A Paper on Peace, Purpose, Space and Time - BPL

This paper is the result of an inquiry into Formula Three which reads as follows:

God IS. The Lord for aye stands firm. Being exists alone. Naught else is.

2. Time IS. Being descends to manifest. Creation is. Time then and form
agree. Being and time do not agree.

3. Unity IS. The One between comes forth and knows both time and God. But
time destroys that middle One and only Being IS.

4. Space IS. Time and space reverberate and veil the One who stands behind.
Pure Being IS-unknown and unafraid, untouched, for aye unchanged.

5. God IS. Time, space, the middle One (with form and process) go, and yet
for aye remain. Pure reason then suffices.

6. Being cries forth and says: ... (untranslatable). Death crumbles all.
Existence disappears, yet all for aye remains-untouched, immutably the same.
God IS

I want to begin at the end and work backwards. With the untranslatable trumpeted cry which crumbles all and in the particular time/space that this point of revelation is designed for – the causal body at the time of the third initiation.. With the shout of spirit that brings down the walls of the personality. This, I am interpreting as a note of original monadic purpose – the keynote of the life at the core of any manifestation. The result of its sounding is the destruction of all lesser purposes, the ending of forms that are no longer serving this purpose and the rearrangement of matter into forms more aligned with this note.

Many Palmer Hall says it this way:

Every element in nature has its individual keynote. If these elements are combined in a composite structure the result is a chord that, if sounded will disintegrate the compound into its integral parts. Likewise, each individual has a keynote that, if sounded, will destroy him. The allegory of the walls of Jericho falling when the trumpets of Israel were sounded is undoubtedly intended to set forth the arcane significance of  individual keynote or vibration.

At first it is the personality walls that crash to the clear note of soul purpose. The personality has been carefully created ( around a core self identity which is an outpost of the soul ) to ensure and perpetuate its own survival and desires in the three worlds. When the construction and integration of the personality is complete as a result of being driven by desire, the soul note sounds at the first initiation,  desires begin to fail and the personality loses its centralising purpose and motivation.  Old patterns end and a new patterning takes place as the personality recognises the soul purpose which has been lying at the core. This recognition begins to shift the identity into that core and the personality repatterns itself around the soul purpose. When the soul purpose has been completed at the third intitiation, the note of the monad sounds forth clearly and the causal body which has been built up for many lives around the ‘transpersonal I” of the incarnating soul comes to full completion before being shattered at the fourth as the soul recognises and identifies with the monadic identity and purpose streaming through the jewel at the centre.  We might imagine the identity in the monadic body undergoing a similar process at a later intitiation ( 7 or 9 ) when the incarnating jiva is released from the cosmic physical plane.

When the trumpet note sounds forth, the life is released from a certain ring pass not of time and space. At the third initiation the consciousness is released from all personality control in the three worlds. The time ring pass not is the birth/death limits of the personality resulting in what is called ‘continuity of consciousness’. The space ring pass not is the identification with the personality vehicles and the resting of the identity in the field of the ashram or group soul. At the fifth , seventh and ninth initiation there are similar releases from ring pass nots of successively expansive time and space.

The sounding of the note of purpose ends the limitations of relative space/time.  The sounding of the note of purpose also creates the limitations of space/time. This makes sense – what creates something can also destroy it, in fact it is the only thing that can.

We might imagine pure being as a blank page – no boundaries, no form, no purpose, no thing. Then being decides to get up to something. But who decides for there is no self to decide within nothingness? . I am calling this ‘arising of  purpose’ within the Being, the ‘numbthing’ ( the cross between something and nothing ! ). This numbthing does not know itself yet but it is the cause of manifestation. Being now has an original arising purpose – an intention. This intention gives rise to time and creates a boundary in space which we might illustrate as a circle with the point being the arising purpose.

Time arises as a result of the gap between the purpose that has arisen in the centre and the capacity of the matter within the sphere to express that purpose.

If we bring this down to the incarnating monad – the monad decides to incarnate in the ring pass not of a particular planetary scheme within the solar system. This is the result of an arising purpose which is aligned with the purpose of the solar and planetary being within which it incarnates. The monad has a purpose to fulfil through matter and thus time is created – the duration that marks the series of developments that will be necessary for the matter to perfectly express the monadic purpose. The law of Karma operates when the matter  ( or the consciousness working through the matter ) acts in such a way that increases the gap ( duration ) between the matter and its monadic purpose. The Law of Destiny operates when the matter or consciousness is moving towards and therefore decreasing the duration required for fulfilment of the monadic purpose. Time and form agree ( they are linked to each other – time is affected by the action of form )  Being and time do not agree. The purpose is fixed – it is held outside the world of becoming – it is not affected by the activity in time and space.

