Rule X for Applicants

For Applicants:  The Army of the Voice, the devas in their serried ranks work ceaselessly.  Let the disciple apply himself to a consideration of their methods; let him learn the rules whereby the Army works within the veils of maya.

Rule X for Disciples and Initiates

For Disciples and Initiates:  The rules for work within the veils of maya are known and have been used.  Let the group widen all the rents within those veils and thus let in the light.  Let the Army of the Voice be no more heard and let the brothers onward move within the Sound.  Then let them know the meaning of the O.M. and let them hear that O.M. as it is sounded forth by Him Who stands and waits at the very centre of the Council Chamber of the Lord.

Visualization for Rule X for Applicants

The Army of the Voice, the devas in their serried ranks work ceaselessly.  Let the disciple apply himself to a consideration of their methods; let him learn the rules whereby the Army works within the veils of maya.

1.      Align with the soul.

2.      Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.

3.      Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it.

4.      Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven colors of the rainbow.

5.      Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by the energies of those dimensions.

6.      See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.

7.      Aligned with the group soul and under imagined triadal impression, visualize the Army of the Voice. What is it, really? Why is it called an “Army”? To what “Voice” does this “Army” respond?

8.      What is your personal experience with the “Army of the Voice”? Is it a reality to you?

9.      Visualize the “devas in their serried ranks”. What image arises before you? What significance does it have for you?

10.  Why do you think these devas are ranked in this manner?

11.  Visualize the ceaseless work of the “devas in their serried ranks”. Why do you think it is that they work “ceaselessly”? What does their work promote or sustain? Visualize their work.

12.  Can you imagine the “methods” used by the “devas in their serried ranks”? When you ponder their “methods”, what light comes to you?

13.  What are the “veils of maya” (as the term is used in this Rule).

14.  What does it mean that the Army of devas work under “rules” within the “veils of maya”?

15.  As you ponder the possible rules involved, what do you suppose is their nature? Why must these rules exist?

16.  What would it mean for you the disciple to “learn the rules whereby the Army works within the veils of maya”? How would this affect your life?

17.  Visualize yourself living life as if you had learnt the “rules” of the Army. How would the resultant manner of living be different from what it is now?

18.  Review the visualization for any realizations that may have come to you and breath forth the essence of your realizations to uplift the field of human consciousness.

19.  Sound the Great Invocation

20.  OM OM OM

Visualization for Rule X for Disciples and Initiates, Sentence I

The rules for work within the veils of maya are known and have been used.  Let the group widen all the rents within those veils and thus let in the light.

1.      Align with the soul.

2.      Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.

3.      Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it.

4.      Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven colors of the rainbow.

5.      Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by the energies of those dimensions.

6.      See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.

7.      Aligned with the group soul and under imagined triadal impression, ponder on what you understand by the phrase “the rules for work within the veils of maya”. Do you have any clear idea of what those rules may be or how they have been used?

8.      Visualize the veils of maya. To assist you in doing this, ponder and visualize the following important summation from R&I 196:

“Next to the earthly plane is found the Veil of Impulsion and then the Hall of Concentration.  To that succeeds the Veil of Distortion, related to the world of glamour as impulsion is to force.  Beyond that veil is found the Hall of Choice.  And then we find another veil, the Veil of Separation, and beyond it lies the Hall of Blinded Men—blinded by light but facing towards the final veil, the Veil of Aspiration.  Four veils, three halls and many men.”

Concentrate particularly on the nature of the veil, realizing the “hall” as a more positive type of focus.

9.      Visualize within the veils of maya rents which have been made: three rents, in particular, were made by the “Lawgiver” (Moses), by the Christ and by St. Paul.

10.  Ponder on the method of widening the rents within those veils.

11.  Visualize the group as, concertedly, engaged in the process of widening the rents and letting in the light. Attempt to see this vividly happening as you participate in a dynamic, subjective group process.

12.  Imagine the effect upon humanity of widening each of the three major rents. Can you think of any other minor rents which have been made within the veils of maya?

13.  Review the visualization for any realizations that may have come to you, and breathe forth the essence of your realization to uplift the field of human consciousness.

14.  Sound the Great Invocation

15.  OM OM OM

Visualization for Rule X for Disciples and Initiates, Sentence II

Let the Army of the Voice be no more heard and let the brothers onward move within the Sound.

  1. Align with the soul.

  2. Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.

