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ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

t purge him thoroughly, and possess him with its passion. in this sacrament being wholly at one with that element, let the adept utter the charge "hear me, and make, etc. with strong sense that this unity with that quarter of the universe confers upon him the fullest freedom and privilege appurtenant thereto. let the adept take note of the wording of the charge. the "firmament" is the ruach, the "mental plane; it is the realm of shu, or zeus, where revolves the wheel of the gunas, the three forms<correspond to the sulphur, mercury, and salt of alchemy; to sattvas, rajas, and tamas in the hindu system; and are rather modes of action than actual qualities even when conceived as latent. they are the apparatus of communication between the planes; as such, they are conventions. there is n

ALEXANDRIAN BOOK OF SHADOWS OCCULT

eed's witches qabala and a lovely pamphlet on the elements put out by church of the seven arrows. l putting elemental notes into the bos (instead of in a grimoire or in a set of training notes) also appears to be khaled's idea. l fire goddess aspect: temptress astrological rulers: sun, mars, jupiter keys: light principle, action, michael (victor over ignorance) rules: force, energy, spirit, heat, mental plane, blood, sap, life, will, surgery, destruction, purification, hearth fires, volcanoes, explosions, choleric; intuitive; lively virtues: courageous, self-assertive, chivalrous, enthusiastic, passionate, experienced, virile vices: self-centred, ruthless, fanaticism, vindictiveness, anger, hatred season: midsummer time of day: noon direction: south wind: notus colour: red symbols: fire op

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

man may realise it, great thinkers, such as edison and others, arrive at a solution of their problems along the line of meditation. by a brooding concentration, by a constant recollection, and by strenuous application to the particular line of thought which interests them, they produce results, they tap the inner reservoirs of inspiration and of power, and bring down from the higher levels of the mental plane results which benefit the group. when we ourselves have done a certain amount of work along the line of meditation, when we are cultivating group interest and not self-interest, when we have developed physical bodies that are strong and clean, and emotional bodies that are controlled, and not swayed by desire, when we have mental bodies that are our instruments and not our masters, th

ne, and there are a few people who are able to function equally consciously on the next subtler plane, that which is called the astral plane (a word i very much dislike, as it conveys no real meaning to our minds) or the plane of the emotional nature, on which a man is active when out of the physical body, in the hours of sleep or immediately after death. very few human beings can function on the mental plane in fully awakened consciousness, and still fewer upon the spiritual plane. the object of evolution is that we should consciously function, with full continuity of realisation, upon the physical, emotional, and mental planes. this is the great achievement which will some day be ours. we shall then know what we do every hour of the day, and not for just about fourteen hours out of every

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

tility of dogmatism. we can do no more than sense a fraction of some wonderful whole, utterly beyond the reach of our consciousness, a whole that the highest angel or perfected being is but beginning to realise. when we recognise the fact that the average man is as yet fully conscious only on the physical plane, nearly conscious on the emotional plane, and only developing the consciousness of the mental plane, it is obvious that his comprehension of cosmic data can be but rudimentary. when- 5- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust we recognise the further fact, that to be conscious on a plane and to have control on that plane are two very different conditions, it becomes apparent how remote is the possibility of our approximating more than the general trend of the cosmic s

initiation, the work to be done consists largely in making that expansion of consciousness part of the equipment for the practical use of the personality, and in mastering that portion of the path that has yet to be traversed. the place and effect of initiation- 11- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the ceremony of initiation takes place on the three higher sub-planes of the mental plane, and on the three higher planes, according to the initiation. the five-pointed star, at the initiations on the mental plane, flashes out above the head of the initiate. this concerns the first initiations which are undergone in the causal vehicle. it has been said that the first two initiations take place upon the astral plane, but this is incorrect, and the statement has given rise t

body and the emotional. when that web has been burned away by the inner fire the communication between the bodies of the personality becomes continuous and complete, and the three lower vehicles function as one. you have a somewhat analogous situation on the higher levels, though the parallel cannot be pushed to detail. the intuition corresponds to the emotional, and the four higher levels of the mental plane to the etheric. in the destruction of the causal body at the time of the fourth initiation (called symbolically "the crucifixion) you have a process analogous to the burning of the web that leads to the unification of the bodies of the personality. the disintegration that is a part of the arhat initiation leads to unity between the ego and the monad, expressing itself in the triad. it

he plans of the present manu. he acts as the inspirer of the statesmen of the world, he manipulates forces, through the mahachohan, that will bring about the conditions desired for the furthering of racial evolution. on the physical plane those great national executives who have far vision and the international ideal are influenced by him, and with him co-operate certain of the great devas of the mental plane, and three great groups of angels work with him on mental levels, in connection with the lesser devas who vitalise thoughtforms, and thus keep alive the thoughtforms of the guides of the race for the benefit of the whole of humanity- 32- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the master m. has a large body of pupils under his instruction, and works in connection with m

ns (dealing with incarnate, discarnate, and perfected egos, are again all under the care of subordinate guardians. the lipika lords, with their vast band of helpers are the most frequent users of these charts. many discarnate egos awaiting incarnation or having just left the earth, sacrifice their time in heaven to assist in this work. these halls of records are mostly on the lowest levels of the mental plane and the highest of the astral, as they can be there most fully utilised and are most easily accessible- 40- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust initiates receive instruction directly from the masters or from some of the great devas or angels. these teachings are usually imparted at night in small classes, or individually (should the occasion warrant it) in the maste

w in the need of the whole. it entails the complete domination of the concrete mind by the ego. the succeeding two initiations. after the second initiation the teaching shifts up a plane. the initiate learns to control his mental vehicle; he develops the capacity to manipulate thought matter, and learns the laws of creative thought building. he functions freely on the four lower sub-planes of the mental plane, and before the third initiation he must, consciously or unconsciously, be complete master of the four lower sub-planes in the three planes of the three worlds. his knowledge of the microcosm becomes profound, and he has mastered theoretically and practically, in great measure, the laws of his own nature, hence his ability experimentally to be master on the four lower sub-planes of th

erpret all here given in terms of spirit and not of matter or form. we are dealing entirely with the subjective or consciousness aspect of manifestation, and with that which lies back of the objective form. this realisation will save the student from much later confusion- 58- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust that we are considering facts which are substantial and real on the mental plane the plane on which all the major initiations take place but which are not materialised on the physical plane, and are not physical plane phenomena. the link between the two planes exists in the continuity of consciousness which the initiate will have developed, and which will enable him to bring through to the physical brain, occurrences and happenings upon the subjective planes of li

s interesting. they are three aspects of the one aspect, and the pupils of sanat kumara. though their functions are many and varied, and concern primarily the forces and energies of nature, and the direction of the building agencies, they have a vital connection with the applicant for initiation, inasmuch as they each embody the force or energy of one or other of the three higher subplanes of the mental plane. therefore at the third initiation one of these kumaras transmits to the causal body of the initiate that energy which destroys third subplane matter, and thus brings about part of the destruction of the vehicle; at the fourth initiation another buddha transmits second plane force, and at the fifth, first subplane force is similarly passed into the remaining atoms of the causal vehicl

s, and they must be thus considered. at the fourth initiation, the initiate is brought into the presence of that aspect of himself which is called "his father in heaven" he is brought face to face with his own monad, that pure spiritual essence on the highest plane but one, which is to his ego or higher self what that ego is to the personality or lower self. this monad has expressed itself on the mental plane through the ego in a triple fashion, but now all aspects of the mind, as we understand it, are lacking. the solar angel hitherto contacted has withdrawn himself, and the form through which he functioned (the egoic or causal body) has gone, and naught is left but love-wisdom and that dynamic will which is the prime characteristic of spirit. the lower self has served the purposes of the

chy for minor initiations, and for the first two initiations of manas by the bodhisattva. 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. this application produced literally the awakening of the life to intelligent work on the mental plane. animal man was conscious on the physical and on the astral planes. by the stimulation effected by the electric rod this animal man awoke to consciousness on the mental. thus the three bodies were co-ordinated, and the thinker enabled to function in them. all rods of initiation cause certain effects: a. stimulation of the latent fires till they blaze. b. synthesis of the fires through

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

in its essential nature fire is threefold, but when in manifestation it can be seen as a fivefold demonstration, and be defined as follows: 1. fire by friction, or internal vitalising fire. these fires animate and vitalise the objective solar system. they are the sumtotal of logoic kundalini, when in full systemic activity. 2. solar fire, or cosmic mental fire. this is that portion of the cosmic mental plane which goes to the animation of the mental body of the logos. this fire may be regarded as the sumtotal of the sparks of mind, the fires of the mental bodies and the animating principle of the evolving units of the human race in the three worlds. 3. electric fire, or the logoic flame divine. this flame is the distinguishing mark of our logos, and it is that which differentiates him fro

mating fires of the solar system, which are the fires of the primordial ray of active intelligent matter; these constitute the energy of brahma, the third aspect of the logos. next are to be found the fires of the divine ray of love-wisdom, the ray of intelligent love, which constitutes the energy of the vishnu aspect, the second aspect logoic. 4(4) finally are to be found the fires of the cosmic mental plane, which are the fires of the cosmic ray of will. they might be described as the rays of intelligent will and are the manifestation of the first aspect logoic, the mahadeva aspect.5(5) therefore we have three cosmic rays manifesting: the ray of intelligent activity. this is a ray of a very demonstrable glory, and of a higher point- 24- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trus

alized, and of all that concerns itself with the adaptation of the form to the needs of the inner flame of life. it might here be useful to point out that magnetism is the effect of the divine ray in manifestation in the same sense that electricity is the manifested effect of the primordial ray of active intelligence. it would be well to ponder on this for it holds hid a mystery. the fires of the mental plane also demonstrate in a twofold manner: first, as the fire of mind, the basis of all expression and in one peculiar occult sense the sumtotal of existence. it provides the relation between the life and the form, between spirit and matter, and is the basis of consciousness itself. second, as the elementals of fire, or the sumtotal of the active expression of thought, showing itself throu

functioning through a physical vehicle. it likewise demonstrates, as yet imperfectly, as the vitalising factor in the thought forms fabricated by the thinker. as yet but few thought forms, comparatively, can be said to be constructed by the center of consciousness, the thinker, the ego. few people as yet are in such close touch with their higher self, or ego, that they can build the matter of the mental plane into a form which can be truly said to be an expression of the thoughts, purpose or desire of their ego, functioning through the physical brain. most of the thought forms at present in circulation may be said to be aggregations of matter, built into form with the aid of kama-manas (or of desire faintly tinged with mind producing thus an admixture of astral and mental matter, mostly as

ntire constitution of active functioning man upon the physical plane, and of the atom of substance. speaking broadly we would say that the first fire deals entirely with: a. activity of matter. b. the rotary motion of matter. c. the development of matter by the means of friction, under the law of economy. h. p. b. touches on this in the secret doctrine.14(13) the second fire, that from the cosmic mental plane, deals with: a. the expression of the evolution of mind or manas. b. the vitality of the soul. c. the evolutionary expression of the soul as it shows forth in the form of that elusive something which brings about the synthesis of matter. as the two merge by means of this active energising factor, that which is termed consciousness appears.15(14) as the merging proceeds and the fires b

should be pondered upon for it reveals a mystery. the blending of the three fires, the merging of the three rays, and the co-operation of the three logoi have in view (at this time and within this solar system) the development of the essence of the cosmic lord of love, the second person in the logoic trinity. earlier it was not so, later it will not be, but now it is. when viewed from the cosmic mental plane these three constitute the personality of the logos, and are seen functioning as one. hence the secret (well recognised as fact, though not understood) of the excessive heat, occultly expressed, of the astral or central body of the triple personality. it animates and controls the physical body, and its desires hold sway in the majority of cases; it demonstrates in time and space the c

held by a fourfold karmic law under the guidance of the lipikas. fourth. the four planetary logoi50(46) of harmony, knowledge, abstract thought and ceremonial, who are in their totality the quaternary of manas while in process of evolution, and who pass under their influence all the sons of men. fifth. the deva lords of the four planes of buddhi, or the plane of spiritual intuition, manas, or the mental plane, desire, and the physical, who are likewise allied to the human evolution in a cioser sense than the higher three. a further interesting correspondence is found in the following facts that are even now in process of development: the fourth plane of buddhi is the one on which the planetary logoi begin to make their escape from their planetary ring-pass-not, or from the etheric web that

sense to co-ordinate the buddhic vehicle or, to express it otherwise, when he has developed the power to contact ever so slightly the buddhic plane, then he begins simultaneously and consciously to achieve the ability to escape from the etheric web on the physical plane. later he escapes from its correspondence on the astral plane, and finally from the correspondence on the fourth subplane of the mental plane this time via the mental unit. this- 63- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust leads eventually to causal functioning, or to the ability to dwell, and to be active in, the vehicle of the ego, who is the embodiment of the love and wisdom aspect of the monad. note here the correspondence to that proved fact, that many can even now escape from the etheric body, and functio

hain of ideas may be followed up in the remembrance that the fourth ether is even now being studied and developed by the average scientist, and is already somewhat harnessed to the service of man; that the fourth subplane of the astral plane is the normal functioning ground of the average man and that in this round escape from the etheric vehicle is being achieved; that the fourth subplane of the mental plane is the present goal of endeavor of one-fourth of the human family; that the fourth manvantara will see the solar ring-pass-not offering avenues of escape to those who have reached the necessary point; that the four planetary logoi will perfect their escape from their planetary environment, and will function with greater ease on the cosmic astral plane, paralleling on cosmic levels the

hich will be superman, and links the past with that which is to be- 66- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust h. the following correspondences in time would repay careful meditation. they are based on a realisation of the relationship between this fourth cosmic ether, the buddhic plane, and the fourth physical etheric subplane. the fourth subplane of mind, the correspondence on the mental plane of the physical etheric, is likewise a point of transition from out of a lower into a higher, and is the transferring locality into a higher body. the fourth subplane of the monadic plane is in a very real sense the place of transition from off the egoic ray (whichever that ray may be) on to the monadic ray; these three major rays are organised on the three higher subplanes of the mon

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

, are five in number. manas, or mind, the actuating principle of the chitta, or mind-stuff, is the fifth principle, and like all else in nature, manifests as a duality. this duality is: 1. lower concrete mind, demonstrating as the activity of the mental body. 2. abstract mind, demonstrating as the lowest aspect of the ego. in the microcosm, man, this duality becomes a triple modification upon the mental plane, and in these three we have in miniature a picture of the macrocosmic manifestation. these three are: 1. the mental permanent atom, the lowest aspect of the spiritual triad or of the soul- 13- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the egoic body, the causal body, or the karana sarira, 3. the mental body, the highest aspect of the lower personal self. the mental body itse

ese all have their objective "shadows" or results, and these resultant emanations are the external physical organs. the brain, for instance, is the "shadow" or the- 19- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust external organ of the mind, and it will be found by the investigator that the contents of the brain cavity have a correspondence to the aspects of the human mechanism found upon the mental plane. this latter sentence should be emphasised; it conveys a hint to those capable of taking advantage of it. 2. tireless endeavour means literally constant practice, ceaseless repetition and the reiterated effort to impose the new rhythm upon the old, and to efface deep seated habits and modifications by the institution of soul impression. the yogi or master is the result of patient endu

ppiness. it is based upon the "forms of joy" it is a condition of sensuous enjoyment, and being constructed for himself by each individual is as varied as there are people participating in it. non-attachment has to be achieved with respect to heaven. it is realized as enjoyed by the lower self, and by the man when bereft only of his physical body, prior to passing out of the astral body on to the mental plane. 2. devachan, that state of consciousness upon the mental plane into which the soul passes when deprived of its astral body and functioning in, or limited by, its mental body. it is of a higher order than the ordinary heaven and the bliss enjoyed is more mental than we ordinarily understand by the word, yet nevertheless it is still within the lower world of form and will be transcende

t this stage has to be reached, even if only in a relatively small degree, before the aspirant can become an accepted disciple. the process of sounding the word is dual, as is emphasized here- 37- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust there is, first of all, the act of the ego, solar angel, higher self or soul, as he sounds out the word from his own place, on the abstract levels of the mental plane. he directs that sound, via the sutratma and the vestures of consciousness to the physical brain of the man in incarnation, the shadow or reflection. this "sounding forth" has to be constantly repeated. the sutratma is that magnetic link, spoken of in the christian bible as the "silver cord" that thread of living light which connects the monad, the spirit in man, with the physical bra

ge. simultaneously with the development of this type of vision, the pineal gland becomes active, and the third eye (in etheric matter- 43- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust develops with a paralleling activity. 6. spiritual vision or true perception. this type of vision opens up the world of the intuitional or buddhic plane, and takes its possessor beyond the abstract levels of the mental plane. the things of pure spirit, and the basic purposes underlying all manifestation are thus realised, just as pure vision permitted its owner to tap the resources of pure wisdom. with the development of this vision the alta major centre becomes active, and the thousand-petalled lotus unfolded. 7. cosmic sight. this is of a nature inconceivable to man and characterises the realisation of

eiver uses the five senses in order to arrive at the field of knowledge. 2. that all our three planes in the three worlds constitute the dense physical body of that one in whom "we live and move and have our being" 3. that on the astral or emotional plane, the lower powers of clairvoyance and clairaudience are used by the perceiver and when misused reveal the serpent in the garden. 4. that on the mental plane psychometry and symbology (including numerology and geometry) are used by the perceiver to arrive at an understanding of the lower mental levels. 5. that only when these three are seen as lower and as constituting the form aspect does the perceiver arrive at a condition where he can begin to understand the nature of the soul and comprehend the true significance of sutras 40 and 41. 6

so no form-building and form-attachment is there possible. this is in line with the occult truism that "energy follows thought" and in line too with the teaching that the body of the christ principle (the buddhic vehicle) only begins to coordinate as the lower impulses fade out. it is consistent also with the fact that the causal vehicle, the body of the higher self on the abstract levels of the mental plane gains in beauty, size and activity with greater rapidity during the stages of discipleship than was previously possible in the entire cycle of previous incarnations. egoic energy is not strictly outgoing, but is directed more literally to its own self-development. attachment to form or the attraction of form for spirit is the great involutionary impulse. repulsion of form and conseque

xist in a dormant condition in the form of impressions, whereas the second are those that are concretely affecting the mind. the first can be completely suppressed only by gaining mastery over the whole of their support, viz. the thinking principle" this is the first work of the aspirant to yoga. he must realize the nature of the obstacles and then set in to overcome them, doing the work from the mental plane. he has to gain control of the apparatus of thought; then he has to learn how to use that apparatus, and when this has been accomplished, he begins to offset the hindrances by counter currents. the hindrances themselves are the result of wrong habits of thought and the misuse of the thinking principle. when they are subtly known as the seeds which produce the "obstacle-producing forms

n the production of the etheric body. b. kama, or desire is the prime factor in calling the dense physical vehicle into being. the two together are responsible for manifested existence. it is well known that the tree of life is depicted with the roots above and the flowering leaves downwards. in the tiny tree of life of the ego the same symbolic presentation holds true. the roots are found on the mental plane. the flowering forth into objectivity and fruition is to be seen on the physical plane. therefore it is necessary for the aspirant to lay the axe to the root of the tree, or to deal with the thoughts and desires which produce the physical body. he must enter the subjective realm if he wants to deal with that which will continue to keep him on the wheel of rebirth. when the seeds are e

re is physical plane incontinence and this should have been left behind by the disciple long ago. but there are also many tendencies towards pleasure seeking with consequent satisfaction of the desire nature and this, to the true aspirant, is likewise regarded as incontinence. iii. mental nature. 5. abstention from avarice. this deals with the sin of covetousness which is literally theft upon the mental plane. the sin of avarice may lead to any number of physical plane sins and is very powerful. it concerns mental force and is a generic term covering those potent longings which have their seat not only in the emotional or kamic (desire) body, but in the mental body also. this commandment to abstain from avarice is covered by st. paul when he says "i have learned in whatsoever state i am, t

