MORE ON THE ANTAHKARANA

During the Atlantean period when all human beings were conscious magicians according to Plan, humanity, for an inexplicable reason (except that it be karmic), denied the Logoic Plan for one of its own. That is, men conceived and created according to their own separative purposes. In so doing, the economy of the Planetary Life was misused, the relationship of Spirit, matter, and consciousness altered, and the antahkarana between man and his own Soul broken. As the word sounded in time and space, it took on a destructive tone because it was sounded in violation of the One Life.
The breaking of the antahkarana resulted in an upheaval within the consciousness of the Planetary Life, and man set himself adrift from the Logoic Purpose which had brought him into being, i.e., he broke off his own relationship with God.
It was not a vengeful God who denied man his Divine heritage. It was man himself who destroyed his own awareness of himself as Soul, and consequently shut the door upon his creative genius.
The outer results of this act came in the form of a cataclysm which wiped out the Atlantean civilization. The violent changing of the earth’s surfaces, the inundation of heavily populated areas with water, and the gradual decline of man’s knowledge of the creative process, were but outer reflections of the terrible upheaval taking place within the consciousness of the Planet itself.

Since that time, humanity has gradually brought itself back to the reappearing cycle of opportunity. The antahkarana, not only between man and his Soul, but between the Hierarchy and humanity, is being reconstructed by those disciples in the world who consciously serve the Plan. That Plan, which has to do with man as a creator, is once again being focussed downward, and the redemption of both consciousness and substance for Logoic Purpose becomes possible.

 THE ANTAHKARANA    [The Lost Word - OM, or The Rainbow Bridge] 

The antahkarana is the true science of the mind
Where you leaf all your previous achievements behind
And utilise mental substance for the bridging between the personality triad
And soul, and then between soul-infused personality, and the spiritual triad

First, the life thread comes directly from the Monad or the One
To be anchored in the heart, during incarnation, for everyone
It is the seat of life
During the time you are alive

Then, directly from the soul, comes the consciousness thread
Which, during incarnation, is anchored in the head
It is the seat of consciousness
That brings about your responsiveness

Thirdly, and initiated and constructed by the personality
And anchored in the throat, is the thread of creative activity
It is the seat of creativity, created through our conceptions
That now gives life and expression to our creations

The antahkarana [OM] is a fusion and combination to perfection
Of these three threads [the sutratma - AUM ] and their projection
Into the higher mental plane, until the abstract mind
Is related by a triple cable to the concrete mind

On the first great union on the path to reality
A rhythm [OM] is set up between Soul and Personality
This first step to liberation
Is completed at the third initiation

Thus the energies that animate the soul and the personality
Are blended and fused into one, soul-infused personality
The three aspects of the soul in the spiritual world
And the three worlds of the personality become one world

After the bridging of the personality and the soul
Comes the bridging of the spiritual triad and the soul
This personality, soul and spirit combination
Is completed at the fourth initiation

Before a man can tread the path himself
He has to become that path itself
By using these forces for self-unfoldment and unity
And in the service of the Plan for humanity

By acting as if this stages have already been achieved
A shortcut to creating the antahkarana can be perceived

EDGEBA  



 THE ANTAHKARANA II        DEFINITION

The extension of the threefold thread
[Hitherto woven unconsciously in the head 
Through life experimentation and the response
Of consciousness to environment up to the nonce]

Through the use of the imagination continuously        

In the process of projecting consciously
The triple blended energies, [of the life thread
Consciousness thread and creative thread]

Of the personality as they are impulse by the soul and assisted

Across a gap in consciousness which has hitherto existed
Between the personality in its three aspects
And the monad and its three aspects

It is the bridge the man builds through meditation

Understanding and the magical work in creation
Of the soul between the three aspects of his mind
The lower mind, the Son of Mind and the Higher Mind

The thread is woven as a result of the appearance

Of life upon the physical plain and its adherence
From the world of exoteric phenomena and seeing
Into the world of subjective realities and meaning

It is the bridge between the personality and the soul

And then with the spiritual triad to form a whole
The first half through the use of mental substance
The second half through the use of light substance

It’s the triple thread which exists from the beginning of time

And links the individual man with his monadic source sublime
The thread of life, consciousness, and creations    
The responsive agent in all sensitive reactions

It deals with the incoming system of energy distribution

The process of usage, transformation and its fusion
Also with the outgoing energies and their relationship
To the environment in their creationship

