DEVELOPMENT

Let’s just take a look again at the hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of the western governments. They have financed and organised wars and revolutions in countries like Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria where they went out of their way to destroy not only the infrastructure but also the culture of the people without putting in place anything that can help the people to rebuild a new country or a new culture. No honest politicians, no good police force or army to protect the people and to supply stability in the country. No education, new religion, law or descent industry. They destroy, and leave a mess behind. As soon as something gets rebuild or some honest politicians want to better the situation for the people and not for himself and his friends or the corporations, they move in and destroys again. By now the people in the world who can think for themselves have realised the games they play. These people do not bring anything better to the countries whose governments they overthrow or destroy.  Their actions remind me of the following story I came across:

DEVELOPMENTAL   EXAMPLE - By [W. C. VETSCH]

Let's say you live in a village.  In this village, the only source of water is the community well.  However, the well is going dry and your fellow villagers are quite concerned.  Now let's say that, one day, you go out for a walk and you decide to go climb a hill that, for whatever reason, no one has ever climbed before.  On the other side of the hill, you find a natural spring with pure clean water - more than your village could ever want.

Now, we want to look at two possible scenarios for how you could handle this discovery.  One scenario we will call "The Natural Way" and the second scenario we will call "The American Way":

THE NATURAL WAY

In this scenario, you scoop up some water and go back to the village and call all the people and tell them,  "Our water problems are solved!  Just over that hill is a natural spring with more water than we will ever need and it even tastes better than the water from the old well.  Here, I brought some back.  Try it!

Everyone is thrilled and you begin to discuss some plan to maybe make some pipe or something so that you will not need to climb the hill to get the water and stuff like that.

This is the "Natural Way"

THE  AMERICAN  WAY

In this scenario, you scoop up some water and go back to the village and call the people and tell them, "Look what I have here - fresh clean water - try some."

And they are all happy and ask, "Where is the water so we can use it to save our village?"  But then you say, "That information is classified and a trade secret.  What I gave you was a free sample, however, I am now 'the water company' and, if you want water so you can continue to live, you must pay me - in advance."

So now the people of the village are giving you money.  With that money, you can hire some of the people to go get water and bring it back for the desperate villagers.  However, your "trade secret" is fragile because, if anyone learns about the spring on the other side of the hill, the people will go get their water for free and you will be out of business - and that may well be the least of your trouble.  So, you must carefully choose people for your "company" and make sure they are sworn to secrecy.  You can offer your faithful employees incentives to keep quiet like free water for them and their families and even extra water just to waste.

As your profits increase, you can afford to spend more money on security.  First, you will want to use psychological techniques to make sure that no regular people from the village ever get the notion to climb the hill.  You will want to start rumors that some monster lives on the other side of the hill and that anyone who goes there will be gobbled up and never return.  Now, just in case someone does not believe you, you will need to hire some snipers to hide close to the top of the hill.  If anyone looks like they are getting close to discovering your "trade secret", the snipers are to kill them and throw them in a hole on the other side of the hill - people will be told that "the monster must have got them".

As time goes on and your profits grow, now that you have more money than you will ever need, you look to other neat things you can do.  With your money, you can take over the press and the education system.  People will be instructed that you are now "the god of water" and that you have always existed and see all and know all, etc.  The school books will be rewritten so that kids will be taught this.  If you encounter dissent, well there is always the hole on the other side of the hill and the "monster story" to explain disappearances.

You can also now afford to do nice things every once and a while to make people like you such as giving free water to starving poor people who can't afford to pay you - but just enough to barely keep them alive.

Also, you may want to consider your faithful employees.  Of course, you will have trained security people to watch them and make sure they remain faithful.  However, a better way to cultivate loyalty is with special perks others do not have.  In the village, water is precious to the desperate people because they do not know the truth.  However, you could not care less about water because you have more than you will ever need.  So, why not be totally decadent!

You can construct a "recreation center" for your employees with a swimming pool and spa so that they can have fun and waste all the water they want.  Later, you can expand this to a "secret village" located on your side of the hill where those loyal to you will enjoy every luxury while the regular people in the original village will suffer and beg for mercy as you consistently raise the price of your water.

This is the "American Way"

This is the way of the people that are controlling the wold today.

