THE GREAT AQUARIAN ADVENTURE -
Opportunity for Synthesis
NOTHING ELSE EXCEPT THE ONE
LIFE IS, this we are apt to forget.
“The group, therefore, to whom I address this instruction is not
the group or groups who will first receive these papers. The instruction is intended for a group
which will come later and which will prepare the way, and of which some of the
more advanced aspirants can form part if they "walk humbly with their
God." This, my brother, is one
of the most advanced injunctions in any of the world Scriptures and is found in
The Bible. It has no reference to
humility as usually interpreted and understood. It signifies the ability to view all life with a sense of divine
proportion and from the angle of spiritual mathematics, and (paradoxical as
this may sound) with no sense of dualism.
The usual meaning is not correct.
It involves acceptance and comprehension of purpose, and this in such a
manner that the consecrated personality—under control of the Monad, via
the antahkarana, and in cooperation with the one known God—walks the
ways of Earth as a channel for the three divine qualities (love, will and
intelligence), but also as a channel for that which these three qualities will
enable him later to sense, know and reveal. These are solemn and important
statements.
They have within them the element of prophesy …… related to an
active Appearance which will, under the Law of Synthesis, indicate That
which the three great planetary centres of divine life are unitedly intended to
reveal.
Something lies behind the three divine aspects of so great an importance,
beauty and revelatory strength that all the happenings of all time, up to the
present emerging Aquarian Age, have been only the initial and the initiatory
preparation.” (RI 258)
THE MONAD
The One Monad
is the Universal Logos, and is the One Cosmic Being
The One Monad
knows that IT is essentially THE ABSOLUTE
The One Monad
embodies the Destined Pattern. The One Monad ‘becomes’ the Destined Pattern.
The Monad
itself is not a vehicle, but THAT which is expressed through a vehicle.
The
experience of monadic awareness is an experience of fire. – (Infinitisation of Selfhood MDR Monad
12/13)
“ When the blazing light of the monad is focussed directly upon the
personality, via the antahkarana … it produces a blazing fire which burns up
all hindrances in steady sequential process. When the antahkarana of a group is
rightly constructed, then the individualised group- will disappear in the full
consciousness of the monadic purpose or clear directed will.” (RI
29)
The One Life
Essence ‘appears’ under two contrasting aspects: Spirit or Consciousness on one
hand, and matter or vehicle on the other. Spirit and Matter, however, are not independent
realities, but are the opposite poles of the One Reality.
“There is no
matter without spirit and there is no spirit without matter.”
The monad or spirit is the “eternal pilgrim” who, in ages past, left the “Father’s Home” on a mission of redemption.
This mission has taken the monad (a “Lord of ceaseless, persevering devotion”)
into the lower three worlds .. The monadic plane stands ‘above’ the five worlds
of human and superhuman evolution, and is, as far as man is concerned, the
plane of true liberation. Attaining this plane, man becomes (relatively)
a “free spirit”. (Initiation Human
& Solar – glossary of planes)
The Synthetic Role of Gemini
–
Gemini is
sometimes called the "constellation of the resolution of duality into a
fluid synthesis."
The
at-one-ing process is governed by Gemini.
Gemini is
involved as a third point when two opposing signs, or two pairs of opposites
are in the process of being “divinely blended.’ There is always a ‘third point’
when rising to a new & higher level of consciousness. This point ‘allows’ a
‘relinquishment’ of the dual or polar state.
“Gemini … is the force
which produces the changes needed for the evolution of the Christ consciousness
at any particular point in time and space. It is always compatible to the
requirement” EA 345
“ Governing
as it does all the pairs of opposites in the zodiac, it preserves the magnetic
interplay between them, keeping them fluid in their relations, in order
eventually to facilitate their transmutation into unity, for the two must
finally become the One… from the angle
of the final development of the twelve zodiacal potencies—the twelve opposites
must become the blended six, and this is brought about by the fusion in
consciousness of the polar opposites…. the opposites eternally remain from the
point of view of human reason, but to the initiate whose intuition is
functioning they constitute but six great potencies, because he has achieved
"the freedom of the two.” EA 348
“In Gemini, Venus reveals the
desire of the pairs of opposites for each other
for this is the underlying theme of the entire creative and evolutionary
process—the interplay of the opposites. In Capricorn, Venus reveals to man that
desire for the whole, for the universal, which is the hallmark of the initiate
and the true expression of the spiritual life” (EA392)
Once the
battle between the pairs of opposites is fought to the point of synthesis
re-orientation can take place towards truer values and to the world of reality.