The goal is to become aware of this stream of energy

In its diversifications and to employ it expertly
Interiorly in self-unfoldment as far as you can
And in the service of humanity and for the Plan

EDGEBA


ANTAHKARANA III             THE SOUL BODY

The soul body or causal body has its place of strain

On the third sub plain of the mental plane
Five vibratory impulses from the Manasadevas in their focus
And four inherent in matter, produced the ninefold Egoic Lotus

At this stage tightly closed, nine petals folded

One upon the other waiting to be unfolded
Thus the appearance on the mental plane
Of the manasic triangle to start this campaign

It circulates between the manasic permanent atom

And a point at the centre of the egoic lotus like a phantom
And thence to the mental unit which has appeared
Upon the fourth subplane through instinct engineered  

This triangle is the Nucleus of the Antahkarana and will shine

Ever brighter until it produces an answering vibration in time
From both the lower and higher triads, or lower and higher mind
Connected through the egoic lotus, or Son of Mind

The work of the highly evolved man is to reduce this triangle
To a unity by means of the highest aspiration he can wangle
Which is simply transmuted desire affecting mental matter
To turn it into the Path by which to build the Antahkarana ladder

And thus reproduce in a higher synthetic form the earlier trail

Along which the spirit took possession on a higher scale
Of its vehicle, the causal body, and from thence
Again work through the lower personal self hence

Over time three more petals appear which close eventually

In on the central flame, covering it effectually
To remain closed until the time comes into focus
For the revelation of the “Jewel in the Lotus”

Then the three permanent atoms are enclosed in the center   

Of the lotus and can be seen clairvoyantly as a subcenter
For a burning triangle of three points of light
Within an egoic lotus still very white

The causal body though only in an embryonic condition
Is now ready for full activity during its long transition
Of the matter, the spiritual and the consciousness aspects
Into the Antahkarana or Rainbow bridge with all its prospects

EDGEBA


THE ANTAHKARANA IV           PERSONALITY TO SOUL

From the evolutionary angle there is little conscious awareness

Existing between the soul and the personality consciousness
A man’s whole effort is to become aware of the Soul
And to transmute his consciousness into that of the Soul

As the fusion of soul and personality grow stronger

The creative thread becomes active and grows longer
Thus the three threads steadily fuse and blend
And become ready to bridge the gap to the higher end

To unite Spiritual Triad and the personality

Through the medium of the soul and its centrality
Involves a direct effort at divine creative work
Where the soul puts the throat centre to work

Now the integrated personality gets active

With the help of the soul who is no longer passive
And starts to build the Antahkarana
With knowledge of the ancient arcana

This is the fusion of the three threads and a projection

Of them into the higher mental plane for a connection
Between the lower concrete mind and the abstract mind
The Soul or Egoic Lotus also known as the Son of mind

They are now related by the triple cable of the Life Thread

The Consciousness thread and the Creative Thread
This must be held firmly in the consciousness
Of the soul-infused personality with ferociousness

The man now stands holding the mind steady in the light

While his meditation and devotion aid him in this fight
Knowledge of the process becomes clear
As growing soul contact is brought near         

Even occasional flashes of intuitive perception

From the Triad becomes part of his reception
To complete the rainbow bridge in his goal
To unite the Spiritual Triad with the Soul

Thus the, Spiritual Triad, soul and Personality

Become united as a higher spiritual mentality
Where the third initiation marks the consummation
And the fourth initiation the complete realisation

Only when this is done

Can you and your Father be One

EDGEBA


THE ANTAHKARANA V          THE TRINITY

In considering this process it is necessary to unwind

The thread and to recognise the three aspects of the mind
As they express themselves upon the mental plain
And produce the varying states of consciousness on that plane

It is impregnated by those qualities and aspects of that Being

We call God and in Whom we live and have our being
The expression of that Trinity of aspects as known
And taken by religions to be their own

First, utilising the life thread, we have the Father Aspect

Based in the heart and supplying Purpose as the Will Aspect
It’s our life purpose that motivates our evolution
And  will eventually bring everything to conclusion

This is the underlying Plan of God from the beginning

A mystery to us but the essential Cause Of Being
The force or note of synthetic sound
That makes everything go around

Secondly, utilising the consciousness thread, the Son Aspect

Supplies wisdom and understanding as the Love Aspect
Through the Soul for quality of sensitivity
To be used and expressed through our activity

It is our nature of relationships without confusion    

The method on which to base our evolution
It is the note of attractive sound
That creates beauty in abound

