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Advanced humanity is in process of linking the three lower aspects, which we call the personality, with the Soul itself, through meditation, discipline, service and directed attention. When this has been accomplished, a definite relation is established between the sacrifice or will petals of the Egoic Lotus and the head and Heart centers, thus producing a synthesis between consciousness, the Soul and the life principle. The process of establishing this inter-linking and inter-relation, and the strengthening of the bridge thus constructed, goes on until the Third Initiation. The lines of force are then so inter-related that the Soul and its mechanism of expression are a unity. A higher blending and fusing can then go on.

I can perhaps indicate the nature of this process in the following manner: I have stated here and elsewhere that the Soul anchors itself in the body at two points:

1. There is a thread of energy, which we call the life or Spirit aspect, anchored in the heart. It uses the blood stream, as is well known, as its distributing agency, and through the medium of the blood, life energy is carried to every part of the mechanism. This life energy carries the re-generating power and coordinating energy to all the physical organisms and keeps the body "whole."

2. There is a thread of energy, which we call the consciousness aspect or the faculty of Soul knowledge, anchored in the center of the head. It controls that response mechanism which we call the brain, and through its medium it directs activity and induces awareness throughout the body by means of the nervous system.

These two energy factors, which are recognised by the human being as knowledge and life, or as intelligence and living energy, are the two poles of his being. The task ahead of him now is to develop consciously the middle or balancing aspect, which is love or group relationship.

The Bridge between the three Aspects of the Mind

There is one point which I would like to clarify if I can, for on this point there is much confusion in the minds of aspirants, and this is necessarily so. Let us for a moment, therefore, consider just where the aspirant stands when he starts consciously to build the Antahkarana. Behind him lie a long series of existences, the experience of which has brought him to the point where he is able consciously to assess his condition and arrive at some understanding of his point in evolution. He can consequently undertake—in cooperation with his steadily awakening and focussing consciousness—to take the next step, which is that of accepted discipleship. In the present, he is oriented towards the Soul; he, through meditation and the mystical experience, does have occasional contact with the Soul, and this happens with increasing frequency; he is becoming somewhat creative upon the Physical plane, both in his thinking and in his actions; at times, even if rarely, he has a genuine intuitive experience. This intuitive experience serves to anchor the "first tenuous thread spun by the Weaver in fohatic enterprise," as the Old Commentary puts it.  It is the first cable, projected from the Spiritual Triad in response to the emanation of the personality, and this is the result of the growing magnetic potency of both these aspects of the Monad in manifestation.

When the personality is becoming adequately magnetised from the Spiritual angle, its note or sound will go forth and will evoke response from the Soul on its own plane. Later the personality note and the Soul note in unison will produce a definitely attractive effect upon the Spiritual Triad. This Spiritual Triad in its turn has been exerting an increasingly magnetic effect upon the personality. This begins at the time of the first conscious Soul contact.

The response of the Triad is transmitted necessarily, in this early stage, via the Sutratma and produces inevitably the awakening of the Head center. That is why the heart doctrine begins to supersede the doctrine of the eye. The heart doctrine governs occult development; the eye doctrine—which is the doctrine of the eye of vision— governs the mystical experience; the heart doctrine is based upon the universal nature of the Soul, conditioned by the Monad, the One, and involves reality; the eye doctrine is based on the dual relation between Soul and personality.  It involves the Spiritual relationships, but the attitude of dualism or of the recognition of the polar opposites is implicit in it. These are important points to remember as this new science becomes more widely known.

The aspirant eventually arrives at the point where the three threads—of life, of consciousness and of creativity—are being focussed, recognised as energy streams, and utilised deliberately by the aspiring disciple upon the lower Mental plane. There—esoterically speaking—"he takes his stand, and looking upward sees a promised land of beauty, love and future vision."

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