Occult Cosmology

Introduction I am a teacher, sometimes known as the Tibetan, who is attempting to convey to a group within humanity a body of teachings which will help them take the next evolutionary step forward.

Let me state it plainly. The purpose of these teachings is to achieve liberation from the three worlds for those souls who come in contact with them. The teachings are NOT designed to build a body of knowledge upon the mental plane. The development and training of the mind is a prerequisite for liberation and not an end in itself. The mind must be reoriented so that it is able to penetrate equally into the inner and outer realities, but it is not the mind to which these teachings are ultimately aimed. It is to the soul—the dweller in the mind, the director of experience—that we address ourselves.

Just as the causal body is a temporary abode for the soul and a means by which it can complete its redemptive mission in the three worlds, just so these esoteric teachings form a causal vehicle within the higher mental plane of humanity. The current teachings form the third or inner petals in its threefold expression. The causal body, when complete, is not preserved in perpetuity like some frozen museum exhibit. It is the fruit of a process and this fruit serves a purpose in its ripening, but the ripe fruit does not linger long—it is destroyed, and in this destruction another pathway is opened in the planetary web.

All esoteric teachings given out as formulated thoughts and ideas that can be written down in books, form part of the great illusion. The time will come when humanity will operate free of the mind and the process of direct transmission through the cosmic etheric body will be registered as an ordinary part of human experience.

Once the human soul is freed from the mind it naturally finds its place within Hierarchy

and has access through direct transmission to whatever ‘teaching’ is needed in order for it to perform its function within the greater whole.

Members of Hierarchy may be Masters of the Wisdom (from the perspective of humanity—for they do not consider themselves as such) but this in no way means they are Masters of All Knowledge—they merely have the key to all knowledge. Let me explain this statement. Wisdom is an emanation from the worlds of Being. It has its roots in that which is unchanging. Knowledge is an accumulation from the worlds of Becoming. It has its roots in that which is ever changing. Wisdom is archetypal. Knowledge is particular. Wisdom is developed in the soul. Knowledge is accumulated by the personality in incarnation.

Knowledge is the dough, wisdom the yeast. The reason that the Wisdom teachings continue to make their expression throughout time in human experience is because the knowledge aspect of humanity is becoming more and more refined and is therefore able to form a better and better vehicle for spiritual revelation.

Proponents of the divine science must therefore know what to hold onto as unchangeable wisdom and what to let go of as outdated knowledge. Perhaps the best advice in this regard is to be willing to continually offer all knowledge/wisdom into the fire of evolutionary transformation in the sure awareness that spirit will never be harmed by the flames. An increase in Wisdom is not the result of knowing more and more but a gradual realisation of the unknowable. The neophyte to the Wisdom tradition seeks, as early scientists sought, to find an orderly divine world where all the planets turn in perfect circles around the sun. He seeks to find ultimate answers to the troubling questions of existence and to be able to rest content within a world view that is consistent and unassailed by doubt. He seeks thus to become a knower of the ‘answers’ rather than to reconcile himself to the ‘living of the question’. This natural desire is quickly obliterated in the broad scope of the Wisdom traditions which assail the mind with paradox and seek to expand consciousness until there is nothing of any substance to hold on to. Helena Blavatsky had this to say about an approach to her own inspired work—The Secret Doctrine:

existence and to be able to rest content within a world view that is consistent and unassailed by doubt. He seeks thus to become a knower of the ‘answers’ rather than to reconcile himself to the ‘living of the question’. This natural desire is quickly obliterated in the broad scope of the Wisdom traditions which assail the mind with paradox and seek to expand consciousness until there is nothing of any substance to hold on to. Helena Blavatsky had this to say about an approach to her own inspired work—The Secret Doctrine:

Come to the Secret Doctrine without any hope of getting the final Truth of existence from it, or with any idea other than seeing how far it may lead towards the Truth. Similarly in the Bailey tradition new students are apt to try and reduce the extensive and comprehensive cosmology into an ordered universe where rays and planets and chakras can all be neatly assigned. What is not realised is that it is this very tendency in the human mind to ‘reduce’ the living wisdom into concrete knowledge that is under assault in the Wisdom tradition. It is like a trojan horse which offers the security of knowing and ends by stripping away all that was sought. A Master of Wisdom is one who has left all identification with knowledge behind. He does not cultivate the field of knowledge because he knows himself to be one with the field—the farmer and the seed. The truth that is evident in the higher realms can never be fully ‘known’ because in knowledge the apparatus encountering the truth is experienced as separate from it.

will be apparent that the fullest expression of the truth possible at any one time will be seen later to be but a fragment of a whole, and later still be recognised to be only portions of a…

is the job of the Master to disseminate the ever-present wisdom with the purpose of stimulating the urgeto-liberation in those who come in contact with it. It is the job of the human to gather the ever-evolving knowledge which clothes the wisdom in a modern expression that both veils and reveals it to a new generation of enquirers. The purpose of this current preamble therefore, is to induce those who read these words to abandon all hope and desire at the outset to make of them anything other than a pathway over which they may cross. Let them hold before their enquiring minds a vision of the purpose of these teachings. See them as a vessel provided for the…

