The Externalisation Process

07.08.02 

 The theme today is that of the externalisation process. The current press forward of the inner ashrams on to the outer plane has a peculiar focus on the Seventh Ray. This is not only because this is the ray which will be conditioning the next two thousand years, but it is also because this ray has a particular connection to the First Initiation which humanity is undergoing, and also to the integration of the etheric and the physical body with the result being the control of the latter by the former. Let us take each of these three points:

 The Seventh Ray Age

 We will not speak of the obvious changes in emphasis that are heralded by the change from the Sixth to the Seventh Ray Age except to emphasise again the change in direction of spiritual focus from abstraction to manifestation. In the Sixth Ray Age it was necessary for the energy of abstraction to work both for humanity to strengthen its connection with Hierarchy and for the Hierarchy in their turn to strengthen their connection with Shamballa. Now the tide of spiritual life has turned and a great outpouring of the Will and Purpose of God is flowing through the ashrams and out through advanced humanity into the three worlds. The result of this outflow will be the externalisation of the Hierarchy and the governance of the Third Aspect or the personality of the planet by the Second Aspect, the soul or the Hierarchy, in accordance with the Will of the Planetary Logos held in Shamballa. These are now familiar concepts and yet they are so far-reaching that they will change almost every aspect of life on the planet over the next two thousand years. Not all of these changes concern humanity directly. There will, for instance, be a major impact upon the mineral kingdom and the etheric levels of the physical plane. Matter on all planes will become increasingly ‘radioactive’, or to put it more simply, matter will begin to transmit more potently the spiritual aspect and in particular the Will, because of the direct relationship between the First and the Seventh Rays.

 With respect to the externalisation of the Ashrams, this connection between the Seventh and First Rays is again apparent in the connection between the coming Seventh Ray Avatar and the Avatar of Synthesis. It is the Seventh Ray Avatar that will bring the energy of synthesis onto the physical plane itself, resulting in the externalisation again of the Mystery schools. The peculiar aspect of electrical stimulation which is necessary for initiation can once again be applied on the outer plane.

 “Next century, when the seventh ray has achieved complete manifestation and the Piscean influence is entirely removed, the seventh ray Avatar will appear. His work will demonstrate the law, order and rhythm of the creative process as it works out on the physical plane, blending spirit and matter. And as this ray is called the Ray of Ceremonial Order or Ritual, He will be largely instrumental in producing those conditions which will permit of the reappearance upon Earth of the Mysteries of Initiation, of which the Hierarchy is the custodian. He is necessarily connected with the Great White Lodge on Sirius.”  (Externalisation, pp.298-9)

 “Secondly, I referred earlier to the work of the seventh ray in connection with the phenomena of electricity, through which the solar system is coordinated and vitalised.  There is an aspect of electrical phenomena which produces cohesion, just as there is an aspect which produces light. This has not yet been recognised.  It is stated in The Secret Doctrine of H.P.B., and in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, that the electricity of the solar system is threefold: there is fire by friction, solar fire, and electric fire—the fire of body, of soul and of spirit. Fire by friction is coming to be somewhat understood by the scientists of the world, and we are harnessing to our needs the fire which heats, which gives light, and which produces motion. This is in the physical sense of the words. One of  the imminent discoveries will be the integrating power of electricity as it produces the cohesion within all forms and sustains all form life during the cycle of manifested existence.” (EP1, pp.373-4)

 What we might term the ‘fire of synthesis’ originates from the Avatar of Synthesis, and its result is the cohesive relationship of the three Rays of synthesis into One expression. Thus the energy of Shamballa (First Ray) and Hierarchy (Second Ray) are fused and expressed upon the physical/etheric plane (Seventh Ray). It is this electrical phenomena which will allow initiation to be registered in the consciousness of human beings through the direct stimulation of the brain via the etheric body. This relationship is worth thinking through.

 The Taking of the First Initiation by Humanity

 At the First Initiation the Seventh Ray is active in the shifting of the sacral energies to the throat chakra. I would like to point out a direct correspondence that has not had enough emphasis placed upon it – this is the transfer of the financial wealth of the world into the control of the Masters of the Hierarchy. Strictly speaking a Master who has taken the Fifth Degree but not yet the Sixth, is a part of the throat chakra of the planet. He has Mastered the lower five planes and is creatively expressing the Third Aspect of the monadic life. (We also refer to Third Degree initiates as the throat chakra as they are expressing the First Aspect of the personality life.)

 The bulk of humanity are polarised upon the astral plane and the energy of money (actually concretised prana) is controlled by the desire body of humanity. The gathering of money into the control of advanced humanity who are polarised upon the mental plane, and the eventual offering of it up into the direct control of the Masters who work through the triad, is the next step immediately ahead for the race. In order for this to happen, the antahkarana must be strongly built between advanced humanity and the ashrams upon the buddhic plane.

