Introduction
Introduction I am a teacher, sometimes known as the Tibetan, who is attempting to convey to a group within humanity a body of teachings which will help them take the next evolutionary step forward.
Let me state it plainly. The purpose of these teachings is to achieve liberation from the three worlds for those souls who come in contact with them. The teachings are NOT designed to build a body of knowledge upon the mental plane. The development and training of the mind is a prerequisite for liberation and not an end in itself. The mind must be reoriented so that it is able to penetrate equally into the inner and outer realities, but it is not the mind to which these teachings are ultimately aimed. It is to the soul—the dweller in the mind, the director of experience—that we address ourselves.
All esoteric teachings given out as formulated thoughts and ideas that can be written down in books, form part of the great illusion. The time will come when humanity will operate free of the mind and the process of direct transmission through the cosmic etheric body will be registered as an ordinary part of human experience. That time is not yet.
Telepathy is developing, but telepathy employs the mind. The type of transmission which I am speaking of is more in the form of ‘Communion by Fire’.
The fire is the essence that clothes itself on the mental plane in ideas and thoughts.
Members of Hierarchy may be Masters of the Wisdom (from the perspective of humanity—for they do not consider themselves as such) but this in no way means they are Masters of All Knowledge—they merely have the key to all knowledge. Let me explain this statement.
Wisdom is an emanation from the worlds of Being. It has its roots in that which is unchanging. Knowledge is an accumulation from the worlds of Becoming. It has its roots in that which is ever changing. Wisdom is archetypal. Knowledge is particular. Wisdom is developed in the soul. Knowledge is accumulated by the personality in incarnation.
Knowledge is the dough, wisdom is the yeast.
Proponents of the divine science must therefore know what to hold onto as unchangeable wisdom and what to let go of as outdated knowledge. Perhaps the best advice in this regard is to be willing to continually offer all knowledge/wisdom into the fire of evolutionary transformation in the sure awareness that spirit will never be harmed by the flames.
An increase in Wisdom is not the result of knowing more and more but a gradual realisation of the unknowable. The neophyte to the Wisdom tradition seeks, as early scientists sought, to find an orderly divine world where all the planets turn in perfect circles around the sun. He seeks to find ultimate answers to the troubling questions of existence and to be able to rest content within a world view that is consistent and unassailed by doubt.
He seeks thus to become a knower of the ‘answers’ rather than to reconcile himself to the ‘living of the question’. This natural desire is quickly obliterated in the broad scope of the Wisdom traditions which assail the mind with paradox and seek to expand consciousness until there is nothing of any substance to hold on to.
Become the path—for there is no other way to cross the river—but never lose sight of the goal which IS to cross over and explore for all, as all, that which lies on the far shore.
Hierarchy needs souls to take up their conscious functioning within the ashrams on the buddhic plane. To do this they must cross over the great transition from Humanity to Hierarchy and not become overly preoccupied either with the accumulation of knowledge or the performing of service to humanity. This may seem a strange note until it is realised that the emphasis in this instruction is on the Will.
The Buddha embodied the Third Aspect and it is said that the so-called ‘failure of the Buddha’ (so-called because success or failure depends upon perspective) was the result of excess compassion. The proper use of the will affirms the divinity in others and shows faith in their capacity to initiate themselves when provided with some assistance. It brings with it the drive to move forward along the path and enter into new worlds of endeavour.
The First Ray is the Lord of Death because initiation not only involves an ‘entering into’ but also a ‘leaving behind’.
Synthesis And The Theosophical Movement
New teachings emerge when there are enough ‘ears’ present within the body of humanity that are straining to hear the new note.
Please have this clearly in mind. Just as the key to right human relations or ‘love’ is the revelation of the Christ principle or soul in man, so the key to Life is the revelation of the monadic or Shamballic principle at the core of the soul.
The synthetic perspective ascribes ‘the Wisdom’ as being ‘ageless’ or ‘timeless’ to point to its location outside of the flow of time. We might say that ‘Love-Wisdom’ is the result of contact between the world of time and space and that which lies behind and pervades the temporal spatial world. What we call the ‘classics’ in the realm of philosophy or art or religion are those contacts with the timeless reality that have resulted in its infusion into the temporal world. They are doorways to Shamballa. We will not find anything in the past that is not also available to us right now. Similarly there is nothing that will arrive into our future that will not reveal itself as having already been eternally present.
A spiritual tradition has a form of soul and causal body in the same way that a human being does. It is the expression on the higher mental plane of the ‘holy of holies’—the sacred tenets of the tradition. Most have some principle of the ‘name which cannot be spoken’ to preserve the recognition that nothing that can be formulated into a concept can contain anything but the fragrance of a transcendent reality.
The teachings are only, and can ever be only the crust of the bread. The warm rising dough of the centre cannot be taught; and there are always more loaves coming out of the great oven. Behind all this baking is a living culture of yeast that has been kept alive for countless generations to provide the ‘rising life’ in each and every loaf.
Transmission Process
First I seek to free you, the thinker in the mind, from identification with the thoughtforms of materiality. Second I seek to expand your consciousness to include the vastness of the universe, and sound a note of Pure Reason that will assist in freeing you for longer periods into the buddhic intuitive realms. And finally I sound a note of atma that will eventually result in the destruction of the thoughtforms and the liberation of the soul from the mind altogether.
