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(CF) 1. Solar prana.
This is that vital
and magnetic fluid
which radiates from the sun, and which is transmitted to man's etheric body through the agency of certain deva entities of a very high order, and of a golden hue. It
is passed through their bodies and emitted as powerful radiations, which are applied
direct through certain plexi in the uppermost part of
the etheric body, the head and shoulders, and passed down to the etheric correspondence of the
physical organ, the spleen, and from thence forcibly transmitted into the spleen itself. These golden hued pranic entities are in the air above us, and are specially
active in such parts of the world as
These solar
devas take the radiatory
rays of the sun which
reach from its centre to the periphery along one of the three channels
of approach, pass them
through their organism and focalise them there.
They act almost as a burning glass acts.
These rays are then reflected or transmitted to man's etheric body, and caught up by him and again
assimilated. When the etheric body is in good order and functioning correctly, enough
of this prana is absorbed to keep the form organised. This is the whole object of the etheric body's functioning, and is a point which cannot be
sufficiently emphasised. The remainder
is cast off in the form of animal radiation, or physical magnetism—all terms
expressing the same idea. Man therefore
repeats on a lesser scale the work of the great solar devas,
and in his turn adds his quota of repolarised or remagnetised emanation to the sumtotal
of the planetary aura.
2. Planetary prana.
This is the vital
fluid emanated from any planet, which constitutes its basic coloring or
quality, and is produced by a repetition within the planet of the same process
[Page 92] which is undergone in connection with man and solar prana. The planet
(the Earth, or any other planet) absorbs solar prana, assimilates what is required, and radiates off that
which is not essential to its well-being in the form of planetary
radiation. Planetary prana, therefore, is solar prana which has passed throughout the planet,
has circulated through the planetary etheric
body, has been
transmitted to the dense physical planet, and has been cast off thence in the
form of a radiation of the same essential character as solar prana, plus the individual and distinctive quality of the
particular planet concerned. This again
repeats the process undergone in the human body. The physical radiations of men differ
according to the quality of their physical bodies. So it is with a planet.
Planetary
emanative prana (as in the case of solar prana) is caught up and transmitted via a particular
group of devas, called the "devas of
the shadows," who are ethereal devas of a slightly
violet hue. Their bodies are composed of the matter of one
or other of the four ethers, and they focalise and concentrate the emanations of the planet, and of
all forms upon the planet. They have a specially close connection with human beings owing to the
fact of the essential resemblance of their bodily substance to man's etheric substance, and because they transmit to him the
magnetism of "Mother Earth" as it is called. Therefore we see that there are two groups of
devas working in connection with man:
a. Solar devas,
who transmit the vital fluid which circulates in the etheric
body.
b. Planetary
devas of a violet color, who are allied to man's etheric body, and who transmit earth's prana,
or the prana of whichever
planet man may be functioning upon during a physical incarnation.
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b—The top of the head. There are twelve major petals of
white and gold, and
960 secondary petals are arranged around the central twelve. This makes a total of 1068 petals in the two
head centres, or 356 triplicities. All these figures have an occult
significance.
This description
is taken from "The Inner Life."
This description applies to the etheric
centres, which are
themselves the working out into physical plane manifestation of corresponding
vortices on the emotional plane, with emotional vitality playing
through. They have their
mental counterparts,
and in their awakening as aforesaid, and in their growth and development, comes the final vivification, and the resultant liberation.
(EINA 147) Though
these three energies are woven into one thread finally, yet they remain
distinct. It should be borne in mind
that the soul body is constructed of pure white light, whilst the light out of which the etheric body is made is golden.
Light of Monadic
Ray and Gold of etheric body must at some time merge?
(EPII 294) It is interesting to remember that the etheric body is uniquely
constituted; it is the instrument of life, predominantly, more so than the instrument of
quality. It is the factor which produces
and sustains the instrument of appearance, the physical body. It will be recalled that in Volume One of
this Treatise, the human being was differentiated into the [Page 294] three
divine aspects: Life, Quality, and
Appearance. Through the seven centres in
the etheric body, the seven ray energies make their
appearance and produce their effects, but at the very heart of each chakra or lotus, there is a vortex of force to be
found which is composed of pure manasic
energy, and, therefore, is purely energy of the first three rays.
This energy is quiescent until an advanced stage of discipleship is
reached. It only sweeps into its divine
rhythm and activity when the three tiers of petals, found in
the egoic lotus (the higher correspondence), are
beginning to unfold,
and the centre of the egoic lotus is becoming
vibrant. Though the etheric
body of man is an expression of the seven ray qualities in varying degrees of
force, the etheric
body of a Master is an expression of monadic energy, and comes into full activity after
the third initiation.
(WM 347) You then
pour through the linking chain, and through all the vehicles, a
stream of violet light. This method is only for use when the need is
dire and the necessity great. The reason
for caution lies in the etheric
vehicle, which responds most violently to the colour violet.
