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
June 21, 2020
Text read by sister Α.KS.:
We are considering the expression of the
Shamballa force in terms of Will, i.e., of divine purpose, latent in the mind
of God since the beginning of time and the dawn of creation. In God's mind,
that idea is seen whole and complete. In manifestation it is a gradual,
self-revealing evolutionary and demonstrated activity. We know somewhat of the
intelligence aspect of God. It is revealed in the living activity of substance.
Of the love of that Great Thinker, we are learning slowly and its revelation
has reached the stage where the human mind can contrast its [Page 591] mode
of living activity with the visioned and sensed love of Deity, expressed as yet
by the desire for right human relations and right treatment of all that is
non-human. Of the will and purpose of God, humanity knows nothing, for the
individual will or the collective human will which could act as interpreter,
revealer and also serve as a mode of contact, is dedicated to selfishness and
blind to the higher reaches of divine expression. Mankind's so-called
acquiescence in the will of God is based on his wish life, on his negativity
and on the visions of the saints. Their keynote was submission and their
highest point of spiritual contact was still tinged with dualism and still
conditioned by modes of human interpretation.
Under the occult method, we must begin
with the universal and the whole; in time the individual and the particular
will stand revealed, but in relation to the whole. It should be possible,
through a study of the seven rays and their related constellations and their
transmitting agents, the planets, to gain some general idea of the pouring
through of the Shamballa energy as emerging purpose on the physical plane.
I have earlier referred to three major
expressions of the will aspect.
There
is will, as the conditioner of the life aspect. This refers
not to events, happenings and occurrence, but to the nature of the life
manifestations in any cycle, through any nation or race, where humanity is
concerned. This refers also to the broad and general lines which at any time
upon the planet are setting the pace for the evolution of forms and which
basically concerns the force and endurance of the life as it manifests through
and creates those external conditions which are qualified and expressed in
terms of life, of quality and appearance. The word "life" in this
triplicity of terms refers to life as [Page 592]
humanity understands it. The word "life" to which I here refer is the
life to which H.P.B. refers as that which synthesises spirit, soul and body.
(See The Secret Doctrine, I. 81). It is in reality that fourth something which
hovers behind all manifestation and behind all objects, all qualified
expressions of divinity and which is hinted at in the Bhagavad Gita in the
words: "Having pervaded this whole universe with a fragment of Myself, I
remain."
There
is next the will which brings fulfilment. This is the basis of all relationships
and all processes of inter-relation in our solar system and (as far as humanity
is concerned) in the planet. It is the prime factor in bringing about the
inevitability of the divine consummation; it is the cause of all fruition of
all forms on all planes and of divine intention; it is that which lies back of
consciousness itself. I know not how else to express this in words and having
done so they prove wholly inadequate. There is a faint, dim, uncertain
reflection of this will-fulfilment in the joy of achievement as registered by a
human being who finds his heart's desire. Long processes of evolution precede
this fulfilment and long experience of the living activity of the will of God
as Life. This concentrated evolutionary effort, this undeviating purpose has
called forth more than desire and more than the will-to-be-active. There is a
realised achievement from the very start for this is the divine
will-to-completion which precedes the creative effort. It is the synthesis of
creation, or persistent endeavour, adherence to vision and complete sacrifice,
and all of these in terms of divine experienced experiment, if I might so
formulate the idea. Remember, therefore, that all through these experiences of
the divine will runs the thread of a fulfilled synthesis. This is more than
cohesion in time and space; it is more [Page 593]
than the principle of privation about which H.P.B. speaks, and more than
self-imposed limitation. It is the end seen from the beginning; it is alpha and
omega producing the completed whole and the perfect fruition of the divine
will.
It is, finally, the will which conquers death. This
again must not be interpreted in terms of death as it affects the form nature
of manifestation. The note of synthesis and triumph—realised and
complete—persists behind all that we can recognise as death. This will is the
principle of victory, of the ultimate goal of life when fruition is achieved;
it is the final united success or unified conformity to a long foreseen purpose
of spirit-matter, life-form, plus that something which is the dream and goal of
the highest initiates in the Hierarchy to contact—the secret revelation of
Shamballa itself. More it is not possible to say. If Christ Himself is striving
towards that knowledge, it is not possible for us to do more than speculate.
