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Learn to be telepathic and
intuitive. Then these forms of words and these ideas, clothed in form,
will not be needed. You can then stand face to face with naked truth, and
live and work in the terrain of ideas and not in the world of forms. White
Magic 124
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These are the three major faculties which the spiritual man can unfold;
other faculties and developing capacities are only expansions of these
three—telepathic thought, receiving and transmitting; intuitive
recognition of truth and its formulation into concepts by the mind, plus
the later process of materialising that which has been intuited, the
highest form of creative work; healing, with its understanding of energy
and forces which will lead later to the rebirth of humanity. DNA 28
***
In every college [future occult schools] the work of these trained seven
men will be aided by that of three women chosen for their capacity to
teach, for their intuitive development and for the spiritual and
devotional touch they will bring to the lives of the students. To these
ten teachers will be entrusted the work of grounding the students in the
important essentials, in superintending the acquirement of the rudiments
of occult lore and science, and their development in the higher psychism.
These ten must be profound students of meditation, and able to superintend
and teach the pupils the rudiment of occult meditation, as taught, for
instance, in this book. Occult facts will be imparted to these pupils by
them and the basic laws that—in the advanced school—will be the subject of
definite practice by the would-be initiate. Exercises in telepathy, causal
communication, reminiscence of work undertaken during the hours of sleep,
and the recovering of the memory of past lives, through certain mental
processes, will be taught by them,—themselves proficient in these arts.
Letters Occult Meditation 316
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What should disciples in a Master's group look for as evidence of
successful group work? First and foremost, as you well know, group
integrity and cohesion. Nothing can be done without this. The subjective
linking of the disciples with each other in their own group, and the
linking of the group with other groups occupied with special work within
the Ashram and the emergence (as a result of this) of a group and an
ashramic consciousness are vital objectives. It is hoped that this will
also [Page 16] eventuate in a telepathic interplay which will bring potent
results and successful outer work. From these activities will emerge a
group circulation of energy which will be of service in world salvage.
Each of you should remember that purity of body, control of the emotions
and stability of mind are fundamental necessities and should be daily the
attempted achievement. Again and again, I come back to these prime
character requirements and—tiresome as the reiteration may be—I urge upon
you the cultivation of these qualities. I would like to remind you also
that you are adult and mature men and women who need not specific
statements as to faults and characteristics. I seek only to make
suggestion as to trends of thought. Note here the word suggestion, for
that is all I seek to give. The disciple must be left free to follow a
suggestion or a hint as seems wise to him. This entire work might be
termed an experiment in esoteric commonsense and in willingness to accept
suggestion. It is a trial of the intuition and a test in discrimination.
This work to which I have called you is also an experiment in
impersonality, in willingness to work and learn, in freedom to choose or
reject, in observation and in techniques. All have their value. DNA I
15-16
***
This experiment, being attempted by a group within my Ashram, is one in
mental relations and in soul contact, with the emphasis and attention
placed basically there. The astral- physical brain reactions should be
regarded as non-existent and as illusion and should be allowed to lapse
below the threshold of the group consciousness—there to die for lack of
attention. This type of group work is a new venture and unless something
definitely new emerges as a result of this experiment, the time and effort
are not warranted. You must not imagine that the particular line of work
on which you may be engaged is the factor of main interest. It is not
primarily the unfoldment of the intuition, or of the power to heal, or of
telepathic efficiency which is of importance. That which counts with the
Hierarchy as the Ashrams function is the establishing subjectively of such
a potent group interplay and group relation that an emerging world unity
can be seen in embryo. A joint power to be telepathic or a group capacity
to intuit truth is of value and somewhat novel. It is the functioning of
groups who have the ability to work as a unity, whose ideals are one,
whose personalities are merged into one forward swing, whose rhythm is one
and whose unity is so firmly established that naught can produce in the
group the purely human characteristics of separation, of personal
isolation and [Page 23] selfish seeking, that is new. Unselfish people are
not rare. Unselfish groups are very rare. Pure detached devotion in a
human being is not rare but to find it in a group is rare indeed. The
submergence of personal interests in the good of the family or in that of
another person is often to be found, for the beauty of the human heart has
manifested itself down the ages. To find such an attitude in a group of
people and to see such a point of view maintained with an unbroken rhythm
and demonstrating spontaneously and naturally—this will be the glory of
the New Age. DNA 22-23
***
The various groups in a Master's Ashram can fulfil certain functions and
provide laboratories for specified work. Some can provide a demonstration
laboratory of the trained observers of the world and can handle world
glamour and illusion. Other groups can focus on the development of the
telepathic faculty and become trained communicators. The objective before
the Hierarchy at this time is to break and dissipate the world glamour.
