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THE LAW OF SERVICE

Esoteric Name:  The Law of Water and the Fishes.

Symbol:  A man with a pot of water.

Ray Energy:  Outpouring energy, sixth Ray, vivifying life.

It has previously been pointed out that the three great sciences which will come to the fore in the New Age, and which will lead humanity from the unreal to the real, and from aspiration to realisation are:

  1. The science of Meditation, the coming science of the mind.
  2. The science of Antahkarana, or of the bridging which must take place between higher and lower mind.
  3. The science of Service, which is a definite technique of at-one-ment.

Secondly, this Law of Service is something which may not be escaped. Evasion brings its penalties, if that evasion is conscious. Ability to serve marks a definite stage of advance upon the Path, and until that stage is reached, spontaneous service, rendered in love and guided by wisdom, cannot be given.

The idea of service is, at this time, the major idea to be grasped for (in grasping it) we open ourselves wide to the new incoming influences. The Law of Service is the expression of the energy of a great Life, who, in cooperation with Him "in Whom we live and move and have our being", is subjecting the human family to certain influences and streams of energy which will eventually do three things:

  1. Awaken the Heart center in all aspirants and disciples.
  2. Enable emotionally polarised humanity to focus intelligently in the mind.
  3. Transfer the energy of the Solar Plexus into the heart.

This unfolding of what we might call "the consciousness of the heart" or the development of true feeling is the first step towards group awareness. This group awareness and this identification with the feeling aspect of all groups is the quality which leads to service—a service to be rendered as the Masters render it, and as the Christ demonstrated it for us in Galilee.

THE LAW OF REPULSE

Esoteric Name:  The Law of all Destroying Angels.

Symbol:  The Angel with the Flaming Sword.

Ray Energy:  The rejecting energy of the first Ray.

This law has certain characteristics and basic effects which might be briefly enumerated as follows:

  1.  The energy displayed is dissipating in its effect. This law works as a dispersing agent.

  1.  When in active expression, it causes an active scattering or rejection of the aspects of form life.

  1.  It produces a discriminating contact which leads eventually to what is esoterically called "the Way of divine refusal."

  1.  It is, nevertheless, an aspect of the Law of Love, of the Vishnu or Christ aspect, and concerns an attitude of the Soul, whose essential nature is love.

  1.  This law expresses itself through the mind nature, and therefore can only make its presence and influence felt upon the Path of Discipleship.

  1.  It is the prime pre-requisite to true self-knowledge. It reveals at the same time that it divides or scatters.

  1.  It works through love and for the interest of the unit; the form and the existence which finally repulses the form.

  1.  It is an aspect of one of the greatest cosmic laws, the Law of the Soul, which is the cosmic Law of Attraction, for that which is attracted in time is automatically and eventually repulsed by that which attracted it in the first instance.

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