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Occult Cosmology

Posted by Chris Comish on November 29, 2009 at 11:14pm
Introduction I am a teacher, sometimes known as the Tibetan, who is attempting to convey to a group within humanity a body of teachings which will help them take the next evolutionary step forward. This third phase of these esoteric teachings which I have responsibility for disseminating to the Western mind is necessary if they are to achieve their overall purpose, and it is with this purpose that I am primarily concerned. Let me state it plainly. The purpose of these teachings is to achieve liberation from the three worlds for those souls who come in contact with them. The teachings are NOT designed to build a body of knowledge upon the mental plane. The development and training of the mind is a prerequisite for liberation and not an end in itself. The mind must be reoriented so that it is able to penetrate equally into the inner and outer realities, but it is not the mind to which these teachings are ultimately aimed. It is to the soul —the dweller in the mind, the director of experience —that we address ourselves. Just as the causal body is a temporary abode for the soul and a means by which it can complete its redemptive mission in the three worlds, just so these esoteric teachings form a causal vehicle within the higher mental plane of humanity. The current teachings form the third or inner petals in its threefold expression. The causal body, when complete, is not preserved in perpetuity like some frozen museum exhibit. It is the fruit of a process and this fruit serves a purpose in its ripening, but the ripe fruit does not linger long —it is destroyed, and in this destruction another pathway is opened in the planetary web. All esoteric teachings given out as formulated thoughts and ideas that can be written down in books, form part of the great illusion. The time will come when humanity will operate free of the mind and the process of direct transmission through the cosmic etheric body will be registered as an ordinary part of human experience. That time is not yet. Telepathy is developing, but telepathy employs the mind. The type of transmission which I am speaking of is more in the form of ‘communion by fire’. The fire is the essence that clothes itself on the mental plane in ideas and thoughts. Once the human soul is freed from the mind it naturally finds its place within Hierarchy and has access through direct transmission to whatever ’teaching’ is needed in order for it to perform its function within the greater whole. At the outset of this dissertation therefore I want to make one point very clear: The Ageless Wisdom which I represent is not a tradition of knowledge. Knowledge belongs to the three worlds and therefore to humanity and not to Hierarchy. This may seem a strange statement to make when we are seeking to fuse Hierarchy and humanity, but the soul and personality cannot be fully fused until they have been fully separated. The Ageless Wisdom tradition commonly referred to by human scholars is a tradition of esoteric information produced by humanity under inspiration from Hierarchy. The knowledge is human, the wisdom hierarchical. Humanity is itself a divine centre, and this will become increasingly realised as the Externalisation process progresses. As a divine centre it has an autonomous role and responsibility within the threefold operation of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity. The realisation and acceptance of this responsibility is a critical part of the initiation of the human race as a whole. Now it is true that members of Hierarchy were once members of humanity, but it must be remembered that the humanity they were a part of in time and space had a much less evolved knowledge base than the humanity of the present day. This knowledge base is expanding exponentially. Members of Hierarchy may be Masters of the Wisdom (from the perspective of humanity —for they do not consider themselves as such) but this in no way means they are Masters of All Knowledge —they merely have the key to all knowledge. Let me explain this statement. Wisdom is an emanation from the worlds of Being. It has its roots in that which is unchanging. Knowledge is an accumulation from the worlds of Becoming. It has its roots in that which is ever changing. Wisdom is archetypal. Knowledge is particular. Wisdom is developed in the soul. Knowledge is accumulated by the personality in incarnation. Confusion between these two is at the root of some persistent problems in the relationship between Hierarchy and humanity. Humanity has a tendency to confuse divinely-inspired knowledge with wisdom and therefore views it as unchangeable and unassailable. This is the cause of fundamentalism in all religions and spiritual traditions with respect to their core texts. Another result of this confusion is that humanity expects Hierarchy to provide them with knowledge when the accumulation of knowledge is properly the work of those souls who are currently part of the Human centre. Knowledge is the dough, wisdom the yeast. The reason that the Wisdom teachings continue to make their expression throughout time in human experience is because the knowledge aspect of humanity is becoming more and more refined and is therefore able to form a better and better vehicle for spiritual revelation. Indeed at no time in history has the knowledge available to humanity been so accessible, so vast; and at no other time has it grown at such an amazing rate. This presents specific problems and opportunities for the Human centre as a whole and means that the requirement to develop discernment, intuition and wisdom in order to handle the information is unprecedented and forms part of the mass appeal to Hierarchy. In some ways the scientific ashram has the healthier approach to knowledge. It is seen as an ever-changing and evolving model through which the world is viewed —in such a way as to make it more understandable and malleable to human will. As such, knowledge represents the result of the power of intelligence —the Third Aspect of the soul. Scientific knowledge evolves through forces of both co-operation and competition within the scientific community —a