2|00:00:05|940|00:00:10|360This is Michael Robbins, and I'm talking here in 3|00:00:10|860|00:00:14|600the Temple of Silence, which is our 4|00:00:15|100|00:00:18|920temple, Tuya's and mine, and in 5|00:00:19|420|00:00:23|720the Northern Light Society. Hopefully someday you'll be able to come to Finland 6|00:00:24|220|00:00:28|540and meditate with us in some of the events that we hold 7|00:00:29|040|00:00:33|660here.

I'm going on now, having completed the 8|00:00:34|160|00:00:37|580compilations I was using for the third initiation and 9|00:00:38|080|00:00:41|660the second initiation. And yes, there is always more to 10|00:00:41|980|00:00:45|260say. I will be working 11|00:00:45|340|00:00:48|420now on the first initiation, 12|00:00:48|920|00:00:52|390going backwards a little bit, I think. But this is 13|00:00:52|630|00:00:57|030the birth of the Christ in the heart. The centre, 14|00:00:57|430|00:01:01|110of course, is the heart. Centre is always involved because 15|00:01:01|610|00:01:05|750we're bringing in the energy of Buddhi into the causal body increasingly 16|00:01:06|070|00:01:09|910with each initiation and into the vehicles 17|00:01:10|410|00:01:14|430of the personality. The energy of love is entering with 18|00:01:14|930|00:01:18|400each initiation.

So the birth of the heart, 19|00:01:20|800|00:01:24|560the birth in Bethlehem, the birth of the Christ in 20|00:01:25|060|00:01:28|640the heart, that's the first. The baptism or purification is the second 21|00:01:29|140|00:01:32|959initiation. The transfiguration, illumination or 22|00:01:33|459|00:01:37|040enlightenment — Satori, you know, that's the third 23|00:01:37|540|00:01:41|120initiation. The fourth initiation is the crucifixion 24|00:01:41|620|00:01:46|220or the Great Renunciation. The fifth initiation is 25|00:01:46|720|00:01:50|340sometimes called resurrection, but it's not. It's the Revelation. 26|00:01:51|060|00:01:54|020That is the term D.K. gives for it. 27|00:01:54|660|00:01:57|860The sixth initiation is the Great Decision. 28|00:01:58|580|00:02:03|420And the seventh initiation is the true resurrection onto 29|00:02:03|920|00:02:07|300the highest levels of the cosmic physical plane. And then we go on to 30|00:02:07|800|00:02:11|940initiations which are normally not taken within the confines of our 31|00:02:13|070|00:02:16|550particular planet. Let's see.

32|00:02:17|050|00:02:19|150I don't want this to be too loud. Oh, maybe it's too soft. 33|00:02:20|030|00:02:23|270All right, I'll try it that way. Okay. 34|00:02:23|770|00:02:27|230Hopefully that's reasonable. Not sure, but we'll see.

35|00:02:28|750|00:02:32|510Eighth initiation, which gives you sort of a back-and- 36|00:02:33|010|00:02:36|190forth relationship with the cosmic astral plane — called the transition. 37|00:02:36|910|00:02:40|590And the ninth initiation, the refusal, the great refusal. 38|00:02:41|440|00:02:45|160And that locates you permanently on the 39|00:02:45|660|00:02:47|760cosmic astral plane and beyond. 40|00:02:49|040|00:02:52|720At least it's the beginning of the travels to whatever 41|00:02:54|000|00:02:57|920plane the particular path 42|00:02:58|420|00:03:01|120upon the way of higher evolution leads.

43|00:03:02|240|00:03:06|860So the leading of 44|00:03:07|360|00:03:11|300these paths — there are now nine of them, and we cannot say 45|00:03:11|800|00:03:15|500what the next two will be. But interestingly enough, there are 46|00:03:16|000|00:03:19|460seven major Pleiades, and all paths eventually end in 47|00:03:19|960|00:03:24|100those seven and probably are focused in one of the seven 48|00:03:24|600|00:03:28|340Pleiads. But the Pleiads have an associated father and mother. 49|00:03:29|060|00:03:32|660They have a star called Atlas and a star called Pleione. 50|00:03:33|320|00:03:37|760That's the father and mother. And maybe the nine initiations 51|00:03:38|260|00:03:42|280which always lead to the Pleiades involve Atlas and Pleione in 52|00:03:42|780|00:03:47|080some way. Well, these are more issues that would be taken up by the 53|00:03:48|200|00:03:52|200great beings for whom they are more immediately 54|00:03:52|700|00:03:56|960relevant. We will be… I will say we'll be doing well 55|00:03:57|460|00:04:01|090if we can calm our emotions and our 56|00:04:01|570|00:04:04|890astral body, so to speak, and move on to the path 57|00:04:05|390|00:04:08|930of Sirian initiation, which doesn't necessarily mean the 58|00:04:09|430|00:04:13|010path to Sirius, but it's sponsored by Sirius and achieve… 59|00:04:15|250|00:04:18|970Excuse me, the very first real initiation, 60|00:04:19|470|00:04:23|010which is the third initiation of transfiguration, 61|00:04:23|810|00:04:26|690not an initiation of the threshold. So that's where we are. 62|00:04:27|170|00:04:30|710We're beginning a lot of information to put 63|00:04:31|210|00:04:34|710together here.

And basically when the fifth 64|00:04:35|210|00:04:39|510petal of the egoic lotus is completely open and 65|00:04:40|010|00:04:43|270the seventh petal is showing signs of 66|00:04:43|770|00:04:46|630development and the sixth, of course, somewhere in between, 67|00:04:47|030|00:04:50|150then we have the completion of the 68|00:04:50|650|00:04:54|230first initiation. It's not a low initiation. You know, 69|00:04:54|470|00:04:57|860some people just kind of brush it aside and 70|00:04:58|360|00:05:01|500say, “Oh, well, everyone has done that.” But that's not true. 71|00:05:03|100|00:05:07|660Everyone has not done that. And even 72|00:05:08|160|00:05:12|699One of the disciples in the… one of the accepted disciples in 73|00:05:13|199|00:05:16|740the Tibetan's group, accepted, we understand, for his 74|00:05:17|240|00:05:20|900own protection, had thus far failed to stand before the 75|00:05:21|400|00:05:24|950Christ even for the first time.

76|00:05:26|390|00:05:29|670Well, there are many… there are exceptions 77|00:05:29|750|00:05:33|550to rules. All the rest of D.K.'s students stood 78|00:05:34|050|00:05:38|430on the periphery of the ashram and had taken the first degree. And some 79|00:05:38|930|00:05:42|390were even… most were candidates at one time or another for the second degree, 80|00:05:43|350|00:05:46|510whether it was going to be in that particular life or a couple of lives 81|00:05:47|010|00:05:50|670ahead. And maybe there were 82|00:05:50|750|00:05:53|230some that would be candidates for the third. 83|00:05:54|590|00:05:57|870And Alice Bailey, and I think Roberto Assagioli would be candidates 84|00:05:58|370|00:06:03|110for the fourth degree. I can't say with any kind of conviction 85|00:06:03|610|00:06:07|230about Foster Bailey, but he was an advanced soul 86|00:06:07|310|00:06:11|190to be taking the same secretarial position in Master 87|00:06:11|690|00:06:15|160Morya's Ashram as Alice 88|00:06:15|660|00:06:18|760Bailey was taking in K.H.'s ashram. Well, 89|00:06:19|260|00:06:22|520these are matters of some interest. 90|00:06:23|160|00:06:26|440D.K. would say maybe they're not so important. 91|00:06:26|680|00:06:30|200And that so much of the detail we want to 92|00:06:30|700|00:06:34|920know about the masters' lives is really irrelevant to us. And somewhat the 93|00:06:35|420|00:06:38|120cause of glamour as we… 94|00:06:38|520|00:06:42|740It tends to involve interest in status, 95|00:06:43|240|00:06:46|900you know, and the minute we have this interest in the 96|00:06:47|400|00:06:50|940status of the initiates rather than in the qualities that 97|00:06:51|440|00:06:54|420they express and in the qualities we are expressing, 98|00:06:54|740|00:06:57|620we're already back into the realm of lower ego, 99|00:06:58|580|00:07:01|940which initiation is meant to 100|00:07:02|660|00:07:04|740transcend step by step.

