousness and service activities.

There is a significant difference in how Ray Lives work together to manifest their intended purpose. One of the most obvious is their working together as a polarized group between the subjective or abstract rays. Rays two, four, and six grouping is related more to spirit-soul-personality awareness’s influences and the objective or concrete rays – one, three, five, seven grouping related more to spirit-soul-personality will and form influences. The quote below captures the difference.

Love works through the concrete rays in the building of the system, and in the rearing of the structure that shelters the Spirit, and love works through the abstract rays for the full and potent development of that inherent divinity.  Love demonstrates, through the concrete rays, the aspects of divinity, forming the persona that hides the one Self; love demonstrates through the abstract rays in developing the attributes of divinity, in evolving to fullest measure the kingdom of God within.  Love in the concrete rays leads to the path of occultism; love in the abstract rays leads to that of the mystic.  Love forms the sheath and inspires the life; love causes the logoic vibration to surge forward, carrying all on its way, and bringing all to perfected manifestation. TCF, p. 594

The following tabulation is a general summary of analogical relationships and is provided for those students more familiar with the given teachings to reflect upon.  There potential correlations provides further food- for-thought.

Laws of the Soul – Additional Correlations Table

The Laws of the Soul Summarized

The seven laws of the soul are given as originating from the heart of the Sun whereas the natural Laws originate from the physical Sun. They affect the psyche and not the form. They act in the highest good of each unit.

Law of Sacrifice leads to an Alignment or an At-one-ment (Average Man reacts)

Taurus-Scorpio-Sagittarius.         Will to Harmonize and Relate.   Leads to Spiritual Aspirations.

The law of sacrifice, a fourth Ray and Taurus-Scorpio-Sagittarius conditioned pattern producing eventual harmony and experiential karmic relationships as souls. This law applies to all individualized microcosmic and macrocosmic life forms in general. Its effects are symbolized by soul-personalities with some degree of developing responsibility for others where self-sacrifice is characteristic of their beingness. Towards the end of the individualization stage these soul units becoming increasingly aware of the soul’s intent for their lives and their need for some particular responsible relationship with humanity to best proffer their developing individuality. Over time they begin to exhibit a stable effort to protect and promote the integrity and inferred spiritual purpose of their relationships with other individual and group human units in their environments through the creation of purposeful harmonious centered relationships towards the objective of identifying and meeting real perceived needs. Aspirants pursue, these service activities and duties normally in a fiery endeavor. At first the effort is to promote their own self-satisfying identifications but later the attempt is to selflessly serve and love those they find themselves with is forefront in their thoughts; but later, this attempt to selflessly be and act becomes characteristic of their beingness and becomes effortless and unconscious once the initiate stage is reached conditioned by the law of repulse. The goal for aspirants during the earlier stages of the maturation process; as souls in body, is always the same and captured below by three rules when working under the law of those that choose to die, its esoteric name.  These are the basic working rules for aspirants working in some group endeavor.

1. Relinquish or sacrifice the age-old tendency to criticise and adjust anothers work, and thus preserve the inner group integrity. More plans for service have gone astray and more workers have been hindered by criticism than by any other major factor.
2. Relinquish or sacrifice the sense of responsibility for the actions of others, and particularly of disciples. See that your own activity measures up to theirs, and in the joy of struggle and on the way of service the differences will disappear and the general good will be achieved.
3. Relinquish the pride of mind which sees its way and its interpretations to be correct and true, and others false and wrong. This is the way of separation. Adhere to the way of integration which is of the soul and not of the mind.

The Law of Sacrifice begins all new cycles of experience in body for the solar angel. The solar angel’s creation is the evolving human soul and personality. Sacrifice herein means the taking control of a characteristic, event, sheath, or circumstance to better manifest the higher intended group good and purpose.  It is relinquishing of the lessor for the greater through the use of the personality will in association with the sacrificial will of the soul it leads from suffering to eventual joy and ultimate bliss.

This law has always been functioning and active in the world, for it is one of the first of the inner subjective laws to overtly express itself consciously in the life of the aspirant as an active ideal.  It conditions the contribution potential of any civilization or nation. The theme of all the world religions has been the immolation of some divine sacrifice by some cosmic Deity initiated through their process of universal creation. All world religious teachings appear to be based or initiated on the death and sacrifice of some world Saviour as a means of salvation and eventual release and liberation from the confines of Matter.  The one Guru, Ishvara, the Teacher of all or the cosmic Christ also known under many other names is given as the one who directs this creative and self-sacrificing impulse through the evolution of His creative Life upon the dharmic cross which is taught to be composed of three lessor but major crosses – the mutable cross for the evolution of the Matter aspect; the fixed cross for the evolution of the Soul aspect; and the cardinal cross for the evolution of the Spirit aspect.  These three crosses produce over time the sensitization of matter and thus forms and exhibit an increasing capacity for the expansion of soul consciousness with its growing attributes of expression potential with an ever intensification of spirit identification and livingness of the Whole within the part.

It is taught that Humanity itself is originally and esoterically the product of the sacrifices of the solar angels who brought the human kingdom or soul-personality into existence and promotes our service to our deity, to others and to all forms of life in all of the various kingdoms. This service is initiated whenever any of us identifies ourselves with the soul and not with some personality form life or body and thus consciously choose to die to such form identification and overcome the potential suffering associated with some such karmic form existence. This is the definition of an aspirant.  True sacrifice is not necessarily linked to suffering but suffering is characteristic of the human condition through their attempt to meet their personal and material form related desire goals. When the soul is identified with the personality and/or body there is demonstrated an instinct towards the gathering of those people, things, means and circumstances that produce some sense of personal and material well-being. For those souls not identified with the personality and body there is an instinct towards some idealized selfless or personal disinterested service. Eventually, their arises the ability of the aspirant to stand in spiritual being and become a spontaneous channel of energetic patterns coming in from spirit and circulated to others and through the planetary environmental grid.  This is defined as true service. All of these instincts can be understood as being instincts of Matter. The goal for Matter which composes all forms is greater psychic pattern sensitivity. The major pattern types of psychic sensitivity are defined below and are given as sub-rays of the third ray of active intelligence or the major conditioning ray of Matter. Matter itself is developing these patternistic traits throughout the planetary integration or initiation processes one ray pattern at a time. These patterns are given as sub-patterns of the great third Ray Life energetic expression in respect to matter inherent in form substance. In other words, not only is the consciousness of the Soul being expanded but also the consciousness of Matter composing forms which we define in general as a qualitative psychic or innate pattern sensitivity and its degrees of emulation. These are given as being composed of seven pure types of emulations:

We shall, therefore, find the following psychological types colouring the bulk of our humanity, and the ray of active intelligence expressing itself through

1. Will, evoking divine purpose.
2. Love, expressing divine quality.
3. Intellect, as the reflector of the Intuition.
4. Conflict, producing harmony.
5. Knowledge or science, leading to radiance.
6. Idealism, establishing the divine pattern.
7. Ritual or organisation, manifesting Deity.

Later, once the aspirant becomes the initiate, sacrifice is experienced as joy and bliss and they are freed from the limitations of form related matter through dis-identification as their consciousness is daily transcended off of the lower three planes in contemplation. They are now in a unified state with the larger soul groupings. This is possible because they have built the bridge between the outer worlds and the inner worlds and thus have a way of escaping into this greater livingness and beingness. They have learned to overcome the dualities of physical-etheric, light and dark, good and bad, right and wrong but have created a balanced pathway between all dualities. The soul is set free by the personality to build the bridge and unite with spirit. This is possible because a path is created through the active renunciation of all types of matter and form identifications through dispassion, discrimination, detachment leading to truth discernment.  It is only once we are truly free from form identifications can we correctly, disinterestedly and impersonally know human and other life units as individual or group souls and spirits and truly know and serve their/our real needs. This process of solar angel emanates conditioning the transient and vice-versa produces the known environments and basically the universe.

“Having pervaded the worlds with a fraction of Myself, I remain.”  Such is the theme of the soul’s endeavor, and such is the spirit which must underlie all creative work.  In this thought lies the clue to the symbol of the Law of Sacrifice—a rosy cross with a bird flying over it.  This is the loved cross (rose being the colour of affection), with the bird (symbol of the soul) flying free in time and space.

This great fourth Ray Life energetic pattern is presently given as being channeled more effectively and esoterically through Vulcan, Mars, and the Earth producing harmony and purposeful relationship affecting all of those soul-personalities responding to the Taurus-Scorpio-Sagittarius influences coming through these planetary rulers. Such an esoteric Ray response is the effective outcome of the natal ascendant astrologically if of a Taurus-Scorpio-Sagittarius influence in general.

Exoterically this fourth Ray Life energetic pattern is given as being channeled through Venus, Mars and Jupiter producing harmony through conflict and karmic laden desire relationships. It has the characteristic of at-one-ment or harmony thus producing various sorts of alignments leading to new form related crises.

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Taurus-Scorpio-Sagittarius influences but particularly their synthesis and the fourth Ray can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law. Remember the Law of Sacrifice, in a cosmic sense, would theoretically rule the entire cosmic physical plane.

Law of Magnetic Impulse leads to a Crisis (Aspirants react)

Gemini-Virgo-Pisces.                 Will to Vision and Unify.           Little Chelaship.

This law of magnetic impulse, a second Ray Gemini-Virgo-Pisces conditioned pattern producing eventual correct vision and unity is responded to by souls as aspirants to the mysteries. This Law is given as coming into symbolic operation once souls become aware of themselves as members of a larger group of soul-personalities while in body but not identified with such body. Thus, they become disidentified from the forms they condition and embody – physical, emotional, and mental. They perceive and identify themselves more as Solar Angels, or those Lives embodying the egoic lotus or soul body as opposed to their embodiment of the personality bodies and are focussing and responding to Solar Angel stimulation. This permits the conscious focus on their own soul body development and thus their egoic lotus potentials can unfold at a quicker rate.  It is this process that ultimately produces recognition of groups of souls out of the physical body and also groups of souls also in physical body and is responsible for the process of outer individual and group personality form reorientations to the subjective patterns of purpose struggling to embody them.  This law is given as the cause for the rapport between each human soul and all other soul groupings. It is the primary soul law providing training up to the second initiation. Remember all training is basically by way of more advanced human souls to lessor advanced human souls. The unconscious response to this law begins after the appropriation of the astral sheath for the average western disciple. The ajna center left and right sides need to be integrating and being linked to the higher head center.

Under this law there is created a default channel of relationship alignments through consciousness between the more evolved soul units and their groupings and the lower evolved soul units and their groupings where the qualified energies between these units and groupings can inherently flow.

Humanity itself must apply the necessary correctives, believing it can do so in the strength of its own sensed wisdom and strength; yet all the time, behind the scenes, stand the grouped world aspirants, working silently, in unison with each other and with the Hierarchy, and thus keeping the channel open through which the needed wisdom, strength and love can flow. The most important invocative and evocative channel between various soul groupings now guiding humanity towards new livingness and prosperity opportunities is given as follows:

1. The Forces of Light and the Spirit of Peace, embodied Lives of tremendous group potency.
2. The Planetary Hierarchy.
3. The Buddha.
4. The Christ.
5. The New Group of World Servers.
6. Humanity.

You will note that the Buddha focusses in Himself the downpouring forces, whilst the Christ focusses in Himself the outgoing demand and the spiritual aspirations of the entire planet.  This makes a planetary alignment of great potency.  Should the needed work be accomplished, the needed adjustments in the world can be made.  The success or failure lies largely in the hands of those scattered but spiritually aligned men and women whom we call the New Group of World Servers. EP II, p.114

The alignment of entities listed in the quote above and below depicts the disciple’s factual experiences once conscious through participation in these alignments.  These tabulated lists are interesting and valuable in understanding one’s own experiences of subjective events in meditation while in body and at this level of unfoldment. This continuity of service potential exchange depicts our field of service opportunities from the top pole to the bottom pole. This process of qualified energy and information exchange takes place between the “world of souls” and/or “environing associates.”  This eventually becomes discernable in brain awareness over time as the cycles of Jupiter play their part each incarnation to one degree or another depending on consciousness and form evolution.

Each group unit is in polar alignment to the group above and below.  Below humanity is the conditioning soul of the three kingdoms. Thus, this law of polar union is indicated in consciousness between the lower and higher selves and their groupings. This is likewise reflected in the relationship established under this law between the higher head center and the ajna center at the second initiation and in respect to form life a relationship is established also to the alta major center by both the head and ajna centers where the ajna center in its two portions creates a dual linking and circulation of relationship from above down and below up so to speak. This reflects a truer picture of the dual polar union. An exchange is taking place.

For the individual disciple, the significance of this Law of Magnetic Impulse and the corresponding relationships in his own life might also be shown in tabulated form:—

1. The world of souls on the higher mental levels.
2. The Master of his group.
3. The solar angel.
4. The aspiring disciple on the lower mental levels.
5. The personality, integrated and often troublesome.
6. The aspirant’s environing associates.

This individual polarized alignment between the group conscious soul and personality (or pineal and pituitary) produces a relationship eventually between the three physical head centres at the point where the WORD is embodied and aligns the three head centres.  This is consciously indicated at the second initiation or the re-touch of acquiescence by the soul towards the personality but this time it is the personality attempting to meet the demands of the soul leading the way towards full cooperation. This polar union takes place as the personality centralizes the meeting of real needs of one’s environing associates and the whole or through service, joy, and love.

Students know that there are in the head two centres, the ajna centre and the head centre,—two balls of fire, symbolic of the fiery consciousness of the soul, and not of the animal consciousness of the body.

These two centres (externalised by the two glands, the pineal gland and the pituitary body) become vibrant and alive and intensely active, through service and meditation and right aspiration.  A line of contact between them is eventually set up and established with increasing potency.  There is also another line of outgoing fiery power toward the top of the spinal column.  As the life of the soul gets stronger, the radiance of the centres increases, and the periphery of their sphere of influence is set up, creating a dual magnetic field.  Speaking esoterically they are “magnetically impelled towards each other” and towards the stored up energy to be found in the spine, and localised in the five centres up the spine.  Eventually the interplay is so powerful that a triangle of force appears within the radius of the magnetic field, and this triangle of light, of living fire, links the three “laya centres.”  The symbol is then completed, and the indication is that the disciple is now controlled by the subjective side of his nature.  He is now governed by the Law of Magnetic Impulse (as the linking of the head centres demonstrates) and the two aspects of his nature, higher and lower, which constitute the two poles with which he is concerned, are now united.  The polar union has been brought about.  EPII, pp. 116-117

This process of polar union is first consciously realized and observed in its occult operation producing pragmatic relationships during and after the second initiation process. At the first initiation it is only observed that the individual is a part of the One Life and the One Form. The soul descends to a point within the center of the etheric brain. The head centre becomes awake and partially functioning particular the astral-etheric counterpart. This initially brings in potential relationships with those souls in body working on the inner mental and astral planes. Other soul grouping relationships become quickly acknowledged over a short period of time as the alignment is persevered in.

It becomes apparent that the Law of Magnetic Repulse is recognized as becoming into nascent operation around the age of 21 for most western aspirants.  This is the period of life where the soul appropriates the mental sheath. It is also indicative that the aspirant was at least a first degree initiate in former lives and responded to this law as a soul and unconsciously reflected in the personality in a basic way.  Each of these laws of the soul can be understood to have a conscious and an unconscious response by the personality involved per the activities of the soul on its own plane. Furthermore, each stage of discipleship is intricately linked to a response to a particular law of the soul and these need to be grasped by the discerning mind to develop a truer understanding of the science of the path. The unconscious response begins the testing phase and technically does not acknowledge the actual adherence to the law on the lower planes.  The outward conscious response to a conditioning or qualifying law depicts the adherence to a particular law of the soul. The recapitulation of acceptance of this stage of discipleship appears not to take place until initiation Rules IV and II for applicants are being somewhat demonstrated. The personality conscious response to a law of the soul represents the constructive phase of the planetary integration process and thus the esoteric name can be seen to now apply; whereas, in the unconscious response the exoteric name would seem to apply and is related to the destructive phase.  This will make more sense as one reflects upon the unfoldment process in context to the major science of the path variables.

This period is characteristic of a physio-etheric focus.  The first initiation demonstrates one has resolved the duality between the etheric and physical life and chooses to impose the qualifying patterns of etheric or underlying energy patterns over those of the physiological overt forces. This permits the necessary insight into the sources for these etheric and physical patterns and leads into the next period of sensitization to astral and mental currents. This period or cycle of planetary integration under the law of magnetic impulse leads to the unconscious response to the law of service which characterizes the goals following the second initiation and permits an eventual conscious response to the chain of subjective influences listed earlier. The cycles do also overlap.

All major planetary integration cycles basically begin with a “stillness vision”, or first point of revelation.  These are shown herein to be linked to the cycles of Jupiter.  Thus, as an example each of the first three laws of the soul for the disciple can be associated sequentially to the first three cycles of Jupiter and by the beginning of the fourth cycle of planetary integration beginning around age 35 the personality is normally integrated and demonstrating some higher ray related characteristics.  It is inferred that if one is recapitulating an initiation then a “symbolic teaching vision” is invoked at these junctures. If a “symbolic teaching and a stillness vision” is experienced, it might be inferred that this would indicate a completion of the earlier cycle of initiated related form karma and the beginning of a new cycle of initiation with a different group soul and form karma. This is discussed herein in different sections.

Just keep in mind the earlier discussion that perfecting mastery of the Law of Magnetic Impulse is theoretically not possible until after the fourth initiation (between the cosmic etheric planes and the cosmic physical planes) planetarily considered just as the Law of Sacrifice is theoretically not perfecting mastered until after the third initiation in respect to the personality dweller patterns versus the Angel of the Presence. “Mastered” is here used very loosely. The first initiation is completed at the third, and the second initiation is completed at the fourth initiation. This will make some sense if one reflects on the relationship between these laws in that the Law of Repulse, the major law in operation after the third initiation, works through the Law of Sacrifice; and the Law of Group Progress, the major law in operation after the fourth initiation, is given as working through the Law of Magnetic Impulse. Furthermore, it is also given that the Law of Expansive Response, which is the major law in operation after the fifth initiation, works through the Law of Service.  This Law of Service, which is in major operation during the period processes of the second initiation just as the Law of Magnetic Impulse is in major operation during the period processes and training during the first initiation. It is only after the fifth initiation, the first cosmic initiation, that a truer Sacrifice is perceived, and this is being conditioned by the Law of the Lower Four. The implications of this should be reflected upon as much is implied by these working inter-relationships between the triadal sheaths and the three tiers of petals and their effects on the three personality sheaths.  The interrelationships between these laws becomes known through one’s experiences within the higher field of initiation which has to be discovered by each upon their journey Home.

The earlier tabulation is copied here for further clarification. The chart depicts why the higher laws can and must only work through the lower laws in terms of effects and also in terms of perfecting mastery in respect to soul group sheaths or vehicles.

It is also shown herein the close relationship between the laws of the soul and the various stages of planetary integration or the initiations. The correct response and demonstration of a particular law of the soul provides the basic training ground for the soul-personality to meet the requirements for a particular initiation. Thus, the correct response to the Law of Magnetic Response provides the training ground for the second initiation. This law is given as governing the primary realisations by any atom of its environing contacts, and the going out, or feeling after, by that atom so that eventually a relation between that which is realised as part of the group and the unit is established. It establishes the potential and harmonious relationship between the individual Self and all other Selves.  The reality is that the personality self and the human soul Self is really just one Self, functioning on different levels and until the lower personality self is developed and integrated a polar union between it and the higher self is not possible. This indicates the necessity for the development and expression of the lower self as a unit is necessary to take the second initiation or recapitulate it.  This normally takes place around or after age 35 for the average western disciple. Once the personality ray is expressing, governed, and controlled in its higher aspects, or characteristics demonstrating, it relates the unit to the substance aspect of deity and gives the unit the “freedom of the three worlds” psychically considered. Remember that the spiritual soul is slowly working its way into fuller expression through the higher and lower selves by way of the laws of the soul.

The reason the personality ray gives the unit the freedom of the three worlds is due to the fact that the first two creative hierarchies have been molded to his will and the lower half of the fifth creative hierarchy likewise. These three creative hierarchies operate upon the lower three planes. The first 35 years or so of life in the life of the disciple is normally spent in the personality development, coordination, and integration and after this the expression of the higher personality ray characteristics through the fusion processes of the soul. The culmination of this process will give the personality the “freedom of the three worlds”. This particularly happens after the time of the second initiation.  It is a spiritual journey that only really begins once the “freedom of the three worlds” is secured and one can resurrect themselves off of the cosmic physical plane or lower three systemic planes. It is a journey into the unknown space of planetary deity. Thus, the law of magnetic impulse can now be in conscious recognition and daily use demonstration for the probationary disciple seeking to demonstrate correctly the law of service. It is useful to point out that the relationship between all of these laws of the soul can only be perfected over the long course of evolution as the perfecting of each is contingent on the perfecting of all of the other. The lower laws are being mastered more perfectly over time as the higher laws are being perfected and by the time that the seventh law is being perfected in expression the lowest law is seen in its truer intent and operation. This knowledge becomes owned as one advances through the response and symbolic form related expression of these laws one at a time as the higher influences likewise the lower but require the lower for their operation.

This Law of Magnetic Impulse governs the relation, the interplay, the intercourse, and the interpenetration between the seven groups of souls on the higher levels of the mental plane which constitute the first of the major form differentiations.  These we can only study intelligently from the angle of the seven ray groups, as they compose the spiritual aspect of the human family.  This law governs also the relationships between souls, who, whilst in manifestation through form, are en rapport with each other.  It is a law, therefore, which concerns the inter-relation of all souls within the periphery of what the Christians call “the Kingdom of God.”  Through a right understanding of this law, the man arrives at a knowledge of his subjective life; he can wield power subjectively, and thus work consciously in form and with form, yet holding his polarisation and his consciousness in another dimension, and functioning actively behind the scenes.  This law concerns those inner esoteric activities which are not primarily related to form life. EP II, 110

It is true in that, experiences over time within contemplation, all ray groups on the manasic planes can be contacted and energy and information exchanged.  It will be noticed that over time certain ray soul groupings are more available for contact than others. Each must determine for themselves why that is the case for each initiation training and set of plan related service activities. Each probationary initiate has their own unique set of qualitative subjective soul groupings they are intended to telepathically work with in context to training as well as to the Plan and these have to be discovered. These are normally broken out as to their three aspects also.  This will be fully discussed under the section on Raja Yoga.

This law governs also the relation of the soul of a group to the soul of other groups.  It governs the interplay, vital but unrealised yet as a potency, between the soul of the fourth kingdom in nature, the human, and the soul of the three subhuman kingdoms, and likewise that of the three superhuman kingdoms. EP II, pp. 111-112

The above quote initially only concerns those in training for the fourth initiation in respect to service. It is mention due to the fact that each of us have innate potential to work directly through the souls of these three kingdoms (Anima Mundi) and serve the various four lower kingdom forms through the information provided. This is the basis also for most of the new age information and related fads and training being promoted.

Just as certain human beings have, through meditation, discipline and service, most definitely made a contact with their own souls, and can therefore become channels for soul expression, and mediums for the distribution into the world of soul energy, so men and women, who are oriented to soul living in their aggregate, form a group of souls, en rapport with the source of spiritual supply.  They have, as a group, and from the angle of the Hierarchy, established a contact and are “in touch” with the world of spiritual realities.  Just as the individual disciple stabilises this contact and learns to make a rapid alignment and then, and only then, can come into touch with the Master of his group and intelligently respond to the Plan, so does this group of aligned souls come into contact with certain greater Lives and Forces of Light, such as the Christ and the Buddha.  The aggregated aspiration, consecration and intelligent devotion of the group carries the individuals of which it is composed to greater heights than would be possible alone.  The group stimulation and the united effort sweep the entire group to an intensity of realisation that would otherwise be impossible.  Just as the Law of Attraction, working on the physical plane, brought them together as men and women into one group effort, so the Law of Magnetic Impulse can begin to control them when, again as a group and only as a group, they unitedly constitute themselves channels for service in pure self-forgetfulness. EP II, pp. 112-113

This type of group alignment and descent of energy can be experienced in a variety of ways that defines one’s own travels upon the path of purpose. There are periods of greatest development and integration in an aspirant’s life and these are normally aligned with the release of patternistic Energy from Shamballa. Secondly, these periods might be aligned with the spiritual festivals taking place during major full moon periods where shared energy from the Hierarchy and the Christ can be received.  One of the  greatest release potential happens every forty-nine years when the opportunity to take the sixth initiation provided to those ready and chosen to do so. This latest release potential was in the year 2001 as many disciples and probationary initiates can attest to. Furthermore, every 100 years represents the greatest potential release of conditioning Shamballa Energy patterns impacting the many grouping of souls. The next release in in the year 2025 and the world soul groupings are presently preparing the world group forms for this event to maximize the presented opportunities.

This thought embodies the opportunity immediately before all groups of aspirants and allied men of good will in the world today.  If they work together as a group of souls, they can accomplish much.  This thought illustrates also the significance of this law which does produce polar union.  What is needed to be grasped is that in this work, there is no personal ambition implied, even of a spiritual nature and no personal union sought.  This is not the mystical union of the scriptures or of the mystical tradition.  It is not alignment and union with a Master’s group, or fusion with one’s inner band of pledged disciples, nor even with one’s own Ray life.  All these factors constitute preliminary implications and are of an individual application.  Upon this sentence I ask you to ponder.  This union is a greater and more vital thing because it is a group union. EP II, pp.

The Law of Magnetic Impulse, like all of the laws, is progressively mastered and unfolded as one learns to correctly serve. Discipline, dispassion, discrimination, decentralization and discernment are the secrets to one’s successful reaction to these seven significant laws as a soul and as a personality.  Each law is built upon the former law so eventually one learns to work fully within the framework of all the laws as a soul. In a true sense all seven laws of the soul are sub-laws of the cosmic Law of Sacrifice in operation on the cosmic Physical Plane. One’s reaction to these laws has more to do with sensitivity than actual evolutionary status and one might infer it also has to do with the group conscious soul’s capacity to isolate and identify itself with Pure Spirit.

Without the availability of the life work of Alice Bailey we would travel much less securely upon the journey home without any roadmaps to get us there and always wonder if we were on the correct path. I only have inexpressible gratitude for her sacrifices to provide to us these road signs.  Her efforts have saved us all many lives of searching for a secure passage.

This great second Ray Life energetic pattern is represented by the law of magnetic impulse or the law of polar union and is presently being channeled esoterically through Venus, Moon veiling Neptune, and Pluto producing greater human soul-personality vision and unification effecting all of those aspirants responding to the Gemini-Virgo-Pisces influences coming through these esoteric planetary rulers. It is radiatory in effect thus producing a polar union of varying types through magnetic impulsions producing great opportunities through the crises of relationship between some greater grouping and the lessor grouping of souls resolved.

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Gemini-Virgo-Pisces influences but particularly their synthesis and the second Ray type can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law.

Spirit-Soul-Personality Integration & the Law of Magnetic Impulse

In was earlier denoted that there is suggested a developing relationship between the head center and the ajna center reflecting a developing relationship between the soul and the personality and this relationship to the law of magnetic impulse or polar union.  This integration result of the two (but actually three where the ajna related them both) head centers is one of the major focussed effects of the second initiation.

Technically conscious spirit-soul-personality integration is not basically achieved until at the end of the third initiation process just as conscious fusion of such not basically achieved till the end of the fourth initiation and true duality between spirit-soul and soul-personality until the end of the fifth initiation. It is significant to understand that the second initiation is basically the first phase of the fourth initiation where the Law of Repulse will come in full sway.

It is given that the soul ray initiates personality integration where the soul is still slumbering and identified with the personality forms, but each soul ray has a possible seven sub-rays. It is also given that the personality ray is a subray of the soul. Thus, the ray technique for each soul can be any one of the seven rays. Ultimately, each personality sheath will express through the personality’s ray as a sub-ray of each of the sheaths. In respect to the key word centralization which is given as the second ray key word describing the second ray method of the soul in integrating the personality, Master D.K. added the following clarifying sentence in his description under the second ray integration process in Discipleship in the New Age, Volume II – In reference to this second ray, it is advisable to recollect that all the rays are but the subrays of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom. Thus, no matter what soul ray one is being conditioned by the second ray technique is going to be a secondary technique.  I doubt that most of us can really say that we know the rays conditioning all of our vehicles without any doubt implying that there is yet any true understand of a way to separate out the many possible sources for a ray related to a realized conditioning or expression There is no science of the rays. Ray analysis is the most difficult process the author has attempted to understand and believes occult vision is required given there are many rays conditioning us from many levels and sources.

The personality integration process itself is also shown to be causally linked to the cycle of integration stages as per the quote below.

The words, covering the process in every case, are Alignment, Crisis, Light, Revelation, Integration.  Under the heading of each ray we shall have therefore:

1. The formula of integration.
2. Its dual application of destruction and rebuilding, with a brief indication of the process and the result.
3. The final stage of the process wherein the man
4. Brings the three bodies into alignment.
5. Passes through a crisis of evocation, thus, as the Bhagavad Gita says, becoming “manifest through the magical power of the soul”.
6. Enters into a phase of light, wherein the man sees clearly the next step to be taken.
7. Receives the revelation of the Plan and of what he has to do in connection with it.
8. Integrates the three bodies into one synthetic whole, and is therefore ready for the Technique of Fusion, which is suited to his ray type.

