MERCURY TRANSMISSIONS ON GROUP INITIATION ( continued )

Includes information on...The Monad, .The Centre at Highden, Raditaion & Magnetism, Ashramic Responsibility

08.05.02

 We are beginning a new phase of work with you, both as an individual and as a group field. Just as the time comes when the focus of attention on the development of the personality stops and then begins to occur as a by-product of the use of the personality by the soul, so a similar process occurs on higher levels. The soul builds the causal body (develops it) over many lives and then there comes a time when the development is complete and the causal body is merely used as a transmitter of the energy and Purpose of the monad. As a by-product, a result of the flow through of energy, the causal body is thus brought to the highpoint of its unfoldment, becomes radioactive and is eventually destroyed in the process. This is the outcome eventually of the ‘path of fire’. Rather than spending time building more into the causal field through study and contemplation, the emphasis shifts to distribution. The ‘inbreath’ of the causal body does not arise from the three worlds any longer—it descends from the monad. The outbreath goes into the three worlds and also throughout the abstract mental plane. As the ‘breath’ is brought down from the monad this allows the ‘identity’ to ascend.

This is like the Seventh Ray equivalent to an earlier Sixth Ray process when the soul attempts to reach up or ‘breathe out’ to the monad. The link has now been established and the flow is reversed. As monadic energy pours into and eventually destroys the causal field, the inner man is gradually released from the illusion of a fixed identity. The Law of Fixation rules on the mental plane and identity is ‘formalised’—firstly on the abstract levels as the causal body from which the soul incarnates, and secondly, in any one life as a personal ‘identity’ on the lower mental, astral and etheric/physical planes. It is monadic energy which will liberate the immortal soul by destroying the illusions of lesser ‘identities’. This is an important point—it is not the identity of the incarnated soul-infused personality which is attempting to ‘ascend’ out of the mental plane. It is what is left over when those identities have been destroyed. As an individual your work will be to help others build this higher antahkarana—firstly through the aspiring soul/personality and eventually through the invoked descent of electric fire into the causal field. Leave the work of instruction on building the lower antahkarana between the soul and personality to others.

Attempt to spend more time ‘free’ from the causal field—this can be done through the act of identification with the ashram—attempt to ‘see’ your own causal body, those of the group and those of the worldwide group with which I am working as contents of one field. This is the view that a Master has and can therefore support in your consciousness if you are able to relax the ‘identity’ muscle. It is rather like the ‘magic eye’ books—a certain relaxation of the focus occurs and a three-dimensional image comes into view. A certain relaxation of the identity occurs and then, firstly the causal bodies of your group are perceived (this would indicate a location of identity on the first subplane of the mental plane) and then the ashram as a whole is ‘seen’ when the location of identity (or should I say when what is left of the being once identity is taken away) is on the buddhic plane. All discussion about whether or not there is an ‘individual monad’ belongs to the mental plane. On the buddhic plane there is only a shared realisation of identity with the ashram and the perception of greater ‘identifications’ that will take place on higher levels.

There is a ‘science’ that relates to the building of the higher antahkarana as well as the lower. Just as the soul becomes actively involved once the personality has completed the dedicated work of contact, so the monad becomes actively involved once the soul/personality fusion has reached a certain stage. Both the higher and lower strands are completed from both directions. In fact it is only consciousness which is being completed; the antahkarana itself ever exists and is eventually recognised as the source of Life itself when the consciousness is able to extend from the monad to the base chakra of the personal self. This higher science has everything to do with the Shamballa mysteries. Shamballa energy is now impacting humanity directly. This is equivalent to the monad impacting the personality. In order to complete the triangle, the personality must be able to respond directly, thus closing the circuit.

Man must be educated in his personal waking consciousness about the relationship to the monad but this must only occur when the soul and personality have achieved a certain level of integration. The descent of soul energy into the personal vehicles produces glamour and illusion initially. The descent of monadic energy into the soul produces crisis. The reverse is also true—it is the light of the soul which is able to clear the glamours and illusions of the personality. It is the life of the monad which is able to resolve the crises of the incarnated soul. Before the Second Initiation, there is no contact of any real conscious nature with the monad. The crisis of the astral nature at the Second degree is so great that the point of tension created opens the channel to the monad for the first time. Crisis invokes response. Once the disciple understands this process they can eventually invoke monadic energy at will. Crisis is now the result of the invocation and not the cause. The soul is being in effect 'evoked' by the monad. The inflowing ‘Life’ has become much more attractive to the individual and this attraction is strong enough to offset the negative experiences that the lower nature endures as a result. This process culminates in the Fourth Initiation.

