Group Initiation II ( cont )

September 2 2003

Group Initiation

I have said that you are preparing, as a group entity for the second initiation. This is primarily an initiation of ‘decision’ related as it is to the fourth and sixth degree initiations. The first initiation resulted in the breaking forth of light supernal within the conscious heart of the group soul entity. The second requires that this ‘life’ is consciously ‘chosen’. Discipleship is a conscious process and that is why I have asked you individually and collectively for your greater commitment and the active participation of your will.

The soul is group conscious and operates primarily on the triadal levels from where it attempts to solarise and fuse with the personality fields. When speaking of a group initiation I am talking primarily about events taking place on the triadal planes. The ‘first’ initiation then is the breaking forth of the synthetic life principle within the ‘mind’ of the group – the causal body is the heart charka on mental levels just as the etheric heart chakra is on the second subplane of the etheric... This allows the mind to be held ‘steady in the light’. You are practicing this as a group presently. The second group initiation concerns the buddhic plane. There is a simultaneous ‘lifting’ or liberation of the consciousness of the group in to the ashram on the buddhic plane. This is accomplished through a united focus on the Purpose of the ashram, represented by the Master on the atmic plane which opens up for a moment an inflow of energy from the monadic plane – a microcosmic  Shamballic Impact that is consciously invoked by the group entity for the purposes of liberating consciousness from the three worlds.

In reality there is only one initiatory process occurring – that of the planetary logos. The perception of different individuals and groups undergoing different levels of initiatory experience is only valid from the fragmented perspective of the three worlds. There is only one group, that great ashram of Sanat Kumara and only one initiation. This experience is spread though time and space and consciousness in such a way that this group is progressively made more aware of the synthesis of the process.

The value of the teachings given by Hierarchy is that they allow humanity to understand something of this synthetic process – resulting either in more intelligent cooperation or rebellion to the process by humanity. This is the choice offered.

I am attempting to work through this group in order to achieve something of the purpose for which I am responsible. I seek to educate the group in order to facilitate greater capacity for cooperation and therefore a more accelerated achievement. The whole experiment in group initiation is dependent primarily upon the conscious alignment of Wills. It is a forcing process but not in the sense of one will (mine) forcing compliance of another (the groups). The forcing process results from the cooperation but is not the cause of it. In order to cooperate, independent will has to be developed. This is why it was so important for you to decide, as a group, whether you were committed to be an anchoring group or a moveable group. This was an expression of independent will without influence from me. When the capacity for independent will exists, and then the capacity for group initiation using that will becomes possible.  If the group will is consciously and deliberately surrendered to the Will of the Master then that group becomes an outpost of that will.

The Master Morya is the head of the One Fundamental School. It is therefore an outreach of His Will that lies at the core of each and every esoteric education initiative that forms part of the One School. In order for His Will to exist as an energy at the core of a group soul, there must be elements of that group soul who are ‘surrendered’ to that Will. Willlessness is not surrender. Willfulness is not surrender. I ask you to contemplate the true meaning of surrendered will.

There is indeed no separate soul or love principle – it is the Christ who loves in us. There is only one Life and therefore one Will. It is Sanat Kumara who wills in us. The capacity of an individual or group soul to allow this Will to work through them is what is meant by co measurement.

I would invite you to develop your capacity to work with the sevenfold energy of Will in the following way. Attempt to understand the interactions of consciousness between you according to the simple chakra pattern below.

1. B– Crown

2. D– Ajna

3. V– Throat

4. S– Heart

5. B– Solar Plexus

6. J– Sacral

7. S– Base

I am not here talking about flows of etheric, emotional or concrete mental energy but of abstract mental thought. Try to be aware of those inner flows on causal levels from an impersonal point of view. You will gradually become aware of threads of energy that are linking and triangulating different charkas at different times as the group becomes more aligned as a miniature expression of what is occurring between the ashrams on the buddhic plane. Begin to view any interaction between this group and other groups in the same way until you are able to appreciate the particular chakra this group forms within the larger field of which it is a part.