Gemini relates to the Head of the Cosmic Christ.
God is love … is both an exoteric and an esoteric truth.
This underlying love of Deity reaches our solar system primarily
through Gemini, which forms, with the constellation of the Great Bear
(Seven Father/Brothers) and the Pleiades (Seven Mothers/Sisters), a
cosmic triangle.
Gemini Libra & Aquarius are cosmically related (the air triplicity) in
a most peculiar way to the Great Bear, to the Pleiades and to Sirius.
The relation is essentially a sixfold one, and here you will find a
hint as to the resolution of the pairs of opposites.
Involving as these three constellations do the three ideas of
opposition-equilibrium-synthesis or universal fusion.
1. Gemini—forms a point of entrance for cosmic energy from
Sirius.
2. Libra—is related to and transmits the potencies of the
Pleiades.
3. Aquarius—expresses the universal consciousness of the
Great Bear. ”
(from EA 345)
The
Law of Polar Union
The focus on polar union in the Zodiacal Meditations is just the
first step in a process that has even greater significance and importance.
This Law not only has individual & group significance, but
planetary & cosmic significance as well.
‘Response’ to the Law of Polar Union, allows in group formation,
conscious contact with the energy of synthesis, the energy of Life Itself. “Synthesis - qualified Life in appearance.”
Symbol for the Law – “two balls of fire
and the triangle.”
These two centres (ajna & the head center, externalised by the
two glands, the pineal gland and the pituitary body) become vibrant and alive
….
A line of contact between them is eventually set up and established
with increasing potency…
There is also another line of outgoing fiery power toward the top
of the spinal column. …
As the life of the soul gets stronger, the radiance of the centres
increases, and the periphery of their sphere of influence is set up, creating a
dual magnetic field.
Esoterically, they are "magnetically impelled towards each
other" and towards the stored up energy to be found in the spine, and
localised in the five centres up the spine.
Eventually the interplay is so powerful that a triangle of force
appears within the radius of the magnetic field, and this triangle of light, of
living fire, links the three "laya centres."
The symbol is then completed, and the indication is that the
disciple is now controlled by the subjective side of his nature.
He is now governed by the Law of Magnetic Impulse (as the linking
of the head centres demonstrates) and the two aspects of his nature, higher and
lower, which constitute the two poles with which he is concerned, are now
united.
The polar union has been brought about. “
Then—corresponding
to the directly related Monad and Personality—the head centre, the
thousand-petalled lotus, the brahmarandra, is as directly related to the centre
at the base of the spine. Thus complete dualism, in place of the
previous triple nature of the divine manifestation, is established:
1. Monad
Personality. (With the threefold soul no longer needed.)
2. Head Centre at base of spine. (With the intermediate five
centres no longer required.)
The Old
Commentary says, in this connection:
"Then the three that ranked as all that was, functioning as
one and controlling all the seven, no longer are. The seven, who responded to
the three, responding to the One, no longer hear the triple call which
determined all that was. Only the two remain to show the world the beauty of
the living God, the wonder of the Will-to-Good, the Love which animates the
Whole. These two are One, and thus the work, completed, stands. And then the
Angels sing." Tev 158
Polar Union - Summary
The Law of Polar Union - operates on a higher turn of the spiral than
The Law of Magnetic Impulse & The Law of Attraction.
The Law of Attraction brings men and women already functioning as
souls, into one group effort.
The Law of Magnetic impulse then assists to control as they
“constitute themselves as channels for service in pure self-forgetfulness.
From the angle of Hierarchy they “have established a contact and
are "in touch" with the world of spiritual realities…. so
does this group of aligned souls come into contact with certain greater Lives
and Forces of Light, such as the Christ and the Buddha. (P111)
The Law of Polar Union “governs the interplay, vital but unrealised
yet as a potency, between the soul of the fourth kingdom in nature, the human,
and the soul of the three subhuman kingdoms, and likewise that of the three
superhuman kingdoms.
Owing to the major part which humanity has to play in the great
scheme or Plan of God, this is the law which will be the determining law of the
race.
Under obedience to this law, humanity will act as a transmitter of
light, energy and spiritual potency to the subhuman kingdoms, and will
constitute a channel of communication between "that which is above and
that which is below." Such is the high destiny before the race.
