Compilation on Chohan Morya
Morya is a member of several groups
KH (2nd Ray), M (1st
Ray), the MahaChohan, the Labour Master (3rd
Ray) and DK(2nd Ray) are the five Masters/Ashrams associated with
the preparatory work of the reappearance of the Christ
(DINAII 597) There
are five Masters and five Ashrams involved in this preparatory work. First of
all, there is the Ashram of the Master K.H.; this is the presiding Ashram in this
work owing to the fact that it is a second ray Ashram and, therefore, upon the
same line of energy as that of the Christ Himself; another reason is that the Master K.H.
will assume the role of World Teacher in the distant future when the Christ
moves on to higher and more important work. Next comes the Ashram of the Master
Morya; the reason for this is that the whole procedure is
projected from Shamballa and the Ashram of the Master
Morya is ever in close touch with that dynamic
centre. The Master R.—as the Lord of Civilisation—is also closely involved; He is also—and
this is of major importance—Regent of Europe.
The 3rd Ray Ashram of
the English Master who began the Labour movement resides in
(HIS 60) Little
can be given out anent the two English Masters.
Neither of them takes pupils in the same sense that the Master
K. H. or the Master M. take pupils. One of Them, who
resides in
Moryas Ashram is one of five involved in the
preparatory work
(RI 644) Five
of the Masters and Their five Ashrams are primarily involved in this preparatory work.
There is first of all the Ashram of the Master K.H., which is the presiding Ashram in this
work, owing to the fact that it is a second ray Ashram, and therefore upon the
same line of spiritual energy and descent as the Christ Himself. Another reason
is that the [Page 644] Master K.H. will assume the role of World Teacher in the
distant future when the Christ moves on to higher and more important work than
dealing with the consciousness of humanity. Next comes the Master
Morya and His Ashram, because the whole procedure is projected from Shamballa, and He is in close touch with that dynamic
centre. The Master R., as the Lord of Civilisation, is necessarily
closely involved in
this preparatory work, and also because He is what has been called the Regent
of Europe. Another Ashram is also very deeply concerned in this work; I have,
at times, referred to the Master Who was responsible for the
organisation of Labour. (the English 3rd Ray Master who
initiated the Labour movement) This work He began to do in the latter part of the
nineteenth century, but left it to carry forward of its own momentum when
(DINAI 33) The production of the outer form on earth, through the
medium of books, of esoteric schools and the educating of public opinion has
been committed to a group of us who form a part of the inner world government……..and
to this group, I (the Master Djwhal Khul) play the part of secretary and of
organising contact man……..This group to which I refer is composed of two oriental
initiates (of whom I
am one) and of five occidental initiates.
One of the orientals
is DK(2nd Ray), the other is most likely Morya
(who is head of all esoteric schools), or Koot Hoomi (2nd Ray).
The five Occidentals are, I would guess, the Master R (3rd
Ray), the two English Masters (The one who founded the Labour Movement (3rd
Ray), and the Master of the English race(3rd or 7th Ray)
), the Master Hilarion(5th Ray) and the
Master P(4th ray).
The three Regents
(HIS 44) These regents hold in Their hands the reins
of government for continents and nations, thus guiding, even if unknown, their destinies; They
impress and inspire statesmen and rulers…….
The Master Jupiter is the Regent of
(HIS 54) 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
The Master Rakoczi
is the Regent for Europe and
(HIS 44) Under the
Manu work the regents of the different world divisions, such as, for instance,
the Master Jupiter, the oldest of the Masters now working in physical bodies
for humanity, Who is the regent for
There have been three MahaChohans since the founding of the Hierarchy in Lemurian days-it was first held by one of the Kumaras, then in the 2nd subrace
of the fourth root-race an adept (Master) took over, and thirdly early during
the 20th century the great soul who in the past incarnated as Roger
Bacon, Francis Bacon, Master Rakoczi and Saint Germain took office.
(HIS 44)
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.
the MahaChohan
holds office for an entire world period
(CF 871)
Speaking generally, therefore, it might be stated that egoic groups in whom the knowledge petals are being
organised and unfolded come under the primary influence of the Mahachohan; those in whom the love aspect, or the second circle of petals, is
opening come under the primary influence of the Bodhisattva, with the knowledge
unfoldment paralleling the work; whilst those in whom
the third tier is being opened come under the energy direction of the Manu,
with the two other types of force co-ordinated.
It will be apparent to the careful reader that in this fact lies
hid the secret of why the Mahachohan
holds office longer
than either of His two Brothers, holding it as He does for an entire world
period. The key to these cycles lies hid in the following thoughts: the Bodhisattva and the Manu change more
frequently and pass on to other work owing to the fact that They each embody
one type of triple force, whereas the Mahachohan is
the focal point for five types of energy, each in its turn triple in nature.
The Master Moya
is to be the next Manu
(HIS 54) He (the Master Morya) works in close co-operation with
the Manu, and will Himself
eventually hold office as the Manu of the sixth root-race.
The Master KH will be the next
World Teacher-
(HIS 54) the Master
K. H. is in line for the office of World Teacher when the present holder of that office
vacates it for higher work, and the sixth root-race comes into being.
The houses in which They both dwell are close together, and much of
Their time is spent in the closest association.
here we are also given the very surprising fact that the World Teacher has held office for both the fourth and fifth root-races, the Christ is the current World Teacher and has therefore held his post for a very long time.
(HIS 46) …….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.
Lately the Master R has taken the
position of the MahaChohan
(DINAII 135) Lately
the Master R. has taken the position of Mahachohan, and that achievement has carried the entering force down into the
ranks of those Masters Who have taken the fifth initiation thus enabling Them
to step down this Shamballa
force to Their individual Ashrams. This happening has produced a tremendous stimulation
with all the attendant opportunities, manifestations, and dangers. Masters such
as myself have had to learn to handle this great potency, and at the same time
to make as much of it as we can (safely and wisely) available to our senior
disciples.
(HIS 54) As the Master
M. is upon the first Ray, that of Will or Power, His work largely concerns itself with the
carrying out of the plans of the present Manu. He
acts as the Inspirer of the statesmen of the world, He manipulates
forces, through the Mahachohan, that will bring about the conditions
desired for the furthering of racial evolution.
(HIS 55) The Master
M. has a large body of
pupils under His instruction, and works in connection with many organisations
of an esoteric and occult kind, as well as through the politicians and statemen
of the world.
(HIS 54) 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
(
(HIS 54) He (the Master Morya) 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 55) The Master
M. has a large body of
pupils under His instruction, and works in connection with many organisations
of an esoteric and occult kind, as well as through the politicians and statemen
of the world.
(HIS 56) At this
particular time the Master M., the Master K. H. and the Master
Jesus are interesting
Themselves [Page 56] closely with the work of unifying, as far as may
be, eastern and western thought, so that the great religions of the East, with the
later development of the Christian faith in all its many branches, may mutually
benefit each other. Thus eventually it
is hoped one great universal Church may come into being.
(HIS 57) The Master
Djwhal Khul, or the Master
D. K……….He occupies
Himself with various pupils of different Masters who can profit by His instruction, and
within the last ten years has relieved both the Master M. and the Master
K. H. of a good deal of Their teaching work, taking over from Them for certain stated times some
of Their pupils and disciples. He works
largely, too, with certain groups of the devas of the
ethers, who are the healing devas, and who thus
collaborate with Him in the work of healing some of the physical ills of
humanity. He it was Who dictated a large
part of that momentous book The Secret Doctrine, and Who
showed to H. P. Blavatsky many of the pictures, and gave her much of the data that is to be found in
that book.
(EOH 662) The Ashram or group centre
through which the Master Morya works is also exceedingly busy. It is
obvious to you that as this is a first ray Ashram, the energy coming from the
Avatar of Synthesis will make its primary impact upon this Ashram, which
provides the line of least resistance. There, it is scientifically stepped down
or broken down, prior to distribution to the Ashrams of the five
Masters engaged in the
work of preparation.
(EOH 504) Certain
of the Masters have the work under Their control, and through Their grouped
disciples are already actively engaged in the work of preparation. The
Master Morya, the Master K.H. and the Master Jesus are the three working at this time in
closest cooperation with the Christ. With them work the Master
Hilarion, He Whom you call the Master D.K., and another Master Who is specially linked with the work of preparation
in the sacred
The Master Morya is at this time acting as the inspirer
of the great national executives throughout the world. E'en those whose
ideals coincide not with yours are being welded into the world plan, and much
of their immediate work is organising the individual nations and welding
them into an homogeneous whole, preparatory to their entrance into the great international thoughtform. All who work with far vision and all who hold before
any seething and bewildered nation an ideal for the whole are under His wide
inspiration. Internationalism is the aim of His endeavour. With Him works the
great Angel or Deva of the spiritual plane, referred
to in the Treatise on Cosmic Fire as the Lord Agni; He seeks to touch with the
hidden spiritual fire the head centres of all intuitive statesmen. Three great
groups of angels—the gold, the flame coloured and the white and gold—work on
mental levels with those lesser angels or devas who
vitalise thoughtforms and who keep alive the thoughts
of the Guides of the race for the benefit of humanity.
(RI 586) 1. The
group in which the initiate is working upon the physical plane and which is an
externalisation (existing on the mental and astral planes) of some phase of
work sponsored by the New Group of World Servers. All disciples and initiates in physical manifestation
are at this time members of that group, which is the focal point of the present
effort being made by the Hierarchy.
Through it spiritual energy from five of the Ashrams
is flowing. These five are:
a. The Ashram of
the Master K.H., particularly in regard to the work of education.
b. The Ashram of
the Master D.K. (myself), particularly in regard to aspirants for
initiation.
c. The Ashram of
the Master R., particularly in regard to the reorganising and the
reconstruction of Europe, from the point of view of economics.
d. The Ashram of
the Master Morya, as He seeks to find, influence and direct
the activities of workers in the political field throughout the planet.
e. The Ashram of
the Master Hilarion, as He supervises the discoveries (and the
application of such discoveries) of the scientific movement in the world today.
(EOH 644) Five
of the Masters and Their five Ashrams are primarily involved in this preparatory work.
There is first of all the Ashram of the Master K.H., which is the presiding Ashram in this
work, owing to the fact that it is a second ray Ashram, and therefore upon the
same line of spiritual energy and descent as the Christ Himself. Another reason
is that the [Page 644] Master K.H. will assume the role of World Teacher in the
distant future when the Christ moves on to higher and more important work than
dealing with the consciousness of humanity. Next comes the Master Morya and His Ashram, because the whole procedure is
projected from Shamballa, and He is in close touch with that dynamic
centre. The Master R., as the Lord of Civilisation, is necessarily closely involved in this
preparatory work, and also because He is what has been called the Regent of
Europe. Another Ashram is also very deeply concerned in this work; I have,
at times, referred to the Master Who was responsible for the organisation
of Labour (3rd Ray English Master). This work He began to do in the latter
part of the nineteenth century, but left it to carry forward of its own
momentum when Russia entered the field and laid an undue emphasis upon the
proletariat during the revolution and in the later years of the first quarter
of the twentieth century. I (D.K.) am the fifth Master concerned in this special work and am, as
it were, the liaison officer between those active and conscious disciples who
are working in the world of outer affairs and those directly responsible to the
Christ for the desired work of preparation. Certain disciples from these five
Ashrams or groups have been (and will be) especially trained for the work of
contacting the public.
(EOH 659) These
energies, along with the five specialised energies referred to in my
June (1948) Full Moon Message will swing into great activity as the years slip away. The year 1952
will see the five specialised energies assuming great potency……
I have earlier
told you that the five Masters concerned with the initial stages of the
organisation of the Hierarchy on earth are the Master K.H., the Master
Morya, the Master R., the Master Who started the labour
movement in the modern world, and myself, the so-called Master D.K.