(EPII 243) The soul knows the Plan; its
form, outline, methods and objective are known.
Through the use of the creative imagination, the soul creates; it
builds thoughtforms on the mental plane and objectifies desire
on the astral plane. It proceeds then to externalise its thought
and its desire upon the physical plane through applied force,
creatively actuated by the imagination of the etheric
or vital vehicle. Yet because the soul is intelligence,
motivated by love, it can (within the realised synthesis which governs its
activities) analyse, discriminate and divide.
The soul likewise aspires to that which is greater than itself, and reaches out to the world of divine ideas, and
thus itself occupies a midway position between the world of
ideation and the world of forms. This is its
difficulty and its opportunity.
PDW was given an exercise
involving golden or light orange light
(DINAI 439) Your field of service is real. Be not discouraged,
my brother. Your physical problem (e'en when you give it a
technical name) is far more concerned with the pouring in of vital
forces, which make a violent impact upon a frail body than it is with disease, per se. Remember
that inner acquiescence with physical limitations is the key to much release
for you. When that form of divine indifference is active in your life and
consciousness then you are free for a fuller mental service and to that service
you are called.
I want, my
brother, to give you a visualisation exercise which may help you somewhat. Breathing
exercises are not advisable in your case nor are they particularly
necessary. I would ask you for a few
minutes each morning (prior to doing the group meditation) to rest quietly back
in your chair or bed and, closing your eyes, link up with your soul and with
me, your friend. You will thus create a triangle of light between your soul,
your head centre and myself. Fix and hold this triangle firmly in your
consciousness through the power of the creative imagination. Then see it next
as a solid triangle of light and not just as an outline. The base of the
triangle is on the [page 440] mental plane where I work and where dwells and
works your soul; the lower point or apex touches the top of your head. Then
see, pouring down, via the triangle, a stream of light,
golden in colour and not white. It is more light orange than white. See this flooding your whole body. When
you have visualised this as perfectly as possible, then rest back in that light
and bathe in it as you would bathe in the waters of the sea. See it permeating
every part of your physical equipment and let it do its work without your
having any definite ideas as to what should be accomplished. The rest of the
activity is in my hands and you can safely leave it to me. This exercise will
aid you in handling your life problem and your service, until such time as you
enter into that light wherein consciousness awakens, free from the bonds of
flesh. But that time is not immediate.
(DINAI 483) 3.
What colour or colours predominated in my life today? Upon the physical plane—a
blaze of sunshine, the grey of a rainy day, the blue of the sky, the riot of
colour in [page 483] the flowers in a garden or a shop? Upon the astral
plane—the rose of affection and of friendly feeling, the blue of an inspiring
contact, the gold
of physical well being,
the interplay of colours which your emotional nature can be trained to
recognise?
(EOH 505) The Master Morya is
at this time acting as the inspirer of the great national executives throughout
the world. E'en those whose ideals coincide not with
yours are being welded into the world plan, and much
of their immediate work is organising the individual nations and welding them
into an homogeneous whole, preparatory to their entrance into the great
international thoughtform. All who work with far
vision and all who hold before any seething and bewildered nation an ideal for
the whole are under His wide inspiration. Internationalism is the aim of His
endeavour. With Him works the great Angel or Deva of
the spiritual plane, referred to in the Treatise on Cosmic Fire as the Lord
Agni; He seeks to touch with the hidden spiritual fire the head centres of
all intuitive statesmen. Three great groups of angels—the gold,
the flame coloured and the white and gold—work on mental levels with those lesser angels or devas who vitalise thoughtforms and who keep alive the thoughts of the
Guides of the race for the benefit of humanity.
(WM 354) Back of them stand the still more advanced—the
aspirants, probationers and disciples of the world. They work singly or in twos or
threes and never in groups exceeding nine—the occult significance of these numbers being
necessary to the success of their work. Great
white and gold devas attend their labours.
(EOH 666) The Ashram of this Master is therefore
occupied with worldwide economic problems, and also with a direct attack upon
the basic materialism to be found in the modern world. The problems of barter
and exchange, the significance of money, the value of gold (a basic
symbol of the third Ray of Active Intelligence), the production of right attitudes towards
material living, and the entire process of right distribution are among the
many problems dealt with in this Ashram; the work done is enormous and of great
importance in preparing men's mind for the return of the Christ and for the New
Age which He will inaugurate.
(DINAI 385) b. Then picture
yourself as watching the slow opening of the buds, until little by little, the
field changes from green to gold, and all that can be seen is a mass of
golden flowers, wide open in the sun.
(DINAI 421) 1. Withdraw your outgoing consciousness from
the periphery to the point of silence within the head, to the place where the
"gold and the blue meet, blend and merge."
