Compilation
Manu/Manus
(EA 652) The first one given above will be regarded as
accurate for this world period and will be the basis of our astrological
teaching. The informing
Lives of the seven sacred planets are called by the following names:
1. The seven Planetary Logoi.
2. The seven Spirits before the throne.
3. The seven Kumaras.
4. The seven
solar Deities.
5. The
primordial Seven.
6. The seven Builders.
7. The seven intellectual Breaths.
8. The seven
Manus.
9. The Flames.
10. Lords of Love, Knowledge and Sacrifice.
(CF 533) 14. It should be noted that in this solar system the following entities manifest through:
I. One permanent atom . . . the physical.
1. A solar Logos.
2. The three major Rays, or Lords of Aspect.
3. The seven Heavenly Men.
4. The forty-nine Regents of the planetary chains.
II. Two permanent atoms . . . the physical and the
astral.
1. The seven Lords of the globes in every chain.
2. The forty-nine Root Manus.
(CF
631) Another broad differentiation must next be touched upon:
[Page 631]
a. The seven Fires form the forty-nine Fires.
b. The seven Heavenly Men manifest through forty-nine
lesser Rays.
c. The seven Spirits shew
forth as forty-nine Existences.
In connection with the Spirit aspect it will prove
unprofitable to carry the thought any further.
Of Spirit per se we can know nothing, and beyond predicating
the forty-nine solar Manus (each
of the Heavenly Men is expressing Himself on the physical
plane through seven Manus) it is impossible to
go. Therefore, in discussing these
abstract questions, we will concern ourselves only with the seven Rays of
Light, or Heavenly Men, and the seven Fires.
(CF 844) The
informing Lives of a planetary globe Manus
of a cosmic chain. Not a
seed manu, but a periodical manu of lesser degree. This involves an unrevealable
mystery, connected with certain Hierarchies of color.
(CF 942) The "builders" of the human body
work under the direction of one of the Lords of Karma from the lowest
group. These Lords are to be found in
three groups, and a Lord out of the third group has the work of superintending
the builders of the human being on the three planes. Under Him are to be found certain karmic
agents, who again are divided into the following groups:
1. Three karmic agents responsible to the karmic Lords
for the work on the three planes.
2. Five karmic Lords who
work in close connection with the Manus of the various races,
and who are responsible for the correct building of the varying race types.
3. Karmic agents responsible for the subrace types of the present time.
(WM 283) These three might be described as the quality
of the cell forces operating entirely on the physical plane which produce a
peculiar type of physical body, the magnetic attraction between two physical
bodies, and the racial types. These three
factors guide the Manu of the race as He builds a new race and impresses the
outer Builders with His ideas. They also guide a Master of the Wisdom as He builds His physical body at will for the
carrying forward of His work in any time or place. These emanations should, in
measure, be understood somewhat by all those engaged in forming organisations and groups for active service in the
world. What, should the disciple ask
himself, should be the vibratory quality of the cells of that body, of the
individuals who compose it? What should
be the quality of its attractive force, and of the magnetic effect it is to
have in the world? What does the group
possess through the medium of its corporate units which will put it en rapport
with other groups and so make it harmonious in its relations with them? These questions warrant careful attention and
should be considered by all group builders.
(RI 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.
(RI 412) 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.
(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 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 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 241) The unknown, unseen and unheard purpose
of Sanat Kumara. It is
the secret of life itself and is known only to Him
alone. In its initial phase of this new
expression, it works through
the Manu and the Master Morya; it
is that which veils the central mystery which all esoteric schools—if true to
their inaugurating impulse—will eventually reveal. What that is we do not yet know, but it is
hinted at in Rule XIII.
(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 743) In considering planetary pralaya we might briefly enumerate the following periods of quiescence:
Between Two Globes in a Chain. This covers the period of abstraction of the seeds of all life, and its transference from one sphere to another. The seed manu of a globe gathers all the life forces into Himself, as does the Logos at the close of a system, and as also transpires at the close of a chain, and holds them quiescent in His aura. This covers a period of a manvantara, or of one day of Brahma.
