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The Overshadowing Examined

November 7, 2016November 8, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Nov 1, 2016

The Overshadowing Examined

I posted an article from the archives on the Overshadowing of Jesus in a couple spiritual groups and am getting some feedback on it Here is one from a reader named Daniel:

Daniel

I don’t see why it is necessary to assume that the Father Jesus talks about is other than the Atman, to which he, the Jiva, is connected. Or that his Father in Heaven is other than the Brahman or parent Intelligence, which is the Father to the Atman. The Atman or real Self, the thread of knowledge on which the Jivas lives are strung, and the Jiva, or Soul, are one being.

What you are talking about Rudolph Steiner also claims, although he says that Jesus was the reincarnation of Zarathustra. The Pistis Sophia also claims something similar, that a cosmic spirit was a walk-in so to speak, and worked through Jesus. However, I see no reason to believe all this, as it seems perfectly feasible that Jesus as the Jiva or Doer incarnated fully the being of the Atman, overcame death, and through his sacrifice, which perhaps had to do with laying down his Life for mankind, not merely his physical appearance, became an Intelligence or Brahman.

The Atman is a higher part of himself. If he were just talking about a part of himself he wouldn’t have had to speak of another individual which was in him which and was greater than himself. The Atman would not have descended as a dove and abide in him as it already was with him.

Daniel:

There is an area within the brain which when light-filled has the shape of a dove. It would not be necessary to take the scripture literally but esoterically here.

I’m not sure what part of the brain you are referring to that has the shape of a dove, but if it exists I see no reason to associate it with the baptism.

Nothing I said would indicate a literal dove descended as this is not even indicated by a literal interpretation of the scripture which says:

“and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him”

So even taking this literally it appears the descent of the spirit was merely gentile like the descent of a dove.

Mark gives a similar rendition but Luke words it a bit differently:

“And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him,” Luke 3:22

Some interpret this to mean that the spirit was in the shape of a dove but that is not what it says. The first part of the sentence says he “descended in a bodily shape”. If John saw the shape of a body he would have seen a human form and the second part of the sentence says this entity descended like a dove. In other words, this entity descended with gentleness like a dove and entered into Jesus fulfilling the word to John which reads:

“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. And I knew him not: but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said unto me, UPON WHOM THOU SHALT SEE THE SPIRIT DESCENDING AND REMAINING ON (Can be translated IN) HIM, THE SAME IS HE WHICH BAPTIZETH WITH THE HOLY GHOST. And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God.” (John 1:30-34)

Daniel:

On the other hand the full incarnation or descent of the Atman into the body, which is not in the body but only contacts it via certain nerves and the pineal, is what makes the body immortal, changing it in the twinkling of an eye.

And you think this because? How are you defining the Atman? I assume you are referring to the Higher Self. In Theosophy the Atmic is the consciousness of the third plane, the Monad being the second. Which school of thought are you following?

Jesus did not obtain immortality at the baptism but took the first major step at the transfiguration.

The union of the Higher Self with the personality is an essential step to overcoming death, but there is more.

Daniel

Jn 8:29 And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

Jesus speaks of the Atman as within him, above him, and as one with him.

Once union with the Higher Self is accomplished the disciple does not think of himself as two separate beings, but one whole unit. On the other hand, with a divine overshadowing the experience would be the sensing of a second actual entity, not just yourself.

Daniel quotes this scripture:

1 Cor 6:17 (NIV)

17 But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with him in spirit.

No argument with the kingdom being within or that we need to raise our consciousness to recognize oneness with God from whom the spirit of life flows through all things.

Daniel

Joseph Smith points out in D&C two fathers are meant, the Atman, who is the Father, and Brahman, the Father in Heaven, otherwise he would not have distinguished my Father and my Father in heaven.

Joseph Smith never used the Hindu terms though he did present the idea of a universal God and another of a personal one.

Indeed there is the One Great Life in whom we live and move and have our being and there are masters the Bible calls Eloheim who are such advanced beings that many call them Gods.

Have you read any of the Alice A. Bailey writings?

The article under consideration may be found here:

https://freeread.com/archives/283.html

Nov 2, 2016

Overshadowing Dialog

Daniel responds:

I don’t see any reason to accept this interpretation of yours. Young’s literal translation gives the following for this passage:

Luke 3:22 Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)

22 and the Holy Spirit came down in a bodily appearance, as if a dove, upon him, and a voice came out of heaven, saying, `Thou art My Son — the Beloved, in thee I did delight.’

That makes it clear that the appearance was that of a dove, not that it descended gently like a dove. What I indicated was that this appearance as of a dove was possibly what those who witnessed experienced astrally,

Young’s translation gives no difference in meaning than the King James. I also read it in the Greek and there is no additional clarification. The fact remains that something was “as if a dove.” It is not clear whether it is talking about the way it descended, its appearance, or both. The versions in Matthew and Mark, which have an earlier origin do not mention any bodily appearance but only the dove-like descent:

“and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him” Matt 3:15

Only John and Jesus are recorded as witnessing anything unusual happen, so it is unlikely they saw with the illusion of astral vision, but sight from the higher mental. We have no record of how the vision was originally conveyed to disciples, but since Mark and Matthew are the earliest versions they are likely to be the most accurate. Scholars have often accused the Luke version of embellishment. It is likely that the author of Luke had the Matthew or Mark version in his possession and made the leap of assumption that an actual dove was seen and reworded it to fit his interpretation.

That said… Let us suppose that they did see the entity descend not only gently like a dove but also saw what appeared to be the shape of a dove?

Does it prove that the dove represented the Higher Self and not another advanced entity?

No. It makes no difference.

If the scriptures are accurate we do know this for sure. Both John and Jesus witnessed a spirit descend upon him and it remained with him. The fact that it remained with Jesus was a sign to John that the Son of God was on the earth among men.

I asked Daniel which school of thought was related to his ideas and he stated that he was influenced by Harold Percival, an early Theosophist, and his main work called, “Thinking and Destiny.”

I have this book and have read it. I think it is a fairly interesting, restating many basic truths that are in harmony with most spiritual seekers. He does give out quite a few fairly controversial pieces of data that few can verify true or false. The main thing that seems to set him apart from other Theosophists is his emphasis on physical immortality, which is unusual.

He also uses a different selection of terms than other theosophical related writers. His teachings of the Triune Self is a good example. He calls the lower personality the “Doer,” or “God the Son.” The soul, or Higher Self, he calls “God the Holy Ghost” or “the Thinker.” Then he calls the Monad “God the Father” or “the Knower.” Once a reader understands his terms his writings are easier to follow.

Daniel seems to think that Percival’s teachings would discount the possibility of an overshadowing of Jesus by an advanced entity, but I can’t find anything in his teachings that would do this. As far as I can tell he makes no mention of the overshadowing principle one way or another and doesn’t give any significant details of what happened to Jesus at his baptism.

I asked him if he had read Alice A. Bailey. To this he answered:

“Yes I have read a number of her works, and I own her entire library, which I purchased at the Bailey center in London. However as I said I am more interested in the Master she mentioned there in New York in her autobiography.”

Well, Daniel, I think you ought to dust off some of those books and delve into them again as they have many profound insights not found in Percival’s books and contain many comments and teachings about the overshadowing of Jesus by the Christ who is the head of the spiritual hierarchy. I had difficulty in accepting it the first time I read it, but have received confirmation that it is true.

I didn’t recall Alice A. Bailey teaching about a master in New York but after contemplation I figured you were talking about this statement by her:

“A few years ago a very dear friend and a man who had stood very closely with Foster and me since the inception of our work – Mr. Henry Carpenterwent out to India to try and reach the Masters at Shigatze, a small, native town in the Himalayas, just over the Tibetan frontier. He made this effort three times in spite of my telling him that he could find the Master right here in New York if he took the proper steps and the time was ripe.”

Unfinished Autobiography, Page 165

I would guess that you think the master she was referring to is Harold Percival himself, but it is obvious she was referring to the master Djwhal Khul who Bailey contacted while in New York through telepathic means. Her point was that you can contact the Masters from anywhere in the world if your consciousness is ready.

Obviously Percival was not a master as he died at a pretty standard age of 84. A Master can extend his life indefinitely and he taught that a master would obtain physical immortality.

Nov 2, 2016

Assessing Truth

Thanks for your reply.

There are two problems in reaching agreement with you.

(1) You seem to have a black and white approach to interpretation.

(A) For instance, on the dove argument you see only one possible interpretation and such interpretation is not verified by any esoteric teaching including Percival

I, along with many Biblical scholars, see two possible interpretations. One is the possibility that an actual form of a dove was seen or the other is that the Spirit descended gently like a dove.

(B) You interpret the Bailey reference to meeting a Master in New York as only being possible in the physical and do not seem to see that there are two ways to interpret it. Obviously she could have been referring to meeting him as a spiritual non physical presence. Even if Percival was a master living in New York does not discount either interpretation. I know of no record that she met Percival and can find no mention of him by her.

For two seekers to reach agreement the two have to see both sides of the argument and the possibilities of each. If this does not happen then little progress toward union will be made.

(2) Since we are in this world of form we need to use some type of reference material as a base. Now that base does not have to be seen as perfect or infallible but should be seen as basically true within the field of human limitations.

From your words you seem to accept both Percival and Bailey as pointing the right direction. Yet you are quite selective in what you accept. For instance, you accept without question any vague hint in the Bailey writings that Percival was a master yet you completely reject DK’s clear teachings through her on the overshadowing. What is significant is that the overshadowing of Jesus by the Master of Masters, the Christ, is one of his most significant teachings and was not briefly hinted at but explained in detail over and over.

If both DK and Percival were masters and DK was a Grand Canyon away from the truth here then something is terribly amiss in the spiritual hierarchy.

On the other hand, if the Percival writings were inspired then they do not discount the overshadowing of Jesus. If he was correct that Christ was a “Brahman or the Light to us directly” then that would be describing the entity that co-occupied the body with Jesus.

You seem to have a take on things peculiar to yourself that is shared by no one else I know and which is sometimes contradictory to those you claim to accept as masters.

You write:

“As for Percival being a Master having met him that is not a question for me. His death at 84 is a year later than that of Buddha, who also did not leave the desire centers of men so that he could work with them. And who also did not overcome death. So unless you do not consider Buddha a Master, or you consider DK to be more developed than Buddha, your argument that this is proof he was not a Master founders.”

Buddha lived in an age before the Christ set the standard of mastery over death. Most of the masters since then have extended their lives in the physical body, though if such a being could finish his mission in a standard lifetime he could indeed die at a standard age and prepare for yet another incarnation.

