Fellowship of Cosmic Fire
Commentary Semester IX Section VII, Part I
TCF 1137-1142 : S9S7
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Certain laws govern
the appearance periodically of the three kingdoms of nature, which are the laws
of involution, the laws of the elemental kingdoms, and the laws of the three
great groups which hold the germs and seeds of all manifested forms.
1.
We are entering a discussion of certain laws which are rather
obscure. Let us tabulate them for ease of registration:
a.
The laws of involution
b.
The laws of the elemental kingdoms
c.
The laws of the three great groups
We have in logoic manifestation the
following seven groups for consideration:
2.
We are speaking of manifestation within the body of the Solar
Logos.
1. 2. 3. Three groups of superhuman existence:
3.
We note that even the great Existences appear as groups.
a.
The
group forming the Father aspect of which little can here be predicated.
4.
Presumably, included amongst this group are the Three Persons of
the Logoic Trinity—the First Logos, the Second Logos and the Third—the solar
systemic Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma.
5.
These Three Persons have Their major focus on the logoic plane of
the cosmic physical plane. (cf. Chart V TCF 344)
b.
The
group of seven planetary Logoi.
6.
Presumably, these are the Planetary Logoi of the seven sacred
planets.
7.
The other Planetary Logoi must be considered as included within the
major seven.
8.
The Planetary Logos are Dragons of Wisdom and therefore are more
related to the “Son” aspect than to the “Father” aspect.
c.
The
group of seven raja devas, or the life of each of the physical planes.
9.
We note their high status. They represent the Brahma aspect of
divinity. They have an initiatory status equivalent to the seventh degree. The
Deva Lords Who rule the subplanes of the seven solar planes have an initiatory
status equivalent to the sixth degree.
The devas are on the evolutionary path, on
the upward way. They are, as you know,
the Builders of the system, working in graded and serried ranks. Devas are to be found of the same rank as the
Planetary Logoi, and the Rulers of
the five planes of human evolution hold rank equal to that of a Master of the
seventh Initiation. Others are
equal in development (along their own line) to a Master of the fifth
Initiation, and they work consciously and willingly with the Masters of the
Occult Hierarchy. They can be found on
all the lesser grades down to the little building devas who work practically unconsciously
in their groups, building the many forms necessitated by the evolving life.
(LOM 174)
4. A group of solar lives who are the manasaputras or man.
10.
These are the Solar Angels and they are definitely “solar” lives.
11.
We note that their status is lower than that of the Raja Deva Lords
Who rule the seven solar planes.
12.
Interestingly they are mentioned fourth in order. They are also
associated with the fourth systemic law—the Law of Magnetic Control.
13.
We wish to note the phrase “manasaputras or man”. This conjunction tells us that man is being considered a
“solar” life and a manasaputra, and yet we realize that there is a significant
distinction between the human Monad and the Solar Angels who are “returning
Nivanis from a previous mahamanvantara”.
14.
This equivalence between man and the Solar Angel must be pondered.
In our particular chain of the Earth-scheme, man would not have come to be without the Solar Angels and
yet, following the return of the Solar Angels to the Heart of the Sun and
Central Spiritual Sun, man continues to exist, and he is not yet a Solar Angel.
15.
Because the human Monad is “that which finds its home within the
sun” (IHS 195), it is, indeed, a solar
life as is the Solar Angel. In this tabulation, interestingly, the two types of
beings, man and Solar Angel, are considered as one.
5. 6. 7. Three groups of elemental
lives, who form the three involutionary elemental kingdoms.
16.
These groups are the lunar lords of three varieties—mental, astral
and physical elementals.
These three lower groups
achieve concretion, and enter the upward arc, through the medium of the three
lower kingdoms.
17.
This is a fascinating statement. The three lower kingdoms are already on the upward arc; they are
evolutionary kingdoms.
18.
The members of the elemental kingdom have not yet entered upon the
upward arc and are, thus, not yet evolutionary lives whereas the members of the
mineral, vegetable and animal kingdom are.
19.
The nature of these three elemental groups needs careful study. In
what ways are they involutionary? In
what ways do they participate in the evolution
of the three lower kingdoms?
20.
Of course, we must ask a tantalizing question—whether the members
of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms are not really expressions of the
Monads of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy? This seems a strange thought, but the
human Monad does pass through what has been called its “inmineralization”, its
“invegetalization” and its “in-zoonation”. As we look at the three lower
kingdoms we may, indeed, be looking at a non-individualized expression of the
human Monad. From this perspective, the Fourth Creative Hierarchy can be
considered the macrocosm of the lower kingdoms and the lower Creative
Hierarchies (with the exception of at least part of the Fifth Creative
Hierarchy.
The fourth group is the most important in some
ways during the present cycle for it borrows from all the other six groups and
is therefore the synthesis of
energies taken from each and manifested.
21.
In this case Master DK is speaking about man as a manasaputra. Man
is the meeting place for the higher and lower kingdoms and the higher and lower
forms of life. The Solar Angel helps to make man what he is.
22.
Man is definitely a synthesis of a number of groups and Creative
Hierarchies, which provide him with his lower and higher vehicles.
The higher three
groups are closely allied, and until a man has passed out of the period of
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that which he has borrowed from the three lower kingdoms, he cannot comprehend
the nature and purpose of the three higher.
23.
Any control of man by the lunar lords, the lunar elementals,
disqualifies him from comprehension of the greater Lives. While thus hampered,
he cannot respond to their energies.
24.
That phase of human evolution in which the soul-in-incarnation
cultivates awareness of the soul on its own plane, is a period in which the
human being can begin to comprehend
the nature and purpose of the three higher groups.
We might express the
matter as follows:
The three higher groups are sattvic.
The three lower groups are tamasic.
The fourth group, or human, is rajasic.
25.
Man as a manasaputra is considered rajasic. From this point of
view, the Solar Angel may be considered more rajasic that sattvic. Viewing
B/beings in relation to the gunas is a relative matter. It all depends on the
perspective of the viewer.
26.
A manasaputra is a “mind-born son”. If man, the Jiva, is considered
an emanation of the Monad (and not a being created through the conjunction of
male and female) then, indeed, he is a mind-born son.
27.
The Lives forming the Father Aspect (i.e., the Three Persons of the
Logoic Trinity and associated Spirits of Darkness), Planetary Logoi (related to
the Seven Ray Lives) and Raja Deva Lords (related to the forty-nine Sons of
Fohat) are considered sattvic. The lunar elementals are considered tamasic.
Again, the three
higher groups are energised by three streams of force which enter along the
line of the three spirillae of the
logoic permanent atom.
28.
