Compilation
“MahaChohan”
When
the Master R became MahaChohan, his Ashram shifted
from the 7th to the 3rd Ray
(DINAII 383) Then and only then does the disciple-initiate
pass into the Ashram of the Master of his ray— one of the senior Masters in
connection with the seven major Ashrams. If he is a disciple in the Ashram of a
Master Who is on one of the Rays of Attribute, the task of that Master is to
prepare him for transition on to one of the major Rays of Aspect. This shifting
and interchange is taking place all the time. When, for instance, the Master
R. assumed the task of Mahachohan or Lord of Civilisation, His Ashram was shifted from the seventh Ray of
Ceremonial Order to the
third Ray of Active Intelligence; the majority of those who have taken the second and
the third initiations were transferred with Him under what might be called a
"special dispensation"; the rest of the members of His Ashram
remained for tuition and training in service under that Master Who took His place
as the central point of the seventh ray
Ashram.
DK has five
Masters working in his Ashram
(DINAII 104) You need to bear in mind that a Master
of an Ashram may, for
instance, attract to Him other Masters of equal rank as His Own. I
have five Masters working with me in my Ashram. It would be of value to you if you
considered the factors which hold an Ashram together and which establish its
unity.
KH, M, the MahaChohan, the Labour Master and DK are the five Masters/Ashrams
associated with the preparatory work of the reappearance of the Christ
(DINAII 597) There
are five Masters and five Ashrams involved in this preparatory work. First of
all, there is the Ashram of the Master K.H.; this is the presiding Ashram in this
work owing to the fact that it is a second ray Ashram and, therefore, upon the
same line of energy as that of the Christ Himself; another reason is that the Master K.H.
will assume the role of World Teacher in the distant future when the Christ
moves on to higher and more important work. Next comes the Ashram of the Master
Morya; the reason for this is that the whole procedure is
projected from Shamballa and the Ashram of the Master
Morya is ever in close touch with that dynamic
centre. The Master R.—as the Lord of Civilisation—is also closely involved; He is also—and
this is of major importance—Regent of Europe.
DK mediates
between the Masters directly responsible to the Christ and the disciples
working in the world
I have also at
times referred to the Master Who is responsible for the reorganisation
of Labour; this work
He began to do in the latter part of the nineteenth century but left it to
[Page 597] carry forward on its own momentum when Russia entered the field and
laid its emphasis upon the proletariat or the workers, to the exclusion of all
other members of national groups. This produced what we might call the workers'
revolution in the latter years of the first quarter of the twentieth century. I
myself am the fifth Master concerned in this work and am—as it were—the liaison
officer between those
disciples who are working in the field of the world and Those Masters Who are directly responsible
to the Christ for the
needed work of preparation.
Energy from five
Ashrams is flowing through the New Group of World Servers
(RI 586) 1. The group
in which the initiate is working upon the physical plane and which is an
externalisation (existing on the mental and astral planes) of some phase of
work sponsored by the New Group of World Servers. All
disciples and initiates in physical manifestation are at this time members of
that group, which is the focal point of the present effort being made by the
Hierarchy. Through it spiritual energy
from five of the Ashrams is flowing.
These five are:
a. The Ashram of
the Master K.H., particularly in regard to the work of education.
b. The Ashram of
the Master D.K. (myself), particularly in regard to aspirants for
initiation.
c. The Ashram of
the Master R., particularly in regard to the reorganising and the
reconstruction of
d. The Ashram of
the Master Morya, as He seeks to find, influence and direct
the activities of workers in the political field throughout the planet.
e. The Ashram of
the Master Hilarion, as He supervises the discoveries (and the
application of such discoveries) of the scientific movement in the world today.
(DINAI 33) The production of the outer form on earth, through the
medium of books, of esoteric schools and the educating of public opinion has
been committed to a group of us who form a part of the inner world government……..and
to this group, I (the Master Djwhal Khul) play the part of secretary and of
organising contact man……..This group to which I refer is composed of two oriental
initiates (of whom I
am one) and of five occidental initiates.
One of the orientals is DK(2nd
Ray), the other is most likely Koot Hoomi (2nd Ray).
The five Occidentals are, I would guess, the Master R, the two English Masters
(The one who founded the Labour Movement(7th
or 3rd Ray), and the Master of the English race(3rd or 7th
Ray) ), the Master Hilarion(5th Ray) and
the Master P(4th ray).
A 1st
Ray Master has been preparing the way(destroying as antiChrist) for Four Masters on Rays 2,3,5,7 who will appear before end of last century. To
take a wild guess the destroyer was probably either Morya
or Master R.
(EPI 73) This is
owing to the imminent appearance, or manifestation, of certain great Lives Who will embody the energy of
rays two, three, five and seven. They will thus
constitute focal [Page 74] points for the inflow of these four types of divine
energy and, this will produce a tremendous stimulation of their corresponding
and responding units of life. These four
Beings, Who will appear as human beings
in the field of the modern world, may be looked for before
the end of this century
and Their united effort will inaugurate definitely the
New Age, and usher in the period which will go down in history as the time of
glory for the fifth root race. Each
of these four Masters,
for that They will be……A great deal of the destructive energy extant in the
world today is due to the presence on the astral plane of a
first ray disciple of the planetary Logos. His work it
is to clear the way for the manifestation of these other four major Disciples,
Who are primarily Builders; They will enter on Their
work when the task of the wreckers of form has been accomplished.
(EOH 678) Objectively, therefore, the second ray work
of teaching is the first to be organised. Subjectively, the first
ray workers are already active, for the work of the first ray with its disturbing and destroying
activity prepares the
way; pain and disruption ever precede birth, and the agents of the first ray
have been working for nearly two hundred years.
(HIS 58) Master
R. takes hold, on the inner planes, of affairs
in
the Ashram of a Master will be found in five cities on the planet
(EOH 676) In London, in New York, in Geneva and Darjeeling and in Tokyo, a
Master will eventually be found, organising a major energy centre; at the same time His Ashram will continue
to function upon buddhic levels, for the entire
personnel has not been alerted for externalisation.
The five
Ashrams/Masters will represent the three major and two minor rays
(EOH 676) You have
therefore five points where the externalisation of the Ashrams will take place and eventually be
focussed. From these points, as time elapses, other Ashrams, subsidiary [Page
677] in nature, will be found emerging, sponsored and founded by disciples and
initiates from these five Ashrams, and representing the three
major rays and two minor rays.
Although
the Master R is here listed s being on the 7th ray, he shifted his
whole Ashram onto the 3rd Ray when he became MahaChohan
in the middle of the 20th century
(HIS 58) The
Master Who concerns Himself especially with the future development of racial
affairs in Europe, and with the mental outgrowth in
The Labour Master
is a 3rd Ray Master
(EOH 664)
This Master (the English Master who started the Labour movement) works
primarily with the intelligentsia, and He is therefore a third ray Master—upon the Ray of Active Intelligence. His
Ashram is occupied with the problems [Page 665] of industry, and the goal of
all the thinking, all the planning and all the work of impressing receptive
minds is directed towards spiritualising the concepts of the labour
party in every country,
and of industrialists, thus turning them towards the goal of right sharing, as
a major step towards right human relations. This Master therefore
cooperates with the Master R.—Who is the Head
of the third ray Ashram
The English Master
behind Labour movement works under the Master R, Has in hand the guidance of
the Anglo-Saxon race and resides in Great Britain
(HIS 60) Little
can be given out anent the two English Masters.
Neither of them takes pupils in the same sense that the Master K. H. or
the Master M. take pupils. One of Them,
who resides in
There
are two English Masters, one is the Master of the English Race, the other is the Master of the Anglo-Saxon race and behind
the Labour movement throughout the whole world
(WM 79) The climax of the disturbed condition has
been passed, and a more stable state of affairs is gradually being brought
about, and this may permit of definite occult work being attempted with
success. The Master R.
is working upon this problem, and likewise the Master of the English race,—not
the Master who occupies Himself with the Labour Movement or the betterment of social
conditions. They are aided by a disciple
of rare capability in
(EOH 667) It is nevertheless this
third ray energy, as wielded
in the Ashram of this English Master, under the direction
of the Mahachohan,
the Lord of Civilisation,
which will force a right attitude toward materialism,
The fourth branch
of the school will
deal with the 6th and 7th sub-races of the fifth rootrace
(
(EOH 669) We now come to a consideration of the vast
Ashram controlled by the Master R. He is the Lord of Civilisation and His is the task
of bringing in the new civilisation for which all men wait. It is a third ray Ashram, and therefore enfolds within its ring-pass-not all the Ashrams to be found upon the third Ray of Active Intelligence,
upon the fifth Ray of Concrete Science and upon the seventh Ray of Ceremonial
Order. All these Ashrams are working under the general direction of the Master
R. He works primarily through the Masters of these three types of ray energy.
He Himself at this time is occupied with seventh ray energy, which is the
order-producing energy upon our planet.
The
seventh Ray is regarded as a major ray
(HIS 181) …….This is
complicated somewhat by the fact that within the planetary Scheme, during
cyclic evolution, a minor ray may be
temporarily regarded as a major ray.
For instance, at this particular time in our planetary Scheme, the seventh
Ray of Ceremonial Law or Order is regarded as a major ray, being a ray of
synthesis, and one on which
the Mahachohan
is blending His work.
(HIS 44) Under the
Manu work the regents of the different world divisions, such as, for instance,
the Master Jupiter, the oldest of the Masters now working in physical bodies
for humanity, Who is the regent for
(DINAII 135) …..Lately
the Master R. has taken the position of Mahachohan, and that achievement has carried the
entering force down into the ranks of those Masters Who have taken the fifth
initiation thus enabling Them to step down this Shamballa
force to Their individual Ashrams. This happening has produced a tremendous
stimulation with all the attendant opportunities, manifestations, and dangers. Masters such as myself have had to learn to handle
this great potency,
and at the same time to make as much of it as we can (safely and wisely)
available to our senior disciples.
(HIS 60) The Master P. works under the
Master R. in
the idea of the
Master Jesus, a sixth ray Master working under the MahaChohan
sounds somewhat unusual, but when we learn that the Jews as a
race/power centre in the 5th root race have a huge influence on the
solar plexus (a centre strongly controlled by the sixth ray) of the human race
as a whole, and that the MahaChohan corresponds to
the throat centre the correspondences line up and need no explanation.
