COMPILATIONS & COMMENTARY ON PLANETARY PURPOSE

By Stephen Pugh

 

Well Bruce, I wanted to pick up on some of the threads that you have

recently laid down here concerning planetary purpose. I realize I offer

several extra-ordinary propositions herein, including the proposed ray

structure of our cosmic Logos, the OAWNMBS but I advise no undue excitement

as they are only hypothetical and proposed in the highest spirit of

speculative Masonry.

 

"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."

 

Sanat Kumara alone, in this scheme, is self-sustaining and self-sufficient,

being the physical incarnation of one of the Planetary Logoi, which one it

is not permissible to state, as this fact is one of the secrets of

initiation. (IHS40)

 

SDP: The Logos Uranus. The Hierophant of Electric Fire.

 

The Lord of the World as the synthesizer and the embodier of the perfect

seventh type, our planetary type. [IHS40]

 

SDP: our planetary type is the “perfect 7th type”

 

Earth Scheme # 777

SDP: Solar center: Base of spine

Prototype: Draco, the Dragon Cosmic base of spine of the OAWNMBS

 

HE [Sanat Kumura] 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. [Page 367] All the

qualities, the love and the purpose of a supreme Entity, referred to in The

New Testament as the "Unknown God," are focussed in Sanat Kumara.” (R&I

366-367)

 

The Rays of the Cosmic Logos (hypothetical)

 

Monad………….Ray I………….Great Bear

Soul…………… ..Ray II…………Sirius

Personality……Ray III…………Pleiades

 

 

The Rays of the Planetary Logos of Earth

 

Monad………….Ray I…………...Shamballa

Soul……………..Ray II…………..Hierarchy

Personality……Ray III………….Humanity

 

"When light illuminates the minds of men and stirs [315] the secret light

within all other forms, then the One in Whom we live reveals His hidden,

secret lighted Will.

 

"When the purpose of the Lords of Karma can find no more to do, and all the

weaving and close-related plans are all worked out, then the One in Whom we

live can say: Well done! Naught but the beautiful remains.'

 

"When the lowest of the low, the densest of the dense, andthe highest of the

high have all been lifted through the little wills of men, then can the One

in Whom we live raise into radiating light the vivid lighted ball of Earth,

and then another greater Voice can say to Him: `Well done! Move on. Light

shines.'"

 

You will note that the emphasis in these words is placed upon human

accomplishment and not upon what the Hierarchy does for man. When men

achieve illumination, intelligently precipitate the karmic quota of their

time, and lift the subhuman kingdoms (with its reflex activity of lifting

the Highest simultaneously), then they can and then they do share in the

work of the Hierarchy.

 

That cycle of sharing has seemed for aeons too far away to be considered;

when, however, humanity precipitated the war, they automatically and

somewhat surprisingly brought the final achievement much nearer. The

illumination of men's

minds will rapidly follow. The process of lifting the

subhuman kingdoms has been amazingly forwarded by science—the crowning

accomplishment of which was the fission of the atom and the penetration of

the "spiritual interfering" aspect of the human spirit into the very depths

of the mineral world. Ponder on this.

 

We have spoken much of the purpose of the planetary Logos. When I use the

word "purpose" I am indicating the [R&I717] answer to the question:

 

Why did the planetary Logos create this world and start the evolutionary,

creative process?

 

Only one answer has as yet been permitted to be given. Sanat Kumara has

created this planet and all that moves and lives therein in order to bring

about a planetary synthesis and an integrated system whereby a tremendous

solar revelation can be seen.

 

1. The first aim and the primary aim is to establish, through the medium of

humanity, an outpost of the Consciousness of God in the solar system. This

is a correspondence, macrocosmically understood, of the relationship

existing between a Master and His group of disciples. This, if pondered on,

may serve as a clue to the significance of our planetary work.

2. To found upon earth (as has already been indicated) a powerhouse of such

potency and a focal point of such energy that humanity - as a whole - can be

a factor in the solar system, bringing about changes and events of a unique

nature in the planetary life and lives (and therefore in the system itself)

and inducing an interstellar activity.

3.To develop a station of light, through the medium of the fourth kingdom in

nature, which will serve not only the planet, and not only our particular

solar system, but the seven systems of which ours is one. This question of

light, bound up as it is with the colors of the seven rays, is as yet an

embryo science, and it would be useless for us to enlarge upon it here.

4. To set up a magnetic center in the universe, in which the human kingdom

and the kingdom of souls will, united or at-oned, be the point of most

intense power, and which will serve the developed Lives within the radius of

the radiance of the One About Whom Naught May Be Said

 

Just as a Master Who has taken the fifth initiation has to project His own

specific undertaking, through the medium of His Ashram, thus [657] proving

His response to the will aspect of the planetary Logos and making Himself

responsible for a phase of the planetary Plan, so a planetary Logos has

likewise - under the Law of Synthesis - to carry forward a specific project

in line with the will of the Solar Logos. This our planetary Logos, Sanat

Kumara, is in process of doing, providing a definite culture wherein the

germ of the solar will can be fostered in one of its aspects. Then - in

conjunction with a similar project going on in two other planets, thus

fostering two other aspects - the nucleus of the third solar system will be

brought eventually into expression.

 

When this happens, our planet will no longer be known as the planet of

sorrow and of pain, but will be distinguished by a quality of tranquility

and by an aura of calm potency wherein the will of God (to be demonstrated

in the next solar system) will be focused; this - in some mysterious way -

will enable the solar Logos (not the planetary Logos) to bring the first

great divine aspect, that of Will or Power, into expression throughout the

solar system. Instead, therefore, of the statement which explains our

present solar system, "God is Love," we shall have a dynamic expression of

the will-to-good - an energy which will have been generated to some extent

upon our Earth.

 

This is the reward which the present Earth humanity will reap, and this is

the consummation of the preordained task of our planetary Logos. He

undertook, when He came into incarnation (through the medium of our little

planet), to aid the work of the Solar Logos in expressing the will aspect of

divinity.

 

The secret of the higher initiations lies in the trained use of the higher

will.

 

It does not lie in purification or in self-discipline or in any of the

expedients which have acted in the past as interceptors of the truth.

