Integration
It helps us to find the light that will illuminate our path through our daily attainment of integration and to help fill the gap between theory and practice, between mental knowledge and integrated soul-infused living. I can see that the major task is to intensify the mental life and let the mind principle control the emotional nature and the physical activities. No man becomes an accepted disciple until his whole lower nature is controlled by his illumined mind. I can see the three stages in the integration process”
1. The integration of the personality and the close co-ordination of the three instruments of the soul.
2. The integration later brought about between the integrated personality and the soul.
3. A higher integration in which the soul contact is superseded and the integration is directly between the soul-infused personality and the Spiritual Triad.
The three lower vehicles are appropriated by the soul for service in the three worlds:
1. To gain control in the three worlds.
2. To give opportunity to the substance of the forms…. To reach a higher point of perfection through the impact upon it of life, via the soul.
Intelligent grasp is one thing. The application of the knowledge by the mind in the lower nature is another. The latter involves the emphasis of the essentials and the elimination of the non-essentials. Until this is somewhat accomplished, the deeper aspects of esoteric training are neither safe nor possible. The soul is the true esotericist, and until the mental link between the soul and the integrated personality is strong and continuously utilised, the esoteric aspect of the training for discipleship will escape the personality. The mind is the integrating factor.
ORIGIN
To understand the bolts and nuts of the soul better we have to study it on its own plane as far as it is possible for the mind to grasp this matter; after all it is still the mental plane. Where did it all start?
Egoic manifestation is produced through the medium of two fires.
In all manifestation, as we well know, we have duality producing triplicty. Spirit meets and contacts matter; the result of that contact is the birth of the Son, or the Ego, the consciousness aspect. The egoic manifestation is therefore the middle aspect, [neither bad nor good] the place of at-one-ment, and [after due evolutionary cycles] the place of balance, or equilibrium. It is the point of central emphasis in man’s threefold manifestation. It is the division of his nature which concerns the process of making him the perfect six-pointed star during the preliminary stage [the threefold personality and the threefold Triad merged and blended and perfectly produced through the intermediate point the causal body] and which, when the physical body is eliminated, makes him the five-pointed star or perfected manasaputra.
The egoic manifestation is produced at individualisation.
The causal body is that sheath of mental substance which is formed at the moment of individualisation by the contact of the two fires. The force or energy that pours through from the higher planes [the breath of the Monad] produces a vacuum, and the sheath of the causal body – the ring-pass-not of the central Life is formed. Within this sheath are to be found three atoms, which have been termed the mental unit or atom, the astral permanent atom and the physical permanent atom; a reflection of the three Persons of the logoic Trinity.
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