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 20.30 – 

for invoking Soul Ray of Greece, Nations and One Humanity

Αpril 18, 2021

Text read by sister A.K.: 

(Alice Bailey, Letters on Occult Meditation)

THE USE OF THE SACRED WORD IN MEDITATION

 June 19, 1920

 The subject that we are to deal with today is of such profundity and of such vital moment that your shrinking from even considering it is exceedingly natural.  No matter what we may say upon the matter, we can but touch the fringe of it, and the depths of what will be left unsaid may seem so great, that the data communicated may assume too small proportions.

 Fundamental Postulates.

 First, I seek to lay down certain basic postulates which, though realised as mental concepts, may yet be too deep for easy comprehension.

 These postulates are five in number—five out of a number too vast for your apprehension.  These postulates themselves are based on certain fundamental facts, and these facts (seven in number) are not as yet all comprehended.  H.P.B. touched on three in his statement of the fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine.  Four yet remain hid, though the fourth is emerging somewhat through the study of psychology and mental science.  The other three fundamentals will emerge during the next three rounds.  This round will see the apprehension of the fourth fundamental.

 These postulates are as follows:

 l—That all that exists is based on sound or on the Word.

2—That differentiation is the result of sound.

3—That on each plane the Word has a different effect.

 4—That according to the note of the Word, or the vibration of the sound, will the work of building-in or casting-out be accomplished.

5—That the one threefold Word has seven keys, and these seven keys have their own subtones.

 In the apprehension of these basic facts lies hid much light on the use of the Word in meditation.

 In the great original sounding forth of the Sacred Word (the three original Breaths, with their seven sounds,—one Breath for each of the three solar systems) the note was different, and the sounds pitched to a different key.

 In system one, the completion of the First Breath, the culmination, was the sounding forth, in note majestic, of the note FA,—the note which forms the basic note of this system, the note of manifested nature.  This note is, and to it must be supplemented the second note for this the second system.  It is not fully sounded or rounded out, nor to the end of the greater cycle will it be completed.  The Logos sounds it now, and should He cease to breathe it forth, the whole system would disappear into complete obscuration.  It would mark the end of manifestation.

 In system two, the present system, the keynote may not be disclosed.  It is one of the secrets of the sixth Initiation, and must not he revealed.

 In system three the final third note will be added to the basic notes of the first and second systems, and then what will you have?  You will have the major third of the Logoic Personality in its completeness, a correspondence to the major third of the microcosm,—one note for each plane.  We have been told that the solar Logos, on the cosmic planes, works at the problem of cosmic mind; that He functions in His physical solar system, is polarised in His cosmic astral, or emotional body, and is developing [Page 53] cosmic mind.  So, on the planes of the solar system, is it as with the microcosm.  In the realisation of this correspondence and its wise application lies illumination on the use of the Sacred Word in meditation.

 System I........corresponds to the physical body.

System II.......corresponds to the emotional body.

System III......corresponds to the mental body.

 By the study of the Word or Sound in the formation of these three will help come on the use of that Word in the building of the intuitional vehicle, and the purification of the personality.

 Now we will divide what we have to say under four heads, and take up each one of them separately:—

 l—The creative effect of the Sacred Word.

2—The destructive effect of the Sacred Word.

3—Its pronunciation and use:—

a—In individual meditation.

b—In group and congregational work.

c—For certain specific ends.

4—Its effect on the bodies and centres, and its efficacy in effecting egoic alignment.

 

June 20, 1920

 The Dual Effect of the Sacred Word; constructive and destructive.

 We can today continue with the subject we were considering yesterday.  We divided the theme into four divisions and we will take the first two, the effect,—creative and destructive—of the Word.  Just a few broad hints will be possible, to form a basis for the intelligent application of the law.

 First, let us repeat the truism that the worlds are the effect of sound.  First life, then matter; later the attraction [Page 54] of the matter to the life for purposes of its manifestation and expression, and the orderly arrangement of that matter into the necessary forms.  Sound formed the allying factor, the propelling impulse, and the attractive medium.  Sound, in an occult and deeply metaphysical sense, stands for that which we term "the relation between", and is the creating intermediary, the linking third factor in the process of manifestation.  It is the akasha.  On the higher planes it is the agent of the great Entity Who wields the cosmic law of gravitation in its relation to our solar system, whilst on the lower planes it demonstrates as the astral light, the great agent of reflection, that fixes and perpetuates on its vibratory bosom the past, the present and the future, or that which we call Time.  In direct relation to the lower vehicle it manifests as electricity, prana and the magnetic fluid.  A simplification of the idea may come to you perhaps in the recognition of sound as the agent of the law of attraction and repulsion.

 The seven great Breaths.

 In sounding forth the Sacred Word in its sevenfold completeness for this solar system, the Logos gathered through inspiration the matter needed for manifestation, and started the evolution of that matter at the first great Breath.

 At the second great Breath came differentiation and the instilling of the second aspect logoic.

