Substance is the bottom of Spirit
Right this moment we have fun the seventh of the 12 Festivals of the brand new world Faith, the Full Moon of Most cancers, the pageant aimed toward asserting the Will to spiritualise Substance and at greedy and understanding, by means of the consciousness of the Disciple-Humanity, the Thriller of Substance. [1]
One of many elementary postulates of the Secret Doctrine is that the Thoughts and the Consciousness pervade the entire of Nature. To ensure that a cosmogonic concept to grow to be full and comprehensible, it should take as its start line a primordial substance unfold all through the extension of infinite area and of an mental and divine nature. This substance have to be soul and spirit on the similar time, the synthesis and the seventh precept of the manifested cosmos, and to function a religious foundation for it the sixth precept is required, its automobile, the bodily primordial matter, so to talk, though its nature should without end escape our restricted regular senses. The inventive impulse begins with the awakening of the cosmic Ideation, of the Common Psychological, collectively and parallel to the primordial impulse of cosmic substance, the latter being the automobile of the previous. The Absolute Knowledge is then mirrored in its conception which, by means of a transcendental course of superior to human consciousness and incomprehensible to it, is reworked into cosmic vitality. Vibrating throughout the inherent substance, cosmic vitality pushes it to exercise and directs its first differentiations … (Roberto Hack, Preface to the Italian version of The Secret Doctrine, 2007)
… precosmic root-substance (Mulaprakriti) is that facet of the Absolute which underlies all the target planes of Nature. Simply as pre-Cosmic Ideation is the basis of all particular person consciousness, so pre-Cosmic Substance is the substratum of matter within the varied grades of its differentiation. Therefore it is going to be obvious that the distinction of those two facets of the Absolute is crucial to the existence of the “Manifested Universe”. Aside from Cosmic Substance, Cosmic Ideation couldn’t manifest as particular person consciousness, since it is just by means of a automobile of matter that consciousness wells up as “I’m I”, a bodily foundation being essential to focus a ray of the Common Thoughts at a sure stage of complexity. Once more, other than Cosmic Ideation, Cosmic Substance would stay an empty abstraction, and no emergence of consciousness might ensue. The “Manifested Universe”, due to this fact, is pervaded by duality, which is, because it had been, the very essence of its Existence as “manifestation”. However simply as the other poles of topic and object, spirit and matter, are however facets of the One Unity through which they’re synthesized, so, within the manifested Universe, there’s “that” which hyperlinks spirit to matter, topic to object. This one thing, at current unknown to Western hypothesis, is named by the occultists Fohat. It’s the “bridge” by which the “Concepts” present within the “Divine Thought” are impressed on Cosmic substance because the “legal guidelines of Nature”. Fohat is thus the dynamic vitality of Cosmic Ideation; or, regarded from the opposite facet, it’s the clever medium, the guiding energy of all manifestation, the “Thought Divine” transmitted and made manifest by means of the Dhyan Chohans, the Architects of the seen World. Thus from Spirit, or Cosmic Ideation, comes our consciousness; from Cosmic Substance the a number of autos through which that consciousness is individualised and attains to self – or reflective – consciousness; whereas Fohat, in its varied manifestations, is the mysterious hyperlink between Thoughts and Matter, the animating precept electrifying each atom into life. (Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine. Cosmogenesis)
Everlasting Fireplace fills all our bodies, and thru them is unified with the upper fiery vitality. In such a fashion is the Common sap labored again and again. This mysterious, ever self-regenerating substance can’t be named in any other case. Thus the whole lot manifested serves for the renewing of the Everlasting Substance. […]. (Agni Yoga Collection, Fiery World II § 400)
Existence is the substance of Actuality
In our Photo voltaic world, the One Existence is Heaven and the Earth, the Root and the flower, the Motion and the Thought. It’s within the Solar, and is as current within the glow-worm. Not an atom can escape it. Due to this fact, the traditional Sages have properly known as it the manifested God in Nature. (Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine. Cosmogenesis)
Buddha taught that the primitive Substance is everlasting and unchangeable. Its automobile is the pure, luminous ether, the boundless, infinite House, Not a void ensuing from the absence of types, however quite the opposite, the inspiration of all types…. [This] denotes it to be the creation of Mâyâ, all of the works of that are as nothing earlier than the uncreated Kind [Spirit], in whose profound and sacred depths all movement should stop for ever. (Helena P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine. Vol. III)
“… the whole lot which exists evolves (from the bottom type of life on the densest level of concretion as much as the very best and most tenuous manifestation)… all types are however the expression of a stupendous and divine Existence…” (Alice A. Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fireplace, Foreword)
When humanity will come to grasp the Cosmic Oneness, the cosmic development can be affirmed. The chief job of humanity is to unite the world of matter with the world of spirit. […] (Agni Yoga Collection, Infinity I § 360)
Now, immersed within the Mild of this nice Thriller, allow us to flip the gaze of our hearts to what unites Most cancers to this Mild.
