Compilation
Moon Chain
(CF 392) …..It is an interesting occult fact that our
Earth should now be in her fifth round, and paralleling the Venusian
scheme, but the moon chain of our scheme saw a period of temporary retardation of
the evolutionary process of our Heavenly Man; it resulted in a temporary
slowing down of His activities, and caused "lost time," if such an
expression might reverently be permitted.
The Lords of the Dark Face, or the inherent forces of matter for a time
achieved success, and only the fifth round of our chain will see their ultimate defeat. The Venusian scheme
also had its battleground, but the planetary Logos of that scheme overcame the
antagonistic forces, triumphed over material forms, and was consequently in a
position—when the right time came—to apply the needed stimulation or an [Page
393] increased fiery vibration to our Earth scheme. The fact that outside aid was called in
during the third root-race of this chain, and that the evolution of manas brought about the individualisation, in physical
form, of the Avatar, needs to be pondered on.
The Divine Manasaputra, the Lord of the World,
took form Himself through the driving impulse of manas,
inherent in His nature, and in some mysterious way this was aided by another
Heavenly Man of another scheme. His
co-operation was required.
(CF 414) It might here be stated that the relative
failure that was the fate of the Moon chain in our scheme has greatly handicapped Their work, and
made it imperative for Them to employ drastic measures in order to offset that
failure. Herein lies another clue to the
world turmoil.
b. The
Moon chain. It might be of interest here, if, before
passing on to other matters, we took up the very difficult subject of the
moon chain and answer
certain pertinent questions that may have arisen in the minds of students.
Numbers of chains
and schemes are from middle 4th round to middle 5th round
The enumeration of
the chains and of the schemes as given in the two charts is entirely for
the present, and covers a period comparatively recent, carrying forward the
history of evolution to the middle of the next round in our chain. Had we been given the charts embracing pre-Lemurian days, and extending back a distance into the (humanly speaking)
unfathomable past, we would have seen the moon chain portrayed with the
The Moon
chain with the Earth chain formed two units, or two polarities, negative and positive. The point of merging was reached, and the Earth
chain absorbed or
synthesised the moon chain in the same sense as certain of the schemes will
merge until only three will apparently be left.
Therefore the Earth chain is essentially dual in its nature, being the sumtotal of a male and a female chain. This is a mystery impossible to elucidate
further, but it is dealt with in certain occult books, and hinted at by H. P.
B.
In due course of
time another merging in the scheme will eventuate and then Uranus
(the chain
of that name in our scheme) will flash into objectivity.
Forget not that the schemes manifest as seven, as ten, as three from the
angle of the Eternal Now, or—from the point of view of a Heavenly Man—the
manifestation may be written as (3|7) (put a circle around the 3|7—ed.). In time and space the order might be stated
to be
During involution
the sequence is seen as three, then seven and finally ten.
During evolution the sequence is ten,
then seven and finally three.
The involutionary
process is over practically and the evolutionary is approximately midway through. This will be marked by the disappearance or absorption
of certain chains as
they find their polar opposites, and a simultaneous appearance of the more
subtle chains or globes as the manasic principle
enables man to see them. The moon
chain is in process of disappearance, and only a decaying body is left; the life of the
second and the first Logos has been withdrawn from it, and only the latent life
of matter itself remains. Simultaneously
The Moon
chain has in itself a
curious occult history, not yet to be disclosed.
This differentiates it from the other chains in the scheme and even from
any other chain in any scheme. An
analogous situation or correspondence will be found in another
planetary scheme
within the solar system. All this is
hidden in the history of one of the solar systems which is united to ours within a cosmic
ring-pass-not. Hence the impossibility
of yet enlarging upon it. Each Heavenly
Man of a scheme is a focal point for the force and power and vibratory life of
seven stupendous ENTITIES in exactly the same sense [Page 416] as the seven
centres in a human being are the focal points for the influence of a
corresponding heavenly Prototype. Our
Heavenly Man, therefore, is esoterically allied to one of the seven
solar systems, and in
this mysterious alliance is hidden the mystery of the moon chain.
Certain brief
hints may be given for the due consideration of students:
The Moon
chain was a chain
wherein a systemic failure was to be seen.
It is connected
with the lower principles, which H.P.B. has stated are now superseded.
The sexual
misery of this planet
finds its origin in the moon failure.
The progress of evolution
on the moon was
abruptly disturbed and arrested by the timely interference of the solar
Logos. The secret of the suffering
in the Earth chain,
which makes it merit the name of the Sphere of Suffering, and the mystery of
the long and painful watch kept by the SILENT WATCHER, has its origin in the
events which brought the moon chain to a terrific culmination. Conditions of agony and of distress such as
are found on our planet are found in no such degree in any other scheme.
The misuse
of the vibratory power
of a certain centre, and the perversion, or distortion of force to
certain erroneous ends, not along the line of evolution, account for much of
the moon mystery.