(CF 747) Freedom to work on any Path must be gained by
occult [Page 747] meditation; freedom to escape beyond the ring-pass-not is
also thus attained, and likewise the curious state of quiescence which is
achieved by Those Who have offered for service as the occult Hierarchy in the next round. In Them have to be stored the psychic seeds of knowledge
which will be available in
the fifth round; this necessitates for Them an attitude of
receptivity to occurrences at the close of each root-race, when there is, on subtler
levels, a gathering in of psychic force, and its storing with Those prepared
for its reception. Their work is analogous to that of the Seed-Manu, Who
Himself works through a septenate as do these storers of the psychic life-forces.
(CF 844) The
informing Lives of a planetary globe Manus
of a cosmic chain. Not
a seed manu, but a periodical
manu of lesser degree. This
involves an unrevealable mystery, connected with
certain Hierarchies of color.
(CF 855) When
we come to the second subplane of the mental plane
(the plane whereon the egoic bodies of advanced
humanity, of disciples, and of initiates are found) the method of grouping will
be according to:
a. Ray.
b. Subray.
c. Department (whether under the Manu, the Mahachohan
or the Bodhisattva on our earth scheme or their analogies on other schemes).
d. The Master's group.
These egoic lotuses are all organised, and have a number of petals unfolded whilst some are in the final stages of development.
(CF 869) III. Will or Sacrifice Petals. Third circle.
a. Organised in the Hall of
Wisdom.
b. Guided by the force and energy of the Manu.
c. The first group of solar Angels affected.
(CF 870) This
brings us to the third group
of petals or to the unfolding of the will or sacrifice petals,
based on intelligent purpose and pure love.
The force in this group calls in a different factor, that of the Manu, as well as the force of the
Bodhisattva, and the desired effect is produced through
the full co-operation of the fully awakened Ego, aided by his own Master (if he
is evolving in a cycle wherein hierarchical effort for humanity takes the form
it does in this present one), and the Manu.
Eventually (after the second Initiation) the Lord of the World comes
[Page 871] in as a factor,—the Lord of world power, fully expressing itself in
love.
(CF 870) 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.
(CF 907) 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
(CF 1038) The force emanations from the Manu, or those of the first Ray, are easily traced when the races are considered, and this has been done in the recognition of the races and subraces. What is oft overlooked is that each of these rays of energy demonstrates constructively, through the form-building agencies, and destructively through the ability of the force to destroy prior to building. Thus the cycles can be viewed from two angles.
(CF 1140) It is not possible to give much further information relative to the periodical appearing of the subhuman forms of life. The subject is too obscure, and the detail too vast. Until the student has fitted himself to appreciate [Page 1140] the symbolic, or hieroglyphic writings of the adepts,22 it is impossible for him to grasp the matter. Much of the teaching on this matter is found in records in the department of the Manu, as it concerns primarily the initial stages of form building. It might be said that the appearance of any life in manifestation is due to primary activity on the part of some Entity, which activity is largely the expression of the first Ray. This concerns the periodical manifestation of the life or lives of any round just as it concerns also the ephemeral existence of a dragon fly; it deals with the form through which what we call a race is evolving and concerns itself with the tiny life of an individual in that race. The same laws govern all, though the response to the law may be relative and in degree. This law has the generic name of the "Law of Cycles," and is expressed in terms of time; [Page 1141] but the secret to the cycles may not as yet be given as it would convey to the intuitive too much dangerous information. It is the knowledge of this law as it concerns rounds, races, subraces, groups (involutionary and evolutionary) and individuals (human and superhuman) which enables the Lords of Karma, and the Adepts of the good Law, to manipulate force or energy, and so carry all that is, on to its triumphant conclusion. In connection with this, students may get much light on this difficult question of force if they bear in mind that every form in every kingdom on the downward, and the upward arc, is in itself a negative force impelled into activity by a positive force and demonstrating as a combination of the two. The distinctions are demonstrated in the fact that some forms are negative-positive, others positive-negative, whilst still others are at the point of equilibrium. This includes all the intermediate stages. The Builders of the cosmos work under cyclic law consciously, and utilise the aggregate of these forces in any kingdom, any group or any unit to bring about the consummation of the plan.