The Solar Logos has a number of permanent atoms, but only one on
the cosmic physical plane and it is probably to this permanent atom that the
text refers.
29.
We are not generally speaking of the higher aspects of the great
Lives—those aspects found upon the cosmic astral plane and the cosmic mental
plane.
30.
Since the spirillae of the logoic permanent atoms are, in fact, planes, DK is telling us that the
logoic, monadic and atmic planes are involved in the energizing of the three
higher groups of Lives.
The three lower
groups are energised by energy entering by the three lowest spirillae (which we
call the three lowest planes)
31.
With regard to the Solar Logos, the planes of His solar system are
“spirillae”. Here we have a statement which is a confirmation of this thought.
32.
It is not only permanent atoms which are energizers but planes as
well (or, rather, energies found upon the solar planes).
and these spirillae
energise the logoic dense body, were
vitalised in the previous solar system, and are no longer in any way
controlling factors in logoic existence.
33.
The three lower spirillae are an aspect of logoic existence but, in
this solar system, no longer controlling factors as they were in the previous
solar system.
34.
We may hypothesize that the previous solar system was given to the
development of the logoic personality (perhaps as an entirety). Compared to
this solar system, it was a ‘material’ solar system.
35.
We are being told that the three elemental groups (the lower three
of the seven) are to be associated with the three lowest spirillae of the
logoic physical permanent atom.
36.
If we follow an evident analogy, we would ask when the lowest
spirillae in the human physical
permanent atom were energized and what if any effect they have upon the human
being at this time?
37.
Would we associate such lower spirillae (in the physical permanent
atom of the human being) with the gaseous, liquid and dense subplanes of the
systemic etheric-physical plane?
38.
If the spirillae of the physical permanent atom of the Solar Logos
are each associated with one of the systemic or solar planes, we would think
that the third spirilla must still be active in relation to man—a mental being.
The fourth group, the
human, is energised by the force of the fourth spirilla, to which we give the
name of buddhic energy,
39.
How interesting that without the intervention of buddhi, and its
contact with the highest specimens of the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, the
fourth, would not have been created.
40.
Buddhi is the sixth
principle of man but is to be associated with the fourth plane (the buddhic plane). There is, therefore, a close
association between the energy of the fourth plane and the founding and
sustainment of the fourth kingdom, the human.
41.
Is this idea suggesting that the Solar Angels which are so
essential to the formation of man in this solar system and in this planetary
chain are really buddhi beings?
and this fourth group has, therefore, the
problem of bringing about conditions whereby the buddhic vibrations may
dominate the other, and lower, three.
42.
The destiny of man is here described in a few words. The purpose of
the many millions of years of human evolution is to bring the buddhic vibration
into full expression so that it dominates the lower three elemental
expressions—the expressions of three types of involutionary lives.
43.
In doing this the buddhic vibration dominates the mental, astral
and etheric-physical vibrations.
44.
We see that there is a very good reason for the fact that the
Fourth Creative Hierarchy finds its field of intended expression upon the
buddhic plane, as the Table of Creative Hierarchies on EA 35 illustrates.
It is this imposition
which eventually releases the human units, and permits of their passing into the higher group.
45.
DK is telling us that the imposition of buddhi into the life of
human units prepares conditions for their release—probably at the fourth
initiation.
46.
Into which group is this? Seven groups are discussed. There would
be ten if the three lower kingdoms were numbered among the seven, but for some
reason they are not listed (unless these three kingdoms are all to be
considered as expressions of the human Monad).
47.
A group into which the majority of human beings normally passes
(eventually) is the group of Solar Angels (via the Path to Sirius), but in the
enumeration used in this section of text, the manasadevas (Solar Angels) and men are seen as equivalent.
48.
Another higher group, however, could be considered the
The elemental group souls find correspondences
in the higher—first, in the human kingdom in the three main groups of Egos,
49.
There are three elemental group souls working through the three lower kingdoms.
50.
The three main groups of Egos can be considered those characterized
by the three major rays; also the Egos who are in the Department of the Manu,
the Bodhisattva and Mahachohan, respectively.
in whom the three types of energy predominate;
51.
These are presumably the energies of the seven rays. All seven are
really expression of the three major rays.
52.
It seems that these human groups are distinguished by differences in energy expression rather
than differences in degree of unfoldment. It would be somewhat difficult to
divide the human family into three parts based upon different degrees of unfoldment.
In one way it could be done: the Hall of Ignorance; the Hall of Learning; and
the Hall of Wisdom.
again in the three
main or major planetary groups,
53.
The three main or planetary
groups can be considered as the major Planetary Logoi on the Rays of Aspect.
54.
One way of understanding this is to look at Chart VI, TCF, 373.
Here we find three major planetary groupings: Uranus, Neptune and the many
Planetary Logoi gathered around the planet Saturn and within ‘Greater
Saturn’—comprising them all.
and finally in the
three aspects.
55.
The “three aspects” are a still higher Triplicity: the Three
Persons of the Logoic Trinity.
56.
Of course the third aspect of divinity are universal and extend far, far beyond our solar system.
Elemental group animal kingdom Sattvic... Solar Logos
Uranus. Father
aspect.
57.
This group corresponds to the Three Persons of the Logoic Trinity.
Uranus is a more ancient ‘Father’ than even Saturn.
58.
Uranus is, in many ways, the ruler of individuality and
individualization. It creates the sense of uniqueness (eventually) in the
animal consciousness.
Elemental group vegetable... Rajasic… Planetary
Logoi
59.
This group corresponds to the Planetary Logoi.
Elemental group mineral kingdom. Tamasic... Plane devas
Saturn. Mother,
Brahma aspect.
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60.
This group corresponds to the Raja Deva Lords
61.
It is interesting that Saturn is associated with both the Father
and the Mother (as found in the Kabala).
62.
It is curious to see (when considering lower correspondences in the
lower three kingdoms) that the animal kingdom (so relatively Martian and
rajasic) is considered sattvic and the vegetable kingdom, rajasic. That the
mineral kingdom is assigned the guna of sattva comes as no surprise.
The fourth or human
group, unites all three lives.
63.
Humanity is the macrocosm not only for the lower three kingdoms,
but for the groups of elemental lives working through those kingdoms.
64.
One of the mysteries to be clarified is the relationship between
the three groups of elemental lives and the three lower kingdoms.
The periodic
manifestation of the three elemental groups (through the medium of the three lower kingdoms)
65.
Again we find this formulation—“through the three lower kingdoms”.
These lower kingdoms are definitely on
the evolutionary path, but the three elemental groups apparently are not.
