- Telepathic
work between soul and mind. This is the technique whereby the mind is
"held steady in the light," and then becomes aware of the content of the soul's
consciousness, an innate content, or that which is part of the group life of the soul on
its own level, and when in telepathic communication with other souls, as mentioned under
our fourth heading. This is the true meaning of intuitional telepathy. Through this means
of communication the mind of the disciple is fertilized with the new and spiritual ideas;
he becomes aware of the great Plan; his intuition is awakened. One point should here be
borne in mind, which is oft forgotten: The inflow of the new ideas from the buddhic
levels, thus awakening the intuitional aspect of the disciple, indicates that his soul is
beginning to integrate consciously and definitely with the Spiritual Triad, and therefore
to identify itself less and less with the lower reflection, the personality. This mental
sensitivity and rapport between soul and mind remain for a long time relatively inchoate
on the mental plane. That which is sensed remains too vague or too abstract for
formulation. It is the stage of the mystical vision and of mystical unfoldment.
- Telepathic
work between soul, mind and brain. In [22] this stage the mind still remains the
recipient of impression from the soul but, in its turn, it becomes a "transmitting
agent" or communicator. The impressions received from the soul, and the intuitions
registered as coming from the Spiritual Triad, via the soul, are now formulated into
thoughts; the vague ideas and the vision hitherto unexpressed can now be clothed in form
and sent out as embodied thought-forms to the brain of the disciple. In time, and as the
result of technical training, the disciple can in this way reach the mind and brains of
other disciples. This is an exceedingly interesting stage. It constitutes one of the major
rewards of right meditation and involves much true responsibility. You will find more
anent this stage of telepathy in my other books, particularly A Treatise on
White Magic. (Pages 176-180, 415, 427-428, 477-478.)
This much that I have outlined here is practically all that concerns man in his own inner
individual contacts and work and training. There is, however, a whole range of telepathic
contacts which should be noted because they constitute the goal for humanity.
- Telepathic
work between a Master (the focal point of a group) and the disciple in the world. It
is an occult truth that no man is really admitted into a Master's group, as an accepted
disciple, until he has become spiritually impressionable and can function as a mind in
collaboration with his own soul. Prior to that he cannot be a conscious part of a
functioning group on the inner planes gathered around a personalized force, the Master; he
cannot work in true rapport with his fellow disciples. But when he can work somewhat as a
conscious soul, then the Master can begin to impress him with group ideas via his own
soul. He hovers then for quite a while upon the periphery of the group. Eventually, as his
spiritual sensitivity increases, he [23] can be definitely impressed by the Master and
taught the technique of contact. Later, the group of disciples, functioning as one
synthetic thought-form, can reach him and thus automatically he becomes one of them. To
those who have the true esoteric sense, the above paragraph will convey a good deal of
information, hitherto hidden.
- Telepathic
work between a Master and His group. This is the mode of work whereby a Master
trains and works through His disciples. He impresses them simultaneously with
an idea or an aspect of truth. By watching their reactions, He can gauge the united
activity of the group and the simultaneity of their response.
- Telepathic
work between subjective and objective groups. I do not refer here to the contact
between an inner group of disciples, functioning consciously on the subjective levels, and
the outer form that group takes. I refer to an inner group and a different outer group or
groups. These groups, on both levels, can be either good or bad, according to the quality
or caliber of the group personnel and their motives, This opens up a wide range of
contacts and is one of the ways in which the Hierarchy of Masters work, as individuals. It
is, however, not possible for groups upon the outer plane to respond to this type of
contact until the bulk of their members have the heart center awakened. In this connection
a most interesting point should be noted. The awakening of the heart center indicates
inclusiveness, group appreciation and contact, also group thought and group life-activity.
Unless, however, the head center is also awakened and active, the soul is not able to
control, and this heart activity need not necessarily be what we call good or spiritual
activity. It is quite impersonal, like the sun, of which the heart is, as you know, the
symbol. It shines alike upon the good and the bad; and group activity, as a result of
heart awakening, can include the bad groups [24] as well as the good groups. Therefore you
can see the necessity of awakening the head center and bringing in the control of the soul
aspect; and hence the emphasis laid upon character building and the need for meditation.
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work between the Hierarchy of Masters as a group or a part of the Hierarchy, and groups
of disciples. There is little I can tell you about this, and you would not and could
not understand. The experiment we are now making, in connection with the New Group of
World Servers, is related to this form of telepathic work.
Some of
these forms of telepathic work have necessarily their distorted reflections on the
physical plane. These you might like to ponder upon, and trace the correspondences between
them. What is "mass psychology" with its unreasoning quality and its blind
activity, but a massed reaction to solar plexus impressions as passed from group to group?
What is "public opinion," so called, but vague mental reactions by the mass of
men beginning to grope their way on the mental plane, to the activity and play of more
active and powerful minds? The written and spoken words are not in themselves adequate to
account for the display of modern opinion as we now have it. What is the apparently
accurate information, so rapidly circulated among the savage races, but an expression of
that instinctual telepathy which uses the vital body and the pranic fluids as its medium?
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