The Varied Ranks of Black Masters

(RI 232)  Incidentally, it is this Aquarian influence which has given the adepts of the Black Lodge the power to bring universal death throughout the world.  These evil beings have responded to the will energy of Shamballa and to the life-giving vitality, but have used it in keeping with their own evil intentions and with the power conferred by their standing upon the cosmic ladder of evil…

(EPII 577)However, the hold of the forces which are working against the living principle of love (as embodied in the Hierarchy) is not gaining ground at this time, for the response of humanity to that which is good and synthetic is much more rapid and general than it was a few hundred years ago. There is much reason to hope that there will be a steady waning of the undesired control. The dark forces are ruled on the physical plane by a group of six oriental leaders and six occidental leaders; of these the oriental are the most powerful because they are the oldest racially and therefore the most experienced. They work bythe intensification of glamor and by the stimulation of the lower psychic powers. Their particular point of attack at this time is the group of world disciples and initiates, for these latter are responsible for the fostering of love in the world and for the binding of men together in the spirit of unity. If they cannot succeed with this task now, it should be possible to externalize the Hierarchy and thereby greatly lessen the control of the so-called evil forces. 

(EOH 438)  The Buddha will start the process at the time of His appearance, through the use of a great first ray mantram. This can be used only by someone of His initiate standing and in collaboration with the Lord of the World. He will thereby deflect the Shamballa force which the Adepts of the Black Lodge have turned loose into the Axis nations; this has been made possible by their receptivity to the will-to-power. He will "corral" it (if I may use such a colloquial and inappropriate term) and will place it at the disposal of the Christ. The reception and the acceptance of this first ray energy will require a tremendous effort upon the part of the Christ, the Custodian of the energy of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom. It is for this "reception" that He started to prepare at the time of the April Full Moon.

(CF 986) The white magician, as has been earlier said, works entirely through the greater Deva Builders, and through sound and numbers he blends their work, and thus influences the lesser Builders who form the substance of their bodies, and therefore of all that is.  He works [Page 986] through group centres and vital points of energy, and from thence produces, in substance, the desired results.  The dark brother works directly with substance itself, and with the lesser builders; He does not co-operate with the forces which emanate from egoic levels.  The lesser cohorts of the "Army of the Voice" are his servants, and not the directing Intelligences in the three worlds, and he therefore works primarily on the astral and physical planes, only in rare cases working with the mental forces, and only in a few special cases, hidden in cosmic karma, is a black magician found working on the higher mental levels.  Yet the cases which are there to be discovered are the main contributing causes of all manifesting black magic.

(EPI 156) After he has taken the highest initiation possible on this planet, he is, for the first time, responsive to energy emanating from the outer cosmic Centre.  This last stage of expansion is rare indeed, and only one hundred and eleven human beings, during our planetary history, have passed on to this state of awareness.

(TEV 91) It is for that reason that the truly illumined man and all who have taken the three highest initiations  (7th 8th 9th) are always referred to as "the diamond souled"; they, in their totality constitute the "jewel in the lotus"—that twelve-petalled lotus which is the symbol and expression of the potency of the planetary Logos.

(RI 735) The details, the personnel and the techniques of the two higher groups lie beyond your ken; They work in cooperation with the planetary Logos Himself, and Those Who compose these groups are all initiates of degrees higher than the fifth.  Most of the Nirmanakayas have taken the sixth and the seventh initiations, whilst the group which functions midway between the Earth and Venus have all taken the eighth and ninth initiations.  Some of Them, as I mentioned earlier, aid the initiate of the seventh degree; a still larger group of them participate in the activities of the two final initiations.

(RI 696)  ………The ninth initiation………At that final planetary initiation the Master is brought face to face with what might be called cosmic evil, with that reservoir of evil which cyclically overflows the world, and also with the massed group of masters of the Black Lodge.  He refuses recognition……..

(RI 728)  At the ninth Initiation of Refusal, the revelation presented to the Master concerns the nature of Being and of existence………When that revelation is accorded to the initiate, he for the first time receives his initial contact with what is called in the occult and esoteric books "the Central Spiritual Sun."  He realises for himself that those words concern a basic fact and are related to the purpose of the solar system, just as "the Heart of the Sun" revealed to him the quality of the solar system……..

