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1. "The Aetheric Body is a body composed entirely of lines of force (meridians or nadis) and of points where these lines of force cross each other and thus form, in crossing, centers of energy (chakras). Where many such lines of force cross each other, you have a larger center of energy, and where great streams of energy meet and cross, as they do in the head and up the spine, you have 7 Major Centers. There are 7 such plus 21 lesser centers and 49 smaller centers known to esotericists."
"Where the 21 minor centers are to be found:
a. There are 2 in front of the ears, close to where the jaw bones are connected (tempero-mandibular joint).
b. There are 2 just above the 2 breasts.
c. There is 1 where the breast bone connects (suprasternal notch), close to the thyroid gland. This, with the 2 breast centers, makes a triangle of force.
d. There are 2, 1 each, in the palms of the hands.
e. There are 2, 1 each, in the soles of the feet.
f. There are 2, just behind the eyes.
g. There are 2, also, connected with the gonads.
h. There is 1 close to the liver.
i. There is 1 connected with the stomach. It is related, therefore, to The Solar Plexus but is not identical with it.
j. There are 2 connected with the spleen. These form 1 center in reality, but such a center is formed by the 2 being superimposed one on the other.
k. There are 2, 1 at the back of each knee (popliteal fossa).
l. There is 1 powerful center which is closely connected with the Vagus Nerve. This is most potent and is regarded by some schools of occultism as a major center. It is not in the spine but is no great distance from the thymus gland.
m. There is 1 which is close to The Solar Plexus and relates it to the center at the base of the spine, thus making a triangle of The Sacral Center (2nd Chakra), The Solar Plexus (3rd Chakra), and the center at the base of the spine (1st Chakra)."
2. "The centers constitute a menace when prematurely awakened or unduly energized, and this entire subject can prove most dangerous to the curiosity-impelled man and to the ignorant experimenter."
3. "Let a man apply himself to a life of high altruism, to a discipline that will refine and bring his lower vehicles into subjection, and to a strenuous endeavor to purify and control his sheaths (the subtle bodies). When he has done this and has both raised and stabilized his vibration, he will find that the developement and functioning of the centers has pursued a parallel course and that the work has proceeded along the desired lines."
"Much danger and dire calamity attends the man who arouses these centers by unlawful methods and who experiments with the fires of his body without the needed technical knowledge. He may, by his efforts, succeed in raising the fires and in intensifying the action of the centers, but he will pay the price of ignorance in the destruction of matter, in the burning of bodily or brain tissue, in the developement of insanity, and in opening the door to currents and forces undesirable and destructive."
"The aspirant has 3 things to do:
a. Purify, discipline, and transmute his 3-fold lower nature (physical, emotional, and mental).
b. Develope knowledge of himself and equip his mental body by good deeds and thoughts.
c. Serve his Race in utter self-abnegation."
"In doing this he fulfills the law. He puts himself in the right condition for training, fits himself for the ultimate application of The Rod of Initiation, and thus minimizes the danger that attends the awakening of the fire (of Kundalini)."
4. "The centers (chakras) are formed entirely of streams of force, pouring down from The Ego (Higher Self) Who transmits it from The Monad (Higher Self of The Higher Self). In this we have the secret of the gradual vibratory quickening of the centers as The Ego first comes into control or activity and later (after Initiation) The Monad, thus bringing about changes and increased vitality within these spheres of fire or of pure life force."
"The centers, therefore, when functioning properly form the 'body of fire' which eventually is all that is left, first to man in The 3 Worlds (Physical, Emotional, and Mental) and later to The Monad. When the form is destroyed, there is left this intangible spiritual body of fire, one pure flame, distinguished by 7 brilliant Centers of intenser burning. This body of fire is 'the body incorruptible' or indestructible spoken of by St. Paul and is the product of evolution. We must disabuse our minds of the idea that these centers are physical things. They are whirlpools of force that swirl aetheric, astral, and mental matter into activity of some kind. In both The Astral and Mental Sheaths there exist the counterparts of the centers as found in the physical Aetheric Body."
"Three of these centers are called Major Centers as they embody The 3 Aspects of The 3-fold Monad - Will, Love, and Intelligence:
a. The Head Center ... The Monad. Will or Power (1st Ray).
b. The Heart Center ... The Ego (or Soul). Love and Wisdom (2nd Ray).
c. The Throat Center ... The Personality. Activity or Intelligence (3rd Ray)."