This will bring us to our second point which concerns the Technique of Fusion and the emergence into activity of the personality ray. DINA II, pp. 347-348

The above process, if held in respect to a planetary cycle of integration, is equally correct in one aspect or another. All aspirants has knowingness of what is implied by the need to “clear oneself” and this has various levels to it which are not normally acknowledged. It applies particularly to those aspirants between the first and the second initiation. There is in their cases various types of illusion, glamour, and maya preventing a clear perspective of a causative pattern right in front of them.  Once the integration of soul-personality substance or integration of the two head centers is in process then the world of meaning opens its doors and over a short period of time one can realized that all could be known through the Pure Vision of the Soul and there is no longer a need to “clear oneself.”

Once a minimum level of self-healing or personality integration through sheath purification is reached the application of the personal will or intention will meet with almost instant success in the soul acquiescing to the guidance of the personality. The soul needs to be invoked and the invocative appeal needs first to be at a minimum level.  The minimum level can be meet by all through the persistent effort to decentralize and thus the application of detachment, harmlessness, discrimination, dispassion, and spiritual indifference. Once the aspirant can effectively receive in his brain awareness the guidance by the soul he can quickly be guided into the more subtle light but more substantial Light of the Angel and Ashram.

The two aspects in man can only meet in full power and with intention and finality when illusion can no longer control the mind, when glamour has lost all power to veil and when the forces of maya can no longer hinder. Discrimination, dispassion and indifference have produced the dispelling through focussed light, the dissipating potency of distributed light and the directing power of light energy. Only five recognitions now control the disciple:

1. The fact of his discipleship.
2. The perception of the Angel, waiting and dynamic.
3. The invocative appeal of the Dweller on the Threshold.
4. The necessity to use the will in a new and different manner.
5. The need to cross the burning ground.

The issues are now entirely clear. It is a question of timing and of decision. I would remind you that in all these processes, it is the disciple who, in full consciousness, acts. He initiates all the processes himself. It is not the Angel or the Dweller but the spiritual man himself who has to employ the will and take definite forward moving action. Once the disciple has taken the necessary steps and moved irrevocably forward, the response of the Angel is sure, automatic and all-enveloping. Complete obliteration of the personal self in three successive stages is the immediate and normal result. It was to this that John the Baptist referred when he said “He shall increase but I must decrease.” When he spoke these words, he spoke as a disciple, prior to the second initiation of the threshold. (Bailey, Glamour a World Problem, 1950, pp. 270-271)

One has to remind himself that without Master DK’s unique teachings or deep understanding on initiation most of our spiritual experiences in life would go unexplained scientifically.  One has to delve deeply into a reflection of their experiences just to evaluate them per the given teachings and this from many points of reference – physiologically, psychologically, astrologically, mystically, mentally, occultly, spiritually, ashramically, triadally, monadically to mention a few. It is much more difficult to correctly evaluate experiences per those earlier experiences given the mystical sub-personality is the leading the personality aspect of identification. Eventually these mystical experiences will come under correct examination once the occult sub-personality is developed through mental polarization and experimentation thus over time one becomes more and more identified with their occult sub-personality and this leads after the second initiation to their integration and disappearance in general.   Until this is the case the second initiation opportunity cannot be understood. In a similar way the mystical form development is critical to approach this initiation as the devotion form of the devotee is inadequate. The third initiation is approached through both the mystical and the occult perspectives as both are needed in balance to create the ever narrowing pathway between opposites as they are contacted and recognized.  The Law of Repulse provides one with such an opportunity to create their own unique pathway into the unknown homing in on “monadic destiny” once the personality ray is unfolded by the human soul endeavor. It is this process of applied integration, fusion, unity, and synthesis which reveals it if one adheres to the rules for initiation.  This can only begin in full force once technique of fusion is consciously undertaken through the building of the Antahkarana and merging it with the group Antahkarana. This is where the rules for group initiation begin to become relevant once one has achieved the status of an Accepted Disciple which can be understood to take place through finding and adhering to one’s (Self) truer group purpose and plan and letting go of all personality purposes and plans under the application of rule no. IV for group initiation.

A man can be regarded as a personality in truth when the form aspect and the soul nature are at-one.  When the soul influences the personality and pervades all the lower manifestation, then and only then, does the personality measure up to its true significance, which is to constitute the mask of the soul, that which is the outer appearance of inner spiritual forces.  These forces are expressions of the soul, and the soul is the central identity or fundamental focus upon the mental plane of the life of God Himself.  Essence, consciousness and appearance are the three aspects of divinity and of man; the personality, when fully developed, is the “appearance of God on earth.”  Life, quality, and form is another way of expressing this same triplicity. (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 267)

Law of Service leads to some type of Light Use (Probationary Disciples React)

Virgo-Sagittarius-Pisces. Will to Idealize and Cause.     Chela in the Light.

This law of service, a sixth ray and Virgo-Sagittarius-Pisces conditioned pattern which produces idealizations and patternistic form causes. It is responded to by souls as probationary disciples and such response is normally contingent upon the disciples earlier and ongoing alignment efforts through meeting service related real needs through meditation leading to subjective bridging between the inner and outer environments.  This bridging was earlier shown to be due to the Law of Magnetic Response or Polar Union. Basically, in respect to integration this law leads to some light of understanding permitting a forward service movement of the unit with the larger group in brain consciousness. This is so, given the Law of Expansive Response, expressing the atmic life, works through this law and the knowledge petals. It is also correlated to the Chela in the Light stage of discipleship. It is through actively pursuing service objectives that we open ourselves up to these incoming new influencing qualitative patterns from the inner spiritual soul grouping and in general the One Soul under the organizing function of the Law of Magnetic Impulse. This was shown to be a product of the earlier law of magnetic impulse or polar union. These patterns of energy will open up heart centres and produce more higher mind alignment and content while enhancing the transmutation processes permitting us to enter fully into the Law of Service sixth Ray pattern permitting eventual entry into the stage of accepted discipleship.  This is the primary soul law leading up to the third initiation. The unconscious response to this law nascently begins after the appropriation of the mental sheath for the average western disciple. For a conscious response the heart and throat center need to be open and occultly blending.

Through the Sun veiling Neptune, true group feeling is the goal that the second initiation reifies and leads to true group awareness and service once Uranian patterns are also embodied. Please keep in mind that the second initiation is completed at the fourth initiation where Uranus replaces Saturn as that conditioning the service form expressions. Thus, service becomes a spontaneous process from the group to the individual now a conscious part of the group and the world of meaning opens up as the channel for the source of energetic qualitative patterns from the One Soul of the planet and the solar system. The Life of the One Soul works through systemic feeling, and systemic mind expressed through Neptune and Uranus by the Grand Heavenly Man and these channeled through Saturn representing His Brain awareness’s of these thoughts and feelings.  Thus, the life of the One Spirit-Soul works through the buddhic group feeling and manasic higher abstract mind straight through into the brain of the initiate-disciple who has achieved spirit-soul-mind-brain alignment so over time there is no impediments to this life of Spirit sacrificing all for the greater good of the Whole.  The stable standing in spiritual being moment to moment is the goal of the aspirant and the accomplishment of the higher initiate.  This life of the One Spirit-Soul can then pour through him and have an effect upon his environment and his environing associates.  This life effect is by definition called a “life of service.” Only the personality focussed on its desire fulfillment and their lack of true harmlessness can prevent this alignment. It is harmlessness that unblocks the channels for the flow of the One Life and consciousness. Personality desires short circuit the will or desire of the One Life manifesting through the inner group soul struggling to be correctly expressed through the group’s outer forms. Group service over time corrects the intended relationship between all units of the various kingdoms and permits the flow of the correct purpose related energy pattern.

We are here concerned with those qualities which will emerge when a man is working under the impulse of the Law of Service.  They will appear when he is a real channel for the life of the soul.  His major characteristics will then be three in number:—

1. He will be distinguished, as might be expected, by the quality of harmlessness, and by an active refraining from those acts and that speech which might hurt or cause any misunderstanding. By no word, suggestion, implication, innuendo or voiced dissatisfaction will he hurt his group. You will note that I do not say “will not hurt any individual.”  Those working under the Law of Service need no reminder not to hurt any individual.  They often need, under the exuberance of spiritual stimulation and the intensity of their aspiration, to be reminded to demonstrate group harmlessness.
2. The second characteristic is a willingness to let others serve as seems best to them, knowing that the life flowing through the individual server must find its own channels and outlets, and that direction of these currents can be dangerous and prevent the rendering of the intended service. The server’s efforts will be turned in two directions:—
3. To the task of helping others to “stand in spiritual being”, as he himself is learning to stand.
4. To aiding the individual to express his service in his chosen field as he desires to express it, and not as the onlooking helper deems that he should do it.

But the work of the new type of server is directed towards those who are establishing soul contact and who can therefore work under the new incoming Aquarian Law.  This centres around the capacity to stand, not only in spiritual being, but together with others, working with them subjectively, telepathically, and synthetically.  This distinction merits attention for one can easily waste effort by entering fields already well handled from the point of view of the attainment of the units in that field.

1. The third characteristic of the new server is joyfulness. This takes the place of criticism (that dire creator of misery) and is the silence that sounds. EP II, pp. 132-133
   

True alignment or at-one-ment depicts a relationship which builds the bridge between the inner and the outer or that which is above with that which is the below. All true service is an expression of this process and can be understood as the cause for evolution of consciousness and substance.  The whole is slowly being built into the part and thus the truer purpose is being slowly demonstrated on the outer three planes. This is the process of unfoldment leading to one stage of planetary integration after another. The science of the path is unfolded in conscious understanding through this process of bridge building. It leads to new contacts and relationships established through reflection and meditation bringing in one higher vehicle at a time functioning on its respective higher plane of consciousness and beingness. It is easy to see how standing in the light brings the discovery of other Lights and adds to the searchlight of the soul. It is a definitely active working or invoking effort producing results in line with one’s ability to stand in spiritual being moment to moment.

“I play my part with stern resolve; with earnest aspiration; I look above, I help below; I dream not, nor I rest; I toil; I serve; I reap; I pray; I am the Cross; I am the Way; I tread upon the work I do, I mount upon my slain self; I kill desire, and I strive, forgetting all reward.  I forego peace; I forfeit rest, and, in the stress of pain, I lose myself and find Myself and enter into peace.  To all this I solemnly pledge myself, invoking my Higher Self.”

The process is one of standing in the silence where one’s power to evoke is linked to their essential qualified vibration which is slowly built up over time where the working premise is like attracts like. The underlying motives (a reflection of thoughts and feelings) and points of identification determines the nature of the light, information or assistance received. All members of the inner subjective esoteric hierarchical groupings are given to be determined by the following:

The basis of this selection is:—

1. Sensitivity to the Aquarian influence.
2. Willingness to work in a group as an integral part of the group, and having no idea of personal ambition or any wish to be a leader. Where the desire to be a leader exists, that disciple is automatically (though only temporarily) disqualified for this particular endeavor. He can still do good work, but it will be secondary work, and more closely affiliated with the old age than with the work of the New Group of World Servers.
3. A dedication that holds nothing back that can rightly be given.
4. A harmlessness which, though not yet perfected, exists as an ideal towards which the aspirant is constantly striving. EP II, p. 118

Our participation is revealed over time through our contacts and these are determined by our capacity and ability to serve the real needs and the Plan. These together therefore determines our evolution of consciousness and status as a soul.

The hierarchical plan appears to change every nine years and our plan to meet real needs related to the one plan must also be reassessed. The important of attempting to meet real needs as opposed to apparent needs to work successfully with the Laws of the Soul in general cannot be over-emphasized. It is the basis of all success in securing assistance from subjective sources.  Biblically, it was said that if one knocks upon the door then it shall be answered is a truism and even more so in meeting real needs but one also needs to be able to accurately hear and record the reply as well as to know what to invoke.

… Law of Service is something which may not be escaped.  Evasion brings its penalties, if that evasion is conscious.  Ability to serve marks a definite stage of advance upon the Path, and until that stage is reached, spontaneous service, rendered in love and guided by wisdom, cannot be given. EP II, pp. 118-119

Each can attest or not to the truth of this above quote.  Until one has developed a method to knock upon the door and comprehend the reply no real spontaneous service rendered in love and guided by wisdom can be given. It requires the Law of Magnetic Impulse coupled with this law to be effective. It also requires one to develop their own methods that secure this.  It is significant to realize, in fact, that attempting to meet other’s real needs our own real needs are also met.

The Law of Service is the expression of the energy of a great Life, who, in cooperation with Him “in Whom we live and move and have our being”, is subjecting the human family to certain influences and streams of energy which will eventually do three things:—

1. Awaken the heart centre in all aspirants and disciples.
2. Enable emotionally polarised humanity to focus intelligently in the mind.
3. Transfer the energy of the solar plexus into the heart.

This unfolding of what we might call “the consciousness of the heart” or the development of true feeling is the first step towards group awareness.  This group awareness and this identification with the feeling aspect of all groups is the quality which leads to service—a service to be rendered as the Masters render it, and as the Christ demonstrated it for us in Galilee. EP II, pp. 122-123

The Law of Service is the expression of the energy of a great Life implicates that this Life is the Sixth Ray Life Itself conditioning the probationary disciple, along with Virgo-Sagittarius-Pisces as they rearrange and organize their patterns of livingness to emulate this Ray Life energetic pattern presently being channeled esoterically through Moon veiling Neptune, the Earth, and Pluto or the energy to idealize and thus cause a change.  This energetic pattern expression is represented by the law of service or the law of water and the fishes. It has an outpouring characteristic thus producing greater comprehension or light of some type. As earlier stated, those with Virgo, Sagittarius or Pisces on their ascendant are becoming sensitized to this law of the soul particularly with its many implications. This is closely related to the law of magnetic response which is conditioned by Gemini, Virgo, and Pisces. These influences also come more into play during the cycles of Jupiter through these constellations and their related full moon periods.

The law of service provides us a way to both knock and to hear the reply which is “the consciousness of the heart” or correct group feeling. When this is lacking than there are no service methods which are adequate to meet the real needs. This takes time to perfect but one’s efforts and experimentations will eventually produce a growing realization of the endless helping hands subjectively rendered regardless of the category of real need.

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Virgo-Sagittarius-Pisces influences but particularly their synthesis and the sixth Ray type can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law.

Tension vs. Fusion:  Initiation & The Law of Service

The processes of the Chela in the Light must be continuously applied to reach the proceeding stages of discipleship and initiation. This process is the basis of Law of Service working through the achievement effects on form of the earlier laws of the soul. This process is the generating and the blending of forms of light through duality, fusion, tension, absorption, and diffusion.

This process of unfoldment creates certain major points of successive fusions, with consequent points of tension; these points of tension (when consciously attained) become the actuating energy which enables the disciple to “stand in the light and in that light see greater Light; within that greater Light he knows and sees, grasps and absorbs that which has hitherto been dark and secret and unknown.”  This is initiation.

Periods of search, periods of pain, periods of detachment, periods of revelation producing points of fusion, points of tension and points of energy projection—such is the story of the Path of Initiation. R&I, pp.537-538

Basically, tension is a new more inclusive relationship between spirit and matter expressing itself through the light substance of a form. Tension, an aspect of light, is a product of fusion or a relating of two poles or spiritual potential. Energy projection is the act of invocation through a positive force of a form seeking a similar positive force or energy of that which the form is a part of.  Once evoked it becomes negative to this new positive energy or force of the greater light substance or form.

Unless one is aware of these basic theoretical points their own processes of moving daily deeper into the lighted way will not be understood if they are mystically inclined. Periodic reflection and study are required so not to get lost upon the way. Each life this knowledge needs to be recapitulated or resurrected. Hopefully, there is some retaining of understanding otherwise the intellectual study of causative experiential unfoldment and its understanding would seems to be a waste of time.  Master D.K. states that this is not a waste of time and this understanding developed this life will assist in the future life towards a quicker unfoldment of understanding through less mistakes leading to the development of a deeper abstract capacity.

Initiation is, therefore, a constant fusion of the lights, progressively entered, thus enabling the initiate to see further, deeper and more inclusively.  As one of the Masters has said:  “The light must enter vertically and be diffused or radiated horizontally.”  This creates the cross of service upon which the disciple is pendant until the Cross of Sanat Kumara is revealed to him; he knows then why this planet is—for wise and adequate reasons—the planet of distress, dispassion and detachment.  When he knows this, he knows all that our planetary life can tell him and reveal to him.  He has transmuted knowledge into wisdom.

It is true that each month of contemplation one’s successful fusions and points of tension pulls one deeper into the unknown “Lights” with expanding triadal identifications and thus mental, eventual buddhic, and atmic enlightenments. This knowledge and understanding capacity are also increased as these fusions proffer more attributes and also microcosm centre unfoldment.  The laws of the soul provide the pathway to Atma (Repulse), then Buddhi (Group Progress), then Mental (Expansive Response) where all begins with and ends with greater sacrifice or more inclusive alignment, but it takes time for the initiate’s brain to realize this as the Law of Repulse, the Law of Group Progress, and the Law of Expansive Response becomes more and more functional as a means towards truer Service.

It is at the centre of this cross of service that the point of fusion and the point of tension must be found.  The point of fusion is created by the focussing of all the power, aims and desires of the disciple dynamically upon the mental plane; the point of tension is created when the invocative power of this focal point becomes capable of evoking response from that which is invoked.  For the average aspirant and for the disciple, this is either the soul or the Spiritual Triad.

In respect to observed processes individually applied it is either the evoking to secure service related assistance to meet real needs giving rise to soul destiny or it is the evoking of the Father or Spirit providing the pathway for the One Soul giving rise to “monadic destiny.”

The meeting of the two focussed energies produces a point of tension.  Disciples should not focus their attention upon the task of producing a point of tension.  They should remember the life of dual activity; i.e., that which he is at any given moment of endeavour, and that with which he can fuse and blend this sum total of his achieved development.  The potency of his thinking along these dual lines will automatically produce the point of tension, through the medium of the fusion of the appropriate dualities.  It is through the activity of the lower mind that fusion with the soul is brought about, with successive, intensifying points of tension; it is through the activity established between higher and lower mind that fusion with the Spiritual Triad becomes possible, with points of tension arising at many points along the bridge, the antahkarana;

This was earlier depicted “as like responds to like.” Each point of tension secured along the bridge permits one further knowledge of the entity(s) involved or evoked and relates in some way to the overall group Purpose and Plan but is not always easy to comprehend this relationship clearly. It is significant that one focus to recollect within their comprehension the sum total of their achieved development as a prelude to contemplation and this must be achieved simultaneously with their intended aspect of greater Self whatever it is in essence or quality. This is attempted during the balancing of the pranic fields or upon the breath.

…it is through the activity of pure reason that fusion with the Hierarchy becomes possible, and it is that which produces those points of tension which we call Initiations.  There are necessarily still higher points of tension, but it is with those called initiations that we are dealing at this time. R&I, pp.540-541

The activity of pure reason implies buddhic consciousness and thus a higher form of mental enlightenment and thus hierarchical or ashramic fusion potential in general.  The physiological or etheric effect of this is the radiations of clear cold light experienced in meditation. Initiation process represents a cycle of planetary integration and that the series of revelations that define it progress according to one’s group plan and purpose being carried out requiring some degree of hierarchical fusion. This means that all one contacts at these points of tension under the Law of Group Progress, hierarchically considered, is related to this initiation or planetary or group integration.

Light may enter your mind in this connection if you will constantly bear in mind the essential duality of manifestation itself; the negative and the positive poles present within the consciousness of every form.  The achieved point of fusion (the result of active and positive work and effort) is rendered negative to that which is being invoked, and by this means another and positive point of tension can be achieved.  Initiation—a dramatic and a major point of tension—connotes essentially the fusion of the negative and the positive aspects.  Owing to this, in all initiatory processes, it is the will of the disciple which is active and which produces, first of all, a fusion and (as a consequence) the appearance of a point of tension.

Polarity alignment may produce “a dramatic and a major point of tension” or the fusion of the negative and positive aspects. The nature of this fusion is determined by the results or the release. The processes of initiation versus the ceremonial act of “initiation”, is represented by a causative model and needs to be understood as a byproduct of adhering to the Law of Service (and thus the lower laws).  The only event that could evoke “a dramatic and a major point of tension” that can be understood can also be understood as the completion of a cycle of karma that leads one into the burning ground and/or a more inclusive point of adaptive livingness. All esoteric processes need to be understood as integrative processes within the planetary, solar and cosmic livingness and reflects the goals and existing Path of Initiation in its present format.

Let me illustrate.  In the work of creating the antahkarana, the disciple first of all and as far as in him lies, through the medium of positive mental labour, focusses himself upon the mental plane.  The fusion of the soul and of time personality is then present and is the result of a positive activity.  The quality and the vibratory nature of that positive focal point is then rendered negative to that higher vibration or contact which is invoked by the existent radiance and potency.  The response from the opposite pole is (if the disciple could but realise it) immediate and to the extent possible, determined by the disciple’s point of attainment.

The immediate response can also be understood as related to “energy and force” currents such as astrological potentials at that time; degree of Self-Belief, degree isolation of environments, and many other variables that permits one’s “point of attainment” or basically like to like.

This invocative-evocative activity produces a point of tension but not—as yet—a point of fusion with the positive pole.  From that point of tension the disciple works at the creation of the antahkarana; this will eventually bring about the desired fusion between the soul-infused personality and the Spiritual Triad.  The same general process dictates all the desired fusions and produces those points of tension which are the secret of all growth.  These points of fusion and of tension the disciple consciously endeavours to bring about. R&I, 540-542

One does has complete freedom of the will-to-progress through self-creation or not. Nothing is stopping us except our will and state of body health; and it is said that body health should not be a deterrent. The will-to-progress implies that we are progressing as a part of a larger group-will-to-progress. This is the way of the Law of Service opened to each of us.

World of Meaning & The Law of Service:

The symbol for the world of meaning is given as light.  It is lights of various types that the disciple encounters when entering the world of meaning in meeting service related real needs. It is given as being the first stage requirement for accepted discipleship. It leads to spiritual perception which is truly a gift given to the personality by the soul aspect that permits it to become spiritually useful. The world of meaning is the world in which the soul lives and moves with intention and understanding. It is the disciple’s first movement into the truth of all through understanding of the reason and nature of things as they are able to bring illumination to the mind. The soul light’s nature is attractive love which attracts all needed information to be used for the benefit of the larger group.

Why is the penetration into the world of meaning the first stage of the probationary disciple’s training? The answer is simple, one now has access to the soul, which is group conscious, for such training in a more conscious manner due to the aspirant’s adherence to the Law of Magnetic Impulse. The world of meaning is the world of the soul through the capacity of “Pure Vision”.  It is also the reflected Light source, where the Source of Light is the Monad.

All form lives are expressions of some subjective significance which lies behind their existence and the world of meaning brings these to light. It is a type of spiritual reading as to the nature and purpose for all things. It leads first to omniscience and later to omniscience. The type and amount of information available through the world of meaning appears to be almost infinite depending on one’s knowledge base and imagination. The process begins through the struggle to interpret all symbols and patterns. It is useful to also use analogical keys to interpret all facts or theory.  HPB provided us with an exampled analogical framework where a version of this is to imagine there are five or some number of halls of knowledge – Abstract, Occult, Spiritual, Hierarchical, and Triadal or any other level of beingness and these all of these halls have doorways composed of seven or some number of locks such as physiological, psychological, astrological, metaphysical, geometrical, mystical, and numerological which can be turned seven times with the seven ray key.  The average western disciple begins to enter the world of meaning more fully after their third cycle of Jupiter or fifth maturation cycle but fully enters after the fourth cycle of Jupiter around age 49. It is after this cycle that the twelve tests of Hercules can normally begin in earnest. Through the developing apperceptions of the soul the disciple discovers that behind this form lies a series of greater causes which is approached through the world of meaning. Eventually the initiate realizes that it was the monad that created the forms to carry out some set of purposes that produces some orientation, focus or emphasis through the world of form.  The initiate begins to realize that  causal body itself body is no longer required once they enter the world of causes and they identify with the Plan and Purpose symbolized by His own form creation, which can be understood to reflect His contribution to the Divine Thought pattern symbolizing Divine Purpose for manifesting.  The world of meaning and world of form was enhanced by His existence and this form and meaning is now perfected.  This can be understood to be so given its expression in the lower three planes has ended and thus a portion of the Form Karma of the Heavenly Man released.

Through understanding and experience, after the third initiation, the initiate enters the world of spiritual values after he has integrated somewhat into the Ashram by way of the World of Significances. As his decentralization becomes more and more inclusive the Son of Mind together with the personality enters more consistently into the World of Significances or the world of the spiritual triad fusing with the Son of God.  The World of Causes now also begins to be entered and it opens the way into the World of Being and of Purpose and of the Presence which lies behind it.  It is upon this journey that this cycle of planetary integration guides the initiate dynamically through and into the Unknown. This journey begins under the process and default tutelage of the soul Law of Service.

Law of Repulse leads to Revelation (Disciples react)

Aries-Leo-Capricorn.     Will to Initiate.  Accepted Discipleship.

The Law of Repulse, a first Ray and Aries-Leo-Capricorn conditioned pattern, is responded to by souls as accepted disciples producing initiatory training processes or planetary integration. Remember the basic underlying goal of the accepted disciple is the training for the path of initiation under the Law of Repulse will lead the accepted disciple or probationary initiate into the dynamic field of higher initiations through the influences of Aries-Leo-Capricorn.

This rule rejects those symbolic form related qualitative energy pattern effects or identify patterns inherent in form not aligned to one’s spiritual soul and monadic ray form purpose patterns associated with the apperceived goals of the greater Life they are a part thereof. This happens by way of a more correct soul group identification as a soul. It is a refusal to identify with those purpose intent patterns leading to form creation that do not assist the Whole which are eliminated. The law expresses itself through the mind nature and leads the disciple to a true understanding of one’s personality self, soul self, group Self, and divine Self. It is the path to self-knowledge on all levels through the sacrificing of the lessor for the greater. It reveals slowly over time the nature of one’s destiny and series of processes within this path of destiny. Love is the reason or purpose for the creation of anything and thus this law works to repulse all other patterns not conforming to the intent of the purpose of the Whole. It is love of the Whole in demonstration within the part. This is the primary law of the soul leading up to the fourth initiation. The conscious response to this law begins after the second initiation for those western disciples that responded to this law in former lives. The five or seven lower centers need to become integrated into the dual higher head centers to follow correctly this pathway provided by this law.

These laws are understood only once the soul in body identifies with the Solar Angels and not the personality and its forms of expression.   There is a correlation given in Esoteric Psychology II associating the expanded response to each of these first three laws to the unfolding of the three tiers of egoic petals. Please keep in mind there are five each of the knowledge, love and sacrifice petals. This was earlier referenced.

1. The Law of Sacrifice The Petals of Sacrifice.
2. The Law of Magnetic Impulse The Petals of Love.
3. The Law of Service The Petals of Knowledge.

This fourth Law of Repulse works through the first Law of Sacrifice and carries to the aspirant the quality, influence and tendency of the Spiritual Triad, the threefold expression of the Monad.  Its full force is felt only after the third initiation, in which the power of the Spirit is, for the first time, consciously felt.  Up to that time it has been the growing control of the soul which was primarily registered.  Therefore we have:—

1. The Law of Repulse. Atma.  Spiritual Will.

This Fourth Law influence comes via the egoic petals of sacrifice and the subsidiary Law of Sacrifice.

2. The Law of Group Progress. Buddhi.  Spiritual Love.

This Fifth Law comes via the love petals of the egoic lotus, and the subsidiary Law of Magnetic Impulse.

3. The Law of Expansive Response. Manas. Higher spiritual mind.

This Sixth Law comes via the knowledge petals and the subsidiary Law of Service. EP II, pp. 150-151

The reality of these relationship can only be recognized in brain awareness once the antahkarana is built by the Solar Angel during contemplation. Thus, until the bridge is built the existence and influences of these laws are not known. It has been given that these laws of the soul are responsible for all possible types of consciousness; and thus, all types and manner of inner and outer dimensional human conditions. The ongoing light blending process of duality, fusion, tension, absorption and diffusion is required.

Law 4.  The Law of Repulsion.  This law concerns itself with the ability of an atom to throw off, or refuse to contact, any energy deemed inimical to group activity.  It is literally a law of service, but only comes consciously into play when the atom has established certain basic discriminations, and guides its activities through a knowledge of the laws of its own being.  This law is not the same as the Law of Repulsion which is used in connection with the Law of Attraction between forms which have relation to the material.  The laws we are now considering have relation to the psyche, or to the Vishnu aspect.  One group of laws concern energies emanating from the physical sun; the ones we are now considering emanate from the heart of the Sun.  The “repulsion” here dealt with has the effect (when consciously applied through the developed heart energy of a human atom, for instance) of furthering the interests of the repulsed unit and of driving this unit closer to its own centre.  TCF, p.1217

In a spiritual sense the disciple can only bring the law of repulse into functional daily operation and become aware of the triadal life through the capacity and ability to serve the One Life and obey Its light within and around him thus rejecting all distractions in respect one’s spiritual soul and monadic destiny. The law of repulse is the law that leads to the disciple’s liberation from unnecessary co-creation of karmic laden form life on every level of the cosmic physical planes outside of its one’s unique creative contribution to the Whole along one’s monadic destiny. Under the growing influences of Uranus. It is under the earlier law of service that the disciple becomes aware of and develops a comprehension of the greater balanced Way between dualities back to the Source of the One Life. It is likewise given that dispassion, discrimination, discipline, and detachment leading to soul related discernment are the necessary virtues leading to the recognition of this law. These are necessary along with the eightfold noble path variables to live a daily life of contemplation and thus build the higher Way bringing in revelation and realization upon the path of initiation under the correct response to this law. The correlations below are required to be demonstrated by the disciple upon the path of initiation to build the bridge from here to there. It is only the mastery of this process overviewed and quoted below that the path of initiation can be walked. It leads to the dynamic field of the higher initiations which are open to the initiate at any level depending upon their recognition:

1.The five Commandments.  Second ray force.  The Law of Magnetic Impulse.

