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ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

xpression of a life manifesting through a spheroidal form and working out an intelligent purpose. then we reached our consummation, and viewed the solar system as a cosmic atom, energised by the life of the logos. we have, therefore, under consideration, four kinds of atoms: first, the atom of the chemist and physicist. secondly, the human atom, or man. thirdly, the planetary atom, energised by a planetary logos, or the heavenly man. fourthly, the solar atom, indwelt by the solar logos, or the deity. if we are right in our fundamental concept, if there is a grain of reality in our hypothesis, and if there is a substratum of truth in our idea of the atom from which the elements are compounded, it is to be recognised as a life working intelligently through the medium of a form. then it can p

development of psychic quality; the effect of the subjective life upon the material form; the utilisation of the form for certain specific ends, and the attainment by the indwelling entity of certain qualities. the true nature of the central life, be it god or man, will be manifested during a life cycle, whether solar or human. that is true of you and it is true of me; it is probably true of the planetary logos, and if true of him, therefore also of a solar logos. let us try, if we can, to follow some of the different developments in connection with our four types of atoms the atom of substance, the human atom, the planetary atom, and the cosmic atom. one of the first and most important developments will be conscious response to every vibration and contact that is, the ability to respond

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

ns which set a man free from the three worlds, and enable him to function in the body of vitality of the logos and wield that force, the initiate becomes the five-pointed star and it descends upon him, merges in him, and he is seen at its very centre. this descent is brought about by the action of the initiator, wielding the rod of power, and puts a man in touch with the centre in the body of the planetary logos of which he is a part, and this consciously. the two initiations called the sixth and seventh take place on the buddhic and atmic planes; the five-pointed star "blazes forth from within itself" as the esoteric phrase has it, and becomes the seven-pointed star; it descends upon the man and he enters within the flame. again, the four initiations, prior to that of the adept, mark resp

logos becomes his. the fostering of the various attributes of divinity, the tending of the seed of self-consciousness in all beings, is the work of those entities who have achieved, who have entered into the fifth kingdom and who have there made their great decision, and that inconceivable renunciation which leads them to stay within the planetary scheme, and thus co-operate with the plans of the planetary logos on the physical plane. to transmit the will of the planetary logos they act as the transmitter to men and devas or angels, of the will of the planetary logos, and through him of the solar logos. each planetary scheme, ours amongst the others, is a centre in the body logoic, and is expressing some form of energy or force. each centre expresses its particular type of force, demonstra

y scheme, ours amongst the others, is a centre in the body logoic, and is expressing some form of energy or force. each centre expresses its particular type of force, demonstrated in a triple manner, producing thus universally the three aspects in manifestation. one of the great realisations which come to those who enter into the fifth kingdom is that of the particular type of force which our own planetary logos embodies. the wise student will ponder on this statement, for it holds the clue to much that may be seen in the world today. the secret of synthesis has been lost, and only when men again get back the knowledge which was theirs in earlier cycles (having been mercifully withdrawn in atlantean days) of the type of energy which our scheme should be demonstrating, will the world proble

age which is the result of that experience, and which, having itself been produced by ages of endeavour, failure, and renewed endeavour, and having in the long run led to triumph, can now be placed at the service of the race; by a purpose which is enlightened and intelligent, and which is co-operative, adjusting itself to the group and hierarchical plan and thus fitting in with the purpose of the planetary logos; and finally they are distinguished by a knowledge of the power of sound. this final fact is the basis of that aphorism which states that all true occultists are distinguished by the characteristics of knowledge, dynamic will, courage, and silence "to know, to will, to dare, and to be silent" knowing the plan so well, and having clear, illuminated vision, they can bend their will u

n the planet, nor to consider the conditions preceding the advent of those great beings. this can be studied in other occult books in the occident, and in the sacred scriptures of the east. suffice it for our purpose to say that in the middle of the lemurian epoch, approximately eighteen million years ago, occurred a great event which signified, among other things, the following developments: the planetary logos of our earth scheme, one of the seven spirits before the throne, took physical incarnation, and, under the form of sanat kumara, the ancient of days, and- 18- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust the lord of the world, came down to this dense physical planet and has remained with us ever since. owing to the extreme purity of his nature, and the fact that he is (fr

ic sphere of influence. in him we live and move and have our being, and none of us can pass beyond the radius of his aura. he is the great sacrifice, who left the glory of the high places and for the sake of the evolving sons of men took upon himself a physical form and was made in the likeness of man. he is the silent watcher, as far as our immediate humanity is concerned, although literally the planetary logos himself, on the higher plane of consciousness whereon he functions, is the true silent watcher where the planetary scheme is concerned. perhaps it might be stated thus: that the lord of the world, the one initiator, holds the same place in connection with the planetary logos as the physical manifestation of a master holds to that master's monad on the monadic plane. in both cases t

a tremendous difference in degree, for his point in evolution is as far in advance of that of an adept as that adept's is in advance of animal man. this will be somewhat elaborated in the next section of our subject. with the ancient of days came a group of other highly evolved entities, who represent his own individual karmic group and those beings who are the outcome of the triple nature of the planetary logos. if one might so express it they embody the forces emanating from the head, heart, and throat centres, and they came in with sanat kumara to form focal points of planetary force for the helping of the great plan for the self-conscious unfoldment of all life. their places have gradually been filled by the sons of men as they qualify, though this includes very few, until lately, from

hose who have triumphed in our own humanity are rapidly increasing in number, and hold all the minor offices beneath the central esoteric group of six, who, with the lord of the world, form the heart of hierarchial effort. the immediate effect. the result of their advent, millions of years ago, was stupendous, and its effects are still being felt. those effects might be enumerated as follows: the planetary logos on his own plane was enabled to take a more direct method in producing the results he desired for working out his- 19- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust plan. as is well known, the planetary scheme, with its dense globe and inner subtler globes, is to the planetary logos what the physical body and its subtler bodies are to man. hence in illustration it might be

centres of force, which are linked to the other centres in the body, and through which the force of the ego is spread and circulated, thus working out the plan. sanat kumara, with the six other kumaras, holds a similar position. these central seven are as the seven head centres to the body corporate. they are the directing agents and the transmitters of the energy, force, purpose, and will of the planetary logos on his own plane. this planetary head centre works directly through the heart and throat centres, and thereby controls all the remaining centres. this is by way of illustration, and an attempt to show the relation of the hierarchy to its planetary source, and also the close analogy between the method of functioning of a planetary logos and of man, the microcosm. the third kingdom o

ght some day form a nucleus of a mental body. left to himself for long aeons animal man would have eventually progressed out of the animal kingdom into the human, and would have become a self-conscious, functioning, rational entity, but how slow the process would have been may be evidenced by the study of the bushmen of south africa, the veddhas of ceylon, and the hairy ainus. the decision of the planetary logos to take a physical vehicle produced an extraordinary stimulation in the evolutionary process, and by his incarnation, and the methods of force distribution he employed, he brought about in a brief cycle of time what would otherwise have been inconceivably slow. the germ of mind in animal man was stimulated. the fourfold lower man, a. the physical body in its dual capacity, etheric

learn through experience and pain the fact of the duality of all existence. having thus learnt, he chooses that which concerns the fully conscious spirit aspect of divinity, and learns to centre himself in that aspect. having thus achieved liberation he finds indeed that all is one, that spirit and matter are a unity, naught existing save that which is to be found within the consciousness of the planetary logos, and in wider circles within the consciousness of the solar logos. the hierarchy thus took advantage of the discriminative faculty of mind, which is the distinctive quality of humanity, to enable him, through the balancing of the pairs of opposites, to reach his goal, and to find his way back to the source from whence he came. this decision led to that great struggle which distingu

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

law of the system, and explains god to man- 12- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust 5. just as god is the macrocosm for all the kingdoms in nature, so man is the macrocosm for all the sub-human kingdoms. 6. the goal for the evolution of the atom is self-consciousness as exemplified in the human kingdom. the goal for the evolution of man is group consciousness, as exemplified by a planetary logos. 2(2) the goal for the planetary logos is god consciousness, as exemplified by the solar logos. 7. the solar logos is the sum-total of all the states of consciousness within the solar system. 3(3) stanzas of dyzan stanza i the secret of the fire lieth hid in the second letter of the sacred word. the mystery of life is concealed within the heart. when the lower point vibrates, when

erything is, in its- 42- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust totality, the result of action taken by cosmic essences and entities in earlier solar systems, which is working out through the individual atoms, and through those congeries of atoms which we call forms. the effect of the personality ray upon the internal fires is therefore, in effect, the result of the influence of the planetary logos of whatever ray is implicated, as he works out that portion of karma which falls to his share in any one cycle, greater or lesser. he thus brings about and eventually transmutes, the effects of causes which he set in motion earlier in relation to his six brothers, the other planetary logoi. we get an illustrative parallel in the effect which one individual will have upon another in