In reference to your inner group work, I have asked you to build consciously a ‘reservoir of Will’. You may begin to see how this may be valuable to your wider group. Just as, on the abstract mental plane, the jewel serves as the transmitter of electric fire to the causal body, so we might imagine the same process occurring in the emerging lotus of the ‘schools’. The jewel is the last to be revealed because all the petals enfold it. The causal body is built around the jewel—it is both the source of its life and also, when the time comes, the cause of its destruction. If you follow this line of thinking you may understand more clearly the role of Shamballa School as an energetic entity. The more you are able to concentrate the energies of Will flowing through the centres of the ashrams on the buddhic and monadic planes, at the centre of your project, the faster the ‘petals’ of the project will form. Once you have learned the technique it is something you will be able to offer to other projects. You will also be able to directly assist ‘on the level’ (ie. on the same subplane of energy) those other initiatives around the world which resonate with your work and are part of the same ashramic initiative.

 31.07.02

 The Turrets

 The subject of this paper is the link between the monad and the personality. It is this relationship which lies at the core of the teachings in the new esoteric schools. The soul is studied and developed within the context of it being a linking mechanism whose purpose is to build this bridge between the essential spiritual man and his reflection, the personal self. The opening of the higher turret room at Shamballa School is an outer symbol of this inner focus on the monadic life and represents the beginning of a new stage of work within the life of the School.

Just as the Fifth Creative Hierarchy is essential to the building of the lower antahkarana and creates the causal body out of its own substance, so the Third Creative Hierarchy is responsible for the building of the Higher Way. These are the Triads, the “flower of the earlier Eight” and the bestowers of the principle of immortality upon the Fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human soul. (TCF, p.1199)

We might consider the work of the ashram on the buddhic plane in the following way: The ashram receives the Will Aspect from the Chohans through the Fifth degree initiate or Master at the centre of the ashram. This Will which is really the creative outgoing Aspect of the Purpose which is held at Shamballa, is distributed throughout the ashram by the Fourth degree initiates and then focused into the three worlds through the work of Third degree initiates operating both in and out of incarnation. Electric fire from Shamballa is thus ‘solarised’ by Hierarchy through the ashrams and then ‘focused’ into humanity through the work of its advanced members. Thus a Third degree initiate is considered an advanced member of humanity (being a Master of the three worlds), but only an entered novice in the life of Hierarchy. A Fifth degree initiate is considered such from the point of view of humanity and Hierarchy (being a Master of the five worlds) but is only a novice in Shamballa, and so on.

This same pattern is replicated in the causal body itself between the jewel, the petals and the permanent atoms. It is this pattern or archetype which is in the process of forming in the life of the School. The upper turret represents the jewel—it is an eight-faceted crystallised expression of the triadal lives, and it is through the jewel that the energy of Shamballa and of Sirius is able to permeate the group field at certain cycles. At present the full Moons of Leo and Aquarius are the times when group approach can be made in the year. The Taurus and Scorpio full Moons can be added over time.

It must be remembered that the ‘jewel’ transmits fire and is destructive to the causal body and so this energy should only be worked with when the urge to ‘sacrifice’ is strong within the soul itself, as the following quote makes clear:

“The Jewel itself remains occultly static, and does not circulate. It is a point of peace; it pulsates rhythmically as does the heart of man, and from it ray forth eight streams of living fire which extend to the tips of the four love petals and the four sacrifice petals. This eight-fold energy is atma-buddhi. It is this final raying forth which produces the eventual disintegration of the body of the Ego. The knowledge petals, not being the subject of the attention of this central fire in due time cease to be active; knowledge is superseded by divine wisdom and the love petals have their forces equally absorbed. Naught is eventually left but the desire to "sacrifice," and as the vibratory impulse is akin to the nature of the living Jewel, it is synthesised in the central living unit and only the Jewel of fire remains.” (TCF, pp.1118-9)

The Mantram of Fire, The Technique of the Presence and the Higher Octave of Meditation One and Two are all useful in preparation for working with this abstracting and liberating energy. The ‘jewel’ is also ‘archetypal’ in the spiritual sense of that word. Its facets each represent one aspect of electrical energy and are hence intensely ‘impersonal’.