Theirs, therefore, is a mysterious relationship. How can involutionary
elemental groups express through evolutionary kingdoms? Unless, the elemental
groups are not really involutionary.
Perhaps only the building essences related to the three lower planes are truly involutionary.
66.
We take note that the three elemental groups manifest periodically.
There are cyclic laws which determine this type of manifestation.
is, therefore, governed by factors hidden in
the nature of that great vibration which we call tamasic, or heavy rhythm.
67.
Tamas is a “great vibration” including many kinds of lives related
to the lunar energy and to the energy of the previous solar system.
68.
Although the Elemental Groups are each assigned one of the gunas,
when considered as a whole, they are tamasic.
It is the vibration of Brahma, the third
aspect, the mother or matter aspect.
69.
We can certainly judge that Brahma had much more to do with the
previous solar system than with our own, although it is foundational to our
present solar system.
70.
The “Primordial Ray” (the third ray) provides the “vibration of
Brahma”.
Their appearance,
71.
The appearance of the “three elemental groups”…
therefore, is one of a very slow
manifestation,
72.
Presumably with the group soul informing the mineral kingdom
appearing first, because the mineral kingdom is the first of the three lower
kingdoms to appear; the group soul informing the vegetable kingdom second; and
lastly the group soul informing the animal kingdom.
the seven subsidiary vibrations bringing in
one or other of the seven groups of each
group soul
in a very slow alternation.
73.
It is vibrations of certain kinds which bring the group souls into
incarnation. Seven subsidiary vibrations bring the seven parts of each group
soul into incarnation according to certain established cycles.
74.
Obviously, the Tibetan is not telling us what these cycles are. He
does use the word “alternation”. Does this mean that these seven subsidiary groups
come in one at a time, or is the manner of their appearance more complex?
75.
We see from this account that there must be twenty-one subsidiary
vibrations and twenty-one subsidiary groups in all the three group souls combined.
The cycles cannot be
given;
76.
As stated. We are spared the particulars because we would not know
how to do anything constructive with them.
two things only can be said: the
appearance of these groups
77.
Groups and seven subsidiary groups in each group soul.
as units in manifestation
78.
We note that each group is considered as a “unit”.
is controlled by three factors:
1. The moon,
for these are the many lunar fathers.
79.
The word “pitri” means “father”. These elemental lives are directly
associated with the former chain in the Earth-scheme—the Moon-chain. They still
respond, from habit, to the cycles of the Moon, even though the Moon, we are
told, has no “radiation” per se.
2. The ray
in manifestation at any time.
80.
We can assume that the seven groups within every group soul are each
keyed to the seven rays.
81.
The incoming seventh ray probably affects these groups strongly.
3. The karma
of the informing Life of any kingdom.
82.
This is a more abstruse matter. The mineral kingdom, vegetable
kingdom and (so we might think) the animal kingdom are all informed by great
Lives, high on the ladder of evolution (c.f. TCF 844). However, below, we shall
see the human kingdom substituted for the animal kingdom, and we will have to
ponder why this might be the case.
83.
The karma of any Life expressing through incarnation is determined
by its past. If the great Life is affected, so will be the aspects of that
Life—the group soul and its subsidiary aspects.
The second
consideration
84.
Regarding the manifestation of the group souls…
is the karma and life-history of the planetary entity.
85.
The planetary entity is a great, deeply unconscious Life which will
only see fuller development in the next solar system.
He sleeps and awakes;
86.
Cycles for this Life are suggested…
87.
That this entity “awakes” does not suggest that it is
self-conscious.
he is the embodiment of tamas,
88.
The vibration of this Life is everything that we recognize as
tamasic. It must be a Life strongly influenced by the residual Moon-chain
energies and the energies of the previous solar system.
and as he progresses and evolves so do the
lower kingdoms.
89.
The evolution of lesser lives is tied to the evolution of the
greater Life in which they “live and move and have their being”.
The lunar pitris are
to the planetary entity what the three major centres are to man or to the
Logoi.
90.
This suggests the possibility of forms of life (other than the
lunar pitris) which embody or express even lower centers.
91.
In the lunar scale of evolution, the lunar pitris are, thus,
relatively high.
92.
Man expresses his essential nature (monadic nature) through the
three major centers and especially through one of them.
93.
The planetary entity, apparently, expresses its essential nature
through the lunar pitris considered as its three higher centers.
The lunar Pitris who contribute the human form
are (to the planetary entity) the correspondence to the head centre.
94.
Here are some most interesting specifications with respect to the
planetary entity.
95.
We see below that the three major
centers are involved—head, heard and throat.
96.
It the pitris of the mineral kingdom are analogous to the throat
center and those of the vegetable kingdom to the heart center, then why are not
the pitris associated with the animal
kingdom analogous to the head center ?
Those who are the
fathers of the vegetable forms correspond to his heart centre, whilst the Pitris of the mineral kingdom are
analogous to the throat centre. This is all very obscure but hints of much
value lie here.
97.
Yet, in this listing, the animal kingdom is passed over and the pitris
associated with the human kingdom are given the role of the head center in the
planetary entity.
98.
One of the higher centers,
however, is not mentioned—the ajna center, so we must wonder whether the pitris
associated with the animal kingdom do not fulfill the role of ajna center in
the planetary entity.
99.
One thing may have to be taken into consideration—the very close
relationship, in general, between the lunar pitris and the animal kingdom.
There is a line of evolution for lunar pitris leading eventually to
individualization and it passes through the animal kingdom.
100. The following from the
tabulation on TCF, 844, hold many hints:
|
7. |
The lunar Pitris |
To become men. They will in their higher grades pass
directly into the animal evolution of the next cycle and so eventually
individualise. Their
three higher grades will become animal-men, and the lower four will
contribute to the quaternic forms of the men of the next creation. |
|
8. |
The animal evolution |
Human kingdom. |
|
9. |
The vegetable evolution |
The animal kingdom. |
101. The complexity of these
considerations have much to do with the fact that two types of evolution are
presently evolving through our Earth-chain—the normal evolution of the fourth
chain and the evolution of the third chain (the Moon-chain) transferred from
that chain into ours.
It is not possible to
give much further information relative to the periodical appearing of the subhuman forms of life.
102. It would seem that all
groups of lives appear periodically and that the sub-aspects of these groups also
have their own cycles determining periodic appearance within the larger cycles
of the group to which they belong.
The subject is too obscure, and the detail
too vast.
103. We can certainly realize
this to be the case. All this will have to be solved by the scientific
occultists of the future. They will have to be specialists to penetrate the
obscurity.
Until the student has fitted himself to
appreciate [Page 1140] the symbolic, or hieroglyphic writings of the adepts,22
it is impossible for him to grasp the matter.
