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VULCAN - EARTH - PLUTO
The Triangle of Solar Will
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Keynote quotes:
What I am now writing is a series of instructions
for disciples in process of training for initiation. I did not say in
training for the higher initiations, for these are given in a different
manner and the teaching is imparted in the inner Ashram. Therefore,
as you have not taken the third initiation, monadic comprehension lies
far beyond you; and only this highest state of understanding suffices
for the clear perception of the fundamental divine intent lying behind
all world phenomena, all evolutionary development, all unfoldment within
the capacity of the four kingdoms in nature, and all preparatory extensions
and expansions of consciousness.
All I can therefore do is to touch upon the
inner [125] significance of the obvious and seek to express certain
ideas which will strain your mental perception, evoke your intuition
and institute that process of recognition and registration which leads
eventually to the initiate-consciousness.
This again is, of course, only relative but
the expression of this relationship may elucidate the problem somewhat,
and the aspirant or disciple needs to remember that it is only through
the analogies existing in the microcosm to the Macrocosm that enlightenment
can come. And how, I ask you, will he understand the relation existing
between the three great planetary centers
(Shamballa, the Hierarchy and
Humanity) when as yet he scarcely knows himself as a human being?
How can he grasp these fundamental and advanced truths when he is only
just beginning to learn the nature of the hierarchical quality of love
and when his spiritual will (which links him to Shamballa) is as yet totally unawakened? And I mean, totally.
But the dim outlines of the general picture must be grasped, and each
decade in the future will see the aspirant and the disciple more capable
of grasping it.[R&I147]
The seventh kingdom in nature is that of the
Lives Who participate in full capacity of understanding with the group
of Beings Who are the nucleus of the Council at Shamballa.
Around the Lord of the World this group pivots; Their consciousness
and state of being is only dimly understood by the most advanced Members
of the Hierarchy, and the relation of these Lives to the Lord of the
World is similar, and yet fundamentally different, to the relation of
the Members of the Hierarchy to the three Great Lords - the Christ,
the Manu and the Mahachohan. Through these three Lords pours the energy which
streams from Shamballa, transmitting the purpose
and motivating the plan of Sanat Kumara -
His Life Plan. 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 the 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.
It is by adhering to the ancient dictum that
"as it is with the Macrocosm so will it be with the microcosm,"
and by the application, therefore, of the Law of Analogy, that we shall
eventually arrive at understanding. I cannot hope to do more than indicate
significances[DKR&I217]
Initiation is (in its simplest definition)
an understanding of the Way, for understanding is a revealing energy
which permits you to achieve. Initiation is a growth in experience and
the attainment thereby of a point of tension. Holding that point of
tension, the initiate sees that which lies ahead. Initiation permits
a progressive entry into the mind of the creating Logos. This last definition
is perhaps one of the most important I have ever given. Ponder on my
words.
Initiation is a system or a scientific process
whereby the septenate of energies which compose
the sum total of all the existences within our planetary Life are realized
and consciously used for the working out of the divine Plan. It might
also be stated that initiation is a method whereby the circulation of
energies is furthered by the opening or the awakening of certain planetary
and human centers to the impact of their ray quality, potency and divine
intention. It is this statement which lies at the heart of the teaching
on Laya Yoga or the Science of the Centers. [R&I557]
This first demand is, curiously enough, the
first expression of recognition - directly accorded - that the Great
[118] Lives at Shamballa are now in direct
relation with humanity. Hitherto that contact has not been direct, and
They have not been in touch with current developments. Hitherto, all
contacts and spiritual impulses from this highest center
have reached humanity via the Hierarchy, and vice versa. This demand
concerns the negation, the obliteration, the absorption, the putting
out or the synthesis of the lesser lights by the greater. All the words
which I have employed are efforts to express the truth and all are entirely
inadequate.[R&I618]
One of their first tasks is to bring about
a free flow and right energy relations between the three major centers in our planet which correspond to the head, heart
and throat centers in man. They are occupied
with the circulation of energy between Shamballa,
the Hierarchy and Humanity. This circulation, which for the first time
in planetary history includes the highest center,
Shamballa, is not yet completely established.
