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Superimposition Exercise I

ThePersonality, Sun Sign Chart


Superimposition Exercise II
The Soul, Rising Sign Chart & Sun Sign Overlay
Superimposition Exercise III
Esoteric over Esoteric

Exercise I.
The Personality Sun Sign Chart
Keynote:
"The Sun sign - with the exoteric planetary rulers - rules the personality, indicates inheritance and equipment and is a summation of that which has been,
thus providing the background. (DK)
Step I:
Erect your Sun Sign horoscope utilizing the tropical zodiac and the Whole Sign House system. The 12 Arms of the Three Crosses correspond to the 12
Houses in the Personality horoscope built up around the Sun Sign.
Keep in mind; the Personality Ray is the ruler of the Sun sign chart. Visualize this chart form in the color of your personality ray. If for example your
Personality is on the 3rd Ray line under Saturn use Green. You might even wish to have your Sun Sign chart drawn or printed on the color background of
your respective personality Ray color.
From one point of view, all of the ruling Planertary Ray influences, (tout ensemble) throughout the full circle of the 12 Solar Houses operate as sub-rays
of your Personality Ray. Keep in mind, the personality integration process occurs prior to the Soul Fusion process and proceeds under the full auspices of
the personality Ray.

Step II:
Analyze the conditioning effects upon your personality life and material circumstances of the Rays of the exoteric round of planetary rulers of your 12
Solar Houses. Utilizing the exoteric rulers explain and delineate the major physical and personality limitationsimposed upon and which circumscribe you
in each one of your 12 Personality Houses.
Initially, I strongly adivse that you concentrate and focus upon the passive traits, recessive features, negative characteristics and selfish vices associated
with the ruling Rays of the planets conditioning the affairs and activities of your twelve-fold personality arena.
For example, if a Scorpio Sun Sign, Mars is the exoteric ruler of your 1st House, Jupiter, ruling Sagittarius, the exoteric ruler of the 2nd House of
Money, Saturn, the exoteric ruler of Capricorn,the 3rd House of speech, etc. Try to bring to full light to your predominant 1st House Martian motivated
selfish Scorpio desires, ambitions and personality tendencies.
Proceed then to examine, in the 2nd House, your personal love of comfort, appropriation of resources and selfish use of money.
Continue then to analyze the 3rd House of Capricorn under Saturn and attempt to recognize old, fixed or rigid thought patterns along with insensitive,
cold, cruel or mean speech habits. And, so on, and so forth until the complete circle, full gamut, and total arena of your Personality field has been covered.
Do not be shy, enjoy the twelve-fold exercise and lesson. Have fun attempting to write out the recessive features of each planet and House. I reccomend
making a list of as many potentially recessive ray features of the respective ruling planet of each House, and then, honestly and candidly, in the light of
your soul attempt to identify and recognize your major personality patterns and special issues in all twleve Houses.

Step III:
To identify "Dweller" issues, pay special attention to both Sign, House and planetary aspects of the Moon to the other planets. Concentrate on
enumerating a list of the lower, negative and recessive features of both the sign and house position of the Moon.
For example, to cite an illustration, if the Moon is in Leo in the 2nd House, I would want to clearly examine my personal control and power issues,
manners, dress, discretion, indolence, love of affection, sloth, laziness, or a potential selfish use of money, people and resources, etc. I would wish
topsychologically examine what personality patterns were behind an unconscious ned of attracting and drawing constant personal attention to myself.
Obviously, this is a very simple and incomplete reading of this Moon position but this is what I initially adivse. In other words,simply trust the basic and
fundamental astrological position and planetary aspects of the Moon to best negatively describe the major handicapps, recessive features and limitations of
the soul.
Make special correspondences to the parts of the body ruled by the House and sign that the Moon is placed. If for example, to cite a quick illustration, my
Moon is in say, Aquarius in the 6th House, I would want to immediately pay special physical attention to potential health issues due to over physical
polarization, love of form, circulatory system, blood purity, the solar plexus centre and associated organs such as the stomach and the intestines, and yes,
even my ankles.
It goes without being said, that a 6th House Moon in Aquarius can be the most superficial, physically polarized, mundane, appearance oriented, nonspiritual, critical and caustic in the entire zodiac so I would also have to, psychologically speaking, peform a gut check, and strive to reckon out the
mental and astral complexes associated with an excessively critical and physically polarized nature, and so on and so forth.

Exercise II.
Rising Sign and Sun Sign horoscope superimposition.
Keynote:
"When the Sun sign, with the exoteric rulers, is worked out in a chart, the rising sign with the esoteric rulers is also worked out and the two are

superimposed upon each other, the problem of the disciple in any one incarnation will appear." (DK)
Step I.
Erect your Rising Sign chart utilizing the tropical zodiac and set up the 12 Arms of your Soul horoscope using the whole Arm/Sign House system.
The Egoic Ray is the ruler of the Rising Sign chart. All of the subsidary planetary rays and forces of this chart may be viewed, from one point of view,as
being sub-rays of the major conditioning Soul Ray.
I visualize the entire field of the Rising Sign chart as being colored by the color of the soul Ray.