I find it interesting that when a guru dies that his followers attribute supernatural qualities to him. Instead of being just dead they usually say he “ascended,” or something of the sort. Most of these were just mere mortals.

So how do I assess Percival?

The Masters are called Masters of Wisdom. If one calls Percival a Master I would say he should be called a Master of delivering creative data, but do not see a lot of wisdom revealed. I can’t find any principles on which he has shed additional light and principles are the language of the soul.

Wisdom cannot be fabricated but can only be presented by a high intelligence whereas much unusual and improvable data can be conjured up by anyone with a good imagination.

Overall I would say that about 75% of his writings are true when you understand his terminology. 15% is questionable but is worthy of consideration, and 10% just doesn’t register with my truth detector.

I’m surprised you give so much weight to a book written by Bailey herself, “From Intellect to Intuition” which isn’t nearly as enlightened as those from DK.

Here is how I would relate the writings.

DK writings through Alice A. Bailey I would give a 10, the highest on the planet.

I would give Bailey’s own writings around a 4 and Percival and Steiner’s a 6. Both of them present a lot of interesting, but difficult-to-verify data, while short on wisdom and principles.

I’ll take a look at those additional Percival writings you referenced.

Nov 4, 2016

More Dialog

Daniel:

There is simply nothing in that passage (Lk 3:22) that, to me, indicates what was meant was a human form descending gently like a dove. My interpretation of it as perhaps being an esoteric indication of the light shape in the head is only a guess, and is itself a bit of a stretch. What I am saying is I see nothing that indicates that some shape other than that of a dove seemed to descend, and certainly not that of a human form. That you can have another opinion than mine does not make them equal, nor does it make me inflexible. In this case you are arguing for your view by attacking the person (ie, ‘you have a black and white approach’), and not the substance of the ideas. That is a fallacy, as is an appeal to authorities who agree with you about this human form descending, but who are not cited. I suspect such authorities are Mormon, as I have never heard this notion in mainstream Christianity which I think would explicitly deny that God descended in a human form upon Jesus.

I am not attacking you but just noting your approach which is that there is only one interpretation possible, which, by the way is similar to the Mormon one, that a dove was seen.

Speaking of Mormonism Percival sounds like he has had some Mormon influence. Do you know anything about that? Also I notice you mentioned Joseph Smith. Do you have a Mormon background?

I can see where you get your view but you do not seem to see where I get mine. For two to have a useful argument they each need t look through each other’s eyes and if there is more than one plausible interpretation possible both need to be seen.

I am not interested in black and white vs black and white but reason added to more reason and light added to light.

I am not alone in seeing some flexibility of interpretation here with Luke 3:22. A number of Bible commentators see possibilities beyond the actual form of a dove descending:

Ellicott’s Bible Commentary:

“In a bodily shape.—The words are peculiar to St. Luke, and tend to confirm the traditional symbolism which finds in the dove the emblem of the Holy Spirit. They, at least, fall in naturally with this view; but the other construction, that the Holy Spirit descended, after the manner of a dove, first hovering and then resting, in a bodily form (undefined) of some sort, is, at least, not excluded.”

Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

“like a dove upon him; either in the form of a dove, or this corporeal form, whatever it was, descended and hovered on him as a dove does:”

And this from a blogger:

“However, I believe the Holy Spirit does not look like a dove any more than Jesus looks like an actual lamb. I believe that when Scripture states it was “like a dove,” this expression describes the manner of the descent, rather than the bodily form. So another way to phrase this would be “while He was praying, heaven was opened, and the Holy Spirit descended upon Him like a dove. He was in bodily form.”

Actually Matthew records it more like this in his gospel. He states: “After being baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and lighting on Him, and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased.” (Mat 3:16-17)

How does a dove descend? It descends different than other birds. Perhaps we could say it hovers, floats downward, rather than swooping down to kill its prey as a an eagle, or circling overhead like a vulture, or flitting about recklessly like a bat. I believe there was a smooth, steady, deliberate, innocent, pure, and harmless manner in which the Holy Spirit descended on our Lord that can only be compared to the beauty of a white dove descending. Matthew says, “descending as a dove and lighting on Him,” indicating that the Holy Spirit came to rest and remain upon Him in the same manner as a bird would light upon Him or land on Him.”

http://spiritofthelordgod.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-bodily-form-of-holy-spirit.html

I can see why some may think an actual form of a dove was seen, but can also see why others see it as a mere descent as a dove.

My point is that if two sides of an argument are possibly true, why not acknowledge it? Without such give and take then no union of thinking is possible.

We have this same problem in interpreting Bailey’s words about seeing a master in New York. You say:

“Once again, arguing that I am inflexible because I don’t agree with your interpretation is not a legitimate argument.”

You totally miss my point here. I have no problem with you not agreeing with me. I am saying that you are only seeing one possible interpretation to her words where various readers may take it two different ways, just as with the dove analogy.

You seem to see things that give surface indications that verify your thinking and you take them to be solid irrefutable evidence, which they are not.

An argument doesn’t have much value when each side just wants to prove the other wrong, but can have value when each seeks to see through the eyes of the other and steps are taken toward seeing the truth as one.

I can see both sides here. It is possible that Bailey thought Percival was a master incarnate, but also possible she did not. Unless one gets a revelation on it there is no way to know for sure, but you have presented circumstantial evidence, not proof.

The important thing is to study Percival’s works through the light of the soul and come to one’s own conclusions without the interference of an outside authority.

You would think though that since Percival put so much emphasis on the idea that a master would overcome death that he would have at least extended his own life to demonstrate his core teaching.

I agree with you that Jesus was not the first to extend his life, but believe he was the first to demonstrate power over death in such a dramatic manner in that he was put to death and rose again. I do not know of any record of a master dying at a normal old age and being buried since the time of Jesus.

Concerning overshadowing, the term is not normally used with a union with a higher part of yourself. This is more of a union than an overshadowing. An overshadowing or divine possession comes from an interplay of two individual entities, something you seem to reject as a possibility.

You indicate you have seen Percival. Did you have a vision or were visited by him?

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Authoritarianism

October 28, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Oct 28, 2016

Authoritarianism

As we approach this election it is interesting to examine the reasons that spiritual seekers are for or against the two main presidential candidates – or even a third party.

As far as third party goes the voter should realize that there is zero chance that a third party candidate will win. The only effect of voting third party is some feeling of satisfaction that one participated in the process.

The fact is that one of the two major candidates will win and by not voting or voting third party is to create a greater chance that the most dangerous of the two will win.

Some say that they cannot vote for either candidate because he or she does not represent their views or values. Well, I have been voting for about 50 years now and so far I have not found the perfect candidate. Many of those who seemed reasonable performed below the hopes of the people with a small handful doing a good job.

My philosophy is to vote for the best candidate who has a possibility of winning. If I were to vote for a person who thinks exactly like myself I would have to write my own name in which would be just as big of a waste as voting for a candidate who has single digit poll numbers.

This election is interesting in that Trump and Clinton are conjuring up more intense negativity than any two candidates in memory. People have a love or hate relationship with Trump or a snooze or hate relationship with Hillary. Trump draws crowds of over 15,000 while Hillary has to work to get a couple hundred to a rally. Donald’s vice president Pence draws Hillary sized crowds while Hillary’s Vice President, Kaine draws tiny crowds. The other day all he could gather in Florida was 30 people to listen to him.

I guess you could say that Trump is trying to win through entertainment, excitement and getting our blood in circulation while Hillary is trying to win us over by putting us into a dreamless sleep, boring us into submission.

There seems to be a lot of illusion around the two candidates, the main one is the comparison of Trump to Hitler or at best way too authoritarian. Those who compare Trump to Hitler have obviously not studied history. I dealt with this myth in an earlier post which is on my website.

That said, we never know for sure what we will get in a president until he or she serves for a time in office, but so far in my life of 71 years each president has performed pretty close to my expectations.

So, between the two, which candidate will be the more authoritarian? Let’s take a look.

Immigration.

Trump wants to work within the law and deport those who have broken it, as the law states, and then open a “big door” to let the peaceable people back in legally.

Hillary supports violating the law as she strongly criticizes Trump for wanting to enforce it. She seems to support Sanctuary cities which violate law as her campaign manager last year said this, “Hillary Clinton believes that sanctuary cities can help further public safety, and she has defended those policies going back years.”

The true authoritarian thinks he is above the law and will not work within it unless it suits him. One cannot say that Trump is overly authoritarian for desiring to enforce the law, for true authoritarians work outside the law.

A great example of one who worked within the law was Abraham Lincoln. When he became president slavery was abhorrent to him. Even though he didn’t like the slavery laws at all he knew his best course was not to violate the law, but to seek to change it. Until the laws were changed he worked within them as he realized that selectively ignoring law could lead to anarchy and the eventual collapse of the country.

Even so, if we are not happy with immigration law (which was created by both parties) we should seek to change them rather than violate them with some imagined authority.

The Second Amendment & Guns

Again Trump merely wants the Second Amendment to apply as written and supports most the laws to date and doesn’t want to further infringe on the right to bear arms.

Hillary says she is willing to bypass Congress and use executive orders to create additional regulations.

On this issue Hillary is far more authoritarian.

Obamacare

This is the most authoritarian gab for control of our lives that has ever come down the pike in this country.

Trump wants to repeal it and replace it with one that is less authoritarian and works more efficiently. Hillary wants to keep it and fine tune the system.

Which candidate is more authoritarian here? It should be obvious.

Regulations in general

Trump wants fewer regulations. He especially wants to eliminate those that hinder our economy and our freedoms.

Hillary wants more regulations governing just about every area of our lives.

Which is the more authoritarian approach? Obviously it takes strong authority to implement and enforce infringing regulations.

Big government.

Trump wants to reduce the size of government whereas all of Hillary’s plans will just make it bigger. Big government is more authoritarian than small government.

So, where do people get the idea that Trump is more authoritarian than Hillary? It is certainly not from his policies. Instead, I would guess it is this.

He has a commanding presence; his speech and charisma draw attention. When he speaks people listen and huge crowds are drawn giving him more of an air of authority than Clinton, though he is less authoritative in policy.

Conclusion, if the seeker plans on voting for Clinton because she is less authoritative then I would suggest he or she take a deeper look.

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The Law of Friction

October 19, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Oct 19, 2016

The Law of Friction

There are four subsidiary laws under the Law of Economy. We have covered three of them which are:

The law of vibration.
The law of adaptation.
The law of repulsion.

The fourth is the Law of Friction. Outside of being an important subsidiary law to economy, DK doesn’t say much about it except for this one paragraph:

“The Law of Friction, governs the heat aspect of any atom, the radiation of an atom, and the effect of that radiation on any other atom.”

