SHAMBALLA

There are Three Great Streams of Energy Working Powerfully to Protect, Preserve and Uphold the Earth’s and Solar System’s Evolutionary Cycles.  They will continue to be Ratified and Authorized, so as to determine the trend of World affairs:

The First and the most Powerful Force is that are pouring into the World from Shamballa, the Planetary Centre where the Will of God is Known.  Only thrice in our Planetary history has this Shamballa Energy made its Presence felt directly.  The first time, when the Great human crisis occurred at the individualization of mankind in ancient Lemuria.  The second time, in Atlantean days in the Great struggle between the Lords of Light and the Lords of Material Form, also called the Dark Forces.  The Third time began at the turn of this century, the year 2000.

Actual Update to Djwhal Khul’s Writings from His book Rays and Initiations first Printed in 1960, since the year 2000 mentioned above.

In the year 2011 Work began upon this God Plan by a number of Humanity – The Supplementary Seven as Conscious Activity to Work in Alignment with Shamballa and Their Great Streams of Energetic Forces.  Albeit, not fully cognizant at the time.  Yet, this Body of Work known as the ‘Elemental Grace Alliance Council’ was Inaugurated and Ratified with the Karmic Board of Directors where Dispensations and Grants to become God Authorities and to Accept the Full Responsibilities to Anchor such Shamballa Impulses and to Govern and Administer to the Preparations for such Powerful Forces all in Accordance with Cosmic Laws.

On the 17th September 2020, by the Formations of New Circles of Light, through the Full Integration of the Spiritual Triad, that is, Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity, where this Force began instantaneously, to Amplify and Magnetized to the maximum that Cosmic Law will allow, unto Itself and through the Earth and Humanity, out from the Holy Centre of Shamballa, and Its Origins from the Great Central Sun (Alcyone) or the Sun behind Our Solar Sun.   

The Key Factor herein is that what DK speaks of in the following passages has nothing to do with Humanity as part of the Spiritual Triad.  The Actual Work is engaged by Shamballa, Humanity the Supplementary Seven are only intermediaries that through Teir Higher Communication Skills established the Permissions for such Actions to be undertaken.  The Humanity the Supplementary Seven as simply the Voice of the Whole of the Human Race upon Planet Earth, whose ‘Silent Voices’ have been heard by God and only Activated once a Minimum number of Genuine Prayers and Calls for help were received.  That exact number is not known, but evidence of these Shamballa Forces, now passing through the Planet would indicate that the number was 144,000 or more, whereby 144 is a encodement Trigger to Activate the changes to raise the Mass Consciousness of the Whole of Humanity.  It comes down to the ‘Law of Resonance’ and Vibrational Frequences.

It embodies the Will-Aspect of the present World crisis, and its two subsidiary effects or qualities are:

• The destruction of that which is undesirable and hindering in the present World forms, (in government, religion and society). 
• The Synthesizing Force which binds together that which has hitherto been separated.  The Shamballa Force is so new and so unrecognized that it is hard for Humanity to know it for what it is – the demonstration of the beneficent Will of God in New and Potent Livingness. 

The Second Major Force which is potently making itself felt today (DK is referring here to the Work done by a number of Known Groups working directly with Shamballa and Hierarchy in and around the early 1930’s, to the 1950’s), is that of the Spiritual Hierarchy, the Planetary Centre where the Love of God holds sway, as it swings into one of its major cyclic approaches to the Earth. The problem before the Hierarchy at this time is so to Direct and Control all five of the Powerful Energies that the Divine Plan can materialize, and the close of this century in 2000 and the Beginning of the Aquarian Age, also Known as the 7th Golden Age, where the Purpose of God for Humanity shall Assume Right Direction and Proportion.

Humanity itself is the Third Major Planetary Centre, through which one of the Three Divine Aspects, Intelligence, is Expressing Itself, producing its World effects.  These Three Centres are closely interrelated and must be thought of as Expressions of Divine Livingness, as Embodying Three Stages in the Unfoldment of God’s Plan, and as Constituting the Three Major Centres – Head, Heart, and Throat – in the Body of the One in Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being.

PLAN OF GOD

The Whole Cosmos is guided, controlled and animated by an almost endless series of Hierarchies of Sentient Beings, each having a Mission to Perform.  Among these the Hierarchy of Human Monads has a place.   The Purpose of God is that which implements the Plan.  This purpose is the motivating life behind all that emanates from Shamballa, and it is that which impulses all the activities of the Hierarchy.  The task of the Hierarchy is to Formulate the Plan for all Forms of Life in the Three Worlds and the Four Kingdoms in Nature.  This Plan, in time and space, is not in any way concerned with individual man or woman within the Life of any microcosmic entity in any of the Kingdoms of Nature.  Rather, with the Whole, the Cycles of time, with those Vast Plans of Livingness which mankind’s history, with nations and races, with World religions and Great political ideologies and with social organizations which produce permanent changes in Types, Constitutions, Planetary Areas and Cyclic Manifestations.  It will therefore be obvious to you that from the standpoint of mankind’s little mind, these Plans are well-nigh impossible to grasp.  From the Standpoint of the Vision of the Initiate who has developed or is developing the wider grasp, and who can See and Think and Vision in terms of the Eternal Now, the Significance is Clear. 

The Monads of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy, the Human Monads, exist in Three Main Groups:

1. The Monads of Will.
2. The Monads of Love.
3. The Monads of Activity.

The Maha Chohan. 

The Officer in Our Planetary Hierarchy Who Presides over the activities carried on in the four minor Rays and their Synthesizing Third Ray.  He or She has to do with Civilization with the intellectual culture of the races, and with Intelligent Energy.  He or She is the Head of all the Adepts. 

Bodhisattva.  The Exponent of Second Ray Force, the Teacher of the Adepts of men and women and of Angels.  This Office was Originally held by the Buddha, but His place was taken (after His Illumination) by the Christ.  The Work of the Bodhisattva is with the religions of the World, and with the Spiritual Essence in mankind. 

The Manu.  The One Who Presides Over the Evolution of the Races.  He or she is the ideal Man or Woman.  He or She has to work with the forms through which Spirit is to be made Manifest.  He or She destroys, and Builds up again.  These Three Individuals Preside Over the Three Departments into which the Hierarchy is divided, and therefore Represent in Their particular ‘Sphere of Influence’ the Three Aspects of Divine Manifestation.   It is a Fundamental Universal Law in this Solar System, and therefore in Our Planetary Life Experience, that the Substance through which Divinity (in time and space) Expresses Itself is karmatically conditioned.  It is impregnated by those qualities and aspects which are the product of earlier manifestations of that Being in Whom We Live, Breathe and Move and Have Our Being.  This is the basic fact lying behind the Expression of that Trinity or Triad of Aspects with which all the World religions have made us familiar. 

This Trinity is as follows:

The Father-Aspect – This is the Underlying Plan of God. 

The Will-Aspect – The essential Cause of Being. 

Purpose – Life Purpose, Motivating Evolution.  The Note of Synthetic Sound. 

All Souls are Identical with the Over-Soul.

1. The Logos of the Solar System is the Macrocosm. Men and women are the Microcosm.
2. Soul is an Aspect of every form of life from a Logos to an atom.
3. This Relationship between all Souls and the Over-Soul Constitutes the basis for the scientific belief in Brotherhood. Brother and Sisterhood is a Fact in Nature, not an ideal.
4. The ‘Law of Correspondences’ will explain the details of this relationship. This ‘Law of Correspondences or of Analogy’ is the interpretive ‘Law of the System’, and explains God to Mankind.
5. Just as God is the Macrocosm for all the Kingdoms in Nature, so Mankind is the Macrocosm for all the Sub-human Kingdoms or the Four Lower Kingdoms of the Animals, Plants, Insects and the Mineral Worlds.
6. The Goal for the Evolution of the Atom is self-consciousness as exemplified in the Human Kingdom. The Goal for the Evolution of Mankind is Group Consciousness, as exemplified by a Planetary Logos.  The Goal for the Planetary Logos is God Universal Consciousness, as exemplified by the Solar Logos. 
7. The Solar Logos is the sum-total of all the States of Consciousness within the Solar System.  The Rules whereby the Hierarchy may be reached are already well known to the Aspirants, Disciples and Initiates of the World.  They must become equally well known to the average person in the times to come.  The Objectives of the Hierarchical Work must be emphasized, and the Nature of the Divine Plan unfolded, so that Purpose and Goal, Function and World Service may be Presented to Humanity.  The Synthesis of the Chain of Hierarchical Existences – from the smallest atom of matter up to and including the Lord of Life Himself – Must Be Unfolded.  The Essential and Spiritual Interdependence of all and the Interrelation of every Unit of Divine Life Must Be Proven.  This will eventually Lead to that Established Unity of Effort which will Express Itself in the Merging of the Fourth and the Fifth Kingdoms in Nature, and to the Establishment of that Brother and Sisterhood which will Constitute the Germ or the Seed of the coming Manifestation of the Hierarchy as the Heart of God (directly related to the Heart of the Sun) in physical expression. 

That period of orientation will end when a powerful, Earthly Hierarchy will factually, externally and in reality, hold sway on Earth, working in all the Kingdoms of Nature and thus bringing about (in truth) the expression of the Divine Plan.  This Plan is implemented through the medium of the Senior Members of the Hierarchy, Who invoke the ‘Lights which carry out the Will of God’.  They are themselves invoked by the Light-Bearers, the Masters.  They again, in their turn, are invoked by the Aspirants, Disciples and Initiates of the World.  Thus is the chain of Hierarchy only a life line, along which travel the love and life of God, from him or her to us and from us to him or her.  Every Great World Cycle sees the emergence of Greater beauty, and sees the subtle effects of Mankind’s thinking upon the Subhuman Kingdoms in Nature steadily bringing the unknown to the surface, altering the nature of the flora and the fauna of the Planet, and preparing the way for that time of wonder when the Hierarchy will again be Exoterically directing the Plan upon the Earth and aiding Mankind to work with a fuller understanding of the Divine Design. 

Through dedicated and devoted service, it brings the Divine Plan into activity in the Three Worlds of human accomplishment.  It is therefore related to the second aspect of the Spiritual Triad and is brought into functioning activity through meditation.  The intuition is a blend of the two Divine Qualities of Buddhi-Manas, or intuitive Spiritual understanding (involving interpretation and identification) and the Higher Abstract Mind, which is essentially the power to comprehend that which is not concrete or tangible, but which is, in reality, an innate recognition of the lower aspects of the Divine Plan as it must affect life in the Three Worlds.  Humanity, being still primarily self-conscious and self-centred, regards this Plan as the Divine Plan for Mankind, but, as the seed Groups grow and develop – the narrowness of this partial view will become increasingly apparent. 

