Introduction To Working with the Will
This series
of teachings are designed to assist in the development of the capacity to
transmit the energy of the will. They are not intended to replace teachings
that focus primarily on the development of the intelligence or the love aspect
but to complement them so that a synthesis results in the life of service.
As
disciples become increasingly aware – love and light are not enough. Power is
also required to bring the life of the soul in both and individual and
planetary sense into full externalisation.
As an
individual or group becomes an expression of purpose they also become a
transmitter of the energy of planetary purpose. The transmission of this energy
is best likened to the transfer of an electrical ‘charge’ that empowers – a current of
life.
One symbol
for the first ray is that of lightning. Lightning is an outer expression of the
flow of current between two electrical poles. As the air between the poles
ionises two simultaneous things happen. The thundercloud sends forth ‘step
leaders’ which are like flows of ‘plasma’ extending not in straight lines but
wherever there is an opening to the flow. The earth at the same time extends
‘streamers’ of plasma to meet the descending flows. When the two flows meet
there is the transfer of current and the electrical ‘gap’ between the two poles
is bridged.
If we
relate this phenomena to the world of spiritual realities we might think
of Shamballa as the source of planetary
purpose – an energy that is held within the council chamber. – a raincloud
of energy held within an etheric
reservoir. Humanity, is the opposite electrical pole and
Hierarchy could be likened to the dual
action of consciousness in bridging these poles.
Training in
‘working with the will’ essentially involves the dual use of the antahkarana in
revealing the sutratma (or life thread)
as the transmitting agent for planetary purpose. Shamballa is ‘in charge’
literally and electrically of planetary evolution as it expresses through
consciousness and matter.
So, these
teachings are for those who are learning to be ‘in charge’ both in an
electrical sense as well as the sense of a ‘straight line movement through time
and space’. Those who are ‘in charge’ bring to any field a sense of potent
presence and assist to invoke and induce alignment with the ‘life’ aspect in
the whole field.
Piscean
models of leadership personalise and centralise the concept of ‘ being in charge’ to create a system of static power
exchange between an individual ‘leader’ and a group. Aquarian models recognise
that leadership is a state of being and not a fixed personal attribute. It is
the One Life who leads and that Life seeks to reveal itself at the core of all
directly, as well as by transmission through whoever is ‘in charge’ at a
particular moment in time and space. True power is not an exchange of
authority but the affirmation and revelation of essential Identity. This
revelation is not a static process but a dynamic nuclear reaction that releases
immense reserves of energy that reside in the very centre of the being.
Life calls
to Life. May these teachings serve to assist in the flashing forth of the
electric fire of the Will amongst the many networks of light and love that have
been built around the planet.
Bruce Lyon
Shamballa School
Aries Full Moon 2006
A Note on E-forum Structure
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Teachings are presented as a series of ‘Twelve Keynotes’ on the Full Moon cycle
of 2006/7 through the Shamballa School e-group.
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What is Meant By The Will?
Normally
when we speak of the Will we are referring to atma – the first aspect of the
triad or the ‘will of the soul’.
The atmic
plane is the meeting place between Hierarchy and Shamballa or soul and monad
just as the mental plane forms the bridge between Hierarchy and Humanity or the
soul and the personality.
We make the
approach to the monad via the triad so atma becomes a doorway to the higher
will for the soul just as manas is the doorway to contact with the soul, by the
personality.
Just as))
the personality and the soul have a threefold division it is also useful to
consider the threefold expression of the monad on the top three sub planes of
the cosmic physical plane. In this case the ‘will’ as we have previously
understood it, becomes the third aspect of a higher trinity or we must
expand what we mean by the Will to refer to the threefold monad as a whole.
We might define the three energies of the monad as follows
1.
Logoic
Plane Being
2.
Monadic
Plane Purpose
3.
Atmic
Plane Will
.
.
Being, Purpose and Will are related
to the three Shamballic energies of Purification, Destruction and Organization.
The first plane of the system – that
of the fire mist - is where the Life that indwells the form of the planet
experiences itself in the purest state. Pure Being as it is experienced on the
cosmic physical plane is a state without distortion or modification of any
kind. It is pure undirected energy.
.
The second or monadic plane is that
of Purpose because it is here that the pure energy of Life is cohered into a
subtle form – the centre we know as Shamballa. The council chamber is a
reservoir for the energy of Purpose. Pure energy has now been contained or
focused and directed. Being has ‘chosen’ and a divine intention (in-tension)
has formed although in matter far more refined than that with which we are
familiar. Once a Being has Purpose it is no longer able to dwell only in the
purity of its undivided state. It has said, in effect ‘Yes’ and ‘No’. A subtle duality has arisen that
provides an energetic direction or fiat.