Certain results,
such as the finding of its polar opposite, were hastened unduly on the moon
chain, and the
consequence was an uneven development and a retardation of the evolution of a
certain number of deva and human groups.
The origin of the
feud between the Lords of the Dark Face and the Brotherhood of Light, which found
scope for activity in Atlantean
days, and during the present
root race, can be
traced back to the moon chain.
We have here all
that it is possible to give out at this time, and much that has hitherto not
been permitted publication. It is
necessary again to emphasise the need of attaching no importance to the names
of the chains and globes, and the necessity of a numerical enumeration; at the
same time should the student decide to number the chains, and globes, he must
carefully bear in mind that the sequence of numbers has no reference or
relation to place or time, nor to sequence of appearance, or order of
manifestation.
(CF 459) In this chain, individualisation took place
during the third rootrace and in the fourth round,
speaking in this connection of a round through a chain of globes, and not the life force of a planetary
Logos circulating through the seven chains in a scheme. It
is of peculiar interest at this time that we are in the fourth
round in a chain as
well as in the fourth round as regards the scheme of seven chains. It
has led to evolutionary possibilities of great import. On the moon chain
individualisation took
place during the fifth race of the third round, (through chain of globes) and in the next chain to ours on the
evolutionary arc individualisation will take place during the sixth
race of the second round, (through the chain of globes)—in each case this refers to a planetary round
through a chain of globes.
(CF 460) The source of these enormities must be sought
for elsewhere. It is hidden in the karma
of that Being, Who for a period—during the moon chain—held office as the Entity Who is the
informing evolutionary Life of the animal kingdom. This is a point of view needing careful
pondering. Each of the kingdoms of
nature is the expression of a Life or Being; man, for instance, being the
expression of one or other of the Heavenly Men; the sumtotal of
humanity (the fourth Hierarchy) being found, with the deva
evolution, as the centres of the solar Logos.
The animal kingdom likewise is the expression of the life of a Being Who
is a part of the body of the Logos or of the planetary Logos, but not a centre of conscious
energy. (A correspondence is found in the human body,
which has its seven centres of force or energy, but also other organs upon
which objective manifestation depends in lesser degree.) Such an Entity finds expression through the
animal kingdom, of which He is the informing Soul, and He has definite place in
the planetary or logoic body. This is a hint which has hitherto not been
exoteric and is to be commended to the consideration of students. I would add that some of the tragedies
underlying existence at this time are karmically
incident upon temporarily faulty relations between an entity who dominated
at one period of the third or moon-chain, and the one holding analogous position in this
the fourth or earth chain. This latter is the sumtotal
of the [Page 461] lowest human principle, if we count the dense
physical or animal body
of man as a principle. In their lack of
agreement lies the clue to the cruelties practised on animals by man.
(CF 559) Such is the case too with a chain and its
informing Life, viewing a chain as simply a centre in the body of the planetary
Logos, yet having its own central factor.
This can be seen in the Moon in a most interesting way. The desire of its Occupant was no
longer for physical manifestation; He therefore withdrew His life. All that is left is the devitalised shell;
the two other aspects have gone and only the third aspect, the inherent life of
matter itself, remains gradually to dissipate also as the centuries
elapse. In connection with man, a
similar condition [Page 559] is seen in the gradual disintegration of
the physical body after death; the two other aspects are removed, and the form decays.
(CF 579) A hint has been given us as to the
approximate figures governing the Monads:
35 Thousand
million Monads of love
20 Thousand
million Monads of activity
5 Thousand million
Monads of power
making a total of
sixty thousand million human Monads. The
Monads of power, though in manifestation, are as yet very rare in
incarnation. They came in, in large
numbers, at the close of the moon chain, and will come in again in full numerical
strength in the last two rounds of the present chain.
(CF 583) The third Ray, that of adaptability or
activity, has a close connection with this law.
It is through activity (or the adaptation of matter to need), that the
form comes into being; through activity it is employed, and through that very
adaptation it becomes a perfect form, [Page 583] and at the moment of
perfection loses its usefulness; it crystallises, breaks, and the evolving life
escapes to find for itself new forms of greater capacity and adequacy. It is so in the life of the reincarnating
Ego; it is so in the rounds and races of humanity; it is so in the solar
system; it is so in all cosmic processes.
In the third
chain, the moon chain,
we have an interesting related fact. On
the moon chain the point of attainment for the individual was the arhat or fourth Initiation,—the initiation which marks the final
breaking with the three worlds, and the disintegration of the egoic body.
(CF 700) In considering the Entities33 who gave the manasic principle to man, we must remember that they are
the beings who, in earlier manvantaras have achieved,
and who—in this round—waited for a specific moment at [Page 700] which to
enter, and so continue their work. A
parallel case can be seen at the entry—in Atlantean
days—of Egos
from the moon-chain. The parallel is not exact, as a peculiar
condition prevailed on the moon, and a peculiar karmic purpose brought them all in at that time.