This has to happen on a world scale just as it happens in the life of
every disciple. Just as a man shifts his focus of consciousness (when on
the Path of Discipleship) on to the mental plane and learns to smash the
glamour which has hitherto held him on the astral plane, so the problem
before the Hierarchy today is to bring about a similar happening in the
life of humanity as a whole, for humanity is at the crossroads and its
consciousness is being rapidly focussed on the mental plane. A death blow
must be struck at the world illusion for it holds the sons of men in
thrall. By learning to break through the glamour in their own lives and to
live in the light of the intuition, disciples can strengthen the hands of
Those Whose task it is to awaken the intuition in man. DNA 26
***
During the next few months (November 1937), I will ask you to stabilise
yourself at the centre of your being, to achieve easy contact with the
soul, and to build with care the antahkarana, from the heart, via the head
to the soul. I would ask you to render all possible psychological aid when
demand comes to you, and through those channels which are at this time
definitely open to you. I would ask you to bring to the Full Moon approach
an intensity of purpose which should carry you to a high point of group
fusion. I have asked several of you to take many days for preparation
before and after the Full Moon period of five days. For you I would
suggest a different technique.
I want from you tensity, dynamic one-pointedness and focussed attention. I
would, therefore, suggest that you focus on the Full Moon Approach (owing
to the tension and strain which my suggestion may evoke in your vehicles)
for only one day prior to the Full Moon, for the day of the Full Moon
itself, and for the day succeeding the Full Moon. I would ask you to look
for and expect certain reactions—phenomenal and psychological. These may
be immediate in appearance, or they may work into your consciousness
during the week which succeeds the Full Moon. I refer not here to lower
psychic phenomena, but to certain spiritual occurrences and soul
intuitions which can be sometimes noted when the point of tension is
adequate. Watch for these experiences—intuitive, telepathic and
spiritual—and note them in your spiritual diary, attempting rightly to
interpret them. I give you no special work except that which I am asking
of all the group members. I ask from you a task of intensification, and
this will permit a greater usefulness in the group. DNA 642-43
***
The planning and the assignment of tasks connected with the enterprise in
hand is carried forward through the medium of an ashramic, reflective
meditation, initiated by the Custodian of the Plan. The Master of an
Ashram does not say: "Do this" or "Do that." Together, in unison and in
deep reflection the plans unfold, and each disciple and initiate sees
occultly where he is needed and where—at any given moment—he must place
his cooperative energy. Note my wording here. The members of an Ashram,
however, do not sit down for a joint meditation. One of the qualities,
developed through ashramic contact, is the ability to live always within
the field of intuitive perception—a field which has been created, or a
sphere of energy which has been generated, by the united purpose, the
combined planning and the concentrated energy of the Hierarchy. An analogy
(but only an analogy, however) would be to regard this field of
reflecting, reflective and reflected energies as resembling the brain of a
human being; this brain reflects the impacts of telepathic activity, the
sensory perceptions and the knowledges gained in the three worlds;
reflection then sets in in relation to the mental processes which are
synchronised with the brain, and then follows the impartation of these
reflections to the outside world. The ashramic reflective meditation is an
integral part of the constantly developing perception of the
disciple-initiate, and it (in its turn) is a part of the whole
hierarchical reflective meditation. This latter is based upon inspiration
(in the occult sense) from Shamballa. The moment a disciple can share in
this constant unremitting meditation or reflection without its interfering
with his service and his other lines of thought, he becomes what is called
"a disciple who shall no more go out." DNA II 105
***
The members of an Ashram are all in the process of demonstrating love and
pure reason, and they are—at the same time—focussing themselves in the
Will aspect of divinity. This statement may mean little to you at present
but it is fundamentally the factor which creates the higher antahkarana,
uniting the Hierarchy and Shamballa. This makes the planetary purpose of
so much importance.
