MERCURY TRANSMISSIONS ON GROUP INITIATION ( continued )
Includes transmissions on....Surrender, The Inner Group, A New Mantram, The Seventh Ray Integration Formula
18.09.02
The result of this synthesis occurring in the IDENTITY of a group is not, as the lesser self might think (in this case the lesser self being the incarnated soul and not the personality), an increase in the uniformity of the group life. There is in fact an increase in the differentiated expression of the group emerging out of the realised unity of purpose. But this differentiated expression does not arise out of the individual proclivity of group members (which would increase individual identity), but arises out of the single ‘will’ expressed by the unified group field adapting itself to unique expression through the material offered up to be worked through. Ultimately the single ‘Will’ is that of the Solar Logos expressing via the monad through the Planetary Logos. The unified group field is the ashram on the buddhic plane and the ‘material’ offered up are those conscious incarnated souls willingly surrendering into their originating source, the ashram. It is important to note the different perspective from which the causal body is viewed.
From the perspective of the personality, the causal body is viewed as the soul, something to be aspired to and reached at high moments of contact. From the perspective of the monad, the causal body is the lowest form of contact—it is the Third or Matter Aspect of the monadic life and thus is expressive of individualised purpose. Just as the presence on Earth in a physical body is an indication that the soul on causal levels is trying to express some purpose or develop some quality on the physical plane, the presence of a causal body on the abstract mental levels is the indication that a monad is incarnated through a much longer cycle in order to fulfil its purpose. That incarnated purpose (incarnated on the mental plane, not necessarily on the physical) is fulfilled at the time of the Third Initiation when the soul completes its masterpiece in the three worlds, bringing a small piece of ashramic purpose into expression.
Now I am about to give you a new piece of information. You are aware of the fact that a soul which has individualised upon the mental plane undergoes a long series of physical incarnations culminating in the expression of soul purpose. Do you consider it reasonable that the monad has only one incarnation in which it expresses itself through a causal body? Of course the teaching must be presented sequentially so as not to overwhelm the gradually expanding human mind. Consider the length of a monadic incarnational cycle and then consider the fact that the Second, Third and Fourth Initiations may be taken in a single physical incarnation within a subrace, within a rootrace, on one globe, in one chain, in one scheme, in one solar system. Does it not seem more reasonable to consider the whole process of individualisation (the building of a causal body to express an aspect of monadic purpose) resulting eventually in initiation (the release from that causal body), to be a cyclic process occurring over and over again in the life cycle of a human monad? Just as the soul in the causal body has many incarnations in the physical, interspersed with incarnations occurring on the astral and mental planes, so the monad has many incarnations in causal bodies, interspersed with incarnations on the higher two planes of the triad.
Causal bodies are sequentially taken by a human monad in order to unfold the monadic purpose over a much longer cycle than the lesser soul cycle. They are the many mansions of the Father's house. These monadic incarnations take place on different chains and schemes, and are themselves completed when the equivalent to the causal body on atmic levels is destroyed at the Sixth Initiation. It may seem incomprehensible to you when I say that the monad stores ‘purpose traces’ (I don't know what other words to use here) of previous incarnations (by this I mean the monad incarnating in a causal body) in the atmic body or Temple of Ezekial, in the same way that the soul stores ‘quality traces’ of previous physical incarnations in the causal body or Temple of Solomon. This is a significant piece of new information which will form part of the new teachings on the monad and, if pondered, will open up a whole new field of inquiry and speculation concerning the unfoldment through time of planetary and solar Purpose.
23.10.02
The group is larger than you might think, with many inner workers assisting the seven of you currently working on the outer plane. You must begin to think of yourselves as a chakric system through which the energy of the ashram is able to flow. In addition you must begin to view yourselves as an outer entity as well as one in consciousness. If one member is undergoing psychic difficulty, or financial hardship or an initiatory experience, then the group is undergoing the experience to a greater or lesser degree. Relate to each other from this perspective and the group will grow in power, radiance and functional capacity.
Your next task is to ‘accept each other’ in this deeper way as integral parts of one being. As your Master I may have accepted you ‘as a group’ but this does not yet mean that you have accepted each other. For my work to be successful I require a unified field of consciousness. The energies which must move through the group soul are transpersonal, archetypal energies. They require a stable field of transmission, and this field must be created in your inner life together. Begin to think of this aspect of the group work in terms of energy rather than consciousness or activity. You are a centre within the worldwide group for the absorption, circulation and distribution of a particular type of energy—the energy of synthesis operating within a Second Ray field and directed towards manifestation on the physical plane. Think this through.
