Astrological Key to the Secret Doctrine

The Buddhas of Activity

The Three Pupils of Sanat Kumara

The theme of the Buddhas or Kumaras is vast and comprehensive and I have done my best to condense and essentialize the salient points of the theme as presented by the Tibetan.

This opening paper is a simple introduction and an overview to the three Kumaras while parts two and three [inserted below, into this one web page] will deal with technical correlations to the science of triangles, planetary center relations and other scientific occult data of interest to relatively advanced students of the Seven Rays.

Since the momentous year of the Great Decision 1952, the word has gone forth via the NGWS and we have planted the seed and created the general world thought-form of the Science of Triangles, Triangles of Light and World Goodwill.

Now is the third phase REVELATORY ERA of modern Occultism and the time for the potency of the Triangles of Light to be augmented and their potency objectively demonstrated because the three Kumaras have become aware of the existence of our global NGWS thought-form in its nature of light and its quality of goodwill. They now are in position to augment and pour of Their life into the world-wide network as need arises and emergency decrees and through this process the Will of Sanat Kumara will hold sway.

The three Buddhas of Activity represent conscious intelligent life, conscious, intelligent and active wisdom, and conscious, intelligent and active creation.

The Tibetan offers us the following analogy:

the three Buddhas of Activity
are to Shamballa

what the Nirmanakayas - the group of divine Contemplatives -
are to the Hierarchy

and the New Group of World Servers
is to humanity.

It is correct to state therefore that:

1. The Buddhas of Activity are Themselves impressed by the WILL of God as it energizes the entire planetary life.

2. The Nirmanakayas are impressed by the LOVE of God

3. The New Group of World Servers are impressed by the active INTELLIGENCE of God.

It might be said here that the three Buddhas of Activity are the primary impressing Agents of the Manu, Christ and Mahachohan, the "impressed Recipients" at the atmic level of awareness, which is the area energized by the Will of Sanat Kumara. The Tibetan says that "this is found midway between the highest plane whereon the Council Chamber of Sanat Kumara is found and the three planes which form the active arena for hierarchical work - the three levels of consciousness of the Spiritual Triad.

This "focused area" has been precipitated by the Agents of the divine Will; They know the ultimate purpose of Sanat Kumara and hold it steadfastly in view, making it available to those Masters of the Wisdom Who can act as the "impressing Agents of Sanat Kumara's Will."

These are the Manu, the Christ, and the Mahachohan, the Lord of Civilization."

I will now attempt to carry this conception of divine impression down to the level of our present group understanding. A consideration of at present highly-inaccessible occult truths, such as those dealing with the theme of this Letter on the "three Pupils of Sanat Kumara", will hopefully ultimately serve to inspire our minds, evoke our intuition and give us greater vision and increased planetary perception.

What do the names of these great Individualities mean to us?

The three Agents of the Divine Triplicity Who are known, esoterically and in the East as the three Kumaras, or the three Buddhas of Activity remain but names and possible hypothetical expressions of divinity until after the third initiation when the conscious recognition of the Monad becomes possible; then Forces and Energies, personified for us in these great and stupendous Lives, can be demonstrated as having true existence.

Therefore, all that I here tell you must be regarded as possible of verification, and as being testified to by the initiates of all lands, but it must necessarily remain personally unverified by the group until a later date in its antahkarana construction, extension and unfoldment.

Consider with me, if you will, however, the extreme practical import of this study.

The three strands or cables of our group antahkarana are destined to be securely anchored via the three Buddhas of Activity in the Council Chamber of the King.

Rule XIII in the Rays and the Initiations makes explicit reference to this fact. In this spirit, therefore, let us consider the role and function in the Planetary Scheme of the three Pupils of the Supreme King of the Planet, Sanat Kumara Who is the source of the energy of the three major Rays and Aspects of which Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity are the expression. He alone is the Custodian of the Supreme Will of the Great White Lodge on Sirius, and the burden of His cosmic purpose is shared by His three principle Pupils, the Buddhas of Activity.