(DINAI 480) 3rd
month—Purification.
Let the fires of
divinity burn out all dross. Let the pure gold emerge. Give me the gold of living love to shower upon the sons of men.
(DINAI 535) d. As you see the
light grow, you become aware of other boats that are all slowly making their
way towards the gleaming gold at the eastern end of the lake.
(DINAI 584) 5.
Each Pilgrim on the Road must carry with him what he needs: a pot of fire, to
warm his fellowmen; a lamp, to cast its rays upon his heart and show his
fellowmen the nature of his hidden life; a purse of gold, which he scatters not upon the Road, but
shares with others; a sealed vase, wherein he carries all his aspiration to
cast before the feet of Him Who waits to greet him at the gate—a sealed vase.
(DINAI 621) To you, my brother, I would say (and you will
understand): Strength is yours, because you have steadily trodden the lonely
path of the disciple. Wisdom is yours and this you use in the helping of the
little ones. Beauty must be now the object of your attention. In meditation, I
would have you meditate upon the twelve-petalled lotus of the heart, visualising it as a deep rose
in colour with a heart
of gold. I choose the
colour rose, for it will vitalise the astral counterpart of the
heart centre, both in
the spine and in its higher aspect in the head centre. My brother need not infer from this that
he loves not, but the pronounced first ray type needs what is occultly called "the rose of attachment." They
find easily the way of detachment; they create with facility a protecting shell
and they cherish—with high idealism—their isolation. But when the lesson of
isolation is learnt and detachment is the line of least
resistance, then the Rose of the soul should be nurtured and shine
forth. Impersonality is easy for you. You must now learn to be personal with
complete impersonality—a paradoxical acquirement but one of great value.
(DINAI 652) 3rd
month—Refinement—"The fires of God, electric and dynamic, burn out alloy.
They leave the pure gold untouched."
4th
month—"The burning fire blazes forth in all three worlds and all three
bodies pass into the flame. Divinity remains."
(DINAII 532) 1. From where you stand I see a point of
light, a shimmering thread of gold. It passes from your heart to
mine and strengthens
day by day, each year. Pass onward on this bridge of light.
(DINAII 536) The thread of gold which
"passes from your heart to mine" is now an unshatterable
chain of golden links,
and there is work for you in my Ashram.
(EOH 83) I have already written anent the fivefold
stream of energy which
is today in conflict with world forces or with the forces of light or darkness,
so called. (I would remind you that there would be no darkness without the
light and no light without the dark. Ponder on this.) I would ask you to
realise that the organised efforts of the Great White Lodge are directed toward
lifting the organised forces of materialism to a higher and spiritual plane. Today,
gold and separativeness, materialism and selfishness
are in conflict with spiritual energy and with the spirit of cooperation or understanding
fusion. The law which will determine the results can be expressed in the words
that have been often used: by holding, man loses; by relinquishing, he gains; by
seeking to grasp that which he has, it must and will inevitably disappear.
Reflect upon this law.
(EOH 184) The totalitarian powers have turned the world
into one armed camp—for offence or defence. Motivating all these conquerors
was lust for gold, lust
for land, lust for power, lust for personal triumph.
The modern dictators are no exception. They bring nothing new.
(GAWP 51) V. Each Pilgrim on the Road must carry with
him what he needs: a pot of fire, to warm his fellowmen; a lamp, to cast its
rays upon his heart and show his fellowmen the nature of his hidden life; a purse
of gold, which he scatters not upon the Road but shares with others; a sealed vase, wherein he carries all his
aspiration to cast before the feet of Him Who waits to greet him at the gate—a
sealed vase.
(GAWP 76) The glamour of sentiment holds the good people of the world in
thrall, and in a dense fog of emotional reactions. The race has reached a point
wherein the men of good intention, of some real understanding and owning a measure
of freedom from the love of gold (symbolic way of speaking of the glamour of
materiality) are turning their desire to their duty, their responsibilities,
their effects upon others, and to their sentimental understanding of the nature
of love. Love, for many people, for the majority indeed, is not really love but
a mixture of the desire to love and the desire to be loved, plus a willingness
to do anything to show and evoke this sentiment, and consequently to be more
comfortable in one's own interior life. The selfishness of the people who are
desirous of being unselfish is great. So many contributing sentiments gather
around the sentiment or desire to show those amiable and pleasant
characteristics which will evoke a corresponding reciprocation towards the
would-be lover [Page 77] or server who is still completely surrounded by the
glamour of sentiment.
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1—The base of the spine.
Four petals.
These petals are in the shape of a cross, and radiate with orange fire.
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2—The solar plexus. Ten petals. The colour rosy, with an admixture of green.
3— The heart centre. Twelve petals. Colour
glowing golden.
4—The throat centre. Sixteen petals.