Thirdly, utilising the creative thread, the Mother Aspect

Also the Holy Spirit, is the Intelligence Aspect
Created by the man through the throat centre
After many incarnations the way to enter 

This is the intelligence we find in substance

The nature of form against resistance  
The note of nature’s contribution
And its response to evolution

When the man has gained the right attributes

Each of his three divine aspects contributes
To the building of the rainbow bridge
To lead him over the ditch

Before a man can tread the path

He must himself, must become that path

EDGEBA


THE ANTAHKARANA VI         DIVINE ASPECTS   

The major realisation to be grasped about our fate

At this point in human evolution is the need to relate
Consciously the Spiritual Triad on the spiritual plane
With the threefold personality and the Soul on its own plane

This is done through the creative work of the personality

The magnetic power of the Triad, and the conscious activity
Of the soul, utilising the triple thread
Or the life-creative-consciousness thread

You can see, therefore, why so much emphasis is laid

By esotericists upon fusion and blending in their crusade
Only when this is intelligently realised can the disciple begin
To weave the threads into a bridge of light now hidden within

This eventually becomes the Lighted Way across which

He can pass into the higher worlds of being and unhitch
Or liberate himself from the three worlds
While moving on to higher thresholds

It is in this world cycle pre-eminently a question of fusion

And expressing in full waking awareness without confusion
Three major states of consciousness
Without giving in to glamorousness

The Human consciousness has the goal

Recognition and cooperation with the soul
The influence of the consecrated personality
Expressing through intelligent action in reality

The Hierarchical Consciousness has the goal

Awareness of the Self, the Soul
Recognition and cooperation with divinity
Through Love the second principle of the Trinity

The Shamballa Consciousness of will, on man

Leads to recognition and cooperation with the plan
The influence of the Triad expressed through strife
Leads to awareness of the unity and purpose of life

The man who builds the Antahkarana across the mental plain

Connects or relate these three divine aspects with much pain
He treads the path of return and builds the antahcarana bright
Crosses it and achieves the freedom of the Path of Light

EDGEBA

THE APPROPRIATION OF THE BODIES BY THE SOUL

  The personality is the fusion of three major forces and their subjection (finally and after the fusion) to the impact of soul energy.  This impact is made in three different stages or in what are occultly termed "three impulsive movements"—using the word "impulsive" in its true connotation and not in the usual emotional and enthusiastic significance.  These impulsive movements are:

 a. The impact of the soul at the stage of human evolution which we call individualisation.  At that time, the form becomes aware for the first time of the touch of the soul.  This is called in the language of esotericism the "Touch of Appropriation."  The soul then appropriates its vehicle.

This stage is succeeded by a long period of adjustment and of gradual development and unfoldment.  This takes place upon the way of experience, and during that period the soul tightens its hold upon its instrument, the lower form nature.

b. The impact of the soul is called forth by the dilemmas and through the emergencies of the later stages of the path of experience.  During this stage, the urgency of the need, and the dilemmas brought about by the forces of opposition, lead the man to submit to a higher influence.  He calls then in desperation upon the soul and upon the spiritual resources laid up in his divine nature and hitherto remaining unused.  This impact is called the "Touch of Acquiescence," and marks the acceptance by the soul of the demand of the personality for help and light.  The soul acquiesces in the plea of the personality for guidance.

It is to be noted that we are here considering the attitude of the soul to the personality and not that of the personality to the soul, which is the attitude usually under consideration.  We are dealing primarily in this treatise with the reactions and activities of the soul through its ray energy, and its response to the demand of the forces—focussed, combined and integrated—of the personality.

c. The impact of the soul at the time of the various and sequential initiations to which the disciple is eventually subjected, as he transits out of the fourth into the fifth kingdom in nature.  This stage is called the "Touch of Enlightenment," and through the bringing together of the forces of the purified personality and those of the "approaching" soul, a "light is engendered which fadeth not away."

 In these three impacts,—

1. The touch of appropriation on the physical plane,

2. The touch of acquiescence or compliance on the astral plane,

3. The touch of enlightenment upon the mental plane,

there is summarised clearly and concisely the attitude of the soul towards its rapidly preparing instrument.

The great Touch of Appropriation lies racially in the past.  The Touch of Acquiescence takes place upon the battlefield of the emotional nature, and the Touch of Enlightenment is effected through the mind.

The first three initiations are expressions of these three stages or impacts, and it might also be stated that the Lemurian, the Atlantean and the Aryan races are also expressions of man's reactions to these three soul approaches.

