Compilation Shamballa Part1 (first 52 entries)
(DON 12) First: The most obvious and powerful force in
the world today is that of the first Ray of Will and Power. It works out
in two ways:
1. As the will of God in world affairs, which is ever the will-to-good.
Steadily — if you study human history intelligently — you will see that
there has been a regular and rhythmic progression toward unity and synthesis in
all departments of human affairs. This
unity in multiplicity is the Eternal Plan — a unity in consciousness, a
multiplicity in form.
2. As the destructive element in world affairs.
This refers to man's use of this force of will which is seldom as yet
the will-to-good in active expression, but something which leads to
self-assertion (of the individual or the nation) and to war with its
accompaniments — separation, selfish diplomacy, hate and armaments, disease and
death.
This is the force which pours into the world from the major world centre,
Shamballa. Little is known of Shamballa. More will be known as you study this text and
note how world affairs are taking shape before your eyes in accordance with my
prevision (as presented to your limited [Page 13] vision) and the obvious
possibilities. These are necessarily the
equally obvious effects of predisposing causes.
Only twice before in the history of mankind has this
Shamballa energy made
its appearance and caused its presence to be felt through the tremendous
changes which were brought about:
1. When the first great human crisis occurred at the
time of the individualisation
of man in ancient Lemuria.
2. At the time of the great struggle in Atlantean days between the
"Lords of Light
and the Lords of Material Expression."
This little known divine energy now streams out from the Holy Centre. It
embodies in itself the energy
which lies behind the world crisis of the moment.
It is the Will of God to produce certain radical and momentous changes
in the consciousness of the race which will completely alter man's attitude to
life and his grasp of the spiritual, esoteric and subjective essentials of
living. It is this force which will
bring about (in conjunction with second ray force) that tremendous crisis —
imminent in the human consciousness — which we call the second crisis, the
initiation of the race into the Mystery of the Ages, into that which has been
hid from the beginning.
The first crisis, as you have been taught, was the crisis of individualisation wherein man became a living soul. The second crisis is the immediate one of racial initiation, made possible (if you will but believe
it) by the many individual initiations which have lately been undergone by
those members of the human family who had vision and a willingness to pay the
price.
This particular and somewhat unusual ray energy is
expressing [Page 14] itself in two ways.
Perhaps it would be more correct to say in two ways that are
recognisable by man, because it should be remembered that these ray forces
express themselves as potently in other kingdoms in nature as they do in the
human. For instance, one phase of the
destructive aspects of first ray force has been the organised and scientific
destruction of forms in the animal kingdom.
This is the destroying force, as manipulated by man. Another phase of the same force (which can be
noted in relation to the unfoldment of consciousness in subtle and powerful
ways) can be seen in the effect which human beings have upon the domestic
animals, hastening their evolution, and stimulating them into forms of advanced
instinctual activity. I mention these
two phases as illustration of the effect of first ray energy in the animal
kingdom, as expressed through human activity.
The ways in which humanity itself is affected by this
ray energy, as it expresses itself in a twofold manner, producing a twofold
result, are as follows:
1. There is, at this time, an emergence of certain powerful and dominating first ray
personalities into the
theatre of world activity. These people are in direct contact with
this Shamballa force
and are sensitive to the impact of the will energy of Deity. According to their type of personality and
their point in evolution will be their reaction to this force and their
consequent usefulness to the Lord of the World as He works out His plans of
world unfoldment. The energy of the will
of God works through them, though stepped down and often misused and
misapplied, by their differing and limited personalities, and interpreted
unsatisfactorily by their undeveloped consciousness. These people are found in every [Page 15]
field of human affairs. They are the
dominant persons, and the dictators in every aspect of human living —
political, social, religious and educational.
Who shall say (until at least a century has gone by) whether their
influence and their efforts have been good or bad. Where they flagrantly infringe the Law of
Love, their influence may be powerful, but it is passing and undesirable, at
least where that phase of their activities is concerned. Where they meet human emergency and need, and
work along lines of basic restoration and the preservation of "units of
synthesis," their influence is good and constructive.
I would here point out that real group love never
demonstrates as hatred of the individual.
It may work out as the arresting of the individual's activities or
enterprises where that is deemed desirable in the interests of the whole and if
what he is doing is estimated
as harmful to the good of the group. But the
arresting will not be destructive. It
will be educational and developing in its results.
The true first ray personality who works in response to this Shamballa
influence will have
the ultimate good of the
group deeply enshrined
in his consciousness and heart; he will think in terms of the whole and not in
terms of the part. That is the thing
which he will endeavour to impress upon the racial consciousness. This may lead at times to ruthlessness and
cruelty if the personality of the individual is not yet controlled by soul
impulse. Such cases can frequently be
seen. An instance of this can be noted
in the history of the Jews as found in the Old Testament. When the first ray was in control and passing
through one of its rare cycles of activity we read that they butchered and
slaughtered all their enemies — men, women and children, [Page 16] putting them
to the sword. The sword is ever the
symbol of the first ray force just as the pen is of the second ray influence.
I wish to remind you that I use the word
"energy" in reference to the spiritual expression of any ray and the
word "force" to denote the use to which men make of spiritual energy
as they seek to employ it and usually, as yet, misapply it. I would point out that Ataturk, the Turkish dictator, within certain personality limitations of
relatively negligible moment, made good use of first ray energy, and only the testimony of future historical records
will indicate fully how wisely, sanely and disinterestedly he used this type of
force for the attainment of first ray objectives. It might be apposite here to point out that
such first ray exponents
of force are often misunderstood and hated. They may and
often do misuse the energy available but they also use it constructively within
the desired limits of the immediate plan.
I would also like to state that the lot of a first ray disciple is hard
and difficult. There are disciples of Shamballa just as there are disciples of the
Hierarchy and this is a fact hitherto not recognised and never as yet referred
to in the current writings on occult subjects.
It is wise and valuable to remember this. They are powerful, these disciples of Shamballa, headstrong and often cruel; they impose
their will and dictate their desires; they make mistakes but they are
nevertheless true
disciples of Shamballa
and are working out the Will
of God as much as the
disciples and Masters of the Hierarchy are working out the Love of God.
This is a hard saying for some of you but your failure
to recognise this truth and to respond to it does not affect the issue. It simply makes your individual lot and difficulties
harder.
I would also remind you that the use of first ray
energy inevitably means destruction in the early stages but fusion and blending
in the later and final results. If you
study the nations of the world today from this angle, you will see this Shamballa energy of will working out potently through the agency of
certain great
outstanding personalities. The Lord of Shamballa in this time of urgency, from love of the life aspect
and from understanding of the Plan as well as from love of humanity, is sending
forth this dynamic energy. It is form destroying and brings death to
those material forms and organised bodies which hinder the free expression of the life of God,
for they negate the new culture and render inactive the seeds of the coming
civilisation.
From this display of energy, unthinking humanity draws
back in fear and likes it not. When full
of personality hate and self-will, human beings seek often to turn this energy
to their own selfish ends. If human
beings (even the best of them) were not so undeveloped and so superficial in
their judgments and their vision, they would be able to penetrate behind what
is going on in the key countries in the world and see the gradual emergence of
new and better conditions, and the passing away of the loved, but slowly
decaying forms. The energy of Shamballa is, however, so new and so strange that it
is hard for human beings to know it for what it is — the demonstration of the Will of God in new and potent livingness.
2. The second way in which this dominant will impulse makes itself felt is through the voice of the masses of the
people throughout the world. This will
express itself through sound, as consciousness or love does through light. The sound of the nations has been heard as a
mass sound for the first time. That
voice today is unmistakably [Page 18] expressive of the values which embody
human betterment; it demands peace and understanding between men and it refuses
— and will steadily refuse — to permit certain drastic things to happen. This "voice of the people," which
is in reality the voice of public opinion is, for the first time and with no
recognition of the fact, being determined by the Will of God.
Second: The
next great energy which is making its potent contribution to the present world
situation is that of the second
Ray of Love Wisdom, Christ's ray. This energy is poured into the world
through the second great planetary centre which we call The Hierarchy.
The energy which is concentrated in this centre and which is manipulated
by the initiates and the Masters is making one of its cyclic impacts upon the
Earth and — as I explained in Volume II of A Treatise on the Seven Rays — is
also making one of its major cyclic Approaches to humanity.
The energy flowing through the Hierarchy at this time — the energy of love — is seeking to blend with that which is flowing out
of Shamballa and is needed in order to make the desired
application of it. The problem of the
Hierarchy at this time is to produce a wise and adequate fusion of the Shamballa and the hierarchial energies and thus
temper destruction and bring to the fore the spirit of construction, setting in
motion the building and rehabilitating forces of the second ray energy. The Shamballa energy prepares the way for the energy of the
Hierarchy. Thus it has been from the
beginning of time, but the cycles of the Hierarchy, though relatively frequent,
have not coincided with
those of Shamballa,
which are rare and
infrequent. As time progresses, the impact of the Shamballa force will be more frequent because men will develop the power to stand and
[Page 19] withstand it. Hitherto it has been too dangerous an energy to apply to mankind, for the
results have worked out destructively, except in the first great Lemurian
crisis. Its work has, therefore, been
confined almost entirely to the Hierarchy Whose Members are equipped to handle
it and to assimilate it correctly and also to use it for the benefit of
humanity. Now the experiment is being attempted of permitting
man to receive it and
its impact, free from
the mediation of the Hierarchy. It may prove a premature and
abortive effort but the issues are not yet determined and the Lord of Shamballa, with His assistants and with the aid of
the watching Members of the Hierarchy, are not discouraged over the initial
results. Humanity is responding
unexpectedly well. There has been much
success along this line but the results do not appear with clarity to intelligent
human beings because they refuse to see anything except the destructive aspect
and the disappearance of the forms to which they have hitherto anchored their
emotions, their desire, and their mental perceptions. They fail, as yet, to see the irrefutable
evidence of constructive activity and of true creative work. The temple of humanity in the New Age is
rising rapidly but its outlines cannot be seen because men are occupied
entirely with their individual or national selfish point of view and with their
personal or national instincts and impulses.
I would here like to call your attention to the fact that the
instinctual life of nations is something which remains to be studied
scientifically and is a phase which leads inevitably to the individualistic
life of nations — a matter of more immediate interest.
The new forms are, however, being built and the Shamballa potencies, plus hierarchical guidance, are working
towards ends which are definitely planned and which are working out
favourably. The potency of love-wisdom,
transmitted [Page 20] by the Hierarchy, is playing upon modern humanity in a
more intimate and close manner than ever before. The Directors of the Hierarchy are seeking to
evoke an intelligent response from men and an indication that they are
conscious of what is happening. Most of the response to the Shamballa
activity is characterised by fear and terror, by sensitivity and distressingly developed reactions
to the forces of hate and separation.
Only a few, here and there, really grasp the vision of the future and
realise what is going on, seeing truly the beauty of the emerging plan. It is with these few that the Members of the
Hierarchy can work because they (even when lacking understanding) bear no
ill-will or hatred to others. Love is a
great unifier and interpreter.
This energy of love
is primarily concentrated (for purposes of hierarchical activity) in the New Group of World Servers.
This group has been chosen by the Hierarchy as its main channel of
expression. This group, composed as it
is of all world disciples and all working initiates, finds its representatives
in every group of idealists and servers and in every body of people who express
human thought, particularly in the realm of human betterment and uplift. Through them, the potency of love-wisdom can
express itself. These people are
frequently misunderstood, for the love which they express differs widely from
the sentimental, affectionate personal interest of the average worker. They are occupied mainly with the interests
and the good of the whole group with which they may be associated; they are not
primarily concerned with the petty interests of the individual — occupied with
his little problems and concerns. This
brings such a server under the criticism of the individual and with this
criticism they must learn to live and to it they must pay no attention. True group love is of more importance [Page
21] than personal relationships, though those are met as need (note, I say,
need) arises. Disciples learn to grasp
the need of group love and to amend their ways in conformity with group good,
but it is not easy for the self-interested individual to grasp the
difference. Through the medium of those
disciples who have learned the distinction between the petty concerns of the
individual plus his interest in himself and the necessities and urgencies of
group work and love, the Hierarchy can work and so bring about the needed world
changes, which are primarily changes in consciousness. I have dealt somewhat in detail with these
matters; the gist of them has, however, been embodied in the pamphlets sent out
in the past few years.
Third: the
major energy upon which we shall touch here is that of intelligent activity —
the potency of the third ray. This finds
its expression through the third major centre on the planet; this centre, we
call Humanity. The evocation of a loving intelligent
response to the Shamballa impulse, stepped down by the Hierarchy, is that to which this
world centre should respond. This is
rapidly and, as I have told you, satisfactorily, happening. A definite world effect is being produced and
the New Group of World Servers has given much aid in this. They have interpreted, explained and assisted
the processes of evoking the latent love in human beings which, in its initial
and unformed stages, exists in the form of an inchoate goodwill.
I call this to your attention as the underlying,
motivating idea behind all the work which you are called upon to do. I suggest, therefore that you endeavour to
see the three major ideologies with which you have perforce to deal in terms of
the three efforts which are emanating from the three major planetary centres at this time: Shamballa, The Hierarchy and Humanity. You
will thus gain a more synthetic [Page 22] viewpoint, and a deeper understanding
of the slowly emerging world picture.
Is it not possible that the ideologies which we have
been discussing are the response — distorted and yet a definite and determined,
sensitive reaction — to the energies playing upon humanity from the two higher
major centres? I would like to suggest
that the ideology which is embodied in the vision of the totalitarian states is
an erroneous but clear-cut response to the Shamballa influence of will; that the ideology behind the democratic
ideal constitutes a similar response to the universality which the love of the
Hierarchy prompts it to express, and that communism is of human origin,
embodying that ideology which humanity has formulated in its own right. Thus the three aspects of God's nature are
beginning to take form as three major ideas and what we see upon the planet at
this time are the distorted human reactions to spiritual impulses, emanating
from three different centres, but all equally divine in their essential
natures, and in their essences. Ponder
on this.
I have brought this to your attention and discussed
these basic modern schools of thought because the potency of their idealism is
affecting every person, capable of thought, upon the planet. Not one of you is immune from their effects;
not one of you but is inclined to range yourself upon one side or another,
fighting furiously and under the cloak of so-called "adherence to
principle" for what appeals to you.
Most of you are, nevertheless, far more affected by the methods employed
to materialise the ideas and by the quality of their exponents than you are by
the ideas themselves. These you could
hardly define if asked to do so. You are
affected by their impact upon your emotional bodies (not your minds) after these
divine impulses have filtered
through from the Shamballa and the hierarchical centres [Page 23] into and through the human
centre and have then been seized upon and applied to specific national, racial
and political conditions. You are hardly
at all affected by the pure idealism which gave them birth and which lies
behind them as the motivating (though unrecognised) impulse. You cannot grasp or view these great mental
trends as does the Hierarchy. Hence much
of your confusion and your difficulty.
If we consider these three great planetary centres and
their relationships in tabular form we can get the general idea more clearly in
mind:
I. Shamballa Will or
Power Planetary head centre,
The
Life
Aspect.
Ruler:- Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World.
The
Ancient of Days.
Melchizedek.
II. The
Hierarchy Love-Wisdom Planetary heart centre.
The
new
Group
Unity.
Ruler:- The Christ.
The
World Saviour.
III. Humanity Active Intelligence Planetary throat centre.
The
city, standing foursquare Self-Consciousness.
Creativity.
Ruler:- Lucifer.
Son
of the Morning.
The
Prodigal Son.
These three centres are closely interrelated and must be thought of in their entirety
as expressions of divine livingness, as embodying three great stages in the
unfoldment of God's plan and as constituting the three major centres in the body of the "One in
Whom we live and move and have our being." Students who
have studied as you have can relate if they so choose, these three centres to the
three solar systems, referred to in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire —
The beings at Shamballa know what the
immediate Purpose is
Little is known of Shamballa except by Members of the Hierarchy to Whom
that centre is the goal in the same way that the Hierarchy is, at this time,
the goal for humanity. Shamballa is the directing centre for the
Hierarchy. Little is really known of the will of God
except by Those Whose function it is to interpret and express that will through
love, intelligently applied. They know what the immediate purpose is and Their major occupation is the working out of that will
into manifestation.
We have, therefore, three great centres and from them
emanate three types of energy which are taking form as the three governing ideologies
in the consciousness of the race. Old
ideologies still persist; subsidiary schools of thought are everywhere to be
found; distorted interpretations and travesties of reality abound on every
hand; on all sides the dead level of the people (the ignorant masses) is played
upon by these energies and men become victims of the exponents of the
ideologies — past, present and future.
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Forget not that behind all of them stands He Whom we call the Lord of the World.
When all these temporary experiments have been tried and when humanity
has been led on in its consciousness from one stage of understanding to another
and of recognised interrelation, the kingdom of God will be established upon
Earth and the Ruler of the Earth will then work through the Hierarchy to
produce that synthetic living creative response from nature (of which humanity
is a part) which will enable each kingdom fully to reveal the glory of
God. Shamballa will work through the Hierarchy and the Hierarchy, in its turn, will reach
the various kingdoms in nature through the medium of Humanity, which will then
enter into its pre-ordained and destined function. It is for this that all is taking place. The time of fruition lies relatively far
ahead but in the meantime humanity is experimenting or is the subject of
experiment; it is exploiting or being exploited; it is learning the lessons of
enforced obedience or the dangers of selfish license; it is victimised by
powerful personalities in every land and this without exception, or it is being
guided in right directions (and this again without exception) by the emissaries and disciples of either
Shamballa or the
Hierarchy. All vaunted freedom or
vaunted control is but the temporary reaction of a humanity which is swept by
ideas, controlled by ideals, impulsed by selfishness, impregnated by hates and
yet all the time is struggling to express the higher and better qualities and
to free itself from the thralldom of ancient evil, the slavery of ancient codes
and the curse of ancient habits of thought and living. It is what is happening behind the scenes to
mankind as a whole which is of moment; it is the unfoldment of the human
consciousness which counts with the Hierarchy, and that unfolds in response to
the presented conditions in any country or countries. Let me assure [Page 26] you that under the
pressure of modern life, under the strain of the imposed present conditions and
civilisation, plus the mental concern, the terror of marching armies, the thunder
of the many voices and the stress of the worldwide economic stringency, the
human consciousness is rapidly awakening from its long sleep. That great and fundamental reality which you
call the "human state of mind" is just beginning to focus itself upon
the things which matter and to express itself in a living fashion. That is the factor of moment and not the
happenings in any particular country.
(DON 39) These three are: Hercules, the perfect disciple but not yet the perfected Son of God; the
Buddha, the perfect initiate, having reached illumination but not yet having
developed to perfection all the attributes of divinity; the Christ, the
absolutely perfect expression of divinity for this cycle and, therefore, the
Teacher alike of angels and of men. That
ahead of the race may lie a still higher perfection than that attained by any
of these Exponents of divinity is inexpressibly true, for we know not yet what
divinity really means; in these three, however, we have three instances of a
perfection which lies far ahead for the majority of the sons of men.
In all of Them, the sixth and the second rays were
controlling factors, with the first ray reaching full expression. In Them,
idealism, love-wisdom and indomitable will stood forth in all their divine
power. It might be of interest to you to
know just what rays controlled these Sons of God:
Hercules, the Sun-God, had a first ray soul, a second
ray personality and a sixth ray astral body. These
potencies and energies sufficed to carry Him through all the trials and the
labours of the disciple.
The Buddha had a second ray soul, a first ray
personality and a sixth ray mind — a very rare phenomenon.
The Christ had a second ray soul, a sixth ray
personality (which accounted for His close relationship with the Master Jesus),
plus a first ray mind. [Page 39] These three all embodied the essences of the
spiritual life and all of Them were enabled to set Their seal upon history and
upon the hearts of men, largely through the potency of Their sixth ray
expression. All of Them embodied also
the new spiritual impulse which Their day and age required and all of Them for
centuries — by the strength of Their living love and power — brought the vision
and the aspiration of humanity back to those spiritual essentials whereby men
must live. All of Them were part of the
directing group of Lives Who are working out the plans of God, founded upon the
love of God. The Buddha and the Christ
are still closely connected with, and working in cooperation with, the
Hierarchy. Hercules has gone over into the Shamballa
centre, but still
works in a basic association with the Buddha Who is one of the Forces linking Shamballa and the Hierarchy.
(DON 46) Second:
The situation is still further complicated by [Page 46] the fact that
both these rays influence and express themselves (as is ever the case) in a
dual manner and have always a lower and a higher form of manifestation, which
is a correspondence in this connection to the personality, and the egoic
expression of every human being. In the
case of the out-going ray, the higher form (which is ever the first to manifest
in germ) is rapidly disappearing or is being absorbed into the newer idealism,
thus contributing all that is best to the new presentation of truth so that the
emerging culture will be properly rooted in the old. The lower forms are, however, tenacious and
dominant and because of this they definitely constitute today the major problem
of the Hierarchy, so much so that they require the calling in of the first ray (or the
Shamballa force) in order to effect their destruction.
Bear this in mind as you study the world situation. The lower forms of the seventh ray expression
are still in an embryonic stage. This
you can see clearly if you consider the one to which I choose to refer — the
spiritualistic movement — which began to take shape only during the last
century and has achieved its curiously phenomenal growth only because it
started upon the American continent. The
(DON 97) The force which is centred in
(DON 98) The force pouring through
The Shamballa energy
(DON 99) I would like here to interpolate some
remarks. It is of deep moment to realise
that
(DON 102) Therefore, through the five major centres in
the planet today, spiritual energy is streaming forth, and according to the
vehicle of expression which receives its impact so will be the reaction and
activity, and so will be the type of consciousness interpreting and using
it. The ancient occult truism remains
accurate: "Consciousness is
dependent upon its vehicle for expression and both are dependent upon life and
energy for existence." This remains
an immutable law.
The five cities
which are the exoteric expression of the esoteric centre of force and through
which the Hierarchy and
Shamballa are seeking to work are the correspondence in the planetary body to the four centres up
the spine and the ajna centre in the body of humanity and of individual
man. In all three cases, they are
"living vital focal points of dynamic force" to a greater or less
extent. Some predominantly express soul
energy and some personality force; some are influenced by Shamballa and some by the Hierarchy. The head centre of the Occident is beginning
to react to second ray energy and the ajna centre to fourth ray energy and in
this lies the hope of the race of men.
At this time in the 5th root
race Shamballa and Hierarchy seek to work through five major cities on the
planet-There are also three great fusing energies or vital centres on the
planet
(DON 104) Similarly, in connection with the British
Empire, a study will be made of
a.
b. The
c. The
In the hands of these nations lies the destiny of the
planet. These are the three major world blocs, from the
consciousness angle and from the angle of world synthesis.
Other and lesser nations will participate in the process with full
independence and cooperation, voluntarily and through the perfecting of their
national life in the interests of the whole of humanity and through the desire
to express and preserve their soul integrity and their purified national
purpose (which purification is now going on).
The keynote, however, of human living will be struck by Russia, Great
Britain and the United States — not because of their power, their historical
past and their material resources or [Page 105] territorial extent, but because
they are in a position to fuse and blend the many types, because they are
far-visioned in their world purpose, because they are not basically selfish in
their intent, and because the government of the peoples reaches down into the
depths of each nation and is fundamentally for the people. Their basic Constitution, Magna Charta and
Bill of Rights are human. Other nations
will be gradually swept into line with these fundamental spiritual
requirements, or — if they are already based on these human principles and not
on the rule of a powerful minority, exploiting an unhappy majority — they will
cooperate freely with these greater nations in a federation of purposes and of
interests until such time as all the nations of the world see the vision clear,
forego their selfish aims and agree in the unity of the work to be done for the
whole. Humanity will then emerge into
the light of freedom with a revealed beauty and a spiritual purpose, hitherto
unknown.
(DON 120) We are, therefore, at a most interesting and
crucial period in racial and planetary history — a period unlike any which has
preceded it and for the reason that the evolutionary process has been
definitely successful in spite of all failures, mistakes, and delays; of these
latter there have been many owing to the refusal (curious and difficult to
understand in your eyes) of the Energies, concentrated at Shamballa, to impose the force of will on matter and on form
until such time as this can be done with the cooperation of the human
family. This has never been possible
hitherto, owing to the unpreparedness of man for the task [Page 120] and his ignorance
as to the Plan. The Lord of Shamballa and His Helpers have had to wait until at
least the dim outlines of the Plan had penetrated through into the
consciousness of the race; this is beginning to happen with increasing
frequency, and from day to day more and more intelligent men and women are
coming (or are being brought) into touch with the emerging ideas of the
Hierarchy. We can look, therefore, for
the steady appearance, gradually and cautiously applied, of the will energy of the highest centre
(Shamballa) which is
to be found upon our
planet. This centre corresponds to the monadic centre which makes its power felt in the
consciousness of the disciple who is ready for the third initiation.
Once the second initiation has been taken, the watching Hierarchy can
begin to note the constant reorientation of the soul towards the monad, and the
attractive power of that highest aspect over the initiate. Today, so many members of the human family —
in incarnation or out of incarnation — have taken the first two initiations that the
attention of Shamballa
is being increasingly turned to humanity, via the Hierarchy, whilst
simultaneously the thoughts of men are being turned to the Plan, to the use of
the will in direction and guidance, and to the nature of dynamic force. The quality, for instance, of the explosive and dynamic nature of war in this
century is indicative
of this, for the will energy in one of its aspects is an expression of death
and destruction; the first ray is the ray of the destroyer. What can, therefore, be seen occurring is the
effect of the Shamballa
force upon the forms in nature, due to the misuse of the incoming energy by man. War in the past, speaking generally and
esoterically, has been based consistently upon the attractive power of
possessions and this has led to the aggressive and grasping character of the
motives which have led to war. Gradually
[Page 121] there has been a change coming about and war has lately been founded
upon somewhat higher motives and the acquisition of more land and territorial
possessions has not been the true and the main motive. War has been prompted by economic necessity,
or it has been in the nature of the imposition of the will of some nation or
group of nations and their desire to impose some ideology or other upon some
nation or to rid itself of a worn out system of thought, of government, of
religious dogma which is holding back racial development. This is being now consciously done and is an expression of the Shamballa or will force and is not so definitely the desire force
of the past.
(DON 137) The intensification of the life of the human
centre will proceed apace and this is the reason why so many people (as I have
earlier hinted) will take the first initiation.
Students are apt to forget that the first initiation can be described,
in reality as:
a. The grounding or externalisation of the Christ
principle in humanity as a whole and upon the physical plane.
b. The flowering of the intelligence so that the
initiate can work powerfully upon the mental plane and humanity itself be lifted
up and aided throughout every part thereby.
c. The coming into activity of the throat centre and
(because the third ray is closely connected with the first ray) the first faint
orientation of spiritual
man towards Shamballa
can take place, becoming more and more intensified and pronounced at the time
of the third initiation. I would like
here to point out the numerical correspondences:
(DON 140) In this world cycle it might be said that
the emphasis of all spiritual power is placed in the Hierarchy which is, at
present, the divine intermediary, interpreting the will of God, which is the purpose of Shamballa. It
transmits or steps down the divine energy so that safe application to Humanity
becomes possible. It will be apparent,
therefore, why in the second decanate of Aquarius the Hierarchy can, as the representative of Shamballa and with the aid of Mercury, bring into
physical manifestation the coming Avatar.
This becomes possible when the work of the first decanate is
accomplished and when Shamballa
has released and definitely re-oriented the energies of the third great centre,
that of Humanity. This release and readjustment leads to
creative expression and renewed spiritual life.
Planetary alignment can take place and this is a planned objective for
which the Hierarchy is preparing and for which the Avatar Himself is preparing at Shamballa.
The third initiation is connected with Shamballa as a planetary centre and to the activity of the first ray. It should be borne in mind that this is the
first initiation in which personality and soul are united and fused so that the
two aspects form one unit. When this
initiation has taken place, it happens that for the first time some of its
broader group implications become a reality and henceforth constitute the
motivating impulse of the initiate's life.
Aspiration ends and the intensest conviction takes its place. It is interesting also to note that Venus now
comes into control in the third decanate of the Aquarian Age. Venus is esoterically recognised as that
mysterious force which is a blend of love and knowledge, of intelligence and
synthesis, and of understanding and brotherhood. Within the Hierarchy [Page 141] itself, the two great Messengers who have
embodied the dual Venusian energy were the Buddha and the Christ. The Messenger Who will later come and express the
Shamballa urge to synthesis, the hierarchial aspiration towards love and the desire of humanity
for intelligent activity with combined power will gather all into Himself. All these qualities will focus in Him, plus another quality or divine principle of which the race of men as yet knows
nothing and for which there is, as yet, no name. He will be a great and potent Avatar and is
not along the line of our humanity at all.
The numerical correspondences might be noted as
follows, remembering that the third initiation is, in reality, the first
initiation of the soul, after complete identification with the personality
within the life and consciousness of the Monad, the One and the First.
1. The first planetary centre — Shamballa.
2. The activity of the first ray — will or power.
3. The third initiation which is the first soul
initiation, relating the base of the spine to the head centre, and the soul to
the Monad.
4. The first major centre — the head.
5. The first truly divine race — the final race.
6. The third plane, which is in reality the first
plane of soul consciousness, the reflection of the highest plane, the Logoic.
7. The first periodical vehicle — the monadic.
8. The first divine aspect — will or power.
9. The first or highest type of Mediator — the coming Avatar.
10. The sustaining Life, the spiritual sun — the
central spiritual sun.
(DON 142) We will now consider the trend of the times
and seasons as far as the rays are concerned:
RAY I — This ray is still out of physical manifestation but is beginning to have a definite effect
upon the mental plane; there it influences the minds of disciples everywhere
and lays the stage for the appearance of a certain group of disciples from Shamballa.
Two thousand years from today, the influence of this ray will be felt
powerfully on the physical plane. One
hundred years hence its potency will be noted upon the astral plane.
(DON 144) RAY VII — This ray is coming into effective
expression now; there is little need for me to add here anything further to the
mass of information which I have given you in this treatise and in my other
books.
One small point of interest but one of no especial
moment to you is that the Lords of the Rays, through Their planetary
Representatives, constitute a body of directing Forces in collaboration with
the Lord of the World at
Shamballa. Their capacity is advisory and directive but
not authoritative. This may be regarded
by some of you as the most interesting piece of information in this book. If this is your attitude, then it only
indicates your unpreparedness for true esoteric teaching. Students need a greater sense of the real governing
values and a sense of spiritual proportion.
Planetary facts and solar facts (under which heading the above item of
information might well be placed) can stimulate your imagination and widen your
horizon; for aspirants and disciples, that is the major value. All information and happenings which are
connected with Shamballa are always exciting to the neophyte who is
apt to forget that he must make his contact with the more familiar Hierarchy
before true and related perception is his.
(DINAI 24) It will be apparent to you, therefore, that
the purpose of these groups is to unfold in time the three major powers of all
illumined minds:
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First: the power to work in and with all thought
substance. The Hierarchy of Illumined Minds is a group Whose telepathic powers
enable Them to be sensitive to the mind currents and to register the thoughts
of Those Who personify the Mind of God, the Universal Mind, and to register the
thoughtforms of Those Who are as far beyond the Hierarchy of Masters as They,
in Their turn, are beyond the disciples of the world.
Those Lives Who carry out the ideas of the Divine
Mind, exist in Their graded orders, and with the detail of Their groupings we
are not concerned, except with the fact that the planetary Brotherhood is in
telepathic rapport with Those Who are responsible for the planetary conditions
in the solar system, with
the Great Council, therefore, at Shamballa. They are also in immediate telepathic rapport with
each other. The slowly manifesting powers of the radio and the sensitive
workings of the perfecting radio mechanisms and of television are but the
response in physical matter of the perfected telepathic powers and television
of the minds of the Masters of the Wisdom. Forget not, that such powers are
inherent in all men.
(DINAI 172) The fusion must, therefore, be made
between the mind and the brain, each of which expresses one of the two major
energies. That fusion already partially exists. When it is consummated, the
mental goal of harmony through conflict will be superseded by the inflow of
love, working with power through the brain and (incidentally) your general
physical health will speedily improve. How shall this be brought about, my
brother? The first stage is one of real difficulty, particularly to first ray
people. It comes through the power of visualisation. That is why ritual is of
value to such as you and Masonry—being
on the first ray and emanating, consequently, from Shamballa—aids the process of visualisation. It
gives colour and performance [Page 172] of a tangible kind to inner, subjective
activity. Visualisation is a powerful agent in the evocation of the creative
imagination. Let me here give you a hint. If you use this idea in the planning
of the work which you seek to do for the Hierarchy and for which we are seeking
to hold you responsible, and if you carry into all that work the ideal of
ritual, of rhythm and of energy distribution, you will evoke a synthetic
pattern, a unified procedure and a harmonious working out of the Plan.
Therefore, I would ask you to give ten minutes each
day to the pictorial visualisation of your entire work and programme. See each
phase of it as a lotus of living beauty, connected with all the other phases by
lines of fiery energy, thus bringing all parts of it into one whole. All the
different phases will form a great unity of light and love, expressing itself
through the will-to-good. Be not side-tracked when doing this. Use the building
energy of your second ray personality and the seventh ray energy of your brain,
because through your brain, your first ray soul energy is expressing itself. You do not here consciously
work as a soul. You work with as much soul energy as can express itself at any
given time through your brain. If you worked with pure soul energy and from
soul levels, you would
bring in too much of the Shamballa force for the delicate structure with which you are
dealing.
(DINAI 215) March 1935
MY BROTHER AND MY FRIEND:
(For such you have been for many lives, e'en if your
present physical brain registers not the fact.) The past year has been a hard
one for you, as it has necessarily been for all who are sensitive and whose
physical bodies are ill-equipped to stand the modern pressure or to carry the
inner, spiritual force available. It has been particularly hard for you also to
establish the inner link with your fellow disciples and this you have realised
and it has troubled you. The difficulty is due to the fact that your
polarisation is essentially that of the man devoted to the Hierarchy and whose link is established with that
Hierarchy. Your
orientation—esoterically speaking—is towards Shamballa. I use that phrase because it connotes
something definitely intelligible to you. I seek not to be more explicit, for
you will comprehend the significance of what I say. You serve and love your
fellowmen because we, the teachers on the inner side also serve and love them;
your approach to humanity and to your co-disciples is via Those Whom you serve
upon "the
The Christ’s Master is the Lord of
Shamballa
(DINAI 439) May 1937
MY BROTHER AND MY FRIEND:
Our relation has been close for many lives and is
particularly close today. Unknown perhaps to you, I have guarded and shielded
you from many unhappy world impacts, for you are sensitive in nature and frail
in body and are already handling as much of the world's misery and suspense as
you can and perhaps more than is good for you—physically and emotionally. You
are like so many disciples upon the second ray who are in training for future
world salvaging. Like our Great Master, the Christ, you must and do shoulder
your share of the world [page 439] suffering, thereby forming one of the great
group of His companions who are pledged to the "fellowship of His
sufferings and His patience," as He is pledged to His great Master, the Lord of
Shamballa. He, as you
know, will not leave His post until the "last weary pilgrim has found his
way home." You see, therefore, do you not, the true significance of the
three keywords which I gave you when you entered this group —endless patience,
with yourself, with others and with erring humanity; dynamic thought, giving
you power and usefulness upon the mental plane and teaching you to work there
as does the Christ, as does K.H. and all who are serving in connection with the
Hierarchy; wisdom, enabling you to reap the fruitage of many lives, spent in
acquiring spiritual knowledge.
(DINAI 685) The group of a Master is a focus of power, built up by the Master in three
ways:
1. By the potency of His Own thought life, evoked by
His response to the united hierarchical purpose and a growing ability to respond to Shamballa.
2. By His ability to integrate the centre of power
(His group for which He has made Himself responsible) into the immediate
activity of the Hierarchy.
3. By His wisdom in His choice of collaborators. His
group of disciples will be effective in world service and useful to His
Superiors just in so far as He employs judgment in gathering together the men
and women whom He is preparing for initiation.
I use the word "initiation" here because I
want all disciples who read my words to realise that initiation is not
something which they undergo as a result of any training which they may receive
from a Master or because they have reached a certain [page 685] stage of
advanced evolution. It is a process of continuing integration into centres of
force, i.e., into a Master's group, into the Hierarchy as a whole and
consciously, and—as
disciples attain adeptship—into Shamballa. You can see, therefore, that a Master can be greatly
hindered or aided in His work for humanity by His choice of disciples. They
should ponder on this fact because in so doing the process of decentralisation
will proceed more rapidly and their love and service will consequently increase
with a paralleling certainty and surety.
(DINAI 693) What is that work? To provide a working
intelligent and consecrated group of servers through whom hierarchical plans
can be carried forward and to demonstrate, upon the physical plane, a focal
point of spiritual energy. This can then be employed by the Hierarchy to help
humanity everywhere, particularly in this time of crisis. The plans of the
Hierarchy, as they
embody the will of Shamballa, can be and are carried out; the process, however, is either a
conscious one or an unconscious mass response to impression. Among the
disciples of the world, the response and subsequent activity is a conscious one
and leads to intelligent undertakings.
(DINAI 695) The third point which I would like to
bring out is that disciples when they form part of an Ashram are subjecting themselves
to a greatly increased pressure and are in a position to participate in much
wider distribution of energy than heretofore. Today, as the Coming One nears
the earth and draws closer to humanity, and as the inflow of spiritual energy from Shamballa into the hierarchical Centre becomes
greater, there is a great keying up of human receptivity and a greatly
augmented stimulation is taking place with varying effects. This involves an
intensified aspiration and spiritual determination. It also signifies an
opportunity of an unprecedented nature.
You have been told that when the Buddha came and worked on earth, many aspirants entered the ranks
of accepted disciples and many disciples took one or other of the major
initiations. There was, therefore, a definite shift of the personnel of the
Hierarchy and a great
expansion towards Shamballa and, at the same time, towards humanity. When the Christ made His
appearance on earth, there was a similar and still greater climaxing effort
which culminated in the inclusion of disciples in the Masters' inner Ashrams.
Hitherto, these Ashrams had been kept for those who had taken the first
initiation. Before the time of Christ only those who had taken the first
initiation and were initiate formed the Ashram. Owing, however, to the growing
sensitivity of humanity, it was then decided that disciples could be admitted
into the Ashrams and so be mentally and astrally en rapport with the inner
group and begin to form part of the Master's sphere of directed influence.
(DINAI 710) It will not be possible for me to indicate
the work in detail. I intend only to show you as far as is possible how a
Master prepares the probationer to step from off the Probationary Path on to
the Path of Discipleship. At this point, I would like to point out that I shall
be dealing with a period covering the stages of discipleship from the first
stage to that of adept. At the fourth stage, the disciple emerges out of his
Master's group and becomes what is esoterically called "a fixed aspect of
the Hierarchy." This is a phrase which is necessarily quite meaningless to
you. He comes then under
the influence of Shamballa and the mode of preparing people for association with that first major
centre is very different to that of preparing them for participation in the
work of the centre which we call the Hierarchy. The one involves the
development of love and of group consciousness; the other involves the
unfoldment of the will and the attainment of the stage to which Patanjali gives
the name of "isolated unity." This is a phrase which is quite
meaningless to any one below the degree of the third initiation. In this
discussion, I shall not be dealing with preparation for the various initiations
and their specific differences. I shall be dealing with the growth of what is
called "ashramic intimacy," with the approach of the disciple to the
world of souls and to the unfoldment of his consciousness in relation to the
Hierarchy. I shall be concerned with his growth in sensitivity and his
subsequent and consequent growth in creativity—not the creativity of form as
much as the creativity of vibration, its impact upon the world of men and the
consequent later appearance of responsive organisms, in contra-distinction to
created forms. I would ask you to reflect upon this thought.
(DINAI 719) On the buddhic plane, the plane of the
divine intuition, these lower three expressions and their higher prototypes are
harmonised and the expansive work of the three initiations (second, third and
fourth) produces an absorption, a fusion and a blending process between the
disciple and the soul (and eventually between humanity and the Hierarchy) which
prepares for a major contact between man and the Monad. When this takes place,
the soul, creator of reflection and shadow, is discarded because that point of
consciousness has served its purpose. The shattering of the causal body takes
place and nought is then left but fully conscious form and spirit. Until,
however, man has taken the higher initiations, he cannot comprehend the
significance of the above comments.
In connection with this, I would remind you that
though I am seeking to train many at this time for further expansions of
consciousness, I am writing primarily for the future and for those disciples
who, in years to come, will read my words and find their way into the Ashrams
of the Masters. The Hierarchy builds for the future; it is not occupied with
the present. All that it does is done with the intent to open the way into a
wider and more expansive world. Humanity is preoccupied with the things of the
present; the Hierarchy is working and laying plans for the future; Shamballa is engrossed with the Eternal Now and
with the dynamic life which has created the past, which controls the present
(the centre of illusion) and [page 719] with the future. You may perhaps gain
some idea or picture of the conditioning life of Shamballa if you will study the present era of human living. In
it, people with the Lemurian consciousness, focussed on the past and concerned
with the physical plane, are present; people with the Atlantean consciousness,
emotional in content and focussed on the present, are everywhere to be found;
and people who are definitely Aryan in their state of awareness, mentally
focussed and occupied with the future, are likewise found. The three constitute
one race of men and embody the whole of mankind.
(DINAI 720) As far as these aspirants are concerned,
the one thing which the Masters are endeavouring to bring about is the
stimulation of the flame of the spirit in them so that they may set the world
on fire. The fires of judgment and of substance, of karma and its vehicle,
matter, are raging in the world at this time. Fire must be countered by fire,
as well you know, and to stop the raging inferno of fire which is today devastating
the world, the fire of spirit must be opposed, distributed and effectively used
by the disciples of the Masters. The task of Shamballa, in relation to the Hierarchy, is similar in nature but expresses itself
upon a higher level. They dispense the ultimate fire of the Will. The fire
which must, in the final analysis, be used by the disciples in the world is the
fire of the will-to-love.
(DINAI 730) Each Master has reached the point where
the vision is clear to Him; this is part of the reward accorded to the
initiate. He identifies Himself with it, colouring it necessarily, richly and
helpfully with His ray "apprehension," and interpreting it in terms
of His contribution to the whole. Therein lies the secret of the inevitable and
the unhinderable (is there such a word, brother of mine?) success of the vision
as it is materialised through the combined efforts of the Hierarchy,
conditioned in time and space by some Master or group of Masters, working on
some one ray or rays. In the early days of the present cycle of hierarchical
effort (between 1925 and 1936), the ray at work upon humanity was the first ray. The activity of this ray culminated in the declaration of war by
1. The first Ray of Will or Power, expending its
force.
2. The second Ray of Love-wisdom, reaching its
meridian and holding the centre of the stage until 1957.
3. The seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order, coming into
activity in combination with the other two—the will-to-love and the
will-to-order—producing beauty out of the present chaos.
The disciples, therefore, of the Master Morya, of the
Master Koot Hoomi and of the Master Rakoczi are reaching out towards a period
of the intensest activity. The destiny of the world lies in the hands of Their
three groups of initiated disciples; with Them, the accepted disciples of the
three groups are asked to cooperate and this offers opportunity to many
everywhere. As they seek to vision the Plan, to cooperate with the three
Masters and Their initiate groups, their opportunity will emerge. This triangle
of energy is held responsible by the great Leaders in Shamballa for the regularising of
world affairs. More
than this it is not necessary for humanity to know.
Forget not, an Ashram is a vortex of force and a
centre of energy—a centre through which both force and energy flow in [page
731] order that the vision may be materialised. This force and energy is, in
the last analysis, directed by a Master, by a group of three senior initiates
and by another group of lesser initiates, thus representing (in each Ashram) a
miniature of the planetary government. These step down the inflowing energy so
that accepted disciples can handle it safely and act as distributing agents.
The energy with which the Masters
work comes from Shamballa;
the forces with which They work are provided from within the Hierarchy itself,
and just in so far as the accepted disciples react to the combined forces will
it be possible for them to be used in service. In other words: the initiated
disciples in a Master's group focus the inflowing energies; the accepted
disciples, through the medium of their souls, focus the force which the Master
directs outward into the world of men in conformity with the Plan of the
Hierarchy, working in accordance with the revelation, coming from Shamballa.
(DINAI 732) The Master of an Ashram and the senior
initiates in His group are responsible for the relation between Shamballa and the Hierarchy. Accepted disciples and the lesser initiates
are responsible for the relation between the Hierarchy and Humanity. Thus the
great chain of the Hierarchy of Being is preserved inviolate.
An example of what Shamballa energy is not,
using the will-to-love as an example
(DINAI 736) The will-to-love involves the recognition of limitation, of desire, of
the forcing of an issue and of the intense aspiration really to love. It does not indicate the inflow of
Shamballa energy
through the medium of the soul whose intrinsic nature is spontaneous love.
Where there is a determination to be [page 736] loving, certain
attitudes—either natural and belonging to a developed personality or forced
through attention to soul behest—emerge. The disciple knows that he lacks love,
because he is constantly finding himself isolated from and not identified with
others; he is irritated by others: he is critical of his brothers, either
feeling superior to them or looking at them and saying: "Here they are
wrong and I am right; here they do not understand and I do; I know them but
they don't know me; I must be patient with them," etc., etc. Throughout
this phase, the attitude is definitely that of the will-to-love, coupled to a
deep realisation of the handicaps to the expression of love presented by those
others and presented also by one's own habits of thought. This is all a form of
self-centredness. The true way to love is to reflect and meditate deeply and
constantly upon the significance and the meaning of love, its origin, its
expression through the soul, its qualities, goals and objectives. Most of the
reflection carried on by the aspirant is based upon his innate realisation that
he does not really love in the spontaneous, free way of the spirit. The
disciple is, therefore, thrown back on a self-centred position in which he
feels: "Now I am loving; now I am not loving; now I must try and
love." Yet all the time none of these attitudes is really true love nor is
their result a loving expression because the disciple is identified with
himself and focussed in the personality. Love is never worked up, if I might put it so, in the lower
nature; it is a free
unimpeded inflow from the higher.
Love is spontaneous and carries ever the free spirit
of Christ. I would suggest that there has never been a better description of
the nature of love than that given by the initiate Paul, even though the
translation of his words is faulty at times. Study those passages in the New
Testament in which he defines love. Give up emphasising the will-to-love and emphasise in your own consciousness
the need of others for understanding, compassion, interest and help. The usual
loneliness of all disciples is frequently incidental to the fact of the
self-centredness of all those whom they
contact and the intense preoccupation of the neophyte with his own
growth. The cry of the neophyte is: "Tell me. Tell me. Then I will change.
I will accept anything that is said but tell me." The cry of the disciple
is: "Aid [page 737] the work. Forget yourself. The world needs you."
So many disciples are still shut up within themselves, hidden behind the wall
of the personal self and little true out-going love is present. Until they
break through and truly love, their usefulness is impaired.
(DINAI 745) These two related points are not in
reality two separated activities, except as they emerge in the consciousness of
the disciple upon the physical plane and express his objective and his
subjective life. They are incident to his having to work in time and space and
through the medium of a physical brain. The second point of focus should be in
reality an externalisation of the inner point of tension. In these words, you
have the key to the true science of discipleship, to the developing relation of
the human centre and the hierarchical. It concerns also the work of the Buddha and the Christ, as They represent the point of tension at Shamballa and in the
Hierarchy.
Most disciples are not working from a point of
spiritual tension, but from a point of personality focus—a step forward indeed
from that of the average unthinking person but one to which they cling unduly
long. As long as a man is focussed in his personality, the point of spiritual
tension will evade him. He will be driven by personality aspiration and not by
ashramic force and this focus in form will lead to trouble both to the
individual aspirant and to his group. Spiritual tension, as a result of
complete dedication of the personality to the service of humanity, stimulates
and empowers but does not evoke the lower life of the personal self.
(DINAI 748) Chelas on the thread employ a peculiar
technique, according to their ray; they work always through the head centre. By
means of this centre, they sound out the call (an inaudible call, from the
physical plane angle) which (vibrating along the thread) reaches the Master.
These techniques are, however, taught directly to the disciple by the Master
when He recognises His chela's right to the privilege. I cannot give these
techniques direct to you. When you are "on the thread," you will
inevitably have the information given to you.
This thread is not the antahkarana but a linking
thread of living light. This the Master projects as the disciple's service
evokes a response from Him. This evocation, however, increases its potency as
the disciple builds the antahkarana between the personality and the Spiritual
Triad. The chela on the thread eventually has the life thread (one aspect of
the antahkarana) connected with this ashramic thread and hence the establishment of monadic control of the individual which (in its group
form) signifies the control
of the Hierarchy by Shamballa. The lesser and the greater relationship must ever be borne in mind.
The energy of Shamballa is not a quality,
but that of which quality is an emanation
(DINAI 754) You can see, therefore, that the Hierarchy
itself is only a great Ashram with a triangle at the centre, composed of the
Christ, the Mahachohan and the Manu. Symbolically speaking, this triangle
constitutes one radiant centre, for the radiatory activity of each of these
Great Lords is such that They are swept into each other's auras in such a way
that there is a complete blending and fusing. Every Ashram radiates some one
major quality according to the ray of the Master at the centre; in the same way
the Hierarchy radiates the quality of the second divine aspect, just as the all-inclusive Ashram (to which we give the name Shamballa) has the
outstanding characteristic of the first aspect, life itself. This is not a quality, but that of which
quality is an emanation.
The first aspect of the triad of a Master
is responsive to Shamballa energy
(DINAI 756) 3. The radiation which comes from the
atmic level or the will aspect of the Spiritual Triad. This is the emanatory
expression of the capacity of the Master to enter into the Council at Shamballa, to register the
purpose of God and to work with the Plan, which is the expression, in any given cycle, of the
working out of the divine Will. This aspect of the Master's radiatory activity
is of so high a nature that only the advanced initiate-chela can register it.
