The video above will give the reader some idea how powerful and
effective the science of sound can be when presented in a fourth and
seventh ray format. When sound and words of power are linked to animated
symbols the effect is dynamic and transformative.
The Seven Ray Methods of Constructing the Antahkarana:
Seven Ray Words of Power
Ray 1 - I assert the Fact.
Ray 2 - I see the greatest Light.
Ray 3 - Purpose itself am I.
Ray 4 - Two merge with One.
Ray 5 - Three Minds unite.
Ray 6 - The highest Light controls.
Ray 7 - The highest and the lowest meet.
W ords of power are an important
extension of the science of mantras—enunciated sound with spiritual
intent.
These words of power exist on all levels from the macrocosmic creation
of our solar system to the microcosm of the humble disciple who attempts
to verbally approximate some interior state of sound that is not yet
known subjectively. In the third of the six stages of building the
antahkarana bridge the student is given a word of power to enunciate on
the high mental plane. It is this word of power enunciated through an
act of will that drives the dual rays of the personality and soul and
their unique coloring up onto triadic levels.
The next quote by the Tibetan outlines some key insights into the
creation and use of words of power. It is particularly important to our
discussion about the vortex form which these words of power will assume
in their different qualities, potencies, and dynamics. The enunciated
word of power must be clothed in some type of divine or sacred geometry
or symbolic form. It is this divine form that qualifies and
characterizes the dual vortex-vacuum dynamic that we have expanded upon
in Dynamic Symbols 2.
"All the Words of Power are rooted in the Great Word committed to the Solar Logos at the dawn of manifestation.
All the Words of Power are permutations or expansions of the three basic
sounds, and increase in length as the planes are involved, until the
sentences and speech of the finite unit, man, in their myriad
differentiations are arrived at.
Therefore, on the path of return, speech becomes ever more brief, words
are more sparingly used, and the time eventually comes when the adept
employs formulas of words only as required to carry out specific
purposes along two lines:
Definite creative processes.
Specific direction of energy.
This, of course, on the planes in the three worlds.
The aspirant, therefore, has mainly three things to do when preparing for initiation:
To control every activity of his threefold lower nature. This
involves the application of intelligent energy to every atom of his
three sheaths—physical, astral, and mental. It is literally the shining
forth of the Brahma, or third aspect, of the inner God.
To control his speech every minute of every day. This is a statement
easily made, but most difficult to make practical. He who achieves it
is rapidly nearing emancipation. This applies not to the reticence, the
moroseness, the silence, and the voicelessness which often distinguishes
natures but little evolved, and which are in reality an inarticulate
condition. It refers to the controlled use of words to effect certain
ends, and the retention of speech energy when not needed,— a very
different matter. It involves a realization of cycles; of times and of
seasons; it supposes a knowledge of the power of sound, and of the
effects produced through the spoken word; it involves an apprehension of
the building forces of nature and their due manipulation, and is based
on an ability to wield mental matter, and to set it in motion, in order
to produce results in physical matter, consonant with the clearly
defined purpose of the inner God. It is the shining forth of the second
aspect of the Self, the Vishnu, or form-building aspect, which is the
prime characteristic of the Ego on its own plane. It would be well to
ponder on this.
To meditate, and thus arrive at the purpose of the Ego. By thus
meditating the first aspect comes steadily into greater prominence, and
the conscious will of the inner God can make itself felt on the physical
plane.
Every Great Word includes within itself its differentiations, its
expansions and permutations, and by its utterance the initiate sets in
motion the lesser, through the vibration of the greater. Hence the
terrific responsibility and the magnitude of the results achieved. Each
Word is committed to the initiate orally and visually. It is spoken to
him first in the form of seven syllables, each of which he has to
memorize as a separate Word. Then he is shown how to blend these seven
so as to make a threefold sound and thus produce more united and far
reaching results. Finally the three are blended into one Word which is
committed to him. The seven words which form the Great Word at any
initiation are communicated to the initiate by the initiates of equal
rank with his own. This group divides itself into seven groups,
according to subray or ray formation, and each group then chants one
word in rapid rotation. Simultaneously, the colors and symbols of the
various sounds pass in front of him, so that he hears and sees that
which is committed to him. The more advanced group around the throne of
office (the three Departmental Heads at the first two initiations, and
the Pratyeka Buddhas at the final ones) chant then for him the triple
Word which blends the seven, and again he sees it before his inner eye.
Finally the Initiator sounds it forth, and the initiate becomes aware
within himself, in practical experience, of the one great sound, and
knows in one particular center what its vibration is. As is well known,
every center is connected with some plane, scheme, ray, and other
septenary divisions, and thus the significance of its inner reaction
will be apparent.
The Masters and initiates, in their work of aiding the evolution of the
three worlds, concern themselves principally with the seven syllables of
the Word of their degree or initiated grade. The three Words which
blend the seven are seldom used except under the direct sanction of one
of the departmental heads (according to the syllable involved each Word
is directly connected with the triple AUM, and therefore with the
Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva aspect, of which the three Heads are the
Planetary representatives).
When any initiate desires to use, for evolutionary purposes, the entire
Word as a unit, the sanction of the assembled Lodge has to be gained,
for such a Word affects the matter of an entire plane within a planetary
scheme, and consequently the matter of those planes which are
subsidiary to the one involved. For instance, an initiate of the third
degree, in sounding the Word of his degree, affects the matter of the
lower mental subplanes, and subsequently the matter of the astral and
physical planes. An initiate of the second degree similarly affects the
astral plane, and subsequently the physical. Far reaching results are
thus achieved, and the work of many is thus affected.
