Problems Arising Out
of the Awakening and Stimulation of the Chakras
from the work of the Tibetan (Djwhal Khul),
through Alice A. Bailey
Those of you who have read my other books and treatises will know how
immense is the subject with which we are concerned and how little is yet
known and taught anent the chakras and their force emanations and the
activity of the vital or etheric body which is the receiver and the
distributor of energies. These energies determine and condition the
circumstances and the physique of the human being and produce (in the
last analysis) the phenomenal manifestation of man upon the physical
plane, plus his inherent characteristics. All of this information I have
earlier given and it can be read and studied by those who are interested
to do so. They can thus clarify their knowledge anent the various
chakra. One thing I would like here to point out and will later
elucidate and that is the relation of the various chakras to the rays.
This is as follows:
Ray one Power or Will - Head chakra.
Ray two Love-Wisdom - Heart chakra.
Ray three Active Intelligence - Throat chakra.
Ray four Harmony through Conflict - Ajna chakra.
Ray five Concrete Knowledge - Sacral chakra.
Ray six Devotion - Solar plexus.
Ray seven Ceremonial Order - Base of spine.
Much could be learned if one would gather all the data given on this
subject into one book, thus relating what is known about the specific
energy points to be found in the human frame. All that I can do here is
to give a general idea of the subject, indicate certain lines of
development and relationship anent the seven major chakras, the seven
major glands and the localities and areas in the human body where these
glands and chakras are to be found. I would also beg you to realise five
facts:
1. That undeveloped men are energised and galvanised into outer activity
through the medium of the three chakras below the diaphragm.
2. That average man is beginning to function primarily through the solar
plexus chakra and to use it as a transferring chakra of force for
energies which must be carried from below the diaphragm to above the
diaphragm.
3. That the world aspirants are slowly being energised and controlled by
the forces which are being transferred from the chakras below the
diaphragm to the throat chakra and from the soul to the throat chakra.
This leads to creative activity of some kind.
4. That the world disciples are beginning to be governed and controlled
by the throat and heart chakras and are also beginning to transfer the
forces which have been raised to the heart and throat, to the ajna
chakra between the eyebrows, in the middle of the forehead. When this
has been done, the man is then an integrated personality. The soul also
stimulates the ajna chakra.
5. That the more advanced disciples and world initiates are also
energised from two sources: by means of the energies raised up and
lifted into the head from all the chakras in the body, and by those
which pour into the human frame from the soul, via the highest chakra at
the top of the head.
The whole process is, as you can see, one of development, use and
transference, as is the case in all evolutionary development. There are
two major transferring chakras in the etheric body—the solar plexus and
the throat—and one master chakra through which the energy of the soul
must pour when the right time comes, pouring consciously and with the
full awareness of the disciple. That chakra is the head chakra, called
in the Eastern philosophy "the thousand-petalled lotus". The problem of
the average man is, therefore, connected with the solar plexus. The
problem of the disciple, the advanced aspirant and the initiate of the
lower degrees is connected with the creative chakra, the throat.
Dangers to the sex organs. The danger of the over-stimulation
of these organs is well recognised theoretically, and I do not
purpose to enlarge on it greatly today. I but seek to point out that
this danger is very real. The reason is that in the overstimulation
of these centres the inner fire is but following the line of least
resistance, owing to the polarisation of the race as a whole. The
work, therefore, that the student has to do is twofold:—
a—He has to withdraw his consciousness from those centres; this is
no easy task for it means working against the results of age-long
development.
b—He has to direct the attention of the creative impulse to the
mental plane. In so doing, if successful, he will turn the activity
of the divine fire to the throat centre and its corresponding head
centre, instead of to the lower organs of generation. Therefore, it
will be apparent to you why—unless a man is very advanced—it is not
wise to spend much time in meditation during the earlier years.
There was wisdom in the old Brahmanical rule that a man must give
his early years to household endeavour, and only when he had
fulfilled his function as a man could he go on to the life of the
devotee. This was the rule for the average. With advanced egos,
pupils and disciples, it is not so, and each must then work out his
own individual problem. Letters On Occult Meditation -
I would here remind students that the following three points, related to
the transference of energy, must be borne in mind:
1. That there is a transference to be made from all the lower chakras to
higher ones and that this is usually done in two stages. This
transference, carried on within the personality, is paralleled by the
transference of spiritual energy from that reservoir of force we call
the soul to the man on the physical plane. This becomes possible as the
man makes the needed transference within himself. These transferences
can take place in the course of the evolutionary process, or they can be
hastened through the forced training given to disciples of all degrees.
2. That, within this major field of activity, the following
transferences will have to be made:
a. The energy of the chakra at the base of the spine (the organ of the
personal will) must be raised and carried up the spinal column to the
head chakra, via the ajna chakra.
b. The energy of the sacral chakra (governing the sexual life and the
organs of physical creation) must be raised to the throat chakra, which
becomes the organ of creative activity of a non-physical nature.
c. The energy of the solar plexus (the organ of self-conscious personal
desire) must be raised to the heart and there transmuted into group
service.
3. That all these chakras are developed and brought into activity in
three stages, and thus progressively condition the outer aspects of a
mans life:
a. There is a period wherein the chakras are active only in a sluggish
and semi-dormant manner: the forces of which they are formed, and which
they express, move slowly and with a heavy inert rhythm; the light which
can be seen wherever there is a chakra is dim; the point of electric
potency at the chakra (the "heart of the lotus or chakra," the hub of
the wheel, as it is esoterically termed in the Oriental teaching) is
relatively quiescent. There is just enough energy pouring into the
chakra to produce the preservation of life, the smooth functioning of
the instinctual nature, plus a tendency to react, in a fluctuating and
unintelligent manner to stimuli coming from the astral plane, via the
individual astral body.
b. A period wherein there takes place a definite heightening and
intensifying of force. The light of the chakras is brighter and the
solar plexus chakra, in particular, becomes very active. As yet, all the
real life of the man is focussed below the diaphragm. The chakras above
the diaphragm are dim and dull and relatively inactive; the point at the
chakra is, however, more electrical and dynamic. At this stage, the man
is the average intelligent citizen, predominantly controlled by his
lower nature and his emotional reactions, with what mind he has actively
employed in bringing satisfaction to his needs. His chakras are the
receivers primarily of physical and astral forces, but occasionally
respond to mental impacts.
c. A period wherein the first transference is being made. This can last
a long time and cover several lives. The chakras below the diaphragm are
fully awakened; their activity is great; their light is vivid; their
interrelation is real, so much so that a complete magnetic field has
been set up involving the whole area below the diaphragm and becoming
potent enough to extend its influence above the diaphragm. The solar
plexus becomes the dominant organ in the place of the sacral chakra which has so long determined the life of the animal nature. It becomes
the recipient of energy streams from below which it absorbs and starts
on its task of deflecting them and transferring them to the higher
chakras. The man is now the highly intelligent citizen and aspirant. He
is conscious of the dualism of his nature, of that which is below and of
that which is above, as it has been called, and is ready to tread the
Probationary Path.
