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Students would do well to bear in mind that these relationships are the result of the involutionary activity of the life expression of the Lord of the World. The key to the mystery of differentiation is found by the Master when He is faced by the choice of the seven Paths. At that high point of will expression, He discovers the secret of that evolutionary process which proceeds from unity to differentiation, and from differentiation to unity again. Individualisation, Initiation and Identification are the three main stages in the evolutionary activity of the life of God and condition the quality of each of the three divine centers. The four related septenates, enumerated above, eventually produce a synthesis which will consummate upon the cosmic Mental plane. This is of course beyond my powers to teach or to explain, as I am not yet a liberated Master, though I am a liberated human being.

The Dual Life of a Master

1. The brain is a most delicate receiving and transmitting apparatus:

1. It is responsive to information relayed to it, via the senses, from the emotional plane and the mind.

2. Through its medium the personal lower self becomes aware of its environment, of the nature of its desires, and of its mental peculiarities, as well as of the emotional states and the thoughts of the people contacted in the environment.

2. The brain is largely conditioned by the endocrine system, and this far more than the endocrinologists would care to admit:

1. It is powerfully conditioned by three major glands which are found in close relation to the brain substance. These are the pituitary body, the pineal gland and the carotid gland.

2. These form a triangle, practically unrelated in primitive man, occasionally related in average man, and closely related in the Spiritual man.

3. These glands are objective correspondences of the three energy centers, by means of which the Soul, or the indwelling Spiritual man, controls his physical vehicle.

4. Where the relation is close between the three glands—as is increasingly the case where disciples are concerned—a triangle of circulating energies is always established.

5. This triangle, through the carotid gland in the medulla oblongata, becomes related to other glands and centers.

3. The brain, as transmitter, becomes a powerful directing agency:

1. As a recipient and transmitter of pure energy or life it uses the carotid gland controlled by the alta major center, and establishes a close relation with the heart and the Heart center.

2. As a recipient of mental energy or of energy from the Soul, the Ajna center becomes the directing agency; this is the center which controls the pituitary body.

3. These energies are received via the Head center, which controls the pineal gland. Emotional energy enters the personality system via the Solar Plexus center, where it either controls or is transmuted and elevated.

It is this triple mechanism in the head—both objective and subjective—which uses the physical brain as a receiving agent and as a transmitting agent. It is this which is brought into creative activity and thus under the control of the disciple in training or in process of being prepared for initiation.

Let him learn to control and consciously employ the mind; let him train his mind to receive communications from three sources:

1. The three worlds of ordinary living, thus enabling the mind to act as the "common-sense."

2. The Soul, and thus consciously become the disciple, the worker in an Ashram, illumined by the wisdom of the Soul, and superseding gradually the knowledge gained in the three worlds. That knowledge, rightly applied, becomes wisdom.

3. The Spiritual Triad, acting as the intermediary between the Monad and the brain of the personality. This can eventually take place, because the Soul and personality are fused and blended into one functioning unit, this superseding again what we mean when we use the erroneous phrase "the Soul." Duality then takes the place of the original triplicity.

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