Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Psychology II - Chapter II - The
Techniques of Fusion and Duality







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Now let us for a moment consider the Technique of Fusion. The
keynotes of the three techniques are as follows:
First Ray - Isolated Unity.
Second Ray - Inclusive Reason.
Third Ray - Presented Attributes.

The first thing the disciple who seeks to use these techniques undertakes is to arrive
at an understanding (practical, experimental and subjective) of the appropriate phrase for
his ray. Let me paraphrase or elucidate each of them, inadequately perforce owing to the
lack of comprehension and the limited evolution of the average disciple, but in any case
in order to bring suggestion to your minds.
Isolated Unity is that stage of consciousness which sees the whole as one and
regards itself, not theoretically but as a realized fact, as identified with that whole.
It is a whole which is "isolated" in the consciousness of the man, and not the
man himself who regards himself as isolated. The word [392] "isolated" refers to
that complete organized organism of which the man can feel and know himself to be a part.
The word "unity" expresses his relationship to the whole. It will be apparent
therefore that this whole is something progressively realized. For the bringing about of
this progressed realization the great expansions of consciousness, called initiations,
have been temporarily arranged as a hastening or forcing process. This progression of
realized "isolations in unity" may begin with the disciple's group, environment
or nation and, through right use of the understanding, will end by enabling him to isolate
the whole divine scheme or living structure, and to identify himself with it in an active
capable manner.
The result
of meditation upon this theme will be:
A definite
illumination of the mind, for it will then be at-one with the Universal Mind and all the
ways of God and the plans of God will stand revealed to him.
The creative
imagination will be powerfully evoked in response to this revelation, and modes and
methods of cooperation will be sentiently developed and the disciple will become a
creative cooperator and not just an obedient servant of the Plan.
His life
will be then inspired by the desire to serve humanity and to cooperate with the Custodians
of the Plan. This will bring in the full tide of soul life, producing temporarily a
violent conflict between the personality ray and the soul ray, but also producing a steady
subordination of the lower to the higher, of the minor to the major.

I cannot
too strongly call to your attention that I am not here dealing with the normal service and
the self-enforced cooperation of the aspirant - a cooperation based upon theory and a
determination to prove theory and plan and service to [393] be evolutionary facts - but
with that spontaneous illumination, creativity and inspiration which is the result of the
use of the Technique of Fusion by the soul - by the soul, and not by the aspiring
struggling disciple. Here lies the clue to meaning. We are dealing consequently with that
stage of development wherein, in deep contemplation, the man is consciously merged with
the soul and that soul, in meditation, decides, plans and works. He functions as the soul
and has achieved a definite measure of success in living as a soul, consciously upon the
physical plane.
This
particular technique of meditation involves the use of the head center, demands the
ability to focus the consciousness in the soul form, the spiritual body, and, at the same
time, to preserve soul consciousness, mind consciousness and brain consciousness - no easy
task for the neophyte and something which lies far ahead for the majority of students who
read these words. This condition has been described as "the intensest reflection of
the man, isolated in God Who is the negation of isolation and is nevertheless the Whole
which is set apart from other Wholes." When this state of awareness has been achieved
(and Patanjali hints at it in the last book of the Sutras) the disciple becomes invincible
upon the physical plane, for he is completely unified and linked up with all aspects of
himself in the greater Whole of which he is a part, is fusing all attributes and is at-one
with the Whole, not simply subjectively and unconsciously (as are all human beings) but in
full, waking, understanding awareness.





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