Colour silvery blue, the blue predominating.
5—The head centres.
These are in a twofold division;—
a—Between the eyebrows. Ninety-six petals. Colour, one-half of the lotus
is rose and yellow, and the other half is blue and purple.
b—The top of the head. There are twelve major petals of
white and gold, and
960 secondary petals are arranged around the central twelve. This makes a total of 1068 petals in the two
head centres, or 356 triplicities. All these figures have an occult significance.
This description
is taken from "The Inner Life."
This description applies to the etheric
centres, which are
themselves the working out into physical plane manifestation of corresponding
vortices on the emotional plane, with emotional vitality playing through. They have their mental counterparts, and in
their awakening as aforesaid, and in their growth and development, comes the final vivification, and the resultant liberation.
(CF
475) a. The transmutative process. Transmutation is a subject that from the
earliest ages has occupied the attention of students, scientists and
alchemists. The power to change, through
the application of heat, is of course universally recognised, but the key to
the mystery, or the secret of the systemic formula is advisedly guarded from
all searchers, and is only gradually revealed after the second
Initiation. The subject is so tremendous that it is only
possible to indicate in broad general outlines how it may be approached. The mind of the public turns naturally to the
transmutation of metals into gold with the aim in view of the alleviation of
poverty. The mind of the scientist seeks
the universal solvent which will reduce matter to its primordial substance,
release energy, and thus reveal the processes of evolution, and enable the
seeker to build for himself (from the primordial base) the desired forms.
(CF 485) This conscious manipulation of the fires is
the prerogative of man when he has reached a certain point in his evolution;
the unconscious realisation of this has led naturally to the attempts of the
alchemist to transmute in the mineral kingdom.
A few of the older students right through the ages have comprehended the
vastness of the endeavour of which the transmutation of the baser
metals into gold was
but preliminary and a symbol, a pictorial, allegorical, concrete step. The whole subject of transmutation is covered
by the work of the Hierarchy in all its three departments on this planet, and
we might get some idea of the matters involved if we studied this vast
hierarchical standpoint, getting thereby a concept of the work done in aiding
the evolutionary process. It is the work
of transferring the life from one stage of atomic
existence to another,
and it involves three distinct steps, which can be seen and traced by means of
the higher clairvoyance, and from the higher planes. These steps or stages are:
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The
fiery stage—the blending, fusing, burning period, through which all atoms pass
during the disintegration of form.
The
solvent stage, in which the form is dissipated and substance is held in
solution, the atom being resolved into its essential duality.
The
volatile stage, which concerns primarily the essential quality of the atom, and
the escape of this essence, later to take a new form.
Radioactivity, pralayic solution, and essential volatility might express
the thought. In every transmuting
process without exception these three steps are followed. Occultly expressed
in the old Commentary they are thus stated:
"The fiery
lives burn within the bosom of Mother.
"The fiery
centre extends to the periphery of the circle and dissipation supervenes and pralayic peace.
"The Son
returns to the bosom of Father, and Mother rests quiescent."
(CF 494) We have dealt in broad and general manner
with this question of electricity and have seen that fire essence or substance
is resolved through internal activity and external heat in such a manner that
the electric fire at the centre of the atom is liberated and seeks a new form. This is the aim of the transmutative
process and the fact that hitherto alchemists working in the mineral kingdom
have failed to achieve their objective has been due to
three things:
First. Inability to contact the central electric spark. This is due to
ignorance of certain of the laws of electricity, and above all, ignorance of
the set formula which covers the range of the electrical influence of that
spark.
Second. Inability to create the
necessary channel or "path" along which the escaping life may travel
into its new form. Many have
succeeded in breaking the form so that the life has escaped but they have not
known how to harness or guide it and all their labour has consequently been
lost.
Third.
Inability to control the fire elementals who
are the external fire which affects that central spark through the medium of
its environment. This inability is
especially distinctive of the alchemists of the fifth root race who have been practically incapable of this
control, having lost the Words, the formulas, and the sounds. This is the consequence of undue success in Atlantean days, when the alchemists of the time,
through colour and sound
so entirely controlled the elementals that they utilised them for their own
selfish ends and along lines of endeavours outside their legitimate
province. This knowledge
of formulas and sounds
can be comparatively [Page 495] easily acquired when man has developed the
inner spiritual ear. When this is the
case, the transmutative processes of the grosser kind
(such as are involved in the manufacture of pure gold) will interest him not at all and only
those subtler forms of activity which are connected with the transference of
life from graded form to form will occupy his attention.
The following facts
might also be pointed out:
First.
That every kingdom of nature has its note or tone, and the mantric sounds, which concern any transmutative
process within that kingdom, will have that note as the key or base note.