104. This, in itself, is a hint
and encourages us to learn the nature of the Senza Language, study it, and
apply it to the interpretation of life.
Footnote 22:
Symbols.
"In a symbol lies concealment or revelation."—Carlyle.
1. Symbols are intended for:—
a. The little evolved.
They teach great truths in simple form.
b. The bulk of humanity.
They preserve truth intact and embody cosmic facts.
c. The pupils of the Masters. They develop intuition.
105. We see here a triple function of symbols. For the
first two categories of human beings, the symbol may be taken for the reality.
Anyone who takes that which is presented to consciousness by the senses as a
reality is mistaking a symbol for a reality. The art of spiritual reading is
not yet understood.
106. The pupils of the Masters
know the distinction between rupa and arupa and, thus, use the symbol (as it
appears in the rupa worlds) to intuit the nature of the formless reality.
2. Symbolic books in the Master's archives used for
instruction. These books are
interpreted:—
a. By their colour.
b. By their position, i.e. above, on and beneath a line.
107. The line probably reveals a
degree of evolutionary unfoldment and whether the matters dealt with concern
energy patterns which have not yet reached the line or those which have
transcended it. Such a line could represent individualization itself.
c. By their connection with each other.
108. A book cannot be understood
in isolation. The books of symbols to which it is related must be considered.
d. By their key. One
page may be read four ways:—
1. From above downwards... involution.
109. The meaning of this
direction for reaching makes perfect sense.
110. Certain of the oriental
languages are read in this way.
2. From beneath upwards... evolution.
111. Again this makes perfect
sense.
3. Right to left... greater
cycles, etc.
112. What does this say about
those languages which are read from right to left? Yet, they are usually
ancient languages relating to conditions long antedating the modern era.
113. When interpreting the place
of, for instance, planetary globes within a chain—for, whether the Venus-globe
is the second or the sixth—this method of reading may have
application.
114. Two directions are used and
they represent respectively mystical interpretation and occult interpretation.
115.
116. In any case, this footnote
offers important hints.
4. Left to right... lesser
cycles.
117. Are we to abandon our usual
interpretation of “from left to right” as forwards?
And “from right to left” as backwards?
I think there are modes of interpretation in which this abandonment would not be justified.
3. The three keys:—
1. Cosmic interpretation.
The symbols standing for
cosmic facts. i.e.,
Darkness. Light. The cross.
The triangle.
118. The cosmic interpretation
will take us outside the realm of our solar system.
119. The cross and triangle
obviously have a cosmic significance.
Certainly no man-made religion ‘owns’ either. As for Darkness and Light they
are obviously cosmic in their significance.
120. The same symbols, however,
can be applied on lesser levels.
2. Systemic interpretation. Dealing with evolution of system and all
therein.
121. The triangle, for instance,
could represent the Three Persons of the Logoic Trinity.
122. The cross, for instance,
could represent the crucifixion of the Solar Logos on the Cross of Matter.
123. It could also represent the
presence of the Four Maharajas, or Lords of Karma.
124. The cross, as well, could
represent the personality of the Solar Logos.
3. Human interpretation.
Dealing with man himself. The
cross of humanity.
125. The “cross of humanity” is
the fourfold lunar, material nature upon which the consciousness of humanity is
bound.
126. As well, man is subject to
the cross considered as the four elements of his elemental nature.
Seven-branched candlestick.
127. This symbol is similar to
the “Saptaparna” –the ‘Seven-Leaved Plant”—the symbol of the seven vehicles or
seven principles of man.
4. Four kinds of symbols:—
1. Symbols of extraneous objects …physical plane things.
128. From this perspective, all
forms upon the physical plane are to be considered as symbolic. The
interpretation of all physical plane objects can lead towards an understanding
of the subtler patterns which are responsible for their existence.
2. Symbols of emotional nature ... astral plane things;
pictures.
129. On the astral plane we find
an outpicturing of the forms which are found upon the physical plane. There is
a distinct similarity between them.
130. If a picture reflecting the
physical plane is presented to consciousness, we know that picture to belong to
the astral plane.
3. Numerical symbolism ...
Lower mental.
Man used himself to count by.
131. We learn that arithmetic
and its numbers belong to the lower mental plane.
132. We are given hints as to
the manner in which man began to enumerate his surroundings—probably with
reference to the digits of his hands. Many people still count in this manner—to
keep track of their enumeration.
4. Geometrical symbolism abstract
symbolism,
higher mental.
133. Here we have an important distinction.
Geometrical symbolism (expressing patterned relationships) pertains to the
higher mental plane and numbers, per se, to the lower. Numbers suggest quantity
but not relationship in space.
134. Numbering seems to come
under the rulership of Saturn where as geometrization, under the second ray
influence of Jupiter.
Much of the teaching
on this matter is found in records in
the department of the Manu, as it concerns primarily the initial stages
of form building.
135. This is a fascinating
idea., The Manu’s Department is involve not only with the creation of the form
of man, but apparently, the creation of the forms found in all the lower
kingdoms.
136. The initial stages of form
building involve the following apparently:
a.
Picturing or outpicturing—an astral activity
b.
Numbering—a lower mental activity
c.
Geometrization or arranging items in spatial relationships—a higher
mental activity.
137. We are also led to believe
that those in the Manu’s Department must become adept at understanding symbolic
or hieroglyphic writing.
It might be said that the appearance of any
life in manifestation is due to primary activity on the part of some Entity,
which activity is largely the expression of the first Ray.
138. The first ray always
controls the factors of appearance or disappearance, which, from the human
perspective, we call “life” and “death”—though philosophically we may find
reason to reverse them.
139. We are being given
important information on the work of the Manu’s Department.
This concerns the
periodical manifestation of the life or lives of any round just as it concerns
also the ephemeral existence of a dragon fly;
140. The emergence or
disappearance of any form (great or small) is under the influence of the first
ray.
it deals with the form through which what we
call a race is evolving and concerns itself with the tiny life of an individual
in that race.
141. All that aggregates must
de-aggregate. All that comes together must at length come apart.
142. We can see here how the
first ray influences the great Law of Attraction, usually considered under the
second ray.
The same laws govern
all, though the response to the law may be relative and in degree.
143. This is an important
statement because the responses of different forms to the same law differ in
scope and extent.
This law has the generic name of the "Law of Cycles," and is
expressed in terms of time;
144. We are speaking of the law
which concerns the appearance or disappearance of any form. Master DK is
calling this the “Law of Cycles”.
145. From this perspective, it
is a third ray law and relates to Aquarius, Saturn and Uranus.