Step II.
The inner esoteric circle of planetary rulers of the 12 Arms of the Rising Sign chart govern the inner life of subjective realization of the disciple.
Analyze, therefore,and study the esoteric round of planetary rulers that govern the 12 Houses in your Rising Sign chart.
Provide a house by house psychological analysis on the nature of your inner life as it is lived through, conditioned by and responsive to the conditioning
influences of the esoteric cirle of planetary rulers of the 12 Houses. In so doing, concentrate on detailing the higher qualities, soul virtues, active features
and positive traits of the Rays of the esoteric ruler in each House.

Step III.
Superimpose the esoteric circle of planetary rulers of the 12 Houses of the Rising sign chart over the corresponding circle of exoteric planetary rulers in
the 12 Houses of your Sun Sign chart.
For example, I am a Virgo with Aries Rising so my order would run as follows:

1stHouse: Mercury over Mercury. (Aries/Virgo)

2nd House: Vulcan over Venus . (Taurus/Libra)

3rd House: Venus over Mars. (Gemini/Scorpio)

4th House: Neptune over Jupiter. (Cancer/Sagittarius) ... etc.

In this manner the major life problem undergone by the soul in each one of the 12 Houses will clearly appear.
Keep in mind two points;
1.) the line of least resistence for outer personality activity - the downward trend into manifestation - is indicated by the exoteric round of planetary rulers
in the Sun Sign chart, and
2.) the inner urges, soul promptings and pulls to the higher spiritual life - the upward trend out of manifestation - are indicated by the esoteric circle of
planetary rulers of the Rising Sign chart.

Step IV.
Delineate and write out a 12 point psychological analysis of your outstanding soul/personality problem, as defined by the superimposition of the Higher
esoteric Soul, and the Lower exoteric Personality planetary rulers, you as an incarnated soul, face in each one of your 12 Houses.
Concentrate on the vices, glamors, recessive features and passive traits of the Rays of the exoteric rulers of the Sun Sign chart first, as earlier explained,
then focus on the higher active characterisitcs of the rays of the esoteric round of rulers in the Soul chart. Note the different energetics of the planetary
ruler of each House are in initial conflict, clash and opposition.
Then proceed to attempt to discern and note how the esoteric circle of rulers, under the Ray of the Soul, combine with the exoteric circle, under the Ray of
the Personality, to harmonize, fuse, marry, supplement and supercede not negate their activity.

ps. For the purpose of the exercise of superimposition, and to enormously help you initially assembly the lists of active and passive features along with
the enumeration of the vices and virtues of the planetary Ray rulers of your horoscope, the books, EPI, EPII and Glamor are especially reccomended here
and quite invaluable. [ref: Esoteric Psychology Volumes I and II, published by lucistrust.org, and Glamour, A World Problem, same source.]

Superimposition part III.


Esoteric over Esoteric
Keynote:
The Sun sign, governed by the ruling esoteric planets and the rising sign governed also by the esoteric planets, can both be used in casting the horoscope
of the initiate; when superimposed upon each other, the outer life of the initiate in the three worlds and the inner life of subjective realization will appear.
This mode of superimposition will be a feature of the new astrology. (EA514)

S> The circle of esoteric planetary rulers of the 12 Arms the Sun Sign chart rule "the outer life of the initiate in the three worlds".
S> The circle of esoteric planetary rulers of the 12 Arms of the Rising Sign chart rule "the inner life of subjective realization" of the initiate.
Step to take ...
I recommend that each student of the esoteric astrology of the Tibetan, even if you do not regard yourself as an initiate, set-up a similar tabulation, based
on your respective combination of Rising Sign and Sun Sign and meditate upon the combination.
Let us take, as an illustrative example, once again, the following combination: Sun in Sagittarius with Aquarius Rising
1st Arm Jupiter over Earth.Aquarius/Sagittarius
2nd ArmPluto over Saturn..Pisces/Capricorn
3rd ArmMercury over Jupiter.Aries/Aquarius
4th Arm..Vulcan over Pluto.Taurus/Pisces

5th Arm..Venus over Mercury..Gemini/Aries


6th Arm..Neptune over Vulcan.Cancer/Taurus
7th Arm..Uranus over Venus.Leo/Gemini
8th Arm..Vulcan over Neptune.Virgo/Cancer
9th Arm..Uranus over UranusLibra/Leo
10th ArmMars over Vulcan..Scorpio/Virgo
11th ArmEarth over Uranus.Sagittarius/Libra
12th ArmSaturn over MarsCapricorn/Scorpio

Work to be done:
Delineate and write out an analysis of the 24 point-by-point psychological analyses, inner and outer, based upon the higher, active and positive traits of
the "two sets" of ruling planetary Rays, of the 12 Arms of the Soul and Personality horoscopes.
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Building the Antahkarana