Second. That the note of the mineral kingdom is the
basic note of substance itself, and it is largely the sounding of the note
combinations, based on this key, which produces the great world cataclysms,
wrought through volcanic action. Every
volcano is sounding forth this note, and, for those who can see, the sound and
colour (occultly understood) of a volcano are a truly marvellous thing. Every gradation of that note is to be found
in the mineral kingdom which is itself divided into three main kingdoms:
a. The baser
metals, such as lead and iron, with all allied minerals.
b. The standard
metals, such as gold and silver, which play such a vital part in the life of the
race, and are the mineral manifestation of the second aspect.
c. The crystals and precious stones,
the first aspect as it works out in the mineral kingdom—the consummation of the
work of the mineral devas, and the product of their
untiring efforts.
When scientists
fully appreciate what it is which causes the difference between the sapphire
and the ruby, they will have found out what constitutes one of the stages [Page
496] of the transmutative process, and this they
cannot do until the fourth ether is controlled, and its secret discovered. As time progresses, the transmutation,
for instance, of coal into diamonds, of lead into silver, or of certain metals
into gold, will hold
no appeal for man, for it will be recognised that the outcome of such action
would cause deterioration of the standard, and result in poverty instead
of the acquirement of riches; man will eventually come to the realisation that in atomic energy,
harnessed to his need, or in the inducing of increased radioactivity, lies for
him the path to prosperity and riches. He
will, therefore concentrate his attention on this higher form of life
transference and
a. Through
knowledge of the devas,
b. Through
external pressure and vibration,
c. Through internal stimulation,
d. Through colour applied in stimulation and
vitalisation,
e. Through mantric
sounds
he will find the secret of atomic
energy, latent in the
mineral kingdom, and will bend that inconceivable power and force to the
solution of the problems of existence.
Only when atomic energy is better understood and the nature of the
fourth ether somewhat comprehended, shall we see that control of the air which
lies inevitably ahead.
(CF 641) The secret of the transmutation of the baser
metals into gold will
be revealed when world conditions are such that gold is no longer the
standard and hence the
free manufacture of gold will not lead to disaster, and [Page 641] when
scientists work with the life aspect, or with positive electrical life, and not with the substance or form
aspect.
(CF 747) THE COMING AVATAR
"From the
zenith to the nadir, from dawn to fall of night, from the emergence into being
of all that is or may be to the passing into peace of all that hath achieved, gleameth the orb of blue and the inner radiant fire.
From the gates of gold down to the pit of earth, out from the flaming fire
down to the circle of gloom, rideth the secret
Avatar, bearing the sword that pierceth.
Naught can arrest
His approach, and none may say Him nay.
To the darkness of our sphere He rideth alone,
and on His approach is seen the uttermost disaster,
and the chaos of that which seeketh to withstand.
(CF 1225) The symbols for the five hierarchies which
have passed on may be stated as follows:
1. A ball of green
fire with three rays of rose.
2. A sphere,
divided by a Tau, in colours green and silver.
3. A bird, with
plumage dark and with the eye of radiant fire.
4. Two stars of
vivid rose linked by a band of violet.
5. An ovoid of
colour indigo with five letters or symbolic words within its borders.
These hierarchies
are also classed together and viewed as one and are called in esoteric
parlance:
"The Lives of
that which appeared, rotated and gathered to
themselves the fifth aspect of Mahat."
This symbol, which
signifies the liberation achieved and the gains attained in System One, takes
the form of a blazing altar of pure fire out of which is escaping a bird
of green and gold plumage with five wings outspread.
Above this symbol appear certain hieroglyphics in the earliest Sensa script signifying, "Still I seek."
(CF 1257) The symbol of this Path (and the only one it
is possible to make exoteric) is a radiant Cross of coloured light; it [Page
1257] has the long limb formed of the seven colours of the solar spectrum, and
the transverse limb is composed of twelve gradations of colours as yet unknown
to man. In the centre of the Cross is to
be seen a five-pointed star in a deep indigo shade, and behind it is a blazing
sun of a warm dark blue. Above the whole
are certain Sensa characters,
depicted in gold, and
conveying to the initiated adept the name of one or other of the planetary
Schools in which this particular line of study is undertaken. There are, as has been already said, seven
such schools and candidates for this Path from our planetary scheme are
transferred to the inner round and from thence to the Jupiter scheme.
(CF 1268) The sons of men (and few their number is)
enter that door of luminous fire when they surmount the crest of gold
which riseth on the dragon's head above the point where gleams "the eye of fire."
(CF 1276) PATH V. The Ray Path.
The Adjuster holds
the balances, and the scales are duly set.
The energies converge, and shake them out of equilibrium. They descend sometimes upon the right hand
side and sometimes upon the left.
The Energies
are five in number and their major hue is gold.
Three great Words
are spoken by the Adjuster, and each Word is heard by those whose ears have
been deaf for seven cycles and whose lips have been sealed for nigh upon
fourteen rounded terms.