(HIS 44) The World Teacher presides over the destiny
of the great religions through the medium of a group of Masters and initiates Who direct the activities of these different schools of
thought. In illustration:—The
Master Jesus, the
inspirer and director of the
the Christ will come as the world messiah and not the messiah of the
Jewish race as originally planned. The Master Jesus will come as messiah for
the Jewish race- (RI
706) But their opportunity will come again, and they may change all this when
the fires of suffering at last succeed in purifying them and burning away their
ancient crystallisation, thus liberating them to the extent that they can recognise
their Messiah, Who will not, however, be the world Messiah.
The Jews need humility more than any other nation. By humility they may learn something of value
as well as a needed sense of proportion.
They are dear to the heart of
the Christ for—in the performance of His greatest work—He chose a Jewish body,
but their materialism and their repudiation of spiritual opportunity has negated His use of their racial type again. It would provide too great a handicap. The probability
is that the Master Jesus will assume (under instruction from the
Christ) the part of the Messiah.
(EOH 508) As the seventh Ray of
Organisation and of ceremonial work is now coming into prominence and manifestation, the
work of the Master on that ray is that of synthesising, on the physical plane,
all parts of the plan. The Master Rakoczi
takes of the general plan
as it is outlined in the inner Council Chamber and approximates it to the
possible. [Page 508] He might be regarded as acting as the General Manager for
the carrying out of the plans of the executive council of the Christ.
(DINAI 730) Each Master has reached the point where the
vision is clear to Him; this is part of the reward accorded to the initiate. He
identifies Himself with it, colouring it necessarily, richly and helpfully with
His ray "apprehension," and interpreting it in terms of His
contribution to the whole. Therein lies the secret of the inevitable and the unhinderable (is there such a word, brother of mine?)
success of the vision as it is materialised through the combined efforts of the
Hierarchy, conditioned in time and space by some Master or group
of Masters, working on some one ray or rays. In the early days of the present cycle of
hierarchical effort (between 1925 and 1936), the ray at work upon humanity was the first
ray. The activity of this ray culminated in the declaration of war by
1. The first Ray
of Will or Power, expending its force.
2. The second Ray
of Love-wisdom, reaching its meridian and holding the centre of the stage until
1957.
3. The seventh
Ray of Ceremonial Order,
coming into activity in combination with the other two—the will-to-love and the
will-to-order—producing beauty out of the present chaos.
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.
Forget not, an
Ashram is a vortex of force and a centre of energy—a centre through which both
force and energy flow in [page 731] order that the vision may be materialised.
This force and energy is, in the last analysis, directed by a Master, by
a group of three senior initiates and by another group of lesser initiates, thus
representing (in each Ashram) a miniature of the planetary government.
(HIS 44) Ever since He left the earth, (the Christ-Z)as related with approximate accuracy in the Bible story
(though with much error in detail) has He stayed with the sons of men; never
has He really gone, but only in appearance, and in a physical body He can be
found by those who know the way, dwelling in the Himalayas, and working in
close co-operation with His two great Brothers, the Manu and the Mahachohan.
(CF 871) Speaking generally, therefore, it might be
stated that egoic
groups in whom the
knowledge petals are being organised and unfolded come under
the primary influence of the Mahachohan; those in whom the love aspect, or the
second circle of petals, is opening come under the primary influence of the
Bodhisattva, with the knowledge unfoldment
paralleling the work; whilst those in whom the third tier is being opened come
under the energy direction of the Manu, with the two other types of force
co-ordinated. It will be apparent to the
careful reader that in this fact lies
hid the secret of why the Mahachohan
holds office longer than
either of His two Brothers, holding it as He does for an entire world
period. The key to these cycles lies hid in the following thoughts: the Bodhisattva and the Manu change more
frequently and pass on to other work owing to the fact that They each embody
one type of triple force, whereas the Mahachohan is
the focal point for five types of
energy, each in its turn triple in nature.
There have been three MahaChohans-One
of the Kumaras held it when the Hierarchy was founded
in Lemurian days-A new MahaChohan
took over in the 2nd sub-race of the Atlantean
root-race, and then in the 20th century The Master Rakozi took over
(HIS 44) The work of the Lord of Civilisation,
the Mahochohan.
Group three has as its Head the Mahachohan. His rule over
the group persists for a longer period than that of His two Brothers, and He
may hold office for the term of several root-races. He
is the sumtotal of the intelligence aspect. The present Mahachohan is not the original one Who held the
office at the founding of the Hierarchy in Lemurian days—it was then held by one of the Kumaras,
or Lords of the Flame, Who came into incarnation with Sanat
Kumara—but He took hold of His position during the second
sub-race of the Atlantean root-race. He
had achieved adeptship on the moon-chain, and it was
through His instrumentality that a large number of the present more advanced
human beings came into incarnation in the middle of the Atlantean
root-race. Karmic affiliation with Him
was one of the predisposing causes, thus making this eventuality possible.
Energy
from Sanat Kumara’s throat
chakra flows to the MahaChohan
His work concerns
itself with the fostering and strengthening of that relation between spirit and
matter, life and form, the self and the not-self, which results in what we call
civilisation. He manipulates the forces
of nature, and is largely the emanating source of electrical energy as we know
it. Being the reflection
of the third, or creative aspect, energy from the Planetary
Logos flows to Him from the throat centre, and He it is Who in many ways makes the work of His
Brothers possible. Their plans and
desires are submitted to Him, and through Him pass the instructions to a large
number of the deva agents.
Thus you have
Will, Love, and Intelligence represented in these three great Lords; you have
the self, the not-self, and the relation between synthesised in the unity of
manifestation; you have racial government, religion and civilisation forming a
coherent whole, and you have physical manifestation, the love or desire aspect,
and the mind [Page 46] of the Planetary Logos working out into
objectivity. The closest co-operation
and unity exists between these three Personalities, and every move and plan and event exists
in Their united foreknowledge. They are in daily touch with the Lord of the World at Shamballa, and the entire guidance of affairs rests in Their
hands, and in those of the Manu of the fourth root-race.
The World Teacher holds office in connection with both the fourth and
fifth root-races.
Each of these
departmental heads directs a number of subsidiary offices, and the department
of the Mahachohan
is divided into five divisions, so as to take in the four lesser aspects of Hierarchical rule.
(HIS 44) Under the
Manu work the regents of the different world divisions, such as, for instance,
the Master Jupiter, the oldest of the Masters now working in physical bodies
for humanity, Who is the regent for
(HIS 44) The World Teacher presides over the destiny
of the great religions through the medium of a group of Masters and initiates Who direct the activities of these different schools of
thought. In illustration:—The
Master Jesus, the
inspirer and director of the
In the department
of the Mahachohan
a large number of Masters, in fivefold division,
work in connection with the deva evolution, and with
the intelligence aspect in man. Their
divisions follow those of the four minor rays of attribute:—
1. The ray of
harmony or beauty.
2. The ray of
concrete science or knowledge.
3. The ray of
devotion or abstract idealism.
4. The ray of
ceremonial law or magic,
just as the three departmental heads represent
the three major rays of:—
I. Will or power.
II. Love or wisdom.
III.
Active intelligence, or adaptability.
The four rays or
attributes of mind, with the third ray of intelligence, as synthesised
by the Mahachohan,
make up the sumtotal of the fifth principle of mind or manas.
(HIS 55) As the Master M. is upon
the first Ray, that of Will or Power, His work largely concerns itself with the
carrying out of the plans of the present Manu. He acts as the Inspirer of the statesmen of
the world, He manipulates forces, through the Mahachohan, that will bring about the conditions desired for the
furthering of racial evolution. On the
physical plane those great national executives [Page 55] who have far vision
and the international ideal are influenced by Him, and with Him co-operate
certain of the great devas of the mental plane, and
three great groups of angels work with Him on mental levels, in connection with
the lesser devas who vitalise thoughtforms,
and thus keep alive the thoughtforms
of the Guides of the
race for the benefit of the whole of humanity.
(HIS 61) Certain
facts concerning these Masters, and Their work in the present and in the
future, may be in place here. First, the
work of training Their pupils and disciples to fit them to be of use in two
great events, one, the [Page 61] coming of the World Teacher towards the middle
or close of this present century, and the other, the training of them to be of
use in the founding of the new sixth sub-race and in the reconstruction of the
present world conditions. This being the
fifth sub-race of the fifth root-race, the pressure
of the work on the five rays of mind which are controlled by the
Mahachohan, is very great. The Masters are carrying an over heavy
burden, and much of Their work of teaching disciples has been delegated to
initiates and advanced disciples, and certain of the Masters on the first and
second rays have temporarily taken over pupils in the Mahachohan's department.
(HIS 61) Secondly,
the preparation of the world on a large scale for the coming of the World Teacher, and the taking of the necessary steps before They
Themselves come out among men, as many of Them surely will towards the close of
this century. A special group is forming
amongst Them now Who are definitely preparing
Themselves for this work. The
Master M., the Master K. H. and the Master Jesus will be specially
concerned with the movement towards the last quarter of this century. Other Masters will participate also, but
these three are the ones with Whose names and offices
people should familiarise themselves, wherever possible. Two other Masters, specially concerned with
the seventh or ceremonial ray, Whose particular work it is to supervise the
development of certain activities within the next fifteen years, work
under the Master R. Very
definitely may the assurance be given here, that prior to the coming of the
Christ, adjustments will be made so that at the head of all great organisations
will be found either a Master, or an initiate who has taken
the third initiation. At the head of certain of the great occult
groups, of the Freemasons of the world, and of the various great divisions of
the Church, and resident in many of the great nations [Page 62] will be found
initiates or Masters. This work of the
Masters is proceeding now, and all Their efforts are
being bent towards bringing it to a successful consummation. Everywhere They are
gathering in those who in any way show a tendency to respond to high vibration,
seeking to force their vibration and to fit them so that they may be of use at
the time of the coming of the Christ.
Great is the day of opportunity, for when that time comes, through the
stupendous strength of the vibration then brought to bear upon the sons of men,
it will be possible for those who now do the necessary work to take a great
step forward, and to pass through the portal of initiation.
(HIS 105) It may
not perhaps be generally known that at a certain crisis during the Great War[WW I], the Hierarchy of our planet deemed it well nigh
necessary to invoke the aid of the Silent Watcher, and—employing
the great mantram whereby the Buddha can be reached—called the attention of the latter, and
sought his agency with the Planetary Logos.
In consultation between the Planetary Logos, the Lord of the World, one
of the Buddhas of Activity, the Buddha, the Mahachohan, and the Manu (these names are given in order of
their relative evolutionary stage) it was decided to watch proceedings a little
longer before interfering with the trend of affairs, as the karma of the planet
would have been delayed should the strife have been ended too soon. Their confidence in the ability of men duly
to adjust conditions was justified, and interference proved needless. This conference took place at Shamballa.