Using his words alone here we do not have much to go on. On the other hand, scientists have spelled out laws governing friction which depend on the heat released from various types of materials.

We do not want to get bogged down here with math and formulas but want to look at the principle involved. Perhaps briefly looking at the first three subsidiary laws will help us see more clearly where the Law of Friction fits in.

The first is vibration which holds the secret of the origin of form. After form begins to manifest through innumerable vibrations then intelligence guides them to adapt to other forms. Next enters in the Law of Attraction and Repulsion causing forms to draw together, yet at the same time giving each other space through the Law of repulsion. These resulting forces of attraction and repulsion bring the Law of Friction into being. That said let us define this law in this context.

The Law of Friction governs the heat released when two surfaces or forces encounter each other. The more intense the energy, force and speed involved as well as the proximity of the encounter the more will be the quantity of heat or radiation given off.

Divine Intelligence using the Law of Friction thus creates heat at the center of an atom, a cell, a human being, a planet or a sun.

In our body the Law of Attraction brings the elements of food to the cells and organs and breaks down molecules like glucose and carbohydrates. Then through the Law of Repulsion all that is not desirable is rejected and sent to be eliminated. This interplay related to metabolism produces heat through the Law of Friction.

These same laws also cause heat in the center of our planet. In the beginning of our solar system gravity through the Law of Attraction caused large chunks of matter to crash into each other. This finally consummated when a Mars sized object crashed into the earth with great resulting friction causing tremendous heat that is still trapped in the center of the planet. In addition gravity causes heavier elements like iron to sink to the center causing friction bringing more heat. Finally, radiation (which DK says is caused by friction) adds to the heat in the center. All this creates a temperature in the center of the planet of about 12000 degrees F, hotter than the surface of the sun.

O the other hand, that is cool compared to the center of the sun which is a whopping 27 million degrees F. Because of its huge mass the Law of Attraction through gravity compresses hydrogen at the core with such pressure that they fuse to helium with the resulting friction causing tremendous heat and radiation.

When we consider that friction and heat is caused by a pressurized relationship of one surface on another we can use the Law of Correspondences to extend the principle to apply to relationships between humans.

We can see the Law of Friction at work when we compare the crime rate of large population areas to lesser ones. If you Google the 25 safest cities you will find that they are all smaller towns, many of which few are aware of.

On the other hand, most larger cities have much higher crime rates than average. The average murder rate for the United States is 4.5 per 100,000 people. Here are some of the latest statistics available on some larger cities:

Chicago 23, Washington DC 18, New York City 3.9, Los Angeles 6.3, Detroit 49.9, New Orleans 57.6, Las Vegas 8, Indianapolis 15.7, Miami 17.1, Baltimore 34, Atlanta 20.5

All of them except for New York is significantly above average. When Rudy Giuliani became mayor in 1994 it was four times as high at around 16 per 100,000. Most of the drop in murder and other crimes happened during his administration so it looks like he did something right.

The murder rate where I live, in Boise, Idaho is less than half the national average at only 2 murders per 100,000 which is also the rate for the state as a whole. It is interesting to note that many areas with low population densities are relatively safe places to live some with even lower rates than Idaho.

The difference I see as the cause of higher crime in congested areas is the higher friction often caused by the clash of opposing forces and belief systems. High crime areas often consist of minorities who feel outraged over perceived mistreatment. This intensifies friction, which intensifies emotional heat which increases lashing out against whoever gets in the way.

I’d say that Boise where I live is an area of low friction. You don’t hear many complaints from minorities or anyone else about mistreatment. The biggest outrage in the area recently was a white farmer being shot by two white cops. Because of the stability here many people from congested areas are moving to Idaho to have a better place to raise their families.

They certainly are not moving here for high wages, as Idaho ranks 50^th on the wage scale. Neither can low income be cited as a major cause of friction here.

When people are forced together in high density, just as atoms are in the center of the sun, then more friction and heat is generated. Then if we add people of divergent histories and belief systems, the problem is exacerbated.

Using the Law of Correspondences we can see that the Law of Friction applies to various groups and even down to individual relationships. For instance, a marriage tends to work better when the two give each other their “space.” When one spouse tries to dominate the space of another and “get in their face”, so to speak, then friction occurs followed by emotional heat. The same happens when parents try to dominate the space of their children.

Overall, this is an interesting law to contemplate as it manifest from the sun down to the tiniest atom.

Hopefully, we can all pursue the goal of the enlightened to reduce friction and heat occurring all over the world so a new age of peace can enter in.

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The Law of Repulsion

October 14, 2016October 14, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Oct 14, 2016

The Law of Repulsion

This law is generally associated with the Law of Attraction, being its opposite, and as a branch of the Law of Economy and also linked with the Law of Synthesis. DK makes the interesting statement that these three laws (Economy, Attraction/Repulsion and Synthesis) can be viewed together operating as one great law called the Law of Being. One of the few things he says about this is that it “is of a nature so incomprehensible to the finite mind of man that he can only sense it partially through the aforesaid three branches.”

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 332

He associates this law with the life force itself that animates us and to understand it is to understand our Source and origins. Since this great mystery is incomprehensible to our finite minds it is wise to focus on these three branches of which we can gleam some understanding. So far we have covered them all except for repulsion.

One might say that the laws of attraction and repulsion are the core ingredients of duality which form the basis of all creation. Attraction is associated with Spirit for spirit is attracted to spirit and repulsion is associated with matter. Matter is repelled from other matter. The life within the form, as an extension of spirit, slowly wakes up to an awareness of spirit and becomes attracted to it more than form. As the attraction increases spirit gives greater and more complex forms to matter making it more useful to life and spirit until in the end attraction and repulsion balance under the Law of Synthesis causing the disintegration of form and return to spirit.

It is interesting that DK tells us that sound is “the agent of the law of attraction and repulsion.”

This seems like an odd thing to say until you think about it, for esoteric teachings often refer to creation being a great symphony composed of many chords and notes. Life is attracted to some notes and repelled by others. In addition DK tells us that spirit itself vibrates on a certain note and matter on another. As they approach each other the two come closer to sounding the same note and when this occurs evolution will come to an end and we will enter the great rest of pralaya.

DK tells us that attraction governs spirit and repulsion matter and form. We can easily understand the attraction to spirit, as that is associated with bliss, joy, the kingdom of God, eternal values etc. But what is with the association of repulsion with matter? After all, is not man extremely attracted to things related to form such as beauty, good food and drink, possessions and more?

What is not realized by many is that the attraction we have to matter and form is because of the energy of spirit which has filtered down to matter.

Consider why one is attracted to a new car, home or electronic device. The reason is not the matter involved, but the organization of the matter into a desirable form. And what caused the organization of the elements into a car, for instance?

It was intelligence linked to spirit and not the matter aspect by itself. There is a big difference between various elements scattered in the earth compared to being gathered together to produce the useful and sometimes beautiful vehicle we call the automobile.

We are also attracted to forms created by life in matter such as beautiful flowers, healthy vegetables and animals. These are all forms created by the spirit influencing and forming matter.

The bottom line is that attraction, whether it be spirit to spirit or human intelligence to matter, all originates with spirit. Matter and form naturally repel other forms and only come together because of the influence of spirit.

The dominance of the Law of Repulsion came into being at the beginning of this cycle of creation which began with the Big Bang.

The last cycle of creation ended with the dominance of spirit, drawing all form back to itself, or into formlessness. In this state, which we call pralaya, Divine Intelligence rested and absorbed all the lessons learned from the past creation. After rest, reflection and absorption did its work and the point of completion was reached the singularity then reflected itself by means of unlimited intelligence and the imagination of the One Great Life. The One became the Many with the many being repelled from each other and scattered through the immensity of space.

In the beginning repulsion dominated close to 100% as spirit relinquished its hold so creation could begin anew. Then after the scattering by repulsion reached its maximum spirit stepped in and began to pull matter together into intelligent and usable forms. This is where we are at the current stage of progress.

Even though spirit is beginning to make itself felt through the intelligent organization of matter the Law of Repulsion still holds sway. This is evident from the fact that nothing solid in the universe actually touches anything else, but all that can be found seems to be only vibrating waves often separated by great distance from each other.

For instance the hydrogen atom is composed of a electron which functions as a particle and a wave circling a proton which in turn is made mostly of empty space. 99.9999999999996% of the hydrogen atom is empty space, thanks to the Law of Repulsion. If the proton in the center were the size of a marble the electron would be like a grain of sand orbiting 100 yards away, or the length of a football field away.

In addition to the empty space within atoms there is empty space between atoms and molecules as they do not actually touch but are repelled from each other by the law of repulsion. When you shake hands with another person nothing is actually touching on the atomic level. Technically sound and notes are registering with each other and we only have the illusion of solid contact.

As we look up into space we see that there is little that we consider solid, similar to the vastness of space in the atom.

To give perspective consider this. If the sun were the size of a basketball the earth would be like a grain of sand 31 yards away and the nearest major star, Alpha Centauri, would be another basketball a whopping 4300 miles away. All else is virtually empty space, thanks to the Law of Repulsion. The separation of forces in which we find ourselves is immense indeed telling us that Spirit will have quite a job in the distant future in bringing the many back to the one.

We use the law of repulsion – accompanied by attraction daily in many activities. We use it in selecting or rejecting friends, the food we eat, the items we buy, where we choose to live, to work, to go to school and much more.

The disciple uses it in his search for truth. He is repulsed or rejects some teachers and writings, but not others. He rejects certain things claimed to be true and is attracted to others and accepts them. He is repulsed by certain types of service and attracted to others.

Overall the person who makes wise use of the laws of attraction and repulsion is one with good judgment and common sense.

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Quotes Referring to the Law of Repulsion

October 14, 2016August 8, 2017 Joseph Dewey

Oct 14, 2016

Quotes Referring to the Law of Repulsion

A simplification of the idea may come to you perhaps in the recognition of sound as the agent of the law of attraction and repulsion.