As a group then, you are at the stage of ‘accepting discipleship’. The lower antahkarana has been built and the bridge between your inner and outer life has resulted in the integration of your personality into a functioning unit serving the soul. There is a stage in the individual journey when the incarnated soul must build the higher antahkarana to access the energy of the triad. This comes about when the soul itself requires more energy as a result of successful contact and integration of the personality life. In the case of a group, there comes a time when the outer group integration process is far enough along that the group must consciously build a deeper connection with the inner group and the ashram. The inflow that you have been expecting as a group must come from the inner worlds first. After a period of integration you will then have a much stronger energy reservoir which will be able to hold together a larger outer group.
I would like you then to do two things to accelerate your integration process.
1. Strengthen your will to view the group as an entity. Make the change in consciousness that is required to decentralise yourself within the group life. The result will be greater love and an increase in the telepathic functioning of the group mind. Not only will you begin to view each individual differently as part of the group entity, but the group entity will then begin to live more fully in each individual consciousness so that each member IS in some developing way, the group.
2. Make space in your inner life for the inner group. These are a group of souls which I have brought together for training in the same way as I have brought you all together as a group. I seek to bring you both, as two units within the ashram, into relationship at this time. This requires from you that you make time to attempt this connection. The inner group is 'orientated' towards you at this time, and you will find a sure response to a genuine invocative appeal.
It is the type of link that has as its prototype the link between the Fourth and the Fifth Hierarchies or between Mercury and Venus. The result will be the group equivalent of the divine hermaphrodite—a group grounded in the ashram and yet able to express upon causal levels of the mental plane. This necessarily requires the cooperation of two hierarchies and also of groups in and out of incarnation. This communion is an essential part of the process of ashramic externalisation for which I am responsible. It is an attempt to consciously connect the cosmic ethers with the consciousness that is contained but not limited within the three worlds. A useful analogy would be the relationship between the physical structure of a rose and its ensouling devic life. The inner group is your outer group's ensouling deva. The devic life builds the structure and imbues it with the colour, quality and purpose of its archetype. Your group has been built in the same way—it has been brought together through resonance to an archetype, and through the inner promptings of each of you as a soul experienced in your causal bodies during meditation.
As you build a structure of connection—your outer work together as well as your inner thoughtform building and meditative life—there comes a point of time where that structure is stable enough to be ‘informed’. You can expect to experience this ‘information’ in the following ways:
• A greater telepathic rapport arising between you. You should attempt to recognise the underlying archetype which is the source of this rapport.
• A more powerful infusion of energy in your meditative (and increasingly your day-to-day) life. In a peculiar way the ashram can be seen as the energetic substance of your connection. It is what brought you together and what holds you together. As you become increasingly aware of this, the energetic container that you form part of will become increasingly apparent. You might consider this the wine of the ashram being poured into the group chalice; or a more accurate image might be the crystallisation which occurs within a saturated solution. The chalice has no separate existence from the wine. It is, in fact, formed inside the wine barrel so that the wine may be held and experienced by those whose consciousness is as yet limited by the three worlds.
• A greater flow of energy between your own etheric and physical bodies. The link between the inner and outer groups has its direct analogy in the link between your etheric and physical bodies, and results in the activation of a particular group of agnichaitans which serve a similar function in the interface between the fourth and fifth subplanes (counting down) of the physical plane.
• A sense of ‘surrender’ of perspective as you recognise your group as the externalising point of a descending mountain rather than the apex of an ascending one. Consider these words. Your students should have the latter perspective and the core group the former.
These schools are points of ashramic entry into the three worlds. You should begin to see yourselves in this way and to hold as your highest priority the maintaining of an open conscious link between the higher mental plane and the ashram on the buddhic plane. This will necessarily bring you en rapport with the inner group, at first during the high points of your meditation, but increasingly in the day-to-day life of the School. Your group has in fact no separate existence apart from the ashram. You are the effect of one of the first stages in the externalisation process. Your conscious recognition of this fact and acceptance in the group life of the consequences of this reality will do much to assist in the next stage of the process unfolding.
When you have determined this you may adopt the method of ‘purification by transfiguration’ which is in reality the purification that results from the intense inflow of spiritual energy rather than that which precedes it. This purification must be done consciously by isolating with clarity the areas that need to be purified, and then allowing them to absorb the higher energies during the transmission process. The result will be the short but potent cleavage and rebellion of those parts of the group or individual which absorb them through wrong identification. For this technique to work there must be a strong field of love present in the group, and the cleavages must be expected and recognised when they occur. They will essentially be cleavages in consciousness and must be offset by the increase in the deeper unifying energies of the Life principle and through steadfast connection to the ashram.
In a similar way this is the function that the group is serving in the field of the School. Those elements of the student field which are in resistance to the dominant soul culture of the centre must be brought to the surface and transmuted. Those elements which are in the core group that are resistant to the perspective and spiritual culture (if I might use that term) of the ashram must be identified and transfigured.
