The Seventh Purpose of Deity

06.03.02

 The Seventh Purpose of Deity – the manifestation of the Will on the physical plane through the conditioning rhythmic impact of the Plan. I have said that we are at a unique time in the history of the Fifth Rootrace. This is the seventh time that the energy of the Seventh Ray has coincided with the energy of Aquarius, making possible the breaking forth of Light Supernal upon the physical plane. Light Supernal is the blended light of the seven Rays coming together through the agency of the Seventh Ray. The origin of Light Supernal is the atmic plane and this is because it is on the atmic plane where the energies of the First, Second and Third Aspects blend creatively to produce the Plan.

 The Plan is the most efficient combination in time and space of the first three Aspects of deity. – It is in effect, as much of the Purpose of deity as can be lovingly and intelligently carried out in any cycle. At the completion of a cycle the Plan is reviewed and accelerated or slowed according to the progress made on the lower five planes. Atma then is the ‘manifesting purpose’ of deity as distinct from the ‘abstracting purpose’, and this is expressed in the Third Ray formula – “PURPOSE ITSELF AM I” (RAI, p.517). Atma ‘embodies’ Purpose through identification and then applies that Purpose through the rhythmic application of energy in the five worlds. When this Purpose, embodied by the Third Ray is able to be carried out upon the seventh plane, then ‘Light Supernal’ is known upon Earth. Aquarius is the ruler of the seventh plane and thus when the Seventh Ray and Aquarius combine, a double potency is created which is focused on the lowest of the seven planes.

 If we examine this process upon cosmic levels, we find that cosmic atma is endeavouring to express upon the cosmic physical plane. This energy is stepped down via the sacrifice petals of the Solar Logoic lotus, transmitted via the sacrifice petals of the Planetary Logos and enters the cosmic physical plane via Shamballa, the head centre of our planet. This ‘conditioned’ cosmic Will is then passed from the Chohans to the Masters whose job it is to formulate the Plan – incorporating as much of that Will as is possible considering the state of evolution on the planet.

 The Solar Logos is preparing for the Third cosmic Initiation and so he is able to express a significant amount of cosmic Will via the sacrifice petals. This will reach full power in the next solar system where that initiation will take place and the Will of the solar triad will be perfectly expressed throughout his system, completing his ‘masterpiece’. In this second system, cosmic buddhi flowing through the logoic love petals is paramount. Nevertheless, the Masters are being trained to respond to the cycles of Will in order to more fully express the Love nature of the Logos. Such a cycle is currently upon us.

 The Shamballic Impact has enabled Hierarchy to use the energy of the Will to clear the way for Love. This Love will be expressed upon the physical plane as the externalisation of the Hierarchy. This externalisation will then allow for the Plan to be made manifest through the structures of human society. In this system, Love forms an essential part of the Plan – in fact we could say that the Plan is Love – the expression of cosmic buddhi via the love petals of the Logos, stepped down through the astral body of our Planetary Logos (as he takes the Second cosmic Initiation), stepped down through the planetary Hierarchy upon the triadal planes and expressed – either by overshadowing disciples or by taking physical incarnation.

 The keynote then of the current cycle for all disciples and initiates seeking to cooperate with the Plan is this ‘sacrifice for love’. The Will aspect must be contacted and expressed, but it must be expressed in such a way that it serves the dominant note of the cycle – Love. This Love is not a sentiment but the experience and expression of an intelligent coherent brotherhood resulting in the externalisation of the ashrams - those centres where the archetypal relationship between souls is held by the Fifth Degree initiates whose job it is to implement the Plan. Thus the Seventh Ray and Aquarius together inaugurate the age of the ‘externalised ashram’. At the centre of the ashram, it is the Master who distributes ‘Light Supernal’.