Shamballa has been in touch with the center
called Humanity by impact several times in the history of the race.
But there has been no reciprocal action and no free flow. Humanity has
taken the impact of energy and this impact has wrought changes in the
activity of the center, but there has been
no "responsive return," as it is esoterically called, and
hence no circulation. The Shamballa force
has hitherto been transmitted via the Hierarchy. For the first time,
and in this century there has been direct impact. The diagram on page
160 [R&I] may make this clearer.
We shall eventually have a free circulation
and a veritable vortex of force set up between the three centers;
it will be of such an increasing radiatory
activity that - moving in both directions around the three centers
- it will eventually contact the radiations emanating from the other
four centers of the planetary Life, thus completing the interplay
and the interrelation between all seven. These four include the three
lower kingdoms of nature and a certain basic center
(corresponding to the center at the base of
the spine in man) about which nothing is as yet known nor will be known
for ages to come. [160]
The importance, therefore, of the center which we call Humanity will be apparent. The Secret
Doctrine has ever taught that mankind has a special function in saving
and regenerating nature. The "saving force" - a circulatory
combination of the three major energies - is radiated by humanity as
a group-creative impulse, and this gradually sweeps all forms of life
into the field of its magnetic potency, thus relating them (or rather
the soul of each kingdom) to the Hierarchy and to Shamballa.
This involves a great mystery which is closely tied up - little as you
may realize it - with the doctrine of Avatars or of World Saviors.
It is in this connection that the words I
gave you previously are pertinent: [161]
1. "The
group must understand the nature of the Three." This will be seen
to refer to the three major centers and the
nature of their relationship, and not specifically to the Trinity.
2. "The
nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended." This has reference
to the fact that our planetary Life is Itself a center
within a still greater Life, and is today one of the three planetary
centers (even if not yet one of the seven sacred planets)
which are the custodians of the force, in process of transmission, which
will be to the greater Life what Shamballa,
the Hierarchy and Humanity are to our planetary Logos.
3. "The
group must work through the medium of the united breath." This
deals with the processes of circulation, for the breath is the life
and pours through all the centers.
4. "The
group must attain a unified rhythm." This has no reference in reality
to the work of a group of disciples, but to a group of centers
of life, such as the three major centers or
the entire group of seven centers.
A study of these ideas may carry illumination,
but I would again remind you that I write for initiates, living at a
later period in this century and in the next.
"The nature of the One must be grasped
and comprehended." This has reference to the fact that our planetary
Life is Itself a center within a still greater
Life, and is today one of the three planetary centers
(even if not yet one of the seven sacred planets) which are the custodians
of the force, in process of transmission, which will be to the greater
Life what Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity are to our planetary
Logos.
The One directed will (of the individual, of humanity, of the Hierarchy) and
the great Lords of Shamballa, working through
the three major centers (head, heart and throat;
Humanity, the Hierarchy and Shamballa), thereby
energize all the seven centers (to the point
of abstraction), using the straight line of the antahkarana
from above downwards (from the center of power,
the head or Shamballa), and gather all upwards
into a point which is neither of the Three (Shamballa,
the Hierarchy and Humanity) and ignores them, for they must no longer
limit the life. This point lies outside manifestation altogether. Abstraction
is complete. [R&I167]
There is a symbolic utterance in the Old Commentary
which throws light upon the great opportunities which are found in the
critical moments in the life of the soul as it experiences incarnation
and becomes enriched thereby:
"Within the womb of time and circumscribed
by space and limited by darkness - though sustained always by warmth
- the life evolves. It develops faculty. It becomes in miniature that
which it is. It takes on form and knows the divinity of separation.
Such is its goal. Reflect. Knowledge will come."
"Beyond the door is greater light and
life. It knows itself for what it is. It suffices not unto itself and
knows that it is That - part of the Whole, divinely one with others.
Reflect. Union will come."
One thing only will I add to the above and
to the elucidation of the significance of Rule V. The clue to all this
esoteric work demanded by Shamballa is to
be found in the development of the Art of Visualization. Through visualization,
three expressions of the human consciousness will become possible:
1. The antahkarana
can be built and the shining of the Triad be definitely seen. Such will
be the new vision - an outcome of the development of the sense of vision.
