Ten Esoteric Cycles/Stages – Part IX (Seven Stages of Discipleship) Revised 03.01.24

I would like to reiterate that all of the basic theory underlying this study of esoteric cycles is derived from the collected works of Alice A. Bailey. The author has just rearranged it somewhat to assist in capturing his experiential events for comparative analysis.

The Stages of Discipleship 

It is significant to point out that the causes lying behind any path related symbolic signpost received cannot be apperceived and correctly understood without a rich understanding of the science of the path teachings and a set of spirit-soul-personality related experiences. These are the basis for informed explanations and insights. The explanations and insights provided in this section are only the opinion of the author in the comparing the extant teachings provided by Alice A. Bailey with his own experiential fruits. The author was privileged this life in body to touch each of these seven discipleship stages, at one level or another, either directly or vicariously through the assistance of the One Ashramic Group. The intent is to try to explain, with the extant science of the path theory, the causes lying behind the many esoteric and subjective experiences apperceived and recorded by those on the path. These experiences are not directly herein denoted but only implied.  The goal is to understand them in the context of the larger theory of esoteric cycles which are manifesting the underlying purpose of the cosmic Logos sequentially through elements of the systemic and planetary livingness and Plan. It is a study of the cyclical elements underlying causation theory we are a product of.  All inferences and surmises are based solely on the author’s own understandings extrapolated and generalized from spiritual path related experiences in hindsight in light of present theory. It is only useful by way of comparison to the experiences and insights of other disciples upon the way so as to develop a more useful set of references to advance the science of the path and particularly the science of initiation, science of esoteric psychology and esoteric astrology.

There is a strong correlation between the complete conscious and esoteric response to a particular law of the soul and a stage of discipleship although there are incomplete and semi-conscious related responses while on the path of initiation in a technical sense. A complete conscious and esoteric response to the seven discipleship stages would include a mental, occult, spiritual, hierarchical, triadal, Spirit (monadic) and One Life (logoic) levels of causative awareness.  The discipleship stage during manifestation periods is determined in general through the conscious response and reaction to a law of the soul subjectively considered in the above seven levels.   These general awareness potentials are recapitulated each life during the cycles of maturation and integration as discussed earlier. The higher ones are inclusive of the former ones. In general, their demonstration and eventual mastery appear to follow in this order:

It has been observed that once there is an adequate and conscious response to a particular law of the soul at some correlated level type of causative awareness the Aspirant comes under its esoteric name, they then effectively can enter a new stage of discipleship at first unconsciously in physical brain awareness. The chart above tries to capture this observation. One could reasonably assume that each law of the soul could likewise be subdivided into these seven levels of causative awareness and that one’s response becomes more complete with each expanding level of causative awareness.

These discipleship stages also can be seen to relate to a specific initiation more than the others as the table below will indicate but one’s experiences must ultimately confirm:

Each of the initiations providing progressive planetary scheme integration and freedoms with an expanding entry into planetary Life once these integration stages are culminated which produces the associated stage of discipleship. These discipleship stages symbolize accomplishments and necessary demonstration on the outer planes leading to the next initiation training stage. Phase one leads up to the culmination of the respected initiation and is considered the subjective training stage producing the destructive phase or karmic related burning ground.  Phase two represents the new four form constructive phase and outer demonstration of one’s new identifications and freedoms.

The probationary aspirant, as a soul, becomes an Aspirant or a Little Chela once they mentally respond to the Law of Magnetic Impulse The man on the physical level is at first unconscious of this in their brain awareness.  Technically, an Aspirant eventually becomes fully responsive to this law in their physical brain with its sevenfold conditioning patterns as they approach Buddhahood. In a relative sense, they are now able to identify in a demonstrated practical sense with its esoteric name’s implied function which is symbolized by the Law of Polar Union when they are mentally aware and then are able as a soul to invoke the next higher more inclusive law of the soul as they demonstrate control over time.  Each of us are externalizing over time attributes of each of the above stages from aspirants of the mysteries to Buddhahood be-ness. Each stage above is also intimately related to the training necessary and associated to the initiations one through seven.

Discipleship Stages

The stages of discipleship reflect the training of the disciple for integration into the planetary Life relating these seven planetary centers within himself. These discipleship stages also reflect the final stages of integration between the disciple’s three-fold periodic vehicles thus relating also within himself aspects of Humanity, the Hierarchy and Shamballa (and the seven kingdoms in general). The fact is that we are innately participating in an aspect of the integration of the three-fold planetary and solar Lives expressing themselves through the cosmic Physical Plane. The integration stages are correlated below with the discipleship stages.

It is of significance to point out that all discipleship stage names referenced or implied depict the fact that all disciples are disciples of Sanat Kumara and His Ashram; thus, they refer to both planetary integration and solar systemic integration.  Planetary integration is experienced by the disciples as an aspect of solar integration. It is significant to point out that true “accepted discipleship” to Sanat Kumara takes place after the first solar initiation where the disciple is accepted as a disciple in the One Ashram of Sanat Kumara. Accepted discipleship also refers that below this major Ashram status to acceptance in some sub-ashram or minor ashram for training.

The tabulation below from the Law of the Soul herein section is a reference to the significant causative relationships between the laws of the soul to some stage in discipleship and preparation or training opportunity for some planetary level of integration. The tabulation is different from those above in that it infers that a certain law of the soul successful conditioning the human unit leads that unit to a progressive stage of discipleship after the completion of the first or destructive phase of a respectful initiation cycle.  The generic effort during the construction phase then is to build in the needed changes to the four forms we are responsible for (devotion, persona, environment, and karmic path) and demonstrate thus in some service expression along with the fruits of the corresponding initiation and the higher characteristics of the ray type being mastered at that stage of evolution or planetary integration concerned. The four forms being re-developed at each level become more inclusive of the group life associated to the ray type and level [Kingdom(s)] concerned in the planetary integration process.

It is inferred also that there is given an indication after the first phase of any initiation successfully completed some symbolic sign is given that the unit has entered a progressed level of Planetary grouping or Plan participation and contribution effort. Each listed ray type nature is being mastered and expressing its higher ray related characteristics, one ray at a time, and one’s focus, identity, and expression control is relegated to the next higher ray as the new conditioning pattern. Furthermore, the entering of a stage of discipleship indicates that the human unit’s has also responded to the next respective law of the soul and affecting internal group soul relationships upon its own level.

Discipleship – 1^st Stage. Alignment. Little Chelaship

It is inferred that this Little Chelaship stage of discipleship is due to the aspirant (as a soul) responding to and being conditioned by the Law of Magnetic Impulse which is symbolically indicated once they discover their soul related service grouping on the inner planes and reflected on the outer planes. Little Chelaship normally is symbolized by either a dream experience or a symbolic teaching in a vision indicating what they need to accomplish during the upcoming cycle period. This appears to take place at the after the first phase of the first initiation. It is inferred that this is the case whether for the first time or recapitulated. During this stage there is discovered and available a more advanced aspirant on the physical plane which agrees to assist in their process. All true aspirants who have gone through this know this to be the case as they have discovered the advanced aspirant in the light.

The aspirant’s focus is not yet emotionally stable, and they are continuously working on overcoming the many mayas, glamours and illusions embodied since birth along one’s own particular ray, karmic and/or genetic path.  This includes family, community, ethnic, national, cultural, racial, and sub-racial types.

Western aspirants in general (at this point in history of the race) can be found either at the Little Chelaship stage of the Chela in the Light stage at birth and thus and they likewise have taken the first initiation which does appear to require recapitulation each life thus this adds to the confusion of where the aspirant is upon the path during the first four seven year maturation cycles. All earlier evolutionary states of inclusiveness consciousness achieved appear to require sequential recapitulation. The basis for these states of consciousness is the state of one’s center unfoldment which is given to be recapitulated to the point where they were developed previously at around the age of 21. It is at this time the degree of personality and soul integration becomes more obviously as there is indicated some major change in the development direction of ones four basic forms in which they are responsible for developing (devotion form, persona form, environment form and karmic path (or causal body) form). If on the path there will be a strong change in motivation and direction along some newly identified aspirational line.

These dramatic shifts in aspiration and/or discipleship related events are not experienced, as a rule, until after the soul appropriates the mental sheath around the age of 21 in today’s western aspirants.  This mental sheath appropriation gives rise to a more dramatic recapitulated experience of “isolated individuality.” A state descriptive of an integrating personality where the individual is isolated from the whole. The second initiation experiences give rise to “isolated identify” states descriptive of a disciple. These “isolated identify” states mean that the disciple isolates aspects of the whole now as part of their identity. It is not until after the third initiation that the potential for states of “isolated unity” (the expanding whole is isolated in the unit) is being unfolded and experienced which is given as being descriptive of the expanding awareness state of a solar initiate and master. These three phases are actual psychological descriptions capturing the states of soul-personality related awareness’s associated respectively to the physical, astral, and mental planes of sheath identify intents by the soul. These progressive soul identify intents (of and by the monad) respective of the lower three sheaths are respectively given as the will-to-be, will-to-love, and will-to-know and eventually culminate in the third (which began in the first), the fourth (which began in the second), and the fifth (which began in the third) initiations.  These three sheath related isolated states are said to “harmonize” with their higher prototypes upon the buddhic plane through the expanding processes of the first five initiations signifying a fusion process between the soul and the personality indicating that there is no longer a need for the causal body to act as an intermediary between the monad and the personality on the physical plane.   The three-fold monadic intents have been realized.

In hindsight, older disciples are very much aware of these three monadic/soul intents as they have motivated their lives by default whether by recapitulation or present unfoldment.  The first intent of the will-to-be (in form) is dramatically experienced at the culmination revelation of the first initiation where “isolated individuality” is exhibited in the birthing of Humanity and the initial birthing of the “isolated individuality” of the aspirant both descending to manifest from out of the uniting of the one Father and one Mother producing the one planetary Son. The one planetary form and one humanity form was created. What began at the first planetary initiation or birth of individuality was perfected at the first solar initiation the perfected expression of this spirit-soul conscious personality or a truly developed individual etheric form expression for the monad.

The second intent of the will-to-love is dramatically experienced at the culmination of the second initiation through the “isolated identity” with the WORD or Heart of God or “isolated identity” of the Heavenly Man the Son expressing through the Word of the aspirant.  What began at the second initiation or the “isolated identity” with the heart of God is surmised to be perfected at the fourth initiation or second solar initiation the perfected true identity with the heart of God or true heart expression for the monad.

The third monad-soul intent of the will-to-know is dramatically experienced at the third initiation as the aspirant blends his concrete mind and abstract mind with the Universal Mind (expression of the lower and higher aspects of the Mind of God or the integrating elements of the five-fold mind aspects) and demonstrates moments of “isolated unity” permitting a expanding systemic omnipresence and omniscience due to the absorption of the initiate into the Universal Mind.

The spiritual mind can be defined as the higher or abstract mind which evolves over time as the three major periodic vehicles and its sheaths are developed and integrated the larger Whole. The Mind of God in its lower aspects is understood as representing the combined higher or abstract mind and the lower concrete minds. The universal mind can be understood as being the combined atmic and buddhic mind aspects or the Mind of God in its higher aspect. The illuminated mind becomes possible when “the Messenger and the Angel exchange their understanding” or Mercury and Venus influences are related and blended. This also indicates that the Angel is relating the higher and lower minds. The illuminated concrete mind is further progressed when the intuition is next invoked indicating a response to the Mind of God in its higher aspect. This blending creates the “supermind” and this permits the Purposes of the Universal Mind (cosmic activity aspect of the solar Logos) to become initiated into the lower mind. The Universal Mind is conditioned by the first and seventh Rays providing great organization potential and direct knowledge correctly organized. The intuition (or buddhic mind) brings into activity this supermind which is the response of the illumined mind to the Mind of God in its higher and lower aspects or basically the response to the Universal Mind giving one a progressive solar awareness of causation.

This Universal Mind substance (systemic manasic force) can likewise be understood as the substance of the totality of substance and activity of the three gunas or the attributes of force-matter systemically considered as this includes the four elements plus ether and the five sense organ source. This force is channeled by the Soul through the throat center during periods of contemplation when the mind is exhibiting illumination and communication to the brain. Ray five word of power is “three minds unite” meaning the fusing of the lower, abstract mind and universal minds by way of the projected antahkarana by the Son of Mind.  This true Universal Mind touch is only possible through monadic contact. This provides conscious participation in the formulation of the Plan. Only the intuition can make possible the access to universal Mind touch opportunities which need to be expressed through the blended abstract and concrete minds transmitted to the brain. All the knowledge, ways and plans of God can then be revealed by the conditioning nature of the fifth Ray at the third initiation and after. It admits one in the mysteries of the Mind of God as well as the “substantial key to the universal Mind. The Universal Mind, or the divine thinker, is the intelligent Principle which makes Itself known as the Will-to-be, Desire or Love-of-Being, and that active intelligent purpose which animates the solar system. The Universal Mind, as it works through all the planes of our conscious planetary life, is the creative agent and the form-building factor which makes the revelation of love possible. The following quote further captures the practical importance of the Universal Mind energy -force activity patterns.

The procedure carried forward at the remaining five initiations; in these initiatory processes there is a “spiritual absorption of the initiate into the circle and into the cycle of the Universal Mind”; the initiate is then “caught up and liberated into planetary fields of endeavour wherein the will must be employed as the Monad may direct.” DINA II, p. 399

These esoteric Soul tests on its own plane and related capacities are not given out as a rule and can only be understood by those with access to monadic consciousness. These “gifts” or guideposts are necessary to progressive traverse the endless Way back to the unknown identity Source.

The Little Chelaship stage is seen to begin once the aspirant can make a first contact with the soul in the physical plane and “light flashes out” for the first time. This takes place between the ages of four and seven when the soul appropriates the physical body or those who were disciples in former lives. Thus, this first symbolic vision and experience of ascension by the aspirant releases them of some related element of their karma which descends to manifest as this karma is both an obstacle to their ascension and related to the symbolic vision. It is indicative of what they are to achieve to meet their next segment of the path journey. It is based upon a free choice to move inward or back to the source of their group identify of beingness. It is given that this process attracts the attention of the Hierarchy particularly along the aspirant’s own Ray line. This action by the aspirant produced the focussed attention of the soul upon the striving personality disrupting the inner and the symbolic outer normal egoic group processes in some karma related manner. This group disturbance is observed also by some member of the Hierarchy responsible for the evolution of the affected egoic ray grouping as they become aware of this downward focussed soul.  The personality ego evokes the soul which effective descends over time to take control of the various sheaths the personality being matured, developed, and integrated and is using them to ascend in consciousness. For most aspirants that were disciples in former lives this above process was in general shown to be initially recapitulated around the ages of 5, 12, and 21 during the appropriation of the three sheaths by the soul. Thus, basis of the will to be, to love and will to know is being effected but the actual culmination of such unfolding’s is during the culminating processes of the first three planetary integrations indicating the basic full control of these three personality sheaths by the soul and later the full control of the monad after the fourth initiation

To attract the attention of the master four types of activity are given as being initiated by the aspirant or that 1) of evoking soul contact; 2) of being responsible for the larger group he finds himself within; 3) of evoking the downward focus and descending pathway for the soul permitting it to take sequential control of the sheaths; and 4) of creating a pathway of light for the aspirant’s integrated ascension represent together the necessary type of spiritual activity that attracts the masters attention. Experienced disciples, who have studied the teachings, will recognize in hindsight also these four activities as having taken place initially before their first symbolic teaching from the master (as opposed to the soul) at the end of phase 1 of the first initiation.

In hindsight, disciples will agree, that the soul contact is normally very sporadic and there is exhibited no consistent unselfish desire to serve, and the inner group relationship normally is non-existent in a conscious way. Over time we realize that the demonstration goal for the accepted discipleship status is primarily the promoting of those above four activities in others along the lines of their own “isolated individuality” (or karmic path), isolated identities” (or egoic group karmic path), and “isolated unities” with the expanding whole (or planetary karmic path). All of the above understands and promoting requires a daily discipline of Joy or daily soul-personality contemplation and this is no demonstrated normally until age 49 after the fifth cycle of Jupiter and seventh cycle of Saturn.

Little Chelaship is a state of pure mysticism and selfish spiritual intents. The master’s attention only would bring more problems so a disciple closer in status is assigned to monitor their progress and assists the aspirant over the next few lives if reaching this status for the first time.  The conscious entering into the light of the soul to ascertain meaning and truth by the aspirant is the goal and is also the pretext for accepted discipleship and more service opportunities.  Ultimately it is understood that this is only possible once we settle down and enter daily into a stage of interior investigation. This is also seen each life by every aspirant during the maturation process beginning at the end of the second cycle of Jupiter but not effective until after the third cycle as a rule. There is a period from the point of mental body appropriation to the symbolic age of 35 where the stage of futility is the norm until the stage of interior investigation is initiated in earnest. It is one of the major keys to quick progress and leads to true humility which is an outcome of.

It is given that for the majority of the aspirants in the world and advanced integrated people with a humanitarian consciousness, the first stage of discipleship logically lies far behind. Many aspirants today are probationary disciples in process of becoming accepted disciples and therefore in general, need to meet three goals:

• The goal of harmlessness and making more self-less decisions better to evoke the greater good for those involved. The aspirant is yet unaware of the extent of their identification with their material forms, their lack of impersonality, and their lack of self-knowledge which prevents them from demonstrating any true humility. Their fiery aspiration never-the-less assists them in evoking a greater sacrificial will alignment.
• The goal of subordinating the fires of the mind with the will-to-know and the will-to-love energies and this through the process of meeting real needs as opposed to meeting apparent personality needs such as the need to be loved. The consistent demonstrating the four earlier activities more consistently and evoking the will to love energies permits will permit them to move into probationary discipleship status if not yet achieved.
• The goal of eventual working in the light of the soul on a continuous basis; but this is not accomplished until the personality increases its centralization of the soul’s influences in its day to day activities. The process of effectively working in the light will normally take the average fiery probationary disciple of today of three and a half to four cycles of Jupiter to effectively demonstrate. Success means entering and stabilizing within the world of meaning which is needed to explain the world of significance.

One needs to keep in mind that this applies to the integrating sou-personality becoming the Son of Mind and this takes time for this mental integration to descend and manifest for most aspirants. The recognition of the Master is also eventually recognized as a particular stage is achieved with its own particular requirements but normally not until after a symbolic Inspirational Telepathy teaching by a senior disciple and after the second initiation.  Each stage of discipleship reflects the discovery and interaction of a disciple with either the soul, the egoic group soul, the ashram or Ray group soul, the Master, the Christ, or in the later stages that of Sanat Karama Himself.  This discovery along with the development of various forms telepathic communication and interactions take place plane by plane as the aspirant penetrates into the Body of the Unknown Deity where each higher plane can be correlated with a higher stage of discipleship.

Telepathic interplay types also vary as one ascends plane by plane and the perfecting of these types of sense development and interplay determine the integration success of the disciple into the One Life of the Planet and later the solar system. They all represent the unfoldment of unique types of not-self and Self sensitivities. Thus, love and trust are required at each level of planetary group related contact and interaction. The associations below are denoted for your considerations and experiential comparison:

These personality, soul and monadic impression types are the basis of cosmic impressions for the higher Initiate and the logoic identifications with the One Life might be considered as cosmic path impressions by way of inter-scheme, inter-systemic pathways. Identification potentials with either the Monad or all souls and forms also can take place on cosmic etheric levels. Leading to cosmic and triadal impressions.  Isolated Unity with the expanding Whole through Identification captures forms of logoic or cosmic etheric plane impressions in general.

There are many other intermediate forms of telepathy and exchanged impressions, but the inferred general list for reflection above is symbolic of plane related creative hierarchical group related sensitivities. This telepathic process or higher Psychic sense unfoldment order and nature begins differently with each disciple and is dependent upon their live focusses, ability to love and their particular microcosmic sense unfoldment in past lives.  Remember, once the soul is freed by the personality its field of activity is all five lower planes.  And once spirit is freed by the soul its field of activity is all seven planes plus. This is known to the personality only so far as these plane related microcosmic senses are unfolded and integrated providing types of awareness’s and contacts.

Once the world of meaning is secured through pure vision of the Soul and the path created by way of the antahkarana a gateway opens up into a higher stage of contemplation by the soul of cosmic etheric plane types of impressions.  The nature of these contemplations can be meditated on in the physical brain through spirit-soul-mind-brain alignment once the individual antahkarana is linked to the group Antahkarana which can extend through the triadal planes (and beyond once integrated with the planetary Antahkarana) and be intertwined with the systemic Antahkarana.  For most disciples in this era, it is not until after age 49 that this process is being to be pragmatized. At this juncture various types of telepathy can be experimented with, and this is enhance through the efforts to meet real needs of the One Plan.

The major rule governing telepathic relationships between disciples, especially those more senior disciples who are responsible to train you, which is the necessity to control all criticisms and correct their own character flaws thus freeing themselves up for more group related work. This second rule is significant and each of us must discover in the light our many faults and eradicate them one by one for telepathic communication to be established and this takes much time especially if not working on this consciously.  All barriers and obstacles prevent the circulation of telepathic communications. The quickest route is always through the successful practice of harmlessness on all dimensions. Occult service and obeyance is the quickest way to progress but this is only possible once free interchange can telepathically take place and harmlessness is the key.

Sheath related freeing karma is unique to each disciple and effectively releases the disciple for work on all three levels of the personality worlds as well as the causal body world. This permits certain types of esoteric training to be proffered by the inner ashram to the probationary disciple and probationary initiate. The process of freeing oneself up from criticism also parallels the freeing oneself up from their group karmic (and Dweller) burdens. They go hand in hand in experience. This permits movement from chaos to beauty.  The greater beauty through harmlessness and individual freeing karma then the greater degree of available cooperation and assistance in the freeing of the larger karma of the group, humanity and later the planet after the third initiation all through telepathic contacts and relationships established with follow and senior disciples’ stage by stage.

The process of working out a suitable life plan framework in unison with the One Plan requires one to take consideration of the larger group’s karmic or planetary logos’ Ray related karmic framework in related areas. This applies more to the monadic sub-ray grouping than the soul ray grouping which is a subset of this karma. This is also a very conscious process unfolded under the Law of Destiny.

All freeing karma, neither good or not so good, is but a pathway potential and is a conscious process and is given as being precipitated by the power of thought. Thus, it is a pre-meditative process that is organized and applied using the necessitated acquired wise-knowledge generated by the One Ashram grouping one is relating with and initially supplied or guided by some senior disciple. Obviously, the nature and content of both the Plan of the Christ, Dweller on the Threshold and the Angel of the Presence are required. This does explain the basis of one’s telepathic communications and also some ashram related the forms of service. This is substantiated by the contributions by fellow disciples upon the various inner dimensions over time as the ashram integration continues It is this process that eventually permits one to consciously work out a plan to address Ray group karma or planetary Ray karma.

The required training for accepted discipleship is quickened through being exposed to the light of the soul which exposes one to all of their dweller related virtues, limitations, and karmic patterns which can be classified in endless ways. These “lessor revelations” seem only to take place once the stage of Chela in the Light is reached.  And this stage is reached once the aspirant’s telepathic sensitivities are being unfolded. Now, the probationary disciple sees in the light the overwhelming amount of dweller related issues needing resolved and wonders if it is at all even possible to address these many past dark nights of the soul related “patterns”. It is not necessary to address all of one’s present limiting dweller “patterns” to achieve accepted discipleship status but the overcoming of glamour in general and any major mental illusions in general is one of the requirements. The quote below captures this process:

The searchlight of the soul reveals faults in character, limitations in expression and inadequacies in conduct. These must be intelligently corrected. In the symbolic charts which the guiding disciple presents to the Master twice a year, the effort made along these lines is indicated, not the results; it is effort which counts. The results will be inevitable and commensurate with the effort. When these charts (three in number) are geometrically related and superimposed one upon the other, they indicate a definite ray pattern. Then the Master can gauge the rate and type of development and can determine the time for permiting the senior disciple to recommend the stage of accepted discipleship. When the demand of the aspirant, the guiding disciple’s recommendation, the karmic condition and the note which the Master registers coincide in time, then the third stage is reached.

The active training for the achieving of accepted discipleship normally takes place sometime after the second burning ground experience and after the culmination of the second phase of the second initiation followed by the classification and the addressing of the endless dweller patterns. This is so only because there is developed a nascent degree of soul-mind-brain telepathy. If successful, this coincides with the moving from one master’s group to another what normally appears to take place followed by a symbolic Inspirational Telepathic Teaching.

The process of experiencing this on the physical plane can be quite confusing unless the stages and principles of discipleship are truly understood which we know cannot really be as they are not yet owned. It is only in reflective hindsight that these events are put into a more correct perspective. Correct humility, and thus assessment of limitations and more importantly virtues, prevents misunderstandings and waylays many possible failures.

Every discipleship stage implies a different ashramic group related function and participation, and all are necessary. Only once one truly grasps the nature of ashramic duties and training related to their relationship to the structure and function of an ashram so will their experiences make any true sense. Many might not choose to think about the masters or discipleship but focus on the developing of a field of service and not the integration into an ashram.  In hindsight, this exclusion focus is not necessarily useful as it prevents a correct perspective that is required to make the necessary inner and the outer ashram or environmental related contacts and integrations to better assist the contingencies of the Plan. Plus, it leads to a more correct humility.

Generically, this cycle of planetary integration can be understood as to be generating of and responding to the energies of aspiration thus the goal of the lessor revelation through the soul Light permitting eventual entry into the world of meaning.  Aspirants do train themselves to discern meaning from events and circumstances as symbols during this period. Many take an interest in the study of astrology, numerology, tarot cards, palmistry, and such pseudo occult sciences to assist in this process or anything to expand the abstract and intuitive mind potential and perspectives. Any academic field if rigorously pursued to its causative roots can lead to abstract and intuitive mind development.

As earlier pointed, in the section of the Crises of the Soul, that the synthetic influences of Capricorn-Virgo-Leo should be understood as the major conditioning influences under any Cycle of Initiation processes conditioning all of the various discipleship stages.  These astrological influences are significant to understand as they in effect the cause for all unfoldment potential. Secondarily, it is inferred that the stage of Little Chelaship is particular influenced by the blending influences of Taurus-Scorpio-Sagittarius and the fourth Ray or the Will to Harmonize and Relate leading up to, though, and after the first initiation as well as all the initiations as an aligning influence leading to new qualified contacts and their influences. Initiation of any type can be understood as a new field of expanded consciousness. The goal is the nascent soul and personality alignment, and the balancing of these new alignment effects energetically leads them through this stage into the next stage. Each integration stage once achieved precipitates the aspirant to a stage of discipleship.  In the list below it is indicated that once the fourth ray influences coming through Taurus, Scorpio, and Sagittarius are absorbed correctly it will produce an aspirant ready for the Little Chelaship stage of discipleship as there is now more responsible activities with an appreciation and understanding of the world of effects due to a nascent alignment with the soul. The fourth ray is also responsible for all initiation preparations as each sub-cycle or initiation requires an alignment phase.

In general, response to one or more of the Logoic Ray conditioned threefold aspect zodiacal blending influences permits the unit to advance into the corresponding stage of discipleship and/or sub-stage of an initiation cycle.

Discipleship, Soul-Personality Integration & the Law of Magnetic Impulse Continued.

In was earlier denoted that there is a developing relationship and alignment between the head center and the ajna center reflecting a suggested developing relationship between the soul and the personality due to the influences of the Law of Magnetic Impulse or Polar Union during the Little Chelaship phase of discipleship.  This dual center alignment and integration result of the two head centers with the third or alta major is one of the major focussed effects on the Aspirant at the second initiation demonstrating nascent conscious soul-personality integration.

Technically, nascent conscious spirit-soul-personality integration is not basically achieved until at the end of the third initiation process by the accepted disciple and full union of soul-personality integration not basically achieved till the fourth initiation and true union between spirit-soul and soul-personality until the end of the fifth initiation process in general. It is significant to understand that the second initiation is basically the first phase of the fourth initiation where the laws of Those who choose to die, Polar Union, Water and the fishes and Law of Repulse will come in more of a full sway.  The higher soul laws will also be recognized and demonstrated at some level or another.

