On the New Group of World Servers - Hellas

 

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

December 6, 2020

Text read by sister A.K.: 

LAW VI

When the building energies of the soul are active in the body, then there is health, clean interplay and right activity. When the builders are the lunar lords and those who work under the control of the moon and at the behest of the lower. Personal self, then you have disease and ill health and death.

This is a most interesting law, because it deals basically with causes, primarily with causes over which the average person has no conscious control, and because it occultly gives a picture in miniature or microcosmically of the universal or macrocosmic situation.  It deals with the entire problem of evil, or pain and suffering (the great mysteries of our little planet) in a few sentences, but they are sentences conveying vast implications.  The very simplicity of this great natural law veils the far-reaching significances of its normal working.  It says the following things quite simply, and I enumerate them because the breaking down of a paragraph [Page 608] into its clear and simple statements is a sound way to arrive at understanding:

1. When the soul controls the form involved, there is health.

2. The soul is the builder of the form, the constructive force in manifestation.

3. This is true of both the microcosm and the macrocosm.

4. The results are wholeness, right relation and correct activity.

5. When the soul is not in control, and the forces of the form nature are therefore the controlling factors, there will be ill health.

6. The builders of the form are the "lunar lords," the physical, astral and mental elementals.

7. These, in their triple totality, compose the personality.

8. They are occultly under the direction of the moon, the   symbol of form, called often the "mother of the form."

9.  The emanation coming from the moon has in it the seeds of death and disease, because the moon is a "dead planet."

It all comes back again, as you will note, to the source of the major energy controlling the body.  Though the soul is the source of all life and consciousness, for aeons all the soul does is to preserve the form in life and in consciousness, until such time that it has reached the stage in evolution where it is a useful and suitable instrument i and will become increasingly so) for the soul to employ as a medium of expression and service.  Karma determines then the quality and nature of the physical body. It can be healthy because it has not been misused in the particular life or lives conditioning a particular incarnation, or unhealthy because it is paying the price of error.  Good health is not necessarily dependent upon conscious soul contact.  [Page 609] That can and does produce good health, but it is also dependent, in the majority of average cases, upon the life and intentions of the personality—in this life and in previous lives; it is not until the will of the personality is towards spiritual betterment and a cleaner, purer life that the soul can be of real assistance.

This law carries also the implications of that basic relation which makes the threefold form of the man an integral part of the macrocosmic whole.  All forms in all kingdoms are built by the lunar lords under an impulse emanating from the planetary Logos, working in cooperation with the Spirit of the Earth—the sumtotal of all the lunar lords and of the three types of energised substance which go to the creation of the physical, astral and mental bodies.  The relation of the planetary Logos to this Spirit of the Earth (the relation of an evolutionary Being to an involutionary entity) is a reflection (distorted and under the influence of glamour) in the three worlds of the relation of the soul to the personality elemental.  It is most useful for the healer to realise that in handling disease he is in reality handling involutionary lives and attempting to work with elementals.  The natural trend of these elemental lives, all of them upon the involutionary arc, is to block and to frustrate his efforts and the efforts of the soul, and this—for them—is their way of evolution; it is that which will eventually bring them on to the evolutionary are.

When the time comes that the soul can assume conscious control within and over the form, and can eventually create a form which is adequate to its spiritual needs, it will be because the elementals which are the sumtotal of the personality elemental have reached a point in their development where they are ready to move on to the path of return. The work of the soul is never the purely selfish one of having a medium of expression in the three worlds, as might sometimes [Page 610] appear to the casual and superficial thinker.  That is entirely incidental from the angle of the soul; it is a needed activity, but it involves also the sacrificial work of salvaging substance and forwarding the evolution of matter.  As the Old Commentary expresses it:  "The Mother (substance-matter) is saved by the birth of her Son (the Christ within, the spiritual consciousness)."  This is true of the macrocosm as well as of the microcosm.

Here lies the secret of planetary suffering and of death. Our planetary Logos (viewing the truth from the angle of the macrocosm) is, as you know, one of the "imperfect Gods" of The Secret Doctrine, although perfect past our human comprehension—the comprehension of a unit in one of the kingdoms which constitute His body of manifestation. There is still no true balance between spirit and matter, though the point of balance has almost been achieved; the involutionary forces are still potent and the spiritual energies are still frustrated, though far less so than earlier in human history; the next great human race, following on our present one, will see a point of balance reached which will usher in the so-called golden age.  Points of friction will then be far fewer upon the planet and therefore in individual man; areas of frustration and of futile activity will die out.  This can be seen working out in the body of an advanced person or an initiate to a great extent and for long periods in their incarnations; paralleling correspondences are as a general rule accurate.

This law gives an amazing picture, and one too which is full of hope, particularly if one considers certain facts which are present in the world today and compares them with conditions hundreds of years ago.  The consciousness of humanity is awakened everywhere; the most undeveloped races are in process of achieving education, involving necessarily the discovery of the mind; goodwill is being recognised [Page 611] as necessary to world unfoldment, and men are finding that "no man liveth unto himself"—or any nation either; they are registering the fact that it is simply commonsense and the part of wisdom to better conditions for all men everywhere.  This is a new attitude and a fresh and most hopeful approach.  Men are learning to know and understand each other; nations are arriving at a closer contact with one another; statesmen of all nations are wrestling together and in joint conclave with the problem of bettering human living conditions; everywhere there is thought, there is appraisal, and there is the struggle for freedom and for the truer values.  What is all this but the effort of the soul of humanity to kill out disease, restore unhealthy areas to health and eliminate points of friction?  Is not this what the spiritual man who is ill is seeking to bring about in his own body, and what the healer is attempting to aid him to do?