The higher turret should also be used for the work of building ‘a reservoir of Will’ within the core of the School. This reservoir can be used upon occult demand from units of consciousness within the School itself and also, increasingly by other centres in the process of externalising on to the outer plane.

In the language of initiation, the jewel is first contacted at the time of the Second Initiation, can be approached at certain cycles thereafter, becomes stable in the consciousness at the time of the Third Initiation, and results in the final shattering of the causal body at the Fourth.

The central turret is primarily an egoic heart centre within the life of the School, transmitting qualities of triadal consciousness from soul to soul and into the personality life of the centre. As such it is a twelve-fold centre when fully functioning, and should be used for all aspects of the subjective life of the School. The ‘petals’ of this centre will be composed of disciples at different levels of causal development, but united in their efforts to build certain qualities into their ‘Temple of Solomon’ and to live a life of service dedicated to the development of other souls and the integration of personalities who are attending the School.

In initiation terminology the egoic lotus should be utilised by a range of disciples, from those close to the Second to those preparing for the Third Initiation. Their work will be to receive soul impression from the ashram and to pour the light, love and power of the soul into the three worlds. The Great Invocation can be used here with full potency in this regard.

The lower turret room is akin to the permanent atoms. It is where the Third Aspect of the life of the School is maintained and developed. All individuals can use this turret as part of their outer life expression, but there will likely be an organisational structure revolving around three key individuals who take responsibility for different aspects of the operation of the centre at Highden. These individuals should be disciples competent in executive functioning and the distribution of soul force in the three worlds.

The three levels of the turret, viewed from the First Aspect are: Distributors of electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction as focal points for the monad, soul and personality of the centre.

When viewed from the Second Aspect they are the three-fold solar heart: Distributors of atma, buddhi and manas through the crown, heart and throat chakras of the centre.

When viewed from the Third Aspect they are: Three octagonal shaped rooms placed one on top of the other at the centre of a stone mandala laid out in the rose gardens at Highden (with a crooked weather vane on top!)

28.08.02

This has been a significant week. You have been learning a little of the paradox of freedom and also continuing your learning about Trust. The group process has entered a new phase now and so has your work with me. By committing and dedicating more of your time to my work the result will be beneficial to all. Your consciousness will be more free from your outer responsibilities but it will also be less free as the focus required for this inner work will be more demanding. One of the things that you are getting used to is the change in direction that the soul is required to sustain. When the soul is working its purpose out through the mental plane and expressing therefore the Will and Plan as the soul perceives it, there is an experience of power by the soul-infused personality. The searchlight of the soul is focused outwards into the three worlds. The change you must get used to is the refocusing of the soul towards the three higher planes instead of the three lower. For a time there is an experience of ‘powerlessness’ in this change of focus. The capacity to affect and direct the outer work must be given up in order to allow a flow through of monadic energy into the three worlds.

Let me explain this more fully. There is the period of personality control where the soul is working behind the scenes to integrate the personality into a fit vehicle for soul expression. The personality is aspirational and the soul is downward focused. Then there is a period of gradual soul infusion climaxing in a crisis of soul control and afterwards the soul is able to express directly through the personality completing the fusion process. It is the energy of the monad which allows the soul to complete the fusion process. Once this is complete the soul must reorientate towards the monad. The ‘direction’ of the soul’s focus must turn one hundred and eighty degrees. This is a difficult transition. Of course there is always an inbreath and an outbreath. When the prime focus of the soul is towards the three worlds then the outbreath is the main focus. Now the prime focus is towards the monad so the inbreath must be the prime focus.

One of the reasons for the difficulty of the transition is the perceived lack of ‘power’ in the three worlds, and yet paradoxically the result is an increase in effectiveness. A second reason is that the soul is moving in the opposite direction than those whom it is the responsibility of the soul to serve. A similar difficulty is experienced by a personality struggling to aspire to the soul when surrounded by personalities who are focused on the fulfilment of personality desire. You must remember that the correct focus of the soul whose goal is the Third degree is outward into the three worlds. This focus will be much aided by the Seventh Ray, and the incoming of this influence will allow many to take initiation through group work much more rapidly than before.