4(31) i. the nature of the etheric body. 1. its purpose and description. 2. eight statements. ii. the nature of prana. 1. solar prana. 2. planetary prana. 3. the prana of forms. iii. the function of the etheric body. 1. it is the receiver of prana. 2. it is the assimilator of prana. 3. it is the transmitter of prana. 4. disorders of the etheric body. iv. macrocosmic and microcosmic ethers. 1. the planetary logos and the ethers. 2. cosmic and systemic ethers. 3. protective purpose of etheric body. v. death and the etheric body. 1. microcosmic death. 2. macrocosmic pralaya. i. the nature of the etheric body- 43- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust in our consideration of the internal fires of the system we shall find much of very real interest to the coming generation of thi

on the astral plane, the plane of desire and of necessity, stands to the physical body as the logos on the cosmic astral plane stands to his system. as we continue the study we will work out the correspondence in the cosmos, the system, and in the three worlds, for we need to remember that the analogy must be perfect. 1. man, the microcosm, the manifesting monad, or one. 2. the heavenly man, the planetary logos, or the manifesting group. 3. the grand man of the heavens, the macrocosm, the solar logos, the manifestation of all groups and of all evolutions within his body, the solar system. all these bodies the body of a man, a planetary logos, and a solar logos are the product of desire originating on the planes of abstract mind, whether cosmic, systemic, or mind in the three worlds, wheth

ana of the solar system the solar system entity manifesting..the solar logos. body of manifestation..t. he solar system. receptive centre..pole of the central sun. surface radiation or emanation..solar prana. movement produced..systemic rotation. distributive effect..solar etheric radiation (felt cosmically- 47- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the planet entity manifesting..a planetary logos. body of manifestation..a. planet. receptive centre..the planetary pole. surface radiation or emanation..planetary prana. movement produced..planetary rotation. distributive effect..planetary etheric radiation (felt within the system. a human being entity manifesting..the thinker, a dhyan chohan body of manifestation..p. hysical body. receptive centre..the spleen. surface radiation

ter of the body instead of the lowest to life in a higher world and of another dimension. so it will be found in all the bodies and sheaths of the microcosm, for the analogy will persist on all planes during manifestation. when more scientific knowledge has been gained it will be found that the same procedure on a larger scale, takes place in planetary manifestation. a planet is but the body of a planetary logos, that body being etheric, and the logos expressing himself through it and building upon the etheric scaffolding a vehicle of manifestation. the moon once was the body of expression for one of the logoi; the earth now is, and the cycles change continuously. the centre of escape for the etheric body is found likewise in a physical planet, and the planetary silver cord is loosed at th

arator or ring-pass-not, and its functions as a receiver and distributor of prana, are dealt with here in a larger sense than heretofore, and the subject may later be enlarged. two fundamental truths stand out from the aggregate of facts so slightly dealt with here: first. the fourth etheric subplane of the physical plane is the immediate concern of a. man, the microcosm, b. the heavenly man, the planetary logos, c. the grand man of the heavens, the solar logos- 56- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust second. in this fourth chain and fourth round, the fourth ether is beginning to be studied, and viewed as a separating web it permits occasional exit to those of suitable vibration. 3. the transmitter of prana. we have touched but little on the subject of the fire, the purpos

e are dealing with physical matter. this must ever be borne carefully in mind. therefore, one paramount factor will be found in all groups and formations, and this is the fact that the ring-pass-not acts only as a hindrance to that which is of small attainment in evolution, but forms no barrier to the more progressed. the whole question depends upon two things, which are the karma of the man, the planetary logos, and the solar logos, and the dominance of the spiritual indwelling entity over its vehicle. iv. macrocosmic and microcosmic ethers 1. the planetary logos and the ethers man, the indwelling thinker, passes at night from out of his etheric ring-pass-not and functions elsewhere. therefore, under the law, the planetary logos likewise can pass his ring-pass-not at stated seasons which

e cosmic sutratma, or cosmic thread of life51(47) this fourth earth chain is in this connection one of the most important, for it is the appointed place for the domination of the etheric body by the human monad, with the aim in view of both human and planetary escape from limitations. this earth chain, though not one of the seven sacred planetary chains, is of vital importance at this time to the planetary logos, who temporarily employs it as a medium of incarnation, and of expression. this fourth round finds the solution of its strenuous and chaotic life in the very simple fact of the shattering of the etheric web in order to effect liberation, and permit a later and more adequate form to be employed. a further chain of ideas may be followed up in the remembrance that the fourth ether is

ese mark the points for the disappearance of the unit into pralaya. we need here to remember that it is always pralaya when viewed from below. from the higher vision, that sees the subtler continuously overshadowing the dense when not in objective manifestation, pralaya is simply subjectivity, and is not that "which is not" but simply that which is esoteric. second. the etheric double of a man, a planetary logos, and a solar logos, being shattered, becomes nonpolarised as regards its indweller, and permits therefore of escape. it is (to word it otherwise) no longer a source of attraction, nor a focal magnetic point. it becomes non-magnetic, and the great law of attraction ceases to control it; hence disintegration is the ensuing condition of the form. the ego ceases to be attracted by its

rom out of the sheath. the cycle draws to a close, the experiment has been made, the objective (a relative one from life to life and from incarnation to incarnation) has been achieved, and there remains nothing more to desire; the ego, or the thinking entity, loses interest therefore in the form, and turns his attention inward. his polarisation changes, and the physical is eventually dropped. the planetary logos likewise in his greater cycle (the synthesis or the aggregate of the tiny- 73- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust cycles of the cells of his body) pursues the same course; he ceases to be attracted downward or outward, and turns his gaze within; he gathers inward the aggregate of the smaller lives within his body, the planet, and severs connection. outer attractio

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

"images" which the deity has created can be contacted and seen. thus the adept can intelligently participate in the great plan of evolution. beyond this state of samadhi lies the dream state of the nirmanakayas and of the buddhas, and so on up the scale of hierarchical life till that great dreamer is known, who is the one, the only narayana, the lord of the world himself, the ancient of days, our planetary logos. the student can only arrive at a very dim understanding of the nature of these dream states as he studies the idea conveyed in the earlier statement to the effect that, to the occultist, life on the physical plane- 53- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust is but a dream condition. 39. peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the hea

spiritual unfoldment, that two factors must be taken into account which are based on the fact of manifestation itself: 1. the fact of the not-self towards which the divine points of spiritual life are attracted, and which in the period of evolution absorbs them, 2. the fact of the limitations which form-taking necessitates. the above two factors must be recognized as true of the solar logos, the planetary logos, a man or an atom. every form of divine life (the infinitesimally small and the infinitely great) veils or hides a fraction of spiritual energy. the result to the point of spiritual existence is necessarily a shutting in, a cutting off, and a circumscribing of itself, and only the contacts of existence itself and the struggle of the spiritual unit within the form can bring about, e

"in the hall of ignorance the triple sheaths are known. the solar life at its densest point is contacted and man emerges fully human" then the man becomes aware of something else, the group to which he belongs, and he does this through a finding of his own inner reality as latent in his personality. he learns that he, the human atom is a part of a group or centre in the body of a heavenly man, a planetary logos and that he must develop awareness of: a. his group vibration, b. his group purpose, c. his group centre. this is the stage of the probationary path or the path of discipleship up to the third initiation, and the old commentary proceeds "within the hall of learning, the central mystery is contacted. the method of release is seen, the law is well fulfilled, and man emerges well-nigh

at he is the cause of their aggregation into organs and forms, and the reason those forms are held in being. gradually there dawns on him a true understanding of the significance of the words "made in the image of god" his "consciousness is one and yet has produced the varied forms of the many" within his little cosmos, and what is true of him is true of his great prototype, the heavenly man, the planetary logos, and true again of the prototype of his prototype, the grand man of the heavens, the solar logos, god in manifestation through the solar system. 6. among the forms which consciousness assumes, only that which is the result of meditation is free from latent karma. forms are the result of desire. meditation of the right kind is a purely mental process and into it desire enters not. f

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

f those sons of men who are no longer centered in the individualised self-consciousness, but who have entered into a wider realisation, that of the planetary group life. there are stages in this realisation, mounting all the way from that tiny group recognition of the probationary disciple up to the completed group awareness of the life in whom all forms have their being, the consciousness of the planetary logos, that "spirit before the throne" who manifests through the form of a planet, as man manifests through his form in the human kingdom- 24- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust the soul therefore may be regarded as the unified sentiency and the relative awareness of that which lies back of the form of a planet and of a solar system. these latter are the sum total of al

e which receives this energy is the analogy to the energising spirit. the vital body is the expression of the soul energy and has the following function: 1. it unifies and links into one whole the sum total of all forms. 2. it gives to every form its particular quality, and this is due to: a. the type of matter drawn into that particular part of the web of life. b. the position in the body of the planetary logos, for instance, of any specific form. c. the particular kingdom in nature which is being vitalised. 3. it is the principle of integration and the cohesive force of manifestation, from the strictly physical sense. 4. this web of life is the subjective analogy to the nervous system, and beginners in the esoteric sciences can, if they remember this, picture to themselves a network of n

in the esoteric sciences can, if they remember this, picture to themselves a network of nerves and plexus running throughout the entire body, or the sum total of all forms, coordinating and linking, and producing an essential unity. 5. within that unity is diversity. just as the varied organs of the human body are inter-related by the ramification of the nervous system, so within the body of the planetary logos are the various kingdoms in nature and the multiplicity of forms. back of the objective universe is the subtler sensitive body one organism, not many, one sentient, responsive, connected form. 6. this sensitive form is not only that which responds to the environment but is the transmitter (from inner sources) of certain types of energy, and the object of the treatise might here be

and mediating between monad and personality, but the soul of humanity has a unique function to perform in mediating between the higher three kingdoms in nature and the lower three. the higher three are: 1. the spiritual hierarchy of our planet, nature spirits or angels and human spirits, who stand at a peculiar point on the ladder of evolution. of these sanat kumara, embodying a principle of the planetary logos is the highest, and an initiate of the first degree is the lowest, with corresponding entities in what we call the angel or deva kingdom. 2. the hierarchy of rays certain groupings of the seven rays in relation to our planet. 3. a hierarchy of lives, gathered by an evolutionary process out of our planetary evolution and from four other planets, who embody in themselves the purpose

vity. c. to produce eventually, through life and consciousness, a radiant activity, or manifestation of- 31- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust glory which will make of each human being a centre of activity for the distribution of light and attractive energy to others in the human kingdom, and through the human kingdom, to the subhuman kingdoms. this is a part of the plan of the planetary logos for the vitalising and renewing of the vibration of those forms which we designate subhuman. 3. this microcosmic symbol of the soul not only underlies the entire physical structure and thus is a symbol of the anima mundi, or the world soul, but is indivisible, coherent and a unified entity, thereby symbolising the unity and homogeneity of god. there are no separated organisms in it