God’s Plan is All-Embracing, and His or Her Purposes are inclusive of all forms of life and their relationships.  The Members of the Hierarchy are seen to be the Custodians of the Divine Plan and expressions of the Love of God.  The Beauty of this Synthesis and the wonder of This opportunity are surely apparent as we study what is here written and consider these aspects of the Divine Plan.  Great forces, under potent Spiritual Leadership, are standing ready to precipitate themselves into this human World of chaos, confusion, aspiration and bewilderment.  Something new, yet planned for from the very depth of time, happened in the quiet garden of Gethsemane. 

Christ, Representing Mankind, anchored or established the father’s will on Earth and made it possible for Intelligent Humanity to carry it out.  That will had been known in the Father’s House.  It had been recognized and adapted to World need by the Spiritual Hierarchy, working under the Christ, and thus took shape as the Divine Plan.  Today, because of what Christ did in his or her moment of crisis hundreds of years ago, Humanity can add its efforts to the working out of that plan.  The Will-To-Good of the father’s house can become the goodwill of the Kingdom of God and be transformed into right human relations by intelligent Humanity.   Thus, the direct line or thread of god’s will reaches now from the highest place to the lowest point and can, in due time, become a Cable of Ascension for the Sons of Men and Women and of Descent for the Loving, Living Spirit of God. 

You see, that all that I can do in these abstruse matters is to indicate what you can do, as an individual, to fit yourself to grasp Divine Purpose, and thus see the Divine Design and Patterns as they are in Reality.  Once you have taken the needed steps and complied with the requirements, the mystery disappears.  The masses want love in daily living, right human relations, and an Understanding of the Underlying Plan.  I would ask all Aspirants, Disciples and Initiates to ponder upon the destructive Purpose of God – a Purpose which is Motivated by Love, Guided by a Balanced Judgment as to form, and which Cherishes and Fosters the Life and Its Resultant Spiritual Values. 

EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY

This Teaching should tend to bring about a reaction in favour of a System of Philosophy which will link both Spirit and Matter, and demonstrate the essential unity of the scientific and religious idea.  The two are at present somewhat divorced, and we are only just beginning to grope our Intellectual Way out of the depths of a materialistic interpretation.  It must not be forgotten, however, that under the ‘Law of Action and Reaction’, the long period of materialistic thought has been a necessary one for Humanity, because the mysticism of the Middle Ages had led us too far in the opposite direction.  We are now tending to a more balanced view, and it is hoped that this treatise may form part of the Process through which equilibrium is attained. 

Foreword

Humanity is that Evolution through which the Son and Daughter Aspect is to express Itself most Perfectly in This Cosmic Incarnation.  Man and woman blends the pairs of opposites, and the ‘Three Fires’ meet in him or her.  He or she is the best expression of the ‘Manasic Principle’ and might be considered, from one very interesting standpoint, the Chef-d’oeuvre of Brahma.  He or she is the sheath for the life of God.  He or she is the individualized consciousness of the Logos, manifesting through the Seven Divine Manasaputras, or Heavenly Men and women, in whose bodies each unit of the Human Family finds place.  He or she is the Vishnu Aspect in Process of development through the Intelligence of Brahma, impelled by the Will of Mahadeva.  Therefore, in a peculiar sense man is very important, as he or she is the place of at-one-ment for all the Three Aspects.

The goal set before Humanity is that of becoming Masters of the Wisdom, or conscious units in the Body of Wisdom or Love.  This a man achieves when he or she can function consciously in the Buddhic vehicle, or when the Astral permanent atom is superseded by the Buddhic permanent atom.  Each of the Kingdoms of Nature is the expression of a Life or Being.  Man, for instance, being the expression of one or other of the Heavenly Men and women.  The subtotal of Humanity (the Fourth Hierarchy) being found, with the Deva Evolution, as the Centres of the Solar Logos. 

Present When it is recognized that the ‘giving-for’ involves right living upon the physical plane and not (as is so often thought) the dying of the physical Body then we shall see a revitalized World.  It is the living Christ (the living World Saviour) who saves Humanity.  It is the sacrifice, day by day, in the Process of daily living which can save the World of men and women – the sacrifice of selfish personal interests for the good of the Whole and the giving up of one’s practical life to the salvage of the World.  It is living in order that others too may live which is the theme of the New Testament.  When, therefore, the mode of sacrifice enters into the realm of the subtler and subjective values and the true meaning of forgiveness is intellectually, practically and Spiritually comprehended, the New Age will be abundantly realized with its truly Human Civilization and a culture which will embody the realities of the Esoteric teaching, as well as the best of the externalized past.  Then and only then will the New Esotericism be revealed to a race of men and women who have made aspiration a fact in their outer experience.  The attitude of the masses in the present conflict is the guarantee of this and the proof also of the success of Christ’s Mission. 

This is a transition period between the passing out of the Piscean Age, with its emphasis upon authority and belief, and the coming in of the Aquarian Age, with its emphasis upon individual understanding and direct knowledge.  The activity of these forces, characteristic of the two signs, produces in the atoms of the human body a corresponding activity.  We are on the verge of new knowledge and the atoms of the Body are being tuned up for reception.  Those atoms which are predominantly Piscean are beginning to slow down their activity and to be ‘occultly withdrawn’, as it is called, or Abstracted, whilst those which are responsive to the New Age tendencies are, in their turn, being stimulated and their vibratory activity increased.  The World WAR I marked a climax in the History of Mankind, and its subjective effect was far more potent than has hitherto been grasped.  Through the power of prolonged sound, carried forward as a Great experiment on the battlefields all over the World during a period of four years (1914-1918), and through the intense emotional strain of the entire Planetary populace, the web of etheric matter (called the ‘veil of the temple’) which separates the physical and Astral planes was rent or torn asunder, and the amazing Process of unifying the two Worlds of physical plane living and of Astral plane experience was begun and is now slowly going on. 

It will be obvious, therefore, that this must bring about vast changes and alterations in the Human Consciousness.  Whilst it will usher in the age of understanding, of Brother and Sisterhood and of Illumination, it will also bring about states of reaction and the letting loose of psychic forces which today menace the uncontrolled and ignorant, and warrant the sounding of a note of warning and of caution.  An other factor is as follows: It has been known for a long time by the mystics of all the World Religions and by Esoteric Students everywhere, that certain Members of the Planetary Hierarchy are approaching closer to the Earth at this time.  By this I want you to infer that the thought, or the mental attention, of the Christ and of certain of his or her Great Disciples, the Masters of the Wisdom, is directed or focussed at this time on human affairs, and that some of them are also preparing to break their long silence and may appear later among men and women.

All true Spiritual Thinkers and workers are much concerned at this time about the growth of crime on every hand, by the display of the lower psychic powers, by the apparent deterioration of the physical Body, as shown in the spread of disease, and by the extraordinary increase in insanity, neurotic conditions and mental unbalance.  All this is the result of the tearing of the Planetary Web, and at the same time it is a part of the Evolutionary Plan and the providing of the Opportunity whereby Humanity may take its next step forward.

I earlier told you that, as the race achieves increasingly a mental polarization through the developing attractive power of the Mental Principle, the use of language for the conveying of thoughts between equals or of communicating with superiors will fall into disuse.  It will continue to be used in reaching the masses and those not functioning on the plane of mind.  Already Voiceless Prayer and Aspiration and Worship are deemed of higher value than the Pleadings and Proclamations of Voiced Expression.  It is for this stage in the unfoldment of the race for which preparation must be made, and the Laws, techniques and Processes of Telepathic Communication must be made plain so that they can be intelligently and theoretically understood.

Let me recapitulate a few of the things which have been undertaken in our joint work so that you can clearly see the background of our coming effort and grasp the work as a Whole.  The first activity was the writing and distribution of the Occult Teachings through the medium of the Books which Alice A.  Bailey has assisted me to write.  These will serve (when the war is over) to lead Humanity forward and nearer to the time when present day Occultism will be the theme of World Education in some modified form.  The books which have been published can be stated – without any conceit – to have no competitors, and these, rightly distributed, will serve a useful part in carrying the consciousness of man and woman to Higher Levels and in making clear the Divine Plan for Mankind.  In them also the task immediately ahead at the close of the war is clearly indicated.

The fact of the existence of the New Group of World Servers was brought to the attention of the general public, and on quite a large scale.  This Group is composed of Aspirants, Disciples and Initiates, and is intermediate between the Spiritual Hierarchy and the intelligent public.  Its Members are to be found in every country, are unorganized except by their Spiritual Relation to the Hierarchy and to each other, and through their effort in every field of Human Consciousness to lead Humanity into a more Spiritual Way of Living.  They aim to foster the growth of right human relations through goodwill, and this work is still going on.  The effort to utilize the power of sound and of thought combined was undertaken through the use of the two Great Invocations which you have – as a Group – distributed throughout the World.  Great World Prayers have been used for Ages. 

Men and women have been driven by desire and Spiritual Aspiration to Pray, and have recognized the Power of the Divine Response.  The Art of Invocation has been, however, relatively unknown, especially in the West.  It employs the dynamic will and the focussed mind, and is intended to evoke response from the Forces which will condition the New World, which can come into being at the close of this war.  A focussed will or intention, a convinced mind, a dedicated desire and a planned activity are essential to success.  The forming of triangles of light and goodwill, so that an inner network of people, pledged to goodwill, to the use of the Power of Invocation and to the Growth of Understanding throughout the World can be created; and a beginning has already been made.  This is a potent and workable mode of procedure, once it is given an opportunity to spread. 

The Inauguration of an effort towards definite Group Work.  This must be Group Work of a New Order; wherein individual activity is subordinated to the Group Objective and the decisions of the Group in conclave.  It is not work carried forward through the imposition of someone will upon a Group of weaker wills.  The individual and his or her mode of working are not regarded as of importance in the Group Consciousness, because it is the will of the Group – untidily dedicated to a specific objective – which is the point of major importance.  This is a new procedure and something to which you can apply yourselves.  In this Group which I have now formed, opportunity will arise to demonstrate the practicality of this new ideal in Service Methods. 

Learn to know and trust each other, leaving each other free to work and plan within the Group Plan.  Develop the experience of love in your individual lives and in your Group relation.  Meet regularly for discussion, planning and United Meditation – using the same meditation in this Group as I have asked you to follow individually.  Subordinate your own wishes and ideas to the Group decision.  Let this be uniquely a Group effort.  Press forward with the Triangle Work in every possible way and in every country open safely to contact.

The Work of Reconstruction will be the work of the intelligent men and women of goodwill, and theirs will be the task to restore new life and happiness to Humanity, and it is for them I write.  Please bear this in mind.  I am not writing for technical experts and trained advisors to the government, but to those who have goodwill in their hearts to all men and women, and who, because of it, want to do their share in bringing tranquillity and peace to the World – a peace based on surer values than in the past and upon sounder planning.  In the last analysis, it is not peace for which the men and women of goodwill are working, but for the Growth of the Spirit of Understanding and Cooperation.  This alone will be strong enough to break down racial barriers, heal the wounds of war, and build a New World Structure adequate to the intelligent demands of the masses.

