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
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