ecy or mystery, but because all formulation of ideas about his life and purpose are impossible until one has completed the term of evolution in our solar system. note, i say, our solar system, not just our planetary existence. speculation about the existence who, through his life, informs seven solar systems is wasted energy. on our planet, only such great lives as the buddha, the kumaras and the planetary logos, are beginning to sense the- 157- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust dynamic impulse of the greater whole, and even they are only sensitive to it but are, as yet, utterly unable to conceive of its trend, for it lies beyond mind and love and will. it brings into play factors for which we have no terms and tendencies which are as yet not even remotely visioned on ou

are to him as the waters of space are to our solar system. he finds himself, as does our sun and its attendant planets, forming part of a whole, and just as our system is but one of seven systems, drawn together to form the body, or manifested expression of a life, so is the human kingdom of which he is an infinitesimal part, one of seven kingdoms. these are the correspondences in the life of the planetary logos to the seven solar systems. when he begins to sense the life of the solar logos as it expresses itself through the seven planetary schemes we will have touched the consciousness of the planetary logos of our special scheme, who is sensing somewhat the united vibrations of the lives of the seven solar logoi. bringing the analogy down closer still, the human kingdom itself is an anal

and something of what those forces are, where they come from, and how they act and react on the man. there lies his battleground and there also lies his field of victory. to begin with, it is advisable to bear in mind that all astral energy is part of the astral energy of the solar system and that therefore: 1. the sentient body of a human being is an atom of substance in the sentient body of the planetary logos. 2. the sentient body (a term i much prefer to the term astral, and which i shall continue to use) of the planetary logos is an aspect not an atom of the sentient body of the solar logos. 3. this in its turn is influenced by, and is a channel for sentient forces, emanating from vast centres of energy outside our solar system altogether. if this is borne in mind it becomes apparent

ern fear and the basis of all terror, above all that which is purely psychological and not just the instinctual fear of the animal. to concretise the matter more clearly would not help. of what use is it to be told that fear is a- 172- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust quality of evil (or of matter) which colours fundamentally or characterises the astral or sentient body of our planetary logos? what have you gained if i outlined to you the problem of the great life in whom we live and move and have our being as he, on his own cosmic plane, seeks liberation and faces his own peculiar trials and tests? how can words adequate be found to convey a cosmic struggle between lives so impersonal and exalted in consciousness that the words his, or he or tests prove simply laughabl

ts prove simply laughable and convey no possible aspect of truth or reality whatsoever? cosmic evil, cosmic progression, or cosmic problems can well be left to that distant time when aspirants have taken the third initiation, have lost all sense of separateness, and being identified with the life aspect and not with the form side can therefore enter somewhat into the state of consciousness of our planetary logos, sense his destiny, and vision fleetingly the wonder of the consummation. let us confine our attention therefore to man and more particularly to average man, and see whence come the waves of fear which sweep him so constantly off his feet. 1. the fear of death is based upon: a. a terror of the final rending processes in the act of death itself. b. horror of the unknown and the inde

rcoming of wrong vibration and the right direction of astral energy it might be of value here if we were very briefly to list the major energies which impress the human organism and circulate through the sentient body of man. 1. energies passing and repassing through the sentient body of the planet itself. this is, in other words, the astral body of the spirit of the earth. this entity is not the planetary logos, but a being of great power on the involutionary arc, who holds the same relation to the planetary logos as the astral elemental does to the human being. facts about this life will be found in the treatise on cosmic fire. its life is the aggregate of a vast number of lives, and those lunar pitris or lesser builders who constitute the sentient life of the personality aspect of the p

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

ray egos, there are no pure first ray types on the planet. all so-called first ray egos are on the first subray of the second ray, which is in incarnation. a pure first ray ego in incarnation at this time would be a disaster. there is not sufficient intelligence and love in the world to balance the dynamic will of an ego on the ray of the destroyer. just as the human family has a relation to the planetary logos of our earth which is best expressed by stating that it constitutes his heart and brain, so does the sum total of analogous evolutions within the entire solar system constitute the heart and brain of the solar logos. intelligent activity and love are the outstanding characteristics of a developed son of god, whilst their lower reflections sex and desire are the characteristics of t

ay-group, and there appears the disciple, the initiate and the master. when the soul adds to sentiency, quality, self-awareness and group consciousness, a consciousness of divine synthetic purpose (called by us the plan, then we have that state of being and knowledge which is distinctive of all upon the path of initiation, and includes those graded lives, from the more advanced disciple up to the planetary logos himself. but forget not that when we make these distinctions it is nevertheless one soul that is functioning, acting through vehicles of varying capacities, of differentiated refinements and of greater and lesser limitations, in just the same sense as a man is one identity, working sometimes through a physical body and sometimes through a feeling body or a mental body, and sometime

manifesting entity as is the solar deity himself. love will be their outstanding characteristic, and through that attractive magnetic force the new forms will come into being which will permit of purer ray types, and thus of more truly expressive appearances. a great deal of the destructive energy extant in the world today is due to the presence on the astral plane of a first ray disciple of the planetary logos. his work it is to clear the way for the manifestation of these other four major disciples, who are primarily builders; they will enter on their work when the task of the wreckers of form has been accomplished. i should like here to give a suggestion, for it is necessary that some of the methods of the hierarchy should begin to be understood. the work of what in the west is called

d and can wield these 19 types of energy. they are consciously wielded only by the three synthetic builders or creators, who are: 1. the life which expresses itself through seven solar systems. the one about whom naught may be said. 2. the life which expresses itself through seven planets. the solar deity..god. 3. the life which expresses itself through seven planetary centres, or continents. the planetary logos..the ancient of days. what the adept has done has been to bring his seven centres of force, located in the etheric body, into a responsive condition to the higher spiritual forces; as he progresses he will find that he will gradually and sequentially become equally responsive to the above three types of synthetic force. on the path of discipleship, and until the third initiation, h

ns to respond to the energy and to the spiritual purpose of the life of his own planet. at the first and second initiations, and until the third initiation, he has been led on and initiated by the influence of the christ, and under his direction he has submitted to two expansions of consciousness and has prepared himself for a third. when ready for this, he comes under the initiatory power of the planetary logos; and through the mediating activity of that great being the initiate becomes actively aware of energy emanating from the solar deity. he is therefore learning to respond to the second type of- 99- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust synthetic force. after he has taken the highest initiation possible on this planet, he is, for the

ing but life and activity, naught but motion and energy, and always a coherence, an ordered purpose, a growing synthesis, a plan, and a will. to this, science sets its seal, for scientific knowledge is the indication of man's response, through the collective response apparatus of humanity as a whole, to the mechanism of awareness of the great life in which we live and move and have our being, the planetary logos of our earth. the esoteric sciences carry us within the form or forms, and enable us to penetrate to the quality aspect. students would do well to remember that occultism may be the study of forces, and that the occultist moves in the worlds of force, but these are also the worlds of quality and of those qualifying energies which are seeking to manifest through the world of appeara

through a major initiation. this was made possible by the personality ray of the entity, manifesting through this kingdom, subjecting itself to the initiatory fire. this is of course expressed symbolically, the only way in which any aspect of this planetary truth can be grasped by man. it is an interesting, though quite unimportant fact, that at all the initiations of the kingdoms in nature, the planetary logos of a particular ray always functions as the initiator. this ray cyclically alters. in the major initiations at this time, for instance, in connection with humanity, not only is the first initiator, the christ, officiating, not only is the ancient of days, the embodiment of our planetary logos, participating (either actively or behind the scenes, but behind them both stands now the

to the process of individualisation. it is a process of lifegiving, of intelligent integration and of psychological unfoldment, to meet emergency. purpose. this is called experimentation. here we come to a great mystery, and one that is peculiar to our planet. in many esoteric books it has been stated and hinted that there has been a mistake, or a serious error, on the part of god himself, of our planetary logos, and that this mistake has involved our planet and all that it contains in the visible misery, chaos and suffering. shall we say that there has been no mistake, but simply a great experiment, of the success or failure of which it is not yet possible to judge? the objective of the experiment might be stated as follows: it is the intent of the planetary logos to bring about a psychol

t present modern psychology concerns itself with the more apparent aspects of incarnated man and with a discussion of certain speculative subjective possibilities. it might therefore be noted that the following rays and influences must be considered in the case of every individual man, for they make him what he is and determine his problem: 1. the ray of the solar system itself. 2. the ray of the planetary logos of our planet. 3. the ray of the human kingdom itself. 4. our particular racial ray, the ray that determines the aryan race- 207- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust 5. the rays that govern any particular cycle. 6. the national ray, or that ray influence which is peculiarly influencing a particular nation. 7. the ray of the soul

ogy i copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. that every planet is the incarnation of a life, of an entity or being. 2. that every planet, like a human being, is the expression of two ray forces, the personality and the egoic. 3. that two rays are therefore in esoteric conflict in each planet. i but indicate one of the rays, and i do not tell you whether it is the egoic or personality ray of the particular planetary logos. too much accuracy and too detailed information is not at this time good for humanity, which is yet too selfish to be entrusted with it. the planets and rays sacred ray non-sacred ray 1. vulcan .1 st ray. 1. mars. 6th ray. 2. mercury .4 th ray. 2. earth. 3rd ray. 3. venus. 5th ray. 3. pluto. 1st ray. 4. jupiter. 2nd ray. 4. the moon. 4th ray. 5. saturn. 3rd ray. veiling a hidden pl

feeling, love as thinking, and love as aspiration will come a clarification of man's problem and his liberation from the thralldom of the lower loves into the liberty of love itself, and into the freedom of the one who possesses all things, and yet desires nothing for the separated self. the magnetic pull of that which is desired is modified on our planet by the personality ray of our particular planetary logos. this is the ray of active intelligence, and of selective adaptability. just as every cell and atom in the human body is modified and conditioned by the egoic ray and the ray of each of the inner bodies, so every cell and atom in the body of the planetary logos is conditioned and modified by his outstanding ray influence, in this case, his personality ray. in this conditioning infl

