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1. "A Master of The Wisdom is One Who has undergone The 5th Initiation (The Ascension). That really means that His Consciousness has undergone such an expansion that it now includes The 5th or Spiritual Kingdom. He has worked his way through the 4 lower Kingdoms -- The Mineral, The Plant, The Animal, and The Human -- and has through meditation and service expanded his center of consciousness until it now includes The Plane of The Spirit."
"A Master of The Wisdom is One Who has found not only the chord of The Ego (The Higher Self) but the full chord of The Monad (Higher Self of The Higher Self) and can ring the changes therefore at will upon all the notes from the lowest to that of The Monadic. This means occultly that He has now developed the creative faculty and can sound the note for each Plane and build thereon."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who can wield The Law in The 3 Worlds (Physical, Astral, and Mental) and can dominate all that evolves on those Planes. By learning the laws of mind through the practice of meditation, He expands the laws of mind until they embrace The Laws of The Universal Mind as demonstrated in lower manifestation."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who has passed out of The Hall of Learning into The Hall of Wisdom. He has there graduated through its 5 Grades (5 Initiations) and has transmuted lower mind into mind pure and unalloyed, has transmuted desire into intuition, and has irradiated His Consciousness with The Light of Pure Spirit (The Monad)."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who knows the meaning of consciousness of life and of spirit. He can pass, by the line of least resistance, straight to the 'Bosom of His Father in Heaven' (The Monad)."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who has resolved Himself from the 5 into the 3 and from the 3 into the 2. He has become The 5-pointed Star, and when that moment is reached He sees that Star flash out above The One Initiator (Sanat Kumara) and recognizes It in those of equal place to his. He has sanctified (in the occult sense) The Quaternary and has used it as the foundation stone upon which to erect The Temple of Solomon (The Causal Body of The Soul). He has grown beyond that Temple Itself and has come to recognize it as limitation (at The 4th Initiation). He has withdrawn Himself from its confining walls and has entered within The Triad (of The Monad)."
"He has outgrown the form and has discarded it for other and higher forms. Thus He has progressed always by means of the sacrifice and death of the form. Always it is recognized as imprisoning. Always it must be sacrificed and must die so that the life within may speed ever on and up."
"A Master of The Wisdom is One Who has chosen to stay upon our planet to help his fellowmen. All Who attain The 5th Initiation are Masters of The Wisdom, but not all stay to work as Servers of The Race. They pass to other work of greater or equal importance. They choose to stay and limit Themselves for the sake of men who are pressing forward on the wave of evolution."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who has taken The 1st Initiation that links Him up with the greater Brotherhood on Sirius. He is an Initiate of The 1st Degree in The Greater Lodge (of Sirius). He has attained an expansion of consciousness that has admitted Him into touch with The Solar System in many of its Departments. Now He has ahead of Him a vast reach of Expansions (Initiations) that will eventually take Him beyond Systemic Consciousness (within The Solar System) into something far greater and wider."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who can consciously function as part of The Heavenly Man (The Planetary Logos) to Whose Body He may belong. He understands the laws governing groups and Group Souls. He governs a Group Soul consciously Himself, and He knows his place in the body systemic. He realizes The Center (Chakra) in The Body of The Heavenly Man by means of which He and His Group are kept in sympathetic vibration and conducts his relationship with other Groups in the same Body under certain definite laws."
"A Master of The Wisdom is He Who has entrusted to Him, by virtue of work accomplished, certain Words of Power. By means of these Words, He wields The Law over other Evolutions than The Human, and through them He cooperates with The Activity Aspect (3rd Aspect of Active Intelligence) of The Logos."
"A Master of The Wisdom is One Who has earned the right, through similarity of vibration, to work with The Heads of The Hierarchy of this planet and in conjunction with analogous Heads of 2 other planets connected with our Chain. When He has taken other Initiations (6th and 7th), He can contact and work in conjunction with all The 7 Planetary Logoi and not just The 3 in control of allied Chains. The whole System can be embraced by Him, and His Consciousness has expanded to include the entire objective Solar System."
2. "There are many groups and types of Masters, and most of Them are quite unknown to occult students, either from their own work or from rumor or from knowledge of the many evolutionary processes of which the human is only one. Not all The Masters work in The 3 Worlds (Physical, Astral, and Mental). Not all The Masters need or possess physical bodies. Not all The Masters have their faces turned towards The Realm of Dark Light (Earth), but many face for eons towards the clear, cold Light of Spiritual Existence. Not all The Masters make or are required to make the sacrifices which work for The 4th Kingdom in Nature (Humankind) entails. Forget not that there are many Hierarchies, and The Human Hierarchy is but one."
