The Shamballa School, international residential spiritual school

LEO PROBE

The Planetary Centres

COMMENTARY & TECHNICAL REFERENCES:

keynote references:

"The keynote, therefore, of the Lord of the World is HUMANITY for it is the basis, the goal and the essential inner structure of all being. Humanity itself is the key to all evolutionary processes and to all correct understanding of the divine Plan, expressing in time and space the divine Purpose. Why HE chose that this should be so, we know not; but it is a point to be accepted and remembered in all study of [127] the Science of Impression because it is the factor that makes relationship and contact possible and it is also the source of all understanding. These are most difficult things to express and to enlarge upon, my brothers, and only the penetrating intuition can make these matters clearer to your avid and active intelligence". TEV 127]

The Great Word of our solar system keys in, if it might be so expressed, with other Words, and is but one Word of the sevenfold Word, known to that great Existence who stands in the same relation to the Solar Logos as the latter does to the Planetary Logos. The sacred Words of seven solar systems (of which ours is but one) make up this septenary sound, which vibrates at this time in the cosmic spheres. [IHS.160]

The basis of all manifested phenomena is the enunciated sound, or the Word spoken with power, that is, with the full purpose of the will behind it. Herein, as is known, lies the value of meditation, for meditation produces eventually that inner dynamic purpose and recollection, or that internal ideation which must invariably precede the uttering of any creative sound. When it is said that the Logos produced the worlds through meditation it means that within his own center of consciousness there was a period wherein he brooded over and meditated upon the purposes and plans he had in view; wherein he visualized to himself the entire world process as a perfected whole, seeing the end from the beginning and being aware of the detail of the consummated sphere. Then, when his meditation was concluded, and the whole completed as a picture before his inner vision, he brought into use a certain Word of Power which had been committed to him by the One about whom naught may be said, the Logos of the cosmic scheme of which our system is but a part. With cosmic and Logoic initiations we are not concerned, except in so far as the human initiations reflect their stupendous prototypes, but it is of interest to the student to realize that just as at each initiation some Word of Power is committed to the initiate, so similarly to the Logos was committed the great Word of Power which produced our solar system, that Word which is called the "Sacred Word," or AUM. It must be here remembered that this sound AUM is man's endeavor to reproduce on an infinitesimally small scale the cosmic triple sound whereby creation was made possible. [IHS.151]

At Shamballa, the Great Lives Who function there not only see manifestation whole and apart from all the limitations of time, but They feel all the major evolutionary impulses which are bringing the developing world into line with the divine Will. They embody those impulses not in terms of progressive movement, but in terms of one great divine and spiritual reaction. This idea can perhaps be best understood by you in terms of the Eternal AUM which is the symbol of the Eternal NOW. You have been told, and it has been demonstrated, that the AUM is composed of one major Sound, three minor sounds, and seven subsidiary vibratory tones. So it is with the Will of God which is embodied and held in synthesis by the Members of the Council Chamber. To Them, as They "hold the Will of God in solution, it is one clear note; as They see that Will in motion, it is three abiding chords, carrying outwards into all the worlds the Purpose of the ONE Who for aeons will abide; as They impel that Will to demonstrate, it is seven vibratory tones, drawing out into the reflected worlds the structure of the Plan. And thus the note, the chords and tone produce the Plan, reveal the Purpose and indicate God's Will." This is a quotation from certain of the ancient Archives which constitute the study of the Masters; they relate to the nature of Shamballa, its work and emanating energies.[EXH.534]

The cosmic Logos of our system works similarly through three major systems (of which ours is not one), utilizing seven solar systems (of which ours is one), for the distribution of His force and having myriads of sevenfold groups as the cells of His body. [T.C.F.353]

THE RAY LOGOI

commentary:

We know the ray Logoi work through their respective focal points (macrocosmic and microcosmic) and these, in the case of all Entities are ever the seven major or primary etheric centers. A great Ray Life passes these energies through its solar and planetary bodies of manifestation and thereby imparts them to all forms upon and within the various bodies. The ray energies, working on substance, produces the forms, and each subjective form, in its turn, produces the outer form. The Central Spiritual Sun is the source of the Seven Rays and of all forms of life in manifestation within the Central Sun and planets of each one of the star centres. The recipients of the radiations from the Cosmic Sun take the form and nature of the PrincipalRay Forces. The Master Hilarion teaches that we can attempt to visualize this process by imagining a seven spoked wheel with a central hub. He goes on to say that in the same manner as the spokes of a wheel reach the circumference or rim from the hub, the seven cosmic rays pass from the central vortex to the objective centres of the Central Suns, then to the seven appropriate planetary centers in each system, and thence to man, the human hierarchy. Embodying the power and potency of all the energies and forces in manifestation, that which we vaguely express by the words the "noumenon of electricity" is none other than the Great intra-cosmic Soul . The source of [Its] vibration is in the Central Sun and from that point commences to build a form for manifestation, the form of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, the One Cosmic Hierarchy or Lodge, the pattern for humanity. The [Absolute] Life of the Central Sun is in reality then, the [Incomprehensible] Light or energy of the Great intra-cosmic Soul. The soul of man is primarily a "reflection," so to speak, a beam of that Light, [the "uncreated beam"] clothed in energy of substance of lower vibratory rates. The human senses may be likened to receiving stations which catch those rays of light and translate them into terms which are comprehensible to man. When the spiritual Intuition has opened the avenue of perception in the mind of man, the [invisible intellectual] Light of the Central Sun will "reflect" an image of the truth to the physical brain. Thus, on the basis of strict esoteric principles, there is a direct line established from the Central Sun through the fields of spiritual as well as material life. We can imagine then, it is perfectly true that from each one of the Seven Cosmic Suns are radiated the streams of energy which supply life force and power of growth to each one of the planetary Logoi belonging to the respective star systems and that it is through their motion and in their passing that the ethers of intra-cosmic Space are thrown into specific mathematical rates of vibrations or waves. There is a perfect system of interchange and interaction between the seven streams of energy as they pass from the radiant centres of the seven [Laya] Suns to the various planetary bodies of their systems and thence to all the centres of life upon or within those bodies. Once again, the fundamental importance of the Septenary must be emphasised and the Occult fact that it takes, in Masonic symbology, seven Masons to form a Lodge. No human intellect can grasp the reason for the use of the numbers 3, 4, and 7 throughout every center of manifested life. All that we do know is that their use is the effect of an action of Universal Law, and must be satisfied with that for the present. We also know that the control of form through a septenate of energies, is an unalterable rule in the inner government of our Universe and of our solar system, as well as in the case of individual man. In our solar system therefore, we find the seven sacred planets which correspond to the seven individual force centres in man and these in their turn have higher correspondences and are ruled by the seven [Laya] Star-Centres in the Cosmic Great Body. In Esoteric Astrology, all roads lead to the Macrocosmic Logos through centres within centres and if you have found the real centre of anything, atom, animal, human, planet or star, you have found the Centre of All.

