One of the things which will emerge most definitely during
the next three or four decades is the work that groups can do on levels
other than the physical. Group service and united effort towards group welfare
has for two centuries been seen on Earth in all fields of human endeavour—political,
philanthropic and educational. Group service on the astral plane has been
started also since 1875, but united effort to dispel the world glamour is
only now in process of organising and this group can be a part of the corporate
effort towards this end, and swell the number of those so engaged. Train
yourselves, therefore, and learn how to work. Telepathic sensitivity
is necessarily the objective of all groups of disciples, but it is the
main objective of that group which we might call the Telepathic Communicators;
here they can render potent service. Groups of sensitives of this order
can constitute a working, mediating body, and transmit the new knowledge
and teaching for the race; they can mould public opinion and change the
current of men's thoughts. All small groups of people, naturally and inevitably,
arrive at a telepathic relation between themselves, and between the
personnel of similar groups, and this is to be desired and fostered and
should rightly and steadily increase. But, as your telepathic sensitivity
is increased, see to it that you are not deflected from your main group
objective, which is to study and understand the significance of glamour
and the laws for its dissipation. Record and note all telepathic activity
and phenomena and learn to work this way, but regard it as a secondary
issue for you at this time. [GWP 18-19]
One of the qualities, developed through ashramic contact,
is the ability to live always within the field of intuitive perception—a
field which has been created, or a sphere of energy which has been generated,
by the united purpose, the combined planning and the concentrated energy
of the Hierarchy. An analogy (but only an analogy, however) would be to
regard this field of reflecting, reflective and reflected energies as resembling
the brain of a human being; this brain reflects the impacts of telepathic
activity, the sensory perceptions and the knowledges gained in the three
worlds; reflection then sets in in relation to the mental processes which
are synchronised with the brain, and then follows the impartation of these
reflections to the outside world. [DINA II 105]
It is a unified group endeavour, generated in each ashram
and fostered by all alike, to bring the entire group—as a band of world
servers—into the aura of the thought currents of the Christ, as He formulates
His ideas, creates the thoughtform needed prior to manifestation, and makes
His arrangements for His reappearing. This is not the same thing as establishing
a telepathic rapport between an individual disciple and the Christ,
for that is not needed or desirable. The unity of aim, the desire to serve,
the recognition of the present focussed intention of the Hierarchy (under
the guidance of the Christ), become an invocative, magnetic state of group
consciousness; this evokes from the Christ and His informed Masters an identification
of Their united thought with the group aspiration. This is the higher spiritual
correspondence of what is called in the three worlds kama-manas. [DINA II
681]
When the extension of hearing becomes such that it concerns
the psyche, then we call it telepathy or that wordless communication
that is the synthesis of hearing on all the three lower planes and which
is known by the Ego in the causal body on the formless levels of the mental
plane.
On the buddhic plane, hearing (now of the synthetic quality
called telepathy) demonstrates as complete comprehension, for it
has involved two things:
1. A knowledge and recognition of individual sound,
2. A similar knowledge of group sound,
and their complete unification. This causes the most
perfect comprehension, and is the secret of the Master's power. [TCF 193]
Certain developments also, incidental to the factors of
time and space (as understood in the three worlds) are aimed at by the Ego,
such as the increase of the causal periphery through the study of divine
telepathy, systemic psychology and the knowledge of the law of fire.
[LOM 37]
Another reason which will bring about the cessation of
those practises and modes of living and desiring which account for these
diseases is one little recognised as yet; it was referred to by the Christ
when He spoke of the time when nothing secret would remain hidden and when
all secrets would be shouted aloud from the housetops. The growth of telepathic
registration and of the psychic powers such as clairvoyance and clairaudience
will eventually tend to strip humanity of the privacy in which to sin.