The universal duty                 Inclusion.                      Attraction.

2.The Rules                            Fourth ray force           The Law of Sacrifice.

For self training                                                                 “I die daily.”

3.Posture.                                Sixth ray force   .           The Law of Service.

A poised attitude to      Right relations & the world.        right ideals.

4.Pranayama                         Seventh ray force           The Law of Group

The law of rhythmic living     Progress.      The Law of spiritual development.

5.Abstraction                        First ray force                   The Law of Repulse.

Pratyahara.             Withdrawal from desire      The repudiation of desire.

6.Attention.                          Third ray force                 The Law of Expansive Response.

Correct orientation

7.Meditation                       Fifth ray force                  The Law of the Lower Four.

Right use of the mind                                                “The soul is in deep meditation.”

8. Result Contemplation                                       Complete spiritual detachment.

A close study of these relationships will be found suggestive to the disciple and illuminating to the initiate. LoS, pp. 164-165

The following ancient apothegm captures the essence of the Law of Repulse aligned with the “eightfold noble path” walked through the discovery of the many dualities playing upon him leading to the blending of the lights through fusion, tension, absorption, and diffusion permitting the perfecting of the above quoted contemplation process. Each probationary initiate that is now consciously upon the path of initiation will recognize the depth of the truth and relationship between these two quotes.

“He enters free, he who has known the prison walls.  He passes into light with open eyes, he who for aeons long has groped the darkened corridor.  He passes on his way, he who has stood for ages before a fast closed door.

He speaks with power the Word which opens wide the Gate of Life.  He stands before the Angel and takes away his sword, releasing thus the Angel unto a higher task.  He himself guards the doorway into the Holy Place.

He died.  He entered the strife.  He learnt the way of service.  He stands before the door.” EP II, p. 174

The probationary initiate entering and walking the path of initiation knows that the degree of success in the developing of an increased capacity to serve is through the unfolding of the centres and that the holding of this capacity will be due initially to an increased ability to demonstrate freedom from the claims and demands of the personality. When this is not the case, the center unfolding process is significantly slowed down and/or stopped in certain ways.   The spiritual life unfoldment – fast, slow, or non-existent as depicted in these age related cycles and is a stark reflection of this “secret” particularly as it applies to the initiatory processes. It is easy to see that this is necessary to adhere to the Law of Repulse.

The secret of the third initiation is the demonstration of complete freedom from the claims and demands of the personality.  It does not involve the achievement of a completely perfect expression of the spiritual life, but it does indicate that the service of the initiate and his life demonstration—regarded in a broad and general way, from the angle of the life-tendency and of entire dedication to humanity—remains untouched by the limitations, still existent, of the personal lower self. RI, pp.44-45

Anyone who consciously discovers and owns this rule or “secret” at the any age can demonstrate in their livingness upon the physical plane all five initiations in that same life if their health and fortitude is strong enough. Unfortunately, we rarely discover the simplicity of this until many failures bring it to light and as such one’s movement is causatively connected to such awareness.  It is truly based only upon our use of the personality will or in a truer sense – how much we care.  This is a significant learning and reflection upon this will save one many a retracing of their earlier work and minimize their group related karma. The imperfections and personality karma that follows one into each life should not be allowed to sidetrack the probationary initiate of continuous creating the necessary psychic freedom form identifications required to daily ascend.

First, the disciple has definitely to cease identifying himself with either his own human personality and processes or with the human kingdom, prior to taking initiation. His emphasis is, for the future, to be upon the spiritual soul and the fifth kingdom in nature; in Sagittarius he begins to express this first stage. This involves a complete withdrawal, in the personality sense, from the form side of life. This again entails (at a certain point of crisis) a point of balance. EA, p. 192

This is a significant point made in the quote above. All initiations also require, at certain junctures, the temporary seclusion from both the personality and the human kingdom.  This is highly problematic in our culture as seclusion has to be planned for normally and careers have to be put aside temporarily to progress through an initiatory preparation and endeavor. These periods take several weeks of centre preparation and other soul guidance preparations. If you do not belong to some religious order finding a suitable location with minimal resources is potentially very risky to physical survival given karmic circumstances which differ with each. In other words, trust in the unknown graces and seek to understand the science of the path and all will be well.

We are basically implying the end of second phase of the second initiation cycle and thus the “secret of the third initiation” and “complete freedom from the claims and demands of the personality” technically apply.  If one can keep free from these demands, then they will be able to complete the third and basically the fourth initiation requirements this same life.  This is seemingly a noticeably short time if one assumes this was the first life devoted to serving in this capacity.   The focused process of adhering to this rule precipitates one into probationary initiate status after the second initiation into conscious accepted discipleship status once this rule is adhered to on the head, heart, and throat centre levels per present understandings.

The term Accepted Discipleship has two levels of interpretation in the teachings. The first or lower level is where it covers the stage of taking the first and the second initiations and relates to a Master’s Ashram. The higher level is those that have been accepted into the One Ashram of Sanat Kumara at the third initiation. It is used herein normally in its higher sense or once training is consciously undertaken on the path of initiation beginning with the third initiation through the assistance of the ashramic ray groups where daily contemplation is undertaken. The Law of Repulse needs to be brought into play before the path of initiation or the path of will can be discovered and walked.

Two things determine the rapidity with which he can—upon the Path of Discipleship—bring the Law of Repulse into play.  One is the quality of his motive.  Only the desire to serve is adequate to bring about the necessary reorientation and subjection to the new technique of living.  The other is his willingness, at all costs, to be obedient to the light which is in him and around him.  Service and obedience are the great methods of release, and constitute the underlying causes which will bring the Law of Repulse into play, thus aiding the aspirant to attain the longed-for liberation.  Service releases him from his own thought life and self-determination.  Obedience to his own soul integrates him into the larger whole, wherein his own desires and urges are negated in the interest of the wider life of humanity and of God Himself.  God is the Great Server and expresses His divine life through the Love of His heart for humanity. EP II, Pg. 157-158

When the third initiation is taken, this law will begin to hold the dominant place in the ruling of the life. EP II, Pg. 161

It is easy to see how this “secret” more related to the Law of Repulsion in respect to form repulsion and the Law of Repulse support each other and is the reason for separating us from our earlier grouping of aspirants and their creative service intents alignment and goals.  This Law of Service and the Law of Repulse process above, together, to “serve and obey,” occultly considered, produces a magical life of progress upon the Path. These two factors when prominent along with the use of the sacrificial will of the soul and the personality will is enough for forward momentum to unite with the spiritual will and discover the path of initiation.  The magical life of the One Soul experienced later carries one into the field of higher initiations. This touches upon another point that each law of the soul relates the soul-personality to a different and more inclusive egoic grouping by default similar to the different initiations.

The inner subjective focus during this forerunner period to the third initiation cycle consists of the continuing centralization of the life force and its abstraction from the lower planes but this time with balance between all things as opposed to the two earlier abstractions.  Also, there is required the conscious effort to renounce and or detach from all that we earlier identified with except for the service related capacities one is developing and their mental understandings of life, of the soul, and of the path. We are still obliged to give “Caesar” his due.

The second initiation freed the initiate from the astral level of consciousness, the astral plane—the plane of glamour, of illusion and of distortion.  This was an essential experience because the initiate (standing before the One Initiator for the first time at the third initiation) must be freed from any magnetic or attractive “pull” emanating from the personality.

The mechanism of the personality must be so purified and so insensitive to the material attractions of the three worlds that there is henceforth nothing in the initiate which could offset the divine initiatory activity.  The physical appetites are subdued and relegated to their rightful place; the desire nature is controlled and purified; the mind is responsive primarily to ideas, intuitions and impulses coming from the soul, and begins its true task as an interpreter of divine truth and a transmitter of ashramic intention. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, pp. 687-688)

The quote somewhat captures this intent but not the fiery aspiration.  It applies to all three of the first set of initiations; and is based upon polarization and therefore memory follows vibration so-to-speak per each vehicle of the personality, although it particularly applies to the second. Each vibration and thus memory must be recollected per the first set of three initiations. One should keep in mind that the testing is again applied that includes earlier related burning grounds variables and soul light exposures of true limitations that might be unresolved. This testing or ingathering of requirements is not really completed until the effective use of both the personality will and the sacrificial will of the soul to evoke the spiritual will. This is brought about through the effective use of ‘secret’ denoted above, and the act of “centralization by the soul, and the first four laws of the soul – Law of those that choose to die, Law of Polar Union, Law of the water and the fishes, and the Law of all Destroying Angels.   It was particularly the Law of Polar Union for this second planetary integration cycle completion and the will to love which requires identification. These together invoke the spiritual will, and this will united with the wills of the soul-personality and the spiritual soul seek to unite with the divine Will then the path of the dynamic field of the higher initiations is entered consciously.

As noted, in respect to the letting go of personality claims, there is also the required subjective orientation to the Divine Will and the letting go of requesting anything for the personal self except the knowledge and wisdom necessary to serve the Plan and the Purpose.  Thus, one’s livingness in the moment is more balanced, so-to-speak, compared to the first burning ground experiences but still requires an intense aspiration. Another difference this time around is the inner alignment which is significantly more manasic, occult, spiritual, and some hierarchical without the need to sacrifice those aspects of oneself that could be used in service and in fact the intent is normally to develop the capacity to better serve humanity and the One Life; thus, the need to centralize and detach from all personality needs except real needs. This is accomplished more fully under this law, this awareness of the divine purpose of the One Life and thus the corresponding decisions to assist in carrying out these higher intents or impulses permitting forward progress. The following quote captures the basic effects of this law in respect to livingness potentials.

First of all, it is well to realise that this law has certain characteristics and basic effects which might be briefly enumerated as follows:—

1. The energy displayed is dissipating in its effect. This law works as a dispersing agent.
2. When in active expression, it causes an active scattering or rejection of the aspects of form life.
3. It produces a discriminating contact which leads eventually to what is esoterically called “the Way of divine refusal.”
4. It is, nevertheless, an aspect of the Law of Love, of the Vishnu or Christ aspect, and concerns an attitude of the soul, whose essential nature is love.
5. This law expresses itself through the mind nature, and therefore can only make its presence and influence felt upon the Path of Discipleship.
6. It is the prime pre-requisite to true self-knowledge. It reveals at the same time that it divides or scatters.
7. It works through love and for the interest of the unit,—the form and the existence which finally repulses the form. EP II, p.147

The Desire of God is slowly and eventually manifesting through the three-hold Sun or three major periodic Vehicles, it is this three-fold Heart that each of our own three-fold Hearts are a unit thereof. We do move from one heart endeavor to another creating those forms necessary ot manifest these heart intents.  Over time the lessor heart gives way to the greater Heart and the One Creative Work to express the Divine Heart accomplished. All of these seven laws are sub-rays of the great second Ray of the solar Logos.

I would remind you also that as this law is an aspect of the fundamental Law of Love, it concerns the psyche or soul, and therefore its function is to further the spiritual interests of the true man, and to demonstrate the power of the second aspect, the Christ consciousness, and the power of divinity.  It “rejects the undesirable in order to find that which the heart craves, and thus leads the weary pilgrim from one rejection to another, until with unerring choice he makes the Great Decision.”  This is quoted from the Old Commentary. EP II, pp.148-149

It is useful to refresh our understanding of the relationship between the Laws of the Soul and levels of causative understanding. The inferred comparison below captures the disciple’s livingness during these cycle of planetary integration in great detail. Each of these laws leads to the successful completion of a cycle of integration and/or initiation:

Law of Sacrifice leads to Mental Understanding and the World of Phenomena mastered.

Law of Magnetic Impulse leads to Occult Understanding and the World of Effects mastered.

Law of Service leads to Spiritual Understanding and the World of Meaning mastered.

Law of Repulse  leads to Hierarchical Understanding and the World of Significances mastered.

Law of Group Progress leads to Triadal Understanding and the World of Causes mastered.

Law of Expansive Response leads to Monadic Understanding and the World of Being & Purpose mastered.

Law of Etheric Union leads to Presence Understanding and the World of the Presence mastered.

The apperceiving of the conditioning or influencing patterns of energies and forces impacting one at any one time which is likewise responsible for the appearance of any set of events must be considered hypothetical given the very many energy patterns one is immersed in and sensitive or not to.  Even so, if one perseveres and questions all things their discrimination and discernment develop over time and eventually all is known.

This great first Ray Life energetic pattern is represented by the Law of Repulse or the Law of all destroying Angels and is presently being esoterically channeled esoterically through Mercury, Sun veiling Neptune, and Saturn producing initiatory related processes (spirit-soul relationship, group consciousness, and monadic destiny opportunities) of those accepted disciples who are probationary initiates responding to the Aries-Leo-Capricorn influences coming through these planetary rulers. It has a rejecting and one of the effects is the dispersing characteristic producing a space for further revelation of newness.

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Aries-Leo-Capricorn influences but particularly their synthesis and the first Ray can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law.

World of Significances & The Law of Repulse:

…the world of significance is the world of the Spiritual Triad, which only confers its freedom fully after the third initiation. R&I, p.286

It is difficult for non-contemplative or probationary disciples to grasp the extent of the world of the Spiritual Triad. It is given that the instincts of the soul are known as intuitions and intuitions are also perceptions of the spiritual triad related directly to the world of ideas whose time has come or not. It is the given that the intuition is to the world of meaning that which produces comprehension in the same way as the mind produces understanding of the three worlds of the personality. In a real sense the world of the Spiritual Triad is the three-fold personality expression of the heavenly Man manifesting as energetic patterns of His (symbolic) mental, astral, and etheric realities.  It also can be understood to contain the various different areas of livingness for the fifth kingdom expressing the growing influences from the sixth kingdom , particularly impacting the buddhic area of livingness; and the seventh kingdom impacting the atmic area of livingness from certain points of view.  The Spiritual Triad is a unique life form from the human perspective and also from the Son of Mind’s.  It is given that the lower three methods of impression from the Spiritual Triad had to be developed during the third, fourth, and fifth initiations. Yet also, these three particular methods of occult impressions which is given as not being mastered except during the seventh, eight, and ninth initiation processes. This suggests a wider operational nature of the seven laws of the soul. Thus, there is a great breath to this kingdom or fourth Creative Hierarchy of related Lives. The fifth kingdom is also entered through the lower three methods of impression – astral-buddhic, mental-abstract, and occult impression.

The initiate in good standing looks into the heart of things; he has forced his way to the very “Heart of the Sun” (using those words in a “planetary” and not in a “solar” sense) and—from that vantage point—he becomes aware of the “Central Spiritual Sun” and the Way of the Higher Evolution which leads inevitably to that assured centre of the Most High.  The three worlds of material living and the inner world of meaning which the soul has revealed to him are now left behind; he is suddenly confronted with the world of significances, with the true world of causes and of origination, and by the realm of the universal. R&I, p.652

Under the Law of Repulse, one eventually enters the area of space of the dynamic substance of the Plan they also enter into contact with the livingness of the monad and with Shamballa. This permits the registering of the door into the Way of Higher Evolution. This is entered through the world of causes or by way of one’s alignment with the divine Will. This is experienced through the alignment of the atmic-buddhic and manasic minds. These contacts are entered into, for the advancing western initiate, around age 50 during the fifth cycle of Jupiter at the end of the symbolic influence from the Law of Repulse. In a very general way one can see also a correspondence between the influences of the cycles of Jupiter and the various expression potentials of the laws of the soul, the kingdoms, and the races.  The fifth cycle of Jupiter for the advancing disciple now an initiate comes more consciously and fully under the Law of Group Progress which initially and consciously began after the second initiation was completed. The Law of Repulse has done its work between the symbolically ages of 36 to 48 if the disciple was able to serve and obey.

He then stands before the Initiator in an intense interior preoccupation with the world of significances. He only moves forward again, dropping then the static attitude, after the application of the Rod of Initiation. His ability to contemplate significances rests upon his trained capacity to move with ease in the world of meaning (the major task which confronts all of you at this time). The objective of the first two initiations is to enable the initiate to live in the world of meaning; the objective of the next four initiations—up to and including the sixth Initiation of Decision—is to enable him to live in the world of significances. This must be carefully borne in mind when pondering upon the temporary static condition of the initiate as he stands in the hall of initiation. DINA II, pp. 419-420

The way into the world of significances is through the contemplation of causes which lie behind the world of appearances and takes one first into the world of meaning. The Son of Mind’s ability to enter into a static contemplative state of the world of significances depends upon the potential of the personality’s ability to contemplate again the causes behind the world of appearances and free themselves from such appearances in identification. The Son of Mind is registering the pattern of things in context to the Plan to be mediated.

This is the process one experiences in contemplation using Raja Yoga, Book I, Rule No. 20 when the One Soul trains the Son of Mind after they enter the world of significances.

Bear this in mind and as you ponder these six sentences (Author: formula three), try to give them an interpretation which will come to you from the world of meaning, producing a practical application, from the world of causes, producing an enlightened understanding, and (if you are far enough along) from the world of being, producing inclusiveness. These formulas have naught to do with personalities or with souls in deep incarnation, identified with form in the three worlds; they concern world movement, great and universal developments, and human progress (as a whole) towards the divine. You cannot yet think in those terms, but you can at least attempt to do so and grow thereby. DINA I, page 404

All disciples struggle to mentally understand the various formulas for revelation but without a firsthand participation in the process this understanding with elude them. It is difficult to step back or attain the altitude to see this process unfold over time and the participants involved in it. One only begins to glimpse the process once they contact the divine Will and this understanding will normally apply only to the aspects of the One Plan and related “monadic destiny” their group is responsible for manifesting based upon the ongoing workings of the Law of Repulse.  When I say “only to those aspects” it is an understatement. The group’s plan related aspects to the One Plan actually touches or includes the seven solar systems and beyond into cosmic space and all are working under the dictates of the Cosmic Christ. The breath of it is hard to contain.

We have studied the rules (14 Rules for Group Initiation) and have penetrated deeply into the world of significances.  Most of you have not, however, passed beyond the stage of groping in the world of meaning.  The reason for this is that you have not yet taken the third initiation.  I would ask you also to bear in mind that the world of symbols is that of the personal life, of the phenomenal world as that phrase covers the three worlds of human evolution; the world of meaning is the world in which the soul lives and moves with intention and understanding; the world of significance is the world of the Spiritual Triad, which only confers its freedom fully after the third initiation. R&I,, pages 285-286

It is interesting that the Spiritual Triad does “confer its freedom fully after the third initiation”. He is referring to the access to the higher worlds through the world of significances which one has unfettered soul and mind access to.  Saying this reminds me that this freedom is real but the significances of all one contacts require much meditation upon to grasp their truer significances within the larger Plan and Purpose related creative framework.

Balancing of the Occult and Mystical Paths & The Law of Repulse

At the fourth initiation the destroying aspect of the will can begin to make its presence felt; the soul body, the causal body, the Temple of the Lord, is destroyed by an act of the will and because even the soul is recognised as a limitation by that which is neither the body nor the soul, but that which stands greater than either.  The awareness of the perfected man is now focussed in that of the monad.  The road to Jerusalem has been trodden.  This is a symbolical way of saying that the antahkarana has been constructed and the Way to the Higher Evolution—which confronts the higher initiates—has now opened up.

The above quote is, in general, appropriate for this stage or cycle and also informative in explaining certain expansive registering of the entry ways into certain cosmic paths also recognized at the end of this stage under the Law of Repulse. These recognitions at the time of registering them by the disciple is normally outside of their knowledge base held. This inability to understand these experiences in the light of the teachings must not deter the disciple or create any sense of false humility or unworthiness but attempt to press on in trying to grasp the teachings with more inclusive understandings while standing in spiritual being. No other disciple not achieving this level will acknowledge its realness and relationship to one’s monadic destiny. There is a balance that we each need to find to be secure upon the road less travelled between the progressive entry into unknown areas of or body of deity vs. and the understanding of that destiny related purpose and the understanding of these progressive entries which can provide for us a way to keep our feet securely upon the razor edge path without danger. Illusion is also not accepting what stands right before you. Remember we are the One, the Plan and the Law; and it is the Law of Repulse leading to the Law of Group Progress that permits these recognitions of the truer nature of the Self.

The razor edge path can be understood from different points of view depending upon those having the necessary experiential views. The referenced view is ultimately determined under the Law of Repulse, and that it is the key to ascertain the correct way to travel which is a fine line balancing of the occult path and the mystic path. If one is too occult one is waylaid and if one is too mystical, they are also waylaid. Ultimately it is the One Soul that determines our progressive moments into the Unknown as Vishnu, or the Cosmic Christ is the Teacher of All. And if Vishnu or Ishvara is the Son of Mind’s Teacher than be assured one is balancing upon the razor edge Path at an acceptable level.

It is evident that there is a relationship or an important theoretical link between the fourth initiation and the sixth initiation in respect to Purpose and that the Will channels Purpose or the Divine Will. The goal at the fourth initiation appears to be inclusive of the goal at the sixth initiation in respect to the initiates’ motivation to serve such planetary Purpose. We can perceive a similar link between the first and the third as well as the second and the fourth initiations which we address herein. There would also be expected to be a link between the third and the fifth, the fifth and the seventh, and the sixth and the eight. From another perspective these relationships do highlight the truer patterns between the 1, 3, 5, 7 and the 2, 4, 6 or the seeking of a greater and greater balance between the occult and mystical paths. The fourth cosmic path, as Master D.K has pointed out completes this balancing process for those in need, as the Law of all destroying Angels works through destroying all paths except the path to best serve the real need one is being equipped to address.  It is the fifth great Ray through the Law of Etheric Union that permits this pathway to be discovered through the blending of the lights just as it is the force responsible for blending the abstract rays with the aspect rays.

Law of Group Progress leads to Integration (Initiates react)

Aries-Cancer-Capricorn. Will to Organize and Express.    Chela on the Thread.

The law of group progress, a seventh Ray and Aries-Cancer-Capricorn conditioned pattern, is responded to by souls as initiates producing correct organization of desire-will, mind and livingness. The key to this pattern is the development of the higher mental discrimination as to qualified pattern recognition and their directional sources and purposes. This leads to higher more inclusive contacts and monadic realizations. This is the primary law of the soul leading up to the fifth initiation. There are seven sub-levels related to each of these laws producing various levels of soul group inter-relationships. The conscious response to this law nascently begins after the second initiation. The following few discriminations was given as examples of required discriminations for a disciple but are not those of an initiate. It is surmised that the seven head centers need to be unfolded and the head center awake.

….so the man who is reacting to these higher laws (Author: of the soul) discovers that the discrimination to be shown is again still more subtle and is—for the bulk of the aspirants in the world today—still a meaningless objective.  This type of discrimination is not even being evoked.  It is that which must he shown in relation to the following subtle contacts:

1. The vibration of the soul itself.
2. The vibration of the inner group with which he is, even if unconsciously, affiliated.
3. The vibration of the Master as the focal point of the group.
4. His ray vibration, as sensed via his soul and the Master.
5. The vibration resulting from the interplay between his soul and his personality.
6. The three different vibrations of his vital body, his emotional body and the mind.
7. The vibration of the groups or the group with which he must work upon the outer plane.
8. The soul vibration of other people whom he contacts.
9. The vibration of such a group as the New Group of World Servers. EP II, p. 176
   

Please be aware that the tabulated list does not include those vibrations recognized by the initiate. The above list of entities becomes recognized in brain consciousness beginning after the second initiation leading up to the third initiation. For the initiate, the vibrations discriminated becomes much more expansive and eventual leads to fuller identification with esoteric groupings and beings planetarily, systemically, and comically. It opens up the initiate to hundreds of thousands of groups and also to the worlds of significances, causes, and being by way of the Presence or the expression of That which through the duality of spirit-matter.

Due to the needed development of the spiritual will and the relating of this will to the divine Will beginning under the Law of Repulse and the Law of Synthesis can the Law of Group Progress begin to have a higher effect in the life of the Chela on the Thread who is group conscious and has been accepted into an three-fold inner One Ashram group for initiate training due to these earlier developments and thus has been pledged and accepted.  Earlier they were integrated in the new group as a probationary initiate and progressed along the intended or recognized group lines under the Law of Repulse, towards the conscious preparing for the intended expansions of service through planetary integration, then this law begins to sway him and he learns to obey it instinctively, intuitively and intellectually.  It is through obedience to this law that preparation for initiation is instituted by the disciple. It is self-initiated. The basic preliminary rules are given as follows leading up to and after the third initiation. The rules for group disciples and initiates involve the entering of the world of significances and the world of causes and not just the world of meaning.

1. The disciple will then learn effectively to decentralise himself. This means that
2. He will ask nothing for the separated self. One can therefore easily see why aspirants are taught to pledge allegiance to their Higher Self, and to foreswear all claims of this separated self. …  To those for whom the standard of selflessness is set too high, it is neither understood nor desired.  Therefore the unready criticise it.  Later these will come back and with understanding take this obligation in the light.
3. His eyes are towards the light and not towards desire for contact with the Master. This, therefore, rules out that spiritual selfishness which has been expressed by the desire, innate and deep, for recognition by one of the Great Ones. When this freedom from the personal is found, then the Master can dare to make a contact and to establish a relation with the disciple.  It would be well for us to ponder on this.
4. He will have learnt to serve instinctively. He may, and usually does, need to learn to discriminate in his service; but his attitude to life and toward all men is a divine rushing forth to aid, to lift, to love and to succour.
5. He will have learnt to use the mind in two directions, increasingly and at will, and instantaneously:
6. He can cast the search-light of the mind into the world of the soul, and know and recognise those truths which must, for him, become his experienced knowledge.
7. He can also cast it into the world of illusion and dispel the glamours of the personal. When he can do that, then he begins to dispel the world glamours for he is nearing initiation. EP II, pp177-178

It is of interest to all of us to realize that each of our progressions, expansions, and attributes come first of all from our relationships as souls within the larger group composing the Fourth Creative Hierarchy. In effect what we offer or what another offer are forever blended and merged thus each marries each and each individual and group provides the other with its best Self. We forever indebted to each and all who has come before us and proffered their “best” with no thoughts of reward and as such is the way each of us needs to move forward in the sharing of Life and as its contributions as it is our Source of the Whole. When this stage is reached through selflessness, service and blending of the wills with the Will of the One Self then he is able to be accepted within this working group of mystics and knowers reflecting the Spiritual Hierarchy group.

The many influences discussed in this law up to this point and following this law was contributed by those that compose the three major centres of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity and to each and every one we are dharmically related.

Sacrifice, Service, Magnetism (“I, if I be lifted up, will draw”), Group Progress, Divine Repulsion, these are but the inadequate terms whereby we seek to express the divine truth that the whole life and expression of the solar Logos will only be possible, and His purpose only be revealed, when He has brought each atomic unit to the stage of self-realisation.  Then He will lead them on to the point of sacrificing that realised self so that divine purpose and will may be consummated, and the divine life and glory shine forth in perfect radiance.

This might be expressed in more material terms by saying that through the dominance of these laws of the Soul, the logoic physical body will become an active expression of His self-realised purpose.

Thus, these three major groups qualitative potentials are created in His Image held steadily within His Mind and Heart. Each are being created anew each moment through the astrological influences linked to the available zodiacal, solar, and planetary influences able to be responded to by the three-fold Sun or Solar Logos.  Each of these Laws of the Soul theoretically appear to be the organized expression of the sub-rays expressed through the OWNCBS’s Cosmic Soul Ray.

The instinctual reactions of soul (intuitions to the personality) expand over time to include all possible discriminations of the various esoteric groupings on all of the five lower planes of the cosmic physical plane. This unfolds through contemplated life and unity with all souls which potentially contribute to one’s own group service activities. This process is correctly achieved through Group Unity and Group Meditation leading to correct Group Activity.

1. Group Unity. This must be achieved through the practice of love, which is part of the practice of the Presence of God, through the subordination of the personality life to the group life, and constant, loving, living service.
2. Group Meditation. These groups will eventually be grounded in the kingdom of souls, and the work done will be motivated and carried forward from the higher mental levels in the demonstration of the contemplative life. This involves the dual activity of the life of the disciple, wherein he functions consciously both as a personality and as a soul.  The life of the personality should be that of intelligent activity; that of the soul is loving contemplation.
3. Group Activity. Each group will have some distinguishing characteristic and this will be dedicated to some specific form of service. EP, pp. 181

First, one need to discriminate the group(s) that they are karmically associated with inwardly and at times outwardly. The practicing of the ever deepening awareness of the Presence is successful in assisting one to live the dual life of the disciple. Adjusting the personality will to the sacrificial will and spiritual will of the Soul and these to the divine Will.   This assists in moving them into a more continued decentralization of the personality day today duties into the more expanded group related thoughts and realizations and agreed to duties. There are many ways this can be accomplished outside of group or soul contemplation, but it is realized only in group contemplation.

