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The inertia of the average man or woman, which rebels against the effort needed to master the technical side of healing. It is so much easier to fall back on divinity (a divinity in reality latent but not expressive) and "let God do it." It is so much easier to recognise love and the outpouring of love than to master the processes whereby it can be made effective—or the nature of that which must be affected.

These are points requiring careful attention and consideration. They merit reflection. The synthetic power of the mind, aided by true love, will some day be the instrument of all true healers.

7. The Center at the Base of the Spine: This center is, above everything else, controlled and governed by the Law of Being, above referred to, and is established where Spirit and matter meet and where matter, the Virgin Mary—under the influence of the Holy Spirit, time energy of the Etheric vehicle—is translated "into Heaven," there (as the Christian phraseology puts it) "to be seated beside her Son in the house of the Father."

This center is found at the very Base of the Spine, and supports all the other centers. It is relatively quiescent at this time, for it is only roused into full activity by an act of the will, directed and controlled by the initiate. It is responsive only to the will aspect, and the will-to-be in incarnation is the factor which at present controls its life and produces its effects as it feeds and directs the life principle in matter and form. Just as we are told that the life principle is "seated in the heart," so the will-to-be is seated in the Base of the Spine.

There has been much idle and dangerous talk anent this center, and the whole subject of the "kundalini fire" has proved an exciting and enticing tale by the pseudo-occultists of the world. The true occultist in training has naught to do with the kundalini fire—as usually understood. It is not possible for me to do more than make certain facts somewhat clearer to you, and yet at the same time I must refrain from indicating modes and methods of arousing the activity of this center, on account of the extreme danger involved in any premature work on the basic center. The best I can do is to make a series of statements which will be comprehended in the right way by those who know (and these are as yet few and far between), which will aid the thinking of those who are in training and give them a somewhat more complete picture, but which will protect the ignorant from disaster. I shall make these statements as clearly and briefly as possible, but shall give practically no explanatory matter with them.

1.  This basic center is the point where, under the evolutionary law, Spirit and matter meet, and life is related to form.

2.   It is therefore the center where the essential dualism of the manifested divinity—man or planetary Logos—meet and produce form.

3.   The nature of this divinity is only revealed when the second aspect has accomplished its work, through the medium of the third aspect, but under the directing will of the first aspect.

4.   It is the center where the "serpent of God" undergoes two transformations:

a. The serpent of matter lies coiled.

b. This serpent is transformed into the serpent of wisdom.

c. The serpent of wisdom is translated and becomes the "dragon of living light."

5.   These three stages are nurtured by the life and energy pouring down through the entire length of the spinal column, via the Etheric correspondence of the spinal cord, and—in time and space—this downpouring (plus the simultaneously uprising life) produces:

a. The awakening in a gradual and orderly manner of the centers, according to Ray types.

b. The reversal of the centers so that the consciousness of the indwelling man is adequate to his environment.

c. The synthesis of the life energies of all the centers, and adequacy to the demands of the initiate and the service of the

Hierarchy and of Humanity.

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