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

n its turn, a purpose or impulse inconceivable as yet. the three interpretations of a symbol might be dealt with as follows "1. the exoteric interpretation of a symbol is based largely upon its objective utility, and upon the nature of the form. that which is exoteric and substantial serves two purposes "a. to give some faint indications as to the idea and concept. this links the symbol..with the mental plane, but does not release it from the three worlds of human appreciation "b. to limit and confine and imprison the idea and so adapt it to the point in evolution which the man has reached. the true nature of the latent idea is ever more potent and complete than the form or symbol through which it seeks expression. matter is a symbol of a central energy. forms of all kinds in all the kingd

s avenues of sense perception are brought into a quiescent condition. the consciousness of the real man no longer surges outwards along its five avenues of contact. the five senses are dominated by the sixth sense, the mind, and all the consciousness and the perceptive faculty of the aspirant is synthesized in the head, and turns inward and upward. the psychic nature is thereby subjugated and the mental plane becomes the field of man's activity. this withdrawal or abstracting process proceeds in stages: 1. the withdrawal of the physical consciousness, or perception through hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell. these modes of perception become temporarily dormant, and man's perception becomes simply mental and the brain consciousness is all that is active on the physical plane- 94- from i

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

he object of the treatise might here be stated to be that of considering the various types of energy transmitted to the form in the human kingdom, the responsiveness of the form to the types of force, the effects of that force upon man, and his gradual responsiveness to force emanating: a. from his environment, plus his own outer physical body. b. from the emotional plane, or astral force. c. the mental plane or thought currents. d. egoic force, a force only registered by man and of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the custodian and which has mysterious and peculiar effects- 29- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust e. the type of energy which produces the concretion of ideas on the physical plane. f. strictly spiritual energy, or force from the plane of the monad. the

ness of the occident, and the rapid changes which have been the outstanding feature of european and american civilisation. the history of europe dates back a bare three thousand years, and that of america, as we know, barely as many centuries. occultism flourishes in a prepared atmosphere, in a highly magnetised environment, and in a settled condition which is the result of age-long work upon the mental plane. this is one reason why india provides such an adequate school of endeavour. there knowledge of occultism dates back tens of thousands of years and time has set its mark even upon the physique of the people, providing them with bodies which offer not that resistance which occidental bodies so oft afford. the environment has been long permeated with the strong vibrations of the great o

ifies two things, energy and its manifestation in form of some kind, for light and matter are synonymous terms. the thought of the man and the idea of the soul have found a point of rapport, and the germ of a thought form has come into being. this thought form, when completed, will embody as much of the great plan (on which the hierarchy is working) as the man can vision, grasp, and embody on the mental plane. this, in the early stages of a man's aspiration, in his first steps along the path of discipleship, and for the first two initiations, is covered by the word "service. he grasps, gropingly at first, the idea of the unity of the life, and its manifestation as the brotherhood existing between all forms of that divine life. this subjective ideal gradually leads to an appreciation of the

an and animal suffering, and in world wide efforts for the betterment of the internal relations of nations, religions and groups. enough human units have now contacted the hierarchical plan so that it may be safely concluded that the collective brain of the human family (that entity which we call the fourth kingdom of nature) is susceptible to the vision, and has fashioned its lighted form on the mental plane. later, the thought of service and of self will be found inadequate, and a more suitable form of expression will be found, but this suffices for the present. this thought form, created by the aspirant, is brought into being by the focussed energies of the soul and the re-oriented forces of the personality. this is pictured as covering three stages. 1. the period wherein the aspirant s

e due to the polarization of the bodies. unless this too meets with recognition in dealing with people lack of comprehension ensues. when you use the term "a man polarized in his astral body" you really mean a man whose ego works principally through that vehicle. polarity indicates the clarity of the channel. let me illustrate. the ego of the average man has its home on the third sub-plane of the mental plane. if a man has an astral vehicle largely composed of third sub-plane astral matter, and a mental vehicle mostly on the fifth sub-plane, the ego will centre his endeavour on the astral body. if he has a mental body of fourth sub-plane matter and an astral body of fifth sub-plane, the polarization will be mental. when you speak of the ego taking more or less control of a man you really m

man must needs bring them into his consideration. it should therefore be borne in mind that a disciple of any of the masters will have his peculiar equipment, and his individual assets and deficiencies. he can nevertheless rest assured that, until the path of knowledge has been added to the path of love, he can never take the major initiations, for these are undergone on the higher levels of the mental plane. until the path of light is united to the path of life the great transition from the fourth into the fifth kingdom cannot be taken. certain expansions of consciousness are possible; initiations on the astral and lower mental planes can be taken; some of the vision can be seen, the sense of the presence can be felt; the beloved can be reached by love, and the bliss and the joy of this

s, and drives the thought-form from him. the creative work of sound. the science of the breath- 73- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the creative work of sound before centering our attention upon this rule, it would be well to recollect certain things, so that our reflection on the rule may proceed with profit. first, the rule we are at present considering concerns work on the mental plane, and before such work is possible it is important to have a developed mind, a well-nurtured intelligence, and also to have achieved some measure of mind control. these rules are not for beginners in the occult sciences; they are for those who are ready for magical work and for labour on the plane of mind. love is the great unifier, the prime attractive impulse, cosmic and microcosmic

hem in other thoughts, not so pure or so wise but necessarily colored by the individuality of the thinker. these thought-forms are, in their turn, picked up by the concrete thinkers of the world who grasping the main outline of the idea crystallize it and build it into more definite shape, into one more easily apprehended by the general public. it has therefore now reached the lower levels of the mental plane, and a further development becomes possible. it is then seized upon as desirable by those who are focussed upon the astral plane; to them it makes an emotional appeal, becoming public opinion. it is now practically ready to take shape upon the physical plane, and we have the practical adaptation of an ideal to the needs of the physical life. it has been stepped down; it has lost much

ware of the ideas which the masters bring through from the plane of the universal mind, and hence are in a position to co-operate intelligently. they, in their turn, as this rule seeks to indicate, create thought forms of those received ideas, and utilize them in their groups- 83- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust for the helping of the world. the main work of a disciple on the mental plane is to train himself to do four things: 1. to be receptive to the mind of the master. 2. to cultivate a right intuitive understanding of the thoughts sent him by the master. 3. to embody the ideas received in such form as will be suitable for those he is engaged in helping. 4. through sound, light and vibration to make his thought form active (embodying as much of the universal thought

ly slain (in the occult and therefore in the more important sense) by their own thought-forms. thought creation, through concentration and meditation, is a potently dangerous matter. this must never be forgotten. there are forms of thought, unencumbered by much desire matter, which, failing to pass downward, poison the man on mental levels. this they do in two ways: 1. by growing so potent on the mental plane that the man falls a victim to the thing he has created. this is the "id e fixe" of the psychiatrist; the obsession which drives to lunacy; the one-pointed line of thought which eventually terrorises its creator. 2. by multiplying so fast that the mental aura of the man becomes like unto a thick and dense cloud, through which the light of the soul must fail to penetrate, and through w

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

ching as to the laws of thought, and the rules which govern the building of those thought-forms which must embody the ideas sent forth from the universal divine mind. men must begin on the subjective planes of life to work out the needed order. when this is realised, we shall have every important group of men engaged in world affairs, or in the work of government in all its branches, aided on the mental plane by trained thinkers, so that there may be right application and correct adjustment to the plan. this time is as yet far away, and hence the distortions and misrepresentations on earth of the plan as it exists in heaven, to use the christian phraseology. it was the realisation of the present world need for illumined thinkers and subjective workers which prompted those who guide so to d

the planet itself not the reflected light of the sun but its own inherent radiance. 3. a light seeping in (if i may use such a phrase) from the astral plane, a steady and gradual penetration of the "astral light" and its fusion with the other two types of radiance. 4. a light which is beginning to merge itself with the other three types and which comes from that state of matter which we call the mental plane a light in its turn reflected from the realm of the soul. an intensification of the light is going on all the time, and this increase in intensity began on the earth at about the time when man discovered the uses of electricity, which discovery was a direct result of this intensification. the electrification of the planet through the wide-spread use of electricity is one of the things

initiates working in collaboration with the master p, who has his headquarters in america and who, with his disciples, is doing much to stimulate the various psychological schools in the world today. it is needless for students to endeavour to ascertain his identity. he works through movements and schools of thought, and does no work with private individuals. he works practically entirely on the mental plane, with the power of thought, and is quite unknown and unrecognised, except by his fellow workers in the various countries in the world, and by the disciples on his ray, the fourth ray. much that is opening in the world of psychology today is due to the work he does in stimulating the minds of the leaders of movements. he works with them on the mental plane, but does not contact them as

recious jewels are a synthesis of all three, one of the basic syntheses of evolution. in this connection, some correspondences between the mineral kingdom and the human evolutionary cycles might here be noted: 1. the base metals .p hysical 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- 144- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust third initiation. 4. the precious jewels .e goic 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 k

of any human pen, no matter how great a man's realisation may be, or his response to the beauty of god's world. divinity must be lived, expressed and manifested, to be understood. god must be loved, known and revealed within the human heart and brain, in order to be intellectually grasped. the hierarchy of mystics, knowers and lovers of god, are manifesting this revealed truth in the world of the mental plane and of the emotional plane today. but the hour has now come when the manifestation of this reality can, for the first time and in truth, manifest itself on the physical plane in an organised group form, instead of through the instrumentality of the few inspired sons of god who have, in past ages, incarnated as the guarantee of the future possibilities. the hierarchy of angels and of s

psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust there are two happenings of close and imminent occurrence. today the bulk of human beings are polarised on the lower levels of the astral plane, but are conscious in the physical body. this distinction must be studied. soon, many will be conscious in the vital body and beginning to be conscious on the higher levels of the astral plane, and some few upon the mental plane. but large numbers of people today are ready to be fully conscious in the astral body and polarised either on the mental plane entirely or centred in the soul. this produces the wonder and the difficulty of the present time. through the scientific ritual of meditation (for that is what it really is) this refocussing can be brought more rapidly about. through the scientific culture of

between the eyes. functioning when the personality reaches a high stage of co-ordination. ray v. concrete knowledge of science planet. venus. the lords of mind came from venus. day. friday. esoteric colour. yellow. esoteric colour. indigo. human principle. higher mind. divine principle. higher knowledge "god saw that it was good" element. flame. instrument of sensation. astral body. plane. lower mental plane. sense. consciousness as response to knowledge. bodily location. brain. esoterically, this principle of sentiency is seated in the solar plexus. ray vi..abstract idealism, devotion planet. mars. day. tuesday. exoteric colour .r ed. esoteric colour. silvery rose- 263- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust human principle. kama-manas. d

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ne, and on the mental levels, as well as in the three aspects of lower mind, causal consciousness and nirvanic realisation. this process finds its consummation at the third initiation. in the life of the aspirant, the power to cause this tremendous happening is dependent upon the carrying forward of the inner subjective and spiritual work previously described as the "building of the bridge on the mental plane" between the above mentioned three aspects. for the race of men as a whole, this work began in the middle of our aryan race, and is today going forward very rapidly. for the individual aspirant, the work has always been possible right down the ages, and it is the major task undertaken by disciples at this time. it might be added here that the new group of world servers is composed of

es as sensitivity and feeling in the astral body, and of spiritual mind, whose reflection in the lower nature is the mind or the principle of intelligence in the form world. in these three energies we have the atma-buddhi-manas of the theosophical literature. they are that higher triplicity which is reflected in the lower three, and which focusses through the soul body on the higher levels of the mental plane before being "precipitated into incarnation, as it is esoterically called. modernising the concept, we might say that the energies which animate the physical body and the intelligent life of the atom, the sensitive emotional states, and the intelligent mind have eventually to be blended with, and transmuted into, the energies which animate the soul. these are the spiritual mind, conve

reatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust itself, beginning with its dual esoteric function which is: 1. the recognition of, and receptivity to, ideas. 2. the creative faculty of conscious thought-form building. this necessarily involves a strong mental attitude and a reorientation of the mind to reality. as the disciple begins to focus himself on the mental plane (and this is the prime intent of the meditation work) he starts working in mental matter and trains himself in the powers and uses of thought. he achieves a measure of mind control; he can turn the searchlight of the mind in two directions into the world of human endeavor, and into the world of soul activity. just as the soul makes a way for itself by projecting itself in a thread or

dering are concerned entirely with inter-soul relationship, and with the synthesis underlying the forms. they govern the conscious contact existing between the many aspects of the one soul. i have expressed this phrase with care. this law of magnetic impulse governs the relation, the interplay, the intercourse, and the interpenetration between the seven groups of souls on the higher levels of the mental plane which constitute the first of the major form differentiations. these we can only study intelligently from the angle of the seven ray groups, as they compose the spiritual aspect of the human family. this law governs also the relationships between souls, who, whilst in manifestation through form, are en rapport with each other. it is a law, therefore, which concerns the inter-relation

whole story. these groups are intended to facilitate interrelation or communication as follows: 1. they will be occupied with an endeavor to facilitate communication between individuals so that the rules and methods whereby speech can be transcended may become known and the new way of intercourse be brought about. eventually communication will be from: a. soul to soul, on the higher levels of the mental plane. this involves complete alignment, so that soul-mind-brain are completely at-one. b. mind to mind, on the lower levels of the mental plane. this involves the complete integration of the personality or lower self, so that mind and brain are at-one. students must remember these two distinctive contacts, and bear in mind also that the greater contact need not necessarily include the less

er groups of communicators will act as transmitters of two aspects of divine energy, knowledge and wisdom. these must be thought of in terms of energy. their work will concern itself with the education of the masses, as a direct intermediary between the higher mind and the lower mind, and with the building of the antaskarana; and their task is that of linking the three points of interest upon the mental plane, the higher mind, the soul, and the lower mind so that there is established a group antaskarana between the kingdom of souls and the world of men. 5. political work will occupy other groups more specifically than does any other branch of work. these groups communicate the "quality of imposition" and an authority that is lacking in many other branches of this divine group activity. the

usness of the same type of energy which produces that aspect of cohesive action which demonstrates as tribal, national or racial unity. in this case, however, the determining factor is not of a physical connotation nor have these groups a physical plane basis. they are based on a group idealism which can only be consciously registered when the units in the group are beginning to function upon the mental plane and are developing the capacity to "think things through" that is, to register in the brain that which the soul has imparted to the mind. we have here a definition of the meditation process as it should be followed by those who, through alignment, have made some measure of soul contact. these groups are functioning entirely through a subjective relation, which produces a subjective in

e are three members of the new group of world servers found in any one exoteric group; it then becomes "linked by a triple thread of golden light" to the new group of world servers, and can in some measure be used. this great and spiritual grouping of servers is, on the physical plane, only very loosely linked. on the astral plane the linking is stronger and is based upon love of humanity; on the mental plane the major linking takes place, from the angle of the three worlds as a whole. it will be apparent, therefore, that certain developments must have taken place in the individual before he can consciously become a functioning member of the new group of world servers, which is the principal group at this time definitely working under the law of group progress. 1. he must have the heart ce

s no separation, and the factor of synthesis governs all soul relations. the soul is occupied not only with the form that the vision of its objective may take, but with the quality or the meaning which that vision veils or hides. 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 so

oul nature are at-one. when the soul influences the personality and pervades all the lower manifestation, then and only then, does the personality measure up to its true significance, which is to constitute the mask of the soul, that which is the outer appearance of inner spiritual forces. these forces are expressions of the soul, and the soul is the central identity or fundamental focus upon the mental plane of the life of god himself. essence, consciousness and appearance are the three aspects of divinity and of man; the personality, when fully developed, is the "appearance of god on earth" life, quality, and form is another way of expressing this same triplicity. these definitions have been made of a real simplicity and also exceedingly brief. intricacy of definition does not necessaril