Each has to determine for themselves the specialized groups needing to be synchronized with which include the NGWS. In respect to the NGWS, it is obvious that the first grouping will be the group of telepathic communicators. All communications are through this method. This takes place through the requirements of Group Integrity and Group Cohesion. These subjectively align each of the members to their respective groups leading to a specialized Group Consciousness. Telepathic communication can and will be fo the accepted probationary disciple from:

1. Soul to soul, on the higher levels of the mental plane. This involves complete alignment, so that soul-mind-brain are completely at-one.
2. Mind to mind, on the lower levels of the mental plane. This involves the complete integration of the personality or lower self, so that mind and brain are at-one.

Students must remember these two distinctive contacts, and bear in mind also that the greater contact need not necessarily include the lesser.  Telepathic communication between the different aspects of the human being is entirely possible at varying stages of unfoldment.

The above represent basic pre-requisitions to work effectively under this Law.  Over time the influences descend to manifest through the three worlds creating change through the hierarchical relationships involved as others outside of the group respond to those patterns of thought within the three-worlds as they descend and condition substance. Over time more and more hearts and minds and wills vibrate in unison to a pattern who time has come. The individual units are held in group cohesion by their inner service related structure of thought and telepathic relationships. These new groups forming will emulate the hierarchical groups expressing more of an organic life then a collection of units. The focus is on their egoic and mental relations and not on astral-brain awareness’s which are non-existence. Each are contingent upon each and these linking’s determine the viability and success of the group purpose.

It is given that there are ten experimental seed groups (not herein listed) being formed and developed during the Aquarian Age. They involve the training in new techniques of working and communications which have been confirmed experientially pertaining to several of these ten seed groups. These groups are given as the:

… externalisation of an inner existing condition. It must be realised that these Groups are not a cause but an effect.  That they may themselves have an initiatory effect as they work upon the physical plane is no doubt true, but they themselves are the product of inner activity and of subjective aggregations of force which must perforce become objective.  The work of the group members is to keep, as a group, in close rapport with the inner groups, which form nevertheless, one large, active group.  This central group force will then pour through the groups in so far as the group members, as a group—

1. Keep en rapport with the inner sources of power;
2. Never lose sight of the group objective, whatever that objective may be;
3. Cultivate a dual capacity to apply the laws of the soul to the individual life, and the laws of the group to the group life;
4. Use all forces which may flow into the group in service, and learn, therefore, to register that force and use it correctly.

It is a statement of fact and is not in the least symbolic in its terminology, except in so far as all words are inadequate symbols of inner truths.

1. Each group has its inner counterpart.
2. This inner counterpart is a complete whole. The outer result is only partial.
3. These inner groups, forming one group, are each of them expressive of, or governed by certain laws, embodying, the controlling factors in group work. A law is only an expression or manifestation of force, applied under the power of thought by a thinker or group of thinkers.
4. These inner groups, embodying differing types of force, and working synthetically to express certain laws, are an effort to bring in new and different conditions, and hence produce a new civilisation. This is the New Age that the Aquarian Age will see consummated.
5. The outer groups are a tentative and experimental effort to see how far humanity is ready for such an endeavor. EP II, pp. 193-194

Over the years the author tried to ascertain the actual organized existence of these ten specialized groups objectively but always came up empty handed as if it appears there is no outer organized representation of these groups extant today? Even though this statement is made, it is really without due rigorous diligence in researching extant groupings telepathically. The disciples telepathic experience at this stage appears to represent only the subjective contact and training per the inner counterparts; and in most ways, are true as the outer groups are not yet in any organized formation as designed but we are only entering the beginning of the Aquarian Way. Individual human units, such as the author are being trained by other specialized groups to be a part of these ten special groups. These training groups do exist on the lower three planes. Obviously, telepathic interplay is necessary for all units of these groupings. The New Group of World Servers do exist as an organized group on all the sub-planes within the three worlds. Please see examples of their telepathic correspondence in the appendix.

These new groups are appearing everywhere all over the world.  The groups upon the outer plane, with their diversity of names and stated aims, are not connected with this inner group which is sponsoring or “projecting” the new groups, except in so far as they have a definite, even if nebulous, connection.  This becomes always possible where there are three members of the New Group of World Servers found in any one exoteric group; it then becomes “linked by a triple thread of golden light” to the New Group of World Servers, and can in some measure be used.  This great and spiritual grouping of servers is, on the physical plane, only very loosely linked.  On the astral plane the linking is stronger and is based upon love of humanity; on the mental plane the major linking takes place, from the angle of the three worlds as a whole.  It will be apparent, therefore, that certain developments must have taken place in the individual before he can consciously become a functioning member of the New Group of World Servers, which is the principal group at this time definitely working under the Law of Group Progress.

1. He must have the heart centre awakened, and be so outgoing in his “behaviour” that the heart is rapidly linked up with the heart centres of at least eight other people. Groups of nine awakened aspirants can then be occultly absorbed in the heart centre of the planetary Logos. Through it, His life can flow and the group members can contribute their quota of energy to the life influences circulating throughout His body.  The above piece of information is only of interest to those who are spiritually awakened, and will mean little or nothing to those who are asleep.
2. The head centre must also be in process of awakening, and the ability to “hold the mind steady in the light” must be somewhat developed.
3. Some forms of creative activity must likewise be found and the server must be active along some humanitarian, artistic, literary, philosophic or scientific lines.

All this involves personality integration and alignment and that magnetic, attractive appeal which is distinctive of all disciples in some form or another.  In this way from the standpoint of esotericism, certain great triangles of energy will be found in the individual and consequently increasingly in humanity.  Then too the “forces of creative life” will circulate from the “point within the head” (the head centre) along the “line to the heart” and then, with the throat centre, form a “triangle of fiery light”.  Such is the Way of Group Progress, and when this is being consummated, then the Law of Group Progress begins definitely to function and to control.  It might be of interest, if we here listed the recognised effects of the five laws with which we have been dealing: EP II, pp. 196-198

This triangle of triple light, love and power that links the threefold head, heart, and throat centres in their threefold aspects is required for successful organizing and commitment to this Law of Group Progress.

Other correlations of the Laws of the Soul for Reflection:

The secret of the Law of Elevation, its esoteric name is discovered in the building of the antahkarana in linking all units and groups threat by thread. “In connection with our subject, therefore, please bear in mind that the “threads of lighted consciousness” which we unfailingly create, and which eventually form the antahkarana, have to be woven between each and every hierarchical unit, and that within the human kingdom itself these connecting relationships and bridging factors have to be established between unit and unit and between group and group.”

The Law of Group Progress is sometimes called “the Law of Elevation” for it concerns the mysteries of group realisation, and expansions of consciousness and the part each unit plays in the general progress of a group.  In relation to the human family, for instance, the truth must ever be borne in mind that no human atom arrives at “fullness of life” without adding much to the general nature of his own group.  The elevation of a unit results in the raising of the group; the realisation of the unit brings about eventually group recognition; the initiation of the unit leads finally to planetary initiation, and the attainment of the goal by the human atom and his achievement of his objective brings about steadily and ceaselessly group achievement.  No man liveth to himself, and the crucifixion of the units throughout the aeons, and their realisation of their essential nature, only in order to offer up the best they have and realise to the interests of the group, are but the methods whereby the work of liberation is carried forward.

It is of interest to all of us to realize that each of our progressions, expansions, and attributes come from our relationships as souls to the larger group and in fact our personality achievements. In effect what we offer or what another offer are forever blended and merged thus each marries each and each individual and group provides the other with its best Self. We as aspirants to the mysteries are forever indebted to each and all who has come before us and proffered their “best” with no thoughts of reward and as such is the way each of us needs to move forward in the sharing of Life and as these contributions are our Source for all elevations.

This great seventh Ray Life energetic pattern represented by the Law of Group Progress or the Law of Elevation and is presently being channeled esoterically through Mercury, Neptune, and Saturn producing mind, Son of Mind, and higher mind organization and expression related processes (related to spirit-soul relationship, group consciousness, and monadic destiny opportunities) all of those initiates responding to the Aries-Cancer-Capricorn influences coming through these planetary rulers. It has a progressive characteristic thus producing a greater integration into its inner and outer group environments. T

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Aries-Cancer-Capricorn influences but particularly their synthesis and the seventh Ray can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law.

World of Causes & The Law of Group Progress

The world of meaning…. is the antechamber to the world of causes, where conscious relationship can be established with the Initiator. DINA II, 142

We can correctly understand why a “conscious relationship can be established with the Initiator” once one enters into the world of causes. This world of causes contains the esoteric Lives and also is composed of the dynamic Plan Substance organized in Shamballa. One is in an area of space created by the planetary Logos represented by Sanat Kumara. It is His Brain radiation.

After the third initiation he works consciously in the world of causes, until such time as he is advanced enough to work in the world of being. The aspirant is endeavouring to grasp the purpose of the world of meaning and to apply the knowledge gained to his daily life with understanding. The disciple is endeavouring to comprehend the significance of the world of causes and to relate cause and effect in a practical manner. The initiate of higher degree utilises the potencies of these three worlds of meaning, cause and being to implement the purpose of Sanat Kumara. DINA II, p. 283

Through the use of the Technique of Duality the disciple enters the world of causes. This is an advanced state of understanding and one unfolds their understand of their part in the larger plan and purpose as a monad, a soul, and as a personality.  They can only apply this purpose indirectly through correctly formulating an approved (by the Christ and Sanat Kumara) “individual framework” and only this if a working disciple in good standing. A third degree initiate is unfolding this process. This should be his major undertaking and ultimately his only undertaking which will permit him to become what he actually is or an expression of the Creator.

There is a relationship that needs to be discovered by all disciples during this period after the third initiation between ordered beauty, the world of effects, the world of meaning, world of causes, the nature of karma and the world of evolutionary creation (DINA II, page 365). Purpose is the major causative variable in being descending to manifest and its relation to progressive evolutionary creation is controlled by His or our or humanity’s karma, whose time has come. The progressive karmic cycles are either mastered and newer forms of expression are created or not that invokes a continuing dissention of life.  We are the ones or the Spirit that determines who lives and who dies so-to-speak in respect to the lives that will be invoked in our creative descending and ascending processes.  Spirit dictates all aspects of Purpose and by default the Plan. It is Spirit that provides the nature of the livingness for all of the various worlds. It is the spiritual will acquiesced to or not. Remember the Soul can only descend into or out of the three worlds through a ray karmic qualified patternistic set of forms.

…and humanity will enter into a new Kingdom and stand before that mysterious Presence Whose light and wisdom shone forth before the world through the Person of Christ, and Whose voice was heard at each of the five crises through which Christ passed. Then will mankind enter into the world of causes and of knowing. BC, page 30

It is through the development of the Christ presence within the disciple during the first stage of the path that permits him to discover that which lies behind this Christ presence and thus the reason for the world of causes and the basis of omnipresence and omniscience.

We have penetrated into the world of causes; we have to seek to apprehend the Plan as it exists in the mind of God and as it expresses itself through the love, emanating from the Heart of God.  Is it possible for human minds to reach any further than the love and will of God?  Right at this point, Divinity is contacted.  The mind ceases to function, and the true student of meditation slips into a state of conscious identification with that spiritual reality we call the indwelling Christ, the divine Soul.  Man, at this point, enters into God. FII, p.118

This is a state leading to the state of isolated unity in the world of being. It is the state one enters when in contemplation the soul is identified with the One Soul. The love of god and the will of god is reflected in the mind of god and it is this mind we identify with and all is known.

Book I, Rule 20. Other yogins achieve samadhi and arrive at a discrimination of pure spirit through belief, followed by energy, memory, meditation and right perception.

…  Here however the yogin translates himself into more spiritual and subtler realms and becomes aware of that which the self (in its true nature) perceives and knows.  He enters into the world of causes…… The second group is comprised of those higher disciples who—having controlled and transmuted the entire lower nature—make a contact with their monad, spirit or “Father in Heaven” and discern what that monad perceives. LoS, pages 38-39

We understand now how each time one enters into contemplation they enter the world of causes which is the antechamber to the world of being.  This world is entered through “meditation without seed,” or apperception which is “without judicial reasoning” and brain or causal cell memories and only the world of ideas is present as a causative pattern.

This is pure contemplation, free from forms and thought.  In it the perceiver looks out upon the world of causes; he sees with clear vision the divine impulses; then having thus contemplated the inner workings of the kingdom of God, he reflects back into the quiescent mental body or mind that which he has seen, and that mental body throws down the knowledge gained into the physical brain. LoS, page 97

The objective universe, or the unreal, is seen as not truly existing. The world of ideas originates within the minds of great spiritual entities, from spiritual lives, and the great plan of the Architect of the Universe can unroll itself before him.  He is liberated and free and subject only to the new conditions of the life of the man who has made the great at-one-ment.   Los, page 165

The Law of the Supplementary Seven is the great synthetic Law of Life or of Spirit and is the law with which the initiate works; it is this law he wields.  …  Because this is a governing law for all initiates, and because we know that the nature of life-energy or of spirit cannot be grasped until after the third initiation, …

This law is concerned with the wielding of energy in the world of the Spiritual Triad and not with the distribution or the transmission of this energy to the three worlds in which average humanity habitually dwells.  Right wielding of this law (controlling energy in the initiatory world of causes) automatically brings about activity, movement, force expression, and right distribution of these forces in the lower three worlds.  These are, under the evolutionary law, direct reflections of the three higher worlds of the triadal light and life.  Motivation, the use of the eye of vision (turned this time by the initiate functioning in the world of causes upon the worlds of human living), and the correct direction of force in cooperation with the hierarchical Plan condition all the activities of the initiate working with this law.  Clearer than this I cannot be. R&I, pages 157-158

This law of the supplementary seven process is being mastered as one trains for the fourth initiation and this process is what addresses his share of group karma through conditioning the substance of the three worlds. It is difficult for the disciple to be aware of this process happening in respect to energy circulation.  He is aware of through his identity to the various kingdoms and ashrams.

The spiritual man is he who having been both a man of the world and an occult student has reached the conclusion that behind all those causes with which he has been hitherto engaged is a CAUSE; this causal unity then becomes the goal of his search.  This is the mystery lying behind all mysteries; this is the secret of which all that has hitherto been known and conceived is but the veil; this is the heart of the Unknown which holds hid the purpose and the key to all that IS, and which is only put into the hands of those exalted Beings Who—having worked their way through the manifold web of life—know Themselves indeed and in truth to be Atma, or Spirit itself, and veritable sparks in the one great Flame. TCF, p.1237

World of Causes Revisited

We discussed the world of causes earier which I want to reference again here for correct context for this discussion:

The initiate works from his place upon that inner side. During the early stages of the initiatory process he works in the world of meaning. After the third initiation he works consciously in the world of causes, until such time as he is advanced enough to work in the world of being. The aspirant is endeavouring to grasp the purpose of the world of meaning and to apply the knowledge gained to his daily life with understanding. The disciple is endeavouring to comprehend the significance of the world of causes and to relate cause and effect in a practical manner. The initiate of higher degree utilises the potencies of these three worlds of meaning, cause and being to implement the purpose of Sanat Kumara. DINA II, p. 283

It has always been my opinion that all theory related to the science of the path cannot necessarily be understood unless first applied in a practical service capacity. It is rightly understood that an initiate knows because he works. This is a truism that cannot be violated and it is based upon commonsense. It was only after adhering to this process for many years I was able to move into the world of being and begin to grasp the outlines of the purpose of Sanat Kumara.  I did say “beginning to”. Given my knowledge of the science of path was limited and thus I lacked true confirmation to sustain the integration process Unless one knows the purpose behind the group’s creation of forms or its “original intention” as described in the following quote one will not advance to identification and apperceptive understanding Sanat Kumara’s Purposes as it is hidden in the energetic pattern of the energies being constantly organized collected from the cosmic paths within the Council Chamber.

One of the problems with which all disciples are faced as they become dynamic and constructive on all planes (as they do and must) is to avoid becoming the prisoners of their own constructions or limited by that which they themselves have created. They must learn to live with vision in the world of causes and of motive, adhering strenuously to “original intention”; they must not permit themselves to be sidetracked by the activities which they have themselves set in motion, or by the details which emerge out of their creative activity, or by the lesser responsibilities and obligations which may appear. DINA I, pages 337-338

One only becomes dynamic upon all planes over time as they persist in their daily ascension. Secondly, all self-imposed forms one composes to co-exist and serve in the three-worlds must always be kept in a correct perspective.  This means first of all that one must always be aware that these forms were created in time and space to address a perceived real need of the lower kingdoms.  But just as importantly, it is paramount that one remember that once forms are created and applied through identification that associated time and space has also has begun to be re-created.

Master D.K.’s advice to adhere strenuously to “original intentions” assume first that this is known.  In my case this was not so easily to apperceive given the large volume of construction activity of group thought-forms co-created hiding the larger pattern as always.  If it is known that this advice is paramount to success in meeting these “original intentions” as each moment does potentially represent an altered environment in some manner that requires recognition. Memory does not span vibration as the adage goes.  In other words cell memory or a collection of created forms should not role over the “original intention”. And to avoid this it must be given the status of an ideal.  An ideal that is re-embodied in many forms over time.

If one has correctly understood the origin of “original intention” they would understand foremost that its origin is aligned with Sanat Kumara or Planetary Logos particularly and can also be understood as an alignment with the “advancing point of Light”.

I would ask you to ponder deeply upon this section which we have called the Points of Revelation; they are aspects of the training given to the initiate. They are also—on a higher turn of the spiral—the esoteric correspondence or higher meaning of the words: “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” In the case of the initiate however, the heart is only one of the conditioning points of contact through which the “advancing point of light” can come. (Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age II, 1955, p. 348)

What I the higher meaning to the phrase “As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”? It can be understood to mean as a man thinkest in his egoic lotus which is the Heart of the Monad.  We discussed earlier that the heart of the Sun has two levels of meaning also one associated to the human soul grouping and another to the spiritual soul grouping. Another higher meaning is that as a man thinketh in His Monad also represents a conditioning point of contact through which the “advancing point of light” can come.  This meaning is much closer to the “conditioning point of contact” through Sanat Kumara from the Planetary Logos or the Heart of the Earth’s Monad.

The will is an expression of the Law of Sacrifice.

Involves the astral plane.

Relates to the second initiation.

Concerns the heart centre, the “advancing point of Light.”

World of Purpose

The symbol given for the world of purpose is a the five-pointed star and then the radiant heart of the Sun. The mental plane reflects the atmic plane, the doorway into the world of purpose that is reflected in the symbolic activities of the three-worlds even though this activity is as of yet a poor rendition of such purpose. The world of purpose lies also behind the world of qualities or values which lies behind the world of effects and appearances. Purpose and will can be equated. Once there is a nascent discovery of the light of purpose then the preparation for initiation can be undertaken. This purpose and thus training for initiation is conscious after the second initiation. This permits the will petals to unfold and thus begin to walk the path of revelation with all of its revealing of divine beauty, qualities, and attributes. This permits the eventual unfoldment of group consciousness and the eventual assistance by the Hierarchy of Souls. This higher consciousness is achieved through contemplation and the effort to occultly serve and obey.

It is not achieved by simply giving thirty minutes a day to certain set forms of meditation.  It involves an hour by hour attempt,  all day long and every day, to keep the consciousness as near to the high pitch attained in the morning meditation as possible.  It presumes a determination to consider oneself at all times as the Ego, and not as a differential Personality.  Later, as the Ego comes more and more into control, it will involve also the ability to look upon oneself as part of a group, with no interests and desires, no aims or wishes apart from the good of that group.  It necessitates a constant watchfulness every hour of the day to prevent the falling back into the lower vibration.  It entails a constant battle with the lower self that drags down; it is a ceaseless fight to preserve the higher vibration.  And—which is the point I am aiming to impress upon you—the aim should be the development of the habit of meditation all the day long, and the living in the higher consciousness till that consciousness is so stable that the lower mind, desire and the physical elementals, become so atrophied and starved through lack of nourishment that the threefold lower nature becomes simply the means whereby the Ego contacts the world for purposes of helping the race.

In so doing he is accomplishing something that is little realised by the average student.  He is building a form, a definite thoughtform that eventually provides a vehicle whereby he steps out of the lower consciousness into the higher, a kind of mayavirupa that acts as his intermediate channel.  These forms are usually, though not invariably, of two kinds:—

The student builds a form daily, with care and love and attention, of his Master, to him the embodiment of the ideal higher consciousness.  He lays the outline of this form in meditation and builds in the fabric in his daily life and thought.  The form is provided with all the virtues, scintillates with all the colours, and is vivified,  first of all, by the love of the man for his Master, and later (when adequate for the purpose) it is vitalised by the Master Himself.  At a certain stage in development this form provides the ground for the occult experience of entering into the higher consciousness.  The man recognises himself as a part of the Master’s consciousness and through that all embracing consciousness slips into the egoic group soul consciously.  This form provides the medium for that experience until such a time as it can be dispensed with, and the man can at will transfer himself into his group, and later consciously dwell there permanently.  This method is the one most largely used, and is the path of love and devotion.

In the second method the student pictures himself as the ideal man.  He visualises himself as the exponent of all the virtues, and he attempts in his daily life to make himself what he visualises himself to be.  This method is employed by the more mental types, the intellectuals, and those whose ray is not so coloured by love, by devotion or by harmony.  It is not so common as the first.  The mental thoughtform thus built up serves as the mayavirupa as did the other and the man passes from these forms into the higher consciousness.  As you therefore see, in building these forms certain steps will have to be taken and each type will build the form somewhat differently.

The first type will start with some beloved individual, and from that individual, will rise through the various other individuals to the Master.

The other type will start with meditation on the virtue most desired, add virtue to virtue in the building of the form of the ideal self until all the virtues have been attempted and the Ego is suddenly contacted. LOM, pp. 144-147

Some Initiation Training Objectives & The Law of Group Progress

And at the first three initiations the three circles are revealed in order, until at the fourth initiation the initiate stands before a still greater revelation, and learns the secret of that which lies within the central bud.

In all these words, “solar angel,” “sphere of fire,” and “lotus,” lies hid some aspect of the central mystery of human life, but it will only be apparent to those who have eyes to see.  The mystic significance of these pictorial phrases will prove only a snare or a basis for incredulity to the man who seeks to materialise them unduly.  The thought of an immortal existence, of a divine Entity, of a great centre of fiery energy, and of the full flower of evolution, lies hidden in these terms, and they must be thus considered.

At the fourth initiation, the initiate is brought into the Presence of that aspect of Himself which is called “His Father in Heaven.”  He is brought face to face with his own Monad, that pure spiritual essence on the highest plane but one, which is to his Ego or higher self what that Ego is to the personality or lower self. HIS, pp. 116-117

What is the secret the bud reveals? One aspect of this secret to human life the bud reveals is the gateway of Nirvana veiled also by Sirius just as the Angel of the Presence veils the gateway of the Presence itself and the bud veils the Jewel.  The Presence appears to be more than just the Monad or doorway into That, the holder of Purpose, which is the greater Cause for the world of causes and the world of being. Just as the livingness of the Spiritual Triad is the veiled gateway to Nirvana through the doorway of Atma, or the absolute for the advancing Ego.  This livingness is approached through the central bud. It is a set of doorways into the Unknown Deity from “within the heart”.  The central bud is the entry through the world of Ideas and causes. It is an orientation to another way of being and also an adjustment to this new world that they symbolize in their unfolding that leads one to necessity through the fourth initiation processes.

After the fourth initiation, the effects are felt predominantly in the initiate’s group and in his field of service; there, he constitutes a point of tension and precipitates great points of crisis.  His own points of crisis and of tension are existent but, mysteriously, only in relation to his consciousness of the group in which he plays an increasingly potent part. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, p. 585)

It is important that the disciple grasp the technical process that leads to the fourth initiation and afterwards so to persist in his endeavors towards an exacting integration into the world of ideas and causes. The above quote indicates the importance of the initiates “group” as the embodiment of the point of tension and crisis. The initiate needs to be aware of not only these points but also their effect on the “group”.  What constitutes the “group” requires understanding also. The next set of quotes captures this causative process in detail.

The groups affected by the progressive initiatory process to which the disciple is being subjected are three in number, and these effects differentiate and condition his group service, according to the initiation being undergone; it is from this angle we must study the initiation, the ray effects, and the results produced within the three groups.  These are:

1. The group in which the initiate is working upon the physical plane and which is an externalisation (existing on the mental and astral planes) of some phase of work sponsored by the New Group of World Servers. All disciples and initiates in physical manifestation are at this time members of that group, which is the focal point of the present effort being made by the Hierarchy. Through it spiritual energy from five of the Ashrams is flowing.  These five are:
2. The Ashram of the Master K.H., particularly in regard to the work of education.
3. The Ashram of the Master D.K. (myself), particularly in regard to aspirants for initiation.
4. The Ashram of the Master R., particularly in regard to the reorganising and the reconstruction of Europe, from the point of view of economics.
5. The Ashram of the Master Morya, as He seeks to find, influence and direct the activities of workers in the political field throughout the planet.
6. The Ashram of the Master Hilarion, as He supervises the discoveries (and the application of such discoveries) of the scientific movement in the world today.

You will note, therefore, the profound and widespread interest of this field of energy wherein ray energy is now active. pp.585-586

There are many programs being focused by the NGWS. One can assume that every aspect of the plans related to humanity are being addressed according to available time schedule, personnel, and resource base.  For those that can contact their Son of Mind and also the thought forms of these groups can receive this information especially in respect to their own aspect of the Plan.  All of the relative hierarchical plans for humanity can likewise be known by way of registering the Hierarchy as a whole telepathically in contemplation.

In respect to the seed groups none are yet formed outwardly but the inner group is formed, and disciples are a part of these groupings and in another life will be focusing them on some capacity.

Examples below are given of a few out of many various groupings the author has recognized and worked with either subjectively and/or objectively.

The devic healing group responsible for advancements in healing techniques and methodologies.

Group of working disciples are found in Iceland working on soul projected treatises. Four of these types of world wise smaller groups of lives are exceedingly developed and will publish shortly. More are on their way.

Several groups around the world has established a base camp organized around certain virtues in promoting values such as tolerance and harmlessness in all things and these are organized under one leader on the inner planes.

Groups working on establishing relationships between nations distributing goodwill among men and these are establishing them upon lines determine by worldwide objective and subjective feedback.

Many other groupings are working on establishing worldwide tolerance among the many to establish on Earth a base camp for the teachings to be spread worldwide and are working at school establishments.

The ashramic group of which the initiate is a part and within which his influence or spiritual radiation is increasingly felt.

There is also for probationary initiates their subjective initiatory grouping whose members are scattered worldwide and therefore they work with each other on subjective levels developing a group related form of service or services.

Each disciple comes under some radiation influence linked to one or various sub-ashrams. They do provide various types of training and service opportunities. Each of them has particular resources to assist and will expend these along with much time and energy on your behalf if one occultly serves and obeys. The goal for each probationary initiate is the development of a greater capacity to serve.

The awareness of the initiate and his ability to work consciously within this triplicity of groups becomes the major objective of all his efforts, once the third initiation is left behind.  His magnetic radiation and the expression of his controlling energies-prior to this stage of unfoldment—is that of the soul, working through the personality.  After the third initiation this radiation and the energy expressed become increasingly monadic and subject to three stages: pp.587-588

This can be understood from the context that the Son of Mind after the third initiation has realized a new sense of identity and has acquiesced to the larger monadic ray group purpose more consciously and energetically through the use of the alignment of wills.  For those that have only just begun to realize this there is all indication that they can never go backwards away from this divine Will appeal.

The stage wherein the lowest aspect of the Spiritual Triad (that of the abstract mind) becomes potent as the conveyor of ideas; these are transformed by the initiate into ideals for the service of humanity.

The mastery of this stage provides one an entry way into the omniscience nature of the One Soul over time especially as the stage is entered. There is an overwhelming amount of real group needs that one has access to during this stage for humanity as a whole and also various sub-groupings of humanity. There is a direct alignment to the soul of humanity and the personality of humanity in respect to its integration real needs. Over time there is an alignment also to the planetary soul and systemic soul and their associated “Personalities”.  This leads one into the world of causes which can be seen to be based upon these “Personalities” real needs planetarily, systemically, and cosmically.

The stage wherein pure reason, plus the spiritual will, makes him an effective server of the Plan and a transmitter, in a progressive manner, of the Purpose underlying the Plan.

This stage requires consistent contemplation for an extended period of time due mostly to the time required for the initiate to discern the true nature of their inner triadal experiences and contacts with their underlying Purpose. What one registers and records in contemplation requires much reflection as to its true intent.  One must penetrate behind the world of meaning and of ideas to the world of causes and then penetrate to the source of these causes or that which impulsed them into the world of being.

The stage wherein pure monadic energy pours through him, focussing the will-to-good, as registered by the Hierarchy, and the sense of universality (not a vague phrase, but a specific potency) upon the physical plane.  A close study of these developing ranges of activity and of expanded consciousness will indicate why and how our planetary life is one immense synthesis of ordered activity.