Most cancers is the door of the zodiac consonant with materials nature and the mom of types, with potential, identical to the opposite, Capricorn, is consonant with the spirit, father of all that IS, with success.
In Most cancers the impulse to precise and the processes of the incarnation impose themselves.
On this Signal of delivery and technology, the entire query of Rebirth is contained, that mutual magical and magnetic relationship between the shape facet of life and life itself.
Most cancers conveys, within the present precessional cycle, the energies of the 3rd and seventh Ray, linked to energetic Intelligence, Order and ritual Magic; the threerd Ray connects it to Libra and Capricorn; the 7th Ray connects it to Capricorn and Aries, all cardinal Indicators. The zodiacal influences of those Indicators pulsate all through the created universe, since they specific above all life or spirit, greater than the soul (Fastened Cross) or the character (Cellular Cross). The cardinal Cross issues specifically that “mysterious essence which is the divinity in movement.”
The Moon (non-sacred 4th Ray), exoteric ruler of this Signal, and Neptune (6th Ray), esoteric and hierarchical ruler, are an emblem of the intimate relationship between the Mom of all types and the God of waters whom, with out kind and with out fascinated by the necessity to react sensitively to the setting and the circumstances, the soul might by no means know within the three worlds, and due to this fact it might by no means know God in manifestation.
The Moon locations Most cancers in relation to 2 different indicators, and a triangle is shaped: Most cancers-Virgo-Aquarius. The mass consciousness, the Christic and the common consciousness are positioned in shut and mutual relationship, by means of Neptune, that the Moon veils. The collective consciousness of Most cancers is sublimated into the group and common consciousness of Aquarius, the ultimate conquest in direction of which humanity is hierarchically guided by the Moon that veils Neptune.
The shape and the decrease psychic nature produce the battle floor whereon these two “face within the ultimate battle” their greater correspondence, the soul and spirit, for matter is spirit at its lowest level and spirit is matter at its highest. In these phrases you have got the true clue to the Most cancers-Capricorn relationship. When to those potent influences is added the drive of the seventh ray (producing a synthesis of expression upon the bodily airplane) and of the third ray (producing intense exercise in matter) you’ll notice how on this signal all of the energies involved are likely to carry concerning the incarnation of the soul within the three worlds of expertise and human expression.
Collective sensitivity and identification with kind and types are the primary attribute of Most cancers. The constructing of ample types and the use and management of kind are important if there’s to be smart and proper cooperation with the Plan of God… The shape facet and the psychic nature attain an eventual concrete perfection in Capricorn to grow to be once more in Most cancers the perfectinstrument of service which the provoke wields as he seeks to render mass service as a substitute of being concerned and misplaced within the mass.
The keynote of this signal could be expressed within the Biblical phrase “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters”…
In Most cancers, God breathed into man’s nostrils the breath of life and man turned a dwelling soul. In these phrases, you have got established the relation which exists within the thoughts of God between spirit (the breath of life) the soul (consciousness) and man (the shape). (Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, pp. 340-313)
The animating precept of Life is Breath. The alternation of the Breath triggers the Movement, the spiral of Life from which originates that Vortex or fiery helix by means of which the Spirit penetrates the Substance. The ability of the Spirit is thus centred within the Germ, the very important embryo.