Letters on Occult Meditation Pg 54

the work of the Destroyer and of the Preserver is carried on under the Law of Attraction and Repulsion.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 79

The cosmic Laws of Attraction and Economy are therefore the raison d’être (viewed from one angle) of the eternal repulsion that goes on as Spirit seeks ever to liberate itself from form. The matter aspect always follows the line of least resistance, and repulses all tendency to group formation, while Spirit, governed by the Law of Attraction, seeks ever to separate itself from matter by the method of attracting an ever more adequate type of matter in the process of distinguishing the real from the unreal, and passing from one illusion to another until the resources of matter are fully utilised.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 144

Repulsion is brought about by rotary action, and is the basis of that separation which prevents the contact of any atom with any other atom, which keeps the planets at fixed points in space and separated stably from each other; which keeps them at a certain distance from their systemic centre, and which likewise keeps the planes and subplanes from losing their material identity. … From aeon to aeon the conflict goes on, with matter becoming less potent.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 153

When Spirit and matter sound the same note evolution will cease. When the note sounded by the form is stronger than that of Spirit, we have attraction between forms. When the note sounded by Spirit is stronger than that of matter and form, we have Spirit repelling form. Here we have the basis for the battlefield of life, and its myriads of intermediate stages

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 275

the Law of Attraction is the demonstration of the powers of Spirit, whilst the Law of Repulsion governs the form. Spirit attracts Spirit throughout the greater cycle. In lesser cycles, Spirit temporarily attracts matter. The tendency of Spirit is to merge and blend with Spirit. Form repulses form,

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 276

The emotion of like or of dislike is nothing else but the realisation by the conscious entity of the swinging into his magnetic radius of an atomic form which he is led, by the very law of his own being, to either attract or repulse.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 280

The relation of the cell to the group, of the group to the aggregate of groups, and of them all to the indwelling Entity Who holds them in synthetic correlation by means of the Law of Attraction and Repulsion is of vital moment.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 294

Repulsion to all bodies of similar vibratory rate and polarity. Their attractive quality at the end of evolution will cease owing to the fact that naught remains to be attracted.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 322

In the widest sense of the idea the Laws of Economy and of Synthesis are only divisions of that same cosmic law of which Attraction and Repulsion are also manifestations. This cosmic law, demonstrating thus in a threefold manner, might (for lack of a better term) be called the Law of Being, and is of a nature so incomprehensible to the finite mind of man that he can only sense it partially through the aforesaid three branches.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 332

for it is only through the coming together and the separation of atoms, great and small, macrocosmic and microcosmic, that manifestation of any kind becomes possible.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 1107

Law of Attraction ” Law 4. The Law of Repulsion. This law concerns itself with the ability of an atom to throw off, or refuse to contact, any energy deemed inimical to group activity. It is literally a law of service, but only comes consciously into play when the atom has established certain basic discriminations, and guides its activities through a knowledge of the laws of its own being. This law is not the same as the Law of Repulsion which is used in connection with the Law of Attraction between forms which have relation to the material. The laws we are now considering have relation to the psyche, or to the Vishnu aspect. One group of laws concern energies emanating from the physical sun; the ones we are now considering emanate from the heart of the Sun. The “”repulsion”” here dealt with has the effect (when consciously applied through the developed heart energy of a human atom, for instance) of furthering the interests of the repulsed unit and of driving this unit closer to its own centre. Perhaps some idea of the great beauty of this law as it works out can be gathered from an occult phrase in a certain old book:

“”This repulsive force drives in seven directions, and forces all that it contacts back to the bosom of the seven spiritual fathers.””

Through repulsion, the units are driven home and the straying unconscious ones are forced towards their own centre. The Law of Repulsion, or the stream of energy for which it is but a name, can work from any centre, but as dealt with here, it must emanate from the heart if it is to bring about the necessary group work.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 1217

Law of Attraction Sacrifice, Service, Magnetism (“I, if I be lifted up, will draw”), Group Progress, Divine Repulsion, these are but the inadequate terms whereby we seek to express the divine truth that the whole life and expression of the solar Logos will only be possible, and His purpose only be revealed, when He has brought each atomic unit to the stage of self-realisation. Then He will lead them on to the point of sacrificing that realised self so that divine purpose and will may be consummated, and the divine life and glory shine forth in perfect radiance.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 1218

Law of Attraction To lay down the scientific proposition that since akrshu (attraction) and Prshu (repulsion) are the law of nature, there can be no intercourse or relations between clean and unclean Souls

Mahatma Letters

Attachment to form or the attraction of form for Spirit is the great involutionary impulse. Repulsion of form and consequent form disintegration is the great evolutionary urge.

The Light of the Soul Pg 139The circle with the point in the centre. This signifies the production of heat in the heart of matter; the point of fire, the moment of the first rotary activity, the first straining of the atom, motivated by latent heat, into the sphere of influence of another atom. This produced the first radiation, the first pull of attraction, and the consequent setting up of a repulsion and therefore producing 3. The circle divided into two. This marks the active rotation and the beginning of the mobility of the atom of matter, and produces the subsequent extension of the influence of the positive point within the atom of matter till its sphere of influence extends from the centre to the periphery. At the point where it touches the periphery it contacts the influence of the atoms in its environment; radiation is set up and the point of depression makes its appearance, marking the inflow and outflow of force or heat

Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 159-160

From the angle of the initiates of the Ageless Wisdom, the story of man, the aspirant, is the story of his response to, or repulse of, applied energies. The fact that the interplay between different types of energy results in the formation of those aggregations or condensations of force which we call bodies, sheaths or vehicles (material or immaterial) is incidental to the main issue, which is the development of a conscious response to the life of God.

Esoteric Psychology Vol 2, Pg 54The Law of Repulse We have here a most interesting law to consider. It is one of the major divine laws with which the Pilgrim has much to do on his weary, age-long way, back to the centre. It is the fourth law governing or controlling the life of the soul.

Esoteric Psychology Vol 2, Pg 147 (Read next couple pages)

Quotes from The Secret Doctrine:

The doctrine of a common origin for all the heavenly bodies and planets, was, as we see, inculcated by the Archaic astronomers, before Kepler, Newton, Leibnitz, Kant, Herschel and Laplace. Heat (the Breath), attraction and repulsion — the three great factors of Motion — are the conditions under which all the members of all this primitive family are born, developed, and die, to be reborn after a “Night of Brahma,” during which eternal matter relapses periodically into its primary undifferentiated state.

SD Vol 1, Pg 103

He has seven sons who are his brothers; and Fohat is forced to be born time after time whenever any two of his son-brothers indulge in too close contact — whether an embrace or a fight. To avoid this, he binds together and unites those of unlike nature and separates those of similar temperaments. This, of course, relates, as any one can see, to electricity generated by friction and to the law involving attraction between two objects of unlike, and repulsion between those of like polarity.

SD Vol 1, Pg 145

KUNDALINI SAKTI. The power or Force which moves in a curved path. It is the Universal life-Principle manifesting everywhere in nature. This force includes the two great forces of attraction and repulsion. Electricity and magnetism are but manifestations of it.

SD Vol 1, Pg 293

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The Law of Adaptation

October 11, 2016October 14, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Oct 11, 2016

The Law of Adaptation

The Law of Adaptation is the second subsidiary law under the Law of Economy which brings us to our first question. What does this law have to do with the principle of economy?

To answer this question we first must assess exactly what The Law of Adaptation is.

DK gives us several hints.

He tells us the Law of Adaptation enables the monad to descend to the planes and make contact clear to the lowest, the physical plane.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 46

The Law of Adaptation uses rotary motion following the line of least resistance to condition matter and make it more pliable and usable for Spirit and Intelligence.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pages 142-143

Here DK gives us his most complete comment on this law:

“The Great Ones look to see the faculty of pliability and adaptability working out, that faculty of adaptation that is one of the fundamental laws of species which nature so wonderfully demonstrates. The transference of this law to the inner planes and its working out in the new cycle of effort must be undertaken. This law of adaptation involves the appreciation of the need, the recognition of the new force coming in with the new cycle and the consequent bringing together in wide synthesis of the need and of the force, regarding the personal self simply as a focal point for action and transmutation. It involves the transmutation of the five senses and their extension into the subtler planes so that sight, hearing, touch, taste and smell are welded into one synthetic cooperating whole, for use in the great work. On the physical plane, these tend to the unification of the personal life and to the adaptation of the physical world to the needs of the personal self. On the subtler planes they must be transmuted until they are adequate to the needs of the group of which the individual forms a fragmentary part. The ability to do this is one of the things that the Great Ones look for in those individuals whose privilege it may be to inaugurate the New Age.

“Above all, They look for an enlarged channel from the soul to the physical brain, via the mind. Such an enlarged channel indicates that a man can be used.”

A Treatise on White Magic, Page 139

In a nutshell the Law of Adaptation centers around the use of force and intelligence to change form and situations to pave the way for life to descend into matter and then to ascend.

If a human intelligence wants to descend below the depth of the sea he cannot just jump into the water and descend unharmed into the miles of the great deep. He must use the Law of Adaptation and make different preparations for the different depths he wants to explore.

This same holds true for the human spirit, or monad. As it descends down to this seventh, or lowest plane it must go through a series of adaptations so its life is not suffocated. Unlike the diver, spirit seeks to change and condition matter so it can function with greater effectiveness.

Then just as a diver must also take precautions when ascending from the deep, even so must the spirit which is in us adapt us to our environment so we can have a safe journey home.

There are two branches of this law applicable to mankind at this stage of development.

The first is as it applies to the individual and the second is as it applies to group and humankind as a whole.

Adaptation and the Individual

We as individuals use the Law of Adaptation regularly as we progress through life. The more adept one becomes with the law the more success he will have with life.

We start using it as kids to adapt to family life and rules imposed on us by parents. Each child does his best to make the situation and rules work to his advantage. For instance, a child may learn that “no” does not always mean “no” and he uses this knowledge to adapt to the advantage of his desires.

In school he learns to adapt his personality to get what he wants from students and teachers. He adapts so he can he can gain friends, popularity and get what he wants from the school experience.

Later, when he finds a life companion he finds that if he (and of course she) wants to have a successful relationship that he must apply the Law of Adataption as never before. He adapts his will, his desires, his interests to a degree in order that both people involved get enough of what they want the two can move forward as a unit.

The next big adaptation takes place when the individual embarks on his career. He finds that if he is going to be successful he must adapt to the conditions imposed by his boss, company rules, customers, co-workers and required hours of work.

A most important adaptation for the seeker is adjusting his mind, heart and actions to the impressions he receives from Spirit and higher parts of himself. Depending on where he is on his journey, these adaptations can be minor or earth changing.

Finally, as he grows older he finds he must adapt to the changing aging body that deteriorates until the time of death.

Of course, there are many other lesser adaptations that are made in life but these are some highlights.

Adaptation and the Group

Not only must the individual adapt to the group of which he is a member, but the group life must adapt to the circumstances in which it finds itself.

The local service group of which one may be a member must adapt to the will of the people in the group, the laws of the land and various changing circumstances.

A religious group must do the same, even while claiming to be unchanging. In truth nothing in the worlds of form is without change.