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 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 not yet any true understand of a way to separate out the many possible sources for a ray influences on our basic four forms and will direction intents or life path qualitative expressions. There is no recognized science of the rays as of yet. Ray analysis is the most difficult process the author has attempted to understand and believes occult vision is required to forward this science given there are many rays conditioning us per our major three-fold vehicles from many levels and sources. As was earlier discussed the Rays was shown to be involved in all conditioning and basically the basis for all evolutionary processes and cycles.

The personality integration process itself is also shown to be causally linked to the cycle of integration stages and process as outlined in the re-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 appears to be basically complete between the second and third cycles of planetary integration but is not fully completed or dual set of lights blended until the fourth initiation.

All aspirants, at one point in their soul-personality integration process, have knowingness of what is implied by the need to “clear oneself.” This condition applies particularly to those of Little Chelaship status between the first and the second initiation primarily but continues in a lesser degree until the third. 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 realize that all could be known through the Pure Vision of the Soul and there is no longer a need to “clear oneself” as the technique of human soul-personality integration is functionally demonstrated.

Once a minimum level of self-healing or personality integration through sheath development and purification is reached the application of the personal will or intention will meet with almost instant success in the soul acquiescing to its guidance of the personality. The soul needs to be invoked and the invocative appeal needs first to be at a minimum fiery 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, they can quickly be guided into the more subtle light yet more substantial Light of the Angel as opposed to the light of the Dweller.

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 themselves that without Master DK’s unique teachings or deep understanding on the science of initiation most of our spiritual experiences in life would go unexplained scientifically in respect to the path.  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 and responding to the group soul Ray and also the monadic Ray. 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.

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)

Discipleship – 2^nd Stage. Crisis. The Chela in the Light

It is inferred that this Chela in the Light stage of discipleship is due to the aspirant first being conditioned by the Law of Magnetic Impulse. But during this second stage of discipleship the Law of Service slowly conditions them which is symbolically indicated once the plan of their soul is unfolded to some extent along the correct lines permitting further training experiences to be cognized in brain awareness.  This stage of discipleship is normally symbolized by a symbolic teaching as is the first stage. It can also accompany a “stillness vision” indicating the initiatory process for the second initiation. Once this initiatory process is completed then a different form symbolically indicates accepted discipleship status tentatively achieved such as an inspirational thoughtform or telepathy from a higher status disciple or master.

Now that the first stage of discipleship has led the aspirant from the darkness into the light the second stage will lead him from the unreal to the Real. All new cycles of initiations begin with a “stillness vision” which is inferred to be recapitulated in some manner life to life in the maturation process. A “stillness vision” is the phrase used herein to describe the first point of revelation given it is accompanied by a peace which surpasses understanding. There is a stillness vision initiating the beginning of a new cycle of initiation earlier discussed. It indicates the symbolic goal that needs to be demonstrated on the outer planes and its point of dimensional origin signifies the plane that needs to be integrated into the aspirant’s awareness.  In this case the accompanying energies are those of peace which surpasses understanding implicating the buddhic plane.

The First Point of Revelation: Energy follows thought and the eye directs the energy.

We are to concern ourselves with that which lies behind the mental perception of the ordinary man and with the revelation which comes to the initiate disciple as he stands within the ashram and perceives—as a result of the initiatory process—the nature of the divine Plan, as it can be seen working out on various planes of our planetary existence. There are three things which the initiate notes as the new panorama unfolds in flashing light before him:

1. The point of tension which precedes revelation. There is much to be considered in relation to tension as the forerunner of initiation and its subsequent revelation.
2. The stillness by which the revealing vision is surrounded, if I may so inadequately express the idea. The revelation is given to the initiate as if there was nothing in all the world but himself (a point of tension) and a vortex of force which takes form before his eyes, revealing to him an inevitable but future activity.
3. The level upon which the revelation (apprehended at the highest possible point of consciousness for the initiate) must eventually be materialized or brought into being.

Initiation is always taken on levels of consciousness higher than the mental, and the initiate must not only realize the significance of the revelation but must also know the sphere of activity of which it will be the inspiration. I would have you ponder on the wording of this last sentence.

Each of the five points of revelation indicates to the initiate: procedure, location and objective… The first Point of Revelation has necessarily an unique relation to the physical plane, to the hierarchical workers in physical bodies, and to those who consciously use the ajna centre. DINA II, pp.372-373

If disciples look back, or in hindsight, they will discover the evidence of a more advanced disciple guiding them through this first point of revelation and the above three quotes’ activities during this period towards these discoveries and unfoldment’s. The probationary disciple is not aware of any master, as a rule; and they do not, as a rule, have any brain conscious contact to those outside of the lower three planes. Even so, this process is unfolding and producing hierarchical relationships between these Chelas and a more advanced disciples assisting them reporting likewise to others and also humanity in general.

The major two goals of this discipleship stage are the taking of the second initiation and the meeting of the requirements for becoming an accepted disciple leading to probationary initiate status.  The probationer during this discipleship stage is at first focussed on self-discovery through the overcoming of character, karma, and integration related obstacles including any mayas, glamours and illusions. This initial goal is obtained through the focussing of the will-to-love energies reified through the esoteric planetary rulers and integrating them with the exoteric planetary ruler influences and overcoming the need to be loved amongst other non-real material needs.  They are still much identified with the material worlds and form expressions, but the will-to-love will eventually overcome these old identifications with material matter form expressions and assumed reality. The world of meaning and of light is still beyond their full grasp until after the second initiation as well as a correct response of their soul-personality to the twelve esoteric planetary ruler conditioning energy patterns.

The world is full of probationary disciples whom are expanding their identity with humanity as a unit and are intently focusing on the will-to-love.  Their intentions and struggle are to work on behalf of the One Humanity and the One Life and to make every decision in the light of the greater good.  They are developing the necessary skill in action and ways of creating a future that benefits not only themselves but the One Humanity in all departments of its intended livingness beginning with those around them. It is this will-to-love that will eventually decentralize them to obey the inner voice of the soul and take the second initiation freeing them from themselves, glamor, and the material astral co-created form focus.

It is always significance to remember that each stage of discipleship represents the potential for accomplishing of some level of planetary integration between the major planetary centers or groups of lives. As well as the securing of the chain of Hierarchy throughout the cosmic physical set of sub-planes.  This stage is particularly about the developing of a set of skills to better assist Humanity to evoke a new vision of its future by removing obstacles to such a vision. Any newness requires the building up of new forms of culture and civilization that can replace the old and now separating forms imprisoning Humanity.  The major means for accomplishing this at this stage is through the will-to-be and the will-to-love leading eventually into the capacity and ability to know and to love at the higher initiations permitting the inflow of “avataric forces.” These forces can only be recognized and understood by the astonished disciple after the fact.

The Masters are, therefore, anxious to “burn up the disciple in the fire of the will-to-love so that he is set free and the barriers to the inflow of the avataric force may be dissolved.” Why is this? Because it is the disciples in the world and not the mass of men who today hinder the Coming of the Avatar and render useless His intention. He dare not come until the disciples and aspirants in the world bring about the needed changes in themselves, for the reason that there would not be “enough of the will-to-love with the fiery essence.” Where that will is present two things can take place:

1. There can be the needed stepping-down of the inflowing energy which the Avatar would bring with Him so that it can be rendered effective in humanity.
2. The Avatar and Those Who are working with Him and under His influence can be provided with a group which can:
3. Respond intelligently to that influence, recognising it and absorbing it.
4. Distribute the inflowing energy.
5. Interpret to humanity the new impelling forces which are occupied with the precipitation of the new vision, the new world order and the New Age ideals.

There will then be very many chelas in the Light and on the other graded steps of discipleship.

When the present historical western and fiery aspirant becomes a Chela in the Light (potentially and symbolically around the age of 35) certain unfoldment’s take place, three in number given. The first is the permitting of them to see their part or vision aligned with the one Vison more clearly inclusive of a definitive direction they can take assisted by a disciple on the astral plane or the chain of Hierarchy.  This direction if pursued will be in part the basis of their training to permit the taking of the second initiation. Under the Law of Service and sixth Ray influences and associated Ray conditioning constellations this will direction and type of sensitivity unfoldment will enhance the Chela in the Light’s ability to distinguish between the many pairs of opposites and thus discovers the middle way. In this process of discovering the middle way they discover the major obstacles of glamor and astral form identifications.  It is this discovery and self-application in their removal which provides their ability to assist others now in doing the same. Thus, playing their part in the one Work by removing all barriers separating others and the many diverse groupings around the world and assisting them in bringing in of a new vision for themselves and for the One Humanity.  This process of utilizing the will-to-love energies to accomplish these unfoldment’s is given below in three stages. Each Aspirant likewise has had a similar burning ground related set of experiences and goals.

These three stages (author: paraphrased and noted above) have been dealt with in a Book of Rules for disciples on the probationary path. The rule can be roughly translated into modern English as follows:

“The one upon the Way leaps forward, leaving the world of fluid life. He makes the great transition and leaves the watery way behind. He walks upon the water and is not submerged therein. A chela with a light leads him by the hand from light into a greater Light

“This is a Transition upon the lesser way, preparing for a higher.

“The one upon the Way becomes aware of this and that. The poles appear. The two attract his daily life, first one and then the other; betwixt the two he moves. A transformation must be wrought; the two become as one. A step towards unity takes place. Between the two he forward steps. A chela in the Light throws light on either side and thus the little one can walk.

“This is a Transformation upon the dual way, leading into the Way.

“The one upon the Way gazes around and sees life as through a haze. The fogs and mists of glamour rest upon the valleys and the hills of life and these he must dispel. He must transmute them through the burning rays of radiant light. A chela in the light directs the burning, fiery light which dissipates the enervating fog.

“This is the Transmutation. These fires release the hidden light and blend it with the greater.” DINA I, pp. 722-723

The above three more occult stages represent the major work necessary for the chela now in the Light to prepare to take the second initiation. It takes place concurrently with the evoking of the influences of the twelve esoteric planetary rulers zodiacal influences on the centers. In respect to the recapitulation cycle it is surmised to begin at the culmination of the second phase of the first initiation followed by a “stillness vision” and/or a symbolic teaching.

If one reflects on the significance of the various processes associated to each stage of discipleship, they will discover the fundamental underlying reasons for them and put them in the larger framework of the Plan where they belong. It was earlier denoted that the task of this group of disciples to remove all obstacles and barriers within themselves to those outside of themselves as individuals and as groups identifying with some set of ideal astralized forms preventing continuity of relationship with the whole. This group represents the basis of the future New Group of World Servers. The more advanced disciples assisting them in their three major developmental goals denoted above are also unfolding their own potential service opportunities through this process.  Both groups are establishing a magnetic rapport and influence with others; and through this rapport establish a telepathic rapport for future hierarchical relationships; and the making of sheath related karmic adjustments so to free themselves up for service opportunities. The advanced guiding and helping discipleship group is doing this consciously.

Older disciples will confirm that in the present western world, they had helping disciples for the first two stages of discipleship and were located on the physical plane and not just on the astral, mental and soul level even though these also still exist. Per the third stage of discipleship there are many assisting disciples. All these assisting disciples has one thing in common and that is they are responding to a real need and creating a pathway of influence and assistance.  Physical plane interactions with the personality, although much more difficult and problematic, are more efficient and less time consuming in establishing a communication avenue with than establishing a telepathic and/or antahkarana relationship. Thus, the Hierarchy is seen as basically in process of externalizing and integrating with humanity subjectively and objectively through this process.

The transition to accepted discipleship does require the discovery of the guiding disciples on the subjective planes for most chela’s in the Light, as well as the discovery of the Master through telepathy. All groups of disciples working in and out of the Ashram are in need to be in telepathic rapport as necessary and as such provide an ongoing training agenda for participating disciples. Thus, harmlessness, love, trust, and non-criticism are required. These qualities are basic requirements for telepathic relationship. Trust is difficult if substance purity and true spiritual impersonality is not secured and practiced as these are entities not normally known to one on the outer planes even if in body. This is not an issue as long as the links come through the freed contemplative soul active on all five lower systemic planes co-creating soul impacted thoughtforms as opposed to kama-manasic telepathy, communications without soul impacted thoughtforms, which should not be unfolded until after soul telepathy.

During this discipleship stage the soul level guiding disciple assists, as they are able, the outer disciples to consciously approach and provide insight to balance karma dweller forms blocking the disciple’s karmic path forward. On each plane there is various types of individual and group dweller karmic forms that block the information descent of the assisting disciple and the larger egoic groupings.  This “freeing karma” process for the disciple is assisted by the more advanced disciple which is guided by logical requirements.  The first is what type of individual and its related group karma.  It is given, and confirmed, that two lives can be adequate to accomplish this freeing for the fiery aspiring disciple. It requires a co-evaluation of past life karma and the overall awareness of the nature of one’s Dweller pattern. This takes place through the revelation of that which must be accomplished in the personality life.  The searchlight of the soul sees all character related issues requiring karmic balance and adjustments. All karmic forms from an individual or a group level are created through the fires of the mind and are likewise balanced in the same way. It takes time for this to be understood and consciously applied. These created sheath related dweller forms and types of limitation are quite numerous and would fill many volumes depending on how they are classified.

The disciples, therefore, of the Master Morya, of the Master Koot Hoomi and of the Master Rakoczi are reaching out towards a period of the intensest activity. The destiny of the world lies in the hands of Their three groups of initiated disciples; with Them, the accepted disciples of the three groups are asked to cooperate and this offers opportunity to many everywhere. As they seek to vision the Plan, to cooperate with the three Masters and Their initiate groups, their opportunity will emerge. This triangle of energy is held responsible by the great Leaders in Shamballa for the regularising of world affairs. More than this it is not necessary for humanity to know,

The quote and example above depict the practical outcome possibility for those disciples that has freed themselves up from karmic forms and are available for conscious service opportunities. This above quote is experiential confirmed by the author.  These three Ray groups of disciples in incarnation are approached on the outer three planes through an intermediate group of nine offering opportunity to those available to assist in some manner. Ashramic related force and energy is ultimately directed by the Master, by a group of three senior disciples, and by another group of lessors (nine) initiates. The availability of disciples in the three-worlds to ashramic related service potential is due to their ability to react to the combined energies and forces of the purpose energy patterns of Shamballa and the plan energy patterns of Hierarchy. This service opportunity offering process can also be understood how possible relationships can be tried out. It also depicts a similar protocol for using available disciples for experimental purposes to ascertain the viability of various techniques and methods.

The Chela in the Light stage is approached through the aspirant’s ongoing response to the influences coming through his larger soul grouping he is discovering, being attracted to, and likewise co-integrating with subjectively and objectively.  This is taking place under the influence of the Law of Magnetic Impulse. and also approached through the response to the growing influences related to the Law of Service.  The response to the first three laws of the soul is the underlying reason the aspirant can basically and correctly respond to the influences coming through the twelve esoteric planetary rulers. This circulation of the ongoing descending energies depicts the ongoing preparation for the “twelve tests of Hercules”. They progress the transmutation process of the lower centers into the higher centers and into the head centers producing points of transformation along the way. Eventually, the aspirant will have developed the capacity to respond to and integrate all twelve esoteric planetary rulers with the twelve exoteric planetary rulers.  This appears to be one of the basic requirement’s necessary to become eligible to take the twelve tests moving the aspirant into accepted disciple and probationary initiate status.   The twelve test process is inferred to begin only after this response to and the integrating of the twelve esoteric planetary rulers energy patterns.  Later, the integrating of twelve planetary hierarchical rulers with the earlier twenty-four planetary rulers are actuated during the twelve tests. One might also say that the timing for the individual tests is linked to their integration. The twelve tests are inferred to be organized and presented through the correct response to the influences coming through Leo. This twelve tests nascent beginning takes place once they are on the path if initiation after the aspirant responds correctly to the Law of Repulse. Thus, one is able to put into perspective the requirements for accepted discipleship in the Ashram of Sanat Kumara.

The goal, after meeting the goal of culminating the second initiation, for the Chela in the Light is the probationary initiate stage which can also be understood to be a probationary accepted disciple stage of the Ashram of Sanat Kumara. The demonstration of soul-mind-brain contemplation is a necessary requirement to progress through the probationary initiate stage to the path of initiation and participate in the twelve tests.  The demonstration of spirit-soul-mind-brain contemplation appears to be a requirement for initiate status.  Both of these necessary developments appear to be based upon the influences coming through Leo initially. This aligns with the allegory of Hercules, as a probationary initiate taking these tests on the path of initiation under the three-fold Sun integrating sign influences of Leo. It permits one to become a pledged disciple as it leads from the experiences of the first and second preliminary initiations to their conclusions in the third and fourth initiations through the fifth initiation.  This process requires the aspirant to respond to the seven laws of the soul and the astrological influences they indirectly veil.  The aspirant integrates plane by plane into the planetary Life as they bring the expanding Whole symbolized by the influences coming through the three-fold Suns within themselves.

There is implied three things concerning the influences of Leo that needs to be understood in this context. First is that through the influences through Leo, the aspirant on the reversed wheel, can move off of the probationary discipleship path onto the path of the probationary initiate and the path of initiation. Second is that the disciple can take the first and/or the second (planetary and solar) initiations under the influences of Leo.  This means that these twelve tests conditioned by Leo leads one to the basic final objective or test which is that of Adeptship or one who does not return thus inferring solar initiations. This would infer that Leo might rule in some (alignment) capacity all four of the initial planetary initiations and maybe all of them? It means also that the probationary initiate, as symbolized by Hercules and ruled by the influences of Leo, can take the twelve tests.  Just keep in mind that the twelve tests only consciously appear to begin once the probationary disciple can place themselves at the center of the three crosses (three-fold Suns) and stand there in spiritual being fusing their energies and polarities thus the three-fold Sun influences of Leo necessary.  This naturally requires that they have nascently integrated their personality and soul and applying the technique of fusion daily and aligned soul-personality with soul-spiritt. Either way, the crisis of Leo leads to some crisis of the burning ground and quality of liberation as stated in the seven crises of the soul where Leo-Virgo-Capricorn conditions all seven initiations.

Leo can be understood as ruling the first aspect field of Will (crisis of the burning ground and quality of liberation) in its basic major periodic vehicle three-fold aspects – spiritual will, sacrificial will, and personality will. It is the will to liberation of identity from all three that takes one through the twelve tests and unites one with the direction of the divine Will.

Virgo, once correctly understood, will be shown to rule the second aspect field (crisis of birth and quality of initiation) of consciousness and express the divine qualities and attributes of the cosmic Christ Consciousness.

Capricorn rules the field of the higher initiations or the third aspect field of Activity (crisis of initiation and quality of expansion). It is the influences of Capricorn that permits one to replace personality, soul and spirit form related activities with the Form Activities of Pure Spirit.

When he is upon the Path of Discipleship (and here I include the Path of Initiation) occult rumour says that he then becomes conditioned by the tireless Watcher, the soul, and is subjected (during the final stages of the path) to exactly twelve incarnations, passing one in each of the twelve signs. In them he has to prove himself, attaining great moments of crisis in each of the constellations of the Fixed Cross in particular.  EA, p. 83

The quote above infers that the aspirant is on the path of initiation when they are taking the twelve tests. Thus, the true path of initiation only begins approaching consciously the third initiation (height of the human soul endeavor).  Thus, the twelve tests take place once upon the Path of Discipleship or basically between the first initiation and the fifth planetary initiations; under the influences of Leo or as was given that in Leo the aspirant can take the first and/or the second initiation implying the solar initiations. No initiation is finalized until in its second phase after the “ceremony” portion is demonstrated where the aspirant must demonstrate the fruits of such initiation through the individualizing spirit-soul-personality. All initiations have a destructive phase and a constructive phase. The aspirant must demonstrate their achievements and freedoms from sheath or not-self-control on the various cosmic physical sub-planes but only after these sheaths and associated senses are fully developed.

The above correlations need to be understood as relative achievements where the recognitions normally associated with the higher initiations can and are relatively achieved once the initiate can discover and enter the field of the higher initiations contingent upon his sensitivity or capacity to make contact and create relationships. This implies the fact that all initiations are being trained for at the same time given that the One Ashram personnel are directly or indirectly linked to the one group undergoing initiation upon the path of initiation. Again, initiation is a planetary, solar, and cosmic integration process and not events.

In summary, as earlier pointed out, in the section of the Crises of the Soul, that the synthetic influences of Capricorn, Virgo, and Leo should be understood as the major conditioning influences under any Cycle of Initiation processes affecting all of the various discipleship stages.

Secondarily, it is inferred that the stage of Chela in the Light is particularly influenced by the synthetic influences of Gemini, Virgo, Pisces and the second Ray of Light or the Will to Unity and Vision leading up to, though, and after the second initiation. The goal is the second initiation, personality integration, and attaining of probationary initiate status. Each integration stage once achieved precipitates the aspirant to a more inclusive stage of discipleship.  In the list below it is indicated that once the second Ray influences coming through Gemini, Virgo, Pisces are absorbed the aspirant’s soul related crisis will be correctly resolved and the blending of the light of the form with the light of the soul will produce an aspirant ready for Accepted Discipleship stage training now able to nascently enter into the world of meaning.  This was earlier summarized in the table below:

In general, each of the Ray related influences permits the unit to first sensitize themselves to the triangle of zodiacal influences and advance into the corresponding stage of discipleship. It is surmised that the Rays Lives are expressing more of one aspect or another or can be aligned with in one aspect or another of their three major aspects. In the list above tabulation the second aspect set of influences (underlined) is given to condition more than that of the Ray Lives’ first or third aspects presently.

Discipleship, The World of Meaning & The Law of Service:

The symbol for the world of meaning is given as light.  It is the various light 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 in the three worlds. 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,  imagination and nature of contacts along the Way. 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 three doors into the hall of knowledge – exoteric, esoteric, and occult.  These doors can have seven or more keys – physiological, psychological, astrological, metaphysical, geometrical, mystical, numerology. These keys can be turned seven times qualified by the seven Ray Lives and these can be interpreted – abstractly, occultly, spiritually, hierarchically, and triadally or any other level of beingness.

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 (or a collection of things, attributes and causes) is no longer required once they enter the world of causes and they identify with the Plan and Purpose symbolized by His own causative 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 and all by way of ascending along the antahkarana.  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 innate by evolving processes and default tutelage of the Soul under the Law of Service.

Discipleship, Tension vs. Fusion, Initiation & The Law of Service Continued.

The fiery discipleship processes of the Chela in the Light need be continuously applied to reach the proceeding stages of accepted discipleship and probationary initiate. This blending of the light of the soul and the personality form lights process is the underlying basis for progressing of the Chela in the Light into the Unknown and circulating these contacted energies through into the outer three-worlds under the Law of Service. This process of blending of the lights is enhanced through fusions, tensions leading to diffusion and absorption.

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, spiritual tension can be understood as a new more inclusive relationship invoked between spirit and matter attempting to express through the resultant light substance giving rise to some qualitative type of form related consciousness. Tension, a needed aspect of and for light, is a product of fusion or a relating of two poles or spiritual potentials. Energy projection is the act of invocation through a positive force of a form life seeking a similar positive force or energy of that which the form life is an inherent 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 within their own processes of moving daily deeper into the lighted way the significance of these points of fusion and tension will not be understood if they are mystically inclined. The science of the path is grasped only through periodic reflection and study which are necessary so not to get lost upon the way and to enhance ones knowledge of the way and gain a firmer resolve. Each life this knowledge needs to be recapitulated or resurrected. Hopefully, there is some retaining of understanding otherwise the intellectual and reflective study of causative experiential unfoldments and their understanding would seem to be a waste of time, evolutionarily, if results or understandings collected were not embedded in some more permanent fashion.  Master D.K. states that these comprehension efforts are 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, intuitive and spiritual 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.

For each sequential month and year of contemplation one’s successful fusions and points of tension permits one to progress deeper into contact with the Unknown “Lights” through expanding one Form, one Soul, and one Life identifications. These successful light fusions progressively evolve mental, buddhic, and atmic forms of enlightenments over time as the bridge or way is secured. This unfolding of wise-knowledge and understanding capacity are also increased as these fusions proffer more group mind content and group or kingdom related attribute contributions. The following respectful laws of the soul provide the pathway to atmic field (Law of Repulse), then reflected in buddhic field (Law of Group Progress), then these are reflected in the manasic field (Law of Expansive Response) where all begins with and ends with greater sacrifice (taking control of the lessor for the greater) or more inclusive alignment, but it takes time for the initiate’s brain to realize these subjective contacts as the Law of Repulse, expressing through the Law of Those who choose to die; the Law of Group Progress, expressing through the Law of Polar Union; and the Law of Expansive Response, expressing through the Law of the Water and the fishes: becomes more and more functional as a means towards unfolding of one’s understanding of Dharmic Cross Realities and types of Service being reified.

This Dharmic Cross understanding only comes once one fixes themselves at the center of the three-fold cross upon the path of initiation. It is at this point the technique of fusion is applied to blend and unite by way of points of fusion and points of tension with the incoming system three sun realities. These fusion points are achieved by the disciple focusing their intents and desires and power upon the mental plane in a dynamic invocation strong enough to evoke like response. This response comes via either the group conscious soul or the Christ conscious Spiritual Triad.

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 these individually applied invocation processes the intent is the evoking of assistance to secure some service related meeting of real needs. This process gives rise to expanded potential of soul destiny or it is the evoking of the Father or Spirit to provide a pathway for the One Soul giving rise to “monadic destiny.”

This evoked energy produces with the invocative energy a qualified point of tension. It is given that the disciple should not focus upon the task of producing a point of tension but instead recollect himself at his highest point qualitative point of endeavor and blend and fuse this with his present achieved development. The thinking along these lines will automatically produce the necessary point of tension through the fusing of the two realities. The lower mind is the instrument that produces the fusion with the soul through increasing and intensified points of tension over time.  It is the uniting of the lower and the higher mind that fusion with the Spiritual Triad is brought about through points of tension created along the antahkarana.

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 endeavor, 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 invocation/evocation process was earlier depicted “as like responds to like.” Each point of tension secured along the bridge permits one further potential contact and shared 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 in practice. 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 the inclusive cooperation and expanding identity with the spiritual triadic lives and thus a higher form of mental enlightenment or the fusing of the abstract mind, the buddhic mind, and the atmic mind or the progressive use of the Universal Mind or Mind of God providing a doorway into the One Ashramic fusion potential in general.  This fusion with the One Hierarchy is given as taking place through points of tension and in this fusion process are called initiations. The physiological or etheric doorway effect of this is the radiations of the clear cold light experienced in meditation. It is the doorway to pure reason. Initiation process represents a cycle of planetary integration and that the series of revelations that define it and progress according to one’s group plan and purpose being carried out which requires some degree or another of hierarchical fusion. This means that all the disciple contacts by the use of their will at these points of tension (particularly under the Law of Group Progress), hierarchically considered, are related to the processes of 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.

The nature of fusion, in general, is determined by the service related results or the release. If the qualified release of some source related knowledge force or wisdom energy is ongoing the point of tension can be considered as constant or fusion. One produces the other on the higher dynamic field of the initiation.

Polarity alignment may produce initiation or “a dramatic and a major point of tension” or the fusion of the negative and positive aspects or not. What is the determining point? 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 as a completion of a cycle of individual, group, or planetary karma that leads one into the burning ground and/or a more inclusive point of adaptive livingness within the Body of the Logos. All esoteric fusing processes need to be understood as invocative/evocative integrative processes within the planetary, solar, and cosmic livingness and should reflect the Plan goals and evoke the existing path of initiation in its present format.

It is significant to point out that this invocation/evocation fusion process is a causative science. The positive dynamic activity of the disciple polarized along the antahkarana indicates a point of soul-personality fusion. The qualitative vibratory or radiant nature of the disciple is determinant of the immediate potency of the potential response. This new higher point of positive activity or tension of the disciple is next rendered negative to that like higher vibration or contact producing an eventual point of fusion as the antahkarana is extended in response to the higher vibratory evoked contact. The ascending point of light fuses with the apparently descending point of light. It only appears to descend and is indicative of a further ascension.

