The science of
the Antahkarana is probably the most
important science of the coming time
but this talk will not claim to cover
the whole subject of the Antahkarana
or the science of its use.
This is a science which is, as yet,
unknown to humanity but it will be
the coming science of mind of the New
Age, the science of building the
bridge between lower and higher man,
and also a number of other bridges:
between the members of the human race
as a whole; between one Centre --
Humanity -- and another, Hierarchy;
between Hierarchy and Shamballa;
between Humanity, through Hierarchy,
and Shamballa; and between this
planet and other planets, this solar
system and other solar systems. All
these bridges and connections are the
result of the correct use of the
science of the Antahkarana, which
will be the major educational field
for humanity in this coming age.
The best way to study the Antahkarana
is to read the Alice Bailey
Teachings, in particular the book
Education in the New Age, and further
references in The Rays and
Initiations. You will not get from
this talk, or from the Alice Bailey
Teachings, the technique of the
science of the Antahkarana. That is
something which, as far as humanity
as a whole is concerned, lies well in
the future. It is a gradual process
of enlightenment for humanity, but it
will become the major science -- the
science of evolving as a race and
making the inner connections (which
of course already exist but which
have to be consciously built by the
man or woman in incarnation), to
weave the thread of return to the
source from which we have originally
come. It is really the science of the
Path of Return.
For long ages, the soul on its own
plane looks down at its reflection,
the man or woman on the physical
plane, and sees no way to interfere
with its development. There is very
little the soul can do except create
a body, give it its various physical,
astral and mental make-up, and leave
it to get on with the job of
evolution.
Eventually, there comes a life -- a
series of lives in fact -- in which
the soul sees that its reflection,
the man or woman, is beginning to
respond to the influence of the
energy which connects the soul to its
reflection, and the process of
ëensouling' begins.
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ìThe
Antahkaranaî is, above all, the
thread of consciousness. It is
the result of the interaction
of the life with the form, with
substance, with matter; that
produces something entirely
different. We call it
ìconsciousnessî. We can also
call it ìthe Christ Principleî.
It is the process of evolution
itself. |
Each individual is really threefold:
the Monad, or spark of God, the
impersonal Self which reflects itself
on the soul plane as the
individualized human soul or ego. The
soul, again, reflects itself on the
dense physical plane as the man or
woman in incarnation. That is the
ëway down', the process by which
spirit involves itself in its polar
opposite, substance. When the spirit,
or life, aspect and the matter aspect
come together, a third, the
consciousness aspect, is born. ìThe
Antahkaranaî is, above all, the
thread of consciousness. It is the
result of the interaction of the life
with the form, with substance, with
matter; that produces something
entirely different. We call it
ìconsciousnessî. We can also call it
ìthe Christ Principleî. It is the
process of evolution itself.
Those who study
anthropology, the history of
evolution on the physical plane --
the evolution of forms -- know that
in the beginning there were great
oceans, teaming with life, nothing on
the land, and then gradually some of
the more evolved animals -- fish,
reptiles of all kinds -- came on to
the land and became the early
reptiles and mammals. Gradually,
there evolved a prohuman type which
eventually became early, animal man,
separating itself from the animal
kingdom. With the germ of mind --
which could become the nucleus of a
mental body -- at last formed, the
human race began. This is denied by
Christian fundamentalists and other
orthodox religious groups who deny
the reality of Darwin's theory of
evolution, but esotericists accept it
as a more-or-less accurate account of
the growth of the form, the evolution
of form, on this planet. We are not
concerned with that; we are
concerned, as human beings evolving
back to our source, with the
evolution not of form -- which has
come more or less to perfection
(though there are some minor
adjustments and improvements still to
be made) but rather with the
evolution of consciousness. The
evolution of consciousness is the
basis of how we become aware of
ourselves and our environment, and
create together the evolution of the
human race.
| Gradually, there evolved a
prohuman type which eventually
became early, animal man,
separating itself from the
animal kingdom |
The descent from Monad to soul and
from soul to personality has to be
re-enacted in reverse order. The
threefold man -- physical, astral and
mental -- has to find his way back by
a process of at-one-ment, first with
the soul and then, through the
spiritual triad -- the reflection of
the Monad -- with the Monad itself:
the threefold monadic Being. That
return journey, or the process by
which that return journey is made, is
through the creation, the gradual
evolvement and building, of the
Antahkarana. This is a conscious
process and only occurs in stages. As
the process downward has been slow,
over millions of years, so the
process back can be a long, drawn-out
process, and for the vast majority of
humanity so it is.