d. A period wherein the transference is continued. The sacral forces are
carried to the throat and the solar plexus forces are carried to the
heart. The latter transference is as yet of so small a measure that the
effect of the transference is almost negligible. This period is a long
and very difficult one. Today, most people are going through periods c
and d, which are preparatory to the expression of the mystical life.
e. A period wherein the heart and throat chakras are brought into
activity. The man is creatively intelligent along some line or other and
is slowly becoming group conscious. As yet, however, his reactions are
still selfishly motivated though—at the same time—he is subject to
cycles of vision and periods of spiritual effort. The mystical life is
definitely attracting him. He is becoming the mystic.
f. A second period of transference ensues and the ajna chakra, which
governs the integrated personality, becomes active and dominant. The
life of feeling and of mystical effort is, at this time, liable to die
down temporarily in its expressed fervour and ardent disciplines, and
personality integration, personality ambitions personality aims and
personality expression take its place. This is a right and good change
and tends correctly to a rounded out development. It is only temporary,
for still the mystic sleeps beneath the outer activity and the
intelligent worldly effort, and will emerge again to living endeavour
when the mind nature has been fully aroused and is controlling, when
desire for mental satisfaction has been satiated and the "son of God is
ready to arise and enter the Father's house". During this period, we
find the intelligently creative or the powerful man will come to the
zenith of his personality life. The chakras below the head will all be
active and functioning, but the chakras below the diaphragm will be
subordinated to and controlled by those found above. They are subject
then to the conditioning will of the man who is governed at this time by
ambition, intellectual expediency and that form of group work which
tends to the expression of his personality potency. The ajna chakra is
vivid and potent; the throat chakra is intensely active and the heart
chakra is rapidly awakening.
g. A period wherein the highest head chakra is brought into radiant
activity. This occurs as the result of the uprising (in a fresh and more
potent manner) of the mystical instinct, plus, this time, an intelligent
approach to reality. The result is twofold:
1. The soul begins to pour its energy into all the etheric or vital
chakras, via the head chakra.
2. The point at the heart of each chakra comes into its first real
activity; it becomes radiant, brilliant, magnetic and forceful, so that
it "dims the light of all that lies around."
All the chakras in the body are then swept into ordered activity by the
forces of love and will. Then takes place the final transference of all
the bodily and psychic energies into the head chakra through the
awakening of the chakra at the base of the spine. Then the great Polar
opposites, as symbolised and expressed by the head chakra (the organ of
spiritual energy) and the chakra at the base of the spine (the organ of
the material forces) are fused and blended and from this time on the man
is controlled only from above, by the soul.
There are, consequently, two points to be borne in mind as we study the
mystic and his difficulties; first of all, the period of awakening and
subsequent utilisation of the chakras and, secondly, the period of the
transference of energy from the solar plexus to the heart, and then from
all the four chakras up the spine to the throat chakra, prior to the focussing of the energy of all the
chakras in the ajna chakra (between
the eyebrows). This chakra is the controlling one in the personality
life and from it goes all personality direction and guidance to the five
lower chakras which it synthesises. Each of these stages brings with it
its own difficulties and problems. We shall, however, concern ourselves
with these problems only as they affect present opportunity or hinder
the man who finds himself upon the Path and is, therefore, taking his
own evolution in hand. Then he stands "midway between the pairs of
opposites" and this means (as far as our particular interest at this
time is concerned) that we shall find three stages in the mystical work,
each of which will mark a definite point of crisis, with its attendant
tests and trials:
1. The stage wherein transference is made of all the lower energies into
the solar plexus, preparatory to carrying them to the throat and heart
chakras above the diaphragm. This stage covers not only the process of
transference but also that of focussing the forces in the higher chakras.
Period The later stages of the Path of Probation and the early stages of
the Path of Discipleship.
Keynote Discipline.
Objective Idealism, plus personality effort. Purification and control.
2. The stage wherein transference is made into the ajna chakra and the
personality life becomes integrated and powerful.
Period The later stages of the Path of Discipleship and up till the time
of the third initiation.
Keynote Expression of the soul, through the medium of the personality.
Objective The understanding of the Plan and consequent cooperation with
it.
Then comes the third and final stage with which we need not concern
ourselves wherein there is a complete blending of the bodily forces (focussed
through the ajna chakra) with the Soul forces, (focussed through the
head chakra). It is at this time that there comes the final evocation of
the personality will (purified and consecrated) which has been
"sleeping, coiled like the serpent of wisdom" at the base of the spine;
this surges upward on the impulse of devotion, aspiration and
enlightened will and thus fuses itself in the head with the spiritual
will. This is the final raising, by an act of discriminating
determination, of the kundalini fire. This raising takes place in three
stages, or impulses:
1. The stage wherein the lower energies are carried to the solar plexus
chakra.
2. The stage wherein these energies, pouring through to the heart, are
blended with it and carried to the throat.
3. The stage wherein all the five lower forms of energy are focussed in
the ajna chakra in the head.
Students might here ask: Are there any other energies below the
diaphragm, except those of the sacral chakra and those focussed in the
chakra at the base of the spine which are carried up to the ajna chakra via the solar plexus
chakra? There are quite a large number of lesser chakras and their energies, but I am not specifying them in detail for
the sake of clarity; we shall deal here only with the major chakras and
their effects and inter-relations. The subject is abstruse and difficult
in any case without our complicating it unduly. There are energies, for
instance, pouring into the spleen from planetary sources as well as into
two small chakras situated close to the kidneys, one on either side,
besides several others and these forces must all be understood,
transmuted, transformed and transferred. It is interesting to note that
the two little chakras close to the kidneys are related to the lower
levels of the astral plane and let loose into the system much of the
fear, etc., which is the distinguishing factor in those subplanes. They
are, therefore, found close to the chakra which can control them because
even the modern endocrinologist knows that the adrenal glands, when
stimulated, produce (as a psychological result of a physical happening)
an access of courage and a form of directed will which enables
achievements to be carried out that are, at other time, well-nigh
impossible.
I would like here to point out that the statement so frequently made in
occult books that "kundalini sleeps" is only partially true. The
chakra at the base of the spine is subject to the same rhythmic life as are the
other chakras. The specific period wherein "kundalini awakes" refers to
that period wherein the "point at the chakra" becomes vibrant, potent
and active: its forces can then penetrate throughout the entire spinal
area until the highest head chakra is reached. This, however, would not
be possible had there not been three earlier "uprisings of the latent
force of will". These uprisings serve to clear the passage up the spine,
penetrating and destroying the etheric web which separates each chakra and the area it controls from the next above.