 The third initiation sees the soul and the personality perfectly blended so that the light blazes forth and the great Approaches between soul and form are consummated.

 Today, in this particular cycle and in this Aryan race, the Hierarchy (as an expression of the kingdom of souls) is recapitulating these three inevitable steps and making certain advances or approaches to the race.  We can therefore divide humanity into three groups and relate humanity to the three major approaches.

a. The Approach of Appropriation will express the effect of the present stimulation upon the unevolved masses.  Thousands and thousands of men and women are in process of awakening and during the next few years will come to soul consciousness, for the soul of each individual is intensifying its initial appropriation at the Lemurian crisis of individualisation, and the ancient enterprise is again being re-enacted as a needed recapitulatory endeavor.  All this today lies almost entirely in the realm of consciousness.  The great appropriation was made millions of years ago.  Today, in consciousness, there will come a great awakening to the significance of what was, at that time, largely a physical event, and masses of men will become aware—in their brain consciousness—of that early appropriation.  This is being brought about by a fresh approach by the soul and an advance towards its reflection, the personality, and it produces in time a consequent recognition upon the part of man.

b. The Approach of Acquiescence will be equally well recognised by the intelligent and more highly evolved sons of men.  They will awaken to the relationship which exists between their personalities and the soul, and between the forces of the lower nature and the energy of the soul.  It is with this particular task that the New Group of World Servers is primarily occupied,—looking at their activities from the standpoint of the Hierarchy.  Their work is to facilitate the entrance of soul energy, which energy expresses itself in love and in good will.  This in its turn results in peace—individual, racial and planetary—and the great group aspect of the approach will be brought about, and is today in process of being carried forward.

c. The Approach of Enlightenment carries the disciple through the gate of initiation, and is the effect of the same energy playing upon the personalities of the disciples of the world, and transforming their spirit of aspiration into the light of initiation.

The Mysteries of the world, the flesh and the devil (to use the symbolic formal terminology of Christianity) are to be transmuted with rapidity into those of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, the energy of the soul, and the revelation of divinity.  The secret hid by the inverted lotus (the world) is to be revealed by the opened lotus of the kingdom of souls.  The secret of the flesh, which is the prison of the soul, is revealed by the perfume of the unfolding lotus of the soul.  The mystery of the devil will eventually be seen to be that of the light of God's countenance, which reveals that which is undesirable and must be changed and renounced, and which thus transforms life by the light that God's nature pours forth.

It would be of use to us all to study these three soul approaches—individual or hierarchical—and to ponder upon them and put ourselves in training, so that we may make the needed recognitions.  Let us also ponder upon the following triplicities:—

 1. Mass Consciousness.  Self-consciousness.  Group-consciousness. 

                These lead, in due time, to

2. Appropriation.....Acquiescence.....Enlightenment.

                through the racial stages of

3. Lemurian experience.  Atlantean experience.  Aryan experience.

                and the individual stages of

4. Experience.....Discipleship.....Initiation.

                producing, in their turn,

5. Racial probation.....Racial discipleship.....Racial initiation.

                and individually

6. The probationer.....The Disciple.....The Initiate.

                which lead eventually to

7. The New Group of World

                Servers..The Hierarchy..The Kingdom of God

 

[A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS, VOL. II, p264/69

 

Read more at:
http://edgeba.webs.com/esotericpsychologyrays.htm

PRINCIPLES AND PERSONALITIES

           

Some people approach the problem of Being through mental appreciation; others through heart understanding; some are motivated through the head and others through the heart; some do things or avoid doing them because they know, rather than feel; some react to their surroundings mentally rather than emotionally.

"The point on which to seek illumination is whether the path for some is not to serve because they know rather than love God, Who, after all, is but their innermost selves.  Is this not the path of the occultist and of the sage rather than of the mystic and the saint?  When all is said and done, is it not a question, primarily, of the ray one is on and the Master under whom one serves one's apprenticeship?  Is not true knowledge a species of intellectual love?  If a poet can pen an ode to intellectual beauty why may not we express appreciation of a unity that is conceived of the head rather than of the heart?  Hearts are well enough in their way but they are not suited to the world's rough usage.

"Can one do aught but accept his present limitation while seeking such transcendence as is his by the Divine Law of evolution?  Is there not such a thing (by comparison) as a spiritual inferiority complex on the part of such as are sensible (and perhaps over-sensitive) of the fact that while their lives intellectually are replete with interest, the desert of their hearts has not yet been made to blossom like the rose?