The moon chain
represented the stage of the mind as slayer of the real
(CF 705) This should be pondered on, and His close
connection therefore, as a transmitter of force within the Moon chain,
the third chain, in
connection with the third kingdom, the animal, and with the third round, must be borne in mind. One symbol that may be found in the archaic records in lieu
of His Name or
description is an inverted five-pointed star, with the luminous Triangle at the
centre. It will be noted that the points
involved in this symbol number eight—a picture of that peculiar state of
consciousness brought about when the mind is seen to be the
slayer of the Real. The secret of planetary avitchi
is hidden here, just as the third major scheme can be viewed as systemic
avitchi, and the moon at one time held an analogous position in connection
with our scheme. This must be
interpreted in terms of consciousness, and not of locality.
(CF 720) Thus, in the mahamanvantara, the three methods of individualisation in
connection with our planetary scheme are to be seen
a. In the Moon
chain, the gradual
evolution of self-consciousness under natural law.
b. In the Earth
chain that of achieved
self-consciousness through the aid of extraneous agencies. It is the distinctive method of this system.
c. In the next
round and chain the
method will be abstraction through will power, but this in an embryonic manner.
I have dealt with
these three from the standpoint of our own scheme. In all the schemes whereon man is found at
some period or another, these three methods will be contacted. They mark the gradual control by the Logos on
cosmic levels of His threefold lower nature. In
the first, the correspondence lies in the latent consciousness of matter, and
works under the Law of Economy. It
concerns primarily the Self-consciousness of the Logos [Page 721] in His dense
physical body, and His polarisation therein. It
is likewise the same for a Heavenly Man, and a part of the mystery of evil is
to be found in the readiness of certain of these cosmic entities (particularly our
planetary Logos in the moon chain) to remain polarised in
the physical
etheric body after having supposedly dominated the material
aspect, or gained the control of the third Fire in an earlier system. A hint lies here for the wise student anent
present evil on this planet.
The second
correspondence concerns the latent "consciousness of desire," and
works under the Law of Attraction; it is the law for this system, and deals
with the ability of the Logos to "love wisely," in the occult sense
of the term. It has relation to the
polarisation of the Logos in His astral body, and produces the phenomenon called
"sex activity" on all planes in the system.
In the earlier system, emancipation was effected through the faculty of
discrimination, though that word as used to-day is but a faint indication of
the systemic process in those days.
Through the force engendered during the process that vibration was set
up which persists to-day in matter. It
is evidenced by the active intelligence and the discriminative selective
capacity of the atom of substance. In
this system emancipation will be brought about through the line
of occult dispassion;
this likewise will leave its mark upon matter, tinging
it in such a way that in the third system, primordial substance will demonstrate a
second quality. In the next system
"non-attachment through abstraction" is as near as we can get to the method of
the liberating process but it is useless for man to speculate upon this as his
mind cannot conceive of the condition.
(CF 781) There are also in connection with our
peculiar Earth scheme, those lunar Pitris who reached their present
stage of activity in the moon chain. They are deva groups but (unlike the Agnishvattas)
they have not passed through the human stage; for them it has yet to be achieved, and
their present experience in connection with the human Hierarchy has that end in
view. It should be remembered that it is
a fundamental law in occult development that any life can only give out that
[Page 781] which it has possessed, and possession of the varying attributes of
consciousness from that of the atom up to the consciousness of a solar Logos,
is the result of long cycles of acquirement.
The solar Pitris, therefore, could give to man
his consciousness; the lunar Pitris could give to him
the instinctual consciousness of his vehicles.
In their aggregate in all the kingdoms of nature, on this planet and
elsewhere, they give to the planetary Logos and to the solar Logos the sumtotal of the form consciousness of Their respective
bodies. This is the case in every scheme
in the system, but in the Earth chain a peculiar condition of affairs was brought about through the planetary
failure coincident with the moon chain; this is the cause of the present balancing of forces
on this chain. The fourth chain in every
scheme sees the work
of the solar Pitris in connection with man begun. It sees also the Pitris
of his sheaths in activity through the impulse given by the solar Angels. The matter of those sheaths has passed
through three chains and three rounds (the latter here are three
rounds through the seven chains) and is vibrant to a note which is tuned to
the....To word it otherwise, the third can be clearly sounded, and is followed
naturally by the fifth, or the dominant.
The simultaneous sounding of the third and the fifth, basing it upon the
planetary keynote, produces the effect of a threefold chord, or a fourth tone,
a complex sound. I am here dealing with
the chord of the human hierarchy as a whole.
Within the hierarchy there is again diversity, based upon the
hierarchical chord, and this produces the many egoic
chords and notes; these produce in their turn objective manifestation.
