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This subject of the use or misuse of energy is capable of infinite expansion, and in my other books where I give you more upon the centers I have enlarged upon it. I but seek at this time to give you that which can be of immediate use to students and thus lay the foundation for later work.

3.  A close study of the needed transmutation of Astral and emotional energy into love, the energy of love. This involves the

    sublimation of personal feeling into group realisation or consciousness, and when carried out successfully produces in time the

    construction of a higher and subtler body, the Buddhic sheath. When this sheath is thus materialised a very high stage of

   advancement is marked, but the earlier stages can be intelligently approached by any earnest student and probationer. To transmute

   emotion into love the following realisations will be found necessary:

a. A realisation that all moods, all display of sorrow, of pain, or of happy excitement are due to  our identification with the objects of

    desire, with the form aspect, and with that which is material.

b. An understanding of the emotional or Astral body and the place it plays in the student's development.

           It should be recognised as the shadow of the Monad, and a connection should be traced between:

The Astral Sheath - 6th Plane

The Buddhic Sheath - 4th Plane

The Monadic Sheath - 2nd Plane

The place the love petals in the Egoic lotus play should also be carefully considered.

1. A comprehension of the potency of the Astral sheath owing to its undivided nature.

2. A study of the purpose of the Solar Plexus, and the part it plays as an organ of transference of energy

        from the three great centers below the diaphragm to the three higher centers. There is a very close

        analogy here to the solar lotus, the Egoic body, occupying a midway point between the threefold Monad and the threefold lower man. The more advanced should follow this.

4.  The development of the faculty of mind control, so that the Thinker grips and holds steady the mental processes and learns to regard

     the mind as the interpreter of the states of consciousness, as the transmitter of Egoic intent to the physical brain and as the window

     through which the Ego, the real Man looks out upon vast and (to the majority) unknown fields of knowledge.

2. An emergence into Manifestation of the Subjective Aspect in Man. One of the objects of evolution is that the subjective reality should eventually be brought forward into recognition. This can be expressed in several symbolic ways, all of them dealing with the same one fact in nature:

• The bringing to the birth of the Christ within.

• The shining forth of the inner radiance or glory.

• The demonstration of the 2nd or the Love aspect.

• The manifestation of the solar Angel.

• The appearing of the Son of God, the Ego or the Soul within.

• The full expression of Buddhi, as it utilises manas.

This emergence into manifestation is brought about through what is understood by the following terms:

1. The refining of the bodies which form the casket or sheath hiding the reality.

2. The process of 'unveiling' so that one by one those bodies which veil the Self are brought to a point where they are simply transparencies, permitting the full shining forth of the divine nature.

3. An expansion of consciousness, which is brought about through the ability of the self to identify with its real nature as the Onlooker, and no longer regarding itself as the organ of perception.

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