Need some explanation
For once through the spiritual gate
You go from grade to grade
It is a way of loneliness
But the highway of holiness
The unclean shall not pass
For his vibration cannot last
Always there have been cases
Of mysteries in temples and holy places
Where the true could find what he needs to grow
As well as instruction as to which way to go
It is a way that leads from that which lies outside
To that which dwells inside
It reveals, step by step, the hidden life and tides
Which every form and symbol veils and hides
The aspirant works towards spiritual understanding
That brings inclusiveness and wisdom as to his brother’s standing
He passes from the stage of enquiry on the way
To that of straight knowledge of the day
He undergoes initiation after initiation
Where vision and hope give place to realisation
Leading nearer and neared to complete unity
On his way to divinity
Those who in the past thus worked, agonised and attained
Constitute a long chain that must be maintained
Reaching out of the remotest past into the present day
The initiates are still with us showing the way
Christ gave us a definite picture of the entire process
In His own life story as He made progress
Built around those major initiations
Which are our universal liberations
Having prepared us by example and precept
Men are lifted step by step
To stand eventually before the initiator
Christ the Son, the first liberator
THE FIRST INITIATION…THE BIRTH AT BETHLEHEM
Of soul-influence over the physical body on earth
This influence over the personality
Is registered in the brain in clarity
Off all the newborn or spiritually infused man’s liberations
This is the hardest and takes the longest of all initiations
For the sins of the flesh
Must make way to start afresh
Gluttony, drink, and immorality on this way
Can no longer hold sway
The physical elemental will no longer hold
Like in the days of old
Control over the body nature and captivations
Must have killed all earthly temptations
For the soul to endure
Nothing must lure
A general attitude of obedience to the soul
Must be the preferred way and goal
And the willingness to obey
Must be very strong on the way
The channel between the higher and the lower is enlarged
Energies between body and soul are no more camouflaged
And the obedience of the flesh practically automatic
When animalism is no more problematic
The heart centre is the one usually vivified
And the disciple is no more mystified
He knows that through the work on the astral plain
More control and wisdom is to gain
And with effective control of the astral body
He can be of more service to everybody
When the need of his brother
Comes before everything other
The rendering of greater service to humanity
Becomes his first priority
His work has begun
He follows the Son
THE SECOND INITIATION…THE BAPTISM IN JORDAN
In the control of the astral body through consensus
For all emotions and desires must go
Under the control of the soul or ego
The first initiation symbolises control of the physical body
And the second initiation symbolises control of the astral body
The sacrifice and death of desire has been
The goal of endeavour to be seen
Desire itself has been dominated by the soul
Except those which is for the good of the whole
In the life of the disciple no evil can grow
In line of the will of the Master or ego
The emotional body controlled by the soul
Has brought the astral elemental under control
The waters are stilled or there is no more see
And no more reason for the lower nature to be
By this time the lower bodies has gone still
For the ego has bend them to his will
Thus the aspiration and longing to serve,
To love and work without reserve
Rapid development lays the foundation
Where the second and third initiation
Can through hard work and strife
Follow each other in one single life.
At this period of the world’s history
Where we face so much misery
More stimulus has been given to evolution
To bring about a solution
At this initiation the throat centre is vivified.