All these transferences and interior organisation produce normally and
naturally turmoil and conflict in the life of the mystic, causing
difficulties of a definitely psychological nature and frequently
pathological trouble as well. You have to note consequently, the series
of transference, psychological difficulty and pathological results.
For instance, these ideas may clarify themselves in your mind if I point
out certain facts, relating to the sacral chakra which for so long a
period of time governs the animal and physical creative life of the
human being. During the processes of evolution, the sacral chakra passes
through the stages of automatic unconscious use, such as you find in
purely animal man; then use under the urge of desire for pleasure and
physical satisfaction, wherein the imagination is beginning to exert its
influence; next comes the period wherein there is the conscious
subordination of the life to the sex impulse. This is of a different
nature to the first mentioned. Sex becomes a dominating thought in the
consciousness, and many people today are passing through this stage and
everybody at some time or in some life passes through it. This is
followed by a period of transference wherein the physical pull of sex
and the urge to physical creation is not so dominant and the forces
begin to be gathered up into the solar plexus. There they will be
controlled largely by the astral imaginative life far more than by the
unconscious animal or the conscious desire life. They blend there with
the forces of the solar plexus itself and gradually are carried up to
the throat chakra, but always via the heart chakra. Here we find a major
point of difficulty for the mystic who is rapidly coming into being and
functioning activity. He becomes painfully conscious of duality, of the
pull of the world and of the mystical vision, of divine possibilities
and personality potencies, of love in place of desire and attraction, of
divine relationship instead of human relations. But this whole subject
is still interpreted in terms of duality. Sex is still imaginatively in
his consciousness and is not relegated to a balanced place among the
other instincts of the human nature; the result is an almost
pathological interest in the symbolism of sex and what might be called a spiritualised sex life. This tendency is amply exemplified in the
writings and experiences of many of the mystics of the middle ages. We
find such expressions as the "bride of Christ", the "marriage in the
Heavens", the picture of Christ as the "heavenly bridegroom" and many
such symbols and phrases. In the Song of Solomon, you find a masculine
rendition of the same basically sexual approach to the soul and its all
embracing life.
These and many more unpleasant examples of a sex psychology are to be
found, blended with a true and pronounced mystical aspiration and
yearning, and a genuine longing for union with the divine. The cause of
all this lies in the stage of transference. The lower energies are
subject, as you can see, to two stages of transference: first, into the
solar plexus and from thence to the throat chakra. The throat chakra is
not, at this period, active enough or sufficiently awakened to absorb
and utilise the sacral energies. They are arrested in some cases in
their upward passage and retained temporarily in the heart chakra,
producing the phenomena of sex urges (accompanied at times with
definitely physical sexual reactions), of religious eroticism and a
generally unwholesome attitude, ranging all the way from real sexuality
to fanatical celibacy. This latter is as much an undesirable extreme as
the other and produces most undesirable results. Frequently in the case
of a male mystic there will be over developed sexual expression on the
physical plane, perversions of different kinds or a pronounced
homosexuality. In the case of women, there may be much disturbance of
the solar plexus (instead of sacral disturbances) and consequent gastric
trouble and an unwholesome imaginative life, ranging all the way from a
feeble pruriency to definite forms of sexual insanity with (frequently)
a strong religious bias at the same time. I would remind you here also
of the fact that I am definitely dealing with abnormalities, and hence
must touch upon that which is unpleasant. In the early stages of
mystical development, if there were right guidance of the mental life
and of thought, plus courageous explanation of process, a great deal of
difficulty would later be avoided. These early stages resemble closely
the interest shown by the adolescent both in sex and religion. The two
are closely allied in this particular period of development. If right
help can be given at this time by educators, parents and those concerned
with the training of the young, certain undesirable tendencies—now so
prevalent—would never grow into habits and thought states as they now
do.
The next question which might most correctly emerge in the students
consciousness could be stated as follows: How can this process of
awakening the chakras, of using them as channels for force (at first
unconsciously and later with increasing consciousness), and finally of
transferring the energy to ever higher chakras,—produce problems,
disease, and the many and varied difficulties of a phenomenal nature to
which humanity seems heir, once the mystical experience becomes a goal
and appears desirable. I would again remind you that the whole problem
must be interpreted in terms of the growth of consciousness and also in
terms of the bringing together, in progressive stages, of various types
of energy. The human body is, in the last analysis, an aggregate of
energy units. In the vital body (thus conditioning the endocrine and
lymphatic systems) are certain focal points through which energy pours
into the physical body, producing an impression and a stimulation upon
the atoms of the body and thus having a powerful effect upon the entire
nervous system which it underlies in all parts. The vital or etheric
body is the subtle counterpart of the physical body in its nervous
structure and the energy chakras condition and control the glandular
system. Thus energies, influences, potencies and forces pour into and
pass through the physical body—consciously in some cases, unconsciously
in the majority of cases—from the three worlds of human enterprise and
activity. When the heart chakra and the head chakras are awakened and
used by the interior and the exterior forces, you have the beginning of
the mystical and occult life.
There are two reasons for this period of excessive difficulty:
1. The thread of consciousness in the head is anchored in the
neighborhood of the pineal gland. The thread of life is to be found
anchored in the heart. The turning of the forces (found below the
diaphragm) into the solar plexus and from thence into the heart and the
head brings those two major streams of energy (one coming from the Monad
via the soul body to the heart chakra, and the other coming from the
soul direct to the highest head chakra) to the attention of the mystic.
He then becomes aware of life possibilities and of the wide field which
consciousness can cover and of the area or the extension of its
capacity. This is the period of interior awareness.
2. The inflow of planetary and solar potencies, via the head chakra to
the heart and from thence to the other chakras.
This inflow produces:
a. Stimulation of all the chakras, major and minor, carried forward
according to ray tendencies and influences.
b. The revelation of good and evil, that is, of the worlds of
personality expression and of the world of soul expression. This dual
process proceeds simultaneously.
c. The existence, therefore, of duality, which when realised and when
the great opposites (soul and personality) are blended, can and will
produce the at-one-ment.
The result of these realisations in consciousness leads inevitably to
struggle, conflict, and aspiration plus constant frustration; this
process produces those adjustments which must be made as the man becomes
increasingly aware of the goal and increasingly "alive". The life
expression (the threefold lower man) has to become accustomed to the new
fields of consciousness and the opening areas of awareness, and to
become used to the new powers which emerge, making the man able to enter
more easily the wider fields of service which he is discovering. It
might be stated here in a broad and general sense that—
1. Stimulation produces the awakening of the lower psychic powers if the
incoming energy is directed to the solar plexus or to the throat chakra.
It produces the intense activities of the chakras and this can, in the
early stages, cause definite psychic trouble. In illustration of this I
would like to indicate the general nature of the difficulties to which
the mystic can be physically prone:
a. The awakening of the head chakra can produce serious trouble if
brought about prematurely and even lead at times to insanity.