Refrain as well from setting up any organisational structures around this Third Aspect teaching, or seeking to promote it or its message in the world. Resonance will provide the energetic template for its natural dissemination and the co-operation between those who respond to its note.
I am presenting these teachings with a force of Will and authority that is inherent in their essential nature and part of their liberating power. I do not seek to undermine your own will and discrimination, but to strengthen it. Nothing should be accepted from an external authority unless it awakens at the core of your own being that self same presence, authority and straight knowing.
Buddhi
I also seek through these teachings to stabilise the focus of your identification in buddhi, the heart of the triad. As buddhi you are both masculine and feminine—energetically penetrating and open to penetration.
As buddhi you breathe yourself into the three worlds—permeating the mental, astral and etheric fields and yet remaining free of them. As buddhi you open to be permeated by the atmic, monadic and logoic energies, enlivened, enpurposed and enfired by them.
As buddhi you are a field that opens to receive and enlighten the aspiring energies of the personality. As buddhi you are a finely honed sword of penetration into the heart of the monad. As buddhi you breathe in and out. As buddhi you are breathed in and out.
So let me dedicate this work “to those souls ripe with golden knowing whose time has come to stand and have revealed in them the black seed of the unknowable.”
A Symbol
There is one Life beyond all definition and approach, and we are that. This core reality remains at the centre of all realisation, and yet the evolving self grows in its capacity to experience and express this reality. Hence the need for new and sequential teachings.
The One reality cannot be symbolised, for it lies behind the duality of manifest/unmanifest. What can be symbolised is our current approach to divinity, which is by way of the monad or the Life aspect of the human being. This way of spirit is a pathless path; not a way of knowing, but of being the way. The symbol we will use for the monadic approach to divinity is the symbol of the black hole.
By renouncing the role of guru or grand central sun, Krishnamurti was foreshadowing the Aquarian model and piercing the illusion of Alcyone as a blind or marker for the real central sun.
The mystery of spirit, the mystery of electric fire, is the unknown centre of darkness around which the worlds of light and the worlds of matter turn.
Dark Matter and Dark Energy
The spiritual journey is the journey from form, to the light behind form, to the darkness behind light. Matter is close at hand, and we have the concrete symbol of the Earth to aid our understanding. Consciousness has for its symbol light, the electromagnetic spectrum and the sun.
Dark energy is an expression of the universal fluid or plenum that generates motion and therefore is ultimately responsible for the speed of light as well as the spiraling of galaxies, and the spin of electrons. Dark matter is an expression which generates mass. Thus both mass and the speed of light (the two components of Einstein’s famous equation) are fundamentally manifestations of the same energy.
This is why dark energy cannot be isolated, although its influence may be detected in high energy particle physics experiments.
We know matter is merely a form of energy. Soon we will know that light and high energy particles are merely one form that dark energy takes. Dark energy and dark matter are the correspondence to the etheric and physical planes of matter—or the abstract and concrete mind. Dark matter is the modification of this basic energy that is affected by gravity—the cosmic Saturn principle.
All formal structures within the manifest universe, from super-clusters of galaxies to the smallest asteroid, exist within the folds of dark matter.
Dark energy is a cosmic Uranian principle. It is free from the pull of gravity and generates the expansion of the universe. Without dark matter there would be no coherent structure, without dark energy there would be no freedom from it. The relationship between black holes and dark energy will form the basis for future exploration.
In the first case we have a singularity formed where matter has completely surrendered to gravity and collapsed past all coherency. In the second case we have the cause of the universe expanding so fast that gravity is negated and all form will ultimately fly apart. They are correspondences to the alpha and omega points in the spiritual dimension.
Light is matter, and DARKNESS pure Spirit. Darkness, in its radical metaphysical basis, is subjective and absolute light; while the latter in all its seeming effulgence and glory, is merely a mass of shadows, as it can never be eternal, and is simply an illusion, or Maya.
Some Thoughts on the Timing of these Teachings
Once the system is balanced however, the duality is resolved and all seven operate as one system under the direction of the soul in conjunction with the heart chakra.
In modern society it is quite possible to find many people who have over-developed the higher chakras and are subsequently devitalised in the lower. This also corresponds to that stage on the path where the lower ways of working have been rejected in favour of the higher. This is what lies behind the spiritual impotence of many disciples.
They are awake to spiritual realities but have little capacity to express those realities or demonstrate them on the physical plane. They have little outer power, little or no money and sexual magnetism and often a very tenuous connection with the will to live.
The cry on the cross was “Father why hast thou forsaken me?” and this deep despair represents the last vestige of the separated soul. Just as the shocking light of the first dark night highlighted the distinction between the soul and personality, so this second dark night highlights the distinction between soul and spirit, or the son and father aspect.
The soul realises that it was not the father who abandoned the son, but the son who abandoned the father ‘in consciousness’, for indeed no abandonment took place in reality.
There are many souls in incarnation now who carry what might be called the seeds of darkness—a higher ‘non-dual’ or divine darkness that is in reality a blinding light. These souls are the disciples and initiates who are able to esoterically ‘see in the dark light’.
That seeing will enable them to stand firm and secure through the period of testing ahead. Indeed this is how the power structures and resources of the world will shift from the planetary personality to the planetary soul. In times of deep crisis the personality is unable to offer solutions—it is blinded and revealed for what it essentially is—a very clever survival system.
