Second Day of preparation
THE STUDENT SHOULD PICTURE THE EGOIC LOTUS
Concealed at
the very centre or heart of the lotus is a brilliant point of electric fire of
a blue-white hue (the [Page 762] jewel in the lotus) surrounded, and completely
hidden, by three closely folded petals.
Around this central nucleus, or inner flame, are arranged the nine
petals in circles of three petals each, making three circles in all. These petals are formed out of the substance
of the solar angels, as are the central three,—substance which is not only
sentient as is the substance of the forms in the three worlds and the lunar
bodies, but which has an added quality of "I-ness" or of
self-consciousness, enabling the spiritual unity at the centre (by means of it)
to acquire knowledge, awareness, and self-realisation. These nine petals are of a predominant orange
hue, though the six other colours are found as secondary colours in a varying
degree. The inner three petals are of a
lovely lemon-yellow hue. At the base of
the lotus petals are the three points of light which mark the position of the
permanent atoms, and which are the medium of communication between the solar
Angels and the lunar Pitris. By means of
these permanent atoms the Ego, according to its state of evolution can
construct his lunar bodies, acquire knowledge on the lower three planes, and
thus buy his experience, and becomes aware.
On a higher turn of the spiral, the Monad through the egoic petals, and
thus with the aid of the solar Angels, acquires knowledge and equally on more
exalted levels becomes aware.
The light
within these permanent atoms has a dull red glow and we have, therefore, all
the three fires demonstrating in the causal body—electric fire at the centre,
solar fire enclosing it as the flame encloses the central nucleus or essence in
a candle flame, and fire by friction, this latter fire resembling the glowing
red wick which lies at the base of the higher flame.
These three types of fire on the mental plane—meeting and unified in the egoic body—produce in time a radiation or warmth which streams out from all sides of the lotus, and forms that spheroidal shape noted by investigators. [Page 763] The more fully developed the Ego may be, and the more the petals are unfolded, the greater the beauty of the surrounding sphere, and the more refined its colouring.
At the early
stages after individualisation, the egoic body has the appearance of a
bud. The electric fire at the centre is
not apparent, and all the nine petals are closed down upon the inner three; the
orange colour has a dead aspect and the three points of light at the base are
just points and nothing more; the triangle which is later seen connecting the
points is not demonstrated. The surrounding
sphere is colourless and is only to be appreciated as undulatory vibrations
(like waves in the air or ether) reaching barely beyond the petal outline.
By the time
the third Initiation is reached, a wondrous transformation has transpired. The outer sphere is palpitating with every
colour in the rainbow, and is of wide radius; the streams of electrical energy
circulating in it are so powerful that they are escaping beyond the periphery
of the circle, resembling the rays of the sun.
The nine petals are fully unfolded, forming a gracious setting for the
central jewel, and their orange hue is now of a gorgeous translucence, shot
with many colours, that of the egoic ray predominating. The triangle at the base is now quickened and
scintillating, and the three points are small blazing fires, showing to the eye
of the clairvoyant as sevenfold whorls of light, circulating their light from
point to point of a rapidly moving triangle. (TKF:762)
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