Left to time, matter will eventually come into alignment with monadic purpose under the Law of Economy. The will of the monad is reflected into the astral plane and becomes desire which motivates the formation of the personality. Under the Law of Attraction, the middle one, the soul , comes forth and builds a bridge between the form ( personality ) and the monad. The soul has the potential to speed up the process of alignment exponentially. To use Einstein’s equation we might say

Spirit = matter times consciousness squared

The soul, or consciousness when it has educated the personality to the purposes of the monad can accelerate the process of alignment. Time, which has been proceeding under the rotary motion of the Law of Economy can now become spiral cyclic under the Law of Attraction. However, because consciousness is able to speed up the process of alignment, it is also able to slow it down. Thus the black and white lodges emerge. The white lodge uses consciousness to increase the alignment between matter and monad. The black lodge uses it to decrease the alignment and thus increase the time ( and therefore the duration of the  dominion of matter ) required for matter and monadic purpose to be fulfilled. This of course is only a temporary delay in the big scheme of things but has already been impacting on our planetary life through the successes of the material forces on the moon chain. This is also why the purpose of Sanat Kumara is a closely held secret in Shamballa. If the black lodge ( consciousness aligned with increasing karma ) were able to know more specifically what the purpose is they would be more intelligent in the delay of its fulfilment.

And so , what lies behind the law of Karma  ( relating to the past ) and the law of Destiny ( related to the future ) is the Purpose held for the duration of the planetary existence by the Lord of the world, Sanat Kumara. What lies behind this purpose is the purpose of the Solar Logos and we might imagine, just as there is the black and white lodge on earth that there is a solar equivalent. Those planetary logoi who are in resistance to solar logoic purpose thus slow down ‘solar time’ or the time taken for the fulfilment of the solar systemic purpose and those  aligned with the purpose form the planetary ‘white lodge’. We know Earth , Mars and Saturn are planets of rebellion and therefore pain ( the tension between what is and what should be ). We also know that SK is a disciple of the Solar Logos and earth is a sacred planet in the inner worlds but not the outer. This tells us that the consciousness of the planetary logos is part of the ‘white lodge’ but that his form or matter aspect is not yet reflecting the consciousness. He is taking the second cosmic initiation and therefore is attempting to break the control of his astral body and its tendencies towards materiality. We might imagine that the decision by our Planetary Logos to take on the karmic consciousness developed on the moon chain has contributed powerfully to the gap between the soul and personality nature of earth.

The mystery of the moon or of the "divine lunatic" is connected somewhat with the revelation (through the premature compassion of our planetary Logos) of the life of this nature, informing the dense globe of the moon chain.  On His high level, pity awoke in the heart of the planetary Logos for certain involutionary existences within the moon chain, and (like the Buddha on a lesser scale and at a much later date) compassionate zeal brought the karmic results with which we are still concerned.  The "beast" must be driven back for his own good to run his cycle, hidden in his den and confined within safe limits until the dawning of a new system brings him conscious opportunity. Tcf 847

The challenges of a second ray soul! By my estimates this failure on the moon chain has slowed the planetary evolution in time by several hundred million years. This ‘karma’ or delay must be offset by a corresponding action of the Law of Destiny and this law was put into effect with the founding of the Hierarchy on the planet. The work of the Hierarchy has been to accelerate the development of consciousness through active education and participation within the development of humanity. The process of initiation is itself a forcing process and the group initiation of the aquarian age will allow a planetary acceleration of consciousness, aligned  through the Hierarchy with the monadic purpose held in Shamballa. This will enable the Logos to take the second cosmic initiation ( in the fifth round and probably on the next chain  ) as a result of the inflow of energy from the first ray monad of the planet.

We are told that our Logos should have been ( in the normal solar logoic time/space unfoldment ) at the equivalent level of development as the Logos on Venus who has taken the second initiation and is in her fifth round.

To sum up, the alignment between the personality and the soul on this planet is behind schedule due to karma taken on by the Logos as a result of failure on the moon chain. In order to accelerate this alignment and bring the planet back into its proper time/space position, the Law of destiny has been applied through the Hierarchy and the processes of initiation implemented with the aid of the Solar Logos and the Logos of Venus.