THE WAY OF THE DISCIPLE

 

The Way of the Disciple is:

        a)      The Way of Release. Detachment is the keynote.

        b)      The way of Loneliness. It leads to and through the “dark night of the soul.”

        c)       The Way that leads to the Mountain Top of Isolation – a cutting loose from all form and all that   

                 hold the disciple to the world.

        d)      The Way that leads to the place of Initiation.

        e)      The Way of Purification that leads to the removal of all worldly desire and all hate.

 

These are the “Five Ways” that the disciples of the Lord of the world must go. They are those strong souls who consciously and knowingly enter into the realms of spiritual force and take thence that which they need and that which they choose [working intelligently], so that there may be a subsequent wise distribution of force within a chosen area of service.

Strict adherence to the “Five Ways”, above mentioned, that represent a scientific formula, will definitely change the serious disciple in ways that will equip him to be of tremendous service in the world work of the Hierarchy and the New Group of World Servers.  

let’s take a look at them and see how the one leads to the other to form one path:

The Way of Purification and the Way of Release:

Here the keynote, after cleaning the physical body, is Detachment to clean out the emotional body. Detachment helped me to see reality. I went to a very tough emotional experience in my life that made me see that all the things in my life up to then, did not mean a thing and that I can easily give everything up. I do not need anything accept the most basic things in live that I need to live day to day.

 

DETACHMENT

We are not only attached to things physically

But also things psychologically
It can be a thing or a person or a place
Your self-image, belief system or your race

This can block out all new truths and reality

Where analysis becomes a distorted actuality
Seen through your own historical perspective 
And an imagination that stays ineffective

The emotional body develops likes and dislikes at random    

Some come easily and are easy to abandon
Other attachments become central to one’s life
And are not easily relinquished through strive

Attachment is related to form and create      

A non-fluidic, non-growing, static state
Where evil works against evolution
And detachment becomes the solution

Detachment is related to consciousness.

And moving away from a distorted mindfulness
Through separation from form 
To where better judgement is the norm

In the first condition above we have an emotional focus

That is corrected most often through a mental focus
Where mental clarity is the hammer
To smash emotional glamour

In the second condition we have an attachment totality

Of the physical-emotional-mental bodies of personality
That is rectified through soul focus
That knows the real from the bogus

This is not the detachment of self-isolation

Aloofness or self- fortification  
But soul detachment which works from higher perspective
That makes everything in life more attractive   

Seeing everything in life and the goal

Through the light which streams from the soul
Regarding everything from the standpoint of eternity
And related to the Holy Trinity

When the disciple reach the point where nothing hols him in this life, what is he Living for? ……He is living to be of service…..that is his main driving force and motivation in life, accept the need and will for self-betterment and development to be eventually of even better service.

 

The way of Loneliness:
This works mostly on the mental body and it leads to and through the “dark night of the soul” towards liberation.
Loneliness in my case as it worked out for me helped me to dedicate all my time to service and to try and better myself while I still can. I have nobody and nothing in life that glamours for my attention or that might become a hindrance on my path. Sometimes I feel the loneliness when I think of lost family members but I know that it is all for the better and time moves on. In my case now all that remains is service. I am happy alone and in spirit, and out there in nature, I am never alone. I would not be able to do what I am doing now if I was not alone. For me it is a blessing and I can appreciate the following words of Master DK in his writings:

·         Nothing is left to him but to become his own guide and find his own way home alone.  In the loneliness which is the lot of every true disciple are born that self-knowledge and self-reliance which will fit him in his turn to be a Master.  This loneliness is not due to any separative spirit but to the conditions of the Way itself.  Aspirants must carefully bear this distinction in mind.

 

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SEPARATION

The heresy of separation is the major sin upon our planet due to our ignorance and immaturity. Once a person finds out, or once somebody has explained to him, the fact that all men are equal in origin, goal and opportunity, and he understands it, the whole thing of separation makes more sense and he can figure the rest out for himself. I shall also add the fact that all men are equal when it comes to the potential of ultimate achievement in this world.

It is a sad fact that we are not equal in this world today because common sense dictates to the person who can think for himself that we are not all on the same level of evolutionary development on this planet. Our souls and spirits are not on the same levels even in the spiritual worlds, but there is the fact that we all will eventually succeed to the same level and achieve the same vibration and light.

Even the Christian Church that I grew up in did not preach or explained this to us where I grew up in South Africa. We grew up where and when it made a lot of sense to believe that Black People were inferior to White People. It took me many years to realise that it was all more a case of mental and spiritual development than political and religious propaganda, manipulation and ignorance, even if the manipulators are meaning good while blinded by their own believes and upbringings.

