The Keynote of Freedom

 The Keynote of the personality is Intelligence

The Keynote of the soul is Love

The Keynote of the monad is Will

The Keynote of the triangle of monad/soul/personality is Freedom

 Each keynote is hidden as a secret source within the heart and head of the lesser system.

 The heart of the personality is the emotional body which knows itself as desire and inherently seeks love but does not know that it IS Love. The head of the personality is the mind, and on the plane abstract mind is the causal body – the seat and source of the Love principle operating in the lower three worlds.

 The heart of the triad is buddhi which knows itself as Love and seeks Will but does not yet know itself AS Will. The ‘head’ of the triad/soul is atma where the Fifth Degree initiates or Masters direct the work of the Hierarchy. Atma is the seat and source of spiritual Will operating in the three worlds of the triad.

 The heart of the monad is the monadic plane which knows itself as Will and seeks Freedom but does not yet know itself AS Freedom. The ‘head’ of the three-fold monadic system is on the three higher subplanes of the logoic plane. Logos is the seat and source of the principle of Freedom operating in the cosmic physical plane.

 Freedom could be said to be the birthright of the monad, just as Will is the birthright of the soul and Love is the birthright of the personality. The idea of ‘birthright’ is valid because it is the greater which gives the lesser its ‘seed’ or ‘birth’. The ‘personality’ is formed as a result of individualisation and the ahamkara principle bestowed by the soul. Thus when a personality is confronted with its innermost core, it discovers Love at its very source.

 The soul is built around the ‘jewel in the lotus’. This jewel is the seed or germ of sacrificial Will that comes from the monad. Thus when a soul is confronted with its innermost unfoldment, it finds that it is indeed nothing but Will. 

 At the centre of the monadic life is a vacuum, a kind of blackhole or emptiness which is both the ‘seed’ of Freedom as well as the gateway out of the cosmic physical plane altogether.  For those who choose the path of Earth Service, this gateway becomes not an exit point, but an entry point for extra-planetary energies to flow into the Earth Scheme. It is at the Sixth Initiation that a monad exercises its ‘free will’ in choosing a cosmic Path to follow.

 Of course a monad is not ‘free’ to leave until it has abstracted those parts of itself which have entered into incarnation within the lower worlds. The soul must abstract itself from the three worlds and the monad must then abstract the essence of the soul. All monadic energies then coalesce into their centre, and that centre is found to be a choice, freely undertaken, to serve the purpose of the Planetary Logos. At this monadic ‘point of choice’ a new decision can be taken to extend the period of service or to abstract the monadic essence to another sphere of service.

 Thus Freedom forms the very core of a human monad, and therefore the core of a human being. Under Leo we make three great declarations”(EA, p.311):

I Am – the keynote of the personality.

I Am That – the keynote of the soul.

I Am That Am I – the keynote of the monad.

I Am NOT – the keynote of the monadic essence – Freedom.

 It is on the logoic plane ruled by the Hierarchy of Leo, that the Ninth Initiation is taken by those who choose to stay in Earth Service until they have mastered the highest subplane of the cosmic physical (an undertaking which really belongs for the majority of monads to the third solar system). This Initiation is called the Initiation of Refusal. What is refused here is Being itself. The monad is ‘Be-ness’. It is the ‘I Am’ of Spirit declaring itself in incarnation. ‘I Am Not’ is the refusal of Being in favour of Not Being.

Of course the experience of this is far ahead of us. We have first to experience the Beingness or “Life more abundant” (TCF, p.125) which lies in the willful sacrificial heart of the soul, let alone the ‘Not Being’ which lies in the heart of the monad. Yet conceptually it is powerful to know that that which we seek as the source of all Life is itself a gateway to a Death or an abstraction beyond our comprehension.

 “At the ninth Initiation of Refusal, the revelation presented to the Master concerns the nature of Being and of existence. There is naught I can say to you which could be in any way explanatory of Being, for Being is related to THAT which creates, to the universal point of planetary or solar Life which is, and has ever been, responsible for the life of all forms from the greatest manifestation to the smallest. When that revelation is accorded to the initiate, he for the first time receives his initial contact with what is called in the occult and esoteric books "the Central Spiritual Sun."  He realises for himself that those words concern a basic fact and are related to the purpose of the solar system, just as "the Heart of the Sun" revealed to him the quality of the solar system. When it is realised that our planetary purpose is mysteriously related to the revelation of love upon our little planet, the Earth, through the process of creation, the concept emerges that there is the probability that our planet has a unique relation to the Heart of the Sun.”  (R&I, p.728)