At the Third Initiation however the focus of the soul must shift and this can be experienced by the individual soul as well as those souls around them, as a lessening of commitment, of focus, and of spiritual power in the world. The interest in the expansion of outer projects ceases and yet in this cessation something peculiar occurs. As the abstraction process occurs it creates a stronger vertical alignment to the monad, and along this channel greater spiritual energy can flow into those projects which have already been initiated in the world. The outer result is the expansion of the very projects that the soul was once focused upon achieving due to the inflow of monadic power as a by-product of the soul’s focus on the monad at the same time as staying in connection with the personality. Eventually nothing at all is trying to be achieved in the outer world and yet the achievement reaches its full flower at the time the Fourth Initiation is undergone.

There is a mystery here that also can be applied to the Externalisation process. Humanity is apt to think that the Hierarchy is externalising to take control of the outer worlds in response to the needs of humanity, and this is true from one perspective. There are also members of Hierarchy whose job it is to maintain the link with Shamballa. Together they are part of a project undertaken by the Christ which has as its goal something far vaster than the inauguration of an age of spiritual enlightenment within the civilisation of Earth.

In the work of occult schools the pupil is the soul and not the personality. The soul is being educated in group formation and under Hierarchical inspiration to develop its capacity in three directions:

•  Outward into the realm of the personality, the mental, emotional and physical/etheric planes. The result is the full expression of the soul’s individual creative project in the three worlds. God creates.

•  Within the three worlds of the triad the soul consciously develops its group relationships and ashramic contacts. The result in the three worlds is cooperative group effort as the ashrams externalise. God loves.

•  Inward to the three worlds of the monad as the soul consciously develops its relationship to Shamballa. The result in the three worlds is the expression of the unknown, unheard, unseen Purpose of Sanat Kumara. God Wills.

For disciples and initiates all three directions are developed according to the stage of evolution and ray tendencies. On the path of probation and discipleship, the pupil is really the personality struggling to come under soul control. On the path of initiation, the soul is learning to control its instrument and true occult education can begin. Not education about the soul, but the education OF the soul. At the First Initiation the soul takes control through the throat centre and begins to create in the three worlds. At the Second Initiation the soul takes control through the heart centre and cooperative group effort becomes truly possible. The soul is now developing conscious contact with others causally and beginning to respond to its ashramic note. The monad is contacted at the high point of the crisis of the Second degree. At the Third Initiation the soul takes control through the head centre and brings the soul expression through the personality life to fulfilment. The soul is now working in all three directions and beginning to focus more fully on the monadic life. At the Fourth the monadic focus becomes paramount and all outward focus ceases, although the soul is a powerful transmitting agent within the triad. At the Fifth the education of the soul ceases and the education of the monad begins.

In the preparatory schools soul education takes place, and the result of the work of these schools will be the empowerment of souls into full expression in the three worlds. They will join the conscious creators, the educators, the leaders of their generation and help inaugurate those projects within the outer world which will form the seeds of the coming civilisation.

In the advanced schools which will come later, the work will be more removed from the outer plane. This should not be interpreted as being ineffective in the outer world however. On the contrary, the spiritual impact of those working within these schools will be significant. This is because their students have already initiated their own projects in the three worlds in this life (and in some rare cases, in earlier ones), and they will be consciously energising and empowering those projects through their meditative work. Of course they will be involved in many other meditative activities as a part of their training, but each will have a very specific project that they have created and now continue to serve to inspire, through direct telepathic contact with those who are currently in charge of its functioning in the outer world. And of course these initiates are inspired in turn by those more advanced than they, who laid the seeds for their own self-initiated endeavours just as I have laid out the seeds for the School with which you are engaged, and in turn am inspired. Such is the conscious Hierarchy of the Aquarian age.

Think this all through. At the Third degree an initiate creates his outer ‘masterpiece’ which is the summation of his soul’s experience over many lives in the three worlds, and is self-initiated in alignment with ashramic intent. Looking around the world many of these can be seen. They are the humanitarian organisations, the religious movements, the modern businesses, the soul-inspired literature and art. Each soul-inspired project has at its core at least a centre of solar fire and in some cases a ‘jewel’ of monadic fire. This fire is ‘fanned’ from the inner worlds, stimulating the ongoing life and inspiration for the outer work via the minds and hearts of those who are in outer ‘control’. When those in control are conscious of their inner inspiration much more can be achieved, and we will begin to see this success demonstrated as more and more initiates move into positions of outer authority.

