NEW MOON MEDITATION ON PISCES
EXACT TIME 11.00 (GREECE) - SUNDAY 10/3/2024
In considering now the personalities taking part in the initiation ceremonies, the first to be dealt with are Those Who are termed Planetary Existences. This refers to those great Beings who, for a period of planetary manifestation, overshadow or stay with our humanity. They are not very many in number, for the majority of the Great Ones pass on steadily and increasingly to other and higher work, as Their places can be taken and Their functions carried on by members of our earth evolution, both deva and human.
Among
Those directly connected with our Lodge of Masters in its various divisions
upon the planet, the following might be enumerated:-
The
"Silent Watcher," that great Entity Who is the informing life of the
planet, and Who holds the same position to the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara,
as the Ego does to the lower self of man.
Some idea of the high stage of evolution of this Great Being may be
gathered from the analogous degree of evolutionary difference existing between
a human being and a perfected adept.
From the standpoint of our planetary scheme, this Great Life has no
greater, and He is, as far as we are concerned, a correspondence to the
personal God of the Christian. He works
through His representative on the physical plane, Sanat Kumara, Who is the
focal point for His life and energy. He
holds the world within His aura. This
great Existence is only contacted directly by the adept who has taken the [Page 105] fifth initiation, and is proceeding to take
the other two, the sixth and seventh.
Once a year, at the Wesak Festival, the Lord Buddha, sanctioned by the
Lord of the World, carries to the assembled humanity a dual stream of force,
that emanating from the Silent Watcher, supplemented by the more focalised
energy of the Lord of the World. This
dual energy He pours out in blessing over the people gathered at the ceremony
in the Himalayas, and from them in turn it flows out to all peoples and tongues
and races. It may not perhaps be
generally known that at a certain crisis during the Great War[WW I], the
Hierarchy of our planet deemed it well nigh necessary to invoke the aid of the
Silent Watcher, and—employing the great mantram whereby the Buddha can be
reached—called the attention of the latter, and sought his agency with the
Planetary Logos. In consultation between
the Planetary Logos, the Lord of the World, one of the Buddhas of Activity, the
Buddha, the Mahachohan, and the Manu (these names are given in order of their
relative evolutionary stage) it was decided to watch proceedings a little
longer before interfering with the trend of affairs, as the karma of the planet
would have been delayed should the strife have been ended too soon. Their confidence in the ability of men duly
to adjust conditions was justified, and interference proved needless. This conference took place at Shamballa. This is mentioned to show the close scrutiny
given to everything concerning the affairs of men by the various Planetary
Existences. It is literally true, in an
occult sense, that "not a sparrow falleth" without its fall being
noticed.
It
may be asked why the Bodhisattva was not included in the conference. The reason was that the war was in the
department of the Manu, and members of the Hierarchy concern Themselves with
that which is strictly Their own business; the Mahachohan, being the embodiment
of the [Page 106] intelligent or manasic
principle, participates in all conferences.
In the next great strife the department of religions will be involved,
and the Bodhisattva intimately concerned.
His Brother, the Manu, will then be relatively exempt, and will proceed
with His own affairs. And yet withal
there is the closest co-operation in all departments, with no loss of
energy. Owing to the unity of consciousness
of those who are free from the three lower planes, what transpires in one
department is known in the others
As
the Planetary Logos is only concerned in the two final initiations, which are
not compulsory as are the earlier five, it serves no purpose to enlarge upon
His work. These initiations are taken
upon the buddhic and atmic planes, whereas the first five are taken upon the
mental.
The
Lord of the World, the One Initiator, He Who is called in the Bible "The
Ancient of Days," and in the Hindu Scriptures the First Kumara, He, Sanat
Kumara it is, Who from His throne at Shamballa in the Gobi desert, presides
over the Lodge of Masters, and holds in His hands the reins of government in
all the three departments. Called in
some Scriptures "the Great Sacrifice," He has chosen to watch over
the evolution of men and devas until all have been occultly
"saved." He it is Who decides
upon the "advancements" in the different departments, and Who settles
who shall fill the vacant posts; He it is Who, four times a year, meets in
conference with all the Chohans and Masters, and authorises what shall be done
to further the ends of evolution.
Occasionally,
too, He meets with initiates of lesser degree, but only at times of great
crises, when some individual is given the opportunity to bring peace out of
strife, and to kindle a blaze whereby rapidly crystallising forms are destroyed
and the imprisoned life consequently set free.
At
stated periods in the year the Lodge meets, and at [Page
107] the Wesak Festival gathers under His jurisdiction for three
purposes:
1.
To contact planetary force through the medium of the Buddha.
2.
To hold the principal of the quarterly conferences.
3.
To admit to the ceremony of initiation those who are ready in all grades.
Three
other initiation ceremonies take place during the year:—
2.
For the major initiations on one or other of the three major rays, the rays of
aspect, which are administered by the Bodhisattva, and are therefore the first
two initiations.
3.
For the higher three initiations at which Sanat Kumara wields the Rod.
At
all initiations the Lord of the World is present, but at the first two He holds
a position similar to that held by the Silent Watcher, when Sanat Kumara
administers the oath at the third, fourth and fifth initiations. His power streams forth and the flashing
forth of the star before the initiate is the signal of His approval, but the
initiate does not see Him face to face until the third initiation.
The
function of the three Kumaras, or the three Buddhas of Activity at initiation
is interesting. They are three aspects
of the one aspect, and the pupils of Sanat Kumara. Though Their functions are many and varied,
and concern primarily the forces and energies of nature, and the direction [Page 108] of the building agencies, They have a vital
connection with the applicant for initiation, inasmuch as They each embody the
force or energy of one or other of the three higher subplanes of the mental
plane. Therefore at the third initiation
one of these Kumaras transmits to the causal body of the initiate that energy
which destroys third subplane matter, and thus brings about part of the
destruction of the vehicle; at the fourth initiation another Buddha transmits
second plane force, and at the fifth, first subplane force is similarly passed
into the remaining atoms of the causal vehicle, producing the final
liberation. The work done by the second
Kumara, with second subplane force, is in this solar system the most important
in connection with the egoic body, and produces its complete dissipation,
whereas the final application causes the atoms themselves (which formed that
body) to disperse.
During
the initiation ceremony, when the initiate stands before the Lord of the World,
these three great Beings form a triangle, within whose lines of force the
initiate finds himself. At the first two
initiations, wherein the Bodhisattva functions as the Hierophant, the
Mahachohan, the Manu, and a Chohan who temporarily represents the second
department perform a similar office. At
the highest two initiations, those three Kumaras who are called "the
esoteric Kumaras" form a triangle wherein the initiate stands, when he
faces the Planetary Logos.
These
facts are imparted to teach two things, first, the unity of the method, second,
that the truism "as above so below" is an occult fact in nature.
At
the final two initiations many members of the Hierarchy who are, if one might
so express it, extra-planetary, and who function outside the dense physical and
the etheric globe of our planet, take part, but a stricter enumeration is
needless. Sanat Kumara is still the
Hierophant, yet in a [Page 109] very esoteric
manner it is the Planetary Logos Himself who officiates. They are merged at that time into one
Identity, manifesting different aspects.
Suffice
it to say, in concluding this brief statement, that the making of an initiate
is an affair with a dual effect, for it involves ever a passing on of some
adept or initiate to a higher grade or to other work, and the coming in under
the Law of some human being who is in process of attainment. Therefore it is a thing of great moment,
involving group activity, group loyalty, and united endeavour, and much may
depend upon the wisdom of admitting a man to high office and to a place in the
council chambers of the Hierarchy.
(Alice Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, pp. 104-110)
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