We are in the second of a threefold
solar system. In other words, this
solar system is the second embodiment
or manifestation of the great
Heavenly Man we call the Solar Logos
Who has a Plan for the evolution of
all the forms in the solar system.
The first solar system expressed
through matter, substance, the
quality of active intelligence. It
was concerned mainly with the
intelligent creation of forms. We are
in the second of this threefold
expression in which the soul quality
-- the love or consciousness aspect
-- of the Logos is in process of
being expressed. The Solar
Antahkarana is being built by the
Solar Logos and by all the forms,
whether they know it or not, who have
evolved from the first solar system
and are now creating the bridge
between that system and this one,
and, eventually, between this system
and the next. The next solar system
will be concerned with the Will
aspect, the Monadic aspect, of the
Solar Logos. When the correct bridge
between these three expressions is
built, the Solar Antahkarana is in
place. This will lead to the
culmination of the Plan of our Solar
Logos in its threefold expression.
Each solar system creates a body of
expression at a higher level than the
one before. The first -- that to do
with form, with substance -- is, of
course, preparatory to the expression
of the soul. It is the soul, in all
forms, which incarnates. By
descending into form, the soul --
actually the Monad, the spirit
aspect, through the soul -- begins a
process of redemption of the soul in
form. It begins to spiritualize
substance; the underlying purpose of
our incarnational experience is,
precisely, to spiritualize the
substance of this particular solar
system. When we have taken the
substance -- the forms created in the
previous solar system -- and
energized it with the energy of the
soul, the consciousness aspect, in
this solar system, we will raise it,
redeem it, heighten its vibration and
bring it up to the level at which the
Will, the Purpose aspect of God (in
terms of our Solar Logos), can be
expressed.
In this present solar system God is
Love, Love is the aspect of the soul,
Will of the Atmic level of being. In
the next solar system God will be
Will and Purpose. We are, all of us,
as microcosms, evolving in precisely
the same way as the macrocosm, our
Solar Logos, through its threefold
expression, works out its Plan of
evolution in every kingdom and in
every planet.
In coming into incarnation,
therefore, we are doing something
quite extraordinary, something far
greater than we as individual human
beings possibly realize. But as soon
as we do realize the
interconnectedness of the microcosm
with the macrocosm it deepens our
sense of purpose -- the sense of
reality -- in life, and it is also a
stimulus to concentrate more, and to
build a direct line of ascent between
this low-level (for that is what it
is) expression of Deity and bring it
into line with the underlying purpose
of Deity for its perfectionment.
The energy of each solar system is
raised and becomes the basis for the
new system, just as in our
incarnational experience every
incarnation creates an expression
through the vehicles up to a certain
vibration. That vibration is held
exactly at the point we have reached
when we die.
There are three ëpermanent atoms'
around which the new bodies,
physical, astral and mental, are
formed. These permanent atoms vibrate
at exactly the frequency reached in
that particular life, and we can
understand, therefore, how the
vibrational rate reached is the
degree to which we have perfected, or
spiritualized, matter. The soul
infuses the matter of the three
bodies with its energy and in this
way salvages, redeems that matter. It
raises their vibration onto an
ever-higher level until the point is
reached when the soul is reflecting
itself, without resistance, directly,
through the personality. That is how
we become divine. We do so by raising
the vibrational rate of the substance
of these three bodies to a point
where the Divine Man, the soul on its
own plane, can reflect itself
relatively purely through its
reflection, the man or woman on the
physical plane. That is the
evolutionary, the return process; the
technique of it is the science of the
Antahkarana.
Sutratma
There are two major threads which
connect the Monad, through the soul,
with the man or woman in incarnation.
One the Sutratma, the thread of life,
is anchored in the heart. It comes
directly from the Monad, reflected
through the soul, and is fixed in the
heart centre at the right-hand side
of the body. It is reflected through
that etheric centre to the physical
heart and into the bloodstream,
which, as you know, is the purifying
stream which carries the energy of
life to every part of the body. While
the lifeblood is pumped correctly
through the body and is kept free of
poisons, the physical body displays
all its ability and accuracy of
movement and expression. So, too, the
connecting body, the astral-emotional
body and the mental body are
dependent on the life thread, the
Sutratma, for their existence and
correct function. There is another
thread, called, indeed, the
Antahkarana. This thread in anchored
in the centre of the head, and
through these two threads the
threefold expression -- Monad, soul
and physical-plane man or woman --
live their lives. These two threads
inform all of these and, in a
downward flow, bridge the gaps
between, first, Monad and soul, and
secondly between soul and its
reflection, the man or woman on the
physical plane.