Of course those who create soul-inspired projects in the outer world have karmic ties to them. They are responsible for their birth, growth and eventually when they have served their purpose, for their death. This death occultly occurs triadally when the inspiring soul life is withdrawn. The power of the planet’s Third Ray personality tends to keep organisations going in the three worlds long after any inner life has gone out. They are best left, like the Moon, to allow the decaying process to take its own time. As the Second Ray soul begins to externalise more fully, it will be the work of Hierarchy to restimulate those organisations that still have a purpose to fulfil—for example the Master Jesus has the task of revitalising and transforming the Christian Church. He will do this through inner inspiration of outer initiates from the Fourth degree down, and eventually when the time is right he will take outer control. This outer control should not be understood as meaning however, that he will sit in an office somewhere and dispense instructions. Of course he is engaged in much larger work than the executive functioning of an outer organisation on Earth. What is does mean however is that He will be recognised as the source and inspiration for the spiritual life which sustains the outer church, and therefore will be internally consulted and invoked on matters pertaining to that life.

The Masters are those who have a lineage of creation on this planet. They can trace back their Hierarchical work to the creative project completed at the Third Initiation. Even this project will have its seeds in earlier incarnations, and many of the strengths and weaknesses of their work in Hierarchy have their roots far back in evolutionary time, just as tendencies in the adult can be seen in the child. There is a constant refinement process going on and do not forget that the requirements for becoming a Master are gradually increasing as evolution in this Fourth Round proceeds. The Christ has said, ‘greater things than these shall you do’. Hierarchy often looks with amusement at the perceptions aspiring humanity has of us. We ask for respect, yes, to be heard, yes, but to be elevated to some godlike status above the reach of human experience, never. This latter attitude is often an excuse to live a life with the glamour of contact but without the requirement to be worthy of it through achievement. We offer, not so much a helping hand, but a hand up. We are pleased when you take it by raising your own with a little more effort.

 04.09.02

 Now I have some things to communicate about the centre at Highden. It is essential that the core energy is stabilised. You must prepare for an influx of others, beginning gradually but accelerating to a level which will surprise you all. This could be extremely destabilising to the whole project unless the central group is able to hold and sustain the energy field. This is an experiment that is potentially on the brink of a significant success and therefore there is considerable interest and assistance available from those who watch in the inner worlds. There is an opportunity here that is larger than you are able to comprehend and so I would ask each of you to entertain this hypothesis. That something is trying to occur that is far beyond the sum of your individual capacities and level of development. This would mean that you would have to hold your minds open to far greater possibilities than would seem logical to you, without losing sight of the day-to-day practicalities. What I am advocating is to create a ‘field of expectancy’, a field of ‘openness to receive’, a field of acceptance of energies that are trying to assist.

The limitations to the help we can give are those limitations of what you believe is possible and which you hold as a group thoughtform on mental levels.

I am not advocating an attitude of undiscriminating idealism; I am advocating a scientific process whereby the group endeavours to offer itself up as a vehicle to be used within a purpose beyond its current understanding or conception. This requires a level of ‘trust’ and of surrender which can be very challenging to the concrete mind. I merely ask you to experiment with coming under my impression as a group and being used more fully as a stable unit within the ashram. This will not detract from your work as a School but will expand that work more consciously in scope and range. But first the group must stabilise and deepen the level of ‘recognition’ of itself as a group. Nothing need be ‘done’ to facilitate this except for a willingness to come together and invoke your connection with me. From that point it is a process of being willing to release whatever is in the way of a deeper and more potent realisation of the core energy that has brought you together and sustains you. Experiment with letting my presence and the presence of the Christ principle more fully into your group life.

 11.09.02

 Radiation and Magnetism

 The theme this morning follows on from what you were touching into this morning ‘as a group’—the theme of radiation and magnetism. The direction that you are taking as a group must continue as you realise that you have all been brought together under the impression of your souls as they are cooperating with the work of my ashram. My ashram links through the synthetic ashram with that of the Christ which, taken as a whole is the ashram of Sanat Kumara. While you each have other affiliations, it is your connection with me that is the synthesising factor. Thus it should be clear to you that spending time together as a group trying to come consciously under my impression will enable you to more fully contact and discover the unifying factor at the core of the group life.

The relationship between the First and the Second Aspects holds the key to the mystery of magnetism and radiation. Part of my work is to reintroduce the rules for working within the etheric system—this has a natural application in the field of healing at the human level through the Law of Correspondences. However my real work lies within the etheric body of the planet and, increasingly of the solar system. The flow of energy through the chakras and nadi points of the planetary life necessitates the working with groups as ‘functional wholes’ within greater wholes. Thus as I have tried to point out with my teachings, the work of the Aquarian Age is fundamentally about groups realising their synthetic identity within a larger whole.