4th Technical Stage

When the ancient, tried and true rules of rainbowbridge building are correctly followed, the sequence of construction and the appearance of the wished for
successes are inevitable and unavoidable. With the determined goal in mind of eventually affecting the "miracle of crossing" the rainbowbridge, we need
attain some measure of clear perception as to the six technical stages of the construction of the Antahkarana and do so by the means of the strict scientific,
technical, and occult work; moreover, the abutements and buttresses of the bridge will then be securely fastened.
The focus of this letter, this July 4th, is the 4th technical stage. Simply stated, I would like to initially say the task of the "sounder" of the Word, at the 4th
technical stage is to realize the inner meaning that spirit is matter at its highest point, and matter is spirit at its lowest. This subjective identification
involves or results in the fluid circulation of Monadic life-energy, consciously applied via the antahkarana as matter-force.
It should not come as a surprise to students of the Seven Rays to learn that the rainbowbridge, is finally constructed at the 4th stage, corresponding to the
4th Ray and Mercury - (which rules the bridge). Let us therefore, briefly consider the 4th vital stage, from out of the six stages.
I assume all students ... are academically familiar with the six stages of construction. The projection of the Ray word or phrase of Power occurs at stage
three. When the Ray Word or Phrase of Power is known and rightly sounded the bridge is rapidly built and reaches stages of definite outline and structure
long before the individual "sounder" of the Word is aware of it.
Once again, I remind you, the work of the building of the rainbow bridge of the antahkarana is primarily an activity of the personality, aided by the soul
which evokes a reaction from the Triad. To build the antahkarana involves an a highly accelerated, intense mental activity, and necessitates the dynamic
power to imagine and to visualize, plus a highly dramatic attempt to pictorally build the "Lighted Way" in mental substance.
There is a great deal of mental sloth, inertia, and passivity demonstrated by world disciples as regards second phase antahkarana bridgebuilding work. I
have, in 30 years of work, yet to encounter a single student who is intelligently working with a Word of Phrase of Power with an inner comprehension or
intelligible grasp of its ray geometry, ray patterns or spiritual numerology.
We are reminded by D.K.: "There is no initiation for the disciple until he has begun consciously to build the antahkarana". Only as we unitedly build the
group antahkarana and begin to function as the Spiritual Triad within the sphere of the monadic Life will true occult incentive and inspiration, - (the three
points (Buddhas of Activity) of the Council Chamber) - we so earnesly seek, electrically descend down or across the planes via the bridge of Power. We
will then know inclusive individual and group participation in the creative activity of Sanat Kumara's supreme divinity.
Let us proceed then with new vigor the work of building the antahkarana and rest assured that fresh light will shine upon our way and revelation will
attend our every step. Our salient initiatory life task, simply put, is to build the antahkarana, cross the Lighted Way, achieve the freedom of the Path of
Life to ultimately become a "projecting agent of the Lighted Will".
As we know however, it is not possible for any of us who has not taken the third initiation to determine with certainty his monadic ray. All of us do know
or should know by now our soul and personality rays, and when building the antahkarana, having reached the third stage of projection, should remember
that it is their fused or blended potency which perform the act of projection.
When, therefore, the ray of your soul dominates the ray of your personality, then your self becomes the acting projecting agent, potently enhanced by its
union or fusion with the ray of your lower self. The rays of your three lower personality vehicles will then be occultly quiescent or no longer acticve,
while only the basic duality of your soul and personality will remain, and, once again, with no lesser differentiation.

Now, let us proceed to a brief discussion of the 4th technical stage.


In order to initially aid in our discussion I would like to offer the following analogy from the Tibetan. In connection with the 4th stage the Tibetan has
said:
"There is a close connection between the fourth initiation, the quaternary in its evolved condition - vital body, emotional vehicle, mind and soul - and the
fourth technical stage of building consciously the rainbow bridge. You have therefore:
1. The Quaternary, the creative factor on Earth.
2. The fourth initiation, that of the Crucifixion.
3. The fourth technical stage of building the Antahkarana:
1. Sutratma, the life thread.
2. The consciousness thread.

3. The creative thread, itself threefold.


4. The technical antahkarana, bridging between the threefold personality and the Spiritual Triad.
4. The four stages of the Path of Return:
1. The stage of evolution itself.
2. The stage of the Probationary Path.
3. The stage of the Path of Discipleship.
4. The stage of the Path of Initiation.
Yet it is one and the same entity which participates in and is responsible for all the differentiated aspects, steps and stages - experimenting, experiencing
and expressing consciously in every one of these stages or modes of life, until the fourth initiation. Then consciousness itself gives place to life, and yet
remains itself.
To the above statement, add the fact that it is the fourth kingdom in nature which undergoes all that is indicated above and is conditioned by the four
aspects of the ONE SUTRATMA. Once this is grasped, the beauty of the symbolism and the numerological relationships emerge significantly. [RI477]

Keep in mind; at the advanced stage of the 4th step, there is no longer any pull or form attracting the Monad outwards into manifestation. There remains
only the great pull of the consciousness of humanity as a whole and to this, response is made via the completed antahkarana. Across the Bridge the
Monadic descent is made at Will, in order to serve humanity and to carry out the Will of Shamballa.
At the 4th technical stage, the point of "invocative tension", the living reservoir of living energy, which is the initiate himself has been set in motion by
projected thought through the use of Will and the corresponding Ray Word or Phrase of Power. The line of responsive Monadic projection of energy is
sent forth and makes contact with the lower projection.
Thus, at the successful culmination of the 4th stage, the antahkarana is built because the tension of the lower has been sufficent to evoke the attention of
the higher. When we contact that spirit energy which our Monad projects via the Triad there will be no way in which the call of matter or of form can
evoke a response from our Monad. The vibration of both projections will be so strong reciprocally speaking, that contact between the "two projections"
will be made in a high point of meditation - a contact between the fused soul and personality energy and the Monadic energy, working through the
Spiritual Triad. when the energy of the Monad is evoked,it results in a downpouring towards the lower projecting agent, and it is not, technically speaking,
an act of projection per se.
The act of projection is the work of the "shadow and the reflection." When this finally does occur, at the culminating moment of the 4th technical stage, it
does not constitute what we might imagine to be a moment of psychological crisis, but is in the nature of the production of a "Flame of Light", a
realization of transcendence, liberation, and a recognition of the esoteric fact that one has now reproduced in Himself the conscious replication of the One
Path.
There is no longer, at this 4th juncture, the sense of personality and soul or of ego and form, but simply the One, functioning via all seven united cables as
a point of dynamic Spirit energy by means of the Great Way of the Rainbowbridge Path of Light. The salient initiatory task is now to begin the process of
attaining identification of the Monad of Sanat Kumara within our planetary sphere with the Purpose and the Will of the Lord of the World, and proceed.
When successful, the head center and the center at the base of the spine will be in direct unimpeded relation; monadic will and personality will likewise
will be in a similar unimpeded relation, via the antahkarana. The four of the quaternary is lost in the 1000 of the Universal; the fourfold form nature is
perfected.