 

This whole problem of the Shamballic will is in process of revelation, and

will eventually alter the entire approach of the disciple in the New Age to

initiation.

 

The theme of "the Way into Shamballa" requires reflective study and esoteric

understanding. In this concept of the new and future section (if I may so

call it) of the Way or Path with which the modern disciple is faced lies the

secret of the coming revelation and of the spiritual dispensation which will

emerge as humanity constructs the new world civilization and begins to

formulate the new culture. The burning, purifying, destructive effects of

the monadic will upon its distorted reflection, the individual will, deeply

deserve consideration. (R&I 31)

 

This Lord of the World is the sole repository of the will and purpose of the

One of Whom He is an expression; this again can be understood by you as

evoking the same relation to the "unknown God" as your personality - when

expressing adequately the soul and later the Monad - conditions your

perception, knowledge, plans and purpose, and controls the quality of your

life and directs the energy which you express. (R&I 368)

 

There is little more that I can tell you anent the planetary initiations or

- as they might be more correctly called - the planetary initiatory

processes. These affect our entire planetary life but are not essentially

initiations as we understand the term, or as that word could be applied to

Sanat Kumara. They are a definite part of cosmic process and particularly of

solar evolution, but they are, as we have seen, only preparatory to that

initiation for which our world was made - the manifestation on Earth of the

highest of the three aspects: the Will of God, as it is universally called.

 

The first Ray of Will or Power is distinguished by the highest known divine

quality (there are others still higher). In the word, Goodwill, the secret

purpose of the planetary Logos is hidden. It is being slowly brought to the

attention of humanity by means of the three phrases: God is Love. Goodwill.

The Will-to-Good. These three phrases, in reality concern the three aspects

of the first ray. (R&I646)

 

It must be remembered therefore (and I reiterate) that the revelation

accorded to the disciple-initiate is along the line of the first Ray of Will

or Power, and that is a ray which is as yet a long way from full

manifestation.

 

From one angle, it is of course always in manifestation for it is the ray

which holds the planet and all that is upon it in one coherent manifesting

whole; the reason for this coherent synthesis is the evolutionary effort to

work out divine purpose. The first ray ever implements that purpose.

 

From another angle, it is cyclic in its manifestation; here I mean from the

angle of recognized manifestation - and such is the case at this time.

(R&I645)

 

What the planetary purpose is I know not; when I say that part of the

purpose is to liberate light and love into a wider universe and to free the

solar system from the attacks of cosmic evil, I am stating a truth, but a

truth which remains as yet meaningless to those who have not been put in

touch with the completed purpose; it remains a mystery, for the true nature

of light, the mystery of electricity, the constitution of the good, the

beautiful and the true, the origin of evil, the nature and purpose of the

Black Lodge, the place which that Lodge plays within the divine scheme of

being, are all unknown to you in their essential significance. (R&I727)

 

The true purpose, however, and the nature of the will of the planetary Logos

will only be revealed in the next solar system wherein the soul-infused

Personality of the planetary Logos will demonstrate living purpose within

the ring-pass-not of the three lower cosmic planes. (R&I567)

 

Next we must consider what will be the effect of this first ray energy upon

the individual disciple as he prepares for and undergoes the fifth

initiation, and keys himself up for the promised revelation, thus laying

himself open to an entirely new inflow of force. This he must do

consciously. It is conscious absorption of energy and its conscious

assimilation, plus its conscious use which distinguishes the initiate from

the rest of mankind; there are of course many degrees of this desired

consciousness. What the initiate will receive as a result of first ray

energy will be an inflow of the second aspect of this ray - a blazing forth

of the light which will focus clearly for him, and in a flash of time, the

significance of that which is slowly being revealed on Earth; he sees this

vision in toto for the first time.

 

At the fourth initiation, he responds to the third aspect of this ray, the

aspect of destruction; this divested him of everything, and finally and

eternally destroyed all that which held him in the three worlds of human

endeavor. Thus was harmony produced through conflict, and the success of the

individual initiate is the guarantee of the final success of the world

disciple.

 

The fourth Creative Hierarchy is the great expression of the conscious

[IHS95] will and sacrifice of the Solar Logos, and the great symbol of the

intelligent union of spirit and matter. Hence the fourth initiation, with

its presentation of these cosmic truths, and its epitomizing of the purpose

of this fundamental sacrifice, has a pre-eminent place.

 

Part II

 

1. Why should tiny and insignificant Earth play such a great part in the

Universal Plans of the OAWNMBS?

 

2. What is the significance and the implications if the Rays of Earth and

the Rays of our cosmic Logos are identical? Why is the [lowest] Earth

Scheme, fractal like, a perfect replica of the [highest] cosmic scheme of

the OAWNMBS? Or, restated again, in other words, why is the threefold major

Ray structure of the three periodical vehicles of the Logos of Earth

identical to that of its hypostatically animating cosmic Prototype?

 

Ray I …..Monad……Great Bear ……Shamballa

Ray II… .Soul……… Sirius…………Hierarchy

Ray III…Form………Pleiades……….Humanity

 

4. What does it really mean on Earth we say “The Highest and Lowest Wills

Meet”?

 

5. Is our planetary Logos, from the occult point of view, in reality a

direct physical incarnation of the Logos of Uranus? What is the relationship

between S.K. and the 1st/7th/3rd Ray Hierophant of Electric fire?

 

6. What is the “perfect type” of the 7th type of energy that our Earth

scheme embodies? What are the implications of this statement by DK in HIS?

 

7. What is the “culture of will”?

 

8. What is the solar revelation of will?

 

9. Using the Law of Correspondence, is our cosmic Logos the expression of

the extra-cosmic base of the spine center in the sevenfold body of cosmic

Parabrahman? In other words , on respective planes, are Earth, Draco and

our cosmic Logos all expressions of base of the spine centers?

 

10. If not the basic center, which one of the seven Greater Parabrahmanic

center is the cosmic Logos the expression?