2. Groups, large wholes and major syntheses
will also be visualized, and this will lead to a definite expansion
of consciousness. Thus the sense of synthesis will be unfolded.
3. All creative art will be fostered by this
training, and the new art of the future in all departments of creativity
will be rapidly developed as the training proceeds. The unfoldment of
the sense of vision and of the sense of synthesis, through visualization,
will lead to a sense of livingness in form. [124]
"Before the rampart of the place of God
Himself, a Son of God comes forth. He stands before the needle's eye
and seeks to pass the hindering wall. He is not circumscribed by time
or space, but light and life are his. He realizes beauty and he knows
that That exists. Instead of time and space and all the rich inducements
of the form, he knows himself as rich in love, in knowledge, wisdom,
insight, and all the panoply of God (as he can grasp it), except one
thing. Reflect. Purpose will reveal itself; the Whole will stand revealed
and then the soul - loaded with riches and the fruits of labor
long - will vanish as the mist and only God, the living One, be left."[R&I117]
There is still another set of phrases dealing
with that through which the perfected Sons of God in Their high place
must pass when Their work is done on Earth and a greater glory reveals
itself ahead. But this I give not. I give only three symbols, which
are:
* The
womb...individualization...separation.
Leading to personality integration and self-realization.
Climaxing on the Path of Initiation...the
birth of the Christ.
Producing intelligent activity.
Initiation.
* The
two-leaved door...initiation...group consciousness.
Leading to soul expression.
Climaxing in the third initiation.
Producing loving living.
The third initiation.
* The
eye of the needle...higher evolution...monadic consciousness.
Leading to life expression.
Climaxing in the fifth initiation.
Producing purposeful life.
Consummation.
Such are the three points of entrance to the
three planetary centers: Humanity, Hierarchy
and Shamballa.
The function of the Custodians of the Will
is to relate the Council, the Hierarchy and Humanity, thus creating
a basic triangle of force between the three major centers
of the planetary Life. This is the higher expression (symbolic, if you
like) of the six-pointed star, formed of two interlaced triangles. A
replica of this fundamental triangle and of this symbol of energy, with
its inflow and distribution, is to be found in the relation of the three
higher centers in the human being - head, heart and throat - to the
three lower centers - solar plexus, sacral
center and the center at the base
of the spine. The Science of Invocation and Evocation is also seen to
be symbolically proceeding along evolutionary lines. Worship, the attitude
of the mystic, must give place to Invocation in the man who knows he
is divine. This symbolic revelation is to be seen in the lifting up
of the three lower energies and their evocative response to the three
higher, thus producing [70] an eventual unity at the point of tension.
I would
call your attention to the following analogies:
* Head
- Monad - Atma - Purpose
* Heart
- Soul - Buddhi - Pure reason
* Base
of spine - Personality - Manas - Spiritual
activity
In these words you have, therefore, the position
of the personality indicated as it stands at the penetrating point of
the antahkarana as it contacts the manas or lower mind and is thus the agent of the purpose of
the Monad, working through the Spiritual Triad which is - as you know
- related to the personality by the antahkarana.
The heart as an aspect of pure reason requires
careful consideration. It is usually considered the organ of pure love
[28] but - from the angle of the esoteric sciences - love and reason
are synonymous terms, and I would have you reflect upon why this should
be. Love is essentially a word for the underlying motive of creation.
Motive, however, presupposes purpose leading to action, and hence in
the group-life task of the incarnating Monad there comes a time when
motive (heart and soul) becomes spiritually obsolete because purpose
has reached a point of fulfilment and the activity set in motion is
such that purpose cannot be arrested or stopped. The disciple cannot
then be deterred, and no hindrance or difficulty is hard enough to prevent
his moving forward. Then we have eventual destruction of what Theosophists
call the causal body and the establishing of a direct relation between
the Monad and its tangible expression upon the physical plane. The head
center and the center
at the base of the spine will be in direct unimpeded relation; monadic
will and personality will likewise will be in a similar unimpeded relation,
via the antahkarana. I would have you remember that the will aspect
is the final dominating principle.