Eventually, a third thread is built
by the man or woman him/herself
through the interaction of soul
energy, and eventually, monadic
energy, through the physical
apparatus: the thread of creativity.
These three threads wound together
eventually produce the bridge between
the three levels of existence.
The future science of the Antahkarana
will concern itself with this, the
path of return. This will be the New
Age education. Individuals will be
recognized for what they are, souls
in incarnation; their point in
evolution and ray structure will be
ascertained and known; through this
science the gaps between the various
levels of our being will be bridged.
This is only possible now that the
human race has reached the present
state and, of course, because of the
return to the everyday world of the
only people in the world who actually
know this science: the Masters.
Since the Masters are returning this
will become an exoteric science. All
children, from the earliest age up
until 28, will eventually go through
this process of education in the
science of Life -- the science of
building the return channel, or
pathway. I would like here to show
the inner unity of method and
approach of certain terms.
The antahkarana is the bridge built
-- first out of mental matter and
later out of light -- by the evolving
aspirant, disciple and initiate, in
turn. Until a certain time, the
connection between the man or woman
and the soul plane is developed by
the control of ëmentation', the
energy of the mental body. It brings
the mental body under control and the
thought-patterns create a bridge. The
Antahkarana is, therefore, in the
first place, a bridge connecting the
lower man, the lower mind, with the
soul, and then the lower mind,
through the soul, with the higher
mind which is the lowest aspect of
the Spiritual Triad. This is Atma,
Buddhi and Manas -- the reflection on
the soul plane of the threefold
Monad, or spark of God.
Path of Return
There are different terms for this
and I would like to bring all of
these together to show the unity and
interconnectedness of these different
methods of expressing what is
essentially the one process, the
return journey: the Path of Return.
The mystic thinks of the Path as the
Path to God. He thinks of it
generally in terms of his religious
or mystical feelings and experiences,
his mystical religious beliefs,
doctrines, and dogma, his various
spiritual practices, the various
rituals -- all of these to the
mystical and devotional type
constitute a way of approaching God
through belief, a linking in
consciousness between the individual
man's belief structure (whether that
be Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, or
whatever) and that which lies back of
all creation. The religious person
sees that as the Path of Return --
and of course that is perfectly true,
it is. But not everybody is
religious, and the Path of Return, to
the esotericist, is a path which,
literally, is made by the disciple
himself. The disciple makes the Path
by becoming the Path. It is not
something which is already laid down
and is whispered into your ear. It is
not like that at all. It is the
evolutionary process itself. It is
that same process which brought the
fishes out of the sea onto dry land,
from which they evolved into, first,
reptiles and then mammals and then
the huge variety of animals and
eventually, at the peak of that
development of form, the human
kingdom. Above the human kingdom is
the Kingdom of Souls, the kingdom
whose nature is consciousness. The
plane of consciousness is the plane
on which the Masters have hitherto
worked exclusively. The Path of
Return is the Path by which the
consciousness of what is and what
might be gradually becomes known to
the seeker, the evolving individual.
In other words, as you seek, as you
aspire, you create before you -- as
DK says: the ìspider creates out of
his own being the silken threadî --
so, in exactly the same way, the
aspirant, the disciple and the
initiate are creating before them the
Path of Return, the Path which is not
yet laid down. It is the path of a
growing awareness of what constitutes
his/her relationship to the whole. It
is a means by which we grasp deeper
and deeper realizations and
experiences of our connectedness to
the whole, to the Macrocosm. This is
done by a growing expansion of
consciousness.
These expansions of consciousness are
marked off on our planet by the five
planetary initiations. For the adept
there are also four Cosmic
initiations. Above these, and on
throughout Cosmos, are initiation
after initiation upon initiation --
on and on eternally, throughout the
whole of galactic space. All of that
is a process by which, through the
building of the Antahkarana, our
individual relationship to that
totality gradually dawns on us.
