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Refining the Meditations: The AAMP Meditations will continue
to be refined as their use indicates where refinements are would contribute
to greater spiritual effectiveness.
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Differences in the Meditations: Each of the seven AAMP Meditations is
slightly different, as are the seven abbreviated forms
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The alignments to access the various rays and
their patterns of energy-flow are different and distinct from each
other.
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There are also some variations in emphasis, so
the meditation sections are not identical.
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The Purpose of the Short Forms of Meditation: Although the longer form of the meditations
can be preformed expeditiously, the shorter forms may be more convenient.
The essence of service to humanity is contained in these shorter
forms, which can be performed in ten or fifteen minutes. Whether to
use the long or short forms will be up to you. There is no question
but that attention to the profound alignments offered in the long forms
will empower the meditations, however, we must sometimes adapt to available
time .
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Performing the Meditations: Regularity is better than an over-enthusiastic
embrace of too many meditations. If you wish to experiment with a number
of them (or even all) that is fine, but arrive at a program which allows
the performance of at least one of them regularly, each week.
If you choose to do more than one regularly, please be cautious about
overloading yourselves. Quality is more important than quantity.
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Familiarity and Speed: Although the full form of the meditations
may seem long, familiarity with them will bring you to a point where
they can be performed even relatively swiftly.
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The List of Committed Meditators: If
you decide to perform one or more of the AAMP Meditations each week,
you can be put on the list of others who have committed. If you wish
to be added, let me know the specifics concerning which meditation or
meditations.
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Necessary Simplifications: A close and careful study of the major
chart of p. 48 of Initiation: Human and Solar, and p. 1238 of
A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, will reveal that it is not possible
to delineate in words all the alignments and energy flows there
suggested. A sufficient number has been indicated to provide you with
a sense of how the ray energy in question flows and what may be its
various sources. There are, however, a number of unknown factors related
to this chart which will only be revealed in time and through close
study. I would suggest that you have a copy of the chart available
to your sight when you perform the meditations (or that you pictorially
memorize the chart). This will allow you to “see” the flows and the
whole process will move naturally and relatively swiftly.
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The Language of Sound and Color—Our Incomplete
Knowledge: The
language of sound and color is by no means completely revealed to humanity.
Tones and colors have been suggested which are reliably and closely
related to the ray qualities we seek to access and distribute, but there
are a number of alternative interpretations of the color/sound correspondences,
so no finality or ultimate correctness is implied.
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Color Samples in the Mediation Text: On occasion different colors have been
used in the mediation text as a reminder to the meditators. If you find
the color suggested lacking in appropriateness, let your imagination
furnish you with a color closer to the ideal.
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What to do if your Musical Knowledge is Limited:
Those of you who
have little or no familiarity with music need not be concerned about
the sounding of the OM on particular
pitches. The most important approach is to work in the World of Meaning,
leaving the sounding of pitches to the tones your voice produces naturally.
If you wish to explore this somewhat fourth ray/fifth
ray approach to color-tone specificity, I suggest you acquire a little
“pitch pipe”—a small circular ‘harmonica’ with all the twelve notes
of the chromatic scale. It is then easy to blow softly into the pitch
pipe to sound the note you need for any particular mediation, and you
can adjust the sounding of the OM o the note you hear. (Whether or not we have musical
training, it is a good idea for all students to learn—sooner or later—how
to replicate a specific musical note with their voice).
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Choosing a Single Focus:
When performing
AAMP meditations in a physica group, decide beforehand on
a particular area of world need, then a focussed and fruitful
discussion could follow the meditation.
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Imagination
and Intuition: Sharpen your visual (and auditory) imagination. If the creative imagination
is clear enough and rightly attuned, it becomes a channel for access
to the intuition.
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Be Definite in Your Formulation
of Mantrams: Formulate definite mantrams
and thoughts to breathe forth into the thought-atmosphere of humanity.
Do not allow these to become vague. The more definite and coherent
they are, the more useful they will be.
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Enjoy the Process:
Enjoy the meditations. Seek to approach them with freshness every time
you perform them. They are not just a “duty” but an adventure in contacting
higher energies and applying those energies for the welfare of humanity.
It can be expected that we will become more adept at this as the months
and years pass.
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Apply
Your Creativity: if you are Inclined, feel free to be creative.
The Meditation Form is our guideline, but there is a great deal
of room for freedom of approach. When methods of deeper contact and
application occur to you, feel free to use them—as long as they are
confirmed by what you consider to be your intuition.
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Avoiding Presumption: A Cautionary Note: When we do these meditations,
we do not presume that we are members of any given Ashram or
even affiliated with it (simply because we are performing the
meditations). We are simply disciples attempting to build thoughtforms,
gathering and transmit energies which may be directly useful to humanity
and indirectly useful to the various Ashrams as they work at redeeming
humanity. The Hierarchy marshals the thought energy of humanity for
constructive purposes. If there exists more constructive thought in
alignment with hierarchical purposes, this marshalling can be more effective.
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Humility and our Limitations: We are under no illusion
that the group accesses the majority of higher energies referenced in
the meditations. We are doing well enough if we truly access
the energy of Hierarchy and of the Christ. Yet, a coherent sense of
the energy flows and an attempt to imagine them provides a broad, illuminated
and empowering context in which to perform our work. As such visualizations
can be performed quite rapidly and effectively, there is no need to
fear that we will become “stuck” in all the intricacies. A general
sense of the lines of energy flow is what is desired.
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Avoiding Glamor and Illusion:
We are approaching these meditations in a spirit of service.
The lower ego has to be kept out of it. We seek to become translucent
and eventually transparent media through which the invoked/evoked energies
may flow. We do not want to imagine that, because we are performing
these service meditations, suddenly, the various Masters and Initiates
will begin “talking to us” or “talking through us”. We are not
channeling. If we do feel that we are making contact with our Ashram
and its Personnel (which is always possible given sufficient selflessness
and spiritual development), that impression must be rigorously and inwardly
tested, and kept to ourselves. That is the Law
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Overstimulation:
If overstimulation arises persistently: