Listen, O Pilgrim, for when that sound strikes in colourful vibration upon the inner sense, know that a point has been achieved marking a great transition.
Watch then, O Pilgrim, for the coming of that hour. With purified endeavour mount nearer to that Sound. Know when its tone steals through the misty dawn, or in the mellow sunlight strikes soft upon the ear, that soon the inner hearing will become expanded feeling and will give place to sight and perfect comprehension.
Know when the music of the spheres comes to you note by note, in misty dawn or sunny noon, at cool of eve, or sounding through the deep of night, that in their rhythmic tone lies secret revelation.
AN ESOTERIC FRAGMENT[764]
Where is the gate, O Lanoo, which guards the triple-way?
Within the sacred heart of Him Who is the threefold Path. I reach the gate and pass within, entering thus the Heart, through the means of wide compassion.
How many gates are there, O Passer on the Way?
The gates are seven, each leading to the centre of a great sphere of bliss. By the one who seeks to know, the first gate must be found. That entered, in periodic cycles he will find the other six.
You speak of wide compassion as the key that opens wide the gates. Explain in words the simplest the need that this involves.
The need of gentle mercy, which knows and sees yet understands; the need of tears of crystal to wash away a brother's sins; the need of fiery courage that can hold a brother's hand, and lift and elevate him though all the world cry “nay”; the need of comprehension, that has experienced and knows; the occult sense of oneness must guide unto the gate.
What else will lead a man to the portal of the Path?
Compassion first and conscious oneness; then death to every form that holds and hides the life; next wisdom linked with learning, and the wise use of the Word; speech of an occult nature and the silence of the Centre, held in the noise of all the world.
Can you, O Lanoo, blend these thoughts into a threefold charge?
First Oneness, then the Word, and lastly Growth.
HEALING [765]
A centre of violet, orbed by yellow, melts into red. Yellow develops and protects. It ensheaths the nucleus. When you attain the significance of violet, the laws of health and magnetic alleviation will be no longer sealed. The seal is being loosed by the devas of the shadows; the yellow approaches the violet and the red progresses. The ranks approach and cooperation is possible. In loosening the seal the gateway opens. These three are the great Helpers and in Their hands lies knowledge for the next generation. Approach.
THE HIDDEN PORTAL
An immense cone of fire is seen in the midst of an arid desert. A man stands in front of the scene in an attitude of indecision. The cone stands between the man and a fruitful country.
Rises the cone from out the arid waste. Naught but its heat is felt, naught but its glare is seen. Its flames have swept the country and left the desert bare. It radiates forth a fire that devours all before it. All green things die and the dwellers on the sphere recede before its flame, scorching and burning, cruel and superb.
White is its inner heart, red the surrounding flame, and yellow the spreading fire. Like a mantle of fierce heat it shuts out the vision and obscures the beyond. Like a pall of rosy red tinged with an orange deep it veils all the distance.
From out the country full and green, across the arid waste had travelled far the Pilgrim. Naught had he held and kept, naught save his strong desire, back on the road he might not go, but onward to the fire.
From out that cone of fire, echoing from its heart, swift to his ears a voice that said: “Behold the place of God.”
From out the cone of fire a note fell on his ear that touched a chord within his breast, and awakened quick response.
[766] Press on, O Pilgrim, towards the flame; brave the fierce ardour of the fire; enter within the portal which is hidden by its light.
The door is there, unseen, unknown, watched by the Lords of Flame. Deep in the heart of yellow, close by the outer rim, lies the key that holds hid the secret. The threshold of that inner door, the step unseen that must be reached, will meet the feet within the fringe of flame. Put forth the hand and touch the door, knock thrice with pure intent. A voice will answer to that call. The words will sound: “Who is it seeks the way?”
THE KEY
Key the first lies hid under the Threshold, guarded by the Watcher. He who breaks in must stoop and seize after a search of strenuous decision. The hand that grasps the key must have the nail-mark through the centre there located. When this is so, door the first will open.
Key the second lies across the Threshold, over the heap of thorns. From the centres in the feet must pour the blood that dissolves all hindrances. In the bloodstained feet and the nail-marked hands lies hid the secret. Seek you them. Then door the second will open to your touch.
Key the third lies half way up. Just at the level of the heart that key is seen. Before it can be seized and used the spear must pierce and thus the blood pour forth, cleansing and making whole. Only those thus purified can grasp the key and pass through door the third.
AN OCCULT MESSAGE
The key is found; and with the pressure of the hands in service of the Light and with a beating heart of love, that key is turned. The door swings wide open.
With hasty feet the one who hastens towards the light enters that doors then waits. He holds the door ajar for those who follow after and thus—in action—waits.