First however, please do read once agan Rule XIII. From the Tibetan:

"Here we find a relation to the spiritual Triad and the three points in the Council Chamber which are presided over by the three Buddhas of Activity, and within Whose exalted consciousness the three strands of the antahkarana meet and become active in a way incomprehensible to you. Necessarily, this great antahkarana is not constructed correctly except by those whose individual antahkaranas are likewise in process of construction."

"These three points of anchorage within the sphere of the planetary Consciousness, or (if you like it better, though remembering ever that we are speaking and thinking in terms of symbols) in the planetary brain, find their feeble correspondence in [RI257] the three points of sensitivity in the head of a disciple or initiate, that is, in the region of the pineal gland, the pituitary body and the carotid gland. These, as you know, are to be found within the areas to which we give the names the head center, the ajna center and the alta major center. These correspondences are very real, even though functioning upon a minute scale; the initiate achieves his desired "perfecting" when the triad within his head is related, and love, will and intelligence are functioning in synthesis. Here we find a relation to the spiritual Triad and the three points in the Council Chamber which are presided over by the three Buddhas of Activity, and within Whose exalted consciousness the three strands of the antahkarana meet and become active in a way incomprehensible to you. Necessarily, this great antahkarana is not constructed correctly except by those whose individual antahkaranas are likewise in process of construction.

See you, therefore, the necessity of eventually organizing a group in the world which will be so constituted and so carefully chosen and interiorly related that all its members are initiates, all have created their own "rainbow bridges" with understanding and accuracy, and all can now work in such complete unity that the group antahkarana becomes a channel of unimpeded communication direct from Shamballa to the group because every member of the group is a member of the Hierarchy. In this manner the three planetary centers arrive at the needed relationship, and another great triangle reaches true functioning activity. When this takes place, a revelation undreamed of will be manifested upon the Earth; a new divine quality, of which no knowledge at present exists, will make its presence felt, and the work of the Buddha and of the Christ, and the work of the coming Avatar, will be superseded by One for Whom both Shamballa and the Hierarchy have unitedly waited and of Whom the doctrine of the Messiah and the doctrine of Avatars have been and are today only the dim distant symbols. They preserve this concept of the Great Revelation in the consciousness of men, in the expectancy which the Hierarchy evidences, [258] and through the "preparatory work" now being undertaken at Shamballa.

"The group, therefore, to whom I address this instruction is not the group or groups who will first receive these papers. The instruction is intended for a group which will come later and which will prepare the way, and of which some of the more advanced aspirants can form part if they "walk humbly with their God."

"This, my brother, is one of the most advanced injunctions in any of the world Scriptures and is found in The Bible. It has no reference to humility as usually interpreted and understood. It signifies the ability to view all life with a sense of divine proportion and from the angle of spiritual mathematics, and (paradoxical as this may sound) with no sense of dualism. The usual meaning is not correct. It involves acceptance and comprehension of purpose, and this in such a manner that the consecrated personality - under control of the Monad, via the antahkarana, and in cooperation with the one known God - walks the ways of Earth as a channel for the three divine qualities (love, will and intelligence), but also as a channel for that which these three qualities will enable him later to sense, know and reveal."

In this letter I intend to confine my attention to the 3rd Ray of Active Matter, or to that latent heat in substance which underlies all planetary activity and is the cause of our planets motion.

If we think with clarity on the subject we will see how closely the three Buddhas of Activity are closely connected with our Planetary Karma as it concerns one or other of the three fires while Sanat Kumara synthesizes the work of his three Brothers and attends to the uniform blending and merging of said fires. The function of the three Buddhas of Activity is highly occult. They are three aspects of the one aspect, and, as just stated, the pupils of Sanat Kumara. In short, these three Buddhas are the creative Agents of the KING and are Wielders of His Law of Evolution.