The immensity of those extra-planetary Entities or Lives involved is indeed vast as one touches it “within the heart” even to the cosmic levels. There are only four things denoted here concerning this enlighten universality stage. First it is highly unlikely that any who read this will understand what is meant when said that this stage is only reached once one has committed themselves surely with the Lord’s Plan per the acceptance of their own plan.  And I mean surely. In other words what is apparent commitment does not enter into this stage of acceptance but only that which can be proven and demonstrated. It is unlike all other possible identifications as it requires courageous success of endeavor of the One Plan.   Other than this there is little experience to proffer any additional information. This pure-monadic energy is the underlying cause or key to enter the gateway of the Presence and apperceive the ordered activity of the local cosmos.  This gateway is entered through the preparatory exhibiting of the necessary balance of the occult and mystic ways.

Technique of Duality & The Law of Expansive Response

The technique of duality is closely related to the sixth stage of building the antahkarana (Abstraction Stage) and the sixth stage of discipleship. The Technique of Duality can be understood in practical terms as that technique being applied in the “dual life of the initiatory process” evoked by living the “dual life of the disciple.”   The technique relates or blends the spirit aspect with the matter aspect of the three-fold periodic vehicles. This is only after the dual soul aspect has blended with the spirit and matter aspects thus the final synthesis from the four to the two to the one is undertaken. In effect it is the identification with the Whole at its various levels of being.

5. Then, in time, the soul ray begins (at the third initiation) to blend with the ray of the Monad, the life ray.  The higher initiate is therefore a dual and not a triple expression.

In time, however, this realised duality gives place to the mysterious, indescribable process called identification which is the final stage of soul unfoldment.  It is useless to say more for what might be said could only be comprehended by those preparing for the fourth initiation, and this treatise is written for disciples and initiates of the first degree.” (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 18)

We understand that the Technique of Duality is applied upon the Path of Initiation yet in actual experience it is similar to the Technique of Fusion in that the personality is unaware of this happening except in hindsight, unless having causal consciousness the majority of the time, as the fusion process is successful and the theory of causation owned. It is given that the Technique of Fusion transmutes the higher aspects of the personality ray into those of the soul after which the Technique of Duality comes into play. Ultimately, it is a process of permitting of the essential One Self to express through both the lower soul-personality qualified duality and also express through the higher soul-spirit qualified duality.

the Technique of Duality comes into play—a duality differing greatly from that to which we refer when we speak of the higher and lower selves.  It is a duality which is utilised upon the Path of initiation by Those Who Know no sense of separativeness, and signifies one wherein the transmuted and purified personality qualities and characteristics are used by the initiate in the three worlds for service and the furthering of the Plan.  The egoic energies are only brought into play when needed for group benefit and within the confines (again a paradoxical term and only of significance in consciousness from the standpoint of the lesser minds) of the Kingdom of God.

It will be seen, therefore, that we are dealing here with relatively advanced stages of human development.  What I have now to say will veil, under extremely simplified phrases, truths which will be apparent to two groups of aspirants:

1. Accepted disciples, who will comprehend the significances of the Technique of Fusion.
2. Initiates, who will work with the Technique of Duality.

It should be remembered also that we are here dealing with the primordial duality of spirit and matter and not with the secondary duality of soul and body.  This point is of deep importance and will bear most careful consideration. (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 381)

The following quote does appear to capture it the end result.  It actually implies the opposite result per now the earlier quote given the ray of the personality becomes subject to the quality of the egoic ray. Basically, the personality ray, and particularly its higher aspects, acts more and more as a qualified channel under the influences of the Egoic Ray for the Soul to express through.  It is clarifying if one keeps in mind that it is the higher group soul Ray and not the lower soul ray. From a truer perspective it is the Spirit-Soul aspect expressing through the sou-personality aspect or qualified Spirit-Matter substance. In other words there are different levels of fruits resolved by way of the technique of duality.

“The ray of the personality”, becomes subject to the quality of the egoic ray.  Those two great influences play upon and affect each other, interacting all the time, producing modifications and changes until, slowly and gradually, the ray of the personality becomes less dominant, and the ray of the soul steadily assumes prominence.  Eventually it will be the soul ray that will be expressed, and not the form ray.  This personality or form ray then becomes simply the medium of expression through which the quality of the soul can make its presence felt in full power. (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 21)

From one point of view the quote implies that the quality of the soul ray is now being channeled through the personality but qualified by the personality expression at first but eventually only the quality of the soul ray will be expressed. But, it does state that: “It is a duality which is utilised upon the Path of initiation by Those Who Know no sense of separativeness, and signifies one wherein the transmuted and purified personality qualities and characteristics are used by the initiate in the three worlds for service and the furthering of the Plan.” It would appear that these “transmuted and purified personality qualities and characteristics” are that much of the soul ray quality being expression as is possible. One should keep in mind that soul ray “quality” can be understood to depict also methods of activity.

Interestingly, he goes on to say that “The egoic energies are only brought into play when needed for group benefit and within the confines (again a paradoxical term and only of significance in consciousness from the standpoint of the lesser minds) of the Kingdom of God.” This means to me that pure egoic energy can never really be expressed fully in the three worlds but that various presented and divine aspects (gifts) will become apparent for service reasons as the need arises but their realer cause will lie inwardly on the subjective soul levels.

Per the following paragraph this Duality technique process is after the 3^rd initiation.

The result of this inflow of supremely high energies is that the processes set in motion by the Technique of Integration are completed and the rays of the lower man are welded or fused into the Personality Ray.  This itself is later blended with the egoic ray, enabling that spiritual Identity which we recognize as standing behind phenomenal man to work through both these rays, thus bringing about a correspondence to that grouping within the divine expression which we call the major and minor rays.  The rays of the triple lower nature then form one single avenue through which the soul, and later the energy of spirit can contact the larger Whole in manifestation upon the physical, astral and mental planes.  When the Techniques of Integration and Fusion have done their intended work, this spiritual Identity can work in service to humanity and in cooperation with the Plan in the three worlds of human endeavor and in the five states of consciousness, human and superhuman.  This brings the disciple to the period wherein the third initiation can be taken; then still higher forces can be brought into play and the Technique of Duality can be considered, mastered and used. EPII, pp. 390-391

Thus, the technique of Duality is applied only after the third initiation once the dynamic field of the higher initiations is discovered. The triadal vehicles are being built, integrated, and being fused slowly with the personality vehicles. Also, the top of the head centre activity has become adequate in its function of invoking or the developing of the capacity to register the Presence by way also of the Angel of the Presence. The Angel of the Presence is outside of the world of being in one sense and is the gate keeper of this world of the Presence in a cosmic and galactic sense.

This process of itself can be considered to be a product of the technique of duality and is underway in the case of the earnest initiate. This process is difficult to understand per its inner processes. The teachings tell us very little about the technique of duality.  Quoted below is everything shared per this technique.

The technique of duality, divinely understood, or the relation of the ray of the personality and the ray of the soul. EP II, p. 289

“Divinely understood” is the key concept in this quote.  One must keep in mind that this refers to the true soul ray or the group egoic ray which as we discussed earlier is a monadic sub-ray.

A study of the Technique of Duality would serve to elucidate the relationship which should exist between the two rays of manifesting energy, which constitute that phenomenal being we call man. EP II, 378

“Elucidate the relationship” is the key concept in this quote. In my understanding there is the emerging of a distinctive pattern of spirit-soul expressing itself upon the concrete mind vs. the soul-personality expressing itself through the concrete mind. One is presenting the various inner triadal worlds and the other is using this information towards some service agenda based upon its inherent intention.

Technique of Duality comes into play—a duality differing greatly from that to which we refer when we speak of the higher and lower selves.  It is a duality which is utilised upon the Path of initiation by Those Who Know no sense of separativeness, and signifies one wherein the transmuted and purified personality qualities and characteristics are used by the initiate in the three worlds for service and the furthering of the Plan.

This part of the above quotes tells us that the duality process is initiated after the transmuted and purified personality qualities and characteristics are used by the initiate in the three worlds for service and the furthering of the Plan and not before. Earlier it was pointed out that this takes place after the third initiation. This implies that the Law of Repulse has also done tis work if isolating one’s “individual framework” for contributing to the larger Plan and Purpose; and now is responding to the larger group framework by their application of their individual framework. They have effectively moved outside of their present karmic limitations or Saturn’s influence and come under the Law of Destiny and Uranus’s influence.

The egoic energies are only brought into play when needed for group benefit and within the confines (again a paradoxical term and only of significance in consciousness from the standpoint of the lesser minds) of the Kingdom of God. EP II, p. 381

Once the disciple understands the nature of the fruits are being produced on different dimensions by the Technique of Duality it does help explain why and this simplifies their understanding of this technique and stops trying to read into it something else and thus it does become clearer.

This last section of the quote normally is not understood by the initiate until they achieve causal consciousness on the soul’s own plane of normal existence. In fact, the confines of the kingdom of god refers to or relates to the body of knowledge held within that kingdom not yet ready to be distributed to the fourth kingdom. In a way it is a shadow knowledge base of higher kingdoms so-to-speak and working with it as a soul implies working with the Plan. It also implies that there is no need for the higher spirit-soul Ray to work directly through the lower soul-personality ray’s higher qualities to affect its goal.

In respect to the Technique of Duality: “It should be remembered also that we are here dealing with the primordial duality of spirit and matter and not with the secondary duality of soul and body.”  Master D.K. interprets spirit and matter union, as a union between the central chakra points or will point of the head center and ajna center. It can be understood to also depict the relationship between the first aspect of a chakra and its third aspect now fused with its second.  Or fire of spirit unifying now with the blended fires of manas and matter. This produces the higher dimensionality of a chakra. Thus, fires of spirit-manas vs. fires of manas-matter

Upon the Path of Initiation, the awakening and full-conditioned functioning of the two head centres is completed.  This is the result of the use of the Technique of Duality by the initiate.  One head centre, the thousand-petalled lotus, represents the spirit or life aspect; the other, the ajna centre, represents matter or the form aspect.  Thus the work carried forward upon the paths of evolution, of probation, and of discipleship is completed upon the path of initiation, and thus, when the rays are understood, you have the possibility of a new system of awakening the centres, or chakras.  But this system concerns only the awakening of the central part of the centre or lotus of force.  The teaching given in the oriental and theosophical books refers primarily to the awakening and right relation of the centres when the aspirant is upon the probationary path.  The teaching which I have here given has not before been so explicitly made public and has hitherto only been communicated orally.  One half of the centre, the outer half (therefore one half of the lotus petals) is brought into increased activity upon the probationary path; the other half begins its intensified vibratory activity upon the path of discipleship, but the intensification of the centre of the lotus (though the One Life controls both soul and body) only takes place when the two later techniques of fusion and of duality are carried successfully forward. (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 385)

What also is implied in the quote above is that this process is what is responsible for the changing of the centres from third dimensional to higher dimensions which is contributed to the fires of spirit. This process produces in an initiate greater capacities for service upon all planes, contingent upon the chakra dimensionality, and not just on the lower planes.

It is now easier to understand that within the contemplation process the lower centres transmuted into the head centres and a relationship is being established between the dual head and ajna centres or dual soul and personality rays producing the useful creative fruits of inner world mediation alongside of the development of the higher soul ray qualities which refer to as “spiritual gifts” and Master D.K. refers to as “existing, presented, or divine attributes”.  In other words, the true group soul ray is being fused with the human soul ray and personality rays or conditioned fires.  The dual head centre and the ajna center working in harmony. Once this reaches a certain initial stage the Law of Groups has become subservient to the Law of Spirit just as the Law of Matter become subservient to the Law of Groups when the aspirant entered the Path. All three now work in harmony under the tutelage of the One Spirit, One Soul, and One Personality.

One of the problems with which all disciples are faced as they become dynamic and constructive on all planes (as they do and must) is to avoid becoming the prisoners of their own constructions or limited by that which they themselves have created. They must learn to live with vision in the world of causes and of motive, adhering strenuously to “original intention”; they must not permit themselves to be sidetracked by the activities which they have themselves set in motion, or by the details which emerge out of their creative activity, or by the lesser responsibilities and obligations which may appear. DINA I, pages 337-338

There is no more useful advice that can be given to a working disciple. Otherwise they will falter and fall backwards and become limited in the registering and recording of the spirit-soul’s contemplations if they do not adhere to the original intention. The disciple should not get sidetracked by these activities of recording and their details in serving of others or their own personality interests.  Adhering to correct occult service and obedience based upon both their derived “individual framework” to be applied within the larger framework.”

Then later, upon the Path of Initiation, the initiate develops his tiny correspondence to the planetary “All-seeing Eye.” He unfolds the powers of the Monad. These are related to divine purpose and to the world in which Sanat Kumara moves and which we call Shamballa. I have impressed upon you elsewhere that the state of being of the Monad has naught to do with what we call consciousness; in the same way, there is naught in the world of Shamballa which is of the same nature as the phenomenal world of man in the three worlds, or even of the soul world. It is a world of pure energy, of light and of directed force; it can be seen as streams and centres of force, all forming a pattern of consummate beauty, all potently invocative of the world of the soul and of the world of phenomena; it therefore constitutes in a very real sense the world of causes and of initiation. DINA II, pages 292-293

A most complete picture of the world that the initiate needs to stabilize in. This was the world the disciple reaches but and must stabilize in.  At the time it is contacted there is normally little understanding of this necessity or even of where the disciple is basically. It is only after years of reflection upon their experiences and upon the teachings does this represent the factual world the Son of Mind entered and registered and recorded in respect to the larger Plan and Purpose of Sanat Kumara. The consummate beauty is the underlying and distinctive quality this world proffers in capturing it with one’s mind. These streams of force can be tracked back towards their originating Sources and it is this process of tracking that the Son of mind undertakes.  We enter the Unknown to make it known.

This can be understood in a faint way when the disciple realises that (after the third initiation) he too must learn to function as a duality—Monad (spirit) and form (matter)—in direct rapport with the consciousness aspect, the mediating soul being absorbed into both of these two aspects of divine expression, but not functioning itself as a middle factor.  When this has been achieved, the true nature of Nirvana will be comprehended, the beginning of that endless Way which leads to the One; this is the Way whereon duality is resolved into unity, the Way that Members of the Hierarchy are seeking to tread and for which They are preparing. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, p. 483)

Law of Expansive Response leads to a Transition into to a Greater Life (Masters react)

Cancer- Libra-Capricorn. Will to Educate and Evolve. Chela in the Aura.

It is given that the Law of Expansive Response, a third Ray and Cancer- Libra-Capricorn conditioned pattern, is responded to by souls as masters producing degrees of omniscience and greater Lives identifications.   It is given that accepted disciples and initiates can recognise the effect of this law and the seventh law, but no one else at this time. Initiates respond to all of these laws of the soul through the unifying with the group mind and its auric field. It is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.  All of these Masters and Chohans are inferred to be well established in their training regimen and thus quick escape into other “lands”.  This apparently does not apply strictly also to the higher stages of Discipleship.  It is confusing at first or for quite a while as to status in this regard. It appears one is in the aura, mind, and heart of the Master due to other members being so aligned. This is the primary law of the soul leading up to the sixth initiation. The unconscious response to this law begins after the third initiation especially once the field of the higher initiations is discovered and then it begins to become conscious. It is surmised that the seven head centers and the dual higher head centers need to be integrating with the heart center.

Quotes per the sixth and seventh laws of the soul:

These two laws are not capable of interpretation as above, because only those who are initiated or in preparation for initiation can begin to understand them.  The enlightenment which is the result of initiation is necessary before one can touch the idea behind these expressions of purpose.  We shall not, therefore, take any time dealing with The Law of Expansive Response, or with The Law of the Lower Four, beyond giving two ancient stanzas which will convey much to the initiate but may only be sounding words and meaningless symbolic phrases to the average reader and student.

“The Sun, in all its glory, has arisen and cast its beams athwart the Eastern sky.  The union of the pairs of opposites produce, in the cycles of the time and space, both clouds and mists.  These veil a mighty conflagration….

The flood pours forth.  The ark floats free…the flames devour.  The three stand free; and then again the mists envelop.

Above the clouds of earth, a sign shines forth….Only the eye of vision sees this sign.  Only the heart at peace can hear the thunder of the Voice which issues from the dark depths of the cloud.  Only an understanding of the law which elevates and lifts can teach the man of fire and son of water to enter into mist.  From thence he climbs on to the mountain top and there again stands free.

The triple freedom thus achieved has naught to do with earth, or water, or with fire.  It is a freedom, triple in its kind, which greets the man who passes freely from the sphere of earth into the ocean of the watery sphere, and thence on to the burning ground of sacrifice.  The sun augments the fire; it dissipates the mist and dries the earth.  And thus the work is done.” EP II, pp. 199-200

It is the author’s experiential understanding that the Law of Expansive Response or the Law of the Unknown relates particularly to the sensitivity to contact and expansion of the aura psychically inclusive. It also applies to those groups of lives upon the higher dimensions with group physical (mental-astral-etheric) bodies also.  This also pertains to planetary, solar, and cosmic Lives. The Law of Group Response applies to those with physical vehicles operating on the mental plane.  Please keep in mind that all the earlier Laws must still be operating and responded to by the soul to reify the effects from the workings of these two laws.

Also, on a lower level of form creation, these two laws apply to groups of mental units without physical and astral sheaths going out or coming into lower group form incarnation.  It also appears to apply to those with astral and mental sheaths but no physical due to death and those in some heaven world.  Another example is those upon other schemes on the inner round or outer round in body.

One can infer that the three-fold influence of the Sun especially as a synthetic influence as denoted in astrological influence no. thirty-five or that synthetic influence of the Sun, Neptune and Uranus which is surmised as being responsible for the author’s responses to the Law of Expansive Response as it developed a small degree but adequate level of divine sensitivity to the world of purpose and of being to related to this Law.  Saying this, various entities exist upon different planes and there are various reasons for some inter-relationship; thus, these two laws could have been reacted to by the soul at an earlier period than assigned. There are so many inter-communications with so many different types of entities in one of their three aspects that the disciple cannot yet accurately assign these various types to one or other of these two laws. Most of these various contacts made come through as soul impacted thoughtforms of inter-communications from various Sources premised.  Later contacts will come more and more through spirit-soul impacted thought-forms.

The following quotes do capture the pragmatic service value to the disciple responsive to the effects of these two final laws working on the lower three planes:

The final two laws concerning group activity can only be very briefly treated as their true significance is only apparent to pledged disciples.  They concern primarily the astral and the mental planes, and, therefore the corresponding vehicles of the group units.  A group, it should be remembered, which is functioning on the physical plane is also found in a still larger form on the astral and the mental.  Just as the astral body of a man is larger than his physical body, and, therefore, has built into its structure a larger number of atomic units, so a group contains (astrally considered) more units than on the physical plane.  The laws we are touching upon concern the relation of the physical plane units to those units who form a part of the group, and yet are functioning without the physical plane sheaths or vehicles.  The same idea must be applied to the units devoid of a physical vehicle who form a component part of the mental body of the group.

These two laws are termed:

6. The Law of Expansive Response. (Author: Telepathic communications with groups of mental or astral sheath units.)
7. The Law of the Lower Four. (Author: Telepathic communications with groups of units with inner sheaths but no physical vehicles.)

These laws only become operative in units on the physical plane which are becoming responsive consciously to those group workers who are discarnate.

All these laws, from the point of view of a disciple, need only be considered as operative in the three worlds, though it is needless to point out that parallels will be found on all planes.  These seven laws are those which are ascertained and consciously studied in all groups working under the Masters. (Bailey, Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1925, pp. 1216-1219)

This response to the Law of Expansive Response through divine sensitivity through the influence of the three Suns led to the next astrological influence (fifth major) coming in from the fourth cosmic path.  It is paramount to keep in mind that the monadic “group(s)” in incarnation reflects the Solar OWNCBS’s, Grand Men of the Heaven’s, and the Heavenly Men’s intelligent activity based upon some karmic related Purpose. The Sirian Entity can be understood to reflect the cosmic Group SOUL expression of Purpose. Please keep in mind that the sixth Law of the Soul has a correlation to the monadic plane grouping (Heavenly Man’s – SOUL expression intent) or that expressing on the second or the sixth sub-plane of the Cosmic Physical.

There is a reasonable argument that the brain conscious reaction to these to laws would be required before one could evoke the sixth stage of discipleship given the pervasiveness of the Heart.

Following the Presence into the Unknown the following apothegm was one of several intuited to capture this process per the soul’s contemplation:

02-04-03 Following the Cosmic Sound

1. The Trumpet Sounds from afar.
2. The Sound Current swirls.
3. The Voices proclaim the Ancient Vision held within the Eye Sacred.
4. Hearken One & All the White Benevolent One seekest the Presence within Man.
5. The Chariot of Man travels towards the Stars.
6. Towards the Milky Way it travels heading to the center, a bright Star leadest him on.
7. The Chariot turns first towards Pegasus, then towards Pleiades seeking the Voice that travels from afar.
8. Upwards he travels, next towards Sirius.
9. The way forward is Lost in the brilliant Light of Regulus.
10. Next, he travels towards the crown of that great being, shining from afar on the Isle or gate of Arcturus (etheric).
11. Next, he travels to that far off place where roam the winds of time—Body of Pegasus (Mental)–the place is haunted by the seven winds that breathed Spirit into Man.
12. Next, he travels upwards to the Star that shinest between Aquilla & Curpens Cauda (Atmic); here he finds the source of the his essential Being.
13. Next, he travels that Path that leads to the (Cosmic Astral Plane) to the Heart of God, this Path is trodden by many returning home–Great Bear (Archetypes);
14. Next he travels to that place hidden at the very Heart of the Galaxy, a place resonant with the Hopes of the Many, a place where the Temple is being built upon the Cosmic Mental Plane—through the isle of Scorpio one can find it.
15. Next he travels to that place in the bosom of the Cosmic Christ far above the throngs of the many seeking union with themselves-hidden by the endless clouds that act as the Guardian of the Threshold;
16. This place he seeks for many a Kalpa before again the Voice is heard beaconing him through the Eye.
17. The Lord again lifts His Triumph and the Sound swirls around him bringing him through the clouds to the Heart of His Being.
18. Here he rests for a Maha Manvantara before he again enters into Creations Desire.
19. Here again he travels from afar to be a messenger for the Great One.
20. Here again he finds the lessons needed to carry Him to the One Spirit Animating All.
21. Here again he learns that the Seven are the three and the Three the One.
22. And the One… (Received in Contemplation By H.Z.)

The spiritual man is he who having been both a man of the world and an occult student has reached the conclusion that behind all those causes with which he has been hitherto engaged is a CAUSE; this causal unity then becomes the goal of his search.  This is the mystery lying behind all mysteries; this is the secret of which all that has hitherto been known and conceived is but the veil; this is the heart of the Unknown which holds hid the purpose and the key to all that IS, and which is only put into the hands of those exalted Beings Who—having worked their way through the manifold web of life—know Themselves indeed and in truth to be Atma, or Spirit itself, and veritable sparks in the one great Flame. TCF, p.1237

This great third Ray Life energetic pattern is represented by the law of expansive response or the law of the unknown and is presently being channeled esoterically through Neptune, Uranus and Saturn producing triadal vehicle evolution and education related processes (related to spirit-soul relationship, group consciousness, and monadic destiny opportunities) all of those masters responding to the Cancer-Libra-Capricorn influences coming through these planetary rulers. It has an expansive and adaptive characteristic thus producing a transition into a greater life.

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Cancer-Libra-Capricorn influences but particularly their synthesis and the third Ray can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law.

World of Being

… the initiate and the Master have their focus in the world of Being.  They are then naught but will, illumined by love which links them with the world of meaning, and capable of intelligent activity which links them with the world of form, and is the indication of life.  But the desire of the initiate is not now for activity, or even for the expression of love. R&I, p.103

When we reach the point in development where the consciousness of the Presence, begins to unfold it indicates, first of all, that we are at this time somewhat aware of the Angel and can now begin to respond, dimly and faintly, to that great Whole which lies behind the subjective world of being, as that world lies behind the physical, tangible world of everyday life. The world of being is the world of the soul and is entered once one enters the fifth kingdom.

It was earlier shown the importance underlying contact  leading to crisis, tension, absorption, unity, fusion and synthesis or the blending of light related qualities. This occult process creates the bridge of light or the lighted Way into the Unknown. It daily liberates us from the confines of the three worlds to  enter progressively into the higher states of consciousness of Humanity, the Hierarchy and Shamballa which we can progressively fuse creating an ultimate pathway of and for Life more abundantly.

1. The Shamballa Consciousness.

Awareness of the unity and purpose of Life.

Recognition and cooperation with the Plan.

Will.  Direction.  Oneness.

The influence of the Triad.

2. The Hierarchical Consciousness.

Awareness of the Self, the Soul.

Recognition and cooperation with divinity.

Love.  Attraction.  Relation.

The influence of the Soul.

3. The Human Consciousness.

Awareness of the soul within the form.

Recognition and cooperation with the soul.

Intelligence.  Action.  Expression.

The influence of the consecrated personality.

There is a training process that assists the disciple in entering progressively and the fusing of these three levels and types of consciousness. It is through the tutelages of the divine soul operating on various levels of being. In one of the Light of the Soul’s sutras it is given that:

Since the conditions of time and space existed there have been those who have achieved omniscience, those whose germ of knowledge has been subjected to proper culture and thus developed, until it flowered forth into the full glory of the liberated soul.  This condition became possible through certain factors:

1. The identity of each individual soul with the Oversoul.
2. The attractive force of that Oversoul as it drew the separated soul of all things gradually back into Itself. This is the force of evolution itself, the great attractive agent which recalls the outgoing points of divine Life, the units of consciousness, back to their source. It involves the response of the individual soul to cosmic soul force.
3. The intensive training given towards the climax by the occult Hierarchy whereby souls receive a stimulation and vitalisation which enables them to make more rapid progress. LoS, page 52

Thus, accepted disciples are those in preparation for initiation are provided intense training and a stimulation and vitalization by the occult Hierarchy as a whole towards the climax of soul related purpose which is spirit-identification. There is also an increasing response by the Son of Mind to the cosmic soul force which initiates rapid progress once the dynamic field of initiation is discovered and entered.  One only understands this once they reflect upon these related experiences. It is only belief in oneself as deity that permits one to stand in spiritual Being and not be deterred in its potential for belonging, becoming, and being.

Therefore, until after the third initiation—as you have oft been told—there is little to be known or said about that “mysterious essence which is divinity in motion.” When you, for instance, read that the keynotes of this sign can be expressed in the Biblical phrase “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” does it, in reality, mean anything specific to you? EA, p. 388

This divinity in motion experience from the world of being is the basis for the world of causation coming from the world of the Presence and purpose. This is brought to the awareness of the initiate by the Presence of the One Spirit-Soul interacting with the Son of Mind.  This interaction appears to the concrete mind and brain initially as one is being trained through the process of white magic events and new esoteric contacts normally not human. One does not become aware of this process until they unfold the mental content with their linking of it to dimensional Sources.  One never sees it coming so-to-speak this magical co-participation of divinity in motion. The experience depicts the unpredictable nature of “The spirit of God (as it) moves upon the face of the waters” which is an expression of divine Purpose and initiates the world of Significances. It is this Pure Spirit that is our guide through Paranirvana into the world of the Presence.

The intensive training given to make more rapid progress proffered by the occult hierarchy is in practice an understatement in many ways and unless one is truly assured in ones Belief in themselves as Divinity Itself training will be unavailable – like to like. Thus, Belief is the first requirement of the Son of Mind. Without its constant re-collectedness they will also fail to achieve a stable footage the Way and training will be withdrawn.  It is a factual event, or the response by the individual soul to cosmic soul force and is the basis of all white magic.

Initiation & the Law of Expansive Response

We have carried our study of the esoteric aspects of mental unfoldment to a point where we have lifted the entire spiritual man into realms which are neither those of the soul nor of the personality; they are those which make him an integral part of monadic experience.  We are therefore dealing definitely with initiate experience.  That the personality remains as an instrument or vehicle of expression for the one universal soul in its many personality aspects upon the physical plane has been duly emphasised; that the soul per se has been lost to consciousness in the sea of universal realisation has also been made clear; that the state of being which the initiate has now reached, as a result of the six stages of conscious building of the antahkarana, has been detailed; but I have pointed out in this connection that what has transpired lies beyond what we call consciousness, and is consequently undefinable by the human intellect.  We have dealt with certain high stages of unfoldment which remain impossible to any human comprehension outside that of Those Who can function in the Courts of Shamballa.  When these stages have been passed, then the goal of all the evolutionary processes has been reached, as far as humanity is concerned.  These concepts cover our presentation of truth and of our theme up to the present point.  Further we cannot go, for it would be profitless; nor would the human constitution prove adequate to the imposed task. R&I, p.529

There is a remarkably close relationship to the six stages of building the antahkarana, the first six stages of discipleship, the first six laws of the soul, and the first six initiations. These stages are very much inter-connected also with the six stages of the planetary and solar integration process.  Each of these six has also a seven aspect that takes one beyond the boundaries of the planet. This is approached slowly over time after the third initiation. This understanding of the Way takes place in Samadhi through the progressive fusing of the Humanity, Hierarchy and Shamballa types of consciousnesses and their subjective influences.