The energy from
the Avatar of synthesis makes its primary impact upon Moryas Ashram where it is stepped down prior to
distribution to the Ashrams of five other Masters
(EOH 662) The
Ashram or group centre through which the Master Morya works is also exceedingly busy. It is obvious to you that
as this is a first ray Ashram, the energy coming from the
Avatar of Synthesis
will make its primary impact upon this Ashram, which provides the line of least
resistance. There, it is scientifically stepped down or broken down, prior
to distribution to the Ashrams of the five Masters engaged in the work of preparation.
(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.
On the physical
plane, the initiates and the disciples working in the Ashram of
the Master Morya are primarily occupied with the expression
of synthesis in the world of politics and of government, and with offsetting wrong
approaches to synthesis, seeking to preserve freedom in unity. It is a
subjective synthesis for which they work—a synthesis which will express itself
in an outer differentiation. This synthesis will define the many aspects of the
essential, basic [Page 664] unity which, working out under the stimulation of
the energy of synthesis, will bring about eventual peace and understanding on
earth—a peace which will preserve individual and national cultures, but which
will subordinate them to the good of the whole of humanity.
(EOH 669) There is
no need for me to enlarge upon the work which I am doing in and through my
Ashram; you know it well, for I have frequently outlined it, and my books
present the goal adequately for this generation.
In this particular
though relatively short cycle, my Ashram is in a key position. It is closely linked to the
first ray Ashram of the Master Morya, through the work of Men of Goodwill and
through all goodwill movements in the world at this time. Goodwill is
essentially an expression of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom, and is therefore an aspect of all the
Ashrams in that great second ray Ashram, the Hierarchy. But all goodwill work
is today being galvanised also into violent activity through the dynamic
energy of the first ray,
expressing the will-to-good.
The
Shamballa force was first demanded at the 1425
Centennial conference of the Masters
(EOH 133)
A history of the trend towards fusion in the modern world would prove a
most illuminating study. It would be found that the first faint indications were felt around
This was due to the fact that permission for the inflow of this force was
given when demanded at
the Centennial
Conference of the Hierarchy, held in 1425. I referred to this conference in my earlier
writings.* (WM 401-433) & (EPI 170-189)
It’s
quite well known that Shamballa energy was first
demanded at the 1425 centennial conference of the Masters, but less well known
is how this centennial energy is distributed via the three major rays over
fixed periods of time via three major Ashrams-This links the energy of the
Great Bear, Sirius and the Pleiades with the three major Ashrams
(DINAI 730) Each Master has reached the point where the
vision is clear to Him; this is part of the reward accorded to the initiate. He
identifies Himself with it, colouring it necessarily, richly and helpfully with
His ray "apprehension," and interpreting it in terms of His contribution
to the whole. Therein lies the secret of the inevitable and the unhinderable (is there such a word, brother of mine?)
success of the vision as it is materialised through the combined efforts of the
Hierarchy, conditioned in time and space by some Master or group of Masters, working on some one ray or rays. In the early days of the present cycle of
hierarchical effort (between 1925 and 1936),(from Moryas
Ashram) the ray at
work upon humanity was the first ray. The activity of this ray culminated in the
declaration of war by
1. The first
Ray of Will or Power,
expending its force. (Master Moryas
Ashram-1925-1936)(11 years)
2. The second
Ray of Love-wisdom,
reaching its meridian and holding the centre of the stage until 1957. (Master KH’s Ashram 1932-1957)(25 years)
3. The seventh
Ray of Ceremonial Order,
coming into activity in combination with the other two—the will-to-love and the
will-to-order—producing beauty out of the present chaos. (Master Rakoczis Ashram/The MahaChohan 1945-)
The disciples,
therefore, of the Master Morya, of the Master Koot
Hoomi and of the Master Rakoczi are reaching out towards a period of the intensest activity. The destiny of the world lies in the
hands of Their three groups of initiated disciples; with Them, the accepted disciples of the
three groups are asked to cooperate and this offers opportunity to many
everywhere. As they seek to vision the Plan, to cooperate with the three
Masters and Their
initiate groups, their opportunity will emerge. This triangle of energy is held responsible by the great Leaders
in Shamballa for the regularising of world
affairs. More than
this it is not necessary for humanity to know.
Forget not, an
Ashram is a vortex of force and a centre of energy—a centre through which both
force and energy flow in [page 731] order that the vision may be materialised.
This force and energy is, in the last analysis, directed by a Master, by a group
of three senior initiates and by another group of lesser
initiates, thus representing (in each Ashram) a miniature of the planetary
government…..
(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.
(DINAII 331) The
strength, availability and usefulness of an Ashram is that of the sum total of
all that its members can contribute, plus that which Those above the third
degree of initiation can "import" from still higher sources or the
Masters of the Ashrams can make available at need. Students are apt to think
that an Ashram has only one initiate of the fifth degree (that of Master)
within it. Such is seldom the case. There are usually three "cooperating
Masters" in every Ashram, with one at the apex of the triangle; He acts as the Master of the
Ashram and is responsible for the preparation of disciples for initiation;
frequently there are also "associated Masters," particularly during cycles of rapid
initiation, as is the case [Page 331] today. There are also Masters Who are
preparing for the sixth initiation.
This
"sharing" process does not involve what is usually understood as the
"sharing of trouble." Personality difficulties and personality
problems are not permitted entrance into an Ashram; only evolutionary
limitations and lack of perfection (limitations in soul expression, indicating
the grade or stage of discipleship) are recognised. If, however, disciples act
or react in a way that brings attack upon the Ashram, that is naturally
recognised, but these issues are fortunately very rare; they may become more
common as the spiritual inspiration to which humanity is now subjected and
reacting brings far greater numbers of disciples into relation with the
Hierarchy. In the case where a disciple has opened a door of attack upon
an Ashram—and this has
happened, as you know, in the case of my Ashram—the work of the united
disciples is to "seal the door" against the menacing evil, to withdraw
themselves from the usual confidence shown to an erring disciple, but to stand
at the same time in steadfast love beside him until such time as he has learned
the error of his ways and has himself taken the needed steps to arrest
the evil which he was
responsible in starting.
The five Masters
associated with the preparatory work of the Externalisation are KH, Morya, Racokzi, the English
Labour Master and DK
(DINAII 596) There
are five Masters and five Ashrams involved in this preparatory work. First
of all, there is the Ashram of the Master K.H.; this is the presiding Ashram in this
work owing to the fact that it is a second ray Ashram and, therefore, upon the
same line of energy as that of the Christ Himself; another reason is that the
Master K.H. will assume the role of World Teacher in the distant future when
the Christ moves on to higher and more important work. Next
comes the Ashram of the Master Morya; the reason for this is that the whole
procedure is projected from Shamballa
and the Ashram of the Master Morya is ever in close touch with that dynamic
centre. The Master R.—as the Lord of Civilisation—is also closely
involved; He is also—and this is of major importance—Regent of Europe.
I have also at
times referred to the Master Who is responsible for the
reorganisation of Labour;
(one of the English Masters) this
work He began to do in the latter part of the nineteenth century but left it to
[Page 597] carry forward on its own momentum when Russia entered the field and
laid its emphasis upon the proletariat or the workers, to the exclusion of all
other members of national groups. This produced what we might call the workers'
revolution in the latter years of the first quarter of the twentieth century. I
(the Master DK)
myself am the fifth Master concerned in this work and am—as it were—the liaison officer between
those disciples who are working in the field of the world and Those Masters Who
are directly responsible to the Christ for the needed work of preparation.
Certain picked disciples from all these five Ashrams have been or will be trained for the work
of contacting the public. Many of them (perhaps the majority) are totally
unknown to you. Some of them you know. I refer not here to A.A.B. whose
exoteric work is known to you whilst her esoteric work is well known to Us. Her
exoteric work is drawing to a close and this also is an idea to which you are
well accustomed.
(DINAII 598) There
is little else that I can say to you, brother of mine, save to tell you that
you are trusted and that you will increasingly demonstrate the strength which
comes to you from Shamballa, via your own
Master. On that
strength you may now draw. A.A.B. is quite correct when she says that your
major hour of opportunity is now upon you as slowly she withdraws into that
service which will (within the Ashram) enable K.H. to do more deeply spiritual
work in collaboration with the Christ. (the implications of this last
statement are huge, AAB it seems is taking over work which KH has himself has been
doing, remember that KH will take eventually become World Teacher-Foster Bailey
is probably going to be doing the same in relation to Moryas
Ashram-also Morya will be the next Manu) It was to train her and thus enable her to
do this that she undertook—alone and without my help—to found and organise
the Arcane School; it
gave her much needed training and experience and enabled her to demonstrate the
quality of the teaching and that esoteric psychology which is the major task in each Ashram and particularly in the second ray Ashram.
You ask if there
is aught that you can do. There is above everything else, the handling of the
energy which is now streaming forth—the energy of Love in its
dynamic or electric form.
It is the Will aspect of Love which the Christ will of necessity use this time
when He comes; when He earlier came He employed the teaching aspect of the
second ray and not the Will aspect. First ray disciples are peculiarly
susceptible to the Will aspect of Love, and for these reactions you must watch and endeavour
always to lay your emphasis not upon the Will—of this latter quality you have
(for this incarnation) an adequate and full supply. Let your fellow workers
catch from you the radiance of Love. That, my brother, will release the
financial supply so sorely needed; it will be the harmlessness which you and
your fellow servers [Page 599] can demonstrate which will prove the needed
agent. Proceed as usual, my tried and trusted brother.
(EOH 15) II.
Esoteric Schools and Disciplines
Our second
question relates to the work of the esoteric schools or "disciplines," as they are sometimes called, and
the training and safeguarding of the aspirants found working in them.
I would like first
of all to make one point clear. The great hindrance to the work of the majority
of the esoteric schools at this time is their sense of separateness and their
intolerance of other schools and methods. The leaders of these schools need to
absorb the following fact. All schools which recognise the influence of the trans-Himalayan
Lodge and whose
workers are linked, consciously or unconsciously, with such
Masters of the Wisdom as the Master Morya or the
Master K.H., form one
school and are part of one "discipline." There is therefore no
essential conflict of interests, and on [Page 16] the inner side—if they are in
any way functioning effectively—the various schools and presentations are
regarded as a unity. There is no basic difference in teaching, even if the
terminology used may vary, and the technique of work is fundamentally
identical…….
(EPII 80) Ray One. The Energy of Will or Power. The Destroyer Aspect.
Souls on this ray
are spoken of occultly as "crashing their way
into incarnation". They appropriate
dynamically that which they require.
They brook no hindrance in the satisfactions of their desires. They stand alone in a proud isolation, glorying in their strength, and their
ruthlessness. These qualities have to be
transmuted into that intelligent use of power which makes them powerful factors
in the Plan, and magnetic centres of force, gathering workers and forces around
them. An illustration of this can be
seen in the work of the Master Morya, Who is the centre, the magnetic attractive
centre of all esoteric groups, conferring on them, by His power, the capacity to destroy that which is undesirable in the life of
the disciples. Forget not that the work
of stimulating that which is needed is one of the major tasks of a Master, and
the power of a disciple to destroy that which limits him is greatly
needed. Souls of this ray, as they
come into incarnation
through desire, grasp. This expresses
the nature of the force demonstration employed.
There is a measure of violence in their technique. They eventually "take the kingdom of
heaven by force."
(EA 623) 3. The two Masters Who have attempted to awaken humanity in
the West to a realisation of the Hierarchy [Page 623] are the Masters
Morya and K.H., the two working in the closest relation and
expressing first and second ray energy.
The energy from Shamballa used to stream into the Hierarchy
undifferentiated Now it is divided into two streams-
1) One stream of seven diverging
streams embodies the dynamic purpose and pours into the seven ashrams of
the Hierarchy
2) The other stream, embodying the
quality of determination is reaching humanity direct via the New Group
of World Servers
(RI 240) 3. The
third great change has been in the relation of the Hierarchy to Shamballa, and of this you can necessarily know and understand little. I could perhaps express the underlying
significance to you in symbolic language.
