RULE THIRTEEN
“Let the group get ready to reveal the hidden mystery. Let the group demonstrate the higher meaning of the lessons learnt, and these are four and yet are one. Let the group understand the Law of Synthesis, of unity and fusion; let the threefold mode of working with that which is dynamic carry the group together towards the Higher Three where the Will of God holds sway; let Transfiguration follow Transformation, and may Transmutation disappear. Let the O.M. be heard right at the center of the group, proclaiming God is All.” (RAI, p.247)
The Four Lessons
The four “lessons learnt” are those mentioned in Rule 13 for Applicants which the disciple must comprehend “before he can be shewn the inmost mystery”. (RAI, p.247) The higher meaning of these four are described by the words: Radiation, Magnetisation, Transmutation and Impartation.
Radiation
Radiation “describes the result of soul stimulation upon and within every form.” (DON, p.123) For “the nature of the soul is light”. (LOS, p.252) Light is electrical vibration. “Whenever the words influence, radiation, or the power of a ray, are used, we are dealing inferentially with electrical phenomena, or with energy of some kind.” (TCF, p.436) As purification of the vehicles is undertaken the rate of vibration increases and the disciple moves further into the ashram, becoming a stronger source of light and increasing the illumination of the ashram. This is group work. “The keynote of the seventh ray disciple is "Radiatory Activity." Hence the emergence in world thought of certain new ideas — mental radiation or telepathy, the radiatory use of heat, the discovery of radium. All this connotes seventh ray activity.” (DON, p.133)
Electricity “"substands" or "stands back" of all that is objective.” (TCF, p.873) The mystery of Electricity is the secret of the Third Aspect, Brahma. (IHS, p.168) This mystery has three keys, each of which is held in the hands of one of the Buddhas of Activity: “Theirs is the prerogative to control the electrical forces of the physical plane, and Theirs the right to direct the three major streams of this type of force in connection with our present globe.” (TCF, p.873) The Buddhas of Activity are advisors to Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World, who together embody active intelligent loving Will. (IHS, p.39) They are the “Higher Three” of Rule 13.
The Mystery of Electricity is imparted at the Third Initiation, the Transfiguration, an initiation of Mind. (IHS, p.168) It signifies that the disciple has mastered the three lower bodies (etheric/physical, astral and mental) that constitute the personality. At the Third Initiation the Moon and Mars clear the way for the influence of Venus, the 5th Ray planet of Mind.
Planet Hierarchical ruler of sign Creative Hierarchy Plane
Venus Capricorn V – Human Personality ...........Mental
Mars Sagittarius VI – Lunar Lords Astral
Moon Aquarius VII – Elemental Lives Physical
Venus works by synthesis, and here brings about a synthesis of soul and spirit. So the disciple, freed from glamour, becomes a “sensitive revealer” of divine love. (RAI, p.599.)
Magnetisation
Magnetism depends on the existence of positive and negative poles. It is a natural phenomenon of this dualistic cosmos. It is the attraction between opposites. “[The] Law of Magnetisation...is another name for the Law of Attraction.” (RAI, p.248) The Law of Attraction “governs the Soul aspect”. (TCF, p.1167) Magnetism is the force which draws Spirit down into Matter and Matter up to Spirit. It builds relationship and group cohesion.
The Law of Attraction is a law of the Second Aspect, Vishnu. (TCF, p.215) But in fact magnetism is an expression of the Second and First Aspects, Love and Will combined, which produce radiation:
“People are apt to regard magnetic potency as evidence of love; it is, in reality, evidence of the radiation of love when enhanced and strengthened by first ray energy. It is the admixture (if I may use such a peculiar term) of love and will which produces radiation. It is the conscious use by the Hierarchy of the power coming from Shamballa which results in the magnetic impact and the spiritual "pull" which draws the soul, incarnated in the body, towards the Ashram. This pull is directed towards the world of souls which is, through its manifesting units, undergoing experience in the school of life, yet overshadowed by the soul on its own level. It is this overshadowing soul which absorbs and utilises the magnetic power and which, from soul levels, transfers it to the souls of men.” (RAI, pp.374-5)
The 1st and 2nd Rays connect through magnetism so that a centre can be held.
