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LETTER I - THE ALIGNMENT OF THE EGO WITH THE PERSONALITY

LETTER I

THE ALIGNMENT OF THE EGO WITH THE PERSONALITY.

1—The Aligning of the three lower bodies.

2—Aligning with the Causal Body.

3—The Method of Alignment.

4—Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Alignment.

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LETTER I

ALIGNMENT OF THE EGO WITH THE PERSONALITY.

Sunday, May 16, 1920.

It is in the aligning of the three vehicles, the physical, the emotional, and the lower mind body, within the causal periphery, and their stabilising there by an effort of the will, that the real work of the Ego or Higher Self in any particular incarnation can be accomplished.  The great thinkers of the race, the true exponents of lower mind, are fundamentally those whose three lower bodies are aligned; that is to say those whose mental body holds the other two in circumspect alignment.  The mental body, then, is in direct communication, unobstructed and free from interference, straight through to the physical brain.

When the alignment is fourfold and when the three above-mentioned bodies are aligned with the body of the Higher Self, the causal or egoic body, and held steady within its circumference, then the great leaders of the race,—those who emotionally and intellectually sway mankind, can be seen working; then the inspirational writers and dreamers can bring down their inspirations and dreams; and then the synthetic and abstract thinkers [2] can transfer their conceptions to the world of form.  It is, right through, a question of an unimpeded channel.  Study, therefore, in this connection and when time permits, physical co-ordination; then to physical co-ordination add emotional stability, and you have the two vehicles functioning as one.  When the co-ordination extends to the mental body, the threefold lower man is reaching his apotheosis, and has rung most of the changes in the world of form.

Later comes co-ordination perfected with the Higher Self, the channel of communication reaching in line direct,—via an unimpeded funnel, if so I might express it,—to the physical brain consciousness.  Heretofore it has only been direct at rare intervals.  The four lesser brain centres are functioning at high vibration in the man of a highly co-ordinated personality; when the Ego is nearing alignment with the lower bodies, the pineal gland and the pituitary body are in process of development; and when they are functioning with correlation (which eventuates by the time the third Initiation is taken), then the third, or alta major centre, intensifies its hitherto gentle vibration.  When the fifth Initiation is taken, the interplay between the three centres is perfected, and the alignment of the bodies is geometrically rectified; you have then the perfected fivefold superman.

For the average man, then, this alignment occurs only at intervals, in moments of stress, in hours of needed humanitarian effort and in times of intensest aspiration.  Abstraction of a more or less degree has to enter in before the Ego takes continued notice of the personality or lower self.  When that abstraction involves the emotions, is based in the mentality and contacts the physical brain, then alignment is commencing.

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Hence the work of meditation, for it tends to abstraction and seeks to awaken to abstract consciousness both the emotions and the mentality.

Alignment and Vibration.

Forget not either that it is largely a question of matter and vibration.  The abstract levels of the mental plane consist of the three higher levels, the first being that termed the third subplane.  As I have explained to you before, each subplane has its correlations on the major planes.  When, therefore, you have built into your bodies,—physical, emotional and mental,—matter of the third subplane of each of those planes, then the Higher self commences consciously and ever more continuously to function through the aligning Personality.  Perhaps we might reverse the idea and state that it is only when third subplane matter of a certain percentage (which percentage is one of the secrets of Initiation) is contained in the vehicles, that the Personality as a conscious whole recognises and obeys that Higher self.  After such a percentage is attained, it is then necessary to build in matter of the two higher subplanes on the physical and emotional planes; hence the struggle for the aspirant to purify and discipline the physical body and to subdue the emotional.  Purification and subjugation describe the work to be done on the two planes.  This involves the use of lower mind, and the three lower vehicles thus become aligned.

The vibrations of the abstract levels can then begin to be felt.  You need to remember that they come via the causal body, the vehicle of the Higher Self, and the average causal body is on the third subplane of the mental plane.  This is a point not sufficiently recognised.  Ponder on it.  Real abstract thought becomes possible only when the Personality has, by vibration reciprocal to that of the [4] Ego, aligned itself sufficiently to form a fairly unimpeded channel.  Then at intervals, rare at first but of increasing frequency, will abstract ideas begin to filter down, to be followed in due time by flashes of real illumination or intuition from the spiritual Triad or the true threefold Ego itself.