 Within the human body the analogy is the gathering of sacral energy into the solar plexus before the raising of it via the heart to the throat chakra where the light of matter and the light of manas meet and blend. The Seventh Ray is necessary for this process and if we could but see it, this process is well under way on the planet. The financial resources are gathering into fewer and fewer hands. Those who hold the resources are dominant personalities who are in the process of being ‘solarised’ just as the lower solar plexus centre must be solarised via the awakening point and the heart. The ‘awakened point’ within the life of humanity are those personalities who have stabilised soul contact and are thus able to intelligently present the next step forward. They are somewhat group conscious through contact with the heart - Hierarchy - and are sounding the note of humanitarian ‘love’. In order to ‘break’ the energies of the lower point ‘free’ however, the energy of the Will from the soul must be invoked. In Meditation Two the willing sacrifice of the soul is called forth to descend into the solar plexus and lift the energies up to the heart and from thence to the crown.

 The recent Shamballa Impact and the incident in New York last year are expressions of this process happening in humanity. If humanity as a whole handles these energies with wisdom the result will be a great upliftment of the consciousness (followed by the money) of advanced humanity towards Hierarchy and eventually towards Shamballa.

The danger with Will impacts is always the potential for an increase in fear and therefore a consolidation and crystallisation of the separative energies of the personality. The antidote is ‘love’. Hierarchy are now waiting to see the results of this impact. Is there enough ‘love’ within the body of humanity to result in an ‘opening up’ of the powerful personalities of the race towards the heart – Hierarchy - or will a period of personality retrenchment result, necessitating another rhythmic application of the Will to break up the crystallisation?

 The outcome can be aided by those disciples in incarnation working with the energy of conscious love to bridge towards those who hold the world’s wealth.  The connecting of the demand with the supply through inner meditative practices and the intelligent outer presentation of the need to those in a position to do something to relieve it, are essential pieces of service work for all those seeking to bring forth the energy of synthesis at this time. The Second Ray ashram is everywhere being complemented by the Seventh Ray in the process of externalising. This Seventh Ray calls forth the energy of the First Ray, through the educational and healing energies of the Second, onto the physical plane. Humanity must demonstrate ‘love in action’ and thus make way for the rebirth of the Christ energy in the heart of the human kingdom.

 The Linking of the Physical and Etheric Bodies

 In a planetary sense this process involves the linking of the ashrams on the buddhic plane, being the fourth ether, with the groups of causal bodies on the higher mental plane representing the ‘points of inflow’ into the three worlds. The Aquarian energies aid in the conscious coming together of souls into causal groups to facilitate this process. The result will be the control of the physical body of the Logos (the three worlds) by his etheric body. If that etheric body is able to transmit the Will of the Logos from his causal body upon the cosmic mental plane, the result will be the demonstration of the Will of God in manifestation.

 The equivalent in the human system can be seen in the fact that it is possible for a human to take the First and Second initiations without consciously registering the fact within his physical brain. At the Third Initiation however, the energy of the soul is so fused with the personality that whatever transpires within the consciousness is ‘registered’ by the brain. This is a result of atma flowing through the sacrifice petals of the soul into the etheric body, with the resulting stimulation of the kundalini fires in the base and the rising of  energy from the lower chakras to the higher. The ‘light in the head’ which is formed by the overlapping of the three head centres has a radiatory effect upon the physical cells of the brain. This happens via the ‘vital airs’ within the head. These vital airs are analogous to the groups of causal bodies on the mental plane which bring the triple light of synthesis (Light Supernal) into the three worlds via the advanced minds of humanity.

 “The Procedure required for the manifestation of "light supernal" takes place when a transitory point of synthesis is reached and the seven energies are blended into one great energetic Light. These seven energies have ever, unitedly, created the "light supernal" upon the highest levels of divine expression, but that revealing light only finds Location when the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order is active and in process of manifestation in the three worlds, and necessarily, therefore, upon the seventh plane, the physical plane. Such a manifestation inevitably takes place in moments of planetary crisis, when the seventh ray is active and when the Sun is in Aquarius.”  (DINAII, p. 425)

 The purpose of this manifestation of Light Supernal upon the physical plane which is just ahead of us on the planet, is not primarily to benefit humanity as is commonly thought from the human-centric point of view. It is much more encompassing than this. The Solar Logos is taking the Third cosmic Initiation. The Will of his Second Ray soul must reach through his etheric body and awaken the ‘secret light within the form’. The awakening of this light will have a radioactive effect upon the physical plane. This radiation is ‘the Will to Love’. Its primary effects within the three worlds will be radioactivity on the physical plane, the sharing of resources and the experience of unity on the astral plane, and the recognition of Hierarchy and the demonstration of brotherhood upon the mental plane.

Humanity will thus carry out in the farthest world the edict of their solar Lord.

 "When light illuminates the minds of men and stirs 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, and the 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.’"  (DINAII, pp.314-15)