The
Antahkarana Painting
by Benjamin Creme
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The Antahkarana is not a ëform'. Here
you have a form which is called ìThe
Antahkaranaî. It is a lithograph made
from one of my paintings, and it is a
purely formal and symbolic
representation of the Antahkarana.
The Monad reflects itself in the soul
as the Spiritual Triad: spiritual
Will, spiritual Love-Wisdom and
spiritual Intelligence, and these are
again reflected in the physical being
by the soul. The process by which
this takes place is the Antahkarana.
In this lithograph, the lower shape
represents the threefold human being;
the white connecting column is the
symbolic representation of the
threefold thread of the Antahkarana;
and the pale-yellow shape at the top
represents the soul itself.
This lithograph is not the
Antahkarana; the Antahkarana is not a
form. Most people thinking about the
Antahkarana, because of the nature of
the language used, inevitably imagine
a bridge. That bridge is built in,
first, mental substance and then
light, and so they visualize a
physical bridge. An artist has to do
so, of course; one cannot paint a
picture without a form. The artist
has to create out of his creative
imagination a form which will
symbolize a process, but the form is
not the process, it is simply a means
of expressing the idea of the
process.
Anyone who does Transmission
Meditation knows about alignment.
When that alignment is perfect,
symbolically speaking there is a
column of light above the head of the
meditators. In that light there are
three threads, strands, of energy.
That is the form, but it is not the
Antahkarana. We must realize that the
form and the idea of a bridge, the
idea of a column of light, the idea
of some actual form in substance, is
only a way of stating something else.
What we are really talking about is
awareness.
Awareness, in a sense, is a vague,
generalized way of talking about the
process of return. We return through
a gradual expansion of conscious
awareness, through the conscious
building of the Antahkarana. This is
created firstly in mental matter,
between the personality and the soul,
and then by the initiate -- who has
already contacted and come into a
close at-one-ment with the soul -- in
light, between the soul and the
Monad, the highest aspect of our
threefold being. Then the
connectedness eventually is direct
between the Monad -- the divine
being, identical with God, the
reflection of our Planetary Logos --
and the man or woman on the physical
plane. By this process our Planetary
Logos works out His Plan of evolution
through the human kingdom, and of
course in the same way the Solar
Logos is working out His greater and
vaster Plan through all beings on all
planets in this, the second, solar
system. This process will be
completed in the third solar system,
in which the Monadic aspect -- the
Will, the Purpose, the essential Love
of God -- will come to its final
expression and fulfilment.
Each of us, right now, is engaged in
creating the Antahkarana. Another
term for the Antahkarana, besides the
bridge of light, is Self-realization,
which is what Maitreya calls it: ìI
have come to teach the art of
Self-realization,î He said. The art
of Self-realization is the science of
the Antahkarana: they are one and the
same.
Maitreya has said that the simplest,
most direct path is to practise three
things: Honesty of mind; sincerity of
spirit, and detachment. These three
bring about Self-realization, and
they do so by enabling the man or
woman to create the Antahkarana. For
the vast majority of people in the
world this is a process which goes
on, up till a certain time, quite
unconsciously. Most unevolved
individuals are connected only by the
Sutratma, the life thread, coming
from the Monad through the soul and
anchored in the heart. Average
humanity are connected also by the
thread of consciousness, the
Antahkarana, and as the person
evolves through the building of the
first stage of the Antahkarana --
that between the lower man and the
soul -- the energies of the soul
become available to him or her.
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ìThe
Antahkarana is not simply a
column of light but threads of
awareness spreading outwards
from the individual into every
sphere of his environment.
These threads of awareness
multiply endlessly, until in
the Master, they make for
omniscience: nothing can happen
anywhere of which He is
unaware.î |
Then the creative process begins.
This stimulates the mind and the
creative imagination, and a life of
creativity and of service ensues.
Creativity and service are one and
the same; service is the life of the
soul creatively expressed on the
physical plane. This, then, dominates
more and more in the life of the
individual, and so we get the
creation of culture. It is not by
accident that the culture of any
nation is created by the disciples
and the initiates of that nation;
they are the ones who have already
built the first stage of the
connecting link, the bridge, between
themselves and their soul.
The initiate, having achieved an
integration of the three lower
vehicles, physical, astral and mental
-- that is, having brought them to a
point of synchronous vibration, takes
the third initiation; the soul,
henceforward, controls and dominates
its vehicle, which is now negative in
relation to the purpose of the soul.
