In my last instruction I made the statement that meditation was the major creative agent in the universe. There are other universes that are ahead of us in development and, in them, the emphasis may not be upon creation by use of mental energies; others may not be so advanced and, in them, mental energy may be in process of unfolding or expressing itself - in the evolutionary sense. There are also universes and solar systems where the quality and the conditions of the manifesting universe, solar system or planet are unknown to us. It must be borne in mind that though in all manifestations the three aspects (of purpose or will, attraction [208] magnetic love or plan, and appearance as manifestation of both of these) are necessarily present, the manifesting Entity (responsible for these expressions of divinity) may work through and "occultly declare" conditions and qualities of which we have no experience or knowledge. We may possess utterly no idea in the highest flights of our abstract thinking (and this includes the most advanced thinkers upon our planet) of the nature of the impulses and concepts which animate certain universal Creators. Ponder on this.

2. The Group which is the higher correspondence of the Nirmanakayas. This group sustains and cooperates with the planetary Logos in his concentrated creative thought; its Members are the agents for attracting - through the potency of their meditation - those extra-planetary energies [209] which he needs to carry forward his vehicle of expression, the planet, and thus to bind all together into one great created whole, tending ceaselessly to the greater glory of God. They wield the Law of Synthesis and hold steadfastly (in the universal Mind of the Logos) the ultimate result of the divine Will-to-Good.

3. Shamballa, with its life and intention focused in the Council Chamber of the great Lord, Sanat Kumara. Here is known and embodied the Purpose of the planetary Logos under the meditative impression of the group which knows his will and which wields the Law of Synthesis. In the hands of this august Council, the Law of Karma finds adequate planetary guidance; this does not refer to the law as it affects the individual human being because of such individuals the Council Members have no knowledge, for the reason that they think and meditate only in terms of the whole; but they know the nature of planetary karma and of its delayed or rapid application, according to transient planetary indications. The great Wheel of Life, with its passing manifestations and its recurring civilizations, is directed by them; the manifesting kingdoms in nature, great cyclic expressions of life, are controlled by them, and all this is produced through the potency of their creative meditation which impresses the needed inspiration (another phrase for the breath of life itself) upon the Nirmanakayas and through them upon the spiritual Hierarchy. Their link with all these planetary groups (and it is real and vital) can be grasped in the key statement that "all Lives upon or within the aura of the planetary Logos and of his manifested Body, the Earth, have been, are or will be in the future human beings, thereby establishing and demonstrating their past, present or future identity with humanity, the fourth kingdom in nature." This kingdom is the planetary group or center which expresses in time and space all the divine aspects - sometimes in latency and sometimes in potency. Here lies the clue to the entire mystery of divine guidance, and here is also to be found the guarantee of the divine Will-to-Good. [210]

1. In active contemplation of the divine Purpose.
2. In a developed receptivity to that aspect of the Purpose which must be expressed through the medium of the divine Plan, and thus presented to the Hierarchy.
3. In developing that spirit of sevenfold receptivity which will make them a channel for the inflow of ray energies from Shamballa into the Hierarchy. Their united aura or area of influence and the extent of their magnetic and dynamic radiation correspond roughly to the aura of the planet itself; they contain (within their ranks) Members who are identified with the Lords of the seven Rays.

They are, in a peculiar sense, the creative agents of life as it streams forth from Shamballa into all the aspects, areas, kingdoms and fields of manifestation. This they are enabled to do through sustained, concentrated, intensive and dynamic meditation. They are necessarily a second ray group (as the second ray is the ray at present of the planetary Logos) but they focus their meditation largely along first ray lines (which is a subray of the second ray in this solar system, as you know) because they are the creative agents of life itself and the knowers and the custodians of the will of the planetary Logos, as it works itself out in manifestation. They are the source in reality [211] of planetary invocation and evocation. Again, ponder on this.