Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle - Planetary and
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Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle - Planetary and Human Centers





III. Planetary and Human CentersThere is a
factor bearing upon the etheric body to which very little reference has ever been made,
the reason being that it would have been utterly useless information. Let me embody it in
a tabulated statement, beginning with a few points earlier imparted but which should here
be repeated for clarity and placed in proper sequence:
The
planetary Logos works through the medium of the three major centers:
The Center where the will of God is known: Shamballa.
The Center where the love of God is manifest: the Hierarchy.
The Center where the intelligence of God is producing the evolutionary process:
Humanity.


The three
major centers, both planetary and human, exist in etheric substance and they may or may
not produce physical correspondences. All the Masters, for instance, do not work through a
physical vehicle. They nevertheless have an etheric body composed of the substance of the
cosmic etheric levels - buddhic, atmic, monadic and logoic levels - and these levels are
the four cosmic ethers, the higher correspondence of our etheric planes; these higher
levels are the four levels of the cosmic physical plane. Until They choose, at the sixth
Initiation of Decision, one of the seven Paths of Ultimate Destiny, the Masters function
in Their cosmic etheric bodies.
These three major energy centers are closely related to each other, and through his own
individual major centers (the head, the heart and the throat) [160] the disciple is in
relation with the three planetary centers. I would have you ponder on this statement for
it has practical value.
The Monad,
as you know, is to be found on the cosmic second etheric level, called the monadic plane.
When the antahkarana has been built, then cosmic etheric substance can be slowly
substituted for the ordinary and familiar etheric substance which "substands"
the dense physical body of a man.
The ray upon
which the Monad is to be found - one of the three major rays and, therefore, related to
one of the three major centers - conditions:
The disciple's absorption into one of the three departments of hierarchical work, i.e.,
a first ray soul will go normally into such an Ashram as that of the Master M. in the
department of the Manu; a second ray disciple will pass into a second ray Ashram such as
mine (D.K.) or that of the Master K.H. and therefore into the department of the Christ; a
third ray soul will be absorbed into one of the Ashrams (and there are many) functioning
under the Lord of Civilization, the Master R.
All who come into incarnation upon one of the Rays of Attribute - the fourth,
fifth, sixth and seventh rays - find their way finally on to one of the three major Rays
of Aspect. The changes of shifts in ray focus are made when the etheric body has in
it an adequate measure of the substance of the lowest of the cosmic ethers, the buddhic
substance; this is basic for all, on all the rays, for at the end of the age, when cosmic
etheric substance [161] composes the etheric vehicles of the initiate, the three rays
become the two rays, and later another absorption takes place into the second Ray of
Love-Wisdom which is the ray of our present solar system.



You can
see, therefore, what conditioning factors the various energies become when appropriated
and used, and how their substance, or rather the presence of certain energies in the
etheric body of the personality, are essential before certain initiations can be taken.
The theme is too complex to be enlarged upon here, but I would ask you to consider with
care the various statements I have made and then seek illumination within yourself.
The rays are the seven emanations from the "seven Spirits before the throne of
God"; Their emanations come from the monadic level of awareness or from the second
cosmic etheric plane. In a certain sense it could be said that these seven great and
living Energies are in their totality the etheric vehicle of the planetary Logos. The
evolutionary processes can equally well be stated to be those of eliminating the physical
substance lying between the dense physical body and the astral sentient body, and
substituting substance of the four highest planes, the four cosmic ethers. Physically
speaking, it is this etheric substitution which enables a man successively to take the
five initiations which make him a Master of the Wisdom.
The first initiation is purely the concern of the man's own soul, and the moment that
that initiation has been taken, a measure of buddhic energy can enter and the process of
transference of the higher ethers and their substitution for the lower can go forward.
This, as you may well imagine, produces conflict; the personality etheric body rejects the
incoming higher ether, and thus crises are produced in the initiate's life. [162]





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