Only by overcoming your own ignorance and entering on the path of spiritual enquiry and development will you become aware of the above mentioned facts and will you be able to overcome separation. This was how it was with me and how I learned to see reality in a world of inequalities, where materialistic leaders are either ignorant of these facts or will try everything in their power to withhold these facts from the people. They are using the differences in racial, political and religious development  as a tool for power and material gain.

I am now retired and living in Australia but I wrote the following poem about my Country, South Africa, where I was a Policeman for three and a half years.

 

MY COUNTRY / MY LAND

South Africa is a country in pain

With the Black Knights in charge, insane
And mostly working for self-gain
With very little for the people to gain

Here the white man brought civilisation
That ended up in stagnation
Not standing up to the expectation
Of giving everybody an occupation

The evolutionary government is worse

In every aspect proving to be a curse
While draining the purse
Instead of writing a new verse

Since minerals were discovered in the ground

There was no peace to be found
For the people who fought on the battle ground
The politicians deceived in every round

A way must be instigated soon

To distribute the mineral wealth in tune
With the needs of everybody in the commune
Instead of going to the overseas tycoon

The State should run it for the people

Who should not be treated like “sheeple”
Banks and all other assets should be the steeple
That guides, upholds and protects the laypeople

On the top it was about black and white

And separatism that is not right
But deep down a materialistic plight
That turned everything into a fight

Ill-informed people went blind

Pushed by politicians from behind
That sold out their own kind
With corporate paybacks in mind

Can all this be set right

Without another fight?
Who will be our White Knight
That will restore the light?

There never was, or will be, such a man

But if we all stand together, WE CAN

I believe that materialism, ignorance or lack of mental development and a lack of spiritual development or awakening are the roots of all evil. Where you find ignorance amongst the developing nations and people in the world, you will find separation and even hatred towards those who have more or those who belong to another faith. Here we find our religious fanatics and materialistic inspired revolutionaries that are in most cases just being used by other powers with a hidden agenda.

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When You and I Were Young, Maggie

We all love a good sad love story, here is one:

Learn the story behind the song

It was first published as a song in 1866. The lyrics tell of

he tragic love story of Maggie Clarke and George Johnson who,
in the early 1860s, courted in Canada near Hamilton Ontario.
They were married in 1864, but Maggie died less than a year
after. Her husband immortalized their short life together in a poem which he published in a book of verse entitled 'Maple leaves'.
A young Englishman by the name of James Butterfield was so touched by the poem that he set it to music. Traces of the old mill can still be seen at Albions Falls near Hamilton.

 

When You and I Were Young, Maggie

I wandered today to the hill, Maggie

To watch the scene below
The creek and the rusty old mill, Maggie
Where we sat in the long, long ago.

The green grove is gone from the hill, Maggie

Where first the daisies sprung
The old rusty mill is still, Maggie
Since you and I were young.

A city so silent and lone, Maggie

Where the young and the gay and the best
In polished white mansion of stone, Maggie
Have each found a place of rest

Is built where the birds used to play, Maggie

And join in the songs that were sung
For we sang just as gay as they, Maggie
When you and I were young.

They say I am feeble with age, Maggie

My steps are less sprightly than then
My face is a well written page, Maggie
But time alone was the pen.

They say we are aged and grey, Maggie

As spray by the white breakers flung
But to me you're as fair as you were, Maggie
When you and I were young.

And now we are aged and grey, Maggie

The trials of life nearly done
Let us sing of the days that are gone, Maggie
When you and I were young.

THE SOUL / CAUSAL BODY

The Specific Gravity and Content of the Causal Body.

 

This subject, anent the causal body, opens up for the thinker much food for speculation.  The literal figures and the dimensional lines cannot be given.  They form one of the secrets of initiation but certain ideas may be suggested and submitted to the consideration of all interested.

Just what do you mean when you speak of the causal body?  Say not glibly, the body of causes, for words thus spoken are oft but nebulous and vague.  Let us now consider the causal body and find out its component parts.

On the involutionary path [the fall into matter] you have what is termed the Group Soul, aptly described (as far as earth words permit) as a collection of triads [like the case with animals], enclosed in a triple envelop of monadic essence.  On the evolutionary path, groups of causal bodies correspond and are similarly composed, three factors entering in.

