A Call For Synthesis (from the Mercury Transmissions )

 16.04.03

 I want to draw your attention today to putting this work into proper perspective. When speaking of the educational effort undertaken by myself over several centuries, and more particularly the esoteric writings through HPB and Alice Bailey, it is easy to get a distorted view of the relative importance of this work. Indeed it is most valuable in leading many intelligent thinkers in Western society into a deeper relationship with the essential underlying realities of the vast beings who are the energetic realities in which we live. It is not by any means the only form of esoteric truth in the world today, and nor are those familiar with my writings in any way qualified to assume any kind of superior status resulting from its acquisition. On the contrary, the imparting of spiritual information always carries with it responsibility for both the source and the recipient.

All true spiritual growth is measured through the application of wisdom, and is obvious to those who watch from the inner worlds in such things as causal development. The great danger of spiritual information that is not applied is that it can serve to inhibit growth rather than promote it. The mind becomes stuffed with data, stored as acquisitively as a banker stores his gold, and distributed with the same degree of expectation of return. Although the type of return is not in this case interest in the monetary sense, but ‘interest’ in the sense of ‘attention’. Humanity as a whole is beginning to be more aware of the power of ‘attention’. Attention is soul energy, whether of not this is understood by the entity directing the attention.

This attention is increased by using the powers of ‘mental seduction’ which work the same way as physical seduction. Human desires want to chase that which is withheld from them, in the expectation that its possession will somehow bestow upon them something which they already unknowingly possess. The possession of money for example, is only of value if the individual possessing it is free from any sense that his self value or his survival depends upon such possession. In addition, the money must be recognised as belonging ultimately to the Christ, and must be held in such a way that it brings benefit to humanity as a whole and not to the individual at the expense of the collective.

 The possession of esoteric wisdom follows exactly the same rules. It is better not to learn anything and to turn away from the esoteric tradition knowing that you know nothing, than to acquire knowledge to artificially bolster a lack of self-worth, or to hold captive  the attention of others who seek knowledge for self-serving ends. Just as it is difficult to find genuine philanthropists – those who are able to hold and distribute wealth for the collective - so it is difficult to find initiate esotericists – those able to hold and distribute wisdom for the benefit of their others. The proverb that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven, has particular relevance to the Third Initiation. This initiation, as we know, concerns the mind and the mastery of illusion. Knowledge is gained, thoughtforms are built, and eventually all must be given away and released in order for the indwelling entity to pass freely onto the buddhic plane.

This one of the reasons that I have said that there are few esotericists found among the New Group of World Servers. Often those who come to God along the path of service are more able to demonstrate the Love principle that as at the core of the initiatory process than those who come along the path of manas. If you think through the analogy between those who control money and those who control information, and consider the high preponderance of Moon Chain egos in the current make-up of humanity, some light may come on the difficulties that Third Ray types have in releasing that which has been accumulated.

 There are some hard truths here. The average esotericist would like to believe that he is among the most advanced of humanity simply because he has been drawn to study esoteric matters. Further, he would like to imagine that there are relatively few spiritual workers in the world, and that those people who are in positions of power and influence amongst the educational, political and economic structures of their society are not spiritually motivated. A case could equally be made for the reverse point of view – that esotericists are quite simply those who require remedial work that consists in a prolonged opening of their minds before they are willing to open their hearts.

 Esotericists can also tend to look down upon those who are obviously motivated by financial gain, while they themselves are motivated by the gain of abstract esoteric information. The harvester of grain is not so different from the harvester of corn as they both are from the sowers of any crop. The truth is that there are very many spiritual workers, and many of them would not label themselves as ‘spiritual’ at all. They are men and women motivated by a sense of contribution to the whole, living lives of balance and goodwill.

 If you want to transition from an esotericist to an occultist, then the application of  wisdom is essential. An esotericist studies the wisdom traditions. An occultist applies them, using the mind to direct higher energies into the world of form, spiritualising Matter as a result of the recognition that both are one. The simplest way for the transition to be made is to give all your possessions to God. Or speaking in the language of esotericism, to give all your personality acquisitions to the soul, which is your Self and in the relinquishing of all, all is gained by your higher identity. And then to relinquish all that the soul has gained through its many incarnations in the three worlds and stored away in the causal body – to give all these possessions of consciousness to the monad, the One, to be utilised according to divine Purpose. I, as a Second Ray worker, would bring to your attention the Law of Repulse for the Second Ray.

 “The Direction of Ray II.

 "The Scholar knows the truth.  All is revealed to him.  Surrounded by his books, and sheltered in the world of thought, he burrows like a mole, and finds his way into the darkness; he arrives at knowledge of the world of natural things. His eye is closed. His eyes are opened wide. He dwells within his world in deep content.

 Detail on detail enter into the content of his world of thought. He stores the nuggets of the knowledge of the world, as a squirrel stores its nuts. The storehouse now is adequately full....Sudden a spade descends, for the thinker tends the garden of his thought, and thus destroys the passages of mind. Ruin arrives, destroying fast the storehouse of the mind, the safe security, the darkness and the warmth of a satisfied enquiry. All is removed.  The light of summer enters in and the darkened crannies of the mind see light....Naught is left but light, and that cannot be used. The eyes are blinded and the one eye seeth not as yet....

 Slowly the eye of wisdom must be opened. Slowly the love of that which is the true, the beautiful and good must enter the dark passages of worldly thought. Slowly the torch of light, the fire of right must burn the garnered treasures of the past, yet show their basic usefulness....

 The seven ways of light must wean away the attention of the Scholar from all that has been found and stored and used.  This he repulses and finds his way into that Hall of Wisdom which is built upon a hill, and not deep under ground. Only the opened eye can find this way."” (EPII, p.167)

 If you think of those workers all over the world who have connected with my writings and who have consequently filled their minds with abstract knowledge, as part of one ashramic mind – similar to computers that are networked together and can thus provide far greater storage than would otherwise be the case – then you will have a glimpse of my work. Just as I spread the knowledge through all the books, so I have spread the study of these books through hundreds of thousands of minds on the planet. And now the spade descends. Synthesis underlies the outer form. All my writings could be synthesised by me into one symbol, one word of power, one intention. They emanate from one essential Purpose and have spread far and wide. I now sound again the note of Purpose, bringing the many back to the one, forcing all to drop whatever separative accumulations they have acquired on the way – revealing the underlying synthesis that pre-dated the proliferation.

 Shamballa is the spade – it breaks down those forms which have served their purpose. Christ is calling all those who have accumulated to release. Harvesting is to be replaced by sowing, and in this way Hierarchy will externalise. This is having an effect on the financiers of the world as well as on esotericists. Distribute your resources now, or hold on to them and have them poison your system and prevent you from accessing that which you seek most. That which was hidden must be revealed, that which was stored up for the future must be spent now.