Christ said when He or she was on Earth two thousand years ago: ‘I came not to bring peace, but a sword’. The ‘Sword of the Spirit’ is wielded by the Hierarchy, and by its means Cosmic Evil is arrested.  The sword of Discrimination is wielded by the Initiates and the Disciples of the World, and by its means the distinction between good and evil, with a consequent presentation of free choice between the two, has been laid before Humanity, and the lines of demarcation have been made abundantly clear in this World war.  It had been the hope of the Christ and the longing of all the Masters that men and women would see clearly and make free and right choice, so that – without physical plane warfare – they would bring about the needed changes and the ending of wrong conditions.

At the stage which we are now passing through, these responsive people fall into Three categories: The visionary dreamer or the well-intentioned but impractical person whose ideas and World plans and suggestions as to the new World order litter the desks of World leaders and of those Groups and organizations who are attempting practically to blueprint the future.  Their dreams and ideas deal with projects for which the World of today is not ready and will not be ready for several thousand years.  It is an easy thing for them to present impossible Utopias which have not the faintest relation to things which are needed today, and which could be made possible.  The name of these people is legion, and at this time they constitute a definite hindrance.

A vision of the impossible is not the type of vision which will keep the people from perishing.  Because of an inability to compromise and to face up to things as they are, these people and those whom they influence are landed in despair and disillusionment.  The intelligent people of the World who are actuated by the ‘Spirit of Goodwill’ and by the conviction that things must be changed.  They are often staggered by the magnitude of the task to be undertaken, and This frequently leads them to take one of Three positions:

1. They fall into the depths of pessimism. It is a pessimism based on a real ability to sense the scope of the problem and to assess the resources available.  This may land them in non-activity. 
2. They may leave the settling of the problem to the trained statesmen, diplomats and politicians, standing ready to help when – but only when – decision has been made. This leads to a shifting of responsibility.  Yet, because the war involved the people of all lands and masses of population, so must the reconstruction of the World.
3. They may assume responsibility, ventilate the abuses which must be put right, discuss proposed plans and, from their particular angle of vision, set to work to bring about, to the best of their ability, right human relations. This attitude of responsibility and consequent activity may lead to mistakes, but in the aggregate of the endeavour it will meet the demand for right action in an emergency – this time a World emergency.  Those partisan and nationally minded persons who will attempt to exploit the World situation for their own immediate ends and for the benefiting of their particular Nation or Group.  These people, and they are found in every nation, are selfishly motivated.  They do not care for Humanity as a Whole and have no liking or interest in anything or anyone but their political party and the reactionary interests of some national Group. 

They see in the present World situation a grand opportunity to engineer moves which will benefit an individual, a class or a nation.  In doing This, they frequently have a wide grasp of affairs and are keen politicians, but all they know is to be used and so implemented that it attains their narrow ends, no matter at what cost to the rest of the World.  These people are usually a large majority.  Their attitude leads inevitably to trouble and hinders the Work of Restoration.  It handicaps those who are seeking to establish the entire Human Family in a sounder way of life than heretofore, and to give a saner and wiser motivation to international relationships.

The Hierarchy is at this time exceedingly Powerful.  Its Ashrams are full of Initiates and Disciples, and its periphery or magnetic field is drawing countless thousands of Aspirants towards it.  The war struck a mortal blow to material evil, and its hold on Humanity is Greatly weakened.  Confound not evil with the activities of the gangster or the criminal.  Criminals and gangsters are the result of the emerging massed imperfections.  They are the victims of ignorance, mishandling when children and misunderstanding down the ages of right human relations.  The ‘Law of Rebirth’ will eventually lead them on the way to good.  Those men and women are truly evil who seek to enforce a return to the bad old ways, who endeavour to keep their fellowmen in slavery of some kind or another, who block the expression of one or all of the Four Freedoms, who gain material riches at the expense of the exploited, or who seek to hold for themselves and for gain the produce of the Earth, and thus make the cost of life’s necessities prohibitive to those not richly endowed. 

Those who thus work, think and plan are to be found in every nation, and are usually of prominence because of their riches and influence.  However, they sin against light and not through ignorance; their goals are material and not Spiritual.  They are relatively few compared to the countless millions of men and women, but are exceedingly powerful.  They are highly intelligent but unscrupulous, and it is through them that the Forces of Evil work, holding back progress, promoting poverty, breeding hatred and class distinctions, fostering racial differences for their own ends, and keeping ignorance in power.  Their sin is Great, and it is hard for them to change, because power and the will-to-power (as it militates against the Will-To-Good) is a dominant all-controlling factor in their lives.

The Forces of Enlightenment. 

A realization of the need of Humanity, and a careful appraisal of that which must be done to meet that need, have awakened the men and women of goodwill to responsiveness to the ‘Forces of Restoration’.  This has led to an insistent demand that the second phase of the Hierarchical work be set in motion.  This phase is directed towards those activities and the development of that Invocative Spirit which will bring the Forces of Enlightenment into contact with Humanity and lead to activity on their part.  These forces can function fully and until 1949 hold sway over the minds of men and women, if the people of the World can be organized to stand with massed intent behind that type of statesmanship which is seeking the Greatest good of the Greatest number, which sees the World as one Great interdependent Whole.

Before, however, they could do anything, our present civilization had to die.  During the coming Century, meaning of the Resurrection will be unfolded and then Age will reveal its True Significance.  The first step will the emergence of Humanity from the death of its civilization of its old ideas and modes of living, the relinquishing its materialistic goals and its damning selfishness, and moving into the ‘Clear Light of the Resurrection Life’.  I am not here speaking in symbolical or mystical terms.  I’m dealing with facts – facts as real and as imminent as coming Cycle of Conferences.

The fact of the Resurrection will be demonstrated during the next few centuries, and the Living Christ will walk among men and women and lead them onward towards the Mount of Ascension.  The Pentecost will become truth.  All men and women will come under the tide of inspiration from on high, and though they may speak with many tongues, they will all understand each other.  What I have to say to you, I intend to divide into two parts: The Work of the Christ today ‘The Coming Work of Reconstruction’. These two convey the same basic ideas and thus complement each other.  They proclaim the fact that all that truly concerns us is that which takes place upon Earth in line with the ‘blueprints’ which guide the work of the Christ.  (When I use the phrase ‘concerns us’ I refer to man’s physical, emotional and mental reactions).

They proclaim the fact that every state of consciousness is anchored within Humanity and that all are factual here and now, did men and women but know it.  They proclaim also the Truth that Christ has never left us for a distant heaven of nebulous outlines, but that he or she is ever within our reach.  They proclaim also the fact that his or her interest, his or her arduous labours on our behalf and the activities of his or her working Disciples, the Masters of the Wisdom and the Lords of Compassion, are with us, here and now.  They proclaim that we are not alone, but that the ‘Forces of Light and of Enlightenment’ are constantly working.  That the strength and the wisdom of those who know are being mobilized to aid Mankind, and that nothing can now arrest or prevent the contact between that intelligent aspiring Centre, called Humanity, and the Inner Spiritual Group, the Hierarchy.

Forget not one important point.  The Hierarchy itself is the result of Human Activity and Aspiration.  It has been created by Humanity.  Its members are Human Beings who have lived, suffered, achieved, failed, attained success, endured death and passed through the experience of Resurrection.   All ‘States of Consciousness’ are known to them, and they have mastered all of them.  They have mastered them as men and women, thus guaranteeing to Humanity the same ultimate achievement.  We are apt to look upon the members of the Hierarchy as different radically from Humanity, forgetting that the Hierarchy is a community of successful men and women, who earlier submitted themselves to the purificatory fires of daily living, working out their own salvation as men and women of affairs, as business men and women, as husbands and wives, farmers and rulers and that they know life, therefore, in all its phases and gradation.  They have surmounted the experiences of life.  Their Great Master is the Christ. 

They have passed through the Initiations of the New Birth, the Baptism, the Transfiguration, the Final Crucifixion and the Resurrection.  But they still are men and women and differ from the Christ only in the fact that he or she, the first of our Humanity to attain Divinity, the Eldest in a Great family of brothers (as St. Paul expresses it), the Master of the Masters and the Teacher of angels and of men and women was deemed so pure, so holy and so enlightened that he or she was permitted to embody for us the Great Cosmic Principle of Love.  He or she thus revealed to us, for the first time, the Nature of the Heart of God.  These perfected men and women, therefore, exist.  They are more than men and women because the Divine Spirit in them registers all stages of consciousness and awareness – Sub-human, Human and Super-Human.

April 17,  1945. 

As This World catastrophe draws to its inevitable close and the Forces of Light triumph over the forces of evil, the time of restoration opens up.  For each of you this indicates a renewed time of service and of activity.  I send you herewith the final Stanza of the Great Invocation, as I promised.  I gave you the first about nine years ago and the second during the course of the war.  I would ask you to use it daily and as many times a day as you can remember to do so.  You will thus create a seed thought or a clear-cut Thoughtform which will make the launching of this Invocation among the masses of men and women a successful venture when the right time comes.  That time is not yet.

From the point of Light within the Mind of God let Light stream forth into the minds of men and women.

Let Light descend on Earth.  From the point of Love within the Heart of God let Love stream forth into the hearts of men and women.

May Christ Return to Earth.  From the Centre where the Will of God is known let purpose guide the little wills of men and women.

The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the Centre which we call the Race of Men and women let the Plan of Love and Light work out and may it Seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

It has been difficult to translate into understandable and adequate phrases, the very ancient word-forms which the Christ will employ.  These word-forms are only Seven in number, and they will constitute his or her complete, new utterance.  I have only been able to give their general significance.  Nothing else was possible.

I seek to have this Invocation go forth on the power generated by My Ashram and by all of you affiliated with My Ashram.  The Ashrams of the Master Kuthumi and the Master Morya are likewise deeply committed to participation in this work.

FUTURE OPPORTUNITY – ILLUMINATION – BROTHER SISTERHOOD:

These are the Gifts that Shamballa is Planning to confer upon Mankind during the Aquarian Age, if man will but prepare for them, accept them, and use them.  Only the Future will make clear man’s reaction.