Inflammation of certain areas of the brain and certain forms of brain tumours can be induced by a too rapid inflow of the highest form of
energy which a man can receive prior to initiation. This takes place,
however, only in those cases where the man is a highly developed person
and of a mental type. In other cases of premature soul inflow, the
energy pours through the opening at the top of the head and finds its
way to some one or other of the chakras, according to the ray type or
stage of unfoldment. Where the greatest attention of the man's
consciousness and life force is focussed (even if unconsciously) to that
point the incoming energy will almost automatically flow.
b. The awakening of the ajna chakra which is, as we have seen, primarily
the result of the development of a man's personality to the point of
integration, can (if the energies involved are not correctly controlled)
lead to serious eye trouble, to many aural difficulties, to various
forms of neuritis, headache, migraine, and nerve difficulties in various
parts of the body. It can produce also many difficulties connected with
the pituitary body and psychological trouble emanating from this
important controlling gland as well as definite physical trouble.
c. The awakening of the heart chakra (which is going on very rapidly at
this time) is responsible for many forms of heart trouble and for the
various difficulties connected with the autonomic nervous system,
particularly in relation to the vagus nerve. The prevalence of various
forms of heart disease at this time, particularly among the
intelligentsia, professional and financial classes, is due to the
awakening of this chakra and to the discovery of an unrecognised
capacity in humanity to become group conscious, and to undertake group
service. The thymus gland, which controls in a peculiar manner the life
aspect in man, is closely connected with the heart chakra, as might be
expected. This gland must eventually become more active in the adult
than is now the case, just as the pineal gland in the coming human races
will no longer be an atrophied organism with its true functions not
understood and comprehended, but it will be an active and important part
of man's equipment. This will take place normally and naturally as man
learns to function as a soul and not just as a personality.
d. Again, much trouble among people is due at this time to the awakening
of the throat chakra. This chakra governs and conditions the thyroid
gland and the parathyroids. It can produce, when unduly developed or
prematurely awakened, hyper-thyroidism with its attendant difficulties
and its often dangerous effects upon the heart and upon the metabolism
of the body. The psychological effects are well-known and recognised.
These difficulties are increased and this higher creative chakra unduly
stimulated and rendered a danger instead of an aid to expression by the
enforced celibacy of many people, owing to the present unfortunate
economic conditions. These conditions are such that people refrain from
marriage and there is consequently the lack of opportunity to use (or to
misuse) the energy flowing through the sacral chakra. Mystics are
likewise prone to this difficulty. The throat chakra is not used
creatively nor is the sacral chakra turned to its proper uses. The
sacral energy is carried prematurely to the throat where it produces an
intense stimulation. The equipment of the man concerned has not yet
reached the point where it can be turned to creative work in any field.
There is no creative expression of any kind as the development of the
man does not permit him to be creative in the higher sense. The Swiss
people, though highly intelligent, are not creative in this sense. The
energy flowing through the thyroid gland is not used in creative art,
music or writing in any outstanding manner, and hence the prevalence of
goiter and thyroid difficulty. There is much energy flowing through and
to the thyroid gland and, as yet, but little use made of it.
e. The increased activity and stimulation of the solar plexus chakra today is a most fruitful source of trouble. It produces a great deal of
the nervous difficulties to which women are particularly prone, and many
of the stomach ills and liver troubles of the time, as well as
intestinal difficulties. One of the most powerful sources of cancer in
various parts of the body (except in the head and face) can esoterically
be traced to the congestion of the energy of the solar plexus chakra.
This congestion has a general and widespread effect. Difficulties
arising from the awakening of the heart chakra and the solar plexus
chakra (for the two are closely allied and have a reciprocal action for
a long time in the mystical experience) produce also a powerful effect
upon the blood stream. They are connected with the life principle which
is ever "carried upon the waves of desire" (as the ancient writings put
it) and this, when prevented from full expression, through lack of
development or other causes, leads to cancerous areas in the body
wherever there is a weakness in the bodily tissue.
f. The awakening of the sacral chakra is of such ancient origin that it
is not possible at this time to trace the true history of the
development of the difficulties connected with sexual expression, nor is
it desirable. I have dealt with the subject of sex in my other
treatises, particularly in A Treatise On White Magic. I call attention
to it only because in the course of the mystical life there is often a
period of sexual difficulty if the mystic has not previously learnt
sexual control and unless it has assumed balanced proportions to his
other life activities and natural instincts in his consciousness. Else,
as he touches the heights of spiritual contact and brings in the energy
of his soul to the personality, that energy will pass straight down to
the sacral chakra and not be arrested at the throat chakra, as it
rightly should be. When this occurs, then perversions of the sex life
may take place, or an undue importance may be attached to the sex
activity, or the sexual imagination can be dangerously stimulated,
leading to lack of control and to many of the difficulties known to
physicians and psychologists. The result is ever an overactivity of the
sex life in some form or another.
g. The awakening of the chakra at the base of the spine during the final
stages of the higher mystical experience carries with it its own
dangers. These definitely affect the spine and consequently all the
nerves which branch out in all directions from the spinal column. The
raising of the kundalini force—if brought about ignorantly and
prematurely—may produce the rapid burning through of the protective web
of etheric matter which separates the various areas of the body
(controlled by the seven chakras) from each other. This causes serious
nervous trouble, inflammation of the tissues, spinal disease, and brain
trouble.
I have here hinted at some of the difficulties in an effort to give you
a general picture of the problem of the mystic.
2. Utilisation of a chakra. Let me explain this phrase. Certain
difficulties also arise when a chakra is used to such an extent that the
attention is withdrawn from the activity of the other chakras and they
are thus neglected. In this way, whole areas of consciousness can
temporarily cease to be recognised. It should be remembered that the
goal of all the mystic's efforts should be to achieve a rounded-out
development which brings into use sequentially, correctly and in
conformity to right ray methods, all the different chakras. Many people,
however (once a chakra is awakening and is subjectively stimulated)
immediately find the utilisation of the chakra to be the line of least
resistance; they, therefore, begin to function almost exclusively
through that chakra. This can be well illustrated by two examples.
The solar plexus chakra is, at this time, highly active among men and
women everywhere. In every country millions of people are over-sensitised,
emotional frequently to the point of hysteria, full of dreams, visions
and fears, and highly nervous. This produces widespread gastric
difficulties, indigestion, stomachic and liver ills and diseases, and
intestinal disorders. To all of these the race today is exceedingly
prone. To these are often coupled all kinds of skin eruptions. The cause
is twofold:
a. The over-stimulation of the solar plexus chakra by its practically
exclusive use, and by the consequent inflow of forces from the astral
plane, to which the solar plexus is the wide open door.
b. The increased and constant use of this chakra as its rhythm and
vibration get too powerful to control. The man then succumbs to the
temptation to focus his life interest and attention in the astral world
and to do this with increasing awareness, interest and phenomenal
results.
