A Basic Summary
The most important thing to remember to control your personality is that it is controlled by dis-identification and not the will but the imagination. What do we mean by dis-identification? Each part of yourself has an established way of being in the world that defines your I-ness in that particular area considered. Each of these parts make up your greater sense of I-ness and it is these taken together that eventuates in what we term personality I-ness. This personality I-ness develops slowly over time and eventually develops a life of its own. This life too needs to be dis-identified from but not before it is developed and integrated. It is only in this way can we gain freedom from the tyranny of form.
Each of us has our own karma and this thus determines the type and quality of our form elements or in occultism its elemental types and qualities. The purpose of form is quite simple and can be perceived as our ability to function in the three worlds of the cosmic physical plane. This too has its reasons—the least of which is self-mastery that leads to substance salvation on an individual level. Salvation is an effect enhanced and forwarded by the processes of redemption of consciousness.
The next idea needing to be understood and this too is a simple one if reflected upon is that personality is a product of many efforts by the soul to create a suitable vehicle to express itself. It is the human soul that is learning how to create in concert with the divine soul. It is this process of creation that permits each life to be an experiment in the choice of forms useful to carry out the purposes of the soul, limited of course by karmic necessities. How is this related to personality control? First of all, personality is only an aspect of ourselves we choose (by necessity) to use to express our purpose through. It is also a vehicle of the soul for the same reason. It is these two together that eventually produce the necessary cooperation that controls the personality for seemingly two different sets of purposes, but this is only part of the illusion of duality only experienced when the self separates its identity from the personality which it does slowly over the course of evolution of consciousness.
For each of us, as human units, there is either a dual or a triplicity (or more) of selves interacting together to produce a range of being-ness. The goal is eventually just one qualitative Self, but this takes the complete evolutionary cycle to complete. The closest we get to this is in our peak experiences when we apperceive the whole within us in one way or another.
You have been given the idea that the control of the personality is a slow and difficult process, and this is true but the most important things that can speed this up can be categorized as:
Dis-identification of beliefs, of motivations, of ideals, of emotions, of thoughts, of vital forms – maya, glamour, illusions.
Self-knowledge of desires, of dwellers, of rays, of karmic forms, of past lives, of sub-personalities, and of propensities of character.
First three Laws of the Soul utilized: sacrifice, polar union, and service.
Obedience to the soul. This means correct meditating, correct breathing, correct focusing, controlling your three bodies, and circulating energies. This means quieting the personality voices of the mind, the emotions, and the vital forces. This means aligning the brain, mind, and soul. And this means the re-organizing of your environment to do the above – inner and outer.
Outer:
Organize your day-to-day activities.
Organize your subjective periods.
Organize your life to create balance.
Organize your environment for service.
Inner:
Organize your mental space—what to think about.
Organize your emotional space—what to feel.
Organize your alignment space—sources of impression.
Organize your overall ambiance.
This means re-creating yourself for each initiation in these 22-ways:
Re-creating your physical/etheric body.
Re-creating your mental body.
Re-creating your soul persona.
Re-creating your field of service.
Developing your gifts.
Dis-identifying from dweller.
Knowing your life purpose.
Knowing your past lives.
Knowing your future lives.
Purifying your bodies.
Create a plan.
Create a time schedule.
Create a training program.
Relinquish the past.
Organizing for the future.
Finding grace.
Spending time alone.
Unfolding your centers
Developing your higher Psychic Gifts.
Initiating your forms of service.
Strengthening your ties with the ashram.
Strengthening your ties with the deity.
Taking initiation by:
Serving the Plan,
Organizing your life,
Integrating with the group,
Integrating with the ashram.
Having a creative project:
This creative project needs reflect that knowledge needed to serve the Plan
This creative project needs to reflect that discipline required.
This creative project needs to reflect much of your soul’s wisdom and knowledge that has accrued.
This creative project needs to reflect everything that you are as both personality and soul.
This creative project needs to reflect the purpose of your life.
This creative project need reflect everything that you want to be,
This creative project needs to reflect all possible development needs.
This creative project needs to reflect everything you dreamed of or wanted in your heart.
This creative project needs to reflect all those people in your life you identify with.
This creative project needs to reflect everything you have worked for this life in terms of direction.
This creative project needs to reflect all those that can aid you & you can aid.
This creative project needs to reflect the training needed for your next initiation.
This creative project needs to reflect all those inner groups you have a connection with.
This creative project needs reflect the needs of the ashram.
This creative project needs to reflect the purposes of the master.
This creative project needs to reflect the purposes of hierarchy.
Transferring energies into the bridge:
This is a process that takes place once the soul is consciously aligned with the three bodies.
Once this happens then your mind is organized to receive the soul’s knowledge base. Once this happens your astral body is organized to receive your soul’s heart content.