101|00:07:05|540|00:07:09|430So I've… you know, over the years, many kind 102|00:07:09|930|00:07:16|910people and I've contributed to it too, have provided 103|00:07:17|410|00:07:20|590compilations. And these compilations are, 104|00:07:21|090|00:07:24|629to a degree, complete or not complete. When I'm looking 105|00:07:25|129|00:07:29|070at this compilation here on the… sorry… on the First 106|00:07:29|570|00:07:33|310Initiation, it's 19 pages long at a pretty big font. 107|00:07:33|790|00:07:37|700I don't think it's complete by any means. But then I will go 108|00:07:38|200|00:07:42|180and study other entries that 109|00:07:42|680|00:07:45|300have perhaps not been entered here. And by the time we're finished with it, 110|00:07:45|460|00:07:49|460we should have a pretty good discussion 111|00:07:49|960|00:07:53|460of the major references involving the 112|00:07:53|700|00:07:57|260First Initiation. So what I'll 113|00:07:57|760|00:08:00|420do here, as I often do…

114|00:08:02|100|00:08:07|570should do anyway… call it: This is the Beginning 115|00:08:09|570|00:08:12|570and… oh, that's English United States. We don't want that. 116|00:08:13|070|00:08:16|610Huh? We want English United Kingdom. Okay, 117|00:08:16|850|00:08:19|490so this is the beginning. 118|00:08:21|730|00:08:24|210Okay. U.K. beginning. 119|00:08:25|570|00:08:28|770No, I don't know what's going on here. No, 120|00:08:29|270|00:08:32|500it's not… well, I have to spell it out. It still says 121|00:08:33|000|00:08:36|860United States. That's the problem. So this is set as default. 122|00:08:37|360|00:08:39|660Yes, yes. Beginning. 123|00:08:40|140|00:08:45|380Yes… of First 124|00:08:45|880|00:08:49|420Initiation Compilation. And what I'll do here 125|00:08:49|500|00:08:54|940is when I write these letters F.I.C., 126|00:08:57|500|00:09:01|370what I'll do is hope that they register 127|00:09:02|410|00:09:06|090First Initiation Compilation.

128|00:09:10|810|00:09:15|210All right, so beginning of First Initiation Compilation. 129|00:09:16|090|00:09:20|210And we'll call this programme Number 130|00:09:20|710|00:09:24|010One.

Now, you'll be able to pick these programmes up on Makara, 131|00:09:24|500|00:09:28|620you know, www.makara.us, 132|00:09:29|120|00:09:33|540or go to YouTube for Morya Federation Esoteric 133|00:09:33|860|00:09:37|620Education. You know, our goal here with the Morya Federation 134|00:09:38|340|00:09:41|780is to move towards the new esoteric schools 135|00:09:42|260|00:09:45|860which Master D.K. 136|00:09:46|360|00:09:49|980has predicted will emerge first in their preparatory examples 137|00:09:50|480|00:09:54|090and then in their preparatory advanced… seven preparatory 138|00:09:54|650|00:09:58|370and seven advanced. And eventually any nation of 139|00:09:58|870|00:10:02|890any status… relatively developed nations will 140|00:10:03|390|00:10:06|570have their own esoteric schools. And those nations in which it's possible 141|00:10:07|050|00:10:10|850that the soul energy can emerge, and not those nations, 142|00:10:11|350|00:10:16|970I suspect, which are just sort of working on the integration of the aspects 143|00:10:17|470|00:10:22|230of the personality. All right, so this 144|00:10:22|730|00:10:27|030will be a discussion of compilations, discussion of paragraphs 145|00:10:27|530|00:10:30|390within a compilation that will not be in order, but they will be in book 146|00:10:30|890|00:10:34|070order, in page order in that way. And as I said before, 147|00:10:34|950|00:10:38|470the juxtaposition of some of these ideas may make a new kind of 148|00:10:38|970|00:10:42|230light flash forth. And one kind 149|00:10:42|730|00:10:45|960of light that we didn't see when we were simply studying in the 150|00:10:46|460|00:10:51|360horizontal, “read through the book” manner. Master D.K.

said, “Do study 151|00:10:51|760|00:10:55|560topically, and you're really going to learn something by the amassing 152|00:10:56|060|00:10:59|600of similar reference points in the same place.” 153|00:11:00|720|00:11:05|040So here's something called “The Key Features of the First Initiation.” It's from Destiny 154|00:11:05|540|00:11:08|840of the Nations, or D.O.N., or I don't know how 155|00:11:09|340|00:11:13|080we want to… D.O.T.N., Destiny of the Nations. 156|00:11:14|680|00:11:18|800And it says,

The intensification of 157|00:11:19|300|00:11:22|600the life of the human center will proceed apace. DN137

Because after all, 158|00:11:23|100|00:11:27|000humanity—not every human being, but humanity considered as a whole—is about ready 159|00:11:27|320|00:11:30|600to take the first initiation. And when the Christ 160|00:11:31|100|00:11:35|000appears—reappears—it will be an indication 161|00:11:35|500|00:11:39|600that indeed that portion of humanity that was to take the first initiation, 162|00:11:40|100|00:11:43|920thus elevating, leavening the whole, has taken that initiation. 163|00:11:44|320|00:11:47|600So that's going to be quite an intensification. Because, 164|00:11:48|100|00:11:51|640you know, then the way of the soul is the 165|00:11:52|140|00:11:55|800primary way to tread, and not the satisfaction of the 166|00:11:56|300|00:11:59|520desires of the personality. For a long time, there is a battle, of course, 167|00:12:00|020|00:12:04|200and maybe only after we've passed the temptations in the desert does 168|00:12:04|700|00:12:08|500the battle somewhat subside. And the majority then 169|00:12:09|000|00:12:12|020is on the side of the soul. And we do the things that we as 170|00:12:12|520|00:12:16|300a soul indicate or wish to see done, especially with our 171|00:12:16|800|00:12:20|380help from the solar angel, angel of the presence. So

the intensification 172|00:12:20|880|00:12:24|020of the life of the human center will proceed apace. And this is the reason 173|00:12:24|740|00:12:28|420why so many people, as I have earlier hinted, will take 174|00:12:28|920|00:12:32|570the first initiation, DN137

you know, and they know the 175|00:12:33|070|00:12:36|530numbers. We don't know the numbers, but some millions, I suppose.

176|00:12:36|930|00:12:41|010Students are apt to forget that the first initiation can be described in 177|00:12:41|510|00:12:45|770reality as… DN137

So let's look at this:

the grounding 178|00:12:46|270|00:12:49|930or externalization of the Christ principle in humanity as 179|00:12:50|430|00:12:54|610a whole and upon the physical plane. DN137

And we might say through the etheric 180|00:12:55|170|00:12:58|890physical body. It's an initiation 181|00:12:59|390|00:13:03|580in which the etheric body begins to dominate the instincts 182|00:13:04|080|00:13:07|500of the physical body. And through the etheric body can come in those higher energies 183|00:13:07|820|00:13:12|180which naturally control the tendencies of 184|00:13:12|680|00:13:15|900the physical body. You know, 185|00:13:16|300|00:13:20|380it's kind of a seventh ray thing. Order and control are 186|00:13:20|880|00:13:24|940possible when the etheric body is consciously under our attention 187|00:13:26|050|00:13:29|890and administration. And the lower aspect, 188|00:13:30|390|00:13:33|890the dense aspect of our nature does not have its way with us 189|00:13:34|390|00:13:38|290any longer. We can control that—maybe not perfectly at the first 190|00:13:38|790|00:13:42|450degree, but to a sufficient extent so that the lower 191|00:13:42|950|00:13:46|170instincts do not run away with us. And some of the seven 192|00:13:46|670|00:13:50|530deadly sins, you know, maybe lust and maybe gluttony… 193|00:13:50|850|00:13:53|260I don't have my list of the seven… 194|00:13:54|380|00:13:57|500maybe sloth, I don't know. There are a number of these seven 195|00:13:58|000|00:14:01|460deadly sins.

And some of them relate to the dense physical body most of all, 196|00:14:01|960|00:14:05|900and they are better controlled. Now, with the first initiation, 197|00:14:06|060|00:14:09|340okay, what else happens?

The flowering of the intelligence… DN137

198|00:14:10|220|00:14:13|620because the throat center will be involved

…so that the initiate 199|00:14:14|120|00:14:17|460can work powerfully upon the mental plane DN137

, depending upon the ray, 200|00:14:17|960|00:14:21|460I would say, but more powerfully. And humanity itself be lifted up 201|00:14:21|620|00:14:25|700and be aided through every part, throughout every part 202|00:14:26|020|00:14:29|820thereby. So let's just say the 203|00:14:30|320|00:14:33|780intelligence begins 204|00:14:34|280|00:14:38|020to carry the quality of the soul. Now, you can be, 205|00:14:38|520|00:14:39|860you know, very smart, very intelligent, 206|00:14:41|780|00:14:45|220selfishly intelligent. But that's not the flowering 207|00:14:45|720|00:14:49|550of intelligence. That's not Venus. Venus is the flower, and Venus 208|00:14:50|050|00:14:53|150is the planet of the higher mind. That's the 209|00:14:53|650|00:14:57|190planet of the angel, of the presence and of the solar angel.

210|00:14:57|910|00:15:01|750And that is what it means for intelligence to really flower. Not that it's 211|00:15:02|230|00:15:06|150just cunning and clever and able to 212|00:15:07|110|00:15:09|750get one's own desires satisfied.

213|00:15:10|550|00:15:14|570So we've got the grounding or externalization 214|00:15:15|070|00:15:18|650of the Christ principle. That's one of the factors that the first 215|00:15:19|150|00:15:22|730initiation will mean, I suppose. Especially when it is 216|00:15:22|810|00:15:26|690talking about the human center per se and in every individual, 217|00:15:27|190|00:15:29|770right? The flowering of intelligence - that's another. 218|00:15:30|010|00:15:33|890And then

the coming into activity of the throat center… DN137

in a 219|00:15:34|390|00:15:38|450higher, creative way. And

…(because the third ray is closely connected with 220|00:15:38|950|00:15:42|850the first ray) DN137

. Well, all initiations have to do with starting something 221|00:15:43|350|00:15:46|890new and breaking into new territory. That's always the first ray. 222|00:15:47|130|00:15:50|450And then the personality is oftentimes, we're told, on the third 223|00:15:50|950|00:15:54|130ray. When that clearinghouse - 224|00:15:54|630|00:15:58|250you know, solar plexus is a clearinghouse for energies. Throat center is a clearinghouse 225|00:15:58|750|00:16:01|050for energies.