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 higher immediate response can also be understood as related to extant external and internal “energy and force” currents such as ray, astrological and planetary potentials at that time, degree of Self-belief, degree of vibratory isolation potential of some new environment, and many other variables that permits one’s higher point of attainment or basically a new alignment of like to like. Thus, the disciple should take advantage of all known esoteric opportunities to progress along the Way of Radiance by becoming the radiant way themselves.

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.

Discipleship and The Brain

The author collected a series of quotes related to the brain a most amazing sensitive instrument occultly considered. The occult development of the brain happens naturally over time but through the application of purification, study, and meditation among other things. Without the brain one can never prove to himself the existence of subjective worlds or dimensions of planetary citizens. Disciples need spend many years developing the capacity and particularly the ability to receive accurately the contemplations of the soul. It is no easy task but very necessary and the elimination of maya’s, glamours, and illusions are an early pre-requisite. Each will achieve their own level of mastery in their own way but the average disciple in this world period takes place between the ages of 35 and 50 to demonstrate proficiency in the art of brain registering and recording. This period becomes the more practical period of their life. The disciple, between the ages of 21 and 35, spends their free time developing their mind and purifying their lower sheaths while integrating their personality while tenaciously developing their service potential while studying the teachings. Thus, it takes many years of intelligent mind and brain development for true creativity through integration, direction, and science resulting in personality-soul fusion which can be practically demonstrated. The working disciple also spends many years just in grounding their understanding of the results achieved in those earlier years of daily brain registering and recording and always feel they are just beginning to comprehend the Science of the Path theory.  Each will achieve their own level of mastery in their own way to demonstrate proficiency in the art of brain registering and recording after the third cycle of Jupiter once the mind is filled with concepts and trained. This will depict a more practical period of the disciple’s life. The life of a disciple is dedicated to the unfoldment of their spiritual mind, heart and will to serve the One Humanity and the One Life.

The practicing of body presence, Self-presence, and the One Presence with the breath are the keys to this mastery. All other tools certainly assist, and one receives more and more assistance as they break through the various thresholds through the assistance from guiding disciples and the ashram. Constant unrelenting experimentation is required and never assurance of truth without the full scientific application of model development and variable definitions and control feedback methods. As Master D.K. says: integration, direction, and science should lead the practicing of the Presence and the use of the Breath. Please keep in mind that the body presence can be extended to include the Body Presence of the Planetary and Solar Logos upon the Cosmic Physical Plane and this One Presence is linked directly to the Cosmic Causal Body of such upon the Cosmic Manasic Plane thus do not underestimate your own body connection to all through the One Breath.

The organizing principle of the Breath or Spirit is a function of the Holy Spirit sent forth by the Father or Monad through the sacrificing quality of the soul, its reflection, impacting and organizing the mind and sensitive response by the Brain to Spirit.

This depicts the function of Vulcan aspired to by Neptune manifesting through the creative activity of Uranus as reflected in the Moon veiling all three until released by Saturn the overseeing of the creative process or the Holy Spirit’s representative in the solar system.  Saturn releases one from the confines of time once the Moon accurately reflects the Sun.  Thus, balance is reached, and the Sun and Moon become one. The Sun reflecting the central spiritual Sun and the Moon reflecting the physical Sun.  Saturn represents the organizing principle of the universal mind. The higher mind is now reflected in the Moon now ruled by unveiled Uranus.

The brain related quotes below are those available from the works of A.A.B. and are denoted below without further discussion:

In all the many books which I have written, I have said relatively little about the brain and its relation to the personality and the soul.  It is not possible to enlarge at any length on that theme here, but I will make certain statements without which this whole process of dual living would be most difficult to explain.  I will sum up what I have to say in the form of three basic statements:

1. The brain is a most delicate receiving and transmitting apparatus:
2. It is responsive to information relayed to it, via the senses, from the emotional plane and from the mind.
3. Through its medium the personal lower self becomes aware of its environment, of the nature of its desires, and of its mental peculiarities, as well as of the emotional states and the thoughts of the people contacted in the environment.
4. The brain is largely conditioned by the endocrine system, and this far more than the endocrinologists would care to admit:
5. It is powerfully conditioned by three major glands which are found in close relation to the brain substance. These are the pituitary body, the pineal gland and the carotid gland.
6. These form a triangle, practically unrelated in primitive man, occasionally related in average man, and closely related in the spiritual man.
7. These glands are objective correspondences of the three energy centres, by means of which the soul, or the indwelling spiritual man, controls his physical vehicle.
8. Where the relation is close between the three glands—as is increasingly the case where disciples are concerned—a triangle of circulating energies is always established.
9. This triangle, through the carotid gland in the medulla oblongata, becomes related to other glands and centres.The brain, as transmitter, becomes a powerful directing agency:
10. As a recipient and transmitter of pure energy or life it uses the carotid gland controlled by the alta major centre, and establishes a close relation with the heart and the heart centre.
11. As a recipient of mental energy or of energy from the soul, the ajna centre becomes the directing agency; this is the centre which controls the pituitary body.
12. These energies are received via the head centre, which controls the pineal gland. Emotional energy enters the personality system via the solar plexus centre, where it either controls or is transmuted and elevated.

It is this triple mechanism in the head—both objective and subjective—which uses the physical brain as a receiving agent and as a transmitting agent.  It is this which is brought into creative activity and thus under the control of the disciple in training or in process of being prepared for initiation.  I have not hitherto emphasised this, nor do I wish to do so, for it is not desirable for the disciple or aspirant consciously and deliberately to deal with the mechanism in the head.  Let him learn to control and consciously employ the mind; let him train his mind to receive communications from three sources:

The three worlds of ordinary living, thus enabling the mind to act as the “common-sense.”

The soul, and thus consciously become the disciple, the worker in an Ashram, illumined by the wisdom of the soul, and superseding gradually the knowledge gained in the three worlds.  That knowledge, rightly applied, becomes wisdom.

The Spiritual Triad, acting as the intermediary between the Monad and the brain of the personality.  This can eventually take place, because the soul and personality are fused and blended into one functioning unit, this superseding again what we mean when we use the erroneous phrase “the soul.”  Duality then takes the place of the original triplicity.

It has been necessary to make these somewhat elementary remarks and to clarify these points, if there is to be true understanding as to what constitutes the dual life of the disciple or the Master, and wherein they differ.

One of the tests of the initiatory process is a hitherto totally unexpected one.  Tests which are expected and for which preparation has been made do not constitute true tests in the real sense of the word, esoterically understood.  It is a test—imposed with increasing rigidity as initiation after initiation is taken—to see just how far the initiate is capable of retaining or preserving in his brain consciousness the registered facts of several worlds or planes of consciousness; i.e., the three worlds of human endeavour and the world of soul consciousness, or both of these and the world of the Ashram; or again these and the activity of the Hierarchy itself, viewing it as a complete whole; or again, of all these and the world of Triadal experience, until the point is reached where a straight continuity of consciousness can be registered and held which comes directly from the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World to Those Masters Who are functioning in a physical body and must therefore use a physical brain.  In every single case the test (in order to be passed correctly) must involve the brain consciousness; the facts, registered upon the subtler planes, must be correctly registered, recognised and interpreted simultaneously upon the physical plane.

You can see for yourselves that this is a major and most necessary indication of a developing awareness; a Master has to be aware at any time on any plane and at will.  It will also be obvious to you that this will be a growing and an increasing perception for which the intermediate stages, between initiations, prepare the initiate.  Gradually, each one of the five senses, plus the common-sense (the mind), has to demonstrate the effectiveness of its higher correspondence and thus of a developing subtle apparatus.  Through this apparatus the initiate is put in touch with widening areas of the divine “state of mind” or with the planetary consciousness, until “the mind that is in Christ” becomes truly the mind of the initiate, with all that those words entail of meaning and esoteric significance.  Consciousness, Sensitivity, Awareness, Planetary Rapport, Universal Consciousness—these are the words which we must consider, sequentially developed and in their truly esoteric sense.

You have here a wide and general picture, involving the goal, the means or mode, the testing point and the physical brain; these are four factors which have received little or no attention where initiation has been dealt with in the occult writings.  They are nevertheless of major importance.  I am dealing with them here because of the stage of development now reached by the human mind, because of their increasingly close relation to the physical brain, and because there are now so many aspirants ready to tread the Path of Discipleship, the Path of Initiatory Training.  They are now in a position to work consciously at the task of a dual and constant process of spiritual and physical recognitions. R&I, pp. 432-434

Until the third initiation the disciples demonstrate their livingness and types of consciousness only in relation to the soul and the personality or to the cosmic physical plane or the lower three planes inclusive of the manasic. Their consciousness does not extend past the world of meaning and only this in limited degree.

The Dual Life of the Disciple

In connection with the dual life of the disciple, the factors involved are the threefold personality (with an awakening or onlooking consciousness centred or focussed in the brain), the soul which seems at first the ultimate goal of attainment but is later seen as simply a system or collection of fusing spiritual attributes, and the lowest aspect of the Spiritual Triad, the abstract mind.  The disciple feels that, if he can attain the immediate and fused consciousness of the three, he has attained; he realises also that this involves the construction of the antahkarana.  All these factors, for one who has just been admitted to the Path of Discipleship and who is just finding his place within an Ashram, seem an adequately difficult undertaking and one that engrosses every power which he possesses. R&I, pp. 434-435

The above quote is significant for those working disciples grappling with the reason why they are receiving through soul impacted thoughtforms the nature of the content they are receiving especially in the early experimentations through soul-mind-brain alignment. This initial difficulty in registering the soul’s communications is overcome once the “onlooking consciousness” is focused on the breath and in the brain and in the author’s experience it only took a couple of years of experimental effort to develop the necessary fusion for true practical service related creativity. The realization that the soul is “simply a collection of fusing spiritual attributes” takes considerably longer.  If the disciple carries this understanding into this experiential experiment, they will waste less time struggling to understand the reasons for bringing in this type of wise-knowledge information and spend more time in assisting in the development and the fusing of these many spiritual attributes or higher kingdom related gifts, abilities, talents and skills proffered upon the Way through ascension by way of fusion. This process indicates one has entered the world of significances and advancing into the world of purpose.

The objectives of the disciple until the third initiation of accepted discipleship are the conscious fusion of the three-fold personality, the soul, and the Spiritual Triad; and the recognition of the various planes of awareness in brain awareness. During the training for the third initiation the registering of the soul and group Soul’s communications in the brain, the fusing of the various spiritual attributes and the recognition of the various planes and their types of lives and consciousness becomes the major task of the working disciple. These tasks are most consuming, and their accomplishment is characterized or depicted once the disciple can pragmatize his service through working on the planes or levels of group consciousness contacted, communicated with, and recognized. This is experienced as a significant day to day undertaking. If persisted in this provides a progressive ability to work on those levels of consciousness or planes recognized and thus expanding his awareness and service potential. This involves the continuous building of the antahkarana while training as a hierarchical worker in his capacity and ability to orientate effectively to new and widening spiritual environments. Also, taking place during this daily working agenda is the slow integration into the one Ashram as he is able to stabile himself on the Path of Initiation and at the same time integrating himself into the outer world making himself useful without drawing unwanted attention to himself or the overcoming any points of over-stimulation or frenzied idealism leading to odd behaviors in the culture and nation which he finds himself producing inadvertently some form of unintentional harm.  He is exemplified as a person of goodwill with a stable individual framework of service demonstrating a spiritual purpose. Once this is demonstrated consistently the probationary disciple can enter into probationary initiate status to become an accepted disciple.  These various processes described above are of significant difficulty which is more so when one is uncertain as to what exactly is taking place and thus how to exactly think about it. This process is at first difficult to understand in its experiential perspectives except in hindsight thus this analysis. The process of reaching a state of fusion within one’s expanding Self while demonstrating each of these objectives means that the level of spiritual tension and fusion required with its correspondingly evoked creative imagination is adequate to progress the disciple’s pragmatic service potential.

This fusions require the necessary level of consistent higher spiritual tension. In other words, those upon the inner side are more easily evoked to assist when results of their efforts are demonstrated by the working disciple. Among the many that are trained or being trained for these pragmatic service related processes only a few probably successfully demonstrate them adequately in one life. It is doubtful that many demonstrate them adequately in two lives but over time there is inevitable progress corresponding to effot, and it is eventually correctly and accurately demonstrated. The author’s believes this is his third life spent working on this competency.  Fusion itself is only indicative of the fruit of the initial effort where three-fold aspect synthesis is indicative of the completion with any particular new contact field or entity. In other words, this means that those that have come before us have worked out a procedure for each of these processes that maximizes each process, and, in this regard, we are well taught and only fail because of lack of correct understanding not because of the lack of effort as a rule. Those who trained the author believe only one more life is needed to grasp this understanding adequately and to this regard considered both accomplished and dedicated in this task. There are those following after us that have learned these lessons before, and they will succeed quicker if they are holding this given information per this analysis. Thus, there is no shame imposed upon one given their failures to succeed but only gratefulness for the honor to be taught. Let us all go forward in peace.

On a side note, each of these divine planes are not what they appear to be per the teachings but significantly different. In one’s experience these planes are not separated from consciousness or desire in a spiritual way. These planes gather around one their relationship with the one Life and likewise one’s awareness of this relationship. All that appears to be happening is happening in space, but this space perspective is a living entity identified with in consciousness that the disciple is apperceiving.  The concept of working on these planes is only a foreign concept if there is no continuity of consciousness even though one has registered the evidence of working in some higher world with others as a soul-personality. There is still the need to overcome “blindness” associated to being embodied within a divine dimensional form life.

Over time as the disciple has success in fusing his spiritual attributes and building the antahkarana he moves progressively into a more rhythmic set of processes.  This permits one to eventually work outside of the normal time restraints within the inner worlds. One can accomplish much more in a moment in time once the soul is freed to work with its evoked or cooperating contacts on all five lower planes simultaneously and this information can be relayed to the brain. For the first few years this process of moving inwardly more and more into the future and bringing this potential future pattern in the present brain reality does indeed cause issues and gives the disciple a false sense of not being able to keep up with time. This greater capacity to work with a greater speed and accomplishment differently instills upon him the limitations of a brain reality.  This definitely leads to the realization that not everything the soul registers needs to be brought in brain awareness and this realization lessens the disjunct with time.  This overcoming of time and the working with spiritual speed is indicative of the dual life of the disciple and also indicative of the progressive integration with Spirit.  This means that there is no need for brain reflection to interpret the information collected on the lower five or seven planes by the soul as it is known when the content of the information is registered. As the planes or their consciousnesses are contacted and knowledge registered in the mind and recorded and transmitted to the brain they are instantaneously and infallibly interpreted through the pure vision of the soul given concept and vocabulary knowledge. Once time is mastered karma can also be mastered as the law of destiny comes into play overriding the law of karma. This is what the author calls Grace. This is possible because there has been the overcoming of dualities of the lower planes (and also the overcoming of them on the higher planes) or the creating of a balance giving rise to the Eternal Now where past, present, and future meet to express the Real. The expression of the Real is indicative that time and karma are ending. This is given as the ending also of the dual life of the disciple at the fourth initiation and gives way to the dualism of the Master where the dualism is defined and given as the monadic consciousness of the Master within the limitations of space an Entity embodied as Divine Form.

In summation, the training for the third initiation requires the need to create a channel of relationship to some type of dimensional contact and build a series of brides to such contacts registered to develop a relationship with, particularly those on the triadal level by the time of the third initiation. This is done through the living of the dual life of the disciple and is followed by the living of the dual life of the initiatory process. This process is indicative of initiatory training and focussed on types and levels of mental livingness and the developing of alternative attitudes as opposed to the dual life of spiritual living versus physical plane service. It is inferred that is can also be carried out in parallel with the dual life of the disciple. This logically leads to the dualism of the master after the destruction of the causal body. This initiatory dual life is clearly summarized below:

1. The life of awareness in which he expresses the soul attitude, soul awareness and soul consciousness, through the medium of the personality upon the physical plane; this he learns to register and express consciously.
2. The intensely private and purely subjective life in which he—the soul-infused personality—oriented upon the mental plane, brings into increasing rapport:
3. His lower concrete mind and the higher abstract mind.
4. Himself and the Master of his ray group, thus developing the ashramic consciousness.
5. Himself and the Hierarchy as a whole, becoming increasingly aware of the spiritual synthesis underlying the united Ashrams. He thus consciously and steadily approaches the radiant Centre of this solar Ashram, the Christ Himself, the first Initiator.

This inner life with its three slowly revealed objectives concerns essentially the life of preparation for initiation. R&I, p.441

Thus, as a preliminary to the above dual life and initiation it has been pointed out that the building of the antahkarana takes place during the dual life of the disciple which in turn is due to the capacity for true contemplation. The antahkarana needs to relate the Spiritual Triad, the foundation of the Universal Mind with the concrete mind (where the soul relates the higher mind to the concrete mind initially as a precursor and later brings into alignment the brain for recording purposes).  Working disciples are very much aware of the need for constant effort to make this happen and develop their interpretive abilities and power to visualize to express intuitive or symbolic knowledge leading to spiritual understanding.  It is given that the intuition is the agent of the Spiritual Triad during this world period. Visualization is in fact a developed type of mental responsiveness to the one Ashramic group telepathic Plan related training process. But without the creative imagination, which is dramatically enhanced through contemplation progressing the technique of fusion, this responsiveness cannot be progressed thus the sublimation of desire or the building in of higher astral subplane matter is required through continued aspiration and purification. This creative imagination has its original source as the imaginative quality of the soul and is responsible for all creative potential and the grounding of all higher realizations. The mind can only ground its expanding responsiveness as the responsiveness of the creative imagination expands.  These two together are indicative of the fusing process taking place between the Spiritual Triad and the personality sheaths. It is this process that is developed through true contemplation implemented by an illuminated mind with its inherent thought-form creation potential.  It is these fused elements with permits the working disciple to make contacts higher than the soul with a suitable set of forms to ground these into a usable form with understanding. The energy enhancing this process is the energy of inspiration from the atmic field giving rise and/or coming through the clear cold light grounded in the higher mind linked by the Son of Mind to the concrete mind invoked by the cooperating and combined wills of the fusing soul-personality.

As earlier denoted, these divine planes or spiritual levels of consciousnesses are not what they appear to be per the teachings. In one’s experience these planes are not separated from consciousness or desire in a spiritual way. These planes penetrate the awareness of the disciple and indicates over time their relationship with the one Life and likewise the disciple’s awareness of this relationship conditioning all. All this appears to be happening in a space, but this space perspective is a living entity one is consciously or intuitively contacting and slowly identifying with. The concept of working on these planes is not at first apparent but the expansions of consciousness due to working upon these planes is apparent where the pragmatizing of these levels along with their attributes appears to be one of the ultimate goal’s.

Through the unfoldment of the antahkarana through the livingness of these higher planes the rhythmic nature of the one Life enters in more and more. The disciple can work outside of time but still limited by time constraints on the physical plane. As his registration in his brain awareness of inner plane events speeds up so does his distress in trying to make the inner and the outer planes synchronize. The factor of time, the most difficult element of form and service creation to master enters into the disciple’s day to day awareness. He learns the true nature of time limitations is due to the brain. In attempting to overcome this he gains the capacity to work with greater rapidity and mental coordination due to the unfoldment of the illuminated mind, creative imagination of the astral body and the development of spiritual attributes. He can now begin to overcome the dictates of the brain time conditioning effect through these fusion related attributes. This process symbolizes that the dual life of the disciple has superseded the integrated life of the personality leading to an eventual integration with the spirit-soul aspect and the monad. Thus, he has developed straight knowledge with its mental interpretation which is required for a balanced registration of the consciousness and livingness of the higher planes. As these inner planes are contacted and later recorded in mind and brain awareness this knowledge is automatically interpreted or given correct meaning and intent.

This ability separates the disciple from the non-disciple and the psychic as it is only when the time factor does not control that the interpretations registered then they are as correct as they can possibly be. It takes time for the knowledge of a higher plane contacted (initiated into) to reach the brain but without the antahkarana this is not really possible. A true humility leads to a true perspective on all things.

It is significant to point out to disciples living the dual life that once true humility is gained or a balanced true perspective on all things then the Eternal Now can be experienced where the “past, present and future is lost in the consciousness of the inclusiveness of the moment that IS.” The Law of Destiny will then begin to take precedence over the Law of Karma and the limitations of time will not be evidence in the acquiring of understanding and meaning of persons, events, and things as they are and are becoming.

This is all due to alignment between brain to point of contact, the construction of the antahkarana between brain and monad, with the ability to make simultaneous alignments.  This process is given as going on until the fourth initiation with the destruction of the soul body this dual life ends as spiritual-soul and soul-personality are fused under the technique of duality.

Discipleship – 3^rd Stage. Light. Accepted Discipleship

The path of Accepted Discipleship is a path of spontaneous self-forgetfulness focussed on and absorbed within one’s vison which is self-induced and thus individualized when evoked. The disciple is constantly pre-occupied with this vision on all planes of their soul and personality shared livingness. Thus, Accepted Discipleship is approached due to the probationary disciple’s earlier unconsciously reacting to the Law of Service with its conditioning sixth Ray related Will to Idealize and Cause but once the disciple responds consciously to the astrological influences under this law of the soul they are able to expand their consciousness and react to the Law of Repulse with its conditioning first Ray influence bringing in the Will to Initiate (causes) which will permit them to enter into the stage of probationary initiate which is the goal of this stage of discipleship.

True service from the point of view of the monad requires the eventual elimination through dis-identification from all other forms of potential service outside of its own Ray related mandate or Dharma so-to-speak. In other words, initiates who progress into the Unknown discovery upon the Way a truer sense of belonging, becoming, and being due to their identified embodiment within in a higher more inclusive Life form. It is this lack of a more inclusive belonging, becoming, and being identification, which prevents men’s minds from grasping the truth of their own natures and potential livingness. It is the conditioned workings of the Law of Repulse upon the soul that permits this more inclusive and unique participation in the inclusive One Life processes.

Disciples who have taken the second initiation are regarded as “probationary initiates,” and only when they have taken the third initiation are they truly initiate from the standpoint of the Hierarchy. The first initiation is sometimes spoken of as the “Lemurian Initiation” and the second as the “Atlantean Initiation,” but the third initiation—that of our Aryan race—is technically regarded by Them as the first initiation. This is a new angle upon which I would ask you to think. The term, therefore, of Accepted Disciple covers the stages of the first and second initiations; when a disciple has taken the third initiation, he is no longer technically an accepted disciple, even though he still remains in a Master’s group until he has taken the fourth initiation. I am pointing out these technicalities so that there may be clarity and proportion in your thinking.

It is significant, and maybe more confusing, to again point out also that the Accepted Discipleship into the Ashram of Sanat Kumara covers the training for the first and second solar initiations. It is given that one is considered an Accepted Disciple until after the fourth planetary initiation or second solar initiation.

The Master related contact protocol frameworks provide a symbolic validation of Accepted Discipleship for the first time in the present life or recapitulated from past lives and have been given as a direct contact with the Master in meditation and/or an interview in a Master’s Ashram. There are other forms of contact during the recapitulation stages also given as three in number: a dream experience, a symbolic teaching or a thoughtform of the Master. These are given as protocols more aligned with probationary discipleship status.  Furthermore, a symbolic teaching can be received along with a “stillness vision.”  “Stillness visions” can also have a similar construct as a symbolic teaching but when received together their intents are clearly recognized as different. The receiving of an inspirational thoughtform telepathically from the Master through another disciple is not surmised as classified as a direct contact with a Master in meditation and/or becoming an “accepted disciple” in the Ashram of Sanat Kumara but it does indicate a status of probationary initiate it appears and thus having accepted discipleship status.  

Many aspirants do receive symbolic dream experiences or see images of masters or recognize a vibration of some master as these astralized thought-forms do exit. They normally believe it indicates some higher level of spiritual accomplishment and do nothing more to make the wished related evocation an eventual reality. The more mental types see it as yet some impurity in their nature that permitted this astralized lower psychic version of reality to make an appearance. These experiences need to be put into a correct causative framework to be of ultimate value to those receiving them so they can develop a more correct degree of humility and correctly make use of these signpost along the way. The following quote makes clear their ultimate value.

Workers in the spiritual field should bear this carefully in mind and remember that—as a result of the war, of tension and of aspiration towards the New Age—these dreams and visions, these episodes of symbolic teaching, these contacts with thoughtforms will steadily increase and are indicative of growth and of expansion. Undirected, unexplained and misinterpreted or laughed down and ridiculed, they can greatly hinder and can be forced to descend into the category of true lower psychism; rightly interpreted and explained, they can constitute a series of graded revelations upon the Way to light; they exist then as guarantees of future knowledge and as signposts of a relative achievement.

The teachings indicate that the aspirant after the second planetary initiation is transferred to another ray ashram to further their training normally under their own ray as an accepted disciple and probationary initiate. This is also confirmed that this transfer process does not normally lead to a clarification of what that ray ashram is in the beginning or as to the nature of the evoked training opportunities. For those probationary initiates that occultly serve and obey and thus can evoke the assistance of the One Ashram resources great strides can be made in a noticeably short period of time in the increasing of one’s capacity to serve.

The probationary initiate, through their co-created soul-impacted thoughtforms sourced along the group antahkarana will assist in the discovery of the nature of the Unknown’s occult constitution. This discovery is by way of the chain of Hierarchy. It is the One Ashram that proffers all opportunities for advancement.

Every member of the ashram acts on behalf of the Ashram as a whole whether this is the Ashram of a Master, Ashram of the Christ, or the Ashram of Sanat Kumara. The One Heart is inclusive.  Individually, our focus is in the developing of greater capacity to serve inclusive of various levels of attributes leading to gifts, abilities, skills, and talents towards subjective/objective service and not particularly any contact with the master’s or some discipleship validation status in general.  Also, if we genuinely love we take in the consideration the highest good of every unit in every kingdom of nature impacted by our actions including thus those above us in soul status.

Newly accepted disciples rarely appear to be aware of the vibrations of the ashram as a whole or of the Master. This is due to the lack of integration between the personality and the soul or the lack of essential unity with the One Life within us. Each of us sense a separation between the inner and the outer ashram and fail to see these two groups as essential the same group similar in how we perceive humanity and the soul of humanity.  The inability to see the One Humanity, the One Ashram or the One Soul is due to this lack of integration within one’s self in respect to their three major periodic vehicles.  The process of integrating of these three major vehicles is through the science of tension or the intensification of life opportunities. When we find correct ways to releasing tension or energy from within one or other of each of these three or nine-fold sheaths in the right direction provides us with unifying opportunities. This unifying opportunity is due to a more correct orientation for causative form creations. Each of us need stay focussed on bringing the subjective into the objective and not the introversion into the extroversion. The focus of one’s brain awareness on some extant circumstances represents an extension of the past into the present instead of one’s focus on the bringing of the future (descending to manifest) self-identification into the present obliterating the earlier focus or extension of self-identification from the past.  This is done through the bringing in of the magical nature of the soul or revelation of newness from along the bridge.

The key to progress for the accepted disciple or probationary initiate through ashramic assistance is intensity of group livingness always at some point of trying to meet real needs for the greatest number regardless of working with individuals or groups on any dimension. This point of tension is evocative of correct assistance as it is correctly orientated with more inclusive values towards the grounding of a greater light, reality, or livingness into the extant level of light, un-realness, or livingness. Other orientations evoke less useful or effective levels and types of assistance. The secret to successful assistance is the development of an unrelenting spiritual tension replacing one’s individual personality tension. It is through the daily creation or centralizing of spiritual tension that the heart or livingness of the One Ashram is evoked for assistance.

A flood-tide of revelation is exactly the result of working from a point of correctly orientated spiritual tension; and this flood-tide can happen on a continuous basis if one is truly evocative. It is in fact disconcerting as one cannot keep up with the recordings of this flood-tide of revelations of assistance besides actually meditating on its contents. It can be most over-whelming, especially combined with the active endeavors to unfold these associated gift or attribute contributions towards the meeting of real needs presented by the larger soul and personality groupings. This particular phase leads the disciple to an awareness that the nature of the human soul really is just a “collector of things” At this stage of the path the service objective might be better met if the disciple was more selective in what the soul collects and not scatter their soul or their personality force. It is easy to do both in the adventure of the All.