In the group application of these ideas the
same basic and profound development must take place, and a group of
disciples must be distinguished by pure reason, which will steadily
supersede motive, merging eventually into the will aspect of the Monad
- its major aspect. It is, technically speaking, Shamballa
in direct relation with humanity.
Just as the disciple enters the world of meaning
and so can interpret events, just as the Hierarchy works in the world
of mediation, applying the Plan which the world of meaning has revealed,
so the higher initiate works consciously in the world of purpose which
the Plan implements, the world of meaning interprets, and the world
of events expresses in sequential order and under the evolutionary Law.
"The nature of the One must be grasped
and comprehended." This has reference to the fact that our planetary
Life is Itself a center within a still greater
Life, and is today one of the three planetary centers
(even if not yet one of the seven sacred planets) which are the custodians
of the force, in process of transmission, which will be to the greater
Life what Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity are to our planetary
Logos.
Related to this triangle is a secondary one
within our sun's orbit, composed of Vulcan, Pluto and the Earth.[EA482]
First Ray alignments between the 3 Logoi
Earth.......Ray I.......Monad
Vulcan.....Ray I.......Soul
Pluto.......Ray I........Personality
The Triangle of Solar Will
The germ or nucelus
of will for the 3rd solar system
Vulcan......First Aspect.......Shamballa.....The Will to Good......Head.......Merak
Earth........Second Aspect...Hierarchy.......God
is Love.............Heart......Polaris
Pluto........Third Aspect......Humanity......Goodwill.................Throat.....Dubhe
The Head (the idea), the Heart (the ideal)
and the Throat (the creative agent of the resulting idol, the temporary
and fleeting expression of the ideal, inspired by the idea) came into
being; three great Centers emerged in time
and space and - at this point in the evolutionary cycle - we call them
Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity.
It is in this connection that the words I
gave you previously are pertinent: [161]
1. "The
group must understand the nature of the Three." This will be seen
to refer to the three major centers and the
nature of their relationship, and not specifically to the Trinity.
2. "The
nature of the One must be grasped and comprehended." This has reference
to the fact that our planetary Life is Itself a center
within a still greater Life, and is today one of the three planetary
centers (even if not yet one of the seven sacred planets)
which are the custodians of the force, in process of transmission, which
will be to the greater Life what Shamballa,
the Hierarchy and Humanity are to our planetary Logos.
3. "The
group must work through the medium of the united breath." This
deals with the processes of circulation, for the breath is the life
and pours through all the centers.
4. "The
group must attain a unified rhythm." This has no reference in reality
to the work of a group of disciples, but to a group of centers
of life, such as the three major centers or
the entire group of seven centers.
A study of these ideas may carry illumination,
but I would again remind you that I write for initiates, living at a
later period in this century and in the next.
It is absolutely essential that the will-to-good
be unfolded by the disciples of the world so that goodwill can be expressed
by the rank and file of mankind. The will-to-good of the world knowers
is the magnetic seed of the future. The will-to-good is the Father aspect,
whilst goodwill is the Mother aspect, and from the relation of these
two the new civilization, based on sound spiritual (but utterly different)
lines, can be founded. I would commend this thought to your consciousness,
for it means that two aspects of spiritual work must be nurtured in
the immediate future, for on them the more distant hope of happiness
and of world peace depends. The New Group of World Servers must be reached
and the will-to-good developed in them, and the masses simultaneously
must be reached with the message of goodwill. The will-to-good is dynamic,
powerful and effective; it is based on realization of the plan and on
reaction to the purpose as sensed by those who are either initiate,
and consciously in touch with Shamballa, or
disciples who are likewise a part of the Hierarchy but are not yet able
to contact the central Purpose or Life. Not yet having taken the third
initiation, the monadic vibration is to them largely unknown. It would
be just as dangerous for them to be able to reach Shamballa
(prior to the third initiation when all personality tendencies are obliterated)
as it would be to teach the masses of men today techniques of will which
would render their still selfish will effective. The main difficulty
would be that the disciples would destroy themselves, whilst the ordinary
man would damage himself.
