Today (the post is a long one and they are not meant to be read in one go rather to contemplate on) we shall continue taking a look upon the personal statements (disciple name: Lessons Rays S-P-M-A-P) of the tibetan on the ongoing topic of initiation from blue book DINA I.
1. The first three major initiations have always to be taken when in a physical body and upon the physical plane, thus demonstrating initiate consciousness through both mind and brain.
2. True humility is based on fact, on vision and on time pressures. Here I give you a hint and would ask you to think deeply on these three foundations of a major personality attitude which must be held and demonstrated before each initiation. I would remind you that there must always be humility in the presence of true vision.
3. Attend to your own life and your own business. Speculate not as to the status of the other disciples in my group who are your close cooperators and co-sharers in my experiment. Cultivate the humility which is based on understanding and vision and so serve the world, your fellow disciples and serve me also—as the major point of your contact with the Hierarchy.
4. How does it happen then that a few of you (not all) are not distinguished by such service and are of relatively small importance in world affairs? Several things could explain this -
a. First of all, a disciple may be called to work off certain karmic relationships, to fulfil certain obligations of very ancient origin and thus "clear the decks" for more complete and uninterrupted service to humanity at a later date. This occurs quite frequently between the first and second initiations.
b. Sometimes a disciple may be doing effective service upon the inner planes and on a large scale and yet there may be no evidence of this upon the physical plane, except in the beauty of a life lived.
c. Others may be learning certain techniques of psychological relationships and of energy distribution and may have dedicated some particular life to the acquiring of these esoteric sciences. One life is but a short moment in the long cycle of the soul. The true disciple will never fall back on the reasons given above as alibis for lack of effort.
I would remind you that world influence alone does not always imply discipleship. There are many groups—well known and magnetic—which have at their centre some dominant personality who is not necessarily a disciple.
5. One of the first lessons which those in training for initiation have to master is that difficult dual attitude which permits right personality activity and real interest in personality affairs and yet at the same time permits nothing personal to interfere with the subjective spiritual life, with service and with the training, given in preparation for initiation.
6. To F. C. D. (Roberto Assagioli: Freedom from Ties - Chelaship - Detachment II-IV-1-2-7)
Life is initiation and for this you are prepared. The crises in the life of the soul work out along certain lines as major initiations. I am here giving you a hint.
7. To C. A. C. (Margaret Cobb: Calm - Assurance - Consecration I-II-4-6-1)
A sense of time and of its relation to the soul is one of the most absorbing and useful studies of the disciple; an understanding of the relation of the past to the future and their united effect in the present will create one of the levers which will open for you the Door of Initiation. I believe, my brother, that if you will meditate upon this that you will conclude—as I have done whilst studying you—that control of the time factor is the main need at this time.
8. I. S. G-L. (Eugene Cosgrove: Illumination - Stability - Healing - Group Love II-I-1-6-1)
It is the result of the essential loneliness which has beset your path, as it does the path of all disciples, and the development of that instinctive reticence which is an aspect of the necessary equipment of all who are struggling towards the Portal of Initiation. The vow of silence which all disciples take must still be kept, but the power to share knowledge, experience and the gains of illumination must at the same time be cultivated.
9. To L. F. U ( William Cummings: Love - Fearlessness - Understanding I-III-3-6-6)
The crises of the soul are expansions, registered by the inflow of love and light. They are mentally recognised crises of inclusiveness. These lead one on and prepare one for the later more vast expansions which we call initiations. It is these expansive crises in the various aspects of your nature which I ask that you watch and register and record during the coming year. Note in which body or vehicle of experience they occur. Note, too, your reaction to them and their after-effect in your personal life and in your service.
10. To L. F. U
The combination of a trained mind and an awakened heart is the objective of the disciple who at your stage of development is in preparation for initiation, and the relation between the two is oft forgotten. It is one of an unrecognised glamour, owing to the fact that the achievement of intellectual balance can temporarily upset the truer balance of the whole man. As I told you some years ago, the heart afire with love (not with sentiment or with emotion) is your life goal and this must be achieved not by stifling the intellect but by an intellectual perception of the significance of the loving heart, plus an active understanding of the significance of human suffering, leading eventually to participation in it.