146. As the first ray and third
ray are closely related, there is obviously a first ray component to this law.
147. And since we are dealing
with aggregation and de-aggregation, the second ray Law of Attraction and
Repulsion is involved.
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the secret to the cycles may not as yet be given as it would convey to the intuitive too much dangerous information.
148. Is the “intuitive” here
mentioned of good moral character? Perhaps the information would be considered
dangerous even if the recipient were an insufficiently developed server of the
Great White Lodge.
149. We note that the concrete
mind would not necessarily understand the information conveyed. The intuition
would have to be evoked.
It is the knowledge of this law as it concerns
rounds, races, subraces, groups (involutionary and evolutionary) and
individuals (human and superhuman) which enables the Lords of Karma,
and the Adepts of the good Law, to manipulate force or energy, and so carry all
that is, on to its triumphant conclusion.
150. In the description above,
we do see the relation of this law to the third ray.
151. As well, the “Law of Cycles”
must be related to the highest of the siddhis which DK has ventured to
discuss—the siddhi of “All Knowledge”, focused on the third subplane of the
atmic plane.
In connection with
this, students may get much light on this difficult question of force if they
bear in mind that every form in every kingdom on the downward, and the upward
arc, is in itself a negative force
impelled into activity by a positive force and demonstrating as a combination
of the two.
152. This statement holds
whether or not the form is found upon the downward or upward arc. There is no
such thing as a form which is not impelled into activity by a more positive
force than the force embodied in the form.
153. Forms are negative force
patterns—relatively.
154. Another way of stating this
proposition is that every form consists of both
Spirit and matter. The form itself represents the second aspect of divinity
which is the aspect of form building.
The second aspect is responsible for the magnetic aggregation of matter, itself
ruled by the third aspect of divinity.
The distinctions are
demonstrated in the fact that some forms are negative-positive, others
positive-negative, whilst still others are at the point of equilibrium.
155. This is clear. For
involutionary forms the negative energy predominates over the positive. For
superhuman forms, the positive, Spirit aspect, definitely prevails over the
negative. The human being is a unit of force in which a point of evolution is
reached where equilibrium between the two aspects is demonstrated.
156. From another perspective,
the point of equilibrium could be considered the ‘turn’ which distinguishes
involutionary forms from evolutionary forms.
This includes all the
intermediate stages.
157. The human kingdom, itself,
represents an intermediate stage spanning millions of years of process.
The Builders of the cosmos work under cyclic
law consciously,
158. We note the word is
capitalized—“Builders”. These are greater Lives Who are consciously cooperating
with the “Law of Cycles”.
and utilise the aggregate
of these forces in any kingdom, any group or any unit to bring about the
consummation of the plan.
159. These “Builders” are wise
manipulators of energy and force.
It would interest men
much if they could see and interpret some of the records in the hierarchical
records, for in them men and angels, minerals and elements, animals and
vegetables, kingdoms and groups, Gods and ants are specified in terms of
energy formulas
160. How very fascinating!
Occultism (a scientific pursuit) leads directly to the understanding of such
formulas. We are being given an entirely impersonal way of regarding the
quality of all manner of E/entities.
161. Behind all these formulas
stands the One Being Who is the Essence of each. “I mastered energy for I am
energy itself. The Master and the mastered are but One.” (EP I 417)
and by a scrutiny of
these records the approximate increase
of vibration in any form of any kind can be found out at any time.
162. Even the Master must study
these records carefully.
163. There records can be used
to ascertain the vibratory differences between various kinds of forms, but,
perhaps, as well, the increase of vibration which distinguishes forms of the
same general type.
This might be
expressed in terms also of the Gunas; it will be found by disciples (when
permitted access to the records) that they themselves, along with every other
expression of the divine life, are described
by a triple formula which conveys to the mind of the initiate the proportions of tamas or inertia, of
rajas or activity, and of sattva or rhythm to be found in any form.
164. This is comprehensible.
Relative to the average human being, the Master would be a sattvic
manifestation of Divinity.
165. The proportion of the Gunas
active in a human being would have a correspondence to the groups of chakras
which were more or less active.
166. In the tamasic period the
lower centers would be the most active; in the rajasic period, the middle
centers; in the sattvic period, obviously the highest centers.
This, therefore, through correspondences,
imparts knowledge as to past achievement, present opportunity and the immediate
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life, manifesting under any of the three aspects.
167. The Lords of Karma would
find the use of such information indispensable.
168. Presumably, for man at this
time, an increase of the sattvic vibration is what is required. Modern man is
certainly a rajasic being.
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Another series of
files in the records give
169. We must note the remarkable
organization and thoroughness of these records, must be not?
—under a different formula—information
as to what is esoterically called "the heat content" of any unit,
"the radiating light" of any form, and the "magnetic force"
of every life.
170. These terms are not
equivalent: in this case it is likely that “the heat content” relates to the
third aspect; “the radiating light” to the second; and the “magnetic force” to
the first. We remember that “magnetism” is esoterically known as a first ray
demonstration.
There is still another point upon which I
would like to touch. Owing to the fact
that the Law which governs the Hierarchy is the second systemic law, the Law of
Attraction, students are apt to think that magnetism is a second ray quality. They are right in so far that all the
systemic laws are expressions of the life of God through the medium, at this
time, of the second ray, which makes our solar system a second ray system. All other laws and qualities (for a law from
the divine angle is the motivating, qualified agent of the divine will, as
understood in Shamballa) are related to the second ray as it manifests through
our planetary Logos. Nevertheless, magnetic action is more closely
allied to first ray functioning than it is to the second ray, and is an aspect
or quality of the Law of Synthesis.
It was this magnetic power of the first ray to which the Christ referred
when He said "I, if I be lifted up (The Ascension Initiation. A.A.B.), will draw all men unto
me." He faced then those
initiations which would qualify Him to become what is esoterically called
"a Shamballa recipient." There
is, in magnetic action, more of the element of the will and of an expressing
purpose. (R&I 375)
3. This Shamballic magnetism not only relates
the Ashrams to each other, but it is also the potency which evokes the will or
the first ray nature inherent in every man but which is only consciously and
definitely unfolded within the periphery of the great Ashram. (R&I 376)
It is through this
knowledge that the Lipikas control the bringing in, and the passing out, of every
Life, divine, superhuman, solar and human,
171. The Lipika have control of
planetary Lives and, presumably over the Three Persons of the Logoic Trinity.
Perhaps, They have control over the coming in and passing out of the Solar
Logos, Himself.
172. We can see that the Lipikas
have a definitely first ray
function—appearance and disappearance.
and it is through
a consideration of that formula which is the basic formula for a solar system
that the physical plane appearance of a solar Logos is controlled, and the
length of a cosmic pralaya settled.