 This process of identification with the larger group can be speeded up quite substantially if disciples will only follow the principle of occult obedience. Surely the whole purpose of coming under the influence of a Master is to take instruction and thereby to negotiate the path more quickly. Spiritual evolution will proceed one way or another as a direct result of the planetary and solar Will. Accelerating that process is part of the experiment in group initiation I have undertaken. It involves the education of sections of humanity about the purposes and plans of the greater lives of which they form a part. This education is not designed for the mental satisfaction of those who receive it, but so that their conscious cooperation in planetary evolution may be evoked. This is the great Second Ray educational experiment which I am undertaking. While I am primarily a Second Ray Master I am also a part of the Synthetic Ashram which includes the First and Seventh Rays. It is the relationship between the Second and First which I want to address.

Education resulting in conscious cooperation is the Second Ray method. Within certain groups however I am trying to apply a more First Ray approach with the conscious cooperation of Master Morya. This approach involves obedience to the Will. Simply put it is ‘doing what you are told’ not out of devotional or fearful obedience, but out of a great love for the whole and a deep respect for the spiritual responsibility accepted by one who seeks to serve the same Plan and Purpose as you do.

I do not ask for blind obedience but for groups to willingly engage in an experiment—groups willing to ‘try and see’ whether the maxim ‘an initiate knows because he works’ is a fact in reality. Education without application is a great problem in the world, and one of the lesser reasons for the early extraction of the Fifth Ray and for the implementation of the new esoteric schools. It can be offset by groups willing to apply the principle of ‘application without education’ or simply doing what you are asked to do and trusting that the understanding of the reasons will follow. The First Ray drives forward in a straight line while the Second Ray works in spiral motion. The application of the First Ray to the Second Ray method produces a radical increase in speed and therefore spiritual evolution. The result of the integration of these two rays is demonstrated through the Seventh Ray as spontaneously loving action in the three worlds, rhythmically undertaken. The keynote of these energies interacting together is ‘grace’.

Let me describe for you how the group process can be speeded up if you are willing to try an experiment. Firstly I would ask for a change in consciousness in the way that you view your identity. Once you pass through the stages of ‘acceptance as a group’ that Rule Two indicates, there must be a change in identity—just as the ray of the personality becomes a subray of the soul, and the ray of the soul in turn becomes a subray of the monad, so your personal identity becomes a subset of the group identity. It is right here that the division between those who are ready for this advanced experiment is made. To the personality this injunction sounds like an attempt to limit personal freedom and individual ‘sovereignty’, and to the extent that one's identity is still focused in the personality there will naturally be resistance. The soul however is inherently group conscious and it is this group consciousness that has brought you together in the first place. The greater always includes (and brings in to full active and aligned service) the lesser. Try to identify yourselves as one consciousness. This will do more to open your causal fields to each other and increase the telepathic interplay in the group life.

Secondly, begin to think of your purpose as a group as a subset of my purpose. There is really only one Purpose that we all serve and that is the Will of the Solar Logos. This Will is gradually realised however, just as consciousness is gradually expanded. The Will is however the ‘Life’ Aspect and therefore ‘Life’ is increased by aligning with the Will. The will of your soul is already aligned with my Will, which is why you are working together. Reading my words may increase your consciousness; the application of the purpose behind the ideas will bring the First and Seventh rays into play. You may increase your contact with the ‘Life’ Aspect by studying my purpose as I have laid it out to you in the various books. Study this purpose and adopt it as your own. Identification with My purpose stands between you and identification with higher purposes than mine. My purpose is your ‘alignment’ with those higher purposes. Therefore, meditate on my purpose as a gateway to “Life more abundant”. (TCF, p.125) Therefore study my purpose and adopt it as your own. This will increase your level of consciousness. Therefore attempt to apply some portion of that purpose in the three worlds. This will increase your usefulness to the Plan. Just as you take the focus off your individual identity by focusing on the group identity, so you must take your emphasis off your group purpose by focusing upon the purpose of the ashram. This will facilitate a greater integration of your group into the wider group for which I am responsible.