Every Word, differentiated or synthesized, affects the deva kingdoms,
and hence the form-building aspects of manifestation. No sound is ever
made without producing a corresponding response in deva substance, and
driving multitudes of tiny lives to take specific forms. These forms
persist and carry out their functions just as long as the sound which
caused them is prolonged, and the specific will-energy of the one who
initiated the sound is directed towards the living form. This is equally
true of a Solar Logos enunciating the AUM, and thus producing the solar
system; of a Planetary Logos sounding his planetary Word, and producing
a planetary scheme; of an adept producing results for the helping of
humanity on the physical plane; and of an ordinary human being, who—in
much differentiated diversified speech—expresses an inner purpose or
state of mind, and thus builds a form or vehicle in deva substance. The
majority of human beings as yet build unconsciously, and the form
constructed is either of a beneficent or maleficent agency, according to
the underlying motive or purpose of the man, and will carry out his
will as long as its term of being persists.
Every Word sounded is distinguished by:
a. A specific colour.
b. A particular tone.
c. A special form.
d. A degree of energy or activity.
e. The nature of the ensouling life, self-conscious, conscious, or unconscious, God, man, or deva.
The student, again, will find this equally true of a solar system, of a
planetary scheme, of a human being, of a thought form ensouled by an
elemental life, and of the atom of the physicist or chemist. In the
knowledge of these facts, and in their conscious realization, may be
known the true occultist. The Solar Logos sounded forth a Word, the form
of our solar system came into being, its color being blue and its note a
particular cosmic musical tone. Its degree of activity is of a specific
mathematical notation beyond the grasp of the human mind at this stage
of development; and the nature of its great ensouling Life, that of the
triple Logos, is active, intelligent Love.
The Great Word of our solar system keys in, if it might be so expressed,
with other Words, and is but one Word of the sevenfold Word, known to
that great Existence who stands in the same relation to the Solar Logos
as the latter does to the Planetary Logos. The sacred Words of seven
solar systems (of which ours is but one) make up this septenary sound,
which vibrates at this time in the cosmic spheres.
In these nine statements are very cursorily summed up the major truths anent the creative processes in the solar system."
All words of power or group formulas given out by the Tibetan to his
students are approximations students will use until they are able to
ascertain these truths directly. At that point the formulas, words of
power, and summarizing propositions will be "self-ascertained" and
modified according to one's unique ray make-up and polarization.
There are passages in the Tibetan's works where he says different things
about the use of sound, and it is necessary to understand the context
in which he is making the statements. Referring to soul levels, he says
this in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire:
"Each Identity concerned proceeds to sound a WORD. This sound expands
into a mantram and the solar angels vibrate in response. There is a
point of interest to be noted here.
a. The first aspect works through a Word of Power.
b The second aspect works through mantric combinations.
c. The third aspect works through mathematical formulas.
Having sounded the Word the first aspect, represented by the electric
fire at the centre of the lotus, sinks back into quiescence, and becomes
an abstraction as far as the self-conscious unit is concerned. The
work has been begun, the necessary vibration has been set up, and the
whole process then proceeds under law. The solar angels have begun
their activity, and until their work has reached a very high stage, the
Spirit aspect must become, in the causal body, an analogy to the Silent
Watcher. As the solar Angels continue sounding out the mantram which is
the basis of their work, the lunar Pitris respond to certain sounds in
that mantram (not to all by any means at first) and gather out of those
sounds the formula under which their work must proceed. So the Word is
the basis of the mantram, and the mantram is the basis of the formula.
At each incarnation, finer forms are required, and the formulas
therefore grow more complicated, and the sounds on which they are based
become more numerous. In time, the formulas are completed, and the
lunar Pitris respond no more to the sounds or mantrams chanted on the
mental plane. This is indicative of the stage of perfection, and shows
that the three worlds have no more a downward pull for the jiva
concerned."
When the Tibetan's statements about words of power are gathered
together, they reveal that words of power also relate to other areas of
divine expression—i.e., the spiritual hierarchy, the level of the soul,
and even personality levels in which the initiate speaks verbally from
some deeper level of alignment in his esoteric statements.
Click to see larger image. Figure 7-1 The Great Invocation
The different stanzas of the Great Invocation are great mantric formulas
or words of power and are enunciated first on inner planes by the
Christ or Bodhisattva before they are grounded in the world of humanity
by a corresponding verbal and mental use on physical levels. Members of
the Hierarchy swell the power of the mantra by passing it through their
bodies of flame.
The Tibetan also states that he had to first enunciate a great word of
power before he could begin to coalesce the necessary energy to
initiate his advanced group work with which we are all so intimately
involved as students and disciples.
When the Christ overshadowed Master Jesus to carry out His high
purpose, many of the statements that he enunciated verbally on the
physical plane were words of power that came from a deep and divine
source. The purpose of the science of invocation and spiritual contact
is to create a direct and unimpeded line of descent from the highest
interior levels of sound and energy right down to the most mundane and
exoteric though the spoken word. This is why an initiate or master on
the physical plane can be said to "occultly save the lesser lives" he
has come to serve. It is because of the unbroken continuity of this
sound. A Master can enunciate a word of power that is first and foremost
a cosmic principle and later becomes a proclamation on the form side
that can help build a bridge for those who can listen and be attentive
to the greater revelation within. This bridge is essentially a
radiation or auric vibration of the inner vortex of the initiate's life.
