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margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in; mso-header-margin:1.0in; mso-footer-margin:1.0in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">This file is attached in word doc too. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Zach<br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Compilation<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Cosmic Paths 2 (47 pages)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">Freshly made Chohans after making <u>decision</u> as to Cosmic path are postponing their progress on their chosen path <span style="">&nbsp;</span>so as to form a protecting wall around the Christ during his reapearrance<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 655)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Today, however, in taking this sixth initiation, all of <span style="">the Masters so doing and under the suggestion</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">of the Christ,<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">continue to make the decision which will control Their future progress on one of the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of the Higher Evolution, but <span style="">at the same time</span><b style=""> </b></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">all of Them are postponing this proposed progress upon Their chosen Path in order, for a brief time, to implement and aid the work of the Christ</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and help towards the externalisation of the Hierarchy, through the medium of certain of its Ashrams; They will also form a protecting wall around the Christ, and act as liaison officers between Their great Leader and the Avatar of Synthesis.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1242)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each of these </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">Cosmic<span style="">&nbsp; </span>paths eventually leads</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to one or </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">other of<span style="">&nbsp; </span>the six constellations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which (with ours) form the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven centres in the body of the OAWNMBS.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 401) The fire of matter earlier dealt with is the dynamic fire of motion, which keeps in activity each atom of matter.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The fire of mind is the coherent impulse and purpose, driving the forms (built up of active matter) in a specific direction, and along certain destined paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is consequently karmic impulse, originating cause, and operating will.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is likewise the result or the effect of this action in time, and only as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Triad comes into play, via the esoteric four, are the fires of both mind and matter burnt out and the fire of Spirit set free.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EPI 316)<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">A ray is but a name for a particular force or type of energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, with the emphasis upon the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">quality which that force exhibits</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">not upon the force aspect which it creates</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. This is a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">true definition of a ray.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 38) Each of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Hierarchies of Beings, found within the Twelve</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">, Who are the Builders or the Attractive Agents are (in their degree) intermediaries;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">all embody one of the types of force </span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">emanating from the seven constellations</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 14)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Students would do well to remember that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">twelve constellations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which constitute<span style="">&nbsp; </span>our particular zodiac are themselves the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">recipients of many streams of energy coming</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to them from many different source. These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">blend and fuse with the energy of any particular constellation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and - transmuted and "occultly refined"- eventually find their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">way into our solar system. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 15)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>those coming from that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">great star, Betelgeuse, or from Antares</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and other stupendous </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">suns and solar systems</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which are related to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">constellations of the zodiac</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and whose force </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">reaches us through these constellations and not directly</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1242) These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths, when trodden, prepare a man to pass certain cosmic initiations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, including those upon the Sun Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One hint may here be given.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Each of these Paths eventually leads to one or other of the six constellations which (with ours) form the seven centres in the body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">1. The Path of Earth Service (RI 397) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">2. The Path of Magnetic Work (RI 401) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">3. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(RI 405<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 399)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 1.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Earth Service leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 2.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Magnetic Work leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 3.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path for Training for Planetary Logoi leads to the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 4.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path to Sirius leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 5.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Ray Path leads to the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 6.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path the Logos Himself is on leads to the cosmic buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 7.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Absolute Sonship leads to the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(CF 904) The gaseous devas become eventually the devas of the fourth ether, and from thence in long aeons, find their way to the cosmic fourth ether, the buddhic plane. These three groups are therefore cosmically connected with:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">1. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic astral plane and the constellation whence emotional and desire</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> energy originates.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">2. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic mental plane, and therefore with the constellation Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">3. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic buddhic plane, and the constellation of the Pleiades.</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">(CF 1243) The initiates upon Path I "fight their way" on to path VI.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">The initiates upon Path II "alchemise themselves" on to Path VII.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">The initiates upon Path III through "piercing the veil" find themselves upon Path V.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This leaves </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path IV</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to be accounted for.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Upon this Path pass all those who, through devotion and activity combined, achieve the goal but who </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">lack as yet the full development of the manasic principle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This being the solar system of love-wisdom, or of astral buddhic development, the fourth Path includes the larger number of the sons of men.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the hierarchy of our planet the "Lords of Compassion" are numerically greater than the "Masters of the Wisdom."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The former must therefore all pass to the sun Sirius there to undergo a tremendous manasic stimulation, for Sirius is the emanating source of manas.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 182) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Our Solar System, with the Pleiades and one of the starts of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, form a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic triangle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, or an aggregation of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three centres in the Body of OAWNMBS</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Seven stars in the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>constellation of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">correspondences to the seven head centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in the body of<span style="">&nbsp; </span>that being greater than our logos. Again </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">two other systems</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, when allied with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">solar system and the Pleiades, make a lower quaternary</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which are eventually </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">synthesised into the seven head centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in much the same way as in the human being after the fourth initiation. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 351) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Cancer - Physical Sun - 3rd aspect<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Gemini - Heart of the Sun - 2nd aspect<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Aquarius -<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Central Spiritual Sun<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EOH 421) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">remaining full moons will constitute lesser festivals</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">...They will establish the divine attributes in the consciousness of man...arrived at by a close study of the nature of a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">particular constellation or constellations influencing these months</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. For instance, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Capricorn (December)...<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 339)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">zodiacal wheel is itself essentially a cosmic centre</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; it is a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">twelve-petalled lotus, but it is a twelve petalled lotus</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> within the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">thousand petalled lotus of...the OAWNMBS.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EPII 196)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">December, 1935, the energies of Capricorn</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> were augmented by the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>pouring in of forces from a still </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">greater constellation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which -is to our zodiac- what the zodiac is to the earth. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 308)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Beyond </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Neptune and Uranus, lies another planet (Pluto</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">), as yet undiscovered...it is through this planet that the forces (as they are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">related to Leo and Aquarius) are focussed in one potent stream</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of force; these pour into our planetary life during the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">month of August, and distribute themselves, via Uranus and Neptune. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Charts of the cosmic lines of directed forces such as the above can be given for all the energies of the constellations and planetary forces...</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 413) This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">great Sun which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> has a peculiar part to play where our Earth is concerned.</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">All the Cosmic Paths lead eventually to the Central Spiritual Sun<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 399) Three Paths, therefore, lead to the realm of loving attractive energy; one Path leads to its higher correspondence, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic level of pure reason</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">; three lead to the realm of divine Mind</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Four of the Paths relate the advancing Master to the Heart of the Great Life Who functions through this solar system</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">three to His Mind nature</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All of them lead the initiate </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">eventually to the Central Spiritual Sun</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">. [Page 400] All Who work in Shamballa find Their way to this supreme centre by the three most arduous ways, whilst the remainder reach the same goal via the way of love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>(RI 360) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Way of the Higher Evolution leads through the monadic and logoic planes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> (the two highest levels of the cosmic physical plane); when the four planes of the cosmic etheric plane are completely mastered and under occult direction, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">initiate is faced with the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and with the choice to tread one or other of them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>His </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">choice is naturally dependent upon ray determinations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">and past activity but is nevertheless a free choice, because all limitation has been removed, all wrong identification with physical forms is now impossible, and the initiate's only limitation is that imposed by entrance into cosmic levels of awareness with which he is still unfamiliar.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 361) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic astral plane becomes, for the Master, a definite objective</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; He is beginning to develop a great sensitivity to that level of awareness, but consciousness of that within the planetary life as He knows it </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">prevents Him from registering this energy of pure cosmic love</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> as He later will.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is this sense of limitation which is the cause of His recognition of the Door on to the Way of the Higher Evolution, for the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fifth and sixth initiations liberate Him into the atmic and monadic</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> states of awareness; these initiations are to the initiate at this stage of development what the first and second initiations are to the disciple who is seeking to tread the earlier stages of the Path of Initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They might therefore be </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">regarded as initiations of the threshold</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> one leading to the awareness of the higher levels of conscious unfoldment which the third initiation (the first major initiation) inaugurates, and the other to those levels of impression, of contact and of future ascension which are the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sevenfold goal set before the Master when the sixth initiation (the true ascension) is consummated.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is for this reason that this particular initiation is called the Initiation of Decision.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Master then chooses which of the seven Ways or Paths He will follow, because His aeonial experience has enabled Him to choose any of them and know that He has chosen aright.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Though these seven Paths, being one of the septenates, are necessarily related to the seven rays, they are not ray paths</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">, </span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">nor are they governed by the seven rays</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Any one of them is open to a Master of the Wisdom, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">His choice will not be dependent upon His ray type</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, though He will take that factor into consideration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are more </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">definitely related to the seven cosmic planes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> than to the seven rays; this we will consider in greater detail when dealing with the factor of the seven Ashrams which are "proving" grounds for all the Masters confronted with the Initiation of Decision.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 371) One point should here be made:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>the entry of a member of the human family into the ranks of the initiates and his participation in the activity of some one or other of the Ashrams produces a movement out of the Hierarchy of some Master and into the highest centre of all; it has this effect only after the entering initiate has taken the third initiation, and can therefore take his part in the hierarchical life as a monadic expression susceptible to impression from Shamballa.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When a Master thus emerges He is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">immediately confronted with the choice between the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>With this development and decision we shall later deal.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths are all concerned with purpose</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">,</span><span lang="EN-GB"> just as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Ashrams are all concerned with the plan</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is, as you will later see, a direct relation between the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths and the seven Ashrams</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Though we shall not deal with the subject at all, there is likewise a correspondence in the third [Page 372] major centre, Humanity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have, therefore, curiously interrelated:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The seven Paths</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The seven Rays</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The seven Ashrams</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The seven Races</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Students would do well to bear in mind that these relationships are the result of the involutionary activity of the life expression of the Lord of the World.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The key to the mystery of differentiation is found by the Master when He is faced by the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">choice of the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At that <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">high point</st1:city></st1:place> of will expression, He discovers the secret of that evolutionary process which proceeds from unity to differentiation, and from differentiation to unity again.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Individualisation, Initiation and Identification are the three main stages in the evolutionary activity of the life of God and condition the quality of each of the three divine centres.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">four related septenates</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, enumerated above, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">eventually produce a synthesis which will consummate upon the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is of course </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">beyond my powers to teach</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> or to explain, as I am not yet a liberated Master, though I am a liberated human being.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>(RI 377)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>In the "centre where the will of God is known" the intelligent loving Master, now responsive to the energy of the will, is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">faced with the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> whereon that will can come to fruition and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">"units of love can be transferred </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">because they also will and know."<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">They can then form part of the third solar system which will be definitely under the influences coming from the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, just as, in this solar system, the energies coming from the cosmic astral plane have been the major influence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 390)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>There are certain preliminary statements which would be useful here, if there is to be any real and true measure of clear thinking and understanding.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their significance will emerge as we study the Seven Paths and the Nine Initiations.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I shall do no more than state them, but you must regard them as basic:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">2. This <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Higher Way</st1:address></st1:street> is a sevenfold Way.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths form its seven modes of approach to the One Way</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> and together create it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths are not ray-conditioned</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By that I mean that entering one or another of them is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">not in any way dependent upon the ray which conditioned the Master</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> earlier.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Masters and the still higher initiates, such as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">the Christ, can choose any Path which makes its appeal</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">in such a manner that complete rightness is registered in the initiate's consciousness and He knows that He can go no other way.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">3. At the sixth initiation, called the Initiation of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Decision, the Initiate makes His final choice as to the Way that He will go</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, </span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">and from that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">decision there is no turning back.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">[Page 391] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">4. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Three things will necessarily colour any decision the Initiate may make; His ray</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, which still determines Him, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">His past activities as they may fit Him for specialised work</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, plus a sense of freedom hitherto unrealised.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The decision might be regarded as the first gesture of the advancing Master toward </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">liberation from all ray limitations</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As He moves forward on the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Higher Way</st1:address></st1:street>, He will find Himself, as a result of the new training and field of experience, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">able to work on any ray.</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">5. The fifth initiation is usually called that of the Resurrection by the orthodox Christian, but this is not its real name; it is in reality the Initiation of Revelation, because the Initiate gains His first vision of the Door through which He must pass on to the seven Paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He glimpses it and that is all, but between that initiation and the next in which He must perforce make His decision, He </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">comes to understand the nature of the energy which each Path expresses</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> and which will eventually evoke from Him a decisive activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>(RI 356)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The other two initiations (vaguely called the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Resurrection and the Ascension) are related to the second so-called "door."</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This door is not in the same sense an obstruction as is the first door; it opens on to the Way of the Higher Evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first door symbolically</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> admits the initiate into the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">"heart of the Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">," whilst the second door in a most mysterious sense indicates the route which must be followed by the liberated initiate who seeks to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">penetrate to the Central Spiritual Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">all the seven Paths eventually lead.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">7. The fifth and sixth initiations are to the Master what the first and second are to the disciple simply initiations of the threshold and not true initiations from the cosmic angle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">first true initiation upon the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Higher Way</st1:address></st1:street> is called the Initiation of Resurrection; this has no reference to the fifth initiation. </span></u></b><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">(Resurrection is the 7<sup>th</sup> initiation)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">8. The decision made by the Master </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">enables Him to take the required training to enter His chosen Path</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and this training is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">taken entirely upon cosmic etheric levels the four highest subplanes</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">of the cosmic physical plane the buddhic, atmic, monadic and logoic planes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">9. On these planes the spiritual and the divine will is developed and brought into use; these are aspects of that undefinable purpose to which we give the simple name:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>the Will of God.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Intelligence and love have been fully unfolded in the Master, but the will is embryonic still, from the [Page 392] standpoint of Those responsible for training the Master and the higher Initiate.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">only by means of the divine will that the Master begins to free Himself from ray limitations.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">10. I would remind you of an earlier statement that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Hierarchy reacts or responds to the energies and influences coming from the cosmic astral plane;</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> from that level of spiritual life true divine love pours into it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Shamballa reacts to the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and therefore to the nature and purposes of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Mind of God;</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> the expression of THAT which<span style="">&nbsp; </span>overshadows Sanat Kumara is similar to the soul overshadowing the incarnated spiritual man.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">If you will bear these facts in mind, some light may break through and, in any case, when the student or disciple returns to incarnation, this imparted knowledge (stored in the soul's content) will then be usefully available.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">I would like to enlarge somewhat upon an earlier remark.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I stated that the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">seven Ashrams are 'proving grounds'</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> for all the Masters confronted with the sixth Initiation of Decision."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">This constitutes part of the problem facing the Masters Who are thus to move forward; it is particularly crucial for Those Who have chosen the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">first Path, the Path of Earth Service, and for all in preparation for the sixth initiation</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">This training in decision is given by forcing the Master to make basic decisions within His Ashram affecting world work and involving all within the Ashram.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is given by His admission to the conclave of the Masters, meeting every seven years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">The Council at Shamballa can determine with great accuracy which of the seven paths a certain Initiate will choose<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 394)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>While these centennial conclaves are being held at the close of the first twenty-five years of every century, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Lord of the World with the Members of His Council watch the process of decision</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> in order to see how far the will of the [Page 394] Hierarchy conforms to that aspect of the divine will which should be expressed in the three worlds as the result of Their decision.