Become the path—for there is no other way to cross the river—but never lose sight of the goal which IS to cross over and explore for all, as all, that which lies on the far shore. Hierarchy needs souls to take up their conscious functioning within the ashrams on the buddhic plane. To do this they must cross over the great transition from Humanity to Hierarchy and not become overly preoccupied either with the accumulation of knowledge or the performing of service to humanity. This may seem a strange note until it is realised that the emphasis in this instruction is on the Will. The Buddha embodied the Third Aspect and it is said that the so-called ‘failure of the Buddha’ (so-called because success or failure depends upon perspective) was the result of excess compassion. The proper use of the will affirms the divinity in others and shows faith in their capacity to initiate themselves when provided with some assistance. It brings with it the drive to move forward along the path and enter into new worlds of endeavour. The First Ray is the Lord of Death because initiation not only involves an ‘entering into’ but also a ‘leaving behind’. To move forward…

To move forward on the path through the separating webs of the planetary etheric life requires a willingness to leave others behind…

good of the whole will be served by the rightful functioning of all its parts. This teaching is not a destination…

Synthesis and the Theosophical Movement New teachings emerge when there are enough ‘ears’ present within the body of humanity that…

Teachers and teachings come and go on the planet. The concepts and philosophies evolve and cycle through the consciousness of humanity, but what remains as a constant note behind all teachings is the ‘Will to Synthesis’ that substands the whole process of the electrical interaction between Hierarchy and Humanity.

How will the world’s religious and philosophical traditions recognise their essential common origin and yet preserve the unique flavours of their different approaches?

Unity starts with the recognition of separation and works to bring disparate parts of a whole together. Synthesis starts with the one reality, and this reality entering into the field of consciousness reveals the unity that already exists. Consciousness by definition is dual. The spirit aspect refuses to split itself and the monad therefore never leaves the ‘father’s house’. On a planetary level therefore, Shamballa is the place where the world’s different religious traditions and philosophical pathways in consciousness NEVER AROSE. Even the name Shamballa has never arisen there to disturb the silence—a silence that ‘sounds’ and substands the world of consciousness and the world of activity.

Please have this clearly in mind. Just as the key to right human relations or ‘love’ is the revelation of the Christ principle or soul in man, so the key to Life is the revelation of the monadic or Shamballic principle at the core of the soul.

In the Eastern approach it is important to have contact with a Master who has already achieved enlightenment and this is normally effected via a lineage or pathway that both preserves this flow of the energy of enlightenment through specific teachings and though direct transmission in an unbroken chain of ‘lineage holders’.

The synthetic perspective ascribes ‘the Wisdom’ as being ‘ageless’ or ‘timeless’ to point to its location outside of the flow of time. We might say that ‘Love-Wisdom’ is the result of contact between the world of time and space and that which lies behind and pervades the temporal spatial world. What we call the ‘classics’ in the realm of philosophy or art or religion are those contacts with the timeless reality that have resulted in its infusion into the temporal world. They are doorways to Shamballa. We will not find anything in the past that is not also available to us right now. Similarly there is nothing that will arrive into our future that will not reveal itself as having already been eternally present.

There is a saying in Egypt: ‘Man fears time but time fears the pyramids’.

The pyramids capture the imagination of man because they represent a mystery that has not been fully absorbed into consciousness. They are the embodiment of a portion of Logoic Will.

The current teachings are designed to prepare that consciousness for freedom so that it may bring the cycle to full flower, just as at the Third Degree a human soul brings the experiences of many incarnations into a culminating masterpiece. They are designed to assist in direct contact with that which is guarded by the pillars of the temple. They are designed to assist humanity in taking the flow of energy from Shamballa both directly and filtered through the consciousness principle.

Those in these various traditions who claim that she misrepresented or misunderstood the specific knowledge of their pathways miss the point of the purpose that underlies the work. She was expressing the spirit of synthesis in approach to divinity and dealing a blow to the dominant materialistic thoughtform.

She made widely available the history of the human soul from the spiritual perspective to help balance the mentality of the West, and she initiated a movement based on the brotherhood of the human soul in its search for truth no matter which religious or philosophical ‘lineage’ with which it was associated.

The soul is ever a bridging principle with a temporary manifestation designed to relate the opposites. To understand the teaching it must be realised that the teaching IS ITSELF that which it seeks to teach. It is a relationship, both vertical and horizontal, within the consciousness of humanity. Its purpose is to bring together different spheres of awareness within the mental life of mankind and to bring the mind of man into relationship with both the super and sub-human kingdoms. When this has been achieved the teaching is complete. The teaching is thus a living being motivated by the spirit of sacrifice.

The teaching will fulfil its purpose in time and space because it already essentially IS that purpose in its energetic make-up.

“There is No Religion Higher than Truth”.

“There is No Truth, Only Life”.

Life proceeds from one sacrifice to another. When we see that sacrifice from the perspective of what is being given up it is seen as agony. When we see it from the perspective of what is being gained it is ecstasy. For synthesis to express in the field of human endeavour the spirit of sacrifice must be strong, and it is this spirit that is evoked by the third phase of the teachings. This sacrifice should not be taken to mean a sacrifice undertaken by an identity or entity, but the sacrifice OF the identity or entity.

The ‘brotherhood of man’ will not only be brought into being by creating new forms but by expressing a new spirit.

A spiritual tradition has a form of soul and causal body in the same way that a human being does. It is the expression on the higher mental plane of the ‘holy of holies’—the sacred tenets of the tradition. Most have some principle of the ‘name which cannot be spoken’ to preserve the recognition that nothing that can be formulated into a concept can contain anything but the fragrance of a transcendent reality.