 

Part III

Astrologically, the time is propitious; from the planetary angle, great and

momentous events are imminent, as the planetary Logos is taking a cosmic

initiation; the energy which produces order and which magically brings

spirit and matter together (the energy of the seventh ray) is already

organizing human affairs and these three great coinciding events in time and

space make it possible for the seventh ray energies to reach a high point of

fused activity and of blended cooperation.

 

The result will be the creation of a direct channel for the precipitation of

"light supernal" into the three worlds and its [(DINAII 427] dominant

focusing upon the physical plane. Thus will be brought about the new

civilization and the new world order, and the new approach to divinity will

be rendered possible; the initial steps will then be taken to create the

"new heavens and the new earth." You will need here to discriminate

carefully between symbols and facts; more, I need not here indicate.

 

 

D.K.> The fact that I want you to understand can perhaps be best expressed

by the following words out of the Old Commentary: [DINAII436]

 

"The light that shines within the heart of man discovers light and, in these

blended lights, comes revelation.

 

The light that shines within the sacred Hierarchy of Souls discovers these

two lights revealed and they reveal a third - the revelation of the higher

states of Being which hide and veil a Light which is not of planetary

creation.

 

These are four lights which reveal a Light Supreme, a Light which comes from

distances beyond the ken of man.

 

Yet all these lights have been revealed because a light has burned -

immovable, secure - within the human heart."

 

The whole theme of revelation is the revelation of light, and that implies

many different interpretations of the word "light"; it concerns the

discovery of the lighted areas of being which otherwise remain unknown, and

therefore hidden. We create light; we employ light; we discover greater

lights which serve to reveal to us the Unknown God. It is the guiding light

within us which eventually reveals those brighter lights which usher in the

process of revelation. I am, my brother, speaking symbolically as you can

well understand.

 

From the Ancient Archives:

 

"Energy is all there is, O Chela in the Light, but is not known. It is the

cause of knowledge and its application and its comprehension lead to

expanded understanding.

 

Through energy the worlds were made and through that energy they make

progression; through energy the forms unfold and die; through energy the

kingdoms manifest and disappear below the threshold of the world which ever

is and which will be forever.

 

Through energy the Cross is mounted and from the vortex of the four uniting

forces, the initiate passes through the door and is propelled into the Light

- a light which grows from cycle unto cycle and is known as supernal Energy

Itself." (RI557)

 

 

 

When the light of the seven Rays is blended with that of the seventh Ray,

then light supernal can be known. (DINAII371)

 

At the period of these cycles, all within the Ashram react in some way or

another; no one moves forward upon the Path without creating a new

relationship and becoming a better transmitter of power.

d. The sharing in the. results of special spiritual events,

 

such as: [DINAII333]

 

1. The directed attention of Shamballa.

2. An inflow of extra-planetary force.

3. The "nearing" or the directed power of an Avatar of some degree.

4. The merging of all hierarchical thought and activity into some one

directed event, such as the Wesak Festival and, increasingly, the Full Moon

or Festival of the Christ.

 

The sharing in the accession of power or love or insight which comes during

any cycle of initiation. These cycles (for our purposes) fall into three

categories:

 

1. The initiation of members of the Ashram, either before the Christ or

before the One Initiator.

2. Initiations taking place within affiliated Ashrams and having a specific

ray effect.

3. Initiations into those degrees which are higher than the fifth degree;

these create vacancies, and at the same time cause a tremendous influx of

power.

 

Part IV

 

The great first aspect of divinity, through its three aspects, is the

hidden, basic, motivating potency of life and of evolution, from the very

dawn of the evolutionary cycle. (RI652)

 

This energy of the will is the most potent energy in the whole scheme of

planetary existence. It is called the "Shamballa Force," and it is that

which holds all things together in life.

 

It is, in reality, life itself. This life force or divine will (implementing

divine intention) is that by means of which Sanat Kumara arrives at His

goal.

 

On a tiny scale, it is the use of one of the lowest aspects of the will

(human self-will) which enables a man to carry out his plans and attain his

fixed purpose - if he has one.

 

Where the will is lacking, the plan dies out and the purpose is not

achieved. Even in relation to self-will, it is veritably the "life of the

project."

 

The moment Sanat Kumara has attained His planetary purpose, He will withdraw

this potent energy, and (in this withdrawing) destruction will set in. This

Shamballa force is steadily held in leash for fear of too great an impact

upon the unprepared kingdoms in nature. This has reference to its impact

also upon humanity. [716]

 

You have been told that this force has - during this century - made its

first direct impact upon humanity; heretofore, it reached mankind in the

three worlds after being stepped down and modified by transit through the

great planetary center to which we give the name of the Hierarchy.

 

“This direct impact will again take place in 1975, and also in the year

2000, but the risks will then not be so great as in the first impact, owing

to the spiritual growth of mankind.”

 

Each time this energy strikes into the human consciousness some fuller

aspect of the divine plan appears.

 

SDP: What fuller aspects of the Plan of Shamballa emerged post 1975 and

what is emerging post 2000?

 

It is the energy which brings about synthesis, which holds all things within

the circle of the divine love. Since its impact during the past few years,

human thinking has been more concerned with the production of unity and the

attainment of synthesis in all human relations than ever before, and one

result of this energy has been the forming of the United Nations. (RI716)

 

The Lord of the World is, we are told, the sole repository of the will and

the purpose of His over-shadowing, cosmic soul. These two words - will and

purpose - are not identical in meaning. Sanat Kumara and His Council at

Shamballa are the only Beings upon our planet Who know just what is the

nature of the divine purpose. It is Their function and obligation to work

that purpose out into manifestation, and this They do by the use of the

will.

 

The will ever implements the purpose.

 

The repository of the will aspect of man's innate divinity is to be found at

the base of the spine; this can only function correctly and be the agent of

the divine will after the third initiation. The head center is the one which

is the custodian of the purpose; the center at the base of the spine

indicates the will as it implements the purpose. (RI715)

 

In the "center where the will of God is known" the intelligent loving

Master, now responsive to the energy of the will, is faced with the seven

Paths whereon that will can come to fruition and the "units of love can be

transferred because they also will and know."