The energy, emanating from Shamballa, has been divided into two direct
and distinctive streams. One stream, embodying the dynamic
of purpose, is now
pouring into the Hierarchy and into its seven major Ashrams; another stream, embodying the dynamic
of determination or of enlightened enthusiastic will, is reaching humanity direct, via
the New Group of World Servers. Hitherto a blended stream of Shamballa force has poured into the Hierarchy and has
streamed, in its undifferentiated type and quality, into all the groups within
the Hierarchy. Now the quality of determination, or of what the average person understands
by the use of the word "Will," is pouring into the New Group of World
Servers, whilst the energy of dynamic purpose, differentiated into seven
diverging streams, is
pouring into [Page 241] each of the "seven points of reception," the
Masters' Ashrams within the ring-pass-not of the Hierarchy. These seven types of purpose
embody the seven energies
which will reorganise and redefine the hierarchical undertakings, and thus
inaugurate the New Age. These seven
purposes might be
called:
one aspect (out of the seven
aspects) of the dynamic purpose from Shamballa
works through the Manu and the Master Morya
a. 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.
b. The purpose
underlying revelation. This may be a somewhat new idea to you for
you are apt to regard revelation as a goal in itself. You seldom consider it as an effect of the
inner purpose of Sanat Kumara. The emphasis hitherto has been on the aspect
of revelation, making it an effect of what the disciple has done with himself
and by means of which he is enabled to be the recipient of revelation. Yet behind all the successive revelations of
divinity down the ages is to be found one significant purpose; all of them are
and will prove themselves to be aspects of the Great Revelation. It
is through the processes of revelation that divinity is slowly dawning upon the
human consciousness. It is a sevenfold
revelation; each of
the seven kingdoms in nature reveals one aspect of it, and each of these seven reaches
revelation in seven or fourteen lesser revelations or phases.
Ponder on this and
learn to distinguish between vision (which is as much of the divine current
revelation as a disciple can grasp in time and space) and revelation which is
the synthesis of the divine expressive purpose.
This is related to the will-to-good which is, in its turn, a complete
expression of the love nature of Deity.
c. The (as yet) unrecognised
purpose which evoked the creative activity of our Planetary Logos.
This brought the [Page 242] third aspect of the divine Trinity into play. The usual reasons brought forward by the
finite mind of man to account for what is called by us
"manifestation," and to explain the dualism of all existence and the
relation of spirit-matter, are by no means the real explanation of the divine
purpose; they are based on man's own essential dualism; they are the highest
explanation of his own divine nature which he can achieve at this time. This is a point to be remembered. They are his response to the second
Ray of Mutual Attraction,
which the Ray of Love-Wisdom is sometimes called. They are not an expression of his response to
the Will of God, and only indicate the limitations of his definition of divine
purpose. As you will note, they really
define nothing. Nor can I help you to
recognise this third aspect and the eternal purpose of the Lord of the
World. Just as a soul seeks incarnation
in order to carry forward some fixed design and to take one of the higher
initiations, so Sanat Kumara came into incarnation
through the medium of this planet in order to carry forward His fixed designs
(known to Him as a cosmic Soul on cosmic mental levels), and to take one of the
higher initiations which mark the Path of Initiation for these great informing
Lives of planetary spheres. He could
take this particular initiation through the experience to be gained in a
vehicle constituted, expressive and at the special state of consciousness of
our entire planetary manifestation. It
required an instrument in which the cells and atoms of His body (all lives in
all kingdoms), and the integrated organisms within that body (the various
kingdoms of nature), were at the peculiar point in evolution at which they are
all now to be found.
That is as far as
I may go in giving you a hint, and you can see from this that in order to grasp
more and comprehend more of His divine purpose you also will have to be in
preparation for that particular initiation which for you—on your tiny level of
awareness of fixed design—is the microcosmic parallel of His cosmic intention. Which that initiation is I may not
state. The only service which these
hints can render (as to the sevenfold divine purpose and [Page 243] the
consideration of them) is to develop in you, the disciple, the power to think
abstractly—a much needed capacity before you can begin to tread the Way of the
Higher Evolution; for this the five initiations open to humanity (as today
constituted) prepare the human spirit.
d. The mysterious purpose
which has necessitated the calling into activity the Principle of Pain.
Suffering and Pain are essential requirements in order to carry this
purpose to completion. The capacity to
suffer, which is distinctive of humanity, is the outstanding conscious reaction
to environment of the fourth kingdom in nature, the human. It is related to the power to think and
consciously to relate cause and effect.
It is a process on the way to something undreamt of today. And when I say this, my brother, I mean just
exactly that. This same ability to
respond through pain is not to be found (in the sense in which the human being
comprehends it) in any of the subhuman kingdoms, nor in the superhuman
kingdoms, any more than it was found in the previous solar system or will be
found in the next. It is related to an
aspect of the creative intelligence, an aspect and characteristic peculiar to
humanity.
This aspect was not found in the previous solar system, in which the other aspects of the
creative intelligence functioned. In
this solar system, it has been developed and brought from latency to potency in
connection with the substance of the human bodies through which the human soul
is gaining experience. It holds the
secret of beauty in manifestation, and its first expression can be seen in the
creative perfection of certain phases of art for which man, and man alone, is
responsible. No other kingdom in nature
creates forms, produces colour and sounds in harmonious relation, except the
human; all of this type of creative art is the result of aeons of conflict, pain
and suffering. The Jews, as a product of
the humanity of the previous solar system, and as constituting the incarnating
residue from that solar system, have run the gamut of suffering and are in the
forefront of the creative arts at this time, particularly [Page 244] in group
production such as certain of the great motion pictures and in the field of
scientific discovery.
There will be, as
you can well see, a close relation between this fourth purpose of Sanat Kumara, the fourth kingdom in nature, the human, and
the fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict.
It is the balanced relation of these three, consummated at the fourth
initiation, which produces the full beauty of the creative fixed design of the
individual soul, or—on a different level of initiatory process—of the fixed
design of the universal soul of the Lord of the World. The fourth ray being temporarily out of full
incarnation at this time is the reason for the relative interlude in the
production of human creative art of a very high order. The cycle of suffering is nearing its close,
and we shall later see—when the fourth ray again swings into full objective
activity—a recurrence of the arts on a turn of the spiral far more exalted than
any lately seen.
e. The fifth
great secret underlying the purpose of Sanat Kumara is related in a peculiar sense to the
cyclic manifestation of all that is found in the three worlds of human
evolution. It concerns that which is
working slowly into manifestation through the medium of the lower concrete mind
as it controls desire and brings substance and matter into conformity with the
divine thought along this line. The sumtotal of the highest phases of human thinking along all
lines, materially affects what appears on the physical plane in all the
kingdoms of nature, what precipitates civilisations and cultures, and which
expresses the best response at the moment of human sensitivity to cosmic
impression.
This is all that
can be said as we attempt to sum up the fixed desire and the pattern or purpose
of divine activity down the ages. We
know it to be profoundly inadequate as yet to express or to produce in
manifested form the beauty of that design and to create in conformity with
God's thought; but—age by age—the thinking capacity of man and his creative
imagination have wrought out the slowly unfolding design, and will continue to
do so; every [Page 245] great world cycle sees the emergence of greater beauty,
and sees the subtle effects of man's thinking upon the subhuman kingdoms in
nature steadily bringing the unknown to the surface, altering the nature of the
flora and the fauna of the planet, and preparing the way for that time of
wonder when the Hierarchy will again be exoterically directing the Plan upon
the earth and aiding mankind to work with a fuller understanding of the divine
design.
Here again is
another reason for the changing plans of the Hierarchy. The Masters have to prepare Themselves for
this intended and imminent emergence.
They are faced with the necessity of changing Their techniques of work
in order to meet adequately the demands upon Them. It is far easier for Them to work, as
illumined Minds, upon the mental substance of Their disciples than it will be
for Them to work down upon the physical plane, relating the minds and the
brains of advanced human beings. People
are apt to forget that with each forward advance of humanity, the demands upon
the Hierarchy change, new needs must be met, new techniques used, new and
experimental methods must be employed.
As I write for disciples and initiates, I call this to their attention. Their work of mental training does not end as
they attain certain spiritual initiatory goals.
This fifth purpose
is therefore closely related to the whole theme of "the garment of
God" and to the emergence into manifestation of His "robe of
beauty" as it is created and brought into being by humanity, acting as the
medium for ideas from the superhuman kingdoms, and then influencing and
swinging into creative cooperation the subhuman kingdoms.
f. It is difficult
for me to give any idea whatsoever of the purpose with which we are now
concerned, because it is expressed in the relation existing between the significance
of Desire, Will, Plan and Purpose. All these words are symbols evolved by man in his
attempt to grasp logoic purpose. He recognises the impulses of desire, and in
the course of the evolutionary process learns to transmute them [Page 246] into
aspiration; he passes on to a vague groping forward in an effort to understand
and acquiesce in the "will of God," as he calls it; as long, however,
as human approach to that will remains negative, submissive, and acquiescent
(as it does under the influence of the theological approach and in the manner
inculcated by the Churches), no real light on the nature of that Will will be seen. It is
only as human beings enter into relation with the Hierarchy and are gradually
absorbed into the hierarchical life and begin to take the higher initiations
that the true nature of the divine Will will be
grasped and the purpose of Sanat Kumara be revealed
by an appreciation of the plan, followed by a consequent cooperation with that
Plan.
All this will be
done through the transmutation of desire into aspiration, and then into fixed
determination. When, however, the
initiate has related these phases of consciousness in his own inner experience,
and has permitted those inner realisations to affect his outer experience and
daily living, then the underlying Purpose will shine forth and he will no
longer be working in the dark. You see,
my brother, that all that I can do in these abstruse matters is to indicate
what you can do, as an individual, to fit yourself to grasp divine purpose, and
thus see the divine design and patterns as they are in reality. Once you have taken the needed steps and
complied with the requirements, the mystery disappears.
g. The final
phase of the divine purpose is the most difficult of all to indicate, and when I say indicate, I
mean exactly that, and nothing more definite and clear. Does it mean anything to you when I say that
the ceremonial ritual of the daily life of Sanat
Kumara, implemented by music and sound and carried on the waves of colour which
break upon the shores of the three worlds of human evolution, reveal—in the
clearest notes and tones and shades—the deepest secret behind His purpose? It scarcely makes sense to you and is
dismissed as a piece of symbolic writing, used by me in order to convey the unconveyable. Yet I
am not here writing in symbols, but am making an exact statement [Page 247] of
fact. As beauty in any of its greater
forms breaks upon the human consciousness, a dim sense is thereby conveyed of
the ritual of Sanat Kumara's
daily living. More I cannot say.
Here are hints,
therefore, as to the divine purpose; each of the seven
supplements and completes
the other six. Only by attempting to
grasp the whole inner synthesis will we arrive at the merest hint of the nature
of that exalted consciousness which has brought our planet and all that is
within and upon it into being.
(RI 373) The seven
Groups of Ashrams
within the Hierarchy
It is because the first
Ray of Will or Power, through its Ashram, is related to Shamballa,
that the Master Morya is the Head of all truly
esoteric schools. In the esoteric enterprise and in the work
done by disciples in the Ashrams, the Will is developed so that the Purpose may
eventually be understood. He relates the
three points of the triangle composed of the Hierarchy, the world of souls on
the mental plane, and those human souls who (on all Rays) are ready for contact
with the Hierarchy. They have made
contact with their souls, and this is registered in the Hierarchy. The triangle is, therefore, as follows:
(RI 380) 9. There
is a dual flow of energy or force into the great Ashram:
a. Energising life
from Shamballa or what is called "unfettered
enlightenment."
b. The energy of
active intelligence from Humanity, thus enabling the Masters to formulate the Plan.
10. The seven
Ashrams are all concerned with the Plan.
11. The Master
Morya is the Head of all esoteric schools which truly prepare an aspirant for ashramic contact and work.