The man is, therefore, a victim of forces which would otherwise produce
a gathering together of that "which is lower" and their necessary
transference into that which is higher. A needed purpose would then be
served, but—in the case we are considering—these forces are all
concentrated in that central area of the body which is intended to be
simply the clearing house for that "which is below into that which is
above". Instead of this, there is set up a tremendous whirlpool of
forces which not only produces physical difficulties of many kinds (as
stated above) but which is also a fruitful source of the cleavages with
which modern psychology is dealing at the time. So potent are the forces
generated by the over use of the solar plexus (which is one of the most
powerful of all the chakras) and through the consequent flowing in of
astral forces of every kind—thus augmenting the difficulties—that they
assume eventually complete control of the life. The forces below the
diaphragm and those above become separated by this vibrant and potent
central force chakra. Cleavage, astralism, delusions, hallucinations,
nervous disorders of every kind and difficulties of a physical nature
which definitely involve the intestinal tract, the liver and the
pancreas are only some of the problems which arise from the uncontrolled
use of the solar plexus chakra. The man becomes controlled by it and is
not the controlling factor, as he is intended to be.
The second illustration is connected with the unfoldment of the heart
chakra with its recognition of the group life and consequent group
responsibility. This today is rapidly growing and can be seen on every
hand. Students are apt to think that the awakening of the heart chakra and its consequent group recognitions must be expressed in terms of
religion, of love and of divinity. They, therefore, make of it something
spiritual, as that much misused word is understood by the orthodox
religious man. But it is far more than that. The heart is connected with
the life aspect, for there is the seat of the life principle and there
is the life energy anchored. It is connected with synthesis, with the
monad, and with all that is more than the separated self. Any group
which is engineered and controlled by one man or by a group of men,
whether it is a nation, or a big business institution or an organisation
of some kind or another (such as a great hospital) is connected with the
life which is found in the heart. This remains true even when the motive
or motives are mixed and undesirable, or purely selfish. A business
magnate controlling vast interests who has the lives of many people
dependent upon the contingencies of a business which he may have founded
and over which he presides, is beginning to work through the heart
chakra. Hence the prevalence of certain forms of heart trouble to which
so many people of influence and power so frequently succumb. The heart
becomes over-stimulated by the impact of the energies pouring in on the
man who is subjected—among other things—to the directed thoughts of
those connected with his organisation. Can you see why, therefore, the
senior members of the Hierarchy, Who work through the head and the heart
chakras, keep Themselves withdrawn from public life and much human
contact? These two illustrations may help to clarify in your minds the
sense in which I here use the term, "utilisation of a chakra".
3. In the period of transference wherein the forces of the body are in a
state of abnormal flux and mutation, it will be obvious what danger
there is for the mystic and the disciple, and how serious can be the
results of any transference which is forced into effect instead of
following the natural course of evolution. This accounts, partially, for
the present world upheaval and chaos. The forces flowing through the
masses of average intelligent men today (and by that I mean those men
who are educated and able to recognise the world news and to discuss
world events and trends) are constituting the experimental ground for
the transference of the energy of the sacral chakra to the solar plexus.
This leads inevitably to turmoil, over-stimulation, revolt and many
other difficulties.
The problems, therefore, are many but are subject to solution. Let that
not be forgotten. The whole theme is vast, but many minds are today
seeking to deal with it and are working selflessly and altruistically to
bring about the needed changes, a better understanding of man's physical
and psychological natures, and a new approach—both to religion and
education. When the mystical approach and its consequences, good and
bad, material and spiritual—are better understood, through study and
experiment, we shall arrive at a more complete comprehension of our
problem and a better programme for human unfoldment.
I would like to point out that I am using the words "mystic and
mystical" in this section of our treatise because I want what I have to
say to meet with the interest of those who recognise the fact of the
mystical approach to God and the mystical life of the soul, but who
refuse as yet to widen the concept so that it includes also the
intellectual approach to divine identification.
The keynotes which the mystic at present recognises and which the
religious writer and thinker is also willing to admit are those of
feeling, sensitivity to the divine existence, the recognition of a
vision of God which will suffice to meet individual need and thus bring
relief, peace, understanding and the realisation of divinity without and
within, plus the relationship of the man to some extraneous Factor
called God, or the Self, or the Christ. This attitude is coloured always
by a sense of duality; it leads to the attainment of union—a union of
which the marriage relation remains still the best symbol and
illustration as the writings of the mystics of all periods and
nationalities will testify, and which still preserves the consciousness
of the two identities.
The keynotes of the occult life have been (and rightly) the notes of
knowledge, of the mental approach to the problem of divinity, the
recognition of divine immanence and of the fact that "as He is so are
we." There is, however, no sense of duality. The goal is the achievement
of such an approved and appreciated identification that the man becomes
what he is—a God and, eventually, God in manifestation. This is not the
same thing as the mystical union.
And yet, the whole theme is mystical and innately subjective. The time
must come when the mystic will appreciate and follow the way of the head
and not only the way of the heart. He will learn to realise that he must
lose his sense of the Beloved in the knowledge that he and the beloved
are one and that the vision must and will disappear as he transcends it
(note that phrase) in the greatest processes of identification through
initiation.
The occultist, in his turn, must learn to include the mystical
experience in full understanding consciousness as a recapitulatory
exercise before he transcends it and passes on to a synthesis and an
inclusiveness to which the mystical approach is but the beginning, and
of which the mystic remains unaware.
The mystic is too apt to feel that the occultist over-estimates the way
of knowledge and repeats glibly that the mind is the slayer of the real
and that the intellect can give him nothing. The occultist is equally
apt to despise the mystical way and to regard the mystical method as
"lying far behind him". But both must learn to tread the way of wisdom.
The mystic must and will inevitably become the occultist and this
whether he likes the process or not. He cannot escape it in the long
run, but the occultist is not a true one until he recovers the mystical
experience and translates it into terms of synthesis. Note the structure
of words I have used in this last paragraph for it will serve to
elucidate my theme. I use therefore the words "mystic and mystical" in
this section of the treatise to describe the intelligent, highly mental
man and his processes upon the Path of Discipleship.
In dealing with the problems and diseases of mystics who are at the
point in their evolution where they are making one of the major
transferences of force, it should be pointed out that in the earlier
stages quite a long period of time may elapse between the first effort
to transmute and transfer the energies and that particular life wherein
the energies are finally gathered up and "elevated" as the esoteric term
usually employed technically expresses it. It is at this point of
focussed activity (in the place of the previous fluidic and spasmodic
efforts) that one finds a definite point of crisis in the life of the
mystic.
