Working With The Will - Bruce Lyon PDF

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Working With the Will / Bruce Lyon.
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Contents
Introduction to Working with the Will................................ 1

Part One.............................................................................. 3
AriesThe Seed............................................................... 5
TaurusThe Diamond Eye............................................ 15
GeminiThe Mystery of Love....................................... 27
CancerThe Instinctual Embrace of Spirit.................... 37
LeoThe Central Spiritual Sun..................................... 47
VirgoThe Blended Dual Light.................................... 55
LibraThe Hub of the Wheel....................................... 69
ScorpioRelease........................................................... 77
SagittariusThe Power of Freedom............................... 85
CapricornInitiation.................................................... 93
AquariusCommunion.............................................. 101
PiscesSacrifice & Surrender...................................... 117
Part Two........................................................................... 127
The Third Approach..................................................... 129
The Black Hole God..................................................... 137
20062007 The Activation of Planetary Will............... 151
The Sun Door at the End of Time................................ 163
The DarknessRavishment of Rape?........................... 171
The Soul is Not Enough............................................... 179
The Will As The Imperative to Shine.......................... 189
Wesak & The Light of Life........................................... 195
Power, Authority & Leadership in Occult Groups........ 203
Peace, Jerusalem & Humanity...................................... 213
Planetary Purpose & The Current World Crisis............ 231
Uranus & Gaia............................................................. 245
Bibliography..................................................................... 255
Introduction To Working with the Will
This series of teachings is designed to assist in the

development of the capacity to transmit the energy of the Will.
These teachings are not intended to replace teachings that focus
primarily on the development of the Intelligence or the Love
aspect but to complement them so that a synthesis results in
the life of service. As disciples become increasingly awareLove
and Light are not enough. Power is also required to bring the
life of the soul in both an individual and planetary sense into
full externalisation. As an individual or group becomes an
expression of Purpose they also become a transmitter of the
energy of planetary purpose. The transmission of this energy
is best likened to the transfer of an electrical charge that
empowersa current of Life.
One symbol for the First Ray is that of lightning.
Lightning is an outer expression of the flow of current between
two electrical poles. As the air between the poles ionises two
things happen simultaneously. The thundercloud sends forth
step leaders which are like flows of plasma extending not
in straight lines but wherever there is an opening to the flow.
The earth at the same time extends streamers of plasma to
meet the descending flows. When the two flows meet there
is the transfer of current and the electrical gap between the
two poles is bridged.
If we relate this phenomenon to the world of spiritual
realities we might think of Shamballa as the source of
planetary purposean energy that is held within the Council
chambera raincloud of energy held within an etheric reservoir.
Humanity is the opposite electrical pole and Hierarchy could
be likened to the dual action of consciousness in bridging
these poles.

Training in working with the Will essentially involves
the dual use of the antahkarana in revealing the sutratma (or
Life thread) as the transmitting agent for planetary purpose.
Shamballa is in charge literally and electrically of planetary
evolution as it expresses through consciousness and matter.
So these teachings are for those who are learning to be
in charge both in an electrical sense as well as in the sense of
a straight line movement through time and space. Those who
are in charge bring to any field a sense of potent presence
and help to invoke and induce alignment with the Life aspect
in the whole field.
Piscean models of leadership personalise and centralise the
concept of being in charge to create a system of static power
exchange between an individual leader and a group. Aquarian
models recognise that leadership is a state of being and not a
fixed personal attribute. It is the One Life which leads and that
Life seeks to reveal itself at the core of all directly, as well as
by transmission through whoever is in charge at a particular
moment in time and space. True power is not an exchange of
authority but the affirmation and revelation of essential Identity.
This revelation is not a static process but a dynamic nuclear
reaction that releases immense reserves of energy that reside
in the very centre of the being.
Life calls to Life. May these teachings serve to assist
in the flashing forth of the electric fire of the Will amongst
the many networks of Light and Love that have been built
around the planet.
Bruce Lyon
Shamballa School

Part One

Working With The Will SeriesTransmission 1
April 2006
AriesThe Seed
What is Meant By The Will?

Normally when we speak of the Will we are referring to
atmathe First Aspect of the triad or the will of the soul.
The atmic plane is the meeting place between Hierarchy and
Shamballa or soul and monad, just as the mental plane forms
the bridge between Hierarchy and Humanity or the soul and
the personality. We make the approach to the monad via the
triad so atma becomes a doorway to the higher Will for the
soul, just as manas is the doorway to contact with the soul
by the personality.
Just as the personality and the soul have a three-fold
division it is also useful to consider the three-fold expression
of the monad on the top three subplanes of the cosmic
physical plane. In this case the Will as we have previously
understood it, becomes the third aspect of a higher trinity or
we must expand what we mean by the Will to refer to the
three-fold monad as a whole.

We might define the three energies of the monad as follows:
1 Logoic Plane Being
2 Monadic Plane Purpose
3 Atmic Plane Will
Being, Purpose and Will are related to the three Shamballic
energies of Purification, Destruction and Organisation.
The first planes of the systemthat of the fire mistis
where the Life that indwells the form of the planet experiences
itself in the purest state. Pure Being as it is experienced on the
cosmic physical plane is a state without distortion or modification
of any kind. It is pure undirected energy.
The second or monadic plane is that of Purpose because
it is here that the pure energy of Life is cohered into a subtle
formthe centre we know as Shamballa. The Council chamber
is a reservoir for the energy of Purpose. Pure energy has now
been contained or focused and directed. Being has chosen

and a divine intention (in-tension) has formed, although in
matter far more refined than that with which we are familiar.
Once a Being has purpose it is no longer able to dwell only
in the purity of its undivided state. It has said, in effect Yes
and No. A subtle duality has arisen that provides an energetic
direction or fiat.
Once there is purpose or choice then there arises a
natural duality between those elements and lives within the
ring-pass-not that are in alignment with that purpose and
those which are not. This plane is related to the energy of
Destruction because once the great Yes sounds then also
the great No is heard. Purpose creates a wave of directional
impulse that both gives rise to and pushes against resistance.
It is the source of evolutionary striving and involutionary
resistance. In addition, because all lives within the ring-pass-
not are also imbued with differing degrees of this capacity
to choose, the One Life may encounter active and conscious
resistance to his Purpose.
The third or atmic plane of the system is where the
energy of Purpose held on the monadic plane is actively
expressed as Will. This relates to the Shamballic energy of
Organisation, for it is here that the Purpose is formulated
into the Plan. When we think of formulating a plan we
tend to see it as that process which occurs in mental matter
when humans take the energy of an idea and attempt to
create a vision or mission with specific time and space goals.
What is referred to above is a higher octave of this process.
To the Masters an idea such as brotherhood or democracy
or the greater good of the planet is already a dense material
expression. It is the energy of Life that underlies ideas and
gives them a livingness that is being-formulated into the Plan
on atmic levels. The Masters commune together to consider
which great ideas must be vivified in a coming cycle and which

must be devitalised. In this way they organise the Life which
is conditioned by the buddhic ashrams and generates lighted
thoughtforms on the levels of abstract mind, which in their
turn inspire the leading thinkers of humanity. It is thus that
human civilisations rise and fall.
Finally it should be noted that for those who have freed
themselves from the cosmic physical plane altogether and are
functioning upon the cosmic astral, the Will refers to the
energies of the cosmic mental plane, the first in a higher trinity
that comprises the cosmic personality. In turn, to a Solar Logos
functioning in the triad, the Will refers to the solar monad
expressing on the three highest cosmic planes.
The purpose of developing conscious contact with the
Will aspect by any entity is preliminary to a synthesis of any
three aspects and the shifting of the identity into the next
level.
Alignment with the Will & Resting in Being

While we may be unable to shift our identity into the monadic
planes until after the Fifth Initiation it is possible to align with
these energies, invoke them and have them operating within
the consciousness of the disciple, resulting in an acceleration
of the initiatory process.
It should be realised that the Will energies are already
operating via the sutratma or Life thread anchored in the heart.
When we align in consciousness via the antahkarana and throw
our solarised personal will on the side of spirit, we can widen
the channel for the inflowing Life-stream.
The monad as the essential self has a dual nature which
corresponds to Purusha and Prakritithat essential duality
which underlies all manifestation. The unity of Being expressing
on the first plane divides, like the horns of Aries, into the
subtle duality of Purpose and Will on the next two planes.

Purpose is passive and holding corresponding to Purusha. Will
is active and expressing corresponding to Prakriti.
In the consciousness of the disciple approaching the
monad, this basic duality is expressed in an unusual paradox
which we can refer to as the Vishnu paradox because it has
to do with the nature of consciousness itself. The paradox
expresses itself through two qualities that are developing in
the inner lifethose of striving and surrender.
Most of the psychological difficulties that arise for those
working with the Will aspect are the result of an imbalance
between these dualities. When synthesis is achieved its
expression is the so-called effortless effort of the uni-horned
initiate.
Striving relates to the world of becoming and the active
energy of Will. Surrender relates to the world of Being and the
passive energy of Purpose. Striving allows the consciousness to
penetrate to the heights and the depthsto take the kingdom
of heaven by storm and to implement the monadic purpose
on the physical plane. Surrender allows the consciousness to
realise it is not separate and has never been separate from the
very purpose to which it seeks to relate. Striving leads the soul
to the doorway of higher evolution and Surrender allows for
passage through that door.
From the perspective of the human soul as a member of
the Fourth Hierarchy on the buddhic plane, we penetrate into
the monadic mysteries in reverse order. First we experience the
Will through an encounter with the Will aspect of the triadal
soul. This impact relates us to the Plan and our ashramic place
in that Plan. This experience, however brief, is summed up by
the words Father, not my will but thine be done. The extremity
of the soul in service as it attempts to carry out that Plan and
express that Will, brings forth an experience of the Purpose
that lies behind Will.

This Purpose is not the Plan, nor the Will that
implementsit is not a time and space defined outcome. It
is a reservoir of energy that already contains the outcome and
the time and space in which this occurs. The experience carries
with it the unshakeable realisation that nothing can hinder
the implementation of that Purpose in the five worlds because
those worlds are all inherently an expression of that Purpose.
The Purpose already IS. It is the energy that underlies all
manifested or directed Life. The great battle between the will
of the soul on the atmic plane and the will of the planetary
entity on the physical plane comes to an end as these wills
are seen as a dual expression of the one Purpose.
The first plane or adi is where that energy of Life or
pure Being can be experienced by the Fourth Hierarchy or
the human soul. Penetration involves the experience of Life
Itself before it becomes contained or directed on the second
and third planes. Pure Being has no possessions, no purpose
and is unaware of any separation or division. Therefore it is
the only place of true peace on the planet.
It is important to remember in this analysis that the
higher planes are not the source of this Life but are states or
vibrational levels of matter in which the soul can experience
that Life and learn to identify with it. It is the soul which
is experiencing these higher energies and thus they still form
part of the experience of consciousness rather than of monadic
Life Itself.
We can make this clearer by analogy. It is possible for
the disciple polarised in his abstract mind to venture into the
realms of buddhi, but this will be a different experience than
actually leaving mind and entering into the buddhic experience
nakedfree from the cloth of manas.
Similarly an initiate below the Fifth Degree is able to
penetrate via his atmic sheath into the realms of the monad
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even though he may be unable to transfer his identity there.
Indeed it is the capacity of the soul to penetrate into the
heights which is a prerequisite to being able to externalise itself
fully on the physical plane. On a global level this is why it
has been important to build the higher antahkarana between
Hierarchy and Shamballa at the same time as the lower bridge
between Hierarchy and Humanity, to provide the Life energy
necessary for the Externalisation process.
Striving allows the soul, as the soul, to penetrate into
the higher mysteries by directly experiencing the vibrational
states on the highest three subplanes of the cosmic physical
plane AND to externalise itself through directly expressing
on the lower three subplanes as well. Surrender allows the
soul to be penetrated by both higher and lower energies and
thus provides a sheath of fire for the transfer of the highest
into the lowest and the lifting of the lowest into the highest.
Striving expands consciousness so that it is able to penetrate
and en-lighten more and more of the Third Aspect. Surrender
allows consciousness to be a conduit for the energies that
are unconscious and superconscious to relate to each other.
Surrender and Striving together, rhythmically applied, create
a field for the revelation of that which lies deeper than both
consciousness and matterthe energy of Life Itself.
A practical example of the difference and complementary
nature of Striving and Surrender as they relate to the transfer
of identity from the personality to the soul:
We are told that there comes a time in the life of
every disciple where a mental proposition must be created
that embodies their understanding of the Purpose of deity.
Through study and intuition the disciple articulates his best
understanding of this Purpose. He then proceeds to formulate
his understanding of the divine Plan and the Hierarchical
intention for the present cycle.
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Again through research, study and intuition he may
identify his own ray make-up, ashramic affiliation, soul purpose
and the piece of his Masters work for which he has taken
responsibility. Extending the process, he may identify specific
time and space goals that he intends to achieve (for example,
in this coming twelve month period), in alignment with this
Plan and Purpose. He then utilises all his resources in the
implementation process. This is all an example of Striving.
On the other hand we are told that the essential purpose
of Sanat Kumara is unknown, unseen and unheard.1 Not only
do we not know it but we cannot know it (and yet we ARE
it) for it has its essential life and location beyond the access
of the mind. Further, the soul does not have a purposepart
of its essential nature is Purpose. It is impossible to become
something that one is not already, therefore the path of Surrender
calls us to discover or uncover that which lies unrealised at the
core of our own Being-nature outside the time/space world of
evolutionary becoming.
Striving creates the conditions for mastery of a plane
or sphere of activity. Surrender creates the conditions for the
entry into that plane of higher energies and for the exit from
that plane of the indwelling identity. Striving creates the jewel.
Surrender allows for the transmission of energy through the
jewel and the transfer of Life from it.
And yetit is impossible to achieve Being by Striving, for
Being is the source of all Striving as well as what is striven for.
It is impossible to experience Being by Surrender, for Being is
the source of all Surrender as well as that which is surrendered
to. Even sowhen Striving and Surrender balance each
other and all action (however subtle) ceases, then Being is
revealed as ever present. On the seventh day (and seventh
plane counting up) God rests and we, as one with God,
may rest in Being.
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Aries provides an opportunity to penetrate through the
duality of Will and Purpose into the Will-to-be. So before
contemplating any ongoing work or new initiatives over this
Aries full Moon time, consider the synthetic yet dualistic
aspects of the Striving and Surrender paths when seeking
effective alignment with the Purpose of deity. And then step
for just a moment off both paths altogether and rest in the
ever present eternitythe pure font of Being.
The Mantram of Life

There is no soul.
There is no time.
There is no space.
There is only Life.
One Life.
This Life I am.
My will is for all my lesser selves
to know me at their core as the essence,
the beginning and the end of their existence.
It is thus, as the One Life, I LIVE
1. Alice A Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, Lucis Trust Publishing
Company, New York, 1961, p.241.
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May 2006
TaurusThe Diamond Eye
The mineral kingdom is governed astrologically by Taurus,

and there is a symbolic relation between the eye in the
head of the Bull, the third eye, the light in the head,
and the diamond. The consciousness of the Buddha has
been called the diamond-eye.1
In Taurus the non-dual becomes the dual (or jewel) and

we enter the mystery of desire. Much has already been given
in the literature concerning the relationship of desire and Will.
Due to the identification of human consciousness with desire,
spiritual teachings have emphasisedvariouslyits indulgence,
its repression or its transmutation into aspiration. More advanced
teachings focus on understanding the cause of desire, dis-
identifying with it and the development of the spiritual Will as
a higher counterpoint to offset it.
In this current paper I would like to talk about
the transfiguration of desire. A dictionary definition of
transfiguration is a transformation that serves to exalt or
glorify.2 The word glory has a particular relationship to the
Third Aspect and to the demonstration or revelation of the
divinity in form. While we all know in theory that matter is
divine, the Seventh Ray Age will demonstrate the reality of
this truth.
The diamond represents the epitome of the mineral
kingdom and the diamond soul in turn represents the flower
of the human kingdom. In both cases the diamond stands
both for the perfection of form and its capacity to transmit
light. At the Third Initiation when in the human being soul
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and form are brought together, the revelation of the jewel
in the lotus is the revelation of their essential dual unity3
and allows the monadic Will to be transmitted into the
three worlds.
Now another duality appears to the human soul released

onto the buddhic planethat of spirit and matter. The soul
stands between the formless worlds of the Father that call
to abstraction and the substantial worlds of the Mother that
call for sacrificial descent. The Son principle must expand in
both directions and attempt to reconcile this dual experience.
In effect we have therefore a trinitythe Father aspect or
monad, the Mother aspect or personality and the Son aspect
or the triadal soul.
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Just as there is that which synthesises the trinity of mind,
emotions and body, there is also that which synthesises the
trinity of monad, soul and personality. This emerging fourth
energy is cosmic desire as it expresses from the cosmic astral
plane and therefore forms the desire body of the Logos,
seeking to unite with and express through the cosmic physical
plane. Desire as we know it is a lower expression of spiritual
Will, but what we call spiritual Will is also a lower aspect of
desirecosmic desire. Thus we see how the energies of desire
and Will form an interlocking whole.
Spiritual Will (monad), pure reason (soul) and astral
desire (personality) are a three-fold expression on the cosmic
physical plane of cosmic desire, and therefore represent
sentiency or the soul aspect of the Logos operating in form.
The cause therefore of humanitys suffering is not desire itself
but the operation of that desire separated off from its higher
counterparts. Desire is a divine energy reserved for the final
descent of sentiency into form.
Just as the human soul is seeking to fuse with its
personality, so the Logos is seeking to fuse his cosmic
astral body with his cosmic physical. The monad, soul
and personality are like three camps established for a
mountain ascent, although in this case it is a descent, for
the mountain peak is the physical plane and reaching the
summit is the equivalent of the Externalisation of the
Hierarchy. The final summit ascent camp (the personality)
has lost contact with its mid camp (the soul) and is
marooned on the peak (or in the depths), retaining only
the memory of (desire for) the material world. Building
the antahkarana allows the three camps to reconnect with
each other and the personality to remember its mission.
Once this is achieved it will be realised that desirethat
most problematic of energiesis the very fuel needed to
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fully externalise the planetary soul. Disciples will once
again become passionate but it will be a divine passion
that consummates a heavenly marriage.
The summit of this reversed ascent is Aquarius and it is

in the Age ahead of us that Light Supernal will be known
on Earth. Light Supernal is a seven-fold light or a synthesis of
all seven rays. For it to operate on the physical plane it also
requires a synthesis of consciousness on the seven planes. An
analogy is to see the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical
as a flute and the cosmic astral energy as the breath that
sounds each of the different notes. There is one intentone
breathone anima mundi that is the sentient nature of deity
playing throughout creation. Sentiency in all kingdoms IS the
Unmanifest pervading the Manifest. Just as the soul eventually
infuses all three vehicles of the personality, so cosmic desire
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(carrying cosmic buddhi) is seeking to infuse the cosmic
physical plane via the triplicity of Shamballa, Hierarchy and
Humanity.
These three centres when functioning properly,
correspond to the transmitting Will, transforming Will and
transfiguring Will respectively, and are a differentiated synthesis
of the transcendent Will which is cosmic desire free from all
identification with the cosmic physical plane.
Another way of expressing this is to say that they are
the causal, subtle and gross divisions of the Manifest universe,
while the cosmic astral plane is the Unmanifest. When the
two are brought together Brahman and Samsara are one.
Of course this duality of the Manifest and Unmanifest is
only an apparent duality, but it is real in consciousness. For
example, we are taught that the Buddha returns to Earth
once a year at Wesak, but it should be remembered that
in the timeless and spaceless Reality there is nowhere else
from which he might return and no time in which he is not
present. Just as the Christ links Humanity with Shamballa
via the Hierarchy, the Buddha links the synthetic triplicity of
Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity with the cosmic astral
plane because his primary identification is there. However
the two cosmic planes are only apparently and not actually
separate. By way of analogy, try directing your consciousness
into your thumb. The thumb may become momentarily
energised by the directed attention but it is never really
separated from the consciousness as a whole.
The Risen Christ is a living reality to those who have
built the lower antahkarana. The Risen Buddha is a living
reality to those who have built the higher antahkarana. The
Reappearance of the Christ and the Return of the Buddha
are therefore terms which refer to the directed attention
of these beings who have expanded their identification to
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include much vaster spheres of experience than we are able
to encompass. The Buddha and the Christ cooperate with the
Avatar of Synthesis in order to reveal to the various kingdoms
of consciousness operating on the cosmic physical plane their
ever present interdependence as part of one system. They are
aided by the fact that the atomic subplanes of each plane
form one vibrational whole that we might term the jewel of
the cosmic physical plane.
The jewel is a six-pointed star with the buddhic plane

as its centre; or in three dimensions it can be viewed as an
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octahedronone of the platonic solids. The descent of the
transcendent Will from the cosmic astral plane follows a
diagonal lightning path. In the human part of the system
we can see how the Will energy enters the crown chakra (7)
directly from the jewel in the lotus (5) or via the astral head
centre (6). On a cosmic scale there are likewise two energies
entering Shamballathe synthesis of the cosmic astral plane
(sentiency) and the synthesis of the cosmic mental plane (Will)
via the Logoic jewel in the lotus.
There comes a time in the development of the human
being when the central point of each chakra is operating
synthetically and therefore the seven chakras are operating as
a single system transmitting the monadic Will via the jewel
in the lotus. At this stage it can be said of the microcosm
that the Will of God is known on Earth. When the seven
kingdoms of nature are similarly operating, then the current
of Will from Shamballa will be flowing through all levels.
The New Group of World Servers is in effect those members
of the lower triangleHumanityin which the jewel is
beginning to be revealed. As there is really only one jewel
they form the transmitting centre on the highest mental plane
(5) that is also intimately linked with those who are identified
with the will of the masses on the astral plane (6) and an
emerging group that represents the will of the indigenous
peoples that vibrate to the energy of the first subplane of the
physical/etheric (7).
A Shamballa impact is effectively the running of current
through the jewel or Life thread, and this current both energises
the whole system as well as bringing to light (consciousness)
any blocks there are to the flow of cosmic electricity.
The Planetary Logos is seeking to express his Will
on Earth via the three centres of Shamballa, Hierarchy
and Humanity. The Solar Logos expresses his Will through
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the solar system via the three synthetic planetsUranus,
Neptune and Saturn. Uranus, the lightning God, is the
First Aspect of this trinity and it is his energy that works
through a lesser triangle of Vulcan, Earth and Pluto. In the
combined glyphs of these three planets we once again have
the jewel or octahedron. This mystery is revealed through the
hierarchical astrological rulerships of the first four liberated
Hierarchies on the cosmic astral plane.
Uranus - The Synthesiser
Pluto - 1st Ray Personality
Earth - 1st Ray Monad
Vulcan - 1st Ray Soul
The Solar Will Diamond
The Fifth Hierarchy (or Eighth) is trying to free

itself from the cosmic physical plane altogether and is
therefore the higher correspondence to the Fifth (or
Tenth) Hierarchy operating on the mental plane of the
cosmic physical.
Taurus is ruled by Vulcan, and at the Wesak time the
transcendent Will is directed downwards into the cosmic
physical plane in its rhythmic hammering of the form into
a translucent jewel that will be able to take and transmit,
eventually, the cosmic Will.
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God is directing his conscious gaze to our part of creation
and that gaze is directed through the eye created by the Buddha
and the Christ (already diamond-souled) as part of a planetary
project designed to make of the Earth a precious jewel able
to perfectly reflect and transmit the Will of the One. For the
myth of Indras net teaches us that each jewel is a holographic
expression of each other jewel.
In Aries we reach through into the pure current of
Being. In Taurus that current evokes the crystalline form
or the jewel through which that current must be passed.
The Life energy destroys (Pluto), purifies (Vulcan) and
organises (Earth) the duality of form and consciousness so
that synthesis can be revealed. Synthesis allows the seven-fold
nature to be experienced as one, whether this is the seven
chakras of an individual, the seven ashrams of Hierarchy or
the seven sacred planets. They form an Aquarian hierarchy
or holarchy where all levels are recognised as being divine.
When it is realised that the goal of the personality is the
crown chakra but the goal of the monad is the base chakra,
then the 1/7 or Shiva/Shakti duality is resolved and the
battle between spirit and matter is over for the individualised
consciousness or soul. And this battle can end no matter
which plane of the cosmic physical plane that the consciousness
is operating on.
Desire is a problem for humanity because seventy-five percent
of human souls are polarised on the astral plane. The polarisation
is not a problemit is the identification with the matter of that
plane that is the problem. If we are identified with the agnisuryans
that make up our astral nature then we are moved by desire rather
than allowing it to move through us.
The transfiguration of desire does not involve its
transmutation or transformation. It does not seek to raise
the energy to a higher level or to sublimate its expression.
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Transfiguration is the radical release of identity from the forms
through which that identity is functioning, resulting in their
glorification. The education of humanity resulting in the gradual
repolarisation of large numbers onto the mental plane will
gradually proceed, but it should be realised that humanity, just
as it is right now, IS serving the Life aspect in its transcendent
nature and could also consciously serve the Life aspect as it is
transmitted through Shamballa if it were able to awaken to the
true nature and function of desireor worded another wayto
realise the divine nature of desire.
Indeed it will be through the very energy of desire that
the Christ (the Desire of all Nations4) will be able to reach
through to expression on the physical plane. The transfiguration
of desire is rapidly occurring and for those with eyes to
see, humanity in larger and larger numbers is beginning to
yearn for and demand spiritual life. The consummation of
this transfiguration will occur when the money of the world
(which is largely controlled by the energy of desire) begins
to flow more and more rapidly towards those creations that
are consciously imbued with higher energies. We are familiar
with the association Venus (as exoteric ruler of Taurus) has
with money through terms such as interest, appreciation and
value. Vulcan (esoteric and hierarchical ruler of Taurus) as a
representative of the Uranian First Aspect also has an association
visible through the linking of words such as current (currency),
charge and volt (vault).
After connecting with our transcendent being in Aries,
it is in Taurus that we experience the charge of that being
towards the manifest worlds of the cosmic physical plane. If
the desire of the Logos for manifestation ended, then so would
that manifestation. As human beings we are all sons of that
desire in some form or another, and when we allow it to flow
through us without being moved by itit is that desire which
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organises our physical plane life in such a way that it is able
to handle the descent of the Life principle.
As souls we are gradually being built into the synthetic
jewel which is the great Ashram of Sanat Kumara. Across all
divisions of race, religion, philosophy or politics we come
together in the blue-white fire to transmit the energy of
synthesis, of Light Supernal, through the three worlds.
We also recognise that in the very depths of solar
incarnation that is planet Earth, a cosmic diamond is being
fashioned that will be able to transmit a cosmic Will, and so at
Wesak we stand and withstand along with our brothers the
Buddha and the Christ so that the dead may be raised to
Life.
1. Alice A Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol.1, Lucis Trust Publishing

2. http://www.thefreedictionary.com
3. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol.1, p.228.
4. Alice A Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol.2, Lucis Trust
Publishing Company, New York, 1955, p.426.
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June 2006
GeminiThe Mystery of Love
Let me begin with a few orientating statements.

Love is the effect of the realisation of the non-dual within
the dual realm.
Relationship is possible because there IS only ONE.
The birth of the third from the second is possible because
of the first.
To understand duality we must go to its source. It arises
before the manifestation of the universe and so is inherent in
our Kosmos. Its prototype is Prakriti and Purushathe universal
principles of spirit and matter. The whole manifest universe in
both its gross and subtle forms is Prakriti. The energising Life
or spirit of the universe is Purusha. They arise together but
they are not intrinsically separate. At their coretheir rootless
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rootthey are not other than the One Boundless Immutable
Principle which cannot be conceptualised. It can never be
nameda kind of abstract One About Whom Naught May
be Said, but equally it Can Never Not Be Mentioned!
When we speak of duality sometimes it is this basic
division of spirit and matter (within the manifest universe)
that is referred to and sometimes it is the dual division of
the Manifest and Unmanifest universethe Day and Night
of Brahma.
He who knows at the same time both the Unmanifested
and the destructible or manifested, he crosses over
death through knowledge of the destructible and attains
immortality through knowledge of the first cause.1
HPB in The Secret Doctrine refers to the One Boundless
Immutable Principle as Sat or Be-nessthat which is beyond
both Being and Non-Being. It is the One without a second.
Once the universe begins to arise there becomes twothe realm
of the Unmanifest or Non-Being and the realm of the Manifest
or Beingthis latter itself dual as spirit/matter or Life. Within
manifestation then there arises a thirdthat which becomes
consciousfirst of the duality within manifestation and then
of the duality between manifestation and non-manifestation.
This third or relating principle is a self , made possible
because of the original Self. The analogy in human experience
is of a human child generated from two parents. In one sense
the child is the result of the parents union and in another
sense (the soul of the child coming into manifestation) it is
the cause of their union. The Son principle then is both the
result of the union of spirit and matter and the evidence of
the fact that they were never two but one.
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h e Absolute
T
First Logos - The
Unmanifest
Unmanifest
Non Being
Second Logos -
Spirit/Matter - Life
Manifest
Being
Third Logos -
Fohat

Sat or Be-ness
In Taurus we discovered that it was the pervasion of

the Manifest by the Unmanifest that produced sentiency.
In Gemini we discover that it is the reality of Be-ness that
produces within sentiency the experience of a self . This is
why the sign of Gemini is related to individualisation and the
founding of Hierarchy upon the Earth.
Within the manifest realm of the Solar Logos (the
three cosmic planes) the three primary abstractions have their
correspondences in the following way:
Be-ness cosmic mental plane
Unmanifest cosmic astral plane
Manifest cosmic physical plane
The cosmic physical plane can further be divided into
form and formless, or spirit and matter. At the mid-point
on the buddhic plane the Fourth or human Hierarchy
comes into conscious expression. A small piece of the solar
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identity coalesces within the sentiency that pervades the
fourth cosmic ether. The birth of the Son on the fourth
cosmic ether is a direct correspondence to the appearance
of the physical Sun on the fourth etheric plane. This Son
then extends a piece of itself into the higher mental plane
and an individuality is experienced. The soul manifests and
can say I am.
The Son is the principle of Light or consciousness that
arises between the two darknessesthat of pure spirit and
that of pure matter. In reality these two darknesses are the
same for there is no real duality. The analogy on the physical
plane is the darkness of inert matter where the Being pole
is present but latent as charge. Conversely in the darkness of
a black hole the matter pole is present but latent as mass.
The Son partakes of both parents but its origin lies beyond
them. He is responsible for the radioactivity of matter through
the arousing of the kundalini fire and the potency of spirit
through the descent into manifestation of electric fire. He is
the Willto Lovein Action.
When the Son identifies with his material parent
we have the analogy of planethooda solid separate sense
of identity as matter. As a star, a Son is radioactive and
corresponds to the causal body at the time of the Third
Initiation. At the Fourth Initiation the Son is beginning
to identify with his spiritual parent and his identity is no
longer centered on itself but has become identified with the
light it is radiating. The causal body is released and the Son
experiences himself as the light of the ashram (galaxy) as a
whole. At the Fifth Initiation his identification is moving
into the dark spirit centre or the monad. Thus the Third,
Fourth and Fifth Initiations and planes are those of the Son
and can be summed up as follows:
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I as matter, spirit. I must arise and go to my Father.2
The Mystery Of Electricity.
I as spirit-matter Am. I and the Father are One.3 The
Mystery of Polarity.
I as spirit, matter. I leave the Fathers Home and turning
back, I save.4 The Mystery of Fire Itself.
The descent of the Sun to Earth is the key motif that
underlies the lesser mysteries and is epitomised for us in the
Christian story by the birth of the Christ at the winter solstice.
The revelation of what lies behind the Sun as a result of its
birth, crucifixion and resurrection is the motif of the greater
mysteries and is summed up for us in the Gayatri Unveil
to us the face of the true spiritual Sun.5 (See the following
paper on the Sun door.)
The physical representation of this process is made
apparent to us at the time of the Gemini full Moonthe
Christs unique festival. From the perspective of the Earth,
the Sun stands between the pillars of Gemini and the
Moon lies in the direction of Sagittarius and the galactic
centre.
It is interesting to discover that the hierarchical ruler
of Gemini is the Earth itself, which is a non-sacred
planet. The Earth is also the esoteric ruler of Sagittarius,
the polar opposite of Gemini. These are the only two
constellations ruled by the Earth, and this fact is of
major significance, creating an unusual situation in the
solar system and a unique relation. The cosmic line
of force from Gemini to Sagittarius and the reverse is
subjectively and esoterically related to our Earth, thus
guaranteeing its soul development, the unfoldment of
form as an expression of that soul, and leading our
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sorrowful humanity upon this woeful planet inevitably
to the very gate of initiation in Capricorn.
When the dual forces of the cosmic brothers (Gemini)
become the energy of the one who rides towards the
light (Sagittarius) then the fourth becomes the fifth.
Humanity, the link, becomes the Hierarchy, the bestower
of all good. Then all the Sons of God rejoice.6
On the current full Moon there is also an alignment
between the three planets of the solar diamondEarth, Vulcan
and Plutowith the latter conjunct the galactic centre (or our
cosmic Shamballa) in the same way that Sirius expresses the
cosmic Christ. Within the manifest universe our identification
expands along the following evolutionary sequence:
individual planetary solar galactic universal
We uncover our individual soul purpose and find this is not
fundamentally separate from the planetary purpose held in
Shamballa. This in turn is an aspect of the solar purpose,
which is an aspect of the galactic purpose, which is an aspect
of the universal Purpose. This latter is the One universal Life
or Being. Beyond this is the realm of the Unmanifest or Non-
Being and beyond this is the Absolute. Just as the lesser is
physically present within the greater, the greater is spiritually
present within the lesser. The universe exists within a grain
of sand just as a grain of sand exists within the universe.
It is this non-dual truth which lies behind the dangers
of the premature release of the Shamballa force. The energy
of Shamballa universalises the Son or consciousness aspect.
If that consciousness is identified with its material self or
personality then the result is egoic inflation, the increasing
assertion of self will and the urge to dominate. The grain of
sand begins to think of itself AS the beach instead of beach
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consciousness arising within the grain. The consciousness is
only freed from identification with the personality at the Third
Degree and so it is at this stage that the monadic influence
can be safely handled. The influence of Sirius and the energy
that pulls away from form also becomes vital in the inner
life, and the link therefore between Gemini, Sirius and the
higher mysteries is apparent.
In a planetary sense therefore, the entrance of the
Shamballic force at this time in the planetary evolution both
requires a significant number of Third Degree initiates in order
to correctly wield it, and at the same time is the causative
factor in producing them and moving them into positions of
influence within human society prior to the Externalisation of
the planetary soul or Sun.
The Shamballic force is released through the jewel and
corresponds to the revelation within consciousness of that which
lies behind the Sun. It is the electric fire of the Father made
available to the Son in order to give him the power to fully
manifest on Earth. It has the effect of making the causal body
radioactive and eventually results in its disintegration altogether
and the release of the indwelling Life onto the buddhic plane. It
is the descent of Masters of the Fifth Initiation into incarnation
which is the self same impulse that will result in the release
of large numbers of humanity in taking the Third Initiation.
This relationship between the Fifth and the Third to produce
the Fourth is the counterpart in the realm of initiation to the
same process which produced individualisation and the fourth
kingdom in nature.
Again you find the note of duality in the relationship...
between the third kingdom of nature, the animal
kingdom and the kingdom of God or of souls, the fifth
kingdom in nature, thus producing the fourth or human
kingdom. Between these two the influences play from
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Sagittarius to Gemini and vice versa. It was the activity of
Venusunder the influence of Geminiwhich produced
the great crisis of the individualisation when the two
kingdoms approached each other. Venus, Mercury and
the Earth then set up a magnetic field which made the
intervention of the Great Lodge on Sirius and the dual
stimulation of Gemini effective in producing significant
results of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the
expression. The fact that Gemini is the third sign and
embodies what is called a third potency enabled it to
reach, with its force, the third kingdom and produce
that reaction which resulted in the individualising or
the humanising of its higher forms of life. You will note
that Venus is also the hierarchical ruler of Capricorn,
thus showing the power of the mind and its place and
purpose in connection with both the major human crises:
Individualisation and Initiation. It relates humanity in an
unique way to Gemini. In the coming world religion this
fact will be noted and in the month of June, which is
essentially the month in which the influences of Gemini
are peculiarly strong, due advantage will be taken in
order to bring man nearer to the spiritual realities. Just
as Venus was potent in producing the relation of such
pairs of opposites as the fifth kingdom of souls and the
third kingdom (the synthesis of the sub-human kingdoms)
leading to a Great Approach between soul and form, so
in the new world religion this fact will be recognised.
Appeal will be made to the Forces which can utilise this
planetary potency in order to work out the divine plan
upon the Earth.7
Gemini rules the etheric body and it is through the
planetary ethers that the electric fire is transmitted in order
to set the body of Christ alight, restore the mysteries and
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manifest the Plan on Earth. The Hierophant of the Mysteries is
the planet UranusWielder of Electric fire and the One who
operates through the triplicity of the solar diamond. His is the
lightning flash which reveals the face of true spiritual Sun. In
Esoteric Astrology Uranus is also given the name The Source
of Duality and He who relates.8 The Pillars that he stands
between and beyond as Hierophant are the pillars of Gemini,
the great sign of the Love principle, and it is this combined
symbol which we invoke with the words of the second verse
of the Great Invocation: May Christ Return to Earth.9
1. Isa Upanishad, transl. Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna-

