Recognising the Three Aspects of Mind - A Triangle of Relationship on the Mental Plane

RECOGNISING THE THREE ASPECTS OF MIND: A TRIANGLE OF RELATIONSHIP ON THE MENTAL PLANE

Emmanuel Sackeyfio         

Today we are especially and uniquely working with a triangle of energies of immense service potency. This work is going on in many places in the world. Three energies are involved, 1. the invocative energy of Humanity, a center of creative intelligent activity (a kind of light), which is focusing, increasingly and radiantly, through the New Group of World Servers; 2.the energies of the Christ-- the magnetic attractive power of Love, streaming into humanity, through the Hierarchy; and 3. the extraordinary energy emanating from the Lord Buddha, the embodiment of the principle of enlightenment, as a vehicle for the Shamballa energy, a potency said to be so great that, the Buddha can only stay very briefly when He appears at the Wesak full moon, even after a long preparation by the Hierarchy. We are approaching the full tide of this living event today at 11:31 pm EDT.   

This triangle of energies is found reflected through-out the seven sub-planes of our cosmic physical plane. 

We find its lowest reflection precipitated as the pineal gland, the pituitary gland and the alter major center in our physical brain and in a dormant, and for a long time, un-awakened and un-related state. Its highest expression, we find in the spiritual triad which embraces the atmic, buddhic and the manasic sub-planes of the cosmic physical plane. In between these  two triangles of energies, we come upon another triangle of great importance on the mental plane, which is like a middle triangle of energies. This triangle is of the utmost practical and immediate usefulness in our work as esoteric students, who are seeking to master the science of service. 

This middle or mediating triangle on the mental plane, comprises the mental body, our lower concrete mind; the son of Mind, the soul in the causal body; and the higher mind, or the abstract mind which links the spiritual triad and this middle triangle.

The “three” triangles, briefly described above, suggest the need for some relationship yet to be made in consciousness. This is the great creative work facing us on the mental plane, and with which some are proceeding, and which awaits others. 

This makes the mental plane the plane on which the esoteric student exerts her greatest creative endeavors and service activity and proves her essential divinity. She accomplishes this by transforming the three aspects of mind found on the mental plane into an alignment between the higher and the lower minds. The student starts with a triplicity and ends with a duality -- an alignment between the higher mind and the lower mind fused with the soul, so that, “lighted substance rightfully reacts to the attractive power of love”, and a great relationship is finally established, “and God fulfills Himself on Earth”.

The energy which flows through the higher mind, the will-to-good, is seen influencing governments, consciously and unconsciously inspiring goodwill in the masses, and pushing forward the whole of human effort. The second energy, the energy of love, streaming through all souls in the causal vehicle on the mental plane, emanating from the Christ, through the Hierarchy, is demonstrating as the expression and establishing of all right human relationships through cooperation and sharing, And the energies from the third point of the triangle, representing the lower concrete mind, the analytical and discriminating mind, vehicle of the creative intelligence, is effecting massive effort in science and education, and challenging humanity through data collection and study. 

The esoteric endeavor in the world shares in all these activities. 

The triangle on the mental plane, is also symbolic of group evolutionary efforts in consciousness, with the higher abstract mind representing the initiate consciousness of those selfless and harmless servers of the race; the son of mind, in the causal body, representing the consciousness of aspirants and disciples; and the concrete mind, representing the awareness of average intelligent human beings. It is as if through work on the mental plane, the whole of the strictly human creative effort is consummated, making possible a higher phase of service. 

When the relationship on the mental plane is being established, and symbolically, the “triangle” is been transformed into “the straight line”, a great simplification occurs, and leads to “the simplicity of the soul”, which we are told, “opens the way to Shamballa”. [DINA, vol. II p. 515]. Esoteric students are particularly concerned with simplification, with making their lives simple, devoid of distractions, focused and concentrated. For “their eyes will then be single, and their body will be full of light”. The mental plane is particularly the plane of light – the light of knowledge, the light of the soul (group relationship) and the light of the higher mind. (synthesis) 

If all these triangles of relationships and planes and sub-planes appear confusing, there is no need to worry at all, for another way of understanding the same ideas is the consideration that, as the student continues in service, study, observation, intense struggle, endurance, courage, love, wisdom, mistakes, failures, a persistence in occult meditation, polarization is achieved on the mental plane, and the indicated alignment is brought about between the three aspects of mind. Increasingly the student becomes the soul infused personality, group conscious and penetrates to the heart of the New Group of World Servers. The wisdom emanating from the Lord Buddha and his 900 Arhats, increases and the student dispenses the Love streaming from the Christ and his 9000 Initiates, our Masters of the Wisdom. The work inspired by the Buddha and the Christ is then consummating in the human unit, and light and love increases “in [the] heart, through [the] group and throughout the world”.