(CF 804) This has been at no time better illustrated
than in the event of the late war and in present world conditions; these are
effects of causes having their origin in the renewed activity of a
certain planetary triangle, and in the vibration set up by our planetary Logos on
the moon-chain, [Page
804] and which had a faint beginning in an earlier solar system. This vibration impinged primarily upon certain atoms
and groups of atoms in His body, principally those composing the human and
animal kingdoms, and produced the apparently dire results which we have been
witnessing. So great was the effect of
His energy, that the vegetable kingdom was somewhat (though not so much)
affected, and the mineral kingdom felt the effect in a startling manner, far
more than the vegetable kingdom and almost as much as the animal. Here we have a setting of circumstances
outside human and even group control, which illustrates the helplessness of man
in certain conditions, and which serves to bring in factors apparently apart
from the individual vibration of the fourth kingdom.
Monads refused to
incarnate at beginning of Manvantara
(CF 826) First.
The 700 incarnations. These
concern the unfoldment of the outer circle. This is the longest period. The initial vibration is slow and heavy, and millenia of lives have to elapse before the interchange of
energy between the Ego and its reflection, the personal self (the lower
threefold man) is such that the consciousness of the man occultly
"awakens" in the Hall of Learning.
For advanced man at this time these incarnations took
place upon the moon chain
and in some cases upon certain planets connected with the
inner round. This is the circumstance which necessitated
his "coming-in" during the Atlantean
root-race. Men of this type refused to incarnate
earlier, as the bodies were too coarse; this was the cyclic reflection (on the
lowest plane) of the refusal of the Monads to incarnate at the dawn of manvantaric opportunity. No
real "sin" was committed; it was their privilege to discriminate, and
this refusal has its [Page 826] bearing upon conditions upon Earth, being the
basis of the great class distinctions which—in every land—have been so fruitful
of trouble and the esoteric foundation of the "caste" system, so
abused now in India. The problem of labor and capital has its roots in the subjective distinction
between "equipped and unequipped" Egos, between those units of the
human family on earth who have passed out of the Hall of Ignorance, and those
who are yet groping in its dark and gloomy corridors; between those Egos who
are only "bud" Egos, and those who have organised the outer circle
of petals, and whose
petals are ready to open up.
(CF 843) Lotuses of passion or desire. They are so called because their fundamental
nature is embodied love in some one or other form. The bulk of the Monads of Love
are among this large group and they are to be seen incarnating in the bulk of the well-to-do,
kindly people of the world. They are divided
into five groups, of
whom three individualised upon this planet, and two were the very latest
to individualise upon the moon chain. They have two
petals unfolded and the third is for them at this time the object of their
attention. Many may succeed in unfolding
it before the seventh rootrace
of this round but the
bulk of them will unfold it in the second rootrace
of the next round, and
will stand ready before the close of the round to pass on to the
probationary path,
having unfolded one tier of petals, and organised the second. All these lotuses of the first circle are
divided into groups but interplay goes on between them; energy in any centre
[Page 843] produces reflex energy in another.
It must be remembered that in closing the door in Atlantean
times to the animal kingdom, and the consequent temporary cessation of the
forming of any more "bud lotuses" the effect was dual, in directions
other than the human or the animal. It
was the result of the internal decision on the part of the planetary Logos to turn
His attention away from the act of creation on the systemic mental plane to the work of progressive evolution. This caused a cessation of certain types of
activity, producing a quiescence in certain of His centres, and an increased activity in others. It also had an effect upon the solar Angels,
and consequently upon the Heart of the solar system from whence they are drawn. Floods of energy or streams of force from the
heart of the sun (the subjective Sun) were arrested and directed elsewhere,
while the Pitris already active began to centre their
attention upon the work begun, and temporarily new beginnings were out of
order. It must not be forgotten here
that the work of the solar Pitris from their point of
view, is not primarily the evolution of man, but is the process of their own
development within the plan of the solar Logos.
The evolution of the human race is, for them, but a method.
(CF 846) The mystery of the moon or of the
"divine lunatic" is connected somewhat with the revelation (through
the premature compassion of our planetary Logos) of the life of this nature, informing
the dense globe of the moon chain. On His high
level, pity awoke in the heart of the planetary Logos for certain involutionary
existences within the moon chain, and (like the Buddha on a lesser scale and at a much
later date) compassionate zeal brought the karmic results with
which we are still concerned. The "beast" must be
driven back [Page 847] for his own good to run his cycle, hidden in his den and
confined within safe limits until the dawning of a new system brings him
conscious opportunity.
(CF 853) To continue with our consideration of egoic groups: It
might be briefly stated that the egoic groups in
connection with our planet may be roughly grouped according to the stage of
lotus organisation, as follows:
a. Egos who were
produced through the individualisation process in Lemurian
days. They are the true Earth humanity,
along with the second group.
b. Egos who have
individualised during the Atlantean root-race until
the door was shut.
c. Egos who have "come-in"
from the moon chain
and who are much more evolved than the earth humanity.
d. Egos who have
been swept in since Atlantean days to take the place
of those Egos who have achieved liberation, and whose causal bodies have
disappeared, or whose lotuses have "died out" leaving a vacuum in
force substance which must be supplied and filled. They usually come in from one of two schemes:
1. From the scheme
embodied by the polar opposite of our planetary Logos.
