MERCURY TRANSMISSIONS ON GROUP INITIATION ( continued )
Includes transmissions on.... Healing, The Magical Process, Moveable & Immoveable Groups, The Energy of Life
18.12.02
At the time of the coming full Moon, falling as it does just before the Solstice and Christmas, an ashramic effort is underway to pour healing energy into the mental field. Astrologically this process is signified by the trine between Jupiter in Leo and Pluto in Sagittarius. The unifying energy of solar fire is being used to absorb and heal those uprising unresolved issues within the fire by friction of the group mental field.
To make this information useful to your group I would like you to consider the worldwide field of those who are working within the specific thoughtform I have created through the writings of Alice Bailey. There is an energetic opportunity to deepen and emphasise the unity that exists between all these minds working to uncover the energy of buddhi which lies behind the words. It is not an opportunity so much for synthesis (that will come later) but for unity. Consider how, as a group you might assist with this project in both your subjective and outer communications.
To the world wide group who work with my teachings: Brothers, whatever your differences of view or emphasis, this is a time to recognise your shared response to the note of Love-Wisdom. It is this response that has called you into a resonance with these teachings and in this response is the promise of a deeper and eventual ashramic unity. As a global field of individuals and groups united on the abstract mental plane and crossing over all lesser boundaries and obstacles of race, gender, culture, economics and politics you have a unique opportunity to sound that note of Love-Wisdom in the world. This note is not only sounded by the dissemination of the teachings but more importantly by the demonstration amongst yourselves of the effect of the teachings as they are worked out in practical cooperative endeavour. I call you to the demonstration of Love-Wisdom. The Uranus/Saturn trine will allow for the breaking up of old separative thoughtforms and the Jupiter/Pluto trine will allow for the healing of old emotional wounds. Love. Start on the mental plane and work outwards through form.
To the Highden group: You are a microcosm within the larger field. Work where you are. Examine that which exists of a separative nature in your mental and emotional fields and attend to it. Use the alignment with the inner group. From the inner worlds the divisions within the group field are more apparent and with invocation, much that is old and deep can be released, not only from this incarnation but from periods of old association. As you achieve some liberation and unity within your own field you may be able to contribute healing to the wider group. Call on the inner group, call on me, call on the Christ. Love wisely my brothers.
This opportunity is presenting itself through the need to fund the School which is pressing at this time. Adopt the view that the current circumstances are a positive development that indicates the very ground needed in which the seeds of creative living can germinate. The occult generation of money requires need, love and magnetic power all present at once. Love and power have been the focus of the first two years. Need will be the driving force for the keynote of this one. This need is not an indication of any failure but of success and readiness to learn about a new principle. Need brings forth Creativity. The crucial point is to see that this creativity emanates from the soul and not the personality.
The creativity of the personal self (operating on its own) is driven by fear, arises in the base centre and expresses through the sacral, attempting to draw to itself that which is needed. The creativity of the soul operates through the crown and expresses through the throat chakra as creative expression and living. The Third and Seventh rays are involved. When the Seventh Ray is reoriented to the Third (a reorientation demonstrated in Hierarchy and therefore assured for humanity in the graduation of the Master R from the Seventh Ray Master to Mahachohan) then the sacral centre serves the throat and can be used in group formation to attract resources for the soul.
This is an important point to remember. This joint operation results from soul-personality fusion.
You have been told that the first three initiations involve the sacral/throat, solar plexus/heart and base/crown respectively. This is the view from the personality. From the soul’s perspective, in the act of manifestation the situation is reversed. In the first year the emphasis was crown to base. In the second the heart had to control the solar plexus. In the third year the emphasis will be on the control of the sacral centre by the throat. The sacral centre has been called ‘the court of the money changers’. At this time the Third Ray ashram, and in particular that Master named ‘adjuster of finances’ is working through the emerging Seventh Ray ashram to reorientate the world financial situation. This reorientation and the consequent reprioritisation of values is something which must be demonstrated in your group life if you are to serve as a model for the new archetypal pattern.
I have drawn your attention to the integration formula for the Seventh Ray in a previous message and I re-emphasise this. It is only through standing steady in the pentagram and drawing a line “from that which is without to that which is within” that the work can proceed. (EPII, p.376) Principally, do not leave the pentagram driven by the forces of fear aroused in your own nature arising from apparent outer circumstances. You have the support of the ashram which cannot be registered through fear-based thoughtforms and astrality. Any outgoing energy emanating from the group must contain the creative flow of the ashram and therefore be sourced there. The purer the alignment, the greater the love the more potent the response will be. Fear will only result in activity that diminishes the capacity and quality of alignment and love. The Third Aspect, humanity, the personality, is divine. It need only overcome the fear of survival inherent in incarnated life and stand steady in its orientation to the soul to prove this fact and become a living testament to the glory of God. Such is the challenge and the opportunity before you this year.