The Cosmic Analogy


The twelve constellations of the zodiac, each with its own interrelations, peculiar to its own integral Life, form - each of them - part of a triangle of
energies. Each of these triangles is a unit in itself but in conjunction with the other triangles forms part of that major quaternary which is the cosmic
analogy of the quaternary of the One Life - soul and the dual psychic nature, called in some of the esoteric books kama-manas, plus the vital nature. These
four are the expression of the One Ineffable Cause. [EA 609]
OAWNMBS
FIRE............SOUL..........ARIES, LEO, SAGITTARIUS
AIR.............MIND...........LIBRA, AQUARIUS, GEMINI
WATER......ASTRAL......CANCER, SCORPIO, PISCES
EARTH.......VITAL..........CAPRICORN, TAURUS, VIRGO.

The four of the perfected Cosmic Quaternary of the One Ineffable Cause is lost in the 1000 of the Universal. The 12 constellations of the zodiac are
simultaneously the expresion of the 12 petalled highest head center in the 1000 petalled brahmaranda Lotus of the OAWNMBS.
"When the adept enters through the "luminous door" he has before him four very peculiar and esoteric IDENTIFICATIONS. These identifications
eventually bring about within the jewel, which is essentially the true spiritual unit, a momentous happening, and are undergone within the monadic
consciousness after the transcendence of the atmic sheath. These four identifications are connected with the fourfold lotus of the solar Logos, or with His
twelve-petalled heart center. This lotus is sometimes called the "heart of the Sun," and concerns the subjective sun. It is not, however, possible to say more
along this line." [TCF1246]
These four Identifications are only undergone upon this particular Path and are each preceded by three lesser identifications which make a totality of
twelve Identifications, corresponding to the twelve-petalled lotus.
It will be noted by the accurate student that we are now discontinuing the use of the word "initiation", which has to do specifically with consciousness and
therefore with duality, and are utilizing a word which connotes synthesis, though very inadequately. Students would do well to learn that this process of
building the antahkarana is one of the means whereby man, the trinity, becomes a duality.
When the task is completed and the antahkarana is definitely built - thus producing perfect alignment between the Monad and its expression upon the

physical plane - the body of the soul (the causal body) is completely and finally destroyed by the fire of the Monad, pouring down the antahkarana. There
is then complete reciprocity between the Monad and the fully conscious soul on the physical plane. The "divine intermediary" is no longer required. The
"Son of God Who is the Son of Mind" dies; the "veil of the temple is rent in twain from the top to the bottom"; the fourth initiation is passed, and there
then comes the revelation of the Father.
This is the final and far-reaching result of the building of the bridge which is, in reality, the establishing of a line of light between Monad and personality
as a full expression of the soul - between spirit and matter, between Father and Mother. It is evidence that "spirit has mounted on the shoulders of matter"
to that high place from whence it originally came, plus the gain of experience and of full knowledge, and of all that life in material form could give and all
that conscious experience could confer. The Son has done His work. The task of the Savior or of the Mediator has been completed. The unity of all things
is known to be a fact in consciousness, and a human spirit can say with intention and with understanding: "I and my Father are one." [RI476]
S.D.P.

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DEDICATION: TO THE "WEAVERS OF FOHATIC ENTERPRISE"