The inner ashram and the master are only approached by humanity by way of its outer ashramic members and through the ashram’s liaison member whether they realize it or not.  As one focusses their attention upon the Real and does not scatter their forces, they do approach the Heart of the Ashram. The question is do we love or just willing-to-love. It is said that the will-to-love will evoke attention, but spontaneous love will evoke response from the Heart of ALL. The will to love must eventually evoke the energy of Shamballa by way of the spirit of Christ and the One Ashram through the soul. The will to love gives way to spontaneous love and this requires, as a basis, true impersonality, harmlessness, self-forgetfulness, centralization of the soul and of spirit inclusive of their qualities and goals.

It is given that that the stage of Accepted Discipleship is confirmed in practice once the disciple has discovered a senior disciple in the Light, the establishing of contact with the Master, and later the recognition of the Master’s Thread, Aura and Heart. This comes before the spirit of true love is evoked from the Heart of All. The recognition of the Master, the Christ, and Sant Kumara comes as a result of the disciple to integrate his individual service framework work within a larger framework encompassed by the ashram, Master and the One Ashram.

It is this effort to expand our effort to work more widely that inadvertently precipitates us into more intensive training within the one ashramic inner group as an effect of our spiritual tension, fusion, and cooperative interaction with the outer group members working along similar lines assisting humanity.   This is possible due to our ability to demonstrate the basic requirements for spiritual tension and thus to evoke the energy of love by way of the Spirit of Christ. This degree of livingness evoked will determine how much assistance is provided by the inner group and the Heart of the Ashram.  This is realized only in hindsight after successes and failures has been acknowledged as with all learnings of significance.

It is basically true that the disciple’s earlier related contacts and interactions with the Master evoking His assistance is due mainly to the failures and limitations of the disciple and not his successes.  It is these interactions that permits the recognition of the Master as a rule it would appear. The goal is ever the correct creating and qualifying of one’s four forms in context to one’s service intents and the disciple’s detachment from these same earlier created four forms – form of their persona, form of devotion, form of the environment, and the form of their spiritual path or causal body necessities. This comes through the Master’s assistance to undergo significant increases pr expansions in consciousness. This assistance through expansion is a fundamental aspect of the training necessary for initiation preparation. This initiation training leads to and is highlighted in the later stages of discipleship. This assistance by the disciple will not necessarily be recognized as coming from the Master as a rule unless the disciple is very discriminative of His vibration within the larger set of contacted vibrations.

It is useful to understand that when disciples become discouraged, for any number of reasons, they move themselves or are moved to the outer periphery of the inner and the outer ashram but keep their esoteric link as a rule, but it is given that this also can be negated to protect the integrity of the group. There are many logical reasons for moving away from ashramic cooperation or initiation training would range from self-decision, self-centeredness, harmfulness, lethargy, old physical body age and health reasons, disbelief in oneself as a spiritual being, and an inadequate understanding of the science of the path or one’s ashramic duties. Some of these reasons for moving away from the center to the periphery of an ashram in terms of status can be addressed through the answering of a set of questions by the disciple that determines their direction towards or away from the ashramic center in context of their potential planned service:

How effective is our work in relation to our sphere of activity?

How effective is our thinking and planning in relation to what may lie ahead in the immediate future?

What results can I recognise as the fruit of our work?

Do I feel that our work has been satisfactory from the standpoint of our soul and, incidentally, of our Master?

Have I worked with impersonality in relation to our fellow disciples and co-workers, no matter what their status?

Have I preserved the needed spirit of loving cooperation?

Do I recognise truthfully our own and our co-disciples’ limitations and do I then move forward with those who are serving alongside of me without criticism and with silence?

Do I realise exactly where I stand? Whom I can help? And to whom I must look for example, aid and understanding?

Each of these questions can become significant at some time or another and need to be put in context to the overall Plan timeline. Each of us on the path has to discover their relative point in evolution, usefulness and understanding based upon their degree of fusion with the One Ashram.  These will permit a correct assessment of those we can help and where we need to search for assistance. This “hierarchical progression” will be one of those important indicators of our overall effectiveness. Each of us realizes that it is through or correct recognitions that a new sense of self becomes possible and leads us to a truer state of humility if it is a correct recognition put into the correct context. This “recognition” process is the basis of self-awareness and an immediate expansion of consciousness.  If this expansion of consciousness persists or is stabilized within this new reality of a greater more inclusive self-awareness, then this can be defined as an initiation and also a major three-fold periodic vehicle integration. If ones’ state of awareness falls back to an earlier form or state of inclusive self-awareness it was not initiation but can be considered only as training for such an initiation. This is a significant point to grasp as it will also explain much about why disciples assume they are at a higher initiation status than they are.  Even if one spends years in this higher state of more inclusive self-awareness it does not mean they were initiated once they fell out of such a state many years later. Stabilization in a new more inclusive area of consciousness is the goal.

The key to progress through ashramic assistance is intensity of livingness always at some point of sincere effort to meet real needs for those lives that evoke your presence and assistance on any dimension. This point of tension is evocative of correct assistance as it is correctly orientated with more inclusive values towards the grounding of a greater light, reality, or livingness into the extant level of light, realness, or livingness. Other orientations evoke less useful levels and types of assistance.

The goal for each disciple is esoteric work and to maximize their focus in the creating of a co-created point of spiritual tension as opposed to various personality points of tension which is experienced as extending one’s personality focus and not the focus of the spiritual unit. True esoteric work and service is lessoned when the personality or the human soul is scattered or is extended into their co-created form related livingness and the Self or spiritual unit is not centralized or is in process of “collecting things” unless this is the immediate purpose of the soul’s service program.

Love is not an attitude but a reaction to and comprehension of the innate impulses of the soul and represents a state of self-forgetfulness in the moment. It is the moving from a state of introversion-extroversion awareness to a subjective-objective state of awareness. It is through a subjective-objective state of impersonal awareness that contact with the ashram and its center is established which is given as the basic keynote of accepted discipleship.  This awareness state is symbolic of the disciple’s effort to expand their capacity and ability to serve more effectively.  This eventually leads to a more widely arena of service potential of real needs of humanity in some way which likewise precipitates them into more intensive training within the ashram inner-outer group if along the ashram’s intent. This training is expected to integrate the accepted disciple into the existing group of living souls; and it is this that likewise dramatically progresses their service potential. These outer members can be scattered around the physical and/or the inner worlds thus the disciple discovers these through omnipresence and links evocatively through soul and spirit (spiritual triadal) impacted telepathy.

The training of accepted disciples is along several lines to enhance service opportunities. These opportunities come mostly via expansions of consciousness contacts and influences which are responsible for expanded soul and spirit impacted telepathy and thoughtform development if the intent is for grounding of an idea whose time has come in some form or understanding. This is itself is one of the training lines for initiation. Most guidance from the Master is related to issues and suggested adjustments in perspectives preventing the disciple from taking advantage of these expansions of consciousness or correct service expressions.

Each disciple must discover for himself his place within the hierarchical progression, and this can only be correctly achieved through humility gained experientially. This recognition permits a more fruitful alignment and opportunities for expansion. It has been stated that a stable expansion is an indication of an initiation. How is one to gauge stable expansion of consciousness? In respect to the mastery of the personality ray after the second initiation one would have freedom of the three-worlds by the third initiation with the mastering of the soul ray, after the fourth, freedom of the planet by the fifth initiation leaving the mastery of the monadic ray after the sixth and thus freedom of the solar system by the seventh initiation. In initiation training there are many expansions of consciousness, but these can be considered only stable if there is no sliding backward to earlier consciousness states later.  With each stabilized expansion there is also a preliminary type of freedom achieved permitting such an expansion in respect to the various initiations.  In a real sense, a stabilized expansion of consciousness infers consciousness of certain Lives, Energies and Forces within an area of the “Body of God” and thus freedom to also recognize and know upon different planes. Each initiation basically includes stabilization of consciousness upon its respective plane providing a continuity of consciousness. Through our alignments and their related recognitions an expansion of awareness is achieved and eventually, if the initiation related plane and not-self sheath freedom is preserved then an eventual plane awareness synchronization is also preserved thus correlated to each initiation. The following correlation somewhat indicates this relationship:

Master D.K. provides us with a list of freedoms correlated to each of the nine initiations:

Initiation I.  Birth.  Freedom from the control of the physical body and its appetites. (This provides the aspirant access to etheric lives, energies, and forces.)

Initiation II.  Baptism.  Freedom from the control of the emotional nature and the selfish sensitivity of the lower self. Those preparing for the second initiation have to demonstrate their freedom from the slavery of ideas, from a fanatical reaction to any truth or spiritual leader, and from the control of their aspiration which—through the intensity of its application—would sacrifice time, people and life itself to the call of the Initiator—or rather, to be correct, to what they believe to be His call.

(This provides the probationary disciple access to kama-manasic lives, energies, and forces. Also, a freedom from planetary glamour and mental plane illusions once a mental polarization stabilized after the second initiation.)

Mental, Manasic: Initiation III.  Transfiguration.  Freedom from the ancient authority of the threefold personality, marking a climaxing moment in the history of all initiates. 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.

When the third initiation is taken, the power of the lower pair of opposites is no longer felt and exists no more.  A liberated consciousness and an unrestricted awareness—unrestricted as regards the initiate, moving within the orbit of the planetary Logos (though not unrestricted as regards that greater Life which moves within still other and greater defined limits)—are both understood and expressed.  Within the planetary ring-pass-not the initiate moves with freedom and knows no limitation in consciousness.

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.

This curious freedom from successive limitations is experienced at the third, the sixth and the ninth initiations; these are, all three of them, related in a mysterious manner to each other.  Transfiguration leads eventually to Decision, which culminates in due time with a final refusal to accept any planetary limitations whatsoever.

The initiation (that of the Transfiguration) which we are next to study is one of the most important of them all.  From one particular angle, it is peculiarly related to the fifth Initiation of Revelation and to the seventh Initiation of Resurrection.  All three are concerned with freedom:  freedom from the personality, freedom from blindness, or freedom from all the seven planes of our planetary existence.

Buddhic: Initiation IV.  Renunciation.  Freedom from all self-interest, and the renouncing of the personal life in the interest of a larger whole.  Even soul-consciousness ceases to be of importance and a more universal awareness, and one closer to the divine Mind, takes its place.

True sharing definitely involves many little renunciations, and it is upon these small renunciations that the capacity for freedom is slowly being generated and the habit of renunciation can eventually be stabilised; this capacity and these habits, these unselfish activities and these spiritual habitual attitudes are the preparatory stages for the Initiation of Renunciation, just as the effort to serve one’s fellowmen is preparatory to the taking of the third Initiation, of the Transfiguration.

Atmic: Initiation V.  Revelation.  Freedom from blindness—a liberation which enables the initiate to see a new vision (MS: Doorways into Higher Way).  This vision concerns the Reality lying beyond any hitherto sensed or known. At the fifth initiation no symbol or light substance separates or protects him, but he stands before the Initiator face to face, and the freedom of the City of God is his.  He is not yet a Member of the Great Council, but he has the right of entrance into Shamballa, and from that point he passes on to a more intimate relation, if that is his chosen destiny.

Monadic: Initiation VI.  Decision.  Freedom of choice.  I have dealt with these choices in an earlier part of this book. It is not until the sixth Initiation of Decision that the illusion of the planetary ring-pass-not finally disappears.

Logoic: Initiation VII.  Resurrection.  Freedom from the hold of the phenomenal life of the seven planes of our planetary Life.  It is in reality a “lifting out of or above” the cosmic physical plane.

Cosmic Astral: Initiation VIII.  Transition.  Freedom from the reaction of consciousness (as that word is understood by you) and a liberation into a state of awareness, a form of conscious recognition which has no relation to consciousness, as you understand that term.  It might be regarded as complete freedom from sensitivity, yet with a full flowering of that quality to which we give the inadequate name “compassion.”  More I cannot say.

Cosmic Mental: Initiation IX.  Refusal.  Freedom from all possible forms of enticement, particularly with reference to the higher planes.  It must constantly be remembered (and hence our constant reiteration) that our seven planes are the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. R&I, pp.685-687 (Plus others)

Vibratory synchronization is what permits the becoming of “That” on any level of beingness. This is why Sirian Energy is used to train the fourth degree probationary initiates.  The ability to synronise with Sirian Energy precipitates one into the Presence through temporary synchronizations with the Mind of God.  Accepted Disciples are able to synchronize with at least four of the various types of inner groups to receive training and assistances from.  These four groups are the mainstay of their initial service potential and growth potential as these are the same. The major four type of groups synchronized with are: various groupings which are a part of the NGWS; an ashramic group of lives of the fourth order; other various groups within the one Ashram itself; and the group the Christ is working with for the externalization process.

It is inferred that the stage of Chela on the Thread is particularly influenced by the synthetic influences of Aries, Leo, Capricorn and the first Ray influence providing the Will to Initiate producing temporary destruction leading to a greater synthesis and the fourth initiation all through the processes of “revelation.” The objectives are the triadal microcosmic sense unfoldment, and higher Psychic Gift unfoldment, the fourth initiation, and attaining of adept status. Each integration stage once achieved precipitates the aspirant to a more inclusive stage of discipleship.  The disciple can now stabilize in the world of meaning and enter more and more into the world of Values or the antechamber to the world of significances or the world of the spiritual triad.

The chart below from the chapter on the laws of the soul is re-quoted for reference:

Dual Life of the Initiatory Process.

This process has been defined as the process of preparation of the disciple for initiation and therefore with his mental life and attitudes beginning after accepted discipleship. This involves the disciple’s inner life with the growing recognition of three significant conditioning types of assistance or vibrations that require synchronization. This recognition and synchronization take much time for the disciple to confirm and achieve but these three types of contacts and growing influences are consistently impacting the disciple during the soul’s contemplations and contribute to the two different types of awareness’s being integrated and fused.

1. The life of awareness in which he expresses the soul attitude, soul awareness and soul consciousness, through the medium of the personality upon the physical plane; this he learns to register and express consciously.
2. The intensely private and purely subjective life in which he—the soul-infused personality—oriented upon the mental plane, brings into increasing rapport:
3. His lower concrete mind and the higher abstract mind.
4. Himself and the Master of his ray group, thus developing the ashramic consciousness.
5. Himself and the Hierarchy as a whole, becoming increasingly aware of the spiritual synthesis underlying the united Ashrams. He thus consciously and steadily approaches the radiant Centre of this solar Ashram, the Christ Himself, the first Initiator. DINA I, p. 441

It was shown above that these three influences are what expose the disciple to new contacted areas of space or planes and thus expanded points in consciousness with those upon these planes and the forces of these planes with the opportunities to create service related relationships. Thus, by definition is the process of preparation for initiation. This preparation for initiation is due to the successes of the accepted disciple or initiate to create the antahkarana and/or link it to the group Antahkarana into and through the planes of the Spiritual Triad and link these with the concrete mind and from here to the physical brain.

This involves many years of hard work and interpretation capacity developed along with the power to visualize in a certain way.  Visulization concerns more the capacity to use pictorial symbology to express some interpreted spiritual understanding provided by the intuition. Interestingly it is the intuition or second aspect which is given as the agent of the life of the Spiritual Triad as a unit. In another sense this is the Self-awareness aspect of the Monad. It is in fact an expanding sensitivity and responsiveness of the divine Plan apparently conveyed by the one Ashram Group. Its degree of inclusiveness is an effect of some plane related initiation. All this is possible due to the fusing of the triadal sheaths with the personality sheaths and the three tiers of petals producing the enlightened mind of the soul-personality, creative imagination of the soul-personality and presented attributes of the soul-personality or in effect over time the influences from the One Spirit-Soul-Personality.  It is given that the use of the multi-fold energies of the mind and the creative imagination that becomes an invocative agent forwarding the fusing of the personally and the Spiritual Triad.

The effect of an increasing soul contact has not simply been to dispel the mists of glamour, but it has also served to consolidate and to bring into effective use, therefore, the imagination with its overwhelmingly powerful creative faculty.  This creative energy, when implemented by an illumined mind (with its thoughtform making ability), is then wielded by the disciple in order to make contacts higher than with the soul, and to bring into symbolic form that of which he becomes aware through the medium of a line of energy—the antahkarana—which he is steadily and scientifically creating.

It might be said (equally symbolically) that at each initiation he tests the connecting bridge and discovers gradually the soundness of that which he has created under the inspiration of the Spiritual Triad and with the aid of the three aspects of his mind (the abstract mind, the soul or the Son of Mind, and the lower concrete mind), combined with the intelligent cooperation of his soul-infused personality.  In the early stages of his invocative work, the instrument used is the creative imagination.  This enables him at the very beginning to act as if he were capable of thus creating; then, when the as if imaginative consciousness is no longer [Page 444] useful, he becomes consciously aware of that which he has—with hope and spiritual expectancy—sought to create; he discovers this as an existent fact and knows past all controversy that “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” R&I, pp.443-444

Discipleship – 4^th Stage: Revelation. The Chela on the Thread

This revelation stage is related analogically to the Chela on the Thread stage of discipleship and is achieved initially once the probationary initiate consciously demonstrating the Law of all destroying Angels with its conditioning first Ray related Will to Initiate. Once the initiate responds consciously to the astrological influences under this law of the soul, they are able to better elevate their consciousness and react unconsciously to the Law Group Progress with its conditioning seventh Ray influence bringing in the Will to Organize and Express to and from the one group.  This law is given as expressing through the sacrificial petals and the Law of Sacrifice. This law, in effect, provides a major expansion of the capacity to organize and express in ways never thought possible.

Furthermore, their organizing and expressing is not only along the line of their individual vision and plan framework but their organizing and expressing potential aligns with the One Ashramic Vision and larger Plan framework working itself out through the inner planes and reflected on the outer planes through those demonstrating the earlier laws of the soul.

This whole concept of the chela on the thread lies behind the distorted teaching about the prerogatives and privileges of the priesthood and the relation of the Pope, for instance, to God or of the “elect” to the Deity. This latent and unfulfilled ideal is that of the chela on the thread and the Master and His Ashram, interpreted by the ecclesiastical consciousness as the Church. When the coming world religion is built around the work and the activity of the world disciples and knowers, then we shall see these symbols, called the “rights and prerogatives of the priesthood,” correctly interpreted and truly expressed. DINA I, p.  746

This symbolic presentation of the “prerogatives and privileges of the priesthood” registered appears to indicate probationary initiate status and the goal of the entering of this level of discipleship. It is initially confusing to aspirants and disciples as to what might be considered their stage of discipleship before they have unfolded their capacity to align the soul-mind-brain in contemplation.  A further reason, other than the inability to register subjective events and their causes, is that all of these discipleship stages are also recapitulated each life along with all other integrative and fusion gains qualifying consciousness. The above quote is relevant in those disciples who have not yet demonstrated soul-mind-brain contemplation and who are at the point where in the second initiation has been dramatically symbolized on the outer planes. The rights and prerogatives of the priesthood, appears to be granted to these disciple through a visual impression where gifts of a crown, a staff, a robe, a set of sandals and a pot are received from the Holy Spirit symbolized by a dove. The question is whether this also symbolizes this stage of discipleship which is descending to manifest? Experientially, at the time this is envisioned, this new capacity is still a latent and unfulfilled ideal in expression and will take much effort to consciously extend the antahkarana into the various levels of the Spiritual Triad and thus fully demonstrate or pragmatize this new alignment. More understanding will come once it is realized that the second initiation is completed at the fourth initiation.

The training in the unfoldment and use of higher Psychic Gift wave potentials and sensitivities to make higher contacts is characteristic of this stage of development or discipleship and all unfoldment’s associated under this phase of discipleship pertain to this type of higher microcosmic sense unfoldment and higher Psychic Gift waves discovery and development and uses towards and in service of the Plan. The focus is on the development of the triadal sheath senses. It is inferred that the process involves first conscious ashramic integration training and presently is assisted by a group that assists disciples  of the Christ and initiates in the outer three-worlds organizing special training for working disciples according to their own vison and plan frameworks in line with the ashrams.

The completion of nascent soul-personality integration and the development of soul-mind-brain contemplation permitting spiritual triadal related fusions to unfold which permits entry into the world of significance. This is the entry key to this stage of discipleship. The focus of this stage is four-fold.  First, the development of the ability to better serve the Purposes of Shamballa and thus the disciple is trained on the use of the Will in achieving isolated unity.  Secondly, the training in the development of higher Psychic Gift waves again to better serve the Purposes of Shamballa. The third is basically how to work effectively within the Ashram of Sanat Kumara. These together produce the fourth focus which is use of the thread to make contacts to those consciously aware upon the one ashramic thread, that chooses to assist, composed of those soul-personalities coming under monadic or the first major aspect control.

All of the training related influences at this stage of discipleship under the conditioning influences of the Law of Group Progress are due to the growing influences of Shamballa the disciple is now becoming cognizant thereof.  It is stated that those at this stage are becoming or have become a fixed aspect of the Hierarchy due to the development of group consciousness (which can be understood as being inclusive of mass and individual consciousness) and now is able to effectively unfold his higher Will aspect to achieve a relationship with this ashramic expanding Whole.

This growing relationship with this Whole beginning at this stage of discipleship appears to be achieved through evoking a state of isolated unity with the Whole or the Whole is isolated within the initiate at different levels. This represents a nascent development also of “god consciousness.” Basically, it is the fruits of the first six zodiacal constellations upon the reversed wheel; but remember that there are only, in a practical sense, six polarity zodiacal (one Soul-Personality set of) forces to the initiate. Thus, there is developing in the disciple through this unique training and contacts the capacity to become sensitive to and isolate vibrations of the expanding wholes and resonate these as needed for service.  To accomplish this, it requires an expanding and “intimate” relationship with the One Ashram as it provides the sources for training and evoking. The One Planetary Ashram (or Heart Center) over time is understood to be an extension of the Sirian Ashram.

This fourth stage discipleship of Shamballa Will enhancement training does not come necessarily through the master’s own relationship to Shamballa aurically or mindfully as the disciple has not the sensitivity yet to register it according to the teachings given.  It is assumed it comes through training provided by the Sirian Group of Initiates. It is given that until after the fourth initiation the disciple cannot fuse with the Master’s Shamballic consciousness. This is symbolized by the fact that the disciple is at this stage only potentially taught how to get the Master’s attention in an emergency. It is not until the next stage that the disciple can allegedly request an interview with the Master. The reason being is the necessity for auric “occult serenity” that is required by the disciple to permit this blending privilege and at this stage this has not yet been earned.

The disciple becomes aware of this capacity eventually in his brain awareness but would never test it or use it for in fact he never gives any thought to the existence of the master as he is too busy organizing his plan framework and abilities to serve and expanding his capacities to serve.  The name of this stage itself is misleading and from the perspective of the personalities involved they themselves do not believe they are at this stage of discipleship except in hindsight review of the technicalities of the science of the path.  Unless the working disciple or initiate “in good standing” has a very good grounding in the science of the path teachings of these sections of the path they will not necessary comprehend the true causative pattern of their inner identifications or the intent of such identifications or training. It is only in review or hindsight that our eyes are finally open to a few of these path stages implications over time and the ramifications of our own inner identifications and experiences in respect to theory and practice.

It is not really clear to a disciple at this stage how much Shamballa Purpose energy influence is really inherent in their group life identifications in their physical brain awareness.  The disciple’s normal post reaction to their apperceptions depicted through qualified energies and concepts are circumspect. The same circumspect also is applied to ashramic intimacy for a couple of reasons. First ashramic intimacy must be understood as the Ashram of Sanat Kumara or the Hierarchy as a whole and not necessarily a ray ashram or sub-ray ashram.  The reason is that one’s contact and relationship grow with various ray ashrams over time and one’s sequence might be contributed to various causes as their own ray make-up, or the nature of their part in the Plan or the Master’s group part in the Plan. Again, synchronicity plays a role in locating qualitative vibrational contacts or realities. It takes much time to digest these unknown’s or uncertainties through one’s subjective experiences on the higher triadal dimensions especially if one is not well grounded in these sections of the science of the path teachings. In other words, there appears to be a growing ashramic intimacy with more than one ray ashram but over time various ones stands out more than the others. The ashramic intimacy is in practice and truth an expanding intimacy with the One Ashram and its Heart.

One of the outstanding features of these daily identifications for the disciple is the expansion of creativity of forms and creatively of sensitivities to new contacts as they appear to go hand in hand or need to go hand in hand to correctly register and record. The idea that each of us are responsible for the “appearance of responsive organisms” is most interesting but this awareness of this fact and how this process should come about is not well understood by the initiate for some time.  The last of the sub-sciences of the Supreme Science of Contact is the Science of Sensitivity where sensitivity is the fruit of any contact is what permits this growing awareness of relationship between subjective causes and outer effects. In effect, it is evolution being demonstrated itself.

In respect to guiding disciples’ service activities in the outer three worlds, inclusive of the manasic subplanes is to enhance sensitivity to vibration through training and the use of spiritual evaluations especially through soul-mind-brain potential opportunities. The mastery of the Law of Vibration, as well as the other sub-laws of the Law of Economy appear to be necessary for a disciple’s own particular form of service proffered and demonstrated; as well as necessary to work effectively upon the various planes under these laws. Remember, that the Law of Vibration in its various divisions is given as the controlling law of the cosmic physical plane under the Law of Economy. It is this the disciple is mastering plane by plane.  Manasically, it is through their unfolding of their microcosmic senses of higher clairaudience, higher psychometry, higher clairvoyance, discrimination, discernment, egoic resonance and soul telepathy that is the basis for further investigations and not-self sensitivity evolution due to dimensional conscious contacts with various individual and group units and/or non-human entities.

Higher Psychic sensitivity is involved in the understanding of this phase of discipleship. This stage of not-self higher psychic unfoldment and the contact with the higher Psychic Gift waves is most vital and without it there can be no real service potential or evolutionary potential unfolded or at least it appears to be so. It is the sine qua non of sensitity training and capacity. Without there is no advanced evolution of consciousness possible. From another point of view, it is responsible for the perfection of the not-self so the higher Self and Divine Self can be discerned. This training can only begin once the disciple begins to develop their occult sub-personality normally after the second cycle of planetary integration. This training is initiated by a nine-fold alignment within the head which correlates with the Son of Mind ascending with the lower self-awareness to the buddhic plane and the nascent development of its associated senses.

Disciples, however, put no aspect of the divine manifestation outside their range of experience. They know that psychism in its lowest phases is a part of the divine expression and is of an essentially higher nature than the purely physical processes of living in the body. A disciple cannot say that now because he is a disciple, he will not be subject to this, that or the other experience. He has to be prepared for all experiences and to face the fact that eventually all disciples have to become psychics, both higher and lower, as was the Christ. The only safeguard for which he works is to prevent the lower powers demonstrating until the higher psychic faculties are functioning; then the lower are controlled and operated (if I might so express it) from the level of the higher consciousness. There is, to the mind of the disciple, only life and form and he is learning to handle the life processes through the medium of the form so as to produce a divine manifestation. DINA I, pp.741-742

Disciples realize that if one is to actually identify with the ranks of humanity all forms of psychism are required.  It is still most necessary to reframe from developing the lower until the higher ones are more or less mastered is indeed most wise due to sheath purity concerns but basically to maya, glamour and illusion concerns of Humanity itself which one is enmeshed within.  The aspirant will, in all probability, basically lose evolutionary opportunities for their entire life and make it more difficult the following life if they fail to adhere to this injunction.  Many fall prey to this problem in one way or another. And even after one develops the higher manasic senses first followed by the lower psychic senses they are still troublesome and distracting. It takes quite a while to put them into a correct and useful trustful perspective these various lower psychic senses once unfolded. One’s focus should also never be on unfolding higher Psychic abilities but only on service to humanity and obedience to their own group conscious Self. Thus, all disciples necessarily need to hold themselves in guarded readiness to see and hear on all levels of service, and to know what you see and hear, interpreting it correctly, unblinded by prejudice and fear.  The goal is truly to become unblinded by prejudice and fear which is not easy in the beginning given the unusual events they proffer and closeness of the lower psychic senses. The receiving of uncalled for or requested kama-manasic telepathies is a case in point. The use of the higher Psychic senses is certainly far more rewarding and less problematic in service opportunities.