11.To I. B. S. (Ann Dixon: Impersonality - Being - Synthesis I-VI-4-6-3)
You have been working and serving for years, and it is that service and that aspiration which have carried you forward into definite training for initiation. In a certain sense, therefore, you have been accepted as a chela and to me has been assigned the work of safeguarding you. I say "work" with deliberation and ask you to ponder the phrase I employed. How long you will be preparing for such a step in the expansion of your consciousness is of no importance and I ask you to forget it. But it is of importance that you get out of this opportunity its utmost usefulness.
12. To R. V. B. (Victor Fox: Rapid Reaction - Vision - The Breath II-IV-4-2-3)
The extremity of the disciple in service finally draws out the interest of the soul. After the third initiation, the extremity of the soul (speaking symbolically and conveying no true meaning to the aspirant) evokes the cooperation of the Monad. Thus service is the scientific mode, par excellence, to evoke spiritual integration and to call forth the resources of a divine son of God.
13. To D. A. O. (Helen Freeman: Detachment - Analysis - Organization of Time & Service VII-I)
If you cast your mind back over the past three years, you will note a life full of experience on all the planes of the personality; you can note too, if you will, a growing tendency towards soul control. I say tendency, my brother, for it is when tendency is transformed into habit and dynamic daily rhythm that the gates of initiation open before the disciple. Your major work today is to establish this habit. It lies for you hid in the control of time, which constitutes for you a major problem.
14. To D. L. R. (Charles Hill: Detachment - Love to all Beings - Radiation I-V-5-6-7)
I hold out before you no illusions of a great work to be performed for which you are divinely predestined. The eventual great work, successfully carried forward, which falls to the lot of all who achieve the Great Initiations, grows out of a steadily expanding consciousness, a steady decentralisation, demonstrating in a constant outgoing in compassion and understanding to the needs of the little ones upon life's way, and a greater realisation of the nature of the whole. Learn, therefore, to include more people within the range of your daily thought.
15. To D. L. R. (Charles Hill: Detachment - Love to all Beings - Radiation I-V-5-6-7)
You are learning the lesson of detachment with rapidity, and you are gradually standing free from the clinging hands of others. Just as the Great Renunciation of the fourth initiation is made possible by the many lesser renunciations of many lives, consciously undertaken, so the many acts of spiritual detachment lead eventually to the severing of that final thread which involves the death of all personality attachments. Then only those relationships are left which are upon soul levels.
16. To S. C. P. (Betty Harris: Silence - Creation - Patience I-VI-2-6-1)
Your mental body is on the second ray. This, as you will note, is not usual. It makes illumination the line of least resistance. It facilitates contact with the soul and provides your dominant problem. That problem is the demanding of love and of appreciation where your personality is concerned. Think this out. It means that you can always be depended upon to sacrifice everything in order that the desires, the will and the purpose of the soul—once they are made clear to you—may be truly worked out. Nothing will be permitted by you to arrest your spiritual achievement once the way appears open to you. But it means also, from the lower angle, that you will sacrifice much in order to be loved by people. This does matter in the case of those who are on the Path of Discipleship and who face at some not so distant time preparation for initiation.
17. To P. G. C. (Frank Hirsch: Patience - Group Cooperation - Awareness II-VII-5-6-7)
Forget not, that the hardly won intellectual perceptions have to become instinctual creative factors by the time a man is permitted to take initiation. The esoteric facts learned and the mental awareness achieved, will have to fall eventually below the threshold of consciousness, of thought and of awareness; they must constitute an integral part of the whole man, just as the animal instinctual nature or the reaction of the mind to the array of facts, presented by the use of the five senses, lies below the threshold of the animal consciousness, but is protectively available.
18. To W. D. S. (David King: Will - Detachment - Strength II-I-2-1-3)
I gave you the three key words—will, detachment, and strength. You needed to have these objectives held before you, did you not? Today, your detachment is far greater than ever before and this definitely tends to strengthen you. Your will nature, however, needs to be more pragmatically developed but from the angle of those interior determinations which carry a man forward along the path towards the portal of initiation. It is not will from the angle of self-assertiveness. No man takes initiation before his interior will is developed and consecrated to the service of the Path, which is the service of humanity and of the Hierarchy.