This brings me to my third area of inquiry. If karma and destiny are two sides of one coin minted by purpose, what lies behind purpose? What is the fourth quality of deity that is to be revealed in this fourth round? The three qualities revealed so far are:

Activity, related to the personality and the cosmic physical plane

Love related to the soul and the cosmic astral plane

Purpose related to the monad and the cosmic mental plane

This fourth quality represents the synthesis of the other three and is related to the cosmic buddhic plane. We know that cosmic buddhi lies at the heart of every atom and that the release of atomic energy is related to the revelation of this fourth quality. This release came as a result of the impact of Shamballic purpose upon the physical plane and is part of an attempt to create a circulation of energies between Shamballa Hierarchy and Humanity. This circulation is not quite complete as humanity is not yet consciously cooperating and responding to Shamballic force ( see the triangle on page 160 of Rays & Initiations ). When this circulation is achieved then the saving force is released through the ‘eye in the triangle’ and the Great Revelation will come. Peace will descend on Earth.

I am choosing to identify this fourth quality as ‘Peace’ – not the astral peace of personality fulfilment through desire but the buddhic peace of completed soul purpose. There is no peace in purpose – purpose implies time and space and the achievement of something. Peace must lie beyond purpose and be both it’s originator and the result of it’s achievement in the same way that purpose lies behind love and love lies behind activity. The greater principle is prior to and gives birth to the lesser but is ‘revealed’ at a later time in time and space. Therefore Peace can not be revealed until Purpose has been achieved. Peace cannot descend on Earth until the Earth has achieved , in personality time and space the necessary soul purpose alotted for that time and space. Peace will be revealed once we catch up on our planetary karma and thereby release ‘pain’ from the planet.

The analogy in the human system is this. Monadic purpose is clothed in the triad and demonstrates as soul activity upon the abstract mental plane. The causal body is a result of the soul – in –ashram undertaking a soul purpose in the three worlds. This purpose is reasonably fixed through a long cycle of incarnations and this fixed purpose is what forms the core of the causal body from which successive incarnations are ‘launched’. Part of this purpose is to ‘solarise’ and synthesise the matter of the personality and bring it to a point where it is able to begin to express monadic purpose. The ‘masterpiece’ produced by the soul infused personality at the third degree is the sign of completion of this work. The matter aspect has been perfected ( relatively – ie it’s rebellion tamed and bought into service of the monad ) by the soul and so the causal body is no longer required. It reaches its full energetic expression at the third before being destroyed at the fourth initiation through the sounding of the monadic WORD.

There is a moment in consciousness as well as in nature when all activity pauses in the growth death cycle. The moment after a peach has ripened but before it falls. That moment just before the sunrises or after it sets. The eye in the middle of a hurricane – the exact moment of the equinox. The time you  first hold a baby or carry to completion a discipleship task. A moment where the ‘peace which passeth understanding’ lives and moves in the heart of all things. In that ‘peace’ we know that all is perfect with the world. Hilarion, through Mabel Collins expresses the moment in the development of the personality by the soul, thus::

But not till the whole personality of the man is dissolved and melted -- not until it is held by the divine fragment which has created it, as a mere subject for grave experiment and experience -- not until the whole nature has yielded and become subject unto its higher self, can the bloom open. Then will come a calm such as comes in a tropical country after the heavy rain, when Nature works so swiftly that one may see her action. Such a calm will come to the harassed spirit. And in the deep silence the mysterious event will occur which will prove that the way has been found. Call it by what name you will, it is a voice that speaks where there is none to speak -- it is a messenger that comes, a messenger without form or substance; or it is the flower of the soul that has opened. It cannot be described by any metaphor. But it can be felt after, looked for, and desired, even amid the raging of the storm. The silence may last a moment of time or it may last a thousand years. But it will end. Yet you will carry its strength with you. Again and again the battle must be fought and won. It is only for an interval that Nature can be still.

Light on the Path

This is the ‘quality’ of deity that is expressed when the first and third aspects are brought into relationship by the second. When matter for a moment fully expresses all the spirit it is capable of in that cycle.

This quality is coming on this planet. The incoming fourth ray in 2025 and the Externalisation of The Hierarchy are all part of this Revelation that will occur when the soul of the planet has infused the personality. The paradox of the fourth ray is the juxtaposition of harmony and conflict. Right at the moment where spirit and matter are evenly balance they are in greatest conflict – the exact point where the dominion of one passes into the dominion of the other.