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They watch also Those particular Masters Who should in a short time be ready for the sixth initiation, in order to see </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">how much of that divine will They register</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> and what is the nature and quality of Their use of it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By recording that quality, the </span><b><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Council at Shamballa</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> is able to determine with </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">great accuracy which of the seven Paths a certain Initiate will choose</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this manner They become aware of how many senior disciples will be needed to take over the headship of an Ashram, with a consequent admittance of many disciples to the initiation next in order for them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the same time, aspirants on the periphery of an Ashram are enabled to move forward into full ashramic participation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The preparation of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Masters for this sixth initiation is exceedingly strenuous</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They find it as difficult to achieve Their goal as does the average disciple as he looks ahead at the initiation which immediately confronts him.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have to master the technique of handling the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">most potent energy and influence in the world, that of the intelligence</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have to penetrate into the mystery of electricity and implement [Page 395] its expression in the creative process under the directive of Shamballa; They have to learn to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">work with electric fire</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> in the same way as much earlier They worked with fire by friction as personalities, and with solar fire as disciples and lesser initiates.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this way, They become familiarised with what is meant by the words the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">"Central Spiritual Sun</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">," just as They were familiar with the appearance of the physical Sun when members of the human family, and with the "Heart of the Sun" as Members of the Hierarchy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Again you can see the same unfolding synthesis a synthesis which originates in that focal point of attractive dynamic energy, known to us as the Sun and its planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 395) Thus </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">within His Ashram the Master learns "occultly to decide</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">" and to condition the creative centre for which He is responsible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has to do this with the Ashram, surrounded by all those who are in training and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">who are the agents of His will</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through them He must act, and they thereby limit necessarily the vision to which He reacts, and step down the rate and quality of the energy of which He is the focal point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 396) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths confronting the Master<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">It will be apparent to you now that the Master confronts two crises:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">1. The crisis of the will, as it demonstrates in unalterable decision.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">2. The crisis of the new step which will probably "cast Him adrift upon the shore of some distant sphere wherein His will must be expressed in love."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These ambiguous words of the Old Commentary mean that [Page 396] His decision will (with one exception) take Him away from all that He has hitherto known.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The majority of the Masters then enter into realms wherein They are needed "to impart, strengthen and enlighten that which is already fused, already strong and already full of light, but which needs that which He brings in order to express the all-encompassing whole."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">The Buddha made a mistake and chose the path of Earth Service at his 6<sup>th</sup> initiation of Decision, and will in due time pass to his rightful path<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">I have to leave you with these words as food for reflection as there is little further that I may say upon this point.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In any case and for all deciding groups of Masters, the work with the Hierarchy is over, except for the few Who choose <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path I.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Part of the mistake which the Buddha made was connected with this subject of decision</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He loved humanity so much that He felt He could not and did not choose the Path which He was in reality ordained to follow; </span><b><u><span style="font-size: 20pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">He chose instead the Path of Earth Service</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> which was not His Path at all.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This He knows and will in due time pass on to His rightful Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This little incident will demonstrate the complete freedom of choice which distinguishes the sixth initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> are, as you know from your study of Initiation, Human and Solar the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">1. The Path of Earth Service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">2. The Path of Magnetic Work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">3. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">4. The Path to Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">5. The Ray Path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">6. The Path on which our Logos is found.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">7. The Path of Absolute Sonship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">In that first book which I wrote for the world, I gave a simple definition of the exoteric significance of these Paths so simple as to convey but little.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I wrote then for the general public.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I will now endeavour to convey some of the deeper meanings, writing as I do for advanced disciples and for initiates who reading between the lines and understanding the symbolism involved will comprehend according to their point in evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">[Page 397] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">As we approach the subject of the seven Paths, I would point out that the only basic point which can be presented to you is that of relationship.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">All these seven Paths lead to some objective</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> which is thereby put in touch with our planetary life; these objectives with the life and conditions they represent present to the Master a vision of possibility.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This vision is adequate to the task of drawing Him forth from the hierarchical Ashram, except in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">one case where vacancies in Shamballa need to be filled</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The progressive experience of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">greater Lives Who work in the Council Chamber of Sanat Kumara form no part of our studies</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Many of these supreme Workers, as you have read in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">found Their way to our planet from our sister planet, Venus</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, thereby in Their turn establishing relationship.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Remember also that all the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">seven rays are the subrays of the great cosmic Ray of Love</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">-Wisdom, which is ever expressive of relationship, implemented under the Law of Attraction; it is this form of esoteric attraction which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">draws the Master forth from His Ashram</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, conditions His decision and eventually leads to His passing through the door which opens on to other spheres and planes of activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Let us now consider very briefly and necessarily inadequately these seven Paths, taking them one by one:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">THE SEVEN PATHS<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(IHS 185)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">One general fact we do know, and that is, that before these Paths can be trodden, a man </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">must be a Master of the Wisdom, he must he a Brother<span style="">&nbsp; </span>of Compassion</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and he must be able, through intelligence and love, to wield the law.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our part at this time is to fit ourselves for the treading of the Path of Initiation, by the discipline of the Probationary Path, by the careful direction of the life, by obedience to the law as understood, and by service to the race.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When we have attained liberation, then these Paths will stretch before us, and the one that we should tread will become apparent to us.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All in this system works under the great law of attraction, and therefore, according to our vibration, [Page 186] </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">according to our colour and tone, will depend, in all probability, our choice.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The greater free will of the cosmic system is under limitation, just as is the free will of the system of which we are a part, and the free will of man himself.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Upon innate quality will depend the direction of our further progress.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These seven Paths might be enumerated as follows, and certain deductions, based on the law of correspondence, might be given out, provided always that we remember that words serve more to blind than to elucidate, and that the briefest details only are possible.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">1. The Path of Earth Service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(IHS 187)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is the Path that keeps a man linked to the Hierarchy that is pledged to the service of our planet, and to the help of its evolutions.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It comprises those who work under the Lord of the World in the seven groups into which our Masters of the Wisdom are divided</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Not so many Masters follow this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> as some of the others, and only enough are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">permitted to do so to carry on planetary evolution satisfactorily</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>More is known about this path than about the others, and more will be found out as members of our humanity fit themselves to contact the Brotherhood.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their field of employ, Their methods of work, will eventually become exoteric knowledge, and as the seven groups are recognised and known, schools of development for the filling of posts in these groups will be the logical sequence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path I.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Earth Service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(CF 1244) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The nature of the spiritual force which animates the group of our peculiar planetary initiates will become apparent perhaps if the methods and purposes of their work are studied from the standpoint of subjective energy, and not so specifically of the material form.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This point of view can be gleaned most easily from a consideration of the animating impulse lying behind all world groups which are particularly consecrated to the uplift of the race.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This will necessarily include all political, religious, scientific and metaphysical organisations.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be found that each and all are definitely related and have a point of at-one-ment with certain of the numerous occult bodies which are (usually unknown to the affiliated group) responsible for the vitalisation of the principal units in any of these organisations doing this pioneer work.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first path is the one that keeps a man linked to the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which is pledged to the service of our planetary scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It comprises those who work under the Lord [Page 1245] of the World in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven groups into which our Masters of the Wisdom are divided</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Not so many Masters follow this Path as some of the others, and only enough are permitted to do so to carry on planetary evolution satisfactorily.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>More is known about this Path than about any of the others, and more will continuously be found out as members of our humanity fit themselves to contact the Brothers of the Hierarchy..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their field of employ, Their methods of work will eventually become exoteric, and as the seven groups are recognised and known, schools of development for the filling of posts in these groups will be the logical sequence.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1245)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The adepts who stay upon </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">this Path are distinguished by a dual attribute</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, which is their guarantee of attainment along this line of spiritual endeavour.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are animated by wise-compassion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These words should be carefully studied for they hold the clue to the nature of this first Path..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The adepts who choose this Path are called esoterically the "beneficent dragons," and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">energy with which they work and the stream of living force</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> upon which they are found </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">emanates from the constellation of the Dragon</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, working </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">through the zodiacal sign Libra</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This special spiritual energy produces in all those groups which come under its direct influence a profound faculty for identification.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This identification does not concern the form nor the soul but only the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">spiritual point of positive life which in the human unit we call the "Jewel in the Lotus."</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> It should be remembered in this connection that there is a jewel at the heart of every atom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Every jewel has seven facets which are the seven doorways to the seven Paths. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The "beneficent dragons" are distinguished by their "luminosity," and it is this basic quality which lies behind the injunction given by all spiritual teachers to their pupils in the words "let your light shine forth."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">When the adept enters through the "luminous door" he has before him </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">four very peculiar and esoteric IDENTIFICATIONS.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This entrance takes place </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">after he has passed the fifth Initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and has demonstrated his fitness so to do through a long period of service in connection with our planetary evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">identifications eventually bring about within the jewel</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, which is essentially the true spiritual unit, a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">momentous happening</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and are undergone within the monadic consciousness </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">after the transcendence of the atmic sheath</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">four identifications are connected with the fourfold lotus of the solar Logos, or with His twelve-petalled heart centre</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">lotus is sometimes called the "heart of the Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">," and concerns the subjective sun.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not, however, possible to say more along this line.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">These four Identifications are only undergone upon this particular Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and are each </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">preceded by three lesser identifications which make a totality of twelve Identifications</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, corresponding to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">twelve-petalled lotus</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be noted by the accurate student that we are now discontinuing the use of the word "initiation" which has to do specifically with consciousness and therefore with duality and are utilising a word which connotes synthesis, though very inadequately.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">energy which is manipulated in the process of these identifications</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> is largely </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">that pouring through the sixth Hierarchy, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">which has an </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">esoteric relation to the sixth Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> on to which the initiates of Path I have eventually to fight their way.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The form through which the adept must work in order to demonstrate his control of the energy concerned may not here be given.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It may only be stated that luminosity is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">gained upon the battle ground through a fight with a dragon</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The following summation may be found suggestive:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1247] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PATH I..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>EARTH SERVICE</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Attributes.......Wise-compassion.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Source...........Constellation of the Dragon, via Libra.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Method...........Twelve cosmic Identifications.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hierarchy.........The sixth. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Symbol...........A green dragon issuing from the centre of a blazing sun.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Behind the sun and over-topping it can be seen two pillars on either side of a closed door.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quality gained...Luminosity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">1. The Path of Earth Service (RI 397) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Leads to Cosmic astral <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path VII - Cosmic Mental </span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">This is the only Path which the Lord of the World regards as within the field of His spiritual interference.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">reserves the right to retain in the service of the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and consequently of Humanity and the subsidiary evolutions, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Those Masters Whom He regards at any one time as essential</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> to the work to be done.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This He does by </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">asking Them to record Their decision</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">when taking the sixth initiation, but to postpone moving on to one or other of the Paths</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> until He gives the word.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">word He has lately given in the case of the Buddha</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, Who has expiated His most understandable mistake and will now move forward in His own good time on to the Path which will lead Him to His rightful field of expression.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In due time also, though [Page 398] not for some time, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Christ will move forward "to the place which calls Him</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">," and the Master K.H. will assume the role of World Teacher.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All these moves present their unique problems; they produce vacancies in the ranks of the Hierarchy which must be filled; they lead constantly to the inflow of new and powerful energies, for it must be recognised that these energies </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">reach us along Paths leading to our planet as well as away</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> from it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The invocative note of our united evolution at stated times and cycles sounds out and reaches Those Who are waiting for spiritual opportunity and service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">They then follow the Path to our planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From other spheres</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> and planes They emerge along the lines of Their destiny and intention; we then </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">call Them Avatars or Great Enlighteners or Planetary Saviours or Spiritual Regents</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">; They act at the request of Sanat Kumara, given on higher cosmic levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">It is nevertheless a statement of fact that in due time even Those Who choose the Path of Earth Service and remain in hierarchical work are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">eventually given the right to follow Their decision and pass to extra-planetary service</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Hierarchy, as we have seen, gives the needed training for that wider service, and the theme of what I might call the educational process to which the Masters submit is the unfoldment of the consciousness of the relationships which lie beyond the aura of our planet; this is, in reality, a higher and most abstruse branch of the Science of Impression, which disciples upon their lower level have to master.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This aspect of impression is, however, concerned with the formless worlds, whereas all the impressions to which the disciple has to learn to react emanate from and within the cosmic physical plane, of which all our seven planes are an integral part; our highest spiritual world is a part of the substantial world.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Masters, therefore, are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">working at a conscious receptivity or sensitivity to the cosmic astral plane, </span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">the source of the spirit or energy of love.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is a fundamental connection between the Hierarchy (the source of expression of love on Earth) and the cosmic astral plane, and it is towards this objective that the Masters work Who choose the Path [Page 399] of Earth Service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">major ray of our solar system is that of love-wisdom</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and there is no better field on which to master the preliminary stages of that divine unfoldment and receive the needed development and education than on the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">On the Earth, the Masters have overcome glamour and illusion, and for Them no astral plane exists.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Now ahead of Them, and owing to Their freedom from these "bewilderments," will come the opportunity to enter into the Heart of God, the centre of pure love, and from that centre to tread the way of love.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">All these seven Paths lead either to the cosmic astral plane or to the cosmic mental plane, </span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">according to the decision made at the sixth initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Upon the cosmic astral plane there is no glamour, but instead a great vortex of energy the energy of pure love under the domination of the Law of Attraction..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It might be stated that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 399)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 1.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Earth Service leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 2.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Magnetic Work leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 3.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path for Training for Planetary Logoi leads to the higher levels of the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 4.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path to Sirius leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 5.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Ray Path leads to the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 6.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path the Logos Himself is on leads to the cosmic buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Path 7.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Absolute Sonship leads to the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">(RI 399) Three Paths, therefore, lead to the realm of loving attractive energy; one Path leads to its higher correspondence, the cosmic level of pure reason; three lead to the realm of divine Mind</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Four of the Paths relate the advancing Master to the Heart of the Great Life Who functions through this solar system</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">three to His Mind nature</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All of them lead the initiate </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">eventually to the Central Spiritual Sun</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">. [Page 400] All Who work in Shamballa find Their way to this supreme centre by the three most arduous ways, whilst the remainder reach the same goal via the way of love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The unfoldment of the will has much to do with Their decision.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">It must not be thought that Those Masters Who are on the first, third and fifth rays, </span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">for instance, follow the Path numerically the same; such is not the case; nor that Those Who are predominantly on the second line of energy find the cosmic astral plane Their goal.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Such again is not the case.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their response and decision is based on a realisation of cosmic need a need of which you can know nothing, any more than it is possible for you to comprehend the nature of cosmic evil.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">As to the detail of the work of Those Who choose until released to stay on Earth and work in or with the Hierarchy, is there more that I can tell you?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You know much anent this subject for I have given much far more than has ever been given before.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I have not dealt with the work of the Hierarchy in relation to evolutions other than the human, for two reasons:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">There are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">many Masters Who do not work with the human kingdom at all</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, but are fully occupied with carrying out the divine Will in other kingdoms.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>With this work we have, at present, no concern.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When any one takes the sixth initiation and makes his decision to follow the Path of Earth Service (either temporarily at the request of Sanat Kumara, or until the end of the world cycle), he will find himself faced with a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">secondary decision as to which of the four kingdoms will profitably provide the field of his sacrifice</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> and service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We will now consider:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(IHS 185) One general fact we do know, and that is, that before these Paths can be trodden, a man </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">must be a Master of the Wisdom, he must he a Brother<span style="">&nbsp; </span>of Compassion</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and he must be able, through intelligence and love, to wield the law.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our part at this time is to fit ourselves for the treading of the Path of Initiation, by the discipline of the Probationary Path, by the careful direction of the life, by obedience to the law as understood, and by service to the race.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When we have attained liberation, then these Paths will stretch before us, and the one that we should tread will become apparent to us.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All in this system works under the great law of attraction, and therefore, according to our vibration, [Page 186] </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">according to our colour and tone, will depend, in all probability, our choice.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The greater free will of the cosmic system is under limitation, just as is the free will of the system of which we are a part, and the free will of man himself.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Upon innate quality will depend the direction of our further progress.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">2. The Path of Magnetic Work.