5 May 2004
TAURUS full Moon (Wesak)
Let me begin by repeating a quote from the last series of transmissions:
I would like you to think carefully about this: There is a direct relationship between the atmic plane and the etheric plane. This relationship lies outside consciousness—concerning as it does the Life thread—but has results IN consciousness. I seek to bring the energies of these planes into relationship through my work with this group. Here are some basic truths that will help orient us towards this reality:
The soul is a field of consciousness between the darkness of unsolarised matter and the darkness of the monad. In this second solar system the soul is seeking to expand in two directions. Outward results in the solarisation of the personality and inward results in the empowerment of the soul as well as its eventual elimination. At the Third Degree, and to a lesser extent at the Second, the soul must call on the monad in order to overcome the forces of resistance in the personality and anchor fully in the base chakra. The reason it must call on the higher power is because the lower resistance is of the same energetic equivalent as the higher. The soul alone does not have the power to overcome the ‘spirit-in-matter’ without the aid of the ‘formless spirit’. The lowest formless spirit or ‘Life’ expression that can be somewhat ‘understood’ or worked with ‘consciously’ is atma, which being the Third Aspect of the monad is the ‘form’ that formless spirit takes—if such a relative use of these terms can apply. Atma is formless spirit ‘sheathed’ in consciousness—the anchor of life in the soul as the soul anchors through the causal body in the personality expression.
In the field of expression which is humanity there is a growing capacity to work with the soul energies of both Light and Love. This can be seen in the solarising of the mental and astral bodies of humanity as a whole. The energy that Hierarchy is seeking to introduce more fully into the consciousness and capacity of humanity is the energy of Will or Power. Once this energy is assimilated then the synthesis of the three energies will reveal that which lies behind them.
The lack of capacity that humanity currently demonstrates in the distribution of the economic resources of the planet has a direct relationship to the lack of assimilation of the energy of Will or atma. The money in the world is being blocked from flowing because of fear held in the unconscious or semiconscious intelligence of the body itself. Love will not conquer this lower fear, only Will can—the will of the soul.
Disciples and initiates up to the Third Degree are still controlled in many subtle ways by this fear, which in reality an instinctual fear of death, which is the reflection unconsciously in matter of the instinctual fearlessness of the soul. The combined result of this fear is a powerlessness upon the physical plane. This powerlessness is expressed in the many spiritual groups in the world who give Light and who give Love and yet experience themselves in need of money. They are—in their mass—the world disciple, not yet initiate.
For this reason it is said that the true Teaching cannot be charged for. Teaching given by an initiate is freely given as the Sun gives light. It is an energetic ‘soular’ distribution of the combined energies of Light, Love and Power and not an exchange of solarised matter (buddhi-infused manas and astrality) for unsolarised. The solarisation of money in the world will not come about through its enforced redistribution no matter how subtle, but by its freely given response elicited from Love empowered by Will. This is a Second Ray group seeking to work with the energies of the First and Second Rays. The education of souls is your primary aim and not the production of outer events, even at the expense of the Love principle. That is the work—when required by a higher principle—of the First Ray ashram.
In the first series of transmissions I asked you to willingly direct your mental attention to my will. In the second I asked you to hold your mental and astral energies in alignment with that will and utilised the group field in order to clarify a portion of the wider field in which you work. In this series I am asking—amongst other things—for your money. As before, you must distinguish between submission and the surrendered will. That which is submitted to is disempowering. That which is surrendered is given back. In this case I am giving the money back for you to distribute according to your own soul will, which is intrinsically not separate although differentiated from mine. Thus will the energy of money be ‘relaundered’—through ‘sacrifice’ or making sacred.
As I have stated before, I seek in my third phase teachings to work with those groups who are able to take ‘direction’. This necessitates groups who have developed self-will and therefore can willingly surrender to direction. Their education comes as a result of that willingness. You must clearly think through your participation, as at the beginning of each of the previous transmissions. If you are not able to willingly surrender it is best to not participate. Similarly, if you do participate, do so at a level that stretches but does not exceed your ‘willingness’.
I seek through your cooperation to empower the NGWS. These are men and women of goodwill who genuinely seek to benefit the greater whole of the planetary life. They have developed some degree of planetary consciousness and therefore of soul awareness and are motivated to action in the three worlds out of this consciousness. In empowering them Hierarchy seeks to aid from both above and below the level of consciousness from which they work. Those who have built the vertical antahkarana are capable of being used to distribute that empowerment.