The causal body is a collection of permanent atoms, three in all, enclosed in an envelop of mental essence.... What happens at the moment when animal-man becomes a thinking entity, a human being?  The approximation of the self and the not-self by means of mind, for man is "that being in whom highest spirit and lowest matter are linked together by intelligence."  What do I mean by this phrase?  Just this:  that when animal-man had reached a point of adequacy; when his physical body was sufficiently co-ordinated, when he had an emotional or desire nature sufficiently strong to form a basis for existence, and to guide it by means of instinct, and when the germ of mentality was sufficiently implanted to have donated the instinctive memory and correlation of ideas that can be seen in the average domesticated animal, then the descending spirit (which had taken to itself an atom on the mental plane) judged the time ripe for taking possession of the lower vehicles.  The Lords of the Flame were called in and they effected the transfer of polarisation from the lower atom of the Triad to the lowest atom of the Personality.  Even then, the indwelling Flame could come no lower than the third subplane of the mental plane.  There the two met and became one and the causal body was formed.  All in nature is interdependent, and the indwelling Thinker cannot control in the three lower worlds without the aid of the lower self.  The life of the first Logos must be blended with that of the second Logos and based on the activity of the third Logos.

Therefore, you have at the moment of individualisation, which is the term used to express this hour of contact, on the third subplane of the mental plane a point of light, enclosing three atoms, and itself enclosed in a sheath of mental matter.  The work then to be done consists of:

      1. Causing that point of light to become a flame, by steadily fanning the spark and feeding the fire.

     2. Causing the causal body to grow and expand from being a colourless ovoid, holding the Ego like a yolk within the egg-shell, to a thing of rare beauty, containing within itself all the colour of the rainbow.  This is an occult fact.  The causal body will palpitate in due course of time with an inner irradiation, and an inner glowing flame that will gradually work its way from the centre to the periphery.  It will then pierce through that periphery, using the body (that product of millennia of lives of pain and endeavour) as fuel for its flames.  It will burn all up, it will mount upward to the Triad, and (becoming one with that Triad) will be re-absorbed into the spiritual consciousness,—will carry with it—using heat as the symbol—an intensity of heat or quality of colour or vibration that before were lacking.

Therefore the work of the Personality—for we have to view all from that angle until egoic vision may be ours,—is first to beautify, build and expand the causal body; secondly to withdraw within it the life of the Personality, sucking the good out of the personal life and storing it in the body of the Ego.  We might term this the Divine Vampirism, for always evil is but the other side of good.  Then, having accomplished this, comes the application of the flame to the causal body itself and the joyous standing by whilst the work of destruction goes on, and the Flame—the live inner man and the spirit of divine life—is set free and mounts to its source.

The specific gravity of the causal body fixes the moment of emancipation and marks the time when the work of beautifying and building is completed, when the Temple of Solomon is erected, and when the weight (occultly understood) of the causal body measures up to the standard looked for by the Hierarchy.  Then the work of destruction supervenes and liberation approaches.  Spring has been experienced, the full verdure of summer has succeeded, now must be felt the disintegrating force of autumn,—only this time it is felt and applied on mental levels and not on physical.  The axe is laid to the root of the tree, but the life essence is garnered into the divine storehouse.

The content of the causal body is the accumulation by slow and gradual process of the good in each life.  The building proceeds slowly at first, but towards the end of incarnation—on the Probationary Path and on the Path of Initiation—the work proceeds rapidly.  The structure has been reared, and each stone quarried in the personal life.  On the Path, in each of its two divisions, the work of completing and beautifying the Temple proceeds with greater rapidity....

Briefly and in conclusion of this matter, I would seek to point out that the circumference of the causal body varies according to type and ray.  Some egoic bodies are of a form more circular than others; some are more ovoid, and others more elongated in shape.  It is the content and the pliability that matter, and above all the occult permeability of the lower auric egg that permits of contact with other egos, yet retains identity; that merges itself with its fellows, yet preserves individuality; and that absorbs all that is desirable, yet keeps ever its own shape.

June 16, 1920.

Condition of the Causal Body.  

The fourth factor underlying the choice of a method of meditation is our subject today and consists of the condition of the causal body.

We have dealt with the causal body in its relationship to the Personality or lower self, showing the interplay between the two and their interdependence.  Through steady application to occult meditation, and through the gradual stilling of the lower mind, through concentration and the wise following of the egoic ray meditation, balanced by the personality ray mediation, we found that the relationship of the causal body to the Personality became ever closer and the channel connecting the two became ever more clear and adequate.  This resulted eventually, we saw, in a shifting of polarisation from the lower to the higher and later to complete emancipation from both,—centralisation ensuing then in the spiritual consciousness.  We dealt with the matter from the lower point of view, seeing it from the standpoint of a man in the three worlds.