Thus aspiring souls are getting qualified
To work with force and to work creatively
While sacrificing all in order to help productively
Through the baptism of water [emotions]
His service is of a higher order
His work has begun
He follows the Son
THE THIRD INITIATION…THE TRANSFIGURATION [ILLUMINATION]
At the third initiation, the entire personality
Come face to face with reality
When it is illuminated or flooded with light
That shines then forever bright
From above by the light of the soul
Who is fulfilling its roll
As the builder in form and Christ aspect
To make the personality perfect
By now the heart is sufficiently pure and loving
And the intellect sufficiently stable to stand the strain of knowing
With a apprehension of the work to be done in the microcosm
As well as its share to be taken in the work of the macrocosm
Now the fully consecrated physical body
Can safely bear the vibrations of the spiritual body
The personality has now reached a point where its vibration
Is of a high order and all three bodies ready for initiation
And it is apparent therefore, why it is only at the third initiation
That it is the Great Hierophant, Lord of the World and Creation
The Ancient of Days, who officiates
And for the first time contacts the initiates
A vision is accorded of what lies ahead
Membership of the Great White Lodge is to be had
By becoming a Master of Wisdom
And working in the spiritual kingdom
His psychic faculties are stimulated to perfection
By the vivification of the head centres through right action
Where the awakening of the spiritual intuition is the aim
Of all development through more joy and pain
It is only after this initiation that the monad or spirit
Can start to guide the soul more every minute
By pouring His divine life like manna
Through a prepared and cleansed channel, the Antahkarana
The Initiate now stands purified on three planes
With the ability to see and hear on all the planes
He knows what must be done
He works with Christ the Son
EDGEBA
THE FOURTH INITIATION…THE CRUCIFIXION OR RENUNCIATION
Before the fourth initiation the work of training is intensified
He studied the cosmic planes and had to master the charts
By the time the fourth initiation is taken the initiate
The life of the man, who takes the fourth initiation
He has laid all, even his perfected personality
The Christ pictured for us and emphasised the fourth initiation
This is the Crucifixion or Great Renunciation
The soul body is relinquished and can no longer be
After this initiation he is linked with the Masters of Wisdom
EDGEBA
While the hunger for knowledge has to be rapidly satisfied
He has to grasp the laws of the three lower planes intellectually
And wield them to aid the scheme of evolution manually
He studied the cosmic planes and had to master the charts
He became versed in occult technicalities and all its parts
Developed fourth dimensional vision and worked with forces
Directing the activities of the building devas in their courses
Has mastered the mental plane and can officiate
On the astral and mental plane
While mastering the spiritual plane
The life of the man, who takes the fourth initiation
Is usually of great sacrifice, suffering and tribulation
This is the Great Renunciation that has to be made
For on earth there must be no more debs to be paid
He has laid all, even his perfected personality
Upon the altar of sacrifice, the cross, and finally
All is renounced when friends, money, reputation
Family and even life has no more fascination
The Christ pictured for us and emphasised the fourth initiation
With its transition from the Fixed Cross to the Mount of Ascension
Like The Buddha, he desired nothing for himself and was forever
Liberated from the three worlds of human endeavour
This is the Crucifixion or Great Renunciation
Symbol of pain and transition through initiation
When the building of the antahkarana is done
And personality and spirit becomes one
The soul body is relinquished and can no longer be
My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me
It connotes the ending of the personality life
Through many incarnations of suffering and strife
After this initiation he is linked with the Masters of Wisdom
With Whom he has worked consciously in the spiritual kingdom
Or he can tread further on the path of initiation
That leads to even Higher Evolution and liberation
THE FIFTH INITIATION…THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION
After the fourth initiation not much remains to be done
For the personality and the monad has become one
In a relative short time the domination of the sixth sub-plane
Is achieved as well as the co-ordination of the buddhic plane
In the lodge he is admitted into closer fellowship
While his deva-contact become a working relationship
He is rapidly exhausting the resources of the Hall of Wisdom
While working with the Masters in the spiritual Kingdom
He is mastering the most intricate plans and charts for this round
And becomes adept in the significance of colour and sound
He can wield the law in the three lower planes
With free access to his Monad and the higher planes
He has many pupils under his care and tuition
Gathering under him those who hope
To lead in the next solar system or globe
As far as this scheme goes the man is relieved
After the fifth initiation has been achieved
Though he may, if he will, take two further initiations
By way of the Higher Evolution and Initiations
Those who stay to help humanity on this earth
Will change the vibrations of the globe for a new birth
Into the finer vibrations of the spiritual realm
With the Masters of Wisdom and Christ at the helm
When the Christ achieved this initiation
He embodied in Himself a new principle in evolution
The divine principle of love, as humanity calls it
Or of pure reason, as the Hierarchy calls it
Thus Christ had risen, and proved by His Resurrection
That humanity had in it the seed of life and perfection
That there was no death for the man at any stage
Lo, I am with you always even until the end of the age
This is the resurrection of the personality-consciousness
Duly fused and blended with the spiritual-consciousness
This is finally carried to the point of solar perfection
At the sixth initiation called the Ascension
About the seventh Initiation, I have no revelation
EDGEBA
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