2. From that
scheme which is allied with these two in forming a systemic triangle.
(CF 1092) There is first, the Wheel
of the chain, or the
cycling of the Monad around an entire chain, and its passage through all the globes and
kingdoms. The consideration of this is
complicated by the fact that in any particular chain, the Monads seldom begin
and end their evolution; they seldom emerge, pass through their cycle and
achieve their objective. It is not
possible to dissociate a chain from its preceding or succeeding chain. Many Monads who achieved self-consciousness
in the moon chain only
entered into renewed activity in the middle of the fourth root race; others,
who have individualised on this earth, will not succeed in reaching their goal
upon this planet. There is here a
correspondence to systemic evolution, and there is an analogy between the
Monads who refused to [Page 1093] incarnate and the Egos who were unable to
take bodies in the Lemurian or third root race.
(CF 1113) There is the energy reaching directly to the
knowledge petals from the manasic
permanent atom. The permanent atoms of the Spiritual Triad,
as well as the bodies which are built around them, bring in certain groups of deva lives which have not as yet been much considered. They are not the lunar pitris,
as that term is commonly understood, but have a direct connection with what is
called "the cosmic moon" or to that dying solar system which has the
same relation to our system as the moon has to the earth chain.
This "cosmic moon" transmits its energy to the manasic atomic subplane, via the planet Saturn. It
is a triple energy and there is an esoteric connection between this triple
energy, and Saturn's rings.
This story
probably refers to the original Jews/3rd ray Monads left over from
previous Solar System
The old Commentary
expresses this truth about an interesting group of sons of manas
as follows:
"These Sons
of mind clung to the old and dying form, and refused to leave their
Mother. They chose to pass into dissolution with her,
but a younger son (Saturn) sought to rescue his brothers, and to this end he
built a triple bridge
between the old and new. This bridge
persists, and forms a path whereon escape is possible.
Some escaped and came to the help of the incarnating
Sons of Mind who had
left the Mother for the Father. The
greater gulf was bridged. The lesser
gulf persisted, and must be bridged by the living Sons of Mind
themselves."
(This latter
clause, refers to the building of the antaskarana.)
The energy
transmitted from the manasic
permanent atom of each
incarnating jiva, its union with its reflection, the
energy of the mental unit, and the triple stream of force thus created on the
mental plane, has its planetary reflection in the relation of Saturn to another planetary scheme, and the three rings which are energy
rings, and symbols of an inner verity.
(CF 1145) Enter
the Hall of Records and there read a peculiar group of documents dealing with
planetary manifestation in a fourfold manner.
It concerns the planetary Logos, and deals with the transference
of energy from the moon chain. It concerns the transmission
of energy to another planetary scheme, and concerns the interaction between the human
Hierarchy (the fourth Kingdom) and the great informing Life of the animal
kingdom.
(CF 1146) Secondly, it must be borne in mind that the
human units now upon this planet fall naturally into two great groups—those who reached individualisation, or
became "units of self-directing energy," upon the moon, and those who attained self-consciousness
upon the earth. There are important distinctions
between these two groups,
for the units of the moon chain are distinguished, not only by a more advanced development,
owing to the longer period of their evolution, but also by the quality
of great and intelligent activity, for (as might be expected) on the third
or moon chain, the third Ray was a dominant factor. In this
fourth chain, the quaternary dominates, or the synthesis of the three so as to
produce a fourth, and this is one reason for the intensely material nature of those who entered the human kingdom on this planet. The distinctions between the two groups are
very great, and one of the mysteries lying behind the main divisions of
humanity—rulers and the ruled, capitalists and labourers, the governed and those who
govern—is found right here. No system of
sociological reform will be successfully worked out without a due consideration
of this important fact. Other
distinguishing features might be enumerated but would only serve at this stage
to complicate the matter.
A third factor differentiating the groups of human units who reached
self-consciousness on our planet is hidden in the methods employed by the Lords
of the Flame at that time. They, we are
told, employed three methods.
First, They themselves took bodies and thus energised certain of the higher
forms of the animal kingdom, so that they appeared as man, and thus initiated a particular
group. Their descendants can be
seen in the highest
[Page 1147] specimens of the earth humanity now on earth. They are not even now, however, as far advanced as the groups of
units from the moon chain who came in in Atlantean days.
Their heredity is peculiar.
They implanted a
germ of mind in the secondary group of animal-men who were ready for
individualisation. This group, for a
long time, was unable to express itself, and was most carefully nurtured by the
Lords of Flame, nearly proving a failure.
By the time, however, that the last subrace of the Lemurian
root race was at its
height it suddenly came into the forefront of the then civilisation, and
justified hierarchical effort.