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gins with the process of individualisation and consummates in the dominant personality. 2. with the egoic consciousness, which is that of the solar angel as it begins with the preparation for initiation on the path of discipleship and consummates in the perfected master. 3. with the monadic realisation. this is a phrase that means absolutely nothing to us, for it concerns the consciousness of the planetary logos. this begins to be realised at the third initiation, dominating the soul and working out through the personality. man, the average human being, is a sum total of separative tendencies, of uncontrolled forces and of disunited energies, which slowly and gradually become coordinated, fused, and blended in the separative personality. man, the solar angel, is the sum total of those ener

a paradoxical sentence with deep meaning) and others in working off the effects of the earlier initiated causes. this is a point not often emphasised. still later cycles of lives bring these two aspects consciousness and form into a greater rapport, and thus produce an entirely different type of life. the correspondence to these cycles can be seen working out in the life and consciousness of the planetary logos, as that great life seeks expression through the medium of the four kingdoms in nature. however (and this is the fact of supreme importance, all this activity, all this directed unfoldment, all this evolving purpose and livingness, all the events in all the kingdoms of nature, and all the phases of life-conditioning in the human family, plus the kaleidoscope of events, the emergenc

ous mystery, and in no way negate the truth that venus has a peculiar and intimate relation to the earth. the point here being stressed is difficult to express, but of great importance. let me be more explicit, by means of the following statements: 1. only three planetary schemes are aware of pain and sorrow as we understand those terms; none of them know it so well or feel it so much as does our planetary logos. 2. pain and sorrow are the result of rebellion, and of divine discontent. the instinct to betterment, based on discontent, has necessarily involved the planetary temperament or attitude which recognises the dualities- 62- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. there is a stage to be reached in the human consciousness, where th

e of all this which indicates wrong motives and false aspiration, service of a kind is constantly and readily being rendered. humanity is on its way to a right understanding of services; it is becoming responsive to this new law and is learning to react to the steadily imposing will of that great life who informs the constellation aquarius, just as our solar logos informs our solar system and our planetary logos informs our earth planet. the idea of service is, at this time, the major idea to be grasped for (in grasping it) we open ourselves wide to the new incoming influences. the law of service is the expression of the energy of a great life, who, in cooperation with him "in whom we live and move and have our being, is subjecting the human family to certain influences and streams of ener

he embodied. in the process of so doing, he himself "died, in the sense that, for a free soul, death and the taking of a form and the consequent immersion of the life in the form, are synonymous terms- 107- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust secondly, that in so doing, the soul is recapitulating on a small scale what the solar logos and the planetary logos have likewise done, and are doing. these great lives come under the rule of the laws of the soul during the period of manifestations, even though they are not governed or controlled by the laws of the natural world, as we call it. their consciousness remains unidentified with the world of phenomena, though ours is identified with it until such time that we come under the rule of th

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 centre awakened, and be so outgoing in his "behaviour" that the heart is rapidly linked up with the heart centres of at least eight other people. groups of nine awakened aspirants can then be occultly absorbed in the heart centre of the planetary logos. through it, his life can flow and the group members can contribute their quota of energy to the life influences circulating throughout his body. the above piece of information is only of interest to those who are spiritually awakened, and will mean little or nothing to those who are asleep. 2. the head centre must also be in process of awakening, and the ability to "hold the mind

ur psychologists. it should here be pointed out that individualisation is a crisis and not an unfoldment. this is of real importance and should be borne in mind in all consideration of this difficult subject. it is the result of development, but such development need not lead to this particular crisis. what causes this crisis in the lives of souls remains as yet hidden in the consciousness of the planetary logos and is only revealed at initiation. there are as yet characteristics and qualities of the planetary logos which remain incomprehensible to us. when the animal kingdom, viewing it from the angle of the whole and not from the angle of species, had reached a particular stage of development, then there was an inrush into the planetary life of the energy of all the seven rays simultaneo

and sorrow. on the life side, it results in release, liberation and subsequent expansion. b. this tendency is the basic cause of all initiation individual, racial, planetary and systemic. c. it is the result of an act of the will, and is caused by the impulsion of the sensed and innate purpose of god. however (and this is a point oft forgotten) this tendency is motivated by the recognition of the planetary logos, that his plan is conditioned in its turn, and is an integral part of a still larger plan that of the solar deity. god, the solar logos, is likewise conditioned by a still higher life purpose. 2. the quality of the hidden vision. a. this quality, on the form side, produces physical sight, astral illusion and concrete knowledge. on the life side it produces illumination. this includ

rsonality, finding their expression through the medium of an outer tangible form which is itself coloured, motivated and conditioned by a fourth type of energy the energy of basic matter. this basic matter is the product of the first solar system, and the energy of which it is composed does not, therefore, belong to our solar system at all, except through an act of appropriation, performed by our planetary logos at the dawn of the creative activity of god. seeking to impress, impel and motivate this group of four energies is the energy of the informing, indwelling soul. this fifth type of energy is itself dual in nature, being the transcendent archetype of both mind and emotion, or will and love. these six energies in their turn are animated or impelled by the life of god himself, thus mak

ed disciple, which are as yet not capable of interpretation nor can they be comprehended by average human beings, but which are attributes of the kingdom of souls, and which will distinguish that kingdom in its final stages. these latent attributes can be gradually comprehended and brought into activity by those who can function as souls. 3. undefined attributes are those of which the christ, the planetary logos and those great lives of whose consciousness we can have no conception are becoming aware (note that phrase. for these attributes we have no words, and it is needless for us even to guess at their nature or to ponder upon their significance. they are as remote from our understanding as the aesthetic sense, group philanthropy and world states are from the consciousness of the aborig

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lucis trust 1. relax and focus yourself in the soul. then sound the o.m, breathing it out upon the world of men and saying to yourself inaudibly "the will of god moves the world" this is the thought lying behind your use of the o.m. 2. then ponder upon the significance of time as an expression of the will, realising that this expression is a thought instantaneous and effective in the mind of the planetary logos. think out carefully some of the implications of this last statement. 3. then say slowly and thoughtfully "the past has gone. i am that past. it makes me what i am. the future comes. i also am the coming destiny and, therefore, i am that. the present flows from out the past. the future colours that which is. i make the future also by my present knowledge of the past and the beauty

be precipitated in some later life. 3. he begins to shoulder some of the general karma of humanity, thus increasing his own load of karma. 4. he begins to work with and to comprehend something of planetary karma, though as yet he undertakes no responsibility in this connection. only after the third initiation does he consciously and as an individual cooperate with the karmic responsibility of the planetary logos. i would here like to point out that i am referring to good karma as well as bad. it is the task of the helping disciple to guide the chela in the light so that he does adjust his karma. this the senior disciple does by thought impression. all karma, when consciously faced, is precipitated by the power of thought; this is perhaps the major lesson which the senior disciple has to te

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g of this highest spiritual centre to which if we believe the gospel story christ himself was always attentive. frequently we read in the new testament that "the father spoke to him" or that "he heard a voice" unheard by others, or that the words were heard "this is my beloved son" several times, we read, the seal of affirmation (as it is spiritually called) was given to him. only the father, the planetary logos, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being (acts xvii.28, the lord of the world, the ancient of days (dan. vii.9) can speak this final affirmative word. there are, as well we know, five crises or initiations which concern the master jesus the birth at bethlehem, the baptism, the transfiguration, the crucifixion and the resurrection but lying behind this obvious and pract

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f the greatest in the world. what constitutes the prime difficulty of any disciple is the fact that the battleground of his life involves every aspect of his nature. the whole man is involved. technically, the word maya should only be used in two cases: 1. in reference to the united glamour-illusion to which a man who is an integrated personality responds. 2. in speaking of the limitations of the planetary logos of our planet. in the above remarks i have given you much food for thought not only as regards your own personal problems (for all of you are subject to these conditions, but i have also indicated to you what is the nature of glamour. the word is used in all esoteric books and teaching to cover the conditions which are differentiated under the words maya, illusion and glamour itsel

han he is with the realisation of a due and proper sense of proportion and of spiritual values. he over-estimates his experience and himself. instead of redoubling his efforts and thus establishing a closer contact with the kingdom of souls and loving all beings more deeply, he begins to call attention to himself, to the mission he is to develop, and to the confidence that the master and even the planetary logos apparently have in him. he talks about himself; he gestures and attracts notice, demanding recognition. as he does so, his alignment is steadily impaired; his contact lessens and he joins the ranks of the many who have succumbed to the illusion of sensed power. this form of illusion is becoming increasingly prevalent among disciples and those who have taken the first two initiation

apacity to grow and to unfold, to orient the type and to express in time and space the archetype or pattern, and to outline and determine the structure of the kingdoms into which science divides the natural world. these are but a few of the innate, inherent characteristics of substance itself, inherited and conditioning our present manifestation of divine life. 2. the life or manifestation of the planetary logos, the "one in whom we live and move and have our being" is determined by his own nature. to us, that great life embodies perfection and the qualities which distinguish him are those to which we direct our highest aspiration. but, from the angle of those lives who are ahead of him upon the cosmic path (i speak symbolically and in terms of human experience) he is among the "imperfect

erial and etheric light) and the light of the mind itself. there is no peculiar or specific light in or of the astral body itself, for it is only an aggregate of forms, created by individual man, by nations and by races, and these in their entirety constitute the astral plane and possess no inherent light as do other forms. they are not created as a form of expression for some dynamic life by the planetary logos, and this is the real meaning of what i have earlier told you that the astral plane in reality does not exist. it is the phantasmoric creation of human desire down the ages and its false light is a reflection of either the light of matter or of the mind. this process of focussing is undertaken through alignment and by the effort to bring to a point of illumination the positive ligh

e will deal next with the technique of indifference which is concerned with the distribution of soul force upon the physical plane, via the etheric plane, leading to inspiration. this is related to the science of the breath- 144- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust what then is maya? this, my brother, is not easy to define because it is related to the form-building activity of the planetary logos himself. however, a consideration of the analogy existing between the microcosm and the macrocosm may help somewhat. the soul creates a threefold expression in the three worlds of human living. this is an occult truism. the outer form, the dual physical body (dense and vital or etheric) is produced, created, motivated, energised and conditioned by certain energies and forces, emana

all of these the average man identifies himself; he believes himself to be the form, the medium through which he attempts to express his desires and his ideas. this complete identification with the transient creation and with the outer appearance is maya. it must be remembered that individual maya is a fractional part of the world of energies and forces which constitute the life expression of the planetary logos, which condition our outer planetary life, and make our planet what it appears to be to the other planets. the difference between man, the microcosm, and the planetary logos, the lord of the world, the macrocosm, lies in the fact that the lord of the world is not identified with the maya which he has created, and which has its purpose in eventually bringing about the release of the