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(IHS 187)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Those who do </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">the work of wielding forces, or electrical magnetism for the use of the Great Ones on all the planes, pass to this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">wield the elemental formative energy, manipulating matter of every density and vibration</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>[Page 187] Great waves of ideas and surging currents of public opinion on astral levels, as well as on the higher levels where the Great Ones work, are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">manipulated by them</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A large </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">number of fifth ray people</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, those who have the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Ray of Concrete Knowledge for their monadic ray</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, pass to this line of endeavour.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">inherent quality in the type of the monad settles usually</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> the line of activity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">karma of the fifth ray is one of the factors which produces this</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">monads work with Fohat, and must, to the end of the greater manvantara</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">eventual position on the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, but as yet the capacity for abstract thought is so little developed that it is impossible for us to comprehend the significance of this expression.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path II.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Magnetic Work. <span style="">&nbsp;</span>(CF 1247)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 423) An instance of the expansion of the information given can be noted in connection with the second Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Nothing is mentioned in my earlier presentation of the seven Paths in Initiation, Human and Solar of a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">conditioning constellation.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> <span style="">&nbsp;</span>In A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, I mention that energy enters our system from an unknown source, via Gemini.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this latest contribution on the subject I </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">mention that Libra, the Balances, is involved</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus there are found on this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path of<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Magnetic Work two blended influences, those of Gemini and Libra.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have, therefore:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">dual energy of Gemini is brought to a point of balance by means of the influence of Libra</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">balanced and dual energy is released then into our solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">entering stream of balanced energies forms the second Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I have given you much information in the above statement.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(TEV 120) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Purpose of Sanat Kumara is created</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> at present by the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">synthesis which the nature of the final seven Paths reveals.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> It is adapted in time and space to human intelligence by the presented Plan, and in the glory of consummation the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">completed Plan will reveal the Purpose on all the seven planes of evolution. </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">Then evolution, as formulated and imposed by the Hierarchy, will end and a greater dynamic expansion will take its place.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You will note that all along the lines of teaching there comes an eventual merging and blending, and that, at a [Page 121] certain point in the development of consciousness, the many lines of spiritual approach become the few lines of conscious spiritual awareness. So it is in relation to the detail of the evolutionary process, with the formulation of the hierarchical Plan, and with the recognition of the Purpose. Speaking practically (and that is always of major importance), it might be said that evolution controls the form of the Purpose; the Plan concerns the hierarchical recognition of the Purpose, whilst the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Purpose is the synthetic Thought which pours into the supernal consciousness of the Lord of the World along the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of which the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Masters become aware at a certain very high initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(TEV 120)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven great energies flow</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> into our manifested world </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">along the lines of the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; these are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">not the direct energies of the seven Rays</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, because these concern consciousness in a most specific manner; </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">they are the substantial energies of material expression</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and their origin concerns a great mystery. These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">two lines of energy material energy and the energy of consciousness </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">when brought together by divine Purpose, constitute the essential dualism of our manifested life.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1247)In considering this Path students must bear in mind that they are dealing with </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">that Path which of all the seven expresses most fully the effects of the Law of Attraction</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be remembered by those who have carefully read this Treatise that this law is the expression of the spiritual will which produces the manifestation of the Son (Sun).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Magnetism physical, attractive and dynamic is the expression of the law in the three worlds as far as the human unit is concerned.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be apparent, therefore, that the adept who passes upon this Path is dealing with that reality which is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">basis of all coherency in nature</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and with that essence which through the force of its own innate quality produces the attractive energy which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">brings together the pairs of opposites;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> it is the force which is responsible for the interplay of electrical phenomena of every kind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">adept who chooses this cosmic stream of energy upon which to make certain cosmic approaches</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and upon which to make a series of cosmic unfoldments is one who has </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">worked primarily upon the second ray path prior to the fifth Initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and who </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">frequently has also been upon the fourth ray path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Adepts who have </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">been upon the fourth ray path and who pass from thence upon the second ray</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> do not as a rule choose this cosmic line of endeavour.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1248] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Those who do the work of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">wielding forces or electrical magnetism for the use of the Great Ones on all planes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> pass to this Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">wield the elemental formative energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, manipulating matter of every density and vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Great waves of ideas and surging currents of public opinion on astral levels as well as on the higher levels where work the Great Ones, are manipulated by them. <span style="">&nbsp;</span>A </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">large number of fifth Ray people, those who have the Ray of Concrete Knowledge for their monadic ray, pass to this line of endeavour</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The inherent quality in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">type of the Monad settles the line of activity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The karma of the fifth ray is one of the factors which produces this.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Monads work with fohat, and must, to the end of the greater manvantara</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have their eventual position on the cosmic mental plane, but as yet the capacity for abstract thought is so little developed that it is impossible for us to comprehend the significance of this expression.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Three types of magnetic work have been mastered by the adept who treads this second Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has mastered (in the three worlds) the magical work of form construction through the manipulation of magnetic energy and the utilisation of fohatic attractive energy in order to "bind the builders."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This he does through the medium of a purified lower nature which can act as a perfect transmitter.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">He has learnt also the secret of group coherence on the higher levels of the mental plane in connection with his own planetary Logos, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">with those two other Logoi Who form with his own Logos a systemic triangle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> within the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has passed on also to a comprehension of the forces which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">unite the various streams of living energy emanating from Them</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in the furthering of the plans of solar evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This becomes possible to him when he can function in the monadic vehicle and is conscious in that unit of force.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1249] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This has been expressed in the old Commentary in the following words:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">"The seven Brothers love each other, yet each seeketh for many aeons the path of hatred.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They hate and kill each other until they find that which dieth not and is not hurt.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Together then they stand and serve and through their service the seven suns burn up."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven suns are destroyed</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> because when synthesis and unity are reached and when the differentiated forces become one homogeneous force, the attractive or magnetic effect of this coherence is a manifested unit on the physical plane as well as on the subjective side of nature.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This produces necessarily the destruction of all limiting forms, the merging of the fires, and the blazing forth into objectivity of the vital body of the Logos prior to the final abstraction and the subsequent dying out or obscuration of the solar system.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The will or purpose aspect which is the spiritual life behind all subjective and objective phenomena suddenly makes itself felt and also seen.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the production of this which is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">main work of the adept who passes on to Path II</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> from off his particular ray path.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1250)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those who tread this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">second Path work with magnetic or attractive energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> because they have identified themselves with it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Eventually they will all pass on to Path VII</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, which is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path of Absolute Sonship</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All that can be said here in regard to their efforts is the statement that this Path </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">carries them (through the medium of the logoic head centre) into the Heart of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">They are swept out of systemic evolution altogether upon a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">great tide of attractive energy which emanates</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> from one of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">major centres of that great Existence Who is the source of the life of the solar Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This centre </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">is of course </span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;" lang="EN-GB">one of [Page 1250] the seven constellations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As it is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">most potent constellation as far as our system is concerned</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> owing to the fact that this system </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">predominantly expresses love or attractive energy and our Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> is as yet </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">polarised in His cosmic astral body</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, it is not permitted to hint at the name of the constellation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reason is that if the name were known and if enough people could do the work of occult meditation and visualisation, accompanying the work with a vivid imagination, it might be possible to attract into our system such a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">downpour of attractive energy from the constellation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> involved as to unduly speed up the processes of evolution upon our planet, and thus upset the systemic economy most dangerously.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>People do not yet realise the potency of meditation and especially of group meditation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">zodiacal sign concerned is Gemini</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the reason will be apparent to all trained initiates.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A word here is necessary in explanation of the expression used earlier in connection with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">passing of adepts from off this second Path on to the Seventh Path.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is stated that they "alchemise themselves" on to it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Some idea as to the meaning of this phrase may be gained through a consideration of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">purposes of heat, when divorced from moisture</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and of the method of employing such heat.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The adepts use the "dry alchemical fires" to produce the results they desire in aiding the evolutionary process.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As they use these "dry fires" the reaction upon themselves is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">such that they transmute the electrical spark (or the Monad within the flame of the planetary Life) </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">break it up in such a manner that it can pass through the systemic etheric web</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and on to that stream of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic energy emanating from the constellation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> mentioned above.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They are then </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">known as "Absolute sparks of parental love</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">," or (in the exoteric language of the initiates) they </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pass on to Path VII, that of "Absolute Sonship."<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1251] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The attributes which the adept on this path has to possess prior to taking the needed training for the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seventh cosmic method of approach is responsiveness to heat and a knowledge of rhythm.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>These words will, of course, mean nothing to the uninitiated but to some it will convey much and when it is noted that there will be found coupled with these two attributes an ability to "see the dancing of the particles of heat and the waves of warm vibration" (as it is called in an old manual which those in training for this path employ) it will be apparent that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">effects of fire and the laws of fiery energy and vibration are here dealt with</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those sons of men who at this time search for the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">heat of the love nature</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">" of the human unit and who add to that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">search a cultivation of a vivid imagination and an intense power to visualise</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are laying a groundwork upon which this later knowledge may be superimposed.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But this is not the easy thing it sounds, for it involves an identification at present impossible to the majority, and a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">power to realise the nature of that which is visualised which negates the idea of duality</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, that which visualises and that which is visualised.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The method employed can only be expressed as the "entering of the burning-ground."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The power to do this is gained through passing through three preliminary burning-grounds, as is easily to be seen:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. The burning-ground which lies between the Hall of Ignorance, and the Hall of Learning.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the destructive fire which man creates under the working of the Law of Karma.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. The burning-ground of the dead personality which lies between the Hall of Learning and the Hall of Wisdom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is found upon the shores of the river of life and has to be passed prior to the third Initiation. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3. The burning-ground which is found when a man is ready to pass out of the Hall of Wisdom as a full adept.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a triple burning-ground and is found "upon the mountain top, being kept alive and flaming by all the winds of heaven."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is responsible for the destruction of the egoic or causal body.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The third produces a spiritual alchemicalisation, whereas the other two produced results in the objective or form side and the subjective or consciousness aspect of his triple nature.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When these three burning grounds are passed then the adept is prepared for another and fiercer experience.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1252) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">hierarchies connected with this Path (Path II) are mainly the third and the fourth</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Only the human units can pass on to these two paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">deva hierarchies of the third order have already passed upon them</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and it is their previous work which enables man to do so.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a great mystery and more must not be revealed about it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The group of the Silent Watchers of all degrees are closely connected with this second cosmic path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All of Them are Lords of Sacrifice, and are animated solely by love, and all have therefore passed through the sacrificial burning grounds.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is only possible to give the most elementary of the exoteric symbols.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It takes the form of a funeral pyre in full conflagration, and with four flaming torches one at each corner.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From the centre of the pyre a fivefold star mounts like a rocket towards a flaming sun of a predominantly rosy hue.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PATH II.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>PATH OF MAGNETIC WORK</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Attributes.........Responsiveness to heat and knowledge of rhythm.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Source.............An unknown constellation via Gemini.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Method.............The entering of the burning-ground.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hierarchy.........The third and fourth.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1253] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Symbol.............A funeral pyre, four torches, and a fivefold star mounting towards the sun.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quality gained...Electrical velocity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 554)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A peculiar group of Beings connected with a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">certain constellation and the lesser Dragon</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, who have their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">habitat on <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place> and work with the sixth principle on the Solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. They take physical form, animated by purified desire, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">controlled by mind</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and are the dispensers of<span style="">&nbsp; </span>love-wisdom by means of certain of the "Halls of Wisdom" on the various planets. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">2. The Path of Magnetic Work (RI 401) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Leads to Cosmic astral - Sacral Centre -Antares- Libra - Gemini- Neptune <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Cosmic Buddhic - Path VI -Throat - Pleiades - Venus<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">In referring to this Path, I have stated that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Those Who find Their way on to this Path work with fohat</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, or with the essential energy of our solar system which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">differentiates into seven major types</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> of energy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our planet with its ruling Lord is an integral part of the life expression of a still greater Entity, the solar Logos, and it is with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">astral energy incident to His cosmic nature that the Master has to work</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He learns to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">direct the currents of this essential energy</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">, and because of His past relation to the Earth, He is part of the directing agency for astral energy within the planetary ring-pass-not.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I also said that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">many Masters Who leave reached liberation upon the fifth ray find Their way to this Path,</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> thus proving the statement that it is not the ray which determines decision.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">fifth ray Masters</span></u></b><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"> (among many others, of course) will be </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">working in a great second ray vortex of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">It must be pointed out that, in its original state, this pure astral energy, directed under law into our planetary life, is free from all that is at present associated with the astral plane:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>glamour and delusion, emotional fog and poisonous deceiving phenomena.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These well-known aspects of the astral plane are all the creation of humanity down the ages and present, therefore, an increasingly difficult problem to all aspirants.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The tormenting turmoil and chaos of the astral plane are due largely to three factors:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The force of the constantly developing glamour as self-centered and undeveloped human beings create it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The force of those aspirants and disciples who are seeking to combat this in their own lives and in the lives of others.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">inflow of pure solar astral energy under cyclic law</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and the direction of the Master working on the second Path.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These three factors create great trouble; during the past crisis of the world war (1914-1945) it reached most serious proportions.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The hierarchical crisis to which I have earlier [Page 402] referred was involved, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">many Masters from the various Ashrams made a decision to work on this second Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in order to bring order out of chaos by </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pouring into the planetary astral plane pure astral energy, untainted by glamour and revelatory of pure love</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They were experts in timing and in energy manipulation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You will also note how </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three types of astral energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are therefore related:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The astral force of our planet, distinctive of the planetary astral plane in the three worlds of human enterprise.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">astral force of the solar Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, the true God of Love.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The astral energy of the cosmic astral plane.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">forces are symbolised to the manipulating Master by a triangle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the Old Commentary it says:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">"The Master throws Himself under the liberating Law of Sacrifice into the vortex of the astral life of the One to Whom our Lord relates Himself with humble joy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>And as the Master works, there forms before His eyes a triangle of force in shades of varying rose.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">By His magnetic power, He concentrates the energy required</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then through this triangle of force, as through an open door, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">He sends the potency of love into our planet, and till His cycle ends He thus must work."<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is but a rough translation of some very ancient phrases, and is perhaps less symbolic than it may appear.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is in connection with this Path that the work of the Triangles which I initiated is related; the function of these Triangles is in reality to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">facilitate the work of distributing the pure incoming love energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> (expressing itself as light and as goodwill) into the Hierarchy and Humanity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This deeply esoteric purpose of the Triangles will not be understood by the general public, but some of you who read this will appreciate the opportunity to serve in this manner consciously.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path of Magnetic Work takes the Master, first of all, to the Heart of the Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">thence to the cosmic [Page 403] mental plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, passing through and pausing temporarily upon the cosmic astral plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The above statement does<span style="">&nbsp; </span>not in reality refer to progress from point to point in an ordered sequence.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It refers to high states of awareness and to a form of cosmic contact which is registered by the Master from the point at which He stands upon this second Path, for all the planes are interpenetrating.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This has been somewhat easy to understand in connection with our seven planes, as the rarer substances could be visualised as interpenetrating the denser.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not so easy to comprehend, however, when we pass out of the cosmic physical plane (in our imagination, needless to say) and enter those planes of which we know nothing and of whose composition and substance (if they are substantial, as we understand the term) we are totally ignorant; besides that, we are not in a position to ascertain the truth.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The method of the Master's work upon this Path is also not easily understood.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It can be summed up in the following words which may bring some light via their united meaning (each phrase contributing an idea), if due reflection is brought to bear upon them:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Isolated Unity..................................................the position of the Master</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A positive Focus..............................................the mental attitude</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sound, under the Law of Attraction..................the means employed</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Precipitation.....................................................the intention visioned</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Passage through the Triangle............................the projection ensuing</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Directive work under the Law of Distribution...direction towards the goal</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These phrases may give some vague idea of a process, based on "reception, then direction, producing rejection and impact where the rejecting agency ordained."