Visualization for Rule
V for Applicants
“Let
the applicant see to it that the solar angel dims the light of the lunar
angels remaining the sole luminary in the microcosmic sky.”
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Align with the soul.
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Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.
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Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it. Emphasize
particularly the colors belonging to your soul and personality ray,
otherwise indigo blue.
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Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven
colors of the rainbow. Emphasize the color indigo blue of the great
synthetic second ray.
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Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible
to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by
the energies of those dimensions.
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See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual
Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.
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Identifying as a soul-infused personality, clear the consciousness
of preoccupations so that the Solar Angel may come into focus.
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Find the influence of the Solar Angel in your heart center and
at the crown of your head.
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Visualize the Solar Angel as:
a.
As a radiant angelic existence. This is seen by the inner eye
with the same accuracy of vision and judgment as when a man stands face
to face with another member of the human family. The great solar Angel,
Who embodies the real man and is his expression on the plane of higher
mind, is literally his divine ancestor, the "Watcher" Who,
through long cycles of incarnation, has poured Himself out in sacrifice
in order that man might BE.
b. As
a sphere of radiant fire,
linked with the initiate standing before it by that magnetic thread
of fire which passes through all his bodies and terminates within the
centre of the physical brain. This "silver thread" (as it
is rather inaccurately called in the Bible, where the description of
its loosing of the physical body and subsequent withdrawal is found)
emanates from the heart centre of the solar Angel, linking thus heart
and brain,—that great duality manifesting in this solar system, love
and intelligence. This fiery sphere is linked likewise with many others
belonging to the same group and ray, and thus it is a literal fact in
demonstration that on the higher planes we are all one. One life pulsates
and circulates through all, via the fiery strands. This is part of
the revelation which comes to a man who stands
in the "Presence" with his eyes occultly opened.
c.
As a many tinted Lotus of nine Petals. These petals are arranged
in three circles around a central set of three closely folded petals,
which shield what is called in the eastern books "The Jewel in
the Lotus." This Lotus is a thing of rare beauty, pulsating with
life and radiant with all the colours of the rainbow, and at the first
three initiations the three circles are revealed in order, until at
the fourth initiation the initiate stands before a still greater revelation,
and learns the secret of that which lies within the central bud. In
this connection the third initiation differs somewhat from the other
two, inasmuch as through the power of a still more exalted Hierophant
than the Bodhisattva, the electrical fire of pure Spirit, latent in
the heart of the Lotus, is first contacted. (IHS 115-117)
10. Recognize each of the three
lunar vehicles, plus the personality elemental. View them with objectivity
and detachment.
11. Realize that you are, essentially,
none of the lunar vehicles you see. To facilitate this you may
use the ancient Raja Yoga formulation:
a.
“I have a body, but I am not that body”;
b. “I
have emotional sentiency, but I am not that emotional sentiency”;
c.
“I have a lower mind, but I am not that lower mind”;
d. “I
have a personality, but I am not that personality”. (This method, of
course, could be continued until one reaches the spirit aspect.)
12. Try to understand the ‘place’
from which it is possible to recognize these vehicles. That ‘place’
may be imagined as midway between personality consciousness and soul
consciousness.
13. Imagine the Solar Angel shining
with a golden light and the lunar vehicles with a silvery light.
14. Imagine the golden light waxing
in brilliance as the luminosity of the silvery light subsides, dimming
appreciably.
15. Imagine the golden light of
the Solar Angel filling each of the lunar vehicles and the personality
as a whole. One may form an objective image of this process, or imagine
that it is happening with respect to one’s Solar Angel and one’s lunar
vehicles. One is facilitating the process of soul-infusion through the
use of the creative imagination.
16. Imagine the personality and
the three lunar vehicles, infused by radiant golden light, gradually
absorbed into the intensifying golden radiance of the Solar Angel.
17. Ponder on the esoteric ‘feel’
of this absorption.
18. Realize that, symbolically,
the Solar Angel now remains the “sole luminary in the microcosmic sky”.
19. Send forth the essence of
your realization to uplift the field of human consciousness.
20. OM OM OM
Alternative Visualization
for Rule V for Applicants
1. Align
with the soul.
2. Visualize
and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.
3. Align
with the group soul and realize your identity with it. Emphasize particularly
the colors belonging to your soul and personality ray, otherwise indigo
blue.
4. Visualize
and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven colors of
the rainbow. Emphasize the color indigo blue of the great synthetic
second ray.
5. Utilizing
the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible to the
levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by the energies
of those dimensions.
6. See
the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual Hierarchy
of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.
7. Identify
as a “Sun of God”, a ‘Sun of Life’.
8. Now
see the sky filled with many other blazing suns, which you realize to
be ‘brother luminaries’. As a sun, feel yourself connected to all the
other suns.
9. Ponder
on the unity which prevails in the solar world of soul.
10. Realize that there is but
One Soul and thus one Macrocosmic Solar Luminary.
11. Send forth the essence of
your realization to uplift the field of human consciousness.
12. OM OM OM