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n enter into the divine mind, owing to his having transcended human limitation; the thought-directed receiver is the man, in exoteric expression, who has aligned his brain, his mind, and his soul. it is a fact that omnipresence, which is a law in nature and based on the fact that the etheric bodies of all forms constitute the world etheric body, makes omniscience possible. the etheric body of the planetary logos is swept into activity by his directed will; energy is the result of his thoughtform playing in and through his energy body. this thoughtform embodies and expresses his world purpose. all the subhuman forms of life and the human forms up to the stage of advanced man are governed by divine thought through the medium of their energy bodies which are an integral part of the whole. the

s impression is received by the three buddhas of activity for distribution to the hierarchy. d. from the planet venus, the earth's alter ego. this makes its entrance via the lord of the world and three of his council who are chosen by him at any specific time to act as recipients. these are the major entering impressions, recorded by what is glibly called "the universal mind" the mind of god, our planetary logos. there are other entering impressions, but to them i do not refer, as any reference would be meaningless to you. 2. the impression of the hierarchy by: a. shamballa itself through the medium of groups within the great council; these step down the impression which they register so that the hierarchy as a whole may cooperate with the purposes intended by those who are forming the nee

t be said that consciousness itself, which is the goal on this planet of all the evolutionary process, is simply the demonstrated result of the science of contact. it is likewise the goal in some form or other and at some stage or other of all planetary existences within the solar system itself. the unfoldment of this conscious response is, in reality, the growth of the sensitive awareness of the planetary logos himself. the human mechanism and its ability to respond to its environment (as science well knows) has been developed in response to an inner urge, present in every human being and in all forms of life, and to the "pull" and magnetic effect of the surrounding environment. step by step, the forms of life upon the physical plane, down through the ages, have unfolded one sense after a

f all these "impressing agencies" is felt in a wide and general sense throughout the entire planet and the planetary aura. no kingdom in nature escapes this impact, and it is thus that the purpose of the lord of the world is carried out. being, coherence and activity are thus blended into one created and creative whole; life, quality and appearance respond unitedly to the imposed intention of the planetary logos and yet, at the same time, remain creatively free as regards their reaction to these contacted impressions; this reaction- 44- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust is necessarily dependent upon the type and quality of the mechanism which registers the impression. this mechanism has been developed by the life within the form throughout the creative period and

ration of the planet. the generating of good karma necessitates the "living through" of conditions where everything (for the man responsible or for any other form within its limitations) is good, happy, beneficent and useful. the evil karma generated in any kingdom in relation to the "realm where dwelleth the planetary dweller on the threshold" stands between the cosmic door of initiation and our planetary logos. this dweller represents all the mistakes and errors due to wrong reactions, unrecognised contacts, deliberate choices made in defiance of known good, and mass movements and mass activities which are temporarily not progressive in time and space. i realise that where these facts apply to the subhuman kingdoms in nature you are not aware of what i mean, but that does not alter the l

ions, unrecognised contacts, deliberate choices made in defiance of known good, and mass movements and mass activities which are temporarily not progressive in time and space. i realise that where these facts apply to the subhuman kingdoms in nature you are not aware of what i mean, but that does not alter the law or movements which are in no way related to human evolution. in connection with the planetary logos i would like to add that in that great planetary struggle and his subsequent initiation, we are all implicated from the atom of substance up to and including all the lives which form the council chamber of the lord of the world; it is this titanic effort which is made by the sum total of all the living processes and entities that compose the manifestation of sanat kumara which is r

cation of their response. the whole planetary system is in reality a vast interlocking, inter-dependent and inter-related complexity of vehicles communicating or responsive to communication. the moment that this inter-related and communicating system is studied from the angle of relationships, then the processes of evolution and the goal of the spirit of man (which is in reality the spirit of the planetary logos) become of vital and supreme importance, but are at the same time most difficult to comprehend. so immense is the theme that it is profitless for us to do more than deal with two factors: 1. the science of impression in relation to mankind. 2. the impressing centres, as they affect the understanding of relationship. the many modes of contact between the many subhuman and superhuman

by the disciples as preludes to the fifth initiation or in reality to the third, fourth and fifth and are related to the three stages of triadal communication, each of which is related to the seventh, the eighth and the ninth initiations. never does the geometrical pattern, the numerical progression or the law of correspondences break down in the understanding of the purpose and the plans of the planetary logos established before the worlds were created and finding their prototypes upon the cosmic mental planes. these points are peculiarly difficult for men to grasp at this time wherein their state of consciousness is concentratedly individualised. nevertheless, there is on man's part a steadily growing responsiveness to an expanding environment, as for instance man's recognition of the d

d that he possesses a mechanism of response to all the facets of the divine expression in manifestation. it is for that reason that the truly illumined man and all who have taken the three highest initiations are always referred to as "the diamond souled; they, in their totality constitute the "jewel in the lotus" that twelve-petalled lotus which is the symbol and expression of the potency of the planetary logos. you can see, therefore, how the theme of revelation runs throughout the entire evolutionary process; it must never be forgotten that step by step, stage by stage, expansion after expansion, initiation after initiation, the divine whole is realised by man. the method is impressed from a hitherto unrecognised environment; this only becomes possible in this particular form when "the

bstantial energy. this entire proposition can be referred back to the originating thinker who brought our manifested world into being, and who sequentially and under the law of evolution is bringing to fruition the objective of his thinking. in the larger and wider sense, it is that sum total of the ocean of energies in which "we live and move and have our being" this is the sevenfold body of the planetary logos- 67- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust the impressing agents of the divine will we are not here, however, considering the larger whole, but we are dealing with a specific and focussed area of the planetary consciousness. this is found midway between the highest plane whereon the council chamber of the great lord is found and the three planes which form th

sed recipients" at an exceedingly high level; this is the atmic level of awareness, which is the area energised by the divine will. when dealing with the fifth point of revelation*(11) i said that it concerned itself with the highest aspect of the will with that which produces the highest synthesis, the final synthesis. the planetary purpose is the eventual synthesis of the initial thought of the planetary logos, and to this thought we give always the unmeaning name of "glory; this stands for all that we can conceive of the divine purpose; it is, for us, a "blaze of glory" the human mind is at this stage (in time and space) unable to register any aspect of the purpose; all that we can do is to cooperate with the efforts of the hierarchy to activate those things and events which will make t

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and yet it is of paramount importance. this is the energy which emanates from or radiates from the earth itself. living as all human beings do upon the surface of the earth and being, therefore, projected into the etheric body of the planet (for the reason that "man stands erect) man's body is at all times bathed in the emanations and the radiations of our earth and in the integral quality of our planetary logos as he sends forth and transmits energy within his planetary environment. astrologers have always emphasised the incoming influences and energies as they beat upon and play through our little planet, but they have omitted to take into adequate consideration the emanating qualities and forces which are the contribution of our earth's etheric body to the larger whole. this we will con

ho are active and living souls at some one or other of the final stages upon the path. the casting of the horoscope of the average man or the undeveloped man presents no such difficulties. it might be added in addition that the signs of the zodiac are concerned primarily with the life expression of the heavenly man (as far as our planet is concerned) and therefore with the destiny and life of the planetary logos. they are also concerned with the great man of the heavens, the solar logos. i refer in this last instance to their effect as it makes itself felt in the solar system as a whole and with this effect there are few astrologers at this time fit to deal. i would remind you- 13- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust that to the lives who

e and with this effect there are few astrologers at this time fit to deal. i would remind you- 13- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust that to the lives who inform these great constellations and whose radiation [page 22] dynamic and magnetic reaches our earth, this effect is incidental and unnoticed. the primary effect that they have is upon our planetary logos and this effect reaches us through him, pouring through that great planetary centre to which we have given the name of shamballa. it is, therefore, capable of evoking the major response from the monads, and these monads express themselves through the kingdom of souls and through the human kingdom; it consequently expresses itself through the hierarchy and through humanity as a whol

ity which will permit any noticeable recognition, either in the dense or subtler vehicles or even by the soul. later in the evolutionary process, recognition and response will come, but for all astrological purposes and recognisable produced effects, they may be regarded today as non-existent except as they react upon the fourth kingdom of nature as it constitutes a living unit in the body of the planetary logos. as little conscious effect is produced by these forces as the effect of a high moment of contact in your morning meditation produces an effect upon the atom or cell in the little finger upon one of your hands. there may be a general response and stimulation throughout the entire body, but the intelligent atom makes no conscious response. the vibration is of too high a character. s

ognition of them upon the physical plane. bringing the theme back to the subject of this treatise, which is that of the seven rays, i would point out that these rays have a close connection with the seven stars of the great bear (again always the four and the three as a secondary differentiation) and to the seven sisters, the pleiades. the first constellation is the agent of positive force to the planetary logos and the other the relayer of the negative aspect. there is, therefore, a direct interchange of energies between the lives of the seven planetary logoi and the stupendous and unfathomable lives who inform these major constellations. great interlocking triangles of force can be found existing between the seven planets and these two groups of seven stars each. it will eventually be di

a. this is the true "secret of- 27- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the dragon" and it was the dragon-influence or the "serpent energy" which caused the influx of manasic or mind energy into the solar system. entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic entities, was that of the lesser cosmic entity who is the life of our planet, the planetary logos. it was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "serpents or dragons of wisdom" in lemurian days. it had to do with solar and planetary kundalini, or serpent fire. a hint lies in the fact that the constellation of the dragon has the same relation to the one greater than our logos as the centre at the base of the spine has to a human being. it concerns stim

