Working With The Will Series - 5
Leo – The Central
Spiritual Sun
The Spirit,
beyond manifested Nature, is the fiery BREATH in its absolute Unity. In the
manifested Universe, it is the Central Spiritual Sun, the electric Fire of all
Life. SD II p115
The central spiritual sun is spoken of in the esoteric teachings in a variety of related ways. Firstly it is the One Life – the essential nameless reality. In the manifest universe it is the animating or life principle of that universe. Within a galactic system the ‘seat’ of this principle is the black hole at the centre – the central ‘sun’. Within the solar system this principle is embodied in the synthesizing planet Uranus. Within the planetary system the central spiritual sun is Shamballa and in the human system it is the monad.
Leo is the time for self-assertion. Which self will be asserted depends upon the level of identification of consciousness and the degree of spiritual tension within any system.
A soul, whether individual or planetary, at a high level of
tension - necessitating the application of the first aspect of its own nature ( the Will ) - may have increasingly revealed to it the
divine power that resides in the central spiritual sun. Leo is ruled by the Sun
on all three levels. Esoterically the sun veils
Let us trace the flow of energy starting with the personal system.
The monadic force enters the triad from the second or monadic plane and is focused through the jewel in the egoic lotus. This energy then pours down into the crown chakra and from there to the base where the kundalini lies. The downpouring and uprising energies are balanced in the central laya point of the heart chakra which joins the sutratma and the antahkarana or the first and second aspects together.
Within the solar system Uranus represents the electric
current passing through the jewel from the solar monad whose outer symbol is
the black hole. This energy is then passed through the three planets that are
destined to form a seed or germ of the next ( Will ) system.
Vulcan has a first ray soul and corresponds to the crown. Pluto
, a first ray personality corresponds to the base and earth with a first
ray monad will have the function of blending these two currents of the will and
fusing them in the heart with
On earth we can see the effects of some of these forces active in our current situation. Uranus was conjunct the galactic centre in 1988/89 and the outer expression was the fall of the Belin wall, glasnost and the end of the cold war. Pluto is currently sitting on the galactic centre and we have the centralising of what has become essentially a global conflict in the middle east. If we step back we can see the conflict as the activation of karmic threads that lie deep in the psyche of humanity and the uprising on all sides of self will. The position of all protagonists is essentially similar and can be summed up in the assertion “It is time to do whatever it takes to resolve this”
The central spiritual sun is the ‘cosmic magnet’ and its effect is to synthesise ‘wills’.
The cosmic magnetism gathers nations, gathers races,
gathers parts of the world, gathers aspects of evolution, gathers arcs of
consciousness, gathers manifestations of all
attractions. At the root of all vital manifestations may be discovered
cosmic magnetism, and even behind the karmic law stands the Cosmic Magnet… Infinity
The effects of this are quite different depending upon which will is operating however. Again, a useful analogy is the physical cosmos.
When planets come together they collide resulting in considerable damage, sometimes the destruction of one or its diminishment so that it becomes a moon circling the other.
When suns come together they orbit a mutual centre and form stable binary or tertiary systems. When galaxies come together the black holes fuse and the result is a single larger galaxy.
When an individual human, group or nation is operating out of personal will then the magnetic effects of the central spiritual sun draws that will into collision and conflict with other personal wills. Conflict is normally engaged to achieve a total victory of one over the other.
When the consciousness is ‘solarised’ then there is the attempt to relate through dialogue, the attempt to find a common centre and mutual interplay that benefits both.
When the consciousness is ‘monadified’ then there is a recognition of the essential identicality and a fusion of ‘centres’ in such a way that allows for the interdependence of other levels of consciousness.
In the middle east crisis we see the personal will operating whenever an individual, (whether that be a soldier, a president or a country ) takes action or avoids taking action based on its own separative agenda.. We see the soul will operating whenever
individuals come together to share perspectives and seek solutions out of a genuine urge to find a solution that works for everyone.
A problem is that the soul will is slower to activate and takes longer to work out than the personality will which means that a great deal of damage and escalation can occur in the meantime.