As we look ahead into the World of Tomorrow and begin to question what Structure the Faith of Humanity should assume and what building the skill of the knowers will erect to house the religious spirit of man, Three more fundamental Truths appear to be emerging as necessary adjuncts to the revealed Body of truth:

1. The Demonstrated existence of a Spiritual Hierarchy, the Life-Purpose of which is the Good of Humanity. The Members of the Hierarchy are seen to be the Custodians of the Divine Plan and Expressions of the Love of God. 
2. The Development of the Science of Invocation and Evocation as a means and method of approach to Divinity. This will grow out of the ancient habits of Prayer as used by the masses, and the practice of Meditation as developed by the Mystics and Occultists.  Prayer and Meditation are the preliminary steps to This emerging Science, and what is vaguely called ‘worship’ is the Group effort to establish some form of United approach to the Spiritual Hierarchy, functioning under the guidance and control of the Christ and related to the Highest Spiritual Centre, Shamballa, through its most advanced individuals, just as Humanity is related to the Hierarchy by its Spiritually minded people. 
3. The Realization that the starry heavens, the Solar System and the Planetary Spheres are all of them the manifestations of Great Spiritual Lives and that the interrelation between these embodied Lives is as real and effectual as is the relation between members of the Human Family. The Spiritual Hierarchy of the Planet, the ability of Mankind to contact its Members and to work in cooperation with them, and the existence of the Greater Hierarchy of Spiritual Energies of which our tiny Planetary Sphere is a part – these are the ‘Three Truths’ upon which the coming World religion may be based.  Relationship to God, through Christ, has ever been the teaching of the Spiritual Leaders of the World, no matter by what name they called him or her.  In the future we shall draw closer and more intelligently to the Living Substance of Reality and be more definite in our apprehension of this hitherto vaguely sensed relationship.  We shall know and see and understand.  We shall not just believe, have hope and try to comprehend.  We shall speak openly of the Hierarchy and of its Members and their Work. 

The Hierarchical Nature of all Spiritual Lives, and the fact of the Great ‘Chain of Hierarchies’ stretching all the way up from the Mineral Kingdom through the Human and the Kingdom of God to apparently remote Spiritual Groups, will be emphasized.  Then there will open for the Spiritual Lives what has been called ‘the Way of the Higher Evolution’. Much along these lines has been given out during the past two centuries.  The fact of the existence of the Hierarchy is consciously recognized by hundreds of thousands today, though still denied by the orthodox.

So Great has been the progress of man during the past two hundred years that the Council Chamber at Shamballa was forced to take notice.  As a result of This attention by the Great Lives around Sanat Kumara and their interest in the affairs of men and women, two things happened:

1. The Will-Aspect of Divinity made its definite and direct contact with the human mind. The impact was direct and not deflected – as had hitherto been the case – to the Hierarchy and from thence to Humanity.  According to the type of man and woman or Group who responded or reacted to this contact, so were the results.  They were very good or exceedingly bad.  Great and good men and women appeared and enunciated the Truths needed for the New Age, and of these Lincoln, Roosevelt, Browning, Briand and a host of Lesser men and women could be cited.  Evil and pernicious men and women also emerged, such as Hitler and the Group he gathered around him, bringing much evil upon the Earth. 
2. At the same time, the Will-To-Good from Shamballa evoked the latent Goodwill in man, so that today and increasingly over the past one hundred years, goodness of heart, kindness in action, consideration for others and mass action to promote Human Welfare have spread over the Earth.

Now, as the Shamballa Force is beginning to pour into the World, man and woman is seeking another interpretation of God’s Will which will not involve the hitherto blind acquiescence and unavoidable acceptance of the inscrutable dictates of a potent, inescapable Providence, but which will produce an understanding cooperation with the Divine Plan and an enlightened fusion of the Individual Will with the Great Divine Will, and this for the Greater good of the Whole.  For this desirable attitude there is Worldwide preparation going forward in a simple and unobtrusive manner through the gradual fomentation of the Will-to-Good everywhere and the demand, so Universally Voiced, that human conditions may be more truly enlightened, more acutely polarized for the Benefit of the Whole and more definitely subordinated to the innate Divine urge for beauty, Synthesis and the free expression of the hidden mystery which is to be found at the heart of all forms. 

It is going forward also through the constant attempt to comprehend and interpret the Plan for Humanity, as its broad outlines begin to become apparent to the developing Intelligence of man and woman.  This all indicates a growing responsiveness on manis and woman’s part to the incoming Shamballa Influences and the consequent Evocation of the Will-Aspect of their nature.  This must produce undesirable as well as desirable results on account of their present Point of Evolution and is, therefore, responsible for much that is taking place in the World today.  The trembling response of Humanity (through the medium of the most enlightened and sensitive people in each country) to This influence and the corresponding magnetic interplay between the Great Centre at Shamballa and the Human Centre is a steadily growing fact, registered and noted by the watching Hierarchy and making certain major changes inevitable and unavoidable.  This argues well for the Future in spite of temporary misuse of the forces.  Necessarily and simultaneously, this interplay evokes response from the unprepared and the unready and from the wrongly oriented and the selfishly polarized person.

In This Transition Period through which the World is now passing and in this interlude between two activities – that of the Piscean Age which is passing and that of Aquarius which is coming in – Libra will eventually rule, and the end of this Century will see the influence of Libra steadily coming into pronounced control and into a position of Power in the Planetary Horoscope.  There is, therefore, no need for real anxiety.  A certain relationship or configuration of stars – of which one is the Star Regulus, in Leo – will bring about a situation wherein the re-orientation of the attitude of the legal profession will take place.  Its functions and duties will be centralized for the purpose of World usefulness, and in this Process Legislation for Children will assume Great importance and be the Motivating Power.   

Before 2035 A.D.  such Legislation will be Universal in its Sphere of Influence and Control.  The entire Social World of Thought will apply itself to the understanding of the emotional nature of Humanity, to the Group relationships involved, and to the interaction between individuals and other individuals, between Groups and other Groups.  These relationships will be interpreted wisely and broadly, and a man or woman will be taught his or her responsibility to the Lesser lives which he or she Ensouls.  This will produce a just direction of individual force, and its utilization for the stabilization, the development, and the refining of the substance of the different vehicles.  Men and women will also be taught their definite responsibility under Law to their own individual families. 

 This will bring about the protection of the family unit, and its scientific development.  It will cause the elimination of marital troubles, and the abolition of abuses of different kinds, so prevalent now in many family circles.  Responsibility to the community in which a man or woman is placed will likewise be emphasized.  Men and women will be taught the True Esoteric meaning of Citizenship – a Citizenship based upon Egoic, Group Relations, the ‘Law of Rebirth’, and the real meaning of the ‘Law of Karma’.  They will be taught national responsibility, and the place of the community within the Nation, and of the nation within the comity of nations (an Association of Nations for their mutual benefit).  Men and women will finally be taught their responsibility to the Animal Kingdom.

Men and women, as a Whole, are undergoing Evolutionary Development in order that they may become conscious creators in matter.  This involves: A Realization of the Archetypal Plan, an Understanding of the Laws Governing the Building of Processes of Nature; a conscious Process of Willing Creation, so that mankind together Co-Operate with the Ideal, Works under Cosmic Law, and produces that which is in line with the Planetary Plan, and which tends to further the best interests of the race; a comprehension as to the Nature of Energy, and an ability to Direct Energy Currents, to disintegrate (or withdraw Energy from) all forms in the Three Worlds; an Appreciation of the Nature of the Devas, Their Constitution and Place as Lesser and Greater Builders of Form, and of the Words and Sounds whereby they are directed and controlled.  It involves likewise the ability to negate or render futile all impulses arising from the lower self which are of a centralized and purely personal aspect, and the faculty of working in Group form, each thought being sent upon the definite mission of adding its quota of Energy and matter to someone stream which is specific and known.  This last is of importance, for no worker for Humanity becomes of Real Assistance until he or she (consciously and with full knowledge of his or her work) definitely directs his or her Thought Energy towards some particular channel of Service to the Race.

It must be borne in mind that humanity now upon this Planet, fall naturally into two Great Groups – those who reached Individualization, or became ‘units of self-directing Energy’, upon the Moon, and those who attained self-consciousness upon the Earth.  There are important distinctions between these two Groups, for the units of the Moon Chain are distinguished, not only by a more Advanced Development, owing to the longer period of their Evolution, but also by the quality of Great and Intelligent Activity, for (as might be expected) on the Third or Moon Chain, the Third Ray was a dominant factor.  In this Fourth Chain, the quaternary dominates, or the Synthesis of the Three so as to produce a Fourth, and this is one reason for the intensely material nature of those who entered the Human Kingdom on this Planet.  The distinctions between the two Groups are very Great, and one of the mysteries lying behind the main divisions of Humanity – rulers and the ruled, capitalists and labourers, the governed and those who govern – is found right here.  No System of Sociological reform will be successfully worked out without a due consideration of this important fact.

In the coming Aquarian Age, we shall see Humanity producing a Culture which is sensitive to the Finer and Higher Spiritual Values, a Civilization which is free from glamour and from much of the illusion which today colours the Aryan Peoples.  The Humanity will be free from what we now know as disease of the worst kind, though death and certain forms of bodily breakdown which may eventually end in death will, of course, still be prevalent.  The overcoming of death is not contingent upon the elimination of bodily ills, but upon the establishing of that continuity of consciousness which carries over from the physical plane of life to the inner subjective existence.

The steadiness of Those Who Know God’s Plan will help Humanity and aid the efforts of the Elder Brothers.  They are those Who Love and do not hate and Who Work for Unity – both Subjective and Spiritual.

I would have you all remember that Mankind has marched steadily forward from a state of blind ignorance and unawareness to one of an intelligent preoccupation with life and a growing Sense of Responsibility.  This Sense of Responsibility, which is Awakening in all of you, is – on its present large scale – relatively new and is one of the factors definitely increasing the distress and pain you are all feeling.  You ask yourselves, where, as a Race, have we failed and what can we do to rectify our mistakes?  In spite of everything, however, men and women have gone from stage to stage of intelligent and Spiritual unfoldment and no matter what the outer happenings have been or may be, the Race has made Real Progress.  There has been no turning back, and there will be none.  Mankind has weathered many storms and survived many difficulties.  Men and women have emerged from periods of crisis better and stronger, purified ‘so as by fire’ and definitely nearer the Goal.  I would remind you also of the Integrity and Solidarity of the Human Family.  We Are One people – One in Our Relationships, and Capacities and Desires, Our Origin and Our Goal.  It is this essential and recognizable Integrity which is emerging at this time powerfully in the Human Consciousness.

If you truly believe that the Spiritual Life is fundamental in the World today, if you do believe that Divinity Guides the World, if you truly grasp the fact that all men and women are your Brothers and Sisters and that we are all the Children of the One Father and One Mother, and if you are convinced that the Heart of Humanity is Sound – are these not adequately potent ideas to hold us joyously steady in the midst of a changing World?  Will you, therefore, carry with you the following ideas?

• The Purpose ahead for the Human Family upon the Path of Light is the Way of the Sun.
• Transcendence means the innate capacity to pass beyond so-called Natural Law.

This surmounting of limitation is ever taking place and this Process of Transcendence will call forth increasing recognition.  It marks the next Major Phase in the manifestation of Divinity in man.  It signifies domination over physical Law and Humanity’s imminent triumph over the forces which have for so long held him or her to Earth.  The response or reaction of Humanity to the Divine Messenger establishes in due time the recognition of something transcendent, something to be desired and striven for, something which indicates a Vision which is first a possibility and later an achievement.  This is the historically proven Process and testifies eventually to a fact.