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Another aspect of the work done by the Master on the second Path is the drawing off of those phases of glamour which no longer have the power to deceive mankind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are not allowed to accumulate or to remain upon the astral plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are therefore, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">through the magnetic power of the Master, withdrawn from our planetary life and are "occultly [Page 404] absorbed" by the Master</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; the substance of the glamour, purified and freed from all that conditioned it on the planetary astral plane, and with only the pure essence retained, sets the law in motion which draws this purified remainder into the cosmic astral plane.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Constantly, therefore, this great circulatory process goes on, demonstrating anew the essential synthesis underlying all life human, planetary, systemic and cosmic; it reveals also that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Law of Attraction, the Law of Magnetic Work, and the cosmic Law of Synthesis</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three aspects of one Law</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> for which, as yet, we have no name..</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 404)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It might be said that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Masters working on the second Path are working in relation to and in contact</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> with certain </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">great Lives Who work on the periphery of the constellation Libra</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, the Balances.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is due to the fact that Those Masters Who can work with magnetic energies, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">with the three above Laws</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, have </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">achieved a point of balance</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which makes Their work possible; it involves also a poised attention and directive power, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">permitting the inflow of energies from Libra</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which could not otherwise enter our planetary life at all.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Libran energies enter our solar system via the Heart of the Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and are peculiarly amenable to magnetic attraction and distribution.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 404) All these Paths gradually came into being when our planetary Logos created the Earth and started the involutionary process of creation, leading in due time but much later, to evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are therefore, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">all of Them, Paths of Return. </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>This second Path was one of the first to be used and (again quoting the Old Commentary) "the door </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">once opening inward now opens outward and permits the exit</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of those who hold the key because they entered by that door in aeons long gone by."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">All the Masters (and not only Those upon the fifth ray) receive careful training in the manipulation of energies, and hence the statement of the Master K.H. to His disciples that the occultist has to learn to master and control the forces and energies within himself; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">disciple and the initiate work with hierarchical energies</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and with the forces [Page 405] of the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>kingdoms of nature in the three worlds; the Master receives instruction in the handling of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">energies which are extra-planetary but within the solar ring-pass-not</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>(CF 405) Those Masters Whose decision it is to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">tread the second Path are taught the control and direction of systemic energies and of certain energies emanating from Libra</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">one of the stars in the constellation of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the more advanced stages of Their work, and when the Master is far more advanced than the word indicates, He works </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">consciously upon the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; His activities will then be concerned with the relation of the energies of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Great Bear to the Pleiades</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">dual relationship (a higher correspondence to atma-buddhi) to the solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and only incidentally to our Earth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Great is the interlocking, the interdependence and the interpenetration!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 423) An instance of the expansion of the information given can be noted in connection with the second Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Nothing is mentioned in my earlier presentation of the seven Paths in Initiation, Human and Solar of a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">conditioning constellation.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>In A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, I mention that energy enters our system from an unknown source, via Gemini.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this latest contribution on the subject I </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">mention that Libra, the Balances, is involved</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus there are found on this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path of<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Magnetic Work two blended influences, those of Gemini and Libra.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have, therefore:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">dual energy of Gemini is brought to a point of balance by means of the influence of Libra</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">balanced and dual energy is released then into our solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">entering stream of balanced energies forms the second Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I have given you much information in the above statement.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1271) He...and draws the people onward to their goal, warming their hearts, producing dual fire, and leading all towards the portal of the sun and thence to...(GEMINI).</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">mystic Word is veiled by letters four E, M, and A and O</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> .<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the significance of </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">3. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi (IHS 187).<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">This Path is trodden</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> by those who will take up </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">the work of the seven Planetary Logoi of the next system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">forty-nine sub-planetary Logoi, Their assistants</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and of certain other Entities working in that particular department.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">There will be seven systems</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, though we are only </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">concerned with the three major systems, of which our present system is the second major system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each Chohan of a ray takes a certain number of initiates of the sixth initiation and trains them specially for this work; </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">special aptitude in colour and sound predisposes the choice</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the ability to work with "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">psyche," or the spirits in evolution</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> marks a man out for this high post.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We might say that the Planetary Logoi are the divine psychologists, and therefore in the training for this post psychology is the basic subject, though it is a psychology inconceivable as yet to us.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Every Planetary Logos has, in His own special planet, schools for the development of subordinate Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and there trains Them for this high office, giving Them opportunity for wide experience.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Even [Page 188] the Logoi Themselves progress onward, and Their places must be taken.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path III.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Path of training for Planetary Logoi.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(CF 1253)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This path is one that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">attracts to itself only a few comparatively of the sons of men</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It involves a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">peculiar form of development and the faculty of continued awareness</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> along with spiritual identification which is the distinguishing characteristic of the seven cosmic paths.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The adept who chooses this path </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">preserves in a peculiar way the faculty of sense-perception</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> plus identification with the spiritual aspect.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are constantly spoken of in the occult archives as the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Lords Whose mayavirupa continuously recurs</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As they work with the psyche or the soul of manifestation and are primarily concerned with the subjective side of life they are connected with that centre in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID which is the source of conscious sensation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Therefore, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">they are vitalised from the solar plexus</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of that great Existence </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Whose all-embracing vitality holds our Logos, along with other solar Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, within the sphere of His consciousness. (CF 1253)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As is well known, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">solar plexus is the centre which synthesises the reactions and the essential virtues of the lower three centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This point must be borne in mind when studying this cosmic path.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">adepts are also called the "Lords of cosmic Maya</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">" for they work with that faculty which is responsible for illusion and with the relation of the Knower to that which is to be known.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Remember here that we are not considering the three worlds of human endeavour except in so far as they form a part of a whole.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The attributes which predispose a man for the work of training himself for the path of a planetary Logos are three in number and may be expressed thus:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1254] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. Cosmic vision.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">adepts are connected with the logoic third eye.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. Deva hearing.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3. Psychic correlation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">All the senses are, as we know, connected with some centre</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and these centres are in turn </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">connected with planetary centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which are themselves </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">energised from an analogous cosmic source</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The adept on this third Path has a specific connection with the energy which emanates from those cosmic centres which are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">related to spiritual vision and spiritual hearing</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The sense of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">touch has primarily to do with the objectivity of the dense physical form</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and with it this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">particular group of adepts has nothing to do.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Sight, hearing and the power to correlate the relation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> between the Self and the Not-Self is theirs, but the Not-self comes specifically under the guidance and the stimulation of a totally different group of cosmic workers.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is difficult to convey a clear meaning in this connection and the student must remember that we are dealing with spirit and with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">other two types of cosmic energy.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This path is trodden by those who </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">will take up the work of the seven planetary Logoi of the next solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">forty-nine sub-planetary Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, Their assistants and of certain other entities working in that particular department.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">will be seven systems</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, though we are only concerned with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">major three, of which our present solar system is but the second.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Each Chohan of a Ray takes a certain number of initiates of the sixth Initiation and trains them specially for this work.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Special aptitude in colour and sound predisposes the choice</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the ability to work with "psyche," or with the Spirits in evolution, marks a man out for this high post.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We might say that the planetary Logoi are the divine psychologists, and therefore in the training for [Page 1255] this post psychology is the basic subject, though it is a psychology inconceivable as yet to us.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Every planetary Logos has, in His own special planet, schools for the development of subordinate Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and there trains them, giving them opportunity for wide experience.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Even the Logoi Themselves progress onward, and Their places must be taken.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1256)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Students may be surprised to know that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">source of the peculiar cosmic energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which is found streaming </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">towards our system along this cosmic Path is that of the sun Betelgeuse</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This name is, however, a blind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reason that certain facts connected with this sun have lately come more prominently before the public is in reality a subjective one.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The science of the soul in its various aspects (mental, psychical, and spiritual) is making much headway now in the world, and is absorbing more and more the attention of thinkers.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the result </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">of certain waves of energy impinging upon our solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and thus eventually finding their way to our planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Betelgeuse from the occult standpoint is a system of the second order</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, just as our </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">solar system is one of the fourth order</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is consequently a relation between these two numbers both in the system and the cosmos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">influence reaches our system via the sign Sagittarius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The work that adepts on this path have to accomplish primarily is to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">make possible the manifestation of the Monad of the solar Logos through the medium of the body of consciousness</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, or through the soul-form.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They thus repeat on a higher level the work of those Builders who create and make </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">manifest the body through which the soul seeks to express itself</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are not concerned with objectivity, and have a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">relation to that fifth Hierarchy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which gives to man his egoic body.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The adepts on our Earth planet who seek this path </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">do so through the department of the Mahachohan</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, which [Page 1256] works with the intelligence or mental aspects of manifestation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From this third department they </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pass under the direct training of one of the Buddhas of Activity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and in the final stages are personally taught by Sanat Kumara, functioning as the embodied planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This training concerns itself with three main subjects:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. With </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">colour, that which veils the Spirit aspect</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">dense form veils the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. With sound, that which Spirit utters in order to make itself conscious, and to produce psychic awareness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The whole science of mantra yoga is mastered by them, but only in connection with the higher planes and where the cosmic planes are concerned.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3. With the nature of duality, that which is basically the science of the soul.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is difficult to express in words the method employed by a Master of the Wisdom as he enters this cosmic Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It has been called the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">method of prismatic identification</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for it </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">concerns the colour veils which shroud</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> the spiritual energy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Another mode of expressing the same truth is to say that it is the method of understanding the song of life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As the "stars sing together," as the "chant of the Gods" peals forth in the great choir of the Heavens, it produces a corresponding colour symphony.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This particular mode of identification enables the adept to act as a director in the chorus and to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">produce the needed colour effects and chords</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When he can do this to perfection he is then in a position to take up office as a planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>More it is not permitted to say and the above is but a symbolic way of expressing a basic and difficult truth. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The symbol of this Path (and the only one it is possible to make exoteric) is a radiant Cross of coloured light; it [Page 1257] has the long limb formed of the seven colours of the solar spectrum, and the transverse limb is composed of twelve gradations of colours as yet unknown to man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the centre of the Cross is to be seen a five-pointed star in a deep indigo shade, and behind it is a blazing sun of a warm dark blue.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Above the whole are certain Sensa characters, depicted in gold, and conveying to the initiated adept the name of one or other of the planetary Schools in which this particular line of study is undertaken.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(CF 1257) There are, as has been already said, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven such schools and candidates for this Path from our planetary scheme are transferred to the inner round</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">thence to the Jupiter scheme</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">quality gained is cosmic etheric vision</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, the extent of the vision developed being within the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven systems which form (along with our solar system) the seven centres in the cosmic Life with whom our solar Logos is allied</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is sometimes called septenary cosmic clairvoyance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">One more fact of interest might here be added.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This Path is sometimes called the "Lotus Path," as it concerns itself with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">construction of the logoic Lotuses of solar Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The schools which prepare for this work are called in the mystic parlance of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">adepts the "lotus lands</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The curriculum is termed at times the "Lotus sleep," as it involves a condition of complete negation where the form side of manifestation is concerned and an entire abstraction, thus producing a type of solar samadhi.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Whilst this is being undergone the adept functions in a form or vehicle which is a correspondence upon the plane of atma to the mayavirupa on the plane of mind.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PATH III.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>THE PATH OF TRAINING FOR PLANETARY LOGOI</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Attributes.......cosmic vision, deva hearing and psychic correlation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Source...........Betelgeuse, via the sign Sagittarius.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hierarchy.......the fifth.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Method..........prismatic identification.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1258] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Symbol............a coloured Cross, with a star at the centre, and backed by a blazing sun, surmounted by a Sensa Word.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quality............cosmic etheric vision or septenary clairvoyance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">3. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(RI 405)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is obviously impossible to say much about this Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Masters Who tread it find Their way to the various schools for the training of planetary Logoi </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">which are found within </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">certain of the major planetary schemes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, as stated in Initiation, Human and Solar.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are necessarily few in number, and a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">small group of Them remains to study in our particular planetary enterprise under Sanat Kumara.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This They do after making Their decision and passing through the door on the periphery of our planetary ring-pass-not.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then out of incarnation and working through the medium of the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>higher telepathy They receive instruction of a nature incomprehensible to us, from the Members of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Council Chamber at Shamballa, and primarily from two of the Buddhas of Activity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Having learnt the technique and having passed certain tests, They move into the planetary life of Venus, our Earth's Alter-Ego, and there They complete Their training, as far as our solar system can give it, finding Their way eventually on to the cosmic mental plane.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Two things should be borne in mind in connection with this abstruse subject:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">First:<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">These Masters work primarily with the "psyche</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">" [Page 406] or the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">soul aspect within the solar system.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are occupied with the subtler expressions of consciousness, with occult impressibility and that acute sensitivity which produces instant and accurate registration of all soul reactions within any particular planetary life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These kingdoms are not necessarily identical with those found on the Earth, but they are, in all cases, vast groups of living forms which are manifestations or expressions of the nature of any particular planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Masters taking this training are not occupied with individual states of consciousness within any group.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">consciousness of the whole, and its responsiveness to cosmic impacts</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, that engages Their attention.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are not (if I might so express it) interested in any individual unit of any kind or in its individual reactions, responsiveness or susceptibility to impression.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are only concerned with those higher processes of identification which indicate an advanced state of evolutionary development. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Their work is to further progressive development of identification.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They begin with the identification of the Monad within our planetary sphere with the Purpose and the Will of the Lord of the World, and proceed as Their training produces the desired capabilities with greater identifications within the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Beyond that we need not proceed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 406)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their whole training is concerned with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">planetary, systemic and cosmic building of the antahkarana</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for it is via the antahkarana that spirit works, that life processes are controlled, and the will of all developing aspects of Deity function..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Forget not </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">that relating our planet to the planet Venus is a planetary antahkarana, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">passing from thence to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">the Heart of the Sun and later to the cosmic mental plane. </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>There are "rainbow bridges" carrying the sevenfold energies of the seven rays from planet to planet, from system to system, and from plane to plane on cosmic levels.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is over these bridges that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">will of the related spiritual Identities is projected</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, producing that synthesis of effort which is distinctive of the cooperative systemic life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The work of the Masters in training from our planet is, among other [Page 407] things, to unfold within Themselves not only sensitivity to systemic purpose, but the ability to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">transmit that Purpose to the Council Chamber at Shamballa</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have in an extraplanetary sense a definite correspondence with and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">relation to the group of Nirmanakayas</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> within our planet Who work in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">contemplative activity with the antahkarana</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which connects the Hierarchy with Shamballa and Humanity with the Hierarchy.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">As planetary Logoi when Their Own time comes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, these Masters will be concerned with the registration of the Purpose and expressed Will of some solar Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They will then, through the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">planetary and systemic antahkarana, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">supervise the gradual evolutionary impartation of that Will (which is now Theirs) to all the forms through which They function in any particular planet for which They have assumed responsibility.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This definitely involves working with the soul aspect and with the unfoldment of conscious responsiveness and sensitive reaction to all the higher impressions.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Second:<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">These Masters are the directing builders and Creators eventually of all forms of planetary life</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> forms embodying qualities and intentions as yet undreamed of by us.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have developed in Themselves a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">perfected synthesis of the two energies of atma-buddhi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, or of spiritual will and spiritual love, completely unified and energetically active in a comprehensive condition seldom attained by any other group of Masters in training.