Lords of Compassion

2001-12-20 05:32:00

Since Glenys touched briefly on the evolution of the list I thought I would make a few comments to update new members.

First, even though I am the main teacher, it was Rick who initiated the list and has the ultimate authority over it. Neither you nor I have any control over the rules, but all of us are equal in the fact that we all have opportunity to recommend changes to him. Rick then can accept or reject our suggestions.

I try to stay neutral in influencing him and I think I have only made one or two suggestions or requests since the list began just over three years ago.

Rick tries to play the role of a benevolent authority here and listens to suggestions and does what he can to make this place an enjoyable experience for us all. It's always hard to keep everybody happy, but it does indeed seem to be a peaceful place at present.

When the list began Rick, myself and most of the members wanted to keep the list completely open with no moderating as long as was possible and this we did for the first few years. As we progressed, there were a number of members who made distracting posts, some argumentative and some off topic, that raised complaints from numerous members. We waded through these distractions as long as the majority of the list could endure it and then we decided to moderate.

During these three years, if my memory serves me right, there have only been three people kicked off the list. One was for bad and threatening language and the other two for refusing to remain even close to topic among other things. No one has ever been kicked off because they disagreed. Many have quit because they disagreed, but this is not a reason to expel them from the list.

Since we have moderated the list there has been less than a half dozen posts rejected because of content (I can only remember two or three) if they have been even close to being on topic. We have rejected a number of SPAM posts which are often sent to hundreds of lists and only serve to irritate. The only other postings which have been rejected are posts unreadable because of html or unreadable for some reason. In this case, Diane, our main moderator, sends it back for a rewrite or sometimes she or I will clean up the message and post it.

What I want to make clear here is that the current peace we enjoy is not because we censor out all disagreements for we have never done this.

I suppose there could arise someone who could disagree just to be disagreeable to the extent that by popular demand his posts could be rejected, but I see no sign of such members posting in this direction at present. We have a quieter group than in the past, but a courteous one and it seems that most are interested in increasing their learning and consciousness.

You are all much appreciated.

I received an e-mail where a reader asks: "Recently you posted/spoke of the Lords of Compassion. I would most appreciate more information on this subject. Up to this point, I have never heard of them. It helped greatly hearing of this differentiation or focus. .. . (as the category of the Lords of Wisdom, which Alice A. Bailey transcribes [is most beautiful])."

JJ
Even though the Lords of Compassion outnumber the Masters of Wisdom, only passing references are made to them in the Bailey and other writings. Part of the reason for this is that Djwahl Khul is a Master of Wisdom on the occult path and he, of course, writes more material around his own domain of thought that corresponds to his path.

The Second Ray, as we said, is dual and this of course governs the heart center and manifests itself as Love/Wisdom. In addition to this there is a second heart center in the head which also manifests this aspect.

The regular heart center is polarized in the love aspect and the one in the head is polarized in the wisdom aspect. Even so, both of them have 12 petals each and in each center these 12 petals are divided between the two energies.

The Masters of Wisdom are those high entities who have mastered all the twelve energy petals with both heart centers and linked them to the Shamballa energy. These have taken the fifth initiation or higher and follow the occult path.

These usually graduate to the Fifth Path, called the Ray Path and are closely aligned to Rays 2, 1, 3 & 5 with emphasis on 5.

To understand the Lords of Compassion the first thing to realize is that the soul, your Solar Angel, is a Lord of Compassion and sacrificed itself through compassion so you could be born as an entity.

Thus the major step to be made to become a Lord of Compassion is to become one with your own soul. When this occurs the disciple will understand the sacrifice that was made so he could be and become. This gives him the desire to also sacrifice and become a Lord of Compassion.

The consummate Lord of Compassion is the mystic who has evolved as far as possible without fully developing the manasic (mind) principle. He has reached the fifth initiation and at the sixth he will choose the Fourth Path to Sirius where he will complete his mental mastery and shift his attention to the occult path where complete mastery will be his.

The Lords of Compassion are not always called Masters for to attain all the powers of a Master one must develop the wisdom aspect and the mind. As DK says, the mind is the "plane whereon the masters can be found."

The Masters of Wisdom are somewhat detached from the sufferings of mankind and this gives them freedom to accomplish their many lines of work, many of which are not directly related to the human kingdom.

The Lords of Compassion, on the other hand, are very tuned in to the feeling aspect and either cannot or refuse to detach themselves from human suffering. These work with the "saving" aspect of the Christ and seek to save mankind from their sins and suffering by working directly with them. These fifth degree Lords and thousands of Lords in training are either drawn directly into incarnation or work with those incarnated to relieve the suffering of the race. These Lords will not feel their work is done until heaven and earth come together and all the people of the earth have equal access to all the gifts of God.

All disciples have some of the Compassion and Wisdom aspect in them, but all will lean more toward one direction than the other.

The Lords of Compassion are closely aligned to Rays 2, 3, 4 and 6 with emphasis on 4.