Those who are soul-infused will be able to stand and withstand the blast of spirit as forerunners of the Externalisation process and heralds of the new civilisation. Indeed for them it will also be a time of great joy, as they will witness the things they have stood and fought for over many years finally able to break through the cracks in the old and crumbling world order.
Occult Cosmology
At the core of every civilisation lies its cosmology. In anthropology, cosmology refers to the core creation myths or the way in which a culture attributes fundamental meaning to the origin and purpose of existence. Cosmology as used by astrophysicists has to do with our understanding of the origin, functioning and destiny of the material universe. These two uses are often attributed to religion and science. Often, in an attempt to give each its due, the term ‘non-overlapping magisteria’ is used to indicate that the why of existence and the how of existence are separate domains and enquiry into one is irrelevant to the other.
Occult cosmology attempts to get to this level of reality. The view from the synthesis of matter and consciousness. It is occult, not because it is somehow secretive or clandestine but because it is hidden from our normal consciousness. Indeed the ‘light of our consciousness’ cannot illuminate ‘it’ for ‘it’ is the essence of that light itself. We might say that exoteric has to do with our perception of the outer world, esoteric has to do with our perception of the inner world, but occult has to do with that which underlies both.
A global cosmology must not only be rooted in our modern scientific understanding of the universe but also provide a context for—and be an accurate reflection of—the deepest meaning and purpose we experience as a human species. It must be inclusive so that it validates and co-measures the many perspectives that humanity has already developed and yet also transcend perspective altogether.
I O (Absolute Self and Absolute Space)
I am choosing the name IO to represent the underlying reality—the boundless immutable principle as The Secret Doctrine calls it. The principle contains a duality—the I and the O—Absolute Self and Absolute Space. Neither is dominant for neither exists without the other. IO also symbolises the binary code in computing, the perfect 10 in mathematics and in some Maori Polynesian traditions it is the name for the supreme God. “IO—the Parentless who was the Always Existent without beginning or end.”1
Unmanifest Being— the bestower of identity
First Logos
Primordial substance Mulaprakriti
Manifestation Life Purusha-Prakriti
Spirit-matter Second Logos
Third Logos Cosmic Ideation ‘Spirit’ Io ‘Soul’ IO
Cosmic ideation is the product of the coming together of this primary duality to produce consciousness or the world soul—the sense of ‘self in manifestation’. For the Self to be conscious it needs a sheath to become self-aware in. Once Purusha and Prakriti have come together we have ‘self-consciousness’ in its many emanations and expressions. On the cosmic physical plane, the monad is the primary source of self-awareness which then flows through into the soul and personality. The personal self is more identified with its sheaths or the matter principle and the monad is more identified with ‘being’ or the spirit principle. The soul is the bridge where both aspects are balanced. On the buddhic plane the human soul knows itself to be the product of two parents.
The evolving self lives imbedded in the world of becoming—within the manifest universe. The absolute self is neither confined to the manifest universe nor excluded from it. It neither evolves nor realises itself. It is beyond all definition and all duality. It is what the Ageless Wisdom calls the One Boundless Immutable Principle. It is the ever becoming, though the never manifesting
Monadic Duality
Monadic duality refers then to the simultaneous realisation that begins to occur in the human soul once it has penetrated into the centralised identity that we refer to as the ‘monad’. One aspect of this realisation is a sense of self expanded into a larger sphere of time and space identification. The human being begins to realise itself as a participant in the Purpose and Life aspect (and not only the consciousness) of the planetary and solar life in which it lives. The other aspect is the gradual ‘breaking through’ into awareness of the absolute self so that it is realised that not only is the evolving self participating in ‘Life’, it IS that Life—and not only the one universal LIFE but the very Principle in which that Life LIVES. And always has been and never was or was not. This cannot be said and yet, instead of moving along to the next idea which the consciousness can grasp, it is worth pausing to let the infinite reveal itself through the finite.
Gayatri
Let us pause here and sound the Gayatri. If you, the reader, pause and do likewise—perhaps this reality, via our triangulation of intent, will embrace us all through the gentle illusory folds of time and space:
> om bhūr bhuvah svah
> tát savitúr várenyam
> bhárgo devásya dhīmahi
> dhíyo yó nah pracodáyāt
> om
Radical Awakening Versus Evolutionary Awakening
Evolutionary awakening is related to the path of Initiation. Radical awakening is related to Identification. Individualisation refers to the establishment and development of a ‘self identity’ in a field of activity. It results in translation or mastery of a particular ‘plane’.
Within the robes of the ever becoming the always already is remembered. Once the experience of radical awakening takes place in some stable way then the journey of becoming continues, but becomes a blissful creative dance. Self-realisation is the same in each age because the absolute self is unchanging, but the manifestation that is a part of the One self is undergoing radical change through the interaction between the evolving self and the absolute self. The creation is becoming aware of that which substands creation and this is having effects on creation.
Spiritual awakening then is a process that not only involves the developing and raising of consciousness but the transfiguration of that consciousness by Life. Some insights into this triple process were presented in the Trans-Himalayan teachings through the idea of evolution over three solar systems and of the three centres on Earth of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity. For the system to function correctly then the three systems or centres, and the functions they represent, must operate synthetically; mastery of matter, the initiation of consciousness and the permeation of the Life principle.
