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and that for the Entity Who is evolving through a planet, the goal may be God consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Now, of course, when you consider the solar Logos words fail, yet for Him also there must be a goal.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You can call this Absolute Consciousness, if you like.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Let us again illustrate this.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our body, we have been told, is made up of a multiplicity </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of little lives, or cells, or atoms</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, each having its own individual consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This corresponds to its self-consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The consciousness of the physical body, viewed as a whole, might, from the atom's point of view, be regarded as its group consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then we have the consciousness of man, the thinker.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is the one who energises the body, and turns it to his will that is, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to the atom in his body, analogous to what we might call God consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Our self-conscious realisation is as far removed from that of the atom as the consciousness of the solar Logos is from ours</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Now </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">to the atom in our body that consciousness of the solar Logos might be called Absolute Consciousness, might it not</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This thought can be extended to the human atom, to the planetary atom, and you can further predicate that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">solar Logos reaches out to a consciousness beyond His own analogous to that which stretches between the atom in your body and Him</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Here [Page 155] you have a very marvellous vista opening up.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet this is, in itself, encouraging; for if we study closely the cell in a physical body, and consider the long road that has been travelled between its consciousness, and that which a man now knows to be his, we have for ourselves the promise and hope of future achievement, and the incentive to persist in our endeavour.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(COA 155) The old books of the East have held secreted for many ages the truth about much which is only now beginning to sink into the consciousness of the Occidental.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They taught the radio-activity of matter thousands of years ago, and so perhaps, after all, there may be an equal amount of truth in their teaching about the constellations.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Perhaps in the stars that we can see in the distant heavens, and in the life that is evolving within them, we have the objective of our solar Logos, and the influences that are flowing towards him, attracting him towards them, and making him, in due course of time, radio-active.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the Eastern books they say that in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">sun Sirius lies the source of wisdom, and that the influence or the energy of love emanates from there</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then they say that there is a constellation that is even more closely connected with our solar Logos, the reason being that He is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">not, as yet, sufficiently evolved so that He can respond completely to Sirius,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> but He can respond to the influence of the seven sisters of [Page 156] the Pleiades.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This group is a most interesting one.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>If you will go to the dictionary and look up the word "electricity," you will find it suggested that it may be traced back to the star Electra, one of the seven sisters, and supposed by some to be the little lost Pleiad.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Eastern teachers say that in the mystery of electricity is hidden all knowledge, and that when we have fathomed that we shall know all there is to be known.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>What the relationship of the Pleiades to our solar system may be, it is not possible for us to say, but even our Christian Bible recognises it, and Job speaks of "the sweet influences of the Pleiades," whilst some of the Oriental Scriptures affirm that the connection lies in sound or vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Perhaps the Pleiades are the source of the atomic life of our Logos, the active intelligent aspect, that one which was first developed, and which we might call electrical matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAI 768) The significance of the word "heart" is the significance of life itself, as it beats eternally at the very heart of the universe. Within that life, the initiate now consciously stands, realising himself not so much as being a recipient of life, but as a distributor of life. This is a very different thing and holds the key to this stage of discipleship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The "Master's Heart" is a technical term, indicating the sources of life and many analogous interpretations. There is at this stage and after a certain major initiation, a direct line of energy or of life sensed, recognised, active and utilised between the conscious disciple and<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The disciple's heart centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The heart centre in the head.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[page 768]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The egoic lotus, which (until the fourth initiation) is the heart centre of the monadic life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The Master at the centre of His group.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. The Christ, the heart centre of the Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. The life of the Monad which begins to make itself felt at the third initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. The Lord of Life Himself, the heart centre of Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The line of relationship then extends from these onward and outward, and upward (spherically considered) to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Life at the very centre of our Earth's "alter ego," the planet Venus, to Jupiter and thence to the solar Lord Himself and on to a point in the Sun, Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. You can see, therefore, how different this stage is from what might be imagined. It is one which marks a new departure or beginning and a great transition. It is a stage which one enters through the open door of Nirvana, the beginning of the Path of the Higher Evolution. It is a stage which marks a specific location (if such an inappropriate word can be used) of the disciple upon that upward Way which is revealed by the lighted Way; it is the attainment of the innermost point of realisation, called esoterically "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">within the heart</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAII 157) The final stanza of the "Invocation for Power and Light," as it is called in the Archives of the Masters, is apparently simple. It has, in these Archives, an indicatory symbol beside it which indicates the era or period in human history during which it can and should be used. It is interesting to us to note that the evolution of humanity is in line with the indicated timing. This Invocation will have a potent appeal to mankind. My considered advice is that in its presentation to a definitely Christian public (as for instance to the ecclesiastics of all denominations) the third verse in the stanza be changed and that its last line should read: "The Purpose which the Master knows and serves," or perhaps "which disciples know and serve." The word "disciple" is an inclusive word, in the hierarchical sense; it is, at the same time, one easily recognised by the orthodox but offers no limitation to the esotericist. It covers every grade of human aspirant from the newly accepted disciple up to and inclusive of the Christ Himself. Let me here quote the Invocation:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From the point of Light within the Mind of God<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let light stream forth into the minds of men.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let Light descend on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From the point of Love within the Heart of God<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">May Christ return to Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From the Centre where the Will of God is known<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 158] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let Purpose guide the little wills of men <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Purpose which the Masters know and serve.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From the Centre which we call the race of men<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let the Plan of Love and Light work out.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And may it seal the door where evil dwells.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Each of the four stanzas refers to one or other of the three aspects of divine energy, plus a reference to humanity itself in which the three meet, are potentiality in latency, and finally develop into the full flower of divinity, with all three lines perfectly expressed. Hence, my brothers, the intensity of the human conflict a conflict unparalleled in any other differentiation of the divine Life. In humanity all lines and aspects meet. This is a fundamental of the occult teaching. The subhuman kingdoms find their consummation in humanity, and the superhuman kingdoms their opportunity, and through the human kingdom all superhuman lives have at some time passed. This you well know.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first three lines you have reference to the Mind of God</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> as a focal point for the divine light. This refers to the soul of all things. The term "soul," with its major attribute of enlightenment, includes the anima mundi, the animal soul, the human soul, and that consummating point of light which we regard as the "overshadowing" soul of humanity. It is an aspect of the divine manifestation to which that great Son of God refers when (as Shri Krishna) He remarks, "Having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of Myself, I remain." That fragment is the soul of all things. That soul brings light and spreads enlightenment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">second three lines, the Heart of God</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is evoked and the focal point of love is considered. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This "heart" of the manifested world is the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> that great transmitting agency of love to every form in the divine manifestation. Upon the essentially "loving nature" of the Hierarchy I need not dwell; too much has been written about it; too little understood; too much has been talked about love and not enough has been realised as to the task confronting the Hierarchy [Page 159] as it transmits love. Love is an energy which must reach the hearts of men and which must fecundate humanity with the duality of loving-understanding that is what is expressed when love and intelligence are brought together.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">third three lines, we find reference to Shamballa</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> "the Centre where the Will of God is known" the centre from whence the Hierarchy draws its life, as it draws its impulse towards service from humanity. You well know that there is indication in these lines that humanity itself cannot as yet grasp the purpose of Sanat Kumara. Only advanced Members of the Hierarchy and initiates of at least the third degree </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">(the first degree of the Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) have any idea as to the nature of the purpose which underlies the Plan. Ponder on that phrasing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Having invoked the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">three aspects or potencies of Mind, Love, and Will,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">fourth three lines we have indication of the anchoring of all these powers in humanity itself</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, in "the centre which we call the race of men." Here and here alone lies the promise of the future and its hope and opportunity. Here and here alone can all the divine qualities in time and space express themselves and find fulfilment: here and here alone can love be truly born, intelligence correctly function, and the Will of God demonstrate its effective goodwill. Through humanity, alone and unaided (except by the divine Spirit in every human being), can the "door where evil dwells be sealed." It is not Sanat Kumara who seals that door; it is not the Hierarchy which forces evil back into the place from whence it comes. It is struggling, aspiring and suffering humanity to whom the task is committed and, my brother, humanity is adequate to the task.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This statement is borne ever in mind by Those most potent in using the Invocation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; it serves to focus and anchor the invoked energies in the human kingdom. That is Their task. From that point, humanity takes over the undertaking.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This Invocation is also unique in the sense that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">it invokes all the three divine aspects</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. It is synthetic in its approach. This is the first time in human history that this has been done. Hitherto the development of mankind did not warrant such an utterance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Symbol of the 7 Cosmic Paths and receptivity to Sirian energy-This symbol is related to Med VII with the two crosses and the antahkarana.<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAII 274) POINTS OF REVELATION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This almost brings us automatically to the third aspect of preparation for initiation which I called in an earlier instruction the "presentation of points of revelation." These formulas, when rightly studied and eventually somewhat apprehended, at least intellectually, carry the disciple to the point where that which is new, hitherto unrealised and for which no words exist, is suddenly contacted. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">St. Paul</st1:place></st1:city> had reached such a point when he referred to "the third heaven as it veiled the seventh" (which was the original wording, deleted by the recipients of his message at that time as utterly meaningless). Eye has not seen nor has ear heard the inexpressible revelation which comes to the initiate who can penetrate into certain high places where the nature of the divine Will suddenly assumes a different and amazing significance, where the purposes being worked out in the Council Chamber of Shamballa are visioned not in detail but as [Page 275] a suddenly contacted inspiration; then for the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first time the initiate becomes consciously receptive</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> to the energy </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">pouring into the Hierarchy from the Great White Lodge on Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is at this point of revelation and in relation to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">this symbol that the initiate eventually stands</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Then the "many lines of force within the square </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">become the seven paths of light which claim His choice, leading Him on to the sevenfold Path of initiate evolution</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." 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. 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From point to point the lines converge. They stretch from point to point. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The outer square, the circle of the One and the point of unity are seen as one</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and the Master passes on His way."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 centre of the circle and within the square of service 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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the potency of the force which (through its correct apprehension) can carry the initiate-disciple from "the unreal to the Real</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The first formula was basically concerned with the monadic significance of the words "from darkness to Light," leading to vision and illumined purpose; the second formula gives the higher significance to the words "from the unreal to the Real," whilst the third we shall find expresses the true [Page 276] meaning of the words "from death to Immortality." Thus this prayer of the ancient past becomes the present effort of the distant future. Can you understand this statement, brother of mine? Into that light, that reality and that life the initiate penetrates. In that light of reality and life, he polarises himself, and from that point of universal life, reality and light he works.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAII 406) For years we have talked about group initiation, and it remains as yet, for you, an unsolved problem. The phrase, "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">group initiation" is only used by the Members of the Hierarchy in reference to the first two initiations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> initiations of the threshold, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">from the angle of the Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. After these two preparatory events, the initiate at and after the third initiation reaches the point wherein he "undergoes initiation" in his own right (as the phrase runs), for he can now be trusted to ask nothing for the separated self; his personality is tempered and adjusted to group conditions; increasingly he is manifesting as a soul-infused personality, and the antahkarana is being rapidly created and effectively used. To phrase it otherwise: as the number and expressions of soul-infused personalities grow and initiates of the third degree increase numerically on Earth, what will be the result? Three great happenings will take place with spiritual and focussed intention; they are today taking place, which is the point I wish to bring to your attention; it is this conscious intention which confers potency in the life of each disciple and initiate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">energy from Sirius does not normally enter our planetary life via Shamballa, but via the Hierarchy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAII 519) You see, my brother, it is a book which will take much intuition and spiritual perception to write, and it can only be written by someone who has been trained in an Ashram. The theme of Shamballa is new, and little is yet known about it, its way of life and its governing laws. Only initiate-disciples can get a glimpse of some of the more exoteric significances, whilst the inner meaning must be drawn forth by you in deep and concentrated meditation and by the determined use of the will. There is no one who can aid you in preparing this book except some group brother or someone working consciously in an Ashram. You will look in vain for cooperation and help among those you seek to aid and among the orthodox and theological esotericist. Some key thoughts I can here give to you, and if you use them as the theme of your meditation, light upon the subject may break forth:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Shamballa is the place of purpose. It is a purpose which cannot be understood until the Plan is followed. Herein lies a clue.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Shamballa is not a Way, but a major centre of related states and a relatively static energy energy held ready for creative purposes by the focussed intention of the Great Council, acting under the directing eye of the Lord of the World.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 520] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Shamballa is the major point of tension upon the planet. It is a tension that expresses loving intelligent will, free from all self-will or mental bias.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Shamballa is the major receptive agent upon the planet, from the angle of solar inflow, but at the same time it is the main distributing point of energy, from the angle of the kingdoms in nature, including the fifth kingdom. From the point of tension the life pattern of the planetary Logos and His will become embodied and finally matured through the processes of evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. Shamballa receives energy from various solar and extra-solar Entities or centres of emphatic and energetic life; i.e., from Venus, from the Central Spiritual Sun, from the current conditioning constellation through which our sun may be passing, from the Great Bear and other cosmic centres. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, so important a factor in the spiritual life of the planet, brings its energies to bear direct upon the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">energy from Sirius does not normally enter our planetary life via Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. Shamballa is the head centre, speaking symbolically, of our planetary Life, focussing will, love and intelligence in one great and fundamental Intention and holding that focussed point throughout the entire life cycle of a planet. This great Intention embodies current purpose and expresses itself through the medium of the Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These statements may be somewhat familiar to you, but they could provide the six seed thoughts for your meditative work during the coming year. Will you thus consider them? Out of the work which you will accomplish thus in meditation (using the heart centre as a balance for the head) you will greatly enrich the proposed book.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EOH 298) 3. Ray Avatars. These great Beings come forth at relatively long intervals when a ray is coming into manifestation. They embody the quality and the force of a particular ray. Next century, when the seventh ray has achieved complete manifestation and the Piscean influence is entirely removed, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the seventh ray Avatar will appear</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. His work will demonstrate the law, order and rhythm of the creative process as it works out on the physical plane, blending spirit and matter. And as this ray is called the Ray of Ceremonial Order or Ritual, [Page 299] He will be largely instrumental in producing those conditions which will permit of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">reappearance upon Earth of the Mysteries of Initiation, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">of which the Hierarchy is the custodian. He is necessarily connected with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Great White Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This fact does not, however, concern us now, for we await the coming of a still greater Avatar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EOH 689) Again, the Members of the Hierarchy are not only </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">sensitive to impression</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> from the two other planetary centres (Shamballa and Humanity), but They are acutely aware of the Forces of Evil which are fighting furiously against the externalisation of the spiritual work. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The energy which cosmic evil generates is active along three main channels:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. From the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">centre of cosmic evil upon the cosmic astral plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Of this centre you can know nothing, and its emanations and its magnetic aura can only be understood and recognised or interpreted by the senior Masters and by initiates of still higher rank. As the potency of the astral plane (which is so familiar to us all) weakens, and glamour and illusion are negated by a rapid spiritualising of humanity, the power of cosmic evil will correspondingly weaken and the Forces of Evil will be unable to reach the planet with their present easy effort. It is against the impact of this emanating evil that the Hierarchy stands in protection of humanity. Hitherto it has been the task of Shamballa, working through the Hierarchy, to protect humanity from the "intention to destroy" of the cosmic Forces of Evil, but in the coming cycle and as a result of the triumph of the Forces of Light in the world war the potency of Shamballa can be combined with that of the "protecting Agents of Light."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><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;">2. From the Black Lodge which is the externalisation of the centre of cosmic evil on Earth</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Just as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">White Lodge is the representative or correspondence of the cosmic centre of light upon Sirius (the true Great White Lodge),</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> so the Black Lodge is also representative of ancient and cosmic evil. The Black Lodge is also far more advanced in externalisation than is the White Lodge, because materialism and matter are, [Page 689] for it, the line of least resistance. The Black Lodge is therefore far more firmly anchored upon the physical plane than is the Hierarchy. It requires a much greater effort for the White Lodge to "clothe itself in matter and work and walk on material levels" than for the Black Lodge. Owing, however, to the spiritual growth of mankind and to the steady, even if slow, orientation of mankind to the spiritual Hierarchy, the time has come when the Hierarchy can materialise and meet the enemy of good upon an even footing; the Hierarchy need not be further handicapped by working in substance whilst the Forces of Evil work both in substance and in matter. Once the reappearance of the Christ and of the Hierarchy is an accomplished fact, these Forces of Evil face sure defeat. The reason for this is that the trend of human living and thought is turning steadily towards the subjective spiritual values, even if these values are interpreted in terms of material well-being at present and of better living conditions for all with peace and security also for all. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Black Lodge</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> or the planetary centre of evil works almost entirely upon the astral plane, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">is impressed directly and guided in detail from the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From the negative or purely material forces of the planet</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which are not necessarily either good or bad but which have been used instinctually and oft unconsciously by humanity for purely material ends, and are therefore basically anti-spiritual and subject to the influence of human desire a desire oriented towards selfishness, and therefore towards separateness. This form of evil is being combated today by the New Group of World Servers. Of this battle you know something because every thinking man and woman is immediately implicated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(FBTC 60) "The Jesus-story, it will now be seen, has a greater number of correspondences with the stories of former Sungods and with the actual career of the Sun through the heavens so many indeed that they cannot well be attributed to mere coincidence or even to the blasphemous wiles of the Devil!<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Let us enumerate some of these. There are (1) birth from a Virgin mother; (2) the birth in a stable (cave or underground chamber); and (3) on the 25th December (just after the winter solstice). There is (4) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the Star in the East (Sirius)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and (5) the arrival of the Magi (the `Three Kings'); there is (6) the threatened Massacre of the Innocents, and the consequent flight into a distant country (told also of <st1:place w:st="on">Krishna</st1:place> and other Sungods). There are the Church festivals of (7) Candlemas (2nd February), with processions of candles to symbolise the growing light; of (8) Lent, or the arrival of Spring; of (9) Easter Day (normally on 25th March) to celebrate the crossing of the Equator by the Sun; and (10) simultaneously the outburst of lights at the Holy Sepulchre at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>. There is (11) [page 61] the Crucifixion and death of the Lamb-God, on Good Friday, three days before Easter; there are (12) the nailing to a tree, (13) the empty grave, (14) the glad Resurrection (as in the cases of Osiris, Attis and others); there are (15) the twelve disciples (the Zodiacal signs); and (16) the betrayal by one of the twelve. Then later there is (17) Mid-summer Day, the 24th June, dedicated to the birth of the beloved disciple John, and corresponding to Christmas Day; there are the festivals of (18) the Assumption of the Virgin (15th August) and of (19) the Nativity of the Virgin (8th September), corresponding to the movement of the god through Virgo; there is the conflict of Christ and his disciples with the autumnal asterisms, (20) the Serpent and the Scorpion; and finally there is the curious fact that the Church (21) dedicates the very day of the winter solstice (when any one may very naturally doubt the re-birth of the Sun) to St. Thomas, who doubted the truth of the Resurrection!"40<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(FBTC 62) At the time of the birth of Christ, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, the Star in the East, was on the meridian line</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, Orion, called "The Three Kings" by oriental astronomers, was in proximity; therefore the constellation Virgo, the Virgin, was rising in the east, and the line of the ecliptic, of the equator and of the horizon all met in that constellation. It is interesting also to note that the brightest and largest star in the constellation Virgo is called Spica; it is to be found in the "ear of corn" (sign of fertility) which the Virgin holds. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethlehem</st1:place></st1:city> means the "house of bread," and there is therefore an obvious connection between these two words. This constellation is also composed of three stars in the shape of a cup. This is the true Holy Grail, that which contains the life blood, the repository of the sacred and the holy, and that which conceals divinity. These are astronomical facts. The interpretation of the symbolism attached from ancient days to these constellations is as old as religion itself. Whence came the signs, and how the [page 64] meanings and symbols associated with them came into being, is lost in the night of time. They have existed in men's minds and thoughts and writings for thousands of years, and are our joint heritage today. The ancient zodiac of Dendera (antedating Christianity by several thousand years) is ample proof of this. In the sun's journey around the zodiac, this "Man of the Heavens" eventually arrives at Pisces; this sign is exactly opposite the sign Virgo, and is the sign of all world Saviours. We have already seen that the age of Christianity is the Piscean Age, and Christ came to the <st1:place w:st="on">Holy Land</st1:place> when our sun transitted into that sign. Therefore that which was started and had its being in Virgo (the birth of the Christ Child) is consummated in Pisces when that Christ Child, having attained maturity, comes forth as the world Saviour.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(FBTC 183) The early Fathers recognised this truth, and realised that the story written in the heavens had a definite relation to humanity and to the evolution of human souls. Clement of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Alexandria</st1:place></st1:city> tells us that "the path of souls to ascension lies through the twelve signs of the zodiac," and the church festivals today are based, not upon historical dates in connection with the outstanding religious figures to which they refer, but upon the times and the seasons. We saw how in the Birth at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bethlehem</st1:place></st1:city> the date was fixed astronomically nearly four centuries after Christ was born. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The combination of Virgo with the Star in the East (Sirius), and the Three Kings (symbolised by Orion's belt) was the determining factor</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The Virgin was seen in the east, with the line of the horizon passing through her centre, and this is one of the factors determining the doctrine of the Virgin birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The fifth planetary initiation corresponds to entered apprentice  in masonry<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The sixth planetary initiation corresponds to the second degree in masonry <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The seventh planetary initiation is the first Sirian initiation or Master Mason<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 17) Those who pass away from the earth after the fifth initiation, or those who do not become Masters in physical incarnation, take their subsequent initiations elsewhere in the system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All are in the Logoic Consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One great fact to be borne in mind is, that the initiations of the planet or of the solar system are but the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">preparatory initiations of admission into the greater Lodge on Sirius. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>We have the symbolism held for us fairly well in Masonry, and in combining the Masonic method with what we are told of the steps on the Path of Holiness we get an approximate picture.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Let us enlarge somewhat: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The first four initiations of the solar system correspond to the four "initiations of the Threshold," prior to [Page 18] the first cosmic initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The fifth initiation corresponds to the first cosmic initiation, that of "entered apprentice" in Masonry; and makes a Master an "entered apprentice" of the Lodge on Sirius.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The sixth initiation is analogous to the second degree in Masonry, whilst the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">seventh initiation makes the Adept a Master Mason of the Brotherhood on Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master, therefore, is one who has taken the seventh planetary initiation, the fifth solar initiation, and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">first Sirian or cosmic initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(IHS 98) Cosmic influences and solar initiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All that can be done here in dealing with this profound subject is to enumerate briefly some of the cosmic influences which definitely affect our earth, and produce results in the consciousness of men everywhere, and which, during the process of initiation, bring about certain specific phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">First and foremost is the energy or force emanating from the sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>If it might be so expressed, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">energy of thought, or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system from a distant cosmic centre via Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius acts as the transmitter</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, or the focalising centre, whence emanate those influences which produce self-consciousness in man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>During initiation, by means of the Rod of Initiation (acting as a subsidiary transmitter and as a powerful magnet) this energy is momentarily intensified, and applied to the centres of the initiate with terrific force; were it not that the Hierophant and the two sponsors of the initiate pass it primarily through their bodies, it would be more than he could stand.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This increase of mind energy results in an expansion and an apprehension of the truth as it is, and is lasting in its effects.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is felt primarily in the throat centre, the great organ of creation through sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Another type of energy reaches man from the Pleiades, passing through the Venusian scheme to us, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">just as the Sirian energy passes through the Saturnian</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It has a definite effect upon the causal body, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">serves to stimulate the heart centre.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A third type of energy is applied to the initiate, and affects his head centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It emanates from that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">one of the seven stars of the Great Bear whose ensouling life holds the same relationship to our Planetary Logos as the Ego does to a human being</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This energy, therefore, is seven-fold, and differs according to a man's ray or type.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 99] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is not possible here to state the order of the application of these varying types of energy, nor to give the initiation during which the man contacts the different types.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These facts involve the secrets of the mysteries, and no purpose is served by revealing them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Other types of force from certain of the planetary schemes, as well as from cosmic centres, are brought into play by the Initiator and transmitted through the medium of the Rod to the various centres in the initiate's three vehicles, the mental, the astral, and the etheric centres.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the fourth initiation a specialised type of force from a centre which must remain nameless is applied to a man's causal body, and is one of the causes of its final disintegration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The logos forms the heart center of a still greater entity than the solar logos<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In thinking of this matter of the attainment of the sons of men, we must recognise that as mankind completes one unification after another, the "Heavenly Men" on intuitional levels and on spiritual levels are completed, and in their turn </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">go to the formation of the centres in the great "Heavenly Men" of the solar system. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>These </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">seven Heavenly Men, in Whose bodies each human Monad and each deva finds his place, form the seven centres in the body of the Logos.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">He, in His turn, forms the Heart centre (for God is Love) of a still greater Entity.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The consummation of all for this solar system will be when the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Logos takes His fifth initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When all the sons of men attain the fifth initiation, He achieves.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a great mystery and incomprehensible to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 126) THE RODS OF INITIATION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Rods of Initiation are of four kinds:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cosmic, used by a cosmic Logos in the initiations of a solar Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and of the three major Planetary Logoi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Systemic, used by a solar Logos in the initiations of a Planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>With cosmic initiation we have naught to do; it concerns expansions of realisation beyond even the ken of the highest initiate in our solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>With systemic initiations we are concerned only in trifling measure, for they are on so vast a scale that the average human mind cannot as yet envisage them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Man appreciates these initiations only in so far as they produce effects in the planetary scheme with which he may be concerned.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Particularly is this so should the scheme in which he plays his microscopic part be the centre in the Logoic body receiving stimulation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When that is the case, the initiation of his own Planetary Logos takes place, and consequently he (as a cellular body) receives an added stimulation along with the other sons of men.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Planetary, used by a Planetary Logos for initiatory purposes, and for the third, fourth, and fifth major initiations, with the two higher.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the planetary initiation the Rod of Power, wielded by the solar Logos</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">, is charged with pure electrical force from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">was received by our Logos during the secondary period of creation, from the hands of that great Entity Who is the presiding Lord of the Lords of Karma. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>He is the repository of the law during manifestation, and He it is Who is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">representative in [Page 127] the solar system of that greater Brotherhood on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Whose Lodges are found functioning as the occult Hierarchies in the different planets.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Again, it is He Who, with the solar Logos to assist Him, invests the various Initiators with power, gives to Them that word in secret which enables Them to draw down the pure electric force with which Their rods of office must be charged, and commits to Their keeping the peculiar secret of Their particular planetary scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Hierarchical, used by an occult Hierarchy for minor initiations, and for the first two initiations of manas by the Bodhisattva.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When man individualised in Lemurian days, it was through the application of the Rod of Initiation to the Logos of our earth chain, which touched into activity certain centres in His body, with their corresponding groups. <span style="">&nbsp;</span>This application produced literally the awakening of the life to intelligent work on the mental plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Animal man was conscious on the physical and on the astral planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By the stimulation effected by the electric rod this animal man awoke to consciousness on the mental.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus the three bodies were co-ordinated, and the Thinker enabled to function in them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All Rods of Initiation cause certain effects: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 182) To the three above points we might also briefly add that of the coming in, or passing out, of any particular ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The little that can be said upon this point, which is one of the greatest difficulty, might be summed up in the following three statements:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>First, that initiations taken on the four minor rays rank not in equality with initiations taken upon the major three.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is complicated somewhat by the fact that within the planetary Scheme, during cyclic evolution, a minor ray may be temporarily regarded as a major ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>For instance, at this particular time in our planetary Scheme, the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law or Order is regarded as a major ray, being a ray of synthesis, and one on which the Mahachohan is blending His work.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Secondly, that the first three initiations are taken upon the ray of the Ego, and link a man up with the great White Lodge; the last two are taken upon the ray of the monad, and have a definite effect upon the path for service that will be chosen later by the adept.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This statement must be linked up with that earlier made, which stated that the fifth initiation made a man [Page 182] a member of the Greater Lodge, or Brotherhood, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">on Sirius, being literally the first of the Sirian initiations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The fourth initiation is the synthesis of the Initiations of the Threshold in the Sirian Lodge.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Finally, according to the ray on which initiation is taken, so very largely depends the subsequent path of service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 188) 4. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Path to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Very little may be communicated about this Path, and the curiously close relation between it and the Pleiades can only be mentioned, further speculation being impossible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The bulk of liberated humanity goes this way, and the prospect holds out glorious possibilities.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The seven stars of the Pleiades are the goal for the seven types, 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></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">In the mystery of this influence, and in the secret of the sun Sirius, are hidden the facts of our cosmic evolution</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and incidentally, therefore, of our solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Two groups pass directly to the Cosmic planes with no period of intermediate work on earth, in the system of on Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. The Ray Path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is difficult to know by what other name to call this Path, as so little is known about it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In treading it, a man stays on his own ray, and works thereon in the various kingdoms on all the planes, carrying out the behests of the Lord of the World, and working under His direction.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It carries a man to every part of the solar system, yet links him definitely with the synthetic ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a very complex path, for it necessitates a capacity for the most intricate mathematics, and an ability to geometrise in a manner incomprehensible to our three-dimensional brains.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This path is taken by the man to whom the law of vibration is of profound importance.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He works first in the council chamber of the Lord of the World at Shamballa, manipulating the law of vibration on his own ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later he will have his habitat on the planet corresponding to his own ray, and [Page 189] not on the earth unless he is on the ray of the Planetary Logos holding sway upon the earth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later again as his evolution progresses, he will pass to the sun; then having mastered all connected with vibration in this system he will pass to the cosmic system, going off his own ray (which is but a subsidiary ray of one cosmic ray), on to the corresponding cosmic ray.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Just as the evolution of man in this system is fivefold, so in the above we have enumerated the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">principal five Paths</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> from which a Master has to choose.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The remaining two can only be touched upon still more briefly, for they hold but a very few of the evolving sons of men, owing to the high point of attainment necessitated for their entrance, and the fact that those who enter upon them pass out of the system altogether.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">They do not lead to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, as do some of the other Paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be noted that four groups remain in the system, passing eventually, in dim and distant aeons, to the cosmic planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">One group passes directly to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and the remaining two groups pass directly after initiation to the cosmic planes, with </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">no period of intermediate work on earth, in the system, or on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These two Paths are: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. The Path the Logos Himself Is On.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 Logos on the cosmic planes is evolving inner cosmic vision, 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 cosmic third eye.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 190] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A certain part of the eye is the nucleus of sight, and the apparatus of vision itself; the remainder of the eye acts as a protecting shell, 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>Certain of the sons of men, a nucleus who reached a very high initiation in the previous solar system, 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 with the Logos on the atomic, or first plane of the system, on the subjective inner side, and it corresponds, in an occult sense, to the pupil of the eye.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The real home of these great Entities is upon the cosmic buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Their return to a cosmic centre around which our system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">and the greater system of Sirius revolve</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Only one adept here and there has the necessary qualifications, for it involves the development of a certain type of response to cosmic vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It means a specialising in the inner sight, and the development of a certain measure of cosmic vision.<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 Path, the ray Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On this latter Path, the two evolutions can merge, and from the fifth Path the sixth can be entered.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. The Path of Absolute Sonship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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>[Page 191] It is the Sonship to a Being higher than our Logos, of whom we may not speak.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the great controlling Path of Karma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Lipika Lords are on this Path, 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 Path of the special intimates of the Logos, 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>This group, associated with the Logos, forms a special group linked to a still higher Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(LOM 7) Wherein, therefore, lies the macrocosmic correspondence?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Where is the analogy in the Solar System?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>An indication I give here.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the direct alignment of certain planets in the process of systemic evolution, with each other and with the Sun comes Logoic or divine alignment.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Think this out, but one word of warning I give.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Seek not to work out hypotheses of alignment based on the physical planets.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The truth lies not there.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Only three of the physical planets (and those three in etheric matter) enter into the final alignment that marks the attainment [Page 7] by the Logos of the cosmic egoic consciousness, which is His goal of attainment.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Of these three, the earth is not one, but Venus has her place corresponding to the emotional permanent atom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Further still the alignment may be progressed: in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">alignment of our entire solar system with the system of Sirius lies a still more remote goal.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a point far ahead in time, but holds hid the secret of the greater cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(LOM 259) Who are the Masters?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It might be of value to us in our consideration of the subject of access to the Masters via meditation if we started with a few fundamental statements, dealing with the Masters and Their place in evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We will therefore take up our first point.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We shall thus bring before the readers of these letters some idea as to Their status, Their comprehensive development, and Their methods of work.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Needless to say, much that will follow will carry nothing new in import.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The things that concern us most closely and the things that are to us the most familiar are oft the most frequently overlooked, and the most nebulous to our reasoning faculty.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is One Who has undergone the fifth initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>That really means that His consciousness has undergone such an expansion that it now includes the fifth or spiritual kingdom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has worked His way through the four lower kingdoms: the mineral, the vegetable, the animal and the human and has, through meditation and service, expanded His centre of consciousness till it now includes the plane of spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is One Who has effected the transfer of polarisation from the three atoms of the personal life as included in the causal body into the three atoms of the spiritual Triad.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is consciously [Page 260] spirit-intuition-abstract mind, or atma-buddhi-manas, and this is not potentially but in full effective power, realised through experience.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This has been brought about, as earlier said, through the process of meditation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is One Who has found not only the chord of the Ego, but the full chord of the Monad, and can ring the changes therefore at will upon all the notes from the lowest to that of the monadic.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This means occultly that He has now developed the creative faculty, and can sound the note for each plane and build thereon.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This power first to discover the notes of the monadic chord and secondly to use those notes in constructive building is first realised through meditation occultly performed, balanced by service lovingly administered.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who can wield the law in the three worlds and can dominate all that evolves on those planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By learning the laws of mind through the practice of meditation, He expands the laws of mind till they embrace the laws of the Universal Mind as demonstrated in lower manifestation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Laws of Mind are mastered in meditation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are applied in the life of service which is the logical outcome of true knowledge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who has passed out of the Hall of Learning into the Hall of Wisdom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has there graduated through its five grades and has transmuted lower mind into mind pure and unalloyed, has transmuted desire into intuition, and has irradiated His consciousness with the light of pure Spirit.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The discipline of meditation is the only way in which this can be accomplished.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who, through knowledge acquired by means of the five senses, has learnt [Page 261] that synthesis exists and has merged those five senses into the synthetic two, that mark the point of attainment in the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through meditation the geometrical sense of proportion is adjusted, the sense of values is clearly recognised, and through that adjustment and recognition, illusion is dispelled and reality is known.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The practice of meditation and the inner concentration there brought about awakens the consciousness to the value and true use of form.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thereby reality is contacted and the three worlds can no more ensnare.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who knows the meaning of consciousness, of life, and of spirit.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He can pass by the line of least resistance straight to the "bosom of His Father in Heaven".<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The approach to the line of least resistance, the direct path, is found through the practice of meditation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who has resolved Himself from the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;">five into the three, and from the three into the two.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has become the five-pointed star, and when that moment is reached He sees that star flash out above the One Initiator, and recognises it in those of equal place to His.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has sanctified (in the occult sense) the Quaternary, has used it as the foundation stone upon which to erect the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Temple</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Solomon</st1:placename></st1:place>.