Magnetism is also the organisational force of the 7th Ray. The “technique” of this Ray is described:
“Above the head of the Magician, and just behind his back, and yet within the room of ordered beauty, a magnet vast began to oscillate....It caused the revolution of the man, within the arch, which tottered to a future fall. The magnet turned him round until he faced the scene and room, unseen before.... Then through the centre of his heart the magnet poured its force attractive. The magnet poured its force repulsive. It reduced the chaos until its forms no longer could be seen. Some aspects of a beauty, unrevealed before, emerged. And from the room a light shone forth and, by its powers and life, forced the Magician to move forward into light, and leave the arch of peril.” (EPII, pp.171-2)
Transmutation
“Transmutation is the passage across from one state of being to another through the agency of fire.” (TCF, p.476) It is the alchemical process:
“Transmutation is a subject that from the earliest ages has occupied the attention of students, scientists and alchemists. The power to change, through the application of heat, is of course universally recognised, but the key to the mystery, or the secret of the systemic formula is advisedly guarded from all searchers...” (TCF, p.475)
The transmutation of base substances into gold through the fiery processes of the alchemical retort is the search for the key to the secrets of Matter, the elixir of immortality, the divine panacea, the formula of Life itself. The alchemist is Humanity as the magician who has the power to transmute all substance: “...in the transmutation process the magician or alchemist works with deva essence through the control of the lesser Builders in co-operation with the greater Devas.” (TCF, p.487)
On the Path of Discipleship the aspirant to the Mysteries must become “a student of that divine alchemy which will result in a knowledge of how to transmute the lower force into the higher, of how to transfer his consciousness into the higher vehicles, and of how to manipulate energy currents so that his own nature is transformed.” (TCF, p.863) Transmutation is “the method whereby...the energy of the three lower centres is carried up into the three higher centres (head, heart and throat)... This transmuting process goes forward under the pressure of daily life experience, under the magnetic effect of soul contact, and as the inevitable result of evolution itself.” (RAI, pp.278-9) 777 is the number of transmutation; the symbolic number of lives before entering the Path of Discipleship, during which this alchemy has its slow beginnings. (TCF, p.306)
Eventually transmutation “disappears” out of the life of the disciple, as he becomes instead a force of transmutation in the lives of others (RAI, p.247): “His life must begin to radiate, and to have a magnetic effect upon others. By this I mean he will begin to influence that which is imprisoned in others, for he will reach—through his own powerful vibrations—the hidden centre in each one. ...I refer to that spiritual radiation that is only responded to and realised by those who themselves are becoming aware of the spiritual centre within the heart.” (TCF, p.863)
The process of transmutation is that which creates radiation: “Radiation is transmutation in process of accomplishment. Transmutation being the liberation of the essence in order that it may seek a new centre, the process may be recognised as radioactivity technically understood and applied to all atomic bodies without exception.” (TCF, p.478)
Transmutation occurs through the agency of fire. Fire “is ever symbolic of the mind nature.” (BTC, p.99) “Man passes into the fifth kingdom [of souls] through the transmutation of the discriminative faculty of mind”. (TCF, p.335) The 5-pointed star (pentagram) symbolises the 5th principle of Manas, Sirius (the source of Logoic Manas), the 5th Plane (the Manasic), the 5th Ray of Concrete Knowledge, and the planet of the 5th Ray, Venus. The mystery of the principle of Manas is hidden in the mystery of the Lords of Karma and also the mystery “of the resolution of the six-pointed star into the five-pointed star.” (TCF, p.395.) The 6-pointed star is “the subjective life and the objective form, overshadowed by Spirit” (TCF, p.396.) This is the unredeemed nature, plus the means of its redemption. The 5-pointed star signifies “the evolution, by means of the five senses in the three worlds [...] of the fifth principle, the attainment of self-consciousness...” (TCF, p.696.) Through Manas the 6 becomes the 5 and the disciple is liberated from the control of the lower nature.
