(...Continued
from Teachings On Meditation 1)
Stage I
Reflective alignment of soul and personality, using the creative
imagination in the process. This is a "feeling"
or astral activity.
Assumed relation of solar plexus, heart and head, and the
focus of the assuming consciousness to be in the region of
the ajna center. This is done mentally.
When this has been achieved and realized, there follows next
the concentration of aspiration and of thought in the heart
center, imagining it to be just between the shoulder blades.
It must be recognized that the concentration of thought energy
is definitely there.
Then follows the conscious and pictorial (or imaginative)
withdrawal of the heart's aspiration, life and devotion into
the center above the head (the thousand-petalled lotus), and
its conscious focusing there.
When this stage has been reached, and the conscious recognition
of place and activity is being gently yet surely held, then
sound the Sacred Word, OM, very softly three times, breathing
out and towards.
The Soul.
The Hierarchy.
Humanity.
These three recognized factors now constitute a definite and
linked triangle of force.
Then say with heartfelt intent
(consider the significance of those two words) the invocation
which I gave you in my communication in September, 1939:
The sons of men are one and I am one with them.
I seek to love, not hate;
I seek to serve and not exact due service;
I seek to heal, not hurt.
Let pain bring due reward
of light and love.
Let the soul control the outer form and life and all events,
And bring to light the love which underlies the happenings
of the time.
Let vision come and insight.
Let the future stand revealed.
Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone. Let
love prevail. Let all men love.
Endeavor throughout the day
to continue holding this recollection steady and work always
in due remembrance of the morning's meditation.
This activity should take only a few minutes, but if it is
carried out with a fully awakened consciousness and with the
most carefully focused attention, the results may be most
potent and effective - far more so than you may think. The
meditation should take less than ten minutes, after you have
succeeded in familiarizing yourself with the process; firm
foundations will thus be laid for the group work and the group
meditation, which I intend to give you in May, when I will
give you your personal and group instructions.
At the time of the Full Moon
each month - dating from the time that you receive these instructions
and until further notice - I would ask you to work as follows:
Group
yourselves, all twenty-four of you, symbolically, pictorially
and imaginatively around your Teacher, and - with him - face
the East, standing in a semicircle slightly behind Him.
Then stretching out your hands in blessing, say together with
solemn, voiced intent the formula or Mantram of Unification,
beginning "The sons of men are one," which you have
been using each morning in your personal meditation. Throw
the power of your focused thought and will into and behind
the words.
Stand then together in the light which streams ever from the
East and see it pouring through the Master to each of you,
entering by the head center, passing from thence to the heart
center, and then from the heart it is directed by an act of
the focused will - expressed and propelled forth consciously
- to the quiescent point of dim light within the solar plexus.
Then, withdrawing again to the head center, endeavor consciously
to see the three centers (head, heart and solar plexus) linked
together so that the heads of all the group members are thinking
as one and the hearts of the group members are loving as one.
Your aspiration also (through the spiritual awakening of the
solar plexus) will then surge upwards as one spontaneous movement.
This will in due time create a magnetic field of light and
life, within which the New Group of World Servers will live,
mature and come to fruition.
Keep the whole process, my brother, very simple and uncomplicated
in your mind. If you will follow the above instructions with
the simplicity of a little child, you will bring about a situation
wherein work will be possible. Look not for results. Yours
is to do the outlined work and this, when rightly done, makes
the due result inevitable. But as I told you before, "it
is the inner life of reflection and the outer life of expressed
love which will determine the success of the needed group
relation and the potency of its future work" in the service
of humanity.
(Continue
to part 3 of Teachings On Meditation...)
Authors
Details: Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul
From The Book 'Discipleship in the New Age - Volume II' |
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