We see the monadic will operating at times of maximum tension when there is a collective demand for a deeper and more permanent solution to emerge from levels beyond that which can be achieved through either conflict or dialogue. It is the heart’s innate recognition of the essential divinity of humanity that can call forth this deeper centre – this central spiritual sun – of the planetary life. One can feel the growing tension in the heart of humanity each time images are shown on television of the latest tragedy – usually involving the death or maiming of innocent civilians. The heart is frustrated both with the emotional cycle of hate and retaliation as well as with the endless mental debate over causes and possible solutions. The heart demands that something be done.
We know the manifestation of the Mother of the World. We intensify the complete flow of the Magnet to restore the doctrine of the Heart. Hierarchy
It was this demand of the heart that resulted in the formation of the United Nations after the second world war and it will be this same demand that will result in either its restructuring or the development of an alternative global body to establish peace and the implementation of international law. Watching the talking male heads on the security council it is easy to wonder: Where are the women? Where are the mothers?
War will end as a means of resolving issues on planet earth when the heart of humanity will no longer accept it and demands peace. Hunger and poverty will end when the power of the Mother of the World manifests through humanity’s heart and calls to the heights. It is the direction of this demand that is critical. The demand must be made to Shamballa – the only centre of true peace on the planet. Personalities assume that power lies in the hands of personalities and thus directs its demand to the leaders of countries, councils and corporations. Souls assume power lies in the love or consciousness principle and direct their demands to the Christ or whatever name they have for the centralized love principle. Monads call on the energy of Shamballa and the life principle of the universe. When the tension of that demand reaches through into the etheric heart centre then the response will also reach the etheric plane.
The energy of Leo links the energies of Shamballa and Hierarchy and the resultant dual fiery inflow can offset the plutonic fire of the personal will.
Let the dynamic force which rules the hearts of all
within Shamballa come to my aid, for I am worthy of that aid. Esoteric
Healing
The feeling of impotence that the average human
experiences in the face of war can be directly traced to the lack of awareness
of the power of the heart. The causes as they are presented by leaders and intellectual
commentators are so complex and the solutions so seemingly remote that a
growing despair can result in a tendency to distract oneself from the issue
altogether. But the heart is invincible! Through the heart we are one with the
whole of Cosmos. We are the force that spins galaxies and pulses through the
heart of the sun. The fire that flows through the heart is part of the one fiery breath of the great cosmic dragon. What can resist
that power?
When
the magnet of the heart -which is not separate from the Cosmic Magnet - begins
to function it is automatically and instantly linked to the life principle
active in all other hearts. When Humanity demands a response from the true
centre of planetary power – Shamballa - it must come under Law. As that response
takes shape in time and space we will witness emerging the outline of a
planetary government. The outer form of this government will gradually model
itself more and more completely on the inner archetype.
In all the three bodies - human,
planetary, and systemic or logoic - will be found a
great organ within the organism which acts as the receiver of prana. This organ has its etheric manifestation and its dense physical
correspondence. In the system, the organ of cosmic prana,
of the force vitalizing matter, is the central sun, which is
the direct receiver and dispenser of cosmic radiation. TCF
It
may be an evolution of the current United Nations or it may be a new form
altogether because the form is not as important as the spirit and it is the
spirit of global governance , of cosmic law, the covenant with Life that is
most needed now in our planetary sphere. When we make collective demand on the
inner government then the response will show itself in the emergence of new
leaders and new leadership initiatives that originate through the dynamic,
instantaneous and
synchronistic activity of the cosmic magnet.
We
get the leaders we are willing to settle for and when the heart truly awakens
it is unwilling to settle for less than the One Life.
As
the power of the cosmic magnet begins to operate in our own lives we also
become leaders but it is leadership of a different kind than that which is
expressing through organizational structures. The life principle ‘bloweth where it listeth’ guided
by an intuitive and spiritually instinctive response to need. The yogi
naturally turns up at the right place at the right time and says or does the
right thing – without thought or ‘planning’. This is because he or she has
surrendered to the current of the cosmic magnet and is now an emissary of that
force and therefore automatically responsive to the tension and unspoken demand
of the heart.
