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"Before The 7 Paths, Which stretch before The Man Who has reached The Fifth Initiation (The Ascension), can be trodden, a Man must be a Master of the Wisdom; He must be a Brother of Compassion; and He must be able, through intelligence and love, to wield The Law. Our part at this time is to fit ourselves for the treading of The Path of Initiation by the discipline of The Probationary Path, by the careful direction of the life, by the obedience to The Law as understood, and by service to The Race. When we have attained liberation, then These Paths will stretch before us, and The One that we should tread will become apparent to us. All in this System works under The Great Law of Attraction, and therefore, according to our vibration, according to our Color (One of The 7 Rays) and tone, will depend, in all probability, our choice. Upon innate quality will depend the direction of our further progress. All of The 7 Paths lead The Initiate eventually to The Central Spiritual Sun (The Galactic Being)."
I. The Path of Earth Service:
"This is The path That keeps a Man linked to The Spiritual Hierarchy That is pledged to the service of our Planet and to the help of its Evolutions. It comprises Those Who work under The Lord of The World (Sanat Kumara) in The 7 Groups (The 7 Ray Departments or Ashrams) into Which our Masters of The Wisdom are divided. Not so many of The Masters follow This Path as some of The Others, and only enough are permitted to do so to carry on Planetary Evolution satisfactorily. The methods of work of The Great White Brotherhood will eventually become exoteric knowledge, and as The 7 Groups are recognized and known, schools of developement for the filling of Posts in These Groups will be the logical sequence."
"This is the only Path which The Lord of The World regards as within the field of his spiritual interference. He reserves the right to retain in the service of The Hierarchy, and consequently of Humanity and the subsidiary Evolutions, Those Masters Whom He regards at any one time as essential to the work to be done. This He does by asking Them to record their decision when taking The 6th Initiation (The Initiation of Decision for one of The 7 Paths) but to postpone moving on to one or other of The Paths until He gives the word."
"In due time, even Those Who choose The Path of Earth Service and remain in hierarchical work are eventually given the right to follow their decision and pass to extra-planetary service. The Hierarchy gives the needed training for that wider service."
"The Major Ray of our Solar System is that of Love-Wisdom (The 2nd Ray or Aspect), and there is no better field on which to master the preliminary stages of the divine unfoldment and receive the needed developement and education than on The Earth."
"There are many Masters Who do not work with The Human Kingdom at all but are fully occupied with carrying out The Divine Will in other Kingdoms. When anyone takes The 6th Initiation and makes his decision to follow The Path of Earth Service (either temporarily at the request of Sanat Kumara or until the end of the world cycle), He will find Himself faced with a secondary decision as to which of The 4 Kingdoms (Mineral, Plant, Animal, or Human) will profitably provide the field of his sacrifice and service."
Symbol for Path I: A green dragon issuing from the center of a blazing sun. Behind the sun and overtopping it can be seen 2 pillars on either side of a closed door.
II. The Path of Magnetic Work:
"Those Who do the work of wielding forces or electrical magnetism for the use of The Great Ones on all The Planes pass to This Path. They wield the elemental formative energy, manipulating matter of every density and vibration. Great waves of ideas and surging currents of public opinion on Astral Levels, as well as on The Higher Levels where The Great Ones work, are manipulated by Them. A large number of Fifth Ray People, Those Who have The Ray of Concrete Knowledge for their Monadic Ray, pass to this line of endeavor. The inherent quality in the type of The Monad (Higher Self of The Higher Self) settles, usually, the line of activity. These Monads have their eventual position on The Cosmic Mental Plane."
"Those Who find their way onto this Path work with Fohat or with The Essential Energy (The 2nd Cosmic Ray) of our Solar System which differentiates into 7 Major Types of Energy (The 7 Rays). Our planet with its Ruling Lord (Sanat Kumara) is an integral part of the life expression of a still greater Entity, The Solar Logos, and it is with the astral energy incident to His Cosmic Nature that The Master has to work. He learns to direct the currents of this Essential Energy, and because of his past relation to The Earth, He is part of the directing agency for astral energy within The Planetary Ring-Pass-Not."
"Many Masters Who have reached liberation upon The 5th Ray find their way to this Path. These 5th Ray Masters (among many others, of course) will be working in a great 2nd Ray Vortex of Energy."