Thirdly, take group responsibility for a piece of my work and gradually increase the level of that responsibility. There is a difference between ‘identification’ with my purpose and responsibility for implementing a piece of it. Identification allows the consciousness to blend with the Purpose of the greater whole. Responsibility allows that consciousness to implement that Purpose within a circumscribed field of service. These two concepts are intertwined in the Law of Freedom. To take responsibility for the outcome of a piece of work in the three worlds that is far greater than can be accomplished with the existing resources at your disposal requires that you work with the Second and First Aspect together. The soul allows the group to work subjectively with consciousness and to connect with and develop the soul principle in others. Contact with the monad allows a process of spiritual underwriting to occur. This process is loosely tied up with the idea that a Master is karmically responsible for the actions of His disciples; but let me try to explain the process more fully:

A Master seeks to educate others in alignment with His purpose, which is aligned in turn with Higher purpose. He seeks to do this in order to speed up the process of evolution according to the Plan. The principle of free will however means that the opposite of His purpose can just as easily result without discrimination. Education can be used as a way of slowing down evolution by those who receive it. It is for this reason that the planetary purpose is closely guarded in Shamballa. If the purpose was revealed to those who have their wills set upon resistance, then knowing the purpose would only increase the power of that resistance. Similarly, esoteric information can be used as a means of inflating the personality of disciples and slowing down the evolution which would have naturally occurred as the doubt and uncertainty about life drove them in search of deeper meaning in service. Spiritual underwriting means that one takes responsibility for the actions or non-actions of those whom one educates, while at the same time leaving them totally free to take whatever actions they choose. This responsibility ties the Master to his group until such time as they achieve liberation through right application.

The educational initiatives for which I am responsible have naturally incurred negative karmic responsibilities as well as positive ones—although you will find that the terms ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ here have no real meaning because they have no real independent reality. If you think through this information you might understand more fully my reasons for standing behind such a project as Shamballa School. This project will succeed to the extent that it demonstrates the power of alignment to the Will Aspect through occult obedience and the application of the teachings to life. These are the First Ray and Seventh Ray principles I am trying to introduce through example into the wider Second Ray field of my responsibility. I have given you much here that warrants your wise consideration.

The acceptance then of spiritual responsibility involves the acceptance of full responsibility for the ‘will’ of those in whom you choose to invest your consciousness. This responsibility must be accepted without any authority, obligation or subtle control over the decisions of those you take responsibility for. It therefore does not in any way ‘interfere’ with their independence but it does ‘underwrite’ their eventual alignment with Purpose. In effect you are taking some of the responsibility of the Planetary Logos when you willingly accept the responsibility for the liberation of certain units within His field of overall responsibility. Their liberation will only come about through their alignment with His Will and therefore it becomes your responsibility to ensure that eventually takes place without infringing in any way the principle of freedom.

Just as surrendering ‘identity’ and thus sovereignty is difficult for the personality, so the surrender of 'freedom' is difficult for the soul, even though this is only an apparent freedom—just as the personal sovereignty is only apparent and in fact is totally dependent for its independent existence on the soul. So the freedom of the soul is only apparent and ‘bought for it’ by the sacrifice of Sanat Kumara. Surrender of that freedom through the acceptance of greater spiritual responsibility is what opens the higher bridge between the soul and the monad, and is also what allows for the principle of magnetism to operate. Identification with the Love principle allows one to see the soul in another, despite the fact that they are not currently identified with the soul in themselves. This seeing allows the release from the personality into the soul. Demonstrating the Love principle which they essentially ‘are’ at a deeper level to the separated personal self allows it Identification with the Will principle—which allows one to rely upon the monad, the essential divinity in another. Taking responsibility for that which they as souls are not yet ready to accept, is a way of affirming the monadic principle which lies at the heart of the soul.

In effect you, as a soul, take responsibility for the eventual fulfillment of their soul purpose until such time as they willingly accept it for themselves. They experience this inner experience as a lifting of their own inner sense of responsibility, and therefore as a type of ‘freedom’. The experience of this sense of freedom is a powerful magnet which calls souls into the vortex where that spiritual responsibility has been accepted. There is a science here which is difficult to explain until the understanding and experience of the Life principle is more fully anchored in your consciousness. I run the risk of you misunderstanding and misinterpreting the monadic principles in terms of the personality, which would only increase the very karmic responsibility I am attempting to educationally allay.

There is a correct timing for everything and so in the meantime I would urge you as a group to consider the three things I have asked you to do and to undertake an experiment, which if successful will bring immediate results in terms of an increase in magnetic and radiatory power.

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