Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II -
Interrelations of the Personality Life







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Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - The Ray of Personality - The
Appropriation of the Bodies





In this summary, we have sketched the broad general outlines
of the process. It will be obvious that there will be gradations in the process and men
will be found on earth at every stage of consciousness. One will be equipped with vehicles
in which the emphasis is upon the sensory life. In some cases there will be found a
consciousness which is shifting its emphasis out of one vehicle into another, and so [338]
becoming awake and more inclusive in its range of contacts and in its awareness. Others
again will be possessed of a consciousness which is organizing itself for full expression
as a man, as an integrated personality and as a worker for material ends, bringing to bear
upon those objectives all the force and power of an integrated functioning person. There
will be those whose consciousness is gradually awakening to a new and higher sense of
values, and is slowly at first and more rapidly as facility is acquired, shifting its
focus of attention out of the world of material, selfish living into that of true
spiritual realities.Little by little, the consciousness of the third aspect of divinity
is coordinated with that of the second, and the Christ consciousness is aroused into
activity through the medium of experience in form. Man begins to add to the gained
personality experience of the three worlds of human endeavor, the intuitive spiritual
perception which is the heritage of those who are awake within the kingdom of God.
Paralleling this development of the consciousness in man is the evolution of the
instruments whereby that consciousness is brought en rapport with a rapidly expanding
world of sensory perception, of intellectual concepts and of intuitive recognitions. With
the development of this form aspect we will not concern ourselves, beyond pointing out
that, as the consciousness shifts from one body to another and its range of contacts,
therefore, steadily expands, the centers in man's etheric body (three below and four above
the diaphragm) are awakened in three major stages, though through the medium of many
smaller awakenings.
They begin
to develop from that of the "closed bud to that of the opened lotus". This takes
place during the period of ordinary evolution. [339]
The petals
of the lotus become vibrant and alive. This is the stage of personality integration.
The heart of
the lotus, "the jewel in the lotus" also becomes actively alive. This is the
period of the final stages upon the Path.

This
process of unfoldment is itself brought about by five crises of awakening, so that we have
a threefold process and a fivefold movement.
The centers
below the diaphragm are the controlling and dominant factor. The stage of dense
materiality, of lower desire and of physical urge is in full expression. This was carried
to its higher point of development in Lemurian times. The sacral center was the
controlling factor.
The centers
below the diaphragm become fully active, with the major emphasis in the solar plexus
center. This center eventually becomes the great clearing house for all the lower forces
and marks the period of the shift into a higher body, the astral body. This was
characteristic of Atlantean racial development.
The
awakening of the throat center and the shift of much of the lower energy into the throat
activity. The ajna center also begins to become active, producing integrated and creative
personalities. This stage is characteristic of the present Aryan race.
The
awakening of the heart center and the shift of the solar plexus energy into that center,
thus producing groups and the entrance of a new and fuller sense of spiritual energy. The
shift of emphasis is then into those states of awareness which reveal the kingdom of God.
The fifth kingdom in nature becomes creatively active [340] on earth. This will be
characteristic of the consciousness of the next great race.
The
awakening of the head center, with the consequent arousing of the kundalini fire at the
base of the spine. This leads to the final integration of soul and body, and the
appearance of a perfected humanity upon earth. This will express the nature of the final
race.







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