INTENTION, TENSION AND CREATION [WHILST BUILDING THE ANTAHKARANA]

When we want to create something we need to create that state of mind which is our fixed Intention to create – as a result – creating something of beauty in our surroundings. Purpose is the magnetised line along which the fire may travel. Along this line will travel the perceived and designated energies made magnetic by the fire of the mind, intentionally channelled into a point of focus. This concentration and focus of forces attracts the energy of the attentive soul. Thus a point of Tension is attained and is to be steadily sustained as facility in the work progresses.

Thus again, in our building of the Antahkarana we can see how right Intention leads to right Tension resulting in Fusion – individual and with the world in which we live. Keep this in mind and the whole of life will be irradiated for you, and you will become a centre of light and love in a world emerging into light.

If we go to a higher scale we can say that behind everything in life there is a purpose; even life itself has a purpose that is God’s intention and life itself is the tension to bring about this Intention of God. It has been hinted by Those Who know so much more than we, owing to their longer life cycle and experience, that some glimmering of that eternal and cosmic Intent is beginning to dawn in the consciousness of Those Who have taken some of the higher initiations.

The Tibetan Master gave us the following: What you call “the Plan” is the response of the Hierarchy to the inflowing purposeful will of the Lord of the World. Through Sanat Kumara, the Ancient of Days [as He is called in the Bible], flows the unknown energy of which the three divine Aspects are the expression. He is Custodian of the will of the Great White Lodge on Sirius, and the burden of this “COSMIC INTENTION” is shared by the Buddhas of Activity and those Members of the Great Council Who are of so elevated a consciousness and vibration that only once a year [through Their emissary, the Buddha] is it safe for Them to contact the Hierarchy…….

A new type of energy becomes available – the energy of life itself, imbued with purpose and actuated by intention…… It is this living realisation of Being and of identification with the divine intention of God Himself, the Father, the lord of the World upon levels of awareness of which we know nothing [as yet] which constituted the unfolding awareness of the Christ upon the Way of the Higher Evolution…..He knew, in a sense hitherto unknown to Him, what God intended and what human destiny meant, and the part that He had to play in the working out of that Destiny. 

It was the dawning of this significance of the will of God upon the consciousness of the Christ which led Him to certain great decisions, and which forced Him to cry out: “Father, not my will but Thine be done.” These words definitely indicate conflict and do not indicate the synchronisation of the two will; they indicate the determination on the part of the Christ that there should be no opposition between His will and that of God. Suddenly, he received a vision of the emerging, divine intention for humanity and – through humanity – for the planet as a whole.

On the level of humanity, the Master went on: The balance is slowly, very slowly, swinging over to the side of the spirit aspect of the duality; it has not yet swung, even in intention, completely over, but the issues are becoming increasingly clearer in men’s minds and the indications are that man will eventually decide correctly, will attain a point of balance or equilibrium, and will finally throw the weight of public opinion on the side of spiritual values, thus leading to a collective renunciation of materialism, particularly in its grosser and physical forms……..

Intension and effort are considered by us of prime importance, and are the two main requisites for all disciples, initiate and masters, plus the power of persistence. [tension]

When there are a sufficient number of people who are in conscious touch with their souls, then the sheer weight of their numbers, plus the clarity of their intentions and their widespread distribution over the face of the earth, must necessary become effective. [Thus leading to right creation by humanity as a whole.]
Based on the works of AAB/DK.


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FORGIVE ME [a poem]

I do not want to utter these words as an appeal

But, I think, it is time you know how I feel

And how I found the light
Destined to shine ever bright

It is no need to say I was wrong

For what is right and what is wrong?
One moment I think I was right
And the next I want to hide from sight

Overcame by the shame of this lie

It might have been better for me to die
But luckily I realised that I had no control
Over things ordained by my soul

We have found love and happiness

Disguised in its one-sidedness
How could we know what we had
If we never went through the sad?

