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Students should remember that there is both an upward and a downward trend of energy within the entire structure of centers, where the aspirant and the disciple are concerned:

1. The upward trend...producing Transmutation.

1. From the Sacral center to the Throat center. Physical creation is transmuted into artistic creativity.
2. From the Solar center to the Heart center. Individual, emotional consciousness is transmuted into group consciousness.
3. From the Base of the Spine to the Head center. Material force is transmuted into Spiritual energy.
4. From any or all of the five Spinal centers to the Ajna center. Uncoordinated living is transmuted into personality integration.
5. From the six centers in relationship into the highest Head center. Personality activity is transmuted into Spiritual living.

2. The downward trend...producing Transformation.

Once the Head center is awakening and the disciple is consciously active in the work of directing the energies to the centers and thereby governing his personality life, there is a scientific undertaking of energising the centers in a certain ordered rhythm which is again determined by the Rays, by circumstance and by karma; thus all the bodily energies are swung into correct Spiritual activity. With the process involved we cannot here deal, beyond pointing out that this downward trend can be roughly regarded as falling into three stages:

1.   The stage of energising the creative life, via the Throat center, thus bringing:

1. The Head center and the Throat center.
2. These two and the Sacral center.
3. All three, consciously and simultaneously, into conscious relation.

This relation, when properly established, will solve the individual problem of sex, and without recourse to either inhibition or suppression, but by bringing about right control and making the disciple, at the same time, creative in a worldly sense, and therefore of use to his fellowmen.

2.   The stage of energising the conscious life of relationship via the Heart center, thus bringing:

1. The Head center and the Heart center,
2. These two and the Solar Plexus center,
3. All three, simultaneously and consciously, into close cooperation.

This serves to establish right human relations, right group relations, and right Spiritual relations throughout a man's entire life expression. Just as the stage of regulating the creative life has a paramount effect upon the physical body, so this stage affects the Astral vehicle with great potency; emotional reactions are transformed into aspiration and service; selfish individual love is transformed into group love, and then Divinity rules the life.

3.   The stage of energising the entire man, via the basic center thus bringing:

1. The Head center and the basic center,
2. These two and the Ajna center,
3. All the three, simultaneously and consciously, into rhythmic, coordinated expression. This is a final stage of great importance, and only takes place in its completeness at the time of the third initiation, that of the Transfiguration.

You can see, therefore, how three important words convey the purpose of the scientific unfoldment and the right direction of the centers: Transmutation. Transformation. Transfiguration.

4.   The stage of its awakening, as the Astral body becomes steadily more powerful.

1. The stage of its potency when, for lives, it is the conditioning center in the Etheric or vital body and the man is consequently entirely conditioned by his emotional-Astral life.
2. The stage wherein the Solar Plexus center becomes the clearing house for all the centers (major and minor) below the diaphragm.
3. The stage wherein the Solar Plexus energies are raised to the Heart.

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