This is mentioned to show the close scrutiny given to everything
concerning the affairs of men by the various Planetary Existences. It is literally true, in an occult sense,
that "not a sparrow falleth" without its
fall being noticed.
It may be asked
why the Bodhisattva was not included in the conference. The reason was that the war was in the
department of the Manu, and members of the Hierarchy concern Themselves
with that which is strictly Their own business; the Mahachohan,
being the embodiment of the [Page 106] intelligent or manasic
principle, participates in all conferences. In the next
great strife the department of religions will be involved, and the Bodhisattva intimately
concerned. His Brother, the Manu, will
then be relatively exempt, and will proceed with His own affairs. And yet withal there is the closest co-operation
in all departments, with no loss of energy.
Owing to the unity of consciousness of those who are free from the three
lower planes, what transpires in one department is known in the others
(HIS 107) At stated periods in the year the Lodge
meets, and at [Page
107] the Wesak Festival
gathers under His jurisdiction for three purposes:
1. To contact
planetary force through the medium of the Buddha.
2. To hold the principal of the quarterly conferences.
3. To admit to the
ceremony of initiation those who are ready in all grades.
Three other
initiation ceremonies take place during the year:—
1. For the minor
initiations administered by the Bodhisattva, all of which are in the department
of the Mahachohan, and on one or other of the four lesser rays, the rays
of attribute.
2. For the major
initiations on one or other of the three major rays, the rays of aspect, which
are administered by the Bodhisattva, and are therefore the first two initiations.
3. For the higher three initiations at which Sanat Kumara wields the Rod.
(HIS 109) During
the initiation ceremony, when the initiate stands before the Lord of the World,
these three great Beings form a triangle, within whose lines of force the
initiate finds himself. At the first two
initiations, wherein the Bodhisattva functions as the Hierophant, the Mahachohan, the Manu,
and a Chohan who temporarily represents the
second department perform a
similar office. At the highest two
initiations, those three Kumaras who are called
"the esoteric Kumaras" form a triangle
wherein the initiate stands, when he faces the Planetary Logos.
The Departmental Heads.
The
Manu.
The
Bodhisattva.
The
Mahachohan.
As has been said,
these three great Beings represent the triplicity of
all manifestation, and might be expressed under the following form, remembering
that all this deals with subjectivity, and therefore with the evolution of
consciousness and primarily with self-consciousness in man.
Consciousness
The Manu The
Bodhisattva The Mahachohan
Matter aspect Spirit aspect Intelligence aspect.
Form Life Mind.
The Not-Self The Self The relation between.
Body
Spirit Soul.
[Page 110]
Or, in words
strictly dealing with self-conscious realisation,
Politics Religion Science.
Government Beliefs Civilisation.
Races Faiths Education.
All human beings
belong to one or other of these three departments, and all are of equal
importance, for Spirit and matter are one. All are so interdependent, being but
expressions of one life, that the endeavour to express the functions of the
three departments in tabular form is liable to lead to error.
The three Great
Lords closely co-operate in the work, and that work is one, just as man, though
a triplicity, is yet an individual unit.
The human being is a form through which a spiritual life or entity is
manifesting, and employing the intelligence under evolutionary law.
Therefore the
Great Lords are closely connected with the initiations of a human unit. They are too occupied with greater affairs
and with group activities to have any relationship with a man until he stands
upon the probationary path. When he has,
through his own effort, brought himself on to the Path of Discipleship, the
particular Master Who has him under supervision reports to the head of one of
the three departments (this being dependent upon a man's
ray) that he is
nearing the Portal of Initiation and should be ready for the great step during
such and such a life. Each
life, and later each year, report is made, until the final year upon the Path
of Probation, when
closer and more frequent reports are handed in.
During this final year also, the applicant's name is submitted to the
Lodge, and after his own Master has reported upon him, and his record has been
briefly summarised, his name is balloted, and sponsors are arranged.
[Page 111]
During the
initiation ceremony the important factors are:—
1. The Initiator.
2. The triangle of
force formed by three adepts or three Kumaras.
3. The sponsors.
Santa
Kumara initiates at the 3rd, 4th and 5th
initiations-The MahaChohan and Bodhisattva (The
Christ) Perform the function of sponsor
In the case of the
first two initiations, two Masters stand, one on each
side of the applicant, within the triangle; at the third, fourth and fifth
initiations, the Mahachohan and the Bodhisattva
perform the function of sponsor; at the sixth and seventh initiations two great Beings,
Who must remain nameless, stand within the esoteric triangle. The work of the sponsors is to pass through Their bodies the force or electrical energy emanating from
the Rod of Initiation. This force,
through radiation, circles around the triangle and is supplemented by the force
of the three guardians; it next passes through the centres of the sponsors,
being transmitted by an act of will to the initiate.
(HIS 131) 3. By Sanat Kumara working
through the Mahachohan. By
the wielding of the Rod of Power the magnetic focal points of those great
organisations which affect the civilisation and the culture of a people are
brought into coherent activity.
All physical plane
organisation—governmental, religious, or cultural—is the working out of inner
forces and causes, and, before they definitely appear in physical
manifestation, a focalisation—if it might be so expressed—of these influences
and energies, takes place on etheric levels. The organisation of the Freemasons is a case
in point. It has two magnetic centres,
one of which is in
(HIS 181) To the three above points we might also
briefly add that of the coming in, or passing out, of any particular ray. The little that can be said upon this point,
which is one of the greatest difficulty, might be
summed up in the following three statements:
First, that initiations taken on the four minor rays rank not in
equality with initiations taken upon the major three.
This is complicated somewhat by the fact that within the planetary
Scheme, during cyclic evolution, a minor
ray may be temporarily regarded as a major ray. For instance, at this particular time in our
planetary Scheme, the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law or Order is
regarded as a major ray, being a ray of synthesis, and one on which the Mahachohan
is blending His work. Secondly, that the first three initiations
are taken upon the ray of the Ego, and link a man up with the great White
Lodge; the last two are taken upon the ray of the monad, and have a definite
effect upon the path for service that will be chosen later by the adept. This statement must be linked up with that
earlier made, which stated that the fifth initiation made a man [Page 182] a
member of the Greater Lodge, or Brotherhood, on Sirius, being literally the
first of the Sirian initiations. The fourth initiation is the synthesis of the
Initiations of the Threshold in the Sirian
Lodge. Finally, according to the ray on
which initiation is taken, so very largely depends the
subsequent path of service.
The Ashram of the MahaChohan
is 3rd Ray
(EOH 669) We now come to a consideration of the vast Ashram controlled by the
Master R. He is the Lord of Civilisation and His is the task of bringing in the
new civilisation for
which all men wait. It is a third ray Ashram, and therefore enfolds within its ring-pass-not all the Ashrams to be found upon the third Ray of Active Intelligence,
upon the fifth Ray of Concrete Science and upon the seventh Ray of Ceremonial
Order. All these Ashrams are working under the general direction of the Master
R. He works primarily through the Masters of these three types of ray energy.
He Himself at this time is occupied with seventh ray energy, which is the
order-producing energy upon our planet.
This is the Ray of
Ceremonial Order, and through the activity of its energy, when correctly
directed and used, a right rhythm is being imposed upon all aspects of human
[Page 668] living. An effort is being constantly made to arrest the ugly chaos
of the present and to produce the ordered beauty of the future. The major
weapon now being used by the combined Forces of Evil is chaos, disruption, lack
of established security, and consequent fear. The potency of these evil forces
is exceedingly great because they belong to no one group of people and to all the
ideologies. The chaos produced by indifference, the chaos produced by
uncertainty, the chaos produced by fear, by starvation, by insecurity, by
watching others suffer innocently, and the chaos produced by the warring and
conflicting ambitious elements in every nation (without exception)—these are
the factors with which the Master R. is attempting to
deal; the task is one of
supreme difficulty. The entire rhythm of international thinking has to be
altered, and that constitutes a slow and arduous task; the evil personalities
which, in every country, are responsible for the chaos and uncertainty, have
eventually to be replaced by those who can work in cooperation with the rhythm
of the seventh ray, and thus produce ordered beauty.
The task is
further complicated by the fact that in the substitution of order for chaos,
national cultures must be preserved and the outline of the new civilisation
presented to the people. This major Ashram is therefore confronted
with two elements in every land and nation: those people who hold on to the bad old
things of the past, and those who work for the extreme opposite of this point
of view and for that which is new. Under the influence of this seventh ray
energy balance has to be brought about and preserved, so that the "noble
middle way" of right action and of right human relations can be safely
trodden. The task of the Master R. is, however, lightened by the fact that
the seventh ray is now coming into activity and its potency is increasing year
by year. His task is also aided by the
intelligent work done by the Ashram of the English
Master Who works consistently with the awakening and the arising
masses.
Every October (Libra 3rd Ray) and every March (Pisces 2nd & 6th
Ray) , the Master R. gathers together His
council of helpers,
the Masters and the senior initiates in the Ashrams of the third, the fifth and the seventh rays. Though He is the Head of the third Ray of
Aspect and is in control, therefore, of the two Rays of Attribute mentioned
above, He does not Himself wield these forces, because He
is One of the three Heads of the Hierarchy and His work cannot be confined to the activity of
any one ray. He works through the Ashrams of these rays, but He Himself works
primarily in cooperation with the Christ and the Manu.
(DINAI 754) You
can see, therefore, that the Hierarchy itself is only a great Ashram with a
triangle at the centre, composed of the Christ, the Mahachohan and the Manu. Symbolically speaking, this triangle
constitutes one radiant centre, for the radiatory
activity of each of these Great Lords is such that They
are swept into each other's auras in such a way that there is a complete
blending and fusing. Every Ashram radiates some one major quality according to
the ray of the Master at the centre; in the same way the Hierarchy radiates the
quality of the second divine aspect, just as the all-inclusive Ashram (to which
we give the name Shamballa) has the outstanding characteristic of the
first aspect, life itself. This is not a quality, but that of which quality is
an emanation.
(DINAII 135) In
considering the higher point of the triangle, which is the Ashram, I would
remind you that radiation from Shamballa enters the
triangle at that point and that, through the Ashram, will, purpose and strength
can pour. This is a relatively new achievement within the Ashrams of the
Masters. In the major group Ashram (which is the Hierarchy itself) this
reaction to impression from Shamballa is arrived at as the energy pours in, via
the two Great Lords, the Manu and the Christ. It is also registered by Their
senior disciples, the Chohans and initiates of the
sixth initiation, such as the Masters Morya and Koot Hoomi. Lately
the Master R. has taken the position of Mahachohan, and that achievement has carried the entering force down into the ranks
of those Masters Who have taken the fifth initiation thus enabling Them to step
down this Shamballa force to Their individual
Ashrams. This happening has produced a tremendous stimulation with all the
attendant opportunities, manifestations, and dangers. Masters
such as myself have had to learn to handle this great potency, and at the same time to make as much of
it as we can (safely and wisely) available to our senior disciples.