"In other words, provided one repairs to his appointed station and there serves in his acceptance of Brotherhood in the Presence of Fatherhood, what difference does it make that the fundamental postulate is with him a thing of the head rather than of the heart?"

 I would answer such a questioning as follows:

It is not a question of ray or even of the basic distinction between the occultist and the mystic.  In the rounded-out individual both head and heart must function with equal power.  In time and space, however, and during the process of evolution, individuals are distinguished by a predominating tendency in any one life; it is only because we do not see all the picture that we draw these temporary distinctions.  In one life a man may be predominantly mental and for him the path of the Love of God would be unsuited.  The Love of God is shed abroad in his heart and to a considerable degree his occult approach is based on the mystic perception of past lives.  For him the problem is to know God, with the view of interpreting that knowledge in love to all.  Responsible love, demonstrated in duty to group and family, is therefore for him the line of least resistance.  Universal love, raying out to all nature and all forms of life, will follow on a more developed knowledge of God, but this will be part of his development in another life.

 Students of human nature (and this all aspirants should be) would do well to bear in mind that there are temporary differences.  People differ in:

a. Ray (which affects predominantly the magnetism of the life).

b. Approach to truth, either the occult or the mystic path having the stronger drawing power.

c. Polarisation, deciding the emotional, mental or physical intent of a life.

d. Status in evolution, leading to the diversities seen among men.

e. Astrological sign, determining the trend of any particular life.

f. Race, bringing the personality under the peculiar racial thought form.

 The sub-ray on which a man is found, that minor ray which varies from incarnation to incarnation, largely gives him his coloring for this life.  It is his secondary hue.  Forget not, the primary ray of the Monad continues through the aeon.  It changes not.  It is one of the three primary rays that eventually synthesise the sons of men.  The ray of the ego varies from round to round, and, in more evolved souls, from race to race, and comprises one of the five rays of our present evolution.  It is the predominating ray to which a man's causal body vibrates.  It may correspond to the ray of the monad, or it may be one of the complementary colours to the primary.  The ray of the personality varies from life to life, till the gamut of the seven sub-rays of the Monadic ray has been passed through.

Therefore, in dealing with people whose monads are on a similar or complementary ray it will be found that they approach each other sympathetically.  We must remember however that evolution must be far advanced for the ray of the monad to influence extensively.  So the majority of cases come not under this category.

 With average advanced men, who are struggling to approximate themselves to the ideal, similarity of the egoic ray will produce mutual comprehension, and friendship follows.  It is easy for two people on the same egoic ray to comprehend each other's point of view, and they become great friends, with unshaken faith in each other, for each recognizes the other acting as he himself would act.

 But when (added to the egoic similarity of ray) you have the same ray of personality, then you have one of those rare things a perfect friendship, a successful marriage, an unbreakable link between two.  This is rare indeed.

When you have two people on the same personality ray but with the egoic ray dissimilar, you may have those brief and sudden friendships and affinities, that are as ephemeral as a butterfly.  These things need bearing in mind and with their recognition comes the ability to be adaptable.  Clarity of vision results in a circumspect attitude.

Another cause of difference can be due to the polarization of the bodies.  Unless this too meets with recognition in dealing with people lack of comprehension ensues.  When you use the term:  "a man polarized in his astral body"—you really mean a man whose ego works principally through that vehicle.  Polarity indicates the clarity of the channel.  Let me illustrate.  The ego of the average man has its home on the third sub-plane of the mental plane.  If a man has an astral vehicle largely composed of third sub-plane astral matter, and a mental vehicle mostly on the fifth sub-plane, the ego will centre his endeavour on the astral body.  If he has a mental body of fourth sub-plane matter and an astral body of fifth sub-plane, the polarization will be mental.

When you speak of the ego taking more or less control of a man you really mean that he has built into his bodies matter of the higher sub-planes.

The ego takes control with interest only when the man has almost entirely eliminated matter of the seventh, sixth, and fifth sub-planes from his vehicles.  When he has built in a certain proportion of matter of the fourth sub-plane the ego extends his control; when there is a certain proportion of the third sub-plane, then the man is on the Path; when second sub-plane matter predominates then he takes initiation, and when he has matter only of atomic substance, he becomes a Master.  Therefore, the sub-plane a man is on is of importance, and the recognition of his polarization elucidates life.