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erfecting of the individual disciple in the group. i regard this statement as basic and essential. the individuals are intended to supplement each other and complement each other and in the aggregate of their qualities should eventually provide a group capable of useful, spiritual expression and one through which spiritual energy can flow for the helping of humanity. the work to be done is on the mental plane. the spheres of service of individual disciples remain the same as before but to their differing fields of individual endeavour there will be added a group activity and life which will become more clear as time elapses. the first objective is, therefore, to weld and unify the group so that each person in it can work in close mental rapport and spiritual cooperation with the others. th

time work with complete surrender and devotion giving of all your time and interest to the cause it may be possible to prepare the ground in such a manner that the coming effort of the masters may prove adequate to the emergency. the third group is that of the masters themselves and their cooperating initiates. they work primarily upon the inner side. their activities are confined largely to the mental plane and to the scientific use of thought. thus they guide their workers and helpers and influence and direct their working disciples and the world disciples. there is at this time an inner intention of blending the occidental and the oriental approaches to the ancient wisdom and to the hierarchy. cooperation and the mutual interchange of wisdom and of knowledge are essential if this is to

things and anything which militates against this is evil. 1. manifest the nature of the soul, through the integrated personality. the nature of the soul is love and the will-to-good- 18- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. transfer the energy, now turned to the vitalising of the physical body and physical creation, to the nurturing of the creative faculty upon the mental plane; thus the entire human family will be transmuted into a dynamic, self-conscious, creative agency. 3. usher in a period of spiritual unfoldment in every kingdom in nature. at the close of this period, the door into the animal kingdom will again be opened and opportunity offered to waiting embryonic souls. many also, at this time, can take initiation and hence the balancing of forces at

rld glamour and illusion. other groups can focus on the development of the telepathic faculty and become trained communicators. the objective before the hierarchy at this time is to break and dissipate the world glamour. this has to happen on a world scale just as it happens in the life of every disciple. just as a man shifts his focus of consciousness (when on the path of discipleship) on to the mental plane and learns to smash the glamour which has hitherto held him on the astral plane, so the problem before the hierarchy today is to bring about a similar happening in the life of humanity as a whole, for humanity is at the crossroads and its consciousness is being rapidly focussed on the mental plane. a death blow must be struck at the world illusion for it holds the sons of men in thral

ds are summed up the whole story. these groups are intended to facilitate interrelation or communication as follows: 1. there is a group of what we might call telepathic communicators. these people are receptive to impression from the masters and from each other; they are the custodians of group purpose and, therefore, closely related to all the other types of groups. their work is largely on the mental plane and they work in and with thought matter and with the reception and direction of thought currents. they are also working at the facilitation of communication between individuals so that the rules and methods whereby speech can be transcended may become known and the new way of intercourse be brought about. communication will eventually be: a. soul to soul on the higher levels of the m

the facilitation of communication between individuals so that the rules and methods whereby speech can be transcended may become known and the new way of intercourse be brought about. communication will eventually be: a. soul to soul on the higher levels of the mental plane. this involves complete alignment, so that soul-mind-brain are completely at-one. b. mind to mind on the lower levels of the mental plane. this involves the complete integration of the personality or lower self, so that mind and brain are at-one- 30- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust disciples must remember these two distinctive contacts and bear in mind also that the greater contact need not necessarily include the lesser. telepathic communication between the different aspects of the huma

the saints of the church in the west. the bhagavad gita has been the book which has embodied this way superlatively. others emerged along the way of the mind and were the intellectual knowers. theirs is the more strictly occult way and it has become increasingly the way of our present day aspirants. the reason for this is that the polarisation of the race is shifting ever more steadily on to the mental plane. some of the individuals on this way of the mind were sankaracharya, the apostle paul, and meister eckhart. today, many are coming out along this way under the name of science. there were also those outstanding individuals, such as the christ and the buddha, who combined both ways in their perfection and who towered above their fellowmen from the- 36- discipleship in the new age- volu

ventually develop, but the process is necessarily slow. next comes the quality of mental polarisation. what exactly is this power or quality? for you (at this time) it must express itself in two ways- 40- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. through the life of meditation. 2. through the control of the astral body. increasingly must your inner life be lived upon the mental plane. steadily and without descent must the attitude of meditation be held not for a few minutes each morning or at specific moments throughout the day, but constantly, all day long. it infers a constant orientation to life and the handling of life from the angle of the soul. this does not refer to what is so often referred to as "turning one's back upon the world" the disciple faces the w

ity in one body or another and on one plane or another, the emphasis may be temporarily so strong in some one direction that he may lose sight for a moment of the synthetic point of view of both the plan and the group. physically, he is working under great pressure; emotionally, he may be learning the difficult lesson of detachment and may consequently be full of a temporary rebellion. yet on the mental plane, he is aware of a mental clarity and of a power to think which keeps him incessantly and constructively active. the following three terms, therefore, express quite frequently the disciple's situation where his lower nature is concerned: excessive fatigue, emotional rebellion and mental lucidity. how must he deal with this problem? physical fatigue need not necessarily impair in any wa

er of the personality to the soul "may the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be always acceptable in thy sight, oh soul, my lord and my redeemer" part vii the need for telepathic sensitivity in every group, composed of disciples, is based upon three necessities; i would like you to understand this more clearly. 1. the cultivation of an inter-relation of a telepathic nature upon the mental plane is essential. this has always been an established fact or condition in the case of a master and his disciple and between the senior disciples in any group of accepted disciples. the time has now come when this group quality must for the sake of a needy world be developed by disciples of lesser attainment in the group. 2. this telepathic unfoldment will lead to a greater sensitivity to

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will aspect of the soul and is not the result of any form decision; it is the soul in all forms which reincarnates, choosing and building suitable physical, emotional and mental vehicles through which to learn the next needed lessons. 7. the law of rebirth (as far as humanity is concerned) comes into activity upon the soul plane. incarnation is motivated and directed from the soul level, upon the mental plane. 8. souls incarnate in groups, cyclically, under law and in order to achieve right relations with god and with their fellowmen. 9. progressive unfoldment, under the law of rebirth, is largely conditioned by the mental principle for "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he" these few brief words need most careful consideration. 10. under the law of rebirth, man slowly develops mind, t

ually come into being. world glamour will be dissipated and world illusion be dispelled. within the world of glamour the world of the astral plane and of the emotions appeared, centuries ago, a point of light; the lord of light, the buddha, undertook to focus in himself the illumination which would eventually make possible the dissipation of glamour. within the world of illusion, the world of the mental plane, appeared the christ, the lord of love himself. he undertook to dispel illusion by drawing to himself (by the attractive potency of love) the hearts of all men, and stated this determination in the words "i, if i be lifted up, will draw all men unto me (john xii.32) the combined work of these two great sons of god, concentrated through the world disciples and through their initiates m

pelling of illusion and the recognition of the truth as it exists in the consciousness of those who are polarised in the awareness of the christ. this is necessarily no rapid process; it is an ordered and regulated procedure, sure in its eventual success but relatively slow also in its establishment and sequential process. this process was initiated upon the astral plane by the buddha, and on the mental plane when christ manifested on earth. it indicated the approaching maturity of humanity. the process has been slowly gathering momentum as these two great beings have gathered around them their disciples and initiates, during the past two thousand years. it has reached a point of intensive usefulness as the channel of communication between "the centre where the will of god is known" and th

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rection and their emphasis. one group, under the divine plan, works with the form aspect entirely, and in this group the light of love and of selflessness is absent. the other group is working entirely with the soul or the consciousness aspect, and in this group the doctrine of the heart and the law of love control. in this connection, the two groups are working in opposition, therefore, upon the mental plane- 58- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. the plans, which embody these two differing ideals and objectives, are carried down on to the astral plane, and thus into the world of desire. the lines of demarcation remain ever entirely clear as far as the workers in these two groups are concerned, but are not so clear where ordinary human beings and the world disciples

is, i would tell you, definitely good, and it demonstrates the steady achievement of the great white lodge. the consciousness of humanity has been definitely expanded and the whole world of men at this time is thinking. this is a totally new phenomenon and a fresh experience in the life of the human soul. the first result of all the turmoil has been to shift the focus of human attention on to the mental plane and thereby nearer to the sources of light and love. it is right here and in connection with this eventful change of focus that the world disciples can shoulder responsibility and proceed to active work. when i here speak of disciples, i am using the term in connection with all who aspire to true humanity, to brotherhood, and to the living expression of the higher and spiritual values

ting impulse. it is arrested upon the astral plane. this has been balanced by the cyclic intervention of other ray forces or otherwise the situation would be much worse than it is. the seventh ray disciple will bring the energy which he is wielding right down on to the physical plane, thereby producing integration; and the dualism which characterises it will be that of a centre of energy upon the mental plane and one upon the physical plane. the dualism of the sixth ray worker is that of the pairs of opposites upon the astral plane. it will be apparent, therefore, that, having established the two points of energy (mental and physical, the next task of the worker in magic will be to produce a synthesis upon the physical plane of the available energies, to concretise them, and invest that wh

proceed apace and this is the reason why so many people (as i have earlier hinted) will take the first initiation. students are apt to forget that the first initiation can be described, in reality as: a. the grounding or externalisation of the christ principle in humanity as a whole and upon the physical plane. b. the flowering of the intelligence so that the initiate can work powerfully upon the mental plane and humanity itself be lifted up and aided throughout every part thereby. c. the coming into activity of the throat centre and (because the third ray is closely connected with the first ray) the first faint orientation of spiritual man towards shamballa can take place, becoming more and more intensified and pronounced at the time of the third initiation. i would like here to point out

periodical vehicle the monadic. 8. the first divine aspect will or power. 9. the first or highest type of mediator the coming avatar. 10. the sustaining life, the spiritual sun the central spiritual sun. we will now consider the trend of the times and seasons as far as the rays are concerned: ray i this ray is still out of physical manifestation but is beginning to have a definite effect upon the mental plane; there it influences the minds of disciples everywhere and lays the stage for the appearance of a certain group of disciples from shamballa. two thousand years from today, the influence of this ray will be felt powerfully on the physical plane. one hundred years hence its potency will be noted upon the astral plane- 77- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust ray ii this

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ll its outer contour and externalisation. you know too that a peculiar series of lines (such as, for instance, the three lines forming a triangle) represent such and such an idea or truth or teaching. this is recorded in your brain, drawing on the resources of your memory. the registering of old information and knowledge anent the figures in a symbol serves to pull your consciousness up on to the mental plane and to focus it there in the world of ideas or of concepts. the concepts exist already upon the concrete levels of the mental plane. they are your mental and racial heritage and are ancient mental forms which you can now employ in order to arrive at meaning and significance. it is an ancient statement of fact, which plutarch expresses for us in the familiar words, that "an idea is a b

ation is a relatively profitless one. in a few rare cases, this combination of intuition and mental activity produces the genius in some field or another; but then there is no illusion, but clear thinking, coupled with a trained equipment in that particular field or enterprise. 3. the weaker and more average mental types of people succumb to the general field of illusion and of mass illusion. the mental plane manifests a different sort of distortion to that of the astral plane or the etheric. the faculty of discrimination which is being developed has produced sharper lines of demarcation, and instead of the dense fogs and mists of the astral plane or the swirling tides and currents of energy of the etheric plane, we have on the mental plane masses of sharply indicated thoughtforms of a par

ntuition is evoked, awakened and used. this is the great dispelling agency, and pours down from the plane of the intuition (the plane of buddhi) through the soul and the brain to the heart of the disciple. 2. through alignment and subsequent contact, the energy of the soul is evoked, awakened and used. this is the great dissipating agency, and pours down from soul levels (the higher levels of the mental plane) through the mind to the brain of the disciple carrying illumination to the astral plane. 3. these two types of spiritual energy work differently upon the forces of the personality, and their purpose and activity have to be realised in the brain consciousness of the disciple as he works upon the physical plane. 4. then and only then can the light of the intuition and the light of the

ot; they deify their glamours and regard their illusions as their prized and hard won possessions. the very recognition, in its turn however, carries with it its own problems, so unable is the average disciple to free himself from the glamour-making faculties developed in the past, and so hard does he find it to preserve a due proportion and a proper sense of values in regard to the truths of the mental plane. a hard won truth and a principle of reality can be grasped, and then around it the disciple can build the easily formed illusions of the mind which is just beginning to find itself. the glamours of an emotional nature can emerge and gather about the ideal, for that is as yet unclarified and is prone to attract to itself that which emotionally and sensitively it believes itself to be

through which love can pour, and light can shine. this pouring through and shining forth has to be a spontaneous happening, and contain no self-reference. these two illustrations of glamour and of illusion will show you not only the subtlety of the problem, but also the urgent need for its recognition. there are today so many manifesting these two qualities of the lower nature. 1. glamour on the mental plane. illusion. in this section of our discussion we shall give less time to the consideration of illusion than we shall to that of glamour, or of maya. illusion is not met squarely, faced and overcome until a man has: a. shifted the focus of his consciousness on to the mental plane. b. worked definitely at the task of intelligent service. c. made his soul alignment consciously and easily

ractical working scheme is as yet wholly unsuitable. the equipment does not suffice for accuracy. the ways in which this distortion and this stepping down of the idea take place might be outlined for you as follows: the passage of an idea from the plane of the intuition to the brain. i. the idea is seen by the mind "held steady in the light of the soul" ii. it descends to the higher levels of the mental plane and there clothes itself with the substance of those levels. it remains still an abstraction, from the angle of the lower mind. this point should be carefully noted by the would-be intuitive. iii. the soul throws its light upward and outward, and the idea, nebulous and faint, emerges into the consciousness of the man. it stands revealed, much as an object stands revealed when the brig

lso sensed in the interplay between disciples. frequently, when disciples meet together and thus stimulate each others' minds and centralise each others' focussed attention, they can unitedly make a contact with the world of ideas which would otherwise be impossible, and bring through the newer concepts into being. again, certain great ideas are to be found existing as currents of energy upon the mental plane, and can there be contacted and forced into embodiment through the trained attention of disciples. these currents of mental energy, coloured by a basic idea, are placed there by the hierarchy. when thus contacted and discovered, the neophyte is apt to regard his achievement in a personal way and attribute the idea to his own wisdom and power. you will note therefore the great need for

s right expression. this happens far more often than you might think. it concerns the higher interpretations of the hindu aphorism: better one's own dharma than the dharma of another. this is illusion through wrong discrimination where substance is concerned. its cause is lack of esoteric training in creative activity. its cure is the application of fifth ray methods, which are the methods of the mental plane. this form of error seldom applies to the average aspirant and concerns an illusion which is the testing applied to many initiates of fairly high degree. the ordinary disciple, such as you and others in this group, seldom touch a pure idea, and hence seldom need to embody it. 7. through wrong application of ideas. how often does this form of illusion descend upon a disciple! he contac

uch as you and others in this group, seldom touch a pure idea, and hence seldom need to embody it. 7. through wrong application of ideas. how often does this form of illusion descend upon a disciple! he contacts an idea intuitively and also intelligently (note the distinction here expressed) and misapplies it. this is perhaps an aspect of the synthetic illusion or the illusion of the whole of the mental plane, as modern man contacts it. illusion varies from age to age, according to what the hierarchy is attempting to do, or according to the general trend of men's thoughts. the disciple can therefore be swept into a wrong activity and a wrong application of ideas because the general illusion (growing out of the six types of illusion to which i have referred above) is over-dominant in his mi

realisation, there entered for a moment a sense of loss and of negation, forcing from his dying personality that tremendous utterance which has bewildered, and at the same time comforted, so many. this signified the surmounting of the final synthetic illusion. when that has been dispelled, illusion, as it can be understood in the human family, disappears. the man stands free. the illusion of the mental plane can no longer deceive him. his mind is a pure instrument for the reflection of light and of truth. the glamours of the astral plane have no further hold over him, and the astral body itself fades out. you will remember that i hinted to you in a treatise on white magic that the astral body itself was an illusion. it is the definition of the illusory mind upon the mental plane of that w

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of the new ideas from the buddhic levels, thus awakening the intuitional aspect of the disciple, indicates that his soul is beginning to integrate consciously and definitely with the spiritual triad, and therefore to identify itself less and less with the lower reflection, the personality. this mental sensitivity and rapport between soul and mind remain for a long time relatively inchoate on the mental plane. that which is sensed remains too vague or too abstract for formulation. it is the stage of the mystical vision and of mystical unfoldment. 6. telepathic work between soul, mind and brain. in this stage the mind still remains the recipient of impression from the soul but, in its turn, it becomes a "transmitting agent" or communicator. the impressions received from the soul, and the in

orted reflections on the physical plane. these you might like to ponder upon, and trace the correspondences between them. what is "mass psychology" with its unreasoning quality and its blind activity, but a massed reaction to solar plexus impressions as passed from group to group? what is "public opinion" so called, but vague mental reactions by the mass of men beginning to grope their way on the mental plane, to the activity and play of more active and powerful minds? the written and spoken words are not in themselves adequate to account for the display of modern opinion as we now have it. what is the apparently accurate information, so rapidly circulated among the savage races, but an expression of that instinctual telepathy which uses the vital body and the pranic fluids as its medium?

se that which you send out. c. by sending forth the "clothed" idea, impression, etc, on a stream of love which your brother alert, receptive and waiting will attract to himself by the means of his conscious love for you. 2. by the use of mental energy through the effort to polarise yourself upon the mental levels of consciousness. by a definite act of the will you lift your consciousness onto the mental plane and hold it there. this action is a reflection upon a lower plane, and in the brain consciousness, of the mind's ability to hold itself in the light. the success of all telepathic work you do, as a group or as individuals, will be dependent upon your capacity to "hold yourselves steady in the light" mentally. the difference is that this time you do it for the purpose of the planned wo

siveness. this will be, outstandingly, the glory of the aquarian age. as the race achieves increasingly a mental polarisation through the developing attractive power of the mental principle, the use of language for the conveying of thoughts between equals or of communicating with superiors will fall into disuse. it will continue to be used in reaching the masses and those not functioning upon the mental plane. already voiceless prayer and aspiration and worship are deemed of higher value than the pleadings and proclamations of voiced expression. it is for this stage in the unfoldment of the race for which preparation must be made, and the laws, techniques and process of telepathic communication must be made plain so that they can be intelligently and theoretically understood. disciples mus

active in the mental creation of the needed thoughtforms. the mind, rightly trained, will seize upon the fugitive impression, subject it to the concretising effect of mental activity, produce the required form, and this, when correctly created and oriented, will finally lead to the externalising of the registered impression, as it took form in an intuition and eventually found its place upon the mental plane. you will see also why disciples and world workers have to function as minds, as receptive and perceptive intelligences and as creators in mental matter. it is all related to this science of impression with which we have been dealing. you will note also that this whole process is capable of expansion in the processes of meditation, so that the aspirant can be sensitive to impression a

learly perceived by the higher initiate as are the sights and sounds of the physical plane as you contact it in your daily round of duties. the world of energies, with its streams of directed force and its centres of concentrated light is likewise present, and the eye of the see-er can see it, just as the eye of the mental clairvoyant can see the geometrical pattern which thoughts assume upon the mental plane, or as the lower psychic can contact the glamours- 31- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the illusions and delusions of the astral world. the subjective realm is vitally more real than is the objective, once it is entered and known. it is simply (how simple to some and how insuperably difficult to others, apparently) a question of the acceptance, first of al

lane, down through the ages, have unfolded one sense after another; one form of sensitive response after another becomes possible as the mechanism is produced, until the human being can receive impressions from the physical plane and rightly interpret them; can respond to the emotional contacts of the astral plane and succumb to them or surmount them; and can become telepathic to the world of the mental plane, thus sharing physically, emotionally and mentally in the life and contacts of the three worlds which constitute his environment and in which he is submerged whilst in incarnation. what he gets out of this life of constant impression is largely dependent upon his power to invoke his environment and draw from it (in evocative response) what he needs in all the various departments of hi

relationship at this stage non-existent. this will not greatly matter, because when the disciple begins to realise certain differences, a new type of registration will awaken and guide the disciple's consciousness. this stage, which embraces the second type of impression in its earliest forms, can be quite a long one, for it covers a very definite period of transition from the astral plane to the mental plane. the time equation varies according to ray and the age of the soul. sixth ray people, for instance, are very slow in making this transition, owing to the pronounced factor of glamour; first and second ray people are relatively quick. third ray people are also slow, for they are lost in the threads of their own glamorous manipulations and their devious thinking, and hardly know where t

act with his soul; it deepens and grows as those contacts increase in frequency and become eventually an habitual state of consciousness; then, at will and at all times, he is en rapport with his soul, the second divine aspect. paralleling spiritual development it is this aura which is in reality the reservoir of thought-substance upon which he can spiritually rely. his point of focus is upon the mental plane. he is no longer controlled by the astral nature; he is successfully constructing the antahkarana along which the higher impressions can flow; he learns not to dissipate this inflow but to accumulate within the aura (with which he has surrounded himself) the knowledge and the wisdom which he realises his service to his fellowmen requires. a disciple is a magnetic centre of light and k

f prana which composes the etheric vehicles: 1. the health aura. this is essentially physical. 2. the astral aura, which is usually by far the most dominant factor, extensive and controlling. 3. the mental aura, which is in most cases relatively small but which develops rapidly once the disciple takes his own development consciously in hand, or once the polarisation of the personality is upon the mental plane. the time will eventually come when the mental aura will obliterate (if i may use such an inadequate term) the emotional or astral aura, and then the soul quality of love will create a substitute, so that the needed sensitivity does not entirely disappear but is of a higher and far more acute nature. in this threefold aura (or more correctly, fourfold, if you count the etheric vehicle

