The New Teachings - Use , Demand, Take

I have some observations and suggestions regarding our process of inquiry. These arise from the context of the inquiry which is the revelation of the next phase of the transhimalayan wisdom teachings. Our specific 'call for further revelation' in this probe concerns information regarding the centres within the Solar Logos.

As Stephen pointed out in his preliminary thoughts:

 "Will the initate appear only when "we" have accomplished a certain level of  research and study and/or only when we have created the necessary group "evocative" point of tension" to enable us to
occultly demand more light and guidance? Can we establish a group alignment 
between the possible "field of distribution", [seen as our group at this
juncture], the "impressed" initiate and D.K. himself. Is this our greater
task, and if so, what use and application of this knowledge do we intend to 
make or should make in alignment with the 12 festivals of the New world
Religion, the externalisation of the Hierarchy, the reappearance of the
Christ, the curricula of the Mystery Schools and so on et al." S.D.P

I think these are excellent questions that we all might find value in answering. One of the most useful mantrams regarding the invocation of material resources is given below.

"One of those maxims I can here give anent supply and demand.  It is only as a skilful use is made of the supply for the needs of the worker and the work (I choose these words each one with deliberation) that that supply continues to pour in.  The secret is:  use, demand, take.  Only as the door is unlocked by the law of demand is another and higher door unlocked permitting supply.  The law of gravitation holds hid the secret.  Think this out. LOM 205"

One presumes that it applies equally well to the divine storehouse that contains the treasures of the wisdom

as it does to more earthly riches.

USE

This requires that we first of all 'use' and apply what has already been given. Hence the first part of the probe is to exhaust what is currently known within the group mind. We write papers on the best understanding that we currently have on the subject. We share these papers ( also read images, subjective impressions etc whenever I use the word 'papers' ) with each other and attempt to grasp what it is that we do 'know' as a group. This allows us to fine tune the inquiry, individually and collectively, asking "What is the next piece that I/we need? " This is hard and focused work, brothers to exhaust that which is known.

It is  a way of 'checking the literature' and defining the battle.

"The Great Unknown may be considered a friend, but for the investigator it is more useful to consider it an enemy. First of all we speak of fearlessness. But this is not needed against a friend. The achievement of a victory also presumes an enemy.

If I bid you be victors, I forsee a battle. The Great Unknown, like the enemy, lures one to victory."

Agni Yoga 303

 I have heard others asking " How can you possibly think you are applying what has been given and can therefore ask for more? "

Each must answer this in their own way. Let me give you my personal perspective. In the work of anchoring a school along the lines that DK has indicated in LOM, we have had to utilise a great deal of the information and practices that we have being studying over the years. Not just the knowledge but the practical use of the energies  as the 'solar fire' is fed continually into the school. Some degree of electric fire has been necessary in order to anchor and hold the project on the physical plane and, right at the heart of the school, is a peculiar energy that we are not consciously directing but is nevertheless present and is the foundation stone of the field. This energy is not the Will but something deeper that operates through the Will - an energy we caught a faint 'whiff' off in the Wesak Valley. Not knowing it's real name, we call it the energy of 'Freedom'.

This energy was consciously anchored at the time of the Leo Full Moon last year ( during an earthquake ) and has been with us ever since. Our inner call at this time is to deepen our connection to this energy and anchor it more fully in the heart of the centre so that the work here may continue to grow and be sustained by it. We assume that this energy of 'freedom' has it's archetypal source in Sirius and is therefore related to the Sirian Law of Freedom and can best be accessed at the time of the Leo Full Moon.

Thus, to us the inquiry is very practical. If we can understand the way in which this energy flows from the Sirian system through the heart of the sun, via the planetary logoi which are centres in the solar systemic body, via hierarchy into the schools we are able to subsequently deepen our connection and response, as a group to this energy. The result is a fresh 'infusion' of this energy into the heart of our school project. Far from being a 'mind game' or impractical I would maintain that THERE IS NO THING MORE IMPORTANT TO US IN OUR PRACTICAL LIFE OF SERVICE THAN THE CONTACT AND EVOCATION OF THIS ENERGY. Of course the energy must be accessed through more than just the mind - all the triadal faculties must be brought to bear. This inquiry is a natural balance to the aquarian adventure where the focus was Alcyone. Following the quote below, a third inquiry focused upon Polaris might also be in order ( any ideas on the timing - Wesak perhaps? )

Scorpio is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius. This is the great star of initiation because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius. These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. It is esoterically called the "brilliant star of sensitivity." You have therefore:

Polaris—The Star of Direction—governing Shamballa. Later, another Pole Star will take the place of Polaris, owing to the interplay of forces in the universe and the general shift and movement. But the name and quality of this star will only be revealed at initiation.