Just as in the case of individual man or woman there comes a point in his or her life experience when the Angel of the Presence is Sensed, Known, Seen and Recognized as the Revealer of Divinity, so in the History of the Race of men and women, the same Great Illumination may come.  Revelation confronts the Aspirant.  Revelation confronts Humanity.  God is known within the human heart.  God is Known by Mankind.  This recognition of Divinity in its varying aspects is naturally a progressive one – each stage and each life bringing its own Revelation of the Beauty of Divinity and the Glory of Light more truly and clearly before the Disciple.

It might be noted here that Three Great Discoveries are imminent and during the next two Generations will Revolutionize modern thought and life.  One is already sensed and is the subject of experiment and investigation, the releasing of the Energy of the Atom.  This will completely change the economic and political situation in the World, for the latter is largely dependent upon the former.  Our Mechanical Civilization will be simplified, and an era ushered in which will be free from the incubus of money (its possession and its non-possession), and the Human Family will recognize Universally its status as a Bridging Kingdom between the Three lower Kingdoms of Nature and the Fifth or Spiritual Kingdom.  There will be time and Freedom for a Soul Culture which will supersede our modern methods of Education, and the significance of Soul Powers and the Development of the Superhuman Consciousness will engross the Attention of Educators and Students everywhere. 

A second discovery will grow out of the present investigations as to Light and Colour.  The effect of colour on people, animals and units in the Vegetable Kingdom will be studied, and the result of those studies will be the development of Etheric Vision or the power to see the next grade of matter with the strictly physical eye.  Increasingly will people think and talk in terms of Light, and the effect of the coming developments in this department of human thought will be triple.

1. People will possess Etheric Vision.
2. The Vital or Etheric Body, lying as the Inner Structure of the outer forms, will be Seen and Noted and Studied in all Kingdoms of Nature.
3. This will break down all barriers of Race and all distinctions of colour. The Essential Brother Sisterhood of mankind will be established.  We shall see each other and all forms of Divine Manifestation as Light Units of varying degrees of brightness and shall talk and think increasingly in terms of Electricity, of voltage, of Intensity and of Power.  The age and status of men and women, in regard to the Ladder of Evolution, will be noted and become objectively apparent, the ‘Relative Capacities of Old Souls’, and ‘Young Souls’ will be recognized, thereby re-establishing on Earth the Rule of the Enlightened.  Note here, that these Developments will be the work of the Scientists of the next two Generations and the result of their efforts.  Their work with the Atom of Substance, and their investigations in the realm of Electricity, of light and of power, must inevitably demonstrate the relation between forms, which is another term for Brother and Sisterhood, and the Fact of the Soul, the Inner Light and Radiance of all forms.  The Third Development, which will be the last probably to take place, will be more strictly in the realm of what the Occultists call Magic. 

It will grow out of the study of sound and the effect of sound and will put into man’s and woman’s bands a tremendous instrument in the World of Creation.  Through the use of Sound, the Scientist of the future will bring about his or her results; through sound, a new field of discovery will open up.  The Sound which every form in all Kingdoms of Nature gives forth will be studied and known and changes will be brought about, and new forms developed through its Medium.  One hint only may I give here and that is, that the release of Energy in the Atom is linked to This new coming Science of Sound.  The significance of what has happened in the World during the last Century in the realm of sound is not appreciated yet nor understood. 

Terrific effects are however being produced by the unbelievably increased noise and sound emanating from the Planet at this time.  The roar of machinery, the rumble of the transportation mechanisms in all parts of the World – trains, vessels and airplanes – the focusing of the sounds of men and women in such congested areas as the Great Cities, and, at this time, the universal use of the radio bringing musical sounds into every home and into street life are producing effects upon the bodies of men and women and upon all forms of life everywhere which will become apparent only as time elapses.  Some forms of life in the Animal Kingdom, but primarily in the Vegetable Kingdom, will disappear and the response of the human mechanism to this World of sound, uproar and music in which it will increasingly find itself will be most interesting. 

These Three Developments will usher in the New Age, will produce in this transition period the needed changes, and will inaugurate a new era wherein Brother and Sisterhood will be the Keynote, for it will be a demonstrated fact in Nature.  It will be an Age wherein men and women will walk in the Light, for it will be a World of recognized Inner Radiance, wherein the work of the World will be carried forward through the Medium of Sound, and eventually through the use of Words of Power and the work of the trained magician.  These trained workers in substance, Understanding the Nature of Matter, seeing always in terms of Light and Comprehending the Purpose of sound will bring about those structural changes and those Material Transformations which will establish a Civilization adequate for the work of the coming Race. 

This work will be that of the conscious Unification of the Soul and its vehicle of manifestation.  Those cultural methods also which will take the undeveloped of the race and carry them forward to a better manifestation, and a truer expression of themselves will be established and This it is the privilege of the coming generation of Scientific investigators to bring about.  The outstanding characteristic, however, of the coming cycle will be an outgrowth of Psychology.  It will be the emergence of a new factor from the standpoint of the modern Psychologist of the Materialistic School and will involve the Recognition of the Soul.  Hospitals and Schools will appear under the direct guidance of the Masters.  Teachers who can heal will come forth, and others will appear who will train the minds of the pupils to be responsive to direct inspiration from above.  The faculty of the Intuition must be developed scientifically.

THE SUPPLEMENTARY SEVEN

Rule VIII.  For Applicants:

When the Disciple nears the Portal, the Greater Seven must awaken and bring forth response from the Lesser Seven upon the double circle.  For Disciples and Initiates: Let the Group find within itself response to the Greater Seven Groups which carry out the Hierarchical will with love and understanding.  The Group contains all Seven, the Perfect Group.  The Lesser Seven, the Greater Seven and the Planetary Seven form One Great Whole, and these the Group must know.  When This is realised and the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’ is understood let the Group understand the Three and then the ONE. 

This they can do with the United Breath and the Unified Rhythm.  On the surface, this rules appears to be one of surprising complexity and immense difficulty.  It deals with so many Groups and septenates and This seems to complicate understanding considerably.  Yet every person in the World is dealing with the multiplicity of units and combinations of forces which make up his or her entire daily life and which create his or her environment and his or her life circumstances.  Life would be simple indeed if the average man had only Seven factors to consider, with which to conform, to work with and to use.  Advance into the World of Spiritual values and into the realm of triadal existence (in which the Initiate moves) is definitely an advance into simplicity.  It is an advance from the complications of the multiplication table and its resultant arithmetic into the simplicity of the symbolic formulas as used in the higher mathematics; it is a moving out of the World of kaleidoscopic figures in constant movement, into the World of meaning; it is a Process of getting behind the World of effects into the World of causes, realising that one simple cause or directed movement of Energy can set in motion a myriad of effects. 

The way of the Initiate is not a complicated one, once he or she has grasped the fact that he or she must release him or herself from the World of seeming and of illusion and stand free in the World of light, where all stand clearly revealed.  Then he or she can begin to face the lessons and take the training which will enable him or her to handle Energy, having released him or herself from the control of forces, and begin to direct Energy in conformity with the Great Plan.  The complexity lies in the thinking of the neophyte.  The Initiate knows it not.  First let us clearly define the various septenates referred to in This rule.  I will first tabulate them in the order of their appearance and define them, and then I will enlarge upon them in order to point out where the training enters in, where the rule applies, and how the embodied rule is in the nature of a Law which the Initiate may not evade.  I would ask you here to refer to what I earlier said anent rules, Laws and orders when starting with you This particular study. 

1. The Seven Greater Groups…The Seven Groups or Ashrams within the Hierarchy.

 THE HIERARCHY

These carry out the Hierarchical Will, which is Love.  They Work through Love and Understanding.  Each is Presided Over by a Chohan, and a Group is called an Ashram.  These major Ashrams have many Affiliated Ashrams, Presided Over by a Master on the same Ray as the Chohan, and are capable at any moment of being absorbed into the Primary Ashram.  The Perfect or Complete Group is the Hierarchy Itself, containing all the Seven Major Ashrams and Their Affiliates. 

1. The Planetary Seven Groups; the Seven Rays, the Central Septenate of Energy. 

SHAMBALLA

These Embody the will of Shamballa, which is Divine Purpose.  They work as life Energy, as quality, and produce appearance.  Each is presided over by one of the Seven Spirits before the Throne; by one of the Seven Ray Lords.  Each of these Rays has its Seven sub-Rays which relate it to all the other Rays.  These Seven Rays can, under Divine purpose, be re-absorbed into the Three and then into the One. 

1. The Lesser Seven; the Seven types of men and women and also the Seven root races. 

HUMANITY These Embody the Intelligence of the Logos as it expresses itself through creativity.  They are learning to work intelligently with matter in order to develop love in response to Divine purpose, which is will or life.  Each of the Seven types, responsive to one or other of the Seven Rays, is conditioned or ruled by its prototype, the Soul on its own plane.  These major types or races of men and women have many subraces and subsidiary types, developed during the Evolutionary Process; all will eventually demonstrate the Seven major types.  The perfect type is the Christ, the Heavenly Man, Who expresses all the major types and Who is the ‘pattern of things as they are’.

1. The Supplementary Seven…the Seven Centres of Energy in the Individual man and woman.

HUMANITY – The Supplementary Seven

These together Embody the combined Forces of the Planetary Life as registered by the Perfected Individual.  They will eventually enable the man and woman to achieve Perfection.  They Enable the individual to respond to material forces, to Soul Energy and Spiritual Life, and they Constitute a Complete Response apparatus to the Planetary Life, Purpose, Intent and Form.  Each of the Seven Centres is Responsive to One or Other of the Seven Rays and Their Qualities under the Conditioning Energy of the Soul Ray and the Forces, Emanating from the environment.  These Centres Develop progressively and under the impact of circumstances and the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’, but all will eventually express in some measure the Seven types of Ray Energy. 

The Law of the Supplementary Seven  

The ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’ can be worded as follows: The Law demands the entrance of that which can effect a change.  The Law demands that Right Direction should then guide the entering forces.  The Law demands that the changes thus effected remove the form, bring quality to light and lay the emphasis upon life.  The Law demands that This is brought about by the One, working through the Three, energising the Seven and creating the straight line from there to here, and ending in a point which ignores the Three’. When, the Rule goes on, This is understood and applied, then four things happen:

1. The Group must understand the Nature of the Three.
2. The Nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended.
3. The Group must work through the medium of the United Breath.
4. The Group must attain a Unified Rhythm. Here you have a relatively simple analysis (on the face of it, though not in reality) of a complex rule which the Initiate has to apply to him or herself once he or she has grasped the significance of the Seven basic postulates.  The First Seven Rules provide the framework within which his or her work has to be done.  The last Seven Rules concern various significant matters which, step by step, are revealed to the Initiate as his or her consciousness is expanded.