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

. they are those who can discard or pass through the etheric body of the solar logos and take forms composed of either gaseous, liquid, or dense substance. the others cannot. they cannot fall into physical generation- 26- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust students must bear in mind that from the standpoint of the logos, the solar angels on the mental plane (the fifth subplane of the cosmic physical plane) are in physical incarnation, and what is called the "second fall" applies to this. the first fall has reference to the taking of a form of cosmic etheric matter, such as is the case with the heavenly men, the prototypes of the human jivas. in this latter case the bodies used are called "formless" from our standpoint, and are "vital bod

e ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses this symbology linking them up with "the son of divine love" the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. we have, therefore, a direct stream of energy flowing through: a. the logoic twelve-petalled egoic lotus, cosmic mental plane. b. the solar twelve-petalled lotus. c. the planetary logoic heart, also a twelve-petalled lotus. d. the twelve-petalled human egoic lotus on the mental plane. e. the twelve-petalled heart centre in a human being. or, to word it otherwise, energy flows direct from: a. the solar logos, via three great cosmic centres: 1. the central spiritual sun. 2. the heart of the sun- 28- a treatise

e, energy flows direct from: a. the solar logos, via three great cosmic centres: 1. the central spiritual sun. 2. the heart of the sun- 28- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the physical sun. b. the heart centre of the planetary logos, situated on the fourth cosmic etheric plane (our buddhic plane. c. the egoic lotus of a human being on the mental plane, which is literally a correspondence to the "heart of the sun" the monadic point is a reflection in the human system of the "central spiritual sun" d. the heart centre of a man on the etheric plane of the physical plane, which is in its turn a correspondence to the physical sun. thus the tiny atom is linked with the great central life of the solar system. this fifth hierarchy is equal

, the liquid and gaseous, with the living substance of the four higher subplanes of the systemic dense physical body. c. the fifth hierarchy has an interesting position as the "mediating" body between the higher four and those which are found on the lower three subplanes. there is a vital and significant correspondence to be found between the seven head centres and the seven groups of egos on the mental plane, and there is an occult analogy between the three head centres (pineal gland, pituitary body, and the alta major centre) and the expression of these seven groups of egos in the three worlds. this is a most esoteric fact, and all students meditating upon the laws of- 29- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust at-one-ment must take this a

onciliation goes forward. 1. upon the physical plane we find the merging of the dense and the etheric forces. this is- 33- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust consummated upon the path of purification. 2. upon the astral plane there must come the resolution of the pairs of opposites. this is consummated upon the path of discipleship. 3. upon the mental plane the angel of the presence and the dweller on the threshold are brought face to face. their synthesis is brought about upon the path of initiation. what is true of man in this connection is true also of humanity as a whole, of the planetary logos of the earth, as of all planetary logoi, and of a solar logos. the analogy between the fusion of the pairs of opposites, for instance, upon t

be seen in the conscious and directed fusion of the planetary forces with the energy of any specific planet or group of planets. the analogy, involving discrimination to regulate and offset the force of the pairs of opposites upon the astral plane, can be seen when the energies of the sun sign and of the planets are perfectly directed and adjusted. the analogy can also be carried forward onto the mental plane and when the energies of the sun sign and the rising sign are coherently blended and expressed (in the case of both the individual or a planetary life) there comes a point of crisis wherein the soul and the personality are brought face to face. the angel of the presence, distributing solar fire and holding focussed electric fire, and the dweller on the threshold, expressing and utilis

d the "planetary pattern" then emerges. 2. the horoscope of the human family, of the fourth kingdom in nature, regarding it as an entity, which it essentially is. this is in reality the study of two horoscopes, as in the above case; the- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust horoscope of the kingdom of souls, of the divine sons of god upon the mental plane, and the study of the entity which is the coherent life of the form side of the fourth kingdom in nature. this is again done by superimposing the two charts. these charts are drawn on a large scale and on a transparent material of which humanity knows nothing. upon these charts are noted the pattern which emerges when "soul and personality are brought together" and present conditions

logy copyright 1998 lucis trust in view of all the above, and starting with the basic fact of the great illusion it should be remembered that the accuracy of astrological prediction and interpretation will be based upon three factors: 1. the potency of the thoughtforms which have been built up in connection with the twelve signs. these thoughtforms were originally constructed or anchored upon the mental plane by the hierarchy in atlantean days and they have steadily gained in power ever since. they serve as focal points for certain forces and enable the individual, for instance, to be in touch with great reservoirs of energy which then definitely condition him. 2. the intuition of the astrologer. the casting of the horoscope serves to put the astrologer en rapport with the individual, but

ordered sequence. herein lies one of the secrets of initiation, and herein are found some of the dangers entailed in a too quick publication of information concerning the rays. 1. the pranic triangle. a. the shoulder centre. b. the centre near the diaphragm. c. the spleen. 2. man controlled from the astral plane. a. the base of spine. b. the solar plexus. c. the heart. 3. man controlled from the mental plane. a. the base of spine. b. the heart. c. the throat. 4. man partially controlled by the ego, advanced man. a. the heart. b. the throat. c. the head, i.e, the four lesser centres and their synthesis, the ajna centre. 5. spiritual man to the third initiation. a. the heart. b. the throat. c. the seven head centres. 6. spiritual man to the fifth initiation. a. the heart. b. the seven head

dentifies himself with form or even with soul, but with the will of divinity and with the eternal plan and purpose. it becomes his plan and purpose. he knows no other in a sense which is unknown even to an initiate of the third degree. he then enters into the council chamber of god; he becomes a part of the conclave at shamballa; he functions no longer simply as a member of the hierarchy upon the mental plane. he can now function through all the three world centres humanity, the hierarchy and shamballa. aries initiates the cycle of manifestation. all souls, as individual entities, come into human- 56- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust incarnation for the first time in the sign of cancer, emerging as mental entities in the sign aries, as

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1998 lucis trust intelligentsia, and for the disciples of the world may, and do, differ widely not so much in their expression as in their field of expression. this is a point most difficult for the average healer to recognise; it is not easy or possible for him to grasp these distinctions and to gauge the point in evolution which a man may have reached. some diseases must be dealt with from the mental plane, and will call in the mind of the healer; others require a concentration of emotional energy by the healing agent; and again, in other cases, the healer should seek to be only a transmitter of pranic energy to the etheric body of the patient, via his own etheric body. how many healers are really consciously aware of the focus of the consciousness or the life force in the patient with

voidable. the astral plane is a centre of dynamic emanating force, which is fundamentally conditioning in its effect because of the stage of the individual consciousness at which that majority finds itself. men are swayed by the impulse of desire of a high or low calibre. this is, of course, a broad generalisation, for that basic condition is becoming steadily modified by impulses coming from the mental plane. this necessarily complicates the problem. influences emanating from the soul- 33- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust are also becoming appreciably present, and still further complicate the problem of the advanced human being. this "problem of complication (if i might so call it) constitutes a "hard saying" for the student to understan

ny such cycles, and has broken in also on the rhythm to which the female body should be subordinated, and which rightly understood would determine the use of the sex relationship, including naturally the male impulse also. this failure to live by the law of periodicity and to subordinate the appetites to cyclic control is one of the major causes of disease; and as these laws are given form on the mental plane, one might legitimately say that their infringement has a mental basis. this might be the case if the race were working mentally, but it is not. it is in the modern world of today that there is beginning a widespread infringement of these mental laws, particularly of the law of cycles, which determines the tides, controls world events and should also condition the individual and so es

wer of thought, have in no case been the cause of trouble. it has been caused by the obliteration of the original thought and its stepping- 58- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust down to the level of emotionalism. when this stepping down and eventual control by astral forces does not take place, and the thought remains clear and untouched upon the mental plane, there may be trouble of another kind, due to a failure to "carry through" the thought into effective action upon the physical plane. this failure produces not only the cleavage in the personality so well known to the practicing psychologist, but also a cutting off of a much needed stream of energy. as a consequence, the physical body is devitalised and falls heir to bad health. when

ing them to activity of some kind often good and spiritual, sometimes evil, antagonistic and dangerous. he has therefore to deal not only with his own reactions to the work he is doing, but also, in a general and specific sense, to deal with the masses whom he is beginning to affect. this is not an easy thing to do, particularly for an inexperienced worker with the plan. he fluctuates between the mental plane, where he normally attempts to function, and the astral plane, where the masses of men are focussed, and this brings him into the realm of glamour and consequent danger. he goes out in consciousness towards those he seeks to help, but it is sometimes as a soul (and then he frequently overstimulates his hearers, and sometimes as a personality (and then he feeds and enhances their perso

ill be far more difficult for the orthodox thinker to accept. chapter ii- causes emanating from group life in considering disease and its basic causes, we have dealt particularly with those which concern our aryan race and modern humanity; these are largely astral in origin and might be described as atlantean in nature. we have briefly considered also the various diseases which originate upon the mental plane; these are more strictly aryan and involve also the ills to which disciples are prone. infectious diseases and those which are fundamental in the planetary substance have a potent effect upon those races (still among us) which are the oldest on our planet, and which are related to the fast dying out lemurian types; negroes are specially prone to infectious epidemics. i have not attemp

he did sufficed to heal the breach. he widened all- 178- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust cleavages, erected barriers, and sought to make still wider gaps" it has been most difficult to describe the nature of the imperfection of the energy of the lord of the fifth ray. in the activity of this energy which demonstrates primarily upon the fifth or mental plane will be found eventually the source of many psychological disorders and mental trouble. cleavage is the outstanding characteristic cleavage within the individual or between the individual and his group, rendering him anti-social. i have dealt with this in an earlier part of this treatise and need not further enlarge upon the difficulties here (in esoteric psychology, vol. ii of a trea

e. you will find it difficult to find a person or a patient "changing his focus of attention from physical to emotional" he will be either emotional or mental, and at brief times, and from a purely physiological standpoint, physical. the clearest lines of demarcation are to be seen in the case of disciples who are definitely and consciously endeavouring to shift their focus of attention on to the mental plane. nevertheless, they live predominantly in a region which we call kama-manasic, which means both astral and mental. it is an intermediate level of consciousness. only broad generalisations are therefore possible. such a generalisation is that syphilitic conditions are more generally physical in their origin than cancer. clear lines of demarcation are not possible, and you must always r

ase. do "psychological causes of disease" register in brain symptoms before reflexing to other parts of the body? a sentence in the light of the soul has a bearing here "the brain, for instance, is the 'shadow' or the external organ of the mind, and it will be found by the investigator that the contents of the brain cavity have a correspondence to the aspects of the human mechanism found upon the mental plane" bear in mind that the life force works through the heart, utilising the blood stream, whilst the consciousness aspect works through the brain, using the nervous system. this is the first and most important point to grasp. psychological causes of disease register in the brain or (if of a very low order) in the solar plexus. they do not, however, make their presence felt as symptoms of

ay act as a blind. symbolically speaking, the period of intensest meditation of our planetary logos comes around at the full moon period each month; just as you have your daily meditation so he in his high place, has his cyclic point of contact. this produces the pouring in of radiance and the entering in of energy both subjective and objective. for all true students, therefore, their work on the mental plane is facilitated; they are enabled then to meditate more successfully and to attain realisation with greater ease. they definitely share in the achievement of the lord of shamballa. the moon, as you know, is a shell, an ancient form through which the planetary logos at one time sought expression. it is slowly disintegrating physically but not astrally as yet, and is therefore still clos

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

enable him to play his part in the work of the world and fit him for living peaceably and helpfully and in harmony with his neighbours. second, it must enable him to bridge the gap between the various aspects of his own mental nature, and herein lies the major emphasis of the instructions which i am now purposing to give you. in the esoteric philosophy we are taught, as well you know, that on the mental plane there are three aspects of the mind, or of that mental creature we call a man. these three aspects constitute the most important part of his nature: 1. his lower concrete mind, the reasoning principle. it is with this aspect of the man that our educational processes profess to deal. 2. that son of mind, which we call the ego or soul. this is the intelligence principle, and is called b

words in writing is the measure of the grasp he may have of these universal ideas. arithmetic (and the power to add, to subtract, and to multiply) is related also to the creative process and concerns the production of those forms upon the physical plane which will adequately produce the idea and bring it to manifestation. vision might be regarded as concerning itself with the higher levels of the mental plane, whereon the idea is sensed and seen. writing has a more definite relation to the concrete levels of the mental plane and to the ability of the man to bring through and express these visioned ideas in his own particular form. arithmetic has a definite relation to subsequent aspects of the process and to the emergence of the idea into some correlated form upon the physical plane. the v

om a point within the brain, straight through to the inner mechanism. this thread, however, is not identified with the mechanism, but with the consciousness in man. through the means of this thread a man becomes aware of his emotional life in its many forms (note this phraseology, and through it he becomes aware of the world of thought; he learns to think and begins to function consciously on the mental plane, in which the thinkers of the race a steadily increasing number live and move and have their being. increasingly he learns to tread this path of consciousness, and thereby ceases to be identified with the animal outer form and learns to identify himself with the inner qualities and attributes. he lives first the life of dreams, and then the life of thought. then the time comes when th

ng powers, tapping the resources of dynamic energy in the three worlds: lower types of humanity use the sutratma as it passes through the etheric body. average men utilise almost entirely that part of the sutratma which passes through the astral plane. their reactions are largely based on desire, and are emotional. intellectual men utilise the sutratma as it passes through the lower levels of the mental plane, down through the astral to the physical in its two sections. their activities are energised by mind and not by desire, as in the earlier cases- 25- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust aspirants of the physical plane use the sutratma as it passes through the two lower subplanes of the abstract levels of the mental plane, and are beginning gradually to build the antahka

9. the extension of this concept of bridging will be developed to include not only the internal history of man, but also the bridging between him and his fellowmen on all levels. 10. it will include also the training of the human mechanism to respond to life impacts, and to the soul. this soul is essentially intelligence, vitally used on each plane. it functions as the discriminating mind on the mental plane, as the sensitive consciousness on the emotional plane, and as the active participator in physical life. this intelligent activity is always used from the wisdom angle. 11. the new education will take into consideration: a. the mind and its relation to the energy body, the etheric body, which underlies the nervous system and which galvanises the physical body into activity. b. the min

science of the antahkarana. this is the new and true science of the mind, which will utilise mental substance for the building of the bridge between personality and soul, and then between the soul and the spiritual triad. this constitutes active work in substance subtler than the substance of the three worlds of ordinary human evolution. it concerns the substance of the three higher levels of the mental plane. these symbolic bridges, when constructed, will facilitate the stream or flow of consciousness and will produce that continuity of consciousness, or that sense of unimpeded awareness, which will finally end the fear of death, negate all sense of separateness, and make a man responsive in his brain consciousness to impressions coming to him from the higher spiritual realms or from the