When
the Master R became MahaChohan, his Ashram shifted
from the 7th to the 3rd Ray
(DINAII 383) Then and only then does the disciple-initiate
pass into the Ashram of the Master of his ray— one of the senior Masters in
connection with the seven major Ashrams. If he is a disciple in the Ashram of a
Master Who is on one of the Rays of Attribute, the task of that Master is to
prepare him for transition on to one of the major Rays of Aspect. This shifting
and interchange is taking place all the time. When, for instance, the Master
R. assumed the task of Mahachohan or Lord of Civilisation, His
Ashram was shifted from the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order to the third Ray of Active Intelligence; the majority of those who have taken the
second and the third initiations were transferred with Him under what might be
called a "special dispensation"; the rest of the members of His
Ashram remained for tuition and training in service under that Master Who took
His place as the central point of the seventh ray Ashram.
(EOH 161) On a
lower turn of the spiral, you will note that the Wesak
Festival enacts a similar invocation and process. It is a re-enacting and
training process. There and at that time, the three Representatives
of Shamballa within the Hierarchy—the Manu, the Christ and the
Mahachohan—invoke
the Buddha, Who in His
turn is the transmitter of still higher Forces. He is invoked
by a special mantram and transmits the appeal to the One Whose agent He is. If this Great Invocation which we are
studying can be rightly said, the three great planetary centres can be related
in a similar manner. The Lord of Civilisation, the Master R., representing humanity, the Christ
representing the Hierarchy and the Lord of the World, linked through the Manu
and representing Shamballa can be brought into a close relation so
that the result will be the setting up of such a potent vibration and note that
the Spirit of Peace will be invoked and contacted. By the voiced appeal His
attention will be forced to turn itself towards our planet. The consequences
will be significant and potent but as to the form which they [Page 161] will
take it is impossible for me to say. Perhaps it will lead to some peculiar and
powerful demonstration of the meaning of peace as the expression of universal
and planetary love; perhaps it will produce the sending of an Avatar
or Messenger of Peace to lead the nations to right action; perhaps some happening will take
place of such significance that its import will be immediately recognised by
humanity as a whole, leading them to take all the needed steps to restore right
human relations. The nature of the activities which the Spirit of Peace will
institute is not our responsibility. Our duty is to learn rightly to contact
the Hierarchy, via our own souls; rightly to use the Great Invocation as souls,
and rightly to render ourselves responsive to and sensitive to the resultant
effects. Ponder on the above.
(EOH 664) We come now to the preparatory work being
done by the Master Who started what is called by you "the labour
movement." This
is regarded by the Hierarchy as one of the most successful attempts in all
history to awaken the masses of men (in the brackets called middle class and
lower class) to general betterment, and thus set up a momentum which would, occultly speaking, "swing them into light."……..
(EOH 664)
This Master (the English Master who started the Labour movement) works
primarily with the intelligentsia, and He is therefore a third ray
Master—upon the Ray of
Active Intelligence. His Ashram is occupied with the problems [Page 665] of
industry, and the goal of all the thinking, all the planning and all the work
of impressing receptive minds is directed towards spiritualising the concepts
of the labour party in every country, and of industrialists, thus turning them towards the
goal of right sharing, as a major step towards right human relations. This Master
therefore cooperates with the Master R.—Who is the Head
of the third ray Ashram,
and Who is also one of the Triangle of Forces which controls the greater Ashram
of the Hierarchy Itself. The Ashram of this Master (Who has always withheld
His name from public knowledge) is a lesser Ashram within the major third ray Ashram, just as my Ashram lies within the
ring-pass-not of the Ashram of the Master K.H. This Master is necessarily
an Englishman, for the
industrial revolution started nearly one hundred years ago in
personality has to be subdued, controlled, purified
and dedicated to service. It is this controlling, subduing process which is
going on now, and it is vociferously fought by the selfish and ambitious
elements.
Nevertheless, the
work of this Master is outstandingly successful in preparing the intellectual
principle of the masses for eventual right recognition of the Christ. A right
sense of values is being developed, and in the right direction of this potent
labour group in every land lies the foundation of the
new civilisation.
[Page 666]
The Ashram
of this Master is therefore occupied with worldwide economic problems, and also with a direct attack upon the basic
materialism to be
found in the modern world. The problems of barter and exchange, the
significance of money, the value of gold (a basic symbol of the third Ray of
Active Intelligence), the production of right attitudes towards material
living, and the entire process of right distribution are among the many
problems dealt with in this Ashram; the work done is enormous and of great
importance in preparing men's mind for the return of the Christ and for the New
Age which He will inaugurate. Capitalists and labour leaders, financial experts
and thinking workers, and members of all the differing
ideologies which are prevalent in the world today are to be found actively
working within this Ashram. Many of them are what the orthodox religious man or
the hide-bound occult student would regard as non-spiritual, yet all of them
are in reality deeply spiritual in the correct sense, but they care not for
labels, for schools of thought nor for academic, esoteric teaching. They
exemplify within themselves a livingness which is the hallmark of discipleship.
The time has come
when the first and major principle governing true esotericism must be grasped
as conditioning all hierarchical workers: Right Motive.
The time has come
when the quality of ashramic work is recognised,
first of all, as being: Selfless Service.
The time has come
when men everywhere must realise that entry into a Master's Ashram is dependent
upon Intelligence, plus right motive and service.
When these three
factors are present in any human being, the Masters know that good material is
presented to Them for training. Today the world is
full of such men and women, and in them lies the
dominant hope of the future.
One more point I
would like to discuss. Through the work of this Master and His Ashram the "sealing of the door where evil dwells"
will come about,
because it is essentially this group which (if I dare so express it) is coping
[Page 667] with raw materialism and the false values which it engenders. The
door has to be sealed by a vast mass of coordinated human forces, and not by one
or two enlightened men. This fact must be grasped by you. The energy of
love-wisdom, the energy of the second ray, can and will bring in the
You will note,
therefore, how the three divine aspects are united in one great movement to
bring in the Kingdom of God, and that the first step towards this longed-for
consummation is the appearance of the Masters upon the physical plane, and
then, somewhat later, the reappearance of the Christ.
(
The interest of
what I have to communicate today is very great, for we have to take up the
matter of the forms used in the Departments of the Manu, the World Teacher and
the Mahachohan, the Lord of Civilisation.
These three
Departments represent in the Hierarchy the three aspects of the Logos as
manifested in the solar [Page 167] system,—the Aspect of Will or Power, the
Aspect of Love and Wisdom (which is the basic aspect for this system), and the
Aspect of Activity or Intelligence. You
know from your studies the work undertaken by these departments.
The Mahachohan, who
synthesises the four lower rays, deals with mind or intelligence,
and, in collaboration with His Brothers, controls the evolution of mind whereby
the Spirit or Self utilises the form or the Not-Self.
The synthetic work
of the three Great Lords is inconceivably great. Form-Life-Intelligence, Matter-Spirit-Mind, Prakriti-Purusha-Manas, are the three lines of development,
and in their synthesis comes completeness.
Each of these
three lines works through formulas, or through set forms, which by graded steps put the
man who employs the form in touch with the particular line of evolution
represented by the Head of that line.
................What
I seek to bring out here are the three clear lines whereby a man may mount
to the Logos and find
union with the self of the Solar System.
He can mount by the line of the Manu, he can attain through the line of
the Bodhisattva, or he can reach his goal via the path of the Mahachohan.
(
The Law of
Vibration will gradually, therefore, be more and more understood, and be seen
to govern action in all of the three departments of the Manu, the World Teacher
and the Mahachohan. It
will find its basic expression and its familiar terminology in those of colour
and sound. Emotional disorder will be
regarded as discordant sound; mental lethargy will be expressed in terms of low
[Page 252] vibration, and physical disease will be numerically considered. All constructive work will eventually be
expressed in terms of numbers, by colours, and through sound.
(
(LOS 79) It is interesting to note here, the Hindu
teaching upon the uses of the tongue and the entire region of the nose and the
palate. The orthodox oriental teaching
gives the following suggestions:
Method Sense Result
1. Concentration upon the tip of the nose smell perfumes.
2. Concentration upon the root of the tongue hearing sounds.
3. Concentration upon the tip of the tongue
taste flames.
4. Concentration upon the middle of the tongue touch
vibration.
5. Concentration upon the palate sight
pictures, visions.
The aspirant must
not literalise these things nor seek blindly to meditate, for instance, upon
[Page 80] the tip of the tongue. The
lesson to be learnt, under the law of analogy, is that the tongue typifies the
creative faculty, the third aspect in its five fold nature. The relation of the five senses (as
synthesised here in the region of the mouth) to the five rays forming the
synthesis governed by the Mahachohan (director of the third ray aspect upon our
planet), will be found illuminating.
Students would find it valuable to work out the analogy between these five
rays and the five senses
and the mouth as the organ of speech. As
the study is carried forward it will be seen that two other physical organs,
the pituitary body and the pineal gland, correspond to the remaining two
aspects, love wisdom and organising power, will or purpose. These seven points in the head (and all are
found within a comparatively small area) are the symbols in physical matter of
the three great aspects manifesting as the seven.
(TEV 3) This group of Thinkers falls into seven main
divisions and is presided over by three great Lives or super-conscious
Entities. These three are the Manu, the Christ, and the Mahachohan. These three work primarily through the method
of influencing the minds of the adepts and the initiates.
(TEV 120) The Impressing Agents of the Divine Will
We are not here,
however, considering the larger Whole, but we are dealing with a specific and
focussed area of the planetary consciousness. This is found midway between the
highest plane whereon the Council Chamber of the Great Lord is found and the
three planes which form the active arena for hierarchical work—the three levels
of consciousness of the Spiritual Triad. This "focussed area" has
been precipitated by the Agents of the divine Will; They know the ultimate
purpose of Sanat Kumara and hold it steadfastly in view, making it
available to those Masters of the Wisdom Who can act as the "impressing
Agents of Sanat Kumara's
Will." These are
the Manu, the Christ, and the Mahachohan,
the Lord of Civilisation.
It might be said here
that the three Buddhas of Activity
are the prime impressing Agents and that the three Great [Page 120]
Lords are the "impressed Recipients" at an exceedingly high level; this is the atmic level of awareness, which is the area energised by
the divine Will.