Even after the disciple’s higher inner microcosmic sense unfoldment and use they are and probably should be reluctant to unfold the astral ones.  Disciples have a propensity to not want to actively pursue a training program for astral microcosmic sense unfoldment even when guided to do so.  There are many forms of lower psychic development such as the communication with the fifth and sixth creative hierarchical Lives through personality and subpersonality telepathic communications or kama-manasic telepathy. All of the lower forms of psychism are highly problematic and a sacrifice to unfold as they, by their very nature, pull the disciple down in form vibration away from the future into the present and past.

Disciples cannot really assist anyone without first developing their own occult sensitivities to the nature of the fuller range of the not-self through the expanded unfoldment of the mental, buddhic and atmic microcosmic senses. One in effect needs to become an occult psychologist or at least a spiritual psychologist to guide themselves and others to safety or sanity through a knowingness of the human occult constitution operating within the occult constitution of the planet at different stages of evolution. This is one of the reasons disciple’s develop various evaluation techniques and healing techniques if requested to do so by own’s own higher Self.  The methods of our creative sensitivity unfoldment process appear to unfold through karmic necessity by default contacts in the various subjective worlds and the disciple’s intent to address real needs. Harmlessness in alignment with occult service and obedience are the major keys to safety and sanity.

Service itself is not confined by either space or time constraints and always requires some point of tension to be created to evoke some useful solution or plan to meet some real need. For the working disciple at this stage such a point of tension is created linking the disciple, the Ashram and indirectly the Master(s). This might be understood as taking place at some resonant anchoring point on the “thread” or inter-related threads of the Group or Hierarchical Sutratma and Antahkarana.

This thread leads from the Hierarchy and a point of tension in that Hierarchy (such as the Master at the centre of any Ashram) to distant places, to many planes and into many hearts. This thread enables the disciple (if he has been permitted to learn how to use it) to return instantaneously to his centre of work and to reach at any desired moment the “Master of his life.”

To better grasp the extent of the “thread,” it is useful to keep in mind that the planetary One Ashram is an aspect of the One Solar Ashram thus the ability to reach “distant places, to many planes and many hearts” implies much more than one might first surmise or experientially expect in vibrational dimensionality and location in time and space. The practical virtues of the threat are endless. The use of this thread is invaluable in picking up where disciples leave off in recording ashramic group related telepathies through the creation of a group thought-form. Through the thread the disciple can contact any one also on the thread higher or lower. They can also contact unknown entities through evocation. The disciple’s soul grouping of the moment always creates dynamic living thought-form(s) or vibrational way points that can be considered perpetual in that all participants are linked in through the thread experientially.  These vibrational creations depict the difference between creative forms and creative vibrations. Each member of the One Ashram at this level or higher can be contacted consciously through this means for group related contribution in the moment. Remember this stage implies group consciousness has been developed by the disciple in their waking brain consciousness.

The entire subject of the chela on the thread and the techniques involved in this state of consciousness are all related to the capacity of the human being, under soul control, to be magnetic and to “emit the vibratory call which can penetrate to the ear of the One Who holds the thread.” …..Only those who are at this stage of discipleship will really comprehend what I say and profit by the hints.

The service related significant point is that “this thread leads from the Hierarchy and a point of tension in that Hierarchy (such as the Master at the centre of any Ashram) to distant places, to many planes and into many hearts.”  The tread is also why the disciple finds themselves in new areas of space on different planes with new contacts on a daily basis. Each new contact can be a significant guidepost upon the way so as to save much time in back tracking.

In humility, it is a mistake not to consider yourself a probationary disciple and fail to take full advantage of the two A.A.B.’s books Discipleship in the New Age as they are the cornerstone to the new discipleship now in effect during the Aquarian Age. One might easily ask why any disciple would not take full advantage and all I can said is I do not think that disciples believe that the lessons for the experimental group applied to them. Such is not the case in respect to the science of the path and their guiding light opportunities which are proffered.

It has been given that this stage of discipleship is not possible except for accepted disciples for more than one life and also who has demonstrated and tested in his ability to work with impersonality, selflessness, and pertinacity. He now looks always at the greatest good for the greatest number in making decisions.  The disciple has decentralized themselves and their individual interests. This decentralization, selflessness, and pertinacity are characteristics normally only developed during the third cycle of planetary integration and their successful demonstration carries one through this cycle to its high point. Disciples are tested for a developed sense of proportion in all things particularly the work and their potential contribution. They are engrossed in the work and not discipleship or the Master. They work always from a point of vertical and horizonal invocative and evocative tension to meet real needs. They invocate and evoke vertically and use these fruits to serve or invoke and evoke horizontally – The light must enter vertically and be diffused or radiated horizontally. This diffusion process is descriptive of this stage of discipleship, and it is this process responsible for sensitizing of the not-self, building the antahkarana, the building of the higher spiritual triad sheaths, the unfoldment of higher psychism and the discovery and development of the higher Psychic Gift waves which are inclusive of present, spiritual, and divine attribute development opportunities. They work outside of normal time and space in the higher subjective worlds to serve in normal three-world time and space.

This vertical-horizonal dual state of being is given as “the key to the true science of discipleship.”  This state representing the disciple’s day to day state of activities follows the high point of the second cycle of planetary integration.  It is at this juncture that all astral identifications are removed freeing the disciple from karmic related glamours and illusions acting as distractions before this period. This state of being glamor-less and illusion-less becomes a permanent state of beingness and permits the fullness of development and testing for the third cycle of planetary integration.  It is given that most disciples at the lower stages are working from a point of personality focus and not from a point of soul-ashramic-personality tension in complete dedication to the service of humanity and later the One Life. Thus, the requirements of this stage are set. If one adheres innately to these requirements all is well. If not, then no progress in higher sensitivity development will unfold as there is no opportunity presented to do such.

The disciple not meeting these requirements ae only causing themselves more karmic difficulties if they were permitted to call on the Master for individual assistance outside of group related service when they are expected to handle their own problems and life contingencies. The meeting of these requirements also implies that the disciple does not need ashramic protection (yet receives it) or rebuffing from his own vibratory activities.

This process of attracting the attention of the Master in respect to a group service related real need is given as being a matter of clear intuitive perception, the recognition of an unimpeded channel and an act of spiritual will. It is in reality a process of invocation and evocation.

This responsive relationship and interplay is only attained after a long cycle of the outer relation of the accepted disciple upon the periphery and finally within the Ashram. It does not come about as the result of any effort to fit oneself for this position of power and of influence in service. It is simply the silent and almost unconsciously achieved result of that self-effacement and self-forgetfulness which distinguishes the accepted disciple; he is decentralised and engrossed in the fulfilment of the divine Plan to the best of his ability. It is the reward, if I might so express it, of the worker who knows what he has come into incarnation to do and who is endeavouring with dedication to do it. The driving urge of his life is the need of humanity and his expanding awareness of the immediate next step that man must take. DINA I, pp.746-747

As with all stages of discipleship the personality will not initially understand why they are actually having the respectful stage related events by way of their meditations and livingness without the necessary knowledge of the science of the path.  This can be at times disconcerting for it leads to uncertainty and uncertainty leads to questioning and questioning takes one away for their decentralization and focused service potential. In the end knowing one’s status is just as significant as forgetting it. True Humility is required at all times thus the true knowing of their three-fold major periodic vehicles and Self status is valuable and necessity at times. The disciple has need to answer for himself various questions concerning his development real needs, his group related work and his part in the plan. Full freedom of the ashram implies one has disassociated from the ancient focus of creating points of personality form tension and replacing it with the creation of points of spiritual tension. Each disciple at this stage is in process of externalizing the Ashram by their reflecting of the inner Ashram group related activities through a constant alignment with the inner ashramic group note and quality. This process of selfless service carried over the years by the accepted disciple at any personal cost creates a growing fusion with the Ashram permitting this stage of discipleship. The thread is defined as the disciple’s life thread connected with the ashramic thread depicting some monadic control of the soul-personality permitting access to the higher Way through the isolated Whole or It’s Heart.

It is inferred that the stage of Chela on the Thread is particularly influenced by the synthetic influences of Aries-Cancer-Capricorn and the seventh Ray providing the Will to Organize and Express and earlier conditioned by Aries, Leo, Capricorn and the first Ray influence providing the Will to Initiate producing temporary destruction leading to a greater synthesis and the fourth initiation all through the processes of “revelation” of the Heart. The successful conditioning outcome will unfold and demonstrate over time the triadal microcosmic sense unfoldments, and higher Psychic Gift wave unfoldments, the third, fourth and fifth initiations, and attaining of adeptship status. Each integration stage once achieved precipitates the aspirant to a more inclusive stage of discipleship of Sanat Kumara.  The disciple can now begin to become aware of and stabilize in the world of significances.

Discipleship, 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 apperceptions of the spiritual triad related directly to the world of ideas whose time has come or not given that it is the basis for the Universal Mind and Mind of God content. 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 an area of livingness, or the manasic area, for the fifth kingdom expressing the growing influences from the sixth kingdom particularly impacting the buddhic area of livingness; and from the seventh kingdom impacting the atmic area of livingness.  As a unit, 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 and the Spiritual Triad. 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. This kingdom is consciously entered at the third initiation and on the path of initiation can proceed to look into the three-fold Heart of things and has discovered the higher Way due to this Heart.

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 one-pointed guidance proffered by the Law of Repulse, one eventually enters the area of space of the dynamic substance of the Plan. They also nascently enter into contact with the areas 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 along the group antahkarana. 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 leads to the path of initiation and comes more consciously under the Law of Group Progress which initially and nascently began after the second initiation was completed. The Law of Repulse has done its work during the third and fourth cycles of Jupiter between the symbolically ages of 35 to 49 if the disciple was able to occultly “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 revealing 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. One such Raja Yoga contemplation process or technique is given in Light of the Soul – Book I, Rule No. 20 where the One Soul basically trains the Son of Mind after they contact the world of significances.

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 appears in general to apply in some way or another to the aspects of the One Plan and related “monadic destiny” they and their group is responsible for manifesting based upon the ongoing workings of the Law of Repulse.  In other words, the disciple must determine for themselves the significance of their contacts in context to the One Plan and the divine Will organizing now these contacts. 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 or comprehend in any fullness or certainty outside of our planetary sphere.

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.  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. Thus, it takes the first four solar  initiations to master the world of significances.

Discipleship, 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 law of the soul and stage of discipleship as a correspondence point and also informative in explaining certain expansive registering of the entry ways into certain cosmic paths recognized sue to the response to the Law of Repulse. These recognitions at the time of registering them by the disciple are 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 in terms of planetary service while standing in spiritual being. A disciple 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 and the understanding of that destiny related purpose. The understanding of these progressive entries is that which can provide a way to keep our feet securely upon the razor edge path without the uncertainty of where the edge might be or dangers. Illusion is also not seeing and accepting what stands right before you. Remember we are the Truth, the Plan, the Path, the Work, the One, and the Law. 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 Truth, the Plan, the Path, the Work, the One, and the Law.

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 in expression is the Son of Mind’s Teacher than one can be assured one is balancing upon the razor edge Path at an acceptable level.

It is somewhat 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 ultimate pathway Home 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. In effect, the Law of Repulse repulses or destroys all other or lessor non-dharmic ways on the return journey Home to the Unknown.

Discipleship – 5^th Stage: Integration. Chela within the Aura

It is inferred that this Chela within the Aura stage of discipleship is due to the initiate being successfully conditioned by the Law of Group Progress with its conditioning seventh Ray related Will to Organize and Express and the constellations of Aries, Cancer and Capricorn.  This law is given as expressing through the love petals and the Law of Magnetic Impulse.

The last three discipleship stages are given as being concerned with initiate consciousness at a high stage of expansion and with a knowledge we have no terminology with is the fifth stage of discipleship. The last three stages are inferred therefore to be the fifth, sixth and seventh stages of discipleship. These stages are due to the earlier responses to the world of the ashram and its center – the Master. This permits now a potential response to the world of the Hierarchy as a unit; a response to the monad; and a response to the world of Shamballa and the Law of Spirit.

The functioning of the Master is given as being on “the plane of Being” or the cosmic etheric and is given as demonstrating that He eternally IS a divine outpost or point within that world of formlessness as opposed to the concrete form world of the disciples or the lower three sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. To understand the initiatory processes forwarding one into that world of being the words dynamic energy, electrical fire, essential life, being, the Presence is indicative. The disciple is a qualified appearance and is becoming as well as an admixture of material and solar fire evoking spiritual fires. A Master is given as having the ability to stand immovable in pure Being and in a state of constant potential expansion. Interestingly, all divine attributes expressing through divine aspects are capable for the initiate based upon their divine “existence” in some historical or racial period cycle. It is a relative perfection.

Astrological influences of various kinds are inferred to be responded to at this stage of discipleship as in all stages of discipleship. Some of these astrological influences were introduced in Chapter 8 and others will be introduced in Chapter 10 and they will be broken out by inference only by the various laws of the soul to the best of the author’s evidence, knowingness, and permission.  They of themselves appear to be the foremost predisposing set of causes for evolutionary unfoldment. This stage although due to the earlier conditioned results by the Law of Progress or Elevation slowly provides responsiveness to the Law of Expansive Response where it is given that masters react to it consciously but also initiates on the path of initiation. As earlier mentioned, these are basic cosmic laws and as such have various levels of possible reacting to and demonstrating thereof.

The reason these expansions of consciousness are possible is due first to the influence of the omnipresent and omniscience Aura of the Master being a doorway into the One Ashram of Sanat Kumara and the Christ.  This potential conditioning space permits a new level of sensitivity and consciousness unfoldment once the disciple is able to stabilize within the Aura of the Master beginning with a synchronization with His Mind. This understanding of this experiential sensitivity and consciousness unfoldment does not take place quickly as it requires a good comprehension of the occult, spiritual, hierarchical and triadal stages on the path in one’s experience.

It is given that this stage of discipleship is taught the method where disciples can request an interview with the Master. If related to meeting service objectives. For all present working disciples of the Christ this interview request was first privileged in a past life. This is the next level of potential interaction and assistance from the Master that of being able to get the Master’s attention in an emergency situation only when related to impacting some aspect of the Ashramic group Plan. Disciples at this stage vision and initiate a pathway where they can contribute within the larger Plan framework as opposed to an admixture of their own interests and the group Plans.

It is also at this stage that the disciple is basically at one with the Master’s overall ashramic group and this is due to the training provided by such group effecting thus an integration with the both the outer and the inner Ashram groups and thus a pledged and trusted unit. He is still subject to various tests and goals related to the group life in the serving of humanity and the one Life. These tests determine right humility, right proportion of response to contingencies, right organization of his life activities and processes.  Once the framework of the whole is correctly substituted for the framework of the part’s or disciple’s is established with some stability, he can be depended upon by that whole to represent it.

The master’s group is indeed the disciple’s source of spiritual insight and resources but the disciple on the physical plane can take quite a while to realize this.  In a larger and in a real practical sense the master’s group is the Hierarchy itself with the Master as a channel or surrogate for the Christ and Sanat Kumara as this is the way the disciple appears to experience it over time. Thus, the difference between the vibration and ideas of the master and the group are necessarily confusing in practice. Without the realization that the group Aura and Heart includes all auras and hearts progressively aligned and identified with where the Will, Mind, Aura and Heart of the Master is the archetypical resonate guide.  In respect to the initiate in training, his mind, aura, and heart progressively becomes in one degree or another the extension of the Master, the Christ and Sanat Kumara through progressive identification with the One Mind, One Aura and the One Heart of the One Ashram. The center and the periphery are experienced over time as one.

The disciple at this stage is basically no longer a drag on the livingness of the group. The disciple will necessarily isolate his aura if he believes he is becoming a problem or a disruption to his group.  He steps back to the outer periphery of the group aura and consciousness. Occult serenity is given as being the major requirement given permitting the more permanent group auric center placement. Occult serenity is particularly necessary as a first step towards the recognition of the Master’s Aura. And once it is identified with there is normally a potential disruptive impact.  This experience provides to the disciple an experiential position to make the correct adjustments to stabilize in this new Reality.

Serenity is indeed the state of the disciple’s aura when in contact with the master’s aura and expanded mind when in contemplative meditation. Occult Serenity is the outcome of a successful decentralization of the personality and is a natural extension of the earlier stage of discipleship. It is occult because no degree of inner higher spiritual or occult experience or quality of energy impact can perturb the balanced state of observation and registering. It is what permits true group contemplation. The issue is that this serenity needs to be constantly evoked no matter what life circumstances brings one’s way and this is significant to stay aligned with the master’s group for effective and correct service related exchange.

All outer progress is naturally marked by disruptions and karmic points of crisis and temporary chaos replaced by periods of peace. Serenity is that quality that is the next step after peace. Serenity is given as being defined as “intensity of feeling transmuted into focussed understanding.” It is also a “mind held steady in the light” of the soul regardless of the inner or outer circumstances in the personality life and meditations. He is polarized within the depths of his being and not in its periphery. He thus requires no warranted attention by the group or the master for auric readjustment or stabilization. The ability to transmute intensity of spiritual or socialized feeling into focused understanding might be seen to be the forerunner to successfully holding “the mind steady in the light” and record what the Son of Mind registers for prolonged periods of time then this signifies this stage of achievement on a day to day basis.   This leads eventually to complete soul-personality integration and fusion where recollection is not necessary. At this point the causal body no longer required.

It is given that an accepted disciple advances through three vibratory realizations. First, he reacts to some quality of an ashram per his ray type.  This could be any of his major rays or subrays whatever is prominent at the time. This process is through the personality ray which is frequently confused with the soul ray which it is a subray of the soul ray. The ray ashram aura is contacted by the disciple and relationships with various group members are developed, as necessary. This contact is by way of the world of meaning and the world of significances under the laws of Polar Union, the water and the fishes, and the of all destroying Angels.

It is true that the penetration into the world of meaning at the earlier state by the chela in the light is followed by penetration into the world of significances during the accepted disciple stage and into the world of causation once the disciple gains the assistance of the master’s inner group during the stage of chela on the thread. These penetrations and contacts can have significant knowledge content with accompanied intense qualified energies shared with the disciple and if the disciple permits any of these normally triadal qualified energies to touch his astral field (unless it is to determine the quality of energy being channeled) he will lose his group soul-mind-brain alignment.   If along the 1, 3, 5, 7 ray line this is easier of accomplishment. Also, after the second initiation the astral clearing intensity of feeling or leading to possible astral overstimulation is permanently removed and replaced with impersonality and true group feeling.

This stage of responding to the vibration of the aura of an ashram, or aura of the master’s group both acting as an extension of the Aura of the Master, from one point of view covers the earlier stages of discipleship but in fact is involved in all stages given that one can also respond potentially and inevitably to all the ray ashrams including the One Ashram as a whole.  The disciple basically knows when he reacts to the vibration, the note, or the equality of an Ashram. The working disciple also basically knows when he reacts to the vibration, the note, and the quality of all of the various ashrams and also the One Ashram.  It appears that the lessor ray of inclusiveness comes before the greater or major Ray. The disciple isolates the various plans of the various ashrams and sub-ashrams eventually related to the One Ashram itself but not till later during the third cycle of planetary integration and thus after contact is made to the Christ and Sanat Kumara initially through the Aura and Heart of the Master.  This appears to be part of the training process.

The disciple also advances from the periphery to the center through the recognition and identification with the vibrational quality and purpose of the ashram and its center. This produces a growing decentralization from the personality and soul interests of the disciple and owning those of the ashramic group and the service he can provide to others given his individual plan framework. This moves him from the stage of Accepted Discipleship to the Chela on the Thread stage. This is possible because of their success in building the antahkarana permitting the contact with the livingness with the Spiritual Triad. He is slowly gathering around him on one dimension or another those that can assist him and those he can assist or influence.

The disciple also advances through responding to the Master’s vibrational conditioning of the Aura of the ashram which also controls the quality note of the ashram.  Once the disciple can synronise with this quality of vibration he can enter into the stage of Chela within the Aura of the Master leading to great expansion of contacts under the Law of Expansive Response and opportunities for further service potential development and service. How does a disciple know that he has responded “to the realized vibration of the Master?”  The disciple now makes contacts with the Hierarchy as a unit or Whole and the spiritual will of the disciple moves into closer unity with the divine Will. The reason for this new awareness of new contacts is due to the “quality” and “sphere of influence” of the Master’s Aura as it is inclusive of the Hierarchy as a Whole.  These two variables are given as describing occultly the nature of an aura as opposed to its color and light used by lower psychics to describe an aura, but which is really just a state of (qualified) awareness. Thus, the disciple goes through a constant stream of expansions of consciousness as he is now privy to a multitude of new vibrational sources which need be identified and integrated in some way on all of the higher sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. As the disciple develops the ability to response through the occult process of absorption due also to astrological influences, he can potentially register contacts (indirectly) even outside of the cosmic physical plane although recognition is not necessarily forthcoming. The registering of a contact gives potential rise to forming of some intelligent relationship through one of the Sources separate three aspects of Life, Quality, or Appearance major vehicles thus increasing the disciple’s range of sensitized awareness impacting consciousness and thus his evolution of consciousness.

This analysis has produced yet another major realization. Our overt response to the radiatory activity contact and influence of the Master and His group produces upon the outer three planes a major change in direction of focus and also the descending of a group karmic pattern to clear a way for its intended plan participation related expression.  These are experienced dynamically as major spiritual events or planned events in one’s life and does act as a force for evolution of consciousness as sensitivity and response to contact is exhibited through this freeing process or “Grace” process.

The process of the disciple’s continuous response to more and more various extra-systemic influences through the exoteric, esoteric, and hierarchical planetary rulers aligned with the disciple’s centers and aligned under the Law of supplemental Seven with Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity. These extra-systemic energies and forces channeled and/or apperceived is one of the outcomes of the disciple’s monadic and ashramic orientation’s to their energetic pattern of purpose coming through the disciple’s amazing expanding auric contacts and responses to these Auric influences resonating through the One Ashram and through the Master. This all appears to take place within the dynamic field of the higher initiations conditioned by Capricorn particularly, but the Will and Consciousness aspect influences of Leo and Virgo are also obvious. In one sense it can understood as being within the Aura of Planetary Logos.

What is responsible for the “stillness vision,” or first point of revelation, that symbolically initiates a cycle of planetary integration. It appears or is surmised that a response to the radioactivity activity of the One Ashram Aura would produce such a “stillness vision” if one was sensitized to it by way of their polar opposite. The radiatory activity, qualities, and emanatory impulses of the disciple is given as that which makes possible the six or seven stages of discipleship as they correspond to some similar ashramic’s or Master’s radiatory activity, qualities, and emanatory impulses. The ashramic nature appears to draw out of the disciple this similar nature in resonate fulness permitting his expanding identification with the One Ashram as a whole and its multitudinous centers. It is the positive pole for Humanity’s Soul and the disciple’s causal body is polarized and aligned with Humanity’s as a whole.

The reality of a disciple’s response to the radiatory activity of an Ashram, a Master, or His group needs to be realized for the disciple to make the necessary adjustments to his humility assessment and causative framework for the reasons for events experienced and future opportunities. Few disciples are aware of this process as it unfolds, or they read too much into it either way a balanced perspective needs to be eventually achieved for the relationship between the Ashram and the disciple to unfold correctly and beneficially.

These radiatory activity, qualities, and emanatory impulses might be better understood as producing, through expanding contacts, also the awareness of the base qualities of the three triadal sheaths or the energy pattern of divine inspiration, indicative of isolated unity; of the inclusive reasoning indicated by the energy pattern of the clear cold light, and of the energy pattern of straight wise-knowledge indicative of the development of spiritual attributes. These three expressions or radiatory activity, qualities, and emanatory impulses are closely related to the processes of isolated unity, inclusive reasoning and spiritual attribute expressions and depict a link between and with the three sheaths of the personality reflecting the three sheaths of the spiritual triad. These dual three sheath development and integration and fusion provides the capacity to likewise respond to the three-fold vibration of the Master which might be considered as His Aura, His Heart, and His Beingness depicting in one sense the last three stages of discipleship – 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th.

The Spiritual Triad is also given as a key to a disciple’s nature of beingness.  The key to his own beingness can be inferred to be linked to one’s psychological experiences captured by the acts of becoming, belonging, and being as these are the qualities also respectfully unfolded and experienced among others when first contacting the personality sheaths to the three-fold Spiritual Triad. These three qualities can also be understood as being the basis for the progressive unifying spiritual tension processes of the disciple linking him with the One Ashram and Its center.

From another point of view, it might be considered arrogant if the disciple believed that he alone was responsible for the capacity to respond to the threefold nature of the Spiritual Triad without a first orientation by way of the threefold Soul, Ashram and Master which he absorbs as more frequent contact is made.  Given that the Master probably cares not at all that he is the source of the disciple’s force of evolution the discussion is probably not relevant except that can be understood to be yet another variable in obtaining a truer humility and thus is an important comprehension to achieve for the decentralizing and thus synthesizing of the hierarchical Whole within the disciple.

In the previous stage the focus of the disciple was on creating points of spiritual tension upon the three-fold dharmic Cross. His consciousness was slowly shifting from his lower three-fold nature into that of the Spiritual Triad through the contemplations and ascensions of the soul. The shifting process was due to the increasing sensitivity of the disciple to higher rates of vibration or activity on the inner planes by way of inner sheath unfoldment. The disciple experiences this increase in vibratory rate capacity unconsciously and becomes aware of it once he responds to some new higher field of contact. Thus, he automatically moves forward vibrationally through the process of “like attracting like” where the disciples aura becomes an extension of his expanding quality of consciousness. This process goes on until the disciple can respond in like to the Master’s Aura and enters fully into this stage of discipleship. He will then become aware first of what is in the mind of the Master, the feeling of the Master and the Master’s creative evoking activities.   This vibratory intensification and purification will take place slowly and not all of these three aspects through a Master’s Aura will be available to the disciple or the totality of any one of these three aspects. This synchronization takes much time, but it leads onto the higher Way.

The higher forces of evolution it inferred to come by way of the Master and the One Ashram’s influence generating the potential for entering the higher fields of initiation, evolution, and the cosmic paths (paranirvana). This Auric influence of the Master and the ashramic group is towards higher contacts and developed monadic sensitivity and is truly the hallmark of this stage of discipleship.  One can also understand that the Law Elevation and later he Law of Unknown together are moving him into deeper types of influences. It is only in this process that the disciple can make any real contribution to the livingness and potential Aura of the Ashram. The ability of the disciple to penetrate the Aura of the Master becomes a radiatory source for new qualities and intensified livingness of those exposed to the aura of the disciple upon any dimension.

This stage requires from the disciple an increased diligence in keeping out of his aura any quality not in harmony with the Master’s just as in the earlier stage the same applied to the ashramic group aura. Thus, he needs to keep outside of his consciousness any thoughts or desires or etheric impulses which will or might disturb the group aura whether these disturbances come from within oneself or transmitted through one’s self from outside. The protection and preservation of this group aura integrity will go a long way to whether or not assistance is provided.  The disciple’s dweller nature will determine those types of potential issues that the disciple must guard against.  For second ray dweller types the love of being loved is normally of a major concern as this is linked to past life guilt and shame issues, and over sensitivity to past lovers still loved, and kama-manasic and/or sub-personality telepathy as a doorway into the disciple’s aura through unredeemed sub-personalities and personalities linked to causal body memories.  In effect, these potential propensities and sources and related etheric and astral impulses are like adding an unwanted kama-manasic seeds to a seedless concrete mind-Son of Mind meditation even though the Master does not register these lower three-fold world processes they can disturb the outer ashram group aura.