Once there is Purpose or choice then
there arises a natural duality between those elements and lives within the ring
pass not that are in alignment with that purpose and those which are not. This
plane is related to the energy of Destruction because once the great ‘Yes’
sounds then also the great ‘No’ is heard. Purpose creates a wave of directional
impulse that both gives rise to and ‘pushes against’ resistance. It is the
source of evolutionary striving and involutionary resistance. In addition,
because all lives within the ring pass are also imbued with differing degrees
of this capacity to choose, the One Life may encounter active and conscious
resistance to His Purpose.
The third or atmic plane of the
system is where the energy of Purpose held on the monadic plane is actively
expressed as ‘Will’. This relates to the Shamballic energy of Organization, for
it is here that the Purpose is ‘formulated’ into the Plan. When we think of
‘formulating a plan’ we tend to see it as that process which occurs in mental
matter when humans take the energy of an ‘idea’ and attempt to create a vision
or mission with specific time and space goals. What is referred to above is a
higher octave of this process. To the Masters an ‘idea’ such as ‘brotherhood’
or ‘democracy’ or ‘the greater good of the planet’ is already a dense material
expression. It is the energy of life that underlies ‘ideas’ and gives them
a ‘livingness’ that is being-formulated into the Plan on atmic levels. The Masters commune
together to consider which great ideas must be vivified in a coming cycle and
which must be devitalized. In this way they ‘organize’ the life which is
conditioned by the buddhic ashrams and generates lighted thoughtforms on the
levels of abstract mind, which in their turn inspire the leading thinkers of
Humanity. It is thus that human civilizations rise and fall.
Finally it should be noted that for those who have freed themselves from the cosmic physical plane altogether and are functioning upon the cosmic astral, the Will refers to the energies of the cosmic mental plane, the first in a higher trinity that comprises the cosmic personality. In turn, to a Solar Logos functioning in the triad, the Will refers to the solar monad expressing on the three highest cosmic planes.
The purpose of developing conscious contact with the Will aspect by any entity is preliminary to a synthesis of any three aspects and the shifting of the identity into the next level.
Alignment with the Will & Resting in Being
While we
may be unable to shift our identity into the monadic planes until after the
fifth initiation it is possible to align with these energies, invoke them and
have them operating within the consciousness of the disciple resulting in an
acceleration of the initiatory process.
It should
be realised that the Will energies are already operating via the sutratma or
life thread anchored in the heart. When we align in consciousness via the
antahkarana and throw our solarised personal will on the side of spirit, we can
widen the channel for the inflowing Life-stream.
The monad
as the essential self has a dual nature which corresponds to Purusha and
Pakriti – that essential duality which underlies all manifestation. The unity
of Being expressing on the first plane divides, like the horns of Aries into
the subtle duality of Purpose and Will on the next two planes. Purpose is
passive and ‘holding’ corresponding to Purusha . Will is active and
‘expressing’ corresponding to Pakriti.
In the
consciousness of the disciple approaching the monad, this basic duality is
expressed in an unusual paradox, which we can refer to as ‘the Vishnu paradox’
because it has to do with the nature of consciousness itself. The paradox
expresses itself through two qualities that are developing in the inner life – those
of ‘striving’ and ‘surrender’.
Most of the
psychological difficulties that arise for those working with the will aspect
are the result of an imbalance between these dualities. When synthesis is
achieved its expression is the so called ‘effortless effort’ of the uni-horned
initiate.
Striving
relates to the world of becoming and the active energy of Will.
Surrender relates to the world of Being and the passive energy of Purpose.
Striving
allows the consciousness to penetrate to the heights and the depths – to take
the kingdom of heaven by storm and to implement the monadic purpose on
the physical plane. Surrender allows the consciousness to realise it is not
separate and has never been separate from the very Purpose it seeks to relate
to. Striving leads the soul to the doorway of higher evolution and Surrender
allows for passage through that door.
From the
perspective of the human soul as a member of the fourth hierarchy on the
buddhic plane we penetrate into the monadic mysteries in reverse order. First
we experience the Will through an encounter with the will aspect of the triadal
soul. This impact relates us to the Plan & our ashramic place in that plan.
This
experience, however brief, is summed up by the words “Father, Not my will but
thine be done.” The extremity of
the soul in service as it attempts to carry out that Plan and express that
Will, brings forth an experience of the ‘Purpose’ that lies behind Will.
This
Purpose is not the Plan, nor the will that implements – it is not a time and
space defined outcome. It is a reservoir of energy that already contains
the outcome and the time and space in which this occurs. The experience carries with it the
unshakeable realisation that nothing can hinder the implementation of that
Purpose in the five worlds because those worlds are all inherently an expression
of that Purpose. The Purpose already IS. It is the energy that underlies
all manifested or ‘directed’ Life. The great battle between the will of the
soul on the atmic plane and the will of the planetary entity on the physical
plane comes to an end as these wills are seen as a dual expression of the one
Purpose.