This type of wise-knowledge is basically intended for the recipient given Alaya (one element) reflects only the true condition of those “forms” or “entities” of significance to the Chela within the Heart for various purposes. Monadic experience by way of the One Soul or Universal Mind experience is not cognizable to those disciples outside of Samadhi focussed through the One Heart. Thus, these experiences are truly not cognizable for humanity in general. This is stated to emphasize the necessity of silence in pursuing those sections of the Path that lie outside of the real needs of others but focussed on the real needs of the One Life. The purpose of this analysis is not to clarify these but more the clarification and glorification of the Path through the efficacy of various esoteric cycles in producing this awareness.

I have in these previous sections carried our theme to the point where it climaxes all that has been hitherto given out anent the human mind and its capabilities.  I have indicated the method whereby the mind, trained in meditation, and therefore soul-conscious, can—through the construction of the antahkarana—reach heights and stages of inclusiveness which will introduce to it certain aspects of the so-called Universal Mind, the mind of God, as it is familiarly called.  What I have really done is to deal very briefly with the mode whereby the disciple or the initiate can, with increasing power, tune in on the mind of the planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara.  Just as the disciple can, when soul conscious, tune in on the mind of his Master, so the initiate, upon a higher turn of the spiral, can register the thoughts of the divine Being in Whom we all live and move and have our being.

This ability to register the Mind or Brain content of the Planetary Logos and Sanat Kumara not only is real but necessary as it is an element of the group mind of the One Ashram by way of the antahkarana and the Heart of the Ashram or the Heart of the Christ. In fact, Sanat Kumara is the highest reprehensive on this planet of the Oversoul or One Soul and He is the One that permits the Initiate to enter into realms of contact higher than the Buddhic. This ability is again not cognizable to disciples who have not experienced the technique of duality within Samadhi. His registering of the Mind of Sanat Kumara when first contacted appears to the initiate not to be possible unless he is well versed in the theoretical teachings and this space is not at first recognized as such. It is truly a most amazing adventure in the world of Causation and Purpose along with its significant “players”. It also represents the beginning path of “fruit” or divine attribute integration due to the integration, fusion, unity and synthesis of the Spiritual Will of the Initiate with the Divine Will which is again only nascently isolated in some unique manner through the workings of the Law of Repulse or the first step in understanding monadic destiny.

Through the development of the antahkarana and its conscious, scientific use, the initiate becomes aware of what transpires in the Council Chamber of Shamballa; he can then efficiently begin to work as an exponent of the Will aspect of divinity.  Yet all this time we have confined ourselves entirely to the consideration of the mind aspect in its three phases upon the mental plane, and with their extension into states of being unknown to all except trained disciples and initiates.  It has been my intention thus to give a theoretical, though not yet practical insight into modes of activity and possible states of being to which you can some day aspire and eventually attain. R&I, pp. 530-531

This extending of the three minds of the disciple into these above areas of space cannot be understood logically except by realizing that these can be extended along the antahkarana through resonant vibration.  Most time spent in Samadhi is the making these extensions and over time they moved deeper and deeper into the cosmic physical plane by way of Will unification and through the destroying of all other ways.

After the third initiation, the ceremonial angle lessens in his consciousness because the higher initiations are not registered by the mind (with its ability to reduce realisation into symbolic form) and thus transmitted to the brain, but they reach the brain and are there registered via the antahkarana; the results of the experience of expansion are now definitely of such a nature that they cannot be reduced to symbols or to symbolic happenings; they are formless and remain in the higher consciousness.

…The higher initiations cannot be thus presented but will be enacted on the mental plane, through the medium of symbols and not through the details of ceremonious happenings.  This symbolic representation will hold good for the third, the fourth and the fifth initiations.  After these five great expansions have taken place, the initiations will no longer be registered as factual ceremonials on earth or as symbolic visualisations on the mental plane.  It is hard to find a word or a phrase which can express what occurs; the nearest I can approach to the truth is the “existence of illumination through revelation.” You will note in this connection that the fifth initiation is given the name of Revelation.  You therefore have a sequence of consequences or of the results of spiritual attainment which are as follows: R&I, pp. 351-352

Illumination through revelation is the consistent state after the third initiation once the probationary initiate has discovered the field of the higher initiations. Theoretically, Master D.K covers the causes for the new group initiations requirements and processes in Rays and Initiations It is an unbelievable master presentation for those that have met the requirements and secured these various experiences.  This alone does not qualify one to understand the processes they entered into as a group. It is only through working subjectively alongside of other group members of varying soul statuses and knowledge bases that training and service and proceed.

It is really not possible to fully grasp the full intended meaning of the above quote due to the lack of comparative evidence of many Initiates over the various ranges of unfoldment and it is easy to infer comprehension based solely on denotations of the words used.

After the third initiation, the whole personality, composed of the three aspects, becomes sensitive to the energy of pure electric fire or life, as it pours through the “closed bud at the heart of the egoic lotus.” (Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 23)

At the stage of initiation when complete at-one-ment is established.

1. The four centres above the diaphragm become dominantly active.
2. The centre at the base of the spine comes into awakened activity and the three fires of the matter aspect, of the soul, and of the spirit (fire by friction, solar fire, and electric fire) merge and blend.
3. All the centres in the body of the initiate can be intensified electrically at will and used simultaneously, or one at a time, according to the demand and the need which must be met by the initiate.(Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, 1942, p. 307)

In practice how can this pure electric fire through the closed bud be discerned theoretically?  It is what makes one’s meditations dynamic through the availability of pure Spirit through Atma. It might appear that it is this quality of energy that makes possible the series of expansions of consciousness available to the Disciple, but the cause lies elsewhere through the process of identification by way of the head centre. The disciple also learns he can utilize his centers differently now and that they proffer greater capacities or powers.  They are also in effect moving into a greater dimensionality after the third initiation which permits these increased “powers” or capacities by way of the group Angel of the Presence and the Presence of the Master’s Aura and the Group’s Aura.  The centres in each of the three vehicles are required to become fourth dimensional for the third initiation as well as the three tiers of petals open at some high percentage.  At what percentage open it was not given but a reasonable guess is 90-95% open.  Even the minor centres can now be utilized also in service way differently than before. Minority centres interface with localized major centres.

So much of human thought anent religion is concerned with the light of knowledge; the reason for this is that the first “great lighted area” which the initiate can grasp is the “circle of the Mind of God,” as it expresses itself in the living, active state of the planetary consciousness. There is a point in the initiate process when the initiate becomes aware—in a manner which I cannot or may not explain to you—of the light as it blazed forth at the consummation of the previous solar system; to it we give the inadequate name of the “light of the intelligence.” It is really the light of what we call the light of the anima mundi; in this initiate experience the light of the Kingdom of Souls is added to that light. At a later initiation there comes a point of revelation where the initiate perceives and records as a definite revelation the “light of the divine Purpose,” and this happens in such a way that the light of the divine Mind or the divine Intelligence becomes available for this increased enlightenment and informing. When this takes place, a point is reached wherein the intelligence and its various phases as known to him hitherto, drops below the threshold of consciousness and becomes instinctual, irrevocable habit, but is no longer a major preoccupation. The “light of love” which flows from the Heart of God (and—from the angle of the solar system—from the Heart of the Sun) supersedes the light which has hitherto enlightened his way. At that point of revelation (again speaking symbolically), he realises for the first time a threefold “lighted relation”: a triangle composed of the light of the Spiritual Triad, of a light which is streaming forth from the “Heart of the Sun,” and of a steadily burning light which glows from the cosmic physical plane. As he has penetrated into the higher stages of the Path of Initiation, he has moved forward into a light which has been revealed to him by the use of the triple light of his personality and the threefold light of his soul which (when blended) represent two great lights; as he moves forward again, he now blends with these lights the triple light of the Spiritual Triad; and the union of all these lights reveals a light and lights which are extra-planetary. DINA II, pp. 436-437

This quote captures a post third initiation process that explains much to those undergoing the blending of these various lights: triple light of the personality (Light of Intelligence); triple light of the soul (Light of the Fifth Kingdom), triple light of the spiritual triad (Light of Purpose).  These nine-fold blended lights reveal: light of love from the Heart of God and the Heart of the Sun plus the light from the cosmic physical, astral, and mental planes. Thus, five sets of Lights all polarized within the initiate to expose those lights which are extra-planetary. The use and fruits of these blended lights is what permits the disciple to more adequate serve.  The blending of these five sets or fifteen (the no. of a Kumara) types of types of light is the best explanation the author has come across to explain the symbolic and functional use of the five-pointed star and its relationship to all white magic. The symbol given for the world of purpose is the five-pointed star plus a radiant the heart of the Sun. This might be practically understood as the One Cosmic Spirit-Soul working or creating through the seven-fold livingness of the Monads on the lower five cosmic physical planes.

A man can truly meditate when he begins to use the mind, the reflection of the will aspect, and employs it in its three aspects: (1) as initiating his entrance into the world of souls, (2) as conditioning his personality life and (3) as enforcing and eventually bringing about a full expression of soul purpose. EA, pp.615-616

The act of conjoined contemplation, the act of occult obedience, and the act of true service fulfills these three requirements. It is these which prepare the disciple for initiation while at the same time makes him an initiate as he transverses through the inner worlds one by one – the world of meaning, the world of significances, the world of causation, the world of being and the world of the Presence.  It is the Ray type of the Soul that expresses the particular type of “Will” which will correctly express when these three aspects are employed by the mind. In my case it is the Will to Act or Liberate of Ray Five towards the ultimate Will to Evolve or Educate of Ray Three.

Any virtuous man can reach by Niljorngonsum (“meditation by self-perception”), (Author: A pathway to Nirvana) the intuitive comprehension of the four Truths, without either belonging to a monastic order or having been initiated. In this case it is a heresy to maintain that the visions which may arise in consequence of such mediation, or Vishnu, (internal knowledge), are not susceptible to errors, for they are. Alaya alone having an absolute and eternal existence can alone have absolute Knowledge; even the Initiate, in his Nirmanakaya body may commit an occasional mistake in accepting the false for the true in his explorations of the “Causeless”, World.  The Dharmakaya Bodhisattva is alone infallible, when in real Samadhi. Alaya……..can reflect only its reflection–not Itself. SD, V.5, p402-403

The disciple, once they are able to unfold and embody to some degree the particular substance of the Atmic plane then this substance permits identification with the One Consciousness of the One Substance containing all-knowledge. This is so once one’s conceptual knowledge and wisdom base is represented by or inclusive of this level of group inclusiveness, group apperception consciousness and group Spiritual Will. This universal realization will be experienced through the clear cold light innate to the substance of the buddhic plane.

A doctrine of Raya Yoga; also, Dharmakaya carries the initiate to Nirvana –entry into, and Paranirvana – through the cosmic paths.  It is at the third initiation that this possibility is envisioned through the successful application of the Will to Act or implement or fuse the dualities which carries one in an expanding and identifying state of liberation through points of tension, unity, and fusion and which also represents the first real step in the overcoming of death and the open door of Nirvana through the Law of Synthesis or Law of Spirit.

From early on in the probationary initiate’s life those group related Sources were devic and human but mostly human; and on occasions non-human and non-devic group sources on various dimensions associated with healing, teachings, and the Plan. Once one begins to integrate their triadal vehicle they have access to seemingly an infinite wise-knowledge base throughout the past, present, and future, as well as a growing intuitive base from the Now. And as you might realize it is never really possible to record all of this information or record it perfectly or accurately given the necessary use of symbolic language and time restraints linked to the brain.   Also given the great variety of sources available on any one topic one can never fully reify any one thought-form fully most of the time if these co-created or soul impacted and dynamic thoughtforms contained more than a few hundred concepts.

This aligning process and recording process in response to the soul’s contemplations can represent the majority of one’s waking personality time.  The fruits of the Son of Mind’s contemplations are rather endless. The focus of service should not be forgotten otherwise the disciple can become sidetracked by the recording of endless wise-knowledge. Information for its own sake is not the goal. Gift development along one’s destiny line needs to be prioritized and one’s individual soul plan and purpose needs to be aligned with one’s initiation grouping and the Hierarchy’s.

It will become increasingly apparent to you that the entire life of a disciple becomes one of reflective meditation. Meditation forms may at some point of unfoldment drop away, but the habit of meditation will become a permanent and considered habit and will know finally no termination; when that point is reached, the idea of direction will take on divine significance. Here is a second hint on the same theme. You will recollect that in my last Instruction the whole subject of meditation was summarised for you as follows:

1. A preliminary stage wherein the theme of meditation was recognised.
2. Receptivity in attitude, so that the possible and esoteric teaching may be recognised and absorbed.
3. The transmission of ideas in some form or another to the brain after they have been registered by the mind in the form of seed thoughts, hints or presented themes and concepts.
4. The deliberate focussing of thought upon these ideas.
5. As these ideas are considered and developed, they are subjected to analysis and take shape eventually as created thoughtforms.
6. They are then subjected to a process of unification through the conscious and constant use of a mantram.

If this outline for thinking is carefully considered, it will be apparent to you that it is suitable for all true thought processes, all mental moods, and all analysis and application of occult hints. I wanted you to realise the essential simplicity of all divine processes and to note the ultimate fact that such processes culminate in a spiritual identification, proving past all controversy that separateness is fundamentally non-existent. DINA II, pp.303-304

The meditation process is the cause for form relationships and events in a disciple’s life, but it takes some time before he actually realizes that he is the creator of his path.  This is an extension of the idea of energy follows thought. The life through spirit becomes “magical” with new contacts almost daily which requires an effective discrimination as to their true purpose given there is little time to meditate on that which was is not fully recorded on paper due to the extensive number of related concepts.  Purpose can also be understood to be reflective of group contacts and activity within an area of space.

During the initiatory process preceding the third initiation, the mind works in a new manner.  Its transmuting work with the physical body has been accomplished; its transforming work with the emotional nature has been successful, and now its transfiguring work with the personality as a whole is carried forward, making the initiation of the Transfiguration possible.  It is of value to the student to consider these three activities of the mind.  The transmuting agent in the first case is the lower or concrete mind; the transforming agent is the soul, whilst the transfiguring agent is the Spiritual Triad, working through the higher or abstract mind.  You will here note the wonderful synthesis of the spiritual work.  When this work is concluded, you have the initiation of the third degree made possible.  This produces impelling and new contacts.  It should here be remembered that when I use the word “new” I mean that which is new in consciousness, for the basic synthesis and fundamental relationship always exists in factual recognition, but is only progressively realised by the evolving spiritual man. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, p. 598)

Disciples are aware of their many alignment limitations and adjustments are always needed to increase the effective capacity of the aligned wills – spiritual, sacrificial, and personal with the Divine Will.  But the success of these alignments produces a sense of being overwhelmed by the constant expanding and polarizing into a new area of awareness with new expanded isolated experiences of the omnipresence and omniscience divinity.

How does “the omnipresence of God throughout nature, and therefore throughout the entire personality life of the initiate” manifest in respect to the disciple’s experiences?  It appears to be related to the alignment with the Word descended through the head center into the Alta Major bringing the reality of deity manifesting everywhere through everything. In respect to, “The omniscience of the divine Whole is also brought home to the initiate through the medium of the clear cold light, and the phases of “isolated experience,” as it is sometimes occultly called, is forever ended, “does begin to gradually deepen one’s state of spirit-soul-personality fusion, unity and synthesis processes.  Along with this omnipresence the disciple has the growing omniscience and the appearance of being able to access all knowledge which became available according to their ability to interpret it or understand it. This becomes radically increased with contemplation over time.   Omniscience is an effect of blending and fusing of the five-fold minds.  This omniscience increases over time through the active use of the three-fold triadal minds thus penetrating eventually the Mind of God.  There is also a correlation with the development of the manasic, buddhic, and atmic microcosm senses. The more the Son of Mind is identified with Ishvara or the One Soul the more knowledge of all types become available.  In fact, the embodying of omnipresence and omniscience represents in a way the height of the experiential fruits once the field of the higher initiations is entered.

This process of entering the world of significances paralleled the development of omnipresence and omniscience. The process of mastering the world of meaning appeared to be mastered in a moment of time in hindsight and when culminated permits entry into the world of being.

The quote below is exceedingly illuminating as to the relationship between one’s conscious gathering of the inner lights of the Spiritual Triad over time in the contemplation process and effect of the conscious gathering the triadal light. The effect is the slow absorption by the sheaths alchemically over time producing the unfoldment of the microcosmic senses. This is really due to astrological related influences.

These types of causative knowingness are only owned as one takes the time to reflect upon their experiences periodically. In respect to the Science of the Path.  This refection process permits a quicker absorption of the light, and thus integration, and a speedier transition to the greater Life. This reflection process appears to be of little value in manifesting one’s part of the Plan, but this is only an appearance based upon the personality’s three-world sense of mastering time. There is great value in the shedding of the illusions of Self/self and the gathering of wisdom to know the next section of the Path and exactly where to place one’s step upon the razor edge Path in concert with the whole that enhances the potential for mastering time.  It is inferred that one can potentially master time if they are being held in the Hand of the Lord S.K.

The “clear cold light” is the light of pure reason, of infallible intuitive perception and its unremitting, intensive and revealing light constitutes a major test in its effects.  The initiate discovers the depths of evil, and at the same time is enticed forward by the heights of a growing sense of divinity.  The clear cold light reveals two things:

1. The omnipresence of God throughout nature, and therefore throughout the entire personality life of the initiate or of the initiate group. The scales fall from the eyes, bringing about—paradoxically—the “dark night of the soul” and the sense of being alone and bereft of all help. ….

The omnipresence of divinity within all forms pours in upon the consciousness of the initiate, and the mystery of time, space and electricity stands revealed.  The major effect of this revelation (prior to the third initiation) is to bring to the disciple a realisation of the “great heresy of separateness,” as it focusses in him, the separated fully conscious individual—aware of his past, conscious now of his ray and its conditioning power, focussed in his own aspiration, and yet part of the great whole of nature.  …

1. The omniscience of the divine Whole is also brought home to the initiate through the medium of the clear cold light, and the phases of “isolated experience,” as it is sometimes occultly called, is forever ended. I would have you realise what this can mean in so far as possible to your present consciousness. Up till the present, the initiate-disciple has been functioning as a duality and as a fusion of soul-energy and personality-force.  Now these forms of life stand exposed to him for what they essentially are, and he knows that—as directing agencies and as transitory gods—they no longer have any hold over him.  He is being gradually translated into another divine aspect, taking with him all that he has received during the ages of close relation and identification with the third aspect, form, and the second aspect, consciousness.  A sense of being bereft, deserted and alone descends upon him as he realises that the control of form and soul must also disappear.  Here lies the agony of isolation and the overpowering sense of loneliness.  But the truths revealed by the clear cold light of the divine reason leave him no choice.  He must relinquish all that holds him away from the Central Reality; he must gain life and “life more abundantly.”  This constitutes the supreme test in the life cycle of the incarnating Monad; and “when the very heart of this experience enters into the heart of the initiate, then he moves outward through that heart into full life expression.”  Such is the way that the Old Commentary expresses this.  I know no other way in which to bring the idea before you.  The experience undergone is not related to form, nor is it connected with consciousness or with even the higher psychic sensitivity.  It consists of pure identification with divine purpose.  This is made possible because the self-will of the personality and the enlightened will of the soul have both equally been relinquished. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, pp. 39-41)

The quote below gives a very succinct process and or goal of the first three initiations carried out successfully. One can easily gauge their point on the path in a very general way by noting these accomplishments fully demonstration each day. We should remind ourselves, as disciples that this particular life has been dedicated to basically just this type of dedication.  Just because this is accomplished does not mean it requires no effort to maintain such as one moves into older age.  It just means it is harder to hold one’s high water mark especially if one is working out in the world meeting Caesar’s many increasing demands and simultaneously carrying forth one’s service activities as the physical body becomes worn with age.

The ray energies, utilising the created form world and the “world of formless forms” (that is, the cosmic etheric levels of activity), constitute a great and applied process of initiatory activity, governing, controlling and conditioning every expression of divine life in all the kingdoms of nature—subhuman, human and superhuman.  It is into this world of active moving energies that the initiate penetrates and within which he must consciously play his part.  As you well know, the work of the aspirant today is to become a conscious, self-controlled and spiritual worker in energy within the ring-pass-not of the three worlds and—as I have frequently pointed out—to function, first of all, in control of his physical instrument, demonstrating this at the first initiation and during the succeeding initiatory processes; secondly, to control his emotional, feeling nature, demonstrating that control at the second initiation; at the third initiation, he has to bring into visible activity the mental element, and thus function in the three worlds as a soul-infused personality, utilising the illumined mind as the fusing and synthesising factor.  These things accomplished, he can—again in full consciousness—begin to be active as “a radiating point of crisis and a producer of the needed tension.” (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, pp. 588-589)

It is interesting to note that quote wording below that the subray of the ray to which he belongs is “revealed” is more like an Easter egg treasure quest searching for the one particular egg that has the special treasure you are seeking among the many hidden eggs with similar unknown treasures.

At the third initiation there is revealed to the initiate the purpose of the subray of the ray to which he belongs, that upon which his Ego finds itself.  All egoic units are upon some subray of the monadic ray.  This knowledge is conferred upon the initiate so as to enable him eventually to find for himself (along the line of least resistance) the ray of his Monad.  This subray bears upon its stream of energy many groups of Egos, and the initiate is therefore made aware not only of his egoic group and its intelligent purpose, but of many other groups, similarly composed.  Their united energy is working towards a clearly defined goal. (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, p. 121)

One has to analysis the many groups of lives that choose to assist him in his service activities that he contacts in contemplation. These can be quite varied. Together they make up a qualitative type of pattern and that be assigned to some sub-ray quality type. For the author this was ray five sub-ray. It was surmised that this was a group sub-ray of the third Ray.

After the third initiation a corresponding stimulation takes place in the permanent atoms of the Triad, leading to a co-ordination of the buddhic vehicle, and the transference of the lower polarization into the higher. (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, p. 139)

The initiate, through the knowledge imparted, is now in a position to understand his own triple lower nature, and therefore to balance it in relation to the higher, to read the records and understand his place within the group, to manipulate the forces in the three worlds and thereby effect liberation for himself, thus helping the ends of evolution, and to co-operate intelligently with the plans of the Planetary Logos as they may be revealed to him stage by stage.  He can now wield power, and becomes a centre of energy in a greatly increased degree, being able to dispense or retract force currents.  The moment a man becomes consciously powerful on the mental plane, his power for good is a hundredfold increased. (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 170-`72)

The next goal is captured by the above quotes and is more difficult than the words might suggest depending upon one’s karmic path opportunities in any one life. This is after there was the perfecting of the coordination between the soul-mind—brain (given as the goal for world disciples). This above goal is also after the coordination between the Hierarchy-Soul-Personality which is given as the goal of world initiates. This takes one up to the third initiation. Many disciples are not aware that these processes are successfully completed due to not fully grasping the details of the science of the path in tor their inner mental plane experiences in their brain awareness. This goal is also followed, after the third initiation, by the developed coordination between Spirit-Soul-mind-brain or Personality and is given as taking place through the assistance of the Hierarchy of Souls—a phrase which only initiates can properly interpret and understand.  EPII

Law of Life, Law of Spirit, The Law of Synthesis & The Law of Expansive Response

Finally there is the Monadic Flame Divine.  This embodies the highest vibration of which the Monad is capable, is governed by the Law of Synthesis, and is the cause of the forward progressive movement of the evolving Jiva. (Bailey, Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1925, p. 47)

A Definition of the Law of Synthesis is That which:

Works through the Seven which yet are One; which points to the seven ways and yet those upon the seven ways are one; which initiates the universal into the many but preserves its integrity; which originates the plan but preserves intact the purpose; which sees the multiplicity needed under the Law of Sacrifice but subordinates that law unto the Law of Synthesis; which breathes forth the many Breaths and yet is Life Itself.” R&I, p.266

All experiential contact with Spirit is factually (the sevenfold (within the One) and all comprehension of this contact is likewise the sevenfold. This is known initially through the contact with That Spirit moves upon the face of the Waters. It is the One expressing through the seven that is apperceived. The sevenfold ways of the One Life on our planet necessary works through the Third Ray of Activity.  The Law of Expansive Response is likewise ruled by the great Third Ray. It is this Law of Expansive Response that accepted disciples, initiates and Masters respond to once they enter into relationship with the divine Will and thus Shamballa or the One Ashram of Sanat Kumara on the Path of Initiation after the third initiation. It puts them in touch with the sevenfold nature of the One Spirit approached through Atma and opens up the initiate to the higher Way.

It is given that the Way of the Higher Evolution has two phases. The first phase of discipleship is the development of Christ consciousness and the attainment of the third initiation. In the second phase they tread the “Way of the Antahkarana” and the way of the “Higher Initiations.” R&I, p.522

They Themselves are preparing to tread the “Way of the Higher Evolution.” What that Way is I cannot tell you, for you would be unable to grasp its meaning; it is related to the spiritual condition and purpose of the Monad whose goal is not expansion of consciousness, but of that which such expansions of consciousness will reveal—a very different matter and one which is as yet entirely meaningless to anyone who has not taken the third initiation.

Experientially, states of being can of themselves be qualified by divine attributes and it is these divine attributes or Lives that the Law of Sacrifice evokes as the various wills are unified with the divine Wills. Such is the experiential way of understanding the three-fold expression of the divine Will animating Shamballa and gives rise to the nature of monadic destiny – the Will to Condition Life, the Will to bring Fulfillment, and the Will to Conquer Death. These three aspects of the divine Will are being slowly demonstrated as the pattern in the heavens can be correctly reified or beautified which requires all life Units to be correctly related to reflect this pattern held in the divine Mind. It is from grasping this basic necessity that monadic destiny can be approached as well as what is revealed when the five sets of lights are blended to reveal the supernal Light.

Purpose can only be revealed and understood when such right relations are the firmly fixed habits of all “points of divine expression.” You can see, therefore, why it is not possible for those in process of grasping the need for right human relations to understand more than that a great possibility lies ahead. Of the nature of this possibility only the higher ranks of initiates are aware, and towards it they strive. DINA II, pp. 271-272

Recognition of the higher Way states of being gives evidence of the nature of that supernal Light that is characteristic of Shamballa. Shamballa is also responsible for those reifications of qualified energies that define and embodies the archetypical patterns and available resources for all creative endeavors. Recognition through that supernal Light of the underlying Purpose of the Presence is provided through the recognition of the higher Way.  This is what the Way of the Antahkarana reveals. This is not comprehended in a flash even though revealed in a flash of time. Much contemplation and reflection on what is revealed over time into brain awareness is required and it is this process which produces indirectly the necessary transfiguration of the initiates triadal sheaths to produce this correct comprehension.

Eye has not seen nor has ear heard the inexpressible revelation which comes to the initiate who can penetrate into certain high places where the nature of the divine Will suddenly assumes a different and amazing significance, where the purposes being worked out in the Council Chamber of Shamballa are visioned—not in detail but as a suddenly contacted inspiration; then for the first time the initiate becomes consciously receptive to the energy pouring into the Hierarchy from the Great White Lodge on Sirius. DINA II, pp. 274-275

Here, in this simple summation, is expressed for you the process which the disciple will be able to follow when he is initiate; as each initiation is taken, the scope of the idea steadily increases, and its potency also, so that it might be said that the initiate—as he progresses upon the Path of Initiation—works first with the idea, then with ideas, then with the hierarchical Plan in a wide and general sense, and finally reaches the point where he comes under the influence of the purpose of Sanat Kumara. Then the will of the Lord of the World will stand revealed to him.

The work of the initiate is carried forward within the ring-pass-not of the Universal Mind; this is only a phrase expressive of the range of thought, planning and purpose which is that of a planetary or solar Logos. The quality of the approach which the initiate brings to the work is drawn, as pure energy, from the heart centre of the planetary Logos; it is pure love with its inevitable corollaries, wisdom and understanding. These give him insight into the plan. The power which he can bring to the task is drawn from his comprehension of the purpose of the planetary Logos and this expansive and all-inclusive work is entered into in graded sequences and carried forward under the influence of the initiate’s expanding awareness and his growing sensitivity to impression. DINA II, pp.281-282

The (2^nd) stage wherein the love aspect of the soul is brought into touch with the corresponding aspect of the Triad, to which we give the inadequate name of the intuition.  This is in reality divine insight and comprehension, as expressed through the formulation of ideas.  Here you have an instance of the inadequacy of modern language; ideas are formless and are in effect points of energy, outward moving in order eventually to express some “intention” of the divine creating Logos.  When the initiate grasps this and identifies himself with it, his goodwill expands into the will-to-good.  Plan and quality give place to purpose and method.  Plans are fallible and tentative and serve a temporary need.  Purpose, as expressed by the initiate is permanent, farsighted, unalterable, and serves the Eternal Idea. R&I, p. 50

The above set of quotes is referencing content under Rule no. 2 for group initiation per its second ‘demand”. It is only as the working disciple is able to unfold his divine vision that he can move into a greater simplification of identifying with “some intention of the divine creating Logos” as “Will to Act” or “That which is the cosmic seed of liberation. This is an aspect of destruction” of the “Will to Initiate” both rays coming through Leo. One is required to stabilize themselves within the Will-to-Good to complete the fourth initiation and move into the third stage or stage of “fire”.   The following quote indicates what permits oneself to enter and complete all three stages or make application to the three demands.

