13.06.01

 The so-called soul on the mental plane is merely the wrapping of the buddhic entity in ahamkaric matter. The surrender of the ‘identity’ is the way in which the mental matter is released and the soul returns into its group identification within the ashram upon the buddhic plane. Your separate identity is only an illusion created by the operation of the Law of Fixation upon the mental plane. When you allow the Law of Magnetic Control to be more powerful it ‘pulls the soul free’ into buddhi through bringing the lower aspect of manas upon the mental plane into relationship with its higher aspect upon the atmic plane. These two aspects of manas bring the intelligent identities of two beings into relationship with each other – that of the human unit and that of the Heavenly Man of which he is a part. The Heavenly Man on the monadic plane expresses his identity on the atmic, just as the human Hierarchy on the buddhic plane expresses - or should I say, experiences - its identity upon the mental plane. And the human personality, centred in the astral plane, expresses itself on the physical. In this second solar system the alignment between the second, fourth and sixth planes brings these three entities into direct relationship, and the result of that relationship brings the atmic, mental and physical planes into alignment so that the creative Plan of the Heavenly Man is eventually expressed upon the physical plane.

 Let me give you some simple examples. In the human personality first. A man develops the idea that he wants to accomplish something – let’s say climb a mountain. This idea must be something that the emotional self is enthusiastic about, else it will never manifest. Once there is the desire however, the physical body is put in motion and if the desire is strong enough it will support the body to exceed its normal capacities – both in training for the event and also during the ascent itself. This forcing process results in a form of ‘initiation’ for the cells within the physical body as they have increasingly large amounts of ‘higher’ energy flowing through them. Similarly within the triad, when the soul has a purpose, emanating from the atmic plane, it must gather the necessary energies upon the buddhic plane and then express them through the mental. The process of expressing that purpose through the causal body is what creates the burning of the causal body. That fire generates the ‘enlightenment’ of the mind and is the source eventually of the ‘ideas’ which the human manifests upon the physical plane.  The same process happens on higher levels – the solar purpose is contacted upon the logoic plane, cohered on the monadic plane and expressed through the atmic. This expression generates the energy which the soul experiences as purpose and then expresses upon the mental plane. This expression generates the energy (ideas) which the personality experiences as purpose and endeavours to carry out upon the physical plane. Alignment through all these planes eventually results in the solar Will being anchored and expressed upon the physical plane on this planet. There you have a succinct expression of the underlying process which the Lord of the World is trying to carry out.

 If you take the process on to cosmic planes you will see that our Solar Logos is trying to achieve the Third Initiation, while our Planetary Logos is reaching for the Second. We might translate this as follows: The Solar Logos is endeavouring to fuse the energies of soul and personality and to thereby carry the will of his soul (aligned with the Sirian will) into expression through his personality – Agni and the planetary schemes expressing on the cosmic mental, astral and physical planes. At the Third Initiation this Will energy must reach the base chakra and awaken the solar kundalini.

 The work of our Planetary Logos is to take the Second cosmic Initiation. He is attempting to Master the energies of the cosmic astral plane so that he is able to transmit the will of his soul – the Solar Logos - without distortion and inversion onto the cosmic physical plane. Thus we have an alignment of three wills upon cosmic planes – The Sirian Logos, The Solar Logos and the Planetary Logos. These wills have their expression upon the first three subplanes of the cosmic physical: The logoic plane, monadic plane and atmic plane. Once these three wills have achieved the necessary alignment and interplay, something far greater will be revealed through their synthetic relationship, in the same way that the human soul is revealed through the integrated personality. This is the cosmic revelation that will make of this planet a ‘magnetic centre’ in the universe.

06.06.01

 At this time of the Gemini full Moon I want to give information about the Christ and his relationship to the Avatar of Synthesis. In this system it is the Second Ray which is synthetic. The system must be synthesised by and through Love, and hence the role of the World Saviour. The Love aspect must be strengthened by the Will however, if synthesis is to take place. Not only must he ‘love all’ but he must draw all towards synthetic Purpose. He must lift all unto the Father. This statement "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me" is one of the most significant in the Bible, linking as it does, Love and Will. (St. John, XII.32, see GWP, p.167) Consciousness must fully permeate matter and then arise and return to the source. Christ has therefore a role to play that is more significant than has been realised to date. He must open himself to the inflowing energies from the Avatar, while at the same time externalising through the Hierarchy. His consciousness is being liberated from the whole cosmic physical plane, at the same time as fully externalising on the lowest of the physical planes. In this is the true mystery of the ‘highest and the lowest’ and the ‘last shall be first and the first last’. True mastery of a cosmic plane means that all matter on that plane must be permeated. I have said elsewhere that there are several types of initiation. Relative mastery of a plane is established when the consciousness is shifted from the lower four subplanes to a higher three. Initiation is taken then on the third subplane when two-thirds of the matter of the plane has been mastered. Two-thirds is the ratio which symbolises the mastery of the Second Aspect over the Third. This is why a Master is one who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is functioning upon the atmic plane.