This is a discipline in non precipitation. What I mean by that is the conscious resistance to manifesting flows of energy into concrete thoughtforms or interactions between you. Instead, attempt to lift these flows into the light of buddhi - seeking to understand the archetypal pattern behind them. The buddhic field must free itself from the abstract mental field in the same way that the astral body must at a certain point be able to function free of the etheric.

You will be able to take your conscious functioning place as a group unit within the etheric body of the planet and thereby your second group initiation, only when you are able, (as a group) to free yourself from manas.

September 10, 2003

Spiritual Intimacy

I consider my work with you in this most recent experiment has just had its first harvest, its first significant success. This of course is from my perspective and in the context of the purposes I am trying to work out and in which the group can play some part if it is ‘willing’. I have been able to utilize the group as a ‘centre’ – a stable field for both distribution and abstraction – for a centre ever has a dual function in allowing energy to move through it. I would like to continue this process over the full moon and so ask you to stay closely attuned to my energy and sensitive to my will over this time.

Sensitivity to will is a new phenomenon in groups and is part of the experiment I am attempting. It is connected to ‘spiritual instinct’ and when fully functioning in the centre that is this group, will result in that independent yet synchronous activity of each member as they respond to the will in its seven expressions. The group purpose is thus ‘revealed’ to you through the realizations and actions of each member seen synthetically. It is not derived from the consciousness of the group but is revealed to the consciousness of the group.  In this way the grip of manas is sequentially broken.

Self consciousness and independent will are hard won evolutionary successes not to be given up easily. Group consciousness and the surrendered will can only occur truly when the individualized consciousness has become impressed beyond all doubt with the greater value, wider perspective and more inclusive purpose of the higher way. This is why I have asked you to experiment and to ‘sacredise’ the experiment through commitment over a period of time. At the end of that time you will be able to seriously assess the results.

In the process of opening yourselves more deeply to the experiment it is important that you do so vertically first and horizontally second. What I mean by that is your opening as souls first more fully to me as the central impulsing energy  and then to each other as parts of the same field. I do not refer to the meditative building process which builds from the bottom up but to the revelatory process which proceeds from the top down. Your deepest soul intimacy should be with me and then you should be unafraid to open more vulnerably to each other.

Presenting subjective realities to the concrete mind of others is never an easy process and indeed when done from the right motive it is an act of sacrifice. When what you have contacted is real then you are sharing a piece of the Christ mind – offering it up to be crucified on the cross of the lower four subplanes of the mental plane. It is this crucifixion however that redeems the lower and gradually releases doubt and fear from the mental field altogether. Keeping your vertical alignment will give you greater wisdom about what to share and when to share it.

On the other hand when something is being shared into the field by another, you must have your discriminating mind functioning but infused with the quality of love. You will quite naturally observe those places when the archetype is coloured by glamour or illusion – which can be your own or the other persons – and this will have a reflexive and purifying effect upon the group field. The focus of your attention should however be on those threads within the sharing that are truly numinous and carry the archetype in its highest expression. You will be amazed and how quickly the archetype can manifest through a group when it is heralded and honoured in such a fashion.

There is a deep intimacy and trust that can occur within a group that is the precursor for instinctive telepathic interplay – it occurs when you truly accept one another which does not mean that you accept everything they think say or do but that you accept that they, as souls are called by me into this field and that they are committed and capable of holding their point in this experiment. In short, that they are ‘worthy’ of your love and respect. Please do not pass over this comment lightly. I ask each of you to deeply and sincerely examine your attitudes to each other at the core of your relationship. Do this leading up to the full moon time with the aim of purifying the field so I will be able to utilize it with greater potency.

Sep 17 2003

Identification With Hierarchy

Purification in its triadal sense is a destructive process and an expression of the Shamballa force. It is in effect a forced substitution, consciously invoked by the soul, of the lower by the higher. It is linked to the process of ‘individualisation via the will’ which is the individualisation method of the third system.