Spiral-Cyclic Ray Force

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The spiral-cyclic force demonstrates, as might be expected, in seven ways; of these, the three major methods of demonstration are symbolized in the Rod of Initiation of Sanat Kumara. The Rod most frequently recognized by men is that of the Hierophant, the Bodhisattva, which consists of the straight central serpent with the two others entwined around it, thus picturing, among other things:

a. The three outpourings,

b.The three worlds,

c.The spinal column and its channels,

or those main factors with which the initiate concerns himself. He has to understand somewhat the nature of matter and what is occultly involved in that expression, his own triple constitution, the three worlds in which he has to play his part, and the instrument which he has to use. [TCF1035]

The seven types of spiral-cyclic energy are suggestive of the nature of the planetary Logoi which they represent, and produce, therefore, the distinctions which exist between men; they are accountable for the nature of cycles, and this is a point oft overlooked. Students discuss the periods of the emergence of the Rays, setting arbitrary dates, such as 2500 years, for the manifestation of any particular ray. One ray does pass through its cycle in that length of time, but only one, the others being either longer or shorter. The difference has a great effect upon the egoic cycles, and is responsible for the length of time between incarnations. Some Egos cycle through their incarnations and their pralayas very rapidly; others spend untold aeons, and hence it is impossible to say that there are even "averages" connected with the appearance of Egos on the astral plane, for instance. This fact has bearing upon the statement of H. P. B. anent the Lodge effort each one hundred years. Under the particular type of cyclic force emanating from the Lodge, the high water mark of its activity is to be found once in every seven cycles. All that originates on that Ray is controlled by spiral-cyclic efforts based upon the number 10 and its multiples, and finding its highest cyclic vibration, as it happens, during the last [1037] quarter of each century. What our more modern students are apt to forget in this connection is that this activity is but the demonstration of one type of force out of seven possible and that it concerns primarily that group of adepts who are on that particular line of energy, and will necessarily affect greatly all disciples and people on a similar line. At the same time, the work it initiates is endorsed by the Lodge as a whole, for it is part of the force emanation of the planetary Logos. It is naturally of great importance owing to the fact that this ray-energy is that of one of the three major Rays; but it will be, in the equilibrising process, balanced by analogous cyclic emanatory activity from the two other major Rays.

These cycles will not coincide, for they are not all similar to the one hundred year spiral. Some idea as to the Mahachohan's cycle of emanatory impulses may be [1038] gathered by considering the dates of the foremost scientific discoveries since Plato's time; the cycles of the second ray may also be averaged by a summary of the appearances of the great Teachers down the ages. [circa 375 BC - founding of the Academy in the "Grove"]

The force emanations from the Manu, or those of the first Ray, are easily traced when the races are considered, and this has been done in the recognition of the races and subraces. What is oft overlooked is that each of these rays of energy demonstrates constructively, through the form-building agencies, and destructively through the ability of the force to destroy prior to building. Thus the cycles can be viewed from two angles.

Besides the fact that each ray period is sub-divided into seven sub-rays, we have also been taught that the spiral-cyclic ray activity must be viewed from two different angles or points of view, as each septenate, in reality, is dual.

"What is oft overlooked is that each of these rays of energy demonstrate constructively, through the form building agencies, and destructively through the ability of the force to destroy prior to building. Thus the cycles can be viewed from two angles." (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, pg. 1037-1038)

The nature of Ingoing & outgoing Ray cycles

commentary:

As accurate students know, the second fundamental of the Ageless Wisdom, the Law of Periodicity, involves the concept of duality. Its activity brings about the periodical appearing and disappearing of existences and is the cause of cyclic evolution. Each of the two major phases of spiral-cyclic ray activity, termed the Path of Outgoing and the Path of Ingoing, are divided into seven sub-ray periods.

1.Outgoing

a. Return. Appearance. Force manifestation.

b. Constructive form building agencies.

2. Ingoing

a. Withdrawal. Decline. Obscuration. Abstraction.

b. Destructive force prior to building.

Keep in mind the following During the period of the outgoing cycle, the ray energy initially demonstrates seven constructive sub-ray periods. The outgoing peak of the ray period occurs at the half-way point. At the mid-point, or half-way through its cycle the ray energy begins to curve in upon itself, decline and thus return. Thus, commences the period of ingoing activity with its seven sub-ray periods. During the period of decline the natural process of disintegration and wrecking begins. What immediately begins is the prompt destruction of crystallised, static and set forms. The cycle of withdrawal is one of abstraction out of the existing "fossilised" forms which were built during the previous constructive phase of ray activity. Thus, during the first half of the period, the ray Lives are directly involved in the vital process of energising and building approriate bodies, forms or vehicles through which to manifest. During the first phase of a ray period the outgoing Life is on an ascending scale, with its force being used in construction and increase. Then, half-way through its period, the age of retrogression commences and the ray Lives, having exhausted their strength commence with the work of decrease, destruction and decline. Incessantly ongoing, this perpetual process of building-wrecking-rebuilding successively re-enacts the drama of birth, death and resurrection or re-birth. The principle remains the same always so the process of building and wrecking, due to the alternate functions of the ray Lives as Creators and Destroyers, operates in an identical manner. thus evolve and proceed the cyclic waves of the Ray Emanations in the great tide of evolutionary process on Earth - in a double centrifugal and centripetal way - one in their ultimate essence, seven in their aspects. Each ray Live is life-giving and death-giving inasmuch as they build by aggregation the ephemeral vehicles ready to receive the soul and then, destroy and change the form, expelling the soul from the temporary bodies. the great ray Logoi therefore, both create and kill; they are self-generating and self-destroying both bringing into being abd annihilating all living bodies, equally generating life and death every second of space.

The numerical cycles of emanatory impulses of the three Hierarchical Lords are given below as follow:

Ray cycles of the 3 Lords

Manu 100 years

Bodhisattva 500 years

Mahachohan 900 years

references:

H. P. B. is right in his affirmation as far as the impulse of the first ray is concerned; but his followers are not right, in so far as they overlook and negate the six other types of impulses, of equal or of more importance, which may emanate cyclically from the Lodge, and which will meet with response from those who vibrate to that particular type of energy.

It is at this point that students in one branch of our theosophical movement must recognize the fact that just as H. P. B. came forth on a cyclic tide of energy to destroy the limiting forms to be found in the world of science and religion, so his work must fit in with other force emanations, such as the constructive work of the second ray in conjunction with the energy of the seventh at this time.

When students learn to blend the one hundred year cycles of the first type of energy with the equally powerful impulses from the second Ray and the third, we shall then have a cessation of many controversies. No great impulse will come from the Lodge along the line of the first Ray of Will or Power till the close of a century. One such impulse along another line of force came when the discovery of the nature of the atom was arrived at through the study of electricity, and of radioactive substances, and an impulse from the second aspect is imminent. It is not safe for students with limited vision to dogmatize anent this question of cycles. Apart from the cyclic impulses continuously going forth, overlapping and superseding, and intermingling with each other, there are many which we might call lesser impulses (and the cycle of one hundred years to which H. P. B. refers [1039] is but one of the lesser impulses. There is a one thousand year cycle of greater moment). There are vaster cycles, of 2500 years, of 7,000 years, of 9,000 years, of 15,000 years, and many others which only advanced initiates know of or can follow; these can break in upon any of the lesser impulses, and can be seen appearing, unexpectedly, as far as average man's knowledge is concerned, and yet they are but the returning impulses set in cyclic motion perhaps thousands of years ago.

The Seven Planetary Ray Periods

Ray I..........1,000 years

Ray II.........5,000 years

Ray III.......9,000 years

Ray IV.......2,500 years

Ray V.........3,500 years

Ray VI........1,500 years

Ray VII......7,000 years

The Seven Racial Ray Periods

Ray I.........100 years

Ray II........500 years

Ray III.......900 years

Ray IV.......250 years

Ray V........350 years

Ray VI.......150 years

Ray VII......700 years

Systemic Source of the Seven Rays

the seven solar systems:

Rule X. TWM

When, through meditation and service, plus the discipline of the lunar bodies, a man comes consciously and definitely under his soul ray, then he comes as definitely under the influence of one or other of the seven solar systems, as they focus their energy through one or other of the constellations and [TWM Rule X 438] subsequently one or other of the seven sacred planets. Eventually, there will be twelve sacred planets, corresponding to the twelve constellations, but the time is not yet. Our solar system, as you know, is one of seven. When a man has arrived at this point in evolution, birth months, mundane astrology, and the influences which play upon the form aspect become of less and less importance. This circle of solar systems affects paramountly the soul and it becomes the focal point of spiritual energies. This is the problem of the soul on its own plane, - responsiveness to these types of energy, and, of them, the personality is totally unaware.