The divine man or woman displays his
or her divinity on the physical plane
in a life of service and creativity.
The third-degree and the
fourth-degree initiate is usually in
incarnation for only one or two
lives, depending on astrological
factors. But having taken thousands
of lives to the first initiation, and
perhaps five or six to the second,
the third is taken very quickly, and
the fourth very quickly after that,
probably in the next life. Therefore,
by the time a person has reached the
state of true creativity, is more or
less soul-infused and expressing the
purpose of the soul, he or she does
not have long in which to do this;
only three or four lives at the most.
Then, as a Master, the whole of this
existence is dedicated to the service
of the Plan. Of course, the more one
evolves the more one knows. The more
one knows, the greater the
responsibility of service, and the
greater the opportunity for service.
The Masters can serve because They
know. Our service is limited, not
only because of lack of desire or
energy, but because we do not know
enough; we can serve in a rather
limited way because our consciousness
is limited. The more conscious one
is, or the higher the level of
consciousness, the greater the number
of threads of consciousness extending
outwards to the world, the greater
awareness there will be of the nature
of reality.
These are the Antahkarana, which is
not simply a column of light but
threads of awareness spreading
outwards from the individual into
every sphere of his environment.
These threads of awareness multiply
endlessly, until, in the Master, they
make for omniscience: nothing can
happen anywhere of which He is
unaware. In this way we reveal the
mind of God, become instruments in
the furthering of the Plan held in
the mind of God. That, really, is the
basis of initiation.
When you know consciously, through
the building of the Antahkarana, how
to link the different levels of
expression -- Monadic with soul, soul
with the physical (on the downward
path) -- when you know this science
because you have done it, and done it
consciously, when you are a Master,
you can use this science to create
the Mayavirupa, the self-created
body. The Mayavirupa reverses the
process of the Antahkarana. It is the
result of the ability to create a
body because you know the connecting
links between the form. A
God-realized Master experiences
Himself as God in this physical body.
For us that physical body is the
closest, most important, aspect,
whereas for the Master it is only a
transitory aspect of the whole. From
His God-realized state, the Master
can go backwards down the bridge, the
Antahkarana, can repeat the process
and bring together, therefore, matter
of the mental, the astral-emotional
and the etheric physical plane, and
precipitate His consciousness into
that. That is the secret behind the
creation of the Mayavirupa. The new
world religion, when developed, is
really the creation of the ëracial'
Antahkarana. Maitreya has said the He
has not come to build a new religion,
to create followers, and so on. This
is true. Nevertheless there will be
what we have to call, for want of
another name, a new world ëreligion',
but it will be the science of which I
am speaking. The new world religion
will be a conscious approach by the
human race to the Creator, that which
stands back of creation -- which, of
course, is also ourselves, the
essential part of ourselves as the
Monad. This will be done through the
creation of the racial, group,
Antahkarana. The growing experience
of aspirants and disciples of working
in groups is a preparatory step
towards this great racial grouping,
to the creation of the ëworld'
Antahkarana. Eventually the
Antahkarana links not only peoples,
but planets and solar systems. This
is the essential nature of Being
throughout Cosmos. All that is higher
reflects itself through a lower
vehicle. This threefold expression is
to be found throughout Cosmos. At our
human level, we experience it
consciously, because, as souls, we
are the ìSons of Mindî. Through the
expression of the soul, the
consciousness aspect, that awareness
takes place by which the racial
Antahkarana can be built.
As a Being, as
a race, as one big grouping of all
peoples, all religions, all types and
points of evolution, there will be
eventually a conscious approach to
Deity, especially at the three
spiritual festivals in April, May and
June and also at the nine other
full-moons. This will constitute ìthe
new world religionî, or the technique
of the new world religion, in which
invocation will replace the present
process of worship. We can see
therefore that it will be a very
scientific religion -- it will be
very difficult to distinguish between
what we call science, religion and
education. This is also the education
of the New Age. Children will be
trained in the creation of the
Antahkarana. The science of the
Antahkarana will be taught -- in so
far as it can be taught, because it
is an experiential thing -- to those
ready to receive the tuition. Of
course, that does not mean all
children, but for those more advanced
aspirants, for those who are
preparing for initiation, this will
become the norm. No initiation is
possible for anyone without the
building of the Antahkarana. Indeed,
it is precisely the building of the
Antahkarana, the link between the
lower man and the soul, which makes
initiation possible. Eventually, the
link between the integrated lower man
and the soul makes possible the
higher initiations in which the
at-one-ment is with the Spiritual
Triad, and, through that, with the
Monad. Then the process is complete;
the Godlike man, the God-realized or
Self-realized man, has achieved: he
is a Master.