(CF 1185) Under this attractive pull the informing
existences of the various kingdoms of nature are engaged in mutual interaction,
and thus swing into lesser but similar activity all the lives of these various
bodies of manifestation. These lines of
attraction are veiled in mystery, and all that it is possible to indicate is
the karma of the Lord of the second or vegetable kingdom with the Lord of the
fifth kingdom, and a close line of linking energy between the Lord of the
mineral kingdom and the human. These
points are only for reference to our own planetary scheme. The Lord of the Moon chain and
the Lord of our present animal kingdom are "blood brothers" and
in their relationship and the esoteric interference of the "Man of
Men" (the human family personified) is hidden the mystery of present
animal karma and the slaughter of animal forms, the terror of wild beasts and
the work of vivisectionists.
(EPII 26) This corresponds to the period of adolescence
and to the state of consciousness called Atlantean. It is the condition of the masses at this
present time. The bulk of human beings
are still Atlantean, still purely emotional in their
reactions and in their approach to life.
They are still governed predominantly by selfish desires and by the
calls of the instinctual life. Our
earth humanity is still [Page 26] in the Atlantean
stage, whereas the
intelligentsia of the world, and the disciples and aspirants, are passing
rapidly out of this stage, for they reached individualisation on the moon
chain, and were the Atlanteans of past history.
(EPII 201) III. The Five Groups of Souls
We now begin our
study of the five groups of souls. For
purposes of classification and comparison, we shall divide our earth humanity
into the following groups:
1. Lemurian Egos our true Earth Humanity.
2. Egos which came
in on Atlantis.
3. Moon
chain Egos from the moon.
4. Egos from other
planets.
5. Rare and
advanced Egos awaiting incarnation.
(EPII 210) In connection with individualisation the
following points should be remembered:—
1.
Individualisation upon the moon chain took place in the fifth race of the third round.
2. In Lemurian days, individualisation took place because it was
the third root race and the fourth round.
It is well to
remember that the soul who came into incarnation in old Atlantis individualised
upon that chain which is called the moon chain. This was a
period of unfoldment so much earlier than that of our
earth that we know nothing about it. These
egos, therefore, did not individualise on our [Page 210] earth at all but came
into our cycle of evolution as human beings,—of a low order as far as the
lowest of our present humanity is concerned, but somewhat higher
than the egos which individualised upon ancient Lemuria.
It might be of
interest here to note that Christ was the first of our earth humanity to achieve the goal, whereas the Buddha
was the last of the moon chain humanity to do so.
As far as the development of these two sons of God was concerned, so
rapid was the development of the Christ that in Atlantean
days He found Himself upon the Path of Probation as did also the Buddha. He, coming into incarnation from the moon
chain (having been
held in what the occult teaching calls "pralaya"
till that time), entered upon the probationary Path a very short time ahead of
His Brother, the Christ. From the angle
of evolution the rapid unfoldment of the evolution of
Christ was, and has been, totally unparallelled. It has never been duplicated, though there
are people living today upon the planet who are beginning to develop now with
equal rapidity (but not earlier, so that they have a background of slow
individual development, which is only now being accelerated). This rapidity is, however, a different matter
altogether, for many of the disciples today came into this earth evolution from
the moon chain where already much had been unfolded. They have not worked up to their present
point from Lemurian times as the Christ has done. He, therefore, stands uniquely alone.
Just how and why egos
come into our planetary evolution from earlier cycles and from other planetary systems
is a subject of the greatest interest, but it is of no real importance to the
students of this Treatise. We shall not
therefore consider it or deal with it.
It is of a speculative nature and utterly past their possible
corroboration or capacity to check.
There is no standard of comparison nor can they judge by inference [Page
211] what is important. All that can be
said is that the three major monadic types came into being, either from the moon
chain or during the Lemurian stage of
individualisation, and
that these three determine much that is transpiring today. All that it is here possible to do is to give
some information which may throw a light on the subject, and colour our general
thought, but which it is impossible either to check or accept except as being
inferential or possible. All this can
later be determined by the student when his knowledge and powers are greater
than they are at present and adequate for that purpose.
The three major
types are, as is well known, those of will or power, of love-wisdom and of
active intelligence. The following facts
must, therefore, be remembered:—
1. That egos of all
types individualised upon the moon chain, but that the egos of active intelligence constituted
75% of the total, the
remaining 25% being divided between the other two.
2. That in Lemurian times, the egos of love-wisdom
preponderated, and in
their turn constituted 75%, with the remaining 25% being the egos of active
intelligence. Very few indeed,
practically a negligible number, individualised along the line of power or will
at that time.
What does he mean by individualising-had they not
individualised already on the moon chain?
3. There was a very
large influx of individualising egos in early Atlantean
days and they were
practically all of the power-will type. It
might be stated that 80% of those who entered human evolution at that time
were egos who were expressing the will aspect of deity, and that the remaining
20% were along the line of love-wisdom.
These all, with
the egos which individualised upon the moon chain and which came in steadily, as the
planetary conditions fitted them, until the final stages of the Atlantean period, [Page 212] constitute the bulk of our modern
humanity, plus some rare egos which drift into our planetary evolution for some
reason or other, and never become
properly adapted to or fitted into our planetary life. They persistently remain abnormalities.