(CF 1281) That which is known by every Son of God, who
masters step by step the Path of Gold; That which is heard by every deva lord who hears the Word go forth as the aeons pass
away; That which sounds forth the triple cyclic AUM, reserving yet another sound for higher
cosmic planes, That is the One unknown, the Unrevealed, the One Who chants a note within a cosmic
chord.
(EPI 50) Ray III Higher
Expression: Means of
communication or interaction. The radio, telephone, telegraph and the power to travel.
Lower
Expression: The
use and spread of money and gold.
(EPI 229) In the turning of the great wheel, cycle after
cycle, these two rays come into functioning activity,
and in between their objective cycles the other rays dominate and participate
in the great work. The result of this
interplay of psychic potencies will manifest in the eventual transmutation of
the earth substance, and its resolution back again into that of which it is the
objective condensation. Again language
fails to find the needed terms. They are
as yet non-existent. I mention this as
an indication of the difficulty of our subject.
Intangible etheric substance
has been condensed
into the dense tangible objective world.
This—under the evolutionary plan—has to be again transmuted into its
original condition, plus the gain of ordered rhythm and the tendencies and
qualities wrought into the consciousness of its atoms and elements through the experience of
externalisation. This resolution is
noted by us as radiation and the radio-active substances. We are looking on at the transmutation
process. The resolving agencies are
fire, intense heat and pressure. These
three agencies have already succeeded in bringing about the divisions of the
mineral kingdom into three parts: the baser metals, as they are called, the standard
metals (such as silver and gold and platinum), and the semi-precious stones and crystals. The precious jewels are a synthesis of all
three,—one of the basic syntheses of evolution.
In this connection, some correspondences between the [Page 230] mineral
kingdom and the human evolutionary cycles might here be noted:
1. The base metals physical plane. Dense Consciousness. The first initiation.
2. The standard metals astral
plane. Self-consciousness. The second initiation.
3. The
semi-precious stones mental
plane. Radiant
consciousness. The
third initiation.
4. The precious
jewels egoic
consciousness and achievement. The fourth initiation.
The
correspondences of fire, heat and pressure in the evolution of the human being
are self-evident, and their work can be seen paralleling that in the mineral
kingdom.
(EPI 418) Ray
1...... Will or Power
Planet Sun, substituting for the veiled planet
Vulcan.
Day Sunday.
Exoteric
Colour
Esoteric
Colour Red.
Human Principle Prana or life-vitality.
Divine Principle The One Life. Spirit.
This is regarded as a principle only when our seven planes are seen as the
seven sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane.
Element The Akasha. "It is written."
Instrument of
Sensation The Light of Kundalini.
Bodily location Vital airs in the skull.
Plane governed The logoic plane. Divine
Purpose or Will.
Metal Gold.
Sense A synthetic sense, embracing all.
Esoterically. this power is
viewed as the life principle seated in the heart.
(EPII 170) Through the opening on the summit of the
pyramid, dropped from the blue of heaven, a key came down. It landed at the feet of the discouraged
worker. The key was of pure gold; the shaft of light; upon the key a label,
and writ in blue, these words: 'Destroy
that which thou has built and build anew. But only build when thou has climbed the
upward way, traversed the gallery of tribulation and entered [Page 170] into
light within the chamber of the king.
Build from the heights, and thus shew forth
the value of the depths.'
(EPII 243) We have here received much upon which to
ponder, to [Page 243] think and to meditate.
Let us search for the thread of gold which will lead us, in waking
consciousness, into the treasure house of our own souls, and there let us learn
to be at-one with all that breathes, to sense the vision for the whole, as far
as we can, and to work in unison with God's plan as far as it has been revealed
to us by Those Who know.
(EPII 243) The soul knows the Plan; its
form, outline, methods and objective are known.
Through the use of the creative imagination, the soul creates; it
builds thoughtforms on the mental plane and objectifies desire
on the astral plane. It proceeds then to externalise its thought
and its desire upon the physical plane through applied force,
creatively actuated by the imagination of the etheric
or vital vehicle. Yet because the soul is intelligence,
motivated by love, it can (within the realised synthesis which governs its
activities) analyse, discriminate and divide.
The soul likewise aspires to that which is greater than itself, and reaches out to the world of divine ideas, and
thus itself occupies a midway position between the world of ideation and the
world of forms. This is its difficulty
and its opportunity.
(EPII 721) 3. Influential and potent forces pouring in
at this time from the great stars Betelgeuse and Sirius. 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 heart
centre (Betelgeuse)
and the head centre (Sirius). The secondary
effect of these energies is upon the mineral kingdom, particularly
upon that peculiar product, gold, and that enigma, money.