Vivekananda Center, New York, 1975.
2. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p.635.
3. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol.2, p.468.
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4. Alice A Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, Lucis Trust Publishing Company,
New York, 1951, p.654.
6. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p.356.
7. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, pp.3545.
8. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p 247.
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July 2007
CancerThe Instinctual Embrace of Spirit
The secret of the Mutable Cross concerns itself with

form and its transcendence and is summed up in the words:
The robe, the robe, the beautiful robe of my strength no
longer serves. The secret of the Fixed Cross concerns itself
with the soul and is revealed in the words on the Cross My
God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me.1 The secret of
the Cardinal Cross is the secret of Life Itself and might be
inadequately expressed in the phrase There was only, ever
One.
These three Crosses concern themselves with the evolution
of consciousness that first identifies itself with form, then with
the soul, and finally with the Life principle, only to discover
that there was only one identity permeating the entire universe
all along and that we are eternally it. In order to discover this
we must first develop a separated identity that this mystery
can be revealed to. Gradually the One is then known by each
of its parts.
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Cancer is the sign of mass consciousness and incarnation.
The Light of Life emerging in Aries desires manifestation in
Taurus, enters through the pillars of Gemini, spreads throughout
the group in Cancer, focuses to a point in Leo and is birthed
into the wider field in Virgo.
We are familiar with this process as it concerns
consciousness. The soul entered during the time of Gemini,
became mass consciousness in Cancer and focused into the
individualised soul in Leo.
A similar process occurs when we concern ourselves
with the Life principle and its entry into the consciousness
of humanity with the resultant formation of the New Group
of World Servers and the release of the energy of synthesis
happening all around us for those with eyes to see.
We are told that the light associated with Cancer is the
dark light of matter.2 We are aware that the Light of Life
issuing from Shamballa is also called a dark light.3 These
two dark lights, together with the light of the soul, make up
a triplicity which is in reality One.
The Light of the soul between the dark light of

matter and the dark light of Shamballa
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The light of the planetary soul enters the lower darkness
of matter through the New Group of World Servers and the
Light of Life enters Hierarchy via the Masters at the centre
of the ashrams. The Master Morya presides over the ashrams
on the atmic plane whose function it is to add darkness unto
light so that the stars appear.4
The cycle of invoking the higher darkness over the three
spiritual festivals culminated in the entrance of that energy
at the time of Gemini. During the full Moon of Cancer this
entering dark light should spread throughout the group field
before being focused to a point at the time of the Leo full
Moon.
How are we to understand the spreading of this energy?
A clue lies in the fact that Cancer is an instinctual sign. The
instinct for self-preservation operates somewhat unconsciously or
automatically, particularly in stressful environments. The higher
octave of the self-preservation instinct is what we might call
the spiritual instinct or the will for the good of the whole.
Both instincts operate without conscious thought. We
have an impulse and we take action. An example would be a
situation of danger in a battle. If the consciousness is identified
predominantly with the separated self then the instinct for
self-preservation overwhelms the decision-making self. If the
consciousness is identified primarily with the One, then the
instinct for Self -preservation overwhelms the decision-making
self. In both cases action is taken without thought, but the
direction of that action may lie 180 degrees apart.
The straight knowledge of the intuition is associated
with the higher instinct, while what we might call the animal
instincts are associated with the lower. The important point is
that it is exactly the same energy that produces both instinctual
reactionswhich one will manifest depends upon the
consciousness (or soul) principle that is operating. Hence we see
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that the release of the Shamballic force into the Human centre
can only take place without destructive consequences when
there is a core within the human field capable of responding
to it via the higher instinct, and it is for this purpose that
the educational project undertaken by the Hierarchy has been
forwarded over the last two centuries.
When this higher instinct is operating in a group
field what is experienced is a synchronicity revealing
common purpose or synthesis. Synthesis is different than
unity. Unity is the result of a process whereby individuals
are drawn together by a common vision or purpose that
is already known to them and is developed through group
interaction. Synthesis is the cause of a process whereby
individuals are drawn together through a synchronous
instinctual response to a purpose which is revealed to them
and through them as a result of group interaction. This is
an important distinction.
An initiated group will eventually be able to operate as
a spiritual organism united in ashramic consciousness,
moving in the inner and outer worlds as a flock of
birds moves through the air, driven not by instinctual
connection that is pre-individualisation but by the
spiritual Will of the ashram which is post-individual
and synthetic.5
The energy of planetary Purpose or Will is entering the
consciousness of humanity and is resulting in the re-organising
through resonance of those capable of responding to it. The
result is the building of a new field of relationship within
which this energy can find expression. We are familiar with
the keynote of Cancer I build a lighted house and therein
dwell.6 Normally we associate this with the soul and the causal
body as the Heart of the Sun. When we are contemplating
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the Central Spiritual Sun however, the house may be built
of a dark light.
The Moon is known as the Mother of Forms7 and
represents the sea of emotional energies in which our personal
planetary self swims and out of which it must emerge to
individuate. We might also consider a Mother of Light which
is represented by the sea of light of the galaxy or ashram in
which our solar self is embedded and from which it must
eventually emerge. There is also a Mother of Darkness which
is represented by the void of space in which all the galaxies
have their home.
The Son principle in the great dark sea of space is
represented by the black holea centre of dark light or
radiationthe Central Spiritual Sun. If space itself correlates
with the empty darkness then a black hole is a nadi point or
laya point of the full darkness or darkness in expression. A
galaxy remember, has a black hole at the centre and a halo of
dark matter within which the light of a hundred billion suns
blaze. Around those suns spin countless billons of planets or
what we call physical matter.
Metaphysical Space is the great Father/Mother which
contains both the unmanifest universe (empty darkness) and
the manifest universe (full darkness). When the soul or Light
principle begins to be initiated into this higher trinity of darkness
then it begins to burn more brightly. This darkness is revealed
through the jewel and begins to turn the causal body radioactive,
just as it is the light of the soul which brings the personality
into full expression. The incarnate soul begins to be aware of its
transitory or supplementary nature, and like all natural things,
begins to fully flower in the face of its own demise. The petals
open to reveal what is both the seed and the fruitthe jewel
in the lotus. It is through the diamond in the core of the soul
that the doorway into Shamballa begins to open.
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Let us consider for a moment the process of building
the lighted house within the field of humanity. The flowering
of the soul is a natural process and here and there throughout
the history of the planet and aided by Hierarchy, souls have
turned on their lampsbecome suns or stars in the sky of
our collective consciousness. These souls have acted as entry
points of light into our dark world and various religions,
philosophies, nations and so on have been built up around
them. When there is only one Sun then the organisational
dynamic is easy. The Sun goes in the centre and the planets
circle in defined orbits. As more and more suns begin to
appear in the sky however, then the need for them to relate
to each other becomes more important. Constellations of
stars begin to form. As we enter the Aquarian Age, group
initiation results in the bursting forth of many points of light
which begin to get organised into ashrams. Constellations
are not enough, and we become aware of our galaxy and
the synthetic whole in which all the stars are held. As the
galaxy becomes self-aware then it recognises its place in the
universe and so on.
Synthesis is the result of a higher organising principle
being revealed within a systemonce again as both its seed
and fruit. We could look at the worldwide Bailey esoteric
movement for example, as a field of light that contains many
groups that have been operating independently and are now
coming together to form constellations as they recognise via
spiritual instinct, the sounding forth of the synthesising note
of their galaxythe Master DK.
In the wider field of humanity nations, religions,
philosophies, businesses and cultural groupings are all being
brought together into an integrated and integrally functioning
whole as the Shamballic note of synthesis is sounding forth
from the planetary jewel or flaming diamond of Sanat Kumara.
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The esoteric community is merely one galaxy within a field
containing hundreds of billionsit must find its differentiated
place and purpose within the context of the whole. Just as the
individual within the group looks out from their own centre
and perspective, so the group individual has a similar bias or
distortion. In fact one of the definitions of initiation is the
relocation of identity from the centre of a lesser sphere to the
centre of a greater one. Each galaxy has the tendency to place
themselves at the centre of the universe in the same way that
a sun or a planet does.
Identifying as humanity then, we must ask the question
what is the unique purpose and function of the esoteric
community within this larger field of which it is a part?
The asking and answering of this question will bring in the
perspective and energy needed to reveal the synthesis within
the community.
The Shamballic note produces a dual effect. On the
one hand it tends to produce crystallisation, a retrenching
of consciousness in its attachment to forms and a powerful
assertion of separated identity. On the other hand it produces
transcendence or the release of consciousness from form altogether
and identification with the whole. Which effect dominates
depends largely upon the preparation of the consciousness
involved. This is why education about Shamballa and the energy
of planetary Will under whatever name, is so important. It
prepares and conditions consciousness so that the likelihood
of a higher instinctual response to the impacting energy is
increased. Both tendencies can be summarised in the symbol
for the First Ray:
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The point represents the tendency to contract to the
centre. The circle represents the tendency to expand to include
the whole. Taken together they express synthesis, which is both
a differentiation or a clarifying of individual purpose and an
expansion of identity to include a greater whole. In this way
the processes of individualisation, initiation and identification
are seen as three aspects of a single energetic event.
In Cancer we define the field in which the Son
principle or the point emerges. The dark Sun emerges from
a dark container, which is the hidden symbology of the black
Madonna. Our monadic centre is already identified with
the One Life of the planet, and through this with the One
Boundless Immutable Principle. To have this centre revealed
at the centre of our consciousness we must be able to hold
our conscious identification with the whole. Cancer is the sign
of mass consciousnesswe are connected instinctively with
humanity as a whole, and this innate sensitivity can cause us
to contract into our shell as well as expand in compassionate
embrace. We focus on home and family and discover Earth is
our home and humanity our family. We develop the muscle
for transcendence and embrace.
The deep truth at the core of our being is that we hold
the universe in our embrace and the galaxies are our children.
If this is so we might at least be able to sustainably hold
identification with the level of shared responsibility for one
small planet. When we can do this, what is revealed to us is
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the One who has already taken that responsibility and therefore
is in a position to share it with us. If it is the Christ-in-us that
is the hope of Glory8, it is the Sanat Kumara-in-us that is
the consummation of Purpose and the jewel in our crown.
Together they embody and reveal the glory of the One.9

5. Mercury Transmission, June 2002. Bruce Lyon, Group Initiation,
White Stone Publishing, NZ, 2005, p.37.
8. Alice A Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, Lucis Trust
9. Alice A Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol.1, Lucis Trust
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August 2006
LeoThe Central Spiritual Sun
The Spirit, beyond manifested Nature, is the fiery

BREATH in its absolute Unity. In the manifested
Universe, it is the Central Spiritual Sun, the electric
Fire of all Life.1
The Central Spiritual Sun is spoken of in the esoteric

teachings in a variety of related ways. Firstly it is the One
Lifethe essential nameless Reality. In the manifest universe
it is the animating or Life principle of that universe. Within
a galactic system the seat of this principle is the black hole
at the centrethe central Sun. Within the solar system this
principle is embodied in the synthesising planet Uranus. Within
the planetary system the Central Spiritual Sun is Shamballa,
and in the human system it is the monad.
Leo is the time for self-assertion. Which self will be asserted
depends upon the level of identification of consciousness and the
degree of spiritual tension within any system.
A soul, whether individual or planetary, at a high level
of tensionnecessitating the application of the First Aspect
of its own nature (the Will)may have increasingly revealed
to it the divine power that resides in the Central Spiritual
Sun. Leo is ruled by the Sun on all three levels. Esoterically
the Sun veils Neptune and hierarchically the Sun veils
Uranus. It is the bringing together of the First and Second
AspectsWill and Lovein the heart that holds the key to
spiritual power.
Let us trace the flow of energy starting with the personal
system.
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The monadic force enters the triad from the second
or monadic plane and is focused through the jewel in the
egoic lotus. This energy then pours down into the crown
chakra and from there to the base where the kundalini
lies. The downpouring and uprising energies are balanced
in the central laya point of the heart chakra which joins
the sutratma and the antahkarana or the First and Second
Aspects together.
Within the solar system Uranus represents the electric
current passing through the jewel from the solar monad
whose outer symbol is the black hole. This energy is then
passed through the three planets that are destined to form
a seed or germ of the next (Will) system. Vulcan has a First
Ray soul and corresponds to the crown. Pluto, a First Ray
personality, corresponds to the base. Earth with a First Ray
monad will have the function of blending these two currents
of the Will and fusing them in the heart with Neptunethe
Christ force.
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On Earth we can see the effects of some of these forces
active in our current situation. Uranus was conjunct the
galactic centre in 1988/1989 and the outer expression was
the fall of the Berlin wall, Glasnost and the end of the Cold
War. Pluto is currently sitting on the galactic centre and we
have the centralising of what has become essentially a global
conflict in the Middle East. If we step back we can see the
conflict as the activation of karmic threads that lie deep in
the psyche of humanity and the uprising on all sides of self
will. The position of all protagonists is essentially similar and
can be summed up in the assertion it is time to do whatever
it takes to resolve this.
The Central Spiritual Sun is the Cosmic Magnet and
its effect is to synthesise wills.
The cosmic magnetism gathers nations, gathers races,
gathers parts of the world, gathers aspects of evolution,
gathers arcs of consciousness, gathers manifestations of
all attractions. At the root of all vital manifestations may
be discovered cosmic magnetism, and even behind the
karmic law stands the Cosmic Magnet2
The effects of this are quite different depending upon
which will is operating however. Again, a useful analogy is
the physical cosmos.
When planets come together they collide, resulting in
considerable damage, sometimes the destruction of one planet
or its diminishment so that it becomes a moon circling the
other. When suns come together they orbit a mutual centre
and form stable binary or tertiary systems. When galaxies
come together the black holes fuse and the result is a single
larger galaxy.
When an individual human, group or nation is operating
out of personal will then the magnetic effects of the Central
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Spiritual Sun draws that will into collision and conflict with
other personal wills. Conflict is normally engaged to achieve a
total victory of one over the other. When the consciousness is
solarised then there is the attempt to relate through dialogue,
the attempt to find a common centre and mutual interplay that
benefits both. When the consciousness is monadified then there
is a recognition of essential identity and a fusion of centres in
such a way that allows for the interdependence of other levels
of consciousness.
In the Middle East crisis we see the personal will operating
whenever an individual (whether that be a soldier, a president
or a country) takes action or avoids taking action based on
its own separative agenda. We see the soul will operating
whenever individuals come together to share perspectives and
seek solutions out of a genuine urge to find a solution that
works for everyone. A problem is that the soul will is slower
to activate and takes longer to work out than the personality
will, which means that a great deal of damage and escalation
can occur in the meantime.
We see the monadic will operating at times of
maximum tension when there is a collective demand for
a deeper and more permanent solution to emerge from
levels beyond that which can be achieved through either
conflict or dialogue. It is the hearts innate recognition of
the essential divinity of humanity that can call forth this
deeper centrethis Central Spiritual Sunof the planetary
life. One can feel the growing tension in the heart of
humanity each time images are shown on television of the
latest tragedyusually involving the death or maiming of
innocent civilians. The heart is frustrated both with the
emotional cycle of hate and retaliation as well as with the
endless mental debate over causes and possible solutions.
The heart demands that something be done.
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We know the manifestation of the Mother of the World.
We intensify the complete flow of the Magnet to restore
the doctrine of the Heart.3
It was this demand of the heart that resulted in the
formation of the United Nations after the Second World War,
and it will be this same demand that will result in either its
restructuring or the development of an alternative global body
to establish peace and the implementation of international
law. Watching the talking male heads on the Security Council
it is easy to wonder: Where are the women? Where are the
mothers?
War will end as a means of resolving issues on planet
Earth when the heart of humanity will no longer accept it and
demands peace. Hunger and poverty will end when the power
of the Mother of the World manifests through humanitys heart
and calls to the heights. It is the direction of this demand that
is critical. The demand must be made to Shamballathe only
centre of true peace on the planet. Personalities assume that
power lies in the hands of personalities and thus directs its
demand to the leaders of countries, councils and corporations.
Souls assume that power lies in the Love or consciousness
principle and direct their demands to the Christ or whatever
name they have for the centralised Love principle. Monads
call on the energy of Shamballa and the Life principle of the
universe. When the tension of that demand reaches through
into the etheric heart centre then the response will also reach
the etheric plane.
The energy of Leo links the energies of Shamballa and
Hierarchy, and the resultant dual fiery inflow can offset the
Plutonic fire of the personal will.
Let the dynamic force which rules the hearts of all within
Shamballa come to my aid, for I am worthy of that aid.4
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The feeling of impotence that the average human
experiences in the face of war can be directly traced to the
lack of awareness of the power of the heart. The causes as they
are presented by leaders and intellectual commentators are so
complex and the solutions so seemingly remote that a growing
despair can result in a tendency to distract oneself from the
issue altogether. But the heart is invincible! Through the heart
we are one with the whole of Kosmos. We are the force that
spins galaxies and pulses through the Heart of the Sun. The
fire that flows through the heart is part of the one fiery breath
of the great cosmic Dragon. What can resist that power?
When the magnet of the heartwhich is not separate
from the Cosmic Magnetbegins to function it is automatically
and instantly linked to the Life principle active in all other
hearts. When Humanity demands a response from the true
centre of planetary powerShamballait must come under
Law. As that response takes shape in time and space we will
witness emerging the outline of a planetary government. The
outer form of this government will gradually model itself more
and more completely on the inner archetype.
In all the three bodieshuman, planetary, and systemic or
logoicwill be found a great organ within the organism
which acts as the receiver of prana. This organ has its etheric
manifestation and its dense physical correspondence. ...
In the system, the organ of cosmic prana, of the force
vitalising matter, is the central sun, which is the direct
receiver and dispenser of cosmic radiation.5
It may be an evolution of the current United Nations or
it may be a new form altogether, because the form is not as
important as the spirit and it is the spirit of global governance,
of cosmic Law, the covenant with Life, that is most needed now
in our planetary sphere. When we make collective demand on
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the inner government then the response will show itself in the
emergence of new leaders and new leadership initiatives that
originate through the dynamic, instantaneous and synchronistic
activity of the Cosmic Magnet.
We get the leaders we are willing to settle for and when
the heart truly awakens it is unwilling to settle for less than
the One Life.
As the power of the Cosmic Magnet begins to operate
in our own lives we also become leaders, but it is leadership
of a different kind than that which is expressing through
organisational structures. The Life principle bloweth where
it listeth (John 3:8) guided by an intuitive and spiritually
instinctive response to need. The yogi naturally turns up at
the right place at the right time and says or does the right
thingwithout thought or planning. This is because he or she
has surrendered to the current of the Cosmic Magnet and is now
an emissary of that force and therefore automatically responsive
to the tension and unspoken demand of the heart.
We, Brothers of Humanity, battle for the Cosmic
Magnet and for the life principle. The time is complex,
but great! In tension, amidst humanitys monstrous
noncomprehension of the principle of Be-ness, We give a
new Covenant. We summon humanity to that Covenant.
In the great Covenant lies the principle of Be-ness. We
say to humanity, Venerate the Origins; venerate the
Mother of the World, venerate the awesome Covenant
of the Cosmic Magnet.6
These two imagesthe Cosmic Magnet or Central
Spiritual Sun and the Mother of the Worldare closely linked.
Both are invisible but all pervasive. Together they are Sat or
Be-nessthe origin and destiny of all. In the universe one is
Purusha and the other Prakriti. In the galaxy one is the black
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hole at the centre and the other the dark halo that surrounds the
galaxy. On Earth one is Shamballa and the other is the power
of planetary kundalini as it manifests through the heart.
When the power of the Mother of the World rises in
our hearts and demands change then the Coming One hastens
to her aid.
Manifest thy hand O Lord because great is the
Darkness.7
1. Helena P Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, II, p.115.

2. Helena Roerich, Infinity I, Agni Yoga Society Inc., New York, 1980.
3. Helena Roerich, Hierarchy, Agni Yoga Society Inc., New York, 1977.
4. Alice A Bailey, Esoteric Healing, Lucis Trust Publishing Company,
New York, 1953, p.706.
5. Alice A Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Lucis Trust Publishing
6. Roerich, Infinity I, 1980.
7. Helena Roerich, Agni Yoga, Agni Yoga Society Inc., New York, 1997,
stanza 104.
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September 2007
VirgoThe Blended Dual Light
Virgo symbolises depths, darkness, quiet and warmth;

it is the valley of deep experience wherein secrets are
discovered and eventually brought to light; it is the
place of slow, gentle and yet powerful crises and periodic
developments which take place in the dark and yet which
lead to light. It is the blinded stage which is found
in Masonic rituals and which ever precedes the gift of
light. Virgo stands for the womb of time wherein Gods
plan (the mystery and the secret of the ages) is slowly
matured andwith pain and discomfort and through
struggle and conflictbrought into manifestation at the
end of the appointed time.1
We have been examining the signs of the zodiac as they

relate particularly to the energy of Will or the spirit aspect. The
dark light diffused through matter we examined in Cancer.
The light of the Central Spiritual Sun we examined in Leo. In
Virgo these two lights are seen as aspects of a dual system,
as indicated in the phrase I, God, I matter, am.2
We have been using the analogy of the black hole
at the centre of the galaxy for the Central Spiritual Sun
to distinguish the monad from the soul or Sun principle.
The symbol for spirit within matter will be the centre or
core of the Earth. The function of the Fourth Hierarchy or
the human kingdom is to bring these two aspects of spirit,
this dual dark light, into conscious relationship. We might
imagine a human being standing on the Earth extending
his consciousness principle in two directions. Firstly via
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the Sun door (the dark centre in the core of the Sun) he
enters into relationship with the galactic centre. Secondly,
via the heart and the two soles of his feet he extends
his consciousness into the very centre of the Earth. This
image is the outer correspondence to the engagement of
consciousness firstly with the monad via the jewel in the
lotus, and secondly with the kundalini force via the etheric
body and the base centre. These two powers, which are in
reality twin aspects of the same power, are the blended
dual Light of Virgo.3
The dark light of the superconscious requires the dark
light of the subconscious in order to be expressed through
the light of consciousness on Earth. On a planetary level
we can see the two approaches to this dual power in the
legends of Shamballa and Agharti. Agharti is the name for
the central kingdom of the Earth in that version of the myth
which locates it underground, while Shamballa is the name
for that kingdom which is located in the planetary etheric.
The potent powers which are located in the kingdoms are
called Vril and Agni respectively. Both versions have similar
themes. An advanced race of men in adverse times on the
physical plane, withdreweither into the inner realms or
into the underground realmsto await a time of great need
whereupon they will re-emerge and save the world. In the
works of Alice Bailey the Shamballa centre is emphasised,
while the Agharti centre is only hinted at in quotes like the
following:
This is a most difficult situation for the average man to
comprehend but the entire problem of the conscious use of
that which exists upon the planet and also its destructive
usage is tied together into one most critical situation.
Part of the solution will come along similar lines and of
this the prophecy now coming into the racial awareness
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that there are those who sleep in the caves of the earth
who will arise and bring liberation has reference. But
be not too literal in interpretation for that which is of
the earth can also be found in the sky.4
There is to be found in the very bowels of the earth, an

evolution of a peculiar nature, with a close resemblance
to the human. They have bodies of a peculiarly gross
kind, which might be regarded as distinctly physical
as we understand the term. They dwell in settlements,
or groups, under a form of government suited to their
needs in the central caves several miles below the crust
of the earth. Their work is closely connected with the
mineral kingdom, and the agnichaitans of the central
fires are under their control.5
It is said that Hitler and his group in their search
for occult power were helped by the adepts of Agharti but
refused by the adepts of Shamballa.6 The reason for the
emphasis on Shamballa is the requirement for its emergence
into consciousness before its counterpart. In the stance of the
Seventh Ray magician the right hand should be raised before
the left hand descends. In depth psychology it is important
to engage the superconsciousness before releasing the powers
of the subconsciousness. In spiritual practice it is important
to access the monad before attempting to awaken kundalini.
However one aspect of this dual system will always evoke
the other. We are told that the release of the Shamballa force
resulted in two major outcomes:
Owing to extra-planetary stimulation, to the immediate
planetary crisis and to the present invocative cry of
humanity, energy from Shamballa has been permitted
to play upon the centre which is called the race of
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men and has produced two potent results: first, the
world war was precipitated and, secondly, the fission of
the atom, resulting in the atomic bomb, was brought
about.7
Let us consider how these two events are related. Fission
results in the splitting of an atomic nucleus so that it now
forms two distinct nuclei. Tremendous energy is released
because the strong binding forces in the core of the atom
are overcome. The Second World War also produced a global
fissiona division of humanity into two distinct camps. It
was the Third Aspect of the Will or Shamballa force which
was released at that time.
Currently it is the Second Aspect of the force that
is being released and that humanity as a whole is learning
to handle. This Second Aspect, as with all second aspects,
has the Love or cohering principle strongly active. In the
realm of the atom we can expect to see the development of
nuclear fusion.8 This process releases tremendous amounts
of energy by once again overcoming the strong nuclear
forces, but instead of splitting one whole into two parts, it
combines two nuclei into a single whole. Its development
is requiring a multi-national cooperation. Within the
body of humanity we can expect the release of this force
to bring spiritual pressure on the collective consciousness
wherever there exists an us and them mentality. We can
see this operating in the realm of race, gender, religion
and politics.
Fission seeks to separate and force a final solution by
one side upon the other. Fusion seeks to unite by asserting the
essential identity that lies at the heart of apparently separate
systems. It is the process of nuclear fusion that powers the
Sun and the stars.
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No planet is a sacred planet unless the centre at the base of
the spine (speaking symbolically) is aroused and the great
fusion of energies resulting therefrom has been effected.9
This group achievement... marks the point where there

can be the inauguration of a new phase of activity in
Shamballa. This will enable the Lord of the World to
become the Ruler of a Sacred Planet which, up to date,
has not been the case. Our Earth can now become a
Sacred Planet, if all right conditions are fulfilled. A new
divine quality (as yet unrevealed and which we would
not at this time recognise if presented with it) is slowly
crystallising into expression, through the medium of this
hastened initiation process.10
We might refer to this new divine quality as that which
lies behind the three already revealed qualities of Will, Love
and Intelligence and their respective vehiclesthe monad, soul
and personality. This fourth quality comes into our collective
awareness when the soul aspect has mastered the technique
of duality and managed to at-one the twin poles of spirit
and matter within its own nature, thus making possible the
revelation of their non-dual origin. It is the coming to birth
of this new quality that is indicated by the mystery of Virgo
when understood at the level of spirit. At this level it is not
the soul which is coming to birth within the vessel of matter,
but the realisation of divinity which is coming to birth through
the centre of the soul. (There is always difficulty in using the
term spirit to refer differentially to both the Third Aspect of
a trinity and to that which substands the trinity, so I will use
the term divinity.)
So, in order for the Earth to become a sacred planet
the base centre must be awakened and its energy fused (or
realised as identical with) the crown centre. This results in the
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revelation of a new divine quality. While the full planetary
awakening of the base centre will take place in the seventh
race, different sections of the human family are at different
stages of development. The current transit of Pluto across
the galactic centre provides us with a unique opportunity
to serve in group formation as a conduit for the inflow of
Shamballic energy and to play our small part in awakening
kundalini power as a microcosm of the planetary kundalini. In
order to play our practical part in this process it is necessary
to bring the soul to a point of extreme tension, which is
what makes it possible for the monadic force to enter and
combine with the energy held in reserve at the base of the
spine to produce a saving force.
We come now to our second point, that initiation veils a
secret and that the revelation of that secret is imminent. Just
what this secret is, I may not reveal, but it is concerned
with a peculiar type of energy which can be induced at a
moment of supreme tension. The only possible hint I can
give you in connection with this mysterious matter is that
it is closely related to the Blinding Light which Saul of
Tarsus saw on the road to Damascus and the blinding light
which accompanied the discharge of energy from the atomic
bomb. The Blinding Light which ever accompanies true
conversion (a rare and sudden happening always when true
and real) and which is an attendant demonstration of all
Lives Who have passed the human stage of consciousness
according to Their degreeand the light which is released
by the fission of the atom are one and the same expression
on different levels of consciousness, and are definitely related
to the processes and effects of initiation.11
A fourth great rent still remains to be made as a result

of the energies released and the gained good which the
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three earlier rents have made possible. This fourth major
rent will be made by humanity itself, standing with
massed intent, focussed through the groups which are
externalisations of the Ashrams of the Masters. It will
therefore be made at the time that the Hierarchy takes
physical shape upon the earth again.12
Once again we have the themes of darkness and the
blinding light of revelation as they relate both to the initiation
of consciousness and the release of energy in matter. As groups
learn to contact, contain and distribute the energy of Will then
they will be able to play their part in the release of an energy
that brings to fruition the educational process that has been the
focus of Hierarchical endeavour for many decades. As all teachers
and students know, the process of learning proceeds through long
periods where new information is being mastered, interspersed
with sudden moments of revelation or initiation where the
previous phase of experience becomes seared into consciousness
and a new phase begins. When we act as distributors of the
Will force, we add the electric light(ning) of realisation to the
solar light and pave the way for the entrance into that great
darkness that hides the central mystery. When we are able, in
mass formation, to penetrate through the final veil into the
cosmic astral plane we also by necessity must penetrate into the
deepest core of the physical planet and release the kundalini
force. There is an analogy to this process which occurs in the
preparatory stages to initiation:
In this stage, the soul light penetrates into the region
of the pineal gland; there it produces an irradiation of
the ethers of the head, of the vital airs; this produces a
stimulation of the atoms of the brain so that their light
is fused and blended with the other two, the etheric light
and the soul light, and there is then produced that inner
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radiant sun of which the aspirant becomes conscious in
his physical brain experience. Frequently students speak
of a diffused light or glow, this is the light of the physical
plane atoms of which the brain is composed; later they
may speak of seeing what appears to be like a sun in
the head. This is the contacting of the etheric light, plus
the physical atomic light. Later they become aware of
an intensely bright electric light; this is the soul light,
plus the etheric and the atomic. When that is seen, they
frequently become aware of a dark centre within the
radiant sun. This is the entrance to the Path disclosed
by the shining of the light upon the door.13
We might add that when the light of the monad is
added to the light of the soul, the etheric light and the
so-called dark light of the physical atom, then the highest
and lowest lights are recognised as one light and the work
of the intermediary, the soul, is done. One symbol for
this is that of the serpent eating its tail. The serpent is
the appropriate symbol, for it was the coming in of the
dragon or serpent energy in the Second Round which laid
the spiritual foundation in matter for the evolutionary and
therefore initiatory journey of the soul. The serpent is also
the symbol for the kundalini energy which was anchored
prior to the separation of the sexes. Virgo, it will be
remembered, is a sign intimately related with the battle
of the sexes,14 and here again we have a primary duality
not just between the sexes but in our approach to the
sexual force. Just as with the division between Agharti and
Shamballa we have the so-called left hand path of tantric
yoga which emphasises the sacred union of sexuality as a
means to contact the kundalini force, and the right hand
paths of (for example) Vedanta philosophy and Christianity
that focus on the non-dual transcendent reality.
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The shaming of the sexual force in Western culture
has created a dislocation from it and thereby also induced an
opposite reaction of fascination with it. It is no accident that the
sexual revolution and so-called liberation of the feminine were
coincident with the release of the Shamballa force in the middle
of last century. So-called because equality between the sexes has
largely meant that women have been freed to participate equally
in endeavours motivated by a masculine consciousness. The true
rising of the feminine principle in both men and women, with
its subsequent effect upon all levels of consciousness within a
system, will have to wait for the future and the full advent of
the Seventh Ray Age.
In the meantime we can expect, with the inflow of
the Second Aspect of the Shamballa force, a new expression
of fusion to show itself in the relationship of the sexes. This
fusion is not however, a co-mingling, but a differentiated
orientation to a mutual synthetic principle. This principle is
not so much an awareness of our shared humanity but of our
shared participation in the Life principle that animates the
whole planet. This Life principle was anchored prior to the
separation of the sexes and the individualisation process, and
so is held within the instinctual will-to-live drive that is so
intimately connected with our sexual response. If we use the
analogy again of the human being standing upon the Earth
reaching with their consciousness towards the galactic centre
and the centre of the Earth, we note that the consciousness
that is penetrating into the Earth must pass through the soles
of both feet (a duality). Similarly it must flow backwards in
time to reach that point of singularity prior to the division
of the sexes.
One of the mysteries of Jupiter, as the hierarchical
ruler of Virgo, is that it operates as a head, heart and
base centre synthesising the First, Second and Seventh
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Rays in the three solar systems. In the first solar system
there were three lower centres which we might locate for
correspondence purposes at the knees, the feet and at the
centre of the Earth itself. (DK draws an analogy between
the evolution that lives in the caves and the feet and legs
of man.15) In addition we can locate three higher centres
through which energy flowsthe causal body, the ashram
and the monad. We might arrange the thirteen centres of
force as follows:
3rd System 2nd System 1st System
Head Monad
Ajna Ashram
Throat Causal body
Heart Head
Solar plexus Ajna
Sacral Throat
Base Heart Head Jupiter
Solar plexus Ajna
Sacral Throat
Base Heart
Knee Solar plexus
Feet Sacral
Earth Base
Much could be said about this chart, but the most
relevant piece of information for our current discussion is
that the highest and the lowest centre form one centre,
and this is realised in the heartthe central point. When
we contact the energy of the One Life which is part of
monadic experience we also contact the energy of planetary
kundalini. These are not two, but oneas the symbol of the
Ouroborus indicates. The linking of the highest and lowest
through the heart is the crux of the work that the human
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Hierarchy is here to do and it is humanity, standing with
massed intent, that will rent the final veil and complete
the Great Work.
When the lowest of the low, the densest of the dense,
and the highest of the high have all been lifted through
the little wills of men, then can the One in Whom we
live raise into radiating light the vivid lighted ball of
Earth, and then another greater Voice can say to Him:
Well done! Move on. Light shines.16
Virgo is a practical sign and so we will conclude by linking
this information to what can practically be done, as a group,
at thisthe midway point in a year of unique opportunity
for the activation of planetary Will.
The initiation of humanity takes place in time and
space and all of us will stand before the door at some time
or another. Groups who are ready to work with the energy
of the Will form centres within the general lighted field
that is the human kingdom. It is this field that forms the
womb of Virgo on a higher turn of the spiral, and it is
this field into which the seed of solar purpose will fall. We
might imagine this field as having three tiers, each with a
slightly different quality of light. The light of Intelligence
is well established and is the largest expression. The light
of Love or solar fire is becoming more and more prevalent.
The light of Will is breaking out here and there amongst
the New Group of World Servers. As the power of synthesis
enters, the central jewel in this global causal body begins
to emerge from the dark centre of tension and flash forth
its clear cold fire.
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seed
Light of Will
Light of Love
Light of Intelligence
As part of our meditative work on the equinox we can

work as an invocative and evocative centre. We identify with
the human family (spread throughout time as well as space)
standing with massed intent. We can also identify with the
solar principle and as members of the fifth kingdom reach
upward in demand to the Life principle which flows through
us and into the very core of the Earth itself, awakening the
kundalini power. The downflowing and uprising energies meet
in the heart of humanity, giving birth to the emerging fourth
quality of deityone aspect of which we might call the peace
which passeth understanding.17
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In the beginning is my end...
O dark dark dark. They all go in to the dark
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
In order to arrive at what you are not
You must go through the way in which you are not
And what you do not know is the only thing you know.
TS Eliot, lines from East Coker

5. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p.891.
6. For more on this see Le Matin des Magiciens (The Morning of the
Magicians), Gallimard, Paris, 1962, by the French researchers
Louis Pauwels & Jacques Bergier.
8. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
ITER
13. Alice A Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, Lucis Trust Publishing
Company, New York, 1934, pp.106107.
14. See the Virgo myth in Alice A Bailey, The Labours of Hercules, Trust
Publishing Company, New York, 1974.
16. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol.2, p 315.
17. Alice A Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, Lucis Trust Publishing
Company, New York, 1922, p.25. (Philippians 4:7)
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October 2006
LibraThe Hub of the Wheel
The energy of Libra opens us into relationship with

entities at a similar level of being. If the solstices represent a
vertical dimension, the equinoxes are pauses in the annual cycle
in which we can be opened into deeper horizontal connections.
In our cosmological analogy we have been viewing the levels of
planet, sun and black hole as equating to personality, soul and
monad. These are three distinct vertical levels or orders of entity,
each of which has its own array of horizontal relationships.
Planets form planetary systems, stars form constellations and so
forth. Even though there may be variation in these horizontal
relationships (for example between our Sun and the star Sirius
or between a Third and Fifth Degree initiate) they are variations
of degree and not identity.
The three primary identities of a human being are
expressed on the three Crosses and synthesised on the Cardinal
Cross, just as the monad synthesises the three periodic vehicles
of the cosmic physical plane.
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Galaxy - Monad
Sun - Soul ^ d
Earth - Personality
It seems redundant to speak of monadic relationship

for the monad is an expression of the Life principle and
Life is One. Consciousness too, is One. All souls are one
with the Oversoul and yet that consciousness expresses
through differentiated spheres focused on points of identity.
Within the one light of a galaxy, many suns or points of
light exist.
Similarly, within the one great darkness of spirit, points
of focus exist and the revelation of this allows those points to
onward move in life.1 In the first six signs we explored how
the initiate into the mysteries of the Will must engage and
identify with the darkness of the monadic principle that lies
at the core of his own nature. In the last six signs we will see
how this identification makes possible the revelation of a whole
new dimension of group relationship.
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In Virgo we were left with the image of a soul standing
as an at-one-ing Sun between the black hole at the centre of
the galaxy and the kundalini force at the core of the Earth. We
might express this as a vertical arm on the Cardinal Cross, for
the galactic centre lies at 27 degrees Sagittarius very close to
0 degrees Capricorn. At the December solstice the Earth lies
close to 0 degrees Cancer and (from the perspective on Earth)
we must look through the Sun door to find the galactic centre.
On the equinox the Sun lies at 0 degrees Libra and looking
through the Sun door we must direct our gaze outside the
galactic plane altogether to find a super galactic centre that
represents a higher order of relationship.
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To find this centre we must not only gaze at 90 degrees
to the direction of the galactic centre but also almost 90 degrees
(84 to be precise) to the galactic plane. There, 50 million light
years away and close to the heart of the Virgo super cluster,
we find a galaxy called M87 with a black hole the mass of
3 billon suns. (By comparison, the Milky Way centre has
a mass of 3 million suns.) Just as stars exist in orbital and
constellational relationship to each other, so galaxies exist in
clusters and super clusters. Our galaxy is part of a local group
that includes Andromeda (with which it is on a merging course)
and this group is part of the Virgo super cluster. This super
cluster is in turn being swept toward an area of even greater
mass that we term the Great Attractor, some 200 million light
years distant.
Light is the great symbol of the consciousness principle
so it becomes obvious, when we speak of distances across
which light takes 200 million years to travel, that we must
enter into the Life principle in order to have any experience
of the relationship between these centres. The attempt human
consciousness is making to generate a grand unifying theory
able to coherently link the nuclear forces (Will), electromagnetic
forces (consciousness) and the force of gravity (matter) is an
outer expression of the required synthesis of the three. Of
course this synthesis cannot take place within the consciousness
principle but requires entry into Life.
What we call Life, consciousness and matter are three
expressions of a single reality expressing through, and as, time
and space. Just as matter and consciousness are not evenly
distributed within space and time, nor is the Life principle.
It is focused and held in reservoirs such as, on our planet,
the centre we call Shamballa. This Life energy is used to drive
the evolutionary processes of both form and consciousness.
Although contained in different reservoirs throughout Kosmos,
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from planets to black holes, this containment is only so from
the angle of consciousness. Experienced from within the Life
principle, life is one throughout Kosmos and in constant
contact with itself. Communication (a consciousness term) is
instantaneous compared with the speed of light, just as light
is relatively instantaneous compared with the speed of matter.
Everything manifest has some time and space dimension
but there is a quantum jump between these three levels.
Matter takes a long time to evolve. Consciousness evolves
exponentially compared to matter. Life ISat least from the
perspective of consciousness. It does not appear to evolve but
is the end seen from the beginning experiencing itself in the
eternal now. Once we enter the Life principle and begin to
come to terms with the vast shift in degree, we will find that
there are correspondences to evolution but on completely
different scales. Remember that we are talking about Life or
spirit as the First Aspect of a manifest triad here and not the
Boundless Immutable Principle which transcends both manifest
and unmanifest realities.
One definition of non-dual awakening could be said to
be the experience of the infinite by the finite. Entry into large
scale time and space realities are not in themselves non-dual
experiences but they serve to grow the capacity of the finite to
receive the infinite and increase the effects of that awakening
within the finite realm. The Life principle within manifestation,
while not itself infinite could be said therefore to be the local
incarnation or concentration of the infinity principle.
Lets bring these ideas down into practical illustrations.
The chohans in Shamballa are in direct (relatively instantaneous)
alignment with the principle centres or reservoirs of Life in
the body in which our Earth finds its place. In this paper
we have traced the sutratma or vertical relationship in Life
from our planet to the Sun to the galactic centre to the super
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galactic centre to the Great Attractor. This alignment occurs
despite the fact that the antahkarana or vertical relationship
in consciousness has not yet been built between these centres,
just as the Life principle is active in the human heart when
the consciousness principle has yet to be developed.
When a human soul takes initiation or a human
personality succeeds in obtaining a goal, they are drawing
unconsciously on the Life principle anchored in the planetary
sphere by Sanat Kumara and permeating its consciousness and
form. At the Third Degree the initiate becomes aware of this
relationship in consciousness. Similarly our whole planetary
life evolves by drawing ultimately on the One Life principle
that pervades Kosmos.
We might say that the process of enlightenment is the
process of gradually becoming aware in consciousness of that
which is, and has always been, keeping us alive. Libra brings
to us the opportunity and the lesson of relating in Life. We
are drawn into connections with other individuals and groups
based on our mutual resonances and capacities to transmit
the Life principle. This means changes, just as the shift from
personality to soul brought changes. In our planetary life it
is bringing together lineage holders from different spiritual
paths, leaders of different nations and experts from different
scientific disciplines. In our solar life synthesis brings together
logoi from different planetary schemes; and in the intergalactic
life it brings cosmic logoi into deeper realisation of their
inherent connection in Life.
Thus the initiate must endeavour to link with the monad
and triangulate the energy between the three vehiclesmonad,
soul and personality. He must create a channel for the descent
of Life from the highest to the lowest, and this will result in
the raising of the kundalini force from the base to the crown
and back to the heart. She must stand in group relationship and
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allow the new inpouring energies and alignment to reorganise
her relationships based on dynamic resonance with the Life
principle rather than magnetic response to the consciousness
principle.
A planet simultaneously circles a sun, the core of a galaxy,
the core of a super galaxy and so on. Libra provides us with
the opportunity to choose which of the inner equivalents of
these centres we identify ourselves with and therefore which
will subsequently direct our consciousness. As a result of our
choice we find ourselves together with others who have made
a similar choice and we are drawn inexorably into relationship
with the hub of that wheel.
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Working With the Will SeriesTransmission 8
November 2006
ScorpioRelease
The truth would seem to be that, at a certain point in

spiritual life, the ardent disciple, who has sought in all
things to bring his soul into unison with the great Soul,
who has striven to bring his will to likeness with the
Divine Will, passes through a marked spiritual experience,
in which the great Soul draws him upward, the Divine
Will raises his consciousness to oneness with the Divine
Consciousness; for a time he perceives and feels, no longer
as the person, but as the Oversoul, gaining a profound
vision of the divine ways of life, and feeling with the
infinite Power, which works through life and death alike,
through sorrow and joy, through union and separation,
through creation, destruction and recreation. The awe
and mystery which surround that great unveiling have
set their seal on all who have passed through it.1
Scorpio and Taurus are the astrological duality that

will reveal the emerging fourth quality of deity. Sentiency
pervades form, satiates its desire for manifestation and is
released. The same process occurs on all levelsthe astral
body pervading the physical, the soul pervading the personality
and the cosmic astral plane pervading the cosmic physical.
Normally when we consider the tests of Scorpio on the path
of discipleship we are referring to the relationship between
soul and personality. When these are successfully undergone
the result is the death of the personality, which in reality
means the end of the illusory identification of the incarnated
soul with its vehicles. It is the separated self which dies away
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so that the soul is released and now able to function freely
through the personality.
There is a higher octave to this process however, which
results in the release of essential being from its identification
with the cosmic physical plane. The three-fold personality of
the cosmic physical plane is made up of the monad, soul and
personality expressing the divine qualities of Will, Love and
Intelligent activity respectively. The free monad is therefore
that realisation of essential identity that expresses on the seven
planes of the cosmic physical while remaining completely
disidentified from them.
That Monad canat a certain very advanced stage in
evolution, and one far beyond that of the Adepthave
its triple simultaneous manifestation, and show forth as
a Master in the three worlds, as a Bodhisattva on His
own plane and as the emancipated Dhyani Buddha; yet
these Three will be but One, will be the result of a great
spiritual vibration and will perform the triple work which
may (from the standpoint of the three worlds) appear
as the work of three separate great Existences. They are
forms of three monadic vestures, worn by the one
Monad as a man wears his three bodies simultaneously,
and functions in them separately.2
The sign of Scorpio is triple, as is the sign of
Virgo. In Virgo the form nature is veiling the Christ. In
Scorpio the Christ is freed, as illustrated by the glyph.
The nine heads of the hydra in this higher octave are
not confined to the three lower planes, but are in fact
the nine initiations that the human or Fourth Hierarchy
must undergo. Three tests involve the personality, three
the soul and three the monad. There is in reality only one
identity undergoing these tests. On the lower three planes
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this identity experiences itself as the personality, on the
middle three as the soul, and on the higher three as the
monad, but it remains One.
An analogy is the triple manifestation of water as ice,
liquid and steam. These manifestations occur at different levels
of pressure and temperature (equating to the different planes
of manifestation), but nevertheless the same water molecules
are involved. There is a triple point in the manifestation of
water that occurs at 0.1 degrees Celsius (note the binary code
or IO backwards) and 611.73 pascals (pressure). At this point
water can manifest in all three expressions. Below this point
we have the duality of steam and ice (spirit and matter). There
is also a critical point that occurs at 374 degrees Celsius and
22.064 megapascals. At this point the distinction between
liquid and steam begins to break down.3
We might say that the experience of the soul or

Christ principle occurs on the three planes of the triad
(just as the liquid phase of water occurs between the
triple point and the critical point). The soul, freed from
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the personality, can experience itself via the process of
identification with all three levels of expression. It knows
itself to be both spirit (monad) and matter (personality),
and yet a third thing that bridges these two modes. Further,
it begins to know itself as having its origins beyond both
its parents in the same way that a human child is both
a product of the union of its parents and yet also has its
own independent origin.
On the buddhic plane then, the free human soul begins
to become aware of its essential identity with the Oversoul
understood at this stage as the energy of the cosmic astral
plane. A number of initiations still await on the higher planes
of the cosmic physical before release from this whole plane is
possible, but nevertheless brief peak experiences of that which
lies behind the three-fold manifestation on the seven planes
become possible. Scorpio (as well as Sagittarius) is associated
with Aquila the eaglethat bird which flies outside time and
space.
Aquila, the eagle, is the bird out of time and space and
as Hercules struggles with the hydra he looks up, sees
the eagle, and is reminded that he has come forth into
incarnation and will fly back from whence he came.4
...the goal of our system during manifestation is initiation

or release into the air, so that the bird of life out of
time and space can fly free.5
Another mythological bird that is associated with
both death and freedom is the swankalahamsa. According
to Plato the swan gives forth a particularly sweet song
on approaching death, and in Indian tradition it is said
to simultaneously exist in time and space and in the
eternal.
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Release from the three is also associated with the fourth
dimension. The three, whether they be mindemotionsbody
or monadsoulpersonality can be represented by the three
axes of the manifest world each at 90 degrees to each other.
In order to move into the fourth dimension we must

enter the Sun door at the central point where all three axes
intersect and thereby transcend the time and space ring-pass-
not. This is an initiatory experience and allows us to both
transcend and pervade our little system. Fourth dimensional
movement takes us to a higher centre where all the phenomena
experienced in the lesser system are seen as a special subset
of a more general cosmic law orworded another wayas
partial manifestations of a higher Will.
This same principle is at work for the Lord of the World
who is known as the Great Sacrifice.6 Sanat Kumara, under the
Law of Freedom, has committed himself to the manifestation of
the planetary life and at the same time is free of all identification
with that manifestation. He is polarised on the fourth subplane
of the cosmic astral and the revelation of the fourth quality on
Earth results from an alignment between the human Hierarchy
on the fourth subplane of the cosmic physical (the buddhic),
the Lord of the World polarised on the fourth subplane of the
cosmic astral, the fourth subplane of the cosmic mental and the
fourth cosmic planethe cosmic buddhic.
This breaking forth of the light of victory7 which
involves the fourth plane, Mercury and Uranus, as well as Vulcan
and Pluto, will naturally be experienced differently depending
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upon the polarisation of the entity receiving the inflow. For the
world aspirant it will be experienced as a momentary freedom
from the control of the physical plane and its imperatives of
survival. For the world disciple it will result in freedom from
controlling thoughtforms; and for world initiate it will result
in freedom from controlling Will or Purpose.
Pluto, therefore, comes into full force and expression in
order to stage the testings of the world disciple and to
this end brings in the potency of Scorpio the sign of
discipleship. Under these influences, the death of forms
must eventuate leaving the disciple free; the dissolution
of old group structures of thought, embodying worn-out
ideas and ideals must necessarily supervene; crystallised
old forms must dissolve and disappear, but in their place
the undying spiritimpressed by revelation and sensitive
to the emerging new concepts of truthwill create the
needed new forms of appropriate expression.8
Pluto conjunct the galactic centre creates conditions
necessary for the invocation of the planetary Will and the
activation of a portion of the planetary kundalini. This
rising force balances the Vulcanian descent and results in the
crystallising and shattering of old forms and the creation of new
ones. Those forms can be physical, mental or atmic. On the
physical plane we have war and the prospect of war. On the
mental plane we have the clash of thoughtformsthe material
and spiritual. It may be surprising to think that there is also
a tension experienced on the atmic plane between the will
of the soul and the will of the monador macrocosmically
between the will of the Planetary Logos and the will of the
Solar Logos. Just as for the personality, development of the
mind is necessary before it can be transcended, so the soul
must develop its will nature before it can be transcended. Once
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alignment is achieved between the will of the personality, the
will of the soul and the will of the monad, Will or Purpose
is transcended and the identity lifts free into that which lies
behind Purpose. (Or put another wayinto the context in
which Purpose arises.)
In the worlds of becoming, purpose exists and drives
the evolution of form and consciousness. In the world of
Being, no purpose exists for there is nothing to achieve and
no time in which to achieve it. Both worlds exist and like
kalahamsa, the initiate is a dweller in both the eternal and
temporal universe.
In the temporal Earth world we have the American mid-
term elections falling just after the Scorpio full Moon, and the
pivotal role the United States can play in the emergence of the
spiritual quality of freedom will receive its next test. Over the
last few years since the Shamballa impact the voting public
have had an opportunity to experience the consequences of
following through on a particular thoughtform with respect to
the 9/11 attack. Will that be reviewed or reinforced? Similarly
the disciples of the world have had five years to shape the
energies of planetary Will into new thoughtforms and initiatives
as impressed by their soul and ashramic purpose. Will these
new forms emerge or will they shatter? Scorpio teaches that
the only way to bring a purpose (and therefore a system)
into full expression is to die to it, or worded differently, to
transcend it.
Initiates also have a defined task which involves neither
the purpose of the soul nor the politics of the personality world
but that which transcends and includes both. It is the task
of the initiate to align and circulate the energy between the
three planetary centres, ShamballaHierarchyHumanity via
their own triplicity of monadsoulpersonality. When this is
done the saving force can enter through the central eyeor
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more accurately we recognise ourselves as that essential energy
that has been present all along and yet unrevealed. It is the
task of the fourth kingdom to make this great revelation and
demonstrate thereby the harmony that underlies all conflict.
The white knuckled fist of the self
Suddenly opens.
Empty!
1. The Bhagavad Gita, transl. Charles Johnston, Flushing, New York,

1908, p.128.
2. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, pp.11923.
3. Diagram adapted from: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phase-diag.svg
4. Bailey, The Labours of Hercules, p.153.
7. Alice A Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol.2, Lucis Trust Publishing
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Working With the Will SeriesTransmission 9
December 2006
SagittariusThe Power of Freedom
After the victory achieved in Scorpio, the disciple

becomes a potent force in Sagittarius. The duality represented
by Gemini becomes the fused centaur and the soul and
personality are united in a one-pointed spiritual focus. This
potency is what allows for the penetration into the galactic core
(the direction of the archers arrow) as well as the awakening
of the kundalini force in the base centre. As Pluto conjoins
the galactic centre we enter into a time where the planetary
Will is being activated and the disciples of the world must
come to the fore.
It is quite apparent that the challenges which humanity
faces are fast coalescing and revealing themselves as part of
a single problemthe problem of human selfishness which
looms as the planetary Dweller. Many of the critical issues such
as the environmental crisis, poverty, aids, religious intolerance
and so forth are well researched and the solutions are well
known. Governments have even made financial and other
commitments that would see these solutions implemented.
What is missing is the will to carry through on these
commitments. That will is missing because of an insufficient
contact with the energy of Purpose, for it is Purpose which
awakens the Will.
There have been many documented cases where people
have been capable of extraordinary effortsfor example, a
mother whose children were trapped under a car was able
to lift it off them in the heat of the crisisa feat she would
otherwise have been quite unable to perform. Survival crisis
and danger can activate the kundalini force momentarily, but
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it is the energy of monadic purpose that sets off a sustained
activation. Both activations are apparent in the world around
us. On the one hand the growing crisis of climate change is
activating humanitys survival fears.
In particular with events like the tsunami of December
2004, hurricane Katrina and rising sea levels, the deep memory
of the Great Flood is rising from the collective unconscious.
Many have decided that it has gone too far and that it is too
lateglobal catastrophe will soon be upon us. Others are
determined to save the world (actually it is mainly humanity
they are trying to save as the world will probably be just fine).
America is a strong focus for these two camps, as is fitting for
a continent with strong links to Atlantis.
Disciples on the path of initiation are free from both these
positions for their focus is not primarily on the formpersonal
or planetaryit is on the unfoldment of purpose and principle.
That purpose and those principles remain unaffected by the
survival or non-survival of the personality, and that is why
one of the appellations of the initiate of the Third Degree is
The Conqueror of death.1
Cataclysm or Catalysm?
There are two very similar words that illustrate the
current global situation. One is cataclysm from the Greek
kata meaning down and klyzein meaning wash. A cataclysm
is a global wash down much like the Atlantean flood, that
clears the slate and allows the evolutionary process to restart.
The modern dictionary definition is a violent upheaval that
causes great destruction or brings about fundamental change.2
We might remember the biblical story of God giving humanity
the sign of the rainbow after the great flood as a promise
that such a global event would not occur again. We might
imagine this promise (the promise of and for humanity) to
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be embodied in the modern day disciplerainbow warriors
equipped with functioning antahkarana.
The other word is catalyst which also comes from the
Greek kata, and lysis meaning to break down or dissolution.
Catalyst was used in the sixteenth century with reference
to the breaking apart of political groupings. Later as a result
of scientific usage, it acquired its modern meaning one that
precipitates a process without being involved or changed by
the consequences.3
A disciple is a human catalystone who has passed
through the destructive use of the Will into a greater degree of
freedom and is now able to maintain his or her peace while
operating as a causal agent in the world around them. Sanat
Kumara is the planetary archetype that holds the peaceful
silent Will for the planetary scheme under the great Law of
Freedom.
Fission or Fusion?
Another potent symbol emerging on the physical plane
is connected with nuclear energy. Nuclear fission results from
the splitting apart of atomic nuclei forced into close proximity
by a conventional charge. Fusion requires an even greater force
that results in the welding together of the nuclei and the release
of even larger quantities of energy without some of the more
dangerous potential side effects. The ITER is an experimental
fusion reactor being built by a cooperative international effort
and is expected to be operational by 2016.4
The counterpart of this physical process which will release
great quantities of energy on the physical plane is the process
of group initiation, which releases corresponding amounts of
energy on the plane of the soul. Listen to some of the words
being used by the media to talk about the outer process of
nuclear fusion:
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Harnessing solar fire.
Making manifest on Earth the power of the Sun and thereby
freeing the human spirit from its survival concerns.
Group initiation allows the causal bodies of portions of
humanity to become radioactive and have potent effects on
the collective consciousness and creativity.
The Fourth Quality

In the duality of Scorpio/Taurus we saw that the disciple
was introduced to the fourth quality of deitythat which
lies behind the triplicity of Will, Love and Intelligence. This
qualitythis saving forcebegins then to be wielded in the
three worlds by the discipleat first largely unconsciously
but gradually with more awareness. It is wielded through
his soul or middle principle. Fusion always takes place by
a mediating principle in contact with a fourth point, and
the energy of Sagittarius is the guardian of this process. For
example, the mind and body are fused by the astral self
in touch with the soul. Soul and personality are brought
together by the mental self in touch with the monad. Monad
and personality are brought together by the soul in touch
with the cosmic astral plane. In a group sense Hierarchy
and Humanity are brought into fusion by the New Group
of World Servers in touch with Shamballa. Shamballa and
Humanity are brought together by Hierarchy in touch with
the Solar Logos, and so on.
The Logos of the Earth is polarised on the fourth
subplane of the cosmic astral plane, and therefore he is in a
position to bring together into a fused relationship the energy
of the cosmic physical plane and the cosmic mental plane. To
do this he must be in contact with a fourth energy that lies
behind the three.
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Cosmic Buddhi
In cosmic buddhi we find the solar ashrams built around
galactic Purpose. This Purpose is stepped down through solar
purpose, planetary purpose, ashramic purpose, soul purpose,
personality purpose into the very substance of the atoms of
the physical world. In the heart of every atom lies cosmic
buddhi. The antahkarana or great Chain of Being stretches
from the heights to the depths and discovers in a peculiar
manner that they are one and the same energy. Pluto conjunct
the galactic centre reminds us that what lies at the spiritual
core of our galaxy and what lies at the physical core of our
planet are not separate. The secret of Fire lies hid in the
second letter of the Sacred Word.5 Cosmic fire is revealed
by the soul able to make of itself a bridge between the dual
energies of Life: Purpose and Will. So the initiate, freed from
the mental plane and anchored in buddhi, is able to penetrate
into the heights and depths, gaining direct perception via this
mediating principle (and with the assistance of that which
lies behind the triplicity) of both the logoic and the physical
plane. This is why it is said that transfiguration is the applied
power of the intuition.
Kundalini
As we have seen, it is the capacity to penetrate into the
heights that allows for a sustained awakening of the kundalini
force. Sagittarius facilitates this penetration under the self-
initiating efforts of the disciple prior to taking initiation in
Capricorn. Humanity as the planetary disciple is being made
aware through both inner and outer processes of the possibility
of penetration into the energy of planetary purpose held in
Shamballa at this time. The Shamballa impact of 2000 formed a
direct relationship between the first and third planetary centres
(Shamballa and Humanity). By Wesak 2007 Humanity will have
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the opportunity to demonstrate whether or not it is able to
make a reciprocal invocation and thus set up an energetic flow
between the two centres. It is the disciples of the world who
are able to make this invocation and set up this interchange
on behalf of Humanity. They have their antahkarana built to
various degrees and are coming together via the group initiatory
process under the impress of the Ashram of Synthesis. What
is more, they have a unique environment in which to work
that has the potential to accelerate the initiatory process. We
are told that it is the extremity of the soul in service that calls
forth the power of the monad. The global crisis is the perfect
hot-house for the disciple to take initiation and so fulfil the
purpose of the incarnation, at the same time assisting in the
anchoring of planetary purpose and the Externalisation of the
Hierarchy. If Humanity in its higher reaches does make such
a reciprocal response to Shamballa, we will see significant
numbers taking the Third Degree as a result of the activation
of planetary kundalini. This kundalini force results in the
liberation of souls from the three worlds just as the activation
of solar kundalini results in the liberation of monads from the
cosmic physical plane altogether.
Global Governance and Making Demand

It is generally apparent that some form of enlightened
global governance is necessary in order to regulate humanitys
collective impact on the global commons as well as to limit
aggression and realise our collective and diverse potential.
It is also apparent that there are many obstacles to this
emergence. Between now and the advent of the Fourth Ray
in 2025 we are likely to be engaged in a prolonged period
of crisis. We are unable to see from our perspective just how
much cataclysm and how much catalysm will be required to
align our planetary personality with its purpose, but when we
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throw our will on the side of whatever is necessary rather
than what we think is right or comfortable, then we open the
door to real aid. There are no external circumstances that can
defeat the human spirit and it is the demonstration of this
that will allow the disciples and initiates currently incarnate
in the world to step forward into the time and place of their
planetary service and prepare the way for enlightened leadership.
Disciples anchored in their solarised personality, can make
demand on the energy of planetary purpose. As members of
the New Group of World Servers they will thereby assist in
the fusing of the second planetary centre (Hierarchy) with
the third (Humanity). Initiates anchored in the soul, can
make demand on the saving force and the fourth quality of
deity. As members of Hierarchy they can assist in the fusion
of Shamballa and Humanity. As we do our work at the level
of the antahkarana we are capable of activating, we also take
our small part in the cosmic process that integrates our planet
within its solar and galactic dimensions.

2. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
3. http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
4. http://www.iter.org/
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CapricornInitiation
The initiatory energies of Life that were impulsed in

Aries reach their deepest level of expression in Capricorn.
In the individual sense this makes it possible for the soul,
under the impress of the monad, to penetrate fully via
the etheric body into the vital airs of the head and the
result is initiation experienced by the man on the physical
plane. In the case of the logoi the same process occurs
on cosmic planes, and humanity in their collective causal
bodies form those structures within the gaseous plane of
the physical body of the Logos which receive the higher
energies that will result in the initiation of the planet. In
man the energies must pass unimpeded from the causal
body through the mental, astral and etheric vehicles, and
so it is in cosmic man.
The Earth scheme along with Vulcan and Pluto, form a
triangle within the solar life whose purpose is the anchoring
of the germ of Will which will form the basis for the next
solar system. Within the Earth scheme itself members of
the human kingdom are being trained to respond to the
Shamballa force both experientially and theoretically. This
is why the teachings on Shamballa form such an important
part of the current cycle of Wisdom teachings. They create
a resonant mental thoughtform that can be entered into by
the emerging energy. Just as a ritual object dedicated to a
certain energy may become a transmitter of that energy,
so a thoughtform is also an object within the planetary
life that can be used to transmit extra-planetary energy. As
humanity is able to stand and withstand the Shamballa
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force they are also learning to invoke it, thus forming a
responsive energetic flow that completes the circulation
of energy around the triangle of Shamballa, Hierarchy
and Humanity. When these three centres are linked and
functioning properly a fourth energy is revealedrepresented
by the eye within the trianglelying back of all of them.
This energy is the saving force, and it is the destiny of
the Fourth or human Hierarchy to release this force within
the planetary sphere.
In the next solar system, the centre which we today
call Shamballa will manifest (intelligently and through
love) the will aspect of Deity. It is only however in this
second solar system that all these three centres, expressing
the three divine aspects, meet simultaneously at various
stages of livingness. It is interesting to note that it is
only through human beings that these centres can ever
come into true functioning activity.1
The Secret Doctrine has ever taught that mankind has a

special function in saving and regenerating nature. The
saving forcea circulatory combination of the three
major energiesis radiated by humanity as a group-
creative impulse, and this gradually sweeps all forms of life
into the field of its magnetic potency, thus relating them
(or rather the soul of each kingdom) to the Hierarchy
and to Shamballa.2
The human Hierarchy can serve this function because
of its location on the fourth or buddhic plane in this fourth
scheme in a fourth order solar system. The incoming of the
Fourth Ray in 2025 will mark the beginning of a cycle in
which we will see this process come to a greater flowering
and it is for this we prepare.
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The human being can link the energies of the
three major planetary centres because we also have a
correspondence to these centres in our own expression.
We are capable of linking monad, soul and personality
because we are in factnone of them. We are that which
works through them in the same way that the soul works
through the three-fold personality. This may seem quite
a statement when we consider that the normal way we
see development is to progress from personality to soul
to monad, and this is indeed the way that we experience
identification with our vehicles in time and space. But
just as the Solar Logos expresses through three systems
sequentially and yet remains focused in the eternal now,
so we have a part of our own being that remains aloof
from incarnation and is able therefore to operate as the
God of our own small system.
The seven planes of the cosmic physical plane are
vibratory states of matter in which differentiated states of
consciousness are experienced by the indwelling lives. The
Fourth Hierarchy experiences itself on the lowest three
planes as personality, on the middle three planes as soul
and on the higher three planes as monad, undergoing nine
initiations that represent the various states of awareness.
These are initiations in consciousness, but the essential Life
remains ever the same and has its origin beyond the cosmic
physical plane altogether.
The mystery of Makara that is revealed at the
Third Initiation involves the mystery of the five liberated
Hierarchies that are resident on the cosmic astral plane.
They who (when the fourth and fifth kingdom merge) are
ourselves, experienced incarnation on the lower five planes
of the cosmic physical plane in the first solar system, are
therefore in a position to remind us via their representative
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on the mental plane (the solar angel) that we are not the
sheaths into which we have incarnated.
Just as the soul must disidentify with its three sheaths
(the personality), and the monad must remain aloof from
its three sheaths (the triad), so our essential selves must
remain aloof from the three major sheaths of the cosmic
physical plane.
The three highest planes of the cosmic physical represent
the synthesised life of the whole plane. The atmic plane
synthesises the personality identity, the monadic plane the
triadal identity, and the logoic plane the monadic identity.
These three then operate as the triangle of head, heart and
throat in the etheric body of both the microcosm and the
macrocosm. Awakened humanity will thus form part of the
throat centre of the planet under the impress of the Masters
on the atmic plane.
These centres transmit energy from the cosmic planes,
and as our Solar Logos is in the process of taking the
Third cosmic Initiation he will be focusing his attention
on the cosmic buddhic plane and therefore the energy of
cosmic buddhi will increasingly begin to flow through his
etheric body. Shamballa currently transmits the energy of
the cosmic mental plane, Hierarchy the cosmic astral plane,
and Humanity the cosmic physical. It is their combined
energiesor in reality the revelation of that which underlies
them allthat constitutes the saving force, and it is this
energy which Humanity will be able to release as it learns
to triangulate the three energies in the microcosm. Just as
the light in the head is generated out of the overlapping
effect of the three head centres, becomes a bright sun and
also a doorway when its dark centre is revealed, so too a
cosmic light is being revealed within the united periphery
of the three major planetary centres. The formulation of the
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Ashram of Synthesis has a correspondence to this process
within Hierarchy.
We may look at this same process through the analogy
of sound. The AUM represents the three-fold chord of
monad, soul and personality. When the soul has done
its work the OM sounds forth expressing the duality of
spirit and matter. Eventually only the great O is sounded
in Shamballa every one hundred years, representing the
synthesis of spirit and matter and an expression of the great
SOUND. When a man can sound forth his own three-fold
chord he has begun to become identified with the One Life
he essentially is.
The ray energies associated with Capricorn are 1, 3 and
7 which we can represent graphically as:
Combined and reflected they create a similar word

of power to that which we have associated with the Third
Initiation. These are the three rays of the planet Uranus and
also the likely personality rays for the three planets associated
with the Will projectPluto, Earth, Vulcan.
On the reversed wheel, the Saturnian influence exhausts
itself in Capricorn and the man is then free from
karma and needs no presentation of opportunity for
he stands a free initiate, a true Master Mason and can
then proceed with world service undeterred and held
back by no thought of self or selfish desire. He comes
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then under the influence of Uranus, that mysterious and
occult planet. His will is focussed and developed by the
Uranian influences3
Pluto

Earth
Vulcan
The above symbol, an expansion of the synthetic SAT

hieroglyph, is revelatory to the intuition. One of its many
significances has to do with the link between Uranus, the
Hierophant of the Mysteries originating in Sirius via the pillars
of Gemini, anchored via the jewel or diamond soul in the
pyramidal form of the First Ray school in Egypt.
To enter the realm of Uranus we must pass through
the gates of Saturn and reunite as Mercury/Venus with the
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Father. In the Greek myth Saturn sided with his mother Gaia,
and scythed off the testicles of Uranus which fell into the sea
to become Venus. When the soul (Venus) stands upon the
mountain top (Saturn) to receive the lightning flash (Uranus) of
initiation, the split in consciousness between spirit and matter
is healed. The human Hierarchy (Mercury) is able to respond
to the note of each subplane of the cosmic physical plane and
yet remain disidentified with all of them. The initiate recognises
them as the seven-fold expression of a three-fold note, and
behind that note he knows himself to be not separate from
the great SOUND of Life Itself.
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AquariusCommunion
There is one aspect of initiation which is apt to be

overlooked. Every initiation is a process of energy
transmission from a higher centre of energy to a lower;
every initiation charges the initiate with electrical force,
and this charging and re-charging is related to what H.P.B.
calls the mystery of electricity. These transmissions
of energy enhance the magnetic-attractive force of the
initiate, and at the same time are eliminative in their
effects. In this fact lies a great planetary truth and the
key to the science of planetary redemption.1
This series of teachings are designed to assist in the

development of the capacity to transmit the energy of the
Will. As an individual or group becomes an expression
of Purpose they also become a transmitter of the energy
of planetary Purpose. The transmission of this energy is
best likened to the transfer of an electrical charge that
empowersa current of life.2
After the processes of initiation in Capricorn the

soul moves out of the control of Saturn and comes more
deeply under the Uranian influence of Aquarius, and it is
in Aquarius that the impulse begun in Aries is brought to
fruit. The effect of the Aquarian influence on Hierarchy
is to bring in the energy of Shamballa3 and to act as a
distributing agent for Life more abundant.4 Electric fire
from the monad, running through the triad, enters the
causal body via the jewel and begins the process of causal
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burning that makes a soul such a radioactive force within
their environment.
The handling of this current of fire requires new
skills in both the individual and group life and is an
emergent phenomenon in the life of humanity and the
planet as a whole. Its emergence is preparatory to the
revelation of a deeper, more universal and synthetic aspect
of deity.
Let us consider the parallels with electrical phenomena
in the physical world.
Electric current is the flow of electric charge.
Electrical resistance is a measure of the degree to which
an object opposes the passage of an electric current.
The quantity of resistance in an electric circuit determines
the amount of current flowing in the circuit for any
given voltage applied to the circuit.
where
R is the resistance of the object, usually measured in
ohms, equivalent to Js/C2
V is the potential difference across the object, usually
measured in volts.
I is the current passing through the object, usually
measured in amperes.
(Source: Wikipedia5)
The greater resistance to the flow of current the more
excited the electrons in the wire get and the more heat and
light is given out. The tungsten filament in a light bulb for
instance, has high resistance to flow and hence the light.
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Copper has low resistance and so is an excellent conductor of
charge. (As an aside huge copper deposits have recently been
found in the Gobi desert.6)
In spiritual practice we may meditate and get
overstimulated. Early on the path as the current meets
greater resistance the individual identity becomes excited
and there is much talk and activity generated as a result.
This culminates in the full radioactivity of the causal body
at the Third Degree. It is an interesting thought that the
implementation of ones soul purpose may be the result of
the resistance to the flow of planetary purpose. Later on
when ones resistance is burnt out and the soul is released,
the current flows without heat and light. The initiate
becomes a less visible but more potent force. Another
interesting thought is that a sun may be a point where
there is resistance to the flow of the electrical current in
space and hence the solar display.
Electrical currents can also flow through a number
of nadi points in a circuit. These resistance points can be
arranged in series or in parallel.
Any device in an electrical circuitwhether a light
bulb or a motor is designated as a resistor and given the
symbol:
Resistors can be arranged in series or in parallel.

