On the World Situation

 09.05.01

 Preparation for the Decision is everywhere. The Wesak has been used to precipitate the crisis that allows decisions to be made. Something is happening behind the scenes which will bring a clear choice to many. It has to do with the world financial system, which is all I can tell you for now. Vulcan is impacting Venus. The archetype is impressing itself. The Hammer is coming down and causing the re-evaluation of values. What is more important? Everywhere that question is being asked and the answer wrought out in individual and group lives will result in the hierarchical arrangement of the groups for the future. There are not right or wrong choices, merely choices and consequences of those choices.

 This year will prove a watershed in the history of the planet from the inner side. Seeds are being planted. Seeds of destruction as well as seeds of construction. Endings and beginnings upon the outer plane will all be able to trace their roots back to this time and the decisions being made today.

 12.09.01

 September 11

 First of all I want to give a Hierarchical perspective on the events of the day. America has long stood for democracy and the principle of freedom in the world. Admittedly that freedom has often been misinterpreted at a personal level and taken to Sixth Ray extremes, but it must be remembered that the principle is still there nonetheless and that this principle represents the height of what humanity is collectively able to demonstrate of this evolutionary energy. The events of today will make it clear to thinking men and woman everywhere that this principle of freedom is under threat. That there are complex issues underlying the attack are undeniable – the result of it however will be a clear delineation in people’s minds and hearts between those who stand for the liberation of the human spirit and those who are attempting to enslave it.

 America today is facing the biggest crisis of her history – greater even than the Civil War and the World War, because in this current conflict extra-planetary forces are at play. In particular the energy of Freedom as it streams in from Sirius. The decisions that this nation makes over the next month will be critical for the whole of humanity and for the purpose that the human kingdom is designed to serve within the solar system and beyond. Will the American nation be able to demonstrate a high level response to this tragedy? A response that comes from the higher solar plexus and indeed the heart, rather than a response from the lower solar plexus of quick revenge and retaliation driven by the energies of anguish and fear. Will they take the path of grieving for that which they could not control, followed by reflection and considered response?

 There are no circumstances in which terrorist actions like those perpetrated today may be justified. Having said that, the forces of frustration in the world about economic and political injustice have created a climate where they are almost inevitable. Wherever human beings are willing to give up their lives for their beliefs, however distorted, then a blow against the fear of death is struck. What makes people die for their beliefs rather than live for them? Prolonged periods where they experience powerlessness, and as a result their need for power breaks out in extreme cathartic acts of desperation. This is Pluto opposite Saturn. The forces of opposition to the system mobilise, whether in the case of the individual, the nation or - as is increasingly becoming the case - the planet as a being. The protests in Seattle, the bombings, the Palestinian cause against Israel, are all part of Pluto’s arrow. They are the energies of liberation operating in a distorted sense from below upwards rather than from the top downwards. Pluto is not a sacred planet and the activities that arise from his energies are often destructive and eventually purificatory due to the inherent energy of Will.

 To understand Pluto and Vulcan and their connection with Saturn and the Earth, you might consider the following:

 Saturn represents the control developed by the dominant personality. It is the Cosmic Moon. That is a good thing and evolutionary up to a point. The personality, once developed, needs to become responsive to the will of the soul. Vulcan represents the will of the superconscious – the soul will that is trying to impress itself upon the dominant personality.

 Pluto represents the will of the subconscious – those energies WITHIN the three vehicles which are not aligned with the dominant personality. They are both oppositional to the will of the personality. They are the fires of striving and of desperation. Both can be used to the good. However Vulcan’s hammer must eventually control. If Pluto is able to destroy the personal will without the will of the soul to replace it, then anarchy and chaos result. In the rubble caused by Pluto, look for the signs of Vulcan. Look for those leaders to emerge sounding the note of spiritual principle.

 19.09.01

 At this time the Second Ray soul of the planet is trying to exert influence upon the Third Ray personality. The result as far as humanity as a whole is concerned is the opportunity to take the First Initiation. The energies of Vulcan and Pluto are at work to bring the resistant aspects of the personality to the surface and break the long-lasting and prevalent focus on materialism of which humanity on Earth is such an exponent. One result may be the freeing up of the world’s money supply.

 What is needed from the disciples and initiates on the planet is a demonstration of the magnetic power of the Second Ray soul. Shamballa will awaken men from their slumber in materialism one way or another. This is part of the Decision being made at this time. Hierarchy have decided that humanity is ready. That humanity can intelligently understand and respond to the clear distinction between the spiritual values and the material ones. The educational work of the Hierarchy has seen to this. Everywhere the two positions are being articulated clearly. Whether or not humanity WILL choose is entirely up to them. And I mean that my brother.

 Hierarchy have decided that it is time to offer the opportunity. We have set ourselves to respond as fully as possible to help if humanity invokes our aid, which we certainly want them to do. And we are prepared to offset the worst effects of a decision by humanity to ignore the spiritual opportunity and reinforce the old pattern of security and materialism. However, humanity is genuinely on its own in the decision-making process. How else could it be? Everywhere leaders are coming forth on both sides from within humanity, representing the best and worst of the developed human mind and heart. Humanity can and must choose its future. Hierarchy have made their decision and it is a defining one. They have decided to trust humanity to make the right choice for the future of the race and the planet. Consider this.

 Remember that there are much bigger plans afoot on the planet and in the solar system than the self-centered problems which face humanity. Hierarchy have decided to place these larger plans at greater risk from the free will of man than has previously been the case.

 Do not think that the power of free will - humanity’s power - can be arbitrarily applied. It cannot be given and then withdrawn if it is not used as we would like it. That would strike at the very root of the power itself.

 Essentially, Hierarchy have decided that humanity can be trusted. Trusted, in the final analysis, to cooperate with the greater good. This is a tremendous statement and a tremendous decision. We are saying that humanity has been educated about the issues. They are informed, generally speaking, taking humanity as a whole. Democracy requires an informed populace. Hierarchy and the Second Ray ashram has worked hard over the last one hundred years to disseminate the information humanity needs to base a decision upon. Now is the time to make that decision.

 The genuine giving of a free choice is an act not only of trust but also an act that precipitates crisis. Somewhere, semi-consciously, humanity feels the weight of the increased responsibility. It is this which is creating the crisis, because humanity knows that there is no turning away from this decision and that either way it will be terminal.

 What I mean by that is: If humanity choose to reassert the power of the Third Ray planetary personality this will result in the end of a cycle and the pronouncement of failure by the planetary soul to achieve its intended results in this cycle. Of course other cycles will provide other possibilities, but this cycle would be over, possibly resulting in the destruction of the incarnated human family in large part. We will have a repeat, on a smaller turn of the spiral, of the failure on the Moon Chain, and we collectively will demonstrate that we have yet to overcome the karmic effects of the materialising tendency within humanity and the planetary personality.

 If humanity choose to assert the power of the Second Ray soul, it will result in the almost immediate externalisation of the Hierarchy (and by ‘immediate’ I mean over the next quarter century). For this, Hierarchy have been steadily preparing. Do you see that it cannot be otherwise? One possibility cannot exist without the other. It is what you would call a ‘make or break’ situation. It will result - if successful - in humanity as a whole taking the First Initiation and the coming into ‘birth’ of the Christ and his Hierarchy in the heart of humanity.

 I might tell you that there are those within Hierarchy who have counselled against this decision to allow humanity to wield that most precious of all solar energies, Freedom. This should not concern you unduly as there are often different points of view about the

Way to proceed held within an underlying synthesis of intent. The disagreement arises from the very same issues inherent in the Second Ray soul of the planet. You were told that the situation on the Moon Chain resulted in the premature compassion of our Planetary Logos in accepting the lives from that Chain that had not demonstrated their readiness for the responsibility of future evolutionary opportunities. There are those in Hierarchy who think that humanity, now, is not ready for the responsibility of cooperating with Hierarchy and have therefore counselled against what they would term ‘the overly inclusive tendencies’ of the Second Ray soul.