It is transmitted into the physical consciousness of the disciple along the
following lines:
a. The atmic permanent atom or the focus of the
spiritual will, the first
aspect of the Spiritual Triad.
b. The sacrifice petals of the egoic lotus.
c. The etheric vehicle in its highest aspects.
d. The head centre.
e. The centre at the base of the spine, which is
aroused into activity in response to the vibratory radiation of the other four
points of transmission.
(DINAI 757) Some day, it will be all "realised
Hierarchy" for the Hierarchy is but a state of consciousness with the life aspect, Shamballa, at the centre, and the circle of humanity constituting
the emanating factor, the radiatory influence or the aura, whereby the other
kingdoms in nature are evoked into responsive activity.
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(DINAI 766) In the same way, a constant consideration
of the permanent atoms and of the spirillae would lead to an intensification of
[page 766] the form life and to the tyranny of force as it flows through them.
There are undoubtedly analogies and correspondences that could be worked out in
connection with the spirillae in the microcosmic life and the planes and
subplanes of the macrocosm with a possible subsequent relation of both to the
seven centres, microcosmically understood, and the seven planetary schemes,
macrocosmically understood. But the goal for the majority of aspirants is not
to limit their consciousness by a concentration upon the minutiae, such as the
permanent atoms and the details connected with the individual form nature. The
objective of each aspirant is to expand his consciousness to include that which
lies beyond himself, to attain to the more elevated states of consciousness in
the life of the group and of humanity, and to integrate himself consciously
into the Hierarchy, eventually
into Shamballa, and occultly to "know" God in His many phases of all-inclusive extension and
perfection.
(DINAI 768) The significance of the word "heart"
is the significance of life itself, as it beats eternally at the very heart of
the universe. Within that life, the initiate now consciously stands, realising
himself not so much as being a recipient of life, but as a distributor of life.
This is a very different thing and holds the key to this stage of discipleship.
The "Master's Heart" is a technical term, indicating the sources of life and many
analogous interpretations. There is at this stage and after a certain major
initiation, a direct line of energy or of life—sensed, recognised, active and
utilised—between the conscious disciple and
1. The disciple's heart centre.
2. The heart centre in the head.
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3. The egoic lotus, which (until the fourth
initiation) is the heart centre of the monadic life.
4. The Master at the centre of His group.
5. The Christ, the heart centre of the Hierarchy.
6. The life of the Monad which begins to make itself
felt at the third initiation.
7. The Lord of Life Himself, the heart centre of Shamballa.
The will aspect of the Monad is Shamballa
(DINAII 7) A group of disciples must be distinguished,
as I already told you, by pure reason which will steadily supersede motive,
merging eventually into the will aspect of the Monad, its major aspect. It is, technically speaking, Shamballa in direct relation with Humanity. What,
therefore, is the group will in any ashram or Master's group? Is it present in
any form vital enough to condition the group relations and to unite all into a
band of brothers—moving forward into the light? Is the spiritual will of the
individual personalities of such strength that it negates the personality
relation and leads to spiritual recognition, spiritual interplay and spiritual
relation? It is only in consideration of these fundamental [Page 7] effects of
standing as a group in the "head's clear light" that it is
permissible for a disciple to bring into the picture personal sensitivities of
thought, and this only because of a group temporary limitation.
(DINAII 60) In this deciding judgment Sanat Kumara is being aided by certain Members of the Great Council at
Shamballa, by the
Christ and by the seven Masters Who are responsible for the seven groups of Ashrams. He is also reaching certain conclusions as
to the groups of disciples who have hitherto been under training during the
final stages of the Path of Discipleship. This decision has to take under
advisement the rapidity with which the entrance of men and women into the
Ashrams can take place; it is also dependent upon the members of the Ashram moving
forward according to their degree, and upon the power of the Ashrams to absorb
and assimilate the much larger numbers, without upsetting ashramic stability.
He has also to consider the ability of the neophyte under training to take and
hold the far greater tension necessarily incident to true ashramic life in the
New Age.
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These points are all being most carefully considered,
because a major expansion of the Hierarchy as a whole, and the consequent
reaction upon humanity, again as a whole, is not a thing lightly to be
undertaken. Expansion—if it is to be safely undertaken—must proceed hand in
hand with consolidation. The expansion now contemplated in the highest quarters
will greatly alter the potency of the relation of the Hierarchy to Humanity,
and therefore of the second divine aspect to the third. Can Humanity take this
increased potency correctly and safely? Will the aspirants of the world—if
given opportunity to pass off the Probationary Path on to the Path of
Discipleship—be stable enough to stand steady under the impact of hitherto
undiscerned spiritual energy? Can the Masters, under the pressure of Their
enormous task of world reconstruction, find the needed time to increase Their
training of Their disciples? For They are still governed by the time equation
where Their disciples are concerned. Can the senior members in any Ashram
relieve to some extent the pressures upon the Masters as well as upon the
incoming and junior, and therefore inexperienced, disciples? If, however, the
relation between the Hierarchy and Humanity is thus strengthened and there is
freer access in both directions, there will clearly emerge the invocational
pull or the magnetic potency of these blending centres: the pull will be upon Shamballa, which is the highest centre of all.
(DINAII 63) Though Sanat Kumara is naturally unaware of the individual disciple or
aspirant, He is not unaware of their massed effect, quality or status. Contact
and relationship are based upon vibratory reaction, and the potency of the united
vibration of the disciples and aspirants of the world is today—for the first
time in human history—strong
enough to reach Shamballa. This is a new and very interesting fact.
(DINAII 65) The difference between such disciples as
you and the more advanced initiates is that your basic orientation is different
to that of the Masters. They
are oriented to Shamballa;
They are relatively unaffected by affairs and happenings in the three worlds,
even though that is the sphere wherein Their work lies; there is nothing within
Them to react to these phases of planetary livingness. Disciples and all
initiates below the third initiation are oriented to the Hierarchy. Not the Council Chamber at Shamballa or the
Way to the Higher Evolution engrosses their attention, but the life of the Ashram with which they
are affiliated and the Way of Initiation. This is a useful point to bear in
mind. There is much in them which can and will react to qualities and events
within the three worlds, and—from the angle of the human consciousness—life for
them is very difficult because the dualism of existence is apt to produce
violent strain.
(DINAII 104) It would be of benefit to you also to
consider the Masters' Ashrams as expressions of the highest type of
constructively functioning groups. There exists amongst its personnel a complete unity of purpose and an utter dedication (without any
reservations, as far as the disciple involved is concerned) to the furthering
of the immediate ashramic enterprise. The [Page 104] position of the Master at
the centre of the group has no relation to that of a teacher at the centre of a
group of learners and devotees, such as we have learned to recognise in this
Piscean Age. He is the centre simply because through the quality of His
vibration, through karmic ancient relationship and through the invocative
demand of disciples, initiates and some aspirants, He has gathered them
together in order to further the ends of His ashramic enterprise; He has not
gathered them together in order to teach them or to prepare them for initiation
as has hitherto been taught. Aspirants and disciples prepare themselves for the
processes of initiation by becoming initiated into the mysteries of divinity
through discipline, meditation and service. You need to bear in mind that a
Master of an Ashram may, for instance, attract to Him other Masters of equal
rank as His Own. I have
five Masters working with me in my Ashram. It would be of value to you if you considered the
factors which hold an Ashram together and which establish its unity. The major
ones, and those which you can understand, are as follows:
A Master of an Ashram has earned the right
to communicate directly with the Council at Shamballa
1. The most important capacity of a Master of an Ashram is that He has earned the right to communicate directly with the
Council at Shamballa and
thus to ascertain at first hand the immediate evolutionary task which the
Hierarchy is undertaking. He is not called Master by the initiates in His
Ashram; He is regarded as the Custodian of the Plan, and this is based on His ability to "face the greater Light
which shines in Shamballa." It is the Plan which gives the
keynote to the activities of any Ashram at any particular time, during any
particular cycle.
2. This unanimity of purpose produces a very close
subjective relationship, and each member of the Ashram is occupied with making
his fullest possible contribution to the task in hand. Personalities do not
enter in. You will remember how some years ago I told you that the personality
vehicles are ever left outside the Ashram—speaking symbolically. This means
that the subtler bodies of the personality have perforce to follow the same
rules as the physical body—they are left outside. Remember also that [Page 105]
the Ashrams exist upon the plane of buddhi or of the intuition. The joint
undertaking and the united adhering to the desired and arranged cyclic
technique binds all members of the Ashram into one synthetic whole; there is
therefore no possible controversy or any emphasis upon individual ideas,
because no personality vibratory quality can penetrate in the periphery or the
aura of an Ashram.
3. The planning and the assignment of tasks connected
with the enterprise in hand is carried forward through the medium of an
ashramic, reflective meditation, initiated by the Custodian of the Plan. The Master of an Ashram does not say:
"Do this" or "Do that." Together, in unison and in deep
reflection the plans unfold, and each disciple and initiate sees occultly where
he is needed and where—at any given moment—he must place his cooperative
energy. Note my wording here. The members of an Ashram, however, do not sit
down for a joint meditation. One of the qualities, developed through ashramic
contact, is the ability to live always within the field of intuitive
perception—a field which has been created, or a sphere of energy which has been
generated, by the united purpose, the combined planning and the concentrated
energy of the Hierarchy. An analogy (but only an analogy, however) would be to
regard this field of reflecting, reflective and reflected energies as
resembling the brain of a human being; this brain reflects the impacts of
telepathic activity, the sensory perceptions and the knowledges gained in the
three worlds; reflection then sets in in relation to the mental processes which
are synchronised with the brain, and then follows the impartation of these
reflections to the outside world. The ashramic reflective meditation is an
integral part of the constantly developing perception of the disciple-initiate,
and it (in its turn) is a part of the whole hierarchical reflective meditation.
This latter is based upon inspiration
(in the occult sense) from Shamballa. The moment a disciple can share in this constant
unremitting meditation or reflection without its interfering with his service
and his other lines of thought, he becomes what is called "a disciple who
shall no more go out."
4. Another factor productive of group unity and
synchronous precision in working is the complete freedom of the Ashram from any
spirit of criticism. There is no tendency among its personnel to be critical
and no interest whatsoever in the outer, personal lives of the members, should
they be amongst those functioning in the three worlds. Criticism, as seen among
men, simply is a mode of emphasising the lower self and deflects the attitude
to the material aspects of a person's life. There is necessarily clear vision
among the members of an Ashram; they know each other's capacities and
limitations and they know, therefore, where they can complement each other and
together create and present a perfect team in world service.
5. One other factor I will mention among the many
possible: The members of an Ashram are all in the process of demonstrating love
and pure reason, and they are—at the same time—focussing themselves in the Will
aspect of divinity. This statement may mean little to you at present but it is
fundamentally the factor which creates the higher antahkarana, uniting the Hierarchy and Shamballa. This makes the planetary purpose of so
much importance.
These are the major factors which produce group unity;
they have, as results, telepathic rapport and intuitive perception; but these
are effects and not causes and are the product of the measure of the attained
group unity.
You can see, therefore, the scientific reason I had
when I urged you in past years to have a group enterprise, for it is a major
unifying factor, and the inner Ashram with which you are affiliated stands to
you (at your particular point of development) as Shamballa stands to the Hierarchy—from the angle of dynamic inspiration. Had
you done this (which you did not) the group would not have fallen apart—as it
has done. Had you eliminated criticism, the essential unity would have been
strengthened. One of the reasons I had for the complete frankness and so-called
exposure of your individual weakness and limitations to the group as a whole
was to train you in the light of pure perception which knows the reason [Page
107] why and sees with clarity the ends in view. Where true perception exists,
criticism is automatically eliminated.
(DINAII 135) This threefold spiritual reality (which
is the "impressing agent") is the goal of the presented meditation
work. It is not in this case the soul, whose impression upon the mind is that
of love, its manifestation and its place in the Plan of the Hierarchy. The
source of the impression to which you now seek to be sensitive is the Spiritual
Triad, and the quality of the impression is the will, as it implements divine purpose.
I am therefore indicating a far more advanced stage, and I do so for two
reasons: One is that for years the effort of all of you has been towards the
registering of soul contact and the expression of loving understanding; you are
familiar with what the Hierarchy (of which my Ashram is a part) seeks to
accomplish, and there is nothing to be gained by a constant reiteration of the
familiar. I am, secondly, [Page 135] outlining procedures, meditations and
objectives which will be of use to those who come after you and who will be the hierarchy of workers at the close
of this century and during
the first quarter of the coming century.
I stated that one significance of this symbol is that
it stands for the triplicity of
1. The Ashram,
2. The soul on its own plane,
3. The disciple upon the physical plane,
whilst the square represents humanity; that this is
frequently spoken of as the "city which stands foursquare," and is
familiarly referred to in modern literature and discussions as the "city
of man."
In considering the higher point of the triangle, which
is the Ashram, I would remind you that radiation from Shamballa enters the triangle at that
point and that,
through the Ashram, will, purpose and strength can pour. This is a relatively
new achievement within the Ashrams of the Masters. In the major group Ashram
(which is the Hierarchy itself) this reaction to impression from Shamballa is arrived at as the energy pours in, via
the two Great Lords, the
Manu and the Christ.
It is also registered by Their senior disciples, the Chohans and initiates of the sixth initiation, such as the Masters Morya and Koot Hoomi.
Lately the Master R. has taken the position of Mahachohan, and that achievement
has carried the entering force down into the ranks of those Masters Who have
taken the fifth initiation thus enabling Them to step down this Shamballa force to Their individual
Ashrams. This
happening has produced a tremendous stimulation with all the attendant
opportunities, manifestations, and dangers. Masters such as myself have had to learn to handle this
great potency, and at
the same time to make as much of it as we can (safely and wisely) available to
our senior disciples.
It might be said symbolically that "the point of the triangle is based in the
courts of Heaven (Shamballa) and from that point two streams of power pour forth into the [Page
136] realm of soul and into the heart of the disciple. Thus is the Triad
formed; then are the energies related unto the world of men; thus can the will
of God appear, and thus can the Great Lord Who guards the Council Chamber of this sphere of solar Life carry His
purpose to the holy groups (the Ashrams. A.A.B.), and thence into the minds of
men, and this because their hearts are safeguarded by the fire of love."
Ponder upon this ancient writing: It refers to the cycle immediately
confronting us, of which the work I am at this time seeking to do is but a tiny
living part.
Therefore, as you prepare for the meditation process
which you will undertake during this coming year, start by a consideration of
the Ashram of the Hierarchy itself, of its relation to Shamballa, of its constitution, formed as it is of many
Ashrams. Some of these are working under the Chohans; others are working under
the Masters, and some are embryonic as yet, being gathered slowly together by
Adepts of the fourth initiation. Will you endeavour to realise the factual
nature of this great, living, spiritual organism? It constantly
"substands" or underlies the world organisation. See it as a growing,
vital reality, of such life and potency that it can break through or break up
all limiting outer organisations and, by the very force of its interior life,
eventually externalise itself.
This coming externalisation of the groups which
constitute the Ashrams of the Masters (not yet of the Chohans, because they are
still basically too potent) will be a gradual process, but it will in time
restore the Mysteries, bring the first two initiations into a relative
prominence as integral parts of the coming world religion, familiarise the
whole of mankind with the fact of the subjective world, and finally bring the
most developed of the sons of men into a faint glimmer of understanding of the
essential Reality underlying all phenomena, and give some grasp of the purpose of Shamballa and the
will of the Lord of the World. Humanity has now reached a point of development where there is a
definite grasp of the Plan of the Hierarchy—call it brotherhood, sharing,
internationalism, unity or what you will. This is a growing and factual
apprehension and is a general recognition [Page 137] by the thinkers and
esotericists of the world, by the religious people of enlightenment, by broad
minded statesmen, and even today by the man in the street; divine purpose,
however, implemented or engineered by the divine will, eludes as yet the most
advanced.
The work of the next few centuries will bring about
changes in this respect, and these changes will be brought about by the work
done in the Ashrams of the Masters, guided by the Ashrams of the Chohans,
welded together in the great Ashram of the Hierarchy itself, and moving ever
into closer relation with the great Council Chamber of Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World, in
Shamballa. This has to
be brought about on Earth by disciples, acting under instructions such as I now
give you and by their prompt collaboration with their Masters. The doing of
this will invoke the creative imagination of the disciple, and this, in its
turn, will be conditioned and controlled by the illumined mind.
A second stage comes when the disciple, having
considered the Ashram as outlined above, and having thereby imaginatively "fixed" the fact of Shamballa in
his consciousness,
turns his thoughts to the Hierarchy or to the soul. Remember always that the
Hierarchy is simply the world of souls, that it is consciously aware of the
Plan, sensitive to the purpose, and creatively and constantly impressing
humanity with the aim in view of expanding the human consciousness. Of this
your soul—in its pure nature—is a part. You will therefore think of the
Hierarchy; you will attempt to vision its work, and you will endeavour to
relate yourself to my Ashram by an act of faith and of will which is, in this
case, the sublimation of the personal self-will; you will also take your position
as a conscious, integral part of my Ashram, and consequently of the Hierarchy.
Such is the duty of all disciples. You have had much instruction as to the
Ashram and I need not further enlarge.
The third point of the triangle (as far as your work in this meditation is concerned)
comes into the light of your reflective consideration. You will now turn your
attention to yourself, the soul, the conscious disciple in preparation for that
expansion of consciousness which is the next step in [Page 138] your spiritual
unfoldment, leading eventually to initiation. This reflective consideration you
do, not from the angle of the consciousness of your imperfections,
qualifications or capacities, your failures or your successes, but entirely
from the angle of cooperation
with the Plan, with the divine Will and Purpose. It is with these highest aspects that
the disciple is asked to cooperate.
It is not possible for the individual disciple in any
Ashram to cooperate in all phases of the Master's work, and it is not possible
for you, for instance, to cooperate in every phase of the work in my Ashram
which I have outlined in my pamphlets (and which has been summarised in the one
entitled My Work). But it is possible for you to choose some phase of that plan
and give it your paramount attention.... These activities can—if adequately and
strongly carried forward—aid in the esoteric work of the world and the exoteric
rehabilitation of right human relations....
The fourth stage of the meditation work is concerned
with the square which—for the purposes of our work—we will
simply regard as the field of service and of experience—experience in work and
not individual life experience.
You will note that this description of the meditation
work, which I am asking you to carry forward for a year at least, is based upon
the three previous meditations; these sought to bring the etheric body with its
various force centres into such a condition that it could become receptive to
impression, and cooperate thereafter actively; through the alignment exercise
you endeavoured to bring that organised instrument of service into contact with
the source of inspiration and the source of impression, i.e., the Ashram and
the soul. Now we are in a position (theoretically at least and dependent
individually upon the successful action of all work previously done) to begin
the task of bringing through the inspiration and impression consciously, by
determined contact with their sources. I will therefore briefly outline the
work, asking you to do it after close study of all that I have written above:
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I. The Stage of Recognition.
1. Recognition of your pledged discipleship.
2. Recognition of your equipment, gratefully rendered.
3. Recognition of your achieved alignment.
4. Recognition of the soul, the source of love-wisdom.
5. Recognition of the Hierarchy.
All this should be done very rapidly, holding the
consciousness steadily in the mind, and not in the head. It presupposes an
immediate mental focussing of the disciple at the very beginning of his
meditation work.
II. The Stage of Consideration.
1. Of the Ashram as a whole, i.e., of the Hierarchy as
the Ashram of Sanat Kumara. You will see, through the use of the creative
imagination, all the
Ashrams in close contact with Shamballa as:
a. Responsive to the Purpose, implemented by the Ashrams of the Chohans.
b. Impressed by the energy of Will as the great Ashram energises its component parts—the various
Ashrams within its periphery of influence.
c. Vitalising the initiates and disciples who are
affiliated with the Masters and working in Their Ashrams.
d. Reaching out, through the accepted and pledged
disciples, into the world of men.
Then you will say with purpose and determination:
"I strive towards comprehension. Thy will, not
mine, be done."
All the above section of your meditation work concerns
purpose, will and the
"destiny" of Shamballa, to use an old occult phrase.
2. Of the world of souls which is the Hierarchy in
relation to this world of men, and of in relation [Page 140] to Shamballa as in the first part. This involves:
a. A study of the nature of the hierarchical effort,
as it is expressed through love.
b. A conscious identification with the Plan.
c. Dedication to the work originating in the Ashram
with which you know yourself to be in touch, seeing it all as an integral part
of the hierarchical work.
Then you will say with love and aspiration:
"I strive towards understanding. Let wisdom take
the place of knowledge in my life."
3. Of yourself as a unit in my Ashram. This will
involve:
a. Recognising which aspect of my planned work you are
equipped to do.
b. Determining how to do it.
c. Considering the factor of preparation for eventual
initiation, as a means of increasing your capacity for hierarchical
cooperation.
d. Energising by light, faith, love and power, the
spiritual centre within which you serve and the ashramic projects for which you
accept responsibility. In this instance it can be the
"I strive towards cooperation. Let the Master of
my life, the soul, and likewise the One I seek to serve, throw light through me
on others."
III. The Stage of Fixed Determination.
A statement made by you, the soul, the disciple, to
the personality:
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"In the centre of the will of God I stand.
Naught shall deflect my will from His.
I implement that will by love.
I turn towards the field of service.
I, the Triangle divine, work out that will
Within the square and serve my fellowmen."
If you can do this work correctly, you will not only
greatly increase your own realisation, service and understanding, but you will
definitely be cooperating in the task of externalising the Ashram and
furthering the work of the Hierarchy (from the foundation angle in relation to
the New Age), and so aid in bringing in the new civilisation, the new world
attitudes and the new world religion.
(DINAII 157) The final stanza of the "Invocation for Power and
Light," as it is
called in the Archives of the Masters, is apparently simple. It has, in these
Archives, an indicatory
symbol beside it which
indicates the era or period in human history during which it can and should be
used. It is interesting to us to note that the evolution of humanity is in line
with the indicated timing. This Invocation will have a potent appeal to
mankind. My considered advice is that in its presentation to a definitely Christian public (as for instance to the ecclesiastics of
all denominations) the third
verse in the stanza be changed and that its last line should read: "The Purpose which the Master knows and
serves," or
perhaps "which
disciples know and serve."
The word "disciple" is an inclusive word, in the hierarchical sense;
it is, at the same time, one easily recognised by the orthodox but offers no
limitation to the esotericist. It covers every grade of human aspirant from the
newly accepted disciple up to and inclusive of the Christ Himself. Let me here
quote the Invocation:
From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.
From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.
From the Centre where the Will of God is known
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Let Purpose guide the little wills of men—
The Purpose which the Masters know and serve.
From the Centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out.
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.
Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on
Earth.
Each of the four stanzas refers to one or other of the three aspects of divine
energy, plus a
reference to humanity itself in which the three meet, are potentiality in
latency, and finally develop into the full flower of divinity, with all three
lines perfectly expressed. Hence, my brothers, the intensity of the human
conflict—a conflict unparalleled in any other differentiation of the divine
Life. In humanity all lines and aspects meet. This is a fundamental of the
occult teaching. The subhuman kingdoms find their consummation in humanity, and
the superhuman kingdoms their opportunity, and through the human kingdom all
superhuman lives have at some time passed. This you well know.
In the first three lines you have reference to the Mind of God as a focal point for the divine light.
This refers to the soul of all things. The term "soul," with its
major attribute of enlightenment, includes the anima mundi, the animal soul,
the human soul, and that consummating point of light which we regard as the
"overshadowing" soul of humanity. It is an aspect of the divine
manifestation to which that great Son of God refers when (as Shri Krishna) He
remarks, "Having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of Myself,
I remain." That fragment is the soul of all things. That soul brings light
and spreads enlightenment.
In the second three lines, the Heart of God is evoked and the focal point of
love is considered.
This "heart" of the manifested world is the Hierarchy—that great
transmitting agency of love to every form in the divine manifestation. Upon the
essentially "loving nature" of the Hierarchy I need not dwell; too
much has been written about it; too little understood; too much has been talked
about love and not enough has been realised as to the task confronting the
Hierarchy [Page 159] as it transmits love. Love is an energy which must reach
the hearts of men and which must fecundate humanity with the duality of
loving-understanding—that is what is expressed when love and intelligence are
brought together.
In the third three lines, we find reference to Shamballa—"the Centre where the Will of God is known"—the centre from whence the Hierarchy draws
its life, as it draws its impulse towards service from humanity. You well know
that there is indication in these lines that humanity itself cannot as yet
grasp the purpose of Sanat Kumara. Only advanced Members of the Hierarchy and
initiates of at least the third degree (the first degree of the Lodge on
Sirius) have any idea as to the nature of the purpose which underlies the Plan. Ponder on that phrasing.
Having invoked the three aspects or potencies of Mind,
Love, and Will, in the fourth
three lines we have indication of the anchoring of all these powers in humanity itself, in "the centre
which we call the race of men." Here and here alone lies the promise of
the future and its hope and opportunity. Here and here alone can all the divine
qualities—in time and space—express themselves and find fulfilment: here and
here alone can love be truly born, intelligence correctly function, and the
Will of God demonstrate its effective goodwill. Through humanity, alone and
unaided (except by the divine Spirit in every human being), can the "door
where evil dwells be sealed." It is not Sanat Kumara who seals that door;
it is not the Hierarchy which forces evil back into the place from whence it
comes. It is struggling, aspiring and suffering humanity to whom the task is
committed and, my brother, humanity is adequate to the task.
This statement is borne ever in mind by Those most potent in using the Invocation; it serves to focus and anchor the invoked
energies in the human kingdom. That is Their task. From that point, humanity
takes over the undertaking.
This Invocation is also unique in the sense that it
invokes all the three divine aspects. It is synthetic in its approach. This is
the first time in human history that this has been done. Hitherto the
development of mankind did not warrant such an utterance.
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In Lemurian times, the third divine aspect, that of
Intelligence, was invoked by the mass appeal of instinctual animal-man; he
little knew what that almost inchoate appeal would invoke. Light appeared on
Earth and true progressive enlightenment became possible. I am not here
referring to physical light, but to the light of the intellect.
In Atlantean days, as a result of the strife between
the Lords of Light or of the Shining Countenance and the Lords of the Dark Face
(as they are called in the ancient Scriptures and in The Secret Doctrine)
another "era of invocation" occurred and the second divine aspect of
Love became a possible unfoldment, though still only an embryonic quality of
mankind. The mass appeal was then more intelligently voiced, though the
instinctual appeal still persisted. It was not intelligence, however, as we
understand the term.
In our Aryan cycle, another great invocative cry is issuing forth. It is
this time a threefold cry. It is the cry for light upon our way and for light
to flow into the dark places of the Earth; it is also a cry for more love in
the world as voiced by the men of goodwill and of humanitarian attitudes: it
is, finally, the intuitive appeal of the aspirants and the disciples of the
world for the full expression in time and space of the will-to-good—the Will of God. Average instinctual humanity, the men and
women of goodwill, and the disciples of the world are all concerned in this
invocation, bringing in the attributes of instinct, intelligence and intuition.
All three are blended in this great Invocation. Have also constantly in mind
this basic fusion, now finding voiced expression, and take courage from the
massed approach to the Source of all Life, Love and Light. Nothing can
withstand the united demand of men everywhere in their graded and their serried
ranks.
This entire Invocation refers esoterically to the "raincloud
of knowable things" to which Patanjali refers. It is that impending,
overshadowing and revelatory storehouse of energy which is the immediate cause
of all events on Earth and which indicates the emergence of that which is new
and better and progressively right. The events and happenings thus precipitated
demonstrate the moving onward into [Page 161] greater light of the human
consciousness. These "knowable things" are the sources of all
revelation and of all human realisations—cultural and leading to what we call
civilisation. Their "condensation" (if I may use such a word) is
brought about by the massed invocative appeal of the entire human family at any
one period. This appeal has been, on the whole, projected unconsciously, but
more and more it will be consciously voiced. Results, therefore, can be
expected more rapidly and prove more effective. This raincloud is formed
through the joint action of the Central Spiritual Sun, working through Shamballa, and humanity itself, working hitherto
through appeal to the Hierarchy, but increasingly making its own direct appeal.
(DINAII 162) 3. By the steady progress of humanity, en
masse, towards the light. This in time produces in humanity itself a quality
and a vibration which make themselves felt. This quality and this vibration are
essentially evocative.
Today this "raincloud of knowable things"
has condensed or brought together energies which have been made available by the Spirits of
Restoration, Reconstruction and Resurrection. These now available energies are—on a larger scale
and of a higher nature—similar to those which the individual soul (paradoxical
term) makes available to the personality when that personality is ready for the
Path of Probation or of Discipleship. These energies are far more potent
because they are, in their turn, a precipitation of energies which have been
placed at the disposal
of Shamballa, plus
energies and forces generated by the Hierarchy. Extra-planetary forces can now
be utilised on Earth, owing to the forward progress of our planet and its
relation to the solar system as a whole.
There has never been a period in our planetary history
in which opportunity has
loomed so large or
when so much spiritual light and force could be contacted and utilised by
humanity.
(DINAII 163) The first indication of this massed and
available energy produced coordination of the New Group of World Servers upon
the physical plane.
[Page 163]
The second indication produced a pronounced cleavage
between the forces of evil and the Forces of Light; this cleavage resulted in
the world war (1914-1945) and initiated the seething emotional and psychic
turmoil in which humanity today finds itself.
The third indication was the release of atomic energy and the discovery of how to transmute
energy into matter and matter into energy.
(DINAII 169) You will already have noted—as you have
studied the Invocation—that the three major centres in our planet are linked up: Shamballa, "where the Will of God is known," the Hierarchy, where Christ rules
and from whence He seeks closer contact among men, and the centre which we call
Humanity. There is a close relation between the first stanza and the final one;
humanity's destiny is, as you know, to be the exponent of the mind of God, thus
expressing active intelligence, motivated by love and implemented by will. That
time has not yet come, but if human timing is correct and right desire is
potent enough, for the first time in human history this destiny can be publicly
recognised and people can be swept increasingly and voluntarily into an
activity which is particularly their own destiny. That again is one of the
primary objectives of the Invocation; its steady use will bring about an
inclusive view of spiritual development and impart a synthesis to human
thinking which has hitherto been lacking. As "light streams forth into the
minds of men" the divine plan will be more widely sensed and the
will-to-good will be more widely desired and invoked.
(DINAII 172) Those of you who are disciples will
easily see the significance of the third stanza. Its meaning is that the
Invocation as used by the Hierarchy (note this) will help to bring about the
evocation of the spiritual will in humanity and the recognition of the divine
will by the Hierarchy. There is little that can be said to the general public
anent this third stanza. They will interpret it in all simplicity as a prayer
that the human will can be brought into conformity with the divine will, even
though that may not be understood. Even from the angle of the Hierarchy, the
divine will as it is essentially remains the great mystery, but in spite of
that They can and do "know and serve" the purpose; the purpose is
that aspect of the divine will which seeks immediate expression on Earth. The
Hierarchy is the distributor of energy—the energy of love. Therefore, as the
purpose of the will of God (known and understood in the Council Chamber of Shamballa) seeks to
influence human will,
it is an expression in hierarchical terms as the will-to-good and in human
terms as [Page 173] goodwill, as loving determination or as a fixed intention
to bring about right human relations.
(DINAII 184) Nine is, as you know, my brother, the
number of initiation. It presupposes the alignment of three different
triplicities;
1. The threefold Personality.
2. The three aspects of the Soul.
3. The Spiritual Triad.
When these have been correctly aligned and the
resultant integrity has been stabilised and fully accepted, the disciple then
becomes a Master; He is now ready to tread the Way of the Higher Evolution.
There is then a direct channel of contact—whenever needed and desired for
service—with the physical brain and also an alignment or unimpeded relation
between:
1. The disciple and Humanity . . . . . . The throat or
creative centre in the planetary sense.
2. The disciple and the Hierarchy . . . The heart
centre of the planetary Logos.
3. The disciple and Shamballa . . . . . .The head
centre of the planetary Logos.
These are great and abstruse esoteric facts. The use
of the Invocation will likewise relate human beings within the ring-pass-not of
humanity itself; it will bring the human centre en rapport with the Hierarchy,
creating a free interplay between the two of them and thus making possible the
appearance of the
(DINAII 190) The Horizontal Life
1. Unity. As a result of his successful vertical life,
the disciple feels himself at-one with all life in all forms and with humanity
in particular.
2. This works out naturally in understanding. Because
there are absolutely no barriers present, and there is also no realisation of
difference, the disciple can "tune in" on the life in all forms, and
therefore enter into a full measure of inclusiveness, with all that that word
implies.
3. His motivation is that of goodwill, which is a
growing potency as the will-to-good (which he contacts indirectly in the
Ashramic life) begins to affect him. Ponder on this statement. The goodwill of
the masses is based on innate divine tendency; that of the disciple is based on
knowledge and receptivity to certain energies from Shamballa.
4. This goodwill—as it is released—produces a normal
expression upon the physical plane.
(DINAII 195) In the total evolution of the spiritual
man through physical incarnation during untold hundreds of lives, the entire
process is simply one of expanding consciousness and of attaining—sequentially
and stage by stage—an ever more inclusive awareness. This is good to bear in
mind, for eventually all this symbolic picturing will give place to reality.
The task—and it is a real one—of building the antahkarana and creating that
which will bridge the gap is in truth the planned and conscious effort to
project the focussed thought of the spiritual man from the lower mental plane
into areas of awareness which have been sensed but not contacted; it entails
using the totality of the awareness already developed and already
"enlightened" by the soul, and (with deliberation) making it
increasingly sensitive to the focussed activity of the world of the higher
spiritual realities; it is directing the stream of conscious thought towards
the sensed and theoretically recognised world of the Masters, of the Spiritual
Triad and, finally, of
Shamballa. Disciples
should remember [Page 195] that the Higher Way of Evolution is far simpler than the lower way, and that therefore the
teaching on the significance and the meaning of the antahkarana—which is the
first creation of the soul-infused personality acting as a unitary being—is far
simpler than that relating to the personality in the three worlds of human
evolution.
“the concentrated clear and dynamic
invocation of the spiritual Beings Who have created—or more accurately—have
formed Shamballa, is the highest form of meditation possible upon our
planet”
(DINAII 197) In this paragraph you have indicated the
spiritual, meditative way of life of the individual disciple in relation to his
own soul, and later to the Ashram; you have the group way of life, as it
penetrates into the Hierarchy, and you have also the hierarchical technique
which enables that great Group to penetrate into a still higher spiritual
centre and bring down from Shamballa that understanding of divine Purpose [Page
197] which will precipitate as the hierarchical Plan; this will enable the
Hierarchy to form a great serving group. No matter how high you may go in the
scale of being, you will find—from the fourth kingdom of nature onward—that the
technique of meditation governs all expansions of consciousness, all
registration of Plan or Purpose and, in fact, the entire process of
evolutionary unfoldment. It is a technique of spiritual apprehension, of
focussing attention on some level of consciousness or other, and also of
originating modes of contact.
The entire Science of Invocation and Evocation is
contained in the word "meditation"; this science ranges from the
subjective, unconscious appeal of the inchoate, voiceless masses, through many
phases, until it attains that high mode of scientific invocation which governs
the contact made in the Council
Chamber of Shamballa
with extra-planetary sources of spiritual inflow. It is through meditation in
some form or another that contact is made; this again is progressive in nature.
The formulated idea of the unspiritual man to make a contact with that which
will later condition his life and lead to a betterment of his daily life in a
material sense, or which will make living possible, is perhaps the lowest
aspect; the brooding, experimental thinking of the scientist or artist is
another form of meditation and higher in purpose and in intention, and this
meditative process is better formulated and has (if you think correctly)
definite group implications. The mode whereby the Members of Hierarchy and the
personnel of Their Ashrams arrive at an intense spiritual perception, and
arrive also at a selfless
formulation of the divine Plan which will implement divine Purpose in the
world, is likewise an
expansion of all previous meditations; whilst the concentrated clear and
dynamic invocation of the spiritual Beings Who have created—or more accurately—have
formed Shamballa, is the highest form of meditation possible upon our planet.
In the Hierarchy, meditation takes two
major forms-and is also the technique whereby the Masters prepare for the sixth
initiation
(DINAII 199) In the Hierarchy, meditation takes two major forms, and [Page 199] (you must remember) in
that great spiritual Centre meditation is an instinctual habit and needs no
forced process:
1. Meditation is that which sets in motion
hierarchical response to the invocative appeal rising from the three worlds,
and mainly to the invocative appeal carried forward consciously by all who
pray, all who make mystical appeal and all who employ the method of occult
meditation and direct invocation.
2. Meditation is the instinctual mode whereby the Hierarchy—in response to the invocation from the
three worlds—approaches
the higher Centre, Shamballa; then the Hierarchy evokes the energies, the Beings and the spiritual
inflow which hierarchical service in the immediate future requires. It is also—in
a unique sense—the technique
whereby the Masters Themselves prepare for the sixth initiation, thus conditioning the Path of Life upon
which They will eventually find Themselves and pass thence to higher cosmic
undertakings.
(DINAII 201) 5. The higher correspondence of the
Nirmanakayas Who find Their place in relation to Shamballa; this is analogous
to that of the Nirmanakayas to the Hierarchy.
The personnel of these groups is supplied from the
larger groups to which they are intermediate:
1. The New Group of World Servers gathers its
personnel out of the great planetary centre called Humanity.
a. The more advanced members of the group are
affiliated with some Ashram within the ring-pass-not of the Hierarchy.
b. The greater Ashram, composed of many Ashrams, is
the fulfilled production of the New Group of World Servers, down the ages. This
is a statement full of important implications.
2. The Nirmanakayas gather Their personnel out of the
Hierarchy, the second great planetary centre. Their relation to Shamballa is not one of affiliation, nor is it the same as that of the New
Group of World Servers to the Hierarchy. Their major relationship is with the
Triangle of the Buddhas of Activity, and it is under Their creative inspiration
that They work. This stream of inspiration or of "energy flooded with
creative light" is made available to the Hierarchy at all [Page 202] times
and when needed for Their creative work; it is a part of that dynamic,
galvanising energy which feeds the enthusiasm of the New Group of World
Servers, binds them together in the One Work, and enables them to work
intelligently and with creative ability.
A mysterious body affiliated with Shamballa
called the “Reflecting Lights”-they implement the Purpose of the Lord of the
World
The point which I seek to emphasise, and which I hope
will remain in your minds, is that this technique of meditation is the
outstanding creative agent on our planet. When you, as an individual, are
endeavouring to "build the new man in Christ" which will be an
expression of your true spiritual self, meditation is, as you well know, your
best agent; but the meditation process must be accompanied by creative work, or
else it is purely mystical, and though not futile, is nevertheless negative in
creative results.
(DINAII 206) The effect of that reflective vibration
is both vertical and horizontal, and this wide diffusion has led to the
formation of that major group of contemplatives, the Nirmanakayas; They focus the hierarchical invocative
appeal and (to quote the Old Commentary) "put it into the musical form
which will please the ear of the One Who dwells in the highest plane." They then transfer the focussed received
energies—after due reflection and contemplation—to Shamballa. One of Their functions is to relate the
invocative appeal of the Hierarchy to karmic law, and thus determine "in
the deep silence of Their united work" what can be possible because it
does not infringe upon karmic intention, and what is not yet possible in time
and space—those two major factors which are governed by karmic law. They have
to bear in mind that the time has not yet come and "the karmic era cannot
yet demand that demanded good become accomplished good."
so Shamballa is carrying out its intentions
(as far as humanity is concerned) through this group of Nirmanakayas
The members of this group are also transmitters to the Hierarchy of the
response evoked from Shamballa. They are constantly in touch with the Council Chamber at Shamballa. Just as the Hierarchy—in this present
cycle of world endeavour—is working through the New Group of World Servers, so Shamballa is carrying out its intentions (as far as humanity is
concerned) through this
group of Nirmanakayas.
This all connotes a great centralisation of the work in connection with the
reappearance of the Christ.
You can see, therefore, that a gigantic group
meditation is going on in many differing phases upon our planet. All the
meditating units and the reflective groups are related to each other through
unity of spiritual motive; they are seeking closer cooperation and endeavouring
to bring their meditation work—consciously or unconsciously—in to a state of
positive universal quiet, so that the formulation of spiritual desire can be
carried successfully forward, and the reception of spiritual energy can be a
united reception.
Therefore, brother of mine, a great effort towards
alignment is going on, and when the individual aspirant can so [Page 207]
meditate that his voice can reach the New Group of World Servers, that group
can then impress the individual; through him humanity can be reached. It can
also impress the Hierarchy; then the Contemplatives Who are in touch with Shamballa can contact the Hierarchy, and through the
Hierarchy can impress the New Group of World Servers; then, and only then, the
moment will arrive when the Christ will come.
(DINAII 209) There are, as you may surmise (if you
have read my instructions intelligently), seven phases of the creative
meditative process; all of them are productive of the required results. All
that at present exists in the three worlds and in the higher spheres is the
result of some form of meditative activity. These seven sources are:
1. The planetary Logos Himself, Who formed and
informed the world by His thought, and Who holds all together within His Mind
for the many, many aeons of manifested existence. As I have before said, the
occult truism that "God thought, God visualised, God spoke and the world
was made and is sustained" remains eternally true.
2. The Group which is
the higher
correspondences of the Nirmanakayas. This group sustains and cooperates with the
planetary Logos in His concentrated creative thought; its Members are the
agents for attracting—through the potency of Their meditation—those
extra-planetary energies [Page 209] which He needs to carry forward His vehicle
of expression, the planet, and thus to bind all together into one great created
Whole, tending ceaselessly to the greater glory of God. They wield the Law of
Synthesis and hold steadfastly (in the universal Mind of the Logos) the
ultimate result of the divine
Will-to-Good.
Council Members think and meditate only in
terms of the Whole
3. Shamballa, with its life and intention focussed in the Council Chamber of the great Lord, Sanat Kumara. Here is known and embodied the Purpose of
the planetary Logos
under the meditative impression of the group which knows His will and which wields the Law of
Synthesis. In the
hands of this august Council, the Law of Karma finds adequate planetary
guidance; this does not refer to the law as it affects the individual human
being because of such individuals the Council Members have no knowledge, for the reason that They think and meditate only in terms of
the Whole; but They
know the nature of planetary karma and of its delayed or rapid application,
according to transient planetary indications. The great Wheel of Life, with its
passing manifestations and its recurring civilisations, is directed by Them;
the manifesting kingdoms in nature, great cyclic expressions of life, are
controlled by Them, and all this is produced through the potency of Their
creative meditation which impresses the needed inspiration (another phrase for
the breath of life itself) upon the Nirmanakayas and through Them upon the
spiritual Hierarchy. Their link with all these planetary groups (and it is real
and vital) can be grasped in the key statement that "all Lives upon or
within the aura of the planetary Logos and of His manifested Body, the Earth,
have been, are or will be in the future human being, thereby establishing and
demonstrating their past, present or future identity with humanity, the fourth
kingdom in nature." This kingdom is the planetary group or centre which
expresses in time and space all the divine aspects—sometimes in latency and
sometimes in potency. Here lies the clue to the entire mystery of divine
guidance, and here is also to be found the guarantee of the divine
Will-to-Good.
The Nirmanakayas receives impression from
Shamballa as to planetary creative purpose
4. The Nirmanakayas,
the divine Contemplatives. This is the receptive group which receives impression from Shamballa in relation to the planetary creative purpose. Then They, on Their own level of atmic
activity, build—through contemplative meditation—a vast reservoir of potent
energies which are impregnated with the qualities of the seven energies of the seven planetary Rays.
They are the
Custodians of life, under the direct inspiration of the Buddhas of Activity, and They spend the aeons of Their
planetary service:
a. In active contemplation of the divine Purpose.
b. In a developed receptivity to that aspect of the
Purpose which must be expressed through the medium of the divine Plan, and thus
presented to the Hierarchy.
c. In developing that spirit of sevenfold receptivity
which will make Them a channel
for the inflow of ray energies from Shamballa into the Hierarchy. Their united aura or area of influence and
the extent of Their magnetic and dynamic radiation correspond roughly to the
aura of the planet itself; They contain (within Their ranks) Members Who are identified
with the Lords of the seven Rays.
They are, in a peculiar sense, the creative agents of life as it streams forth from
Shamballa into all the
aspects, areas, kingdoms and fields of manifestation. This They are enabled to
do through sustained, concentrated, intensive and dynamic meditation. They are
necessarily a second ray group (as the second ray is the ray at present of the
planetary Logos) but They focus Their meditation largely along first ray lines
(which is a subray of the second ray in this solar system, as you know) because
They are the creative agents of life itself and the knowers and the custodians of the will of
the planetary Logos, as
it works itself out in manifestation. They are the source in reality [Page 211]
of planetary invocation and evocation. Again, ponder on this.
The Masters are subject to impression from
Shamballa via the Nirmanakayas
5. The Hierarchy of Masters, the Masters of the Wisdom
and the Lords of Compassion. This group, which stands midway between Shamballa and Humanity, is subject to impression from Shamballa, via the
Nirmanakayas, and its
Members are Themselves the agents for the impression of Humanity. They embody
and express the love aspect of the divine purpose; They wield, direct and
control the Law of Attraction—the motivating energy which swings the Law of
Evolution into activity in the three worlds. Much is known by you anent this
group of divine and spiritual Workers, and I will not enlarge upon it here.
Basically, They work through directed meditation and each Ashram is a centre of
meditation to which every disciple, initiate and Master contributes. I would
have you bear this in mind and endeavour to realise, as disciples, that your
meditation—both individual and group meditation—if it is of an adequate nature
and quality—will be absorbed into and become part of the ashramic meditation.
The theme of the hierarchical meditation is the Plan, as it embodies the divine Purpose.
Each individual Ashram as a group can
approach the Nirmanakayas, and does so at the new and full moons of the year
The Hierarchy as a whole is required to
approach Shamballa-and they do this as a group three times a year-at the april,
May and June Festivals/full moons-all these contacts are particularly potent if
there is a solar or lunar eclipse
(DINAII 217) 7. Ashramic Meditation. This is based upon the evocation of human response
to the higher spiritual values; it concerns itself with the creation of those
conditions wherein these new values can, under the divine Plan, flourish; it is
focussed on that immediate aspect of the Path which humanity needs to tread,
and its intent is to swing into creative activity the desires, aspirations,
[Page 217] reflections and concentrated meditation of men, at whatever may be
their particular point in evolution, so that a mighty, coherent and invincible
movement will be instituted which must and will result in the creation of the
new heavens and the new earth. This is one way of expressing the significance
of the coming of the
There are crisis points at times of superlative
tension in the meditative work of all hierarchical Ashrams. At the times of the
new moon and of the full
moon, all members of
all the Ashrams meditate deeply in an invocative and evocative manner; their
meditation, therefore, falls into two parts: the first part is evocative of inspiration from the
Nirmanakayas with Whom
they deliberately get in touch; the second part is invocative of the New Group
of World Servers and enables them responsively to come under hierarchical
impression. Three times a year—at the April, May and June Festivals* —there is
a united hierarchical meditation led by the Christ; these Festivals are invocative of Shamballa
or of that which lies beyond the Nirmanakayas and can only be safely carried forward in
united meditation, under directed guidance and the highest possible
inspiration. Each Ashram can approach the Nirmanakayas as a group at stated
periods for which due preparation is made; only the entire group of Ashrams,
the Hierarchy as a
whole, can approach Shamballa. The New Group is invocative to the Hierarchy for purposes of
impression and can be impressed by any Ashram through its disciples in that
group; thus the great chain of contact and the great channel for the inflow of
spiritual energy reaches from Shamballa to humanity and then, through humanity,
to the three subhuman kingdoms; in this way, these lower kingdoms are
"enlightened and raised." All this is accomplished through meditation,
through invocation [Page 218] and evocation, carried forward in the spirit of
worship, which is the fundamental method of spiritual recognition. Thus,
creatively, the glory which is hidden in every form is evoked and slowly
brought to exoteric manifestation.
(DINAII 223) The Lord of the World, through meditation, is carrying forward processes
which He instituted in His original, creative meditation—back in the darkest
night of the time when [Page 223] He decided to create this planet of ours for strictly
redemptive purposes. The whole creation is the result of His directed and
controlled thought—a process of sustained thinking which sweeps all the
creative energies into evolutionary and cyclic activity, in conformity to the
pattern which He eternally visualises. He has organised a group which is
responsive to His meditative intention; these Beings aid Him by Their
concentrated and realised Purpose to bring into our planetary livingness
certain extra-planetary energies which are needed to carry forward the planned
work of the planetary Logos. Shamballa itself is also permeated with His thought and conscious (if I may speak
symbolically) of that which the Logos has visualised. They are the Custodians of His Purpose, as it is revealed to Them, cycle by
cycle. The length of
these cycles is one of the mysteries which is strictly guarded in the Council
Chamber of the Lord of the World; these cycles have reference only to manifestation in
the three worlds wherein the concepts of time and space control.
The Hierarchy is the Custodian of that
aspect of the cyclic, planetary Purpose which is called the Plan-therefore it
is important to discriminate (if such a thing is legal in the 21st
century) between the planetary purpose managed by Hierarchy and the Plan managed
by Shamballa
The Hierarchy is the Custodian of that aspect of the
cyclic, planetary
Purpose which is called the Plan; this covers such relatively brief periods as
civilisations—where humanity is concerned. In relation to Shamballa, the
intermediate group of meditating, creative Workers is called into activity in
order to receive impression of the immediate, desired hierarchical activity, to
transmit the needed energies from Shamballa to the united Ashrams and thus, esoterically,
"inform" the Hierarchy of that which merits immediate attention.
(DINAII 233) I have been for some time seeking to
impress upon you the eternal fact that the entire universe has been created and
its evolution processed through the power of thought, which is only another
word for controlled meditation. This covers the combined meditation of numerous
subjective, spiritual and mental groups; the laws of this meditative work are
the result of certain mental determinations, which embody the will of the planetary Logos and are imposed upon all lesser groups of
lives by Those Whose task it is to wield the divine laws and enforce them.