The question is often asked: Why is there frequently so much illness,
nervous trouble and various pathological conditions found among the
saints of the earth, and among those who are clearly oriented towards
the light? The answer is that the strain put upon the physical vehicle
by the shift of the forces is usually unduly great and so produces these
undesirable conditions. These again are often augmented by the foolish
things done by the aspirant as he seeks to bring his physical body under
control. It is, however, far better for the undesirable results to work
themselves out in the physical vehicle than in the astral or mental
bodies. This point is seldom realised and hence the emphasis laid upon
the idea that sickness, ill-health, and disease are indicative of
individual error, of failure and of so-called sin. They can of course be
all of these things, but, in the case of the true aspirant who is
endeavouring to discipline and control his life, they are often not due
to these causes at all. They are the inevitable result of the clash of
forces—those of the awakened energies which are in process of elevation
and those of the chakra into which the energies are being raised. This
clash produces strain, physical discomfort and (as we have seen) many
distressing kinds of disorders.
The widespread disease and ill-health found everywhere at this time is
caused by a mass transference which is steadily going forward in the
race. Through this transference, the solar plexus chakra is thrown into
an abnormal activity, thereby releasing all kinds of astral forces into
the consciousness of man—fear, desire of a wrong kind and many of the
emotional characteristics which are causing people so much distress. The
process is as follows: the consciousness first of all registers these
astral impressions, then formulates them into thought forms and—as
energy follows thought—a vicious circle is thus set up, involving the
physical body. In the turmoil consequently evoked by these clashing
forces which are
a. Mounting from below into the solar plexus,
b. Pouring into the solar plexus from the astral plane,
c. Reacting to the magnetic attractive power of the higher chakras,
the interior life of the man becomes a whirlpool of conflicting energies
with disastrous effects upon the intestinal tract, upon the liver and
upon the other organs found below the diaphragm. The mystic, as is well
known, is often dyspeptic and this is not always caused by wrong eating
and wrong physical habits. It is brought about in many cases by the
processes of transference which are going on.
One of the difficulties which tend also to increase the strain is the
inability of the average mystic to divorce his mind from his physical
condition. Energy inevitably follows thought and where a distressed area
is found, there the mind seems to throw all its attention, with the
result that the situation is not bettered but surely and steadily made
worse. The best mental rule of all mystics should be to keep the mind
definitely above and away from the region where the transference is
going on, except in those cases where esoteric methods are being
employed to force the process, to hasten and facilitate the processes of
elevation. Then (under right direction and guidance plus a knowledge of
the rules) the mystic can work with the chakra in the spine which is
concerned. This academic technique, I will endeavor to indicate in a
later Instruction, but I want first of all to deal with the psychic
difficulties of the mystic, for both the psychic and physical
difficulties arise from the same basic cause and can be offset and
controlled by the same correct occult and psychological knowledge.
The ills with which we are dealing are, therefore, the result of a large
number of causes and it might be of service if I listed them here,
reminding you that the chakras up the spinal column and in the head
govern definite areas in the body. These are affected and controlled by
the chakras and it is in these regions that one must look for
indications of trouble.
Speaking generally, diseases fall into five major categories and it is
only with the last of them that we are here occupied. These five
groupings of disease are:
1. Hereditary diseases:
a. Inherent in the planet itself and having a definite effect upon
humanity, through contact with the soil and water.
b. Developed during past ages in mankind itself and handed on from
generation to generation.
c. Characteristic of some particular family and inherited by the member
of this family as part of his chosen karma. Souls come into certain
families because of this opportunity.
2. Diseases invoked by tendencies in the man himself. These are governed
by his astrological sign—either his sun sign or his rising sign and will
be considered later.
3. Contagious diseases (epidemic or endemic) which are of group origin
and involve the man as a part of his group karma, but are quite
frequently unrelated to his personal karma.
4. Acquired diseases and accidents which are the result of injudicious
action or unwise habits in this life and definitely condition his future
karma. One interesting point in connection with accidents might here be
made. Accidents are frequently caused by what might be regarded as
"explosions of force". These are generated by a man or by a group of
human beings through hatred or jealousy or vindictiveness, which
qualities react or are "turned back" upon the individual life like a
boomerang.
5. The diseases of mystics with which we are at this time concerned.
Speaking generally, these are caused by the energy of an awakened and
active lower chakra being transferred into a higher one. This is done in
three stages and each stage brings its own physiological difficulties:
a. The stage wherein the energy of the lower chakra becomes intensely
active prior to rising upward. This will produce over-activity of the
organs in the physical area governed by the chakra, with consequent
congestion, inflammation, and usually disease.
b. The stage wherein the "processes of elevation" are taking place,
producing intense activity in the higher chakra and a lessening of
activity in the lower. A fluid period intervenes in which the forces
swing back and forth between the two chakras, accounting for the uneven
life of the mystic in the earlier stages of his unfoldment. This is
particularly the case in connection with the solar plexus. The energy is
rejected at first by the higher chakra and is then reabsorbed into the
lower only to be elevated again and again until the higher chakra can
absorb and transmute it.
c. The stage wherein the energy is raised definitely into the higher
chakra. This leads to a difficult period of adjustment and of tension,
again producing physical ills but, this time, in the area controlled by
the higher chakra.
When, for instance, the sacral energy is raised to the solar plexus,
there will be found many ailments involving, as noted before, the
intestinal tract. When the energy of the lesser chakras which are found
below the diaphragm (but not up the spine) are raised to the solar
plexus chakra, trouble involving the gall bladder and the kidneys will
often be found. Occultly speaking, any process of elevation or of
"raising up" automatically involves death. This death affects the atoms
in the organs involved and causes the preliminary stages of ill-health,
disease and disruption, because death is nothing but a disruption and a
removal of energy. When the science of the transference of energy from a
lower chakra to a higher is understood, then light will be thrown upon
the entire problem of dying and the true Science of Death will come into
being, liberating the race from fear.
Students would do well at this stage to pause and consider the following
points with care:
1. Which are the areas controlled by the five chakras up the spine and
the two chakras in the head.
2. The three major points of transference:—the solar plexus, the throat
chakra and the ajna chakra in the head. The heart chakra and the highest
head chakra, as points of transference, only concern the initiate.
3. The fluidic and changeable condition produced by the processes of
awakening, transference and the focussing of the energy in the higher
chakra. These three major activities are conditioned by the intermediate
stages of:
a. The active radiation of the lower chakra.
b. The responsiveness of the lower chakra to the magnetic pull of the
higher.
c. The succeeding interplay between the higher and the lower chakras,
conditioned at first by a rhythmic repulsion and attraction. This is a
reflection of the play of the dualities in the career of the human
being.
d. This is followed by a concentration of the lower energy in the higher
chakra.
e. Then comes the control of the lower chakra or chakras by the higher
focal points of energy and their rhythmic interplay.