The Antahkarana is not only the
bridge between the different
fragments of ourselves, it is the
bridge between the worlds: planetary,
systemic, and galactic.
The key to the formation of the
Mayavirupa is found in the right
comprehension of the creation of the
Antahkarana. It is important to
remember that as these bridges are
built the vitalizing process goes on.
It is not simply a question of
building a bridge; it is through that
bridge that the stimulus from the
higher levels takes place.
Three major sciences will dominate in
the New Age: the science of the
Antahkarana, the science of
meditation and the science of
service. The science of service
utilizes the creativity which is
achieved through the building of the
Antahkarana, and the science of
meditation, of course, is a
preliminary process leading to, and
essential to, the creation of the
Antahkarana through its science. So
the science of the Antahkarana is
very broad indeed, including that of
meditation and of service.
The vitalizing agency is, first of
all, the soul. The soul opens up on
the personality level the Knowledge
petals in the crown chakra and
vitalizes them; this stimulates the
thought processes and galvanizes the
man or woman to further creation of
the bridge, the Antahkarana, between
itself and the soul. Soul at-one-ment
gradually takes place, and when this
has gone a certain distance
initiation leads to the opening of
the Love petals, and eventually, as a
man or woman approaches the third
initiation and that is taken, the
opening up of the inner three petals
which enclose the ìjewelî, the ìjewel
in the heart of the lotusî, which is
the Will aspect.
The Monad reflects more and more in
the man or woman on the physical
plane, dominating, therefore, the
life of that individual. In this
process, what was simply emotional
aspiration gradually transforms
itself into the Monadic will: the
purpose of the life is known. This
leads to lives of true value on the
physical plane, no time is wasted,
the individual knows his or her
purpose in life and gets on with it
without the wastage of time and wrong
thought, wrong action, and delays
which occur lower down the line. He
discovers the value, uses and
purposes of the creative imagination.
This is all that remains to him
eventually of the intensely active
astral life lived for so many lives.
The astral body becomes a mechanism
of transformation -- desire
transformed into aspiration,
aspiration into a growing and
expressive intuitive faculty.
The intuitive faculty emerges when
true soul contact is achieved, when
the bridge between the personality
and the soul is of such a constancy
and intensity that what was simply
emotional aspiration is transformed
into a direct linking with the higher
aspect of which it is a reflection,
the Buddhic aspect of the Spiritual
Triad. Our astral-emotional body, in
terms of evolutionary purpose, is
meant to be, and eventually becomes,
simply a still, reflecting vehicle
for Buddhi. Buddhi is true intuition.
It is essentially, group
consciousness; intuition is another
name for group consciousness. It is
the Buddhic, the Love-Wisdom, aspect
of the Spiritual Triad. Buddhi
eventually reflects itself directly
through the astral mechanism as
intuition: we know, because we know,
because we know. There is no thinking
about it; it is a direct, spontaneous
response to Buddhi, using the
purified astral nature as the medium
for that intuitive response. The
Antahkarana produces this,
inevitably.
There is a relationship between the
science of the Antahkarana and
Transmission Meditation. Transmission
Meditation is a fusion of two Yogas:
Karma Yoga, the Yoga of Service, and
Laya Yoga, the Yoga of the Chakras,
the energies. Essentially, the
Antahkarana is concerned with the
force centres, the chakras, because
it is through the scientific,
manipulation of the energies in the
chakras, the correct stimulation of
these chakras, that the Antahkarana
is built. One can say that the
science of the Antahkarana is the
science of the chakras. The sciences
of the future -- of the Antahkarana,
of meditation, and of service -- are
linked. One leads to the other:
correct meditation leads to the
building of the Antahkarana; correct
building of the Antahkarana leads to
the life of service -- correct
service, directed by soul purpose.
The knowledge and creativity of the
soul is consciously put at the
disposal of the individual who
scientifically builds the
Antahkarana.