The destroyer aspect of the first Ray of Will
or Power is producing worldwide destruction through the use of the first
kingdom in nature, the mineral kingdom. That which is made of metals
and chemicals is bringing catastrophe and destruction on earth, primarily
in the human kingdom. At the same time the second attribute of the will,
synthesis, is evoking an equally widespread response. This sense of
synthesis has a mass effect earlier than it has an individual effect,
and this is a thing of interest and importance to note at this time.
Later, the dynamism inherent in the will, wielded by the New Group of
World Servers and by the disciples and initiates of the world, will
turn that instinctive mass response into factual experience and produce
the "appearance" on earth of the new, developed "quality"
which "life" seeks in the New Age to demonstrate. In the first
volume of this Treatise, I called attention to the three divine aspects:
Life, Quality and Appearance. They are now in process of making their
appearance in final form for this particular cycle. [R&I121]
This point is conscious, immutable and aware
of the two extremes of the divine expression: the sense of individual
identity and the sense of universality. These are fused and blended
in the One. Of this One the divine Hermaphrodite is the concrete symbol
- the union in one of the pairs of opposites, negative and positive,
male and female. In the state of being which we call the monadic, no
difference is recognized between these two because (if I can bring such
ideas down to the level of the intelligence of the aspirant) it is realized
that there is no identity apart from universality and no appreciation
of the universal apart from the individual realization, and this realization
of identification with both the part and the whole finds its point of
tension in the will-to-be, which is qualified by the will-to-good and
developed (from the consciousness angle) by the will-to-know. These
are in truth three aspects of the divine will which exists in its perfection
in the solar Logos and finds a medium of expression through the planetary
Logos. This will is therefore working out in seven ways, via the living
qualities of the seven planetary Logoi Who
express Themselves through the seven sacred planets; They are preoccupied
with the endeavor of bringing all the forms
of life within the orbit of Their influence up to the same measure of
recorded recognition and of registered existence. It will be obvious
to you, consequently, that on each of the seven sacred planets one aspect
of the divine Will will be dominant. [R&I106]
The "rainbow bridge" becomes a channel
for the impact of monadic or life energy upon substance, so that substance,
taking form under the cyclic intention of the planetary Logos, may become
increasingly colored or qualified by the energy
of universality. [R&I280]
RULE
XIII: Students need to realize more concretely that group consciousness,
universal awareness, and therefore synthetic effort, synthetic understanding
and synthetic activity are possible to a Master or an initiate of the
higher degrees. That involves the keynote of this solar [R&I250]
system, particularly within this planet, the Earth; it will be succeeded
in the next solar system by a type of life activity which is as yet
only known in Shamballa.
Thus, the great synthesis emerges, and destruction,
death, and dissolution are in reality naught but life processes. Abstraction
is indicative of process, progress and development.[R&I163]
"...whilst the first Ray of Will or Power
reaches us through Vulcan and through Pluto. The real reason for this
is one of the secrets of initiation and is hidden in the destiny of
the fourth Creative Hierarchy and in the will-to-manifest of the Lord
of our Earth, Who is Himself upon the third Ray of Active Intelligence;
of Him it is said that "when the third great energy is related
to the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the mystery of the perfected Seven
will be understood." EA269]
Vulcan and Pluto are related to the two Pointers
and are only now beginning, in any definite and clear manner, to affect
human response. Their effect has been planetary in its nature up to
date and has not hitherto been at all effective in either the fourth
or the second kingdoms in nature.
"...the spiritual will of deity as it
comes to our planet and hence to us via Aries, Vulcan and Pluto. You
have, therefore, the following direct line of will energy:
1. The
Pointer furthest from the Pole Star[Merak,
star VI] in the constellation
of the Great Bear. This is, esoterically speaking, [EA196] a great reservoir
or focal point for divine energy, carrying out God's purpose. The Pointer
nearest to the Pole Star [Dubje, Star V]
is expressive of a lower aspect of the will, which - in speaking
of humanity - we call self-will.
2. Aries,
in which the will to create or to manifest makes its appearance and
the great divine experiment is initiated.
