SOUND THE NOTE OF LOVE,
INVOKE THE SOUL RAY,
PERMIT THE CHRIST SPIRIT ENTRANCE
DISTANCE GROUP MEDITATION
– EVERY SUNDAY AT 21.00 –
for invoking Soul Ray of Greece, Nations and One Humanity
Desember 18, 2022
Text read by sister S.K.
ALIGNMENT OF THE EGO WITH THE PERSONALITY
Sunday, May 16, 1920.
It is in
the aligning of the three vehicles, the physical, the emotional, and the lower
mind body, within the causal periphery, and their stabilising there by an
effort of the will, that the real work of the Ego or Higher Self in any
particular incarnation can be accomplished.
The great thinkers of the race, the true exponents of lower mind, are
fundamentally those whose three lower bodies are aligned; that is to say those
whose mental body holds the other two in circumspect alignment. The mental body, then, is in direct
communication, unobstructed and free from interference, straight through to the
physical brain.
When the
alignment is fourfold and when the three above-mentioned bodies are aligned
with the body of the Higher Self, the causal or egoic body, and held steady
within its circumference, then the great leaders of the race,—those who
emotionally and intellectually sway mankind, can be seen working; then the
inspirational writers and dreamers can bring down their inspirations and
dreams; and then the synthetic and abstract thinkers [Page
2] can transfer their conceptions to the world of form. It is, right through, a question of an
unimpeded channel. Study, therefore, in
this connection and when time permits, physical co-ordination; then to physical
co-ordination add emotional stability, and you have the two vehicles
functioning as one. When the
co-ordination extends to the mental body, the threefold lower man is reaching
his apotheosis, and has rung most of the changes in the world of form.
Later comes
co-ordination perfected with the Higher Self, the channel of communication
reaching in line direct,—via an unimpeded funnel, if so I might express it,—to
the physical brain consciousness.
Heretofore it has only been direct at rare intervals. The four lesser brain centres are functioning
at high vibration in the man of a highly co-ordinated personality; when the Ego
is nearing alignment with the lower bodies, the pineal gland and the pituitary
body are in process of development; and when they are functioning with
correlation (which eventuates by the time the third Initiation is taken), then
the third, or alta major centre, intensifies its hitherto gentle
vibration. When the fifth Initiation is
taken, the interplay between the three centres is perfected, and the alignment
of the bodies is geometrically rectified; you have then the perfected fivefold
superman.
For the
average man, then, this alignment occurs only at intervals, in moments of
stress, in hours of needed humanitarian effort and in times of intensest
aspiration. Abstraction of a more or
less degree has to enter in before the Ego takes continued notice of the
personality or lower self. When that
abstraction involves the emotions, is based in the mentality and contacts the
physical brain, then alignment is commencing. [Page 3]
Hence the
work of meditation, for it tends to abstraction and seeks to awaken to abstract
consciousness both the emotions and the mentality.
Alignment and Vibration
Forget not
either that it is largely a question of matter and vibration. The abstract levels of the mental plane
consist of the three higher levels, the first being that termed the third
subplane. As I have explained to you
before, each subplane has its correlations on the major planes. When, therefore, you have built into your
bodies,—physical, emotional and mental,—matter of the third subplane of each of
those planes, then the Higher self commences consciously and ever more
continuously to function through the aligning Personality. Perhaps we might reverse the idea and state
that it is only when third subplane matter of a certain percentage (which
percentage is one of the secrets of Initiation) is contained in the vehicles,
that the Personality as a conscious whole recognises and obeys that Higher
self. After such a percentage is
attained, it is then necessary to build in matter of the two higher subplanes
on the physical and emotional planes; hence the struggle for the aspirant to
purify and discipline the physical body and to subdue the emotional. Purification and subjugation describe the
work to be done on the two planes. This
involves the use of lower mind, and the three lower vehicles thus become
aligned.
The
vibrations of the abstract levels can then begin to be felt. You need to remember that they come via the
causal body, the vehicle of the Higher Self, and the average causal body is on
the third subplane of the mental plane.
This is a point not sufficiently recognised. Ponder on it.
Real abstract thought becomes possible only when the Personality has, by
vibration reciprocal to that of the [Page 4]
Ego, aligned itself sufficiently to form a fairly unimpeded channel. Then at intervals, rare at first but of
increasing frequency, will abstract ideas begin to filter down, to be followed
in due time by flashes of real illumination or intuition from the spiritual
Triad or the true threefold Ego itself.
DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE
August 1946
MY DEAR
BROTHER:
This is a
new way for me to address you, but you have endeared yourself to me by your
patient persistence and your undeviating adherence to the service of the
Hierarchy. For many years you have done our work in a most difficult sphere. I
say this to you because I would not have you spend time (or should I say, waste
time, my brother?) in wishing you had done the work better or differently, or
in the unrewarding task of self-depreciation. I would tell you quite simply
that we are not ungrateful and we are not dissatisfied. The Latin field—by that
I mean the sphere in which the Latin race predominates, Italian, Spanish and
Portuguese—is one of the most difficult in which to work. The narrowness of
thought induced by Roman Catholic Church control, the crystallisation which
comes from a very ancient development, and (in South America) the wide mixture
of races, make the task of bringing spiritual liberation one of peculiar
difficulty.
Do you
realise, my brother, that you have been drawing the plough over the ground in
preparation for the New Age teaching for the first time, and that that ground
is very hard, very stony, and at present relatively unproductive?
So be of
good cheer. Your work is more fruitful than you realise and in some life you
will see the results of the apparently unrewarding toil of the years of your
spiritual enterprise. [Page 508]
I have few
instructions to give you. Proceed as heretofore, but deepen persistently your
own inner life; give more time to quiet reflection and study than to the technicalities
of the task; let others deal with the mechanics of the work whilst you seek to
act as a spiritual reservoir from which they can draw strength and wisdom and
understanding. The recognition of this phase of your work is perhaps the most
important lesson you can learn at this time. You will experience a new power,
the upwelling of new spiritual fervour, the joy of seeing others competently
handling the mechanics of the work whilst you teach and aid them in their
spiritual undertakings. Above all else, endeavour to reach and interest the
young people. They are the hope of the future and are coming into incarnation
subjectively aware of their predestined task of world reconstruction; you will
find them acutely responsive to spiritual contacts, particularly if presented
in non-religious terms. Count, therefore, on this and try to reach them.
I am going to
give you a somewhat brief meditation exercise to be done by you twice a day—on
arising in the morning and the last thing at night, prior to going to sleep. It
should not take you long to do, but—if done correctly and with as much of your
first ray soul integrated into it as you can invoke—it will greatly aid you.
1. Sound
the OM inaudibly three times.
2. Then,
having achieved inner quiet and relaxed mental focussing, seek, with an alert
consciousness, to contact:
a. Your soul.
b. My Ashram.c. Me, your Master.
You thus,
through the imagination, create a triangle of energy:
Ashram. * * D.K.
* Yourself.
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509]
As familiarity with this meditation is developed, you should eventually arrive
at a contact, at a registered sense of spiritual power (expressed through your
second ray personality) and at such an increase of love and light that your
sphere of service will recognise it, even if—at first—you do not.
3. Then,
after quiet acceptance and a period of silent reflection, you will deliberately
pour out the inflowing spiritual power into:
a. Your immediate environment,
b. The Arcane School, of which your work in South America is an integral part,c. The Goodwill Movement you have aided in starting in South America.
This type
of meditation constitutes a definite act of service and should—when done in the
morning—prove pronouncedly strenuous. It involves some practice in
visualisation and (where I and the Ashram are concerned) the use of your
confident, creative imagination.
4. Then say
the Great Invocation, slowly and with much mental intention, pausing after each
of the four stanzas for quiet thought and reflection.
5. Then
again link up in thought with me, your Master. Sound the OM inaudibly again
three times, and then proceed about your daily work.
My blessing
continues to rest upon you.
(AGNI YOGA – SUPERMUNDANE III)
The
higher degrees are difficult because they require one to act on one’s own
initiative and to be able to discern the words of the Guide. Each one must find
the courage to accept many arrows into his shield. Thus, the higher, the more
difficult. Moreover, most people are not aware of how and where their psychic
energy acts. It may often seem that nothing has been achieved, whereas in
reality much is already occurring because of the action of psychic energy.
Man
is usually not able to evaluate the full range of his mental world. One cannot
trace all the currents of one’s psychic energy, which, when linked to the
energy of the Teacher, acts beneficially. Let the devoted co-worker put his
psychic energy at the disposal of his Guide. One must trust the ways of the
Guide, which may be complex. During a battle one cannot question the intentions
of the commander. One should intensify one’s striving to serve in the best way.
Thus, the higher degrees of cooperation require an understanding that psychic
energy can be applied more broadly than one might think.
We
have an example of a famous commander who won a victory yet was unaware of it.
He thought that his forces had been defeated when, in fact, the great distance
prevented him from seeing that it was the enemy that was destroyed.
The Thinker said, “Listen, listen attentively. Do you know where your real power lies? The destined victory may already be yours, but your eye is unable to perceive it.”
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