  3. Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it.

  4. Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven colors of the rainbow.

  5. Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by the energies of those dimensions.

  6. See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.

  7. Aligned with the group soul and under imagined triadal impression, visualize the nature, work and vibrational domain of the Army of the Voice.

  8. Why should the Army of the Voice “be no more heard”?

  9. Visualize a state in which the Army of the Voice is no more heard. What is the requirement for such a state to supervene? Have you ever experienced a state in which, you believe, the Army of the Voice was no more heard? If so, how did it happen?

  10. What is the Sound? How does it compare to that which is heard by means of the Army of the Voice?

  11. Imagine that you hear the Sound. Dwell with this imagining.

  12. Feeling you solidarity with your group brothers, feel yourself immersed within the Sound and imagine that you are moving onward with them “within the Sound”. What does this imagined experience mean to you?

  13.  What realizations come to you through this imagining? What do you assess is the meaning of moving onward within the Sound accompanied by your group brothers?

  14. Review the visualization for any realizations that may have come to you and breathe forth the essence of your realizations to uplift the field of human consciousness.

  15. Sound the Great Invocation

  16. OM OM OM

Visualization for Rule…for Disciples and Initiates, Sentence III

Then let them know the meaning of the O.M….

  1. Align with the soul.

  2. Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.

  3. Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it.

  4. Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven colors of the rainbow.

  5. Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by the energies of those dimensions.

  6. See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.

  7. Aligned with the group soul and under imagined triadal impression, ponder deeply on the meaning of the Sacred Word, the O.M.

  8. Imaginatively listen to the O.M. being sounded, at first by your group, and as you immerse yourself within its sound, let its significance emerge progressively within you consciousness.

  9. If you truly understood the meaning of the O.M. what would be the nature and expression of your life as lived?

  10. Review the visualization for any realizations that may have come to you and breathe forth the essence of your realizations to uplift the field of human consciousness.

  11. Sound the Great Invocation

  12. OM OM OM

Visualization for Rule…for Disciples and Initiates, Sentence IV

and let them hear that O.M. as it is sounded forth by Him Who stands and waits at the very centre of the Council Chamber of the Lord.

  1. Align with the soul.

  2. Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.

  3. Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it.

  4. Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven colors of the rainbow.

  5. Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by the energies of those dimensions.

  6. See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.

  7. Aligned with the group soul and under imagined triadal impression, ponder deeply on the meaning of the O.M.

  8. Who is it that stands and waits at the very centre of the Council Chamber of the Lord?

  9. Visualize Sanat Kumara at the centre of His Council Chamber; attempt as a group to feel, even imaginatively, something of the vibration of the Sanat Kumara and His Council Chamber; attempt as a group to feel imbued by His Presence which is (for us) the Presence.

  10. Concentrate within the group field and imaginatively attempt to ‘hear’ the O.M. sounding from the being of Sanat Kumara. Let us immerse ourselves as a group within the imagined Sound.

  11. What does it mean that He “stands”? What does it mean that He “waits”?

  12. As you visualize Sanat Kumara, the Council Chamber and the great O.M. sounding forth from Him, attempt to fathom (to the extent you can) the deep mystery implicate in the entire process.

  13. Review the visualization for any realizations that may have come to you and breathe forth the essence of your realizations to uplift the field of human consciousness.

  14. Sound the Great Invocation

  15. OM OM OM

Special Meditation from Rule X:

Here is a profound meditation from the Master’s Book of Rules. Study it with care and work with it. It holds many hints which apply to the visualizations offered in this document. Work at first will be superficial compared to what it can become, but let a beginning be made. Proceed with caution.

1. Focus the force at the jewel's point and find the veil that it can touch.

2. Carry the force from point to point and then project.

3. Look for the energy in form behind the veil attacked.  A rent within the veil exists.  Find it and see.

4. A path lies through the veils, giving access to the several courts.  Walk on that path, wielding destruction and clearing out the refuse in the court.  The court of the money changers is the last.

5. Meet the descending forces and find the current which is yours.

6. Watch for the evil stream of force which seeks to mend the rents.  Project upon that stream the energy of which you know.  It led you from the Ashram into the veils.  Use it and drive the evil back unto the astral plane.

7. Work with the Sound and know it as the source of power.  Use first the Voice; then use the O.M., and later use the Sound.  All three together will suffice.