When the first initiation is about to be taken, 226|00:16:01|450|00:16:05|410frequently the personality is upon 227|00:16:05|910|00:16:09|260the third ray. Now, I don't know how that is when the soul is 228|00:16:09|760|00:16:13|020also on the third ray. Maybe not, 229|00:16:13|520|00:16:16|980you know, maybe the personality would be more the seventh ray 230|00:16:17|480|00:16:21|860there in the mind - the seventh ray - because it's unusual until 231|00:16:22|360|00:16:25|860later stage of evolution. But he doesn't elaborate on this too much, except in 232|00:16:26|360|00:16:29|740the chapter on the integration of the personality for the first ray. 233|00:16:30|240|00:16:33|820But it's unusual to have the soul ray 234|00:16:34|320|00:16:37|500and the personality ray the same. It does tell us a later stage of 235|00:16:38|000|00:16:41|140advancement for the first ray. First ray soul, first ray personality - 236|00:16:41|220|00:16:44|900it can happen. But there's been a lot of development that's 237|00:16:45|400|00:16:49|340gone on before that makes that possible so that the balance can be preserved. 238|00:16:49|840|00:16:53|700And I would not say that the first initiation is the indicator 239|00:16:53|860|00:16:56|900of such a possibility of balance - necessary balance. 240|00:16:58|020|00:17:00|420The coming into activity of the throat center.

241|00:17:02|340|00:17:05|939And the first faint orientation of 242|00:17:06|439|00:17:09|699the spiritual man towards Shambhala can take place. And why is 243|00:17:10|199|00:17:13|659this? Because, you know, unknown to the 244|00:17:14|159|00:17:15|579man in his physical brain, 245|00:17:17|339|00:17:21|499the Monad has affected 246|00:17:23|659|00:17:27|259or lodged itself or influences 247|00:17:29|979|00:17:33|140the soul. So the physical brain doesn't know that. 248|00:17:34|500|00:17:37|860But even at the first degree, the monad 249|00:17:38|500|00:17:42|980is making its presence felt within 250|00:17:43|620|00:17:47|019the soul, within the soul 251|00:17:47|519|00:17:51|140body within the egoic lotus. So that's the first orientation 252|00:17:51|640|00:17:54|020of the spiritual man towards Shambhala. 253|00:17:56|100|00:17:59|180You know, the monad is pretty much atma buddhi. And the buddhi 254|00:17:59|680|00:18:03|110part of it is very necessary. The buddhi part really 255|00:18:03|610|00:18:06|990begins at the first initiation. Well, it has 256|00:18:07|490|00:18:10|710been growing, of course, as love has been growing. But this higher 257|00:18:11|210|00:18:14|950type of love begins its development there really at 258|00:18:15|450|00:18:18|870the first initiation. Not so much the personal kind, but the 259|00:18:19|370|00:18:23|150kind that embraces others and 260|00:18:23|650|00:18:25|790other beings because of their soul quality.

261|00:18:26|590|00:18:30|740So the first faint orientation of the spiritual man towards 262|00:18:31|240|00:18:34|780Shambhala can take place because after all, there's an orientation towards 263|00:18:35|280|00:18:38|500the soul. And the soul is the heart center, it's been called, of the monad. 264|00:18:39|000|00:18:42|220And the monad is a resident. What does 265|00:18:42|720|00:18:46|140that mean? Well, a resident of Shambhala

becoming more 266|00:18:46|640|00:18:49|940and more intensified and pronounced at the time of the third initiation. DN137

267|00:18:50|660|00:18:53|620So even, you know, the 268|00:18:54|880|00:18:59|640- what does it say? The third eye begins 269|00:19:00|140|00:19:00|320its development 270|00:19:03|520|00:19:07|840at the first initiation and is 271|00:19:09|120|00:19:12|960useful as an instrument 272|00:19:14|000|00:19:19|760without being psychically contaminated 273|00:19:21|110|00:19:28|310at the third initiation. 274|00:19:29|030|00:19:33|430So the monad. The monad comes into 275|00:19:34|310|00:19:38|470conscious recognition at 276|00:19:38|550|00:19:41|830the third initiation and 277|00:19:41|910|00:19:46|430it comes into influence, but into 278|00:19:46|930|00:19:50|190CNS influence at the first initiation. 279|00:19:50|750|00:19:54|150So, you know, what that really means is that all of us 280|00:19:54|650|00:19:57|710are essentially the monad. And I think 281|00:19:58|110|00:20:01|630many in the Alice Bailey movement have taken the first initiation. Not necessarily 282|00:20:02|130|00:20:05|910all, but if you have or are close to 283|00:20:06|410|00:20:10|030the requirements there to fulfilling those requirements, the monad has 284|00:20:10|590|00:20:13|870made its presence felt within your egoic 285|00:20:14|370|00:20:17|670lotus, even if the brain consciousness doesn't carry it, 286|00:20:18|170|00:20:21|590you know.

But more and more conscious we will become of these 287|00:20:21|990|00:20:25|590inner spiritual movements and impressions and influences. 288|00:20:26|310|00:20:29|670And that is, you know, part of the reward: 289|00:20:30|310|00:20:34|550to become more conscious on the path of spiritual 290|00:20:34|790|00:20:37|710development. Okay, 291|00:20:38|210|00:20:40|350so what do we have here: the coming into activity of the throat center?

292|00:20:40|850|00:20:47|890Because basically what happens at the first initiation is there's a focus on 293|00:20:48|390|00:20:52|010the sacral center under Uranus, which is a major planet 294|00:20:52|510|00:20:56|050at every initiation and even starts at the first. And it's 295|00:20:56|550|00:21:00|130the ruler of the seventh ray, and it's the ruler generically 296|00:21:00|770|00:21:04|770of the etheric body. And it's a Uranus-Saturn kind 297|00:21:05|270|00:21:08|330of thing, with Saturn and the moon in a way ruling the 298|00:21:08|830|00:21:11|100denser part of man at that stage. 299|00:21:13|100|00:21:17|020And Uranus even rules the throat center at a certain stage as the seventh ray 300|00:21:17|180|00:21:21|100begins to take over there. Seventh ray being so very, very important at 301|00:21:21|600|00:21:25|820that first initiation. So there's an elevation going on of 302|00:21:25|980|00:21:30|100the energies of the sacral center, the procreative 303|00:21:30|600|00:21:34|140energies, the sexual energies up to the throat, 304|00:21:34|640|00:21:38|080which are the creative energies, not procreative.

305|00:21:38|580|00:21:41|720Although, you know, he does tell us a time when procreation will be 306|00:21:42|220|00:21:45|880accomplished in a different manner. And it almost seems like the physical 307|00:21:46|380|00:21:49|720vehicles needed by the incarnating soul will be, if I can put 308|00:21:50|220|00:21:54|320it this way, spoken into existence or sung 309|00:21:55|040|00:21:57|360into existence, you know, 310|00:21:58|320|00:22:02|000making music together, as it were, to provide the vehicle 311|00:22:03|030|00:22:06|510for the incoming soul. Somewhere he mentions that. It's a long time ago I read 312|00:22:07|010|00:22:10|190it. The thing about reading the Tibetan is, 313|00:22:10|690|00:22:13|950you know, you remember certain things and then they slot in.

314|00:22:14|450|00:22:17|990They come in maybe unexpectedly, when you need them, and they form a new 315|00:22:18|490|00:22:22|070relationship with an item of information that you may be studying at 316|00:22:22|570|00:22:26|390the moment. And then new patterns begin to appear based upon 317|00:22:26|890|00:22:30|380old reading and old, old memories within 318|00:22:30|880|00:22:33|820the books. And new light arises. So indeed, 319|00:22:34|320|00:22:37|860you get quite a pointed tower rising as you 320|00:22:38|360|00:22:41|660memorize what is in the books and then bring them together 321|00:22:42|220|00:22:45|900and the arcing occurs. New light appears. And there's really 322|00:22:46|400|00:22:50|340an intensification of the light as we begin to rise in 323|00:22:50|840|00:22:53|740correlation. Rise in correlation. 324|00:22:53|980|00:22:58|110It's a Mercury thing. And the Tibetan is 325|00:22:58|590|00:23:02|190very much, in a sense, Mercury. He's the messenger, 326|00:23:02|430|00:23:06|190or, well, maybe not the only one, but he's the messenger of the hierarchy. 327|00:23:06|430|00:23:09|870He's very Gemini in certain ways. He's very Mercury in certain ways. 328|00:23:10|110|00:23:13|910When I look at his or the various pictures purported 329|00:23:14|410|00:23:19|070to be of him, there seems to be a strong Taurus 330|00:23:19|570|00:23:22|730factor linking him to Buddhism, linking him to 331|00:23:23|230|00:23:26|490that great light from the Mother of Illumination. You know, it's a 332|00:23:26|990|00:23:30|490very bright part of the sky, the Taurus-Gemini part of the sky. 333|00:23:30|970|00:23:33|690And the Tibetan is a source of tremendous light. 334|00:23:34|170|00:23:37|329Okay, so these three factors can 335|00:23:37|829|00:23:41|650be described regarding the first initiation: grounding, flowering and 336|00:23:42|150|00:23:43|850coming into activity.

