From the Five elements to Initiation

5, the Past - SD (III)

The five represents the five Kumaras, the expression of the past. This expression through the manifestation of a previous solar system of the third ray permitted the individualized expression of Brahma the 3 through the 4 lower attributes, manifesting the five pointed star, or the fivefold Brahma. (see TFC 361)

This expression of the past is what has been developed in the first part of the threefold revelation, the Secret Doctrine, which is in fact the third part of the teachings, beginning from the three, as with the previous solar system (the next revelation being the firs one, or the last). The Keynote of the Secret Doctrine was 5; for it dealt a lot with the five elements (and science), the magic aspect of the teachings, linked to the deva kingdom through the pentagram, their representative symbol through the five classes of devic and elemental forces (and the five kingdoms), and the rebirth of a solar system by the mean of the cosmic builders. The symbol is also the one of the first differentiation into polar opposite, giving from the one the four (or from the third point of the triangle the four) what is happening in the egg when the first cell divides and forms 2 and 4, 8, 16 etc other cells. We know from H.P.B. that the principle of germination, of the birth from an egg, the ability of all the four kingdoms to procreate by this mean comes from the third solar system

So the key note of the Secret Doctrine was an expression of the past knowledge of mankind : the rebirth of a solar system, historical researches through the religions, Anthropogenesis etc. The Secret Doctrine represents what we need to learn from our past. It is linked to the path of aspirant, as the third of 3 aspect:  3-aspirant, 2-disciple, 1-initiate (Hierarchy).

7, the Present - A.A.B. and D.K. (II)

The second part of the teachings is the expression of the present, of the present solar system . It is the expression of the 7, the 7 present hierarchies, through the teachings of D.K. on the seven Rays, the seven stars of the Great Bear, the seven solar systems (coming each from their own constellation) of OAWNMBS. It's also the teaching concerning the disciple and the soul (2^nd aspect linked to quality and the seven rays). While the aspirant had to learn how to deal with his personal individual (ray 5) problems to reach the spiritual level (4à5) (remember the problems of personalities with the ST), the disciple has now to deal with the soul and group consciousness (linked to ray 2). It is also obviously linked to our present solar system of ray 2.

So the keynote of the second part of the teachings is at present 7, based on the 5 or past (5 Kumaras, Secret Doctrine) that expresses the present (7 rays and the seven hierarchies).

12, the Future - New Teachings

The third step on the spiritual path is the initiate or all what is linked to the third initiation, the first hierarchical one, a synthesized approach (as the 3 synthesized the 4, giving the 5 in the previous solar system). This means that the next teachings will integrate both the knowledge from the SD (5) and from D.K (7). This will be a synthesized teaching, leading to the ability for a group to reach the third initiation, linked to the monadic aspect, the first of the three. It is linked to the next solar system of ray 1. And we can add that as the 5 Kumaras or the 5 hierarchies were the seed of the present system, the 5+7 hierarchies will be the seed for the third and next system. So the third part of the teachings will concern the future (even if all of the three parts may concern the present, it will concern the future from the standpoint of mankind, and the present from standpoint  of accepted or nearly accepted disciples).

The next teachings will help the present knowledge (7) to be grounded in the physical plan (substance 3à5) as a working and demonstrating system, including the knowledge of magic, linked to the spiritual practice, leading to the third initiation.

Really that's why D.K. said the 5 + 7 = 12 is the keynote for the next teachings !!

So, as Stephen often says, the next revelation will come only when the SD will be understood and linked to the teachings of A.A.B. - This is an occult truth !

Again in the preparatory esoteric schools, I think we'll have to think about the following idea:

The candidates will have passed the first initiation of the threshold, or integrated the bases of 5, the preliminaries of the aspirant disciple. In the school they will learn the 5 + 7 (SD and A.A.B.) to reach the level of accepted disciple, just  before the 2^nd initiation, and will carry on with the practice of the 12 (third teaching), leading them to the higher occult schools (in the mountains!), with disciples of the 3^rd and 4^th initiation (1^st and 2^nd hierarchical ones) as loving and enlightened guides, who will train them to attain the third or first hierarchical initiation.

The link between the 5 and the 7:

This link is the way the second aspect may be linked to the third. The way the rays may be linked to matter and substance. Substance as the third aspect, mulaprakriti, the root substance of a plane - "koilon" for the physical plane -, crucified and transformed into material particles and atoms by the four elemental builders/forces. Mulaprakriti animated by Fohat is the root of the Dragon of Life and becomes the latter or the fifth element when the etheric substance of a plane is animated directly by the creative divine light, which is Od on the physical plane, and the Sea of Fire on the highest one; it is the astral light in the astral plane etc. (see the researches of Charles Von Reichenbach on Od energy and various passages in the SD). H.P.B. calls it the Pater Omnipotens Aether. It is Father-Mother, the powerful living substance, the magical agent (being able to create living cells from "nothing" for instance, see the researches of Wilhelm Reich).

We are here really facing two teachings, one concerning the matter and substance aspect, the past, and Karma (Brahma/Saturn). And the other one concerning the quality of a given substance. But we ignore the way these two conceptual systems interact. This knowledge is the key to the practical occultism which will be taught through the 12 or third part of the revelation. It is still a knowledge pertaining to the initiates from the Hierarchy. It will consequently be a very dangerous knowledge designed to the future, and the best way to transmit and protect it could be through an important amount of images and drawings, for since the deepest Antiquity this is the very way the knowledge from the ancients has been transmitted and preserved. So maybe the preparatory schools will have to train the disciples to reach the needed level of intuition so that they may interpret the new graphical teachings (in any case it is an interesting idea!).

Complementary notes concerning the Dragon energy.

The Dragon of Life is polarized at the beginning : Earth aspect, and Solar aspect: the kundalini energy from the Earth and the one from the Sun, or from the Base center and the Head center.

The base center is a fourfold petalled lotus, or four + the synthesis of the four = 5.

We have 7 centers in the head, and the alta major center which is a synthesizing station for the 6 other lotus of the body.

When the Dragon of life returns to unity, the four petalled lotus from which emanates the three canals, Ida, Pingala, Sushumna send the kundalini force in one united canal which is a pure expression of the five. Then the five, rushes towards the alta major center, the synthetic 7, to unit with the head center. The result of the meeting is a light as great as the fire of our sun, the monad is contacted, under the eye of  Sanat Kumara the Great Dragon who is applying the stick of initiation leading to the fusion of the 5 and 7 into the 12, the past and the present emerging into the future. The light is so strong than the man is transfigured by the fusion.

(according to my imagination!).

At this stage, the 12 of the egoic lotus is the focal point of life of the initiate, now led by the monad. But the aim still remains greater : to reach the 10 of the 5^th initiation, the 10 of the monad, the perfect master, the 10 of the next solar system.

All this could certainly been brought in connection with the chains, turns, globe, root and sub races concerning the third initiation of our Logos, and the same for our sevenfold constellation (7512 Mandala, and "the Perfect 10" chart).

Summary :

III (3à5) + II (7) à I (12)

7+5, a vital intermediary step

The AKSD, according to the ideas developed above, is a key to the 5+7, which will lead to the 12 in due time. The Key permits to link creatively the SD, TFC and the other main books of D.K. Then when a needed percentage of the students will have accessed to the synthesized understanding of the astrological key and of the psychological one (which is closely standing behind the astrological one, as its complementary key) through D.K. and A.A.B., the world disciple substance will be ready for the third part. It could occur in 12 years, for in 2013 will see an alignment of the 27, 9, and 3 year cycle of the NGSM "emergence-impact" peak, which is of a paramount importance.

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