As a group you will find if you carefully examine yourselves that you work principally in consciousness. I seek to extend your work in two directions. The higher aspect concerns the distribution of atma via the group soul. The consciousness of the group is surrendered for a time so that it can be ‘worked through’, thus acting as a field of distribution for the liberating Light Supernal. This energy entering a prepared field via the jewel empowers it by galvanising the soul, increasing its radiatory power and stimulating the opening of the petals from within. It is the ‘First Ray’ aspect of your work.
The distribution of money empowers them from beneath and has results in the lifting and transmutation of unconscious fear at a level which would surprise you in its extent. It is not only that money is practically needed for the work but when it is utilised as a spiritual energy it has far reaching effects in consciousness. Most members of the NGWS have some awareness of Hierarchy although they would not all use that terminology. They are aware that there are spiritual forces at work which aid them in unexpected ways, but because of the stage of solarisation of the planet and because of the attendant split in planetary consciousness, spiritual forces are largely interpreted as ‘ethereal’ and ‘descending from above’. Initiates know that all is spirit from the depths to the heights and therefore can consciously direct the energies of the depths as well as the heights.
Shamballa directs all the energies of the planet, conscious and unconscious, but Hierarchy can only direct those that are solarised. When money is so directed through groups such as yours at the same time as the energy of atma, it has a peculiar effect in those receiving. Because they originate from the same source they contain within them energetically a reconciliation of the basic dualities of soul and matter, consciousness and form. This reconciliation has a profound effect on the at-one-ment of the receiving consciousness, whether or not it is actually aware of the process. The consciousness or soul principle is being ‘fed’ from the Father and Mother aspects simultaneously and it results in something that I can only describe as ‘soul peace’. In that ‘peace’ the soul flourishes and grows in a way that one or other empowerment alone could not produce.
It represents a dynamic interplay of the First and Seventh Ray energies that reconciles the discord in consciousness experienced in the transition from Sunday’s ‘worship’ to Monday’s ‘work’. Think this through.
The result of attending to this dual work of empowerment will be an alignment in your own consciousness (and an increased awareness of anything that is out of alignment) between the third and seventh planes via the fifth. The causal body is the bridge between the atmic body or physical monadic sheath and the body or physical personality sheath. It is the soul of the lower five planes and is crucified on the higher mental plane as a part of the at-one-ment process between their energies. Remember that groups working with the energy of Will are working with the higher and lower life energies (which are intrinsically one) to produce effects in consciousness. Some of those eventual effects in your own systems are likely to be:
- . An increased awareness of and liberation from fear that has its roots in the physical vehicle.
- . A conflict and then a deeper peace experienced in the soul or consciousness field.
- . An increased identification with other groups and projects, with consequent empowerment of your own.
- . Increased kundalini activation and magnetism.
- . An increased flow of money in to your hands.
I have given enough here for you to assimilate and think deeply upon. You are engaged in an experiment and have some indications as to the reason for it and the expected outcomes. Once begun, your work will be to follow the process through, review and evaluate the results for yourself. This is the stage of beginning, and a beginning always requires will. Free will. The work to date is complete in itself and no assumptions are made about the continued participation of any group members. That is a matter for each to assess. I would only advocate a whole-hearted decision.
12 May 2004
2. The Registrants of The Purpose
There is a definite distinction between Purpose and Will; it is subtle indeed, but quite definite to the advanced initiate, and therefore the dualistic nature of our planetary manifestation and our solar Expression appear even in this. The Members of the Council at Shamballa recognise this distinction and therefore divide Themselves into two groups which are called in the ancient parlance, Registrants of the Purpose and Custodians of the Will. Will is active. Purpose is passive, waiting for the results of the activity of the will. These two groups are reflected in hierarchical circles by the Nirmanakayas or the Planetary Contemplatives, and the Custodians of the Plan. The function of the Registrants of the Purpose is to keep the channel open between our Earth, the planet Venus and the Central Spiritual Sun. The function of the Custodians of the Will is to relate the Council, the Hierarchy and Humanity, thus creating a basic triangle of force between the three major centres of the planetary Life. This is the higher expression (symbolic, if you like) of the six-pointed star, formed of two interlaced triangles. (The Rays & The Initiations, p.69)
I am using this duality in your instructions because it is based upon the duality expressing through the fundamental centre of planetary life—Shamballa. While conscious participation in the life of this planetary centre lies far ahead, it is an archetype that can be used and understood thus bringing that participation ever nearer.
Let me make the distinction between Purpose and Will more clear for you. We have in the three-fold expression of monad, soul and personality three expressions of directive energy. The personality is qualified by ‘intention’. The personality ‘intends’ a purpose in the three worlds. Because of the gap in the antahkarana between the mental unit and the causal body this intention in its early stages is not necessarily aligned with the will of the soul but it is nevertheless derived from it. A disciple is consciously creating an alignment between the intention of the personality and the will of the soul. An initiate is able to extend this alignment to the centre of planetary purpose Shamballa via the monad.
