The Mystery Of Time & Space


1. JERICHO

The ' trumpeted sounds'  of Formula three bring the image of Joshua and
walls of Jericho strongly to mind.
I ask myself " What will bring the walls of my personality fortress tumbling
down?" What is the trumpet of life more abundant that will obliterate the
obstructions and limitations experienced in the three worlds? ( I am having
a pluto/saturn transit after all!)

A little research links Joshua ( son of nun ( the fish ) ) with the fish god
Oannes, the moon and soma - see SD 1 p246. Joshua was said to be an earlier
incarnation of Jesus
where he took the third initiation ( see the links between Formula 3, the
third point of revelation and the third initiation ).
There is also the link between 'sound' and the 'sounds' of this formula

You read that at the sound of trumpets, sounded a certain number of times
after a rhythmical circuit of the walls of Jericho those walls collapsed.
This was made possible by the occult knowledge of the leaders of the people
who-being versed in the science of sound and having studied its destructive
and creative effects,-knew just the moment to apply that science and effect
the desired end. LOM 194

Interestingly, Joshua was told to walk around the walls once per day for six
days with seven priests blowing seven horns. There are six words in Formula
three.
On the seventh day He was told to walk around seven times and then 'shout'.

It is the great SHOUT of Spirit, accessed via the triad that brings the
walls of the personality tumbling down at the third initiation and allows
the transfiguration to take place.

2. THE LAW OF DESTINY

In the section on the Points of Revelation ( Dina 2 312 etc ) there is an
enigmatic comment upon the Law of Destiny being established on the planet
since the founding of the Hierarchy and the way in which this Law replaces
the Law of Karma at a certain point upon the Path. It is accessed as a
result of 'penetration' and results in 'polarisation' and 'precipitation':

. You will note that I choose the word "destiny" in preference to the word
"karma" because in this type of work the initiate is working and practising
and progressing under a Law of Destiny. This law affects the Ashram and the
Hierarchy as a whole, and neither [Page 312] is under the Law of Karma, as
usually understood. ......

. The effects of penetration (in this case two in number) are simultaneous
and not sequential. The polarisation of the consciousness of the initiate,
and the consequent condensation of truth, produce an unavoidable
precipitation which occurs in a flash of time; it results in an
instantaneous intuitive perception, and this is one of the early aspects of
this dual process. Think this out and remember in this connection that the
initiate-in process of receiving revelation-is working outside of time and
space, as you understand it.

And in Esoteric Astrology 444

When I say this, I would at the same time point out that the attitude of
many students, inevitably participants in world events, that "such is the
Law and such is the Karma of people and nations and such is the
pre-determined destiny" [Page 444] is far from right. They believe-sometimes
sincerely-that all that should be done is simply to wait for results to
appear and for karma and destiny to fulfil itself. Then and not till then,
all will be well. But they forget that karma fulfils itself in relation to
the form nature upon which it expends its energy and that where there is a
static condition and a quiescent attitude, the process moves but slowly; the
life then within the form fails to experience the needed, forceful
awakening; inevitably then there lies ahead a repetition of the process
until the time comes when activity and response is evoked. This then leads
to resistance to the apparent karmic necessity and this brings about
liberation. Only through resistance to evil (and in this world period and in
this kali-yuga, as the Eastern teachers call it, it is an essential basic
attitude) can karma be brought to an end


This seems linked to the first thread on Jericho. It is only through the
resistance to apparent karmic necessity that liberation is achieved. In the
face of apparent restriction we have the clear affirmation of the destined
victory of spirit, established beyond doubt at the founding of the Hierarchy
and awaiting only it's confirmation in time and space.
It is somehow the dynamic assertion of the soul in resistance to the staus
quo of the personality, and in affirmation of the eventual monadic destiny
that makes a man initiate and therefore 'the cause of evolution and not the
result'

If the Law of Destiny relates to the future as the Law of Karma relates to
the past - I would like to inquire about that Law which lies behind these
two and of which they must be dual expressions - in what way are the future
and the past just expressions of the eternal now?

3. THE FOURTH QUALITY OF DEITY

This is a recurring theme for me. We are told that this fourth quality will
gradually reveal itself in this fourth round. It lies behind the qualities
of activity, love and will and is expressed when these three ( as expressed
through Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity ) are in balance. It is related to
the cosmic buddhic plane as will love and activity are related to the cosmic
mental, astral and physical respectively. It is related to the 'saving
force' and the Sirian Law of Freedom.

My inquiry lies in the direction of What lies behind Will and Purpose? There
is no Peace in Purpose. Purpose is the resistance to the staus quo - the
trumpet - the creation of change in a specific direction - hopefully the
direction of harmonisation between spirit and matter. Any consciousness
identified with purpose and creating change however can not be at peace - it
must rest deeper. Peace lies beyond in the world of the unchanging, where
the universe never arose, where matter and spirit are not two but one and
nothing needs to be done or fixed or balanced. And so there is this paradox
between the worlds of purpose and peace. Just as the idea of love and
consciousness contain within them a duality in space ( something loves
something , something is conscious of something else ) so power and purpose
contain within them a duality in time ( some idea has power now while some
other idea has power later - purpose implies direction and change and
therefore time in which this occurs )
And so , to get outside time and space ( even relative time and space )
,means to experience what is behind the energies of activity, love and
will - what they are essentially synthesised expressions of - just as the
personality is a threefold synthesised subset of the soul. Cosmic Agni is
the threefold personality of the Solar Logos - an incarnated subset of the
Solar Soul expressing through three solar systems. What is the Solar Purpose
being expressed here? And what lies behind that?

Short summation of my inquiry:

To explore the way in which the interaction between Being and Form produces
direction or 'purpose' in time and space as a function of their essential
indivisability.