 

They can then form part of the third solar system which will be definitely

under the influences coming from the cosmic mental plane, just as, in this

solar system, the energies coming from the cosmic astral plane have been the

major influence. (RI377)

 

SDP: Is it correct to state the “Culture of Will” is formed by those who are

the parts of the 3rd solar system?

 

“In a mysterious sense, (Shamballa) it the life of that seed or germ which

will come to fruition in the third solar system.” (RI377)

 

What the planetary purpose is I know not; when I say that part of the

purpose is to liberate light and love into a wider universe and to free the

solar system from the attacks of cosmic evil, I am stating a truth, but a

truth which remains as yet meaningless to those who have not been put in

touch with the completed purpose; it remains a mystery, for the true nature

of light, the mystery of electricity, the constitution of the good, the

beautiful and the true, the origin of evil, the nature and purpose of the

Black Lodge, the place which that Lodge plays within the divine scheme of

being, are all unknown to you in their essential significance.

 

But of the Will, its uses and its function, as yet we know little. Knowledge

as to the nature of the will in any true sense only comes after the third

initiation. From that time on the initiate demonstrates increasingly and

steadily the first divine aspect, that of the Will and the right use of

Power. This first aspect of divinity is necessarily closely associated with

the first Ray of Power or Will.

 

 

From the time of the third initiation, this purpose has been gradually

revealing itself; he sees it expressing itself through Sanat Kumara, Who is

the Personality expression of the planetary Logos. During the coming

interval and cycle of preparation for the sixth [RI653] initiation, that

purpose will burst upon him in blazing and synthetic glory.

 

I would ask you all, therefore, to ponder on the distinction which exists

between:

 

1. Self-will

2. Determination

3. Fixity of purpose

4. The will

5. The spiritual will

6. The divine will

 

I shall not attempt to discuss these words with you. They each indicate a

certain aspect of the will; you will learn more on this point by doing your

own thinking and defining.

 

All that I can hope and pray is that your individual will can be merged into

the divine will, that revelation will be increasingly yours, and that you

will with increased steadfastness tread the Path from darkness to light and

from death to immortality. (RI718)

 

 

A seventh part of the unfolding Plan is being expressed by our particular

planetary Life, and because this great Being is not one of the seven sacred

Lives and is therefore not expressing Himself through one of the seven

sacred planets, the Plan as unfolded upon the Earth is a part of a dual

expression of purpose, and only as another non-sacred planet reaches its

consummation can the whole plan for the Earth be realized. (EPII7)

 

SDP: Which non-sacred planet is it?

 

1. 4th ray non-sacred – Moon (veil)

2. 2nd ray non-sacred – Sun (veil)

3. 6th ray non-sacred – Mars

4. 1st ray non-sacred – Pluto

 

I might advisedly suggest that interested students begin with meditation

upon Pluto. This reference might help commence the process:

 

“The Monad relates the initiate to the Will of God, to the Council at

Shamballa, to forces active on the planet Pluto, and on another planet which

must remain nameless, and also to the Central Spiritual Sun.” (RI97)

 

This may not be easily understood, for, it has been said, only those who are

initiate can grasp some of the significance of the statement that

 

"The twain shall be one and together shall express divinity."

 

SDP: The initiate is conscious, immutable and aware of the two extremes of

the divine expression: His sense of individual identity and the sense of

universality. These are fused and blended in the One. Of this One, Sanat

Kumura is the supreme symbol – He contains within Himself the “union in one

“ of the pairs of opposites, negative and positive, male and female.

 

The Tibetan states: In the state of being which we call the monadic, no

difference is recognized between these two because (if I can bring such

ideas down to the level of the intelligence of the aspirant) it is realized

that there is no identity apart from universality and no appreciation of the

universal apart from the individual realization, and this realization of

identification with both the part and the whole finds its point of tension

in the will-to-be, which is qualified by the will-to-good and developed

(from the consciousness angle) by the will-to-know.

 

These are in truth three aspects of the divine will which exists in its

perfection in the solar Logos and finds a medium of expression through the

planetary Logos. This will is therefore working out in seven ways, via the

living qualities of the seven planetary Logoi Who express Themselves through

the seven sacred planets; They are preoccupied with the endeavor of bringing

all the forms of life within the orbit of Their influence up to the same

measure of recorded recognition and of registered existence. It will be

obvious to you, consequently, that on each of the seven sacred planets one

aspect of the divine Will will be dominant. [R&I106]

 

"Love is essentially a word for the underlying motive of creation. Motive,

however, presupposes purpose leading to action, and hence in the group-life

task of the incarnating Monad there comes a time when motive (heart and

soul) becomes spiritually obsolete because purpose has reached a point of

fulfilment and the activity set in motion is such that purpose cannot be

arrested or stopped. The disciple cannot then be deterred, and no hindrance

or difficulty is hard enough to prevent his moving forward. Then we have

eventual destruction of what Theosophists call the causal body and the

establishing of a direct relation between the Monad and its tangible

expression upon the physical plane. The head center and the center at the

base of the spine will be in direct unimpeded relation; monadic will and

personality will likewise will be in a similar unimpeded relation, via the

antahkarana. I would have you remember that the will aspect is the final

dominating principle."

 

In the group application of these ideas the same basic and profound

development must take place, and a group of disciples must be distinguished

by pure reason, which will steadily supersede motive, merging eventually

into the will aspect of the Monad - its major aspect. It is, technically

speaking, Shamballa in direct relation with humanity.

 

Just as the disciple enters the world of meaning and so can interpret

events, just as the Hierarchy works in the world of mediation, applying the

Plan which the world of meaning has revealed, so the higher initiate works

consciously in the world of purpose which the Plan implements, the world of

meaning interprets, and the world of events expresses in sequential order

and under the evolutionary Law.

 

"The nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended." This has reference

to the fact that our planetary Life is Itself a center within a still

greater Life, and is today one of the three planetary centers (even if not

yet one of the seven sacred planets) which are the custodians of the force,

in process of transmission, which will be to the greater Life what

Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity are to our planetary Logos.