Resistors In Series:
+ Power source
R1 R2
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Resistors in Parallel:
+ Power source
R1
R2
When resistors are in series the overall resistance in

the circuit is greater and if one resistor fails then the whole
current stops. When resistors are in parallel the current can
flow in either or both circuits, as both resistors are connected
independently of each other to the power source. The overall
resistance in the circuit is significantly reduced.
The analogy can be extended to spiritual group life. In
Piscean groups there is one sun connected to the power source
(spirit) and the group is hooked up in series. Distortions and
resistances in the leader are propagated throughout the group
and the resistance of all members is added together to create
a significant obstacle to the flow of current (and much heat
and light in the process). Furthermore the group is only as
strong as its weakest link. If one resistor breaks the current
stops flowing.
In an Aquarian group (note the above symbol when
resistors are in parallel) each member has his or her own
direct alignment with the source of power. Multiple circuits
are possible, the overall resistance is lower (and therefore the
current and charge are higher) and individuals can come and
go without breaking the overall electromagnetic field.
We might compare this process to the following from
Rule XIII in discussion concerning the group which will serve
as Aquarius indicates7 and reveal the hidden mystery:
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See you, therefore, the necessity of eventually organising
a group in the world which will be so constituted and so
carefully chosen and interiorly related that all its members
are initiates, all have created their own rainbow bridges
with understanding and accuracy, and all can now work
in such complete unity that the group antahkarana
becomes a channel of unimpeded communication direct
from Shamballa to the group because every member
of the group is a member of the Hierarchy. In this
manner the three planetary centres arrive at the needed
relationship, and another great triangle reaches true
functioning activity. When this takes place, a revelation
undreamt of will be manifested upon the Earth; a new
divine quality, of which no knowledge at present exists,
will make its presence felt, and the work of the Buddha
and of the Christ, and the work of the coming Avatar,
will be superseded by One for Whom both Shamballa
and the Hierarchy have unitedly waited and of Whom the
doctrine of the Messiah and the doctrine of Avatars have
been and are today only the dim distant symbols.8
After the Third Degree the effects of initiation are
not confined to the individual but form part of a wider
transmission of electrical energy within the great Ashram as a
whole.9 Initiates of different degree pass the current through
their own monadic and triadal sheaths in such a way that it
is stepped down to the appropriate level for assimilation by
others. In this way the fire of God is distributed throughout
the whole of creation.
Within the life of the planet the Aquarian energy
emphasises the relationship between Shamballa and Hierarchy
so that conscious souls are called to create a united field for
the transmission of planetary electric fire (Shamballa force) to
Humanity. Eventually, once Humanity has learned to assimilate
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and respond automatically to this energy, the Hierarchical
centre will become supplementary and withdraw via the path
of higher evolution to the more subtle cosmic plane. Prior to
this, a triangulation of the three main centres will allow for a
divine revelation. Let us extrapolate what this might be from
the individual to the universal. When the monad, soul and
personality are realised as a three-fold expression of one reality
(rather like steam, water and ice are expressions of H2O) then
the energy of the cosmic astral plane is dimly sensed (as one
might sense a flower essence diluted in water). As essentially
we are the returning nirvanis of a previous system (the five
liberated Hierarchies on the cosmic astral) then this realisation
results in a fusion of our cosmic astral and cosmic physical
plane identities.
I am the body and its loving life. I am the Self, whose
quality is love. I am the life of God Himself. The
Mother-Father-Son am I.
Behind these three there stands the unknown God. That
God am I.10
When Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity are
triangulated the planet will become aware of its unknown
God who overlights Sanat Kumara.
I might pause here at this thought and make somewhat
clearer to you the distinction between this unknown
God, who expresses himself through the planet as
a whole, and Sanat Kumara in His high place at
Shamballa.11
We might say that Sanat Kumara is the life of the planet
on the cosmic physical plane operating through seven chakras
or centres of force on etheric levels. He has his counterpart on
the cosmic astral plane, the cosmic mental plane and so on.
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Similarly within the solar system the triangulation of
the three synthesising planets (Uranus, Neptune and Saturn)
reveal the Solar Lord in his three aspects as the Sun, the Heart
of the Sun and the Central Spiritual Sun. Within the galactic
life the triangulation of the Pleiades, Sirius and the Great
Bear reveal the Galactic Lord, and so on. The confirmation
that there is a black hole at the centre of our galaxy in
2000, coming at the same time as the Shamballa impact,
is part of a pattern that leads usvia the registration and
response to the First Aspect of Will and Purposetowards
the revelation of that which lies behind all three manifest
expressions of divinity.
Who is it in whom we live, breathe and have our
being? There is the planetary life, the solar life and the
galactic life. Behind these three and with no centre of
its own is the universal Life which permeates and infuses
all the galaxies, solar systems and planets and yet remains
beyond them all, even in their most subtle manifestations. As
human beings we are nothing less than a direct incarnation,
an embodiment or avatar of that universal Life. So is
every pebble and every idea, but because humans have
been individualised and endowed with self-consciousness
we can become aware of that fact and through the power
of that realisation become conscious transmitters of that
Life within the sphere in which we find ourselves. This of
course applies in the vertical dimension to the lower three
kingdoms on Earth.
Humanity is of peculiar importance in relation to these
triangles because it is the destiny of humanity to transmit
life to the subhuman kingdoms.12 (italics mine)
But there is also a spatial dimension to the role humanity has
to play within much greater spheres of universal livingness.
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Here is the Hierarchical Plan laid out for us in four
easy steps:
1. The first aim and the primary aim is to establish,
through the medium of humanity, an outpost of the
Consciousness of God in the solar system.
2. To found upon earth...a powerhouse of such potency
and a focal point of such energy that humanityas a
wholecan be a factor in the solar system, bringing about
changes and events of a unique nature in the planetary
life and lives (and therefore in the system itself ) and
inducing an interstellar activity.
3. To develop a station of light, through the medium of
the fourth kingdom in nature, which will serve not only
the planet, and not only our particular solar system, but
the seven systems of which ours is one. This question
of light, bound up as it is with the colours of the seven
rays, is as yet an embryo science, and it would be useless
for us to enlarge upon it here.
4. To set up a magnetic centre in the universe, in which
the human kingdom and the kingdom of souls will,
united or at-oned, be the point of most intense power,
and which will serve the developed Lives within the
radius of the radiance of the One About Whom Naught
May Be Said.13
This expansion takes us from an individual focus to the
universal, and decentralises the role of the human kingdom
at the same time as empowering it. The individualwhether
human, solar or galacticis miniscule in comparison to the
universal and yetit is the only location in which the universal
Life can live.
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In the search for extra-terrestrial life it is said that a
definitive answer either way will be paradigm breaking for
humanity. From an esoteric perspective the universe teams
with Life and consciousness but we do not know how rare it
is for that consciousness to have reached the particular stage
that it has on Earth and how critical this may or may not be
to larger plans within the universal Being.
When the spiritual and the electrical charging of the three
major centres on the planetShamballa, the Hierarchy
and Humanityhas reached a high stage of receptive
efficiency, a certain cosmic Avatar will become conscious
of the vibratory quality of the little point of light within
the solar sphere and will then turn His gaze and send
His force unto that point of light, and cosmic evil will
be driven out and find no more a place on Earth.14
It might be fruitful to consider the likely origin of this
cosmic avatar, remembering that the function of an avatar is
to transmit energy from a larger system to a lesser system. A
cosmic avatar, as distinct from say a solar avatar, comes from
beyond the solar system and is only registered on the top two
planes of our system. In A Treatise on Cosmic Fire we are given
three examples of such an exalted being: An avatar from Sirius,
an avatar from the Great Bear (specifically the third star) and
an avatar from our cosmic centre.15 Remember that during
the dispensation of the teaching given out through A A Bailey
the Pleiades and specifically Alcyone was initially given as the
centre around which our solar system revolves. Knowledge of
the galactic centre had yet to penetrate human consciousness
and Alcyone was therefore used as a blind. Blinds must make
sense however, and we can see that the Pleiades, as a cosmic
throat centre, has a correspondence to the atmic plane and
Saturn. Until a certain stage of the path is reached atma isto
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all intents and purposesall that the disciple can relate to of
the Will. Saturn is however, to use a thinly veiled phrase, an
earthly father and not a heavenly one. (Uranus is the heavenly
one.) An initiate penetratesthrough the will of the soul
that atma representsto the Will embodied by the monad.
Similarly a planetary or solar being when undergoing initiation,
must access cosmic Will.
Is the cosmic avatar who is on his way in fact an energy
transmission from the galactic centre? Is there an opportunity as
Pluto conjuncts this centre in 2007 for consciousness on Earth to
register, however faintly, this transmission? For an effective triangle
between Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity to function as
an entry point for this energy, there will need to be an adequate
response from a group within the Human centre.
The effect of such a visit as that of the avatar from Sirius
is seen as the sum-total of civilisation and culture, viewing
these from the standpoint of the entire system and in one
flash of time.16 What might the effect be of such a visit of
an avatar from the cosmic centre? We might imagine that it
would at least concern itself with the life and evolution of
consciousness within the seven centres of which ours is one.
No doubt the entry into this larger system would require a
triangular alignment between the three super constellations,
and a similar triangle would operate within our solar system
as well as in the planetary life. We know that the anchoring
of a seed of Will which will become the germ of the third
systema Will systemis a project that our Planetary Logos
is undertaking in conjunction with the Vulcan and Pluto
schemes, and that this triangle anchors the electrical force of
the synthesising planet and home of electric fire (Uranus17)
in our system.
Earth, as the heart or monadic First Ray point within
this triangle, must integrate and fuse the two willsthat of
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the soul and the personality represented by Vulcan and Pluto
respectively. It is interesting to note that at the very time
Pluto is conjoining the galactic centre it has been demoted
as an archetypal force within the human psyche,18 and at the
same time there is present within humanity a great upwelling
of Plutonic energy manifesting as fundamentalist terrorism
in its many forms. If this is so we should also look for the
inflow of Vulcanian energy which will bring those leaders to
the fore who are able to wield the complementary fire of the
will of the soul. Indeed many disciples are experiencing an
inner push to externalise themselves more in service. Behind
this dual activity lies the synthetic action of Uranus forging
the diamond soul of Earth.
From the perspective of the Solar Logos the inflowing
energy forms part of the process that will result in the taking
of the Third cosmic Initiation and therefore the awakening of
systemic kundalini. From the perspective of our Planetary Logos
the inflow is part of that which will enable him to take the
Second cosmic Initiation when a monadic touch is required to
seal the door where evil dwells19 and to overcome his cosmic
desire nature. To understand a little of how a flicker of the
gaze of a cosmic avatar will help to seal the door we need to
investigate the origin (theoretically and within our little system)
of cosmic evil.
We know that there is a misalignment between Solar
Logoi of the three great constellations in which our Solar
Logos and Planetary Logos play their part, and we would
expect a cosmic avatar to effect a realignment. Within our
planetary scheme we know that our Heavenly Man is one of
the imperfect Gods and that he has yet to fully master his
desire nature. What this practically means to life within his
ring-pass-not on the cosmic physical plane is that periodically
the whole plane is swept with his desire for physical life. This
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is experienced by the seven incarnate Hierarchies as a pull
towards materiality, and this pull is particularly dominant on
the lower three planes where it is also the cause of humanitys
so-called sexual misery.20 When a soul is able to function
on the buddhic plane and fuse with the Fifth Hierarchy as
representing the five liberated Hierarchies, this pull is offset
and the soul begins to be able to make discrimination between
planetary desire (which is only partly solarised) and solar desire
which is infused with cosmic buddhi.
When a human being takes the Second Degree, contact
with the monad is not used so much to negate desire as
is commonly portrayed, but to offset it with its higher
correspondencethe Will. Once Life more abundant21 has
been tasted, lesser experiences begin to pale and the incarnate
soul seeks more. As the poet Rumi eloquently expresses it:
There is some kiss we want with our whole lives.22 When a
planetary entity takes the Second cosmic Initiation a similar
process occurs. His focus is drawn via the triad to the monad,
and down the antahkarana created by his attention can flow
the Will force which will have the effect of abstracting and
freeing his consciousness from the cosmic physical plane
altogether.
As cells within his body, as souls within his great Ashram,
we have a similar choice as to where we put our attention. For
those who seek to work with the Will and learn the secret of
abstraction, we may form part of that conscious antahkarana
which will allow the entry of an energy so subtle we will barely
be able to register itan essence within the waters of Lifethe
presence of a future (and ever present) synthesis.
Of what use is this big picture, one might ask, when
the world is in such crisis? Many feel their souls attention
drawn to assist in education about the environmental crisis or
to help offset the Plutonic forces that may bring religious war,
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and these are indeed necessary and worthy goals for the soul.
Each must respect the way they are called to serve, as that
call emerges from the depth of their own being. The seeds of
future civilisation are always being planted amidst the chaotic
upheaval of the past, and it should be remembered that initiates
in any generation, and the culture they nurture, are the cause of
evolution and not its result. Consider this quote that illustrates
the power of group meditation on cosmic sources:
The reason is that if the name were known and if
enough people could do the work of occult meditation
and visualisation, accompanying the work with a vivid
imagination, it might be possible to attract into our
system such a downpour of attractive energy from
the constellation involved as to unduly speed up the
processes of evolution upon our planet, and thus upset
the systemic economy most dangerously. People do not
yet realise the potency of meditation and especially of
group meditation.23
From our perspective the third solar systemthat of
the Willexists in the future, but from the perspective of the
Solar Logos the three systems are occurring contemporaneously.
When we penetrate into the eternal now and allow this reality
to permeate our present experience in this the second solar
system, some sections of humanity are discovering this: that
what is needed to offset the stubborn and potent materiality
that is left over in the matter of the first solar system is to
bring forward the spirit of Will and abstraction that permeates
the coming third system.
Einstein said that problems cannot be solved at the level
of consciousness in which they were created. We know that
from the solar perspective the White Lodge and Black Lodge
serve a dual purpose, and no doubt from the perspective of
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the galactic centre solar good and evil form a similar duality
that is resolved by the affirmation of that central Life in which
they are synthesised and whose purpose they serveconsciously
or unconsciously.
To use the electrical analogy: Resistance is the force
necessary to generate light (consciousness). We do not oppose
it but merely increase the flow of the current by tapping, in
parallel, into a more potent power source.
The triangle of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity is
composed of three points that, while equally divine, are of
different hierarchical potency. We might think of it therefore
as a vertical triangle as well as a horizontal one. (All are centres
within the body of Sanat Kumara). Within the cosmic Being
in which we live move and play our part we might identify
another vertical triangle of distinctly disparate levels. The galactic
centre (substituting for Alcyone), Aquarius and Humanity. The
first is a centre within the universe, the second a centre or
constellation within the galaxy, and the third a centre within
the solar system (when the Fourth and Fifth Hierarchies are
fused). They are also a horizontal triangle when it is considered
that they are all of them incarnations to greater or lesser degree
of the One universal Life.
Communion with and the transmission ofthat Lifeis
the true spirit of Aquarius and the opportunity that lies in
the future for the human race as a whole, or in the timeless
present for that small section of it who are willing and able
to respond.
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2. Working With The WillAries in this book.
5. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Electrical_resistance
6. At the Oyu Tolgoi mine in the Gobi desert. See:
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/29982/
newsDate/17-Mar-2005/story.htm
11. Bailey, Esoteric Healing, p.679.
14. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, pp.7356.
18. On 24 August 2006 the General Assembly of the International
Astronomical Union (IAU) agreed that a planet is to be
defined as a celestial body that (a) is in orbit around the Sun,
(b) has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid
body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly
round) shape, and (c) has cleared the neighbourhood around
its orbit. Therefore Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet.
http://www.iau.org/iau0603.414.0.html
22. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Some Kiss We Want, transl.
Coleman Barks.
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PiscesSacrifice and Surrender
All beauty, all goodness, all that makes for the eradication
of sorrow and ignorance upon the Earth must be
devoted to the Great Consummation. Then when the
Lords of Compassion shall have spiritually civilised the
Earth and made of it a Heaven, there shall be revealed
to the Pilgrims the Endless Path which reaches to the
Heart of the Universe. Man, then no longer man, will
transcend nature and impersonally, yet consciously, in
at-one-ment with all Enlightened Ones, help to fulfil
the Law of the Higher Evolution, of which Nirvana is
but the beginning.1
There is a divine darkness which is the essence of

both the light of consciousness and the darkness of matter.
There is one Self which permeates and transcends the whole
universe in both its objective and subjective expression. In
the East this Self is called Brahman and Self-realisation is the
awakening to the direct experience of this Self. This Self is
both the centre and circumference of the universethe one
Monadfor everything arises within it and it is in everything
which arises. When any self-conscious element that forms part
of the universe inquires into its true nature it will eventually
discover this one Self. The Being that lies at the core of the
Monad is the same Being that lies at the core of the whole
universe. This Being is known as the great Breath. On the
outbreath the universe is brought into expression and on
the inbreath it enters pralaya. Behind this breathing lies Be-
nessthe essence of both Being and Non-Being to which is
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given the name Sat. This is the One Boundless Immutable
Principle about which nothing may be surmised. We are
essentially this Principle incarnate and to get a clearer idea
of the sheaths we use for that incarnation it will help to
integrate the Western concept of spirit and matter with the
Eastern concept of Purusha and Prakriti. They are not the
same, as the following diagram should make clear:
What we often mean by spirit and matter are the two

vibratory poles of substance or Prakriti which is contrasted
with Purusha. On the lower planes of Prakriti consciousness
is more identified with substance, and on the higher planes
consciousness is more identified as essence. The monad, soul
and personality are three expressions of self-consciousness that
overlap on the atmic and mental planes. There is only one
essential Self that lies at the core of these three experiences
of awareness.
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When the soul focuses on its outbreath then it is creating
and sustaining its expression in the three worlds. When it
inbreathes it turns its attention through the centre of its own
being towards the monad. When the monad is outbreathing it
is creating and sustaining its life expression in the five worlds.
When it inbreathes it turns its attention to the centre of its
own being and discovers the One Life in incremental revelation.
This is the way of the higher evolution. There is the One Life
of the planet, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe.
The monad is onward moving in Life and yet this life is the
same life throughout Kosmos, just as consciousness is the same
throughout Kosmos and yet is expressed in ever-expanding entities
and ring-pass-nots.
Substance is seven-fold. Consciousness experiences and
gives rise to triplicities. Essence experiences and gives rise to
wholes or singularities. A galaxy is sustained by a single life
even though this life exists within and is essentially the same as
the universal Life. All black holes in this regard are essentially
the same black hole. Darkness is One. The surrender and
mediumship that is connected with Pisces allows us to be used
as a conduit for the awakening of consciousness to this divine
darknessthe awakening of the individual to the universal...
the Self-realisation of humanity as the essential spiritual Self
of the universe.
Self-Realisation
Spiritual enlightenment in the great traditions can be
summed up as the process of Self-realisation. Here and there
an individual has awoken (albeit in different ways) to the
realisation that they are and have always been essentially divine
and that at the core of their own nature they are inseparable
from the core of everything. They normally establish a tradition
and help to awaken those who are ready and those they come
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into close relationship with. In the Aquarian Age the saviour
is essentially a group of those enlightened beings who have
won through to a degree of freedom transmitting and radiating
that realisation and that energy of freedom throughout the
consciousness not only of humanity, but all of the kingdoms
in nature.
The Ashram of Synthesis

The idea behind the Ashram of Synthesis addresses
the deeper reality that underlies all three planetary
centresShamballa, Hierarchy and Humanityand not
just the middle or consciousness principle. The self can
awake to itself at any level of Prakritic immersion, as the
presence on Earth of simple saints who have little mental
development attests. How this self-realisation is expressed
will depend on other factors. Therefore such an ashram
will contain within its ring-pass-not members from each
of these three centres, as well as representatives from each
planetary kingdom. It will include members of the devic as
well as human evolution, as well as that mysterious third
evolution.2 What all members of this synthetic centre will
have in common is their realisation and expression of the
One Life. This is easier to achieve on the higher subplanes
and therefore it will be more difficult to find those members
who retain their participation in the centre we call Humanity
than some of the other planetary lives. The process that we
call the Externalisation of the Hierarchy has a counterpart
we might call the Internalising of Humanity. This involves
the initiation of consciousness but the sacrificing of the
liberation of that consciousness onto higher planes for a
certain period. This has its higher counterpart in the delay
in treading the cosmic paths by the monad when required
by the needs of planetary evolution.
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Humanity as a Station of Light
In Kosmos the awakening of the one Self through the
medium of the planet Earth is a significant development
that will not be fully appreciated until that awakening is
more advanced. In the Virgoan sense the Earth serves as
both a womb and a tomb for the One Self. The Life energy
enters into the lowest plane as the kundalini force which
must sleep because it is yet unconscious of itself and must
perforce operate instinctually. Nevertheless it is still the One
Life. When a centre of self-consciousness is developed and
that consciousness is able to realise that that which operates
at the core of its instinctual life is the same energy as that
which it detects in its superconsciousness via the intuition,
then initiation takes place. The life which animates the top
plane of any system is the same life which animates the
bottom (and indeed every) plane. When this is realised in
consciousness the result is the burning through of the webs
and a realised synthesis of the Life, light and substance of
all the planes.
Human Beings As Cosmic Kundalini

The same process of synthesis occurs on the seven
levels of the cosmic planes. A human monad is essentially
a spark of the one flamethe One Self. Its confinement
on the lowest of the cosmic planes is analogous to the
confinement of the kundalini force within the base centre,
and is why our prototype Sanat Kumara is known as the
Great Sacrifice.
As the human monad begins to realise itself as the
planetary life, the solar life, the galactic life, the universal
Life, so the highest and the lowest on the cosmic planes
meet and cosmic kundalini rises. Human monads are
therefore the energy of spirit-as-Purusha, as Atman, as
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Brahman sleeping within the cosmic physical plane. The
triplicity of monad-soul-personality are the three serpents
behind whom stands the Great Dragon who in his essential
nature is the One Life. Cosmologically the association of our
planetary life with the constellation Draco and the arrival
of the serpent energy in the second or monadic round has
a direct relevance here.3 Before we came as consciousness
at the time of individualisation, we were already here as
kundalini. When the energy of the Dragon arises from its
sleep and rises back to its origin there is made possible a
cosmic synthesis.
The circle of revelation is rounded out; the cycle is
completed; the serpent of matter, the serpent of wisdom
and the serpent of life are seen to be one whole and
behind the three stands the Eternal Dragon for ever
spawning forth the triple serpent, for ever saying: Go
forth and come thou back.4
The monadic essencethe One who was the three
withdraws from the cosmic physical plane and proceeds
along the higher Way. Unless he chooses or is asked to
stay.
It is possible for kundalini to awaken but not arise. We
might liken Shamballa to the dark pupil of an eye. It is possible
for the pupil to dilate or contract in size to allow more or
less light or consciousness through. The degree of dilation is
controlled by the number of Sixth Degree initiates who are
asked to remain in Earth service. By refraining from rising, the
centralised Life energy empowers and vitalises the ring-pass-
not in which it remains willfully limited. Some understanding
may thus be gained about the role of Sanat Kumara, the path
of Earth service and the role of Pisces from the perspective
of the Will aspect.
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PiscesVirgo & The Sacredising of Matter
Esoterically Pisces is ruled by Plutoa planet associated
with the base chakraand Virgo by the Moon veiling
Vulcana planet associated with the crown chakra. (On the
current full Moon there is a total eclipse so the opportunity is
to deal with Vulcan directly.) Virgo is the Mother aspect and
associated with the darkness of matter or the spirit buried in
the earth. Pisces represents the Father aspect and is associated
therefore with the symbol of the black hole at the centre of
the galaxy. When it is realised that these two are One, there
is a burning through of the webs that separate them and a
liberation of Light Supernala seven-fold synthetic light. The
Mother principle is restored to equality in consciousness and
raised into heaven, while the Father principle descends to
earth. In reality they have been an ever present duality in the
universal Father/Mother or Purusha/Prakriti.
It is Finished
The vehicle of the soul is being subjected to pressure
from within but thenboth in the case of the individual
initiate and of the initiated groupthe final blow has
to be struck also from without, by an act of the united
will; this corresponds to the great cry of the Christ upon
the Cross when He exclaimed It is finished.5
Then will open for you as for others, the Way of the
Higher Evolution, and the glory of the Lord will be seen
in a new lighta light which will dim and throw into
the shade all previous goals and visions.6
This cycle of teachings on the Will has been laid down
over one zodiacal cycle like the twelve petals of the heart. It
could be synthesised by three imperatives representing the
individual, group and universal levels of the Life aspect:
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Monadic Striving
The creation and sustaining of a dynamic point of tension
within the individual soul consciousness that must result in
initiation into Life. We might call thismaking demand. The
willingness to place all the accumulated possessions of the soul
(all goodness, all beauty, all wisdom etc) in the service of the
unknown but emerging centre. We might call thisbeing
the supply.
The result is initiation in Capricorn.
Monadic Radiation
The inner recognition of those other selves with whom
one is joined in Life. The transmissionin group formation
of the electric fiery current that vitalises and stimulates the Life
aspect within the planetary ring-pass-not. The triangulation
and circulation of energy around the three planetary centres
generating a field for the revelation of that which lies behind
all three.
The result is world service in Aquarius.
Monadic Surrender
The group intensification of the Life principle through
greater and greater revelation of its universal nature. This is
achieved by being willing to be entered and empowered by
the life of those entities (such as for example the Avatar of
Synthesis) capable of containing and transmitting greater levels
of Life force. It is also achieved by being willing to enter,
consecrate and empower via the Life aspect lower kingdoms
within the One Life.
The result is the emergence of the world Saviour in
Pisces.
The current opportunity provided by Pluto conjunct the

galactic centre is for the consciousness of humanity (or those
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sections of it that are ready) to be struck from the outsideas
it werein response to a united call to the Life aspect. The
advent of a cosmic avatar from the galactic centre is not a
single moment in time and space but a process that lies behind
time, space and consciousness as we know it. The coming
of the avatar is a story that conveys meaning to the human
mind. In reality this cosmic Shamballa centre is radiating its
peaceful silent Will and transmitting its profound realisation
of the One universal Self without particular reference or regard
to our little cycles.
Nevertheless in the process of directing the degree of Will
and consciousness we collectively possess towards that great
centre in this time of planetary crisis, the energetic results must
follow under Law. The initiative helps to generate a thread of
connection that may be built upon by others, and the small
seed of inflowing essence may yet bring forth an unknown
and unforeseeable fruit.
1. W Y Evans-Wentz, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines: Seven Books

of Wisdom of the Great Path, According to the Late Lama Kazi
Dawa-Samdups English Rendering, Oxford University Press,
2000, p.12.
4. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, pp.630-1.
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The Third Approach
The esoteric teachings outline three Great Approaches

to or from our divine source. The third phase approach is
concerned with the First or Life Aspect in the trinity of
LifeLoveActivity or monadsoulpersonality. It is self-
evident that this contact can only be made consciously when
the Second or conscious Aspect of the soul has been developed.
However the consciousness does not have to be fully developed
before contact with the Life principle is undertaken and indeed
early contact, properly guided, can speed up the process of
soul development.
A useful analogy is the situation as it occurs between
the disciplines of exoteric psychology and esoteric psychology.
The leading edge of mainstream exoteric psychology, while
acknowledging the transpersonal worlds, cautions against
developing transpersonal awareness until the personality is
fully developed and integrated. There is obviously some wisdom
in this approach and many will have anecdotal experiences
of individuals becoming ungrounded or imbalanced through
premature soul contact. On the other hand, there is the
equally valid truth that soul contact can speed up personality
integration through alignment with the wisdom and purpose
of the soul. Esoteric psychologists level a legitimate claim
that prolonged focus on personal development can be an
over-emphasis on the Third Aspect and an unwillingness to
progress the identity into the Second or soul Aspect. Trainings
like Psychosynthesis attempt to bridge the gap between these
two approaches.
In the future we might isolate a third approach to
psychological development and integrationa spiritual
psychologythat emphasises our primary identity as spirit
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or monad. Indeed it is indicated by the Master DK that
the new esoteric schools will train students in contact
between monad and personality through the science of
occult meditation.1 The emphasis upon the soul or Second
Aspect is today becoming exotericforming part of many
mainstream approaches to education and organisational
development. The inherent wisdom and creativity of the
individual and the collective synergy of groups aligned to
Purpose are increasingly being valued. This third approach will
have its own strengths and weaknesses but will increasingly
become recognised as a distinct pathway that will attract
certain types of individuals and groups. It is in reality a
third approach to initiation. When the process of initiation
was introduced it began with a focus upon the individual.
Gradually the emphasis has shifted as we enter the Aquarian
Age into a focus upon the group. This third method places
the emphasis upon the whole.
There is also a third method of individualisation
which will become the normal method for the next solar
systemindividualisation through abstraction. In the first
system individualisation occurred through the evolutionary
progression of the Third Aspect. In the current second system
the method of individualisation is through the aid of the
agnishvattas or the consciousness principle. We have help
from our higher selves which are naturally group conscious.
Thus the development of consciousness through education
or the drawing forth of the consciousness principle is the
keynote of this system. In the third system the keynote will
be the Life principle, and activity and consciousness will be
developed in an accelerated way through identification with
the monad, the One.2 The core identity will, in effect, be
abstracted from the lower five worlds of the personality and
the triad.
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These three forms of development can be related to
the three primary rays of the monad. Indeed the different
approaches will be favoured by those on different ray
lines. A major distinction on the planet is between those
who individualised on the Moon Chain, where the Third
Aspect was dominant, and those who have individualised
on Earth (Earth humanity) where the Second Aspect is
dominant. In time we might also include Mercury Chain
humanitythose who are showing signs of fifth chain
development and beginning to respond to the third method
of development.
Of course this third approach will also attract (with
less long term benefit to them) those who have strong
First Ray at the soul and personality level. It will be most
suitable to those upon any of the rays who have reached a
certain level of soul/personality integration and therefore
those in whom the Will principle is becoming increasingly
expressed.
In the worlds of time and space we develop awareness
of our three levels of being sequentially (personality, soul
then monad), but in terms of our essential identity the
order of relative importance of these aspects is reversed
monad, soul then personality. When we attempt to place
first things first we must therefore consider whether we are
primarily anchored in the world of Being or the world of
becoming.
There is another reason for developing and strengthening
the third approach to divinity or responsiveness to the energy
of Shamballa, and this lies in a later synthesis. When the
monad, the soul and personality assume their rightful
balance and order of relative importance in both the inner
and outer worlds then the revelation of that which lies
behind these three aspects becomes possible. Just as the
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three vehicles of the personality when integrated, reveal the
synthetic principle of the soul operating through them, so
too do the three vehicles of the cosmic physical planes hide
a synthesising energya fourth quality of deity waiting to
be revealed.3
The development of the Will and monadic identification
is not therefore an end in itself but part of a processa
process of synthesis. Those who develop the Will aspect will
still need to achieve full rounding out of the consciousness
and activity principles in time and space. They will do this
however with the aid of the synthetic fourth principle which
sees the three as one.
Within the esoteric community the emergence of this
third approach will be likely to raise a divergence of opinion,
just as the emergence of the second approach is a challenge to
the first. Just as there are those who say the acquisition of outer
knowledge and skill is more important than the development
of the innate wisdom of the soul, there will be those who say
that the development and unfolding of consciousness is more
important than the identification with the Life principle. Of
course everyone is right and merely emphasising a partial
truth in a pre-synthesised triad. There will be those who say
that an attempt to contact the monad is presumptuous when
we have only just begun to know and develop the soul. There
will be those who say that we have not yet understood and
applied the first and second phases of the Ageless Wisdom
that has already been given out and so why bother trying to
delve into the third phase. There will be those who say that
the most important requirement on the planet is the building
of the bridge between personality and soul, not that between
soul and monad.
Of course different perspectives emphasise different
priorities. Different aspects of the one synthetic whole are
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seen as differentially important by entities within it. Synthesis
however, occurs after each of the three strands are balanced and
not before. A synthesis of opinion in the minds of men is an
even more difficult undertaking and so as always, pioneers must
demonstrate their priorities and values in the face of prevailing
status quos. They do this by testing out new pathways in the
context of experimentation, allowing time and evolution to
weave their work into the greater whole.
The work therefore of the third approach is to complete
the higher antahkarana through identification with the Whole
so that the synthetic operation of the three centres in man
and in the planet can occurbringing revelation of a fourth
quality of deity. This revelation is essential to the Aquarian
Age. We can fit ourselves to aid in this process if we, as DK
indicates, walk humbly with our God.4
So far we have looked at this third approach with
respect to the individual approach to divinity, but it
applies equally to our planetary life as a whole. Two Great
Approaches by spirit to form have already been made, with
two lesser approaches embodying the Great Approaches by
individual avataric members of the human family. The first
Great Approach occurred in Lemurian times and resulted
in the individualisation of animal man, the birth of the
fourth kingdom in nature and the appearance of the human
soul. It was literally the arrival of Light.5 The second Great
Approach occurred when humanity had grown through the
ages in sensitivity and intelligence. It was the approach
of the spiritual Hierarchy to Humanity and made them
aware of the path to God, the path of initiation. God had
hitherto been a purely transcendent and unapproachable
reality, but now God became immanent and the path of
sacrifice could be walked by advanced humanity via the
Christ or soul principle residing at the core of our own
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natures. The Buddha was an embodiment or expression of
the first approach and the Christ an embodiment of the
second. The second Great Approach will be consummated
in humanity with the Reappearance of the Christ and the
Externalisation of the Hierarchy.
The third Great Approach already has its beginnings
with the coming into relationship of the energy of
Shamballa with Humanity. In the early stages the new
approach is not recognised for what it isthe will of God
in new and potent livingness. 6 It has effects, but these are
largely unconscious. As humanity develops responsiveness
to this new energy it is able to begin conscious cooperation
with it through the science of invocation. That invocation
is beginning to occur in two waysthrough the largely
unconscious call to freedom from the masses of humanity
and the concerted invocative appeal by the New Group
of World Servers.
Just as the first two approaches have their outer
representative embodiments, so too will the third approach.
We await a coming avatar who will embody in himself the
principles not only of Light and Love (although developed in
lesser degree to his predecessors the Buddha and the Christ)
but also the energy of Power. He will thus synthesise the three
great qualities of deity and make possible the revelation of that
which lies behind their expression.
Coincident with the coming of this avatar will be the
founding of the Temple of Power upon the physical plane,
which will make possible the restoration of the mysteries
and the taking of the First Initiation as a recognised outer
event within the human family. Already two temples exista
Temple of Light upon the mental plane presided over by the
Buddha, and a Temple of Love on the astral plane presided
over by the Christ.7
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The three approachesof spirit to matter (and vice versa)
through the three-fold workings of consciousnessform part of
one great whole, and when they are consummated we will have
a new heaven and new earth.8 This is the promise that the
combination of the energies of Aquarius and the Seventh Ray
make possible.9 Only then we will not use the terms heaven
and earth or spirit and matter for there will no longer be
experienced any sense of such a duality. Light Supernal, the
Light of Life Itself, will reveal the One Life pervading all levels
of manifest Being, and humanity will take its conscious place
as a divine centre. Then this planet will manifest a truth in
consciousness which has ever been a timeless divine reality.
Earth has always been in heaven.