 There is another type of initiation however, which marks the mastery of a whole plane.

This requires that ALL the matter of the subplanes is mastered. Herein lies the difference between ‘freedom from a plane’ and ‘mastery of a plane’. The first type of mastery, which involves freedom is obtained by the consciousness struggling to liberate itself. Once liberated however, under the very principle of achieved freedom, the entity may choose to remain ‘confined’ within the ring-pass-not through which it has just broken, until ALL the matter within that sphere has been mastered. It is such a decision which gives our Planetary Logos the appellation “the Great Sacrifice”. (DINAII, p.286)

 The human Hierarchy is the Fourth, and is to be found functioning upon the buddhic plane. The initiations of the threshold are primarily about ‘freeing’ the consciousness of this Hierarchy from its misidentification with the lower planes and states of matter. At the First Initiation the consciousness is freed from identification with form, at the Second from the emotions, and the Third from the mind. This re-centres the identity on the buddhic plane and results in relative mastery of the lower planes – ie. the mastery that results from the liberation of the consciousness.

 “The clue to the seventh initiation which lies ahead for such high Beings as the Christ would be of no service to you at all. The clue to the initiation of the Transfiguration can be of importance, as it involves the personality, and many of you in the not so distant future (from the angle of the aeonial life cycle of the soul) will face that. The secret of the third initiation is the demonstration of complete freedom from the claims and demands of the personality. It does not involve the achievement of a completely perfect expression of the spiritual life, but it does indicate that the service of the initiate and his life demonstration—regarded in a broad and general way, from the angle of the life-tendency and of entire dedication to humanity—remains untouched by the limitations, still existent, of the personal lower self.” (RAI, pp.44-5)

 There is still unredeemed matter in the lower bodies however.  This matter is redeemed sequentially. Once the human Hierarchy is able to stabilise its consciousness on the atmic plane, the result is mastery of the unredeemed matter on the mental plane. The reabsorption of consciousness into the identity upon the monadic plane (note the wording) results in Mastery of the astral plane; and finally, the shattering of the monadic identity that occurs when the energy of the logoic plane is brought into play, allows for the Mastery of the physical plane resulting in the ‘burning up of dense matter’. The nuclear explosions were a small example of this energy, released through fission. Fusion is the release of this energy through a Second Ray process and a ‘sun’ is an example of this process in full expression.

 The reappearance of the Christ upon the physical plane therefore (using the vestures of the Buddha) is the result of events upon the logoic plane of the cosmic physical. The Avatar of Synthesis is a being who has achieved Mastery over ALL the subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. It is the merging of his radiation with that of the Christ which will enable this event to take place. It must be done through the Christ, as in this second solar system the monadic plane is the high point of achievement, just as in the last the atmic plane represented the high point, and in the next solar system the radiation from the logoic plane will permeate the whole of the cosmic physical plane without being stepped down through the energies of the monadic plane.

 “Our modern civilisation today (under the hammer of the destroyer aspect) is being changed; old things are passing away, having served their purpose.  The new thing is not yet noted or appreciated, though already present. The work of preparation for the planting of the germ or seed of the divine will on Earth is nearly over; when the Hierarchy is externalised, and men as a whole recognise the position on Earth of the Christ and of His church "invisible" (the union of all souls made perfect, which is a true description of the Hierarchy), then—in a manner unforeseen by humanity—Shamballa will assume control, and from the Council Chamber of Sanat Kumara will issue forth the Sower of the seed; He will sow it within the ground prepared by humanity, and thus the future is assured, not for the planetary Logos alone, but for that greater Whole in which our planet plays its little part. That moment lies ahead in the civilisation which shall be, and in the next great race which will emerge out of all our modern races and nations, the sowing will take place. The next race will be a fusion of the whole, and a world-wide recognition of the One Humanity is an essential prerequisite of the sowing. It is the creation of this universal recognition which will be one of the major tasks of the reappearing Christ and His attendant Hierarchy. When the "little wills of men" are beginning to respond on a measurably large scale to the greater Will of the divine Life, then the major task of Shamballa will become possible…” (R&I, pp.659-60)

 “But in the last analysis, human progress is purely relative and incidental. The factor of supreme importance is the ability of the planetary Logos to carry out His primary intention and bring His "project" to a sound consummation, thus fulfilling the task given to Him by His great superior, the Solar Logos.