(TEV 185) Central Triangle of Energies
Each of these
three Centres has a governing and controlling Triangle or central Triangle of
Energies. In relation to Shamballa, this Triangle
is composed of the three Buddhas of Activity Who represent
conscious intelligent life, conscious, intelligent and active wisdom, and
conscious, intelligent and active creation.
In connection with
the Hierarchy, the central Triangle is composed of the Manu, representing loving intelligent life, the
Christ, representing loving intelligent consciousness, and
the Mahachohan, representing loving intelligent activity,
and therefore between Them representing every phase of group livingness, group
expression and group action; these qualities focus through the Mahachohan, primarily because He is the Lord of
Civilisation and the civilisations of humanity represent progressive growth and
unfoldment.
Only in the final
root-race of men upon our planet will the essential central Triangle make its
appearance and function openly in the third planetary Centre, that of Humanity.
Men are not yet ready for this, but the areas of conscious creative activity,
out of which this triangle of functioning embodied energies will emerge, is
already in preparation. One point of this future triangle will emerge out of
the field of world governments, of politics and of statesmanship; another will
appear out of the world religions, and a third out of the general field of
world economics and finance. Today no such men of spiritual will, of spiritual
love and of [Page 186] spiritual intelligence are to be found upon Earth; even
if they did emerge in these three fields of expression they could do little
good, for the sense of recognition and of responsibility is as yet inadequately
developed; later, they will appear and will then openly relate the department
of the Manu to that of world government, the department of the Christ to that
of the world religions, and the department of the Lord of Civilisation to that of the social and financial order.
That time will surely come, but it will come only after the externalisation of
the Hierarchy and its open functioning upon the physical plane. Then, some
senior disciples from each of the three hierarchical departments will appear
and will attempt the experiment of this centralising and embodiment of the
three qualities of the central Triangle. They will then discover, by direct
action, when and if mankind is ready for such an experiment of direct control
and if it has developed the needed sense of responsibility—a responsibility
which will produce cooperation.
(TEV 119) The four
lesser rays blend with the third major ray of active intelligence on the mental
plane and on the atmic plane. The four Logoi or
planetary Spirits work as one, on the atmic plane.
i. Another synthesis takes place on the
synthetic second ray on the second subplane of the buddhic plane and the monadic plane, while the
comparatively few Monads of will or power are synthesised on the atomic subplane of the atmic. All three groups of Monads work in triple
form on the mental plane under the Mahachohan, the Manu, and the Bodhisattva, or the
Christ; on the second or monadic plane they work as a unit, only demonstrating
[Page 120] their dual work on the atmic plane, and
their essential triplicity on the buddhic
plane.55
(CF 180) Two hints can here be given for thoughtful
consideration. In connection with one of
the Heavenly Men (which one cannot at this juncture be pointed out) we have one
triangle of force to be seen in the following three centres:
a. The force
centre of which the Manu, and His group, are the expression.
b. The centre of
which the Bodhisattva or the Christ and His adherents are the focal point.
c. The centre
of which the Mahachohan and his followers are the exponents.
These three groups
form the three centres in one great triangle—a triangle which is not yet in complete
vivification at this stage of evolutionary development.
(CF 236) In connection with the Heavenly Men,
functioning through the planets, there are, therefore, three
planets which might be considered as synthesising planets, and four which are blended eventually, until the three have absorbed the
essence of the four; finally the one absorbs the essence of the three, and the
work is completed. This process lies many millennia ahead, during the inevitable period of
the gradual obscuration of our system.
Four of the Heavenly Men find Their magnetic
opposites, and fuse and blend. First
this takes place between Themselves, the negative and
the positive rays merging and fusing, forming then the two from the
four. Again the two merge, producing a
united whole, and the one thus produced blends with the major third ray, the intelligence aspect,—the ray
represented in our planetary Hierarchy by the Mahachohan. So the fusion will proceed until ultimately
unity is reached in the system, and the Son has accomplished His purpose. He is perfected love-wisdom; his light shines
forth cosmically; His
magnetic radius touches the periphery of His cosmic opposite, and the marriage
of the Son is effected. The two cosmic
units merge.
(CF 361) The planetary Logos of this scheme is one of
the four minor Logoi, or Lords of the Rays, and is specially concerned therefore with the development of one
attribute of manas.
Each of the four minor Rays is, as we know, eventually synthesised, or
absorbed into that Ray which is represented on our
earth by the Mahachohan. He
is the Lord of the third major Ray or Aspect, and synthesises the four. These four Rays with their synthesising Ray
make the five rays of Manas or Mind. We can consider them as:
a. The fivefold
Brahma Aspect.
b. They were the
five Rays of prime importance in the first solar system, and were the five
individualised Heavenly Men, called the Mind-born Sons of Brahma. Through the individualisation of the four in
that system the individualisation of the great cosmic Entity we call Brahma was
brought about. He individualised and the
four go to the content of His body.
c. They are
represented on our earth by the five Kumaras Who
obeyed the Law, and took human form, as H. P. B.33 hints in several passages in
the Secret Doctrine.
(CF 364) The fourth Creative Hierarchy is essentially
the Hierarchy of manas. This is no play on words, but a statement of
deep occult significance. The statement
has been made with entire accuracy that five Hierarchies out of the twelve have
passed out and that seven remain. Of
these seven, our human Hierarchy is the fourth, making it literally the ninth
when counting the entire twelve. In this
connection it would be well to link up the statements that have been made to
the effect that the five Kumaras or
Heavenly Men Who definitely embody the manasic
principle (or the five
Rays over which the systemic correspondence to the Mahachohan presides) developed [Page 364] manas
in an earlier system; They passed out of the wave of manasic influence as far as their own Nature is concerned.
(CF 424) c.
Adaptability. This is, as we know, the
prime attribute ascribed to the third Ray, or the Brahma aspect. Therefore, fundamentally it may be considered
as the attribute of intelligence which adapts the matter aspect to the Spirit
aspect, and is a characteristic inherent in matter itself. It works under the two laws of Economy, and
of Attraction and Repulsion; the work of
the Mahachohan being primarily along this line. Consequently the four lesser Rays of
Attribute which are synthesised into the third Ray of Aspect, Adaptability, or Active Intelligence, are
fundamentally concerned, and the future of manas is
therefore involved in the growing influence of these four Rays:
[Page 424]
1. Harmony,
Beauty, Art or Unity.
2. Concrete
Science or Knowledge.
3. Abstract
Idealism.
4. Ceremonial
Magic.
(CF 484) The Mahachohan's
department in its five divisions deals with the burning of the fiery lives.
The Manu's
department concerns itself with the form or the ring-pass-not which encloses
the burning lives.
The Bodhisattva's
department deals with the return of the Son to the bosom of the Father.
Within the department of the
Mahachohan, a secondary division along these lives
might be outlined:
The seventh
and fifth Rays are occupied with the return of the Son to the Father and are largely centred in
pouring forth energising power when it becomes necessary to transfer the life
of the Son from an old form into a new, from one kingdom of nature to another
on the Path of Return.
The third and
sixth Rays deal with the burning of the fiery lives.
The fourth blends
the two fires within the atomic form.
(CF 588) In regard to the four minor Rays of Harmony,
Concrete Science, Devotion and Ceremonial Order, their control exists in
degrees on all the planes, but they have their particular emphasis in the
evolution of the reincarnating ego in the three worlds at this time. These four Rays control, in a subtle and
peculiar manner, the four kingdoms of nature—mineral, vegetable, animal and
human—and at their merging into the three Rays of Aspect (the Activity Ray of
the Mahachohan
being the synthesiser of the lower four in our planetary scheme) (the MahaChohan
in the language of esoteric astrology and in the context of the Hierarchy as a
whole plays the part of Saturn/throat chakra as synthesiser of the lower four
chakras, the other Masters symbolically represent the other chakras/cities of
the 5th root race) have a correspondence with the merging of man (the product of the
three kingdoms and the fourth) into the superman kingdom, the spiritual. The fourth Ray and the fourth
Kingdom form a point of harmony for the lower three, and all four then pass into the
major or upper three. This is worthy of our serious thought, and
the analogy of the fourth plane will also be apparent. For this system, the buddhic
plane, the human kingdom, and the fourth Ray of Harmony or Beauty or Synthesis,
have a point of correspondence, just as the fourth rootrace
is the one in which the synthesis is first observed—the door into the fifth
kingdom of Spirit being then opened; the fourth rootrace
also developed the astral capacity that made contact with the fourth or buddhic level possible.
(CF 600) The three major Rays, being
dual, are their own sufficient explanation. They are at
present the mode of expression of the three aspects, and demonstrate under
their appropriate Logoi, Who manipulate world affairs
through the three departments, of which the rulers on our planet are the Lord Maitreya, the Manu, and the Mahachohan.
The three major planes demonstrate easily their unique position—on plane
two we have the home of the Monads of Love, on plane five we find the habitat
of their reflections, the reincarnating Egos, and [Page 600] on the physical
plane we find the working out at its densest point of the life of the Spirit.
(CF 696) On
the buddhic plane, when flashing forth at initiation,
this number signifies the full development of the fifth principle or quality,
the completed cycle of the Ego upon the
five Rays under the Mahachohan,
and the assimilation
of all that is to be learned upon them, and the attainment—not only of full
self-consciousness, but also of the consciousness of the group wherein a man is
found. It infers the full unfoldment of five of the egoic petals, leaving four to open before the final initiation.
(CF 869) Let us now continue with our consideration of
the petals and Initiation.
Each of the three
circles of lotus petals is closely connected with one of the three Halls. This has been earlier referred to. Much of the work connected with the first
tier of petals is part of the experience in the Hall of Ignorance. The act of organising and preparing for unfoldment is the most important stage, and that with which
man is the most concerned. The act of
petal opening is of briefer duration, and is produced by the pouring in of
solar heat or fire, and thus bringing about a fresh access of energy. This is produced in our earth scheme through
the co-operation of the
Mahachohan,
of the Chohan
of a man's egoic group, and the
particular Ego concerned.
The following
tabulation may be found helpful:
I. Knowledge
Petals. First circle.
a. Organised in
the Hall of Ignorance.
b. Guided by the
force and energy of the Mahachohan.
c. The third group
of solar Pitris affected.
(CF 907) Hence the work of the Mahachohan
at this time in connection with seventh ray (which is temporarily acting
as the synthesis of the five types of energy over which He presides), might be summed
up as follows:
First, He is utilising
the seventh type of energy in order to further the recognition by the human unit of the subtler
substance of the physical plane. This
seventh ray is a primary factor in the production of objectivity. The energy of the planetary Logos of the
seventh scheme
dominates the seventh plane; it is the ray whereon deva
substance and Spirit can meet and adapt [Page 907] themselves to each other
with greater facility than on any other ray except the third.