5. "The centers in physical matter are recognized as being simply focal points of energy located on The Aetheric Body and having a definite use. This use is to act as transmitters of certain forms of energy consciously directed by The Ego or Self with the intent of driving the physical body to fulfill Egoic purposes."
6. "Only one in a thousand aspirants is at the stage where he should begin to work with the energy in the centers, and perhaps even this estimate is too optimistic. Better far that the aspirant serves and loves and works and disciplines himself, leaving the centers to develope and unfold more slowly and, therefore, more safely. Premature unfoldment involves much loss of time and carries with it often the seeds of prolonged trouble."
7. "I teach no mode of awakening the centers, because right impulse, steady reaction to higher impulsions, and the practical recognition of the sources of inspiration will automatically and safely swing the centers into needed and appropriate activity. This is the sound method of developement."
8. "If the aspirant but seeks spiritual developement, if he but aims at sincerity of purpose and at compassionate altruism, if he with serene application concentrates on the subjugation of the emotional body and the enlargement of the mental and cultivates the habit of abstract thinking, the desired results upon the centers will be produced from necessity, and danger will be eliminated."
9. "Undeveloped men are energized and galvanized into outer activity through the medium of The 3 Centers (Chakras) below the diaphragm. Average man is beginning to function primarily through The Solar Plexus Center (3rd Chakra) and to use it as a transferring Center of Force for energies which must be carried from below the diaphragm to above the diaphragm."
"World aspirants are slowly being energized and controlled by the forces which are being transferred from The Centers below the diaphragm to The Throat Center (5th Chakra) and from The Soul to The Throat Center. This leads to creative activity of some kind."
"World disciples are beginning to be governed and controlled by The Throat and Heart Centers and are also beginning to transfer the forces which have been raised to The Heart and Throat Centers to The Ajna Center (6th Chakra) between the eyebrows in the middle of the forehead. When this has been done, the man is then an integrated personality. The Soul also stimulates The Ajna Center."
"The more advanced disciples and world Initiates are also energized from 2 sources: by means of the energies raised up and lifted into the head from all the centers in the body and by those that pour into the human frame from The Soul via The Highest Center (7th Chakra) at the top of the head."
10. "The 3 Major Centers in the body of The Planetary Logos (Higher Self of Sanat Kumara) are:
a. The Head Center - Shamballa - 1st Ray of Will.
b. The Heart Center - The Hierarchy - 2nd Ray of Love/Wisdom.
c. The Throat Center - Humanity - 3rd Ray of Active Intelligence."
11. "The centers are the major agency upon The Physical Plane through which The Soul works, expresses life and quality according to the point reached under the evolutionary process, and the glandular system (endocrine system) is simply an effect, inevitable and unavoidable, of the centers through which The Soul is working. The glands express fully the point in evolution of the man and, according to that point, are responsible for defects and limitations or for assets and achieved perfections."
"The centers are conditioned, controlled, and determined by The Soul in increasing effectiveness as evolution proceeds. Prior to Soul control, they are conditioned, qualified, and controlled by The Astral Body and later by the mind (Mental Body). The goal of the evolutionary cycle is to bring about this control, this conditioning, and this determining process by The Soul."
12. "The Heart Center (Anahata Chakra) corresponds to 'The Heart of The Sun' and, therefore, to The Spiritual Source of Light and Love. It is brought into functioning activity after The 2nd Initiation (The Baptism). That Initiation marks the completion of the process whereby the emotional nature, with its outstanding quality of desire, is brought under Soul control, and the desire of the personal lower self has been transmuted into love."
"As The Heart Center becomes active, the individual aspirant is slowly drawn into an increasingly closer relation to his Soul, and then 2 expansions of consciousness take place:
a. He is drawn into The Ashram of one of The Masters, according to his Soul Ray, and becomes an accepted disciple in the technical sense. The Master is Himself The Heart Center of The Ashram, and He can now reach his disciple via The Soul, because that disciple through alignment and contact has put his Heart (Chakra) into close rapport with The Soul.
b. He is drawn into close service relationship with Humanity. His growing sense of responsibility, due to Heart Center activity, leads him to serve and work. Eventually he too becomes the heart of a group or of an organization, small at first but becoming worldwide as his spiritual power developes, and he thinks in terms of the group and of Humanity."
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