24.10.01

 “The Procedure required for the manifestation of "light supernal" takes place when a transitory point of synthesis is reached and the seven energies are blended into one great energetic Light. These seven energies have ever, unitedly, created the "light supernal" upon the highest levels of divine expression, but that revealing light only finds Location when the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order is active and in process of manifestation in the three worlds, and necessarily, therefore, upon the seventh plane, the physical plane. Such a manifestation inevitably takes place in moments of planetary crisis, when the seventh ray is active and when the Sun is in Aquarius. Such a combination of relationships is being established now, for the seventh ray is rapidly coming into manifestation and the Sun is in Aquarius, for the Aquarian Age is just beginning. The Objective of this combination (which has occurred six times during the period of the fifth root-race) is to bring about illumination and the establishment of order upon the Earth.” (DINAII, pp.425-6)

 The topic this morning relates the discussions on the buddhic plane and Hierarchy to the coming Avatar. The specific Avatar mentioned here is the Seventh Ray Avatar, whose coming coincides with the onset of the Aquarian Age. I have mentioned that this has happened six times before in the Fifth Rootrace, and so this will be the seventh of a cycle of seven convergences between these two energies. (DINAII, p.426)

 The Seventh Ray focuses the consciousness of an entity, large or small, upon the physical plane. In the macrocosm this focuses the consciousness of deity upon the cosmic physical plane. What is crucial is whether this consciousness is controlled by the soul or by the personality. The Planetary Logos of Earth is taking the Second cosmic Initiation and is polarised upon the cosmic astral. The Seventh Ray will allow for the manifestation of the desires of the Planetary Logos to occur upon the physical plane, our Earth globe. The issue is whether these desires are soul-infused and represent the aspiration of the planetary personality, or whether they are separative in a solar systemic sense and reflect the dominance of the lower aspects of the personality. Remember that our planet is a ‘divine rebel’. In taking the Second cosmic, he must overcome the rebellious nature of his personality and demonstrate soul control. The energies involved are the Second Ray soul and the Third Ray personality. The conflict is epitomised for us in the story of the ‘Wandering Jew’, and out-pictured in the current world conflict. Will the planet demonstrate the consciousness of Love/Wisdom, or will materiality be reinforced? This is the planetary question and it is being fought out upon the cosmic planes.

 Aquarius focuses the energies upon the physical/etheric plane of the cosmic physical plane, so here we have a correspondence to the cosmic situation. Cosmic energies are focused on the lowest plane and systemic energies are also focused upon the lowest plane within the lowest system, and this for the seventh time. We have here an opportunity to encounter and master the energy which has been called ‘the lowest of the low’:

 "When light illuminates the minds of men and stirs the secret light within all other forms, then the One in Whom we live reveals His hidden, secret lighted Will.

 When the purpose of the Lords of Karma can find no more to do, and all the weaving and close-related plans are all worked out, then the One in Whom we live can say: ‘Well done! Naught but the beautiful remains.’

 When the lowest of the low, the densest of the dense, and the highest of the high have all been lifted through the little wills of men, then can the One in Whom we live raise into radiating light the vivid lighted ball of Earth, and then another greater Voice can say to Him: ‘Well done! Move on. Light shines.’"  (DINAII, pp.314-15)

 The little wills of men, operating upon the physical plane, must lift the “lowest of the low” – the most unredeemed and fearful parts of the planetary personality - into the heights. This they can do with the aid and assistance of cosmic energies, but the responsibility rests with humanity. Humanity is the ‘worker in the farthest world’.

 It is fortunate that the thoughtforms created by the average thinker do not have the power to manifest upon the etheric and then physical planes with any real potency before the Second Initiation has been undergone. Prior to this time, the ‘condition of the waters’ is such that any potency developed in the mental field is distorted and dissipated in the astral field. Once the Second has been taken however, the entity becomes powerful upon the physical plane – thoughtforms can manifest and the battle shifts to the mental plane. Here the battle is between the powerful personality and the soul, the Dweller and the Angel. Which energy will control the creation of the thoughtforms which will then powerfully manifest upon the physical plane? If we take this process onto cosmic levels we can get a glimpse of what is ahead for this planet. When the Second cosmic Initiation is taken then the Logos of this planet will be able to effectively manifest his ‘plan’ upon the physical plane. The nature of that ‘plan’ and its alignment with the solar and cosmic ‘Plan’ will eventually produce the great Judgement Day in the fifth round when the Logos of Earth takes the Third cosmic Initiation.

 Hierarchy represents that portion of the planetary consciousness which has taken the Third Initiation or higher, and is therefore controlled by the soul of the planet and is therefore to some extent aiding in the implementation of the ‘solar’ Plan. At the height of the Second World War, Hierarchy were preparing to ‘withdraw’ from the planet (using that term in a broad sense). The unredeemed parts of the planetary personality (not soul-infused) were taking control (and had already dominated much of Europe). In the big picture it might have been necessary to allow the personality agenda to control, and thus learn the lessons of rebellion. Such a lesson would have been very painful for humanity and resulted in the enslavement of consciousness on the physical plane. However within the long-term evolution of planetary life the lesson would have been learned. However the tide turned and the forces of Light prevailed, leaving the door to ‘evil’ slightly ajar. The current crisis is another opportunity. Will those unredeemed forces break the door open again, or will the door be closed by humanity itself?

