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THE LAW OF GROUP PROGRESS

Esoteric Name:  The Law of Elevation.

Symbol:  The Mountain and the Goat.

Ray Energy:  Progressive energy, seventh Ray, factor of evolution.

This law begins to function and to be registered in the personal consciousness when the aspirant has achieved certain definite realisations, and knows certain ideals as facts in his experience.

The Law of Group Progress can only begin to have a conscious effect in the life of the disciple who has been pledged and accepted. When he has established certain rhythms, when he is working effectively along certain well recognised group lines, and when he is definitely and in understanding consciousness preparing himself for the expansions of initiation, then this law begins to sway him and he learns to obey it instinctively, intuitively and intellectually. It is through obedience to this law that preparation for initiation is instituted by the disciple.

1. Group Unity: This must be achieved through the practice of love, which is part of the practice of the Presence of God, through the subordination of the personality life to the group life, and constant, loving, living service.

2. Group Meditation: These groups will eventually be grounded in the kingdom of Souls, and the work done will be motivated and carried forward from the higher mental levels in the demonstration of the contemplative life. This involves the dual activity of the life of the disciple, wherein he functions consciously both as a personality and as a Soul. The life of the personality should be that of intelligent activity; that of the Soul is loving contemplation.

3. Group Activity: Each group will have some distinguishing characteristic and this will be dedicated to some specific form of service.

I have said that these groups constitute an experiment. This experiment is fourfold in nature and a concise statement about it may clarify conjecture:

I.  They are an experiment in founding or starting focal points in the human family through which certain energies can flow out into the entire race of men. These energies are ten in number.

II. They are an experiment in inaugurating certain new techniques in work and in modes of communication. It is to be noted that in these last three words is summed up the whole story. These groups are intended to facilitate interrelation or communication as follows:

III. They will be occupied with an endeavor to facilitate communication between individuals so that the rules and methods whereby speech can be transcended may become known and the new way of intercourse be brought about. Eventually communication will be from:

a. Soul to Soul, on the higher levels of the Mental plane. This involves complete alignment, so that Soul-

    mind-brain are completely at-one.

b. Mind to mind, on the lower levels of the Mental plane. This involves the complete integration of the

     personality or lower self, so that mind and brain are at-one.

Students must remember these two distinctive contacts, and bear in mind also that the greater contact need not necessarily include the lesser. Telepathic communication between the different aspects of the human being is entirely possible at varying stages of unfoldment.

c. They will work at the establishment of communication between that plane which is the plane of illumination and pure reason (the Buddhic plane) and the plane of illusion which is the Astral plane. It should be remembered that our great task is to dispel the world illusion through the pouring in of illumination or of light. When enough groups have been started that have this for their objective, there will then be found upon the Physical plane, those channels of communication which will act as the mediators between the world of light and the world of illusion. They will be transmitters of that type of energy which will break up the existing maya or illusion and dissipate the ancient thought-forms. They will release the light and peace which will illumine the Astral plane and so dispel the illusory nature of its life.

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