PREFACE
The New Education is the Science of the Antahkarana.
by Stephen D. Pugh 2002
It is the true science of the mind and the greatest of the three major sciences that will dominate the esoteric world of thought in the Aquarian Age. It is the
fundamental science that will guide the students and teachers of the New Education.
Along with its two preparatory and subsidiary branch sciences - meditation and service - the study of the Science of the Antahkarana will amply provide
the modern student a comprehensive grasp of the ideas upon which the teaching of the New Education is based. The antahkarana is the true science of
occult bridge building or bridging in consciousness. It is the major building technique employed by all seven Ray types and is destined to dominate the
curricula of the new educational methods.
The new educational ideology commences with the Science of the Antahkarana as its major mode of instruction. Why is this the case? It is the case
because the sevenfold antahkarana itself represents the Path symbolically. The true education is consequently the science of linking up the integral parts of
man, and also of linking him up in turn with his immediate environment, and then with the greater whole in which he has to play his part. My entire
exegesis of the mind on the Science of the Antahkarana with the accompanying Ray Words is but the practical explanation of the truth of the occult
aphorism that "before a man can tread the Path he must become that Path itself."
This rainbow bridge or pathway is that "way back" which we evolve out of ourselves; it is that Way which we also find and tread.I have now laid the
ground for the psycho-scientific occult consideration of the Seven Ray Words of Power which will dominate the future subjective thought of the
psychologists and educators of the Esoteric Schools.
The practical results of the technique of the construction of the bridge coupled with the effective utilization of the Ray Words of Power through the New
Education will induce a sense of wholeness and the ability to see life whole. The scientific study of the antahkarana will foster the sense of synthesis and
therefore cultivate the group spirit, develop the intuition, capacity for abstract thought, the ability to enter the world of ideas, and train the higher spiritual
will. As an educational system and process, the construction of the antahkarana deals with the methods of "bridging the gap" which exists in man's
consciousness between the three worlds of ordinary human experience, and the higher levels of spiritual development - the world of ideas, of intuitive
perception, of spiritual insight and understanding.
The different building methods and Ray Words employed by the seven different types of human beings lead to the overcoming of the limitations physical and psychological - that limit man's free expression of his innate divinity. In the countless strands of light, woven by the aspirants, disciples and
initiates, we see humanities rainbow bridge gradually appearing. On this rainbow path, humanity as a whole will eventually abstract and withdraw itself
from all contact with planetary matter and form on earth. The building of the group antahkarana is therefore, the great and ultimate planetary service that
all true aspirants, disciples and initiates can render.I shall write for you as one who sees the ray patterns of the Words of Power emerging more clearly
than you because I can see based on my own self-initiated knowledge of the archetypal ray forms, sacred numbers and geometric blueprints.
It is for you to make accurate deduction, to draw intelligent inferences, and to think along the lines indicated. I seek to have you steep yourselves in the
Science of the antahkarana so that my work with your minds may be facilitated and the group building of the needed bridges of light may go on apace, and
thus grasp somewhat of the purpose of the New Education.
FOREWORD
In this book I have presented seven lines of occult instructions and facts concerning the Science of the Antahkarana coupled with the Ray Words of Power
used in conjunction with the building of the "rainbow bridge" along with some explanation of their significance and meanings. These will enable the
occult students in the world today to use them in their bridge building process with greater fervor and with greater understanding and, consequently, with
greater success. It has been my intention to give not only a theoretical but practical insights into the seven different modes of activity and states of being to
which the initiates have attained through the correct exercise of the corresponding Ray Word of Power.
At the same time, having just stated the preceding let me also, in the same breath say that you always need to remember in discussing the Ray Words that
words themselves but dim the meaning, and serve but as suggestions and not as elucidations. I shall give you the numerological significances, the esoteric
concepts involved and key aspects of the occult meaning of which these archaic word-forms are the embodiments.
It is impossible for me to over emphasize the radical importance of this subject to the modern student of the Seven Rays. The Ageless wisdom teaches
through the development of the antahkarana and its conscious, scientific use, the initiate becomes aware of what transpires in the Council Chamber of
Shamballa; he can then efficiently begin to work as an exponent of the Will aspect of divinity.
As we consider the Science of the Antahkarana with the accompanying Words of Power, you must bear carefully in mind that we are dealing entirely with

