MERCURY TRANSMISSIONS ON GROUP INITIATION ( continued )
Includes transmissions on.......Individualisation & Identification, The Death of Forms, The Light of Life
26.02.03
I have said that the ‘personality’ of the group should be understood as that coherent causal identity that forms on the planes of the abstract mind. To understand this process it is helpful to view the threefold development of consciousness—individualisation, initiation and identification as three aspects of one process seen from different levels of experience.
Group initiation for example, involves identification where the individual causal soul is concerned. The individualised solar consciousness ‘identifies’ as the group. The process is ‘initiation’ to the group as a whole and individualisation from the perspective of the ashram. A piece of ashramic purpose is ‘individualised’ through the geometric arrangement of a group of causal bodies on the higher mental plane.
This individualisation process is no different in essence from that which occurred in the Third Rootrace as solar angels ensouled or individualised animal man. At that time there was a great destruction of the forms in the three worlds, while at the same time there was a fusion process occurring on causal levels which resulted in an ‘individualised’ identity—an identity which would be sustainable for a whole series of outer lives and would eventually make possible a lasting connection between monad and personality through the process of individualisation, initiation and identification.
Thus an ‘individualised’ personality from the ashramic perspective is a group of causal bodies which is formed into a stable pattern which will last through several incarnations in order to carry out a specific piece of ashramic purpose. It is an externalisation of a part of the ashram on to the mental plane where the energy of Purpose is ‘fixated’.
This process requires the willing acquiescence of the individual causal soul. It is the Leo principle surrendering to Aquarius so that a greater Leo or Sun of consciousness may result.
This process occurs under the Law of Destiny rather than the Law of Karma. There are many groups who are drawn together out of karmic association for the purpose of education, healing and growth. A group that comes together under the Law of Destiny is formed because of a united recognition and commitment to an ashramic purpose which will be fulfilled at a future date. Upon fulfilment of that destiny the group causal body is then shattered and the consciousness is transferred to the ashram.
This purpose is always multi-incarnational and is recognised in different degrees by the members of the group according to the stage of development of their own antahkarana. From the time that this fusion or ‘individualisation’ process takes place then it is the united commitment of the souls of group members that carries the project forward.
Up until that moment of ‘individualisation’ it is the purpose and cohering consciousness of the Master or initiate that holds the group together. Once it has taken place then the initiating consciousness is freed from its holding function and can then overlight and work through its ‘creation’ as necessary.
I want you to see this very clearly. As an outer group you have been brought together and linked with other souls who are not currently incarnated to form a group field which can be used to externalise a portion of my ashramic purpose. This process requires identification on your part as individuals—each individual must ‘identify’ themselves with the whole and not with their individual identity (which is why I address you as a group entity and not as a collection of individuals). It requires initiation as a group entity—the group soul is what initiates the individual consciousness with that of the whole group. And it involves individualisation—it is a portion of the energy of Purpose which comes via the monad which is ‘incarnated’ into the coherent field of consciousness of the group soul.
This is the real experiment being undertaken and it requires the ‘will’ of your incarnated soul (which is the solarised personality) for it to be successful. I can only bring you together and educate you in the process. You must throw your ‘will’ in the direction of mine for a successful outcome to occur. Let me put this plainly. Are you willing to give up, not only your personality acquisitions, but something which is much more precious to you, the accumulated harvest of many lifetimes—your causal body, the Temple of Solomon in which you have carefully stored the essentialised experience of an individual soul? Each of you is a soul with much experience, and you are all capable of functioning somewhat as souls or I would not have been able to gather you together for this work. Will you become one soul, not in theory but in fact? Will you allow your individualised purpose incarnated as it is in your causal self to become one with a larger Purpose?
Pay no attention to what is happening in the three worlds at this stage—the outer will only begin to repattern itself once the inner decisions are made. If fusion takes place then the forms that are required for the implementation of that purpose will be built or attracted. All the ingredients for fusion are there save one—the willingness of you all to throw yourselves forward into this new experiment, the willingness to let go of all thoughtforms and attachments and individual projects into the energetic centre of this experiment. As a result the energy of Purpose emanating from Shamballa will be birthed through the group soul as a by-product of that surrender. The energy of Will must be applied by the initiate, not to others but to himself; and this law also applies to the group initiate.
