The Fourth Kingdom as A Station of Light

 17.07.02 

 “The objectives can (for our purposes) be stated as four in number, but each of these is capable of re-expression in a number of ways. They simply indicate the four major goals which the Workers with the Plan have set Themselves. Let us state them succinctly, and later we can somewhat elaborate them:—

 1. The first aim and the primary aim is to establish, through the medium of humanity, an outpost of the Consciousness of God in the solar system. This is a correspondence, macrocosmically understood, of the relationship existing between a Master and His group of disciples. This, if pondered on, may serve as a clue to the significance of our planetary work.

 2. To found upon earth (as has already been indicated) a powerhouse of such potency and a focal point of such energy that humanity—as a whole—can be a factor in the solar system, bringing about changes and events of a unique nature in the planetary life and lives (and therefore in the system itself) and inducing an interstellar activity.

 3. To develop a station of light, through the medium of the fourth kingdom in nature, which will serve not only the planet, and not only our particular solar system, but the seven systems of which ours is one. This question of light, bound up as it is with the colours of the seven rays, is as yet an embryo science, and it would be useless for us to enlarge upon it here.

 4. To set up a magnetic centre in the universe, in which the human kingdom and the kingdom of souls will, united or at-oned, be the point of most intense power, and which will serve the developed Lives within the radius of the radiance of the One About Whom Naught May Be Said.” (EPII, pp.216-17)

 To understand this further, we need to consider that the human Hierarchy is the Fourth and has its ‘home’ or point of expression upon the buddhic plane or fourth cosmic ether. The fourth cosmic ether is the plane whereon interchange and integration occurs between the solar systemic etheric body and the physical. In order to understand this we need to look at the microcosm, man. There is a time in the development where the ‘intention’ that is held within the soul must be carried out by the man in incarnation. Leading up to the Third Initiation, the thinker in the causal body brings in the energy of atma via the sacrifice petals of the lotus and sends this energy through the crown chakra to awaken the kundalini fires in the base. The soul must now control every aspect of incarnated existence, and the final obstacle to be overcome are those forces of resistance that lie deep within the survival instincts of the body itself. The will to live as a soul must overcome the will to survive as a separated physical being. This is why the Third Degree initiate is called the “Conquerer of death” (EA, p.333) To so conquer, the energies of the first subplane of the mental plane, augmented with atmic energy (the creative aspect of the monadic life), must be brought into full play. The result in the life of the man is the expression of that quality which we call ‘sacrifice’.

 Now extend the development of the microcosm to the macrocosm. We know that the Solar Logos is preparing to take the Third cosmic Initiation. His causal body is working in first subplane cosmic mental matter. This energy is being directed to the base chakra of his system which is to be found in matter of the fourth cosmic ether or on the buddhic plane. We might consider the Fourth Hierarchy of humans as ‘units of kundalini’ within the solar systemic life. Their role is to stimulate the fires in the systemic physical body until a point in evolution is reached when these fires can be lifted higher and thus begin burning through the webs in order to liberate the indwelling Life from the form. Human causal bodies are mechanisms whereby the kundalini fire of the system maybe directed into the physical body. Once that fire is withdrawn they become unnecessary and are discarded as the Fourth Hierarchy shifts its attention into the cosmic etheric body. The signal for the release of units of kundalini into the cosmic etheric, is the impact of energy that runs from the crown chakra to the base carrying solar Will.

 On this planet we would call this process a ‘Shamballic Impact’. In the year 2000 we had such an ‘impact’, followed by the year of Decision in 2001. The result of these two events within our planetary life has had significance within the solar system as a whole. Incarnated humans tend to view all activities from their own perspective. It may help to try and glimpse somewhat the larger view. From the point of view of units of consciousness within the solar ring-pass-not, the ‘units of solar kundalini’ released from the Earth Scheme at such times provide a stimulating and energising effect. This energising effect is purifying to the lives on other schemes as it tests and refines their alignment to solar Purpose. Just as, within Shamballa there are two groups who work together – the Registrants of Purpose and the Custodians of the Will – so within the solar life the same duality exists. The release of agents of ‘solar Will’ from Earth is strictly supervised by the Custodians of Will within the ‘solar Shamballa’ as they work with the Registrants of Purpose.

 Thus from the point of view of the solar system, the experiment with group initiation on Earth during the Aquarian Age is a mechanism whereby units of solar kundalini can be released to energise the solar life more rapidly and powerfully than before. That this process of ‘solar fusion’ has effect upon the human civilisation that exists in the three worlds upon Earth is undeniable. This effect is barely registered however within the solar Hierarchy, just as a Master is barely aware of events in the personality world of a disciple’s life. All that a Master needs to know can be deduced from the radiation of the disciple’s causal body.

 Earth will become a ‘powerhouse’ within the solar systemic life as the units of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy of human souls are released more rapidly and in greater numbers. Their radiation will eventually energise the whole system as the Solar Logos takes the Third cosmic Initiation..

 “A similar effect can be looked for at this time, and the Hierarchy is preparing itself for the taking over of much of an extra-planetary nature owing to the almost immediate availability of comparatively large numbers of the sons of man.” (TCF, p.652)

 To follow this analogy of humans as ‘units of kundalini’ is might be useful to consider the role of the agnichaitans within the human system. The fires of Agni operate upon all the planes, and within the three worlds we consider the agnichaitans to operate upon the systemic physical. From the cosmic perspective however, we might consider the human Hierarchy as a particular branch of cosmic agnichaitans who operate upon the cosmic physical plane. Just as it is dangerous for humans to work too closely with the agnichaitans before a certain point of evolution, it is dangerous for the solar consciousness to work too closely with humans! A human being is a ‘fire’ and a fire with ‘free will’. The solar consciousness must disidentify from his system completely in order to master and direct the human fires who live in the base chakra of his system.

All this is tied in with Lucifer, the Path of Earth Service and the coming of the Dragon energy in the second round. The unique quality of Earth Service is ‘sacrifice’ – the giving up of conscious life in the higher spheres in order to take up station in the lowest. From one perspective this can be seen as ‘rebellion’ – from another it is seen as a powerful act of love. Only those who know beyond doubt that Spirit is invincible and will eventually triumph, can take the decision to exile themselves in deepest Matter.

 It can be useful to give your best teacher to the class of delinquent students. The teacher will have to draw upon great reserves of patience and trust. He will need to be resourceful and have a strong will. And he will need endless compassion. His reward may be seeing some of the most rebellious students begin to harness their energy on the side of evolution and begin to make a significant contribution to the wider society in which they live. We have such a Teacher. He is the Lord of Earth and he is a direct disciple of the Solar Logos.