the Will aspect. The center of the initiate consciousness is in the Will nature, and is no longer in the love nature. Activity and love are still present in full
measure, but the focus of the initiate's attention is in the will aspect of divinity. Initiates beyond the 3rd degree are oriented to the Council Chamber at
Shamballa and the Way to the higher Evolution engrosses their attention, not the life of the Ashram with which they are affiliated and the Way of
Initiation. Shamballa, the Secret Place where the will of God is formulated for the immediate present and for the long range future is the goal.
I have considered the Ray Words of Power to invoke the Father in Heaven, the Monad and have carried this study to a point into realms that are those
which make the initiate an integral part of monadic experience. I have dealt definitely with initiate experience and certain high stages of unfoldment which
remain impossible to any human comprehension outside that of Those who can function in the three worlds of the Spiritual Triad - (atma-buddhi-manas).
Thinking that this phase of the work is advanced, some well meaning students may initially evidence a strong reaction against beginning this specific
stage of mind training. I remind them that the period covered by the conscious building of the antahkarana is that from the final stages of the Path of
Probation to the third initiation. I strongly suggest therefore that they consciously begin to work with more effectiveness and knowingness in this
important major phase of their lifework.
There is far too much inertia demonstrated by disciples at this time, in this important phase of group work. Candidly, my brothers, I know of no modern
individuals or groups that are at present working consciously, and therefore effectively with the Ray Words of Power. I commend this thought to your
earnest appreciation.
Once firmly established upon the Path, the sound and colors or the ray laws and geometric truths become self-evident and individual application and
verification is made, leading the disciple inevitably to the Portal of Initiation. You will note in your theoretical study of the Ray Words that they are all
definite assertions, based on definite knowledge leading to definite conviction.
It is wise to advise students that a Ray Word of Power will be impotent to most disciples and they will not derive its true benefit because even when using
it correctly if they are not holding its geometrical and numerical significance firmly in their consciousness.
When correctly uttered, a Ray Word, according to the Tibetan, produces three effects:
When adequate stability has been acquired, the disciple utters a Word of Power which serves to carry the light still further on and up. When correctly
uttered, this Word produces three effects:
a. It keeps the channel for the descending light of the Spiritual Triad clear of all impediments.
b. It reaches (by means of its vibratory activity) the center of power which we call the Spiritual Triad, focused temporarily in the manasic permanent
atom, and evokes a response in the form of a thread of descending triadal light.
c. It causes a vibration throughout the antahkarana which in its turn evokes response from the "rainbow bridge" as built by all other disciples. Thus the
work of constructing the racial antahkarana is furthered.
The profound importance of the Ray words can not be underestimated. In the many strands of light, woven by the aspirants, disciples and initiates of the
world, we can see the group antahkarana gradually appearing - "that bridge whereby humanity as a whole will be able to abstract itself from matter and
form".
This building of the antahkarana is the great and ultimate service which all true aspirants can render. The study of the science of the antahkarana and use
of the Ray Words involves much scientific experience in the art of living, and only the highly trained human enquirer can soundly and safely build the
bridge between the monad and the fully conscious soul on the physical plane.
I have sought to carefully explain key aspects of the meaning of the Ray Words whereby the mind, trained in meditation, and therefore soul-conscious,
can - through the construction of the antahkarana - reach heights and stages of inclusiveness which will introduce to it certain aspects of the so-called
Universal Mind, the mind of Sanat Kumura.
What I have done is to deal very briefly with the seven Ray Words whereby the disciple or the initiate can, with increasing power, tune in on the mind the
KING, the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, the Youth of Endless Summers, and the Fountainhead of the Will, (showing forth as Love) of the Planetary
Logos.
Consider, if you will, the following correspondence. Just as the disciple can when soul conscious, tune in on the mind of his Master, so the initiate, upon a
higher turn of the spiral, can register the thoughts of Sanat Kumura. The initiate knows what it is to be a creative agent, using the creative faculties of the
mind and conforming increasingly (as he creates) to the Plan of the Creator, the Lord of the World.
With purified endeavor the task of the initiate is - to speak in symbols - mount nearer to the sound of the Ray Word. The music of the word comes to him
note by note and in their rhythmic tone lies secret revelation. From out of the environing ether strike the tonal notes upon his ear unlike the tones that
sound within the world terrestrial. When the ray sound of the word strikes in colorful vibration upon the inner sense the initiate knows a point has been
achieved marking a great transition because the inner hearing becomes "expanded feeling" and gives place to sight and perfect comprehension.
Through an understanding and knowledge of the "Words of Power" and by using the potency of sound, the initiates work and are building the new world
with its distinctive culture and civilization. From the use of the Ray Words and from a study of their tonal values, their numerological indications and their
inherent potency, the initiates have arrived at vast magical achievements and creations, producing group activity and the appearance of definite forms of
expression upon the outer plane.
After all, scientific formulas have reduced the most intricate and abstruse discoveries to a few signs and symbols. Just as modern sciences have evolved a
complete new terminology of their own during the past century so the Science of the Antahkarana with the Ray Words of Power is developing its own
highly specialized vocabulary. In the meantime, I have done the best I can with the words at my disposal.
The inner esoteric science that will concern us in this book is that which deals with conscious unfoldment of the divine recognitions (which is true
awareness) to the recognition of the Self, the Knower, the Beholder, the Observer. Ever hold the thought in mind; the initiate has educated himself in the
process of using knowledge in reference to the conscious self-aware Identity, or to the self-contained, self-initiating Individual.
The study of the science of the antahkarana and the deliberate and conscious building of the "rainbow bridge" in "lighted mental substance", produces an
extension in consciousness. This extension marks the first definite attempt made upon the Path to bring in the monadic influence with full awareness, and
finally directly. When the individual antahkarana has been successfully started, and there is even a tenuous thread of living energy connecting the
threefold personality and the Spiritual Triad, then the inflow of the powerful monadic inspired will-energy commences.