When a high initiate or master of wisdom speaks on the physical plane,
his words will "be like fire" and have the potential to awaken the
latent seeds of love that exist within all of humanity and all living
organisms. There is much controversy surrounding the identity and name
of "the one for whom the whole word waits" and why he has failed to
manifest externally or publicly at this time. Perhaps the whole concept
of avatars and the externalization of the Hierarchy needs to be
reinterpreted in the light of a greater group dynamic or occult event in
which many will participate simultaneously. If humanity is destined to
become the savior of the planet, we must emphasize the power of the
group when we think of the doctrine of avatars, and not just an
individual person however advanced.
The consciousness thread which is attached to the head, the life thread
which is attached to the heart are the dual threads which when conjoined
with the thread of creative activity make up the completed rainbow
bridge. When seen in their more esoteric and expanded context they are
essentially threads of projected light that create the
dual-vortex-sphere. There are seven levels of the vortex sphere, one for
each of the rays and one for each of the planes. All seven of these
different levels of creative life will be connected by these energy
currents or threads. Eventually these threads merge into the One life.
Click to see larger image. Figure 7-2 Shamballa: The All-Seeing Eye
There are three parts to every rotating and cylindrical life on the
inner planes, which reflect the three aspects of deity: (1) the first
aspect which is the initiating Will hidden at the center; (2) the second
aspect which is the consciousness aspect, the divine builder, or the
light-bearing intermediary; and (3) the third aspect which is the
chalice-crucible-container that supplies the form to hold the other two
aspects temporarily
in time and space. All three of these interconnected aspects go into the
creation, sustaining, and eventual dissolution of all occult spherical
forms on the inner planes.
The various types of triangular geometric shapes and polyhedral forms
that are presented in Dynamic Symbols Part 2 are very important for the
advanced disciple to study, because they are the mediating link between
the second and third aspects or principles, and if properly constructed
according to certain occult standards become an invocative bridge that
can direct the student towards intuitive realms.
A properly constructed symbol that is first rendered on the high mental
plane and later infused with the soul's warmth and inner light can
contain both the second and third divine aspects in some variation. Any
sound—be it the OM, words of power, or some mantra—enunciated on the
high mental plane with prolonged intention will galvanize these three
principles into a spherical or toroidal form.
On soul levels we find there are seven egoic color-groups with their
unique notes. When one's unique soul note is known and blended with the
personality note, these two blended energies can be further driven by
the use of the meditator's will up onto triadic levels through the use
of their unique "word of power".
A "word of power" is an interior enunciation by the disciple within the
meditative state. The three upper triadic notes—atma, buddhi and
manas—must eventually become blended with the three lower notes of the
personality. This "word of power" used by the disciple at this point to
project his fused personality and soul rays up onto triadic levels
should not be confused with the great "words of power" that are used by
Cosmic or Solar entities to initiate some type of advanced work at the
beginning or end of some major cycle.
Looking from above down and following the descent of spiritual energy
and sound into the material realms we see that the seven egoic notes or
words will eventually descend into sacred languages such as Sensa,
becoming even further diminished in potency and power as they fragment
into a multiplicity of sounds.
One day color and sound, expressed or enunciated in a new way, will be
the most important component in communication on the physical plane. Why
is that so? Because color and sound are the closest approximations to
the seven ray lives or groupings as they exist on their own planes. (Read the descriptions of the Celestial Artisans in The Urantia Book.)
The sounding of the Om on the correct note, the use of "ray words of
power", and the use of ray mantras, although occupying somewhat
different places in the hierarchy of invocative work, all have one
common goal—to link the meditator, the invoking agent, via the creation
of a dual-vortex-vacuum first to the soul and later to the upper triad
and One monadic life.
It must be kept in mind that all of these seemingly diverse principles
that we have outlined in Dynamic Symbols 2 are intimately connected
through the matrix of sound and light and do not actually occupy such
separate places as may first appear by an analysis of the lower mind.
Nor should we think that these geometric shapes we have discussed are
actual physical things, as we understand the term, but rather geometric
patterns of exquisite inner light and beauty that are moving and
shifting all the time.
1. Beatitude
2. Active service
3. Realization
4. Perfection
5. All knowledge
5th
6th
5th
4th
3rd
It can be noted that we have not summed up the two
planes of abstraction on the atmic and the buddhic planes, the reason being that they mark
a degree of realization which is the property of initiates of higher degree [189] than
that of the adept, and which is beyond the concept of the evolving human unit, for whom
this treatise is written. We might here, for the sake of clarity, tabulate the five
different aspects of the five senses on the five planes, so that their correspondences may
be readily visualized, using the above table as the basis:
The First Sense - Hearing.
Physical hearing.
Clairaudience.
Higher clairaudience.
Comprehension (of four sounds)
Beatitude.
The Second Sense - Touch or feeling.
Physical
touch.
Psychometry.
Planetary
psychometry.
Healing.
Active
service.
The Third
Sense - Sight.
Physical
sight.
Clairvoyance.
Higher
clairvoyance.
Divine
vision.
Realization.
The Fourth
Sense - Taste.
Physical taste.
Imagination.
Discrimination.
Intuition.
Perfection.
The Fifth
Sense - Smell.
Physical smell.
Emotional idealism.
Spiritual discernment.
Idealism.
All
knowledge.
The idea of something being "formless" is a relative statement used by
members of the human kingdom when they attempt to describe those levels
of revelation that are simply unknown or outside their field of
reference and sensitivity.
All seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane must be composed of
some type of lighted substance however ethereal, transparent or
radiatory.
The Tibetan suggests to those who have the eyes to see that even
Shamballa situated on the high logoic plane still retains some type of
form however tenuous:
"It is a world of pure energy, of light
and of directed force; it can be seen as streams and centers of force,
all forming a pattern of consummate beauty, all potently invocative of
the world of the soul and of the world of phenomena; it therefore
constitutes in a very real sense the world of causes and of initiation."
(DNA2:293)
"Purpose itself is but energy released
within confines of the Council Chamber, there it must take shape. Behind
it looms that which has brought it into being." (The fourth point of
revelation.) (DNA2:348)
Figure 7-3 below gives some idea of this hierarchy of interconnected
sound. The cone-shaped images to the left of this chart are modified
from a chart taken from The Rays and the Initiations, and on
the right side there are some generic ideas about how they might relate
to the three spiritual principles (AUM) as sound and the different
initiations. The right side of this chart, which outlines the dynamics
of sound, should be taken only as an approximation.
Click to see larger image. Figure 7-3
Part 7a
Words of Power and the Vortex
First Ray: "I Assert the Fact"
Figure 7-4 What this "word of power" might look like as "linking light" or the "bridging radiance".
Click to enlarge.
"...you mentally utter this sound or word of power and visually attempt
to see it performing the esoteric miracle of bridge building..." (R&I:514)
To understand the first ray technique, the basic quality of the ray must be grasped. It
is dynamic. The point at the center is the First Ray of Power, and its technique is
never to move from the center but from that point to work dynamically. Perhaps the word
that would best express its mode of work is Inspiration. The Father inspires
response from the material aspect, or from the Mother if you like that symbolism, but it
accomplishes this by remaining immovably itself. From the point where he is, the Builder
(human or divine) works, not by the Law of Attraction, as does the second ray, but by the
Law of Synthesis, by a fiat of the will, based on a clearly formulated purpose and
program. You will see, therefore, that the first ray personality has to ascertain (as in
fact do all disciples) which aspect he himself is of a particular ray. It is not possible
for any disciple who has not taken the third initiation to ascertain his monadic ray, but
any disciple building the antahkarana, and who has reached the stage of projection, should
know his soul ray and his personality ray, and should remember that their fused or blended
potency must perform the act of projection. The energy of the Monad can be evoked, but
it results in a downpouring towards its working agent and it is not an act of
projection per se. The act of projection is the work of the "shadow and the
reflection." The Old Commentary says in this connection, when dealing with the
Word of Power for each ray:
"When
there is no shadow, for the Sun is clear, and no reflection for the water is no more, then
naught remains but the one who stands with eyes directing life and form. The threefold
shadow now is one. The three of self exists no more. The higher three descends and all the
nine are one. Await the time."
When,
therefore, the ray of the soul dominates the ray of the personality, then the self becomes
the acting agent, aided by the ray of the lower self. The rays of the three vehicles are
no longer active, but only the basic duality of soul and personality remains, and there is
no lesser differentiation.
In considering all these seven rays, I seek to do three things in every case:
Give the technique of projection. This technique falls into four stages:
The preparatory stage in which the consciousness becomes focused in the soul ray.
An interlude in which the projecting agent realizes with intensity the existence of the
"point of tension" and the finished product of the visualization process.
A focused activity of the will, according to the ray, in which a line of light or of
living substance is imaginatively and creatively sent out or projected from the mental
unit, as far as possible towards the Spiritual Triad, using constantly the creative
imagination.
This line of light (this strand or bridge) is then pictured as colored by the two ray
qualities, and it is held stably aligned in the light of the Spiritual Triad— not the
light of the soul. This corresponds to the much earlier stage of development in which the
mind was held steady in the light. The mind still is held in this manner, but the mind (as
the agent of the soul and the personality) is no longer quiescent, but itself
becomes an active holding agent.
Indicate briefly the effect of the Word of Power. When adequate stability has been
acquired, the disciple utters a Word of Power which serves to carry the light still
further on and up. When correctly uttered, this Word produces three effects:
It keeps the channel for the descending light of the Spiritual Triad clear of all
impediments.
It reaches (by means of its vibratory activity) the center of power which we call the
Spiritual Triad, focused temporarily in the manasic permanent atom, and evokes a response
in the form of a thread of descending triadal light.
It causes a vibration throughout the antahkarana which in its turn evokes response from
the "rainbow bridge" as built by all other disciples. Thus the work of
constructing the racial antahkarana is furthered.
I am here doing two things— speaking to you in symbols. There is, literally speaking,
no up or down or higher and lower, as you know, nor do any of the separative actions as
outlined by the occult sciences exist. Yet the truth has to be thus presented owing to the
mind consciousness of the disciple. I have also been giving in human terms the outline of
a process which, if adequately followed, will enable you to make real progress in the preparatory
understanding required by all who hope some day to take initiation.
This brings us to the third point, the nature of initiation. Initiation falls really
into three major expansions of consciousness.
The expansion of consciousness of the dedicated personality into that of the soul; this
is completely consummated at the third initiation.
The expansion of this fused and blended consciousness into that of the Spiritual
Triad, completely consummated at the fifth initiation.
The expansion of consciousness toward which the Masters are working, which is
consummated at the seventh initiation.
Students today have made much progress towards the control of the personality, and the
disciples in the world are now so numerous that the hierarchical emphasis is today upon
the states of consciousness which follow the third initiation. Hence the giving out to the
public of the teaching upon the antahkarana.
