The Jewel in The Lotus
The vehicle of expression for the Solar Angel is the causal body, which is composed of a twelve-petalled lotus with a jewel in the center.
What is this jewel?
One with higher vision would see “a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue-white hue surrounded, and completely hidden, by three closely folded petals.” More specifically the jewel is represented by a triangle with a point in the center.
The triangle is symbolic of the three aspects of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, or Power, Love and Active Intelligence.
The point in the center represents the one invisible God from whence all life comes.
The Jewel in the Lotus circulates the necessary energies to create life and is the life principle itself. The point in the center is that which we must all pass through to receive higher revelation. It is that which links us all to God and esoterically makes us all one with God and each other.
This lotus is reflected to the centers of each of the seven chakras where a lower octave of the jewel resides. Because of this reflection the seeker can find a partial revelation of God in each of the centers through contemplation. After he finds the seven revelations in the seven centers he will then discover the secret of the jewel in the lotus, the seat of the soul.
Quotes from DK
“The Point at the Centre. This is the “jewel in the lotus,” to use the ancient oriental appellation; it is the point of life by means of which the Monad anchors itself upon the physical plane, and is the life principle therefore of all the transient vehicles—developed, undeveloped or developing. This point of life contains within itself all possibilities, all potentialities, all experiences and all vibratory activities. It embodies the will-to-be, the quality of magnetic attraction (commonly called love), and the active intelligence which will bring the livingness and the love into full expression.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 169
“We have seen that on the third level of the mental plane, the egoic lotus is found and the student should picture it to himself as follows:
“Concealed at the very centre or heart of the lotus is a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue-white hue (the jewel in the lotus) surrounded, and completely hidden, by three closely folded petals. Around this central nucleus, or inner flame, are arranged the nine petals in circles of three petals each, making three circles in all. These petals are formed out of the substance of the solar angels, as are the central three,—substance which is not only sentient as is the substance of the forms in the three worlds and the lunar bodies, but which has an added quality of “I-ness” or of self-consciousness, enabling the spiritual unity at the centre (by means of it) to acquire knowledge, awareness, and self-realisation. These nine petals are of a predominant orange hue, though the six other colours are found as secondary colours in a varying degree. The inner three petals are of a lovely lemon-yellow hue. At the base of the lotus petals are the three points of light which mark the position of the permanent atoms, and which are the medium of communication between the solar Angels and the lunar Pitris. By means of these permanent atoms the Ego, according to its state of evolution can construct his lunar bodies, acquire knowledge on the lower three planes, and thus buy his experience, and becomes aware. On a higher turn of the spiral, the Monad through the egoic petals, and thus with the aid of the solar Angels, acquires knowledge and equally on more exalted levels becomes aware.” TCF, Pages 761-762
“The jewel in the lotus is the director of energy from the monad, whilst the third eye directs the energy of the Ego on the physical plane. … The jewel, or diamond concealed by the egoic lotus, is the window of the Monad or Spirit whereby he looks outward into the three worlds. The third eye is the window of the Ego or soul functioning on the physical plane whereby he looks inward into the three worlds.” TCF, Pg 1129
“This—as the Old Commentary puts it—is “a point of focussed fire, found in the centre of the jewel. It stirs to life the quality of love which permeates the Ashram of the Lord. Radiation then can penetrate to other centres and to other lives, and thus the Lord is served.” It is this point of focussed dynamic will at the very heart of the Hierarchy which in reality implements the Plan.” Rays and Initiations, Pages 375-376
The centers “are awakened in three major stages, though through the medium of many smaller awakenings.
“1. 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.
“2. The petals of the lotus become vibrant and alive. This is the stage of personality integration.
“3. 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.” Esoteric Psychology, Vol 2, Pages 338-339
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. — There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy. – Greville
Nov 16, 2009 – Quotes added May 2025
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