Today we will deal with the matter from the standpoint of the Higher Self, from the egoic level, and consider the relationship of that Self to the Hierarchy, to surrounding egos, and to the Spirit.  It will be difficult to do more than give some few hints, for much that I could say would be little comprehended, and much be too occult and dangerous for general communication.

Three things may be imparted, which—when wisely meditated upon—may lead to illumination:

The Ego on its own plane, realises consciously its relationship to the Master, and seeks to transmit that consciousness to the Personality.

The Higher self on its own plane, is not trammelled by time and space, and (knowing the future as well as that which is past) seeks to bring the desired end nearer and make it more rapidly a fact.

The Higher Self or Ego on its own plane has direct relationship with other egos on the same ray, and on a corresponding concrete or abstract ray, and—realising that progress is made in group formation—works on that plane at the helping of his kind.  These facts are already half apprehended among students but by a slight elaboration I may make it clearer.

 1. Relationship of the Ego to the Hierarchy.

 The relationship of the Ego to some one Master is at this stage consciously realised, but is nevertheless, itself of evolutionary development.  As we have been told, there are sixty thousand million units of consciousness or spirits in the evolving human hierarchy.  These are found on causal levels, though the numbers are slightly less now, owing to the attainment of the fourth Initiation by individuals from time to time.  These egos at different stages of development are all linked with their Monad, Spirit or Father in Heaven, in much the same way (only in finer matter) as the Ego is linked with the Personality.

All the Monads are, as you know, under the control, or rather form part, of the consciousness of one of the [7] Planetary Spirits.  On egoic levels, the egos are in a similar condition.  An Adept of their ray supervises their general evolution, dealing with them in groups.  These groups are formed under three conditions:

     a—As to sub-ray of the egoic ray. [One of seven.

     b—As to period of individualisation or of entrance into the human kingdom.

     c—As to point of attainment.

The Adept of their ray handles the general supervision but under Him work the Masters each on His own ray, and with Their own individual groups, who are affiliated with Them through period, through karma and through point of vibration.  Under the Masters work the disciples who have the consciousness of the Higher Self, and are therefore able to work on causal levels and aid in the development of those egos whose causal bodies are less developed than their own.

All is beautifully subject to law, and as the work of developing the egoic body is dependent upon the progress made in the threefold personality, the Ego is consequently aided on lower levels by two different disciples, one working on emotional levels and reporting to another disciple who works upon the mental vehicle.  He in his turn reports to the disciple with causal consciousness, who reports again to the Master.  All this is done with the co-operation of the indwelling consciousness in the causal body.  This, as you see, entails five factors concerning themselves with the aiding of the Ego in his evolutionary development:

       l—The Adept of his Ray.

      2—The Master of his group.

      3—A disciple with causal consciousness.

      4—A disciple on the mental plane.

      5—A helper on the emotional plane.

For a long period of lives the Ego remains practically unconscious of the Personality.  The magnetic link exists, but that is all until the time comes when the personal life reaches a point where it has somewhat to add to the content of the causal body—a body at first small, colourless and insignificant.  But the hour comes when the stones are first brought perfected from the quarry of the personal life, and the first colours are painted in by the man, the builder and the artist.  Then the Ego begins to give attention, rarely at first, but with increasing frequency, until lives come around in which the Ego definitely works at the subjugation of the lower self, at the enlargement of the communicating channel, and at the transmission to the physical brain consciousness of the fact of its existence and the goal of its being.  Once that is accomplished, and the inner fire is freer in its passage, lives are then given to the stabilising of that impression, and to the making of that inner consciousness a part of the conscious life.  The flame radiates downward more and more until gradually the different vehicles come into line, and the man stands on the Probationary Path.  He is ignorant yet of what lies ahead, and is conscious only of wild and earnest aspiration and of innate divine longings.  He is eager to make good, longing to know, and dreaming always of someone or something higher than himself.  All this is backed by the profound conviction that in service to humanity will the dreamed-of goal be reached, will the vision become reality, the longing fructify into satisfaction, and aspiration be merged in sight.