05.03.03
There is a type of light which is called the ‘light of life itself’. This light is beginning to break forth in the group field. It has nothing to do with intelligence or consciousness which is how we would normally understand light, but is associated with the Will and with the purpose of the Planetary Logos. It is not a light which illuminates so much as ‘vivifies’. It is the light supernal which awakens the ‘secret light’ within the form. I would ask you to focus more consciously on this light and to ponder upon its significance to the group process.
There has been a rapid reorientation within the group field that has centred around the core concept of what an esoteric group really consists of. This reorientation has been a significant blow to what is called the Great Illusion and should have introduced to the members of the group an experience of isolated unity—that strange experience where the disciple stands seemingly bereft and yet unified—alone and yet with all the world. Each individual member of the group is becoming in a practical and experiential sense, the group itself. This allows for a greater separation amongst the personalities of the group members while at the same time indicating a deeper fusion at soul levels.
This fused group has become ‘individualised’ through the initiatory process. What this means is that a ‘seed’ from the ashram can now be planted within the group, to inhabit the group soul form as it were. This seed carries within it a particular purpose which a subset and a ‘working through’ of ashramic intent.
In order for the ‘light of life’ – a ray upon which this seed is planted to be maintained, the seed must have access both to its mother and father. The fused group soul is the mother principle—the ashramic purpose is the father principle. The group must nurture the seed through conscious loving attention—this is carried out through rhythmic meditation. A container is thus created and maintained. The seed develops intelligence in the world through the various activities of the group. These activities are the ‘roots’.
When a group member is inspired along a certain path of service in the three worlds their attention is focused outward. This outward attention carries the ‘root’ further into the earth of the three worlds. However the root also allows for nutrients to travel back to the seed and make it more ‘intelligent’ in the sense of being ‘informed’ through outer action.
Most outer groups have their attention focused outwards in the extension of the ‘root’ structure and occasionally lift their attention through inspiration and meditation to the seed. I am drawing your attention to a higher process where the work in the three worlds is undertaken with a different ‘direction of consciousness’. The gaze of the group member must be kept upon the ‘seed’ rather than upon the earth. The root will grow and grow faster and in more magical ways than would be possible if the attention is directed outwards. You have just had this demonstrated to you as a group.
I want to restate this because it is likely that you will need to remind yourselves again and again about this reorientation until it becomes stable in your experience. The activity of group members is designed to bring intelligence and nutrients to the seed and not to achieve any outer manifestation in the three worlds. You are not to focus on achieving specific outer projects as goals in themselves. This will of course be almost impossible for you but gradually will become easier. The teaching and writing and manifesting work of the group is NOT about bringing the teachings to humanity but about bringing humanity to the teachings. Think this through. From humanity’s perspective Hierarchy is externalising, bring to humanity the light love and power of the inner worlds and inaugurating a golden age of brotherhood on Earth. From Hierarchy’s perspective, humanity is food. The soul needs to extend its roots through the personality to gain enough nutrients to flower upwards to the monad.
Consider serving the needs of Hierarchy rather than the needs of humanity. The greater always includes the lesser and you will find that the help to humanity is great but as a ‘by-product’ of the focus of your attention.
This reorientaion makes the First Aspect of personality focus the Third Aspect of triadal focus and occurs upon the mental plane. Meditation upon the soul is normally the First Aspect in the trinity of meditation, study and service, but is the Third Aspect in the trinity of Intelligence, Love and Will. This does not mean that study and service are not undertaken but they are undertaken with a meditative orientation which directs all acts in the three worlds to the service of the soul’s growth.
The Second or ‘Love’ Aspect is developed through ‘communion’ as a soul—in this case as a group soul. In the same way that individuals within the group learned to identify as the group through causal body communion, the group soul must consciously open itself in communion to other fused group souls within the wider ashram. Your new meditation work as a group will be along these lines.
The First Aspect of ‘Will’ is related to atma and keeps the electrical flow between the group purpose (which is expressing through the facets of the individual soul purposes) and the purpose at the heart of the ashram which is the purpose of your Master. You need to articulate this relationship to yourselves mentally but of course the real interplay is energetic and it is the dynamic thrilling energy which charges through the group soul and can be invoked and evoked. This is the reservoir of Will.