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has grown beyond that <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Temple</st1:place></st1:city> itself and has come to recognise it as limitation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has withdrawn Himself from its confining walls and has entered within the Triad.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has done this always by the occult method, that is, consciously and with full knowledge of each step taken.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He learns the meaning of each confining form; then, He has assumed control and wielded the law upon the plane consistent with the form.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has then outgrown the form and has discarded it for other and higher forms.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus He has progressed always by means of the sacrifice and death of the form.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Always [Page 262] it is recognised as imprisoning; always it must be sacrificed and must die so that the life within may speed ever on and up.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The path of resurrection presupposes crucifixion and death, and then leads to the Mount whence Ascension may be made.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In meditation the value of the life, and the confines of the form, can be appreciated and known, and by knowledge and service can the life be set free from all that limits and trammels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is One Who has chosen to stay upon our planet to help His fellowmen.... All who attain the fifth Initiation are Masters of the Wisdom, but all stay not and work as servers of the race.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They pass to other work of greater or equal importance.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To the general public the significance of the term lies in the thought that They choose to stay and limit Themselves for the sake of men who are pressing forward on the wave of evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through meditation has the Great One reached His goal and (which is a thing not so oft comprehended) through meditation, or the manipulation of thought matter, and by work on the mental bodies of the race, is the work carried on that aids the evolutionary process.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">He Who has taken the first initiation that links Him up with the greater Brotherhood on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As afore I have told you, He is an Initiate of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">First Degree in the greater Lodge</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has attained an expansion of consciousness that has admitted Him into touch with the solar system in many of its departments.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Now He has ahead of Him a vast reach of expansions that will eventually take Him </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">beyond systemic consciousness into something far greater and wider</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He has to begin to learn the rudiments of that cosmic meditation that will admit Him into a Consciousness past our conceivable surmise.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who can consciously function as part of the Heavenly Man to Whose Body He may belong.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He understands the laws governing groups and group souls.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He governs a group soul consciously Himself (a group on the path of return and formed of the lives of many sons of men) and He knows His place in the body systemic.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He realises the centre in the Body of the Heavenly Man by means of which He and His group are kept in sympathetic vibration, and conducts His relationship with other groups in the same Body under certain definite laws.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The value of meditation as a preparation for this activity will be realised by all thoughtful students, for meditation is the one means whereby the sense of separateness is transcended, and unity with one's kind occultly comprehended.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is He Who has entrusted to Him, by virtue of work accomplished, certain Words of Power.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By means of these Words He wields the law over other evolutions than the human, and through them He co-operates with the activity aspect of the Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus He blends His consciousness with that of the third Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through these Words He assists with the building work, and the cohesive manipulating endeavor of the second Logos, and comprehends the inner working of the law of gravitation for attraction and repulsion) that governs all the functions of the second aspect logoic.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through these Words He co-operates with the work of the first Logos, and learns, as He takes the sixth and seventh Initiations (which is not always done) the meaning of Will as applied in the system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These Words are imparted orally, and through clairvoyant faculty but must be found by the Initiate Himself, by the use of atma and as He attains atmic consciousness.... When atmic consciousness is developing by means of the intuition, the [Page 264] Initiate can contact the stores of knowledge inherent in the Monad, and thus learn the Words of Power.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This ability comes only after the application of the Rod of Initiation as wielded by the Lord of the World.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Therefore by the higher stages of occult meditation does a Master of the Wisdom increase still further His knowledge.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Not static is His consciousness, but daily embracing more. <span style="">&nbsp;</span>Daily does He apply Himself to further expansion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A Master of the Wisdom is One Who has earned the right through similarity of vibration to work with the Heads of the Hierarchy of this planet, and in conjunction with analogous Heads on two other planets connected with our chain.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When He has taken other initiations He can contact and work in conjunction with all the seven Planetary Logoi, and not just the three in control of allied chains.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The whole system can be embraced by Him, and His consciousness has expanded to include the entire objective solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I could enumerate still other definitions, and further elucidate the matter for you, but that imparted today suffices.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The point reached by a Master is high, but only relatively so, and you must not forget that when attained by Him it seems low indeed, for He measures it up with the vista expanding before Him.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each expansion of consciousness, each step upon the ladder, but opens before the Initiate another sphere to be embraced, and another step ahead to be taken; each initiation achieved but reveals still higher ones to be mastered, and never comes the point where the aspirant (be he an average man, an initiate, a Master, a Chohan, or a Buddha) can remain in a condition static, and is incapable of future progress.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Even the Logos Himself aspires, and even the One to Whom He aspires reaches up to a Greater.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">What happens in the system transpires likewise on cosmic levels</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">what is mastered here must be repeated on a vaster scale in the cosmos itself.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>In this thought lies inspiration and development and not despair or weariness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The reward that comes with each step forward, the delight that lies in increased comprehension, rewards the struggling aspirant in adequate fashion.... Tomorrow we will deal with the more practical side, that of the man who aims at this high calling.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Impression by members of the Great White Lodge on Sirius to the Highest members of the Council at Shamballa<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TEV 42) Sources of Impression to the Three Planetary Centres<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Impression, as an art to be mastered both from the angle of the impressing agent and of the impressed recipient, is definitely related to the world of ideas. As far as our planetary Life is concerned, there are certain great sources of impression and one or two of them might here be noted; you will thus gain some idea of the subtlety of the whole subject, of its close relation to energy impacts and of its group reception as differentiated from individual reception, as is the case in any telepathic rapport.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The impression of Shamballa by: <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Members of the Great White Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">recipients of this impression are the highest Members of the Great Council,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> presided over by the Lord of the World. So subtle is this impression [Page 43] that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">these Great Lives can only receive it with accuracy when in full joint conference of the entire Council,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and also after due preparation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. From one or other of the constellations which are at any particular time astrologically en rapport with our planet. This impression can only be received by the Great Council when sitting in conclave with a majority of its Members present. This, I would have you note, does not entail the attendance of the entire Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. From a triangle of circulating energy, emanating from the two planets which with our planet, the Earth form a triangle in any particular cycle. This impression is received by the three Buddhas of Activity for distribution to the Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. From the planet Venus, the Earth's alter ego. This makes its entrance via the Lord of the World and three of His Council Who are chosen by Him at any specific time to act as recipients.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><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;">These are the major entering impressions, recorded by what is glibly called "the Universal Mind</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">," the mind of God, our planetary Logos. There are other entering impressions, but to them I do not refer, as any reference would be meaningless to you.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TEV 131) Seven Statements Depicting the Pattern of the Present Planetary Work<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement One.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Dynamic electric energy entered into our planetary sphere from extra-planetary sources and from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a point of definite focus upon the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">energy was paralleled by a secondary energy from the sun Sirius,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> thus accounting for the dualism of manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement Two.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This energy expanded outward from its central focus (the centre called Shamballa) and in this expansion became [Page 132] the agency which impressed the Plan upon the serving Hierarchy. The Plan is that measure of possibility of immediate importance which the divine Purpose can present at any given moment in time and space.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement Three.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This process of expansion set up another focal point of energy, and the heart centre of the planet, the Hierarchy came into being; thus two centres were created and en rapport, which constitutes a major event upon the involutionary arc; to this, little attention has hitherto been paid. It coincided with" the advent or the arrival of the Lords of Flame from the alter ego of our Earth, the planet Venus. They created the nucleus of the Hierarchy which in that far, very distant time consisted of only forty-nine members; these were advanced human beings and not souls awaiting incarnation in human form on Earth, as was the case with the vast majority of these visiting Solar Angels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement Four.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Alignment between the head centre and the heart centre upon the involutionary arc was thus set up; another expansion took place which resulted, as you know well, in the creation of a new kingdom in nature, the fourth or human kingdom. This kingdom was destined to become and is today the third major centre in the planetary life. Then another alignment, but one which is still contained upon the involutionary arc, took place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement Five.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Today, an evolutionary alignment is taking place. The planetary centre which we call Humanity is active and vibrant, and it is now possible to "progress along the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Upward Way</st1:address></st1:street> and create the line which links the lesser with the higher, permitting thus an interplay." Men are rapidly moving out of the human centre into [Page 133] the hierarchical centre; the mass of men are responding to spiritual impression.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement Six.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At the same time, the heart centre of the planetary Logos, the Hierarchy, whilst it is being responsive to the invocation of the throat centre, Humanity, is becoming increasingly evocative and is itself attaining a much higher contact and alignment with the head centre of the planetary Logos; it is, therefore, capable of receiving a constantly developing dynamic impression from Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Statement Seven.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thus a great alignment is being achieved through the relationship and the interplay going on between these three major planetary centres; this produces a constant inflow of energies from several different sources, and these energies galvanise these three centres into a new and increased activity. Invocation is arising all the time between these centres and producing a consequent evocation of impressing energies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In these seven statements, you have depicted a PATTERN of the present planetary work or the present logoic thesis. An involutionary alignment (the guarantee of future successful alignments) constitutes most ancient history; an evolutionary alignment in which all three centres are involved is constantly producing an interplay of energies as well as a constantly successful impression of one centre upon another. Humanity, as the throat centre of the planetary Logos and the prime planetary creative agency (which modern science demonstrates), invokes the heart centre, the Hierarchy, and then receives the needed impression which will result in the developing civilisations and cultures as well as the eventual appearance on Earth of the fifth or spiritual [Page 134] kingdom.The Hierarchy or the planetary heart centre invokes Shamballa, the planetary head centre, and the Plan as an expression of the Purpose is impressed upon the hierarchical consciousness. If there is redundancy in these various comments of mine, it is entirely intentional; repetition serves the purposes of accurate presentation where esotericism is concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 146) The First Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The first Logos is the Ray of Cosmic Will.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>His mode of action is a literal driving forward of the solar ring-pass-not through space, and until the end of this mahamanvantara or day of Brahma (the logoic [Page 146] cycle) we shall not be able to conceive of the first aspect of will or power as it really is.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We know it now as the will to exist, manifesting through the matter of the forms (the Primordial Ray and the Divine Ray), and we know it as that which in some occult manner links the system up with its cosmic centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In a manner inconceivable to us the first Logos brings in the influence of other constellations.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">When this first aspect is better understood (in the next mahamanvantara) the work of the seven Rishis of the Great Bear,65 and the supreme influence of Sirius will be comprehended</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; in this present manifestation of the Son, or of the Vishnu aspect, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">we are concerned more closely with the Pleiades and their influence via the Sun, and, in relation to our planet, via Venus.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This subject of the first Logos, manifesting only in connection with the other two in the system, is a profound mystery, which is not fully understood by even those who have taken the sixth Initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 152) II. THE EFFECTS OF ROTARY MOTION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Every sphere in the body macrocosmic rotates.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This rotation produces certain effects, which effects might be enumerated as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Separation is produced by rotary movement.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By means of this action, all the spheres became differentiated, and form, as we know, the following atomic units:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The solar system, recognised as a cosmic atom, all the so-called atoms within its periphery being regarded as molecular.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The seven planes, regarded as seven vast spheres, rotating latitudinally within the solar periphery.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. The seven rays, regarded as the seven veiling forms of the Spirits, themselves spheroidal bands of colour, rotating longitudinally, and forming (in connection with the seven planes) a vast interlacing network.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These two sets of spheres (planes and rays) form the totality of the solar system, and produce its form spheroidal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let us withdraw our thought at this juncture from the informing Consciousnesses of these three types of spheres, and concentrate our attention upon the realisation that each plane is a vast sphere of matter, actuated by latent heat and progressing or rotating in one particular direction.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each ray of light, no matter of what colour, is likewise a sphere of matter of the utmost tenuity, rotating in a direction opposite to that of the planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These rays produce by their mutual interaction a radiatory effect upon each other.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus by the approximation of the latent heat in matter, and the interplay of that heat upon other spheres that totality is produced which we call "fire by friction."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 153] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In connection with these two types of spheres we might, by way of illustration and for the sake of clarity, say that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The planes rotate from east to west.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The rays rotate from north to south.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Students should here bear carefully in mind that we are not referring here to points in space; we are simply making this distinction and employing words in order to make an abstruse idea more comprehensible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From the point of view of the totality of the rays and planes there is no north, south, east nor west.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But at this point comes a correspondence and a point of real interest, though also of complexity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>By means of this very interaction, the work of the four Maharajahs or Lords of Karma, is made possible; the quaternary and all sumtotals of four can be seen as one of the basic combinations of matter, produced by the dual revolutions of planes and rays.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The seven planes, likewise atoms, rotate on their own axis, and conform to that which is required of all atomic lives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The seven spheres of any one plane, which we call subplanes, equally correspond to the system; each has its seven revolving wheels or planes that rotate through their own innate ability, due to latent heat the heat of the matter of which they are formed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The spheres or atoms of any form whatsoever, from the form logoic, which we have somewhat dealt with, down to the ultimate physical atom and the molecular matter that goes to the construction of the physical body, show similar correspondences and analogies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All these spheres conform to certain rules, fulfil certain conditions and are characterised by the same fundamental qualifications.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later we will consider these conditions, [Page 154] but must now continue with the effect of rotary action.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Momentum, resulting therefore in repulsion, was produced by the rotary movement.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We have referred to the Law of Repulsion as one of the subsidiary branches of the great Law of Economy, which governs matter.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Repulsion is brought about by rotary action, and is the basis of that separation which prevents the contact of any atom with any other atom, which keeps the planets at fixed points in space and separated stably from each other; which keeps them at a certain distance from their systemic centre, and which likewise keeps the planes and subplanes from losing their material identity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Here we can see the beginning of that age-long duel between Spirit and matter, which is characteristic of manifestation, one aspect working under the Law of Attraction, and the other governed by the Law of Repulsion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From aeon to aeon the conflict goes on, with matter becoming less potent.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Gradually (so gradually as to seem negated when viewed from the physical plane) the attractive power of Spirit is weakening the resistance of matter till, at the close of the greater solar cycles, destruction (as it is called) will ensue, and the Law of Repulsion be overcome by the Law of Attraction.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a destruction of form and not of matter itself, for matter is indestructible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This can be seen even now in the microcosmic life, and is the cause of the disintegration of form, which holds itself as a separated unit by the very method of repulsing all other forms.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It can be seen working out gradually and inappreciably in connection with the Moon, which no longer is repulsive to the earth, and is giving of her very substance to this planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>H. P. B. hints at this in The Secret Doctrine, and I have here suggested the law under which this is so.70,71 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 155] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Frictional effect on all other bodies atomic, producing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Vitality of the atom,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Coherence of the atom,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Ability to function.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. Heat supplied to the composite form of which it may form a fragmentary part, whether it is the heat supplied by the rotation of a planet within the form macrocosmic, or the rotation of a cell in the physical body within the form microcosmic.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e. Final combustion or disintegration, when the fires latent and radiatory have achieved a specific stage.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the secret of final obscuration and of pralaya, but cannot be dissociated from the two other factors of solar and electric fire.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Absorption, through that expression which is seen in all whirling spheres of atomic matter at whichever surface in the sphere corresponds to the point called in a planet the North Pole.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Some idea of the intention that I seek to convey may be grasped by a study of the atom as portrayed in Babbitt's "Principles of Light and Colour," and later in Mrs. Besant's "Occult Chemistry."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This depression is produced by radiations which proceed counter to the rotations of the sphere and pass down from the north southwards to a midway point.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From there they tend to increase the latent heat, to produce added momentum and to give specific quality according to the source from which the radiation comes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This absorption of extra-spheroidal emanation is the secret of the dependence of one sphere upon another, and has its correspondence in the cycling of a ray through any plane sphere.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Every atom, though termed spheroidal, is more accurately a sphere slightly depressed at one location, [Page 156] that location being the place through which flows the force which animates the matter of the sphere.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is true of all spheres, from the solar down to the atom of matter that we call the cell in the body physical.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through the depression in the physical atom flows the vitalising force from without.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Every atom is both positive and negative; it is receptive or negative where the inflowing force is concerned, and positive or radiatory where its own emanations are concerned, and in connection with its effect upon its environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This can be predicated likewise of the entire ring-pass-not of the solar system in relation to its cosmic environment.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Force flows into the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">solar system from three directions via three channels</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The Pleiades,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. The Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would here point out the connection or correspondence in this statement to an earlier one made when speaking of solar radiation, and the channels through which it can be felt.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These currents or radiations we call<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Akashic.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Electrical.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Pranic.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In considering the occult meaning of what is here suggested, one point in elucidation may be imparted, leaving the working out of the other two relationships to the student.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Pleiades are to the solar system, the source of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">electrical energy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and just as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">our sun is the embodiment of the heart,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> or love aspect, of the Logos </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(Who is Himself the heart of ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID) </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so the Pleiades are the feminine opposite of Brahma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Think this out, for much is contained in this statement.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Certain broad statements have been laid down here concerning the rotation of matter, and the results produced [Page 157] in diverse spheres by that rotation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>What is predicated of any one sphere or atom can be predicated of all, if it is in any way an occult statement of fact and we should be able to work out these four effects:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Separation, or the repulsive effect,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Momentum, or the interior effect,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Frictional, environal effect,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Absorption, the receptive or attractive effect,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in every grade and type of atom, a solar system, a sun, a planet, a plane, a ray, the body of the Ego, or a cell in the physical body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 212) Third.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Rod of Initiation, wielded by the Logos of the solar system, is called among other things, the "Sevenfold Flaming Fire."<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">It was confided to our Logos by the Lord of Sirius and sent to our system from that radiant sun. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>One of its purposes is for use in emergencies.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This great talisman has never yet been employed in this particular manner, though twice it was nearly thus used, once in Atlantean days, and once in the third year of the late war</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This Rod of Power </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">is used at the initiation of the seven Heavenly Men on cosmic levels.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is used also in the initiation of groups, a thing almost incomprehensible to us.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is applied to the centres of the seven Heavenly Men in the same general way as the lesser Rods are applied to the human centres, and the effects are the same, only on a vaster scale.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This, needless to say, is a vast and abstruse subject, and concerns not the sons of men.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is but touched upon, as an enumeration of the Rods of Initiation would be incomplete without some reference to it, and it serves to show the wondrous synthesis of the whole, and the place of the system within an even greater scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In all things cosmic, perfect law and order are found, and the ramifications of the plan can be seen on all planes and all subplanes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This greatest Rod is in the care of the first great group of karmic Lords.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It might be described as the Rod which carries a voltage of pure fohatic force from cosmic levels.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The two lesser Rods carry differentiated fohatic force.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This logoic Rod of Power is kept within the Sun, and is only re-charged at the beginning of every one hundred years of Brahma.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The reason why the Rods of Power are here discussed is that they have definitely to do with the centres which are force vortices in matter and which (though channels [Page 213] for spiritual force, or centres wherein the 'will to be' finds expression) demonstrate as activity in matter.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are the centres of existence, and just as one cannot, in manifestation, dissociate the two poles of Spirit and matter, so one cannot, in initiation apply the Rod without bringing about definite effects between the two.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Rods are charged with Fohat which is fire of matter plus electric fire, hence their effect.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mystery cannot be explained in greater detail as the secrets of initiation are not transmissible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>More has been here imparted on this matter than hitherto, though there are those who have heard these things.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 347) Second, in the second solar system, and in connection with the method employed therein, another point merits attention.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This fire of mind has its source in a constellation until recently unrecognized by exoteric science as having any relation of an intimate nature to our solar system, owing to its tremendous distance away.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun "Sirius" is the source of logoic manas in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of manas in the seven Heavenly Men,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and Venus was responsible for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each was primary to the other, or was the agent which produced the first flicker of consciousness in the particular groups involved.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In every case the method was that of a slow evolutionary growth till the consciousness suddenly blazed forth owing to the interposition of force, apparently from an extraneous source,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Logos<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Solar System<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Seven Heavenly Men<span style=""> </span>Planetary scheme<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Pleiades<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Heavenly Man<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Earth chain<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Venus<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This second method therefore is that which is brought about by the hastening of the evolutionary process through influences from outside; these tend to awaken consciousness, and to bring about the merging of the poles.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The first method touched upon was that of the earlier solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The method we are now considering is the distinctive one of this solar system and will persist till the end of the mahamanvantara.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">That the earlier method was seen in the moon-chain is only evidence of the steadfastness of the Law of Repetition by which every large cycle includes, in its earlier [Page 348] stages, all the lesser, and repeats the earlier procedure.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a recognised fact, for instance, in the building of man's physical body, for the foetus reproduces all earlier stages and forms till the human is achieved; again, as we know, the fourth round reproduces briefly the earlier three but has its own distinctive quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 375) It would be well to enlarge here a little on the connection between Venus and the Earth, which is hinted at in some of the occult books, and is somewhat touched upon in this.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I have stated that the interaction between the two schemes is due largely to their positive and negative polarity, and I pointed out that a similar relation underlies the relation of the Pleiades and the seven schemes of our solar system, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">also the relation of Sirius and the system itself.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This, therefore, sweeps into close interaction three great systems:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">system of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The system of the Pleiades,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The system of which our sun is the focal point,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">making, as we will have noted, a cosmic triangle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Within our system there are several such triangles, varying at different stages; according to their relation to each other, the differentiated force of the different schemes can pass from scheme to scheme, and thus the units of life on the different rays or streams of force become temporarily intermingled.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In all these triangles (cosmic, systemic, planetary, and human) two points of the triangle represent each a different polarity, and one point represents the point of equilibrium, of synthesis or merging.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This should be borne in mind in studying both the macrocosmic and the microcosmic centres, for it accounts for diversity in manifestation, in forms and in quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A correspondence might here also be pointed out which [Page 376] may serve to convey light to those who have eyes to see::<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Venus scheme, being in the fifth round, had the fifth principle of manas co-ordinated and developed, the minor four manasic aspects had been synthesised, and the buddhic aspect was being provided with a means of expression through the medium of the perfected fifth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our Heavenly Man, in the fifth round, will have attained a paralleling point in evolution, and the fifth principle will, as stated, be no longer the object of His attention as regards the human units.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Five stages of activity mark the development and utilisation of the mind principle; there are three stages of acquisition, and two wherein that which has been acquired is used.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is too intricate a calculation for us to enter into it here, and it cannot be undertaken except by an initiate, for it involves ability to study the cycles of the earlier solar system, but it might be noted that (judging from the microcosm on the earth planet) this is just what might be expected.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Man developed manas in this round during the third, fourth and fifth root-races, and utilises it for the development of the intuition and of the higher consciousness during the sixth and seventh.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>During an incarnation by a planetary Logos in a chain, during one round He demonstrates through His seven centres or globes manas on three globes, and utilises it for specific purposes on the final two.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a lesser cycle to that in which we view the seven chains as His seven centres.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These words are chosen with care; I say not "acquires manas"; He but produces that which is inherent.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It must be remembered that just as the planes of a solar system stand for a different purpose, vibrate to a different key, and serve their own specific ends, so do the globes serve an analogous function.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Globe 1, is that of ultimate abstraction, and of origination.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the initial globe of manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 377] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Globe 2, is the first sheath in which a Heavenly Man embodies Himself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Globes 3, 4, 5, are those through which He demonstrates the possession of the manasic principle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. Globes 6 and 7, are the ones through which He manifests buddhi, through forms built by means of the manasic principle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This can be equally predicated on a larger scale of a chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An interesting correspondence of a very occult nature can be worked out by the advanced student in connection also with the seven schemes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There are two which may be considered primarily archetypal, causal, or involving abstraction; three in which manas is manifested, and two in which already buddhi is manasically demonstrating.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Of these two, Venus is one and thus we have the three and the two which make the five schemes of the five Kumaras, Who are Brahma.36<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Just as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Venus is negatively polarised to our Earth scheme</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, so the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">seven stars of the Pleiades are negatively polarised to our seven schemes.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A very pertinent question might here be asked.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We might justly enquire (in connection with the point that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Venus is negatively polarised, and also that the Pleiades are equally so</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) why they should be termed negative if they are the donors and not the receivers, for to be negative is surely to be receptive.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is indeed so, but the question arises in our minds, owing to lack of information, and consequent misapprehension.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Venus may have had much to do with the impartation of the stimulation which resulted in great events on Earth via the Venus chain of our scheme, but our scheme gave, in a mysterious manner, more than was received, though the [Page 378] gift was not of the same nature.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The coming in of the Venusian influence to our chain, and to our planet, with the subsequent stimulation of certain groups in the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human, caused a paralleling event of even greater magnitude in the Venus scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This affected the sixth Hierarchy, one of the deva Hierarchies, dwelling in the Venus scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This stimulation emanated via our sixth chain (or the second according to the angle of vision) and affected a corresponding chain in the Venus scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The magnitude of the difference may be seen in the fact that in our case one globe alone was affected, whereas the influence of our scheme on the Venusian was such that an entire chain was stimulated.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This was brought about through the positive polarity of the Heavenly Man of the Earth scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Therefore, enlarging the concept, we can note the fact that our Heavenly Men are the transmitters, via their seven schemes, to the seven stars of the Pleiades.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Our solar system is negatively polarised as regards the sun Sirius, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which influences our entire system psychically </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">via the three synthesising schemes Uranus, Neptune, Saturn</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> the latter, Saturn, being the focal point for the transmission of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">cosmic manas to the entire seven schemes</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 386) The same equally can be predicated of a solar Logos with the following interesting sequence carefully borne in mind:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The solar Logos has for objective nine initiations, the third cosmic Initiation being His goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our planetary Logos has for objective seven initiations, the second cosmic Initiation being His goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Man has for objective five initiations, the first cosmic Initiation being his goal.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 385]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">CHART VII EARTH SCHEME No. 4 <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 386] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">If we link this up with that earlier imparted concerning initiation and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, we will have a clue to the triple cosmic Path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Fourth</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Kingdom</st1:placetype></st1:place> and the Hierarchy of the Planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Certain facts have already been grasped and realised by the average occult student who has been pondering this teaching with care.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is aware that the juncture of Spirit-matter and mind, or manas, was effected during the third root-race, and that the definitely human family became present upon earth from that date.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He knows that this was brought about by the coming, in bodily Presence, of certain great Entities, and he has learned that these Entities came from the Venusian chain, that They achieved the necessary juncture, undertook the government of the planet, founded the occult Hierarchy, and that though some remain with the chain the remainder have returned to Their originating source.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This in many ways sums up the totality of the present knowledge.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Let us briefly enlarge upon it, correct certain erroneous interpretations, and ascertain one or two new facts.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We might tabulate these as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First, it should be borne in mind by the occult student that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. This advent signalised the taking of a physical vehicle by the planetary Logos, and was literally the coming of the Avatar.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. That this advent was brought about by a definite </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">systemic alignment</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which involved:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Venus scheme of the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Venus chain of the Earth scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Venus globe of the Earth chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. That the planetary Logos did not come from the Venus scheme but from the Venus chain of His own scheme, the Earth scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Owing to systemic [Page 387] alignment logoic kundalini could flow through a certain triangle of which two points were Venus and the Earth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This caused an acceleration of vibration, and enabled the Heavenly Man of our scheme to take a minor initiation, and to set about His preparations for a major initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Next, it should also be remembered that in considering this matter we must be careful to view it not only as it affects our own globe and its present humanity, but from the systemic and cosmic point of view, or from the angle of its importance to a planetary Logos and a solar Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Hence it is a fact that this event was not only the result of the taking of a minor initiation by our Earth Logos, but in the Venus scheme it was signalised by the taking of a major initiation by the Venusian planetary Logos on His fifth chain.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In connection with a solar Logos it followed upon the stimulation of one of His centres and from the geometrical progression of the fire through the earlier mentioned Triangle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It has been stated that one hundred and four Kumaras came from Venus to the Earth; literally the figure is one hundred and five, when the synthesising Unit, the Lord of the World Himself, is counted as one.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There remain still with Him the three Buddhas of Activity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would call attention to the dual significance of that name, "Buddha of Activity," bearing out, as it does, the reality of the fact that Entities at Their stage of evolution are active love-wisdom and embody in Themselves the two aspects.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The three Buddhas of activity have a correspondence to the three persons of the Trinity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These Entities are divided into three groups of thirty-five each, and in Themselves embody the three major centres of the planetary Logos, those three groups which we know as the "three departments," for it should be emphasised that each department forms a centre:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The Head centre..............The Ruling Department<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The Heart centre..............The Teaching Department<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. The Throat centre.............The Mahachohan's Department.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This centre synthesises the lesser four, just as the third Ray synthesises the minor four.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These Kumaras (or Their present substitutes) can also be divided into the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">seven groups which correspond to the seven Rays,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and are in Themselves the life of the centre for which They stand.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Fifteen, therefore, of these Entities (again the ten and the five) form a centre in the body of the planetary Logos, and the three Kumaras about Whom we are told (Who in Themselves are fivefold, making the fifteen) are the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">entifying Lives of the particular centre</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which is involved in the coming Initiation of the Heavenly Man, and to which the human units at this time, and during this greater cycle, belong.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 552) a. Response to Vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is always recognised in occult circles that the whole object of human evolution is to enable the Thinker to respond to every contact fully and consciously, and thus to utilise his material sheath, or sheaths, as adequate transmitter of such contact.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The most easily studied human thought-form is the one the Ego creates through which to function.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He builds his sheaths by the power of thought, and the dense physical body is the best sheath that at any particular stage of evolution he can at the time manufacture.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The same can be predicated of the solar Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He builds by the power of thought a body which can respond to that group of vibrations which are concerned with the cosmic physical plane (the only one we can study).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not yet adequate, and does not fully express the logoic Thinker.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The vibrations to which the systemic thought-form must respond</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> are many in number, but for our purposes might be enumerated as mainly seven:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The vibrations of the cosmic physical plane, viewing it as all the matter of that plane which exists [Page 553] outside the logoic ring-pass-not.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It concerns the pranic and akashic fluids and currents.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The vibrations of the cosmic astral plane as they affect the physical form of divine manifestation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This involves cosmically the action upon our solar Logos of the emotional quality of other cosmic entities, and concerns the magnetic effect upon Him of their psychic emanation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This, in view of the fact that His dense physical body is not a principle, is of a more potent nature than the first set of vibrations, as is the case also in man's evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Vibrations from that which, within the logoic consciousness, is recognised as the logoic Higher Self, or His emanating source.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This brings the solar system within the vibratory radius of certain constellations which have a position of profound importance in the general evolution of the system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Vibrations from Sirius via the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. Vibrations from the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">seven Rishis of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">primarily from those two Who are the Prototypes of the Lords of the seventh and fifth Rays.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a most important point, and finds its microcosmic correspondence in the place which the seventh Ray has in the building of a thoughtform, and the use of the fifth Ray in the work of concretion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All magicians who work with matter and who are occupied with form-building (either consciously or unconsciously) call in these two types of force or energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. Certain very remote vibrations, as yet no more appreciable in the logoic Body than is monadic influence in that of average man, from the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID, that cosmic [Page 554] Existence </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Who is expressing Himself through seven centres of force, of which our solar system is one.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. A series of vibrations which will become more potent as our Logos nears that period which is occultly called "Divine Maturity," which emanate from that constellation in the Heavens which embodies His polar opposite.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a deep mystery and concerns the cosmic marriage of the Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 567) 2. The Laws of Thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">three great laws</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, that we might term the fundamental laws of the cosmos, of that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">greater system (recognised by all astronomers), of which we form a part,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and seven laws inherent in the solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These seven we might consider secondary laws, though, from the standpoint of humanity, they appear as major ones.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Three Cosmic Laws</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The first of the cosmic laws is the Law of Synthesis.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is almost impossible for those of us who have not the buddhic faculty in any way developed, to comprehend the scope of this law.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the law that demonstrates the fact that all things abstract and concrete exist as one; it is the law governing the thought form of that One of the cosmic Logoi [Page 568] in Whose consciousness both our system, and our greater centre, have a part.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a unit of His thought, a thought form in its entirety, a concrete whole, and not the differentiated process that we feel our evolving system to be.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the sumtotal, the centre and the periphery, and the circle of manifestation regarded as a unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">second law is the Law of Attraction and Repulsion</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Fundamentally, the law describes the compelling force of attraction that holds our solar system to the Sirian; that holds our planets revolving around our central unit, the sun; that holds the lesser systems of atomic and molecular matter circulating around a centre in the planet; and that holds the matter of all physical plane bodies, and that of the subtle bodies co-ordinated around their microcosmic centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">third law is the Law of Economy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and is the law which adjusts all that concerns the material and spiritual evolution of the cosmos to the best possible advantage and with the least expenditure of force.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It makes perfect each atom of time, and each eternal period, and carries all onward, and upward, and through, with the least possible effort, with the proper adjustment of equilibrium, and with the necessary rate of rhythm.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Unevenness of rhythm is really an illusion of time, and does not exist in the cosmic centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We need to ponder on this, for it holds the secret of peace, and we need to grasp the significance of that word through, for it describes the next racial expansion of consciousness, and has an occult meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the nomenclature of these laws much is lost, for it is well nigh impossible to resolve abstractions into the terms of speech, and not lose the inner sense in the process.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In these laws we again have the threefold idea demonstrated, and the correspondence, as might be expected, holds good.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 569]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Synthesis<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Will Aspect<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1st Aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Attraction<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Love Aspect<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2nd Aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Economy<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Activity Aspect<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3rd Aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seven Systemic Laws</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Subsidiary to the three major laws, we find the seven laws of our solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Again we find the law of analogy elucidating, and the three becoming the seven as elsewhere in the logoic scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In each of these seven laws we find an interesting correlation with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">seven planes</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Law of Vibration, the basis of manifestation, starting on the first plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the atomic law of the system, in the same sense that on each of our planes the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first subplane is the atomic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The law of Cohesion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On the second plane cohesion is first apparent.