"It must be pointed out that in its original state this pure astral energy, directed under law into our planetary life, is free from all that is at present associated with The Astral Plane: glamor and delusion, emotional fog, and poisonous deceiving phenomena. These well-known aspects of The Astral Plane are all the creations of Humanity down the ages."
"The Path of Magnetic Work takes The Master, first of all, to The Heart of The Sun (4th Chakra of The Solar Logos) and from thence to The Cosmic Mental Plane, passing through and pausing temporarily upon The Cosmic Astral Plane. This refers to high states of awareness and to a form of cosmic contact which is registered by The Master from the point at which He stands upon this 2nd Path."
"Another aspect of the work done by The Master on The 2nd Path is the drawing off of those phases of glamor which no longer have the power to deceive Mankind. They are not allowed to accumulate or to remain upon The Astral Plane. They are therefore, through the magnetic power of The Master, withdrawn from our planetary life and are 'occultly absorbed' by The Master."
"It might be said that The Masters working on The 2nd Path are working in relation to and in contact with certain Great Lives Who work on the periphery of The Constellation Libra, the Balances. This work involves a poised attention and directive power, permitting the inflow of energies from Libra which could not otherwise enter our Planetary Life at all. These Libran energies enter our Solar System via The Heart of The Sun and are peculiarly amenable to magnetic attraction and distribution."
"All The Masters receive careful training in the manipulation of energies. The Master receives instruction in the handling of the energies which are extra-planetary but within The Solar Ring-Pass-Not. Those Masters whose decision it is to tread The 2nd Path are taught the control and direction of systemic energies and of certain energies emanating from Libra and from one of the stars in The Constellation of The Great Bear. In the more advanced stages of their work and when The Master is far more advanced than the word indicates, his activities will then be concerned with the relation of the energies of The Great Bear to The Pleiades and their dual relationship to The Solar System."
Symbol for Path II: A funeral pyre, 4 torches, and a 5-fold star mounting towards the sun.
III. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi:
"This Path is trodden by Those Who will take up the work of The 7 Planetary Logoi of the next System (Solar) and of The 49 Sub-planetary Logoi, Their Assistants, and of certain other Entities working in that particular Department. Each Chohan of a Ray takes a certain number of Initiates of The Sixth Level (Level of The World Teacher) and trains Them especially for this work. Special aptitude in color and sound predisposes the choice, and the ability to work with 'psyche' or The Spirits in Evolution marks a Man out for this High Post. Every Planetary Logos has, in his own special planet, schools for the developement of subordinate Logoi and there trains Them for this High Office, giving Them opportunity for wide experience. Even The Logoi Themselves progress onward, and their places must be taken."
"Those Masters Who tread this Path find their way to the various schools for the training of Planetary Logoi which are found within certain of the major Planetary Schemes. They are necessarily few in number, and a small group of Them remains to study in our particular planetary enterprise under Sanat Kumara."
"They receive instruction of a nature incomprehensible to us from The Members of The Council Chamber at Shamballa and primarily from two of The Buddhas of Activity (Exoteric Kumaras). Having learned the technique and having passed certain tests, They move into The Planetary Life of Venus, our Earth's Alter Ego, and there They complete their training as far as our Solar System can give it, finding their way eventually onto The Cosmic Mental Plane."
"The Masters taking this training are not occupied with individual states of consciousness within any group. It is the consciousness of the whole and its responsiveness to cosmic impacts that engages their attention. They are not interested in any individual unit of any kind or in its individual reactions, responsiveness, or susceptibility to impression."
"Their whole training is concerned with the planetary, systemic, and cosmic building of The Antahkarana, for it is via The Antahkarana that Spirit works, that life processes are controlled, and the will of all developing aspects of Deity function."
"As Planetary Logoi, when their own time comes, these Masters will be concerned with the registration of The Purpose and expressed Will of some Solar Logos. They will then, through the planetary and systemic Antahkarana, supervise the gradual evolutionary impartation of that Will (which is now theirs) to all the forms through which They function in any particular planet for which They have assumed responsibility."
"These Masters are The Directing Builders and Creators eventually of all forms of planetary life, forms embodying qualities and intentions as yet undreamed of by us."