In these few words, I have sought to
convey an idea of a vast subjective realisation. What I am hinting at in
reality is the objective of that "endless Way of which Nirvana itself is
but the open door"—the Way to the higher evolution for which our
evolutionary process prepares mankind. I am indicating what is the goal of all
hierarchical endeavour. Mankind is so preoccupied with the attitude and effort
of the Hierarchy as regards human welfare and guidance that the goal of the
efforts of the Masters of the Wisdom is naturally overlooked. It is in reality
no concern of man. Nevertheless, the picture of the divine Plan so oft
emphasised in occult books and by occult teachers is distorted unless it is
realised that just as humanity strives towards the Hierarchy, so that Hierarchy
itself strives towards Shamballa. As the Old Commentary has it:
"He who sees in the dark light of
Shamballa penetrates to that which lies beyond our little sphere to that which
can be sensed behind the holy triangle (Venus, Mercury, the Earth, A.A.B.).
There is to be found the point of radiant fire which shines within the eye
(Taurus), which burns upon the mountain-top (Capricorn) and which the water
cannot quench (Aquarius). These are the holiest three."
As we consider the seven rays as outlined
in Tabulation X, I would have you bear in mind that we are viewing them as
expressions of this threefold will. We have studied them in some detail in my
other books from the angle of consciousness and from the point of view as
producing changes and expansions of consciousness in man, in nations and in
races. Now, as far as may be possible, we are going to consider these rays as
they express the pure, living activity of Deity as it fulfils Itself in
manifestation as pure incentive, directed impersonal energy, divine instinct
which latter is a blend of instinctual force and intuitive energy. It might be
pointed out to those of you who have some measure of occult perception that
this synthetic Life, being cosmic, emerges from cosmic planes and not systemic.
Hence the difficulty in comprehending it.
1. The conditioning will is the synthesis
of the life of the cosmic physical plane of which our seven planes are the
seven subplanes. Until, therefore, the human consciousness is far more expanded
than it is, it is not possible for man to understand this synthetic
realisation.
2.
The will which brings fulfilment is the divine incentive [Page 595] (impulse is not the correct term) coming
from the cosmic astral plane.
3. The will which conquers death is an
outpouring from the cosmic mental plane.
From these three cosmic planes (embracing
the sacred personality of the Logoi, solar and planetary) come the united
energies of the three constellations which control and energise our solar
system: The Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius; these work through the medium
of the seven rays and these in turn express themselves through the twelve
constellations which form the great zodiacal wheel. The Lords or ruling Powers
of these twelve sources of light and life "step down" the potency of
these three major energies so that our solar Logos can absorb them; they
"tune out" those aspects of these three Potencies which are not
suited to our systemic life at this point in the evolutionary process, just as
the Hierarchy upon our little planet tunes out or steps down the energies from
Shamballa. These three major energies in a mysterious manner express themselves
through the seven rays just as all triplicities subdivide into septenates, yet
preserve their identity. These seven energies, emanating from the major three
and transmitted via the twelve constellations, are embodied in the seven sacred
planets and are represented on our Earth by the seven Spirits before the throne
of God (the symbol of synthesis). This tremendous inter-relation is embodied in
one great process of: Transmission. Reception. Absorption. Relation and Living
Activity. The method is one of Invocation and Evocation. In these two
sentences, you have one of the most important clues to the whole evolutionary
process; the key to the mystery of time and space, and the solution of [Page 596] all problems. But the factor which is of
major importance is that the whole matter is an expression of focussed Will.
In considering this process, I would have
you study Tabulation X, for it is a symbolic form, embodying what I seek to
convey. I would point out that the will aspect—as it is embodied in the rays
and transmitted by the constellations—works out destructively when concentrated
through an orthodox planet and constructively when concentrated through an
esoteric planet. Here you have the secret guide to the significance of death
and immortality. This is something which the average astrologer will be unable
to prove because the cycles involved are too long; intuitively he can however
grasp the probability of my proposition. May I again remind you that our theme
is the divine plan, purpose and will; it is not the evolution of consciousness,
or of the second aspect of divinity. It concerns spirit and not soul. We are
attempting in some measure to formulate the life of the Father, the will of the
Monad and the purpose of Spirit. In all these (the three aspects of the will)
lies germinating the seed of the next solar system, the third, and the fruition
of the Personality Manifestation of the Logos. We need, therefore, to formulate
the interpretation of the seven rays in terms of will and not of love or
consciousness. This we will now attempt to do.