When an initiate has mastered his corresponding Word of Power and has found his own major note then he will sound the Ray Word with exactitude and
thus reach the desired end; his alignment will be perfect, the bodies will be pure, the channel free from obstruction, and the higher inspiration will be
possible. This is the aim of the antahkarana bridge building process and can be reached by the right scientific use of the Ray Word, working on the "laws
of the rays", and studying color and sound. Each ray line has its specific forms whereby those results under strict order, rule and law are achieved, The
Ray Words are a form of words, syllables and sounds rhythmically arranged, so that when sounded certain vibrations are generated.
Ultimately, the "sounders "of the Ray Words become the Word of Power itself. This is a profoundly interesting and vast subject. Definite geometrical
forms, built up on the numerical aspect of the seven rays, are the special property of those rays and embody their geometrical significance, demonstrating
their place in the system. It will be wise here for the student to differentiate carefully in his mind between the words of power and their sounds, for the ray
words veils the thought or intended idea or purpose, and the sounds makes it possible to manifest in matter of some kind, on one or other of the seven
planes. I ask you to think carefully over what I have herein given, it contains much. It may give those who wisely assimilate it the ray key they seek for
their next step on.
As the initiate passes more and more along the path of the antahkarana, these ray word-forms assume less and less importance, and only the concentrated
thought, based on understanding comprehension, can achieve the desired results. It is into this somewhat new form of work that I am now pioneering.
Remember that you are not creating now upon the outer plane.
The physical sound or sounds of the Ray words are therefore of relatively no importance. What does matter is the ability to feel the meaning of the Word
of Power as you silently utter it. It is the quality of your idea which will bring the right effect, and not the way in which you make a sound with the aid of
your vocal cords and your mouth. It is your concentrated thought behind the word form, the registered feeling of the Ray Words, and the understanding of
their significance which are of importance; it is the ability to think, to feel and silently to send out the call of quality to quality, of meaning to meaning, of
nature to nature, of form to spirit which matters, remembering ever that that which is found upon the physical plane is not a principle. The physical sound
is not that which will lead to a successful building of the antahkarana.
The following of the process is, of course, another matter and your success is dependent upon more than a theoretical grasp of process. It is dependent
upon your ability to live more definitely in the world of meaning, upon your knowledge of your soul and personality rays and upon your capacity to focus
in your blended consciousness, and from that point - holding the mind steady in the light - "utter the Word of Power which will carry your created thread
of light forward towards the Spiritual Triad." You will note that in all these Ray Words of Power, two clear thoughts emerge; first, that the goal of all
activity is the complete fusion of the three Aspects, and secondly, that consciousness of this comes through the building and use of the rainbow bridge
between the Spiritual Triad and the Personality.
You will note that these are all definite assertions, based on knowledge leading to conviction. The following of the process is, of course, another matter
and your success is dependent upon more than a theoretical grasp of process. It is dependent upon your ability to hold your mind steady in the light and
from that point, utter the Ray Word which will carry your created thread of light forward towards the Spiritual Triad.
You can see from all the above that the conscious effective use of the Ray Words in the antahkarana building constitutes a definitely planned process of a
basic scientific occult nature, and requires as careful following as the procedure of any scientist in search of some advanced chemical formula. The only
difference, scientifically speaking, is that the whole process is carried forward upon subjective levels and in the realm of consciousness.
Forget not, my brothers, I remind you; tthe hierarchical emphasis is today upon the states of consciousness which follow the third initiation. Hence the
giving of these teachings upon the Science of the Antahkarana" coupled with the magical Ray Words of Power. One point I would touch upon here before
taking up the analysis and commentary on the Science of the Antahkarana with the accompanying seven Ray Words. The bridge to be built is called the
"rainbow bridge" because it is composed of all the colors of the seven rays.
The antahkarana is composed of seven strands of energy, or seven streams of force. The initiate uses all the seven rays but his soul ray dominates, and in
his rainbow bridge the "colors of his rays are heard vibrating; the note of his ray is seen."

THE SCIENCE OF THE ANTAHKARANA


ANTAHKARANA 1+5+2+1+8+2+1+9+1+5+1 = 36 = 9.
The word ANTAHKARNA is composed of 11 sounds that produce a [Reduced Alpha Number] value of "9". The symbolism of the two "1's", of the "11"
sounds of the word connote in the initiate's mind the Science of the Antahkarana which is fundamentally the Science of the Path itself. The two "1's stand
for the ingoing and the outgoing energies that constitute two great stations of energy, the 1st "1", for Power and the 2nd "1", for Love.
The Science of the Antahkarana deals with the entire incoming system of energy, with the processes of usage and transformation and fusion. In the second
place it deals with the outgoing energies and their relationship to the environment and is the basis of the science of the force centers. The dual incoming
and the outgoing energies are all directed to the illumination of the individual and of humanity as a whole, through the medium of the Hierarchy composed
of individuals.
The two "1's" placed one on top of the other indicate the dual expression of the basic duality of manifestation - Life and Form, Spirit and Matter. Placed
side-by-side they indicate that personality or form and Monad or Spirit is a related fact.
The two "1's", therefore, stand for the dual nature of the antahkarana that unites the individual "1", with the universal "1". In the system of esoteric
numerology number "11", is spoken of as the "number of the initiate".
Let me explain why this is the case. In numerical symbolism, it is (10+1=11) or the Perfect 10 plus "1" that produces the magical number of the initiate.
Pictorially, we visualize the single straight line or the vertical "1" as representing the figure of "man standing "erect", with the "Perfect 10". I am here
speaking to you in symbols. There is, literally speaking, no up or down or higher and lower, as you know, nor do any of the separative actions as outlined
by the occult sciences exist. Yet the truth has to be thus presented owing to the mind consciousness of the disciple.
In the two "1's", therefore we see the symbolism of the "alignment" between a recognized duality, the razor narrow edged path that lies between the
opposites - the antahkarana. The rainbow bridge must perforce be used, because there is now no other medium of intercourse between the "initiate and the
One Whom he now knows to be himself". He ascends in full consciousness into the sphere of monadic life It is the "11", that is the true symbol of
alignment, involving as it does the sense of duality but indicating at the same time the way through "the walls of limitation."