The light of life itself is a synthesised light which operates through the three lights of the triad in the same way that the soul light operates through the three lesser lights of the personality. It comes through the monad in the individual sense, in the group sense through the Chohan or sixth degree initiate in whose ashram your Master finds His place, and through Shamballa in the planetary sense.
In closing I remind you that the current progress in the affairs of the group life has come about through the taking of your focus off the outer project and allowing the power of the ‘seed’ to draw to itself those elements and ingredients it needs for growth. I have said before that the capacity for this project (and now I mean soul project) to grow is restricted by the limitation of your thoughtforms. I now add the element of ‘direction’. It is not only your thoughtforms (which are merely containers for consciousness) but the direction of those thoughtforms—are they ‘manifesting’ thoughtforms that you become attached to implementing or are they ascending thoughtforms, surrendered once they are constructed to the ‘seed’ at the centre of the group soul? I am not asking you to become abstract. Continue to operate in the three worlds. Do what must be done but let your consciousness remain in the high place of the soul and enter more and more frequently into the ‘secret place’, the inner court of the group soul which contains the seed.
12.03.03
You are in a deathing process as a group and must go through the stages of this process until the stage of joyful acceptance and harvest is reached. What has been created together at the level of soul cannot be uncreated. It cannot be threatened nor does it need to be preserved. It simply is, and will reveal itself through new forms as time proceeds. What I am talking about is the ‘entity’ that is a group soul and contains within it the seed of ashramic purpose. This is an entity on causal levels—a jewel around which twelve petals will form. Naturally this entity will have outer incarnations—forms which reflect and express the inner archetypal pattern—but the entity should not be confused with any of its forms nor with the personalities of those who form a part of them.
There is almost no way to explain the process of the building of a causal entity for a School within the causal body of a nation without that process materialising in the minds of those to whom I explain it. Nevertheless I will make the attempt.
The ashrams exist on buddhic levels as you know. The externalisation of those ashrams becomes possible when there exists within the higher mind of humanity those lighted thoughtforms which are responding to the 'note' of qualified purpose which defines the ashram. These ‘thoughtforms’ are a bridge between the emotional body of humanity and the ‘buddhic body’. On the lower mental plane the thoughtforms are more ‘material’ and have at their root the identification with a form, be it an individual or a nation. On the higher mental plane, the thoughtforms more fully reflect the archetype, however they still have threads of connection into the physical and emotional plane.
The ‘soul’ of a nation is that amorphous entity which is composed of the combined thoughtforms that have built up over many generations on the higher mental plane. When this thoughtform begins to approximate an ‘inner archetype’ which exists on the buddhic plane, then a flow of energy can begin to take place from above downwards, and the causal field becomes more ‘defined’. When this causal field reaches a certain stage then a ‘seed of Will’ can be sown into it. This seed originates from the monad and contains the Purpose which will be carried out once the consciousness has been more fully developed.
The second solar system is developing the Love or consciousness principle so that a seed of solar Will can be planted which will form the basis for the third system. In a similar way a planet, a nation, a group and an individual are ‘seeded’. Individualisation is related to the planting of the seed, initiation to its flowering and identification to the deathing process.
The anchoring of the archetype of the ‘School’ has occurred within the causal body of the nation. A small portion of Shamballic ‘Life’, a ray of light supernal has ‘formulated’ or become ‘fixated’ upon the higher mental plane within the field of the national soul. This will form a reservoir of Purpose around which a ‘body of egoic light’ will form. None of this has anything really to do with the personalities involved in the anchoring. In the same way, the individualising of animal man did not have much to do with the actual outer identity of the animal man which was ‘individualised’. In most cases the outer form perished however a ‘whirl’ of identity became fixated upon causal levels from which many incarnations subsequently were ‘launched’.
The ‘entity’ of the School has utilised your causal bodies in the same way that a potter utilises a ‘mould’ to create a form. The mould must be able to hold a coherent form into which the waters of buddhi containing the seed of ‘Life’ can be poured. Once the pattern has been ‘set’ or ‘fired’ then the mould is no longer needed and can be broken or reused. It is the solidified pattern which remains and not the mould into which it was poured. Think this through. Of course the form is always developed and evolved as a result of consciousness operating through it.
It would be useful now to distinguish between a ‘group soul’ and the causal bodies of group members which may from time to time operate within the aura of that group soul.