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the first molecular plane of the system, and is the home of the Monad.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Divine coherency is demonstrated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The Law of Disintegration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On the third plane comes the final casting-off, the ultimate shedding of the sheaths, of the fivefold superman.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A Chohan of the sixth Initiation discards all the sheaths beneath the monadic vehicle, from the atmic to the physical.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The Law of Magnetic Control holds sway paramountly on the buddhic plane, and in the development of the control of this law lies hid the control of the personality by the Monad via the egoic body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. The Law of Fixation demonstrates principally on the mental plane and has a close connection with manas, the fifth principle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mind controls and stabilises, and cohereney is the result.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. The Law of Love is the law of the astral plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It aims at the transmutation of the desire nature, and links it up with the greater magnetism of the love aspect on the buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. The Law of Sacrifice and Death is the controlling factor on the physical plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The destruction of the form, in order that the evolving life may progress, is one of the fundamental methods in evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Intermediate Law of Karma. There is also an intermediate law, which is the synthetic law of the system [Page 570] of Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This law is called by the generic term, the Law of Karma, and really predicates the effect the Sirian system has on our solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each of the two systems, as regards its internal economy, is independent in time and space, or (in other words), in manifestation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We have practically no effect on our parent system, the reflex action is so slight as to be negligible, but very definite effects are felt in our system through causes arising in Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These causes, when experienced as effects, are called by us the Law of Karma, and at the beginning they started systemic Karma which, once in effect, constitutes that which is called Karma in our occult and oriental literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Lipika Lords of our system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, the systemic Lords of Karma, are under the rule of a greater </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">corresponding Lord on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We have therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The three cosmic laws of Synthesis, Attraction and Economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Sirian law of Karma</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The seven laws of the solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As we have been told, our seven major vibrations are the vibrations of the lowest cosmic plane; there is our habitat.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our Logos Himself, the heart of His system, is on the cosmic astral plane; he is polarised there.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just as the units of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human, are evolving through the use of physical bodies, but are polarised at this time in their astral vehicles, so we have seen that the objective solar system forms the physical body of the Logos, though His polarity is in His astral body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is significant that in this greater manvantara, the Logos is to take the fourth cosmic Initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A hint which may enlighten lies in the correspondence which exists between this statement and the [Page 571] fourth root-race development, and this, the fourth or astral round.81<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Elsewhere we are told that the Ego of our PL is on the 3<sup>rd</sup> subplane of the Cosmic mental plane and the Ego of Sirius on the 1<sup>st</sup> subplane of the Cosmic Mental plane<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The system of the Sirian Logos is on the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and in a subtle way, incomprehensible to us, our Logos, with His system, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">forms a part of a still greater Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This does not involve loss of identity, though the matter is too abstruse to express more adequately.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is in this analogy that the basic idea can be found of all teaching given out about the Grand Heavenly <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Man.</st1:place></st1:state><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The whole conception of these laws is bound up in this idea.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We have the three laws of the cosmic higher planes, holding in a synthesis of beauty the greater and the lesser system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Next we have the great law of Sirius, the Law of Karma, on the third subplane of the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which law really controls our Logos, and His actions, in the same way as the ego in due course of evolution controls the human personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We need to remember that, under the Law of Correspondences, we shall have a relationship in the Cosmos, similar to that existing in the microcosm between the ego and the personality.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The suggestion holds much that we might consider with benefit.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We must not, however, carry the analogy too far; as we have not yet evolved to where we have planetary consciousness, still less systemic, how can we really expect even to conceive of the A B C of cosmic truth?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just broad hints, wide conceptions, and generalities, are as yet possible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Of one thing we can be sure, and that is that identity ever remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let me explain by illustration:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Each of us is a member of a group of Egos, and these form the chakras of a Planet<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Our Monads form the chakras of a Solar Logos<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Our solar logos forms part of the Sirian Logos<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The Sirian Logos forms part of one of the Grand Heavenly men/Constellations which is one of the chakras of the OAWNMBS<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each one of us</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, in due process of evolution, forms part of one of the Heavenly Men, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Who Themselves form the [Page 572] seven centres in that greater Heavenly Man, the Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet, though we are merged with the whole, we do not lose our identity, but forever remain separated units of consciousness, though one with all that lives or is.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">In like manner our Logos loses not His identity, even though He forms part of the Consciousness of the Logos of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In His turn, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centres in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 624) The Cosmic Astral Plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The force from this plane plays through our systemic astral plane, the cosmic liquid physical sub-plane, and it is practically subject only to two differentiations, each of them occultly embodied in two great groups of devas:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The devas who are the substance or force of the astral plane, viewing it as the sumtotal of desire, of feeling and of sensation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are, therefore, the nerve centers, or nerve plexi, of the logoic physical body, for the systemic astral plane provides the nervous system of the logoic physical body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the body of intensest vibration from the physical standpoint, and the vehicle through which all is transmitted to that portion of the logoic physical body which corresponds to the brain [Page 624] in man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I can elucidate this no further, but the few words here imparted open up a tremendous range of thought, and give the key to much which transpires and which is distressing in solar evolution as well as human.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Second.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Those devas who are the sumtotal of the astral light</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are the agents of the karmic lords, who are in themselves deva entities of an inconceivably advanced evolution and who, in their own substance,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Record.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Produce effects from cause.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Direct force.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This particular group of devas emanate from a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">great force centre which we generalise by calling it by the name of the sun Sirius. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius-kama-manas the cosmic astral plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">systemic astral plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> make a close interlocking chain, and form the line of least resistance for a particular type of negative force to pour through.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Appropriation by the solar logos of his dense physical body<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 699) A hint may here be given to those who have power to see.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Three constellations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its threefold manifestation:<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, two of the Pleiades, and a small constellation whose name must be ascertained by the intuition</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of the student.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These three govern the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">appropriation by the Logos of His dense body.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>When the last pralaya ended, and the etheric body had been co-ordinated, a triangle in the Heavens was formed under law which permitted a flow of force, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">producing vibration on the fifth systemic plane.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>That triangle still persists, and is the cause of the continued inflow of manasic force; it is connected with the spirillae in the logoic mental unit and as long as His will-to-be persists, the energy will continue to flow through.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In the fifth round, it will be felt at its height.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 723) 1. Cosmic Avatars:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They represent embodied force from the following cosmic centres among others:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. That </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">one of the seven stars of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which is ensouled by the prototype of the Lord of our third major Ray.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Our cosmic centre</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">They represent entities as far removed from the consciousness of Man, as man is from the consciousness of the atom of substance</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thousands of those great cycles which we call "a hundred years of Brahma" have passed since They approximated the human stage, and They embody force and consciousness which is concerned with the intelligent co-ordination of the starry Heavens.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">They have achieved all that man can conceive of as the transcendence of will, of love and of intelligence, and in the synthesis of those three have added qualities and vibrations for which we have no terms, and which cannot be visioned by even our highest adepts.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their appearance in a solar system is very unusual, and is only recognised on the highest two planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet, owing to the material nature of our solar system, Their advent is literally the appearance in a physical form of a spiritual Being Who is fully conscious.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Such entities from Sirius appear at the occasion of the initiation of the solar Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and They have a peculiar connection with the five Kumaras and through Them (using Them as focal points for force) with the Mahachohan's department in all the occult Hierarchies of the system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Only once has such a Being visited our system, in connection with the appearance in time and space of the five mind-born Sons of Brahma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The effect of such a visit as that of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Avatar from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is seen [Page 724] as the sumtotal of civilisation and culture, viewing these from the standpoint of the entire system and in one flash of time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">An avatar from the cosmic centre will appear as pralaya is nearing and will produce in the body of the Logos that which we call "Death."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is the cosmic Reaper, and (to reduce the above to words of an understandable nature) He belongs to a group which represents the abstracting energy of the cosmos, of which we find faint correspondences in the work of the "destroyer" aspect of the Logos, and in the forces which produce physical death, and the disintegration of the physical body of man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not possible to say more on these fundamentally esoteric matters, and the value of what is said lies largely in the bringing to the mind of the student the reality of our cosmic interrelation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 795) A further factor in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">cyclic computation lies in the effect of the following stars and constellations </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">upon our system and upon any particular scheme within the system:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The Little Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. The Pole Star, especially where our planet is concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. The Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e. The constellation of Capricorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">f. Draco.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">g. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">h. The various constellations and stars of the Zodiac.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 796] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The mystery is hidden in esoteric astrology, and until the subject of energy working through the etheric body, of radioactivity, and of the transmutation of all bodies from a lower state into a higher is better comprehended, the true mystery of the "influence" of these various bodies upon each other will remain at its present stage an unrevealed secret.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>If the radiatory effect of a human being or of a group of human beings upon each other is as yet practically an unknown thing from the standpoint of practical science, so the occult effect of these greater forms upon each other remains unknown.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Science recognises certain effects, leading and tending to the general coherence of the universe, just as the general laws of the social order among men are theoretically apprehended, but the true scientific realisation of energy-radiations emanating from the etheric bodies of all these suns and groups of suns, and from all these planets and groups of planets is little understood.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their atomic activity is recognised, but that department of their being, which finds its correspondence in "animal magnetism" in man, is little realised, while the even more potent factor of the magnetic radiation of their astral bodies is totally uncalculated, nor is it admitted.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All these factors have to be allowed for in any consideration of the factor of time and cycles, and the true esoteric knowledge is not to be gained by the study of figures by the lower mind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It comes as the result of the intuition and is stimulated at initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 844) <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>TABULATION VI<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The informing life of a kingdom <span style=""> </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Transference in one of three directions:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&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; </span><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>a.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To the line of the solar Pitris.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&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;&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>b.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">To Sirius, as a karmic adjuster</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">To the solar system of the next order</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> 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 style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>6.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The human evolution.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>To become the solar Pitris of another cycle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To follow any of the paths earlier enumerated.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Those who become solar Pitris, being the bulk of humanity, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">return to Sirius to be breathed out again into activity</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. <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;&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;&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><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 904) Speaking generally, it must be remembered that the earth devas of densest matter become, in the course of evolution, the devas of the waters, and find their way eventually on to the astral plane, the cosmic liquid; the devas of the waters of the physical plane find their way, through service, on to the gaseous subplane, and then to the cosmic gaseous, becoming the devas of the mental plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This literally and occultly constitutes the transmutation of desire into thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These three groups are therefore cosmically connected with:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 904] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The cosmic astral plane and the constellation whence emotional and desire energy originates.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and therefore with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">constellation Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The cosmic buddhic plane, and the constellation of the Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thus can the whole process be worked out, if man carefully studies his own nature, and the law of analogy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Spiral cyclic influences, Sirius and the corresponding Causal body of man<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1033) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The activity of the second aspect has been called spiral-cyclic</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which in itself involves the concept of duality.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This activity is the cause of all cyclic evolution, and has been called in the occult phraseology "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the activity of Brahma's year</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." It is that which brings about the [Page 1033] periodical appearing and disappearing of all existences, great or small.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is intimately linked with the will aspect of Divinity, and with the Lipika Lords of the highest degree and its origin is, therefore, difficult for us to comprehend.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Perhaps all that can be said about it is that it is largely due to certain impulses which (as far as our solar system is concerned) can be </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">traced to the sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These impulses </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">find their analogy in the impulses emanating in cyclic fashion from the causal body of man,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which impulses bring about his appearance upon the plane of maya for a temporary period.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A hint may here be given to the earnest student; in the threefold Ego (the lives who form the central bud, the lives of the petals, and the triple group of lives who form the three permanent atoms) is seen a correspondence to the three groups of Lipika Lords who are the karmic cause of solar manifestation, and who control its periodic manifestation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These three groups are related to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Their guiding Intelligences on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Periodicity is the effect produced by the amalgamation of these two types of force with a third.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The two types of force or energy are the activity of the first Aspect, the logoic will or purpose, and the energy of the second aspect.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This purpose is hidden in foreknowledge of the Logos and is completely hidden even from the Adept of the fifth Initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Adept has achieved a comprehension of the purpose of the Son, and for Him there remains the problem to recognise the purpose of the Father.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The one is the impulse behind the forward movement of all life, and the other the impulse behind its cyclic activity, and this is called spiral-cyclic.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When this blended dual force is brought in touch with the rotary activity of matter itself, we have the triple activity of the Ego, for instance, which is rotary-spiral-cyclic, and that which results in the stimulation of the self-contained atom, in the periodical emergence of form, and in the [Page 1034] steady, though slow, progress towards a goal.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We might, for the sake of clarity, differentiate the effects thus:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Rotary activity....The internal activity of every atom viewed as a unity, the activity of Brahma or the Holy Spirit, perfected in the first solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is unified individual consciousness..."I am."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Cyclic activity....The activity of all forms, viewing them from the aspect of consciousness, and of time.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is unified group consciousness..."I am That," the activity of Vishnu in process of being perfected in this the second solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Spiral activity....The influence which impresses all forms, which emanates from their greater centre, and which merges itself a little, a very little, with the two other modes of motion, being practically lost sight of in the stronger vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the activity which will be perfected in the third solar system, and is the Shiva form of motion, and the unified consciousness of all groups.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the consciousness which proclaims "I am That I am."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One of the primary things the occult student should remember when considering the nature of spiral-cyclic activity, is that it has two effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First, it is an attractive force, gathering the rotating atoms of matter into definite types and forms, and holding them there as long as necessity demands.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Secondly, it is itself gradually dominated by another and higher vibration, and through its spiralling progress through matter it sweeps those forms systematically nearer and nearer to another and stronger point of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1053) 14. We must not ignore the three great waves of energy which sweep cyclically through the entire solar system from:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The seven stars of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The strength of these vibrations depends upon the closeness of the connection and the accuracy of the alignment between any particular Heavenly Man and His Prototype.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mystery here is profound; it is connected with the stage in evolution of the "imperfect gods" and the objective of the planetary deities.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 1053] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Seven Sisters, or the Pleiades</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and from that one in particular who is occultly termed "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the wife" of the planetary Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> whose scheme will eventually receive the seeds of life from our planet, which is not considered a sacred planet, as has before been stated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1055) 3. The Law of Solar Evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is, of course, a truism to state that the Law of Solar Evolution is the sum-total of all the lesser activities. [Page 1055] We might consider this point in connection with the planetary atom, and the solar atom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u>The planetary atom has, as all else in nature, three main activities:<o:p></o:p></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It rotates upon its own axis</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, revolves cyclically within its own ring-pass-not, and thus displays its own inherent energy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>What is meant by this phrase?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Surely that the milliards of atoms which compose the planetary body (whether dense or subtle) pursue an orbital course around the central energetic positive unit.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This dynamic force centre must be considered as subsisting naturally in two locations (if such an unsuitable term is permissible) according to the stage, usage, and particular type of the indwelling planetary entity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. In what corresponds to the head centre in man, if the planetary Logos is of very advanced development.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. In the planetary correspondence to the heart centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The throat centre is, of course, ever vibrant in all the Logoi, as all are fully intelligent Creators, having perfected this capacity in an earlier solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Students should here bear in mind that these centres of force are to be found depicted in the central Triangles upon the chart on page 373, though no indication is to be found through a study of such triangles as to the relative attainment of the planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Within the chains likewise, will be found corresponding centres of energy, and also within the dense physical body of the Logos of any scheme, the physical planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One such centre is to be found at the North Pole, and two more are located within the planetary sphere, and frequently the inflow of force or energy to these internal centres (via the polar centre) results in those disasters we call earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There is, as we know, a cyclic shifting of polar inclination, [Page 1056] due to the gradually increasing responsiveness of the planetary Logos to His heavenly Prototype, whereby influences from the Great Bear draw, or occultly "attract," the attention of the Logos, and bring Him more into line with a greater impulsive Will.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This shifting causes disruption in His lower manifestation, which is a condition on the cosmic Path of Initiation analogous to that undergone by a disciple.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The planetary atom revolves upon its axis and comes periodically under influences which produce definite effects.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These influences are, among others, those of the moon, and of the two planets which lie nearest to it on either side nearer and farther away from the Sun.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The moon's influence is exceedingly strong, and has a curious resemblance (as far as the physical planet is concerned) to the "Dweller on the Threshold," which has such a familiar and potent effect upon the human atom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The resemblance must not be strained, for it should be borne in mind that the moon has no effect upon the Heavenly Man Himself, as His stage of evolution negates such a thing, but that the influence felt is by the planetary Entity the sumtotal of the elemental essences of the planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Scientific occult students will learn much anent the planetary scheme when they consider the influence of the moon's karmic pull upon the earth, coupled with the effect of the two neighboring planets, occultly understood.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Second, the planetary atom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> also revolves orbitally around its solar centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is its </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">expression of rotary-spiral-cyclic action</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and its </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">recognition of the divine central magnet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This brings it under the constant impression of other schemes, each of which produces effects upon the planet.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It likewise brings it under the inflowing streams of energy from what are termed the zodiacal constellations which reach the planetary scheme via the great centre, the Sun.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It will be apparent to any student [Page 1057] who has even slightly developed the power of visualisation, and has some realisation of the force currents of the solar system, that all can be regarded as the swirling tide of intermingling currents, with numerous focal points of energy demonstrating here and there, yet in no way static as to location.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><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;">The third activity of the planetary atom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is that which carries it through space along with the entire solar system, and which embodies its "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">drift" or inclination towards the systemic orbit in the heavens.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The solar atom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> must be considered as pursuing analogous lines of activity and as paralleling on a vast scale the evolution of the planetary atom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The entire solar sphere, the logoic ring-pass-not, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">rotates upon its axis, and thus all that is included within the sphere is carried in a circular manner through the Heavens</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The exact figures of the cycle which covers the vast rotation must remain as yet esoteric, but it may be stated that it </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">approximates one hundred thousand years</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, being, as might be supposed, controlled by the energy of the first aspect, and therefore of the first Ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This of itself is sufficient to account for varying and diverse influences which may be traced over vast periods by those with the "seeing eye," for it causes a turning of varying parts of the sphere to the differing zodiacal constellations.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This influence (in connection with the planets) is increased or mitigated according to the place of the planets on their various orbital paths.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Hence the immense complexity of the matter and the impossibility for the average astronomical and astrological student to make accurate computations or to draw accurate horoscopes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Within the Hall of Wisdom, there exists a department of which the modern varying astrological organisations are but the dim and uncertain reflections.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Adepts connected with it work not with humanity but concern Themselves specifically with "casting the horoscopes" (thus [Page 1058] ascertaining the nature of the work immediately to be done) of the various great lives who inform the globes and kingdoms of nature, with ascertaining the nature of the karmic influences working out in the manifestation of three of the planetary Logoi:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Our own planetary Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The planetary Logos of our polar opposite.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The planetary Logos of the scheme which makes with the two above mentioned a planetary triangle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beyond that, They may not go.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They progress these various horoscopes for the next stated cycle, and Their records are of profound and significant interest.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would conjure students here to refrain from attempting (in years to come) to form cyclic computations of any kind, for as yet the many constellations which exist only in physical matter of an etheric nature are unknown and unseen.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet they are potent in influence and until etheric vision is developed, all calculations will be full of error.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It suffices for man as yet to master his own dharma, to fulfil group karma, and to dominate what is called "his stars."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Like the planetary atom, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the solar atom not only rotates on its axis</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> but likewise </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spirals in a cyclic fashion through the Heavens</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a different activity to the drift or progressive dynamic motion through the Heavens.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It deals with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">revolution of our Sun around a central point </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and with its relation to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">three constellations </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">so oft referred to in this Treatise:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">These three groups of solar bodies</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> are of paramount influence where the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just as in the human atom the spiral cyclic [Page 1059] activity is egoic and controlled from the egoic body, so in connection with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">solar system these three groups are related to the logoic Spiritual Triad, atma-buddhi-manas</span></u></b><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and their influence is dominant in connection with solar incarnation, with solar evolution, and with solar progress.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Further, it must be added that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">third type of motion to which our system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is subjected, that of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">progress onward</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">result of the united activity of the seven constellations (our solar system forming one of the seven)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">form the seven centres of the cosmic Logos.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This united activity produces a uniform and steady push (if it might so be expressed) toward a point in the heavens unknown as yet to even the planetary Logoi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The confines of the Heavens Themselves are illimitable and utterly unknown.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Naught but the wildest speculation is possible to the tiny finite minds of men and it profits us not to consider the question.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Go out on some clear starlit night and seek to realise that in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">many thousands of suns and constellations </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">visible to the unaided eye of man, and in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">tens of millions which the modern telescope reveals there is seen the physical manifestation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of as many millions of intelligent existences; this infers that what is visible is simply those existences who are in incarnation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But only one-seventh of the possible appearances are incarnating.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Six-sevenths are out of incarnation, waiting their turn to manifest, and holding back from incarnation until, in the turning of the great wheel, suitable and better conditions may eventuate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Realise further that the bodies of all these sentient intelligent cosmic, solar and planetary Logoi are constituted of living sentient beings, and the brain reels, and the mind draws back in dismay before such a staggering concept.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet so it is, and so all moves forward to some unfathomable and magnificent consummation which will only in part begin to be visioned by us when our consciousness [Page 1060] has expanded beyond the cosmic physical plane, and beyond the cosmic astral until it can "conceive and think" upon the cosmic mental plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That supposes a realisation beyond that of the Buddhas who have the consciousness of the cosmic physical plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and beyond that of the planetary Logoi.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the consciousness and knowledge of a solar Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To the occult student, who has developed the power of the inner vision, the vault of Heaven can therefore be seen as a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">blazing fire of light, and the stars as focal points of flame</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> from which radiate streams of dynamic energy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Darkness is light to the illumined Seer, and the secret of the Heavens can be read and expressed in terms of force currents, energy centres, and dynamic fiery systemic peripheries.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1142) Another series of files in the records give under a different formula information as to what is esoterically called "the heat content" of any unit, "the radiating light" of any form, and the "magnetic force" of every life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is through this knowledge that the Lipikas control the bringing in, and the passing out, of every Life, divine, superhuman, solar and human, and it is through a consideration of that formula which is the basic formula for a solar system that the physical plane appearance of a solar Logos is controlled, and the length of a cosmic pralaya settled.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We must not forget that the Lipika Lords of the solar system have Their cosmic prototypes, and that These have Their feeble and groping human reflections in the great astronomical scientists who endeavour to ascertain facts anent the heavenly bodies, being subconsciously aware of the existence of these cosmic formulas conveying information as to the specific gravity, constitution, radiation, magnetic pull, heat and light of any sun, solar system, or constellation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Many of them in future and remote ages will pass to a full comprehension, and will have the formulas committed to their care, thus joining the ranks of the Lipikas.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a peculiar line, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">requiring cycles of careful training in divine mathematics</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Lipika Lords</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, controlling the periodical manifestation of life are, roughly speaking, divided into the following groups, which it might be of interest to note:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Three extra-systemic or cosmic Lords of Karma, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Who work from a centre in Sirius through the medium of three representatives.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These form a group around the solar Logos, and hold to Him a position </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">analogous to the three Buddhas of Activity Who stand around Sanat Kumara.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 1143] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Three Lipika Lords</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Who are the karmic agents working through the three aspects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nine Lipikas</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Who are the sumtotal of the agents for the Law working through what the Qabbalah calls the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">nine Sephiroth</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Seven presiding agents of karma for each one of the seven schemes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These four groups correspond in manifestation to the Unmanifested, manifesting through the triple Aspects, and under Them work an infinity of lesser agents.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These lesser agents might again be somewhat differentiated, each of the following groups being found in every scheme and on every ray-emanation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Lipika Lords of a scheme</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Who, through the manipulation of forces, make it possible for a planetary Logos to incarnate under the Law, and work out His cyclic problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Those who (under the first group) control the destiny of a chain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Those who are the energy-directors of a globe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Agents of every kind Who are concerned with the karmic adjustments, incident upon the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">periodical manifestation of such forms as</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. A round, seven in all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. A kingdom in nature, seven in all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. The human kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. A rootrace, subrace and branch race.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e. A nation, a family, a group, and their correspondences in all the kingdoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">f. A plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">g. The reptile and insect world.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">h. The bird evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">i. The devas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">j. Human units, egoic groups, monadic lives, [Page 1144] and myriads of other forms, objective and subjective, planetary and interplanetary, in connection with the Sun, and in connection with the planetoids.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All work with energy emanations, and with force units under cyclic law, and all have the same objective, the producing of perfected activity, intensification of heat, and of radiant magnetic light as an expression of the will or purpose of each embodied life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Periodicity of manifestation is the cyclic appearance of certain forms of specified energy, and this is true whether a man is speaking of a solar system, of a Ray, of the appearance of a planet in space, or of the phenomenon of human birth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Certain factors extraneous to any energy unit under consideration, will inevitably affect its appearance, and act as deflecting or directing agents.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Law of Cycles has ever been regarded as one of the most difficult for a man to master</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and it has been truly said that when a man has mastered its technicalities, and can understand its methods of time computation, he has attained initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Its intricacies are so numerous and so bound up with the still greater law, that of cause and effect, that practically the whole range of possible knowledge is thereby surmounted.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>To comprehend this law involves ability to:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Deal with the higher mathematical formulas of the solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Compute the relationship between a unit of any degree and the greater whole upon whose vibration that unit is swept into periodic display.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Read the akashic records of a planetary system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. Judge of karmic effects in time and space.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e. Differentiate between the four streams of karmic effects as they concern the four kingdoms of nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">f. Distinguish between the three main streams of energy [Page 1145] the units of inertia, mobility and rhythm and note the key of each unit, and its place in the great group of transitional points.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These latter units are those who are on the crest of one of the three waves, and ready, therefore, to be transferred into a wave of a higher vibratory capacity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">g. Enter the Hall of Records and there read a peculiar group of documents dealing with planetary manifestation in a fourfold manner.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It concerns the planetary Logos, and deals with the transference of energy from the moon chain.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It concerns the transmission of energy to another planetary scheme, and concerns the interaction between the human Hierarchy (the fourth Kingdom) and the great informing Life of the animal kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When a man can do all these things and has earned the right to know that which produces the phenomenon of manifestation, he has earned the right to enter into the councils of the planetary Hierarchy, and himself to direct streams of energy upon, through and out of the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1161) A solar Logos uses for His energy centres the planetary schemes, each of which embodies a peculiar type of energy, and each of which, therefore, vibrates to the key of the logoic solar Angel, of which the human solar Angel is a dim reflection.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is interesting here to note that as the human solar Angel is a unity, manifesting through three tiers of petals, the logoic correspondence is even more interesting, for </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">that great cosmic Entity demonstrates on the cosmic mental plane as a triple flame working through seven tiers of petals</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and it is the energy from these seven circles of energy which pulsates through the medium of any scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All this is hidden in the mystery of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and it is not possible for men to solve it, the truth being obscure to even the highest Dhyan Chohan of our system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The energy centres of the solar Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> are themselves [Page 1162] in the form of vast lotuses24 or wheels, at the centre of which lies hidden that central cosmic Life, we call a planetary Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is the meeting place for two types of force, spiritual or logoic, which reaches Him </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">(via the logoic Lotus on cosmic mental planes) from the seven Rishis of the Great Bear on Their own plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">secondly, of buddhic force, which is transmitted via the Seven Sisters or the Pleiades from a constellation called the Dragon in some books</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and from which has come the appellation "The Dragon of Wisdom."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A third type of energy is added and, therefore, can be detected in these centres, that of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">manasic type. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>This </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">reaches the logoic centres via the star Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and is transmitted from that constellation which (as earlier I have [Page 1163] hinted) must remain obscure at present.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These three great streams of energy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> form the total manifestation of a logoic centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is known to us as a planetary scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Within the planetary scheme, these streams of energy work paramountly in the following manner:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Spiritual energy..three higher planes....the Monads.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Buddhic force.....fourth plane.............the solar Angels.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Manasic force.....two lower planes.....the four kingdoms of nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Physical energy, the left-over of a previous solar system, demonstrates through the dense physical form and in the material which is energised during the involutionary cycle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is not considered a principle; and is regarded as the basis of maya or illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The various planetary schemes are not all alike and differ as to:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Type of energy,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Point in evolution,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Position in the general plan,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. Karmic opportunity,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e. Rate of vibration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The main distinction exists in the fact, as we have so oft repeated, that three of them form the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">three higher etheric energy centres of the Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and four constitute the lower centres.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saturn is of interest to us here because the Logos of Saturn holds a position in the body logoic similar to that held by the throat centre in the microcosm</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Three centres towards the close of manifestation will become aligned in the same way as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">centre at the base of the spine, the throat centre and the alta major centre</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Here it must be pointed out that there are three planetary schemes which [Page 1164] hold a place analogous to that held by the pineal gland, the pituitary body, and the alta major centre, but they are not the schemes referred to as centres, or known to us as informed by planetary Logoi.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Certain of the planetoids have their place here, and one scheme which has passed out of activity, and is in a condition of quiescence and nonactivity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This latter scheme is the correspondence in the logoic body to the atrophied third eye in the fourth kingdom of nature.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When man has developed etheric vision and thus has expanded his range of vision, he will become aware of these facts, for he will see.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Many planetary schemes which are found only in etheric matter will be revealed to his astonished gaze, and he will find that (as in the body microcosmic) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">there are seven (or ten), paramount centres but numbers of other centres for the purpose of energising various organs</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>So likewise the body macrocosmic has myriads of energy focal points or feeders which have their place, their function, and their felt effects.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These centres, with no dense physical globe, constitute what has sometimes been called "the inner round" and transmit their force through those greater centres which have been spoken of in occult books as having a connection with the inner round.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Each of these planetary schemes can be seen as a lotus having seven major petals, of which each chain forms one petal, but having also subsidiary petals of a secondary colour according to the nature and karma of the Entity concerned.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is in the enumeration of these solar lotuses that occult students go astray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is, for instance, correct to say that the planetary scheme corresponding to the microcosmic base of the spine is a fourfold lotus and has, therefore, four petals.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There are four outstanding petals of a peculiar hue, but there are three of a secondary colour, and nine of a tertiary nature.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(To students with intuition the hint here conveyed may reveal the name of the planet, and the nature of its evolution).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 1165] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Each of these solar lotuses, or planetary schemes, unfolds in three great stages of activity, in each one of which one of the three types of energy dominates.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As the unfolding proceeds, the vibratory activity increases, and the appearance of the manifesting activity changes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The motion of the lotus or wheel for a long time is simply that of a slow revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Later, for a still vaster period, each petal revolves within the greater whole, and at an angle different to that of the whole revolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Finally, these two activities are increased by the appearance of a form of energy which, originating from the centre, pulsates so powerfully that it produces what look to be streams of energy passing backwards and forwards from the centre to the periphery.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. When these three are working in unison, the effect is wonderful in the extreme, and impossible for the eye to follow, the mind of man to conceive, or the pen to express in words.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is this stage, macrocosmic and microcosmic, which constitutes the different grades of alignment, for it must never be forgotten by students that all that manifests is a sphere, and alignment really consists in unimpeded communication between the heart of the sphere and the periphery or the bound of the influence of the dynamic will and the centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Within each planetary scheme, are found the seven chains which are the seven planetary centres, and again within the chain are the seven globes which are the chain centres, but students would do well not to study the globes from the point of view of centres until their knowledge of the mystery underlying dense physical substance is greater, or they will be led into error.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The lower down one seeks to carry the correspondence, the more the likelihood of error.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The correspondence must lie in quality and in principle expressed, but not in form.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1182) These streams of energy, judged by their effects, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 16pt;">are called in human terminology laws, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">because their results are ever immutable and irresistible, and their effects remain unchangeably the same, varying only according to the form which is the subject of the energic impulse.