 In so doing, the "lunar lords" and the forces of substance must eventually yield to the energy of the soul, and are benefited, whether they are microcosmic forces or macrocosmic.

 One of the things which frequently puzzle students is the statement that the dense physical body is not a principle.  H.P.B. states this fact with emphasis; people are apt to think (unless they are theosophical fanatics) that he was incorrect or was intentionally misleading students.  One of the points, little understood, is the nature of a principle. Yet only by understanding what a principle is can the beauty and accuracy of his statement be grasped.  What, in the last analysis, is a principle?  A principle is that which, macrocosmically speaking, is being developed upon each plane of our seven planes—the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane.  It is the germ or the seed on each subplane which embodies some aspect of the divine unfolding consciousness; [Page 612] it is that which is fundamentally related to some form of sensitivity; it is that to which the bodies, as they evolve, find that they can respond.  A principle is a germ of awareness, carrying all the potentiality of full consciousness on some particular level of divine activity.  It is that which makes knowledge and conscious response to environment possible; it is that which connotes a sequential and "unrolling" sensitive activity, resulting in divine understanding, possible and inevitable.

 The physical body, and to a far less extent the astral and mental bodies, are automatic in their activity as aspects of a divine response apparatus, of a mechanism which enables the Heavenly Man, the planetary Logos and the spiritual man to register conscious response to that which is to be contacted under the divine plan and through the medium of a mechanism.  At present, the physical body is the only one which is as yet so fully developed that it has in this planetary scheme of ours no further evolutionary development, except in so far as the spiritual man can affect stand most of the effect is produced in the etheric body and not in the dense physical.  This is a point little grasped but of major importance.

 The dense physical body reached its high point of development and of interest (from the angle of mental attention and of hierarchical action) in the previous solar system.  It was then the divine goal of the entire evolutionary process.  This is not an easy point for humanity today to grasp.  It is not possible or advisable for me to indicate the evolutionary stages through which this divine mechanism passed in preparation for the task to be undertaken in the present solar system.  In this divine incarnation of our planetary Logos through the medium of this little planet, the Earth, the physical body is not a goal, but simply something which exists and must be accepted, and which must be adapted and [Page 613] incorporated into the general evolutionary plan.  That plan has to do entirely with consciousness.  The physical body is simply (no more and no less) the vehicle of consciousness upon the physical plane, but the emphasis of attention is the etheric body as an expression of the subtler vehicles and their state of embodied consciousness.  The physical body is important because it has to house and respond to every type of conscious response, from that of the lowest type of human being up to and inclusive of the consciousness of an initiate of the third degree.  The bodies and forms of the indwelling conscious life in the three subhuman kingdoms have an analogous but less difficult problem; I am here, however, considering only the physical body of a human being, which is not a principle because it is not in any way a goal; it is not the seed or germ of anything.  Any changes wrought in the physical body are secondary to the goal of conscious response to the revelation of an emerging divinity. I have felt it necessary to emphasise this because of the confusion in men's minds anent the subject.   To sum up:  the physical body is not a principle; it is not a main object of attention of the aspirant; it automatically responds to the slowly unfolding consciousness in all the kingdoms of nature:  it constantly remains that which is worked upon and not that which has an innate influence of its own; it is not important in the active process, for it is a recipient and not that which initiates activity.  That which is important is the unfolding consciousness, the response of the indwelling spiritual man to life, circumstances, events and environment.  The physical body responds.  When the physical body becomes, in error, the object of attention, retrogression is indicated; and this is why all profound attention to the physical disciplines, to vegetarianism, to diet and to fasting, and to the present modes of (so-called) mental and divine healing, are undesirable [Page 614] and not in line with the projected plan.  Therefore undue consideration and excessive emphasis upon the physical body is reactionary and is like the worship of the golden calf by the children of Israel; it is reversion to that which at one time was of importance but today should be relegated to a minor position and below the threshold of consciousness.

 I have dealt with this here because in Law VII the fact of the endocrine glands is brought to our attention, and it is necessary that we approach this subject from the right point of view.  The endocrine glands are a tangible part of the physical body; they are therefore a part of that created manifestation which is not regarded as a principle.  They are, however, effective and potent and may not be ignored.  It is essential that students regard these glands as effects and not causes of events and happenings and conditions in the body.  The physical body—no matter what its victims may believe and declare—is always conditioned by inner causes; it is never, intrinsically, itself a cause.  It is, in this solar system and on our planet, automatic and affected by causes generated on the inner planes or by the action of the soul.  Please note the importance of this statement.  The physical body has no true life of its own, but is simply—in this cycle—responsive to impulses emanating from elsewhere.  Its achievement and its triumph is that it is an automaton.  If you can grasp this adequately, we can safely proceed to the consideration of Law VII and Rule Four.

(Alice Bailey, Esoteric Healing, pp. 607-614)