At 6th initiation the purpose of PL reveals itself

(RI 653) He realises, through the revelation accorded, more clearly than has hitherto been possible, the Purpose of the planetary Logos.  From the time of the third initiation, this purpose has been gradually revealing itself; he sees it expressing itself through Sanat Kumara, Who is the Personality expression of the planetary Logos.  During the coming interval and cycle of preparation for the sixth [Page 653] initiation, that purpose will burst upon him in blazing and synthetic glory.

(RI 715) The head centre is the one which is the custodian of the purpose; the centre at the base of the spine indicates the will as it implements the purpose.  The purpose is slowly, very slowly, revealed to the initiate during the final five [Page 715] initiations and this only becomes possible after the Initiation of Renunciation…….hitherto he has only seen the plan, and to the service of the plan he has been dedicated……..

(RI 737)  The planetary Lodge of Masters has absorbed Him and, at the final initiation, the Great Lodge on Sirius has recognised Him, and with the Black Lodge of Adepts He will have nothing to do.  He will mitigate its evil effects and will struggle to offset its results, but He knows that the final overcoming of cosmic physical evil must be undertaken by Existences much further advanced than even the Members of the Council Chamber at Shamballa; certain solar Entities and certain great Lives from Sirius are dealing with the problem.

(RI 717) We have spoken much of the purpose of the planetary Logos………It is this mystery and this divine planetary "secret" which is the goal of all the work being done by the Black Lodge.  They are not yet sure of the purpose, and all their efforts are directed to the discovery of the nature of the mystery.  Hence the hierarchical problem.

(EINA 61) ………The Great White Lodge, our spiritual Hierarchy, and the Black Lodge employ the same universal energies but with different motives and objectives; both groups are groups of trained esotericists.

(RI 716)  ………Most of the members of this centre of cosmic evil are upon the first ray itself, and some of the divine purpose is known to a few of them, for—in their due place and in the initiatory regime—they too are initiates of high degree, but dedicated to selfishness and separativeness………..They have cut themselves off from the spiritual Hierarchy………….These evil but powerful beings know well the uses of the will, but only in its destructive aspect. (they wield Plutonian power)

(EPII 723)   Certain forces which we (in our ignorance and lack of perspective), may call evil or black forces.  In worldly parlance, these forces are connected with what is regarded as the black side of nature and of energy.  They are wielded by great and powerful human beings, the majority of whom are out of physical incarnation.  They work from the astral plane and primarily through the agency of groups.  These groups—being composed of ignorant, unstable, selfish and ambitious men…..

 (CF 1125) Therefore, the Brothers of the Shadow can, and do, reach high levels along one aspect of consciousness, and touch certain specific heights of [Page 1125] spiritual evil, going a great way along the line of Mahat, or knowledge, the principle of Universal Mind. (this suggests 3rd ray Monads-unsurprisingly) They can reach, in their later stages, expansions of consciousness and of power that will take them far beyond the confines of our solar system, and give them attributes and capacities which prove a menace to the unfolding of the second Aspect.

(CF 992)      ……..The few who do not do so in this manvantara are the "failures"  who have to continue the struggle at a later date……….In the case of the "failures" the Ego severed itself from the personality or lower self, entailing a setback for a lesser period, but still having opportunity within the system. 

(CF 992) A tiny percentage wilfully refuse to "pass on," and they become the true "black magicians."  For them the end is ever the same, first, severance of the Ego from the Monad, entailing a wait for many aeons until another solar system has its being…………… Second, a cycle of existence, spent in unlimited evil, and dependent upon the vitality of the severed egoic body and its innate persistence.  These are the ordinary "lost souls" spoken of in the Secret Doctrine.1  If students will study these conditions, and will extend the same concept to an earlier and more matured solar system, they will get [Page 993] some light upon the problem of the origin of evil in this solar system.

(WM 545) Let it be remembered that the true black magician (I refer not here to a person with a tendency to black magic) is a soulless entity.  He is a being in whom the Ego is—as we understand the term today—non-existent.  It is oft overlooked and seldom grasped or told that they, therefore, do not exist in physical bodies. 