These are the major factors which produce group unity; they have, as
results, telepathic rapport and intuitive perception; but these are
effects and not causes and are the product of the measure of the attained
group unity.
You can see, therefore, the scientific reason I had when I urged you in
past years to have a group enterprise, for it is a major unifying factor,
and the inner Ashram with which you are affiliated stands to you (at your
particular point of development) as Shamballa stands to the Hierarchy—from
the angle of dynamic inspiration. DNA II 106
***
There are certain psychic powers which men share in common with the
animals; these powers are inherent in the animal body and are instinctual,
but they have, for the vast majority, dropped below the threshold of
consciousness and are unrealised and therefore useless. These are the
powers, for instance, of astral clairvoyance and clairaudience, and the
seeing of colours and similar phenomena. Clairvoyance and clairaudience
are also possible on mental levels, and we then call it telepathy, and the
seeing of symbols, for all visioning of geometrical forms is mental
clairvoyance. All these powers are, however, tied up with the human
mechanism or response apparatus, and serve to put the man in touch with
aspects of the phenomenal world for which the response mechanism, which we
call the personality, exists. They are the product of the activity of the
divine soul in man, which takes the form of what we call "the animal
soul," which really corresponds to the Holy Ghost aspect in the human
microcosmic trinity. All these powers have their [Page 9] higher spiritual
correspondences, which manifest when the soul becomes consciously active
and controls its mechanism through the mind and the brain. When astral
clairvoyance and clairaudience are not below the threshold of
consciousness, but are actively used and functioning, it means that the
solar plexus centre is open and active. When the corresponding mental
faculties are present in consciousness, then it means that the throat
centre and the centre between the eyebrows are becoming "awake" and
active. But the higher psychic powers, such as spiritual perception with
its infallible knowledge, the intuition with its unerring judgment, and
psychometry of the higher kind with its power to reveal the past and the
future, are the prerogatives of the divine soul. These higher powers come
into play when the head and heart centres, as well as the throat centre,
are brought into activity as the result of meditation and service. Let the
student, however, remember two things:
That the greater can always include the lesser, but the purely animal
psychic does not include the higher.
That between the lowest type of negative mediumship and the highest type
of inspired teacher and seer are found a vast diversity of grades, and
that the centres are not uniformly developed in humanity.
The complexity of the subject is great, but the general situation can be
grasped, the significance of the opportunity proffered can be understood,
and the right use of knowledge be employed to bring good out of the
present critical period, and thus the psychic and spiritual growth of man
be fostered and nurtured. Externalisation Hierarchy 9
***
The founding upon the inner planes of a school of telepathy to which
humanity can become sensitive, even if unconsciously so, is part of the
task which the first group, the Telepathic Communicators, has undertaken.
They are the custodians of the group purpose, and work on mental levels.
The second group, the Trained Observers, has the objective to see clearly
through the use of the intuition; they serve on astral levels. The third
group, the Magnetic Healers, has the objective of working with forces on
the physical plane. Externalisation Hierarchy 31
***
By the growth of intuitional telepathy and the increasing comprehension of
the power of colour and sound will the work of the Christ and of the Great
Ones be contacted and understood, and the peoples released from the
thraldom of the past and enabled to enter into the liberty of the Kingdom
of God. Externalisation Hierarchy 509
***
Another matter to which the Hierarchy is at this time attending, in view
of the coming adjustments required, is the discovery of aspirants and
those who are close to accepted discipleship in all lands, in order that
the language problem will present little difficulty. Having discovered
such people, Their next step is to subject them to a process of training
in telepathic susceptibility, so that they will be sensitive to
hierarchical impression. At the same time, their intuition will require
stimulation but—as the intuition is useless and inaccessible without a
high grade intelligence—all these people must be sought for upon mental
levels. The possession of the abstract mind is not sufficient. It is
useful, in that it guarantees the ability of the aspirant to construct the
antahkarana; it is nevertheless quite possible to possess a well developed
abstract consciousness and yet to be quite devoid of all intuitive
perception. Externalisation Hierarchy 695
***
Three types of telepathy: instinctual telepathy [solar plexus], mental
[throat center] telepathy, and intuitional telepathy [ajna center].
