Dear fellow Aquarian Probers?

This member has found this experience most beneficial and am grateful for the sincere group energy. Like a mosaic each and every offering has enlightened and revealed a more complete and greater piece of the truth.

As our brother SDP pointed out to many of us who are also on the Cosmocycles group - we are in preparatory stage for a most auspicious conclave that will occur in 2005. It is this “frame of reference” that has overshadowed my meditative process especially during this Aquarian probe. There has been an intensity that demands expression and a welcomed release of that which obstructs. (Even the physical fall!) Thus my meditative readings as you note have been most Siriusly serious.

As an “eternal pilgrim” I welcome directions and offerings from the Masters of the Ageless Wisdom. It is a choice to work intelligently with our individual karma and group karma. It is a choice to embrace the dharma. Virtue is choosen or not? Ignorance is not always bliss and yet, it is often a teacher.

blessings upon all,
love and light,
sincerely,
Cynthia


The Aquarian Mirror -- a self assessment!
Mirror, mirror on the wall . .

and from the Tibetan, EA p. 482

There are four constellations, as you know, which convey the required energies which will make humanity divine. They are Aries, Leo, Scorpio and Aquarius. . . .I would like to point out that each of these constellations is closely connected, as a transmitter of energy, with certain stars, lying outside our zodiac together, thus connecting our tiny planet with certain great focal points of energy. (please read p.482-500 Science of Triangles)
. . .These three constellations (Gemini, Libra, & Aquarius), cyclically and eternally, leading the “Eternal Pilgrim” along the path of mental unfoldment produce in him the final stage of mental evolution upon the Path of Initiation. Illumination, the term applied to that final stage, is a synthesis of instinct, intellect and intuition. . . .3. Aquarius --expresses the activity of the mind which has been initiated into the purposes of the Universal Mind. It is the sign which brings the soul into active cooperation with the inner plan of God. This we call service. p495

. . There are other major triangles which are called “triangles in consciousness” and, as you well know, the most important of these for mankind is the triangle of Cancer, Leo and Aquarius. They are important at this time because the influence pouring through these three are basically responsible for the growth of the human understanding and the unfoldment not only of man’s response apparatus, the form nature, but also of his expanding perception of that which is contacted. The threefold process under these three constellations produces finally the identification with that which is perceived to be the divine essence, underlying form. This identification with that which is the subjective and real Self and the consequent withdrawing form that which is the not-Self. . . .p 496

. . .the coming process of planetary service through the third divine centre is only truly effective when Aquarius rules and when our sun is passing through that sign of the zodiac. Hence the immense importance of the next 2000 years. Therefore, only when a man is a world server and becoming group conscious can this desired objective of manifestation begin to demonstrate. . .
2. Aquarius -- the World Server, the transmitter of energy which evokes magnetic response. p201

With renewed aspiration and in preparation for a greater service we clean our individual and group mirror(s).

Om mani padme hung hri!

from WM p.583

Certain considerations should be brought to the notice of the disciple which --for the sake of clarity --we will tabulate. To become an adept it will be necessary for the disciple to:
1. Enquire the Way.
2. Obey the inward impulses of the soul.
3. Pay no attention to any worldly consideration.
4. Live a life which is an example to others.

These four requirements may sound at first superficial reading as easy of accomplishment, but if carefully studied it will become apparent why an adept is a “rare efflorescence of a generation of enquirers.” Let us take up each one of these points.
1. Enquire the Way. We are told by one of the Masters that a whole generation of enquirers may produce one adept. Why should this be so? For two reasons:
First, the true enquirer is one who avails himself of the wisdom of his generation, who is the best product of his own period and yet who remains unsatisfied and with the inner longing for wisdom unappeased. to him there appears to be something of more importance that knowledge and something of greater moment than the accumulated experience of his own period and time. He recognises a step further on and seeks to take it in an order to gain something to add to the quota already gained by his compeers. Nothing satisfies him until he finds the Way, and nothing appeases the desire at the centre of his being except that which is found in the house of his Father. He is what he is because he has tried all lesser ways and found them wanting, and has submitted many guides only to find them “blind leaders of the blind”. Nothing is left to him but to become his own guide and find his own way home alone. In the loneliness which is the lot of every true disciple are born that self-knowledge and self-reliance which will fit him in his turn to be a Master. This loneliness is not due to any separative spirit but to the conditions of the Way itself. Aspirants must carefully bear this distinction in mind.
Secondly, the true enquirer is one whose courage is of that rare kind which enables its possessor to stand upright and to sound his own clear note in the very midst of the turmoil of the world. He is one who has the eye trained to see beyond the fogs and misaims of the earth to that centre of peace which presides over all earth’s happenings, and that trained attentive ear (having caught a whisper of the Voice of the Silence) is kept turned to that high vibration and is thus deaf to all lesser alluring voices. This again brings loneliness and produces that aloofness which all less evolved souls feel when in the presence of those who are forging ahead.
A paradoxical situation is brought about from the fact that the disciple is told to enquire the Way and yet there is none to tell him. Those who know the Way may not speak, knowing that the Path is constructed by the aspirant as the spider spins its web out of the the centre of his own being. Thus only those souls flower forth into adepts in any specific generation who have “trodden the winepress of the wrath of God alone” or who (in other words) have worked out their karma alone and who have intelligently taken up the task of treading the Path.

