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1. "After The 2nd Initiation, the teaching shifts up a Plane. The Initiate learns to control his mental vehicle. He developes the capacity to manipulate thought matter and learns The Laws of creative thought building. He functions freely on the 4 lower Sub-planes of The Mental Plane, and before The 3rd Initiation He must, consciously or unconsciously, be complete master of the 4 lower Sub-planes in The 3 Planes of The 3 Worlds (Physical, Emotional, and Mental)."
"At The 3rd Initiation, termed sometimes The Transfiguration (also called The Soul Merge), the entire personality is flooded with Light from above. It is only after this Initiation that The Monad (Higher Self of The Higher Self) is definitely guiding The Ego (The Higher Self), pouring his Divine Life ever more into the prepared and cleansed channel."
2. "A Vision is accorded of what lies ahead. The Initiate is in a position at all times to recognize the other Members of The Great White Lodge. The aim of all developement is the awakening of the spiritual intuition. When this has been done, when the physical body is pure, the astral (emotional) stable and steady, and the mental body controlled, then The Initiate can safely wield and wisely use the psychic faculties for the helping of The Race. Not only can He use these faculties, but He is able now to create and vivify thought-forms that are clear and well-defined, pulsating with the spirit of service and not controlled by lower mind or desire."
"Hard and ceaseless must the work be before this can be done, but when the desire nature has been stabilized and purified, then the control of the mind-body comes more easily. Hence the path of the devotee is easier in some ways than that of the intellectual man, for he has learned the measures of purified desire and progresses by the requisite stages."
3. "This 3rd Initiation is The 1st Initiation from the angle of The Hierarchy. It is The One in which The Spiritual Man demonstrates his complete control of the personality. The physical body has been controlled through the medium of the physical disciplines. The emotional nature has been reorganized and made receptive to spiritual impression coming from The Plane of Pure Reason (The Buddhic Plane) through the transforming processes of the mind. The mind has acted as an organizer of astral (emotional) reaction and as dispeller of glamor. The Disciple is now focused in his everyday consciousness upon The Mental Plane, and the triangular relation of the 3 aspects of the mind upon this Plane is now dominant."
4. "At The 3rd Initiation, the control of the Soul-illumined mind is finally established, and The Soul Itself assumes the dominant position and not the phenomenal form. All the limits of the form nature are then transcended."
5. "At The 3rd Initiation of Transfiguration, the control of the personality in The 3 Worlds is broken in order that The Son of Mind, The Soul, may be substituted finally for the concrete and hitherto directing lower mind. Again, through The Law of Sacrifice, the personality is liberated and becomes simply an agent of The Soul."
6. "The 3rd Initiation is the first Initiation in which personality and Soul are united and fused so that the 2 aspects form one unit. Aspiration ends and the intensest conviction takes its place."
7. "After The 3rd Initiation when The Soul Body, The Causal Body, starts to dissipate, the line of relation or of connection can be and is direct. The Initiate then stands in the ocean of love, and through Him pours that love. His will is love and He can safely work, for Love and Divine Will color all his will, and He can wisely serve. Love and intelligence then become the servants of the will. Soul energy and personality force contribute to the experience of The Monad in the 3 worlds of life service, and then the age-long task of the incarnating Spiritual Man is finally accomplished."
"He is ready for Nirvana, which is but The Way into new fields of spiritual experience and of divine developement, incomprehensible as yet even to The Initiate of The 3rd Degree. This Way is revealed only when The Antahkarana (Bridge from the lower self through The Higher Self to The Monad) is built and completed and The Man becomes focused in The Triad (of The Monad) as consciously as He is now focused in the 3-fold lower nature."
8. "The elimination of the thought-form of the personality, which is consummated at The 3rd Initiation, is a Great Initiation for The Soul on its own Plane. For this reason, The 3rd Initiation is regarded as The 1st Major Initiation, since the 2 previous Initiations have very little effect upon The Soul and only affect the incarnated soul, that fragment of The Whole."
"The personality completely disappears with its demands and its aspirations. Naught is left but the shell, the sheath, and the instrument through which The Solar Light can pour for the helping of Humanity. This is true to a certain degree but is only, in the last analysis, man's attempt to put into words the transmuting and the transfiguring effect of The 3rd Initiation, which cannot be done."
"Infinitely more difficult is the attempt I am here making to depict the attitude and the reactions of The Soul, The One Self, The Master in the heart, as It recognizes the stupendous fact of its own essential liberation and realizes, once and for all, that It is now incapable of responding in any way to the lower vibrations of The 3 Worlds (Physical, Emotional, and Mental) as transmitted to The Soul by its instrument of contact, the personality form. That form is now incapable of such transmission."
"The 2nd reaction of The Soul, once this realization has been focused and admitted, is that having achieved freedom that freedom now conveys its own demands:
a. For a life of service in The 3 Worlds, so familiar and now so completely transcended.
b. An overshadowing sense of outgoing love towards those who are, as yet, seeking liberation.
c. A recognition of the essential triangle which has now become the center of the conceptual life of The Soul (Hierarchy-Soul-Humanity)."
"The personality consciousness is now that of The Soul Itself, aware of no separation, instinctively active, spiritually obsessed by the plans of The Kingdom of God (The Spiritual Hierarchy), and completely free from the lure or the faintest control of matter-form."
"The death or the elimination of the personality is the first activity in the drama of conscious creation, and the first form created by The Soul is a substitute for the personality. Thus an instrument for service in The 3 Worlds is created. This time, however, it is an instrument with no life, no desire, no ambition, and no power of thought of its own. It is only a sheath of substance, animated by Soul Life but, at the same time, responsive to and suited to the period, race, and the environing conditions wherein The Soul chooses to work."
"The Soul then prepares Itself for the coming 4th Initiation (The Renunciation). This is basically a monadic experience and results, as you know, in the disappearance or destruction of The Soul Vehicle or Causal Body and the establishment, therefore, of a direct relation between The Monad on its own Plane and the newly created personality via The Antahkarana."
"The structure of the personality at the time of elimination persists, but its separative life has gone. The personality has been absorbed. The personality form is still left, but it persists without any real life of its own. This means that it can now be the recipient of energies and forces needed by the working Initiate in order to carry on the work of salvaging Humanity. The Disciple Who has eliminated the hold of the personality has now the 'freedom of The Ashram' as it is called. He can move at will among his fellow Disciples and Initiates. Nothing can now interfere with those higher contacts and spheres of influence which have hitherto been sealed to The Disciple because of the intrusion of his personality."
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