The Chord of the Ego.

When I use the term "reciprocal vibration," what do I mean?  I mean the adaptation of the Personality or Lower Self, to the Ego, or Higher Self, the dominating of the Personality ray by the ray of the Ego and the combining of their tones.  I mean the blending of the primary colour of the Higher Self with the secondary hue of the Lower Self until beauty is achieved.  At first, there is dissonance and discord, a clashing of the colours, and a fight between the Higher and the Lower.  But as time progresses, and later with the aid of the Master, harmony of colour and tone is produced (a synonymous matter), until eventually you will have the basic note of matter, the major third of the aligned Personality, the dominant fifth of the Ego, followed by the full chord of the Monad or Spirit.

It is the dominant we seek at adeptship, and earlier the perfected third of the Personality.  During our various incarnations we strike and ring the changes on all the intervening notes, and sometimes our lives are major and sometimes minor, but always they tend to flexibility and greater beauty.  In due time, each note fits into its chord, the chord of the Spirit; each chord forms part of a phrase, the phrase or group to which the chord belongs; and the phrase goes to the completion of one seventh of the whole.  The entire seven sections, then, complete the sonata of this solar system,—a part of the threefold masterpiece of the Logos or God, the Master-Musician.

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June 2, 1920.

Microcosmic and Macrocosmic Alignment.

This morning, I would touch on the matter of egoic alignment again, showing you, under the Law of Correspondences, the universal application.  It lies based in geometry, or in figures and numbers.

The aim of the evolution of man in the three worlds—the physical, emotional and mental planes—is the alignment of his threefold Personality with the body egoic, till the one straight line is achieved and the man becomes the One.

Each life that the Personality leads is, at the close, represented by some geometrical figure, some utilisation of the lines of the cube, and their demonstration in a form of some kind.  Intricate and uncertain in outline and crude in design are the forms of the earlier lives; definite and clear in outline are the forms built by the average advanced man of this generation.  But when he steps upon the Path of Discipleship, the purpose consists in merging all these many lines into one line, and gradually this consummation is achieved.  The Master is He Who has blended all the lines of fivefold development first into the three, and then into the one.  The six-pointed star becomes the five-pointed star, the cube becomes the triangle, and the triangle becomes the one; whilst the one (at the end of the greater cycle) becomes the point in the circle of manifestation.

Hence the effort made to teach all devotees simplicity, based on a trinity of foundation truths, and the inculcation of one-pointedness.

Each life tends to greater stability but seldom is the three-fold Personality yet to be found lined up, if so I [6] may put it, with the causal consciousness.  Temporary moments occur when this is the case and when (in moments of highest aspiration and for purposes of unselfish endeavor) the higher and the lower form a line direct.  Usually the emotional body, through violent emotion and vibration, or a fluctuating restlessness, is continuously out of alignment.  Where the emotional body may be momentarily aligned, then the mental body acts as an obstruction, preventing the percolation down from the higher to the lower, and so to the physical brain.  It takes many lives of strenuous endeavor before the emotional body can be stilled and a mental body built that will act as a filter and not as an impediment.  Even when this has been somewhat accomplished and the emotional body is stabilised and a pure reflector, and the mental body serves the purpose of a sensitive plate and discriminator, and the intelligent explainer of the higher imparted truth,—even then, I say, it takes much discipline and many lives of effort to align the two at the same time.  When that is done, the control of the physical brain and its final alignment remain to be effected, so that it may act as a direct receiver and transmitter of the imparted teaching, and may reflect with accuracy the higher consciousness.

Wherein, therefore, lies the macrocosmic correspondence?  Where is the analogy in the Solar System?  An indication I give here.  In the direct alignment of certain planets in the process of systemic evolution, with each other and with the Sun comes Logoic or divine alignment.  Think this out, but one word of warning I give.  Seek not to work out hypotheses of alignment based on the physical planets.  The truth lies not there.  Only three of the physical planets (and those three in etheric matter) enter into the final alignment that marks the attainment [7] by the Logos of the cosmic egoic consciousness, which is His goal of attainment.  Of these three, the earth is not one, but Venus has her place corresponding to the emotional permanent atom.

Further still the alignment may be progressed:—in the alignment of our entire solar system with the system of Sirius lies a still more remote goal.  It is a point far ahead in time, but holds hid the secret of the greater cycle.

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