After we talk about Spirit and Matter, we should always take note of the upper which means of Matter. However talking concerning the liberation of Spirit, we consult with these manifestations which could be known as materials life models. It have to be recognized that in talking about these unifications underneath varied types a downfall of the spirit is known. For the spirit, being made manifest in matter, should aspire to the upper features along with matter. Matter is impelled to creativeness which provides rise to types of life. And the spirit should know particularly how sacred is the sojourn in matter… It’s tough to dissociate Spirit from Matter. (Agni Yoga Collection, Fiery World III § 304)
[…] Individuals wish to see matter in the whole lot, and they’re proper, however provided that they acknowledge its many states and properties. The very phrase “matter” is an effective one and is akin to the good idea of Maternal Matter. At current, within the age of the Mom of the World, one ought to pay particular consideration to all that’s associated to this magnificent Basis. Moreover, it must be understood that it’s this idea of matter that features all doable properties of the substance out of which all is born. It’s mentioned that matter is crystallized spirit, however one may say it otherwise, as a result of the whole lot, beginning with the subtlest energies, is matter. It could be a fantastic limitation for one to disclaim the precept of the one elementary vitality, for by doing this he may even deny matter. What then would such an ignorant particular person have left? It’s time to return to the phrase “matter” its true which means… Certainly, it’s fantastic to review matter and its relation to the evolutionary course of. That is the one acceptable scientific strategy. […] (Agni Yoga Collection, Supermundane § 638)
The weather are spatial substance, which may neither be weighed nor measured, and semi-amorphous crystals after they take the type of so-called elemental manifestations. The essence of the unmanifested spirit saturates the substance of area. It’s mentioned of an individual that he’s born and he dies. About an elemental spirit one can say that it flashes forth and goes out. The consciousness of a manifested spirit pierces the substance of the weather like an arrow, and like a magnet it gathers that molten substance… the state of the substance of area, which is being permeated by mixtures of latest rays, is making it doable for the New Period to start. Every little thing that’s Good must be gathered. (Agni Yoga Collection, Leaves of Morya’s Backyard – Illumination § 232)
In Most cancers we’re pushed to rise from the mass through which intuition holds us again and to develop instinct as a substitute, which can allow us to ascend. Non secular instinct is that extension of consciousness, that extremely developed sense of consciousness that provides the disciple the imaginative and prescient of latest fields of relationship and opens up a brand new world of being. The issue of all disciples is to make use of their intuition accurately, in addition to to make use of their mind effectively, thus placing themselves in relationship with the world of human concepts and analysis. They have to repeatedly be taught to lastly carry this means to the “temple of the Lord” and see it rework into instinct there, thus changing into conscious of the issues of the spirit and of these religious realities that neither intuition nor mind can disclose to them.
On at the present time of the Full Moon, [2] ideally united with all those that in each time and in each place try to realize the ‘great thing about elevation within the core of the Spirit’, we invoke and evoke the
Will to spiritualise Substance
which, by means of the esoteric ruler Neptune, expands within the consciousness of the Disciple-Humanity:
The Thriller of Substance
Certainly all sub-divisions (spirit, soul, greater or decrease Manas) are in actuality solely varied qualities of the identical elementary vitality of fireside, life or consciousness—the very best facet of which is psychic vitality. Due to this fact, with a purpose to attain the Fiery World—the world of the upper spirituality—we’ve got to transmute or sublimate the fires of our nerve facilities as much as their seventh state… The entire of cosmos is constructed upon the septenary precept, due to this fact, every vitality, every manifestation consists of in itself its septenary scale of pressure and refinement. (Letters of Helena Roerich § September 3, 1935)
Sublimation is the spiritualisation of substance
This sublimation of the decrease life into the upper is one in all deepest second to the person and to the race. As soon as the person disciple, and humanity as effectively, symbolising the world disciple, have mastered the method of transference on this respect, we will see the brand new order of particular person service and of world service established, and due to this fact the approaching in of the awaited new order. (Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Therapeutic, p. 127)
On this sense, the evolutionary, just isn’t the emotional physique itself however a sublimation of the etheric, as that in flip is however the sublimation of the inorganic chemical? As we progress on the Path of Return, will we not however successively “collect up our our bodies inside us”, elevating every into the Mild of the following one above, and isn’t this the which means of tradition, training, refinement, purification? Is just not that the non-public work we should always consistently be at, and is it not what’s symbolised, in Roman Catholic Doctrine, by the Assumption by the Christ of the physique of the Virgin Mary, His Mom, into Heaven? (Alice A. Bailey, Discepleship within the New Age II, p. 622)
[…] The target types exist for the use (and expertise) of the religious man. By meditation upon this, arises the intuitive notion of the religious nature.