In your own group work, the tension and uncertainty over whether the School will own the property provides a similar opportunity. If you allow the process to work through at a deep level you will find that it brings up the primary issues underlying the Spirit/Matter dual paradox in each of your natures. The result could be a confrontation with and victory over what has been called ‘the Great Illusion’.
What is necessary is to hold a point of tension long enough in order for the core issues to become very clear. There will come a time however when the tension has borne fruit and the time for decision and action comes. Right timing is a key Seventh Ray skill.
In both cases Hierarchy may inspire, educate and guide but the responsibility for the decision must be left with humanity, and in the School’s case, with the outer group. In no other way can all three Aspects of divinity enter into proper relationship with each other. Responsibility and power are intimately linked. Neither can exist long without drawing the other into being.
Your group must begin to operate more fully as an esoteric centre—think of the distinction between the way that the physical body operates and the way that the etheric body operates. The latter is esoteric to the former and underlies its functioning.
As a group, you are seven energy centres which must come into right functioning relationship with each other in order to inform and organise the outer environment with the higher archetypal energies of the ashrams.
Pay attention to clearing the flows of energy between you as it is these energetic flows which underlie and can reorient the thoughts and feelings, which, to the inner being are material and dense. Do not seek to materialise the concept of your energetic interplay too early but stand steady on causal levels and work outwards from there. Remember that the key to working with the Great Illusion is to recognise the unreal for what it is and not attempt to work within it. It may be beneficial for you to consider the rules for the physical/etheric plane in A Treatise on White Magic.
The group is also only a unit within a larger group, and as the synthetic process that is occurring in the ashrams continues, then it will become clearer how each group fits within the whole of which it is a part—just as your own synthetic process gradually reveals the key role that each individual must play in your group.
Your question is about Highden and whether it will be the ongoing site for the School. I would seek to answer that by stressing once more the need for you to stay together in this process as a group. Highden came about because those involved were willing to stand in the stream of Will, of Shamballic force really, and so allow a point of anchoring upon the physical plane. The key note here is willingness to serve the Will of God. In some sense it is the willingness to serve as best suits the need that allows the Will to work most potently.
How many disciples are there who are willing and able to just pick up and move in order to be a part of such a project? It is this very ‘willingness’ that brought you into this group in the first place. The Purpose is fixed but the Plan is ever changing in order to conform as closely as possible to that Purpose. It is the work of Hierarchy through the ashrams to continually work to bring humanity in line with that Plan. There are two types of workers we seek to use as ‘pivotal workers’ in times of change.
The first type is so firmly anchored that they become stable centres or vortexes of force in a particular location. They usually have deep karmic roots in place, families, livelihoods etc and they are not ‘moveable’ in the ‘relocatable’ sense.
The other type of pivotal worker is the MOST ‘moveable’ in the physical sense. They have so adjusted their outer lives that they are available to pick up and move according to inner direction from the ashram. They become ‘connecting points of ashramic force’ rather than the ‘anchoring points of ashramic descent’. These workers are able to either stay or go, as directed by the need of the ashram.
You are in a period of time where choice will be made. As a result of that choice, you have the potential to become, either individually or as a group, one or other of these types of ‘pivotal worker’. From the point of view of Hierarchy, we can use either type of worker to advance the sense of synthesis. If you anchor more fully at Highden, we can begin to use this centre as a stable point to which we can send other workers who will either stay and strengthen the anchor or move through, bringing new energy when they arrive and carrying the synthetic energy when they leave.
The important point for this process to work is that you realise the importance of your own ‘will’ as an outer group. It is not acceptable for you to merely submit to what you might call the ‘Will of God’ in the sense of ‘what will be will be’. This is an avoidance of responsibility which denies the divinity of the Third Aspect. You must choose and then hold that choice lightly in surrender and alignment to the Ashram.
Here are your choices as they appear to me:
• You choose to take your stand ‘as a group’ at Highden. This will result in success or in failure in the sense of achieving the desired result of being able to purchase or stay long-term on the property. Success will mean that the project will be able to be used by the ashram as a stable vortex. Failure will mean that the group can then choose to offer itself as a unit for other service, or choose to disband and reform in other ways. Remembering of course that there is no true ‘failure’ in any spiritual work undertaken with aligned intent.