Okay, 337|00:23:45|370|00:23:48|790now, you know, basically, friends, what we're having here is kind of 338|00:23:49|290|00:23:50|430a study group, really. 339|00:23:52|350|00:23:55|630I'm free-associating on 340|00:23:55|870|00:23:59|350certain things I read, and you're thinking about it as 341|00:23:59|850|00:24:03|790I talk about it. And different impressions are being made upon your mind and different 342|00:24:03|870|00:24:07|550connections. Things are coming to light which you may not have thought about before. 343|00:24:07|790|00:24:11|150Things are coming to light which I may not have thought about before. 344|00:24:11|650|00:24:15|670That always happens when I start to read these things 345|00:24:16|170|00:24:20|290in your presence. And for the sake of increasing 346|00:24:20|370|00:24:23|930the light, thousands of people have taken…

Okay, 347|00:24:24|430|00:24:27|250this is still… I should just leave it. “Destiny of the Nations.” 348|00:24:27|750|00:24:31|090D.N. I will for the moment.

It is seldom realised,… DN149

and this is, 349|00:24:31|170|00:24:34|770you know, written after World War II, the destiny 350|00:24:35|270|00:24:39|010of the nations for the emerging political workers. I guess

…that 351|00:24:39|510|00:24:42|890hundreds of thousands of people in every land have taken or are preparing 352|00:24:43|390|00:24:46|910to take, this first initiation, called the birth 353|00:24:47|410|00:24:51|030of Bethlehem in the house of bread. DN149

Aleph, Bet, 354|00:24:51|190|00:24:54|310Gimel. It's the bet. 355|00:24:54|390|00:24:58|430It's the second letter of the alphabet. 356|00:24:58|930|00:25:02|430It's having something to do with the second ray, Bethlehem and the 357|00:25:02|930|00:25:06|710house of bread. You know, bread, of course, 358|00:25:07|210|00:25:10|790is prana in another way.

But at least we have this: hundreds of thousands 359|00:25:11|360|00:25:14|720and, you know, elsewhere he's going to mention 360|00:25:15|220|00:25:18|480the word “millions” will have taken this 361|00:25:18|980|00:25:22|520initiation. Humanity, the world disciple, not just the 362|00:25:23|020|00:25:26|960world aspirant. But now, perhaps very much 363|00:25:27|280|00:25:30|320so because of the great war, 364|00:25:30|480|00:25:34|480which probably a lot of us have been through and have forgotten, 365|00:25:34|980|00:25:38|380you know, but the marks are upon us, the suffering is there, 366|00:25:38|880|00:25:42|220and the new possibilities of elevation are 367|00:25:42|720|00:25:46|300there. A lot of my friends in the work, you know, 368|00:25:46|800|00:25:50|420they have memories of the last war. They were like, 369|00:25:50|920|00:25:54|340killed as a fighter pilot or in 370|00:25:54|660|00:25:56|820concentration camp or, you know, 371|00:25:57|700|00:26:01|820they have these memories. And one even showed me kind 372|00:26:02|320|00:26:06|020of a scar that carried over from the inner planes where he had been shot 373|00:26:06|740|00:26:10|180in the previous war. 374|00:26:10|260|00:26:12|660Well, you know, these things are certainly possible.

375|00:26:13|940|00:26:17|420Humanity, the world disciple, is now ready 376|00:26:17|920|00:26:21|420for this. Indications of the accuracy of the above statement can be seen in the 377|00:26:21|920|00:26:25|700re-orientation of people everywhere to things spiritual, 378|00:26:26|100|00:26:30|170their interest in human good and human welfare, the perseverance they show 379|00:26:30|670|00:26:34|770in their search for light, and their longing and desire for true peace based 380|00:26:35|270|00:26:38|490on right human relations and implemented by goodwill. DN149

381|00:26:40|090|00:26:43|530Quite a statement. Now, you know, after all of this 382|00:26:44|730|00:26:49|130was written, this tremendous surge in the interest 383|00:26:49|630|00:26:52|810in consciousness studies came, and the 384|00:26:53|310|00:26:56|850'60s and the '70s came. And though, yes, 385|00:26:57|350|00:27:00|970there was a reaction, and there still is a reaction, and as the door 386|00:27:01|450|00:27:04|810to hierarchy is about to open and the Christ is about to 387|00:27:05|310|00:27:08|810appear, there is a tremendous reaction 388|00:27:09|690|00:27:12|730by the forces of materialism within ourselves. The personal 389|00:27:12|810|00:27:16|490aspect of us is reacting against 390|00:27:16|990|00:27:21|730this. And in every nation that has a 391|00:27:22|230|00:27:26|260given soul ray and personality ray, the fight between the soul and 392|00:27:26|760|00:27:30|140personality is being waged at this moment. And you can just see 393|00:27:30|640|00:27:34|220it as you go from country to country. And at the moment, this is 2018, 394|00:27:34|720|00:27:38|500it's very acute in the United States where 395|00:27:39|000|00:27:42|220we would expect and hope that the soul would emerge.

396|00:27:43|420|00:27:47|260So this mind as it is in Christ, 397|00:27:48|140|00:27:51|540and that's what we have to pray for. I ask 398|00:27:52|040|00:27:55|910every—well, not every day but most days—to 399|00:27:56|410|00:28:00|190have established in my consciousness the mind as it is in Christ.

400|00:28:01|550|00:28:05|470This mind as it is in Christ can be seen in their revolt 401|00:28:06|270|00:28:09|830against materialistic religion and in 402|00:28:10|330|00:28:13|390the widespread effort to be seen in Europe and elsewhere 403|00:28:13|890|00:28:17|230to return to the land (Mother-Earth, the true Virgin Mary) 404|00:28:17|390|00:28:20|540to the people DN149-150

Well, I do believe, you know, 405|00:28:21|040|00:28:24|420this was written early on after the war.

I do believe 406|00:28:25|220|00:28:28|860it can be seen in the constant movement—this is Uranus—of people 407|00:28:29|360|00:28:32|740throughout the world from place to place. You know, Mercury is about movement, 408|00:28:33|240|00:28:35|300and Uranus is the higher octave of Mercury, 409|00:28:35|860|00:28:39|540symbolised in the gospel story by the journey of Mary and the infant Jesus 410|00:28:39|940|00:28:43|300into Egypt. So the migrations 411|00:28:43|800|00:28:47|610are underway. And what the richer nations shall 412|00:28:48|110|00:28:52|050Now, what do we do with the migrant crisis here in this year 2018 and 413|00:28:52|550|00:28:55|690for several past years is on the front burner? 414|00:28:56|190|00:28:59|610You know, our quality of soul, quality of heart, quality of love, 415|00:29:00|410|00:29:04|010quality of intelligence are all being tested as to how to 416|00:29:04|890|00:29:08|010handle the migrant situation. Of course, we're all migrants, 417|00:29:08|510|00:29:11|450and we've been migrating from incarnation to incarnation. 418|00:29:11|530|00:29:14|710Being born here, being born there. The Dalai Lama 419|00:29:15|210|00:29:17|790did say, “Well, you know, not everybody can move to Europe.” Well, you know, 420|00:29:18|290|00:29:21|110it was somewhat humorous, but it's true. 421|00:29:21|590|00:29:24|950We have also to try to make better 422|00:29:25|030|00:29:28|790the place in which we find ourselves and 423|00:29:29|110|00:29:32|990not just hope, as is perfectly natural to the human psyche, 424|00:29:33|490|00:29:36|030that somewhere else it'll be better and “Get me out of here so I can 425|00:29:36|530|00:29:40|440be in that someplace else which is better.” Sometimes you 426|00:29:40|940|00:29:44|800have to migrate because your life is threatened. And it's 427|00:29:45|300|00:29:48|800often happened that people have to move on when they're being persecuted.

428|00:29:49|300|00:29:53|120And there has to be a discrimination, I think, between those who flee because 429|00:29:53|620|00:29:57|840of persecution and those who flee for the purpose of selfish 430|00:29:58|340|00:30:02|080desire. Things are just better elsewhere, and they want that betterment. 431|00:30:02|960|00:30:05|920So, you know, we're all trying to work that out right now. But may the 432|00:30:06|420|00:30:10|490mind, as it is in Christ, be in our consciousness. 433|00:30:10|570|00:30:14|130And may our spiritual studies and what really 434|00:30:14|630|00:30:18|410is for the good of humanity and human welfare and 435|00:30:18|910|00:30:23|010what is really the light and what is really peace and what are really right 436|00:30:23|510|00:30:26|730human relations—all of this emerge into our 437|00:30:27|230|00:30:30|650understanding. So may all of these 438|00:30:30|730|00:30:35|050good possibilities emerge into 439|00:30:35|290|00:30:37|570our understanding.