They relate to:

1. The work which the Initiate must accomplish within him or herself.
2. The Group relations of the Initiate and his or her absolute need to work with his or her Group and as an integrated and conscious part of it.
3. The place which Invocation and Evocation must take as Instruments in his or her Pledged Intelligent Service.
4. The blending of the Four Lessons which the Applicant has to Master and the Four Lessons which the Initiate has to complete in order that a complete Fusion of personality and Monad can be brought about.
5. The significance of Resurrection and Ascension, particularly the latter, because little has been given out to date anent Ascension. There are certain major frameworks (if I may continue to use this phrase) within which the Initiate has to learn consciously to work, recognising them for what they are; once he or she has learnt to master that which lies within some particular framework, he or she finds that it is only a part, a small fraction, of a still Greater Whole, within which he or she must also learn to function and play his or her part. 

First, he or she, as a Disciple, has to learn to work within the framework of his or her blending Soul-personality.  This task at first takes the form of character building and disciplining (whilst upon the Probationary Path), of a struggle to see, of an endeavour to make a continuity of his or her Soul contact.  Finally, this leads to the beginning of the Stage of Soul and personality merging and at this point he or she steps upon the Path of Discipleship technically understood.  From then on, his or her problem is to know him or herself as he or she truly is, to direct Energy to the needed Centres which are awaiting scientific attention, to superintend consciously the fitting of him or herself, as a personality, to act as the Instrument of the Soul and later of the Hierarchy, to learn to Contact Energy, to Handle and Direct it.  This entails a comprehension of the mechanism within him or herself, the Seven Centres within the Vital and Energetic Body, through which the Contacted Energy must Flow under Soul Direction, and it also means the Perfecting of the Response Apparatus and the Newly Constructed Spiritual Mechanism which Exoterically enables him or her to contact the outside World, and Esoterically Enables him or her to Contact the World of Souls.

It implies a steady Process of interior Perfecting until nothing further remains to be done within that individual framework.  The bulk of this work has been covered by the time the Fourth Initiation has been taken, and has been completely covered when the Fifth Initiation is undergone.  This all takes much time, but when a certain measure of success has been achieved, when the Initiate’s Understanding is somewhat Enlightened, and his or her Energy-use and his or her Power of Direction are becoming Intelligently Applied, he or she can then begin to Work within the framework of the Greater Seven Groups, that is, within the Hierarchy.  This he or she does first upon the periphery of the Hierarchical Aura and later as a Conscious, Accepted and Pledged Worker in some Ashram, the Ashram Being Dependent upon his or her or their combined Ray Type. 

He or she or they, then is in a position to discover the close interlocking that exists between the Supplementary Seven (his or her own or their Combined United Forcefield, the Seven Centres) and the Seven Great Groups Within the Hierarchy; Each one, individually and or together comes to Self-Realise that only when his or her or their Combined Ashramic Centres are somewhat awakened and attuned is it possible to work within the larger framework of the Hierarchy, and this because the Quality of the Greater Groups and the Life Expression of the Seven Planetary Groups, the Seven Rays, are being slowly developed by the Higher Disciples and Initiates who are under the Influence of Hierarchical Supervision through the medium of their own Seven Centres, the Supplementary Seven.  Thus, from a new angle which is practical and not simply theoretical, it begins to dawn on him or her that he or she is an Inalienable Part of a Group Whole, and that this Incontrovertible fact involves Greater Responsibilities and Duties than those of the general populace.  He or she discovers that his or her major Responsibility, Spiritually speaking, is to permit no hindrance, on the part of the Supplementary Seven, to the free flow of Universal Love from the Greater Seven, and later the free flow of Life (Inspired by Purpose) from the Planetary Seven.  He or she knows now that all form a Great Interlocking Directorate through which the Will of God Is Working Out. 

He or she now knows him or herself to be a minute part of that Great interlocking Whole, a responsible conscious atom within its periphery.  Then as he or she goes on and learns to submit to the Law of the Supplementary Seven, he or she finds that from the Life Angle and through his or her own conscious direction, gradually developed, all the Potencies of Divinity are his or her to use, once he or she can be trusted, as the advanced Initiate can ever be trusted.  He or she is then set free for complete cooperation with the purpose lying behind the Plan.  He or she has passed out of the human kingdom into the Hierarchy; later he or she will pass out of the Hierarchical Group into Shamballa, or out of our Planetary life altogether, and either here or there will begin a Greater and more extended service.  Coming down to the immediate practical issues, the Initiate is confronted with the problem of work within the individual framework, for I am not here dealing with the requirements for the Initiations above or beyond the Third. 

Here the Initiate has reached the point where he or she grasps the significant fact that the way into the Innermost Centre is most Securely Guarded; no one can pass onward and take those more advanced steps which admit into the Higher Worlds of Being and of Unparalleled Potency until he or she has Demonstrated within the Framework of his or her own life a Definite Control of Energy (and this the black adept also possesses), Purity of Motive (which the black adept can likewise have, if by purity of motive you mean single-hearted and one-pointed intent), deep Love of Humanity (which the black adept never has), Selflessness, Willingness to Follow the Light wherever it may lead, ability to begin Work within the larger Framework the moment such an attempt becomes possible, Clear Vision and Spiritual Insight, a Developed Intuition, and an Undeviating Intention and Strong Faith in the Future.  When these Qualities begin to show themselves; it then becomes possible to Admit the Initiate to further Advancement upon the Way.  It is believed to be safe for him or her now to move on a few more steps into Greater Light, and then, having reached his or her next point of testing, he or she must there again Demonstrate the Rightness of his or her Work within the individual framework and his or her ability to Work within the Greater Framework in Group or Ashramic Formation. 

He or she must Appreciate the Fact that as he or she passes upon the Upward Way, he or she may not safely so do without the Safeguards which Protect the Way from him or her until he or she knows more; he or she must learn also that the Group Protects him or her and that only with the Group can he or she Proceed with Security; he or she begins to realise that the Group is not only a Protection but also his or her Chosen and Destined Field of Service.  He or she begins to learn with his or her Group the meaning of the ‘United Breath’ referred to in the Rule, and also to work with the Group in ‘Unified Rhythm’. Thus, he or she goes from strength to strength.  All the time the Hierarchy is aiding in his or her Development and at the same time Protecting the Way from him or her until such time as glamour cannot reach him or her.  This Individual Security of his or her is only reached between the time of taking the Second Initiation and the Third.  Prior to that, he or she is still regarded as a potential hazard and as unstable.  After that, he or she may suffer from illusion, but there is then no fear of his or her permanently turning back and reaching the left-hand path and so perhaps, in rare cases, finding his or her way into the Black Lodge.  The major liability of the average Initiate is sloth or lack of speed.  Ponder on that.  I would have you grasp clearly the highly condensed presentation I have given you.  Some of it you know already but it is the Synthetic Presentation which I would have you Appreciate and Appropriate. 

We can then take up the work to be done within the individual framework by the Initiate; I will endeavour to help you to understand somewhat more clearly what the Initiate-Consciousness would read into the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’.  Beginning with this Eighth Rule which we are now studying, we enter upon the consideration of certain major unfoldments, major Spiritual Happenings and a Series of Major Awakenings in Consciousness which are in the nature of events.  These involve likewise certain Major Recognitions and Appreciations which will affect the Initiate increasingly and bring about his or her eventual attainment.  These are the factors which condition the date of his or her achievement and not the character undertakings and the Soul Contacts which are so necessary upon the Path of Probation and upon the Path of Discipleship.  We are Principally concerned at this point with the interpretation of the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’. 

It must be remembered that the ‘Laws of Nature’ are imposed upon the mass of men and women, and cannot be avoided.  If these Laws are broken, infringed or evaded, they carry their own penalty within themselves, and this also cannot be avoided.  These Great Protective Laws are intended to Guard the Personalities through which the Soul Incarnates and eventually to cement and further all the Great and possible relationships.  The man and woman passes from the stage of antagonism (as an individual) to the control of these Natural, though Divine Laws, to a Recognition of their Inevitability and of their Wisdom.  They automatically then control him or her.  When this control by the Laws of Nature has become complete, the man and woman becomes an Aspirant and begins to come under the ‘Laws of the Soul’, which are Laws concerned primarily with the establishing of the Great Fellowship of the Universe. 

 There has been much confusion among Esotericists upon these points.  They confuse the discipline to which the personality has to submit when coming under Soul influence, with the ‘Laws of the Soul’ which have naught to do with the petty little affairs of the personality, unimportant and unnoticed by the Soul on its own plane, but with the growing recognition of right Group Relations; these are based upon a growing understanding of the Hierarchical Mode of Work and of Inter-Hierarchical Relationships.  The ‘Laws of Nature’, therefore, concern the activities of the Soul in form and are mandatory and accepted by the form nature.  The ‘Laws of the Soul’ concern the Life of the Soul upon its own plane, and the relation which the blending Soul and personality learn to establish with other Souls and with the Hierarchy.  These are consciously and voluntarily obeyed, and are not just accepted as Mandatory and as forced upon the man or woman by Force of Circumstances, Experience and Evolution. 

They tend to bring about increasing relation between the Hierarchy of Souls and Humanity as a Whole, between the Great Planetary Centre which is the Custodian of the Principle of Love and the Planetary Centre, Humanity, which nurtures and distributes the Energy of mind.  The ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’ is the Great Synthetic Law of Life or of Spirit and is the Law with which the Initiate Works; it is this Law he or she wields.  From acceptance of the Laws of Nature and Obedience to the Laws of the Soul, he or she passes into the positive phase of Understanding and Wielding the Law of Life.  Because this is a Governing Law for all Initiates, and because we know that the Nature of Life-Energy or of Spirit cannot be grasped until after the Third Initiation, it is exceedingly difficult for me to write in explanation of this Law.  You have not yet the Initiate Consciousness. 

I have therefore had to express this Law in terms of form, whereas the Initiate understands it from its formless angle.  This Law is concerned with the wielding of Energy in the World of the Spiritual Triad and not with the distribution or the Transmission of this Energy to the Three Worlds in which average humanity habitually dwells.  Right wielding of this Law (controlling Energy in the Initiatory World of Causes) automatically brings about Activity, Movement, Force Expression, and Right Distribution of these Forces in the lower Three Worlds.  These are, under the ‘Evolutionary Law’, Direct Reflections of the Three Higher Worlds of the Triadal Light and Life.  Motivation, the use of the eye of vision (turned this time by the Initiate Functioning in the World of Causes upon the Worlds of human living), and the Correct Direction of Force in Co-Operation with the Hierarchical Plan Condition all the Activities of the Initiate Working with this Law. 

Clearer than this I cannot be.  This Law of the Supplementary Seven is concerned with the inflow of Energy from the Seven Planetary Centres to the Seven Groups or Types of men and women, via the Seven Groups within the Hierarchy.  In this Work of Transmission, the Seven Centres of the Initiate are used as Agencies; Their Work, therefore, is not the Interrelated Work of Right Transmission of Energy within the Septenary Constitution of the Etheric Body of the Individual Initiate, implementing his or her Life Expression, but is the Task of Being Responsive to the Seven Types of Planetary Energy which are Received in a Pure State.  It is then Channelled through the Seven Centres in the Initiate’s Etheric Vehicle and Out into the World of men and women as Regenerative and Constructive Forces. 