 There are those more along First Ray lines who think Hierarchy should either ‘take a greater hand’ in world affairs  or withdraw their ‘crisis-producing energy’ until such times as humanity is demonstrating a greater readiness. In both cases the result would be a limiting of the full operation of the power of free will, while still leaving humanity free to choose its destiny within a more circumscribed arena. This would mean that humanity would still make a decision but would be protected somewhat from the consequences of that decision – resulting in a slower evolutionary process. (Humanity would not be at risk of destruction on the one hand, and Hierarchy would not externalise so rapidly on the other.)

 Having carefully considered the issue from all sides, the decision was taken to rely upon the positive strengths of the Second Ray and attempt to minimise the tendencies towards over-inclusiveness. What this means is that the Hierarchy, in giving more freedom to humanity, has decided to limit its own. Hierarchy will consequently do everything that it can to aid if that aid is invoked by humanity. On the other hand, it has been agreed to severely limit our active influence where that invocation is not present. Further, if humanity as a whole does not call forth Hierarchy - which would result in the externalisation - Hierarchy have agreed to accept the consequences of that decision. Have you any idea what this would mean, my brother? Some hint can be found by imagining what it is like for the soul of an individual to look on, unable to help while their personality pursues a self-destructive path. This is what would occur upon a planetary scale.

 In either case - the externalisation or the withdrawal - the Second Ray soul of the planet, Hierarchy itself, will learn dispassion. Does this strike you as strange that the Hierarchy  as a whole has something to learn, as does humanity? The soul has much to learn from incarnation, likewise the planetary Hierarchy has much to learn from overseeing humanity. And in the case of this particular Hierarchy, much karma is hidden within the history of the Planetary Logos.

 The decision was taken by Hierarchy on the Wesak full Moon following the initiating impulse in Aries. The Libran full Moon has to do with humanity’s decision in response to that of Hierarchy. Libra is associated with Shamballa, and humanity’s decision will allow the Shamballic force to be brought into play in one of its two aspects. Either Pluto will dominate and thus purge humanity in a rather drastic way, and therefore set the stage for a later cycle. Or Vulcan will dominate, called forth to anchor the Hierarchy on Earth in response to humanity’s decision to call in collectively the assistance of the soul.

 The relationships between Hierarchy and humanity are decisive ones for this time. Will our destinies converge or diverge? That is up to humanity at this time. The disciples and initiates must do their very best to keep the channel open between Hierarchy and humanity. They must do their best to respond to the needs of humanity and the principles of Hierarchy. They share in the responsibility of humanity, but also in a peculiar sense the active restraint of Hierarchy. This time marks the advent onto the world stage of a new and potent power – the massed intent of humanity. This brings the sign Cancer into prominence – that sign connected with the Fifth Hierarchy and the Fourth Initiation on higher levels. Will the World Disciple emerge from out of the mass consciousness, or will we return to the domination of the Matter aspect?  We will find out together, and will not need to wait for very long.

 26.09.01

 The Hierarchical perspective on world events is designed to be useful in opening your mind to an increased cooperation. It is easy to forget that the different kingdoms each have their unique lessons, perspectives and opportunities. I would seek today to give you further insight into the Plans of Hierarchy at this time. We are all very active in response to the call from our disciples and initiates in the world. Wherever a point of tension is being held by a group, we are able to lend our hand and energy. The result of this is three-fold. First, the energy naturally has effects upon the projects these groups are working with and the people with whom they come in contact. Sometimes these effects are constructive, sometimes destructive, depending upon the level of integration and alignment in the group. Secondly, the energy has effects upon the invoking individuals in the group. The result is initiatory in its potential.

 The third effect is less obvious – it is an effect upon Hierarchy itself as a result of the outpouring energies. As these energies pour out they provide a current which allows the energies from Shamballa (and in some cases extra-planetary energies) to pour into Hierarchy. Hierarchy are at their own great point of tension – a tension which is liberating members of the Hierarchy onto the higher way, just as it is liberating members of humanity into Hierarchy. A great funnel is thus created at this time. Thus there is a dual movement – invocation and evocation. The call from the lower allows the inflow from the higher. This inflow as it moves through the lesser kingdom, heightens the vibration of that kingdom or hierarchy and thus ‘lifts them’ into the hierarchy above.

The triangle between Hierarchy and Humanity and Shamballa works somewhat like this:

The energy from Shamballa flowing into Hierarchy is what allows Hierarchy to draw closer to Humanity. One group from Hierarchy are approaching closer to Shamballa, and as they thus approach it allows a second group from Hierarchy to approach closer to Humanity. The analogy is with the Third, Fourth and Fifth Hierarchies. The Third Hierarchy builds a bridge between the buddhic plane and the monad so that the Fifth Hierarchy is able to build a bridge between the buddhic plane and the astral plane. This is the dual action of manas, and Hierarchy is likewise engaged in a dual action. As Hierarchy creates this bridge between Shamballa and Humanity, another energy is able to be expressed as a result of the triangular linking between these three planetary centres – the energy of the Saving Force.

 Something that has not been considered within the esoteric thought is this:

What are the inflowing energies that allow the Hierarchy to enter upon the higher way?

If a relatively large number of Sixth Degree initiates leave, or prepare to leave, the planetary ring-pass-not every 49 years, what is the energy which is pouring into Hierarchy that allows this process? Very few of them are able to take the higher initiations in Shamballa as the number of Masters on the First Path is limited.

The Decision taken by the Sixth Degree initiates is deeply linked into the type of crisis which occurs. If the majority of initiates choose a particular path (for example we know that they will all choose together the Path of Earth Service at a later date) then it is the energy inpouring along that path which is what precipitates the ‘crisis’ in humanity. In the example above, the energy of Will as it is expressed through the Seventh Ray would be involved.

 At the time of this current Decision the emphasis is particularly upon the Fourth Path, the path to Sirius. While this path is always emphasised in any Decision because of its close connection to the Fourth Hierarchy, it is especially dominant at this time. This is linked - if you could but see the cycles - to the incoming energy of the Fourth Ray, due to make its presence felt at the mid-point of this 49 year cycle in the year 2025.

 The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, the coming in of the Fourth Ray, the decision of the Sixth Degree initiates, the reappearance of the Mysteries and the Sirian energy of Freedom all form one coherent interlocking whole that will express itself over the next fifty years.

 The Sixth Ray is passing out, the Seventh Ray is coming in and the Fourth Ray will allow the units of the human Hierarchy, the Fourth, to become spiritually radioactive upon the buddhic plane, the fourth plane of the seventh cosmic plane, the cosmic physical.

It is all one beautiful interlocking pattern, and Hierarchy are merely playing their part. The difference is that Hierarchy are more conscious and humanity has yet to awaken fully to their role in this great Plan.

 Let me give you a line of thought which will prove productive in this regard. In the individual process there is a gradual replacement of the energies of the four ethers in the etheric body with the energies of the four higher ethers. What this means is that the fourth ether is able to transmit buddhi, the third atma, the second monadic energy; and the first ether at a later date will be able to transmit the energy of the logoic plane, and the highest and the lowest shall therefore meet. If you think this process through upon the cosmic levels then insight will come as to the role of Hierarchy, working as they are upon the fourth, third and second cosmic ethers; and in particular the role of the Fourth Hierarchy on its own plane, the buddhic. This should give you a key to understanding the type of energy flowing down the Fourth Path and the link between the Sirian Logos and the Logos of our planetary scheme.

 A further line of thought which will relate this esoteric thinking to the present world crisis: Masonry as you know, attempts to duplicate the practices of the Blue Lodge on Sirius upon the physical plane. Masonry is ruled by the Fourth and Seventh Rays and attempts to provide a receptacle for the First Ray of Will, allowing it to become a ‘seat of initiation’. The Gemini pillars have ever been the symbol of the Masonic tradition.

When the Seventh Ray is in manifestation and the Sun is in Aquarius – as has happened six times so far during the Fifth Rootrace, the energy of Light Supernal is able to be registered on the physical plane. The Seven Rays blend their light with the Seventh Ray. This is the seventh such event during the Fifth Rootrace. What might this mean?