 The Moon is the hierarchical ruler of Aquarius and we should consider the Moon as veiling Vulcan, Neptune and Uranus. When the Moon veils Vulcan, the emphasis is upon the lowest three subplanes of the physical plane, either systemically or cosmically considered. The lunar elemental lives must be ‘beaten into shape’ on the anvil of the blacksmith. When the Moon veils Neptune, the emphasis is upon the middle three subplanes. This is the triad when considering the cosmic physical plane and the lowest two ethers and the gaseous subplane when considering the physical plane. Neptune veils the mystery of Makara and brings in the relationship with Cancer, the Fifth Hierarchy on the verge of liberation. Through Cancer the Third and Seventh Ray energies are related. What they lack is the First Ray which is added in Capricorn. This First Ray energy of ‘abstracting purpose’ is brought into the five worlds via Venus, the Fifth Ray and the causal bodies upon the fifth plane, the mental.

 When the Moon veils Uranus, the emphasis is upon the higher three subplanes, the first three ethers. Here the electrical energies of the Will are passed through the etheric body and provide a storehouse of energy, a reservoir which can be used gradually to condition the lives in the lower five subplanes. If we apply this to the whole cosmic physical plane we have Shamballa using the energy of Uranus to create a storehouse of Light Supernal upon the atmic plane. Hierarchy, utilising the redemptive energies of Neptune, take this Light Supernal and step it down through the ashrams upon the buddhic plane to the causal bodies of disciples and initiates in physical incarnation. These manifested Hierarchical workers must use Vulcan to shape life in the three worlds according to the Plan that is registered in their consciousness.

 19.03.03

 The Seventh Purpose of Sanat Kumara

 “The final phase of the divine purpose is the most difficult of all to indicate, and when I say indicate I mean exactly that, and nothing more definite and clear. Does it mean anything to you when I say that the ceremonial ritual of the daily life of Sanat Kumara, implemented by music and sound and carried on the waves of colour which break upon the shores of the three worlds of human evolution, reveal—in the clearest notes and tones and shades—the deepest secret behind His purpose? It scarcely makes sense to you and is dismissed as a piece of symbolic writing used by me in order to convey the unconveyable. Yet I am not here writing in symbols, but am making an exact statement of fact. As beauty in any of its greater forms breaks upon the human consciousness, a dim sense is thereby conveyed of the ritual of Sanat Kumara's daily living.  More I cannot say.” (R&I, pp.246-7)

 We are so used to viewing divinity as something that pertains to the higher planes of the solar system. We have charts that show the ‘higher planes’ of the triad and of the monad.

We know that the three worlds of human evolution are not a ‘principle’, and lie beneath the consciousness of deity. In the Sixth Ray age our striving was to break our consciousness free of the lower planes - to release ourselves from identification with form so that we could ‘remember ourselves’ as soul or pure consciousness. In the Seventh Ray age the soul begins to notice the spirituality of matter, the divinity of form – finding the deepest secret of the purpose of Sanat Kumara hidden in the last place that we might expect to find it, the body of his manifestation.

 The Planetary Logos is taking the Second cosmic Initiation while the Solar Logos is taking the Third. The council chamber at Shamballa is the place where the Will of the Solar Logos is imposed upon the will of the Planetary Logos and we know that Sanat Kumara is a disciple of the Solar Logos whose work it is to anchor a ‘seed of solar Will’ in this second solar system which will form the nucleus of the Third or Will system.

When a human being takes the Third Initiation, the kundalini energy at the base of the spine is awakened through the spiritual will which flows from the monad through the atmic level of the triad, the inner petals of the lotus and from thence to the etheric body, through the crown chakra directly to the base.

 Some clue as to the role of the planetary scheme within the solar scheme may be thought through here, and when it is realised that the first plane of our system is the distributing point for the seventh plane of the cosmic system, some touch of Light Supernal may come.

 One of the difficulties that the Hierarchy has in planning the externalisation is the lack of ability to react to life in the three worlds. No part of their nature responds to the flow of forces within the three worlds, so they must necessarily work through disciples who do have responsiveness to these forces but are also responsive to the energies pouring in though the triad, where Hierarchy works. These Hierarchical energies are flowing into the abstract mental plane of humanity and are gradually beginning to control the concrete mental plane as well. It is this battle upon the fifth plane of mind that reached its peak in this fifth subrace of the Fifth Rootrace and is a forerunner of the Judgement day in the fifth round.