(EA 244) This sign is consequently closely connected
with the third aspect of the Godhead and hence it is a governing sign and a
major conditioning factor where Law, Sex and Money are concerned. Ponder on this. All the
three divine aspects [Page 244] in themselves are triune and manifest in three
manners or through three lesser aspects and this third aspect is no exception to
this rule underlying all the triplicities which
condition the processes of evolution and manifestation. It is through a study
of Libra that light upon the third aspect will come. The first aspect of will
or power expresses itself in this sign as Law, as legislation, legality,
justice; the second aspect manifests as the relation between the pairs of
opposites (of which the scales are the symbol) and upon the physical plane
shows itself as Sex; the third aspect demonstrates as concretised
energy and this we
call Money. It is literally gold and this is the externalised symbol of
that which is created by the bringing together of spirit and matter upon the
physical plane. The third aspect is, as you know, the creator aspect and the
energy which produces the outer tangible plane of manifestation—the form side
of life.
(EA 379) Again, gold is the symbol which
today governs man's desires whether national, economic or religious; it is connected [Page 379]
with this sign and this is one of the indications that today the conflict in
the world economic situation is based upon the upwelling
of desire. In an esoteric way, therefore—quoting from a very ancient book of
prophecy:
"The golden
eye of Taurus points
the way to those who likewise see. That which is gold will some day, too,
respond, passing from East to West in that dire time when the urge to
gather gold shall rule the lower half (i.e., the personality aspect of men and of
nations—A.A.B.). The search for gold, the search for golden light divine,
directs the Bull of Life, the Bull of Form. These two must meet; and meeting,
clash. Thus vanishes the gold...."
(RI 93) His work as Preserver and as Head of the
Hierarchy had not then begun. It was at
that time dependent upon the experience in the
(WM 76) In this pictorial
writing which I have sought to convey in modern English, the sages of old
embodied an idea. The Old Commentary
from which these words are taken has no assignable date. Should I endeavor
to tell you its age I have no means of proving the truth of my words and hence
would be faced with credulity—a thing aspirants must
avoid in their search for the essential and Real. I have sought in the above few phrases to
give the gist of what is expressed in the Commentary, through the means of a
few symbols and a cryptic text. These
old Scriptures are not read in the way modern students read books. They are seen, touched and realized. The meaning is disclosed in a flash. Let me illustrate:—The words "the One
enunciates the word which drowns the triple sound" are depicted by a shaft
of light ending in a symbolic word in gold superimposed over three symbols in black, rose and
green. Thus are the secrets guarded with
care.
I felt it might be
of interest to students to know this much about this ancient test book of the
Adepts.
(WM 263) 3. The Form of the Devotee. Yes, I mean just that word, for it expresses
an abstract idea. Each person of every
degree has his devotion, that for which he lives, that for which—in ignorance,
in knowledge or in wisdom—he wields as much of the law as he can grasp. Purely physical may that devotion be, centred
in flesh, in lust for gold, in possessions concrete. He
bends all his energies to the search for the satisfaction of that concrete form
and therein learns. Purely astral may be
the aim of the devotee—love of wife or child, or family, pride of race, love of
popularity, or lust of some kind—to them he devotes the whole of his energy,
using the physical body to fulfil the desire of the astral.
(WM 575) In one of the old books, available for the
instruction of disciples these words are found:
"The armed
hand is an empty hand and this protects its possessor from the accusations of
his enemies. It is a hand freed from the
taint of the four symbolic evils—gold, lust, the dagger, and the finger of
enticement."
These words are
most significant, and it might be well to study briefly the type of hands and
their quality which are distinctive of disciples. In all forms of esoteric teaching the hands
play a great part and this for four reasons:
1. They are the
symbol of acquisitiveness.
2. They are
centres of force
3. They are
wielders of the sword.
4. They are, when
employed unselfishly
(WM 344) A real problem, as you all realise, lies in
the achieving of utter fearlessness.
All fear, doubt, and worry have to be eliminated. If this can be done the development of the
inner point of contact and the knowledge of how to tap the sources of inspiration
will increase in a wonderful manner. So many close the sources of information through an uncontrolled
emotional nature. The astral body
can be controlled. How?
1. By direct inhibition.
This method can be used to advantage by beginners, but it is not the
best method to follow. It reacts on the
physical body, leads to congestion in the astral body, and to a similar
condition in the etheric vehicle. It often produces headache, congestion of the liver and other
disorders.
2. By a direct
realisation of the issues at stake and the consciousness that, for a pupil of
the Master, nothing comes to pass but what can lead to increased knowledge and
development, and greater usefulness in service.
Fear with many is not based on timidity (a paradoxical statement!) but
is often based on a mental condition, such as pride.
Those who are becoming polarised in the mental body, find their fears
allied to the intellect. They are
therefore harder to overcome than the fears of a person polarised in the astral
body. The latter can bring the [Page
345] intellect to bear on the elimination of fear in the astral body. The mental types have to call
directly on the Ego,
for always the higher must be called in to deal with the lower. Hence the necessity for
always keeping the channel clear.