Once this happens your vital body is organized according to your triadal needs and also your ashramic needs.
Once this happens your soul/personality field is organized according to the needs of spirit.
Cooperating with the soul:
The concerns of the soul are always a part of the group life and your ability to integrate with the group determines your ability to see as the soul sees it. It is this ability which will allow you to move forward on the path as this is regulated by the master/Soul. The group comes first—its highest good is your highest good. The same applies to the Soul of Humanity as it is your integration objective initially.
The soul requires you to achieve its suggestions in the spirit they are given, and this is for your happiness, joy and Bliss – always.
The soul itself realizes that its path back to the source of its inspiration is only a moment away and your understanding of its interests puts you in the driving seat or not whether or not they become your interests or not.
The soul realizes also that the time remaining to complete its long journey is coming to an end and this process increases its focus upon its Self-development needs and Self-recreation; this focus needs to be honored through a mutual focus upon the soul and the personality’s release of the soul for it to function on the lower five planes freely.
Building the Antahkarana – Creating the Bridge:
By the time you accept the need to consciously create this bridge, it is already partially created. The rest of its creation is a product of aspiration, mental abstraction, and spiritual identification of wills with the Divine Soul which permit the completion of this bridge.
The bridge itself is made out of mental matter of a special kind initially—fire elemental substance. It is this substance, which is created through organizing your life in six ways:
The first use of this bridge is granted to the aspirant by the group in charge of his/her training.
The bridge itself is an extension of both the life of the combined soul/personality and the larger ray groupings.
It is important to note that each individual aspirant is responsible for creating this bridge. The third initiation can be taken because this permits transformation to earlier take place.
The nature of this bridge is nothing more than the realized spirituality of the disciple—or in other words his belief in his spiritual being.
The bridge is rapidly built once integrated in the group soul—ray group.
The bridge is also built through the process of invocation and evocation.
Using the bridge:
The first conscious use of the bridge brings a realization of first becoming, and then belonging, and then being experienced in that order.
The first uses of the bridge take place through a vibration set up between the brain, concrete mind, the abstract mind, and Son of Mind; it is through this process that the minds are integrated.
After this has taken place integration then includes either the buddhic or atmic mind according to triadal alignment. This takes place first, in terms of time experience, with the soul mind and then with the personality mind.
After this has taken place integration of the other triadal mind begins either buddhic or atmic; for the majority it is very difficult to balance the two equally.
After this has taken place integration begins to take place with Christ Body as a whole and once this is completed—at the fourth initiation, a fuller identification with the monad ensues and this is completed at the fifth initiation taking one off of the lower soul ray.
After this has taken place, a transition is made on to the group Monadic Ray and off of the True Group Soul Ray ( the monad only having three major aspect rays.)
After this the bridge is constructed to the logoic plane and at that point Shamballa becomes a living part of one’s consciousness, although this begins at the atmic level.
After that the bridge is completed to the Buddhas of Activity whereby the Initiate becomes an integrate part of the life of the Lord of the World. As these represent the three permanent atoms found within the planetary causal body upon its own level.
Enlightenment of Three Minds.
ABSTRACT MIND:
You must realize that each individual soul is upon a different ray line and each ray does it differently. This takes place by 2nd initiation. It is not permitted that I list these ray related techniques.
Next the different ray souls exact their individual ray processes over time to complete their integration with the group soul using the ray related methods above alluded to. This takes place until after the third initiation whereas the divine soul replaces the group soul.
Next, each ray develops the ability to determine cause and effect in their environments through a process that can be called divine favor. This is a process that imitates the process of personalities lives where they are given a favorable environment to enhance themselves. On a soul level this is comprised of being in the company of great souls or souls having special characteristics that they can observe. This process is used when the spirit determines that its purpose can be better served at a certain time period in human history and makes a concerted effort to play its part. This process is being used with the author’s soul in respect to the guiding disciple and before this mentor each of these mentoring souls are highly gifted in those areas that are needed (particularly brain recognition).
Next, each ray develops the capacity to see into the triadal planes and this permits them to more quickly relate to causative patterns (person M…. as my tutor on a soul level).
Next, each ray develops the ability to train in those areas suggested by the group soul and the divine soul. It is in these areas that better equip them to approach the purpose for their existence.
Next, each ray establishes a relationship with many other soul groups to enhance their training for specific functions; these groups are likened to the outer planes where Peter’s Principle applies.
SON OF MIND:
Individual ray aspect—includes all three minds and eventually all.
The Son of Mind can be defined as that entity that is inherent, through having control of mental substance, within the life of the human soul, which can theoretically be stated as being ourselves as we identify with the soul. This entity is created over time and has a particular name. It can be seen to be a product of the integration of the soul mind, concrete mind and personality mind as the aspirant is engaged in contemplation. It is this entity we let go of at the fourth initiation as we identify with the divine soul. We take this entity with us when we go and represents a sub-personality to the divine soul.