You will find below, in tabulated form, the teaching anent the six stages so that you
may have a visual picture of the intended process. The following of the process is, of
course, another matter and its success is dependent upon more than a theoretical grasp of
process. It is dependent upon your ability to live more definitely in the world of meaning
than hitherto, upon your knowledge of your soul and personality rays and upon your
capacity to focus in your blended consciousness, and from that point— holding the mind
steady in the light - utter the Word of Power which will carry your created thread of
light forward towards the Spiritual Triad.
Outline for Reflective Contemplation on Constructing
the Antahkarana
I. Points to have in mind.
This
work of construction concerns the handling of energy. Students should ponder upon the
distinction between energy and force.
It is dependent upon the use of the creative imagination. Students would do well to
reflect upon the relationship of the imagination to the intuition and of both to the mind.
The work of building the antahkarana must be done with as much conscious understanding as
possible.
II. The six steps or methods of building the Antahkarana.
Intention.
The achieving of right orientation
Towards the soul
Towards the Spiritual Triad.
A mental understanding of the work to be done is necessary.
A ring-pass-not of consciously gathered energies must be created and held in a state of
tension.
A period of clear thinking anent this process of Intention must be attempted.
Then follows the preservation of a point of tension.
Visualization.
The use of
the creative imagination or the picture-making faculty.
Response to
intuitional or buddhic impression.
Preoccupation
with two energies:
The energy held at a point of tension within the previously created ring-pass-not.
The active picture-forming energy brought into action by the mind of the builder.
Projection.
The calling in of the will through the method appropriate to the Ray of the disciple,
the soul ray.
The simultaneous preservation of three lines of thought:
Awareness of the blended personality and soul.
Awareness of the point of focused tension.
Awareness of the Ray energy in its will aspect.
The use of one or other of the seven Ray methods of projection, according to the Ray of
the disciple.
The use of a Word of Power.
Invocation
and Evocation.
The blended soul and personality are now invocative, and their united intention is
expressed in the previous three stages.
Then a response comes from the Spiritual Triad, which that intention, propelled by an
act of will from a point of tension has evoked.
Stabilization.
This is brought about by long patient use of the four previous processes and
followed by a conscious use of the antahkarana.
Resurrection
and Ascension.
This is the rising up of the consciousness out of soul and personality limitations (from
the angle of the Monad) and its passing into that of the Spiritual Triad.
Here I
would touch upon one important point connected with all Words of Power. I could give you
these words in their ancient Sensa form, but it would not be possible for me to teach,
through the medium of writing, their ancient and peculiar pronunciation or the note upon
which they should be sounded forth. This used to be regarded of supreme importance. Today,
disciples are being taught to work far more upon the inner planes of meaning and
not to depend, as heretofore, upon the outer activity of sound. Remember that you are not
creating now upon the outer plane. The physical sound or sounds are therefore of
relatively no importance. What does matter is the ability of the disciple to feel the
meaning of the Word of Power as he silently utters it. It is the quality of his
idea which will bring the right effect, and not the way in which he makes a sound with the
aid of his vocal cords and his mouth. Students have been taught that the AUM sounded
inaudibly and listened for, is of greater potency than when sounded audibly. This was
preparatory to the utterance of these Words of Power. They have been learning the
significance of the OM, even if they did not realize it. This was all in preparation for
the use of the Ray Words. It is the thought behind the form, the registered feeling anent
the words, and the understanding of their significance which are of importance; it is the
ability to think, to feel and silently to send out the call of quality to quality, of
meaning to meaning, of nature to nature, of form to spirit which matters, remembering ever
that that which is found upon the physical plane is not a principle. The physical
sound is not that which will lead to a successful building of the antahkarana. It is the
quality of a particular type of subjective nature (the soul ray as it dominates the
personality ray) which makes appeal to that which is still more subjective; that is what
in truth accomplishes the work. It should be borne in mind that from the angle of the
Spiritual Triad the soul nature is definitely objective. This is a statement of occult
fact which will be better understood when the nature of man (as taught in the occult
sciences) is admitted by thinkers, scientists and psychologists.
The point I wish to make is that no particular word is going
to be given by me, because it would be useless. The OM is useless to most people, even
though trained students may now be deriving benefit from its use. This general uselessness
is caused not only because people do not use the Word correctly, but also because, even
when using it they are not holding its significance firmly in their consciousness. So it
is with a Word of Power. Of what use would it be if I attempted to give the Word of the
first ray, which looks (when presented in its symbolic written form) something like this -
Ukrtapklsti? Certain sounds in this word-form are omitted because there is no way
of depicting them, since they are neither vowels nor consonants. Correctly sounded, the
above forms three words. But I can give, as far as possible, the English equivalent in
meaning, and it is this meaning which I ask you to have in mind as you mentally utter
the sound or Word of Power and visually attempt to see it performing the esoteric miracle
of bridge building.
The first ray disciple has, therefore, to meet the requirements to
the best of his ability and to follow the four stages of the technique of projection
(pages 489-493, 509). When he has faithfully followed this outlined routine, personality
and soul fusion has to be consciously attempted and to some measure achieved, and then
these blended factors are held steady in the triadal light. Another point of focused
intention is now brought about, resulting in a new and still more dynamic tension. In the
completed silence which results, the act of projecting the antahkarana is performed,
and it is then carried forward on the impetus of a Word of Power. The symbolism connected
with this lies behind the Masonic usage of the words, translated into English, "So
mote it be," uttered with the right hand stretched forth and signifying the embodied
will of the Lodge, itself a symbol of the Will and Purpose of the Most High.