What is substituted is the very matter of the lower vehicles. In the etheric as you know, the four higher subplanes must eventually offer unimpeded resistance to the flow of energy from the four systemic ethers i.e. buddhic, atmic, monadic and logoic energy. In this system when monadic energy is able to flow through the centre of the heart charka on the second ether then we have the capacity to anchor the Will of the monad and therefore Shamballa…on earth. This begins to become possible on brief occasions after the second initiation and more stably after the third when the personality vehicles, including the etheric body are ‘transfigured’ with triadal energies. In other words their very substance is changed. These changes naturally also have flow on effects to the physical body which takes much longer to adapt itself to the increasing fire of its substrate, the etheric.

Consider this process from the cosmic perspective. The mental plane is the gaseous subplane of the logoic body. The cosmic ethers – the four higher planes are also being transfigured in their turn by the Soul of the Sun who is undergoing the third cosmic initiation. The result is a corresponding inflow of cosmic fire into the planes of the triad and monad. This energy has in turn major effects upon the physical body – in this case humanity is part of that physical body. The agnishvattas are the cosmic equivalent of the agnichaitans that build with fire the substance of man’s body and are released as part of the kundalini rising to meet the higher fires. Follow this analogy through and you will see why it is possible to release increasingly large numbers of human ‘solar angels’ from the mental plane.

There are direct analogies here that you would find useful to explore. In the same way that one of the most dangerous points occurs for the White magician when he seeks to bring his creation into contact with the three ancient fires – the same is also true for the Logoic magician. The human mind is the ‘ancient’ gaseous fire of the logoic body. The magician risks ‘burning’ and must call on the solar angel to dispel the grand illusion. I recommend to you all the re-reading of rules 14 and 15 in A Treatise on White Magic with the above analogy in mind. They apply directly to the stage that the group is at in the grounding process of the thoughtform which is behind Shamballa School. This refers to a number of outer ‘projects’ such as Highden and Spiritfire as well as to the inner process of revelation of new soul energies. The new teaching thoughform is a ‘fire’ which when introduced into the mental plane as a whole will result in a ‘burning’. To prevent this burning from turning into a conflagration and destroying the new thoughtform and attacking the minds of those who are introducing it, one most important thing must be done – the calling in of the soul.

In your own case as a group, the soul is the planetary soul – Hierarchy, and in particular that inner group which are primarily associated with your project.

Your only protection is to deepen your connection to your inner group, to call on those energies that initiated the creative process in the first place – your Masters. You must realise that you are part of a planetary white magic process which I have termed the Externalisation of the Hierarchy. One aspect of this Externalisation will be the Restoration of the Mysteries and it is with this latter that the group is particularly involved. Your group must enter in to a new level of self forgetfulness – the self now that needs to be forgotten in favour of a higher, more expansive self, is the self of the group. Let the group ‘protect’ itself through sacrifice of the thoughtform of the group. Does this make sense to you? Your only protection is Hierarchy. Therefore you must become Hierarchy at least for a moment in time and space via the process of ‘identification’. This is different from identifying with Humanity – itself a divine centre. In fact ‘identification’ with Humanity at this crucial stage would only increase the danger of burning. Identification with Hierarchy ‘lifts’ for a time your ‘identity’ from the lower worlds. It is this ‘identity’ which channels energy. Think of an analogy with an electric bar heater. If the curtain is too close to the heater when it is turned on then it will burst into flames – if there is enough distance between the element and the fabric then heating will result but not flame. The human soul is an element; the three worlds are the curtain. When current is run through the element of the group it is important that there is enough distance to prevent conflagration.

