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The Nature of the Centers

At the close of his long pilgrimage, man will have passed through each of the five kingdoms of nature on his way back to Source:  

1) Mineral   2) Vegetable   3) Animal   4) Human   5) Spiritual

Man will develop full consciousness upon:  

1) Physical Plane   2) Astral Plane   3) Mental Plane   4) Buddhic Plane   5) Spiritual Plane.  

He accomplishes this by the use of the five corresponding senses:  

1) Hearing   2) Touch   3) Sight   4) Taste   5) Smell

The Treatise deals only with five centers:  

1. Base of Spine-Physical  
2. Solar Plexus-Astral  
3. Throat-Mind  
4. Heart-Buddhi  
5. Crown-Atma

The Lotuses of the Centers:

1. Root:  4 petals in the shape of a cross.
2. Solar Plexus:  Ten petals
3. Heart Center:  12 petals
4. Throat Center:  16 petals
5. Head Center:  Ajna=96 petals  
6. Crown=12 major petals with 960 around it, totaling 1068, or 356 triplicities.

The evolution of these centers can be shown using the same five symbols:

• The Circle:  The wheel is dimly lit and has a correspondence to early Lemurian development.

• Circle with a Point in the center:  A Point of glowing fire and rotation can be seen, as in Lemuria.

• Divided Circle:  Rotary motion causes the Point to radiate outward in two directions , appearing to split the vortex in two halves.  This corresponds to Atlantean development.

• Circle divided into Four:  The center is exceedingly active, with the cross within its periphery rotating as well as the wheel itself.  Its correspondence is in the 5th root-race, wherein man is sensing the Spiritual, though functioning in the personal life.

• The Swastika:  The center becomes 4th dimensional, the inner rotating cross begins to turn on its axis, which drives the flaming radiance to the periphery.  The center becomes more of a sphere than a wheel.

The Centers and the Rays:

All teachers of the wisdom follow the method of imparting a fact and then of leaving the pupil to follow his own deductions, thus developing discrimination, which is the main method whereby Spirit effects its liberation from matter and discerns between illusion and that which it veils.

The life of the Pilgrim can be divided into three main periods:  

a) Period influenced by the Personality Ray  

b) Period under the Ray of the Ego  

c) Period under the Monadic Ray

Venus corresponds to the Heart center in the logoic body and has an inter-relationship therefore with all other centers in the solar system wherein the heart aspect is the one of greatest prominence.  Saturn corresponds to the Throat center, the creative activity of the third aspect.  Our solar system, with the Pleiades and one of the stars of the Great Bear, form a cosmic triangle of three centers in the larger body.  The seven stars in the Great Bear correspond to the seven Head centers in that same Being, Who is even greater than our logos.

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