The meaning of the Word of Power to be used at this point of accomplished projection might be summed
up in the words: "I assert the Fact." This is the nearest form I can
give you for the word-form earlier mentioned. A little deep reflection on these words will
show that if uttered with an understanding of their meaning, they are of terrific potency.
The disciple who utters them assumes and then asserts:
The Spiritual Triad is a fact.
The relation between the fused and blended personality and the soul is a fact.
The antahkarana is also a fact.
The dual expression of the basic duality of manifestation - personality or form and
Monad or Spirit - is a fact.
The will of the Monad is the factor to be evoked.
The knowing, purposeful One can be depended upon to contact the instrument of its will
upon the physical plane.
The work is
done.
This factual assumption is not faith, but knowledge and conviction, and upon this
realized conviction the disciple rests, acts and depends. It becomes an unalterable and
unchangeable attitude. The meaning of the above sevenfold statement will become clearer if
the disciple will ponder the distinction between faith and conviction. It is this divine
assertion which holds the universe in being; it is this divine assertion which is the
embodied summation of all knowledge and love, and the first ray disciple must begin to use
this technique, resting back upon his divine prerogative of assertion. Ponder on this
statement. It is the technique of Shamballa and the established right, prerogative
and privilege of all first ray souls.
The picture above is an attempt to visualize
this great sound—the first ray word of power—as it might be seen or
heard on the inner planes vibrating (Figure 7-4). The image may help to
stimulate the creative imagination of the occult student, who will then
pursue this highly arcane process or science under more internal and
subjective conditions. If students have some visual image upon which to
focus they can more easily transfer this highly arcane and esoteric
science up onto the higher subplanes of the mental plane.
The red elongated shafts coming down in a diagonal direction are actual
pictures of a blast of sound coming out of the throat of the percussion
instrument the trumpet. These physical sound waves have been converted
into a visible image through sensitive recording equipment. Any
enunciated sound, either on the physical or on the mental planes,
creates waves or vibrational frequencies that undulate in electrical and
magnetic waves. These waves will conform to the shape of the note or
the key sound in which they are enunciated.
It is interesting to see that the image of the trumpet blast looks very
similar to a sword, a symbol often associated with the first ray and its
method of work, which is destroying old forms or clearing a path for
the second and third rays to initiate their building work.
The trumpet symbology occurs in a quote by the Tibetan that clarifies
this advanced first ray work and its relationship to sacrifice and the
mystery of fire:
"It deals with the purposes and plans of the Silent Watchers over the
three planes—the five, and the seven; it deals with the dynamic force of
the great Destroying Angels on all the planes, who will
eventually—through the manipulation of the three forms of energy—bring
to an end all that is. These angels are a mysterious group of fohatic
Lives Who sound forth the trumpets of destruction, and by means of the
notes sounded produce that shattering which will set loose the energy of
forms." (CF:882-83) (Read more in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire)
Click to enlarge. Figure 7-5 Cross-section of a dual vortex looking from above down.
From this image of a first ray alignment we can see the law of analogy,
correspondence, or sympathetic vibration working out. Like attracts
like, and the greater responds to the demands of the lesser. The
meditator through the science of color and sound "projects" a "linking
light" or "bridging radiance" through the third stage of building the
antahkarana with a clear understanding of the different principles
involved in this unique ray technique. What is outlined here can equally
apply to the other six rays and their unique words of power.
The true sound signatures of this word of power or agent of the will
would obviously be vastly greater in potency and magnitude. Different
wave frequencies or vibrations in various geometric designs, colors, and
sounds might be seen issuing forth from the throat of the spiritual
trumpet depending on the ray invoked or enunciated.
Visually we might see this esoteric process as a dual vortex.
One vortex would be positioned on the bottom of the rotating sphere or
toroid and another on the top, producing something similar to the image
in Figure 7-5, when visualized looking down. When the two meet and blend
communication between the lesser and greater is consummated. These
vortices are the symbology behind the long horn of the unicorn we have
outlined and explained in Dynamic Symbols Part I Appendix IV titled "Trumpeted Words".
What is the long horn of the unicorn but a symbol of rotary
spiral-cyclic motion that climaxes in a searing point of piercing Will?
It is an inner trumpet out of the throat of which issues forth the
sounds of God's hidden Purpose, not language as we understand it, but
pure first subplane devic fire. Although we have placed particular
emphasis on the first ray trumpet sound form, the trumpet shape also
relates to one or other ends of the dual vortex. Therefore the vortex
trumpet design can be generally associated with any of the seven rays.
The Tibetan further elaborates on this science of invocation-evocation
through the esoteric use of sound, light and the creation of a vortex in
the follow excerpt. This same principle can be applied to the
individual or the group.
"Gradually the antahkarana is built and in this way the 'greater Light
and the lesser light' are consciously related. A path of light and
energy is established or created between these two divine aspects. As
time goes on, there appears in the egoic group what is technically known
as the 'linking light' or the 'bridging radiance' . . .
"The point of light shines forth. It waxes and it wanes. The point
becomes a line through the starting of a vortex and from the centre of
the whirling force; there comes a voice—invocative and clear.
"The One Who sits in silent work, alone and unafraid (because the part
is not alone and the group is unafraid) looks down, catches the light,
reflects the whirling force and hears the voice." (DNA1:714-15)
This flash interactive animation labeled "Particles of Light" reveals
many different important occult symbols brought together into one common
organic glyph. If the cursor is activated and slowly rotated over the
image we can see:
1. The point within the circle, symbol of originating causes and the
field of service through which any entity has chosen to work out its
will.