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It must be realised that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Buddhas of Activity, of Whom there are only three on our planet</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, are similarly active.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are active love-wisdom or a complete synthesis of active intelligence, active love and active will..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Masters on this third Path will, therefore, some day complete Their training for planetary Logoi </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">by </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">attaining the status of Buddhas of Activity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and will for a period serve in that capacity in some planetary scheme, before taking the control and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">guidance of Their Own body of manifestation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">training of these Masters on the third Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> might be described as an intensive study of a most exalted form of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Science of Impression</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The supreme task of a planetary [Page 408] Logos is to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">impress His sevenfold body of manifestation, via its seven states of consciousness and the seven centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, with His will and intention; these are progressively imparted as the etheric body is brought into an increasing state of receptivity through the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">awakening of the seven planetary centres, primarily the three major centres.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Masters thus in training gain </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">experience of the methods used by the planetary Logoi of all the seven sacred planets</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the training is therefore an exceedingly lengthy one.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It must be remembered however that except in dense physical incarnation and, therefore, conditioned by the brain and its special limitations the spiritual man is not conscious of time, once He is separated from the physical body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Time is the sequential registration by the brain of states of awareness and of progressive contacts with phenomena.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is no such thing as time on the inner planes, as humanity understands it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There are only cycles of activity or of non-activity; </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">this non-activity for Masters on the third Path takes the form of cyclic periods of contemplation and mental activity,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> followed by </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">active periods of energy direction to impress the will of certain planetary Logoi </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">and Their agents upon the Council Chamber of our planet in particular, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">upon other planets</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, as Their training is perfected.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is the impulsive incentive of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">these Masters which bridges and links between the Monad on the monadic plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and the three worlds of dense expression on the cosmic physical plane; in this process the antahkarana between the spiritual man<span style="">&nbsp; </span>in incarnation and the spiritual Triad is aided and finally constructed, but this is only incidental to the far greater work of relating Shamballa to all kingdoms in nature and to other planets.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">number of Masters deciding on this Path is, as I said, not large</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; the training is peculiarly arduous and is followed, when opportunity is offered to function as a planetary Logos, by an act of sacrifice which confines Them indefinitely to the limitations of the ring-pass-not of Their body of manifestation, a planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is for this reason that Sanat Kumara has ever been called "The Great Sacrifice."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Certain Hierarchical Changes (RI 409)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">That particular condition does not now exist, and the supreme Directors of the seven cosmic Paths are today in the same position as was the Hierarchy then; the word has gone forth to our three Great Lords the Manu, the Christ and the Mahachohan via the three Buddhas of Activity, to act in order to tighten up on requirements, to make the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sixth initiation and not the fifth, the decisive one</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and to present those on the seven rays with [Page 412] a wider range of choices and a greater diversity of choice.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Masters will have nine choices to face when They face Their decision</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; there will then be </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">no need for Those on certain rays to pass to certain already determined Paths,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> but They can move forward under Their Own inspiration and with greater freedom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic mental plane is not barred to Them, as has hitherto been the case.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is all these facts which have caused what may look to you like discrepancies and limitations in what I have given and [Page 413] in comparison with that given in the earlier volumes of this Treatise, but they are not so in reality.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Master of the fifth initiation, even if now He does not at that time make His decision, faces intelligently and with some understanding of the choices to be made, the sixth initiation and its decisions.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">He begins to take also the particular training, and to this the teaching in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire now applies</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is shewn the newer opportunity, the modes of decision, and the limitations which are no longer legitimate.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would like to point out here that these changes are a cause of deep joy to the Hierarchy and to the Great Lives in the Council Chamber at Shamballa, for they indicate the strength and potency of Sanat Kumara's success and the incredible progress made in the consciousness of humanity as a consequence; this will lead also to future paralleling decisions on the physical plane in human affairs; this deeply spiritual and mysterious success (mysterious because the human mind knows naught about it) was also the reason for the violent attempt of the Forces of Evil to gain control, and their resultant failure.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">4. The Path to Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(IHS 188)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(HIS 188)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Very little may be communicated about this Path, and the curiously </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">close relation between it and the Pleiades</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> can only be mentioned, further speculation being impossible</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The bulk of liberated humanity goes this way, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">and the prospect holds out glorious possibilities.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">The seven stars of the Pleiades are the goal for the seven types,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and this is hinted at in the Book of Job, in the words, "Canst thou bind the sweet influence of the Pleiades?"<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the mystery of this influence, and in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">secret of the sun Sirius, are hidden the facts of our cosmic evolution</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and incidentally, therefore, of our solar system.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path IV.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path to Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(CF 1258)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 347)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">second Solar System</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and in connection with the method employed therein, another point merits attention. This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fire of mind has its source in a constellation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> until recently unrecognised by exoteric science...The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sun Sirius is the source of logoic manas</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in the same sense as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Pleiades are connected with the evolution of manas</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Heavenly Men. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 308)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Beyond </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Neptune and Uranus, lies another planet (Pluto</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">), as yet undiscovered...it is through this planet that the forces (as they are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">related to Leo and Aquarius) are focussed in one potent stream</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of force; these pour into our planetary life during the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">month of August, and distribute themselves, via Uranus and Neptune. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This path is of all the Paths the most veiled in the clouds of mystery.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reason for this mystery will only be apparent to the pledged initiate, though a clue to the secret may be gained if it is realised that in a peculiar and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">esoteric sense the sun Sirius and the Pleiades hold a close relation to each other</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a relation analogous to that which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">lower mind holds to higher mind</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The lower is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">receptive to, or negatively polarised</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to the higher.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sirius is the seat of higher mind and mahat (as it is called, or universal mind) sweeps into manifestation in our solar system through the channel of the Pleiades</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is almost as if a great triangle of mahatic energy was thus formed.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sirius transmits energy to our solar system via that<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">"...sevenfold brooding Mother, the silver constellation, whose voice is as a tinkling bell, and whose feet pass lightly o'er the radiant path between our worlds and hers."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Within the solar system there is an interesting correspondence</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to this cosmic interplay in the relation </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">between the Venus scheme, our Earth scheme and the Venus chain in our scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Curiously enough it will be through a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">comprehension of the human antaskarana</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, or the path which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">links higher and lower mind</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and which is constructed by the Thinker during the process of evolution, that light on this abstruse matter will come.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is (in connection with our planetary Logos) just such an antaskarana, and as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">He builds and constructs it, it forms part of the fourth Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and permits the passage of the bulk of our humanity to this [Page 1259] distant objective, and this without obstruction.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A clue to the nature of this Path and as to the reason why </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">so many of the human Monads seek this particular stream</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of energy lies in the right understanding of the above suggestion.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">initiates who tread this way are primarily those of the fourth and the sixth order</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As earlier pointed out, this is the Path that the "lords of compassion" most frequently follow, and at this time the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Egyptian Master and the Master Jesus</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are preparing Themselves to tread it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mystics of the Occident who have come </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">into incarnation during the past one thousand years</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are a peculiar group of Egos whose </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">impulse is towards this type of cosmic energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this system they have developed certain basic recognitions and the "ecstasy" of the occidental mystic is the germ, latent within him, which will some day flower forth into that cosmic rapture for which we have as yet no name.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Cosmic rapture and rhythmic bliss are the attributes of the fourth path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a form of identification which is divorced from consciousness altogether.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reason also why the majority of the sons of men follow this Path lies in the fact of its </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">numerical position</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These units of the fourth kingdom, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">bulk of the fourth Creative Hierarchy on this fourth globe of the fourth scheme in a solar system of the fourth order </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">are innately compelled to seek this </span><st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fourth WAY</span></u></b></st1:address></st1:street><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"> in order to perfect themselves</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are called the "blissful dancing points of fanatical devotion.."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is as near as we can get to the true description.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They have also been described as the "revolving wheels which turn upon themselves, and find the open door to perfect bliss."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">energy of Path IV reaches us from Sirius via the Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This must be understood as a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">blind behind which one of the signs of the zodiac veils itself.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">hierarchies concerned with this specific type of [Page 1260] cosmic force</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> hide themselves under the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">numbers fourteen and seventeen</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This will serve as a complete blind to the average reader, but will carry to the pledged chela the hint needed to produce illumination.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The method whereby the adept fits himself to pass upon this path is termed that of duplex rotary motion and "rhythmic dancing upon the square."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The symbol, which is first given to the pledged disciple to study but which may, however, be described, is a duality of interlocked wheels revolving at a great pace in opposite directions, and producing a unified whole.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These wheels are portrayed as manifesting electric blue flame, rotating and revolving with great rapidity around an equal-armed Cross.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Cross is pictured in orange fire with a deep emerald green circle, flaming at the point in the centre where the four arms of the Cross meet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The symbolism of these colours links this fourth path to the solar system preceding this one</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In that system the Sirian influence was more potent than in the present one.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is not possible to add more to this beyond pointing out that the quality gained by the adept who treads this path may not be revealed.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He comes under the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">concentrated influence of the energy which is identified with the planetary antaskarana.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not permitted, therefore, to state what its specific quality may be, as it would convey too much information to the intelligent reader as to the nature and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">objective of our particular planetary Logos.</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PATH IV.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>THE PATH TO SIRIUS</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Attributes.......cosmic rapture and rhythmic bliss.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Source...........Sirius via the Sun which veils a zodiacal sign.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hierarchy.......veiled by the numbers 14 and 17.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Method..........duplex rotary motion and rhythmic dancing upon the square.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1261] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">symbol............two wheels of electric fire, revolving around an orange Cross, with an emerald at the centre.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">quality.............unrevealed.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 502) c. In the ordered purpose which guides the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">choice by a Master of one of the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of endeavour.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">choice is based on KNOWLEDGE and not on desire.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 844) Lives <span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Goal</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planetary Logoi <span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Cosmic liberation; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">final cosmic Initiations.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">The major Three.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">minor four planetary Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Cosmic Initiation, or the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">first four Initiations.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The informing Lives of a planetary globe<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Manus of a cosmic chain.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Not a seed manu, but a periodical<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>manu of lesser degree.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This involves an unrevealable mystery, connected with certain Hierarchies of color.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">4.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The informing life of a kingdom <span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Transference in one of three directions:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>in nature<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">a..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To the line of the solar Pitris.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">b.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To Sirius, as a karmic adjuster.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">c.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To the solar system of the next order to work in connection with the planetary Logos of his own line as ruler of a kingdom or life wave in the system, and not just in a scheme.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">5. <span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">solar Pitris. <span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The highest three groups will become major planetary Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">lower four groups will become minor planetary Logoi. <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">6.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The human evolution.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>To </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">become the solar Pitris of another cycle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">To follow any of the paths earlier enumerated.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those who </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">become solar Pitris, being the bulk of humanity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, return to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sirius to be breathed out again</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> into activity. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">7.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The lunar Pitris<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>To become men. They will in their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">higher grades pass directly into the animal evolution of the next cycle and so eventually individualise. </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">Their three higher grades will </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">become animal-men</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">lower four will contribute to the quaternic forms</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of the men of the next creation. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">A<span style="">&nbsp; </span>hint is here give re the Kind of Monad we are dealing with and their likely path choice.<span style="">&nbsp; </span><u>Higher three or lower four Solar Pitris</u> etc Three Hierarchies, and four others<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 899) This planet has also a vital relation to the sixth logoic principle, or Buddhi, and therefore the sixth principle of man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>No man begins to co-ordinate the buddhic vehicles until he comes under Neptunian influence in some life or another.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When this is the case, his </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">personality horoscope will show Neptunian influence</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> dominating somewhere.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Neptunian scheme governs one of the three paths of return</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and gathers to itself eventually </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">all those Egos who attain</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> primarily through the manipulation of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sixth type of energy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> usually called devotion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is Neptunian influence likewise which presides over and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">makes possible the second Initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, wherein the initiate produces results in the astral body, and wherein his astral centres are the object of the Hierophant's attention.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This particular type of energy flows through three centres:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">4. The Path to Sirius (RI 413)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I have frequently hinted in my various books that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sun, Sirius, is closely related to our planetary Life</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; much is known in the Hierarchy anent this connection, and the particular relationship of this fourth Path to humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature, but little can be communicated to the general public.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I may, however, tell you certain things which may make your imaginative rangings (if I may use so strange a phrase) creatively profitable to you.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 413) This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">great Sun which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> has a peculiar part to play where our Earth is concerned.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It might be considered by those with a sound sense of occult proportion that our tiny planet with its planetary Logos (one of the "imperfect Gods" of The Secret Doctrine) would be too small to enter in the slightest way into the consciousness of that Supreme Illumined Entity </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Who is greater even than our Solar Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. [Page 414] Such, however, is the case.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is a relationship of very ancient date between our Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, and the Lord of Sirius, and this exists in spite of the fact that our planet is not a sacred planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It might be added that our planet is, in the immediate cycle, owing to the factors I have lately considered with you, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">rapidly passing out of this category, and on the inner planes and subjectively considered is a sacred planet</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; the effects of this transition from non-sacred to sacred have not fully demonstrated themselves objectively.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mystery of this relationship is partially revealed at one of the higher initiations and it is then realised by the initiates that there is a good and adequate reason for the relation and that the following esoteric events, relations and happenings are simply consequences:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">majority of liberated humanity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and therefore a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">large number of the initiates who have to make decision, choose this way to the cosmic centre.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. The relationship as it expresses itself is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">between the Hierarchy and Sirius, and not between Shamballa and that stupendous Sun.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">The energy evoked in response to this relationship enters </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">the Hierarchy via the Heart of the Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, creating as a consequence a triangle of spiritual energy of enormous potency.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have, therefore:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sirius</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>*</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Hierarchy<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>*<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>*<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Heart of the Sun</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3. As progress is made in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">course of taking the higher initiations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, it becomes apparent to the initiate that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">two major streams of energy enter our planetary life:</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">a. A </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">stream of energy coming from the cosmic mental plane and from that focal point which is to Sanat Kumara what the egoic lotus, the soul, is to the spiritual man;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> it carries the life principle of our planet and centres itself in Shamballa.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From there it is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">dispersed throughout all forms upon the planet and we call it LIFE</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It must be remembered that this life principle embodies or is impregnated with the will and purpose [Page 415] of THAT which overshadows Sanat Kumara as the soul overshadows the personality.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">b. A </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">stream of energy coming from the sun, Sirius; this enters directly into the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and carries with it the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">principle of buddhi, of cosmic love</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This, in a mysterious way, is the principle found at the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">heart of every atom.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">life principle follows the line of 1.3.5.7</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, whilst the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">buddhic flow follows the line of 2.4.6</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus atma-buddhi becomes the blended reality which is brought to full unfoldment as evolution proceeds.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">energy of Sirius by-passes (to use a modern word) Shamballa and is focussed in the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Its effect is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">not felt until after the third initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, though the Masters use this energy whilst training disciples for the second, the fourth and the sixth initiations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">4. The entire work of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Great White Lodge is controlled from Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; the Ashrams are subjected to its cyclic inflow; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">higher initiations are taken under its stimulation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for the principle of buddhi, of pure love (i.e., love-wisdom) must be </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">active in the heart of every initiate prior to the initiation of the great decision</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; it is therefore </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">only initiates of the fifth, sixth and higher initiations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> who can work consciously with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">potent buddhic "livingness</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">" which permeates all Ashrams, though unrecognised by the average disciple.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">5. This Sirian influence was not recognised, and little of it was definitely focussed in the Hierarchy, until Christ came and revealed the love of God to humanity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is the expression, par excellence, of a Sirian initiation, and it is to that high place He will eventually go no matter what duties or hierarchical obligations may take Him elsewhere between that time and now..