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Align with the soul.
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Visualize and reaffirm the individual antahkarana.
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Align with the group soul and realize your identity with it. Emphasize
particularly the colors belonging to your soul and personality ray,
otherwise indigo blue.
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Visualize and reaffirm the group antahkarana glowing with all seven
colors of the rainbow. Emphasize the color indigo blue of the great
synthetic second ray.
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Utilizing the group antahkarana, imagine the group open and accessible
to the levels of the spiritual triad, and increasingly infused by
the energies of those dimensions.
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See the group soul approaching identification with the Spiritual
Hierarchy of our planet, and with the Christ at the Heart of Hierarchy.
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Identify as a soul-infused personality (the disciple between the
world of the soul on its own plane and the personality, per se).
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See the fires of purification burning within the three lunar vehicles
and the personality (the lower sum total).
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See these fires doing their cleansing work and realize that, as
a result of the work of these fires, the spiritual dimensions of
life can better express through the form.
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Imaginatively view the living members of the third kingdom, the
animal kingdom, which humanity uses as food.
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See them clearly in their natural state and appreciate their divine
nature.
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View according to the revelatory power of your own imagination,
the processes by which these animals are sacrificed for humanity’s
food. Attempt to feel this sacrifice.
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View these same animals once they have been prepared as food for
humans. Realize the contrast between their appearance as food and
their appearance in the natural, living state.
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See human beings eating animal food.
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Again, see the purificatory fires at work within the human personality.
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But as a result of the consumption of animal food, see these fires
dimming and burning low instead of bright.
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Understand that as a result of the consumption of animal food,
impurities which would otherwise be burned away are remaining within
the personality vehicles.
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Attempt to realize the loss of spiritual influence and opportunity
which these remaining impurities cause.
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See yourself as a disciple vis-à-vis the animal kingdom.
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See yourself deliberately refusing to kill animals
for food, or refusing to accept that animals are killed for food.
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Analyze your motive. Why do you refuse?
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Visualize your physical body and grasp its need for nourishment.
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View in the mind’s eye, the beauty of the vegetable kingdom.
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Focus with appreciation on those members of the vegetable kingdom
which are rightly used for human food.
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See yourself and others eating the produce of the vegetable kingdom.
Feel the rightness of this kind of consumption.
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See as a result the purificatory fires (which had been burning
dim and low through the consumption of animal bodies) now brightening
and intensifying—waxing in strength, and carrying forward most effectively
the processes of purification.
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Realize the spiritual gain which results from the process of purification.
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Pause to consider the Divine Order of things—how and why it is
fitting that the fourth be nourished by the second instead
of the third.
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In light of these thoughts, choose what you will do and why.
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Send forth the essence of your realization to uplift the field
of human consciousness.
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Sound the OM three times expressing a threefold commitment to the Divine
Plan.