The reason that a first ray Master is thus the Head is because it is the
Will aspect which is developed within the Ashram.
12. It is the
service of the Plan which binds the seven Ashrams, with their subsidiary Ashrams, into the
one great Ashram.
(RI 586) 1. The
group in which the initiate is working upon the physical plane and which is an
externalisation (existing on the mental and astral planes) of some phase of
work sponsored by the New Group of World Servers. All disciples and initiates in physical manifestation
are at this time members of that group, which is the focal point of the present
effort being made by the Hierarchy.
Through it spiritual energy from five of the Ashrams
is flowing. These five are:
a. The Ashram of
the Master K.H., particularly in regard to the work of education.
b. The Ashram of
the Master D.K. (myself), particularly in regard to aspirants
for initiation.
c. The Ashram of
the Master R., particularly in regard to the reorganising and the
reconstruction of Europe, from the point of view of economics.
d. The Ashram of
the Master Morya, as He seeks to find, influence and direct
the activities of workers in the political field throughout the planet.
e. The Ashram of
the Master Hilarion, as He supervises the discoveries (and the
application of such discoveries) of the scientific movement in the world today.
(extract from a
statement by the Tibetan) I am a brother of yours, who has travelled a little
longer upon the Path than has the average student, and has therefore incurred
greater responsibilities. I am one who has wrestled and fought his way into a
greater measure of light than has the aspirant who will read this article, and
I must therefore act as a transmitter of the light, no matter what the cost. I
am not an old man, as age counts among the teachers, yet I am not young or
inexperienced. My work is to teach and spread the knowledge of the Ageless
Wisdom wherever I can find a response, and I have been doing this for many
years. I seek also to help the Master M. and the Master K.H. whenever opportunity offers, for I have
been long connected with Them and with Their work. In all the above, I have
told you much; yet at the same time I have told you nothing which would lead
you to offer me that blind obedience and the foolish devotion which the
emotional aspirant offers to the Guru and Master Whom he is as yet unable to
contact. Nor will he make that desired contact until he has transmuted
emotional devotion into unselfish service to humanity—not to the Master.
More info on the
fact that DK is teaching many who were in previous lives working under KH and M
(DINAII 246) The
question might be voiced thus: "If I am in preparation for the second
or the third initiation,
I must have been in a group of disciples—presumably the Tibetan's—for some
lives at least. Why then the need for an integrating formula?" Because, my
chela, though you have been in a group of disciples
prior to this, it was not my group but [Page 246] the
group of either the Master M. or the Master K.H. Owing to the fact of world urgency and the
immensity of the work to be done by Them and owing also to the fact that They
are preparing to pass through one of the highest
initiations, these two
Masters have handed all but a few of Their senior disciples to me and to two
other of Their initiate disciples, themselves Adepts or Masters. They have also retained
in Their groups of disciples those who have started specific work
under Their direction in some previous life, and a few disciples who came into incarnation in this
world period having the brain and the mind awakened to their relationship to
these Masters. These conditions do not exist in this group in relation to
me—the Master chosen to lead you forward. Yet (though you remember it not) all
of you knew me well when
working with the two Chohans, and hence the decision for you to work
under my instruction and guidance. It has worked happily and with no delay so
far.
(EOH 307) A group
of Masters and initiates Who are specially related to the Christ's department,
as well as a group working under the Master M., are endeavouring to respond to this
overshadowing which is only possible—even to Them—when transmitted
to Them by the Christ.
(I talk here of mysteries.) It will therefore be apparent to you that, as They
succeed and become increasingly sensitive to and aware of this overshadowing
energy of the great Avatar, Their disciples on earth can also—in a dim and faint way—become
responsive to the ideas that are formulated in the mind of their particular
Master in response to avataric impression. Ponder on
this.
(EOH 491) I seek
to have this Invocation go forth on the power generated by my Ashram and by all
of you affiliated with my Ashram; the Ashrams of the Master
K.H. and the Master M.
are likewise deeply committed to participation in th
The Ashrams of Morya
and KH are the most powerful in the Hierarchy
(EOH 577) Among
the seven major Ashrams and their subsidiary and affiliated Ashrams only a
few have undertaken to send their disciples and their initiates at
this time to carry out
this initiatory task. The three major Ashrams so engaged are:
1. The Ashram
of the Master K.H.
This is the second ray Ashram and—with that of the Master M.—the most powerful in the
Hierarchy; it controls
the building forces.
2. The first
ray Ashram, that of the Master M. He is the custodian of the principle of synthesis,
the work of which is that of organic fusion, and this is ever needed to
supplement that of the building agents.
3. The Ashram
of a Master on the fifth ray, the custodian, among other things, of science and of that which
relates and brings into expression the duality of spirit-matter. This Ashram
has an important part to play in the work of preparation, for it is through the
scientific use of energy that the world will be rebuilt and the factual nature
of the Hierarchy be proved.
(EOH 578) Paralleling
these activities (and disciples on this ray are already taking the needed
steps) will come that of the disciples and initiates who are working
under the direction of the Master M. Their work lies in the field of right human
relations and in the production of that synthesis of effort which will create a
new intuitional consciousness and—consequently—a changing political
consciousness and situation in which the family of nations will stand together
for certain basic values. These are fundamentally three in number:
1. The freedom of
the individual. These freedoms have been voiced for us in the words of that great
first ray disciple, Franklin D. Roosevelt. They are the four essential freedoms.
2. Right
international interplay, necessitating finally the abolition of war.
3. Clean political
regimes, free from graft, selfish ambition and dirty political manoeuvring.
(HIS 60) Little
can be given out anent the two English Masters.
Neither of them takes pupils in the same sense that the Master
K. H. or the Master M. take pupils. One of Them, who
resides in
First ray souls
will normally go into a 1st ray Ashram like that of Master Morya
(TEV 160) 4. The ray
upon which the Monad is to be found—one of the three major rays and, therefore, related to one of the
three major centres—conditions:
a. The disciple's
absorption into one of the three departments of hierarchical work, i.e., a first
ray soul will go normally into such an Ashram as that of the Master M. in the
department of the Manu;
a second ray disciple will pass into a second ray Ashram such as mine (D.K.) or
that of the Master K.H. and therefore into the department of the Christ; a
third ray soul will be absorbed into one of the Ashrams (and there are many) functioning under the
Lord of Civilisation, the Master R.
b. All who come
into incarnation upon one of the Rays of Attribute—the fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh rays—find
their way finally on to one of the three major Rays of Aspect. The changes of shifts in ray focus are
made when the etheric body has in it an adequate
measure of the substance of the lowest of the cosmic ethers, the buddhic substance; this is basic for all, on all the rays,
for at the end of the age, when cosmic etheric
substance [Page 161] composes the etheric vehicles of
the initiate, the three rays become the two rays, and later another absorption takes place
into the second Ray of Love-Wisdom which is the ray of our present solar system. This means the 3rd is
absorbed by the 1st then the 1st is absorbed by the 2nd
(EPI 108) None of the Masters of the sixth
initiation (such as the Masters M. and K. H.) are at this time working through dictation with Their disciples. They are too much engrossed with world
problems, and with the work of watching over the destinies of the prominent
world figures in the various nations, to have any opportunity to dictate
teaching to any particular disciple in some small field of activity and upon
subjects of which sufficient is already known to enable the disciple to go
ahead alone and unaided. Two
of the Masters are working telepathically and through dictation with several
accepted disciples,
and Their effort is to inspire these disciples, who are active in world work,
to greater usefulness in the Plan. They are working in this way in order to
impress a few of the prominent thinkers in the field of science and of social
welfare with the needed knowledge which will enable them to make the right
moves in the emergence of the race into greater freedom. But I know of no others, in this particular
generation, who are so doing, for They have delegated much of this work to
Their initiates and disciples. The bulk
of the communicators today (working through aspirants on the physical plane)
are active working chelas of accepted degree who (living as they do in the thought
aura of the Master and His group) are steadily endeavouring to reach all kinds of
people, all over the world, [Page 109] in all groups. Hence the increasing flood of communications,
of inspired writings, and of personal messages and teaching.
(EPII 359) The
lack of balance will also emerge if the chart is studied and man can then
arrive at an understanding of what he has to do. A study of the two formulas of the first and
second rays will make it clear why in humanity (and in the solar system also) these
two major rays are always so closely associated, and why all esoteric schools
throughout the world
are predominantly expressions of these two rays. At a certain stage upon the Path all the
rays governing the mental body shift their focus onto rays one and two, doing this via the third ray. This ray holds the same position to the other
rays that the solar plexus centre does to the other six centres, for it
constitutes a great clearing house. The
first ray penetrates, pierces and produces the line along which Light comes;
the second ray is the "light-carrier," and supplements the work of
the first ray. A study of the activities
and the cooperative endeavours of the Master M. and the Master
K.H. may serve to make
this clearer. Their work is
indispensable to each other, just as life and consciousness are mutually
indispensable, and without them form is rendered valueless.
(EH 212) It is on this point of understanding that so
many worthy people go astray, particularly in the mental science movements, in
the Unity movement, and in Christian Science.
Instead of focussing their effort on achieving the pure life [Page 212]
of Christ in every day life, and acting as consecrated servers of their
fellowmen and as channels for love, and becoming aware only of the
consciousness of the whole, they are focussed on affirming a future
perfection—mentally and vocally—in order to have good health and physical
comfort. They regard it as their right and due, to be
gained by affirmation, and forget the hard work necessary to bring about within
themselves those conditions which will make the divine manifested Christ
present. They need to bear in mind that good
health will be normal and declarative if the inner consciousness is harmless (notice he does not say these people cannot
achieve their financial goals by affirmation) (and the
majority of these people are guilty of a superior spirit of criticism), if they
are decentralised from the lower self in the three worlds, and if they are
"focussed in heaven, thereby enabling the heavenly Son of Man Who is the
Son of God to lead the heavenly life when far from the heavenly realm"—as an
old Christian mystic, long forgotten, used to say.
His words have been remembered by the Master M—and thus recalled to my attention.
(EH 346) 6. The
relationship of the two Masters you mention can be studied in two ways:
[Page 346]
a. Through a consideration
of the effective working relation which exists between the groups of disciples
working under Them.
b. Through a study
of those people (and they are many) who have a first ray personality and a
second ray ego, or vice versa.
In the last
analysis, my brother, we bring about the correct distribution of force, leading
to harmonious relations, when we seek to live selflessly. For the probationer, this means an imposed
selfless activity upon the physical plane.
For the accepted disciple, it involves a life free from all selfish,
self-centered emotion, and of these self-pity and
self-dramatisation are outstanding examples; for the initiate it means a mental
attitude which is devoid of selfish thought, and free from the dramatisations
in thought of the ego.
(RI 170) On atmic levels, the levels of the spiritual will, are to be
found the Ashrams of those Masters Who are interpreting the will of Shamballa and to Whom is committed the task of transmitting the purpose and
organising the plans whereby that purpose can be fulfilled. As on manasic
levels the Ashrams as a whole are presided over by the Master R., the Lord of Civilisation, so on buddhic levels all Ashrams are
supervised by the Master K.H., with the aid of myself (the Master D.K.) and three senior and
initiated [Page 170] disciples; the objective is the unfoldment
of group awareness and of loving understanding, in order that the forms
prepared and conditioned under the supervision of the Master R. may be
sensitised and become increasingly conscious of reality through the development
of an inner mechanism of light which—in its turn—will condition and develop the
outer mechanism of contact. Ashrams
on atmic levels are under the control of the Master
M., Who fosters the
will aspect within the developed forms and Who (as the Old Commentary expresses
it) "adds darkness unto light so that the stars appear, for in the light
the stars shine not, but in the darkness light diffused is not, but only
focussed points of radiance." The
symbolism will be obvious to you though not the full significance.