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

the veil but are still actively cooperating with the group, and receiving the same instructions from me. i can, however, approach them more directly, as the limitations imposed by the physical brain no longer exist. p.d.w, though the latest to pass over, was held by the handicap of the astral body for an exceedingly brief time; he is now focussed and working in connection with my ashram, upon the mental plane. c.d.p. is now in process of freeing herself from astral limitations, and by the time the sun moves- 20- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust northward she too will be working entirely mentally. they are both of them of real service to me at this time of world need, one owing to her understanding heart and utter selflessness, the other because of his outst

ry 1946 to my group of affiliated disciples: since i last communicated with you the outer aspects of the world war, the carnage and the slaughter are over, except in a few sporadic instances. the struggle now being waged is to reach a point of stabilisation in human thinking and understanding from which a true and reliable peace can emerge. on the emotional plane, there is as yet no peace. on the mental plane, a great and deep-seated cleavage is going on and the occult significance of certain words, enunciated by the christ when in palestine, is being worked out. he gave them as the keynote for the particular subjective happening which is taking place at this time. he said "he that is not with me is against me" this refers to the after-effects of the conflict between the forces of light an

tlined is a natural sequence to the one which presumably you followed all last year. stage one. preliminary. pass rapidly through the steps of recognition, consideration and fixed determination. these, if correctly followed, will bring you to the point at which this new meditation starts. then proceed as follows: stage two. the centre of focussed thought. 1. polarise yourself consciously upon the mental plane, tuning out all lower vibrations and reactions. 2. then orient yourself to the spiritual triad, through an act of the will and the imaginative use of the antahkarana. 3. next, take your theme word under consideration and ponder deeply upon it for at least five minutes. endeavour to extract its quality and life, thus lifting it and your thought to as high a plane as possible. 4. then s

e to humanity as a whole. 3. holding the mind in the light, you will then write down the first thought (no matter what it is) that enters into your waiting mind in connection with the theme of your meditation. the ability to do this will grow with practice, and will eventually evoke the intuition and thus fertilise your mind. 4. again sound the om, with the intent of refocussing yourself upon the mental plane. if your work has been successful, your original focus will have shifted to intuitional levels or to the levels of the higher, abstract mind, via the antahkarana. this must happen, in time, if your work- 101- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust has been faithfully followed. but bear ever in your thought that you must work as a mind, and not as an aspirant

reflection of the technique of the hierarchy and the way the masters work (though on a much higher turn of the spiral) in times of crisis, or when there is need for all the groups or ashrams as there is today to unite in some endeavour, necessitated by the need of humanity or by some planetary emergency. the masters, starting their work on one of the planes of the spiritual triad, instead of the mental plane as do their disciples, concentrate on the "theme" under their consideration, during the period of three full moons. they then meet in conclave and each makes his contribution to the joint problem, as also does the christ and, at critical times, members of the council chamber of sanat kumara. on the basis of the proposals, and after due analysis and discussion, the united decision is t

ration and fixed determination- 103- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust ii. the centre of focussed thought: 1. polarisation. 2. orientation. 3. meditation on theme word. 4. om. pause. iii. the recipient of impression: 1. statement of highest idea received. 2. relation of theme to present world opportunity. 3. write down first thought then received. 4. om. refocus on mental plane. iv. the analyser of ideas: 1. period of analytic thought. 2. summarise conclusions practically. 3. breathe out the idea into the world of thought. 4. om. v. the transmitter of ideas: 1. dedication of yourself to service. 2. pledge yourself to the master. 3. say the mantram "the sons of men are one" vi. intensive work at the time of the full moon along established lines. part vii apri

ishing relationships and equally active intelligence in the use of the two higher energies. it must not be forgotten that the energy of intelligence, focussed in the mind, is the instrument or implementing agency of the other two monadic energies. h.p.b. taught that the antahkarana was primarily the channel of energy relating forms and their forces to their originating sources and that across the mental plane (with its three aspects of mind) the life thread necessarily passed, linking monad, soul and personality into one living whole. technically speaking, therefore, there is no need for the so-called bridge, except for one important factor: there is, on the part of the soul-infused personality, a definite break in consciousness between the lower mind and the abstract mind. the higher mind

and of attaining sequentially and stage by stage an ever more inclusive awareness. this is good to bear in mind, for eventually all this symbolic picturing will give place to reality. the task and it is a real one of building the antahkarana and creating that which will bridge the gap is in truth the planned and conscious effort to project the focussed thought of the spiritual man from the lower mental plane into areas of awareness which have been sensed but not contacted; it entails using the totality of the awareness already developed and already "enlightened" by the soul, and (with deliberation) making it increasingly sensitive to the focussed activity of the world of the higher spiritual realities; it is directing the stream of conscious thought towards the sensed and theoretically re

the hierarchy, and to reach eventually the door to the way of the higher evolution. he will at the same time function in the three worlds as a serving disciple. with this simple presentation of the antahkarana, you may find it easier to work during the coming year. as this thought-projection process or exercise becomes a part of your normal state of mind, it will serve also to focus you upon the mental plane, thus withdrawing your attention from the world of the emotions and of desire or aspiration and placing you "upon the lighted point upon the lighted way, where light may shine and show a star which shines above the brow of the initiator- 138- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust i suggest to you that you take the seven meditations and work regularly with t

ghts; the members of this group are to a certain extent extra-planetary. they are affiliated with shamballa and focus cosmic creative energy, thus making it available (on demand) to the members of the council chamber at shamballa. there is little that we need consider about them; they are the "helpers of the lord of the world" and implement his purposes as they are formulated by him on the cosmic mental plane. the point which i seek to emphasise, and which i hope will remain in your minds, is that this technique of meditation is the outstanding creative agent on our planet. when you, as an individual, are endeavouring to "build the new man in christ" which will be an expression of your true spiritual self, meditation is, as you well know, your best agent; but the meditation process must be

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iples and workers. the difficulty can, in the main, be traced back to the overstimulation and the undue strain placed upon the mechanism of the bodies, which the world of souls (in physical incarnation) have to employ as they seek to manifest on the physical plane and so respond to their environment. the flow of energy, pouring through from the astral plane and (in a lesser degree) from the lower mental plane, is brought in contact with bodies that are unresponsive at first, and over-responsive later; it pours into brain cells which, from lack of use, are unaccustomed to the powerful rhythm imposed upon them; and humanity's equipment of knowledge is so poor that the majority have- 4- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust not sense enough to proceed with caution an

s with it the slightest weight of authority; and also that i am aware of the frequent futility of such appeals for cooperation. the history of the world of thought evidences the fact that men are oft thrilled and enlightened and aided by ideas and by the promise of a developing future, but that when their aid is sought in the materialising of the idea, then their hope and interest fade out on the mental plane, or if it reaches the world of emotion and of strong desire the sacrifice required to bring the hope to birth on the physical plane is lacking or too feeble to produce the longed-for result. what i have to say as a result of the urgency upon me to bring about a more intensive cooperation upon the part of those who read with interest the pamphlet the next three years*(2) carries not th

adjustments, relationships and methods of living. a culture is essentially an expression of the intellectually and vitally mental significances and the state of consciousness of the mentally polarised people of the race, of the intelligentsia or of those who constitute the link between the inner world of soul life and the outer world of tangible phenomena. in those words the raison d' tre of the mental plane is concisely stated. its function in this connection will be increasingly understood during the next few decades. the masses are negative to the plane of desire and of feeling, and the civilisation of any age is largely the exteriorisation of that particular level of consciousness. the intelligentsia are positive and their positive mental orientation produces the culture of their time

eir essential selves and when they so choose, carry on simultaneously two different lines of activity both of real import. they can pursue their normal avocations upon the physical plane (if functioning in physical bodies) and when so doing are conditioned in the performance of those activities by the brain limitations of time consciousness and space consciousness. but they can also work upon the mental plane with the chitta or mind stuff, and can do this at the same time as they are conditioned and limited by their physical mechanism. they are then entirely freed from the time consciousness and from any such limitations as space relations within the solar system. 2. the focus of their polarisation is on the mental plane and they function there as sons of mind or of manas. their normal mod

ent. they are themselves coordinated. b. to bring about contact with the soul, on the part of the patient. they are themselves vitally in contact. c. to fuse and blend the personality and the soul and thus provide an instrument for the distribution of spiritual energy. they are themselves thus fused. d. to understand and use the laws of true spiritual healing through intelligent activity upon the mental plane, through freedom from glamour, and through such a right use of force that the instrument of the soul (the personality) becomes vitally magnetic. i would remind you that such effort in the early stages (and those stages are the present ones) results inevitably in the development of a critical spirit through the intelligent effort being made and the discriminative recognition of glamour

lish very much because the person using them has no real understanding of their import and purpose and is usually so focussed in his emotional, aspirational, astral nature that all that he says and does (in connection with such words of power) is entirely innocuous and futile. words of power, ancient mantrams (such as the lord's prayer) and the great invocation are only effective if used upon the mental plane and with the power of a controlled mind focussed on their intent and meaning behind the spoken effort. they then become potent. when said with- 94- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust the power of the soul as well as with the directed attention of the mind, they automatically become dynamically effective. students all the world over have for years used the

rocess therefore brings into activity the will, the love and the intelligence of the man who is using these words and formulas. frequently, however, an hiatus occurs even when a man has integrated these three controlling factors within himself as far as he is able to do so at his particular point in evolution. all that he has succeeded in doing is the retaining of the created thoughtform upon the mental plane; he fails to make its presence felt upon the physical plane and to achieve the desired results because his brain (the lower receiving and distributing centre within the head) is incapable of the needed dual activity retaining awareness of the intent, meaning and purpose of the formula being used and, at the same time, carrying on the task of sending forth the potency, hidden yet conve

hierarchy, via our own souls; rightly to use the great invocation as souls, and rightly to render ourselves responsive to and sensitive to the resultant effects. ponder on the above. it might, therefore, be noted that the forces of light express themselves through the hierarchy of light and their major effect is the illumination of the minds of men with love and light. this precipitates upon the mental plane. the personality or the form aspect of humanity is thereby pervaded and illumined. thus the third great planetary centre, humanity, becomes creative and magnetic, and two divine aspects intelligence and love will reach fruition upon the physical plane, making it possible for the first aspect and the will of god (understood by humanity as the plan) to be consciously carried forward on

ignificance. let me put some of these significances in tabular form- 106- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust let the forces of light bring illumination to mankind intermediary..the hierarchy. soul consciousness agent..t. he buddha expression..l. ight. understanding. the illumined mind planes of emphasis..the second or monadic plane the buddhic or intuitional plane the mental plane focal point..the head centre planetary centre..t. he hierarchy let the spirit of peace be spread abroad intermediary..shamballa. spiritual consciousness agent..t. he christ expression..t. he will of god as love and peace sentient response planes of emphasis..the logoic or first plane the buddhic, or intuitional plane the astral or emotional plane focal point..the heart centre planetar

or intuitional plane the astral or emotional plane focal point..the heart centre planetary centre..s. hamballa may men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation intermediary..humanity itself. self-consciousness agent..t. he lord of civilisation expression..i.ntelligent love, dedicated to the plan creativity the will-to-good planes of emphasis..the atmic or plane of spiritual will the mental plane the physical plane focal point..the throat centre planetary centre..h. umanity thus all the great centres are linked and all the planes are interrelated; the past has contributed its finished work; the present is evoking its just and right development; the future of wonder and of divine possibility appears its results contingent upon a spirit of right understanding and invocation. thr

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

the seven rays volume v by alice a. bailey copyright 1960 by lucis trust copyright renewed 1988 by lucis trust part one the fourteen rules for group initiation preliminary remarks it might be here of value, my brothers, if i again laid emphasis upon the fact that the formless world is only entered when the aspirant has acquired somewhat the capacity to center himself on the abstract levels of the mental plane. this involves necessarily certain developments within the aspirant's own nature. the demanded contact would otherwise be impossible. what is needed is self-exertion, the resultant developments of which might be touched upon as follows: i. the repolarisation of the entire lower man so that his attitude toward the aggregate of forms which make up his field of general contact has change

parencies, permitting the full shining forth of the divine nature. an expansion of consciousness, which is brought about through the ability of the self to identify with its real nature as the onlooker, and no longer regarding itself as the organ of perception. iii. a re-alignment of the lower sheaths so that the contact with the real man, the thinker, the solar angel, on the higher levels of the mental plane may become complete and continuous. this only becomes possible as the other two points are beginning to be grasped and the theory as to man's constitution and purpose is somewhat understood. as meditation is practiced, as the lower bodies are painstakingly dominated, and as the nature of the sutratma or thread is better comprehended it will become increasingly possible to bring into t

occasions arise in meditation when "behind the group there stands the door; before them opens out the way" this is the lower correspondence of the higher initiate-experience with which our rule is dealing. again, this time in relation to the soul, comes the repetition of the discovery of the door, its use and its appearance, finally, behind the initiate. this time the door must be found upon the mental plane, and not as earlier upon the etheric level; this is brought about by the aid of the soul and of the lower mind and through the revealing power of the clear cold light of the reason. when discovered, the "revelation of a terrible though beautiful experiment" faces the initiate. he finds that this time alignment is not his need, but the definite undertaking of a creative work the buildi

he sublimation of the intellect, and the light of the spiritual will, which is the revelation of the enfolding purpose. the first is focussed in the ashram, and the second in the hierarchy as a whole, and both of them are the expression of the activity of the spiritual triad. let me make myself clearly understood, if possible. you have, therefore, three great lights, all of them focussed upon the mental plane, for beyond that plane the symbolism of light is not used; divinity is known as life, where the monad and its expression, the spiritual triad, are concerned. all the lights are finally focussed upon the mental plane: 1. the blended light of soul and personality. 2. the light of the egoic group which, when forming a recognised group in the consciousness of- 48- a treatise on the seven

n the planetary body and embodying the light which understanding of the plan and cooperation with that plan produce, and which comes from identification upon mental levels with the spiritual will. all these three aspects of light can be described as: 1. the light which is thrown upward. this is the lesser light, from the angle of the monad. 2. the light which the spiritual triad reflects upon the mental plane. 3. the focussed light which is produced by the meeting of the two lights, the higher and the lower. these are the higher correspondence of the blazing forth of the light in the head, when the light of the personality and the light of the soul make contact. beyond the mental plane, the initiatory impulse or emphasis is upon the life aspect, upon dynamic energy, and upon the cause of m

love) across the space separating the triad and the personality, he discovers that he is a part of a group. this group recognition faulty and unintelligently expressed at first is the factor which enables him to pass, along the anchored thread, into the ashram of a master. from the angle of the old teaching, the ashram of the master and the focus of the hierarchy were on the higher levels of the mental plane. today, that is not so. they are on the plane of spiritual love, of the intuition and of buddhi. the hierarchy is both retreating towards the higher centre of shamballa, and at the same time advancing towards the lower centre, humanity. both these activities have been made possible by man himself; the growing intuitive perception of humanity, in its higher brackets, enables him to fun

l significance. it brings in a factor of great interest, from the angle of initiation. you must bear in mind that when the antahkarana is constructed and in use, there is consequently a free play of energy in a direct line between the spiritual triad and the personality; i.e, between the monad and its "earthly anchor" you will also remember that the soul body, the form on the higher levels of the mental plane which has "shrouded" the soul, eventually disappears. this, as you know, takes place at the fourth initiation and is one of the best recognised facts in the occult teaching. in the three worlds, the correspondence to this disappearance of the form of the second divine aspect, the soul, is the dissolution of the astral body the second aspect of the personality. then the personality sta

buddhas of activity, who are the cosmic prototypes of the lords of the three major rays, but not in the sense usually understood when the rays are considered in their relation to man. they are the correspondence of these three rays and are responsible for the entire manifested universe, but only within the orbit of the third aspect, the expression of the universal mind. they come from the cosmic mental plane, just as the energy distinctive of the second aspect comes from the cosmic astral plane. god is mind. god is intelligent functioning. god is creative activity. these are the qualities of the deva evolution. god is love. god is relationship. god is consciousness. these are the three qualities of the christ evolution. this latter evolution is carried on within the created sphere of infl

humanity in the three worlds. the law of correspondences is infallible, if rightly approached and applied. this broad and general presentation must be rightly grasped if the rule, as given to disciples and initiates, is to be correctly understood. you have been taught that illusion is the characteristic which must be mastered by the initiate as he "escapes" occultly from the three worlds via the mental plane (glamour: a world problem) glamour, you are told, is the characteristic of the astral plane, and must be dissipated by the disciple as he "escapes" mystically on to the path of initiation, just as the initiate finds himself (after mastering illusion) on the path of the higher evolution. maya is the conditioning factor on- 117- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the i

(five up the spine and two in the head) were esoterically "in shape" the seven lotuses or chakras were functioning, some powerfully, whilst others remained unawakened. these seven were now visible to clairvoyant vision. 2. the seven ashrams of the masters in their seven groups (conditioned by the seven rays) appeared, motivated from shamballa, organised at this time upon the higher levels of the mental plane, and gradually supplied with personnel from the ranks of humanity itself, as one by one men achieved initiation. paralleling this activity and implemented, fed and sustained by the black lodge, was the appearance of glamour upon the astral plane, and to this thickening glamour humanity steadily contributed and responded. then as evolution progressed and the human intellect began to ma

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

nal episode of resurrection. thus vishnu or christ embodies the two urges, the urge to create and build form and the urge to liberation, or resurrection out of form. it is under this urge to liberation that hercules starts upon his labors. the sign of the mind aries governs the head. it is consequently the sign of the thinker and, therefore, a powerful mental sign. all beginnings originate on the mental plane and in the mind of the creator, whether that creator is god or the soul of man. this universe had its- 23- the labours of hercules origin in the thought of god, the cosmic thinker. the soul started its career in matter through the same process of thought. the human family, the fourth kingdom in nature, came into being when mind emerged and differentiated man from the animals. the aspi

e thought-form making tendency of the mind is here symbolized, embodying the ideas conceived, and which are let loose upon the world, devastating and destroying when emanating from the lower mind, but constructing and saving when coming from the soul. the exoteric ruler of this sign is mars, the god of war, and so hercules, acting under the right direction of thought and beginning his work on the mental plane, takes his stand as the warrior. his outstanding characteristic in this sign is the pioneering, militant spirit. the mares were in the possession of diomedes, the son of mars (but the esoteric ruler is mercury, which "illumines the mind and mediates between the soul and the personality) constellations in aries as is usual, there are three constellations connected with aries. first, th

willingness to do the task which taxes not your powers; such are two lessons learnt. rise soon and seek the country, guarded by gate the third, and find the golden apples. bring them here. the tibetan (djwhal khul- 27- the labours of hercules the meaning of the labor in spite of all initial partial failure, hercules has made his start. in line with the universal law he has begun his work oil the mental plane. in the working out of the creative plan, thought-impulse is followed by desire. that state of consciousness, which we call mental, is succeeded by the state of sensitivity, and this second labor deals with the desire world and with the potency of desire. it is one of the most interesting labors and one that is [42] told us in fullest detail. some of the accounts given of the various

se as the holy mother principle she symbolizes matter and also is the custodian of the christ life. it is meaningful that this sixth sign, the number of physical plane activity, is called the number of the beast. this idea seems to have a horrible fascination for many, but what it really means is that virgo is a symbol of the triplicity, 6 on the physical plane, 6 on the emotional plane, 6 on the mental plane, not 666 at all. it is to be remembered that the lion is the king of beasts. the native attains finally in that sign the rounded-out personality. but in virgo, the first of the steps towards spirituality is taken, the soul is called the son of mind, and virgo is ruled by mercury, carrying the energy of the mind. in this virgo lecture a.a.b. gave a most interesting sequence of propheti

ries capricorn is represented as a god with a wolf's head "benjamin shall raven as a wolf" aquarius, the water carrier reuben means "the pouring out of water. the living water. pisces, the fishes gad a play on "dag, the fish [225] journey through the signs (as a back-drop to the drama enacted in each sign this brief summary seems to integrate the hercules series) the progress of hercules from the mental plane, through the emotional or desire plane and out into physical manifestation, and then his journey through the twelve signs, and by means of the twelve labors, to the point where he becomes an inspired initiate, can be outlined for us briefly in the following statement: in aries (march 21- april 20, the ram (the dates given are approximate, they vary according to different authorities)