• Or you choose ‘as a group’ to offer yourselves to be used as a unit within the Plan as most serves the spirit of synthesis and Hierarchical intent at this time. The result of this choice will be either that the group relocates to another site or indeed several sites, or that the group is directed to stay at Highden or disband.
The first option gives surety of intent but uncertainty as to outcome. The second option gives surety of outcome (that you will be used collectively and/or individually for the highest good) but uncertainty as to direction or intent.
The important point here is to take the decision as a group. This decision is in fact a part of your initiating process. Humanity must learn to use the Will, beginning with its own personal will, and we see that process at work right now upon the world stage. In your case as a group, it is not so much a distinction between right or wrong use of the Will. The only wrong use would be to not ‘choose’ and thus not use the Will at all. The distinction is whether to use the Will as a descending force that anchors in matter or as an ascending force that abstracts. Both directions bring forth the other as a consequence, but the outer appearance is not the same.
Choose my brothers. We await your decision.
12.02.03
You are in a process of group initiation. Is not that the central intention of an occult School? In making your decision you have chosen to reorientate your consciousness and in so doing you are in a process of shifting your core identity from humanity to Hierarchy, from the Third to the Second Aspect. Initiation of the consciousness from the personality to the soul is always ‘self-initiation’.
The Third Aspect becomes sacred and demonstrates its divinity when the consciousness identified with the form (and remember thoughts are forms) wilfully chooses to re-identify with the soul. This you are in the process of doing as a group. Initiation occurs in consciousness and it is changes in consciousness that subsequently have an effect upon the form life. Sometimes the consciousness changes so radically that the old forms no longer serve and must be transformed or released. The death process is always an opportunity for initiation. Consciousness either clings to the form resulting in an ‘unconscious’ death, or joyfully releases and takes part in the abstraction process, in which case you have a conscious transition.
Having taken the decision as a group, you are now in a process which has not completed and therefore you cannot know what the outcome will be. I may only help to guide the direction of your consciousness in the same way that there are guides which help the soul negotiate the transition at the time of death.
There is no such thing as an individual soul, just as there is no such thing as an individual ‘wave’ in the sea. There is really only Soul—the one great ashram of Hierarchy. Within that vast sea there are the ray ashrams and sub-ashrams, focalising points of ‘quality’ within the overriding quality of ‘Love-Wisdom’, impressed by Will and working out in Intelligent Activity.
In the same way there is really no
such thing as the ‘soul’ of
From above the buddhic plane, all form is seen as illusory, even those soul forms which exist on the abstract mental plane which consist of groupings of causal bodies. Group souls form as a way of leading consciousness identified with the illusion of a single causal body into the more expansive illusion of a group soul. Eventually all distinction in consciousness, all groupings and sub-groupings, must disappear under the realisation of the one Life which substands all consciousness. The Seven Rays of light are blended into the great synthetic indigo, and behind this is the darkness of pure Spirit out of which all light is birthed.
In time and space however, illusions are mastered one at a time as larger and larger spheres are transcended within the one sphere of the planetary life. Having succeeded somewhat in the fusion of your individual consciousnesses into a group entity, the direction that your group consciousness must now expand is into the global ashramic group. The individual entity finds its proper function within the greater life when the consciousness of that entity has expanded into the larger field.
I advise you now to consider the group
soul as the form life of your ‘project’. This form exists upon
the abstract mental plane. The transition you are making, little though
you realise it, is the transfer of your awareness of form or ‘body’
from the physical location of Highden to the causal ‘body’ of
the group on abstract mental levels. The subjective life or consciousness
of the group is likewise being transferred from the group astral body
to the buddhic ‘body’. The group ‘will’ is likewise
shifting from the concretised ‘thoughtform’ of the
If you follow this thinking through you will see that the identity of the group is shifting from the three worlds of the group personality into the three worlds of the triad. This transition may or may not result in the loss of the outer personality, not just of the project but also of the group (ie those individual personalities which make up the ‘outer’ group). Whether it does or not depends upon three factors:
a) The degree of attachment that still exists within the group consciousness to the forms on all three personality planes. Consider in this regard not only your attachments to the physical place but to the group astral and mental body.
b) The capacity that the forms have to serve as containers or expressions of the triadal life of the group.
c) The overriding considerations of the ever changing Hierarchical Plan which serves the unchanging Purpose.
Two further suggestions I give you at this time:
1. Seek to expand your consciousness of the ‘group’ soul. This will lead you into greater ashramic perspective and therefore an understanding of the precise function that your group has the potential of performing. This is a buddhic function leading to Pure Reason, and indicates Love moving through the causal heart and not so much the astral heart of the group.