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thirdly, the student must bear in mind that the seven planes, or the seven spirillae of the logoic permanent atom, are not all equally vitalised by the attractive pull emanating from the logoic lotus via the heart of the Sun.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Five of them are more "alive" than the other two; these five do not include the highest and the lowest.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The words "the heart of the Sun" must be understood to mean more than a locality situated in the interior recesses of the solar body, and have reference to the nature of the solar sphere.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This solar sphere is closely similar to the atom pictured in the book by Babbitt and later in Occult Chemistry by Mrs. Besant.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Sun is heart-shaped, and (seen from cosmic angles) has a depression at what we might call its north pole.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is formed by the impact of logoic energy upon solar substance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This energy which impinges upon the solar sphere, and is thence distributed to all parts of the entire system, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">emanates from three cosmic centres</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and, therefore, is triple during this particular cycle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. From the sevenfold great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. From the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. From the Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It must be remembered that the possible cosmic streams of energy available for use in our solar system </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">are seven in number</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, of which three are major.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These three vary during vast and incalculable cycles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Students may find it of use to remember that,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The Law of Economy demonstrates as an urge,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Law of Attraction as a pull</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. The Law of Synthesis as a tendency to concentrate at a centre, or to merge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The streams of energy which pour forth through the medium of the Sun from the egoic lotus and which are in reality "logoic Soul energy" attract to them that which is akin to them in vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This may sound rather like the statement of a platitude, but is susceptible of really deep significance to the student, being accountable for all systemic phenomena.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These streams pass in different directions, and in the knowledge of occult direction comes knowledge of the various hierarchies of being, and the secret of the esoteric symbols.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1241) DIVISION B. THE NATURE OF THE SEVEN COSMIC PATHS.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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, seven streams which blend and merge to form one Path.<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 tread those seven Paths, has transcended colour, has passed beyond the veil and has expanded His consciousness so that he is at-one with the conscious life of His planetary Logos.<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 has arrived at the knowledge that back of all form is a subjective Life 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 Master of the Wisdom and the one who has unified both the manas (intellect) and wisdom (buddhi) knows not what shall be revealed to him as he treads the cosmic Path 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 not yet the apparatus of thought necessary for its safe undertaking.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These seven Paths</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, when trodden, prepare a man to pass certain cosmic initiations, including </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">those upon the Sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One hint may here be given.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Each of these Paths </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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 style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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 remain for many kalpas within the solar system, taking certain mysterious initiations concerned entirely with solar evolution.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">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></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It might be of value here to list the seven cosmic Paths as follows:35<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path I.....The Path of Earth Service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path II....The Path of Magnetic Work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path III...The Path of the Planetary Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path IV....</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Path to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path V.....The Ray Path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path VI....The Path of the Solar Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path VII...The Path of Absolute Sonship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 1243] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in their totality one great cosmic WAY</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The seven paths at a certain stage which may not be defined become the four paths</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, 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:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The initiates upon Path I "fight their way" on to path VI.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The initiates upon Path II "alchemise themselves" on to Path VII.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The initiates upon Path III through "piercing the veil" find themselves upon Path V.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This leaves Path IV to be accounted for</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Upon this Path pass all those who, through devotion and activity combined, achieve the goal but who lack as yet the full development of the manasic principle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This being the solar system of love-wisdom, or of astral buddhic development, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the fourth Path includes the larger number of the sons of men</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The former must therefore all pass to the sun Sirius there to undergo a tremendous manasic stimulation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, for </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius is the emanating source of manas.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>There the mystic must go and become what is called "a spark of mahatic electricity."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These seven Paths are not concerned with nature or the balancing of the pairs of opposites.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">concerned only with unity</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, with that which utilises the pairs of opposites as factors in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">production of LIGHT</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They deal [Page 1244] with that unknown quantity which is responsible for the pairs of opposites; 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1258) Path IV.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Path to Sirius.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 esoteric sense </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the sun Sirius and the Pleiades hold a close relation to each other.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a relation </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">analogous to that which lower mind holds to higher mind</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">lower is receptive to, or negatively polarised to the higher</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius is the seat of higher mind and mahat (as it is called, or universal mind)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> sweeps into manifestation in our solar system through the channel of the Pleiades.<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: 20pt;">Sirius transmits energy to our solar system via that<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"...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."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Within the solar system there is an interesting </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">correspondence to this cosmic interplay in the relation between the Venus scheme, our Earth scheme and the Venus chain in our scheme</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Curiously enough it will be through a comprehension of the human antaskarana, or the path which links higher and lower mind and which is constructed by the Thinker during the process of evolution, that light on this abstruse matter will come.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">There is (in connection with our planetary Logos) just such an antaskarana, and as He builds and constructs it, it forms part of the fourth Path, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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;">so many of the human Monads seek this particular stream of energy lies </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">in the right understanding of the above suggestion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The initiates who tread this way are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">primarily those of the fourth and the sixth order</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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 Egyptian Master and the Master Jesus are preparing Themselves to tread it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mystics of the Occident who have come into incarnation during the past one thousand years are a peculiar group of Egos whose impulse is towards this type of cosmic energy.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Cosmic rapture and rhythmic bliss are the attributes of the fourth path</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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 numerical position.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These units of the fourth kingdom, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">bulk of the fourth Creative Hierarchy on this fourth globe of the fourth scheme in a solar system of the fourth order are innately compelled to seek this <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">fourth WAY</st1:address></st1:street></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in order to perfect themselves.<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."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The energy of Path IV reaches us from Sirius via the Sun</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This must be understood as a blind behind which one of the signs of the zodiac veils itself.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The hierarchies concerned with this specific type of [Page 1260] cosmic force hide themselves under the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">numbers fourteen and seventeen</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The symbol of the 4<sup>th</sup> Path to Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The symbol</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which is first given to the pledged disciple to study but which may, however, be described, is a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">duality of interlocked wheels revolving at a great pace in opposite directions, and producing a unified whole</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These wheels are portrayed as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">manifesting electric blue flame, rotating and revolving with great rapidity around an equal-armed Cross.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The symbolism of these colours links this fourth path to the solar system preceding this one.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He comes under the concentrated influence of the energy which is identified with the planetary antaskarana</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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 objective of our particular planetary Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">PATH IV.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">THE PATH TO SIRIUS</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Attributes.......cosmic rapture and rhythmic bliss.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Source...........Sirius via the Sun which veils a zodiacal sign.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hierarchy.......veiled by the numbers 14 and 17.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Method..........duplex rotary motion and rhythmic dancing upon the square.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 1261] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">symbol............two wheels of electric fire, revolving around an orange Cross, with an emerald at the centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">quality.............unrevealed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1265)</span> <b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Path VI.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path the Logos Himself is on.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 Logos on the cosmic planes is evolving inner cosmic vision, 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 cosmic third [Page 1265] EYE.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A certain portion of the eye is the nucleus of sight and the apparatus of vision itself.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The remainder of the eye acts as a protecting shell; both parts are required, and neither can exist without the other.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is so in the cosmic sense also, but the analogy exists on such high levels that words only dim and blur the truth.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Certain of the sons of men, a nucleus who reached a very high initiation in a previous solar system, formed an esoteric group around the Logos when He decided upon further progress.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In consequence He formed this solar system, desire for cosmic manifestation urging Him on.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This esoteric group remains with the Logos upon the atomic or the first plane of the system, on the subjective or inner side, and it corresponds in an occult sense to the pupil of the eye.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The real home of these great Entities is upon the cosmic buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>Gradually and by dint of hard effort, certain Masters have qualified themselves, or are qualifying themselves, to take the place of the original members of this group thus permitting of Their </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">return to a cosmic centre around which our system, and the greater system of Sirius, revolves.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 specialising of the inner sight, and the development of a certain amount of cosmic vision.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1274) TANZA LXXVII<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(From Archive 49)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">PATH IV. The Path to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The mysterious Lhas of the sacred hidden fire withdraw Their thought, emerge from meditation, and all that is between the first and third is lost to sight.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Naught is.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Sound dies away.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Words are lost, for there is none to hear.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The colours fade, and every point grows dim.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The ocean passes into quietude.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Mother slumbers and forgets her Son.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Father too retreats within the unknown place where fire lies hidden.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The serpent stretches forth inert.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Its coils smother the lower fire and choke the sparks....Silence reigns.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The absent Lhas forget the worlds and play at other games....All passes into nothingness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet still the Lhas themselves remain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The mysterious Lhas of the fivefold force unite Their thought, sink into meditation deep and link the first and third.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The worlds emerge, and rushing into forms prepared pursue their cycles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The twelve-pointed play Their part and are the result of the communion of the One above the Sun with one of the seven wives.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Master of the Sacred Heart is He who builds a Path between the sphere whereon His lot is cast [Page 1275] and the great manasic orb.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He builds it knowingly, calling in the aid of points of blue.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These emerge from the heart of one of the seven.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(The PLEIADES.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These He bloweth upon and they find their place as stones in the one Way He constructeth for the treading of the many as they wend their way through mind to mind and thence to understanding.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>(Manas to mahat and thence to buddhi.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EPI 77) Some of the names given to the Lord of this ray are as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Revealer of Truth<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The great Connector<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Divine Intermediary<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Crystallizer of Forms<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Three-fold Thinker<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Cloud upon the Mountain-top<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Precipitator of the Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Dividing Sword<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Winnower of the Chaff<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Fifth great Judge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Rose of God<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Heavenly One<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Door into the Mind of God<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Initiating Energy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Ruler of the Third Heaven<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Guardian of the Door<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Dispenser of Knowledge<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Angel with the Flaming Sword<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Keeper of the Secret<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Beloved of the Logos<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Brother from Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Master of the Hierophants<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This fifth ray has so many names, owing to His close connection with man (since man was originally created), that it has not been easy to choose those which are of the most use in enabling the student to form an idea of the fifth ray characteristics and mission; but the study of the six aphorisms, and the qualities which they indicate, will show how potent and important is this ray Lord.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These six aphorisms were chanted by His six Brothers at that momentous crisis wherein the human family came into existence and the solar Angels sacrificed themselves.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Esoterically speaking, they "went down into hell, and found their place in prison." On that day souls [Page 78] were born.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A new kingdom of expression came into being, and the three highest planes and the three lower were brought into a scintillating interchange.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EPII 721) 3. Influential and potent forces pouring in at this time from the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">great stars Betelgeuse and Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To these two influences, the disciples of the world in the senior ranks of the New Group of World Servers definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">heart centre (Betelgeuse)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">head centre (Sirius).</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The secondary effect of these energies is upon the mineral kingdom, particularly upon that peculiar product, gold, and that enigma, money.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 14) I would like to call attention, at this point, to some comments I made in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire which are apposite and helpful. I am somewhat paraphrasing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"Astrology is concerned with the effect produced in the substance of the sheaths by the influences, vibrations, etc., of the various planets. These are, esoterically, the influences of the solar centres. The forces, emanating from the solar centres, play upon the planetary centres.... This is hidden in the karma of the Heavenly Man. When true esoteric astrology comes into being, more anent this will be given. Astrological students are today only learning the ABC of this stupendous subject and are occupied with the exoteric fringes of that great veil which has been thrown wisely over planetary lore."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 1051)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The following is a list incomplete but adequate for our purposes of the major influences which find their way from far distant Sources into our planetary life and produce definite effects upon individual man and humanity as a whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1. The constellation of the Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2. The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, the Dog Star.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1. The seven solar systems of which ours is one.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">II.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2. The seven sacred planets of which ours is not one.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3. The five non-sacred planets or "hidden" planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 15]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1. The seven planetary centres. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">III.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2. The seven centres of force in the human etheric body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">IV.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1. The twelve zodiacal constellations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We thus have a ninefold energy impact. This is a major chart but it should be remembered that there are other impacts of relative insignificance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To these would be added other streams of energy which definitely play upon and affect our planetary life, such as those coming from that great star, Betelgeuse, or from Antares and other stupendous suns and solar systems which are related to the constellations of the zodiac and whose force reaches us through these constellations and not directly.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 28) I have pointed out that these energies fall into three groups:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Those coming from certain great constellations which are to be found active in relation to our solar system and which, from the most ancient days, have always been related in myth and legend to our system. To these constellations, ours is related in a peculiar way.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Those coming from the twelve zodiacal constellations. These are recognised as having a definite effect upon our system and our planetary life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Those coming from the planets found within the periphery of the Sun's sphere of influence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From a certain point of view, one can generalise largely and say that these are the correspondences in the solar system to the three great centres of force which produce and control manifestation and evolutionary progress in the human being:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The great exterior, yet controlling, constellations are analogous to that centre of force which we call the Monad and to its universal will-to-power which is distinctive of the first divine aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The twelve constellations might be regarded as embodying the soul aspect and, for the present, their effect upon the individual must be regarded and should be studied in terms of consciousness and of the development of the life of the soul. This is in essence the will-to-love.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The planets, twelve in number (seven sacred planets and five non-sacred), are effective (using the word in a technical sense) in relation to the external life, environment and circumstances of the individual. Their force contacts should be interpreted largely in terms of the human [Page 29] personality, the third divine aspect. They thus exemplify the will-to-know.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would have you remember that I am talking entirely in terms of consciousness and of the responses and reactions of the individual to the forces which impinge upon him. The effect of the emanation of our planet, the Earth, is a correspondence to the effect of that aggregate of atoms and molecules which we call the dense physical body and of its response to the pull and the attraction of any or all of the subtler bodies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As regards the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">influence of the seven solar systems</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, I should suggest (more I cannot do) that they are linked up </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">astrologically with the constellations, the Great Bear, the Pleiades, and Sirius. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">They are intimately related to them, but their exact effect is a transmitted one and cannot be noted as producing noticeable results, as yet, upon humanity and the other kingdoms in nature. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The effect of the three great constellations also cannot be noted by individual man until such time as he becomes conscious of the monadic vibration, after the third initiation.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> There are many potent influences playing upon our solar system and the planet all the time but as far as man is concerned his response apparatus and his mechanism of reaction remain what is called "occultly unresponsive," for they are not yet of a quality which will permit any noticeable recognition, either in the dense or subtler vehicles or even by the soul. Later in the evolutionary process, recognition and response will come, but for all astrological purposes and recognisable produced effects, they may be regarded today as non-existent except as they react upon the fourth kingdom of nature as it constitutes a living unit in the body of the planetary Logos. As little conscious effect is produced by these forces as the effect of a [Page 30] high moment of contact in your morning meditation produces an effect upon the atom or cell in the little finger upon one of your hands. There may be a general response and stimulation throughout the entire body, but the intelligent atom makes no conscious response. The vibration is of too high a character.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Speculation along these lines is profitless. A vast system of interlocking energies is in active and rapid circulation throughout the whole cosmic etheric body of which our systemic etheric body is an integral part but speculative research along the indicated lines and the following of obscure trails are utterly futile until the main highway of approach has been constructed and followed. The general outline of the astrological way is all that is possible today, until the time when man can think in larger wholes and has a more synthetic capacity. We shall confine ourselves to the vast field of energies which I have outlined for your consideration and shall consider only the major forces which are in circulation. This will suffice for our day and generation. We are concerned with energies which can and do evoke response and of which man can be aware and, in many cases, is today aware.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 33) 2. The Creative Hierarchies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It might here be appropriate if I interpolated a chart or a tabulation which may be found suggestive of some of these interlocking energies which play through, traverse, return, stimulate and energise every part of our solar system. They only evoke conscious response where the vehicle of expression and of response is adequate to the impact, and this statement is true of the solar Logos, the planetary Logoi, and of all forms in all the kingdoms upon our planet. [Page 33] Unconscious reaction will of course exist, but it will be on a general or mass scale, and much of it pours through to us from these distant constellations, via the fifth Creative Hierarchy. This Hierarchy, being on the verge of liberation, is to be found on the intellectual level of consciousness and can, therefore, be used as a focal point and a transmitter of the higher energies to our solar system and to the planet. If you make a careful study of the chart of the twelve Creative Hierarchies, page 34, you will note that this Hierarchy is influencing, and is influenced by, the seventh Ray of Magical Order and of Ceremonial Organisation. The basic function of this ray is to relate spirit and matter and produce the manifested form. The sign of the zodiac with which it is closely connected is that of Cancer, the Crab, which is a mass sign and one of the "gates" into manifested life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The following information anent the Hierarchies may prove useful. It has been gathered from various sources.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I might here remind you that the seven planes of our solar system are the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. The four Creative Hierarchies which have achieved liberation are now to be found focussed upon the cosmic astral plane; hence their potency even when out of manifestation. The fifth Creative Hierarchy exists on the highest etheric level and will join the other four Hierarchies when the sixth Creative Hierarchy has measured up to cosmic opportunity and is itself nearing liberation. The following is a tabulation showing some of the astrological relationships in connection with<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The constellation of the Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Pleiades or the Seven Sisters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The seven solar systems.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 50) TABULATION III<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I. DYNAMIC ENERGY ..........................................................<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Electric Fire<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Cancer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">...................<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| .........<span style=""> </span>Saturn.....................................<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Fifth Creative Hierarchy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Capricorn<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(the 8th Unknown)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Cardinal Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2. The Great<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Aries<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Bear...................<span style="">&nbsp; </span>| .........<span style=""> </span>Sun, veiling Vulcan...................<span style=""> </span>Second Creative Hierarchy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Libra<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(the 11th) Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Cardinal Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Gemini<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3. Pleiades...............<span style="">&nbsp; </span>| .........<span style=""> </span>Mercury..................................<span style=""> </span>Fourth Creative Hierarchy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Sagittarius<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(the 9th) Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Mutable Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All the above energies are called into play as far as man is concerned during the major initiations and upon the Path of Initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">II. MAGNETIC ENERGY......................................................<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Solar Fire<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>4. The 7 solar<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Taurus<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>systems.................<span style=""> </span>| .........<span style=""> </span>Mars.......................................<span style=""> </span>Third Creative Hierarchy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>| Scorpio<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(the 10th) Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Fixed Cross<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All the above energy is called into play as far as man is concerned whilst he is in training as a disciple and upon the Path of Discipleship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">NOTE: It is not revealed through which signs of the zodiac the first or twelfth Creative Hierarchy pours forth its energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 85) In our study of the interlocking system of energies, in so far as they affect and condition a human being, the theme of the Three Crosses is of profound and practical interest, especially as they provide those points of crisis wherein a man steps off the ordinary path of evolution and treads the path of discipleship or after the third initiation mounts a third Cross. It will underlie our thought and all that I have to say. A steady recollection of the twelve basic energies [Page 85] (five major and seven minor which are in reality, and apart from astral reversion due to the Great Illusion, seven major and five minor) will be of value. These work out into human expression via the Lords of the twelve signs and the twelve planetary Rulers. These twelve basic energies </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">emanate from the seven stars of the Great Bear (transmitted through seven stars of the Little Bear);</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">two of them come from Sirius and three from the Pleiades.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> This set-up (if I may use such an unorthodox term) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">will be the condition of the major solar sphere of influence at the end of the Great Age of Brahma</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, as it is esoterically called. In the "interim or interlude of evolution" (which is the inadequate translation of an occult phrase given to a world cycle in the Masters' Archives) these energies are stepped down into forces and are literally sixteen all told from the angle of manifestation, I would remind you and make literally: 7+7+2=16=7. In these numbers the mystery of our evolutionary process lies hid. Always, however, the emphasis must be laid upon the Rays of Energy and Quality as they pour through the zodiacal constellations and the planets. The new astrology therefore is necessarily based upon an understanding of the rays. The following tabulation is fundamental in its implications in this connection and upon it all that I have to say will be based.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Seven stars of the Great Bear are the originating Sources of the seven rays of our solar system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The seven Rishis (as They are called) of the Great Bear express Themselves through the medium of the seven planetary Logoi Who are Their Representatives and to Whom They stand in the relation of prototype. The seven Planetary Spirits manifest through the medium of the seven sacred planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Each of these seven Rays, coming from the Great [Page 86] Bear, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">are transmitted into our solar system through the medium of three constellations and their ruling planets</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The following tabulation makes this clear but must be interpreted only in terms of this present turn of the Great Zodiacal Wheel (25,000 years):<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">TABULATION VIII<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Ray<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; </span>Constellations<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planets<span style=""> </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(Orthodox)<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(Esoteric)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Aries, The Ram<span style=""> </span>Mars<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I. Will or Power<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Leo, the Lion<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sun<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Capricorn, the Goat<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Gemini, the Twins<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Venus.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>II. Love-Wisdom<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Virgo, the Virgin<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Moon (veiling a planet).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Pisces, the Fishes<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Jupiter<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Pluto.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Cancer, the Crab<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Moon<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Neptune.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>III. Active-Intelligence<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Libra, the Scales<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Venus<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Uranus.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Capricorn, the Goat<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Taurus, the Bull<span style=""> </span>Venus<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Vulcan.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>IV. Harmony through<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Scorpio, the Scorpion<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mars<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mars.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Conflict<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sagittarius, the Archer<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Jupiter<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Leo, the Lion<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sun<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>V. Concrete Science<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sagittarius, the Archer<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Jupiter<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Aquarius, the Watercarrier<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Uranus<span style=""> </span>Jupiter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Virgo, the Virgin<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Moon.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>VI. Idealism. Devotion<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Sagittarius, the Archer<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Jupiter<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Pisces, the Fishes<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Jupiter<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Pluto.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Aries, the Ram<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Mars<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">VII. Ceremonial Order<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Cancer, the Crab<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Moon<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Neptune.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Capricorn, the Goat<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It will be obvious to you how much correlating work and how much readjustment of ideas will be needed as the new astrology is worked out into practical usefulness and eventually substituted for that now holding sway. This new astrology really embodies five sciences:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 87] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Science of the Rays.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Science of Esoteric Interpretation which is carried out through<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The Science of Triangles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The Science of the Centres.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. The Science of Destiny.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Our solar system is orbiting Alcyone in the Pleiades<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 112) By the word "influencing" I here refer to the energies pouring from these three aspects of the Sun through the three Crosses to our planet. Ponder on this and remember also that our Sun is travelling through space (carrying our solar system along in its sphere of influence) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">around our own central and conditioning star </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">which it has been rightly presumed exists in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">constellation Taurus, the Bull, being found in the Pleiades</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. At the same time it appears, from the standpoint of our planet, to be passing through the twelve signs of the zodiac; this is a symbol macrocosmically considered, of the dramatic centralised point of view of the individual human being, the microcosm. It is interesting to [Page 112] compare the symbolism and the underlying truth connected with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">lesser and the greater zodiacs and with their twelve month and their 25,000 year cycles.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> They bear out much that I have given you anent the soul, influenced by the esoteric planets eventually, and the personality, influenced by the orthodox planets. The greater zodiac is symbolic of the soul and the lesser of the personality. In the personality cycle, the lesser zodiac conditions the personality career and the twelve planetary houses are of dominant importance. Later the influence of the twelve signs supersedes the influence of the planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would like also to emphasise perhaps unnecessarily </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">that Sirius, the Great Bear and the Pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, pouring their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance of the number twelve</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Hence </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">ten is regarded as the number of perfection</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. There is confusion in the minds of some of the less learned students (astrologically considered) on this point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 193) SCORPIO, THE SCORPION<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The fourfold personality of the solar logos<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We come now to the consideration of a sign which is of paramount importance in the life of evolving man. Certain of the signs are in very close relation through the inflow and the outflow of energy with certain of the major constellations. These major constellations are, in a few instances, peculiarly connected with the signs of the zodiac. There are four of the zodiacal signs which are mysteriously concerned with what one might call the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">personality expression</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" (if such an unsuitable term can be used in default of better) of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">solar Logos Himself</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, or with the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Divine Quaternary, the fourfold manifestation of Deity</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These four signs are Aries Leo Scorpio Aquarius, and they involve the expression of the energy of one Cardinal sign and of three signs which form part of the Fixed Cross of the heavens. We could express this truth in another manner: God the Father, the Will to manifest, initiates the creative process which is worked out through the activity of God the Son, the cosmic Christ, crucified upon the Fixed Cross in the heavens. The activity of God [Page 194] the Holy Spirit, implicit in the Mutable Cross, is closely allied to the previous solar system, and the energy of that divine aspect is practically entirely occupied with manipulating the forces inherited from that system and inherent in the very nature of substance itself. This divine aspect is to the whole general divine manifestation what the lower nature (form life or personality in the three worlds of human evolution) is to the soul where an individual human being is concerned. As regards these three Persons of the divine Trinity, we might say that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Aries is the focal point of the expression of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first aspect</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of divinity, the will aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Leo is the focal point for the expression of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">second aspect</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. This, primarily where humanity is concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Virgo is the focal point for the expression of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">third aspect</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, that of active intelligence. In that sign the highest function of matter is symbolised.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The four signs </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> are related to the following stars which are not numbered in the twelve signs of the zodiac; they constitute another field of relationships:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aries to one of the two stars, found in the constellation, the Great Bear, which are called the two Pointers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Leo to Polaris, the Pole Star, found in the Little Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Scorpio to Sirius, the Dog Star</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aquarius to Alcyone, one of the seven Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There is little that I can tell you in connection with the energies pouring into the four zodiacal signs from these distant though potent points of outgoing energy; they are part of the life expression of an Identity, immeasurably superior [Page 195] to and more advanced than our solar Logos. A few hints may, however, be of service to the truly esoteric astrologer who may study these pages, particularly where Scorpio is concerned. Scorpio, at this particular stage of human evolution, governs the Path of Discipleship. You will note here also how Leo-Scorpio-Aquarius form a peculiar triangle of force, but of this I will later deal in Chapter III under the heading, The Science of Triangles.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aries is, as might be expected, closely connected with the Great Bear but peculiarly so with one of the stars called The Pointers; these point to the Pole star which is at this time a major "star of direction." Direction, will, purpose and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with His evolutionary undertakings in connection with the many lives manifesting in the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system. All these respond to the influences of the first ray which is, to all intents and purposes, the energy of divine embodied will, which has been esoterically described as "unavoidable directed purpose." Within our solar system, Vulcan and Pluto are expressions or custodians of this first ray energy and are, as I have told you, esoteric planets. The first indication of the true spiritual will only begins to manifest upon the Path of Discipleship hence the late discovery of these two planets (late in point of time and from the angle of human knowledge) for it is only in this Aryan race period that humanity is to any large extent beginning to manifest evidence (and as yet it is no more) of a reaction or a response to the spiritual will of deity as it comes to our planet and hence to us via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto. You have, therefore, the following direct line of will energy:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Pointer furthest from the Pole Star in the constellation of the Great Bear. This is, esoterically speaking, [Page 196] a great reservoir or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose. The Pointer nearest to the Pole Star is expressive of a lower aspect of the will, which in speaking of humanity we call self-will.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Aries, in which the will to create or to manifest makes its appearance and the great divine experiment is initiated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Vulcan and Pluto are related to the two Pointers and are only now beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response. Their effect has been planetary in its nature up to date and has not hitherto been at all effective in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Shamballa, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Leo is the sign wherein the consciousness of individuality is developed, utilised and finally consecrated to divine purpose. It is related to Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little Bear) and it is also peculiarly susceptible to the influence of that Pointer in the Great Bear which is the nearest to the Pole Star. Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is regarded as the "star of re-orientation" whereby the art of "refacing and recovering that which is lost" is developed. This eventually brings a man back to his originating source. It might, therefore, be correctly inferred that this Pointer and the energy emanating from it guides humanity upon the involutionary path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who is still upon the Mutable Cross. Then the energy of the Pointer furthest from the Pole Star begins to make its presence felt and a sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the Path, and such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the Hierarchy. It is here that the divine [Page 197] necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed for us in the symbolism of the sky and when it has been achieved then there is a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a new and creative manner to sources of divine supply. Astrologers will do well (in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and particularly of initiates) to consider the two Pointers and the Pole Star. They are mysteriously connected with the three aspects of incarnated man Spirit, soul and body. More than this it is not permitted to me to convey to you. I may, however, give you another hint. These three stars are embodiments of the three aspects of divine will. It is the three aspects of all expressions of divinity in manifestation which underlie the Science of Triangles. This I will later elaborate.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Another triangle of energy also appears: Aries, Leo and Polaris, and they are doubly connected through the medium of the Pointers.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><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: 20pt;">Scorpio is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This is the great star of initiation because </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">our Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) is under the supervision or </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. It is esoterically called the "brilliant star of sensitivity." You have therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Polaris The Star of Direction governing Shamballa. Later, another Pole Star will take the place of Polaris, owing to the interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and movement. But the name and quality of this star will only be revealed at initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 198] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius The Star of Sensitivity governing the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Alcyone The Star of the Individual governing humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You can see from the above how the entire plan of this Treatise is gradually unfolding. It was necessary for me to indicate to you the nature and the purpose of the three divine centres Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity before I could make this part of the teaching clear to you, or before I could point out the nature of the energies pouring from distant constellations and zodiacal signs into our planetary scheme.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">For the first time in the history of both mankind and disciples the energy of Sirius, pouring into the seven groups which form our planetary Hierarchy evokes a response.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> I would remind you of a basic fact in the evolutionary process which astrology will eventually prove scientifically and past all controversy. This is the fact that energies and forces are pouring upon our system and our planetary lives ceaselessly, potently and cyclically. Yet they are only regarded today as existing when definite response is evoked. They come from all kinds of sources, extraneous to our system and planetary schemes, but until man responds and registers them both scientists and astrologers fail to recognise them and they are as if they were not. This is a point to bear in mind as I continue to teach you, for I may indicate some sources of active energy which may as yet be unknown to you as playing upon our system and its contents. The difficulty will not be because of my inaccuracies but will be owing to the lack of sensitivity in the mechanism of response which mankind and disciples are at present utilising.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 199] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You have consequently in connection with the path of discipleship the following lines of "influential energy":<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays and their seven groups</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> as these constitute the active Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Fixed Cross a fusion of four major energies, pouring into our solar system, on to our planet and through humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Scorpio an aspect of the Fixed Cross, of peculiar and specialised potency upon the Path of Discipleship and preparing, with its tests and trials:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The process of re-orientation, whereby a man mounts the Fixed Cross and leaves the Mutable Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The disciple for the first, second and third initiations. After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The Hierarchy. The distributing agency to the various kingdoms in nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. Mars and Saturn. Both these planets are exceedingly potent in connection with initiation into the life of the Hierarchy; Mars is potent in relation to Scorpio and Saturn in relation to Capricorn. This involves the intensified activity of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies, and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Again, astrologers would do well to work with this line of fused forces, studying its implications and effects in the life of the disciple.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aquarius relates humanity to the Pleiades and therefore to Taurus in an unusual manner. The key to this relation is to he found in the word desire, leading, through the transmutative processes of life experience, to aspiration and finally the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">relinquishing of desire in Scorpio</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Aquarius, Alcyone and Humanity constitute a most interesting triangle of force. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alcyone is one of the seven Pleiades and is called the "star of the Individual" and sometimes the "star of intelligence</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." It was potently active during the previous solar system wherein the Third Person of the Trinity was peculiarly omnipotent and active, just as today the cosmic Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, is peculiarly active in this solar system. The energies coming from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alcyone impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As a consequence of this most ancient activity, the same force was present at the time of individualisation in this solar system, for it is in this system, and primarily upon our planet, the Earth, that the major results of that early activity have made themselves felt. Two of our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are directly the product of this third ray activity. This is of great importance to remember. I would also ask you to link this thought with the teaching that through the divine centre of intelligent activity which we call humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature will eventually act as the mediating principle to all the three lower kingdoms. Humanity is the divine Messenger to the world of form; it is essentially Mercury, bringing light and life to other divine manifestations and of this all divine world Saviours are the eternal symbols.