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lt shall be the whole of the law. 63. silence thy thoughts and fix thy whole attention on thy master whom yet thou dost not see, but whom thou feelest. the equinox 28 this again commands the stilling of thoughts. the previous verses referred rather to emotions, which are the great stagnant pools on which the mosquito thought breeds. emotions are objectionable, as they represent an invasion of the mental plane by sensory or moral impressions. 64. merge into one sense thy senses, if thou would.st be secure against the foe .tis by that sense alone which lies concealed within the hollow of thy brain, that the steep path which leadeth to thy master may be disclosed before thy soul.s dim eyes. this verse refers to a meditation practice somewhat similar to those described in liber 831 (see the eq

DION FORTUNE MYSTICAL QABALA

s of the physical body; the references are to the aura and the functions of the magnetic currents in the aura, and it must always be borne in mind, as the swami vivekananda points out, that what is on the right in the male is on the left in the female. in addition to this it must be remembered that what is positive on the physical plane is negative on the astral plane; it is positive again on the mental plane and negative mystical qabala page 89 on the spiritual plane, as is indicated in the twining black and white serpents of the caduceus of mercury [page 132] if this caduceus be placed upon the tree when the tree is marked off to represent the four worlds of the qabalists, a glyph is formed which reveals the workings of the law of polarity in relation to the planes. this is a very import

symbol of manifesting energy; it is sudden, unaccustomed gushes of solar-spiritual energy that cause the divine inebriation of ecstasy; it is gold, as the basis of money, which is the objective representative of externalised life-force; for verily, money is life and life is money, for without money we can have no fullness of life. life-force, manifesting on the physical plane as energy and on the mental plane as intelligence and knowledge, can be transmuted by the appropriate alchemy into money, which is a token of the capacity or energy of someone. money is the symbol of human energy, by means of which we can store up our output of work hour by hour, receiving it back as wages at the end of the week, and spending it on necessities or saving it for future use as we think fit. the gold whic

, how clearly can we see that the supreme virtue is truthfulness, and that the obverse aspect of this sephirab is that which reveals mercury in his aspect as the god of thieves and cunning rogues. in esoteric ethics it is realised that each plane has its own standard of right and wrong. the standard of the physical plane is strength; the standard of the astral plane is beauty; the standard of the mental plane is truth; and the standard of the spiritual plane is that of right [page 250] and wrong as we understand the terms; therefore there is no ethic except in terms of spiritual value; all else is at best expediency. in the sphere which is essentially the sphere of the concrete mind how right it is that the qabalab should give the supreme virtue as truthfulness. 38. the correspondence in t

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control in our lives? we are familiar with the fact that the engine of a car has three speeds and a reverse. may it not be that our minds are also geared, and that it is a changing of gears which induces psychism? are there not times when we get into reverse and the ape and tiger within us take charge? 95 of 103 behind the physical plane lies the astral plane, and behind the astral plane lies the mental plane, and behind the mental plane lies the spiritual plane, each plane acting as plane of causation to the one beneath it, and each in turn being controlled from the subtler plane above it. when we "change gear" consciousness is shifted from a denser to a subtler plane and we begin to move among remoter and remoter causes of which the happenings upon the physical plane are the end-results;

-results; we manipulate these causes and the results are immediately effected. when we change gear from the physical to the astral, we find' ourselves upon the plane of psychic consciousness and the lesser magic. supposing a psychic combat is taking place between two occultists, if one of them is of such a grade that he can change gear again, so that consciousness is lifted from the astral to the mental plane, he will be in the sphere of the greater magic and be in full control of the situation. the other can make no stand against him. but what happens in the case of the rare and mystic soul who can shift consciousness once again and engage the gears of a purely spiritual power? he has outclassed the adept. there are many souls who have this mystical spiritual consciousness although they h

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re, bradley asserts, throughout i could not help feeling a suggestion of supernormal impersonation. on the whole i am inclined to think that craddock has considerable powers but i should imagine that these powers vary. his guides appeared to me to be very evasive in their replies to questions verging on any evidential point. i am inclined to think his mediumship is more upon the physical than the mental plane. a few years later, in his the tragedy of the heavens (1930, walter gibbons described craddock as one of the greatest direct voice mediums, as: the possessor of a power that is unique in strength and quality, and should he choose to utilize his exceptional gifts for gain, he could, by reason of so doing, be an exceedingly wealthy man. however, this could never be, so he lives the life

GILBERT THE SORCERER AND HIS APPRENTICE

h that material human body. now itfollowsfrom this, that outside of ourselves, and on a higher plan altogether, exists an intellectual, a mental counterpart of ourselves, of each one of us, which perceives, recognises, and directs this physical body. you will, no.doubt, ask, how then does the physical body come into manifestation on the physical plane, and what is the connection binding it to the mental plane, the plane of manas? well, you may find the key to that, which is very difficult to put into words, by an attentive consideration of the cosmic pictures. a picture is formed upon this earth's plane.itgoes off into the air. from the limits of the earth's atmosphere a quick reflection is sent back. that is very slight. the bulk, the strength of the picture, goes out beyond the earth's a

uniting.ourselves,withol,1rhigher self. that is the eastern uniting.prana with manas. manas is striving always, the m:mas. body, real and substantial and veritable, mind, is striving always to mould andtoraise this physical body. as far as self-consciousness resides in this physical body, the process can be helped.by the raising of the physical body to a union with the higher body of manas on the mental plane. and that is by killing out the self, by getting rid of everything which can be traceably found to proceed from prana. for why? prana withthesthulasharira, with the physical body that is, lasts us only for this short life. we leave it behind, anditis no more use to us after we have learned our lesson upon it. therefore everything which is bornwithinthat body is not only useless, butah

genius, invention and discovery from taijas. you get receptiv255 ity and the plastic turn of mind from apas. you get the firm and steadfast mentality, admirably sane and founded upon a rock, from prithivi. and so you may trace the mental condition of every human being, and you may know precisely what tatwas have operated to produce that particular mind. and the finer thrills which run through the mental plane, the manas plane, and which are to prana about in perhaps i might say the proportion of the thrill of the finest nerve in the human body to the thrill of the biggest string in the violoncello- that is somewhere near the proportion- it is all a matter of proportion- brings us to a number which is the spiritual soul where you may know, by the absolute obliteration not only of the selfbu

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in a larger picture. there can be many views of such a structure, ranging from alternative universes, dimensions or planes to other realities, each has its place in our understanding. the seven planes max heindel model theosophical model divine plane. divine plane. plane of virgin spirits monadic plane. plane of divine spirit spiritual plane plane of life spirit intuitional plane plane of thought mental plane desire plane astral plane physical plane physical plane the divine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of the triune principle and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the upper world operates. the monadic plane from this plane the true self or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, thou

is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the mental plane this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, blueprints are formulated and laid. the astral plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the mental and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermin

GNOSTIC STUDIES THE GNOSTIC HANDBOOK II GNOSTIC THEURGY

plane of the life spirit are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused the fall of everything below the world of atziluth. the worlds of briah, yetzirah and assiah all contain mixtures of light and darkness. however, it is in the desire and the physical planes that the dialectic has gained the most influence. the plane of thought this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, the ground plane are formulated and laid. gnostic theurgy page 29 the desire plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the thought and desire plane is not as clear as it seems and intermingling oc

ated senses- smell, touch, taste and sound. there have been many psychic investigations of the nature of thought ranging from the charismatic charles leadbeater to kirlian photography. while interpretations may vary, all agree that thoughts have power and form, and have far more influence than we credit. the characteristics of thoughts thoughts exist on multiple planes. they are emanated from the mental plane, and then take form on the astral worlds. since many thoughts involve emotions, various levels of existence are moulded together to create the form of a given thought. thoughts exist primarily in two ways; as a vibration, and as a form. the thought itself exists as a vibration or resonance in the mental body. if the thought was a simple, pure conceptualisation, then it would only exis

sation, then it would only exist in this form. however, most thoughts are mixtures of varying vibrations, and hence, exist on multiple planes between the physical and the mental. as the thought reaches the astral realms it triggers an associated emotional response and this combination of vibration and response creates the form. a trained clairvoyant would experience the vibration as a wave in the mental plane, but see the form of the thought as a three dimensional reality in the astral. the best way to understand these forms is to appreciate their nature. gnostic theurgy page 170 thought forms when a thought form is created on the astral it can take many different shapes and structures. there are normally three classifications of these forms: forms which reflect the maker. forms which refl

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

philosophus netzach nia adeptas miinor enter regiionsof tiphareth asp mental lower plane (miinor adept) and gain knowledge of past lives. enter the vault of preparation. adeptos mayorr geburah zen (major adept) 150 table vi. aethyrs and magical grades magical corresponding aethyrs experiences/ grade" sephiroth( u p t o) abilities adeptus exemptus (exempt adept) chesed vta enter higher regions of mental plane and visit the city of the pyramids. magister templi binah zid cross the abyss and gain full (master of the temple) knowledge and conversation of the holy guardian angel magus chockmah zom enter spiritual plane and gain full mastery of life. ipsissimus kether lil enter non-duality 'these were used in the golden dawn. 151 sex in enochian magick for us, sex is the first unconscious manif

iness; a meeting with yourself alone. this takes place in the 27th aethyr, zaa, the aethyr of solitude. the three governors of zaa are: saziami sah-zodee-ah-mee mathvla mah-teh-hev-lah korpanib koh-rah-pah-nee-beh zaa is located in the highest region of the astral plane. i t is a region where the emotions and feel ings which characterize the astral plane are almost absent and the mentation of the mental plane beyond is impending. on the watch-towers, zaa is somewhere in or near fire of water. two of the first things that you will probably notice when entering zaa are (1) its lunar nature and (2) the almost total absence of anything except yourself. on the tree of li fe, zaa is somewhere between the path of the moon (pisces) and the path of temperance/art (sagittarius) below the sephiroths

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presented man in his most perfect form. by now, the disciple ought to have realized how very important it is to know one s own microcosm for the initiation and especially for the magic and the mystic practice, as a matter of fact, for the whole of the secrets. most of the authors, from sheer ignorance or for other cogent reasons, have omitted this extremely important part, the foundation. 14. the mental plane as the body ahs its earthly plane, and the astral body or the soul owns the astral plane, the spirit too has its own plane, the so-called mental plane or mental sphere. this is the mental sphere with all its virtues. both these spheres, the material as well as the astral one have been born from the akasa or original principle of the respective sphere, through the four elements, and al

t is preceded by a basic idea which, according to its property, accepts a definite form, and arrives to the consciousness of the ego through the etheric principle, consequently the mental matrix, as expression of the thought in the shape of a plastic picture. therefore man himself is not the founder of the thoughts, but the origin of each thought is to be sought in the supreme akasa sphere or the mental plane. man s spirit, as it were, is the receiver, the antenna of thoughts from the world of ideas, according to the situation in which man happens to be. the world of ideas being all in all, each new idea, new invention- in short, all man believes to have created by himself- has been brought out of this world of ideas. this production of new ideas depends on the maturity and attitude of the

and the spiritual consciousness, and is reflected therein. if the point in question is not exactly an abstract idea, several forms of ideas can be expressed. such thoughts are electric or magnetic or electromagnetic, according to the elementary property of the idea. the material plane is bound to time and space. the astral plane, sphere of the perishable or mutable spirit, is bound to space, the mental plane being timeless and spaceless. the very same thing happens with all the mental properties. the reception of a thought in the mental body, through the link of the astral and mental matrix bound to space and time in the total form, needs a certain amount of time to become fully conscious of this thought. according to the mental maturity, the train of thoughts is different in each individ

through the link of the astral and mental matrix bound to space and time in the total form, needs a certain amount of time to become fully conscious of this thought. according to the mental maturity, the train of thoughts is different in each individual. the more advanced, the more cultured man is, the faster thoughts will develop in mind. likewise as the astral plane is inhabited, so too is the mental plane. besides the ideal forms, there are principally the deceased ones whose astral bodies have been dissolved by the elements in the course of their ripening, and allotted, according to the degree of perfection, to regions corresponding to their mental sphere. besides the mental sphere is the sphere of the so-called elementals, beings created consciously or unconsciously by man as a resul

of how to create such an elemental, how to preserve it and how to utilize it for certain purposes, will be approached in the practical section of this book. there would still be quite a lot to be said about the particular, specific properties of some beings. but all that we have pointed out previously should be sufficient to stimulate the work and contribute to a succinct enlightenment about the mental plane. 15. truth let us now leave the microcosm, i mean to say, man with his earthly, astral and mental bodies, and turn to other problems which also are imminent to be solved by the incipient adept. first of all, there is the problem of truth. a great many philosophers have already paid serious attention to this problem, and we also will have to approach this task. we shall deal here only

the functions of the spirit and meditate on it. you must know how to imagine each of the functions corresponding to the element. if you manage to distinguish the functions of the spirit, i.e, if you have got a clear impression about it, you may continue. this preliminary exercise is very important because it will enable the magician to influence these functions with the respective element on the mental plane in himself as well as in others, to master and to strengthen or to eliminate them. another exercise is to ascertain for oneself the whole mental body in the astral body, together in the material body, like a hand in a fine silk glove that is put into a thick glove. your hand ought to feel both gloves. the same thing is supposed to occur in the whole mental body. you should feel your s

l succeed in the practice of lower magic without any exception, especially if he aims only at high and noble ideals. 1. deliberate creation of elementals in contrast to thoughts living in their forms in the mental or spiritual sphere, the elementals are entities with a certain degree of intelligence deliberately created by a magician. such elementals are capable of fulfilling certain tasks on the mental plane and obviously they may be looked at as obedient servants of the magician according to the purpose he aims at. through the creation of elementals of the so-called elemental magic type, the magician can accomplish everything on the mental plane without any discrimination of his own or a strange sphere. i will quote only a few examples just because of the great variety. with the help of

yone who knows something about symbolism will be able to get a clear idea about this problem; for example, a thought of love will always be symbolized by a heart, a thought of hatred by an arrow or a flash, etc. in spite of the fact that the larvae, these undesirable mental inhabitants cannot be seen by the normal human being, they still do exist, and the well trained magician can see them on the mental plane. in sensitive or excitable persons, the mental matter is much more separable and the reproduction of larvae is obviously easier and more intense. such people wreck themselves, their health, especially their nerves, but they also damage their intellectual faculties and involve other highly suggestible people too. all kinds of mass psychosis are originating here. there is no need to des

according to his producing or condensing these beings in a mental, astral or material way. i have already talked about the deliberate or conscious creation of thought forms or elementals. the difference between an elemental and an elementary is that an elemental is produced on the basis of deliberate thought forms with the help of the magician s imagination and willpower, and works mainly on the mental plane for the magician s or other people s benefit. an elementary, on the other hand, is far more penetrating and subtle in its effect because it is being created from one or several elements. in the light of practical examples, i will explain the real procreation of an elementary as thoroughly as possible, demonstrating the manner in which the magician has to create an elementary. the intu

ening at the moment, but to be really active there too. for example, you are not only able to see an illness wit your mental eyes, but you also have the chance to treat sick people with your mental body, right on the spot, or of performing other favorable influences. all the success and work you learned to accomplish with the help of an elementary now can be managed by your own mental body on the mental plane. if you are at home at last in the entire physical world with the help of your mental wandering, and if this world has nothing new to offer you, try to visit other spheres in your mental body, contacting the beings there and acquiring a knowledge of things of which the average human being hasn t the faintest idea. the elevation to any other sphere is now very simple and you have to do

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

l aspects of our being, and as such we also need to recognize all the sources that true food can come from, particularly as we expand our viewpoints to look at what is truly nourishing. the expansion of our thinking, moving from limited thinking to lateral thinking and limitless thinking, obviously feeds our mind for the mind of humanity has huge capabilities, and how well we are nourished on the mental plane depends on what levels we are operating. many people are driven by unconscious desires and needs, never really knowing who they are or stopping to question what their motivation is for many of the actions that they do. many are driven by subconscious realities that bring hungers seeking to be fed. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 30 rarely do we

smuheen 30 rarely do we do absorb enough of the food of gods to dwell in the level of the super-mind, except when we are being selfless, and have tuned ourselves to the channel of kindness and compassion; for the higher emotional spectrums that we have built within us of mercy, compassion, kindness, altruism, unconditional love etc. walk hand in hand with the higher aspects of our thinking on the mental plane. these are the thoughts that say to us, why we are here? can we live in harmony? can we co-exist in peace? can we all get along? and when we sincerely want to know, the intelligent universe that surrounds us gives us the food we need to actualize it all and grow. these are the thoughts that also awaken and feed our dow. mind mastery versus boxing& limitations: in my mid teens i met an

s revealed the reality of the self .sustaining template. we touched on this device in my book bb1 and we will elaborate on this a little in the next section. however, upon closer investigation of how this dimensional biofield device operates, i discovered the secret of elemental equilibrium. how the elements come together as molecules around our light-body, and chakra system, is determined by our mental plane and emotional plane realities. when the elements of fire, earth, water, air, akasa and cosmic fire are in perfect equilibrium; the bio-system moves into a different energy band and becomes self-sustaining, provided we have created the energy grids to support this and added the necessary programming codes for automatic activation when this equilibrium is reached. this equilibrium is ac