The Buddhas of Activity embody within themselves the essence of the third Ray of Active Intelligence, through which the third aspect can successfully project and express itself. It is these three Buddhas who were instrumental in the occult process of implementing the mental principle upon our planet, and who - through their creative meditation - brought our planet, the Earth, and the planet Venus into direct alignment. "This made possible the coming of the Sons of Mind and the formation of the fourth kingdom in nature, Humanity. They are Embodiments of the intuition, and control the inflow of intuitional energy into the minds of men."

The three keys to the "mystery of electricity" are held one each in the hands of the three Buddhas of Activity. Theirs is the prerogative to control the triple electrical forces of the 3rd Aspect on the physical plane, and Theirs the right to direct the three major streams in connection with our present planetary globe. These three electrical streams of energy are concerned with atomic substance, out of which all forms are constructed.

The three Buddhas Themselves form a deeply esoteric Triangle related to the Throat Center of the solar system, 3rd ray planet Saturn.

The throat center has a small symbolic triangle of its own, to which I would call attention: the thyroid gland and the parathyroid. The dense physical externalization of the Throat center is the thyroid gland - (larynx, vocal cords and palate) . Its purpose is to guard health, to balance the bodily equilibrium in certain key aspects of the physical nature.

Thus it will be apparent to you how whole areas of the planetary physical organism are brought into active and correct functioning, vitalized and kept in good and true condition by the activity of the three Buddhas of Activity.

The three great energies which are brought into play during the divine creative activity are unified in activity by the full expression of the energy flowing through the throat center, through the apparatus of speech and the two lungs.

You have in this relation: Life or Breath, the Word or the Soul, and the throat center of Substance in activity."

The throat center best symbolizes the "Holy Spirit" or third aspect of intelligence and of substance impregnated with mind. It is connected with the the third divine aspect in manifestation, "over-shadowing", the Mother, the Virgin Mary.

The Mother, or the negative aspect, builds and nourishes, guards and cherishes the Son through the antenatal, and the infant stages, and stands around Him during later stages, giving of the energy of her own body and activity in ministry to His need. The Tibetan says, employing biblical symbolism, that the para-thyroids are symbolic of Mary and Joseph and the relation they hold to the over-shadowing Holy Ghost.

Therefore, we arrive at the realization that the 3rd ray personality of Earth in its relation to the fire of matter, is directly influenced and adjusted in its working by the third of the three Buddhas of Activity.

The three Buddhas, Who are the cosmic Prototypes of the Lords of the three major rays are the correspondence of these three rays and are responsible for the entire manifested universe, but only, according to D.K., "within the orbit of the third aspect, the expression of the Universal Mind."

The functions of the three Pupils of Sanat Kumara are many and varied but dealing primarily with the electrical forces and energies of nature, and the direction of the building (Deva) agencies. Each embody the force or energy of one or other of the three higher subplanes of the cosmic mental plane:

1st Buddha.....1st sub-plane.

2nd Buddha.....2nd sub-plane.

3rd Buddha.....3rd sub-plane.

Sanat Kumara only directly deals with the ego on the mental plane while His three Pupils deal with the other three types of consciousness, of which man is the summation.

1st Kumara: Human Kingdom:

Sanat Kumara is the energy which produces self-consciousness in the human family.

1st Buddha: Animal Kingdom

2nd buddha: Vegetable Kingdom

3rd buddha: Mineral Kingdom

The three Buddhas are the source of the energy which animates the three lower kingdoms, and which produces their differing grades of consciousness.

These three great Buddhas summarize the transmuted essence of the third solar system. The essence that underlied all the activity of the third solar system was intelligent activity, not love, the basis of system II, the present.

They are the three supreme Personalities in the Council Chamber or Triad Who stands closest to Sanat Kumara and are, as just stated, the planetary correspondences to the three Aspects of the logoic third Aspect and are concerned with the force behind planetary manifestation.

Under the Law of Analogy, They are to Sanat Kumara what the three mind aspects upon the mental plane are to the disciple and the initiate.

They represent in action:

1. The concrete or lower mind of the planetary Logos,2. That energy which we call the soul,3. The higher or abstract mind.

