The Trans-Himalayan teachings present an incredible picture of the journey of each of our souls all the way through our untold number of human incarnations and then through major soul initiations into mastery, full awakening and divine embodiment.
These initiations can be found in each of the world's spiritual traditions, but the Trans-Himalayan teachings go into extraordinary detail about the challenges and liberations found at each stage of the journey.
They unfold over lifetimes. Specifically, they unfold over the final lifetimes of a soul incarnating in the human kingdom before it is liberated into the kingdoms of the soul and spirit.
They start from the time we first set our feet on the path, through the purification, healing and dedication to service, to the lightning strike of divine One on the mountain top that empowers us to fully mature as world servers, to our absorption into the current of the One, and the eventual total rewiring of our entire embodiment for full divine expression through every layer of our being in alignment with the cosmic Plan, Purpose and Life at the heart of the earth itself.
Here are some notes on each initiation and what it represents.
First Initiation - The Birth
After coming to some kind of core personality crisis that calls forth a deeper search, the search for soul (or that which is conceived to be the authentic self) begins
Sometimes comes with a focus on intellectual study to go deeper in understanding the mystery of life and the universe
Often there is more focus on starting certain physical disciplines to begin one’s path of self-development (changes in diet, yoga, exercise, medicines)
First droplets of soul consciousness pour down into the mind to produce a recognition this is a sacred universe and it is worthwhile to start a path of self-development to unfold and discover more of who one truly is
Dedication to awaken to the sacred but still mainly focussed on personal development and seeking peak experiences
Second Initiation - The Baptism
This leads eventually to a crisis of motivation, love, and service. The question arises, “What am I actually here for? What is the motivation at the core of my life? How can I express myself and find my place in service of the whole?”
The being starts to see all those places in themselves where they are unable to live the ethics of love and consciousness they have connected to
The soul pours love down into the personality and opens the heart
Produces major crisis on the emotional level: is my life directed by my soul and the drive to serve or my personal desires?
Strong drive to find one’s soul purpose
The surfacing of all one’s unresolved emotional pains and traumas (which the teaching says are actually what remains to be resolved from all incarnations, not just this one)
Trauma work, personal healing work - facing core wounding
Often a strong focus on men’s work or women’s work
Focus on emotional purification to liberate oneself into service
For some it involves a major drive toward radical awakening to the Source
Finding one’s soul group
Relationship is often a strong focus as a path of healing
Bringing soul healing into the places of deep emotional disconnection
This frees the being from preoccupation with their own emotional healing journey and leads to full dedication to service to humanity and the earth
Around the mid point of the 2nd degree the extremity of the soul in service - to not surrender its commitment to love in the midst of deep suffering - calls forth the will and power of the monad for the first time, which breaks the soul free from identification with the emotional body
Third Initiation - The Transfiguration
The soul draws on the energy of monadic will to penetrate all the way down into the body to fully land in the base chakra
This activates the rise of kundalini so that there is a single column of spiritual will, life and kundalini flowing between base and crown
Soul-infused personality now integrated as a stable unit for world service
The being is now operating from conscious awareness of who they are as a soul, drawing on the will-force of spirit to create and manifest their expression of the Plan in the world
The being becomes mature in their world service and by the end of the third initiation completes masterpiece (their created contribution to our collective evolution, such as a movement, organisation, business, project, etc.)
Monadic energy stably anchors in the being and opens them to become a transmitter of Shamballa energy
This turns the soul radioactive and the being starts to naturally ignite others into their evolution
The being operates as a natural leader at the centre of group fields dedicated to collective evolution and made up of 2nd and 1st degree initiates, who are empowered in their evolution, healing and awakening by being in the presence and transmission of the 3rd degree initiate
The initiate experiences first contact with the Sanat Kumara, the Life and Presence of the One Life of the Earth, who’s Being penetrates and wells up in their core as the deep source of their own monadic life
Fourth Initiation - The Crucifixion
Soul body on the mental plane is destroyed by monadic fire, liberating the soul onto the buddhic plane where it knows itself as a free soul - a living bridge for the pulse of Life between the One and matter
Illusion of identity increasingly penetrated by monadic spirit
There is a major crisis of the soul as the being is forced to chose what they will stand and die for
The being faces a crisis of choosing what they will anchor themselves in – which eventually must be spirit
Altitude shifts into buddhi (rainbow body)
The being draws on the energy of the monadic place to fully complete their emotional work
Triangulation of spirit, soul and matter - the being experiences themselves as divine spirit, divine soul and divine matter
This reveals the 4th quality of the cosmic Life behind spirit, soul and matter (access to the cosmic astral plane)
The being takes their place as a free soul in the ashrams of Hierarchy
They start to go dark and become a less visible but more powerful force for the evolution of humanity and other kingdoms
Fifth Initiation - The Revelation
Identity shifts into atma – the lowest level of the monad where the being is identified as the One Life
The being draws on the shattering power of logoic energy to complete the integration of every last trace of separation in their physical body to bring their whole embodiment system into full identification with spirit
The occurs through the rising of the dragon energy (the energy of dark spirit in every atom of the body)
The being takes their place at the centre of an ashram (either as master or working closely with other masters)
They become a transmitter of Shamballa energy (planetary purpose) into the ashram (to the 4th and 3rd degree initiates)