A political party or group must adapt to the changing values and demands of the people. The same goes for a nation or state.

Finally the people of the entire planet must adapt to the changing world.

One may ask how we can consider the Law of Adaptation to be a spiritual law behind positive evolution when some of the steps under it may be considered regressive. For instance, some people adapt by lying, cheating or even hurting other people.

The simple answer is this. All adaptation occurs because of a guiding intelligence and because intelligence learns from mistakes a dominating good always rules in the end. Therefore, as one adapts he may go one step backward and two steps forward, but overall the journey initiated through adaptation is forward.

May we therefore, as seekers of the good, the beautiful and the true, use the Law of Adaptation to go forward in the direction of Spirit.

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Lucille Cedercrans

October 8, 2016August 21, 2019 Joseph Dewey

Oct 8, 2016

Lucille Cedercrans

A while back on the Blavatsky Bailey Roerich group there was an interesting discussion on the writings of Lucille Cedercrans. The debate was basically on whether she was a true representative of the masters, on par with Alice A. Bailey or HPB. There was also some discussion about the truth of her various doctrines.

Cedercrans was one of the few esoteric teachers of which I had little knowledge. I knew of her and had read a few of her quotes but didn’t know enough to comment intelligently on her writings.

However, my interest was aroused so I ordered her complete writings and have now read them all. Now I will proceed to make a few comments.

First let me say a few things for my readers who are not familiar with her. In 1948 Lucille was a tired housewife with only an eighth grade education, raising five kids, and sat back in her rocking chair to relax. Suddenly she felt a presence and sensed many strange concepts flowing through her mind. Then she registered these words:

“This is the new phase of your life, something you have created for yourself from the past. You have a choice to continue this process, learn the full meaning of life, and become a teacher of this wisdom. This would benefit many people, far beyond family and friends. It is important for humanity.”

This entity identified himself as Master Rakoczi, often referred to as Master R in esoteric books. Though he was the main entity giving out the teachings Lucille also said she received from Masters DK, KH, M, HI, Serapis Bey, and John.

She says that she had never read the Bailey books and the voice told her not to read any books by her or about theosophy until after she started her work. Throughout her life she claimed to have never read a Bailey book from cover to cover.

If this is true then it is a testimony that she did receive from a higher source than her own imagination because her writings demonstrate a very good knowledge of the Bailey writings.

Shortly after her initial experience she became a conscious channel and started a group in Boise, Idaho of all places – my home town. After laboring there for two years she moved on to various parts of the country, finally settling in Colorado.

After decades of work she was struck with rheumatoid arthritis in 1972 which crippled her causing her to live in great pain until her death in 1984. Through these last painful years she continued to work to the best of her ability.

Lucille is one of many claiming to speak for the masters. The question is whether or not her claim is credible. Unlike many, I felt she deserved a serious look. Let us try and examine her impartially.

Is She the Real Thing?

Let us examine the pros and cons of Lucille Cedercrans to see how she measures up.

Was she a conscious or unconscious channeler?

In this instance she passes the test as she says she was in a conscious state when she received the writings. I cannot find any record of her receiving teachings as an unconscious medium. Lucille says she received the impressions in her conscious mind and then wrote them down in her own words. This is similar to what Alice A. Bailey did after she adjusted to the mind of DK.

His is an important point because DK tells us this:

“Methods of communication on the astral level, such as the ouija board, the planchette pencil, automatic writing, the direct voice and statements made by the temporarily obsessed medium are not utilized as a rule by chelas, though the direct voice has had its use at times. The higher mental methods are more advanced and surer—even if rarer.”

A Treatise on White Magic, Pg 177

The “temporarily obsessed medium” would be the trance medium who channels information and when awakened has no memory of what has transpired. These are usually instances where “direct voice” is used though some mediums will speak in a direct voice while maintaining consciousness.

As DK says there have been instances where direct voice has been used, but this is a lower order and generally not used by the masters.

Are the teachings merely a restatement of those already given out?

Many channelers and teachers claiming higher contact give out nothing substantially new but restate teachings of others in their own words. The Masters follow the Law of Economy and tend to not repeat what has already been given out except in cases where clarification is necessary.

Cedercrans has been accused of copying Alice A. Bailey because she does use much of the same terminology as well as the direction of the teachings, but when reading her works it becomes obvious that she went beyond merely reading the works of others and then placing them in her own words. She does give out teachings I have not seen before and gives a new slant on some older teachings.

It is too bad that there is no way to prove Lucille’s claim that she had no knowledge of Bailey’s work when she started her own and never in her life read a Bailey book all the way through, for whoever was the true originator of the teachings did indeed have a significant knowledge of Bailey’s teachings.

Anyway, her writings do present some new light on a number of subjects and go beyond just being a restatement of what is already readily available.

Is the Source credible?

She said her source was a presence “accompanied by warmth, peacefulness, calmness and a bright, vibrant, luminous light. Spaciousness. Joy. Ever-present Love. Freedom. Understanding.”

Such a positive expression is a good sign that her source was on the side of light, though it does not reach the level of proof.

She identified her main Source as the Master Rakoczi, though numerous other masters gave her teachings. Among them are DK, KH, M, HI, Serapis Bey, and John.

This raises a red flag as the Masters are extremely busy people and it would not be necessary for them to line up as presenters when one could do the job as was the case with Alice A. Bailey.

Whenever I see a teacher claiming to channel a half dozen or so masters I immediately doubt their authenticity, though I do check out all claims I come across just in case.

The quality of the material.

The writings of DK through Alice A. Bailey are the gold standard of Ancient Wisdom and the writings of Cedercrans are not as profound. That does not disqualify the writings though as she tells us they are in her own words and her weaknesses could affect the quality. However, of more concern are the writings that are supposed to be channeled from DK himself. They do not sound like DK and sound much more astral than his writings through Bailey. Astute DK students will surely see the difference.

It would have been impressive if her DK had presented something new from the Old Commentary. All the quotes from that ancient book are very profound and it would be difficult for any writer to merely use his imagination to create script comparable to it.

On the positive side, even though they may not meet the quality of the gold standard, they do reach a quality that exceeds any trance channeled material I have read – maybe with the exception of the original Seth material through Jane Roberts. It is also a higher quality than 90% of the material out there that claims to be from the masters.

What is the degree of wisdom presented?

The masters are called “Masters of Wisdom” for a reason. Their words are words of wisdom, sound reasoning and common sense. Therefore, if a writing is going to make a claim as being from the Hierarchy a high degree of wisdom should be prevalent.

So, how does Cedercrans stack up in this area?

If we give the DK writings a rating of a 10, I would give Cedercrans a 7. That is not bad though as I would give the average channeled material a 1 or 2.

Do the writings expand on true principles and laws, or do they merely try and razzle-dazzle with data?

Unfortunately, many readers do not register the difference. Data presented with fancy new-agey words cannot be proven and speak to the astral body rather than the soul.

These are easy to come up with. For instance, I could write something provocative like this:

“Hidden on the far side of the moon lurks a huge mother ship from the Arcturus system. They are standing by awaiting the time of crisis to take the enlightened to the fifth dimension.”

Teachings such as this contain no wisdom, but only data that cannot be verified by the average seeker – but may speak to the emotional body of some.

On the other hand, the writings of DK expand on many principles and laws. One of my favorite is the Law of Correspondences which he often cites. Anyone who has read through his books has his mind expanded concerning the principles behind this law.

The advantage of dealing with true principles is that they are easy to register with the soul for the seeker. Reason also has to be involved which speaks to the positive power of the mind. In addition it takes a fairly enlightened mind to expand on principles in any meaningful way – something beyond the consciousness of many new age writers and channelers.

The bottom line is that the seeker is much less likely to be misled when presented with true principles, than with wild data.

So, how does Cedercrans measure up here? Though she does present quite a bit of data she is one of the few who does expand on some true principles; so this keeps her in the game, so to speak.

What was the impact and result of her work?

One of the tests of the validity of a work is whether it continues to grow after the death of the initiator. For instance, Jesus only had 120 followers at his resurrection, but now there are billions.

Cedercrans’ work seemed to be quite alive and growing while she was alive but group activity and attention paid to her writings seemed to diminish after her death. There didn’t seem to be a cohesive enough plan put forward to maintain a life of its own as happened with Bailey, Blavatsky, Roerich and numerous other founders.

The writings seemed to present the idea that by now the group work she initiated would be changing the world, but alas, that never happened.

She also said this in 1956:

“Within the next 10 years, three from the Hierarchy will incarnate in physical bodies to join in the effort to manifest the Plan within the body of consciousness. They will be recognized and known by all members of humanity because of their work which shall begin from childhood.”

There is no evidence that three masters, known to all, incarnated and worked to manifest the plan as she presented it.

On the other hand she made this impressive prophecy back in the 1950s:

“That government (USSR) may come to an end much sooner than anyone expects, and this could be as a result of, or a part of, the working out of the configuration.”

Her body of work, which is much less than Alice A. Bailey, apparently turned out to be quite short of what was originally envisioned. She planned on covering material that never was written down.

Taking all this into consideration what is my conclusion? Here it is.

I believe Lucille Cedercrans produced material of a quality and knowledge that was beyond her normal ability and that she did have some help from that original “Presence” that visited her.

I think that presence was manifested through her own soul in an attempt to create a work that would benefit humankind. Her soul, or Higher Self, could indeed tune in to the minds of members of the Hierarchy and filter down some of their thinking to her. In that process, because of human error, (and a soul that is not yet perfect) the information could be very valuable, but contain some errors and distortions.

With Cedercrans, as with all writings, even the scriptures and DK, the seeker must run the teachings by his own soul to avoid deception.

I enjoyed reading her writings and benefitted from them. To give the reader an idea of the quality I am including a few quotes in a separate link. To go to them click HERE.

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Cedercrans Quotes

October 8, 2016August 22, 2019 Joseph Dewey

Cedercrans Quotes

One of the major opportunities relating with this particular festival, with this particular Wesak, has to do with the world economy. You realize that the problem of economy insofar as this group is concerned has been very great. We look at this; we face it; we see it. The appearance has been one of financial lack, financial imbalance, even restrictions as far as activities are concerned. And it is most indicative that many of the individuals (most of them) who have been attracted into this particular group life, who work within this particular Ashram, are at that state of consciousness within the body of humanity which is particularly representative of this trouble. They are idealistic in nature, not prone to get out in the world and work for money, have great aspiration and dedication to service, have many fears and most definitely, so far, the inability to establish right economic relationship within the world of affairs. This is a problem of a particular state of consciousness, you understand, and while it is a problem of a particular state of consciousness, on a discipleship level, it is one of the major tests of initiation, my brothers. This is difficult to face because for so long the group has worked with this problem. It becomes tired of it, and I do not blame any one of you. It is a tiresome problem that the group has been given, in truth, one of the most important problems you will ever have to face (in this level of discipleship in which you find yourselves). Because once you have solved this problem of economy, you will have solved all of your service problems. Make no mistake about it, once you have mastered the energy, force, and substance of your economy, you will have found the ways and means to put your ideas, your concepts, your vision of The Divine Plan into outer physical manifestation.