The signs which fall therefore into the four categories of earth, water, fire and air, concern primarily the man who lives below the diaphragm, and who utilizes the lower four centers: - the center at the base of the spine, the sacral center, the solar plexus and the spleen. The inner group of seven major or systemic energies produce their effect upon the man who is living above the diaphragm, and work through the seven representative centers in the head. Four of them focus through the throat center, the heart center, the ajna and head centers. Three are held latent in the region of the head centers (the thousand petalled lotus) and only enter into functioning activity after the third initiation. It will be evident therefore how complicated from the standpoint of the horoscope (as well as of the individual problem) is this meeting of the energies of two types of constellations in the case of the man who is neither purely human nor purely spiritual. [TWM438]

note: The two types of constellations, ie., the 7 solar systems and the 12 zodiacal constellations.

Commentary

The seven solar systems revolve around the central spiritual sun, each maintaining its respective orbital revolution position and numerical orbit. Keep in mind; theÂ inner systemic wheel of seven inner solar Logoi revolve within the outer circle of 12 constellations. The Central Spiritual Sun is the common or identical center for both wheels. From D.K.:

If this is not the case then attempt to explain away this passage!

One of the most esoteric cycles is based upon certain conjunctions and respective positions of Virgo and the Pleiades." (Vol. II, 454) [658]

and from the S.D.:

"The sun (i.e. the solar system) has Alcyone in the Pleiades for the center of its orbit." (S.D. Vol. I, 545) [670]

They are thus considered (Alcyone, in particular) as the central point around which our universe of fixed stars revolves." (Vol. II, 582)

The astronomical origin or source of the seven types of spiral-cyclic ray energy I specifically link to the mathematics incidental to the cosmic motion of the seven solar Logoi as they sweep around the Grand Cosmic Sun - Alcyone. It is illogical not to do so and cosmologicallyÂ and metaphysical unsound not to do so. The operation of the numerically controlled ray periods require cosmic motion as their basis.Â It takes our solar LogosÂ according to D.K. to take 250,000 years to make one complete revolution. As our systemÂ does so [It] spends 25,000 year in each sign of the zodiac [termed the cycle of the "greater zodiac]Â Â and maintains an interlude period between signs of 5,000 years. [these figures have been clearly given by D.K.]This is the higher correspondence to the cycles of 2,5000 years in each sign and the interlude calculation figure of 500 years inclidental to the "lesser zodiac" As our solar Logos does so. Every 25,000 years as our solar Logos changes zodiacal signs the ray charts and configuration change as well - hence, our ray charts as given by D.K. are only "good" for 25,000 years! Keep in mind; a Ray is a blend of the energies of the solar systems and the constellations. to refresh your memory please read read Proposition Two fromÂ D.K., [EA26]:

Proposition Two - Each one of the ray lives is the recipient and the custodian of energies coming from

1. The seven solar systems.

2. The twelve constellations.

What then, we might logically inquireÂ are the orbital periods of the other six solar Logoi as they too sweep around the Central Spiritual sun and appear to pass through the 12 signs of the "Greater Zodiac"? For each of the seven of the Solar Logoi, I offer the following set of figures which describe their orbital periods, transition periods through each sign and interlude period between any two signs. Please remember; occult ray figures are rounded off to allow for eccentricities and orbital deviations - the cosmic correspondence upon the "Higher Way" to "free will" in individual human beings.

Ray cycles of the solar Logoi through the Greater Zodiac

Ray I......................................Great Bear

orbital period............. ............1,000,000 years

transition period......................84,000 years

interlude period.......................20,000 years

Ray II....................................Sirius

orbital period.........................500,000 years

transition period.....................41,666 years

interlude period......................10,000 years

Ray III.................................Pleiades

orbital period........................90,000 years

transition period....................7,500 years

interlude period.....................1,800 years

Ray IV.................................Our sun

orbital period........................250,000 years

transitional period.................20,833 years

interlude period......................5,000 years

Ray V....................................Betelgeuse

orbital period.........................350,000 years

transitional period..................29,166 years

interlude period......................7,000 years

Ray VI..................................Antares

orbital period.........................150,000 years

transitional period..................12,500

interlude period......................3,000 years

Ray VII................................Draco

orbital period........................700,000 years

transition period....................58,333

interlude period.....................14,000 years

The total duration of each greater zodiacal ray cycle is figured through the addition of the transition figure with the interlude figure calculation and then the sum is rounded off! In other words, what we have therefore:

The seven zodiacal ray periods

Ray I..........100,000 years in each sign

Ray II.........50,000 years in each sign

Ray III........9,000 years in each sign

Ray IV........25,000 years in each sign

Ray V.........35,000 years in each sign

Ray VI........15,000 years in each sign

Ray VII.......70,000 years in each sign

Our Solar System:

The Rod of the cosmic Logos associated with our solar Logos is secreted in that central spot in the heavens around which our solar system revolves, and which is termed "the central spiritual sun."[IHS]

The Cosmos. Our solar system, with the Pleiades and one of the stars of the Great Bear, form a cosmic triangle, or an aggregation of three centers in the Body of HIM OF WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID. The seven stars in the constellation of the Great Bear are the correspondences to the seven head centers in the body of that Being, greater than our Logos. Again, two other systems, when allied with the solar system and the Pleiades, make a lower quaternary which are eventually synthesized into the seven head centers in much the same way as in the human being after the fourth initiation. [TCF183]

1. The base of the spine.

2. The solar plexus.

3. The heart.

4. The throat.

The center in the cosmic body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID of which our solar Logos is the embodied force is the heart center. [T.C.F.512]

It is interesting here to note that when the solar Logos is being manasically impelled to work out some purpose of His greater Source (THE ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID

The originating source of manasic activity in a solar system is that great cosmic Entity Who embodies our solar Logos as a center in His Body along with six other solar Logoi Who are, in Their totality, His seven centers. [TCF394]

In His turn, the Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centers in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID." [TCF.572]

Each of the two systems, [our system and the Sirian system] as regards its internal economy, is independent in time and space, or (in other words), in manifestation. We have practically no effect on our parent system, the reflex action is so slight as to be negligible, but very definite effects are felt in our system through causes arising in Sirius. [T.C.F.570]

"Gradually, by dint of hard effort, certain Masters have qualified themselves, or are qualifying themselves, to take the place of the original members of the group, permitting of their return to a cosmic center around which our system, and the greater system of Sirius revolve." [IHS.190]

note: we are independent systems in time and space both revolving around the cosmic center - the Central spiritual sun, ie., Alcyone in the Pleiades.

"This particular group of devas emanate from a great force center which we generalize by calling it by the name of the sun Sirius."

Reference to Sirius as a constellation:

The cosmic mental plane, and therefore with the constellation Sirius. [TCF904]

This great Sun (Sirius) which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man, has a peculiar part to play where our Earth is concerned." (R&I 414)

"The consciousness of the cosmic mental plane is the goal of attainment for our solar Logos and the Sirian Logos is to our solar Logos what the human Ego (or soul) is to the human personality." (C.F. 592)

in the alignment of our entire solar system with the system of Sirius lies a still more remote goal. It is a point far ahead in time, but holds hid the secret of the greater cycle.