One of us might have known

But the other had to learn on his own
Maybe we were holding each other back
And destiny decided on a different tack

This crisis of necessity for progress

Was all ‘part and parcel’ of the proses
Of learning and gaining experience
In how to bring out the brilliance

There is a higher Schemer up there

That will lay everything bear
So that your light can be seen from afar
Because you are destined to shine like a star

Thus, life never takes us where we like to go

For that is not for us the way to grow
In time we will see everything clear
And we will know what to hold dear

Even if we never see each other again

We are always united through our pain
A sweet pain that was not in vain
But was needed to break the chain

To give birth to true love

Inspired from above

EDGEBA

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THE JOURNEY [a poem]

Where are we going on this journey of life?

Where we know nothing but strife
This journey that took so long in our roam
That we don’t even know there is a home

We are on a wonderful journey of destiny

And we won’t know it without some scrutiny
Never mind the question, “who am I?”
It should be, “what was I?”

We are to discover our own unfoldment

While going through personality disbandment
To be as we were before we left our abode
When duty called to pick up this load

So many questions on our way and overall

And so much to do to answer them all
For to be able to appreciate their brilliance
They have to be answered through experience

This kaleidoscope of madness

That can bring us so much sadness
Hides all the answers to the Cosmos
And will call for more than our utmost

Some of us just want to stay here

With things we hold deer
But it is time to find the way back home
And to remember we are not alone

By looking forward whilst remembering the past

We can develop spiritual assets that will for ever last
Great wonders are still to be discovered
As our spirituality is uncovered

The whole universe is waiting for us

The fiery worlds are waiting for us
Time to say “good bye” to materiality
And to say “hallo” to our spirituality

This wonderful journey will never end

Just as time seems to have no end
Who knows where it may leads?
Or what will be its proceeds?

So, be active in life and deliver your input

For our progress depends on our output

EDGEBA

QUALITIES OF THE HEART [a poem]

When we talk about Heart-qualities

We are actually talking Soul-qualities
For the soul is anchored in the heart
While the brain learns to play its part

The wisdom and knowledge of the heart

Is the soul’s reservoir that will make us smart
Through the direction of psychic energy
Poison is replaced by treasure, cleverly

Courage is born of a pure heart

Where it dwells in the womb of the heart
In the Fiery World we need to walk fearlessly
Thus the need down here to fight evil endlessly

When only good thoughts can be chosen

It means the gates of Beneficence are open  
As the recipient of the earthly poison
Where prana pacifies the flow of poison

True solemnity is built in the highest tension

Bringing our progress to our attention 
Through solemnity salvation can be attained
But it must be absorbed and maintained

We have a love that holds us in the mire

And a love that can inspire
The one is earthy
And the other heavenly

The abode of spirit is beautiful

So we can build by using only the beautiful
In the heart we will always find the spark
That we need to kindle the light in the dark

For success, extreme tension is needed

But in action the limit must not be exceeded
For the heart to stay the transmuter of energies
The main accumulator of our memories

Thus we need to develop all these heart qualities

For our future intercourse with higher energies
For without them we will be blind
And just be left behind

EDGEBA

SOME PROBLEMS OF PSYCHOLOGY

INTRODUCTION               

 

What I have here to say should be of general interest.  I intend to write with great simplicity, avoiding the technical terms of academic psychology, and putting the human psychological problem so plainly that real help may eventuate to many.  These days are fraught with difficulty and it would sometimes appear that the necessary environmental adjustments are so hard and the equipment so inadequate to the demanded task that humanity is being asked to perform the impossible.  It is as if the human frame had accumulated so much physical disability, so much emotional stress and had inherited so much disease and over-sensitivity that men fall back defeated.  It is as if the attitude of man to the past, to the present and to the future was of such a nature that there seems no reason for existence, that there is nothing toward which to look, and no help to be found in retrospection.