etalled 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 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 t

in the worlds of superhuman evolution, it is the fifth counting from below upwards. this hierarchy wields, as we know, the dual aspects of manas, one in the three worlds and one which makes itself felt in higher spheres. it is necessary to bear in mind that all these groups are (even when termed "formless) the true forms of all that persists, for all are in the etheric body of the solar logos or planetary logos. this is a point requiring careful emphasis; students have for too long regarded the form as being the dense physical body, whereas to the occultist the physical body is not the form, but a gross maya, or illusion, and the true form is the body of vitality. therefore, these hierarchies are the sum total of the vital lives and the substratum or the substance of all that is. we might

ification. 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 the physical plane can 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 oppos

presence, distributing solar fire and holding focussed electric fire, and the dweller on the threshold, expressing and utilising fire by friction, know each other "with intimate occult knowledge" the door then stands open wide through which the life and light of the three major constellations can after the third initiation be occultly available to the initiate, be he a liberated human being or a planetary logos. when astrologers understand the true significance of the constellation gemini, the twins, and the dual forces which pour through this sign (the "forces in conflict" as they are sometimes called or "the quarrelling brothers) and beat upon our planetary life, then the true method of resolving the dualities will be known. it is interesting to note also that seven of the symbols which

manifestation and "as he thinks, so is he" when, however, he becomes hercules, the sun god (or solar angel, he begins to reverse the process (again only apparently) and a definite reorientation takes place. the teachers on the inner side, therefore, study the horoscope only in its relation to the following three entities: 1. the horoscope of the planet itself as the expression of the life of the planetary logos. this involves the studying of the horoscope of the spirit of the planet as well as of the informing life and their joint relationship and interplay. the spirit of the earth is to the planetary logos of the earth, for instance, what the personality (or form nature) is to the soul of man. the two horoscopes are superimposed and the "planetary pattern" then emerges. 2. the horoscope

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treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust possess the varying functions which enable the soul to express itself on the physical or objective plane as part of a greater and more inclusive organism. the physical body is the response apparatus of the indwelling spiritual man and serves to put that spiritual entity en rapport with the response apparatus of the planetary logos, the life in which we live and move and have our being. 2. the etheric body, which has one main objective. this is to vitalise and energise the physical body and thus integrate it into the energy body of the earth and of the solar system. it is a web of energy streams, of lines of force and of light. it constitutes part of the vast network of energies which underlies all forms whet

of humanity, an organism in a greater organism. conditions existing in the whole will be reflected in the unit self, and many of the ills from which man suffers today are the effect upon him of conditions existing in the fourth kingdom in nature as a whole. for these he is not held responsible. 3. the effect upon his physical body of the planetary life, which is the expression of the life of the planetary logos, who is an evolving entity. the implications of this are largely beyond our ken, but the effects are discernible. i am not interested primarily in training individuals in order to make them more efficient healers. it is group healing at which i aim, and it is the work which is done in formation which interests me at this time. but no group of people can work as a unit unless they l

tion is not definitely related to the science of healing, yet the entire subject is related to energy, and energy in some form or another is related to the causes and the effects of disease, because disease is the undesirable effect of energy upon the energy unit which we call the atom. it should be remembered that the etheric body of the human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planetary logos and is, therefore, related to all forms found within that body in any and all the kingdoms in nature. it is part of the substance of the universe, coordinated with- 50- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust planetary substance, and hence provides the scientific basis for unity. if you were to ask me what, in reality, lies behind all di

ival of humanity upon the planet. there is disease in the mineral world, in the vegetable kingdom, and also among animals, even in their wild states and in their natural habitat, uncontaminated by man. hence, man cannot be held responsible for this, nor is it the result of human wrong thinking. it provides no answer to the question to say that it must therefore be due to the wrong thinking of the planetary logos or of the solar logos. this is only a begging of the question and an evasion of the issue. i would here remind you of the two definitions of the causes of disease which i earlier gave. let me call them to your careful attention "all disease is the result of inhibited soul life. this is true of all forms in all kingdoms "disease is the product of and subject to three influences. fir

1. it is the result of blocking the free life of the soul. 2. it is caused by three influences or sources of contamination: a. ancient mistakes, so-called sins and errors of the individual concerned, committed in this life or another earlier incarnation. b. human taints and predispositions, inherited in common with all the rest of humanity. c. planetary evil, incident to the point achieved by the planetary logos and conditioned by planetary karma. 3. it is conditioned by the forces emanating from the plane upon which the man's consciousness is primarily focussed. 4. the five major types of disease, with their allied and subsidiary effects, can and do produce results where the disciple is concerned; he is not immune until after the third initiation. a. the diseases of mystics. however, the

diatory, which brings about the final destruction of the soul body or causal body as the relationship reaches its highest point of intensified recognition. d. it is that centre, therefore, in the physical body through the medium of which the hierarchy works; it is also the agent of the soul. when i here use the word "soul" i refer not only to the individual soul of man but to the soul also of the planetary logos, both of which are the result of the union of spirit and matter, of the father aspect and the mother aspect. this is a great mystery which only initiation can reveal. e. the heart centre registers the energy of love. it might here be stated that when the antahkarana has been finally constructed, the three aspects of the spiritual triad will each find a point of contact within the e

picture, but which will protect the ignorant from disaster. i shall make these statements as clearly and briefly as possible, but shall give practically no explanatory matter with them. 1. this basic centre is the point where, under the evolutionary law, spirit and matter meet, and life is related to form. 2. it is therefore the centre where the essential dualism of the manifested divinity man or planetary logos meet and produce form. 3. the nature of this divinity is only revealed when the second aspect has accomplished its work, through the medium of the third aspect, but under the directing will of the first aspect. 4. it is the centre where the "serpent of god" undergoes two transformations: a. the serpent of matter lies coiled. b. this serpent is transformed into the serpent of wisdom

ucis trust medium of the sacral centre, and thus a most vicious situation came about which weakened the stamina of the human body, which greatly increased the demands of the sex nature through the stimulation of the sacral centre, artificially brought about by the black lodge, and which produced many unholy alliances and widespread evil relations. a great new law of nature was then imposed by the planetary logos which has been expressed (very inadequately) by the words "the soul that sinneth, it shall die" this law could be better expressed by saying "he that misuses that which he hath built will see it fall from forces within itself" as the centuries slipped away and the lemurian race submitted to the evil impulses of the animal nature, gradually the earliest type of venereal disease made

evils are not only individual sins and faults, but can be national characteristics; the world war has brought the whole problem to the surface of the human consciousness and the ancient atlantean struggle is being bitterly waged, with the probability that this time the great white lodge will triumph. that was not the case in the earlier conflict. then the war was ended by the intervention of the planetary logos himself, and that ancient civilisation went down into the deeps and was engulfed in water the symbol of purity, sanitation and universality, and therefore appropriate as an ending for what one of the masters has called "a tubercularly oriented race" death by drowning and death by obscure physical means which i am not at liberty to describe have both been tried in the effort to salv

this cannot be helped. these two groups of diseases are of such exceedingly ancient origin that i have called them inherent in the planetary life itself and the heritage of all humanity, for in all, the breaking of certain laws will bring about these diseases. if i cared to do so, i could take you still further back into the realm of cosmic evil as it prevails in our solar system and affects the planetary logos, who is still numbered among "the imperfect gods" the outer form of the planet through which he expresses himself is impregnated to a certain depth with the seeds and germs of these two diseases; as immunity is built up, however, as methods of cure are developed, as preventive medicine comes into its own, and as man himself arrives at increasing mental and soul control of the anima

orption into the soil of the planet itself. death, as the result of soul activity produces, therefore, the withdrawing from the body of the "light body and of the subtle bodies" leaving the dense form and its component parts to the benign processes of planetary control. this dual activity produces death as we know it from the human angle. it is necessary here to point out that this ability of the planetary logos to extract the life essence innate in each atom, produces what might be called deterioration in the structure of the form at any point from whence this life essence is emitted. this brings about conditions which eventually become apparent visually; thus disease and the "tendency to die" become recognisable. therefore, the withering of a flower, death from old age in an animal or a

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tally, to redeem, salvage and purify them so that the substance of the next solar system will be of a higher order than that of the present one, and consequently more responsive to the will aspect of the logos. viewed from this angle, esotericism is the science of redemption, and of this all world saviours are the everlasting symbol and exponents. it was to redeem substance and its forms that the planetary logos came into manifestation, and the entire hierarchy with its great leader, the christ (the present world symbol, might be regarded as a hierarchy of redeemers, skilled in the science of redemption. once they have mastered this science, they can then pass on to the science of life and deal with the energies which will eventually hold and use the qualified- 47- education in the new age

lar system. their activity will produce a great spiritual and planetary fusion, of which the fusion of personality and soul (at a certain point upon the path of evolution) is the symbol in the microcosmic sense. you can see by this the close relation between the work of the individual aspirant or disciple as he redeems, salvages and purifies his threefold body of manifestation and the work of the planetary logos as he performs a similar task in connection with the "three periodical vehicles" through which he works: his personality vehicle, his soul expression and his monadic aspect. by means of all that i have said you will realise that i am endeavouring to take the vagueness out of the word "esotericism" and to indicate the extremely scientific and practical nature of the enterprise upon