The Disciple and Economy, Pages 258-259

I am going to ask you to look upon the present situation, that is the present financial situation as it effects all of you, including its effect upon your group and upon other groups working under Hierarchical direction either consciously or unconsciously in their service to The Divine Plan for humanity. See this financial situation as a major opportunity insofar as this incarnation is concerned and take advantage of that opportunity by endeavoring to absorb the following information into your consciousness and to then utilize it in the coming months. First, the major problem to be solved by humanity as a whole in its initiation during this cycle is the problem of economy. You realize that in the situation in which you find yourselves, you are not alone, but that you are one with every member of humanity, regardless of the amount of wealth he may or may not possess. That humanity in total and humanity individually is presented with this problem of economy as the major problem of initiation, spiritual initiation that is.

The Disciple and Economy, Pages 272

It requires as much energy, as much force and as much substance to manifest an apparent lack as it does to manifest an apparent fulfillment, and I would have you endeavor, at least, to realize this. Do not forget that the moment you descend from mental levels into the astral, the etheric and the physical, you become caught up in a world of opposites. Fifty dollars must manifest its polar opposite, that is, it must be balanced by its polar opposite.

The Disciple and Economy, Pages 275-276

Recognize that the famine stricken people of the world are putting as much energy, force, and substance into their manifestation as are those who are living in an opposite condition. It is not going to change the condition for the famine stricken unless that happens to be your field of service and you create or formulate whatever activity is necessary to effect a change for the purpose of evolving the consciousness – not feeding the people. You will be in but not of the world, actually. You don’t attract supply, you create it. Joy is one of the primary essences of life – be detached, divinely indifferent and yet curious, and above all an actor.

The Disciple and Economy, Page 281

This disciple will lose every outer form within which he has placed his security because a part of the initiation itself, a part of the Law, demands that before the disciple can fully carry the responsibility of service to humanity, he must have placed his faith and his security within the One Life within which he lives. He must have placed his faith and security within his own higher consciousness, his Overshadowing Spiritual Soul, within the Divine Purpose which gave that soul birth, and within the economy of the One Life which serves the Divine Purpose. If he fails in this part of the initiation process, then it is obvious that he is unable to take the responsibility of initiating in the world of affairs a major service activity, a major contribution of the Divine Plan to humanity.

Applied Wisdom, Page 286

That phase of the Path within which you find yourself, that phase of initiation which you are undergoing, you feel alone because in the past you have been dependent upon relationships, even if you can take this without too much conflict and difficulty. Even your former dependence upon a Divine Source has been a false dependence upon a misinterpretation of a Divine Source. In this aloneness, you will find that Presence and relationship within which you are never alone. Only by going through this experience of aloneness can you possibly find that Presence within which you are never alone.

Applied Wisdom, Pages 288-298

These are seven principles of matter and ethers. The etheric body that we contact is the seventh principle of etheric substance. Below that is like a sounding board. It is like a reflecting surface that is called the physical plane. Think of the physical plane with no appearance – no mountains, no trees, no planets, no nothing – a plane, a frequency which is created by the frequency that is moving across it, in other words the seventh principle. The frequency of matter itself has created below itself a reflecting surface. That reflecting surface is sometimes called the periphery of manifestation. The outer-most periphery of manifestation is the physical plane of appearance. Upon this reflecting surface, or periphery of manifestation, are the appearances of those forms which are existent within the seven principles, and particularly this seventh principle of substance. Because there is a reflection, and because there is a Divine Purpose underlying that reflection, the etheric body of any particular form has extended itself and crystallized the appearance into what you identify as a solid form. So that, in a sense, the physical might be likened to a crust, an outer covering, an outer crust or shell, of the true physical-etheric form or the true substantial form.

Applied Wisdom, Page 307

There would be training not only on the new order of devas but having to do with the control of what you might call nature devas and training which is necessary for this type of activity. The Soul ideates, and thereby concepts are produced, meaning becomes cognizable. It is this meaning that is the form – the perfect form – and as it is brought into relationship with mental energy, it directs the building of the mental form. The consciousness does not take mental energy, for instance, and draw with it a geometric design – a form – but rather, consciousness impresses the meaning upon that mental deva. It is the deva’s job to build the form. Whatever meaning the consciousness impresses or moves into the mental deva, the deva takes that meaning and constructs the form which conveys it, or depicts it, so that the consciousness is not concerned with the geometric design. He only knows that mental energy moves in a straight line. The deva itself takes the meaning and gives it a mental form. His attention is to impress that deva with that meaning – to build the energy potential – to attract, with that meaning, that devic life which will take the meaning and give it form. This is the activity of the consciousness. He has to hold the meaning here and let the deva do its work. He can call the deva to attention.

Applied Wisdom, Page 459

There are certain activities in which we engage for the sake of survival and for no other reason. And yet the guiding force behind that activity may be in direct opposition to the plan we seek to serve. I’m thinking now in terms of all sorts of things. You can’t put your finger on any one activity and say this is a wrong activity and this is a right activity for disciples. That isn’t true, because it depends upon where the disciple finds himself in relationship to the One Life. You see, if his purpose and his part of the plan indicate that this activity is right activity, but he finds himself engaged in an activity that is diametrically opposed to that, then he is in a fix. His first problem and his first duty or obligation to himself is to manifest that activity that within himself (not outside, not what another disciple says is right), that he himself knows is right activity.

I don’t care what it is. A disciple may be a general—he may be in the army—and it may be part of his purpose and plan that his activity be that of sending thousands of boys to their deaths and inflicting death upon the other side. This might be part of right activity for him.

Applied Wisdom, Page 718

It is, of course, My primary hope and objective in bringing you this instruction and in asking you to cooperate with Me in this, to not only achieve the integration between yourselves necessary to the creation of the center, the nucleus, but that by the very creation of it, it will attract to itself those within the group potentially capable of rising to the frequency of its integration and come in then to add to it. I am hoping that through this I will find available to Me within a matter of years, at least, the minimum of seven which is considered necessary at Hierarchy levels to form a nucleus for this kind of effort. Applied Wisdom, Page 727

To those disciples working with occult knowledge this attack is extremely dangerous, for there has been directed at them concepts so logical, so reasonable and so close to what might be called the Truth, as to very easily be acceptable to the reasoning process of the disciple who, in the midst of Initiation, in the midst of trial, of difficulty, will grasp them. I would have you think on this. Your only safety lies in the thorough examination of every concept you receive regardless of how you receive it – whether in your own meditation, whether through a station, whether in a book – regardless of how you receive it – examine every concept of truth, permitting nothing, because of its reasonableness, nothing because of its attraction, its logical attraction, to move you mentally from that which you know.

Applied Wisdom, Page 399

As a group, working through individual soul foci, and individual instrumentalities and personalities in the world of affairs, you have different ideas and concepts, different points of view, different experiences insofar as your background is concerned, which have brought you to these different points of view. You tend to forget, at times, when one or another individual is expressing his point of view, that it is as much a part of the group consciousness as is that of your own and is as important to the total group evaluation and understanding as is your own. And in this there is a tendency to react to either repress or suppress the views of one another when they disagree with your own. This is natural, it is a part of your growth and development. I would suggest that you look at it, and make the effort the next time you are asked to enter into discussion to hear one another out, to realize that each one’s background of experience, which produces his particular point of view, is of value to the group. It should be known and accounted for in the effort which you are making as a group.

I am not in any way projecting that you do not air or enter into verbal disagreement. In fact, I am suggesting that you do enter into verbal disagreement, keeping the emotions out of them, hearing one another out, and reevaluating then your own understanding and your own point of view according to everyone else’s point of view because within that totality you will find the causal factors of whatever group condition or circumstance may be manifesting at any give time.

When you can use the mind in this way, at the same time controlling the emotions, you will find yourselves with a much greater capacity to function as a group on mental levels. And when you can function as a group on mental levels, you will function as a group in the physical plane of appearances. Applied Wisdom, Pages 467-468

You realize that you are incarnate. I say you realize, but this is not quite correct; you do not really realize—but you grasp in part that you are incarnate within a mental body, within an astral body, within an etheric body, and within this physical carcass which you know so well, and so little I might add.

Look at this totality, both separately and in its totality. You are incarnate within a mental body. What is this mysterious mental body which you are incarnate within, that you have heard so much about, but that you can’t see, you can’t feel, you can’t touch, you can’t smell? You simply can’t perceive it except within the very limited perception of your physical brain. You see, this is your only means of perception of that instrument at the present time, and therefore, there is great confusion.

Applied Wisdom, Page 883

Achieve to that perspective which is able to see yourself lalopping and laugh. It is a sense of humor that you need as you go into this training. See yourself in all of your failings, in all of your little miseries, in all of your ridiculous positions, then laugh. You see, it is this ability to laugh and to laugh particularly at one’s self which is the healing, the cure. It is this that makes it possible for you to pick up and to go along with whatever task you are presented. If you can laugh at yourself you can keep your head up in that Wisdom, regardless of where your feet may be walking or what your astral body may be doing (how much lalopping is going on). Still, if you are able to laugh you will keep your head in the Wisdom. If your head will stay up in the Wisdom, you can reach up every now and then and take a breath of it into yourself. Then it has to rub off; it has to come down to the feet and be grounded where you walk. It meets with the earth upon which you walk.

Applied Wisdom, Page 813

Humanity today is undergoing a difficult transition of which it knows little. It is completing the first initiation and approaching the second as a race, fluctuating between the emotional aspect of its nature, and the mental. It is learning to react to life intelligently, rather than with just its emotions. As it becomes more and more polarized in the mental aspect, it comes closer to the revelation of its own Soul. Still, humanity does have the freedom of choice and should it decide to continue along its selfish path to destruction, it will undergo another period of dark ages in which the Spiritual Soul will be unrealized and the completion of the first initiation still waiting.

My brothers, unless humanity wakes up to the fact of brotherhood and completes the first initiation, that power that creates wars, hunger, hatred, fear, sickness, etc., cannot be balanced. Humanity, to live in peace, must learn to practice the Law of Love as taught by every great Savior of the race.