173. A cosmic pralaya, in this
instance, is analogous to the interval between human incarnations. It involves
release of the Solar Logos from the cosmic physical plane and focus,
successively, upon the cosmic astral plane and the cosmic mental plane.
We must not forget
that the Lipika Lords of the solar
system have Their cosmic prototypes, and that These have Their feeble and groping human reflections in the great astronomical
scientists who endeavour to ascertain facts anent the heavenly bodies,
being subconsciously aware of the existence of these cosmic formulas conveying
information as to the specific gravity, constitution, radiation, magnetic pull,
heat and light of any sun, solar system, or constellation.
174. We have a triple analogy
between Cosmic Lipika Lords, solar systemic Lipika Lords and human
astrophysicists. It is clear that the fifth ray is involved in producing a
Lipika Lord.
175. The Second Path on the Way
of Higher Evolution leads to the cosmic astral plane and is pursued by a number
of those who are, monadically, upon the fifth ray. By a process of
alchemization they are lifted to the cosmic mental plane, and onto the Path of
Absolute Sonship (which is an aspect of training to become a Lipika Lord).
176. We do note that Lipikas are
both of the systemic and cosmic
varieties.
177. The formulas under
discussion convey various types of information. Let us tabulate them:
a.
Specific gravity
b.
Constitution
c.
Radiation
d.
Magnetic pull
e.
Heat
f.
Light
178. I think we can see that
even constellations and their Lords are supervised by a type of Lipika Lord.
Many of them in
future and remote ages
179. In this case the term
“ages” means Mahamanvantaras. It takes many mahamanvantaras for a man (or group
of men) to develop into a Lipika Lord.
will pass to a full comprehension, and will
have the formulas committed to their care, thus joining the ranks of the
Lipikas. It is a peculiar line,
requiring cycles of careful training in divine mathematics.
180. This is a fascinating
statement and one that shows that the mental discipline of mathematics (as
humanity understands it) is but the tiny and dim anticipation of a vast,
cosmically applicable subject.
181. The calculations required
to ensure an exact working out of karma must be mathematically staggering. If
we consider that every human being (or being of any kind) is really an energy formula we can see why karmic
adjustments between such formulas must be approached through divine
mathematics.
The Lipika Lords,
controlling the periodical manifestation of life are, roughly speaking, divided
into the following groups, which it might be of interest to note:
182. Here we gather some idea of
the scope of these great Beings.
1.
Three
extra-systemic or cosmic Lords of Karma, Who work from a centre in Sirius
183. It is clear that Master DK
knows something about the internal structure of Sirius.
184. We have been told of three
orders of Lives who live on/in Sirius and now about three “cosmic Lords of
Karma” also associated with that great Being.
through the medium of three representatives.
185. The three representatives
are active within our solar system.
These form a group around the solar Logos, and
hold to Him a position analogous to the three Buddhas of Activity Who stand
around Sanat Kumara.
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186. There are at least two
groups gathered around our Solar Logos. One group consists of the Three Logoi
or Three Persons of the Logoic Trinity. These great Beings also seem to be
analogous to the three Buddhas of Activity.
187. We cannot say that the
three Cosmic Lipika Lords are the same as the Three Logoi or Three Persons.
188. Perhaps we can solve this
if we consider the Three Persons as emanations or aspects of the Solar Logos,
Himself.
189. From what we can understand
the three Buddhas of Activity are not
emanations of Sanat Kumara, but were distinct Planetary Logoi in the previous
solar system.
2.
Three
Lipika Lords Who are the karmic agents working through the three aspects.
190. We have to determine
whether these are three additional
Lipika Lords—additional to the one mentioned under Point 1 above, or whether
the three representatives of the Three Cosmic Lipika Lords are the very
Entities here referenced.
191. Given what is stated in
Point 3, the three Lipika Lords under Point 2 could be other than the three mentioned in Point 1.
3.
Nine
Lipikas Who are the sumtotal of the agents for the Law working through what the
Qabbalah calls the nine Sephiroth.
192. We note that these nine
Lipikas work through the Sephiroth.
They are not necessarily equivalent to the Sephiroth.
193. The Sephiroth, from another
point of view, are the Planetary Logoi, and what is here said is that these
nine Lipikas work through the
Planetary Logoi.
194. All in all there are twelve
Lipikas mentioned under Points 2 and 3. It is possible, perhaps, to correlate
them with the twelve planets which, eventually, will be known to be associated
with each of the twelve zodiacal signs.
4.
Seven
presiding agents of karma for each one of the seven schemes.
195. We must wonder whether
there are seven presiding agents, one of the seven for each of the seven major
planetary schemes, OR whether each of the seven schemes has seven presiding
agents.
196. Only seven planetary
schemes are here mentioned, whereas there are really many more. Perhaps the
seven sacred schemes in some way include
all the others.
197. If the Sephiroth are really
Planetary Logoi then there is at least one major Lipika for each of the nine or
twelve planetary schemes. Of a lesser nature than the nine or twelve Lipika
(mentioned, collectively, in Points 2 and 3) may be these “seven presiding
agents” – presumably seven for each
planetary scheme. One wonders whether these seven in some way are associated
with each of the seven major chains of any Planetary Logos.
198. In any case, we have
received detailed information about extra-systemic or Cosmic Lipika Lords;
solar systemic Lipika Lords; planetary Lipika Lords; and intra-planetary Lipika
Lords.
These four groups
correspond in manifestation to the Unmanifested, manifesting through the triple
Aspects,
199. We have four ‘above’ and
three ‘below’. This relationship corresponds to the structure of planes in
which there are four subplanes of a higher order and three of a lower.
200. Relative to physicality,
that which is etheric is “unmanifested”.
and under Them work an infinity of lesser
agents.
201. In any case, a very great
number, countless from the human perspective.
These lesser agents
202. Though some of these are
“lesser agents” they nevertheless, have great scope.
might again be
somewhat differentiated, each of the following groups being found in every
scheme and on every ray-emanation.
203. From one perspective,
schemes and ray emanations can be considered equivalent.
1.
The
Lipika Lords of a scheme Who, through the manipulation of forces, make it
possible for a planetary Logos to incarnate under the Law, and work out His
cyclic problem.
204. We have descended to the
scheme level. Presumably the Lipika Lords mentioned here are of a lesser order
that the “seven presiding agents of karma for each one of the seven schemes”.
2.
Those
who (under the first group) control the destiny of a chain.
205. Are there seven of these
Lipika or perhaps ten as at some
points in the planetary evolutionary process there are ten planetary chains.