The entering into an alignment with the Master’s Aura is a three-fold process linked to radiations from the three levels of the Spiritual Triad. First, the development of one’s own higher mind and its alignment or synching with the Master’s. To what degree is the disciple’s higher mind in spiritual touch with the Mind of God in terms of radiatory influence determines the first point of synchronicity. This radiatory influence unfolds with the building of the antahkarana which brings the disciple’s higher mind into relationship with the Master’s.  This is given as first taking place when a probationary disciple. This influence is given as producing an alignment of the:

1. The manasic permanent atom of the disciple.
2. The knowledge petals of the egoic lotus.
3. The lower concrete mind “held steady in the light.”
4. The throat centre.
5. The brain of the disciple upon the physical plane. DINA I, p.755

As this awakening influence continues the mind of the disciple synchs with outer and inner ashram group in terms of plan related interests.  There will be an innate interest developed along certain topic lines.  The list below represents an example of one disciple’s interest that is synching with the Mind of the Master. As the disciple enhances his understanding along these subject lines he will progressively enter into an auric relationship with the Master’s Mind. The following is one non-inclusive example only pertaining to the plan framework of the disciple in question. This ability to link with the Mind of God has to be unfolded by the disciple under the Law of Repulse where his higher mind reflects more and more of his “monadic destiny” intents by way of expanding monadic sensitivity.

Cosmology

Structure of Hierarchy

Structure of Shamballa

Structure of Humanity

Structure of Systemic Triadal Field

Structure of Creative Hierarchies

Purpose of SK

Purpose of Cosmic Logos

Purpose of Galactic Logos

Nature of the Plan

Nature & Composition of Planetary Live & lives

The Plans of the Christ

The Nature & Purpose of the Cosmic Paths

The Purpose for which the worlds were created

The Heart of God—Ishvara

The Will of Good

Through the registering of His Mind content correctly it will also provide an avenue into an understanding of His intent and Will directions. This requires also the receiving from the ashram the teachings going out into the world.  Also, of auric integrative value is the establishing yourself as an outpost relationship to the Plan with a correct understanding of the Plan context related to the ashramic group and the Master. One must develop their own correct framework for contribution to the larger Plan framework. This framework development will be of no easy task and will normally require the highest possible sacrifices and efforts to succeed. It is in this way that the Disciple needs to approach the Spiritual Triad. It does appear to be a superhuman task.

The disciple from the probationary initiate stage onward works with the ashramic’s group’s aura. The group aura is given as being composed of the influential nature from the group plus the dynamic nature from the Master. This aura represents the nature and types of directional influences coming into the disciple’s field of view assisting in their individual framework development. It is inferred that once the disciple can enter into and develop along his own major Ray lines the lowest level of the spiritual triad than he can be considered for accepted discipleship and thus become a probationary initiate.

The vibration quality of the ashramic group aura is unique and thus easy to identify and respond to, as a rule for the occult student, given it is basically constant and always qualitatively influential and informative. The dynamic aura of the Master, through the group aura, is normally in context to unresolved issues impacting service objectives and always positive in general but difficult to bear and normally materializes or is summarized at some regular symbolic times (such as on the 16^th of each month). All subjective communication is likewise symbolic in fact and appearance as it descends to manifest. It is surmised that a soul would be able to request this type of assistance to better keep on-track.

The second sphere of radiatory influence where the disciple can approach the Aura of the ashramic group, and the Master is emanated from the spiritual intuitional levels. This influence determines the disciple’s ability to be in touch with the Heart of God just as the higher Mind permitted the disciple to be in touch with the Mind of God.

The line along which this vibratory activity of the Master reaches the disciple and draws him finally within the aura is:

1. The buddhic permanent atom, or the intuitional vehicle of the advanced disciple.
2. The love petals of the egoic lotus.
3. The astral body in its highest aspect.
4. The heart centre. DINA I, pp.755-756

It is far from easy to ascertain or discriminate the source or nature of love energy received in contemplation in any meaningful way outside of the informative nature of the clear cold light except that it does enhance the disciple’s magnetic appeal subjectively. It might be easier to do so if the disciple permitted his astral sheath to be impacted during the recording of the soul’s contemplations but to do so takes the disciple out of alignment in the recording of the soul’s contemplations inclusive of the clear cold light’s informational intuitions.  This energy type is always present along with the energies of inspiration, those of the clear cold light, and those of illumination or straight wise-knowledge when the disciple has entered the three levels of the Spiritual Triad along with the energy of beauty and grace (veiling spiritual and divine attributes).

The atmic level is the third source of radiatory activity, qualities, and emanatory impulse influences available to the disciple to align with the ashramic group’s and the Master’s Aura. It is given that this will type of radiatory influence is what permits the disciple to enter into relationship with the Council at Shamballa and to register the purpose and divine Will of God working out through the Plan. It is given that only advanced initiates can register this acting as a surrogate Architect.

It is transmitted into the physical consciousness of the disciple along the following lines:

1. The atmic permanent atom or the focus of the spiritual will, the first aspect of the Spiritual Triad.
2. The sacrifice petals of the egoic lotus.
3. The etheric vehicle in its highest aspects.
4. The head centre.
5. The centre at the base of the spine, which is aroused into activity in response to the vibratory radiation of the other four points of transmission.

Once the antahkarana extended through all three triadal planes then Inspirational energy normally is registered with each soul contemplation or ascension as also with the energy of love. They are increased over time as higher and higher contacts are made along the group antahkarana utilizing the blended life, consciousness, and activity tread by way of the techniques of fusion and duality.  It is surmised that few disciples understand these three triadal radiatory causative reasons for progress (radiatory activity, qualities, and emanatory impulses) imperatives as a means for travel or towards the integrating into the Master’s Aura (and planetarily) except in hindsight.  Their focus is only upon the servicing of those real needs they have been privileged to address and thus inadvertently the creating of points of spiritual tension.

This threefold radiation of the Master, as it expresses His planned activity and sphere of “influential emanation” is that which draws the disciple into His aura—not in this instance the aura of the Ashram but of that which makes the ashramic aura possible—the Life of the Master. DINA I, pp. 756-757

One of the major difficulties confronting the inexperienced contemplative disciple  operating on all five lower cosmic physical planes (but accessed at first through others to even higher planes) is that the soul acts as a collection of source material along some particular lines of enquiry and these are prioritized by the soul which and potentially be registered in the brain and always are most complex and always impossible to record in any fullness as they can be composed of many contributing sources and endless number of concepts. This is indicative of an elevation and thus expansive response under the organizing and expressive influence of the seventh and the third rays. This can be either an indication of the human soul’s Self-interest, scattering of its forces, or due to the soul’s or monad’s Plan-interests or identifications. This contemplative related collection of knowledge, qualified energies and will intents can come from sources within the Aura of the One Hierarchy but also the Aura of Humanity and later the Aura of Shamballa and together the field to draw from is vast. One of the disciple’s issues needing proper resolution is how the soul determines its focus in its contemplations so-to-speak or how does it determine a seed thought given the personality mind is freed from such (or seedless meditations)?  If a disciple has still too much of a mystical undertaking in their search, then they will not be able to stay within some Self-derived larger Plan related framework but include also their own Self-interests. Thus, the disciple does not always stay within the intended topics of agreed to service plan development in any strict way as they become too curious during their adventures in to the Unknown.  This freedom needs to be better understood by disciples who have developed the capacity to contemplate as souls and thus travel to the many mansions of god otherwise much loss of valuable time which otherwise could be used to make the correct contributions agreed to within the timeframe required in hindsight. This is the ideal state of consciousness, for a pledged disciple, is that of a realized Hierarchy linked by its alignment and identification with Shamballa and expressing this Life and blended consciousness through their (the disciple’s) radiatory aura impacting through this emanating influence their inner and outer environments.

This above ideal consciousness and alignment state or realized Hierarchy (in its three major aspects and its seven minor aspects of these major three) is progressive and is progressively experienced during this stage of discipleship as the auras of the disciple and the Master slowly blend. As noted, the first indication is the nature of the topics within the Master’s Mind as thy become more telepathically linked. He slowly grasps or is handed by more advanced disciples during the disciple’s training, the emanating intents of the Master in context to his own determined creative framework. This is given as falling in to five separate stages. This is reflected in both his subjective processes and his outer three-world symbolic event processes. This first stage given as telepathic rapport. This inferred response takes place through the types of themes the soul-personality contemplates and thus the type of contacts one seeks and achieves over time with other ashrams.  The disciple has no idea why the various themes first present themselves until the larger picture slowly takes form over several years of contemplation and reflection on its fruits. One can be easily lost in the volume of information encounters, organized, and expressed, and recorded that needs to be put into the correct larger causative purpose and plan perspective.

In the second stage these various themes impressed upon the mind produce highly organized programs or formulas for creative forms to meet known real needs. These can be extremely involved and complex as they are attempted to be expressed in language concepts. This leads to their service form creation on the astral plane representing his conceptualized share of the ashram’s or Master’s plan fitting into the disciple’s own plan framework in line with the Master’s. Again, the origin of those many plans that reach the mental and the astral plane are really not really known by the disciple but normally are clued from those impressions received and recorded in the daily contemplations of the soul-personality. In other words, sources within sources telepathically received. Fortunately, the disciple’s discriminative capacity improves over time isolating the sources or sources within sources. This stage leads to further descent onto the etheric plane channeling the available force and energies made available to the disciple along their soul’s contemplative creative form development. Most definitely the hardest to achieve in a correct and useful format.  This is where the greatest degree of persistent and wise creativity needs to be applied. Once the disciple becomes aware of the simultaneity of the above four processes he can pass into a new phase of conscious discipleship. This awareness does not come easy in the beginning due to the quantity and complexity of the impressions received. Especially so if the soul and/or personality has intermixed their own Self/self-interests. This knowingness is given as presupposing of initiate understanding and the One Plan lies open before him.  Thus, those disciples at this stage of discipleship (or surmised to be) can know at any time all the plans for all of the various sub-ashrams and their inter-ashram plans. He is in a state of realized Hierarchy aligning with Shamballa and emanating this awareness through his personality sheath related mental aura.

The goal for disciples, as initiates, is to work with forces normally of the three worlds and later pure energies. The earlier stages of discipleship up to this stage trains one first to become simply a pure unimpeded channel for distribution. The goal is the distribution of the ashramic and group-soul energy in their pure state. After the achievement of a pure unimpeded channel and the ability to distribute various subjective forces, he has to master the distribution of the four forces and make their seven notes heard, each note of the seven having a fourfold expression, he is not able to work with energy. Thus, it is inferred that the Law of the Lower Four is implicated, as well as the Law of Supplementary Seven.

. When he works with energy, he works with seven and not with twenty-eight.” Reflect upon this. I would add that the twenty-eight belong to the seven and when the disciple works with seven, he normally and automatically releases the twenty-eight, working under the impression of the seven ray qualities.

During this master of the distribution of the four forces of the planetary fields it is stated he is learning the uses of distinction and of synthesis.  This appears to be a nascent aspect of the blending of the Lights stage of discipleship. The disciple progresses through a series of selected distinctive contacts that require fusion, tension, and unity to eventually reach a state of synthesis to reflect being descending to manifest in its more Whole state or Purpose. The disciple has to demonstrate the synthetic expression of mass, individual, and group consciousness leading first to Christ consciousness and later to some aspect of God consciousness that is the prerequisite for correct comprehensions of occult impressions received through the linking of spirit, soul, mind, and brain. A second requirement is to work under the Law of Synthesis and the Law of Freedom. The goal is correct orientation simultaneously to the three major aspects of the Soul, the Ashram, and Humanity as all is required to manifest the next civilization form to meet real needs. It is given that only disciples close to the Master’s heart (technically understood) and, therefore, consciously aware of His aura have the right—I had almost said privilege—to direct force in specific directions. When their status is not that, their task is to act as channels for the distribution of energy in a general and universal but not in a specific manner.

At this stage of discipleship, the initiate might still have not been trained or permitted to work with subjective forces except along a few tested lines. From a more exoteric and pragmatic plan perspective the following is given as an example of specific qualified energies being disturbed to create specific forms per an accepted disciple in training as a probationary initiate who recently achieved initiate status.

Example: Four tested lines as an example for a disciple:

1) The first being able to communicate with those out of body including the heaven worlds and accurately present these findings energetically to others.

2) To witness planned hierarchical undertakings and provide this information.

3) To create a school to train others to work within the light of the soul-personality to assist themselves and others in meeting real integrative needs or other real needs.

4) In speaking the truth to others from dimensional telepathically sources.

Due to the fusion process the working disciple or initiate at this stage is demonstrating the three major aspects of:

•  Isolated unity channeling the energy of inspiration.
• Inclusive reasoning giving the energy of the clear cold light and intuition.
• Illumination or Straight knowledge veiled by the energy of creativity leading to spiritual attribute development giving special abilities along some chosen individual framework related to the ashramic plan leading to the channeling of or distributing of various types of subjective forces.

It is given that the advanced accepted disciple has always his own group gathered to for creative work of some type due to the distributed Hierarchical energy to Humanity to the disciple. The gauge of a disciple’s capacity lies in his influence—through pen, word of mouth, and personal influence—upon other people.

One of the last training given to the disciple is the methods of distribution of energy through the centers.  Forces are never distributed through the centers but only the sheaths which draw the basis for these  forces from the sheath related energy centers acting as “reservoirs” of force. The disciple must learn to differentiate between energies and forces. The soul itself is intended to control all of the centers from the head center. The goal for the disciple is the distribution of hierarchical energy from the Aura of the Ashram and therefore the Master and/or the Soul.

The hierarchical energy is given as being distributed from six descending sources to the three higher centers of the disciple’s etheric body.  First through the Master’s Aura, to the ashram’s Aura, to the Soul of the disciple, to certain centers of Humanity the disciple is aligned with (normally the causal body or higher three centers of Humanity), to the disciple, through the antahkarana to the higher three centers of the disciple on the physical plane. This is important to understand for the disciple as it will determine his status and usefulness in working correctly with forces and later energies.

A clue as to this alignment and distribution process can be gleamed by understanding the source and distribution of the energy of Inspiration received in contemplation. Its source should be considered as a response to the Master’s Aura distributed through the soul body influencing the ashramic Aura and distributed simultaneously through the disciple’s three sets of petals (will, love, and knowledge) to one degree or another. The petals emphasized is according to the disciple’s ray nature. Thus, the disciple in contemplation would respond through the receptivity of his centers on the etheric-physical plane to the activity initiated by the soul under the impression by the Master through His ashramic Aura. It is inferred that the five will petals is the transmitting source for inspiration to the head center engendering spiritual will; the five love petals are given as the transmitting source for meaning and understanding to the heart center engendering love; and the five knowledge petals is given as the transmitting source of straight wise-knowledge to the throat center engendering active intelligence. Together this produces over time for the disciple a potent center of invocation evoking response from the spiritual triad. It is inferred that this process is responsible for the discovery of the field of the higher initiations as well as all knowledge. It is this evocation that aligns the atmic, the buddhic and the manasic permanent atoms to the three tiers of egoic petals producing spirit-soul-mind-brain relationship with the Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity by way of the higher three centers and the three aspects of the Aura of the Master – His Mind, His Heart, and His Will. This technical process explains many things not understood in the normal daily life of advanced meditation and service as to the process and protocol of making subjective contacts in respect to the three major planetary centers. It is the science of invocation and evocation unfolded by the disciple in response to the Aura of Master.

This process of divine inspiration is responsible for all evolutionary growth and understanding and is quickly achieved through the art of contemplation. It permits one to become an integral part of the life of deity and is constantly registered and comprehended once the disciple advances into these three higher stages of discipleship. The science of Life is grasped through the mastering of the science of the breath as all fusion is engendered through the co-science of invocation and evocation under the Supreme Science of Contact.

Mind, Heart, Will and Blended Lights of the Master

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 first contacting of the Mind of Sanat Kumara takes place as all new expansions in consciousness through the Aura, Mind, Heart and Will of the Master and the Christ. Disciples who reach the stage of the entering into contact with the Mind of Sanat Kumara might consider this as some form of illusion but will probably be confused as to the Science of the Path. This is an example of the necessity to understand one’s hierarchical point of progression and the science of the path variables to avoid moving away from the center of the One Ashram to its Periphery.  It takes some time to own this aspect of the teachings to realize this hierarchical reality. Thus, the message is to believe in yourself as a divine being and “walk humbly with your god.” Eventually, we are told that the continuous development of the antahkarana through the cosmic physical plane we can become aware of what transpires in the Council Chamber of Shamballa and then be able to work with the Divine Will aspect of divinity through the direct receiving of impressions from Shamballa initially through the Nirmanykas.  This training would appear to begin in stage five of discipleship. The goal after the competing of the twelve final tests taking one up to the fifth initiation is the revelation of the Real.

As earlier pointed, in the section of the Crises of the Soul, that the synthetic influences of Capricorn, Virgo, and Leo should be understood as the major conditioning influences under any Cycle of Initiation processes affecting all of the various discipleship stages. Secondarily, it is inferred that the stage of Chela within the Aura is initially conditioned and generated by the synthetic influences of Aries, Cancer, Capricorn and the seventh Ray influence providing the Will to Organize and Express producing contact and relationship to all planetary Lives under the Law of Elevation. This sensitizes the initiate to the synthetic influences of Cancer-Libra-Capricorn the third Ray energy of the Will to Educate and Evolve conditioning the Law of Expansive Response. Each integration stage once achieved precipitates the aspirant to a more inclusive stage of discipleship.  The disciple can now become aware of and begin to stabilize somewhat in the world of causes and the world of purpose once his humility is adjusted according to the truer nature of his divinity.

Discipleship, The World of Causes & The Law of Group Progress

Conscious response to the Law of Elevation permits one to nascently enter the world of being. It has always been the experience of disciples that all theory related to the various sections of the path cannot necessarily be understood correctly unless first experienced and applied in a practical service capacity. It is thus rightly given that an initiate knows because he works. This is a truism which is based upon commonsense. It is only after adhering to the science of the path related service related pragmatism that the disciple is able to progressively move into the worlds of meaning, causes and beings where they begin to grasp the outlines of the organizing Purpose of Sanat Kumara.  Given the knowledge of the science of path is limited for those advancing disciple just and always moving into the newness of the Unknown and therefore they normally lack any true science of the path comprehension and thus sure-footedness to sustain their planetary integration process outside of their will adherence to occultly serve and obey. Unless one individually knows the purpose behind the ashramic groups’ contemplative themes for their creation of forms or its “original intention” as described in the following quote one will not correctly advance through identification and apperceptive a correct understanding of Sanat Kumara’s Purpose as it is hidden in the dynamic pattern of the energies being registered and organized within the Council Chamber per the cosmic path ways.

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

The disciple only becomes dynamic upon all planes over time as they persist in their daily group ascension through contemplation. Secondly, all contemplative related self-created forms one chooses to compose to serve in the three-worlds must always be kept in a correct larger plan framework perspective once this is comprehended.  This means first of all that one must always be aware that their individual plan related forms they are creating in time and space to address a perceived set of real needs of the various planetary lives along some time line are aligned with the larger framework of the Hierarchy.  But just as importantly, it is paramount that one remembers that once forms are co-created and applied through identification that associated time and space has also begun to be re-created. These changes need to be monitored over time to ascertain correct alignment in creative effort. Between the individual’s plan framework and the hierarchical one.

The need to adhere strenuously to “original intentions” assume first that this “intent” is correctly comprehended.  In many cases this is not so easily apperceived given the large volume of construction activity of the individual disciple along some group set of thought-forms that is being co-created hiding the larger underlying pattern.  The actual meeting of “original intentions” at each moment does potentially represent an altered environment in some manner that also requires recognition and acts as a feedback mechanism. Memory does not span vibration as the adage goes.  In other words, present cell memory and/or an ongoing collection of created forms by the soul in contemplation should not take precedence over the “original intention”. To avoid this, these contemplations should be given the status of a present working 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 hierarchical origin is aligned with Sanat Kumara or Planetary Logo’s Purpose 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 is 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, one associated to the human soul grouping and another to the spiritual soul or heavenly Man grouping. This 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 planetary Monad.

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 need to correctly understand why a “conscious relationship can be established with the Initiator” once one enters into the world of causes to understand this section of the Path. The world of causes contains an organizing group of esoteric Lives upon the triadal planes one of which makes up the force centres of the heavenly Man. The world of causes also is based upon the dynamic Plan Substance or Energy organized in Shamballa representing Intent circulating therein. The world of causes can be understood as an area of qualified energy organizing space created by the planetary Logos represented by and working through Sanat Kumara (the Initiator) and particularly the higher three more formless kingdoms. It might be considered as His qualified Brain radiation and content so-to-speak symbolically understood as representing on this planet the Mind of God or available organized Substance for the creative causative processes.

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 after the third initiation or in the path of initiation (uniting spirit and matter or spirit-soul and soul-personality) the initiate 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 integrating and fusing human unit.  They can only apply this purpose indirectly through correctly formulating an approved (by the Christ and Sanat Kumara) “individual plan framework” and only this if a working disciple in good standing. A third degree initiate is unfolding this co-creative participation. This should be his major undertaking and ultimately his only undertaking which will permit him to become what he actually is or an expression and refection of the Architect and 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, world of being, the nature of group karma and the world of evolutionary creation. Purpose is the major causative variable in being descending to manifest and its relation to progressive evolutionary creation is controlled by group related karma (heavenly Man’s) 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 (once identified as Spirit or the Creator aspect 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 by way of the creative hierarchical form lives embodying processes.  Spirt dictates the nature and livingness of Purpose and by default is the intended wise basis of the Plan. It is Spirit that provides the nature of the livingness for all of the various worlds. It is the divine Will acquiesced to or not by the combined spiritual will of the soul and individual will of the personality. Ray Lives descend and ascend through astrological and karmic conditioned creative hierarchical set of form lives that determines the timing of Purpose.

…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

The world of causes is nascently entered by the disciple through the fifth kingdom and the development of their Christ consciousness.  It is this consciousness that permits the discovery of the planetary Christ Presence which provides access to incoming energies and attributes from the higher two kingdoms. It is through the assistance of these higher kingdom influences that the disciple is able to align with the Will, Love and Mind of God that permits him to discover that which lies behind this Presence and thus the reason for the world of causes and the basis of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience.

This is a state leading to the state of isolated unity in the world of being. It is the state one enters when in advanced contemplation the human soul, now identified with the spiritual soul is identifying with the divine Soul and thus the expanding Wholes within the One Life. The Love of God and the Will of God is reflected in the Mind of God, and it is this Mind we identify with, the creative basis of causation and doorway to all knowledge is discovered and known.

We understand now how each time one enters into advanced contemplation they enter the world of causes or that which the true Self apperceives, and which is the antechamber to the world of being and purpose.  This world is entered through contact with the monad or spirit by an advanced meditation process known as “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 where the perceiver looks into the world of causes these higher divine Will. Love and Mind impulses and reflects these back into the quiescent mental body. The mental body transmits this knowledge and comprehension to the physical brain.

The objective universe, or the unreal, is seen as not truly existing but only as an imperfect reflection of this new subjective world attempting to descend to manifest. 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.  The disciple is liberated and free and subject only to the new conditions of the contacted Life as he has made the great at-one-ment with that responsible for the descending Cause.

It is in this threefold triadal world of significances (worlds of meaning, causes, and being) the initiate can now work. It is governed by the Law of the Supplementary Seven is the great synthetic Law of Life or of Spirit. This is the initiatory world of true causes where the initiate can now work.

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 those initiations that follow the third and in this process, he assists in addressing his share of group karma through conditioning the substance of the three worlds. It is difficult for the disciple to be aware of this law or its processes happening in respect to his part in the organizing of these conditioning energies and their circulation in the lower three worlds.  He is aware of it potentially through his expanding identity to the various kingdoms and ashrams and their related attributes contact and absorbed in effect. This absorption provides a further insight into their own truer nature as Spirit Itself and likewise insight as to a higher pathway they can enter to seek the unknown Source of these causative  energies.

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

Discipleship and the  Three Aspects of the Monad  & The Law of Group Progress Enhanced

During each of the preparations for the first three initiations one circle of egoic petals is given as unfolding or opening until at the fourth the inner petals are likewise opened revealing another secret aspect of the Self.

What is the nature of the secret the bud reveals leading up to the fourth initiation? The nature of the secret is the truer nature of one’s Self or identity with the Presence or Father aspect. One pragmatic aspect of this secret to the essence of 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 Monadic Divine Flame 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 the cosmic planes 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 Purpose which lies back of 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. One is not able to enter this world of purpose but the doorway is recognized.

It is important , at this stage, 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 and not easy to first isolate given the interaction subjectively with many groupings egoically considered in practice. Due to the ongoing initiatory processes, there is given three particular groups affected which likewise condition one’s group service based upon the initiation being undertaken. The first is the group the aspirant is working with on the physical plane but also present astrally and mentally which are focussed on some aspect of the New Group of World Servers. Through this group various ashramic energies are being channeled.

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.

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 has a radiatory effect or influence on the other members.

Each disciple also 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.

Unbeknownst to most disciples is that his ability to work consciously within these above three groupings is his major objective up to the third initiation. The source of his magnetic radiation and the expression of his energies is through the soul but after the third initiation is through the monad and this is experienced in three stages.

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 first stage recognized is related to a polarization with the third aspect of the monad or that of the abstract mind which becomes the source for the transmission of ideas as potential fruits for potential service to humanity as a whole.

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 next stage recognized by the disciple in contemplation is related to the second aspect of the monad or that of the pure reason linked with the spiritual will which becomes the source of his increased ability to understand and serve the Plan. This effective serving process enhances the disciple’s ability to transmit in a progressive manner the Purpose behind 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 third stage recognized after the disciple effectively demonstrates the earlier stages is the impact of the energy of the monad channeled through him. The nature of this energy is recognized as the will-to-good as recognized by the Hierarchy as a whole and provides him with an enhanced sense of universality and a new relationship with the whole inclusive of Hierarchy.

The immensity of this synthetic planetarylLivingness and also 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 in relationship to it.  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.

Discipleship, 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), the sixth stage of discipleship, and the sixth law of the soul. The Technique of Duality can be understood in practical terms as that technique being applied in the “dual life of the initiatory process” which is 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 but provides a channel of contact for the three-fold periodic vehicles of the larger wholes he finds himself within. This is only after the dual soul aspect (lower and higher egoic rays) has blended with the spirit and matter aspects thus the final synthesis from the four to the two to the one is undertaken at the third initiation. Thus, the dual of spirit-soul blended Ray and soul-personality blended ray become likewise blended. In effect it is an avenue for the expanding identification(s) with the Whole(s) at its various levels of beingness.   During the third initiation period the soul ray livingness begins its blending with the monadic ray livingness due to the bridging aspects of the soul and the advancing point of Light. It is this process which produces the magical process of “identification” experienced by the disciple at increasing moments and levels of beingness. This is given as the final stage of soul development and is one of the requirements for the fourth initiation.

There is the realization that the Technique of Duality is being applied upon the Path of Initiation yet in actual experience it is similar to the Technique of Fusion and the Technique of Integration in that the physical man is unaware of this happening in their brain awareness except in hindsight and this awareness is due to the fruits of the techniques themselves. The duality process appears to be an extension of the successful application by the soul of the fusion process.  It is given that the Technique of Fusion transmutes the higher aspects of the personality ray into those of the soul or “the ray of the personality, becomes subject to the quality of the egoic ray” after which the Technique of Duality comes into play. 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.  “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.” Ultimately, it is a process which permits the experience of the essential One Spirit-Self to express through the unifying the lower soul-personality ray qualified (characteristics) duality with the higher soul-spirit Ray 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)

“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-personality ray nature and activity that the spiritual-soul is able to qualify and direct within the three worlds. One should keep in mind that spiritual-soul ray “quality” can be understood to depict also the nature of its influence and methods in subjective activity.

“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 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 levels.

The duality technique process is pursued after the third initiation once the techniques of Integration and Fusion has united the personality and soul. Integration and Fusion permits one channel or means which the energy of spirit can contact the larger manifested Whole in the lower three planes as well as all five lower planes or states of consciousness. At this point the Technique of Duality can be pursued to bring higher forces through these lower five.  EPII, pp. 390-391

Thus, the Technique of Duality appears to be applied only after the third initiation requirements are met and 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 during this third initiation period. After a certain stage of triadal development 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 planetary and solar sense, and cosmic sense. The entering of the world of the Presence 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.