The Western world looks to Jesus as its Savior, and Jesus exemplified more than anything else the spiritual Being of Divine Love. Why then, is this law so difficult for humanity to know, and even more difficult for it to practice?

Applied Wisdom, Page 917

Humanity is differentiated from the three lower kingdoms in that it is aware of itself as a conscious thinking entity. A human being can think and speak in terms of “I,” and can reason to a degree. This does not necessarily mean that a human being was once a rock, or a vegetable, or an animal, for only human beings are individualized. Since a human being has individuality, one could not have been a rock, vegetable, or animal, for none of these three lower kingdoms has individuality. Yet, all five kingdoms in nature meet, and are represented, within humanity. Within ourselves, we find the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, and the Soul kingdom represented. The fact that humanity is both animal and human has been recognized by science. It is yet to be recognized and accepted that it is also a young god.

Applied Wisdom, Page 919

Surprisingly enough, the greatest glamour in regard to this particular subject lies in the area (the branches of clairaudience and clairvoyance) and the idea of Masters appearing and of talking to disciples. If a Master appears and talks to you, he will do so in a physical body in company with others. He will not appear in some astral form. Neither will He ever speak to you in words in astral or mental levels. You have no way of ascertaining who the owner of such a voice or appearance might be. It is a rather simple matter for the mind itself to conjure up such a vision, for it to deliver to the consciousness such words. It is also a rather simple matter in certain cases of advanced sensitivity beyond the expansion of consciousness, for one to come into contact with an impostor on astral levels. You have no way of knowing the difference between a Master or a member of the Black Lodge if he were to appear before you or to speak with you in such a way, or some discarnate entity, or even a misdirected deva. By realizing and transmitting such realization that no Master will take this means of communication, you will aid in cleaning up this particular area of the danger.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1019

What is consciousness? You have been told that consciousness is not an energy, it is that which lies between the devic polarity of purpose and the devic polarity of intelligent activity. Yet, consciousness is an aspect of every part or relationship of the pairs of opposites. There can be no oppositional force without this intermediate field between.

Therefore, consciousness is not just that of the Christ in the ultimate, but it, consciousness, is every point of interplay within any true polarity, upon any level, upon any frequency. We call this, in part, a magnetic field. It is a magnetic field and within this magnetic field there is an interplay of energies, but the magnetic field itself is a quality. That quality is present within the intrinsic nature of each and every ray, so that the first ray of Purpose has its quality as well as its energy and its frequency. The third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, and the seventh rays have their quality, as well as, their energy and frequency. That quality is within the intrinsic nature of the ray itself, and might almost be said to be the consciousness aspect of that ray, for, remember, each and every thing is a triangle.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1040

What is consciousness? Do you define it as Soul? A state of being aware? As the magnetic field of awareness between spirit and matter? Let us take this approach: the magnetic field of awareness, of beingness, between spirit and matter, that positive pole, your Spiritual Aspect, your focused individuality, your identification within the One Life, we speak of as the Monad. Your negative pole of manifestation, the Matter Aspect, the reflection of the individualized identification within the One Life, is the mental ego, the “I” consciousness focused within the physical brain. Imagine—visualize a line of light extending downward from the Monadic focus of spiritual fire which is your spiritual identification, into the physical brain to anchor itself as a conscious “I”—a conscious individuality incarnate within the three planes of human endeavor. Now what is it that is conscious? Is it the Monad, or is it the mental ego? It is neither. It is that consciousness thread which we have visualized as a line of light which moves out of the Monadic center and down into the mental ego center.

One identification is of spirit, the other of form. As these two identifications act and react one upon the other, there is created between them an ever widening sphere of awareness—an ever widening sphere of that consciousness of being. As that consciousness reflects itself upon the different frequencies of spirit and matter, what we refer to as states of consciousness are created. For instance, there is that state of consciousness which is identified with and within the form, which literally powers itself into form, gives itself to form. There is that state of consciousness which is identified as Soul, which gives itself to both spirit and matter, to both Monad or the will-to-be and form, and which, as it comes into its higher identification as Christ, mediates between spirit and matter or Monad and the mental ego or mental form. There is that state of consciousness which we refer to as Monadic, as consciousness of the Christ, as Master, since it has mastered the form nature.

Applied Wisdom, Pages 1091-1092

Your nation is entering a period in her development when her peoples must be willing to share their wealth with others, to the conscious sacrifice of unnecessary luxuries, or lose her position as a spiritual leader in the world. Such sharing has been carried out in the recent past almost unconsciously, and without real loss, but the day of awakening is at hand when American destiny, among other things, is to bring freedom and equality of opportunity to human beings everywhere. The cost will be her great wealth, for with it she will buy democratic government for every man and woman upon the planet. This is the Spiritual Purpose underlying her role as the great capitalist in the world.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1103

The new system of sharing will not take into consideration a return. In other words, there will not be the giving in return for something received. The new system does not necessarily mean that money cannot be used (let Me put it that way). But as the new system comes into its own, there will be no need for money. You are not grasping the evolution of the concept. Barter is based upon the system of giving and receiving in return for that which is given. The new system will be based upon a system of sharing—of giving—not for return.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1133

The new system which does not require money, is based upon a system of sharing—a system of giving—not in return for anything.

You do not need to go so high and so subjective as to discuss Divine supply. Actually the world supply is inexhaustible. There is, within the economy of humanity, all that is needed to fulfill the requirements of humanity, both in the physical, the emotional, and the mental aspect of humanity. The new system then will be based upon the giving of those requirements where they are needed, not in exchange for anything.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1134

For instance, your known history takes you but a little way along the backward path that humanity has taken. But even that little bit of history shows you the pattern of the rise and fall of civilizations. Could you but know it, since the Atlantean period a number of civilizations reached the same degree of development which the outer form appears have reached today, and in each instance that civilization has destroyed itself. Humanity has gone through, in each case, a recapitulation of its evolutionary development from the time of primitive animal man to this present development today—not once, but a number of times since the Atlantean catastrophe.

Such knowledge, such information, were you to take it alone, could give rise to a tremendous sense of futility within the disciple, hopelessness, and in many cases could immobilize him insofar as a renewed service effort is concerned. And this, too, has occurred in past times.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1141

The Soul is group conscious. It is impossible to become aConscious Soul Incarnate as an individual. The Conscious Soul can only incarnate in a group instrumentality. We are building a vehicle for this, so that the Divine Plan can manifest for humanity the growth and development of humanity. We will attract those who are karmically ready when we are ready, not that they may not be ready, but that we aren’t ready yet.

Applied Wisdom, Page 656

The Khrushchevs or the Stalins are the focal point through which the will of those people whom they are (shall we say) governing, ruling, oppressing, is being worked out. It is impossible for a dictator to remain unless the will of the people would have it so. That will may not be seen, it may not be obvious, but he who governs is but a vehicle.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1161

Consider: where there is a form there is within that form an incarnate, and on that level an imprisoned, consciousness.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1454

At this particular time in human evolution, growth without conflict is impossible.

Applied Wisdom, Page 1492

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The Law of Vibration

October 4, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Oct 4, 2016

The Law of Vibration

DK mentions many different laws and discusses their effects but rarely does he give out a simple definition so the average reader can clearly understand what he is getting at.

Hopefully, this series on the laws will fill in some gaps and aid understanding.

So… What is The Law of Vibration

Anyway? Is all the meaning behind it merely the fact that all things vibrate? That’s not much to go on here. Let us look deeper.

He tells us that it is one of the four subsidiary laws under the Law of Economy as well as “as an aspect of the basic law of building.” It is also linked to the Law of Color and Motion.

All things considered there are two important principles to understand in considering this law.

The first is that it is the foundation of all manifestation as we know it.

The Law of Vibration, the basis of manifestation, starting on the first plane.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 569

The Law of Vibration.–This is the law of the first plane, and it governs all the atomic subplanes of each plane. It marks the beginning of the work of the Logos, the first setting in motion of mulaprakriti (undifferentiated matter). On each plane the vibration of the atomic subplane sets in motion the matter of that plane. It is the key measure.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 574

Thus we see that all creation as we know it, on all the planes was initiated by vibration.

And what is vibration? You could say it is the essence of form, light and sound.

And what creates these three?

The wavelength. Sound, light and matter are all created by wavelengths of different frequencies. All vibration is merely a series of wavelengths.

It is interesting that as science explores deeper and deeper into matter they can find nothing that is solid. All they can find for sure are vibrating wavelengths.

The great mystery is that which creates the wavelength which in turn creates vibration which, in another turn, creates all there is.

When we look at the wavelength we see the Trinity in manifestation. The originating power we can call purpose (First Ray), the top of the wavelength is love (Second Ray) and the bottom of the wavelength is Light (Third Ray). All this is projected by a decision from the one Great Life we call God and then differentiates into all there is. Note the illustration below.

I expand on this initiating vibration in my book, The Molecular Relationship. LINK

After creation occurs we are then surrounded by innumerable vibrations. The more refined vibrations are on the higher planes and the coarser ones on the lower. This material plane is the densest of them all. Having descended to the lowest rung, we must seek to understand the second principle involved in this law, which is threefold.

First we must become spiritually sensitive so that different levels of vibration can be sensed.
Secondly, the disciple must learn how one vibration effects another to effect positive change. On this DK says:

It will be found that the comprehension of the law of vibration, and the effect of one vibration upon another vibration holds the key to the establishing of better conditions of living, and of sound bodies on all planes.

Letters on Occult Meditation, Pg 243

The science of this aspect operates on the principle of entrainment. That is when you have two vibrations within close proximity they will synchronize and soon will be vibrating to the same frequency. It is interesting that the lower vibration will harmonize with the higher, rather than the other way around.

An example of this entrainment can be found when you strike a note consistently on a piano the same note will vibrate on a nearby guitar with no one playing it.

Leave several grandfather clocks with their pendulums swinging out of sync and after a time they will all be found to swing in harmony.

Using this principle the disciple can influence the vibration of others in a positive way. Unfortunately a great hurdle in the way are the various vibrations of group thoughtforms that cause many people to mindlessly go along with is vibration and react the same way. The disciple must learn to override this and send out a higher vibration that ill eventually cause many to vibrate to a higher note or octave.

Finally, we must follow that perception of vibrations to ascend from the lower vibration state to the higher. The disciple must not be satisfied staying on his current frequency even though it may be higher than his associates. He must seek to ascend by tuning into higher vibrations such as:

His own soul and eventually the monad and monad groups.
High entities in the spirit world.
The Masters and eventually Shamballa

The seekers must continue to ascend until they find themselves back untied to the Source to enjoy the great rest of pralaya.