Most have some principle of the ‘name which cannot be spoken’ to preserve the recognition that nothing that can be formulated into a concept can contain anything but the fragrance of a transcendent reality.

In such a case the spirit simply withdraws to leave those who seek organisational control and expansion to look after their shrinking kingdoms.

The teachings are only, and can ever be only the crust of the bread. The warm rising dough of the centre cannot be taught; and there are always more loaves coming out of the great oven. Behind all this baking is a living culture of yeast that has been kept alive for countless generations to provide the ‘rising life’ in each and every loaf.

Universal Life has no centre and yet is present within all centres.

Transmission Process

Once the energy of the monad becomes a reality in the life experience of the initiate then no further mental plane teaching is required, as the soul is able to ‘advance in Life’. The teachings as a whole will persist for some time within the consciousness of humanity—in the same way that different stages of development are everywhere present—and should eventually be seen as a synthetic whole.

This light requires a ‘blending of two lights’ in order to be revealed: the light of the soul and the light of the personality. As a member of Hierarchy and a member of Humanity, our collaboration represents such a blending of lights. There is another practical reason for this collaboration. As a Master who has taken the Sixth Degree I have relinquished mind as you understand it. I still function in my ‘vehicle of Will’ on the atmic plane and therefore am in a position to transmit the Life principle, but no longer the manasic one. Thus when you seek the ‘Life’ behind these teachings you will not find it qualified by my mind but the mind of my collaborator. Seeking to maintain an energetic relationship with me will require you to lift out of mind altogether, even if only for a time, and seek to reach atmic levels. There you will find the reservoir of Will that I am—a reservoir held in time and space that can be utilised for the purpose of your liberation.

First I seek to free you, the thinker in the mind, from identification with the thoughtforms of materiality. Second I seek to expand your consciousness to include the vastness of the universe, and sound a note of Pure Reason that will assist in freeing you for longer periods into the buddhic intuitive realms. And finally I sound a note of atma that will eventually result in the destruction of the thoughtforms and the liberation of the soul from the mind altogether.

Refrain as well from setting up any organisational structures around this Third Aspect teaching, or seeking to promote it or its message in the world. Resonance will provide the energetic template for its natural dissemination and the co-operation between those who respond to its note.

I am presenting these teachings with a force of Will and authority that is inherent in their essential nature and part of their liberating power. I do not seek to undermine your own will and discrimination, but to strengthen it.

2. Buddhi Enter as much as possible into the buddhic state before engaging the teachings. This way of reading is not study as distinct from meditation, but meditation with words attached to give form to the idea essences with which we are fundamentally dealing. Establish a meditative rapport with the ashram and with me as your teacher, that you will experience as a living current of relationship that stands back of the outer teaching.

3. Manas Clear thought is essential—not in order to build a static coherent philosophical model of the universe, but in order to free oneself from old thoughtforms and in order to continually express the dynamic reality that substands and permeates cosmos. Relate to thought like a dancer relates to her body—as a divine instrument that allows you to express your essential nature and to reach out and connect to others. A dancer may learn many forms of dance and rehearse individual movements in order to skillfully and accurately portray the essence of the dance. Likewise it is important for the soul to be able to utilise many different philosophical perspectives and ideas in order to convey its true nature. The refinement of knowledge is important, but not as important as what that knowledge reveals.

All truth is mythological. I do not seek for you to merely learn the latest mythology, but to participate in the creative process.

As buddhi you open to be permeated by the atmic, monadic and logoic energies, enlivened, enpurposed and enfired by them. As buddhi you are a field that opens to receive and enlighten the aspiring energies of the personality. As buddhi you are a finely honed sword of penetration into the heart of the monad. As buddhi you breathe in and out. As buddhi you are breathed in and out.

You align thought with the Plan, desire with Purpose and daily life with Divine Life. You are the saving force which brings to each kingdom in nature what it needs to flower into fullness. You are the power that can penetrate into the atom and release its tremendous energy. You are the love that can hold all kingdoms in right relationship with each other.

It claims its rightful place simply by its solid presence, seeking neither advocacy nor antagonism. It simply IS. An enigmatic gift that may unwrap itself in time for those who are drawn to it.

So let me dedicate this work “to those souls ripe with golden knowing whose time has come to stand and have revealed in them the black seed of the unknowable.”

There is one Life beyond all definition and approach, and we are that. This core reality remains at the centre of all realisation, and yet the evolving self grows in its capacity to experience and express this reality. Hence the need for new and sequential teachings. The One reality cannot be symbolised, for it lies behind the duality of manifest/unmanifest. What can be symbolised is our current approach to divinity, which is by way of the monad or the Life aspect of the human being. This way of spirit is a pathless path; not a way of knowing, but of being the way. The symbol we will use for the monadic approach to divinity is the symbol of the black hole.

By renouncing the role of guru or grand central sun, Krishnamurti was foreshadowing the Aquarian model and piercing the illusion of Alcyone as a blind or marker for the real central sun.

Clues have been left throughout the teachings, and in particular through the experiential traditions of the mystics. Such terms as ‘the dark night of the soul’, ‘divine darkness’, the ‘darkness of pure spirit’, the ‘dark light of Shamballa’ and so on, refer to an experiential shift from expansion of the soul to identification with the monad.