2. The sphere and the dual vortex, which is the entry and exit point of energy in all spherical lives.
In the center of the dual vortex is the central meeting place where the spiritual vacuum is created and white magic initiated.
3. How all spherical lives are composed of two vortices that can take
many variations of shape or size owing to their flexible nature.
Spiritual vortices and spheres, because of their ethereal and
transparent nature, can also clearly exist one within the other. A
lesser life, although existing independently from the main parent, can
coexist simultaneously within the body of this greater life. The forms
can nest, one within another.
4. The dual triangles, upper and lower fused into the dual tetrahedron,
the Morgan David glyph or six-pointed star. This helps to clarify
visually and through the recognition of energy how any upper triadic
life can be simultaneously connected to any lower triadic life for
perfect unification and continuity of consciousness.
Symbols of this potency are foundational for the occult student to
awaken the higher mind and intuition and to help one grasp the occult
path in its wholeness.
This initiating thread or bolt of fohatic will symbolized by the black
disk in the center of the illustration above, Figure 7-5, is impulsed
from the first aspect of deity. When this abstract and abstruse force
impacts the grosser and heavier substance of the third divine aspect a
spherical life is formed. The second aspect of deity or the love
principle is the radiance and the light-sound found at the heart of all
occult organisms.
The vacuum is the intermediate zone symbolized by the black disk that is
forming at the center of this image and is situated midway between the
invocative agent and the life or force it is attempting to contact and
evoke. Each ray will exhibit its own predominate color and sound
signatures during this magical act of alignment, as we have attempted to
demonstrate in our preceding image of the trumpet blast.
A spiritual vacuum is created when a ray mantram or word of power is
enunciated on the high mental plane and is analogous to an expanding
atom, shell, or bubble that is open at each end by a vortex.
We are told by the Tibetan that nature abhors a vacuum and into the
vacuum some type of force or energy descends or rushes, widening and
strengthening the communication between the two entities. This technique
is the apotheosis of bridge-building and will require a clear point of
focus by the personality in its image-making capacity.
The dual vortices and subsequent vacuum break down barriers through the
rotary and spiral-cyclic motion of its expanding walls. It expands into
wider concentric circles or bands until a mature sphere of some type is
created.
When the vacuum is formed between the personality ray and the soul ray
and later the dual rays of the personality and soul ray and the one
monadic life, liberation takes place. The intermediary or soul is no
longer needed and the man escapes the prison house of matter. This we
know is the result of 3 secondary vortices or vacuums created between
the lower triad of the personality—the concrete mind, astral body and
physical–etheric—and the upper triad—atma, buddhi manas. Eventually
these 3 lesser vortices fuse and become the great dual vortex between
the "spirit", the one monadic life, and the integrated and fused
personality, "matter".
Click to see larger image. Figure 7-7
This work is the epitome of alignment and is referred to as the
completed "rainbow bridge", because it is built out of all the seven
rays and their respective ray colors.
Under other conditions we are told by the Tibetan that the white
magician can also create a sphere or barrier composed of atoms that can
repel as well as insulate. A vacuum formation can create a barrier or
wall between different entities that must be separated during advanced
initiatory experiences. This is done out of the safety of the
participants in these advanced rituals and not out of any desire to be
separative or non-inclusive. The door of initiation is electrical in
nature and only those units of the human kingdom who vibrate in unison
with this door are allowed entry; all others are repelled.
Sound and light are the key agencies of all this advanced work and how
all facets of the divine from the highest to the lowest are connected.
As any ray life descends to the next lower level or plane it travels as
an enunciated sound. On the great path of return these sounds become
more powerful and expansive as the disciple is able to raise his or her
consciousness. The greater always includes the lesser but the lesser is
unable to comprehend the greater. These initiatory sounds, mantrams and
various words of power are held in secret by the various grades of
spiritual and hierarchical workers and only shared with those who have
made certain levels of progress and passed certain tests. These tests
relate to the assimilation of energy in its different types and grades.
Part 7b
Words of Power and the Vortex
Seventh Ray: "The Highest and the Lowest Meet"
Click to see larger image. Figure 7-8
"Build a temple of the Lord from which the Words of Power can issue forth and many prisoners go free."
(DNA2:337)
The Marriage of Shiva and Shakti
I t is impossible to clarify the great revelation
that awaits humanity when in group formation we undergo the great
lifting out of the tomb of matter and face for the first time the
awesome kundalini fire. This is the experience that awaits all disciples
who have purified the lower form, aligned with the soul, and let the
principle of love dominate their lives. It is an act or event of Identification, though the word is inadequate to describe this great expansion of the "Will-Life".
Suddenly slow and rhythmic expansions of consciousness are replaced with
an explosion of light that literally projects the initiate forward into
realms for which there are no adequate descriptions to qualify the
stupendous moment wherein one's whole nature shrinks or contracts before
the awesome spectacle of the first aspect of deity. This event
destroys for all times the last vestiges of man's attachment to the
physical world and connects the highest and lowest centers into one
burning expression of fire that then becomes lost in pure silence or the
darkness of laya that exists prior to all form life. This is the
culminating meaning of the seventh ray word of power, "the highest and
the lowest meet."