Morya on Imperil
(RI 549) I have
said that initiation is in reality a great experiment with energy. The life of the occult student is consciously
lived in the world of energies. Those
energies have always been present, for the whole of existence in all the
kingdoms of nature is manifested energy, but men are not aware of this. They are not conscious, for
instance, when they succumb to irritation and find themselves voicing that irritation in loud
words or in angry thoughts, that they are taking astral energy and using
it. The use of this energy admits them
with ease to a level of astral living which is not suitable for them; continual
use of this energy brings about what the Master Morya
has called "habits of residence which imperil the resident."
It is when the aspirant recognises that he himself is composed of energy
units—held in coherent expression by a still stronger energy, that of
integration—that he begins consciously to [Page 550] work in a world of forces
similarly composed; he then begins to use energy of a certain kind, and
selectively, and takes one of the initial steps towards becoming a true
occultist. This world of energy in which
he lives and moves and has his being is the living, organised vehicle of
manifestation of the planetary Logos.
Through it energies are circulating all the time and are in constant
movement, being directed and controlled by the head centre of the planetary
Logos; they create great vortices of force or major points of tension
throughout His body of manifestation.
The Spiritual Hierarchy of our planet is such a vortex; Humanity itself
is another, and one which is today in a condition of almost violent activity,
owing to its becoming a focus of divine attention.
(DINAII 68) 5. The danger of
"Imperil," as the Master Morya has called it. This is somewhat
erroneously interpreted as irritation by the neophyte, but it is not in fact
irritation in the ordinary connotation of the word. The surface ripples of
ordinary irritation and the evanescent angers to which all disciples are prone
are relatively of small importance. They pass and, in the sum total of the
soul's attitudes to the personality, evoke no response or registration
whatsoever. What is referred to is the reaction of the disciple
to world evil. This
produces uncertainty as to the future, annoyance at what is being done
throughout the planet by non-disciples, criticism of national and international
planning and a general atmosphere of unhappiness, plus a sense of superior
knowledge. All this is expressed in a negative, unconstructive
manner. To this many
disciples are today prone; they need to realise that world
affairs are not and cannot be moulded or determined by any hierarchical knowledge in
the possession of the disciple. World affairs and conditions have necessarily to be based upon the
demand and the point in evolution of the mass of humanity, working through
their representatives, chosen or imposed, in every country. This demand can be
and is affected, modified and spiritualised by the attitude and the teaching of
disciples everywhere who are vocal and of humanitarian instinct. If, however,
the will and knowledge of disciples in all nations were to condition world affairs and control
entirely the political, economic and social life of the people, it would produce a far
more serious cleavage than now exists, for instance between the rich and the
poor, or between the classes and the castes. It would produce a pronounced line
of demarcation between the
(EH 67) C. Diseases
of Worry and Irritation.
The third category
of complaints which arise in the emotional or astral body is synthesised
esoterically under the term: diseases of
irritation. These are the insidious
poisons which lurk behind the phenomena of disease.
It might be said
that all diseases can be covered by two definitions, from the standpoint of
occultism:
1. Diseases which
are the result of auto-intoxication.
These are the most general.
2. Diseases which
are the result of irritation. These are
very common amongst disciples.
We hear much today
about auto-intoxication, and many efforts are made to cure this by diet and the
regulation of the life in terms of rhythmic living. All this is good and of help, but it does not
constitute a basic cure, as its protagonists would lead us to believe. Irritation is a basic psychological
complaint and has its roots in the intensification of the astral body, which definitely produces abnormal effects
upon the nervous system. It
is a disease of self-interest, of self-sufficiency, and of self-satisfaction.
Again I would say, ponder on these terms, for these three aspects of
irritation are of general discovery. We
will therefore [Page 68] deal with irritation, "imperil," as it is
called by exponents of the first ray, such as the Master M.
(EH 69) When,
therefore, I say that cancer, for instance, has its roots in an astral
condition and began
its career in Atlantean times, it means but little to
the average man today. He does not
realise that large numbers of people today are Atlantean
in their consciousness.
I want briefly to
touch upon the most common of all causes of trouble: Worry and Irritation.
They are more prevalent at this time than ever before, and for the
following reasons:
1. The world
situation is such, the problems and uncertainty are such, that scarcely a
person in the world at this time is exempt.
Everyone is more or less involved in the planetary situation.
2. The
intercommunication between people has increased so much, and men live so much
in massed groups—large or small—that it is inevitable that they produce an
effect upon each other as never before.
"If one member suffers, all the members suffer with it" is a
statement of truth, ancient but new in application and today realised for the
first time.
3. The increased
sensitivity of the human mechanism is also such that men "tune in" on
each other's emotional conditions and mental attitudes in a new and more potent
[Page 70] manner. To
their own engrossing concerns and worries are added those of their fellowmen with whom they may be en rapport.
4. Telepathically,
and also with a developed sense of prevision, men are today adding the
difficulties that belong to someone else, or to some other group of thinkers
and of people, to the difficulties that may be.
It is not sure that they will be.
These problems
will demonstrate to you how intensely difficult it is for men to face up to
life. It will be obvious that the
problems of worry and irritation (called by the Master Morya "imperil") are many and must be considered.
Why are these
difficulties of the astral body so "perilous" and so
serious? Worry and Irritation are dangerous because:
1. They lower
the vitality of the man
to such a point that he becomes susceptible to disease. The scourge of influenza has its roots in fear
and worry, and once
the world settles down to freedom from the present "fearful"
condition, we shall see the disease die out.
2. They are so
highly infectious from the astral point of view that they lower in a peculiar
manner the astral atmosphere, and thus make it hard for people—in the astral
sense—to breathe freely.
3. Because the astral
conditions of fear, worry and irritation are so widespread today that they might be regarded
as epidemic, in a planetary sense.
4. Because irritation
(I speak not here of worry) is inflammatory in its effects—and inflammation is hard to bear—and leads
to much difficulty. It is interesting to
note that certain forms of eye trouble are caused by this.
5. Because worry
and irritation prevent true vision. They shut out
the view. The man who is the victim of
these conditions sees nothing but the cause of his complaints and is so
submerged through self-pity, self-consideration, or in a focussed negative
condition, that his vision is narrowed and his group hindered. Remember that there is group selfishness as
well as individual selfishness.
I have cited
sufficient reasons for the effects of Worry and Irritation to demonstrate to you the wideness of the
difficulty. It is not much use at this
time to talk of the remedy. One does not
say to an influenza patient (when the worst throes of the disease are upon
him), "There is nothing the matter.
Pay no attention. Get up and go
about your business." It is no use
saying to men today, "Do not fear.
Leave off worrying. All will be
well." They will not believe you,
for one thing—and that is fortunate, for it is not true. Things are not well and humanity and the
Planetary life are not well. This, the
Hierarchy knows, and is working for the amelioration of the conditions. When the throes of the "planetary
influenza" are over (and the patient will not die), then investigation can
be made and effort produced which can prevent a recurrence. At present, all that can be done is to keep
the patient quiet and also keep the fever down. This is the
work of the New Group of World Servers and the intelligent men of
goodwill. Their name is Legion.
Disciples associated with the Master Morya
To ISG-L who was (II<VI-1-161)
perhaps he was a 1st ray Monad like EES, the fact that she had a 1st
ray physical body apparently indicated to DK that she had a 1st ray
Monad-this could be an important hint.
(DINAII 515) Let
me be ambitious for you, my brother of long standing. That I am. I have watched
you with loving understanding for a very long cycle. My love ends not and my
care of you is all-surrounding.
August 1942
1. One there has
been. The second lies ahead—not far ahead. Prepare.
2. The simplicity
of the soul opens the Way to Shamballa.
3. Be simple,
clear as day and full of love.
4. A glamour
settles down because a separating wall was built on false foundations. Destroy
this wall and let the glory in.
5. Be not so
troubled, brother. Close to my heart you stand and close to that of Morya.
Talk to F.B., for you and he and I are close, and close to Morya.
6. Your field of
service needs a certain note of quality. Learn to reject and thus discriminate
the best.
September 1943
MY CO-DISCIPLE:
My relation to you is slightly different to that which I face when approaching the
bulk of the members of my Ashram; you belong, as does F.B., to the Ashram of the Master
Morya. You have been assigned to my Ashram on account of
the nature of the vibratory activity of your astral body, and because—owing to your own definite
soul choice—you are shifting on to the second ray of love-wisdom. You might
well ask, therefore, how it happens that your orientation has been towards
the Master M. and that
you have been affiliated with His Ashram. The reason is to be found in the fact that
your personality, your mental nature and your physical body are all
upon the first ray,
and that consequently the power of your intelligent and focussed mind has driven
you into the aura of the leading first ray Ashram, and has held you there. Closer
participation was not possible, owing to your sixth ray soul, whose natural and
predetermined destiny was to fuse its secondary energy with the energy of the
second ray, thus opening the door for you into a second ray Ashram. It was felt, therefore, that I (through
the medium of my Ashram) could provide those conditions which would facilitate
this transition and at the same time prepare you for the next great spiritual
expansion of consciousness—the initiation of which you know. This will mark the
consummation of this major life cycle.
As you know, and
as I have before pointed out, you have a profound task of balancing to carry
out, owing to the ray [Page 517] energies which at this time condition your
life. Three aspects of the first ray and two aspects of the sixth intensify
each other. Were you not the advanced disciple which you are, they would be liable
to produce a life and karmic expression of a fanatical self-will. To this
difficult situation of balancing must be added the difficulties always entailed
in a transitional life wherein a major transfer must be effected. To all this
again must be added the present world condition, wherein the Shamballa force is abroad and potently affecting those natures which
have a preponderance of first ray aptitudes. You have thus no easy time, my brother.
This you realise, and I too know it, and stand by.
It was for this
reason that I have urged you for some years to concentrate upon the book
"The Way into Shamballa," knowing that an intelligent and loving
consideration of the problem would do much to bring your first
ray personality nature into line with the purposes of your second ray soul, and thus
facilitate the transfer of your egoic consciousness
off the sixth ray of devotion on to the second ray of love-wisdom. The first
and the second rays work closely together; love and will are closely identified on the higher
levels of consciousness and service; the two basic energies in reality
constitute one great expression of divine planning and purpose.
ISG-L (II-1-161),
JWK-P(I-2-427)(Foster Bailey) and AAB(II-1-127) (Alice Bailey) form a triangle
of long term karmic import, probably for many lives in connection to the future
esoteric schools
It is in this
connection too that your relation to F.B. and A.A.B. is no idle or temporary matter, but one
of real import to all of you. This A.A.B. has recognised. Several forces— inherent in your own
nature or engineered and manipulated by the ignorant or the less advanced upon
the Path—have endeavoured to interfere and prevent the desired relationship.
The matter is, however, entirely in your own hands and the amount of contact
between the three of you is your personal matter, for there is no impediment upon the side
of the other two. The three of you together could do potent
work, and the need of
the Ashram at this time for workers is great—workers who are, as H.P.B. has put
it, "as the fingers of one hand."
I would remind you
that the potency of disciples and initiates is out of all proportion greater
than that of a similar [Page 518] number of aspirants. The interplay of loving
understanding and of fused wills produces an exceedingly potent reservoir of
energy. This is a point which all disciples should study and upon which they
can count as they work together in united effort in any Ashram.
ISG-L is on the
Wisdom aspect of the 2nd ray and will be going to Shamballa to join the Council as did the Buddha
As I study you, my
brother and my friend, and as I look ahead at your life of service and of right
intention, one word stands out in my consciousness for you. To it, I referred
in the six statements which I earlier gave you. That word is: simplicity. I stated in that earlier writing that the
simplicity of the soul opens the way into Shamballa.
That was and is an essential key statement for you. Those upon the second
ray fall (as you know) into two groups, generally speaking; there are, naturally, numerous
exceptions. Souls on the wisdom aspect of the second ray go to Shamballa and join the great Council in some capacity or another. Such a one was the
Buddha. Those on the love aspect of the second ray tread one or other of the
various paths, primarily that of the World Saviours; They become the divine
Psychologists and World Teachers. The Christ combined in Himself all these
three great traits.