[…] the aim of kind is solely to allow the self to contact worlds in any other case closed to it, and to develop full consciousness in all components of the Father’s kingdom, and thus reveal as a totally acutely aware son of God. Via the shape, expertise is gained, consciousness woke up, school is developed and powers are unfolded.
[…] as this reality is grasped intellectually and meditated upon interiorly, consciousness of 1’s id with the religious nature and one’s distinction from the shape is developed. One is aware of oneself in fact to be, not the shape however the indweller, not the fabric self however the religious, not the differentiated facets however the One alone, and thus the good means of liberation is carried ahead. One turns into what one is, and one accomplishes this by means of meditation on the clever soul, the center facet, the Christ precept which hyperlinks the Father (spirit) and the Mom (matter).
[…] The one who experiences, who incarnates and who achieves divine expression by means of the medium of kind is the soul, the self, the religious acutely aware man, the Christ inside. When by means of this expertise he has achieved maturity, he reveals the Father or spirit and so fulfills the phrases of Christ, when He mentioned (in reply to Philip’s query “Lord, present us the Father”), “He that hath seen me hath seen the Father” (John XIV). (Alice A. Bailey, The Mild of the Soul, pp. 320-321-322)
Thou, spirit, striving to the Creator of Cosmos, flip to the Mom of the World. Proclaim what thou seest. House is revealed as manifesting the utmost creativeness. The immensity of House and the inalienability of the cosmic forces enrich the kernel of our being. The levers of evolution are the best energies which can grow to be the possession of males… When you’ll perceive methods to fly within the kernel of the spirit, then you’ll talk with the upper worlds. Be taught to grasp all of the grandeur of flight within the kernel of the spirit! (Agni Yoga Collection, Infinity I § 22)
Past the strata of earthly ideas move the currents of the solar’s knowledge, and in these realms begins the good Educating ordained. We name you to the encompassment of the Universe. However it is just the instrument of consciousness that may make doable new experiments that mix spirit and matter. (Agni Yoga Collection, Leaves of Morya’s Backyard, Illumination §105)
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[1] On this 12 months 6.1, the primary of a septennium devoted to the Concept of a New World Faith, we intend to have fun the dates of the full moons, the sacred “doorways” of alignment and synchronization between the three celestial symbols of manifestation, human (Solar/Soul, Earth/Character, Moon/Our bodies) and planetary (Planetary Hierarchy, Humanity, decrease Kingdoms), associating them with 12 Mysteries and Concepts/Formulation, equivalent to the causal energies of every Signal of the Zodiac, by advantage of the truth that, in keeping with the esoteric perspective, the Coronary heart of Heaven is the Nice Grasp of Masters.
“The sequence of the Mysteries which every of the indicators of the Zodiac embodies can be clarified for us by the Christ, as a result of the general public consciousness right now calls for one thing extra particular and spiritually actual than trendy astrology, or all of the pseudo-occultism so broadly extant.” (A. A. Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ, p. 127).
[2] Right this moment there’s additionally the conjunction, in keeping with the heliocentric perspective, of our photo voltaic Angel Venus, Lord of the Golden Relationship and of the Thoughts, and Uranus, the Initiator to the Mysteries and Lord of Order, that unites the very best with the abyssal, in Taurus, the Signal which holds the key of the Mild that reveals the Sound. And from this encounter a strong impulse arises which results in the sublimation of substance by means of the perfection of Kind.
