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Discipleship in the New Age II - Teachings on Meditation - Part XIII
Part XIII In my last instruction I made the statement that meditation was the major creative agent in the universe. There are other universes that are ahead of us in development and, in them, the emphasis may not be upon creation by use of mental energies; others may not be so advanced and, in them, mental energy may be in process of unfolding or expressing itself - in the evolutionary sense. There are also universes and solar systems where the quality and the conditions of the manifesting universe, solar system or planet are unknown to us. It must be borne in mind that though in all manifestations the three aspects (of purpose or will, attraction [208] magnetic love or plan, and appearance as manifestation of both of these) are necessarily present, the manifesting Entity (responsible for these expressions of divinity) may work through and "occultly declare" conditions and qualities of which we have no experience or knowledge. We may possess utterly no idea in the highest flights of our abstract thinking (and this includes the most advanced thinkers upon our planet) of the nature of the impulses and concepts which animate certain universal Creators. Ponder on this. I also pointed out to you that there are three major groups of meditating agents who act as intermediaries between the three groups of Self-conscious Lives upon our planet, and also between our planet and that which lies behind and beyond it and with which our planetary Logos has intimate and intensive relation. I am not, however, going to deal today with that which is extra-planetary; it would be, for you, sheer waste of time. I will deal with the theme of meditation as the agent of the creative process Now, and with the part meditation must play in the preparation for the coming of the Christ and the inauguration of the new civilization which is so definitely on its way. There are, as you may surmise (if you have read my instructions intelligently), seven phases of the creative meditative process; all of them are productive of the required results. All that at present exists in the three worlds and in the higher spheres is the result of some form of meditative activity. These seven sources are: 1. The planetary Logos himself, who formed and informed the world by his thought, and who holds all together within his Mind for the many, many aeons of manifested existence. As I have before said, the occult truism that "God thought, God visualized, God spoke and the world was made and is sustained" remains eternally true. 2. The Group which is the higher correspondence of the Nirmanakayas. This group sustains and cooperates with the planetary Logos in his concentrated creative thought; its Members are the agents for attracting - through the potency of their meditation - those extra-planetary energies [209] which he needs to carry forward his vehicle of expression, the planet, and thus to bind all together into one great created whole, tending ceaselessly to the greater glory of God. They wield the Law of Synthesis and hold steadfastly (in the universal Mind of the Logos) the ultimate result of the divine Will-to-Good. 3. Shamballa, with its life and intention focused in the Council Chamber of the great Lord, Sanat Kumara. Here is known and embodied the Purpose of the planetary Logos under the meditative impression of the group which knows his will and which wields the Law of Synthesis. In the hands of this august Council, the Law of Karma finds adequate planetary guidance; this does not refer to the law as it affects the individual human being because of such individuals the Council Members have no knowledge, for the reason that they think and meditate only in terms of the whole; but they know the nature of planetary karma and of its delayed or rapid application, according to transient planetary indications. The great Wheel of Life, with its passing manifestations and its recurring civilizations, is directed by them; the manifesting kingdoms in nature, great cyclic expressions of life, are controlled by them, and all this is produced through the potency of their creative meditation which impresses the needed inspiration (another phrase for the breath of life itself) upon the Nirmanakayas and through them upon the spiritual Hierarchy. Their link with all these planetary groups (and it is real and vital) can be grasped in the key statement that "all Lives upon or within the aura of the planetary Logos and of his manifested Body, the Earth, have been, are or will be in the future human beings, thereby establishing and demonstrating their past, present or future identity with humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature." This kingdom is the planetary group or center which expresses in time and space all the divine aspects - sometimes in latency and sometimes in potency. Here lies the clue to the entire mystery of divine guidance, and here is also to be found the guarantee of the divine Will-to-Good. [210] 4. The Nirmanakayas, the divine Contemplative. This is the receptive group which receives impression from Shamballa in relation to the planetary creative purpose. Then they, on their own level of atmic activity, build - through contemplative meditation - a vast reservoir of potent energies which are impregnated with the qualities of the seven energies of the seven planetary Rays. They are the Custodians of life, under the direct inspiration of the Buddhas of Activity, and they spend the aeons of their planetary service: In active contemplation of the divine Purpose. In a developed receptivity to that aspect of the Purpose which must be expressed through the medium of the divine Plan, and thus presented to the Hierarchy. In developing that spirit of sevenfold receptivity which will make them a channel for the inflow of ray energies from Shamballa into the Hierarchy. Their united aura or area of influence and the extent of their magnetic and dynamic radiation correspond roughly to the aura of the planet itself; they contain (within their ranks) Members who are identified with the Lords of the seven Rays. They are, in a peculiar sense, the creative agents of life as it streams forth from Shamballa into all the aspects, areas, kingdoms and fields of manifestation. This they are enabled to do through sustained, concentrated, intensive and dynamic meditation. They are necessarily a second ray group (as the second ray is the ray at present of the planetary Logos) but they focus their meditation largely along first ray lines (which is a subray of the second ray in this solar system, as you know) because they are the creative agents of life itself and the knowers and the custodians of the will of the planetary Logos, as it works itself out in manifestation. They are the source in reality [211] of planetary invocation and evocation. Again, ponder on this.
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