The Three Buddhas of Activity are essentially the "eye within the Triangle", the expression, in activity, of the "All-Seeing Eye" through whose agency Sanat Kumara sees, and through them and the energy directed through them, He directs the creative planetary process.

These three great Lives Who have associated Themselves with the Lord of the World might be regarded as constituting aspects of His personality, though this is not technically so. "The times and seasons of their appearing vary according to the particular karma of the Lord of the Ray, and nothing in connection with these great cycles, and incarnation periods, can be revealed to the unpledged and the profane." [TCF729] "According to astrological conditions, and according to the turning of the planetary wheel of life, so one or another of the six Buddhas of Activity on our Planetary Scheme will be active.

The three Buddhas of Activity change from time to time, and become in turn exoteric or esoteric as the case may be. Only the King, Sanat Kumara is self-sustaning and persists steadily and watchfully in active physical incarnation."

The three exoteric Buddhas are the sumtotal of activity or planetary energy while the three esoteric Buddhas embody types of energy which as yet are not in full demonstration upon our planet. Each of these six Buddhas is a reflection of, and the distributing agent for, the energy and force of one of the six other Planetary Logoi, the remaining six spirits before the Throne.

Through each of them passes the life force of one of the six rays. The Buddha's of Activity, are but the vicegerents upon our planet of those three planetary Logoi, Who, with our planetary Logos, make the sum total of the logoic Quaternary.

Associated with them are the three esoteric Buddhas of Activity Who represent the three other planetary ray Logoi, and so make focal points for all the ray forces within our planeatary chain.

Again, keep in mind; in each chain six Buddhas are found; six focal points embraced by the seventh, the planetary Logos of the scheme, Who holds them all within His aura.

Their work is threefold:

"First. They are the centers in the body of the planetary Logos. Each chain corresponds to one center, and the globes are but the lesser wheels within any particular center. The life of the Logos in this incarnation on the Earth is flowing through three centers and beginning to stimulate a fourth, hence four globes are involved and the three Kumaras (so called for lack of a better term) are vitally intelligently active; three are in abeyance and one is beginning to function. The globes correspond to the chains. This fourth Kumara is as yet practically unrealized, but as hinted at earlier His day is about to dawn."

Second. They act as transmitters of a particular type of force to those units who go to the content of any particular center. They are, in fact, the agents for the Lords of the Rays to the Monads of any ray in incarnation in any particular chain and on any particular globe.

Third. They are the agents for:

1. The Lord of a Ray as stated above.

2. The four Maharajahs.

3. The planetary Logos of Their own scheme.

4. The great Deva of the Earth planet.

"They work with the law; They are the cognizers of the intelligent purpose of the planetary Logos, and know His plans; They are the vital activity of the planet, and in a subtle sense they are not only the Ray representatives but likewise the link between the chain and the scheme.The normal contacts of the three Buddhas is extra-planetary and are very seldom of a planetary nature. They are in direct rapport with the Planetary Logos upon His own high plane, the cosmic mental plane.Their major characteristic is Will or Purpose. They embody and consciously know and intelligently appreciate what is the motivating idea which the Planetary Logos - working consciously on His own high level - seeks to work out and achieve in His planned incarnation through a planet. He functions when in incarnation on the cosmic physical plane, and embodies the seven principles of which we know, and all is focused in and through the Individuality of Sanat Kumara, implemented and energized through the seven planetary centers. His three Pupils are expressions of their "counterparts on cosmic levels of the energies latent in the three permanent atoms in the three worlds of human endeavor."

Sanat Kumaras three Pupils steadfastly sustain and cooperates with Him in his concentrated creative thought and are the agents for attracting - through the potency of their meditation the required extra-planetary energies within the orbit of the universal mind which he needs to carry forward his vehicle of expression, the Earth, and thus to bind all together into one great created whole, tending ceaselessly to the greater "Glory of God". His three principle students wield the Law of Synthesis and hold steadfastly in the universal Mind the ultimate result of His magnificent and supreme divine Will-to-Good.