Makara is the name of the 5th Creative Hierarchy which is ruled by Capricorn and the planet Venus. (EA, p.35.) Makara are the “Crocodiles”, “which live half in the water and half on dry land”; a combination of desire (water) and animal nature (earth). (EA, pp.153-4.) The Crocodiles represent the human personality. The Mystery of Makara is the alchemical transmutation of the lower nature into the higher; the victory of the solar pitris over the lunar pitris; the transition from self-consciousness to Christ consciousness. So Capricorn rules the Third Initiation, the Transfiguration, in which the disciple gains control of the lower vehicles through the use of the mind.
‘Makara’ is an anagram for the 5 ‘Kumaras’ who are “the embodiers of [...] manasic force on our planet”. (TCF, p.702-3.) The five Kumaras who form the four liberated Creative Hierarchies and the one Hierarchy on the verge of liberation on the Cosmic Astral plane, “achieved the fullness of manasic life” in the previous solar system. They are the “Mind-born Sons of Brahma”, the Third Aspect. (TCF, p.336) The five Kumaras are awaiting “resolution” into the First Aspect: The manasic principle “manifests in five ways, is transmuted into wisdom after its fivefold manifestation, and eventually is resolved into pure will or power. ...Herein may be found the mystery of the five Kumaras, Who are awaiting the final resolution, and herein is secreted the knowledge of divine alchemy, which is based on the five elements [Fire, Air, Earth, Water and Aether], and is concerned with their transformation into a primal element through the medium of an intermediate stage.” (TCF, pp.401-2)
Impartation
Impartation is a hinting at secrets; an intimation of the hidden mystery.
“He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.” (Revelation 2:17)
“Impartation. Reference to this is made in the Book of Revelation, found in The New Testament. There we are told that the initiate is given a white stone, and in the stone "a new name" is found written; this is the "hidden name egoic." I am at a loss at this point as to how to express the higher significance of this. This impartation marks a climaxing point in the attainment of the point of tension where the Sound can be heard and not the Word alone. Never forget that the O.M. is simply a symbolically sounded word which is intended to bring into the minds of those upon the Path those two great points of tension wherein
a. The "hidden name egoic" is conferred upon the disciple. This, as far as he is concerned, is the Word of his soul ray.
b. The Sound heard of which the O.M. is a symbol. This is the first letter of the sevenfold Name of the planetary Logos. More upon this subject may not be given, nor am I in a position to give it.” (RAI, p.263)
The “hidden mystery” imparted to the disciple is a sound. A sound which conveys to him the note of his soul, and the beginning of the true name of the being of which we are all part. For the true name of the planetary Logos is unknown:
“The name Sanat Kumara is not His true name; it is only the first letter of that name which is known only to the Masters, whilst the second letter is known only to the Chohans. The first syllable of His name is known in the Council Chamber at Shamballa, but the rest of His name remains unknown as yet.” (RAI, p.273)
“We might here note the fact that the word Ibez is literally in the nature of an acrostic veiling the true name of the planetary Logos of the earth, one of Whose principles is working in Sanat Kumara, making Him thus a direct incarnation of the planetary Logos and an expression of His divine consciousness. ...The letters I B E Z are not the true Sensar letters, if such an inaccurate expression can be used of an ideographic language, but are simply a Europeanized distortion. The true meaning is only conveyed at the fourth initiation when the nature of the planetary Logos is revealed...” (TWM, p.379)
Humanity ‘is’ one letter or syllable of the planetary being, reaching ever towards wider understanding. When we have expanded our consciousness – or perhaps reached beyond consciousness – to become One with the planetary Logos, that is when we will know his full name. This is Identification. Until then all words fall short of the naming of things. Language itself is the instrument of Relationship, of separateness, of duality. It becomes obsolete when Identification is attained.