Realised sonship is the goal of the path of initiation up until the Third Degree. At that time, the monad begins to play a more dynamic part in evolution—first completely freeing the soul from its misidentification with form, and thereafter beginning to free the indwelling spirit from the triadal sheaths of the soul. This latter process begins to complete at the Fifth Degree when the initiate becomes a Master of the five worlds and realises his essential identity as the monad, the One. Three times the cry goes out to all the Pilgrims upon the Path of Life: “Know thyself ” is the first great injunction and long is the process of attaining that knowledge. “Know the Self ” comes next and when that is achieved, man knows not only himself but all selves; the soul of the universe is to him no longer the sealed book of life but one with the seven seals broken. Then when the man stands adept, the cry goes forth “Know the One” and the words ring in the adepts’ ears: “Search for that which is the responsible Cause, and having known the soul, and its expression, form, search for THAT which the soul reveals.”1 Two of the greatest occult breakthroughs in the twentieth century were the splitting of the atom and the penetration into the mystery of black holes. In these two achievements we have the outer expression of the liberation of the soul from matter.

The Angel and Dweller must meet; but this requires a balancing of energies that have been at war for long ages. The disciple has had to struggle to identify himself with the Self and to reject the not-Self. This is necessary because the power of the Third Aspect has been the dominant force for long ages, due to its development in an earlier cycle. The Second Aspect or soul has had to be strengthened so that it is able to master the energies of the personality, before subsequently uniting with them. Once the point of balance or equilibrium is reached, then that which lies behind the duality begins to be experienced and comes into greater expression, resulting in their fusion.

The mystery of spirit, the mystery of electric fire, is the unknown centre of darkness around which the worlds of light and the worlds of matter turn.

Victory achieved, he enquires again, seeking that which lies behind this dual existence which has engrossed him for many lives. He seeks to know the purpose behind the play of light and dark, and draws close to that which cannot be known but only touched for a moment. Indeed the touch results in…

A relationship is established with that higher centre of darkness—the darkness of pure spirit. The light of the soul burns brightly now—a brightness fed by the higher darkness, so that the lower darkness of matter is now fully illuminated and begins to glow with solar fire. More and more the soul seeks the electrifying touch of spirit. More and more the bliss of not knowing opens in the core of the solar life until the soul itself explodes from inside out, scattering its accumulated consciousness throughout the sea of light. Instead of being a point of solar fire, it now becomes a field of fire—a…

Dark Matter and Dark…

The spiritual journey is the journey from form, to the light behind form, to the darkness behind light. Matter is close at hand, and we have the concrete symbol of the Earth to aid our understanding. Consciousness has for its symbol light, the electromagnetic spectrum and the sun. Being remains a mystery, and mystics and occultists alike have…

The black hole at the centre of a galaxy is an outer symbol of the local coherence and source of Being, just as the sun is our local symbol and source of light. Dark energy and dark matter are the monadic equivalent of light and electromagnetic radiation. The universe as science knows it today, consists of 75% dark energy, 21% dark matter, and 4% all the visible and measurable matter including light and the forms of human beings. Dark energy is the energetic substrate of the universe, and everything…

Dark energy is an expression of the universal fluid or plenum that generates motion and therefore is ultimately responsible for the speed of light as well as the spiraling of galaxies, and the spin of…

We know matter is merely a form of energy. Soon we will know that light and high energy particles are merely one form that dark energy takes. Dark energy and dark matter are the correspondence to the etheric and physical planes of matter—or the abstract and concrete mind. Dark matter is the modification of this basic energy that is affected by gravity—the cosmic Saturn principle. All formal structures within the manifest universe, from super-clusters of galaxies to the smallest asteroid, exist within the folds of dark matter. Dark energy is a cosmic Uranian principle. It is free from the pull of gravity and generates the expansion of the universe. Without dark matter there would be no coherent structure, without dark energy there would be no freedom from it. The relationship between black holes and dark energy will form the basis for future exploration. In the first case we have a singularity formed where matter has completely surrendered to gravity and collapsed past all coherency. In the second case we have the cause of the universe expanding so fast that gravity is negated and all form will ultimately fly apart. They are correspondences to the alpha and omega points in the spiritual dimension.

Light is matter, and DARKNESS pure Spirit. Darkness, in its radical metaphysical basis, is subjective and absolute light; while the latter in all its seeming effulgence and glory, is merely a mass of shadows, as it can never be eternal, and is simply an illusion, or Maya.

Once the system is balanced however, the duality is resolved and all seven operate as one system under the direction of the soul in conjunction with the heart chakra.

This is what lies behind the spiritual impotence of many disciples. They are awake to spiritual realities but have little capacity to express those realities or demonstrate them on the physical plane. They have little outer power, little or no money and sexual magnetism and often a very tenuous connection with the will to live.

The disciple has by this time identified himself as the soul and cannot understand why he or she is unable to fully manifest his or her purpose or vision in the world.

What is revealed to the disciple is that he himself is the problem and the obstacle to the full expression of soul purpose. That she is in fact the Dweller on the threshold and not the soul. This process, often through a series of such shocks, eventually leads to the surrender of the personality and the transfer of identity into the soul, which can then externalise without its primary opposition.

The soul had to abandon the realisation of that perfection (leave the father’s house) in order to respond to the call of the three worlds.

The soul realises that it was not the father who abandoned the son, but the son who abandoned the father ‘in consciousness’, for indeed no abandonment took place in reality.

The capacity to suffer and the purpose of pain is uniquely a part of the human experience and life on this planet in this solar system.

When a trainee boddhisattva commits to freeing all sentient beings it may be difficult to perceive that they are already inherently free.