Between all these different stages come "points of crisis" of greater or
lesser moment. This intense interior activity which is going on all the
time in the subjective life of humanity produces both good and bad
effects, and psychological as well as physiological reactions. Today,
the mass transference of the forces of the sacral chakra into that of
the solar plexus is responsible for many of the modern and physical
disabilities of the race. Because also of the slow removal on a racial
scale of the sacral force to the solar plexus there is eventuating a
condition which is called sometimes "race suicide", necessitating the
efforts of many of the different governments to offset the rapidly
falling birth rate in their countries.
The above summation of the threefold activity which is going on in the
human body all the time will give some idea of the strain under which
the individual man labours, and will account, therefore, for much of the
discomfort and disease found in those areas in the human body which are
governed and controlled by a particular chakra. I would like to add the
following points to the information given above:
1. The intense activity of the sacral chakra will often produce diseases
and physiological abnormalities, connected with the organs of
reproduction (both male and female). These difficulties are of two
kinds:
a. Those to which normal humanity is prone and which are well known to
the physician, surgeon and psychologist.
b. Those which are the result of over-stimulation, through the
successful effort of the mystic to bring in energy from the higher
chakras and from sources outside the human frame altogether.
2. In all cases of transference, the intense activity produced will
cause all kinds of tensions and reactions, resulting in congestions,
inflammations and diseases of the organs vitalised. This is particularly
the case today in relation to the sacral and solar plexus chakras. The
glands—major and minor, endocrine and lymphatic—in the abdominal area
are powerfully affected and through their hypersensitivity or their
"deficiency through abstraction" (as it is esoterically called) they
constitute a fruitful source of difficulty.
3. The activity of the solar plexus chakra at this time, which is a
result of this transference, produces the abnormal tension which characterises the race. This tension, with the average man, controls the
intestinal tract and its connections, both above and below the
diaphragm. With the advanced man, it produces tension in the higher
chakras, definitely affecting the heart and the vagus nerve. It should
be pointed out that many of the diseases inherent in the racial form to
which planetary disease predisposes the human being are brought into
activity as the result of the stimulation of the solar plexus. As
humanity becomes less astral in its consciousness and the solar plexus,
therefore, becomes less active and less dominating, these forms of
difficulty will die out. As the heart chakras and the higher chakras
assume control, such diseases as cancer, tuberculosis and the various
syphilitic complaints (due to the age old activity of the sacral chakra)
will gradually die out.
4. The activity of the heart chakra as it
a. Magnetically attracts the energies out of the solar plexus,
b. Becomes involved in a reciprocal interplay with the solar plexus,
is a fruitful source of nervous trouble to the mystic and advanced
aspirant. The heart chakra powerfully affects the vagus nerve and the
autonomic nervous system with all that that involves and we are only
today beginning to understand and deal with these difficulties.
Clarification will come once the premise of the existence of the chakras
and their three "activities of interplay" are admitted—even if only as a
possible hypothesis. The little understood thymus gland holds the key to
much that concerns the activity and control of the vagus nerve—a fact
not yet generally recognised. Later, a carefully controlled process with
the object of stimulating the thymus gland and its secretion will be
worked out by the medical profession, leading to a much better
functioning of the nervous system and of the vagus nerve which controls
it. I can but hint at possibilities at present because the basic premise
of the existence of the chakras of force is not yet recognised. It is
interesting to note, however, that the solar plexus (as a great nerve
chakra) is recognised and this is due to the fact that the bulk of
humanity is, at this time, transferring force to that chakra. It is, for
the masses, the major recipient of forces, both from below the
diaphragm, from above, and from the environment.
5. The activity of the throat chakra is steadily increasing today, owing
to the creative activity and the inventive genius (which brings in the
higher stimulation) and the idealistic conceptions of the intelligentsia
of the world. This activity is responsible physiologically for many of
the diseases of the respiratory tract. Energy is carried to the throat
but is not adequately used and there is a consequent congestion and
similar consequences. But, curiously enough, a great many of the
difficulties connected with the entire breathing apparatus are related
to group conditions. These I will touch upon later. Today, the
concentration of energy is producing serious effects upon that master
gland, the thyroid gland. These effects disturb the balance of the
physical body and involve also the parathyroid glands. The metabolism of
the body is upset bringing attendant difficulties. The race is advancing
so rapidly in its development that this chakra will soon compete with
the solar plexus chakra for the position of being the most important
chakra and the major clearing house in the human body. I would commend
this statement to your careful consideration for it carries with it much
of encouragement. It indicates, nevertheless, much physiological change
and many problems and above everything else much psychological
difficulty.
6. The activity of the ajna chakra will increase a great deal during the
coming century, bringing with it its own attendant problems. Its close
relation to the pituitary body and the growing interplay between
a. The ajna chakra and the pituitary body
b. The chakra at the top of the head (involving the pineal gland) and
the ajna chakra
will produce serious problems connected with the brain and the eyes. The
ajna chakra focusses the abstracted energy of the five chakras up the
spine and is the seat of personality power. According to the use made of
that power and according to the direction of the force sent forth
throughout the body by the directed, integrated personality, so will the
organs of the body be affected. The solar plexus can be stimulated from
that chakra with disastrous effects; the heart chakra can be swept into
undue activity by the imposition of personality force, and its energy
deflected downwards in a focussed selfish manner; the solar plexus can
be so over-vitalised that all the forces of the personality can be
turned downwards and subverted to purely selfish and separative ends,
thus producing a powerful personality, but—at the same time—the
temporary suspension of the spiritual life of the man. When this
suspension takes place, all the forces of the body which have been
"elevated" are driven downwards again, putting the man en rapport with
the rank and file of humanity who are working through the lower chakras;
this tends to produce an immense personality success. It is interesting
to note that when this takes place, the energies—concentrated in the
ajna chakra—sweep down into the solar plexus or into the sacral chakra,
and seldom to the heart chakra. The heart chakra has a power all its own
to produce what is called "occult isolation", because it is the seat of
the life principle. The throat chakra receives stimulation in this case
but seldom to the point of difficulty. The man is a powerful creative
thinker, selfishly polarised and with an emotional solar plexus contact
with the masses. He frequently also has a strong sexual complex in some
form or another.
7. The activity of the head chakra is as yet little known and there is
little that I can profitably say about it, for I would not be credited
with speaking the truth. This chakra is the central factor in human
life, but the focalisation of the lower and the higher bodily forces is
not yet located there. Beyond producing hyper-tension (becoming so
prevalent today among the more advanced people of the world) and certain
forms of brain trouble and nervous disorders, its power is mostly seen
in its pronounced psychological effects. With these I shall proceed to
deal as we consider the unfoldment of the psychic powers, the evolution
of the mystical vision and the revelation of the light and of power.
This chakra controls the pineal gland and consequently certain areas of
the brain. Indirectly also, the vagus nerve is affected. Consciousness
and life, sensitivity and directed purpose are the great energies which
express themselves through this chakra, for consciousness is a form of
energy, as well you know, and life is energy itself.