We, Brothers of Humanity, battle for the Cosmic Magnet
and for the life principle. The time is complex, but great! In
tension, amidst humanity's monstrous noncomprehension
of the principle of Be-ness, We give a new
Covenant. We summon humanity to that Covenant. In the great
Covenant lies the principle of Be-ness. We say to humanity,
"Venerate the Origins; venerate the Mother of the World, venerate the
awesome Covenant of the Cosmic Magnet . Infinity I
These two images – the cosmic magnet or central spiritual sun and the Mother of the World are closely linked. Both are invisible but all pervasive. Together they are Sat or Be-ness – the origin and destiny of all.
In the universe one is purusha and the other pakriti. In the galaxy one is the black hole at the centre and the other the dark halo that surrounds the galaxy. On earth one is Shamballa and the other is the power of planetary kundalini as it manifests through the heart.
Roerich – Mother of the World The Coming One
When the power of the Mother of the World rises in our hearts and demands change then the Coming One hastens to her aid.
“Manifest thy hand O Lord for great is the Darkness”
Bruce Lyon
Leo Full Moon 2006
Related Material
Leo & The Nirmanakayas
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Excerpt From Agni – Way of Fire
4. Surrender to 'Life'
The first three steps will carry the soul far
in the fulfilment of its intended purpose, but will
not be enough in themselves. A time will come when the alignment, commitment
and triadal powers of the soul are not enough to
finally anchor the soul’s work in the three worlds and not enough to anchor the
soul finally in the base chakra. At this point the soul must ‘give up’ in the
higher sense by increasing the tension—rather than in the lower sense of
‘giving up’ by letting go altogether. This higher surrender creates in effect a
‘hole’ or opening in the substance of the soul itself through which monadic
force can flow. This ‘hole’ is created by the abstraction of identity into the
monad. This is possible because the soul IS essentially the monad, in the same
way that the personality IS essentially the soul.
When the soul has used all its
own resources and drawn all the aid it can receive from ‘external’ sources—be
they triadal or from the three worlds—it must find
that energy source which lies unrevealed at the very heart of its own nature
and thus open the door directly into Shamballa and the Life aspect. This cannot
be explained but must be experienced. It can be expected and looked for however
in the very depths, the dark centre of the soul’s ashramic
adventure.
If the relationship between
the personality and the soul can be likened to the relationship of a planet to
the Sun, then the relationship of the soul to the monad can be likened to the
relationship between the Sun and the black hole at the galactic core. At the
centre of a solar system we do not find a bigger planet or more matter; we find
matter being consumed in solar explosions. At the centre of a galaxy we do not
find a bigger sun, but suns being consumed in a black hole. The centre of a
system contains the principle which both negates and gives rise to the
principle demonstrating in the system itself.
Of course the Sun has
relationship to other suns and forms solar ashrams of larger and larger degree.
At the centre of this vast solar ashramic life
however, lies an energy that swallows suns in the same way that monadic
experience results in the end of consciousness. The lesser ashrams on the buddhic plane are all part of Hierarchy and themselves form part of the ashramson
the monadic plane. There is really only one ashram, the ashram of Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World. That ashram contains
souls which are really aspects of the one Soul, the Christ. A galaxy revolves
around a central dark core from which not even light can escape, even though
the galaxy contains countless suns in organised
systems which are an expression of light itself. The cosmic Christ is the
principle of ‘Sunship’, the light of the galaxy
expressing through all the suns. When the Christ returns to
the Father then light and consciousness disappear. When the light of the
triadal soul encounters the darkness of pure Spirit
then the Life of the monad is known. The paradox is that the part of the soul
or consciousness which at-ones with the monad is no longer available to carry
the awareness of that contact back into the soul itself. Light does not return
from the event horizon of the black hole.
In the heart of the Sun matter
is continually being destroyed in vast nuclear explosions which generate the
light and heat needed to sustain conscious life. In the heart of a galaxy light
itself is being consumed in the peaceful silent Will
of a cosmic Shamballa.