The United States of America was founded under the Masonic influence and has as its ruling energies the astrological signs of Aquarius and Gemini. The keynote of the soul of America is ‘Freedom’ – the energy pouring in from Sirius. Perhaps some glimpse of the energies behind the world crisis may become evident.

 The Sirian energy focused through the American soul is pouring into the planet as a result of the Decision by the Sixth Degree initiates. It is causing a great abstraction from form and from materialism, which is what this energy does. That abstraction will have great consequences for the Sixth Ray personality of the US, an energy which is on its way out of incarnation, and will naturally have similar effects upon the situation in the Middle East and those races conditioned strongly by the Sixth Ray – Russia and Japan among them.

 The result of the cooperation between the Second Ray soul of the planet and the Second Ray soul of America will be both a great abstraction of energy (this will take out the Sixth Ray and make way for the Fourth) and a great anchoring of energy (this will happen under the influence of the Fifth and Seventh Rays). We have the four Rays of Attribute all involved: The Seventh Ray and Fourth Ray cycling in, the Sixth Ray cycling out and the Fifth Ray coming in through Aquarius. If we add the Third Ray personality of the planet and its Second Ray soul, some idea of the potential synthesis may be grasped.

This whole process needs to be held in the context of the Planetary Logos taking the fourth sub-initiation of the Second cosmic Initiation. The astral polarisation of humanity will be somewhat lifted into its buddhic correspondence as the Sixth Ray goes out and the Fourth Ray comes in. On the buddhic plane, humanity will contact the higher energies of cosmic buddhi entering via the Planetary Logos on the cosmic astral plane. These must be directed by the Fourth Hierarchy - humanity - through the fifth plane onto the seventh and affecting primarily the fourth ether.

 Expect this dual process of abstraction and anchoring to occur simultaneously and consequentially. By that I mean that the inflow and outflow are essentially linked as dual sides of the one event. However with the forty-nine year cycle, expect the emphasis to be on abstraction for the first half and anchoring for the second, beginning in 2025.

 03.10.01

 Libran Full Moon

 The last week has been an intense one. Very little has happened of moment on the outer planes of Earth, but in the inner worlds there has been immense activity. Even on the inner worlds of the outer – by this I mean the astral and mental planes. Humanity is learning how to work subjectively and I must tell you that our view of the current events is very positive. The risk taken and the confidence shown in humanity that I mentioned two weeks ago is thus far working out. It is not only necessary to believe in the essential divinity of others but also to correctly judge when that essential divinity is capable of exercising control over its instrument. Humanity at the moment is the World Disciple, striving to prove to the soul that it is able to hold its mind steady in the Light during crisis. If this is maintained then an outpouring from the soul is the natural result. All occurs under law.

 This is a key understanding about the operation of the principle of Freedom. The personal self (in this case humanity) has freedom within its circumscribed sphere. The consequences of exercising that freedom are expressed in karma. When the personal self freely chooses to align its choices with the purpose of the planetary life then personal karma ends and planetary karma quickly begins to work itself out. It is the work of Hierarchy to help humanity make those choices and to aid in the process of implementing the planetary karma and thence the higher Will at a pace that humanity is able to handle.

Just as in the personal case, when a man begins to work off karma rather than resist it, it may appear to outer eyes as if his life is getting much worse. In the inner worlds however, growth is occurring. One could say that humanity has progressed to the point where it is developed sufficiently as a disciple to deal on its own with some of the karma that Hierarchy has been safeguarding it against.

 Just as a parent may try to protect a teenager from the full impact of the laws of society until they are able to understand them and the consequences of breaking them, so Hierarchy has parented humanity. It is time for humanity to be released to its own destiny and that is potentially a glorious destiny. This will also allow Hierarchy to place more focus on its own concerns.

 13.03.02

 The world situation is building to a greater point of tension as we approach the Aries full Moon. The First Ray energies available at this time can be used by Hierarchy in an attempt to bring to an end certain basic tendencies within the field of humanity by a further ‘sealing’ of the door where evil dwells.

 The situation in the Middle East has at its root an aspect of separativeness and materialism.  The origins lie deep in humanity’s karmic past, but can be witnessed in the actions of the present. Deep survival fears originate from the misidentification of the soul with the form aspect instead of the spiritual pole. As a result, spiritual principles get ignored in the mistaken attempt to preserve the form life. The result is merely an intensification of the misidentification with the body, and a greater need to control the environment in order to manage the consequent escalating fear.

 The great initiation of the Crucifixion occurs when the soul finally releases its identification with all within the three worlds, in realisation of its source as the monad.

The monad and the body are opposites within a greater unity. In order for the soul to bring the energies of Spirit and Matter together, it must first choose its ‘home’. Then it is able to use the materialising powers of the Seventh Ray to externalise this ‘home’ on Earth.

 The choice of the body (or the land as an extension of the body) as the ‘primary’ home, results in the need to defend it against inevitable decay and death. The fear of death can never be allayed however. If spiritual principles are transgressed in the attempt, then the exile from Spirit increases and the dependence upon form increases, creating a materialistic spiral.

 Ironically, the conflict between Israel and Palestine is a reflection on the astral plane of this higher battle. The Palestinians, with their external homeland or ‘racial body’ under threat, are resorting to suicide bombing – an expression of the sacrifice of the form nature for a supposedly ‘higher principle’ (actually the sacrifice of the individual form for the collective form). The Israelis, feeling their homeland or racial body under threat, are attempting to control their environment in an effort to protect it. This control escalates the threat. Of course both sides are being motivated by an investment in - and thus a fear for the loss of - their external homeland. They are not the only ones with this investment of course – witness the mortgage payments which drive the activity of much of the Western world – but they are playing out its most extreme consequences on behalf of humanity.

 They represent the remnants of the Sixth Ray in its materialistic expression. The investment in ‘form’ always results, under the pressure of evolution, in the ‘destruction’ of form. This is due to the First Ray energies, directed into the form by consciousness identified with form. The First Ray is intended to abstract the consciousness from the form, but if the consciousness will not release the form, the form gets abstracted as well. Sensing this, the consciousness seeks to ‘externalise’ this destructive force upon the forms surrounding it.

 We are seeing this play out now on the world stage. The Shamballic Impact is an ‘abstracting force’ designed to release the consciousness from form in preparation for the incoming Seventh Ray which will then shape form according to the Plan. Reactionary Sixth Ray energies must be offset by the highest aspect of the Sixth Ray, the devotion to spiritual principles regardless of the consequences to the form, be it body or land.

 Individuals embodying this highest aspect of the Sixth Ray exist amongst both groups, and it is to them that we can direct our energies of support at this time. But this will not be enough. The conflict is not a localised one – it has its origins deep within the karma of humanity, and thus must be solved by humanity as a whole. This requires the strengthening of the United Nations as a centre within humanity for the direction of Will energy as an abstracting and synthesising force.

 In order to distribute this ‘abstracting force’ a triangle is being created between Shamballa, Hierarchy and the New Group of World Servers; the latter representing the ajna centre. The reflection of this higher triangle is a lower triangle between the base, solar plexus and the ajna centre.

 This makes a link between Tokyo, New York and Darjeeling as outer expressions of these energies – as planetary centres within the Fifth Rootrace. It is kundalini from the base centre which provides the rising Will force for the release of the solar plexus energy to the heart. Japan has a First Ray soul and Sixth Ray personality. The release of the atomic bombs there during the last Shamballic Impact has a correspondence in the human system to the impact of the spiritual Will upon the base centre, with the resultant release of kundalini.

 It might be useful therefore, at the time of the Aries Full Moon, to consciously create a triangle between these three centres of Darjeeling, New York and Tokyo, with the ‘intended direction’ being the release of energy from New York to Geneva. The ‘rising’ of energy will be directed through the United Nations which has offices in both cities.

 The United Nations must be transformed through this rising energy into an energetic system within the human kingdom that can be effectively overlighted by the Spirit of Peace, thus bringing the crown and heart chakras of humanity into a dynamic relationship.