Man, at present,
is fully conscious, through some one or other of his senses, on the three lower
subplanes; it is intended that he shall be equally
conscious on the four higher. This has
to be brought about by the stimulation of the deva
substance which composes his bodies.
This will be accomplished through the dynamic will of the transmitting devas as they energise the manipulatory
devas, and thus affect the myriads of lesser lives
which compose man's body, and also by an increased responsiveness of the
indwelling man or thinker to the contact made upon his body. This increased awareness will be brought
about by the arousing of the fifth spirilla,
by the unfolding of the fifth petal in the egoic
lotus, and by the
gradual opening of the third eye through the arousing and uniform activity of
five factors: the centre
at the base of the spine,
the three channels in the spinal column, and the pineal gland.
All these factors
involve the activity of deva essence, plus the
resultant awareness of the thinker. This
will be followed by the conscious use of the newly-awakened powers. In this manner the close interrelation and
interdependence of the two lines of evolution becomes magnificently apparent.
Second, the Mahachohan is working specifically at this time (in
co-operation with the Manu), with the devas of the
gaseous subplane; this is in connection with the
destroying work they are to effect by the end of this rootrace,
in order to liberate Spirit from constricting forms. Volcanic action therefore may be looked for,
demonstrating in unexpected localities, as well as within the sphere of the
present earthquake and volcanic zones.
Serious disturbance may be looked for in
The work of the Mahachohan can also be seen in the [Page 908] effect
that the devas
of the kundalini fire are producing upon man. These are a peculiar group of Agnichaitans who have reached a stage of evolution which
permits of their being separated off from their group into a group connected
with a certain fire in man's bodies.
This fire owing to its present activity, and the direction of that
activity, is responsible for the reaction against physical marriage, and for
the
desire evinced by highly evolved men everywhere
to evade the marriage relation, and confine themselves to creation upon the
mental or astral planes. This is due to
the present inclination of the manipulatory devas of the lower generative organs to seek the throat
centre, and to function there, utilising the strength of the kundalini fire to bring this about. All this is under the law of evolution, but
in the interim between cause and justified effect much harm, evasion of the
law, and consequent suffering can be seen.
Owing, therefore, to the violent reaction at this time against the
safeguarding laws of civilisation, it has been decided that the nature and
functions of the devas must be somewhat revealed to
man, and that their place in the scheme of things, and man's close connection
and dependence upon them, must be given out.83 At the same time, the means whereby
they can be contacted, and the words whereby they can be controlled, will be
withheld.
Laxness in the
marriage relation, due to this particular cause, is only seen amongst the
highly evolved and amongst the independent thinkers of the race. Similar laxness amongst the masses, and the
low types of humanity, is based upon a different reason, and their promiscuity
is due to certain developments of the animal nature in its lowest
manifestation. These two causes [Page
909] will bear consideration by those who have the present needs of
civilisation at heart. They can then co-operate
with the Mahachohan in the work of effecting the very
necessary transfer of force from a lower to a higher centre, and prevent (through knowledge), the
incidental license. This will bring
about a refusal to besmirch the great love or sex impulse of nature.
The ceremonial
ray has been often called "the marriage ritual of the Son," because upon this ray Spirit and
matter can meet and have union. This
fact also should be borne in mind during the next one hundred years, for they will see great changes in the
marriage laws. The present laxity will
inevitably bring a reaction, and the laws will become more stringent, in order
to safeguard the race during a transition period. These laws will not be along the line of
making escape from the marriage relation more difficult, but will take effect
at the other end, so to speak; the rising generation will be properly taught
and guarded, and indiscriminate, hasty marriage will not be permitted, nor will
juveniles be allowed rashly to enter into the marriage obligation. There is no need to enlarge further upon
this, for in working out their own problems men learn, and all that those upon
the inner side are permitted to do is to give a hint or an indication.
Another angle of
the Mahachohan's
work at this time is connected with sound, and therefore with the particular devas whom we are considering. Through the mismanagement of men, and their
unbalanced development, the sounds of earth, such as those of the great cities,
of the manufactories, and of the implements of war, have brought about a very serious
condition among the gaseous devas. This has to be offset in some way and the
future efforts of civilisation will be directed towards the spreading of a
revolt against the evils of congested living and to the dissemination of an
impulse of a widespread [Page 910] nature to seek the country and wide
spaces. One of the main interests in the
future will be a tendency towards the elimination of noise, owing to the
increased sensitiveness of the race.
When the energy of water and of the atom is harnessed for the use of
man, our present types of factories, our methods of navigation and of
transportation, such as steamers and railway apparatus, will be entirely
revolutionised. This will have a potent
effect not only on man but on the devas.
(CF 1037) It might be added here that when this is recognised
it will become apparent that the revolutionising scientific discoveries which
can be traced down the centuries, such as the formulation of the Law
of Gravitation, the
circulation of the blood, the ascertainment of the nature of steam, the discovery
by man of that form of electrical phenomena which he has harnessed, and the more recent discovery of radium, are in their own department (that of the Mahachohan), analogous to the effort made during the last
quarter of each century to stimulate the evolution of men through a further revelation of some part
of the Secret Doctrine.
These cycles will
not coincide, for they are not all similar to the one hundred year spiral. Some idea as to the Mahachohan's cycle of
emanatory impulses may be
[Page 1038] gathered by considering the dates of the foremost
scientific discoveries since Plato's time; the cycles of the second ray may also be averaged by
a summary of the appearances of the great Teachers down the ages.
(CF 1256) The adepts on our Earth planet
who seek this path (Path III Training Planetary Logoi) do so through the department
of the Mahachohan, which [Page 1256] works with the
intelligence or mental aspects of manifestation. From this third department they pass under
the direct training of one of the Buddhas of
Activity, and in the final stages are personally taught by Sanat Kumara, functioning as the embodied planetary Logos. This training concerns itself with three main
subjects:
1. With
colour, that which veils
the Spirit aspect, as
dense form veils the soul.
2. With
sound, that which Spirit
utters in order to make itself conscious, and to produce psychic awareness. The whole science of mantra yoga is mastered
by them, but only in connection with the higher planes and where the cosmic
planes are concerned.
3. With the nature of duality, that which is basically the science of
the soul.
It is difficult to
express in words the method employed by a Master of the Wisdom as he enters
this cosmic Path. It has been called the
method of prismatic identification, for it concerns the colour veils
which shroud the spiritual energy. Another mode of expressing the same truth
is to say that it is the method of understanding the song of life. As the "stars sing together," as
the "chant of the Gods" peals forth in the great choir of the
Heavens, it produces a corresponding colour symphony. This particular mode of identification
enables the adept to act as a director in the chorus and to produce
the needed colour effects and chords. When he can
do this to perfection he is then in a position to take up office as a
planetary Logos. More it is not permitted to say and the above
is but a symbolic way of expressing a basic and difficult truth.
The symbol of this
Path (and the only one it is possible to make exoteric) is a radiant
Cross of coloured light;
it [Page 1257] has the long limb formed of the seven colours of
the solar spectrum,
and the transverse limb is composed of twelve gradations of
colours as yet unknown
to man. In the centre of the Cross
is to be seen a five-pointed star in a deep indigo shade, and behind it is a blazing sun of a warm
dark blue. Above the whole are certain Sensa characters, depicted in gold, and conveying to the
initiated adept the name of one or other of the planetary Schools in which this
particular line of study is undertaken.
There are, as has been already said, seven such schools and candidates for this Path from our
planetary scheme are transferred to the inner round and from thence
to the Jupiter scheme.
(EPI 89) Ray III...Adaptability of activity with
intelligence. This ray was the dominant
one in the past solar system; it is the foundation or basis of this system, and
is controlled by the Mahachohan.
Ray VII..Ceremonial
ritual or organisation. This is
the reflection on the physical plane of the two above, and is likewise connected with the
Mahachohan. It controls [Page 89] the elemental
forces and the involutionary process and the form
side of the three kingdoms in nature. It
holds hid the secret of physical colour and sound. It
is the law.
(CF 427) The laws of fire will be gradually permitted
exoteric publication; there are twenty-seven occult laws which are only revealed after initiation at this stage of evolution. In them are summed up the basic laws
of color and of music and rhythm.
When music produces warmth or stimulation, and when pictures, for
instance, glow or reveal the subjective within the objective, then will this
fourth Ray of Harmony be coming to fruition.
(EPII 186) This group of Thinkers falls into seven main
divisions and is presided over by three great Lives or super-conscious entities. These Three are the Manu, the Christ and
the Mahachohan.
These three work primarily through the method of influencing the minds
of the adepts and initiates. These
latter, in Their turn, influence the disciples of the world and these
disciples, each in his own place and on his own responsibility, work out their
concept of the Plan and seek to give expression to it as far as possible. These disciples have hitherto [Page 186]
worked very much alone except when karmic relationships have revealed them to
each other and telepathic intercommunication has been fundamentally confined to
the Hierarchy of adepts and initiates, both in and out of incarnation, and to
Their individual work with Their disciples.
(EH 599) There is also a secret meaning here which
relates to the seven rays as they express themselves in the human kingdom; the knowledge
of this secret enables a Master to control epidemics and widespread diseases; with this you are
not at this time concerned.
Incidentally, the relative freedom from the plagues and epidemics which usually follow in the wake of war
has been partly due to the use of this
sevenfold knowledge by the Hierarchy, plus the scientific knowledge of
humanity itself.
The
MahaChohan and six other Masters (aided by one of the
Buddhas of Activity) apply the secret to control
epidemics
In this connection
also (and I mention it simply from the angle of its interest) there are two
hierarchical officials—[Page 599] the Mahachohan
and His Representative upon the seventh ray—Who are today in possession of this secret in its entirety,
and They are aided by five other Masters in applying the
gained knowledge. These five Masters are
working primarily with the deva evolution, and this is, as you know, connected with
form, and in this particular case with the healing devas. These seven Members of the Hierarchy are
aided in Their turn by one of the Buddhas of Activity, and also by the representative of the Spirit of the
Earth. This again makes the two,
the five, and then the seven—a different enumeration, and one which when brought together equals
nine, which is the number of initiation.
This numerical relationship brings man to the point where he is
"initiated into the realm of perfection and knows no further aches or
pains, and his mind is thus deflected from that which is below to that which is
above."