Sangha
As paradoxical as it sounds in language, one is aware of all other selves that are aware of themselves as the One Self. This is the Sangha. The One without an other is simultaneously aware that all others are the One, and in particular that some others are aware of this—a community of Buddhas.
‘Buddha nature’ itself is beyond evolution in time and space. It simply IS. This radical awakening is the beginning of what might be called ‘monadic consciousness’ or identification.
Mantram of Life
There is no soul.
There is no time.
There is no space.
There is only Life.
One Life.
This Life I am.
My will is for all my lesser selves to know me at their core as the essence, the beginning and the end of their existence.
It is thus, as the One Life, I LIVE.
Spirit/matter manifests as a fourfold field. They tetra-arise. Human souls are able to stand at the centre of this fourfold expression and be themselves the at-oneing link. They can do this because they are at once both the offspring of the dualities and also, at their root, IO—the one reality that expresses as the duality which in turn expresses in a fourfold manner.
We are the electrical spark which passes between the father–mother. We are fohat. Under Uranus, in the Aquarian Age, our work is to awake and awaken. The real brotherhood of the Aquarian Age is not a brotherhood of souls but a brotherhood of spirit.
This brotherhood extends well beyond the human kingdom to include all life and consciousness. At our root we are the One Life—IO—and so is everyone and everything regardless of their state of development in consciousness. When we truly experience this then the role of humans in Kosmos will be self-evident.
Laying The Cosmological Framework
We thus have four distinctions of level:
1. Universal – The Law of Being – Divinity – Peace This refers to the incarnation of a Universe.
2. Galactic – The Law of Synthesis – Spirit – Will This refers to the incarnation of a galaxy.
3. Solar – The Law of Attraction – Consciousness – Love The incarnation of a solar system.
4. Human – The Law of Economy – Matter – Intelligence The incarnation of a human being.
From the perspective of consciousness or the soul aspect, we have a direct correlation as follows:
• The solar life within the universe is represented by the light of the galaxies.
• The solar life within a galaxy is represented by the light of the suns.
• The solar life within a solar system is represented by human souls in causal bodies.
• The solar life within the human system is represented by the points of light that make up the etheric body.
This type of chart conveys one type of impression that allows us to visualise greater and greater expansions of consciousness in more and more refined matter; however it is also misleading to stack planes on top of each other when they are really interpenetrating.
Gravity—an expression of the primary O—and dark energy—an expression of the primary I—had to be in such delicate relationship that forms could exist and evolve. Too much ‘O’ and the universe would collapse. Too much ‘I’ and it would expand too rapidly. Once there were only hydrogen atoms, and then over billions of years heavier atoms were manufactured in the heart of stars.
The material of the universe is continually recycled and refined into more and more complex forms so that eventually planets containing the building blocks of biological life formed.
The Universal Oversoul, which is at its root the One Life both assists in the evolution of matter and learns from that evolution. It is continually harvesting experience which is then recycled and refined into new experience and new forms. The One Life as IO does not evolve. It eternally IS. Consciousness and form do evolve until their central life is recalled at the end of a universal manifestation.
Let me make clear at the beginning of this discussion on ‘alien life’ that I am not referring to little green men arriving in faster-than-light-speed metallic ships. The dream of being saved from death or physical extinction by technology or the cleverness of our intellects (or other people’s) is just a dream. Technology and creativity will not ‘save humanity’. Love will. The cosmic distances are too vast. We will not be travelling them in our bodies or in spacecraft, no matter how clever our scientists become. We do not have the time or the space. Saturn is a time/space limitation.
It cannot be overcome by that which is confined in time and space. The aliens will not come to help us until we recognise that we ARE the aliens. We already came.
Biologically we are terrestrial but at an atomic level we are universal. Our ‘souls’ also have their lineage—planetary, solar, galactic and universal. The universal consciousness is ‘coloured’ or qualified by layers of creative experience. Human beings are more evolved than hydrogen atoms, even though they evolved ‘out’ of hydrogen atoms. Just think—hydrogen atoms evolved to the point that they could split open hydrogen atoms.
Cosmogony
In an evolutionary sense however, eternity and infinity point to larger temporal and spatial dimensions. The arising of the universe must be understood in both ways. On the one hand it is an out-picturing of the unqualifiable root of the one boundless immutable principle. On the other it is a manifestation in an endless series of manifesting universes.
When the individual, of its own free will, serves the collective then it transforms into the soul and is freed into the cosmic ethers. On the buddhic plane, the human and deva evolution, masculine and feminine, I and O, are balanced.
Twelve Seeds Of Thought
If the disciple is going to ‘sound’ the word in his consciousness he should endeavour to enunciate the two syllables with separate emphasis: Sat-va.
As a soul he is affirming his direction. “I go to the real”.
Sat is Be-ness.
Satva is the rhythmic realisation of Be-ness by Being.
But Sat and Satva are only words—words that attempt to convey a process for touching a reality which cannot be conceptualised.
The word ‘Satva’ is well known to esotericists representing along with Tamas and Rajas, one of the three Gunas.
It is the significance of words that is lost and not the form. It is not some new or ancient form that will free the disciple and raise the Master.