In the ‘space’ of the planes this point is the heart of the ashram on the buddhic plane. After the third initiation the consciousness of the initiate is freed from confinement in the causal body and released onto the buddhic plane into the ashram. The heart of the ashram is the point of greatest peace where the Chohan creates the link to the monadic ashram. The causal body represents fixed soul purpose, the ashram is where that purpose originated and the place of return once that purpose is fulfilled.

The ‘time’ of this point within the life cycle of a planet is the mid point of the fourth rootrace of the fourth round on the fourth globe – in other words Atlantis. This was the point when matter and spirit should balance equally in time and a shift in dominion occur between them.  The confirmation of the ‘victory of spirit’ is in the fifth subrace of the fifthrootrace of the fourth round – ie now. Hierarchy, as representatives of the soul of the planet, will demonstrate their control over the personality by externalising and taking outer control of life in the three worlds.

The fifth kingdom controls the third via the medium of the fourth. The Masters ( on the third ( fifth ) plane ) control the consciousness in the causal bodies of their disciples on the fifth ( third ) plane via the ashrams on the fourth.

The failure on the third moon chain ( in the past – karma ) is overcome through the eventual success on the fifth mercury chain ( in the future – destiny )of this fourth scheme.

On a larger time scale , the focus on  the development of the matter aspect in the  first solar system is balanced and offset by the focus on the development of will in the third solar system. This is brought about through the development of consciousness in the middle or second system.

Once the three systems have been completed in solar systemic time and space, then will the Purpose of the Solar Logos be fulfilled, He will take the third cosmic initiation. As a result the  Peace of the Cosmic Buddhic Plane will then prevail through His system.

The whole Solar system, being of the fourth order must be destined to bring to a simiar point of Peace, the purpose of two other systems which form with ours a triangle in the cosmic Logos.

The alignment of fours means that this small planet has a part to play within these vast fields of time and space held together by purpose and ultimately pervaded by Peace.

There are four aims which the Hierarchy have set themselves, under the Law of Destiny to fulfil in order to bring about this cosmic alignment. They are given in Esoteric Psychology  p217

1. The first aim and the primary aim is to establish, through the medium of humanity, an outpost of the Consciousness of God in the solar system.  This is a correspondence, macrocosmically understood, of the relationship existing between a Master and His group of disciples.  This, if pondered on, may serve as a clue to the significance of our planetary work.

2. To found upon earth (as has already been indicated) a powerhouse of such potency and a focal point of such energy that humanity—as a whole—can be a factor in the solar system, bringing about changes and events of a unique nature in the planetary life and lives (and therefore in the system itself) and inducing an interstellar activity.

3. To develop a station of light, through the medium of the fourth kingdom in nature, which will serve not only the planet, and not only our particular solar system, but the seven systems of which ours is one.  This question of light, bound up as it is with the colours of the seven rays, is as yet an embryo science, and it would be useless for us to enlarge upon it here.

4. To set up a magnetic centre in the universe, in which the human kingdom and the kingdom of souls will, united or at-oned, be the point of most intense power, and which will serve the developed Lives within the radius of the radiance of the One About Whom Naught May Be Said.

An exulted destiny indeed but one which requires the conscious, dedicated and timely cooperation of the fourth creative hierarchy – humanity.

But revelation of the ultimate perfection, whatever that may be (and we should not limit God by any of our own pre-conceived ideas), may require the unfolding in man of powers and a mechanism which will enable him to recognise it, to share in its wonder and its larger sphere of contacts. We ourselves may have to change in order to express the divine as Christ expressed it, before God can go on to the manifestation of the beauty of the hidden kingdom. God needs man's cooperation. He calls for men to do His will. We have looked upon this as a way to our own individual good, which perhaps has been a wrong attitude. We may arise and carry forward the inner Plan by equipping ourselves towards perfection, in order that God may "see of the travail of His soul, and shall be satisfied." We may constitute God's crucial experiment. The germ of divine life is in us, but we ourselves have something to do about it, and the time has come when humanity as a whole must apply itself to the fostering of the divine life within the racial form

 Bethlehem to Calvary 278

Time and space will continue to exist for us in ever expanded fields until the ultimate Purpose is fulfilled. Peace and perfection , whether on this globe or in the solar system is only relative, partial and momentary within manifestation but it contains within it the resonance of that first great Trumpet of Being which began the manifested Universe and will one day bring its walls tumbling down, leaving Nothing to do and Noone left to do it. The ‘numbthing’ will have fulfilled its purpose and faded back into Peace.

Bruce Lyon