One of the three Buddhas of Activity is responsible for the act of Identification:
. Buddha of 7th Ray: Individualisation. When the spark of mind was given to animal man in Lemuria 18 million years ago.
. Buddha of 2nd Ray: Initiation. “His work only begins at the third initiation when the planetary Logos is the Initiator.” (RAI, p.268)
. Buddha of 1st Ray: Identification. “This involves what has been called a "moment of opening-up," during which the initiate sees that which lies within the cosmic intent and begins to function not only as a planetary unit but as a cosmic focal point.” (RAI, p.269)
The “white stone” is the second or central product of alchemical process. Within the alchemical Opus “there are three stones, or three works, or three degrees of perfection”. (Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, The Secret Art of Alchemy, Bounty Books, NY, 1973, p.12) The first stone is the product of the first stage of alchemy, ‘Nigredo’, the blackening. This is the descent into the ‘dark night’, death, crisis. It is about facing the shadow; the transmutation of the Matter of personality. It is death to the old ways of being.
The second stone is the product of the second stage, ‘Solutio’, the whitening. This is purification, cleansing, sacrifice. It is about facing the pain of the heart and healing. The discovery of the Love of soul. The specific phase of Solutio in which the white stone is created is called the ‘Exaltation’ phase. The stone is formed by ‘Fixation’:
“This is the beginning of the formation of the White Stone. Through Fixation, the soul nature of substance has been realized in material form as the White Stone, which thus bears the essence of the four elements, plus the fifth essence, the spiritual archetype of materiality which lies beyond matter and yet through alchemy can be brought into outer expression, fixed into earthly form. We note that heat is required from outside to bring this stage to completion...
This White or Lunar Stone is the Tincture of the Moon, or the soul Tincture.
In terms of the soul development aspect of alchemy, the White Stone
is that inward experience which can act as a sure foundation, that solid
centre in the whirlpool of ever flowing soul forces, from which alchemists
can work upon their being, and anchor their inward development. In this
sense, once the alchemist has the White Stone of the soul, he or she
can begin the process of tincting, transforming his or her being from
a point of inner security...
In traditional alchemy this is indicated by its power to transform metals into silver, the Moon metal, but its power is wider than this, and a true understanding of the essence of the White Stone of the Philosophers, can only arise when one recognizes the lunar forces that play through material processes, in the mineral realm, in the plant world, in the animal body, or in the soul of humankind. The White Stone transforms, harmonizes and catalyses the lunar forces in these realms, and this is its true power...
The second part of the work is the transformation of the White Stone
of the Lunar forces, into the Solar Red Stone. This is accomplished
through a threefold Multiplication...”
(“The Crowning of Nature – Commentary”, Adam McLean www.levity.com/alchemy)
The formation of the White Stone by “Fixation” applies to the capacity of the mind:
“The Law of Fixation demonstrates principally on the mental plane and has a close connection with manas, the fifth principle. The mind controls and stabilises, and coherency is the result.” (TCF, p.569) It is the alchemy of mind that enables the transmutation of the lunar forces into the precious metal of silver, and thus the formation of the White Stone.
The Three and the Five
There is a close relation between the Three and the Five; the Third Aspect of Active Intelligence and the Fifth Principle of Manas; Matter and Mind. The Mental plane is the fifth from above and the third from below. The triangle and the five-pointed star are both “subjective expressions of a fixed consciousness”. (EA, p.382) During the first solar system, which was governed by the Third Aspect, “the energies coming from Alcyone [in the Pleiades] impregnated the substance of the universe with the quality of mind.” (EA, p.200) Matter is imbued with Intelligence.