The result will not be as dramatic for humanity as many would hope, but seen from the vantage point of 2025, the disillusionment that will surely follow 2012 is a potent force in the initiatory process. It moves souls from passive expectancy into a disciplic battle to themselves become the expression of the vision that they have so clearly seen for the world. The period up until 2025 will be seen in hindsight to be one of deep conflict and suffering, as well as enormous opportunity. The suffering will be accepted and embraced by advanced members of humanity, for they know that it is not meaningless but suffering with a purpose. That purpose will begin to dawn on humanity as a whole by the time 2025 arrives. The incoming Fourth Ray will bring with it the first taste of the ‘light of victory’ for the fourth kingdom. One of the reasons for the giving out of this teaching now is to strengthen the spirit of disciples, preparing them for a prolonged period of intense struggle ahead. There are many souls in incarnation now who carry what might be called the seeds of darkness—a higher ‘non-dual’ or divine darkness that is in reality a blinding light. These souls are the disciples and initiates who are able to esoterically ‘see in the dark light’. That seeing will enable them to stand firm and secure through the period of testing ahead. Indeed this is how the power structures and resources of the world will shift from the planetary personality to the planetary soul. In times of deep crisis the personality is unable to offer solutions—it is blinded and revealed for what it essentially is—a very clever survival system. Those who are soul-infused will be able to stand and withstand the blast of spirit as forerunners of the Externalisation process and heralds of the new civilisation. Indeed for them it will also be a time of great joy, as they will witness the things they have stood and fought for over many years finally able to break through the cracks in the old and crumbling world order. Esoterically

they can anchor themselves in the future, in the time window of 2025 where the light of victory is breaking even now. There the hour is always now. These teachings are designed to provide an energetic antahkarana to that future ever-present light.

Occult Cosmology At the core of every civilisation lies its cosmology. In anthropology, cosmology refers to the core creation myths or the way in which a culture attributes fundamental meaning to the origin and purpose of existence. Cosmology as used by astrophysicists has to do with our understanding of the origin, functioning and destiny of the material universe. These two uses are often attributed to religion and science. Often, in an attempt to give each its due, the term ‘non-overlapping magisteria’ is used to indicate that the why of existence and the how of existence are separate domains and enquiry into one is irrelevant to the other. But…

Occult cosmology attempts to get to this level of reality. The view from the synthesis of matter and consciousness. It is occult, not because it is somehow secretive or clandestine but because it is hidden from our normal consciousness. Indeed the ‘light of our consciousness’ cannot illuminate ‘it’ for ‘it’ is the essence of that light itself. We might say that exoteric has to do with our perception of the outer world, esoteric has to do with our perception of the inner world, but occult has to do with that which underlies both. A global cosmology must not only be rooted in our modern scientific understanding of the universe but also provide a context for—and be an accurate reflection of—the deepest meaning and purpose we experience as a human species. It must be inclusive so that it validates and co-measures the many perspectives that humanity has already developed and yet also transcend perspective altogether. Let us begin with the paradox of choosing a name for the nameless. Of course we are building a conceptual framework for that which cannot be conceptualised; however some prisons are bigger, have more windows and longer visiting hours than others. I am choosing the name IO to…

mathematics and in some Maori Polynesian traditions it is the name for the supreme God. “IO—the Parentless who was the Always…

I O Unmanifest Being— the bestower of identity First Logos Primordial substance Mulaprakriti Manifestation Life Purusha-Prakriti Spirit-matter Second Logos Third Logos Cosmic…

Cosmic ideation is the product of the coming together of this primary duality to produce consciousness or the world soul—the sense of ‘self in manifestation’. For the Self to be conscious it needs a sheath to become self-aware in. Once Purusha and Prakriti have come together we have ‘self-consciousness’ in its many emanations and expressions. On the cosmic physical plane, the monad is the primary source of self-awareness which then flows through into the soul and personality. The personal self is more identified with its sheaths or the matter principle and the monad is more identified with ‘being’ or the spirit principle. The soul is the bridge where both aspects are balanced. On the buddhic plane the human soul knows itself to be the product of two parents. On the monadic plane the human monad is fully identified as the source of selfhood to…

Monadic…

The evolving self lives imbedded in the world of becoming—within the manifest universe. The absolute self is neither confined to the manifest universe nor excluded from it. It neither evolves nor realises itself. It is beyond all definition and all duality. It is what the Ageless Wisdom calls the One Boundless Immutable Principle. It is the ever becoming, though the never manifesting. Monadic duality refers then to the simultaneous realisation that begins to occur in the human soul once it has penetrated into the centralised identity that we refer to as the ‘monad’. One aspect of this realisation is a sense of self expanded into a larger sphere of time and space identification. The human being begins to realise itself as a participant in the Purpose and Life aspect (and not only the consciousness) of the planetary and solar life in which it lives. The other aspect is the gradual ‘breaking through’ into awareness of the absolute self so that it is realised that not only is the evolving self participating in ‘Life’, it IS that Life—and not only the one universal LIFE but the very Principle in which that Life LIVES. And always has been and never was or was not. This cannot be said and yet, instead of moving along to the next idea which the consciousness can grasp, it is worth pausing to let the infinite reveal itself through the finite.