Those in this
second group of souls upon the second ray likewise fall into two groups: They
follow the way of specialised detail and of a comprehensive
inclusiveness, and are
the outstanding occultists; the other group is distinguished by pure love. Of
the group which finds its way into Shamballa a
developed simplicity
will be found to govern all relations.
Simplicity and
unity are related; simplicity is one-pointedness
of outlook, free from glamour and the intricacies of the thoughtform-making
mind; simplicity is clarity of purpose and steadfastness in intention and in
effort, untrammelled by questioning and devious introspection; simplicity leads
to simple loving, asking nothing in return; simplicity leads to silence—not
silence as an escape mechanism, but as an "occult retention of
speech."
For you, simplicity
is a major essential practice in this next cycle of your life, but you will have to decide for
yourself [Page 519] what it means for you, and I shall be interested to note
your reaction to this word and practice and the changes it may make in your
life and thinking. Simplicity connotes the blueprint which "substands" the outer structure of creation, of living,
of loving and of service, and this is true of a solar system, a planet,
humanity or the individual. It consequently has its immediate application to
your own requirements and your mode of approach to life and to people. This
loving simplicity—free from complicated thinking, from mystery and from selfish
introspection—should provide the theme for your meditation work until I next
communicate with you. To this I would add an increased concentration upon the
preparation of the book which I seek to have you write and to complete.
You see, my
brother, it is a book which will take much intuition and spiritual perception
to write, and it can only be written by someone who has been trained in an
Ashram. The theme of Shamballa is
new, and little is yet
known about it, its way of life and its governing laws. Only initiate-disciples
can get a glimpse of some of the more exoteric significances, whilst the inner
meaning must be drawn forth by you in deep and concentrated meditation and by
the determined use of the will. There is no one who can aid you in preparing
this book except some group brother or someone working consciously in an
Ashram. You will look in vain for cooperation and help among those you seek to
aid and among the orthodox and theological esotericist.
Some key thoughts I can here give to you, and if you use them as the theme of
your meditation, light upon the subject may break forth:
1. Shamballa is the place of purpose. It is a purpose which
cannot be understood until the Plan is followed. Herein lies a clue.
2. Shamballa is not a Way, but a major centre of related
states and a relatively static energy—energy held ready for creative purposes
by the focussed intention of the Great Council, acting under the directing eye of the
Lord of the World.
3. Shamballa is the major point of tension upon the planet. It
is a tension that expresses loving intelligent will, free from all self-will or
mental bias.
4. Shamballa is the major receptive agent upon the planet,
from the angle of solar inflow, but at the same time it is the main
distributing point of energy, from the angle of the kingdoms in nature,
including the fifth kingdom. From the point of tension the life pattern of the
planetary Logos and His will become embodied and finally matured through the
processes of evolution.
5. Shamballa receives energy from various solar and
extra-solar Entities or centres of emphatic and energetic life; i.e., from
Venus, from the Central Spiritual Sun, from the current conditioning
constellation through which our sun may be passing, from the Great Bear and
other cosmic centres. Sirius, so important a factor in the spiritual life of
the planet, brings its energies to bear direct upon the Hierarchy, and energy
from Sirius does not normally enter our planetary life via Shamballa.
6. Shamballa is the head centre, speaking symbolically, of our
planetary Life, focussing will, love and intelligence in one great and
fundamental Intention and holding that focussed point throughout the entire
life cycle of a planet. This great Intention embodies current purpose and
expresses itself through the medium of the Plan.
These statements
may be somewhat familiar to you, but they could provide the six seed
thoughts for your meditative work during the coming year. Will you thus consider them? Out of the
work which you will accomplish thus in meditation (using the heart centre as a
balance for the head) you will greatly enrich the proposed book.
This coming period
of deep reflection upon Shamballa, entailing as it will the entire problem
of the Will (in its
various aspects), of purpose as it works out in the planet, and of will as it
conditions the human being, will bring to the fore in your consciousness the
various relations existing between the differing aspects of the will: the
relation of your individual self-will to the loving plan of the soul, of that
will to [Page 521] the divine Will, of your spiritual will to the group will,
of the group will to the Hierarchy, and of the hierarchical will to that
of Shamballa. Such are some of the ideas which can govern your
spiritual thinking, reflection and meditation until you again hear from me. You
will find all these to be intensely practical considerations. The question of
motive will immediately enter in, for motive underlies will in a most curious
manner, and motive "substands" purpose.
Therefore, your personality motives in life and service will have to come under
review, and their relation to soul motive. The result of this entire process of
thinking will be the subjugation of your motives to soul motive, and again,
therefore, we shall have the simplification of your life and the opening up of
a wider vision into Shamballa. Shamballa and simplicity, will and motive, will become the
directing currents of thought which will sweep you on your way, closer to my
Ashram, nearer to my heart (and here I am speaking both lovingly and
technically), and nearer and closer to humanity.
November 1944
MY BROTHER AND MY
FRIEND:
What I have to say
to you today hinges upon one single question: Are you ready to pay the price
which the taking of the next initiation entails? All accepted disciples are
preparing for initiation.
All are therefore under test. You know that you are preparing for initiation; you
know which initiation it is. It is because of this preparatory period that the past three
years have seen you
seriously tested, and tested in every aspect of your nature. There is,
nevertheless, little that I have been able to do for you because loneliness is
one of the assets and also aspects of this work of preparation. Disciples ever
take initiations alone, even when preparing for and taking group initiation.
This is one of the paradoxes of the occult teaching which is not at all easily
understood. It sounds entirely contradictory but is not so at all. It has not
been easy to reach you either, because you have taken refuge from the tests in
the work of your own group, rather than in the Ashram. In your own group you
have sought forgetfulness [Page 522] and have not sought the protection and the
love of your ashramic group. That is your privilege
and your inalienable right. I would like, however, to point out to you that it
is safer and wiser to take refuge in both the higher and the lower places of
service, and to do this simultaneously. One place safeguards you as a soul and
the other as a personality.
The call of Shamballa, the call of my Ashram, and the call of your own
exoteric group (mark those words, my brother) have sounded forth in your ears
and you have been bewildered; you have forgotten perhaps that if you stand at
the midway point (which is my Ashram) you have immediate access to both
"points of call." I have here given you an important hint and want
you to endeavour to grasp its significance.
You have been
drastically tested in your physical vehicle, and that is hard, my brother,
because it is difficult to preserve one's equanimity and one's balance under
those circumstances. You need, however, to understand better than you do the
"distortions" for which physical sickness is responsible, and thus
learn more wisely to discount yourself and to pay less attention to the glamours of the lower self. This would simplify your life,
and I told you earlier that simplification was a needed attribute for you. You
have also been sorely tested in the emotional nature; surely, my beloved
brother, you know by this time that when a definite transition is being made by
the soul—as is the case where you are concerned—from one ray to another, that
abnormal testing is automatically inevitable? This will be particularly the
case when a disciple is moving on to the second ray, owing to its close
relationship with the emotional-intuitive nature, and when also you have—as you
know—three first ray controls in your personality equipment.
This necessarily
engenders a serious problem. You have also been cruelly tested in your mental
nature by the war and through your intense grasp of human pain, as well as by
your understanding of psychological reactions. These have served to enhance
your problem, and your entire emotional and mental reaction to war and its
happenings has well-nigh crippled your essential (not your apparent)
usefulness. You [Page 523] have, within yourself, questioned the foundations of
all things, and life has been most complicated for you—physically, emotionally
and mentally. Owing to the dominance of the first ray in your
equipment, you have
successfully withdrawn yourself from your group brothers; you have considered
that they had naught to give you, and you realised that—feeling this way—you
had naught for them. Detachment is the path of least resistance
for a first ray nature,
and (if you will permit me to say so and will accept this statement) indicates
definitely the dominance at this time of personality reactions. Your
second ray soul does not sanction detachment, and hence the conflict being waged within your
consciousness.
Yet, my brother
and my comrade, the deep and lasting love of two of your group
brothers has steadily
protected you during this time of trial and of difficulty, as
has the love of A.A.B.
She asks me not to tell you this, indeed she begs me not to do so, for she is
sensitive interiorly to all that affects you. It is, however, right that you
should know.
So, brother of
mine, we come back to the question of the reason for all this harshness in life
and to the initiation for which you are preparing. In connection with this I
would say: Get back to the "midway point" and to the protecting love
of the Ashram. Then the strength of Shamballa to which you so easily respond can safely
pour in; then, too, will come the wisdom which will enable you to render better
service to the world. See therefore how simple is the message which I have for
you at this time, and remember that I told you last year that simplicity
held for you the key to all success. You are not truly successful just at present. Simplicity
does not rule.
Relinquish the thoughtforms which seem at this time to stand between you
and the Ashram. You will know what these are if you will take three days of
quiet retirement and during that time refuse to think about your work, about
your groups, their personnel or about yourself and your past activities, as
well as about your group brothers. Aim simply to achieve a point of orientation
towards me and the Ashram; endeavour to respond consciously to hierarchical
impression, [Page 524] shutting out (at least for those three days) every kind
of reaction to human happenings. Aim at a point of tension from which new
endeavour and new enterprise can become possible. Then rededicate yourself to
the service of humanity; reconsecrate yourself to
cooperation with the Hierarchy, and regain your early enthusiasm in relation to
Us and Our work. Then again resume your world contacts. There will be three
letters which you will find it necessary to write if these days are productive
of renewed contact with hierarchical force. You will know to whom these letters
should go and what they will state.
Take proper medical help, brother of mine. Take time to get the
physical vehicle in better condition. The reflex action of the body upon the
emotional nature and upon the mind is great. As a psychologist you know this,
but fail to apply to yourself what you so helpfully apply to others. Have confidence
in my belief and trust in you, and let the remaining years of your life be
triumphant in love; let them be negative to criticism; all your group brothers
are handling problems equal in difficulty to yours; proffer rich cooperation to
them and to the Hierarchy. My love and blessing is ever yours, and this you
know.
August 1946
MY BELOVED
BROTHER:
I would like to
start my communication to you with a clear and definite statement: You are in
process of taking some of the final tests which precede the taking
of the second initiation.
For that reason, I feel the need of writing to you with clarity, of bringing
you some measure of comfort and of strength, and of indicating certain steps
which—if you will take them—may hasten the process.
Yet I feel very great
difficulty in approaching you, though not for the usual reasons. Oft a Master
cannot at some particular time reach a disciple because he is surrounded with
too much activity, or with activities of the wrong kind; in some cases, the
thought-life of the disciple has created so many thoughtforms
that temporarily he cannot be reached; [Page 525] or again, he is absorbed in
some form of service which he deems essential and which looms larger in his
consciousness than the work of the Ashram with which he is affiliated. These,
however, are not the things which hinder an easy contact with you. What do
hinder are the results in your consciousness, at this particular stage, of the
tests of the initiation themselves. It is the emotional glamour which has
engulfed you, and freedom from glamour has to be demonstrated
at the second initiation;
it is the intense awareness you experience, at this time, of yourself—the
central factor. This again is a necessary but distressing prelude to this
initiation. This glamour comes between you and me. The self-awareness comes
also between you and the Ashram, as well as between you and the group which you
have gathered around you upon the physical plane.
Having read this
far, will you, brother of mine, continue? There is some probability that you
will not. You may take the position (I say not you will) that you repudiate as
false all relations to glamour. You may declare that it touches you not, which
assertion itself would indicate that it does. Your deeply seated sense of spiritual
superiority to your group (an attitude which is sadly affecting them) may
prevent your listening to me, your friend and brother for many years—nay,
lives. I would, however, ask you to read what I have to say; perchance I may
throw light upon your problems and aid you to take the initiation which
was your destined goal this life, but which you may yourself postpone until the next.
For this postponement there is no need, if you grasp the significance of what
is happening in your life at present.
