| (c) The Names of the Egoic Lotuses We might
consider briefly the work of forming the egoic lotus on its own plane; this is as the
result of the work of the Agnishvattas, after its segregation in space, and the formation
of its ring-pass-not. We have touched upon the remotest and earliest stages. One point we
have not yet emphasized but which is of interest to the thoughtful student. This is the
fact of the difference existing between the egoic bodies owing to their varying stages of
development. For instance, up till the middle of the Atlantean root-race (S.D., I, 196.)
(when the door of individualization was closed), Egos were to be seen at many differing
stages from the newly organized "buds," representing freshly individualized men,
to the highly developed causal bodies of the different disciples and initiates, who were
superintending the evolution of the race. Now the egoic bodies might be grouped from the
evolutionary standpoint as follows:
On the third subplane of the mental plane:
- Bud egos. Our planetary scheme, being at the midway point in its evolution,
there are therefore no unopened "buds" strictly speaking. All the egoic lotuses
have at least one petal open. All the lotuses are organized, but there are vast
differences among those of small development, [841] showing forth in the brilliancy of the
permanent atoms, and in the stage of petal unfoldment.
- Brahmic lotuses in which the first or knowledge petal is fully unfolded. They
are so called as they represent on the physical plane the fully active intelligent unity,
the man of small mental development, the lowest type of workers, agriculturists, and
peasants on every continent. They are also, called "third class creators," as
they express themselves only through the act of physical creation on the physical plane,
and their function is largely to provide vehicles for those of their own group.
- The lotuses of Brahman, in which the second petal is showing signs of opening
and the second aspect in its lowest manifestation is showing signs of demonstration. They
stand as representing certain groups of Egos from certain planetary schemes, notably
Jupiter and Venus, who are a grade higher than the class above, but which have as yet a
long way to go. They are called "second class creators," for though they
demonstrate on the physical plane in the act of physical creation, yet they are more
swayed by love than by animal instinct as in the first case. They are to be found
incarnating at this time in the Orient, particularly in India and in the Latin countries,
and just lately in America.
Primary lotuses. These are a group of special interest brought in under the
influence of the Lord of the fifth Ray, and therefore fundamentally allied to the energy
which is the special manifestation in this system and the basis of all achievement, that
is, manas. They were quiescent during the Atlantean root-race but have come in during the
fourth and fifth subraces of this root-race. They are a group a good deal more advanced
than the earlier classes but need much to develop the second petal. With them the first
and the third petals in the first circle are opening, but the middle petal is yet shut.
The middle tier also shows no signs of vitality. Owing [842] to conditions in their
emanating planet, their development has been one-sided, and hence their entering on a wave
of energy into this scheme in order to "round" themselves out, as it is called.
They may be seen in the purely intellectual selfish scientific type. They are responsible
for much of the advanced application of mechanical science to the needs of men, and for
the introduction of certain types of machinery; they work largely in connection with the
energy of the mineral kingdom. By this it must be inferred that the solar Lords who embody
this type are linked with a group of lunar Lords who respond magnetically to the devas of
the mineral kingdom. Their work for the race has at present a deleterious effect, but when
the second petal is opened, the wonders then to be achieved by them in loving service
along their own particular line will be one of the factors which will regenerate the
fourth kingdom. They will achieve emancipation in the fifth round, four fifths of them
passing on to the Path and one fifth set back for another cycle.
Lotuses
of passion or desire. They are so called because their fundamental nature is embodied
love in some one or other form. The bulk of the Monads of Love are among this large group
and they are to be seen incarnating in the bulk of the well-to-do, kindly people of the
world. They are divided into five groups, of whom three individualized upon this planet,
and two were the very latest to individualize upon the moon chain. They have two petals
unfolded and the third is for them at this time the object of their attention. Many may
succeed in unfolding it before the seventh root-race of this round but the bulk of them
will unfold it in the second root-race of the next round, and will stand ready before the
close of the round to pass on to the probationary path, having unfolded one tier of
petals, and organized the second. All these lotuses of the first circle are divided into
groups but interplay goes on between them; energy in any center [843] produces reflex
energy in another. It must be remembered that in closing the door in Atlantean times to
the animal kingdom, and the consequent temporary cessation of the forming of any more
"bud lotuses" the effect was dual, in directions other than the human or the
animal. It was the result of the internal decision on the part of the planetary Logos to
turn His attention away from the act of creation on the systemic mental plane to the work
of progressive evolution. This caused a cessation of certain types of activity, producing
a quiescence in certain of His centers, and an increased activity in others. It also had
an effect upon the solar Angels, and consequently upon the Heart of the solar system from
whence they are drawn. Floods of energy or streams of force from the heart of the sun (the
subjective Sun) were arrested and directed elsewhere, while the Pitris already active
began to center their attention upon the work begun, and temporarily new beginnings were
out of order. It must not be forgotten here that the work of the solar Pitris from
their point of view, is not primarily the evolution of man, but is the process of
their own development within the plan of the solar Logos. The evolution of the human race
is, for them, but a method.
Perfected
men are in the councils of the planetary Logos of their particular ray; the solar Pitris
are in the council of the solar Logos. 69
It might be of value here if we temporarily stopped our consideration of the egoic
groups and briefly tabulated the evolutions, remembering that in this tabulation, the
planes of differentiation alone are concerned; on the plane of the unmanifest or of the
subjective, only unity is known. It must again be remembered that the term
"unmanifest" is one of relative importance only, and concerns man's
apprehension of all that is. To the solar Logos the planes of the unmanifest are
objective. Man has not as yet achieved etheric vision, and the etheric [845] subplanes are
to him as yet unmanifest. The solar Logos has cosmic etheric vision fully developed, and
because He is on the cosmic Path all is known and fully revealed to Him within the solar
System.
69 All these will become solar Logoi of varying grades. |