(EPII 230) The statements found in occult books that
dogs and other [Page 213] animals responded to the divine impulse through an
activity of the will or of love, may be symbolic in nature, but are not correct
literally, as so many devout occult students may think. Such specific forms of life did not exist in
those far off times, particularly upon the moon chain.
The consideration of species and of types may not be permitted; it is
futile and a waste of time. What really
occurred was a reaction throughout the entire animal kingdom to the inpouring of the three major types of energy, which
expressed themselves through the usual seven types and thus called forth
response from those forms of life which were energised through the medium of
the three major centres—heart, head and throat—of the Being who is the
informing life. A tremendous surging
upward and a going-forth in response ensued, which enabled a new kingdom to
emerge.
(EH 63) One of the major problems today to the
psychologist and in a lesser degree to the medical man, is the growth of
homosexuality, both female and male.
Specious arguments are brought forth in order to prove that this
abnormal development (and the consequent interest in this morbid tendency) is
due to the fact that the race is slowly becoming androgynous in its
development, and that the future hermaphroditic man or woman is gradually
making its appearance. This, again, is
not true. Homosexuality is what you call
a "left-over" from the sexual excesses of Lemurian times, an inherited taint, if you like. Egos who individualised and incarnated in
that vast period of time are
the ones who today demonstrate homosexual tendencies. In
those days, so urgent was the sexual appetite, the normal processes of human
intercourse did not satisfy the insatiable desire of the advanced man of the
period. Soul force, flowing in through
the processes of individualisation, served to stimulate the lowest
centres. Hence, forbidden methods were
practised. Those who thus practised them
are today, in great numbers, in incarnation, and the ancient habits are too
strong for them. They are now far enough
advanced upon the evolutionary path so that the cure lies ready at this time—if
they choose to employ it. They can, with
relative ease, transfer the sex impulse to the throat centre, and thus become creative in the higher
sense, employing the energy [Page 63] sensed and circulating in right and
constructive ways. Many of them are
beginning automatically to do this. However, it is well known that, among the
so-called artistic types, homosexuality is very prevalent. I say "so-called" for the truly
creative artist is not the victim of these ancient evil predisposing habits.
It might be
pointed out here that homosexuality is of three kinds:
1. That which is
the result of ancient evil habits. This
is the major cause today and indicates:
a. Individualisation
upon this planet; for
those who individualised upon the moon chain are not susceptible to these dangerous characteristics.
b. A relatively
advanced stage upon the evolutionary path which was achieved by the Lemurian egos who succumbed to this desire-satisfaction.
c. A consequent
study of sex magic, plus a constant insatiable physical and sexual urge.
There is a
correspondence between the method of individualisation on the various chains
(chakras of the planetary logos) and the various initiations
(HIS 87) At the third initiation, termed sometimes the
Transfiguration, the entire personality is flooded with light from above. It is only after this initiation that the
Monad is definitely guiding the Ego, pouring His divine life ever more into the
prepared and cleansed channel, just as in the third, or Moon Chain, the Ego individualised the personality
[Page 87] through direct contact, a method different to the individualisation as shown
in this fourth chain. The law of
correspondences, if applied here, might prove very revealing, and might
demonstrate an interesting analogy between the methods of individualising
in the various chains,
and the expansions of consciousness that occur at the different
initiations.
(HIS 45) 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.
(HIS 30) Those who are now the inner group around the
Lord of the World have been primarily recruited from the ranks of those who
were initiates on the moon chain (the cycle of evolution [Page 30]
preceding ours) or who have come in on certain streams of solar energy, astrologically
determined, from other
planetary schemes, yet
those who have triumphed in our own humanity are rapidly increasing in number,
and hold all the minor offices beneath the central esoteric group of Six, who, with the Lord of the World, form the
heart of hierarchial effort.
(EOH 76) ….You have often been
told how, at the close of this solar system, a certain
percentage of the human family will fail to make the grade and will then be held in pralaya, or in solution, until the
time for the manifestation
of the next and third solar system comes around. Then they will constitute the advanced
guard and the symbol of the coming humanity of that system. The same thing
occurred in the system before this one and those
whom we now call the Jews (a purely modern name and distinction, as I tried
to show in the last few pages of A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Vol. I, Esoteric
Psychology), are the descendants
of that earlier group which was held in pralaya
between the first and second solar systems. If you will
remember that the third ray governed that system and also governs the Jewish
race, if you bear in mind that that system was occupied with [Page 77] the
divine aspects of matter only and with external conditions, and that the Jews were the highest product of that
system ……….he brought over from the previous system the knowledge
(necessary then but obsolete now) that his race was the "chosen people." The
"Wandering Jew" has wandered from System One to this where he must
learn the lesson of absorption and cease his wandering. He has insisted upon
racial purity, for that was his major problem in early Lemurian times when the race came into a
world that had in it no human beings, for it was before
the coming of the Lords of Flame……Our earth humanity and the group
of human beings who are far more ancient in their origin than we are, will form one
humanity and then there will be peace on earth.