Freedom of the will is here to be noted in relation to the Time concept but not
in relation to the final and inevitable divine results at the end of the immense
world period. The major thoughtform of the spiritual Hierarchy, created by
joint ashramic meditation, is called by us the Plan. The basic purpose of Sanat Kumara is revealed
from cycle to cycle by His Agents in Shamballa, and is by Them impressed upon the minds of the senior
Members of the Hierarchy. They, in Their turn, make this impression the subject
of Their ashramic meditation, adapting its various concepts and the outlined
purpose to a most carefully formulated Plan, presenting—as far as humanity is
concerned—seven aspects or phases of evolutionary development and endeavour,
according to the work desired of any Ray Ashram implicated at any particular
time. Each Ashram thus undertakes meditation upon the general Plan and thus (if
you could but realise it) each initiate and disciple finds his place and sphere
of activity and service—from the very highest initiate to the least important
disciple.
(DINAII 256) An illustration of this is the fact that
to the esotericist of the past little was known of the seven Rays and the seven
ray types, and naught
had been given out anent Shamballa. Now the world of instructed disciples is slowly
awakening to these newer values and truths and to the sevenfold source of life
expression; the Will of God is going to take shape consciously in the minds of
men in the future in such a manner that the old truths will condition and
control as never before, but will drop automatically below the threshold of
consciousness and the new emerging values and recognitions will take their
place in the surface consciousness of all disciples—and their name will be
Legion.
(DINAII 258) I have stated that initiation is
essentially a process of revelation. For the disciple who is being prepared to
take an initiation the emphasis is necessarily laid upon recognition—the
intelligent recognition of what is to be revealed. This requires on his part a
definite emergence from the world of glamour so that there can be a clear
perception of the new vision; a new light is thrown upon old and well-known
truths so that their significance is extraordinarily [Page 258] changed, and in
that changing the plan or purpose of Deity takes on an entirely fresh meaning.
The inexperienced neophyte is constantly receiving revelations and recording
what he regards as most unusual intuitions. All that is really happening,
however, is that he is becoming aware of soul knowledge, whereas for the initiate the intuition is ever the
revelation of the purpose of Shamballa and the working out, both from the short range and the
long range angle, of the
divine Plan. The
revelation which is accorded at initiation is given to the soul, recorded by
the "mind held steady in the light" and then later—with greater or
less rapidity—transferred to the brain. You can see, therefore, the true
intention of the system of Raja Yoga as it trains the mind to be receptive
eventually to the Spiritual Triad. You can also see why for centuries the
emphasis of the Teachers of the Ageless Wisdom has been upon the necessity for
discrimination, particularly where the probationary disciple is concerned.
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(DINAII 259) I am at this time carrying the current
teaching upon initiation a step forward and am seeking to show that it is not essentially
a process of soul-personality fusion (though that has to be a preliminary step)
but of monad-personality integration, carried forward because of an attained
alignment with the soul. Initiation is in fact the essential and inevitable
process of transferring the primary triplicity of manifestation into the basic
duality of spirit-matter. It is the "dissolution of the
intermediary," and to this the crucifixion and death of the Christ was
dedicated and intended to be the revelation, to the initiates of the past 2000
years, of the transmutation of the trinity of manifestation into the duality of
purpose. I cannot word this in any other way but the enlightened will
comprehend my meaning. The interpreters of the Gospel and many disciples of the
Christian dispensation have singularly failed to grasp this revelation; they
have laid the emphasis upon the death of the personality, whereas when Christ
experienced the "great void of darkness" and chanted aloud the occult
mantram "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me," he was
recognising simultaneously the distinction between His "robe of
glory" (symbolised by the [Page 259] partition of His garment by the Roman
soldiery) and also calling the attention of all future disciples and initiates to
the disappearance of the "middle principle," the soul; He was
projecting (into the world consciousness) the recognition which must come of
relation to the Father or the Monad. This great dissolution is culminated for
us at the time of the third
initiation when the Light of the Monad obliterates the light of the soul and
the material atomic light
of the threefold personality. But—and here is the point—the recognition of this
death and its effects is only symbolically enacted and recognised at the time
of the fourth initiation, the Crucifixion. All lesser dissolutions, deaths,
renunciations and disappearances of that to which the lower nature holds and is
held are enacted in relation to the accustomed aspects of form-life, and of
conscious sensitivity and awareness; they are simply preparatory to and
symbolic of the final great dissolution of the causal body, consummated at the
Crucifixion. This leads to the resurrection or uprising of the personality-soul
consciousness (duly fused and blended) into that of the monad. This is finally
carried to the point of solar perfection at the Ascension initiation.
I have given you this teaching in terms of the
Christian presentation as it may be simpler for you to grasp, but there are
many other formulations and approaches to these truths and the newer they are
the more difficult necessarily are they to present. Only those who are on the
immediate verge of initiation will understand; the others will prefer to
interpret these truths to themselves in the easier and well-known formulas of the
preparatory stage of the at-one-ing of soul and personality.
The stage of recognising the revelation which is accorded to the initiate of the major
Mysteries is itself divided into lesser phases. These might be described as three in number though much is dependent upon the
initiation to be taken and the ray of the prepared disciple. These are:
1. The Stage of Penetration. This refers to the
piercing through the world glamour and thereby effecting two objectives:
[Page 260]
a. The Light of the Spiritual Triad streams into the
consciousness of the initiate, via the antahkarana, so that the Plan for
humanity and the divine Purpose in relation to the planet become increasingly
clear. This initiates
relation to Shamballa.
b. Part of the world glamour is thus dissipated and
thus a clarifying of the astral plane takes place and humanity is consequently
served. Every disciple who arrives at a recognition of the initiate-revelation
releases light and dissipates a part of the glamour which blinds the mass of men.
The sixth ray disciple takes far longer over this stage of penetration than do
disciples on the other rays but only in this world cycle.
2. The Stage of Polarisation. This is the stage
wherein the initiate, having let in the light and penetrated through the dense
fogs and mists of the world of glamour, suddenly realises just what he has done
and takes a firm stand, correctly oriented towards the vision (or to word it otherwise towards
Shamballa). One of the
things which must be grasped is that as the initiate is a point of hierarchical
life (either on the periphery of the Hierarchy, or within the circle or at the
centre) he is a definite part of the hierarchical effort. That effort is
directed towards an orientation to the greater centre of life—Shamballa. Students are apt to believe that the
orientation of the Hierarchy is towards humanity. That is not so. They respond
to human need when the demand is effective, and are custodians of the Plan; but
the orientation of the entire hierarchical group is towards the first aspect,
as it expresses the Will
of the Logos and manifests through Shamballa. Just as the disciple has to do two things: polarise
his position by establishing right human relations and at the same time become
a conscious, practising member of the Kingdom of God, the Hierarchy, so the
initiate—upon a higher turn of the spiral—has to establish right relations with
the Hierarchy and become simultaneously conscious of Shamballa.
All I can impart here is the desired point of
attainment [Page 261] but the phraseology is relatively meaningless, except to
those who are experienced in the processes of initiation to a greater or less
degree, according to the initiations already taken. This polarisation, this
point of focussed effort and this attained orientation is the basic idea lying
behind the phrase "the
The Will of God is the key to Shamballa
3. The Stage of Precipitation. Having thus identified himself through penetration
and polarisation with the Plan and with the Will of God (which is the key to Shamballa), he then proceeds—as a result of this
triple recognition—to do his share in materialising the Plan and in bringing
through into outer manifestation and expression as much of that Plan as he can.
He thus becomes first of all an outpost of the Hierarchy (which of necessity
means sensitivity to the
Shamballa energy), and
then increasingly an Agent of Light—the Light universal, or the Light of the
Monad.
I have no more to say today anent initiation. Ponder
upon that which I have given and grasp as far as you imaginatively can the
magnificence of the initiatory process—so vastly more inclusive than has been
indicated by any of the teaching given hitherto. After the war is over and the
new world, with its coming civilisation and culture begins to take shape, an
increasing emphasis will be laid upon the purpose of the Controlling Deity or
basic Life or Energy as it is working out through humanity.
This will be done by those who are trained esotericists. Much that is now being
said by world leaders and serving workers in every nation is an indication of
an unconscious response
to the Shamballa energy.
Towards the end of the century and during the first few decades of the
twenty-first century, teaching
anent Shamballa will be given forth. The effort of the abstract mind of man will be
towards the comprehension of this, just as the [Page 262] goal of hierarchical
contact marks the present effort of the disciple. Glamour is disappearing;
illusions are being dissipated; the stage of penetration into a new dimension,
into a new phase of effort and of attainment is rapidly being promulgated. This
is being done in spite of all the horror and agony and will be one of the first
results of respite from war. The war itself is shattering illusions, revealing
the need for change and producing a demand for a future new world and a coming
beauty in living which will be revolutionary and a material response to an
intensive initiation process in which all disciples can share and for which advanced
aspirants can prepare themselves.
(DINAII 268) Formula Five . . . Deals with the Will
aspect. It is concerned with the revelation of divine Purpose, and is therefore related to Shamballa.
(DINAII 273) I have used the exoteric symbol of the
flag to convey to you a hint as to the esoteric meaning of this very simple but
most potent form. Four words, or rather phrases, are found written, deep in the
metal, around each side of the square:
These words convey the highly inadequate and even
unsuitable translation of certain phrases in the ancient Sensa which are
intended to convey the essential union, the related synthesis and the
cooperative understanding which will some day distinguish a humanity, composed
of many aspects which are nevertheless expressions of the One Life. They are,
however, related to or expressions of monadic groupings or universal
recognitions, and not of soul consciousness. My difficulty in explaining the
higher meaning of the external simplicity of these phrases is great; you can only
arrive at them yourself as you ponder the only three interpretations possible
to you at this time: the individual application of the symbol, its national
application, and its human application, remembering always that the clue to
comprehension lies in the recognition of a "higher Way," of the
existence of the "higher evolution," of the light which is distinctive of Shamballa, and of the use of the antahkarana, as it
by-passes (if I may use such a term) the soul and so carries the human, yet
spiritualised consciousness into the realms of hierarchical experience in
relation to Shamballa.
POINTS OF REVELATION
This almost brings us automatically to the third
aspect of preparation for initiation which I called in an earlier instruction
the "presentation of points of revelation." These formulas, when
rightly studied and eventually somewhat apprehended, at least intellectually,
carry the disciple to the point where that which is
new, hitherto unrealised and for which no words exist, is suddenly contacted.
It is at this point of revelation and in relation to
this symbol that the initiate eventually stands. Then the "many lines of
force within the square become the seven paths of light which claim His choice,
leading Him on to the sevenfold Path of initiate evolution." This is the
Way of the Higher Evolution of which man knows nothing. The words refer to the
seven paths which the Master has to consider and from which He has to choose
His future Way. Then the symbol takes on the following form:
(DINAII 278) The third hint I gave you was intended to
suggest that it was the duty and the responsibility of the disciple, working
under the inspiration of the Ashram, to "modify, qualify and adapt"
the proposed plan of
Shamballa (for which
the Ashrams are responsible) in connection with the coming civilisation and
culture. There is an "art of spiritual compromise" which must be
learnt and which it is difficult to master, because it negates fanaticism,
requires a trained and intelligent understanding of applied measures and truth,
and also negates evasion of responsibility; it involves also a comprehension of
the time equation, of differing points in evolution, plus experience in the
process of discarding the outgrown and unnecessary—no matter how good it may
appear to be.
(DINAII 288) c. Under this Law of Sacrifice, Sanat
Kumara (to express the idea in occult terms) "must turn His back upon the
Central Spiritual Sun, and with the light of His Countenance irradiate the path
of the prisoners of the planet." He sentences Himself to stay for as long as
may be needed, "acting as the Sun and light of the planet until the Day be
with us and the night of pralaya descends upon His finished task." Thus
and only thus can the light of the Central Spiritual Sun begin to penetrate the
dark places of the Earth; when this happens all "shadows
disappear"—an occult reference to the all-embracing radiance of the Monad
as it absorbs both its reflection, the soul, and its shadow, the personality.
Here DK actually describes how the world of
Shamballa
The initiate, on his tiny scale, achieves a
paralleling [Page 288] expression of the Law of Sacrifice; he eventually turns his back upon the courts of Shamballa
and upon the Way of
the Higher Evolution as he retains his contact with the Earth and works as a
Member of the Hierarchy for the extension of the will-to-good among men, and
therefore among all the lesser evolutions.
(DINAII 293) Then later, upon the Path of Initiation,
the initiate develops his tiny correspondence to the planetary "All-seeing
Eye." He unfolds
the powers of the Monad.
These are related to divine purpose and to the world in which Sanat Kumara
moves and which we call
Shamballa. I have
impressed upon you elsewhere that the state of being of the Monad has naught to
do with what we call consciousness; in the same way, there is naught in the world of Shamballa which is of the same nature as the
phenomenal world of man in the [Page 293] three worlds, or even of the soul
world. It is a world of
pure energy, of light and of directed force; it can be seen as streams and centres of force, all forming a
pattern of consummate beauty, all potently invocative of the world of the soul and of the world of
phenomena; it therefore constitutes in a very real sense the world of causes
and of initiation.
(DINAII 301) 1. That the great changes being brought
about in the Hierarchy, and in order to make the work of the New Age adequate
and to establish a closer rapport with Shamballa, have been the result of the work done by the working
disciples of the world. Why the working disciples, brother of mine, and not by
the Masters? A hint ever evokes a question, and it is in the answering of these
questions that the disciples learn and eventually become Masters.
The relationship between the Universal Mind
and the Purpose as understood by Shamballa
(DINAII 307) Little
as you may realise it, these words "Points of Revelation" summarise a
most definite technique in the training of disciples for initiation. All life
is intended to take the form of a progressive series of awakenings. Progress,
movement, awakening, expansion, enlightenment, evolution, growth—these words
are but a few of those applied to the effects, both within and without, of the
creative process. What is this creative process but the working out into
progressive demonstration of the divine intention as it assumes form? This
intention is a fully comprehended scheme in the Universal Mind; we call it Purpose when considering the grasp by Shamballa of the
synthesis of this comprehensive intention, [Page 307] and we call it the Plan when considering
the work of the Hierarchy in bringing this Purpose as fully as possible into
expression.
(DINAII 314) In my last instruction to you I dealt
with some aspects of the new approach to discipleship and to initiation; it is
essential that the old concepts—profoundly useful in their day—should be
forgotten and the newer methods and techniques should be substituted. This is
now necessary on account of the surprising unfoldment of the human
consciousness during the past twenty-five years. The steps taken at the Conclave in Shamballa in 1925 (based on tentative conclusion at the
previous centennial Conclave) and the pressures exerted by the Hierarchy have
proved most successful, and out of the chaos of the world war (precipitated by
humanity itself) there is developing a structure of truth and a paralleling
responsiveness of the human mechanism which guarantees the perpetuation and the
rapid unfoldment of the next stage of the teaching of the Ageless Wisdom.
(DINAII 326) c. Again: Initiation can now be taken in
group form; this is something entirely new in the work of the Hierarchy. Not
one by one do candidates stand before the Initiator, but many so stand
simultaneously. Together they can think in complete accord; together they are
[Page 326] tested, and together they reach the "point of triumph"
which supersedes the "point of tension"; together they see the
"Star shine forth," and together the energy emanating from the Rod of
Initiation fits them for the reception of specialised energy, to be later used
in their future world service. This group approach, this group intention, this
"group silent reticence and vocal recognition," and this group
dedication and vision are no longer in the experimental stage. This group
achievement (I refer not here to your particular group which has not been
outstandingly successful) marks the point where there can be the inauguration
of a new phase of
activity in Shamballa.
This will enable the Lord
of the World to become the Ruler of a Sacred Planet which, up to date, has not been the case.
Our Earth can now become a Sacred Planet, if all right conditions are
fulfilled. A new divine quality (as yet unrevealed and which we would not at
this time recognise if presented with it) is slowly crystallising into
expression, through the medium of this hastened initiation process. Disciples
are today witnessing the emergence of a solar characteristic, through the
medium of their planetary Logos, just as the "Lives of similar
Intention"—as it is esoterically called—witnessed it many aeons ago. It is
to this unknown and mysterious quality that the "shining forth" of
the Star refers.
(DINAII 335) If you consider the many apparent
failures in my experiment in forming an external group affiliated with my
Ashram, and as demonstrated in the book Discipleship in the New Age, you may
well wonder why on earth
I chose such a group of people or why I chose to make myself aware of their thinking, faults and
failures. I will tell you.
From a survey of one thousand years which I have been enabled to make (as are all the
Masters), everyone of these people shows a definite soul intention, all are
definitely oriented in their personality life to the spiritual world, and react
to soul control correctly—if at times quite feebly. The soul has them in a true
grip, and that grip has become a stable and persistent hold. Therefore, in
spite of serious faults, and in spite of pronounced personality qualities of
undesirable nature, and in spite of wrong emphases, these people were and are
ready for training. Their failings and faults will disappear more rapidly than
you imagine under the influence of the soul—as the dew disappears under the
morning sun. The enterprise of the Masters to substitute group initiation in
place of the laborious process of individual initiation is proving successful,
even though it is still in the experimental stage.
The "cycles of interest," or those periods
in which the Masters pay close attention to the quality aspect of mankind, are
also being speeded up; the "gauging" process will take place now every three hundred years,
instead of every one thousand years, as has been the case until
The result of this more frequent watchfulness on the
part of the Hierarchy has been shown in the confidence with which the Masters
have undertaken to prepare people for initiation.
This decision to do so, and permission having been granted from
Shamballa, certain
matters came up for consideration. Most of them would naturally be too abstruse
for your comprehension—which is seated in the mind and brain instead of in the
soul and heart. It is obvious that if initiation is a physical plane affair,
requiring recognition in the brain consciousness, the disciples must be in
physical incarnation together, and by this I mean within the ring-pass-not of
the three worlds which are the dense physical planes of the cosmic physical
plane) for a sufficiently long period of time to test their reactions, as a
group, to the concept of group initiation and to each other as participants.
For a great part of this time there must also be a physical plane life, shared
by all in the group; this need not involve similarity or identity of location,
but must involve similarity of world affairs and civilisation. This physical
plane necessity is—as you will perceive—a test of individual integration, with
a view to group integration later on.
The sixth initiation is taken alone
(DINAII 337) Before the end of this century, thousands
will stand before the Initiator and take initiation in group form; they will
pass through the door of initiation together and together take their vows. This
statement applies to the second and the third initiations. The higher
initiations will still be taken individually or in groups of three, but not
more. When the Masters take the sixth initiation,
They perforce take it
alone at the "midway point" between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, apparently deserted by both attentive
groups. There, in complete silence and in a condition of "isolated
unity," They will make Their great decision. Then and only then will They
become aware of the vast attentive spiritual audience which has awaited Their
will.
(DINAII 345) Formula V . . . Deals with the first
aspect, with the Will. Relates to divine Purpose. Shamballa.
(DINAII 347) You can see, therefore, how definitely
all the above processes involve a planned creative activity. These ideas are
not those, however, which can be used by the uninitiated aspirant. The use,
through understanding, of these techniques is confined entirely to creative
work, carried on in accordance with the Purpose of Shamballa and not in accordance with the hierarchical Plan. The
above various stages of the fourfold process mark eventually the recognition by
the Master of divine Purpose; it is also shown how that purpose is revealed in five stages, requiring in addition two final
revelations of major importance.
(DINAII 352) Approaching this subject from another
angle, the mental polarisation of the disciple seeking entry into the
hierarchical sphere of work is producing a unification of initiatory effort
which is new in the spiritual history of the planet and which is the first step
being taken at this time upon inner and subtle planes to bring about certain
great "Crises of Initiation," involving simultaneously all the three major planetary centres—a thing hitherto unknown. Up to 1875, initiation was a sequential process as well
as largely an individual process. This is slowly being changed; groups are
being admitted [Page 352] to initiation because of a recognised and sensed
relationship which is not that of disciple and Master (as heretofore), but
which is based on initiate-relationship in group form, and which is present
between Humanity, the
Hierarchy and Shamballa.
It is this spiritual and subtly sensed relationship which is today finding
physical plane expression in the worldwide effort to establish right human
relations.
Initiation is no longer regarded essentially as the
moving of a human being who has accepted certain disciplines and made certain
self-determined progressive advancement in consciousness into closer contact
with the Hierarchy and a group within the Hierarchy; that angle of it will
rapidly become a thing of the past. It is the moving forward of an entire group
of spiritually-minded disciples and initiates into new areas of the divine
consciousness and into a closer rapport with the Mind of the Lord of the World.
This the disciples and initiates will do together, according to their degree
and their point in spiritual evolution. I refer not here to the evolution of
the form. Three things will thereby be brought about:
(DINAII 358) 2. The new energies pouring through Shamballa into the Hierarchy; these are of an extra-planetary
nature [Page 358] and have their source largely in the Aquarian quality of the
present cycle; these energies are steadily eliminating the energies of the
Piscean Age.
(DINAII 360) But in reality he is at fault, and the
case as he visions it [Page 360] is not so. He must learn to function entirely
differently. This hint is not concerned with a part which an aspirant must play
as an individual, nor does it include the factor of mental appreciation of the
qualities of his own nature. Where the true disciple is concerned, three things
are involved and condition his whole approach to this problem of human
planning:
1. Its relation to the Plan, as it has been
communicated to him within the precincts of the Ashram.
2. His ability to use a measure of the true divine Will as it pours through the Ashram from Shamballa for the implementation of the Plan, and as
constituting its directing agent.
3. The sequence of the planning as it materialises on
Earth in relation to the time factor. Three things emerge in his thinking at
this time:
a. The immediate steps to be taken in order to carry
the Plan forward, logically, practically and with the least expenditure of the
destroying aspect of the will.
b. The probable duration of the cycle in which the
Plan can progress from its inception until its fulfilment.
c. An appreciation of the unfolding pattern of which
the material planning is an expression. He needs to discover how far human
planning conforms to that pattern. He must sense where nonconformity originates
and what steps—as far as his particular point in evolution permits—the Ashram
should take to offset the distortion of the Plan. Only in this way will he
learn himself to plan.
You can see from the above what a different approach
is here involved when a disciple deals with a hint, how wide are the vistas
which are opened up, how subjective his predominating attitude must be, and how
inevitably the group relationship to the planning becomes apparent and
important to him as an individual as well as to the group as a whole.
[Page 361]
It is for this reason that disciples in an Ashram are
of no political persuasion and own to no nationalistic bias. This is not an
easy thing for them to achieve at once, but the group consciousness gradually
assumes control, and with it the disciple's ability to think and work with the
group in terms of the Plan. He grasps eventually that in relation to humanity,
the planning of the Hierarchy falls into certain definite phases of activity—all
of them related and all of them tending towards the externalisation of the Plan
in any particular century, cycle or world period. These phases are:
1. The phase of Purpose, originating in Shamballa and registered by the senior Members of
the Hierarchy.
3. Next comes Programme, wherein the Plan is taken up by the
particular ashram involved in its implementation and is then reduced to the
formative stages of human impression and direction, the conditions necessary to
bring about its emergence, and the two phases of this conditioning. These are usually
in two parts; i.e., the destruction of all hindrances and the presentation of
the Plan.
4. The emergence of the hierarchical
Pattern (based upon
the recognition of purpose, careful planning and a detailed and carefully
thought-out programme), both in the minds of the disciples in the Ashram who
are involved in the implementation of the Plan, and among the intelligentsia on
Earth. These two groups have the task—the first group consciously and the other
unconsciously—of bringing the pattern of things to be into the mass
consciousness, by no means an easy task, as the present state of world affairs
demonstrates.
5. Then comes the final
phase of Precipitation,
when all the subjective work has been done on the basis of possibility, and
when the pattern and a part of the programme are recognised by the world
thinkers in every nation, either [Page 362] favourably or with antagonism. The
planning, having reached this final stage, then proceeds under its own
momentum.
These are some of the ideas which lie behind the
particular hint which I have given to you, as far as the disciple is concerned.
According to his development and his point in evolution, so will be his
emphasis; some disciples can aid the Master in the planning process because
they are becoming sensitive to impression by Shamballa; others are engrossed in the formulation of the
programme and in imparting some of its features to more limited disciples, thus
setting them to work. A group of carefully chosen disciples are always held in
the Hierarchy to work solely with the pattern; this is a most important phase
of the work, requiring a spirit of synthesis and an ability to hold streams of
hierarchical energy under control. Disciples who are not so advanced, and who
are therefore closer to human thinking at the particular moment in history,
undertake to supervise the precipitation of the Plan. Their work is necessarily
far more exoteric, but is most responsible, because it is when the Plan has
reached the stage of human implementation that error is apt to arise and
mistakes can occur.
In every ashram are to be found those disciples whose
task it is to make the needed readjustments of the pattern and the demanded
changes in the programme as the process of precipitation goes forward. It is a
law that human freedom may not be infringed. The staging of the Plan and its
working out is, in the last analysis, an entirely human affair, once it has
reached the stage of precipitation. It is dependent upon the responsiveness of
human brains, and their recognition of need and its sources. This is a point
which should be remembered.
The above short explanation of the implications of a
hint, and particularly of Hint Two should show you how rich is the area or the
atmosphere of a hint—if I may use such peculiar phrasing; it will show you also
how hints are largely concerned with ashramic duty.
The subtler correspondences to the tangible
senses of taste and smell are related to the unfolding consciousness of those
who function in the Council Chamber of Shamballa
(DINAII 368) It is at the sixth Initiation of Decision
that Perception and Recognition of the revelation reach their heights for the
initiate. After this, the subtler correspondences to the tangible senses of
taste and smell begin definitely to demonstrate, but with them we shall not
deal, for they are effects of revelation so far removed from the possible
achievement of the majority of the Masters that they concern us not; they are
more properly related to the unfolding consciousness of Those Who function in
the Council Chamber of
Shamballa. Human
evolution or the human evolutionary process is entirely concentrated around the
sense of sight, with its consequent effects and results of vision, recognition
and perception—all of them constituting what we mean when we speak of
revelation.
The five exits are not the planetary
centres-The planetary centres are directed from Shamballa
(DINAII 371) I will endeavour (as we consider these
points of revelation) to express as far as may be this relationship of the
smaller to the great, of the part to the whole, and of the five points of
spiritual contact upon the physical plane (outlets for the energy generated in
the planetary centres) with the sum total of the means of expression. These
centres are brought into expression—as far as the points of revelation are
concerned—at their respective initiations:
1. The ajna centre.
2. The heart centre.
3. The head centre.
4. The throat centre.
5. The alta major centre.
I say not that these five exits for planetary energy are the planetary
centres, for they are
not; I say that they are the points through which the energy of a planetary
centre is directed in the service of humanity at this particular time. The centres of the planetary Logos are necessarily directed in their inflow and outflow from
Shamballa; they are
expressions of the Purpose underlying the creative evolutionary process. The
five corresponding exits are those which, in this cycle, disperse the
energy—generated by the Hierarchy, under the inspiration of the divine Purpose
and directed towards the carrying out of the Plan.
(DINAII 374) From the angle of our studies, the
revelation accorded to the initiate relates to the carrying forward of the
divine Plan upon the physical plane and to the implementation of the will of Shamballa, through the medium of disciples and
aspirants and of advanced humanity, working—consciously or unconsciously—in our
modern world.
Down upon the level of daily living, disciples are
today learning three things: the Technique of Impression, the generating of
energy, and the use of the ajna centre. Many are responsive to impression, but
fail to recognise or use the energy of which the impression is simply the
forerunner; others respond to the energy, but fail to register the Plan which
it is intended to implement, and the energy then leads to great but fruitless
activity. Still others are learning to use the centre between the eyebrows,
standing as silent and poised recipients controlling the third eye, the
directing agent of the received energy. It must be carefully borne in mind that
the energy to be used is not the energy which the disciple himself generates or
his own life force, but is something different, something which he has received
from the Hierarchy and of which he is simply the agent or channel. He has
therefore to learn to distinguish between the various energies he contacts. The initiate has to master the techniques
of differentiating between:
1. His own energy or
energies, which have
been generated [Page 375] as the result of his life experiences down the ages
or centuries.
2. His ray energy which, rightly used, conditions his work
with and for the Hierarchy.
3. The energy of the
ashram of which he may
avail himself in the process of carrying out activities—initiated by
impression. In the early stages he calls this the energy of his Master, but
learns later that it is—in reality—the energy generated by his Master's group,
the ashram.
4. Hierarchical energy
or the energy of certain associated ashrams or of the entire group of Ashrams, the Hierarchy
itself. The use of this highly qualified and most potent energy can only be
employed when the disciple has earned the right to certain privileges and can
be trusted to use the potencies correctly.
The Christ force energy is mixed with
Shamaballic energy
(DINAII 375) 5. The energy of the Head of the Hierarchy, or the Christ force, as it is sometimes
called. This force imports into the usually available energies certain
conditioning qualities which
emanate from Shamballa,
and are therefore related to the will aspect. This type of force has not
hitherto been available to working disciples but is now available, having been released at the
Wesak Festival of this year (1948). Even now it can be used only by highly trusted
disciples, and usually by those only whose rays are the first Ray of Power or
Will or the second Ray of Love-Wisdom. These will be the rays of one or other
of the two major vehicles—that of the soul and that of the personality. There
are naturally exceptions to this rule, and these exceptions will be
increasingly numerous as time speeds by; but in the present time, first and
second ray vehicles provide the line of least resistance.
The Master transmits Shamballa energy to
the disciple to begin with
(DINAII 376) The Second Point of Revelation: The Will
is an expression of the Law of Sacrifice.
The second Point of Revelation is of peculiar interest. It concerns the first contact of the initiated disciple
with the energy emanating from Shamballa and transmitted to him via the Master of the Ashram
with which he is at this time associated. He has not yet reached the stage
wherein direct contact is permitted, but still needs the ashramic protection
which the Master provides. At the indicated second initiation he receives a
quality of stimulation which enables him to "see" the astral plane as
it essentially is; with this revelation comes also the recognition of the basic
human necessity to "make it holy" or to "render whole" that
which provides the most disturbing element in the existence of mankind.
After the 3rd initiation the
initiate is tested for his fitness to work in the Will of God/with Shamballa
energy
(DINAII 384) Still another question could well be
asked: What is the [Page 384] attitude of the group during initiation if the
individual members are undergoing different initiations? Is the group integrity
imperiled? During the period of initiation, their attitude is one of focussed,
concentrated and deep meditation in which the inner attitude is given solely to
the concept of Hierarchy. The disciple is not, at this time, occupied with the
Ashram of which he is a part or with any questionings as to the nature of the
Ashram into which he is now entering as an initiate—either as an initiate of
the Earth initiations or, in the senior grades, as an initiate of the Sirian
regime. He is—during the first four initiations—entirely centred in
consciousness upon the larger Whole wherein the Ashram to which he belongs is a
part; he is attentive to the Christ, the Head of the Hierarchy, because He is
the Initiator of the first two initiations which always seem to the neophyte of
major importance. After
the third initiation he
is attentive to that "veiled Presence of awful Power Who tests his fitness for working in the
will of God." I
would ask you to note the peculiar phrasing "working in the will of
God," and to remember that that Will, centred or focussed in Shamballa, is one of the great basic energies; the
initiate has to learn to work in and through that Will. If, therefore, each
initiate in the group is conscious of the initiation next to be taken, then
subconsciously he eliminates all awareness of outer contacts and stands alone,
and yet in group formation, before one or other of the two Initiators. The
inflow of dynamic energy which comes to him through the application of the Rod
of Initiation becomes a group inheritance and serves to galvanise, integrate
and fuse the group into renewed activity and a deeper subjective union.
(DINAII 387) The "area of promise" wherein
the divine thought is projected, directed and held true to the originating
impulse of the planetary Logos is to be found on cosmic levels and remains
there unchangeably. It is that which holds Sanat Kumara, in His Council Chamber at Shamballa, standing steadfastly by all those lives
which are undergoing redemption and by all those who are the agents of the
redemptive process until "the last weary pilgrim has found his way
home." These agents are the sons of men who will—each and all—demonstrate
eventually "within the courts of Heaven" and at the place of
initiation, the nature of their high calling; they will prove to all who can
grasp the significance of the demonstration that they have only "become
again in full expression what they have always been." Now the removal of
the veils of matter permits the inner glory to shine forth and—the redemptive
work now being finished—"they can walk with glory in creative
undertakings." I am quoting some words which the Christ used (at an
initiation held not so long ago) when addressing a group of new initiates.
4th initiation-the building
aspect of the Spiritual Will, and the Law of Assembly
(DINAII 402) "Purpose itself is only an energy, released within the Council Chamber at Shamballa. There it must take shape."
This point of revelation carries the initiate to one
of the highest points of
contemplation; we are
here concerned with his sudden apprehension—at the fourth Initiation of Renunciation—of another phase of the divine,
conditioning Will. He has begun to recognise and to interpret—even though in
[Page 402] an elementary fashion compared to what he will recognise at the
ninth initiation—the destroying
aspect of the Will as
it expresses itself through the Law of Sacrifice. Now, for the first time (as a
result of destruction), he can begin to grasp the essential building aspect of this same Will and to appreciate his future function as a
creative Builder. The building here to be carried forward, I would remind you,
is not the building which is distinctive of the second divine aspect—that of Love-Wisdom.
It is strictly connected with that of the first aspect of Purpose, Power or
Will; it deals with the processes which precede the actual creative building,
the drawing up of the
blueprints (if I may
use such a term) "within
the confines of Shamballa," where high spiritual Beings must lay Their plans. This is a
different process to the creative building process, and is related to a
mysterious undertaking which is carried forward under the "Law of Assembly."
(DINAII 403) The process in which the initiate is now
permitted to share during and after the fourth Initiation of Renunciation (which is presented to him in a
successive series of points of revelation) is made possible by his submission
to the Law of Sacrifice. This, in its turn, brings his consciousness under the
influence—in developing stages—of the Law of Assembly. This is a law to which I
have not yet made reference in any of my previous instructions. The initiate
can now—through appreciated and comprehended revelation—add to his work with the
Plan and its building technique, a capacity to work with divine Purpose and
with those substances (etheric in nature) and those energies which permeate the
cosmic etheric body (the four higher planes of our cosmic physical plane) under
a law which is set in motion by the Father, but which makes the building
activity of the Son possible, so that it is utterly in line with divine
Purpose.
Another angle of this process, revealed by the point
of revelation attained in the fourth initiation, is that there is then
indicated the very highest point of the process of redemption, [Page 404] because the energies released
within the Council
Chamber of Shamballa
are "the living substance which is substitutory in nature and which is
made available to the progressing point of light." That point in the
divine consciousness which can be called (for our purposes) the Unit, Man,
redeems sequentially the substance of which all forms are made and brings into
manifestation the higher counterpart of that substance, released—for man's use—at Shamballa. This is a deep mystery and I fear it is
not possible for me to express these ideas with greater clarity. However, under
the Law of Correspondence or Analogy, the initiate can gradually come to a true
perception of the significances involved. These points of revelation emanate
from the world of significances, and not from the world of meaning; they cast
light, if truly interpreted and in due time, upon that world of meaning,
thereby redeeming and liberating the forms in the world of appearances.
You have therefore, in this suggested point of
revelation, the same three sequential methods of apprehension of truth as is to
be found in all such revelations. What are these methods?
There is, first of all, the recognition of a great
procedure which must, under the Law of Assembly, be responsible for the
bringing in of extra-planetary energies as the redemption of the worlds of
being and of form is carried forward by the second divine aspect. Of this
procedure I can tell you naught. The place or the location of the procedure of
assembly is made clear. It is in the Council Chamber of Shamballa. I would, however, brother of mine, call
your attention to the fact that Shamballa is simply a word conveying the idea of a vast focal point of energies which
are assembled and brought together by the planetary Logos in order to create a
manifestation adequate to His unfolding intention and planetary service. The
objective is equally clear; it is the assembly of that which has in it energies
of redemption. Just as the Science of Redemption, under the hierarchical Plan,
is the technique employed to redeem the world of appearances, so—on a much
higher level—the Law of Assembly [Page 405] produces the Science of Energy
which is the redemptive process (in a sense which you cannot possibly
understand) influencing the work of those who labour for redemption in the
world of meaning.
Again you see how all this comes under the three
stages of Penetration, Polarisation and Precipitation, for it is related to the
assembling of the redemptive energies brought into our ring-pass-not through
the activity of Beings
at Shamballa Who can
penetrate into extra-planetary spheres and then focus (within the Council Chamber at Shamballa) the energies thus assembled. They can then
precipitate them into the ring-pass-not of the Hierarchy, and consequently
hasten the redemptive work and carry the energies from the highest levels of
the cosmic physical plane down to the lowest level of outer, dense physical
manifestation.
(DINAII 413) 3. The light of the Triad, which is an
aspect of the spiritual Will, and which streams from Shamballa.
(DINAII 427) There are, therefore, three stages in the
penetrating process at this particular time:
DK is here telling one of his disciples
that he belongs to Morya’s Ashram
(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.
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.
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.
Souls on the Wisdom aspect of the second
Ray go to Shamballa and join the great Council
(DINAII 518) 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.
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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.
(DINAII 523) 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.
This disciple had a lot of trouble managing
the Shamballa force
(DINAII 527) 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. 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.
Shamballa is to the Master what the Ashram
is to the Disciple
(DINAII 563) You might ask: To what specific end? You
know that such a mode of daily life should not and must not last for several
lives, because the goal thus expressed becomes increasingly active in its outer
service and form. You will remember however, my brother, that there are times
when the Master, speaking technically, goes into a state of consciousness which
we call samadhi. This means that for a stated and qualified time, He quits His
created threefold lower vehicle and "travels in consciousness" to
those levels whereon the spirit aspect can commune with Him, wherein the force
of the Spiritual Triad can re-stimulate and revitalise Him. On these levels,
His vision is renewed and He
draws from the force of Shamballa—according to His degree—the inspiration (again
speaking technically) for a new cycle of service. This requires on His part
absence or a state of withdrawal, [Page 563] for the space of several hours as
we count them on Earth, from His body of manifestation. In the case of a
disciple in training, true samadhi is not possible. The cycles of enforced
quiet and of conscious withdrawal from the pressure of daily life out in the
world of business and of men have to be of great length, though—as progress is
made—these periods get shorter and shorter. On the lower turn of the spiral,
the Ashram is to the disciple what the courts of Shamballa are to the Master. That is why, my brother, I gave you that
special meditation last year upon the theme of the Ashram. I trust you have
followed it with care.
Masters of DK’s rank can only make contact
with Shamballa at certain stated periods
(DINAII 564) One thing, however, you will have to
watch with care. As you know, and as I pointed out to you some years ago, you
have an undue number of rays along one particular line; your equipment of
energies is therefore somewhat unbalanced, and this will require the process of
obtaining equilibrium before you can move on to the more potent Ashram of K.H.
The potency of an Ashram is necessarily dependent upon the status, the degree
and the experience of the Master at its centre or heart. The more advanced the
Master, the more of the
energy of Shamballa
which will pour into the Ashram. The Master K.H., being a Chohan and one of the
senior Masters (ranking next to the Christ Himself), can "walk into the courts of Shamballa" at will. Masters of my degree can only make contact with Shamballa at certain
stated periods, and
one of the goals of our training is to move steadily forward into a closer
relationship with the Christ, and through Him with the Lord of the World. The
Ashrams for which Masters of my degree are responsible are not, therefore, so
potent.
It will be necessary for you to bring into your outer
experience more force, and that of the first ray; it is necessary, also, that
you should develop those conditions which will enable you to assume and work
through a first ray personality when you next come into incarnation. To do this
I would suggest that you study the instructions of I.S.G-L., given by me to him
last year.
There I gave him six statements anent [Page 565] this
mysterious and holy centre which we call Shamballa. For this year's meditation, I would ask you to take
the third statement and ponder it deeply, relating it to the sixth statement
and endeavouring to arrive at an understanding of both of them. This you can do
through the key which you will find in the first sentence of the meditation
which I gave you in that same series. In these three statements and in their
true comprehension you have the mode whereby you can put yourself en rapport with the Shamballa
force. No disciple can
do this without establishing
a tenuous thread along which he can some day travel towards those sublime levels where the planetary Logos and His Council function. The first step is to respond to first ray
energy; later you will come to use it consciously and constructively—not
employing its destructive aspect—and thus learn to use first ray energy as a
channel of approach; that, however, constitutes a much later stage.
The Ashram of a Chohan has a strong
Shamballa pressure- These Ashrams concern the “will in action through the ray
qualities”
(DINAII 566) You have profited much from the attention
you paid to the last instruction I gave you; you have also done a good and
creative task, aiding A.A.B. Even though it did not involve your own rays, I
suggested your working temporarily along first ray lines because it would
strengthen you greatly and bring the Will aspect more definitely into
expression. You will have realised that it has been necessary for you to develop more will and fiery determination and powerful
understanding, prior to transfer into the Ashram of K.H. This transfer will
eventually take place, but you are not yet ready [Page 566] to stand the strong Shamballa pressure which is ever to be experienced in the
Ashram of a Chohan. Mine, as you know, is an Ashram subsidiary to His.
Why, therefore, did I direct you towards the will aspect when both Ashrams are on the
second ray and you are
predominantly a second ray disciple? Because the subsidiary Ashrams deal with
the ray qualities in action and in service, whilst the major or senior Ashrams
concern in all cases the will in action through the ray qualities. This is
possible because the major
Ashrams are presided over by those who have achieved the sixth initiation; Ashrams such as mine are under the
guidance of a Master or Initiate of the fifth degree.
You have needed much to study the nature of the will.
A disciple's ideas on this subject are apt to be far removed from the reality;
the understanding of the will is a progressive matter and disciples on all rays
have to arrive at comprehension of Will activity as they move forward.
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(DINAII 578) It seems to me that so oft I
have to say this year to hard-pressed chelas: The way has been difficult. But
so it is, and your way in life has been no exception. Great waves of karmic
impact have beaten upon our Earth—that little ship adrift in time and space and
sailing the great ocean of the cosmos. The Lords of Karma have looked towards
our planet. Energy follows thought and that, my brother, is all that karma is—the impact of directed energy upon the
Earth, upon the kingdoms in nature, upon man and upon the individual disciple.
Much of this karma, especially now, is not individual in purpose, nor is it
generated in any way by the individuals affected by it, be it an individual
disciple, or an ordinary human being. It is largely incident at this time to
the karma of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being. It is
primarily also in the sphere of Shamballa, and
has small relation in the first instance to humanity at all. This means but
little to you, I realise. This karma working out in Shamballa has, however, led to the vitalising of the activities
of certain "will-full" men; they have loosed great evil upon the
Earth. But this karma will also produce the stimulation of goodwill, and thus
lasting good will offset temporary evil. This must not be forgotten.
(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.
(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. 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 609) There are many Ashrams upon
the various rays. My Ashram, being a second ray Ashram, is naturally closely
related to that of K.H., which is the central or the most important Ashram upon
the second ray line of energy as it penetrates the hierarchical centre. K.H. is
at this time, under the Christ, the working Representative of the second ray in
the Hierarchy. The Christ
is the link between the second ray as it expresses itself in the Hierarchy and Shamballa. Initiates of high degree and Masters on
all the rays have Their Own Ashrams, but not all are teaching centres; this is
a point to be remembered, as well as the fact that all of them are not
concerned primarily with the unfoldment of the human consciousness and with the
needs of the human kingdom. There are other types of consciousness of deep and
real importance in the great chain of Hierarchy stretching from below to far
above the human kingdom. This is a point apt to be forgotten.
(DINAII 610) It will be obvious to you also
how the symbolism of an eclipse will come into your mind, for when the merging
is complete, humanity and the Hierarchy will be one; there will be no outer or
inner and no middle chamber, but only complete unity. Later in our planetary
history, this design will also depict the relation of Shamballa to the Hierarchy. It can also be applied most usefully to
the relationship between soul and personality, wherein the "encroaching
light of the soul obliterates the dim light of the personality, and within that
lighted area the disciple learns to stand."
(DINAII 669) The work which it is planned
for them later to undertake will eventually prove so difficult that it is
essential that they start with a strong bias towards wisdom. Contact with the
"Ashrams of loving
intent" (as
certain Ashrams close to the aura or periphery of Shamballa are called) suffices later to evoke the love aspect
in greater fullness, enabling the disciples, therefore, to present a balanced
instrument to the Divine Organiser of their future work. Just what this work
will be is not for me to say. It is connected with the training to be given
neophytes and aspirants in the next race, where the [Page 669] average aspirant
to discipleship will be expected to be as intuitive and motivated by pure
reason as the aspirant today has to be mental. Technically speaking, that means
that the buddhic plane will be the focus or place of growth, and those who
train disciples will work from the plane of atma or pure spiritual will, just
as today they work from the plane of buddhi or of rational unity. Ponder on
that last phrase.
(EINA 140) This all sounds to you
necessarily peculiar and too abstract and farfetched to make much sense. I would have you remember that much which is
familiar to you today and which constitutes a definite part of the recognised
facts of daily life would, a few hundred years ago, have been regarded as
equally peculiar, incomprehensible and impossible. What is really taking place is the hastening
of the processes of light manifestation, and this has become possible because
of the point of attainment of humanity and the increased stimulation which is
being applied to the race by the Hierarchy, assisted by forces emanating from Shamballa.
(EOH 72) THE HIDDEN SOURCE OF THE OUTER
TURMOIL
January 1939
Another angle from which the world
situation can be viewed with profit is to look for the hidden source of the
outer turmoil. This is seldom what men think it is, for the source lies in the
realm of energies and forces. As I explained elsewhere (The Destiny of the
Nations, pages 3-47), there are three great streams of energy working
powerfully in the world at this time and two others are also struggling for
expression, making the five that—together—will determine the trend of world
affairs. To repeat briefly:
Only twice in our planetary
[Page 72] history has this Shamballa energy made its presence felt directly-first
time in Lemuria a the time of individualisation-second time
In Atlantean days during the
battle between the Lord of Light and the Lords of Material Form
(EOH 72) 1. The first and the most powerful
force is that pouring
into the world from Shamballa, the planetary centre where the Will of God is known. Only twice in
our planetary [Page 72] history has this Shamballa energy made its presence felt directly: the first time, when the great human crisis occurred at
the individualisation of man in ancient Lemuria; the second time, in Atlantean days in the great struggle between the Lords of
Light and the Lords of Material Form, also called the Dark Forces. Today, this
force streams out from the Holy Centre; it embodies the Will aspect of the
present world crisis and its two subsidiary effects or qualities are:
a. The destruction of that which is undesirable and hindering in the
present world forms (in government, religion and society).
b. The synthesising force which binds together that which has hitherto been
separated.
The Shamballa force is so new and so unrecognised that it is hard for
humanity to know it for what it is—the demonstration of the beneficent Will of
God in new and potent livingness.
2. The second major force which is potently
making itself felt today is that of the spiritual Hierarchy, the planetary
centre where the Love of God holds sway, as it swings into one of its major
cyclic approaches to the earth. The problem before the Hierarchy at this time
is so to direct and control all five of the powerful energies that the Divine
Plan can materialise, and the close of this century see the Purpose of God for
humanity assuming right direction and proportion.
3. Humanity itself is the third major
planetary centre through which one of the three divine aspects, Intelligence,
is expressing itself, producing its world effects.
Shamballa will be fully manifest
in the next solar system
These three centres are closely
interrelated and must be thought of as expressions of divine livingness, as
embodying three stages in the unfoldment of God's Plan, and as constituting the
three major centres—Head, Heart, Throat—in the body of the One in Whom we live
and move and [Page 73] have our being. Students can relate these three centres
to the three solar systems, referred to in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. In the first solar system, the centre which is
Humanity was prepared
and the principle of intelligence came into manifestation. In the second solar system, the Hierarchy of Love made its appearance
and must come into full manifestation, thereby enabling the love of God to be
seen. In the next solar
system, the centre
which we today call Shamballa, will manifest the Will aspect of Deity
intelligently through love. It is interesting to note that it is only through
human beings, that these three centres ever come into true functioning
activity; and likewise that the three major ideologies (the totalitarian, the
democratic, the communistic) may be the response—distorted and yet
responsive—to the forces playing from the two higher centres on to the human.
This we discussed earlier (The Destiny of the Nations, page 22).
(EOH 73) Those of you who are seeking to
serve humanity and to join in the Hierarchical effort to bring healing to a
world in pain, must learn to penetrate behind appearances, behind the methods
and schemes, the results and effects on the physical plane and endeavour to
contact the forces of
Shamballa or of the
Hierarchy, plus the human need which has produced these modes of expression and
thus see them for what they are—not worn out systems and childish efforts at improvement
but embryonic plans whereby, eventually, may come release and the culture and
civilisation of the New Age. If you are seeking to bring illumination into the
dark places of the earth (which means into the minds of men), then you must
yourselves see clearly and relate the abstract and the concrete in such a
manner that, in your own lives, a working idealism may be seen; only so can a
working idealism of a national, racial and human nature also be seen. The head
as well as the heart must be used, and this many earnest people are apt to
forget. Can you possibly work at high tension in this endeavour—a tension
produced by the interrelation of the head and the heart, working out creatively
through the [Page 74] throat centre, esoterically understood? In this last
sentence I have expressed for disciples the nature of the effort they need to
make.
(EOH 75) There is little that I can tell
you about the Dark Forces. They are not the problems of humanity but that of
the Hierarchy. The task of these Forces is the preservation of the form life
and the working out of methods and aims which are inherent in the processes of
manifestation. The Black Lodge, so-called, is occupied with the form aspect of
[Page 75] manifestation; the White Lodge, with the consciousness aspect. It
might, therefore, be stated that:
1. Shamballa is occupied with the life aspect in its graded
impulses.
2. The Hierarchy is occupied with the consciousness aspect in its
graded series of expansions.