Sirius—The Star of Sensitivity—governing the Hierarchy.

Alcyone—The Star of the Individual—governing humanity.

You can see from the above how the entire plan of this Treatise is gradually unfolding. It was necessary for me to indicate to you the nature and the purpose of the three divine centres—Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity—before I could make this part of the teaching clear to you, or before I could point out the nature of the energies pouring from distant constellations and zodiacal signs into our planetary scheme.

Scorpio is the great constellation which influences the turning point both in the life of humanity and the life of the individual human being. For the first time in the history of both mankind and disciples the energy of Sirius, pouring into the seven groups which form our planetary Hierarchy evokes a response. I would remind you of a basic fact in the evolutionary process which astrology will eventually prove scientifically and past all controversy. This is the fact that energies and forces are pouring upon our system and our planetary lives ceaselessly, potently and cyclically. Yet they are only regarded today as existing when definite response is evoked. They come from all kinds of sources, extraneous to our system and planetary schemes, but until man responds and registers them both scientists and astrologers fail to recognise them and they are as if they were not. This is a point to bear in mind as I continue to teach you, for I may indicate some sources of active energy which may as yet be unknown to you as playing upon our system and its contents. The difficulty will not be because of my inaccuracies but will be owing to the lack of sensitivity in the mechanism of response which mankind and disciples are at present utilising.

You have consequently in connection with the path of discipleship the following lines of "influential energy":

1. Sirius—working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays and their seven groups as these constitute the active Hierarchy.

2. The Fixed Cross—a fusion of four major energies, pouring into our solar system, on to our planet and through humanity.

3. Scorpio—an aspect of the Fixed Cross, of peculiar and specialised potency upon the Path of Discipleship and preparing, with its tests and trials:

a. The process of re-orientation, whereby a man mounts the Fixed Cross and leaves the Mutable Cross.

b. The disciple for the first, second and third initiations. After the third initiation, its peculiar testing potency is no longer felt.

4. The Hierarchy.—The distributing agency to the various kingdoms in nature.

5. Mars and Saturn.—Both these planets are exceedingly potent in connection with initiation into the life of the Hierarchy; Mars is potent in relation to Scorpio and Saturn in relation to Capricorn. This involves the intensified activity of the 6th and the 3rd rays and their energies, and when these are rightly employed there comes liberation from form control and the release of the conscious individual.

Thus we can see that the inquiry is practical to us as we attempt to run a school designed to prepare students for initiation. I suggest that each member of the probe ask and answer the question of this use and application for themselves.

DEMAND

The idea is to use the first part of the probe to 'use' what we know by writing papers, thinking debating and discussing what has already been given - both by DK and also through the compilations and intuition of members of this group. This phase finishes on Friday  ( that's friday midday NZ time which is midnight Thursday GMT ). We then enter the phase of group demand - a united invocation for more light.

The meditation that DK specifically gives for this process is the Technique of the Presence  - GAWP 180

 It is essential likewise that the world intuitives learn to use and control and understand the faculty of spiritual perception, of divine isolation and appropriate response which characterises the intuition. This they can do through the practice of the Technique of the Presence, but not as it is usually taught and presented.

Perhaps I shall make my meaning clearer if I state that this technique falls into certain scientific lines or modes of work, for which much of the training given in schools of true meditation and in the Raja Yoga systems have prepared the aspirant. These stages begin where the usual formulas leave off, and pre-suppose facility in approach the Angel or the soul, and an ability to raise the consciousness to a point of soul fusion. I will list the processes or stages as follows:

1. The evocation of the stage of tension. This is basic and essential. It is a tension brought about by complete control of the personal self so that it is "fitted for contact with the real."

2. The achieving of a state of fusion with the soul or with the Angel which guards the approach to the Path of the Higher Evolution.