(CF 1039) When students learn to blend the one hundred year cycles of the first type of energy with the equally powerful impulses from the second Ray and the third, we shall then have a cessation of many controversies. No great impulse will come from the Lodge along the line of the first Ray of Will or Power till the close of a century. One such impulse along another line of force came when the discovery of the nature of the atom was arrived at through the study of electricity, and of radioactive substances, and an impulse from the second aspect is imminent. It is not safe for students with limited vision to dogmatise anent this question of cycles. Apart from the cyclic impulses continuously going forth, overlapping and superseding, and intermingling with each other, there are many which we might call lesser impulses (and the cycle of one hundred years to which H. P. B. refers [Page 1039] is but one of the lesser impulses. There is a one thousand year cycle of greater moment). There are vaster cycles, of 2500 years, of 7,000 years, of 9,000 years, of 15,000 years, and many others which only advanced initiates know of or can follow; these can break in upon any of the lesser impulses, and can be seen appearing, unexpectedly, as far as average man's knowledge is concerned, and yet they are but the returning impulses set in cyclic motion perhaps thousands of years ago.
(CF 1263) This force from the Pole Star, via Aquarius,
is of special power at this time and the day of opportunity is therefore
great. It is one of the agencies which
make the coming of the Great Lord a possibility. He is Himself upon the fifth Path just as the Manu is upon the third. Hence the close link between the two paths,
for those on the fifth path
can pass to the third and vice versa. The first and the seventh, the second and the
fourth, and the third and the fifth are but the two sides of one whole, or the
two aspects of the one Path. These three
paths (with the fourth Path) constitute two Paths and the two Paths are but
one. This great mystery may not further
be enlarged upon.
(EPI 351) When enough of the sons of men can thus
function, their united responsiveness will constitute a channel through which this first ray can come
into manifestation. This
is one of the main activities and objectives of the Hierarchy, and in the right
understanding of the result of the responsiveness of humanity to the ray
influences shall we arrive at
the recognition of a law in nature hitherto undiscovered. This particular law is
connected with the department of the Governor of the world, the Manu.
(EPII 191)
Political work will occupy other groups more specifically than does any
other branch of work. These groups
communicate the "quality of imposition" and an authority that is
lacking in many other branches of this divine group activity. The work is largely first ray work. It embodies the method whereby the divine
Will works out in the consciousness of races and nations. Members of this group will have much first
ray in their constitution. Their work is
to act as channels of communication between the department of the Manu and
the [Page 191] race of men. It is a
noble thing to be channels of the Will of God.
(EA 687) "Two hints can here he 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.
Another triangle in connection with our own planetary
Logos is that formed by the seven Kumaras—the four
exoteric Kumaras corresponding to the four minor head
centres, and the three
esoteric Kumaras corresponding to the three major
head centres.
(RI 90) 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 92)
3. He "keeps the wheel revolving." This has a specific relation to His work as
the Word of God, which manifests as the Word made flesh. This refers specifically to the great Wheel of Rebirth
whereby, upon that turning wheel, souls are carried down into incarnation and then up and out of the soul's prison; through the turning of the
wheel, human beings learn their needed lessons, create cyclically their
vehicles of expression (the response apparatus of the soul in the three worlds)
and in this way, under soul guidance, and aided by the Hierarchy and its
schools of instruction, they arrive at perfection. This entire process is under the control of the
Christ,
assisted by the Manu and the Lord of Civilisation. These three Great Lords thus
represent the three divine Aspects in the Hierarchy; They,
with the four
Lords of Karma, form the seven Who control the whole [Page 93] process of
incarnation. The subject is too vast and
intricate to be adequately considered here.
The above truth does, however, give us a clue as to why the Christ made
no specific reference to the work of incarnation in His spoken utterances
whilst on Earth. He was then occupied
with His task of World Saviour.
(HIS 42) The work of the Manu.