3. The Black Lodge is occupied with the matter aspect in its
multiplicity of forms.
(EOH 76) The Forces of Darkness are
powerful energies, working to preserve that which is ancient and material;
hence they are pre-eminently the forces of crystallisation, of form
preservation, of the attractiveness of matter, and of the lure of that which is
existent in the form life of the three worlds. They consequently block
deliberately the inflow of that which is new and life-giving; they work to
prevent the understanding of that which is of the New Age; they endeavour to
preserve that which is familiar and old, to counteract the effects of the
oncoming culture and civilisation, to bring blindness to the peoples and to
feed steadily the existing fires of hate, of separateness, of criticism and of
cruelty. These forces, as far as the intelligent peoples of the world are
concerned, work insidiously and cloak their effort in fair words, leading even
disciples to express hatred of persons and ideologies, fostering the hidden
seeds of hatred found in many human beings. They fan to fury the fear and hate
of the world in an effort to preserve that which is old and make the unknown
appear undesirable, and they hold back the forces of evolution and of progress
for their own ends. These [Page 76] ends are as inscrutable to you as are the
plans of the Ruler of
Shamballa.
(EOH 78) Why our planet and this solar
system should have been constituted the nursery for the seeds of separativeness
and why this remnant of humanity, far more advanced than ours, should have been
destined to work out its future on our earth, is hid in the knowledge of the Lord of Shamballa, and is unattainable knowledge for you
and, indeed, for many [Page 78] in the Hierarchy. It is simply a fact to be
accepted by you. The solution will come, as I said, when the races regard the
Jewish problem as a humanitarian problem but also when the Jew does his share
of understanding, love and right action. This he does not yet do, speaking
racially. He must let go of his own separative tendencies and of his deep sense
of persecution. He will do this latter with great facility, when he grasps, as
a race, the significance and inevitability of the Law of Karma, and from a
close study of the Old Testament and of the acts and deeds there claimed by him
as his racial acts and deeds (conquest, terrorism and cruelty), realises that
the law is working out and incidentally releasing him for a greater future.
There must, at the same time, be a realisation by the Jew and Gentile of equal
responsibility and equal liability for the present world difficulty.
The two forces to which I have been
referring must, therefore, be taken into account by all disciples as they seek
to serve in this critical cycle; these two forces must also be taken into your
calculations as you start this new group work or your wrong idealisms and
thoughts may hinder the group work. You must recognise theoretically the five
forces (three major and two minor) which meet and clash in the human family at
this time. It has been necessary for me to bring these facts to your attention.
If disciples are to do group work together on mental levels, they must clear
their minds of prejudice, hatreds and any tendency to superiority and
criticism. You cannot work, as a group, if these ideas and thoughts are
present, and I am preparing now to teach you some of the first stages of group
work and usefulness. It would not have been necessary for me to deal with these
world problems if you had been immune from emotional reactions to them, but
very few of you have your minds clear from prejudice and free from hatred.
Those few make the work possible and it is also possible for the rest of you to
detach your minds from undue influence and wrong ideas.
I ask you, in this work, to concentrate upon the Shamballa and the Hierarchical forces. I ask you to
regard yourselves [Page 79] as pure and unclogged channels and to seek only to
be linked with the soul of each and all, whose nature is pure love, realised
synthesis and divine potency.
(EOH 86) According, therefore, to the
condition of the sensitive bodies of the planet, of nations and of individuals,
so will be their reaction to the five kinds of inflowing forces. The Shamballa force, for instance, in making its impact upon
first ray types, and upon the other ray types on that line of major energy—the
third, fifth and seventh ray types—evokes widely differing results than when it
makes an impact upon the second ray line of energy; the results of the impact of Shamballa energy upon the first
ray individuals and
nations can be potent in the extreme. This impact, being relatively a new one
to humanity, evokes in the world today all the political and organisational
changes which are so prevalent and so disturbing. There is little that humanity
can do about this except endeavour to balance this first ray display of energy
with second ray or hierarchical force. This latter energy—working through the
world religions and the men and women who respond to the love influence—can
change methods (though not the purpose or the direction) by pouring in the love
force.
Again, that force which we regard as
emanating from the strictly human centre, the third ray type of energy, is of
the third or creative order; and in these three energies you have, in reality,
the expression of the three major centres of the planetary Logos. The first or
will energy is, as you know, focussed in Sanat Kumara, the Ancient of Days (as He is called in the Christian Bible),
the Lord of Shamballa, Who is the embodiment of the Personality
of the planetary Logos. The love force is focussed through the two great
spiritual Lords of the Hierarchy, the Buddha and the [Page 87] Christ, Who are
both embodiments of the heart centre of the planetary Logos, for the Buddha
represents the twelve-petalled lotus in the head, of which the Christ
represents the counterpart, the twelve-petalled lotus of the heart centre. This
is a fact seldom grasped or even mentioned. The petals of the throat centre are
represented at this time by certain of the leading world rulers, whose activity
is responsible for the rapid creation of the new world with its rapidly
altering civilisations and culture. These thoughts will provide much that you
would do well to consider.
(EOH 89) I wonder whether you can grasp the
implications of this paragraph. When the mind aspect (the third aspect of the
personality) is more fully developed, then the focus of the effort of the Dark Forces will change and
the problem of the Jews will disappear. Mankind is not yet handling its problems
intelligently. Thus the forces and energies of the creative process are
exceedingly active at this time in preparing what I might call the
"material of the world" and the substance of all the four kingdoms in
nature for the coming changes. As the ploughman turns the soil of his field and
harrows it, and so brings that which is underneath to eventual fruition, so a
similar process is taking place in the world today, and all is preparatory for
the sowing and its resultant effects. These effects will constitute the new
Aquarian culture and civilisation. In this process the Hierarchy is taking a
definite and influential part and is working more uniquely and specifically
than ever before in the history of the world, under instruction and vital aid from Shamballa.
(word processor would not include the table
for some reason)
(EOH 91) I have referred above to the five
streams of energy and have related them to the five centres. Let me extend the
idea somewhat by pointing out that these five energies are related to the
centres or the lotuses to which I referred in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, or to
the dynamic point within the lotus, through which the central life of the lotus
flows; in the case of the first
three energies (of Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity) you have the permanent point of life,
light and activity in the lotus; in the case of that potent energy connected
with the Jews, you have a very temporary inflow of energy, and in the case of
the Forces of Materialism, you have a relatively temporary—though apparently
permanent—focal point of reactionary energy.
(Table on page 92 EOH)
(EOH 107) The third was the inflow of the force of will or power from
the Shamballa centre.
This, as previously explained, is the most powerful force in the world today,
and only twice before in the history of mankind has this Shamballa energy made
its appearance and caused its presence to be felt through the tremendous
changes which were brought about. Let us recapitulate briefly.
The first time was during the great human
crisis which occurred at the time of the individualisation of men in ancient Lemuria.
[Page 107]
The second time was at the time of the struggle in Atlantean days between the
"Lords of Light
and the Lords of Material Expression."
This little known divine energy now streams out from Shamballa. It embodies in itself the energy which lies behind the world crisis of the moment. It is the Will of God to produce certain racial and momentous changes in
the consciousness of the race which will completely alter man's attitude to
life and his grasp of the spiritual, esoteric and subjective essentials of
living. It is this force which will bring about (in conjunction with the energy
of love) that tremendous crisis—imminent in the human consciousness—which we
call the second crisis, the initiation of the race into the Mystery of the
Ages, into that which has been hid from the beginning.
(Table page 107 EOH)
(EOH 108) This Shamballa energy now for the first time is making its impact upon humanity directly and is not stepped down, as [Page 108] has
hitherto been the case, through transmission via the Hierarchy of Masters. This
change of direction constituted a somewhat dangerous experiment as it
necessarily stimulated the personalities of men, particularly those whose
personalities were along the line of will or power and in whom the love aspect
of divinity was not sufficiently expressing itself; it was, however, permitted
because it was realised that it would not affect the man in the street or the
masses who would remain unresponsive to it, though it might greatly stimulate
and intensify the mental and more potent type of man.
The effects of this widespread stimulation
have been all that was anticipated and the so-called "evil results" of the Shamballa
force upon ambitious
and powerful personalities in all countries and all schools of thought have,
nevertheless, been offset to some extent by the growth of the sense of
relationship everywhere and by the spread of the Christ energy which generates
at-one-ment, loving understanding and goodwill.
You might here rightly enquire how this can
be so when humanity is overwhelmed by a ghastly world war at this time. I would
remind you that the Hierarchy is guided in its conclusions by the mass light
and by the inner subjective oft unexpressed reactions of the multitude and never
by the outer happenings upon the physical plane. The fate of the form life and
of outer organisations is deemed of small importance compared with the sensed
inner spiritual development. That development must necessarily outrun the outer
manifestation. Humanity is today further advanced spiritually and mentally than
might appear from external happenings. The first result of such development is eventually the
destruction of the outer form because it is proving inadequate to the pulsing, inner, spiritual life;
then, secondly, comes the building of the new and more adequate outer
expression. This accounts for the world crisis at this time. The cause is based
upon four major factors upon which I would like somewhat to enlarge:
(EOH 111) To the above two reasons another
might perhaps be added which will have significance and meaning to esotericists
and to all who have in any way grasped the teaching I have attempted to give
you in my books anent the three world centres—Humanity, the Hierarchy and Shamballa. This world crisis is related to the approach or the
relation [Page 111] of the Hierarchy to Humanity. That great spiritual centre
of force, the Human Kingdom, has now reached a point of such potency and of
such a high vibratory activity that it is shaken to its very depths; all its
evolutionary grades and groups are responding to the stimulation, generated
within the centre itself and also stimulated by Forces emanating from the
hierarchical centre and from Shamballa.
(EOH 118) Today, all that is taking place
is due, first of all, to the essential duality of man; in the second place, it
is due to certain major lines of cleavage which were brought about by this
essential dualism in an early stage of human history, and thirdly, to the
growing tendency towards synthesis
which the inflow of the Shamballa force is producing at this time. This is the simplest
statement I find it possible to make anent this complex problem. With broad
generalities I cover the past, indicate the effects which are now being
experienced in the present, and forecast the future.
The karma of the conflict in
Atlantis is so real that the same leaders of the Atlantean conflict were active
during the 20th century one too
(EOH 126) Intelligent appreciation of the
situation and a general capacity to present to the mind the underlying
conditions has now been achieved by the bulk of the intelligent people upon the
planet and, though the point of view is necessarily coloured by national
traditions, inherited ideas and policies as well as by environmental control
and bias, the race has gone a long way towards its final emancipation. There
is, therefore, a certain measure of free will displayed, and this constitutes
an entirely new factor and a most satisfactory development. But I would remind
you of a most important point and that is that the masses of the people—the
middle classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat (I use these words in their
general sense and simply because of their significance and meaning)—are still
victims of authority, of control, and remain relatively unthinking and
childlike. This means that the true conflict is between a small minority to
whom the issues are illuminatingly clear and who have definitely ranged
themselves on one side or other of the embattled forces. A mere handful of men, the direct
descendants or rather the reincarnations of the leaders in the ancient
Atlantean conflict, are now on earth, directing the forces of light or of darkness and
bringing into being a direct line-up of millions of men whose will is that of
their leaders.
The lines of cleavage have grown steadily
until now they can be expressed in terms of a humanity which is oriented
towards the higher spiritual and altruistic values and whose keynotes are
sacrifice, group good and world understanding, and those whose focus is
predominantly material and whose aims are selfish, animated by ambition and the
spirit of acquisition.
(EOH 127) It was the acuteness of this
situation, and the wide extent of the cleavage, which induced the watching
Hierarchy to permit a direct
inflow of the Shamballa force (in spite of its attendant risks) to pour into the world. The
objective was to stimulate the free will of the masses; the result upon them
has been relatively good as it has led to the formulation and expression of the
great world ideologies—Fascism, [Page 127] Democracy and Communism as well as
that peculiarly distorted blend of Fascism and Communism which goes by the name
of Hitlerism or Nazism. All these ideologies are fostered by the desire of the
masses for the betterment of the condition in which the populace in any country
lives and it has become focussed, expressive and creative by the force of the Shamballa influence. But another result of this inflow of the
will-to-power has been to stimulate a certain group of outstanding
personalities in many lands so that they have assumed control of the masses and
can thus determine the policies and methods—religious, political and social—of
the different nations. In every nation a relatively small group of people
decide all important issues and determine all major national activities. This
they do either by force, terror and deception or by persuasion, fair words and
the application of ideological motives. Of this situation in the world the
Lords of Destiny are availing themselves in order to bring the ancient conflict
to an end and so enable humanity to pass into the new Aquarian Age relatively
free and with a clearer understanding of right human aims, right relationships
and man's predestined future.
(EOH 129) As for the other group, they are
those who through inclination or ancient karma are the descendants of the Lords
of darkness; their actions and ideals make possible the activity of the forces
of materialism. I would have you note that phrasing. Even the most dangerous of
them are nevertheless conscious of some form or another of idealism, but they
are misguided and full of response to the will-to-power (power upon the
physical plane and through the medium of form activity). This is stimulated by the inflow of the
Shamballa energy.
Because of these reactions and tendencies, they constitute focal points for
those Lives and [Page 129] Energies which are inherent in matter itself and
whose influence and work are dedicated to the preservation of form, and of that
which is. They endeavour constantly to negate the new and to hold back the
evolution and development of the human consciousness. Forget not that the real
issue is in the field of consciousness and that the struggle is between form
and the life within the form, and between progress, leading to the liberation
of the human spirit, and reactionary activity, leading to the imprisonment of
the human consciousness and the restriction of its free expression.
(EOH 131) It will be apparent to you that
three major methods or modes of producing these fusions can be noted.
Nevertheless in these three groups there is
much of interest to be noted. One of them, Great Britain, represents a fusion,
the foundations of which have been laid in a long historical past of preparation
for government; another, that of the U.S.A. represents a fusion which is
unfolding and developing in the present which is new in its experiments, though
employing factors from every nation in Europe; the U.S.S.R. in its turn
represents a coming fusion or future synthesis. In these three, you have an
interesting and immediate expression of the three divine aspects, each of which
inspires and colours the embryonic civilisation.
A most interesting experiment is,
therefore, working out in these three groups of interrelated elements and
differing national ideals. The U.S.S.R. will eventually place its emphasis and
direct its major interest upon Asia, bringing about great changes on that
continent, as far as the Pacific The other,
Will-towards-Synthesis-British
Empire-Shamballa
Force of Hierarchy-USA-Hierarchy
The Will-to-be of
Humanity-USSR-Humanity
It will also be apparent to you if you have
rightly understood the above suggestions that the Shamballa force is working through that
community of federated nations called the British Empire and is expressing the will-towards-synthesis and the will to just and legal procedure.
It is the force of the
Hierarchy which can
express itself increasingly
through the
The Shamballa force was demanded
at the 1425 Centennial conference of the Masters
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)
In the second group of changing ideologies
and of reaction to mass need, you will find France, Germany, Italy, Spain and
Portugal, all of whom have altered their ancient policies, changed their forms
of government and reacted
gradually and slowly to the Shamballa force. They have, however, reacted to that force through the
medium of certain great and outstanding personalities who were peculiarly
sensitive to the will-to-power and the will-to-change and who (during the past
150 years) have altered the character of their national life, and emphasised
increasingly the wider human values. The men who inspired the initiating French
revolution; the great conqueror, Napoleon; Bismarck, the creator of a nation;
Mussolini, the regenerator of his people; Hitler who lifted a distressed people
upon his shoulders; Lenin, the idealist, Stalin and Franco are all expressions of the Shamballa force and of certain little understood energies.
These have wrought significant changes in their day and generation and altered
the face of Europe, incidentally affecting Asia and conditioning attitudes and
policies in
Shamballa force has led to two
vital characteristics
The results even when dangerous and
terrible, have developed two vital characteristics in humanity. One has been
the widespread development
of the discriminating faculty, and secondly, a tendency
to dispersion with its [Page 134] consequences of diffusing civilised and
cultural values and
the diverse gifts of the many people to the world soul. The drift of people to
the colonies from Great Britain, the drift of the people from every nation in
Europe to America, North and South, the dispersal of people within national
boundaries as the result of war and expediency such as the evacuation of cities
has brought about today, the removal of people out of Italy and of groups of
people within Russia, and the constant moving onwards of the wandering Jews
indicate a breaking down, upon a world-wide scale, of all outer boundaries and
the institution of a process of blending and amalgamation such as the world has
never seen before. It constitutes an educational system of untold value,
leading as it does to the constant necessity to readjust viewpoints, to change
modes of living, to intermarriage and so-called illicit relations. The outer
change is producing an inner synthesis and outer dispersion, and cleavages are
working out interiorly in closer relations and a more tolerant spirit of
understanding. The power to consider, to choose, to think and to discriminate
is rapidly developing among all classes everywhere as a result of the many
cataclysmic happenings, the presentation of many changing circumstances and the
many points of view and theories of government and of religion; these grow
naturally out of new contacts and the rapid presentation of events through the
medium of the press and the radio.
(EOH 150) The invocation, evocation and
resultant activity of the Hierarchy and of those Forces, Energies and Beings
Who are not controlled by matter in any way, or by substance (the lower pole of
manifestation) but Who are related to the positive spiritual pole is a new
activity, and as yet relatively an untried experiment on the part of humanity
and the formulas unknown. Of what use was it to impart the formulas to humanity
when it was as yet controlled by the lower values and unable to lay hold upon
the soul aspect and to function on that level of consciousness whereon the soul
is found. Only those can use the formulas effectively who live, work, think and
feel as souls, which means ever in group terms.
Today, however, there are those in every
land who are rapidly becoming aware of the soul as a controlling factor in
consciousness, who respond to world affairs and conditions increasingly as
souls, and who can, therefore, be trained to work upon the physical plane. When
this is so, it becomes possible to impart certain of these Words of Power and
mantrams and to institute that new and potent activity which will bring the
Hierarchy and Humanity into conscious and direct cooperation, as well as Shamballa and certain great [Page 150]
Forces which are interplanetary or solar, and also great cosmic Energies. It is now possible
to discover those who—being free within themselves and who are learning rapidly
to be detached and selfless—can institute and carry forward the task of
invoking these higher spiritual forces, thus reinforcing the efforts of the
Great White Lodge. It is this process of spiritual invocation which will
motivate the new and coming world religion. This is not magical invocation, as
man understands it, and which is concerned with the invocation and control of
the substantial and elemental forces of the manifested world, but the
invocation which will evoke contact with the spiritual Lives and the divine
embodied Energies as well as with the Hierarchy (which is Their intermediary)
in order to bring about the manifestation on earth of the soul of humanity and
the qualities of the subjective and inner divine life which all outer forms
veil. This is now for the first time possible in the life of the planet.
(EOH 152) The evocation of the Hierarchy
through right invocation is proceeding also rapidly, producing much activity
and response from the Hierarchy of Light.
2. To set up a closer relation with the
third, major divine
centre on our planet, Shamballa. From that centre, the will of God goes forth and the
power of God becomes the messenger of His will. Hitherto that highest form of
spiritual energy has only reached humanity (as I have before told you) via the
Hierarchy. Today, it is deemed desirable that it should be ascertained whether
there are enough selfless and group-conscious people upon the planet to warrant
a direct inflow of that higher energy to humanity, thus producing upon the
physical plane a hastening of the divine plan and a more rapid working out of
that which is to be. This direct contact can be produced if the Great
Invocation [Page 152] is used by the world aspirants and disciples in
collaboration with the Hierarchy. Hence the emphasis I have laid upon all of
you using this Great Invocation as souls and as those who are in touch in some
small measure with the Hierarchy. When the note of humanity and the note of the
Hierarchy are synchronised by the use of the Great Invocation, there will come a dynamic and immediate response from
Shamballa, and that
will rapidly take place which the Hierarchy and the world disciples desire to
see.
(EOH 153) b. The second effect will be the
forming or constitution of a planetary triangle or recognisable triad which
will be the correspondence between the three planetary centres to the spiritual triad of
Monad, Soul and Personality (the atma-buddhi-manas of the theosophical literature). Hitherto the
word alignment has best described the planetary situation; there has been a
straight line along which energy has poured from Shamballa to the [Page 154] Hierarchy and from the Hierarchy to
Humanity, but this has meant no direct interplay between Humanity and Shamballa. If the Great Invocation can be rendered
effective, humanity can then set up a direct relationship with Shamballa. The resultant triangle of
force-relationship will promote the circulation of spiritual energies between
the three centres from point to point so that there will be a triple relation.
A planetary process of give and take between all three will then be
established, and the emphasis upon giving will be far more pronounced.
(EOH 155) A clue also to the significance
of pain and of suffering will gradually emerge in the world consciousness as
study is made of the above statements. Suffering is the most effective and most
rapid way of evoking world understanding and of burning away the barriers which
human beings have set up to the expression of the will-to-good. One of the most
beneficent results of the inflow
of the Shamballa force
through [Page 155] the focussed demand of the aspirants and world disciples
will be the intelligent recognition of the uses of pain and suffering. It is
this truth—distorted and selfishly misapplied and interpreted—which has led
certain types of people and certain types of governing bodies among the nations
to take the position that the greater the suffering inflicted (as, for
instance, in war time) and the greater the process of terrorism, the quicker
the end which is desirable and right; they hold often that the more dire the effects
of planned conditions, the more rapidly will the correct consummation be
achieved. It is not, however, the duty or right of man to turn first ray force
to selfish ends or material objectives; responsibility cannot be veiled behind
specious and distorted half truths and evil cannot be done in order that good
may come. What is applied by the Lord of the World in Shamballa under the motivation of love, wisdom and
selflessness with a sure touch and a judgment as to times and seasons cannot be
so used by those motivated by personality objectives, either on an individual
or a personality scale (for nations as well as individuals have personalities).
Ponder on this and seek enlightenment from the soul.
3. When the Great Invocation is thus rightly used and the world centres are
consequently consciously interrelated, then certain extra-planetary Energies
can be called in by the
Ruler of Shamballa to
aid in the re-adjustments required for the New Age and its coming civilisation.
These Forces—spiritual and potent in nature—exist in two categories: solar
Forces which are inter-planetary and cosmic Forces which enter into our solar
system via Jupiter as the transmitter of divine energies from Virgo and
Aquarius which Jupiter esoterically governs. Virgo is esoterically the mother
of the Christ child and is, therefore, the emanator of energies which nourish
and aid the growth of the Christ consciousness; Aquarius is the coming
expression of the group consciousness which is the first and immediate
revelation of the ever present Christ consciousness on a large scale in
humanity. Jupiter also, exoterically and from the angle of orthodox [Page 156]
astrology, rules Sagittarius, the sign of discipleship, and also Pisces, the
sign of the world saviours. The implications will, therefore, be obvious to
real students.
In considering these great Energies, there
is little you can do beyond accepting—if you care to do so—my statements anent
them, regarding them as interesting and simply explanatory hypotheses. There is
little that you can do (or I either) to arrive at first hand knowledge of the
facts along this line. Few even of the Members of the Hierarchy are conscious
of the impact of force from extra-solar centres or reservoirs of spiritual
force. Only the group of
Contemplatives in the Hierarchy which are given the exoteric name of Nirmanakayas are responsive to Their influence in any
conscious manner and then only when that influence has been stepped down by
certain powerful
agencies in Shamballa.
It is not necessary for me or for you to say more anent Them though I shall
touch upon Them again later in this article.
(EOH 156) Prior to taking up the Great
Invocation sentence by sentence, I would like briefly to touch upon the needed
procedure as you attempt to say it correctly and effectively:
Forget not, first of all, the necessary
process of alignment wherein you do two things:
1. Endeavour consciously (which for most of
you at present means imaginatively) to align or link soul, mind and brain so
that there is a direct and free inflow from the higher Self to the lower.
2. Endeavour to realise or register your
relation to the Hierarchy, via your own group of disciples (if you know which
it is) or in relation to whichever one of the Great Ones or Masters appeals the
most to your heart and mind. If neither makes any appeal to your consciousness,
the same results will be achieved if you seek to link up with the Christ.
Initiates and Masters use the
Great Invocation in a manner totally differently-Masters link directly with Shamballa
I might here point out that the difference
between the linking up that you can effectively do and that which is done by a
Member of the Hierarchy itself is that you link up [Page 157] via the Hierarchy
and then through the medium
of the Great Invocation reach forth to Shamballa whereas the initiates and the Masters link Themselves directly with
Shamballa and use the
Great Invocation in a manner totally different to that in which you use it.
There is for you and the average aspirant no direct contact, and that is
definitely fortunate for you. I may not further elucidate.
(EOH 160) When the world aspirants and
disciples use this Invocation, the first phrase takes the consciousness to the Hierarchy of Light,
which is the intermediate centre between Humanity and Shamballa. It serves then to emphasise and establish a close
rapport, blending and fusing the human and the hierarchical centres. When this
has taken place, the Hierarchy can then use this Great Invocation with greater
potency and can carry the relation to a higher state still and produce a
blending with the Shamballa
centre, where the
Forces of Light are found as embodied Presences and where Their focussed energy
serves to provide great reservoirs of light and love. These have hitherto not
been made available for planetary distribution, owing to the lack of
established relation between the three centres: Humanity, Hierarchy and [Page
160] Shamballa.
That relation is now becoming somewhat established; the inflow of light
and love to humanity is now possible if the disciples and aspirants of the
world can be led to make the needed effort to stand in spiritual being and,
from that poised attentive attitude, to invoke these great Entities. It was to
this possibility that the story in the New Testament refers where reference is
made to the pool which was stirred at times by the Angel and thus a condition
was produced which led to the healing of the sick. The Angel of the Presence,
the soul of humanity, as embodied in the Hierarchy and those who are consciously
endeavouring to function as souls can now stir these reservoirs of force and
light upon etheric
levels in Shamballa so
that a definite "healing of the nations" can take place.
When the thought behind the Great
Invocation can be carried high enough in the consciousness of those using it
through a joint effort of the world disciples and the Hierarchy of Light—as
well as being reinforced by the Forces of Light—then the Spirit of Peace can be
invoked.
The three planetary centres can
be linked with the Great Invocation (this applies to the last Invocation DK
gave too)
On a lower turn of the spiral, you will
note that the Wesak Festival enacts a similar invocation and process. It is a
re-enacting and training process. There and at that time, the three Representatives of Shamballa within
the Hierarchy—the Manu, the Christ and the Mahachohan—invoke the Buddha, Who in His turn is the
transmitter of still higher Forces. He is invoked by a special mantram and
transmits the appeal to the One Whose agent He is. If this Great Invocation which we are studying can be rightly said, the three great
planetary centres can be related in a similar manner. The Lord of Civilisation, the Master R.,
representing humanity, the Christ representing the Hierarchy and the Lord of the
World, linked through the Manu
and representing Shamballa can be brought into a close relation so that the result will be the
setting up of such a potent vibration and note that the Spirit of Peace will be
invoked and contacted. By the voiced appeal His attention will be forced to
turn itself towards our planet. The consequences will be significant and potent
but as to the form which they [Page 161] will take it is impossible for me to
say. Perhaps it will lead to some peculiar and powerful demonstration of the
meaning of peace as the expression of universal and planetary love; perhaps it
will produce the sending of an Avatar or Messenger of Peace to lead the nations
to right action; perhaps some happening will take place of such significance
that its import will be immediately recognised by humanity as a whole, leading
them to take all the needed steps to restore right human relations. The nature
of the activities which the Spirit of Peace will institute is not our
responsibility. Our duty is to learn rightly to contact the Hierarchy, via our
own souls; rightly to use the Great Invocation as souls, and rightly to render
ourselves responsive to and sensitive to the resultant effects. Ponder on the
above.
It might, therefore, be noted that the
Forces of Light express Themselves through the Hierarchy of Light and Their
major effect is the illumination of the minds of men with love and light. This
precipitates upon the mental plane. The personality or the form aspect of
humanity is thereby pervaded and illumined. Thus the third great planetary
centre, Humanity, becomes creative and magnetic, and two divine
aspects—intelligence and love—will reach fruition upon the physical plane,
making it possible for the first aspect and the will of God (understood by
humanity as the Plan) to be consciously carried forward on earth in conformity
with the activity instituted
at Shamballa. The will
of God is purpose and this is, for the first time, to be recognised consciously
by man.
(EOH 162) The Spirit of Peace will, when the
right time comes, vitalise the responsiveness of humanity, via the influence of
the Hierarchy, to the will of God which has for basic intent the bringing of
peace on earth. What is peace? It is essentially the establishing of right
human relations, of synthetic rapport with its resultant cooperation, of
correct interplay between the three planetary centres and an illumined, loving
understanding of the will of God as it affects humanity and works out divine
intent. It is for this reason that the Christ, Who established for the first
time in planetary history a [Page 162] contact between the Hierarchy, Humanity,
Shamballa and the Spirit
of Peace in His Own
high place, in His first recorded utterance said that He must be about His
Father's business and then at the end of His life, reiterated the same thought
in the words: "Father, not my will but Thine be done," thus carrying
the thought up to the highest plane for He addressed the Father, the first
Aspect of Divinity. He then focussed in Himself the two major divine attributes
and aspects—will and love (atma-buddhi)—and because of this, His consciousness
became extra-planetary as is the consciousness of the Lord of the World, and He
could then touch certain heights of awareness and contact certain solar Agencies
which had never before been contacted by man. This achievement enabled Him to
put Humanity in touch with the Spirit of Peace. He thus Himself became the
Light of the World and the Prince of Peace.
In this manner, Shamballa and the Hierarchy were brought into a close
relationship and two great streams of force were blended and a definite
interplay set up between them. The Buddha, through His achievement of
illumination, established the first major link with the Forces of Light. The
Christ, through His ability to express the will of God in love and as world
salvage, established the first major link with the Spirit of Peace.
If you will study the above information
with care, you will find that the importance of the Wesak Festival at the time of the
full moon of May will
assume increasing importance in your minds. It is the festival at which three
factors of importance to humanity are brought into relation:
1. The Buddha, the embodiment or agent of
the Forces of Light can then be contacted and that which They seek to transmit
to humanity can be consciously appropriated.
2. The Christ, the embodiment of the love
and the will of God and the agent of the Spirit of Peace, can also be contacted
and humanity can be trained to appropriate this extra-planetary type of energy.
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3. Through the Christ and the Buddha, humanity can now establish a close relationship with Shamballa and then make its own contribution—as a
world centre—to the planetary life. Pervaded by light and controlled by the
Spirit of Peace, the expression of humanity's will-to-good can emanate
powerfully from this third planetary centre. Humanity will then for the first
time enter upon its destined task as the intelligent, loving intermediary
between the higher states of planetary consciousness, the super-human states
and the sub-human kingdoms. Thus humanity will become eventually the planetary
saviour.
If you will have these thoughts in mind,
the first three phrases of the Great Invocation will assume great significance.
Let me put some of these significances in tabular form:
(Table page 163 EOH)
(EOH 165) The three aspects of divinity in
man achieve practical expression through the influence of the Great Invocation,
both in living usefulness and true comprehension—true at least in so far as
man's present point in evolution permits of his correct apprehension of
significance. Goodwill, as the practical and possible expression of love
demonstrates on earth, evoking right relationship; light, as the expression of
the Hierarchy pours into the human consciousness, irradiating all dark places
and evoking a response from all [Page 165] forms of life in the three worlds of
manifestation, and in the three subhuman kingdoms through the medium of the
human; peace, as the expression
of the will of Shamballa
produces balance, equilibrium, synthesis and understanding, plus a spirit of
invocation which is basically an action, producing reaction. This demonstrates
as the first great creative and magical work of which humanity is capable,
swinging, as it does, all the three divine aspects into a simultaneous activity
in line with the will of God.
We come now to the last two phrases which
summarise the effects—synthetic and eternal (and consequently lasting) which
the establishment of direct
relationship with Shamballa will produce in the two other planetary centres, the Hierarchy and
Humanity. I refer to effects which will express themselves as a group activity,
motivated by the essential values of selflessness and persistent effort (which
is sustained concentration, in the last analysis) and thereby producing
conditions for which the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, has long
waited. The patience and
sustaining love of Shamballa is infinite.
The fourth phrase runs: May forgiveness on
the part of all men be the keynote at this time. As you know, the word
"forgiveness" is a curious and unusual one and signifies (according
to the best derivative sources) simply "to give for." Forgiveness is
not therefore, a synonym for pardon though the word has been distorted in
theological circles to mean this, so little has the Church understood the
basic, motivating power behind divine expression in our solar system.
Theologians ever think in terms of the human mind and not in terms of the
divine mind. Forgiveness is sacrifice, and is the giving up of one's self, even
of one's very life, for the sake of others and for the good of the whole group.
This spirit of sacrifice is ever found when the Shamballa force is rightly contacted, even in the smallest degree, and the underlying
impulse behind the loving will of God is sensed and understood, accompanied as
this always is with the desire to participate in that will and its spirit of
divine sacrifice. Manifestation is itself the Great Forgiveness. The [Page 166]
stupendous Lives—outside manifested existence—entered into manifestation in
order to give Themselves for the lesser lives and forms of existence in order
that these lesser lives might be enabled to proceed onward towards a goal which
is known to Deity alone, and thus eventually reach high places of spiritual
expression. Achievement is ever followed by sacrifice and the giving of the
greater for the lesser. This is an aspect of the Law of Evolution. Such is the
note and theme of the entire creative process and is the basic meaning of the
phrase, "God is Love," for love signifies giving and sacrifice, at
least in this solar system.
It is for this reason that the esoteric
teaching emphasises the fact that the soul of man is a Lord of Sacrifice and of
loving persistent Devotion—the two outstanding qualities of the Shamballa Lives, sustaining life and
giving. This is
lasting devotion to the good of the whole or the expression of the spirit of
synthesis and sacrifice in order again that all lesser lives (such as those
embodied in the personality of man) may rise to the "resurrection which is
in Christ," through the crucifixion or sacrifice of the soul upon the
Cross of Matter.
(EOH 169) I would point out that just as
the energies released by use of the first three phrases of the Invocation relate to the
Head, Shamballa; to the Heart, the Hierarchy; and to the Throat centre,
Humanity; so the right
use of this fourth phrase will bring into conscious, functioning activity the
centre between the eyebrows, the ajna centre in individual man and in humanity
as whole. This centre begins to become active and to function dynamically,
governing and directing the individual energies, once any real measure of
personality integration has been achieved. It is, as you know, the fourth centre
found above the diaphragm [Page 169] in the human body and the phrase which
awakens it (both individually and in the group) is this fourth phrase. There
is, therefore, a numerical relationship. When used wisely and intelligently by
human beings, many of the blended potencies which the first three phrases have
made available are invoked and so made available to the individual as well as
to the group. They can then be focussed for his use in the ajna centre. In many
ways, therefore, this fourth phrase of the Great Invocation is of paramount
importance to the individual as well as to humanity, invoking as it does great
and vital potencies and indicating process (Sacrifice) and purpose, plus the
identification of the unit and the group with the basic intent of manifestation.
(EOH 170) In the esoteric teaching, this
takes place in the life of the individual when—by an act of the will—the centre
at the base of the spine is aroused and the fire and the light of the personal
threefold life (one aspect of which is often called the kundalini fire) is
carried upwards and merged with the power and the light of the soul. The major
approach of the two basic energies of form and soul (as an expression of
spirit) are thereby related within the human being; the "marriage in the
heavens" takes place and the task of the creative process of incarnation
or individual manifestation is on the way to completion. Within the planetary
life, the same process goes on. The life of humanity as a whole (which is
intelligent form life) and the life of the Hierarchy (which is the life of the
soul), under impulse from the Spirit or will aspect as symbolised in Shamballa, are fused and blended and then a new
departure in the evolutionary process becomes possible. The
(EOH 225) I would here face you with these
alternatives and would ask you to consider your own position in these matters.
Does the story of Easter and of the living Christ carry no truth, and is it not
possible for that Risen Christ to express His power on Earth through His chosen
instruments? Is there no foundation for the myth of the annual return of the
Buddha, holding the door open between Shamballa and the Hierarchy so that, at need, intervention may
be possible through that open door? Is it only a silly dream and a fantasy that
at the time of the June
Full Moon, Christ—in
the closest cooperation with the Buddha—links the Hierarchy with Humanity? Is
it quite impossible that when humanity awakens to the fact of this mediatorship
and can then avail itself of the straight line of ascent and descent through
the doors held open by the Buddha
and the Christ, some
stupendous appearing may be imminent and suddenly take place? May it not be
possible that through the ascent of man's aspiration and spiritual desire, and
through the descent of the waiting Potencies, certain great changes may take
place, for which all the past has been only preparatory and through which the
Aquarian Age of brotherhood and understanding may make itself felt by virtue of
these great Potencies?
Wesak full moon of May is the
key to the open door between Shamballa and the Hierarchy
(EOH 227) Many people the world over have
for years been trained to recognise two things. First, the importance of the Wesak Festival at the time of the Full Moon
of May, because it not
only objectively links the major Eastern religion with the major Western faith,
but because it esoterically provides the key to the open door between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, between the purpose of God (still
unidentified by man, owing to his relatively low stage of evolution which makes
it beyond human comprehension at present) and the method of God, which is love;
it provides also the link between the Buddha, temporarily embodying
will-wisdom, and the Christ, embodying love-wisdom, and also between humanity,
focussed in consciousness through the Christ, and the Hierarchy, focussed in
consciousness through the Buddha. Owing to the stress of humanity today and the
urgency of the response which that distress evokes in the Hierarchy, the
synthesis of these two reactions to the world crisis can prove adequate to
bring in that outside assistance which could end the conflict along right lines
and bring not only relief, but illumination to the human consciousness. But
again—speaking here to a representative body of aspirants and disciples—I would
state that the focus and the emphasis is not yet adequate to guarantee this
extra-planetary response.
Nevertheless, it could be if, in your own
life of meditation [Page 228] and of discipline, in your speech with others and
in the general tone of your intercourse with your environment, you can
eliminate the negative and more selfish reactions and (for the sake of human
welfare) temporarily, at least, live at your highest point of aspiration.
Secondly, you have been trained in the
belief that all the information which I have given out anent the relation of
the Buddha and the Christ, and of the Hierarchy, Humanity and Shamballa, will form part of the coming new world religion and
that the theme of the Great Approaches will constitute the basic fundamentals
of the future spiritual teaching. This too you must have in mind, for the work
you are asked to do at the coming two Full Moons, and during the less important
full moons of the year, is not only related to the present emergency, but is
also constructively related to the future faith of humanity. Bear this also in
mind.
(EOH 229) That the will of Shamballa may be enabled to express itself through
love and through the meditation of the Hierarchy, working through all
disciples, aspirants and men and women of goodwill, is the earnest prayer of
your fellow disciple and co-worker.
(EOH 270) When this invocation is rightly
used and voiced by an adequate number of people, those who can in some measure
employ the enlightened will may succeed in reaching the Lords of Liberation and
produce, as a result, a phenomenal intervention of some kind. Those who work
more emotionally will reach the Rider from the secret place and may bring Him
forth to save and lead the masses of people. Are there enough focussed minds
and intense attentive hearts to reach the two centres where wait Those Who can
aid at this time? That is the question. It will happen when the three
centres—humanity, the spiritual Hierarchy of the planet, and the "place where the will of God lies hidden" (called in the ancient scriptures Shamballa)—are aligned and en rapport with each other. There
will then be established a direct relation between all three, and a direct
channel for the inflow of liberating force. This has happened only once before in the history of the
race.
(EOH 271) Owing to the fact that mankind is
so weakened by pain, strain and suffering, the probability is that it will not
be deemed wise for the Lords
of Liberation directly
to contact humanity. They will more probably do three things:
1. Stand behind and strengthen the Rider on the white horse as He responds to the demand of the people
everywhere, pouring through Him that dynamic energy which embodies the first
divine aspect, the will aspect, the power expression. Thus They will enable Him
to carry out the will of God in such a manner that humanity can grasp [Page
271] what is being done. Mankind will then see the Love which animates the Will
and Power of God. The true significance of liberty will then be revealed. It is
not yet understood.
2. Pour Their strengthening will-to-good
into the New Group of World Servers in all lands, so that there may be potent,
simultaneous action in line with the purposes of the Rider from the secret
place.
3. Stimulate and integrate into the minds
of certain advanced disciples a number of new ideals which must govern the
liberating process and find expression in the New Age. This was done in a small
way at the time of the French Revolution when the three major concepts of
freedom were expressed in the three words,
Certain racial interpretations of ideals will
also have to disappear in order to be succeeded by new and better ones. This
applies even to man's understanding of the three words which we have been
considering. "Liberty," as the Lords of Liberation may endorse it, is
in reality the recognition of right human relations, freely adjusted, willingly
undertaken and motivated by a sense of responsibility which will act as a
protective wall; this will take place, not through coercive measures, but
through correct interpretation and quick appreciation by the masses, who are
apt to confound licence (personality freedom to do as the lower nature chooses)
and liberty of soul and conscience. Yet this liberty is the easiest aspect of
the divine will for humanity to grasp. [Page 272] It is in reality the first revelation
given to man of the nature
of the Will of God and
of the quality of Shamballa.
"Equality"
is that peculiar understanding which the Coming One will reveal and which is
based on a right sense of proportion, correct Self-respect, and understanding
of the spiritual, yet natural, laws of Rebirth and of Cause and Effect, and
which will be founded in future centuries on the recognition of the age of a
soul's experience and gained development, and not at all on the loud emphatic
affirmation that "all men are equal." "Fraternity" is
something that humanity itself will contribute as an expression of the third
aspect of divinity, basing it on right contact and right reaction to contact.
Thus there will be developed gradually the true life-theme of humanity, which
is brotherhood, founded on divine origin (equality) and leading to a free and
true expression of divinity (liberty).
(EOH 274) Let the fiat of the Lord go
forth: the end of woe has come.
The ending of the present evil situation
is, therefore, a cooperative measure; and here, in this connection, we have the
appearance of the Lord of Civilisation Who voices and engineers upon the
physical plane the fiat of the Lord of Liberation and of the Rider from the
secret place. He aids and makes possible, owing to His control, the
precipitating upon the Earth and in the arena of combat, of the power generated
by the Lords of Liberation, expressed by the Coming One and focussed through
Him as the hierarchical Representative in
1. The Lords of Liberation, reached by the
advanced spiritual thinkers of the world whose minds are rightly focussed.
2. The Rider on the white horse or from the secret place, (Shamballa)
reached by those whose hearts are rightly touched.
3. The Lord of Civilisation, the Master R.,
reached by all who, with the first two groups, can stand with "massed
intent."
On the united work of these Three, if
humanity can succeed in calling Them forth, will come the alignment and the
correct relation of three great spiritual centres of the planet, a thing which
has never occurred before. Then:
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1. The Lords of Liberation will receive and
transmit to the Hierarchy energy from the centre where God's Will is known and
furthered.
2. The Rider will receive this energy and
take such action as will express it, plus the motivating energy from the centre
where God's Love is expressed.
3. The Lord of Civilisation will stimulate
and prepare the centre which we call humanity for right reception of this
re-vitalising, stimulating and releasing force.
Thus Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity
will stand consciously related and dynamically in touch with each other. The Will of God, the Love of
God and the Intelligence of God will thus fuse and blend on Earth and in relation
to human problems. Conditions will consequently be brought about and energies
will be set in motion which will end the rule of evil and bring war to an end
through the victory of the Forces of Light, recognised and aided by Humanity.
Racial Avatars emerge along the
line of the 1st ray and are very sensitive to Shamballa force
(EOH 298) 1. Racial Avatars. These Appearances are evoked by the genius and
destiny of a race. The typical man (in quality and consciousness, not
necessarily physically) foreshadows [Page 298] the nature of some race. Such a
man was Abraham Lincoln, coming forth from the very soul of a people, and
introducing and transmitting racial quality—a quality to be worked out later as
the race unfolds. Coming forth correspondingly from the realm of cosmic evil, and responsible for the focus of
materialism upon the planet today was
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The fifth, and highest type of
Avatar are called Divine Embodiments-and issue forth
Via Shamballa
(EOH 300)
I have considered some of these Avatars in my earlier writings under
different names and categories. I deal with Them here simply in an effort to
reach a wider public with the teaching on the doctrine of Avatars or of divine
Appearances. The Bible is full of such Appearances, but little is really
understood about Them. The above are the more familiar groupings.
In September 1940 I gave an interpretation
of a new Stanza of the Great Invocation, and in that communication I spoke of Divine Embodiments as the highest type of Avatar for which humanity could look at this point in its
evolution. I spoke of the activity of the Hierarchy and of Shamballa, should these two divine Agencies decide that
intervention in the form of a widespread cataclysm (engulfing all peoples) was
necessary, and I referred to the emergence of inspired leadership as another
and lower aspect of divine guidance and participation.
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Such inspired leadership is now being given
to humanity by Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt, in
contra-distinction to the focussed leadership of the forces of materialism
through Hitler and another man in his group. But it is not with this form of
leadership as expressive of the avataric principle that I deal here. Such
leadership is called forth by elements present in humanity itself. I deal now
with a fifth type of
Avatar, greater than
the other four. These Avatars have not, in this world cycle, experienced human
life.
Divine Embodiments come via
Shamballa and the Lord of the World, and embody divine purpose
5. Divine Embodiments. These Avatars appear rarely; and when They do, the
effectiveness and results of Their work are very great. They issue forth into manifestation via the
centre at Shamballa,
because They are an expression of the will nature of Deity; They embody divine purpose; the energy pouring through Them and
transmitted by Them is focussed through the Lord of the World; They can only be
reached by the united voices of the Hierarchy and of humanity speaking in
unison; Their service is evoked only by realised need, and only after those who
call Them forth have added to their faith strenuous action and have done their
utmost, alone and unaided, to overcome evil.
Divine Embodiments never descend
lower than the mental plane-express the energy of Shamballa, the destroyer
aspect of the 1st Ray (Plutonian energy), and bring about death
They never descend lower than the mental
plane, and the main
emphasis and attention of Their work is directed to the Hierarchy; the
Hierarchy is Their transmitting agency; They occasionally reach those thinking
people, focussed on the mental plane, who have clear vision, potent resolve,
directed will and open minds, plus of course, essential purity of form. These Avatars express the Will of God, the
energy of Shamballa,
and the impulse lying behind divine purpose. When They do come forth, it will be the destroyer aspect of the first ray of power
which They will express;
They bring about death—the death of all old and limiting forms
and of that which houses evil. Their work will, therefore, fall into two
categories:
b. They will reveal as much of the divine purpose as humanity is able to grasp through its
best minds and most dedicated aspirants; They will clarify the vision of the
world disciples and of all who have the disciplined will-to-know and who are
dedicated to and expressive of the will-to-good. This knowledge and this will
are needed in the coming period of readjustment.
How They will bring the present evil
conditions to an end and how They will destroy the present evil state of materialistic aggression I may not reveal. It is not yet certain
that human development and understanding and the massed intent of humanity will
be adequate to the needed demand and strong enough to call Them forth. Time
alone can determine that. God grant that the aspirants and disciples of the
world will awaken to the opportunity and the imminent and waiting possibility.
The plight of vast groups of people upon the planet today lies heavy upon the
heart of the Hierarchy. But to bring release and the Appearance of the Power that can liberate, human cooperation is needed. Nowhere is
this more desperately needed than among the German people in their unhappy
land. God grant, therefore, that those Germans who have vision may join the
forces of those who are seeking to free
When the Avatar comes He will convey to humanity something for
which we have as yet no true name. It is neither love nor will as we understand
them. Only a phrase of several words can convey something of the significance
and then only feebly. This phrase is "the principle of directed purpose." This principle involves three factors:
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a. Understanding (intuitive and
instinctual, but intelligently interpreted) of the plan as it can be worked out
in the immediate future.
b. Focussed intention, based on the above and emphasising an aspect of the
will, hitherto undeveloped in man.
c. Capacity to direct energy (through understanding and intent) towards
a recognised and desired end, overcoming all obstacles and destroying all that
stands in the way. This is not destruction of forms by force such as is now
being imposed on the world, but a destruction brought about by the greatly
strengthened life within the form. Only the next one hundred years will reveal the
significance of this statement and then only if the massed intent of the people evokes this Avatar of Synthesis during the
next twelve months.
The Avatar of Synthesis must be
invoked during the next twelve months
I have called this Being by this name
because it expresses the quality and the objective of the force He brings and
wields.
Another and lesser Avatar is also awaiting a call from humanity. He is esoterically related to the Avatar of Synthesis, being overshadowed by Him. This Avatar can descend on to the physical
plane into outer expression
and can thus step down and transmit the stimulation and quality of the force of
the greater Avatar Who can come no nearer than the mental plane.
The Avatar of synthesis will
work through a lesser Avatar-who may be the Christ, or it may be someone chosen
by him
Who this Coming One may be is not yet revealed. It may be the Christ, if His other work permits; it may be One
chosen by Him to issue forth, overshadowed by the Avatar of Synthesis and directed in His activities by the
Christ, the Lord of Love. In this way, the energies of both Shamballa and the Hierarchy will be focussed through the chosen
Coming One. Thus a triangle of loving, purposeful energy will be created which
may prove a more effective way of releasing energy and a safer way, than the
focussed impact of one selected force might be.
I realise the difficulty of this subject
and perhaps may simplify the matter by a brief summation:
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a. He will descend into the three worlds of
human endeavour, but no nearer than the mental plane.
b. He will transmit a cosmic energy whose quality is
Synthesis. This will
express itself through harmony and unity, producing necessarily understanding,
promoting goodwill, and eventually ending the separative, isolating tendencies
of mankind.
c. His note and vibration can only be
sensed by those whose individual note is also synthesis and whose life
objective is the will-to-good. These are consequently the Members of the
Hierarchy, the disciples and aspirants of the world and a few of the men of
goodwill.