 

Related to this triangle is a secondary one within our sun's orbit, composed

of Vulcan, Pluto and the Earth.[EA482]

 

First Ray alignments between the 3 Logoi

 

Earth.......Ray I.......Monad

 

Vulcan.....Ray I.......Soul

 

Pluto.......Ray I........Personality

 

The Triangle of Solar Will

 

The germ or nucelus of will for the 3rd solar system

 

Vulcan......First Aspect.......Shamballa.....The Will to

Good......Head.......Merak

 

Earth........Second Aspect...Hierarchy.......God is

Love.............Heart......Polaris

 

Pluto........Third

Aspect......Humanity......Goodwill.................Throat.....Dubhe

 

The Head (the idea), the Heart (the ideal) and the Throat (the creative

agent of the resulting idol, the temporary and fleeting expression of the

ideal, inspired by the idea) came into being; three great Centers emerged in

time and space and - at this point in the evolutionary cycle - we call them

Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity.

 

It is in this connection that the words I gave you previously are pertinent:

[RI161]

 

1. "The group must understand the nature of the Three." This will be

seen to refer to the three major centers and the nature of their

relationship, and not specifically to the Trinity.

 

2. "The nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended." This has

reference to the fact that our planetary Life is Itself a center within a

still greater Life, and is today one of the three planetary centers (even if

not yet one of the seven sacred planets) which are the custodians of the

force, in process of transmission, which will be to the greater Life what

Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity are to our planetary Logos.

 

3. "The group must work through the medium of the united breath." This

deals with the processes of circulation, for the breath is the life and

pours through all the centers.

 

4. "The group must attain a unified rhythm." This has no reference in

reality to the work of a group of disciples, but to a group of centers of

life, such as the three major centers or the entire group of seven centers.

 

A study of these ideas may carry illumination, but I would again remind you

that I write for initiates, living at a later period in this century and in

the next.

 

It is absolutely essential that the will-to-good be unfolded by the

disciples of the world so that goodwill can be expressed by the rank and

file of mankind. The will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed

of the future. The will-to-good is the Father aspect, whilst goodwill is the

Mother aspect, and from the relation of these two the new civilization,

based on sound spiritual (but utterly different) lines, can be founded.

 

I would commend this thought to your consciousness, for it means that two

aspects of spiritual work must be nurtured in the immediate future, for on

them the more distant hope of happiness and of world peace depends. The New

Group of World Servers must be reached and the will-to-good developed in

them, and the masses simultaneously must be reached with the message of

goodwill. The will-to-good is dynamic, powerful and effective; it is based

on realization of the plan and on reaction to the purpose as sensed by those

who are either initiate, and consciously in touch with Shamballa, or

disciples who are likewise a part of the Hierarchy but are not yet able to

contact the central Purpose or Life.

 

Not yet having taken the third initiation, the monadic vibration is to them

largely unknown. It would be just as dangerous for them to be able to reach

Shamballa (prior to the third initiation when all personality tendencies are

obliterated) as it would be to teach the masses of men today techniques of

will which would render their still selfish will effective. The main

difficulty would be that the disciples would destroy themselves, whilst the

ordinary man would damage himself.

 

The destroyer aspect of the first Ray of Will or Power is producing

worldwide destruction through the use of the first kingdom in nature, the

mineral kingdom. That which is made of metals and chemicals is bringing

catastrophe and destruction on earth, primarily in the human kingdom. At the

same time the second attribute of the will, synthesis, is evoking an equally

widespread response. This sense of synthesis has a mass effect earlier than

it has an individual effect, and this is a thing of interest and importance

to note at this time. Later, the dynamism inherent in the will, wielded by

the New Group of World Servers and by the disciples and initiates of the

world, will turn that instinctive mass response into factual experience and

produce the "appearance" on earth of the new, developed "quality" which

"life" seeks in the New Age to demonstrate. In the first volume of this

Treatise, I called attention to the three divine aspects: Life, Quality and

Appearance. They are now in process of making their appearance in final form

for this particular cycle. [R&I121]

 

 

The "rainbow bridge" becomes a channel for the impact of monadic or life

energy upon substance, so that substance, taking form under the cyclic

intention of the planetary Logos, may become increasingly colored or

qualified by the energy of universality. [R&I280]

 

RULE XIII: Students need to realize more concretely that group

consciousness, universal awareness, and therefore synthetic effort,

synthetic understanding and synthetic activity are possible to a Master or

an initiate of the higher degrees.

 

That involves the keynote of this solar [R&I250] system, particularly within

this planet, the Earth; it will be succeeded in the next solar system by a

type of life activity which is as yet only known in Shamballa.

 

Thus, the great synthesis emerges, and destruction, death, and dissolution

are in reality naught but life processes. Abstraction is indicative of

process, progress and development.[R&I163]

 

"...whilst the first Ray of Will or Power reaches us through Vulcan and

through Pluto. The real reason for this is one of the secrets of initiation

and is hidden in the destiny of the fourth Creative Hierarchy and in the

will-to-manifest of the Lord of our Earth, Who is Himself upon the third Ray

of Active Intelligence; of Him it is said that "when the third great energy

is related to the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the mystery of the perfected

Seven will be understood." EA269]

 

Vulcan and Pluto are related to the two Pointers and are only now beginning,

in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response. Their effect has

been planetary in its nature up to date and has not hitherto been at all

effective in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.

 

"...the spiritual will of deity as it comes to our planet and hence to us

via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto. You have, therefore, the following direct line

of will energy:

 

1. The Pointer furthest from the Pole Star[Merak, star VI] in the

constellation of the Great Bear. This is, esoterically speaking, [EA196] a

great reservoir or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's

purpose. The Pointer nearest to the Pole Star [Dubje, Star V] is expressive

of a lower aspect of the will, which - in speaking of humanity - we call

self-will.

 

2. Aries, in which the will to create or to manifest makes its

appearance and the great divine experiment is initiated.

 

3. Vulcan and Pluto are related to the two Pointers and are only now

beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response. Their

effect has been planetary in its nature up to date and has not hitherto been

at all effective in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.