 The twin towers of New York represent the dominant Gemini personality of America, transformed into towers of light infused by the Aquarian soul, which offers its powers to the whole of humanity as a redeemed expression of the Sixth Ray, and thus helps open the planetary heart.

 As conscious servers we are encouraged to see the outer events upon the world stage within a wider context. With understanding comes the increased power to serve. Hierarchy needs the conscious, willing assistance of humanity in order to triangulate the Will force pouring in from Shamballa.  It is through the aligned thought, directed through the New Group of World Servers, that the Plan will be brought into manifestation on Earth.

 This is a call to unitedly and esoterically strengthen the United Nations as the only human centre able to respond to the entrenched survival-based will-force within the lower nature of humanity. This fire must be fought with fire. The fire of the Will to liberate. The fire of the Will-to-Good. The fire of Shamballa.

 22.05.02

 Brother, today we want to work with the energy of Love – not so much with its understanding but with its transmission. The Christ Festival is almost upon us and this year will be a tremendous outpouring. What is unique about this Festival is that it is such a ‘unifying’ one for humanity. The Christ loves. He loves like none before him, and it is this fact which makes him unique and his work so unifying for humanity. In Gemini the Christ stood between Humanity and Shamballa and said ‘yes’ to both.  This ‘at-one-ment’ created a singular event in the history of the planet. When he said yes to humanity it was not to some sections of humanity - to enlightened humanity - it was to ALL of humanity and subsequently to the soul life in all kingdoms. He took upon himself the decision to love all, knowing that the Will aspect would provide the needed strength to carry out this momentous decision. None before him had the courage or the greatness of heart to take such a decision. Contemplate that decision for a moment brother, and touch the edge of a soul’s destiny whom we all willingly serve with such lesser love as we can muster.

The Full Moon in Gemini is when the Christ demonstrates how far he has come in fulfilling that choice which he made. It is when he pours forth that Love through all the kingdoms, but in particular the human kingdom. The effect of this great Second Ray force moving from the monadic plane to the buddhic plane, through the causal bodies to the astral plane, is a great upwelling of goodwill in the day-to-day life expression of humanity. This energy of Love originates on the cosmic buddhic plane and is transmitted through the solar egoic lotus (the heart of the Sun), making its way through the solar astral body via the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral to the sixth subplane, and from there to the monadic plane. You will note that the sixth subplane of the cosmic astral is ruled by Gemini (this is the subplane of love on the plane of Love), and the monadic plane is ruled by Virgo. These are the two signs of New Zealand and indicate the potential for this country. Elsewhere (in Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle) I told you that it would be the work of many of those in incarnation at this time to link the astral and etheric body.

 This is done through the work of Gemini. In the human system the equivalent is the washing through the heart chakra of a wave of purified astral energy which carries with it the energy of buddhi and thus stimulates the latent consciousness in all forms. It is this energy which ‘sacredises’ matter. On Cosmic levels this Love energy from the heart of the Sun washes through the human atoms or monads and subsequently into the ashrams on the buddhic plane. It is the work of those able to make contact with the buddhic plane to bring this energy through to the astral and subsequently through the etheric heart centre. Humans then become the ‘saviour’, the ‘saving force’ of the atoms within their system and their environment in the same way that the Christ is the ‘saviour’ of humanity. Think through the analogies.

 A further line of useful thought would be the way in which the Cancer Hierarchy is said to ‘veil the Christ’. Consider this in relationship to the etheric webs which block the astral energy from working through a disciple’s etheric body until such time as a degree of purification has occurred.

 We might imagine the Christ with His head in Gemini and His heart in Virgo on the monadic plane – expressing through the atmic. We might imagine Fourth Degree initiates with their ‘head’ on the monadic plane and their ‘heart’ on the buddhic plane, expressing through the abstract mental; and Second Degree initiates with their ‘head’ in buddhi and their ‘heart’ on the astral, expressing through the etheric heart centre. If you build up this picture some revelation about the Hierarchy of Love will come, and you will be able to find your place in it more potently.

 I have outlined this pattern for consideration not as an abstraction but for practical use.

It is like a map of the divine plumbing system whereby the waters of Life are able to flow to all of creation. The injunction given by the Christ at this time of the Gemini full Moon is to ‘love’.  Love is an energy – a most potent energy – directed in greater and greater degree through the Christ as the great Heart of Hierarchy. Gemini calls us not only to be a conduit of this Love but to ‘love intelligently’. To know from whence Love comes – to allow ourselves to be filled with this energy and to know where best we may direct it as part of the great Hierarchical endeavour. Take time to consider the plumbing so that your own garden may be duly watered.

 04.09.02

 Financial System

 There are currently some momentous happenings unfolding in the life of humanity – they are at present behind the scenes and not yet visible to the public eye but will emerge towards the end of a year.  The success of your own project is but one of many breakthroughs which are in their totality the taking of an initiation by humanity as a whole. The world financial situation has come under a major reorientation – this as I said is not yet visible in the outer and yet the change in the inner workings is momentous. The control of the world’s wealth is moving out of the hands of those motivated by materialistic tendencies and into the hands of those who are inspired by Hierarchy. The exact workings of this cannot be disclosed, however it is the result of a long-term plan that has finally been brought to fruition. It is not really possible to convey to you the far reaching consequences of this change. Watch and wait as the year unfolds and the outer signs of this inner change will begin to be evidenced in the world. Billions of dollars are working their way into bank accounts and financial instruments, creating a great reservoir that is going to be used for the forwarding of the externalisation process.

 One of my fields of interest and responsibility is with the philanthropists of the world, and plans have long since been laid for this development. Just as the seeds of the new schools had been planted to come to fruition at the time of the Shamballa Impact, so the seeds of the transformation of the world’s financial system had also been planted. It was uncertain whether the whole global economy might not have had to undergo a period of major upheaval and collapse. There will certainly be difficult times as the system adjusts, but on the whole it has been a rather extraordinary success through using the underlying motivating energies within the system itself to transform it. Just as the mind can be used to get out of the mind, so the financial markets can be used to break the hold of the financial markets. Initiates have been working in this field for some time, and have been able to be phenomenally successful because of the very forces of fear and greed that sweep the marketplace. These forces allow those who are unaffected by them to accumulate vast wealth over the medium term. The great irony is that the freeing up of the financial markets, orchestrated by those who are seeking to extend their control and influence, has actually resulted in the liberation of  vast sums of money from their control. Mercury is the god of trickery and finance, and Mercury it is who has managed to spirit away this source of energy like quicksilver.

 The work of those who have been involved in this Hierarchical project (which has involved disciples with a great understanding of cycles and a developed intuition – qualities required equally by esotericists) is now to secure these funds and to build an economic base and system which is able to operate freely behind the scenes with as little interaction with the current financial system as possible. Just as the School has been able to be established in a somewhat remote area in a small country, so the new emerging financial base must be somewhat quarantined from what has become in reality a global economy. This new ‘pool’ must be kept safely isolated while the global system undergoes its reorientation. A period of consolidation lies ahead which will correspond with a period of uncertainty and confusion in the world financial system. I might tell you that this development of which I speak will be as great a shock to the financial markets as the September 11 event was to the American people. It strikes at the very foundation of the sense of security. Of course there is no security in materialism, and after the period of adjustment then a new economy will emerge out of the seeds which are being planted now.

 19.12.01

 The Third Phase of the Teachings

 The topic this morning is time. I want to give you a broader perspective of the teachings I am responsible for and the way they unfold through time, and, in a peculiar way, how they create time itself.

 A Master’s consciousness is expanded in time and space. He is able to reach out across continents and between planets with his awareness. An important distinction to note is the difference between ‘awareness’ and capacity to ‘influence’. Consciousness influences matter and thereby causes its evolution due to its capacity to express the energy of Will. A Master is ‘causal’ in the evolution of consciousness identified with form because he combines ‘awareness’ with Will within a definite time/space ring-pass-not. A Master may be aware of the evolution of consciousness across millennia. He is personally responsible however for the development of that consciousness in a much more circumscribed manner.