440|00:30:38|850|00:30:42|250It's all very practical. I mean, the Tibetan knows so 441|00:30:42|750|00:30:46|730much, and his knowledge extends into the beyond— 442|00:30:47|230|00:30:50|650the planet, but certainly in the higher reaches of the planet and into the 443|00:30:51|150|00:30:53|410solar system and beyond the solar system and into the… 444|00:30:55|330|00:30:58|370Into the zodiac and beyond. You know, 445|00:30:58|930|00:31:03|380it's a vast knowledge he has, but his is the ability to 446|00:31:03|880|00:31:07|700bring right down onto the physical plane so many of 447|00:31:08|200|00:31:11|820the immediate necessities. And he shows himself thereby to be an 448|00:31:12|320|00:31:16|540externalizing master. Maybe not all masters would externalize, but he certainly 449|00:31:17|040|00:31:20|700shows himself, in my opinion, to be an externalizing master because he 450|00:31:21|200|00:31:25|060moves towards Shambhala at the same time he moves towards humanity. And for us, 451|00:31:25|560|00:31:28|900we have to move towards hierarchy at the same time as we move towards 452|00:31:29|400|00:31:33|250humanity with greater sensitivity also to the will 453|00:31:33|750|00:31:38|210and to Shambhala. So a lot of people have taken this initiation.

454|00:31:38|290|00:31:41|770And I think we can assume that a lot of people that we serious 455|00:31:42|270|00:31:46|010students of the Tibetan work with have taken this. You know, if you 456|00:31:46|510|00:31:50|090stick with these theosophical Master D.K. studies for years 457|00:31:50|590|00:31:53|850and years and years, and they are your—the very breath of life to 458|00:31:54|350|00:31:58|290you, and you try to apply what you learn 459|00:31:58|930|00:32:02|970through goodwill and love. Well, there's a good possibility that the 460|00:32:03|470|00:32:06|610first initiation is under your belt. Of course, it's really not under 461|00:32:07|110|00:32:11|170your belt. It's above your belt, as it were, because the 462|00:32:11|670|00:32:13|810energies do rise up into the higher chakras. 463|00:32:14|930|00:32:17|170All right, what else? Right. 464|00:32:18|450|00:32:22|170Subsequent lives of no growth, seemingly.

Well,

I would 465|00:32:22|670|00:32:25|770remind you here that many, many lives can 466|00:32:26|270|00:32:29|010elapse between the first initiation and the second. 467|00:32:29|510|00:32:33|150Long, long interludes of silent and almost unapparent 468|00:32:33|650|00:32:37|190growth. DINAI 95-96

lest we become discouraged. We're now in 469|00:32:37|690|00:32:41|590the discipleship book, lest we become 470|00:32:41|670|00:32:44|990discouraged. Now, you know, in one of the books that 471|00:32:45|490|00:32:49|110we just recently read, he says “many lives.” Now he says, “many, many.” And then 472|00:32:50|950|00:32:54|790what was really interesting to me was that 473|00:32:55|290|00:32:58|510one of the books about the second initiation showed us 474|00:32:59|010|00:33:02|990that one life or maybe two or several could elapse. 475|00:33:03|230|00:33:07|710So the time equation is elastic; 476|00:33:07|950|00:33:11|670it's flexible, and I think it's very much in our hands. And it has to 477|00:33:12|170|00:33:15|590do with the will to sacrifice. Like one of my friends said, 478|00:33:16|090|00:33:19|390“Christ made such great progress because he had a really good solar angel.” 479|00:33:19|890|00:33:23|630But I don't think that we can say that that is the case.

480|00:33:23|710|00:33:27|250Somehow our will is really 481|00:33:27|410|00:33:30|290free. That's the amazing thing. 482|00:33:30|530|00:33:34|490And we, you know, somehow in the depths of 483|00:33:34|990|00:33:39|250us, we really do have the choice as to how we will exert 484|00:33:39|750|00:33:43|970that will. It's not that we are compelled, because finally, 485|00:33:44|530|00:33:48|370when it comes to the will, the great will aspect, there's no… 486|00:33:48|450|00:33:51|410There's no other will to compel it. It's the one and only will. 487|00:33:52|140|00:33:55|100All of cosmos. Of course, there are higher aspects of the will, 488|00:33:55|580|00:33:59|100but we are not being made into automatons. 489|00:33:59|820|00:34:04|140And for another, from another perspective, it's the law.

It's a Sirian 490|00:34:04|640|00:34:07|980law, probably the Sirian law of freedom, that the White Lodge cannot 491|00:34:08|480|00:34:12|620compel the will. It can only invite, it can only spread 492|00:34:13|120|00:34:17|100the light, only educate, it can draw forth but it cannot make 493|00:34:17|260|00:34:20|990us do anything. So I'd like 494|00:34:21|490|00:34:23|590to, if I could find that… 495|00:34:25|190|00:34:28|630That's the question. I just don't know. Can I find it? And can I 496|00:34:28|950|00:34:37|390find it in any second 497|00:34:37|890|00:34:41|350initiation compilation? Okay, so maybe here, 498|00:34:41|590|00:34:44|070use this, use this, use this. 499|00:34:45|800|00:34:49|320Right? This is all about the second initiation. 500|00:34:49|560|00:34:52|920And I do believe… I'm trying to see 501|00:34:53|420|00:34:57|720if down there at the bottom of it all is this little 502|00:34:58|760|00:35:01|880discussion. And maybe, 503|00:35:03|000|00:35:03|800maybe not. 504|00:35:06|920|00:35:10|440Not what I'm looking for. I'm looking 505|00:35:10|940|00:35:14|040for… I'm looking for… I'll try one other thing. 506|00:35:14|920|00:35:19|400I'll try one other thing and second initiation.

507|00:35:22|360|00:35:25|880Okay, well, look, I actually found it. 508|00:35:26|200|00:35:29|880Page 120 of “Initiation, Human and Solar.” “At the 509|00:35:30|380|00:35:34|040first initiation, he becomes definitely aware of the part 510|00:35:34|680|00:35:38|680(relatively inconspicuous) that he has to play in his personal 511|00:35:38|760|00:35:41|880life during the period ensuing between the moment of 512|00:35:42|380|00:35:45|670revelation…” That's a type of revelation. 513|00:35:45|750|00:35:49|910It's not the same as the revelation at the fifth initiation, which reveals 514|00:35:50|410|00:35:53|710the ways of high evolution and the taking of the second 515|00:35:54|210|00:35:58|470initiation. And this is the point. “This may involve one 516|00:36:00|150|00:36:04|070more life…” This may involve one more life 517|00:36:04|550|00:36:07|670or several, but it's not the same thing 518|00:36:08|170|00:36:11|680as “many, many” or “many.” So it's just 519|00:36:12|180|00:36:15|440obvious that we have in 520|00:36:15|940|00:36:19|960our… Yeah, we have in 521|00:36:20|460|00:36:23|680our capacity the ability to 522|00:36:24|180|00:36:28|320move ahead with managing the time equation in 523|00:36:28|820|00:36:32|200a way which many do not bother to manage. 524|00:36:33|320|00:36:36|770We… Initiation is not given or 525|00:36:37|270|00:36:41|330accorded to those who are careless of 526|00:36:41|830|00:36:45|170the requirements, nor to those who are 527|00:36:45|670|00:36:49|290so fixated upon it that they forget its purpose and want to 528|00:36:49|790|00:36:53|770pursue it for egotistical reasons. 529|00:36:54|270|00:36:57|250And we do have that kind of spiritual selfishness which does emerge.

530|00:36:57|570|00:37:00|010So, you know, some of you who are working with people and trying to help 531|00:37:00|510|00:37:04|050people, it's very likely 532|00:37:04|130|00:37:07|950that the first initiation may 533|00:37:08|450|00:37:13|230be coming upon them and that they have to prepare through 534|00:37:13|730|00:37:17|990a discipline and beautification of their life and interest in the spiritual 535|00:37:18|550|00:37:22|150studies for that initiation. The requirements 536|00:37:22|650|00:37:25|750are simple in some ways and difficult to execute. 537|00:37:26|470|00:37:29|750So many lives, many, many can… can continue. 538|00:37:29|910|00:37:32|720But… but let's just put it this way. 539|00:37:34|320|00:37:38|000Keep in mind “Initiation, Human and Solar,” 540|00:37:38|500|00:37:42|320page 120, where “one more life 541|00:37:43|280|00:37:48|160or several” are discussed in 542|00:37:48|660|00:37:52|600relation to the taking of the second initiation. Now, 543|00:37:53|100|00:37:55|680you know, we might, in reading the Tibetan, 544|00:37:56|330|00:37:59|770just read one reference and somehow fix it in 545|00:38:00|270|00:38:04|890our mind. But the relativity of the interactions in 546|00:38:05|390|00:38:08|530time and space are forgotten by us. And D.K. may 547|00:38:09|030|00:38:12|410say something apparently different altogether, but it's not really 548|00:38:12|910|00:38:15|850different. It just depends upon the place where you stand, 549|00:38:16|410|00:38:19|570the perspective that you have, the strength of 550|00:38:20|070|00:38:23|600your will, these kinds of… Yeah.