19. To D. P. R. (Edna Kruse: Detachment - Peace - Relaxation I-V-4-2-3)
One of the major lessons which all disciples have to master before initiation becomes possible, is that of steady persistence in the face of all that seeks to produce difficulty. Your personal problem is enhanced and becomes exceedingly complex because of the reactions of your immediate associates and your strenuous endeavour to lift all that you possibly can off their shoulders. It becomes, therefore, a lesson in group activity and hence most valuable. Lift not too much, my brother. It is the right of their souls to learn the same lessons as you have had to learn and an over-pitiful heart is not always the most helpful of possessions. A loving heart is always helpful.
20. To D. H. B. (William Miller: Detachment - Humility - Being II-VI-1-1-7)
Here in the astral body (as you well know and as all true disciples know) is the battleground for those who are preparing for initiation. The weapon whereby the battle will be won is that of intelligent, loving service. Had you ever regarded service as a weapon for use? This statement is, as you will see, a simple and clear indication of the situation.
21. To W. O. I. (Junia Morse: Wisdom - Observation - Interpretation II-V-4-6-7)
Upon the probationary path, the forces of man's lower nature and their interior interplay is of paramount importance; he must learn to know himself. On the path of discipleship, these same forces must be studied in relation to those with whom destiny, karma and vocational choice has thrown the disciple. On the path of initiation, these same forces are used in conscious cooperation with the Plan, and with adequate skill in action, due to the lessons learnt on the earlier stages of the path.
22. To W. O. I.
All life is cyclic and this is a point which disciples are apt to forget and overlook; they then find themselves discouraged when the intensity of feeling leaves them. The initiate walks ever a straight course between the pairs of opposites, serene and unafraid. Are you not all upon the path of discipleship with the inevitable goal of initiation sometime, some immediate living moment, just ahead? I gave you some keywords which should be for you a source of inspiration during the coming year. I would ask you to study them and to ponder deeply their significance. Take one word each week for a few minutes' careful consideration (prior to the group meditation) and make it the keynote of your week's endeavour in the practice of spiritual living.
23. To W. O. I.
It is not force (as applied upon the physical plane) which is at any time wrong; it is the motive and method used, leading to and governing the use of force which are the factors of momentous import. Though no person or group of persons or nation at this time knows the meaning of motive (for that is only really known and comprehended by those who have advanced beyond the third initiation) yet there are persons, groups of persons and nations in the world today who can be permitted to use force against forms and materialism because of the preponderance of pure motive to be found present in their consciousness.
24. To D. I. J. (Lillian Morris: Divine Intelligence - Impersonality - Joy II-VI-4-1-7)
One is a stubborn determination to go your own way and handle situations as you choose, e'en when others suffer through your so doing. You go bull-headed through life, knocking down and hurting as you go. This you know full well. You stop not to right or to adjust wrong action, e'en when you recognise it as wrong. The second is a tendency of thought and action which must be cleaned up before you can pass through the doors of purification which hide the door of Initiation. More about this hindering activity I need not say, for you know well whereof I speak.
25. To L. U. T. (Bernard Morrow: Love - Understanding - Transmutation II-I-4-6-3)
The disciple with a first ray personality is apt to be unduly one-pointed in his service or in his particular line of thought and of activity, or else he is entirely engrossed with some individual or group of individuals. This dynamic and intense preoccupation can often hinder the expansion of consciousness and the unfoldment of that inclusiveness which is essential before any of the major initiations can be taken. I seek to see this glamour lessened in you. The dual life of the disciple is never an easy one to the man whose personality is basically upon the line of directed power and focussed will.
26. To L. U. T.
Cultivate a sense of the relative values, comparing your life of adequate possibility of expression, your wherewithal to provide the three necessities of life (a roof, food and warmth) and your environing conditions with those which today face countless millions and in which and through which they must triumph. Where is your triumph, my brother? Initiation is a process of graded triumphs and I seek to aid you towards that process.