(CF 993)  …….He takes, therefore, the first step towards the left hand path, and each life may see him progressing towards it with greater readiness, until (almost unconsciously) he will find himself in the ranks of the black masters…..

……..Incidentally also, he attracts the attention of those masters of the left hand path who are ever on the lookout for those who can be bent to their purposes, and he becomes (unwittingly at first), an agent on the side of evil.

(EH 705)  ……..I dare not yet give the simple physical application of these ray techniques, as it would be too dangerous.  When rightly used and understood they carry terrific force and—in the wrong hands—could work real damage……..the Black Lodge initiates likewise heal or produce death and disease, and employ very similar techniques;  the difference lies in the fact that they can work only with the personality rays of both healer and patient…….

(OM 92) 3—Dangers arising from the subtle forces that you ignorantly call evil; such dangers consist in attack on the pupil by extraneous entities on some one plane.  These entities may simply be discarnate human beings; they may be the denizens of the other planes who are nonhuman; later on, when the student is of sufficient importance to attract notice, the attack may come from those who deal purely with matter to the hindrance of spiritual growth,—the black magicians, the dark brothers, and other forces that appear destructive.

(CF 986)   only in rare cases working with the mental forces, and only in a few special cases, hidden in cosmic karma, is a black magician found working on the higher mental levels.  Yet the cases which are there to be discovered are the main contributing causes of all manifesting black magic.

 (WM 382) ………The work of the black adepts and the followers of the left hand path.  When the Ibezhan adepts (again under instructions from the Masters at Shamballa) began to withdraw into the Temples, to make the mysteries more difficult of attainment and to work against abuses and distortions, a number of Their erstwhile followers, many of  great power and knowledge, fought Them and thus we have one of the causes of the appearing of black and white magic, and one of the reasons of the purifying waters of the flood being deemed necessary.

(EOH 128) In Atlantean days, it was stated that the battle was between [Page 128] the Forces of Darkness (the so-called "Black Lodge of Adepts") and the Forces of Light (the so-called Great White Lodge, the Hierarchy of Masters). That was then approximately true, for the conflict was between two small groups and the masses of the people were simply the blind and miserable victims of the fight and of the situation.

(EOH 433)  3. The conflict at present involving humanity has its source not only in human weakness and selfishness, but in a situation which has existed for ages between the Great White Lodge of Masters and the Lodge of Black Adepts. This started in Atlantean times and must now be fought out to a finish. With the details of this struggle (fought on mental levels) you have no concern, except in so far as you and the rest of mankind react to lies or to truth…….

(EH 669) The Black Lodge is the problem of the White Lodge, and not the problem of humanity.  For aeons the Hierarchy has handled this problem, and is now in process of solving it.  It is essentially, however, the main consideration and problem of Shamballa, for it is connected with the will aspect

(EH 705)……..Where the average unthinking man is concerned, the danger of "black" interference is nil; the dark forces do not interest themselves in any unimportant person, save with those of potency and influence who can serve their ends. 

(RI 232)  Incidentally, it is this Aquarian influence which has given the adepts of the Black Lodge the power to bring universal death throughout the world.  These evil beings have responded to the will energy of Shamballa and to the life-giving vitality, but have used it in keeping with their own evil intentions and with the power conferred by their standing upon the cosmic ladder of evil…

(EOH 438)  The Buddha will start the process at the time of His appearance, through the use of a great first ray mantram. This can be used only by someone of His initiate standing and in collaboration with the Lord of the World. He will thereby deflect the Shamballa force which the Adepts of the Black Lodge have turned loose into the Axis nations; this has been made possible by their receptivity to the will-to-power. He will "corral" it (if I may use such a colloquial and inappropriate term) and will place it at the disposal of the Christ. The reception and the acceptance of this first ray energy will require a tremendous effort upon the part of the Christ, the Custodian of the energy of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom. It is for this "reception" that He started to prepare at the time of the April Full Moon.