From the NGWS Triangles of Light now created and assembled, the Buddhas of Activity extract those essential qualities which can go to the building of this aspect of the planetary antahkarana. Reflect on this.

I remind you; the creative antahkarana meditation work of the New Group of World Servers especially the Science of Triangles has for its objectives the creation of the new civilization and of the new world order. Antahkarana meditation, indiviudal, planetary, systemic and cosmic is the major creative agent in our universe with the emphasis upon creation by use of mental energies in process of unfolding or expressing themselves in the evolutionary sense.

The quality and the conditions of the manifesting universe, solar system or planet are known to us. It must be borne in mind that in all manifestations the three aspects, purpose or will, attraction magnetic love or plan, and appearance as manifestation of both of these are necessarily present. The manifesting Entity on our planet, Sanat Kumara is responsible for the three major expressions of divinity and "occultly declares" all conditions and qualities.

You can gather as you read from this series of Letters on Occult Cosmology what a tremendous field of esoteric truth I have attempted to comprehensively cover and how abstruse to the average occult student is the whole of our theme on the Antahkarana. Again I would remind you that the real significance of the antahkarana formulations will only be perceived by the trained disciple.

My explanation of the seven ray Words or Phrases of Power and the system of Lodge or spiritual mathematics I explained incidental to the construction of the the seven cables of the planetary rainbow bridge and cautious promulgation of occult knowledge concerning the necessitated stages, will hopefully serve to incite strenuous effort, vision and accurate aim on the part of the group members.

Group consciousness, universal awareness, and therefore synthetic effort, synthetic understanding and synthetic activity are our group goal. We should not need to be reminded that we need to read, research and study with increasing care as we advance upon the path of the Rainbowbridge and begin to approach the Way of the Higher Evolution.

Our mental training does not end as we attain certain spiritual initiatory goals, in fact, it accelerates. Each of us must begin to immediately consciously formulate a mental propostion of the purpose of the Plan of Sanat Kumara as the Plan has been revealed to him through the means of his group experience. It is the exalted consciousness of S.K. which has brought our planet and all that is within and upon it into being. It is the fixed desire and the pattern or purpose of the divine activity of Sanat Kumara down the ages Who produces in manifested form the beauty of His great design.

There is a vital necessity for each disciple to work out this grand design, its pattern, the significances and meanings of the Plan through the medium of his own life experiment and to arrive at correct formulation through direct experience. As our inner Triadic realizations affect our outer experience and daily living, then the underlying Purpose of Sanat Kumara will shine forth and we will no longer be working in the dark.

All we can do in this course on planetary occultism is to fit ourselves as individuals and as a group to grasp divine purpose, and thus see the divine design and patterns as they are in reality. Once we have taken the needed steps and complied with the requirements, all mystery will disappear. It is the highest divine aspect of the Will of S.K. which we will finally manifest, prior to entering upon the Way of the Higher Evolution. The will, as considered and understood by the initiate, is essentially that monadic essence, qualified by "fixed determination," which is identified with the Will or Purpose of Sanat Kumara. The Tibetan has said that it is through a mental proposition of the Purpose of Sanat Kumara that the three Buddhas of Activity implement Their triple work.

Sanat Kumara is the prototype of all world saviors. Under the Law of correspondence, each initiate functions, in replica, under such a self-formulated mental propostion through the medium of a individually developed, pure, reasoning will, and not simply from that of impulsive love and its activity; the grand design, and the "fixed determination" within the orbit of the universal mind of the three pupils of Sanat Kumara motivates all ensuing activity.

You can now better understand the motive behind this three part letter on the three Buddhas is directed towards our greater understanding of and perfecting of the third aspect of active intelligence.

The three Buddhas are Embodiments of the intuition, and control the inflow of intuitional energy into the minds of men. All of us, may put ourselves in the group position of being in direct relation or alignment with the Buddhas of Activity, who embody within themselves the essence of the third Ray of Active Intelligence, through which the third aspect of Sanat Kumara can successfully project and express itself, the "hidden mystery" be revealed and all "shadows disappear".