Therefore, when the creation is taking to itself an outer fire sheath, the ‘identity’ of the magician must be moving towards the spiritual centre of Hierarchy and the safeguarding central fire of Shamballa while the ‘attention’ is focused outward to the creation. Think of the group as an ‘eye’. That eye must focus the light from the higher planes in to the lower. I, as your Master, am at the central point. My identification with Hierarchy is unshakeable and so if each of you is able to maintain a link with me then you will participate in that identification. This is why I have made a definite attempt at this time to deepen my contact with you as individual centres within the group centre. The eye must stay open. It is closed or clouded by the weaving of the lower mind. If this happens then the spiritual thoughtform is separated from its parent, loses its vitality and is still born. Conversely if the impress of Shamballic fire is too great then conflagration results as the fires of resistance from the mental plane rise up and destroys it. The answer is an increase in ‘solar fire’. Let the energy of Hierarchy pour through the group. Take refuge – that is  - allow you ’ identity’ to rest back and merge into the Hierarchical life for a time – let the drop join the ocean and solar energies will flow through the abstract mental plane of the wider group conditioning it to receive the impact of revelation.

A birth in the three worlds is an exit from the inner worlds due to the separation created by the Great Illusion. Only a soul who has passed the third degree is able to transition through this great veil and maintain the connection. Thus, every human baby that is born into the world is simultaneously a revelation anew of the Christ and therefore Hierarchy to Humanity AND an exile from Hierarchy.  Every new expression of the Teachings is simultaneously a revelation within the gaseous body of the planet (i.e. the mind of Humanity) and an exile from the true Teaching which is energy itself. The Word is made flesh and if the ‘eye’ is not kept open then the word succumbs to the Great Illusion which operates in the lower worlds. If the connection to its parent is maintained then the Word remains the word of God and becomes a dispenser of the living waters – i.e. the love and life of the planetary ethers.

I would like you to try and view my threefold revelation into the mind of Humanity of the Teachings as a single unit within the Plan for the Restoration of the Mysteries.

The three stages of the Teachings form part of One Teaching that expresses through them as the soul uses the personality. This central Teaching pervades the three revelations to the mind of man and yet transcends them in the same way that the Solar Logos expresses through three solar systems and yet remains ever aloof from His creation. Keep your connection strong to me, to the central point, the eye and watch the Plan take form.

September 24 2003

The Group Crystal

This group has been tested over the time of the Virgo full moon and I want to reiterate that I am pleased with the results and encouraged about the

possibilities that exist in this experiment to forward a piece of my work and purpose. The image that I want to place before you is that of a current being passed through a crystal. You may think of this in relationship to a ‘radio transmission’. The crystal is the sevenfold group soul and the current is the ‘energy’ of purpose – the energy of Shamballa. This is why I have said to you that ‘transmitting purpose’ is a very different thing than ‘aligning with purpose’. Very few groups are entrusted at this time with the energy of will. This new and potent energy of Shamballa – new in the consciousness of humanity that is - is what brings ‘livingness’ to the three worlds. It is related to the seventh ray injunction ‘raise the dead to life!’ Eventually groups such as yours will become ‘instruments of resurrection’. Think through this appellation.

As the current runs through the crystal it will of course bring up any impurities in the crystal itself. These, to you who are the very substance of the crystal, will be experience as failures – parts of the ‘substance of the crystal’ are not able to pass the current through them without breaking down and so you become aware of these breakdowns. I venture to suggest that many of you may have experienced patterns in your own natures that you had thought were long since purified, surfacing briefly. This is not the result of a ‘falling back’ but of a pushing forward. Handling a vastly increased ‘current’ ‘tests’ the system. Because it is a result of pushing forward there are also vastly increased resources to deal with and heal the ‘impurities’.

To access these resources however you must ‘realise’ your success. This is why I have stressed that you try and maintain the Hierarchical perspective through identification rather than identifying with humanity. In reality this is a triadal perspective rather than a personality based one. If the triad is pouring in energy (transfiguring) the personality it must learn how much current the three vehicles are able to ’take’ without failing completely.

In considering the analogy of the crystal there are two forces that I want you to consider. If these forces are broken then the crystal itself breaks and then the experiment is over. The aim is to pass sufficient current through the crystal in order to purify it and to transmit energy into the three worlds but not so much that the crystal shatters. Do you understand?