3. Vulcan
and Pluto are related to the two Pointers and are only now beginning,
in any definite and clear manner, to affect human response. Their effect
has been planetary in its nature up to date and has not hitherto been
at all effective in either the fourth or the second kingdoms in nature.
4. Shamballa, the Custodian of the Plan for our planet.
Merak........Vulcan...Divine
Will..."furthest from the Pole star"....Father
Dubhe........Pluto.....Self-Will
......"nearest the Pole star".............Mother
Thus in parables the truth goes out, and gradually
the initiate grasps the uses of heat, warmth, light and energy; he arrives
at an understanding of self-will, sacrificial will and Shamballic purpose, and only Love (self-love, group love,
and finally, divine love) can reveal the significance of these symbolic
words and the occult paradoxes which confront the true aspirant as he
attempts to tread the Way [R&I33].
the 3 aspects of Love
Self-love..........Pluto
Group Love.....Earth
Divine Love.....Vulcan
It is not possible in these brief instructions
to deal adequately with the will aspect of divinity, nor would it profit
at this time. Aspirants have to learn the nature of the will by the
power of inner illumination and by certain intelligent recognitions.
They learn the nature of the self through the aid of the personality,
the shadow or distortion of the divine will. They pass from the expression
of the will which [47] is purely selfish, self-sufficient and self-focused,
to the grasp of the group will and to the effort to embody that group
will. This group will is always concerned with that which is not the
will of the separated self.
As this ability to be selflessly decentralized
grows and develops, the aspirant reaches a point where the group life
and the group good is seen as an integral part of a much greater Whole.
This greater Whole is Being Itself, divorced from form but ever working
through form whilst in manifestation, and working with planned purpose.
The realization then grows that intelligence and love are not enough,
but that they must be supplemented and implemented by will, which is
active intelligent purpose, lovingly applied.
The difficulty of this subject is inherent
in the fact that basically (no matter how strange this may seem) love
is the line of least resistance for the developed human being. It is
the governing principle of the present solar system. Will is the governing
principle of the next or coming solar system, which will be brought
into manifestation through the agency of those human beings who - in
this solar system - arrive at the full expression of the will aspect.
Then, in the coming consummating manifestation, love will be to the
will aspect what intelligence is, in this solar system, to love.
There is in the first ray - as it expresses
itself through Vulcan - very little of the Destroyer aspect as there
is in the planetary influence of Pluto, another agent of the first ray.
[EA84]
The Monad relates the initiate to the Will
of God, to the Council at Shamballa, to forces
active on the planet Pluto, and on another planet which must remain
nameless, [Vulcan] and also to the Central Spiritual Sun.[R&I96]
Aries, the initiator of impulses (either the
impulse to incarnate or the impulse to return to the originating source)
is closely in touch with one of the stars in the Great Bear to which
we give the name "Pointer" in common parlance. This Pointer
is a "major star of direction" because through it (in this
world cycle) flows the will to unify and to bring about synthesis. This
is the force which brings about the fusion or integration of the personality,
the at-one-ment of personality and soul, the
unification of humanity or the Great Approach of the Hierarchy to Humanity.
It will produce also the integration of our Earth into the body of the
"sacred planets" and the consequent establishing of a triangle
of force composed of the Pointer, Aries and our Earth. This triangular
relationship will have a potent effect upon the solar system as well
as upon the planet itself and is also one of the factors producing the
shift in the Earth's axis. Related to this triangle is a secondary one
within our sun's orbit, composed of Vulcan, Pluto and the Earth. In
the Archives of the Great Lodge this is referred, to symbolically as:
[EA483]
This is one of the most interesting and informing
astrological symbols I have given you and indicates a most momentous
relationship. You have here two major and three minor energies brought
into close relation; this is analogous to the two major rays and the
three minor rays which condition a human being in manifestation. These
are the five energies which concern the informing life of our planet.
They produce, in humanity, conscious evolution, direction and the founding
of Shamballa upon the Earth. They are the five energies connected
with the will-to-be, but from the consciousness angle and not the material
expression of manifestation. Their activity and united influence in
the realm of consciousness produced the appearance of another triangle:
Leo, Polaris and another of the Pointers and these two groups form an
interlocking directorate, potently effective in the evolution of consciousness.