Within the robes of the ever becoming the always already is remembered. Once the experience of radical awakening takes place in some stable way then the journey of becoming continues, but becomes a blissful creative dance. Self-realisation is the same in each age because the absolute self is unchanging, but the manifestation that is a part of the One self is undergoing radical change through the interaction between the evolving self and the absolute self. The creation is becoming aware of that which substands creation and this is having effects on creation.

Spiritual awakening then is a process that not only involves the developing and raising of consciousness but the transfiguration of that consciousness by Life. Some insights into this triple process were presented in the Trans-Himalayan teachings through the idea of evolution over three solar systems and of the three centres on Earth of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity. For the system to function correctly then the three systems or centres, and the functions they represent, must operate synthetically; mastery of matter, the initiation of consciousness and the permeation of the Life principle.

As paradoxical as it sounds in language, one is aware of all other selves that are aware of themselves as the One Self. This is the Sangha. The One without an other is simultaneously aware that all others are the One, and in particular that some others are aware of this—a community of Buddhas.

‘Buddha nature’ itself is beyond evolution in time and space. It simply IS. This radical awakening is the beginning of what might be called ‘monadic consciousness’ or identification.

This is why I have given out (in an earlier work) the Mantram of Life: 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.

Spirit/matter manifests as a fourfold field. They tetra-arise. Human souls are able to stand at the centre of this fourfold expression and be themselves the at-oneing link. They can do this because they are at once both the offspring of the dualities and also, at their root, IO—the one reality that expresses as the duality which in turn expresses in a fourfold manner.

We are the electrical spark which passes between the father–mother. We are fohat. Under Uranus, in the Aquarian Age, our work is to awake and awaken. The real brotherhood of the Aquarian Age is not a brotherhood of souls but a brotherhood of spirit. This brotherhood extends well beyond the human kingdom to include all life and consciousness. At our root we are the One Life—IO—and so is everyone and everything regardless of their state of development in consciousness. When we truly experience this then the role of humans in Kosmos will be self-evident.

The purpose of the esoteric teachings is to expand the consciousness of man and enable him to enter into his threefold divine heritage.

• The solar life within a galaxy is represented by the light of the suns. • The solar life within a solar system is represented by human souls in causal bodies. • The solar life within the human system is represented by the points of light that make up the etheric body.

In The Secret Doctrine I indicated that in this the fourth round, ether would become visible. The fourth ether is related to light. “In that light shall we see light.”1 In the light of human consciousness (buddhi) the dark light of Shamballa or Life becomes visible.

A second key tenet that will make the process of grasping this phase of the teaching easier is the realisation that the highest (plane, sphere, energy etc) not only transcends and includes the lower but is present ‘within’ it. The ‘outside’ and the ‘inside’ are continuous. The universal is present within the human, just as the human is present within the universal. Inside each atom we will find the same subtle energy that is present in a black hole. Indeed when human consciousness is able to penetrate into both levels simultaneously a great completion takes place. The rush light of ‘anu’ the speck2 and the dark light of Shamballa are brought into conscious relationship. When we observe the visible universe and our consciousness expands we are apt to equate our smallness in size with our degree of importance. It is easy to miss just how important a development human consciousness itself is to the Kosmos as a whole.

Inside each atom we will find the same subtle energy that is present in a black hole. Indeed when human consciousness is able to penetrate into both levels simultaneously a great completion takes place. The rush light of ‘anu’ the speck2 and the dark light of Shamballa are brought into conscious relationship. When we observe the visible universe and our consciousness expands we are apt to equate our smallness in size with our degree of importance. It is easy to miss just how important a development human consciousness itself is to the Kosmos as a whole.

Gravity—an expression of the primary O—and dark energy—an expression of the primary I—had to be in such delicate relationship that forms could exist and evolve. Too much ‘O’ and the universe would collapse. Too much ‘I’ and it would expand too rapidly. Once there were only hydrogen atoms, and then over billions of years heavier atoms were manufactured in the heart of stars. The material of the universe is continually recycled and refined into more and more complex forms so that eventually planets containing the building blocks of biological life formed.

The Universal Oversoul, which is at its root the One Life both assists in the evolution of matter and learns from that evolution. It is continually harvesting experience which is then recycled and refined into new experience and new forms. The One Life as IO does not evolve. It eternally IS. Consciousness and form do evolve until their central life is recalled at the end of a universal manifestation.

The One Life as IO does not evolve. It eternally IS. Consciousness and form do evolve until their central life is recalled at the end of a universal manifestation.

The current civilisation on Earth will eventually end just as an individual life ends. What is important is not the survival of the civilisation but its harvest. Therefore it is more important for human consciousness on Earth to evolve than it is for human life to survive. Think about this, for it is a key statement that underlies the crisis that humanity is passing through. As the resources on planet Earth begin to be used up, as the climate changes, as population pressures grow, will humanity continue to evolve its consciousness into an expansive love, or will it begin to contract and spend all its evolutionary potential on trying to prolong physical survival at all costs? This is the same challenge an individual faces at their second Saturn return. Will they focus all their attention on their health and superannuation out of fear of death? Will they contract and become a complaining burden on the next generation, or will they continue to expand and give out the harvest of their lives—in form and consciousness—in a generous outpouring that ensures a continuous flow of evolutionary development?

Of course once that death is faced psychologically at the Saturn return it is not necessarily followed by physical death, but the passage is a doorway to a new face of life that is sometimes referred to as the golden years. Death has been accepted and so survival fears no longer control the direction of the life.

Death has been accepted and so survival fears no longer control the direction of the life.