I am, therefore, widely generalising.  There are those to whom this generalisation does not apply, but even they, if they are students of human affairs, of sociological conditions, and of human equipment, are prone to question and at times to despair.  Life is so difficult these days; the tension to which men are subjected is so extreme; the future appears so threatening; and the masses of men are so ignorant, diseased and distressed.  I am putting this gloomy picture before you at the start of our discussion in order to evade no issue, to paint no silly optimistic and glamourous situation, or to portray no easy way of escape which would only lead us deeper into the gloomy forest of human error and illusion.

Yet, could we but know it, present conditions indicate their own cause and cure.  I trust that by the time we have studied the problem (cursorily, I realise, for that is all that is possible) I shall have been able to indicate a possible way out and to have offered such practical suggestions that light may appear in the dense darkness, the future hold much promise, and the present much of experiment, leading to improvement and understanding.

The major science today is Psychology.  It is one that is yet in its infancy but it holds the fate of humanity in its grasp and it has the power (rightly developed and employed) to save the race.  The reason for its greatness and usefulness lies in the fact that it lays the emphasis upon the relation of the unit to the whole, to the environment and contacts; it studies man's equipment and apparatus of such contact, and seeks to produce right adaptation, correct integration and coordination and the release of the individual to a life of usefulness, fulfillment and service.

Some of the difficulties which have to be faced as one considers the conclusions of the many, many schools of Psychology are based upon the fact of their failure to relate the many points of view to each other.  The same cleavage and even warfare is to be found within the confines of this science as are found in the individual man or in the religious field.  There is to be found a lack of synthesis, a failure to correlate results, and a tendency to overemphasise one aspect of the ascertained truth to the exclusion of others equally important.  The outstanding weakness or weaknesses in an individual's equipment or presentation of life (and also those of the group or social order) are considered to the exclusion and even negation of other weaknesses not so obvious but equally crippling.  Prejudice, dependent upon a biassed scholastic training, often frustrates the outlook so that the weakness in the psychologist's own equipment negates his efforts to aid the patient.  The failure of education today to take into consideration the whole man, or to allow scope for the activity of an integrating centre, a central point of consciousness, and a determining factor within the mechanism of the one who must be helped to adapt himself to his life condition—this above everything else is responsible for much of the trouble.  The assertion of the purely materialistic and scientific attitude which recognises only the definitely proven, or that which can be proved by the acceptance of an immediate hypothesis, has led to much loss of time.  When again the creative imagination can be released in every department of human thought we shall see many new things brought to light that are at present only accepted by the religiously inclined and by the pioneering minds.  One of the first fields of investigation to be benefited by this release will be that of psychology.

Organised religion has, alas, much to answer for, because of its fanatical emphasis upon doctrinal pronouncements, and its penalisation of those who fail to accept such dicta has served to stultify the human approach to God and to reality.  Its over-emphasis upon the unattainable and its culture of the sense of sin down the centuries have led to many disastrous conditions, to interior conflicts which have distorted life, to morbidity, sadistic attitudes, self-righteousness and an ultimate despair which is the negation of truth.

When right education (which is the true science of adaptation) and right religion (which is the culture of the sense of divinity) and right scientific unfoldment (which is the correct appreciation of the form or forms through which the subjective life of divinity is revealing itself) can be brought into right relation to each other and thus supplement each other's conclusions and efforts, we shall then have men and women trained and developed in all parts of their natures.  They will then be simultaneously citizens of the kingdom of souls, creative members of the great human family, and sound animals with the animal body so developed that it will provide the necessary instrument upon the outer plane of life for divine, human and animal revelation.  This, the coming New Age, will see take place and for it men are today consciously or unconsciously preparing.

We will divide the problems of psychology into the following groupings:

1. The Problems of Cleavage, leading frequently to the many ways of escape, which constitute the bulk of the modern complexes.

2. The Problems of Integration, which produce many of the difficulties of the more advanced people.

3. The Problems due to Inheritance, racial, family, etc., involving the problems of inherited diseases, with consequent crippling of the individual.

 

 

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[Taken from ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY, p401/37]