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 a key hint in forwarding our understanding of this subjective process.  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 related to the Soul of Spirit and not a subray of the Divine Soul which is more related to the Soul of Matter with its psychic sensitivity development in a cosmic or divine substance sense expressing through or reflected in the Soul of the World’s form creating capacity (known also as the Holy Ghost) we as soul-personalities are inherently a process therein. It is the divine Soul that creates the indwelling Crist potential. The human soul is a product of the animal soul and the divine Soul which sublimates the animal soul over time to produce the individual indwelling Christ.

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 through the fused soul-personality upon the concrete mind vs. the soul-personality expressing itself through the concrete mind. The Spirit-Soul Ray is presenting its qualified intent within the inner triadal world or world of causation and the soul-personality ray is progressively embodying this qualified intent towards some purposeful service agenda within the manifested world of the individual man, heavenly Man or Grand Heavenly Man.

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 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 this 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. Framework might here be understood as being a product of the Technique of Duality objectively being demonstrated over time. Those reaching this stage of intended Plan demonstration have effectively moved outside of their present karmic limitations or Saturn’s Law of Karma 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 what is occurring; and this simplifies their understanding of this technique and provides a clearer scientific insight in this section of the path. These related fruits are related to the higher synthesis of the major periodic vehicles enhancing the awareness and potential of both the monad and the personality by way of the bridging proffered by the dual soul nature.  This enhancement is likewise a product of astrological influences invoked particularly those of the major three and seven constellations being channeled through the twelve constellations which are channeled through the twelve planetary rulers impacting the initiate’s centers. This is due to their stabilization at the center of the three major crosses or the Dharmic cross.

This higher initiation process, expanding identification withwholes process, and expanding soul energies for group benefit are not understood by the initiate until they achieve some triadal consciousness on the soul’s plane(s) of normal existence within the world of causation. The expanding soul energies for group benefit which are held within the confines of the Kingdom of God relate to the body of souls being organized to better express the Will and Plan of God or the planetary and solar Logos. These expanding soul energies benefits all egoic groupings in some fashion to better express the Will and Plan of God. This enhanced egoic potential implies an enhanced ability to work with the larger Plan framework.

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.”  The teachings suggest that the spirit and matter union under the Technique of Duality in effect is a progressive union between the central chakra points or will point of the major dual head center and the dual ajna center. It can be understood to also depict the relationship between the first aspect of a chakra and its third aspect both of which are fused under the Technique of Fusion.  In another more planetary integration sense, it is the higher three cosmic etheric planes being effectively related to  the lower three cosmic physical planes where balance is achieved between spirit and matter at the fifth initiation on the buddhic plane.

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)

The Technique of Duality appears to progress the multi-dimensionality of a chakra or from a third dimensional to higher dimensions which is contributed to the fires of spirit-manus playing upon the fires of manas-matter. This process produces in an initiate greater capacities of continuity and thus service upon all planes, contingent upon the chakra dimensionality, and not just on the lower three planes.

It is now easier to understand that the contemplation process can be entered when the lower centers are transmuted into the head center and a relationship has been tentatively established between the head and ajna centers. The seven physical head centers is how the soul transmits “the energy, force, purpose, and will of the Planetary Logos on His own plane” by way of the seven major egoic groups on the manasic plane to the physical man. The seven head centers likewise (correspondence to the seven Kumaras of the planetary head centre) are being synthesized in the major radiant head center (or corresponding to the head center of Sanat Kumara). The seven Spirits before the Throne can be considered the seven head centers for the solar Logos where the seven head centers for the greater Logos are given as the seven stars of Ursa Major. At each level these seven head centers are required to be unified with the major dual head center above the head and the heart center between the third and fifth initiations. The heart center is being likewise initially synthesized in the twelve petal head center representing the Heart center of the planet (Hierarchy) or the Heart center of Sanat Kumara.  The Hierarchy with its relationship to the systemic Heart centre which is represented within the planetary head centre. The seven head centres were previously synthesized with the lower two major head centres. Thus, the lower evolved matter ray is being synthesized with the evolved spirit Ray in all three aspects over time. All of these processes are ray induced processes.

At this stage there is seen a seven-fold blending process reduced to a fourfold and later a dual with a final unification process. The dual Spirit-Soul and divine Soul Rays producing the useful creative fruits of the initiate through the uniting of the inner worlds thus mediating the the development of “spiritual gifts” or “existing, presented, or divine attributes”.  Once this process reaches a certain initial stage on the path of initiation the Law of Groups will become subservient to the Law of Spirit propelling the initiate onto the path of identification just as the Law of Matter becomes subservient to the Law of Groups when the aspirant entered the Path. All three now work in harmony coming under the tutelage of the One Spirit-Soul and the One Divine-Soul-Personality with the objective of expressing perfectly the purpose for which the worlds were created.

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

The cosmic physical plane is becoming the new inclusive world that the initiate needs to stabilize in to abstract himself out of. This was the world the disciple reaches but and must stabilize in.  During this stabilizing stage at each new level contacted there is normally little understanding of this new level of being. It is only after a period of hindsight reflection upon their experiences and upon the teachings does this new world represent some factual world the initiate has entered, registered, and recorded can he effectively related it to the larger Plan and Purpose Framework of Sanat Kumara. The degree of consummate beauty the initiate is able to embody related to this new world becomes the underlying and distinctive quality proffering opportunity to serve within this larger purpose framework and unfold their comprehension thereby. These world related streams of force can be tracked back towards their originating Sources, and it is this process of tracking that the Son of mind undertakes each time contemplation is entered.  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)

The world of causation opens up the disciple during the third initiation processes to the gateway into the seven or nine cosmic pathways as they track the Sources giving rise to this world among others. This is due to the workings of the Technique of Duality and of Fusion being carried successfully forward. Which paths discovered is ultimately due to the nature of the initiate’s individual framework under the Law of Destiny. Wholes are being identified with due to the initiate’s success of planetary integration. This leads to a variety of potential problems encountered upon the abstracting and ascending Way. These are due to their own lack of true stabilization (resurrection) within a new world and not fully embodying its beauty and thus not understanding its real larger purpose.

The world of causation is a world of dynamic impression due to constructive workings by the initiate within this spiritual triadal world or constructive within any new world contacted. Each new world has its own potential issues, but they all have in common the initiate with their point of causative understandings of the science of the path in general. It is easy to be side tracked by new contacts with their new impressions and content and lose sight of the larger framework that originally motivate this point of abstractive success. The see it as a new adventure into the Unknown and get sidetracked by new adventurous experiments which they themselves can lead the initiate off of the razor narrow edge path of identifying and serving the large framework by way of their own individual framework. Each individual l=framework is basically agreed to be the powers that be and small deviations over time can create a growing gap in meeting intended monadic destiny or some plan contingent. Furthermore, these adventures can lead to misunderstandings given the true science of the path is not yet learned related to this world.  Each of us can be sidetracked by obligating ourselves to assist in areas we are not meant to assist in or even necessary to explore all due to adventurous contacts and assumptions made. In fact, these are due to the inability to master time and one’s creative process effectively in context to the one Plan of the Christ. It is a failure in occult service and obeyance in small ways over time that accumulate. These are all due to the successes forwarded by the techniques of fusion and duality not necessarily correctly understood and embodied in time and sequence. This is particularly so when responding to the laws of Expansion Response and of the Lower Four where the Lives of all the creative hierarchies opens up to the initiate.

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 and approved “individual framework” to be applied within the larger framework.”

Discipleship – 6^th Stage: Transition to a Greater Life. The Chela within the Heart. The Chohan reacts.

This law is given as being responded to by Chohans but initiates on the path of initiation also respond to this law and it appears to be also underlying cause behind the sixth degree initiates in producing planetary acts of liberation for the prisoners of the planet. At this stage, it is given that the disciple is taking or has taken a major initiation and/or is given specialized work. This stage is reached once the Initiate can react unconsciously to the conditioning influences under the Law of the Expansive Response and can be considered as stabilized once he responds occultly and consciously to the esoteric name for this law or the Law of the Unknown. It is significant to point out the third Ray which is distributing the energy pattern given as the Will to Evolve and Educate along with the synthetic energy pattern influence of Cancer, Libra, and Capricorn. This law is given as expressing through the knowledge petals and the Law of Service.

It is important to note that the truer occult, hierarchical, and triadal nature of group work cannot ready be cognized by any below master status although we do try to explain these subjective experiences to ourselves given our progressive participation if so earned. There are now those living among us that has reached great heights of endeavor in the Lord’s Work and Ashram. And among them are two particularly going forward in this life’s work; both are registered Master’s so-to-speak working for the Christ and have a special place in His Ashram. They are distributing information now to seed the world on the correct way to move forward in the light of day. In respect to their work, it is important that nations get on board to deal with climate changing potentials along with other ongoing problem solving efforts internationally. All is good and well until the inevitable happens and this they are trying to prevent.  Our part in this is first the necessity of scheduling a time between work and play is to prepare our vehicles to ascend nightly to better assist in these and other plan related goals.

This stage of discipleship provides a direct relationship to the heart of the disciple from the Heart of the ashram and the Heart of the One Ashram – the Christ, and basically a relationship with all hearts. The initiate at this stage is considered an initiate of high standing and comes under the supervision of the Christ in one capacity or another given the initiate is now hierarchically conscious and basically identified with the Ashram as a Whole. Truly one indeed with the Heart. This realization is a gradual one and the initiate in brain awareness slowly senses a shift in esoteric loyalty and commitment to the Christ and His Plans. All requests and acknowledgements are centered, almost innately, upon the Lord Christ and later Sanat Kumara. It is experientially true that the secret of the “heart” is the significance of life itself. This is discovered at this stage of discipleship where the initiate identifying with the One Heart within the many hearts and is himself a distributor of life inter-dimensional in ways not before experienced. All major initiations processes give new avenues of livingness to the initiate that can now be circulated within the ashram and the lower three worlds. This livingness is directly related to the nature of the cosmic Heart of the Sun expressing through the microcosmic physical Sun, heart of the Sun and the heart of the central spiritual Sun are thus being related through alignment within the initiate. The initiate is a distributor of energy of this One Heart and his alignment is given as including:

1. The disciple’s heart centre.
2. The heart centre in the head.
3. The egoic lotus, which (until the fourth initiation) is the heart centre of the monadic life.
4. The Master at the centre of His group.
5. The Christ, the heart centre of the Hierarchy.
6. The life of the Monad which begins to make itself felt at the third initiation.
7. The Lord of Life Himself, the heart centre of Shamballa.

The line of relationship then extends from these onward and outward, and upward (spherically considered) to the Life at the very centre of our Earth’s “alter ego,” the planet Venus, to Jupiter and thence to the solar Lord Himself and on to a point in the Sun, Sirius. You can see, therefore, how different this stage is from what might be imagined. It is one which marks a new departure or beginning and a great transition. It is a stage which one enters through the open door of Nirvana, the beginning of the Path of the Higher Evolution. It is a stage which marks a specific location (if such an inappropriate word can be used) of the disciple upon that upward Way which is revealed by the lighted Way; it is the attainment of the innermost point of realisation, called esoterically “within the heart.” DINA I, pp. 767-768

Such is the initiate’s alignment now focussed at some one point within this alignment sequence working on utilizing it to better carry out the Lord’s Work.  Historically, the alignments of Hearts are the ultimate pathway to Nirvana into Paranirvana and links the disciple and soul body with the inner ashramic group, the Master, the One Ashram, the Christ, the Monad, and the Sanat Kumara and the Solar Logos. Or in other words to extra-planetary Life and Lives. This linking process is due to the nature and use of the Life Thread as it is inner-related with the other threads of the Planetary Antahkarana inclusive of the Sutratma. It is a specific stage or location that is revealed by the blending of the hearts which leads a realized state of being “within the heart.”

It is confirmed that from within the heart there appears to be an open door of approach to systemic events on Venus, or Jupiter or any other planetary scheme and the solar system as an example through the Heart of the Hierarchy and Shamballa. This is an opportunity proffered to those who have discovered the higher field of initiation permitting this stage of training. This stage requires a true belief in yourself as a divine being. This belief is fostered by the ongoing unfoldment of the state of “identification.” World disciples as working disciples are considered as being close to the Master’s heart and this provides the opportunity to discover the location “within the heart” through the influences of the Master and of the Christ which distributes the waters of life from the cosmic Christ.

From within the heart the discovery of the doorway into the Absolute leading to a new and amazing awareness that is extra-planetary by nature and also extra-systemic in the sense of this path of the Heart composes the cosmic pathways. The nature of this doorway is discovered through the blending of the spiritual will heart with the divine Will and Heart; and this blending brings an identification within the heart of the Lights of Life. This appears to be one of the best ways it can yet be described in experience. This understanding is most precious beyond all other knowledge in that there exist these spiritual occult sciences that capture our own experiences and proffer universal understandings of spiritual experiences in the lights of those that came before us.  Within the heart location captures the universal pervasiveness of the beingness that the Light of Life reveals when within the heart. It appears that it is through the astrological influences responded to under the Law of Expansive Response permits the discovery of all nine cosmic paths, along with the Creator and Perceiver Himself which can be identified with by way of blending one’s lights with the Light of Life. We struggle to make sense of our contacts with these unique energetic signatures and qualities as they impact our brain consciousness in contemplation.  These pathways are doorways into relationships between planetary, systemic, and cosmic Lives which can be isolated within the heart and identified with also from within the heart.

The key secret to passing through the various stages of discipleship and standing within the heart is simply obeying to the point of crucifixion the “order of Service” and self-forgetfulness. This leads one through the higher initiation training processes discovered within the heart as well as the discovery of the Light of Life. This Light appears to take one into the next stage of discipleship or the “bending of the lights.” There appears yet really no other beneficial way to travel. This obeying to the point of crucifixion the “order of Service” discovered in the soul light permits indeed a rapid movement between stages of discipleship especially once the disciple permits no personality considerations to cloud the intent; or in other words not believe in themselves as a divine being.  There is no crucifixion that should deter one from the “order of Service”.  The “order of Service” can involve a vast inter-relationship with many groups upon all five lower planes and it can be, at first, difficult to correctly organize by the soul and mind as intended towards the demonstration of this “order of Service.”

It is surmised that once a disciple becomes aware of the Plan(s) of the Hierarchy involving the various ashrams, they have penetrated the Christ’s and Master’s Aura. They are indeed responding to His Aura. This is surmised as being the first step in discovering the within the heart location. It is important disciples understand this for correct perspective and correct humility. This requires the attainment of group consciousness, developed higher mind, and controlled astral sheath experienced within their brain awareness.  This eventually bears fruit once the disciple possesses sufficient strength of purpose, clarity of intention and dedication to becomes aware of the Aura and Heart of the Christ. The disciple will discover slowly that His quality and vibration will now be resonate within the disciple’s aura and heart and his assistance can be given if needed. It is a great privilege, but this relationship is not at first self-evident especially for those disciples without a truer sense of their divine nature and spiritual humility. It takes experience and reflection to give correct perspective to these stages of the path.

It is true the that one can know the Plan of the Hierarchy as a whole, but this comes in stages as there are many inter-sub-ashram plans related to one’s own plan and a great many not related to ones one Plan and these can be organized in context to humanity or the lower kingdoms and deva kingdom.  The impact of the disciple’s aura should reflect the quality of Brotherhood and Ashramic loyalty such that it resonates “I am one with my group brothers, and all that I have is theirs. May the love which is in our soul pour forth to them. May the strength which is in me lift and aid them. May the thoughts which our soul creates reach and encourage them.”

Below is an apothem that attempts to capture one aspect of this stage of discipleship received in contemplation:

11-10-03 Seeker of the Heart of All

Within the Heart of God, I see a doorway of blended light.

Within the Heart of God, I move towards this door of light with our heart aflame.

I, the seeker, the passionate one, adorned with the vestures of God itself, I glance back of those who follow after and pull them with me into the One Heart and the One Light.

I seek those who have gone before me and attempt to imitate those steps upon the wayward journey Home.  (by the Author)

As earlier pointed, in the section of the Crises of the Soul, that the synthetic influences of Capricorn, Virgo, and Leo should be understood as the major conditioning influences under any Cycle of Initiation processes affecting all of the various discipleship stages.  Secondarily, it is inferred that the stage of Chela within the Heart was earlier influenced by the synthetic influences of Cancer, Libra, Capricorn and the third Ray influence providing the Will to Educate and Evolve. 

Each integration stage once achieved precipitates the aspirant to a more inclusive stage of discipleship.  The disciple can now become aware of and begin to stabilize somewhat in the world of being and touch more fully the world of the Presence once his humility is adjusted according to the truer nature of his divinity.

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

Discipleship & The World of Being

Conscious response to the Law of the Unknown permits the initiate to reach the point in development where the consciousness of the Presence, begins to unfold within their presence. It indicates, first of all, that the initiate at this time somewhat aware of the dictates of what lies on the other side of the Angel of the Presence 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 progressively entered once one enters the fifth kingdom and the path of initiation. The activity and love focus of the disciple shifts to the blending of his spiritual will with the divine Will and the worlds of causation and purpose replaces the earlier focus on the world of meaning.

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.

During the integration, fusion and duality processes, the disciple, as a consecrated personality, progresses in identity from human consciousness with its awareness of the soul within the form and their cooperation with the soul to hierarchical consciousness with an expanded awareness of the Self and the group conscious Soul due to the Technique of Fusion. This new expanded awareness and recognition leads to a cooperation with divinity as one begins to identify with it. Over time, and under the Technique of Duality and the influences of the spiritual triad, the disciple progresses in identity with Shamballa conscious. This blending produces an expanding awareness of unity and the purpose of life. It gives direction.

These three stages of consciousness and awareness’s are progressed during the second, third, and fourth initiation training processes. The training process blends these three levels and types of consciousness. This triple process is through the tutelages of the divine soul operating on various levels of being. In one of the Light of the Soul’s sutras this triple process is hinted at:

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 upon the triadal planes of livingness.  One only understands this subjective soul process once they reflect upon these related experiences received in contemplation. It is only belief in oneself as deity that permits one to stand in spiritual Being and not be deterred in its potential for expanded 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 with its inherent 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 or one Soul related 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 by default.  It is a factual event, or the response by the individual soul to the universal soul force which is likewise the basis of all white magical processes.

Discipleship & Mental Unfoldment & the Law of Expansive Response

Mental unfoldment is an ongoing process that integrates eventually the five-fold mental aspects embodied by the five substance of the lower planes symbolized by the fivefold Minds of Brahma. This development and integration process once the triadal mind natures are unfolding lifts the aspirant into the life experiences of the monad signifying the initiate stage. In this stage the personality remains as an instrument or vehicle of expression for the one universal soul in its many personality aspects upon the physical plane. Furthermore, soul consciousness has been replaced by ongoing universal realizations. This is all due to the conscious demonstration of the six stages of the antahkarana.

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 conditioned. These stages are very much inter-connected also with the six stages of the planetary integration process.  Each of these six has also a seventh aspect that takes one beyond the boundaries of the planet into an expanded universal fold. This seventh aspect of integration is approached slowly over time once upon the path of initiation. This understanding of the higher Way takes place in Samadhi through the progressive fusing of the consciousnesses of Humanity and the Hierarchy and particularly with Shamballa types of identifications and their subjective influences with those of the disciples own three major periodic vehicles each with their threefold seven principles. The soul processes of higher realizations and identifications leads to and is an element of Shamballa type of beingness’s in 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.” These cosmic physical subplanes of groupings of group contacts engenders a more universal set of wise-knowledge being exchanged under the last two laws of the soul and stages of discipleship.

Evolutionarily, this more universal type of wise-knowledge is basically intended for the recipient given that Alaya, or the Universal Spirit-Soul reflects, (its reflections only) the true nature and condition of those Forms or Lives of significance to the Chela within the Heart for various purposes. The registering of monadic livingness, as a spark of the Universal Spirit-Soul Livingness registered, is not cognizable to those disciples outside of Samadhi not reflecting some aspect of the One Mind, One Heart and One Will. Thus, these registering’s are truly not cognizable for humanity or disciples in general not on the path of initiation or have completed the bridge through the Spiritual Triad. There is realized by the initiate the necessity of silence in pursuing those sections of the Way that lie outside of the real needs of others but focussed on the real needs and natures of the expanding Wholes identified with within the One Life or Heart. 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 expanding awareness. This awareness is a product of the world of being and particularly the One Heart can be seen as an underlying cause for the content of the universal Mind and thus the basis of Universal Purpose which veils the Universal Will. This universal Heart, Purpose and Will appears to be correctly approached through the uniting with the Universal Mind and isolating the Mind content of the planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara.

This ability to register the Mind or Brain content of Sanat Kumara and the Planetary Logos and not only is a real need but necessary as it is the underlying pathway and basis for the group Mind of the One Ashram approached by way of extending the disciples three minds along the antahkarana and leads to the Heart of the Ashram or the Heart of the Christ. In fact, Sanat Kumara is the highest reprehensive on this planet of Alaya, the Oversoul or One Soul and He is the One that reflects the real needs of the planetary and solar Logos and permits or guides the Initiate to enter into realms of contact upon the higher Way that meets the contingent real needs of the One Life or as much of it as represented on this planet. This capacity is again not attainable to disciples who have not progressed the union of spirit and matter by way of the Technique of Duality within Samadhi. The initiate’s registering of the Mind of Sanat Kumara when discovered and contacted appears not to be possible unless he is well versed in the theoretical teachings. Leading up to this point is truly an amazing adventure in and through the worlds of causation and purpose by way of the Ashramic Group Mind, Heart, and Will. 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 by way of Shamballa contact which is again only nascently isolated in some unique manner through the initial workings of the Law of Repulse or the first step in understanding the nature “monadic destiny”. The Law of Repulse makes it possible to respond later to the Law of Group Progress and through the expansive progress of the group mind one can later respond to the Law of Expansive Response.

The reacting to the Law of Expansive Response and the Law of the Lower Four is a means for the extending the disciple’s three lower minds into the Universal Mind, Heart and Will and extending of the antahkarana to Shamballa and effectively work with the “Will aspect of divinity.” This extending of the threefold integrated mind into the processes of pure reason and spiritual will minds permits entry into these above areas of space cannot be understood logically except by realizing that these can be extended along the antahkarana through resonant vibration indicating that the disciple is truly the embodiment of Truth, the Light and the Way.  Most time spent in Samadhi is the blending and exchange with these extensions or resonant lights made, and over time move deeper and deeper into the cosmic physical plane by way of Aura, Mind, Heart and Will unifications with other initiates and esoteric Lives and through the destroying of all other lesser ways. R&I, pp. 530-531

This process of extending one’s awareness deeper into the unknown is charted by way of the initiates collection of symbolic wise-knowledge or understanding of events as they are able to be transmitted to the brain. It is given that after the fifth initiation the higher initiations and these events can no longer be registered as symbolic events on the mental plane and remain hidden upon the higher planes and that these identification awareness’s produce only “illuminations through revelation” if divinity in some aspect. “Illuminations through revelation” also depicts the peak experience method at each initiation where some aspect of divinity is merged with plane by plane but in the lower five initiations it is presented symbolically to the mind and reflected into the brain awareness.

Some degree or type of mental Illumination which appear as minor revelations or revelations through illumination frequently and is the consistent state after the third initiation especially once the probationary initiate has discovered the field of the higher initiations. This should not be confused with “illumination through revelation.” Theoretically, the teachings given covers the basis for the new group initiations requirements and processes in the Treatise on the Rays and Initiations.  It is an astute master presentation for those that have the related experience of the rules and thus have met the requirements and secured these various initial understands.  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 groupings of varying soul statuses and knowledge bases that training and service proceeds which leads eventually to understanding of how and why in hindsight upon deep reflection.  It is really not possible to fully grasp the full intended meaning of the advanced Will related teachings 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, it is given that, the personality three sheaths become more sensitized to the fires of spirit as it is transmitted through the bud at the heart of the lotus. Before this, the electric fire of spirit was only experienced at the culminating points of the three initiations and other infrequent moments. Afterward this initiation, “all the centres in the body of the initiate can be seen to be able to 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.” This is due to the earlier blending of the three major fires related to the opening of the base center and integrating it with the head center.

In practice how can this pure electric fire through the closed bud be discerned?  It appears to be that which makes one’s meditations inspirationally 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 Chela within the Heart, but the cause lies elsewhere through the process of identification by way of the head centre and due to the ongoing transmutations of the higher mind into the divine Mind and the Universal Mind by the propensities of the Spiritual Triad. The disciple also learns he can utilize his centers differently now and that they proffer greater capacities or powers; although, these must be developed over time.

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 Ray 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 and higher dimensional for the third initiation as well as the three tiers of petals are open. Even the minor centres can now be utilized also in service way differently than before. Minor centres interface with localized major centres in ways not easy to causatively understand.

The earlier entering the world of souls by way of the act of conjoined contemplation, the act of occult obedience, and the act of true service the disciple progresses in his integration and use of the will aspects in its three aspects giving rise to the eventual fuller expression of the one Soul Purpose. It is these which prepare the disciple for initiation while at the same time assist in making 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 sub-Ray type of the Monad that expresses the particular type of Will and accompanied methods utilized when these three aspects of Will are employed by the unfolding spiritual mind of the disciple.

The first divine lighted area discovered by the disciple which becomes accessible to his expanding spiritual or abstract mind is that of the Mind of God which leads to the discovery of the Universal Mind once the antahkarana extended through the buddhic and atmic spaces. This blending of the light process is enhanced quickly from this juncture.

As the disciple persists in the blending of the lights of his threefold periodic vehicles during the post third initiation processes or training processes certain meditation fruits and awareness’s unfold. The triple light of the personality (Light of Intelligence); triple light of the soul (Light of the Soul); triple light of the Spiritual Triad (Light of Purpose) composed of energies from the Spiritual Triad, the Heart of the Sun, and the cosmic physical plane.  These nine-fold blended lights are given as revealing a Light which is extra-planetary as well as revealing the higher stages of the path of initiation, and those astrological realities that influence the solar system and planetary centers or kingdoms. The alignment with, use and fruits of these blended lights is what permits the disciple to be more of a clear and adequate channel of service or “vehicle of expression for the one Universal Soul in its many personality aspects upon the physical plane.” It is this merging of the spiritual will and soul with the Universal Soul in brain awareness which eventually reveals the veiled Spirit aspect as the basis for its activity. This is likewise due to the disciple’s lights blending with the light of the jewel in the lotus.

Any virtuous man can reach by Niljorngonsum (Author: a pathway to Nirvana), (“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

It is stated in the above quote that the disciple once they are able to unfold and embody to some degree the particular senses of the monadic, atmic, and buddhic planes representing the three-fold major centers of Vishnu (internal knowledge) as opposed to just Brahma (external knowledge) then this permits awareness and identification with that which underlies Vishnu’s processes or Pure Spirit (Shiva).

The Nirmanakaya vehicle carries the initiate to Nirvana or entry into the cosmic paths.  It is at the third initiation that these doorways are touched through the successful application of the Will to Act or fuse the lights 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 through the open door of Nirvana by way of the Law of Synthesis or Law of Spirit and the seven laws of the soul in general. This is due to the initial responding to the sixth and seventh laws of the soul during the sixth stage of building the antahkarana.

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 – spirit and soul impacted and ongoing dynamic impressions 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 monadic destiny line needs to be prioritized and one’s individual soul plan and purpose needs to be aligned with one’s monadic sub-Ray intent, initiation grouping’s intent, and the Hierarchy’s intent.  Purpose cognition and embodiment gives rise to the importance of direction and takes on a divine significant once the Universal Mind aspect is entered due to ongoing consistent meditation processes over time. This direction provides access to divine processes and divine identification removing all sense of separateness. This is a pathway discovered over time once the field of knowledge, the knower, and the process of knowing are fused and relegated to its correct perspective upon the way.  Although discovered, its mastery is very illusive at this stage.