This great Sun which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man, has a peculiar part to play where our Earth is concerned. It might be considered by those with a sound sense of occult proportion that our tiny planet with its planetary Logos (one of the "imperfect Gods" of The Secret Doctrine) would be too small to enter in the slightest way into the consciousness of that Supreme Illumined Entity Who is greater even than our Solar Logos. [414] Such, however, is the case. There is a relationship of very ancient date between our Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, and the Lord of Sirius, and this exists in spite of the fact that our planet is not a sacred planet. It might be added that our planet is, in the immediate cycle, owing to the factors I have lately considered with you, rapidly passing out of this category, and on the inner planes and subjectively considered is a sacred planet; the effects of this transition from non-sacred to sacred have not fully demonstrated themselves objectively. The mystery of this relationship is partially revealed at one of the higher initiations and it is then realized by the initiates that there is a good and adequate reason for the relation and that the following esoteric events, relations and happenings are simply consequences:

On the cosmic Logos:

Some glimmer of the stupendous objective magnitude of the cosmic Logos may be dimly sensed when it is realized that the Great Wheel of the twelve whirling constellations constitutes a special revolving unity in our universe. The Tibetan states this very clearly in volume II of his Ray Treatise, Chapter I. The Egoic Ray , d. Astrology and the New Groups:

"It must be remembered that, from certain angles, the circle of twelve signs or constellations constitutes a special unity which revolves within our universe of heavens as our planet revolves in the center of our circle of influences." ( Esoteric Psychology II , pg.196)

In The Rays and the Initiations, Part Two, Introductory Remarks, he states:

"The zodiacal wheel is itself essentially a cosmic center; it is a twelve petalled lotus, but it is a twelve petalled lotus within the thousand-petalled lotus of an unknown cosmic Entity, the One referred to in my earlier books as the One About Whom Naught May Be Said."

Commentary

It is of course, immediately apparent that the power of man to conceive of the essential unity of the Zodiac as a single Logoic Unit revolving in space is not as yet great enough. The interaction and the complexity is of vast proportions and man can do no more than theoretically accept the Occult facts and leave full explanation until his consciousness is of greater scope. It must be remembered therefore, from the point of view of the "High One", the Ray Logoi appear to pass through the twelve constellations of the Great Zodiacal Wheel as they sweep around the Grand Cosmic Sun. It is the sweep of the Seven Primary Ray Logoi through the twelve constellations of the Great Wheel which constitutes the cycle of the "Greater Zodiac". This means, of course, the two wheels, the "wheel within the wheel", share the identical Grand Cosmic Center. Furthermore, this indicates to us, that the twelve [outer] subordinate powers are each subordinate in turn to one or other of the seven [inner] "Mystery Gods". The 11th Stanza of Dzyan, as given in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire confirms the notion of the wheel within the wheel. It states:

"The Wheel of Life turns within the Wheel of Outer Form." Stanza XI

"The wheel that is not glimpsed moves in rapid revolution within the slower outer case, till it wears out the form". Stanza XI

The meaning of the above quoted Stanza is clear and the Occult facts must be borne in mind. It must be emphasized then, that each one of the rays is the recipient and custodian of the energies coming from the inner circle of the trans-solar systems and the outer circle of twelve constellations and are consequently animated and colored by qualities from both Wheels. It is this blend of dual energies impacting upon and conditioning substance which produce the subjective forms in the relatively noumenal universe which in turn, create the outer forms in the phenomenal universe. The seven rays therefore, are themselves influenced by and under the astrological control of the twelve constellations whose energies are contacted by the trans-solar systems during the course of their journey through the cycle of the Greater Zodiac. The "High One" therefore, is chief of the twelve Great Gods, or zodiacal constellations and also the seven "Mystery Gods", or [Laya] Star-Centers of the Ray Logoi. The Central Spiritual Sun is then, the subject or Body anointed by the Great Breath, or the "High One" - surrounded by the twelve subordinate powers, also subordinate, in turn, to each of the seven Ray Logoi. These Higher Ones, the (12 +7 = 19) are the Cosmocrators, the fabricators of our Universe and hold within Themselves the astronomical and astrological keys opening the gate leading to the mysteries of Theogony. In conjunction or sygyzy with the Three Aspects of the Central Spiritual Sun they produce the Mystical Number of the Adept, the Sacred 22. In Esoteric astrology the two wheels, the inner and invisible wheel of seven and the outer and visible wheel of twelve are the double links of one and the same Great Life. This "Life" is the "High One", or the Great Intra-Cosmic Logos - i.e., Spirit and Matter, symbolized by the two wheels, inseparable from each other. Thus, there is but one Absolute Basis, as H.P.B. states, in the cosmico-physical sense, from, on, and in which, proceed the cyclic individual Evolutions on the plane of Universal Manifestation during the active period of Creation. Accordingly, the genesis of the host of Ray Logoi takes rise in, and from the "Hub" of the Great Wheel, the Central Spiritual Sun, the One Universal, Immutable, Eternal and Absolute Unity.

I desire first of all to speak of the Ashram as a whole, constituted of many Ashrams and creating an "invoking area" of relationship for the supreme Head of the Ashram, Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World. I seek to enter into no discussion of this leading Life of our entire planet. He is to a still greater Being, the One referred to elsewhere as "the One about Whom naught may be said," what the vehicle of a Master in physical incarnation is to Him, and on a less accurate basis, what your personality is to you; it is an expression of the soul or of the Monad when a disciple has attained initiate-consciousness. All the qualities, the love and the purpose of a supreme Entity, referred to in The New Testament as the "Unknown God," are focused in Sanat Kumara. [R&I.367]

reference to the Great Bear, Sirius and the Pleiades as "solar bodies".

"These three groups of solar bodies (The Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius) are of paramount influence where the spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned. Just as in the human atom, the spiral activity is egoic and controlled from the egoic body, so in connection with the solar system these three groups are related to the Logoic Spiritual Triad - atma-buddhi-manas - and their influence is dominant in connection with solar incarnation, with solar evolution and with solar progress." (C.F. 1058)

Great Bear........Atma

Pleiades............Buddhi

Sirius...............Mahat

This energy which impinges upon the solar sphere, and is thence distributed to all parts of the entire system, emanates from three cosmic centers, and, therefore, is triple during this particular cycle.

From the sevenfold great Bear.

From the Sun Sirius.

From the Pleiades.

Lying behind all the many interlocking triangles in our solar system and conditioning them to a very large extent (though today more potentially than expressively) are three energies coming from three major constellations. They are the emanations from the Great Bear, from the Pleiades and from Sirius. It might be pointed out that: [EA.416]

Ray I

"The energies coming from the Great Bear are related to the will or purpose of the solar Logos and are to this great Being what the monad is to man. This is a deep mystery and one which even the highest initiate cannot yet grasp. Its sevenfold unified energies pass through Shamballa."

Ray II

The energies coming from the sun, Sirius, are related to the love-wisdom aspect or to the attractive power of the solar Logos, to the soul of that Great Being. This cosmic soul energy is related to the Hierarchy. You have been told that the great White Lodge on Sirius finds its reflection and a mode of spiritual service and outlet in the great White Lodge of our planet, the Hierarchy.

Ray III

The energies coming from the Pleiades, an aggregation of seven energies, are connected with the active intelligent aspect of logoic expression, and influence the form side of all manifestation. They focus primarily through Humanity.