The second
initiation is a profoundly difficult one to take. For those upon the first or
second rays of aspect it is probably the most difficult of them all. The astral
nature is deeply self-centred, and this the inflow of soul energy in the
initiatory period intensifies; it is endowed with acute emotionalism and swift
response to glamour. Where there is so much first ray energy to be found (as in
your case) there will be a strong conviction of destiny, a pronounced sense of
power, and the feeling that you can see through people—from a superior
position—so that their faults and failures [Page 526] and their little human
failings loom large in your consciousness.
You are at this
time in a state of intensely irritable sensitivity to all and sundry; you
are overwhelmed by acute glamour. All that is in you of a first ray quality is drawn to
the surface and conditioning all your contacts. Your soul ray of outgoing love
is not much seen, and there is little love shown by you to your brothers in the
Ashram or to the members of your own group.
You may here ask
me at this point how I know this to be so and why I emphasise to you this
knowledge. You have been taught by me that the Masters concern not Themselves
with the personality details of a disciple's life expression; therefore, why do
I concern myself with what is happening to you? Those are just questions and I
will answer them.
I concern myself
with your problems because you are taking the second initiation and—because of
its intense difficulty—I have watched over you for the past four years with
more than usual care. I know the inner turmoil, the self-recriminations and the
self-rationalisings, the deep subjective discontent,
the longing to be free, and the atmosphere of acute suffering in which you
live. Your spiritual morale is not high because your solar plexus is wide
open—responsive to every astral suggestion, disturbed by world pain as well as
by your own, in a state of irritation and constant inner explosion over your
brothers in the Ashram and over the members of your own group. Many of the
latter are also of an emotional type, for forget not, my brother, we draw to
ourselves those who respond to our major quality at any given time and—at this
time—yours is emotional.
I would remind you
that the emotion to which I refer in connection with you is not that of the
ordinary person. You are confronted with the emotion which the second
initiation stirs up. This is a very different matter. You should realise,
therefore, that my rating of you is high. It is a spiritual rating and has
nothing to do with the rating of yourself behind which you hide your hurt and
suffering soul and which you seem to impose upon your students everywhere. My
rating is true, and you will weather these stormy waters and arrive in [Page
527] the quiet land of realities, free from all emotion, yet at the same time,
full of unimpeded love. This is the reward of perseverance throughout the tests
and trials of the second initiation.
What I am seeking
to do is to help, to indicate the nature of the tests and point out to you the
reason why these tests and trials have overtaken you. Everything may seem to
fail you—your knowledge of psychology, your groups of students, your friends
and your brothers in the Ashram. Think not that this indicates the fourth initiation,
the Crucifixion. That initiation has to be faced clear-eyed, free from glamour,
with a heart full of love and a mind released from all criticism. For this, the
second initiation prepares the disciple. Today, you know you are full of
emotion and that it almost sweeps you off your feet at times; you know you are
more prone to criticism than not; and you know that under the influence of
glamour you oft wield the weapon of speech in a destructive manner and not
constructively; you know that—deep within yourself—you are not satisfied with
the work you do or the words you write.
The book
you have lately published I have psychometrised and find it to be sixth ray in
nature; it will prove
most helpful to probationary disciples, and they need such help; it
will not help disciples,
for it deals with that which they know well. The call went out to you from the
Ashram to write upon the theme of Shamballa, the centre where the will of God is known
and from whence the love of God flows forth. This you rejected, owing to the
emotional turmoil in which you found yourself. Yet I had a purpose and a reason
in suggesting this theme. It was not just to have a book which would be of
service to disciples, but because it was essential—as part of the
pre-initiation tests for you—to bring in some of the Shamballa
force to your consciousness. It was the impact of this Shamballa force (which you can touch and to which you can
intelligently respond) which was the main factor in bringing to the surface all
the latent emotion and all the glamour which are today enveloping you. As you
considered the theme of Shamballa
(and later rejected my suggestion to write upon it) you brought yourself [Page 528] in
contact with the energy emanating from Shamballa. (thinking and writing on any
subject brings one into contact with the energy-this is a really usefull and practical point for all esoteric students to
remember) Yet, my brother, had you occupied yourself
with my suggestion and dealt with the theme The Way into Shamballa
much of that Shamballa force would have been
transmuted along constructive lines and creative endeavour, and your condition would not be what it
is today.
You may well ask
here: If all this is so, what then shall I do? Have I failed in the tests for
initiation? What do you suggest?
Most certainly you
have not failed. You are at the climax or peak of the testing period. The only
point to be determined is: Can you overcome in this life and free yourself from
astral control, or will the tests be prolonged until next life?
These are
questions which only you can answer. In order to answer them you should enter
into a cycle of intense quiet and—if possible—of peaceful normality. Can you
free yourself for two years, my brother, and at the end stand free? You would
be well advised to do this; you should relinquish your groups and stand alone.
At present you are not working along new age lines, for your work is along the
old lines—of superior teachers, gathering their groups around them, of mystery
where there is no mystery, because there is no mystery in esoteric teaching,
and this is a lesson which you sorely need to learn, and of criticism (openly
critical) of the student, which is sadly lacking in love. No new age teacher
gathers a group around himself, exacting their loyalty and obedience, nor does
he shut the door to other aspects of truth, as you have done. He offers the
teaching, and regards himself as only a student.
So I would urge
you to give up your group for two or three years (you can later resume it and
with power) and study the handling of energy for yourself—free
from emotion, desire for recognition, and in response to human need. I would also urge upon you a meditation,
built around the words:
1. Occult
Obedience.
2. Occult
Meditation.
You would profit
greatly. Seek to find me and walk with me in my Ashram, where your soul ray will be fostered into
greater expression and your personality rays will retire into the
background. If you
have the strength to do this you will—at the close of the period of self-imposed
discipline—enter into a cycle of very great usefulness. I foresaw this cycle of
useful work when I first contacted you. There is still time for this emergence
into wider world service. It need not be postponed until next life.
You have suffered
much, my brother, and have few to whom you can go. My love and my blessing are
around you always and I have held you specially close lately during these
difficult post-war days. Disciples such as you react not only to their own
tests and problems, but also to those of suffering humanity. You will find me
near when you need me.
NOTE: This
disciple chose to withdraw from the Tibetan's group and, until the close of his
life in 1953, carried on his own established line of service.
To JWK-P (I-2-427)
(DINAII 594) You
need, my brother, to be more appreciative of effort and less critical of
accomplishment. With true failures you are ever kind and understanding and have
demonstrated this often, but you are apt to despise (behind a kind manner)
those who appear satisfied with what they have done. You need also to learn
with wisdom to choose your workers when it is your task to do so. It is not
easy for you or for any first ray disciple to get close enough, or want to get
close enough, to a person to really know him. You may remember the episode when the Master M. was at one time asked to handle the
pupils of the Master K.H. so as to release Him for some brief job, and found
himself unable to understand them or to do anything with them. It lies in the
natural isolation of the first ray type. Have this in mind.
To JWK-P (Foster
Bailey)(I-2-427) Masters Morya, KH, Rakoczi and DK discussed JWK-P’s twenty years of work for
them
(DINAII 594) (And
I mean this in its fullest sense.) I start this instruction for you with two
statements: First of all, in the discussion of the work which I undertook in
1919 and upon which I reported to the Hierarchy—the twenty years of work and the six years
of that work during the war—your name necessarily came up as did that
of your fellow disciples.
The discussion was between the Master Morya
(your Master), the Master K.H., and Master R. in whose hands lies the rehabilitation of
(DINAII 594) The
second statement I wish to make is that—given life [Page 594] and health—you
face a period of service unprecedented in your experience. I have watched your
development during fifteen years since you passed into my
Ashram to get the training which will enable you later to take a position in the
Ashram of your own Master—a
position similar to that of A.A.B. in the Ashram of K.H. You have learnt rapidly and moved fast, and
it is only right and just that you should know it. You have certain
difficulties to overcome in the use of first ray energy, and any mistakes you may have made in
harsh judgements and in its physical expression in speech are simply incidental
to the learning of the right use of soul energy. This is your immediate
problem.
Every time that first
ray energy pours
through you it leads to a trifling or a true crisis in your
relationships with others. You need to acquire a more general and genuine liking (as a means to
understanding) of your fellowmen, particularly of those who are your co-workers
in my work. When the time arrives this development will pay you good dividends
if your fellow students welcome your leadership. They are prepared to do this
but will miss the love and nonsense (frequently teaching nonsense) by means of
which A.A.B. is apt to handle situations. Be not ruthless or dissatisfied with
their efforts to make good. Many of them are in the preliminary stages of being
trained so as to fit themselves to be on the periphery of some Ashram and there
trained for discipleship.
You need, my
brother, to be more appreciative of effort and less critical of accomplishment.
With true failures you are ever kind and understanding and have demonstrated
this often, but you are apt to despise (behind a kind manner) those who appear
satisfied with what they have done. You need also to learn with wisdom to
choose your workers when it is your task to do so. It is not easy for you or
for any first ray disciple to get close enough, or want to get close enough, to
a person to really know him. You may remember the episode when the Master M. was at one time asked to handle the
pupils of the Master K.H. so as to release Him for some brief job, and found himself
unable to understand them or to do anything with them. It lies in the natural
isolation of the first ray type. Have this in mind.
Be sure to choose
the workers (when the decision lies with you) who are on the second ray, or
first ray people in whom the love element is highly developed, but not
over-developed. You are apt to be suspicious of people's motives. Give them due
credit for sincerity and for having something as yet to learn, and help them
learn their lessons—by loving them and trusting them; confine your chief
attempt to establishing a measure of intimacy with your workers—friendship and
a working partnership; this will guarantee the success of your work.
Your mind and
brain are full of the work to be done. You work as do all first
ray workers and as the Master Morya. First ray workers provide
the substance with which the second ray workers build and the other ray workers qualify and
modify. You inspire substance with the energy and purpose and with the life necessary to render it
responsive to the plan—the Plan of goodwill which the Masters are at present
implementing and for which They seek workers. Write more, my brother; you have
the vision and your meditation is sound. It has always been along first ray
lines as taught in the Ashram of the Master Morya. This few people understand. Any other form of meditation would be false
to you. Though you oft chide yourself for not acceding with exactitude to my
demands, I judge your meditation nevertheless to be perhaps the most
satisfactory of any in the group. I am, therefore, giving you a passage from
the Old Commentary which has a direct reference to the work you are attempting
to do.
To DPR (I-5-423)
DK asked DPR to act as a channel into his Ashram from the Ashram of the Master
Morya, who (to be a channel for the 1st
ray energy), presumably must already have had a very strong connection to this
1st ray Ashram
(DINAII 653) I
suggest that you think, first of all, of the Ashram, my Ashram, as a great
centre of energy with which you (in your place and in your own way) are
privileged to establish contact. See the Ashram as a sphere of radiant,
magnetic light; then see me, as you know me, at the centre of that sphere, both
emitting and receiving light, via the Christ and via the Ashram of which
I was at one time a part—the Ashram of the Master K.H. See yourself also as a soul
in contact with first ray energy, and thus contributing some of this energy, reaching
you via the Ashram of the Master M., to the light and power of my Ashram. Having thus served and been served, and
having taken your group brothers into your consciousness and recognised them as
within the ashramic light, you can proceed to take
three ideas or symbolic sentences as your theme for reflection, during the next
few years. They will suffice to meet your need and to evoke in you the
necessary spiritual attitudes.
To LFU (I-3-361)
is a member of Moryas Ashram temporarily working with
DK
(DINAI 225) I have
watched you for some years now, little as you may have suspected it. It was
under my definitely applied impression that you found your way into my group of
disciples in which you now work, and at the same time you found your destined
field of service. I am glad to welcome you into this group of students. The
personal touch is wise with you for you neither fear nor crave it.
In the life of
every aspirant, there comes a life wherein he finds the group to which he
belongs. I refer to the inner group of disciples and the outer group of servers
with whom he can and must cooperate. When these two discoveries synchronise
(which is not always the case) much time is saved and the opportunity is great.