The Hierarchy begins to take action and his instruction is carried out as aforesaid.... Until now the Teachers have only watched and guided without definitely dealing with the man himself; all has been left to the Ego and the life divine to carry out the plan, the attention of the Masters being directed to the Ego on his own plane.  The Ego bends every effort to quicken vibration, and to force the oft-rebelling lower vehicles to respond and measure up to the rapidly increasing force.  It is largely a matter of increased fire or heat, and consequent intensification of vibratory capacity.  The egoic fire waxes ever greater until the work is done, and the purificatory fire becomes the Light of Illumination.  Ponder on this sentence.  As above, so below; on each rung of the ladder the process is repeated; the Monad, at the third Initiation, begins itself to be conscious of the Ego.  The work, then, is more rapid owing to the rarity of the material and to the fact that resistance is a factor in the three worlds but not elsewhere.

Hence, pain ceases for a Master.  That is, pain as we know it on earth, which is largely pain in matter.  The pain that lies hid in comprehension, not resistance, is felt to the highest circles, yea, it reaches to the Logos Himself.  But this is beside the point and well-nigh incomprehensible to you who are yet trammelled by matter.

 2. Relationship of the Ego to its own development.

 The Ego seeks to bring about the desired end in three ways:—

      1—By definite work on abstract levels.  It aspires to contact and enclose the permanent atom, its first direct approach to the Triad.

      2—By definite work on colour and sound with the aim in view of stimulation and vivification, working thus in groups and under the guidance of a Master.

      3—By frequent attempts to definitely control the lower self, a thing distasteful to the Ego, whose tendency is to rest content with consciousness and aspiration on its own plane.  Forget not that the Ego itself has somewhat to wrestle with.  The refusal to incarnate is not found only on spiritual levels, but is found also on that of the Higher Self.  Certain developments also, incidental to the factors of time and space (as understood in the three worlds) are aimed at by the Ego, such as the increase of the causal periphery through the study of divine telepathy, systemic psychology and the knowledge of the law of fire.

3. Relationship of the Ego to other egos.

 Certain things need to be remembered:—

The factor of periodicity.  Egos that are in incarnation, and egos that are out of incarnation are differentiated and capable of different work.  Egos whose reflections are in incarnation are more limited than those who are not.  It is almost as if the Higher Self were directed downwards, or willingly circumscribing itself to three-dimensioned existence, whereas the egos out of incarnation are not so limited but work in another direction or dimension.  The difference lies in the focusing of attention, during physical plane life.  The matter is hard for you to grasp, is it not so?  I scarcely know how to express the difference more clearly.  It is perhaps as if the incarnating egos were more positive, and the non-incarnating egos more negative.

The factor of activity.  This is largely a matter of ray, and affects closely the relationship between egos.  Those on similar rays coalesce and vibrate more readily to each other than those on different rays, and it is only as the second or wisdom aspect is developed that synthesis becomes possible.

On the third subplane of the mental plane egos are separated into groups—individual separation exists not, but group separation can be felt, incidental to ray and point in evolution.

On the second subplane the groups become merged and blend, and from their forty-nine groups [7 times 7] are formed (by merging) forty-two.  The process of synthesis might be tabulated as follows:

Mental plane                    (1st subplane      35 groups, 7 x 5

                                            (2nd subplane     42 groups, 7 x 6

                                            (3rd subplane      49 groups, 7 x 7

Buddhic plane                   (3rd subplane    28 groups, 7 x 4

                                             (1st subplane      21 groups, 7 x 3

Atmic plane                        Atomic subplane              14 groups, 7 x 2

Monadic plane                  7 great groups

I have given a few hints here.  It is so little, compared with what will later be known when those of you now studying expand the consciousness still further, but it is all I can as yet impart, and only this has been given with the intent of showing how much has to be considered, when meditation forms are duly set by a Master.  He has to take into wise consideration the egoic ray, and the condition of the causal body in its relationship to the lower self and to the Hierarchy.  The state of the body must be known, and its content; its relationship to other egos must be duly considered, for all is in group formation.  Meditation must therefore be given which is in line with the group to which the Ego is assigned, for as each man meditates he contacts not only his own Ego but also his egoic group, and through that group the Master to Whom he is consequently linked, though the efficacy of a meditation depends upon the work being done in an occult manner and under law.  The group significance of meditation is little understood, but the above thoughts are commended to you for your wise study.

June 17, 1920

 [The above letters were given out by master DK and can be found in: Letters on Occult meditation, p29-39.]

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