3. http://www.shamballaschool.org/mercury/FourthQuality.htm
5. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p.411.
6. Bailey, The Destiny of the Nations, p.17.
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The Black Hole God
The history of human culture tells us that whatever

symbol we place in the centre of our collective imagination
reflects itself through all levels of civilisationour religious,
political, social, educational and economic structures.
Naturally enough, the cosmos has been a primary source
of our heaven symbols and we can trace the development
of human consciousness by paying attention to which of
the heavenly bodies captures our attention and centralises
our society. When the Moon is dominant in our psyche
we have the emotional and psychic life ruling with its
emphasis on the physical and astral body. When the
planets are the dominant focus we have the pantheistic
traditions and pay attention to the different qualities
of the personality. Earth or Gaia-centered consciousness
could be said to be culminating on the planet currently
as the mass consciousness of humanity is integrating as a
personality. The vision of Earth from space was a powerful
unifying symbol.
The Sun is the centre of many of the monotheistic
traditions and represents the dominant central symbol for
advanced humanity over the last several thousand years of
evolution. It is the symbol of the soul, the Christ life, and is
the central motif for the Piscean Age. The Sun is the source
of light and love, the epitome of the saviour and of self-
consciousness. It is Leo, and allows man to say I am firstly
as a personality and then as a soul.
There are two relatively recent events that are bringing
a new centralising symbol to the imagination of humanity.
The first is the journey out of the solar system by the Voyager
spacecraft.1
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The twin Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft are currently
passing through the heliosphere and symbolise the extension
of human consciousness beyond the ring-pass-not of the Sun
in the same way that the launch of the Sputnik in 1957
symbolised the release of human consciousness from the
planet. The second event is the postulation of black holes
and the discovery that a black hole forms the central hub
of our Milky Way galaxy and indeed, in all probability, of
all galaxies.
At the start of the Aquarian Age we have a new symbol
which is in many ways the opposite of the Leonine Sun.
The Sun is a source of light, of consciousness, of order.
The black hole is darkness, the unknowable, chaos. It is
the contention of this paper that the symbol of the black
hole coming into the human psyche is the outer equivalence
of the monad or spirit aspect, just as the Sun relates to
the soul. In the Aquarian Age the main spiritual task is
not the relating of soul and personality but of monad and
personality via the soul. The three major symbols of Earth,
the Sun and the black hole can be meaningfully equated to
these three levels of self, each at the centre of its respective
orbiting attendants:
Black Hole - Monad Sun - Soul Earth - Moon -

Personality Emotions
Or expressed another way familiar to esotericiststhe

personality is four-fold, the soul is three-fold and the monad
is singular, corresponding to the singularity at the core of a
black hole:
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The Sun is thus a light between two darksthe darkness
of matter and the darkness of pure spirit. It is matter itself
which is consumed in the heart of a star, and it is light that is
consumed within the heart of a black hole. Light cannot escape
the gravitational pull once the event horizon is crossed. Light
is the symbol of consciousness, and as we know, consciousness
is dual, requiring subject and object. Spirit is non-dual and
when the Life which lies beyond consciousness is entered,
consciousness as we know itsoular consciousnessis no
longer experienced. The identity or ahamkaric principle is
dissolved in emptiness or sunyata.
The following chart and image lists the relationships I
am proposing between the physical plane and the physical
manifestation of members of the cosmic familyplanets, suns
and black holes:
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First ether logoic universal akasha
Second ether monadic black hole
Third ether atmic sun (third order) supernovablack hole
Fourth ether buddhic sun (fourth order)
Gaseous mental planetVenus eg sun (fifth order)
Liquid astral planetEarth eg
Physical physical planetMars eg
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We know our Sun is manifesting on the fourth ether
and that science is gradually penetrating into what lies behind
light. I suggest that a black hole is a manifestation of second
etheric matter generated out of the first ether akashic sea of
black hole / white hole energetic substrata.
A planetary logos eventually becomes a solar logos. A
solar logos eventually becomes a cosmic logos (with intervening
levels of constellational logoi). We see this reflected in the
physical plane. If Jupiter was larger it would have become a
sun. If a star is of great enough mass it will end its life as a
black hole.
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While these are correspondences relating to the
physical plane they naturally reflect the realities of the
cosmic physical plane. The higher antahkarana represents
the relationship between soul and monad, Hierarchy and
Shamballa. The number of Shamballa is 24, revealing the
link between the second or monadic plane and the fourth
or buddhic plane.
Formula V given in Discipleship in the New Age II
THE SUNBLACKANTAHKARANA is the formula
linked to revelation of the Will and to Shamballa.2 When
the higher antahkarana is constructed we have the potential
to circulate energy between the triangle of monad, soul
and personality in a way that reveals a fourth energy or
saving force.
Accepting for a moment that the black hole is a
symbol of the monad, we might ask how this symbol
reveals itself in the coming Aquarian civilisation. The
keynote of spirit or the monadic aspect is synthesis.
Synthesis is not fusion. Fusion or unity belongs at the
level of consciousness or soulits outer symbol is the field
of light that constitutes a galaxy. The many suns share a
common consciousness. This consciousness or light does
not penetrate however, into the lower levels of matter
which is in the process of becoming solarised, nor does it
penetrate into the higher levels of spiritthe black hole.
Thus consciousness cannot be the origin of synthesis but
only a field for its revelation. True synthesis is based on
the realisation of an already present principle that lies at
the core of differentiated expression.
For example a planet such as Earth does not need to
become a sun in order to circle the black holeit just needs
solar consciousness in order to realise the fact that it is already
doing so. Jesus saithno man cometh unto the Father, but
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by me. (John 14:6) That no man comes to the Father except
through the Son or Sun is true of mans consciousness. Of
course he is already related to the Father aspect because spirit
is the very source or unrevealed origin of his existence. The
sutratma or Life thread is already present in all men. Not
all men have built the antahkarana however, and become
cognisant of this fact.
Constellations, suns, planets, moons, comets, asteroids
etc are all present within the form of a galaxy. They are
differentiated expressions of the life of that galaxy. Within
human society there is a similar differentiation. All individuals
are souls (suns) but not all are expressing their solar nature.
Similarly groups and organisations are functioning at different
levels within the planetary human organism. How do we
develop an integral context for human society that encompasses
all levels of expression?
It could be said that human consciousness on Earth is
currently undergoing a transition from personality-centered
to soul-centered structures. From the perspective of the
consciousness of a disciple this creates a battle between these
two forms of expression, symbolised by the war between the
Black Lodge and the White Lodgethe forces of materialism
and the forces of light. A disciple is an intimate part of this
conflict because it is being waged in the core of his own
consciousness. From a higher perspective however, once victory
is achieved the forces of light and dark are seen as dual aspects
of a single energy system. The aim of the monad is to fuse the
soul and personality at the Third Initiation so that the central
Life principle can express through both.
Unsolarised personality-centered structures tend to
marginalise and exclude soul values and impulses, as we
well know. Uninformed soul-based structures can also tend
to exclude the instinctual and unconscious impulses of the
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lower personality. We see the latter in the sometimes nave
and utopian expressions of individuals and groups during this
cuspal time that can exclude or be unaware of the very real
forces driving mans lower nature. The soul is not able to fully
control the lower aspects of the personality until it is anchored
in the base chakra.
Spirit or Life-based structures have therefore to
include all levels of expressionsuperconscious, conscious
and unconsciousif a true synthesis is to be expressed in the
many fields of human experience. Lets take this analogy into
some of those fields:
Politics
Personality-centered systemssurvival or form-based,
assertion of self-interest.
Soul-centered systemsvalues-based, assertion of group
interest or common good.
Monad-centered systemsLife-based, assertion of
synthesis.
One of the main themes in planetary politics is the
movement towards global governance and international law.
One of the main hindrances is the seemingly conflicting
interests of different sectors within the global group of
nations. There is a struggle to accommodate the different
perspectives of the so-called developed nations and the
developing nations as well as the inequalities in economic
and other resources. In addition there are fears of the
loss of individual sovereignty to a global body and the
various formations of intermediate groupings based largely
on regional economics. The power of the United Nations
is diminished by its need to find a consensus between
different perspectives, as well as its lack of judicial power in
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international law to implement decisions. A personality-based
UN would result in world domination by the self-interest
of the most powerful nations. A soul-based UN requires
the sharing of a set of common values and the spirit of
goodwill by those involved. This is not yet evident, nor is
it likely to be so in the foreseeable future.
A monad-centered UN would recognise that nations are
at different levels of development. It would include all nations
in its General Assembly, recognising the inherent sharing
of the Life principle. It would also have a differentiated
Council made up of those nations demonstrating as souls.
These nations would have increased powers in the global
decision-making process, based on their demonstration of
soul principles at work in their national expression (however
those powers could not be used to promote self-interest).
These nations would also have increased responsibilities,
including economic ones, to the community of nations.
This inner group would have at its core both a set of
principles (that were unanimously agreed upon as serving the
whole) as well as a living dynamic relationship with spirit.
This centre or Black Hole God would not be limited by
any outer idea or thoughtform but recognised as a living
presence, the inspiring principle underlying the planetary
life expression.
Religion
Within the religious field we are also seeing the
forces of unification at work, but the spirit of synthesis
is only beginning to be felt. There are now numerous
umbrella organisations which seek to relate the different
traditions with each other and attempt to find common
ground between their teachings. These organisations could
be equated with constellations. They are bridges of light
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and understanding between suns, or the solarised causal
bodies of the great lights of human religions. Rather than
one sun trying to absorb all the others, they are beginning
to recognise and respect each others sunship. The cosmic
Christ is being recognised, not as one large sun but like
the light of the galaxy itself, containing within its aura
numerous solar manifestations. There is a similar growing
recognition of the distinct strengths of different pathways,
and with the spread of religious tolerance individual human
beings are able to respond more freely to the different
teachings as they meet the need and particular stage of
their own soul development. The New World Religion
will no doubt arise out of the response by individuals
and groups within all pathways to the synthetic core of
them all. There may be articulations of the core, but it
will surely be the livingness of God by whatever name
or ideation, that draws humanity into a united rhythmic
response to that Presence which pervades all manifestation.
For true synthesis to be present it must of course include
all those who do not believe in a God at all, and even
actively oppose such an idea. It is not therefore a case of
finding a new more inclusive consciousness for religious
experience but the recognition of what lies behind and
produces both consciousness and form.
Education
When the sun is the centralising principle of politics
we have the phenomenon of the sun king or beneficent ruler.
In education we have the Christ or soul principle as the
great teacher. The sun has planets, the teacher has students or
disciples. When the development of consciousness is the goal,
as it is in this system, then the most developed embodiment of
consciousness in the system is revered. When the predominant
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consciousness is personality-centered, then those with some soul
infusion are the teachers.
When the predominant consciousness is becoming more
soul-based, as is increasingly the case on the planet, then it is
those souls who are able to draw on the power of the monad
that are required. In the new schools it will be the linking
of the monad with the personality that will be the goal, and
not so much the building of the lower antahkarana between
personality and soul.
In esoteric teaching the focus upon Hierarchy and the
Christ is being extended to a growing realisation and relationship
with Shamballa and the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara.
Once again this is not so much of a realisation in consciousness,
but of that which lies behind consciousness. The words of the
ancient mantram of the Gayatri unveil to us the face of the
true spiritual Sun hidden by a disk of golden light3 may have
reference to the monad, and an outer correspondence to the
discovery of the black hole.
It is the Life principle that is present in both teacher and
student that holds them both in a greater orbit around a central
synthetic principle. With the advent of more and more advanced
souls into the planetary life, many educators are under great
pressure, as is the education system in general. Some students
are being driven not so much by the will-to-knowledge or
even the will-to-love but by the will-to-Life and Life more
abundant. They cause trouble within the ordered light-filled
world of consciousness evolution. Some classes seem more a
demonstration of chaos theory and the uncertainty principle
than they do of ordered Newtonian physics.
Education is finding a new strange attractor or
centralising energy, that goes beyond the acquisition of
knowledge and skills. It requires the development of the capacity
to live in not knowingin joyful relationship to the great
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mystery amid the explosion of information and knowledge
that has been the hallmark of the twentieth century. So much
information is available that the value of the intellect is being
surpassed by the value of the intuition and its ability to acquire
at will what the livingness of the moment requires.
Business, Economics & Environment

With the advent of advanced information technology
and the etherealisation of money from the gold standard
through paper, to digital credit, there is a peculiar phenomenon
occurring on the planet: No-one is in control. Economists
are talking about a seemingly self-organising principle around
an empty centre. The central banks and the World Bank
still have an influence on the global economy, but vast
sums are washing throughout the globe with little that any
organisation can do in an ultimate sense. There are still of
course the outer assets like property and minerals, however
assets are increasingly hard to define. There is intellectual
property such as brand names. There are sharemarkets based
on future performance of companiesfutures markets based
on share markets, and options markets based on futures
markets. Our perception of where wealth comes from is
shifting ever higher from things to ideas, and will eventually
make the journey out of the planetary body altogether into
the planetary etheric. The solar angel (Venus) is the source
of wealth and value. The world soul is the true source of
wealth; and when the worlds money supply comes under
the jurisdiction of the Christ4 that wealth will be used in
accordance with Shamballic purpose. Rather than pouring
our money into the black hole of the desire body it will
come under the direct influence of the black hole of the
monad. The physical plane is the most distant from the
logoic, and the Seventh Ray is bringing the highest into
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the lowest. It could be said that humanity has a relatively
enlightened mind, an opening heart, but a wallet that still
requires prising open. This is why the Externalisation of
the Hierarchy onto the physical plane will not occur until
humanity has learned to share its economic resources wisely.
The two processes are intimately interlinked.
The forces of globalisation and the state of the
Earths environment are forcing a crisis where even the
Third Aspect is coming to realise that there is really no
such thing as separated self-interest. The Christ returns
with a sword and the awakening of Humanity as a third
divine centre through crisis could be said to be one of
the results of the direct impact of Shamballic energy into
that centre.
Human consciousness, even Hierarchical consciousness, is
not enough to bring a solution. Consciousness itself is caught
between two darksthe downpouring dark light from the
crown chakra of Shamballa and the upwelling Plutonic fires
from our unconscious base chakra as our planetary survival is
threatened. The resulting galvanisation of the world soul is a
planet-wide initiation.
Conclusion
The synthesis of humanity cannot be achieved through
consciousness alone. The soul is not enough and the Sun is
not a sufficiently potent symbol on its own, to draw our global
imagination towards its destiny.
As we enter the Aquarian Age we are opening to a new
realisation and exploration of that which holds six billion
human souls in orbit around itthe unknown, unseen and
unheard purpose of our Planetary Logos.5 It is not up to us
to come together and decide what this purpose is, but to have
it revealed to us.
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The planet Earth journeyed on its annual path around
the Sun and its 250 million year orbit around the black hole
at the galactic centre long before humans gazed up at the
stars. It continued to do so when we thought the Earth was
flat. It continued to do so when Copernicus was promoting
his heresy that the Earth revolved around the Sun; and will
continue to do so when mankind is long gone from the surface
of the planet. We do not create reality with our consciousness,
but we can grow to the point that reality is able to reveal itself
to us. As with the physical realities, so with the spiritual. Our
journey is from the darkness of ignorance into the light of
knowledge; but there is a greater darknessthe darkness of the
not-knowing that comes after knowing and not before. The
doorway to this greater darkness is on the third subplane of
the atmic plane where the ashram of the Master Morya adds
darkness unto light so that the stars appear.6 So to conclude
one might say the personality thinks it is Something, the soul
knows itself to be the Sun-thing but the monad IS No-thing.
Or in the words of the well known American philosopher W
V Quine when asked his view on modern philosophy I really
have Nothing to add.7
1. See www.nasa.gov/.../ voyager_heliosphere.html

2. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol.2, pp.3201.
7. W V Quine on philosophy in the twentieth century, as reported by
Sarah Boxer in the New York Times of August 15, 1998.
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20062007 The Activation of The Energy of
Planetary Will
This paper explores the impact and working through

of the Shamballa energy within the planetary life against a
background context of cosmology and the Trans-Himalayan
teachings. The significance of the conjunction between Pluto
and the galactic centre will be analysed and some practical
suggestions offered for the group use of the energies that have
become available as a result of this transit.
What little we know of the purpose of our Planetary
Logos involves the working out of an aspect of the Will of
the Solar Logos. This is carried out in conjunction with the
Logoi of two other planetsVulcan and Plutoand will
come to fruition in the third solar system.1 We might express
the relationship between these three Planetary Logoi of Will
as follows:
Pluto - Ray 1 Personality
Vulcan - Ray 1 Soul
Earth - Ray 1 Monad
A visual of the synthetic operation of the three astrological
symbols for these planets gives some hint to their joint operation
once they are fused:
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Pluto
Earth
Vulcan
Fig 1 The Diamond Soul

We might say that Vulcan symbolises the descent of the
will of the soul to the base chakra, Pluto symbolises the rising
of kundalini energy to the crown, and the Earth symbolises
the fusion of these two energiesShiva and Shaktiwithin
the heart. These three chakras are those used by the political
workers and the First Ray.
The Shamballa impact that occurred during Wesak
2000 can be related to the impacting energy of the planetary
crown centre and the planet Vulcan. When we examine what
lies ahead for the year 2007seven years after the impact
we notice that the planet Pluto is prominently placed in
the cosmological sky. It moves into a conjunction with the
galactic centre at 27 degrees Sagittarius over a prolonged
period. This conjunction occurs only once every 248 years
or so, and this will be the first time such a conjunction has
occurred within the consciousness of humanity. By that I
mean that Pluto was only discovered in 1930 and so while
the conjunction took place previously humanity was not
aware of it and so could not respond consciously to the
energies it represents.
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The Significance of the Galactic Centre
In another paper (see The Black Hole God) I have
outlined the significance of the black hole at the galactic
centre (the existence of which was confirmed by scientists in
the year 2000) coming into the consciousness of humanity
as a symbol during the entry into the Aquarian Age. Briefly,
if the planet represents a personality circling around the
soul (Sun), the black hole is the Sun of the Sun, the Dark
Sun, or the monadic point around which our solar system
orbits. Intervening larger suns within the galaxyfor
example Sirius or Alcyone which have been mentioned in
the esoteric teachings as centres with which our Solar Logos
is relatedare seen as intermediary relating points (cosmic
ashramic affiliations if you like) between the Solar Lord and
his monadic source.
A physical alignment between the galactic centre, our
Sun and the planet Earth therefore represents on the physical
plane an alignment between the planetary, solar and cosmic
logoior worded another way between the personality, soul
and monad of the Earth.
Fig 2 Black Hole, Sun, Earth Alignment

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To place this alignment in context, we might recall that
the Logos of Earth is in the process of taking the Second
cosmic Initiation.2 At the Second Initiation on the human
level a monadic touch is required in order to subdue the
astral elemental, while at the Third Initiation it is the energy
of the monad which releases the kundalini energy fully and
allows for its rising and the resulting fusion of Shakti and
Shivabase and crown.
While the completion of the Second cosmic Initiation
will probably have to wait for the next round, and the full
activation of the base centre of Earth is far in the future, we
might look for a fractal or holographic activation appropriate
to the time and space evolution of our Logos. We should also
remember that the kundalini energy is always active, providing
as it does the vitalising impulse for the personality expression
of the planetary life.
If we take the perspective of the Solar Logos, we
understand that the Third cosmic Initiation is his goal.3
If we imagine the Earth as a base centre within the solar
system then the importance of this planet as a source of solar
kundalini becomes apparent. Once again we must wait for
the next system for the Will function of Earth to be fully
unfolded.
Not only do we have an alignment between the galactic
centre, Sun and Earth but the planets Mercury, Vulcan and
Jupiter are also intimately involved in a conjunction which
occurs in December 2007. Here is a heliocentric visual from
the NASA Solar System Simulator for Dec 23 2007. The
galactic centre lies in the direction of Pluto.
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The Significant Dates:
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The Significant Dates
(Galactic centre at 26 degrees 57 minutes Sagittarius tropically.)
Geocentric:
Pluto conjunct galactic centre (within 1 degree orb):
February 3 May 27 2006.
Station retrograde March 29 at 26 degrees 45.
Pluto conjunct galactic centre (within 1 degree orb):
December 3 2006 Jan 29 2007.
June 10 October 29 2007.
Station direct September 7 at 24 degrees 46.
Pluto conjunct galactic centre (exact):
December 30 2006.
July 15 2007.
October 28 2007.
Pluto conjunct Sun conjunct galactic centre December 19 2006.
Heliocentric:
Pluto conjunct galactic centre (exact): 26 February 2007.
Pluto conjunct Jupiter: 23 November 2007.
Pluto conjunct Jupiter conjunct Sun conjunct galactic centre
conjunct Earth conjunct Mercury: December 20 2007.
Brief Interpretation
One interpretation is that through an activation of
the planetary kundalini a fusion or synthesis can potentially
occur between the planetary mind and planetary heart or
between the New Group of World Servers and Hierarchy.
Planetary kundalini has an outer correspondence to
the fiery energies of the Earths core and to disturbances
in the Earths crust as a result of tectonic, volcanic and
geological activity. We have already witnessed a number
of potent activations recentlythe most significant being
the tsunami on Boxing Day 2004.4 The Tibetan informs
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us that the flow of Will through the New Group of World
Servers is intended to be a constructive force that offsets the
destructive energies of the First Ray and when the power
is released it has the potential to heal humanitys wounds
and will bind all men together in a planned synthesis.5
In the life of the disciple it is easy to observe that when
potent spiritual energies are not drawn off and worked with
by the consciousness they often flow through into physical
plane symptoms. Humanity as the planetary disciple has
a unique opportunity to use the cosmic energies available
during the coming conjunction to result in a fusion of
consciousness.
Pluto is in Sagittarius and this conjunction with the
galactic centre provides the possibility for a clearing away of
obstacles to the synthesis of human thought as represented in
global ideologies, religions and philosophical traditions. We
know that catharsis and war are one way that Pluto can work
in order to purify the field and clear obstacles, however in the
life of the disciple Plutos arrow can be used for upliftment
and healing.
Purification of Consciousness
Prior to Plutos movement into Capricorn and the
clearing away of the obstacles to global governance and
international law, we have the need for a purification and
synthesis of the global ideologies which underpin and out-
picture as our systems of justice. These systems are primarily
based on the materialised concept of man as a physical being
and have the preservation of the physical vehiclehuman and
planetaryas their primary goal. Pluto invites us to confront
death and reorder our values and priorities in the face of
immortality. At this point in time there is great difficulty in
the planet coming to a consensus about global governance
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issues, as there is a real reluctance to yield sovereignty to any
body that is tainted with self-interestmaterial or ideological.
The only government that will be ultimately acceptable is
Hierarchy and prior to this the initiates of the world as the
Externalisation takes place in this time of the forerunner. The
recognition of the reality and value of the spiritual world will
come about partially as a result of the failure of the material
personality world of humanity to provide solutions to the
deeper human imperatives. In the face of the increased and
inexorable tension that Pluto brings (and perhaps also in
the face of real or expected outer crises) humanity will be
turning towards those who can offer the real and timeless
solutions to the human problems and who are able to hold
their alignments amidst the chaos. This process will result
in a purification of the consciousness of humanity and a
healing of the gap between the material and spiritual world
views. We can see this occurring all around us if we have
the eyes to see.
What Can Servers Do?

The New Group of World Servers in working with the
energy of the Will can adopt the asana of surrender. It is not
up to us to wield the Will but to have it work through us.
Surrender is not submission and involves an opening to be
used, a willingness to allow whatever needs to be purified in our
own system to be purified, and a decision to stand unmoved
in alignment with the higher inflowing energies no matter
what transpires on the outer plane. It may also be important
to remember that while Will may be focused through a mental
proposition concerning purposeindividual or planetaryit
is not that mental proposition. Therefore any fixed ideas or
fixed ideologies will come under increasing pressure to be
released as the living energy of planetary purpose purifies all
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its containers, shattering some and transforming others. The
new thoughtforms that will bring in the new civilisation will
also be built and vitalised.
Perhaps most significantly, we can provide a model for
the energies of healing, brotherhood and synthesis at work
in our group life. The energy of Pluto acts to sweep away.
The lower unsolarised energies rise up and overpower the
consciousness because, being Will, they are more powerful
than consciousnesseven the consciousness of the soul. If the
consciousness reaches through to the higher Will however, to
Vulcan or deeper to the monad, it can stand unmoved while
the purification work is taking place. If we are able to do
this in our own lives and in our group life, thenand only
thenwill we be able to truly assist those who have been
swept into the Plutonic turmoil or who are struggling to hold
their alignment. We become then a group source of strength,
enabling them to stand.6
The Liberation Of Money

Pluto means wealth in Latin and Greek and one of
the likely effects of the coming Pluto transit is the liberation
of money to the work of the Hierarchy. Money represents
the concretised energies of Love upon the etheric/physical
plane and this energy must rise to meet the descending
energies of the planetary soul as the Externalisation process
takes place. It could be said that Humanity as a being has
a relatively enlightened mind, an awakening heart, but a
closed wallet. We know that the proper sharing of the worlds
resources is necessary before the Reappearance can take
place. There has also been considerable work done on the
resolution of humanitys persistent problemsfor example,
poverty and hunger. The research has been done, the critical
plan to resolve the issue has been made and costed out.
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Governments all over the world have even made the pledges
for the money needed to implement the plan. What remains
is the Will to actually make the pledged money available
and to carry through with the implementation. Humanity
must demonstrate to Hierarchy that it is capable, through
the right appropriation of the energy of planetary purpose,
of solving those problems which it has created itself through
the misuse of energy. Then it must demonstrate humility
in the face of those problems it cannot solve and invoke
the aid of Hierarchy.
Conclusion
There are always opportunities occurring within the
life of the individual and collective disciple. Astrologers and
cosmologists are forever pointing out curious alignments
and conjunctions that they claim represent significant shifts
in the consciousness of humanity. It should be remembered
however that Humanity is a divine centre and is imbued
with the power of free will. Opportunities and alignments
come and go. What makes them potent and potentially
decisive in the life of our planet is the conscious and willful
cooperation of Humanity in the process of invocation and
utilisation of the available energies. The conjunction of Pluto
with the galactic centre has happened before but we have
never been conscious of this transit. Consciousness provides
us with the opportunity of choice. We cannot be responsible
for the choices of the whole Human centre, but we can be
responsible for our own, and we can make others aware of the
opportunity through education. It is said that an initiate is
the cause of planetary evolution and not the result.7 Disciples
can become a causal factor by willingly and consciously
invoking the energies of Pluto, the galactic centre and the
planetary monad into their own lives. It is a transfiguring
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energy that sweeps away all obstacles and allows the energy
of planetary purpose to pour through and restructure the
planetary civilisation through destruction, purification and
organisationthe three energies of Shamballa. The secret of
Pluto, the Lord of Death, is that in the heart of an awakened
being he becomes an agent for healing and the entry into
the world of Life more abundant.