The Buddhas of Activity “embody within Themselves the essence of the third Ray of Active Intelligence, through which the third aspect can successfully project and express itself. It is these three Buddhas Who were instrumental in the amazing and occult process of implementing the mental principle upon our planet, and Who—through Their creative meditation—brought our planet, the Earth, and the planet Venus [5th Ray] into direct alignment.” (DINAII, p.200)
“The purpose of Deity is necessarily embodied in a mental proposition; it is through this mental proposition that the three Buddhas of Activity implement Their work.” (RAI, p.270) Likewise the disciple must formulate a mental proposition of his own understanding of the divine Plan. “This he can do only through the means of group experience, in cooperation with his group and when the group—as a whole—has reached a similar point of realisation has together touched the fringes of this highest of all revelations for humanity.” (RAI, pp.270-1)
The Law of Synthesis
“The Law of Synthesis....[is] the law governing spirit, or the first aspect.” (TCF, p.6) It is the law governing the activities of the Spiritual Triad, and the conditioning law of monadic living. (RAI, p.264) It is the Law of Shamballa. (RAI, p. 249) Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World, is “the synthesising Unit” of planet Earth. (TCF, p.387)
“The first Aspect, or the will to exist, is governed by the Law of Synthesis, and the activities of the cosmic entities who are its embodiments are governed by the law of enforced unity, and of essential homogeneity. It is the law that eventually comes into play after spirit and matter are blending, and adapting themselves each to each; it governs the eventual synthesis of Self with Self, and finally with the All-Self, and also of essence with essence in contra-distinction to the synthesis of matter and Spirit. It demonstrates as:
1. Abstraction,
2. Spiritual liberation,
3. Destruction of form through the withdrawal of Spirit (the Destroyer aspect)
4. Absolute homogeneity and absolute essential unity,
5. Progressive forward motion.”
(TCF, p.215-6)
The Law of Synthesis declares that all is One. Its symbol is the Sun: The circle with a point at the centre. For the Sun is the point in our solar system “from whom all things proceed and to whom all things return”. (Gayatri) “The Law of Synthesis as a tendency to concentrate at a centre, or to merge.” (TCF, p.1183) “It is the sumtotal, the centre and the periphery, and the circle of manifestation regarded as a unit.” (TCF, p.568) “It controls the movements of the entire ring-pass-not in connection with its cosmic centre.” (TCF, p.41) This Law is Life and death, the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, for all entities, all centres, all groups microcosmic and macrocosmic.
In this solar system “of the SON, whose name is Love” (TCF, p.176), the Sun is 2nd Ray. Yet all the Seven Rays are conducted into our solar system through the Sun; and all Rays are aspects of the 1st Ray. The Sun is the Solar Logos. “Direction, will, purpose and plan are all connected with the solar Logos and with His evolutionary undertakings in connection with the many lives manifesting in the vehicle of expression which we call the solar system. All these respond to the influences of the first ray which is, to all intents and purposes, the energy of divine embodied will”. (EA, p.195.) The Sun is the agent of the 1st Ray.
In the microcosm, the Law of Synthesis is a law of group work governing the creation, work and abstraction or disintegration of the group. This Law is upheld if the group can ‘breathe as One’, holding in balance Will and Love:
“The group angle of the matter can be seen if you remember that the individual initiate, when wielding this law, draws upon the united energy of the Will as the group is expressing it in "unified rhythm." It is by the use of the "united breath" of the entire group (as much of it as his individual will can assimilate, focus, use and direct) that he augments his own will and its directed force. The breath, as we well know, is the life; this Law is the one wielded by the living or risen Christ, in perfect harmony with the will of Shamballa.” (RAI, p.163)
“The personnel of the world group which will reveal the hidden mystery will all of them be "radiant centres" to a greater or lesser degree. They will thus be invocative and evocative. This thought holds the clue to the Law of Synthesis, of unity and of fusion as given in Rule XIII for initiates.” (RAI, p.262)
There is a distinction between synthesis, unity and fusion:
. Fusion “is ever related to the conscious merging of soul and substance until a point of equilibrium is achieved”. Fusion occurs upon the Paths of Probation and Discipleship, up until the Third Initiation.