When all levels are in right relationship there is a great flowering in all kingdoms. One of the keynotes of the soul is that it will always choose love (not sentiment) over the survival of its own form.

Human life consciously awakened and identified as love is a rarer commodity. Human civilisation is a rare commodity in Kosmos. A human civilisation awakened as Love is rarer, and one awakened to Life is a jewel.

There will be many calls over the next few decades by well meaning people on the planet who are still under the control of Saturn, to ‘face reality’. What they generally mean by this is to accept the fact that the purpose of living is to survive and perpetuate that survival, generally at all costs, and particularly at the expense of ‘love’. Ideals, values, principles, love and other attributes of the soul are considered to be luxury add-ons, to be indulged once the business of survival is ensured. Saturn uses times of crisis to reassert control. If the soul is fearful, it contracts. If it wants to Live as a soul more than it wants to survive as a personality, it breaks through Saturn’s ring and finds the flashing forth of Uranus.

It had help—not only from the soul of the Logos but also from the Sirian system—a system that had already developed consciousness to the triadal stage.

Let me make clear at the beginning of this discussion on ‘alien life’ that I am not referring to little green men arriving in faster-than-light-speed metallic ships. The dream of being saved from death or physical extinction by technology or the cleverness of our intellects (or other people’s) is just a dream. Technology and creativity will not ‘save humanity’. Love will. The cosmic distances are too vast. We will not be travelling them in our bodies or in spacecraft, no matter how clever our scientists become. We do not have the time or the space. Saturn is a time/space limitation. It cannot…

Biologically we are terrestrial but at an atomic level we are universal. Our ‘souls’ also have their lineage—planetary, solar, galactic and universal. The universal consciousness is ‘coloured’ or qualified by layers of creative experience. Human beings are more evolved than hydrogen atoms, even though they evolved ‘out’ of hydrogen atoms. Just think—hydrogen atoms evolved to the point that they could split open hydrogen atoms. Human souls are more evolved than the substrate of universal consciousness, even though they evolved out of that substrate.

The universal soul evolves and requires the evolution of forms to do so. The evolution of consciousness and of matter require each other. At their root, both consciousness and matter are the One Life which does not evolve. As souls mature in consciousness they become aware of other souls who have also matured to that level. So it is with civilisations. We will become aware of other civilisations that exist or have existed or will exist in our galaxy as well as the wider universe, once we have evolved to the level upon which that consciousness is operating. Once an individual awakens as a soul it is also able to perceive how it has already been acting throughout the time and space of many lives. Once a planetary soul or the soul of a civilisation awakens it becomes aware of what it has been trying to achieve, and which other souls have played a part in that process. We do not suddenly open to receiving input from the Sirian system for example; we awaken to the fact that we are already part of (and have always been a part of ) that system—in fact a seed of it. There is no longer a civilisation operating on a planet orbiting one of the Sirian suns.

One day it will be the role of souls initiated on Earth to serve as solar angels to evolving life forms on other planets, but the initiated soul…

The question is whether or not Earth will succeed as a cosmic experiment in the evolution of form and consciousness to a point where the evolutionary universal soul wants to harvest…

And who is that gardener but an aspect of ourselves that has grown wiser and more mature? The concerns that our civilisation has about the arrival of alien cultures that may seek to dominate or exploit us are projections…

They derive from the etheric blueprint that had already been developed by the universal soul. Evolution was aided. Similarly humans mark the plane of transition from gross…

The soul uses subtle…

In order for human civilisation on Earth to be a successful experiment, enough human souls must be able to consciously function on the buddhic plane—the lowest of the cosmic ethers—in order for them to be able to extend their consciousness both back towards the Sirian system that seeded them,…

All Hierarchical teaching has this goal in aim—a goal that will eventually make of the Earth a ‘…

It is the role of initiates past a certain degree to maintain the cosmic connection between civilisations in the galaxy and…

Our galactic mind is being strengthened. A Galactic Logos evolves on the universal planes in the same way that a Solar Logos evolves on the galactic planes.

At the centre of every atom whether it be physical, human or solar, lies that which has resonance to the centre around which the atom is orbiting. As that resonance increases to a level of vibrational similarity, the central life of the atom is released and forms a flow of essential energy from the centre of the atom to the centre of its orbit. The central life is the ‘teacher’ to those lives in its orbit, and it in the spirit of ‘education’ it draws forth that in the ‘student’ which is resonant to that which is expressed more fully in the ‘teacher’.

Human beings at a certain stage of selfrealisation are able to identify with the Will of both the Planetary and Solar Logoi and thus are able to form part of the electrical alignment between them.

When the individual, of its own free will, serves the collective then it transforms into the soul and is freed into the cosmic ethers. On the buddhic plane, the human and deva evolution, masculine and feminine, I and O, are balanced.

When the personality recognises that it is also in fact the opposite of what it has tried to become, then the Angel and the Dweller meet and the transition of identity is made to the soul.

a language of the mysteries. In essence it is a fourth rootrace language and as such was far more intuitive and fluid than modern language forms. It used pictographs, sounds and movement to convey, not so much an idea, but an experience.

The accumulation of thoughtforms that have developed over the last several hundred thousand years has filled the mental plane resulting in both an increased capacity for man to climb out of it while at the same time a greater veiling of the buddhic sun by the clouds and fogs of both manas and kama-manas.