I have mentioned
this phase of mankind's relation to the subject of health so as to show you how
subtle and esoteric are the matters with which we are dealing, and so give to
the individual patient a sense of proportion, where his bodily ills or even his
death are concerned.
(RI 69) This
process of protection and of distribution is one of the functions of the great
meeting of all the Hierarchy, under the aegis of the three
Great Lords (the Manu, the Mahachohan and the Christ) in that high and sacred
valley in the Himalayas where annually—after due preparation—the Hierarchy
makes contact with Shamballa and a relationship is then set up between
the "bright and living centre" and the "radiating and magnetic
centre," in order that the "acquiescent waiting centre" may be
stimulated to move forward upon the ladder of evolution. Even the Hierarchy [Page 69] itself needs the
protection of its full membership in order rightly to absorb the incoming energies,
and later wisely to distribute the forces of the divine will in the three
worlds where lies Their major responsibility. The focussed will of God, in its immediate
implications and application, constitutes the point of tension from which Shamballa works in order to bring about the eventual
fruition of the divine Purpose.
(RI 90) To aid in this process of gradual perfecting
and an eventual bringing about of a complete alignment, the help of the Buddha
must be invoked and accepted. The work
of the Christ as God-Saviour can be carried forward by Him alone and
unaided. The work of the Christ as God
the Preserver needs the united work, as yet, of the two highest Representatives
of the second divine aspect when present together upon the Earth, as is the
case today of both the Buddha and the Christ.
This is the first cycle in the history of humanity when
this has been the case. One or the other has been present down the
ages, but not the two simultaneously.
The reason for this is that the time has now been reached when Shamballa can be contacted and its
energy evoked. Hence we have the activity of the Buddha
at the May Full Moon
and that of the Christ at the following June Full Moon. Their united activity serves to bring about a
much closer approach between the Lord of the World and the Hierarchy, via
His four Representatives: the Buddha,
the Christ, the Manu, and the Mahachohan—the five points of energy which are
creating the five-pointed star of Humanity at this time.
(RI 130) The seventh kingdom in nature is that of the
Lives Who participate in full capacity of
understanding with the group of Beings Who are the nucleus of the Council at Shamballa. Around the Lord of the World
this group pivots; Their consciousness and state of being is only dimly
understood by the most advanced Members of the Hierarchy, and the relation of
these Lives to the Lord of the World is similar, and yet fundamentally
different, to the relation of the Members of the Hierarchy to the three
Great Lords—the Christ, the Manu and the
Mahachohan.
Through these three Lords pours the energy which streams from Shamballa, transmitting the purpose and motivating the plan
of Sanat Kumara—His Life Plan. What you call "the Plan" is the
response of the Hierarchy to the inflaming purposeful will of the Lord of the
World. Through Sanat
Kumara, the Ancient of Days (as He is called in the Bible), flows the unknown
energy of which the three divine Aspects are the expression. He is the Custodian of the will of the Great
White Lodge on Sirius, and the burden of this "cosmic intention" is shared
by the Buddhas of Activity and those Members of the Great Council Who
are of so elevated a consciousness and vibration that only once a year (through
Their emissary, the Buddha) is it safe for Them to contact the Hierarchy.
(RI 232) It is through the disciples that the New
Group of World Servers are brought under the stepped-down Aquarian influences;
this has to be an individual matter, largely dependent upon the point of
evolution. Some members of [Page 232]
the New Group of World Servers will not respond in any way; they cannot. Others will respond as fully as their
spiritual status permits. This inflow of
Aquarian energy is one of the factors which will enable the Christ to complete
His task as World Saviour and World Teacher; it will also enable Him to take
the initiation which lies immediately ahead of Him and for
which He has been preparing for close upon three thousand years—so exalted and peculiar an initiation it
is. It is this influence also which has enabled
the Master R. to assume the
mantle of the Mahachohan and become the Lord of Civilisation—a
civilisation which will be conditioned by the rhythm of the seventh ray.
(RI 368) Though the Christ is the Head of the
Hierarchy, it is Sanat Kumara, the Ancient of Days,
Whose Ashram it truly is. The Christ (I
am using one of His official names) is indeed the Master of all the Masters and
the Coordinator of the entire life of the great Ashram, in conjunction with the
two other hierarchical Officials, the Manu
and the Mahachohan. The
information I gave as to the constitution of the Hierarchy, in Initiation,
Human and Solar, was along the same line.
The Hierarchy is the Ashram of Sanat Kumara,
but He has delegated His authority, right down the ages, to the so-called World
Saviours successively; Their life expression embodied
in every case the goal of the period during which They held office.
(RI 369) The three major Executives of the Hierarchy:
1. The Christ,
representing the second Ray of Love-Wisdom,
2. The Manu,
representing the first Ray of Will or Power,
3. The Mahachohan, representing the
third Ray of Active Intelligence,
are responsible to the Lord of
the World for the processing of the life and impulse which condition the evolutionary
process. This statement is made without
any further definition by me because the whole subject is too abstruse and it
would require another Treatise like that on Cosmic Fire to make it even a
little clearer.
(RI 378) To return to our theme, which is the
expression of the great Ashram through the medium of the seven Ashrams, it is
this magnetic energy of the first aspect which is found at the heart of the
seven Ashrams, energised and enlightened from the reservoir of will energy
found at the heart of the great Ashram itself.
This reservoir is fed from the "centre where the will of
God is known,"
and the directing agent of this energy, within the Hierarchy itself, is the
Christ and His two Associates, the Manu and the
Mahachohan. The forty-nine subsidiary
Ashrams (not all of which are yet functioning) are energised by the potency of
will from the reservoir of energy at the heart of each major Ashram, these in
their turn being fed from the central reservoir. The correspondence of this in the human
centres is called the "jewel in the lotus."
(RI 411) Forget not, brother of mine,
that this is not the first time that this has happened. Changes were made in Atlantean
times; the door of entrance for the animal kingdom or for animal man into the
human kingdom was stopped. No more units
have since then been admitted from third kingdom into the fourth, except in a
few cases and for specific reasons.
Here, however, you have a reverse situation. The Hierarchy, owing to its constitution at
that time and to the fact that very few, relatively, of our Earth humanity were
members of the Hierarchy, could not influence directly the more developed human
beings or train more aspirants. They
therefore closed the door. That
particular condition does not now exist, and the supreme Directors of the
seven cosmic Paths are
today in the same position as was the Hierarchy then; the word has gone forth
to our three Great Lords—the Manu, the Christ and the
Mahachohan—via
the three Buddhas of Activity, to act in order to tighten up on
requirements, to make the sixth initiation and not the fifth, the decisive one,
and to present those on the seven rays with [Page 412] a wider range of choices
and a greater diversity of choice. Thus the
Masters will have nine choices to face when They face Their
decision; there will then be no need for Those on certain rays to pass to
certain already determined Paths, but They can move forward under Their Own
inspiration and with greater freedom.
The cosmic mental plane is not barred to Them,
as has hitherto been the case.
(CF 712) It is in the Ashrams of the Masters that the
disciple comes into direct relation with these dynamic, revealing and impulsive
energies. These three energies focus through and are directed by the three
Heads of the Hierarchy: the Manu, the Christ, and the Mahachohan. The Manu is
receptive to, and the agent of, the energy of the divine will for humanity; the
Christ is the agent for the distribution of the energy which brings intuitive
revelation; the Mahachohan
is responsible for the inflow of ideas into the consciousness of the disciple, the aspirant and the intelligentsia. I would beg you to remember that the main
effort of the spiritual Hierarchy is on behalf of humanity, because the fourth
Kingdom in Nature is the Macrocosm of the three-fold Microcosm of the three
lower kingdoms in nature.
(WM 373) Work on the etheric
body, however, from the standpoint of the Hierarchy is not confined only to the
bodies of men. It is a planetary
process. The etheric
body of [Page 373] the earth itself is being subjected to a definite
stimulation. The spirit of the earth, that mysterious
entity—not the planetary Logos—is being vivified in a new sense and in his
vivification many interesting developments eventuate. In three ways this is being attempted:
1. By an increased
rate of vibration of the etheric
atoms, caused by the
coming in of the ceremonial ray. This
must not be pictured as a sudden and violent change. From the standpoint of the human student the
rate of increase is apparently so slow and gradual as
to be inappreciable. Nevertheless, the
stimulation exists, and in the course of centuries will be recognized.
2. By the play of
certain astral forces on the etheric body that leads
to slow but definite changes in the internal structure of the atom, the coming
into consciousness of another of the spirillae and a
general tightening up of the whole cosmos of the atom.
3. By the use on the inner planes by the Mahachohan of one of the powerful talismans of the
seventh ray.
The spirit of the
earth, it might be noted, is of slow and gradual arousing. He is on the involutionary
arc and passes on to the evolutionary in some dim and distant future. Therefore, he will not carry us with
him. He but serves our purpose now,
offering us a home within his body, yet remaining dissociated from us. The devas
of the ethers from this very stimulation are consequently hastening forward in
evolution and approximating also nearer to their ideal.
In all I have said
anent the etheric body of men, anent the planet,
anent the spirit of the earth, the crux of the whole situation lies in the fact
that the five rays at this time have the seventh ray as their
predominating ray. The seventh ray is the ray that controls the etheric and the devas
of the ethers. It controls the seventh
sub-plane of all planes but it dominates at this time the seventh sub-plane of
the physical plane. Being in the fourth
[Page 374] round also, when a ray comes into definite incarnation, it not only
controls on planes of the same number but has a special influence on the fourth
sub-plane. Note how this works at this
time in the three worlds:
(DINAII 499) The
work of salvaging
You will note here
the direct line of spiritual force descending from the Master
R., via D.K. to yourself,
with F.B. and A.A.B. standing by as protecting agents on either side. They aid
and sponsor all your efforts.
(DINAII 593) (And I mean this in its fullest sense.) I
start this instruction for you with two statements: First of all, in the
discussion of the work which I undertook in 1919 and upon which I reported to
the Hierarchy—the twenty years of work and the six years of that work during
the war—your name necessarily came up as did that of your fellow disciples. The
discussion was between the Master Morya
(your Master), the Master K.H., and Master R. in whose hands lies the rehabilitation of
(DINAII 596) There are five Masters and five
Ashrams involved in this preparatory work. First of all, there is the Ashram
of the Master K.H.;
this is the presiding Ashram in this work owing to the fact that it is a second
ray Ashram and, therefore, upon the same line of energy as that of the Christ
Himself; another reason is that the Master K.H. will assume the role of World
Teacher in the distant future when the Christ moves on to higher and more
important work. Next comes the Ashram of the Master Morya; the reason for this is that the whole
procedure is projected from Shamballa and the Ashram
of the Master Morya is ever in close touch with that
dynamic centre. The Master R.—as the Lord of Civilisation—is also closely
involved; He is also—and this
is of major importance—Regent of Europe.