A group soul is NOT just the combination of the consciousness of the causal bodies of those who comprise it. Nor was it ‘formed’ from the causal bodies of group members although it did ‘incarnate’ into the group. It is an independent triadal entity which has a purpose and a consciousness which transcends its manasic vehicle. It existed before ‘incarnation’ within a particular group of causal bodies, will survive the coming and going of individual units within that pattern on the higher mental plane and indeed the pattern itself.
This causal ‘entity’ requires a physical ‘anchor point’ in the same way that individualisation and initiation can only occur during a physical incarnation. In a peculiar way, this entity is as closely related to the physical location of Highden as it is to the causal bodies of those who formed part of its ‘mind’. Will is anchored along the lines of 1, 3, 5, 7. Those who come to Highden will come into the etheric ‘aura’ of this entity whether or not they are equipped to contact its consciousness or purpose. Similarly, the soul life of this ‘entity’ can be contacted by those who may never visit the place or indeed be in incarnation at all.
19.03.03
Pisces is the sign of endings and beginnings—the comings and goings from the Father’s house. If you examine carefully the events in the group life over the last two months you will find a keynote emerging. This keynote expresses itself in many ways and can be summed up in the phrase ‘the word has sounded forth’.
This Word is the light of Life itself, the First Aspect. It is the Word that gathered the group together in the first place in response to the great Sound. It is the Word which carries the Life energy from the personality to the triad. It is the Word which IS the electric fire at the centre of the jewel. It is the Word of Death and the Word of Life. It is the Lost Word of Masonry and the secret of alchemy. It is the Word of God which carries one shaft of the Will of God from Shamballa through the ashram into outer manifestation.
What can be expected when the ‘word has sounded forth’?
Firstly, something has begun. ‘In the beginning was the Word’…something has been set in motion, a genesis, a creation has occurred which will now run its course and produce in time and space outer forms that will eventually express that Word.
Secondly, something has ended. The Word is also the ‘trumpet of Jericho’. The Word is simultaneously the Word of Life AND the Word of Death. These are not separate words but ONE. The same Word causes the destruction of those forms which are not able to adequately hold and express the Life, and the beginning, the cohering of those new forms which can contain the Life energy. Life energy enters and Life energy leaves at the ‘sounding’. The Word itself is a vortex that allows for the movement of the essential energy in two directions.
You can observe for yourselves the working out of this Shamballic ‘sounding’ in the world at this time.
In the anchoring process of the School ‘the sounding of the word’ could be said to cover the first two and a half years, the ‘reciting of the mantram’ the middle three years and the ‘repetition of the formula’ the last two and one half years of the seven year manifestation cycle.
The ‘reciting of the mantram’ is the response of consciousness to the ‘sounding of the word’—the reflex action if you like—and this response is dual. One aspect moves towards the ‘source of the sound’ and the other carries the ‘sound into matter’. You might consider these dualities the two aspects of the School which are forming in response to the issuing forth of the Shamballic note. These two aspects form, nevertheless, one sphere of consciousness, harmonised at the centre corresponding to the buddhic plane within the triadal sphere. The OM becomes the AUM. Consciousness, starting as a duality becomes a triplicity.
The ‘repetition of the formula’ is the intelligent ‘formulated’ response of the Third Aspect to the initiating Purpose and the dual workings of consciousness.
I invite you to examine the process of manifestation over the entire seven year period regardless of the comings and goings of individual personnel and the apparent outer situations and events. If you think this process through in advance, many difficulties may be avoided through the recognition and fostering of the archetype which is seeking to express according to law.
The middle three years in this process, like the middle three rootraces are primarily concerned with the development of consciousness. In the middle of the Third Rootrace, individualisation occurs. In the Fourth Race a conflict between the forces of light and the forces of dark. In the Fifth Race the process of initiation is instigated. Think this through.
You have, in the creative work of manifesting a School on the physical plane, the expression of a divine archetype. If you pay attention to the manifesting Will of this entity then the process of manifestation can be accomplished with grace and joy.
26.03.03
Progress continues. As with all ending processes there is a period of discrimination required which allows for the separation of the self from the not-self. The soul becomes aware of its misidentification with the sheaths and releases them one by one. The sheaths contain in the very substance of which they are composed, the seeds of karma. It is the soul’s destiny which expresses its relationship to the monad, and the soul’s karma which expresses its relationship to the forms which it has built and inhabited in the past.
