Recently, I have been going deep into some teachings in the Trans-Himalayan (TH) teachings on what is called “the failure of the moon chain”.
This is compilation of teachings from Bruce Lyon, Alice Bailey and Lucille Cedercrans on the third initiation.
A list of the keynotes of the 5 major initiations.
All spiritual traditions are custodians of a transmission. Essentially, that transmission embodies an assertion as to the wonder, goodness, and power of Reality. The Trans-Himalayan tradition is no exception.
"Osiris is a dark god". These words were whispered into the ears of the initiate close to the climaxing point in what is described in the ancient texts as one of Ancient Egypt's highest initiations, the Dark Rite.
In Alice Bailey and Bruce Lyon’s work, it is described that the Mystery Schools will re-emerge in locations connected to their ancient counterparts, and we will likely see a reconnection to the ancient monuments and temples of initiation that remain today around the world, and the construction of new ones.
In ancient, pre-axial age cultures, from Ancient Egypt to the British Isles to Vedic India and the Himalayas, to South America, Chaldea, Sumeria, Ancient Greece, Babylon and others, there were esoteric traditions of initiation that guided men and women to awaken as souls, then to awaken as the One, and then to embody that on earth.
True Power is a quality of spirit – the indestructible core of our being that is deeper than personality and deeper even than soul.
First the soul realises its freedom from its identifications with the sheaths it is embedded in - mind, emotions and body. This freedom is a process of detachment and dis-identification and it is known as the Path of Discipleship.
When we speak of the seventh ray in the Age of Aquarius it is a cosmic or life ray we are talking about.
True spiritual freedom lies on the far side of a door labelled ‘sacrifice’. It is a door that many approach at some stage upon their spiritual journey but one which few people try the handle of and even fewer generate the strength to push open against the weight of their own fears and doubts.
Astrologically speaking we are on the cusp of a great age change from Pisces to Aquarius. This shift of energy is gradually transforming many areas of our lives including relationship.
We incarnate in groups. We have ashramic affiliations. Once the fusion process between soul and personality begins, our life and relationships heat up as we burn in the fires between the two wheels of our karmic responsibilities and our soul’s destiny.
As I move into the third phase of my life through the second Saturn return I am pausing to consider what the main themes have been and how they are bearing a fruit of synthesis in this third phase.
Base chakra work is really useful for two types of beings. Those who want to take off and fly and those who need to ‘land the plane’. Doves and Ravens.
These three terms are often used in conflated ways, especially by those in the realm of spiritual development. One of the reasons people feel some resistance to doing their shadow work is because of this confusion. This paper is an attempt to tease these distinctions apart and differentiate them in the interest of more loving integration in our individual and collective lives.
There it sits at the heart of so many of our mystery temples - a couple making love. Is it an actual physical and sexual act - an ancient goddess ritual from Sumeria or the Great Rite of Wiccan Paganism - that connects us to the life force and the renewal of earth at spring?
We all know the archetypal story: A power that once existed in the world has been lost, a light has dimmed and now all things exist in a state of half-way-ness, half-heartedness, half-aliveness. There is not enough of the power left so that we have the courage to break out of our daze, but it is not gone so completely that we have forgotten it.
This is a series of transmissions DK gave in the early 2000’s to Shamballa School and two other groups on inter-group work.
This paper looks at a possible wholistic framework for the effects of alignment with the galactic centre on the evolution of life and consciousness on Earth.
The black hole teachings allow us to experience something of our monadic reality and therefore something of the energy of planetary purpose.
When someone purports to be receiving transmissions of new information (as I have done myself) we are naturally cautious and want to compare the quality of that which is received with the immense contribution DK has offered to date.
We might imagine on the path of ascent that we leave parts of our ‘selves’ identified with the etheric physical, astral, and mental planes representing Lemurian, Atlantean and Aryan consciousness respectively. The integration of these three is essential for healthy functioning.
The trouble with climbing high is that it means you can look down on others. One of the most difficult challenges prior to the third degree is mental pride, and it occurs for just this reason.
By way of clarifying our approach, I want to discuss the difference between initiation and identification.
Following on from the previous blog on Identification and Initiation, I want to talk about evolution in our tradition. In particular I want to confront those limitations embedded in earlier versions – the remnants of sexism, racism, anti-materialism, and so on.
Uranus rules the highest and lowest planes so under His rays She is revealed to us in all her glory once we reach the buddhic plane.
The wounded and abandoned consciousness that permeates our sheaths so needs to be listened to, honoured, without any justifications or explanations. And the transcendent consciousness that is our solar life needs to be broken free from identity and story on the mental plane so that it rests in pure awareness
To those identified with consciousness the unconscious and the superconscious are easily confused for both are not-conscious. Similarly, rebellion and sacrifice are both a resistance to the status quo.
One of the things that our tradition has is intricate maps of consciousness and cosmos – truly comprehensive, and yet the universal approach also needs to be simple and stripped of all esoteric language.
If we understand that the process is to eventually ‘go dark’ and thus hold more current then we can hold a conscious approach that facillitates this – resulting in the ‘fast path’.
It seems relevant to me that both Alice A Bailey and Helena P Blavatsky were female, because there is a particularly feminine move in opening oneself to contact.
This post offers a compilation of references to the Temple of Power from the Trans-Himalayan Teachings.
In his work with Bruce, DK cites the use of the black hole at the centre of the galaxy as a cosmological symbol for the monad as one of the seven most significant aspects of his new teaching.
We are at the cross over point between civilisations. The best of times and the worst of times. As I have written extensively about elsewhere, the key cosmological symbol for this transition is the move from the sun at the centre to the black hole – the central spiritual sun.
