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