It is the rediscovery of the essential reality which all forms veil. The extraordinary is present in the ordinary. Its scent can be detected by the refined consciousness.
The three aspects of personality, soul and spirit which are symbolised by Mountain, Cross and Lightning in the pictogram for ‘Sat’ are essentially ‘three in one’.
Sex
How will that look? I can give some hints that if followed may lead to greater freedom and love in this regard.
1. The embracing of sexual energy as a positive and pleasurable means of self expression.
2. The clear distinction of sexual energy from the act of sex.
3. The breaking free of the sexual energy from serving the survival and power needs of the personality.
4. The use of sexual energy for awakening and energising the entire body.
5. The use of the sacral energy for manifesting the creativity of the soul.
6. The use of the sacral centre for co-operation with the devic lives of the other kingdoms via sound, dance and mantra. 7. The group use of the sacral centre in the creation of sacred space and generation of resources.
Rays in Manifestation
The Sheaths of Spirit
The Causal Body and the Five Planes
The causal body forms the mid-point or heart of the monadic sheath, using this latter term to refer to the five worlds of superhuman evolution.
The duality of soul and personality, Angel and Dweller, is fused in the consciousness of the initiate because he realises that the duality was only an illusion in time and space due to the lack of the correct functioning of his own identification.
The Atmic Body and The Triadal Soul
There is a difference between Being and the experience of Self. The monad is a point of pure Being. The Atman is a portion of that Being arising and experiencing “I am”. Herein lies the clue to the distinction.
The Triple Monad and the Light Supernal
The Fusion of the Lower Two Cosmic Planes
There is a difference between Being and the experience of Self. The monad is a point of pure Being. The Atman is a portion of that Being arising and experiencing “I am”. Herein lies the clue to the distinction.
Nirvana and Life
The experience of nirvana is however a triadal experience and therefore is strictly an experience of consciousness and not of Life directly. On the mental plane the difference between the knower and the known is realised. On the atmic plane the difference is between life and that which is lived.
The experience of being identified as Atman or Brahman is still subtly dual. There is the witness and that which is being witnessed. The self is now the Soul of the universe and knows it is not contained by the form of the universe but is free from it. However the duality of self and universe—nirvana and samsara—is still present.
The witness is the state of turiya, but a fifth state—that of turiyatita—awaits. Beyond nirvana is Life itself. In Life none is present to witness anything. There is no soul or sense of self. Being exists alone. Nirvana and samsara are One. Being is thus the source of all awareness, intention, action and yet is itself passive.
The Three Kayas
> within the all-pervasive space of Dharmakaya Sambhogakaya manifests distinctly like the light of the sun, while Nirmanakaya, like a rainbow, acts for the welfare of beings -- Tulku Urgen Rinpoche
In Tibetan Buddhism the three kayas refer to the threefold nature of buddhahood and we can relate these to the consciousness on the three higher planes of the cosmic physical or the three planes of the monad.
Dharmakaya relates to Adi, the plane of the fire mist. It is called the samadhi of Suchness, primordial emptiness, the body of all Buddhas. It is the pure land and the ground of Being.
in Tibetan texts the relationship between the three kayas is expressed in the following way:
Dharmakaya is all pervasive and infinite ... there is no individual dharmakaya for individual Buddhas. No world anywhere in the universe takes form outside of the three kayas which are the basic dimension within which all mundane worlds manifest and disappear. This basis is known as the dharmadhatu. Out of this the sambhogakaya appears. The greater sambhogakaya is described as the Five-Fold Immense Ocean Buddhas… the size of these greater sambhogakaya Buddhas is described as the following:
The Buddha Immense Ocean Vairochana holds in his hands ... a begging bowl of pure lapis. Within this there is an immense ocean. Within it a lotus tree grows and puts forth twenty-five fully opened lotus flowers. The thirteenth of these blooms at the level of his heart, while the twenty-fifth is at the level of his forehead. We ourselves, our world, are somewhere in the thirteenth lotus at the level of the heart centre. This lotus has a thousand petals and hundreds of thousands of small anthers. Within each atom in each of these anthers are one billion universes, each group being the sphere of one supreme nirmanakaya Buddha.2
The Infinite and the Evolving Finite
This Be-ness is ever present and infinite as well as ever receding and ever emerging in time and space.
The effect of spirit on matter is to differentiate it. The effect of matter on spirit is to draw it into manifestation.
The Angel Of The Presence
Just as the soul appears to the personality clothed in the sheaths of the personality, so the monad is clothed in the triad. Atma is the vehicle through which the monad is contacted just as manas is the vehicle for contact with the soul. The soul becomes aware of the monad via the Angel who both veils and reveals the Life aspect until such time as the advancing self is able to assimilate and identify with it directly.
The flaming sword protects the initiate from the consuming fire until time and the causal body is ripe. In one sense then the Angel can be viewed as the spirit aspect of the solar angel as it expresses through the triad. From another perspective it is the form or devic aspect of the monad.
The Angel can be seen as Metatron in its masculine aspect and Shekinah in its feminine. It is the Metatron aspect that stays close to the monad on the higher atmic plane and provides the will to love of the soul. It is Shekinah who descends into the temple in the wilderness—the base chakra in the human being—and provides the will to live.
This Shekinah is then lifted into the causal body or Temple of Solomon at the Third Degree and upon the destruction of that temple returned to the monad via the Temple of Ezekiel on the atmic plane.