. Unity is achieved after the Third Initiation. “...this is only possible when monadic influence can be consciously registered and when the antahkarana is in process of conscious construction.”
“Unity might be regarded as the conscious adaptation of the initiated disciple to the greater whole, as his absorption into the group through his obedience to the laws of the soul, and as governing his attitude to that in which he lives and moves and has his being. This goes on until he sees no distinction, registers no differences and is aware of no separative reaction...” (RAI, pp.265-6)
. Synthesis is “the Way of the Higher Evolution” upon the seven cosmic Paths.
“Only as disciples build the antahkarana and function as the Spiritual Triad within the monadic Life” is synthesis possible. (RAI, p.266)
Macrocosmically the Law of Synthesis describes the eventual synthesis of our solar Logos into the larger Being of which he is a part:
“The Mahadeva aspect or the first Logos (who embodies cosmic will) is controlled by the Law of Synthesis, the cosmic law governing the tendency to unification; only in this case, it is not the unification of matter and Spirit, but the unification of the seven into the three, and into the one. ...The Law of Synthesis has a direct connection with One Who is still higher than our Logos, and is the law of control exercised by Him upon the Logos of our system. This is a spiritual relationship that tends to abstraction or to that synthesis of the spiritual elements that will result in their conscious return (the whole point lying in that word "conscious") to their cosmic point of synthesis, or of unification with their source. Their source is the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID...” (TCF, pp.147-8)
In this solar system, the 2nd Ray of Love-Wisdom is the synthetic ray. The seven Rays, are eventually synthesised. “The minor four are blended, we are told, into the third major ray, and the three major rays are finally merged into the one synthetic ray, the Love-Wisdom Ray (the Dragon of Wisdom, the occult serpent swallowing its tail).” (TCF, p.236) This is Ouroboros, “emblem of infinity, immortality, and Kronos—“Time””. (SDI, 1:VII)
“Uranus, Neptune and Saturn...are the synthesising planetary schemes... They are the "reaping" planets.” (TCF, p.777) At the end of the Mahamanvantara “the four schemes which form the logoic Quaternary [Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Vulcan] will merge into their synthesising scheme, that of Saturn, while Venus and Mercury will merge into Uranus and Neptune.” (TCF, pp.405-6) The Seven become the Three and then the One.
“Uranus and Neptune are reflections of the logoic astral and mental permanent atoms. Saturn is in fact the correspondence to the logoic physical permanent atom.” (TCF, p.406)
Interestingly, the three Buddhas of Activity “are expressions of the counterparts on cosmic levels of the energies latent in the three permanent atoms in the three worlds of human endeavour.” (RAI, p.206) Perhaps the association with their three synthesising planets is as follows:
1st Buddha (1st Ray) Mental permanent atom Aries/Leo Uranus
2nd Buddha (2nd Ray) Astral permanent atom Capricorn/Aquarius Neptune
3rd Buddha (7th Ray) Physical permanent atom Cancer/Gemini Saturn
Saturn is “the focal point for the transmission of cosmic manas”. (TCF, p.378) Saturn grounds ideas and mental structures. Uranus “causes the great transference in the human consciousness from intellectual perception to intuitive knowledge.” (EA, p.139) Uranus frees the mind, liberates crystallised thoughtforms so that a new order can come into being. Uranus is electric fire; Buddhi at the heart of every atom. (TCF, p.1225) Neptune is the Christ in the centre, the capacity for identification as the One. It is from the point of Oneness, the point at the centre of the circle where everything is seen in “divine proportion” (RAI, p.258), that we can remake our mental propositions of Purpose and turn back to Matter, back into incarnation, as a “Centre of "Saving Force."” (EA, p,537)
Transformation and Transfiguration
Transmutation is just the first part of the process of Synthesis. It is the process upon the Probationary Path of personality soul-infusion. The second step is “Transformation”, which occurs upon the Path of Discipleship: “...the disciple transforms his lower threefold "appearance" or personality and begins to display divine "quality." His physical body becomes obedient to the dictates of his mind, which is becoming responsive to the higher mind through the medium of the soul; his emotional nature becomes the receptacle of buddhi or of the intuition; then, after the third initiation it disappears altogether, and the buddhic vehicle becomes the main instrument of sentiency. The mind, in due course, is equally transformed by impression from the higher mind, as it endeavours to implement the will nature of the Monad.” (RAI, p.278)