You have, therefore, through these related
triangles, the appearance of Shamballa and
Humanity - the two poles of divine expression - will and activity.
Merak.......Vulcan........Shamballa.......Will..........Father.
Dubhe.......Pluto..........Humanity........Activity.....Mother
At the first initiation, the disciple has
to contend with the crystallizing and destroying forces of Vulcan and
Pluto. The influence of Vulcan reaches to the very depths of his nature,
whilst Pluto drags to the surface and destroys all that hinders in these
lower regions.
Leo is the sign wherein the consciousness
of individuality is developed, utilized and finally consecrated to divine
purpose. It is related to Polaris, the Pole Star (found in the Little
Bear) and it is also peculiarly susceptible to the influence of that
Pointer in the Great Bear which is the nearest to the Pole Star [Dubhe].
Esoterically speaking, the Pole Star is regarded as the "star of
reorientation" whereby the art of "refacing and recovering
that which is lost" is developed. This eventually brings a man
back to his originating source. It might, therefore, be correctly inferred
that this Pointer [Dubhe] and the energy emanating
from it guides humanity upon the involutionary
path, and is constantly active in its influence upon the man who is
still upon the Mutable Cross. Then the energy of the Pointer furthest
from the Pole Star [Merak] begins to make its presence felt and a sense of right
direction or guidance is registered by the disciple upon the Path, and
such guidance (when followed) leads man nearer to the Hierarchy. It
is here that the divine [197] necessity of achieving alignment is portrayed
for us in the symbolism of the sky and when it has been achieved then
there is a direct inflow of divine energy and man is linked up in a
new and creative manner to sources of divine supply. Astrologers will
do well (in connection with the horoscopes of disciples and particularly
of initiates) to consider the two Pointers and the Pole Star. They are
mysteriously connected with the three aspects of incarnated man - Spirit,
soul and body. More than this it is not permitted to me to convey to
you. I may, however, give you another hint. These three stars are embodiments
of the three aspects of divine will. It is the three aspects of all
expressions of divinity in manifestation which underlie the Science
of Triangles. This I will later elaborate.
As you know, Pluto stands for death or the
region of death; the Earth stands for the sphere of experience; Vulcan stands for the glorification, through
purification and detachment, of matter [EA127]
Through vulcan -
under the bondage of form in order through form experience to achieve
release and the "uplift of matter".
Through the Earth - under the influence of
planetary experience (which is different to individual experience) in
order to transmute his personal consciousness into group awareness.
Through Pluto - under the destroying power
of death - death of desire, death of the personality and of all which
holds him between the pairs of opposites, in order to achieve the final
liberation. Pluto or death never destroys the consciousness aspect.
[EA128]
The destructive power of the first ray, focused
in Pluto, brings change, darkness and death. [EA127]
Towards the end of the evolutionary process,
the disciple begins to respond consciously to the fourth indirect influence
- that of Pluto, producing the death of the hindering factors and of
all that prevents synthesis. [EA365]
"...through Vulcan and Pluto, are related
to Ray 1. Transmutation of desire into sacrifice and of the individual
will into the divine will.[EA67]
Pluto, governing the eighth House, the house
of death, of dissolution, of detachment[EA538]
The
influence of Vulcan reaches to the very depths of his nature, whilst
Pluto drags to the surface and destroys all that hinders in these lower
regions.[EA70]
In the foregoing I have endeavored
to give some faint idea of the relation existing between the Hierarchy
and Shamballa. I did this in order that you might grasp some measure
of the synthesis underlying the entire planetary life; in order also
that this rule for initiates could be interpreted as intended, as far
as is possible, to the uninitiated consciousness; and finally, in order
that the entire concept of Shamballa and its
immense reservoir of energy, which we call the will or the life of God,
may take its rightful place in the occult presentation of truth. The
will of God and the life of God are esoterically synonymous terms, and
when the life aspect of an individual and his spiritual, selfless will
[147] are completely synchronized, then you have - in a human being
- the full expression of divinity or what has been called esoterically,
"Shamballa is consummated in him."