These Living Spiritual Energies, Transmitted by the Individual Initiate from the Planetary Centres, are handled by him or her under a Great Uniform Plan and are the Means whereby Salvation (to use an old familiar word) can come to the aid of humanity.  this is the ‘Saving Force’ in its various aspects, of which the Great Invocation speaks: ‘The hour of service of the Saving Force has now arrived’.  (The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, page 249.) The High Initiates (Those above the rank of Master) Work with the Energies coming from the Seven Planets of the Solar System at this time active; these feed or implement the Seven Planetary Centres.  But the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’ is Applied by Initiates below the Rank of Master, and they are therefore Working solely with the Seven Centres within the Form of the One in Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being.  One of their first Tasks is to bring about a Free Flow and Right Energy Relations between the Three Major Centres in Our Planet which correspond to the Head, Heart and Throat Centres in man and woman. 

They are occupied with the Circulation of Energy between Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity.  This Circulation, which for the First Time in Planetary History includes the Highest Centre, Shamballa, is not yet completely established.  (Attained on 17^th September 2020) Shamballa has been in touch with the Centre called Humanity by impact several times in the history of the Race.  But there has been no reciprocal action and no free flow.  Humanity has taken the Impact of Energy, and this Impact has wrought changes in the Activity of the Centre, but there has been no ‘responsive return’, as it is Esoterically called, and hence no circulation.  The Shamballa Force has hitherto been Transmitted via the Hierarchy.  For the first time, and in this century, there has been Direct Impact.  The diagram on page 160 may make this clearer.  We shall eventually have a Free Circulation and a Veritable Vortex of Force Set Up between the Three Centres; it will be of such an Increasing Radiatory Activity that, moving in both directions around the Three Centres, it will eventually Contact the Radiations Emanating from the other Four Centres of the Planetary Life, thus completing the Interplay and the Interrelation between all Seven.  These Four include the Three Lower Kingdoms of Nature and a certain basic Centre (corresponding to the Centre at the base of the spine in man and woman) about which nothing is as yet known nor will be known for ages to come. 

Diagram:  The Importance, therefore, of the Centre which we call Humanity will be apparent.  The Secret Doctrine has ever taught that mankind has a special function in saving and regenerating nature.  The ‘Saving Force’, a Circulatory Combination of the Three Major Energies, is 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.  This involves a Great Mystery which is closely tied up, little as you may realise it, with the doctrine of Avatars or of World Saviours.  It is in this connection that the words I gave you previously are pertinent:

1. ‘The Group must understand the nature of the Three’. This will be seen to refer to the Three major Centres and the nature of their relationship, and not specifically to the Trinity.
2. ‘The nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended’. This has reference to the fact that our Planetary Life is Itself a Centre within a still Greater Life, and is today one of the Three Planetary Centres (even if not yet one of the Seven sacred planets) which are the custodians of the force, in Process of Transmission, which will be to the Greater Life what Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity are to Our Planetary Logos.
3. ‘The Group must work through the medium of the united breath’. This deals with the Processes of circulation, for the breath is the life and pours through all the Centres.
4. ‘The Group must attain a Unified rhythm’. This has no reference in reality to the work of a Group of Disciples, but to a Group of Centres of life, such as the Three major Centres or the entire Group of Seven Centres. A study of these ideas may carry illumination, but I would again remind you that I write for Initiates, living at a later period in this century and in the next.  In considering this Law of the Supplementary Seven, I would like to point out that the word ‘Supplementary’ is of real significance.  It brings in a factor of Great interest, from the angle of Initiation.  You must bear in mind that when the antahkarana is constructed and in use, there is consequently, a free play of Energy in a direct line between the Spiritual Triad and the personality; i.e., between the Monad and its ‘earthly anchor’. You will also remember that the Soul Body, the form on the Higher Levels of the Mental Plane which has ‘shrouded’ the Soul, eventually disappears. 

This, as you know, takes place at the Fourth Initiation and is one of the best recognised facts in the occult teaching.  In the Three Worlds, the correspondence to this disappearance of the form of the second Divine Aspect, the Soul, is the dissolution of the Astral Body, the second Aspect of the personality.  Then the personality stands free from its control.  Sensitivity and reaction to Contact in the Three Worlds has been Perfectly Developed, but it no longer holds the Disciple a prisoner.  Then, at a later stage upon the Path of Initiation, the Causal Body also disappears, and the Initiate stands free in the Three Worlds.  The Astral Body and the Causal or Soul Body are, in the Language of Esotericism, Supplementary to Reality. 

They have had a temporary reality during the Evolutionary Process, but (having served their purpose and having endowed man with certain required assets,  consciousness, feeling, sensitivity, the ability to establish and register contact) they pass away, and the Initiate remains, possessed of power over form and a fully awakened consciousness.  He or she is a Soul, and the Fusion is complete.  What is True of the individual is True too of the Heavenly Man and Woman, the Planetary Logos.  In the long period of a World Cycle there comes a time when the Hierarchy Itself, as a Body Organised and Functioning in order to implement certain Evolutionary ends, is no longer needed.  It is then regarded as ‘Supplementary’, and under the Law, Its Life, Its Potency and its Entire Consciousness are absorbed into the Planetary Head Centre, Shamballa.  A Great Process of Abstraction or of withdrawal takes place, covering necessarily a long period of time, and which is consummated only when Evolution, as we know it, comes to an end and the Planetary Life (again as we know it) also comes to an end.  this Process of Abstraction is always going on. 

Men and women become Disciples and then Initiates.  Some stay as Hierarchical Workers, choosing to Work with the Planetary Forces of Evolution.  Others Pass on into the Great Council Chamber of the Lord of the World, and still Others Pass Out of Our Planetary Ring-Pass-Not altogether.  Thus, the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’ is ever in Force.  It functions in the Processes going on in the Seven Centres of the individual man and woman, gathering Energy from one Centre into another until all are Centred, Controlled and Directed in the Head.  In the stage of what the Hindus call ‘Samadhi’ the vital energies from all the Centres are concentrated in the Highest Head Centre in the Etheric Body, in the area just above the physical head.  Thus, the analogy is complete.  The Processes of Abstraction are (as you may thus see) connected with the life aspect, are set in motion by an act of the Spiritual will, and constitute the ‘Resurrection Principle which lies hidden in the Work of the Destroyer’, as an old esoteric saying expresses it.  The lowest manifestation of this Principle is to be seen in the Process of what we call Death, which is in reality a means of Abstracting the Life Principle, informed by Consciousness, from the form or the Bodies in the Three Worlds.  Thus, the Great synthesis emerges, and destruction, death, and dissolution are in reality naught but life Processes.  Abstraction is indicative of Process, progress and development. 

It is this aspect of the Law of Life (or the ‘Law of Synthesis’ as it is called in certain larger connotations) with which the Initiate specifically deals when wielding the ‘Law of the Supplementary Seven’.  The Group Angle of the matter can be seen if you remember that the individual Initiate, when Wielding this Law, draws upon the United Energy of the Will as the Group is expressing it in ‘Unified rhythm’. It is by the use of the ‘United Breath’ of the entire Group (as much of it as his or her individual will can assimilate, focus, use and direct) that he or she augments his or her own will and its directed force.  The Breath, as we well know, is the Life; this Law is the One Wielded by the Living or Risen Christ, in Perfect Harmony with the Will of Shamballa.  Herein lies one of the Mysteries of the Resurrection Initiation about which so little has been told, and it is the very Heart of the Mystery of the Ascension Initiation.  In this latter Initiation the Living Risen Christ withdraws or Abstracts Him or Herself and Enters Consciously and Permanently into the Great Centre, Shamballa.  The Resurrection and the Ascension are the results of the Death or Destruction of the Causal Body.  It can be seen, therefore, how True the Gospel Story is to the Purposes of Shamballa.  Let us now briefly interpret or rather paraphrase the four sentences by means of which I have sought to Embody this Law, or as much of it as it is possible to put into words, for the Enlightenment of the Initiates of the future. 

1. The Law demands the entrance of that which can effect a change. Bearing in mind what I have elsewhere given, it is obvious that that which must find entrance is that vital concentrated will which, when set in motion in an individual, in a Group, in a Nation, in a Kingdom of Nature (a Planetary Centre), and in the Planet as a Whole, i.e., in all the Planetary Centres simultaneously, will cause a stirring, a changed measure, a new movement and momentum, an uprising and a consequent Abstraction.  The changes wrought in the Centres when the death of the physical Body is taking place have never yet been observed or recorded; they are, however, definitely present to the eye of the Initiate and prove most interesting and informative. 

It is the Recognition of the Condition of the Centres which Enables the Initiate to Know, when in Process of Bestowing Healing, whether the physical healing of the Body is permissible or not.  He or she can see whether the Will Principle of Abstraction to which I have been referring is Actively Present or not.  The same Process can be seen taking place in organisations and in civilisations in which the form aspect is being destroyed in order that the life may be Abstracted and later again rebuild for itself a more adequate form.  It is the same under the Great Processes of Initiation, which are not only Processes of Expanding the Consciousness but are rooted in the Death or the Abstraction Process, Leading to Resurrection and Ascension.  That which effects a change is a discharge (to use a totally inadequate phrase) of Directed and Focused Will-Energy.  This is so Magnetic in Quality that it Draws to Itself the Life of the Centres, bringing about the Dissolution of the Form and the Release of the Life.  Death comes to the individual man and woman, in the ordinary sense of the term, when the Will-To-Live in a physical Body goes and the Will-To-Abstract takes its place.  This we call Death.  In cases of death in war, for instance, it is not then a case of the individual will-to-withdraw, but an enforced participation in a Great Group Abstraction.  From its own place, the Soul of the individual man and woman recognises the End of a Cycle of Incarnation and Recalls its Life Force.  This it does through a discharge of the Will-Energy that is strong enough to bring about the change. 

