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A Treatise on White Magic - Rule Five - Heart, Throat and Eye
It is not possible for the aspirant to work with and utilize all these seven types of energy intelligently in the early stages of the Path of Discipleship. The emphasis, for training purposes, is laid upon only three of them. These are: 1. That of Will, strength or power, through the medium of the head center. This is the energy of the spiritual man, and comes directly from the Monad, via the soul. Up to the third initiation however, all that the disciple needs to grasp is that the will aspect of the soul should control the personality, via the mental [195] body to the head center. When this is the case the thousand-petalled lotus begins to function. The line of this stream of force is: Monad. Atma. Spiritual will. The inner circle of petals in the egoic lotus, the will petals. The mental body. The head center in the etheric body. The nervous system and brain. 2. That of love-wisdom, through the medium of the heart center. This center, when awakened, leads to that expansion of consciousness which initiates a man into his group life. He loses the sense of separateness, and finally emerges into the full light of realization - a realization of unity with his own indwelling God, with all humanity, with all souls in all forms of nature, and so with the Oversoul. This force stream comes likewise from the Monad, via the soul, and its line is as follows: Monad. Buddhi. Spiritual love. The intuition. The second circle of petals in the egoic lotus, the love petals. The astral body. The heart center. The blood stream. In the little evolved man, this force stream simply passes through the heart center direct to the solar plexus and expends its two aspects of vital life and of soul quality, one energizing the blood stream and the other awakening the solar plexus center. This then becomes the dominant factor in the energy life of the man, and the force through which his desire nature expresses itself, until such time as the aspirant brings [196] about the needed transmutation and reorientation of his emotional desire nature. Then the heart awakens into activity and the life of the solar plexus center becomes subordinated to that of the heart. This is brought about by the development of group interests, by the cultivation of inclusiveness and the steady loss of interest in the personality, and in things separative and selfish. 3. That of active intelligence, or the energy which animates the form aspect, and which creates forms in line with the subjective purposes of the presiding intelligence - God or man, human or divine. This also proceeds from the third aspect of the Monad, and the line of its contact is: Monad. Manas. Spiritual intelligence. The higher mind. The third or outer circle of petals in the egoic lotus, the knowledge petals. The etheric body as a whole, as it pervades the dense physical body. The throat center. The cells of the body. In the little evolved man, as in the case of the second aspect and its unfoldment, the energy simply passes through the throat center and goes directly to the sacral center, and thus brings into activity the generative processes and creative faculties, utilized in the reproductive work and sex life of the race. This is a broad and general outline of the three main streams of force or divine energy and their direction. The relationship of the head center to the base of the spine, where lies the sleeping fire, will not be considered here, nor will the function of the solar plexus center as a clearing-house for the lower energies be touched upon. [197] I am anxious for the students simply to grasp the general idea and the skeleton of the teaching.
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