The Lesser Avatar, who may be
the Christ, will coordinate between the Hierarchy and Shamballa
a. This lesser Avatar works today as one of the senior
Members of the Great White Lodge and is in close touch with the Christ, with the Manu
and with the Lord of Civilisation, the Master R.; He will act as the Coordinator between the
Hierarchy and Shamballa.
He will fuse and blend in Himself, through the quality of His Own life, the
three great energies:
The will-to-spiritual power.
The will-to-love in its spiritual
connotation.
The will-to-manifest spiritually.
b. The antiquity of the achievement of this
Coming One is to be found in the name applied to Him, which is found in so many
of the world Scriptures: The
Rider on the White Horse.
This refers to the time prior to the phrase so well-known in the Christian
fields: "The Lamb slain from the foundation of the world." In the
earlier cycle, the then initiates spoke of the "sacrificial horse, slain to all eternity." It conveys
the same basic idea.
c. This Avatar can descend to the physical
plane and there appear, to lead His people—as the Prince Who leads through war
to peace.
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d. The whole problem before the Hierarchy
and humanity today, in connection with the coming Avatar, can be summed up in
the following four questions:
Can He bring the energy of synthesis with
Him, thereby bringing about rapid changes?
The Avatar of Synthesis will
only come through the massed intent of humanity
This depends upon His being overshadowed by
the Avatar of Synthesis
and upon that Avatar being evoked through the demand and the massed intent of
humanity, aided by the Hierarchy.
Will the demand of the people be strong
enough to evoke the higher potency, or will it be too feeble because of the
failure of the world disciples and aspirants to focus this massed intent
throughout the planet?
Will the higher overshadowing not take
place and only the
lesser Avatar come to
institute a slower method of gradual reform?
This slower method will be necessitated
only if and because humanity will have demonstrated its inability to call forth
and receive the higher measure and more potent vibration of divine energy. It
is entirely for the decision of the world disciples and aspirants; not the
decision of poor bewildered, deluded humanity. Will the world disciples and
aspirants appreciate the crisis and opportunity? They have not yet, as a whole,
done so.
3. The Hierarchy today stands with massed
intent. The cry of the masses is rising up to the very gates of Shamballa. It is stronger by far than the demand of
the spiritually oriented people—the disciples, the aspirants, the men of
goodwill. They seem—from the viewpoint of the Hierarchy—to be overcome by
inertia, to be engrossed by their theories and idealisms, and to be blind to
the issues at stake. Can they be aroused? Can they stand with focussed intent,
strenuous [Page 306] physical service and activity, and determined effort to
struggle, even unto death, for the defeat of evil? Can they preserve the inner
attitude of love and non-separateness? Can they relinquish all for love of
humanity? Can they sacrifice every thing for the cause of freedom and of
righteousness? This is the problem confronting Those Who are working for the
appearance of the Greater and the Lesser Avatars Who can at this time save
humanity if humanity desires salvation and will take the needed steps.
The Needed Steps
These steps are various in kind though one
in intent. The first step is to realise clearly what are the methods whereby the Avatar can come and so reach humanity. These are the same
methods, whether it is the Avatar
of Synthesis, working
through the Hierarchy, or the Avatar of Coordination (as I might call Him), working through humanity and representing the
greater Avatar upon the physical plane.
The methods whereby Avatars reach and
influence Their agents or those who respond to Their note, vibration and
message are three in number.
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.
2. Inspiration. This is more direct than overshadowing and more
potent in results. Certain Members of the Hierarchy and, above all, the lesser
Avatars, are inspired from "on high" by the cosmic Avatar and become
at times direct expressions of His mind, His energy and His plans. This is the
spiritual correspondence to obsession. In the case of obsession, a man is taken
possession of and inspired by some evil entity; in inspiration, there is no
possession but only what is called "identical response"—a very
different thing. In the one case, the free will and intelligent understanding
of the Master or the disciple is enlisted on the side of the spiritual Agent;
the spiritual man, functioning as a soul, becomes the channel for forces, ideas
and activities other than his own but to which he gives full intuitive assent.
It is all carried forward with full understanding and consciousness of method,
process and results. It is an act of free spiritual cooperation, for the good
of humanity, in the work of a great spiritual Force or Being. The cooperation
of the Master Jesus with the Christ is a case in point. In connection with the
coming Avatar, it may involve the cooperation of the Christ or of a
"kindred, equal soul" with a cosmic Being or Presence, taking place
on still higher spiritual levels of consciousness and producing an incredibly
focussed potency.
In the case of obsession, the evil force
enslaves the personality which, in the majority of cases, is but a shell. Of
this, Hitler is a case in point. This
produces greater potency [Page 308] on the physical plane and on the astral
plane; it is quicker and more immediate in results, but the lasting power is
less and the effects are relatively temporary.
In the processes of inspiration, the lesser
Avatar—through His life and contacts in the three worlds—will necessarily
influence sensitive, spiritually oriented disciples and aspirants, and thus the
inspiration coming from the cosmic Avatar becomes in time a group inspiration,
and therefore can be more safely handled. This group inspiration can happen
today. If it does, there will then be a simultaneous appearing of the cosmic
Avatar, the World Saviour in the Person of the lesser Avatar, and—at the same
time—a group saviour, composed of responsive disciples and world servers.
Ponder again on this.
In this way, if you will note carefully,
there is established a direct linked chain from humanity, via the Hierarchy, to
Shamballa. The Hierarchy is working at the
establishing of this chain, aided by Their disciples. The demand for the
cooperation of all aspirants is now going forth, because the times are urgent.
If this relationship can be established (and it will be a sad day for humanity
if it cannot), then the third method of avataric expression becomes possible.
(EOH 343) But all this determination is in
most cases simply the expression of a fixed and united desire. It is not the
organised use of the will. The secret of the will lies in the recognition of the
divine nature of man. Only this can evoke the true expression of the will. It
has in fact to be evoked by the soul, as it dominates the human mind and
controls the [Page 343] personality. The secret of the will is also closely
tied in with the recognition of the unconquerable nature of goodness and the
inevitability of the ultimate triumph of good. This is not determination; it is
not whipping up and stimulating desire so that it can be transmuted into will;
it is not an implacable, unshakable, immovable focussing of all energies in the
need to triumph (the enemies of the Forces of Light are adept at that). Victory
for the United Nations does not lie in the effort to produce this focussing
with better effect than the enemy. The use of the will is not expressed by an
iron fixation to stand steady and not yield to evil forces. Determination, the
focussing of energy and the demonstration of an all-out effort towards victory
are only (where the United Nations are concerned) the expression of a
one-pointed desire for peace and for an ending of the trouble. This type of
effort is something which the masses can give, and which they do give on both
sides in this conflict.
Shamballa force is a unifying
synthetic force, but can be used as a regimenting, standardising force.
There is, however, a plus, a something
else, which will swing the tide of victory on to the side of the United
Nations. This will come through the effort to understand and express the quality of spiritual Will; it will be the manifestation of that energy
which makes the first divine aspect of Will or Power what it is; it is that
which is the distinctive
feature of the Shamballa force; it is that peculiar and distinctive quality of
divinity which is so different that even Christ Himself was unable to express
it with facility and understanding. Hence we have the episode in
This Will force is nevertheless available
for right usage, but the power to express it lies in its understanding (as far
as may be possible at this midway point in human evolution), and in its group
use. It is a unifying,
synthetic force, but
can be used as a
regimenting, standardising force. May [Page 344] I repeat those two key words to the
use of this Shamballa
energy: Group Use and
Understanding.
Mankind has had much difficulty in
comprehending the significance of Love. If that is so, the problem in relation
to the Will will naturally be still more difficult. For the vast majority of
men, true love is still only a theory. Love (as we usually interpret it) works
out as kindness, but it is kindness to the form side of life, to the
personalities of those around us, and fulfils itself usually in a desire to
carry out our obligations and not to obstruct in any way those activities and
relationships which tend to the well-being of our fellowmen. It expresses
itself in a desire to end abuses and to bring about happier, material world
conditions; it shows itself in mother love, in love among friends, but seldom
as yet in love among groups and nations. It is the theme of the Christian
teaching, just as Will, divinely expressed, will be the theme of the coming
world religion, and has been the impulse lying behind much of the good work
done in the fields of philanthropy and human welfare, but factually, true love
has never yet been expressed—except by the Christ.
You might ask why, if this is so, do you
emphasise this highest aspect? Why not wait until we know more about Love and
how to manifest it in our environment? Because, in its true expression, the Will today is needed as a propelling,
expulsive force, and
also as a clarifying, purifying agent.
Some definitions of Shamballa
force
The Shamballa energy is therefore that which is related to the
livingness (through consciousness and form) of humanity; we need not consider
its relation to the rest of the manifested world; it concerns the establishing
of right human relations and is that condition of being which eventually negates the power of death. It is therefore incentive and not impulse; it is realised purpose and not the expression of desire. Desire works from
and through the material form upwards; Will works downwards into form, bending form consciously to divine purpose. The one is
invocative and the other is evocative. Desire, when massed and focussed, can
invoke will; will, when evoked, ends desire [Page 345] and becomes an immanent, propulsive, driving force,
stabilising, clarifying, and finally destroying. It is much more than this, but this is all
that man can grasp at this time and all for which he has, as yet, the mechanism
of comprehension. It is this Will—aroused by invocation—which must be focussed
in the light of the soul and dedicated to the purposes of light, and for the
purpose of establishing right human relations; it must be used (in love) to
destroy all that is hindering the free flow of human life and
which is bringing death (spiritual and
real) to humanity. This Will must be invoked and evoked.
There are two great handicaps to the free expression
of the Will force in its true nature. One is the sensitivity of the lower
nature to its impact, and its consequent prostitution to selfish ends, as in
the case of the sensitive, negative German people and its use by the Axis
nations for material objectives. The second is the blocking, hindering, muddled
but massed opposition of the well-meaning people of the world who talk vaguely
and beautifully about love but refuse to consider the techniques of the Will of
God in operation. According to them, that Will is something with which they
will personally have naught to do; they refuse to recognise that God works out
His Will through men, just as He is ever seeking to express His Love through
men; they will not believe that that Will could possibly express itself through
the destruction of evil with all the material consequences of that evil. They
cannot believe that a God of Love could possibly employ the first divine aspect
to destroy the forms which are obstructing the free play of the divine Spirit;
that Will must not infringe upon their interpretation of Love. Such people are
individually of small moment and of no importance, but their massed negativity
is a real detriment to the ending of this war, just as the massed negativity of
the German people, and their inability to take right action when Hitler's
purposes were disclosed, made possible the great inflow of ancient and focussed
evil which has brought the present catastrophe to man. Such people are like a
millstone around the neck of humanity, crippling true effort, murmuring, [Page
346] "Let us love God and each other," but doing nothing but murmur
prayers and platitudes whilst humanity is dying.
You can easily appreciate the fact that the
evocation of the energy of the Will and its effect upon the unprepared,
materialistically minded person might and would prove a disaster. It would
simply serve to focus and strengthen the lower self-will, which is the name we
give to realised and determined desire. It could then create such a driving
force, directed to selfish ends, that the person might become a monster of
wickedness. In the history of the race, one or two advanced personalities have
done this with dire results, both to themselves and to the people of their
time. One such figure in ancient times was Nero; the modern example is Hitler.
What, however, has made the latter so dangerously an enemy of the human family
is that during the last two thousand years mankind has advanced to a point
where it can also be responsive to certain aspects of this first ray force.
Hitler therefore found associates and cooperators who added their receptivity
to his so that an entire group became the responsive agents of the destructive
energy, expressing itself in its lowest aspect. This is what has enabled them
to work ruthlessly, powerfully, selfishly, cruelly, and successfully, at the
destruction of all that attempted to impede their projects and desires.
There is only one way in which this focussed evil will which is responsive to
the Shamballa force
can be overcome, and that is by the opposition of an equally focussed spiritual
Will, displayed by responsive men and women of goodwill who can train
themselves to be sensitive to this type of new incoming energy and can learn
how to invoke and evoke it.
The focussed will –to-good can
invoke the shamballa energy
You can consequently see why there was more
than the casual use of a current word in my mind when I talked to all of you in
terms of goodwill and of the will-to-good. All the time I had in my thoughts
not just kindness and good intention, but the focussed will-to-good which can and must evoke the Shamballa energy, and use it for the arresting of the
forces of evil.
(EOH 349) I would ask you to ponder on
these two functions which the Buddha has performed. There is a third which, in
collaboration with the Christ, He has made possible; this is the establishment
of a more easily achieved relation between the Hierarchy and Shamballa, thus facilitating the impress of the Will of God
upon the minds of men, through the medium of the Hierarchy. This impress we
interpret as yet in terms of the divine Plan. This is expressing itself at
present in the [Page 349] keen recognition by men everywhere of the need to
establish right human relations, culminating in the objectives for which the
United Nations are fighting. These have been voiced for humanity by two great
world disciples in terms of The Four Freedoms and The Atlantic Pact. These Four
Freedoms relate basically to the four aspects of the lower self, the
quaternary. Enough light has been permitted to penetrate by the efforts of the
Buddha, to lead to a world-wide recognition of the desirability of these
formulas; and there is enough love already in the world, released by the
Christ, to make possible the working out of the formulas. Rest back on that
assurance and—in full practice upon the physical plane—demonstrate its truth. I
said "to make possible," for the working out lies in the hands of the
New Group of World Servers and the men and women of goodwill. Will they prove adequate
for the task? Will they brace themselves for the needed strenuous effort?
What now is the task which the Buddha has
set Himself this coming Full Moon? As far as your comprehension is concerned,
it is to evoke in humanity the spirit of demand, whilst holding open for them
the channel whereby that demand can reach straight through to Shamballa. This is the point to have in mind as you prepare for
the Wesak Festival and attempt to participate in the Full Moon
blessing—blessing for the world and not for yourself. The Buddha comes this
year, embodying the force which can stimulate men everywhere to focus their
"massed intent" and thus reach symbolically "the ear and the
heart" of the Avatar, wresting thus from the secret place of the Most High
the aid, help, and directed recognition which will bring about a phenomenal
event in due and proper time. Whilst He is attempting to do this, the Christ
will join in the effort by focussing in Himself the spirit of appeal as it is
evoked by the stimulation being applied by the Buddha. He will embody that
appeal in a great Invocation, one which cannot be given to you, but which He is
prepared to use if the appeal comes forth in sufficient strength from the
people of the world. Will humanity respond to the evocation of the [Page 350]
Buddha? Will their massed intent be vital enough to enable the Christ to become
Himself, in a mysterious way, the very Spirit of Invocation on their behalf?
These are the possibilities with which we are confronted this Full Moon of May.
(EOH 350) One thing I would request. Set no dates for the appearing of the
Coming One, the Avatar,
or for any spectacular aid. If the work is rightly done, He will come at the
set and appointed time and the needed aid will be forthcoming. Modes and
methods are none of your concern. Regard the ancient prophecies as
intrinsically right, true and correct, but recognise that their phraseology is
symbolic and not to be taken literally. How the Lords of Liberation will work
can only be known to the Hierarchy. Their aid will be focussed [Page 351] upon
evoking in the Hierarchy those attitudes and capacities which will make
possible the inflow of energy from Shamballa. Their work is with the Hierarchy, and the reaction of
humanity to Their activity will come only from the New Group of World Servers,
and may even then only be registered consciously by the senior disciples and
initiates.
The work of the Avatar, the Rider from the
The first half of this work, focussed
through the Buddha, will begin in May 1942. The second half will be started by
the Christ in June 1942, but only if the invocation of the New Group of World
Servers and the massed intent of the men and women of goodwill is adequately
strong and adequately focussed. It will consequently be a reciprocal process of
invocation and evocation, facilitated by the extreme readiness to act and to
respond on the part of Those invoked by humanity, but handicapped by the lack
of sensitivity and the weakness of the will of those seeking aid. It is this
inadequacy which the Buddha hopes to remove when He comes to His people in May.
It is the strengthening and focussing of the will which the Christ is
endeavouring to foster with a special effort in June.
These two Full Moons are therefore of
paramount importance and should have a definite effect subconsciously upon the
minds of the New Group of World Servers and upon the hearts of the men and
women of goodwill in every land, nation and group. Let your meetings, your
meditation and your individual thinking be steadily focussed upon these points,
and endeavour to enter into the Full Moon exercises—both of May and June—with
as clear an understanding of what is taking place as you can and a clear
picture of the possibilities which can come as the result of right action. Both
the Full Moons should be times of effective service. The Buddha does not
require invoking. He will come. But the spirit of invocation needs evoking from
the masses and it is this work that aspirants everywhere can aid the Buddha in
bringing out, standing thus with Him and with the [Page 352] Hierarchy. At the
time of the Full Moon of June, and in preparation for the opportunity during
the entire month of May, the point of focus for all servers must be the Christ
and every effort must be directed to aiding His work as Representative for the
people. He will endeavour to gather into Himself all that they have of appeal,
prayer and demand—voiced or unvoiced—transmitting it in an act of spiritual
intent to Shamballa.
(EOH 362) This is necessarily no rapid
process but is an ordered and regulated procedure, sure in its eventual success
but relatively slow also in its establishment and sequential process. This
process was initiated upon the astral plane by the Buddha, and on the mental
plane when Christ manifested on Earth. It indicated the approaching maturity of
humanity. The process has been slowly gathering momentum as these two great
Beings have gathered around Them Their disciples and initiates during the past
two thousand years. It has reached a point of intensive usefulness as the
channel of communication between Shamballa and the Hierarchy has been opened and enlarged, and
as the contact between these two great Centres and Humanity has been more
firmly established.
At the June Full Moon, 1942, will come the first test as to the directness of the
communication between the Centre where the Will of God holds sway, the Centre
where the Love of God rules and the Centre where there is intelligent
expectancy. The medium of the test will be the united effort of the Christ, of
the Buddha and of those who respond to [Page 362] Their blended influence. This
test has to be carried out in the midst of the terrific onslaught of the powers
of evil and will be extended over the two weeks beginning on the day of the Full Moon (May 30th, 1942) and ending on June 15th, 1942. There is a great concentration of the Spiritual Forces at this time and the use of a special
Invocation (one which humanity itself may not use), but the success or failure
of the test, in the last analysis, will be determined by mankind itself.
You may feel, though wrongly, that not
enough people know about or understand the nature of the opportunity or what is
transpiring. But the success of such a test is not dependent upon the esoteric
knowledge of the few, the relatively very few, to whom the facts and the
information have been partially imparted. It is dependent also upon the
tendency of the many who unconsciously aspire towards the spiritual realities,
who seek for a new and better way of life for all, who desire the good of the
whole and whose longing and desire is for a true experience of goodness, of
right human relations and of spiritual enterprise among men. Their name is
legion and they are to be found in every nation.
When the Will of God, expressed in Shamballa and focussed in the Buddha, the Love of
God, expressed in the Hierarchy and focussed through the Christ, and the
intelligent desire of humanity, focussed through the world disciples, the world
aspirants and the men of goodwill are all brought into line—either consciously
or unconsciously—then a great reorientation can and will take place. This event
is something that can happen.
DK describes the May full moon
of 1943 as the greatest spiritual approach of all time-one that the Masters had
been preparing for, for centuries
(EOH 388) March 1943
We are nearing the climax of the spiritual year. The greatest Approach of all time is imminent and possible. Much depends now upon the
aspirants and disciples of the world, particularly those in physical
incarnation today. A major contact between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, for which initiates and Masters have, for
centuries, been
preparing is in
process of consummation. I shall very shortly be giving you some further
information on the subject in an attempt to anchor on the earth that seed of
the new world religion which an earlier instruction upon the Great Approaches*
indicated might be founded, and lead to a true start of a universal faith which
will serve the need of [Page 388] humanity for a long time to come. All I ask
of you today is to begin now a most careful preparation for the event which is
impending at the time of the Full Moon of May,
so that the energies then set in motion may be aided by your directed thought
and you yourselves may come more fully into the current of the downpouring
life.
(EOH 398) I gave you later another Stanza
of the Invocation, of
great power which was
suited to the conditions of war—a war which proved inevitable and unavoidable.
This last Invocation was not so popular and not nearly so easily understood and
for this there was very good reason. It was an invocation intended to evoke the
Forces of Life just as the previous one invoked the Forces of Light and Love.
It could only be successfully used by disciples, advanced thinkers and the
Hierarchy itself. It was, however, given out to the public so as to familiarise
them as far as possible with the concepts of liberation and life and in an
effort to anchor upon Earth [Page 398] a new point of focus through which life
could be made to flow. This effort has not been totally unsuccessful.
At the time of the Full Moon of May and of
June, it will be advisable to use both these Invocations and thus to fuse and
blend into one united invocation the massed intent of humanity as a whole and
the enlightened purpose of the disciples and the Hierarchy. This fusion of the
two groups—Humanity and the Hierarchy—may then suffice to sound out such a potent
call that life may be released on Earth instead of death and the love of God
play its active part in the reconstruction of world affairs. If this can be
successfully accomplished, two
great revelations may
then be speeded on their way:
Such is another of the goals confronting
the Hierarchy at this time. Such is the will of God for humanity and such is
the intent and purpose
of Shamballa. When the
massed purpose of the Custodians of the Will of God and the massed intent of
the souls of men can be synchronised, then the Great Approach will become
inevitable and the Great Release will automatically follow.
(EOH 407) Behind this spiritual centre of
Love and Light another centre is to be found, for which the West has no name
but which is called in the East by the name Shamballa. Perhaps the Western name is Shangri-Lha—a name which
is finding recognition everywhere and which stands for a centre of happiness
and purpose. Shamballa
or Shangri-Lha is the
place where the Will of God is focussed and from which His divine purposes are
directed. From it the great political movements and the destiny of races and
nations and their progress are determined, just as the religious movements, the
cultural unfoldments and spiritual ideas are sent forth from the hierarchical
centre of Love and Light. Political and social ideologies and world religions,
the Will of God and the Love of God, the Purpose of divinity and the plans
whereby that purpose is brought into activity all focus through that centre of
which we are each consciously a part, Humanity itself. There are, therefore,
three great spiritual centres on the planet: Shamballa, the spiritual Hierarchy, and Humanity.
There is definite Biblical testimony to
this highest of all centres, Shamballa. At
moments of crisis in the earthly life of Christ we read that a Voice spoke to
Him, the Voice of the Father was heard by Him, affirming His Sonship and
setting the seal of approval upon His acts and work. At that [Page 408] moment
a great fusion of the two spiritual centres—the Hierarchy and Shamballa, the Kingdom of God and the world of Spirit—was
brought about, and thus spiritual energy was released on Earth. We need to
remember that the work of all World Saviours and Teachers is to act primarily
as distributors of divine energy and as channels for spiritual force. This
outpouring manifests either as the impulse behind a world religion, the
incentive behind some new political ideology, or the principle of some scientific
discovery of importance to the growth of the human spirit. Thus do religions,
governments and civilisations find their motivation. History has demonstrated
that again and again these developments are the results of the appearance and
the activity of some great man at an advanced stage of development. Those who
come forth as Teachers, Saviours or Founders of a new religion come forth from
the Hierarchy and are of the highest order of spiritual perfection. Those who
convey to man the purposes of God through new ideological concepts are not as
yet of so high an order, because man is not yet ready for the highest
presentation. Much has yet to be learnt and mastered by man, and spiritual
unfoldment always outpaces the outer expression of human relationships and the
social order; hence the world religions come first and produce the conditions
which make the work of the rulers possible. Those who come forth from the
spiritual centre, Shamballa, are of great power, however, and the
thread of Their influence can be traced throughout history in great declarations and pronouncements such
as the Magna Charta, the Declaration of
(EOH 416) 2. The development of the Science
of Invocation and Evocation as a means and method of approach to divinity. This
will grow out of the ancient habits of prayer as used by the masses, and the
practice of meditation as developed by the mystics and occultists. Prayer and
meditation are the preliminary steps to this emerging science, and what is
vaguely called "worship" is the group effort to establish some form
of united approach to the spiritual Hierarchy, functioning under the guidance
and control of the Christ and related to the highest spiritual centre, Shamballa, through its most advanced individuals, just as
humanity is related to the Hierarchy by its spiritually minded people.
(EOH 421) Let me indicate the possibilities
of such spiritual events, and prophesy the nature of the coming world-wide
Festivals. There will be three such major Festivals each year, concentrated in
three consecutive months, and leading therefore to a prolonged spiritual effort
which will affect the remainder of the year. These will be:
1. The Festival of Easter. This is the festival of the risen, living Christ,
the Teacher of all men and the Head of the Spiritual Hierarchy. He is the
Expression of the Love of God. On this day the Spiritual Hierarchy which He
guides and directs will be recognised, and the nature of God's love will be
emphasised. This festival is determined always by the date of the first Full
Moon of spring, and is the great Western and Christian festival.
Wesak, or the full moon of May,
is the festival of the Buddha, who is the intermediary between Shamballa and
Hierarchy
2. The Festival of Wesak. This is the festival of the Buddha, the spiritual Intermediary between the highest [Page 421] spiritual centre, Shamballa, and the Hierarchy. The Buddha is the
Expression of the Wisdom of God, the Embodiment of Light, and the Indicator of
the divine Purpose. This will be fixed annually in relation to the Full Moon of
May, as is at present the case. It is the great Eastern festival.
3. The Festival of Goodwill. This will be the festival of the spirit of
humanity—aspiring towards God, seeking conformity with the Will of God and
dedicated to the expression of right human relation. This will be fixed
annually in relation to the Full Moon of June.
It will be a day whereon the spiritual and divine nature of mankind will be
recognised. On this festival, for two thousand years, the Christ has
represented humanity and has stood before the Hierarchy and in the sight of Shamballa as the God-Man, the Leader of His people and "the
Eldest in a great family of brothers" (Romans VIII:29). Each year at that
time He has preached the last sermon of the Buddha before the assembled
Hierarchy. This will therefore be a festival of deep invocation and appeal, of
a basic aspiration towards fellowship, of human and spiritual unity, and will
represent the effect in the human consciousness of the work of the Buddha and
of the Christ.
These three festivals are already being
kept throughout the world, though they are not as yet related to each other,
and as part of the unified spiritual Approach of humanity. The time is coming
when all three festivals will be kept simultaneously throughout the world, and
by their means a great spiritual unity will be achieved and the effects of the
great Approach so close to us at this time will be stabilised by the united
invocation of humanity throughout the planet.
The remaining full moons will constitute lesser festivals, but will be recognised to be also of
vital importance. They will establish the divine attributes in the
consciousness of man, just as the major festivals establish the three divine
aspects. These aspects and qualities will be arrived at and determined by a
close study of the nature of a particular [Page 422] constellation or
constellations influencing those months. For instance, Capricorn (December)
will call attention to the first initiation, the birth of the Christ in the
cave of the heart, and indicate the training needed to bring about that great
spiritual event in the life of the individual man. I give this one instance to
you in order to indicate the possibilities for spiritual unfoldment that could
be given through an understanding of these influences, and in order to revivify
the ancient faiths by expanding them into their larger undying relationships.
We have, therefore, the following:
Shamballa……..the Will aspect of God….Wesak…….May Full Moon
(Taurus)
Hierarchy…..the Love aspect of God…..Easter…..April
Full Moon (Aries)
Humanity…..divine Intelligence….Goodwill…..June
Full Moon (Gemini)
The remaining nine Full Moons will be
concerned with the divine characteristics and their development in mankind.
Thus the twelve festivals will constitute a
revelation of divinity. They will present a means of bringing about
relationship, first of all during three months with the three great spiritual
centres, the three expressions of the divine Trinity. The minor festivals will
emphasise the inter-relation of the Whole, thus lifting the divine presentation
out of the individual and the personal into that of the universal divine
Purpose; the relationship of the Whole to the part and of the part to that Whole
will be thereby fully expressed.
Humanity will therefore invoke the
spiritual power of the
(EOH 425) The Forces of Evil sought for those leaders and groups who are the
materialistic correspondence to the spiritual leaders and those who seek to
guide humanity along right lines. They took possession (and I use this word
with deliberation) of the evil men who led the Axis Powers—Hitler, Tojo,
Goebbels, Ribbentrop, Himmler and—to a much lesser degree—Mussolini, Hess,
Goering and others. They completely overpowered the minds of these men, already
distorted with ambition and sadistic inclinations. Who, you ask, do I mean by "they"?
I mean those intelligent evil, unloving, hateful Individualities who are to the
world of selfish and material focus what the Hierarchy of Masters, working
under the Christ, are to struggling human aspirants. The power of these evil
forces is enormous, for they recognise no restrictions or ordinary decent,
human limitations; they work through violence, coercion, cruelty, hate, terror
and lies; they aim to subjugate the human consciousness through the complete
control of men's minds, through the withholding of good and the promulgation of
evil. They stimulate the brains of men through the extent of their evil and
magical knowledge; I mean this literally and physically. The Great White Lodge,
working under the inspiration of the Christ and of Shamballa, functions necessarily under certain spiritual
restrictions. Coercion is not permitted; the minds of men must be and are left
free; the stimulation of the souls of men is permitted, because it results in
the stimulation of the expression of love and of understanding, leading to
right human relations. These spiritual restrictions greatly slow down the
progress of the Forces of Light; it should interest you to remember that the
length of the war was partly dependent upon the inability of the Armies of the
Lord to commit the crimes for which the Axis Powers have been responsible. The
physical activities of the Forces of Light do recognise certain limitations,
and of this the Forces of Evil take constant advantage. The bombing of massed
populations was started by Hitler and could have been ended by him immediately
if he so chose.
The Christ had to deflect
Shamballa energy from the Axis powers to those who opposed them
(EOH 436) Our Master, the Christ, is also
at this time carrying forward three major activities. I can tell you briefly
what they are, but only the disciples of the world will grasp the true
implications.
He is, first of all, occupied with the
process of deflecting the will-energy, emanating from Shamballa, in such a way that it will not be seized
upon and misused by the Axis Powers in order to stiffen their peoples into
increased opposition to the Forces of Light. It must be rechannelled and used
to stiffen the purpose of the United Nations to carry the war to a finish of victory and of triumph, to increase the will-to-unity of all the
allied peoples and to make firm the intention of the post-war planners that
freedom, educational facilities, truth and right living shall be [Page 436] the
lot of the incoming generation. This necessitates on the part of the Christ a
concentration for which we have no equivalent word and a purely spiritual
endeavour (a monadic
effort) of which we
have no faintest idea.
(EOH 438) Today the Hierarchy is facing a
climaxing activity. From the Full Moon of May, 1944, until the Full
Moon of May, 1945, the
Members of the Hierarchy will unitedly be putting forth Their maximum effort to
close the door upon the Forces of Evil, to direct the Shamballa energy (now let loose upon the world) so that its
destructive aspect may be transmuted or directed towards the
stimulation which will result in the rebuilding of the world. This will then
affect not only the Members of the Hierarchy, but all on Earth who respond to
hierarchical impression. Have the following statement in mind:
"The focussed and concentrated work of
the Hierarchy at the time of the Full Moon of May, 1944 is—by Their united
effort, Their blended thought and Their illumined will power, under the trained
guidance of [Page 438] the Buddha and the Christ—to withdraw the energy of the
will-to-separation and aggression (a distortion of first ray energy) away from
the Forces of Evil and channel it again, via the Hierarchy; it will then
demonstrate as the Will-to-Good, and this will express itself via the men of
goodwill on Earth. This requires a great Act of Absorption by the
Hierarchy."
The Black Lodge had let loose
the Shamballa force into the Axis nations
The Buddha will start the process at the
time of His appearance, through the use of a great first ray mantram. This can be used only by someone of His
initiate standing and in collaboration with the Lord of the World. He will
thereby deflect the
Shamballa force which the Adepts of the Black Lodge have turned loose into the Axis nations; this has been made possible by their
receptivity to the will-to-power. He will "corral" it (if I may use
such a colloquial and inappropriate term) and will place it at the disposal of
the Christ. The reception and the acceptance of this first ray energy will
require a tremendous effort upon the part of the Christ, the Custodian of the
energy of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom. It is for this "reception"
that He started to prepare at the time of the April Full Moon.
Only three times in history has
the Shamballa force been directed unimpeded and untransmuteed, towards humanity
(EOH 438) I have told you elsewhere that
this direct impact of
the Shamballa energy
upon humanity very seldom occurs. It has been loosed only three times during the entire history of the human
kingdom. At other times, it makes its impact directly upon the Hierarchy, and
is then transmuted or stepped down so that humanity can take it. The three
times it has been directed, unimpeded and untransmuted, towards humanity are:
1. At the time of the individualisation of animal-man when the mind principle was implanted.
This was the birth hour of the human soul.
3. Today, once again, the Powers of Darkness are attempting to
destroy humanity and
the spiritual values. The power
of Shamballa was let loose, destroying old forms—political, social and religious—but at the
same time this power was seized
upon by the evil forces to destroy the souls of men, to precipitate war and to destroy the
cities and all our centres of civilisation and culture. The first phase or form
of destruction was directed by the disciples, the aspirants and the clear
thinking people of the world, and this was needed and very good. The old
social, political and religious forms were stultifying the human soul and
handicapping all progress. The
second phase or form of destruction was directed by evil, and was focussed through those nations
who had succumbed to the glamour of superiority, to the temptation of material
aggression and to intolerant racial hatreds, implemented by cruelty and
barbarism.
Shamballa force must express
itself through the will-to-good
The time has now come when this divine
energy must express itself through the second aspect of the will-to-good, and not through the first aspect, the
will-to-power. Mankind has had to be shown that it is not yet ready for power,
because the will-to-good is not adequately strong to balance this first aspect
of the will.
This then is the task of the Christ and of the Buddha at the time of the May Full Moon—to channel and redirect the Shamballa force. If They can do this, the result will be a
new realisation and accomplishment of the will-to-good by the New Group of
World Servers, under the receptive guidance of the world disciples and a
responsive activity of the men and women of goodwill.
(EOH 447) A powerful first ray activity—the
activity of will or purpose—is swinging into action. The Christ, as the Leader
of the Forces of Light, has empowered the Ashrams of the Masters upon this
first Ray of Power to strengthen the hands of all disciples in the field of
government and of political arrangement in every nation; to enlighten, if
possible, the various national legislatures by whatever means may be needed, so
that the potency of their words, the wisdom of their planning, and the breadth
of their thinking may prove so effective that the "Cycle of Conferences
and of Councils," now being initiated by the statesmen of the world, may
be under the direct guidance (again if possible) of Those in the Council Chamber at Shamballa Who know what is the Will of God. The
selfishness of the little minds in the various legislatures of the world must
in some way be offset. That is the problem. I wonder if you can grasp the
significance [Page 447] of this happening? Down the ages, individual statesmen
and rulers have from time to time been responsive to the influence of that
spiritually supreme Council; but it has been the responsiveness of the
individual disciple who has worked alone and unaided and who has faced, (or
experienced) defeat as often, if not oftener, than he has experienced victory.
Today, in the planning now going forward in connection with the various
international conferences and councils of which you all know, the spiritual
effort (for the first time in human history) is to bring all of them, as
functioning groups, under the direct impact of the energy which motivates and
actuates that place where the Will of God is known and the purposes of divinity
are defined and projected. This means that each of the coming world conferences
(and there will necessarily be many) will have a greater and far more extensive
effect than would otherwise be the case; it means, however, that the risks
involved and the clash of minds will also be far greater. This is a point which
you should bear in mind as you study and read reports of these various
conferences.
(EOH 455) Let us consider for a minute what
the Hierarchy stands ready to do and what its Members will plan and formulate
during the Easter Festival this month, during the Wesak Festival in April, and during
the Festival of the Christ at the end of May. It might be said that the
Hierarchy, in conjunction with the great Council of the Will of God at Shamballa, will divide Their work into three parts,
each governing three phases of the coming restoration of humanity to civilised
and cultured living on a new and higher turn of the spiral. They will deal with
the problem of spiritual freedom, as it embodies itself in the Four Freedoms,
and with the problem of right human relations, as it will express itself through
international relations, national parties and general human affairs. It is not
for me to tell you what humanity, through its statesmen and leaders, will plan
to do at the coming conferences. It is my task to mobilise the New Group of
World Servers and the men and women of goodwill so that they may stand as a
great "army of implacable spiritual will" behind the participants in
these conferences and councils, enabling them to think with clarity about the
issues involved and thus (through this clear thinking) affect telepathically
the minds of men; this involves the use of a power seldom employed as yet on
the side of righteous endeavour, though already widely used by the
materialistic leaders of the forces of evil.
(EOH 458) But the work of the Angel of Death, awful as it may seem as it demonstrates
today on a planetary scale—but beneficent as we know it to be in intent and in
purpose—will give place to that of the Spirit of Resurrection.
It is the planning of this restoration and
this resurrection activity which is now under consideration by the Hierarchy,
having been handed over to Them because They are closer to man than are Those
Who function in the Council
Chamber at Shamballa.
It must be remembered that this Spirit of Resurrection is a Member of that
Council and Their chosen Emissary. He (if one may be permitted to personalise
the impersonal) is in truth the "Sun of Righteousness" Who can now
arise "with healing in His wings"; Who can carry this life-giving
energy which counteracts death, this vision which gives incentive to life, and
this hope which can restore all nations. At the Full Moon of March, let the
demand go out for the appearance of this life-giving Spirit. Let it go forth
with such intensity that the Hierarchy will be called into active response and
will [Page 459] immediately release the potency of this Spirit into the hearts
of men everywhere.
(EOH 491) THE RELEASE OF ATOMIC ENERGY
August 9, 1945
I would like at this time to touch upon the
greatest spiritual event
which has taken place
since the fourth kingdom of nature, the human kingdom, appeared. I refer to the
release of atomic energy, as related in the newspapers this week, August 6,
Some years ago I told you that the new era
would be ushered in by the scientists of the world and that the inauguration of
the
1. It was the imminence of this
"release" of energy which was one of the major subjective factors in
the precipitation of this last phase of the war. This world war started in
1914, but its last and most important phase began in 1939. [Page 492] Up till
then it was a world war. After that date, and because the forces of evil took advantage of the state
of war and
belligerency existing on the planet, the real war began, involving the entire
three worlds of human evolution and a consequent activity of the Hierarchy.
Man's attention is normally focussed on the externalities of living.
Nevertheless, all great discoveries, such as those made in connection with
astronomy or in relation to the laws of nature or involving such a revelation
as that of radio-activity or the epoch-making event announced this week
concerning the first steps taken in the harnessing of cosmic energy, are ever
the result of inner
pressure emanating from Forces and Lives found in high Places. Such inner pressures themselves function
under the laws of the Spirit and not just under what you call natural laws;
they are the result of the impelling work of certain great Lives, working in
connection with the third aspect of divinity, that of active intelligence, and
are concerned with the substance or matter aspect of manifestation. Such activities are motivated from
Shamballa. This activity
is set in motion by these Lives, working on Their high plane, and it gradually
causes a reaction in the various departments of the Hierarchy, particularly
those working under third,
fifth and seventh ray Masters. Eventually, disciples upon the physical levels of activity become
aware of the inner ferment, and this happens either consciously or
unconsciously. They become "impressed," and the scientific work is then started and carried through into the stages of
experimentation and final success.
One point should here be remembered, and
that is that this phase applies
to both the great White Lodge and the Black Lodge—the one dedicated to the beneficent task
of purifying and aiding all lives in the three worlds of material evolution and
to the release of the soul in form, and the other to the retardation of the
evolutionary process and to the continuous crystallising of the material forms
which hide and veil the anima mundi. Both groups have been profoundly
interested and implicated in this matter of the release of energy from the atom
and the liberation of its [Page 493] inner aspect, but their motives and
objectives were widely different.
2. The imminence of this release—inevitable and under direction—produced an enormous tension in
hierarchical circles because (to express the idea colloquially) a race was on
between the Dark Forces
and the Forces of Light to acquire possession of the techniques necessary to bring about this liberation
of needed energy. Had the Dark Forces triumphed, and had the Axis Powers obtained possession of the
needed scientific formulas, it would have led
to a major planetary disaster. The released energy would have been used first of all to bring about
the complete destruction of all opposing the forces of evil, and then it would
have been prostituted to the preservation of an increasingly materialistic and
non-idealistic civilisation.
You might here fall back on the trite
religious platitude that the innate good in humanity and mankind's inherent
divinity would eventually have triumphed, because naught can finally overcome
the universal trend to good. You are prone to forget that if the evil forces possess potencies which
can destroy form in the three worlds on such a wide scale that the souls of advanced
aspirants and disciples, and those of initiates seeking incarnation, cannot
come into outer expression during a particular world crisis, then you have
direfully affected the time-schedule of the evolutionary process; you will have
greatly delayed (perhaps for millennia of years) the manifestation of the
kingdom of God. The time had come for that manifestation, and hence the
powerful activity of the dark forces.
The Nazis were close to success
in 1942
This attempt to hinder the planned progress
constituted a definite menace and indicated a supreme danger and problem. The
evil forces were closer to success than any of you have ever dreamed. They were so close to success in 1942 that there were four months when the
members of the spiritual Hierarchy had made every possible arrangement to
withdraw from human contact for an indefinite [Page 494] and unforeseen period
of time; the plans for a closer contact with the evolutionary process in the
three worlds and the effort to blend and fuse the two divine centres, the
Hierarchy and Humanity, into one working, collaborating whole seemed doomed to destruction. Their fusion would have meant the
appearance of the Kingdom of God on earth; the obstacles to this fusion, owing
to the active tension of the dark forces, seemed at that time insuperable; we believed that man would go down to
defeat, owing to his
selfishness and his misuse of the principle of free will. We made all preparations to withdraw, and yet at the same time we struggled to
get humanity to choose rightly and to see the issues clearly.
The necessity to withdraw was averted. I
may not say in what manner, beyond telling you that the Lords of Liberation took certain unexpected
steps. This They were
led to do owing to the invocative powers of humanity, used consciously by all
those upon the side of the will-to-good and unconsciously by all men of
goodwill. Owing to these steps, the efforts of those fighting in the realm of
science for the establishing of true knowledge and right human relations were
aided. The trend of the power to know and to discover (a definite form of
energy) was deflected away from the demanding evocative minds of those seeking
to destroy the world of men, leading to a form of mental paralysis. Those seeking to emphasise the right
values and to save humanity were simultaneously stimulated to the point of
success.
In these very few words I have disposed of
a stupendous world event, and in this brief paragraph I have summed up the
working out of a specialised divine activity.
3. When the sun moved northward that year (1942), the great White Lodge knew that the battle
had been won. Their preparations were halted and the Masters then organised for
renewed effort (through Their disciples) to bring about those conditions
wherein that which was new and that which was in line with loving divine
purpose could freely move forward. The war was not won by the surrender of
[Page 495]
b. A concerted effort was made by a number
of disciples who were working in fifth and seventh ray ashrams, and this
enabled them to impress lesser disciples in the scientific field and helped
them to surmount the well-nigh insuperable difficulties with which they were
confronted.
c. There was also a weakening of the
tension which had hitherto successfully held the forces of evil together, and a
growing inability of the evil group at the head of the Axis Powers to surmount
the incidental war fatigue. This brought about, first of all, a steady
deterioration of their minds, and then of their brains and nervous systems.
None of the men involved in the direction of the Axis effort in Europe is today
normal psychologically; they are all suffering from some form of physical
deterioration, and this has been a real factor in their defeat, though one that
may be difficult for you to realise. It is not so in the case of the Japanese,
whose psychological make-up is totally different, [Page 496] as are their
nervous systems, which are of fourth rootrace quality. They will be and are
being defeated by physical war measures and by the destruction physically of
their war potential and the death of the form aspect. This destruction ... and
the consequent release of their imprisoned souls, is a necessary happening; it is the justification of the use of the
atomic bomb upon the Japanese population. The first use of this released energy has been
destructive, but I would remind you that it has been the destruction of forms
and not the destruction of spiritual values and the death of the human
spirit—as was the goal of the Axis effort.
Forget not that all success (both good and
bad) is dependent upon the sustaining of the point of tension. This point of
tension involves the dynamic focussing of all mental, emotional and physical
energies at a central point of planned activity. This, by the way, is the
objective of all true meditation work. It is in this act of tension that the
German people failed. This cost them the war; their tension broke because the
group of evil forces who were impressing the negative German people were unable
to attain the point of tension which the Hierarchy could reach when it was reinforced through the action of the Lords
of Liberation.
d. Another factor was the constant,
invocative demand and the prayers (articulate and inarticulate) of humanity
itself. Men, impelled largely by fear and the innate mobilising of the human
spirit against slavery, reached such a pitch of demanding energy that a channel
was created which greatly facilitated the work of the Hierarchy, under the
direct influence of the Lords of Liberation.
The many different types of
atoms will release different kinds of atomic force
4. The release of the energy of the atom is as yet in an extremely embryonic stage;
humanity little knows the extent or the nature of the energies which have been
tapped and released. There are many types of atoms, constituting [Page 497] the "world substance"; each can release its own type of force; this is one of the secrets which the new
age will in time reveal, but a good and sound beginning has been made. I would
call your attention to the words, "the liberation of energy." It is
liberation which is the keynote of the new era, just as it has ever been the
keynote of the spiritually oriented aspirant. This liberation has started by
the release of an aspect of matter and the freeing of some of the soul forces
within the atom. This has been, for matter itself, a great and potent
initiation, paralleling those initiations which liberate or release the souls
of men.
In this process of planetary initiation
humanity has carried its work as the world saviour down into the world of
substance, and has affected those primary units of life of which all forms are
made.
5. You will now understand the meaning of
the words used by so many of you in the second of the Great Invocations: The
hour of service of the saving force has now arrived. This "saving
force" is the energy which science has released into the world for the
destruction, first of all, of those who continue (if they do) to defy the
Forces of Light working through the United Nations. Then—as time goes on—this
liberated energy will usher in the new civilisation, the new and better world
and the finer, more spiritual conditions. The highest dreams of those who love
their fellowmen can become practical possibilities through the right use of
this liberated energy, if the real values are taught, emphasised and applied to
daily living. This "saving force" has now been made available by
science, and my earlier prophecy substantiated.*
As I said above, the first use of this energy
has been material destruction; this was inevitable and desirable; old forms
(obstructing the good) have had to be destroyed; the wrecking and disappearance
of that which is bad and undesirable must ever precede the building of the good
and desirable and the longed-for emergence of that which is new and better.
The constructive use of this energy and its
harnessing for the betterment of humanity is its real purpose; this living
energy of substance itself, hitherto shut up within the atom and imprisoned in
these ultimate forms of life, can be turned wholly into that which is good and
can bring about such a revolutionising of the modes of human experience that
(from one angle alone) it will necessitate and bring about an entirely new
economic world structure.
It lies in the hands of the United Nations to protect this released
energy from misuse and
to see that its power is not prostituted to selfish ends and purely material
purposes. It is a "saving force" and has in it the potency of
rebuilding, of rehabilitation and of reconstruction. Its right use can abolish
destitution, bring civilised comfort (and not useless luxury) to all upon our
planet; its expression in forms of right living, if motivated by right human
relations, will produce beauty, warmth, colour, the abolition of the present
forms of disease, the withdrawal of mankind from all activities which involve
living or working underground, and will bring to an end all human slavery, all
need to work or fight for possessions and things, and will render possible a
state of life which will leave man free to pursue the higher aims of the
Spirit. The prostituting of life to the task of providing the bare necessities
or to [Page 499] making it possible for a few rich and privileged people to
have too much when others have too little, will come to an end; men everywhere
can now be released into a state of life which will give them leisure and time
to follow spiritual objectives, to realise richer cultural life, and to attain
a broader mental perspective.
But, my brothers, men will fight to prevent
this; the reactionary groups in every country will neither recognise the need
for, nor desire this new world order which the liberation of cosmic energy (even on this initial tiny
scale) can make possible;
the vested interests, the big cartels, trusts and monopolies that controlled
the past few decades, preceding this world war, will mobilise their resources
and fight to the death to prevent the extinction of their sources of income;
they will not permit, if they can help it, the passing of the control of this
illimitable power into the hands of the masses, to whom it rightly belongs. The
selfish interests among the big stockholders, the banking firms and the wealthy
organised churches will oppose all change, except in so far as it will benefit
them and bring more financial gain to their coffers.
Signs of this opposition can already be
seen in the utterances of certain powerful men who are today encouraging a
gloomy outlook in London and in Washington and elsewhere; the Vatican, that
wealthy and reactionary ecclesiastical organisation, has already expressed its
disfavour, because that Church knows—as do all the vested and monied
interests—that their days are numbered, provided humanity governs its decisions
during the next fifty years by the idea of the greatest good to the greatest
number. World decisions must therefore, in the future, be based upon a steady
determination to further right human relations and to prevent selfish control,
financial or ecclesiastical, by any group of men, anywhere, in any country. We
believe the determination of
These few suggestions will give you much
food for thought and real ground for happy, confident, forward thinking. [Page
500] Organise now for the goodwill work. The future of the world lies in the
hands of the men of goodwill and in those who have unselfish purpose
everywhere. This release of energy will eventually make money, as we know it,
of no moment whatsoever; money has proved itself (owing to man's limitations) a
producer of evil and the sower of dissension and discontent in the world. This
new released energy can prove itself a "saving force" for all
mankind, releasing from poverty, ugliness, degradation, slavery and despair; it
will destroy the great monopolies, take the curse out of labour, and open the
door into that golden age for which all men wait. It will level all the
artificial layers of modern society and liberate men from the constant anxiety
and gruelling toil which have been responsible for so much disease and death.
When these new and better conditions are established, then men will be free to
live and move in beauty and to seek the "
This concludes the section where
DK explains how and why atomic energy was released from the atom
(EOH 519) In these words I refer to an
aspect of the amazing enterprise upon which the Hierarchy is embarked within
this cycle: Its appearance, expression and activity upon the physical plane for
the first time since it withdrew into the subjective side of life and focussed
itself on the mental plane (instead of the physical) during the days of ancient
Atlantis and after the war between the Lords of the Shining Countenance and
Lords of the Dark Face, as The Secret Doctrine calls it. For millions of years,
as a result of the
triumph of evil in those days, the Hierarchy has stood in silence behind world events, occupied with
the following work—a work which will eventually be carried on exoterically
instead of esoterically:
(EOH 520) 5. The Hierarchy receives and
transmits energies and consequent forces from Shamballa, with resultant effects within the Hierarchy itself,
and also with effects upon humanity and upon the soul of all things to be found
in all kingdoms.