Personality intention is not soul will and soul will is not planetary purpose, but in each case the lower is derived from the higher. When the antahkarana is fully built the higher levels of purpose are consciously precipitated into and inform the lower. Planetary purpose is an energy stored within Shamballa in the same way that the Life principle is anchored in the heart. Our planetary and Solar Logoi are on the path of cosmic initiation and so there is no misalignment between their soul will and personality intention, although in the case of the Planetary Logos this alignment is yet to work out fully upon the physical plane. The Planetary Logos is attempting to implement a portion of solar Will and has therefore anchored the energy required to implement this Will in the Council Chamber. There it is experienced as pure energy, the energy of Life itself, and those who participate in that Life know it to be that which sustains and pervades the incarnated manifestation of the Logos.
This energy of Purpose is not Will as we know it, but its presence in Shamballa is a result of a higher Will. The atmic plane is that which formulates Purpose into Will in the same way that the mental plane formulates or sheaths buddhi into manas. The formless Life of the logoic plane is combined with the coherent Life of the monadic plane and fixed into a point of focused Will that is the essence of the atmic body. The atmic plane is where the Plan is formulated and thus represents the creative throat centre of our deity. Fifth Degree initiates participate in the formulation of the Plan, but the Plan is not the Purpose. It is merely an expression of that Purpose within a more limited time/space ring-pass-not of the five worlds. The Purpose is fixed and unchangeable. It is already complete but not yet manifested. The Plan is changeable depending upon the effects of the Will on the lower three worlds.
While the Plan is changeable from the perspective of the monad or Shamballa, it is nevertheless relatively fixed from the perspective of the personality or Humanity. A portion of the Hierarchical Plan is worked out in the lesser time and space cycles experienced in the three worlds. Let me make this clearer by analogy with the three aspects of the human being. A monad is essential energy embodying a purpose that encompasses the time/space of incarnation in the three solar systems. It is a dual expression of planetary and solar manifestation along one of the three primary rays of monadic life. Let us say this essential energy is of the Second Ray and thus the monad has a particular affinity for the second solar system—thus expressing the essential Love nature of the Solar Lord. This essential Love nature is then expressed within or sheathed by soul within the realms of the triad. The will of the soul is a subset of the purpose of the monad within the five worlds. Let us say the soul is along the First Ray line thus clothing the essential Love nature in an assertive expression. The Purpose is Love and the Plan is a willful expression of that Love in such a way as to reveal it over a long series of incarnations. Let us say that in a particular incarnation the soul has expressed through a Fourth Ray personality at the stage of discipleship leading to the Third Initiation. The personality may formulate a number of fluctuating ‘intentions’ during the life, which will be forcefully implemented or destroyed by the soul according to whether they are in alignment with the plan the soul is working on over a longer series of initiations. As the personality intentions become increasingly aligned with the soul will then more of that will or plan is revealed to the incarnated consciousness. At the Third Initiation that plan is grasped in its entirety and what is revealed is the monadic purpose which underlies that plan thus creating an alignment between purpose, will and intention.
On a planetary scale Humanity is the world disciple. It makes decisions and has ‘intentions’ based on an independently operating free will which is nevertheless derived from the centre of planetary Life. When this ‘intention’ is in alignment with the Plan which is in the custody of Hierarchy then it is reinforced. The so-called ‘forces of Light’ aid those sections of humanity who are holding and attempting to implement a vision which is in accordance with Hierarchical Will. Once humanity can be trusted to understand and implement that Will then the Purpose which lies behind that Will can be revealed. This revelation of Purpose is taking place sequentially within the ranks of disciples and initiates that form the New Group of World Servers. It is not a purpose that when revealed can be taken on or implemented by an individual or a group—that would be a misinterpretation of planetary purpose at the level of personality intention. A group—even a group as large as the New Group of World Servers—cannot even implement the Plan, only a portion of that Plan relevant to the time in which they are incarnated. The Purpose is even vaster in scale. It is not then experienced as ‘directional’. It is not an intention to carry out, nor a Plan to conform to, but the overwhelming experience of the energy of Life which lies behind and sustains the Plan and can pervade the formulated intention for the incarnation. The initiate knows ‘all is well’ not theoretically but through direct contact with the “peace that passeth understanding”. (IHS, p.77) From that moment doubt ceases, fear ends and joy shot through with occasional experiences of bliss becomes the basic psychological foundation of the life.
