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This is of value to remember and upon this the teaching of esoteric psychology is based. We have therefore, three stages of activity spread over a long evolutionary cycle, and differing according to Ray and to the karmic conditions engendered.

1. The stage of being alive. This is the earliest and simplest stage wherein the man functions as an elementary human being. During this period all the centers are necessarily active in a slow and rhythmic way. All have a light in them, but it is dim and feeble; all have the three petals (not more) functioning and this the clairvoyant can see. As time goes on all the petals in the centers below the diaphragm become active, but they are not dynamic in the essential sense, nor are they brilliant focal points of light.

2. The stage of the first fusion as related above. Then all the centers have their petals vibrant. They are, at the same time, conditioned by:

1.   The fact as to whether the drive of the life is above or below the diaphragm.
2.   The nature of the particular Ray energy.
3.   The stage already reached upon the evolutionary way.
4.   The type of physical mechanism, which is itself conditioned by the karma of the person and the

                     field of service chosen in any one life.

5.   The quality of the aspiration and many other factors.

3. The stage of the second fusion, in which the initiate expresses himself through all the centers and in which both the group of petals and the central point of energy are fully and dynamically alive. Christ symbolically expressed these three stages for us at the Birth experience, the Transfiguration enlightenment, and the Ascension liberation.

In summarising, it might be said:

1.  At the stage of Individualisation:

• The centers throughout the body awaken and begin to function faintly.
• The centers below the diaphragm receive the major impact and effect of the incoming life.
• Three of the petals in all centers are "awake" and demonstrate activity, quality and light.

2.  At the stage of Intellection wherein a man is a self-conscious, self-directed being, and a definite personality:

• All the petals in all the centers are awake, but the central focal point of each center is quiescent. It

                 glows with a faint light, but there is no true activity.

• The centers above the diaphragm, with the exception of the Ajna and Head centers, are receptive to

                         impact and inflow of life.

3.  At the stage of Discipleship, when the individuality and the personality are beginning to merge:

• The two Head centers are becoming increasingly active.
• The petals are all vibrant, and the dynamic life of the Soul is beginning to sweep the center of the lotus into activity.
• The light of the petals in the centers below the diaphragm is beginning to dim, but the center of the

                lotus is becoming more and more brilliant and living.

All the above process takes much time, and it includes the Path of Probation or Purification and the Path of Discipleship.

4.  At the stage of Initiation when complete at-one-ment is established:

• The four centers above the diaphragm become dominantly active.
• The center at the Base of the Spine comes into awakened activity and the three fires of the matter aspect, of the Soul,

and of the Spirit (Fire by Friction, Solar Fire, and Electric Fire) merge.

• All the centers in the body of the initiate can be intensified electrically at will and used simultaneously, or one at a time,

according to the demand and the need which must be met by the initiate.

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