I have also at
times referred to the Master Who is responsible for the reorganisation of
Labour; this work He
began to do in the latter part of the nineteenth century but left it to [Page
597] carry forward on its own momentum when Russia entered the field and laid
its emphasis upon the proletariat or the workers, to the exclusion of all other
members of national groups. This produced what we might call the workers'
revolution in the latter years of the first quarter of the twentieth century. I
myself am the fifth Master concerned in this work and am—as it were—the liaison officer
between those disciples who are working in the field of the world and Those
Masters Who are directly responsible to the Christ for the needed work of
preparation.
(EOH 274) The
ending of the present evil situation is, therefore, a cooperative measure; and
here, in this connection, we have the appearance of the Lord
of Civilisation Who
voices and engineers upon the physical plane the fiat of the Lord of
Liberation and of the Rider from the secret place. He aids and makes possible, owing to His
control, the precipitating upon the Earth and in the arena of combat, of the
power generated by the Lords of Liberation, expressed by the Coming One and
focussed through Him as the hierarchical Representative in
1. The Lords of
Liberation, reached by the advanced spiritual thinkers of the world whose minds
are rightly focussed.
2. The Rider on
the white horse or from the secret place, reached by those whose hearts are rightly touched.
3. The Lord
of Civilisation, the Master R., reached by all who, with the first two groups, can stand with
"massed intent."
On the united work
of these Three, if humanity can succeed in calling Them
forth, will come the alignment and the correct relation of three great
spiritual centres of the planet, a thing which has never occurred before. Then:
[Page 275]
1. The Lords of
Liberation will receive and transmit to the Hierarchy energy from the centre
where God's Will is known and furthered.
2. The Rider will
receive this energy and take such action as will express it, plus the
motivating energy from the centre where God's Love is expressed.
3. The Lord
of Civilisation will stimulate and prepare the centre which we call humanity for right reception
of this re-vitalising, stimulating and releasing force.
(EOH 304) 2. A Messenger or Avatar of
equal rank to the Christ
in the Hierarchy (or possibly Christ Himself) may come forth as the
Representative of the Avatar of Synthesis and as His transmitting Agent.
a. This
lesser Avatar works
today as one of the senior Members of the Great White Lodge and is in close
touch with the Christ, with the Manu and with the Lord of Civilisation, the
Master R.; He will act
as the Coordinator between the Hierarchy and Shamballa.
He will fuse and blend in Himself, through the quality of His Own life, the
three great energies:
The
will-to-spiritual power.
The
will-to-love in its spiritual connotation.
The
will-to-manifest spiritually.
(EOH 541) I have delayed writing my usual Wesak message until this late date because of a certain
event in the Hierarchy which was maturing and which necessitated my
entire attention. This
event was connected with the Wesak Festival and
involved among other matters the formation of a new Ashram in which the
Wisdom aspect would be of particular importance and not the Love aspect; this Ashram would also be
related in a peculiar manner to the Buddha. It had to be formed at this time in order
to be the recipient, and then the custodian, of certain "endowments"
which the Buddha will bring at the time of the May Full Moon. The endowments
concern the will-to-good of the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, though
they do not concern goodwill as you understand that phrase. This Ashram, when
duly formed and established, will enable the Members of the Hierarchy to
respond to this aspect of the divine Purpose—the Purpose which as you know lies
behind and implements the Plan; this Ashram, related to the Buddha, will be
specifically under the close supervision of the Christ, and also of the Lord of Civilisation—at this time the
Master R. They are the
only two Members of the Hierarchy able to register the divine Purpose (in
regard to its immediate objectives) in such a manner that the entire Hierarchy
can be informed and can then work unitedly and
intelligently at its implementation. More than this I may not tell you about
this particular hierarchical move, affecting as it does both Shamballa and the Hierarchy.
(EOH 647) 4. The energy which produces order. This
is the energy of the seventh ray or power of divinity. At this time, its major expression will
come through the relationships and adjustments required between capital and labour, and labour will be primarily involved.
This energy is being assimilated in the Ashram of the Master Whom I mentioned
above; at the [Page 647] inception of the industrial era He was responsible for
the formation of the
labour movement—a
movement bringing into relation the workers of the world. It is interesting to
have in mind that today labour functions
internationally; it is a group which learns with rapidity and has in it the
seeds of vast good; it is probably the group which will place goodwill in the
forefront of human thinking—upon a pinnacle of thought. This
Master to Whom I refer belongs to the Ashram of the Master
R. He relieves Him of
this phase of the work to be done.
(EOH 662) The Ashram or group centre through
which the Master Morya works is also exceedingly busy. It is
obvious to you that as this is a first ray Ashram, the
energy coming from the Avatar of Synthesis will make its primary impact upon
this Ashram, which provides the line of least resistance. There, it is
scientifically stepped down or broken down, prior to distribution
to the Ashrams of the five Masters engaged in the work of preparation.
(TEV 160) 4. The ray upon which the Monad is to be
found—one of the three major rays and, therefore, related to one of the three
major centres—conditions:
a. The disciple's
absorption into one of the three departments of hierarchical work, i.e., a
first ray soul will go normally into such an Ashram as that of the Master M. in the department of the Manu; a second
ray disciple will pass into a second ray Ashram such as mine (D.K.) or that of the Master K.H. and therefore
into the department of the Christ; a third ray soul
will be absorbed into one of the Ashrams (and there are many) functioning under the Lord
of Civilisation, the Master R.
b. All who come
into incarnation upon one of the Rays of Attribute—the fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh rays—find
their way finally on to one of the three major Rays of Aspect. The changes of shifts in ray focus are
made when the etheric body has in it an adequate
measure of the substance of the lowest of the cosmic ethers, the buddhic substance; this is basic for all, on all the rays,
for at the end of the age, when cosmic etheric
substance [Page 161] composes the etheric vehicles of
the initiate, the three rays become the two rays, and later another absorption
takes place into the second Ray of Love-Wisdom which is the ray of our present
solar system.
(CF 455) Paralleling the incoming of this large band of
seventh Ray magicians
(some linked to the Brotherhood and some to the purely manasic
groups) is the
proposed advent of certain members of the Hierarchy (initiates below the fourth
Initiation) and of certain disciples and probationers, all on this Ray and all
true psychics, who hope through their endeavours to offset the vibrations, and
ward off the menace incident to the advent of the other group. The arranging of this and the preparing of
the way for them in the different countries, specially
in Europe and
(RI 170) On atmic levels,
the levels of the spiritual will, are to be found the Ashrams of those Masters
Who are interpreting the will of Shamballa and to
Whom is committed the task of transmitting the purpose and organising the plans
whereby that purpose can be fulfilled.
As on manasic levels the Ashrams as a whole are presided
over by the Master R., the Lord of Civilisation, so on buddhic levels all Ashrams are
supervised by the Master K.H., with the aid of myself (the Master D.K.) and three senior and initiated [Page 170]
disciples; the objective is the unfoldment of group
awareness and of loving understanding, in order that the forms prepared and
conditioned under the supervision of the Master R. may be sensitised and become
increasingly conscious of reality through the development of an inner mechanism
of light which—in its turn—will condition and develop the outer mechanism of
contact. Ashrams on atmic
levels are under the control of the Master M., Who fosters the will aspect
within the developed forms and Who (as the Old Commentary expresses it)
"adds darkness unto light so that the stars appear, for in the light the
stars shine not, but in the darkness light diffused is not, but only focussed
points of radiance." The symbolism
will be obvious to you though not the full significance.
(RI 586) 1. The group in which the initiate is working
upon the physical plane and which is an externalisation (existing on the mental
and astral planes) of some phase of work sponsored by the New Group of World
Servers. All disciples and initiates in
physical manifestation are at this time members of that group, which is the
focal point of the present effort being made by the Hierarchy. Through it spiritual energy from five
of the Ashrams is flowing. These five are:
a. The Ashram of
the Master K.H., particularly in regard to the work of education.
b. The Ashram of
the Master D.K. (myself), particularly in regard to aspirants for initiation.
c. The Ashram
of the Master R., particularly in regard to the reorganising and the
reconstruction of
d. The Ashram of
the Master Morya, as He seeks to find, influence and
direct the activities of workers in the political field throughout the
planet.
e. The Ashram of
the Master Hilarion, as He supervises the discoveries
(and the application of such discoveries) of the scientific movement in the
world today.
Eleven Masters are mentioned in the
following paragraph, one in India, one in England, two in north America, one in
central Europe, one in Russia, the Master Jesus, the Master Hilarion,
KH, Morya and the Master DK.
(CF 758) Again the
method of direct incarnation will be employed by certain of the Masters and initiates
through the process of:
a. Physical birth.
b. Appropriation
of a suitable vehicle, or body.
c. Direct creation
by an act of will. This will be rare.
The second, or
middle, method will be the one most frequently employed. Six of the Masters, as yet quite unknown to the average
occult student by name, have already sought physical incarnation—one
in India, another in England, two in northern America, and one in central
Europe, whilst another
has made a great sacrifice, and taken a Russian body in the desire to act as a peace centre in
that distracted land. Certain initiates
of the third Initiation have taken feminine bodies,—one in
The Master Jesus will take a physical vehicle, and with certain of His chelas effect a
re-spiritualisation of the Catholic churches, breaking down the barrier
separating the Episcopal and Greek churches from the Roman. This may be looked for, should plans progress
as hoped, about the year 1980. The Master
Hilarion will also come forth, and become a focal point of buddhic energy in the vast spiritualistic movement, whilst another
Master is working with the Christian Science endeavour in an effort to swing it on to sounder
lines. It is interesting to note that
those movements which have laid the emphasis so strongly on the heart or love aspect, may respond more rapidly to the inflow of force at
the Coming than other movements which consider themselves very advanced. The "mind may slay" the recognition
of the Real, and hatred between brothers swing the tide of love-force
away. The three Masters so closely
allied with the theosophical movement are already making Their
preparations, and will also move among men, recognised by Their Own and by
those who have eyes to see. To those of Their chelas on earth who undergo the necessary discipline,
opportunity will be offered to work on the astral plane and, should they so
choose, an immediate incarnation, provided they have achieved continuity of
consciousness. He Who is known as D. K. is planning to restore—via His
students—some of the old and occult methods of healing and to demonstrate:
a. The place of
the etheric body.
b. The effect of pranic force.
c. The opening up
of etheric vision.