27. To C. D. P. (Alice Ortiz: Courage - Dispassion - Pure Love II-VI-5-6-6)
Your problem is not this or that circumstance in your life. It is not concerned with the activity of this or that person. It is not tied up with your family life, your financial circumstances or your health. These are but the staging around which you struggle for liberation. These are but the opportunities offered by your soul which, when rightly used, will set you upon the Path of Initiation. Yes, that is what I said, my brother—upon the Path of Initiation and not upon the Path of Discipleship. You are already upon the latter path. You know well within yourself that if you could achieve detachment and if you could arrive at a stable, focussed mind that the whole of life would simplify for you. Initiation is simplification.
28. To H. S. D. (Harriet Richards: Heart Life - Silence - Detachment VI-I-1-6-7)
You are a sixth ray soul, functioning through a first ray personality. Your personality polarisation is predominantly mental.For you, one- pointedness both in soul matters and personality relationships is the line of least resistance; you have a one-pointed approach to problems, conditions, and situations which in many cases constitutes a one- pointed attack. I say this not from a spirit of criticism, for it is the right use of this faculty and its re- orientation which will land you before the Portal of Initiation. This I hold before you with deliberation and not as an inducement to progress or even as an encouragement but as a prophecy of a probability. You are on the Path of Discipleship. Opportunity stands before you and the Way can be trodden by you with assurance. Have no fears, my brother. Take your eyes off your personality with its dominating first ray will and your tendency to mental dominance (as you yourself have termed it) and focus your attention upon your soul problem which is to transfer your consciousness off the sixth ray on to the second ray before any major initiation can take place.
29. To B. S. W. (John Tassin: Beauty - Strength - Wisdom I-VII-4-6-7)
It is this inner "isolation," deeply loved by you and fostered by early training and present circumstance which militates against your being telepathically sensitive to other people. Instead of so much "will to love," why not just love more simply? You and F.C.D. are extreme types on your specific rays. In him, the heart dominates, e'en though his wisdom is deep and his understanding rare. In you the head dominates, and you sit on the summit of your tower, whilst all the time the call of the heart sounds throughout your being and in your ears. Yet you fear to descend and walk among your fellowmen in loving identification with them. It is only through walking the dusty street of life with our brothers that we find ourselves passing eventually through the portal of initiation. And yet, brother of old, I have noted that, in moments of stress and of possible misunderstanding, you choose the heart way. Were it not so, I would not thus write.
30. To B. S. W.
The group of disciples to which you belong, my brother, is upon the mental plane and exists in two parts: There is the group of disciples to whom you belong, assigned to specific work by me; there is also the hierarchical group, my particular Ashram, to which you are affiliated and into which you must be absorbed by soul dedication and later, as the years slip away, by initiation. Only one thing prevents your rapid integration into your true place; that is your ancient love for astral wandering and for psychic phenomena. This tendency to astralism is a heritage from other lives and has its basis in old monastic trends and in the dream world in which you wandered in olden times to relieve the monotony of life within the four walls of the cell in which you lived, dedicated to the contemplative life. Your consciousness was then mystical, visionary and imaginative, veering off into realms of astral hallucination. This means that in this life, your astral body easily reverts to ancient ways, to ancient thoughts, to control by ancient thoughtforms and is consequently subject to facile deception.
31. To B. S. W.
Until, my brother, you are polarised in the soul, you are playing with fire and the magical work of the astral plane is full of danger for you. Even your intense interest in Masonry is for this life unwise, for the Masonic Work is magical work, being a reflection of the processes of initiation whereby the power of the spirit and the power of substance are brought together through the "magical work of the soul."
32. To J. S. P.
I would call your attention anew to the three key words, Joy, Stability, and the Plan; during the past year there have been many occasions when the Way of Joy has been for you a hard way to go. Yet it is one of the needed characteristics of discipleship, leading—as it does—to soul strength; it is an essential quality for all those second ray people who are oriented particularly to treading, at some future date and after initiation, the difficult way of all world saviours. It is valuable for you to distinguish between a World Saviour and the world saviours. I have given you here a deeply esoteric hint.
We end the post with the following phrase from the book:
"The Master does not train a group of men and women to be good and obedient disciples, carrying out His wishes and working out His purposes. He is training them eventually to take initiation and become Masters themselves and He never loses sight of this objective. You, as disciples, have, therefore, to learn to handle force and to draw energies into the destined area of service and this is a fact you must constantly have in mind."
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