551|00:38:24|100|00:38:27|760And your ability to sacrifice — that's the thing, you know. As Master 552|00:38:28|260|00:38:31|480Morya said, it really branded itself in me: 553|00:38:32|200|00:38:35|440“When have you ever become less through 554|00:38:35|940|00:38:39|640sacrifice?” He said that, and it gives you pause, doesn't it? 555|00:38:39|960|00:38:43|800It's… you know, who do we admire the most when we see 556|00:38:44|300|00:38:47|400even some beautiful sacrifice of an animal, 557|00:38:47|900|00:38:52|020like a dog saving its master's children or something 558|00:38:52|520|00:38:56|100like that?

I just saw the other day that a dog — 559|00:38:56|980|00:39:00|180big dog — grabbed a little toddler 560|00:39:00|820|00:39:04|060by… whatever the toddler was wearing and 561|00:39:04|560|00:39:07|460threw him several feet away. And why was that? 562|00:39:08|820|00:39:12|700Was this an attack? But there it was: one of the most poisonous 563|00:39:13|200|00:39:16|620of the Australian snakes was there and about to bite the baby, and 564|00:39:17|120|00:39:20|220instead it bit the dog. But, you know, they realized what had happened and the 565|00:39:20|720|00:39:23|380dog survived. But there was an act of sacrifice. 566|00:39:23|540|00:39:27|140And when we see this showing up in 567|00:39:27|860|00:39:31|380people, you know — real, genuine sacrifice because 568|00:39:31|940|00:39:35|500there is love — wow, then it 569|00:39:36|000|00:39:38|900really does something to you. It always melts my heart, you know, when I… 570|00:39:39|400|00:39:42|940when I see that and I just… Even when I think of the words, 571|00:39:43|440|00:39:47|170it chokes me up. So we follow those 572|00:39:47|970|00:39:51|810who sacrifice. At first the sacrifice may just be, 573|00:39:52|290|00:39:55|730you know, sacrificing your sleep and your bodily welfare and stuff like that. 574|00:39:56|230|00:40:00|610But later it's the very sacrifice of your incarnational 575|00:40:00|770|00:40:04|290life. “Greater love hath no 576|00:40:04|790|00:40:07|850man than that he lay down his life for a friend.” 577|00:40:08|350|00:40:10|770And when your friend is all of humanity…

578|00:40:12|800|00:40:16|720Oh, think about that. You know, hierarchy, 579|00:40:17|220|00:40:22|880friendship in its truest sense — you know, beyond criticism 580|00:40:23|120|00:40:26|160and backbiting and beyond 581|00:40:26|660|00:40:30|200suspicion. Beyond all those things which 582|00:40:30|700|00:40:34|080seem to divide one individual from another. Right.

583|00:40:34|580|00:40:37|760Well, here we are in D.N.A., Discipleship in the New Age, Volume 1. 584|00:40:38|160|00:40:41|740We've talked about the stages of discipleship: Little Chela- 585|00:40:42|240|00:40:45|980ship, Chela in the Light, Accepted Discipleship, 586|00:40:46|460|00:40:49|420Chela on the Thread, Chela in the Aura, 587|00:40:49|580|00:40:52|860Chela in the Master's Heart, and then the final seventh stage: 588|00:40:53|740|00:40:57|380the Blending of the Lights, where we're 589|00:40:57|880|00:41:00|060talking really about two masters and we're not… 590|00:41:02|220|00:41:06|140Yeah, we're no longer in the master's 591|00:41:06|640|00:41:09|670ashram for the most part. Although Master D.K., as I say, 592|00:41:10|170|00:41:12|870does have somehow five masters in his ashram. 593|00:41:13|430|00:41:16|710How many more must Master K.H. have? 594|00:41:17|110|00:41:20|670Alright, so here's this stage of little chelaship.

It's associated with 595|00:41:21|170|00:41:24|910the first initiation.

These stages are all of them related to one or 596|00:41:25|410|00:41:27|190other of the initiations. DINAI 717

597|00:41:28|310|00:41:32|230Okay, very interesting. This one is called…

This one called 598|00:41:32|730|00:41:36|040Little Chelaship is related to the first initiation. DINAI 717

That's 599|00:41:36|540|00:41:39|160going to help us, you know. And also the kind of work we have to 600|00:41:39|660|00:41:43|600do between initiations — as we always have to do work in 601|00:41:44|100|00:41:48|080expressing what was revealed, even if we've forgotten the exactitude 602|00:41:48|580|00:41:52|680of revelation. It's in us, you know, so we have to express 603|00:41:53|180|00:41:57|000that which has been revealed to us. So this 604|00:41:57|500|00:42:01|280one's called Little Chelaship, related to the first initiation.

This initiation is connected 605|00:42:01|960|00:42:05|440with the physical plane, and for a very large number of people, as I 606|00:42:05|940|00:42:09|000have several times pointed out, it lies far behind. DINAI 717

607|00:42:09|400|00:42:12|960A very large number — probably no, hundreds of thousands, 608|00:42:13|460|00:42:16|760and even as D.K. begins to… take… discuss 609|00:42:16|920|00:42:20|760millions. And then here comes this statement.

You know,

610|00:42:21|080|00:42:25|200All true aspirants have taken the 611|00:42:25|700|00:42:28|600first initiation. DINAI 717

You can be an aspirant, but now this is a true aspirant, 612|00:42:29|160|00:42:34|080and basically it means that the 613|00:42:34|580|00:42:38|480true aspirant to accepted discipleship has taken the first 614|00:42:38|980|00:42:41|000initiation.

The fact is indicated by…DINAI 717

615|00:42:41|960|00:42:46|080And this is one 616|00:42:46|580|00:42:49|120of the requirements we have to keep in mind as we see what it is 617|00:42:49|620|00:42:52|280that they have to do. 618|00:42:53|480|00:42:56|720And let's see what it is they have to do.

The fact is 619|00:42:57|220|00:43:00|400indicated by their intensive struggle to grow 620|00:43:00|900|00:43:04|600into the spiritual life. DINAI 717

Remember, man is a fourth ray being. He struggles 621|00:43:05|000|00:43:08|640to follow the way of determined orientation 622|00:43:09|140|00:43:12|120to the things of the spirit. Isn't that Sagittarian? You know, 623|00:43:12|520|00:43:15|640first degree Sagittarius, he tells us, and second degree too.

624|00:43:15|960|00:43:19|480

And to live by the light of that spirit.

625|00:43:20|280|00:43:24|200Okay, so what do we have here? You know, basically we have struggle, 626|00:43:26|760|00:43:30|600following, and we have following 627|00:43:31|100|00:43:34|920and orientation, and then 628|00:43:35|420|00:43:38|560we have living. Now, you know, sometimes you can take a 629|00:43:39|060|00:43:42|640word and it will help you create a peg in your mind so that 630|00:43:43|140|00:43:45|080you can come back to it. 631|00:43:46|680|00:43:50|590What we want to do is have a list of requirements for 632|00:43:50|670|00:43:53|550each initiation. 633|00:43:54|670|00:43:58|190And that list will help us 634|00:43:59|070|00:44:02|470fulfill those requirements. If we're careless about 635|00:44:02|970|00:44:06|150fulfilling the requirements, we're just not going to get 636|00:44:06|650|00:44:11|150there. And at any time we could fail in our normal 637|00:44:11|650|00:44:15|110daily life. “Ah, right there. I didn't fulfill a requirement. 638|00:44:15|610|00:44:19|400You know, I was critical, I was unloving, I was lazy. 639|00:44:20|040|00:44:23|120I went this way and that way and did other things instead of the thing 640|00:44:23|620|00:44:26|800that needs to be done. I just didn't translate it into 641|00:44:27|300|00:44:30|560my expression.” In my daily life, we have to always, you know, 642|00:44:31|060|00:44:35|200it's called the inner monitor. You always have to monitor what you're doing, keep your 643|00:44:35|700|00:44:39|440eye on what you're doing without becoming obsessed by it. But there 644|00:44:39|940|00:44:44|540is a higher point of advantage, a higher point of observation. 645|00:44:45|100|00:44:49|180And while we're doing whatever we're doing, that higher point of observation 646|00:44:49|580|00:44:53|500can also be in 647|00:44:54|460|00:44:58|020working, you know, in process. All right, so this 648|00:44:58|520|00:45:01|420is the stage of little chela ship.

And I wonder if we went through it, 649|00:45:01|920|00:45:05|260what we would find, you know, maybe chela in the master's heart is the fourth 650|00:45:05|760|00:45:09|460degree. Maybe chela in the aura is the third degree. 651|00:45:11|540|00:45:16|260Maybe accepted discipleship is connected pretty 652|00:45:16|760|00:45:20|260much with the orientation to the second degree. And chela on the thread 653|00:45:20|580|00:45:23|540is connected with the approach to the third degree. 654|00:45:24|580|00:45:28|420So accepted discipleship—not always, but gives 655|00:45:28|920|00:45:32|180you an approach to the second degree. This is my opinion.