The Shekinah or the feminine expression of the Angel of the Presence is thus the substance aspect of the monadic trinity or the Holy Spirit and thus allows us to feel the presence of God, the monad or Life principle tangibly upon the physical plane.
In Hindu mythology she is Shakti or the kundalini force. She is the presence of Life hidden inside all forms.
Much is recognised in popular literature these days about the so called ‘Light Body’. Technically what is being referred to here is the etheric body (as well as astral and mental) when it has become solarised or imbued with the light of the soul.
The step beyond that is what in the East is called the ‘bliss body’—this is a body of divine darkness and refers to the stage when the etheric body becomes imbued with the darkness or Life of the monad which is in reality an expression of the Shamballic force. The alignment with the galactic centre is an outer representation of the alignment between the lesser system and the greater.
Nassim Haramein is a theoretical physicist who believes that every atom has at its core a miniature black hole and that our universe itself exists inside a black hole or singularity. This is a modern scientist’s way of expressing a metaphysical truth. Form is contained within Soul is contained within Spirit. However Soul and Spirit are also curled up inside or latent within Form. Thus at the core of the Earth is a latent sun—the molten centre—and at the core of that latent sun is a coiled core of darkness or spirit which is both a doorway to the centre of the galaxy and also a reservoir of Life force. Similarly in the esoteric tradition the disciple is instructed to find the ‘light in the head’ which corresponds to the sun or solar principle. Inside that light is a core of darkness which is a doorway into a higher state of consciousness.
The Planetary Angel and Dweller
As consciousness expands in the higher chakras to the solar perspective the consciousness in the lower chakras often holds more and more tightly to the Earth and specifically to the lunar lords. This duality is the root cause of all the ‘diseases of the mystics’. The central drama or mythology is the same in all the world’s spiritual traditions and essentially is something like the following: A human being is a star or comes from the stars and is incarnated on Earth. We are spiritual beings or souls having an earthly experience. At the same time we are earthly beings capable of having spiritual experience. We come from the Earth—developing via the processes of evolution a neocortex and the capacity to experience more and more of our inner nature.
The relationship between Sirius and Orion, Isis and Osiris is similar to the relationship between Jupiter and Venus which rule the monadic and mental plane respectively. The solar angel builds the bridge between the monad and personality. Once the Earth is connected with the sun and the heart of the system, Jupiter, then the work is done. Sirius similarly serves as an intermediary between the galactic centre and our solar system. Once its bridging work is done then our system forms a conscious part of Orion which is the heart centre of the greater life.
The raising of cosmic kundalini or the Life principle represented by human monads is balanced by the descent of energies from the higher spheres. The anchoring of the life force in the second round under the impulse of Draco has its correspondence in the arrival of the lunar monads. The coming of the lords of the flame and the anchoring of Hierarchy on Earth has its correspondence to the process of individualisation. The coming of the avatars of Love, such as the Christ, correspond to the descent of solar energies. The coming of the Avatar of Synthesis who is Sirian in origin has its correspondence to the Angel of the Presence whose function it is to reveal the monad of Earth and make way for a cosmic Avatar from the galactic centre.
From the perspective of the Solar Logos in the centre of this system, the fall of the solar angels to Earth forms part of the Dweller of the system just as the link between Sirius and the galactic centre forms the Angel. The Dweller is that part of any whole which has chosen exile from the lighted centre in order to take that light into the more material part of the system. As a result of exercising free will in the service of love, it learns self-reliance, patience and independence. Sanat Kumara is termed a divine rebel and is linked to both Lucifer and Saturn in his chosen function of building a bridge into a lower system. Those parts that are most resistant in any system, once lifted up into the higher system, form a part of its core and a base for further ascent.
The antahkarana of a system builds links in consciousness. The sutratma allows for the transfer of identity. The disciple learns to build the antahkarana first with imagination, then through expansion of consciousness and finally through the process of identification to shift identity from a lower to a higher centre.
Let us examine some of the things we know from the esoteric tradition. Earth is said to be a divine rebel and one of the few planets in our system where the principle of pain is active. We have ‘gone our own way’ and therefore form part of the solar Dweller. This is the origin of many of the fallen angel myths and the doctrine of original sin. When we take a solar perspective things are white or black, good and bad: planets all circle in prescribed orbits around the sun.
The essential factor is a healthy self-esteem that comes from being loved and validated internally and externally regardless of how good or bad they behave according to the rule set of their parents, school or society. In Christian terms the soul is Christed
Even when a human being has pursued a life of crime for example or harm to others, if the soul breaks through then that individual can become a saving force, particularly and essentially to others who have walked or are walking a similar path.
Earth has borne a divine child—and seeks for that child to begin its cosmic journey. The mother knows the child has a purpose beyond her that she is serving through her birthing. A healthy child has respect for his or her parents but pushes forward into their own destiny and thus brings fulfillment to that seed of life and latent knowing which lay curled inside their parents’ longing for union. If the child does not leave home when it is time then that life force begins to turn in on itself and disease of some kind presents itself.
Identification
When we look out into the cosmos we are looking along a particular wavelength or frequency—like being tuned to a radio station or operating only in ultraviolet. Earth is a planet of deep material manifestation. Of course the universe is alive with consciousness on etheric levels and higher, but there is little conscious intelligent life at the depth of prakritic immersion experienced by Earth humanity. So we are both alone and not alone.