"The Masters on this 3rd Path will some day complete their training for Planetary Logoi by attaining the status of Buddhas of Activity and will for a period serve in that capacity in some Planetary Scheme before taking the control and guidance of their own body of manifestation (a planet)."
"The supreme task of a Planetary Logos is to impress his 7-fold body of manifestation (7 planets in each Round), via its 7 states of consciousness and The 7 Centers (Chakras), with his Will and Intention. These are progressively imparted as the aetheric body is brought into an increasing state of receptivity through the awakening of The 7 Planetary Centers, primarily The 3 Major Centers. The Masters thus in training gain experience of the methods used by The Planetary Logoi of all The 7 Sacred Planets (in this Solar System), and the training is therefore an exceedingly lengthy one."
"There is no such thing as time on The Inner Planes as Humanity understands it. There are only cycles of activity or of non-activity. This non-activity for Masters on The 3rd Path takes the form of cyclic periods of contemplation and mental activity, followed by active periods of energy direction to impress The Will of certain Planetary Logoi and their Agents upon The Council Chamber of our planet in particular and upon other planets as their training is perfected."
"The number of Masters deciding on this Path is not large. The training is peculiarly arduous and is followed, when opportunity is offered to function as a Planetary Logos, by an act of sacrifice which confines Them indefinitely to the limitations of The Ring-Pass-Not of their body of manifestation, a planet. It is for this reason that Sanat Kumara has ever been called 'The Great Sacrifice'."
Symbol for Path III: A colored cross with a star at the center and backed by a blazing sun, surmounted by a Sensa Word.
IV. The Path to Sirius:
"Very little may be communicated about this Path, and the curiously close relation between It and The Pleiades can only be mentioned, further speculation being impossible. The bulk of liberated Humanity goes this way, and the prospect holds out glorious possibilities. The 7 Stars of The Pleiades are the goal for the 7 types, and this is hinted at in the Book of Job in the words, 'Canst thou bind the sweet influence of The Pleiades?' In the mystery of this influence and in the secret of The Sun Sirius (Higher Self of The Solar Logos) are hidden the facts of our Cosmic Evolution and incidentally, therefore, of our Solar System."
"This Great Sun, which is to our Solar Logos what The Monad is to the spiritual man, has a particular part to play where our Earth is concerned. There is a relationship of very ancient date between our Lord of The World, Sanat Kumara, and The Lord of Sirius."
"The majority of liberated Humanity, and therefore a large number of The Initiates Who have to make decision (at The 6th Initiation), choose this way to The Cosmic Center (The Galactic Being)."
"The relationship as it expresses itself is between The Spiritual Hierarchy and Sirius and not between Shamballa and that Stupendous Sun. The energy evoked in response to this relationship enters The Hierarchy via The Heart of The Sun (4th Chakra of The Solar Logos), creating as a consequence a triangle of spiritual energy of enormous potency (Sirius - The Hierarchy - Heart of The Sun)."
"A stream of energy coming from The Sun Sirius enters directly into The Hierarchy and carries with it The Principle of Buddhi, of Cosmic Love. This, in a mysterious way, is The Principle found at the heart of every atom. The energy of Sirius by-passes Shamballa and is focused in The Hierarchy. Its effect is not felt until after The 3rd Initiation (The Transfiguration or Soul Merge), though The Masters use this energy whilst training Disciples for The 2nd, The 4th, and The 6th Initiations."
"The entire work of The Great White Lodge is controlled from Sirius. The Ashrams are subjected to its cyclic inflow. The Higher Initiations are taken under its stimulation, for The Principle of Buddhi, of Pure Love (2nd Ray), must be active in the heart of every Initiate prior to The Initiation of The Great Decision (The 6th Initiation)."
"This Sirian influence was not recognized and little of it was definitely focused in The Hierarchy until Christ (Lord Maitreya through Jesus) came and revealed The Love of God to Humanity. He is the expression, par excellence, of a Sirian Initiation, and it is to that High Place He will eventually go, no matter what duties or hierarchical obligations may take Him elsewhere between that time and now. The Buddha was originally to have chosen The 4th Path, but other plans confront Him now and will probably claim his choice."
