| I would now like to bring into a close relation the earlier
imparted Rules for Applicants and the new Rules for Disciples, embodying the
new group activity and group discipleship, resulting in group initiation. These Rules
are fourteen in number. Today I will simply give you, first of all the rule for the
individual disciple, and then its higher corresponding rule for groups in preparation for
group initiation, reminding you that such groups are ever composed of those who have taken
the first initiation, and the name of these is legion. They are to be found in every
country. There are not, however, so many who are ready for the new era of group
initiation.
Rule I
- For Applicants: Let the disciple search within the heart's deep cave. If there
the fire burns bright, warming his brother yet heating not himself, the hour has come for
making application to stand before the door.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Within the fire of mind, focused within the head's
clear light, let the group stand. The burning ground has done its work. The clear cold
light shines forth and cold it is and yet the heat - evoked by the group love - permits
the warmth of energetic moving out. Behind the group there stands the Door. Before them
opens out the Way. Together let the band of brothers onward move - out of the fire, into
the cold, and toward a newer tension.
Rule
II
- For Applicants: When application has been made in triple form, then let the
disciple withdraw that application and forget it has been made.
- For Disciples and Initiates: The Word has now gone forth from the great point of
tension: Accepted as a group. Withdraw not now your application. You could not, if you
[20] would; but add to it three great demands and forward move. Let there be no
recollection and yet let memory rule. Work from the point of all that is within the
content of the group's united life.
Rule III
- For Applicants: Triple the call must be and long it takes to sound it forth. Let
the disciple sound the call across the desert, over all the seas and through the fires
which separate him from the veiled and hidden door.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Dual the moving forward. The Door is left behind.
That is a happening of the past. Let the cry of invocation issue forth from the deep
center of the group's clear cold light. Let it evoke response from the bright center,
lying far ahead. When the demand and the response are lost in one great Sound,
move outward from the desert, leave the seas behind and know that God is Fire.
Rule IV
- For Applicants: Let the disciple tend the evocation of the fire, nourish the
lesser lives and thus keep the wheel revolving.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group see that all the eighteen fires die
down and that the lesser lives return unto the reservoir of life. This they must bring
about through the evocation of the Will. The lesser wheels must not for aye revolve in
time and space. Only the greater Wheel must onward move and turn.
Rule V
- For Applicants: Let the applicant see to it that the Solar Angel dims the light
of the lunar angels, remaining the sole luminary in the microcosmic sky.
- For Disciples and Initiates: In unison let the group perceive the Triad shining
forth, dimming the light of the soul and blotting out the light of form. The macrocosmic
Whole is all there is. Let the group perceive that Whole and then no longer use the
thought "My soul and thine." [21]
Rule VI
- For Applicants: The purificatory fires burn dim and low when the third is
sacrificed to the fourth. Therefore let the disciple refrain from taking life and let him
nourish that which is lowest with the produce of the second.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group know that life is one and naught can
ever take or touch that life. Let the group know the vivid, flaming, drenching Life that
floods the fourth when the fifth is known. The fifth feeds on the fourth. Let then the
group - merged in the fifth - be nourished by the sixth and seventh and realize that all
the lesser rules are rules in time and space and cannot hold the group. It onward moves in
life.
Rule VII
- For Applicants: Let the disciple turn his attention to the enunciating of those
sounds which echo in the hall where walks the Master. Let him not sound the lesser notes
which awaken vibration within the halls of Maya.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group life emit the Word of invocation and
thus evoke response within those distant Ashrams where move the Chohans of the race of
men. They are no longer men as are the Masters but having passed beyond that lesser stage,
have linked Themselves with the Great Council in the highest Secret Place. Let the group
sound a dual chord, reverberating in the halls where move the Masters but finding pause
and prolongation within those radiant halls where move the Lights which carry out the Will
of God.
Rule VIII
- For Applicants: When the disciple nears the Portal, the greater seven must awaken
and bring forth response from the lesser seven upon the double circle.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group find within itself response to the
greater seven groups which carry out the hierarchical will with love and understanding.
The group contains all seven, the perfect group. The lesser seven, [22] the greater seven
and the planetary seven form one great whole, and these the group must know. When this is
realized and the Law of the Supplementary Seven is understood let the group understand the
Three and then the One. This they can do with the united breath and the unified
rhythm.
Rule IX
- For Applicants: Let the disciple merge himself within the circle of the other
selves. Let but one color blend them and their unity appear. Only when the group is known
and sensed can energy be wisely emanated.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group know there are no other selves. Let
the group know there is no color, only light; and then let darkness take the place of
light, hiding all difference, blotting out all form. Then - at the place of tension, and
at that darkest point - let the group see a point of clear cold fire, and in the fire
(right at its very heart) let the One Initiator appear Whose star shone forth when the
Door first was passed.
Rule X
- For Applicants: The Army of the Voice, the devas in their serried ranks work
ceaselessly. Let the disciple apply himself to a consideration of their methods; let him
learn the rules whereby the Army works within the veils of maya.
- For Disciples and Initiates: The rules for work within the veils of maya are
known and have been used. Let the group widen all the rents within those veils and thus
let in the light. Let the Army of the Voice be no more heard and let the brothers onward
move within the Sound. Then let them know the meaning of the OM and let them hear that OM
as it is sounded forth by Him Who stands and waits at the very center of the Council
Chamber of the Lord.
Rule XI
- For Applicants: Let the disciple transfer the fire from the lower triangle to the
higher and preserve that which is created through the fire at the midway point.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group together move the fire within the
jewel in the Lotus into the Triad and [23] let them find the Word which will carry out
that task. Let them destroy by their dynamic Will that which has been created at the
midway point. When the point of tension is reached by the brothers at the fourth great
cycle of attainment, then will this work be done.
Rule XII
- For Applicants: Let the disciple learn to use the hand in service; let him seek
the mark of the Messenger in his feet and let him learn to see with the eye which looks
out from between the two.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group serve as Aquarius indicates; let
Mercury speed the group upon the upward Way and let Taurus bring illumination and the
attainment of the vision; let the mark of the Savior, as the group toils in Pisces, be
seen above the aura of the group.
Rule XIII
- For Applicants: Four things the disciple must learn and comprehend before he can
be shown the inmost mystery: first, the laws of that which radiates; the five meanings of
magnetization make the second; the third is transmutation or the secret lost of alchemy;
and lastly, the first letter of the Word which has been imparted, or the hidden name
egoic.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group get ready to reveal the hidden
mystery. Let the group demonstrate the higher meaning of the lessons learnt, and these are
four and yet are one. Let the group understand the Law of Synthesis, of unity and fusion;
let the threefold mode of working with that which is dynamic carry the group together
towards the Higher Three where the Will of God holds sway; let Transfiguration follow
Transformation and may Transmutation disappear. Let the OM be heard right at the center of
the group, proclaiming God is All.
Rule XIV
- For Applicants: Listen, touch, see, apply, know.
- For Disciples and Initiates: Know, express, reveal, destroy and resurrect. [24]
These are the rules for group initiation and I am dealing with them to give you a
fuller understanding of the Laws of Group Life with which I dealt in some of my other
books.
I will take these rules and expound for you somewhat of their meaning and indicate
their significances as far as these can be grasped now. These instructions are written for
future disciples towards the end of this century. They form part of the last volume of A Treatise
on the Seven Rays and will, therefore, go out to the general public who will not
understand, but thus the needed teaching will be preserved. [25] |
