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1. Here we have complete unselfish adaptation to the group need and purpose. Those who have reached this point in their evolution are decentralised as regards their own personality life. The focus of their mental attention is in the Soul and in the world of Souls. Their attention is not directed towards the personality at all, except in so far as is needed to force it to adhere to group or Soul purpose. These servers who are expressions of Soul radiance and attractive power are knowers of the Plan, and in every organisation they constitute the new and slowly growing group of World Servers. In their hands lies the salvation of the world.

2. The final group in this scale of adaptation is that of the higher initiates, the perfected Elder Brethren and Great Companions. They are perfectly adapted to Their personalities, to each other and to world conditions; but as a group They are learning how to adapt the forces of nature, the energies of the Rays and the potencies of the zodiacal signs to the world need and the world demand in a practical manner and at any particular time. It is here that the work of the disciples of the world, and of the higher types of aspirants, proves helpful as a field of experiment, and it is in the new group of World Servers that the process of adaptation goes on.

Purpose of Humanity

This purpose is the Transfiguration. This is the esoteric goal set before humanity. This was the tremendous event which was enacted before humanity by the greatest of all the sons of God in His Own Body, Whom I and all true disciples regard as the Master of all the Masters, the Christ. What shall I say about this culminating event for which the entire personality of man waits? This third great initiation marks a crisis in the initiatory work, and produces a further synthesis experienced in the life of the Spiritual man. Up to the third initiation, man has been occupied with the process of fusing Soul and body into one unity. After the third initiation (and owing to an event which takes place) man is oriented towards, and becomes occupied with, a further fusion in consciousness, that of Spirit-Soul-body. I speak of a fusion in consciousness. The unity is ever there, and man in evolution, is really becoming aware of that which already exists.

Divisions

These are five in number from the standpoint of this treatise on esotericism. They can here be only briefly indicated, as elucidation of them would involve too much.

1. The racial divisions. These can be considered in two ways:

a. From the standpoint of modern esoteric science.

b. From the standpoint of The Secret Doctrine, with its septenary divisions of mankind and its forty-nine subdivisions.

2. The division of humanity into seven main Ray types, which might be enumerated as follows:

• The Power type---------full of will and governing capacity.
• The Love type-----------full of love and fusing power.
• The Active type ---------full of action, and manipulating energy.
• The Artistic type--------full of the sense of beauty and creative aspiration.
• The Scientific type -----full of the idea of cause and results, the mathematical types.
• The Devotee type ------ full of idealism.
• The Business type ----- full of organising power, given to ritualistic ceremony.

3. The twelve astrological groups. These we shall consider in dealing with The Rays and the Zodiac.

4. The division of human beings into three esoteric groups:

a. Those unawakened to the "I" consciousness. These are called esoterically "the darkened sparks."

b. Those awakened to the condition of individuality. These are called "the flickering lights."

c. Those awakened to the knowledge of the Soul. These are called "the radiant sons of light."

5. The division of humanity into three types of aspirants:

a. Those watched from a distance by the guiding Hierarchy.

b. Those awakened by and attracted to the Hierarchy.

c. Those who, from the angle of the personality, belong to the world of forces, but are awakened Souls.

    whose consciousness is being integrated into, that of the Hierarchy.  

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