The ancient occult maxim of the Initiate runs: In order to tread the Path one must become that Path itself and prove the accuracy of the occult truth that the antahkarana is itself but illusion. Ponder on this, for it carries illumination for those who have eyes to see.

Man is literally "THE PATH" itself.

Initiation and the Science of Sacred Numbers deal primarily with subjective realization and consciousness, and not fundamentally "ability to function on a plane," nor the energy of form or matter.

The system of "spiritual mathematics" based on the number 10 of the White Lodge of Sanat Kumara deal with the subjective life, life as part of the consciousness, self-realization and identification with the Universal Mind of Sanat Kumara and not life in matter or form as we understand it. In this Light, the student of these letters should very carefully study here the significance of the numbers three, four and five in the evolution of consciousness.

Even a slight study will show you that you have in these three numbers 3, 4, and 5 the production of a synthesis of activity and of potencies which are essential for the development of the consciousness of humanity

THE 3RD, 4TH AND 5TH RACES:

The three Buddhas of Activity have a special relation to the three strictly human races, the third, the fourth and the fifth root-races, the Lemurian, the Atlantean and the present Aryan race. In an eoteric manner, the Tibetan tells us they represent in Shamballa the soul of each of these three races. He goes on to say that the same souls reincarnate in each race, and each soul therefore "comes in turn under the influence of each of the three Buddhas, each of Whom is of a quality different to that of his two Associates."

I will see to it that the focus of our study remains on the subjective aspect and ever lay the emphasis upon the subjective psychologically. In this solar system, do not forget, the numbers (3,4,5) are the most important from the angle of the evolution of consciousness.

3RD BUDDHA......3RD RACE LEMURIAN......INSTINCTUAL MIND

2ND BUDDHA......4TH RACE ATLANTEAN.....LOWER CONCRETE MIND

1ST BUDDHA......5TH RACE ARYAN.........PERSONALITY MIND

To sum up:

There is a stage in the evolution of consciousness where the three, the four and the five blend and merge perfectly.

In connection with the root-races, the first two are preparatory dealing with the form and the last two are synthetic and synthesize the development of the 3rd, 4th and 5th races; the consciousness principle itself unfolds thorough the three central races of any one round.

The Tibetan says:

"I would here point out a fact that is little realized, that in this fivefold evolution of man and in this solar system, the two remaining rounds in any planetary cycle, and the sixth and seventh root-races in those cycles are always synthetic; their function is to gather up and synthesize that which has been achieved in the earlier five. For instance, in this root-race, the sixth and seventh subraces will synthesize and blend that which the earlier five have wrought out.

The analogy lies in the fact that in this solar system the two higher planes (the logoic and the monadic) are synthetic. One is the synthesizing plane for the Logos from whence He abstracts the essence in manifestation; the other for the Monad, from whence the Monad abstracts and garners the fruits of objectivity. [TCH165] "So in the sixth root-race and the sixth subrace a similar analogy will be seen. Out of the shattered form of the fifth subrace of the fifth root race, built up under the fifth Ray of Concrete Knowledge, with the aid of the fifth Law of Fixation, will emerge the sixth subrace of brotherly love - love shown in the realization of the one life latent in each Son of God." [TCH596]

Major Scheme Rays 1-2-7.

The three major rays of our planetary scheme at this particular time scheme are the 1st, 2nd and 7th with the three Buddhas of Activity holding the three "points" and working through them. At "this particular time in our planetary Scheme, the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Law or Order is regarded as a major ray, being a ray of synthesis, and one on which the Mahachohan is blending his work." [IHS181]

Two interlaced triangles, created by the six constellations from which the three Buddhas of Activity draw Their needed energy and to which They are uniquely related through Their individual karma. These two interlaced triangles are the cause of the six-pointed star, so familiar among the many occult symbols. The Six are the six forces of Sanat Kumara, or the types of energy embodying His dynamic qualities and characteristics. They indicate His life force oriented, directed in a certain alignments and direction.