Our Logos, being a rebel and willful but also stimulated by love as a light-bringer, chose to go beyond the current limits of the extension of unified consciousness in the galaxy. Whether the experience of Earth will serve as a warning or an encouragement remains as yet undecided but the potential is for Earth to help the evolutionary advance of life in the galaxy in a potent way.
To understand this we must enter more fully into the world of Being.
Shaktipat
Shaktipat is a word used in the Hindu tradition to signify a transmission of energy directly through the etheric body of the teacher to the student. What a person knows is one thing. Who a person IS another. The beingness of an individual is transmitted on other frequencies than consciousness because life extends through all levels. The buddhic plane is part of the cosmic ethers and Earth humanity can serve as a vitalising radiatory power that carries with it the experience of having being deeply immersed in the material world and returned.
The Prana of Synthesis
A Meditation
Sit or stand preferably barefoot on the earth and centre in the heart and in the causal field.
Become aware with your breathing of taking in prana from the earth and flowing it through your etheric body up through the base chakra.
Now become aware of taking in solar prana from the sun and allow this to flood through the etheric body down through the crown chakra.
Let the descending solar currents awaken the lunar light within the earth and within the body and lift it up through the etheric to the causal body.
Now become aware of taking in galactic prana visualised as a vital and full darkness that contains the sevenfold light and allow this to extend through the etheric body via the crown and also the heart.
Let the descending galactic currents awaken the dark light within the body and within the planet and lift this up via the heart and the causal body to the monad.
In the causal body triangulate and synthesise these three forms of pranic energy into one fire which ascends via the jewel onto the buddhic plane.
Taking your place in the ashram radiate this fire of synthesis throughout the field of the one great ashram and breathe it down into and through the etheric body and specifically the heart chakra.
Close with the Mantram of Synthesis given below.
If you do this meditation and notice the effects on both yourself and your surroundings and if you follow the Law of Correspondences you will gain insight into the role humanity can serve as a unit within its cosmic ashram. This is a meditation connected with the planet Uranus, the sign of Aquarius, the Avatar of Synthesis and the Seventh cosmic Ray.
I am not suggesting you neglect your service work to humanity but that you make an effort to add a component of esoteric work which will potentise your existing service and help bring about planetary integration much more rapidly. Attempt to do this advanced work identified with humanity as a whole. It will not only have effects upon the levels of the planetary etheric but it will also aid in offsetting the influence of the planetary Dweller by building in a new thoughtform. This is the thoughtform of Earth as a conscious contributing agent in the field of cosmic evolution.
Mantram of Synthesis
Here is a mantram that can be used with the above meditation and will be helpful in stimulating the transmission process:
Light, Love and Power are One
They meet in the human race
To let the Life which ever IS
Seed itself in Space.
Let the One behind the Three come forth
And through the heart of man
Reveal the hidden glory Of the evolving Cosmic Plan.
May the Avatar we are, arrive
To fulfil our destiny
And the Mother of the World rejoice
For the soul of Earth is free.
The Fourth Divine Quality
Peace That Passeth Understanding
God wills, loves and creates but behind these three God IS and it is the presence of God that brings peace. That which contains everything, that which gushes up in the centre of everything and that which forms everything—space, self and substance—is the presence of divinity.
The soul is both child of pure consciousness (spirit) and form (matter) and also the vehicle for that which lies behind this duality. The child can side with either parent and then comes under the Law of Attraction.
Those who side with (ie. identify with) the mother (form) will be attracted to those who side with the father (spirit). This attraction/repulsion dynamic lies behind gender, politics and duality of all kinds.
The purpose of the Law of Attraction is to generate Love—a technical description of Love is the realisation of the field of unity that underlies polarity.
The Symbol of Lightning
Lightning as you know is the symbol for the First Ray and electric fire. It signifies Uranus and in a peculiar way the connection with the galactic centre and the coming of cosmic fire to Earth.
Water is the symbol for the Astral plane. Water is able to take the form of solid, liquid and gas—a threefold expression. It is able in its liquid state to permeate the physical earth and through the process of evaporation and condensation to also permeate the atmosphere.
Lightning is the passage of energy from the etheric body of the planet into the physical—from the four ethers into the gaseous, liquid and physical planes. Consider this process under the Law of Analogy on the cosmic physical plane, the seven cosmic planes and the universal planes.
Consider within the cosmic physical plane, the initiates between Third and Fifth Degrees as water. Consider the cosmic astral plane in its dual relationship to the cosmic physical and mental. On the seven cosmic planes, consider that the lightning bolt is the ancient symbol of Indra—God of the fourth or cosmic buddhic plane.
Consider how this energy passes from the cosmic buddhic plane into the three lower cosmic planes which together make up Agni—the fire of the solar personality which expresses as electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. All is revealed in the world around us for those capable of seeing into the deepest mysteries of existence.
When lightning flashes forth from the clouds to earth the charge difference between the bottom of the clouds and the ground results in the issuing forth of electrical streams of energy called ‘leaders’. When these leaders meet then the discharge of energy that forms a lightning bolt takes place. Think of the terms leadership, currency and being ‘in charge’ from an electrical perspective and then it will be apparent how the group that will form the Shamballic centre within Humanity must be able to handle electric fire, know how to collectively invoke it and hold it as a reservoir of the Will of God. It is the relationship between the Third and Fifth Degree initiates that results in the spiritual electrification of the three worlds and the revelation of the mystery of Brahma.