A Voice sounds forth: My brother, close that door, for [767] each must turn the key with his own hand and each must enter through that door alone. The blazing light within the Temple of the Lord is not for all at the same moment or the same hour of each day. Each knows his hour. Your hour is Now.
So, brother, close that door. Remember, those behind know not the door has opened or the door has closed. They see it not. Rest on that thought, my brother, and passing through the door close it with care, and enter upon another stage upon the upward Way—alone, yet not alone.
THE CRUCIFIXION
In the mystic Heart, with its two lobes, lies the key to the reservoir. In the out-going and the return the cross is made. Midway it stands, with the right hand and the left hand path on either side. There the man is crucified, with the two on either hand—one on the right and one on the left. In the apprehension of the key, in the opening and shutting of doors, lies life eternal. Know you and understand.
THE CROSS
In the Cross is hidden Light. The vertical and horizontal in mutual friction create; a vibrant Cross scintillates, and motion originates. When the vertical assumes the horizontal, pralaya supervenes. Evolution is the movement of the horizontal to upright positiveness. In the secret of direction lies the hidden wisdom; in the doctrine of absorption lies the healing faculty; in the point becoming the line, and the line becoming the cross is evolution. In the cross swinging to the horizontal lies salvation and pralayic peace.
THE CHALICE
The lower chalice rises like a flower of colour dark or somber. Dull it appears to the outer vision, but within a light will sometime shine and shatter the illusion.
Chalice the second rises from out the lower sheath as does the flower from out the calix green. Of colour rose it [768] is, and many shades thereof; and to the onlooker it seems as if the colour might transcend the inner shining light. But this is but illusion which time itself dispels.
Chalice the third surmounts all and opens wide in time its outspread petals. Blue does it appear and blends with the rose, forming at first a deep impenetrable shade which shuts out the light.
Within the three, deep hidden in the heart, tiny at first yet ever waxing greater, shines the light divine. This light, through radiating heat and innate divine vibration, constructs for itself a sheath of iridescence. It emerges from the threefold chalice as a floating bubble alights on a flower.
Within this iridescent sheath burns the inner Flame, and in its turn it burns out the lower gross ma
terial. E'en as the Path is neared, clearer the light shines out. Forth through the chalice gross and dark that forms the foundation shines the light supernal, till all who see the radiation cry out within themselves: “Behold, a God is here.”
Forth from the chalice rosy red shines the inner glow, till soon the red of earth desire becomes the glow of heaven's fire, and all is lost save aspiration that shades not the cup with karmic colour.
Forth from the chalice blue shines and glows the inner light divine till all the forms are burnt and gone, and naught is left save one divine abstraction. Naught but the shells remain below, naught but the forms for use, and at the culmination what strange event is seen? Tarry, O Pilgrim, at the strange appearance, with bowed head watch the progress of the fire. Slowly the chalice threefold merges into an altar, and from that triple altar mounts the fire unto its Source. As mounts and spreads the inner flame, the beauty of the central sphere, lit with a radiance white, causes the worlds to stand and cry: “Behold, a God is here.”
Ever the flames mount higher, ever the warmth streams forth, till—in the moment of the hour set—the flame destroys all, and all is gone, the work of ages passes, in a moment, into nothingness.
But forth from the fourfold fire, up from the altar of [769] the ages, springs the Liberated One, the Flame. Back to the fire of Cosmos springs the dual flame. Into the Three is absorbed the essence, and becomes one with its Source. The Spark becomes the Flame, the Flame becomes the Fire, and forms part of the great Cosmic blaze that holds the secret of the Five hidden within the heart.
A FIRE MANTRAM
The point of light within the glowing arc, O Pilgrim on the Way, waxes and wanes as application hard or not betrays the purpose within the heart.
That point is ever there, unnoticed and unseen. Dark is the night and drear, and sore the heart of the unilluminated Pilgrim. Dark is the night but drearness is not felt when within the gloomy portal is seen the bright illusive light, the light that flickers ever on ahead, enticing with its gleam the Pilgrim ever onward.
Six times the light may wax and wane, six times the glow is felt, but at the seventh glowing hour the Flame bursts forth.
Six times the Flame bursts forth, six times the burning starts, but at the seventh hour the altar is lost sight of and only Flame is seen.
Six times the circle of the burning fire, six times the roaring furnace burns and separates, but at the seventh naught is left save the ascending Flame, that mounts to the Triadal Spirit.
Six times the flames absorbs the water, six times the moisture disappears, but at the seventh great absorption naught is left save iridescent fire.
Three times the fire envelops, three times the sun recedes; at time the fourth the work is done, and naught is left save Flame primordial. That Flame absorbs, revolves, receives, and remains. When all that is has traversed the Flame, then Time is not.