RAY
I.—The energy of Will or Power. This ray is outstandingly related to that
aspect of will which conquers death. It is nevertheless the Ray of the
Destroyer. In this connection, I would remind you that the human attitude that
death is the destroyer presents a limited and erroneous point of view. The
first ray destroys death because in reality there is no such thing; the concept
is all part of the Great Illusion, is a limitation of [Page
597] the human consciousness, and is basically connected with the brain
and not with the heart, strange as that may seem to you. It is in a very true
sense "a figment of the imagination." Ponder on this. The abolition
of death and of the destruction of form is a manifestation of Ray I, for it
brings about in reality the death of negation and the inauguration of true
activity. It is the energy which can be called "divine incentive"; it
is the life in the seed which destroys successively all forms in order that
realised fruition may eventuate. That is the clue to Ray I. It is the Will which
initiates.
Today, as regards humanity, its highest
realisation is initiation.
RAY
II.—The energy of Love-Wisdom. This basic energy is the will to unify, to
synthesise, to produce coherence and mutual attraction and to establish
relationships, but—remember this—relationships which are entirely apart from
the consciousness of relation or the realisation of unity. It is the fact of
unification as seen from the beginning and as existing ever and forever in the
Mind of God Whose will embraces past, present and future and Whose mind does
not think in terms of evolution or of process. The process is inherent in the
seed; the evolutionary urge is the inevitable accompaniment of life in
manifestation. It is the Will to unification.
Today, as regards humanity, its highest
expression is the mystical vision.
RAY
III.—The energy of Active Intelligence. This is the will of conditioned
purpose. The factors which are working out through its medium are the forceful
carrying forward of the recognised plan with a goal intelligently [Page 598] conceived and an active incentive which
carries the process intelligently forward on the strength of its own momentum.
Again I would remind you that I am dealing not with human consciousness but
with the sum total of that undertaking which makes matter subservient to and
adaptable to the basic idea in the mind of God. And no human being is as yet
able to conceive of that idea. No one knows what is the will of God or what is
the nature of His intelligent purpose. It is the Will to evolution.
Today, as regards humanity, its highest
expression is education, or progressive development through experience.
RAY
IV.—The energy of Harmony through Conflict. This is fundamentally the will
to destroy limitation. This is not the same thing as the will to destroy
negation as in the case of Ray I, but is an allied aspect of that. I am not
referring to the consciousness aspect which recognises and profits by such
struggle. I am referring to the energy, inherent in all forms and peculiarly
strong in humanity (because man is self-conscious), which produces inevitably
and unavoidably the struggle between life and that which it has chosen as a
limitation; this eventually shatters or breaks up that limitation the moment
that a point of real harmony or at-one-ment has been reached. Esoterically it
might be said that the moment that form (limitation) and life balance each
other a rift immediately appears and through it flows a fresh outpouring of the
will. Christ had to die because He had achieved harmony with the will of God
and then "the veil of the Temple was rent in twain from the top to the
bottom." The significance of this fresh [Page 599]
inflow of the Will will now appear; the stage is set anew for a fresh and
renewed activity of the living principle. As far as humanity is concerned the
"seeds of death" emerge through the medium of this Ray and the Grim
Reaper, Death, is but an aspect of this will, conditioned by the fourth ray and
emerging from the fourth plane. Death is an act of the intuition, transmitted
by the soul to the personality and then acted upon in conformity to the divine
will by the individual will. This is the Will to harmonisation.
Today, its highest expression as regards
humanity is the intuition, as it works out through group activity. Death always
releases the individual into the group.