brotherhood that has as its common goal the pursuit of demonstrable truth. Historically when the forces of science and religion have met it is often science which has proved itself the least dogmatic. By denying or deifying their inner sources of inspiration however, both disciplines fall under the spell of materialism. Proponents of the divine science must therefore know what to hold onto as unchangeable wisdom and what to let go off as outdated knowledge. Perhaps the best advice in this regard is to be willing to continually offer all knowledge/wisdom into the fire of evolutionary transformation in the sure awareness that spirit will never be harmed by the flames. An increase in Wisdom is not the result of knowing more and more but a gradual realization of the unknowable. The neophyte to the Wisdom tradition seeks, as early scientists sought, to find an orderly divine world where all the planets turn in perfect circles around the sun. He seeks to find ultimate answers to the troubling questions of existence and to be able to rest content within a world view that is consistent and unassailed by doubt. He seeks thus to become a knower of the ‘answers’ rather than to reconcile himself to the ‘living of the question’. This natural desire is quickly obliterated in the broad scope of the Wisdom traditions which assail the mind with paradox and seek to expand consciousness until there is nothing of any substance to hold on to. Helena Blavatsky had this to say about an approach to her own inspired work —The Secret Doctrine: Come to the Secret Doctrine without any hope of getting the final Truth of existence from it, or with any idea other than seeing how far it may lead towards the Truth. Similarly in the Bailey tradition new students are apt to try and reduce the extensive and comprehensive cosmology into an ordered universe where rays and planets and chakras can all be neatly assigned. What is not realised is that it is this very tendency in the human mind to ‘reduce’ the living wisdom into concrete knowledge that is under assault in the Wisdom tradition. It is like a trojan horse which offers the security of knowing and ends by stripping away all that was sought. A Master of Wisdom is one who has left all identification with knowledge behind. He does not cultivate the field of knowledge because he knows himself to be one with the field —the farmer and the seed. The truth that is evident in the higher realms can never be fully ‘known’ because in knowledge the apparatus encountering the truth is experienced as separate from it. That all attempts to formulate in words that which must be felt and lived in order to be truly comprehended must necessarily prove distressingly inadequate. All that can be said will be after all but the partial statements of the great veiled Truth, and must be offered to the reader and student as simply providing a working hypothesis, and a suggestive explanation. To the open-minded student and the man who keeps the recollection in his mind that the truth is progressively revealed, it will be apparent that the fullest expression of the truth possible at any one time will be seen later to be but a fragment of a whole, and later still be recognised to be only portions of a fact and thus in itself a distortion of the real. Introduction to A Treatise On Cosmic Fire This current work then should be viewed as a collaboration between a Master representing the Hierarchical centre and a human representing Humanity. It is the job of the Master to disseminate the ever-present wisdom with the purpose of stimulating the urge-to-liberation in those who come in contact with it. It is the job of the human to gather the ever-evolving knowledge which clothes the wisdom in a modern expression that both veils and reveals it to a new generation of inquirers. The purpose of this current preamble therefore, is to induce those who read these words to abandon all hope and desire at the outset to make of them anything other than a pathway over which they may cross. Let them hold before their inquiring minds a vision of the purpose of these teachings. See them as a vessel provided for the reader by those who have gone before in order for them to make safe return passage across the river of forgetfulness from which all souls drink on their way into incarnation. Be grateful to he who serves as your ferryman and return the favour to those who come after; and yet do not seek to make being a ferryman your profession. Fix any holes in the vessel and make sure it is sea-worthy for the next travellers, but do not become a builder of boats. Become the path —for there is no other way to cross the river —but never lose sight of the goal which IS to cross over and explore for all, as all, that which lies on the far shore. Hieararchy needs souls to take up their conscious functioning within the ashrams on the buddhic plane. To do this they must cross over the great transition from Humanity to Hierarchy and not become overly preoccupied either with the accumulation of knowledge or the performing of service to humanity. This may seem a strange note until it is realised that the emphasis in this instruction is on the Will. The Buddha embodied the Third Aspect and it is said that the so-called ‘failure of the Buddha’ (so-called because success or failure depends upon perspective) was the result of excess compassion. The proper use of the will affirms the divinity in others and shows faith in their capacity to initiate themselves when provided with some assistance. It brings with it the drive to move forward along the path and enter into new worlds of endeavour. The First Ray is the Lord of Death because initiation not only involves an ‘entering into’ but also a ‘leaving behind’. To move forward on the path through the separating webs of the planetary etheric life requires a willingness to leave others behind when necessary, in trust that the good of the whole will be served by the rightful functioning of all its parts. This teaching is not a destination but a doorway. Use it as such. By Bruce Lyon : May be distributed according to the dictates of the heart The next section found at http://www.shamballaschool.org/Cosmology/OC1.htm
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