In the case of transmutation, the resistances are lifted up into consciousness and redeemed through the light and love of the soul. In the case of transfiguration the resistances are isolated in consciousness and then annihilated by the inflow of spiritual Will. To use the latter technique there must be the realisation that nothing truly real can ever be destroyed. What is being annihilated is the wrongful identification of the soul with the form, thus liberating the soul and preventing the more potent energies of Spirit from damaging the form. Damage to one or more of the three vehicles is not the result of the inflowing Life but the refusal or inability of the consciousness to disidentify with the vehicle concerned. Think this through carefully as it imperative to understand this process when working with Will energy.
If you consider what is happening in the world arena in the light of the above information, some deeper understanding of current events with respect to the terrorism focus may be apparent in this time in Scorpio. Pluto rules the purification of those elements of the global psyche which are over-identified with the form side of life through the process of cleavage and rebellion resulting either in release or annihilation. If the group is to fully anchor a portion of the Shamballic force upon the physical/etheric plane, this energy must of course be passed through the consciousness of the group. I am able to direct the energy into the causal field but the group must pass that energy through from the abstract mental plane through the concrete mind, astral body and eventually into the etheric body of the physical site. This of course is only one aspect of the work. Much can be done and is being done through transmission of this energy laterally upon the plane of abstract mind. This energy is that which connects and inspires groups via the jewel in the lotus. As the Externalisation process necessarily will extend to the physical plane, it must also pass vertically through the vehicles as well as laterally. This vertical descent results in the transfiguration of the personality, both of the individual and eventually, of the group. This is the Sword of Shamballa descending to Earth, and I have outlined some of the technique required to do this in Rule 10 for Disciples and Initiates:
“The rules for work within the veils of maya are known and have been used. Let the group widen all the rents within those veils and thus let in the light. Let the Army of the Voice be no more heard, and let the brothers onward move within the Sound. Then let them know the meaning of the O.M. and let them hear that O.M. as it is sounded forth by Him Who stands and waits at the very centre of the Council Chamber of the Lord.” (RAI, pp.181-2)
This descent of Shamballic energy onto
the physical/etheric plane has particularly to do with the Seventh Ray
part of the Synthetic Ashram and hence the experiment in the field of
At the current stage of the externalisation process it is imperative that the union between the inner and outer groups continue towards fusion and that the energies of resistance are brought to the surface and eliminated. Proceed slowly and carefully, running the energy of the ashram through all obstacles and making sure that the alignment is maintained at all costs and in the face of externally presented realities.
I would like to give you a mantram to use. It is seemingly simple and yet its power is great if used consistently and with intent.
“There is no soul.
There is no time.
There is no space.
There is only Life.
One Life.
This Life I am.
My will is for all my lesser selves
to know me at their core as the essence,
the beginning and the end of their existence.
It is thus, as the One Life, I LIVE”
The purpose of this mantram is to aid in the conscious building (or should I say realisation) of a reservoir of Life at the core of the group process. It is this and only this which will be able to sustain and hold the soul of the group steady as it begins to draw to itself as part of the creative process those elements of personality life which will create a manifesting container. Just as Hierarchy must advance towards (and therefore begin to be absorbed by) Shamballa at the same time as it externalises and expresses through humanity, so in the soul life of a group, any attempt to externalise must be balanced with an equal attempt to be absorbed in its higher centre. Without this the inner resources of the group, carefully built up, can be swept into and exhausted by the activity of the Third Aspect. Many groups have ended thus. What is lost is the functioning of a vertical channel which can be used for the sustainable inflow of spiritual energy. This can be avoided by paying equal attention to the First and Seventh Ray energies of the group at this pivotal time.
27.11.02
Seventh
Ray Integration Formula
I would refer you this morning to the Integration Formula for the Seventh Ray. The group is beginning to realise more fully its relationship to the inner group and to my work. The inflow of energy from the ashram is having a destructive and purifying effect prior to the energies of organisation coming into fuller expression. This organisation must be an externalisation of the ashramic organisation however, and it is with this point that I am most particularly concerned. I would like you to consider the Formula from the point of view of an integration between the inner and outer groups. The outer group, composed of members on location in physical bodies, is the ‘personality’ expression of the School. The inner group, carefully chosen and comprised, is the ‘soul’ expression. I am endeavouring to integrate these two ‘fields’ so that they form one field which will faithfully express in the three worlds the Hierarchical archetype.