RAY V.—The energy of Concrete Science or
Knowledge. To understand this expression of the divine will, the student should
bear in mind the occult aphorism that "matter is spirit at its lowest
point of manifestation and spirit is matter at its highest." Basically
this is the will which produces concretion and yet at the same time constitutes
the point at which spirit and matter are balanced and co-equal. That is the
reason why human perfection is carried forward consciously upon the mental
plane, the fifth plane; this is brought about by the fifth ray and upon this
plane liberation takes place at the time of the fifth initiation. This is the
will which is inherent in substance and which actuates all atoms of which all
forms are made. It is closely related to the first solar system even whilst
liberating members of the human family who will constitute the nucleus around
which the third solar system is constructed. The energy of this ray is
intelligence; it is the seed of consciousness but not of consciousness as we
understand it; it is the inherent [Page 600]
life of matter and the will to work intelligently; it is that living something
for which we have no name which was the product of the first solar system. It
is one of the major assets of God, the Father and also of the human Monad. This
is the Will to Action.
Today, as regards humanity, its highest
expression is liberation—through death or initiation.
RAY
VI.—The energy of Devotion or of Idealism. This is the will which embodies
God's idea. It provides the motive power behind the working out of whatever may
be the purpose of creation. What that purpose is we have not as yet the
faintest idea. An ideal is related to the consciousness aspect as far as human
beings are concerned. An idea is related to the will aspect. This ray embodies
a dominant potency. It expresses God's desire and is the basic energy emanating
from the cosmic astral plane. It conceals the mystery which is to be found in
the relationship of the will and desire. Desire is related to consciousness.
Will is not. We are not, however, dealing with consciousness but with that
impersonal force which drives forward through all the seven planes of our solar
system and which makes the idea of God a consummated fact in the Eternal Now.
Does that statement mean much to you? I would surmise that it means but little;
it is a basic statement of occult fact anent energy as it expresses itself
through humanity in a manner which is unique and peculiar. I would here remind
you of a statement in The Secret Doctrine that "an Idea is a Being
incorporeal which has no subsistence by itself but gives figure and form unto
shapeless matter and becomes the cause of the manifestation." This
statement takes you straight back to God [Page 601]
the Father, to the Monad, to the One. It is related, consequently, to the Will
and not to consciousness. Consciousness is per se the recognition of a
progressive plan. The Will is the cause, the energising Principle, Life, Being.
This is the Will to Causation.
Today, as regards humanity, its highest
expression is idealism, the incentive and cause of human activity.
RAY
VII.—This is the energy of Ceremonial Order. It is an expression of the
will which drives through into outer manifestation; it is that which embodies
both the periphery and the point at the centre. It is the will to
"ritualistic synthesis," if I might so word it. It is Necessity which
is the prime conditioning factor of the divine nature—the necessity to express
itself; the necessity to manifest in an orderly rhythmic manner; the necessity
to embrace "that which is above and that which is below" and, through
the medium of this activity, to produce beauty, order, perfect wholes and right
relationships. It is the driving energy which Being emanates as It appears and
takes form and lives. It is the Will towards Expression.
Today, as regards humanity, its highest
expression is organisation.
In the above statements anent the rays,
you can see that the full circle of their activity is complete from the angle
of God the Father; the will to initiate manifestation and its attendant
progressive expression meets the will towards full achievement and the energy
of Being itself arrives—in time and space today (in the mind of God) at full consummation.
3. The Keynotes of the Seven Rays and the
Will Aspect.
The keynotes of these seven Rays are,
therefore, as they constitute the revelation of seven Great Beings:
Initiation. Unification. Evolution.
Harmonisation. Action. Causation. Expression.
These are the keynotes for humanity at its
present point of evolutionary development; as these seven energies play upon
the human consciousness in an effort to produce and evoke the Will aspect in
advanced man they produce:
Initiation. Vision. Education. Intuition.
Liberation. Idealism. Organisation.
A close study of these seven major rays
and seven minor keynotes will reveal these truths and their promise. At the
close of the Aquarian Age, these keynotes will vary somewhat because the recognition
of the Will (leading to understanding cooperation) will produce major changes
in human polarisation and human objectives—realised objectives.
Let us now see how these basic ray
energies will work out in man's planetary and zodiacal relationships and why
certain constellations and planets are related to certain rays and transmit
into the centre which we call humanity definite and specific influences. These
produce certain tendencies in humanity, evoke certain attitudes of the will,
and lead consequently to certain unavoidable events as well as to definite and
determined forms of Being.
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