Hierarchy

2008-4-11 07:02:00

Gerald asks:

"I was wondering what you know about what, in the 'I AM Discourses,' they refer to as the Great Central Sun. They say that it is connected to all Sun's or Star's like ours. And that as all life on Earth physically is dependent on and fed by the physical sun, so it is for the Great Central Sun as being the source for the etheric, astral and Solar or Soular energies, with the physical Sun at the bottom of this ladder. I was thinking that if consciously tapped into one could pull these energies forth in sungazing?"

JJ:

One thing that goes against the grain of many new age teachers is the fact of hierarchy. Hierarchy naturally evolves among all living things. Since the sun, planets and even galaxies are living then we can expect to find hierarchy among them.

DK [Djwhal Khul] tells us that the sun is a part of a group of seven solar systems, each one representing one of the seven rays. Our sun is on Ray 2. These seven are then linked to a greater entity which is only known to the Hierarchy as "The One About Whom Naught Can Be Said."

This great being is the highest he mentions. This does not mean it is the highest life in our galaxy, but it is the highest of which consciousness upon the earth is capable of perceiving. Even then the name implies that any contact will not yield much understanding because His consciousness is so high.

The galaxy and the universe itself has great spiritual centers that are a source of energy to the creations within it.

Now even though our sun is linked to higher entities in a molecular relationship there is little or no advantage in seeking to go higher than the sun in our contacts. The reason is that the consciousness of the Solar Logos is so high in relation to our own that any higher contact would be meaningless. If a slug encounters an Einstein and a regular guy, is he likely to learn more from one than the other? Actually, he will understand neither.

When I look at the sun I visualize receiving from the great life that is in it, for the majesty of what is there for us is beyond our comprehension. On the other hand, when you receive from the sun you are receiving from this entity as it is linked up to many other greater lives. It is the job of the Solar Logos to commune with those greater lives. Our responsibility only extends as high as our consciousness can reach and few can comprehend much about the Christ, or the Planetary Logos. About all the seekers of the world can grasp of the Solar Logos is a sense of appreciation.

"Gold and silver, however, like every other commodity, vary in their value; are sometimes cheaper and sometimes dearer, sometimes of easier and sometimes of more difficult purchase. The quantity of labour which any particular quantity of them can purchase or command, or the quantity of other goods which it will exchange for, depends always upon the fertility or barrenness of the mines which happen to be known about the time when such exchanges are made. The discovery of the abundant mines of America, reduced, in the sixteenth century, the value of gold and silver in Europe to about a third of what it had been before. As it cost less labour to bring those metals from the mine to the market, so, when they were brought thither, they could purchase or command less labour; and this revolution in their value, though perhaps the greatest, is by no means the only one of which history gives some account. But as a measure of quantity, such as the natural foot, fathom, or handful, which is continually varying in its own quantity, can never be an accurate measure of the quantity of other things ; so a commodity which is itself continually varying in its own value, can never be an accurate measure of the value of other commodities. Equal quantities of labour, at all times and places, may be said to be of equal value to the labourer. In his ordinary state of health, strength, and spirits ; in the ordinary degree of his skill and dexterity, he must always lay down the same portion of his ease, his liberty, and his happiness. The price which he pays must always be the same, whatever may be the quantity of goods which he receives in return for it."

Adam Smith, The "Wealth of Nations," Book I, Chapter 5