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such interpretations are man-made and are not true interpretations of the parable or word picture which christ gave to his disciples nearly two thousand years ago- 42- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the judgment referred to has relation to a mysterious process which is going on in the thinking (if one dare use such a word for such a comprehensive process) of the planetary logos. he is deciding at this time the mode by which a momentous event or happening within the hierarchy shall take shape; he is timing the process of its externalisation; he is deciding which ashrams shall be externalised and who, within those ashrams, should and must proceed with the purely inner and subjective work, and who should be chosen to work consciously and openly in the outer

of the one in whom we live and move and have our being, just as the activities, the orientation and the thinking of a human being carry the cells and the atoms of his body along the line of his wishes. energies are but the rhythm of his breathing and the results of the systolic and the diastolic action of his heart. from these energies we cannot escape, but in a mysterious and peculiar manner the planetary logos directs them or withholds them to suit the recognised planetary needs of the period. at this time the "eye of his direction" is turned towards a needy and waiting world, and particularly towards the large number of waiting people who hold within themselves the potencies of discipleship. they are the hope of the world. this outpouring of directed energy means a great stimulation of

manity has inevitably set up as a result of registered pain and through which the observing disciple must move. 2. the glamour induced upon the astral plane as the result of three intermingling and inflowing streams of energy: a. the energies set in motion by the uprising cry of humanity itself, which inevitably shapes and moulds astral substance. b. the new inflowing spiritual energies which the planetary logos is steadily bringing to bear upon human life and upon all forms of physical existence. these must traverse or cut across the astral realm in reaching the physical plane. c. the retreating forces of evil which are endeavouring to make a last desperate stand upon the astral plane. these three types of force (when brought into relation with each other) are producing an unparalleled vo

rectly handled and surmounted, will result in his being an initiate a very different interpretation to the current theosophical one. as i often told you, a man is an initiate, prior to any initiation ceremony. the ceremony concerns hierarchical recognition of the disciple and does not concern the candidate's fitness. i find it needful to reiterate this fact. the planetary crises through which the planetary logos is at this time passing should result in the emergence of many initiates; no true disciple is exempt from the effects of this planetary situation. inevitably, changes are wrought by the soul in the personal life. when these changes are focussed through the lower centres and the lower bodies, the general result is purification and character building. the aspirant is then still upon

phase of alignment, a conscious use of the mind as a contact agent, and a receptive activity of the brain. putting the objective of all this into its highest possible terms, the disciple and the initiate are learning the technique (through meditation) whereby the mind of god, the universal mind, or- 108- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust the thinking process of the planetary logos, can be recorded and registered. for the majority, at present, the knowledge of the divine thought (as registered by disciples, as it works out in the emerging plan, and as it gives livingness to life purpose) is reached through the ashram. the master imparts the nature of the plan or the purpose according to the status of the initiate and that is accepted by him under the law of f

e new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust world period, such as the present difficult and transitional era. you will see from the above how diverse, spiritually speaking, are the impressions to be received by the attentive disciple. the word "diverse" here employed is not of a separative connotation; it signifies the basic unity in diversity and the vastness of the inclusive thinking of the planetary logos. achievement for the disciple, consists (along this line) in a sequential and growing capacity to include in his thinking more and more of the divine conclusions. i use this word in its esoteric significance. it is my intention this year to have you concentrate upon the new invocation from the point of view that it embodies the divine intent and summarises the conclusions of the th

s. achievement for the disciple, consists (along this line) in a sequential and growing capacity to include in his thinking more and more of the divine conclusions. i use this word in its esoteric significance. it is my intention this year to have you concentrate upon the new invocation from the point of view that it embodies the divine intent and summarises the conclusions of the thinking of the planetary logos. it is the most abstract form of meditation with which you have yet been presented. the meaning of this invocation has been expressed in terms which are understandable, in a measure, to the average person because of its familiar wording, based on many scriptural terms. but the true inner implications and significances are of very deep import and are not superficially apparent. i ch

appeal focusses itself in the human kingdom, for that kingdom is the receiving and the transmitting agent for these kingdoms, just as the hierarchy has been and is the- 113- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust receiving and the transmitting agent for every human appeal. note here the beautiful interlocking and the fine interrelation which has been established by our planetary logos. this new invocation expresses this complete interdependence in an unique manner. precipitation of the new and long awaited energies is brought about in three ways: 1. by the direct action of the hierarchy as its members train their disciples to tap this source of inspiration, to become sensitive to the awaited impression, and to bring down that which is needed for the enlightenmen

y of the higher evolution. there is then a direct channel of contact whenever needed and desired for service with the physical brain and also an alignment or unimpeded relation between- 130- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyright 1998 lucis trust 1. the disciple and humanity. the throat or creative centre in the planetary sense. 2. the disciple and the hierarchy. the heart centre of the planetary logos. 3. the disciple and shamballa .the head centre of the planetary logos. these are great and abstruse esoteric facts. the use of the invocation will likewise relate human beings within the ring-pass-not of humanity itself; it will bring the human centre en rapport with the hierarchy, creating a free interplay between the two of them and thus making possible the appearance of the kin

st advanced thinkers upon our planet) of the nature of the impulses and concepts which animate certain universal creators. ponder on this. i also pointed out to you that there are three major groups of meditating agents who act as intermediaries between the three groups of self-conscious lives upon our planet, and also between our planet and that which lies behind and beyond it and with which our planetary logos has intimate and intensive relation. i am not, however, going to deal today with that which is extra-planetary; it would be, for you, sheer waste of time. i will deal with the theme of meditation as the agent of the creative process now, and with the part meditation must play in the preparation for the coming of the christ and the inauguration of the new civilisation which is so de

tion of the new civilisation which is so definitely on its way. there are, as you may surmise (if you have read my instructions intelligently, seven phases of the creative meditative process; all of them are productive of the required results. all that at present exists in the three worlds and in the higher spheres is the result of some form of meditative activity. these seven sources are: 1. the planetary logos himself, who formed and informed the world by his thought, and who holds all together within his mind for the many, many aeons of manifested existence. as i have before said, the occult truism that "god thought, god visualised, god spoke and the world was made and is sustained" remains eternally true. 2. the group which is the higher correspondences of the nirmanakayas. this group

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religions and the men and women who respond to the love influence can change methods (though not the purpose or the direction) by pouring in the love force. again, that force which we regard as emanating from the strictly human centre, the third ray type of energy, is of the third or creative order; and in these three energies you have, in reality, the expression of the three major centres of the planetary logos. the first or will energy is, as you know, focussed in sanat kumara, the ancient of days (as he is called in the christian bible, the lord of shamballa, who is the embodiment of the personality of the planetary logos. the love force is focussed through the two great spiritual lords of the hierarchy, the buddha and the christ, who are both embodiments of the heart centre of the plan

e by certain of the leading world rulers, whose activity is responsible for the rapid creation of the new world with its rapidly altering civilisations and culture. these thoughts will provide much that you would do well to consider. the fourth type of force, which is responsible for the state of world affairs at this time, is that of the jews; they, as a whole, constitute the solar plexus of the planetary logos; their problem is being used today to focus, qualify and condition the world feeling-nature and the emotional reactions of the sensitive nature of humanity and of the planetary logos. forget not that the personality of our planetary logos is not yet perfect, hence the fact that his body of manifestation, the planet, is not reckoned as being one of the sacred planets. through the je

the inscrutable ends of deity inscrutable as far as the human consciousness is concerned. they remain inscrutable to humanity, because the three major ends or purposes which affect you, for instance, as members of the fourth kingdom in nature are: 1. the direction in which the solar logos is going upon the cosmic path. e soterically. the way towards the central spiritual sun. 2. the plans of the planetary logos upon the systemic path. e soterically. the way towards the heart of the sun. 3. the purpose ahead for the human family upon the path of light. e soterically. the way of the sun. i put this in here only to show you how vague and uncertain are your very highest speculations. be content with your duty and the immediate service which will lead you a step further upon the way to which y

would ask you: how many used the great invocation in a purely detached, spiritually potent and fully understanding manner? the merest handful. how many sent forth the great invocation in a spirit of pure love and with a completely unbiased attitude? very few indeed. how many sounded it out through the medium of a controlled mind, with a recognition and deep belief that it embodied the will of the planetary logos and must, therefore, become dynamically effective upon the physical plane? hardly more than a tiny handful. most of those who used it were intrigued by its novelty, or felt it to be comprehensive though in an unrealisable manner, or considered it must be occultly effective because they heard that it emanated from a member of the hierarchy, was used by the occult hierarchy of the pl

wish complex. they are dependent, too, upon a certain dynamic freshness and enthusiasm which it is hard to attain in a time of stress and strain. the present time is peculiarly hard. perhaps a clearer understanding of the nature and purpose of divine intervention may clarify somewhat the issue. to the casual thinker and the untrained occult student it might appear that given an almighty deity or planetary logos he could with little trouble and much usefulness and compassion intervene in this sad world situation and bring to an end the warring of the nations through the medium of some spectacular happening, some dramatic cataclysm of natural process or some supreme appearing which would work much good. it might, it could be argued, conclusively convince the attacking, aggressive groups tha

make this appearance possible, a living triangle of energy is created and focussed through three great spiritual individuals, who evoke- 186- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust recognition both in the east and in the west. they are known to believers of every faith and all nationalities. these three are: 1. the lord of the world, the ancient of days, sanat kumara, the planetary logos, melchizedek, he to whom christ referred when he said "i and my father are one" 2. the buddha, the illumined one, the revealer of the light and the wisdom which come to us from sources far greater than our planetary life, a messenger of the gods. 3. the christ, the son of the father, the world saviour, the redeemer. he who has remained with us and who is gathering his sheep into hi

considering the subject of avatars i would like to point out that (from the standpoint of mankind at his present point in evolution) avatars are of two kinds, as might be expected when the consciousness of humanity is subject to the control of the pairs of opposites. these two are: 1. those avatars who are the embodiment of the angel of the presence, whether that presence is the soul in man, the planetary logos, some extra-planetary entity, some cosmic being, or an expression of cosmic good. 2. those avatars who are embodiments of the dweller on the threshold, whether that dweller is the human dweller on the threshold, planetary forces of materialism, or some aspect of cosmic evil- 190- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust let me attempt to make this analogy a l

written to the world aspirants for many wesaks now. i have again and again brought to your attention and theirs the close relation which is being established between the world of men and the world of souls. i have again and again pointed out that, under the law of evolution, certain great fusions, at-one-ments or great approaches are taking place. i have indicated that the present activity of our planetary logos is bringing certain major adjustments within the planetary sphere of influence and that these primarily affect the human kingdom. i have called to your notice the urgency of the incoming life, producing tension, spiritual recognitions of a far-reaching nature, the immediate overthrow of false gods and standards, and the destruction of outworn and crystallised interpretations (calle