The Manu presides over group one. He is called Vaivasvata Manu, and is the Manu
of the fifth root-race. He [Page 42] is the ideal man or thinker, and
sets the type for our Aryan race, having presided over its destinies since its inception nearly one hundred thousand
years ago. Other Manus have come and gone and
His place will be, in the relatively
near future, taken by someone else. He will then pass on to other work of a more
exalted kind. The Manu, or the prototype of the fourth root-race,
works in close co-operation with Him, and has His centre of influence in
The work of the Manu is largely concerned with
government, with planetary politics, and with the founding, direction, and
dissolution of racial types and forms.
To Him is committed the will and purpose of the Planetary Logos. He knows what is the
immediate objective for this cycle of evolution over which He has to
preside, and His work concerns itself with making that will an accomplished
fact. He works in closer co-operation
with the building devas than does His Brother, the
Christ, for to Him is [Page 43] given the work of setting the race type, of segregating the groups out
of which races will develop, of manipulating the forces which move the earth's
crust, of raising and
lowering continents, of directing the minds of statesmen
everywhere so that racial government will proceed as desired, and conditions be
brought about which will produce those needed for the fostering of any
particular type. Such a work can now be
seen demonstrating in North
America and
The energy which flows through Him emanates from the head centre of the Planetary Logos,
passing to Him through the brain of Sanat Kumara, Who
focalises all the planetary
energy within Himself. He works by the
means of a dynamic meditation, conducted within the head centre, and produces
His results through His perfect realisation of that
which has to be accomplished, through a power to visualise
that which must be done to bring about accomplishment, and through a capacity
to transmit creative and destructive energy to those who are His
assistants. And all this is brought
about through the power of
the enunciated sound.
(HIS 46) 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.
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 54) Certain Masters and Their Work.
Under the first great group of which the Manu is the Head,
can be found two Masters,
the Master Jupiter, and the Master Morya. Both of them have taken more than the fifth
initiation, and the Master Jupiter, Who is also the Regent of India, is looked
up to by all the Lodge of Masters as the oldest among Them. He dwells in the Nilgherry Hills in Southern India,
and is not one of the Masters Who [Page 54] usually takes pupils, for He
numbers amongst His disciples initiates of high degree and quite a number of Masters. In His hands are the reins of government for
He works
in close co-operation with the Manu, and will Himself eventually hold office as the Manu of the sixth
root-race. He dwells, as
does His Brother, the Master K. H., at Shigatse in
the
(HIS 106) 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 131) These magnetic spots are magnetised
in three ways:—
By Sanat Kumara working through the Manu. This occurs when it is desirable to form a
central magnetic point which, by its attractive power, will draw into a coherent whole some race,
nation, or large organisation. Every nation has its "magnetic point,"
formed in etheric matter by
the application of the "Flaming Diamond" to the ethers; it is the national heart and
the basis of the national character.
Usually the chief city of a nation is built up around it, but this is
not invariably so.
(HIS 221) Manu. The representative name of the great Being Who
is the Ruler, primal progenitor and chief of the human
race. It comes from the Sanskrit root
"man"-to think.
(
(
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 Manu
manipulates matter and is occupied with the evolution of form,
whether it is the dense physical form of animal, mineral, flower, human being
or planet, or the form of races, nations, devas or
the other evolutions.
(
(
This first line is specially the line of government, of racial, development, of
working in and with the matter of all forms on all the planes of human
evolution. It is, as I have said before,
the line of occultism. It emphasises the hierarchical method, it embodies the divine
autocracy, and it is the line whereby our solar Logos imposes His Will on
men. It is closely linked to the Lords
of Karma, and it is through the Manu's department that the Law of Cause and Effect is
wielded. The four Lords of Karma work closely with the Manu,
for They
impose the Law, and [Page 171] He manipulates the forms of
men, of continents, of
races, and of nations so that that law may be duly worked out.
The man therefore who attempts through meditation to
contact these powers, to rise to union by these means, and to attain the
consciousness of the Will aspect, works under set rules, rises from point to point under due forms, and
broods ever on the Law and its workings.