The Heart and the Sutratma
The primary organ for identification is the heart of any system.
The heart chakra is the centre of the sevenfold system. We might imagine that it has four ‘levels of depth’. The outer level is what allows us to identify with our environment.
The next inner level is that of the soul—the “Christ in us”. This allows us to identify with our soul and it is what moves us to make our particular contribution to the world.
The next inner level is monadic and allows us to identify as the Life aspect. In Agni Yoga this is termed the level of the Lion of the Desert. At this level we experience the charge of spirit or the fire of being.
At the fourth level we experience the presence of divinity and a profound peace—a peace that lies behind all purpose, all love and all activity.
If the Antahkarana is like building a relationship with the sun then the Sutratma is like experiencing the sun-like molten Core of the Earth. Inside that core is the black hole or singularity at the center, and beyond that is the universal self.
The feelings in the heart of being abandoned by God are there because that is precisely what we have done as we have identified ourselves more fully with the forms in which we are expressing.
Unable to hold the truth of who we essentially are through the process of incarnation, we gradually let go of our identification with our divine nature—although this does not change the truth of it.
As we deepen our experience and go through the pain of our own necessary abandonment of our inherent godhead, it is always like a coming home—a return to our own true nature.
Ultimately your life must arise directly and authentically from your own well, sourced from your own identification with the Godhead. Reliance upon teachers, Masters and consciousness can take us only so far. It is my intent with this work to encourage those of you who are ready to claim your own inherent freedom.
Heart Identification (Meditation)
Centre in the Heart. Do not attempt to raise your consciousness or change your ordinary resting state of awareness in any way. Simply focus on the breath and rest in the heart. This meditation does not so much employ the consciousness or the imagination. It is a sensing process using the sentiency of the heart to feel into what actually is present.
Identify with your personal heart and feel the connections you have to the world—to specific people and places and activities. Feel your personal love and heart-desire. Feel the way your heart goes out to family, friends and lovers. Also sense the way those you may have a special responsibility for—such as children, animals etc—rest in your heart.
Allow yourself to go deeper and identify with the Christ or soul principle of transpersonal Love. Identify with and as the source of that love which you may have had awakened by an inner or outer teacher. Feel that love opening and radiating outwards to all beings and forms including those lives which make up your own nature and those others with whom you have a specific soul connection. As you allow yourself to move deeper into the heart notice how the sphere expands to include the causal body and also down through the base chakra into the earth. Notice your willingness to have others enter your heart and for the love that is moving through you to become present in the heart of all others.
Now deepen again to the level of the monad and feel into the love of the spirit aspect. This is a deeply sacrificial love that expresses itself in the will to endure for the sake of the liberation of others. This love rests on the foundation of the fire of being and the inherent identification with the principle of freedom. Identifying with this love, sense how the sphere of the heart opens to include the core of the Earth, the heart of the sun and the galactic centre. Notice how naturally kundalini flows when it is not being repressed. Taste the experience of holding the space for the evolution of a planet with all its kingdoms and life forms. Sense the earth in your heart and your heart in the earth. Notice your deep longing for the freedom you experience to be experienced by all beings in your sphere of influence. Taste the experience of being in the centre of a galaxy holding the space for the evolution of consciousness in billions of systems.
Now deepen again to the level of the universal Self. Surrender into being one with the heart that contains the universe within it. This love rests as pure presence and peace accepting and blessing the perfection of everything that arises. Notice how this love effortlessly contains the other levels of self and the other expressions of loving. Within the one great heart of perfection arises centres of pure being and spiritual virility like galaxies which contain countless systems where consciousness is evolving and liberating itself.
Maintaining your identification with the one great heart re-enter the sphere of your spiritual responsibility and then the sphere of transpersonal loving and then the personal sphere of your heart. In this way the saving force you essentially are brings all levels into integration and synthesis. The Avatar of the Presence of Divinity arrives in the midst of your personal sphere, reaches out and strokes the tabby on your knee.
Conclusion
This book on Occult Cosmology is at its core an invitation to realise your essential freedom and divinity. Let me conclude then with some comments and a final word of advice interspersed with some quotes from the introduction. This teaching is not a destination but a doorway. Use it as such. I would like to help free you from your thoughtforms about this tradition and about me. A spiritual tradition is like a river that leads to the ocean. Once the destination is reached then the banks of the river disappear. Religious traditions are supposed to act as conveyor belts—taking their adherents somewhere faster than they would otherwise have made the journey.
Focus instead your awareness on the emerging Master in your heart. Allow your life to be increasingly guided from this living well and let the heart serve as the touchstone for all your activities and relationships. Pay careful attention to those with whom your heart resonates deeply and draw close to them. You will find them across many traditions and you will find them holding ideas and alignments that may be very different from your own. Learn the universal language grounded in the natural world of creation. Speak, act and create from the well of the Presence where your connection with essential divinity is authentically emerging, spontaneously appropriate to circumstances and the environment. This may be as radical a change as when you were releasing personality attachments in the light of emerging soul connections.