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This coming process of planetary service through the third divine centre is only truly effective when Aquarius rules and when our sun is passing through that sign of the [Page 201] zodiac. Hence the immense importance of the next 2000 years. Therefore, only when a man is a world server and becoming group conscious can this desired objective of manifestation begin to demonstrate. It is beginning to happen today for the first time in planetary history. It is one of the first fruits of initiation and only in the next root race to our present Aryan race will we begin really to understand the significance of the process and the true nature of the energies to be released through the medium of humanity upon the planet. It is for this reason that Jupiter and Uranus (expressions of the second and the seventh rays) are the exoteric and esoteric rulers of Aquarius.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You have, therefore, the following line of force to study:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Alcyone in the Pleiades, the mothers of the seven aspects of form life</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and the "wives of the seven Rishis of the Great Bear." They are connected with the Mother aspect which nurtures the infant Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Aquarius the World Server, the transmitter of energy which evokes magnetic response.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Jupiter and Uranus planets of beneficent consummation. The second ray of love and the seventh ray which fuses spirit and matter "to the ultimate glory" of the solar Logos are in the fullest eventual cooperation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Humanity the focal point for all these energies and the divine distributor of them to individual man and later to the lower three kingdoms in nature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Thus you see, that from a generalisation re the exterior constellations (exterior to the zodiac and the solar system itself) we are becoming more specific, showing how certain stars in these constellations are definitely related by direct [Page 202] lines of energy to our planet; these lines of force usually reach us via one of the zodiacal signs and in rare cases  directly to a planet. The latter case is, however, exceedingly rare. We have also brought into relation to our solar system another constellation, called the Little Bear which is a reflection of or a corollary to the major energies of its greater prototype, Ursa Major, the Great Bear. These facts contain a great mystery connected with the inter-relation of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and the Pleiades</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; they constitute one of the greatest and more important of the triplicities to be found in the heavens as far as we have astronomically ascertained the nature </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">of our immediate universe</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This is a perfectly unimportant piece of information as far as you are concerned and is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">only of significance to initiates of the fourth degree</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. It serves, nevertheless, to add its evidence to the essential integrity and interlocking dependencies of the universe.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">DK here correlates the idea of the ninth initiation which relates a man to Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 264) Virgo is definitely related, through the medium of the various planetary rulers, to eight other signs of the zodiac and it is, therefore, with these eight signs that we are concerned because they produce an </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">inter-related synthesis of nine signs (including Virgo).</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> In this inter-related numerical synthesis and fruitful inter-relation lies hid the entire history of human progress and the secret of the process of divine manifestation. It is of value here to remember certain points which are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Nine is the number of man</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The fourth Creative Hierarchy is in reality the ninth, if the five unmanifested Hierarchies are included in our enumeration. The human Hierarchy is only the fourth among the seven which are in active or manifested expression.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Nine is the number of initiation as far as humanity is concerned. There are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Five major planetary initiations which a man can take.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 265] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Three systemic initiations of which Christ has two</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">One cosmic initiation which relates a man to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The relation of Virgo to eight signs has, therefore, a definite bearing on these matters and the nine united potencies play their part in developing the Christ life in the individual and in the mass of men.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 296) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The three aspects of the Sun</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (as dealt with in The Secret [Page 296] Doctrine) are of importance at this point, because influences flowing through and from them bring the entire subjective and latent world consciousness to the fore and produce eventually (at the final revelation and liberation) the full expression of the consciousness of Deity. This can be called divine sensitivity, the universal mind or the divine plan or purpose. Words are inadequate to express that of which the highest initiate as yet knows but little. These three aspects of the Sun are the factors which bring consciousness to the birth and make the ultimate goal attainable; they make all forms of consciousness possible because these are rooted in the Sun (symbolically speaking) and are an inherent aspect of the greater whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The physical Sun the anima mundi; the animal soul. Multiplicity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The heart of the Sun the human soul and the divine ego. Duality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The central, spiritual Sun the divine consciousness. The will of the whole. The awareness of God. Unity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As you have been told, the Sun veils certain hidden planets, and in the case of Leo, the two planets through which the Sun focusses its energy or influences (like a lens) are Neptune and Uranus. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The "heart of the Sun" employs <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place> as its agent, whilst the central, spiritual Sun pours its influences through Uranus</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The activity of Uranus is, however, only registered at a very advanced stage of development upon the Path and is analogous to that point in the unfoldment of consciousness wherein, by an act of the will, the conscious and illumined man (focussed in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">highest head centre) arouses the centre at the base of the spine and draws the kundalini fire upwards</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Making a broad and consequently [Page 297] somewhat inaccurate generalisation, it might be said that this process is followed upon the three Crosses:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Upon the Mutable Cross, it is the physical Sun and its influences which affect the man, stimulate the bodily cells and sustain the form nature, affecting the centres below the diaphragm.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Upon the Fixed Cross, it is the "heart of the Sun" which is called into activity and which pours its energies through <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place> upon man. These stimulate and affect the heart, the throat and the ajna centres.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Upon the Cardinal Cross, it is the central, spiritual Sun which is called into play, and Uranus is then the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">distributing agency and the head centre</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> becomes the centre in the initiate's body through which direction and control come.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In connection with the Mutable Cross, the rays of the Sun in a threefold form (combining the lowest energies of the threefold Sun) pour into and through the man, via Jupiter. Jupiter is the agent of the second ray which the Sun expresses cosmically and systemically.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Hence the triple relation of the Sun to Leo which is unique in our solar system, and hence the importance of the triangle which controls the man born under Leo the Sun, Uranus and <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>. The energy of Leo is focussed through the Sun, and is distributed to our planet via the Sun and the two planets which it veils.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Neptune</span></st1:place><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, being the sign of the Deity of the waters, is related to the sixth ray which governs the astral or emotional plane of desire. When Neptune is thus active in the advanced Leo subject, then emotion-desire have been transmuted into love-aspiration and are dedicated to and oriented [Page 298] to the soul; the entire emotional or sensitive nature is responsive to energies coming from "the heart of the Sun," and when this is the case, it indicates that the disciple is now ready for the second initiation. This orientation is brought about by what is called "the sublimination of the influence of the Moon" which is, as you know, the mother, symbolically speaking, of the form nature and reflects the Sun, or the Father aspect. The above statement is exceedingly occult in its significance. Esoterically speaking, you have the emergence of an interesting triangle of force which affects the Leo subject the Sun, the Moon and <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>; these are an expression of Rays 2.4.6 and, where these three are dominantly active, you have the establishing of that "inner alignment and attitude which forces open the Door into the <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Holy Place</st1:address></st1:street>." I use these old phrases here because they express concisely what it would take many pages to elucidate and because they have that note of esoteric stimulation which awakens, in the disciple, the power of abstract thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In connection with the horoscope of the Leo subject and the theme of initiation, I would point out that when the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sun, the Moon (hiding a planet) and Saturn are all combined in a certain house in the horoscope you have what is called the "sign" of the man who is to take initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Leo, being the fifth sign of the zodiac, counting from Aries via Taurus, and also the eighth sign, counting from Aries via Pisces, is closely connected through numerical affinity with Mercury, who is esoterically called "the Messenger at the eighth gate"; Mercury was active at the time of individualisation when the "eighth gate" was opened and a major initiation of our planetary Logos took place, producing, in the human kingdom, the process of individualisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">From another angle, as might be anticipated, Leo is related [Page 299] to Scorpio, whose numbers upon the zodiacal wheel are the same as those of Leo, being five and eight. You have, therefore, the formation of the triangle to which I earlier referred: Leo-Scorpio, leading to initiation in Capricorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As we are upon the subject, one other point might be touched upon here. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">August, which is ruled by Leo, is the month of the Dog-star, or of Sirius, which thus brings Sirius into close relation to Leo. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Leo, in the cosmic sense (and apart from our solar system altogether) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">is ruled by Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius is the home of that greater Lodge to which our fifth initiation admits a man and to which it brings him, as a humble disciple.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find that the major, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy, with Sirian force</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">as Sirius governs Leo</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This I shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new "Approaches" to spiritual reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Mercury again comes, at this point, into our discussion, and you thus have the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">formation of an esoteric quaternary, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">affecting powerfully the major quaternary of man spirit, soul, mind and brain. This energy brings about an inter-relation and an inner awakening which prepares the aspirant for initiation. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This higher quaternary is Sirius-Leo-Mercury-Saturn</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. You have, therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Leo<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Spirit<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Soul<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mind<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Brain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Life<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Quality<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Illumination<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Inhalation<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Interlude<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Exhalation<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Interlude.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 300] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The above tabulation </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">gives you the clue to the basic reality and necessity of meditation as practised by the disciple and the initiate</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This may not be apparent to you at first sight and I may not further expand these suggestions, but the directed reflection of the illumined mind may bring insight to you in time. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The influence of Sirius is not consciously felt until after the third initiation when the true nature of the spirit aspect begins to dawn upon the liberated, intuitive perception of the initiate</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. For the advanced initiate in this sign, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">after the third initiation, Sirius becomes a major life factor. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He begins to respond to its vibration because he now rules the Sun and the Moon and is controlling those two planets, for that is what the Sun and the Moon have become to him simply planets to be ruled. This is a great mystery and I simply state the fact. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, Leo, the Sun, the Moon and Mercury are now the influences with which the initiate is concerned</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">influences of Sirius, three in number, are focussed in Regulus</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which is, as you know, a star of the first magnitude and which is frequently called "the heart of the Lion." There is more real occultism hidden in the names given to the various stars by astronomers down the ages than has yet been realised, and here you have a case in point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It will be apparent to you (given a little thought) that the Sun, as it veils Neptune, produces a potent effect upon the personality, symbolised for us here by the astral body, whilst </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Uranus (which is also veiled by the Sun) symbolises the effect of the soul upon the personality</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Hence the activity of the seventh ray, which is from one angle the lowest aspect of the first ray. Hence you have also the underlying idea of:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The awakening of the personality to soul control and contact, with a true expression eventually, in the three worlds, of soul-will, desire and intent.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The awakening of the seventh centre, the centre at the base of the spine</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, by the soul working through the first or highest head centre and producing (as a consequence) the surging upwards of the kundalini fire. This, in its turn, produces fusion with the higher forces. When this takes place the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">three major centres</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> in the body are<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Head<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;&nbsp; </span>The Heart<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;&nbsp; </span>The base of Spine<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Central spiritual Sun<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The heart of the Sun<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The physical Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Saturn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Sun<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Uranus<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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">As the above alignment corresponds to a very high stage of initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, it will not be possible to grasp all the implications, but enough may be apparent to reveal the underlying theme and purpose of the great work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Several major triangles of force were active when individualisation took place and the "Lions, the divine and tawny orange Flames" came into being and thus humanity arrived upon the planet. I would touch here briefly upon one triangle: The Sun (second ray), Jupiter (second ray) and Venus (fifth ray). It will be apparent to you that we here have another sphere of influence of major importance, governed by Leo. It is a triangle to which H.P.B. refers in The Secret Doctrine, the influence of which she was endeavouring to elucidate. So potent was the influence of this triangle that its effect upon the Moon was to denude her of life by drawing out all the "seeds of life," thus destroying her influence, for it was undesirable where humanity was concerned.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 305) Because of its position upon the Fixed Cross, Leo comes under the influence, direct or indirect, of six planets: The Sun; <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>; Uranus; Jupiter; Venus; Mars. All of these are potent in expression in this sign, achieving a determined point of revelation and producing, through their united activity and interplay, the six-pointed star of humanity. They condition the man's consciousness but not events, except in so far as his consciousness assumes control at a certain point in his evolution. Connected with the esoteric science of astrology are subsidiary sciences, such as the Science of Triangles, to which I have frequently referred; there is also the Science of Relationship, which concerns the relations between the many quaternaries which can be discovered in the planetary interrelation, the relation between four constellations, plus many human and divine quaternaries. There is again the Science of Stars of Energy, [Page 305] such as I have here noted when referring to the six-pointed star of humanity, and of this Science King Solomon's Seal is the well known symbol. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These stars, triangles and squares are found in all horoscopes human, planetary, systemic and cosmic and constitute the life pattern of the particular Being under investigation; </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">they determine the time of manifestation and the nature of the emanations and influences.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The squares or quaternaries relate to material appearance or form expression</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">stars concern the states of consciousness</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">triangles are related to spirit and to synthesis.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> In the archives of the esoteric astrologers connected with the Hierarchy, charts are kept of those members of the human family who have achieved adeptship and upwards. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They are composed of superimposed squares, stars and triangles, contained within the zodiacal wheel and mounted upon the symbol of the Cardinal Cross</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">squares, having each of their four angles and points in one or other of four zodiacal constellations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">depicted in black</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">five-pointed star is depicted yellow or golden colour and its five points are in contact with five of the constellations on the great wheel</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">triangles are in blue and have, above each point of the triangle, an esoteric symbol, standing for the constellations of the Great Bear, Sirius and the Pleiades</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. These symbols may not here be revealed but indicate the point of spiritual consciousness achieved and the responsiveness of the initiate to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">these major cosmic influences</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. A glance at these geometrical charts will indicate in a moment the status of the initiate, and also the point towards which he is striving. These charts are fourth dimensional in nature and not flat surfaces as are our charts. This is an interesting piece of information but of no value, except in so far that it indicates synthesis, the fusion of spirit, soul and body, and the point of development. It [Page 306] proves also the fact that "God geometrises" where the soul is concerned. These charts are most interesting.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The relation of Leo to Cancer, through <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>, has already been touched upon above and is, of course, easily apparent to you if you have the slightest understanding of the consciousness aspect of evolution. There is, first of all, the mass consciousness; then the consciousness of the dramatic, isolated self, and finally again group consciousness, which is, in reality, the highest forms of group consciousness and individual consciousness combined together in the service of the Plan. Reflect on this definition, for it will stimulate you to understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The peculiar significance of Leo in the general evolution of consciousness, particularly in the human family, is determined by the control of those two mysterious planets, Uranus and Neptune; in the man who is ready for initiation you have, therefore, a dual control, i.e., the Sun itself and also the Sun as it veils the influences of these two planets, or rather, as it focusses and transmits them with intensity. This produces the following developments:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Sun Full self-consciousness. This through the influence of the physical Sun and the "heart of the Sun" produces awareness of the relation of the higher self and the lower self. Man becomes aware of his essential duality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Uranus Occult consciousness or that intelligent, fusing condition which produces the scientific at-one-ment of the two factors, higher and lower self, through the intelligent use of the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Neptune Mystical consciousness or that innate sensitivity which leads unerringly to the higher vision, to the recognition of the inter-relation involved in man's [Page 307] essential duality during the process of manifestation, plus the activity of the mediator.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You have, therefore, the conscious, integrated Self, functioning with full occult knowledge and also with mystical perception when the influences of Leo, focussed through the Sun, Uranus and <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>, have been carried adequately forward in the life of the advanced disciple. This is one of the reasons why Leo is a sign of such paramount importance and why the intelligent Leo subject can usually attain his goal, once he accurately perceives that objective.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This sign has frequently been described as the "battlefield of the Forces of Materialism and the Forces of Light." It is occultly regarded as one of the most material signs, in-as-much as selfish desire for possession of material objectives can be peculiarly present and the display of the possessive spirit can violently control; yet, at the same time, the advanced Leo person can function as the "inspired spiritual Sacrifice." He is then sensitive to world conditions and freed from personal desires.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Before individual man can achieve initiation, he must be fully self-conscious, mystically oriented and occultly developed. He must be aware of himself as he essentially is a soul involved in form which is itself developed and unfolded through soul activity; he must be a developed mystic, capable of pure vision, motivated by spiritual intent and able to perceive the uses of inherent sensitivity; he must also be a trained occultist, mentally polarised and profoundly aware of the realities, forces and energies of existence and, therefore, free from the ordinary glamours and illusions which colour the reactions and life of the average man. He is then governed by the physical Sun, motivated by the energies pouring from "the heart of the Sun" (via [Page 308] Neptune) and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">bringing about at-one-ment through the forces which are reaching him (via Uranus).<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">A Sirian alignment during the month of August<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Beyond these two distant planets, lies another planet as yet undiscovered</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, though speculation is rife about it, owing to certain unexplained movements of the planet <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place>. It is through this planet that the Forces (as they are related to Leo and Aquarius) are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">focussed in one potent stream of force; these pour into our planetary life during the month of August, and distribute themselves, via Uranus and Neptune</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. You have, therefore, in this connection:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>LEO<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>AND<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>AQUARIUS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The physical Sun<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Heart of the Sun<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Central spiritual Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>/<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The undiscovered planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>/<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Uranus and Neptune.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>/<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The human Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>/<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The animal Kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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, but this is the only one I choose, at this time, to indicate, because it is of major importance to humanity; the others might prove misleading, given man's present point of intelligent understanding and influence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would here call to your attention that, through these directing planets, the following rays are controlling factors in the chart of the Leo subject:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Sun 2nd ray love-wisdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Uranus 7th ray organisation or directed manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. <st1:place w:st="on">Neptune</st1:place> 6th ray idealistic one-pointedness. Devotion to an objective.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 309] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the perfected Leo, the loving self-conscious soul (2nd ray) carries its power of expression straight through from its own plane to the plane of exterior manifestation, but preserves at the same time its interior control (Uranus) and from that point of achievement, proceeds to make its ideal objective (Neptune) a fact in consciousness, through sensitivity to the higher vibration and directed intelligent service of the Plan. Ponder on this summation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 348) This sign is sometimes called the "constellation of the resolution of duality into a fluid synthesis." Governing as it does all the pairs of opposites in the zodiac, it preserves the magnetic interplay between them, keeping them fluid in their relations, in order eventually to facilitate their transmutation into unity, for the two must finally become the One. It should be remembered that from the angle of the final development of the twelve zodiacal potencies </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the twelve opposites must become the blended six,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and this is brought about by the fusion in consciousness of the polar [Page 348] opposites. Pause and consider this phrasing. The opposites eternally remain from the point of view of human reason, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">but to the initiate whose intuition is functioning they constitute but six great potencies, because he has achieved "the freedom of the two</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">," as it is sometimes called. For instance, the Leo subject who has an initiated consciousness preserves the individuality, developed in Leo, as well as the universality of Aquarius; he can function, if he so chooses, as a fully self-identified individual, yet possesses simultaneously a fully awakened universal awareness; the same thing can be said of balanced activity and consequent fusion in all the signs. This analysis constitutes in itself an interesting and far-reaching field of speculation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Gemini is, therefore, one of the most important of the twelve signs and its influence lies behind everyone of them a fact but little realised as yet by astrologers. This will be more fully understood when the triangle of Gemini and two opposing signs is studied. Because the Ray of Love-Wisdom, the second ray, pours through Gemini it becomes apparent how true is the occult teaching that love underlies the entire universe. God is love, we are assured, and this statement is both an exoteric and an esoteric truth. This underlying love of Deity reaches our solar system primarily through Gemini, which forms, with the constellation of the Great Bear and the Pleiades, a cosmic triangle. This is the triangle of the cosmic Christ and is the esoteric symbol lying behind the cosmic Cross. There is ever the eternal triangle to be found behind the fourfold phenomenal appearance. Speaking symbolically and in the words of the Old Commentary:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"Upon the golden triangle, the cosmic Christ appeared; His head in Gemini; one foot upon the field [Page 349] of the Seven Fathers and the other planted in the field of the Seven Mothers (these two constellations are sometimes called the Seven Brothers and the Seven Sisters. A.A.B.). Thus for aeons, the Great One stood, His consciousness in-turned, aware of three but not of four. Intent, with suddenness, He heard a sound go forth.... Arousing to that cry, He stretched Himself, reached forth both arms in understanding love, and, lo, the Cross was formed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"He heard the cry of the Mother (Virgo), of the Seeker (Sagittarius), and of the submerged Fish (Pisces). Then, lo, the Cross of change appeared, though Gemini remained the head. This is the mystery."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In this occult statement is hidden one reason </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">why Gemini is regarded as an air sign</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, for it is cosmically related (as are Libra and Aquarius, the other two points of the airy triplicity) in a most peculiar way to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Great Bear, to the Pleiades and to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The relation is essentially a sixfold one, and here you will find a hint as to the resolution of the pairs of opposites involving as these three constellations do the three ideas of opposition-equilibrium-synthesis or universal fusion. It might be stated that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Gemini forms a point of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">entrance for cosmic energy from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Libra is related to and transmits the potencies of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pleiades.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Aquarius expresses the universal consciousness of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It might be profitable to you to bear in mind at this point what I have often told you, that the great White Lodge on [Page 350] Sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great White Lodge on Earth, of which modern Masonry is the distorted reflection, just as the personality is a distorted reflection of the soul. I would also remind you again of the relation between Gemini and Masonry to which reference has frequently been made.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A close consideration of what I have said above will serve to emphasise in your consciousness the importance of this constellation, Gemini, and the inner significance of the Mutable Cross. All the constellations on this Cross mark points of change or are the custodians of those energies which produce the needed periods of re-orientation, preparatory to fresh developments and new activities. It might be of interest if I pointed out that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Mutable Cross brings about those conditions which will produce great periods of change in the life of the planet, of a kingdom in nature or of a human being. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mercury </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">plays a part in this.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Fixed Cross brings about, as a sequence, to these inner changes, certain great points of crisis which are unavoidable and present definite opportunity. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saturn</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is dominant in bringing this about.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Cardinal Cross</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is responsible for bringing about certain great points of synthesis, as a consequence of both change and crisis. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jupiter is responsible for the focussing of energies</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> at this point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I will enlarge upon this later, but the above will give you (even in this brief form) certain positive ideas of great importance, and will indicate certain situations which can be looked for in the lives of those whose Sun is in one or other of these signs and on one or other of these Crosses.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the expression of the activity of this sign of duality, it is subjective energy we must consider as it produces objective effects. This sign controls esoterically the heart of our solar system and thus controls the pulsation of life which sustains all that is. Gemini is, therefore, connected with the heart of the Sun, just as Cancer is related to the physical Sun and Aquarius to the central spiritual Sun. Here again, you have a significant triangle of a cosmic nature, the energies of which are focussed through the three aspects of the Sun in a most mysterious fashion:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Cancer . . . physical Sun . . . 3rd aspect . . . intelligent activity of the Whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Gemini . . . heart of the Sun . . . 2nd aspect . . . love of the Whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Aquarius . . . central spiritual Sun . . . 1st aspect . . . the will of the Whole.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Through these signs the three major aspects of divinity are at this time focussed</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. In casting the horoscope of the planet (a thing that has never yet been accurately done, owing to the lack of data available to the exoteric astrologer) it is the influence of these three constellations which will be found of dominating importance. In Cancer, you have the intelligent synthetic consciousness of the mass, viewing it from the consciousness of matter itself and the awareness of all forms and atoms; in Gemini, you have an emerging recognition of duality, leading to experience and growth in all separative intelligent forms; in Aquarius, you have the results of the activity of Cancer and Gemini, producing a higher synthesis and a universal group awareness. This the intelligent student can trace with moderate facility in relation to humanity, but it applies equally to all forms in all kingdoms of nature and also to planetary and solar expression. The proved reality of this is one of the developments of the initiatory process at the end of the long, long path [Page 352] of evolution. Attraction and repulsion are therefore conditioning factors in our solar life, and this conditioning reaches us through Gemini. It is the effect of a cosmic energy at present unknown to humanity. The waxing and the waning light which distinguishes soul experience from the first faint move towards incarnation and Earth experience, the rise and fall of civilisations and the growth and unfoldment of all cyclic manifestations are produced by the "interplay between the two brothers," as it is called. In that far-off time when the greater round of the zodiac was started in Gemini, as now it is in Pisces, there was a relation between the waxing and the waning moon, due to the pulsating power of Gemini. This is now greatly lessened, owing to the removal of the responsive life from the Moon, but the rhythm then set up still remains, producing the same basic illusion. I am talking here in terms of ancient facts and not in terms of reflection, as is now the case. I refer to realities and not to shadows.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 355) It is for this reason that you have the exoteric ruler given as Mercury and the esoteric ruler as Venus, for they embody between them the energies of the fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict and the fifth Ray of Concrete Knowledge or Science which is embryonic understanding of causes and conditions resulting therefrom and also of the Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Again you find the note of duality in the relationship [Page 355] (established by the activity of these two rulers) between the third kingdom of nature, the animal kingdom and the kingdom of God or of souls, the fifth kingdom in nature, thus producing the fourth or human kingdom. Between these two the influences play from Sagittarius to Gemini and vice versa. It was the activity of Venus under the influence of Gemini which produced the great crisis of the individualisation when the two kingdoms "approached" each other. Venus, Mercury and the Earth then set up a magnetic field which made the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">intervention of the Great Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and the dual stimulation of Gemini effective in producing significant results of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the expression. The fact that Gemini is the third sign and embodies what is called "a third potency" enabled it to reach, with its force, the third kingdom and produce that reaction which resulted in the individualising or the humanising of its higher forms of life. You will note that Venus is also the hierarchical ruler of Capricorn, thus showing the power of the mind and its place and purpose in connection with both the major human crises: Individualisation and Initiation. It relates humanity in an unique way to Gemini. In the coming world religion this fact will be noted and in the month of June, which is essentially the month in which the influences of Gemini are peculiarly strong, due advantage will be taken in order to bring man nearer to the spiritual realities. Just as Venus was potent in producing the relation of such pairs of opposites as the fifth kingdom of souls and the third kingdom (the synthesis of the sub-human kingdoms) leading to a Great Approach between soul and form, so in the new world religion this fact will be recognised. Appeal will be made to the Forces which can utilise this planetary potency in order to work out the divine plan upon the Earth. It is because Venus thus [Page 356] relates certain pairs of opposites that she has been erroneously connected in the minds of men with sex and the sex life and with the relation of the physical opposites, male and female.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 409) In no place have I attempted to give any of the mathematics connected with my statements in this series of astrological studies. Certain basic changes in the orientation of the Earth's axis are now taking place, and these will throw much confusion into the computations of astrologers. These changes are proceeding slowly and progressively and according to cosmic law. Whilst they are in progress, accuracy of computation and deduction is unattainable. When the orientation and "pointed direction" of the Earth's pole has again been stabilised, the new conditioning, mathematical figures can be again ascertained. There has indeed been no true accuracy since ancient Egyptian days. Anything now possible along these lines can only be regarded as approximate, and, therefore, certainty in analysis, prediction and interpretation is not possible. This whole subject is one of the greatest obscurity and quite incomprehensible to the average astrologer and certainly to the average student. I would remind you, however, that several times in the great life cycle of the Earth, there have been changing "pole-stars" and that our present pole-star has not always held that position. This science itself recognises.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At each of the great shifts in the Earth's axis, there has been upheaval, confusion and cataclysm, preceding reconstruction, stabilisation and relative quiet. Of these macrocosmic events there are similar microcosmic correspondences in the lives of both humanity and individual man. Hence the present world crisis though precipitated by human [Page 409] error and sinfulness, by past Karma and emerging idealism (responsive to the development of the intellect and the appearance of the intuition) is basically the result of much greater and vaster combinations of force currents in macrocosmic relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Briefly it might be said that the following cosmic and systemic causes are responsible for the present world crisis and the present difficult world situation:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">A welling up of magnetic force on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which produces effects upon our solar system and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">particularly upon our Earth, via the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. A shift in the Earth's polarity, due to the pull of a </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">great cosmic centre</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This powerfully affects the Earth's orientation and is responsible for the present earthquakes, and for the volcanic eruptions and the many earthquakes during the past one hundred and fifty years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The great sweep of the sun around the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">greater zodiac (a period of 250,000 years</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, or a complete round) </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">came to an end when the sun entered Pisces over two thousand years ago</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This process of passing out of, or entering into, a particular sign and cyclic influence covers a period of five thousand years where this greater round or cycle is concerned. This period of five thousand years covers the complete cycle of transition until complete freedom to function under the inspiration of the new sign is completed. We are, therefore, not yet free from incidental turmoil.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The passing of our </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sun out of the sign Pisces into the sign Aquarius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is another of the conditions bringing about the present confusion. This confusion of forces in the solar system is notably affecting our planet. In the process of passing from sign to sign, as for instance [Page 410] transitting out of Pisces into Aquarius as is now the case, the period covered is approximately five hundred years.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These are points which astrologers would do well to consider. I would remind students again that when speaking of signs I am referring to the influences of the constellations as they are represented by the signs, calling to your attention that in the great evolutionary process and owing to certain shifts and astronomical-astrological discrepancies, the Sun is not in the constellation to which a particular sign refers at any given moment. This I called to your attention in an earlier part of this treatise.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. Another factor little known is that the Moon today is disintegrating with increasing rapidity and this necessarily affects the Earth and produces terrestrial results.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Students would find it of interest to make the following applications of these great cyclic events to their own "appearance" and functioning processes in time and space:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The succession of the greater rounds of the zodiac or a period of cycles of approximately 250,000 years has a correspondence to the life cycle of the Monad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The progress of the Sun as it passes through the signs in the zodiac during one of these 25,000 year cycles finds its analogy in the life cycle of the ego or soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The lesser zodiac covered from the angle of extreme illusion in the course of one year, corresponds to the life of the personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In considering these points it should always be remembered that great shifts in consciousness, or great expansions of awareness, are followed inevitably by upheaval in the outer forms. This is true in the life of the solar Deity, of a planetary [Page 411] Logos, of humanity as a whole and of a man. Hence again today's world problem. A major event such as a change in the axis of the Earth is related to an initiation of the planetary Logos. Students can here note, therefore, the relation to the individual life as it shifts its consciousness steadily in the vital unfolding processes of the Path of Discipleship and of Initiation. Earlier in this treatise I referred to a fact which must always be borne in mind and that is that the great energies, playing upon our planet, exert a hindering or a stimulating effect. They are either retarding in their effects, producing concretion, crystallisation and a holding back or on to that which is old and of the past, or they stimulate and produce fluidity, enlargement and expansion. The careful student of human affairs will note this as he studies the events which are today passing before his eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Speaking with a wide generalisation, it might he said that the three major groups of forces affecting our planet are zodiacal, systemic and planetary in nature and again generalising it might also be said that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Zodiacal energies pass through Shamballa and are related to the first Ray of Will or Power and affect the Monad.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Systemic energies pass through the Hierarchy and are related to the second Ray of Love- Wisdom or (as it is oft called in esoteric astrology) the Ray of Attractive Coherency and affect the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Planetary forces impinge upon and pass through humanity and are related to the third Ray of Active Intelligence and affect the personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To this I earlier referred, but have restated it here as I seek to have it definitely in your minds as we go forward [Page 412] with our new studies. You have here a major trinity of energies, emerging out of a vast and incomprehensible aggregation of forces and energies which stands to them as the One Life stands to this lesser important triangle.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 416) 1. Triangles of Energy Constellations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Lying behind all the many interlocking triangles in our solar system and conditioning them to a very large extent (though today more potentially than expressively) are three energies coming from three major constellations. They are the emanations from the Great Bear, from the Pleiades and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. It might be pointed out that:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 416] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The energies coming from the Great Bear are related to the will or purpose of the solar Logos and are to this great Being what the monad is to man. This is a deep mystery and one which even the highest initiate cannot yet grasp. Its sevenfold unified energies pass through Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">energies coming from the sun, Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, are related to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">love-wisdom aspect or to the attractive power of the solar Logos, to the soul of that Great Being.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> This cosmic soul energy is related to the Hierarchy. You have been told that the great White Lodge on </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> finds its reflection and a mode of spiritual service and outlet in the great White Lodge of our planet, the Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The energies coming from the Pleiades, an aggregation of seven energies, are connected with the active intelligent aspect of logoic expression, and influence the form side of all manifestation. They focus primarily through Humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Connected with this major triangle and affecting powerfully our entire solar system is a triple inter-relation of great interest, which has a special and peculiar relation to humanity. This triangle of forces relates one of these major constellations, one of the zodiacal signs and one of the sacred planets within our solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">First Triangle:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Pleiades . . . Cancer . . . Venus.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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; </span>Humanity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Second Triangle:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Great Bear . . . Aries . . . Pluto.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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; </span>Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Third Triangle:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> . . . Leo . . . Jupiter.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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; </span>Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I wonder if you can grasp at least partially and symbolically the fact that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">these triangles must not be thought of as placed, static and eternally the same, or even as three dimensional</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They must be regarded as in rapid movement, revolving eternally in space and ceaselessly moving onward and as of fourth and fifth dimensional extension</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. There is no way of depicting them or of bringing them visually to your attention, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">for only the inner eye of vision can imagine their progression, position or appearance. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These three major triangles are only partially as yet in expression as far as our solar system is concerned and only one point of the great triangle as for instance one point of the Great Bear constitutes with Aries a related line of force; only one point of Aries within itself or within its own range of interplay with Leo and Capricorn (see Tabulation VIII) is related to Pluto. Therefore the entire cosmic web and solar system is an intricate, constantly moving, interwoven series of triangles wherein each point of a triangle emanates three lines or streams of energy (nine in all); it is likewise responsive to and receptive of the energies likewise triple in nature which lie within its periphery or sphere of influence and vibratory activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is useless for students to attempt to unravel this aggregation of interlacing streams of energy. All that is now possible for man with his present equipment is to accept hypothetically these statements anent certain major triangles which affect humanity and seek to prove their effect and to endeavour to arrive at some understanding of that intricate, interwoven network which he himself possesses and to which [Page 418] he gives the name "etheric body." Thus he may succeed in proving the accuracy of a statement by the demonstrated quality of the life aspect, its conditioning and results in the microcosmic life history and events. This astrology has nought to do in connection with tangible happenings on the outer plane of existence; we, however, will see to it that our effort lies along the line of psychological life history and events and not along the line of physical occurrences. This difference is basic and must ever be borne in mind. Astrologers have begun to grasp a dim idea of the interlocking triangles of energy as far as our Earth is concerned in the rather arbitrary division of the twelve constellations into four triplicities, covered by such qualifying terms as earthy triplicity or fiery triplicity, composed each of a cardinal, a fixed and a mutable sign. They thus divide up the entire zodiac into a fourfold group of interlacing and interrelated triads, each conditioned by one of the basic elements and thus qualified. These constitute a series of basic triangles with a definite reference to our planetary life. Owing to the constant movement everywhere, inherent in the solar system and the zodiac onward, interior and revolving some idea can be grasped of the intricacy of the entire pattern. A further aid to the grasping of this essential beauty of coordinated and organised movement and its power to qualify and condition the entire universal pattern can be gained by those students who have studied somewhat the various triangles to be found in the etheric body of man through the inter-relation of the seven centres to which I have referred elsewhere in my various books. These centres, when awakened and alive, are swept finally within the radius of each others' sphere of action; from the point of view of living energy, the circumference of these wheels or vortices of force becomes so enlarged that they eventually [Page 419] overlap and touch, presenting on a tiny scale a condition analogous to the contacting and interlocking series of triangles such as those referred to above.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Behind these concepts of the relation existing in time and space between </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the constellations of the Great Bear, the Pleiades and the sun, Sirius, and our solar system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, there exists, it must be remembered, an immense series of interlocking triangles between the stars which compose these constellations interiorly and our solar system. You have, therefore, a relationship between:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The seven stars, composing the Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The seven stars, composing the Pleiades, sometimes called the seven "sisters" or "wives" of the Rishis or informing Lives of the Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun, Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">these four groups of stars constitute the manifested aspect or personality of a great and unknown Life<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These compose major triangles of force and all are held </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">within the radius of the Life of that Great Being Whose expressed, manifested intention is brought into being through the medium of these three related groups and our solar system. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As hinted by me in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">these four groups of stars constitute the manifested aspect or personality of a great and unknown Life.</span></u></b><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I seek in this connection to give only a general picture because, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">with these cosmic triangles, I have no intention to deal. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We will only consider those constellations within the greater zodiac which are known by astrologers to have a definite effect upon humanity and our planetary life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Therefore, in studying these triangles, we will make (for our guidance) certain rules which, under the Law of Analogy, may facilitate our comprehension of the underlying meaning and truths.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 420] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. All triangles studied will be regarded as expressing:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. A major conditioning energy, producing manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This corresponds to the Monad aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. A secondary qualifying energy producing consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This corresponds to the Ego or Soul aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. A lesser expression of force, producing tangibility.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This corresponds to the Personality aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. These three energies will be related, therefore, to the three aspects of manifested life. These have been termed throughout this treatise: Life, Quality and Appearance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. These energies change within themselves and sometimes one will strike the dominating note and sometimes another; sometimes a secondary energy will become a major conditioning force and sometimes the lesser expression will come to the top and become, for the cycle, the outstanding characteristic of the triangle. Such cosmic events are governed by a great Law of Expediency, evoked by the evolutionary process and incident also to zodiacal movement and its own interior mathematical conditioning a subject of such vast dimensions and mystery that no Life within our solar system has more than sensed its significance. The cyclic expression of life is dependent upon constant mutation and infinitely changing processes.