2. Obey the inward impulses of the soul. Well do the teachers of the race instruct the budding initiate to practise discrimination and train him in the arduous task of distinguishing between:
a. Instinct and intuition
b. Higher and lower mind.
c. Desire and spiritual impulse.
d. Selfish aspiration and divine incentive.
e. The urge emanating from the lunar lords and
the unfoldment of the solar Lord.

It is no easy or flattering task to find oneself out and to discover that perhaps even the service we have rendered and our longing to study and work has had a basically selfish origin, and resting on a desire for liberation or a distaste for the humdrum duties of everyday. He who seeks to obey the impulses of the soul has to cultivate an accuracy of summation and a truthfulness with himself which is rare indeed these days. Let him say to himself “I must to my own Self be true” and in the private moments of his life and in the secrecy of his own meditation let him not gloss over one fault, nor excuse himself along a single line. Let him learn to diagnose his own words, deeds and motives, and to call things by their true names. Only thus will he train himself in spiritual discrimination and learn to recognise truth in all things. Only thus will the reality be arrived at and the true Self known.

3. Pay no consideration to the prudential consideration of worldly science and sagacity. If the aspirant has need to cultivate a capacity to walk alone, if he has to develop the ability to be truthful in all things, he has likewise need to cultivate courage. It will be needful for him to run counter consistently to the world’s opinion, and the very best expression of that opinion, and this with frequency. He has to learn to do the right thing as he sees and knows it, irrespective of the opinion of the earth’s greatest and most quoted. He must depend upon himself and upon the conclusions he himself has come to in his moments of spiritual communion and illumination. It is here that so many aspirants fail. They do not do the very best they know; they fail to act in detail as their inner voice tells them; they leave undone certain things which they are prompted to do in their moments of mediation, and fail to speak the word which their spiritual mentor, the Self, urges them to speak. It is in the aggregate of these unaccomplished details that the big failures are seen.
There are no trifles in the life of the disciples and the unspoken word or unfulfilled action may prove the factor which is holding a man from initiation.

4. Live a life which is an example to others. Is it necessary for me to enlarge upon this? It seems as if it should not be and yet here again is where men fail. What after all is group service? Simply the life of example. He is the best exponent of the Ageless Wisdom who lives each day in the place where is the life of the disciple; he does not live it in the place where he thinks it should be. Perhaps after all the quality which produces the greatest number of failures among aspirants to adeptship is cowardice. Men fail to make good where they are because they find some reason which makes them think they should be elsewhere. Men run away, almost unrealising it, from difficulty, from inharmonious conditions, from places which involve problems and from circumstances which call for action of a high sort and which are staged to draw out the best that is in a man, provided he stays in them. They flee from themselves and from other people, instead of simply living the life.
The adept speaks no word which can hurt, harm or wound. Therefore he has had to learn the meaning of speech in the midst of the life’s turmoil. He wastes no time in self pity or self justification for he knows the law has placed him where he is, and where be best can serve, and has learnt that difficulties are ever of a man’s own making and the result of his own mental attitude. If the incentive to justify himself occurs he recognises it as a temptation to be avoided. He realizes that each word spoken, each deed undertaken and every look and thought has its effect for good or for evil upon the group.

Is it not apparent therefore why so few achieve and so many fail?

Om mani padme hung hri!

The Aquarian mirror image = true self assessment - which group??
Mirror, mirror on the wall . .

from WM p632
To those of us who are working on the inner side, the workers in the world fall into three groups:
1. Those, few and far between, who are true Aquarians. These work under real difficulties, for their vision is beyond the grasp of the majority, and they meet often lack of understanding, frequent disappointment in their fellow workers and much loneliness.
2. Those who are straight Pisceans, These work with much greater facility and feid a more rapid response from those around them. Their work is more doctrinal, less inclusive and coloured by the spirit of separation. They include the mass of world workers in all the various departments of human thought and welfare.
3. Those Pisceans who are enough developed to respond to the Aquarian message, but who--as yet--cannot trust themselves to employ the real Aquarian methods of work and message.
For instance, they have in the political field, a sense of internationalism, but they cannot apply it when it comes to understanding of others. They think they have a universal consciousness, but when it comes to a test, they discriminate and eliminate. They constitute a much smaller group than the true Pisceans and are doing good work and filling a much needed place. The problem they present however, to the Aquarian worker lies in the fact that though they respond to the ideal and regard themselves as of the new age, they are not truly so. They see a bit of the vision and have grasped the theory but cannot express it in action.

Thus we have these three groups doing much needed work and reaching through their united undertakings the mass of people and fulfilling thus their dharma. One group works necessarily under the glamour of public opinion. The intermediate group has a most difficult task to perform, for where there is no clear vision the voice of their chosen environment and the voice of the inner group of world Knowers are often in conflict and they are pulled hither and thither as they respond first to one an then to the other. The group of those who respond more fully to the incoming Aquarian vibration register the voices of the leaders of the other two groups, but the voice of the guiding Masters and the voice of the group of world Masters serve to guide them unerringly forward.
I have sought to explain the above modes and methods of work, for the times are hard and clarity of thoughts needed if the work is to go forward as desired. Even such triple distinctions as exist between the groups are themselves of a separative tincture, and it is yet impossible to present any idea in its true and synthetic relation. It is a gain when the many thousands of separative groups can be grouped into three comprehensive ones and the mind of the disciple be thus freed from detailed analysis of the world situation among the worker with the Plan.

Om mani padme hung hri!