(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.  Both overcome glamour after the second initiation, and see their way clearly ahead; but their goals emerge as widely different;  (their goals emerge as widely different after the 2nd initiation) 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.  One group has never freed itself from the principles which governed the first solar system.......Forget not that the black magicians of today were the initiates of a previous solar system.  When the door of initiation is ready to open for the third time, the parting of the ways takes place.  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.  It was under instructions from the Great White Lodge on Sirius that the door remains [Page 351] closed the third time to the dark brothers.  Evil, as we understand it, has absolutely no place on Sirius.

(RI 734) At this initiation  (the 7th) the Initiator is attended by two groups of Beings; one is a small group of the "Knowers of the Purpose, the Custodians of the Will," and the other is a much larger group, the personnel of which are known as "The Wise Ones and the Attractive Energies of Shamballa."  I am of course endeavouring to translate certain brief words and intricate symbols into phrases which you can understand and which only dimly convey the true significance of Those Who function on this highest level of the cosmic physical plane.  On this level, dynamic electricity is held as in a great reservoir of potency and is directed by these two groups which embody the will and the quality of the will of Deity, called by us the Will-to-Good.  They are the directing Agents and are a correspondence to the ajna centre of mankind, only here it is the ajna centre of the planetary Logos, in the same sense as Shamballa is His head centre, the Hierarchy His heart centre and Humanity His creative throat centre.  Motion, planned activity and the seven great creative ray energies are directed into action by Them under the influence of the seven Ray Lords; the Ray Lords are embodied livingness qualified by the seven aspects of Love, but Who are Themselves of so high an order that They cannot function as directing creative Agents but work through Their trained and developed Representatives. (These higher Ray Lords work through the wise ones and knowers of the purpose)

(EPI 64) This ray Lord is not yet in full expression, except as He causes destruction and brings cycles to an end.  The Monads of power are much fewer in number than any others.  Egos upon the power ray are relatively not so few.  They are characterised by a dynamic will, and their power within the human family works out as the force of destruction, but in the last analysis it is a destruction that will produce liberation.  We shall see as we continue to study first ray egos and personalities [Page 64] that death and destruction are always to be found in their work, and hence the apparent cruelty and impersonality of their reactions.  Form does not count with first ray types their energy produces death to form, but ushers in great periods of cyclic pralaya;

(EPI 27) The question arises here: How does it happen that we find people in incarnation on all the rays at practically the same time?  The reason is that, as you can easily see, the fourth is beginning to approach and the sixth is passing out, which puts six of the rays in the position of having their egos in manifestation.  There are however very few of the fourth ray egos on the Earth at this time, and a very large number of sixth ray egos, for it will be about two hundred years before all the sixth ray egos pass out of incarnation.  As to the first ray egos, there are no pure first ray types  (a pure 1st ray type is most likely  a 1st ray primary Monad with a 1st ray soul) on the planet.  All so-called [Page 27] first ray egos are on the first subray of the second ray, which is in incarnation.  (they are Second Ray Monads with 1st Ray Souls)  A pure first ray ego in incarnation at this time would be a disaster.  There is not sufficient intelligence and love in the world to balance the dynamic will of an ego on the ray of the destroyer. 

(DK had many 1st ray souls in his group so we can take it for granted that all of them had either a 2nd or 3rd Ray Monad. Third Ray Monads are the majority in incarnation at the present time but later on the majority will be 2nd Ray Monads. I’m not sure if these 3rd Ray Monads will cycle out of a long series of incarnations in the 5th Root Race under the close of a 9,000 year cycle or a 90,000 year cycle, but it has to be a major 3rd Ray cycle because the 5th root race is a culminating cycle of achievement for 3rd Ray Monads, just as the 6th Root Race is for 2nd Ray Monads, and the 7th Root Race is for 1st Ray Monads.

(EA 91) Strictly speaking, what I have to say now concerns the pure first ray type because Aries is the zodiacal sign through which the first Ray of Will or Power reaches our planetary life. Such pure types are rare indeed and at this period of evolution well-nigh unknown. Most people are governed by their personality ray and as the present first ray types are expressing themselves through personalities which are on all the rays,

(DON 5) 3. Those energies which are — at any given time — expressing the ray type of the bulk of the manifesting humanity.  Today these ray types are predominantly the second and the third.  Relatively large numbers of first ray egos are also to be found acting as focal points for certain first ray forces.