(EOH 522) These groups, indicated for
externalisation, exist on the inner side as part of one inner Group; they must
be externalised for service purposes. The fact that this externalisation is
possible indicates certain developments which are the result of the past, of
the unfoldment of humanity's developing powers to recognise Reality, of the
invocative cry of the masses everywhere, plus the directed invocation of the
spiritual people of the world, and the effect of the world war (1914-1945). All
these factors have wrought a great destruction in the materialistic world and
have produced a very real expansion in the human consciousness; also, as one
[Page 522] of the Masters, unknown to you, remarked at a meeting of Members of
the Hierarchy a few weeks ago, "One of the gates is open; those who are
ready can come in, but we now can go through it also, and can go to them in a
new sense and more directly. May Shamballa help us."
It is realised by all in the Hierarchy that
the major test connected with a higher initiation confronts Them. Disciples
should attempt to realise the tremendous sacrifice involved in this outward
move of the Hierarchy into secular existence. The higher the state of
initiation, the harder it will be for the initiate concerned. It is, for
instance, less of an effort for me to contact you than it would be for some of
the Chohans, such as the Masters M. and K.H. I am nearer to you, because I am
still utilising the same physical body in which I took the fifth initiation,
nearly ninety years ago. Chohans have taken a still higher initiation and are
focal points of powerful Ashrams; Their task of adjustment is very much harder.
Their invocative appeal to the Lord of the World in His Council Chamber at Shamballa has been mounting for some time. It has
been called "The Appeal for Alignment" because the Members of the
Hierarchy feel and know that this great return to Earth which has been arranged
for the Hierarchy after so long an absence, will call for a fuller expression
of the spiritual will than even They realise; They know that it will require
the cooperation of Shamballa as well as the cooperation of humanity.
(EOH 525) For aeons and for cycles, the
Members of the Hierarchy have been submitting Themselves to the needed training
in order to react correctly when fuller contact has been established by Shamballa with the Hierarchy. I would have you note
the phrasing here. That contact has now been established as a result of the
inflow of certain extra-planetary forces and by an "act of determined
direction," emanating from the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World. Misunderstand me not. The Hierarchy has
always been in touch with the "Place of Purpose" (as it has been
called) through the medium of its Chohans and its senior Directors, such as the
Christ, the Manu and the Lord of Civilisation. These great Beings have steadily
revealed this purpose to the Members of the Hierarchy so that They have been
able to grasp and work out the emerging Plan. But even to the Masters the Shamballa force has had to be stepped down, just as the force of the Hierarchy
requires modifying for the average disciple and aspirant, if they are to
respond constructively to it.
Shamballa energy is being
absorbed by the mineral kingdom-it causes volcanic episodes and basic
earthquakes
Today, however, things are somewhat
changed. New inflowing energies and the partial "sealing" of evil in
its own place (a sealing which will be progressively effective) have made a
closer relationship possible. The Masters are somewhat freer from certain of
the arduous labours of the past cycles. Some of the available inflowing Shamballa forces are being
absorbed directly by humanity and by certain of the subhuman kingdoms, particularly the mineral
kingdom. This latter absorption will lead eventually, when complete, to those volcanic episodes and those basic earthquakes which will change the face of the earth by the time the sixth rootrace comes into manifestation. It is this direct
inflow to the kingdoms functioning exoterically in the three worlds which has
relieved and will to some extent relieve the otherwise overpowering pressure
upon the Hierarchy, and will also act as a great aligning antahkarana between
the three planetary centres. It is to this alignment I refer in this
instruction—[Page 526] the alignment of the three centres upon this planet and
the adjustments that this necessitates and inevitably enforces.
(EOH 527) The seven major centres or Ashrams within the Hierarchy are each presided
over by Masters of Chohan rank; the seven subsidiary centres or Ashrams are
presided over by Masters and Adepts (of the fifth and fourth initiations),
aided by initiates of the third degree and certain picked and senior disciples.
Several of the seven affiliated Ashrams are, as yet, incomplete as regards
personnel, but vacancies are rapidly being filled as the spiritual effects of the
world war (1914-1945) make themselves felt. These effects are very real and
have been a source of great encouragement to hierarchical workers.
Before the Hierarchy can emerge (as is the
intention), the relation between a major Ashram and its subsidiary Ashrams must
be firmly established, whilst that between a major Ashram and other major
Ashrams has to be brought more definitely and unquestionably closer to Shamballa, and under the influence of that great first ray
centre. The energy which will align and adjust the subsidiary forty-nine
Ashrams is that of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom. That, however, which will
bring about a similar adjusting and aligning impetus in the seven major Ashrams
is the energy of the first Ray of Will or Power. I have here given you a most
important item of occult information, but one which is of no importance to you
individually; it serves, however, to present proof of the significant occult
relation between the three planetary centres. Just as the third planetary
centre, Humanity, has now reached a point of intelligent development [Page 528]
so that a closer rapport can be set up between it and the Hierarchy, so the
Hierarchy also has moved forward as a unit so that a closer corresponding
rapport can also be set up between It and Shamballa. Just as the rapport between the Hierarchy and
Humanity is established via aspirants, disciples and initiates in physical
existence who are responding to the love-wisdom of the universe in some measure
and who work via the intelligent people in incarnation primarily, so rapport
between Shamballa and the Hierarchy is being more closely
established via the senior Ashrams, and not via the secondary ones. You have,
therefore, a situation which might be depicted somewhat as follows:
I.First Planetary Centre………. Shamballa
working through
1. The seven Rays or the seven Spirits
before the Throne.
2. Certain great Intermediaries.
3. The Council Chamber of the Lord of the
World.
Masters who choose the Path of
Earth Service, constitute part of the Council Chamber
(EOH 532) As this subject concerns one of
the seven goals towards which the Masters aim after They have attained the
fifth initiation, it will be obvious to you that there is little that I can say
about it. One of the seven Paths for which the Way of the Higher Evolution
prepares the senior initiates is the Path of Earth Service. This Path, as you know, keeps the Masters attached
to service in the three worlds for a period much longer than the average. It
involves tremendous sacrifice. [Page 532] Just as the disciple has to live a
dual life, with one part of his reflective nature and awareness centred in the
life of the Hierarchy and the other part of his mental responsiveness equally
centred on life in the three worlds, and this simultaneously, so the Master,
when He chooses this Path, forms
a constituent part of the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World and at the same time works
consciously in the three worlds, via the Hierarchy (of which He remains also a
part), and with the human and subhuman kingdoms in nature. As evolution
proceeds, He will work increasingly via humanity because humanity will be
shouldering its responsibilities as the Macrocosm of the lesser microcosm. This
dual activity entails much specialised training, and as the initiatory process
becomes exoteric and men everywhere recognise it and participate in it, the
training which Members of the Hierarchy also undergo will not be so secret and
mysterious as it is today. But the time has not yet come to publicise it.
Only certain further generalisations are
here possible, some of which are already known to you because they are so broad
that their inclusions and implications are obvious. This, for instance,
concerns the "centre
where the Will of God is known". Here at Shamballa work Those Who have unified Their
personality will and Their spiritual will with the universal will, and such a
unification inevitably brings knowledge. It is, however, not knowledge as you
understand it. It is a blend of wisdom based on knowledge, understanding based
on intuitive perception, and identification based on alignment, esoterically
comprehended. For this peculiar condition or awareness we have no word in any
language, and only the utilisation (the trained utilisation) of the abstract
mind can possibly convey to you even an embryonic factual conception. But that
type of imaginative conception will become more common during the next two
centuries, and my words here will therefore serve an ultimate purpose.
Those Who form the Council Chamber
of the Great Lord are under no misapprehension as to His will because They see
it whole
Those Who form the Council Chamber of the Great Lord are under no misapprehension as to His will because They [Page 533] see it
whole. Paul, the
initiate, hints at this when writing one of the Epistles; he is in touch then
with certain Members of the Hierarchy and is concerned with the theme of Love,
which is the fundamental hierarchical theme and motive. He says to Them:
"Now we see through a glass darkly, but then face to face; now we know in
part, but then shall we know even as we are known." He there points
towards the future progress of the Hierarchy—a progress which remains as yet
only a vague promise, lacking form and shape. But he wrote for initiates to whom
love was a growing, vital concern, and to whom love and its practice meant
light and the basic motif of all living, divine activity. It is not possible to
reveal the will of God and the motivating Purpose of His manifesting Self,
except to Those Who have demonstrated perfected love and Who register no sense
of disunion or the faintest reaction to separateness.
The Eternal AUM is a symbol of
the eternal now and the Will of God at Shamballa-
composed of one major Sound,
three minor sounds, and seven subsidiary vibratory tones.
At Shamballa, the Great Lives Who function there not
only see manifestation whole and apart from all the limitations of time, but
They feel all the major evolutionary impulses which are bringing the developing
world into line with the divine Will. They embody those impulses not in terms
of progressive movement, but in terms of one great divine and spiritual
reaction. This idea can perhaps be best understood by you in terms of the Eternal AUM which is the symbol of the
Eternal NOW. You have
been told, and it has been demonstrated, that the AUM is composed of one major Sound, three minor sounds, and
seven subsidiary vibratory tones. So it is with the Will of God which is embodied and held in synthesis by the
Members of the Council Chamber. To Them, as They "hold the Will of God in
solution, it is one
clear note; as They see that Will in motion, it is three abiding chords, carrying outwards into all the worlds the Purpose of
the ONE Who for aeons will abide; as They impel that Will to demonstrate, it is
seven vibratory tones, drawing out into the reflected worlds the
structure of the Plan. And thus the note, the chords and tone produce the Plan, reveal the Purpose and
indicate God's Will." This [Page 534] is a quotation from certain of the ancient Archives
which constitute the study of the Masters; they relate to the nature of Shamballa, its work and emanating energies.
Shamballa, as it constitutes the synthesis of understanding where our Earth is concerned, is also the
centre where the highest
Will of the Solar Logos is imposed upon the Will of our planetary Logos, Who is, as you know, only a centre in His
greater body of manifestation. With this item of information you can have no
possible concern; the Masters Themselves are only learning the Will of the
planetary Logos; the objective
of effort in Shamballa is, however, the apprehension of solar Purpose, the Plan of which is working out on the
highest levels of our planetary system, just as the Will, Purpose and Plan of Shamballa work out on the three lowest levels of our planetary
system. Again, this item of information serves only to indicate hierarchical
objectives, and those objectives extend away from time and space into the Mind
of God Himself.
There are certain synonyms which here may
serve to develop your
synthetic thinking and
so bring in a definite measure of enlightenment.
SHAMBALLA HIERARCHY HUMANITY
Synthesis Unity Separation
Will Purpose Plan
Life Soul Appearance
Spirit Consciousness Substance
Livingness Organism Organisation
Apprehension Polarisation Focus of Activity
Power Momentum Action
Energy Distribution Forces
Direction Transmission Reception
Head Heart Throat
synthesis is, whilst unity is
achieved and is the reward of action and effort.
It will be apparent to you how little you
can understand of the Shamballa
intention when you
realise that it is not easy for you to see any true distinction between unity and synthesis and, at the same time, how impossible it
is for me [Page 535] to make the distinction clear. All I can say is that synthesis is, whilst unity is achieved and
is the reward of action and effort. As you progress upon the Path of Initiation the
meaning of unity clarifies. As you direct yourself towards the Way of the
Higher Evolution synthesis emerges. More than that it would be useless for me
to say.
This problem of the apparently impenetrable
darkness of intention as grasped by Shamballa, of meaning, of inscrutability, of a spiritual
imperviousness which holds, in spite of all fluctuations in the three worlds of
human evolution and the remaining two of superhuman unfoldment, provides a
situation to which the Hierarchy has to make adjustment through alignment. You
are, in your small way, making your adjustment to the Hierarchy through a
steady construction of the antahkarana, and in so doing are aiding in the
construction of the antahkarana which unites Humanity and the Hierarchy—the
first few strands of which were established through the sacrifices of certain
of the Sons of God when the Hierarchy was founded on Earth. Today, the
Hierarchy is working at the establishing of the linking strands between Itself
and Shamballa, and good progress has already been made.
It might be said here that for the past seven hundred years the chain of
Hierarchy has been complete; by this I mean that the planetary rainbow bridge
uniting the three major centres has existed. The task ahead of all these three
major centres, working in alignment through adjustment, is to strengthen and
beautify (if I may so express it), to electrify this bridge, thus producing
full planetary intercommunication between the three centres and the four minor
centres, so that "the weight of the Will of God, the momentum of the
Purpose of Sanat Kumara and the Plan of His Representatives may progress
unimpeded from point to point, from sphere to sphere and from glory to
glory."
Shamballa reaching Hierarchy
directly is equivalent to the head chakra reaching the throat centre
directly-or Vulcan and Uranus reaching Saturn directly-Usually Saturn is said
to rule the throat chakra, but at some stage it has a dual rulership of Uranus
and Saturn
(EOH 536) It is this complete establishment
of relationship between Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity which brought
about the planetary crisis through which the world has just passed and, from
some standpoints, is still passing. [Page 536] Shamballa, as I have told you, can now reach Humanity, the third major centre,
directly, and
therefore has two points of planetary contact: the first, via the Hierarchy, as
has been for long the case, and secondly, in a straight line, carrying energy
direct to Humanity, without any transmission and consequent modifying of
impact, as has also been the case hitherto.
Shamballa made its first direct
impact on Humanity after the Great centennial Council held in 1825, although
this energy was demanded at the Council of 1425-
When this direct line of spiritual,
dynamic, electrical energy made its first impact on earth (after the Great Council held in
1825), it first of all
awakened men's thinking in a new and comprehensive way, producing the great
ideologies; it aroused their massed desire, and registered obstruction on the
physical plane. It found its course impeded and discovered it was faced with
barriers. This energy from Shamballa, being an aspect of the ray of the
destroyer,
This Shamballa energy was the
cause of the world war
proceeded to "burn up" in the fires of destruction,
all such hindrances upon the planes in the three worlds. This was the deeply esoteric and unrecognised cause of the war—the beneficent bringing to an end of the
impediments to the free flow of spiritual energy down into the third centre;
this was the factor which called "evil from its hidden place" and
brought the opposing forces to the surface of existence, prior to their
"sealing". To the extent that this was so, mankind in the World War
(1914-1945) was the unhappy victim of spiritual circumstance; however, from the
angle of man's historical past, humanity was the engineer of its own fate; but
it took both the esoteric activity of Shamballa and the exoteric activity of humanity over a
millennia of years to precipitate the conditions which made this new alignment
possible and brought about the sealing (still being carried slowly forward),
and plunged mankind into the vortex of war. This impelling downpouring energy
from the highest centre penetrated not only to the heart of humanity, but into
the very depths of the mineral kingdom, implicating also the animal and the
vegetable expressions of divine life.
Because of this direct impact between Shamballa and Humanity, by-passing the Hierarchy, the Hierarchy
was left free for the work of rehabilitation and salvaging, for reconstruction
and for the application of the regenerative forces of [Page 537]
resurrection. The Hierarchy needed and
welcomed this interlude and recognised it as an essential aspect of the Plan.
The Shamballa impact is now over
The "cycle of Shamballa impact" is now over; the appeal of humanity to the Christ and
His Hierarchy has again refocussed the energy of Shamballa via the Hierarchy, and the direct work of the
Hierarchy with Humanity can again take on fresh meaning, can be re-established
on new and somewhat different lines, and thus definitely bring in that
"new heaven and new earth" for which men have so long waited. This
will take time, but the new energies and their emerging qualities are adequate
to the task, and will alleviate much and bring about great changes in due
course of time. You will note, therefore, that the Hierarchy has been faced
with three adjustments as the result of being deliberately "put out of
alignment," though only temporarily, with both Shamballa and Humanity. This was symbolised for us at the
Crucifixion when the Saviour hung pendant between heaven and earth. These
adjustments are:
1. Adjustment to those extra-planetary energies which were released into the highest
centre. This was made possible by two factors:
a. The direct impact between Shamballa and Humanity or between will and
intelligence. This is an important point to recognise.
b. The temporary quiescence of the love
principle, as the Hierarchy waited for the results and effects of this direct
impact upon the earth.
This was effectively carried out with much destruction in the world of
forms.
2. Adjustment to certain basic changes
within the Hierarchy Itself in preparation for the process of externalisation
which was begun this century.
3. Adjustment to a disciplined and
reoriented humanity, [Page 538] working today in the dark, it is needless to
say, groping along unknown ways, appealing to the Hierarchy for more light and
understanding, but awakened and alert for changes.
These adjustments are proceeding with
rapidity; the technique being employed is realignment, through a definite
action of the Will, as far as Shamballa is
concerned, and by an outpouring of Love, as far as humanity is concerned. This
Act of the Will is carried out by the three Heads of Departments in the
Hierarchy, under the guidance of the Christ and by the Chohans of the seven
major Ashrams. They constitute
a group of ten to Whom
this task has been committed, for the reason that They are the only Members of the Hierarchy Who possess the needed
qualifications and in Whom the Will aspect is adequately developed. The task of
pouring out the Love principle in a new and dynamic manner is being carried out
by all the Masters and by all initiates who have taken the third initiation.
This stream of love will focus itself each coming Full Moon in a special act or
demonstration of love.
You will note also how fully occupied the
Hierarchy is with work, preparatory to emergence, and with those plans and
activities which will lead to renewed interior activity, based not on lack of
previous unity and integrity, but on the absorption of new energies, made available via
Shamballa, of these
extra-planetary forces to which I have earlier referred. This task of
reorganisation prior to moving outward, will be completed by May, 1946. Then the task of the new alignment with
humanity will be started and the great work undertaken which will proceed for
several hundred years.
In Relation with Humanity
I shall not deal here with the work to be
done in centuries to come in and through humanity, which is the goal of all
these adjustments—at least as far as your present interest is concerned. I
shall touch only upon the activities of the Hierarchy as it establishes—on a
more powerful [Page 539] basis—a more direct contact with mankind. Since 1925 the Hierarchy has directed Its thoughts to men, but It
has not vitalised, as It will eventually do, the religious movements or
churches in all lands, or the educational work in all countries, or any of the
activities which are concerned with the aiding of humanity through welfare
movements. It was felt that it was necessary for mankind to show the Hierarchy,
as well as themselves, the nature of the impulses towards love and selflessness
which may have been already established, and to do this free of hierarchical
prompting and influence, and in this way demonstrating that they possessed that
which might be depended upon as innate and as present in a living, creative
manner. The demonstration has been good; humanity has shown creative love, of
which goodwill and humanitarian efforts are the lowest aspects. The showing has
been better than was anticipated, and this new and vital re-alignment between
the Hierarchy and Humanity becomes now beautifully possible and can be carried
forward without danger. The Hierarchy is now the Custodian of far greater power
than heretofore, on account of Its adjustment to Shamballa.
This hierarchical readjustment to humanity
is being carried out at this time in the Ashrams by the setting up of magnetic
centres which, through their directed activity, will influence humanity in the
coming large scale process of reorientation. In studying this, you must
remember that these are not centres or concentrations of forces, but groups of
disciples whose quality is oriented towards mankind and whose potency of
thought will act magnetically upon aspirants and humanitarians and, through
them and their goodwill activities, will reach and impress men everywhere. The
adjustment being at this time undertaken, therefore, is between hierarchical
groups and groups of men and women upon earth; it is intended, as you have been
told, that Humanity itself will be the world-saviour, working with the aid of
the Hierarchy—as yet invisibly behind the scenes. When this interim work of
salvage is accomplished, then the Hierarchy will externalise Itself.
[Page 540]
You can imagine the adjustments, therefore,
going on in all the Ashrams in preparation for all this and—though I touch not
upon it—you can imagine the general effect of these inter-hierarchical
adjustments and alignments upon disciples and aspirants upon the earth; they
are the first, needless to say, who will respond to this activity. As all this
is taking place in the present difficult period of world rehabilitation, the
immensity of the problem involved and the quality of the tension are abnormal.
It is not easy for disciples today; of this the Hierarchy is well aware. This
fact also involves for Them still another aspect of hierarchical adjustment.
They have—for the sake of the work to be done—to establish a closer alignment
between the inner Ashrams and the outer groups, between Themselves and Their
senior disciples carrying the burden of the outer world service; this alignment
has also to be extended between senior disciples and initiates and the workers
on earth.
The pureness of the motives animating the
Hierarchy will constantly emerge with greater clarity in your minds, as you
attempt to understand, even in a small measure, Their problems. There are other
problems of which you can know nothing—problems related to the new energies
pouring into our planet, impersonally and dynamically; problems of fresh
tensions, incident to stronger and new alignments; problems concerned with human
enlightenments and reactions in the face of the darkness which evil initiated;
problems of increased personnel, disturbing the rhythm but necessitated by the
demand for workers; problems connected with the growth and training of the
Members of the Hierarchy upon the Way of the Higher Evolution; other problems
incident to the planetary crisis, to the Initiation of the Lord of the World
Himself, and to the amazing demonstration of the success of the evolutionary
process up to the present time. This success has been proven by the alignment
for direct interplay of the three major planetary centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity.
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(EOH 541) HIERARCHICAL PREPARATION AT THE
WESAK FESTIVAL
April-May 1946
I have delayed writing my usual Wesak
message until this late date because of a certain event in the Hierarchy which
was maturing and which necessitated my entire attention. This event was
connected with the Wesak Festival and involved among other matters the formation
of a new Ashram in which the Wisdom aspect would be of particular importance
and not the Love aspect; this Ashram would also be related in a peculiar manner
to the Buddha. It had to be formed at this time in order to be the recipient,
and then the custodian, of certain "endowments" which the Buddha will
bring at the time of the May Full Moon. The endowments concern the will-to-good
of the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, though they do not concern
goodwill as you understand that phrase. This Ashram, when duly formed and
established, will enable the Members of the Hierarchy to respond to this aspect
of the divine Purpose—the Purpose which as you know lies behind and implements
the Plan; this Ashram, related to the Buddha, will be specifically under the
close supervision of the Christ, and also of the Lord of Civilisation—at this
time the Master R. They are the only two Members of the Hierarchy able to
register the divine Purpose (in regard to its immediate objectives) in such a
manner that the entire Hierarchy can be informed and can then work unitedly and
intelligently at its implementation. More than this I may not tell you about
this particular hierarchical move, affecting as it does both Shamballa and the Hierarchy.
This Wesak Festival is of supreme
importance because it is the first Festival since the war ended, because it
takes place at a time when a definite orientation of the Hierarchy will take
place, and because a fresh tide of spiritual impulse and directed second ray
energy will flood the entire Hierarchy; the work, therefore, to be done by the
Hierarchy will be far more effective. This you may anticipate and upon this you
can count.
[Page 542]
But—as you may well have surmised—it is the
Full Moon of June which is (this year) the season of prime and outstanding
importance; it is in many ways easier for Western believers and esotericists to
tune in and participate in the activities of the Hierarchy when closely
connected with the Christ than it is in those related to the Buddha. The main intention
in these early stages of keeping the Eastern Festival of Wesak is to
familiarise the Western world with the fact of the presence of the Buddha and
with His activities in connection with humanity. Such great progress has,
however, taken place in the spiritual development of humanity that the Buddha
need no longer continue with His task unless He so desires—and then only for a
period of years, known to Him and the Lord of the World. He could cease His
annual contact with the Hierarchy at this time, if He so chose, owing to the
direct contact now established between the Hierarchy and Shamballa. This, however, He does not immediately choose to do.
For a few decades longer He will cooperate with the Christ in widening the
channel of contact between Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity. After that, He
will "proceed to His Own place" in the solar Hierarchy and will no
longer visit the
(EOH 544) For this new revelation the
Christ is preparing as are all the members of the Hierarchy, from the highest
Chohan down to the humblest accepted disciple; it is for this that all the
ashrams are getting ready; it is for this also that (in a weak and feeble
manner) Christian people, those of the other world faiths, and spiritually
minded people are likewise preparing.
Therefore, we have isolated (if I may use
such a word) three activities to which the Christ is at this time dedicated:
1. The reorganisation of the world
religions—if in any way possible—so that their out-of-date theologies, their
narrow-minded emphasis and their ridiculous belief that they know what is in the
Mind of God may be offset, in order that the churches may eventually be the
recipients of spiritual inspiration.
2. The gradual dissolution—again if in any
way possible—of the orthodox
Jewish faith, with its
obsolete teaching, its separative emphasis, its hatred of the Gentiles and its failure to recognise the Christ. In saying this I do not fail to recognise
those Jews throughout the world who acknowledge the evils and who are not
orthodox in their thinking; they belong to the aristocracy of spiritual belief
to which the Hierarchy itself belongs.
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3. Preparation for a revelation which will
inaugurate the new era and set the note for the new world religion.
To these three efforts of the Hierarchy,
superintended by the Christ, another two must be added, of perhaps even greater
importance. The first one is the reaction of the Hierarchy itself to the new
relationship established between It and Shamballa and to that new, direct and potent channel which has
lately been induced by the efforts of the Hierarchy and human invocativeness.
The second activity is one leading towards a much closer relation between the
Hierarchy and Humanity; this will lead eventually to the externalisation of
certain of the Ashrams, and later to the appearance of the Hierarchy on earth,
bringing the new revelation.
(EOH 549)
Analysed, these words simply mean that goodwill will result in right
human relations in that centre which we call Humanity; this will produce the
possibility of that peace which characterises the Hierarchy appearing on earth,
and leading to the glory of God, which animates the activity of Shamballa, the centre where the Will of God
is known. Therefore,
intelligent relationship, practical love and the full expression of the divine
will are bound to occur, if the correct sequence of activities is followed. At
present, even the first of them remains a hope. The factors of the failure of
the religious and political groups and the apathy of the mass of men have
greatly complicated the task of the Hierarchy.
(EOH 551) The Hierarchy is a great fighting body today, fighting for the souls of men, fighting
all that blocks the expansion of the human consciousness, fighting all that
limits human freedom (I said not license) and fighting to remove those factors
and barriers which militate against the return of [Page 551] the Christ and the
emergence of the Hierarchy as a fully functioning body on earth. There is
nothing weak, vacillating, sentimental or neutral in the attitude of the
Hierarchy; this must be grasped by humanity, and the strength and insight as
well as the love of the Hierarchy must be counted upon.
I have in the above remarks enumerated for
you certain of the objectives facing the Hierarchy at this time and involving
the personal attention of the Christ; they all have a potent and beneficent
effect upon humanity. Let me enumerate them in concise form, because it is
essential that there be clear perception of the emerging values on the part of
workers of all grades and kinds in the world, for otherwise perception is not
possible. To each point enumerated I will append in a few brief words the
reason why it is regarded as important:
1. The Reorganisation of the World
Religions.
Reasons
a. To make way for the World Religion, universal religion.
b. To return humanity to the simplicity
which is in Christ.
c. To rid the world of theology and
ecclesiasticism.
2. The Gradual Dissolution of Orthodox
Judaism.
Reasons
a. Because of its presentation of a
wrathful Jehovah, caring only for his chosen people. This is a basic evil. The Lord of the World, the God in whom we
live and move and have our being, is totally otherwise.
b. Because of its separativeness.
c. Because it is so ancient that its
teachings are largely obsolete.
d. Because when the Jews become spiritual
they will greatly benefit mankind, for they are found in every land.
3. Preparation for a New Revelation.
Reasons
a. Because where there is no vision the
people perish.
b. Because human expectancy indicates its
emerging presence.
c. Because the new Invocation will
inevitably bring it to us.
4. The Reaction of the Hierarchy to Shamballa.
Reasons
a. Produces a direct channel.
b. Conditions the inflow of power energy.
c. Relates the will-to-good to goodwill.
d. Creates new constructive tensions and new
ashrams.
The next war would annihilate
the greater part of the human race
Reasons
a. Produces (in the near future) the
externalisation of certain ashrams.
b. Leads to the reappearance of the
Hierarchy on earth.
c. Recognises that man's point of
development warrants this.
d. Presents a nearing opportunity for
revelation.
6. An Effort to avert War.
Reasons
a. Because the next war would annihilate the greater part
of the human race.
b. Because, having a religious basis, the
hate involved would be greater far than anything hitherto known.
c. Because Shamballa would be involved, and this has never been the case.
(EOH 553) You can see therefore how
critical, spiritually, are these times, and how urgent is the task which
confronts the Hierarchy and its workers on earth. The war may be over in the
physical sense, but great issues are still involved and undetermined and can
lead either to peace or to a renewal of those conditions in which wars are
generated and which, once generated, cannot be avoided.
It is with all these foregoing factors in
mind that we [Page 553] approach the next two great Festivals: the Wesak
Festival and Christ's Unique Occasion. One point I must make here, and I make
it with great joy: this year 1946 marks the beginning of a cycle in which
humanity is more closely involved in the Festivals than ever before and in
which they can take a much more important part than ever before. The Wesak
Festival has long been kept in many countries and—as time goes on and the
instruction of the masses proceeds—the meeting held at the time of the May Full
Moon will assume great importance, but its keynote will be changed. What the
new keynote will be has not yet been announced, and will not be for 35 years.
As I earlier pointed out, its significance, and that of Good Friday, belong to
the past and their usefulness is nearly finished. It is the intention of the
Buddha and the Christ that in each country there should eventually be someone
who will act as Their Representative at the time of the two Festivals, so that
the distribution of spiritual energy from the first great Aspect or Ray will be
direct from the Buddha
(and later Shamballa) to the Christ, and then from the Christ to those disciples in every
country who can be overshadowed, and so act as channels for the direct current
of energy.
The same procedure will be followed at the
time of the Full Moon of June, except that Shamballa will not be so involved, and with the difference that at the May
Festival it will be a first ray disciple who will be overshadowed, and at the
June Festival a second ray disciple will represent the Christ in every land.
This can mean either the soul or the personality ray of the disciple.
It has not been possible to organise this
development this year, but next year a beginning can be made, even if only
three or four countries can work under this inspiration. The effects of this
development will be far-reaching, though not immediately apparent to the
onlooker.
This year, at the great Festival in the
Himalayas at which the Buddha will appear as usual, He has let it be known that
His main duty is to bring the initial inflow of the threefold energy which the
Invocation invokes and will [Page 554] continue to invoke for many decades.
From the Mind of God, Light will flow through Him to the waiting world of
men—that human centre whose eternal mission is to bring light to all created
lives. From the Heart of God, He will bring to the Hierarchy, via the Christ,
that deep unending inflow of Love which will make it possible for the Hierarchy
to perform its hard task and externalise itself. It is not possible for human
beings to realise the sacrifice and the hardship which this emergence will
entail, and only a vast inflow of divine love can make it possible.
Shamballa will be related to the
New Group of World Servers
An effort also will be made to relate Shamballa, "the Centre where
the Will of God is known,"
directly to the New
Group of World Servers,
via those Ashrams which are working along the lines of outer, practical
goodwill. The reception of this energising will-to-good should produce a
definite "stepping-up" or increase of goodwill and enable the
Goodwill movement to proceed with greater momentum this coming autumn and
winter; it will take the entire summer for the needed assimilation by those
engineering this movement all over the world.
(EOH 557)
I have here told you the things which the Christ has planned for the
immediate future. I have told you also some of the things which He and the
Masters must do as preparatory steps to the new world which can and will
supersede the old unhappy world that lies immediately behind us. I have chosen
to speak to you of these activities in which it is now possible for you to
share, with the exception of those which affect the relation between Shamballa and the Hierarchy. However, those who are initiates of
the third degree (and there are quite a few working on the earth among men at
this time) can share in all of them.
This is an intensely practical message and
calls for your renewed pledge to serve humanity and to find your way into an
Ashram where that service may be directed. It calls for sacrifice until it
hurts, and where it touches you the most; it calls for a joyous sense of unity
with that station of power and light which we call the Hierarchy and which
stands ready—as never before—to share with humanity that power and that light
to the limit of human capacity to use it.
I beg you, in closing, to aid in two
matters which are of importance to Him Whom all disciples, initiates and
spiritual men have loved and followed for nearly three thousand years, the
Christ. (I am referring here to His appearance as Shri Krishna and as one other
who was little known [Page 558] but who did a great work in still earlier
centuries.) It is work in preparation for His coming.
I beg you to shoulder the responsibility of
distributing the Invocation on as large a scale as possible and in every
country. It is of great potency, and when used by men of all faiths can aid in
the process of averting war. I ask you also to make possible the wide
distribution of the book The Problems of Humanity which I have written, for
they strengthen the hands of those who are already seeking to deal with these
problems and they bring the need to the attention of the unawakened. This will
require sacrifice, for it calls for the expenditure of money; even the
Hierarchy works through normal channels and needs money, and even the Christ
has need of financial resources in order to reach the needy sons of men. I ask
your aid and I await your decision.
That He Whom we serve may be nearer to all
of us than ever before, that the work of establishing right human relations may
proceed apace, and that light and love may stream forth from Shamballa and the Hierarchy over all of you who love
your fellowmen is the earnest wish, accompanied by my blessing, for you at this
season of the will-to-good.*
Mode of Approach Toward Externalisation
(August 1946)
(EOH 559) One of the most important things
emerging from the theme of this amazing and imminent event (the reappearance of
the Hierarchy on the physical plane) is the factor of the developments and the
adjustments going on within [Page 559] the Hierarchy Itself in preparation for
this happening. Incidentally, I would here point out that what will take place,
and what is already tentatively taking place, is the externalisation of the
Ashrams. The great official departments, such as the teaching department or
that of emerging civilisations, will not at this time reappear. Their
activities will still, for a long time, be retained within the Hierarchy upon
Its own plane. The first step is the appearance of certain Ashrams, controlled
by certain Masters, upon the physical plane, evoking general recognition and
guaranteeing to the public the fact of the Hierarchy and the restoration of the
Mysteries. Later, if these steps prove successful, other and more important
reappearances will be possible, beginning with the return of the Christ.
But in the meantime, great and momentous
happenings are taking place within the Hierarchy and in relation to Its
Membership. Disciples upon the periphery of any Ashram are apt to be
unobservant of the training and attitudes of Those Who are senior to them in an
Ashram; They frequently overlook the fact that They too—from the Christ down to
the humblest initiate—are in process of steady and increasing hierarchical
discipline, training and instruction. Because the senior disciples and
initiates have reached a goal which has seemed for long quite unattainable to
the average aspirant, it is assumed that they have attained; the fact that they
have only passed a milestone upon the endless Way of Bliss is entirely
forgotten. But, owing to the impulsion of life itself, progress ever continues;
knowledge must ever be transmuted into wisdom; love must ever be accompanied by
divine will; planning must ever give way to divine purpose; light must ever be
succeeded by life; from the Hierarchy, the initiate must pass to Shamballa, and from Shamballa he will follow one or other of the seven Paths; the
Path of Evolution gives place to the Way of the Higher Evolution; planetary
recognitions eventually expand into solar contacts; the Christ-consciousness
eventually unfolds into something so all-inclusive that we have as yet no word
[Page 560] for it or any need of words; recognition of the Father and of
monadic being causes all lesser recognitions to fade out, and
soul-consciousness and progressive life in form are no longer goals but are left
far behind.
In spite of all this, it is necessary to
remember that the gain of all experience for ever persists, nothing is ever
lost; that which life in form has conferred is still in the possession of the
immortal spiritual entity; that which the soul-consciousness has enfolded and
included is still the rich endowment of Being, centred now in the Monad; hierarchical experience is merged into
the purposes of the Council
Chamber at Shamballa,
but ability to work in the Hierarchy ever lasts because the hierarchical
constitution and institution condition all manifestation—for what reason this
is so, no one knows, but so is the divine Will.
In synthesis and in the all-inclusive
awareness of the great Life which enfolds all that is, everything (except what
we know as evil) is persistent and for ever endures.
You will have noted (if you are true
students of what I have given out to the world) that information anent the
Hierarchy has fallen into three major categories:
1. The work of the Hierarchy in relation to
man and to the three worlds of human evolution.
2. The interior constitution of the
Hierarchy and its internal activity.
3. Its superior relation to Shamballa and to extra-planetary livingness.
A great deal that has been conveyed to you
in the two final categories has been merged by you into an interested but
totally impractical realisation that the Hierarchy apparently has a life of its
own which proceeds independently of humanity and that it also has its own goals
and objectives which are no concern of yours. These deductions are dependent
upon your domination by the separative mind, for in reality the work and the
activity proceeding in all three centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity—are [Page 561] merged,
fused and interdependent; they are all mutually evocative and invocative.
The fact, for instance, that the Hierarchy
is approaching closer to humanity and will eventually make an appearance upon
the physical plane is due, not only to hierarchical intent, but to the demand
of mankind and to the strong vibration and note which humanity has set up. To
that extent, humanity controls some of the activities of the Hierarchy and thus
precipitates action. At the same time, all that is happening can be traced to Shamballa, is inherent in divine purpose and is
impulsed and impelled by
Shamballa energy,
distributed throughout the planet, via the Hierarchy in the majority of cases.
Both the Hierarchy and Humanity are brought under the influence of
extra-planetary forces which make their impact upon the planet, via Shamballa. Therefore, a great interdependence
emerges, of which the head, heart and solar plexus centres in the individual
man's etheric body are symbols; their unified relation keeps the man
functioning and demonstrating as a coherent whole at a particular level of
consciousness. It is essential that students endeavour to grasp this, and so
develop within themselves at least the rudiments of this synthetic unified
grasp of living conditions and of a vital situation.
These instructions can aid all earnest
aspirants and disciples to develop this type of understanding with as much
speed and accuracy as possible. It is distinctive of the hierarchical type of
mind: concerned with itself as a divine group, conscious of the pull and
evocative power of the highest
centre, Shamballa,
responsive to the demands of humanity, and sensitive to the "call" of
that third major centre through which the life of the planetary Logos expresses
itself. The consciousness of the Master is therefore preoccupied with three main
lines of responsibility, but only one of them is innate within the living
organism of which He is a part; that aspect of His life is invocative in two
directions: towards Shamballa and towards Humanity; to Him, the other
two centres are evocative.
Today, human beings as a whole are so
loudly invocative [Page 562] that the entire trend of the life of the Hierarchy
and Its plans to date have been subjected to change, to postponement as far as
certain interior and purely hierarchical determinations are concerned, and to a
hastening of certain plans which were slated (if I may use such a word) to take
place several centuries later than this but which—owing to the unexpected
preparedness of humanity—can take place, not prematurely really, but securely
and in the fullness of time; this fullness of time, as regards the particular
planning with which we are dealing, is from now until the year
1. It involved the ability of Those in the Council Chamber at Shamballa to react to and absorb certain
extra-planetary energies and to use them in an intra-planetary sense. It had
not been anticipated by the Directing Agents of these forces that our planetary
Logos would achieve a certain goal so early in time and space as He has.
2. It involved a great expansion,
numerically and in the consciousness of the Hierarchy. This predicates a great
influx of initiates and disciples and a tremendous inflow of what is
esoterically called "angelic essence" from the deva kingdom, under
the direction of certain great Devas who have affiliated during the past two
hundred years with the Hierarchy. This again had not been expected so early.
The result of this happening has been that the door of initiation through which
mankind passes stands wider open (symbolically speaking) than ever before, and
at the same time, the Masters are passing with greater rapidity on to the Way
of the Higher Evolution; this is due to the fact that initiates are fitting
themselves so rapidly to take Their places, and disciples are moving on into
initiate position so fast, that a great pressing forward has become legitimate.
Humanity is ahead of itself by
2300 years
3. It involved, finally, a great awakening
in the human family and a major spiritual reorientation. This again had [Page
563] been believed possible of accomplishment when the sun passed into Capricorn about 2300 years
hence. But—it has
already taken place and necessarily has brought about a basic adjustment in the
plans of the Hierarchy and a renewed emphasis upon the purpose, as registered in Shamballa.
This, being factual, and the time ripe for
decision, has caused an intra-planetary ferment and great activity in the three
major centres. In the last analysis (and this is the factor of supreme
importance) this development—this unexpected right absorption of spiritual
energy, and this seizing of spiritual opportunity—is due to humanity itself;
above everything else, it is the readiness of mankind for that which is new,
and humanity's determination to create a new and better world, adapted more
adequately to their "renewed" spiritual nature, that is responsible
for all the activity.
In this section of our training themes (if
I may call them so) we shall deal primarily with the response and the
subsequent activity of the Hierarchy in relation to humanity. This will take
the form of a new Approach and a reappearance exoterically.
It would be wise, therefore, to keep the
following ideas constantly in mind; I will enumerate them sequentially and for
the sake of clarity:
1. The work of the Hierarchy, throughout
the ages, has been fundamentally threefold in nature:
a. A constant effort to set up a closer and
more understanding relation with Shamballa. This involves:
An unfoldment of the will aspect in
conjunction with a full use of intelligent love.
A constant adaptation of the developing
Plan to the emerging, energising Purpose.
An increasing ability to transmit energy
from Shamballa to the three worlds, from the cosmic
etheric levels to the cosmic dense physical planes.
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b. To unfold—within the periphery of the
hierarchical centre—a life, a plan and a technique which will train all who
find their way into an Ashram, which is in itself an aspect of the life of the
Hierarchy. This ancient and intelligent effort has created and conditioned what
you know as the Hierarchy. However, it is constantly subject to change in
response to new situations and developments.
c. To represent, finally, within the
Hierarchy, the qualities of all the seven Rays, through the medium of the seven
major Ashrams and their allied and subsidiary Ashrams.
There are many other aspects of the
hierarchical constitution and objectives, but these three are the ones with
which we are at this time the most concerned.
2. Today, the relation of Shamballa to the Hierarchy is closer than at any previous time,
owing to the following factors:
a. The one-pointed work and plan—pursued by
the three great departments in the Hierarchy (the department of the Manu, that
of the Christ, and that of the Lord of Civilisation)—in which the three Leaders
have unitedly acted as a Triangle of transmission between the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World and the Hierarchy. They are, all three,
Members of the Council, though none of Them is yet working at the very centre
of affairs; in order to be of greater service in Their own sphere, They have
taken Their stand upon the periphery of the Council's influence.
b. The invocative work carried out both
consciously and unconsciously by humanity itself, which has been of such a
potency that it has penetrated beyond the ring-pass-not (symbolically
understood) of the Hierarchy to Shamballa
itself, and has evoked response. This invocative [Page 565] work reached a
c. The rapid development of integration
among advanced people, which has forced many on to the Path of Discipleship,
and therefore into certain of the Ashrams, and has likewise enabled many
disciples to take initiation.
3. The recognition by a very much larger
number of the general public of the fact of the Hierarchy; this has established
a new type of relation between the Hierarchy and humanity. Hitherto the
relation was dependent upon recognition, by advanced aspirants, of the nature
of their position in relation to the Hierarchy; today, the recognition of
thousands who are not in any way advanced aspirants or in any sense prepared
for affiliation with the Hierarchy has created a new type of problem; it
connotes to the Hierarchy a promising development, though at the same time an
embarrassing one, requiring as it does a different mode of adjustment to human
demands than that entailed by the admittance of disciples to Their Ashrams; it
requires the attention of certain disciples and initiates in all the Ashrams
and the ability of the Hierarchy to penetrate and dissipate the thick cloud of
inchoate thoughtforms which the bewildered, interested and curious public have
created anent Them.
4. The use by the Hierarchy of the
destroyer aspect of divinity, the first Ray, in such a manner that it is in
fact a creative factor and one which, in the last analysis, not only releases
the life from its previous limitations, but also calls in—under the Law of
Balance—the building activity of the second Ray. The work of destruction is now
practically accomplished and over, and the work of the Builders is beginning.
5. The New Group of World Servers has been
created as an [Page 566] intermediate body between the Hierarchy and the
general public. This group is divided into two lesser groups:
a. Those disciples and workers who are
already integrated into some one of the Ashrams.
b. Intelligent and humanitarian aspirants
and workers in world affairs and in all departments.
These two groups unitedly form a
transmitting agency through which the Hierarchy can reach the mass of men with
the new concepts, the techniques of the new civilisation and the basic
propositions under which humanity will move forward into greater light.
6. The recognition by humanity of its major
problems, and the increasing ability of the general public to view these
problems in terms of One Humanity, of the whole. This ability indicates to the
Hierarchy the position of Humanity upon the Path at this time and the readiness
of mankind for the new revelation—to be followed later by the restoration of
the Mysteries.
7. The new orientation of the human family
within itself to the concept of the One Humanity and the intensely alert
spiritual demand which is today distinctive of mankind everywhere, and which
has forced the Hierarchy to come to certain basic decisions and to readjust
Itself to a much closer cooperation with the human centre of life and purpose.
Only Shamballa and Humanity will
remain
It is interesting to note (though it is of
no immediate moment) that the work of destruction initiated by the Hierarchy
during the past one
hundred and seventy-five years (therefore since
the year 1775) has in
it the seeds—as yet a very long way from any germination—of the final act of
destruction which will take place when the Hierarchy will be so completely
fused and blended with Humanity that the hierarchical form will no longer be
required. The three [Page 567] major centres will then become the two, and the Hierarchy will disappear and only Shamballa
and Humanity will remain,
only spirit or life, and substance as an expression of intelligent love will be
left. This corresponds to the experience of the individual initiate at the
fourth initiation, when the causal body, the soul body, disappears and only the
monad and its expression, the personality (a fusion of soul and form) are left.
This event of final dissolution will take place only at the close of our
planetary existence, when the door to individualisation is finally closed for a
pralayic period and the Way of the Higher Evolution will be more closely
trodden than the Path of Initiation.
Therefore, my brothers, the closer relation
of the Hierarchy to Shamballa, the stimulation of its own interior life,
and the readiness of humanity for revelation and for certain unexpected development,
will condition the cycle into which we are now entering. This is, therefore,
the most amazing period in the history of humanity. Added to this, it must be
borne in mind that we are entering another greater round of the Zodiac, and
this coincides with the lesser zodiacal activity because Aquarius governs the greater immediate
cycle of 25,000 years
and is also the sign into which the sun is now moving for a period of 2300
years—a most amazing happening and full of import in our planetary history; it
is a coincidence of which our planetary Logos is well aware and of which He is
making full and intelligent use. It is a cycle also wherein, for the first
time, the three major planetary centres—Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity—are in direct and unimpeded
relation, for today the alignment is correct and adjusted for the first time in
planetary history. Even if this be only temporarily so, something has been
initiated, the effects of which will never be lost. It is a cycle also in which
the planetary Logos, having successfully taken initiation and thus affected His
entire planetary life, has also established certain extra-planetary
relationships which are necessarily incomprehensible to you and of no moment
whatsoever to the individual human being, but which will eventually create a
situation in which our planet will become [Page 568] a sacred planet. This
process, as it unfolds and develops, will have a potent subjective and deeply
spiritual effect upon every kingdom in nature and in the realm also of supernature.
Let us now proceed with our consideration
of our theme, after our study of these basic premises.
The Externalisation has been
planned since 1425
Steps in the Externalisation Process
For some time, ever since
You might well ask what were these steps
and along what lines has the preparation gone? The first steps concerned
internal preparation. Though the Masters of the Wisdom have all passed through
the human experience and are simply men who have achieved a relative measure of
perfection, there are aspects of physical contact which They have completely
transcended and utterly negated. There is nothing in the three worlds with
which They have any affinity, except the affinity of life and the impulse of
love for all beings. Recovery of certain facilities of activity has been deemed
necessary. For instance, the five senses, where a Master is concerned, exist
and are used at need, but the contact established and maintained with disciples
and senior aspirants in the world (through whom They primarily work) is largely
telepathic; hearing and sight, as you understand [Page 569] their uses, are not
involved. The science of impression, with its greatly increased effectiveness
over individual contact through the senses, has entirely superseded the more
strictly human method. Except in the case of Masters working on the physical
plane and in a physical body, the outer physical senses are in abeyance; for
the majority of Masters Who still use these senses, the use is strictly
limited; Their work is still almost entirely subjective and the mode of telepathic
interplay and of impression is practically all the means which They employ to
reach Their working agents. Therefore, the recovery of past usages of a more
physical nature has been one of the preparatory moves.
Another has been the achievement of a wide
culture and understanding of the current civilisation which will be coming into
activity and control when the intended project is carried out. You have been
told—and told correctly—that the Masters do not trouble Themselves to attain
proficiency in all educational subjects—in modern history, for instance, or the
newest scientific procedures, or in the use of foreign languages. In all Their
Ashrams there are those who can supply Them with any specified knowledge which They may need at any given time or for
any specific purpose. This will still remain true of Those Who have attained
the rank of Master, but it is not true of all the senior initiates, many of
whom, as they passed into higher grades and under instruction from a Master,
have retained their worldly knowledge, besides specialising in certain strictly
mundane approaches to worldly affairs. For instance, there are adepts who are
authorities upon modern financial matters, and these initiates of the fourth
degree are competently preparing to institute later those newer techniques and
modes of financial interplay which will supersede the present disastrous
methods; they will inaugurate
a system of barter and exchange, of which modern money is the travestied symbol. This
newer method of financial relationships will be comprehensively human and it
will supersede big
business and private enterprise. It will at the same time, however, retain those
phases of modern enterprise which will draw out the initiative and [Page 570]
the resourcefulness of the individual. Other initiates have specialised in the
various languages, and two of them are authorities in basic English; this is
the form of the English language which will eventually take the place of other
languages in all forms of international and business intercourse without in any
way obliterating the individual national languages in daily use in any country.
