The KeyNote of Freedom

The Keynote of the Personality is Intelligence
The Keynote of the Soul is Love
The Keynote of the Monad is Will
The Keynote of the triangle of Monad/Soul/Personality is Freedom

Each keynote is hidden as a secret source within the heart and head of the
lesser system.

The heart of the personality is the emotional body which knows itself as
desire and inherently seeks love but does not know that it IS love. The head
of the personality is the mind, and on the abstract mind is the causal
body - the seat and source of the love principle operating in the lower
three worlds.
The heart of the triad is buddhi which knows itself as Love and seeks Will
bit does not yet know itself AS will. The ‘head’ of the triad/soul is atma
where the fifth degree initiates or Masters direct the work of the
Hierarchy. Atma is the seat and source of spiritual will operating in the
three worlds of the triad.

The heart of the monad is the monadic plane which knows itself as will and
seeks freedom but does not yet know itself AS freedom. The ‘head’ of the
threefold  monadic system is on the three higher subplanes of the logoic
plane. Logos is the seat and source of the principle of Freedom operating in
the cosmic physical plane.

Freedom could be said to be the birthright of the monad just as will is the
birthright of the soul and love is the birthright of the personality. The
idea of ‘birthright’ is valid because it is the greater which gives the
lesser its ‘seed’ or ‘birth’. The ‘personality’ is formed as a result of
individualization and the ahamkara principle bestowed by the soul. Thus when
a personality is confronted with its innermost core, it discovers love at it
s very source.

The soul is built around the ‘jewel in the lotus’. This jewel is the seed or
germ of sacrificial will that comes from the monad. Thus, when a soul is
confronted with its innermost unfoldment, it finds that it is indeed,
nothing but Will.

At the center of the monadic life is a vacuum, a kind of blackhole or
emptiness which is both the ‘seed’ of freedom as well as the gateway out of
the cosmic physical plane altogether.  For those who choose the path of
Earth Service, this gateway becomes, not an exit point , but an entry point
for extraplanetary energies to flow into the earth scheme. It is at the
sixth initiation that a ‘monad’ exercises its ‘free will’ in choosing a
Cosmic path to follow.
Of course a monad is not ‘free’ to leave until it has abstracted those parts
of itself which have entered into incarnation within the lower worlds. The
soul must abstract itself from the three worlds and the monad must then
abstract the essence of the soul. All monadic energies then coalesece into
their center and that center is found to be a choice, freely undertaken to
serve the Purpose of the Planetary Logos. At this monadic ‘point of choice’
a new decision can be taken to extend the period of service or to abstract
the monadic essence to another sphere of service.

Thus Freedom forms the very core of  a human monad and therefore the core of
a human being.
Under Leo we make three great declarations
I Am - the keynote of the personality
I am That - the keynote of the soul
I Am That I Am - the keynote of the monad
I Am NOT - the keynote of the monadic essence - Freedom

It is on the logoic plane, ruled by the Hierarchy of Leo that the ninth
initiation is taken by those who choose to stay in Earth Service until they
have mastered the highest subplane of the cosmic physical ( an undertaking
which really belongs for the majority of monads to the third solar system ).
This initiation is called the initiation of Refusal. What is refused here is
Being itself. The monad is ‘Beness’ . It is the I Am of Spirit declaring
itself in incarnation. I Am Not is the refusal of Being in favour of Not
Being.
Of course the experience of this is far ahead of us. We have first to
experience the Beingness or Life More Abundant which lies in the Willful
sacrificial heart of the soul let alone the ‘not being’ which lives in the
heart of the monad and yet conceptually it is powerful to know that that
which we seek as the source of all Life is itself a gateway to a Death or an
abstraction beyond our comprehension.

At the ninth Initiation of Refusal, the revelation presented to the Master
concerns the nature of Being and of existence.  There is naught I can say to
you which could be in any way explanatory of Being, for Being is related to
THAT which creates, to the universal point of planetary or solar Life which
is, and has ever been, responsible for the life of all forms from the
greatest manifestation to the smallest.  When that revelation is accorded to
the initiate, he for the first time receives his initial contact with what
is called in the occult and esoteric books "the Central Spiritual Sun."  He
realises for himself that those words concern a basic fact and are related
to the purpose of the solar system, just as "the Heart of the Sun" revealed
to him the quality of the solar system.  When it is realised that our
planetary purpose is mysteriously related to the revelation of love upon our
little planet, the Earth, through the process of creation, the concept
emerges that there is the probability that our planet has a unique relation
to the Heart of the Sun.  R & I 728