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The statements made by me in this attempt for it is little more to indicate the main lines of approach to the new science of esoteric astrology, may not yet be capable of any proof. Later on such proof will be available. All that I can ask of you at this time is to be [Page 421] interested in the presentation, to strive to see the general picture I am seeking to present and to grasp somewhat the relative synthesis which underlies all manifestation. Starting from that which is today accepted, be willing to move on from there into new fields of possibility and of sensed probability. Time will justify the information I ask you to accept as hypothesis.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Next I will deal with an analysis of three groups of triangles which are of major importance to humanity at this time and which follow upon information earlier given. These groups of triangles emanate energies which reach through space to the individual man and, therefore, cannot he ignored. They are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Great Bear<span style=""> </span><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; </span>The Pleiades<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; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Transmit energy via<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Leo<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Capricorn<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; </span>Pisces<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>These transmit energy via<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Saturn<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Mercury<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&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; </span>Uranus<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Reaching the following centres<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Planetary head centre<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planetary ajna centre<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planetary heart<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>From thence to<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Disciple's head centre<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Disciple's ajna centre<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Disciple's heart centre<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and eventually control<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The base of the spine<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The throat centre<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>the solar plexus<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I will also take up with you some of the points and indications which are hinted at in Tabulation IX, relating to the twelve signs of the zodiac, to be found on page 423. Certain major streams of conditioning energies will be seen related to each other and to our Earth and these fall into two groups:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The ray energies which we are told emanate from the Great Bear in seven great out-raying streams of force.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The inherent energies of the twelve constellations which blend with the ray energies, producing the essential dualism of manifested life, and incidentally are responsible for the peculiar difficulties confronting humanity on the are of evolutionary experience upon our planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Again I would repeat that what I shall have to say will be related to present world conditions, to humanity and also for practical teaching and application to the life of the individual disciple. Necessarily, these energies have a cosmic, systemic and planetary significance but these no disciple can as yet grasp; personality has to be transcended before even the earlier stages of the understanding of these mysteries become possible, and this transcendence is something you have not yet accomplished but which some day inevitably you will.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Once man is impersonal and free from the reactions of the lower self, and his consciousness is illumined by the clear light of the intuition, then his "window of vision" becomes clarified and his sight into reality is unimpeded. Obstructions (always erected by humanity itself) are removed and he sees all life and form in their true relation and can comprehend, and even occultly "see," the "passage of the energies."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The relationship of certain rays and cosmic triangles may become clearer to you if the following tabulation is studied with care.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">NOTE: The seven stars of the Great Bear are the originating sources of the seven rays of our solar system. The seven Rishis (as They are called) of the Great Bear express Themselves through the medium of the seven planetary Logoi Who are Their Representatives and to Whom They stand in the relation of cosmic Prototype. The seven [Page 423] planetary Gods manifest through the medium of the seven sacred planets. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each of these seven rays is transmitted into our solar system through the medium of three constellations and their ruling planets</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 427) The twelve signs of the zodiac fall into two groups of signs, and their related synthesis has much to do with the Science of Triangles. They are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 426] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Seven signs related to the unfoldment of planetary consciousness upon Earth and only incidentally involving the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the Human Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Five signs related to the unfoldment, in time and space, of the Human Hierarchy. These five signs are of major conditioning importance and may be enumerated as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Cancer<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Leo<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Scorpio<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. Capricorn<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">e. Pisces<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These five signs are related in the planetary sense to the five great races of which our present race, the Aryan, is the fifth. These five races, under the influence of the five signs, produce the externalisations which are called the five continents Europe, Africa, Asia, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>. These five continents are to the planetary Life what five major endocrine glands are to the human being. They are related to five centres.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All these appearances, expressions of qualities and material evidences of life are the symbols or outer and visible signs of inner and spiritual realities or of Life, whatever you may mean by that term. For our purposes, we could define Life as the energy emanating from certain great Lives Who stand behind our solar system as its life and source, much as the Monad stands behind the appearance of a man upon the physical plane or of the soul upon its own level. Man, it might be stated, is the expression of seven principles and of the life expression or activity of five planes. In this 7 + 5 is to be found the clue to the mystery of the seven and the five zodiacal constellations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 427] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Within this sum total of active, qualified energies, we have (working out today) influences and impulses from three major constellations. These pour through certain other related constellations and planets into the three major planetary centres: Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity. It is with these three centres I would seek to deal and to them and their inter-relations continually make reference. I would ask you to bear in mind that these energies are transmitted from one point to another, or pass through with transmuting effect from one centre to another, thus bearing their own vibratory quality but carrying also that of the centre of transmission. In the transit of energy from a major centre to a human being and when the energy is finally grounded in the disciple's centre, you will notice that it is then a fusion of six energies. These three groups of energies (each of them a fusion of six) make the dominating energies, controlling the human being, to number eighteen; this holds the clue to the mystery of the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">mark of the beast" which is 666.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> This is the number of the active intelligent man and distinguishes his form nature from his </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spiritual nature which is 999</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. These three lines or streams of energy in man may be listed as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>II.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>III.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Will. Purpose.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Love-Wisdom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Active Intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Spirit.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><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; </span>Consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Form.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Great Bear<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Pleiades. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Cosmic.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Cosmic.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Cosmic.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Leo<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Pisces<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Capricorn. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Zodiacal.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Zodiacal.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Zodiacal. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Saturn<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Uranus<span style=""> </span>Mercury. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Systemic.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Systemic.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Systemic. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. SHAMBALLA<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>HIERARCHY<span style="">&nbsp; </span>HUMANITY. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Earth.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Earth.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Earth. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planetary head centre.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Planetary heart centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Planetary ajna centre. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 428]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>II.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>III.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Will. Purpose.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Love-Wisdom.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Active Intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Spirit.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Form.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. Head centre<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Heart centre<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Ajna centre. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Initiate<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Disciple<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Aspirant. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Egoic purpose<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Egoic love<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Spiritual mind (abstract).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. Base of spine<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Solar plexus<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Throat centre. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Initiate<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Disciple<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Aspirant. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Personal Will<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Personal desire<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Personal creativity. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A study of this tabulation will demonstrate that there will be found a structure therein of many triangles of force; some of these are cosmic, some zodiacal, others systemic, still others planetary and their reflections in the etheric body of the disciples of the world of all grades. Through the great triangle of Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity, cosmic, zodiacal and systemic force is focussed and these three become, in their turn, a macrocosmic triangle of energies in relation to the individual human being upon the planet. You have, therefore, the following lines of transmission of force:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Shamballa<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Hierarchy<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Humanity<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Head centre.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Heart centre.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Ajna centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Base of the spine.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Solar plexus.<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Throat.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">One major centre is here omitted because it is primarily related to the physical body and its expression of life perpetuation. That is the sacral centre. Just as the physical body is regarded by true esotericists as not a principle so the sacral centre is regarded as "a necessary evocation between that which is high and that which is low, and between that which is sounded forth from the centre in the throat and that which replies to a deeply sounded note."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In this connection there is an interesting triangle of energy formed by:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 429] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The egoic lotus.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The throat centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The sacral centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This triangle when functioning produces a subsidiary triangle of force which is formed by:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The throat centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The sacral centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The physical body symbolised by the organs of reproduction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let me pause a moment here to point out that in this study of the Triangles it is not possible for us to do more than study certain of the major groups of triangles and a few of the most important triangles where humanity itself is concerned. It is of value for human beings to realise that there are other evolutions and other forms of logoic expression of equal importance to their own. There is, in truth, a veritable multiplicity of triangles. For the triangle is the basic geometric form of all manifestation and it is to be seen (by those who have eyes to see) underlying the entire fabric of manifestation, whether it is the manifestation of a solar system, the manifestation of the zodiacal round, the cosmic triplicities or the tiny reflection of this divine triple whole which we call man. When the human being is manifest but is not yet truly manifested, the triangles which symbolise this manifestation are the two eyes and the third eye:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The right eye the eye of buddhi, of wisdom and of vision.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The left eye the eye of mind, of the commonsense and of sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 430] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The eye of Shiva the all-seeing eye, the eye which directs the will and purposes of Deity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These three are, in reality,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The eye of the Father carrying light from the Great Bear.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The eye of the Son </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">carrying light from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The eye of the Mother carrying light from the Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and it is this latter "light energy" which is necessarily peculiarity active when the sign of Taurus is dominant in any planetary and individual horoscope.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In some unusual manner (from the human angle), all that concerns the development of mankind has been down the ages expressed by him in terms of illumination and knowledge, in terms of sight and of the entrance of light, thus leading to revelation and (incidentally) to the true theme of astrological interpretation. From this peculiar angle, therefore, we can approach the great Triangles with which we are today concerned and deal also with their significance in terms of Light. This significance and approach can be summed up in the following stanzas from the Old Commentary which if studied carefully will throw much light upon the theme of this particular subject:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"The sevenfold light of the Father brought from chaos into the ordered day His purpose and His plan. The seven supreme Gods bent to this purpose and with united will ordained the Plan.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Bear and the Lion met together and laid their plans [Page 431] in conformity with the plan and with the purpose of their controlling Lord. They called on Father Time (Saturn. A.A.B.) for aid and strength and he responded to their triple call. To this call likewise the Eternal Youth responded (Sanat Kumara, Lord of Shamballa); He set Himself anew to learn the plan, aided by Father Time yet unaffected by the Lord of Time for He Himself was timeless, though not the Lives which He enfolded in His thought and Plan....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Then the triple light which came from the Bear in His high place, from Leo in his lesser place and from Saturn in his little place poured into the planetary place of power. Shamballa was informed. The Lord of Life and of the World took action....<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The little one within the greater Whole (the individual human disciple. A.A.B.) likewise responded to the triple light but not until the cycles passed and passed again. Late in the day of time, Shamballa sent a call, relayed from voice to voice and rolling forward on the O.M. The disciple, hearing that sound, lifted his head; an impulse from the base mounted in time and space. Leo within the heart and head shouted aloud and stood whilst Saturn did his work ... and thus the twain were one.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">II.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The central light of Sirius shone through the eye of the Son; the vision came</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The light of wisdom penetrated into the waters and cast the radiance of the Heavens into the depths. At this attractive call, the goddess rose unto the surface (the fish-goddess, the symbol of Pisces. A.A.B.) and welcomed the light within the depths and grasped it as her own. She saw the Sun, having seen her Son, and from [Page 432] that day the Sun has never left her. There is no darkness. There is always light.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">And then the heavens within the ring-pass-not responded to the light from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> which, passing through the sea of Pisces, lifted the fishes into the heavenly sphere (Uranus) and thus a lesser triple light appeared, the radiant sun of suns, the watery light of Pisces, the heavenly light of Uranus. This light descended on the waiting sphere and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">lit the galaxy of little lights upon the Earth</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. A Hierarchy of Light emerged from its own place; the planet was alight.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">III.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The little one upon that little world responded slowly to that light until today the little world of men begins to throb in rhythmic unison. Changes are wrought. The cosmic heart, the heart systemic and the little heart of man begin to beat as one and as this beat pulsates with greater strength it blends a lower note (that of the solar plexus. A.A.B.) within itself, removes its harshness and its note of fear and thus it ends illusion. And then again the two are one.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">IV.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The seven Mothers blend their light and make it six (refers to the lost Pleiad, A.A.B.) and yet the seven still are there. Their light is different from the other lights. This light evokes response from that which shouts aloud: `I am the densest point of all the concrete world (Capricorn. A.A.B.). I am a tomb; I also am the womb. I am the rock which sinks itself into the deep of matter. I am the mountain-top on which the Son is born on which the [Page 433] Sun is seen and that which catches the first rays of light.' To me a Messenger comes forth (Mercury. A.A.B.) and says `the Dayspring from on high is on the way, sent by the Father to the Mother.' Upon his way unto this nether </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">star we call the Earth he stopped at a bright sun where shines the light of love (Sirius. A.A.B.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) and there received the accolade of love. So thus he brings bright gifts to man. For he is man himself and from these three (The Pleiades, Capricorn, Mercury. A.A.B.) Man takes a nature which is his today. Son of the Mother, born from the tomb and showing after birth the light which he has taken from them all.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Then to the lower three he turns and to these souls in prison he in time becomes a Messenger. Thus does the Lord of Mercury repeat himself. The Son descends again into the place of earth and iron. Again he knows His mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">And thus the little one upon the littlest sphere becomes the greatest God. From the directing centre of his life on Earth he toils and works and carries out the Plan. (The ajna centre is the directing centre. A.A.B.) He too awakens to the need and from the chosen place (the throat centre. A.A.B.) he utters forth the Sound which in time becomes the Word. And then the three are twain and these are One."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Again and repeatedly, students must remind themselves that we are considering the impact of energy upon energy units (all qualified and producing appearance) and with the response of those energy units to the streams of force which reach them from "the furthest centre." It is in the development of response to distant points of contact and [Page 434] emanating sources of energy that the needed sensitivity is produced. Sensitivity, generally speaking, is of a threefold nature:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Sensitivity to that which is found within oneself. This, when the consciousness is adequately self-sufficient, opens a door for the entrance of energies coming from the "middle centre." I speak in symbols and for those whose knowledge of cosmic location and of points in time and space will enable them to comprehend; to the uninitiate, I simply say, "Respond to soul impact."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Sensitivity to that which emanates from the "centres left behind" or to those streams of vital energy which lie active and focussed below the threshold of the waking consciousness. They stir the threads of memory; they draw backward the glances (and there lies magic in the energy of the eye) of the onward moving Point, the Pilgrim on his way; they condition through ancient habit the responsiveness of the units in the form.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. A developed sensitivity which emerges from the "furthest centre" at first unconsciously employed and later consciously directed and attuned a fully magnetic and attractive sensitivity. Forget not that true interplay imposes the condition of reciprocity and that the two points or termini of a line eventually vibrate in unison.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A consideration of a hint given earlier as to the symbolism and significance of the three eyes available for man's use will be found illuminating and their relation to the heart and throat will prove evocative of knowledge. They relate to the three centres above referred to and in their wider connotation relate to the three planetary centres: Humanity, Hierarchy and Shamballa; further back still lies a relation to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">cosmic centres of the Great Bear, Sirius and [Page 435] the Pleiades. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In between these planetary centres to which I have referred and their distant cosmic archetypes lie three systemic centres which at this time and under cyclic law are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Saturn, Uranus and Mercury</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. In between these again are to be found a zodiacal triangle of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Leo, Pisces and Capricorn</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. For purposes of our immediate consideration the following three triangles are, therefore, to be found:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When the significance of this is grasped, the following interesting points will appear. I give them to you for what they are worth to you and that worth is dependent upon the goal ahead of you, and where you stand today in time and space.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Triangle Three depicts the interplay of three streams of force which, in this particular world cycle condition and basically influence ordinary humanity. Forget not that humanity itself constitutes a great centre in the life of the planetary Logos:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Capricorn connotes density, firm foundations, concretisation, the mountain of karma that holds down the [Page 436] struggling soul or the mountain of initiation which must eventually be climbed and surmounted. It signifies, therefore, the great force of liberation which both drives into experience and brings experience to an end, from the angle of humanity. This is the major stream of force in this particular triangle at this time.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Mercury brings in that quick and intuitive mind which interprets experience, fosters the growth of the intuition and relates the inner spiritual man to the outer human being in such a way that their future unity of purpose, plan and effort is assured. Mercury brings about those changes in mental perception which eventually enable humanity to act as the mediating interpreter between the higher worlds and the three lower kingdoms in nature; thus Mercury institutes the threefold activity of this centre in the body of the Heavenly Man which we struggle to perceive and comprehend, and which we regard as forming the three phases of the mind:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The abstract mind pure manas.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Son of Mind soul, manasaputra.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The concrete mind mental body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and their correspondences in substance-energy:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The right eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The left eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The third eye.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In this particular world cycle it is Capricorn which is producing the moment of crisis a crisis of initiation plus a crisis of destruction (related primarily to the mineral kingdom) paralleled by a crisis of mental perception, [Page 437] precipitated by Mercury. It is this mental perception plus world participation in the "crumbling of the mountain load of karma" which heralds the vision of the new day from the top of the mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Here in pictorial language I have endeavoured to indicate the three streams of energy which meet in the centre called Humanity, involving therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The active intelligence of man, latent in the human centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The initiatory activity of Capricorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The illumining radiance of Mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This combination of energies produces a triplicity of activity of supreme importance today.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Triangle Two has been called the "triangle of the advanced man"; it is associated with the kingdom of souls, with the fifth kingdom in nature as it is related to the fourth. It is this triplicity of forces which, playing on Triangle Three, attracts out of it those units of energy which (as a result of the activity of Capricorn, Mercury and Humanity itself) are ready to come under hierarchical influence and to be swayed consequently by different streams of force to those hitherto evoking response:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Pisces is particularly potent at present in the life of Humanity owing to its being the sign which is now passing out of influence as we progress upon the great wheel of the zodiac. It is this sign with its combination of energies which has produced such a potent vibratory activity in Humanity that it can successfully and eventually enact the role of World Saviour. Of this salvation, Pisces is the sign. Pisces is also the sign of [Page 438] death, as you know, and in its death aspect we see the Piscean correspondence to the first aspect, the destroyer aspect of the Logos. This death aspect is naturally active at the close of the Piscean age and is consequently bringing about the present death of form in all the three worlds.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Uranus is the planet of occultism for it veils "that which is essential; it hides that which must be discovered and, at the right moment, it transmits knowledge of the hidden mystery." Today, for the mass of men, occultism is non-existent; for the aspirant and the disciple occultism is rapidly becoming a source and system of revelation as they penetrate into the wisdom of the Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The triangle of Pisces-Uranus-Hierarchy is becoming magnetically attractive to the triangle of Humanity. Uranus and Mercury in combination are dualities which the disciple learns to resolve and in the process of this resolution he shifts his focus out of the human kingdom into the fifth kingdom, the Hierarchy of souls. Pisces and Capricorn in unison bring about those changes which "lift the disciple out of the waters, wherein he is rapidly drowning, on to the mountain top from whence he can watch the recession of the waters. Thus does he know himself initiate."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The present world crisis should and will see a close merging of the two triangles in a most potent manner and this partial synchronisation (for close though it may be it will not yet be a process of general identification) will produce the sixfold energy needed to bring in the new sixth race and the new world period wherein fellowship and brotherhood will be manifest in all human relations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 439] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Triangle One is produced by the inter-relation of energies from Leo, Saturn and Shamballa. Its potency is naturally felt more directly in the triangle of the Hierarchy than in that of Humanity. These three energies are sometimes called (in an effort to make understanding more easy and to simplify comprehension) the "triple energy of WILL":<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The will of self-determination Leo.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The will of sacrifice Pisces.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The will to choose Capricorn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">because the Shamballa force lies behind the other two triangles and is the recipient of energy from the three above constellations, blending them into the united expression of will, and thus proves to be the custodian of divine purpose. The triangles of which the Hierarchy and Humanity are the expression are becoming responsive to Shamballa the hierarchical centre greatly so and the human centre gradually so. This first or fundamental triangle is occult in the truest sense of the word to even the trained occultist and to the majority of the members of the Hierarchy. Therefore only a few points can be mentioned in connection with it as there is little to be found in even the advanced disciple with which to reach real understanding. The information must perforce remain academic and theoretical.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Leo, which is the will of the self-conscious Entity to manifest, holds the clue or key to the entire problem of self-conscious being, whether it is the will-to-be of a planetary Logos, of a group or of a man. The self-consciousness of man is inherent in the planet itself, which is the life expression of a fully self-conscious Being. The use of the will through the Shamballa centre [Page 440] involves the conscious use of that energy by the planetary Logos; this is evoking response today from the world of men in terms of will, both higher and lower. The wilful (self-willed) man of the world is apt to be more responsive to this Shamballa force than is the disciple or the aspirant because they are more attuned to the gentler vibration of the Hierarchy. I have earlier told you that this Leo force from Shamballa is finding direct entry into the human centre instead of indirectly via the Hierarchy as has hitherto been the case. The implications of this are obvious.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Saturn. This energy is primarily concerned with presenting opportunity to the Hierarchy and its affiliated disciples. The phrase that "Saturn is the planet of discipleship" is basically true because ordinary average man, except in group formation, does not come so potently under its influence. For the Hierarchy as a group is facing a great crisis of approach to Shamballa, analogous to that confronting Humanity today, as it seeks approach and contact with the Hierarchy. Thus there are two inter-related crises affecting both Humanity and the Hierarchy, and these should produce if correctly effected that which is called alignment or integration, resulting in a far freer inflow of divine energy. Both these "approaches" (which are in the nature of magnetic attractive "pulls") are conditioned by Saturn; in the case of Humanity this pull comes via the Hierarchy and apart from that Hierarchy mankind cannot today surmount or properly handle the crisis. This should be remembered and should speed the work of the disciples and aspirants of the world as they struggle for human liberation and to [Page 441] bring about divine intervention. The intervention desired should come via the Hierarchy, if it is not to be too destructive in its effect. The last major intervention in Atlantean days came via Shamballa and resulted in the partial destruction of entire continents and lands.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These three triangles of energy can, therefore, be seen as basic and determining in all planetary affairs and event-producing. I have consequently chosen to consider them in our efforts to comprehend this basic astrological science.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Triangles of Force Planets.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At the same time, it will be obvious to you that, in relation to these simple triangles, certain interlocking triangles also emerge, as for instance the zodiacal triangle of Leo-Pisces-Capricorn and the allied planetary triangle of Saturn-Uranus-Mercury. These two triangles pour their six streams of force into our three planetary centres at this time, vitalising and stimulating the planetary triangle of Shamballa-Hierarchy-Humanity. Behind these three stands a cosmic triangle, emanating three streams of energy which pour into and through the three lesser triangles, thus potently affecting every kingdom in nature. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This cosmic triangle is that of the Great Bear Sirius the Pleiades. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This paragraph simply summarises the preceding pages and indicates the relation between four triangles of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There are one or two subsidiary points which are of interest to the esoteric astrologer and these we might briefly list in connection with these effective triangles, using the word "effective" to imply conditioning and potent in results. In this present world cycle all results are of unusual significance and also unusually emphasised in human consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 442] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Saturn, through which energy flows from Leo, via Shamballa, to Humanity, governs two decanates in Capricorn. Hence its extreme potency today in the triangle of Humanity. Saturn breaks up existing conditions by the force of its energy impact, thus enabling the influence of Mercury to be more fully expressed. The vision can then be intuitively perceived when obstructions have been removed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Leo is one of the birth signs of the zodiac; it connotes the birth of self-consciousness, as you know. Capricorn is also a birth sign, because it is also an aspect or one of the arms of the Cardinal Cross the Cross of that which initiates or brings into being. This has a peculiar relation to Humanity. It is the birth of the two types of consciousness self-consciousness and Christ consciousness which are brought to the attention of humanity by the fact of this Leo force, pouring through Saturn to Humanity and thus bringing Shamballa and Humanity into a closer relation, via Capricorn, active through Mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">At this point I would like to pause for a moment and interpolate a word in answer to a perfectly normal question which is liable to arise in the minds of thinking students and aspirants today. Of what use is all this abstruse and abstract information to a world in agony and a world distressed? The major usefulness of this imparted information which will condition the astrology of the future lies far ahead in the period after the war when again the field of world service opens and men have time for thought and due reflection. World service is going on now perhaps in greater volume than ever before but it is restricted to the field of releasing from slavery and alleviation of pain [Page 443] and suffering, and, therefore, to the more strictly physical forms of help. The service to which I here refer is that educational process which will produce the coming civilisation and its attendant culture. This will be based on all the cultural processes of the past and of the present, but will discard all that has produced the disasters of today, as far as may be possible. That means a gradual future usefulness for the knowledge of the underlying potencies, for they can indicate the lines of least resistance to the emerging good and the developing crises which inevitably lie ahead in the period of reconstruction. But one potent good can emerge even at this time from a study of these matters, provided the student of esotericism rests not content with study (using it as an escape from the disastrous present) but parallels his understanding of the causes and conditions by a strenuous effort to be of aid in a practical and a definitely physical sense.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is the dominant emerging fact to which all that I have said bears testimony: world conditions today precipitated as they are by human greed and ignorance are nevertheless basically conditioned by the will-to-good which is the primary quality of the energies and forces coming forth from the great Lives in which all that exist live and move and have their being. The Law of the Universe (and what is law but the working out of the purposes of these all-embracing Lives, of Their impulses and Their plans?) is to all eternity the good of the whole and naught can arrest this happening; for who can arrest the impact of these energies which play upon and through our planet. When I say this, I would at the same time point out that the attitude of many students, inevitably participants in world events, that "such is the Law and such is the Karma of people and nations and such is the pre-determined destiny" [Page 444] is far from right. They believe sometimes sincerely that all that should be done is simply to wait for results to appear and for karma and destiny to fulfil itself. Then and not till then, all will be well. But they forget that karma fulfils itself in relation to the form nature upon which it expends its energy and that where there is a static condition and a quiescent attitude, the process moves but slowly; the life then within the form fails to experience the needed, forceful awakening; inevitably then there lies ahead a repetition of the process until the time comes when activity and response is evoked. This then leads to resistance to the apparent karmic necessity and this brings about liberation. Only through resistance to evil (and in this world period and in this kali-yuga, as the Eastern teachers call it, it is an essential basic attitude) can karma be brought to an end. The law of matter still governs in the three worlds of human experience and "fire by friction" must burn up that which veils the steadily increasing brilliance of solar fire. It is the recognition of "solar fire" as it shows itself in a transcendental idealism and radiance by the unintelligent idealist, and his simultaneous refusal to cooperate in this period of karmic necessity, that is prolonging the difficult and cruel situation and leading him individually to sink deep into glamour. The simplification of the world's problem in terms of matter comes through a recognition of the essential dualism underlying events. I commend this thought to all students, suggesting that they base optimism on the long range vision, endorsed by the Heavens and corroborated by the activity of the stars, and thus feel sure of the ending of this immediate tragic situation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is interesting to note that the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law and Order works through Uranus which is today the transmitter of Sirian force via Pisces to the Hierarchy. [Page 445] From that "middle centre" it passes to that sensitive band of disciples, aspirants and workers to whose hearts and hands is committed the heavy task, incident to the re-organisation and the rebuilding of the shattered world structure. The seventh ray has sometimes been called a peculiar name by Knowers. It is regarded as the "Ray of Ritualistic Decency." It aids and inaugurates the appearing of a new world order, based on a spiritual drive and on aspiration, mental freedom, loving understanding and a physical plane rhythm which provides opportunity for full creative expression. To bring this about, energy from Shamballa (embodying the will-to-good) is fused and blended with the organising energy of the seventh ray and then carried to humanity along the stream of love which emanates from the Hierarchy itself. Pisces governs this effort of the Hierarchy because the highest aspect of Pisces which humanity can at this time in any way comprehend is that of Mediatorship. This is the energy of mediation, of right relationship. Today as never before the Hierarchy stands as a "mediating transmitter" between:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Humanity and the will of God. The revelation of the true significance and purpose of that will as it stands behind all world events is needed now as never before. This can come through a closer relation between the Hierarchy and Humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Humanity and its karma, for it is equally essential that the laws for the transmutation of karma into active present good are clearly grasped.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Humanity and cosmic evil, focussed for many millenia of years in what has been called the Black Lodge. Speculation anent this Lodge and its activities is both fruitless and dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 446] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The latter fact is responsible for the widespread attack made upon Masonry during this century. Masonry inadequate and corrupt as it has been and guilty of over-emphasising certain forms of symbols is nevertheless a germ or seed of future hierarchical effort when that effort is at some later date externalised on Earth. Masonry is governed by the seventh ray, and when certain important changes have been made and the spirit of Masonry is grasped instead of the letter, then we shall see a new form of hierarchical endeavour appear to aid in the restoration of the ancient and sacred Mysteries among men.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The energy of Uranus, pouring upon and into humanity, produces the urge to better conditions to provide better forms for the occult and esoteric life and to blend more adequately the inner and the outer man. This is one of the reasons why the Moon is spoken of so often as veiling Uranus. The Moon is frequently used as a blind when Uranus is meant. Today the Moon is a dead world and the reason is that the Uranian urge became so strong in that far distant time when there were living forms upon the Moon that it led to the complete and final evacuation of the Moon and the transfer of its life to our planet. Such a transfer is not necessary today as the consciousness of humanity is such that the needed changes can be brought about without such a drastic procedure. It is, however, this Uranian influence which lies behind the present shift of populations throughout Europe and Great Britain and which is responsible for the steady movement of peoples from East to West, from Asia to Europe in the earlier history of that continent and from Europe to the Western hemisphere in more modern times.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the study of the interlocking of these triangles, it [Page 447] it will become apparent to the student that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">combination of the influences of Sirius, Leo and Uranus has been much needed at this time to foster and bring about those conditions which will enable mankind, under the steady influence of the Hierarchy, to take the first initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and "give birth to the Christ," thus revealing and bringing to the light of day the inner, hidden, spiritual Man. It is in Leo that man undergoes the preparatory stages of this first initiation. He finds himself and becomes self-conscious; then he arrives at the stage of intelligent discipleship; he formulates a conscious inner programme or purpose under the steady pressure of the life of the indwelling Christ; he begins to exhaust and deny the demands and desires of the lower nature. This cycle of experience is followed by a painful life of conscious re-orientation a cycle wherein he achieves balance and begins to "stand in spiritual Being" as a result of constant trial and testing. Finally he stands ready for the ordeal and the accolade of fire, preceding the first initiation. At that final stage, Humanity today stands. When (as is now the case) the influence of Uranus is added to the other influences and the seventh ray is at the same time entering into a major cycle of activity on the Earth, there is then present the energy needed to precipitate the crisis of initiation and produce a great rhythmic awakening. Astrologers would find it of interest to note similar combinations in the individual horoscope.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It must not be forgotten that Leo marks the height of achievement for the human soul, and this is today stimulated by the Shamballa force now flowing into the centre of humanity. This inflow will continue its critical work until in the Aquarian Age, so rapidly coming into expression, the one-pointed attitude of the Leo person (or shall I call it [Page 448] the self-centredness?) becomes the expanded consciousness and the decentralised attitude of the Aquarian man. You can, therefore, see how full of promise is the future.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the Aquarian Age, the power of the planet Venus becomes a dominant factor in the last decanate. This I have already told you when we were studying that sign. Upon the reversed wheel in the case of the spiritually oriented man and the disciple, it is the first decanate under whose influence he comes which is governed by Venus; this should be remembered. Venus was the planet which we are told was responsible for the appearance of the individualised consciousness in man this in combination with other influences and forces. In the Aquarian Age, Venus will again have an analogous influence only with this difference that the emergence into manifestation of an increased individualism and self-conscious realisation will be subordinate to the appearance of the first stages of an expanded consciousness throughout all mankind the consciousness of group responsibility. It will be perhaps better expressed as a form of group individualism.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Therefore: behind all these events, the dim outline of a lesser triangle of energy can be seen; this is a blend of the energy of three planets:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">(diagram here of Venus Uranus and the Earth)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These produce a combination of the energies of<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ray 3. Active intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ray 7. Ceremonial order or magic.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ray 5. Concrete mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 449] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It can be noted how this combination of energies when playing upon Germany's soul Ray of Harmony through Conflict and her first ray personality, on the Ray of Power and the Destroyer (responsive to Shamballa) is responsible for much of the present conflict, for the reason that the reaction of that country (under the influence of its present rulers) has been in terms of the material aspect and not of the spiritual.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Students would find it useful to re-read some of the foregoing instruction anent the signs Leo-Pisces-Capricorn, so as to familiarise themselves with the nature, quality and influences which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">this great triangle (see page 435) expresses</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and through which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">humanity</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is being led at this time forward along the path of return. In this connection it is well also to remember that the series of triangles with which we have been dealing refer to and produce changes in the human consciousness. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Another series of triangles was also given (on page 416) involving the Great Bear, Sirius and the Pleiades. These triangles concern the spiritual aspect of the planetary life and of humanity, as well as of the other kingdoms in nature</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Humanity is of peculiar importance in relation to these triangles because it is the destiny of humanity to transmit life to the subhuman kingdoms. With these triangles of supernal forces I shall not deal because conscious response to their influence will not be possible till the time cycle of the third initiation arrives. I simply mention this influence so that you will realise that there is no real contradiction or discrepancy. Still another enumeration of the triangles of energy emanating from the three major constellations are given earlier by me (on page 435) and this again is correct and not a contradiction. In this group of three sets of triangles making nine all told with their interlocking analogies and lesser triangular relationships and with also their points of fusion, you have [Page 450] held in a "mystery of potencies" the entire story past, present and future of human evolution. It accounts for the changing emphases of that story, its shifting kaleidoscopic pattern, its recurrent points of fusion and its steady progress, through changing process, towards an ultimate revelation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Very briefly I would like to touch upon the fact that, as might be expected, the influences of Leo-Pisces-Capricorn which dominate the present world situation, via Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity, are potent in their oft unrealised effect upon the individual people. They bring about changes in his life focus and in his centres just as they have wrought corresponding changes in the three planetary centres. In view of this certain basic ideas can here be emphasised:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The influence of Capricorn, via Mercury, will have a dominant effect in the human kingdom itself a planetary centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The individual disciple will, therefore, respond to this Capricornian influence most easily. It will constitute a line of least resistance, offering opportunity, as well as the chance of possible disaster if wrongly handled. Right response will lead the disciple nearer to the door of initiation; wrong response will take him back into the depths of crystallisation and of concretion.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Disciples who respond to the influences above mentioned will necessarily be largely conditioned by their rays, egoic and personal. First ray disciples will, for instance, respond to the Shamballa influence, transmitted from Leo and Saturn, more easily than will second ray disciples. These will in their turn react more rapidly and consistently to the Hierarchy, transmitting energies from Pisces and Uranus.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 451] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The above facts will demonstrate the nature and quality of the response of disciples on Rays 1. 3. 5. 7. and Rays 2. 4. 6. and this must always be borne in mind as being true of disciples, of all men and also of nations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. According to the response so will be the evocation of the activity of the centres, or a centre. But and this is a point of major importance all disciples must at this time seek to find their dominant reaction in a planned response to the influence of the Hierarchy and the energies transmitted by it. As a general rule, the impact of Shamballa force (particularly in the case of a disciple on Rays 1. 3. 5. 7.) will be of a personality nature. It is the stimulation of the heart centre with a consequent control of the solar plexus centre which should be the planned result. The heart must dominate the solar plexus by the withdrawing of its energies to the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. The time has not yet come when it is safe for the aspirant or the disciple to relate the head centre and the base of the spine in response to a definite and conscious appropriation of Shamballa force. Whatever may take place automatically, normally and naturally and through the development of the disciple can and should be permitted to take place, provided there is no conscious intent and that there is also a close and careful scrutiny and control of the personality life.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. The awakening of the ajna centre with the consequent and subsequent conscious control of the throat centre must inevitably take place provided the disciple fulfils two conditions. He can then become consciously, safely and correctly creative. These two conditions are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. A conscious orientation towards the soul and towards the Hierarchy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 452] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. A deep love for humanity, present and based on mental perception and intuitive understanding and not on emotional reaction.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8. Where the above conditions are fulfilled, then the impact of the inflowing energies will produce the required stimulation and awakening.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is all that I have to say about the response of the centres in the human being to the activity of the planetary centres under systemic and zodiacal stimulation. I am not here writing a treatise on the individual training of the disciple but am attempting to demonstrate the fact of cosmic, zodiacal, systemic, planetary and human interplay which in its turn constitutes a great and living Whole the life expression of a Being of Whom we only know that love and the will-to-good, expressed through the Universal Mind, are the outstanding characteristics and that these are steadily emerging into increasing radiance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 477) 4. Conclusions.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We have reached a point in our consideration of the Science of Triangles wherein we can pause for a minute to consider our next approach to this subject and choose the theme by means of which we can throw more light upon it. It should by now be obvious to you that this Science of Triangles concerns the beneficence of Deity and that, through the intricate combinations of cosmic, systemic and planetary triangles, the purposes of God are working out. Those purposes are motivated by love. It is through these relationships that love expresses itself, brings about the needed changes for that expression, and human consciousness is brought into the required state of inclusiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 478] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is through the squares or the quaternial relation that the form aspect is brought into relation and adequacy to the will of Deity, expressing itself through the gradually unfolding consciousness aspect. I am explaining this situation in these simple words because it must be apparent to you that only as the soul illumines the mind can the significance of the teaching be grasped. It is only when the stage of initiation is reached that the true meaning will emerge. In the meantime, I have sought to awaken in your minds a reaction to the abstract truth lying behind the two following statements:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Science of Triangles is related to the total expression of the divine triplicity of manifestation: will, love and intelligence or life, consciousness and form. Until, therefore, the disciple can express in himself the integrated resemblance to these three aspects, he will not be able to grasp the meaning of this subjective astrological science.