3. "From the esoteric angle, evolution means a steadily increasing sensitivity to Light and Illumination. A Master may not possess all knowledge possible from the exoteric angle. This He does not need because He is on The Way of Light, and The Light which is in Him and in which He lives and moves and functions serves a dual purpose:
a. It can be used to ascertain whatever is needed in the realm of knowledge by the revelation of where the needed information can be found.
b. It can be used also to reveal to The Master that which lies ahead of Him and those further reaches of awareness to which He knows He must eventually attain."
"A Master can at any time find out anything on any possible subject without the slightest difficulty."
4. "The Master can build a body (the mayavirupa) through which He can approach his incoming disciples and those who have not taken The Higher Initiations. He will normally build this body in semblance of the human form, doing so instantaneously and by an act of the will when required. The majority of The Masters Who are definitely working with Humanity preserve the old body in which They took The 5th Initiation."
5. "It is through disciples that The Hierarchy carries out its plans. Initiates (of The Hierarchy) do their main work upon Mental Levels and from behind the scenes, and because of this their potency is great. This is particularly so with Those Who have taken The 3rd Initiation (The Soul Merge or Transfiguration). A certain percentage of Them are, however, active out in the world of daily living."
"You need ever to remember that at this time the main technique of The Hierarchy is that of conveying inspiration. The Masters are not openly lecturing or teaching in the great cities of the world. They work entirely through their disciples and Initiates. It will, however, be possible for Them to appear increasingly among men and evoke recognition as the influence of Aquarius is more firmly established. The Masters in the meantime must continue to work within the silence of The Universal Ashram, as it has been called, and from there They inspire their workers, and these latter in their time and way inspire The New Group of World Servers."
6. "A Master has no personaliity at all. His Divine Nature is all that He has. The form through which He works (if He is working through and living in a physical vehicle) is a created image, the product of a focused will and the creative imagination. It is not the product of desire as in the case of a human being."
7. "Every expenditure of force on the part of a Master or Teacher is subjected to wise foresight and discrimination. Just as we do not put university professors to teach beginners, so The Masters Themselves work not individually with men until they have attained a certain stage of evolution and are ready to profit by their instruction."
8. "Who our Teacher is depends on our grading. Similarity of vibration holds the secret. We are frequently told that when the demand is forceful enough, The Teacher will appear. When we build in the right vibrations and attune ourselves to the right key, nothing can prevent our finding The Master. One lesson all aspirants need to learn and to learn early is that concentration upon the personality of The Teacher, hoping for personal contact with Him and constant visioning of that condition called 'accepted chelaship', serves to postpone that contact and delay the acceptance."
9. "It should be realized that though good character, high ethics, sound morality, and spiritual aspiration are basic and unalterable requirements, yet more is needed if the right to enter The Master's Ashram is to be granted."
"To be admitted to the privilege of being an outpost of His Consciousness requires an unselfishness and a self-surrender for which few are prepared. To be drawn within His Aura so that the disciple's aura forms an integral part of The Group Aura presupposes a purity which few can cultivate. To have the ear of The Master and to earn the right of contact with Him at will necessitates a sensitiveness and a fine discrimination which few would care to purchase at the price. Yet a door stands wide open to all who care to come, and no earnest, sincere soul who meets the requirements ever receives a rebuff."
10. "As regards The Hierarchy Itself, speaking esoterically and technically, its Members (many of Them) are 'being abstracted from the middle point of holiness and absorbed into The Council of The Lord (Sanat Kumara)'. In other words, They are passing onward into higher work and are becoming Custodians of The Energy of The Divine Will (The 1st Ray) and not simply The Custodians of The Energy of Love (The 2nd Ray). They will work henceforth as Power Units and not just as Units of Light."
"Their work becomes dynamic, instead of being attractive and magnetic, and is concerned with The Life Aspect and not just with The Soul or Consciousness Aspect. Their Places are being taken, under The Law of Ascension, by their Senior Disciples, The Initiates in their Ashrams, and the place of these Initiates Who are thus being 'raised' to more important work is being taken by disciples and probationers."
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