3.The holding of the mind steady in the light of the soul, which remains the attitude of the lower self for the entire remaining period of work, held at the point of tension by the soul and not by an effort of the personality. The soul undertakes this holding when the personal self has done its utmost to achieve the desired

tension.

These are the three preliminary steps for which the practice of alignment should have prepared the student of the higher mysteries. These steps must precede all effort to develop the intuition, and this may take several months (or even years) of careful preparation. Fire is the symbol of the mind and these are the first three stages of the Agni Yoga discipline or of the yoga of fire for which Raja Yoga has prepared the student.

Next come six more stages in the Technique, and these must be thoroughly understood and form the basis of prolonged brooding and intelligent reflection, carried on whilst the daily avocations and duties are being performed and not carried out at certain set times. The trained intuitive or disciple lives ever the dual life of mundane activity and of intense and simultaneous spiritual reflection. This will be the outstanding characteristic of the Western disciple in contradistinction to the Eastern disciple who escapes from life into the silent places and away from the pressures of daily living and constant contact with others. The task of the Western disciple is much harder, but that which he will prove to himself and to the world as a whole will be still higher. This is to be expected if the evolutionary process means anything. The Western races must move forward into spiritual supremacy, without obliterating the Eastern contribution, and the functioning of the Law of Rebirth holds the clue to this and demonstrates this necessity. The tide of life moves from East to West as moves the sun, and those who in past centuries struck the note of Eastern mysticism must strike and are now striking the note of Western occultism. Therefore, the following stages must follow upon the three earlier. We will continue with the numbering as given, for what I here suggest is a formula for a more advanced meditation attitude. I said not form.

4. Definite and sustained effort to sense the Presence throughout the Universe in all forms and in all presentations of truth. This could be expressed in the words: "the effort to isolate the germ or seed of divinity which has brought all forms into being." I would point out that this is not the attainment of a loving attitude and a sentimental approach to all people and circumstances. That is the mystical way and though not intended to be negated in the disciple's life, is not used at this time in the process of effective approach. It is the effort primarily to see in the light which the Angel radiates the point of light behind all phenomenal appearances. This is, therefore, the transference of the mystical vision to the higher levels of awareness. It is not the vision of the soul but the vision or the spiritual sensing of that which the light of the soul can aid in revealing. The flickering soul light in the personal self has enabled the disciple to see the vision of the soul and in that light to reach union with the soul, even if only temporarily. Now the greater light of the soul becomes focussed like a radiant sun and it reveals in its turn a still more stupendous vision—that of the Presence, of which the Angel is the guarantee and promise. As the light of the Moon is the guarantee that the light of the Sun exists, so the light of the Sun is the guarantee, did you but know it, of a still greater light.

5. Then, having sensed the Presence—not theoretically but in vibrating response to its Existence—there next comes the stage of the ascertaining of the Purpose. Hope of identification with the purpose lies too far ahead even for the average initiate, under the status of Master. With that unattainable stage (for us) we are not concerned. But we are concerned with the effort to achieve an understanding of that which through the medium of form is seeking to embody the high purpose at any particular point in the evolutionary cycle. This is possible and has been achieved down the ages by those who have rightly approached andduly reflected upon the Way of the Higher Evolution. This Way is revealed to the disciple, e'en though it may not concern the intuitive message which he may bring back from his high adventure.

6. He then carries some world problem, some design which his mind has evolved or his heart desired for the helping of humanity into what is esoterically called "the triple light of the intuition." This light is formed by the blending of the light of the personal self, focussed in the mind, the light of the soul, focussed in the Angel, and the universal light which the Presence emits; this, when done with facility through concentration and long practice, will produce two results:

a. There will suddenly dawn upon the disciple's waiting mind (which still remains the agent of reception) the answer to his problem, the clue to what is needed to bring relief to humanity, the information desired which, when applied, will unlock some door in the realm of science, psychology or religion. This door, when opened, will bring relief or release to many. As before I have told you, the intuition is never concerned with individual problems or enquiries, as so many self-centred aspirants think. It is purely impersonal and only applicable to humanity in a synthetic sense.

b. The "intruding agent of light" (as the Old Commentary calls these adventuring intuitives) is recognised as one to whom can be entrusted some revelation, some new impartation of truth, some significant expansion from a seed of truth already given to the race. He then sees a vision, hears a voice, registers a message, or—highest form of all—he becomes a channel of power and light to the world, a conscious Embodiment of divinity, or a Custodian of a divine principle. These forms constitute true revelation, imparted or embodied; they are still rare but will increasingly be developed in humanity.