"The Sirian Lodge is the true 'Blue Lodge', and to become a Candidate in that Lodge The Initiate of The 3rd Degree has to become a lowly Aspirant (to The Sirian Brotherhood) with all the true and full Initiations awaiting Him 'within the sunshine of The Major Sun'."
"The Life Which is manifesting through Sirius is an Expression Which is organized and vital beyond anything man can vision and is free to a completely unlimited extent beyond the power of man to comprehend. The Principle of Freedom represents an aspect of the influence which Sirius exerts on our Solar System and particularly on our planet. This Principle of Freedom is one of The Attributes of Deity (like Will, Love, and Mind) of which Humanity knows as yet little."
"It is The Principle of Freedom which enables Sanat Kumara to dwell on The Earth and yet stand free from all contacts except with Those Who have trodden The Path of Liberation (The Path of Initiation). It is that which provides a 'Pathway of Power' between our Hierarchy and the distant Sun Sirius and gives the incentive towards the culture of freedom or of liberation which motivates the work of The Masters of The Wisdom. It is that which substands or lies under or behind all progress. This mysteriously exerted influence, this pulling away from form, emanates from Sirius."
"The Law of Freedom is responsible for The Lord of The World being known as 'The Great Sacrifice', for (under the control of this Law) He created our planetary life and all that is within and upon it in order to learn to wield this Law with full understanding, in full consciousness, and yet at the same time to bring release to the myriad forms of his creation. In the last analysis, freedom and liberation are effects of its activity. This unique and mysterious Law governs The Life and The Lives upon Sirius."
"Masonry, as originally instituted far back in the very night of time, was organized under direct Sirian influence and modeled as far as possible on certain Sirian Institutions and bears a slight resemblance also to our Hierarchical Life. Its 'Blue Lodge' with its 3 Degrees is related to The 3 Major Groups of Lives on Sirius. These Groups receive all Those Who choose The 4th Path and train Them in the mode of existence and the type of livingness which is found on Sirius. This will make it plain to you that the least developed of The Sirian Lives are, from our standpoint, all of Them Initiates of a very High Degree."
"Masonry is, therefore, connected in a peculiar way with The 4th Path. Down the ages, the Masonic Tradition has been preserved, changing its nomenclature from time to time, reinterpreting its Words of Power, and consequently getting further and further removed from its original beauty and intent."
Symbol for Path IV: Two wheels of electric fire, revolving around an orange cross with an emerald at the center.
V. The Ray Path:
"In treading this Path, a Man stays on his own Ray (one of The 7 Rays) and works thereon in the various Kingdoms on all The Planes, carrying out the behests of The Lord of The World (Sanat Kumara) and working under his direction. It carries a Man to every part of The Solar System, yet links Him definitely with The Synthetic Ray (The 2nd Cosmic Ray of Love-Wisdom). It is a very complex Path, for It necessitates a capacity for the most intricate mathematics and an ability to geometrize in a manner incomprehensible to our 3-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 (The Second Ray). Later again, as his evolution progresses, He will pass to The Sun (The Solar Hierarchy). 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) and on to the corresponding Cosmic Ray."
"The cyclic appearance of The Rays, with their varying Ray influences, qualities, and intentions, all contribute to the evolutionary process as They cycle in and out of manifested expression. It should be recognized that each Ray Lord, whilst following his own path of developement, has certain qualities to express and certain aspects of life to unfold and manifest. It is with these Ray intentions that The Initiate of The 6th Degree is occupied when He passes on to The 5th or Ray Path."
"The Master on this Path works at the comprehension of the intention and the life purposes of The Ray Lords. Many 1st Ray Souls find their way onto this Path, for there is a close connection between The Decision at The 6th Initiation and this 5th Path. It is a connection based upon the use of The Will (1st Ray or Aspect). It is the will-to-power, the will-to-love, and the will-to-know which form the elementary basis of the training given on this 5th Path. For Masters on The 1st Ray, it is often the line of least resistance."
"The training given The Master of The 6th Initiation ends in another tremendous decision which will place Him in a group of Lives on some Sacred Planet (7 Sacred Planets in this Solar System) or in some Solar System which will be a correspondence to Shamballa on our little planet. Shamballa embodies The Will or Purpose of our Planetary Logos. The goal which these Initiates (trained on The Ray Path) eventually reach is some sphere of activity wherein sublime purposes and divine intentions are worked out."