Shamballa relates the soul to the monad and so I ask you to consider your destiny. Base any outer group cooperation on your capacity to fulfil that destiny. If you could but see it from my perspective you would be aware of synthesis operating in the inner life of the group—resulting necessarily in an increased outer differentiation of group members. Think this through.
You are at that stage, as a group, where a shared purpose should not be focused on. Isolated unity should be becoming a reality in the consciousness of each member.
When the personality is trying to contact the soul, it needs to develop soul qualities—essentially qualities of Love-Wisdom. As the identity shifts to the soul then these qualities are realised as innate. Essentially the personality is a subset of the soul and so is inherently (inheriting from the Son) Love.
When the soul is trying to contact the monad, it develops qualities of Will and Purpose until it realises it is inherently (inherited from the Father) Purpose. The light of Life breaks forth into the soul field and the reality of Being Purpose is experienced. This is the significance of the Third Ray word of power “PURPOSE ITSELF AM I”. (RAI, p.517) This is the reality the soul experiences on the atmic plane, just as the personality experiences the reality of itself as soul on the mental plane.
The soul realises that it IS Purpose and that there is no separation from the Father inherently—there is no need to construct or create a ‘purpose’. —Purpose already exists.
This ‘realisation of inherent Purpose’ shapes the three worlds automatically once the antahkarana is built to bring them into alignment with the Purpose and reveal it in matter. This is a later stage than when the soul seeks to condition and then fuse with matter in order to carry out its realised or apprehended purpose in the three worlds. This is an important distinction to make. On the mental plane the soul knows itself as Intelligence, on the buddhic plane as Love or Pure Reason, and on the atmic plane as fixed design or Purpose.
There is a difference between ‘having a purpose’ and ‘being Purpose’. This is a difference you should seek to cultivate at those high moments of integration and fusion. Be Purpose.
The atmic plane ‘fixates’ or formulates Purpose in the same way that the mental plane ‘fixates’ consciousness. Purpose is really then a monadic quality, just as consciousness is a soul quality. The soul’s purpose is really that portion of monadic destiny fixated on the atmic plane that the triadal soul is seeking to express in a ‘solar cycle’. Similarly the causal body contains that portion of the soul’s consciousness which the personality in the three worlds is seeking to express in a lesser cycle.
Just as there comes a time when the causal body becomes a limitation and must be transcended, there comes a time when, on the Higher way the ‘atmic body’ becomes a limitation and must be transcended. This is why we are told that Purpose is only an energy held within the confines of the Council Chamber.
Consciousness, held in the ashram of Hierarchy on the buddhic plane, is ‘fixed’ in an individual causal body. Purpose, held in the Council Chamber of Shamballa on the monadic plane is ‘fixed’ in the atmic body.
The accumulated wisdom stored in the causal body or Temple of Solomon over many lives is but a grain of sand compared to the Pure Reason of the ashram which harvests millions of causal identities.
The ‘purpose’ stored in the atmic body or Temple of Ezekial is tiny compared to the energy of Life itself stored in Shamballa. This great reservoir of Life is that portion of the solar Purpose which can be utilised by the Planetary Logos in any cycle. When you contact this Life directly, all lesser purposes are lost in that blinding ‘light of Life itself’. This is the true significance of the Second Ray ‘word of power’ “I SEE THE GREATEST LIGHT”. (RAI, p.516) This light is the ‘light of Life’ contacted on the monadic plane. Some tiny portion of this light has been released into the container of the group soul. If this energy is to be utilised it must be allowed to alter not only the orientation of the consciousness of the group but the consciousness itself.
It is the ‘dark light’ which must appear in the very centre of the light of the soul. It is not a mental ‘will’ (which is the reflection of atma into manas). It is not even the ‘will’ of the soul (which is purpose defined on the atmic plane). It is in a peculiar way the absence of ‘will’ which allows the energy of ‘Life’ of solar Purpose to enter the soul. This ‘Life’ is held in a reservoir—a kind of ‘liquid Purpose’ before it becomes focused and wilfully directed into the five worlds of human evolution. Seek you first the Life.
