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1. "Before The 4th Initiation can be taken, the work of training is intensified, and the hastening and accumulation of knowledge has to be unbelievably rapid. The Initiate has frequent access to the library of occult books, and after this Initiation He can contact not only The Master with Whom He is linked and with Whom He has worked consciously for a long time, but He can contact and assist (in measure) The Chohans (of The 7 Rays), The Boddhisattva (The Christ), and The Manu."
"He has also to grasp The Laws of The 3 Lower Planes intellectually and likewise wield them for the aiding of The Scheme of Evolution. He studies The Cosmic Plans and has to master The Charts. He becomes versed in occult technicalities and developes 4th dimensional vision if He has not already done so. He learns to direct the activities of The Building Devas, and at the same time He works continually at the developement of his spiritual nature."
"The life of The Man Who takes The 4th Initiation or The Crucifixion is usually one of great sacrifice and suffering. It is the life of The Man Who makes The Great Renunciation, and even exoterically it is seen to be strenuous, hard, and painful. He has laid all, even his perfected personality, upon the altar of sacrifice and stands bereft of all. All is renounced, friends, money, reputation, character, standing in the world, family, and even life itself."
2. "After The 4th Initiation, The Initiate is admitted into closer fellowship in The Lodge, and his contact with The Devas is more complete. He is rapidly exhausting the resources of The Hall of Wisdom and is mastering the most intricate plans and charts. He becomes adept in the significance of color and sound, can wield The Law in The 3 Worlds (Physical, Emotional, and Mental), can contact his Monad (Higher Self of The Higher Self) with more freedom than the majority of The Human Race can contact their Egos (Higher Selves). He is in charge, also, of large work, teaching many pupils, aiding in many schemes, and is gathering under Him those who are to assist Him in future times. This refers only to Those Who stay to help Humanity on this globe."
3. "This great act of Renunciation (The 4th Initiation) marks the moment when The Disciple has nothing in Him which relates Him to The 3 Worlds of Human Evolution. His contact with those worlds in the future will be purely voluntary and for the purpose of service."
4. "Since He first put his foot upon The Path, He has been trying to build The Antahkarana (the bridge from the lower to The Higher Self). He follows blindly the ancient rules and attempts to accept as factual that which has not been proven to Him to be a fact but which is testified to by countless thousands down the ages. The whole process is in the nature of a culminating triumph of that innate sense of Deity."
"These higher spiritual energies have hitherto been recognized by Him through their effects. Now He has to learn to handle them, first of all by letting them pour into and through Him via The Antahkarana, and then to direct them towards the immediate objective of The Divine Plan."
"Hitherto He has worked primarily with the thread of consciousness. This is anchored in the head, and through that consciousness his personality and his Soul are linked together until He has become a Soul-infused personality. He has then attained unity with his Higher Self. Through the building of The Antahkarana, another thread is added to the Soul-infused personality, and the true Spiritual Individual is linked with and comes under the direction of The Spiritual Triad (of The Monad). At The 4th Initiation, The Soul Body, The Causal Body, disappears, and the thread of consciousness is occultly snapped. Neither The Soul Body nor the thread are any longer required. They become now only the symbols of a non-existent duality."
"The Soul is no longer the repository of the consciousness aspect as hitherto. All that The Soul has stored up of knowledge, science, wisdom, and experience (garnered in the life cycle of many eons of incarnation) are now the sole possession of the individual Spiritual Man."
"Nevertheless, He still possesses awareness of all the past events and knows now why He is what He is. Much of the information anent the past He discards. It has served its purpose, leaving Him with the residue of experienced wisdom. His life takes on a new coloring, totally unrelated to The 3 Worlds of his past experience. He, the sum total of that past, faces new spiritual adventures and has now to tread The Path which leads Him away from normal human evolution and onto The Way of The Higher Evolution. This new experience He is well equipped to face."
5. "At The 4th Initiation of Renunciation, the destroying aspect of The Law of Sacrifice brings about the destruction of The Causal Body, The Soul Body, in order that the unified Soul-infused personality may function directly under the inspiration of The Spiritual Triad, the triple expression or instrument of The Monad."
6. "When The Antahkarana is definitely built, thus producing perfect alignment between The Monad and its expression upon The Physical Plane, The Body of The Soul (The Causal Body) is completely and finally destroyed by the fire of The Monad pouring down The Antahkarana. There is then complete reciprocity between The Monad and the fully conscious Soul on The Physical Plane. The 'Divine Intermediary' (The Soul) is no longer required. The Son of God Who is The Son of Mind (The Soul) dies. The veil of the temple is rent in twain from the top to the bottom. The 4th Initiation is passed, and there then comes the revelation of The Father (The Monad)."
"This is the final and far-reaching result of the building of The Bridge, which is, in reality, the establishing of a line of Light between Monad and personality as a full expression of The Soul, between Spirit and matter, between Father and Mother. The Son has done his work. The task of The Savior or of The Mediator has been completed. The unity of all things is known to be a fact in consciousness, and a human spirit can say with intention and with understanding, 'I and my Father (Monad) are one'."
7. "One tremendous experience is vouchsafed to The Initiate at this time of The Renunciation. He realizes, because He sees and knows, that The Antahkarana has been successfully completed and that there is a direct line of energy from The Spiritual Triad (of The Monad), via The Antahkarana, to his mind and brain. This brings to the forefront of his consciousness the sudden and appalling recognition that The Soul Itself, The Egoic Body on its own Level and that which for ages has been the supposed Source of his existence and his Guide and Mentor, is no longer needed. His relation, as a Soul-infused personality, is now directly with The Monad."
"The Causal Body is relinquished and disappears. This is the culminating renunciation and the climaxing gesture of ages of small renunciations. Renunciation marks the career of all aspirants and disciples, renunciation consciously faced, understood, and consciously made."
8. "At The 4th Initiation, The Initiate is brought into The Presence of that aspect of Himself which is called his 'Father in Heaven'. He is brought face to face with his own Monad, that Pure Spiritual Essence on The Highest Plane but one, which is to his Ego or Higher Self what that Ego is to the personality or lower self."
"The Solar Angel (Higher Self) hitherto contacted has withdrawn Himself, and the form through which He functioned (The Causal Body) has gone, and naught is left but love-wisdom and that dynamic will which is the prime characteristic of Spirit. The lower self has served the purposes of The Ego and has been discarded. The Ego likewise has served the purposes of The Monad and is no longer required, and The Initiate stands free of both, fully liberated and able to contact The Monad as earlier He learned to contact The Ego. For the remainder of his appearances in The 3 Worlds, He is governed only by will and purpose, self-initiated, and creates his body of manifestation and thus controls his own times and seasons within karmic limits. The karma here referred to is planetary karma and not personal."
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