e our earth is concerned, is also the centre where the highest will of the solar logos is imposed upon the will of our planetary- 349- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust logos, who is, as you know, only a centre in his greater body of manifestation. with this item of information you can have no possible concern; the masters themselves are only learning the will of the planetary logos; the objective of effort in shamballa is, however, the apprehension of solar purpose, the plan of which is working out on the highest levels of our planetary system, just as the will, purpose and plan of shamballa work out on the three lowest levels of our planetary system. again, this item of information serves only to indicate hierarchical objectives, and those objectives extend

aspirants and disciples to develop this type of understanding with as much speed and accuracy as possible. it is distinctive of the hierarchical type of mind: concerned with itself as a divine group, conscious of the pull and evocative power of the highest centre, shamballa, responsive to the demands of humanity, and sensitive to the "call" of that third major centre through which the life of the planetary logos expresses itself. the consciousness of the master is therefore preoccupied with three main lines of responsibility, but only one of them is innate within the living organism of which he is a part; that aspect of his life is invocative in two directions: towards shamballa and towards humanity; to him, the other two centres are evocative. today, human beings as a whole are so loudly

take place several centuries later than this but which owing to the unexpected preparedness of humanity can take place, not prematurely really, but securely and in the fullness of time; this fullness of time, as regards the particular planning with which we are dealing, is from now until the year 2025 a.d. a brief period of time indeed in which to see the consummation of the larger purpose of the planetary logos, working through the three major centres within his body of manifestation. this purpose was threefold in nature: 1. it involved the ability of those in the council chamber at shamballa to react to and absorb certain extra-planetary energies and to use them in an intra-planetary sense. it had not been anticipated by the directing agents of these forces that our planetary logos would

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ble for me to give you any true picture of the interior events and happenings in the life of our planetary being. i can only indicate and point out that the world situation is simply an embodiment of the reaction and the response by mankind to great paralleling and originating happenings which involve the following groups: 1. the emanating avatar and his relationship to the lord of the world, our planetary logos. 2. the lords of liberation, focussed in their high place, as they become conscious of the invocation of humanity and become more closely related to the three buddhas of activity. 3. the great council at shamballa and the planetary hierarchy. 4. the buddha and his arhats as they unitedly cooperate with the christ and his disciples, the masters of the wisdom. 5. the hierarchy, the e

elf is lost in the glory and the radiance of the divine self. this discovery is consummated at the time of the third initiation. the initiate and the master, along with those of higher rank who are approaching identification with shamballa, are steadily and ever more clearly hearing the sound emanating from the central spiritual sun and penetrating all forms of divine life upon our planet via our planetary logos who hears it with clarity and with understanding the sound of the lowest syllable of the ineffable name of the- 35- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust one in whom all the planetary logoi live and move and have their being, for they are centres in the life which is expressing itself through the medium of a solar system. yo

mentary puts it "the sound, the final and yet initiating sound, concerns that which is neither time nor space; it lies outside the manifested all, the source of all that is and yet is naught (no thing. a.a.b) there are, therefore, great points of tension from which the sacred word, in its major aspects, goes forth. let me list them for you: 1. the creative point of tension a tension achieved by a planetary logos when he responds to the sound of the ineffable name and breathes it forth in his turn in three great sounds which made one sound on his own plane of expression, thus creating the manifested world, the impulse towards the unfoldment of consciousness, and the influence of life itself. this is the sound. 2. seven points of tension on the downward or involutionary arc; these produce th

s a separate identity disappears, the soul emerges in all its glory, and the first faint sound of the originating sound breaks upon the ear of the transfigured initiate. this is the voice referred to in the biblical account of the transfiguration. this voice says "this is my beloved son" the initiate registers the fact that he has been accepted by shamballa and has made his first contact with the planetary logos, the hierophant, the initiator at the third initiation, just as the christ, the master of all the masters, is the initiator and the hierophant at the first two initiations. the word, however, with which we are now dealing is not the sacred word itself, but a signal or sound of acceptance. it is translated in this rule by the phrase: accepted as a group. this refers- 37- a treatise

rpose with deliberation, because it indicates the next phase of the working of the intelligent will in the consciousness of humanity. more anent these three demands i may not imply. i have told you much, had you the awakened intuition to read the significance of some of my comments. these demands refer not only to the evolution of humanity, but to all forms of life within the consciousness of the planetary logos. the directing mind of the initiate indicates within the three worlds the goal of attainment. 3. let there be no recollection and yet let memory rule. this is not a contradictory statement. perhaps i can convey to you the right idea as follows: the initiate wastes no time in looking backward towards the lessons learned; he works from the angle of developed habit, instinctively doin

no more upon this subject. it is essential, however, that some knowledge begin to reach the public anent the highest spiritual centre to which (as the gospel story intimates) christ himself was attentive. frequently we read in the new testament that "the father spoke to him" that "he heard a voice" and that the seal of affirmation (as it is occultly called) was given to him. only the father, the planetary logos, the lord of the world, enunciates the final affirmative sound. this has no reference when it occurs to the earlier initiations, but only to the final ones. there are five obvious crises of initiation which concern the master jesus as step by step he took or re-enacted the five initiations. but lying behind this obvious and practical teaching, lies an undercurrent or thread of high

will be the christ is equally sure. when christ comes it will be for the advanced units of the human family; they will recognise him because he has always been with us, whilst his advent will evoke a responsive vibration from the masses, but not straight recognition. in connection with the avatar, it will be a process of hierarchical recognition of an overshadowing presence within whose aura the planetary logos will take his stand as the planetary representative. then from shamballa will descend a stream of spiritual potency, qualified by the will-to-good, and this will reach the attentive hierarchy. the members of this group will, through the medium of the christ, pour- 61- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust light and healing e

so peace will come again on earth, but a peace unlike aught known before. then will the will-to-good flower forth as understanding, and understanding blossom as goodwill in men" so speaks a prophetic passage in the ancient archives of the hierarchy which deals with the present cycle of distress (written in june, 1943. for this time men must prepare. you will know when the avatar links up with the planetary logos because i will then give you the final stanza of the great invocation (given out in april, 1945. its use will serve to bring the coming one to recognition and enable him to draw upon the resources of the avatar in the task of world reorganisation and regeneration. he will again come as the world saviour, but owing to the stupendous nature of the work ahead, he will be fortified and

m the individual realisation, and this realisation of identification with both the part and the whole finds its point of tension in the will-to-be, which is qualified by the will-to-good and developed (from the consciousness angle) by the will-to-know. these are in truth three aspects of the divine will which exists in its perfection in the solar logos and finds a medium of expression through the planetary logos. this will is therefore working out in seven ways, via the living qualities of the seven planetary logoi who express themselves through the seven sacred planets; they are preoccupied with the endeavour of bringing all the forms of life within the orbit of their influence up to the same measure of recorded recognition and of registered existence. it will be obvious to you, consequen

n. hitherto, one by one, units of the human family have found their way through the door of initiation. if this system is to persist, and considering the vast numbers of souls in and out of incarnation who must eventually achieve the goal two-thirds of the total in this world cycle even the greater cycles which include many world cycles would prove too short a time. the space-time schedule of the planetary logos himself would be upset, for he has such a schedule for the cycle of his present incarnation. there is a term set for the appearance of his body of manifestation, our planet, just as there is for the human body. he therefore has to work out his plans within a certain time limit, and this factor conditions the experience of all the lives that move within the radius of his expression

the advanced disciple in his highest moments. a new life-expression appears which moves onward freed from all form yet subject still to limitations "within the circle of influence of the greater life" but not limited by life within the many forms which progress, surrounded by that circle, that divine ring-pass-not. there is still the broad confining sweep of the purpose and the life-intent of the planetary logos, but within that periphery and sphere of activity the triads move with perfect freedom. their onward push towards the higher states of being is carried out in conformity with the life urge of the one in whom they live and move and have their being. you will note, therefore, that these words in reality cover or deal with life processes and not with form building or the experience in

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lden circle sessions to assist the transition into the new age, which many hoped would arrive during the next generation. these channeled messages were distributed worldwide through a newsletter and tapes. weiss also gave psychic development workshops. last known address: p.o. box 180786, austin, tx 78718. sources: weiss, jane. reflections by anoah. austin, tex: planetary light association, 1986. planetary logos according to the theosophy scheme of creation, the planetary logos or ruler of seven chains is one of the grades in the hierarchy assisting in the creation and guidance. it is the supreme logos who initiates this work, but he is helped by the seven. the seven receive from the logos the inspiration and each carries on the work in his own planetary chain (see also logos; planetary sp

each carries on the work in his own planetary chain (see also logos; planetary spirits) sources: jinarajadasa, c. the early teachings of the masters, 1881.1883. chicago: theosophical press, 1923. planetary spirits in theosophy, the number of these spirits is seven. they are emanations from the absolute and are the agents used by the absolute to effect all changes in the universe (see also logos; planetary logos) planetary travels mediums in a trance state claim to travel to other planets. descriptions of astral travel, inner vision, or spirit enlightenment and life on the planets were first given by emanuel swedenborg in the seventeenth to eighteenth century. swedenborg claimed the people of mars were the best in the whole planetary system. physiognomy, with them, was an expression of tho

pirit or the divine monad, rooted in the universe, whose spirit is linked with the all, being in a mystical sense a ray of the all; second, the intermediate part of spiritual monad, which in its higher and lower aspects is the spiritual and human soul; third, the lowest part of the human constitution, the vitalastralphysical part, composed of material or quasi-material life atoms (see also logos; planetary logos; rupa) sources: besant, annie. the seven principles of man. 1892. reprint, new york: london& bernes; theosophical publishing society, 1904. seven stewards of heaven according to the sixteenth-century magical ritual system arbatel, these are the spirits through whom god governs the world. they are known as the olympian spirits, and they govern the olympian spheres, which are compose

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