I would like also to emphasize - perhaps unnecessarily - that Sirius, the Great Bear and the Pleiades work through the medium of the twelve constellations, pouring their influences through nine of them in particular, but that these major constellations are not part of the zodiac with which we are concerned. They, with the seven solar systems of which ours is one, are the ten constellations connected with a still greater zodiac which is not conditioned by the numerical significance of the number twelve. Hence ten is regarded as the number of perfection. There is confusion in the minds of some of the less learned students (astrologically considered) on this point. [E.A.112]

What are the ten systems - the three and the seven - of which our solar system is one? Must we look for the major three within the seven, or extraneously? [T.C.F.354]

The three major Rays, being dual, are their own sufficient explanation. They are at present the mode of expression of the three aspects, and demonstrate under their appropriate Logoi, Who manipulate world affairs through the three departments, of which the rulers on our planet are the Lord Maitreya, the Manu, and the Mahachohan. [T.C.F.599]

Each Heavenly Man of a scheme is a focal point for the force and power and vibratory life of seven stupendous ENTITIES in exactly the same sense [416] as the seven centers in a human being are the focal points for the influence of a corresponding heavenly Prototype. Our Heavenly Man, therefore, is esoterically allied to one of the seven solar systems, [T.C.F.416]

It must be remembered that the possible cosmic streams of energy available for use in our solar system are seven in number, of which three are major. These three vary during vast and incalculable cycles.[TCF.1182]

This "control of form through a septenate of energies" (as it is defined in the Old Commentary) is an unalterable rule in the inner government of our universe and of our particular solar system, as well as in the case of inpidual man. There are, for instance, in our solar system, seven sacred planets which correspond to the seven inpidual force centers in man, the seven solar systems, of which [12] our solar system is one, and in their turn the seven energy centers of the One to Whom I have referred in my other books as the One About Whom Naught Can Be Said.

We are, therefore, concerned with the etheric body of the planet, of the solar system, and of the seven solar systems of which our system is one, as well as with the general and vaster etheric body of the universe in which we are located. I employ the word "located" here with deliberation and because [10] of the inferences to which it leads. This vaster field, as well as the smaller and more localized fields, provides the medium of transmission for all the energies which play upon and through our solar system, our planetary spheres and all forms of life upon those spheres. It forms one unbroken field of activity in constant ceaseless motion - an eternal medium for the exchange and transmission of energies. [EA.10]

"The solar system is (from the higher cosmic planes) seen as a vast blue lotus and so on down the scale; even the tiny atom of substance can be so considered... The solar system is a twelve-petalled lotus, each petal being formed of forty-nine lesser petals. [TCF.1018]

note: [12X49 = 514]Â etheric petals total in our solar logoic center.

our sun is the embodiment of the heart, or love aspect, of the Logos (Who is Himself the heart of ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID) [T.C.F.156]

The center in the cosmic body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID of which our solar Logos is the embodied force is the heart center. Here we have one of the clues to the mystery of electricity. The sacred planets, with certain allied etheric spheres within the ring-pass-not, are parts of that heart center, and are 'petals in the Lotus,' or in the heart center of that great unknown Existence Who stands to the solar Logos as He in His turn stands to the Heavenly [512] Men Who are His centers, and specially as He stands to the particular Heavenly Man Who is the embodied force of the logoic Heart center. Therefore, it will be apparent to the careful student that the entire force and energy of the system and its life quality will be that which we call (having perforce to use handicapping, misleading words) LOVE. This will account for the fact that the force that plays through that cosmic heart center will be the paramount force found in the manifestation of a solar Logos, and of a Heavenly Man; it will likewise produce its microcosmic analogy, and reflective reactions; hence the relative importance of the astral permanent atom within the causal periphery. It is in the direct line of active force emanating from the cosmic existence, and passing to it in ever lessening degree, via the solar Logos in His system of love, and the planetary Logos within a scheme, the Dragon of Wisdom-Love.[T.C.F.512]

They are, therefore, one and all an expression of His love nature, and it is for this reason that buddhi is found at the heart of the tiniest atom, or what we call in this [1226] system, electric fire. For the positive central life of every form is but an expression of cosmic buddhi, and the downpouring of a love which has its source in the Heart of the Solar Logos; this is itself an emanating principle from the ONE ABOVE OUR LOGOS, HE OF WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID. [T.C.F.1226]

The seven groups of "solar bodies" or Logoi

Ray I.................Great Bear.............Head

Ray II................Sirius......................Ajna

Ray III...............Pleiades..................Throat

Ray IV...............Our son..................Heart

Ray V................Betelgeuse.............Solar Plexus

Ray VI...............Antares..................Sacral

Ray VII..............Draco.....................Base of Spine

The seven planetary bodies

Ray I..................Vulcan.....................Head

Ray II.................Jupiter....................Heart

RayIII.................Saturn....................Throat

Ray IV.................Mercury.................Ajna

Ray V..................Venus....................Solar Plexus

Ray VI.................Neptune.................Sacral

Ray VII................Uranus...................Base of Spine

note: this set of correspondences andÂ correlations to be used in conjunction with the Law of Supplementary Seven, Rule Eight: i.e. "the seven sacred planets". The Rays and the Initiations.

technical references:

The First Ray of Will, Purpose and Power

Source: The Great Bear

Center: Head

The seven stars in the constellation of the Great Bear are the correspondences to the seven head centers in the body of that Being, greater than our Logos. [TCF183]

Seven stars of the Great Bear are the originating Sources of the seven rays of our solar system. The seven Rishis (as They are called) of the Great Bear express Themselves through the medium of the seven planetary Logoi Who are Their Representatives and to Whom They stand in the relation of prototype. The seven Planetary Spirits manifest through the medium of the seven sacred planets.

The Seven Stars of the Great Bear

References in The Secret Doctrine and A Treatise on Cosmic Fire

1."The seven Rishis are the Regents of the seven stars of the Great Bear, and, therefore, of the same nature as the Angels of the Planets or the seven great planetary Spirits." (S.D. Vol. II, 332, Note)

2."It is the seven Rishis who mark the time and the duration of events in our septenary life cycle. They are as mysterious as their supposed wives, the Pleiades." (S.D. Vol. II, 579)

3."The first 'seven stars' are not planetary. They are the leading stars of seven constellations which turn [656] around with the Great Bear (S.D. Vol. III, 195)

4."In Egypt, the Great Bear was the constellation...called the Mother of the Revolutions, and the Dragon with seven heads was assigned to Saturn, who was called the Dragon of Life." (S.D. Vol. III, 195)

5."In the Book of Enoch, the Great Bear is called Leviathan." (S.D. Vol. III, 195)

6."Our solar system with the Pleiades and one of the stars of the Great Bear form a cosmic triangle or an aggregation of three centers in the Body of the One about Whom Naught may be Said...The seven stars of the Great Bear correspond to the seven head centers of this Great Entity." (C.F. 182)

7."Vibrations (energies) come to our solar system from the seven Rishis of the Great Bear and primarily from those two who are the Prototypes of the seventh and fifth Rays or planetary Logoi." (C.F. 553)

8."Cosmic Avatars 'represent embodied force from Sirius, and from that one of the seven stars of the Great Bear which is ensouled by the Prototype of the Lord of the third major Ray, the third planetary Logos'." (C.F. 723)