 For example the ashramic project that you are involved in is a part of my personal responsibility. It is a subset of my work in time and space. This particular project is educational – the preparation of the minds of men (in such a way that their hearts and actions will be subsequently effected) so that they may collectively and intelligently respond to the externalisation of the Hierarchy – a collective project of the Greater Ashram. Of course I do this in cooperation with the other Masters, but it is my particular responsibility to be a ‘messenger’ between Hierarchy and Humanity – a bridge builder in consciousness at this particular time. My responsibilities are global, and for this particular project are focused over a time window of 350 years beginning in 1825 and concluding in 2175. Of course there is overlap outside this time window, but as an earthquake has an epicentre, so this particular project of mine has a focus in both time and space.

In order for me to operate within this time/space ring-pass-not, my consciousness must be able to be ‘free’ from it – in other words not identified with any ‘thing’ inside it, and powerful enough (operating with enough Will) to influence the evolution and development of the consciousness that is ‘identified’ within the container.

 As I have pointed out, the specifics of the project are the introduction into the mental field of humanity of the Hierarchical teachings which are One but express themselves in a three-fold manner. The first phase ran from 1825 to 1925 and had as its focal point the work done by HPB and the Theosophical Society. The second phase ran from 1925 to 2025 and had as its focal point the work of AA Bailey and the various projects that manifested from that work such as the Arcane School, World Goodwill and so on. The third stage is in preparation now and runs from 2025 to 2125; and then there will be a transition and synthesising period of fifty years. From another perspective the project could be said to have a 400 year ‘period’ if we include fifty years preparation from 1775 to 1825. The point I am making is that Hierarchical projects are definitely carried out in time and space, have clear objectives and timeframes. We utilise Saturn as a building and containing influence, while those whose consciousness is thus limited sense the restriction and seek to grow beyond it.

 Because we do not know specifically how humanity will react, the Masters follow a strategy that allows for human free will. In the early phases we spread our influence widely, and gradually focus that influence and attention on a particular individual or group as we are able to ascertain where the best and most effective response occurs. The work done by the Blavatsky and Bailey groups (for groups they were) was not predestined to be done by them (although the work itself was predestined). Early in the cycle the work was presented in consciousness to many groups around the planet wherever opportunity arose and with various success.

 A similar phase in under way now as I prepare for the third phase of the teachings at the same time as the second phase is culminating. Thus my preparatory work is widespread with many groups being ‘tested’ for their capacity; your own work finds its place among them. In initiating this work I must be able to learn from the results of the previous phase and at the same time make an intelligent judgement as to the needs of humanity at the end of the century, in the same way that the work completed in the early Twentieth Century had to serve those who are living and working now.

 Principally I am working with consciousness, and have as my implementation force those souls in incarnation who are able and willing to respond to my ‘project’ as a way of serving humanity and accelerating their own effectiveness through alignment to the greater component of  Hierarchical will and wisdom that is flowing through me, their elder brother. These workers must create for themselves, within the aura of my ashram, particular projects contained within my own time/space limitation. These projects must be commeasured with the capacity of the individual or group to carry it out, and to provide a field of service for others to likewise operate within. Some sense of the true nature of Hierarchical operation is contained in these ideas.

 In addition I must work with and utilise the various energies that are available and are thus contextual to my project. In particular the energies of the seventh ray and of Aquarius. My project itself, in a peculiar way, is designed to ‘set the scene’ for these energies to enter human consciousness in such a way that will allow for the externalisation process to take place. The manifestation of the Brotherhood upon the physical plane requires the intelligent manipulation of global consciousness as well as many other skills. I must also cooperate closely with the ashramic projects of other Masters and call upon the energetic assistance of my own Master whose time/space ring-pass-not is much greater than (and includes) my own as He prepares himself to eventually be responsible for the role of World Teacher.

 These thoughts today are to encourage you to think in expanded terms about time and space and to ascertain where your own capacities to operate within time and space lie – both in terms of extension of awareness and the capacity to take personal responsibility.

 Sacrifice is related to the willingness to confine one’s consciousness to self-chosen limits in time and space for the purpose of aiding the development of consciousness within those limits. Think of the sacrifice required by a soul whose proper place in ‘evolutionary  time’ is to incarnate in the sixth round, choosing to incarnate in the fourth round. There is a requirement in any system for a certain percentage of souls to incarnate ‘out of time’ so to speak in order to preserve the integrity of the whole system. These ‘time travellers’ are themselves the links or bridges between rounds and races in the same way that Hierarchy is a bridge. Depending on the stage of evolution of the planet, certain percentages of souls demonstrate this sacrificial capacity in a particular manner that relates the first and seventh round or race of any cycle, the second and sixth, the third and fifth. The fourth round or race plays out this same relationship with its internal cycles. 

When any system is comprehended in its entirety, then the consciousness becomes momentarily free of the time and space limitations of the system. When this freedom is able to be maintained at will, then the capacity to causally influence the system begins to develop. It is this capacity, developed gradually during the life cycle of any system, which results in the spiral-cyclic nature of consciousness development within the system.

 30.05.01

 There are three key components of the third phase of the teachings:

 The revelation of what lies behind the term ‘Freedom’. The Rays and the Initiations taught about Shamballa and the building of the higher antahkarana. The third stage teaches about synthesis: The triangulation of the three centres on the cosmic physical plane – Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity - and the revelation through that triangulation of the fourth divine Quality. This revelation on the cosmic physical plane has its higher correspondence in the integration and synthesis of the three vehicles of the Solar Logos – the physical, astral and mental bodies - and their cohesive functioning as an integrated personality as part of the soul infusion process related to the Third cosmic Initiation which is the goal of the Logos. What is revealed through the three-fold Logoic personality is the Logoic soul or ‘Love’; and this from solar triadal levels, in particular the buddhic plane. The lower correspondence to this is the revelation through the triangle of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity of the ‘love’ nature of the Planetary Logos. This lesser ‘love’ flows from the cosmic astral plane via the triangle of Earth, Vulcan and Pluto and it therefore carries with it the germ of solar Will that will form a seed for the next solar system. This Will is carried on the desire of the Planetary Logos to help carry out the Solar Logoic purpose, remembering that he is a disciple of the Logos. The anchoring of this ‘germ’ in this the second solar system has a correspondence to the coming of the dragon energy in the second round of this chain. This is tied into the revelation of the dawning fourth - the fourth Principle of deity – in the same way that the three Buddhas of Activity eventually reveal Sanat Kumara. The revelation is preserved for us in the ‘eye in the triangle’ symbology of Masonry.

 The second keynote is related to the origin and psychology of the monad, just as the second phase dealt in depth with the solar angel. Information will be given about the ‘body’ upon the atmic plane which is the equivalent to the monad of the causal body upon mental levels. In addition the five higher planes will be examined, and by these I mean the top three planes of the cosmic physical and the lower two planes of the cosmic astral. It is these planes that will form the field of expression for the next system. The first system concerned itself with the lower five planes of the cosmic physical. The failure upon the Moon Chain has meant that consciousness was restricted within the ring-pass-not of the lower three planes when it should have encompassed the whole five as it has on Venus. The second solar system should be primarily working with the five higher planes of the cosmic physical – from the mental plane up – which is why the consciousness of the Planetary Logos only comes down to the mental plane. In the third solar system the atmic plane should form the base or ‘body’ of expression. This also helps to explain why there are nine initiations for the soul and how the ‘ten’ works upon the twelve.

 More information will be given on ‘the higher way’ and the seven Cosmic Paths. Just as the buddhic plane is the goal of the personality and the monadic plane is the ‘goal’ of the triad, so the lowest subplane of the cosmic astral is the ‘goal’ of the monad, and there are centres to be found there just as there are centres upon the monadic and buddhic planes. There ‘registration’ will come in the consciousness of an initiate when he is able to form the antahkarana from the highest to the lowest and thus link the centres on the seventh subplane of the cosmic astral with his etheric centres upon the seventh subplane of the cosmic physical. There is much more in this vein and a book the size of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire could be written about the subject.