656|00:45:33|780|00:45:37|240And then chela on the 657|00:45:37|740|00:45:41|600thread will give you an approach to 658|00:45:41|760|00:45:45|160the third degree. As D.K. 659|00:45:45|660|00:45:49|200said about accepted discipleship, it's not necessarily a question of your 660|00:45:50|320|00:45:54|240attainment; it's a question of your relationship to a certain master. 661|00:45:54|720|00:45:58|120So you might be quite highly attained and 662|00:45:58|620|00:46:01|910not be an accepted disciple. You just kind of forge ahead on your 663|00:46:02|410|00:46:06|430own pretty much. But you might have a lower degree of attainment 664|00:46:06|510|00:46:09|830and be accepted by a master because he knows you, 665|00:46:10|330|00:46:14|110he's worked with you, you've been related to him. It's a 666|00:46:14|610|00:46:17|990different kind of relationship. But then all of you know, 667|00:46:18|490|00:46:21|670Master D.K. students, eventually, if they didn't drop 668|00:46:22|170|00:46:25|910out, if they made their way to the 24 group— 669|00:46:26|410|00:46:30|340group of 24, the reorganized new C group—they were 670|00:46:30|580|00:46:34|220going to be accepted disciples. 24 is so interesting because 671|00:46:34|720|00:46:38|180if you look at the advanced new schools, the diagram we're given 672|00:46:38|420|00:46:42|140shows us 24 students and three teachers or 673|00:46:42|640|00:46:46|580whatever teachers are at that stage. Three guys, and so 27 674|00:46:46|660|00:46:49|060altogether. Very interesting. 675|00:46:50|500|00:46:54|340So, and from 27 also comes into play 676|00:46:54|930|00:46:58|970when we take three members of each of 677|00:46:59|470|00:47:03|170the first nine C groups, and then look at the 10th C group, and 678|00:47:03|410|00:47:06|890it's going to be three times nine is 27.

So all of 679|00:47:07|390|00:47:11|730these numbers have significance, and we 680|00:47:12|230|00:47:15|170store them in our mind, and they may be relevant at a certain point, 681|00:47:15|670|00:47:19|370you know, when we have to make a decision. Alice Bailey said, 682|00:47:19|870|00:47:23|540“Please have the well-stocked mind.” It doesn't mean when you've got a customer 683|00:47:24|040|00:47:27|380in the store, you pull everything off the shelves. A customer 684|00:47:27|880|00:47:31|860is the person with whom we are talking and whose life we want to contribute 685|00:47:32|360|00:47:36|100to. And we may take something off the shelf which is useful and 686|00:47:36|600|00:47:41|380not everything. All right, so what's this anyway?

687|00:47:41|880|00:47:43|820So that, that chair in the light. First degree. 688|00:47:46|540|00:47:50|530Excuse me, Chairman. Little Chela. First degree. Chela in 689|00:47:51|030|00:47:55|010the light. It's a period before accepted 690|00:47:55|510|00:47:59|450discipleship between the first and second degree, accepted discipleship 691|00:48:00|250|00:48:04|290between the first and second degree, leading to the second degree and participating 692|00:48:04|790|00:48:08|570in the second degree and going on. Accepted disciples 693|00:48:09|530|00:48:13|090are existing. And technically, the name is no 694|00:48:13|590|00:48:17|290longer used when you become an initiated third degree. Chela on the 695|00:48:17|790|00:48:21|500thread. Maybe you've passed the temptations in the desert, 696|00:48:21|660|00:48:24|620okay, with accepted discipleship. 697|00:48:25|260|00:48:28|940Maybe you haven't passed them yet. But you can be 698|00:48:29|740|00:48:33|380accorded the attention of the master with 699|00:48:33|880|00:48:36|620chela on the thread. If you pass those, that's my opinion at the moment. 700|00:48:36|860|00:48:39|900And that leads to the third degree: chela in the aura, 701|00:48:40|300|00:48:43|500the third degree; chela in the master's heart, fourth degree; 702|00:48:43|580|00:48:46|510the blending of the lights, fifth degree. 703|00:48:47|630|00:48:51|390This is how I presently see it. Now, if I have a real 704|00:48:51|890|00:48:55|590discussion with my friend Elena Gramcini, who's an expert on these matters, 705|00:48:56|090|00:49:00|030she might see a little differently. I guess we all have our areas of focus 706|00:49:00|190|00:49:03|750in the great teaching. We can't do it all. We can't memorize it all. 707|00:49:04|250|00:49:07|350We can't be in all places at the same time, even if as a spirit 708|00:49:07|850|00:49:11|630we are. So we have to be somewhat selective as to 709|00:49:12|130|00:49:14|640what we do. All right, what's the next one?

710|00:49:16|000|00:49:19|640Isolated identity. Now, I don't know what initiation 711|00:49:20|140|00:49:23|760this is yet because it's a little bit out of context.

This initiation must 712|00:49:24|260|00:49:28|120ever precedes the stage of accepted discipleship. DINAI 718

I suppose it's 713|00:49:28|620|00:49:32|160the first degree. So it sounds like the first 714|00:49:32|400|00:49:35|600degree. Now, here. Here was the thing, though. 715|00:49:36|000|00:49:39|300One of the disciples, he was a third race soul. He did a 716|00:49:39|800|00:49:43|220lot to finance the Tibetan's books, and he was a great devotee of 717|00:49:43|720|00:49:47|340the Tibetan. But he was in trouble. And he was, we were told 718|00:49:47|840|00:49:51|500he was in danger in his last life of veering off onto the left hand 719|00:49:52|000|00:49:55|700path. And his rays even now were difficult. Third ray soul, sixth ray 720|00:49:56|200|00:49:59|140personality. Fifth ray mind. First ray astral body. 721|00:49:59|460|00:50:03|060Third ray physical body. Difficult rays. So for his own 722|00:50:04|190|00:50:08|550protection, D.K. created that link with 723|00:50:09|050|00:50:13|150him, which was the link of an accepted disciple.

724|00:50:14|270|00:50:18|030No Master accepts the disciple and takes him into His ashram, in whom 725|00:50:18|530|00:50:19|870the birth of the Christ has not taken place. DINAI 718

726|00:50:21|790|00:50:25|150Well, okay, yes, but there's always exceptions. 727|00:50:25|390|00:50:29|230And we were… and we were given that very interesting 728|00:50:30|280|00:50:34|760exception with L.T.S.K. 729|00:50:35|000|00:50:39|000was his motto name. And he 730|00:50:39|500|00:50:42|200had, you know, there were a couple of disciples who had a lot of trouble. 731|00:50:42|700|00:50:46|040But L.T.S.K. and L.U.T. were the two who had a lot of trouble. 732|00:50:46|920|00:50:50|960But L.U.T., who was a Taurus, to 733|00:50:51|460|00:50:55|200be a Scorpio in his next life, had taken the first degree and made 734|00:50:55|700|00:50:59|160a great sacrifice for the Tibetan. And you could see that L.T.S.K. 735|00:50:59|810|00:51:03|730also, obviously a fairly rich man in 736|00:51:04|230|00:51:08|170business, also was making a sacrifice for the Tibetan in the publishing 737|00:51:08|670|00:51:11|970of his books and financing those things. And as D.K. said, 738|00:51:12|470|00:51:15|930we are not ungrateful. So usually 739|00:51:16|430|00:51:20|130it is the case. Almost always it is the case that we cannot 740|00:51:20|630|00:51:23|250be accepted until we've taken the first degree.

741|00:51:23|890|00:51:26|620Saul must become Paul,… DINAI 718

742|00:51:26|860|00:51:30|740Okay? Saul of Tarsus, pressing forward on the road to 743|00:51:31|240|00:51:34|620Damascus, must become Paul the apostle. 744|00:51:35|120|00:51:38|540Paul the disciple. Paul being substituted, he says, 745|00:51:39|040|00:51:42|940for Judas to round out the 12, that ashram of 746|00:51:43|440|00:51:46|940the Christ. Saul must become Paul. In all of our lives, 747|00:51:47|340|00:51:50|940are we Saul or are we Paul? Now, of course, Saul was already 748|00:51:51|440|00:51:55|330a high initiate. He was already initiated to the second degree, 749|00:51:55|490|00:51:59|250as you know, coming into life. And he 750|00:51:59|750|00:52:03|650was fanatic in many ways. And he would 751|00:52:04|150|00:52:07|610become Paul at a higher degree, let us say at the third degree. And it 752|00:52:08|110|00:52:11|090looks like he went on to sacrifice his life at the fourth degree. 753|00:52:11|590|00:52:18|690That's what it looks like to me. And maybe, as Hilarion 754|00:52:19|640|00:52:23|120Iamblichus, as a Neoplatonist, maybe he 755|00:52:23|620|00:52:24|280took the fifth degree.

756|00:52:26|520|00:52:30|280…,as the Christian phraseology puts it. DINAI 718

Saul must become Paul. That's true 757|00:52:30|780|00:52:34|120for all of us. We must become spiritualized, the babe 758|00:52:34|440|00:52:37|720within the womb of time. And that's our consciousness. 759|00:52:38|280|00:52:42|480You know, really, if you look at it, this is our 760|00:52:42|980|00:52:46|460consciousness emerges into the world of men. And from the standpoint 761|00:52:46|960|00:52:50|540of complete identification with matter,

he becomes himself 762|00:52:51|260|00:52:55|060and seeks consciously to tread the ways of life and 763|00:52:55|560|00:52:59|100to become what he is. DINAI 718

So, you know, eventually we 764|00:52:59|600|00:53:03|260think we are matter, but we're not. We identify with a personality 765|00:53:03|340|00:53:06|620only to repudiate it under the law of repulse.