 At the third great Breath the activity aspect was demonstrated, matter was impregnated with that faculty, and fivefold evolution became a possibility.

 At the fourth great Breath certain of the Hierarchies responded, and the great Builders more clearly saw the plan.  There is a definite connection between the fourth [Page 55] Breath and the fourth Creative Hierarchy, that of the human Spirits.  This fourth note of the Logos has a special significance for the human Spirit, and an unique effect in this earth and in this fourth cycle.  The relativity of it is such that it is difficult for you in any way to realise that effect.  It demonstrates as far as you can grasp it in the harmonic note of the fourth plane and ray.  That note permeates the peoples of the world at this time and ever since the fourth root-race.  It shows itself in the struggle of humanity to grasp the ideal of harmony and peace, and in the worldwide aspiration in that direction.

 This fourth Breath is especially applicable to human evolution.

 You have therefore:

 Subtone one of the threefold Word gave the first vibratory note and started the movement of the spheres—solar or atomic.  It embodies Will.

 Subtone two of the threefold Word instilled the second aspect and called the cosmic ruler of the synthetic ray into manifestation.  It marked duality or reflex love.

 Subtone three of the threefold Word made our fivefold evolution possible.  It is the basic note of the five lower planes.  It marked activity or adaptability.

 Subtone four of the threefold Word is the sound of the Human Hierarchy, and in its entirety might be called the "cry of Man."

 Each of the sounds directly called into manifestation one ray, with all that enters in on a ray.  Each sound demonstrates particularly on one plane, being the dominant note of that plane.

 The fifth great Breath has an effect peculiar to itself, for in its reverberation it holds the key to all,—it is the Breath of fire.  It created a similar vibration to that of the cosmic mental level, and is closely allied with the [Page 56] first Breath.  It is the dominant note (in technical musical terminology) of the solar system, just as the third Breath corresponds to the major third.  It is the note of the Logos.  Each breath attracts to the Logos for purposes of manifestation, some entity on cosmic levels.  The reflection of the method can be seen in the microcosm when the Ego sounds the egoic note in the three worlds and prepares to manifest or to come into incarnation.  The note attracts around the permanent atoms or nuclei adequate matter for the purpose of manifestation, and that matter is itself informed by some vital entity.  Similarly, the cosmic Lords of Fire, the great informing Entities of our solar system, respond when this fifth subtone is sounded forth.  Again, the Lords of the Flame within the solar system itself responded when the microcosm sounded the fifth subtone of the monadic note, and involved themselves in human evolution.

 The sixth great Breath drew to itself the Lords of the mysterious Pentacle, the volatile essences of the emotional plane, the desire faculty clothed in matter, the watery aspect of the logoic life.

 At the sounding of the seventh subtone crystallisation occurred and absolute conformity to the law of approach.  It resulted in the dense aspect of manifestation, the point of deepest experience.  You will note its connection, therefore, with the Ray of Ceremonial Law, one of the great building rays,—a ray which adjusts matter, under set forms, to the desired shapes.

 You may ask here:  Why have I thus apparently digressed?  It seems to you wide of the mark and beside the question?  Let me elucidate.  The microcosm has but to repeat the work of the macrocosm.  The Spirit or monad on his own plane sounds forth the note (his hierarchical note) and descends into incarnation.  It is both [Page 57] the note of attraction and of out-breathing.  The personality—the reflection of that monad at the densest point in evolution,—is linked to the monad by the attractive force of the Sacred Word sounded by its monad on its note and on its own subtone.

 But the work of outbreathing is already accomplished.  It is involution.  The work of in-breathing or reabsorption into the source progresses.  When the Personality finds for itself (after lives of stress and search) its spiritual note with the right key and subtone, what is the result?  It accords with its monadic note, it vibrates to the same measure, it pulsates with the same colour, the line of least resistance is at last found, and the indwelling life is liberated and. returns to its own plane.  But this work of discovery is very slow and the man has to pick out the chord with infinite care and pains.  First, he finds out the third of the Personality and sounds that forth, the result being an ordered harmonious life in the three worlds.  Then he finds the dominant fifth of the Ego, the keynote of the chord, and sounds that in unison with the Personality note.  The result is that a vacuum is formed (if I may so express it) and the liberated man with his informing soul,—the threefold spirit, plus mind and experience—the Three completed by the Quaternary and the Fifth, escapes upward to the Monad.  It is the law of attraction demonstrating through sound.  Like to like and kind to kind, driven thereto by unity of sound, of colour and of rhythm.

 This leads to the second factor we are considering, the destructive factor.  In emancipation comes the breaking of the chains, in liberation comes the abolition of the old forms, in the domination of matter is seen the liberation of spirit.  So, in the sounding of the Sacred Word in its sevenfold sense, comes the escaping from the shattered [Page 58] forms; first in the out-breathing, the attraction of matter, then in the in-breathing, the gradual shattering of the material forms and the leaving of them behind.