We continue where from where we left yesterday, also touching upon the leadership (and teacher) and finance related to group initiation.
1. The senior disciple will always attract to himself those accepted disciples who are either in process of training for initiation or who are recapitulating past growth and development or those (and this would always remain a relative few) aspirants or probationers who had specific relationship to him as a result of past karmic association.
2. A disciple never receives more wisdom than he can embody. He is never given a greater responsibility than he can fulfill. The ideal which is placed before him is, at that very moment, possible of embodiment in the actual meaning of the transformation or the transfiguration. How much to embody, when, where, this is really the only free will that the incarnate consciousness is ever given. By the use of it is how he determines the path which he shall manifest moment by moment, hour by hour, day by day. There is nothing that has been projected to you as a higher truth that you are not capable of putting into outer manifestation utilizing the techniques which have been made available to you. I mean this both in the individual and the collective group life. Therefore, to constantly compare yourselves with initiates and Masters, utilizing this comparison as either an excuse or justification, is again a rationalization.
3. What is the relationship of the disciple in the world to the disciple within the Hierarchy? The disciple within the Hierarchy is limited. He is limited by many factors, by the state of consciousness of the whole of humanity, by the state of consciousness of those disciples whose function it is to build the forms of the Plan, and limited to the area in which they must work. The disciple in the Hierarchy is not permitted by Law to build the forms that will carry the Divine Plan into manifestation. The disciple in the Hierarchy can give that Plan an abstract form, but its birth in the three worlds depends upon the ability of the disciple in the body of humanity to grasp that abstraction, to embody it, and to give it concrete form.
4. The disciple may receive from his seniors the wisdom. and the knowledge—Wisdom of the Plan and knowledge of how to bring that Plan into manifestation. He will receive aid in manifesting the Plan according to his self-initiated effort to manifest it. The senior disciple waits, hopes, and prays for the cooperation of the disciple within the field, for without him he cannot realize those Plans which he cognizes.
5. Because this is the cyclic opportunity for reception of the Plan on Soul levels, and its formulation on mental levels, you are being given this information to make use of as you will. You will not be given instruction in the nature of a planned activity. If one or more of you decide to act upon the information, you will then initiate the activity yourselves. I will indicate the method of procedure which will bring more effective results should you wish to utilize it.
6. First Ray on mental levels, Second Ray and Fourth Ray on astral levels, and within the etheric, a reflection of the First Ray in substance—the energy of the Seventh Ray—action is initiated within the etheric body via the appropriation and right use of Seventh Ray energy.
7. When a Master is initiating into the world of affairs a new phase or aspect, a new formulation of the Divine Plan for humanity, He is faced with a number of very major problems which have to be resolved before He can truly form His point of service, enter into the initiatory effort in relationship with the substantial aspect of the three worlds of human endeavor. The first major problem with which a Master is confronted as He contemplates the initiation in the world of affairs of a new formulation of the plan for which He has taken the responsibility, is the finding of that consciousness and instrumentality which in its karmic relationship to the Divine Plan for humanity and in its essential service capacity, can be used as a focal point of the first impact of an initiatory effort.
8. It is the function of the teachers to initiate, each one, his own service activity as was the function of Lucille to initiate her service activity.
9. As this group becomes more enlightened, both individually and collectively, and as it, through training, becomes more capable of function, of performance, each one will find, via his own alignment through his own head center to his Overshadowing Spiritual Soul within the Ashram, his specific field of service and will then, through the invocation of higher energy which he is able to bring into and through his own instrumentality, initiate that service activity in cooperation with those with whom he is particularly related.
10. Now let us consider the purpose of the leadership conference: to bring together all active serving initiating disciples (that is, those within the group who have entered into their field of service who are initiating their service activity in the world of affairs), in order to discuss, each one, his service activity in relationship to the Divine Plan which overshadows the whole of humanity and to so relate his service activity with those of his brothers, that the effectiveness of each one is increased by the power of the total.
11. Now this means that every serving disciple within the group life is a leader within himself, not of the group, but within the body of humanity, that he is responsible for the formulation and the initiation of his own service activities, and that no one within the total group life has the right or the function to dictate to him what his service activity should or should not be. It is the responsibility of each one to enter into co-operation in this activity, in his support, etc., with those who are serving the Divine Plan within this group life.
12. It is the responsibility of the serving disciple, the leader, the initiator, to create in whatever right way he can, the means for financing his service activity. The only need which exists at this particular time for an overall group fund or economy is the maintenance of the coordination activity - that is all. The teacher, then, will create out of his own initiatory ability his own economy insofar as his particular service activity is concerned, in right relationship with his students and others who might be interested in that activity. The same applies to all service activities, whatever they are, wherever they may be carried out.
13. One of the problems of the group has been its inability to initiate and create either an independent service activity or an economy which will make it possible to manifest that service activity. When a member of the group does have an idea that he wants to put into manifestation, he depends upon the group for the financing of the idea. Now, this is wrong relationship.
14. First, so long as you place your security or faith in any outer form, whether it be the form of an income, the form of reserve monies or properties, etc., whether it be a person or a group of persons, the disciple who is initiating, is not only initiating a service activity which is really a state of consciousness, he is also initiating a state of consciousness in the world of affairs and at the same time, taking initiation himself into a higher way of life. This disciple will lose every outer form within which he has placed his security because a part of the initiation itself, a part of the Law, demands that before the disciple can fully carry the responsibility of service to humanity, he must have placed his faith and his security within the One Life within which he lives.
15. If he fails in this part of the initiation process, then it is obvious that he is unable to take the responsibility of initiating in the world of affairs a major service activity, a major contribution of the Divine Plan to humanity. This is a hard law for the disciple who is placed under it as a result of his own application to initiation, but it is necessary. It is as necessary to his life in the field of discipleship, to this ability to function, as is the law which states that a newborn infant must be able to breathe, that he must be able to take into his body, air.
16. It is the soul who applies within the ashram, the Overshadowing Spiritual Soul who applies within the Ashram, to the center of that ashram, the focused Purpose and Plan, for initiation. When such application is considered worthy and is accepted, then the soul puts its incarnate consciousness, within the persona, through those experiences which are necessary to its growth and development, which are necessary to its passing through the initiatory phase. Remember, an initiation is an end and a beginning, a movement from all that has been attained to in the past, to that which has overshadowed and precipitated that past; therefore, the soul puts the persona through the necessary experiences. If the persona or the incarnate consciousness is dependent upon various forms for its security in a financial sense, or an emotional sense, whatever it might be, the soul sees to it that these forms are taken away from the incarnate consciousness and that consciousness then is put through the disciplinary training by the soul itself which will build in the new responses, the new thought forms from which the incarnate consciousness will act.
17. When the disciple then finds himself in this particular position and particularly when he knows that he has applied for initiation, when this knowledge has come into his physical brain, and within that brain consciousness, he is symbolically knocking on the door of initiation; when he finds then these experiences occurring within his life and affairs, when he finds a form in which he had placed his security being eliminated by him, then this is the indication to him of the Path ahead. It indicates what he must do, what he must build into his consciousness and his instrument in order to move through this particular experience and come out of it with the growth and development he envisioned as he knocked upon the door.
18. That phase of the Path within which you find yourself, that phase of initiation which you are undergoing, you feel alone because in the past you have been dependent upon relationships, even if you can take this without too much conflict and difficulty.
I will end the post reminding ourselves to preserve the fire in the tradition of ageless wisdom through study, meditation and manifestation of the Synthetic Ashram !
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