766|00:53:07|580|00:53:11|100So

this is an esoteric repetition 767|00:53:11|500|00:53:14|740of the physical process of becoming a separate 768|00:53:15|240|00:53:19|000individual. DINAI 718

You know, we're born into mass consciousness. And eventually, we know, 769|00:53:19|640|00:53:23|040in the transition from Cancer to Leo, “Hey, I'm the 770|00:53:23|540|00:53:27|560point. I'm not just everybody, you know, I'm not just doing everything the tribe does. 771|00:53:28|060|00:53:31|920I am who I am, and I have my own thoughts.” And then on 772|00:53:32|420|00:53:36|240a higher turn of the spiral, we learn how to disidentify from 773|00:53:36|740|00:53:40|040the material element and become who we are spiritually as a soul.

774|00:53:40|520|00:53:44|280Between the stages of isolated individuality, 775|00:53:45|600|00:53:49|040which I suppose is the earlier part of 776|00:53:49|440|00:53:53|040becoming Leo and coming to yourself. And “I am who I am,” 777|00:53:53|540|00:53:57|040you know, an isolated unity in which we identify the great 778|00:53:57|540|00:54:01|160being in whom we live and move and have our being or identify as that 779|00:54:01|660|00:54:05|280great being, lies one to which we give the name isolated identity. 780|00:54:06|000|00:54:10|160Now, here, this really, really important sentence, you know, 781|00:54:10|660|00:54:13|710and something we should keep in mind. 782|00:54:13|870|00:54:14|750Absolutely. 783|00:54:18|110|00:54:22|670You know, I've read this so many times, but I'm… I'm just impressed 784|00:54:23|170|00:54:26|869always by how important it is between the stages of 785|00:54:27|369|00:54:30|910isolated individuality. And a lot of people find themselves… You know, 786|00:54:33|710|00:54:36|870something, I think there's a statement even with Cancer 787|00:54:37|370|00:54:40|580about this. And yet the crowd exists. 788|00:54:41|060|00:54:44|100Let me go to that Esoteric Astrology, 789|00:54:44|420|00:54:45|700page 332.

790|00:54:48|020|00:54:49|860And it is, it is, it is. 791|00:54:51|300|00:54:54|420The blind unit is lost. Oh, 792|00:54:54|920|00:54:57|860and yet the… Yeah, no, no, no, it's something else. 793|00:54:58|180|00:55:01|500It's something else. I'll look at it this way. The blind unit is 794|00:55:02|000|00:55:05|460lost. And yet the crowd… 795|00:55:06|820|00:55:10|820And yet the crowd… What about the crowd? Yet

Let 796|00:55:11|320|00:55:15|860isolation be the rule and yet—the crowd exists. EA343

797|00:55:16|340|00:55:18|100So that's mass consciousness. 798|00:55:19|460|00:55:22|700And you know, 799|00:55:23|200|00:55:26|620there's the “I am” that stage, which is the lower part of the next 800|00:55:27|120|00:55:30|780and succeeding stage. So here we have to emerge out of this crowd, 801|00:55:31|280|00:55:35|640out of this mass consciousness. We are isolated within 802|00:55:36|140|00:55:39|920it. We don't really have soul relations. The crowd does exist. 803|00:55:40|420|00:55:44|200We're surrounded by those with whom we have superficial relations. 804|00:55:45|080|00:55:48|680But eventually we will have soul relations. So let's remember, 805|00:55:49|080|00:55:52|160I'm telling myself, have I memorized this 806|00:55:52|660|00:55:54|600properly? Let isolation be… 807|00:55:55|480|00:55:57|800Excuse me, isolated individuality, 808|00:55:58|690|00:56:03|010isolated identity and isolated unity. 809|00:56:03|490|00:56:07|330Isolated unity is what I'm always striving for. You know, it's a first-rate thing. 810|00:56:07|490|00:56:11|490But I think we can all develop a kind of isolated unity 811|00:56:11|650|00:56:14|930where we isolate being in our 812|00:56:15|430|00:56:19|250everyday life. We always see that all things are 813|00:56:19|750|00:56:23|330identical in that they are. All things are 814|00:56:23|830|00:56:27|170identical in that they are. They share being and quality. Doesn't make any difference.

815|00:56:27|250|00:56:30|660It is with this stage we are 816|00:56:31|160|00:56:33|940concerned and its esoteric implications. 818|00:56:38|160|00:56:43|100has reached. DINAI 718

and it really… Around the third degree, I think you can achieve something 819|00:56:43|600|00:56:47|300of it which is real.

…isolated individuality is 820|00:56:47|800|00:56:50|580that of the disciple. DINAI 718

He has become… 821|00:56:51|140|00:56:54|180Well, maybe not even an individual before you're a disciple. 822|00:56:54|340|00:56:57|820He has become a real identity 823|00:56:58|320|00:57:02|620and distinctive. And an earlier stage of isolated individuality 824|00:57:02|780|00:57:06|300might be said. We emerge from the mass and 825|00:57:06|800|00:57:10|140we become the individual. But it takes a long time to work yourself 826|00:57:10|640|00:57:14|380up to be a distinctive individuality.

Isolated identity 827|00:57:15|100|00:57:18|340(with the soul) is that of the disciple 828|00:57:18|840|00:57:22|530up to and including the third initiation. DINAI 718

I just…

That's so important, 829|00:57:23|410|00:57:26|930you know, and I keep on sort of forgetting it. 830|00:57:28|050|00:57:31|570But isolated identity with the soul. 831|00:57:32|070|00:57:34|850I am the soul. I am the soul. How many times did D.K. say it 832|00:57:35|330|00:57:37|570in the various mantras? I am the soul. 833|00:57:38|530|00:57:41|490And… But are we, 834|00:57:41|970|00:57:44|450you know, if you stop for just a moment, what are you? 835|00:57:48|540|00:57:51|740You know, I am… I have a name, I have a form, I have a 836|00:57:52|240|00:57:56|140way of thinking. I have a way of feeling. Am I the personality? 837|00:57:56|640|00:58:00|300Or is there something more? Am I really the 838|00:58:00|800|00:58:04|580soul? Isolated identity. And not just the individuality 839|00:58:05|080|00:58:08|540of a distinctive and perhaps reasonably highly developed 840|00:58:09|040|00:58:12|100person. So let everybody 841|00:58:12|600|00:58:14|140test himself, herself. Let everybody test.

842|00:58:17|040|00:58:20|480What am I? No, it's “I am.” I am. 843|00:58:21|360|00:58:24|800That's sort of isolated. A type of isolated 844|00:58:25|300|00:58:29|040individuality. “I am that.” That is definitely isolated identity. “I am that 845|00:58:29|540|00:58:31|520I am. I am that, and that I am.” 846|00:58:32|160|00:58:35|680That's isolated unity. And so Leo 847|00:58:36|180|00:58:39|360is so important. It's, in a way, the most human sign. 848|00:58:39|440|00:58:43|420And we go through these different stages of it. And that fifth petal is 849|00:58:43|920|00:58:47|940a dramatic moment where you move from a 850|00:58:48|440|00:58:53|380kind of separative individualism into 851|00:58:53|880|00:58:58|300a crash and burn. And then move on into 852|00:58:58|800|00:59:03|300real discipleship. A higher form of isolated individuality. 853|00:59:03|620|00:59:07|590Leading to real identification as the soul as 854|00:59:08|090|00:59:11|470the initiations proceed. And then finally, as we really get 855|00:59:11|970|00:59:15|550into the jewel and the lotus. Fourth initiation. Contact with the Monad, 856|00:59:16|110|00:59:20|550the seeing. Isolated unity as 857|00:59:21|050|00:59:25|550more than a theory. Even at the third degree, isolated unity can 858|00:59:25|950|00:59:29|470begin its process of growth within our 859|00:59:29|970|00:59:33|430nature.

All right, so let's see 860|00:59:33|930|00:59:36|430what we have here. What I'm going to do… I'm going to call this the 861|00:59:37|110|00:59:41|190end of First Initiation 862|00:59:41|690|00:59:46|030Compilation Program Number One. And this 863|00:59:46|530|00:59:50|990is the 22nd of June. We're into the sign Cancer. And here 864|00:59:51|490|00:59:55|030we have the beginning of First Initiation Compilation Program 865|00:59:55|110|00:59:58|7902. And I'm not sure what day this will be on. I always 866|00:59:59|290|01:00:02|750hope it's the same day. I used to make these really long programs, even up 867|01:00:03|250|01:00:06|510to five hours. But I was driving the transcribers crazy, 868|01:00:07|010|01:00:10|110so there's no sense in doing that.

All right, we're into the first initiation now 869|01:00:10|590|01:00:14|030and associated thoughts. Obviously, we're not, 870|01:00:14|530|01:00:18|470you know, rigidly following a kind of outline in which we only discuss the 871|01:00:18|970|01:00:22|270first initiation. So that in any of these discussions, 872|01:00:22|350|01:00:26|550other initiations will come up and their relation to 873|01:00:27|050|01:00:30|870the first initiation. But that is our main thought. 874|01:00:31|370|01:00:35|380And the paragraphs here are on the first initiation, 875|01:00:36|340|01:00:39|540primarily. Okay, thank you. 876|01:00:40|180|01:00:41|500See you soon. Bye.