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INDEX
A
Abstraction–
doctrine, 167
principle, entering body, procedure, 165
processes, 162, 163
will principle actively present or not, seeing, 164
Adept–
anchorages, three, 481
powers, 10
Ajna centre of initiate, 257
Alignment–
agency of antahkarana, 470-474
direct, Shamballa and humanity, 471
first stage of process of realisation, 470-471
first step towards fusion, 62
modes in transmutation process, 279
need for, 437
perfect, between monad and physical expression, 475
practice, attainment, 42
process, earlier stage, 500-501
release of evocative sound, 93
step towards mysteries of identification, 62
symbol, 471
Alignment-Invocation-Evocation, thought of, importance, 498
Alta-major centre of initiate, 257, 432
Amen, use, 51, 52
Angel of the Presence, 176
Anima mundi, 17
Antahkarana–
agent in alignment, 470-474
building–
by group, 112
circumstances involved, 464-474
conscious task beginning, 487
consciously undertaken, 483
demand for, 115
effect, final, 475-476
extension in consciousness, 471
from both ends, 494, 495, 501
goal, 495
individual, 474
on mental plane, 466-467, 469
period covered, 462
process, 485-495, 501-519
progress, factors, 462
relationships, 265, 442
service, 497
six methods, 486-495, 501, 512-513
steps, 43, 444, 445-452
technique, 474-477, 486-495
use of creative imagination, 482, 487, 489-490, 511, 512
built by conscious effort, 467
completion, 50, 256, 408, 445, 472, 475, 494-495, 695
component parts, 454
connection with abstract mind, 167
cosmic, 406, 407, 533
definitions, 449, 454
effect in free interplay of life-energy, 280
functions, 61, 161, 216, 266, 442, 449, 475, 491, 591
group, 29, 119, 221, 256, 257
left with Monad at fourth initiation, 101
nature of, 452-456
need for, 137, 437
of disciple, dependence on by Master, 547
of group, formation, 547
of humanity, 273, 505
planetary, 406, 407, 724
projection by disciple, 490-493, 501-510, 512, 514-519
projection from Ashram of Master, 284
seventh woven thread, 131, 505
stabilisation, 495
systemic, 406, 407
threads weaving within consciousness, 466-468
use, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 131, 183, 495, 585, 592
Way of Resurrection, 318
Apostolic Succession, true meaning, 735
Appetites, fleshly, none in control, 126
Aquarian–
energy–
effect on astral plane, 581
enabling Christ to complete His task, 232
enabling Master R. to become Lord of Civilisation, 232
influence giving Black Lodge power, 232
influence, hierarchical relationship to Shamballa, 231
pouring into Hierarchy, response to, 231
phase of planetary history, inauguration, 19
Aquarian Age–
characteristics, 584
planned work of Hierarchy, 227, 238-319
See also New Age
Aquarius–
effect upon Hierarchy, 230
energies superseding Piscean, 551
energy used by Buddha of Activity, 268-269
Aries, informing Life, 269
“Army of the Voice”, 147, 179, 181, 183-184, 200
Art–
creative, 123, 243, 572, 574
Aryan–
cycle, 559
definition, 593-594
Race, 188, 478, 499, 560-561, 592, 593, 664
“As a man thinketh in his heart”, 137, 261
As if consciousness no longer useful, 443-444
Ascension–
initiation, 163, 284
true, 361
Ascensions, series, 528
Ashram-
admittance, 97-98, 126-127, 297-298
centre, penetration by disciple, 546
composition, 97-98, 342, 346, 366
concerns unconnected with disciple, 547
creative work, 294-297
definitions, 74, 126
effects of admission of initiate, 562
energy, direction into world, 690, 691
enrichment, requirement for group initiation, 343-344
formation by initiate, 653
freedom from coercion or supervision, 379
inner, 212, 220, 221
instinctive, reaction to Ray influence and prevailing Will, 379
keynote, 342
magnetic pull, response to, 668
of love-wisdom, 383-384
of Master, life, effects, 98-99
of Sanat Kumara, 229, 238, 366-430
on intuitional buddhic plane, 119
perfect unison, 346
quality, determination, 362
radiation and magnetic field, 379
relation of Master to, 362
teaching by Master, 544-545
Ashramic–
acquiescence, 210
recognition of group, 226
Ashrams–
cyclic inflow from Sirius, 415
energies, dynamic, revealing, impulsive, 712
externalisation. See Externalisation.
formation, 378, 388
forty-nine, 370, 388
inner exoteric branch, formation by D.K., 253-254
of Masters, 168-170, 188, 240-241
on buddhic plane today, 387
one-pointed intellect and inclusive life, 561
seven, 335, 361, 380, 383-388
subsidiary, 388
united, spiritual synthesis, 441