3. ibid.
4. See http://www.shamballaschool.org/mercury/GI3aqua.htm
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The Sun Door At The End of TimeMythology
& Science
In the words of the Gayatri unveil to us the face

of the true spiritual Sun1 we find a theme that has been
part of the deep esoteric teaching in many traditions. The
great Sun, the dark Sun, the Sun of the Sun, the Central
Spiritual Sun, the Cosmic Magnet, cosmic Shamballa etc are
all references to that entity that lies through the Sun door.
Christ is a Sun god and as the Sun he states no man comes
to the Father except through me (John 14:6). The seat of
the Fathers throne was once thought to be Alcyone in the
Pleiades, and this is also given in the Bailey teachings and
in The Secret Doctrine. The orbit of our Sun around this
centre is purported to take 25,000 years. In another paper
(Do We Orbit Alcyone?) I have given the reasons why I
think this is a blind and Alcyone is a stand in for the real
orbit of the Sun around the galactic centrethe black hole
that represents the outer form of the galactic Logos or true
Grand Heavenly Man. Our Solar Logos is but a point of
light within the etheric body of this great Being, as we are
but points of light within the Solar Logos.
While astronomy has only relatively recently established the
outer reality, we might expect the inner truth to be preserved
for us in the worlds esoteric and mythological traditions. In
researching this I found that Ananda Coomaraswarmy, in a
collection of essays, explores a motif of what he calls the Sun
door at the End of Time gathered from a number of traditions.
The keynotes of this motif are:
There is a doorway on the other side of the Sun.
It is at a crown point or Mt Meru of a vertical axis.
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To enter it you must pass between the pairs of opposites.
You must pass in an instant.
You leave the universe and there is no time or space there.
It is dangerous and there is usually a tollthe opposites close
on a tail feather, the stern of a boat etc.
There are guardians (scorpions, centaurs, and in one case Indra
receives the soma from the lips of the serpent goddess).
What lies on the other side is soma, immortality or the waters
of Life.
These can be taken back to humanity in two ways:
Either the treasure is taken to gain power, in which case
it brings ruin.
Or i t i s t a k e n i n t h e s p i r i t o f s a c r i f i c e f o r
the good of the whole, in which case it brings bliss.
These two approaches form part of one reality.
The Sundoor itself, thus hidden by the dazzling
rays that illumine and enliven every living being, in
whom they operate as the powers of the soul, is
precisely the point at the centre of the fiery Wheel,
at which they intersect; and since, in most general
case, the sun is seven-rayed, and is situated in the
middle, whence the six directions of the cosmic cross
(trivrd vajra) extend, so that the universe is filled
with light, it will be seen that the way in by what
is called the seventh and best ray, [Light Supernal
and the Seventh RayBPL] viz., that which passes
through the solar disk and so out of the dimensioned
universe, leads as before in the case of the Clapping
Rocks between contrary pairs, in this case East and
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West, North and South, Zenith and Nadir. The Way
is always a Middle Way, or as Boethius expresses it,
Truth is a mean between contrary heresies. (Contra
Evtychen VII)
The sun-bright Wheel that guards the supra-solar

Otherworld is, naturally the Wheel of the Sun himself
which Indra tears away from the Great Fiend when
either he, or the Falcon for him, robs the Scorcher of
all lifes support. (Rgveda IV.28.2, etc)
It is also, in other words, the sparkling sun-hued Brahma

Wheel of Fire of Maitri Upanisad VI.24; and the guarded
Sundoor of Jaiminiya Upanisad Brhmana 1.3, 5 and
6, where the opening in the sky is covered all over
(concealed) by rays (the spokes of the Wheel) and it is
only by his Truth that the Comprehensor is enabled to
pass through the midst of the Sun and is thus altogether
freed, attaining that Immortality, or Water of Life that
rises in the Land of Darkness beyond the Sun.
It is, then, precisely from pairs that liberation must be
won, from their conflict that we must escape, if we are
to be freed from our mortality and to be as and when
we will: if, in other words, we are to reach the Farther
Shore and Otherworld where every where and every
when are focused, for it is not in space, nor hath it
poles. (Paradiso, XXIX.22 and XXLI.67, italics mine)
Thus the Way to break out of the universe (Hermes

Trismegistos, Lib. XI.2.9, see note 46) into that other
order of the Divine Darkness that Dionysius describes
as blinding by excess of light and where the Darkness
and the Light stand not distant from one another, but
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together in one another (Jacob Boehme, Three Principles,
XIV, 78) is the single track and strait way that penetrates
the cardinal point on which the contraries turn; their
unity is only to be reached by entering in there where
they actually coincide. And that is, in the last analysis,
not any where or when, but within you; Worlds End
is not to be found by walking, but it is within this very
fathom-long body that the pilgrimage must be made
(Samyutta Nikaya 1.62).2
Clearly the heros quest is never meant to be a one way
streetThe Holy Grail must be brought back to the world of
manifestation. The Hero becomes a soma-thief, where Soma
is the waters of life, the Golden Fleece or the golden apples
of Jason. It is also called the vessel of plenty. No dweller
on earth partakes of the true elixir, but only of substitutes
made to be Soma by rites of transubstantiation, participation
being a prefiguration or anticipation of the blessed life of
the deceased. This transubstantiation is achieved in a ritual
sacrifice that allows the sacrificer to identify himself with the
hero who is always a Christ figure, and who as it were crosses
over and brings back the Soma.
The soma can be a nectar or poison depending on how
it is drunk. This is why the soma centre is guarded for if
an unprepared soul who still clings to earthly ambitions
succeeds in acquiring the soma nectar, the results are
destructive for that soul and for the world.3
So where is this Sun doorapart from the obvious,
which is in the Heart of the Sun? Coomaraswarmy poses
himself this as the fundamental question: At what is the
arrow of Sagittarius pointing? We know the answer now from
astronomy: In between the Scorpion, the Centaur and the
Serpent, the arrow is pointing at the galactic centre! The black
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hole. The monad of the Sun. A place where literally time and
space end in a singularity and perhaps we break out of the
universe into that other order of divine darkness or the dark
light of galactic Shamballa.
Let us have a look now at science and the metaphysics
of doorways. Fourth dimensional movement always takes
place through the centre where the three dimensions meet
the trivrd vajra mentioned above. This is the centre of a
sphere, a six-pointed star, a cube or an octahedronwhich
have all been used to symbolise a self . In the centre of a
chakra is the diamond point. In the centre of the soul is
the jewel in the lotus. These diamonds or jewels represent
energy which has been compressed until it reaches a stable
crystalline state.
Consider this:
The Earths core is made of almost solid iron crystals.
In 1995 seismic surveys led scientists to believe there was one
giant crystal 1,500 miles across, but it now looks as if the
picture is more complicated. What we do know is that there
is compressed iron down there in hexagons.
When a star collapses to form a black hole it goes through
stagesthe final one being compressed iron.
Young stars are hydrogen, and the nuclear reaction
converts hydrogen to helium with energy left over. The
left over energy is the stars radiationheat and light.
When most of the hydrogen has been converted to
helium, a new nuclear reaction begins that converts the
helium to carbon, with the left over energy released as
radiation. This process continues converting the carbon
to oxygen to silicon to iron. Nuclear fusion stops at
iron. If you could slice a very old star in half, it may
look (sort of ) like this:4
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This is as far as matter goes before collapsing into a black hole.
A star has to end its life with a mass of about three times that
of our Sun in order to form a black hole. Our Sun is destined
to become a white dwarfand that meansa diamond!
From a recent news article:
Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion
trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered.
The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon,
4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in
the constellation Centaurus. Its the compressed heart of
an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has
since faded and shrunk. The white dwarf is not only
radiant but also rings like a gigantic gong, undergoing
constant pulsations. By measuring those pulsations,
we were able to study the hidden interior of the white
dwarf, just like seismograph measurements of earthquakes
allow geologists to study the interior of the Earth. We
figured out that the carbon interior of this white dwarf
has solidified to form the galaxys largest diamond,
says Metcalfe. Astronomers expect our Sun will become
a white dwarf when it dies 5 billion years from now.
Some two billion years after that, the Suns ember core
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will crystallise as well, leaving a giant diamond in the
centre of the solar system.
Our Sun will become a diamond that truly is forever.5
So we have the central eye of the Earth a molten core
of ironwhich can be likened to the kundalini fires of the
base chakra of a human being.
We have the Sun (the Sol) becoming at the end a
diamondlikened to the human causal body which, when the
petals open, reveal the diamond or jewel at the centre.
And we have a galaxywhose central point is a black
holelikened to a human monad whose centre is a doorway
or pathway to the cosmic planes.

2. Ananda K Coomaraswamy, The Guardians of the SunDoor http://
livingheritage.org/symplegades.htm#_edn1
3. John Major Jenkins, Galactic Alignment, Bear & Company, 2002.
4. http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/index.html
5. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3492919.stm
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The DarknessRavishment or Rape?
There is little dispute that consciousness on planet

Earth is entering a crucial stage of its unfoldment. Light is
being confronted by darkness both from without and within.
An outer symbol of this is the planet PlutoLord of the
Underworldconjunct the black hole at the galactic centre.
Darkness is entering. Will it be a ravishment or a ravaging of
consciousness? To answer this question it might be useful to
look at the interplay of light and darkness.
The Sun represents the sphere of light or consciousness

that is radiating between an inner and outer darkness. The
outer darkness represents the three worlds which the soul is
attempting to enlighten. The inner darkness is the monadic
core of Being that lies behind consciousness.
When the soul is establishing itself in the world then
darkness is seen as a resistant force antagonistic to the
unfoldment of the world of Light. A real fear exists that
the outer energies of the unconscious will overwhelm the
fledgling conscious self and light will go out. This battle is
epitomised in mythology by the slaying of the dragon of
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the unconscious impulses by the Sun godApollo, Helios,
Zeus, St Michael etc.
In esoteric psychology this is represented by the victory of
the solar angels over the lunar, or the soul over the personality.
The reverse symbol of this that once carried superstitious awe
in all cultures was the eclipse of the Sun by the Moon. Once
the Sun or solar self is firmly established however, then it
begins to become aware of a higher or divine darkness that
lies at its core. This is the darkness of pure spirit. The symbol
for this is the revelation through the Sun door of the dark
centre of the Sun.
Hierarchyas the planetary soulforms itself into two
natural divisions, represented by the orange dotted line in the
diagram. One stands as a wall to protect Earths solar centre
from the ravaging forces of the outer darkness, and as a source
of entering light via the ashrams on the buddhic plane. They
bridge Hierarchy and Humanity. The other stands as a wall
against destructive forces entering from the cosmic astral plane
and as a source of the dark light. They bridge Hierarchy and
Shamballa.
The effect of darkness on light is three-fold: It purifies,
destroys and organisesthe three energies of Shamballa.
Let us consider Pluto as the agent of the lower darkness
that presses in on the field of light. It is destructive if it
is able to destroy essential structures of consciousness that
are needed for the emerging civilisation. However if those
structures are preserved by Hierarchy, then the destructive
energies merely destroy those forms and thoughtforms
that have outlived their use-by date. Some consciousness
structures are purifiedthe anti-globalisation movements
critique of corporate greed for example. Others are organised
as a result of the challenge by darkness. An example of the
latter would be the growing global realisation that we need
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international law with teeth to combat both the forces of
terror and vigilanteism.
Let us consider Vulcan as the agent of the higher darkness.
The destructive force of Vulcan is that which eventually destroys
the causal body, liberating the essential Life. Its purifying power
is expressed as the jewel at the centre of the causal bodythe
essential matter of the soul is revealed as a many-faceted highly
polished and compressed gemthe stone of Shamballa. The
organising force of Vulcan is expressed in the revelation of the
ashrams as transmitting agents of the divine Will via the jewels
in Indras net.
From a non-dual perspective Vulcan and Pluto are one,
and we can see this by their symbolsVulcans hammer cracks
open. Plutos arrow pierces to the core. Darkness is Will. Will
is stronger than consciousness. Whether or not consciousness
understands and opens to Will determines whether it experiences
rape or ravishment.
One of the names of the First Ray Lord is The
Ravisher of Souls.1 The planetary personality is on the
anvil between Vulcans hammer and Plutos arrow. Whether
it will be pierced or cracked open is partly up to the New
Group of World Servers. We might imagine the planetary
personality as a king in his castle beset from without by
the hordes of peasants in revolt against his rule, and from
within by strange dreams and visions. He is under pressure.
Should he crack down harder on his subjectsraise taxes and
imprison the ringleaders of the revolt, or should he listen to
these strange inner promptings to surrender his kingdom into
the guidance ofwhatsomething totally intangibleand
yetand yetso compelling!
The New Group of World Servers are like the advisors
to the king who encourage him to transcend the limitations
of his own consciousness. They advise him to develop and
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rely upon inner guidance. They can do this because they
know Hierarchy exists and have proven it in their own
lives. They also advise him to take outer action based upon
what is best for the whole kingdom and not in the name
of vested interests.
When Pluto moves into Capricorn in 2008 the
control structures of the planet will come under major
decade-long transformational pressure. The current transit
of the galactic centre is like a flash or peak experience
that will assist in that process. The transmission of the
Will as an empowerment of the NGWS will give them
the synthetic impulse to step forward en masse to provide
models and voices of inspired but grounded leadership
in these times of transition. What is transitioning is the
executive power from the planetary personality to the
planetary soul, and the NGWS is the bridge for this. Let
the darkness...enter!
From a meditation on the divine darkness:

Contemplating and invoking the dark centre of the souls
journey at the time of the solstice [June 2006] produced the
following insights:
The first darkness encountered was full and luminous
like velvet, it seemed as if this darkness was black because
it had absorbed all the light in the universeindeed
that the light in the universe was only there because it
could not fit into the dark chalice and was poured out
or emitted as an overflow. The energy of pure Being,
full and vibrantthe roar of a lionthe fiery dragon
of Kosmos that both IS the life of the universeBeing-
consciousness-matterand that which permeates it. This
first darkness charges the heart and soul with strength
and the feeling of invincibility.
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The second darkness came next and seemed to negate all
that was present in the first darkness. If the first was Being,
then this was Non-Being. If the first darkness was full
to brimming, this was totally emptyvoidNon-Being.
The effect on the heart/soul was to quail before such
total negation. If the first darkness strengthened then this
darkness chastened and the Life principle seemed totally
humbled before that emptiness in which it arose.
These two darknesses are complementary and opposites.
It occurs to me that they must represent some of the
states experienced in Vedanta, Buddhism and mystic
Christianity, and I recall the variety of debates about
whether the fundamental principle is empty or full
the proponents of each school seeing the other as a
preparatory stage of their own favourite. In some way
they represent the primary duality of consciousness taken
to its extremean expansion that results in the embrace
of everythingor a contraction/ negation that results in
the realisation of nothing. What is similar about these
two states of dark realisation however, is that there is
still a trace of the witnessing consciousnessthere is still
a soul to be thrilled or humbled in some way before
the experience. Some vessel of consciousness, however
transparent or flimsy, still escapes the event horizon and
retains a memory trace of the divine adventure.
As for the third darkness, I can only report on the
momentary flash that occurred before the experience
and afterwards, but not duringperhaps because there
was no during. Once I became awarein that thinnest
of veils of consciousness still presentthat the first two
darknesses were complementarylike two dark pillars
that were the reciprocal of each otherone manifest and
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the other unmanifestthere was a momentand in that
moment it felt as if all the love I have ever experienced
was rushing through me all at once and thennothing.
It was like a fuse blowinga total annihilation of all
consciousness and experience that could have lasted an
instant or an eternityand then the fuse was replaced,
the same rush of love rushing back from a torrent to a
steady handleable flow. So it seems that this third darkness
has no attributes, for there is none present to experience
them. The self literally dies, disappears or is reabsorbed,
and while there is obviously the experience of continuity
between the selves before and after the experience, there is
also a lingering sense of discontinuity or unrealnessas if
the fabric of identity has been torn and darkness, divine
darkness, is seeping in and unravelling the core knot of
being. It is good to know that if it is love that bestows
a sense of self to make our strange multi-incarnational
journey through the world of consciousnessit is also
lovean even greater lovethat takes it away again,
returning the drop to the sea.
There was also an interesting spatial component to
the meditation. In New Zealand at the time of the
solsticejust after midnight on a crystal clear nightthe
galactic centre (and Pluto) was directly overhead, which
meant of course that the Sun (and Vulcan) was directly
beneath the feet. It was as if the base and the crown
were inverted (it is strange enough in the southern
hemisphere anyway!) It was easy to be aware of the fact
that this galactic centre was the real still point of the
moving worldsthe dark Sun around which we have
always turned as a physical planet. Even when there was
no life on Earth to contemplate a centre. Even when
that life developed consciousness and thought Earth was
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the centre of the universe. Even when that consciousness
discovered the Sun was the centre and began to worship
itfirstly as a physical deity and then as a metaphysical
one. Through all this, that dark centre has been still.
Through twenty revolutions of the Sun. Through 5,000
million revolutions of the Earth. Peaceful, silent, radiating
its dark Life!
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The Soul Is Not Enough
This paper is an attempt to link some of the following

subjects:
The Life principleMonad, Shamballa, Central Sun etc.
The importance of the fourth plane/subplane.
The coming of the Life energy of the soul in the Second Round.
The dual working of consciousness.
The penetration of science into both the black hole
cosmology and the internals of the atomquantum physics.
Mercury, Venus, Saturn decanate rulerships of Aquarius.
The Aquarian Christ.
Alternative titles for this paper would be The Application
of the Energy of Life to Consciousness or The Adding of
Darkness to Light.
To begin we must focus our awareness at the heart

of the second systemthe human Hierarchy on the
fourth plane of buddhi. The human being is that peculiar
combination of Mercury and Venus or the Fourth and
Fifth Hierarchies. The human soul, Mercury, representing
the spirit aspect, and its devic counterpart Venus the
consciousness aspect. Mercury sends Venus in two
directionstowards the monad and towards the personality.
In both directions Saturn is encounteredexoteric Saturn
on the fourth subplane of the mental plane separating
the solar from lunar lives (or consciousness from form),
and esoteric Saturn on the fourth subplane of the atmic
plane separating consciousness from Life, or Hierarchy
from Shamballa. This can all be seen by examining the
hierarchical rulerships of the planes:
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Atmic - Libra Saturn (exoterically Venus)
Buddhic - Scorpio Mercury
Mental - Capricorn Venus (exoterically Saturn)
The penetration of the gatekeeper, Saturn by Venus
under the direction of Mercury, must happen in two directions
simultaneously at the Third Initiation, thus allowing the
monadic energy to flow through the triad and transfigure the
personality.
So in the second system we see an expansion of
consciousness from the triad in both directions towards the
higher three planes and towards the lower, resulting in the
solarisation of the seven planes. When Christ linked with
Shamballa he simultaneously made it possible to solarise
the astral plane. When he took the Seventh Initiation thus
linking with the logoic plane, he made it possible to solarise
the physical. This is a development in consciousness, but
underneath consciousness or behind it is Life, so that Life must
be pre-existent but unrealised. In the second system the two
planes most important to the Life principle are the monadic
and astral. (75 percent of humans are focused on the fourth
subplane of the astral).
The coming of the serpent energy in the Second
Round is the descent of this Life energy into the sixth plane
prior to the coming of (self )-consciousness. Consciousness
on the middle three subplanes is intended to link the
second and sixth subplanes through the building of the
antahkarana. The kundalini or dragon energy anchored in
the second chain/round/race etc is the material source of
the life of the soul (the secret of life lies hidden in the
serpent stage.1) The monad is the spiritual source of the
life of the soul. These two lives must meet and know
themselves to be onewhich they can do on the buddhic
plane. It is the monad that gives the human Hierarchy
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(Mercury) on the fourth plane, the spiritual power to make
this at-onement, and it is the rising agnisuryans that give
the material power to the soul enabling it to break free
of the causal body.
The way I have expressed this in my book Agni: Way of
Fire is as follows:
It is as if a king has had to leave a loving wife in a far
land and asks her to remain faithful. He knows that he
will be gone so long that he will be unrecognisable to
her on his return so he gives her one of his strongest
swords and tells her to meet all potential suitors on the
field of battle. The one she is unable to defeat she will
know is him.2
This is why I say the soul is not enough. Only the monad
is able to meet and conquer the serpent energy and therefore
only when the triadal consciousness has penetrated through
the fourth subplane of the atmic into the Life aspect is it safe
to awaken kundalini in its full power and consummate the
marriage of Shiva and Shakti. The Dweller and Angel meet
and merge.
If we go to the cosmic planes we might look at a similar
relationship between Mercury/Venus and the Sun/Sirius. Our
Solar Logos is moving towards the Third cosmic Initiation and
therefore trying to link the Cosmic Logos to the Planetary
Logos. Our Planetary Logos (the Great Dragon) is polarised
on the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral. I leave you to
make your own correspondences.
In the third solar system we are told that there will be
three evolutionshumans (Mercury), devas (Venus) and the
mysterious third evolution3 linked to the planetary entity
(Saturn). Now Saturn is the Cosmic Moon and builds the
bridge to the last system. We might think of the life of this
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entity, currently involutionary and building form, as being
motivated by and protecting a solar kundalinithe serpent
energy. Earth is synthesised into Saturn, Venus into Neptune
and Mercury into Uranus. Thus we have the synthesis of the
three great schemes.
If we pause to examine what is happening on our planet
we note the release of the Shamballa impact coinciding with
both the penetration into the atom and penetration into black
hole cosmology. This is humanity using Venus to penetrate on
the physical plane into the mysteries of Life through higher
(event horizon) and lower (shell of the atom) boundaries.
Parallel to this we have the descent of higher Life energies
into consciousness, resulting in the synthesising of different
belief systems, the development of international systems
like the United Nations (and the shadow sideattempts at
global domination by Hitler etc). Spiritual Life is pouring
into the higher consciousness while at the same time we
have had a tremendous release upwards from the collective
unconscioussexual liberation, empowerment of the feminine
principle, modern depth psychology and the many addictive
and obsessive/compulsive patterns associated with the reptilian
brain and life urge in matter principle. The energies of life in
matter have been suppressed by lower consciousness (Saturn)
until the higher energies of Life (Uranus) were strong enough
to meet them. That is increasingly the case, and rather than
polarisation we may find the urge for trance dance and bungy
jumping in the young to arise from the exact same energy that
in its higher octave results in transcendence of consciousness
and the experience of spiritual livingness.
The Age of Aquarius brings Light Supernal to the physical
plane and the Reappearance of the Christ. The three decanates
of Aquarius are ruled by Venus, Mercury and Saturn and we
are told by DK that:
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Ordinarily speaking, the mass of men would pass
through the sign via Venus, Mercury and Saturn, for the
undeveloped man is influenced by those qualities which
can be best described as instinctual mind or affection
(Venus), which is brotherly love in embryo; by the
slow unfoldment of the mind through the activity of
Mercury; finally, as the result of this unfoldment, conflict
supervenes and Saturn offers opportunity to suffer and,
through suffering, to learn to choose rightly, to analyse
correctly and to decide upon the higher values. These
points must be carefully considered by the astrologer.
But at this time, we are at a point of crisis and the
problem takes wider implications, for the reason that,
for the first time in its history, humanity is beginning
to mount the Fixed Cross of the disciple, thus reversing
its progress upon the circle of the zodiac. Humanityas
a whole and owing to the large proportion of aspirants
and thinking idealistsis entering Aquarius, via the open
door of Saturn. At the same time, a very large number
of men are in the non-thinking instinctual stage and
their consciousness is predominantly Atlantean. These
enter via Venus and hence the conflict.4
Thus we will have the exact same conflict between the
energies of Venus and Saturn that the disciple must reconcile
at the Third Initiation but working on a planetary scale. Light
Supernal is a seven-fold light that we can link back to a quote
from Hilarion:
For the Sun to shine again with seven-fold light
indicates that at some preceding period of activity the
sun in question with all its burden of life must have
been developed to a very much higher degree. For the
seven-fold light here mentioned is the light of the Central
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Spiritual Sun. If the sun of our solar system were to shine
again with that particular light, it would be necessary
for the energy of each principle of the Central Sun to be
focused upon the Solar Orb againas in some preceding
age when the cyclic law permitted such a like focus.5
Replace Sun with Christ and we have an indication of
the mission of the Aquarian Christ. This seven-fold energya
blending of the seven rays via the Seventh Rayis focused
through the atmic plane into the physical. It must unite the
lower five worlds, Hierarchy and Humanity, into one wholea
fusion of the soul and personality of the planet. This is his
great mission, and to fulfil it he needs members of humanity
who have been able to make this at-onement in their own
lives in order to focalise this seven-fold light through the
higher mental plane.
That [the release of the Great Invocation] was the first
step in the planned precipitation of the light supernal;
the second step will be the reappearance of the Great
Lord, Who will act as the lens through which the light
can be focussed and adapted to human need. Conditions
are rapidly being brought about whereby this great event
of light distribution will be possible. The Christ can and
does function now upon the atmic plane and embodies
within Himself the great Point of Revelation which has
been expressed by me in the words: The Will is an
expression of the Law of Sacrifice. The invocation now
mounting from humanity to that high Place where dwells
the Christ is, at this time, focussed in or originates upon
the plane of the emotions; because of this, we find the
words in the Scriptures that at the end of the age the
Desire of all Nations will come forth. The movement
to bring Himfrom the angle of the massesemanates,
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therefore, from the astral plane. The plans for His coming
are being laid in the higher correspondence of that plane,
the buddhic plane, or the plane of pure reason.6
The rapid coming of the Avatar Who will found the

station of light and power upon the physical plane is
dependent upon the rapid unfoldment and appearance
of integrated personalities who love and think and seek
to serve. There has here been given a new hint upon
one of the more esoteric aspects of the work of the New
Group of World Servers...7
Today, through human effort and hierarchical endeavour, a

great alignment and linking up is taking place, and Monad-
Soul-Personality are being more directly related than has
hitherto been possible. One reason for this is that there
are present in incarnation upon the planet many more
initiates of the third degree than ever before; there are
many more disciples being prepared for the third initiation;
and in this third strictly human race, the Aryan (using
this term in its generic sense and not in its prostituted
German connotation), the three aspects of the personality
are now so potent that their magnetic influence and their
creative effect are making the building of the antahkarana
an outstanding achievement, thus linking and aligning
the three aspects in man. The same is true of the three
divine centres in the planet which embody these divine
qualities: Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity.8
These methods of overshadowing will be largely the ones

used by the Great Lord and His Masters at the end of
the century, and for this reason They are sending into
incarnation, in every country, disciples who have the
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opportunity offered them to respond to the need of
humanity. Hence the need of training men and women
to recognise the higher psychism, and the true inspiration
and mediumship, and to do this scientifically. In fifty
years time, the need for true psychics and conscious
mediums (such as H. P. B., for instance) will be very
great if the Masters plans are to be carried to fruition,
and the movement must be set on foot in preparation for
the coming of Him for Whom all nations wait. In this
work many have their share, provided they demonstrate
the necessary endurance.9
Linking the above quotes we can see the need for
Third Degree initiates, or those preparing for this degree,
to come together in synthesis creating an ajna centre in
the human race so that Light Supernal can be directed via
the Masters on the atmic plane through the higher mental
plane (thus reconciling Venus and Saturn). Behind this and
generating the energy of Life is Shamballa, working through
the Christ as the representative of humanity who has linked
the energies of all seven cosmic planes in his own being. This
Light Supernal is focused through the planes of the triad
and able to reach and lift the concentrated energies of the
astral field (which are themselves an expression of the Life
aspect), through the mental field (liberating as a by-product
those members of humanity who are acting as the lens on
the mental plane), to produce at-onement on the buddhic
plane and thus increase the power of the human Hierarchy
to expand in two directionstowards the physical and the
logoic planes.
Thus we see that the soul is not enough, and it is only
when the energy of Shamballa is added to Hierarchy and able
to penetrate into a connection with Humanity itself that the
redemption of the personality life of the planet is attained.
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This requires the conscious, focused participation of those
members of humanity who are themselves able to act as a bridge
between Hierarchy and Humanity and reconcile these two
spheres of activity in themselves, thus creating the antahkarana
of consciousness that can link the two energies of life in this
systemthe monadic and astral planes. Eventually we will
see the destiny of the Fourth or human Hierarchy fulfilled
when it can expand its solarising consciousness fully into the
physical plane, thus redeeming matter itself and releasing the
Light within the form.
When the lowest of the low, the densest of the dense,
and the highest of the high have all been lifted through
the little wills of men, then can the One in Whom we
live raise into radiating light the vivid lighted ball of
Earth, and then another greater Voice can say to Him:
Well done! Move on. Light shines.10
When the radiant light of the Solar Angel is fused with

the golden light of the cosmic intermediary, it awakens
from darkness the rush light of anu, the speck.
The cosmic intermediary is the term given to the etheric
body, which is part and parcel of the universal ether. It
is through the etheric body that all the energies flow,
whether emanating from the soul, or from the sun, or
from a planet. Along those living lines of fiery essence
pass all the contacts that do not emanate specifically
from the tangible world.
The dark light of the tiny atoms of which the physical
vehicle is constructed is responsive to the stimulation
passing down from the soul into its vehicle, and, when
the man is under control of the soul, there eventuates
the shining forth of the light throughout the body.
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This shows as the radiance emanating from the bodies
of adepts and saints, giving the effect of bright and
shining light.11
Thus we also see the importance of science using Venus
to penetrate into the mysteries of the etheric/physical plane.
Scientists create a channel through which the redemption of
matter by the soul will eventually reach consummation.

2. Bruce Lyon, Agni: Way of Fire, White Stone Publishing, NZ, 2004,
p.239.
5. Theogenesis, Temple of the People, Halcyon, California, 1981.
11. Bailey, A Treatise on White Magic, pp.1056.
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The Will As The Imperative to Shine
The Shamballa impact has provided an inflow of the

energy of Will or planetary purpose. Just how this inflow
is integrated into the Human centre will depend largely
upon the level of consciousness operating within it. This
is why there has been such an effort by Hierarchy to
raise the consciousness over the last hundred years. This
process has produced results in three directions: Firstly,
the consciousness of mankind has been able to penetrate
more fully into the material worlds through the scientific
application of the increased vibratory rate. Secondly, there
has been a remarkable expansion in awareness and building
of relationships within the human family and the planet
as a whole. Thirdly, there has been a slow but steady
abstraction of human units from the three worlds into
conscious identification with the ashrams. Taken together,
these processes constitute the outer effects of a planetary
initiation that is currently in process and is also known as
the Externalisation of the Hierarchy.
The energy of Will flowing in from the monad in the
individual sense and Shamballa in the planetary sense, provides
what we might call the imperative to shine. The Hierarchy, as
the planetary soul, have been instructed to shine forth. The
result of this increased shining is three-fold:
1. A penetration into the three worldsthe Externalisation.
2. A greater development and coordination of the one great
Ashramthe Formation of the 49 ashramic centres.
3. An abstraction into and deepening of the relationship with
Shamballa.
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Human causal bodies (soul consciousness identified
with matter) are the fuel for the Hierarchical burning. As
the imperative to shine sounds forth, this fuel is required in
greater measure. The instigation of group initiation allows
for the acceleration of this process. The soul, like a sun, may
burn through its fuel faster and therefore have a brighter but
shorter life span. We have commenced a periodthe Aquarian
Agewhere a sustained burning is required.
Within the Hierarchical centre itself the work is divided
amongst three levels of initiate. The Fifth Degree initiates
or Masters are principally concerned with the inflow of the
energy of planetary purpose from Shamballa. The Fourth
Degree initiates are concerned with the coordination of the
ashrams and the flow of energy through these planetary etheric
centres. The Third Degree initiates, having causal bodies, are
concerned with the shining forth of the Hierarchical life
into the three worlds and the flow of fire on the abstract
mental plane.
Within the Human centre that is aligned with the
Hierarchywhich we call the New Group of World Servers
there is likewise a three-fold differentiation. Some are involved
with initiating projects and manifesting thoughtforms that are
aligned with the Plan. Others are involved in the building and
coordination of right human relationship between individuals
and groups within the NGWS, and still others are focused
on assisting to contact, interpret and distribute the energy
and idea essences that pour in from Hierarchy to inspire
the NGWS.
Just as one needs to develop a personality before
it can be surrendered to the soul, so one also needs to
develop a purpose before it can serve as a vehicle for
the energy of Hierarchical and planetary purpose. Then a
gradual transformation or expansion of identity takes place
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from having a purpose to being Purpose until, focused
on the atmic plane a Master of the Wisdom is able to
assert PURPOSE ITSELF AM I1 and move into closer
identification with Shamballa.
It is not necessary to wait until we are Masters however,
to begin to deepen our relationship to and identification with
the energy of planetary purpose and Shamballa. We can practice
the Technique of the Presence long before we become the
Presence itself. One simple way of differentiating and balancing
the three-fold process of shining forth as a soul is to notice
when we really need to:
1. Sound our solar note so that others receive the particular
quality of Light, Love and Power that shines through our
causal selves. Be the Sun.
2. Relate through communion and cooperation with others so
that the light of the cosmic Christ is able to express through
us as a whole. Be the galaxy.
3. Hold identification with the peaceful, invisible silent centre
that adds darkness unto light so that the stars appear.2 Be
the black hole.
It is The Will That Conquers Death

It is the connection with the energy of Lifethe
identification with itthat comes from the realisation that
it lies at the very core of our being, that allows us to face
death without fear. Identified with Life we know through
experience that there is no death, no real endings, no way
that the core of consciousness can ever be separated from
its parent.
Facing death therefore, is one of the tests that allows for
greater participation in Life. And yet most of the consciousness
upon the planet is desperate to avoid the confrontation with
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death in even the smallest ways. We are afraid to throw out
old pictures or move house let alone being willing to lay aside
our physical, emotional and mental vehicles if that is what is
called for in the moment.
To LIVE is to be aware of our relationship and
participation in the energy of LIFE, and this Life is not the
opposite of deathdeath is merely the gateway between life
in the three worlds and Life in the higher four spheres. When
death ceases to be an obstacle for consciousness we will have
humans able to be conscious on all seven planes simultaneously,
and then incarnation will be a wonderful experience that adds
the capacity for manifestationor the imbuing of the lower
three worlds with the Life that is experienced in the higher
four. It is not that this Life does not run through all the planes.
It is the consciousness of Lifethe conscious relationship TO
Lifethat is missing and is peculiarly the work of the fourth
kingdom in nature to bring forth.
In the past the most common way of connecting
with the energy of spirit was the desert experience. This
may or may not have been an outer physical experience but
denotes a state of consciousnessa dark night of the soul
where all the meaning disappears from the things of the
three worlds. Identification with all that is known is lost,
and the soul longs for the darkness of that which is not yet
known. Spirit and matter are two poles, and in the Sixth
Ray Age the soul of man oscillated between those poles.
When the matter experience was turned up then humanity
lost connection with spirit. When the spirit experience was
turned up then humanity lost connection with matter. This
oscillation produced by the Sixth Ray upon the fourth
kingdom has the result of increasing the capacity of the
human soul to identify with both polesat first sequentially
and alternately, but eventually simultaneously.
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It is this simultaneous identification that is the hope and
the promise of the Seventh Ray Age, and that which will allow
the dead to be raised to Life. The Life here is that which
lies beyond the duality of spirit/matter and incorporates them
both. This Life is also that which pours through the eye in the
triangle when spirit/soul and matter are balanced. The human
soul is thus a transitional entity that occurs primarily between
the Third and Fourth Initiations. At the Third Initiation the
conscious identification with the Mother aspect or matter is
broken. At the Fourth Initiation identification with the Father
or spirit aspect is achieved. In between the soul is identified
with itselfit recognises itself as a dual expression born of
two parents but having primary allegiance or identification
with neither.
The soul thus becomes a self-referencing centre for a
transitional period, and it is during this periodunidentified
with either spirit or matterthat it becomes the distributing
agent for the energy of Peace which lies behind this great
duality. Peace here refers to a point of balance between spirit
and matter wrought out in the crucible of each human soul
through an equal rejection of (or identification with) both
poles. Within the cosmic physical plane the battle between
spirit and matter is waged relentlesslyindeed it is a duality
that is the cause of all manifest expression from the perspective
of the higher planes. Outside of the cosmic physical plane
there is a peace that is experienced upon the cosmic astral that
has its roots upon the cosmic buddhic plane. Human souls at
the Fourth Initiation are a channel for that peacethe peace
which passeth understanding.3

3. Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, p.25.
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Wesak & The Light of Life
Image from a ceremony in the Wesak Valley, Tibet May 2000
The annual festival of Wesak is a festival of light, revelation

and empowerment. It is a time to pause in the annual cycle
in order to deepen our penetration into the spiritual realities
and to allow the energies contacted to more fully permeate,
infuse and charge our work in the world.
At Wesak those two great brothers, the Buddha and the
Christ, cooperate together in order to serve as a channel or
conduit into our world for subtle energies and in particular at
this time for the energy streaming into (and from) Shamballa
which we may call the Light of Life.1 The Buddha is the
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embodiment of the light of Intelligence and the Christ embodies
the light of Love. When these two lights are blended and
fused then the light which lies behind them both is revealed.
This light is also called Light Supernal, the light of spirit, the
dark light of Shamballa, the light of the monad or universal
Light.
This Light, though ever present, is relatively new in
the consciousness of humanity and we are still very much
learning about how to correctly contact and utilise it. In
the current cycle it has been active since the Shamballa
impact that occurred at the time of the Second World
War and subsequently in 1975 and in the year 2000. It is
particularly potent because it is impersonalstimulating
both the realms of consciousness and matter, soul and
form. When and where these dualities have yet to be
fused, the Shamballa force precipitates crisis and therefore
the opportunity to resolve that crisis through fission or
fusion.
A descriptive name for Light from the First Aspect is the
light which shocks.2 This is meant both in the psychological
sense but also in an electrical sense of charging or galvanising
the being. It is an electric light and it lies hidden from
consciousness at the very heart of consciousness in the jewel
or bulls eye of the soul.
Behind the central sacred sun, hidden within its rays,
a form is found. Within that form there glows a point
of power which vibrates not as yet but shines as light
electric.3
To access this Light we must look not outward into the
worlds which the soul illuminates, but into the very centre of
the soul itself. We must find the Sun door which reveals the
face of the true spiritual Sun, hidden by a disk of golden light
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as the Gayatri describes4or the God Savitur (the impellor
or driver of the Sun) in the Sanskrit original.
The difficulty is that light as we know itthe light of the
soul or solar fireis unable to penetrate into this centrejust
as physical light is unable to return from the event horizon
of a black hole. For consciousness to enter into that which is
the source of consciousness it must dissolve the subject/object
duality of consciousness itself. The witness must become one
with that which is witnessed in both the inner and outer
worlds, at least for a moment. This is called identification
with the Life aspect.
For this reason the light of Shamballa or the light of
spirit is called a dark light5 for it is as dark to the soul
as the deep recesses of matter which remain unsolarised.
Indeed it is the work of the soul to bring this higher
darkness and the lower darkness into conscious relationship.
Light and Love (intelligence and consciousness) are not
enough to fully and finally offset the forces of materialism
on our planet or in the individual. Power is required. The
lower fires must be fought with the higher ones until it is
discovered that they are essentially one fire whose purpose
has yet to be revealed.
It is the power of the monad, the Shamballic force, the
Light of Life Itself which allows the soul to fully fuse with
the personality and resolve the duality of the Angel of the
Presence and the Dweller on the Threshold through the
revelation that they are essentially one. In a planetary sense
Hierarchy, as the soul of the planet, is trying to fuse with its
personalityHumanity. Shamballa is assisting in this gradual
fusion through the empowerment of the New Group of
World Serversan intermediate group between Hierarchy and
Humanity. As members of that group, Wesak is our opportunity
to receive this electric fire and to direct it in such a way that
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the fusion process is assisted and to offset the fissional forces
at work in the world.
Let us look at two practical ways in which this light
which shocks may enter and effect changes within the
consciousness of humanity so that the process referred to as
the Externalisation of the Hierarchy is assisted.
The Master DK tells us that the two major factors
(both demonstrations of materialism) that are hindering the
Reappearance of the Christ are:
1. The inertia of the average aspirant or spiritually-
minded man.
2. The lack of money for the work of preparation.6
All disciples will be aware of those stubborn energy drains
within their own systems that inhibit their full expression as
souls, and they will equally be aware of the challenges that
finances represent. The Externalisation is not just a global
process but is also taking place holographically in each individual
and group. We are able to participate in the Reappearance of
the Christ precisely to the degree that he has Reappeared in
Usor to word it another way, to the extent that the soul
is in control of our personality expression.
Many of our own blocks to full expression we will be
aware of and will have tried to work onmaking progress
with some and not with others. Some of our blocks we
will be unaware of, and Wesak provides an opportunity
for such illumination. The monadic light not only reveals
itself to the soul but also empowers the light of the soul to
penetrate more deeply into matter, and offsets a tendency
in consciousness to remain aloof from the grosser realms
of embodiment.
If you would like a practical illustration of the light
which shocks may I suggest the following exercise:
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Compile a list of your principles, values and goals and
take note of their relative importance to you (as a centre of
consciousness) in percentage terms. Now do a precise audit
of how your time and money has actually been spent during
the last year or month. Compare the two lists.
The purpose of the exercise is not to invite judgment,
guilt or pride but to clearly see the difference or gap that
exists for most of us between our subjective and objective
realities.
On a global level we are subject to the light which
shocks each time Pluto brings to light from our collective
unconsciousness an Enron debacle, a looming environmental
disaster, a war crimes tribunal, or just about anything that
occurs on the African continent. We have a tendency to
resist knowing or seeing partly because it makes us feel
powerless and inadequate. Fortunately the light which
shocks not only reveals the activity of the forces of
materialism but it also empowers us and galvanises us into
the action necessary to change. It does this by infusing
the soul or consciousness aspect with the energy of pure
Beingrevealing the invincibility of the spirit at the core
of consciousness.
At the root of the problems of inertia and the lack of
money for Hierarchical work lies the fear of death. The fear
of death has its root in the misidentification of consciousness
with formwe fear to lose that which we think we are.
The Light of Life reveals to us that we are in fact that Life
Itselfunborn, undying, eternal.
If we look behind the events occurring on the globe
at this time we may see the emergence of this Life principle
through its two planetary embodiments. Pluto is lifting all
that is hidden in the lower darkness into the light and tearing
at the very fabric of those structures of consciousness we call
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human civilisation. At the same time Vulcan is bringing in
the higher darknesspenetrating human consciousness from
above with the hammer of the planetary Will, calling us to
the governance of the timeless principles. Pluto is Life energy
and cannot be controlled or repressed by consciousnessonly
by its higher counterpart.
We might say that materialism has been successful
on our planet as an evolutionary stage, much like the
stage of dominance by the human personality. Once it
crystallises however, it begins to stifle the Life force and
is brought to the anvil to be broken open and refashioned
by the planetary soul. Cracks are beginning to appear, and
it is through those cracks that the Life-giving waters are
starting to flow.
One of the names of the Christ is Dispenser of the
Water of Life.7 We become that water to the extent we have
identified with the soul or the Christ in us. We are that
which is poured forth to thirsty men at the beginning of this
great Age of Aquarius where Light Supernal can be known
on Earth.
Wesak is a ceremony where through the combined action
of Hierarchy and Shamballa the waters are charged. We are
plugged in to that great electrical current that lies behind all
expressions of consciousness and formour batteries are filled
with the invincible fire of Being. That fire will both reveal
to us the next phase of our work in the world (as the cracks
continue to open) at the same time as providing us with the
power and the Taurean persistence to carry it through into
full expression.
As willing and conscious cooperators with the great
evolutionary process at work on the planet, may we find at
this time the inspiration and courage to release our grimy
ragsthose old identifications, ideas and possessions that
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we have outgrown but still cling to. May we stand together,
soul naked, in the great waterfall of spirit that is available
to us everywhere and every-when but cycles now into our
time-space awareness at the festival of Revelatory Light which
is Wesak.
om bhr bhuvah svah
tt savitr vrenyam
bhrgo devsya dhmahi
dhyo y nah pracodyt
om

7. Alice A Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, Lucis Trust Publishing
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Power, Authority & Leadership in Occult Groups
The esoteric world is littered with failed groups and the

misuse or misunderstanding of power. All true power is given
from above and comes from the alignment with the energy of
Will via Hierarchy, Master Morya, Sanat Kumara and ultimately
the Solar/Cosmic Logos.
We are learning how to contact and wield that power and
at Shamballa School we are making a particular experiment of
approach to this energy via a Second Ray educational focus.
Misuse of power comes from an assumption of excess
authority by a lesser entity along this Chain of Being, and
eventually results in the drying up of true power and the
increasing assertion of authority by the entity in order to
make up for this loss.
In esoteric groups we see this in leaders claiming divinely
given inspiration and excluding all who disagree with them
and holding others through both fear of exclusion and the
offering of special connection. This results in ever dwindling
numbers until there are only one or two left sitting in a room
in the suburbs asserting to themselves that they are holding the
whole world together and are misunderstood and unrecognised
by the masses. In other words the real result is not power but
impotency.
In order for this misuse to happen there must develop
an unhealthy co-dependency between a leader (or leaders) and
followersthe Piscean experience. Both need to increasingly
deny or ignore a deeper sense of truth in order to preserve the
illusion that makes them feel special and hides an underlying
fear of impotency.
What makes true Aquarian groups different is that
each member of the group must be a soul with their own
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independent alignment with Hierarchy and eventually with
Shamballa. They must each take responsibility for the choices
they are making moment by moment, including the surrender
of any authority or choice.
In Hierarchy this surrender of authority is made
through a process of occult recognition. In other words
souls, out of their own alignment, recognise the alignment of
other soulstheir particular function, and both the quality
and capacity of the energy which they are handling and
directing. This is what creates a hierarchya recognition
of differentiated function within one Ashramthe Ashram
of Sanat Kumara contained in the body of Christ. This
recognition occurs through a process of progressive revelation
as the identification of the individuals shifts more and more
into their soul nature, and they thus become more aware of
themselves as members of Hierarchy and thus intrinsically
and already a group.
On the way to this revelation outer groups form and
break as training grounds where the principles of working with
Love and Power can be learned.
An initiate group is composed of members of the
Hierarchy. They come together cooperatively to do a specific
piece of work, recognising each others quality and standing
within Hierarchy. They come together through their shared
desire to serve the purpose of a recognised higher level of
responsibilitya Master, the Christ or Sanat Kumara for
exampleas well as through a shared desire to serve those who
are not yet conscious of themselves as souls. They are group
members of Hierarchy and thus stand between Shamballa and
Humanity.
Training for group initiation involves a strengthening
of each group members alignment so that they are capable
of becoming members of Hierarchy and demonstrating occult
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recognition. This training also sequentially develops the groups
capacity to recognise and handle higher energies as a unit
within the ashram. This training is somewhat quarantined at
first, but eventually becomes part of the work of Hierarchy
itselfand is a by-product of that work. Initiates know
because they work and an initiate group knows because it
begins to recognise the particular function it is performing
within the Plan.
True power in these training groups is given from
abovefrom higher levels of Hierarchy. Authority within these
groups is never imposed. It is freely given to the senior members
of the group through the process of occult recognition. It
requires the conscious participation of the individual wills of
the group. Individuals recognise the power flowing through the
leaders alignment. This power flows according to the degree of
surrender the leader is able to make to a higher Will, and it
evokes from the group an increased surrender of Will towards
the same place the leader is surrenderedultimately Shamballa.
It is not so much a surrender to Will but a surrender to
Surrender. The secret of power is in surrender and humility,
and not in authority.
The heart naturally responds to the Love principlethe
Christs greater Love causes an opening in the hearts of disciples
resulting in both an upsurge in love towards the Christ as
well as an outflow of love in service to humanity. The crown
naturally responds to the Power principle. The Great Sacrifice
of Sanat Kumara causes an opening of the crown and an
upsurge of the Will principlethe urge to surrender or offer
Will to support and respond to the greater Sacrifice, as well
as an outrush of the willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the
growth of humanity.
When these two responses are reconciled in the heart,
the central core opensin the soul the jewel is exposed. In
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Hierarchy, the great at-onement made by the Christ when he
linked with the Father is realised.
The result of this reconciliation within a group training
for initiation is not a dwindling into impotency but a great
expansion of the energy of Love infused with Will, and a
loss (in consciousness) of the group identity as it expands to
include and identify with the greater and greater wholes in
which it forms a part.
Cosmic Evil, Hitler & The Shamballa Force

That is why Hitler, the exponent of the reversed reaction
to Shamballa (and consequently the evil reaction) had
to gather around him a group of like-minded people or
personalities. On the upper arc of the evocative cycle
(Hitler being the expression of the invocative arc of
the Shamballa force) it requires a group to bring about
evocation.1
To understand something of the reversed reaction to
Shamballa it might be useful to look into the occult mythology
behind Nazism.
The Distinction between Shamballa and Agharti

In Shambhala: In Search of a New Era, Roerich also
hinted at a similarity between Shambhala and Thule, the
hidden land at the North Pole, which, as we shall see below,
inspired the Germans in their quest for a secret land. He also
mentioned the association of Shambhala with the underground
city of Agharti (Agarthi), reached through tunnels under
the Himalayas. Its inhabitants will emerge at the time of
purification. In her Collected Letters (19351936), Helena
Roerich pointed out that Saint-Yves dAlveidre had mistakenly
identified Shambhala with Agharti, but they are not the same
place.
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Similar to Baileys claims of the connection between
Hitler and the Shambhala Force, several postwar studies
on Nazism and the Occult have asserted that the Nazis
sent expeditions to Tibet to seek the help of the forces
of Shambhala and Agharti to carry out their Master
Plan. Bailey, however, only mentioned Shambhala in
this connection and said nothing about Agharti. These
accounts, on the other hand, purport that the masters
of Shambhala refused to assist the Nazi expeditions, but
the adepts of Agharti agreed and returned with them to
Germany. Moreover, they attribute the Nazi search for
occult support in Tibet to the beliefs of Karl Haushofer
and the Thule Society. Haushofer was the founder of the
Vril Society in association with the Thule Society and
was a major influence on Hitlers occult thinking. The
Thule and Vril Societies combined beliefs from various
sources.2
We know that Shamballa is associated with the high
cosmic ethers and the crown chakra. Agharti is mostly
referred to as an underground kingdom associated with
the hollow Earth mythology. The energy associated with
Agharti is Vril, while the energy associated with Shamballa
is Agni. Perhaps if we considered Agharti as a symbol for
the base chakra of the Earth and Shamballa as the crown,
then Agni would be the descending spiritual fire originating
in the Solar Logos while Vril would be the kundalini fire
rising from the base chakra of the Planetary Logos. Thus
Shamballa/Agharti and Agni/Vril are twin aspects of the
First Ray force (Purpose/Will, Shiva/Shakti) that must be
brought together in a future planetary initiation (the Third
Initiation). As we know, awakening kundalini energy through
forced conscious attention has disastrous effects. The dragon
energy or Will in matter is aroused before the consciousness
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is ready, and insanity is often the result. When the soul is
in control and serving as a sheath of fire for the descent of
monadic energy, then the lower fires can be safely controlled.
They arise in brief spurts of their own accord, in response
to too much suppression by the unsolarised consciousness
(Plutonic eruptions such as the French Revolution) which
are like earthquakes or volcanoes releasing pressure. The
results are cathartic and often purifying. However when
they are consciously invoked and the attempt is made to
direct and control them without access to their higher
correspondencethe Agni fire of Shamballathen they
will rage out of control.
Jocelyn Godwin, in Arktos, The Polar Myth in Science,
Symbolism and Nazi Survival (1993), identified agni power
with vril. Vril is the psychokinetic power protected by
the inhabitants of Thule, which the Nazis tried to obtain
for helping to strengthen their Aryan superrace.2
It seems then that the Nazis mistook Vril for Agni
and Agharti for Shamballa, with the results we are all
familiar with. The Nazis became part of the invocative
arc of Shamballathat is to say consciously identified
with the rising Plutonic energies evoked by the Shamballa
impact. Their counterbalance was the occult groups who
were evocative of the Shamballa forcethe purpose of
Shamballa. The symbol for the inversion was of course the
reversed swastika.
So to bring the discussion around to cosmic evil: We
know that our Planetary Logos is undergoing the Second
cosmic Initiation. At the Second Initiation the powers
of the monad are brought into play to master the astral
energies. These astral energies fought their major battle in
Atlantisthe aftermath of which was the World Wars in
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the middle of the Fifth Rootrace. The energies which we
associate with cosmic evil would be working from the lower
desire portion of the cosmic astral, seeking to prematurely
awaken the lower fires of the planet. The aspirational energies
of the higher cosmic astral plane would be seeking to lift
the conscious entities on the cosmic physical plane into
relationship with Shamballa.
We know that part of the purpose of the Planetary Logos
is to anchor a seed of solar Willor to word it otherwise,
to make of the planet Earth an outpost for the manifesting
purpose of the Solar Logos who is taking the Third Degree. We
also know that three planetsEarth, Vulcan and Plutoare
the First Ray triangle involved in this project. We know that
Hierarchy (as the solar consciousness of the planet) withdrew
onto higher planes after the Atlantean battle. Might it not also
be reasonable to think that a balancing aspect of consciousness
(material) withdrew to lower planes? We have the legends of
an underground Agharti, and also quotes like this one from
Bailey:
It must be remembered that the mysteries of existence
are as yet but little cognised by man. In cases where
profound mysteries lie, man is often totally unaware of
it; and frequently man remains blind and deaf where
no mystery is but only revelation for those who have
eyes to see and ears to hear. When man has penetrated
to those secrets which lie behind the lower kingdoms
in nature, when he has solved the problem of the
constitution of the interior of the Earth, and has from
there worked his way back to knowledge of the working
of the involutionary path and the lives which tread that
path, then and then only will he begin to realise the
strangeness of that which lies beyond his ken.3
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Thus a possible analysis of the First Ray triangle and
the eventual planetary synthesis might run as follows: Vulcan
represents the First Ray soul and therefore the descending
power of Agni from the Solar Logos. Pluto represents the First
Ray personality and therefore the uprising power of Vril from
matter. The Earth has a First Ray monad and so its destiny
is to balance these two powers through the recognition that
they are twin aspects of one Fire. Vulcan is close to the Sun
and therefore the solar heat is far more significant than the
internal heat of matter. Pluto is in the reverse situation. Earth
is in a unique situation. The energy radiating from the Earths
living vulcanised core matches almost exactly that arriving
from the Sun. The solar and planetary radiatory energies are
in a precarious balance.
Humanity as representatives of both lunar and solar
consciousness, are beginning to learn how to work with the
energy of the First Aspect. If they encounter it too early
however, they are drawn to its lower manifestation. Once
the consciousness is truly solar it can call forth the energy of
Shamballa, which will naturally and in its own rightful timing
call forth Agharti and the Vril power from the base chakra
of the planet.
In the case of the planetary Logos of our little sphere,
the head centre, the ajna centre, the heart and solar
plexus centres and the throat centre are the five focal
points of energy which are the most alive and vibrant.
The sacral centre is slowly dropping below the threshold
of the logoic consciousness whilst the centre at the base
of the spine is practically entirely quiescent, except in
connection with its pranic effects upon the form life,
engendering the will to live, the urge to survival and
the vitalisation of forms. These facts will give you an
idea of our planetary status in the great family of the
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central sun and indicate why our planet is not a sacred
planet. No planet is a sacred planet unless the centre at
the base of the spine (speaking symbolically) is aroused
and the great fusion of energies resulting therefrom has
been effected.4

2. http://www.berzinarchives.com/kalachakra/mistaken_foreign_
myths_shambhala.html This website has a useful overview of
the impact of the different Shamballa myths on the political
developments during the World Wars.
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Peace, Jerusalem & Humanity
...peace, as the expression of the will of Shamballa, produces

balance, equilibrium, synthesis and understanding, plus a
spirit of invocation which is basically an action producing
reaction. This demonstrates as the first great creative and
magical work of which humanity is capable, swinging, as
it does, all the three divine aspects into a simultaneous
activity in line with the will of God.1
There is a peace which passeth understanding...2 So

runs an ancient and powerful mantram that points out the
futility of seeking to engage the deep energy of Peace through
the mind. The challenge of any article on the subject then,
is not so much to stimulate the mind into an understanding
of peace but to clear away illusory thoughtforms so that this
ever present reality can reveal itself and the awareness slip
out of the mind altogether into the bed of buddhi. In this
spirit, perhaps it may be useful to begin by pointing out
what peace is not.
Peace
Firstly and most significantly, peace is not
emotional tranquility or serenityalthough this may be
a consequence of the identification of consciousness with
peace. If peace were dependent upon emotion then it
would not be a separate quality. It is not mental calm
nor physical well-beingpeace exists behind the three
worlds. It cannot be disturbed by anything that occurs
in the three worlds at all. It is a quality that permeates
the three worlds and is ever present and yet mostly
unrecognised in creation.
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When identification with all lesser activity disappears
then peace is revealed to be ever present. Peace cannot be
achieved by any action in the three worlds. Action in the
three worlds can leadthrough the right use of balancing
polarityto its revelation, but action cannot create or
uncreate peace.
If all actionwhether thought, emotion or activity
can only create the circumstances in which the peace that
already exists can be recognised, then a yogi acts in the
three worlds not to achieve anything, but to counter or
balance those activities which have clouded the perception
of peace.
Peace is not the absence of conflictit is the
absence of identification with conflict, in the midst of
conflict, thus revealing a more potent identification with a
principle that lies deeper than those in which the conflict
is occurring.
Peace is not the absence of tension, but the maintenance
of a higher tension. It is a dynamic act to hold the awareness
fixed in the eye of the storm when all about is being swept
into the maelstrom.
Now I would like to define peace in a very precise
wayalways appreciating that the map is not the territory.
Peace is the fourth quality of deitya quality that lies behind
and operates through the revealed qualities of Intelligence,
Love and Will. It is a dynamic leavening energy that permeates
creation. It is an energy that it is the destiny of humanitythe
Fourth Hierarchyto express and reveal. It is associated with
the Fourth Ray, the fourth plane, the fourth scheme, chain and
globe and a fourth order solar system. It is both the source
and the outcome of pain and suffering on the planet. It is as
present to us as water is to a fishit is the very medium in
which we live, move and have our being.
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The origin of this energy of Peace is the cosmic
buddhic plane, just as the three revealed qualities of God
are related to the cosmic mental (Will), cosmic astral
(Love) and cosmic physical (Activity). Just as a human
being at a certain stage of initiation must be able to
pass the energy of the buddhic plane through the fourth
etheric subplane of his etheric body, so a Solar Logos
must transmit the energy of cosmic buddhi via his fourth
ethericour buddhic plane. It is the work of the ashrams
on the buddhic plane to transmit this energy, and it is
what will eventually make of Earth a station of light and
power.3 Earth has a unique role within the solar system
in the revelation of this quality of deity.
Peace, as it is thus defined, is the saving force which
is brought into operation when the three planetary centres
Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity are brought into
mutual functioning relationship.4 The centres are related,
although for full functioning it remains for the Human
centre to consciously respond to the energy of Shamballa.
This is increasingly occurring subsequent to the Shamballa
impacts of last century and at the commencement of the
current one.
The energy of Peace forms the eye in the triangle created
by the three revealed qualities, and in a planetary sense, the
three main centres:
Will - Shamballa
Peace - The Saving Force
Love - Hierarchy
Activity - Humanity
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We are told that advanced human beings in group
formation, who have synthesised the energies of the three
head centres (crown, ajna, alta major) and formed a
relationship via the antahkarana with both the Hierarchical
and Shamballic centres, will increasingly be able to act as
transmitters for this fourth energy and so participate in
the Great Revelation.5
On a planetary scale the New Group of World
Servers (ajna) are brought into relationship with Shamballa
(crown) and the Nirmanakayas (alta major) via the Spirit
of Peace.
The Spirit of Peace will, when the right time comes,
vitalise the responsiveness of humanity, via the influence
of the Hierarchy, to the will of God which has for basic
intent the bringing of peace on earth. What is peace? It
is essentially the establishing of right human relations,
of synthetic rapport with its resultant cooperation, of
correct interplay between the three planetary centres and
an illumined, loving understanding of the will of God
as it affects humanity and works out divine intent.6
The Christ as the focal point for the Aquarian Age and
the Prince of Peace is held in the central eye of a triangle
formed by the Buddha, the Spirit of Peace and the Avatar of
Synthesis.
As the Point within the Triangle, Christ becomes the
awakener of the hearts of men, and the one who
institutes right human relations by being simply what
He is and by standing unmoved where He is. This He
accomplishes by transmitting the energies from the
three points of the surrounding Triangle to humanity.
This blended, impersonal energy, triple in nature, will
be spread abroad universally, producing evolutionary
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growth, attracting people and nations magnetically to
each other and automatically causing the unfoldment
of the sense of synthesis, of provable unity and of a
desirable fusion.7
Having explored what the energy of Peace is and how it
is released within the planetary life, we might now focus our
attention on a particular conflict and a particular place on
this fourth globe where the energy of Peace must prevail:
Jerusalem
Perhaps like no other place on Earth, Jerusalem, the
place of peace, has become the symbolic heart of a conflict
that threatens the entire world. The Master DK warns us that
if there is another World War it will be based on religion and
could well prove to be the end of humanity.8
We know that the real Jerusalem is Hierarchy and the
only place of true peace on the planet is Shamballa; and yet
Humanity has materialised and out-pictured a concept of all
that is holy and sacred onto this physical location. Palestine
has become a potent entry point into the Human centre
for the influx of evil,9 thus demonstrating the power of the
Fourth Ray in producing the opposite of what was imagined.
The symbol of Humanitys highest aspiration has become an
expression of our lowest naturenot because of anything
inherent in the location itself but because of a misidentification
in the consciousness of Humanity. This misidentification has
manifested an aspect of the planetary Dweller. The Dweller
cannot be offset by Humanity alone, nor by Hierarchy, but
only by the combined power of the three planetary centres
working synthetically. The Christ will demonstrate that he is
the wielder of this synthetic energy by using it to correct this
misidentification, resulting in right human relations and the
inauguration of the New World Religion. In completing this
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task he will abstract the spiritual essence of the three major
religions that have Jerusalem as a centre, and thus reveal their
essential qualityin the same way that Peace lies unrevealed
behind the energies of Will, Love and Intelligence.
Will - Islam
Abraham
Intelligence - Judaism Love -Christianity
Each of these three monotheistic religions trace their

roots back to Abraham, the archetypal Father figure. If we
consider them as three personality aspects of a single energy,
then the most fitting allocation would be as follows:
Judaism - Third Aspect The Intelligence of God
Christianity - Second Aspect The Love of God
Islam - First Aspect The Will of God
This was also the order of their emergence as religions,
and the validity of the allocation is also most starkly seen in
the shadow side of each faith as it has shown its inability
to live up to its core ideal. Of course in making any abstract
generalisations we must be aware that they are only that and
do not represent the living truth that is found in individual
experience.
There can be little doubt that Judaism has fostered
the flowering of the human intelligence. Its contribution
to thought, the arts, finance and creativity in general is
immense. The shadow side of this Third Aspect is revealed
in separatism, pride, manipulation, rationalisation and
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control of resources. It could be said that the at-onement
sought by the Jewish tradition is that of concrete and
abstract mind.
The Christian tradition has as its major axis the polarity
of love and hate as it seeks to reconcile the buddhic and
astral planes. There is no doubt that Christianity has made
a great global contribution in alleviating the suffering of
humanity. There is also no doubt that it has been a great
source of suffering. One example that has relevance to our
theme is the taking of the city of Jerusalem by the Crusaders
in 1099 at the epicentre of the Piscean Age. Robert the Monk
made the claim that the Crusaders conquest of the city was
the greatest event in world history since the Crucifixion.10
Here is a quote from an eyewitness to the event, Raymond
of Aquiles:
If I tell the truth it will exceed your powers of belief.
So let it suffice to say this much, at least, that in the
Temple and the Porch of Solomon, men rode in blood
up to their knees and bridle reins. Indeed it was a just
and splendid judgement of God that this place should be
filled with the blood of unbelievers since it had suffered
so long from their blasphemies.11
For three days the Crusaders systematically slaughtered
some thirty thousand inhabitants in order to reclaim possession
of the site, whereupon their saviour died for the sins of
humanity and preached his gospel of Love. Jerusalem never
had a more brutal rule.
Islam has had its expressions of great intelligence and
love but its prime note is that of the Will. Islam asks
for an existential surrender of the whole life to God. As a
result it is perhaps the most purist of the traditions, and it
made its first appeal to women, slaves and the dispossessed
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who felt that they had less of an earthly life to lose and
more to gain by such a surrender.12 This has relevance still
today where Islam is the religion of one fifth of humanity
and represents a section of humanity that is relatively
economically disadvantaged and has a high population
growth. We need to understand the message of Islam just
as we need to understand the Will aspect of deity as it
is expressed in the uniting of the atmic with the physical
plane. The shadow side of Islam is before the worlds eye
in the image of the suicide bomber. This is a potent
and shocking symbol of the willingness to surrender ones
physical lifeif not to Gods Will then at least to what
one conceives Gods Will to be.
The word Muslim means one who surrenders to the will
of God13 and to the tradition of Islam. Abraham was the first
Muslim, although they consider that it was his son Ishmael and
not Isaac that he was asked to sacrificea sacrifice made according
to legend (but not necessarily the historical record) on Mount
Moriah where the Temple was built.14
This sacrifice of a Son/Sun upon a mountain lies at
the core of the religious experience for it holds the key to
the role of the Fourth or human Hierarchy. The human soul
is the bridge or antahkarana on the fourth plane of buddhi
between the three inner worlds and the three outer. When
identified with the three higher worlds it must be sacrificed
by the Heavenly Father in order to carry his message of
salvation to the lower three worlds. When identified with
the lower three worlds it must be sacrificed by the earthly
Father in order to rebuild the sacred link to God. The role
of the Son is to bring the inner and outer realities together
in himself. Thus we see the Christ, as the Prince of Peace,
standing at the apex of two tetrahedrons representing the
soul of Humanity:
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Heavenly Father - Sanat Kumara
The Buddha Avatar of Synthesis
Spirit of Peace

Christed Human Soul
The Son on The Mountain
Judaism Islam
Christianity
Earthly Father - Abraham
It probably should also be stated that the sacrifice of the

Sun upon the mountain is a peculiarly masculine symbol in
the sense that the human family is masculine in relation to its
counterpart, the devic evolution. The relationship between the
heavenly and earthly mother and her child is not broken.
Therefore there is no pain and no sacrifice required to mend
the gap in consciousness.
The devas do not suffer pain as does mankindThey grow
through appreciation of and joy in the forms built and
the work accomplished. The devas build and humanity
breaks and through the shattering of the forms man
learns through discontent. Thus is acquiescence in the
work of the greater Builders achieved. Pain is that upward
struggle through matter which lands a man at the Feet
of the Logos; pain is the following of the line of the
greatest resistance and thereby reaching the summit of
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the mountain; pain is the smashing of the form and the
reaching of the inner fire; pain is the cold of isolation
which leads to the warmth of the central Sun; pain is
the burning in the furnace in order finally to know the
coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into
the far country, resulting in the welcome to the Fathers
Home; pain is the illusion of the Fathers disowning,
which drives the prodigal straight to the Fathers heart;
pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the
riches of the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives
the struggling builder to carry to utter perfection the
building of the Temple.15
The mystery of the Fourth Initiation concerns the
human Hierarchy and the meaning of pain. Once the soul
is sacrificed it is realised that there was never any sacrifice,
only the release of illusion allowing the experience again of
the inherent and all-pervasive harmony to be restored. Pain
is the result of illusion, and yet the suffering is very real for
souls living within that illusion.
In the Sixth Ray Age with its Martian aspiration, humanity
has attempted to fly back to God and in doing so has also
created a source of more suffering for itself, like a bird thrashing
against the self-created bars of its cage. In the Seventh Ray Age
we are told that the disciple must stand steady at the centre
within the mystical pentagram, and there suffer until the light
in the East rises upon his darkness, discovering him still at the
midway point.16 The pentagram is the causal body, and the
outer symbol for the causal body is the Temple on the Mount,
or Solomons Temple. At the Third Initiation the disciple is
tested to see whether there are any circumstances that will make
him leave the temple and identify with his personality or one
of his vehicles. At the Fourth Initiation he is asked to surrender
the temple itself.
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Until a mans consciousness is such that he can, through
an inner mechanism as yet unevolved in the majority,
respond to the planetary consciousness and enter into
the secrets of the Ancient of Days, the problem of
pain, of bloodshed, of war and of suffering must remain
an inscrutable mystery. It will be solvedand this is
the keynote of most importanceonly when man has
himself changed the initiating process for the animals
from that of bloodshed to that of domesticity and of
mutual love.17
Humanitys attempt to at-one with God was once marked
by human sacrifice. This later transmuted into the sacrifice of
animals. Religious war is essentially the forced sacrifice of the
animal selves of others in the name of Gods Will. It indicates
that humanity would still rather sacrifice for its beliefs than
sacrifice the beliefs themselves. The result is initiation through
death of the form, initiation through suffering, rather than
initiation through Life. The Christ, as the Dispenser of the
Water of Life18 has come to change this: As the risen Christ
he reveals the ecstasy of the Crucifixion in contradistinction
to the Man of Sorrows on the Cross.
The challenge of the New World Religion is not that
it asks for the worlds religions to give up the forms of their
faiths but the very soul of them. In the case of humanity a
causal body is where all that is of value garnered through
many lives is stored. A religion too has a causal body where its
deepest mythology and most sacred ideas and experiences are
storedforming a living psychic storehouse or inner sanctum. It
is the work of the Christby whatever nameto so stimulate
the fire of sacrifice through the jewel of each religion that they
become willing to release that which is held most sacred. The
Temple of Solomon must be sacrificed so that the Temple of
Ezekielthe monadcan be experienced.19 The question goes
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forth: Will you give up the essence, the very core of your faith
in the trust that it will be abstracted and built into a new
and higher form that will serve the whole of humanity? Will
you give up your historical experience and concepts of God
in the living presence of God? Are you willing to die, not for
your faith, but to it?
The synthesis of religions is a very different thing
than the unity of religions. Unity is a path that allows each
tradition to keep its core and build common understanding
and appreciation. It is an important path. Synthesis requires
something much more howeverit asks that each tradition
surrender its core in order to experience it.
There are many ideas about what might happen in
Palestine and Jerusalem. Some have talked of the Temple
on the Mount becoming at a future date a world shrine
dedicated to the whole of humanity. This is an inspiring
idea. Humanity can do much to improve the operation
of its own centre, but unless the root cause of conflict is
abstracted it will surely find ways to express itself anew.
The root is immoveable by man. It is sourced beyond the
realm of mind and requires the action of the Christ with
the aid of powerful allies.
Humanity
We have seen that under the influence of the Fourth
Ray, Sixth Ray humanity through its religious traditions often
produces the very opposite of that which it attempts to achieve.
Attempts to produce heaven on Earth often result in the
experience of hell. Seventh Ray humanity will learn that spirit
and matter are essentially one and that it is not the role of
man to choose between them and to try and dominate one
with the other, but to stand as a living creative bridge between
these dual expressions of divinity. In order to do this we will
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have to release ourselves from the grip of mind through an
understanding ofand then direct experience ofthe Will
of God. This will allow us to triangulate the three energies of
monad, soul and personality so that we can become conduits
of the fourth synthetic quality of Peace. We are told that only
those aspirants who walk humbly with their God will be
able to participate in this process:
The instruction is intended for a group which will come
later and which will prepare the way, and of which some
of the more advanced aspirants can form part if they
walk humbly with their God. This, my brother, is one
of the most advanced injunctions in any of the world
Scriptures and is found in The Bible. It has no reference
to humility as usually interpreted and understood. It
signifies the ability to view all life with a sense of divine
proportion and from the angle of spiritual mathematics,
and (paradoxical as this may sound) with no sense of
dualism. The usual meaning is not correct. It involves
acceptance and comprehension of purpose, and this in
such a manner that the consecrated personalityunder
control of the Monad, via the antahkarana, and in
cooperation with the one known Godwalks the ways
of Earth as a channel for the three divine qualities
(love, will and intelligence), but also as a channel for
that which these three qualities will enable him later to
sense, know and reveal.20
The acceptance and comprehension of purpose is an
important phrase. We are told that candidates for initiation must
each form for themselves a mental proposition of the Purpose
of deity.21 We are also told that Purpose itself is an energy held
in the Council chamber.22 Therefore our thoughtforms about
purposeindividually and collectivelyare containers for the
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flowing in of that energy, but are not that energy themselves.
We are asked to rhythmically throw away these containers so
that more effective ones can be built, and indeed eventually
to give up containers altogether and identify with the energy
itself.
When the son of man is taken onto the mountain and
tempted perhaps the most difficult temptation is that of pride.
Once the human mind decides it knows what the Will of God
is it begins to move out of alignment with that Will. To walk
humbly with God is to give up the possibility of ever knowing,
except moment to moment through the straight knowledge of
the heart. To stay in alignment with that Purpose is to enter
the peace which passeth understanding23a peace which
cannot be contained in structures built by humanity, whether
they be thoughtforms or physical temples, especially when
those structures seek to claim the Presence of God as their
sole possession.
Mankind has always found peace a mystery, often
seeking to engage the experience by repetitionwhether that
is revisiting a particular location which has become sacred,
performing a ritual or rite, engaging in philosophical or
artistic pursuit, or through acts of service or attainment. It
is interesting that the God Ela predecessor to Shalem and
Yahwehlived in a tent on the mountain, and Yahweh
himself was a travelling divinity before setting up permanent
abode on Temple Mount. Civilisation has been an anchoring
process and mans concepts of God have anchored and
crystallised with him.
Then, rising and pointing to Mount Moriah whereon
stood the Temple, He [the Christ] said: My Grandfather
created the Temple of stone, but He sits under the linen
of the tent.24
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There is no doubt that there are sacred places in the
world where man and deva have cooperated to build (in
consciousnessfor there is no real separation) the stairway to
heaven. It is equally true that no place is more sacred than another
and that we have no idea of what is truly sacred to God. All
our templesphysical or causalare temporary structures, and
ultimately the ruined temple on the Mount may be as fitting
an outer symbol for the habitation of the human soul as the
gilded dome of St Peters.
If the Christ is attempting to wield the energy of
Peace in the world and to instigate the era of right human
relations, and if this energy requires synthetic operation of the
three planetary centres, what can the New Group of World
Servers, as representatives of Humanity, do to cooperate in
this process? As mentioned above, synthesis is not unity. It is
not wrought through cooperation but through sacrifice. That
sacrifice requires the giving up of our core identification to
find whatever IS. We think of the Synthesis Ashram as being
composed of units from three different ashrams. Might we not
also conceptualise an energetic centre within the body of the
Planetary Logos made up of units from the three planetary
centresie Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity? Can we
imagine the love, brotherhood and sacrifice that would need
to exist in order for consciousness of such vastly different
dimensions to commune together? If Humanity is a divine
centre along with Hierarchy and Shamballa, what chamber of
divinity might representatives of all three be called to attend?
How might we equip ourselves for such an endeavour? How
does the human soul, individually and collectively, become a
true agency for peace in the world?
Of course I do not know the answers to these questions
and I am not sure I would trust any conceptualisations, but
they are questions that are worth living and questions that take
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one to the summit of the mountain where one day Humanity
may fall to its knees and confess that, left to its own devices,
it cannot create peace and does not even knowcannot even
knowwhat peace truly is. When we have suffered enough
in our pentagramwhen the cries of mothers who have
lost another generation of sons and daughters have opened
our heartsthe sound of pain that is the peculiar note of
the human Hierarchy may be met with a pervading grace, a
peace which passeth understanding, a draught of the waters
of Life that will, as Rumi says, soak each trembling cell with
heaven.25
Spirit of Peace
Help us to learn that you are a destiny
and not a destination
Jerusalem is not a city but the emanation
and resting place of a planet
yet to recognise you
in the fiery core of all things
guide the bullets and the bombs
through the hearts and hands of men
weave each death
every act of bravery and despair
into the vortex of some greater victory
breathe upon the bright ember of divinity
that lies
yes even at the core of war
that a spark of you might accompany
every departing soul, whether cause or casualty
and another ignite the final flames
of courage and assent
in the hearts of those left to hold
the taut emptiness for us all
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a spiritual silence
that only your voice can fill
Your power lies in this:
we may not reach or contain you
with our concepts or our conflicts
thankfully
it is beyond us to create Peace
only those conditions that force us to confess
you have been there
all along

2. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age, vol.1, p.359. (Phillipians 4:7.)
7. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, p.85.
9. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, pp.430 & 754.
10. Karen Armstrong, A History of Jerusalem, Harper Perennial, London
2005, p.274.
11. August C Krey, The First Crusade: Accounts of Eye Witnesses and
Participants, Princeton University, Princeton & London, 1921,
p.266.
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12. Armstrong, A History of Jerusalem, p.218.
13. http://www.juststopandthink.com/news_details.php?newsID=19
14. 2 Chronicles 3:1.
18. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, p.84.
19. Alice A Bailey, The Light of the Soul, Lucis Trust Publishing Company,
New York, 1927, pp.2923.
23. Bailey, Initiation Human and Solar, p.25.
24. Helena Roerich, Leaves of Moryas Garden, Book 2, Agni Yoga Society,
New York, 1991, VII stanza 3.
25. Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Green Fire. (Green fire licks all
pride from the skull, /Soaks each trembling cell with heaven.)
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Planetary Purpose & The Current World Crisis
This paper is an attempt to look at the current world

situation from an esoteric perspective. Since the Shamballa
impact of 2000 and the year of the Great Decision in 2001
when Hierarchy decide what form of crisis to precipitate within
humanity in order to carry forward the Plan, we have seen major
outer events unfold: The twin towers in New York, Afghanistan,
the war in Iraq, the American elections, climate changethere
is much debate about what has happened, what maybe should
have happened and what may happen in the future. The hearts
and minds of humanity are galvanised and paying attention to
global issues in a way that has not happened since the Second
World War. Gaining some insight into the intended outcome
from esoteric levels can assist in clarifying and strengthening
our cooperation with the planetary purpose as it attempts to
express more fully.
The seed of these ideas originated in inspired writings out
of the DK stream which I call the Mercury transmissions.1
These extracts are taken from transmissions received around
the time of the September 11 crisis:
12 September 2001
America has long stood for democracy and the principle
of freedom in the world. Admittedly that freedom has often
been misinterpreted at a personal level and taken to Sixth Ray
extremes, but it must be remembered that the principle is still
there nonetheless and that this principle represents the height
of what humanity is collectively able to demonstrate of this
evolutionary energy.
America today is facing the biggest crisis of her
historygreater even than the Civil War and the World
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War, because in this current conflict extra-planetary forces
are at play. In particular the energy of Freedom as it streams
in from Sirius. The decisions that this nation makes will be
critical for the whole of humanity and for the purpose that
the human kingdom is designed to serve within the solar
system and beyond.
To understand Pluto and Vulcan and their connection
with Saturn and the Earth, you might consider the following:
Saturn represents the control developed by the dominant
personality. It is the Cosmic Moon. That is a good thing and
evolutionary up to a point. The personality, once developed,
needs to become responsive to the will of the soul. Vulcan
represents the will of the superconsciousthe soul will that
is trying to impress itself upon the dominant personality.
Pluto represents the will of the subconsciousthose energies
WITHIN the three vehicles which are not aligned with the
dominant personality. They are both oppositional to the
will of the personality. They are the fires of striving and of
desperation. Both can be used to the good. However Vulcans
hammer must eventually control. If Pluto is able to destroy
the personal will without the will of the soul to replace it,
then anarchy and chaos result. In the rubble caused by Pluto,
look for the signs of Vulcan. Look for those leaders to emerge
sounding the note of spiritual principle.
19 September 2001
At this time the Second Ray soul of the planet is trying
to exert influence upon the Third Ray personality. The result
as far as humanity as a whole is concerned is the opportunity
to take the First Initiation. The energies of Vulcan and Pluto
are at work to bring the resistant aspects of the personality
to the surface and break the long-lasting and prevalent focus
on materialism of which humanity on Earth is such an
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exponent. One result may be the freeing up of the worlds
money supply.
What is needed from the disciples and initiates on the
planet is a demonstration of the magnetic power of the Second
Ray soul. Shamballa will awaken men from their slumber in
materialism one way or another. This is part of the Decision
being made at this time. Hierarchy have decided that humanity
is ready. That humanity can intelligently understand and respond
to the clear distinction between the spiritual values and the
material ones. The educational work of the Hierarchy has seen
to this. Everywhere the two positions are being articulated
clearly. Whether or not humanity WILL choose is entirely up
to them.
Hierarchy have decided that it is time to offer the
opportunity. We have set ourselves to respond as fully as possible
to help if humanity invokes our aid, which we certainly want
them to do. And we are prepared to offset the worst effects
of a decision by humanity to ignore the spiritual opportunity
and reinforce the old pattern of security and materialism.
However, humanity is genuinely on its own in the decision-
making process. How else could it be? Everywhere leaders are
coming forth on both sides from within humanity, representing
the best and worst of the developed human mind and heart.
Humanity can and must choose its future. Hierarchy have made
their decision and it is a defining one. Essentially, Hierarchy
have decided that humanity can be trusted. Trusted, in the
final analysis, to cooperate with the greater good. This is a
tremendous statement and a tremendous decision.
26 September 2001
Something that has not been considered within the
esoteric thought is this: What are the inflowing energies
that allow the Hierarchy to enter upon the higher way? If
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a relatively large number of Sixth Degree initiates leave, or
prepare to leave, the planetary ring-pass-not every 49 years,
what is the energy which is pouring into Hierarchy that
allows this process?
The Decision taken by the Sixth Degree initiates is
deeply linked into the type of crisis which occurs. If the
majority of initiates choose a particular path (for example
we know that they will all choose together the Path of
Earth Service at a later date) then it is the energy inpouring
along that path which is what precipitates the crisis in
humanity.
At the time of this current Decision the emphasis is
particularly upon the Fourth Path, the path to Sirius. While
this path is always emphasised in any Decision because of
its close connection to the Fourth Hierarchy, it is especially
dominant at this time. This is linkedif you could but see
the cyclesto the incoming energy of the Fourth Ray, due
to make its presence felt at the mid-point of this 49 year
cycle in the year 2025.
The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, the coming in of
the Fourth Ray, the decision of the Sixth Degree initiates,
the reappearance of the Mysteries and the Sirian energy of
Freedom all form one coherent interlocking whole that will
express itself over the next fifty years.
The Sixth Ray is passing out, the Seventh Ray is coming
in and the Fourth Ray will allow the units of the human
Hierarchy, the Fourth, to become spiritually radioactive
upon the buddhic plane, the fourth plane of the seventh
cosmic plane, the cosmic physical. It is all one beautiful
interlocking pattern, and Hierarchy are merely playing their
part. The difference is that Hierarchy are more conscious
and humanity has yet to awaken fully to their role in this
great Plan.
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Let me give you a line of thought which will prove
productive in this regard. In the individual process there is a
gradual replacement of the energies of the four ethers in the
etheric body with the energies of the four higher ethers. What
this means is that the fourth ether is able to transmit buddhi,
the third atma, the second monadic energy; and the first ether
at a later date will be able to transmit the energy of the logoic
plane, and the highest and the lowest shall therefore meet. If
you think this process through upon the cosmic levels then
insight will come as to the role of Hierarchy, working as they
are upon the fourth, third and second cosmic ethers; and in
particular the role of the Fourth Hierarchy on its own plane,
the buddhic. This should give you a key to understanding
the type of energy flowing down the Fourth Path and the
link between the Sirian Logos and the Logos of our planetary
scheme.
When the Seventh Ray is in manifestation and the Sun
is in Aquarius as has happened six times so far during the
Fifth Rootrace, the energy of Light Supernal is able to be
registered on the physical plane. The seven rays blend their
light with the Seventh Ray. This is the seventh such event
during the Fifth Rootrace. What might this mean?
The United States of America was founded under the
Masonic influence and has as its ruling energies the astrological
signs of Aquarius and Gemini. The keynote of the soul of
America is Freedomthe energy pouring in from Sirius.
Perhaps some glimpse of the energies behind the world crisis
may become evident.
The Sirian energy focused through the American soul
is pouring into the planet as a result of the Decision by the
Sixth Degree initiates. It is causing a great abstraction from
form and from materialism, which is what this energy does.
That abstraction will have great consequences for the Sixth
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Ray personality of the US, an energy which is on its way
out of incarnation and will naturally have similar effects upon
the situation in the Middle East and those races conditioned
strongly by the Sixth Ray.
The result of the cooperation between the Second Ray
soul of the planet and the Second Ray soul of America will
be both a great abstraction of energy (this will take out the
Sixth Ray and make way for the Fourth) and a great anchoring
of energy (this will happen under the influence of the Fifth
and Seventh Rays). We have the four rays of Attribute all
involved: The Seventh Ray and Fourth Ray cycling in, the
Sixth Ray cycling out and the Fifth Ray coming in through
Aquarius. If we add the Third Ray personality of the planet
and its Second Ray soul, some idea of the potential synthesis
may be grasped.
This whole process needs to be held in the context
of the Planetary Logos taking the fourth sub-initiation
of the Second cosmic Initiation. The astral polarisation
of humanity will be somewhat lifted into its buddhic
correspondence as the Sixth Ray goes out and the Fourth
Ray comes in. On the buddhic plane, humanity will contact
the higher energies of cosmic buddhi entering via the
Planetary Logos on the cosmic astral plane. These must
be directed by the Fourth Hierarchyhumanitythrough
the fifth plane onto the seventh and affecting primarily
the fourth ether.
Expect this dual process of abstraction and anchoring
to occur simultaneously and consequentially. By that I
mean that the inflow and outflow are essentially linked as
dual sides of the one event. However with the forty-nine
year cycle, expect the emphasis to be on abstraction for
the first half and anchoring for the second, beginning
in 2025.
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13 March 2002
The Shamballic Impact is an abstracting force designed
to release the consciousness from form in preparation for the
incoming Seventh Ray which will then shape form according
to the Plan. Reactionary Sixth Ray energies must be offset by
the highest aspect of the Sixth Ray, the devotion to spiritual
principles regardless of the consequences to the form, be it
body or land.
Individuals embodying this highest aspect of the Sixth Ray
exist amongst both groups, and it is to them that we can direct
our energies of support at this time. But this will not be enough.
The conflict is not a localised oneit has its origins deep within
the karma of humanity, and thus must be solved by humanity as
a whole. This requires the strengthening of the United Nations
as a centre within humanity for the direction of Will energy as
an abstracting and synthesising force.
In order to distribute this abstracting force a triangle
is being created between Shamballa, Hierarchy and the New
Group of World Servers; the latter representing the ajna
centre. As conscious servers we are encouraged to see the outer
events upon the world stage within a wider context. With
understanding comes the increased power to serve. Hierarchy
needs the conscious, willing assistance of humanity in order
to triangulate the Will force pouring in from Shamballa. It
is through the aligned thought, directed through the New
Group of World Servers, that the Plan will be brought into
manifestation on Earth.
This is a call to unitedly and esoterically strengthen the
United Nations as the only Human centre able to respond
to the entrenched survival-based will-force within the lower
nature of humanity. This fire must be fought with fire. The
fire of the Will to liberate. The fire of the Will-to-Good. The
fire of Shamballa.
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COMMENTARY
Key ideas
The 2001 Decision brought in energies along the fourth
strand of the antahkaranathe cosmic path to Sirius. These
Fourth Ray energies stimulate the Fourth Creative Hierarchy
which is Humanity, currently identified with the three worlds.
They produce a crisis in the human familyone that
is definitive and one that Hierarchy has decided Humanity
is equipped to deal with. The result of this crisis (properly
handled) will prepare the way for the Externalisation and the
incoming Fourth Ray in 2025.
America with its Second Ray Aquarian soul and Sixth
Ray Geminian personality has a key role to play within the
human family with respect to this crisis.
The United Nations must be esoterically strengthened.
IMPLICATIONS
There are a number of Sixth Ray battles going on,
precipitated by the inflowing energy of the Fourth Ray of
harmony through conflict. There is the outer war on terror.
The coalition of the willing represents the Sixth Ray response
of aspects of the personality of the planet led by the United
States to the Sixth Ray fanaticism of those who seek the
overthrow of the planetary personality.
Behind the revolutionary forces lies the First Ray power
of Pluto. Behind the conservative forces lies the First Ray of
Vulcan. Behind the with me or against me rhetoric we can
see that something else is going on. These two forces of the
Sixth Ray are brought together by the First Ray in order to
produce something, to fashion (or really, reveal) something
which we might call the diamond soul of Earth humanity.
This battle is polishing the discriminatory capacity of the
mind of humanity.
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And then within the United States there is another Sixth
Ray battle going on, reflected in the national elections. This is
more subtle, but a battle none the less between the left and
right aspects of the Sixth Ray personality. To those caught up
in it, the future of the world is at stake and all right thinking
people need to be convinced to join their side. One thing
both sides have in common is their righteousness. In its
higher reaches this battle expresses the Fourth Ray: Intelligent
partially soul-infused individuals on both sides, left and right,
entering into (sometimes) respectful debate about the issues
with the genuine aim of trying to find the best way forward
for America and the world.
Two extra forces can come into play when the Fourth Ray
process is at work. One is the Shamballa force as it expresses
through the will of the masses. The people must decide which
of these two aspects of the American personality will take them
through the next phase. When we put all our own prejudices
and opinions aside we see that the Will of God is what IS
and not what we think should be or would like to be.
The other energy that can be brought in by the balancing
process of the Fourth Ray is the Second Ray soul of America.
Remember that America is on the 246 line, and the
Fourth Ray bridges between the Sixth Ray soul and the Second
Ray personality. These are the final words of the Fourth Ray
integration formula:
The word goes forth from soul to form. Both sides are
one. There is no war, no difference and no isolation.
The warring forces seem to war from the point at which
you stand. Move on a pace. See truly with the opened
eye of inner vision and you will find, not two but one;
not war but peace; not isolation but a heart which rests
upon the centre. Thus shall the beauty of the Lord shine
forth. The hour is now.
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It is well to remember that this fourth ray is preeminently
the ray of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human
kingdom, and therefore has a peculiar relation to the
functions, relationships and the service of man, as an
intermediate group, a bridging group, upon our planet.
The function of this intermediate group is to embody a
type of energy, which is that of at-one-ment.2
Compare this with the Sixth Ray integration formula for the
personality:
The word goes out from soul to form: Run not so
straight. The path that you are on leads to the outer
circle of the life of God; the line goes forward to the
outer rim. Stand at the centre. Look on every side. Die
not for outer forms. Forget not God, Who dwells behind
the vision. Love more your fellow men.3
And the second ray formula for the soul:
The word goes forth from soul to form: Release thyself
from all that stands around, for it has naught for thee,
so look to me. I am the One who builds, sustains and
draws thee on and up. Look unto me with eyes of love,
and seek the path which leads from the outer circle to
the point.
I, at the point, sustain. I, at the point, attract. I, at
the point, direct and choose and dominate. I, at the
point, love all, drawing them to the centre and moving
forward with the travelling points towards that great
Centre where the One Point stands. What mean you
by that Word?4
The Fourth Ray can bring the opposite running straight
to the outer circle energies of the Sixth Ray together and hold
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them in balance long enough for the point in the centre of
the circle to attract their attention. The Second Ray soul of
America channelling the Fourth Ray energy of freedom can
reach through to those on both sides of the political spectrum
and fuse them into a governing body that has as its core
principle not political partisanship but the love of the whole.
During the first part of the twenty-first century the parties were
so evenly balanced that either side could easily have won and
there was a great deal of cooperation evident in the forming
of the various governing entities. Those on both sides of the
political divide who are genuinely motivated by the soul of
their country and the good of humanity actually have more
in common than those who are at war for an ideal. In the
Fourth Ray process this is revealed.
Now I want to point out a third battle that really
synthesises the other twothis one is even more subtle and
has both Sixth and Fourth Ray elements, but is primarily
a Fourth Ray issue and has the First Ray at its back. It is
the issue of global governance and the United Nations. On
the one hand there is the view that the United Nations as
the only real international governing body we have currently
produced, should be the decision maker when it comes to
issues of global war and peace. This view would have it that
the United States was wrong to act independently in the war
in Iraq and should have submitted its national will to the
will of the planetary body. On the other hand, there is the
view that the UN is fatally flawed due to the admittance of
totalitarian powers into the Security Council and therefore
impotent to act when it is patently obvious that things
need to be done on the planet. According to this view, the
taking of independent action is the moral responsibility of
the individual. Of course there are shadows on both sides
as well as obvious truth.
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This battle in my view is a higher one because it involves
the Leo/Aquarius individual/group dynamic. On the one hand
divinity can only fully express itself within the individual, and
on the other hand the imperatives of the whole must override
the self-serving personality assertions of the individual. Of course
anyone who has been intimately involved in group process
knows that it is not Leo versus Aquarius but the combined
and healthy expressions of both energies that expresses the
nature of the soul. The irony here is that the United States is
an Aquarian soul, and the UN could be said to have certain
Leonine characteristics.
This last battle is a major global issue and is bringing
up very important debate all over the world. How do we
balance the demands of individual national sovereignty
with international law and respect for different cultural and
evolutionary imperatives? How do we have a whole (all the
nations of the world) that is also differentiated in expression
and development? How do we give up our attachment to our
ideal of peace after the war to end all wars; and reconcile
ourselves to living with and managing necessary conflicts in
order to reveal the true peace of Shamballa?
If we looked behind this battle I think we would find
Shamballa at workfashioning in the third centre, Humanity,
a polished jewel that will eventually be able to channel First
Ray power. It is obvious that the United Nations as it stands
cannot do this. It is equally obvious that the United States
cannot and should not be allowed to run the world with its
policies and agendas.
The Aquarian soul of America is bringing to light through
this conflict a very real deficiency in the current operation
of global power and international law. We have a toothless,
flawed, talk-aholic as the current incarnation of a planetary
parliament. It will not do. AND we must remember that this
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entity is only in its fiftiesa tiny time span for the unfoldment
of the First Aspect in humanity. It was a positive development,
however flawed it may be. The lessons can be learned and it
can be restructured or done away with and replaced with a
more effective form.
I propose that the events of the current planetary crisis
involving war and international law are effects of this primary
Shamballic intent. In giving humanity the power to make
definitive choices what is also being revealed is the imminent
need for a planetary body within humanity through which
to make such choices, and precipitating a crisis that will help
generate it.
The United Nations is a Fourth Ray organisation, and
by the time Hierarchy externalises and the Fourth Ray comes
into expression in 2025 it (or a replacement body) must be
in place to direct the energies within the throat chakra of the
planetary being.
Therefore the injunction to esoterically strengthen the
UN does not necessarily mean exoterically supporting it.
Indeed, the inflow of First Ray energies into any form will
often result in its destruction to make way for a more suitable
form, or it will purify the form of flaws so that it can handle
increased LIFE.
In summary, I would say that there is always a temptation

to direct attention to the loudest demand, and esotericists are
trying to develop the capacity to respond to the subtle forces
at play behind outer events.
My proposition is that the real issue on the planet
demanding our attention is NOT the war on terror or the
war in Iraq. Nor is it the presidential election in the United
Statesrelatively important as these outer happenings are.
The real game is the precipitation of a Fourth Ray crisis
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within humanity as a whole in the attempt to reveal at the
point of greatest tension the cream of humanitythose
initiates who will eventually form the jewel in the third
planetary centrethe fusion point between Humanity and
Hierarchy capable of more effectively channelling the Will
of God on Earth. This revelation will be coincident with
the formation or restructuring of a United Nations type
body.
If the proposition is correct, then as members of the
New Group of World Servers one way we can play our part
is by becoming conscious of this aim and helping collectively
to focus this First Ray energy of Will and Purpose into the
three worlds in the direction it is so willed.
1. Bruce Lyon, Mercury, White Stone Publishing, NZ, 2003.

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Uranus & Gaia
All cultures seem to have some version of creation myth

that involves the separation of heaven and earth and the coming
into being of an intermediary world of light or consciousness.
The Greek myth has had its most profound effect upon the
Western mind and civilisation. HPB calls it the exoteric version
of The Secret Doctrine. We can tell it is the exoteric version right
away when we hear in the traditional version of Hesiod that
Uranus was Gaias son. Right here we have materialism at its
seedmatter gives birth to spirit. The esoteric version is the
reversespirit gives birth to matter and Gaia is the child of
Uranus who synthesises the entire cosmic physical plane. From
a Hierarchical perspective the reality is a fusion of both. Spirit
is matter and matter is spirit and so we have in the Orphic
mysteries the version where Uranus and Gaia spring together
out of Nightor the void. This is the first fallone that
creates a duality. We can think of the seventh cosmic plane as
a circle, and at its central point the human Hierarchy on the
buddhic plane.
Uranus
Gaia
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The human being is therefore both the parent of this
duality (from the cosmic buddhic plane) and the child (on
the buddhic or fourth plane of the cosmic physical). In this
latter sense we are Mercurythe son of God and messenger
between heaven and earth.
The second fall involves the duality of Saturn and
Venus. Saturn is the son of Uranus and Gaia. He castrates
his father and replaces him as the patriarchal figure, marrying
his sister Rhea. Saturn and Rhea then have offspring of
their own.
Sphere of
Uranus/Gaia

Sphere of
Saturn/Rhea
Venus
From the severed genitals of Uranus, out of the foam

of the sea, comes Venus. This is the second fall resulting
in the Fifth Hierarchy, bestowing human beings with self-
consciousness at individualisation. Saturn and Venusthe
personality and the soularise together, and in their struggle
with each other they create the best and worst of what we call
civilisationan out-picturing of human consciousness on Earth.
In his positive aspects Saturn creates a safe container for the
nurturing of the soul and for the growth of those structures
of consciousness which will serve spirit. In his negative aspects
he is the controlling patriarchy, restricting and suppressing in
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particular the power of the goddesssexuality. Venus in her
positive aspects bestows appreciation of the finer thingsthe
finest of them all being spirit itself. In her negative aspects she
seeks to undermine all boundaries through desire.
This duality is not however, one of sprit and matter
Mother and Father. It is the duality generated between a
Mothers son (Saturn) and a Fathers daughter (Venus). Saturn
and Venus are brought together and this duality resolved upon
the mountain top of the Third Initiation, and after this time it
is the deeper duality of Uranus and Gaia, or spirit and matter,
with which the initiate deals.
In the great sweep of evolution we can see that the second
fall is necessarywithout self-consciousness humanity cannot
fulfil its role as a spiritually creative agent. That self-consciousness
is developed in the nursery, but at a certain point of time that
nursery becomes a confining prison and self-consciousness must
become Self-consciousness. The universal Self must absorb back
the individual self. The son of God (Mercury) and the son of
mind (Venus) must marry and know their parents (Uranus and
Gaia), and further know and identify with that Self who stands
behind the whole triplicity of FatherMotherChild.
The struggle between Uranus and Saturn is primarily
waged on the atmic plane. Saturn attempts to keep the
potency of Uranus out of the lower five worlds until
consciousness and civilisation are developed enough to take
the seed of the Father, and Uranus is continually trying to
break through into the minds of men and reveal himself.
The discovery of the seventh planet from the Sun and the
naming of it Uranus began a period in human civilisation
where the potency of this heavenly power began to increase.
This has begun a great revolution and renaissance of human
civilisation which is ongoing. Symbolically it also coincided
with the beginning of the outlawing of castration in modern
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societya practice which goes back at least 6,500 years.
Castrationin animals and then in manwas used as a
civilising influence. A eunuch was one who can be trusted
to watch over the inner household and they became great
bureaucrats (we can see the hand of Saturn at work here).
Ironically the castrati (boys castrated before puberty) were
prized in the Church choirs for having voices that could call
unto the heavenly sphere.
Prior to the First Degree, Uranian energy has the effect
of stimulating the sacral centre towards desire of form. This
does not only express itself through sexuality.
Freedom from attachment is brought about as the fires
of desire are overcome, and though the sacral centre is
depicted as having specific relation to the sex nature,
yet that sex nature (as it expresses itself on the physical
plane) is symbolic of any attachment between the soul
and any object of desire other than the spirit.1
We also know that the sacral centre of Humanity is the
centre that is used by the materialistic forces2 and that four
major problems will be solved in the next 200 years:
Territorial possession
Sex
Death
The Middle East.3
All are related to ancient fear, and we are given the following
meditative formula with which to work:
In the sacral centre lie the ancient racial fears and deep-
seated personal desires. Ponder not upon the sacral centre,
for that would bring these ancient inheritances to the
surface, but let your work be related to the creative throat
centre. Then perform the following exercise:
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1. Sound the OM within the throat centre, as the soul
focussed in the ajna centre.
2. See (with the creative imagination) the throat centre as a
radiant, vibrant, brilliant reservoir and know it to be so.
3. Then send forth from that centre a broad and
vital stream of energy, down the spine to the sacral
centre in the spine, preserving the stream intact in
your consciousness so that no part of it is deflected
to the physical counterparts of the sacral centre, the
gonads.
4. Then see the sacral centre (in the spine) as a radiant
reservoir of energy, but as energy deflected from physical
creative activity to the destruction of ancient racial fears
in the world. Then project that energy out into the world
of men, to aid in the destruction of fear.
5. Next, reaffirming your consciousness positively in
the ajna centre, withdraw your attention from the
sacral centre and the throat centre and sound the
OMas the directing discipleseven times, slowly
and inaudibly.4
If we apply this formula to the planet as a whole we would
have the following:
1. Sound the OM as the soul in the ajna centre (Hierarchy in
the NGWS), in the throat centre (Humanity), visualising the
creation of a reservoir of vital Life.
2. Send forth this stream of Life to the sacral centre (materi-
alistic forces) taking care that it is deflected from expression
on the physical plane. See then the sacral centre as a radiant
reservoir of energy streaming out into the world to aid in the
destruction of fear.
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3. Then reaffirming focus in ajna (NGWS), sound the OM
seven times (one for each plane of the cosmic physical).
This would be an Aquarian meditationgroups
working with groups. Third Degree initiates are those who
have conquered death and are in conscious touch with
the Life principle. Uranus rules their crown chakra and
they have lifted and sacredised their own lower nature.
Standing together as part of the NGWS or ajna centre of
Humanity, they are able to generate a reservoir of that Life
and transmit that vital fearless energy to that centre where
desire, distorted by fear, prevails. They can do this because
they are in touch with Light Supernala seven-fold light
which is the synthesis of the planes (and chakras)with
the soul (7 = 5 = 12).
Saturn is unable to seal the door but can merely
attempt to control and limit the activity of the materialistic
forces. We can see this in Iraq, and in another sense we
can see it in the attempts to regulate business and sexuality.
Saturn can limit behaviour but it does not get to the root
of the problem. The best a Saturnian civilisation can do is
balance the selfish desires of the individual with the needs of
society as a whole. At best an uneasy truce prevails. Venus
cannot seal the door. Love, with all its power to uplift and
call to the best in the human soul, is not enough. There
are forces resistant to this power. What is required is the
revelation and affirmation of our true parentage and our
essential divinity.
Gradually, behind the scenes but becoming more visible,
are the players in the original duality. Gaia is making her
presence felt and humanity is suddenly becoming aware that
there will be consequences to its unbridled desire. Uranus,
through Hierarchy and recently directly through Shamballic
impact, is beginning to make its presence felt. Like two poles
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of a great defibrillator this primary duality generates the electric
charge to kick start the Heart of the systemthe human
soulinto Life more abundant.
Uranus, Hierophant of the Mysteries, resolves the
tensionnot by balancing the desires of the individual and
the needs of the whole (as does Saturn through Libra), but by
revealing to the individual that he IS the whole. The individual
and universalLeo and Aquariusare brought together by
Uranus who rules them both (the highest and lowest) from
the hierarchical level.
The same process that involves the transmission of
Life in the individual or within the planetary life, also takes
place cosmically. Our Solar Logos has yet to take the Third
cosmic Initiation, and so a more developed Logos (the Logos
of Sirius) played the part of energy transmitter when the last
phase of anchoring the mysteries on Earth was enacted. Just
as the individual soul needs a Christ, so our Solar Logos has
his cosmic Christ who is in touch with his Father or monadic
originthe galactic centre. We might illustrate the anchoring of
the Sirian mysteries on Earth via Uranus as the first pictograph
below. The second shows the remaining phase that corresponds
to building the higher aspect of the dual antahkarana. We might
expect our Solar Logos to make his own direct alignment with
the galactic centre in this next phase, and its registration in
the consciousness of Humanity as a centre in his body seems
to be a critical part of that process.
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Galactic
Centre
Sirius
Gemini Sun
Earth

Phase 1 Phase 2
The Anchoring of the Mysteries
The Third planetary Initiation is the First solar Initiation.

The Third solar Initiation is the First Sirian Initiation and,
as we might expect, the Third Sirian is the First galactic or
cosmic Initiation. In this way the great empowerment of the
cosmic Life force is transmitted throughout the consciousness
of the galaxy, and each initiate forms part of the transmission
of that Life.
What we call the solarisation of a planet or the Return
of the Christ or the Externalisation of the Hierarchy is
a single process that is spread throughout time, space and
consciousness. The anchoring of the soul on Earth begins to
take hold in the First Degree initiate and is consummated in
the Third Degree initiate. Humanity as a whole is undergoing
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the First Degree and so the planetary sacral centre is being
raised to the throat centre as the Christ returns.
First Degree, Third Degree and Fifth Degree initiates all
experience different consciousness and roles in this process. For
higher initiates, at the same time as the process we call the
return of the Christ is taking place, a paralleling process we
might call the return of the Father or more accurately the
return of the Father/Mother is occurring. Of course nothing is
really returning as nothing ever leftit is human consciousness
that is doing the re-turning and so experiences the appearance
and disappearance of certain ever present realities. Yes, it is true
at a level that Venus is the soul of Earth, and yes it is true
at a level that the Earth scheme is synthesised by Saturn. At
another level however, we will experience Earth as the bride
and Uranus the heavenly bridegroom, and at that wedding
feast the water will be turned to the wine of communion that
the Aquarian Age promises.
An Aquarian version of the Lords Prayer might be more
like the following:
Our Father/Mother who art everywhere and when
Hallowed be all names
Thy kingdom is ever present
Our Will is being done
On this Earth as part of Heaven
Let us realise in consciousness
What we experience in Life
DIVINITY IS
1. Bailey, The Light of the Soul, p.85.

3. Bailey, The Destiny of the Nations, p.34.
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Introduction to Working with the Will................................ 1

This series of teachings is designed to assist in the

What is Meant By The Will?

Alignment with the Will & Resting in Being

The Mantram of Life

The mineral kingdom is governed astrologically by Taurus,

In Taurus the non-dual becomes the dual (or jewel) and

Now another duality appears to the human soul released

The summit of this reversed ascent is Aquarius and it is

The jewel is a six-pointed star with the buddhic plane

Uranus - The Synthesiser

Pluto - 1st Ray Personality

Earth - 1st Ray Monad

Vulcan - 1st Ray Soul

The Solar Will Diamond

The Fifth Hierarchy (or Eighth) is trying to free

1. Alice A Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, vol.1, Lucis Trust Publishing

Let me begin with a few orientating statements.

In Taurus we discovered that it was the pervasion of

1. Isa Upanishad, transl. Swami Nikhilananda, Ramakrishna-

The secret of the Mutable Cross concerns itself with

The Light of the soul between the dark light of

1. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p.315.

The Spirit, beyond manifested Nature, is the fiery

The Central Spiritual Sun is spoken of in the esoteric

1. Helena P Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, II, p.115.

Virgo symbolises depths, darkness, quiet and warmth;

We have been examining the signs of the zodiac as they

There is to be found in the very bowels of the earth, an

This group achievement... marks the point where there

A fourth great rent still remains to be made as a result

As part of our meditative work on the equinox we can

1. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p.260.

The energy of Libra opens us into relationship with

It seems redundant to speak of monadic relationship

1. Bailey, The Rays and the Initiations, p.128.

The truth would seem to be that, at a certain point in

Scorpio and Taurus are the astrological duality that

We might say that the experience of the soul or

...the goal of our system during manifestation is initiation

In order to move into the fourth dimension we must

1. The Bhagavad Gita, transl. Charles Johnston, Flushing, New York,

After the victory achieved in Scorpio, the disciple

The Fourth Quality

Global Governance and Making Demand

1. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p.333.

The initiatory energies of Life that were impulsed in

The Secret Doctrine has ever taught that mankind has a

Combined and reflected they create a similar word

The above symbol, an expansion of the synthetic SAT

1. Alice A Bailey, The Destiny of the Nations, Lucis Trust Publishing

There is one aspect of initiation which is apt to be

This series of teachings are designed to assist in the

After the processes of initiation in Capricorn the

Resistors can be arranged in series or in parallel.

When resistors are in series the overall resistance in

There is a divine darkness which is the essence of