The first
plane or adi is where that energy of “Life” or pure Being can be experienced by
the fourth hierarchy or the human soul. Penetration involves the experience of
Life Itself before it becomes contained or directed on the second and third
planes. Pure Being has no possessions, no Purpose and is unaware of any
separation or division. Therefore it is the only place of true ‘peace’ on the
planet.
It is
important to remember in this analysis that the higher planes are not the
source of this Life but are states or vibrational levels of matter in
which the soul can experience that life and learn to identify with it. It is
the soul which is experiencing these higher energies and thus they still form
part of the experience of consciousness rather than of monadic life itself.
We can make
this clearer by analogy. It is possible for the disciple, polarised in his
abstract mind to venture into the realms of buddhi but this will be a different
experience than actually leaving mind and entering into the buddhic experience,
naked - free from the cloth of manas..
Similarly
an initiate below the fifth degree is able to penetrate via his atmic sheath
into the realms of the monad even though he may be unable to transfer his
identity there. Indeed it is the capacity of the soul to penetrate into the
heights which is a prerequisite to being able to externalise itself fully on
the physical plane. On
a global level this is why it has been important to build the higher
antahkarana between Hierarchy and Shamballa at the same time as the lower
bridge between Hierarchy and Humanity to provide the life energy necessary for
the Externalisation process.
Striving allows the soul, as the soul, to
penetrate into the higher mysteries by directly experiencing the vibrational
states on the highest three sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane AND to
externalise itself through directly expressing on the lower three sub-planes as
well. Surrender allows the soul to be
penetrated by both higher and lower energies and thus provides a ‘sheath of
fire’ for the transfer of the highest into the lowest and the lifting of the
lowest into the highest. Striving expands consciousness so that it is able to
penetrate and ‘en-lighten’ more and more of the third aspect. Surrender allows
consciousness to be a conduit for the energies that are unconscious and
superconscious, to relate to each other.
Surrender
and Striving together, rhythmically applied, create a field for the revelation
of that which lies deeper than both consciousness and matter – the energy of
Life Itself.
A practical example of the difference and complementary nature of
Striving and Surrender as they relate to the transfer of identity from the
personality to the soul.
We are told
that there comes a time in the life of every disciple where a mental
proposition must be created that embodies their understanding of the Purpose of
Deity. Through study & intuition the disciple articulates his best
understanding of this Purpose. He then proceeds to formulate his understanding
of the Divine Plan and the Hierarchical intention for the present cycle.
Again
through research, study and intuition he may identify his own ray make up,
ashramic affiliation, soul purpose and the piece of His Master’s work that he
has taken responsibility for. Extending the process he may identify specific
time and space goals that he intends to achieve, (for example, in this coming
12 month period), in alignment with this Plan and Purpose. He then utilises all
his resources in the implementation process. This is all an example of
striving.
On the
other hand we are told that the essential purpose of Sanat Kumara is ‘unknown,
unheard, unseen’. Not only do we not know it but we cannot know it (and
yet we ARE it ) for it has its essential life and location beyond the access of
the mind. Further, the soul does not have a purpose – part of its
essential nature is purpose. It is impossible to become something
that one is not already, therefore the path of surrender
calls us to discover or uncover that which lies unrealised at the core of our
own being-nature outside the time/space world of evolutionary becoming.
Striving
creates the conditions for mastery of a plane or sphere of activity. Surrender
creates the conditions for the entry into that plane of higher energies and for
the exit from that plane of the indwelling identity. Striving creates the
jewel. Surrender allows for the transmission of energy through the jewel and
the transfer of life from it.
And
yet…..It is impossible to achieve Being by
Striving for Being is the source of all Striving as well as what is
striven for.. It
is impossible to experience Being by Surrender for Being is the source of all
Surrender as well as that which is surrendered to.. Even so… when Striving and Surrender balance
each other and all action, however subtle, ceases then Being is revealed as
ever present. On the seventh day ( and seventh plane counting up ) God rests
and we, As one with God, may rest in Being.
Aries
provides an opportunity to penetrate through the duality of will and purpose
into the will-to-be.
So before contemplating
any ongoing work or new initiatives over this Aries Full Moon time, consider
the synthetic yet dualistic aspects of the striving and surrender paths when
seeking effective alignment with the Purpose of Deity. And then step for just a
moment off both paths altogether and rest
in the ever present eternity – the pure font of Being.
The Mantram of Life
There is no soul.
There is no time.
There is no space.
There is only Life.
One Life.
This Life I am.
My will is for all my
lesser selves
to know me at their core
as the essence,
the beginning and the
end of their existence.
It is thus, as the One
Life, I LIVE”
Other Resources
Alignment with Planetary Purpose (Excerpt from Agni)
Meditations on Aligning with the Will
The Psychology of the Monad
The Duality of Will & Purpose
/The Registrants of The Purpose
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