1. The Law demands that Right Direction should then Guide the Entering Forces. The Entering Forces, Working under this Law, are Directed first of all to the Head Centre, from thence to the Ajna Centre and then to that Centre which has been the Governing and most active Centre during the incarnation of the Life Principle.  This varies according to the point reached upon the Ladder of Evolution, and according to the Personality Ray, with later the Soul Ray bringing about a major conditioning and change.  In the Work of the Initiate who is Consciously Wielding this Law, the Principle of Abstraction (when entering the Body) is held focused in the Head and is of such a Magnetic Potency that the Energy of the remaining Centres is rapidly gathered up and withdrawn.  What is True of the Individual Process of Abstracting the Life Principle, under the Law of the Supplementary Seven, is equally True of the Process in all Forms and in all Groups of Forms.  Christ referred to this Work of Abstraction, as regards the Third Great Planetary Centre, Humanity, when He said (and He was speaking as the Representative of the Hierarchy, the second Planetary Centre into which all human beings achieving Initiation are ‘withdrawn’ Esoterically), ‘I, if I be lifted up will draw all men and women unto me’. A different word to this Word of His will be spoken at the end of the age when the Lord of the World will speak from Shamballa, will Abstract the Life Principle from the Hierarchy, and all Life and Consciousness will then be Focused in the Planetary Head Centre, the Great Council Chamber at Shamballa. 
2. The Law demands that the changes thus effected remove the form, bring quality to Light, and lay the emphasis upon Life. Here the Three Great Aspects, Form, Quality and Life, are brought into relation and the point of the Evolutionary Objective is seen in its True Light, LIFE.  Note this phrasing.  Form or Appearance, having served its Purpose, disappears.  Death of the form takes place.  Quality, the Major Divine Attribute Being Developed in this Planet, becomes dominant and is ‘Conscious of Itself‘, as the ancient writings put it.  It is identified and individual but has no implementing form, except that of the Greater Whole in which it finds its place.  Neither form nor quality (Body nor Consciousness) are paramount in the new State of Being, but only the Life Aspect, the Spirit on Its Own Plane, becomes the dominating factor.  Some faint dim light on the significance of this may come if you bear in mind that Our Seven Planes are only the Seven Sub-planes of the Cosmic Physical Plane.  The Process of Developing Sensitivity in this Sevenfold Evolution has been undergone in order to enable the Initiate to function upon the Cosmic Astral Plane, when Withdrawn or Abstracted after the Higher Initiations.  He or she is Abstracted from our Planetary Life altogether.  Only one factor could prevent this, and that might be his or her Pledge to Serve Temporarily within the Planetary Ring-Pass-Not.  Such Members of the Hierarchy Who Pledge Themselves to this Work are stated to have the Buddhic Consciousness, and the line of Their descent (occultly understood) is from the Eternal Pilgrim, the Lord of the World, then the Buddha, and then the Christ.  They remain identified through the free choice with the ‘Quality seen within the Light’, and for the term of Their freely rendered Service They Work with the Consciousness Aspect in order to lay the emphasis later upon the Life Aspect. 
3. The Law demands that this is brought about by the One, working through the Three, Energising the Seven and Creating the Straight Line from there to here, and ending in a point which ignores the Three. Let me paraphrase this, for detailed comment is not possible or permissible.  The One Directed will (of the individual, of humanity, of the Hierarchy) and the Great Lords of Shamballa, working through the Three Major Centres (Head, Heart and Throat; Humanity, the Hierarchy and Shamballa), thereby Energise all the Seven Centres (to the point of Abstraction), using the Straight Line of the Antahkarana from Above downwards (from the Centre of Power, the head or Shamballa), and gather all upwards into a point which is neither of the Three (Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity) and ignores them, for they must no longer limit the Life.  This point lies outside manifestation altogether.  Abstraction is complete.  Ponder, therefore, upon this doctrine of Abstraction.  It covers all Life Processes, and will convey to you the Eternally Lovely Secret of Death, which is Entrance into Life. 

RULE NINE

As we proceed with the study of these Rules the difficulty of interpreting and explaining them becomes increasingly Great.  We have arrived at a section of the rules which requires Initiate-Consciousness for Right and True Comprehension; we are studying ideas for which we have, as yet no adequate language.  Briefly, we have considered certain of the lower aspects of the ‘Laws of Life’ as they appear to the Initiate and are interpreted by him or her within the sphere of his or her normal Consciousness, that of the Spiritual Triad.  The presentation which I gave you had to be confined within the area of Consciousness which we call ‘manasic awareness’, which is that of the Abstract Mind.  Just in so far as that Abstract Mind is developed in you and the Antahkarana tenuously constructed will be your understanding of my words.  The difficulty becomes still Greater as we arrive at the study of Rule IX.  It was of real difficulty when presented in its lower form to applicants.  That Rule, as you may remember, ran as follows: Let the Disciple Merge him or herself within the Circle of the other selves.  Let but one colour blend them, and their Unity Appear.  Only when the Group is Known and Sensed can Energy be wisely emanated.  Three Major Ideas Appear in this easier Rule:

1. The idea of complete Identity with all other selves.
2. The idea of the Uniformity of their Spiritual Presentation to the World when Unity is established.
3. The idea that, as a result of the two above achievements, the Group Force, as a Real and Focused Energy, can then be used. Glibly the neophyte talks of identifying him or herself with others, and eagerly he or she endeavours to ascertain his or her Group and merge with it; yet in so doing the constant concept of duality is ever present, him or herself and all other selves, him or herself and the Group, him or herself and the Group Energy which he or she may now wield.  Yet this is not so in reality.  Where True Identity is achieved, there is no sense of this and that; where the merging is complete, there is no recognition of individual activity within the Group, because the Will of the Merged Soul is Identical with that of the Group and Automatic in its Working; where True Unity is Present, the individual applicant becomes only a channel for the Group Will and Activity, and this with no effort of his or her own but simply as a spontaneous response. 

I have emphasised the above because in the Rule for Disciples and Initiates, this will be found to be still more the case and the results are brought about by a conscious use of the will which is Divine Synthesis in Action; also, the Group referred to is not the Ashram of some particular Master, but that of all Ashrams as they in Their Entirety Reflect the Purpose of Shamballa and Work Out the Plan within the Active Sphere of the Hierarchical Consciousness.  Ashrams of the Masters are to be found on every Level of Consciousness in the Threefold World of the Spiritual Triad.  Some Masters pre-eminently occupy themselves with the Mind Aspect within all forms, and therefore, their Ashrams are conditioned by the Manasic Consciousness; they are the Ashrams of those Initiates who have taken the Fourth Initiation but who are not yet Masters. 

They are largely adepts upon the Third and Fifth Rays, and work with the manas or mind as it is developing in all forms.  They do foundational work of Great importance, but are little understood, and their lives are consequently, lives of Great sacrifice and the term of their service in this particular connection is relatively short.  Certain aspects of their developed consciousness have to be kept in abeyance and must remain temporarily unexpressed in order to permit them to work with substance and specifically with the consciousness of the atoms which constitute the forms in all the subhuman kingdoms of nature.  They do very little work with humanity, except with certain advanced members of humanity who are on the scientific line, drawing to their Ashrams only those who are on the Third and Fifth Rays and who can continue with the work, being trained along peculiar and special lines.  The Ashrams of the Masters (to be found on all the Rays) Who work in particular with humanity, are mostly to be found upon the Buddhic Levels of the Triadal Consciousness. 

There, the note of ‘loving understanding’ predominates, but even these words must be interpreted Esoterically and not according to their usual and obvious meaning.  It is not a case of ‘I understand because I love’, or that ‘this’, with love, understands ‘that’. It is something far deeper, involving the idea of Identification, of Participation, and of Synthetic Realisation, lovely euphonious words, but meaning little to the non-Initiates.  On Atmic Levels, the Levels of the Spiritual Will, are to be found the Ashrams of those Masters Who are Interpreting the Will of Shamballa and to Whom is Committed the task of Transmitting the Purpose and Organising the Plans whereby that Purpose can be Fulfilled. 

As on Manasic Levels the Ashrams as a Whole are Presided Over by the Master Rakocsy, the Lord of Civilisation, so on Buddhic Levels all Ashrams are Supervised by the Master Kuthumi, with the aid of myself (the Master Djwhal Khul.) and Three Senior and Initiated Disciples; the objective is the unfoldment of Group Awareness and of Loving Understanding, in order that the forms prepared and conditioned under the Supervision of the Master Rakocsy may be Sensitised and become increasingly conscious of reality through the development of an Inner Mechanism of Light which, in its turn, will condition and develop the outer mechanism of Contact.  Ashrams on Atmic Levels are under the Control of the Master Maitreya, Who Fosters the Will Aspect within the developed forms and Who (as the Old Commentary expresses it) ‘adds darkness unto Light so that the Stars appear, for in the Light the Stars Shine not, but in the darkness, Light diffused is not, but only Focused Points of Radiance’.

The symbolism will be obvious to you though not the full significance.  Embracing, Fusing and Unifying the Endeavour of all these Groups of Ashrams, stands the Living Christ, the Head of all Ashrams and the Master of the Masters, the Mediator between Shamballa and the Hierarchy and between the Hierarchy and Humanity.  Will you gain some insight into the all-pervading conditions if I state that His Work of Mediating between Humanity and the Hierarchy was Perfected by Him and carried to a conclusion when He was last on Earth, and that He is now Achieving Facility in the Higher Mediatorship which will bring about a closer Relation of the Hierarchy with Shamballa at this time. 

This Mediatory Work, based on the blending of the Spiritual Will (which He has already developed) with the Universal Will (which He is Developing), marks for Him a Goal which will be Consummated when He takes the Ninth Initiation.  These are Great Mysteries and I only indicate them in order to convey to you a Sense of the Synthesis of the Whole Scheme and a Recognition of the urge-to-good which Pervades Every Aspect of the Planetary Life from the smallest atom of substance, through all the intermediate living forms, on and up to the Planetary Logos Him Herself. 

The Will is too often regarded as a Power by Means of which things are done, Activities are Instituted, and Plans Worked Out.  This general definition is the easiest for men and women to formulate because it is understood by them in terms of their own self-will, the will to individual self-betterment, selfish and misunderstood at first but tending eventually to Selflessness as Evolution carries out its beneficent task.  Then the Will is interpreted in terms of the Hierarchical Plan, and the effort of the individual man and woman becomes that of negating his or her self-will and seeking to merge his or her will with that of the Group, the Group being Itself an Aspect of the Hierarchical Effort.  This is a Great Step onward in Orientation and Will lead to a change in Consciousness eventually.  This last sentence is of importance.  It is at this stage that most Aspirants today find themselves. 

However, the Will is in reality something very different to these expressions of it which exist in the human consciousness as men and women attempt to interpret the Divine Will in terms of their present Point in Evolution.  The clue to understanding (the clue which will be the easiest for you to understand) is to be found in the words ‘blotting out all form’. When the lure of substance is overcome and desire dies, then the attractive Power of the Soul becomes dominant and the emphasis for so long laid upon individual form and individual living and activity gives place to Group Form and Group Purpose.  Then the Attractive Power of the Hierarchy and of the Ashrams of the Masters Supersedes the lower attractions and the Lesser focal points of interest.  When these, in their turn, assume their Rightful Place in Consciousness then the Dynamic ‘pull’ of Shamballa can be felt, entirely unrelated to form or forms, to a Group or Groups. 

Only a Group Sense of ‘Well-Being’, Esoterically Understood is Realised, for it is Comprehended as the Will-To-Good.  No forms can then hold; no Group or Ashram can then confine the Consciousness of the Initiate, and all differences of every kind disappear.  This preamble is given in an effort to clarify your minds before we study ‘Rule IX’ carefully and arrive at its Essential meaning.