LEADBEATER C W THE HIDDEN LIFE IN FREEMASONRY 2E

fs house has many mansions; many levels and resting-places for his creatures in their different conditions and degrees of progress. it is these levels, these planes and sub-planes, that are denoted by the rungs and staves of the ladder. and of these there are, for us in our present state of evolutionary unfoldment, three principal ones; the physical plane, the plane of desire and emotion, and the mental plane, or that of the abstract intelligence which links up to the still higher planes of the spirit. these three levels of the world are reproduced in man. the first corresponds with his material physique, his sense-body; the second with his desire and emotional nature, which is a mixed element resulting from the interaction of his physical senses and his ultra-physical mind; the third with

various planes, spending in each of them a period equal in duration to one entire incarnation of a planetary chain- a period which, if measured as we measure time, would cover many millions of years. as a whole, this life-wave is spoken of as monadic essence when clothed only in the atomic matter of the various planes at different stages of its descent. when it energizes the matter of the higher mental plane, it is known as the first elemental kingdom. when it descends to the lower or rupa levels of the same plane it is the second elemental kingdom, and on the astral plane it is the third elemental kingdom. even when this monadic essence first comes before us, in the earliest of the elemental kingdoms, it is already not one monad, but very many- not one great life-stream but many parallel

orlds are also crowded- very much more so than the physical, although not quite in the same way. those finer worlds have far greater extension than the physical, and also in them bodies freely interpenetrate one another. so the crowding is not of the same nature; but nevertheless, we need to shield ourselves even more strictly on those higher levels than down here. 364. it is not only that on the mental plane there are many millions of people. it is also full of centres of thought on all kinds of subjects, which have been established mostly by men like ourselves. we who are students are earnestly trying to raise ourselves somewhat above the thought of the average man; therefore a very large proportion of all this insurgent thought which is so constantly pressing upon us is at a lower level

ght upon all sorts of utterly unimportant subjects that, unless we rigidly exclude it, we shall find ourselves unable to concentrate upon the higher subjects about which we really wish to think. therefore in that respect we must tyle the lodge of the mental body and must exercise great care to whom and to what we open its doors. 365. there are also other respects in which care is necessary on the mental plane. for example, there are many who are cursed with an argumentative nature. such men throw open the doors of their mental fortress and rush eagerly out to battle on the slightest provocation, or on none at all- quite forgetting that they thereby leave the fortress undefended, so that any thought-forces which may happen to be in their neighbourhood can enter in and possess it. while they

va captain draws round him those astral myrmidons, and arranges them as he needs them, and at the same time seizes upon the floating mass of elemental essence and welds it into thought-forms such as he requires to carry out the work that has to be done. 415. in exactly the same way the s.d. is represented by a deva captain whose lowest vehicle is built of the matter of the lower sub-planes of the mental plane (a rupadeva, and lie employs nature-spirits and elemental essence at his own level. it will be noticed that in each case not only the actual situation and duty of the official are defined, but also his relation to other officials, his part in the work as a whole. the deva captains corresponding to the three principal officers are all what are called in the east arupadevas, and they po

it is as though in that purification the density of the candidate fs astral body is reduced, and therefore the pressure on it from without becomes greater than usual, so that a special defence is required. in the effort made in the ceremony of the second degree it is upon the mental body that a similar pressure is exercised, and therefore the effort at strengthening the defences is centred in the mental plane. thus the tyling of the lodge in the opening of the second degree is not by any means a repetition of the previous ceremony, but gives rather an added security at a higher level. 584. nevertheless it is eminently necessary that on the lower level also there should be no possibility of disturbance; consequently the next step is to reinforce the astral defences by calling upon the brn

the rule and compasses are to remind him to apply the principle of geometry to his feelings, guiding and controlling his astral body, so that his work will express high emotion and arouse it in others. 599. in the third stage the a. is supplied with a rule and level, and he reads and hears about natural science- mathematics, geometry, philosophy, biology and sociology. he is now dealing with the mental plane and his bodies thereon, and the rule and level tell him of the order, balance and common sense that are necessary in this work. 600. at the next stage the candidate finds himself no longer dealing with the things of his personal nature, but looking upwards to that higher part of himself which will come to flower in the later part of his path. he sees such matters first of all in the l

, and that our whole nature must be conformed to that whereby it lives. 640. chapter viii 641. the third degree 642. the opening of the lodge 643. when all is ready for the opening of the lodge in the third degree the r.w.m. once more commands the w.j.w. to see that the lodge is properly tyled. this time the forces with which we have to deal in the work of the meeting will be mainly on the higher mental plane, so the defences of the lodge are now reinforced at that level by the invisible hosts, and therefore a blue tinge hence-forward predominates, though the lower levels are by no means neglected. 644. the brn. are then called to order as craftsmen, and the r.w.m. turns to the w.j.w. again, with the question: gare you a m.m? h on his replying that he is, the master asks him by what instru

candidates for initiation, and the reception of greetings from other councils, consistories, chapters or lodges. 954. the greetings then given are by no means formal. each greeting received is a very distinct contribution to the force which is produced during the working of the lodge; it brings with it the peculiar mental atmosphere of the lodge whose greeting is given. every lodge exists on the mental plane as a definite mental object- a real thing in the realm of thought. when, therefore, one of its members gives a greeting in another lodge, there comes to him from his own a spear of light, bearing good influence, which radiates through him. when a bro. is in his own lodge, a certain aspect or facet or segment of his aura, which represents his relation to that lodge, is galvanized into

ion of his potential being is vivified because he is part of that lodge. 955. the lodge as a mental entity is made up of such sections of all its members, welded together to form a whole, and it is from that whole that the spear of light comes and flashes out when the greetings are given. when we speak of a lodge as a mental entity we do not mean something existing merely in mind or fancy; on the mental plane each lodge is a definite thing, a great sphere, with a precise allocation in space, over the place where the lodge meets. in the case of a hall where a number of lodges meet on different evenings, the several spheres are to be seen floating above the building; these spheres are then not intermingled at all, but clustered together over the premises in such a way as to remind one of a c

LEADBEATER CW GLIMPSES OF MASONIC HISTORY

rds of the past is of value in confirming the historical researches of the trained occultist, who is able to read what are sometimes called the akashic records, and so to acquire an accurate knowledge of the past. this subject is so little understood that it may perhaps be useful if at this point i quote somewhat at length from a book entitled clairvoyance which i wrote many years ago: 29. on the mental plane (the records) have two widely different aspects. when the visitor to that plane is not thinking specially of them in any way, these records simply form a background to whatever is going on, just as the reflections in a pier-glass at the end of a room might form a background to the life of the people in it. it must always be borne in mind that under these conditions they are really mer

e and philosophy; a more advanced course of intellectual training was set before the students, which one might well call a research into the more hidden paths of nature and science. at the same time the study of the life after death was extended to include the heaven-world, the m c into which all must go to receive their wages for the good deeds done on earth; much of this deeper knowledge of the mental plane was taught in the greater mysteries, in the same manner as the facts of the astral life had been taught in the first degree- namely, by representation and drama. the purpose of the mysteries of serapis in the life of the individual initiate was the control of the mind(*see the hidden life in freemasonry, ch. vii) and the training of the mental body; and the sacramental powers invoked

ceremonial had as their object the quickening of this mental development. 135. the inner degree of serapis 136. behind the outer mysteries in this degree there were also secret circles, quite unknown to those who had not been through the inner work of the first degree; in these practical instruction was given on the development of the mental body, and the method of awakening accurate sight on the mental plane, so that the student was enabled to verify the teaching of the priests for himself. 137. in connection with this degree it may be of interest to mention that in the temple of philae the body of osiris is represented with stalks of corn springing from it which a priest waters from a vessel which he holds in his hand. an inscription sets forth that this is the form of him whom we may no

day, though the s of g and d was that used in scottish and american workings; but the words were different, being much more positive in character. the f p o f were identical with those we use now, and the g or t is likewise unchanged. 158. the inner mysteries of osiris 159. within this degree there was also an inner circle. the practical instruction was therein carried into the higher part of the mental plane, so that the fully trained initiate in the mysteries of osiris acquired full consciousness as an ego beyond the limitations of the one personal life which is all that most people know. 160. the office of master 161. beyond the third degree there opened out several lines of progress in the mysteries. there was the work of holding office in the lodges; that extended over many years, and

xtended to the heaven-world; they thus corresponded to some extent to our 2. the initiates were named epoptae, and their ceremonial garment was no longer a fawn-skin, but a golden fleece- whence, naturally, the whole myth of jason and his companions. this symbolized the mental body, and the power definitely to function in it. those who have seen the splendid radiance of all which pertains to that mental plane, who have noticed the innumerable vortices produced by the ceaseless emission and impact of thought-forms, who remember that a brilliant yellow is especially the colour which manifests intellectual activity, will acknowledge that this was no inapt representation. 366. in this class, as in the lower one, there were two types- those who could be taught to use the mental body, and to for

hat this was no inapt representation. 366. in this class, as in the lower one, there were two types- those who could be taught to use the mental body, and to form round it the strong temporary vehicle of astral matter which has sometimes been called the mayavi rupa- and the far greater majority who were not yet prepared for this development, but could nevertheless be instructed with regard to the mental plane and the powers and faculties appropriate to it. as in the lesser mysteries men learned the exact result in the intermediate world after death of certain actions and modes of life on the physical plane, so in the greater mysteries they learnt how causes generated in this lower existence worked out in the heaven-world. in the lesser the necessity and the method of the control of desires

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

composed of pure energy. the layer below, the mental universe, represents a series of concepts and identities. objects in the mental world do not respect time and space, but instead represent timeless identities, and one of these identities is the entity you call you (your soul. the mental world is no more than a collection of concepts and thoughts. things like rocks and trees do not exist on the mental plane, only the idea or concepts of a rock, and the concept of trees. the 3rd world, and perhaps most crucial to the magician, is the astral world. this world, unlike the mental world, is subject to a sense of space and time. the fourth of the worlds is the etheric. this world, sometimes used interchangeably with the astral world, is the--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 23 universe that

THAGIRION

antichrists and have been the shadow person for people. nietzsche, crowley and gurdjieff have more been more accurate thagirion characters, since they preached the possibility for man to save himself together with thagirion related symbol language. a person can channel thagirion and be a guide in the teachings of the dark side. for everyone this level is illumination. this is the sun sphere, the mental plane and here the magician meets his/her higher self or daemon who on the sephiroth takes the form of the holy guardian angel. on the qliphoth it takes the form of the totem animal. the illumination on the sephiroth is of an intellectual nature and on the qliphoth it is an illumination of the instincts. the initiation of light brings an intellectual distance to the here and now and the mat

TYSON DONALD SOUL FLIGHT

ms present in the physical world. there is really not such a great difference between the physical world and the base level of the astral world. both exist within the mind. when i assert that the physical world exists in the mind, i mean that all we can know or experience of the physical world is within the mind -mind knows nothing beyond mind. our everyday waking consciousness can shift from one mental plane to the other fairly easily, and even unintentionally, during daydreams or under the effects of fatigue or mild medications. drunks who suffer the horrible effects of delirium tremens experience vivid, tangible, real hallucinations, often of a horrifying kind. the creatures of these hallucinations are not physical in nature, but have risen to the base astral level, which the alcohol cr

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

the soul. the integral human being is achieved with the absolute fusion of the masculine and feminine poles of the soul. sexual force develops, evolves and progresses on seven levels (the seven levels of the soul. in the physical world, sex is a blind force of mutual attraction. in the astral, sexual attraction is based upon the affinity of types according to their polarities and essences. in the mental plane, sexual attraction occurs according to the laws of mental polarity and affinity. in the causal plane, sexual attraction takes place on the basis of conscious will. it is precisely on this plane of natural causes where the complete union of the soul is consciously performed. indeed, no one can attain the complete glory of the perfect matrimony without having attained this fourth state

humanization of the mental body, ordinarily, the phantasmal mental body of every human being has an animal face and an animal figure; it is animalized. when the mental matter is transformed into the christ mind, we achieve the mental humanization. the mind represents the intellectual animal; presently we are human only in our physical appearance because in our depths we are still animals. in the mental plane each one has the animal figure that corresponds to his individual character. fourth: sexual function is the basic foundation of the human soul; those who transmute their sexual energies have the right to incarnate their soul. este es un problema grav simo para los hermanos que est n disolviendo el yo; sucede entonces que stos hermanos no s lo tienen que luchar contra sus propios defec

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

ented ideas fall into five groups of thought forms: a. the tangible objective forms in the physical world of every day. with these the seer has for long identified himself in the earlier and more savage stages of human existence. b. the moods, feelings and desires, which all have form in the astral world, the world of the emotions. c. the thought forms in their myriad distinctions which crowd the mental world. through these "presented ideas" the seer achieves knowledge of the not-self. d. the thought forms which he can create himself after he has learned to control his instrument the mind and can discriminate between the illusory world of present ideas and those realities which constitute the world of spirit. through this process he arrives at a knowledge of himself. throughout the great e

y. they seem essentially in themselves to lack character or form but to be dependent for manifestation upon "that which is above and that which is below" the desire nature of man, for instance, seems to respond to the lure of the great world of illusion, the maya of the senses, or to the voice of the ego, using the mental body. vibrations reach the astral body from the physical plane and from the mental world, and according to the nature of the man and to the point in evolution which he has reached, so will be the response to the higher or the lower call. the astral body is either attentive to the egoic impression or swayed by the million voices of earth. it apparently has no voice of its own, no character of its own. this has been pictured for us in the gita where arjuna stands midway bet

copyright 1998 lucis trust through that mastery he has produced certain results, which are as follows: 1. he has freed himself from the three worlds of mind, emotion and physical plane existence. they no longer attract his attention. he is not concentrated upon, or engrossed by them. 2. he can focus his attention at will and can hold his mind steady indefinitely, whilst working intensively in the mental world, should he so choose. 3. he can polarize or centre himself in the consciousness of the ego, soul or spiritual man, and knows himself as separate from the mind, the emotions, desires, feelings and form which constitute the lower man. 4. he has learnt to recognize that lower man (the sum total of mental states, of emotions and physical atoms) as simply his instrument for communicating a

he motive underlying every act of the present life he obviates the necessity for their effects to tie him in any- 156- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust way to the wheel of rebirth. thus he consciously and intelligently nears his goal and every deed, act and thought is governed by direct knowledge, and in no way chains him. the signs or portents referred to, relate primarily to the mental world, where the real man dwells. through an understanding of three things: a. numbers, b. colours, c. vibrations, the seer becomes aware of the freedom of his aura from "death producing" effects. he knows there is nothing more written, symbolically, in the records which can bring him back to the three worlds, and therefore "by signs" his path is seen to be clear. this has been expressed fo

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

otle, pythagoras, meister eckhart, jacob boehme, spinoza the list is long. we are now beginning to ask the pertinent question: is it not possible that many hundreds now are at the point where they can co-ordinate the brain, the mind and the soul, and so pass through the portal of mental awareness into the realm of light, of intuitive perception, and the world of causes? from the standpoint of the mental world into which we have now penetrated, leaving behind us the veils of the physical body and the psychical nature, may we not be able now to pass on to our next evolutionary development? having arrived at some understanding of the nature of humanity and the mind, can we not begin to grasp the nature of the intuition and to function in another kingdom in nature with as much realization and

gings and ideas of the mystics of all times, or, equally, them can tune in on the fears of the ages, the racial and hereditary fears, or the fears engendered by world conditions prevailing at this time. these they record and write down and hand around to their friends. under this category come the writings of those who are sensitive in a more mental manner, and can tune in telepathically with the mental world; they are responsive to the mind of some powerful thinker, or to the massed concepts of the religious world; they register, on mental- 110- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust levels, the fear and hatred and separativeness of the masses. whether the material they record is good or bad, whether it is happy, which it seldom is, or unhappy in nature, and whether it car

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ascertained by the probationer. a great deal of training is given to a probationer without his really recognising it consciously. fault tendencies are indicated to him as he seeks with sincerity to train himself for service, and the analysis of motive when truthfully undertaken, serves amazingly to lift the would-be disciple out of the astral or emotional world into that of the mind. it is in the mental world that the masters are first contacted, and there they must be sought. but the time has come when the light in the head is not only present but can be somewhat used. the karma of the aspirant is such that it becomes possible for him, through strenuously applied effort, to handle his life in such a way that he can not only fulfill his karma and carry out his obligations, but has sufficie

, and separate the false out of the true. 2. learn the meaning of illusion, and in its midst locate the golden thread of truth. 3. control the body of emotion for the waves that rise upon the stormy seas of life engulf the swimmer, shut out the sun and render all plans futile. 4. discover that thou hast a mind and learn its dual use. 5. concentrate the thinking principle, and be the master of thy mental world. 6. learn that the thinker and his thought and that which is the means of thought are diverse in their nature, yet one in ultimate reality. 7. act as the thinker, and learn it is not right to prostitute thy thought to the base use of separative desire. 8. the energy of thought is for the good of all and for the furtherance of the plan of god. use it not therefore for thy selfish ends

ajority, and the head centre for the mentally polarized and spiritually oriented human being. this is the first and most important fact to remember and it will easily be seen how the trend of a life tendency and the focus of the life attention determine the mode of exit at death. it can be seen also that an effort to control the astral life and the emotional nature and to orient one's self to the mental world and to spiritual things has a momentous effect upon the phenomenal aspects of the death process. if the student is thinking clearly, it will be apparent to him that one exit concerns the spiritual and highly evolved man, whilst the other concerns the low grade human being who has scarcely advanced beyond the animal stage. what then of the average man? a third exit is now in temporary

rativeness and upheaval, do not constitute the real armageddon. the war which is told to us in the mahabharata and the present war had the roots of their trouble and the seeds of the disasters which they brought about, one in the lower and one in the higher astral world. selfishness and desire of a low order were the impulses back of them both. the coming great division will have its roots in the mental world and will consummate in the sixth subrace. in the sixth root race it will have the seeds of portentous disaster in the- 313- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust coordinated triplicity of mind, astralism, and physical nature, which will bring about a climaxing moment for the planetary duality. beyond that we need not go, for the humanity of the sixth round will be so di

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

es out all contact with other areas of mental perception and induces an intense one-pointed mental stimulation of a particularly powerful kind, and which has no outlet except towards the brain, via the desire nature. the meditation to which we shall refer in this part of our study relates to a mental focussing and attitude which attempts to relate itself to that which lies beyond the individual's mental world. it is part of an effort to put him in touch with a world of being and phenomena which lie beyond. i am phrasing this in this manner so as to convey the ideas of expansion, of inclusion, and of enlightenment. such expansions and attitude should not render a man anti-social or incarcerate him in a prison of his own making. they should make him a citizen of the world; they should induce

f being usually to the astral realm and seldom to the truly spiritual world of souls. the mind nature is seldom invoked and the processes pursued usually render the brain cells negative and quiescent whilst the mind remains inactive and often unawakened. the only area of consciousness which remains therefore visible is that of the astral. the world of physical and tangible values is shut out; the mental world is equally shut out. i would ask you to ponder on this statement. the oxford group movement has also laid much stress on the need for guidance, yet seems to- 295- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust have developed no real understanding of the subject or to have given any real attention to the inclusive investigation of the alterna

thy. the- 297- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust guidance, therefore, comes from other minds or from the focussed group mind of some band of workers with which the man may have a realised or an unrealised affinity. the guidance thus given can be consciously or unconsciously imparted, and can be, in quality, good, bad, or indifferent. 7. the mental world as well as the astral world is full of thought forms and these can be contacted by man and be interpreted by him as conveying guidance. these thought forms can be used by the guides of the race at times in order to help and guide humanity. they can also be used by undesirable entities and forces. they can, therefore, be most useful, but when interpreted by any man as embodying divine