(EOH 582) The ancient activities of the
Hierarchy will still persist—the activities of preparing disciples and
initiates for initiation and for participating consciously in hierarchical
effort; the Schools of the Mysteries (as outlined by me in Letters on Occult
Meditation) will come into being and practice, but this will be temporarily a
secondary activity; the full expression of ashramic energy will be directed to
practical world affairs and to the education of the general public, and not in
the early stages to esoteric matters. In the last analysis, there is for the
Master and His disciples no such thing as esotericism, except in so far as Shamballa is concerned. There is only definite and
planned work with the consciousness of all forms, and—where humanity is
involved—this is regarded as a process of education, leading to an expansion of
perception and the changing of acquired academic knowledge into an
overshadowing and conditioning wisdom. The implementing of human affairs to
bring about this unfoldment in consciousness is in the hands of disciples who
are undergoing the process themselves, and it is not in the hands of the
Masters, Whose consciousness is fully expanded—a consciousness entering a
higher and greatly different phase, connected with Being and Life and the purposes of Shamballa.
(EOH 586) The situation, therefore, in
relation to the consciousness of disciples in the intensely difficult, though
interesting, period with which humanity is faced could be summed up in the
following statements:
1. The disciple is not motivated by any
desire to externalise the Hierarchy or to see the Ashram with which he is
affiliated functioning physically on the outer plane. He may be totally unaware
of this hierarchical intention. If he is aware of this underlying purpose, it
is entirely secondary in his consciousness. The good of humanity and a
stabilised spiritual future for mankind are his major life incentives.
2. The disciple is strictly humanitarian in
his outlook. He works for the One Humanity and though aware possibly that he is
affiliated with the Hierarchy, his loyalties, his service and his life
intention are directed entirely to the cause of human betterment. In this
attitude he is coming to resemble the Masters Whose life directive is not
hierarchical possibilities but adherence to the purposes of Shamballa, in action, in relationships and to the Plan for all
living units in the three worlds.
(EOH 591)
They will prepare and work for conditions in the world in which Christ
can move freely among men, in bodily Presence; He need not then remain in His
present retreat in
Temporarily, the fact of God Immanent will engross the attention of all true
spiritual teachers, and the fact of that divine immanence making itself felt in
perfection through the Christ and other divine Representatives will for a time
relegate the teaching on God Transcendent into the background. Undue emphasis
has been placed on this major truth, to the exclusion of the nearer and more
practical truth of God in every man and in every form in every kingdom in
nature; much evil has eventuated by the failure to lay the emphasis upon God
Immanent. Later on, when the [Page 591] truth of the Christ indwelling every
man and revealed in perfection through the historical Christ and His great
Brothers down the ages has been accepted, the teaching of God Transcendent, which is the secret mystery in the custody of Shamballa, will be revealed and emphasised. The two
halves of a perfect Whole will then be recognised by humanity.
(EOH 594) The great moment for which He has
so patiently waited has almost arrived; the "end of the age" to which
He referred when speaking to His small group of disciples—"Lo! I am with
you all the days even unto the end of the age"—has come and today He
stands and waits, knowing that the hour has come when He will "see of the
travail of His soul and be satisfied." May I repeat: Right through the
spiritual succession of the Sons of God there is naught to be seen and felt but
expectancy and preparation.
From the Father's House (the Shamballa of the esotericist) the fiat has gone forth: "The hour
has come." From the
(EOH 606) Why this triumph of the Christ
consciousness must always be spoken of in terms of religion, of church-going
and of orthodox belief is one of the incredible triumphs of the forces of evil.
To be a citizen of the
4. Finally, in the triumph of the
Crucifixion or (as it is more accurately called in the East) the Great
Renunciation, Christ, for the first time, anchored on earth a tenuous thread of
the divine Will, as it issued from the Father's House (Shamballa), passed into the understanding custody of
the Kingdom of God, and through the medium of the Christ was brought to the
attention of mankind. Through the instrumentality of certain great Sons of God
the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine Trinity—will, [Page
606] love and intelligence—have become a part of human thinking and aspiration.
Christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the Christ
was not in those spent upon the Cross, but during those spent in the Garden of
Gethsemane, when His will—in agony and almost despair—was submerged in that of
the Father. "Father," He said, "not my will but Thine be
done." (Luke XXII. 42.)
(EOH 610) What the members of the spiritual
Hierarchy are doing is much indeed; those disciples who are in conscious touch
with the Masters of the Wisdom—or, if you prefer the term, with the senior
disciples of the Christ—are working day and night in order to establish such
confidence, correct attitudes and understanding of the divine spiritual
"push" or enterprise that His way will be made easier. They and their
groups of lesser disciples, aspirants and students of the realities stand
unitedly behind the Christ and can thus enable Him to accomplish His purpose.
Their major realisation is that of a cyclic crisis in the spiritual life of our
planet; it is one which has been anticipated in the Father's House (Shamballa) for thousands of years. They have
registered the fact that, for the first time in human history, all the three
spiritual centres or groups through which God works are unitedly focussed on
the same objective. Shamballa, the Spiritual Hierarchy, and Humanity
(the Father's House, the
(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. 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.
The stimulation which can be given will be released at the coming Full Moon. The five specialised energies are as
follows:
1. The Energy of Love-Wisdom. This energy
always has an effect upon every type of human being in the world. Its effect is
to stimulate the tendency towards goodwill and to produce a mental development
which can transmute the knowledge—garnered down the ages—into wisdom. It is
wisdom which is needed today. Those who are now attempting to foster goodwill
in themselves and others will be stimulated into wise action. You can see,
therefore, that the outpouring of this energy is the first and greatest need.
It can reach mankind because the Founders of all the world religions (I refer
not to their many diversifications) are banded together in [Page 645] unison
with the Christ, Their Lord and Master; through Their united and directed
effort, these energies will flow. Forget not that Christ represents the energy
of love and the Buddha that of wisdom.
2. The Energy of Will or Power. The
outpouring of this energy, owing to the "little wills" of the
majority of men and the developed strenuous wills of certain present world
Leaders, will not have as wide or potent an effect or contact as may the
others. Its inflow will, however, serve to bring about a "fixed
intention" on the part of many to work ceaselessly for true peace and
understanding. These people will therefore aid in the task of implementing
goodwill. It will, nevertheless, strengthen the will of the selfish, ambitious
and obstinate men who are in positions of power and influence, and produce
increased trouble—at least temporarily. The salvation of the world and the
production of the needed security will be brought about in the long run by the
mass of men everywhere, in all lands; it will be the result of an intensified
educational process. Humanity, as yet, does not know how to handle wisely the
energy of the will-to-power, and it is largely this that has handicapped the
manifestation of the will-to-good. The Shamballa force is too strong for those who are naturally wilful. In
the case of certain potent men, this energy reaches them directly, and is not
stepped down for them through contact with the Hierarchy of Love; it naturally
expresses itself in the political fields and in the realm of governments,
through rulers, officials, statesmen and politicians. When the "little
wills" of the intelligentsia, of those who serve the public in some
capacity or other, and those above all who are working in some connection with
the United Nations, become strengthened, stimulated and focussed on goodwill,
the union of the two energies of Love-Wisdom and of Will can bring about the
needed changes in the planetary life. This is not an immediate happening, but
it is not a visioning of the impossible.
3. The Energy of Active Intelligence. This
third type of energy is the easiest one for modern humanity to receive—which is
perhaps a sad commentary upon man's aspirations. [Page 646] The proof of this
lies in the fact that much of this type of energy (through the selfish
perception and desires of mankind) has been crystallised into money. Human
intelligence has served on the side of materialism and not on the side of the
spiritual values. Money is the concretised expression of the third type of
spiritual energy. This particular expression appeared first in the ancient and
equally materialistic system of barter and exchange; then, in later
civilisations (predominantly including ours) we have the appearance of money,
made first from the products of the mineral kingdom, and then later came paper
money, made from the products of the vegetable kingdom. This has culminated in
the modern preoccupation with money. There is very deep occult meaning to be
found in the statement in the New Testament that "the love of money is the
root of all evil". It is largely money and selfishness which lie behind
the present disastrous economic situation. Great financiers are in reality
those in whom the receipt of money, or of this type of energy, constitutes the
line of least resistance, plus the will to make vast fortunes, which cannot be
gainsaid. They will to make a fortune; they bring their intelligence to bear
upon their goal, and naught can stop them. Many of them are purely selfish;
some regard their money as a trust to be used for others and are amazingly
generous in a philanthropic and humanitarian sense. These men are receptive to
the first type of energy, and frequently all the three types find a channel
through them, and the world is greatly benefited; such men are nevertheless
very rare. It still remains for the crystallised aspect of this third energy—money—to
be used on a large scale for the furtherance of the work of the Hierarchy. It
is at this point and in connection with money that the great test of goodwill
should demonstrate.
4. The energy which produces order. This is
the energy of the seventh ray or power of divinity. At this time, its major
expression will come through the relationships and adjustments required between
capital and labour, and labour will be primarily involved. This energy is being
assimilated in the Ashram of the Master Whom I mentioned above; at the [Page
647] inception of the industrial era He was responsible for the formation of
the labour movement—a movement bringing into relation the workers of the world.
It is interesting to have in mind that today labour functions internationally;
it is a group which learns with rapidity and has in it the seeds of vast good;
it is probably the group which will place goodwill in the forefront of human
thinking—upon a pinnacle of thought. This Master to Whom I refer belongs to the
Ashram of the Master R. He relieves Him of this phase of the work to be done.
5. The energy of right human relations.
This energy is a subsidiary expression of the energy of Love-Wisdom—the first
of the great outpouring energies. It emanates, therefore, from the subsidiary
Ashram for which I am responsible. I have written and taught much about it, and
with some success. "Right human relations" is not simply goodwill, as
people seem to think; it is a product or result of goodwill and the instigator
of constructive changes between individuals, communities and nations. About it
I need not write, for you have enough teaching from me to guide you. Your daily
actions will be those of goodwill, directed towards the establishing of right
human relations if you are rightly oriented within the race of men and towards
the spiritual Hierarchy.
(EOH 658) 6. The energy of the first divine
aspect (that of will or power) now being applied with the most scrupulous care
by Shamballa. This energy of the will is—as you have
been taught—the potency
of the life in all beings;
it has in the past only been permitted to make contact with "the substance
of humanity" via the Hierarchy. Lately, direct impact has been permitted experimentally and of
this the world war (1914-1945) was the first evidence, clarifying issues, presenting opportunity,
purifying human thinking and destroying the old and worn-out civilisation. It
is an exceedingly
dangerous energy and
cannot be applied in fuller measure until the race of men has learned to
respond more adequately to the energy of the second aspect of love-wisdom, and
therefore to the rule of the
7. There remains another energy which can only be applied very much later
on and only if the activity of the six preceding energies fulfil their purpose.
With it we cannot here deal, for the future is too uncertain, and in any case,
it will only come into activity in the middle of the Aquarian Age.
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.
(EOH 662) Skill in action, wise and
understanding judgment, the adaptation of present affairs to the desired future,
the coordination of the work to be done, and the clear enunciation of the
platform upon which the new teaching must be founded, plus the survey (if I may
so express it) of the foundations upon which the new structure of the coming
civilisation must be founded—it is with these things that the Christ is at this
time concerned. You can realise, therefore, the tremendous and cooperative
activity with which the Master K.H. and His Ashram are concerned. The
stimulation of that activity comes from two directions: necessarily from Shamballa, from the Buddha and from the Avatar of Synthesis, and increasingly from the world of men,
as expectancy, hope and demand combine to make their united appeal.
the energy coming from the
Avatar of Synthesis will make its primary impact upon Morya’s Ashram,
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.
The highest aspect possible of assimilation
by the Hierarchy is directed by the Masters towards the Christ and is used by
Him in His individual and planned preparatory work. Though He demonstrated when
here before that His mission or work had a group or brotherhood objective, it
is well known in hierarchical circles that first ray synthesis is something
higher still than unity, and that even the Christ has somewhat to grasp anent
this new potency—coming
both from Shamballa or
from the Father (as the Christ used to call that emanating source), and also
from extra-planetary sources. Above all, He has the difficult task of training
or adapting His physical vehicle so that it can assimilate this extra-ordinary
high potency and, at the same time, keep it [Page 663] in a condition in which
He can move outward on the physical plane among men.
(EOH 674) It was the knowledge that this
important development was imminent which made the Hierarchy in the last century
widen the area or the scope of its teaching activity and thus bring to the
consciousness of modern man the knowledge of what occultism essentially means.
The keynotes upon which the occult philosophy is built are:
1. There is naught in manifestation except
organised energy
2. Energy follows or conforms itself to
thought
3. The occultist works in energy and with
energies.
The thought of God brought the universe of
energies into organised form upon the highest of the seven planes, or upon the
first cosmic etheric level. These energies have for untold aeons been directed
from the fourth or lowest of the cosmic etheric planes, the plane which we call
the buddhic and regard as the first definitely spiritual plane, in our usually
erroneous thought; this direction has been under impression from Shamballa, and the Masters have "manipulated
these energies in conformity with the Plan, which is the blueprint of the
Purpose."
(EOH 677) In London, in New York, in Geneva and Darjeeling and in
Tokyo, a Master will
eventually be found, organising a major energy centre; at the same time His
Ashram will continue to function upon buddhic levels, for the entire personnel
has not been alerted for externalisation. The Ashram will therefore be working
on two levels—and yet that is not a correct statement of fact, as there are no
levels, as well you know, but only states of consciousness. Ask me not how this
can be; ponder on the relation of this dual and simultaneous appearance by
attempting to grasp the nature of the manifested form of the planetary Logos in the Person of Sanat
Kumara. Sanat Kumara
is not the personality of the planetary Logos, for personality as you
understand it is not existent in His case. It is not the soul of the planetary
Logos, because that soul is the anima mundi and the soul of all forms in all
kingdoms. Sanat Kumara, the Eternal Youth, can be seen by Those Who have the
right, presiding, for instance, over the Council in Shamballa, yet at the same time He is present as the life and
the informing intelligence upon and within our planet.
(EOH 685) Necessarily, the problem is one
of a change in the orientation of perception but not necessarily in modes of
living or in any definitely physical plane adjustments. Hierarchical
orientation has for some centuries been one of a very strict internal
consolidation, in order that the magnetic aura of the Hierarchy may unfailingly
respond to impression from Shamballa, and also be of so potent a nature that it
can form a protective screen around the human family. Forget not the nature of
the protective service which the Masters have assumed on behalf of mankind,
standing between humanity and the emanations and influences and the magnetic aura of the Black Lodge.
This internal consolidation has been
greatly strengthened [Page 685] during the past one hundred years. Because of
this, and because of the resultant clarity of impression and of the potent
out-going influence, the Plan for humanity—as a Whole—was imparted with
emphasis to disciples in the Ashrams, and by them was formulated clearly and
presented to humanity.
H.P.B. (one of the first working disciples
to go forth on the externalisation impulse and with first ray energy driving
him) gave the background of the Plan, under impression from me; the more
detailed structure and the sweep of the hierarchical intention have been given
by me in the books which A.A.B. has introduced under her own name to the public
(in so doing acting under my instructions). For the first time in human
history, the purpose of past events—historical and psychological—can be clearly
noted as the foundation for all present happenings, thus bringing the
mysterious Law of Karma in an easy manner to public attention. The present can
also be seen, indicating the way of the future and revealing clearly the
Will-to-Good which is animating the entire evolutionary process—a process in
which humanity (again for the first time) is intelligently participating and
cooperating. It is this cooperative participation, even if unconsciously
rendered, which has made it possible for the Hierarchy to grasp the opportunity
to bring to an end the long silence which has persisted since Atlantean days;
the Masters can now begin to undertake to renew an ancient "sharing of the
secrets," and to prepare humanity for a civilisation which will be
distinguished by a constant intellectual perception of truth, and which will cooperate
with the externalised Ashrams in the various parts of the world.
The internal consolidation is now being
somewhat loosened, if I may use such an inadequate expression, and a majority
of the Members of the Hierarchy are withdrawing Their close attention from
reception of impression from Shamballa and
are now orienting Themselves—in an entirely new and directed manner—to the
fourth kingdom in nature. At the same time, a very powerful minority of Masters
are entering into a much closer association with the Council of Sanat Kumara.
[Page 686] In this way the potent and
dynamic influence of Shamballa
will be strengthened
instead of lessened by the reorientation of the majority of the Masters and
initiates. These statements have, of course, implications which will not be
understood by you and which will necessarily pass unnoticed; you will respond,
however, to the realisation that the minority—in renewed and closer contact
with Shamballa—have to master the technique of
relationship; this will entail much use of the sacrificial will. The reason is
that They are (on a higher turn of the spiral) submitting to a forcing process
which will make great demands upon Them, but which will serve to release the
majority to a new and more potent form of immediate Earth service. In other
words: a few of the Masters and higher initiates are undergoing a special and
applied stimulation and are undertaking work for which the united Ashrams, in
their higher brackets, have hitherto been responsible. This subjects Them to a great
strain and forces Them to use the will aspect of Their divine natures in
entirely new and unknown ways. They relinquish much, in order to enable the
entire Hierarchy to give far more in radiance, guidance, and magnetic
invocative strength than has even before been the case.
(EOH 687) The majority of the Masters and
initiates, in Their turn, also relinquish much in order to work exoterically
among men. They subject Themselves voluntarily to an active stimulation from
the senior "contacting minority" but relinquish the "joy of Shamballic contact". Temporarily, the training which the
majority have been receiving in "cosmic orientation," in the use of
the will-to-be (a meaningless phrase to you), and in the "bliss of
receptivity to the will-to-good
of Sanat Kumara"
is given up. The entire attitude of the group of Masters, initiates and
disciples who are to be responsible for the externalisation of the Hierarchy
and for the preparation for the reappearance of the Christ is focussed upon the
expert use of the Science of Contact. This time, the science is used upon a
wide and telepathic scale, with the souls of men, and upon the technique of
expressing spiritually the nature of "isolated unity" in the cities,
jungles and the [Page 687] massed inhabited areas of the earth. This involves,
as you can well imagine, the use of an expert ability to remain untouched by
the evil rampant upon the physical plane, and yet to remain in complete
sympathetic and understanding contact with all humanity and with all events that
affect humanity. It was prophecy which impelled the Christ to say, when last in
public appearance among men, that His disciples were "in the world and yet
not of the world"; Christ depicted in simple yet profoundly revealing
terms the life of the Members of His Ashrams (the entire Hierarchy) when again
He would walk with Them in the plain sight of humanity. He pictured Them as one
with the Father (the Council
of Life in Shamballa),
and yet as one with Him (as the hierarchical Head), and as one also with all
that breathes and that inhabits form. I advise all disciples who seek to
cooperate with the impending activity of the Hierarchy to study with care the
seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of St. John; this was written by that
disciple of love, under the influence of the energy emanating from the buddhic
vehicle of the Christ, which is also—as you have been told—identical with the
buddhic vehicle of the Buddha. The identity of the two vehicles is symbolic of
the entire teaching anent "isolated unity" and divine participation,
which the Masters in Their Ashrams are teaching Their disciples of all grades,
these days, as the first step toward the externalisation of Their activities.
An intensive training process, therefore,
is being carried out in every ashram and along identical lines, resulting in
the "isolation," occultly understood, of certain Masters and
initiates. They have been thus isolated in order that They may work more
readily and easily with Shamballa; They can thus form a dynamic and galvanic
storehouse of energy (the energy of the divine Will) and thus make it available
for the use of the other Members of the Hierarchy, as They stand in
"isolated unity" upon the highways of Earth, and thus are "in
the world and yet not of the world". The learning of this lesson calls
into activity the sacrificial will of both the hierarchical groups; this
remains the binding cord between Them and that aspect of the antahkarana along
which energy can [Page 688] flow in a new and electric fashion from Shamballa, via the hierarchical minority referred to above, and
into the large group of Masters and initiates and disciples to whom is
committed the task of consolidation. All this constitutes—for the Members of
the Hierarchy—a definite process of testing out and of trial, prior to and
preparatory to some of the higher initiations.
Again, the Members of the Hierarchy are not
only sensitive to impression from the two other planetary centres (Shamballa and Humanity), but They are acutely aware of the
Forces of Evil which are fighting furiously against the externalisation of the
spiritual work. The energy which cosmic evil generates is active along three
main channels:
It was the task of Shamballa to
protect humanity from the intention to destroy, of the cosmic forces of Evil
(EOH 689) 2. From the Black Lodge which is the externalisation of the centre of cosmic evil on Earth. Just as the White Lodge is the
representative or correspondence of the cosmic centre of light upon Sirius (the
true Great White Lodge), so the Black Lodge is also representative of ancient
and cosmic evil. The Black Lodge is also far more advanced in externalisation
than is the White Lodge, because materialism and matter are, [Page 689] for it,
the line of least resistance. The Black Lodge is therefore far more firmly
anchored upon the physical plane than is the Hierarchy. It requires a much
greater effort for the White Lodge to "clothe itself in matter and work
and walk on material levels" than for the Black Lodge. Owing, however, to
the spiritual growth of mankind and to the steady, even if slow, orientation of
mankind to the spiritual Hierarchy, the time has come when the Hierarchy can
materialise and meet the enemy of good upon an even footing; the Hierarchy need
not be further handicapped by working in substance whilst the Forces of Evil
work both in substance and in matter. Once the reappearance of the Christ and
of the Hierarchy is an accomplished fact, these Forces of Evil face sure
defeat. The reason for this is that the trend of human living and thought is
turning steadily towards the subjective spiritual values, even if these values
are interpreted in terms of material well-being at present and of better living
conditions for all—with peace and security also for all. The Black Lodge or the
planetary centre of evil works almost entirely upon the astral plane, and is
impressed directly and guided in detail from the cosmic astral plane.
3. From the negative or purely material
forces of the planet, which are not necessarily either good or bad but which
have been used instinctually and oft unconsciously by humanity for purely
material ends, and are therefore basically anti-spiritual and subject to the
influence of human desire—a desire oriented towards selfishness, and therefore
towards separateness. This form of evil is being combated today by the New
Group of World Servers. Of this battle you know something because every
thinking man and woman is immediately implicated.
I have spoken of the evil present in the
planet in very simple terms, and there are phases of it to which I have not referred;
the interlocking and inter-penetrating of the grades of evil are far more
numerous and intricate than you surmise.
In summing up, I would say that the present
reorientation of the Hierarchy, in relation both to Shamballa and to [Page 690] Humanity, ushers in the cycle of complete defeat of cosmic evil upon our
planet, leaving only
an isolated and weakened Black Lodge to die a slow death; this permits the
purification of human desire to such an extent that "matter will be
redeemed by the sacrificial will of Those Who know, by the will-to-good of
Those Who are, and by the goodwill of those sons of men who have turned their
faces to the light and who in turn reflect that light."
(GAWP 136) The major point I would seek to
make here is that the intuition is the source or the bestower of revelation.
Through the intuition, progressive understanding of the ways of God in the
world and on behalf of humanity are [Page 136] revealed; through the intuition,
the transcendence and the immanence of God is sequentially grasped and man can
enter into that pure knowledge, that inspired reason, which will enable him to
comprehend not only the processes of nature in its fivefold divine expression
but also the underlying causes of these processes, proving them effects and not
initiatory events; through the intuition man arrives at the experience of the
kingdom of God, and discovers the nature, the type of lives and of phenomena,
and the characteristics of the Sons of God as They come into manifestation.
Through the intuition, some of the plans and purposes working out through the
manifested created worlds are brought to his attention, and he is shown in what
way he and the rest of humanity can cooperate and hasten the divine purpose;
through the intuition, the laws of the spiritual life, which are the laws
governing God Himself, conditioning
Shamballa, and guiding
the Hierarchy, are brought to his notice progressively and as he proves capable
of appreciating them and working them.
Four types of people are subject to revelation
through the awakening of the intuition:
1.Those on the line of the world saviours.
These touch and sense the divine plan and are pledged to service, and to work
for the salvation of humanity. They are found expressing different and varying
degrees of realisation, stretching all the way from the man who seeks to reveal
divinity in his own life and to his immediate small circle (through the medium
of the changes and effects wrought in his personal life) to those great
Intuitives and world Saviours, such as the Christ. The former is motivated in
all probability by some one intuitive crisis which entirely remade him and gave
him a new sense of values; the latter can, at will, rise into the world of
intuitive perception and [Page 137] values and there ascertain the will of God
and a wide vision of the Plan. Such great Representatives of Deity have the
freedom of the
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(GAW[ 159) Humanity today is the Dweller
whilst the Hierarchy of
Souls is the Angel and
behind stands the PRESENCE
of Divinity Itself,
intuited by the Hierarchy and dimly sensed by humanity but providing in this
manner that threefold synthesis which is divine manifestation in form.
All these three have powerful emanations
(though the emanation of the PRESENCE via Shamballa has been wisely held in leash since the human race came into being).
They all have auras, if you care so to call them, and in the three worlds at
present that of the Dweller is still the most powerful, just as in the life of
the aspirant, his personality is as yet the dominant predisposing factor. It is
this powerful human emanation which constitutes the major glamour in the life
of humanity and of the individual disciple. It is a synthesis of glamour, fused
and blended by the personality ray but precipitated by the effect of the
steadily influencing soul ray. It [Page 160] is the shadow or distortion of
reality, now sensed for the first time on a large scale by the race of men and
thrown into high relief by the light which shines from the Angel, the
transmitter of energy from the PRESENCE.
(GAWP 169) This is necessarily no rapid
process but is an ordered and regulated procedure, sure in its eventual success
but relatively slow also in its establishment and sequential process. This
process was initiated upon the astral plane [Page 169] by the Buddha, and on
the mental plane when Christ manifested on Earth. It indicated the approaching
maturity of humanity. The process has been slowly gathering momentum as these two great Beings have gathered around Them Their disciples
and initiates during the past two thousand years. It has reached a point of
intensive usefulness as the channel of communication between Shamballa and the Hierarchy has been opened and enlarged, and
as the contact between these two great Centres and Humanity has been more
firmly established.
At the June Full Moon, 1942, the first test as to the directness of the communication between the
Centre where the Will of God holds sway, the Centre where the Love of God rules, and the Centre
where there is intelligent expectancy was made. The medium of the test was the united effort of the Christ, of the Buddha, and of those who responded to Their
blended influence. This
test had to be carried
out in the midst of the terrific onslaught of the powers of evil and was extended over the two weeks beginning on the day of the Full Moon (May 30th 1942) and ending on June 15th 1942. There was a great concentration of the
Spiritual Forces at that time, and the use of a special Invocation (one which
humanity itself may not use), but the success or failure of the test was, in
the last analysis, determined by mankind itself.
You may feel, though wrongly, that not
enough people know about or understand the nature of the opportunity or what is
transpiring. But the success of such a test is not dependent upon the esoteric
knowledge of the few, the relatively few, to whom the facts and the information
have been partially imparted. It is dependent also upon the tendency of the
many who unconsciously aspire towards the spiritual realities, who seek for a
new and better way of life for all, who desire the good of the whole and whose
[Page 170] longing and desire is for a true experience of goodness, of right
human relations and of spiritual enterprise among men. Their name is Legion and
they are to be found in every nation.
The Will of God expressed in Shamballa
and focussed through the Buddha-the Low of God, focussed through the Christ
When the Will of God, expressed in Shamballa and focussed in the Buddha, the Love of God,
expressed in the Hierarchy and focussed through the Christ, and the intelligent desire of humanity, focussed
through the world disciples, the world aspirants and the men of goodwill are
all brought into line—either consciously or unconsciously—then a great
re-orientation can and will take place. This event is something that can happen.
(GAWP 183) This basic technique underlies
both primary and secondary revelations. In the case of the first, the time
cycle is long; in the second, the time cycle is short. A very good instance of
this process is demonstrated by one of the secondary points of revelation in
connection with the teaching which emanated from the Hierarchy (the Custodian
of secondary revelations, as
Shamballa is of primary)
fifty years ago and which took the form of The Secret Doctrine. H.P.B. was the
"penetrating, sensing, appropriating intuitive." The revelation she
conveyed followed the accustomed routine of all secondary revelation from the
Source to the outer plane. There the minds of men, veiled by illusion and
clouded by glamour, formulated it into an inelastic doctrine, recognising no
further revelation and holding steadily—many of the theosophical groups—that
The Secret Doctrine was a final [Page 184] revelation and that naught must be
recognised but that book and naught deemed correct but their interpretations of
that book. If they are correct, then evolutionary revelation is ended and the
plight of humanity is hard indeed.
(HIS 32) In Lemurian days, after the great descent of the spiritual Existences
to the earth, the work They planned to do was systematised. Offices were apportioned, and the processes
of evolution in all the departments of nature were brought under the conscious
wise guidance of this initial Brotherhood.
This Hierarchy of Brothers of Light still exists, and the work goes
steadily on. They are all in physical
existence, either in dense physical bodies, such as many of the Masters employ,
or in etheric bodies, such as the more exalted helpers and the Lord of the
World occupy. It is of value for men to
remember that They are in physical existence, and to bear in mind that They
exist upon this planet with us, controlling its destinies, guiding its affairs,
and leading all its evolutions on to an ultimate perfection.
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Shamballa will be revealed when
people have etheric vision-it is in the
The central home of this Hierarchy is at Shamballa, a centre in the Gobi desert, called in the ancient books the "
(HIS 40) 5. According to astrological
conditions, and according to the turning of the planetary wheel of life, so one
or another of these Kumaras will be active.
The three Buddhas
of Activity change
from time to time, and become in turn exoteric or esoteric as the case may
be. Only the King persists steadily and watchfully in active physical
incarnation.
Besides these main presiding Personalities
in the Council Chamber
at Shamballa, there is
a group of four Beings Who are the representatives upon the
planet of the four Maharajas, or the four Lords of Karma in the solar
system, who are specifically concerned with the evolution at the present time
of the human kingdom. These four are
connected with:—
1. The distribution of karma, or human
destiny, as it affects individuals, and through the individuals, the groups.
2. The care and tabulation of the akashic records.
They are concerned with the Halls of Records, or with the "keeping of the book," as it
is called in the Christian Bible; They are known in the Christian world as the
recording angels.
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3. The participation in solar councils.
They alone have the right during the world cycle to pass beyond the
periphery of the planetary scheme, and participate in the councils of the Solar Logos.
Thus They are literally planetary mediators, representing our Planetary
Logos and all that concerns Him in the greater scheme of which He is but a
part.
Co-operating with these karmic Lords are
the large groups of initiates and devas who occupy themselves with the right
adjustment of:—
a. World karma,
b. Racial karma,
c. National karma,
d. Group karma,
e. Individual karma,
and who are responsible to the Planetary
Logos for the correct manipulation of those forces and building agencies which
bring in the right Egos on the different rays at the correct times and seasons.
With all these groups we have little
concern, for they are contacted only by initiates of the third initiation, and
by those of even more exalted rank.
The remaining personnel of the Hierarchy is
divided into three main and four subsidiary groups, each of these groups, as
will be seen by reference to the appended chart, being presided over by one of
Those Whom we call the three Great Lords.
(HIS 46) Thus you have Will, Love, and
Intelligence represented in these three great Lords; you have the self, the
not-self, and the relation between synthesised in the unity of manifestation;
you have racial government, religion and civilisation forming a coherent whole,
and you have physical manifestation, the love or desire aspect, and the mind
[Page 46] of the Planetary Logos working out into objectivity. The closest co-operation and unity exists
between these three Personalities, and every move and plan and event exists in
Their united foreknowledge. They are in
daily touch with the Lord
of the World at Shamballa, and the entire guidance of affairs rests in Their hands, and in those
of the Manu of the fourth root-race. The
World Teacher holds office in connection with both the fourth and fifth
root-races.
Each of these departmental heads directs a
number of subsidiary offices, and the department of the Mahachohan is divided
into five divisions, so as to take in the four lesser aspects of Hierarchical
rule.
Under the Manu work the regents of the different world
divisions, such as, for instance, the Master Jupiter, the oldest of the Masters
now working in physical bodies for humanity, Who is the regent for India, and the Master Rakoczi, Who is the regent for Europe and
America. It must be remembered here that though the Master
R., for instance, belongs to the seventh ray, and thus comes under the
department of energy of the Mahachohan, yet in Hierarchical work He may and
does hold office temporarily under the Manu.
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; They pour forth mental energy on governing
groups, thus bringing about the desired results wherever co-operation and
receptive intuition can be found amongst the thinkers.
(HIS 105) Among Those directly connected
with our Lodge of Masters in its various divisions upon the planet, the
following might be enumerated:-
The Silent Watcher is to Sanat
Kumara, what the Ego is to the personality
The "Silent Watcher," that great Entity Who is the informing life of the planet,
and Who holds the same position to the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, as the Ego does to the lower self of
man. Some idea of the high stage of
evolution of this Great Being may be gathered from the analogous degree of
evolutionary difference existing between a human being and a perfected
adept. From the standpoint of our
planetary scheme, this Great Life has no greater, and He is, as far as we are
concerned, a correspondence to the personal God of the Christian. He works through His representative on the
physical plane, Sanat Kumara, Who is the focal point for His life and
energy. He holds the world within His
aura. This great Existence is only
contacted directly by the adept who has taken the [Page 105] fifth initiation,
and is proceeding to take the other two, the sixth and seventh.
At the Wesak festival (Taurus
full moon), the Buddha distributes energy from the Silent Watcher and Sanat
Kumara to humanity
Once a year, at the Wesak Festival, the
Lord Buddha,
sanctioned by the Lord of the World, carries to the assembled humanity a dual
stream of force, that
emanating from the Silent Watcher, supplemented by the more focalised energy of the Lord of the World.
This dual energy He pours out in blessing over the people gathered at
the ceremony in the
During the 1st world war the
Silent Watcher was invoked
It
may not perhaps be generally known that at a certain crisis during the Great War[WW I], the Hierarchy of our planet deemed it well
nigh necessary to invoke the aid of the Silent Watcher, and—employing the great mantram whereby the Buddha can be reached—called the attention of the latter, and
sought his agency with the Planetary Logos.
In consultation between the Planetary Logos, the Lord of the World, one of the
Buddhas of Activity, the Buddha, the Mahachohan, and the Manu (these names are given in order of their
relative evolutionary stage) it was decided to watch proceedings a little
longer before interfering with the trend of affairs, as the karma of the planet would have been delayed should the strife have been ended too
soon. Their confidence in the ability of
men duly to adjust conditions was justified, and interference proved
needless. This conference took place at Shamballa.
This is mentioned to show the close scrutiny given to everything
concerning the affairs of men by the various Planetary Existences. It is literally true, in an occult sense,
that "not a sparrow falleth" without its fall being noticed.
The Bodhisattva (The Christ),
was not included in the Conference at Shamballa during the 1st world
war, because the war was in the department of the Manu-but the next great
strife will be in the department of the Christ-and could well indicate the
relgious world war that seems to be unfolding right now (written Dec 2006)
It may be asked why the Bodhisattva was not included in the
conference. The reason was that the war was in the department of the Manu, and members of the Hierarchy concern
Themselves with that which is strictly Their own business; the Mahachohan,
being the embodiment of the [Page 106] intelligent or manasic principle,
participates in all conferences. In the next great strife the department of
religions will be involved, and the Bodhisattva intimately concerned. His Brother, the Manu, will then be
relatively exempt, and will proceed with His own affairs. And yet withal there is the closest co-operation
in all departments, with no loss of energy.
Owing to the unity of consciousness of those who are free from the three
lower planes, what transpires in one department is known in the others
As the Planetary Logos is only concerned in
the two final initiations, which are not compulsory as are the earlier five, it
serves no purpose to enlarge upon His work.
These initiations are taken upon the buddhic and atmic planes, whereas
the first five are taken upon the mental.
Sanat Kumara and the Chohans,
meet at Shamballa (which is in etheric matter in the
The Lord of the World, the One Initiator,
He Who is called in the Bible "The Ancient of Days," and in the Hindu
Scriptures the First
Kumara, He, Sanat Kumara it is, Who from His throne at
Shamballa in the Gobi desert, presides over the Lodge of Masters, and holds in His hands the reins
of government in all the three departments.
Called in some Scriptures "the Great Sacrifice," He has chosen
to watch over the evolution of men and devas until all have been occultly
"saved." He it is Who decides
upon the "advancements" in the different departments, and Who settles who shall fill the vacant posts; He it is Who, four times a year, meets in conference with all the Chohans and Masters, and authorises what shall be
done to further the ends of evolution.
Sanat Kumara meets lesser
initiates at other times of the year, but only at times of great crisis
Occasionally, too, He meets with initiates
of lesser degree, but
only at times of great crises, when some individual is given the opportunity to bring peace out of
strife, and to kindle a blaze whereby rapidly crystallising forms are destroyed
and the imprisoned life consequently set free.
At the Wesak Festival, the Lodge
meets under the jurisdiction of Santat Kumara (head of Shamballa)
At stated periods in the year the Lodge
meets, and at [Page
107] the Wesak Festival
gathers under His jurisdiction for three purposes:
1. To contact planetary force through the
medium of the Buddha.
2. To hold the principal of the quarterly conferences.
3. To admit to the ceremony of initiation those who are ready in all grades.
Three other initiation ceremonies take
place during the year:—
1. For the minor initiations administered
by the Bodhisattva, all of which are in the department of the Mahachohan, and
on one or other of the four lesser rays, the rays of attribute.
2. For the major initiations on one or
other of the three major
rays, the rays of
aspect, which are administered by the Bodhisattva, and are therefore the first
two initiations.
Sanat Kumra, Lord of Shamballa,
wields the Rod at the 3rd, 4th and 5th
initiations
3. For the higher three initiations (3rd, 4th,
5th) at
which Sanat Kumara
wields the Rod.
At all initiations the Lord of the World is
present, but at the first two He holds a position similar to that held by the
Silent Watcher, when Sanat
Kumara administers the oath at the third, fourth and fifth initiations.
His power streams forth and the flashing forth of the star before the
initiate is the signal of His approval, but the initiate does not see Him face
to face until the third initiation.
The function of the three Kumaras, or the three Buddhas of Activity at initiation is interesting. They are three aspects of the one aspect, and
the pupils of Sanat
Kumara. Though Their functions are many and varied,
and concern primarily the forces and energies of nature, and the direction
[Page 108] of the building agencies, They have a vital connection with the
applicant for initiation, inasmuch as They each embody the force or energy of
one or other of the three
higher subplanes of the mental plane. Therefore at
the third initiation one of these Kumaras transmits to the causal body of the
initiate that energy which destroys
third subplane matter,
and thus brings about part of the destruction of the vehicle; at the fourth
initiation another Buddha transmits second plane force, and at the fifth, first
subplane force is similarly passed into the remaining atoms of the causal
vehicle, producing the final liberation.
The work done by the second Kumara, with second subplane force, is in
this solar system the most important in connection with the egoic body, and
produces its complete dissipation, whereas the final application causes the
atoms themselves (which formed that body) to disperse.
During the initiation ceremony, when the
initiate stands before the Lord of the World, these three great Beings form a
triangle, within whose lines of force the initiate finds himself. At the first two initiations, wherein the
Bodhisattva functions as the Hierophant, the Mahachohan, the Manu, and a Chohan
who temporarily represents the second department perform a similar office. At the highest two initiations, those three
Kumaras who are called "the esoteric Kumaras" form a triangle wherein
the initiate stands, when he faces the Planetary Logos.
These facts are imparted to teach two
things, first, the unity of the method, second, that the truism "as above
so below" is an occult fact in nature.
At the final two initiations
(the 6th and 7th?)-Sanat Kuamara and the Planetary Logos
(the Silent Watcher) merge-seeing as Sanat Kumara is to the Planetary Logos as
the Personality is to the Soul-DK is simply saying that the Personality and
Soul of Planet earth are merged in consciousness when initiates of the 5th
degree are taking either the 6th or 7th initiations-it
would be interesting and useful to consider exactly when in the year these 6th
and 7th initiations take place-at the Libra and Aries full moons?
SDP has written considerably on this subject
At the final two initiations many members of the Hierarchy who are, if one might
so express it, extra-planetary, and who function outside the dense physical and the etheric globe of
our planet, take part,
but a stricter enumeration is needless. Sanat Kumara is still the Hierophant, yet in a [Page 109] very esoteric manner
it is the Planetary
Logos Himself who
officiates. They are merged at that time into one Identity, manifesting different aspects.
Suffice it to say, in concluding this brief
statement, that the making of an initiate is an affair with a dual effect, for
it involves ever a passing on of some adept or initiate to a higher grade or to
other work, and the coming in under the Law of some human being who is in
process of attainment. Therefore it is a
thing of great moment, involving group activity, group loyalty, and united
endeavour, and much may depend upon the wisdom of admitting a man to high
office and to a place in the council chambers of the Hierarchy.
(HIS 126) CHAPTER XIII
THE RODS OF INITIATION
The Rods of Initiation are of four kinds:
1. Cosmic, used by a cosmic Logos in the initiations of a solar Logos and of the three major Planetary Logoi.
2. Systemic, used by a solar Logos in the initiations of a
Planetary Logos. With cosmic initiation
we have naught to do; it concerns expansions of realisation beyond even the ken
of the highest initiate in our solar system.
With systemic initiations we are concerned only in trifling measure, for
they are on so vast a scale that the average human mind cannot as yet envisage
them. Man appreciates these initiations
only in so far as they produce effects in the planetary scheme with which he
may be concerned. Particularly is this
so should the scheme in which he plays his microscopic part be the centre in
the Logoic body receiving stimulation.
When that is the case, the initiation of his own Planetary Logos takes
place, and consequently he (as a cellular body) receives an added stimulation
along with the other sons of men.
3. Planetary, used by a Planetary Logos for initiatory purposes, and for the third, fourth, and fifth major initiations, with the two higher. At the
planetary initiation the Rod of Power, wielded by the solar Logos, is charged
with pure electrical force from Sirius, and was received by our Logos during the secondary period of
creation, from the
hands of that great Entity Who is the presiding Lord of the Lords of Karma. He
is the repository of the law during manifestation, and He it is Who is the
representative in [Page 127] the solar system of that greater Brotherhood on
Sirius Whose Lodges are found functioning as the occult Hierarchies in the
different planets. Again, it is He Who,
with the solar Logos to assist Him, invests the various Initiators with power,
gives to Them that word in secret which enables Them to draw down the pure electric force with which Their rods of office must be
charged, and commits to Their keeping the peculiar secret of Their particular
planetary scheme.
4. Hierarchical, used by an occult
Hierarchy for minor initiations, and for the first two initiations of manas by the Bodhisattva.
The first direct impact of
Shamballa on Humanity took place in Lemurian times-the second was in Atlantean
times and initiated the flood, and the third was in the 20th century
and initiated the world war (1st and 2nd)
When man individualised in Lemurian days, it was through the application of the Rod of Initiation to the Logos of our earth chain, which touched into activity certain
centres in His body, with their corresponding groups. This application produced literally the
awakening of the life to intelligent work on the mental plane. Animal man was conscious on the physical and
on the astral planes. By the stimulation
effected by the electric rod this animal man awoke to consciousness on the
mental. Thus the three bodies were co-ordinated, and the Thinker enabled to function in
them.
All Rods of Initiation cause certain
effects:—
a. Stimulation of the latent fires till
they blaze.
b. Synthesis of the fires through an occult
activity that brings them within the radius of each other.
c. Increase of the vibratory activity of
some centre, whether in man, a Heavenly Man, or a solar Logos.
d. Expansion of all the bodies, but
primarily of the causal body.
e. The arousing of the kundalini fire (or
the fire at the base of the spine), and the direction of its upward
progression. This fire, and the fire of
manas, are directed [Page 128] along certain routes—or triangles—by the
following of the Rod as it moves in a specified manner. There is a definite occult reason, under the
laws of electricity, behind the known fact that every initiate presented to the
Initiator is accompanied by two of the Masters, Who stand one on either side of
the initiate. The three of Them together
form a triangle which makes the work possible.
The force of the Rod is twofold, and its
power terrific. Apart and alone the
initiate could not receive the voltage from the Rod without serious hurt, but
in triangular transmission comes safety.
We need to remember here that two Masters sponsor all applicants for
initiation, and represent two polarities of the electric All. Part of Their function is to stand with
applicants for initiation when they come before the Great Lord.
When the rods are held in the hands of the Initiator in His
position of power, and at the stated seasons, they act as transmitters of electric force from very
high levels, so high indeed that the "Flaming Diamond," at certain of
the final initiations, the sixth
and seventh, transmits
force via the Logos from
outside the system altogether. This major Rod is the one used on this
planet, but within the system there are several such Rods of Power, and they
are to be found in three
grades—if it may be so
expressed.
The Lord of The World-Sanat
Kumara-re-charges the Rod of the World Teacher (Boddihsatva) at the inaugeration
of each World Teacher-at Shamballa-which month?
One Rod of Initiation is used for the first two initiations, and is wielded by the Great Lord. It is magnetised by the application of the
"Flaming Diamond," the magnetisation being repeated for each new World Teacher.
There is a wonderful ceremony performed at the time that a new World
Teacher takes office, in which He receives His Rod of Power—the same Rod as used since the foundation of
our Planetary Hierarchy-and
holds it forth to the Lord
of the [Page 129] World,
Who touches it with His own mighty Rod, causing a fresh recharging of its
electric capacity. This ceremony takes place at Shamballa.
The Rod of Initiation known as the
"Flaming Diamond," is used by Sanat Kumara, the One Initiator.
This Rod lies hidden "in the East," and holds the fire hidden
that irradiates the Wisdom Religion.
This Rod was brought by the Lord of the World from Venus, and once in every world period it is
subjected to a similar process to that of the lesser Rod, only this time it is recharged by the direct action of the Logos
Himself, the Logos of the solar system. The exact
location of this Rod is known only to the Lord of the World and to the Chohans of the rays, and being the talisman of this evolution the Chohan of the second ray is—under the
Lord of the World—its prime guardian, aided by the deva Lord of the second
plane. The Buddhas of Activity are
responsible for its custody, and under Them the Chohan of the ray. It is produced only at stated times, when specific work has to be done. It is used not only at the initiating of men,
but at certain planetary functions of which nothing is at present known. It has its place and function in certain ceremonies connected with the inner round, and the
triangle formed by the Earth, Mars, and Mercury.
(HIS 130) The purpose of the Rods of Power.
In the sceptre of a ruling monarch at this
day is hidden the symbolism of these various Rods. They are duly recognised as symbols of office
and of power, but it is not generally appreciated that they are of electrical
origin, and that their true significance is concerned with the dynamic stimulation of all the subordinates
in office who come
under their touch thus inspiring them to increased activity and service for the
race.
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The great Rod of Power of the Logos Himself
is hidden in the sun.
To recapitulate, the esoteric location of
the various rods is as follows:—
The Rod of the Bodhisattva is
hidden at Shamballa in the
1. The Rod of the Bodhisattva lies hidden in the "heart of the wisdom,"
that is, at Shamballa.
2. The Rod of the One Initiator is hidden in "the East," a
definite planetary
location.
3. The Rod of the solar Logos is hidden in "the heart of the sun," that
mysterious subjective sphere which lies back of our physical sun, and of which
our physical sun is but the environing shield and envelope.
4. The Rod of the cosmic Logos associated with our solar Logos is
secreted in that central spot in the heavens around which our solar system
revolves, and which is termed "the central spiritual sun."
The Rod of the Bodhisattva is
charged for each new World Teacher-The Rod of Sanat Kumara is charge afresh at
each recurring world period (seven times in a planetary scheme)
One Rod is charged anew at Shamballa for each new World Teacher; the Rod of Sanat Kumara is charged afresh
at each recurring world period, and therefore seven times in the history of a planetary scheme. The Logoic Rod of Power is electrified at the
recurrence of each new period of creation, or for each solar system through which the Logos manifests, as a
man manifests through his physical body life.
Shamballa corresponds to the
heart chakra in a human being
The first two ceremonies take place at
Shamballa, the sacred
point of planetary manifestation, that central location in our physical planet
which corresponds to the heart
of a human being. Many of the places on the earth's surface,
for instance, which are famed for their healing properties, are thus noted
because they are magnetised spots, and their magnetic properties demonstrate as
healing influences. The recognition of
these properties by man is but the preamble of a later and more definite
recognition, which will eventuate when his etheric sight is normally developed.
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These magnetic spots are magnetised in three ways:—
The national heart (often the
chief city) of every nation is caused through the application of the Flaming
diamond to the ethers, by Sanat Kumara
2. By Sanat Kumara working through the
Bodhisattva. In this case, the electric
force in the Rod is wielded in order to draw closer together those influences
which demonstrate in the great religions of the world. The lesser Rod of Power is used here in
conjunction with the greater. By their
means the attractive quality or keynote of any religion is struck, and of any
organisation with a religious basis.
3. By Sanat Kumara working through the
Mahachohan. By the wielding of the Rod
of Power the magnetic focal points of those great organisations which affect
the civilisation and the culture of a people are brought into coherent
activity.
All physical plane
organisation—governmental, religious, or cultural—is the working out of inner
forces and causes, and, before they definitely appear in physical
manifestation, a focalisation—if it might be so expressed—of these influences
and energies, takes place on etheric levels.
The organisation of the Freemasons is a case in point. It has two magnetic centres, one of which is
in
When disciples initiate a movement on a
relatively tiny scale, the Master with Whom they work can similarly assist
them, and though He wields no Rod of Power, He has methods whereby He can
stimulate and cause to cohere the little endeavour of the faithful
followers. Thus in all departments of
human life the Rods of Initiation and the Words of Power are used. The entire world government functions under
law and order, and the whole scheme is interdependent.
(HIS 146) The earlier three stages of the
initiation ceremony are the same for all initiations. In the final two stages those who are not of
equal rank with the newly made initiate (such as first degree initiates at the
initiation of a third degree member drop back to the rear of the Hall of Initiation at Shamballa, and a "wall of silence" is
built up through mantric energy between the two groups; a vacuum, so to speak,
is formed, and nothing can then be transmitted from the [Page 146] inner group
to the outer. The latter confine
themselves to deep meditation and the chanting of certain formulas, and in the
inner group around the Hierophant a dual performance is taking place:—
a. The newly made initiate is taking the
oath.
b. Certain Words and Secrets are being
handed over to him.