9."Cosmic evil from the standpoint of our planet consists in the relation between that spiritual, intelligent Unit or Rishi of the Superior Constellation - the informing Life of one of the seven stars of the Great Bear and our planetary prototype and one of the forces of the Pleiades...In this relation, at present lacking perfect adjustment, lies hid the mystery of cosmic evil...When the heavenly triangle is duly equilibrated and the force circulates freely through one of the stars of the Great Bear, the Pleiad involved and the planetary [657] scheme concerned, then cosmic evil will be negated and a relative perfection achieved." (C.F. 990)

10."Great waves of energy sweep cyclically through the entire solar system from the seven stars of the Great Bear. The strength of these vibrations depends upon the closeness of the connection and the accuracy of the alignment between any particular Heavenly Man and His Prototype." (C.F. 1052)

The seven stars in the constellation of the Great Bear are the correspondences to the seven head centers in the body of that Being, greater than our Logos. [TCf.183]

"When the heavenly Man (or Logos) first assumed the form of the Crown [Kether] and identified himself with Sephira, he caused seven splendid Lights to emanate from it [the Crown]" (SD.Vol.2. pg.151)

Prajapatis. The Progenitors; the givers of life to all on this earth. They are seven and then ten corresponding to the seven and ten Sephiroth. Cosmically, they are the seven Rishis of the Great Bear; systemically they are the seven planetary Logoi, and from the standpoint of our planet they are the seven Kumaras.

See S. D., I, 109, 122, 459, 661; II, 33, 36; footnote 80.

Each of these seven Rays, coming from the Great Bear, are transmitted into our solar system through the medium of three constellations and their ruling planets.

[EA.86]

I would here point out to you the close connection existing between the seven Rishis of the Great Bear and the seven Heavenly Men. The seven Rishis of the Great Bear are to Them what the Monad is to the evolving human unit. [TCF.273]

The seven Heavenly Men are in the line of force from:

The cosmic buddhic plane (the seven Rishis of the Great Bear). [TCF.630]

In the Secret Doctrine the Heavenly Men are spoken of as:

Agents of creation. They are the totality of manifestation. - S. D., I, 470.

They are precosmic. - S. D., I, 470.

They are the sumtotal of solar and lunar entities. - S. D., I, 152, 470. Compare II, 374.

They are the seven Biblical Archangels.

They are the seven Forces or creative Powers.

They are the seven Spirits before the Throne.

They are the seven Spirits of the Planets - S. D., I, 472, 153.

In Their totality They are the Secret Unpronounceable Name. - S. D., I, 473.

They are the collective Dhyan Chohans. - S. D., I, 477.

They are the seven Kumaras. The seven Rishis. - S. D., I, 493. III, 196, 327.

They are the Sons of Light - S. D., I, 521, 522.

They are the Hierarchy of creative Powers - S. D., I, 233.

They are the veiled synthesis. - S. D., I, 362.

They are our own planetary deities. - S. D., I, 153.

They are all men, the product of other worlds. - S. D., I, 132.

They are closely connected with the seven stars of the Great Bear. - S. D., I, 488. S. D., II, 332. II 579, 668. S. D., III, 195

They are symbolized by circles - S. D., II, 582. I

They are collectively the fallen Angels. - S. D., II, 284, 541.

"... I would point out that these rays have a close connection with the seven stars of the Great Bear (again always the four and the three as a secondary differentiation) and to the seven Sisters, the Pleiades. The first constellation is the agent of positive force to the planetary Logos and the other the relayer of the negative aspect. There is, therefore, a direct interchange of energies between the lives of the seven planetary Logoi and the stupendous and unfathomable Lives Who inform these major constellations. Great interlocking triangles of force can be found existing between the seven planets and these two groups of seven stars each. It will eventually be discovered that the innermost secret of astrological deduction in the planetary sense is connected with these "sacred triangles," and they are - in their turn - represented by the triangles (shifting and changing) which can be constructed in connection with the seven centers." [EA.32]

The seven stars of the Great Bear or Ursa Major are involved in an intricate relation with Ursa Minor and the Pleiades. With this we shall not deal. This major [608] triplicity of constellations has a peculiar relation to that Great Being to Whom I have at times referred as the One About Whom Naught Can Be Said. All that can be hinted at is that these three galaxies of stars are the three aspects of that Indescribable, Absolute Monad, the Ineffable Cause of the seven solar systems - of which ours is one. [EA.608]

We have also brought into relation to our solar system another constellation, called the Little Bear which is a reflection of or a corollary to the major energies of its greater prototype, Ursa Major, the Great Bear. These facts contain a great mystery connected with the interrelation of Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and the Pleiades; they constitute one of the greatest and more important of the triplicities to be found in the heavens as far as we have astronomically ascertained the nature of our immediate universe. This is a perfectly unimportant piece of information as far as you are concerned and is only of significance to initiates of the fourth degree. It serves, nevertheless, to add its evidence to the essential integrity and interlocking dependencies of the universe. [EA.202]

Should the brain suffice to hold the concept, thus [515] is the process also on cosmic levels for such high existences as the seven Rishis of the Great Bear, and that still greater Being, the ONE ABOUT WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID.[TCF.515]

This great Life, the Ancient of Days, the Lord of the world, Sanat Kumara, the Eternal Youth, the planetary Logos - His many names are of relative unimportance - is the only Existence upon our planet Who is capable of responding to and carrying out the objectives of the solar Logos. He, in His turn, is the only one in, our solar system capable of responding to the sevenfold Emanating Cause, expressing Itself through the Great Bear or Ursa Major. [EA.613]

His activities will then be concerned with the relation of the energies of the Great Bear to the Pleiades, and their dual relationship (a higher correspondence to atma-buddhi) to the solar system and only incidentally to our Earth. Great is the interlocking, the interdependence and the interpenetration! [R&I.405]

When pided in the manifested sphere, to paraphrase H.P.B., in esoteric rendering, one will find the 3 and 7 which yield 10, or the figure X manifested and differentiated, the triple hypostases and appearance of the Seven Great Mystery Gods. Just as the Absolute Monad is the sum total of the three aspects and the seven Principles, so the Logoic Head Centre is a replica of this and has within its sphere of influence seven other centres with itself for the synthesis. These seven centres are likewise pided into three major and four minor centres. The internal constitution of the Great Bear with its triad of three handle stars and Square of four cup stars portrays a perfect picture of the union of the Three and the Four or the Male - female First Born One. On the manifested plane, the Head Centre is a replica of the cosmic Monad and is likewise sevenfold. As just stated, it is pided into three major centres which correspond to the three rays of aspect and four minor centres related to the rays of Attribute. There is some difference in the rays assigned to this great Entity and those assigned the planetary Schemes or to the human form. Clearly evident in the internal structure of the Great Bear, as would be expected and what does not constitute a surprise though, is the primary blueprint of numbers, 3, 4, and 7, in their special combination, the sacred numbers of Life, Light and Union in this our special Mahamanvantara. As related to the Head Centres of the Cosmic Logos, the stars of Ursa Major represent successively:

The Major Three

Star One

Benetnasch

Head

First Ray

Star Two

Mizar

Ajna

Second Ray

Star Three

Alioth

Throat

Third Ray

The Minor Four

Star Four

Megrez

Heart

Fourth Ray

Star Five

Duhbe

Solar Plexus

Fifth Ray

Star Six

Merak

Sacral

Sixth Ray

Star Seven

Phegda

Basic

Seventh Ray

In the Universal System of sidereal symbology, the first Ray constellation, the initial form of the "Father in Heaven", is seen to be figured by the seven large stars of the Great Bear. These stars are the spiritual and sidereal model of the primordial mysteries instituted according to the pine Imperium of the Seven Ray Logoi. The Cosmic Ray-Regent, known as the Great Bear, stands as one Cosmical Legislative Body within the Great Body of the Macrocosmic Logos. The seven stars are the correspondences to the seven head centres in the Crown Centre. It is the Seven Rishis who are the [adhikarapurushas], the office-bearers in the Inner Goverment of the Universe of the different manvantaras.