Telepathy 16
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Intuitional telepathy is one of the developments upon the Path of
Discipleship. It is one of the fruits of true meditation. The area
involved is the head and throat, and the three centres which will be
rendered active in the process are the head centre, which is receptive to
impression from higher sources, and the ajna centre which is the recipient
of the idealistic intuitional impressions; this ajna centre can then
"broadcast" that which is received and recognised, using the throat centre
as the creative formulator of thought, and the factor which embodies the
sensed or intuited idea.
It will be apparent to you, therefore, how necessary it is to have a
better recognition of the activity of the centres, as they are detailed in
the Hindu philosophy; and until there is some real understanding of the
part the vital body plays as the broadcaster and as the recipient of
feelings, thoughts and ideas, there will be little progress made in the
right understanding of modes of communication.
There is an interesting parallel between the three modes of telepathic
work and their three techniques of accomplishment, and the three major
ways of communicating on Earth:
Instinctual telepathy - train travel, stations everywhere - telegraph
Mental telepathy - ocean travel, ports on the periphery of all lands -
telephone
Intuitional telepathy - air travel, landing place - radio. Telepathy 19
***
Telepathic work between soul and mind. This is the technique whereby the
mind is "held steady in the light," and then becomes aware of the content
of the soul's consciousness, an innate content, or that which is part of
the group life of the soul on its own level, and when in telepathic
communication with other souls, as mentioned under our fourth heading.
This is the true meaning of intuitional telepathy. Through this means of
communication the mind of the disciple is fertilised with the new and
spiritual ideas; he becomes aware of the great Plan; his intuition is
awakened. One point should here be borne in mind, which is oft forgotten:
The inflow of the new ideas from the buddhic levels, thus awakening the
intuitional aspect of the disciple, indicates that his soul is beginning
to integrate consciously and definitely with the Spiritual Triad, and
therefore to identify itself less and less with the lower reflection, the
personality. This mental sensitivity and rapport between soul and mind
remain for a long time relatively inchoate on the mental plane. That which
is sensed remains too vague or too abstract for formulation. It is the
stage of the mystical vision and of mystical unfoldment.
6. Telepathic work between soul, mind and brain. In [Page 22] this stage
the mind still remains the recipient of impression from the soul but, in
its turn, it becomes a "transmitting agent" or communicator. The
impressions received from the soul, and the intuitions registered as
coming from the Spiritual Triad, via the soul, are now formulated into
thoughts; the vague ideas and the vision hitherto unexpressed can now be
clothed in form and sent out as embodied thoughtforms to the brain of the
disciple. In time, and as the result of technical training, the disciple
can in this way reach the mind and brains of other disciples. This is an
exceedingly interesting stage. It constitutes one of the major rewards of
right meditation and involves much true responsibility. Telepathy 21-22
***
Intuitional telepathy begins to manifest increasingly among advanced human
beings in all lands and all races. This indicates soul contact and the
consequent awakening of group consciousness, for sensitivity to
intuitional impressions has to do only with group concerns. Telepathy 69
***
When a man is a disciple and deliberately seeks to be impressed by his
soul, by the Master or by the Spiritual Triad, the task of the impressing
agent is relatively simple; all the disciple has to do is to develop right
receptivity, plus an intuitive intelligence which will enable him to make
correct interpretations, and to recognise also the source of the
communication or impression. Telepathy 115
***
What will be the method of approach to these devas?
More and more, during the next fifteen years, will men receive definite
teaching, often subconsciously, from devas to whom they are linked. This
will be done telepathically at first. Doctors today get much information
from certain devas. There are two great devas belonging to the green group
on mental levels who assist in this work, and some physicians get much
knowledge subjectively from a violet deva working on the atomic subplane
of the physical plane, aided by a deva of the causal level who works with,
or through, their egos. As men learn to sense and recognise these devas,
more and more teaching will be given. They teach in three ways:
a. By means of intuitional telepathy.
b. Through demonstration of colour, proving the accomplishment of certain
things in this way.
c. By definite musical sounds, which will cause vibrations in the ethers,
which in their turn will produce forms. Esoteric Psychology I, 125
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