This has been the case with you, and this I believe you are beginning to
realise.
Your soul ray, my brother, is the first, and your personality ray is the third.
Owing to the pressure of the times and of the work for this immediate cycle,
you may have heard it said that I am relieving some of the
Teachers on the inner side and thus setting Them free for wider and more
exacting service. I am
handling some of Their pupils for Them and preparing some [Page 226]
of Their aspirants
(whom They have been watching) for the stage of accepted discipleship. In this last category you now find
yourself. It was the coming under my influence subjectively that led you to the
realisation that the deepening of your love nature was, for you, the next step
in your equipping yourself for service. Your ray combinations necessitated this
and my second ray influence, therefore, helped. There is not an aspirant in the
world who could not well intensify his divine love nature, not his astral
emotional love nature. But you need to comprehend always the reason for any
development and hence my explanation.
You have come a
long distance quite rapidly upon the Path lately, and have definitely increased
both your vibratory capacity and your influence. Some years of potent service
are possible to you and again another explanation is in order. He
Whom you will some day know as your Master when admitted in full consciousness into
His group of disciples (the Master M.) is the head of all esoteric schools in the world at
this time. Hence you can see why you found your way into my group of disciples
and why also you are working actively and fruitfully in its executive and
organisational end. It is in line with your inner group force and this, rightly understood and used, can
make of you a useful focal point for the Master's energy in the place where you
have chosen to serve. You must learn to differentiate, therefore, as time goes on and your sensitivity
increases, between:
1. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of your own soul.
2. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of this particular group of disciples.
3. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of the esoteric schools.
4. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of the head of all esoteric
groups, the Master Morya.
This you will not
be able to do for some time yet, but the developing of this type of sensitivity
is, for you, a needed unfoldment, and will come eventually, if you will
follow my instructions with care, and let true love increasingly sweep [Page
227] through the lower personal self. It can sweep through, my brother, because
(as you rightly feel) you do know somewhat of the nature of love. It is,
however, one thing to love, and another thing to be a channel of the love of
the soul and of the group.
In part of a
meditation given to LFU by the Tibetan
b. Regard yourself
then as the onlooker, but also as a channel, among the many channels, for the
energy of the spiritual Hierarchy, focussed for you through the Master Morya,
and stepped down to you through me, your Tibetan brother.
(DINAII 151) I
seek to have this Invocation go forth on the power generated by my Ashram and
by all of you affiliated with my Ashram: the Ashrams of the Master K.H.
and the Master M. are
likewise deeply committed to participation in this work.
To IAP (I-2-413)
(DINAII 494) A.A.B.
here reminds me that I have not given you the rays which control your
personality. Your major rays—I and II—are identical with those of J.W.K-P. and
C.A.C., and should lead to a satisfactory understanding between you. This combination
of the first and the second rays—governing either the soul or the personality—is the
dominating influence in this work which I am attempting at this time to do.
They are to be found quite often in this group and this [Page 494] is to be
expected owing to the fact that the Masters M. and K.H. are the
overshadowing influences behind my efforts. Seven of the group members are conditioned by these energies
and most of the others have the second ray present either in their personality
or egoic expressions. This should be noted as
definitely colouring the group and creating (if I might so express it) the
group note. Of these potencies the whole group can, therefore, avail itself for
it means that the inflow of understanding, light and love is thereby greatly
facilitated.
To IAP (I-2-413)
IAP will eventually have to be transferred into Moryas
Ashram
(DINAII 505) As I
told J.W.K-P. some years ago, a "detached attachment" (paradoxical as
it sounds) is the goal of the first ray working disciple. This is equally true
of you. You and he have the same egoic, personality
and mental rays. Hence the close link with him which you have ever realised. He
is a disciple of the Master M., temporarily working in my Ashram. You have been admitted into the ranks of accepted
disciples in my Ashram
and by me, but you will eventually be transferred into the
Ashram of the Master M.
The free interplay thus established between my Ashram and that of the
Master M. is due to
the fact that He is the inner Head of all esoteric groups, and in the interest
of the coming new world order, the teaching Ashrams are being strengthened by
the inflow of first ray disciples. This should be a point of real interest to you.
JWK-P (I-2-427)
will take a place in the Ashram of the Master Morya
similar to that of AAB in the Ashram of KH
(DINAII 594) The
second statement I wish to make is that—given life [Page 594] and health—you
face a period of service unprecedented in your experience. I have watched your
development during fifteen years since you passed into my
Ashram to get the training which will enable you later to take a position in the
Ashram of your own Master—a
position similar to that of A.A.B. in the Ashram of K.H. You have learnt rapidly and moved fast, and
it is only right and just that you should know it. You have certain
difficulties to overcome in the use of first ray energy, and any mistakes you may have made in
harsh judgements and in its physical expression in speech are simply incidental
to the learning of the right use of soul energy. This is your immediate
problem.
(DINAII 598) There
is little else that I can say to you, brother of mine, save to tell you that
you are trusted and that you will increasingly demonstrate the strength which
comes to you from Shamballa, via your own
Master. On that
strength you may now draw. A.A.B. is quite correct when she says that your
major hour of opportunity is now upon you as slowly she withdraws into that
service which will (within the Ashram) enable K.H. to do more deeply spiritual
work in collaboration with the Christ. (the implications of this last
statement are huge, AAB it seems is taking over work which KH has himself been
doing-Foster Bailey is probably going to be doing the same in relation to Moryas Ashram) It was to train her and thus enable her to do this
that she undertook—alone and without my help—to found and organise
the Arcane School; it
gave her much needed training and experience and enabled her to demonstrate the
quality of the teaching and that esoteric psychology which is the major task in each Ashram and particularly in the second ray Ashram.
(DINAII 53) 1.
Through the collaboration of all the Masters of the Great White Lodge, working
through Their Own disciples.
2. Through the
specifically focussed activity of the Masters Morya
and Koot Hoomi and myself,
Their servant and disciple.
(DINAI 227) You must learn to differentiate, therefore,
as time goes on and your sensitivity increases, between:
1. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of your own soul.
2. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of this particular group of disciples.
3. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of the esoteric schools.
4. The vibratory
influence (incoming and outgoing) of the head of all esoteric groups, the Master
Morya.
This you will not
be able to do for some time yet, but the developing of this type of sensitivity
is, for you, a needed unfoldment, and will come
eventually, if you will follow my instructions with care, and let true love
increasingly sweep [Page 227] through the lower personal self. It can sweep
through, my brother, because (as you rightly feel) you do know somewhat of the
nature of love. It is, however, one thing to love, and another thing to be a
channel of the love of the soul and of the group.
To BSW (I-7-467)
(DINAI 621) My
word to you is as follows: As a disciple, functioning as you do upon the first
Ray of Will or Power and
working under the Master of that ray, the Master Morya, I would suggest that you ponder on the
fact that the first ray is the first sub-ray of the
second Ray of Love-Wisdom and that you must, therefore, round out your development with love to
all beings. You have succeeded most soundly in avoiding the major destructive
qualities of the first ray and your utilisation of energy in the work of
service is commendable. Your aim must be to avoid all static conditions. Many
first ray people become static or crystallised, as that is the method whereby
the first ray destroyers work—and it is all part of the divine work.
(DINAII 332) It
must be remembered that none of this is a personality or an individual attack
upon an Ashram. The relatively feeble efforts of a person are unavailing and make
no real impact upon the conscious life of the Ashram. The evil released must emanate
from a group, though
it is released through the agency of an individual disciple. That is a totally
different matter. A disciple may do this through misuse of the
lower mind and its
rationalising capacity, which can make black to appear white and prove that
good intention is responsible for evil-distributed energy; or the disciple can
let in evil under the influence of glamour, provided again that it is
group evil. In these
ways, the disciple simply turns the key, and group evil enters. For instance,
the harm done to the Ashram of the Master Morya by H.P.B. in his earlier incarnation as Cagliostro,* is only now fading out, and its [Page
332] repercussions affected the whole Hierarchy. The harm attempted
on my Ashram has been
more easily offset, and the source of hate which it represented failed in its
attempt because of its general ill repute. It has been offset by love and
understanding which is not so easily the case in a first ray attack.
(DINAI 622) Your ray is pre-eminently the ray of
occultism. Your Master, the Master Morya, is the head of all esoteric
organisations in the world. I bring this to your attention because there is something you can do,
and this work will be possible when you have developed the facility to register
the psychological troubles of others with greater sensitivity…….
To BSW (I-7-467) John Tassin (an Englishman)
(DINAI 624) Since your entry into my group of
disciples there is a
growing evidence of the awakening of the heart centre and this should give you
encouragement. Let us work more definitely at that. I seek not to interfere at
this time with your meditation but you have recognised that, in the press of
work and for the period of the next few years, your work can be directed by me,
if so you will, and thus, for a brief period, you have voluntarily submitted to
the suggestions of a second ray disciple, myself. The pressure of work on the Masters
Morya and K.H. is such that some of us are lifting what we can off
Their shoulders. In the same way the Master Hilarion
is lifting a good deal
of the work of training sixth ray disciples off the
shoulders of the Master Jesus. A number of inner adjustments are going on in the exigencies of the
stress of this cycle. It is one work, my brother, and all forces are
expressions of the energy of love and the potencies of wisdom.
To RVB (II-4-423)
(DINAII 563) The
objective of this life of interlude and of a somewhat drastic, hampering
experience, plus repeated frustration, is to fit you in a later life
(next life, if you profit by the presented opportunity) for transfer into the
Ashram of the Master K.H.
As you know, one of the tasks I undertook in this time of world crisis was to
relieve several of the Masters from the task of instructing and watching over
Their junior disciples. The senior disciples and those that are called world
disciples have retained their position in the older and more potent Ashrams.
One of these senior disciples, A.A.B., as you well know, has aided me in this
task. I also undertook to prepare certain disciples who had
never been in the Ashram of either the Master K.H. or the Master M. so that they could transfer out of my
Ashram into Theirs; among these you will find yourself. In your case you have
here the chief reason for your present circumstances.
Perhaps PDW (DINAII
574)(II-7-567) had a 1st ray Monad?
(DINAII 33) So, my brothers, we face a new cycle of work
and one in which C.D.P. and P.D.W.—working on the inner side of life—are
definitely sharing. The latter has moved on into the Ashram of his Master, the Master Morya.
He is now preoccupied with the work of breaking up—along with other trusted
first ray disciples—the
crystallisation which is the disastrous condition of France. His past incarnation in the French nation
has well fitted him for this task; his heart of love and his very profound
development will also enable him greatly to assist, thus offsetting the
destructive tendencies of the first ray worker. He has never been destructive
in his application of truth.
To ISG-L
(II<VI-1-161) We should seriously consider whether ISG-L has a 1st
ray Monad
(DINAII 516) My
relation to you is slightly different to that which I face when approaching the
bulk of the members of my Ashram; you belong, as does F.B., to the Ashram of
the Master Morya. You have been assigned to my Ashram on
account of the nature of the vibratory activity of your astral body, and because—owing to your own definite soul
choice—you are shifting on to the second ray of
love-wisdom. You might
well ask, therefore, how it happens that your orientation has been towards the Master
M. and that you have
been affiliated with His Ashram. The reason is to be found in the fact that your
personality, your mental nature and your physical body are all upon the first
ray, and that
consequently the power of your intelligent and focussed mind has driven you into
the aura of the leading first ray Ashram, and has held you there. Closer participation was not
possible, owing to your sixth ray soul, whose natural and predetermined destiny
was to fuse its secondary energy with the energy of the second
ray, thus opening the
door for you into a second ray Ashram. It was felt, therefore, that I (through
the medium of my Ashram) could provide those conditions which would facilitate
this transition and at the same time prepare you for the next great spiritual
expansion of consciousness—the initiation of which you know. This will mark the
consummation of this major life cycle.