He seeks to understand, he discriminates and studies; he is occupied
with the concrete and its place in the divine plan. He admits the fact of the indwelling life but
concentrates primarily on its method and form of manifestation. The basic rules of expression and of
government occupy his attention, and by studying the rules and laws, and by
seeking to comprehend, he necessarily contacts the Ruler. From stage to stage he rises—from the ruler
of the microcosm in the three worlds, to the group egoic
and its focal point, a Master; from the ruler of the group he rises to the Manu,
the Ruler of the department wherein he has his place, thence to the Ruler of
the World, later to the Planetary Logos, and thence to the Solar Logos.
(
a—By the Manu, in manipulating that which is necessary
in the moving of continents, and the submerging of lands.
(
(
(
This fundamental school has three main branches and a fourth that is in
process of forming and which will make the four branches of this fourth round. These branches are as follows:—
1. The trans-Himalayan Branch.
2. The southern India Branch. (these are Aryan
Branches)
3. A Branch that works with the fourth root-race and
has two fourth root-race adepts at its head.
4. A Branch in process of forming that will have its headquarters in the Occident at
some place not yet disclosed. It has for
its main object the instructing of those connected with the coming sixth
root-race.
These branches are and will be closely inter-allied
and will work in the closest co-operation, being all focused and under the control of the Chohan
at Shamballa. The heads of each of the four branches communicate
with each other frequently and are really like the faculty of one stupendous
university, the four schools being like the [Page 305] various major
departments of the foundations—like subsidiary colleges. The aim of all is the evolution of the race,
the object of all is to lead all to the point of standing before the One
Initiator, the methods employed are fundamentally the same, though varying in
detail, due to the racial characteristics of the races and types dealt with,
and the fact that certain
schools work paramountly with one ray and
others with another.
The trans-Himalayan school has its adepts as known to
you, and others Whose Names are not known.
The southern Indian school has special work with the deva evolution, and with the second and third sub-races of the Aryan race.
The Himalayan
school works with the first, fourth and fifth sub-races.
The fourth
root-race branch works under the Manu of that race and
his brother of the Teaching Ray. Their
headquarters are in
The Master R.— and one
of the English Masters are concerning Themselves with the gradual founding of the fourth branch of the school,
with the assistance of the Master Hilarion. Ponder on these imparted facts, for the
significance is of profound importance.
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(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 160) 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.
(TEV 186) 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.
(CF 120) 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.
(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.
Another triangle in connection with our own planetary
Logos is that formed by the seven Kumaras—the four
exoteric Kumaras corresponding to the four minor head
centres, and the three esoteric Kumaras
corresponding to the three major head centres.
(CF 436) As
this fifth influence
becomes more and more felt, its effects will be seen on the astral plane in an
intelligent conscious control which will be based not so much on the desire for
harmony as on a desire for a scientific, intelligent manipulation of astral
matter. When this is the case, the
higher psychism will begin to make itself felt. On the physical plane a great deal of
interesting electrical phenomena will be seen, and the opportunity of the [Page 436] Manu to separate
races, to segregate types, and to submerge and detach continents will be great. This is the ray of separative
force, and its place, as a factor in the erection and destruction of forms, is
very interesting.
(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. (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.
(EOH 158) The
first phase, Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind, definitely
invokes potencies which are to be found upon monadic levels of consciousness
and upon what is occultly called the second plane of
divine manifestation. These Forces include the Lord of the World and the
Representatives of the seven sacred planets Who are
spoken of in the Christian Bible as the "seven Spirits before the Throne
of God." They include
also the three Agents of the Divine Triplicity Who are known, esoterically and in the East as the three Kumaras, or the
three Buddhas of Activity.
What do these names and these great Individualities
mean to you and to average humanity? Nothing at all and this is necessarily so.
They remain but names and possible hypothetical expressions of divinity until
after the third initiation when the conscious recognition of the Monad becomes
possible; then Forces and Energies, personified for us in these great and
stupendous Lives, can be demonstrated as having true existence. On the way to
these fundamental recognitions, Their three Representatives within the limits of the
Hierarchy must be accepted and known to be correspondingly functioning
Activities. These Three are,
the Manu, the focal point of the first Ray of Will or Power;
the Christ, the head of the Hierarchy and the representative of the second Ray
of Love-Wisdom; and the Lord
of Civilisation, the expression of the third Ray of
Active Intelligence. [Page 159] This knowledge
is achieved during the process of training for the first three initiations.