[EH 236]
One other point I would seek to make clear. As you know,
an Ashram has in it disciples and initiates at all points of evolutionary
development and of all grades and degrees; these all work together in perfect
unison and yet—within their differentiated ranks, for each degree stands
alone yet united with all the others—with their own established rapport,
their coded telepathic interplay, and a shared occult secrecy and
silence which guard the secrets and knowledges of one grade from another
and from the unready. [RI 346]
It will be obvious to you that when humanity attains this
outlook upon the fact of death or the art of dying, the entire attitude
of the race of men will undergo beneficent change. This will be paralleled,
as time elapses, by a rapport between men upon telepathic levels;
men will be steadily growing in intelligence, and humanity will be increasingly
focussed upon mental levels. This telepathic rapport will be a common
and ordinary phenomenon of which modern spiritualism is the guarantee, though
the distortion (and a very serious distortion) is largely based on humanity's
wishful thinking, with very little true telepathy to be found in it. The
telepathy which is present today between the medium (in or out of
trance) and the bereaved relative or friend is not between the one who has
experienced the release of death and the one who is still in form. This
should be remembered. In the interim where mind is not normally telepathic,
there may be (though there very seldom is) the interposition of a mediumship
based upon clairvoyance and clairaudience, but not upon trance. This will
still necessitate a contact via a third party, and will be entirely astral;
it will therefore be full of glamour and error. It will, however, be a
step forward from the present mediumistic performances which simply ignore
the man who is dead and give to the enquirer only what the medium reads
in his aura—his recollection of the personal appearance, significant remembrances
stored in the enquirer's consciousness, and wishful thinking anent advice
demanded because the enquirer believes that because a man is dead he must
be more wise than heretofore. When the medium at times succeeds in establishing
true communication, it is because the enquirer and the dead person are mental
types, and there is therefore a true telepathic rapport between them
which the medium intercepts. [EH 396]
Through this study, carried forward with an open mind,
modern psychology will eventually arrive at a recognition of the soul. …
3. Scientific investigation of the powers in man, with
particular attention to telepathy. It will be found that telepathic
work is from mind to mind, or from soul to mind, and does not necessarily
imply brain to brain communication and contact. This is one of the most
promising fields of investigation, though it still presents much difficulty.
The fact of the existence of the soul will not be proved through the
medium of telepathy until after the year 1945. By that time an event
will have happened in the world and a particular new teaching will have
been given which will put the entire subject of telepathic phenomena
in a new light. [EP I 100]
Those Lives Who carry out the ideas of the Divine Mind,
exist in Their graded orders, and with the detail of Their groupings we
are not concerned, except with the fact that the planetary Brotherhood is
in telepathic rapport with Those Who are responsible for the planetary
conditions in the solar system, with the Great Council, therefore, at Shamballa.
They are also in immediate telepathic rapport with each other. The
slowly manifesting powers of the radio and the sensitive workings of the
perfecting radio mechanisms and of television are but the response in physical
matter of the perfected telepathic powers and television of the minds
of the Masters of the Wisdom. Forget not, that such powers are inherent
in all men.
The inner group of Masters with Whom I am associated work
telepathically also with Their disciples and the disciples with each
other in lesser degree. The power to "see" the Master —which has
been the misguided impulse of the devotees of the world who substitute this
desire for aspiration towards soul contact—is but their response to the
"television" of Those Who seek to guide them into the light of
their own souls. They are only reacting to one of the demonstrated divine
powers of the Master but not to soul action.
Your response to such stimulation as I can give you and
an earnest endeavour on your part to love with unselfishness will gradually
perfect in you a similar relation to other workers. This will work out in
three directions:
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In a demonstrated ability to be in telepathic rapport with
me and with Those with Whom I am associated.
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In power to communicate with each other at any time.
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In sensitivity to the thoughts of humanity as a whole. [DINA II
24]
The disciple in the past sought to establish harmonious
relations with his environment—harmony being one of the liberating forces
which must precede the release of energy for use after initiation. He practised
patience and forbearance and helpfulness and rendered service and this was
worked out through the process of right external conduct based upon right
inner orientation and attitude. But under the new system (made necessary
by achieved racial progress) this process of right external adjustments
must be paralleled in the New Age by right inner relations, consciously
established and consciously held and recognised for what they are by the
conscious mind and brain of the disciple. This, therefore, involves true
knowledge of the disciple's inner group relation, spiritual penetration
to the inner life of a brother disciple and the consequent fusion in the
heart-mind-brain of the disciple, simultaneously, of all that is known on
both the outer and the inner planes. This has not hitherto been the case.
It is one of the major reasons for the forming of these groups as far as
the individual group members are concerned. It will be brought about gradually
and safely by the daily use of the group meditations which I may assign
you, by a renewed interest in the subject of telepathic work and
by a closer and deeper love, cultivated by all of you. [DINA I 58-59]
2. The future objective of these ashramic groups.
It is fundamentally necessary that the new groups which
are inaugurating the new discipleship should eventually establish a telepathic
rapport with each other. Later, when there is a closer individual inter-relation,
it will be possible to give definite teaching which will make this increasingly
possible, but in the meantime a hint will have to suffice. It is foundational
in nature and will have to be accepted and somewhat understood prior to
successful work in all these pioneering groups. Think outwardly towards
each other in love. Just simply that, my brothers—simply and humbly
that and no more than that at present. Can you accept such a simple rule—apparently
simple? In this way the etheric body of this group of disciples will be
animated by the golden energy and the light of love and thus a network of
light will be established which will form a focal point of energy in the
etheric body of humanity itself and eventually in the planetary etheric
body also. [DINA I 80]