(HIS 189) 5. The Ray Path.
It is difficult to know by what other name
to call this Path, as so little is known about it. In treading it, a man stays on his own ray, and works thereon in the various kingdoms
on all the planes, carrying out the behests of the Lord of the World, and
working under His direction. It carries
a man to every part of the solar system, yet links him definitely with the
synthetic ray. It is a very complex
path, for it necessitates a capacity for the most intricate mathematics, and an ability to geometrise in a manner
incomprehensible to our three-dimensional brains. This path is taken by the man to whom the law of vibration is of
profound importance. He works first in
the council chamber of the Lord of the World at Shamballa, manipulating the law of vibration on his
own ray. Later he will have his habitat
on the planet corresponding to his own ray, and [Page 189] not on the earth
unless he is on the ray of the Planetary Logos holding sway upon the
earth. Later again as his evolution
progresses, he will pass to the sun; then having mastered all connected with vibration
in this system he will pass to the cosmic system, going off his own ray (which
is but a subsidiary ray of one cosmic ray), on to the corresponding cosmic ray.
Just as the evolution of man in this system
is fivefold, so in the above we have enumerated the principal five Paths from
which a Master has to choose. The remaining two can only be touched upon still more
briefly, for they hold but a very few of the evolving sons of men, owing to the high point of attainment necessitated
for their entrance, and the fact that those who enter upon them pass out of the
system altogether. They do not lead to
Sirius, as do some of the other Paths.
It will be noted that four groups remain in the system, passing
eventually, in dim and distant aeons, to the cosmic planes. One group passes directly to Sirius, and the
remaining two groups pass directly after initiation to the cosmic planes, with
no period of intermediate work on earth, in the system, or on Sirius. These two Paths are:—
Shamballa is home to the Secret
Doctrine
(HIS 225) Shamballa. The City of the Gods, which is in the West to some nations, in
the East to others, in the North or South to yet others. It is the sacred island in the
(
Sanat Kumara, located at
Shamballa, is the highest expression of the Teaching Ray upon Earth
It is therefore very essential that the
emphasis is laid on the fact that no matter what the offshoots, the basic
school of occultism is that one which has its root in the sacred centre of the planet, Shamballa. At
that place, directly under the eyes of the One Initiator Himself, Who is—as is seldom realised—the highest expression of the Teaching Ray
upon the earth, is
found what might be termed the central office for the educational disciplinary
training work of the Hierarchy. There
will be found the Chohan Who is directly responsible for the various
endeavours, and to Whom the Masters Who take pupils, and the Heads of the various
occult schools are directly responsible.
All proceeds under law and order.
One point that it will here be necessary to
emphasise is that the Brotherhood of Light, as represented by the Himalayan
Masters, has its other representatives elsewhere who all carry out specific
work under proper and adequate supervision.
Too apt are the Theosophists to think that they alone are the
repositories of the wisdom religion. Not
so is the fact. At this particular
moment (with the aim in view of the development and tendering of opportunity to
the fifth subrace) the Himalayan Brotherhood is the main channel of effort,
power and light. But the work with other
races proceeds simultaneously and numerous other projects, all emanating from
the central office at
Shamballa, are
paralleling the Himalayan
work. Get this clearly in mind, for the point is
important. The
The one fundamental school may be
recognised by certain outstanding characteristics:—
By the basic character of the truths taught
as embodied in the following postulates:—
a. The unity of all life.
b. The graded steps of development as
recognised in man, and by the graded steps of its curriculum, which lead a man
from one expansion of consciousness to another until he has reached that which
we call perfection.
c. The relationship between the microcosm
and the macrocosm and its sevenfold application.
d. The method of this development and the
place of the microcosm within the macrocosm as revealed through the study of
the periodicity of all manifestation and the basic law of cause and effect.
By the emphasis laid on character building
and spiritual development as a foundation for the development of [Page 304] all
the faculties inherent in the microcosm.
By the requirement, demanded of all affiliated pupils without exception,
that the life of inner unfoldment and development should be paralleled by a
life of exoteric service.
By the graded expansions of consciousness
that are the result of the imparted training; these lead a man on from step to
step till he contacts his higher self, his Master, his egoic group, the First
Initiator, the One Paramount Initiator, until he has contacted the Lord of his
Ray and has entered into the bosom of his "Father Which is in
Heaven".
These are the outstanding features that are
descriptive of the one true fundamental School.
This fundamental school has three main
branches and a fourth
that is in process of forming and which will make the four branches of this
fourth round. These branches are as
follows:—
1. The trans-Himalayan Branch.
2. The southern India Branch. (these are Aryan Branches)
These branches are and will be closely
inter-allied and will work in the closest co-operation, being all focused and
under the control of the
Chohan at Shamballa. The heads of each of the four branches
communicate with each other frequently and are really like the faculty of one
stupendous university, the four schools being like the [Page 305] various major
departments of the foundations—like subsidiary colleges. The aim of all is the evolution of the race,
the object of all is to lead all to the point of standing before the One
Initiator, the methods employed are fundamentally the same, though varying in
detail, due to the racial characteristics of the races and types dealt with,
and the fact that certain schools work paramountly with one ray and others with
another.
The trans-Himalayan school has its adepts
as known to you, and others Whose Names are not known.
The southern Indian school has special work
with the deva evolution, and with the second and third sub-races of the Aryan
race.
The Himalayan school works with the first,
fourth and fifth sub-races.
The fourth root-race branch works under the
Manu of that race and his brother of the Teaching Ray. Their headquarters are in
The Master R.— and one of the English Masters are concerning Themselves with the gradual
founding of the fourth
branch of the school,
with the assistance of the Master Hilarion.
Ponder on these imparted facts, for the significance is of profound
importance.
Tomorrow we will deal with the future. Today I have but imparted facts in present
manifestation.
(ROP 32) From the Father's House (the
"centre where the will of God is known" or Shamballa of the esotericist) the fiat has gone forth: The hour has
come. From the
(ROP 53) 4. Finally, in the triumph of the
Crucifixion or (as it is more accurately called in the East) the Great
Renunciation, [Page 53] Christ, for the first time, anchored on Earth a tenuous
thread of the divine Will as it issued from the Father's House (Shamballa), passed into the understanding custody of
the kingdom of God and, through the medium of the Christ, was brought to the
attention of mankind. Through the instrumentality of certain great Sons of God,
the three divine aspects or characteristics of the divine Trinity—will, love
and intelligence—have become a part of human thinking and aspiration.
Christians are apt to forget that the crisis in the final hours of the Christ
was not that spent upon the Cross, but those spent in the
(ROC 58) The question now arises: In what
way can we be of service? How can we aid
during this preparatory stage?
What the members of the Spiritual Hierarchy
are doing is much indeed; those disciples who are in conscious touch with the
Masters of the Wisdom—or, if you prefer the term, with the senior disciples of
the Christ—are working day and night in order to establish such confidence,
correct attitudes and an understanding of the divine spiritual "push"
or enterprise that His way will be made easier. They and their groups of lesser
disciples, aspirants and students of the realities stand unitedly behind the
Christ and can thus enable Him to accomplish His purpose. Their major
realisation is that of a cyclic crisis in the spiritual life of our planet; it
is one which [Page 58] has been anticipated in the Father's House (Shamballa) for thousands of years. They have
registered the fact that, for the first time in human history, all the three
spiritual centres or groups through which God works are unitedly focussed on
the same objective.
Shamballa, the
Spiritual Hierarchy and Humanity (the Father's House, the
(ROC 85) As Dispenser of the Water of Life,
His work is most mysterious and not at all easy to comprehend. In His public
work, two thousand years ago, He said: "I am come [Page 85] that they may have life and that they may
have it more abundantly." (John X.10.) The Life Aspect—from the angle of
the vision of Christ—expresses itself in three ways:
1. As physical life, nourishing the cells
of the body. This life
is found within each atom of substance as the central point of living light.
2. As livingness, seen as love and light
within the heart. When this livingness is present and expressing itself, the
human atom becomes a part of the spiritual Hierarchy.
(ROC 97)
In order to make this possible and thus release His spiritual Brother
from the arduous task of relating humanity to the "centre where the will
of God is known" (Shamballa), Christ is subjecting Himself at this time
to an unique process of training. Of this training, His thirty years of work in
the carpenter's shop in
(ROC 154) t will be apparent to you that it
is only possible to indicate the broad general outlines of the new world
religion. The expansion of the human consciousness which will take place as a
result of the coming Great Approach will enable humanity to grasp not only its
relation to the spiritual life of our planet, the "One in Whom we live and
move and have our being," but will also give a glimpse of the relation of
our planet to the circle of planetary lives, moving within the orbit of the Sun
and the still greater circle of spiritual influences which contact our system
as it pursues its orbit in the Heavens (the twelve constellations of the
zodiac). Astronomical and astrological investigation has demonstrated this
relationship and the influences exerted but there is still speculation and much
foolish claiming and interpretation. Yet the churches have ever recognized this
and the Bible has testified to it. "The stars in their courses fought
against Sisera" (Judges V.20). "Who can withstand the sweet
influences of the Pleiades?" (Job XXXVIII.31). Many other passages bear
out this contention of the Knowers. Many church festivals are fixed by reference to the
moon or a zodiacal constellation. Investigation will prove this to be the case and
when the ritual of the new world religion is universally [Page 154]
established, this will be one of the important factors considered.
The establishing of certain major festivals in relation to the
Moon and in a lesser
degree to the zodiac will bring about a strengthening of the spirit of
invocation and the resultant inflow of evoked influences. The truth lying
behind all invocation is based upon the power of thought, particularly in its
telepathic nature, rapport and aspect. The unified, invocative thought of the
masses and the focussed, directed thought of the New Group of World Servers
constitute an outgoing stream of energy. This will reach telepathically those
spiritual Beings Who are sensitive and responsive to such impacts. Their evoked
response, sent out as spiritual energy, will in turn reach humanity after
having been stepped down into thought energy and in that form will make its due
impact upon the minds of men, convincing them and carrying inspiration and
revelation. Thus has it ever been in the history of the spiritual unfoldment of
the world and the procedure followed in writing the world Scriptures.
Ideally, people the world over
should keep the same holy days-based on various full moons
Secondly, the establishing of a certain uniformity
in the world religious rituals will aid men everywhere to strengthen each
other's work and enhance powerfully the thought currents directed to the
waiting spiritual Lives. At present, the Christian religion has its great
festivals, the Buddhist keeps his different set spiritual events, and the Hindu
has still another list of holy days. In the future world, when organised, all
men of spiritual inclination and intention everywhere will keep the same holy days. This will bring about a pooling of spiritual
resources, and a united spiritual effort, plus a simultaneous spiritual
invocation. The potency of this will be apparent.
Let me indicate the possibilities of such
spiritual events, and attempt to prophesy the nature of the coming worldwide
[Page 155] Festivals. There will be three such major Festivals each year,
concentrated in three consecutive months and leading, therefore, to a prolonged
annual spiritual effort which will affect the remainder of the year. These will
be:
The three festivals and full
moons of Aries, Taurus and Gemini (using the tropical zodiac)-are the primary
full moons of the new world religion
1. The Festival of Easter. This is the Festival of the risen, living Christ, the Teacher of all men and the Head of
the Spiritual Hierarchy. He is the Expression of the love of God. On this day
the spiritual Hierarchy, which He guides and directs, will be recognised and
the nature of God's love will be emphasised. This Festival is determined always by the date of the
first Full Moon of spring
and is the great Western and Christian Festival.
The May full moon will link
Shamballa and the Hierarchy
2. The Festival of Wesak. This is the Festival of the Buddha, the spiritual Intermediary between the
highest spiritual centre, Shamballa,
and the Hierarchy. The
Buddha is the expression of the wisdom of God, the Embodiment of Light and the
Indicator of the divine purpose. This will be fixed annually in relation to the Full
Moon of May, as is at
present the case. It is the great Eastern Festival.
The June full moon festival of
the spirit of humanity
These three Festivals are already being kept throughout the
world, though they are not as yet related to each other and are a part of the
unified spiritual Approach of humanity. The time is coming when all three
Festivals will be kept throughout the world and by their means a great
spiritual unity will be achieved and the effects of the Great Approach, so
close to us at this time, will be stabilised by the united invocation of
humanity throughout the planet.
The remaining full moons will constitute lesser festivals but will be recognised to be also of vital
importance. They will establish the divine attributes in the consciousness of
man, just as the major festivals establish the three divine aspects. These
aspects and qualities will be arrived at and determined by a close study of the
nature of a particular constellation or constellations influencing those
months. For instance, Capricorn will
call attention to the first initiation, the birth of the Christ in the cave of
the heart, and indicate the training needed to bring about that great spiritual
event in the life of the individual man. I give this one instance to you in
order to indicate the possibilities for spiritual unfoldment that [Page 157]
could be given through an understanding of these influences and in order to revivify
the ancient faiths by expanding them into their larger undying relationships.
Thus, the twelve annual festivals will
constitute a revelation of divinity. They will present a means of bringing
about relationship, first of all, during three months with the three great
spiritual Centres, the three expressions of the divine Trinity. The minor
festivals will emphasise the interrelation of the Whole, thus lifting the
divine presentation out of the individual and the personal, into that of the
universal divine Purpose; the relationship of the Whole to the part and of the
part to that Whole will be thereby fully expressed.
Humanity will, therefore, invoke the
spiritual power of the
To sum up therefore: on the basis of the
fundamental truth already recognised the new world religion will be built.
The definition of religion which will in
the future prove of greater accuracy than any yet formulated by the theologians
might be expressed as follows:
Religion is the name given to the
invocative appeal of humanity and the evocative response of the greater Life to
that cry.
It is, in fact, the recognition by the part
of its relationship [Page 158] to the Whole, plus a constantly growing demand
for increased awareness of that relation; it draws forth the recognition of the
Whole that the demand has been made. It is the impact of the vibration of
humanity—oriented specifically to the Great Life of which it feels itself a
part—upon that Life and the responsive impact of that "All-surrounding
Love" upon the lesser vibration. It is only now that the impact of the
human vibration can dimly be sensed in Shamballa; hitherto its most potent activity has only reached
the Hierarchy. Religion, the science of invocation and evocation as far as
humanity is concerned, is the approach (in the coming New Age) of a mentally
polarised humanity. In the past, religion has had an entirely emotional appeal.
It concerned the relation of the individual to the world of reality, of the
seeking aspirant to the sought-for divinity. Its technique was the process of
fitting oneself for the revelation of that divinity, of achieving a perfection
which would warrant that revelation, and of developing a sensitivity and a
loving response to the ideal Man, summarised, for present day humanity, in the Christ. Christ came to end the cycle of
this emotional approach which had existed since Atlantean days; He demonstrated in Himself the visioned
perfection and then presented to humanity an example—in full manifestation—of
every possibility latent in man up to that time. The achieving of the
perfection of the Christ-consciousness became the emphasised goal of humanity.
Today, slowly, the concept of a world
religion and the need for its emergence are widely desired and worked for. The
fusion of faiths is now a field for discussion. Workers in the field of
religion will formulate the universal platform of the new world religion. It is
a work of loving synthesis and will emphasise the unity and the fellowship of
the spirit. This group is, in a pronounced sense, a [Page 159] channel for the
activities of the Christ, the world Teacher. The platform of the new world
religion will be built by many groups, working under the inspiration of the
Christ.
Churchmen need to remember that the human
spirit is greater than all the churches and greater than their teaching. In the
long run, that human spirit will defeat them and proceed triumphantly into the Kingdom
of God, leaving them far behind unless they enter as a humble part of the mass
of men. Nothing under heaven can arrest the progress of the human soul on its
long pilgrimage from darkness to light, from the unreal to the real, from death
to immortality and from ignorance to wisdom. If the great organised religious
groups of churches in every land, and composing all faiths do not offer
spiritual guidance and help, humanity will find another way. Nothing can keep
the spirit of man from God.
The churches in the West need also to
realise that basically there is only one Church, but it is not necessarily only
the orthodox Christian institution. God works in many ways, through many faiths
and religious agencies; this is one reason for the elimination of non-essential
doctrines. By the emphasising of the essential doctrines and in their union
will the fullness of truth be revealed. This, the new world religion will do
and its implementation will proceed apace, after the reappearance of the
Christ.
(TEV 41) VII. THE SCIENCE OF IMPRESSION
The entire subject of telepathic
communication can be approached under a more subjective designation or name,
but one which is interpretive of the more universal and prior stage than that
of direct telepathic reception. The occultist ever approaches the subject
connected with the evolutionary process from the angle of the whole and then
the part, from the periphery to the centre, from the universal to the
particular. Among Themselves, the Masters do not deal with telepathy as a
science warranting consideration, endeavour and impartation; They are concerned
primarily with the Science of Impression. The term most often employed by Them
is the esoteric equivalent of what the average person means when he says,
"I have an impression." Impression is the subtlest reaction (more or
less accurate) to the vibratory mental activity of some other mind or group of
minds, of some whole, as its radiatory influence affects the unit or aggregate
of units.
The first stage of correct telepathic
reception is ever the registering of an impression; it is generally vague at
the beginning, but as a thought, idea, purpose or intention of the sending
agent concretises, it slips into the second stage which appears as a definite
thoughtform; finally, that thoughtform makes its impact upon the consciousness
of the brain in the location lying just behind the ajna centre and consequently
in the area of the pituitary body. It can appear also in the region of the
solar plexus centre. But for those Lives Who have surmounted life in the three
worlds and Who are not conditioned by the triple mechanism of the personality,
the impression is the factor of importance; Their consciousness is impressed,
and so sensitive is Their response to the higher impression, that They [Page
42] absorb or appropriate the impression so that it becomes a part of Their own
"impulsive energy."
This is by no means an easy subject for me
to elucidate, and the reasons are two:
1. The members of the Hierarchy (among Whom
I have the status of Master)* are Themselves in process of learning this
Science of Impression. This They do on the levels of the abstract mind, of the
intuition, or of manas and buddhi.
2. The science is as yet without a
vocabulary. It is not limited at any stage by thoughtforms but it is limited by
word forms; and it is therefore a difficult problem for me to pass on any
information anent this subtle mode of communication of which telepathy is in
fact but an exoteric externalisation.
Sources of Impression to the Three Planetary Centres
Impression, as an art to be mastered both
from the angle of the impressing agent and of the impressed recipient, is
definitely related to the world of ideas. As far as our planetary Life is
concerned, there are certain great sources of impression and one or two of them
might here be noted; you will thus gain some idea of the subtlety of the whole
subject, of its close relation to energy impacts and of its group reception as
differentiated from individual reception, as is the case in any telepathic
rapport.
1. The impression of Shamballa by:
b. From one or other of the constellations
which are at any particular time astrologically en rapport with our planet.
This impression can only be received by the Great Council when sitting in
conclave with a majority of its Members present. This, I would have you note,
does not entail the attendance of the entire Council.
c. From a triangle of circulating energy,
emanating from the two planets which—with our planet, the Earth—form a triangle
in any particular cycle. This impression is received by the three Buddhas of
Activity for distribution to the Hierarchy.
d. From the planet Venus, the Earth's alter
ego. This makes its entrance via the Lord of the World and three of His Council Who are chosen by Him at any specific time to
act as recipients.
These are the major entering impressions,
recorded by what is glibly called "the Universal Mind," the mind of
God, our planetary Logos. There are other entering impressions, but to them I
do not refer, as any reference would be meaningless to you.
2. The impression of the Hierarchy by:
a. Shamballa itself through the medium of groups within the Great
Council; these step down the impression which they register so that the
Hierarchy—as a whole—may cooperate with the purposes intended by those who are
forming the needed Plan.
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b. Certain great Lives Who, at specific
times and according to cyclic rhythm, or in times of emergency, are swung into
this type of activity. For instance, one such time would be the Full Moon
period, which is a time of reception by the Hierarchy as well as by Humanity;
an instance of the second type of activity would be the Wesak Festival, or
those acute crises when intervention is required from sources far higher than
those with which the recipient is usually en rapport. Such a crisis is fast
approaching.
The first type of impression is rhythmic,
recurrent and therefore cumulative in its intended effects. The second type of
impression is the result of invocation and evocation and is dependent upon both
the recipient and the agent.
c. That great group of divine
Contemplatives who are trained to act as an intermediate receptive group between
Shamballa and the
Hierarchy. They
receive impression from Shamballa and transmit it to the Hierarchy, thus
enabling the Members of the Hierarchy to receive it as "a sharpened
impression" and to register it accurately because the emanating impression
has passed through an area within the divine Mind where it is enhanced by the
trained perception and the determined receptivity of this group. They are
called, in the East, the divine Nirmanakayas. I only mention Their occult name
so that you may learn to recognise Them when you meet reference to Them.
d. The Buddha at the time when the Wesak Festival is celebrated. He then acts as a focal
point or as the "distributor of the impression"; He then has [Page
45] behind Him (little as you may realise it) the entire impressing force of
the Buddhas of Activity
Who are to Shamballa
what the Nirmanakayas are to the Hierarchy.
Let me here interpolate a remark which may
prove helpful and illuminating. We are dealing (as you will undoubtedly have
noted) with the reception of impression by groups or by aggregations of groups
composed of living Beings Who have Their own agents of distribution or
impression. The entire evolutionary history of our planet is one of reception
and of distribution, of a taking in and of a giving out. The key to humanity's
trouble (focussing, as it has, in the economic troubles of the past two hundred
years, and in the theological impasse of the orthodox churches) has been to
take and not to give, to accept and not to share, to grasp and not to distribute.
This is the breaking of the Law which has placed humanity in the position of
guilt. The war is the dire penalty which humanity has had to pay for this great
sin of separateness. Impressions from the Hierarchy have been received,
distorted, misapplied and misinterpreted, and the task of the New Group of
World Servers is to offset this evil. These Servers are to humanity what the Buddhas of Activity are to Shamballa, and the group of divine Contemplatives
(the Nirmanakayas) are to the Hierarchy. It might be stated therefore that:
1. The Buddhas of Activity are Themselves impressed by the
WILL of God as it
energises the entire planetary life.
2. The Nirmanakayas are impressed by the LOVE of God as it demonstrates itself as the
attractive force which impulses the Plan inspired by the Purpose. In other
words, it is the Hierarchy, impelled to action [Page 46] by Shamballa, or the Will-to-Good, externalising itself as goodwill.
3. The New Group of World Servers are
impressed by the active INTELLIGENCE of God; they translate this divine
impression and step it down in two great stages, therefore, bringing it into
concrete manifestation.
We now carry this conception of divine
impression down to the level of the human consciousness.
3. The impression of Humanity by:
a. The Hierarchy, through the stimulating
of ideas. These demonstrate through a steadily growing and enlightened public
opinion.
b. The influence of the Ashrams of the
Masters as they affect the aspirants of the world, the humanitarians and the
idealists. These impressing agencies, being seven in number, constitute seven
different streams of impressing energy which affect the seven ray types. The
united Ashrams, forming the great Ashram of the Christ, affect humanity as a
whole; this great united Ashram works solely through the New Group of World
Servers whose members are on all rays, of all grades of development, and who
work in all the various departments of human living and enterprise.
(TEV 51)
In the above I have given you an interesting and brief elucidation of
the technique to be applied to the energising of the centres in the human body.
I would remind you that what is true of the individual disciple must be and is
true of that great disciple—Humanity, the entire human family. It is also true,
as an outgrowth of this idea, of all the three planetary centres: Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity. The name Science of
Impression is that given to the process whereby the establishment of the
required relationship in all these units of life takes place. The Technique of
Invocation and Evocation is the name given to the mode or method whereby the desired
relationship is brought about. [Page 51] The Creative Work is the name given to
the manifestation of the results of the two above processes. The three aspects
of the Technique of Invocation and Evocation with which the average disciple
should concern himself are those of the building of the antahkarana, the
correct use of the lower mind in its two higher functions (the holding of the
mind steady in the light and the creation of the desired thoughtforms), and the
process of precipitation whereby the impression is enabled eventually to take
tangible form.
In the above exegesis I have given you much
food for thought in connection with telepathic possibilities; it all fits into
the theme of world service as it is to be applied in the expansion of the human
consciousness on a large scale. This is one of the major tasks of the New Group
of World Servers.
(TEV 52) VIII. THE SUPREME SCIENCE OF
CONTACT
It would be useful if you attempted to
master and to assimilate what I have to impart anent the three great sciences
which form the three modes of expression of what we might term the SUPREME
SCIENCE OF CONTACT. These three sciences are all equally interdependent and all
related to the art of responsiveness. They are:
Its Three Inter-Dependaent Modes of Expression
1. The Science of Impression . . . The
will-to-be.
Relation to the Spiritual Triad.
Source of emanation . . . Shamballa.
Connected with the abstract mind.
2. The Science of Invocation and Evocation
. . . Love or attraction.
Relation to the soul in all forms.
Source of emanation (at this time) . . .
The Hierarchy.
Connected with the lower mind, as the agent
of the soul.
3. The Science of Telepathy . . . Mind.
Human intelligence.
Relation to the personality.
Source of emanation . . . Humanity itself.
Connected with the head centre.
You will see how all these pairs of
opposites play their part, exemplifying the dualistic nature of our planetary
Life:
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1. The abstract mind and the lower mind.
2. The soul and the lower mind.
3. The lower mind and the head centre.
Each of them acts as an invocative agent
and produces evocation. All act as recipients and as transmitters, and all of
them together establish the group inter-relation and the circulation of the
energies which are the distinctive characteristic of the entire world of force.
(TEV 66) This Supreme Science of Contact
governs all reactions to impact. This statement includes the cosmic reactions
of Sanat Kumara down to the scarcely discernible reactions (invisible almost
even to the eye of the seer) of the infinitesimal atom. For the sake of
clarity, I divided this science into three major divisions, basing them upon
the reactions of the three major planetary centres to their environment. This
is a point which I would have you carefully bear in mind. I could write a
treatise longer than this one purely on the creation of the response apparatus
which each of these three centres of divine life-reason had to form in order to
make the needed contact and to interpret correctly. There are many paradoxes in
what I am here giving you, and apparently some contradictions where orthodox
occultism is concerned, but that is ever the case as the teaching expands in
content and the earlier all- inclusive facts are seen to be minor aspects of
still greater facts. You can see, therefore, the significance and the
importance of the dictum in The Secret Doctrine that the Hierarchy and all in
the Council Chamber of
Sanat Kumara (or Shamballa) have invariably passed through the human stage of evolution, for only
human beings can perfectly blend and express life-reason, and only human
intellect can consciously create what is needed in order to bring the needed
stages of manifested life into being.
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Here again emerges another reason for the
importance of the "centre which we call the race of men"; upon the
shoulders of humanity rests unbelievable responsibility. Therefore, whether we
are dealing with simple telepathy, or with invocation and evocation, or with
impression, we are in reality considering the effect of life-reason as it
manifests in relation to the available and suitable environment. Note this
phrase. All this takes place through men in process of being made perfect,
through men who have attained a relative perfection, and through men who—in the
majority of cases—arrived at perfection elsewhere than in this present
manifesting cycle. This should indicate to you the potentiality hidden in the
very lowest of the human family, and the future of wonder and of usefulness
which lies ahead for each and all in due time and after due effort.
Technically speaking, it is the Hierarchy
which is "impressed"
from Shamballa, and
Humanity which is reached by the Hierarchy via the method of invocation and
evocation. Within the human family two things occur as the result of this
received and recognised activity of a phase of the Science of Contact.
(TEV 68) Linking Groups Within the
Planetary Life
1. Telepathic relationship is set up. This,
my brother, has ever existed between members of the human family and, as previously
explained, is of two kinds: Solar plexus telepathy, instinctual, uncontrolled,
widely prevalent and allied to many of the surprising activities of forms of
life other than the human, i. e., the instinct of the homing pigeon or the
method whereby cats and dogs and horses will find their homes over immense
distances. The telepathic interplay between a mother and her children is
instinctual and seated in the animal nature. Mental telepathy is now being
recognised and studied. This is the activity and rapport established from mind
to mind; it also includes the telepathic response to current [Page 68]
thoughtforms and thought conditions in the world today. Interest in this is
already very great.
2. Intuitional telepathy begins to manifest
increasingly among advanced human beings in all lands and all races. This
indicates soul contact and the consequent awakening of group consciousness, for
sensitivity to intuitional impressions has to do only with group concerns.
This Science of Contact governs relations
within our entire planetary life and includes, for instance, the rapport being
established between humanity and the domesticated animals. These animals are to
their own kingdom what the New Group of World Servers is to humanity. The New
Group of World Servers is the linking bridge and the mode of communication
between the Hierarchy (the fifth kingdom) and Humanity (the fourth kingdom)
under the present divine Plan; the domesticated animals fulfil, therefore, an
analogous function between Humanity (the fourth kingdom) and the animal kingdom
(the third). These analogies are often fertile fields of illumination.
Sanat Kumara is in close contact
with other Planetary Logoi
As regards Shamballa, the impression there received is not the result of
invocation which in due course evokes extra-planetary response, as is the case
between the Hierarchy
and Shamballa, and the
Hierarchy and Humanity, with certain changes during the process of stepping
down or of descent. That which impresses Shamballa and is received by the Grand Council of the Lord of the
World, comes via Sanat
Kumara because HE is in
close contact with other planetary Logoi or groups of planetary Logoi, wielding a united,
focussed, intelligent Will.
It is Sanat Kumara Whose task it
is to impress the Lives Who meet periodically in the Council Chamber with the
next phase of unfolding Purpose
(TEV 69) It is Sanat Kumara Whose task it is to impress
the Lives Who meet
periodically in the Council Chamber with the next phase of unfolding Purpose. This
Purpose is later "occultly reduced" or stepped down until it emerges
as the hierarchical Plan. This Plan is contingent upon imminence, atmic
realisation [Page 69] and pure reason, as the Hierarchy has termed these three
"aspects of reaction" to impression from Shamballa. Let me make myself clear. The Hierarchy
is no group of mystical workers; only those aspects of divine Purpose which can
be immediately grasped and developed and which are patently valuable to
humanity—when presented in right form by the Hierarchy—are registered by Them.
They know what consciously to "repudiate" as it is occultly called,
and They act ever in
response to a Law of Imminence or of occult prevision which is almost unrecognisable and indefinable
by advanced humanity. The words, "atmic realisation" are most
interesting, for they refer to the quality and the mass of will energy which
could be made available by the pledged and unified Hierarchy to carry out the
imminent Plan. Never forget that in considering Shamballa and the Plan, we are thinking entirely within the
limits of the expression of the WILL aspect of the Lord of the World, and
this—except for advanced initiates—is well-nigh impossible. This factor has to
be accepted theoretically, even if not yet understood.
To these two unalterable requirements the
Hierarchy contributes the faculty of pure reason, which is the governing
faculty of the Hierarchy and which brings into activity the quality to which
man has erroneously given the name of "love". This emphasises the
sentimental aspect and signifies to the majority, very largely, simply the
sentimental and emotional aspect, which is entirely of an astral nature. Pure
reason, which is the supreme characteristic of the Members of the Hierarchy,
will ever express itself in right action and right human relations, and that
will manifest—when present—what love in reality is. Pure love is a quality or
effect of pure reason.
The pure reason of the hierarchical
response is needed for the grasping and the comprehension of the Purpose as
[Page 70] it works out through the Plan sponsored at any one time by the
Hierarchy, and the quality of pure love is needed and demanded (even if
unrealised) by a waiting humanity.
This "impression" emanating from Shamballa takes the form of a focussed emanation which employs
the higher aspect of the antahkarana as its channel of contact. I refer not
here to the thread as built by the disciple between the mental unit and the
abstract mind. I refer to its continuation through the buddhic and atmic levels
of consciousness into the area of magnetised consciousness (I use this word as
we have not yet the necessary word to express the exact nature of this higher
awareness, and the term "identification" seems somewhat unsuitable)
which surrounds and protects
the true Shamballa centre.
It is essential that you here bear in mind that just as the mass of men do not
know, recognise or respond to the Hierarchy, so—within the Hierarchy itself—you
have a group analogous to this mass of men. There are many lesser members of
the Hierarchy and many, very many, disciples who do not know, recognise or as
yet respond to the influence or the potency of Shamballa.
Within the Hierarchy, the Science of
Impression conditions the relation between senior and junior members in the
various Ashrams. All do not respond in the same way, for in its higher aspects
it is a science in process of mastering. It might be said, in order that you
may understand more easily, that "impression" governs and conditions
all those within the Hierarchy whose abstract mind is highly developed. It is
not fully developed in the case of many disciples in the Ashram, and hence only
certain Members of the Hierarchy (the Masters, the Adepts and Initiates of the
third degree) are permitted to know the details of the Plan; these are protected by means of this very Science
[Page 71] of Impression. The remaining members of the Hierarchy take their
orders from their seniors.
Mind the Focus of Planetary Development
I would ask you to remember that, in our
planetary development, the emphasis of the entire evolutionary process is on
the MIND and on the various aspects of the mind—intelligence, mental
perception, the Son of Mind, the lower mind, the abstract mind, the mind as
will, the Universal Mind. The three which are of major importance and which
form an esoteric triangle requiring to be brought into a vital inter-relation
are the Son of Mind, the abstract mind, and the Universal Mind. They are, when
fully related and active, the factors which engineer divine purpose and step it
down into such form that we call it the hierarchical Plan and can act upon it.
Only when the initiate has attained, through monadic contact, a touch of the
Universal Mind can the Purpose be sensed by him; this involves also the
development of the abstract mind, plus the residue of mental perception which
the Son of Mind (the soul) has bequeathed to him; through all this unfoldment
he can join the group
who are the Formulators of the Plan. We are dealing here with most difficult and complex
matters, inherent in the initiate consciousness and for which we have as yet no
correct terminology. Also, the average aspirant has no idea what is the nature
of the awareness or the reactions to contact of Those Who have passed beyond
the third initiation; these limitations of the average student must constantly
be borne in mind.
The Science of Invocation and
Evocation—which embodies the technique of interplay within the Hierarchy
itself, to a certain degree between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, and to an increasing extent between Humanity and the
Hierarchy—is based entirely on a sense of relation. Therefore only a certain
level of conscious Lives can
invoke Shamballa and
evoke response, and this because They [Page 72] have Themselves developed some
of the aspects of that type of mental understanding which is the hierarchical
expression of the Universal Mind. The light and futile talk of certain writers
and thinkers anent the cosmic consciousness, and their flippant use of such
phrases as "tuning in with the Infinite" or "tapping the
Universal Mind" serve only to show how very little is known in reality
about the responses and the reactions of those of high initiate rank or of
those on the highest levels of hierarchical life.
The pure reason of the hierarchical
response is needed for the grasping and the comprehension of the Purpose as
[Page 70] it works out through the Plan sponsored at any one time by the
Hierarchy, and the quality of pure love is needed and demanded (even if
unrealised) by a waiting humanity.
This "impression" emanating from Shamballa takes the form of a focussed emanation
which employs the higher aspect of the antahkarana as its channel of contact. I
refer not here to the thread as built by the disciple between the mental unit
and the abstract mind. I refer to its continuation through the buddhic and
atmic levels of consciousness into the area of magnetised consciousness (I use
this word as we have not yet the necessary word to express the exact nature of
this higher awareness, and the term "identification" seems somewhat
unsuitable) which surrounds and protects the true Shamballa centre. It is essential that you here bear in mind that just
as the mass of men do not know, recognise or respond to the Hierarchy,
so—within the Hierarchy itself—you have a group analogous to this mass of men.
There are many lesser members of the Hierarchy and many, very many, disciples
who do not know, recognise or as yet respond to the influence or the potency of
Shamballa.
Within the Hierarchy, the Science of
Impression conditions the relation between senior and junior members in the
various Ashrams. All do not respond in the same way, for in its higher aspects
it is a science in process of mastering. It might be said, in order that you
may understand more easily, that "impression" governs and conditions
all those within the Hierarchy whose abstract mind is highly developed. It is
not fully developed in the case of many disciples in the Ashram, and hence only
certain Members of the Hierarchy (the Masters, the Adepts and Initiates of the
third degree) are permitted to know the details of the Plan; these are
protected by means of this very Science [Page 71] of Impression. The remaining
members of the Hierarchy take their orders from their seniors.
Mind the Focus of Planetary Development
I would ask you to remember that, in our
planetary development, the emphasis of the entire evolutionary process is on
the MIND and on the various aspects of the mind—intelligence, mental
perception, the Son of Mind, the lower mind, the abstract mind, the mind as
will, the Universal Mind. The three which are of major importance and which
form an esoteric triangle requiring to be brought into a vital inter-relation
are the Son of Mind, the abstract mind, and the Universal Mind. They are, when
fully related and active, the factors which engineer divine purpose and step it
down into such form that we call it the hierarchical Plan and can act upon it.
Only when the initiate has attained, through monadic contact, a touch of the
Universal Mind can the Purpose be sensed by him; this involves also the
development of the abstract mind, plus the residue of mental perception which
the Son of Mind (the soul) has bequeathed to him; through all this unfoldment
he can join the group who are the Formulators of the Plan. We are dealing here
with most difficult and complex matters, inherent in the initiate consciousness
and for which we have as yet no correct terminology. Also, the average aspirant
has no idea what is the nature of the awareness or the reactions to contact of
Those Who have passed beyond the third initiation; these limitations of the
average student must constantly be borne in mind.
(TEV 72) The Science of Invocation and Evocation—which embodies the technique of interplay
within the Hierarchy itself, to a certain degree between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, and to an increasing extent between
Humanity and the Hierarchy—is based entirely on a sense of relation. Therefore
only a certain level of conscious Lives can invoke Shamballa and evoke response, and this because They
[Page 72] have Themselves developed some of the aspects of that type of mental
understanding which is the hierarchical expression of the Universal Mind. The
light and futile talk of certain writers and thinkers anent the cosmic
consciousness, and their flippant use of such phrases as "tuning in with
the Infinite" or "tapping the Universal Mind" serve only to show
how very little is known in reality about the responses and the reactions of
those of high initiate rank or of those on the highest levels of hierarchical
life.
(TEV 80) Planetary Sequence of Impression
You will note, therefore, the amazing
planetary sequence of impression—all of it emanating from the highest possible
sources, though stepped down and regulated to the receiving factors; all of it
concerned to a greater or less degree (according to the quality of the
mechanism of reception) with the will and purpose of Sanat Kumara; all of it,
during the aeons, achieving a group potency and a responding sensitivity.
The main factor preventing a completely
unimpeded sequence of impression
from Shamballa
straight down into the mineral kingdom, via all the other kingdoms, is the
factor of freewill, resulting in karmic responsibility. This can be either good
or bad. It is interesting to note here that both the good and the bad karma
produce conditions which not only have to be worked out, but that they lead to
conditions which delay what we—from our limited point of view—might look upon
as the liberation of the planet. The generating of good karma necessitates the
"living through" of conditions where everything (for the man
responsible or for any other form within its limitations) is good, happy,
beneficent and useful. The evil karma generated in any kingdom in relation to
the "realm where dwelleth the planetary Dweller on the Threshold"
stands between the cosmic Door of Initiation and our planetary Logos. This
Dweller represents all the mistakes and errors due to wrong reactions,
unrecognised contacts, deliberate choices made in defiance of known good, and
mass movements and mass activities which are temporarily not progressive in
time and space. I realise that where these facts apply to the subhuman kingdoms
in nature you are not aware of what I mean, but that does not alter the law or
movements which are in no way related to human evolution. In connection with
the planetary Logos I would like to add that in that great planetary struggle
and His subsequent [Page 81] initiation, we are all implicated—from the atom of
substance up to and including all the Lives which form the Council Chamber of
the Lord of the World; it is this titanic effort which is made by the sum total
of all the living processes and entities that compose the manifestation of
Sanat Kumara which is responsible for the creative evolutionary processes; it
is also responsible for what we call time, with all that that concept involves
of events, opportunity, the past, the present and the future, the good and the
evil.
The dynamic impression which emanates from Shamballa reaches forth in great cycles and cyclic waves; these
are impulsed from extra-planetary sources, as demanded or invoked by the Lord
of the World and His Associates; they emanate in response to the
"acclaimed will" of
Sanat Kumara in the Council Chamber.
The seven rays qualified and
coloured by Shamballic impression
This high spiritual and ultimate impression
moves outward along the
seven rays, viewing
them as seven streams of
spiritual energy,
qualified and coloured
by the Shamballic impression; this process repeats itself when hierarchical invocation is effective
and successfully established.
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Neither the Hierarchy or
Shamballa anticipated the sudden response of groups and nations to mass
ideologies and to the group impression of ideas
(TEV 84)
We are to consider, therefore, the relation of the human centre to the
hierarchical centre and the growing responsiveness of humanity to the "Centre where the Will of God is known". As I said before, it is not my
intention to give here the rules governing telepathic intercourse. Such
intercourse is found between man and man and groups and groups. The
relationship is slowly and normally developed and requires no hastening. It is
developing as the other senses of man and his apparatus of perception have
developed. Humanity is, however, outstripping telepathic development in the
rapid responsiveness of entire groups, and of human beings en masse, to group
impression and to group
impartation of ideas.
The sudden response of groups
and nations to mass ideologies has been both unexpected and difficult to handle wisely and
constructively. It was not anticipated by either Shamballa or the Hierarchy that mass impression would develop
more quickly than that of individual sensitivity, but it has happened that way.
The individual within a group and working within a group is far [Page 85] more
correctly sensitive than is the man struggling alone to render himself
sensitive to impression.
One of the factors militating against
personal telepathic development lies in the fact that the strong, potent and
modern ascension of the spirit in man—as a whole—frequently offsets personality
reactions, and telepathy is a personality matter depending upon contact between
mind and mind. The moment, however, that man tries to be telepathic, he is
immediately swept into a vortex
of abstract energies
which condition him for spiritual impression far more than they fit him for
personal relationships telepathically established.
This surprising development freed the supervising
Masters for some of Their plans and led Them to abandon the training of
individual disciples in telepathic rapport and to recognise the opportunity to
train and develop invocative groups. Instead of working in lower mental
substance with picked aspirants, They changed the medium of contact to that of
the soul and launched the relatively new Science of Invocation and Evocation.
The lower mind then became simply an interpreter of impressions with the
emphasis upon the group mind, the group purpose and the group will. This
developing system of trained invocatives made the mind a positive acting factor
and tuned out all tendency to negativity.
This hierarchical decision then necessarily
led to the instituting
of the processes of group initiation, thus shifting the area of training and the whole of
the teaching process and of preparation for initiation on to higher levels. The
experiment of giving mankind the Great Invocation was tried and is proving
successful, though much yet remains to be done.
The disciple is not permitted to
practise the art of impressing unit he himself is among those who receive
impression from Shamballa (after the 3rd initiation)
(TEV 87)
Sources of Impression for the Disciple
For the aspirant and particularly for the
conscious disciple, the impression to be considered comes from four sources:
1. From the disciple's own soul.
2. From the Ashram with which he is to be
affiliated.
3. Directly from the Master.
4. From the Spiritual Triad, via the antahkarana.
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The first two stages cover the period of
the first two initiations; the third precedes the third initiation and persists
until the disciple is himself a Master; the fourth type of informative
impression can be registered after the third initiation and reach the disciple
in the Ashram; he then has the task himself of impressing his mind with what he
has been told and known within the Ashram; eventually, as a Master of an
Ashram, he starts upon one of the major hierarchical tasks of mastering the
Science of Impression. There are therefore, two aspects to this work of
impression: one deals with the capacity to be impressed; the other with the
ability to be an impressing agent. The disciple is not permitted to practise the art of
impressing until he
himself is among those who receive
Triadal impression and
therefore impression
from Shamballa, within
the protective area or aura of the Ashram with which he is affiliated. It must
be remembered that this Science of Impression is in reality the science of thoughtform-making, thoughtform
vitalisation and thoughtform direction; and only a disciple who has passed through the
processes of Transfiguration and is no longer the victim of his own personality
can be entrusted with so dangerous a cycle of powers. As long as there exists
any desire for selfish power, for unspiritual control and for influence over
the minds of other human beings or over groups, the disciple cannot be trusted,
under the hierarchical rules, with the deliberate creation of thoughtforms designed to produce specific effects, and
with their dispersal to men and groups. After he has passed the tests of the
Transfiguration Initiation he may do so.
(TEV 90) When the disciple has mastered to
some degree the significant difference between messages from his own subconscious
or the subconscious of other people with whom he may be en rapport, and the
messages coming from his own soul, his life then becomes more self-directed and
organised, more fruitful from the angle of service, and therefore of definite
use to the Hierarchy. He learns to distinguish the messages coming from his own
soul from those which are hierarchical; his life becomes more clearly directed;
he next distinguishes definitely and accurately the communications which come
to him from the Ashram and which are sent out to make impression upon the minds
of aspirants and disciples of all degrees and of all ray types. When he can
distinguish between these various communications, then and only then does the
third type of communication become possible—direct messages which are due to
contact with the Master of his Ashram in person. He, by that time, possesses
what has been called "the freedom of the Ashram" and "the keys
to the
(TEV 91) You can see, therefore, how the
theme of revelation runs throughout the entire evolutionary process; it must
never be forgotten that step by step, stage by stage, expansion after
expansion, initiation after initiation, the divine WHOLE is realised by man.
The method is impressed from a hitherto unrecognised environment; this only
becomes possible in this particular form when "the Sons of Mind who are
the Sons of God and whose nature is at-one with His began to move on
Earth". The Science of Impression is in reality the technique whereby
Humanity has been taught by the Spiritual Hierarchy from the moment of its first
appearance upon Earth; it is the technique which all disciples have to learn
(no matter which of the Seven Paths they may eventually choose) and it is also
the sublime art which every Master practises on inspiration from Shamballa; it is a technique which is implemented by
the Will, and its consummation is the complete assimilation of the "little
wills of men" into the divine Purpose; it is the acceptance on their part
of the promotion of that Purpose through right impression on all forms of life
at any particular point of evolution. Disciples then become agents of the
divine will and are entrusted with the direction of energies, with the plan and
with the secrets and the inspiration which are hidden in the Mind of God.
(TEV 95) XIII. TELEPATHIC SENSITIVITY A
You will have noticed that I have given no
instructions as to the art of developing telepathic sensitivity. The reason is,
as I told you before, that this sensitivity should be, and always is, a normal
unfoldment when the disciple is correctly oriented, completely dedicated and
learning decentralisation. If it is a forced process, then the sensitivity
developed is not normal and carries with it much difficulty and future danger.
Where the disciple is concerned, release from the constant consideration of
personal circumstances and problems leads inevitably to a clear mental release;
this then provides those areas of free mental perception which make the higher
sensitivity possible. Gradually, as the disciple acquires true freedom of
thought and the power to be receptive to the impression of the abstract mind,
he creates for himself a reservoir of thought which becomes available at need
for the helping of other people and for the necessities of his growing world
service. Later, he becomes sensitive to impression from the Hierarchy. This is
at first purely ashramic, but is later transformed into total hierarchical
impression by the time the disciple is a Master; the Plan is then the dynamic
substance providing the content of the reservoir of thought upon which he can
draw. This is a statement of unique and unusual importance. Later still, he
becomes sensitive to
impression from Shamballa, and the quality of the Will which implements planetary Purpose is added to the content of his available knowledge.
The point which I seek to make here, however, is the fact of the existence of a
growing reservoir of thought which the disciple has created in response to the
many [Page 95] varying impressions to which he is becoming increasingly sensitive;
the ideas, concepts and spiritual objectives of which he is becoming aware are
steadily being formulated by him into thoughts with their appropriated
thoughtforms, and upon these he learns to draw as he seeks to serve his
fellowmen. He finds himself in possession of a reservoir or pool of
thought-substance which is the result of his own mental activity, of his innate
receptivity, and which provides the material for teaching and the "fount
of knowledge" upon which he can draw when he seeks to aid other people.
The essential point to be grasped is that
sensitivity to impression is a normal and natural unfoldment, paralleling
spiritual development. I gave you a clue to the entire process when I said that
"Sensitivity to impression involves
the engendering of a magnetic aura upon which the highest impressions can
play."
(TEV 96) Paralleling Spiritual Development
It is this aura which is in reality the
reservoir of thought-substance upon which he can spiritually rely. His point of
focus is upon the mental plane. He is no longer controlled by the astral
nature; he is successfully constructing the antahkarana along which the higher
impressions can flow; he learns not to dissipate this inflow but to accumulate
within the aura (with which he has surrounded himself) the knowledge and the
wisdom which he realises his service to his fellowmen requires. A disciple is a
magnetic centre of light and knowledge just in so far as the magnetic aura is
held by him in a state of receptivity. It is then constantly invocative of the
higher range of impressions; it can be evoked and set into "distributing
activity" by that which is lower and which is demanding aid. The disciple
therefore, in due time, becomes a tiny or minute correspondence of the
Hierarchy—invocative as it is to Shamballa and easily evoked by human demand. These are points
warranting careful consideration. They involve a primary recognition of points
of tension and their consequent expansion into magnetic auras or areas, capable
of invocation and evocation.
These areas of sensitivity pass through
three stages, upon which it is not my intention to enlarge:
1. Sensitivity to impression from other
human beings. This sensitivity becomes of use in service when the needed
magnetic aura has been engendered and is brought under scientific control.
2. Sensitivity to group impression—the
passage of ideas from group to group. The disciple can become a receptive agent
within any group of which he is a part, and this ability indicates progress in
his part.
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3. Sensitivity to hierarchical impressions,
reaching the disciple via the antahkarana and—later—from the Hierarchy as a
whole, when he has attained some of the higher initiations. This indicates ability to register impression from
Shamballa.
It would be of value if we now considered
three points which are concerned with sensitivity to impression, with the
construction of the resultant reservoir of thought, and with responsiveness to
subsequent invocative appeals. These three points are:
1. Processes of Registration.