The initiate, however, works in neither of these ways, though he has acquired the habit of right contact with organisations in the three worlds and right cooperation with the Hierarchy.  He works now under the inspiration of and identification with the life aspect—the united life aspect of his ray group and of all groups.  This means that the significance of the involutionary life and the evolutionary life is fully understood by him.  His service is invoked by the group or groups needing his help.  His response is an occult evocation given in unison with the group of servers with which he is affiliated on the inner side.  This is a very different thing to the mode of service generally understood. R&I, p.67

The above quote references Rule No. 2 for Initiates.  The importance of this rule is that the initiate needs to know that they are moving into a difference set of service mandates and this is not nascently apparent to the working disciple or initiate and can be confusing as to the inner group’s intent.  One need realizes that one’s ray is also determinate as to the nature of that “within the content of the group’s united life”.  This content is not self-explanatory as the initiate group is part of a vast network of groups within the Whole. Not only his ray grouping but all ray groupings.  It takes time for the disciple to organize the vast content and it was highly confusing and not always easy to simplify inner group contacts with their overriding inter-dependent Purpose’s. This logoic Purpose can also be perceived as the quote explains such as the evoked act of service towards whom invoked the aid and this in respect to type and quality of forms created to meet such veiled purpose. In respect to the Master’s grouping. The group initiation rule and law related goals for each disciple must be individually determined.  For the advancing initiate the comprehension of their relationship to the Law of Life becomes paramount in a flash of time.

Law of Life or of Spirit and is the law with which the initiate works; it is this law he wields.  From acceptance of the laws of nature and obedience to the laws of the soul, he passes into the positive phase of understanding and wielding the Law of Life.  Because this is a governing law for all initiates, and because we know that the nature of life-energy or of spirit cannot be grasped until after the third initiation, it is exceedingly difficult for me to write in explanation of this law.  You have not yet the initiate consciousness. I have therefore had to express this law in terms of form, whereas the initiate understands it from its formless angle. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, pp. 157-158)

The Law of Spirit is indeed not easy of explanation and there is a different quality and experience between the alignments to the Spiritual Will vs. the Divine Will with the latter being more inevitable and spontaneous with Uranian like appropriation of spirit. It also more linked to a monadic group entity identified than to the expansive quality of isolated experiences which characterizing qualities of deity or higher group lives on the cosmic etheric planes.  Spirit can be understood, in an alignment sense, as composing a threefold or fourfold alignment of Wills – Divine Will, Spiritual Will, and Sacrificial/Personality fused Will. It represents in most ways the highest source yet for Master D.K.’s “advancing point of Light”.  The Source of the descending and advancing point is really appears to be unknowable and represents the ultimate search by the “Blessed One.”

This law (of Spirit) is concerned with the wielding of energy in the world of the Spiritual Triad and not with the distribution or the transmission of this energy to the three worlds in which average humanity habitually dwells.  Right wielding of this law (controlling energy in the initiatory world of causes) automatically brings about activity, movement, force expression, and right distribution of these forces in the lower three worlds.  These are, under the evolutionary law, direct reflections of the three higher worlds of the triadal light and life.  Motivation, the use of the eye of vision (turned this time by the initiate functioning in the world of causes upon the worlds of human living), and the correct direction of force in cooperation with the hierarchical Plan condition all the activities of the initiate working with this law.  Clearer than this I cannot be. (Bailey, The Rays and The Initiations, 1960, p. 158)

How it is Dharma is created in context to Purpose and Plan? It is this question, and it can only be answered by an initiate, if correctly answered will bring a comprehension as to how the Law of Spirit operates upon the triadal planes and its supervisory function in the world of causes. Once one has a glimpse of this inner workings their truer appreciation of the importance of all monads in the ideal manifestation of the Divine Idea within the Cosmic Thinker or Architect.  It is this larger context that the Law of Life will draw out of the Initiate over time and this Master D.K. calls the Law of Synthesis.

It is this aspect of the Law of Life (or the Law of Synthesis as it is called in certain larger connotations) with which the initiate specifically deals when wielding the Law of the Supplementary Seven.  The group angle of the matter can be seen if you remember that the individual initiate, when wielding this law, draws upon the united energy of the Will as the group is expressing it in “unified rhythm.”  It is by the use of the “united breath” of the entire group (as much of it as his individual will can assimilate, focus, use and direct) that he augments his own will and its directed force.  The breath, as we well know, is the life; this Law is the one wielded by the living or risen Christ, in perfect harmony with the will of Shamballa.  Herein lies one of the mysteries of the resurrection initiation about which so little has been told, and it is the very heart of the mystery of the ascension initiation.  In this latter initiation the living risen Christ withdraws or abstracts Himself and enters consciously and permanently into the great centre, Shamballa.  The resurrection and the ascension are the results of the death or destruction of the causal body.  It can be seen, therefore, how true the Gospel story is to the purposes of Shamballa.

It is the Law of Synthesis that permits the third degree initiate to discover the sevenfold doorways into nirvana and proceed into recognition of the influences coming in from Paranirvana in a spirit-energy context. But it is also the Law of Synthesis that permits the initiate to discover the extra-systemic world also which these doorways introduces him to once he can stabilize himself  upon the Atmic plane in his contemplations through fusion, unity and finally synthesis through identification.  From one perspective It is this process over time that will permit his alignment and final Ascension into the planetary head center representing the seventh kingdom or the fruit of Synthesis just as the planetary heart center is the fruit is Unity and Fusion representing the sixth and fifth kingdoms where the fourth kingdom represents the fruit of Integration. Please continue to keep in mind that these apparent assertions are only the author’s present level of experiential understandings in context to the given teachings on the science of the path.

On the Earth, the Masters have overcome glamour and illusion, and for Them no astral plane exists.  Now ahead of Them, and owing to Their freedom from these “bewilderments,” will come the opportunity to enter into the Heart of God, the centre of pure love, and from that centre to tread the way of love.  All these seven Paths lead either to the cosmic astral plane or to the cosmic mental plane, according to the decision made at the sixth initiation.  Upon the cosmic astral plane there is no glamour, but instead a great vortex of energy—the energy of pure love—under the domination of the Law of Attraction.  It might be stated that:

Path 1.  The Path of Earth Service leads to the cosmic astral plane.

Path 2.  The Path of Magnetic Work leads to the cosmic astral plane.

Path 3.  The Path for Training for Planetary Logoi leads to the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane.

Path 4.  The Path to Sirius leads to the cosmic astral plane.

Path 5.  The Ray Path leads to the cosmic mental plane.

Path 6.  The Path the Logos Himself is on leads to the cosmic buddhic plane.

Path 7.  The Path of Absolute Sonship leads to the cosmic mental plane.. R&I, pp. 399-400

It is the Law of Synthesis that must be utilized to move into the Higher Way under the guidance of Inspiration which permits the unfoldment of one’s group Dharma in service of the Purpose and the Plan. Each third degree initiate must discover this for themselves.  Each monad is significant to manifest the ideal Intent.

One can better appreciate this above quote, in respect to the world of causes, if they accept the fact that all activity descends to manifest as listed below. This is summarized into a form for alignment purposes for meditation. It summarizes the Dance of Shiva as understood through the fruits of contemplation. The sequence below depicts a causative relationship between purpose and plan contingents that is eventually reified within the disciple’s brain awareness.

• Spirit determines who lives and who dies (or whose time has come).
• Lipika Lords assigns Purposeful possibility for those Lives who are now destined to live so-to-speak.
• Divine Soul provides existing resources and Plan summations to those that live.
• Cosmic Soul assigns those whose time has come across the seven solar systems.
• Major Ashrams provide new revised Plan contingents to incorporate the new revised Purpose.
• Sanat Kumara and Staff review this new Plan.
• Heart of the Sun, in its two aspects, receives new revised Plan from the Lord of the World through Sanat Kumara.
• One Soul oversees the necessary implementation and training of those Lives incorporated into the revised Plan within the seven solar systems.
• The Ray Groups reorganize or create new programs and assign staff per revised Plan.

Law of the Lower Four leads into an Assimilation with that Greater Life (Chohans react)

Leo -Sagittarius- Aquarius. Will to Act and Liberate. Chela within the Heart.

It is significant to point out the Law of the Lower Four, a fifth ray pattern conditioned by Leo -Sagittarius- Aquarius is responded to fully by Chohans in full force and produces planetary acts of liberation for the prisoners of the planet.

This great fifth Ray Life energetic pattern represented by the Law of the Lower Four or Law of Etheric Union and is presently being channeled esoterically through Sun veiling Neptune, the Earth and Jupiter producing liberation processes of lives off of the lower five cosmic physical planes (related to pure Spirit-spirit relationship, spirit related identification, and monadic destiny opportunities) of all of those Chohans, Masters,  and Initiates responding to these fifth Ray and Leo-Sagittarius-Aquarius influences coming through these planetary rulers. It has a knowingness understanding characteristic thus permitting assimilation of the Whole within the part and the part within the Whole.

Those disciples on the reverse wheel whose ascendants are ruled by Leo, Sagittarius or Aquarius but particularly their synthesis and the fifth Ray group soul or monad type can be more easily react and be conditioned by this law.

This law is captured in its synthesis completion process by the quote below which was also shown to capture the competed influence of some triangle of influences under the Science of Triangles. This particular applies to the three periodic vehicles. The synthesis achieved by the three major aspects under the workings of the Science of Triangles produces the synthesis from the four to the two to the one just as is indicated by the workings of this seventh law of the soul (see Chapter Four). Thus, assimilation back into the transient One Self or Presence is achieved.

“Four sons of God went forth.  But only one returned.  Four Saviours merged themselves in two, and then the two became the One.”

It is surmised that this is the primary law leading up to the seventh initiation. The unconscious response to this law begins after the training for the fourth initiation has begun but this training begins once the field of the higher initiations is discovered and then this law begins to become conscious.

The Law of the Lower Four or Etheric Union relates particularly to the pervasiveness and inner-synthesis of the four-fold nature of Beingness as Life and the Heart in this second solar system and of the three-fold Heart or Sun aspects spiritually as they are universally inclusive and depict the Source of all life and essential meaning.  The Heart is able to grasp the end from the beginning as a stream of causation along the threads of Life. Life is discovered within the Heart.

This law in union with the earlier laws permits a pervasiveness with those entities who are without physical vehicles to have some type of union or relationship or communication with. This also includes planetary, solar, and cosmic Lives depending on their levels of manifestation. One form of communication would include triadal occult impressions as a form of communication to the brain of the initiate. It is inferred that all forms of soul telepathy with those not in body would fall into under these laws.

The Chohans, Masters and Initiates respond to all of these laws of the soul through the unifying with the Ashramic Heart, Mind and Auric field. It is impossible to tell where one ends and the other begins.  All of these Masters and Cohans, whom it is inferred, are all well established in their training regimen and can escape into other “lands”.  This apparently does not apply in a permanent sense to the higher stages of Discipleship or initiates not yet masters.  It is confusing for quite a while as to one’s status in this regard. Disciples or initiates who are one with the Aura, Mind, and Heart of the Master (can react intelligently to these higher laws above the Law of Group Progress.

It will be seen then inferentially, how the right use of energy by the initiate puts him en rapport not only with the higher planes of the solar system but also with those cosmic planes whereon our Logos has His Personality aspect, using these words in symbolic fashion.  The right use of physical energy by the initiate gives him the freedom of the cosmic physical plane.  The right use of astral energy gives him power on the cosmic astral, and the correct use of mental energy gives him entrance on to the cosmic mental.  Inferentially then, the three higher centres in man when functioning perfectly play their part in this work of carrying energies from these exalted spheres into the field of activity of the initiate and of being doorways into realms hitherto closed to him. TWM, p. 362

The quote above captures the amazing factual potentials due to the workings of centers once multi-dimensional and the initiate’s correct use of them. The experiential difficulty is in comprehending these higher contacts in their correct causation and purpose related frameworks. The above quote also captures one of the results of these two higher laws upon the initiate in good standing.

World of the Presence & The Law of the Lower Four

The desire of the initiate is identified with the Presence and thus for the will to good. This is the outcome of the fifth Ray pattern of the Law of Lower Four or Etheric Union conditioning the One Soul linked to the fifth Creative Hierarchy cosmically considered. The Lives of the Solar and Cosmic Beings manifesting through the cosmic Etheric-physical Planes. It is the world of being that gives rise to the worlds of beingness particularly on the lower five sub-planes of the cosmic Physical Plane the worlds of form production or being embodied giving rise to the Presence in Body. Thus, the higher initiate and Master are being assimilated back into this world of transient being in respect to resurrection and identification; and this through ascension through the worlds of beingness to the world of being and the Presence.

But, behind them all looms—immanent, stupendous, and glorious—that of which these dualities are but the aspects: the Presence, immanent yet transcendent, of Deity. In the nature of this One, all dualities are absorbed and all distinctions and differences lose their meaning.

When you are told to develop the consciousness of the Presence, it indicates, first of all, that you are at this time somewhat aware of the Angel and can now begin to respond, dimly and faintly, to that great Whole which lies behind the subjective world of being, as that world lies behind the physical, tangible world of everyday life.

This is the world hinted at earlier that is discovered in the Unknown through expansive response by way of the tracking back the effects to higher and higher causes to the Sources of those forces and energies contacted when aligned to the Divine will, Purpose, and Shamballa. It can only be approached by way of the Angel of the Presence.

A symbol of this can be seen in the knowledge that the entire planet lies outside of the room in which you are pondering my words and is only separated from you by the window and the extent of your conscious awareness. The outer universe of the planet, the solar system and the starry heavens, lies revealed to you through that sheet of glass which reveals, if clean and unveiled, but which acts as a barrier to vision, if soiled or hidden by a blind. This and your ability to project yourself into the immensity of the universe, governs the extent of your knowledge at any given time. Think this out, my brother, and look through the window of the mind to that Light which reveals the Angel which, in its turn, veils and hides the vast unknown, yet alive and vibrant, Deity. DINA I, pages 390-391

The Light which reveals the Angel which, in its turn, veils and hides the vast unknown, yet alive and vibrant, Deity is in the form of a hint.  Those that have both the capacity to contact the Angel of the Presence and also reify into their brains its guidance will discover the truth of Master D. K.’s hint for themselves. On the other side of the Angel is the vast Unknown Deity that can be explored and known. It is that great Whole which lies behind the subjective world of being. It is the Ultimate Adventure that becomes factual in one’s brain awareness as this Law of the Soul is adhered to and monadic destiny slowly becomes identified with through the mind of Sanat Kumara.

The initiate works from his place upon that inner side. During the early stages of the initiatory process he works in the world of meaning. After the third initiation he works consciously in the world of causes, until such time as he is advanced enough to work in the world of being. The aspirant is endeavouring to grasp the purpose of the world of meaning and to apply the knowledge gained to his daily life with understanding. The disciple is endeavouring to comprehend the significance of the world of causes and to relate cause and effect in a practical manner. The initiate of higher degree utilises the potencies of these three worlds of meaning, cause and being to implement the purpose of Sanat Kumara. DINA II, page 283

The advancing point of Light comes out of the world of being (or God) descending to manifest altering the world of causation giving sustenance to the world of meaning that better reveals the world of Purpose.  It is this process that the initiate has to master as he orientates themselves successfully over time.  In a real sense the higher Way in a conduit for this process of creation in the image of deity. After the transfiguration of the lower sheaths by the higher sheaths and Lights and the demands of the personality silenced the goal of the higher Way (Nirvana) appears before him.  This becomes his focussed attention as a soul and the desires and pulls of the personality forms and impulses pull him away from this vista or ultimate destination.

The initiate inadvertently and amazing discovery which is the doorways into the higher Way and those upon those Ways were never really far away and are revealed through the group antahkarana as his veils are lifted as he travels by way of fusion and identification through the cosmic etheric planes. Various doorways begin to appear through this creative bridgeway ascensions.

Any virtuous man can reach by Niljorngonsum (“meditation by self-perception”), the intuitive comprehension of the four Truths, without either belonging to a monastic order or having been initiated. In this case it is a heresy to maintain that the visions which may arise in consequence of such mediation, or Vishnu, (internal knowledge), are not susceptible to errors, for they are. Alaya alone having an absolute and eternal existence can alone have absolute Knowledge; even the Initiate, in his Nirmanakaya body may commit an occasional mistake in accepting the false for the true in his explorations of the “Causeless, World.  The Dharmakaya Bodhisattva is alone infallible, when in real Samadhi. Alaya…can reflect only its reflection-not Itself. SD, V.5, p402-403

The World of the Presence Revisited

Further, it is at the third, the fourth, and the fifth initiations that he becomes aware also of that “Presence” which enfolds even that spiritual Entity, his own Monad.  He sees his Monad as one with the Planetary Logos.  Through the channel of his own Monad he sees the self-same aspects (which that Monad embodies) on a wider scale, and the Planetary Logos, Who ensouls all the Monads on His ray, is thus revealed.  This truth is well-nigh impossible to express in words, and concerns the relation of the electrical point of fire, which is the Monad, to the five-pointed star, which reveals the Presence of the Planetary Logos to the initiate.  This is practically incomprehensible to the average man for whom this book is written. (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 117-118)

VEIL I.  That which faces the disciple as he wrestles with the Dweller on the Threshold and becomes conscious of the Angel of the Presence, though as yet he sees Him not.

This veil once mastered permits one entry into the World of Meaning fully and is accomplished at the third initiation.  Each of these veils permits one to pass sequentially into the next two levels of planetary integration.  The veils are dual positive and negative polarities and only balancing them will permit mastery. This veil permits fitness for the second and third initiations.

VEIL II.  That which the initiate encounters at the fourth initiation and which forces him to cry out in his blindness:  “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me.”  The words uttered by the Christ at that time, and as the Participator, have been forgotten by the orthodox, though preserved by the esotericist.  To them H.P.B. refers in The Secret Doctrine.

The mastering of this veil II will permit one to become fit for the fourth initiation and fifth as one enters more fully into the world of the monadic expression (Light of Life) through the clearer cold light. This veil permits full entry into the world of ideas.

VEIL III.  That mysterious blindness which overwhelms the initiate when—as the Embodiment of all the forces of the Spiritual Triad—He faces the Monad and is impelled forward by the “devastating Will” of the first aspect.  Of this I may not write.  It concerns the sixth and seventh initiations.

Veil III permits one full entry into the world of causation, being and the Presence.

VEIL IV.  That “unknown impenetrable Void, the utter darkness of negation” which Those Who are in the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World and Who are focussed in Shambhala face when the time comes for Them to “negate” our planetary life-expression and experience altogether.  They must then leave behind all the seven planes of spiritual and human experience and pass onward and out into phases of Life and being for which we have no words, and of which we have no conception.  They leave through the fourth veil on the cosmic physical etheric levels (on the highest plane of our seven planes) and pass on to the cosmic astral plane.  There they negate its existence as they have earlier negated the existence of the astral plane, so familiar an illusion to all of us.  The initiate passes on to the cosmic astral plane and finds—what?  Who knows?  I do not.

Veil IV would appear to permit one to enter into another level of the World of the Presence which lies on the other side of the world of being and creative-form Presence. It is my impression that one can enter through the Veils by way of others within His group more advanced and have initial glimpses into these realities and over time one enters fully through such Veils on their own.

A part of the plans of the Planetary Logos becomes revealed to him, and the vision includes the revelation of the plan and purpose as it concerns the planet, though as yet the vision is obscured in connection with those plans in their planetary relationship.  This brings the initiate through a series of graded realisations to the portals of the fourth initiation.  Through the entire loosing of the initiate from all trammels in the three worlds and the breaking of all bonds of limiting karma, the vision this time is greatly extended, and it might be said that for the first time he becomes aware of the extent of planetary purpose and karma within the scheme.  His own personal unimportant karma being now adjusted, he can give his attention to the working off of planetary karma, and the far reaching plans of that great Life Who includes all the lesser lives.  He not only is brought to a full recognition of the purposes and plans for all the evolutions upon his own planetary scheme, the earth, but also there swings into the radius of his apprehension that planetary scheme which is our earth’s complement or polar opposite.  He realises the inter-relation existing between the two schemes and the vast dual purpose is revealed to him.  It is shown to him how this dual purpose must become one united plan, and henceforth he bends all his energies towards planetary co-operation as it is furthered by work with and through the two great evolutions, human and deva, upon our planet.  This concerns the making of adjustments, and the gradual application of energy in stimulation of the various kingdoms in nature, so that through the blending of all of nature’s forces the interplay of energy between the two schemes may be quickened.  In this way the plans of the solar Logos, as they are being worked out through the Planetary Logoi, may be consummated.  The handling, therefore, of solar energy on a tiny scale, is now his privilege, and he is admitted not only into the council chambers of his own Hierarchy, but is permitted entrance also when agents from other planetary schemes are in conference [Page 123] with the Lord of the World and the two great departmental Heads. (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 121-123)

…the higher Way is the determining factor in the life of the initiate of the third degree.  It is the Transfiguration; and a new glory pours through the transfigured initiate who has been released from every type of grip by either the personality or the soul.  For the first time, the goal of the higher Way and the attainment of Nirvana (as the Oriental calls it) appears before him, and he knows that no forms and no spiritual complexes and no pull by either soul or form, or by both united, can have any effect upon his attaining his final destination. R&I, p.42

The so-called third initiation, the Transfiguration, is only the first major initiation, from the standpoint of the Hierarchy; it marks the moment in time and space when the initiate sees truly and for the first time the door which opens on to this higher Way.  Then—if he chooses the Path that the Christ chose (and there is no reason that he should)—he will “set his face to go up to Jerusalem.”R&I, p.327

I want discuss or summarize my own experiences of discovery of the door into Higher Way if possible.  The brain awareness of this took place around Capricorn 2003 and I would have to search notes to determine exact date. Not only were the various doors located but four of the cosmic path doors were also isolated and contact was made with two separate beings upon the first and second cosmic paths.  I did bring back my interpreted version as a soul-personality of this conversation or impression by way of a soul impacted thoughtform and also recorded on paper part of this conversation. I did not record all of it on paper, which is normal, but at the time I remember the unlikelihood of this really happening in contemplation given my assumed soul status. I am usually wrong about these types of status evaluations back then as I really did not understand the Science of the Path in many of its sections as I still do not know.

More realistically, this experience reified into a thoughtform from the Son of Mind based upon the identification with the Master’s Mind in some limited capacity. I might surmise that the master has access to all seven or nine doorways but I only discovered or yet just commented on four of them. And in this discovery utilized monadic sense to observe along the sixth cosmic pathway the last of the nine cosmic paths touched. I do not think I can resolve the cause for this knowingness as of yet. Never-the-less an evaluation of the possible relationships between these four different cosmic Paths might be revealing.

1. The Council Chamber at Shamballa provides a goal for the Members of the Hierarchy, but not an abiding place.
2. The seven Paths which stretch out before a Master are entered by the treading of the Way of the Higher Evolution.
3. The so-called third initiation, the Transfiguration, is only the first major initiation, from the standpoint of the Hierarchy; it marks the moment in time and space when the initiate sees truly and for the first time the door which opens on to this higher Way. R&I, p.327

The occult impressions being received between Capricorn of 2002 and 2003 were of a cosmic creative purposeful Presence I had not had before and the soul impacted thoughtforms can also be considered as monadic impacted thoughtforms as all occult impressions essentially are. In many ways I moved beyond the world of being into the world of the Presence. At the time I was not aware of the distinction as I am now after reflecting upon this for many years now trying to reference energies and source contacts and their qualitative Source content with the teachings.

One need to also keep in mind that one contacts along the group antahkarana not only entities of the fifth kingdom but also entities of the sixth and seventh kingdoms and potentially all of the creative hierarchies or it appears to be the case and one has to sort out these many contacts not only to ascertain the theme related to Plan and Purpose but the very likelihood one has just incorrectly attributed a contact to something it should not have been attributed to. It is far more confusing than one might imagine in fact. Furthermore there is the ashramic group mind content and contact which can easily be confused with one’s one identifications and occult impressions.

This cosmic “monadic effects” as well as the study of cosmology (many complicated charts) was most difficult to reify through Divine Vision and 4^th, 5th dimensional vison. The “monadic impacts” was more of a process of tracing back to the Source of the Presence expressing Itself through these cosmic forms or star systems in general. It appeared to include the local seven galaxies. I quickly became overwhelmed in this effort and shear amount of time to record and fine language for both the study and the impacts.  This alone would have required the remaining free time this life; plus, should I really be doing just this? Hard questions to really answer given the multitude of subjective sources. As it turned out I did choose, through a lack of correct mind organization according to the Soul, to choose too many sources to bring in and I now believe that determining which sources to focus on and which to not focus on is a part of the necessary training in discernment.  For myself, as a Son of Mind, it was the hint I needed to reflect more upon in hindsight. As a personality I had no particular desire that I was aware of in my brain consciousness. Although, the training and study on the nature and structure of the cosmos is quite extensive and it was of course fascinating to the personality mind after it was recorded.

There is also the process of ashram training taking place at the same time one is making revelation of the monad to the Ashram and it takes a while to discern one from the other which I am still trying to do in this evaluation process. As an example please reference the section in this Chapter “Mind of the Master” as it represents also another form of necessary training I was requested to undertake to better appreciate the interrelationship of ashramic training, making monadic revelation to the ashram, and Dharmic inevitabilities.

The Science of Impression, which governs the technique of Shamballa, functions through the three different centres in three different ways:

1. Shamballa…dynamic impression
2. The Hierarchy…magnetic telepathy
3. Humanity…radiatory sensitivity

yet these three are only manifestations of the will of God as it works out in the activities of His three major centres. R&I, p. 371

It has become more apparent that the entering of the ashram as a third degree initiate has been shaped and conditioned by the Master of such ashram who is preparing for the Great Decision as to how best to serve the Purpose of Sanat Kumara and opens the entering initiate to a great range of influences or dynamic impressions from within the aura and particularly the heart of the Master (or the One Ashram).

One point should here be made:  the entry of a member of the human family into the ranks of the initiates and his participation in the activity of some one or other of the Ashrams produces a movement out of the Hierarchy of some Master and into the highest centre of all; it has this effect only after the entering initiate has taken the third initiation, and can therefore take his part in the hierarchical life as a monadic expression susceptible to impression from Shamballa.  When a Master thus emerges He is immediately confronted with the choice between the seven Paths.  With this development and decision we shall later deal.  The seven Paths are all concerned with purpose, just as the seven Ashrams are all concerned with the plan.  There is, as you will later see, a direct relation between the seven Paths and the seven Ashrams. R&I, p. 371

As I inferred above that it is my understand that I, as a monad, have the ability to function in the monadic sheath using 5^th subplane matter and microcosmic sense which I have inferred is a form of cosmic vision and from this reference point there is the probability that I used this means to penetrate along the sixth cosmic path by way of higher Devic Lives to ascertain through polarization and precipitation of formation of the various cosmic sheaths being used by cosmic entities.   I realize that in saying this there is no way to verify the reasonableness of this statement except through the many inter-related individual developmental facts and experiences that also correlate to the teachings.

As an example, there is a set of reasons that need to be isolated to explain why these four paths were isolated?  What is their interrelationships to my own ray Dharma or ray group karma that I might be able to transform?

Path of Magnetic Work:

A large number of fifth ray people, those who have the Ray of Concrete Knowledge for their monadic ray, pass to this line of endeavor (MS: 2^nd cosmic path).  The inherent quality in the type of the monad settles usually the line of activity.  The karma of the fifth ray is one of the factors which produces this.  These monads work with Fohat, and must, to the end of the greater manvantara.  They have their eventual position on the cosmic mental plane, but as yet the capacity for abstract thought is so little developed that it is impossible for us to comprehend the significance of this expression. TCF, P. 187

First of all, we can see a relationship between the fifth ray monad and the second cosmic path as Master D.K. says that the majority of initiates that choose this path are fifth ray monads which is a reasonable assessment of my monadic ray and or monadic subray. In respect to the Fifth Cosmic Path many first and second ray Monads take this Path as the fifth is closely related to both the first and second ray.

The seven Paths are all concerned with purpose, just as the seven Ashrams are all concerned with the plan.  There is, as you will later see, a direct relation between the seven Paths and the seven Ashrams.  Though we shall not deal with the subject at all, there is likewise a correspondence in the third major centre, Humanity.  You have, therefore, curiously interrelated:

The seven Paths

The seven Rays

The seven Ashrams

The seven Races

Students would do well to bear in mind that these relationships are the result of the involutionary activity of the life expression of the Lord of the World.  The key to the mystery of differentiation is found by the Master when He is faced by the choice of the seven Paths.  At that high point of will expression, He discovers the secret of that evolutionary process which proceeds from unity to differentiation, and from differentiation to unity again.  Individualisation, Initiation and Identification are the three main stages in the evolutionary activity of the life of God and condition the quality of each of the three divine centres.  The four related septenates, enumerated above, eventually produce a synthesis which will consummate upon the cosmic mental plane. R&I, p.371-372

The understanding of the relationship between these four might be entered though the study of the four types of motion and thus nature of the mind reflected in the nature and activity of the four subplanes of the etheric body: separation, momentum, frictional activity, and absorption. The asute student can also see the relationship to the four types of fires: matter, pranic, mental, and spirit.  The process of Form production is evident in the intent and purpose of the cosmic paths and opens up the other multitudes of quantinares.