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On our planet, the Science of Triangles is related to the three major aspects</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, as they express themselves through Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity. Again, therefore, we come up against the need for the approach of the integrated human being to this science because only the man who is responsive to these three focal points of energy can understand the interplay. Only, in fact, can the man apprehend the underlying truth whose two head centres and his heart centre form a triangle of flowing energies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">this science must always be approached from the angle of the three basic energies: i.e., those coming from the Great Bear, from the Pleiades and from Sirius;</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In this connection, I would remind you of what I said earlier in the treatise that the Science of Triangles is related to spirit and synthesis. I would remind you also that what I have written in this astrological section of the Treatise on [Page 479] the Seven Rays is intended for the instruction of disciples at the close of this century and during the post-war period. Again I would also point out that I stated earlier that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">this science must always be approached from the angle of the three basic energies: i.e., those coming from the Great Bear, from the Pleiades and from Sirius;</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> because (conditioned by time and space) these three types of energy pour through the three major centres, Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">My problem has been to choose which of the myriad interlocking triangular relationships I would take up with you and thus present this science in such a manner that it would prove of real interest. The inner web of light which is called the etheric body of the planet is essentially a web of triangles and when the evolutionary process is completed, it will have been organised. At present a pattern of squares is the major construction of the web but this is slowly changing as the divine plan works out. The etheric webs of the sacred planets are largely triangles whilst that of the Sun is that of interlaced circles. The effort on Earth today (as seen by the planetary Logos) is to bring about a transformation of the web of the planet and thus slowly change the existing squares into triangles. This is done by the creation of division, by the application of the Law of Separation, but also by the recognition, in consciousness, of duality, the application of directed motion and the appearance of two triangles in the place of one square. When this has taken place, the perceiving consciousness recognises identity and the rule of the square is ended. These words were once spoken to me by an ancient seer who bisected the square esoterically, thus forming two triangles and united them in a fresh manifestation to form a Star of Life. Ponder on this.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 480] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is for this reason that the astrologers of the future will emphasise the relation and the interrelation of triangles. The new astrologer will, as I have hinted before, lay the emphasis upon:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Science of Triangles, as the result of the growth of the initiate understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The rising sign, as it indicates the way of the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The place of the three Crosses (the Cardinal Cross, the Fixed Cross and the Mutable Cross) in the life of the soul. This will eventually supersede the houses in the horoscope and the 12 arms of the three crosses will take the place of the 12 houses when casting the horoscope of the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would reiterate again the fact that the new astrology will be occupied with the charting of the life of the soul. The 12 constellations, as they play their part in the life of the disciple through the medium of their distributing agents, the ruling esoteric planets, will gradually transform the exoteric form of the chart of the individual. This will be due to the focussing of the various energies in man, consciously and through intent, and will not concern his negative reaction to the conditioning energies.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I would like here to call your attention to an interesting point which has a definite bearing upon the power of the individual to grasp the new astrology and to comprehend the Science of Triangles. The astrological symbols for Virgo and Scorpio are triple in nature the only two which are. When the disciple grasps the meaning behind this triplicity, he will be ready to grasp the significance of this abstruse science and to work with the new astrology. Virgo and Scorpio are two signs connected with the growth of the [Page 481] Christ consciousness; they mark critical points in the soul's experience points of integration wherein the soul is consciously at-one-ing itself with the form and at the same time with spirit. I said the soul's experience, not the experience of the man upon the physical plane. When the experience undergone in Virgo is consummated in Pisces and the tests of Scorpio have led to illumination in Taurus, then the effect of these </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">four energies (Virgo, Pisces, Scorpio, Taurus)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> will be to make man the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">true triangle, expressing the three divine aspects or energies</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> as they come from the three major conditioning constellations: the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I could fill many volumes with the indications of the various triangles as they are discovered to be related in time and space. Under the will of Deity and the unalterable energy at the heart of the manifested zodiac, they produce the changes in consciousness which make man divine at the close of the world cycle. But the theme is too vast and all I seek to do is to point the way towards a new science and towards those esoteric combinations of energies which will, when recognised, enable humanity to make more rapid progress, fuse and blend the energies of the three planetary centres and transform our Earth (through the agency of human thought, reacting to zodiacal influences) into a sacred planet. It is, therefore, the influence and combination of energies as they affect the aspirants and disciples of the world which must suffice for any increased understanding; with these I shall gradually deal and I shall also in the final part of this section give you an exegesis of the tabulation. In that tabulation is given the relation between the rays and the constellations and this is basic in its implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Certain of the forces with which we are dealing govern [Page 482] humanity in a peculiar manner and the effect of their influence is to bring about the at-one-ing of the three planetary centres.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There are four constellations, as you know, which convey the required energies which will make humanity divine</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They are Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. I need not enter into an analysis of them as this was covered when we studied each of them earlier and separately. I would, however, like to point out that each of these constellations is closely connected, as a transmitter of energy, with certain stars, lying outside our zodiac altogether, thus connecting our tiny planet with certain great focal points of energy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Aries, the initiator of impulses (either the impulse to incarnate or the impulse to return to the originating source) is closely in touch with one of the stars in the Great Bear to which we give the name "Pointer" in common parlance. This Pointer is a "major star of direction" because through it (in this world cycle) flows the will to unify and to bring about synthesis. This is the force which brings about the fusion or integration of the personality, the at-one-ment of personality and soul, the unification of humanity or the Great Approach of the Hierarchy to Humanity. It will produce also the integration of our Earth into the body of the "sacred planets" and the consequent establishing of a triangle of force composed of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pointer, Aries and our Earth</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This triangular relationship will have a potent effect upon the solar system as well as upon the planet itself and is also one of the factors producing the shift in the Earth's axis. Related to this triangle is a secondary one within our sun's orbit, composed of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Vulcan, Pluto and the Earth</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. In the Archives of the Great Lodge this is referred to symbolically as:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">(insert diagram of pointer Aries, Vulcan, Pluto and Earth (EA 483) )<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is one of the most interesting and informing astrological symbols I have given you and indicates a most momentous relationship. You have here two major and three minor energies brought into close relation; this is analogous to the two major rays and the three minor rays which condition a human being in manifestation. These are the five energies which concern the informing life of our planet. They produce, in humanity, conscious evolution, direction and the founding of Shamballa upon the Earth. They are the five energies connected with the will-to-be, but from the consciousness angle and not the material expression of manifestation. Their activity and united influence in the realm of consciousness produced the appearance of another triangle: Leo, Polaris and another of the Pointers and these two groups form an interlocking directorate, potently effective in the evolution of consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You have, therefore, through these related triangles, the appearance of Shamballa and Humanity the two poles of divine expression will and activity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We come now to another triangle, the activity of which produces the manifestation of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Hierarchy the intermediary between Shamballa and Humanity</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">: </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Scorpio, Sirius and Mars</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. These, in relation to our Earth, produce the four streams of energy (initiating and transmitting) which lead humanity towards discipleship and initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">When the work of all these triangles has been concluded</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, [Page 484] humanity (and in a mysterious sense our Earth) will be functioning in perfect rhythm and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">will respond to the energies pouring in from Alcyone</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I cannot too strongly repeat that esoteric astrology is entirely concerned with the forces and energies which affect the consciousness aspect of the human being, and condition the personality life. This is the point which must be considered above all else. In other words, esoteric astrology is concerned with the soul and not with the form and, therefore, all that I have to say refers to consciousness, to its expansion, to its effect upon its vehicles, the form, and in the last analysis (as will be later established) with the Science of Initiation. This I have earlier pointed out, but the idea is so new and the approach so universal or cosmic, that it is not easy for those trained in modern exoteric astrology truly to comprehend the significance of this teaching. In considering the Triangles, which I have chosen to use as the theme in elucidating this immense subject, this emphasis upon the consciousness aspect must not be forgotten.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 503) CHAPTER IV<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Sacred and Non-Sacred Planets<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There is, as you may imagine, little that I can say on this matter for it concerns one of the great and major mysteries of initiation. It deals with and is related to the spiritual status of the planetary Logoi, those great Beings in Whom all forms of life on all planets live and move and have their being. It is concerned with Their point in evolution, with Their goals and objectives upon the cosmic Path and with the initiation for which They in Their incomparable and incomprehensible livingness are preparing.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Basically it might be said that a planet is regarded as "sacred" when its informing spiritual Life has taken five of the major cosmic initiations and that a "non-sacred" planet is one whose planetary Logos has not taken these initiations. This is an inadequate definition and is only in any way to be understood if you bear in mind that initiation is a process of developing inclusiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. Man is becoming inclusive in the planetary sense; the five major initiations which he eventually takes give to him a range of awareness which is infinitely beyond anything of which he can conceive at present. These initiations endow him with the "freedom of the planet." </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">He is then responsive to all states of consciousness within the planetary ring-pass-not, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and is becoming sensitive to extra-planetary perception.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 504] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Logos of a non-sacred planet </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is becoming </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">inclusive in His consciousness to all that is found within the solar ring-pass-not</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. He is establishing an esoteric "understanding relation" with all that lives within the body of manifestation of a solar Logos and is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">likewise registering a sensitive response to the quality of the Life which informs the Sun, Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. He has taken three cosmic initiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Logos of a sacred planet transcends</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> the knowledges, reactions and responses which are purely those of the solar system, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">is conscious of or vitally responsive to the life of Sirius </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">beginning to respond consciously to the vibratory influences of the Pleiades. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You need here to bear in mind in this connection that the Pleiades though they are regarded as embodying the matter aspect in manifestation are in reality and literally the expression of that Principle of Life which we call vitality, prana in its various stages or degrees, ether or substance.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Logos of a sacred planet has taken five cosmic initiations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Logos of a solar system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is esoterically called the "Sacred Triangle of all-inclusive Force" because </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">this great Being includes within His focussed awareness the fields of expression of the Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">They are to Him what the heart, the head and the throat centres are to the developed initiate on this planet</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. He has taken those initiations of which the highest initiate upon our Earth has no faintest conception. Forget not, that I have told you elsewhere that there are divine aspects and divine characteristics which are [Page 505] as yet totally unrevealed even to the most advanced humanity. No human being of a lower degree to that of the third initiation can even faintly sense and dimly react to these underlying factors in the existent divine manifestation. Today, the significance of will and its distinction from determination, strength and fixed intention is only just beginning to be understood. Just as a discussion of the intuition or of the nature of the eternal revelation would be utterly meaningless to the savage in the darkest part of the undeveloped areas of the world, so would a discussion of these unknown divine attributes be equally meaningless to you. All that you can comprehend (and that with the utmost difficulty) is the three divine aspects will, love and intelligence. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There are others, for our Logos is a sevenfold Being and four remaining aspects are as yet unrevealed to humanity, though sensed by the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. These are "objectives of esoteric spiritual attention" by the Logoi within the solar ring-pass-not.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You will see, therefore, that the section of our teaching upon which we are now entering will be necessarily brief, because we shall be dealing with factors which must remain incomprehensible. It is consequently a waste of your time and mine to do more than touch very briefly upon such matters.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Some understanding of the distinction between a sacred and a non-sacred planet will come if you can realise that there is a paralleling correspondence between the consciousness of the initiate (up to and including the third initiation) and the consciousness of the Logos of a non-sacred planet. Soul and body, consciousness and form are blended and a [Page 506] definite fusion is taking place. Two divine aspects are in process of intimate relation. The disciple brings about this relationship within his little system, and the planetary Logos on a far larger scale within His range of influence and control. In this process He carries with Him all the four kingdoms in nature. For both these lives microcosmic and macrocosmic this fusion produces Transfiguration, the third initiation. The Logos of a sacred planet has carried the divine work further along and is occupied with the task of synthesising into one unit of conscious response and activity, the higher divine aspect, that of the Monad, the will aspect. When this is accomplished, will, love and intelligence are blended and spirit, soul and body are at-one. Then the quality of the divine expression will be divine purpose, impulsed by will, motivated by love and carried forward with intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 595) As we consider the seven rays as outlined in Tabulation X, I would have you bear in mind that we are viewing them as expressions of this threefold will. We have studied them in some detail in my other books from the angle of consciousness and from the point of view as producing changes and expansions of consciousness in man, in nations and in races. Now, as far as may be possible, we are going to consider these rays as they express the pure, living activity of Deity as it fulfils Itself in manifestation as pure incentive, directed impersonal energy, divine instinct which latter is a blend of instinctual force and intuitive energy. It might be pointed out to those of you who have some measure of occult perception that this synthetic Life, being cosmic, emerges from cosmic planes and not systemic. Hence the difficulty in comprehending it.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The conditioning will is the synthesis of the life of the cosmic physical plane of which our seven planes are the seven subplanes. Until, therefore, the human consciousness is far more expanded than it is, it is not possible for man to understand this synthetic realisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The will which brings fulfilment is the divine incentive [Page 595] (impulse is not the correct term) coming from the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The will which conquers death is an outpouring from the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><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;">The Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius; these work through the medium of the seven rays and these in turn express themselves through the twelve constellations which form the great zodiacal wheel<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">From these three cosmic planes (embracing the sacred personality of the Logoi, solar and planetary)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> come the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">united energies of the three constellations which control and energise our solar system: </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius; </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">these work through the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">medium of the seven rays and these in turn express themselves through the twelve constellations which form the great zodiacal wheel.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> The Lords or ruling Powers of these </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">twelve sources of light and life "step down" the potency of these three major energies so that our solar Logos can absorb them</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; they "tune out" those aspects of these three Potencies which are not suited to our systemic life at this point in the evolutionary process, just as the Hierarchy upon our little planet tunes out or steps down the energies from Shamballa. These three major energies in a mysterious manner express themselves through the seven rays just as all triplicities subdivide into septenates, yet preserve their identity. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These seven energies, emanating from the major three and transmitted via the twelve constellations, are embodied in the seven sacred planets</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and are represented on our Earth by the seven Spirits before the throne of God (the symbol of synthesis). This tremendous inter-relation is embodied in one great process of: Transmission. Reception. Absorption. Relation and Living Activity. The method is one of Invocation and Evocation. In these two sentences, you have one of the most important clues to the whole evolutionary process; the key to the mystery of time and space, and the solution of [Page 596] all problems. But the factor which is of major importance is that the whole matter is an expression of focussed Will.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In considering this process, I would have you study Tabulation X, for it is a symbolic form, embodying what I seek to convey. I would point out that the will aspect as it is embodied in the rays and transmitted by the constellations works out destructively when concentrated through an orthodox planet and constructively when concentrated through an esoteric planet. Here you have the secret guide to the significance of death and immortality. This is something which the average astrologer will be unable to prove because the cycles involved are too long; intuitively he can however grasp the probability of my proposition. May I again remind you that our theme is the divine plan, purpose and will; it is not the evolution of consciousness, or of the second aspect of divinity. It concerns spirit and not soul. We are attempting in some measure to formulate the life of the Father, the will of the Monad and the purpose of Spirit. In all these (the three aspects of the will) lies germinating the seed of the next solar system, the third, and the fruition of the Personality Manifestation of the Logos. We need, therefore, to formulate the interpretation of the seven rays in terms of will and not of love or consciousness. This we will now attempt to do.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 641) 10. "These three groups of solar bodies </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">(The Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> are of paramount influence where the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Just as in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">human atom, the spiral activity is egoic and controlled from the egoic body</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, so in connection with the solar system these three groups are related to the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Logoic Spiritual Triad</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> atma-buddhi-manas and their influence is dominant in connection with solar incarnation, with solar evolution and with solar progress." (C.F. 1058.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 644) 20. The following tabulation is suggestive:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. God the Father 1st Logos Electric Fire. Great Bear. Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. God the Son 2nd Logos Solar Fire </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Venus and Mercury.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. God the Holy Spirit 3rd Logos Fire by friction Pleiades. Saturn (C.F. 96.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 659) SIRIUS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">References from The Secret Doctrine and A Treatise on Cosmic Fire<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">"Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> was called the `Dog Star.' It was the star of Mercury, or Buddha, called the `Great Instructor of mankind.'" (S.D. II. 391.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun, Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">source of the Logoic mind</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (manas) in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of mind in the Seven Heavenly Men and Venus is responsible for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain." (T. on C.F. 347.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> the Pleiades and our Sun form a cosmic triangle." (375.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Our solar system is negatively polarised as regards the sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which influences our entire system psychically, via the three synthesising schemes: Uranus, Neptune and Saturn." (378.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 660] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. "Vibrations reach us from </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, via the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." (553.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. "The Lords of Karma on our system are under the rule of a greater Lord of Karma on Sirius. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">We are governed by the Sirian Lord of Karma</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." (570.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. "The consciousness of the cosmic mental plane is the goal of attainment for our solar Logos and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirian Logos is to our solar Logos what the human Ego (or soul) is to the human personality." (592.)<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">8. "Three constellations are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its threefold manifestation: </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, two of the Pleiades and a small constellation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> whose name must be intuitively ascertained." (699.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">9. Cosmic Avatars "... represent embodied forces from the following cosmic centres: </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius, and that one of the seven stars of the Great Bear which is ensouled by the Prototype of the Lord of the third Ray, and our own cosmic centre</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." (723.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Only one Being (from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) has visited our system and that was at the time of individualisation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. They only appear usually and normally at the initiation of a solar Logos. (723.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 666) 4. "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius influences our entire solar system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> psychically via the three synthesising schemes </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Uranus, Neptune and Saturn</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">." (C.F. 378.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 672) 7. "Uranus is one of the three synthesising planets and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">influences our entire solar system via Uranus, Neptune and Saturn." (C.F. 378.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 674) 10. "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun Sirius, is the source of the Logoic mind</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> (manas) in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of mind in the seven Heavenly [Page 674] Men and Venus is responsible for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain." (C.F. 347.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 679) VENUS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the second solar system, and in connection with the method employed therein, another point merits attention. This fire of mind has its source in a constellation until recently unrecognised by exoteric science as having any relation of an intimate nature to our solar system, owing to its tremendous distance away. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The sun "Sirius" is the source of logoic manas in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of manas in the seven Heavenly Men</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and Venus was responsible for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain. Each was primary to the other, or was the agent which produced the first flicker of consciousness in the particular groups involved. In every case the method was that of a slow evolutionary growth till the consciousness suddenly blazed forth owing to the interposition of force, apparently from an extraneous source.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 680] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. "The Logos. Solar System. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Seven Heavenly Men Planetary scheme. Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Heavenly Man earth chain. Venus."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(Cosmic Fire, page 347.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 685) "It would be well to enlarge here a little on the connection between Venus and the Earth, which is hinted at in some of the occult books, and is somewhat touched upon in this. I have stated that the interaction between the two schemes is due largely to their positive and negative polarity, and I pointed out that a similar relation underlies the relation of the Pleiades and the seven schemes of our solar system, and also the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">relation of Sirius and the system itself</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This, therefore, sweeps into close interaction three great systems:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The system of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 685] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The system of the Pleiades.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The system of which our sun is the focal point.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">making, as we will have noted, a cosmic triangle. Within our system there are several such triangles, varying at different stages; according to their relation to each other, the differentiated force of the different schemes can pass from scheme to scheme, and thus the units of life on the different rays or streams of force become temporarily intermingled. In all these triangles (cosmic, systemic, planetary, and human) two points of the triangle represent each a different polarity, and one point represents the point of equilibrium, or synthesis or merging. This should be borne in mind in studying both the macrocosmic and microcosmic centres, for it accounts for diversity in manifestation, in forms and in quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A correspondence might here also be pointed out which may serve to convey light to those who have eyes to see:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Venus scheme, being in the fifth round, had the fifth principle of manas coordinated and developed, the minor four manasic aspects had been synthesised, and the buddhic aspect was being provided with a means of expression through the medium of the perfected fifth. Our Heavenly Man, in the fifth round, will have attained a paralleling point in evolution, and the fifth principle will, as stated, be no longer the object of His attention as regards the human units." (C.F. 375-6.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 690) "A hint may here be given to those who have power to see. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Three constellations are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its threefold manifestation; Sirius, two of the Pleiades, and a small constellation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> whose name must be ascertained by the intuition of the student. These three govern the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">appropriation by the Logos of His dense body. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">When the last pralaya ended, and the etheric body had been coordinated, a triangle in the Heavens was formed under law which permitted a flow of force, producing vibration on the fifth systemic plane. That triangle still persists, and is the cause of the continued inflow of manasic force; it is connected with the spirillae in the logoic mental unit and as long as His will-to-be persists, the energy will continue to flow through. In the fifth round, it will be felt at its height." (Cosmic Fire, p. 699.)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"The heart of the Sun, and its relation to the lower and higher mental bodies, producing that peculiar manifestation we call the causal body. In this connection it must be remembered that the force which flows from the heart of the Sun, works through a triangle formed by the Venusian scheme, the Earth and the Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 97) Rule IV.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let the group see that all the eighteen fires die down and that the lesser lives return unto the reservoir of life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This they must bring about through the evocation of the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Will.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The lesser wheels must not for aye revolve in time and space.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Only the greater Wheel must onward move and turn.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This is a rule peculiarly related to the fourth Creative Hierarchy, embodying its goal as the Aryan rootrace can sense and approximate it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is peculiarly related also to the quaternary to which we give the name "personality," composed of a vital or etheric body, a sumtotal of emotional states and a mind, plus that integrated something which we call the whole man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Rightly understood and followed, this rule reveals the nature of the fourth plane or fourth state of consciousness, that of buddhi or the plane of pure reason, the intuition.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>From the angle of the higher initiate, this rule is related to the activity of Monad, Soul and body within the planetary Life, and covers a great mystery and an entire system of relationships of which man in the three worlds is a dim and uncertain shadow.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Some clue to the higher quaternary dealt with in this rule will emerge dimly in your consciousness (more is not yet possible) if you will attempt to realise the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Monad relates the initiate to the Will of God, to the Council at Shamballa, to forces active on the planet Pluto, and on another planet which must remain nameless, and also to the Central Spiritual Sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Soul relates the initiate to the Love of God, to the consciousness aspect of Deity, to the Hierarchy as a whole, entering it through the Ashram of the Master Who has aided him to take initiation, to the planets </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Venus and Mercury, to the Sun Sirius, and to the Heart of the Sun</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The Personality relates the initiate to the Mind [Page 97] of God, to the intelligence principle of the planetary Life, to humanity as a whole, to Saturn and Mars, and to the physical Sun through its pranic aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The Life aspect of the planet, or that great ocean of forces in which all these three aspects live and move and have their being, relates the initiate to that Life which works out through Shamballa, through the Hierarchy and through Humanity, thus forming part of the great sumtotal of manifestation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 130) The seventh kingdom in nature is that of the Lives Who participate in full capacity of understanding with the group of Beings Who are the nucleus of the Council at Shamballa.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Around the Lord of the World this group pivots; Their consciousness and state of being is only dimly understood by the most advanced Members of the Hierarchy, and the relation of these Lives to the Lord of the World is similar, and yet fundamentally different, to the relation of the Members of the Hierarchy to the three Great Lords the Christ, the Manu and the Mahachohan.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through these three Lords pours the energy which streams from Shamballa, transmitting the purpose and motivating the plan of Sanat Kumara His Life Plan.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>What you call "the Plan" is the response of the Hierarchy to the inflaming purposeful will of the Lord of the World.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through Sanat Kumara, the Ancient of Days (as He is called in the Bible), flows the unknown energy of which the three divine Aspects are the expression.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">He is the Custodian of the will of the Great White Lodge on Sirius,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and the burden of this "cosmic intention" is shared by the Buddhas of Activity and those Members of the Great Council Who are of so elevated a consciousness and vibration that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">only once a year (through Their emissary, the Buddha) is it safe for Them to contact the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 142) When the initiate has passed through the three doors, symbolically speaking, he then faces all life, all events, all pre-determinations, all wisdom, all activity and all that the future may hold of service and progress from the angle of the pure reason (infallible and immutable), of true spiritual will (completely identified with the purpose of the planetary Logos), and of the highest possible focussed relation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mystery of relationship becomes revealed to him.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Then the entire scheme of evolution and of the intention of the One in Whom he lives and moves and has his being becomes clear to him; he has no more to learn within this planetary scheme; he has become universal in his attitude to all forms of life, and is also identified with the "isolated unity" of Sanat Kumara.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Few of the great Lives Who form the inner group of the Council Chamber at Shamballa are now of [Page 142] greater advancement than he; the "Supernal Three," the "Radiant Seven," the "Lives embodying the forty-nine Fires," the "Buddhas of Activity," and certain "Eternal Spirits" from such </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">centres of dynamic spiritual life as Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, or </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">from the constellation which at any one time forms a triangle with our Sun and Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" and a Representative from Venus are of greater far greater advancement.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Otherwise, all initiates of the sixth degree, and a few of the Masters Who have undergone specialised training because They are upon the first Ray of Will or Power (the ray conditioning Shamballa itself), form part of the Great Council.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Many Masters and Chohans, however, after serving upon the planet in various capacities, working with the Law of Evolution, pass out of our planetary life altogether.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 202) When we can identify the Sound and are no longer "moved" by the O.M., then the initiate becomes a Christ in expression and makes His appearance, either in physical form or upon the planes of what to us might be called the "areas of non-appearance."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He can then contain and utilise the energies of which the Spiritual Triad is the custodian and which are the expression of the will and purpose of God.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Though the initiate may not be a part of the planetary government, and though he may not be a member of the Council at Shamballa (for only a limited number of initiates are so placed), he nevertheless has the right to move on identical levels and to prepare himself for those higher evolutionary processes which will give him entrance to the cosmic astral plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This will enable him to "see through" [Page 202] and to recognise "cosmic glamour," and will give him the hidden key to the world of feeling and of sentiency of which our feeling-response and our emotional and intuitional sensitivity are but the dim and distorted reflections.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a factor of some importance to have in mind if a right sense of proportion is to be developed.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The initiate has learnt on earth that the astral plane is in fact non-existent at least for those of the higher degrees of initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This knowledge constitutes the first step towards the comprehension of the secret of negation, towards a true understanding of the basis of the ever-existent pairs of opposites, and towards the knowledge which lies behind the significance of negation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The above sentence is in all probability of little meaning to you, but it nevertheless contains a truth for which the trials, experiences and initiations of planetary existence prepare the initiate.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They endow him with those qualities which will enable him to contact cosmic evil and yet remain untouched, eventually to play his part in bringing the Black Lodge and its Brotherhood to an unholy finish.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">roots of the Black Lodge are on the cosmic astral plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">roots of the White Lodge and its Brotherhood are on the cosmic mental plane;</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> this is, in reality, only for the time being and in order to see </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">certain organised activities upon the star Sirius perfected</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and carried to a consummation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This has oft been hinted in my writings.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">"The Way of the Higher Evolution" leads to the cosmic astral plane, and the goal which carries a man there is the transcendent vision accorded at some of the higher initiations; the quality which enables him to work as a creative factor in the great White Lodge is the developed buddhic faculty.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is upon the "wings of Sound" that he travels, to use a well-known though little understood metaphor.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This can only be when he can <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. Hear the O.M. as it is sounded forth by Him Who stands and waits at the very centre of the Council Chamber of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 203] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These are grave and solemn thoughts, and of small use to the average reader.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is essential, however, that he avoid the concept that the attainment of the highest initiation upon this planet marks the end or the consummation of a great and final stage.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It only marks the beginning of significance.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is a statement of esoteric value.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just as the attainment of physical control sets the neophyte free for the learning of higher lessons in preparation for the major initiations, so the surmounting of the conditions presented by the seven planes of our planetary life sets the initiate (such as the Buddha or the Christ) free for still higher and more important conditioning circumstances.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Their real work as Members of the White Brotherhood is on the point of beginning, and the true purpose of the existence of the Great White Lodge begins faintly to dawn upon Their entranced and amazed understanding.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is of real value to us, therefore, to endeavour to grasp the continuity of revelation and the vast future or vista of unfolding wonder which, stage by stage, grade by grade and plane by plane, unfolds before the initiate-consciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We enter here into a consideration of realms of advancement of which even advanced humanity has no faintest idea; we are touching upon goals and objectives which confront the advanced Members of the Hierarchy; we are dealing with ideas and concepts for which we have no adequate terminology and which are of such a nature that the human mechanism of thought proves incapable of registering them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>What, for instance, do the words or phrases, "Divine purpose, Shamballa, the Lord of the World, states of registration or awareness which have no relation to sentiency as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">it expresses itself through consciousness, the Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" and similar concepts convey to you?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would venture to suggest that in reality, they represent nothing, and this because the goal of all who read these words is contact with the soul, recognition of and by the Hierarchy, and initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>If I say to you that the words "the O.M., as it is sounded forth by Him Who stands within the confines of Shamballa" signify that the one Sound, rounded and full, [Page 204] of O is sounded forth, but that the concluding sound of the M is omitted, does that convey aught to your intelligence?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Again I venture to say that it does not.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is therefore of small importance for me to enlarge upon this phase of the Rules.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would be more profitably employed if I elucidated somewhat the meaning of the words "the Council Chamber of the Lord."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Three concepts have perchance taken shape in your minds in connection with Shamballa, if you have sought the true esoteric attitude:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. That Humanity exists as a great centre of intelligent energy in the substance of the planetary Life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. That the spiritual centre, where attractive, coherent, magnetic energy is focussed and from whence it flows in two directions a. Towards the three worlds and the four kingdoms of nature,<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Towards Shamballa and the two higher kingdoms in manifestation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">is what we usually call the Hierarchy, the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Kingdom</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">God</st1:placename></st1:place>, the centre of love and of mediating understanding (note these last two words).<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. That there is another centre which is neither spiritual nor human but which is characterised by divinity.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Divinity is the expression of the will or purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>That centre where the will of God is focussed and dynamically sent forth to carry out the purpose is Shamballa.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 315) When the third initiation is taken the initiate becomes aware, not only of the significance of the command to Know and of his innate ability to Express the will nature of the monad in carrying out the Purpose of Shamballa, but that (through his fused personality-soul) he is now in a position to "make revelation" to the Hierarchy that he is en rapport with the monadic source from which he originally came.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He can now obey the command to Reveal, because the Transfiguration is consummated.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is not now revealing the soul only, but all the three aspects now meet in him and he can reveal the life aspect as will and not only the soul aspect as love or the matter aspect as intelligence.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This is, as you know the first major initiation from the angle of the greater Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, because it is the first initiation in which all the three aspects meet in the initiate.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The first two initiations oft regarded by humanity as major initiations </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">are in reality minor initiations from the Sirian point of view, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">because the relation of the man "under discipline and in training" is only a tendency; there is only a developing recognition of the Father and a slowly growing response to the monad, plus an unfolding sensitivity to the impact of the will aspect.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>But in the third initiation these developments are sufficiently present to merit the phrase, "revelation of the glory," and the Transfiguration initiation takes place.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 331) These ancient Mysteries were originally given to humanity by the Hierarchy, and were in their turn </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">received [Page 331] by the Hierarchy from the Great White Lodge on Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">They contain the clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers and in words; they veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing for him in rite and ritual the long, long path which he must tread.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They provide also, when rightly interpreted and correctly presented, the teaching which humanity needs in order to progress from darkness to Light, from the unreal to the Real and from death to Immortality.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Any true Mason who understands, even if only to a slight degree, the implications of that in which he participates will recognise this most ancient of Oriental prayers, giving the key to the three degrees of the Blue Lodge.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I mention here the Masonic purpose because it is closely related to the restoration of the Mysteries and has held the clue down the ages to that long-awaited restoration, to the platform upon which the restored teaching can be based, and the structure which can express, in powerful ritual and in organised detailed rites, the history of man's moving forward upon the Path of Return.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 350) But both groups of aspirants (the black and the white) stand before the door of initiation and take the needed steps to open it on two similar occasions.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Both overcome glamour after the second initiation, and see their way clearly ahead; but their goals emerge as widely different; one treads the broad way which leads ever deeper into matter and materialism, into darkness and "black power"; the other leads to the straight and narrow way, to the razor-edged path which leads into light and life.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One group has never freed itself from the principles which governed the first solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They were principles entirely related to matter and substance, and were at that time and in that period (so remote that the number of years of distance can be stated only in super-astronomical figures) the conditioning factors for the initiation of the time.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Certain units of humanity then existent were so completely conditioned by these material principles and so deliberately unready for moving on to the comprehension of another set of principles (more expressive of the divine nature) that they remained of "fixed and selfish material purpose" and a planned distortion of the divine will was intelligently created by them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have here a hint as to the nature of evil and a clue to a part (though only a part) of the mystery to be noted in the statement that evil and good are reverse aspects of the same one reality, and evil is that good which we should have left behind, passing on to greater and more inclusive good.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Forget not that the black magicians of today were the initiates of a previous solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>When the door of initiation is ready to open for the third time, the parting of the ways takes place.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Some follow selfish intention and the fixed determination to remain with the separative condition of matter; and to others, the divine will is clearly impressed upon them and becomes the motivating power in their lives.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">It was under instructions from the Great White Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> that the door remains [Page 351] closed the third time to the dark brothers.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Evil, as we understand it, has absolutely no place on Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><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;">To the black magician, at this third opportunity, the door of initiation presents an insuperable barrier </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and obstacle; to the true spiritual neophyte, the door connotes "overcoming."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We shall not consider further the approach of the black brothers to that door, but shall confine ourselves to a consideration of the initiations of the Great White Lodge.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 396) The seven Paths 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="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Path of Earth Service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Path of Magnetic Work.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Path to Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. The Ray Path.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. The Path on which our Logos is found.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. The Path of Absolute Sonship.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 399) 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;">All these seven Paths lead either to the cosmic astral plane or to the cosmic mental plane, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path 1.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Earth Service leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path 2.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Magnetic Work leads to the cosmic astral plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path 4.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Path to Sirius leads to the cosmic astral plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path 5.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Ray Path leads to the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path 6.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path the Logos Himself is on leads to the cosmic buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Path 7.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Path of Absolute Sonship leads to the cosmic mental plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Three Paths, therefore, lead to the realm of loving attractive energy; one Path leads to its higher correspondence, the cosmic level of pure reason; </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">three lead to the realm of divine Mind</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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, and three to His Mind nature.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">All of them lead the initiate eventually to the Central Spiritual Sun.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> [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="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 413) 4. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Path to Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I have frequently hinted in my various books that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sun, Sirius, is closely related to our planetary Life;</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> much is known in the Hierarchy anent this connection, and the particular relationship of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">this fourth Path to humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">This great Sun which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man</span></i></b><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This great Sun which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, 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 Who is greater even than our Solar Logos. [Page 414] Such, however, is the case.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>There is a relationship of very ancient date between </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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, rapidly passing out of this category, and on the inner planes and subjectively considered is a sacred planet; 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:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The majority of liberated humanity, and therefore a large number of the initiates who have to make decision, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The relationship as it expresses itself is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">between the Hierarchy and Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">not between Shamballa and that stupendous Sun</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The energy evoked in response to this relationship </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">enters the Hierarchy via the Heart of the Sun, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">creating as a consequence a triangle of spiritual energy of enormous potency.