 The third keynote has to do with the coming Avatar and the role that this little planet has within Cosmic Plan. Elsewhere I have said that Earth may serve as a station of light for this corner of the galaxy, which is quite an extraordinary statement if you stop to think about it. What is the potential role of this planet, what chance does it have of fulfilling it, and what is the best way forward? The return of the Christ and the externalisation of the Hierarchy are part of a much vaster Plan then you can imagine. The relevance to the human kingdom is all that man has been able to grasp so far, but a synthetic grasp is necessary to glimpse the whole. The human kingdom must be put in perspective as only one in the system. Identification with the whole will enable some faint understanding of the purpose of that whole. This will be the most difficult part of the teaching to get across, but in some ways the most important for it sets before humanity something of the purpose in which they can play a part – not only as a kingdom but as part of a much greater ‘whole’.

 Already I despair at being able to get this across without being totally misunderstood, but that will be my challenge and that is why it is the third part of the third phase – in some ways the whole body of teaching disseminated through the three phases could be said to have as its goal the conditioning of the field of humanity so that a seed of this Cosmic purpose could be dropped into that soil. This seed may not be dropped until the esoteric worldview has ‘won the day’ within the culture of the planet.

 Of course this is already true in the inner worlds. Truth is revealed and not created. Nevertheless it will only ‘run’ human society in a conscious way once humans of their own free will choose to accept it. Thus the externalisation process is required first. Humans must recognise and elect into positions of power in their culture, the representatives of Hierarchy who are already appearing among them. They will do this by recognising the purity of their motives, the ‘sense’ of their ideas and the demonstration of principles in their lives. Once the key governments, businesses and social institutions are being guided by the disciples and initiates of the world, then the head of Hierarchy can make his appearance and begin to reveal to an awakening world the deeper mission that underlies the coming of the Avatar.

 And so there you have the skeleton of the next phase of the teachings that it is my responsibility to reveal progressively to humanity. It is essential that their revelation is progressive and that the timing is carefully attended to. Revelation itself is a science – knowledge of the Mysteries is a fire that needs a sustained and progressive burning if it is to serve the society it enters into.

 

The Revelation Of A Fourth Quality Of Deity

 Behind the three Qualities of divinity with which we are already familiar, theoretically at least, lies a ‘dawning fourth’ for which the whole development of human culture and civilisation on this planet has been merely a preparation.

 This fourth Revelation will have a definite and planned impact upon the fourth kingdom, that of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy on this, the fourth chain, of the fourth scheme, in a solar system of the fourth order. This planned impact will produce potent results that will not only affect the relationship between the human kingdom and other kingdoms on the planet, but will have repercussions throughout the solar system and beyond.

 This fourth Quality has primarily to do with the relevation of Purpose that is made possible by the evolution of consciousness within time and space. It has a primary relationship to the buddhic plane, just as the other three Qualities (Will, Love and Intelligence) relate to fifth, sixth and seventh planes. Divinity is slowly expressing itself from the top down, and being revealed to us from the bottom up. The first three fundamentals of The Secret Doctrine are related to the higher three planes in the system and reflected in the Qualities of deity expressed on the lower three. On the fourth plane, the fourth Fundamental and the fourth Quality of deity come into direct relationship.

On the buddhic plane divinity clothes itself and begins the process of precipitation into what we call matter. Causal bodies on the higher mental plane are the first expression of this manifestation – they are consciousness ‘fixated’ and imbued with specific purpose – behind them lies the quality of consciousness itself.

 In this fourth round the Quality of the Solar Logos which lies behind the manifestation of the solar system is gradually revealing itself. In the same way, when a man finds the quality of the Heavenly Man with which he is associated on the buddhic plane – so a Solar Logos finds the Quality of his cosmic ashram on the cosmic buddhic plane. He then begins to consciously radiate that Quality throughout his entire system, colouring everything with that Quality. That Quality will be primarily expressed through the Fourth Creative Hierarchy – the human – just as the quality of buddhi is expressed, once the antahkarana has been built, through a man’s etheric centres upon the ethers of the physical plane.

 Thus the fourth kingdom, humanity, is the expression on all the schemes of, first of all a triplicity: Active Intelligence (developed in the last system), Love (developed in this system) and Will (to be developed in the final system). However just as with man, these three Qualities are the ‘vehicles’ for higher qualities. “In that light we shall see light”. (DINAI, p.297) The etheric body is a vehicle for manas – thus the solar systemic ethers are activated by that innate intelligent quality of substance that has been developed in a previous system and will allow, in the next system, the Will of the Solar Logos to operate on the etheric/physical plane. This links the etheric plane with the cosmic mental plane. Similarly, the ethers are also the ‘vehicle’ for cosmic astrality. The desire of the Solar Logos flows through the desire body of the Planetary Logos, and thus through the chakras on the cosmic etheric – the ashrams on the monadic and buddhic planes - and from there shapes the consciousness of lives in the three worlds.

 As our Planetary Logos masters the cosmic astral plane – and he is in a difficult stage in the process of doing so, taking the fourth sub-initiation of the Second cosmic at this time - he will eventually bring his desire body under control so that it becomes expressive of the desire body of the Solar Logos (who is preparing for the Third cosmic Initiation and has thus already mastered his astral vehicle). The desire body of the Solar Logos is already able to reflect cosmic buddhi, and this Quality is expressing through (for example) the Venus Scheme, which has already taken the Second cosmic Initiation. As more of this Quality (a fourth Quality of deity) is expressed through the cosmic astral body of the Earth Scheme, it will be stepped down into the etheric body of the planet (and thus the ashrams) in the following way:

  From the fourth plane of the cosmic planes, the cosmic buddhic, being the cosmic ashramic energy of our Solar Logos (related to one of the Rishis of the Great Bear).

  Through the love petals of the causal body of our Solar Logos.

  To the cosmic astral plane, where it has particular effect through resonance on the fourth subplane. This subplane is home to the Aries Hierarchy, ruled by the planet Uranus.

 To the sixth subplane of the cosmic astral plane, home of the Gemini Hierarchy and ruled hierarchically by the Earth. (As an aside here, the energy also flows into the seventh subplane of the cosmic astral plane, thus aiding in the liberation of the Fifth Hierarchy of Cancer).

To the ashrams on the monadic plane, home of the Virgo Hierarchy ruled by Jupiter. (Here is the higher mystery of the birth of the Cosmic Christ in the heart).

To the ashrams on the buddhic plane, home of the Scorpio Hierarchy ruled by Mercury.

This four-fold link creates a relationship between the following signs and planets:

Aries        Uranus

Gemini     Earth

Virgo        Jupiter

Scorpio     Mercury

 Mercury is the linking energy and brings the energy of electric fire, Uranus onto the cosmic physical plane. The principle of cosmic buddhi on the fourth plane is expressed via aligned planetary desire through the fourth ether on the seventh or cosmic physical plane.

 “Mercury is the expression of fourth ray energy and this is, as you know, peculiarly related to the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom. It is the esoteric ruler of Aries (hence it "leads into the mysteries") and is also the exoteric ruler of Gemini, which is the sign of the major opposites as far as humanity is concerned, because it signifies soul and personality, consciousness and form; it is also the exoteric ruler of Virgo, the Mother of the Christ-Child, or the form and that which indwells the form. It is, finally, the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio, which is the sign of discipleship.

 This, therefore, brings into a close relation four great constellations, each of which has a peculiar relation to the dualities with which man has a definite evolutionary concern. These are expressed in a unique manner for humanity through Aries, Gemini, Virgo, and Scorpio and the following diagram is descriptive of the nature of that relation:

 

 

 When visualising these diagrams, the symbol should be seen in rapid revolution. Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, carries to humanity a certain type of force and this precipitates a point of crisis; it brings about the next great revolution which will lead mankind on to new experience, and to the revelation of the divinity which it is the destiny of man to reveal.” (EA, pp.548-9)

 From here the line of energy makes a similar descent through the love petals of the causal body of man, through the astral body to the heart chakra on the second etheric plane, to the chakras on the fourth ether and thence to the physical body via the glands.

