Start
with an orientation towards soul …
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Raise
the consciousness into the head, visualize and feel the LIGHT in
the etheric head centre, and let it resonate
its sound: (silent OM)
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Carry
the LIGHT of consciousness from etheric to astral body …
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Carry
the LIGHT of consciousness from the astral to mental body …
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Unify
the threefold personality … and see the personality enlightened by soul LIGHT … … realise
and affirm that soul and personality are one. (Pause) As a group, we confirm: OM
Assume
the attitude of the Observer – the Soul as the infuser and director of
personality. Locate this attitude in the crown, above the head: OM
1.
In the Soul’s LIGHT, observe
the personality … as it expressed through the etheric body … (pause) Recognize the Soul LIGHT is anchored
in the head: (silent OM)
2.
From the Soul’s location in the
Crown … throw Soul energy down into the centre at the base of the spine
– and hold it there: (silent OM…
)
3.
Seeing the Soul’s LIGHT in the
base, as a group raise the LIGHT slowly, via the 5 centres along the
spine and the 2 head centres, back into the soul’s causal body, one
centre at a time. Pause after each lift to visualize the full infusion
of soul energy into each centre, stimulating each in the right way:
move the LIGHT … from base to sacral
= (silent OM)
move the LIGHT … from sacral to solar plexus = (silent OM)
move the LIGHT … from solar plexus to heart = (silent OM)
move the LIGHT … from heart to throat = (silent OM)
move the LIGHT … from throat to ajna = (silent OM)
move the LIGHT … from ajna to crown = (silent OM)
(pause)
4.
Now, with our attention at the
top of the head.
Throw
soul-infused personality energy upwards towards the Spiritual Triad: OM
In
the silence, reflect upon the Antahkarana – and its relation to soul-personality and the Monad.
May I remind you that, just as the soul is not a twelve-petalled
lotus floating around in mental substance, but is in reality a vortex of
force or twelve energies held together by the will of the spiritual entity
(the Monad on its own plane), so the antahkarana is not a series of energy
threads, slowly woven by the soul-infused personality, and met by corresponding
threads projected by the Spiritual Triad, but is in reality a state of awareness.
These symbols are true and living forms, created through
the power of thought by the disciple, but—in time and space—they have no
true existence. The only true existence is the Monad on its own plane, active,
expressive Will in emergence, and in turn, active Love in establishing relationships
and equally active Intelligence in the use of the two higher energies. It
must not be forgotten that the energy of intelligence, focussed in the mind,
is the instrument or implementing agency of the other two monadic energies.
H.P.B. taught that the antahkarana was primarily the
channel of energy relating forms and their forces to their originating sources
and that across the mental plane (with its three aspects of mind) the life
thread necessarily passed, linking Monad, soul and personality into one
living whole.
Technically speaking, therefore, there is no need for
the so-called bridge, except for one important factor: there is, on the
part of the soul-infused personality, a definite break in consciousness
between the lower mind and the abstract mind. The higher mind (being the
lowest aspect of the Spiritual Triad) can be regarded as a door admitting
the consciousness of the soul-infused personality into a higher realm of
contact and awareness.