 Whatever happens, the war is being fought in consciousness and precipitated onto the physical plane. The fact that humanity fought the Second World War on the physical plane made it inevitable that the Christ would return to the physical plane. This externalisation process is at a stage of crisis. Will that part of humanity which is mentally polarised and therefore in control choose soul values and thus pave the way for a speedy externalisation of the Hierarchy, or will personality values prevail thus causing delay and perhaps even a withdrawal of Hierarchical energies? The events of this cuspal period are crucial to the next two thousand years, which will be dominated by the energies of the Seventh Ray and Aquarius. A culture shaped by the choices and thought-life of humanity will manifest upon the physical plane and crystallise in Capricorn. The nature of that culture is being decided.

 The buddhic plane is central to the work of the Seventh Ray Avatar. It is the central plane of the seventh cosmic plane and the first of the cosmic ethers available to man in the three worlds. It is a place of liberation and at-one-ment. In a cosmic sense it is also the plane where the drama of physical control takes place. As cosmic evolution proceeds the four cosmic etheric planes become vehicles for the energies of the four highest planes of the cosmic system, just as in man, the microcosm, the etheric centres become distribution points for buddhi, atma and eventually for monadic and logoic energies. The ashrams upon the buddhic plane become vehicles for the distribution of cosmic buddhi via Sirius and the heart of the Sun. The Seventh Ray Avatar strengthens this alignment and therefore the relationship between humanity the Fourth Hierarchy and the fourth cosmic plane via the Fourth cosmic Path. The inpouring, manifesting energies also provide a channel for the ascent of consciousness and are therefore part of a systemic ‘etheric substitution’ process.

 “Next century, when the seventh ray has achieved complete manifestation and the Piscean influence is entirely removed, the seventh ray Avatar will appear. His work will demonstrate the law, order and rhythm of the creative process as it works out on the physical plane, blending spirit and matter. And as this ray is called the Ray of Ceremonial Order or Ritual, He will be largely instrumental in producing those conditions which will permit of the reappearance upon Earth of the Mysteries of Initiation, of which the Hierarchy is the custodian. He is necessarily connected with the Great White Lodge on Sirius.”  (Externalisation,  pp.298-9)

 “The rays are the seven emanations from the "seven Spirits before the throne of God"; Their emanations come from the monadic level of awareness or from the second cosmic etheric plane. In a certain sense it could be said that these seven great and living Energies are in their totality the etheric vehicle of the planetary Logos. The evolutionary processes can equally well be stated to be those of eliminating the physical substance lying between the dense physical body and the astral sentient body, and substituting substance of the four highest planes, the four cosmic ethers. Physically speaking, it is this etheric substitution which enables a man successively to take the five initiations which make him a Master of the Wisdom.” (TEV, p.161)

 The seven systemic Rays emanate from the monadic levels of awareness. There are also seven cosmic rays emanating from the cosmic monadic plane. The seven systemic Rays thus can be seen as subsets of the Seventh cosmic Ray and thus we see the integrating and synthesising power of the Seventh Ray Avatar upon the cosmic physical plane. It is his power which will allow healing of cleavages between the planetary etheric and physical body (the three worlds and the four cosmic ethers) - or worded another way, between Hierarchy and humanity - and thus provide for a united demonstration of divinity upon the densest physical plane.

 He is a First Ray avatar when considering the systemic planes, a Seventh Ray avatar when considering the cosmic planes and a Second Ray avatar when considering his emanating point and effect upon the consciousness of the system. The First, Second and Seventh rays are of course the major synthetic rays in this system.

 “Secondly, I referred earlier to the work of the seventh ray in connection with the phenomena of electricity, through which the solar system is coordinated and vitalised.  There is an aspect of electrical phenomena which produces cohesion, just as there is an aspect which produces light. This has not yet been recognised. It is stated in The Secret Doctrine of H.P.B., and in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, that the electricity of the solar system is threefold: there is fire by friction, solar fire, and electric fire—the fire of body, of soul and of spirit. Fire by friction is coming to be somewhat understood by the scientists of the world, and we are harnessing to our needs the fire which heats, which gives light, and which produces motion. This is in the physical sense of the words. One of the imminent discoveries will be the integrating power of electricity as it produces the cohesion within all forms and sustains all form life during the cycle of manifested existence. It produces also the coming together of atoms and of the organisms within forms, so constructing that which is needed to express the life principle. Men today are investigating such matters as electro-therapeutics and studying the theory of the electrical nature of the human being. They are working rapidly towards this coming discovery, and much will be revealed along these lines during the next fifty years. The principle of coordination about which men talk has reference, in the last analysis, to this concept, and the scientific basis of all meditation work is really to be found in this basic truth. The bringing in of force and the offering of a channel are all mystical ways of expressing a natural phenomenon as yet little understood, but which will eventually give the clue to the second aspect of electricity. This will be released in fuller measure during the Aquarian age, through the agency of the seventh ray. One of its earliest effects will be the increase of the understanding of brotherhood and its really scientific basis.”  (EPI, pp.373-4)