(Pg 112)
In Aquarian formation the consecrated NGWS, subjectively One
Group, “reach those Lives Who brood
over humanity and our civilisation, and Who work through the
Masters of the Wisdom and the assembled Hierarchy. This group
endeavor will call forth from Them a responsive and magnetic impulse, which
will bring together, through the medium of all the aspiring groups, the
overshadowing beneficent Forces. (Pg114)
In the tabulation below there is portrayed a
little of what is implied in the words "The Law of Polar
Union." “The whole process concerns consciousness, and the results
worked out in consciousness, with the subsequent physical plane happenings.”
There are, therefore, to be found in this great
task the following relations and groupings.
1.The Forces of Light and the Spirit of Peace,
embodied Lives of
tremendous group potency.
2. The Planetary Hierarchy.
3. The Buddha.
4. The Christ.
5. The New Group of World Servers.
6. Humanity.
Note - the Buddha focuses
in Himself the down pouring forces, whilst the Christ focuses in Himself the
outgoing demand and the spiritual aspirations of the entire planet. This
makes a planetary alignment of great potency.
Much of
the success of this planned endeavor depends upon the intellectual grasp of the
members of the New Group of World Servers in connection with the necessary
technique. [Page 115]
THE
LAW OF SYNTHESIS … a law of the monadic sphere
of life (R1 310)
The Law of
Synthesis “governs the thinking of those great Lives Who form the Council of
Sanat Kumara in Shamballa.” (RI 249)
Synthesis …unites the human atom to the Great Lives, Who are the
sum total of that which is manifested.
a. The stage of atomic energy - pure self centredness.
b.
The stage of group
coherency – responsibility,
recognition of a greater life, sacrifice to the good of the many.
c.
The stage of unified or
synthetic existence - separate
units of consciousness & groups made up of a multiplicity of identities … an aggregate of all forms, of all groups,
and of all states of consciousness blended, unified & synthesised into a
perfected whole. Call this whole the solar system, nature, or God. Names matter not. (Sum. Consciousness of the Atom P27)
“The Law of Synthesis is the law of spiritual existence, and
one of the three major laws of our solar system, as well as of our planet. It is a basic cosmic law, applied from
sources of which we know nothing ……It is the law governing the activities of
the Spiritual Triad, and the conditioning law of monadic living …. under
the Law of Synthesis the worlds of illusion and glamour are mastered and the
control of maya is negated.
The Law of Synthesis reveals the factual nature that "Matter is
spirit at its lowest point of manifestation and spirit is matter at its
highest." HPB
Let the group understand the Law of Synthesis, of unity and fusion. (Rule XIII for
initiates.)
The
distinction between synthesis, unity and fusion must be mastered.
Fusion - the individual process of spiritual integration, relating—in
full waking consciousness—the three divine aspects in man.
Unity -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.
Synthesis Differentiates – “but a point is
reached where man has learnt all that he can learn through the processes of
differentiation to which he has been subjected for aeons.
More must still be learnt if the Way of the
Higher Evolution is to be trodden..and a choice between the seven cosmic Paths
made” (RI266)
“ The Seven (paths) which yet are One; which points to the seven
ways and yet those upon the seven ways are one; which initiates the universal
into the many but preserves its integrity; which originates the plan but
preserves intact the purpose; which sees the multiplicity needed under the Law
of Sacrifice but subordinates that law unto the Law of Synthesis; which
breathes forth the many Breaths and yet is Life Itself." (RI266)
AVATAR OF SYNTHESIS
TAURUS, THE NGWS & AQUARIUS
“ It is the secret of eventual synthesis, which
is the final illumination, seen through the eye of Taurus” Taurus is a
predominant energy influencing & conditioning the NGWS.
It is understandable that everywhere today the ‘note
of synthesis’ is ‘the word’ spoken in all groups & on all disciples &
initiates lips.
“The group, therefore, which "serves as Aquarius
indicates" is the Hierarchy; the group which is "speeded upon
the upward Way" is the New Group of World Servers. This group is ruled by Taurus, and to it that
divine Taurean energy brings "illumination and the attainment of the
vision." (EA233)
Taurus is known as the ‘nurturer of
all illumination.’ “The initiate sees the New Group of World Servers brought
under the illuminating power of Taurus, with the rest of humanity still under
the influence of Pisces”. (EA 230)
Ever the importance of Spiritual vision is sounded. The goal of the
NGWS, in group formation, is to ‘open the eye.’