In the human centre, the man becomes identified with himself; in the Hierarchy, he becomes identified with the group; in Shamballa, He becomes identified with the planetary WHOLE.  When that takes place, He is then aware for the first time that other identifications—lying beyond the planetary ring-pass-not—confront Him; His choice of one or other of the Paths is conditioned by the quality of His previous identifications, which are in their turn conditioned by His ray type. R&I, p.372

The Blending of the Wills & The Law of the Lower Four

The secret of the will lies in the recognition of the divine nature of man. Only this can evoke the true expression of the will. It has in fact to be evoked by the soul, as it dominates the human mind and controls the personality. The secret of the will is also closely tied in with the recognition of the unconquerable nature of goodness and the inevitability of the ultimate triumph of good. EA, p.580

It is only the uniting the threefold spiritual will, sacrificial will and personality will with divine Will unlocks the secret of omnipotence (after omnipresence and omniscience are unlocked). This secret is hid within the inevitability of you and us as divinity itself. Truly, unless the disciple is in a daily state of soul contemplation this progressive uniting of wills with the divine Will cannot come about. The basis of omnipotence is surmised to come as a three-fold expression of the divine Will of the Presence which expresses itself through Shamballa and controls the available nature of life, of relations, and of energy. This three-fold expression of the divine Will which must be recognized by the initiate as they are emerging aspects from the livingness of Shamballa. Each represent the conditioning on Shamballa from the cosmic mental, astral and physical planes and are given as:

1. The Will which conditions the life aspect.
2. The Will which brings fulfilment of right human relations.
3. The Will which finally conquers death.

These three aspects are all related to the three divine expressions of spirit, soul and body, of life, consciousness and form, of life, quality and appearance. EA, p.583

The divine Will must be invoked and evoked. Right Desire invokes it. The “life aspect” is given as the synthesis of spirit, soul, and body. The Will that brings fulfillment of right human relations produces the Plan which will eventually express the innate Beauty of correct relationship. The Will that conquers death will release beneficent Life qualified Energy once the correct forms are embodied.

The higher Way reflects the influencing nature of That which lies behind the expressions of the Spiritual Triad. In a way can be perceived as the higher original of the one Cause, which is one of the underlying motivations upon the higher Way.  The three Buddhas of Activity are the representatives of the holiest three which are one of the indirect doorways for the descending energies from such. Once exposed to the holiest three the essence of these exposures permits a small degree of realization of the seven-fold forces entering through the three-fold Sun.

This understanding will come to those after the third initiation that discover the entry ways unto the higher Way and they will begin to see the sequence of causation and relationship unfold that relates the various Lives upon the cosmic physical plane.

If the sacred planets are ruling the centres then one is exposed to these energies by the ray force manifesting upon the respected plane.

These seven energies, emanating from the major three and transmitted via the twelve constellations, are embodied in the seven sacred planets and are represented on our Earth by the seven Spirits before the throne of God (the symbol of synthesis). This tremendous inter-relation is embodied in one great process of: Transmission. Reception. Absorption. Relation and Living Activity. The method is one of Invocation and Evocation. In these two sentences, you have one of the most important clues to the whole evolutionary process; the key to the mystery of time and space, and the solution of all problems. But the factor which is of major importance is that the whole matter is an expression of focussed Will. TWM, pp. 595-596

Per my own experience this same law is at work when per our centres when ruled by an exoteric planet vs. and esoteric or hierarchical planet.

One’s ability to understand this wider Purpose on a cosmic, solar, planetary, human, and individual level can move quickly into their correct field of service or view. This entry way into the world of purpose can been understood as an act of alignment of the Wills of all participating in any lodge ceremony. The fact of the symbolic appearance of the Presence in the astral-etheric light represents all of the other “worlds” descending to manifest providing a glimpse into the Divine Will.

…appearances is energised by and vibrating to the world of qualities or values, which world, in its turn, is energised by or vibrating to the world of purpose or of will.  Therefore, … produce the world of created and creative forms.  These proceed under the law of attractive magnetic love towards the evolutionary accomplishment of a purpose at present inscrutable.  This purpose remains unknown only on account of the limitations of the “appearance” which is not yet responsive to the quality.  When the illusory appearance and the veiled quality of the life are known and comprehended the underlying purpose will emerge with clarity.  ….The will, lying behind the purpose, cannot be understood until the consciousness has transcended even that of the superhuman man, and has become one with the divine. EP I, pp. 42-43

The world of Purpose is also entered into through the Atmic plane of Pure Spirit which is Purpose itself.

This Law of the Lower Four and the Law of Spirit lends itself to the final stage of Discipleship or the” Blending of the Lights” which permit this comprehension through Pure Spirit identification to unfold. It is the process of factually becoming identified as the Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer.

I Am the Creator, Preserver, Destroyer

When we reach the mystery of Fire, we are concerned with that mysterious extra-systemic energy which is the basis of both the activity of Mother and the Life of the Son.  The Son in very deed “becomes His Mother’s husband,” as say the ancient Scriptures.  This is but an enigmatical phrase unless interpreted in terms of the combination of energy.  Only when the Son has reached maturity and knows Himself as essentially the same as the Father can He consciously perform His Father’s function, and produce and perpetuate that which is needed for the sustaining of cosmic generation.

This is a reminder that the Whole’s effort appears to be the production of Creators, Preservers, and Destroyers of those members of the fourth Creative Hierarchy through demonstrating the fruits of the nine initiations. It is given that before a human Unit can know himself as the Creator, he must blend the electrical nature of substance with the electrical nature of form and Life. This requires the conditioning energies and forces of the jewel in the lotus to be utilized and understood. TCF, p.876

Each can be first an Observer and later an apprenticed Architect (Creator, Preserver, Destroyer) in the World of Meaning, Significance, Causation, Being and Presence which by default depicts the pattern of extra-planetary energies symbolizing of the systemic and planetary Purpose and Plan. As one approaches the third initiation and later these higher world patterns opens up to the bewildered initiate. I say bewildered because he, is unaware of what is happening as his occult nature is not developed and balanced fully with his mystical nature. It is a world of extensive esoteric existences or Lives within the One Life. In a true sense this perspective is a monadic perspective of one’s relationship to the greater logoic Plan being unveiled it appears to the personality for the first time.

In these three senses (hearing, touch and sight) the present is summed up for us.  The work of evolution is to recognise, utilise, co-ordinate, and dominate the whole till the Self, by means of these three, becomes actively aware of every form, of every vibration, and of every pulsation of the not-self; then, through the arranging power of mind, the objective of the self will be to find the truth, or that centre in the circle of manifestation which is, for the Self, the centre of equilibrium, and the one point where the co-ordination is perfected; then the Self can dissociate itself from every veil, every contact, and every sense.  This leads in every manifestation to three types of separation:

Involution.  The separation of matter, or the one becoming the many.  The senses are developed, and the apparatus is perfected by the Self for the utilisation of matter.  This is under the Law of Economy (Man Hears).

Evolution up to the time of the Probationary Path.  The merging of Spirit and matter, and the utilisation of the senses in a progressing identification of the Self with all forms from the lowest to those relatively refined.  This is under the Law of Attraction (Man Touches).

Evolution on the Path.  Again the separation of spirit from matter, its identification with the One, and the ultimate rejection of form.  The senses then are synthesised into acquired faculty, and the Self has no  further use for the not-self.  It blends with the All-Self.  This is under the Law of Synthesis (Man Sees).

If this is borne in mind it leads to a realisation that the separation of the Spirit from the material vehicle involves two aspects of the One great All; herein is seen the work of the Creator, the Preserver and the Destroyer.

In the final perfection of this third sense of sight, the term used is the wholly inadequate one of realisation.  Let the student study carefully the lowest and highest demonstration of the senses as laid down in the tabulation earlier imparted, and note the occult significance of the expressions used in the summation.

Hearing        Beatitude.                   This is realised through the not-self.

Touch            Service.                        The summation of the work of the Self for the not-self.

Sight              Realisation.                 Recognition of the triplicity needed in manifestation, or the reflex action of the Self and the not-self. (Author: Creator, Perserver, Destroyer)

Taste             Perfection.                     Evolution completed through the utilisation of the not-self and its realised adequacy.

Smell            Perfected Knowledge.  The principle of manas in its discriminating activity, perfecting the inter-relation between the Self and the not-self.

This all concerns the perfected, realised Personality.

In all these perfections is seen the awareness of the Self, and the graded process of identification, utilisation, manipulation and final rejection of the not-self by that Self who is now consciously aware.  He hears the note of nature and that of his monad; he recognises their identity, utilises their vibration, and passes rapidly through the three stages of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer. TCF, pp.199-200

One must persevere, even in confusion, to enter more and more fully into the world of purpose, being and the Presence by way of his Divine Self through fusion of the divine Will, spiritual will sacrificial will and personality will to pass through the stages of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer and as such become Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva in identification. These four forms of “will” can also be seen to reflect the four types of motions of the three fires all inherent in Form creation process thus unveiling the expression of Shiva. This is undergone through identification with the threefold trinity functioning through the Creator upon the three higher planes and also representative upon the highest three subplanes of the Atmic. The required synthesis (or All Knowledge) of the senses and the doorway of Nirvana.

As this Shiva, or first, aspect is the one which will arrive at perfection, or, rather, come within the reach of comprehension within the next solar system, it profits not to continue considering this secret.  The following tabulation may make the whole matter clearer to the mind of the student:—

Secret of          Initiation      Logos Concerned      Source of Energy            Planes

Fohat                  Third           Brahma Creator        Physical Sun                    Seven, Six, Five

Polarity            Fourth           Vishnu Preserver      Subjective Sun                 Four, Three

Fire                      Fifth            Shiva Destroyer         Central Spiritual Sun     Two (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 174-175)

We are told that the Adept moves off of the Egoic Ray on to the Monadic Ray on the fourth sub-plane of the monadic plane.  It is here that the truer nature of the Presence or that which is the Creator, Preserver and the Destroyer can be known through the discovery and use of the secret of Fire and its “original intent”.

The Light and Love first experienced through the influences coming through Venus and the Aura of the Master and the Ashram lighting up a hidden planet veiling the heart of the Sun and the Heart of God originated from Gemini. It was this Light that leads us to the portals of the seven cosmic paths coming from the Cosmic Christ lighting our way Home.

Laws of the Soul & An Experimental Response Set of Parameters

There is an interesting and useful way to begin to organize the various types of cycles under the seven Laws of the Soul. Each of the laws of the soul has a respectful stage of unfoldment linked to it which is basically linked to a particular sheath control or qualitative type of freedom from form or not-self-consciousness. The sequence of organization in respect to unfoldment of consciousness becomes practical once one assigns an estimated biological age to the inferred conformity with a particular law of the soul. This is not possible until one becomes soul conscious of the subjective influences impacting the soul on its own level but symbolically demonstrated in the three worlds from a particular law then you can assign its esoteric stage. One can assume there was an unconscious response earlier and can discern through three-world symbolic evidence when this might have been symbolically demonstrated in the three-worlds based upon a sequence of these symbolic event processes.  Each law’s influence is built upon the earlier laws’ influence and a more inclusive law cannot function without the earlier less inclusive law continuous functioning so-to-speak.

The analysis outline below, related to the cycles in evolution, planetary integration, and maturation in respect to the laws of the soul, is based upon the average point of evolution of advanced humanity in this historical time period.  What will change will be the particular length of time spend within each cycle which is dependent upon each individual’s speed of progress from beginning to end under the respective Law of the Soul associated with their point in evolution.

The average citizen, not on the probationary path, will stay under the Law of Sacrifice their entire life with no conscious reaction to the re-appropriation s and later laws of the soul but since there are five to seven sub-cycles within each major cycle where each is conditioned by one of the stages of a cycle of integration or Laws of the Soul then one can also sub-divide their analysis under these first Laws of the Soul which control these sub-stages – alignment, crisis, light, revelation, integration, and transition to a greater life. The outline’s sub-organization under the Laws of the Soul are arranged only per our individual points and periods of vehicle integration. This will become clearer as you move into outlining your own experiences per these laws of the soul. Each aspirant would be arranged differently depending on their point in evolution and age that a particular Law of the Soul came into effect. Please note the sequence of the Laws of the Soul by name as the esoteric name follows upon the exoteric name is based in one’s conscious realization of such laws influence now in their brain consciousness.  Furthermore, there also a ray related conditioning influence on some personality vehicle that begins under each of the Laws of the Soul.  I noted these correlations under each of the Laws of the Soul. Please note that the summation below is strictly theoretical but it is useful for grasping the stages of the path where one is presently and their next step forward.

Within the overall cycle of evolution, the human unit passes under all of the seven laws of the soul and each life they pass under the conditioning influences of one or more of these laws according to the stage of evolution they have reached.  I have created a correlation between the various laws of the soul and various stages of evolution in context to vehicle ray integration effects the laws assist in producing. The exoteric name is given first and represents an unconscious response to a particular law followed by the esoteric name which signifies a conscious response and cooperation with ta law. This might appear to be random, but this was the way they appear to influence one’s unfoldment process in hindsight and it is in alignment with given theory as introduced earlier.  It appears that once an aspirant consciously reacts to the qualitative group pattern influencing the soul-personality in their brain awareness by a particular Law of the Soul than the esoteric name contextually applies. These soul law summaries are quoted in the appendix. The example below is for a generic western human unit with probationary discipleship status.

1A. Law of Sacrifice – 4^th Ray Will to Harmonize or At-one-ing Influence – Average Man Reacts

Law 1.  The Law of Sacrifice This involves the immolation and sacrifice of that which has been realised.  This is crucifixion, the basic law of all group work, the governing principle which results in each human unit eventually becoming a Saviour.

The many rays which constitute the lower separative man are fused and blended into the three personality rays.

The Law of Sacrifice is normally the only soul law in operation or daily confronting one from the personality’s point of view throughout the re-appropriation of the first three sheaths up to the re-appropriation of the mental sheath unless an advanced disciple or initiate, than around the age of 12 after the first Jupiter return cycle there would be a response to the Law of Magnetic Impulse. For the advanced disciple the period of re-appropriation is also a period where some revelation can be grounded as opposed to a sheath to experience the three worlds in. The Law of Sacrifice produces overtime an expanding self-sacrificing sense of responsibility in all areas of life.

Personality sheath ray’s conditioning unfoldment and the first three kingdoms integration from above down. The goal of this stage is the maturation followed by the integration of the three sets of lives composing the three personality sheaths. These various lunar lives have characteristic of the various rays related to the subplane matter they embody and these as a group need to become integrated under one ray expression for each of the three sheaths or vehicles – physical, astral, and mental. This takes place once the soul appropriates it for its use and as such, they come under the soul ray as sub-rays and over time these sheath rays exhibit or express through various sub-rays of the sheath ray. These soul sub-rays can be understood as training rays. It is only once the personality begins to be integrated does the sheath rays tend towards expressing through the sub-ray that corresponds to the personality ray. In other words, all three sheath sub-rays become expressive through the same ray.  Thus, if the personality ray was a second ray than the sheath sub-rays of their ray would be second ray. This is a form of sacrificing or giving up control to the personality ray.

The three personality sheaths once re-appropriated became apparent in brain consciousness at around the following ages by way of a related crisis or as a result of a cycle of integration.  The ray influence is not apperceived but a significant change in behavior is self-initiated.  In hindsight, the qualitative change can be ascertained easier.

Physical Body Ray & 1st Re-appropriation.  Crisis – Age 5 to 7

Astral Body Ray & 2^nd Re-appropriation.  Crisis – Age 12 to 15

Mental Body Ray & 3^rd Re-appropriation.  Crisis – Age 21 to 25

1B. Law of Those Who Choose to Die: 4^th Ray Will to Harmonize Influence or At-one-ing Influence; Average Man Consciously at various Ages (Past Life Probationary disciples react at Age 5)

The many rays which constitute the lower separative man are fused and blended into the three personality rays.

If an aspirant or a disciple the personality consciously responds at these early ages 5, 12, 21 to the harmonizing influences and acquiesces to some greater moral or ethical calling. For a disciple during the re-appropriation crisis they will have memory of these events. This particular state of reality begins with an awareness of required form-consciousness related changes that need to be exhibited. The process is basically a redemption through consciousness alignment process that leads to some level of need for salvation of substance through redemption of consciousness agreed to exhibited at the point of acquiescence.  This also leads to the Law of Re-Appropriation in the spiritual sense or to a new level of environment freedom to pursue the soul’s intent. Basically, it is a release of karma as experienced by the personality -physically, emotionally and mentally.

In a larger sense this process of salvation is liken to the idea referred to by many as sublimation of one’s etheric substance for triadal or cosmic triadal. It is this process that produces the redemption of lives (through release) and salvation of god’s various Sheaths. Redemption and salvation are not the same. Redemption requires a shift in consciousness to that of the soul or group whereas salvation requires a shift in dimensional control. The evolution of chakra unfoldment per sheath dimensionality reflects this dual process. The two together produce the appearance of movement upon the path. These two together also permit one to see the world as a place that will eventually be according to Plan and it is only a matter of time. The personality integration unfoldment process can effectively begin after the three sheaths are appropriated and as such can better serve the personality and the soul.

Personality Ray conditioning unfoldment and the 4th Kingdom integration begins from above down. The goal of this stage is the blending and fusion of the sheath rays into one synthetic expression to create the sense of a personal self. If one an aspirant than the focus of the personal self is a renewed response to the soul and actualization of the higher self in his day to day affairs. This begins with the re-appropriation of the mental sheath for those who were on the path in an earlier incarnation. The aspirant responds to the Law of Magnetic Impulse unconsciously and begins to discover his spiritual group family.

2A. Law of Magnetic Impulse: 2^nd Ray Will to Unification Influence; Aspirants React; Determine at what age this takes place (Age 21-25 is normal for probationary aspirants.)

Law 2.  The Law of Magnetic Impulse: The law governing the primary realisations by any atom of its environing contacts, and the going out, or feeling after, by that atom so that eventually a relation between that which is realised as part of the group and the unit is established.  This is not the same thing as making sense contacts, as the relation established is between the Self in all, and not between aspects of the Not-Self.  This law is sometimes called “The first step towards marriage,” for it results in an eventual union between the man or atom and the group which produces harmonious group relations.

These are, in their turn, fused and blended into a synthetic expression of the dominant self-assertive man, the personal self.

The first burning ground is evoked under a cycle of integration alignment stage leading to the response to the Law of Magnetic Impulse. The initiating of some concept of a spiritual path is idealized that focuses on physical related objectives. Thus, there is initiated the related purification and training for the first initiation. If taken in an earlier life than its re-capitulation. This begins once mental form creations are more in line with the soul’s life objectives and purpose. Thus, the process becomes more conscious.

2B. Law of Polar Union:  2^nd Ray Will to Unification Influence; Aspirants React consciously; (Age 23) (Manasic Influence)

First Initiation Phase Two training begins. (A recapitulation process in our case.)

Egoic Ray Conditioning and the 5th kingdom Integration begins from above down.

3A. Law of Service: 6^th Ray Will to Causation Influence; Probationary Disciples React Unconsciously (Age 25)

Law 3.  The Law of Service:  This law, for want of a better name, concerns the identification of an atom with the group interest, and the steady negation of the atom’s own material interests; it really deals with the process or method whereby an atom (positive in its own centralised life) gradually becomes responsive and receptive to the positive life of the group.

The personality rays then become one ray and in their turn become subservient to the dual ray of the soul. Again, therefore, three rays are blended and fused.

Second Initiation Phase One begins & First Initiation Phase Two training continues or Touch of Acquiescence Continues & 2^nd Burning Ground Approached

3B. Law of the water & the fishes: 6^th Ray Will to Causation Influence; Probationary Disciples React consciously;  (Age 26); (Buddhic Influence)

Second initiation Phase Two begins & First Initiation Phase Two ends & enter second burning ground again.

Personality-soul integration continues, and fusion slowly initiated.

Higher Egoic Ray Conditioning & the 5th Kingdom Integration continues from above down.

The personality rays then become one ray and in their turn become subservient to the dual ray of the soul. Again, therefore, three rays are blended and fused (by the age of thirty-five)

4A. Law of Repulse: 1^st Ray Will to Initiate Influence; Disciples React Unconsciously (Age 35) – (Atmic Influence)

Law 4.  The Law of Repulsion.  This law concerns itself with the ability of an atom to throw off, or refuse to contact, any energy deemed inimical to group activity.  It is literally a law of service, but only comes consciously into play when the atom has established certain basic discriminations, and guides its activities through a knowledge of the laws of its own being.  This law is not the same as the Law of Repulsion which is used in connection with the Law of Attraction between forms which have relation to the material.  The laws we are now considering have relation to the psyche, or to the Vishnu aspect.  One group of laws concern energies emanating from the physical sun; the ones we are now considering emanate from the heart of the Sun.  The “repulsion” here dealt with has the effect (when consciously applied through the developed heart energy of a human atom, for instance) of furthering the interests of the repulsed unit and of driving this unit closer to its own centre.  Perhaps some idea of the great beauty of this law as it works out can be gathered from an occult phrase in a certain old book:

“This repulsive force drives in seven directions, and forces all that it contacts back to the bosom of the seven spiritual fathers.”

Through repulsion, the units are driven home and the straying unconscious ones are forced towards their own centre.  The Law of Repulsion, or the stream of energy for which it is but a name, can work from any centre, but as dealt with here, it must emanate from the heart if it is to bring about the necessary group work.

Third Initiation Phase I Training Objectives begin & Phase Two Second Initiation continues.

Personality-soul integration ends, and soul fusion continues and spirit fusion initiated.

The soul rays dominate the personality and the three become again the one, as the dual ray of the soul and the blended ray of the personality vibrate to the measure of the highest of the soul rays—the ray of the soul’s group, which is ever regarded as the true egoic ray.

4B. Law of All Destroying Angels: 1^st Ray Will to Initiate Influence; Disciples React consciously; (Age 49)

Third Initiation Phase Two Training Objectives begins and & Phase Two Second Initiation ends.

Personality-soul and spirit fusion ongoing.

Monadic Sub-Ray Unfoldment & the Sixth Kingdo

Introduction:

The soul rays dominate the personality and the three become again the one, as the dual ray of the soul and the blended ray of the personality vibrate to the measure of the highest of the soul rays—the ray of the soul’s group, which is ever regarded as the true egoic ray.

5A. Law of Group Progress: 7^th Ray Will to Organize Influences; (Omnipresence); Initiates React unconsciously (Age 50) (Spiritual Love/Buddhic Influence)

Law 5.  The Law of Group Progress.  This is sometimes called “the Law of Elevation” for it concerns the mysteries of group realisation, and expansions of consciousness and the part each unit plays in the general progress of a group.  In relation to the human family, for instance, the truth must ever be borne in mind that no human atom arrives at “fullness of life” without adding much to the general nature of his own group.  The elevation of a unit results in the raising of the group; the realisation of the unit brings about eventually group recognition; the initiation of the unit leads finally to planetary initiation, and the attainment of the goal by the human atom and his achievement of his objective brings about steadily and ceaselessly group achievement.  No man liveth to himself, and the crucifixion of the units throughout the aeons, and their realisation of their essential nature, only in order to offer up the best they have and realise to the interests of the group, are but the methods whereby the work of liberation is carried forward.

Sacrifice, Service, Magnetism (“I, if I be lifted up, will draw”), Group Progress, Divine Repulsion, these are but the inadequate terms whereby we seek to express the divine truth that the whole life and expression of the solar Logos will only be possible, and His purpose only be revealed, when He has brought each atomic unit to the stage of self-realisation.  Then He will lead them on to the point of sacrificing that realised self so that divine purpose and will may be consummated, and the divine life and glory shine forth in perfect radiance.

This might be expressed in more material terms by saying that through the dominance of these laws of the Soul, the logoic physical body will become an active expression of His self-realised purpose.

Then, in time, the soul ray begins (at the third initiation) to blend with the ray of the Monad, the life ray. The higher initiate is therefore a dual and not a triple expression.

Fourth Initiation Phase One training objectives begins; Third Initiation Phase Two Training continues.

Soul, Mind, Brain in a Body

Agni Yoga & The Practicing of the Presence

Personality-soul-spirit fusion ongoing.

Touch of Enlightenment

This was an unconscious reaction.

5B. Law of Elevation: 7^th Ray Will to Organize Influences; (Omnipresence); Initiates React consciously; (Age 50)

Higher Initiate training-testing objectives continue. Third initiation training objectives ends.

This was a conscious reaction.

Synthetic Illusion of the mental plane overcome.

Personality-soul-spirit fusion ongoing.

Experimental Seed Groups experimentation.

Then, in time, the soul ray begins (at the third initiation) to blend with the ray of the Monad, the life ray. The higher initiate is therefore a dual and not a triple expression.

6A. Law of Expansive Response: 3^rd Ray Will to Evolve Influence; (Omniscience) – Masters React Unconsciously (Age 51) (Spiritual Mind/Manasic Influence)

The final two laws concerning group activity can only be very briefly treated as their true significance is only apparent to pledged disciples.  They concern primarily the astral and the mental planes, and, therefore the corresponding vehicles of the group units.  A group, it should be remembered, which is functioning on the physical plane is also found in a still larger form on the astral and the mental.  Just as the astral body of a man is larger than his physical body, and, therefore, has built into its structure a larger number of atomic units, so a group contains (astrally considered) more units than on the physical plane.  The laws we are touching upon concern the relation of the physical plane units to those units who form a part of the group, and yet are functioning without the physical plane sheaths or vehicles.  The same idea must be applied to the units devoid of a physical vehicle who form a component part of the mental body of the group.

These two laws are termed:

6. The Law of Expansive Response. Esoterically: The Law of the Unknown
7. The Law of the Lower Four. Esoterically. The Law of Polar Union.

These laws only become operative in units on the physical plane which are becoming responsive consciously to those group workers who are discarnate.

All these laws, from the point of view of a disciple, need only be considered as operative in the three worlds, though it is needless to point out that parallels will be found on all planes.  These seven laws are those which are ascertained and consciously studied in all groups working under the Masters. (Bailey, Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1925, pp. 1216-1219)

In time, however, this realised duality gives place to the mysterious, indescribable process called identification which is the final stage of soul unfoldment. It is useless to say more for what might be said could only be comprehended by those preparing for the fourth initiation, and this treatise is written for disciples and initiates of the first degree.

Higher Initiation training- testing objectives continue

Introduction to the Seventh Kingdom.

Touch of Enlightenment.

Personality-soul-spirit fusion ongoing.

This was an unconscious reaction.

6B. Law of the Unknown: 3^rd Ray Will to Evolve Influence; (Omniscience); Masters React consciously; (Age 51)

Higher Initiation training- testing objectives continue

Personality-soul-spirit fusion ongoing.

7A. Law of the Lower Four: 5^th Ray Will to Action Influence; Chohans React unconsciously (Omnipotence); (Age 51)

Higher Initiation training-testing objectives continue

7B. The Law of Etheric Union: 5^th Ray Will to Action Influence;  Chohans React consciously (Omnipotence); (Age 51)

Higher Initiation training-testing objectives continue.

These last two Laws of the Soul are more difficult to cognized spiritually, hierarchically or triadally unless one has spirit-soul-mind-brain continuity per one’s inner group service intent and individual focus. There is a nascent freedom developing on all seven planes of the cosmic physical plane. Much reflecting upon tone’s subjective events is required to ascertain their fields of ring-pass-not. It was cognized esoterically, and occultly. Please note that one is not preparing for the 5^th initiation if they respond as a soul-personality to the Law of Group Progress it only means that each of the seven laws have aspects of all the higher and lower laws or the whole in the part. The Son of Mind responds and thus developing the requirements for all of the initiations. These laws are experienced subjectively/esoterically and objectively and exoterically in sacrifice, impulse, service, repulsion, group elevation and expansion upon the inner planes and reflected on the outer in some symbolic way.

Thus, it is our supposition we are in fact training for all initiations simultaneously according to our developed sensitivity and once we discover through the influences of Capricorn the field of the higher initiations.   Furthermore, we are also available for testing purposes to ascertain Lodge fields of service potential and for other various reasons.

Composed by HZ 2018-2023

Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part I (Cycle of Evolution)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part II (Recreation, Regeneration, Reorientation, and Renunciation)

Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part III (Cycle of Maturation & Cycle of Integration)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part IV (Cycles of Jupiter, The Four Seasons, The Four Dharmic Wheel Directions)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part V (Seven Crises of the Soul & Cycles of Evolution, Aspiration, and Initiation)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VI (The Seven Laws of the Soul)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VII (A Sequence of the 14 Rules for Initiation) Revised 6/25/23
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIIa (12 Final Tests & Summation of “Labors of Hercules”)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIIb (First Six Progressive Cycles of Jupiter & The Aspirant)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIIc (Twelve Basic Gifts of Hercules)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIId (Cycles of Jupiter, Twelve Tests, & Decanates)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIIe (4-Seasonal Stages, 4-Dharmic Wheels,12-Houses & 36-Decanates)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIIf (Three Rules for Determining Decanates)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part VIII (60 Major Astrological/Cosmological Influences during the Tests of Hercules)
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part IX (Seven Stages of Discipleship) Revised 06.24.23
Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part X (Introduction to Cycles or Stages of Planetary Integration)