Transmission Meditation is a
fusion of two Yogas: Karma
Yoga, the Yoga of Service, and
Laya Yoga, the Yoga of the
Chakras, the energies |
Since
Transmission Meditation is a fusion
of Karma Yoga and Laya Yoga, what the
Masters are actually doing in the
Transmission Groups around the world
is creating a group Antahkarana. It
is being done for us. The average
time of real alignment, and therefore
of correct transmitting, in any hour
is about three-and-a-half to four
minutes. It is only because
Transmission Meditation is so potent,
so scientific, that it is valuable to
do even these three-and-a-half
minutes. Because of its extraordinary
potency, because of the pure,
scientific nature of Transmission
Meditation, these three-and-a-half to
four minutes have an extraordinary
value for the world and an
extraordinary value for the people
doing it. We are gradually having the
Antahkarana built for us -- it is a
gift. The Masters are serving us,
spoon-feeding us. The Antahkarana is
being created at an extraordinary
rate; so much so that, if people are
around the 1.5 mark -- between the
first and second initiation -- and in
reasonable health and youth, it is
perfectly possible to take the second
initiation in this life; not because
of any particular effort being made,
either in building the Antahkarana or
in service to the world, but simply
by sitting enough times in
Transmission Meditation, keeping the
attention at the Ajna centre, for the
Masters to help create this channel
of light between the different
aspects of our being.
This is an extraordinary thing that
is happening in the Transmission
Groups, and it is one of the major
reasons why people in these groups
make such extraordinary advancement.
Those who have been transmitting for
the last 10 years, say, are far more
advanced than they could possibly
have been. They may not realize it,
but the Masters do; They measure and
register it, and They know those who
are ready, in this incarnation, to
take the second initiation (most
people doing Transmission Meditation
have taken the first). This is only
possible because of the exigencies of
the time which at the same time
presents to the aspirant and the
disciple an opportunity for service
through Transmission Meditation. It
cannot be overemphasized how valuable
this is proving.
What is being built in the connecting
thread, the channel between the
different aspects of oneself, is a
Path of Return to the Source, the
Monad. We are the Monad, which
reflects through the soul as the
physical-plane personality. We are on
the Path of Return, redeeming the
matter of our various bodies,
physical, astral and mental. That
redeemed, spiritualized, matter
produces, in the next solar system,
matter of a higher rate of vibration.
And so the evolution of the body of
the Planetary Logos proceeds; we are
all involved in that individually and
for the planet, for the solar system.
That is why we are here. As one grows
and evolves one deepens one's
consciousness of that reality. The
Macrocosm, as we begin to intuit its
nature, to experience it through
conscious awareness, tells us that
that is the reality, and, more and
more, we lose the sense of the
separate self. It is said: Lose
yourself in service. The process by
which we do this is the building of
the bridge. It results in the
creativity of service: creativity is
service, service is creativity. It is
the nature of the soul in the three
worlds to express itself in some form
of creative service, and as we do
this we lose sense of the separate
self. We deepen our experience of the
Macrocosm and realize that that and
ourselves are one. That is the
growing experience of the man or
woman who builds the Bridge, who
creates that unity with the soul.
Then the soul becomes in a singular
life a reality. Beyond all
controversy, all gainsaying, we know
that we are the soul.
It is not simply a theoretical or
intellectual idea, we know it as part
of our being, and we know eventually
that the soul itself is a light
within an even greater light, a fire
within an even greater fire. That
fire has consciousness -- that is the
nature of the soul, and the person
making contact with the soul
eventually realizes that it is a fire
within a greater consuming fire,
which is Deity itself. It says in the
Bible: ìGod is a consuming fireî.
That is the reality.
The soul is a great, fiery vortex of
forces which are reflected on the
lower planes as the man or woman in
incarnation. That is what we are: a
reflection of these fiery forces, and
the bridge that we build -- the
Antahkarana -- back to the soul and
eventually back to the Monad is the
path by which these forces become
available to us. They stimulate the
mind, the intuition and the creative
will, and our life as initiates,
knowing initiates, in the process of
life, takes place.
|
ìIt is the
nature of the soul in the three
worlds to express itself in
some form of creative service,
and as we do this we lose sense
of the separate self.î |
More details
about the
the Antahkarana
may be found in
Maitreya's Mission, Vol. III,
by Benjamin Creme, pages 448-484.
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