"the cause of the six-pointed star"

UPPER TRIANGLE

1. ARIES

2. CAPRICORN

3. CANCER

LOWER TRIANGLE

4. LEO

5. AQUARIUS

6. GEMINI

1ST BUDDHA: 1st RAY...ARIES - - - - - - - - - LEO............IDENTIFICATION

2ND BUDDHA: 2ND RAY...CAPRICORN - - - AQUARIUS...INITIATION

3RD BUDDHA: 7TH RAY...CANCER - - - - - - GEMINI........INDIVIDUALIZATION

3RD BUDDHA:

The Act of Individualization.

The work of the particular Buddha responsible at the time for this major activity, has been temporarily quiescent since Lemurian days. He works, when active, through the seventh ray and draws the needed energy from two constellations: Cancer and Gemini.

Individualization marks one stage of the process in the intensification of "fire by friction." It has relation to the achievement of Brahma, and marks a point in the energizing of substance.

Certain forms are ready for self-consciousness.

Two cosmic Rays of differing polarities are mutually attracted. On extra-systemic or cosmic levels, the individualization process produces a corresponding activity in the egoic body of the Logos, and hence increased vibration in that center in the body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID, which our Logos represents.

It also produces a reaction or "occult recognition" in the prototype of the Septenate, or in the seven Rishis of the Great Bear, and this reaction in cosmic circles will persist until the end of the mahamanvantara, when the Logos is set free (even though temporarily), from physical plane existence.

2ND BUDDHA:

The Act of Initiation.

I would call your attention to the word act; I am not here referring to process. His work only begins at the third initiation when the planetary Logos is the Initiator. At that initiation, the will aspect begins to function. The Buddha behind the initiatory process is extremely active at this time; He works through the Christ and the Lord of the second ray, drawing the needed energy from the constellations Capricorn and Aquarius. [RI269] Initiation marks a stage in the intensification of "solar Fire." It has relation to the achievement of Vishnu, and marks a point in the evolution of consciousness, through self-consciousness to group consciousness, or universal consciousness.

1ST BUDDHA:

The Act of Identification.

This involves what has been called a "moment of opening-up," during which the initiate sees that which lies within the cosmic intent and begins to function not only as a planetary unit but as a cosmic focal point. The Buddha of Activity, responsible for this type of planetary activity, works with the Lord of the first ray and functions as an outpost of the consciousness of the informing life of Aries and of Leo. His work is only now beginning to assume importance.

Identification with the aggregate of all groups might be the term used to express the final stages of the evolutionary process; it marks a period towards the close of the mahamanvantara when all groups begin consciously to work out the eternal Will. It involves a type of realization, incredible to man now but which is conceivable [TCF732] (though not yet practicable) to the Chohans of the Hierarchy now on Earth. They work consciously carrying out the Will of the planetary Logos in the planet, but even They are as yet far from appreciating fully the Will and purpose of the Logos as He works through the system. Glimpses They may get, and an idea of the general plan, but the details are as yet unrecognizable.

From the Law of Analogy, another exceedingly important triangle is found in the human body and (esoterically considered) is related to the subject under consideration:

1ST BUDDHA: BASE OF SPINE

2ND BUDDHA: AJNA CENTER

3RD BUDDHA: THROAT CENTER

1. The ajna center, embodying the directing energy of that body of activity which we call the personality.

2. The throat center, which is peculiarly active today in all human beings; this testifies to the success of the creative work of the Buddhas of Activity. This, in its turn, has a small symbolic triangle of its own, to which I would call attention: the thyroid gland and the parathyroid.

3. The center at the base of the spine. This is galvanized into activity at a certain stage of the evolutionary process, by energy emanating from the Buddhas of Activity Who are the least active at this particular time. It is an energy pouring towards the fourth kingdom but not directed towards any individual. These great Lives work through major groups. Their potency is such that it would otherwise prove destructive.

S.D.P.