The third stage is “Transfiguration” upon the Path of Initiation from the time of the Third Initiation “wherein the personality is irradiated by the full light of the soul and the three personality vehicles are completely transcended; they have become simply forms through which spiritual love may flow out into the world of men in the salvaging task of creation.” (RAI, p.278) At the Transfiguration of the Christ “his face did shine as the sun”:
"And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart. And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light. And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with him. Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles: one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. While yet he spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him. And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their face, and were sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid. And when they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no man, save Jesus only." (Matthew 17:1-8)
The Centre
“Alchemy is not merely an art or science to teach metallic transmutation, so much as a true and solid science that teaches how to know the centre of all things, which in the divine language is called the Spirit of Life.” Pierre-Jean Fabre, Les Secrets Chymiques, Paris, 1636.
“Thus, while in the metaphysical world, the circle with the one central Point in it has no number, and is called Anupadaka (parentless and numberless)—viz., it can fall under no calculation... and when the Point having generated a Line, thus becomes a diameter...[it stands] for Nature, or the feminine principle. ...Therefore it is said: “In the world of being, the one Point fructifies the Line—the Virgin Matrix of Kosmos (the egg-shaped zero)—and the immaculate Mother gives birth to the form that combines all forms.” (SDI, 1:IV)
The “hidden mystery” comes from the centre. This is so on all levels of the macrocosm and the microcosm. The centre is the Monadic point (Anupadaka). This point is ‘incalculable’ (“can fall under no calculation”). Although it cannot be described in number, yet from it the entire “spiritual mathematics” of the cosmos derives. (RAI, p.258) The centre is the point of manifestation, of Creativity. It is the fractal formula of the universe. It is the Word of the Logos. It is a Sound.
“The first aspect works through a Word of Power.
The second aspect works through mantric combinations.
The third aspect works through mathematical formulas.” (TCF, p.771)
When we stand at this Monadic point as individuals and as a group, we are at One with the Creative Source. This is Synthesis. At the centre Will and Love come together and all is made possible.
“The will aspect of the Monad supersedes but does not negate love (which has become, in its turn, instinctual); a one-pointed, rapier-like assumption of identification takes the place of the inclusiveness hitherto felt and practised. ...the circle with the point at the centre is symbolic of the perfected man. He is rounded out; he is inclusive both vertically (soul contact) and horizontally (human relationship), yet he stands at the centre of his consciousness and of its self-imposed ring-pass-not. From thence he never moves, but is aware all the time of all that proceeds within his sphere of influence.” (RAI, p.283)
Everything new comes from the centre. “Always in the centre shall come a new Word.” (BTC, p.36) Always the iteration and reiteration of the fractal formula entering into time and space.
“...the Law of Change governs the Hierarchy just as it governs Humanity. ...the disciple who functions under this law [must]: ...Contribute to the wise circulation and direction of the new energies which are pouring into and through the Ashram. This he does by realising himself as a centre of changing energies. This is the way the Hierarchy works.” (DINAII, p.357)
“The Word must again sound forth from the centre—the Centre in the Heavens, and the centre in every human heart. Each individual soul must hear it for itself alone. Each of us has to pass through that experience wherein we know ourselves to be a "Word made Flesh"...” (BTC, p.38)
To stand at the synthetic point as a group and together sound the OM as an invocation must open possibilities for the revelation of the hidden mystery.
BAM
16 February 2003