Why our planet and this solar system should have been
constituted the nursery for the seeds of separativeness
and why this remnant of
humanity, far more advanced than ours, should have been destined
to work out its future on our earth, is hid in the knowledge of
the Lord of Shamballa, and is unattainable knowledge
for you and, indeed, for many [Page 78] in the Hierarchy….
There a three
basic methods of individualisation
(CF 346) As regards the origin of the fire of mind
something [Page 346] more may be learned through studying the various
methods of individualisation. In connection with man these methods
are three in number as
far as we can tell, though the probability of there being several other methods
which are inconceivable to man's finite comprehension, is quite possible. These methods are:
First, the method
pursued on the moon-chain
(the planetary manifestation previous to ours), when, through innate force and
energy, the conjunction of the three fires was brought about and the fire of
matter contacted the fire of Spirit through the latent presence of the fiery
spark of mind. This spark of mind,
working through the instinct, drove the material form or substance, into such
activity that it was enabled to reach up to heights where its opposite pole
could be contacted. Animal-man aspired;
Spirit answered; the vibration of the germ of mentality had permeated the
substance like yeast. Thus was
consciousness awakened. In the previous
solar system, in
connection with the Heavenly Men, this was the method pursued by Them, and
These advanced cosmic Beings entered into consciousness and mastered the three
lower planes of the cosmic physical,—the planes which man is endeavouring to
master now. They individualised as the
result of work accomplished during incomprehensible aeons of endeavour.28 The earlier solar system was much longer in duration than this one will be, and
force in matter was generated by the progression of the ages. It was the period of the vitalisation of the spirillae in the physical permanent atom of the Logos.
In this
method of individualisation, the emphasis is laid on the fact that the principle of manas is a part of the logoic
character, and is part of His very nature.
It, therefore, has its origin in His Being or Self; it is [Page 347]
part of the content of the logoic
Causal Body, and
therefore permeates all manifestation which originates with Him. Hence the accuracy of the statement that cosmic
manas originates on the cosmic mental plane, and is a portion of the fire that
animates that plane.
Second, in the second
solar system, and in
connection with the method employed therein, another point merits
attention. This fire of mind has its
source in a constellation until recently unrecognized by exoteric science as
having any relation of an intimate nature to our solar system, owing to its
tremendous distance away. The sun
"Sirius" is the source of logoic manas
in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of manas in the seven Heavenly Men, and Venus was responsible for the coming in of mind
in the Earth chain. Each was primary to the other, or was the
agent which produced the first flicker of consciousness in the particular
groups involved. In every case the
method was that of a slow evolutionary growth till the consciousness suddenly
blazed forth owing to the interposition of force, apparently from an extraneous
source,
1. The Logos Solar System Sirius
2. Seven Heavenly
Men Planetary scheme Pleiades
3. Heavenly Man
Earth chain Venus
This second
method therefore is
that which is brought about by the hastening of the evolutionary process
through influences from outside; these tend to awaken consciousness, and
to bring about the merging of the poles.
The first method touched upon was that of the earlier
solar system. The method we are now considering is the distinctive one of this solar
system and will persist till the end of the mahamanvantara.
(solar system)
That the earlier
method was seen in the moon-chain is only evidence of the steadfastness of the Law of Repetition by which every
large cycle includes, in its earlier [Page 348] stages, all the lesser, and
repeats the earlier procedure. This is a
recognised fact, for instance, in the building of man's physical body, for the
foetus reproduces all earlier stages and forms till the human is achieved;
again, as we know, the fourth round reproduces briefly the earlier three but
has its own distinctive quality.
b. The Method of
Initiation. In this second method the
"Rods of Initiation" are used to effect certain results. These rods are of four kinds:
1. Cosmic, used by
a cosmic Logos in the initiations of a solar Logos, and of the three major
planetary Logoi.
2. Systemic, used
by a solar Logos in the initiations of a planetary Logos.
3. Planetary, used
by a planetary Logos for initiatory purposes, and for the third, the fourth,
and fifth major initiations, with the two higher.
4. Hierarchical,
used by an occult Hierarchy for minor Initiations, and for the first two
initiations of manas by the Bodhisattva.
When man individualised
in Lemurian days (about eighteen million years ago), it was the application of the Rod of
Initiation to the Logos of our Earth chain which brought about the event and
touched into activity certain centres in His body with their corresponding groups. This application, bringing about
consciousness on some plane, may be regarded as literally the awakening of the
lives concerned to participate in intelligent work on the mental plane. Animal man was conscious on the physical, and
on the astral planes. By the stimulation
effected by the electric rod this animal man awoke to consciousness on the
mental. Thus the three bodies were co-ordinated,
and the Thinker enabled to function in them.