No one can say they have understood the true meaning of the Seventh Ray
Lord until they have first lifted the great serpent power from the base
of the spine center to the crown or thousand-petalled lotus. This is the
seventh heaven, the seventh seal or gate so often spoken of in vague
and cryptic terms by different mystical and metaphysical writers. All
occult training in its different departments and grades is a prelude to
this awesome lifting, the divine consummation wherein Shakti the great
feminine principle fuses with Shiva to rule as one over all creation
from their secret abode of electric fire.
Robert Oppenheimer, the famous nuclear physicist, helped recognize and
was responsible for the first release historically of kundalini fire in
the mineral kingdom. Upon first viewing the great thermo-nuclear
explosion of fire and light in the first atomic bomb at White Sands,
Nevada, he quoted the Bhagavad-gita when Krishna reveals his
true form to Arjuna, blazing with the light of "a thousand suns all
risen at once" and says: "Behold, I am Time, the mighty destroyer of
worlds, come forth here to annihilate the worlds." (See our Bhagavad-gita link page, for translations and resources online.)
The next statements are important from several points of view: 1) They
reflect on the physical plane the powerful transformation that awaits
all advanced disciples and initiates who have prepared themselves for
this great serpent uprising. 2) What James N. Rose and Robert
Oppenheimer say about symbols and their inner significance echoes one of
our themes regarding the power of symbolic language and how visual
symbols can have a reality on a higher plane of existence.
"When asked some years after viewing the first atomic bomb explosion, he
recalled that as he "saw" the billowing glowing atomic cloud of
radiation he was in fact seeing the second and third derivatives
(factors of mathematical Calculus equations) vanish infinitesimally.
His physical eyes were looking at one reality while his mind was
appreciating another perception just as conceptually real. Oppenheimer's
remark points up the vitality that words and symbols have on their own,
separate yet still connected via the realm of physical experience.
Symbols may stand in for physical reality but they are experienced on
their own and carry as much weight and importance as material things;
especially when we accept and enact the involved associations.
From The Integrity Papers by James N. Rose titled "The Wisdom of Robert Oppenheimer". (See the Conceptual Institute website.)
The key phrase in this paragraph is "when we accept and enact the involved associations."
"Energy follows thought." Visualization and the picture-making faculty
are required in every alignment or meditational form we practice, and
invite us to "enact the involved associations" and build the necessary
bridges from one body, one sphere, plane, or ray to another.
Here is a quote by DK clarifying the law of correspondence and how, by
creating links or bridges from one divine principle to another, a wider
and more expanded view can be grasped.
"We must resign ourselves to the fact that the only way in which we can
find the clue to the mystery of the rays, systems, and hierarchies,
lies in the study of the law of correspondences or analogy. It is the
one thread by which we can find our way through the labyrinth, and the
one ray of light that shines through the darkness of the surrounding
ignorance." (IHS:6)
Click to see larger image. Figure 7-9
Identification: The Divine Breath
10. Father-Mother spin a Web, whose upper end is fastened
to Spirit, the Light of the One Darkness, and the lower one to
its shadowy end, Matter; and this Web is the Universe, spun
out of the Two Substances made in One, which is Svabhavat.
11. It expands when the Breath of Fire is upon it; it contracts
when the Breath of the Mother touches it. Then the
Sons dissociate and scatter, to return into their Mother's Bosom,
at the end of the Great Day, and re-become one with her.
When it is cooling, it becomes radiant. Its Sons expand and
contract through their own Selves and Hearts; they embrace
Infinitude.
H.P.Blavatsky. Secret Doctrine I, Stanzas of Dyzan, Stanza III.
SD1.pdf Flipping books, archive.org: SD1, SD2, SD3, SD Index
The science of the breath is the science of laya yoga
and the supreme technique whereby man is taught to control all the
inner forces of his different bodies and sheathes.
There are many levels of pranayama. The first operates through the
seventh ray charging and distributing the etheric forces throughout
man's tiny system; the last operates through the first ray and has to do
with awakening the great and powerful kundalini fire. The divine word
of power is carried forward on the fire breath of God, and is the one
all-pervading sound that peals forth through the logoic plane.
When the disciple has done the preliminary work of soul infusion he will
learn the technique whereby he will fan the fires of matter until they
become combustible. Then the first and seventh rays will fuse and the
indwelling spirit returns to its source.
Only when the disciple can "stand in spiritual being" will he
understand the occult terms of divine indifference, identification, and isolated unity. Only when his "eye is single" will his body and his whole being be filled with light supernal.
When the individual breath of one's personal existence is relinquished
and one submits to the divine breath—or the divine breath takes over—all
the veils are rent and the serpent power will rise in all its glory
burning out the last of the hindering veils. All "directional sounds"
which constitute one or other of the seven cosmic paths of return for
humanity will first be found in the personality ray and the soul ray. It
is only when the greater light of spirit and the lesser light of matter
merge that all can be known.
When one's individual breath is relinquished to the greater breath of
the group life, then breath as we understand the term will cease, the
monad will absorb the spark, and silence will finally reign supreme.
Only those initiates who have learned the technique of "occult breath"
and "occult obedience" can know their existence has always dwelt in
another place outside of both time and space. Only then can we speak the
liberating "words of power" that will free the prisoners of the planet
and set ablaze in all human hearts the desire for inner growth and
spiritual realization.
In this regard the Tibetan has said:
"The will and the breath, my brother, are occultly synonymous terms. In
this statement you have the clue to the ending of maya.
God is the ONE WHO can withdraw and, in withdrawing, dispel, dissipate
and devitalize all that has been created—using those words in their
fullest significance." (GWP:245)
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