 

4. Shamballa, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet.

 

Merak........Vulcan...Divine Will..."furthest from the Pole star"....Father

 

Dubhe........Pluto.....Self-Will ......"nearest the Pole

star".............Mother

 

Thus in parables the truth goes out, and gradually the initiate grasps the

uses of heat, warmth, light and energy; he arrives at an understanding of

self-will, sacrificial will and Shamballic purpose, and only Love

(self-love, group love, and finally, divine love) can reveal the

significance of these symbolic words and the occult paradoxes which confront

the true aspirant as he attempts to tread the Way [R&I33].

 

the 3 aspects of Love

 

Self-love..........Pluto

 

Group Love.....Earth

 

Divine Love.....Vulcan

 

It is not possible in these brief instructions to deal adequately with the

will aspect of divinity, nor would it profit at this time. Aspirants have to

learn the nature of the will by the power of inner illumination and by

certain intelligent recognitions. They learn the nature of the self through

the aid of the personality, the shadow or distortion of the divine will.

They pass from the expression of the will which [47] is purely selfish,

self-sufficient and self-focused, to the grasp of the group will and to the

effort to embody that group will. This group will is always concerned with

that which is not the will of the separated self.

 

As this ability to be selflessly decentralized grows and develops, the

aspirant reaches a point where the group life and the group good is seen as

an integral part of a much greater Whole. This greater Whole is Being

Itself, divorced from form but ever working through form whilst in

manifestation, and working with planned purpose. The realization then grows

that intelligence and love are not enough, but that they must be

supplemented and implemented by will, which is active intelligent purpose,

lovingly applied.

 

The difficulty of this subject is inherent in the fact that basically (no

matter how strange this may seem) love is the line of least resistance for

the developed human being. It is the governing principle of the present

solar system. Will is the governing principle of the next or coming solar

system, which will be brought into manifestation through the agency of those

human beings who - in this solar system - arrive at the full expression of

the will aspect. Then, in the coming consummating manifestation, love will

be to the will aspect what intelligence is, in this solar system, to love.

 

There is in the first ray - as it expresses itself through Vulcan - very

little of the Destroyer aspect as there is in the planetary influence of

Pluto, another agent of the first ray. [EA84

 

The Monad relates the initiate to the Will of God, to the Council at

Shamballa, to forces active on the planet Pluto, and on another planet which

must remain nameless, [Vulcan] and also to the Central Spiritual Sun.[R&I96]

 

Aries, the initiator of impulses (either the impulse to incarnate or the

impulse to return to the originating source) is closely in touch with one of

the stars in the Great Bear to which we give the name "Pointer" in common

parlance. This Pointer is a "major star of direction" because through it (in

this world cycle) flows the will to unify and to bring about synthesis. This

is the force which brings about the fusion or integration of the

personality, the at-one-ment of personality and soul, the unification of

humanity or the Great Approach of the Hierarchy to Humanity. It will produce

also the integration of our Earth into the body of the "sacred planets" and

the consequent establishing of a triangle of force composed of the Pointer,

Aries and our Earth. This triangular relationship will have a potent effect

upon the solar system as well as upon the planet itself and is also one of

the factors producing the shift in the Earth's axis. Related to this

triangle is a secondary one within our sun's orbit, composed of Vulcan,

Pluto and the Earth. In the Archives of the Great Lodge this is referred, to

symbolically as: [EA483]

 

This is one of the most interesting and informing astrological symbols I

have given you and indicates a most momentous relationship. You have here

two major and three minor energies brought into close relation; this is

analogous to the two major rays and the three minor rays which condition a

human being in manifestation. These are the five energies which concern the

informing life of our planet. They produce, in humanity, conscious

evolution, direction and the founding of Shamballa upon the Earth. They are

the five energies connected with the will-to-be, but from the consciousness

angle and not the material expression of manifestation. Their activity and

united influence in the realm of consciousness produced the appearance of

another triangle: Leo, Polaris and another of the Pointers and these two

groups form an interlocking directorate, potently effective in the evolution

of consciousness.

 

You have, therefore, through these related triangles, the appearance of

Shamballa and Humanity - the two poles of divine expression - will and

activity.

 

Merak.......Vulcan........Shamballa.......Will..........Father.

 

Dubhe.......Pluto..........Humanity........Activity.....Mother

 

At the first initiation, the disciple has to contend with the crystallizing

and destroying forces of Vulcan and Pluto. The influence of Vulcan reaches

to the very depths of his nature, whilst Pluto drags to the surface and

destroys all that hinders in these lower regions.

 

Leo is the sign wherein the consciousness of individuality is developed,

utilized and finally consecrated to divine purpose. It is related to

Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little Bear) and it is also peculiarly

susceptible to the influence of that Pointer in the Great Bear which is the

nearest to the Pole Star [Dubhe]. Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is

regarded as the "star of reorientation" whereby the art of "refacing and

recovering that which is lost" is developed. This eventually brings a man

back to his originating source. It might, therefore, be correctly inferred

that this Pointer [Dubhe] and the energy emanating from it guides humanity

upon the involutionary path, and is constantly active in its influence upon

the man who is still upon the Mutable Cross. Then the energy of the Pointer

furthest from the Pole Star [Merak] begins to make its presence felt and a

sense of right direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the

Path, and such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the Hierarchy.

It is here that the divine [197] necessity of achieving alignment is

portrayed for us in the symbolism of the sky and when it has been achieved

then there is a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a new

and creative manner to sources of divine supply. Astrologers will do well

(in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and particularly of

initiates) to consider the two Pointers and the Pole Star. They are

mysteriously connected with the three aspects of incarnated man - Spirit,

soul and body. More than this it is not permitted to me to convey to you. I

may, however, give you another hint. These three stars are embodiments of

the three aspects of divine will. It is the three aspects of all expressions

of divinity in manifestation which underlie the Science of Triangles. This I

will later elaborate

 

As you know, Pluto stands for death or the region of death; the Earth stands

for the sphere of experience; Vulcan stands for the glorification, through

purification and detachment, of matter [EA127]

 

Through vulcan - under the bondage of form in order through form experience

to achieve release and the "uplift of matter".

 

Through the Earth - under the influence of planetary experience (which is

different to individual experience) in order to transmute his personal

consciousness into group awareness.

