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Discipleship in the New Age II - Personal Instructions to Disciples - P.G.C.
November 1948 MY FRIEND AND BROTHER: I have registered and then recorded on your ashramic chart your strong and constant effort to fulfil requirements as I have presented them to you in my last two communications. Particularly have you - in this incarnation - mastered the lesson of occult obedience. Have you ever realized that occult obedience - correctly understood and applied - is the royal route through the astral plane, particularly in connection with glamor and with sixth ray tendencies, to the very heart of the Hierarchy? People are apt to regard obedience as the carrying out of rules and orders, imposed upon them by some authoritative source. This, as you well know, is not the case in any true hierarchical training. Obedience, for the disciple, is a quick spiritual reaction to the Plan as it emanates from the Hierarchy, rapid and correct sensitive registration of the quality of the Ashram with which he may be affiliated and a consequent and in time almost automatic undertaking (with speed) the required task. It is a task which [587] the disciple assigns to himself and is not one ordered by the Master. The acceptance of the task is simply evidence that the disciple is an ashramic worker, pledged to the welfare of humanity. You are, as I feel sure you know, in process of shifting your entire Polarization in preparation for your next incarnation. When that comes, you will renew your service with a first ray astral body, provided, of course, you have in this life reduced the usually obdurate sixth ray tendencies and are controlling them. This you are doing with real success and I have no question in my mind as to your ultimate success. I seek to change your rhythm of work. I asked you - as you know - each Sunday to have in mind all the members of the personal group with whom I have worked with the aid of A.A.B. Did you realize, as you carried out my request, that I was seeking the aid of your one-pointed attitude to reality? Or that I needed the assistance of some of the disciples in my Ashram in producing a consolidation and integration within the Ashram itself? It is a new Ashram; there are only three as new as is this one. I realized that it needed a more closely knit relationship within the ashramic aura of some of its members; such a relation is brought about by the construction of the needed thought-form. I would recall to you and to your group brothers that an Ashram is in reality a dynamic spiritual thought-form, vitalized by the Master of the Ashram and by the initiates and disciples associated with it. The initial structure and consolidation is now concluded and I can assign other work to you. Your work must now be more closely related to the Christ. I refer not here solely to the preparation work in which you must all be engaged; I refer specifically to the Christ himself, as a living Individual, attentive to the reactions of disciples who possess sufficient strength of purpose, clarity of intention and dedication to enable them to touch the periphery of his aura (referred to in The New Testament as "the hem of his garment"). By this statement I do not mean the aura of the Hierarchy. You are all of you already sensitive to that to a greater or less degree, for his quality impregnated the entire aura of the Hierarchy. [588] I mean his individual aura. A disciple has "the freedom of the Hierarchy" (as it is called) and can now make this attempt to reach within the individual aura of the Christ; success is entirely dependent upon the disciple's persistent but non-fanatic (or do I mean frantic, brother of mine?) and selfless effort. Make this attempt each morning for just five minutes, but not for a longer period. I can in this case give you no instructions; you will eventually find your way alone, as must all disciples. Those who are seeking to attain the degree of Master have - at some definite stage of their training - to make this attempt. A line of contact must eventually be built, and those of you who are now disciples in my Ashram can begin to make the needed effort. It will bring its own difficulties, such as over-stimulation and the arousing of glamor but - if you are watchful and alert - you can soon become aware of it. This must suffice for today, my loyal friend and brother. There is much to do. Proceed with the work to be done, following the light which is in you and which will increasingly generate more light.
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