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

remember that all forms of possessions and all material objects, whether it is money, or a house, a picture or an automobile, have an intrinsic life of their own, an emanation of their own, and an activity which is essentially that of their own inherent atomic structures (for an atom is a unit of active energy. this produces counterparts in the world of etheric and astral life, though not in the mental world. these subtler forms and distinctive emanations swell the potency of the world desire; they contribute to the world glamour and form part of a great and powerful miasmic world, which is on the involutionary arc but in which humanity, upon the upward arc, is nevertheless immersed. therefore the guides of the race have felt the necessity of standing by whilst the forces set up by man hi

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

schools with which we are most familiar, such as the inner schools of the many theosophical groups, the rosicrucian orders and the countless mystical and metaphysical organisations. they are definitely exoteric in nature but are useful in challenging public interest. they convey much useful information about the three worlds of human evolution the physical world, the world of the emotions and the mental world. they are definitely for neophytes upon the path of probation. they are concerned with the heart approach to god and with the deep human instinct, if haply man may find him. 2. esoteric schools of the present these schools, now forming, have more esoteric knowledge; this is being correlated and applied. much remains theoretical, but theory must ever precede practice. these schools wil

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

ity, and the head centre for the mentally polarised and spiritually oriented human being. this is the first and most important factor to remember, and it will easily be seen how the trend of a life tendency and the focus of the life attention determine the mode of exit at death. it can be seen also that an effort to control the astral life and the emotional nature, and to orient one's self to the mental world and to spiritual things, has a momentous effect upon the phenomenal aspects of the death process. if the student is thinking clearly, it will be apparent to him that one exit concerns the spiritual and highly evolved man, whilst the other concerns the low grade human being who has scarcely advanced beyond the animal stage. what then of the average man? a third exit is now in temporary

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

ity to counteract hate with justice, understanding and mercy? have i to continue explaining the need for the complete triumph of the forces of light, for the triumphant progress of the armies of the united nations, and for that triumph to be won first of all on spiritual levels and then carried through with commonsense and persistence on to the physical side of life, as well as in the intervening mental world? do i need to ask for the control of emotions in the general interest, and for the consecration of time, energy and money to the enormous task of human salvage? on these points i shall not dwell. nothing is here gained by reiteration except the growing burden of a responsibility which you can shoulder to your eternal happiness or discard to your shame and eventual karmic reaction. onl

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

sense of the word in this universe of illusion and maya, of course; not so in reality "that force may be the most refined and sublimated immaterial entity. yet it must exist; for no sense, element, or faculty of the human being can have a perception, or be stimulated into action, without some substantial force coming in contact with it. this is the fundamental law pervading the whole organic and mental world. in the true philosophical sense there is no such thing as independent action: for every force or substance is correlated to some other force or substance. we can with just as much truth and reason assert that no substance possesses any inherent gustatory property or any olfactory property- that taste and odour are simply sensations caused by vibrations; and hence mere illusions of an

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 1

constitute the ranks or orders of spirits who compose the hierarchy that rules the universe under the deity. their numbers are vast and their functions are not all known to mankind, though generally these functions may be said to be connected with the evolution of systems and of life. of devas there are three kinds.bodiless devas, form devas, and passion devas. bodiless devas belong to the higher mental world; their bodies are composed of mental elemental essence, and they belong to the first elemental kingdom. form devas belong to the lower mental world; while their bodies are composed also of mental elemental essence, they belong to the second elemental kingdom. passion devas belong to the astral world and their bodies are composed of astral elemental essence. devas are superlatively gre

. los angeles, 1924. evolution of life according to theosophy, life began when the logos, in the second aspect, sent forth the second life wave. this life wave descended from above through the various worlds, causing an increasing heterogeneity, and thereafter ascended, causing a return to its original homogeneity. our present state of knowledge of life in these worlds extends no further than the mental world. in the higher division of that world is ensouled the relatively fine matter appropriate thereto. if that matter is atomic it is known as monadic essence; if nonatomic, as elemental essence, and this is the first elemental kingdom. what we may call the inhabitants of this kingdom are the higher order of angels. having functioned sufficiently long in the higher mental world, the life w

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF OCCULTISM AND PARAPSYCHOLOGY VOL 2

tudents come from north america and various foreign countries. address: institute of mentalphysics, 59700 twenty-nine palms hwy, joshua tree, ca 92252. sources: dingle, edwin john. borderlands of eternity. los angeles: institute of mentalphysics, 1939. breathing your way to youth. los angeles: institute of mentalphysics [1931. the voice of the logos. los angeles: institute of mentalphysics, 1950. mental world (in theosophy) formerly known as the manas plane. in the theosophic scheme of things, this is the third lowest of the seven worlds. it is the world of thought into which man passes on the death of the astral body, and it is composed of the seven divisions of matter in common with the other worlds. it is observed that the mental world is the world of thought, but it is necessary to rea

he death of the astral body, and it is composed of the seven divisions of matter in common with the other worlds. it is observed that the mental world is the world of thought, but it is necessary to realize that it is the world of good thoughts only, for the base thoughts have all been purged away during the soul s stay in the astral world. depending on these thoughts is the power to perceive the mental world. the perfected individual would be free of the whole of it, but the ordinary individual in past imperfect experience has gathered only a comparatively small amount of thought and is, therefore, unable to perceive more than a small part of the surroundings. it follows from this that although the individual s bliss is inconceivably great, the sphere of action is very limited. this limit

n into which we awake after dying in the astral world, we find vast, unthought-of means of pursuing what has seemed to us good.art, science, philosophy and so forth. here, all these come to a glorious fruition of which we can have no conception, and at last the time arrives when one casts aside the mental body and awakens in the causal body to the still greater bliss of the higher division of the mental world. at this stage, one has done with the bodies which form mortal personality, and which form one s home in successive incarnations, and one is now truly whole, a spirit, immortal and unchangeable except for increasing development and evolution. into this causal body is worked all that one has experienced in the physical, astral, and mental bodies, and when one still finds that experienc

ss (or physical, subtle, and causal (known as sthula, sukshma, and karana shariras. the causal body is pictured as surrounded by five sheaths (or koshas: annamayakosha (food or physical sheath; pranamayakosha (subtle energy sheath; manamayakosha (mental sheath; vijnanamayakosha (wisdom sheath; and anandamayakosha (bliss sheath of spiritual unity. encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. mental world 1023 sources: jinarajadasa, c. the early teachings of the masters, 1881.83. chicago: theosophical press, 1923. powell, arthur e. the astral body and other astral phenomena. london: theosophical publishing house, 1927. mentor one of the controls of william stainton moses, said to be al-gazzali or ghazali, professor of theology at baghdad in the eleventh century, the greatest representa

ce in place of a multitude of manifestations, but this is explained by the fact that the dense matter that is the vehicle of these bodies becomes, after a time of progress, incapable of further alteration to suit the developing monad s needs and must accordingly be laid aside for a new body. after physical death, the individual passes first to the astral world, then to the heavenly portion of the mental world. most time is spent in the latter, except when descending into the denser worlds to garner fresh experience and knowledge for further development in preparation for passage into a higher sphere. in the heaven world these experiences and this knowledge are woven together into the texture of the individual s nature. in those who have not progressed far on the journey of evolution, the m

me bounds, with the exception being the worlds of finer texture that extend beyond those relatively more dense. the names of the worlds are: first, the divine world, which has not yet been experienced by man; second, the monadic whence come the impulses that form human beings; third, the spiritual world, which is the highest world humans have experienced; fourth, the intuitional world; fifth, the mental world; sixth, the emotional or astral world; and seventh is the world of matter familiar to us. some of these worlds are referred to in other entries as: adi or divine plane; anupadaka plane (see monad; atmic, nirvanic, or spiritual plane; and buddhic or intuitional plane (see also evolution of life) sources: jinarajadasa, c. the early teachings of the masters. chicago: theosophical society

hat he or she is in essence a spark of the divine fire belonging to the monadic world. for the purposes of human evolution, this monad manifests itself in lower worlds. entering the spiritual world it manifests itself there as the triple spirit; one of its three aspects always remains in the spiritual sphere. the second aspect manifests itself in the intuitional world, and the third in the higher mental world, and these two are collated with intuition and intelligence. these three aspects combined make up the ego, which is individual personality during the human stage of evolution. the way or path towards enlightenment and emancipation is known as karma. the human personality is composed of a complex organization consisting of seven principles, which are united and interdependent, yet divi

, mental, and spiritual growth and is spread over many lives past and future. if in one existence the individual is handicapped by any defect, mental or physical, it may be regarded as the outcome of past delinquencies. this doctrine is common to both buddhism and brahminism, from which theosophy derives. returning to concepts of the constitution of the human being, the ego existing in the higher mental world cannot enter the physical world until it has drawn around itself a veil composed of the matter of these spheres, nor can it think in any but an abstract manner without them.its concrete ideas being due to them. having assumed the astral and physical bodies, it is born as a human being, and having lived out its earth-life sojourns for a time in the astral world, until it can succeed in

th of the mental constitution depending upon the nature of the thoughts to which one has habituated oneself. but he or she is not yet sufficiently developed to proceed to higher planes, and once more descends into the denser physical sphere to again go through the same round. it is only through that descent that a full recognition of the higher worlds is developed in the individual. in the higher mental world, the permanent vehicle is a causal body, which consists of matter of the first, second, and third sub-divisions of that world. as the ego unfolds one s latent possibilities in the course of one s evolution, this matter is greatly brought into action, but it is only in the perfect individual or adept that it is developed to its fullest extent. in the causal theosophy encyclopedia of oc

course of one s evolution, this matter is greatly brought into action, but it is only in the perfect individual or adept that it is developed to its fullest extent. in the causal theosophy encyclopedia of occultism& parapsychology. 5th ed. 1560 body, none of the possibilities of the grosser bodies can manifest themselves. the mental body is built up of matter of the four lower subdivisions of the mental world, and expresses the individual s concrete thoughts. its size and shape are determined by those of the causal vehicle. while on earth the personality wears the physical, mental, and astral bodies all at once. it is the astral that connects one with the astral plane during sleep or trance. it is easy to see how the doctrine of reincarnation arose from this idea. the ego must travel from

FRANCIS A YATES GIORDANO BRUNO AND THE HERMETIC TRADITION

runo: return to italy processo being lost) from which to reconstruct bruno's trial and condemnation.1 if the movement of the earth was one of the points for which bruno was condemned, his case in this respect is not at all the same as that of galileo who was made to retract his statement that the earth moves. galileo's views were based on genuine mathematics and mechanics; he lived in a different mental world from giordano bruno, a world in which "pythagorean intentions" and "hermetic seals" played no part, and the scientist reached his conclusions on genuinely scientific grounds. bruno's philosophy cannot be separated from his religion. it was his religion, the "religion of the world, which he saw in this expanded form of the infinite universe and the innumerable worlds as an expanded gno

HP LOVECRAFT A DARK LORE

rly alien entities which had come through space from immeasurably distant universes and had dominated the earth and three other solar planets about 600 million years ago. they were only partly material- as we understand matter- and their type of consciousness and media of perception differed widely from those of terrestrial organisms. for example, their senses did not include that of sight; their mental world being a strange, non-visual pattern of impressions. they were, however, sufficiently material to use implements of normal matter when in cosmic areas containing it; and they required housing- albeit of a peculiar kind. though their senses could penetrate all material barriers, their substance could not; and certain forms of electrical energy could wholly destroy them. they had the pow

INITIATION INTO HERMETICS

howing an electromagnetic fluid analogous to the astral body, on account of the effect of the elements, as a secondary phenomenon of the polarity on the outside, the mental body develops in the mental or spiritual sphere. just in the same way as the astral body, through the electromagnetic fluid of the astral world, forms an astral matrix, the so-called astral od, the electromagnetic fluid of the mental world forms a mental matrix linking the mental body to the astral body. this mental matrix or the mental od, the so-called mental substance, is the subtlest form of akasa which controls and preserves the spiritual activity in the astral body. at the same time, this mental substance is electromagnetic and is regarded as leaser of the ideas to the consciousness of the spirit, from where it is

primitive and gross center that is symbolized by an elephant placed in a corner together with the respective goddess. this symbolic expression, called laya-yoga in india, is unequivocal and means the key for the first stage of yoga. there are several explanations of this sign, but the correct one is that the square represents the earth, the triangle the three kingdoms of the material, astral and mental world, the phallus the generative power or the imagination, and the serpent the path and the knowledge. the fact is well known to the scholar that the earth principle is composed of four elements, and it does not need any comment. the growing yogi first has to learn to know and control the three worlds. consequently, the muladhara chakra is nothing else but an initiating diagram correspondi

ack to his memory. such pictures will never enter his memory again once they have been wiped out in akasa. but if he does manage to master these remembrances by his will, by self-suggestion or other methods, there is no need for a drastic interference in akasa to have these pictures wiped out once and for all. the pathologic loss of memory can be explained by the fact that the connection with the mental world and therefore with akasa became paralyzed from time to time. but this condition is already a disharmony, an illness, a mental disturbance if it occurred as the result of different causes such as a shock and the like. 9. working in the akasa in the same way as the memory can be influenced and certain remembrances be wiped out with the help of akasa, the magician is able to obliterate n

he ought to concentrate on the fact that his activity should be neutralized by the akasa; that means it should not be written into the akasa, i.e, leave no trace at all. this concentration is necessary for otherwise the magician must fear that, though rather illegibly, several new causes might be registered in the akasa. the magician is fully responsible for every action he is carrying out in the mental world, even though invisibly. fate is no longer able to harm him, because he has become the master of akasa, master of his fate. henceforth he is subject only to divine providence. if he misused his knowledge for evil deeds, it would be divine providence that would punish him, instead of fate. divine providence would give him, as it were, the cold shoulder and he would have to live on as a

K AMBER THE BASICS OF MAGICK

e taboo against knowing who you are* magick 3- the four worlds* the ancients described man as mind, body, and soul. psychologists of the twentieth century added the subconscious to that deffinition. this produces a four-fold classification. the universe is also divided into four corresponding parts('worlds, as shown below: world body quality= spiritual world spiritual body (soul or kia) intuition mental world mental body (conscious mind) rational thought astral world astral body (subconscious) emotions physical world physical body physical senses the astral body (subconscious) is the intermediary for intuition, magical and psychic phenomena, and is the 'psychic link' to the physical world. most occult and magical phenomena originate in the invisible, non-sensate, the basics of magick get a

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

s, resides. finally, there s the 5th level of reality, the material universe. the operations of magic are rarely aimed at the lowest level of reality (material, but instead the magician will attempt to alter the higher levels of the universe knowing that those changes will eventually trickle down to the etheric and material world. it is in the way does the magician alter reality by intention. the mental world, being nothing but concepts and thoughts, are affected by the magician in such a way as to produce predictable results on the lower levels of reality. one could argue that my distinction of mental/astral/etheric worlds is unnecessary, or just plain wrong; some occults only make reference to 3 worlds: divine, astral, and material. i m satisfied as long as you understand the concept of

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

round. let him now call before his mind the signs of the airy triplicity= and enclosed in these, let him meditate upon the numbers nine and five and therewith the forms of the pentagram and pentangle. let him now rise in imagination above the mineral world into the world of trees and flowers and idenbfy himself in love and sympathy with the powers of the elements behind these. let him realise the mental world where mind rules over matter, and let him meditate upon the ideas of appearance and reality <135> fourth knowledge lecture the figures of geomancy and their zodiacal attribuhons .a. populus via* fortuna minor conjunctio ci& 0 q 4. caudq dracoms sp carcer tristitia letitia d* i.3 x 52 70 the golden dawn: volume i book one <136> the numbers and lineal figures appropriate to the planets

RUBY TABLET OF SET

knowledge by reading, transmitting, or other experiences. there is a wide difference between knowledge and wisdom, and it is much easier to win knowledge than wisdom. wisdom depends not in the least on knowledge, although both are identical up to a certain degree. the source of wisdom is in god, that is to say in the causal principle (the akasha, on all planes of the grossly material, astral, and mental world. therefore wisdom does not depend on mind and memory, but on the maturity, purity, and perfection of the individual personality. wisdom could also be considered as a developmental stage of the "ego" therefore insights are not passed on through the mind, but- and this particularly- through intuition or inspiration. the degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of developmen

TYSON DONALD NEW MILLENNIUM MAGIC

critics cannot be answered in the materialistic terms of science. science contends that there is a measurable, observable world of natural phenomena where if a thing is so, it is always so, and that there is a mental, subjective world of dreams and delusions where nothing is tangible or real in the least degree. this distinction is simplistic. what is called the real world and what is called- the mental world are, in an absolute sense, the same thing. each person creates his or her inner and outer worlds and, more importantly, draws the dividing line between them. what you apparently see in front of you at this moment is actually happening inside your mind, and what you call your innermost private thoughts are in no way removed from the image of the outer world you contemplate. this is not

JASMUHEEN THE FOOD OF GODS

ess the gifts that life in the theta field can provide us with. paranormal powers: research has found that when the theta. delta frequency pattern is held, the following attributes are evident in a person s life. these attributes are sometimes classified as paranormal powers that can be seen as. pre-cognition. the ability to sense what is about to occur. telepathy. the ability to pick up unspoken mental-plane communications. bi-location. the ability to be in two places at once, or to send a holographic projection of oneself somewhere else. clairsentience and empathy. the ability to sense or feel what others are feeling. clairvoyance. the ability to see between the worlds with our third eye. the ability to heal through touch or over distances plus much more. the theta. delta pattern is the

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

realization. it will be seen from a study of these four types of prayer that all have their roots in the desire nature, and that the fourth brings the aspirant to the point where prayer can end and meditation begin. seneca must have realized this when he said "no prayer is needed, except to ask for a good state of mind, for health (wholeness) of soul" meditation carries the work forward into the mental realm; desire gives place to the practical work of preparation for divine knowledge and the man who started his long career and life experience with desire as the basic quality and who reached the stage of adoration of the dimly seen divine reality, passes now out of the mystical world into that of the intellect, of reason, and eventual realization. prayer, plus disciplined unselfishness, p

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

are flooding the markets, and discussions on the force back of the creative arts are deemed of vital interest. psychologists are giving the entire matter much consideration, and though at present the ideal is viewed almost entirely in terms of the physical plane, yet the sum total indicates a vibratory activity in the world soul, as it expresses itself through humanity, and issues forth from the mental realm. the pioneers of the race, and the foremost thinkers and creative workers of humanity are but the sensitives who respond most readily to the mental impulses. they are in the minority as yet, and most people respond to the forces and vibrations emanating from the plane of the emotions and of desire. more and more however are awakening, and the significance of the six first rules of mag

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