206. In what way are these
controllers of the destiny of a chain different from the “seven presiding
agents” listed in Point 4, above?
3.
Those
who are the energy-directors of a globe.
207. Of these there must be in
any planetary scheme no fewer than forty-nine and probably seventy, if the ten
chains with seven globes each are considered.
208. Some books suggest that
there may be even twelve chains in a planetary scheme and the number of globes
in a chain need not be limited to seven. So we can see that the numbers of
Lipika Lords who are energy-directors of the globes in a planetary scheme could
be variable.
4.
Agents
of every kind Who are concerned with the karmic adjustments, incident upon the
periodical manifestation of such forms as:
209. The various types of agents
are highly organized and have functions which pertain to the various structural
elements and cycles of a Planetary Logos functioning through a planetary
scheme.
a.
A
round, seven in all.
210. We must differentiate
between chain rounds and scheme rounds. In any planetary scheme there are
probably seven major or scheme rounds, and forty-nine chain
rounds—again depending on how many chains there really are in a planetary
scheme.
b.
A
kingdom in nature, seven in all.
211. Kingdoms of nature are
found throughout the solar system and also in every planetary scheme. DK is
telling us that there are agents of Lipika Lords associated with each of the
seven kingdoms beginning with the mineral kingdom and ending with the
c.
The
human kingdom.
212. The human kingdom has seven
major divisions or root-races.
d.
A
rootrace, subrace and branch race.
213. Every root-race has seven
subraces and each sub-race has seven branch races. There are also lesser
divisions probably controlled by the number seven.
e.
A
nation, a family, a group, and their correspondences in all the kingdoms.
214. We note that the term
“family” seems to be of larger scope than the term “group”. The families here
references must be very extended families—almost “tribes”.
f.
A
plane.
215. Planes and subplanes will
naturally have their karmic rulers.
g.
The
reptile and insect world.
216. There must be a reason why
these are mentioned together.
217. Why are the animal kingdom
and the vegetable kingdom not mentioned in this enumeration.
h.
The
bird evolution.
218. We note how the “bird
evolution” is separated from that of the reptile. In some descriptions of
evolutionary process, the bird evolution is said to arise from that of the
reptile, but occultism sees things differently.
i.
The
devas.
219. It is interesting that the
many types of devas are managed by various agents of the Lipika Lords.
Presumably, the devas here referenced are the unconscious ones.
j.
Human units, egoic
groups, monadic lives, [Page 1144] and
myriads of other forms, objective and subjective, planetary and interplanetary,
in connection with the Sun, and in connection with the planetoids.
220. DK does not use the phrase
“in connection with the planets”, because He has already given much information
about the relation of Lipika Lords and Their agents in relation to the planets.
221. Notice the use of the terms
“units”, “groups” and “lives” applied to the three levels of man. Each of them
contains a hint. “Lives” certainly break through barriers which still operative
in “groups”.
222. I think we can gather that
all manner of lives are under karmic regulation.
All
223. Agents…
work with energy emanations, and with force
units under cyclic law, and all have the same objective,—the producing of
perfected activity, intensification
of heat, and of radiant
magnetic light as an expression
of the will or purpose of each embodied life.
224. Here we are faced again,
with a triplicity: heat, light and will. Somewhat above in this text we encountered
heat, light and magnetism.
225. We should note then that
light is magnetic and that the will is a demonstration of magnetism of a
different kind.
Periodicity of
manifestation is the cyclic
appearance of certain forms of specified energy, and this is true
whether a man is speaking of a solar system, of a Ray, of the appearance of a
planet in space, or of the phenomenon of human birth.
226. This is an excellent
definition of periodicity. We are speaking scientifically of the “cyclic
appearance of certain forms of specified energy” and not about the appearance
of certain B/beings—though this, too, is true.
227. Energy patterns appear and
disappear cyclically and all this is controlled by the Law of Periodicity which
certainly is related to the Law of Cycles.
Certain factors
extraneous to any energy unit under consideration, will inevitably affect its
appearance, and act as deflecting or directing agents.
228. These “deflecting or
directing agents” involve themselves with any energy unit under cyclic law.
The Law of Cycles has ever been regarded as
one of the most difficult for a man to master, and it has been truly said that
when a man has mastered its technicalities, and can understand its methods of
time computation, he has attained initiation.
229. No third degree initiate
has mastered the Law of Cycles. We are speaking of a mastery which pertains to
the third subplane of the atmic plane. The initiation referenced here is
probably the fifth, which gives the initiate certain abilities upon the atmic
plane.
Its intricacies are so numerous and so bound
up with the still greater law, that of cause and effect,
230. I.e., the Law of Karma…
that
practically the whole range of possible knowledge is thereby surmounted.
231. Thus the mastery of the Law
of Cycles is connected with the atmic siddhi called “All Knowledge”.
232. The term “surmounted” makes
one wonder about the function of a kind of atmic ‘causal body’ found, perhaps,
on the second and third subplane of the atmic plane. If this is the case, one
must watch every work suggested by the Master as He may be hinting at
unsuspected associations.
To comprehend this
law involves ability to:
a.
Deal
with the higher mathematical formulas of the solar system.
233. DK has already told us that
to calculate the approximately 100,000 year rotation of the solar systemic
“atom” involves a type of solar mathematics far beyond human ken.
b.
Compute
the relationship between a unit of any degree and the greater whole upon whose
vibration that unit is swept into periodic display.
234. We can consider this
computation as part of the mathematics which obtains between the whole and any
one of its parts. What energy effect, exactly, does the whole have on the part?
235. We should note the meaning
of the term “compute”, suggesting that we are looking for a number or formula which will describe the effect.
c.
Read
the akashic records of a planetary system.
236. This will put in the hands
of one who masters the Law of Cycles the record of the past. Seeing how various
cycles worked out in the past, the master of this law will be able to
anticipate how such cycles might work out in the present or in the future.
d.
Judge
of karmic effects in time and space.
237. How else can one plan
intelligently within a karmic context?
e.
Differentiate
between the four streams of karmic effects as they concern the four kingdoms of
nature.
238. Presumably, DK is speaking
of the three lower kingdoms and the human kingdom.
239. Having master of the Law of
Cycles makes one a master at least of the three lower worlds. A Master of the
Wisdom is one Who has mastered the three lower worlds.
240. It seems quite probable
that only a Master of the Wisdom can have the kind of master of the Law of
Cycles here discussed, and even such mastery is only the beginning. There are
cycles, it is obvious, that even a Master of the Wisdom cannot understand.
f.