 This is the true ‘current of healing’ which brings the principle of cosmic buddhi all the way onto the physical plane where it finds eventually, at the heart of every atom, surprise surprise, cosmic buddhi. This is the equivalent to the energy from the monad finding, via the Love aspect of its expression, buddhi, the kundalini energy lying buried at the base of the spine.

 All is one Spirit/Matter but now, that unalterable fact has become realised within the consciousness of all those lives through which the energy passes. It is not so much that cosmic buddhi is brought to the physical plane – it already exists there and is in fact the foundation of all existence in the three lower cosmic planes. It already forms the inherent Life of all that is found there. It is when this is consciously realised however, that consciousness can bring the highest and lowest together in full realisation of their essential unity. Cosmic buddhi and an atom, are essentially the One Life, and as an inevitable result of that realisation the whole of creation will eventually be consumed in this one great fire – the fire of Agni which is the sumtotal of all the Solar Logoic life in the three cosmic planes of manifestation.

 To sum up the development in the Eternal Now of the three solar systems through which the Solar Logos is taking the Third cosmic Initiation and thus fusing the Logoic triad with the Logoic personality:

In the first system the energy of cosmic manas was brought into contact with the cosmic physical plane through the planetary logoi who have now become the five Kumaras. Their combined expression has a marked effect on the fifth and third planes of the cosmic physical plane and is synthesised on the atmic plane.

In the second system the energy of cosmic buddhi is being used to master the cosmic astral plane via the planetary logoi of this system. That mastery will eventually be expressed through the monadic plane and the human Hierarchy on all the schemes.

The expression of this system is primarily on the fourth and second planes, with a resonant effect upon the sixth or astral plane. The synthetic expression on the cosmic physical plane is via the second or monadic plane.

In the third system the energy of cosmic manas is being used to master and condition the cosmic mental plane, where the planetary logoi of that system will then be polarised.

That mastery will be expressed upon the cosmic physical plane via the first and seventh subplanes. It will result in the bringing together of the highest and the lowest, with the subsequent rising of Logoic kundalini, to be synthesised on the logoic plane. Thus the solar monad works through the solar triad to bring the Will of the Cosmic Logos (of which our Solar Logos is a constituent part) into expression upon the physical plane of this solar system.

 It will be remembered that man, at the Second Initiation, receives energy direct from the monad – it is this energy of Will which allows him to master once and for all that most troublesome of bodies, the desire body. The reason for giving out this teaching is to prepare mankind for the planetary equivalent of this event. The Love aspect of the solar monad will be brought into direct relationship with our Planetary Logos polarised on the cosmic astral plane. That energy will be stepped down in a four-fold manner, as described above, through the ashrams on the monadic plane and the ashrams on the buddhic plane.

The inflow of this energy is what will result in the liberation of vast numbers of the human kingdom from their causal bodies on the higher mental plane, and result in the Fourth Creative Hierarchy becoming ‘radioactive’ within the solar system. This process will reach a culmination at the Judgement Day in the fifth round.

 Of course, as is apparent in the microcosm, man, initiation is the result of persistent effort over long cycles of time within the eternal now of the soul’s fixed design, whether it be a human soul or a solar soul. Hence the value of humanity understanding the process when it can, in its higher reaches, be trusted to intelligently cooperate.

 “The symbols of the seven Creative Hierarchies now in manifestation are all enclosed in a circle denoting limitation and the circumscribing of the Life. All these hierarchies are Sons of Desire, and are paramountly an expression of the desire for manifested life of the solar Logos.  They receive their primary impulse from the cosmic astral plane.  They are also the expression of a vibration emanating from the second row of petals in the logoic Lotus on the cosmic mental plane.

 They are, therefore, one and all an expression of His love nature, and it is for this reason that buddhi is found at the heart of the tiniest atom, or what we call in this system, electric fire.  For the positive central life of every form is but an expression of cosmic buddhi, and the downpouring of a love which has its source in the Heart of the Solar Logos; this is itself an emanating principle from the ONE ABOVE OUR LOGOS, HE OF WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID.” (TCF, pp.1225-6)

 With this overview in mind we may continue by postulating the following four statements about the fourth Quality of deity:

It is related to the Fourth cosmic Path, the path to Sirius and to the Sirian Law of Freed

It is a synthetic expression of the combined life of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity and it is related to the coming Avatar of Synthesis.

Being the fourth Revelation it is related to the Fourth Ray, the Fourth Initiation, the dawning fourth Fundamental and the fourth Law of the Soul, the Law of Repulse.

Apart from its impact upon the fourth kingdom, the human, it will have profound effects upon the mineral kingdom and the physical plane.

 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)

 07.11.01

 The Psychology of the Monad

1. Origin

The monad must have existed by definition at the start of the manifested universe and be present at the end. The monad is a spark of the One Life, and as such is both indestructible and in a certain sense, indivisible from the One Life itself. Certainly many of the human monads currently incarnated on our Earth had experience in the previous solar system. Whether they also had experience in previous universes must lie outside our study.

 So to all intents and purposes the monad, in its essential life is not separate from the universal Life. What we think of when we consider the monad however, is different than this. We are taught to locate the monad on the monadic plane and see it as the ultimate source of life for our soul and our personality incarnate on Earth. This of course is true, but it is also a long way from the whole truth about the monad. From the perspective of the cosmic astral plane for example, a human monad on the monadic plane of the cosmic physical plane has ‘fallen’ into physical incarnation. It forms part of the physical incarnation of a Planetary Logos, of a Solar Logos and of a Cosmic Logos.

 When the monadic life is released from incarnation it follows a ‘path of return’ via the seven cosmic Paths to higher cosmic planes, and eventually finds it’s ‘home’ within the identity of a Cosmic Logos on the cosmic monadic plane. What is it then that ‘travels’ this path of monadic return? A distinction needs to be made between the monadic body upon the monadic plane and the monadic ‘life’ which uses that body - just as we need to make a distinction between the soul and the causal body.

 The use of the term ‘consciousness’ is correctly applied to the soul and to the spiritual triad. When we speak of the monad we are speaking about ‘identification’ – the transfer, expansion, translation and transformation of identity. The monad forms a part of the ‘Life’ thread of the greater being in which it lives rather than the ‘Consciousness’ thread. This distinction is important. In trying to understand the psychology of the monad therefore, we must lift our sight from the development of the ‘Consciousness thread’ - the antahkarana - to the development of the ‘Life thread’ - the sutratma.

 In the microcosm man, the Consciousness thread is anchored in the soul and the Life thread in the heart. After the Third Initiation the monadic force is able to reach (at times) from the monad, via the spiritual triad, directly to and through the etheric heart centre located on the second ether. Certain ‘atoms’ of etheric matter composing the heart centre are able to respond to the monadic Life force and transmit this into their environment.

 We must consider this process in the macrocosm if we are to understand something of the role of the monadic life in this vast entity. The human monad forms part of one of the centres of a Heavenly Man. The Heavenly Man forms part of a Grand Heavenly Man, a Solar Logos. A Solar Logos forms part of a Cosmic Logos. It is the capacity of the monad for ‘identification’ which will make possible the transfer of energy from a Cosmic Logos on his own plane, the cosmic monadic, to his heart chakra on the systemic monadic plane. This sentence is worthy of your deep consideration.

 Let me give you an example in the microcosm. An etheric chakra is composed of three types of substance, each of which is responsive to three different types of energy. The outer ‘ring’ of the chakra is responsive to personality energy, the middle ‘ring’ to soul energy and the inner ‘ring’ to monadic energy.

 

 If we apply the same model on the cosmic planes we can see that the ‘heart’ centre of a Cosmic Logos is also composed of three different types of cosmic etheric substance, responsive to three different types of energies through three different ‘identifications’:

 In the same way that the causal body is three-fold, the monad also carries within it the capacity for three different types of ‘identification’. The cosmic sutratma is built in ‘Life’ as a result of the alignment between the wills of three interrelated identities. In the microcosm, the will of the monad, soul and personality are aligned. In the macrocosm the will of the Planetary Logos, Solar Logos and Cosmic Logos are aligned. It is this fact that is behind the statement that the human kingdom is meant to serve as an outpost of light within the universe. It is a cosmic light that is referred to, and this ‘light’ will be seen when the lesser two lights have been well established.