The third thing you need to remember is that even when these two points are admitted, the age of the soul's experience frequently causes lack of comprehension.  The above two points do not carry us very far, for the capacity to sense a man's ray is not for this race as yet.  Approximate supposition and the use of the intuition is all that is now possible.  The little evolved cannot comprehend completely the much evolved, and in a lesser degree, the advanced ego comprehends not an initiate.  The greater can apprehend the lesser but the reverse is not the case.

As regards the action of those whose point of attainment greatly transcends your own, I can only ask you to do three things:

a. Reserve judgment.  Their vision is greater.  Forget not that one of the greatest qualities members of the Lodge have achieved is their ability to view the destruction of form as unimportant.  Their concern is with the evolving life.

b. Realize that all events are brought around by the Brothers with a wise purpose in view.  Lesser grade initiates, though utterly free agents, fit into the plans of their superiors just as do you in your lesser way.  They have their lessons to learn, and the rule of learning is that all experience has to be bought.  Apprehension comes by the punishment that follows an ill-judged act.  Their superiors stand by to turn to good account situations brought about by the errors of those inferior in point of development.

c. Remember also that the Law of Rebirth holds hidden the secret of the present crisis.  Groups of egos come together to work out certain karma involved in past days.  Men have erred grievously in the past.  Punishment and transmutation are the natural working out.  Violence and cruelty in the past will reap its heavy karma, but it lies in the hands of you all now to transmute the old mistakes.

Also bear in mind that principles are eternal, personalities temporal.  Principles are to be viewed in the light of eternity; personalities from the standpoint of time.  The trouble is that, in many situations, two principles are involved, one of which is secondary.  The difficulty lies in the fact that (both being principles) both are right.  It is a rule for safe guidance always to remember that usually basic principles (for their wise comprehension and fruitful working out) call for the play of the intuition whilst secondary principles are more purely mental.  The methods hence necessarily differ.  When holding to the basic principles, the wisest methods are silence and a joyful confidence that the Law works, an avoidance of all personality innuendo except wise and loving comment, and a determination to see all in the light of eternity and not of time, coupled with a constant endeavour to follow the law of love and see only the divine in your brothers, e'en if on an opposing side.

In secondary principles, which all opposing forces are at present emphasizing, the use of the lower mind involves the danger of criticism, the employment of methods sanctioned by time in the three worlds—methods involving personal attack, invective and the expenditure of force along destructive lines, and a spirit contrary to the law of the plane of unity.  The term "opposing forces" is used rightly if you employ it only in a scientific sense and mean the contrasting pole that leads to equilibrium.  Remember therefore, that opposing groups may be quite sincere, but the concrete mind acts in them as a barrier to the free play of the higher vision.  Their sincerity is great but their point of attainment along some lines less than that of those who adhere to basic principles, seen in the light of the intuition.

A principle is that which embodies some aspect of the truth on which this system of ours is based; it is the seeping through to the consciousness of the man of a little of the idea on which our Logos bases all He does.  The basis of all Logoic action is love in activity, and the fundamental idea on which He bases action connected with the human Hierarchy is the power of love to drive onward,—call it evolution, if you like, call it inherent urge, should you so prefer, but it is love causing motion and urging onward to completion.  It is the driving of one and all to further expression.  Hence, this principle should underlie all activity, and the government of the lesser organizations, if founded on love leading to activity, would lead to a divine urge in all its members, driving them likewise on to fullest expression, and thus tend  to more adequate completeness and more satisfactory endeavour.

A principle, when really fundamental, appeals at once to the intuition and calls out an immediate re-action of assent from the man's higher Self.  It makes little or no appeal to the personality.  It embodies a conception of the ego in his relationship to others.  A principle is that which governs always the action of the ego on his own plane, and it is only as we come more and more under the guidance of that ego that our personality conceives of, and responds to these ideas.  This is a point to be borne in mind in all dealings with others and should modify judgments.  To apprehend a principle justly marks a point in evolution.

A principle is that which ensouls a statement dealing with the highest good of the greatest number.  That a man should love his wife is a statement of a principle governing the personality but it must later be transmuted into the greater principle that a man must love his fellow men.  Principles are of three kinds and the higher must be reached via the lower:

(a) Principles governing the lower personal self, dealing with the actions or active life of that lower self.  They embody the third aspect or the activity aspect of logoic manifestation and form the basis of later progress.  They control the man during his little evolved state, and during his period of thoughtlessness and might be comprehended more easily if I were to say that they are embodied in the commonly accepted rules of decent living.  Thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, have to do with a man's active life, with the building up of character.


Please read he res at: http://edgeba.webs.com/principlesandpersonalities.htm