Once this energy has become revealed in the consciousness of the soul then the process of working synthetically with all three vehicles—monad, soul and personality begins to become faintly possible. The soul must learn to circulate the energies of Life, Love and Intelligence in such a way that a fourth quality of deity can become present. It will be for groups who come later to work consciously with this fourth quality. Nevertheless groups such as yours can begin to work with it unconsciously and by that I mean they can become vehicles that allow the entry and distribution of this quality into the field of humanity by focusing on the synthetic work. The analogy is the bee who focuses upon collecting pollen without realising the pollination that is occurring as a by-product of his activity.
Just as the energy of Will has been largely unconscious to groups and to individuals and yet operates through humanity as a whole and some key individuals (and indeed causes all activity regardless of consciousness), so this fourth quality can operate and does operate in the planetary life. It can be sensed in operation even if not known or understood.
This series of transmissions to this particular group is over. They will be valuable for other groups who are working at this particular phase of the group initiatory process and they will be valuable for individual group members as they begin to form and initiate their own groups. Let me summarise the process for you.
A group forms, based largely upon destiny or a synchronous response to a shared purpose, rather than based on karma as is the case in earlier stages of the group process. The individuals in the group are each called by the synthetic central point of the group life—the Master or initiate who is forming the group. The group establishes a synchronous meditative process forming an entity on abstract mental levels—the group soul. This group soul contains archetypal energies which need to be brought into relationship with each other in order to recognise a deeper synthesis. First the one, then the three, the five and the seven must reach a stage of recognised fusion before the inner mystery can be revealed. This inner mystery is related to the jewel and also to the Life Aspect. The many groupings of souls on the mental plane are externalisations of the forty-nine ashrams on the ashramic plane which are themselves externalisations of the seven planetary ashrams whose centres are found on the monadic plane. These seven have three synthesising—the First, Second and Seventh Rays and are all synthesised by the Second Ray of Love-Wisdom. It is the fused energies of all seven rays which creates ‘light supernal’ which is an expression of the light of Life itself as it is focused and directed into the five worlds via the atmic plane.
When light supernal is released into the group soul during the process of group initiation then this seven-fold synthetic energy is ‘seared through fire’ into the field. Different individuals may be at different stages of the individual initiatory process and so will respond to this event differently, however these responses only appear to be different in time and space. By this I mean that an initiatory event has taken place—this will be registered differently by the individual consciousnesses that make up the one unified consciousness of the group entity, however that does not change the fact of the event. An analogy would be a new scientific discovery. Such a discovery may be registered and understood by only a few, however it may quickly change the lives of many through its application. The Theory of Relativity for example, is still not well understood by the masses and yet it underpins much of modern society. As each consciousness grasps in their own time and space what Einstein once grasped during the formulation of the theory, they are coming into relationship with a living reality which lies outside of their normal day-to-day consciousness.
A similar process takes place in group initiation. A new energy enters (new to this group) and is sequentially registered in consciousness but—and this is important—has unconscious influence regardless of its apprehension by individual members of the group. Think this through as it is an important point to grasp.
Light supernal is a seven-fold synthetic energy which (speaking within the cosmic physical plane) issues from the monadic plane, is distributed in the three worlds through the jewel in the lotus, and finds eventual expression in the Aquarian Age upon the physical/etheric plane.
Each individual in the group process now becomes a carrier of this synthetic energy which has individualised holographically in the group field. The degree of unfoldment of their individual lotus will condition their conscious application of this synthetic energy in time and space.
Over time the archetype will repeat itself. Each member should be aware of this whether or not they are seeking to consciously support this process. Each individual will gradually become part of a triangle which will eventually become a seven-fold field which will undergo a similar initiatory process. Thus the seven-fold synthetic energy will produce in time and space a forty-nine-fold field. This will happen because it is in the very nature of the energy itself. How quickly this occurs is up to you. Humans can cooperate intelligently with this process and group initiation is an experiment in accelerating this cooperation through experience. You have just had such an experience and now I await your cooperation.
No further transmissions will be directed to you as a group at this time. Instead a period of gestation and integration in which I would ask you to review your experience and to review the transmissions that have been given. You might find it useful to write out your conclusions and learnings and to formulate very clearly, each on his own, the synthesised mental proposition which will serve as the core ‘seed’ that is able to contain on the abstract mental plane the particular quality of Purpose that it will be your job to externalise through a seven-fold field. End.