 As you might expect, there is a relationship between the first three subplanes of the monadic plane, the three types of monad, and the three rings of the cosmic chakra.

Third Ray monads are particularly responsive to the will of the Planetary Logos and were particularly active in the first solar system and on the Moon Chain within this scheme. We must remember that this planet is not a sacred planet and is in fact known as a ‘divine rebel’. This means that there is a misalignment between the will of the Planetary Logos and that of the Solar Logos. The Planetary Logos is taking the Second cosmic Initiation, seeking to master his astral body and bring his activities into alignment with the will of the soul. This misalignment expresses itself in the struggle of purpose and direction between what we call ‘Moon Chain egos’ and ‘Earth humanity’. We are seeing the struggle between the Third and Second Rays – the rays of the Earth’s personality and soul. We are further told that the aim of our Planetary Logos is to carry some part of the will of the Solar Logos into physical expression, and this he is scheduled to accomplish in the next solar system.

 The Solar Logos is taking the Third cosmic Initiation. At this Initiation the energies of the personality and the soul are fused and a conscious rapport is established with the monad.

The monad of the Solar Logos is the Cosmic Logos. Therefore we might imagine a time within the third system when the planetary will, the solar will and the Cosmic Logoic will are all brought into alignment. What will then be revealed?

 The analogy in the microcosm is the alignment of personality, soul and monadic will. This releases “Life more abundant”. (TCF, p.125)  On the planet the alignment is between Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity. When the energy in this triangle circulates we have the appearance of the ‘Saving Force’ wielded by the Lords of Liberation. What the cosmic equivalent to this ‘Saving Force’ is we have no idea.

 In the human system, the alignment between the ‘three wills’ releases buddhi in full measure as the “Life more abundant” through the personality. On the planetary level, the alignment of the ‘three wills’ releases ‘cosmic buddhi’ as the ‘Saving Force’. This is the revelation of the fourth Quality of deity that lies behind the Qualities of  Intelligence, Love and Will already recognised. In a cosmic sense, might the energy released be a ‘universal buddhi’ coming from galactic heavenly men which have cosmic logoi serving as their heart chakra?

 

13.06.01

 Avatars

 The so-called soul on the mental plane is merely the wrapping of the buddhic entity in ahamkaric matter. The surrender of the ‘identity’ is the way in which the mental matter is released and the soul returns into its group identification within the ashram upon the buddhic plane. Your separate identity is only an illusion created by the operation of the Law of Fixation upon the mental plane. When you allow the Law of Magnetic Control to be more powerful it ‘pulls the soul free’ into buddhi through bringing the lower aspect of manas upon the mental plane into relationship with its higher aspect upon the atmic plane. These two aspects of manas bring the intelligent identities of two beings into relationship with each other – that of the human unit and that of the Heavenly Man of which he is a part. The Heavenly Man on the monadic plane expresses his identity on the atmic, just as the human Hierarchy on the buddhic plane expresses - or should I say, experiences - its identity upon the mental plane. And the human personality, centred in the astral plane, expresses itself on the physical. In this second solar system the alignment between the second, fourth and sixth planes brings these three entities into direct relationship, and the result of that relationship brings the atmic, mental and physical planes into alignment so that the creative Plan of the Heavenly Man is eventually expressed upon the physical plane.

 Let me give you some simple examples. In the human personality first. A man develops the idea that he wants to accomplish something – let’s say climb a mountain. This idea must be something that the emotional self is enthusiastic about, else it will never manifest. Once there is the desire however, the physical body is put in motion and if the desire is strong enough it will support the body to exceed its normal capacities – both in training for the event and also during the ascent itself. This forcing process results in a form of ‘initiation’ for the cells within the physical body as they have increasingly large amounts of ‘higher’ energy flowing through them. Similarly within the triad, when the soul has a purpose, emanating from the atmic plane, it must gather the necessary energies upon the buddhic plane and then express them through the mental. The process of expressing that purpose through the causal body is what creates the burning of the causal body. That fire generates the ‘enlightenment’ of the mind and is the source eventually of the ‘ideas’ which the human manifests upon the physical plane.  The same process happens on higher levels – the solar purpose is contacted upon the logoic plane, cohered on the monadic plane and expressed through the atmic. This expression generates the energy which the soul experiences as purpose and then expresses upon the mental plane. This expression generates the energy (ideas) which the personality experiences as purpose and endeavours to carry out upon the physical plane. Alignment through all these planes eventually results in the solar Will being anchored and expressed upon the physical plane on this planet. There you have a succinct expression of the underlying process which the Lord of the World is trying to carry out.

 If you take the process on to cosmic planes you will see that our Solar Logos is trying to achieve the Third Initiation, while our Planetary Logos is reaching for the Second. We might translate this as follows: The Solar Logos is endeavouring to fuse the energies of soul and personality and to thereby carry the will of his soul (aligned with the Sirian will) into expression through his personality – Agni and the planetary schemes expressing on the cosmic mental, astral and physical planes. At the Third Initiation this Will energy must reach the base chakra and awaken the solar kundalini.

 The work of our Planetary Logos is to take the Second cosmic Initiation. He is attempting to Master the energies of the cosmic astral plane so that he is able to transmit the will of his soul – the Solar Logos - without distortion and inversion onto the cosmic physical plane. Thus we have an alignment of three wills upon cosmic planes – The Sirian Logos, The Solar Logos and the Planetary Logos. These wills have their expression upon the first three subplanes of the cosmic physical: The logoic plane, monadic plane and atmic plane. Once these three wills have achieved the necessary alignment and interplay, something far greater will be revealed through their synthetic relationship, in the same way that the human soul is revealed through the integrated personality. This is the cosmic revelation that will make of this planet a ‘magnetic centre’ in the universe.

 

06.06.01

 At this time of the Gemini full Moon I want to give information about the Christ and his relationship to the Avatar of Synthesis. In this system it is the Second Ray which is synthetic. The system must be synthesised by and through Love, and hence the role of the World Saviour. The Love aspect must be strengthened by the Will however, if synthesis is to take place. Not only must he ‘love all’ but he must draw all towards synthetic Purpose. He must lift all unto the Father. This statement "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me" is one of the most significant in the Bible, linking as it does, Love and Will. (St. John, XII.32, see GWP, p.167) Consciousness must fully permeate matter and then arise and return to the source. Christ has therefore a role to play that is more significant than has been realised to date. He must open himself to the inflowing energies from the Avatar, while at the same time externalising through the Hierarchy. His consciousness is being liberated from the whole cosmic physical plane, at the same time as fully externalising on the lowest of the physical planes. In this is the true mystery of the ‘highest and the lowest’ and the ‘last shall be first and the first last’. True mastery of a cosmic plane means that all matter on that plane must be permeated. I have said elsewhere that there are several types of initiation. Relative mastery of a plane is established when the consciousness is shifted from the lower four subplanes to a higher three. Initiation is taken then on the third subplane when two-thirds of the matter of the plane has been mastered. Two-thirds is the ratio which symbolises the mastery of the Second Aspect over the Third. This is why a Master is one who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is functioning upon the atmic plane.

 There is another type of initiation however, which marks the mastery of a whole plane.

This requires that ALL the matter of the subplanes is mastered. Herein lies the difference between ‘freedom from a plane’ and ‘mastery of a plane’. The first type of mastery, which involves freedom is obtained by the consciousness struggling to liberate itself. Once liberated however, under the very principle of achieved freedom, the entity may choose to remain ‘confined’ within the ring-pass-not through which it has just broken, until ALL the matter within that sphere has been mastered. It is such a decision which gives our Planetary Logos the appellation “the Great Sacrifice”. (DINAII, p.286)

 The human Hierarchy is the Fourth, and is to be found functioning