 

Through Pluto - under the destroying power of death - death of desire, death

of the personality and of all which holds him between the pairs of

opposites, in order to achieve the final liberation. Pluto or death never

destroys the consciousness aspect. [EA128]

 

The destructive power of the first ray, focused in Pluto, brings change,

darkness and death. [EA127]

 

Towards the end of the evolutionary process, the disciple begins to respond

consciously to the fourth indirect influence - that of Pluto, producing the

death of the hindering factors and of all that prevents synthesis. [EA365]

 

"...through Vulcan and Pluto, are related to Ray 1. Transmutation of desire

into sacrifice and of the individual will into the divine will.[EA67]

 

Pluto, governing the eighth House, the house of death, of dissolution, of

detachment[EA538]

 

The influence of Vulcan reaches to the very depths of his nature, whilst

Pluto drags to the surface and destroys all that hinders in these lower

regions.[EA70]

 

In the foregoing I have endeavored to give some faint idea of the relation

existing between the Hierarchy and Shamballa. I did this in order that you

might grasp some measure of the synthesis underlying the entire planetary

life; in order also that this rule for initiates could be interpreted as

intended, as far as is possible, to the uninitiated consciousness; and

finally, in order that the entire concept of Shamballa and its immense

reservoir of energy, which we call the will or the life of God, may take its

rightful place in the occult presentation of truth. The will of God and the

life of God are esoterically synonymous terms, and when the life aspect of

an individual and his spiritual, selfless will [147] are completely

synchronized, then you have - in a human being - the full expression of

divinity or what has been called esoterically, "Shamballa is consummated in

him."

 

Part VI

All I can say is that synthesis IS, whilst unity is achieved and is the

reward of action and effort. As you progress upon the Path of Initiation the

meaning of unity clarifies. As you direct yourself towards the Way of the

Higher Evolution synthesis emerges. More than that it would be useless for

me to say. (EXH533)

 

the Masters Themselves are only learning the Will of the planetary Logos;

the objective of effort in Shamballa is, however, the apprehension of solar

Purpose, the Plan of which is working out on the highest levels of our

planetary system, just as the Will, Purpose and Plan of Shamballa work out

on the three lowest levels of our planetary system.

 

It is not possible to state what is the peculiar coloring of the Ray which

is embodied in our scheme, as it is one of the most secret of the mysteries

revealed at initiation [TCF.778]

 

This is an intricate occult study and is concerned with the response of the

etheric body to the incoming energies. It relates finally the lowest center

at the base of the spine to the highest center, the head center. This is a

correspondence to the relation of the Earth to the Sun. Think this out.

[EA.25]

 

Shamballa, as it constitutes the synthesis of understanding where our Earth

is concerned, is also the centre where the highest Will of the Solar Logos

is imposed upon the Will of our planetary Logos, Who is, as you know, only a

centre in His greater body of manifestation.

 

The center which is analogous to that at the base of the spine, or the

reservoir of kundalini, has a permanence which is not seen in the other two

lower centers. The Heavenly Man Who embodies this principle and is the

source of generative heat to His Brothers, must be sought for by the aid of

the intuition. Concrete Mind will not here avail. [TCF297]

 

At each initiation of the great Being Who is manifesting through our planet,

one of these petals becomes unfolded on etheric levels, so that at

individualization, the four became active, and His self-conscious activity

was brought right down on to the physical plane. [TCF.647]

 

It might be of interest here to note that this center is literally a

fourfold radiation, and the "Cross of the Holy Spirit," the equal armed

Cross, is its symbol. This four-petalled lotus is the result of evolution.

In the first kingdom of nature, the mineral, through which a specific Entity

is manifesting, this center is a unity on etheric levels, for only one petal

is to be seen. In the vegetable kingdom, viewing it as the expression of a

great Existence, two petals are becoming active. In the third kingdom, the

animal, the center at the base of the spine will be found to have three

petals, whereas in man, the lotus is vibrating in a fourfold manner. At each

initiation of the great Being Who is manifesting through our planet, one of

these petals becomes unfolded on etheric levels, so that at

individualization, the four became active, and His self-conscious activity

was brought right down on to the physical plane. The analogy can be seen

typified at His great Initiation which took place in the fourth round and

the third root-race; the correspondence between the third kingdom and the

fourth, and their production of the esoteric seven is one of the lines of

study for the occultist. [TCF648]

 

Two of our planets, the Earth (non-sacred) and Uranus (sacred), are directly

the product of this third ray activity. This is of great importance to

remember.

 

SDP: The Earth and Uranus share the identical personality and Monadic rays,

i.e., respectively, 3rd ray personalities and 1st ray Monads. They both

share an identical third ray legacy and heredity from their karmic affinity

in the previous third ray third solar system

 

Sanat Kumara alone, in this scheme, is self-sustaining and self-sufficient,

being the physical incarnation of one of the Planetary Logoi, which one it

is not permissible to state, as this fact is one of the secrets of

initiation. IHS 40.

 

The Lord of the World as the synthesizer and the embodier of the perfect

seventh type, our planetary type. IHS 40.

 

This 7th planet was not the sun but the hidden divine Hierophant." (S.D.

Vol. III, 330)

 

Uranus is the planet of occultism for it veils "that which is essential; it

hides that which must be discovered and, at the right moment, it transmits

knowledge of the hidden mystery." (EA439)

 

The initiate, on his tiny scale, likewise has to learn to work behind the

scenes, unknown and unrecognized and unacclaimed; he must sacrifice his

identity in the identity of the Ashram and its workers, and later in the

identity of his working disciples out in the world of daily life. He

institutes the needed activities and brings about the required changes, but

he receives no reward, save the reward of souls salvaged, lives rebuilt and

humanity led onward upon the Path of Return. DINA2 288

 

“At the seventh initiation that one of whom Sanat Kumara is the

manifestation, the Logos of our scheme on his own plane, becomes the

Hierophant.”