Therefore, all that I here tell you must be regarded as possible of verification,
and as being testified to by all the world Scriptures and by the initiates of
all lands, but it must necessarily remain personally unverified by you until a
much later date in your unfoldment.
(EOH 160) 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.
(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
(EOH 298) They
are both types of the most powerful Avatars which humanity itself has as yet
produced. They emerge along the lines of government, of the first ray and in the department of the Manu, and
are very sensitive to Shamballa force. Such Avatars
frequently emerge at the founding of a nation. This is true of both Bismarck
and Lincoln.
(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 525) For aeons and for
cycles, the Members of the Hierarchy have been submitting Themselves
to the needed training in order to react correctly when fuller contact has been
established by Shamballa with the Hierarchy. I would
have you note the phrasing here. That contact has now been established as a
result of the inflow of certain extra-planetary forces and by an "act of
determined direction," emanating from the Council Chamber of the Lord of
the World. Misunderstand me not. The Hierarchy has always been in touch with
the "Place of Purpose" (as it has been called) through the medium of
its Chohans and its senior Directors, such as the Christ, the Manu and the Lord of Civilisation. These great Beings have
steadily revealed this purpose to the Members of the Hierarchy so that They have been able to grasp and work out the emerging Plan.
But even to the Masters the Shamballa force has had
to be stepped down, just as the force of the Hierarchy requires modifying for
the average disciple and aspirant, if they are to respond constructively to it.
(EOH 564) 2. Today, the relation of Shamballa to the Hierarchy is closer than at any previous time, owing to the following factors:
The one-pointed work and plan—pursued by the three
great departments in the Hierarchy (the department of the Manu, that of the Christ, and
that of the Lord of Civilisation)—in which the three
Leaders have unitedly acted as a Triangle of transmission between the Council
Chamber of the Lord of the World and the Hierarchy. They
are, all three, Members of
the Council, though none of Them is
yet working at the very centre of affairs; in order to be of greater service in
Their own sphere, They have taken Their stand upon the periphery of the
Council's influence.
(EOH 663) The Christ is working, therefore, in very close cooperation with the Master Morya, and also with the Manu
(one of the three Heads of the Hierarchy), and these three—the Christ, the Manu
and the Master Morya—create a triangle of energies
into which (and through which) the energy of the Avatar of Synthesis can pour,
finding right direction under Their combined efforts.
(EOH 669) Every
October and every March, the
Master R. gathers [Page 669] 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
38) 5. The fifth group will be that of the Political Organisers
and will concern itself with political factors in every nation. They will work
in the world of human government, dealing with the problems of civilisation and with the relationships existing between
nations. The bringing about of international understanding will be their major
objective. This group communicates the "quality of imposition," and
an authority that is lacking in the other branches of this divine group
activity. This work is largely first ray work. It will embody the method
whereby the divine Will works out in the consciousness of races and nations.
Members of this group will have much first ray energy in their equipment. Their
work is to act as channels of communication between the department of the Manu and the race of men. It is a noble task, my
brothers, to be channels for the will of God.
(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.
(WM
347) Then when stillness has been
achieved, you visualise those Masters of whom you
know, and raising your vibration higher still, you connect up, if possible,
with the Chohans, with the Christ and the Manu, according to the line, religious or political,
with which you may be working, and along which the attack will come. You then pour through the linking chain, and through
all the vehicles, a stream of violet light.
This method is only for use when the need is dire and the necessity
great. The reason for caution lies in
the etheric vehicle, which responds most violently to
the colour violet.
(WM
367) 1. An ability to sense the
vision. That involves a capacity in a
faint measure to realise the archetype on which the
Lodge is endeavouring to fashion the race. It involves cooperation in the work of the Manu, and the development of
abstract as well as synthetic thought, the flashing forth of the
intuition. The intuition wrests from the
high places a touch of the ideal plan as it lies latent in the mind of the
Logos. As men develop this capacity,
they will touch sources of power that are not on mental levels at all but which
constitute those from which the mental plane itself draws sustenance.