We would like you to understand this difficult process of self-identification. For the first time at the third initiation, we recognize this aspect of ourselves fully. It is at this time we see to its limitations and work with it to enhance ourselves and as we enhance ourselves it is enhanced. We would like you to know that this entity is better off dead by the time the fifth initiation is taken as it then limits our ability to identify with the monad. It is this process that is the nature of the suffering spoken of related to the crucifixion and afterwards. Because we realize we need to die to its identity, but it is forever a part of us.
The Son of Mind becomes enlightened once we realize that its life and our life do not have to be intertwined and its relationship to the group soul increases. It is this identification with the group soul karmically considered that permits it to be of greater service to us and the group and in this way serves the needs of both until the karma is released and its live purpose completed. This is the effect of the Law of Destiny which operates outside of the three lower karmic worlds individually considered.
The Son of Mind is the interface between the fourth and the fifth kingdoms and as we journey through the fifth kingdom it is our constant companion if you like. This aspect of the soul hints at the reason there are two soul rays.
CONCRETE MIND:
This mind is enlightened through the process of integrating it with the soul once The Son of Mind and the Abstract Mind is enlightened. It is a process of organization reflecting the same organization seen in both of the above two minds. This is a process that takes much time. Mental enlightenment can be seen as having three major levels – manasic, buddhic, and atmic.
The process involved is dependent upon two factors, the first being, the individual soul ray and the second being the mind ray. Together they produce the type of organization; whereas the above two aspects produce the direction in which the organization takes-its service direction.
This process also involves the development of gifts; these gifts are a product of earlier developments and are packaged together to produce the various abilities desired by the divine soul per dharmic necessity and their types expand over time. It is this process that produces eventually on the physical plane the Master and the Buddha in full control of all of their various dimensional bodies.
This process also involves the delegation of the personality mind; this mind eventually becomes integrated as the brain and concrete mind become unified. This must take place before any real occult gifts can unfold.
We want you to know that each of you are developing this capacity and your ability to control your mind will take you step by step to this end. We have given you a better idea of this psychological process but more importantly we have given you the hope of understanding the teachings from a third ray perspective as this is the nature of the group soul ray the author is working with at this time.
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A personality is a completely integrated human being. In this case, we have a man whose physical, emotional and mental natures can be fused and can subsequently function as one, and thus produce a mechanism which is subordinated to the will of the personality. This can take place with or without a definite soul contact, and it is at this stage that there comes a predisposition to the right, or to the left hand path. The coordination proceeds as follows:
a. Coordination of the emotional or astral nature with the physical body. This took place in the racial sense in Atlantean times; it is going on today among the lower groupings in the human family. It should be the objective of the development of children from the ages of seven to fourteen.
b. Coordination of the physical, astral and mental natures into one blended whole. This is taking place racially in the Aryan race today and the process will be completed (for the bulk of humanity) when the sun enters the zodiacal sign, Sagittarius, just as now it is entering Aquarius. This coordination is going on rapidly among the advanced members of the human family and should be the objective of the training of all adolescents between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one.
c. Next, coordination is commenced between the soul and the personality, with the focus of the soul’s attention upon the astral or desire nature. This is the immediate task of the world aspirants at this time, and will be the goal of the next race succeeding to that of the Aryan.
d. Coordination between soul, mind and brain to the exclusion of the body of illusion, the astral body. This is the peculiar goal of the world disciples.
e. Coordination then has to be established between the soul, the purified personality and the Hierarchy. This is the goal of the initiates in the world at this time, and of all who are in preparation for the first, the second and the third initiations. This consummation is finally achieved at the Transfiguration initiation.
f. Coordination between the soul, the personality and the spirit. This takes place via the Hierarchy of Souls—a phrase which only initiates can properly interpret and understand. This process is carried on after the third initiation.
A man can be regarded as a personality in truth when the form aspect and the soul nature are at-one. When the soul influences the personality and pervades all the lower manifestation, then and only then, does the personality measure up to its true significance, which is to constitute the mask of the soul, that which is the outer appearance of inner spiritual forces. These forces are expressions of the soul, and the soul is the central identity or fundamental focus upon the mental plane of the life of God Himself. Essence, consciousness and appearance are the three aspects of divinity and of man; the personality, when fully developed, is the “appearance of God on earth.” Life, quality, and form is another way of expressing this same triplicity. Alice A Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, pgs. 266-267
All meditation impressions posted herein, denoted and summarized were soul impacted from subjective sources and were than were mentally registered, organized, recorded, and brain conceptualized, and given contextual composition language. All interpretations of the impression sources herein are the responsibility of the recorder/composer – H.Z.
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