[Please note: for the sake of clarity the word "centre" (& "centres") has
been replaced with the word "chakra" (or "chakras") throughout this excerpt
(approx. 140 times). The two words have the same meaning.]
Excerpted as indicated from the following published by Lucis Publishing Company:
ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY - VOLUME II - A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS
VOLUME II
/CHAPTER II - The Ray of Personality /4.
Diseases and Problems of Disciples and Mystics /a.
PROBLEMS ARISING OUT OF THE AWAKENING AND STIMULATION OF THE
CENTRES
There are three rules which are important to disciples at this
time...
1. Relinquish or sacrifice the age-old tendency to criticise and
adjust another's work, and thus preserve the inner group integrity.
More plans for service have been hindered by criticism, than by any
other major factor.
2. Relinquish or sacrifice the sense of responsibility for the
actions of others, and particularly of disciples. See that your own
activity measures up to theirs, and in the joy of struggle, and on
the way of service, the differences will disappear, and the general
good will be achieved.
3.Relinquish the pride of mind which sees its way and it's
interpretations to be correct and true, and other' false and wrong.
This is the way of separation. Adhere to the way of integration,
which is of the soul and not of the mind.
Excerpted from Alice Bailey's
"Esoteric Psychology II" p. 104-109, also in the compilation
"Ponder on This" p. 341
Into the New World my first message.
You who gave the Ashram,
And you who gave two lives,
Proclaim.
Builders and warriors, strengthen the steps.
Reader, if you have not grasped — read again,
after a while.
The predestined is not accidental,
The leaves fall in their time.
And winter is but the harbinger of spring.
All is revealed; all is attainable.
I will cover you with My shield,
if you but tend to your labors.
I have spoken.
There is no salvation
surer than that through devotion. One can
forgive much where there is unswerving devotion.
The man who is devoted in heart can be relied
upon. It is cause for rejoicing when Hierarchy
is upheld by devotion. At present it is
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I have already prepared you for the growth ofArmageddon,
and you know that the black wings of darkness
will not withstand the Fiery Sword. Be not
astonished, the Battle increases!
Agni Yoga:
Fiery World I,605.
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If we compare two
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Horse,' or 'Destroyer of Filth') is the final incarnation of Vishnu
[Maitreya, the World Teacher] in the current Mahayuga, foretold to
appear at the end of Kali Yuga [now!]...the Puranas foretell that
Kalki will be atop a white horse with a drawn blazing sword. He is
the harbinger of the end time in Hindu eschatology, after which he
will usher in Satya Yuga [New Age]."Source:
Wikipedia
"When Maitreya comes before
the worldthere
will begin for men a period of intense heart-searching and
reflection. It is only to be expected that for many it will be a
painful, even traumatic, one. So steeped in the ways and ideas
of the past, so fearful of a future unknown and strange, are
millions today, that men will want to take stock of the new
situation which will then pertain…. When Maitreya first
announces His plans and hopes for the rehabilitation of the
world, His energy of Love – the Sword of Cleavage – will further
delineate the divisions which now exist. Men will take sides –
for or against the new principles that He will present for the
betterment of all. Thus will it be. Thus will a period of
discord and discontent precede the acceptance of the new.
Gradually, however, even the least sanguine will acknowledge the
need for a reconstructed world and add their weight to the task.
"There will begin a time unlike aught seen before on Earth. On
every hand and at every level the changes will pursue their
logical course, cementing in law and principle and form the
aspirations of all. Thus will men regain a hold on their destiny
and turn away for ever from the abyss. (The Master -- from
‘Coping with change’)
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The Sword of Cleavage is the energy of Love. As people respond
to this energy the world will be divided – those who are
clamouring for change along the lines Maitreya is advocating,
and those who are fearful and looking to the past, who see Him
as the Antichrist, are fearful and do not know what to do. They
will stand aside and watch the events, and so lose the
opportunity presented, for the first time in history, to take
part in the transformation of the world. It is up to each
individual, from where he or she stands, to assert their
divinity. (Benjamin Creme, The Awakening of Humanity)
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"Much that is loved must go. Cling
not to the old forms. Much will depend on man’s ability to
renounce these outworn structures, and to create a new and
simpler world. Remember this. Forget not that I come to change
all things. My Coming brings peace. Likewise, My Presence brings
cleavage. My Sword, that Love which I am, will separate all men,
will show the True from the false, will clear the way for the
New Light which I bring. May it be that you can withstand this
change and accept My Light. (Maitreya, from Message No.74)
-- the selection of quotations is
after the letters to the editor.
In an interview
with the German author Peter Andreas, the scientist Prof. G.
Quispel expresses his amazement that the demonstrably wrong
ideas on this subject have not been abandoned:
"I am constantly astonished
to see that people still do not appear to know what has been
recognized for one and a half centuries: that the beast
from the Apocalypse refers to none other than the Caesar,
Nero. Only the later Christian church, in the time of
Constantine (325 AD), put the Apocalypse into a future,
historical time-frame."(From:Was
Morgenwahr sein kann,Econ
Verlag)
Source:
666 -- and other misunderstandings
http://www.share-international.org/archives/agelesswisdom/aw_pl666.htm
One of the easiest ways to know me, Maitreya says, is to
be
honest in your mind, be sincere in your spirit, and practice detachment. Any
action performed with dishonesty of mind, an insincere spirit and attachment
is destructive. For example, when you think one thing, say another, and do
something which is different again, you are lost. Honesty of mind leads to
honest speech and honest action. This harmony leads to peace and happiness.
Without detachment there is no salvation.
Be what you are. Do not surrender your self-respect, your
dignity, to others. Do not allow anyone to cast his shadow over you. A
Master gives experiences, but does not cast his shadow.
Do not follow one another. If you practice honesty of mind,
sincerity of spirit and detachment, you will know me, you will know the
Lord.
SRI SAI BABA - COSMIC AVATAR chanting the Gayatri
Mantra
The Gayatri is a great prayer for the
blessing of all creatures.
Download this 125 KB mp3 file recording of Sai
Baba sounding the Gayatri Mantra ~30 seconds long.
It has a profoundly nice effect - and can be set repeat
on most of the free sound players.
People in previous generations have not had such a
treasure freely available to them.
Eckhart Tolle - The Flowering of Human Consciousness
THRIVE (full movie)
ZEITGEIST: MOVING FORWARD | OFFICIAL RELEASE | 2011
"The problems confronting us should be faced with courage,
with truth, and understanding,
as well as with the willingness
to speak factually, with simplicity and with love,
in the effort
to expose the truth and clarify the problems which must be
solved.
The opposing forces...must be routed..." The
Tibetan
"Without sharing there can be no justice;
without justice there can be no peace;
without peace there can be no future...
Man must change or die.
There is no other course."
The World Teacher
"Almost anything you do [to help humanity] will seem
insignificant, but it's very important that you do it."
Mahatma Gandhi
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