Ultimately we see the "11", as the outstanding symbol of the individual man with his monadic source. The "11", connotes in the initiate's mind the words
"I and my Father are one". The Monad , or the "1", is dynamic will or purpose; it is Life, the sustaining force, a "Lord of persevering and ceaseless
devotion to the pursuit of a seen and determined objective. The number "11", therefore best stands for the antahkarana itself, and is the symbol of the (the
form aspect) and the power (the Spirit aspect) which acts as a great creative agency and bridges across all barriers and separative states of consciousness,
thus establishing complete unity. The significance of number "9", the [RAN] value of antahkarana, the "number of initiation", is profound.
The Old Commentary says in this connection, when dealing with the Word of Power for each ray:
"When there is no shadow, for the Sun is clear, and no reflection for the water is no more, then naught remains but the one who stands with eyes directing
life and form. The threefold shadow now is one. The three of self exists no more. The higher three descends and all the nine are one. Await the time."
Ever keep firmly in mind; the goal of all the initiatory process is to admit mankind into realization of and identification with the will or purpose of Deity.
In the "nine of initiation" we see the transmuting of the nine forces into divine energies.
The symbolism of the [AN] value of antahkarana, the"36", connects in our minds not only the idea that the antahkarana is composed of three cables but,
further, that its construction process contains six distinctive or successive stages. The number "36", also contains the idea that the antahkarana is sixfold as
each one of its three major cables or strands are dual. These three major threads are in reality six, if the creative thread is differentiated into its component
parts. The initiate is fully consciously aware of this stream of energy in its various diversifications and can consciously employ these energies in two
ways: interiorly in self-unfoldment, and in the service of the plan for humanity.
The Science of the Antahkarana teaches "3", fundamental truths about the thread:
1. The life thread originates from the monad and is anchored in the heart during incarnation. There is the seat of life.

2. The consciousness thread originates from the soul. It is seated in the head. There is the seat of consciousness.

3. The thread of creative activity is constructed by the human being. It is grounded, when constructed, in the throat.
The threefold thread connects:
a. The monad, the soul and the personality, linking all three major aspects and unifying all seven principles.
b. The triple personality and its environment in the three lower worlds
c. The consciously creative man and the world of ideas.
The three words of the complete phrase connote many various triplicities in the initiate consciousness but chief among them are the threefold thread or
"cables" of the rainbow bridge and that the goal of all activity is the complete fusion of the three aspects of the monad: or, monad-soul-personality.
The three monadic centers are distinguished by three different types of energy:
1. Monadic - dynamic energy - electric impulse - pure fire.
2. Egoic - magnetic energy - radiatory impulse - solar fire.
3. Personal - individual energy - rotary impulse - fire by friction.
The "3" symbolizes the three aspects of mind, the "three keys" which permit the initiate to delve into the knowledge, wisdom and reason of the Universal
Mind. It stands for the "triple light" of the Spiritual Triad, and indicates that consciousness of the fusion of the three aspects comes through the building
and use of three factors:
1.The bridge or antahkarana.
2. between the Spiritual Triad.
3. and the Personality.
In the initiate's mind, the three words refer to the simultaneous preservation of three lines of thought:
1. Awareness of the blended personality and soul.
2. Awareness of the point of focused tension.
3. Awareness of the 1st Ray energy in its will aspect.
The three words also signify that the initiate of higher degree utilizes the potencies of "three worlds" to implement the purpose of Sanat Kumara:
1. The world of meaning.
2. The world of causes.
3. The world of being.
The three words also signify the success of the three stages of the process employed in the "miracle of crossing" via the rainbow bridge or antahkarana:
1. Penetration
2. Polarization
3. Precipitation
Finally, the three words assert the fact that the Universal Mind, the higher mind and the lower concrete mind are blended through the projected
antahkarana. The significance of the "6" in the "36", is connected with the six steps or methods of building the Antahkarana:

The six steps or methods of building the Antahkarana.


1. Intention.
a.The achieving of right orientation Towards the soul Towards the Spiritual Triad.
b.A mental understanding of the work to be done is necessary.
c.A ring-pass-not of consciously gathered energies must be created and held in a state of tension.
d. A period of clear thinking anent this process of Intention must be attempted.
e. Then follows the preservation of a point of tension.
2. Visualization.

a.The use of the creative imagination or the picture-making faculty.


b.Response to intuitional or buddhic impression.
c.Preoccupation with two energies: The energy held at a point of tension within the previously created ring-pass-not. The active picture-forming energy
brought into action by the mind of the builder.
3. Projection.
a.The calling in of the will through the method appropriate to the Ray of the disciple, the soul ray.
b.The simultaneous preservation of three lines of thought: Awareness of the blended personality and soul. Awareness of the point of focused tension.
Awareness of the Ray energy in its will aspect.
c. The use of one or other of the seven Ray methods of projection, according to the Ray of the disciple.
d.The use of a Word of Power.
4. Invocation and Evocation.
a. The blended soul and personality are now invocative, and their united intention is expressed in the previous three stages.
b.Then a response comes from the Spiritual Triad, which that intention, propelled by an act of will from a point of tension has evoked.
5. Stabilization.
This is brought about by long patient use of the fourprevious processes and followed by a conscious use of the antahkarana.
6. Resurrection and Ascension.
This is the rising up of the consciousness out of soul and personality limitations (from the angle of the Monad) and its passing into that of the Spiritual
Triad. [RI513]

COMMENTARY ON THE 7 RAY WORDS THE SEVEN WORDS OF POWER


Ray One - "I assert the fact". Number Value: 1
Ray Two - "I see the greatest light" Number Value: 6
Ray three - "Purpose itself am I" Number Value: 6
Ray Four - "Two merge with One" Number Value: 6
Ray Five - "Three Minds unite" Number Value: 4
Ray Six - "The highest Light controls" Number Value: 2
Ray Seven - "The highest and the lowest meet". Number Value: 1
Carefully note how the 1st and the 7th rays both equal the number value of "1". The remaining five Ray Words have number values which relate them to
the feminine 2-4-6 consciousness ray line. Reflect on this. The 1st and 7th ray are masculine polar opposites and represent the two units spirit, the monad,
and matter, or the form.

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