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Buddha was originally to have chosen the fourth Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> but other plans confront Him now and will probably claim His choice.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">6. Sanat Kumara is not on the Sirian line but to speak in symbols, not too deeply veiled Lucifer, Son of the Morning, is closely related, and hence the large number of human beings who will become disciples in the Sirian Lodge.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This [Page 416] is the true "Blue Lodge," and to become a candidate in that Lodge, the initiate of the third degree has to become a lowly aspirant, with all the true and full initiations awaiting him "within the sunshine of the major Sun."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">7. None of the above facts indicates divergence of view between Shamballa and the Hierarchy, nor do they signify cleavage or differing aims and goals.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The whole subject is reflected in such minor relations on Earth as those between:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">a. The Spiritual Triad and the Personality.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">b. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">mental unit and the manasic permanent atom.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">c. Atma-Buddhi.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">d. The Christ and the Buddha.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The above somewhat uncorrelated items of information will give you a general idea of the significant connection between our unimportant little planet and that vast expression of divinity, the Life which is manifesting through Sirius; it is an expression which is organised and vital beyond anything man can vision and which is free to a completely unlimited extent, again beyond the power of man to comprehend.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The principle of freedom is a leavening energy which can permeate substance in a unique manner; this divine principle represents an aspect of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">influence which Sirius exerts on our solar system and particularly on our planet</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This principle of freedom is one of the attributes of Deity (like will, love and mind) of which humanity knows as yet little.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The freedom for which men fight is one of the lowest aspects of this cosmic freedom, which is related to certain great evolutionary developments that enable the life or spirit aspect to free itself from the impact, the contact and the influence of substance.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is the principle of freedom which enables Sanat Kumara to dwell on the Earth and yet stand free from all contacts,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">except with Those Who have trodden the Path of Liberation and now stand free upon the cosmic physical plane; it is that which enables the initiate to achieve a state of "isolated unity"; it is that which lies behind the Spirit of Death and forms the motivating power of that great releasing Agency; it is that which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">provides a "pathway of power" [Page 417] between our Hierarchy and the distant sun, Sirius,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and gives the incentive towards the "culture of freedom" or of liberation which motivates the work of the Masters of the Wisdom; it is that which produced the ferment and the vortex of conflict in far distant ages and which has been recognised in the present through the results of the Law of Evolution in every kingdom in nature; this is that which "substands" or lies under or behind all progress.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This mysteriously "exerted influence," this "pulling away" from form (as we might simply call it), </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">emanates from Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and for it we have no name; it is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">law of which the three cosmic laws the Laws of Synthesis, of Attraction and of Economy are only aspects.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>None of these three subsidiary laws imposes any rule or limitation upon the Lord of the World.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Law of Freedom, however, does impose certain restrictions</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, if one can use such a paradoxical phrase.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is responsible for His being known as the "Great Sacrifice," for (under the control of this law) He created our planetary life and all that is within and upon it, in order to learn to wield this law with full understanding, in full consciousness, and yet at the same time to bring release to the myriad forms of His creation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Law of Economy affects humanity as a whole today throughout every phase of its life; the Law of Attraction is beginning to gain some control, particularly in the work which the Hierarchy undertakes to do; and many initiates and senior disciples are becoming aware of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">significance of the Law of Synthesis</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and are reacting to its impact.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later on, when moving to one of the seven Paths, the Master will work with the Law of Freedom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is not, as you may well surmise, its true name, for in the last analysis, freedom and liberation are effects of its activity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">unique and mysterious law governs the Life and the Lives upon Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and it is to that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">unknown "sphere of functioning and intelligent activity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">" what the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Law of Economy is to our planet</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> the lowest of the laws controlling existence in planetary form.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This Law of Economy includes, as you know from my earlier writings, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">many lesser or subsidiary laws</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; it might therefore be stated that this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Law of Freedom also does the [Page 418] same</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Until more divine attributes are realised as existing and recognised as aspects, it is not possible for the name of the law which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">embodies the Law of Freedom to be given</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for there is no word in our language adequately available.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The above information will, however, link Sirius and our little planet, the Earth, in your minds.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time and long ante-dating the Jewish dispensation, was organised under direct Sirian influence and modelled as far as possible on certain Sirian institutions and bearing a slight resemblance also to our hierarchical life as seen in the light of the Eternal Now.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Its "Blue Lodge" with its </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three degrees is related to the three major groups of Lives on Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for there are there no kingdoms of nature, such as we possess; these groups receive all Those Who choose the fourth Path, and train Them in the mode of existence and the type of livingness which is found on Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This will make it plain to you that the least developed of the Sirian Lives are from our standpoint all of Them initiates of very high degree.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Masonry is, therefore, connected in a peculiar way with the fourth Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Down the ages, the Masonic tradition has been preserved, changing its nomenclature from time to time, reinterpreting its Words of Power, and consequently getting further and further removed from its original beauty and intent.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">5. The Ray Path. (IHS 188)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EOH 155)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>...</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic Forces</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">enter into our solar system via Jupiter as the transmitter</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of divine energies </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">from Virgo and Aquarius which Jupiter</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> esoterically governs. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is difficult to know by what other name to call this Path, as so little is known about it</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In treading it, a man stays on his own ray,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">works thereon in the various kingdoms on all the planes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, carrying out the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">behests of the Lord of the World</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and working under His direction.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">carries a man to every part of the solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, yet links him </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">definitely with the synthetic ray.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a very complex path, for it necessitates a capacity for the most </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">intricate mathematics, and an ability to geometrise</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in a manner incomprehensible to our three-dimensional brains.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">path is taken by the man to whom the law of vibration is of profound importance</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He works </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first in the council chamber of the Lord of the World at Shamballa</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, manipulating the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">law of vibration on his own ray</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later he will have </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">his habitat on the planet corresponding to his own ray</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and [Page 189] not on the earth </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">unless he is on the ray of the Planetary Logos holding sway upon the earth</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later again as his evolution progresses, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">he will pass to the sun;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> then having mastered all connected with vibration in this system he will </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pass to the cosmic system, going off his own ray</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> (which is but a subsidiary ray of one cosmic ray), on to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">corresponding cosmic ray.</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(HIS 189)<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just as the evolution of man in this system is fivefold, so in the above we have </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">enumerated the principal five Paths from which a Master has to choose</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The remaining two can only be touched upon still more briefly, for they hold but a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">very few of the evolving sons of men, owing to the high point of attainment necessitated</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> for their entrance, and the fact </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">that those who enter upon them pass out of the system altogether.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>They </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">do not lead to Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, as do some of the other Paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be noted that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">four groups remain in the system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, passing eventually, in dim and distant aeons, to the cosmic planes. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">One group passes directly to Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">remaining two groups pass directly after initiation to the cosmic planes</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, with no period of intermediate work on earth, in the system, or on Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These two Paths are: </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path V.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Ray Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(CF 1261) <o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path is one of the great distributing paths of the system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and is trodden by the adept who has a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">clear understanding of the laws of vibration</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It leads to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">next cosmic plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> with great facility and is therefore called "the outer door of entry."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As we know, the seven Rays which manifest throughout our solar system, are but the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven subrays of one great ray, that of Love-Wisdom</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This ray Path is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">one upon which the majority of the "Masters of the Wisdom" pass</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the same way many of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">"Lords of Compassion" pass on to Path IV</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Five-eighths of the former pass on to this path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> just as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">four-fifths of the adepts of suffering pass on to Path IV</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In considering these numbers it must be borne in mind that the figures are of very great magnitude.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">One-fifth of the Compassionate Lords is a vast number</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, whilst </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three-eighths is a stupendous number of monads</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We must remember in this connection also that we are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">only dealing with the adepts of the fifth Initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and are not taking into consideration </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">initiates of lower degrees</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> nor disciples of many grades.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is useless for average man to ponder upon these figures.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are too difficult to compute and involve calculations most abstruse and intricate.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This can be demonstrated by pointing out that from these figures must be subtracted </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">that two-fifths which (in the next round) pass before the Judgment Throne and are rejected</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Out of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">remaining three-fifths only a percentage which may not be revealed reach final adeptship, though all pass upon the Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The five-eighths above referred to and the four-fifths have reference only to the two great groups of asekha initiates.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Adepts who pass upon the Ray Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> have to possess attributes which make them exceedingly </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">responsive to vibration</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In their group work (regarding all the units upon this Path as forming a unified Whole) the results achieved might be compared to that of a compass upon a ship.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They respond primarily to a basic vibration, not </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">through sensation but through that which is the outgrowth of sensation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a form of realisation which is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic correspondence to the reaction which comes when the skin is touched.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">It is not consciousness but </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">knowledge through vibration</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are themselves identified with a certain vibration and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">they respond to that vibration alone</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which is the higher correspondence upon the cosmic planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Other vibrations they ignore.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">They are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">taught how to insulate themselves so that no vibration save the one which reaches them from the </span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic source of the synthetic ray</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">can touch them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Students can get some idea of the lower correspondence to this as they study the compass, its responsiveness to a certain magnetic current, and the tendency which it demonstrates to point ever towards the north.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These adepts of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fifth Path are the constituent factor which occultly holds our solar system steadily equilibrised in one specific direction.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their main characteristic or attribute may be described as a sense of cosmic direction.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1262) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">source of energy to which they respond may be regarded as the Pole Star</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It should nevertheless be pointed out that this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">star serves only as a blind for a constellation which lies behind</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">a constellation which exists only in etheric matter</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is consequently ignored by astronomers, though its </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">influence is exceedingly potent within our system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It should be borne in mind also that upon </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">another planet within our solar ring-pass-not this fifth Path is the one that the majority of their adepts follow</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Adepts who are on this Path, therefore, will pass to this other planetary scheme prior to finding their way [Page 1263] to the Sun and from thence to cosmic spheres.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Adepts from other schemes are not transferred to our Earth scheme as a school of training as it is not a sacred planet and therefore lacks such a specific school.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">influence which emanates from the Pole Star</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and which is such a potent factor in our solar system </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">reaches our planet via the sign Aquarius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reasons will be noted if the student bears in mind the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">significance of water as a symbol of the emotions</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, which are but a lower manifestation of love-desire.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Aquarius is a force centre from which the adept draws the "water of life" and carries it to the multitude.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">force from the Pole Star, via Aquarius, is of special power at this time</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and the day of opportunity is therefore great.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is one of the agencies which make the coming of the Great Lord a possibility.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">He is Himself upon the fifth Path just as the Manu is upon the third</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Hence the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">close link between the two paths, for those on the fifth path can pass to the third and vice versa</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The first and the seventh, the second and the fourth, and the third and the fifth are but the two sides of one whole, or the two aspects of the one Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">These three paths (with the fourth Path) constitute two Paths and the two Paths are but one</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This great mystery may not further be enlarged upon. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Hierarchies which play a great part in the introduction of polar influence are the first and the second</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It was this occult truth which had such a bearing upon the nature of the first two races of mankind and upon their habitat.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The method whereby the adept develops the needed powers for this Path have been hinted at above.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They might be expressed as a process of electrical insulation and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">imprisonment of polar magnetism</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not permitted to say more.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The symbol of this path is five balls of fire (blue fire) confined within a sphere.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This sphere is formed by a [Page 1264] serpent biting its tail, and the entire body of the serpent is closely covered with written Sensa characters; these characters </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">embody the mantram whereby the adept insulates himself from the magnetic flow of all currents</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> save that for which he is responsible.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The quality which the adept develops as he treads this Path can only be given in the words of the old Commentary:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">"The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">depression at the northern point permits entrance</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of that which stabilises, and acts as the factor of resistance to that which seeketh to deter or to distract."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Perhaps cosmic stability and magnetic equilibrium serve best to convey the necessary idea.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">PATH V.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>THE RAY PATH</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Attributes.........A sense of cosmic direction.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Source.............The Pole Star via Aquarius.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Hierarchies.......The first and the second.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Method............A process of electrical insulation and the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>imprisonment of polar magnetism.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Symbol.............Five balls of fire enclosed within a sphere.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Sphere is formed of a serpent inscribed with the mantram of insulation..</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Quality..............Cosmic stability and magnetic equilibrium.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">There is no way in which we can express any teaching or give any information anent the sixth and seventh Paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All that can be said is as follows:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">5. The Ray Path (RI 419)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is, however, with these </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">ray intentions that the Initiate of the sixth degree is occupied</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> when </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">He passes on to the fifth or Ray Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>His decision and the intention of the ray [Page 420] Lord at first, and the united intention of all of Them eventually, are curiously and uniquely connected.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Master on this Path works at the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">comprehension of the intention and the life purposes of the ray Lords</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Many </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first ray souls find their way on to this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for there is a close connection between the decision at the sixth initiation and this fifth Path; this might be expected for two reasons:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>one, that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">every Master is on one of the three major rays</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and secondly, every Master has to develop an understanding of the world of cosmic Purpose.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a connection based upon the use of the will; it is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">will-to-power, the will-to-love and the will-to-know, plus the other four aspects of will</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">* which form the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">elementary basis of the training given on this fifth Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Souls from other rays reach the same goal and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">occasionally choose this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, but it is not the one which constitutes for Them the line of least resistance, as it often is for Masters on the first ray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Masters from the first ray and the second ray tread it often</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and each of Them has a different mode of approach, technique and type of realisation:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">First ray souls have to negate their "isolated unity</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">" and study the beauty and value of differentiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This period of training is followed by a mysterious process called "multiple identification."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Note how the adjective here conveys the many and the plural whilst the noun gives the concept of unity and the singular.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In these two words, apparently contradictory though esoterically significant, there is embodied one aspect of the initiation to be experienced on this ray Path.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">second ray Master who decides to go this way</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> has to negate his attractive, magnetic tendencies and learn the meaning of "isolated intention with a multiplicity of goals."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I know not how else to translate the archaic phrase which describes the objective of the Master's training on this Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The exclusive has to become the inclusive in an [Page 421] entirely newly apprehended world of realisation, whilst the inclusive has to master the technique of exclusiveness and become exclusive in a new realm of realisation; it is an exclusiveness which has in it no slightest element of the great heresy of separateness.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I may </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">not here even indicate the type or quality of the intentions of the ray Lords which the Master of the sixth initiation has to learn to comprehend</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The training given Him ends in another tremendous decision which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">will place Him in a group of Lives on some sacred planet or in some solar system </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">which will be a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">correspondence to Shamballa on our little planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">Shamballa embodies the will or purpose of our planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The goal which these initiates (trained on the ray Path) eventually reach is some sphere of activity wherein </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sublime purposes and divine intentions are worked out.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">6. The Path the Logos Himself Is On.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(IHS 189)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It will have become apparent to all occult students who have studied with care the world processes in the light of the law of correspondences, that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Logos on the cosmic planes is evolving inner cosmic vision</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, just as man in his lesser degree is aiming at the same vision in the system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This might be called the development of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic third eye</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the physical plane structure of the eye lies hid the secret and in its study may come some revelation of the mystery.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 190] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">A </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">certain part of the eye is the nucleus of sight</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the apparatus of vision itself; the remainder of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">eye acts as a protecting shell</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and both parts are required, and neither can exist without the other.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>So in this greater case, only the analogy exists on such high levels that words only blur and dim the truth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Certain of the sons of men, a nucleus who reached a very high initiation in the previous solar system, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">formed an esoteric group around the Logos when He decided upon further progress.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In consequence He formed this system, cosmic desire for incarnation driving Him on.