For additional light I have included some quotes from DK on the Law of Vibration below:

A gradual grasp of the Law of Vibration as an aspect of the basic law of building; the initiate learns consciously to build, to manipulate thought matter for the perfecting of the plans of the Logos, to work in mental essence, and to apply the law of mental levels and thereby affect the physical plane. Motion originates cosmically on cosmic mental levels, and in the microcosm the same order will be seen. There is an occult hint here that will reveal much if pondered upon. At initiation, at the moment of the application of the Rod, the initiate consciously realises the meaning of the Law of Attraction in form building, and in the synthesis of the three fires. Upon his ability to retain that realisation and himself to apply the law, will depend his power and progress

Initiation, Human and Solar, Pg 140

The Ray Path.

It is difficult to know by what other name to call this Path, as so little is known about it. In treading it, a man stays on his own ray, and works thereon in the various kingdoms on all the planes, carrying out the behests of the Lord of the World, and working under His direction. It carries a man to every part of the solar system, yet links him definitely with the synthetic ray. It is a very complex path, for it necessitates a capacity for the most intricate mathematics, and an ability to geometrise in a manner incomprehensible to our three-dimensional brains. This path is taken by the man to whom the law of vibration is of profound importance. He works first in the council chamber of the Lord of the World at Shamballa, manipulating the law of vibration on his own ray. Later he will have his habitat on the planet corresponding to his own ray, and not on the earth unless he is on the ray of the Planetary Logos holding sway upon the earth. Later again as his evolution progresses, he will pass to the sun; then having mastered all connected with vibration in this system he will pass to the cosmic system, going off his own ray (which is but a subsidiary ray of one cosmic ray), on to the corresponding cosmic ray.

Initiation, Human and Solar, Pg 188

Later, when the knowledge of occult healing is more familiar, and the laws which govern the subtle bodies are more known, physical plane science will be superseded by the preventive science of the subtler planes, that science which aims at the provision of right conditions and the building of bodies that are both self-protecting and neutral to all attack. It will be found that the comprehension of the law of vibration, and the effect of one vibration upon another vibration holds the key to the establishing of better conditions of living, and of sound bodies on all planes.

Letters on Occult Meditation, Pgs 242-243

A number of people who know somewhat the rudiments of the law of vibration, and can definitely, by the power of thought, apply certain waves of colour to effect certain cures, and bring about, through scientific comprehension, the desired results.

Letters on Occult Meditation, Pg 246

Experiments can be made along the line of vitalisation and magnetisation, which involve direct action on the etheric, and this again will be found hid in the law of vibration and of colour.

Letters on Occult Meditation, Pg 247

The Law of Vibration will gradually, therefore, be more and more understood, and be seen to govern action in all of the three departments of the Manu, the World Teacher and the Mahachohan. It will find its basic expression and its familiar terminology in those of colour and sound. Emotional disorder will be regarded as discordant sound; mental lethargy will be expressed in terms of low vibration, and physical disease will be numerically considered. All constructive work will eventually be expressed in terms of numbers, by colours, and through sound.

Letters on Occult Meditation, Pg 252

The expression “the sounding of the Word” must not be too literally interpreted; the esoteric “sounding forth” is based upon a study of the Law of Vibration, and the gradual tuning of the lower vibrations of the sheaths or vestures of consciousness so that they synchronise with the note or sound of the conscious indweller. Speaking correctly, the Word is to be sounded by the soul or the ego on its own plane, and the vibration will subsequently affect the various bodies or vehicles which house that soul.

the Light of the Soul, Pg 58

When truth to all beings is perfected, the effectiveness of his words and acts is immediately to be seen – and it leads on to the consummation dealt with in the sutra under consideration – the effectiveness of all words and acts to convey reality or truth as it is. This sutra gives the clue to the work of the magician and is the basis for the great science of mantras or of words of power which are the equipment of every adept

Through an understanding of,

The law of vibration,
The science of sound,

The Light of the Soul, Pg 195

When the relation of the five senses to the five elements (ether, air, fire, water and earth) is understood, and the Law of Vibration is studied and mastered, the adept can then turn to useful purposes all the powers of his nature. He not only can enter into communication with all parts of our planetary system but can also use discriminatingly and wisely all those parts of his own nature which are allied to, or correspondences of the nature of God as shown in the macrocosm.

The Light of the Soul, Pg 352

There are seven systemic laws, which govern the manifestation of our solar Logos:

The Law of Vibration.
The Law of Cohesion.
The Law of Disintegration.
The Law of Magnetic Control.
The Law of Fixation.
The Law of Love.
The Law of Sacrifice and Death.

Each of these Laws manifests primarily on one or other of the seven planes of the solar system.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 6

The subsidiary laws under the Law of Economy are four in numberThe Law of Vibration, dealing with the key note or measure of the matter of each plane. By knowledge of this law the material of any plane in its seven divisions can be controlled.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 219

The Law of Vibration, the basis of manifestation, starting on the first plane.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 569The Law of Vibration.–This is the law of the first plane, and it governs all the atomic subplanes of each plane. It marks the beginning of the work of the Logos, the first setting in motion of mulaprakriti. On each plane the vibration of the atomic subplane sets in motion the matter of that plane. It is the key measure. We might sum up the significance of this law in the words, “light” or “fire.” It is the law of fire; it governs the transmutation of differentiated colours back to their synthesis. It controls the breaking up of the One into the seven, and then the reabsorption back into the One. It is really the basic law of evolution, which necessitates involution. It is analogous to the first movement the Logos made to express Himself through this solar system. He uttered the Sound, a threefold Sound, one sound for each of His three systems, and started a ripple on the ocean of space. The Sound grows in volume as time progresses, and when it has reached its full volume, when it is fully completed, it forms one of the notes in the major cosmic chord. Each note has six subtones, which, with the first, make the seven; the Law of Vibration, therefore, comprises eighteen lesser vibrations and three major, making the twenty-one of our three systems. Two multiplied by nine (2×9), makes the necessary eighteen, which is the key number of our love system. Twenty-seven holds hid the mystery of the third system.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 574

The Law of Vibration is the law of progress, of movement and of rotation. On the seventh or lowest plane, the vibration is slow, clogged and lethargic from the standpoint of the first, and it is in learning to vibrate or to rotate more rapidly, that we mount the path of return. It involves, therefore necessarily, the building in of finer matter into the vehicles, both deva and human. In this second system, on the five planes of human evolution, we have the five vehicles – physical, astral, mental, buddhic and atmic – which have all to be purified, rarefied, intensified and refined. In the two lowest, the physical and the astral, only matter of the five higher subplanes, of their respective planes, is to be found, for the two lowest subplanes are too low for deva or human bodies; they were dominated in the first system. The mental body is the first in which we find matter of all the subplanes. The aim of evolution for us is love dominated by intelligence, or intelligence dominated by love, for the interaction will be complete. The human race came into the chain at a point where it naturally took bodies of the fifth astral and physical subplanes, and we can see here an analogy to the coming into the fourth root-race of the more advanced Egos.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pgs 575-576

In a mysterious way this law (The Law of Sacrifice and Death) is the reverse side of the first, or the Law of Vibration.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 597

Yet all three effects are felt in spirit-matter; all proceed under the law of vibration, and this law is literally the response of deva substance to force emanating from some conscious or unconscious source.

Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 644

The sound of the AUM, the sound of the OM, and the SOUND itself, are all related to vibration and its differing and varied effects. The secret of the Law of Vibration is progressively revealed as people learn to sound forth the WORD in its three aspects.

The Rays and the Initiations, pg 132

The law of vibration and the study of atomic substance are closely intertwined. When more is known about these atoms and their action, reaction and inter-action, then people will control their bodies scientifically, synchronizing the laws of vibration and of rhythm. They are the same and yet unlike. They are phases of the law of gravitation.

A Treatise on White Magic, Pgs 65-66

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Your Place on the Path

October 2, 2016October 2, 2016 Joseph Dewey

Oct 2, 2016

Your Place on the Path

Yesterday’s quote read:

“To correctly assess your place on the spiritual path is a great accomplishment. Then you can see the next step to be taken.”

To this a reader asks: “But how do I do that? Do you know your path?”

This is a question of concern for many seekers. What confuses matters more is that most of those who do proclaim their position, or that they are on their last life, are generally way off the mark and give the wrong impression of what an advanced disciple is supposed to be.

The best way to find out is to get confirmation through your own soul, but before that happens you must assess your own self to the best of your ability. Many people think they have received from their soul when they have merely received from their ego filtered through their astral body.

There are four hurdles that each seeker must pass.

The first the maya or illusion caused by the pull of matter. To overcome this the disciple must get control over his physical passions and appetites. Here are some indications of success:

If he decides to go on a certain diet or fast he has the power to do it.
If he commits to a relationship he will be faithful and will not yield to sexual temptation. He will be faithful to the sexual virtues of his belief system.
If he has a goal that demands a harsh physical regimen he can stick to it.
Basically, by the force of his will he has a measure of control over the pull of matter which draws him to the path of lest resistance. He can take the path of most resistance and not back down.

This mastery is essential to the first initiation.

The next hurdle is even more difficult and this is to gain mastery over your emotional body.

A few signs of such mastery are:

Generally returning good for evil.
The person does not respond negatively to insults.
He releases his emotions and does not allow them to bottle up.
He has neutralized guilt.
Slow to anger
Does not seek revenge.
Has his ego in check so glamour does not control him.

When the emotional body and ego are under control the seeker has basically arrived at the Second Initiation.

The third hurdle is the mastery of illusion which thing has little meaning to the masses because they are controlled by it and often do not see illusion which stares them in the face.

For instance, there is great illusion on both sides of the political spectrum and is one of the reasons that well meaning people on the left and the right have such a huge divide in what they see as truth.

It is ironic that we will often have first and second degree initiates on both sides opposing each other – not because of lack of virtue, but because of illusion. They both sincerely believe the other is misled. In case of a rift one of them is always in error and often both are.

The main question to ask yourself to see if you have mastered illusion is this:

Can I see and understand true principles though soul contact and have I proven to my self that such vision is totally reliable?

Many who have not mastered illusion will answer yes to that question, but if nothing else it will supply a seed thought for reflection on the path to liberation.

So what do you do if you have studied all you can and are still not sure of your place on the path?

The answer is that you certainly do not give up and do nothing. Your life experience and the whisperings from your soul will give you clues. Follow the highest you know doing some type of service that will be helpful to others. If it turns out you have made the wrong decision and should be following another direction the truth will be revealed to you as you move along. But the key is that you must move. Do not become lazy and stand still for any length of time.

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