“ The eye of vision of the individual man must
likewise open in response to this cosmic light. Hence victory is inevitable for
the potency of cosmic energy will unfailingly and in time subdue and re-orient
the energy of humanity.” EA 403
“This group is, figuratively speaking, the "bull, rushing
forward upon a straight line with its one eye fixed upon the goal and beaming
light." (EA233)
Esoteric Keynote … "I see and when the Eye is opened, all is light."
The eye of the cosmic Bull of God is open and from it light pours radiantly
forth upon the sons of men. The goal is to provide “ a centre of light within the world
of men and of holding up the vision to the sons of men” (EA233)
Taurus must bring down what spirit has learned
when he ‘pastured in the fiery stars.’
“The entire secret of divine purpose and
planning is hidden in this sign, owing
fundamentally to the relation of the Pleiades to the constellation, the Great
Bear, and to our solar system. This constitutes one of the most important
triangles in our entire cosmic series of relationships and this importance is
also enhanced by the fact that the "eye of the Bull" is the eye of
revelation. The underlying goal of the evolutionary process - "the onward
rush of the Bull of God," as it is esoterically called - reveals steadily
and without cessation the stupendous and sublime plan of Deity. This is the subject which
light reveals.
The import of this is that the
energy of will - newly released by Sanat Kumara upon our planet - emanates, via
the head center of the planetary Logos, from the Great Bear; it is stepped down
in vibration via one of the Pleiades (hence its influence upon matter and hence
also its pronounced Taurean effects upon humanity) and so enters into the solar
system.
It
is there absorbed by that major center of our planetary life to which we give
the name, Shamballa. Its effect is necessarily twofold. It produces in certain
nations, races and individuals, a welling up of the self-will or of the
will-to-power which is characteristic of the developed lower nature, the
personality aspect of integrated selfhood. It produces - though less readily -
a stimulation of the will-to-serve the plan as it is grasped by the world
aspirants, the world disciples and initiates. Thus are the purposes of Deity
materialized.” (EA377)
The "interpreter of the
divine voice", as Taurus was called
in ancient Egypt, can be paraphrased into Christian terminology and called "the
Word made flesh". It is an interesting sidelight on the power of the
zodiacal influences to recall that the bull's-eye lantern can be traced back to
the bull's eve in Taurus, and the pontifical bull, or the papal
enunciations which were regarded as interpreters of God's voice, is a
term in common usage today. (EA 45)
Constantly in this sign comes the emphasis upon struggle. It is a cosmic,
planetary and individual struggle. … It is the struggle of that which is deeply
hidden in darkness to reach the light of day…
It is the struggle to attain the goal that an increasing light reveals. Taurus is the sign in which desire is transmuted
into aspiration, darkness into illumination.
It is the search for ‘golden light divine’ which
directs the Bull of Life. It’s the search for gold or materiality, which
directs the Bull of Form. “These two must meet; and meeting, clash. Thus vanishes the
gold...." EA 379
Rule XII.
Let the group serve as Aquarius
indicates; let Mercury speed the group upon the upward Way and let Taurus bring
illumination and the attainment of the vision; let the mark of the Saviour, as
the group toils in Pisces, be seen above the aura of the group.
Taurus has always been connected with light
and, therefore, with Christ, who proclaimed himself as the Light of the World.
The Hierarchy is, therefore, at
this time, conditioned by three great constellations:
1. Aquarius—The Custodian of that
"life more abundantly" of which the Christ spoke and which He can
draw upon at this time in a new and dynamic manner in order to bring about the
restoration needed. This energy is the
"implementing force of universality." It concerns the future.
2. Taurus—The Revealer of the
vision, the "eye of the Gods," the donor of illumination. It is that which concerns the present.
3. Pisces—The Inspiration of the World Saviour,
and also the field of salvation. It is
the field of force in which the two other forces must work. It has been produced by the past. (EA229)
The
Scorpio-Taurus-Pisces triad forms the triangle of initiation, which provides the
energy that tests and perfects the three aspects of personality to reflect the
three divine aspects of Father, Son and Holy Spirit and deal with the relation
between the body and the soul. Hercules, Buddha and Christ are the three sons
of God that reflect the perfection of those signs:
In
Scorpio Hercules became the triumphant disciple. In Taurus Buddha achieved
victory over desire, which led to his illumination (The consciousness of the Buddha has been called the
"diamond-eye." In Pisces the Christ overcame death and became
the world saviour. (EP1 230).