These two forces are as follows. Firstly the force that connects each of you as souls to me, your Master. The dynamic of this force holds the group together and is ‘purpose’. Your occult ‘distance’ from me will be determined by the degree of ‘purpose’ or current that you are able to pass through your individual system. Over time you will therefore be ‘put in your place’ by the energy of Shamballa’ – in other words you will find your ideal ‘occult distance’ from the centre of the ashram based upon purpose. The other force is related to the attraction and repulsion between yourselves as ‘functional components’ of the crystal. These are not ‘personal’ ties but ‘organisational ‘ties.  You are held together not only by your commitment to me as your Master, but by your commitments to each other in terms of your ‘function’ within the crystal – the specific ‘point’ that you hold.

I want to stress here that I am speaking from the ‘will’ aspect and not from the ‘love’ aspect. The love and consciousness principle is assumed to have already being built in somewhat and is bought to more rapid flowering via the will.

From my perspective I am able to gauge the group in a number of ways. The first has to do with the intensity of the current that I am able to pass through the group. This is related to atma. Too much current and the form shatters. I want to gradually increase the intensity. Therefore you will experience from time to time ‘failures’ in the structure of the crystal. It is crucial that you see these within the context of the overall testing pattern as opportunities to strengthen the two forces of cohesion. I will decide when and if the overall experiment succeeds or fails and you will be given the opportunity to review your participation from time to time as it proceeds.

The second way I am able to gauge the experiment is related to buddhi and concerns the ‘quality’ of the current that emerges from the other side of the crystal. The current flows in and is rayed out from the centre of the crystal through each of the triangular ‘facets’ of the octahedron. By the quality of each ray and through comparing this quality to the archetype I am able to gauge the purification that is required in order for the output to match the input.

The third way I am able to gauge the crystal is to see how far the rays of light that emerge are able to penetrate into the three worlds. This helps me to assess the ‘clarity’ of the jewel – its degree of translucency – and is related to the manasic aspect of the triad.

And so, from the triadal perspective I have three ways of assessing the group – potency, quality and clarity. I would recommend to you that you compare this process with the study of precious jewels. Much is to be gained by the comparison of the mineral kingdom and the human when it comes to the development of ‘radioactivity’. The precious gems are the pinnacle of development of the physical plane. The human jewels are the foremost development of the cosmic physical plane viewed from the matter perspective. Consider the jewel at the apex of the rod of initiation as it is visualised by those in the physical world and some inkling may come of the composition of the true ‘rod’ wielded by Sanat Kumara.

You must each becomes ‘jewels’ in the crown of the group life, just as the group itself will form a ‘jewel ‘ in the crown of a larger group. There will be changes in the composition of the individual and group jewels but no change in the archetypal pattern. Do you understand this? I must re-stress this point. There will be no change in the archetypal pattern. It will not and cannot adjust itself for the sake of individual or group units. The archetype is not responsive to the forms that are built into it. That is the work of Hierarchy – to adjust the mutable forms to the immutable archetype of Shamballa. The archetype of Shamballa is ‘summed up’ in the number 24. You will need, in time, to relate the sevenfold nature of light or consciousness to the number 24.

October 1 2003

Will, Consciousness & Manifestation

I would like to give you some practical information on your work together within the esoteric sphere of fire which is the group soul field.

Just as disease in the physical body is primarily the result of distortions to the inflowing energy of the etheric, astral and mental bodies so ‘disease’ in the three worlds of the personality life has to do with distortions to the inflowing energies of higher manas, buddhi and atma. There is of course those tendencies inherent within matter that tend to be resistant and block the inflow as well as problems with integration of the vehicles but these can both be more easily overcome if one basic premise is realised:

Problems in the lower three subplanes of the physical plane – be it systemic or cosmic – are best addressed from the corresponding etheric level.

When considering the five lower planes the correspondences are as follows:

Lower manas – Higher manas

Astral - buddhic

Etheric/ physical – atmic

These are the will correspondences or those concerning the first aspect. There are also the better known consciousness correspondences:

Higher Manas – atma

Astral- buddhic

Etheric/physical –  Lower Manas

One correspondence concerns transformation and the other transfiguration.