 The eighth and the ninth initiations (of which neither you nor I can know practically anything) relate to the initiations of those methods and techniques whereby the "seed of will," which will later flower into the third solar system, can be nurtured and fostered and its growth promoted. This nurturing and fostering will be the task of a group of Masters (to be developed in the next major race) Who, at the Initiation of Decision, the sixth initiation, will dedicate Themselves, as a group, to the Path of Earth Service. They will specifically and with full enlightenment pledge Themselves to the promotion of Sanat Kumara's project. With this our present group of Masters are not specifically concerned; Their task is the application of the evolutionary process with a view to the preparation of the field of the world for the future divine sowing.”  (R&I, pp.660-1)

 22..08.01

 For the soul to work through a lower centre it must have no attachments to the energies of the centre or the plane that the centre is accessing. This is related to the doctrine of avatars. An avatar has nothing to learn from the environment in which he makes his appearance. Nor is he manifesting under karmic obligation. There is naught in him that resonates or ‘relates’ to the environment in which he finds himself. There is no RELATIONSHIP in the sense of an ‘interplay’. An avatar is merely the embodiment of a principle. He can only appear when a system has reached the stage where it is ready to respond to the principle which he is embodying.  The system slowly learns to relate to the principle through being unable to relate to he who embodies that principle! It is like a strange new inert metal appearing. Scientists try everything they can to test the properties of this metal. Chemical reactions, intense heat, pressure. Finally they put it to the test of the ultimate power they know – a nuclear explosion - and still not a scratch. And right here, where the scientists give up, the new metal, as an avatar, begins to reveal something. Just by its appearance it has opened a crack of not-knowing in the consciousness of the scientists. They become intensely aware of the presence of mystery, of properties heretofore unknown to them, of possibilities unimagined. This is the function of an avatar – not to teach through engagement, through learning the language of the local system or trying in any way to influence that system. Merely to become present in one system while embodying a principle which transcends those which are currently operating within the system of appearance. An inert catalyst.

 An avatar from Capricorn makes his appearance once in every scheme - in the third round in the third chain - and will remain until the fifth round in this the fourth chain. An avatar from Sirius appears at the initiation of a Solar Logos. The only thing an avatar could be said to be ‘learning’ from his mission is the capacity to ‘sustain at a distance’. An example would be of a person in a city listening for a bell ringing in the central cathedral. The further away from the city centre he is, the more he must strain to catch the notes. The more he must endeavour to tune out and be unaffected by the local noise occurring in the suburb in which he finds himself. Sirius is like the bell in the central cathedral and the avatar is in the suburb of the local system. Thus there are three distinct forms of teaching:

 The Third Aspect teaching is by those who work with you and are perhaps a little further along the path. They are able to relate directly, almost horizontally, in that they have recently experienced the challenges which you face and are able to give direct practical assistance. This is summed up by the word Intelligence and corresponds to the personality.

 The Second Aspect teaching is illustrated in the concept of a boddhisattva: A liberated being choosing to limit himself for the sake of lesser unliberated lives. This is a more vertical relationship and one that occurs primarily in consciousness and may have no outer personality form. However it is a ‘personal’ relationship in that the helping of the lesser lives is the ‘primary’ focus and motivation of the sacrificing consciousness. It is the Christ principle and summed up by the word Love and corresponds to the soul.

  The First Aspect teaching has little to do with relationship at all and for this reason leads

out of the realm of consciousness into ‘Life’ itself.  There is no intended effect of one consciousness upon another (or others). The purpose is not ‘relational’ and therefore the teaching occurs as a by-product of the interaction rather than as an intended outcome. The ‘teacher’ is focusing all his attention upon a principle and the only way for others to relate to him is for them to begin to relate to that principle too. This is not really a relationship however but ‘identification’, the sharing in the Life of a principle.

This type of teaching is ‘avataric’, is summed up by the word Purpose and corresponds to the monad.

 This latter teaching is, in effect, the refusal to relate to anything within a system. It is the aspect of the Will which leads to abstraction. The planets Pluto, Vulcan and Earth all manifest a different aspect of the Will. Pluto has a First Ray personality which leads to the destruction of that which limits form expression. Vulcan has a First Ray soul which leads to the destruction of that which limits the expression of consciousness (leading to the destruction of the causal body). Earth has a First Ray monad which leads to the destruction of all that limits ‘Life’ expression (leading perhaps to the destruction of the atmic body) and the liberation of the monad onto the cosmic paths. In this way Pluto relates to the Second Initiation, Vulcan to the Fourth and Earth to the Sixth. Their combined influence may be required to take the Ninth Initiation, ‘the Refusal’.

 This line of thought may help to understand the placement of the Earth in the astrological chart as the monadic point in opposition to the Sun. In addition, if Earth is to form the germ of Will for the next solar system, its monadic influence upon the incarnating lives of other schemes must be carefully considered. As the personality when balanced reveals the soul, and the spiritual triad reveals the monad, what will the synthesis of the three higher planes reveal? What new revelation of deity will appear as the central eye in the triangle of Vulcan, Earth and Pluto? What is the Freedom which willful focus upon Purpose eventually brings?