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This esoteric group remains </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">with the Logos on the atomic, or first plane of the system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, on the subjective inner side, and it corresponds, in an occult sense, to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pupil of the eye</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The real home of these great </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Entities is upon the cosmic buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Gradually, by dint of hard effort, certain Masters have qualified Themselves, or are qualifying Themselves, to take the place of the original members of the group, permitting of Their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">return to a cosmic centre around which our system, and the greater system of Sirius revolve.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">Only one adept here and there has the necessary qualifications, for it involves the development of a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">certain type of response to cosmic vibration.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It means a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">specialising in the inner sight</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and the development of a certain measure of cosmic vision.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">More of the deva evolution pass to this path than do the human</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Human beings </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pass to it via the deva evolution</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, which can be entered by </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">transference to the fifth Path, the ray Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On this latter Path, the two evolutions can merge, and from the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fifth Path the sixth can be entered.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path VI.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path the Logos Himself is on. (CF 1264)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(DINAII 520)<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Shambhalla receives energy from various solar and extra-solar Entities</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> or centres of emphatic and energetic life; ie </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">from Venus, from the Central Spritual Sun</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, from the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">current conditioning constellation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> through which our sun may be passing, from the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Great Bear and other cosmic centres. Sirius</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, so important in the spiritual life of the planet, brings its energies to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">bear direct upon the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and energy from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sirius </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">does not normally enter our </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">planetary life via Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It will be apparent to all those students who have studied with care the world processes in the light of the law of correspondences that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Logos on the cosmic planes is evolving inner cosmic vision</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, just as man in his lesser degree is aiming at the same vision in the system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This might be called the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">development of the cosmic third [Page 1265] EYE.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the physical plane structure of the eye lies hid the secret and in its study may come some revelation of the mystery.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Only one adept here and there has the necessary qualities, for the development involves a certain type of response to cosmic vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It means a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">specialising of the inner sight, and the development of a certain amount of cosmic vision.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>More of the deva evolution pass to this Path than do the human.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Human beings pass to it via the deva evolution, which can be entered by transference to the fifth, or Ray Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On this latter Path the two evolutions merge and from the fifth, the sixth Path can be entered.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">6. The Path the Logos Himself is on (RI 421)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It should be remembered as this peculiarly abstruse subject is approached that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">the Solar Logos is as far removed (in the evolutionary sense) from our planetary Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">latter is from the point of attainment of an accepted disciple.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet the two are linked by a subjective unity and similarity of objective.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At certain points upon the Way of the Higher Evolution Their two lines of energy meet and blend.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our Solar Logos also plays a peculiarly interesting part in the development of our entire planetary life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>For the sake of clarity, yet at the same time speaking symbolically, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sanat Kumara might be regarded as a personal disciple of the Solar Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, with all that that indicates of cosmic responsibility.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We had much difficulty in considering understandingly the path trodden by Those Masters Who decided to tread the Path of training for planetary Logoi.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is therefore far more difficult and practically impossible to say anything anent this Path which is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">trodden by Those Great Beings Who are in training for Solar Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Of These, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sanat Kumara [Page 422] is One</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Not all </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">the planetary Logoi tread the Path of Solar Logoi</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for just as exalted positions await Them elsewhere in the universe.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those Masters, as I have said in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Who tread this Path are rare indeed</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and hitherto have </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">had to enter this Path via the angel or deva evolution</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and by </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">transference then to the fifth or ray Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">Changes have however been made, and a Master can now </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pass on to this sixth Path directly</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and without entering the deva evolution.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This sixth Path is one on which the Masters in training have to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">work with the devas who are so frequently the mobile agents of the creative process in solar creation.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Masters Who enter upon this Path, eventually and as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">part of Their training, enter the Council Chamber</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of some of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sacred planets, before transferring into the group which guides our Solar Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; this in its turn is only a temporary phase, though in both cases the time embraced may cover vast periods, from the point of view of humanity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They work with principles unknown to us on Earth, though two of these principles will later be revealed; many of them are controlling factors on other spheres and in other planetary schemes which are more advanced than ours; the Master in training then acts as the custodian of these "energetic principles" or as distributing agent; in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">this way Venus was the custodian of what we call the principle of Mind</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and brought it as a pure gift to embryonic humanity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">7. The Path of Absolute Sonship. (IHS 190)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This Sonship is a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">correspondence on the highest plane to that grade of discipleship which we call "Son of the Master."</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>[Page 191] It is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sonship to a Being higher than our Logos,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of whom we may not speak.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the great controlling Path of Karma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Lipika Lords are on this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and all who are fitted for that line of work, and who are close to the Logos in a personal intimate sense, pass to the Path of absolute Sonship.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path of the special intimates of the Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and into Their hands He has put the working out of karma in the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They know His wishes, His will and His aim, and to Them He entrusts the carrying out of His behests.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">This group, associated with the Logos, forms a special group linked to a still higher Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path VII.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Absolute Sonship.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(CF 1266)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 182) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Our Solar System, with the Pleiades and one of the starts of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, form a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">cosmic triangle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, or an aggregation of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three centres in the Body of OAWNMBS</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Seven stars in the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>constellation of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">correspondences to the seven head centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in the body of<span style="">&nbsp; </span>that being greater than our logos. Again </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">two other systems</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, when allied with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">solar system and the Pleiades, make a lower quaternary</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which are eventually </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">synthesised into the seven head centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in much the same way as in the human being after the fourth initiation. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This sonship is a correspondence on the highest plane to that grade of discipleship which we call "Son of the Master."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the Sonship to a Being higher than our Logos of Whom we may not speak.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is also the great controlling Path of Karma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Lipika Lords are upon this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and all who are fitted for that line of work, and who are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">close to the Logos in a personal and intimate sense pass to this seventh Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path of the special intimates of the Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and into their hands He has put the working out of karma in the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They know His wishes, His will and His aim, and to Them He entrusts the carrying out of His behests.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">This group, associated with the Logos, forms a special group linked to a still higher Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">These two paths enter into cosmic states of consciousness</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> as inconceivable to man as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">consciousness of the Ego of a human being is to an atom of substance</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is unnecessary and profitless therefore to enlarge further upon these exalted states.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">7. The Path of Absolute Sonship (RI 423)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">As I have previously pointed out, not much can be given out concerning this mysterious Path which leads into a triangle (if I may so express it) formed of three lines of energy of differing and greatly varying vibratory effectiveness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This triangle is in the nature of an open door, presenting unique and unprecedented opportunity to Those Who discover this Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">one of the seven Paths produced ultimately relationship to the Pleiades</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, so </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">this Path relates our solar system to the constellation of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have, therefore, the following triangle composed [Page 423] of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">one stream of energy emanating from the Great Bear,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> another </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">stream of energy issuing from the Heart of the Sun or from our Solar Logos,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and the base line constituted of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven streams of energy which come from our seven sacred planets</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The potency and the effectiveness of this triangle is therefore unique and apparent; it produces relation between our system, our planets and the universe.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">This "open" triangle presents opportunity to Those Lives Who, from the other side of the triangle to that presented to our solar system and its contents, seek to help our solar system and bring the non-sacred planets to the point of liberation which is their particular goal</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through this triangular door all the great Avatars enter our system and "find the Point where They can serve." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">inflow of extra-solar energy is what produces the seven cosmic Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is no such grouping as the seven solar Paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In most cases, the Paths lead away from our solar system altogether.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Among the changes necessitated by the abnormally rapid development of mankind, with its consequent stepping up of the qualities of disciples, is the fact that no longer does the Master faced at the sixth initiation with a stupendous decision to make enter upon the indicated Path entirely blindly, as heretofore.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is now given a revelation of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">true united goal of the seven Paths and likewise a vision of their varying intermediate, individual goals</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Hence the name of the fifth initiation is that of the "Initiation of Revelation."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He can thus make His decision with opened eyes and unblinded by the glory.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Initiation VI.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Decision<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(RI 654)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Ray III<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We have concluded our study of the rays and the five initiations, and there is little more that I can tell you about the remaining four initiations, except one or two points anent the sixth Initiation of Decision; this initiation [Page 654] is governed by the third Ray of Active Intelligence.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The only reason that I am making a few comments upon the sixth initiation is that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">at this time a number of the Masters are taking this great step</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and it has a most peculiar application to the time of the reappearance of the Christ.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">At this Initiation of Decision the Master concerned decides </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">usually which of the seven Paths He intends to tread;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> some Masters </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">decide to remain until the close of our planetary Life</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, at which time the "last weary Pilgrim will have found his way home"; the Earth can then be prepared for a new Humanity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When this happens, our planet will no longer be known as the planet of sorrow and of pain, but will be distinguished by a quality of tranquillity and by an aura of calm potency wherein the will of God (to be demonstrated in the next solar system) will be focussed; this in some mysterious way will enable the solar Logos (not the planetary Logos) to bring the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first great divine aspect, that of Will<span style="">&nbsp; </span>or Power</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, into expression throughout the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Instead, therefore, of the statement which explains our present solar system, "God is Love," we shall have a dynamic expression of the will-to-good an energy which will have been generated to some extent upon our Earth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the reward which the present Earth humanity will reap, and this is the consummation of the preordained task of our planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He undertook, when He came into incarnation (through the medium of our little planet), to aid the work of the Solar Logos in expressing the will aspect of divinity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It might be simpler if I said that the experiment of manifesting the first divine aspect, through the medium of form and through a humanity which has behind it the experience of five initiations (and is therefore expressing intelligent love), will be attempted.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This statement is necessarily misleading, but it embodies a truth and indicates the unfinished story of solar expression. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 694) It should be remembered that the distinctive nature of the man upon the Mutable Cross is that of self-consciousness; that the disciple upon the Fixed Cross is rapidly becoming group conscious when the experiences undergone have been rightly assimilated; and that the Master on the Cardinal Cross is distinguished by a universal consciousness which passes finally into cosmic consciousness a state of being unknown to you, even in the wildest flights of your imagination.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first hint of the growth of cosmic consciousness comes when the disciple passes through the sixth Initiation of Decision.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>He determines then (by means of His enlightened will and not His mind) which of the seven Paths He will decide to follow.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From that time on, the consciousness of the greater Life which enfolds our planetary Logos, as He enfolds humanity within His consciousness, increasingly controls the attitude, the awareness and the activities of the Master.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 721) Earlier (page 396) I pointed out that the Masters, at the sixth Initiation of Decision, face realms of service where They will have to "impart, strengthen and enlighten that which is already fused, already strong, and already full of light but which needs that which They bring in order to express the all-encompassing Whole."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is, of course, a mysterious and rather paradoxical statement, but [Page 721] a certain measure of light can be thrown upon it if it is remembered that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">this sixth initiation is related, in a peculiar way, to Path VI</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path upon which our planetary Logos is found</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This Path is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">necessarily related to the sixth Ray of Devotion or Idealism, and also to the sixth plane</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, the astral plane the plane of glamour and of desire.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would have you bear these relationships in mind, but I would have you also remember that at this Initiation of Decision the Master </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">can move forward on any one of the seven Paths which He may decide is, for Him, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">the field of His future service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This expression of His choice is, as you know, not dependent upon His ray energy or upon what might be the impelling force of the planetary rays; i.e., that of the planet itself (the personality ray of the planetary Logos) or upon the soul ray of Sanat Kumara.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not for me to tell you whether this dominating ray is His soul ray or the monadic or universal ray.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 724) Initiation has been defined as "a progressive sequence of directed energy impacts."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These impacts are characterised by points of tension, and these lead inevitably to points of crisis; the whole process is governed by the Law of Cause and Effect.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is this latter point which I seek now to emphasise, because it has a definite and mysterious relation to this sixth initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Master, as He makes His decision and chooses one of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths which unitedly form the planetary antahkarana</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, is forced thereto by the accumulation of past karma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All evil karma has necessarily been worked off, but His accumulated good karma makes His final decision inevitable; from that instant of decision He stands entirely free and liberated from all aspects and all forms of planetary karma, which is greater and more vast than his little individual karma, be it good or bad.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is then in Himself the summation of all past experience.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Unless He deliberately chooses the Path of Earth Service and decides to remain within the field, scope or influence of the planetary Life, He faces a solar or a cosmic future of which He knows relatively little, but for which the Path of Evolution, the Path of Discipleship and the Path of Initiation have fitted Him.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Even He does not know the conditions into which His "decision" commits Him, or those into which He will have to penetrate; He does know, however, and "appropriates the fact and the faculties" (as one Master has expressed it) of complete revelation and future opportunity.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You have oft been told that there are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">four Lords of Karma associated with the Council Chamber at Shamballa</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They represent in Their totality the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three Rays of Aspect, and one of Them represents the four minor Rays of Attribute.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the Lord of Karma Who implements the destinies of Those Who are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">conditioned by the third Ray of Active Intelligence</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> (and this is ever the case with </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Those Who are taking the sixth initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">) and Who symbolically speaking "wipes clean the slate" of this particular group [Page 725] of initiates at this particular time.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Karma no longer holds Them.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 736) It will of course be apparent that the Transition referred to is related to the sixth Initiation of Decision, when the Master decides which of the seven Paths He will follow to His destined place.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I know not what the Great Refusal involves.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One thing only I know:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It indicates the Initiate's last contact with what we understand as cosmic evil, manifesting on this planet and in relation to the planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is accorded this last contact, but such a contact is not based upon anything analogous to evil within Him, but is based upon the "planetary appeal for liberation."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This appeal is so strong that the Initiate because His heart is on fire with love is tempted to go back upon His decision and stay upon the planet with Those World Saviours Who have chosen the Path of Earth Service.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">This He may not do, and in the sight of the assembled Initiates He makes His refusal</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and "does His whole duty as He journeys to the sacred Feet of the ONE WHO stands at the end of His chosen Path."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;" lang="EN-GB">FREE UNTIL ANOTHER ROUND<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 739) (3) Next comes the period wherein the man has attained freedom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A man has at this stage succeeded, under law, in "abstracting" himself, the freed soul, from out of the matter of the three worlds.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has used and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">worked with deva substance and has gained all the vibratory [Page 739] contact possible</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and has secured all the intended "realisations" and "revelations"; he can no longer be held imprisoned by the devas.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">free until, consciously and willingly, and in another round, he can return as a member of a Hierarchy</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to continue His work of service for the little evolved humanity of that distant time.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">concerns the seven paths of opportunity for a Master</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> we will not deal with it here.47<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the great human pralaya. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 779) A great deal has been said in modern occult literature anent the process followed in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">perfecting of those Egos who choose to remain with the Hierarchy of our planet,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and their methods of development (through chelaship to adeptship).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But nothing practically has been imparted anent the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">many egos who reach a certain high stage of evolution in our scheme and who are then transferred to one of the three synthesising schemes,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> passing </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first to the </span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">scheme which is the polar opposite to ours</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">thence to the synthesising scheme</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">numerically more than those who remain within the Earth scheme</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Whichever may be the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">synthesising scheme to which they are attracted</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, it marks and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">initiates their start upon one of the three cosmic paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The work of the Manasadevas is carried on throughout the entire system, and a constant circulation transpires, and a constant transmission of energy, and of force units embodying that energy, goes on throughout the entire system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">transmission becomes possible in any scheme</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> when the [Page 779] fourth or human kingdom becomes </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">radioactive</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; it really marks the setting in of the period of obscuration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Venus is a case in point.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Metaphysically stated, it marks the point when the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">Logoi begin to dissociate Themselves from Their dense physical bodies</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, or from the three worlds of human endeavour.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(DINAII 275) It is at this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">point of revelation and in relation to this symbol</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> that the initiate eventually stands. Then the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">many lines of force within the square become the seven paths of light</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> 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. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Then the symbol takes on the following form:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">"All paths meet at the centre. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">many become the seven and the eight</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.. From point to point the lines converge. They stretch from point to point. The outer square, the circle of the One and the point of unity are seen as one, and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Master passes on His way</span></u></b><b style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">."<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">He has penetrated to the centre by passing along the antahkarana which He has Himself constructed. There He polarises Himself and takes His stand, and from thence at the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">centre of the circle and within the square of service</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> He precipitates the energies and forces which that service demands. From these few hints you can grasp the nature of this symbol and the quality of its meaning, plus the potency of the force which (through its correct apprehension) can carry the initiate-disciple from "the unreal to the Real."