 This inflow of planetary triadal energies is ‘changing the mind’ of the dominant personality of the human race by reorienting the mind to the reality of spiritual energies and principles. In order for this mind change to be effective in changing the behaviour of humanity however, the energies from the causal bodies of disciples must be able to reach down through the concrete mental, the astral and the etheric bodies without distortion.

This takes place through the process of the First, Second and Third Initiations, and it with this aim in mind that the schools of initiation are being established.

 We know that when the age of Aquarius coincides with the Seventh Ray cycle then a peculiar event can happen – Light Supernal is known on the physical plane. We are at the beginning of the seventh such coincidence in the Fifth Rootrace. Aquarius brings in the Fifth Ray and thus allows for the expression of the energies of the fifth plane upon the seventh through the Seventh Ray.  The thoughtform created by men upon the mental plane will be precipitated upon the physical plane. This is why it is so important that the soul controls the mental plane. It was during the Second World War that this battle was fought and we know that the decision to fight it upon the physical plane meant that it became inevitable for the Christ to manifest in physical form. Why is this so?

 When we ‘act out’ our inner thought-life, either for good or ill, a channel of connection is made between the mental and etheric planes. This channel is then controlled by the forces of light (the soul) or the forces of materiality (the uninfused personality controlled by lower desires and survival fears).

 If a man has a soul-inspired thought to donate money to a cause and carries that into action, the result is soul energy directed onto the physical plane. If a man has a fear-inspired thought to steal from others and carries it out, the result is the increased control of the physical plane by the unredeemed personality. In both cases the ‘split’ between mind and action is overcome, but with different results. On the planet at the moment, the mind of humanity is increasingly inspired, while the hand of humanity is still ‘clutching the wallet’ due to the patterns long established through personality control.

 The Fifth Ray is the ray of esoteric psychology, and the last one hundred years have seen great leaps forward in man’s capacity to ‘see’ into his lower nature. This ‘seeing’ creates the channel for soul energy to flow into and redeem the form. If we could but see it, the reappearance of the Christ is a great act of divine esoteric psychology undertaken by the Lord of the World under the impress of the Planetary Logos and in turn the Solar Logos.

Sending the ‘son’ into matter to be crucified by the world is a symbol of sending the light of the soul into our own lower nature. We send in light, which is at first rejected by the forces in the lower nature which are driven by fear and desire. The entry into matter by the soul results in ‘information’ – the soul learns through the process of its crucifixion what the core issue is in the lower nature. By ‘seeing’ into it the soul understands the problem more fully. Once this understanding occurs, the soul connects more deeply with the monad, the source of Will, and then drives forward into matter again. Christ returns to Earth, coming this time with a sword.

 In order for this Will to reach all the way into the etheric/physical plane however, the Seventh Ray is needed. This is the ray of rhythm, bringing down Vulcan’s hammer again and again, slowly beating the matter into the shape of the archetype of Spirit.

 The mind can change instantly under Uranus. The patterns of behaviour established over long periods of time by mankind under the influence of an uninfused personality must be changed through rhythm, a rhythm aligned with divine Purpose. It is the work of disciples and initiates, under the inspiration of Hierarchy, to align with this rhythm in their own lives and to thereby establish it in the world.

The Seventh Ray is synthetic, as are the First and the Second. Synthesis is the power to bring all things into relationship with each other. On any Sunday - a First Ray day - one man goes to church, another gets drunk in front of the television, another climbs a mountain. All are ‘abstracting to Spirit’ in the way in which their consciousness responds to it. Their behaviours may be very different, but there is something synthetic in the underlying impulse. It is this deep purpose that is hidden in the rhythms and cycles of the Purpose of deity as he shapes our world with his pattern of impression.

 It is said that on the Sun, the White Lodge and Black Lodge are seen as one. The Solar Logos holds all of the lives within his system in consciousness of his Second Ray embrace. The Planetary Logos has taken on the task of redemption of the lives that make up his form, the planet. To do this he sends his son, the representative of solar Love, over and over again rhythmically into matter, to be rejected over and over again until, at last the lives still identified with matter call him forth to stay and bring the great Revelation of solar Purpose onto the physical plane. Then Light Supernal is known on Earth.