7. The next few stages are called, in preparation for the revelation:

a. The relinquishing of the Higher Way.

b. The return to the Angel, or a refocussing in the soul.

c. A pause or interlude for constructive thinking, under the influence of the Angel.

d. The turning of the mind to the formulation of those forms of thought which must embody the revelation.

e. Then again a pause which is called "the pause preceding presentation."

8. The presentation of the revelation or of the imparted truth and its precipitation into the world of illusion comes next. In that world of illusion, it undergoes the "fiery ordeal" wherein "some of the fire within that which is revealed wings its way back to the source from whence it came; some of it serves to destroy the revealer, and some to burn those who recognise the revelation." This is a phase of Agni Yoga which, as you can see, is only for those who can penetrate beyond the Angel into the place "where fire dwelleth," and where God, the Presence, functions as a consuming fire and waits for the hour of totalrevelation. This is a symbolic rendering of a great truth. In the case of the individual initiate, the third initiation, the Transfiguration, marks the consummation of the process. Only glory then is seen: only the voice of the Presence is heard and union with the past, the present and the future is reached.

9. The succumbing of the revelation to the prevailing illusion, its descent into the world of glamour, and its subsequent disappearance as a revelation and its emergence as a doctrine. But, in the meantime, humanity has been helped and led forward; the intuitives continue to work and the inflow of that which is to be revealed never ceases.

This basic technique underlies both primary and secondary revelations. In the case of the first, the time cycle is long; in the second, the time cycle is short. A very good instance of this process is demonstrated by one of the secondary points of revelation in connection with the teaching which emanated from the Hierarchy (the Custodian of secondary revelations, as Shamballa is of primary) fifty years ago and which took the form of The Secret Doctrine. H.P.B. was the "penetrating, sensing, appropriating intuitive." The revelation she conveyed followed the accustomed routine of all secondary revelation from the Source to the outer plane. There the minds of men, veiled by illusion and clouded by glamour, formulated it into an inelastic doctrine, recognising no further revelation and holding steadily—many of the theosophical groups—that The Secret Doctrine was a final revelation and that naught must be recognised but that book and naught deemed correct but their interpretations of that book. If they are correct, then evolutionary revelation is ended and the plight of humanity ishard indeed.

Even the neophyte upon the way of the intuition can begin to develop in himself the power to recognise that which the lower mind cannot give him. Some thought of revealing potency, to be used for the helping of the many, may drop into his mind; some new light upon an old, old truth may penetrate, releasing the truth from the trammels of orthodoxy, thus illumining his consciousness. This he must use for all and not for himself alone. Little by little, he learns the way into the world of the intuition; day by day, and year by year, he becomes more sensitive to divine Ideas and more apt in appropriating them wisely for the use of his fellowmen.

The hope of the world and the dispelling of illusion lies in the development of intuitives and their conscious training. There are many natural intuitives whose work is a blend of the higher psychism with flashes of true intuition. There must be the training of the exact intuitive. Paralleling their intuitive response and their effort to precipitate their intuition into the world of human thought, there must also be the steady development of the human mind so that it can grasp and apprehend what is projected, and in this too lies the hope of the race.

The final two paragraphs give us permission to fully embark on this probe as 'adventuring intuitives' without having debate about whether or not we are glamoured or deluded in our intention.  We strive for the summit and, after the attempt will not be disappointed if we find ourselves but a few steps further up our own particular mountain!

TAKE

This seems a strange word. Why, when we have done all the work of applying what has been given and demanding more, would we not take that which is offered? Once again the analogy with asking for financial help is relevant. Sometimes, those in need just will not let themselves take that which is offered to meet their need.

Perhaps there is a form of pride which mentally polarised humanity exhibits towards Hierarchy. They ( hierarchy ) stand willing to help with great love radiating from their open hearts and the fires of space dancing from their minds. Humanity hunkers down pulling the grimy rags of their outworn beliefs in closer, trying in vain to protect themselves from the great cosmic wind of Freedom which seeks nought but their liberation.

Let it not be said of us..........

Bruce