All that originates on the first Ray is controlled by spiral-cyclic impulses based on the number 10 and its multiples such as 100, 1,000, 100,000 and 1,000,000. These figures are given out by A.A.B., on page 265 of Esoteric Psychology I.

The Second Ray of Love-Wisdom

Source: Sirius

Center: Ajna

In His turn, the Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centers in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID.[T.C.F.572]

"The energies coming from the sun, Sirius, are related to the love-wisdom aspect or to the attractive power of the solar Logos, to the soul of that Great Being. This cosmic soul energy is related to the Hierarchy. You have been told that the great White Lodge on Sirius finds its reflection and a mode of spiritual service and outlet in the great White Lodge of our planet, the Hierarchy." [EA.416]

Sirius. "This is the great star of initiation because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of pinity) 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."Â [EA198]

Sirius - The Star of Sensitivity - governing the Hierarchy. [E.A.198]

"Sirius - working in a sevenfold manner through the seven rays and their seven groups as these constitute the active Hierarchy".Â [EA.200]

"the great White Lodge on Sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great White Lodge on Earth" [EA350]

"It might be profitable to you to bear in mind at this point what I have often told you, that the great White Lodge on [350] Sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great White Lodge on Earth, of which modern Masonry is the distorted reflection, just as the personality is a distorted reflection of the soul." [EA.348]

"The first four initiations of the solar system correspond to the four "initiations of the Threshold," prior to [18] the first cosmic initiation. The fifth initiation corresponds to the first cosmic initiation, that of "entered apprentice" in Masonry; and makes a Master an "entered apprentice" of the Lodge on Sirius. The sixth initiation is analogous to the second degree in Masonry, whilst the seventh initiation makes the Adept a Master Mason of the Brotherhood on Sirius.[IHS.18]

"These ancient Mysteries were originally given to humanity by the Hierarchy, and were - in their turn - receivedÂ by the Hierarchy from the Great White Lodge on Sirius. They contain the clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers and in words; they veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing for him in rite and ritual the long, long path which he must tread." [EA.331]

"Masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time and long antedating the Jewish dispensation, was organized under direct Sirian influence and modeled as far as possible on certain Sirian institutions and bearing a slight resemblance also to our hierarchical life - as seen in the light of the Eternal Now. Its "Blue Lodge" with its three degrees is related to the three major groups of Lives on Sirius, for there are there no kingdoms of nature, such as we possess; these groups receive all Those Who choose the fourth Path, and train Them in the mode of existence and the type of livingness which is found on Sirius. This will make it plain to you that the least developed of the Sirian Lives are - from our standpoint - all of Them initiates of very high degree. Masonry is, therefore, connected in a peculiar way with the fourth Path. Down the ages, the Masonic tradition has been preserved, changing its nomenclature from time to time, reinterpreting its Words of Power, and consequently getting further and further removed from its original beauty and intent."

[R&I.417]

"The influences of Sirius, three in number, are focused in Regulus, which is, as you know, a star of the first magnitude and which is frequently called "the heart of the Lion." There is more real occultism hidden in the names given to the various stars by astronomers down the ages than has yet been realized, and here you have a case in point." [EA.300]

"A Master, therefore, is one who has taken the seventh planetary initiation, the fifth solar initiation, and the first Sirian or cosmic initiation." [IHS.18]

[AN] value of SiriusÂ =Â [95] .Â Number of stars in Leo according to AAB. is 95. [Labor of Hercules. Labor V.]

[RAN] value of Sirius = [5] The Sacred Number of the Second Ray.

"First and foremost is the energy or force emanating from the sun Sirius. If it might be so expressed, the energy of thought, or mind force, in its totality, reaches the solar system from a distant cosmic center via Sirius. Sirius acts as the transmitter, or the focalizing center, whence emanate those influences which produce self-consciousness in man. During initiation, by means of the Rod of Initiation (acting as a subsidiary transmitter and as a powerful magnet) this energy is momentarily intensified, and applied to the centers of the initiate with terrific force; were it not that the Hierophant and the two sponsors of the initiate pass it primarily through their bodies, it would be more than he could stand. This increase of mind energy results in an expansion and an apprehension of the truth as it is, and is lasting in its effects. It is felt primarily in the throat center, the great organ of creation through sound." [IHS.99]

"Each one of us, in due process of evolution, forms part of one of the Heavenly Men, Who Themselves form theÂ seven centers in that greater Heavenly Man, the Logos. Yet, though we are merged with the whole, we do not lose our identity, but forever remain separated units of consciousness, though one with all that lives or is. In like manner our Logos loses not His identity, even though He forms part of the Consciousness of the Logos of Sirius. In His turn, the Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centers in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID."Â [TCF.572]

The Intermediate Law of Karma. - There is also an intermediate law, which is the synthetic law of the system of Sirius. This law is called by the generic term, the Law of Karma, and really predicates the effect the Sirian system has on our solar system. Each of the two systems, as regards its internal economy, is independent in time and space, or (in other words), in manifestation. We have practically no effect on our parent system, the reflex action is so slight as to be negligible, but very definite effects are felt in our system through causes arising in Sirius. [TCF.570]Â

The system of the Sirian Logos is on the cosmic mental plane, and in a subtle way, incomprehensible to us, our Logos, with His system, forms a part of a still greater Logos. This does not involve loss of identity, though the matter is too abstruse to express more adequately. It is in this analogy that the basic idea can be found of all teaching given out about the Grand Heavenly Man. The whole conception of these laws is bound up in this idea. We have the three laws of the cosmic higher planes, holding in a synthesis of beauty the greater and the lesser system. Next we have the great law of Sirius, the Law of Karma, on the third subplane of the cosmic mental plane, which law really controls our Logos, and His actions, in the same way as the ego - in due course of evolution - controls the human personality.[TCF.572]

"We need to remember that, under the Law of Correspondences, we shall have a relationship in the Cosmos, similar to that existing in the microcosm between the ego and the personality. The suggestion holds much that we might consider with benefit. We must not, however, carry the analogy too far; as we have not yet evolved to where we have planetary consciousness, still less systemic, how can we really expect even to conceive of the A B C of cosmic truth? Just broad hints, wide conceptions, and generalities, are as yet possible. Of one thing we can be sure, and that is that identity ever remains." [TCF.572]

"This particular group of devas emanate from a great force center which we generalize by calling it by the name of the sun Sirius."

ReferenceÂ to Sirius as a constellation:

The cosmic mental plane, and therefore with the constellation Sirius. [TCF904]

This great Sun (Sirius) which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man, has a peculiar part to play where our Earth is concerned." (R&I 414)

(LOM) Letter I: alignment of Ego with the personality personality:

Further still the alignment may be progressed: - in the alignment of our entire solar system with the system of Sirius lies a still more remote goal. It is a point far ahead in time, but holds hid the secret of the greater cycle.

From AAB in the Labor V of Hercules:

"In Canis Major we find Sirius, the Dog Star, called in many old books "the leader of the entire heavenly host", for it is ten or twelve times brighter than any other star of the first magnitude. Sirius has always been associated with great heat, hence we have the phrase of "the dog days" in the middle of the summer, when the heat is supposed to be greatest. From the standpoint of the occultist, Sirius is of profound significance. "Our God is a consuming fire", and Sirius is the symbol of the universal soul as well as of the inpidual soul. It is therefore, esoterically considered, the star of initiation. In the language of symbology we are told, there comes a moment when a star blazes forth before the initiate, signifying his realization of his identity with the universal soul, and this he suddenly glimpses through the medium of his own soul, his own star."