Symbol for Path V: Five balls of fire enclosed within a sphere. Sphere is formed of a serpent inscribed with the mantram of insulation.
VI. The Path The Solar Logos is on:
"Certain of The Sons of Men, a Nucleus Who reached a very High Initiation in the previous Solar System, formed an Esoteric Group around The Logos (Solar) when He decided upon further progress. In consequence, He formed this Solar System (the 2nd in the series), cosmic desire for incarnation driving Him on. The real home of these Great Entities is upon The Cosmic Buddhic Plane."
"Gradually, by dint of hard effort, certain Masters have qualified Themselves or are qualifying Themselves to take the place of the original Members of The Group, permitting of their return to a Cosmic Center around Which our System and the greater System of Sirius revolve. Only one Adept here and there has the necessary qualifications, for it involves the developement of a certain type of response to Cosmic Vibration. It means a specializing in the inner sight and the developement of a certain measure of Cosmic Vision. More of The Deva Evolution pass to this Path than do The Human."
"It is practically impossible to say anything anent this Path, which is trodden by those Great Beings Who are in training for Solar Logoi. Of These, Sanat Kumara is One. Not all The Planetary Logoi tread The Path of Solar Logoi, for just as exalted positions await Them elsewhere in the universe. Speaking symbolically, Sanat Kumara might be regarded as a Personal Disciple of The Solar Logos with all that that indicates of cosmic responsibility."
"Those Masters Who tread this Path are rare, indeed, and hitherto have had to enter this Path via The Angel or Deva Evolution and then by transference to The 5th or Ray Path. Changes have, however, been made, and a Master can now pass onto this 6th Path directly and without entering The Deva Evolution."
"This 6th Path is one on which The Masters in training have to work with The Devas Who are so frequently The Mobile Agents of the creative process in solar creation. The Masters Who enter upon this Path eventually, and as part of their training, enter The Council Chamber of some of The Sacred Planets before transferring into The Group Which guides our Solar Logos. This, in its turn, is only a temporary phase, though in both cases the time embraced may cover vast periods from the point of view of Humanity."
"They work with Principles unknown to us on Earth. Many of Them are controlling factors on other spheres and in other planetary schemes which are more advanced than ours. The Master in training then acts as The Custodian of these 'Energetic Principles' or as Distributing Agent. In this way, Venus was The Custodian of what we call The Principle of Mind and brought it as a pure gift to embryonic Humanity (during the early 3rd Root Race)."
VII. The Path of Absolute Sonship:
"It is The Sonship to a Being higher than our Solar Logos, of Whom we may not speak. It is the great controlling Path of Karma. The Lipika Lords (The Lords of Karma) are on This Path, and all Who are fitted for that line of work and Who are close to The Logos (Solar) in a personal, intimate sense pass to The Path of Absolute Sonship. It is The Path of the special Intimates of The Logos, and into their hands He has put the working out of karma in The Solar System. They know his wishes, his will, and his aim, and to Them He entrusts the carrying out of his behests. This Group, associated with The Logos, forms a Special Group linked to a still Higher Logos."
"Not much can be given out concerning this mysterious Path, which leads into a triangle formed of 3 lines of energy of differing and greatly varying vibratory effectiveness. This triangle is in the nature of an open door, presenting unique and unprecedented opportunity to Those Who discover this Path. Just as one of The 7 Paths (4th Path) produced ultimately relationship to The Pleiades, so this Path relates our Solar System to The Constellation of The Great Bear."
"You have, therefore, the following triangle composed of one stream of energy emanating from The Great Bear, another stream of energy issuing from The Heart of The Sun or from our Solar Logos, and the base line constituted of the 7 streams of energy which come from our 7 Sacred Planets. The potency and the effectiveness of this triangle is, therefore, unique and apparent. It produces relation between our system, our planets, and the universe. This 'open' triangle presents opportunity to Those Lives Who seek to help our Solar System and bring the non-sacred planets to the point of liberation, which is their particular goal. Through this triangular door all The Great Avatars enter our system and 'find the point where They can serve'."
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