 

In these three expressions of hierarchical government - Sanat Kumara on the

periphery of the three worlds, the nameless One on the confines of the high

planes of human evolution, and the planetary Spirit himself at the final

stage - we have the three great manifestations of the Planetary Logos

himself:

 

1. Sanat Kumura

2. The Nameless One

3. The Planetary Spirit

 

Through the Planetary Logos at the final great initiation flows the power of

the Solar Logos, and he it is who reveals to the initiate that the Absolute

is consciousness in its fullest expression, though at the stage of human

existence the Absolute must be regarded as unconsciousness. (IHS92)

 

It is not possible here to publish the details of the next stage, beyond

using the description as embodied in the words "fire descends from heaven."

The Hierophant utters the word, and the force is literally thrown into the

initiate's bodies and centers, passing down through the centers on the

mental plane, via the astral centers, to the centers on etheric levels,

which finally absorb it. This is the stupendous moment for the initiate,

and brings to him a realization of the literal absolute truth of the phrase

that "God is a consuming fire."

 

He knows past all gainsaying that fiery energy and electric force constitute

the sumtotal of all that is. He is literally bathed in the fires of

purification; he sees fire on all sides, pouring out through the Rod,

circulating around the Triangle, and passing through the bodies of the two

sponsoring adepts. For a brief second, the entire Lodge of Masters and

initiates, standing in Their ceremonial places without the Triangle, are

hidden from view by a wall of pure fire. The initiate sees no one, save the

Hierophant, and is aware of nothing but a fiery blaze of pure, blue-white

flame, which burns, but destroys not, which intensifies the activity of

every atom in his body without disintegrating, and which purifies his entire

nature. The fire tries his work, of what sort it is, and he passes through

the Flame. IHS 133-134

 

The crisis of the burning ground on the Path of Initiation is brought about

through the activity of Uranus. Uranus rules the occult Way and is, in an

esoteric sense, connected with the Hierophant of the Mysteries of

Initiation. [EA101]

 

“Uranus leads the soul to the burning ground during the final stages of the

Path, when the fire of Aries and the fires engendered through the potency of

Uranus produce the flaming heat of the final burning ground. Through this

burning ground, the initiate has finally to pass.”

 

Uranus embodies the energy of the seventh ray and its work is to relate

spirit and matter and bring together electric fire and fire by friction,

thus producing manifestation.

 

It is interesting to note that the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law and Order

works through Uranus which is today the transmitter of Sirian force via

Pisces to the [EA445] Hierarchy. From that "middle center" it passes to that

sensitive band of disciples, aspirants and workers to whose hearts and hands

is committed the heavy task, incident to the reorganization and the

rebuilding of the shattered world structure.

 

The seventh ray has sometimes been called a peculiar name by Knowers. It is

regarded as the "Ray of Ritualistic Decency." It aids and inaugurates the

appearing of a new world order, based on a spiritual drive and on

aspiration, mental freedom, loving understanding and a physical plane rhythm

which provides opportunity for full creative expression.

 

“To bring this about, energy from Shamballa (embodying the will-to-good) is

fused and blended with the organizing energy of the seventh ray and then

carried to humanity along the stream of love which emanates from the

Hierarchy itself. Pisces governs this effort of the Hierarchy because the

highest aspect of Pisces which humanity can at this time in any way

comprehend is that of Mediatorship. This is the energy of mediation, of

right relationship.”

 

SDP: Uranus is presently in the sign Pisces powerfully transmitting Sirian

force to the disciples of the world.

 

 

 

U R A N U S

 

3+ 9+1+ 5+ 3+ 1 = (22) = “4”, the number of the fourfold base of the spine

center, the cross of the Holy spirit and the 4th Order Earth.

 

The name of the Logos of Uranus has six sounds all of which are on the

1-3-5-7 ray line. Significantly, correspondingly, the enumeration of the

Rays of Uranus are as follows:

 

Ray I…….Monad

Ray 7…….Soul

Ray 3…….Personality

 

The six sounds stand for the fundamental potencies of the Energy of matter,

Kundalinishakti. The Six are the six forces of Nature.

The word Shakti also has six sounds and it comes comes from the root 'shak'

'to be able,' 'to have power.' These six are synthesized by their Primary,

the Seventh.

 

Significant to note, the feminine or 2-4-6 ray line shows up in equal

proportion to the hard ray line numbers via the “6” of the six sounds, the

“2” and the “2” of the Alpha Number and the “4” of the Reduced Alpha Number.

 

The (AN) value or Alpha Number of the name Uranus equals the famous magical

number “22”, the “Mystical Number of the Adept.”

 

The (RAN) value or Reduced Alpha Number is the “4”, the number of

manifestation of 4th Order Earth his physical vehicle. Also, the “4”,

stands for the cross within the circle the symbol of Earth as the fourfold

Lotus or Base of the spine center of the solar Logos. Keep in mind; in the

solar system, it is the 4th order Earth Scheme which holds the Basic center

position. Earth embodies the Will of the solar Logos just as Uranus embodies

His supreme Purpose in His Head center. Although the monadic ray of the

Earth Logos is the 1st, His esoteric scheme numbers are 777. Again, keep in

mind; the Earth scheme is the embodiment of the perfect type of the 7th type

of force and the physical incarnation of Uranus.

 

I would also emphasize the symbolism of the “4”, in connection to the Aries

Hierarchy ruled by Uranus, at present, on the 4th sub-plane of the cosmic

astral plane and working through Mercury on the 4th or buddhic plane of the

solar system and the 4th creative Hierarchy.

 

Earth Scheme #777

 

“It has been stated that a mystery lies hid in the 777 incarnations. This

figure provides room for much speculation. (S. D., I, 191.) Primarily this

number applies to the planetary Logos of our scheme and not so much to other

schemes. Each Heavenly Man has His number and the number of our Heavenly Man

lies hid in the above three figures, just as 666 and 888 holds the mystery

hid of two other Heavenly Men.”

 

This number 777 is also the number of transmutation, which is the

fundamental work of all the Heavenly Men. The basic work of man is

accumulation and acquisition, or the acquiring of that which must later be

transmuted. The work of transmutation, or the true cycle of 777 commences on

the Probationary Path, and is definitely the activity of a Heavenly Man

being realized and responded to by the cells in His Body. Only when His Body

has reached a certain vibratory movement can He truly influence the

individual cells.