In the zodiac of Denderah, this star is called Apes, the head. We are told (in the appendix, p. 1518, of the Companion Bible) that the brightest star in Canis Major is Sirius, the Prince, called in Persian, the Chieftain. There are three other stars in the same constellation: one is called "the announcer", another the "shining one," and the third, "the glorious", all of them phrases emphasizing the magnificence of Canis Major and, esoterically, the wonder and the glory of the higher self.

In Canis Minor, the "underdog", the same writing tells us that the name of the brightest star signifies, "redeemer", that the next brightest is "the burden bearer" or "the one who bears for others". We have, therefore, in the significance of these two names, a portrayal of Hercules, as he works out his own salvation and as he bears the great burden of Atlas and learns the meaning of service.

The first of the cosmic laws is the Law of Synthesis. It is almost impossible for those of us who have not the buddhic faculty in any way developed, to comprehend the scope of this law. It is the law that demonstrates the fact that all things - abstract and concrete - exist as one; it is the law governing the thought form of that One of the cosmic Logoi [568] in Whose consciousness both our system, and our greater center, have a part.

August, which is ruled by Leo, is the month of the Dog-star, or of Sirius, which thus brings Sirius into close relation to Leo. Leo, in the cosmic sense (and apart from our solar system altogether) is ruled by Sirius. Sirius is the home of that greater Lodge to which our fifth initiation admits a man and to which it brings him, as a humble disciple. Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find that the major, monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy, with Sirian force. Each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as Sirius governs Leo. This I shall later elaborate in the papers to be written anent the new "Approaches" to spiritual reality.[EA.299]

"Those devas who are the sumtotal of the astral light. They are the agents of the karmic lords, who are in themselves deva entities of an inconceivably advanced evolution and who, in their own substance,Record. Produce effects from cause. Direct force.

This particular group of devas emanate from a great force center which we generalize by calling it by the name of the sun Sirius. Sirius-kama-manas - the cosmic astral plane and the systemic astral plane - make a close interlocking chain, and form the line of least resistance for a particular type of negative force to pour through.[TCF.624]

References from The Secret Doctrine and A Treatise on Cosmic Fire

"Sirius was called the 'dog Star'. It was the star of Mercury, or Buddha, called the "Great Instructor of mankind." (S.D. Vol. II, 391)

"The sun, Sirius, is the source of the Logoic mind (manas) in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of mind in the Seven Heavenly Men and Venus is responsible for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain."(C.F. 347)

"Sirius, the Pleiades and our Sun form a cosmic triangle." (C.F. 375)

"Our solar system is negatively polarized as regards the sun Sirius, which influences our entire system psychically, via the three synthesizing schemes: Uranus, Neptune and Saturn." (C.F. 378) [660]

"Vibrations reach us from Sirius, via the cosmic mental plane." (C.F. 553)

"The Lords of Karma on our system are under the rule of a greater Lord of Karma on Sirius. We are governed by the Sirian Lord of Karma." (C.F. 570)

"Three constellations are connected with the fifth logoic principle in its threefold manifestation: Sirius, two of the Pleiades and a small constellation whose name must be intuitively ascertained." (C.F. 699)

Cosmic Avatars "...represent embodied forces from the following cosmic centers: Sirius, and that one of the seven stars of the Great Bear which is ensouled by the Prototype of the Lord of the third Ray, andÂ our own cosmic center." (C.F. 723)

Only one Being (from Sirius) has visited our system and that was at the time of inpidualization.

They only appear usually and normally at the initiation of a solar Logos. (C.F. 723)

"At the planetary initiation the Rod of Power, wielded by the solar Logos, is charged with pure electrical force from Sirius, and was received by our Logos during the secondary period of creation, from the hands of that great Entity who is the presiding Lord of the Lords of Karma. He is the repository of the law during manifestation, and he it is who is the representative inÂ the solar system of that greater Brotherhood on Sirius whose Lodges are found functioning as the occult Hierarchies in the different planets." [IHS.127]

The Rays and the Initiations - Part Two - Section One - The Aspirant and the Mysteries of Initiation

4. The Path to Sirius

I have frequently hinted in my various books that the Sun, Sirius, is closely related to our planetary Life; much is known in the Hierarchy anent this connection, and the particular relationship of this fourth Path to humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature, but little can be communicated to the general public. I may, however, tell you certain things which may make your imaginative rangings (if I may use so strange a phrase) creatively profitable to you.

1. The majority of liberated humanity, and therefore a large number of the initiates who have to make decision, choose this way to the cosmic center.

2. The relationship as it expresses itself is between the Hierarchy and Sirius, and not between Shamballa and that stupendous Sun. The energy evoked in response to this relationship enters the Hierarchy via the Heart of the Sun, creating as a consequence a triangle of spiritual energy of enormous potency. You have, therefore:

Sirius ...The Hierarc....Heart of the Sun

3. As progress is made in the course of taking the higher initiations, it becomes apparent to the initiate that two major streams of energy enter our planetary life:

"A stream of energy coming from the cosmic mental plane and from that focal point which is to Sanat Kumara what the egoic lotus, the soul, is to the spiritual man; it carries the life principle of our planet and centers itself in Shamballa. From there it is dispersed throughout all forms upon the planet and we call it Life. It must be remembered that this life principle embodies or is impregnated with the will and purpose [415] of That which over-shadows Sanat Kumara as the soul over-shadows the personality.

A stream of energy coming from the sun, Sirius; this enters directly into the Hierarchy and carries with it the principle of buddhi, of cosmic love. This, in a mysterious way, is the principle found at the heart of every atom.

The life principle follows the line of 1.3.5.7, whilst the buddhic flow follows the line of 2.4.6. Thus atma-buddhi becomes the blended reality which is brought to full unfoldment as evolution proceeds. The energy of Sirius by-passes (to use a modern word) Shamballa and is focused in the Hierarchy. Its effect is not felt until after the third initiation, though the Masters use this energy whilst training disciples for the second, the fourth and the sixth initiations.

4. The entire work of the Great White Lodge is controlled from Sirius; the Ashrams are subjected to its cyclic inflow; the higher initiations are taken under its stimulation, for the principle of buddhi, of pure love (i.e., love-wisdom) must be active in the heart of every initiate prior to the initiation of the great decision; it is therefore only initiates of the fifth, sixth and higher initiations who can work consciously with the potent buddhic "livingness" which permeates all Ashrams, though unrecognized by the average disciple.

5. This Sirian influence was not recognized, and little of it was definitely focused in the Hierarchy, until Christ came and revealed the love of God to humanity. He is the expression, par excellence, of a Sirian initiation, and it is to that high place He will eventually go - no matter what duties or hierarchical obligations may take Him elsewhere between that time and now. The Buddha was originally to have chosen the fourth Path but other plans confront Him now and will probably claim His choice.

6. Sanat Kumara is not on the Sirian line but - to speak in symbols, not too deeply veiled - Lucifer, Son of the Morning, is closely related, and hence the large number of human beings who will become disciples in the Sirian Lodge. This [R&I.416] is the true "Blue Lodge," and to become a candidate in that Lodge, the initiate of the third degree has to become a lowly aspirant, with all the true and full initiations awaiting him "within the sunshine of the major Sun."The Second Ray of Love-Wisdom