2. Transmit Purpose. This is a different thing my brothers than ‘aligning’ with Purpose. You can align your consciousness with Purpose by reading and meditating upon those articulations of my purpose that I, as your Master, have indicated in the books and in these transmissions, and this I urge you to do. This process conditions the mental field and brings it into alignment with the atmic. Purpose however is not a concept but an energy. It is the transmission of this energy which ‘transfigures’ the mind and releases thereby the consciousness imprisoned by the Great Illusion.
In conclusion, I encourage you to put aside all thoughts of failure and concerns about the future and to redouble your effort and focus at this crucial transition time. Work as a group, as a group soul, on causal levels with the same degree of one-pointedness that was required of you on the physical plane three years ago when the outer project commenced.
19.02.03
The origin of this third and synthetic ‘will’ is the energy of Life itself which originates in the incarnating purpose of the Planetary Logos and is then transmitted via the monad, through the ashrams on the buddhic plane, through the jewel in the lotus and finally through the central group of petals in the heart.
These three centres of ‘will’, the crown, the base and the heart, make a triangle within the Third Aspect through which the energy of the fourth quality of deity can flow. They relate to the planets Vulcan, Pluto and Earth within the solar being. It is through this triangle that the energy of solar Will can be transmitted via the planetary Will. Thinking this through may shed some light on the role of this planet within the greater system.
The causal body is in the centre of the five worlds and is the heart chakra of the monadic system. It is through the heart of the causal body that ‘light supernal’ must flow. This ‘light’, related as it is to the combined energies of Aquarius and the Seventh Ray, has a particular relationship to the planet Uranus. Light supernal can flow from the atmic plane to the physical only when the two energies of the ‘will to survive’ and the ‘will to purpose’ are synthesised by the third energy of the ‘will to be’ flowing from the monad but originating on the logoic plane of the system. This brings the energies of the first, third and seventh planes together via the ‘bodies’ on the second and fifth planes.
The true significance of Venus in Capricorn and its relationship to the Third Initiation has to do with the role that the Fifth Hierarchy plays in integrating the three ‘wills’ that operate through the First, Third and Seventh rays of Capricorn. The Fifth Ray is the bridge provided by the causal body of the energy of ‘Love’ that comes via the monad or planetary heart centre directly from the solar heart. It is basically the energy of Love ‘fixated’ upon a hard line or ‘Will’ plane. Thus it is the representative of Second Ray synthesis working within the 1, 3, 5, 7 alignment thus allowing the ‘highest and lowest’ to meet.
Venus is the energy of sacrificial solar Love that descends to aid the ‘will to be’ of the planetary deity. The significance of this in your group life should be apparent. The energies of anchoring and abstraction are apparent in your process. By deciding as a group to be moveable rather than immovable you have chosen the ‘will’ emanating from the crown over the ‘will’ emanating from the base and therefore effectively transferred your point of equilibrium from humanity to Hierarchy. The point of transition occurs in the causal field of the group. The issue now is whether the existing forms that the group has been working through, the mental, astral and etheric/physical sheaths can be transformed or must be let go of altogether.
The transformation is not a gradual process but a sudden one. Transfiguration is the sudden drenching of the group soul with the energy of ‘Life’ itself. This energy is so potent that it either serves to fuse the soul and personality together or results in the death of the personality. The fusion process occurs within the form through the heart chakra and is in effect the fusion of two ‘wills’, the will of the soul and the will of the personal self into one ‘Will’.
The death of the personality, or really the breaking apart of the forms which compose it, indicates that the form is not able to contain the transfiguring energy of light supernal. This is why the initiate at the Third degree is called “The Conqueror of death”. (EA, p.333) He understands that the energy of light supernal is ‘Life’ itself. He knows not whether the descent of that energy will result in the shattering of the carefully constructed and conditioned forms or whether it will result in their transfiguration. The image of a potter placing a cup in a kiln is a good one. He knows not whether the fire will result in a fused or a broken container when he puts it in the fire.
The experiment at Highden is ‘in the fire’. The result will be a transfiguring or a shattering. There is no other option when you call on the energy of Life which is also death. Either the energy of light supernal will pour through the group causal body and find its way through to the etheric plane and the outer project thus anchoring on the seventh plane, or it will find its passage blocked in the mental, astral or etheric life of the group personality and result in the destruction of those fields. If the latter is the result then the group soul will return to the ‘drawing board’ of the ashram. In either case the ‘location’ of the group centre will shift to causal levels but it may or may not have a group personality to work through. From a triadal perspective the group ‘personality’ consists of a particular energetic configuration of individual causal bodies. The real group soul is the ashram.