Sat-va. As a soul he is affirming his direction. “I go to the real”. Sat is Be-ness. Satva is the rhythmic realisation of Be-ness by Being. But Sat and Satva are only words—words that attempt to convey a process for touching a reality which cannot be conceptualised.

The extraordinary is present in the ordinary. Its scent can be detected by the refined consciousness.

It is revealed ‘after’ the three centres are related but exists ‘prior’ to their formation. Thus it is both the cause and the result of their evolution. It is the alpha and the omega of the creative process itself.

He sees himself descending in consciousness into the head centre, carrying with him as a part of himself the blended energies and these he appropriates, using the symbol here depicted as the chalice of the energies, as it is called. Symbolically speaking, the form (the moon) has been hammered into receptivity and true expression by the activity of Vulcan.

Aquarius

1. The Sun Sign, Aquarius, indicates in this archetypal example someone who has succeeded in joining the ranks of the New Group of World Servers. They are a conscious member of the Hierarchy of souls and are in touch with the Life aspect or the monad. There is a distinction between a server and a saviour however. A saviour takes a certain responsibility for other souls and this responsibility can only be taken from a higher level of identification.

The Aquarian impulse allows us to recognise and share with those on the same level as us.

An ashram is a form of womb in which the soul of the initiate learns to serve. Eventually he or she becomes the centre of an ashram that they themselves take responsibility for.

A second gives aqua vitae, the waters of life which relates to the overflowing chalice and Aquarius. The third gives lac virginis—the virgin’s milk. These three liquids are in fact one but are experienced differently according to the cosmic ethers through which they are flowing. The initiated soul is the stone which has been born out of the union between soul and personality, sun and moon and it must be fed with virgin’s milk. This ‘milky way’ flows from the cosmic astral through the monadic plane which is ruled by Virgo.

The initiated soul is the stone which has been born out of the union between soul and personality, sun and moon and it must be fed with virgin’s milk. This ‘milky way’ flows from the cosmic astral through the monadic plane which is ruled by Virgo.

I build a lighted house and therein dwell.

She then herself becomes the trident, imagining her love flowing as milk towards all those that she has taken responsibility to feed until they are established in their emergence into a new phase of conscious identification.

4. By a definite and focused act of the Will, the initiate precipitates the energies she has been able to absorb and generate into the higher solar plexus chakra. The AUM is sounded three times followed by the OM two times and the disciple proceeds upon the Way.

How will that look? I can give some hints that if followed may lead to greater freedom and love in this regard. 1. The embracing of sexual energy as a positive and pleasurable means of self expression. 2. The clear distinction of sexual energy from the act of sex. 3. The breaking free of the sexual energy from serving the survival and power needs of the personality. 4. The use of sexual energy for awakening and energising the entire body. 5. The use of the sacral energy for manifesting the creativity of the soul. 6. The use of the sacral centre for co-operation with the devic lives of the other kingdoms via sound, dance and mantra. 7. The group use of the sacral centre in the creation of sacred space and generation of resources.

Angel and Dweller, is fused in the consciousness of the initiate because he realises that the duality was only an illusion in time and space due to the lack of the correct functioning of his own identification.

The monad is a point of pure Being. The Atman is a portion of that Being arising and experiencing “I am”.

The river returns to the ocean yet it does not dissolve into it but streams back to a thirsty world.

Earth is said to be a divine rebel and one of the few planets in our system where the principle of pain is active. We have ‘gone our own way’ and therefore form part of the solar Dweller. This is the origin of many of the fallen angel myths and the doctrine of original sin.

Even when a human being has pursued a life of crime for example or harm to others, if the soul breaks through then that individual can become a saving force, particularly and essentially to others who have walked or are walking a similar path.

Earth has borne a divine child—and seeks for that child to begin its cosmic journey. The mother knows the child has a purpose beyond her that she is serving through her birthing. A healthy child has respect for his or her parents but pushes forward into their own destiny

The next inner level is that of the soul—the “Christ in us”. This allows us to identify with our soul and it is what moves us to make our particular contribution to the world. The next inner level is monadic and allows

us to identify as the Life aspect. In Agni Yoga this is termed the level of the Lion of the Desert. At this level we experience the charge of spirit or the fire of being. At the fourth level we experience the presence of divinity and a profound peace—a peace that lies behind all purpose, all love and all activity.

The feelings in the heart of being abandoned by God are there because that is precisely what we have done as we have identified ourselves more fully with the forms in which we are expressing. Unable to hold the truth of who we essentially are through the process of incarnation, we gradually let go of our identification with our divine nature—although this does not change the truth of it. As we deepen our experience and go through the pain of our own necessary abandonment of our inherent godhead, it is always like a coming home—a return to our own true nature.

Ultimately your life must arise directly and authentically from your own well, sourced from your own identification with the Godhead. Reliance upon teachers, Masters and consciousness can take us only so far. It is my intent with this work to encourage those of you who are ready to claim your own inherent freedom.

Focus instead your awareness on the emerging Master in your heart. Allow your life to be increasingly guided from this living well and let the heart serve as the touchstone for all your activities and relationships. Pay careful attention to those with whom your heart resonates deeply and draw close to them. You will find them across many traditions and you will find them holding ideas and alignments that may be very different from your own. Learn the universal language grounded in the natural world of creation. Speak, act and create from the well of the Presence where your connection with essential divinity is authentically emerging, spontaneously appropriate to circumstances and the environment. This may be as radical a change as when you were releasing personality attachments in the light of emerging soul connections.