Darkness therefore has two
meanings to an Agni yogi. There is the darkness of
matter which has not yet been ‘Christed’ or solarised with the light of the soul. Then there is the
darkness of Spirit which lies on the far side of light. In order for the
soul—which is light itself—to complete its work, it must know both types of
darkness and use the second to combat the first. Caught between these two darknesses the soul burns brightly, irradiating matter and
using up all its solar fuel before collapsing back into its origin in Spirit.
Thus the work of a soul
undertaking Agni Yoga is to fuse itself as the triad
with the three vehicles of the personality. In the final stages of this fusion
the soul must draw upon the power of the monad to complete its task. As the
monadic Life continues to pour into the solarised
personality it eventually consumes the soul itself so that no conscious
separation exists between Spirit and Matter, the monad and the personality.
As the soul works sequentially
to redeem the lower three fields of the personality it gains control on the
mental, emotional and physical planes. The soul now proceeds to integrate these
three vehicles in a synthetic functioning. We now have an integrated
personality under soul control. This means the yogi is able to coordinate
smoothly his thoughts, feelings and actions in order to implement soul purpose.
At the same time this integration is occurring he becomes aware also of an
integrated resistance that is able to work through the personality in a
synthetic fashion. To this is given the name ‘The Dweller on the Threshold’.
This Dweller is the sum-total of the unredeemed parts of the personality nature
working as a unit to resist complete soul control. The Dweller only becomes a
powerful adversary once integration has taken place. When encountered in the
individual, group or planetary life it is a sure sign that victory is at hand
if the Dweller can be seen and understood for what it is. If not, there is a
cycle of defeat and regrouping by the soul for subsequent encounter.
Prior to the encounter the
soul has been working in a piecemeal fashion solarising
some glamour here, some illusion there, some maya
when the occasion presents itself. But now at last there is the opportunityo deal a transfiguring blow to the whole residue
of intelligent resistance and so strike at the very heart of that which has
been hidden in the darkness.
Using the battle analogy, it
is as if the soul has been engaged in guerrilla warfare against small
hit-and-run enemies and now at last they are gathered into one large army and
can be met and conquered once and for all. That is, if the soul can hold its
courage and resolve in the face of such a large and organised
force.
For the soul itself is not enough to prevail. Within the darkness
confronting it are elements of Spirit anchored prior to individualisation
which are strong indeed and resistant to the solar force. This lower darkness
must be met with the higher darkness of Spirit itself, for they are but one and
the same. Electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction are triple expressions
of one energy. The monad has given life to the
personality and the monad has given life to the soul, thus they cannot be fused
without recourse once again to the monad and the realisation
that the Angel and the Dweller each serve and are twin aspects of a greater
unity.
The courage of the soul is
strengthened by knowing that behind its back stands the full power of the monad,
while it faces in front of it only a small portion of that spiritual force.
Rather than see the forces arrayed as attacking, they could be seen as
surrendering through battle, wanting indeed to meet their master—a greater
energy than the soul from whom they first sprang.
The Dweller is not open to
persuasion, education or love. It is implacable in its resistance and can only
be conquered with the equally implacable will of the soul backed up by the
monad. It is unafraid of death and wants to be conquered.
It is like the story of the
king who has had to leave a loving wife in a far land and asks her to remain
faithful. He knows that he will be gone so long that he will be unrecognisable to her on his return, so he gives her one of
his strongest swords and tells her to meet all potential suitors on the field
of battle. The one she is unable to defeat she will know is him.
Thus Shakti
and Shiva are reunited and the soul and personality are fused. This fusion is
expressed in the six-pointed star representing the two triangles of the triad
and the personality with the central point the monad.
The soul and the personality must surrender together
and thus are united in service to the central Life.
The will of the soul and the
will of the personality are evenly matched. What is required is surrender. In
the vernacular this is called ‘getting off it’. It is not abandoning the battle
but a letting go of all attachment to controlling the outcome through the
manipulation of consciousness.
The significance of a present-day hero is sustained by the realization that from no quarter can he expect cooperation. When he pronounces, "I cannot abandon the field of battle," he absorbs new strength. We are ready to provide the current for reinforcing the strength in accordance with the firmness of decision not to abandon the battle.120