There are similar correspondences that I have given you regarding the relationships of the charkas. In particular I would like you to consider at this time the dual relationships of the chakric system. These are, from the consciousness perspective:

Crown/base

Heart/solar plexus

Throat/sacral

You will note that in this case the ajna centre has a linking function that relates the three pairs of dualities and thus forms a triangle with each pair.

The will correspondences I have already given. They are:

Crown/base

Ajna/ sacral

Throat/solar plexus

In this case it is the heart charka which is isolated and triangulates the three pairs.

In the dual functioning of these three dualities a number of mysteries are approached. These concern:

1.       The esoteric relationship between the 2 and the 4

2.      The duality experienced on the atmic, mental and astral planes

3.      The inversion of the Capricorn and Sagittarius hierarchies

Think through these dualities and the relationship between will and consciousness will become clearer to you. It will also become clear through your practical work together as a group. It is important that you bear these relationships in mind as you go about your meditative and outer work but do not seek to consciously ‘apply’ them. I have asked you to pay attention to the flows of energy between yourselves and between your group and others at a ‘triadal’ level.  As you develop the inner relationships – or more correctly, as you recognise through revelation the triadal relationships that already exist, this recognition conditions the higher mind and then subsequently the three personality vehicles. The lower mind must have been developed in order for the transfiguring of the lower by the higher to occur. However the mind is now being used primarily as the lowest aspect of the triad and NOT as the highest aspect of the personality. The abstract mind is a receiver of the triadal archetype and this archetype naturally – as a result of the previous work done in integrating the personality – has an automatic effect on the three worlds. This effect becomes ‘subconscious’ because the consciousness is focused towards the monad and not towards the physical plane.

Think this through in relationship for example to money, a theme that concerns this group as it enters into the cyclic Libran experience. Saturn rules attention to detail and has a function both on the mental and the atmic planes. In the former case it is concerned with ensuring that the lowest plane, the physical etheric is able to be regulated by the mind. The practical outer result is the capacity to budget, plan, spend resources according to the Law of economy and so forth. It is ‘management’ in all its many forms and expressions. This stage reflects the connection between the mental and physical planes from the perspective of consciousness.

From the atmic level Saturn is used to wield the sevenfold energy of light supernal upon the physical etheric plane. Personal economic management occurs from the mental plane. Transpersonal economic management – concerning as it does the collective and the greater good occurs from the atmic plane. Do you understand this?

An individual or personality based group therefore, who is encountering financial difficulties would use the concrete mind to organise the etheric planes (the four lower mental planes reflect via the astral in to the four higher ethers) and this would have a corresponding effect upon the physical plane.

A soul group (and an individual working transpersonally is always a part of a group) that is encountering financial resistance is in a different situation. If they have been engaged in the process of white magic and manifestation, they will have succeeded in bringing a piece of the archetype down on to etheric levels and are now faced with the calling forth of the physical plane resources i.e. money to ‘conform’ to that archetype.

A group in the latter situation do not need to focus their consciousness upon the outer physical plane. They should paradoxically INCREASE their subjective focus – attempting to unitedly penetrate more deeply into the energy of atma. The atmic energy will, as a result flow through into the mental field and via the prepared channels of mental/etheric coordination have an effect upon the physical plane. Do you see? I have given you much here that if contemplated will result in increased light, but more importantly, if applied will result in an increased potency upon the physical plane.

My work in the third phase of the teachings is primarily about the relationship between the consciousness aspect or the soul and the life aspect or the monad. This is not because the form nature is seen as less important but because it is assumed that the soul and form have been ‘atoned’ so that changes in consciousness have an automatic effect upon the forms that are imbued with them. This of course is not practically so for most people, but, by the time these teachings are being studied and applied on a wider scale by those who have integrated and applied what has earlier been given, this ‘atonement’ will  be increasingly evident  in their life expression.