Virgo is related to Taurus through Vulcan
which brings in what might be called the endurance aspect of the will-to-be
which carries the incarnated Son of God through the experiences of the dark
time …until the initiate attains full maturity. When the experience
undergone in Virgo is consummated in Pisces and the tests of Scorpio have
led to illumination in Taurus, then the effect of these four energies
(Virgo, Pisces, Scorpio, Taurus) will be to make man the true triangle,
expressing the three divine aspects or energies as they come from the three
major conditioning constellations: the Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius. . (EA 251)
There is a symbolic relation between the
"eye" in the head of the Bull, the third eye, the light in the head,
and the diamond. [EA381]
Where the three lights are blended, where the centres are
aroused and the atoms are also vibrating, it becomes possible for the man to
centre all three in the head at will…
This is spoken of in the occult writings of the Masters in these words: "Then
the Bull of God carries the light in his forehead, and his eye transmits the
radiance; His head, with magnetic force, resembles the blazing sun, and from
the lotus of the head, the path of light issues. It enters into the Greater Being, producing a living fire. The Bull of God sees the Solar Angel, and
knows that Angel to be the light wherein he walks." TOWM 109
The esoteric ruler of Taurus is
Vulcan, Hierarchically also the ruler is Vulcan,
conditioning the planet and determining the fact that man is the macrocosm of
the microcosm and that the fourth kingdom fashions or conditions all subhuman
kingdoms.
The light from the eye of the Bull which
with ever increasing radiance has guided the struggling soul must give place
eventually to the light of the Sun, for Vulcan is a substitute for the Sun; it
is spoken of sometimes as being veiled by the Sun and at others it stands for
the Sun itself. It stands between the man and the Sun, the soul. Therefore, we
have in this connection three symbols of the light:
- Taurus —The eye of illumination or light. The Bull's eye.
Illumination.
Exoterically—the physical Sun.
- Vulcan —The one who reveals that which is deeply hidden and brings
it up into the light - Esoterically—the heart of the Sun.
- The Sun.—The great Illuminator. Spiritually—the central spiritual
Sun.
(EA394)
Thus from every angle, illumination remains the theme of this sign.
Taurus is an expression of the
third unmanifested Hierarchy and of this Hierarchy we know nothing beyond the fact
that it is concerned with the light which liberates from death.
LIFE & LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY
Christ’s words – “life & Life more abundantly’ takes on new
meaning if you consider that the Monad, the life principle, the highest
spiritual aspect can be said to be on the verge of externalising. When one
considers the whole of the evolutionary consciousness to date – on all levels –
the import of this ‘newly externalising ’ LIFE energy can be seen to have been
in the process of descent. All along.
H.P.B. taught that the antahkarana was primarily the channel of energy
relating forms and their forces to their originating sources and that across
the mental plane (with its three aspects of mind) the life thread
necessarily passed, linking Monad, soul and personality into one living
whole.
The only true existence is the Monad on its own plane. The Monad IS
Life ITSELF.
Until contact & until the recognition dawns of our own
true Identity, we exist on ‘the planes of death.’
“Raise the dead to Life!”
The higher mind (being the lowest aspect of the Spiritual Triad) is
a symbolic door admitting the consciousness of the soul-infused personality
into this higher realm of contact and awareness.
May all be lifted out of the dark & into the Light of Day.
The 12 zodiacal signs represent the transformational journey of a
human into a divine being. Eventual success comes when recognition of a new
identity … “ A Son of God who is also a son of man”
“Out of the rocky cave, the Christ emerged and walked again upon
the plains of Earth and from that time "the woman knew Him not." Form
had no further hold upon him for He had overcome it in the depths. Into the
cave of Initiation, the light of resurrection streams when the stone at the
entrance is rolled away. From life in the form to the death of the form—deep in
the rocky place, down in the crypts of the Temple—the human being goes. But
into that same place, the new life streams, bringing fresh life and liberation;
old things pass away and the darkness becomes light.” (EA 385)
On theme
& in perfect Aquarian style the “ Aquarian Mantram of Synthesis” (below),
was posted on the Shamballa School
e-group today. Included below for those who don’t already have.
ONE LIFE
ONE HEART,
Sharon
The Great Invocation is an Aquarian
formula for unity and synthesis.
Unity (Goodwill):
Light + Love + Will → Hierarchy
Synthesis (Will-to-Good):
Light + Love + Power → Shamballa
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The Aquarian Mantram
of Synthesis
"May the liberating Light of the Lord Buddha,
The infinite Love of the Spirit of Peace,
And the unfathomable Power of the Avatar of Synthesis
Restore the Plan of God on Earth."
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http://www.agni-yoga.org/AMS.htm
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