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 as well as the path itself.  This is an extension of the idea of energy follows thought. The life through spirit becomes “magical” with new contacts along the way 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 conceptual sources.  Purpose itself is approach through an earlier understanding derived by reflection on resonant triadal group contacts and activity encompassed by the soul and later by the monad within meditation and related within an expanding area of space. This gives rise to realizations and later directional identifications or purposes in a divine sense.

During the initiatory processes at the third initiation the mind works again in a new manner as a transfiguring agent with the personality as a whole. Earlier the transmuting agent was the concrete mind followed by the transforming agent or the Son of Mind and this was followed by the spiritual triad acting as an agent of transfiguration working through the abstract or spiritual mind of the disciple permitting the third initiation and an impelling set of new contacts. It is these new contacts and groupings within an area of space which makes possible the progressive expansion of consciousness and later divine identifications with the wholes which compose these new groupings.

Disciples are aware of their many alignment limitations and adjustments are always needed to increase the effective capacity of the aligned group 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 composed of seemingly endless groupings.

What is the cause for the manifesting experiences of “the omnipresence of God throughout nature, and therefore throughout the entire personality life of the initiate”?  It is given as being related to the effects of the clear cold light which effects the alignment with the Word when descended into the etheric head center brings the reality of deity manifesting everywhere through everything. The clear cold light is also responsible for the omniscience of the divine Whole which 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 becomes available according to their ability to interpret it or understand it by way of the world of meaning or the domain of the soul. This becomes radically increased with contemplation over time.   Omnipresence is an effect of the blending of Lights and Hearts and omniscience is an effect of blending of Lights and Minds.  This omniscience increase over time through the active use of the three-fold triadal minds thus unfolding eventually the Mind of God and later the Universal Mind.  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 Divine Soul the more knowledge of all forms become available.  In fact, the embodying of omnipresence and omniscience represents a way forward for the discovery of the field of the higher initiations and for the acquisition of spiritual and divine attributes. This process of entering the world of significances parallels the development of omnipresence and omniscience. And acts as doorways to the divine nature and fruits. This follows the process of mastering the world of meaning which appears to be mastered in a moment of time based upon the degree the manasic senses are unfolded.

The conscious gathering and blending of the inner lights of the Spiritual Triad over time in the contemplation process and the effect on one’s consciousness and awareness is due to the slow absorption of certain substances by the sheaths alchemically over time producing the unfoldment of the microcosmic senses. These unique substances absorbed appear to be due to astrological or particularly to zodiacal related influences registered by both the soul and the monad and later the personality. This process unfolds various types of causative knowingness’s.

Omnipresence is also the doorway which unveils the mystery of time, space and electricity. These types of causative knowingness are only owned as one takes the time to reflect upon their experiences and fruits periodically. Plus, this takes time to descend to the brain. In respect to the Science of the Path.  This refection process permits a quicker absorption of the lights, 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 and also the lack of comprehension as to truer monadic destiny. 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 and space.  It is inferred that one can potentially master time if they are being held in the Hand of the Lord Sanat Kumara and mastering of space is due to being held in the Hand of the One Soul where Sanat Kumara is Its highest representative in this scheme.

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.”  ….  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)

Discipleship – 7^th Stage of Integration or Assimilation. Blending of the Lights Discipleship Stage. Law of Spirit. Buddhahood.

There is a later stage of still closer identification, where there is a blending of the Lights, but there is no adequate paraphrase of the terms used to cover the name. The six (discipleship) stages above mentioned have been paraphrased for occidental understanding and must in no way be considered as translations of the ancient terms. DINA I, p. 674

There is little that can be discerned or said about this level of discipleship which is achievable upon the path of initiation or at least for training purposes by the initiate who has discovered the dynamic field of the higher initiations thus having some degree of monadic sensitivities unfolding. This dynamic field of the higher initiations is first discovered by the initiate through the dynamic Aura of the Master linked to the Christ and Sanat Kumara and various will identifications within proceeds from within the Heart. All evolutionary processes inherent within this stage appear to be through Identification. Identification is defined and experienced as a form of universal sentiency unfolded through the influence of the Spiritual Triad as a unit of influence. It is dynamic in nature and invokes the will which at first includes the quality of consciousness but later drops below the level of perceptional awareness although still functioning and directing more as a spiritual instinct functioning as a protecting mode. Identification takes the place of the quality of inclusiveness or inclusive consciousness which is one of the attributes of group consciousness.  This new universal sentiency, or type of sentiency, is the doorway to a new transformation required to break through the planetary ring-pass-not and discover the doorways to the higher Way, the cosmic astral plane, and the higher initiations where the lower five worlds (of consciousness are transformed into identification and) are left behind. Identification, it is given, is the highest type of soul awareness unfolded. Identification is further defined as that which is the lowest aspect of cosmic desire or expression intent which is likewise the highest expression of divine purpose within the cosmic physical plane. Being and purpose are closely allied. It is this process discovered within the Aura, Heart and Will of the Master, the Christ, and Sanat Kumara. It is this process of identification by the spirit-soul-personality aligned unit that leads the third degree initiate to his discover of the doorways to the higher Way through hierarchical alignment and livingness.

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 above quote is quite remarkable in its implications and potential fruits as well as dangers. It has been given to the Author that here has many whom have tried to penetrate into these cosmic unknown spheres but only a few has brought forth any particular fruits until recently for reasons that cannot go out beyond the Ashram. There are a recent few who has gathered fruits and disturbed them, but rarely have they been privy to the “fruits” effects or real nature given their subtlety and uniqueness or ability to register them adequately. Beware of false doctrines in this regard in the future as many will be developing the necessary major center related potentials for this to take place in an increased manner. This Law of Etheric Union and the Law of Spirit working through the other laws of the soul conditions this final stage of Discipleship or the Blending of the Lights which permits these cosmic sojourns into the Lights of Life of the Unknown Deity discovered and entered from within the heart.

The Lights of Life from these three cosmic planes where the solar and planetary Logoi’s personality expressions include the qualifying Lights of the Great Bear, Sirius, and the Pleiades which express through the other Lights and many of these Lights are unnamed types as of yet. The major ones named and given include the seven Ray Lights, expressing through the Lights of the seven solar systems and the Lights of the twelve zodiacal constellations. These express through the Lights of the seven sacred and five non-sacred planets. These Lights condition the Lives and Lights of the twelve Creative Hierarchies.

It has been given that the initiate’s response to these planetary, systemic, and cosmic Lights is due to the initiate’s capacity and ability to synthesize their spiritual will with the divine Will focussing the Will which conditions Life of the cosmic physical plane, the Will which brings fulfillment which conditions the cosmic astral plane inspiring divine incentive, and the Will which conquers death emanating from the cosmic mental plane. The initiate relates these Lights within and through their major three centers in a given process of Transmission. Reception. Absorption. Relation and Living Activity. Thus, the initiate can now more effectively co-condition time and space and influence the evolutionary process through the circulation of these various energies within the planetary grid through playing their part in creating, preserving, and destroying due to their participation in the parting of the major four Veils.

I Am the Creator, Preserver, Destroyer.

The Blending of the Lights produces the Creators, Preservers, and Destroyers in this sequential order through evoking and integrating of the solar fruits linked to the nine initiations beginning in earnest at the first solar initiation. This blending of the Lights is a product of Fire or the blending of the various qualities and natures of the fires. It is given that the electricity of substance (Author: physical electricity), the electricity of form, (Author: magnetism) and the electricity of Life (Author: spirit) itself must blend and meet before the true Man (whether Logos, or human being) realises himself as creator.  (TCF, p.876 ). There is a correlation between the unfolding of the three tiers of egoic petals and their coordination to the qualities and natures of the fires of substance, form, and life.  All three are needed to awaken the inner petals and the seven-fold relationship to Pure Spirit through relating these with the energies or fires of “jewel in the Lotus “with the three tiers of egoic petals.

Each initiate can find their way through the assistance of those that came before them and become an Observer and later an apprentice or practicing Architect (Creator, Preserver, Destroyer) through first penetrating and later participating within the world of meaning, the world of causation, the world of being and the world of the Presence which are by default representative of the extant pattern of descending extra-planetary energies giving rise to the extant and knowable systemic and planetary Purpose and Plan  As one participates in the processes of the training for the first, second and third solar initiations these inclusive worlds of significance opens up to the bewildered initiate once he has discovered the field of the higher initiations.  Bewildered because the initiate is unaware of what is happening as his occult nature or senses are not adequately developed but only his mystical nature first guides him. 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 systemic relationship to the greater cosmic Plan and its participators being unveiled it appears to the soul-personality for the first time. This appearing is through the progressive unfoldment and use of the major three senses of occult hearing, occult touch, and occult sight (occult taste and smell are given as elements of touch). Each occult sense unfolding multi-dimensionally as the disciple responds respectfully and adequately to the cosmic Law of Economy, the Law of Attraction, and the Law of Synthesis working through the various Lights and Lives.

In these three senses 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.

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.

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 [Page 200] further use for the not-self.  It blends with the All-Self.  This is under the Law of Synthesis.

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, and Destroyer of forms.)

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, p.200

One must persevere, even in confusion, to enter more and more fully into the world of causation, world of being and the world of the Presence by way of the expanding more inclusive Self and not-self through unification of the divine Will, spiritual will, sacrificial will, and personality will and pass through the stages of Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer and as such become a fragment of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva in identification. These four forms of “will” can also be seen to reflect the four types of motions of the four fires (matter, pranic, manasic, and spirit) all inherent in the one Form creation process thus unveiling the intended Purpose of Shiva. This is undergone through identification with the threefold trinity functioning through the Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer upon the three higher planes but also expressing particularly upon certain of the planes.

Two (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 174-175)

The highest three subplanes of the Atmic plane where identification with the dual functions of the Destroyer and the Preserver (monad) would be particularly true and where the discovery of the doorway into Nirvana or the higher Way might also be found.  It is here, the required synthesis of all planetary forms and substances might take place; as well as the outpouring of the cause for All Knowledge which can be derived through the senses. We are also told that the Chohan moves off the Egoic Ray on to the Monadic Ray on the fourth sub-plane of the monadic plane.  It is here that the truer function of Shiva, the Destroyer or Liberator (true Service), might be known through the discovery and use of the secret of Fire and its “original intent.”

Rules No. 1 through No. 15 (through No. 27) Treatise on White Magic Demonstrated Daily

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.

Three Paths, therefore, lead to the realm of loving attractive energy; one Path leads to its higher correspondence, the cosmic level of pure reason; three lead to the realm of divine Mind.  Four of the Paths relate the advancing Master to the Heart of the Great Life Who functions through this solar system, and three to His Mind nature.  All of them lead the initiate eventually to the Central Spiritual Sun. [Page 400] All Who work in Shamballa find Their way to this supreme centre by the three most arduous ways, whilst the remainder reach the same goal via the way of love. R&I, pp. 399-400

The cosmic Light of Life is surmised to have been first experienced through the influences coming through Venus and the Heart of God, and Heart of the Christ, and the Heart of the Master lighting up a hidden planet veiling the Heart of the Sun whose energy pattern originated through Gemini. It was this Light which is surmised to have provided the Light to the portals of the seven or nine cosmic paths coming from the Cosmic Christ lighting or directing our way Home.

As earlier pointed, in the section of the Crises of the Soul, that the synthetic influences of Capricorn, Virgo, and Leo should be understood as the major conditioning influences under any Cycle of Initiation processes affecting all of the various discipleship stages. Secondarily, it is inferred that the stage of Blending of the Lights is influenced by the synthetic influences of all twelve constellations and particularly the fifth Ray influence providing the Will to Act and Liberate producing various levels of freedom of the prisoners of the planet.  This stage entered once the Light of Life is discovered and permits a greater stabilization within the world of the Presence under the Law of Synthesis or Spirit. These influences are inferred to produce the Buddha and carries one into the para-nirvanic Identifications and Livingness through the process of the blending of the Lights.

It should be noted that there are seven forms of light, related to the substance of the seven planes. These are stimulated and enhanced by the twelve forms of light of the twelve Creative Hierarchies, related each of them to one or other of the twelve signs of the zodiac. On this I may not enlarge as it concerns the mysteries of the higher initiations. I simply make the statement so that it may be appreciated by you as an occult fact to the proof of which you may not yet have access. A paralleling statement would be that the light of the seven centres in man (when enhanced by the light of the seven planetary centres) and the five kingdoms in nature (7+5=12), plus the twelve lights of the zodiac will produce a consummation of “light” effectiveness which will make possible the expression of the whole. This, through the medium of humanity. This is a basic statement which means little to you as yet but which will—in the next century—form a seed thought or “key sound” for the next revelation of the Ageless Wisdom. EA, p. 563

Discipleship, The World of the Presence & The Law of the Lower Four

The will of the initiate once identified with the Presence thus functions as an outpost of the Will to Good. This is one of the outcomes of the fifth Ray pattern of the Law of Lower Four or Etheric Union conditioning the One Soul-Personality 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 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 are finally silenced then the goal of the higher Way (Nirvana) appears before him.  This ascension goal becomes his focussed attention as a soul-personality uniting with spirit.

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

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

Discipleship, The World of the Presence & The Higher Way

The Presence is slowly revealed during the processes of the third, fourth and fifth initiations where respectfully the third, second, and first aspects of the Monad are revealed and identified with. The Planetary Logos symbolized by the five-pointed star is progressively seen to enfold the initiate’s Monad or point of electric fire which acts a doorway for blending identification with the Presence.

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.  (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 117-118)

There are given four major veils preventing a fuller identification with the Presence. These might be understood as systemic and/or cosmic barriers associated with the four cosmic etheric planes as Being descends to manifest through Form.

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.

The Angel of the Presence is inferred to be a fragment of one’s Soul Ray and thus a representative of a complete Ray grouping Angel of the Presence thus a sevenfold Angel of the Presence. It is a transmitter of energy from one of the seven-fold Monadic Rays or the divine Presence which appears to embody all the monads on a particular Ray existing outside of the cosmic physical plane. This first veil once mastered permits one entry into the world of meaning fully or the realm of the soul and is accomplished by the third initiation.  This Angel is not seen face to face until the third initiation when the disciple stands for the first time within the aura of the Presence. Each of these veils permits one to pass sequentially into the higher levels of planetary and solar integration with the Presence.  The veils are dual positive and negative polarities and only the balancing of them will permit entry and passage. This first veil once penetrated, as with the others, acts as a training opportunity for further planetary integration and progresses the processes of the second and third initiations. The disciple effectively faces this veil once there is sufficient disidentification from the personality (ray).

This veil effectively opened leads to the third initiation and due to the appearance of the Presence and activities of the Initiator sees for the first time the doorway into the higher Way and discovers the various cosmic pathways eventually available to him. The entering of the higher Way becomes the initiate’s new galvanizing goal as he has freed himself from identification with the forces of the personality and his soul body even if he has not fully freed himself from their total control. Certain doors will stand out above the others due to the nature of his planetary identifications. The process of his choosing is technically begun.

The seven or nine cosmic Paths are all concerned with purpose and purpose along with the plan is now the major theme and activity focus of reflection for the disciple.  There has been given that there is a relationship between the seven Paths, the seven Rays, the seven Ashrams, and the even Root Races. This is due to the involutionary/evolutionary activity of the Lord of the World as He descends to manifest and express His Intents and reverses the process and ascends back to unity upon the abstract cosmic mental plane. This process relates the higher three planetary centers represented by Humanity, Hierarchy and Shamballa which evolves respectively through Individualization, Initiation, and Identification. Furthermore, the seven Paths, Rays, Ashrams, and Root Races are given as producing a synthesis upon the cosmic mental plane. Interestingly, one can see that the organized expression of the three planetary centers are respectively the Root Races, the Ashrams, and the Rays all of which diversify and unify upon the Paths. R&I, p.371-372

The understanding of the relationship between these four sepentates might be entered though the study of the four types of motion and thus nature of the concrete mind reflected in the nature and activity of the four subplanes of the etheric body: separation (Root Races), momentum (Ashrams), frictional activity (Rays), and absorption (Paths). The astute student can also see the relationship to the four types of fires: material (Root Races), pranic (Ashrams), mental (Rays), and spiritual (Paths).  The process of Form creation, evolution and destruction is evident in the intent and functioning of the cosmic paths and opens up the other multitudes of quadruples.

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

When the third degree initiate for the first time identifies with Pure Spirit, they in effect have overcome momentarily the Great Illusion associated with Form creation processes and identified with the Presence and thus the “planetary WHOLE”.  Interestingly, this was the life objective symbolized in the vision given the Author at age five when the soul appropriated the physical body.

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 discovery and facing 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. The complete dis-identification from the group soul form (or ray) and its associated forces will liberate one from the effects of this veil and this will permits full entry into the world of ideas and causation by the fifth initiation.

During the processes of the fourth initiation certain of the plans of the Planetary Logos are revealed to the initiate by way of the initiates own revelations and become part of his vision. This is a similar process that caused certain of the cosmic paths to be isolated over others earlier. This new focus further separates the initiate from the form generating processes and their associated limiting karma of the lower three planes. His awareness and thus vision is slowly extended to include a comprehension of the planetary purpose and karma in relationship to the entire scheme. This is further extended during this period to include two other schemes related to the Earth’s scheme and to a lessor extent all five lower non-sacred schemes. As this new expanded vision is identified with, he is no permitted a deeper entry into the Hierarchical councils as well with councils between the Lord of the World and the two other scheme “department Heads.” (Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, 1922, pp. 121-123)

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.

It is surmised that Veil III permits one full entry into the world of being. It is given that one must first dis-identify from the combined forces of the Spiritual Triad the initiate has identified with as a spiritual-soul (Ray) to effectively face this veil.

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 fully into the world of the Presence. It is through the author’s impressions that one can enter through the Veils by way of others within His initiatory grouping(s) more advanced and have initial glimpses into the nature of these veils and veiled realities and over time one enters and passes fully through such Veils per their own liberations from his various periodic vehicles or their identifications with their qualifying form related forces.

It is useful to point out that the above processes in experience are not easy to validate with certainty and it takes time for a clear perspective to descend in brain awareness.  The length of time is due mostly to one’s degree of humility and degree of grasping the esoteric and occult verities of the science of the path. This is so even if there is an accurate and fully functional spirit-soul-mind-brain alignment.  Other uncertainties are due to the nature of group consciousness and the group blending of the minds, auras, and hearts of the One Ashram, ashramic groupings and individuals, the Master, and the Christ.  What really is the originating Source(s) and/or source within the source? Thus, the virtue and need to develop the microcosmic senses are easily here seen – especially three-fold continuity of occult vision.

Discipleship, The Blending of the Four-fold Wills & The Law of the Lower Four

Disciples discover during their meditations during the initial third initiation period processes that the secret for the activation of the will lies in the recognition of the divine within one’s Self. It is the freeing of the monad by the soul and the freeing of the soul by the personality that permits the true expression of the will. This spiritual will is evoked by the soul in alignment with and controlling the concrete mind and the personality. It is this unfolding spiritual will with its expanding identifying with the nature of goodness that evokes the will-to-good and the divine Will. It is this uniting of the threefold spiritual will, sacrificial will and personality will with divine Will which also unlocks the secret of omnipotence after the secrets of omnipresence and omniscience are unlocked through the development of the will-to-love and its fusing with the will-to-know. This secret is hid within the inevitability of you and us as divinity Itself. Truly, unless the disciple is in a regular state of soul contemplation this progressive uniting of wills with the divine Will cannot come about. The basis of omnipotence is surmised to come about as the initiate’s spiritual will is fused with the three-fold expression of the divine Will of the Presence.  This three-fold nature of the divine Will is given as expressing itself through Shamballa and controls the available nature of life, of relations, and of energy of this planetary center. This three-fold expression of the divine Will which is being registered by the initiate as they are emerging aspects from the livingness of Shamballa. Each are given as representing  a conditioning aspect 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

These three aspects of divine Will are also respectively reflected in the human units three-fold types of wills associated with the three major periodic vehicle expressions or – spiritual will, sacrificial will and personality will where these three activate and express through the respective mental, astral, and physical creations and activities over time as the major aspect vehicles are integrated. The “life aspect” is given as the synthesizing aspect of spirit, soul, and body.

The higher Way reflects the influencing nature of That Presence which lies behind the qualitative creative expressions of the Spiritual Triad as a unit.  The Way can also be perceived as a pathway for the descent for the one Cause. The three Buddhas of Activity are the representatives of the holiest three which are one of the indirect doorways for the descending energies from That. Once exposed to the holiest three the essence of these exposures permits a small degree of realization of the major three and seven-fold forces entering through the three-fold Sun.

If the sacred planets are ruling the centers, then one is exposed to these energies by the ray force manifesting upon the respected plane. It is this exposure over time, as well as the fusing of influences of exoteric, esoteric and hierarchical planetary ruler influences that sensitizes the initiate to the groupings of creative hierarchical Lives and also the reception from, relation to, and absorption of the influences evoked from the higher Way.

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. EA, pp. 595-596

One’s ability to understand these wider livingness processes underlying the expression of Purpose on a cosmic, solar, planetary, human, and individual level permits the initiate to adjust or focus their livingness to enhance their service potential.  This entry way into the world of purpose and the Presence can been understood as an act of alignment of the Wills of all those participating in any lodge ceremony. The fact of the symbolic appearance of the Presence in the systemic astral-etheric light represents all of the other “worlds” descending to manifest providing a glimpse into the purpose underlying the expression of the divine Will.

…the world of 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 response by and adherence to the fourteen rules for group initiation, Law of the Lower Four and the Law of Spirit conditions and unfolds this final stage of Discipleship or the” Blending of the Lights” which permit this comprehension through Pure Spirit identification to unfold. This purpose identification and comprehension begins once one enters upon the path of initiation. It is the process of factually becoming identified within as the Creator, the Preserver, and the Destroyer.

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)

Each of us, as a spark of the one Divine Monadic Flame are at present an evolving product of this Monadic Flame Divine or Divine Substance by way of the Law of Synthesis. It is given that this Divine Flame “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.” As we are capable of consciously responding to the Law of Synthesis and acquiesce as spirits-souls-personalities to the demands of Pure Spirit we progress in our response to this one Divine Flame and the universe opens up its doors into the Will or Purpose of the planetary Logos, the higher Way, and the Unknown Life and Lives on cosmic levels and the blending exponentially increases with this Life and these Lives. This is progressively experienced particularly under the last three laws of the souls on the path of initiation under the Law of Synthesis as it is progressively responded to.

What is this Law of Synthesis that acts as a galvanizing progressive forward force for the spiritual will? First of all, it is one of the laws conditioning all logoic, systemic, planetary thoughtforms and their potential galvanizing creative form effects.  A thoughtform is that which expresses some vibration, embodies some idea and some purpose. And the Law of Synthesis drives these into expression. All thoughtforms veil some will, desire, and purpose of those that create them; and the degree which some subjective life responds to the intent of some embodying thoughtform is determined by their synchronicity of vibration and purpose. This is understood as the Whole reproducing itself within the Part over time. Thus, all sparks of the one Divine Flame are progressively induced to embody this divine desire, will, and purpose. This is experienced as a driving forward in to include, enhance and sacrifice all aspects of one’s life to fulfill this intent related mission.

The Law of Synthesis is likewise sevenfold as it’s progressive driving force and appears to manifest its intention through seven major directions, planes, principles, or ways.

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 ways within the One) and all comprehension of this contact is likewise sevenfold. This Spirit identification is known initially through the initiate’s 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 conditioning influences of the third Ray of activity.  The Law of Expansive Response or the Law of the Unknown is likewise ruled by the great Third Ray. It is this law that probationary initiates, initiates, and Masters respond to once they enter into relationship with the Divine Flame/Will and thus Shamballa or the One Will/Purpose animating the 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 (spiritual will) and opens up the responding initiate the higher Way of progressive forward movement by way of the Intent of the Divine Will.

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) The higher Way “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.”

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.

“The spiritual condition and purpose of the Monad” can be comprehended experientially, as the basis for one’s types of experiences of states of being which can of themselves be and are qualified by divine attributes. It is these specific divine attributes or natures of Lives that the Law of Sacrifice evokes as the various wills are unified with the Divine Will by the initiate and their potential contribution and insight into monadic destiny or dharma becomes clearer. 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 forwarding – the Will to Condition Life, the Will to bring Fulfillment, and the Will to Conquer Death conditioned by the three major constellations (Ursa Major, Sirius, and Plieades). 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 due to their inherent function and purpose) to reflect this pattern held in the Divine Mind or a Manasic Divine Flame with its inherent collection of monadic sparks. 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.

Recognition of the higher Way related states of being gives evidence of the nature of that supernal Light that is also characteristic of Shamballa which is an organizing collection of monadic sparks which also are responding points or sparks of divine expression. Shamballa is also responsible for those reifications of qualified energy patterns or organized expression of intended purpose that define and embodies the archetypical patterns and available resources for all creative endeavors. In another sense the supernal Light might be seen as a progressive radiance of the Divine Flame (Agni). Recognition through that supernal Light of the underlying Purpose of the Presence is acknowledged over time in part through the ability to recognise the necessary direction upon the higher Way.  This is what the Way of the Antahkarana reveals the Way of Purpose unfolding. This is not comprehended in a flash even though revealed in a flash of time to the brain. Much contemplation and reflection on what is revealed over time into brain awareness is required and it is this process which assists to produce 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

The initiate can be assured of their path status and stage upon the way once they become consciously receptive to the dynamic inspiration from some revelation/vision of Shamballic Purpose touched by the soul in meditation.  This likewise opens a new door to qualified energies coming into the Hierarchy from the Sirius. This produces, in effect of such vibration resonance, a relationship with other Sirian responsive initiates and proffers further opportunities for training. It is surmised that this purpose registering process is what consciously opens the door to the dynamic field of the higher initiations.

As each initiation is trained for and taken the nature and scope of the original idea embodied with the divine thoughtform progressively increases as well as the ideas evolved from it giving rise to increased awareness of the hierarchical Plan. Over time the initiate comes under the influence of the purpose of Sanat Kumara and through telepathically entering of His Mind His Purpose will become known. Thus, the work endeavors of the initiate are progressed from within the Universal Mind or confines of the Spiritual Triad as a unit.  The Universal Mind can be understood as encompassing the fused spiritual mind, the intuitive mind, and the abstract mind and likewise is inclusive of the divine Mind by definition. It can also symbolically be “expressive of the range of thought, planning, and purpose of the planetary or solar Logos.” The initiate’s progressive contributions to the One Work are due to the degree of wisdom and understanding of the plan as this equates to the degree of pure love energy embodied.  His degree of power he brings to this work is directly related to his comprehension of the purpose of the planetary Logos as this comprehension equates his resonate vibration closer to that of the planetary Logos and this sustains his work whether he realizes it or not and normally he does not. These Universal Mind characteristics are progressively enhanced through the capacity and ability to be dynamically impressed which is a characteristic of the planetary head center. This growth in wisdom and power is observable by the initiate but initially he does not understand why. DINA II, pp.281-282

Pure love energy appears to be an embodiment attribute of an originating divine idea. Its absorption by the initiate provides intuitive or divine type of insight and comprehension of the originating idea and leads to the formulation of corresponding ideas. These “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.”  R&I, p. 50

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” and this as a point of the “Will to Act” or a point of “That which is the cosmic seed of liberation. This liberation progressed is also an aspect of destruction which gives rise to the “Will-to-Initiate.” Both of these ray qualities (five and one) come through Leo as it conditions Shamballa. Initiates are required to stabilize themselves within the Will-to-Good to complete the fourth initiation and work under the inspiration of the Life aspect and his service is evoked according to Its need. For the advancing initiate their service relationship to this Law of Life, the governing law for all initiates, 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.   (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 verses the divine Will with the latter being more inevitable and spontaneous with Uranian like appropriation of spirit intent. It also linked to or works through a monadic Ray group identity than to the expansive quality of isolated experiences which characterizing qualities of deity or higher kingdom group lives’ attributes within the world of the Spiritual Triad.  Spirit represents in most ways the highest source yet for the “advancing point of Light”.  The ultimate Source of the descending and advancing point of Light appears to be unknowable and represents the ultimate search by the initiate as 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 an exampled 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 creative hierarchical lives 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 cosmic/systemic 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.

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)