The Seventh Ray as you know, is the ray of synthesis that can implement the work of all the other rays. It has a particular affiliation with the First Ray and hence the opportunity to manifest the School and work in some small way with the Shamballa force. The outer School must consider itself as a Seventh Ray externalised piece of an essentially First Ray archetype. The primary capacity that needs to be developed then amongst those in the outer ‘field’ is the capacity to listen to and pass on the SOUND as it is stepped down from Shamballa through Hierarchy. In order to offset the hard line energies flowing from the First to the Seventh Ray I have placed particular emphasis on the organisation of a predominantly Second Ray field to serve as the inner group. The Seventh Ray will be strong in the makeup of those drawn into the outer part of the project and hence the necessity for correct ‘orientation’ and alignment. Those coming into the centre need to be gradually educated that they are being called into the outer ring-pass-not of a great LIFE which has at its centre the Will of God. They must be reoriented as soon as they have been somewhat stabilised in the field to ‘face outwards’ and allow the energy of the Life to pass through them as it is safely stepped down through Hierarchy and the inner and outer group associated with the School on the physical plane.
At the core of the inner group of mainly Second Ray workers there can be found a small group of more First Ray workers whose job it is to work with the Shamballic Will. They are the holders of the ‘ashramic reservoir’ of Will, just as you have your own ‘Will’ triangle in the School.
The whole outer group must learn to see itself as an essentially Seventh Ray part of this ashram. The ‘pentagram’ that you stand in is the causal body and it is from there you work. That ‘standing’ in the causal field must be maintained and all outer connections must be referred back through this ‘standing’ to the central point of the ashram. Nothing in the three worlds can be seen to be of greater ‘orientating’ priority than the ashramic centre.
This will require a continual ‘decentralisation’ in the consciousness of the group. The decentralising from the personality to the soul should already have largely taken place in group members. The ‘recognition’ of the group soul as a centre and its relationship to the inner group and the ashram is becoming a greater functional factor in your consciousness. At the centre of the ashram is found that point of tension which I hold as a Master. It is this point of tension which has semiconsciously called you forth into the field of service for which I am responsible. It is this central Will or Purpose for which I have taken responsibility that links me to the Master Morya and to the central Purpose held in Shamballa. Your conscious relationship to the Purpose sounding at the centre of the ashram is the triangulating point that will allow you fuller access to the inflow of monadic power emanating from your essential being.
My work as a Master is to educate those ‘units’ (referring to groups and not individuals) working in the externalising periphery of my ashram, so that they are able to more consciously respond to the central Purpose and be distributing agents for that Purpose into the three worlds. Consequently you have available to you an array of experienced inner workers who will operate, if you allow, as your teachers and your healers. Their job is to work primarily with the energy of buddhi, while your job is to hold a steady centre within the causal field. The job of the Seventh Ray worker is difficult for he must work within Matter and yet not be identified with it. All planes below the buddhic plane are ‘material’ with respect to the Spirit/Matter duality, therefore those who work there must be able to sustain their alignment. As ‘the workers in the furtherest fields’ they must keep their spiritual supply lines open and functioning, and hence the emphasis on the teachings concerning the antahkarana.
I would ask you therefore to begin to more consciously live as though the ashram was the ‘centre’ of your life. If you are able to hold this inner alignment on a more continuous basis, decentralising yourselves from the soul and the group, you will see the Plan take form and understand more fully your role within it.
It is the Seventh Ray Master within the Synthesis Ashram that provides the energy for the successful externalisation. The material fields must be ‘conditioned’ so that they willingly reorientate to the solarising influence of Hierarchy. When you remember that the buddhic plane is the fourth cosmic ether it will be clear why the Seventh Ray rules over the inflow of buddhic force into the three worlds which make up the physical body of the Logos. It is the Seventh Ray which allows form to birth the Christ, and hence the relationship of Mary to this energy. It is the capacity of the Seventh Ray to ‘orient to the Will of God’ while still within the three worlds that allows grace to enter and thus sacredises Matter through the ‘surrendered Will of the fiery stone’.
Integration
Formula
“"‘I seek to bring the two together. The plan is in my hands. How shall I work? Where lay the emphasis? In the far distance stands the One Who Is. Here at my hand is form, activity, substance, and desire. Can I relate these and fashion thus a form for God? Where shall I send my thought, my power the word that I can speak?
I, at the centre, stand, the worker
in the field of magic. I know some rules, some magical controls, some
Words of Power, some forces which I can direct. What shall I do? Danger
there is. The task that I have undertaken is not easy of accomplishment,
yet I love power. I love to see the forms emerge, created by my mind,
and do their work, fulfil the plan and disappear. I can create. The rituals
of the
Love not the work. Let love of God’s eternal Plan control your life, your mind, your hand, your eye. Work towards the unity of plan and purpose which must find its lasting place on earth. Work with the Plan; focus upon your share in that great work.’
The Word goes forth from soul to form: ‘Stand in the centre of the pentagram, drawn upon that high place in the East within the light which ever shines. From that illumined centre work. Leave not the pentagram. Stand steady in the midst. Then draw a line from that which is without to that which is within and see the Plan take form.’"