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You have, therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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; </span>*<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Hierarchy<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>*<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>*<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Heart of the Sun<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. As progress is made in the course of taking the higher initiations, it becomes apparent to the initiate that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">two major streams of energy enter our planetary life:<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">A stream of energy coming from the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and from that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">focal point which is to Sanat Kumara what the egoic lotus, the soul, is to the spiritual man</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; it </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">carries the life principle of our planet and centres itself in Shamballa. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>From there it is dispersed throughout all forms upon the planet and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">we call it LIFE</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Sirian energy or buddhi, from Sirius, is found at the heart of every atom<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">A stream of energy coming from the sun, Sirius; this</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> enters </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">directly into the Hierarchy and carries with it the principle of buddhi, of cosmic love.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>This, in a mysterious way, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">is the principle found at the heart of every atom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The life principle follows the line of 1.3.5.7, whilst the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">buddhic flow follows the line of 2.4.6.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus atma-buddhi becomes the blended reality which is brought to full unfoldment as evolution proceeds.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The energy of Sirius by-passes (to use a modern word) Shamballa and is focussed in the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Its effect is not felt until after the third initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, though the Masters use this energy whilst training disciples for the second, the fourth and the sixth initiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The entire work of the Great White Lodge is controlled from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; the Ashrams are subjected to its cyclic inflow; the higher initiations are taken under its stimulation, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">for the principle of buddhi, of pure love (i.e., love-wisdom) must be active in the heart of every initiate prior to the initiation of the great decision;</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> it is therefore </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">only initiates of the fifth, sixth and higher initiations who can work consciously with the potent buddhic "livingness</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" which permeates all Ashrams, though unrecognised by the average disciple.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">expression, par excellence, of a Sirian initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">it is to that high place He will eventually go</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> no matter what duties or hierarchical obligations may take Him elsewhere between that time and now.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Buddha was originally to have chosen the fourth Path but other plans confront Him now and will probably claim His choice.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and hence the large number of human beings who will become </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">disciples in the Sirian Lodge</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This [Page 416] is the true "Blue Lodge," and to become a candidate in that Lodge, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">initiate of the third degree has to become a lowly aspirant</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, with all the true and full initiations awaiting him "within the sunshine of the major Sun."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">a. The Spiritual Triad and the Personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. The mental unit and the manasic permanent atom.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">c. Atma-Buddhi.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">d. The Christ and the Buddha.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the Life which is manifesting through Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; it is an expression which is organised and vital beyond anything man can vision and which is free to a completely unlimited extent, again </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">beyond the power of man to comprehend</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">principle of freedom is a leavening energy which can permeate substance in a unique manner</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; this divine principle represents an aspect of the influence </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">which Sirius exerts on our solar system and particularly on our planet</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is the principle of freedom which enables Sanat Kumara to dwell on the Earth and yet stand free from all contacts, 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: 20pt;">provides a "pathway of power" [Page 417] between our Hierarchy and the distant sun, Sirius, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and gives the incentive towards the "</span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">culture of freedom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">" 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></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This mysteriously "exerted influence," this "pulling away" from form (as we might simply call it), emanates from Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and for it we have no name; </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">it is the law of which the three cosmic laws the Laws of Synthesis, of Attraction and of Economy are only aspects</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Law of Freedom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, however, does impose certain restrictions, 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The Law of Freedom on Sirius corresponds to the Law of Economy on our planet, it is the lowest of Laws<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 significance of the Law of Synthesis and are reacting to its impact.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Later on, when moving to one of the seven Paths, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the Master will work with the Law of Freedom</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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 unique and mysterious law </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">governs the Life and the Lives upon Sirius, and it is to that unknown "sphere of functioning and intelligent activity" what the Law of Economy is to our planet</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> the lowest of the laws controlling existence in planetary form.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This Law of Economy includes, as you know from my earlier writings, many lesser or subsidiary laws; it might therefore be stated that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">this Law of Freedom also does the [Page 418] same</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<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 embodies the Law of Freedom to be given, for there is no word in our language adequately available.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The above information will, however, link Sirius and our little planet, the Earth, in your minds.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time and long ante-dating the Jewish dispensation, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">was organised under direct Sirian influence and modelled as far as possible on certain Sirian institutions </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and bearing a slight resemblance also to our hierarchical life as seen in the light of the Eternal Now.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Its "Blue Lodge" with its three degrees is related to the three major groups of Lives on Sirius,</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> for </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">there are there no kingdoms of nature</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, 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 </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the least developed of the Sirian Lives are from our standpoint all of Them initiates of very high degree</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Masonry is, therefore, connected in a peculiar way with the fourth Path.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The time has now come, under cyclic law and in preparation for the New Age, for certain changes to be worked by Masons with spiritual understanding.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The present Jewish colouring of Masonry is completely out of date and has been preserved far too long, for it is today either Jewish or Christian and should be neither.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Blue Lodge degrees are entirely Jewish in phrasing</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and wording, and this should be altered.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Higher Degrees are predominantly Christian, though permeated with Jewish names and words</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This too should end.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This Jewish colouring is today one of the main hindrances to the full expression of Masonic intention and should be changed, whilst preserving the facts and detail and structure of the Masonic symbolism intact.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Whatever [Page 419] form the new nomenclature will take (and this change will inevitably come), that too will pass away after due service rendered.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Thus the cyclic transformation will proceed until such time as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">bulk of humanity, standing upon the fourth Path</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, will </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">pass through the initiatory process on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, of which our E.A degree is a faint reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 687) nitiation III.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Transfiguration<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">There is no need for me to enter into the symbolic details anent this initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The whole theme is adequately dealt with in a book written by A.A.B. entitled From <st1:city w:st="on">Bethlehem</st1:city> to <st1:place w:st="on">Calvary</st1:place> a book to which I gave my approval and endorsement as presenting the subject of the five initiations in a form suitable for the Christian West.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>I would like to recall to you the fact that this third initiation is in reality the first of the major initiations and is so regarded by the emanating Source of our planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara, and in the two great planetary centres, Shamballa and the Hierarchy.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">I refer to that stupendous Source of our entire planetary life, the sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and to the Lodge of Divine Beings Who work from this heavenly Centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The first two initiations regarded simply as initiations of the threshold are experiences which have prepared the body of the initiate for the reception of the terrific voltage of this third initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This voltage is passed through the body of the initiate under the direction of the planetary Logos, before Whom the initiate stands for the first time.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Rod of Initiation is used as the transferring agent.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The second initiation freed the initiate from the astral [Page 688] level of consciousness, the astral plane the plane of glamour, of illusion and of distortion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This was an essential experience because the initiate (standing before the One Initiator for the first time at the third initiation) must be freed from any magnetic or attractive "pull" emanating from the personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 692) Initiation IV.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Great Renunciation or Crucifixion<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This initiation of renunciation (called "The Crucifixion" by Christian believers) is so familiar to the majority of people that I am hard put to it to say that which will arrest your attention, and thus offset a familiarity which necessarily lessens the importance of the theme in your consciousness.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The idea of crucifixion is associated in your minds with death and torture, whereas neither concept underlies the true meaning.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Let us consider some of the significances connected with this fourth initiation.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The Christian cross is a symbol from Sirius. The lives on Sirius pay particular attention to our planet<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The sign of the Cross associated in the Western world with this initiation and with the Christian faith is in reality </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">a cosmic symbol</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, long ante-dating the Christian era.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">It is one of the major signs to be found in the consciousness of Those advanced Beings Who, from the distant sun, Sirius, the seat of the true Great White Lodge, watch over the destinies of our solar system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, but </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Who pay particular attention (why They do so is not yet revealed) to our relatively little and apparently unimportant planet, the Earth.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The word "crucifixion" comes from two Latin words signifying to "fix on a cross" (I have asked A.A.B. to look this word up in the dictionary so that you can have a sense [Page 693] of surety).<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The cross referred to in reference to this particular initiation is the Cardinal Cross of the heavens.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is to this cross that the disciple shifts at the fourth initiation, from the Fixed Cross of the heavens.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This fixed cross is the one on which he has been crucified from the moment he found himself upon the Path of Probation and passed from thence on to the Path of Discipleship.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On that Path having transcended the world of phenomena and established an unbroken contact with the Monad, via the antahkarana he renounces the Mutable Cross of existence in the three worlds (the world of appearances), and after a period of time he transfers from that cross on to the Fixed Cross, which is set up in the world of meaning where he has steadily learnt to dwell.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This covers the period of the first three initiations.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Now, being liberated through renunciation, he needs no longer to undergo the tests, trials, and difficulties which crucifixion on the Fixed Cross inevitably entails; he can now take his place upon the Cardinal Cross, with all its cosmic implications and opportunities which are then conferred.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This as far as the individual is concerned is necessarily symbolic and figurative in its teaching.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>As far as the Heavenly Man is concerned, however, the application is not symbolic.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is far more factual.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">From the angle of the supreme Masters on Sirius, our planetary Logos, Sanat Kumara, is still on the Fixed Cross</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; He </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">mounted the Mutable Cross in the first solar system; the Fixed Cross still holds Him in this solar system "</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">fixed in His place"; in the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 22pt;">next solar system, He will transfer Himself to the Cardinal Cross, and</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> from "thence return to that High Place from whence He came."<span style="">&nbsp; </span>You can see, therefore, why I emphasise the fact that these three crosses are simply symbols of experience in relation to the individual disciple.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Let us consider this a little more closely:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Mutable Cross governs the three worlds and the astral plane in particular.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On this cross the average man is "crucified" until he achieves the needed experience and consciously reorients himself to another phase of unfoldment.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 694] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The Fixed Cross governs the five worlds of human development and conditions the experiences of all disciples.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through the discipline and the experiences thus gained whilst on this cross, the disciple passes from one renunciation to another until complete freedom and liberation has been achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Cardinal Cross governs the Master as He passes through the remaining five initiations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; the fourth initiation is, curiously enough, governed by neither the Fixed Cross nor the Cardinal Cross.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The disciple is descending from the Fixed Cross and seeking to mount the Cardinal Cross, and it is this transition period and experience which practically govern Him.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It might therefore be noted that there are three initiations which test the disciple as to knowledge and experience:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>the first, the second and the third; then there comes an initiation of transition, followed by five initiations which the Master undergoes upon the Cardinal Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 720) I would like first of all to point out that the sixth initiation is to the Master Who stands before the planetary Logos what the second initiation is to the disciple; the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">fifth Initiation of Revelation and the sixth Initiation of Decision are the higher correspondences to the first two initiations which are regarded by the Lodge on Sirius as initiations of the [Page 720] Threshold</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Have this carefully in mind.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Much earlier in this treatise (page 361) I made the comment that the second initiation with its evidenced control of desire (indicating right choice) was "the threshold...to those levels of impression, of contact and of future ascension which are the sevenfold goal set before the Master when the sixth initiation (the true ascension) is consummated.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is for this reason that this initiation is called the Initiation of Decision."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 737) The planetary Lodge of Masters has absorbed Him and, at the final initiation, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the Great Lodge on Sirius has recognised Him, and with the Black Lodge of Adepts He will have nothing to do.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He will mitigate its evil effects and will struggle to offset its results, but He knows that the final overcoming of </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">cosmic physical evil</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> must be undertaken by Existences much further advanced than even the Members of the Council Chamber at Shamballa; certain </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">solar Entities and certain great Lives from Sirius are dealing with the problem</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(RI 741) [Page 741] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">FIVE GREAT SPIRITUAL EVENTS<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(Written February 1949)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">You (A.A.B.) have asked me what I considered the most important and significant events from the spiritual angle at this present time.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This question highlights a theme which is exceedingly apposite, following as it does upon what I have just given anent the Great Renunciation (see pages 602-614) and its consequent revelation or (as the Christian churches call them) the Crucifixion and the Resurrection.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The Christian resurrection is, however </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">from the angle of the great Lodge on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> only a minor one and a passing resurrection, though the revelation subsequently accorded is lasting and permanent in its effects.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TWM 313) Close to our earth, on the road to rebirth, is a great Life in process of taking etheric form.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This Life, being on the evolutionary arc and not constituting the life of a decaying shell, is having a real effect in the inauguration of the New Age.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This effect is twofold: through the emanations from the astral body of this great Life the work of breaking down the separative wall of individualism which demonstrates in man as selfishness and in nations as nationalism is carried forward.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Through this rapidly integrating etheric body this Life is bringing the etheric body of our planet into a state of increased rapid vibration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Reference will be found in the Treatise on Cosmic Fire to an avatar from Sirius who comes to bring about certain planetary effects</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This Life is not that avatar but is in the nature of a forerunner</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> of a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">St. John</st1:city></st1:place> the Baptist, who "baptiseth with water (astral emanations) and the Holy Ghost".<span style="">&nbsp; </span>More information along these lines is not possible, but mention is made of it, as the energies coming from these two factors must be borne in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">Refs to Sirian begin here (21 hits on Bailey CD)<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAII 384) Still another question could well be asked: What is the [Page 384] attitude of the group during initiation if the individual members are undergoing different initiations? Is the group integrity imperiled? During the period of initiation, their attitude is one of focussed, concentrated and deep meditation in which the inner attitude is given solely to the concept of Hierarchy. The disciple is not, at this time, occupied with the Ashram of which he is a part or with any questionings as to the nature of the Ashram into which he is now entering as an initiate either as an initiate of the Earth initiations or, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">in the senior grades, as an initiate of the Sirian regime. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">He is during the first four initiations entirely centred in consciousness upon the larger Whole wherein the Ashram to which he belongs is a part; he is attentive to the Christ, the Head of the Hierarchy, because He is the Initiator of the first two initiations which always seem to the neophyte of major importance. After the third initiation he is attentive to that "veiled Presence of awful Power Who tests his fitness for working in the will of God." I would ask you to note the peculiar phrasing "working in the will of God," and to remember that that Will, centred or focussed in Shamballa, is one of the great basic energies; the initiate has to learn to work in and through that Will. If, therefore, each initiate in the group is conscious of the initiation next to be taken, then subconsciously he eliminates all awareness of outer contacts and stands alone, and yet in group formation, before one or other of the two Initiators. The inflow of dynamic energy which comes to him through the application of the Rod of Initiation becomes a group inheritance and serves to galvanise, integrate and fuse the group into renewed activity and a deeper subjective union.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(DINAII 401) I have told you that these points of revelation are the germ or seed of a certain invocative potency; this is especially true and correct where the teaching anent the third eye is concerned. Initiation is not an abstract, mystical process to [Page 401] which the disciple is subjected upon some one or other of the subtler planes, the knowledge of which must gradually seep through into his consciousness. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This may be partially true of the first two initiations (the Sirian initiations of the threshold), </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">but all the remaining initiations involve the whole man and "three periodical vehicles," producing a steady fusion of these three, an increasing reaction to the Light of the World, and an ability to register in the physical brain (if the initiate is functioning through karma, decision or service in the physical body) that which is undergone; in this registration process the third eye is acutely involved. From the time of the third initiation this third eye is subjected to training and begins to function in the two following ways:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The first Sirian initiation is the 7<sup>th</sup> planetary and the 5<sup>th</sup> solar<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 18) The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first four initiations of the solar system correspond to the four "initiations of the Threshold," </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">prior to [Page 18] the first cosmic initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The fifth initiation corresponds to the first cosmic initiation, that of "entered apprentice" in Masonry</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; and makes a Master an "entered apprentice" of the Lodge on Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The sixth initiation is analogous to the second degree in Masonry, whilst the seventh initiation makes the Adept a Master Mason of the Brotherhood on Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">A Master, therefore, is one who has taken the seventh planetary initiation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, the fifth solar initiation, and the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">first Sirian or cosmic initiation.<i style=""><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;">&nbsp;</span></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 98) Cosmic influences and solar initiations.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All that can be done here in dealing with this profound subject is to enumerate briefly some of the cosmic influences which definitely affect our earth, and produce results in the consciousness of men everywhere, and which, during the process of initiation, bring about certain specific phenomena.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><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: 20pt;">First and foremost is the energy or force emanating from the sun Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>If it might be so expressed, the energy of thought, or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system from a distant cosmic centre via Sirius.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Sirius acts as the transmitter, or the focalising centre, whence emanate those influences which produce self-consciousness in man.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>During initiation, by means of the Rod of Initiation (acting as a subsidiary transmitter and as a powerful magnet) this energy is momentarily intensified, and applied to the centres of the initiate with terrific force; were it not that the Hierophant and the two sponsors of the initiate pass it primarily through their bodies, it would be more than he could stand.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This increase of mind energy results in an expansion and an apprehension of the truth as it is, and is lasting in its effects.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is felt primarily in the throat centre, the great organ of creation through sound.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Another type of energy reaches man from the Pleiades, passing through the Venusian scheme to us, just as the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirian energy passes through the Saturnian</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It has a definite </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">effect upon the causal body, and serves to stimulate the heart centre.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A third type of energy is applied to the initiate, and affects his head centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It emanates from that one of the seven stars of the Great Bear</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> whose ensouling life holds the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">same relationship to our Planetary Logos as the Ego does to a human being</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This energy, therefore, is </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">seven-fold</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and differs according to a man's ray or type.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 99] <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It is not possible here to state the order of the application of these varying types of energy, nor to give the initiation during which the man contacts the different types.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>These facts involve the secrets of the mysteries, and no purpose is served by revealing them.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Other types of force from certain of the planetary schemes, as well as from cosmic centres, are brought into play by the Initiator and transmitted through the medium of the Rod to the various centres in the initiate's three vehicles, the mental, the astral, and the etheric centres.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>At the fourth initiation a specialised type of force from a centre which must remain nameless is applied to a man's causal body, and is one of the causes of its final disintegration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(HIS 182) To the three above points we might also briefly add that of the coming in, or passing out, of any particular ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The little that can be said upon this point, which is one of the greatest difficulty, might be summed up in the following three statements:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>First, that initiations taken on the four minor rays rank not in equality with initiations taken upon the major three.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is complicated somewhat by the fact that within the planetary Scheme, during cyclic evolution, a minor ray may be temporarily regarded as a major ray.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>For instance, at this particular time in our planetary Scheme, the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law or Order is regarded as a major ray, being a ray of synthesis, and one on which the Mahachohan is blending His work.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Secondly, that the first three initiations are taken upon the ray of the Ego, and link a man up with the great White Lodge; the last two are taken upon the ray of the monad, and have a definite effect upon the path for service that will be chosen later by the adept.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This statement must be linked up with that earlier made, which stated that </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the fifth initiation made a man [Page 182] a member of the Greater Lodge, or Brotherhood, on Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, being </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">literally the first of the Sirian initiations</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">fourth initiation is the synthesis of the Initiations of the Threshold in the Sirian Lodge.</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp; </span>Finally, according to the ray on which initiation is taken, so very largely depends the subsequent path of service.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 568) a. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Three Cosmic Laws</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">first of the cosmic laws is the Law of Synthesis</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is almost impossible for those of us who have not the buddhic faculty in any way developed, to comprehend the scope of this law.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the law that demonstrates the fact that all things abstract and concrete exist as one; </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">it is the law governing the thought form of that One of the cosmic Logoi [Page 568] in Whose consciousness both our system, and our greater centre, have a part</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is a unit of His thought, a thought form in its entirety, a concrete whole, and not the differentiated process that we feel our evolving system to be.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the sumtotal, the centre and the periphery, and the circle of manifestation regarded as a unit.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;"><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: 20pt;">The second law is the Law of Attraction and Repulsion</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Fundamentally, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">the law describes the compelling force of attraction that holds our solar system to the Sirian;</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> that holds our planets revolving around our central unit, the sun; that holds the lesser systems of atomic and molecular matter circulating around a centre in the planet; and that holds the matter of all physical plane bodies, and that of the subtle bodies co-ordinated around their microcosmic centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">third law is the Law of Economy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and is the law which adjusts all that concerns the material and spiritual evolution of the cosmos to the best possible advantage and with the least expenditure of force.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It makes perfect each atom of time, and each eternal period, and carries all onward, and upward, and through, with the least possible effort, with the proper adjustment of equilibrium, and with the necessary rate of rhythm.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Unevenness of rhythm is really an illusion of time, and does not exist in the cosmic centre.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We need to ponder on this, for it holds the secret of peace, and we need to grasp the significance of that word through, for it describes the next racial expansion of consciousness, and has an occult meaning.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">In the nomenclature of these laws much is lost, for it is well nigh impossible to resolve abstractions into the terms of speech, and not lose the inner sense in the process.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In these laws we again have the threefold idea demonstrated, and the correspondence, as might be expected, holds good.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">[Page 569]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Synthesis<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Will Aspect<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>1st Aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Attraction<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Love Aspect<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>2nd Aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Economy<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Activity Aspect<span style="">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>3rd Aspect.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">b. Seven Systemic Laws. Subsidiary to the three major laws, we find the seven laws of our solar system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Again we find the law of analogy elucidating, and the three becoming the seven as elsewhere in the logoic scheme.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In each of these seven laws we find an interesting correlation with the seven planes.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>They are:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The Law of Vibration, the basis of manifestation, starting on the first plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This is the atomic law of the system, in the same sense that on each of our planes the first subplane is the atomic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. The law of Cohesion.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On the second plane cohesion is first apparent.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is the first molecular plane of the system, and is the home of the Monad.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Divine coherency is demonstrated.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The Law of Disintegration.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On the third plane comes the final casting-off, the ultimate shedding of the sheaths, of the fivefold superman.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A Chohan of the sixth Initiation discards all the sheaths beneath the monadic vehicle, from the atmic to the physical.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">4. The Law of Magnetic Control holds sway paramountly on the buddhic plane, and in the development of the control of this law lies hid the control of the personality by the Monad via the egoic body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">5. The Law of Fixation demonstrates principally on the mental plane and has a close connection with manas, the fifth principle.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The mind controls and stabilises, and cohereney is the result.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">6. The Law of Love is the law of the astral plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It aims at the transmutation of the desire nature, and links it up with the greater magnetism of the love aspect on the buddhic plane.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">7. The Law of Sacrifice and Death is the controlling factor on the physical plane.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The destruction of the form, in order that the evolving life may progress, is one of the fundamental methods in evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Intermediate Law of Karma</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. There is also an intermediate law, which is the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">synthetic law of the system [Page 570] of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This law is called by the generic term, the Law of Karma, and really predicates the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">effect the Sirian system has on our solar system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Each of the two systems, as regards its internal economy, is independent in time and space, or (in other words), in manifestation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">We have practically no effect on our parent system, the reflex action is so slight as to be negligible, but very definite effects are felt in our system through causes arising in Sirius. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>These causes, when experienced as effects, are called by us the Law of Karma, and at the beginning they started systemic Karma which, once in effect, constitutes that which is called Karma in our occult and oriental literature.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Lipika Lords of our system</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, the systemic Lords of Karma, are </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">under the rule of a greater corresponding Lord on Sirius.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We have therefore:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. The three cosmic laws of Synthesis, Attraction and Economy.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The Sirian law of Karma</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. The seven laws of the solar system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">As we have been told, our seven major vibrations are the vibrations of the lowest cosmic plane; there is our habitat.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Our Logos Himself, the heart of His system, is on the cosmic astral plane; he is polarised there.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just as the units of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human, are evolving through the use of physical bodies, but are polarised at this time in their astral vehicles, so we have seen that the objective solar system forms the physical body of the Logos, though His polarity is in His astral body.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is significant that in this greater manvantara, the Logos is to take the fourth cosmic Initiation.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>A hint which may enlighten lies in the correspondence which exists between this statement and the [Page 571] fourth root-race development, and this, the fourth or astral round.81<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The Three major Cosmic Laws control the three higher subplanes of the Cosmic mental plane <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">The system of the Sirian Logos is on the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and in a subtle way, incomprehensible to us, our Logos, with His system, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">forms a part of a still greater Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>This does not involve loss of identity, though the matter is too abstruse to express more adequately.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It is in this analogy that the basic idea can be found of all teaching given out about the Grand Heavenly <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Man.</st1:place></st1:state><span style="">&nbsp; </span>The whole conception of these laws is bound up in this idea.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">We have the three laws of the cosmic higher planes, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">holding in a synthesis of beauty the greater and the lesser system.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Next we have the great law of Sirius, the Law of Karma, on the third subplane of the cosmic mental plane</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">law really controls our Logos</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and His actions, in the same way as the ego in due course of evolution controls the human personality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">We need to remember that, under the Law of Correspondences, we shall have a relationship in the Cosmos, similar to that existing in the microcosm between the ego and the personality.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The suggestion holds much that we might consider with benefit.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We must not, however, carry the analogy too far; as we have not yet evolved to where we have planetary consciousness, still less systemic, how can we really expect even to conceive of the A B C of cosmic truth?<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Just broad hints, wide conceptions, and generalities, are as yet possible.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Of one thing we can be sure, and that is that identity ever remains.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Let me explain by illustration:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The Sirian Logos is one of the centres in the<span style="">&nbsp; </span>body of the OAWNMBS<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Each one of us, in due process of evolution, forms part of one of the Heavenly Men, Who Themselves form the [Page 572] seven centres in that greater Heavenly Man, the Logos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Yet, though we are merged with the whole, we do not lose our identity, but forever remain separated units of consciousness, though one with all that lives or is.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In like manner our Logos loses not His identity, </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">even though He forms part of the Consciousness of the Logos of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In His turn, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centres in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID.<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Laws and the Planes. We might, while studying the seven laws of the solar system, take them plane by plane, showing certain things three in all:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. We might study their effect as they demonstrate on the path of involution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. As they manifest on the path of evolution, or return.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. We might also touch on the laws as they affect the human and deva organisms that evolve by means of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 591) 5. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The Law of Fixation</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This is the governing law of the mental plane, finding its greater correspondence in the Law of Karma on cosmic mental levels</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>"As a man thinks, so is he;" according to his thoughts are his desires and acts, and so results the future.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>He fixes for himself the resultant karma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The word "Fixation" is chosen for two purposes:<span style="">&nbsp; </span>First, because the word implies </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">the capacity of the thinker to shape his own destiny, </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">and secondly because the word implies a stabilising idea, for as evolution progresses, the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ego evolves the faculty of forming definite concrete thought-forms</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and, through these stable products, of subduing the fluctuations of the astral body.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">This law of the fifth, or mental plane is one of the most important laws with which we have to do at any time</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and it will find its most complete demonstration in the next, or fifth round.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>In relation to this fourth round the following facts may be gathered about its working:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is the law under which the evolving personality builds up, during the course of many lives, the causal body</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">; it fixes the matter inhering in that body, placed there by the man as the ages slip away, and crystallises it.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Before the fourth Initiation the crystallisation is complete, and the inevitable shattering that is the result of crystallisation in all forms, takes place, setting the [Page 592] indwelling life free for further progress.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>All forms are but hindrances and limitations, and ultimately must go, but they have their needed place in the development of the race.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Eventually the causal body of the entire race itself disintegrates.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This law governs the crystallisation of all forms prior to their shattering in the process of evolution.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The Sirian Logos is to our solar logos what the human ego is to the personality<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">It governs the time of rebirth, being one of the subsidiary branches of the Law of Karma.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Each of the seven subsidiary laws is linked to one of the cosmic laws, or with the Sirian Law of Karma</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>We need always to remember that the consciousness of the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">cosmic mental plane is the logoic goal of attainment, and that the Sirian Logos is to our solar Logos what the human Ego is to the personality.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The Law of Karma, or cosmic Fixation, is the law of the cosmic mental plane, and controls the corresponding law in our system.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the fifth round this law will act as the divider</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, temporarily crystallising and fixing into two great classes the human Monads, as they evolve.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>One group then (containing those who will reach the goal), will pass gradually out from under the domination of this law, and </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">will come under the Law of Magnetic Control. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="">&nbsp;</span>The other will remain under the law in a static condition, until in a later period a fresh opportunity will come; old forms will break, and in </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">another mahamanvantara, and in its fifth period</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, will come the chance for which they will have waited, when they can again swing into the current of evolution and the imprisoned spirits may mount again towards their source.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In an occult sense this law is for us the one with which we are the most intimately concerned</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>It plays an important part in the hands of the Lords of Flame, and is one of Their main factors in controlling the three worlds.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>Note here an interesting fact, that Venus is the sixth planet (esoterically the second), and is in her [Page 593] fifth round, and hence is ahead of us along every line.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">This law demonstrates the static quality of love, static temporarily, but necessarily so when viewed from the standpoint of time, the great deluder</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>On the path of involution this law again works with the permanent atoms in the three worlds, with the building in of material around those atoms, in connection with the building devas and the reincarnating Egos.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The devas are the mother aspect, the builders of the body, and the reincarnating Jivas are the son aspect; yet the two are but one, and the result is the divine hermaphroditic man.84<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style=""><i style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt; color: blue;">The symbol of the 4<sup>th</sup> Cosmic Path to Sirius<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(TCF 1260) 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></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">These wheels are portrayed as manifesting electric blue flame, rotating and revolving with great rapidity around an equal-armed Cross</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span>The symbolism of these colours links this </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">fourth path to the solar system preceding this one</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<span style="">&nbsp; </span></span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">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 style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">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 concentrated influence of the energy which is identified with the planetary antaskarana.<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 objective of our particular planetary Logos.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 299) As we are upon the subject, one other point might be touched upon here. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">August, which is ruled by Leo, is the month of the Dog-star, or of Sirius</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, which thus </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">brings Sirius into close relation to Leo</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Leo, in the cosmic sense (and apart from our solar system altogether) is ruled by Sirius. Sirius is the home of that greater Lodge to which our fifth initiation admits a man</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> and to which it brings him, as a humble disciple. Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">major, monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy, with Sirian force</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. Each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Sirius governs Leo</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. This I shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new "Approaches" to spiritual reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 445) It is interesting to note that the </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law and Order works through Uranus which is today the transmitter of Sirian force via Pisces to the Hierarchy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. [Page 445] From that "middle centre" it passes to that sensitive band of disciples, aspirants and workers to whose hearts and hands is committed the heavy task, incident to the re-organisation and the rebuilding of the shattered world structure. The seventh ray has sometimes been called a peculiar name by Knowers. It is regarded as the "Ray of Ritualistic Decency." It aids and inaugurates the appearing of a new world order, based on a spiritual drive and on aspiration, mental freedom, loving understanding and a physical plane rhythm which provides opportunity for full creative expression. To bring this about, energy from Shamballa (embodying the will-to-good) is fused and blended with the organising energy of the seventh ray and then carried to humanity along the stream of love which emanates from the Hierarchy itself. Pisces governs this effort of the Hierarchy because the highest aspect of Pisces which humanity can at this time in any way comprehend is that of Mediatorship. This is the energy of mediation, of right relationship. Today as never before the Hierarchy stands as a "mediating transmitter" between:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. Humanity and the will of God. The revelation of the true significance and purpose of that will as it stands behind all world events is needed now as never before. This can come through a closer relation between the Hierarchy and Humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. Humanity and its karma, for it is equally essential that the laws for the transmutation of karma into active present good are clearly grasped.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. Humanity and cosmic evil, focussed for many millenia of years in what has been called the Black Lodge. Speculation anent this Lodge and its activities is both fruitless and dangerous.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">(EA 466) e might consequently state that the forces of:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">1. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 20pt;">Cancer Capricorn Saturn (which are an expression of Sirian energy</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) enable the aspirant to </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">tread the Path of Purification, of Probation. </span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">These energies focus and qualify the energy of the Great Lodge of the Most High in that distant Sun. They pour through the Hierarchy upon the mass of men and enable the unit in that mass to "isolate himself and turn his back upon the past and find his way on to that section of the Path wherein he learns to feel."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">2. </span><b style=""><u>Gemini Sagittarius Mercury (which are an expression of the Pleiades</u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">) enable the Probationary Disciple to pass on to the Path of Accepted Discipleship. He is then becoming increasingly intuitive and entirely one-pointed whilst the nature of the pairs of opposites is clearer to him. The relation of the Mother-aspect (as embodied in the Pleiades) and of the Christ-child, hidden within the form of the personality, is realised and the inner, spiritual man institutes the process of initial identification with the spiritual entity on its own plane; the little self begins to react consciously and with increasing frequency to the higher Self. The man "presses forward on that Path wherein he learns to see."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">3. </span><b style=""><u><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Aries Libra The Sun (which are an expression of the Great Bear)</span></u></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> bring about that focussing of energy in the life of the disciple which makes it possible for him to function consciously and with intention upon the Path of Initiation. He enters the realm of the formless worlds because Aries, the sign of beginnings makes this possible; through the potency of Libra, he has succeeded in achieving that point of balance which makes the final escape from the pairs of opposites possible. He now [Page 467] knows, through transcended feeling and from identification with the seen Vision, the true meaning of being.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">This threefold process can also be covered by the three words: Sensitivity, Illumination and Inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><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>