Prior to this experience the disciple is under constant inner stress attempting to maintain alignment with the Will, to implement his intention and to cooperate with the Plan. It is a life and death struggle in which all can be lost or gained. After the direct experience of Life itself—even momentarily as happens at the Second Initiation, and more stably at the Third—all is changed. The initiate knows that nothing he does or fails to do can make the slightest bit of difference to the eventual working out of Purpose. The Purpose IS. It is Life itself. It IS the very core of his own Being. He has made direct contact with the Father and knows all is in safe hands. He may fall away from his alignment, fail in his intention, but he cannot negate the experience. It is fundamental and becomes over time the foundation, the rock on which his life is anchored. In truth it was always the foundation, but now this is realised. Of course the theoretical knowledge of this fundamental truth can never be used as an excuse not to engage the intense and prolonged struggle of discipleship. It must be won through struggle and trial until experienced directly. The Great Illusion of separation is broken at the Third Initiation, while at-one-ment with the Father lies ahead at the Fourth and conscious participation as a directing agent of the Plan becomes a reality at the Fifth.
The Third Degree is the initiation most closely associated with the NGWS who form the ajna centre of the planetary life. They receive here the vision on the mountain top, the unshakeable realisation that they essentially ARE Purpose, clothed in Love or consciousness and tasked with expressing that duality through action in the three worlds of human endeavour.
I have gone into this explanation in great detail because it underlies the work I am attempting to carry out through this and other groups. Light Supernal is a seven-fold light containing in its synthetic expression the energy of Life itself. It is Will infused with Purpose. It is the energy of initiation because it produces in consciousness the revelation of the essential Purpose of divinity. It is the Father come to the aid of the Son working in a far country—the three worlds of manifested human existence. It is the wealth of the Father, the inheritance of the Son, flooding into his hands. It brings Peace.
Your work as a group is to distribute this wealth—to be a channel along which this bounty may flow, a wire that connects the positive and negative poles of the cosmic physical plane. When enough current passes through that wire the result will be Light—a magnetic radiance that is the result of the flow of current and no longer an aim in itself. As individuals you are at various stages of your own transition in identity from personality to soul, form identifying with humanity to identifying with Hierarchy. As a group you are capable of forming an effective bridge. You must learn to identify those whom it is your work and privilege to aid, those with whom you must cooperate and those to whom you must look for aid.
1. Your field of service is those groups working within the NGWS but who are primarily identified with humanity. Their keynote is discipleship and struggle. They experience a keen empathy with the plight of humanity and seek to alleviate it along some line. They oscillate between an oftimes zealous determination to further their cause or implement their vision and a despair at the lack of progress or prospect of failure. They are attempting to ‘save the world’ and feel the responsibility of this chosen task strongly. They appeal for aid as they must and their cry can be heard in both the inner and outer worlds.
2. Your field of cooperative endeavour also lies within the wider field of the NGWS, but these are groups who are primarily identified with Hierarchy. They are characterised by an aura of joy, an unshakeable positivity regardless of external circumstances, and a persistent and long-term demonstration of aid without expectation of acknowledgement or return however subtle. They are not trying to ‘save the world’ for they know the world is already saved and this salvation is merely working outwards through groups such as themselves. They are in contact to greater or lesser extent with the Life principle. They are ‘alive’ and therefore have become instruments through which the resurrection of others can be effected.
You must learn to disassociate with the first group but remain a source of aid to them, and increase your identification and association with the second.
3. I would like to introduce into your awareness a particular source of aid with which this group may come into rapport. The Nirmanakayas is the name given to that group which forms the link between Hierarchy and Shamballa in the same way that the NGWS serves as the bridge between Hierarchy and Humanity. You may care to read the information that I have given about this group in my other writings, but essentially their work is to infuse the Plan with Purpose. They are called “divine Contemplatives” (DINA II, p.210) —a term literally meaning ‘to build a temple with’, and it is with them and a higher group of ‘Nirmanakayas’ who function on the logoic plane, that the NGWS must learn to work. As a result of the combined efforts of these three groups, the planetary antahkarana will provide a channel of power for the energy of Purpose to reach from the logoic plane via the atmic and higher mental planes into the etheric plane of physical manifestation.
The Nirmanakayas can be contacted in meditation and the resulting transmission of energy will be essential in your planned work. Thus you will have potentially two potent lines of energy entering into the group soul: That of the Will of the ashram directed by me your Master, and that of the energy of Purpose augmenting that Will entering via the Nirmanakayas.
As you apply yourself to making the above three distinctions and enter more deeply into a relationship with the Life principle, both your sphere of work and the groups with whom I would have you cooperate in the next phase will become increasingly apparent.