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(DINAII 338) Every initiation, and every stage preparatory to initiation, involves the seeing of the remote yet the attainable; all </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">vision leads up to the momentous event of the sixth initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, when the Master faces what is for </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Him the final vision within this planetary ring-pass-not</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. He makes His great decision on the basis of the seen opportunity, and through His response to the seven phases of that cosmic vision, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">He treads one or other of the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. For this great "crisis of vision" all the lesser visions have prepared the Master; after His decision is made there is no longer any vision as we comprehend the term. There is a factual perception of such a nature that the element of time as evidenced by remoteness, by the distance between this and that, between here and there forever disappears. This is, necessarily, a somewhat meaningless statement to the majority of people.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">For the aspirant, whether his goal is the Path of Discipleship or one of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths leading away from known planetary experience, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">there is persistently that which conveys to consciousness two factors:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(DINAII 346) t is, however, a technique which is formulated by the initiate himself and is not one imposed upon him within an Ashram or by the watching Master. All these points of revelation also concern the techniques of creation, and indicate to the Master what will be the nature of the creative work with which He under law, according to ray, and in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">relation to one of the seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> will eventually work.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(DINAII 424) For their understanding, [Page 422] and for freedom of movement within those areas, all the past has prepared the initiate, and in the unfoldment of the three divine aspects of intelligence, love and will, the disciple or initiate has been </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">creating the instrument and developing the faculties</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which will enable him to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">move out into solar or cosmic spheres of action, via one or other of the seven Paths;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> with these I have dealt as far as now is possible in the last volume of A Treatise on the Seven Rays, Vol. V.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(DINII 518) Those upon the second ray fall (as you know) into two groups, generally speaking; there are, naturally, numerous exceptions. Souls on the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">wisdom aspect of the second ray go to Shamballa and join the great Council</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> in some capacity or another. Such a one was the Buddha. Those on the love aspect of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">second ray tread one or other of the various paths, primarily that of the World Saviours</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; They become the divine Psychologists and World Teachers. The Christ combined in Himself all these three great traits.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Those in this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">second group of souls upon the second ray likewise fall into two groups</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">: They follow the way of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">specialised detail and of a comprehensive inclusiveness</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and are the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">outstanding occultists</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; the other group is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">distinguished by pure love</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. Of the group which finds its way into Shamballa a developed simplicity will be found to govern all relations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EOH 530) One of the results of this hierarchical alignment and adjustment will be the establishment, for the first time, of a fluid interplay and movement between the three planetary centres. Chohans are today passing out of the Hierarchy into the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World, or on to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">one or other of the Seven Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; senior Masters in charge of Ashrams are taking higher grades of initiation and taking the rank of Chohans; initiates above the third degree are rapidly taking the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fourth and fifth initiations and becoming Masters (taking both initiations in one life<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EOH 532) As this subject concerns one of the,</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"> seven goals towards which the Masters aim after They have attained the fifth initiation </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>it will be obvious to you that there is little that I can say about it.. One of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths for which the Way of the Higher Evolution</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> prepares the senior initiates is the Path of Earth Service. This Path, as you know, keeps the Masters attached to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">service in the three worlds for a period much longer than the average</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">. 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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Master, when He chooses this Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, forms a constituent </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">part of the Council Chamber of the Lord of the World</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> 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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">training which Members of the Hierarchy also undergo will not be so secret</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and mysterious as it is today. But the time has not yet come to publicise it.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EOH 559) 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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths; the Path of Evolution gives place to the Way of the Higher Evolution</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; 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; </span><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">recognition of the Father and of monadic being causes all lesser recognitions to fade out</span></u><span lang="EN-GB">, and soul-consciousness and progressive life in form are no longer goals but are left far behind.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>(TEV 91) It is for that reason that the truly illumined man and all who have taken the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">three highest initiations are always referred to as "the diamond souled";</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> they, in their totality constitute the "jewel in the lotus" that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">twelve-petalled lotus</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which is the symbol and expression of the potency of the planetary Logos.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Science of Impression</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> 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 (</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">no matter which of the Seven Paths they may eventually choose</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">) 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, </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>(TEV 159)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The three major centres, both planetary and human, exist in etheric substance and they may or may not produce physical correspondences. All the Masters, for instance, do not work through a physical vehicle. They nevertheless have an etheric body composed of the substance of the cosmic etheric levels buddhic, atmic, monadic and logoic levels and these levels are the four cosmic ethers, the higher correspondence of our etheric planes; these higher levels are the four levels of the cosmic physical plane. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Until They choose, at the sixth Initiation of Decision, one of the seven Paths of Ultimate Destiny, the Masters function in Their cosmic etheric bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">These three major energy centres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are closely related to each other, and through his own individual </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">major centres (the head, the heart and the throat</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">) [Page 160] the disciple is in relation with the three planetary centres. I would have you ponder on this statement for it has practical value.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1240) Here is to be found the clue to the search which the adept or perfected man undertakes when He puts His foot upon one of the seven possible paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The only way in which any light can be thrown upon the mystery lies in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">consideration of those seven cosmic Paths, of their names, and symbols</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Very little can be said for the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">secrets of the higher initiations may not be revealed</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, nor the information given in a book for exoteric publication.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All that can be done is to make certain suggestions, caution against certain conclusions, and indicate certain symbols which, if pondered upon, may bring a certain amount of illumination.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1241] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">DIVISION B. THE NATURE OF THE SEVEN COSMIC PATHS. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It should be carefully borne in mind that when the term PATH is used, it is simply an energy term, and streams of energy are indicated, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven streams which blend and merge to form one Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It should also be noted that the Adept Who undergoes the discipline and who passes through initiatory rites which will enable him to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">tread those seven Paths, has transcended colour</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, has passed beyond the veil and has expanded His consciousness so that he is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">at-one with the conscious life of His planetary Logos</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has therefore arrived at a stage incomprehensible to man now; He is passing out of the realm of substantial forms altogether into the realm of energy..<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He knows the life of the two aspects, the soul and the body, and is passing away from the realm of awareness altogether.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This will sound to the average reader as a foolish jingling of words and a splitting of hairs but he who reasons by the Law of Correspondences and who has grasped the basic essential relativity of the three aspects to each other </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">has arrived at the knowledge that back of all form is a subjective Life </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">which is known by its quality, its colour, and its attributes; he has expanded his consciousness until gradually he has ascertained and made a part of his own conscious ensemble those attributes and qualities.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But the pulsating dynamic vibration which is the producing cause of both the subjective life and its qualitative form is as yet to him the mystery of mysteries and the ineffable secret.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It becomes the goal of his endeavour as he sets foot upon one of the seven Paths which face him after the fifth Initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>If a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Master of the Wisdom</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and the one who has unified both the manas (intellect) and wisdom (buddhi) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">knows not what shall be revealed to him as he treads the cosmic Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which is his choice, surely it is needless for us to try and comprehend (at our relatively low stage of evolution) what is the true [Page 1242] connotation of the word "Spirit."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Pondering upon these matters is (for the average man) not only useless but also dangerous.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">not yet the apparatus of thought necessary for its safe undertaking</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is as if one tried to force a child in the first grade in school to comprehend the differential calculus and the laws of trigonometry.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(CF 1242) These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths, when trodden, prepare a man to pass certain cosmic initiations</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, including those upon the Sun Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One hint may here be given.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Each of these Paths eventually leads to one or other of the six constellations which (with ours) form the seven centres in the body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those adepts therefore who stay for a prescribed length of time upon our planet are a correspondence to those greater initiates who </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">remain for many kalpas within the solar system</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, taking certain mysterious initiations concerned entirely with solar evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their work is concerned with the system as a centre in the body of that Existence Who vitalises the Logos of our own system.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It might be of value here to list the seven cosmic Paths as follows:35</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path I.....The Path of Earth Service.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path II....The Path of Magnetic Work.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path III...The Path of the Planetary Logos.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path IV....The Path to Sirius.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path V.....The Ray Path.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path VI....The Path of the Solar Logos.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Path VII...The Path of Absolute Sonship.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">[Page 1243] </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It must be borne in mind and no confusion of thought must be permitted that these terms are the generic names given in the mystic parlance of the Lodge of Masters to the seven methods of work, of endeavour and of aspiration whereby the perfected sons of Earth's humanity pass on to specific cosmic Paths or streams of energy, making in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">their totality one great cosmic WAY.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The seven paths at a certain stage which may not be defined become the four paths, owing to the fact that our solar system is one of the fourth order.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This merging is effected in the following way:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">(CF 1243) The initiates upon Path I "fight their way" on to path VI.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">The initiates upon Path II "alchemise themselves" on to Path VII.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">The initiates upon Path III through "piercing the veil" find themselves upon Path V.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This leaves </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Path IV</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to be accounted for.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Upon this Path pass all those who, through devotion and activity combined, achieve the goal but who </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">lack as yet the full development of the manasic principle</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This being the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">solar system of love-wisdom, or of astral buddhic development</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fourth Path includes the larger number of the sons of men</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the hierarchy of our planet the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Lords of Compassion" are numerically greater than the "Masters of the Wisdom."</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The former must therefore all </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">pass to the sun Sirius there to undergo a tremendous manasic stimulation, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">for </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Sirius is the emanating source of manas</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity.."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">These seven Paths are not concerned with nature or the balancing of the pairs of opposites.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are concerned only with unity, with that which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">utilises the pairs of opposites as factors in the production of LIGHT</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They deal [Page 1244] with that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">unknown quantity which is responsible for the pairs of opposites</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">; therefore they are primarily concerned with that which lies outside the manifested forms, with the true abstraction or the Absolute.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Spirit and matter are never dissociated during manifestation; they are the duality lying back of all that is objective.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet some factor is responsible for them that which is neither Spirit nor matter, that which will be regarded as nonexistent by anyone except the initiate.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the third Initiation some glimmering light upon this Abstraction is sensed by the initiate, and by the time the fifth Initiation is reached enough is apprehended by him to enable him to set forth with ardour on the search for its secret.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EPII 31)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Livingness, Being, Wholeness and Unity are the distinctive characteristics of this highly evolved stage, which is, in its turn, the foundation for that higher evolutionary cycle of which we know nothing but which is hinted at in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire and in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">all references to the seven Paths which open up before the adept of the fifth initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Absorption into the One Life is the nature of this elevated state of consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Freedom from all that is implied in the use of the words Form and Ego is the major characteristic, and, therefore, many ancient Scriptures, when attempting to deal with and explain this [Page 31] supernormal and superlative condition, are forced back into the use of negatives, and the so-called "doctrine of negation".</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 108) After proving his steadfastness to the ideal of the spiritual life in the intervening signs, he passes again into Pisces, from the opposite direction to his usual procedure, having earned the right to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">mount the Cardinal Cross</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> of the Heavens, the power to take a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">final planetary initiation and the privilege of passing on to one of the seven paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to which I have made reference in my other books; these eventually give him </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">"the freedom of the seven solar systems</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">," as it is called in contradistinction to "the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">freedom of the seven planetary spheres</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">," which the experience of initiation has guaranteed him, after a process of intensive training in one or other of the planetary schools (according to his ray type) and the path of service chosen.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 612)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The key to the whole process as far as the Earth is concerned and the individual on the Earth is to be found in the words:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Transcending. The transcending cause.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Transmitting. The zodiacal constellations.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Transforming. The Sun. The Soul.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Transfiguring. The planets.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">To these I might add one word in connection with the Earth and its humanity which is allied to all the above. This</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">word is Translated</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, for when the "souls of just men are made perfect," a process of translation takes place which [Page 612] lifts humanity off and away from the planet on to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">one or other of the seven cosmic Paths</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> to which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">our seven initiations form the entering doors.<span style="">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EH 690)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>From "the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">silence which is sound, the reverberating note of Shamballa</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">," the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sound focusses itself either in the Spiritual Triad or in the Ashram</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, according to the status of the initiate and whether he is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">high in the ashramic circles, or still higher</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, in the circles through which radiates the light from the Council Chamber.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">first case, it will be the heart centre which responds to the sound,</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and from thence the whole body; in the second case, consciousness has been superseded by a still higher type of spiritual recognition, to which we have given the inadequate name of identification.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Where the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">sound has been registered in the heart of the initiate</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, he has unfolded all possible types of knowledge which the form nature soul and body can make possible; when the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">registration is in the head, identification has produced such complete unity with all spiritual expressions </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">of life, the word "more" (meaning increased) must perforce give way to the word "deep," in the sense of penetration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Having said this, brother of mine, how much have you comprehended?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is at this point that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">initiate is confronted for the first time with the Seven Paths, because each Path</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> constitutes a mode of penetrating into realms of realisation beyond our planet altogether.. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">In order to do this, the initiate has to demonstrate his </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">mastery of the Law of Differentiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and arrive at a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">knowledge of the Seven Paths through differentiating the seven sounds which make up the one Sound</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, but which are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">not related to the seven sounds</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> which compose the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">threefold AUM.<span style="">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: black;" lang="EN-GB">These could be the seven sounds of the Seven Cosmic paths which lead to the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Seven Constellations (ZR)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(EA 38) Each of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Hierarchies of Beings, found within the Twelve</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">, Who are the Builders or the Attractive Agents are (in their degree) intermediaries;</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">all embody one of the types of force </span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;" lang="EN-GB">emanating from the seven constellations</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 177)<span style="">&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;</span>He becomes aware of a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;" lang="EN-GB">growing point of light which, from a pin-point of intensest brilliance develops before him into a five-pointed star.</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the fourth initiation, it is not a star which shines forth before him, but a triangle; and within that triangle he will perceive an eye regarding him, and for the first time he does see the Most High "eye to eye."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">fifth initiation no [Page 177] symbol or light substance separates or protects him</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, but he stands before the Initiator face to face, and the freedom of the City of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">God</st1:city></st1:place> is his.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is not yet a Member of the Great Council, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">but he has the right of entrance into Shamballa</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, and from that point he passes on to a more intimate relation, if that is his chosen destiny.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">may not even finally become a Member of the Great Council; that is reserved for relatively few and for Those </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">Who can take even still higher initiations within the ring-pass-not of our planet a task of profound difficulty.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There are other and interesting alternatives, as I have elsewhere told you.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The initiate may pass out of this planetary life altogether </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">along one or other of the various Paths by means of which a Master can start upon the Path of the Higher Evolution </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">and for which all that has transpired in the past will have prepared Him.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 266)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It is indeed attainment and liberation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But more must still be learnt if the Way of the Higher Evolution is to be trodden and a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">choice between the seven cosmic Paths made</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> a choice which curiously enough is not dependent upon ray, for all rays are to be found on all these paths.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">This can only be done through synthesis.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This Law of Synthesis<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 327) II. I found it necessary also to indicate the nature of the Way of the Higher Evolution which had been hinted at but about which absolutely no information had been given.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Way which opens out before the Master of the Wisdom, </span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">leading to states of identification and levels of awareness which lie outside our planetary sphere altogether.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The following of this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Way enables the Master to "abstract" Himself from the seven planes of our planetary life</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> and divest Himself of all we understand as material existence. [Page 327] Forget not that our seven planes are only the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">III. I therefore opened up the subject of the possibility of the higher initiations which confront the Members of the Hierarchy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this connection it is useful to remember that:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">1. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">Council Chamber at Shamballa provides a goal for the Members of the Hierarchy, but not an abiding place.</span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">2. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">seven Paths which stretch out before a Master</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB"> are entered by the treading of the Way of the Higher Evolution.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">3. The so-</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">called third initiation, the Transfiguration, is only the first major initiation</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">, from the standpoint of the Hierarchy; it marks the moment in time and space when the initiate sees truly and for the first time the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;" lang="EN-GB">door which opens on to this higher Way</span></u></b><span lang="EN-GB">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then if he chooses the Path that the Christ chose (and there is no reason that he should) he will "set his<span style="">&nbsp; </span>face to go up to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city></st1:place>."</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">(RI 340) Initiation 9.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Refusal</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Shamballa<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Three major rays<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Systemic</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Seven Paths<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Being<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Existence</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><br> <br> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~<br> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups &quot;Esoteric Cosmology Research Group&quot; group. <br> To post to this group, send email to EsotericCosmologyResearchGroup@googlegroups.com <br> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to EsotericCosmologyResearchGroup+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com <br> For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/EsotericCosmologyResearchGroup?hl=en<br> -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---<br> <br>