Do not crush out fear. Force it
out by the dynamic power of substitution.
This leads to my third suggestion that students in the group should cure
the fear habit by—
3. A direct method
of relaxation, concentration, stillness and flushing the entire
personality with pure white light. Proceed in the
following manner:
You are, we will
say, in a state of panic; suggestions of great unpleasantness are crowding in;
your imagination is running riot, and your mind enforces the riot. Forget not that the fears of an emotional
person are not so potent as yours. Having a strong mental body, you clothe your fear reactions with mental
matter, highly vitalised, which causes a powerful thoughtform to be created. This circulates between you and the feared
event. Realising this you will proceed
to seek quietness. You will relax your
physical body, endeavour to quiet your astral body as far as may be, and to
steady the mind. Then visualizing
yourself (the personality), the soul and the Master—He, as the apex of the
triangle,—you will with deliberation call
down a stream of pure white light, and, pouring it through your lower vehicles, you
will cleanse away all that hinders.
Continue this process until you realise that the needed work is accomplished. At first you may have to do it many
times. Later just once will
suffice, and later
still the whole process may be needless, for you will have achieved conquest.
This applies to
the fears connected with the personality.
You use the love aspect, flooding yourself with love and light. The legitimate fears which arise [Page 346]
from things connected with the circumstances of the work to be done, and from
the knowledge of materialised obstructions to the work must be treated somewhat
differently. Here again a definite
method must be followed:
Still
the physical body.
Quiet by temporary
inhibition the astral body.
Link up with the
Ego, and definitely reason out the proper method of procedure in meeting the
difficulty. Having exhausted all the
higher rational methods and having clearly seen your course of action, you
then— Raise
your vibration as high as may be and call down, from intuitional levels, added
light on the difficulty. If your
intuition and reasoning faculty produce harmony and thus show the way out, then
proceed. As an occult fact past all
controversy, you know that naught can now happen but what is for the best. You are sure of guidance, and he who sees
thus the end from the beginning makes no error.
A third class of
fears—which aspirants contact more and more as they grow in strength and
usefulness in service—is based on the realisation
of the forces that are working against the Plan and hindering the work to be done. Occult attacks and occult powers, warring militantly against the aspirant
will occur; they may make their power felt in one or other of the vehicles
and—in rare cases—where the aspirant is important enough, on all at once. Sometimes they will be attacks directed
against the individual worker, sometimes against groups of workers. To counter them you employ the first
method with the following additions and changes. You link
yourself up either as an individual or forming one of a group with your own
soul and with the Lodge of Masters, [Page 347] not simply with your own Master, but with the Brotherhood for which you
are working. Then when stillness has
been achieved, you visualise those Masters of whom you know, and raising your
vibration higher still, you connect up, if possible, with the Chohans, with the Christ and the Manu, according to the
line, religious or political, with which you may be working, and along which
the attack will come. (WM 347) You then
pour through the linking chain, and through all the vehicles, a
stream of violet light. This method is only for use when the need is
dire and the necessity great. The reason
for caution lies in the etheric
vehicle, which responds most violently to the colour violet.
(WM 550) I could enlarge on many other quaternaries,
but the few just quoted suffice to show some of the recognitions towards which
the aspirant strives. The only other one
which I will note is that referred to as the violet four, or the four
types of energy which constitute the vital or etheric
body of all forms in
the natural world…. which constitute the four levels of the etheric
body of both God and man, viewing them from what we call the energy or physical
angle. These four are reflected in the four
levels of the etheric division of the physical plane as regards the physical body of all
forms. These four etheric
levels, or these four grades
of vital substance constitute what is called the "true form" of all
material objects or phenomena, and they are responsive to the four higher types
of spiritual energy which we usually call divine…..One of the secrets not yet
revealed, fortunately, is concerned with the question as to whether light
violet is the color of the highest or the lowest of
the four and this will
not be revealed for some time to come.
DIJ is given an
exercise involving golden-orange prana and told to
strengthen physical body
(DINAI 455) Follow the breathing exercises with care and
with attention. Seek also to strengthen the physical body. For you I suggest
also the following exercise, to be performed at some time convenient to you, though
not at the morning meditation.
1. Take seven long
deep breaths, though hold not the nostril.
2. At each breath,
as you inhale, say the following words: "Power and strength is
mine." During the interlude, gather
in as much of the golden-orange prana as you can; then, as you exhale, send it
by an act of the will to the throat centre at the back of the neck.
3. In the
interlude, between exhalation and the next inhalation (whilst the throat centre
is subjected to golden-orange prana) say: "Let the Word sound forth
through me."
4. Then sound the
O.M., very softly.