Distinguish
between the three main streams of energy [Page
1145] —the units of inertia, mobility and rhythm — and note the key of
each unit, and its place in the great group of transitional points.
241. How interesting that energy
streams are called “units”. Well, “units” are energy patterns.
242. We are dealing here with a
very obscure sentence.
243. Probably each energy-stream
has its own keynote, and each unit within any of the energy-streams has a
keynote as well.
244. We read earlier of “transitional
points” or those forms of lives which bridged between kingdoms. This could be
one meaning of this term.
245. Another meaning could
relate to the flow of circumstances and those points in that flow when
transition to a higher or lower state of vibration is a likely outcome.
These latter units are those who are on the crest of one
of the three waves, and ready, therefore, to be transferred into a wave of a
higher vibratory capacity.
246. Here it is explained. The
transitional points are, indeed, those at which transference from one Guna to
another is possible—for instance, from Tamas to Rajas, or from Rajas to Sattva.
247. It is very interesting that
the Gunas are referred to as energy-streams or as “waves”. We should think of
them in energic terms.
g.
Enter
the Hall of Records and there read a peculiar group of documents dealing with
planetary manifestation in a fourfold manner.
248. We remember from a footnote
above the fourfold way of reading a page of symbols.
249. The libraries of the
Masters must be incredibly interesting. One day, when we have earned the right
and can use wisely the kind of information there to be found, we will have
right of entry.
It concerns the planetary Logos, and deals
with the transference of energy from the moon chain. It concerns the transmission of energy to
another planetary scheme, and concerns the interaction between the human
Hierarchy (the fourth Kingdom) and the great informing Life of the animal
kingdom.
250. What is said here is of
great interest.
251. What may be this other
planetary scheme? Probably Mars or Venus. The “great informing Life of the
animal kingdom” is far more closely related to Mars than to Venus.
When a man can do all
these things and has earned the right to know that which produces the
phenomenon of manifestation, he has earned the right to enter into the councils
of the planetary Hierarchy,
252. This may be another way of
calling the man a Master of the Wisdom.
and himself to direct
streams of energy upon, through and out of the planet.
253. When the Law of Cycles is
mastered the Master becomes not only a knower
of all pertinent cycles but a director
of the same. We understand that the atmic plane is both a plane of knowledge
and a plane of will.
Some idea of the complexity governing the
periodical manifestation of a human being may be gathered by a
consideration of the forces which
bring human units into manifestation, which produce individualisation;
254. DK attempts to preserve the
subject from a superficial estimation of its factors.
this is, after all,
the appearing of a third stream of energy in conjunction with two others.
255. The third stream of energy
is specially the human. The two other
streams are monadic/angelic and the animal stream.
A man is the meeting ground of three streams
of force, one or other preponderating according to his peculiar type.
256. The three types of forces
are the force of Spirit, the force of soul and the forces of matter—i.e., of
the lunar elementals.
Let us briefly
enumerate these factors and thus get some idea as to the complexity of the
matter:
257. DK does not do this to
confuse us, but to encourage in us an attitude of patient approach to a vitally
important though complex matter.
The first and
paramount factor is the ray upon which a particular human unit is found. This
means, that there are seven specialised force streams, each with its peculiar
quality, type and rhythm.
258. This informs us that there
are seven monadic streams of force. The question sometimes arises whether there
are three or seven types of Monads. When considering the monadic plane, there
are seven. When considering the life of the Monad upon the logoic plane, there
are, in all likelihood, three.
The matter is further
complicated by the fact that though the Ray of the Monad is its [Page 1146] main
qualifying factor,
259. We should not this.
Although apparently remote, the ray of the Monad is the most important when
considering the periodical manifestation of the human being.
260. It is above all the Monad
which bring the human being into manifestation—i.e., which produces
individualization.
yet two subsidiary Rays, those of the Ego and
of the personality, have likewise to be considered.
261. If we are talking about the
Monad’s influence in the individualization process, it is very interesting to
consider that the personality ray is also involved. At the beginning of human
evolution and during its early days, this ray must be latent, unexpressed, yet
present.
262. What this means is that the
emergence of the egoic ray and the
personality ray within the lower worlds is not the same as their existence.
They can exist and yet not emerge. We know this to be true of the egoic ray, of
course, but what we learn here is that it is also true of the personality ray.
Secondly, it must be
borne in mind that the human units now upon this planet fall naturally into two
great groups—those who reached individualisation, or became "units of self-directing energy," upon
the moon, and those who attained self-consciousness upon the earth.
263. We see how the factor of
will is involved in the individualization process. It is impossible to become
self-directing without some representation of the will.
264. These are, among all
divisions, the major ones.
There are important
distinctions between these two groups, for the units of the moon chain are
distinguished, not only by a more
advanced development, owing to the longer
period of their evolution, but also by the quality of great and intelligent activity, for (as might
be expected) on the third or moon chain, the third Ray was a dominant
factor.
265. Here we have important correspondences
associating Moon-chain humanity with the qualities of the number three.
In this fourth chain,
the quaternary dominates,
266. The quaternary in this
context is to be understood as the four aspects of the personality.
267. One can wonder whether on
the Moon-chain whether the three personality vehicles were commonly synthesized
into the integrated personality. Yet, it must have been so for a number of
human beings, as it was possible to reach the third degree initiate and even
the fourth on that chain.
or the synthesis of the three so as to produce
a fourth,
268. DK seems to be telling us
that this fourth chain is the chain of the integrated personality.
and this is one reason for the intensely
material nature of those who entered the human kingdom on this planet.
269. Materialism is, therefore,
a greater problem amongst Earth-humanity than it is for Moon-chain humanity.
270. The fourth factor is the
factor of matter to which Earth-chain humanity is related.
The distinctions
between the two groups are very great, and one of the mysteries lying behind
the main divisions of humanity—rulers and the ruled, capitalists and labourers,
the governed and those who govern—is found right here.
271. The root of many of the
problems of humanity is found in the disparity between these two types of
humanity.
272. It is not easy for the
average disciple to discern whether an individual individualized on the
Moon-chain or on the Earth-chain, but there are probably certain guidelines to
follow. Not only the degree of intelligence but the quality of intelligence should be noted as well as the development
of the throat center.
No system of sociological reform will be
successfully worked out without a due consideration of this important fact.
273. This distinction is not
common knowledge amongst reformers. It is important that some of the main ideas
of occultism reach those in governing positions.
Other distinguishing features might be
enumerated but would only serve at this stage to complicate the matter.
274. Yet they must be of great
fascination. This is a period, however, when perception of the unity of
humanity is a desirable objective. It might not, therefore, be advisable to
offer too many ways of discriminating one type of humanity from another.