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I would like here also to point out some further relationships. You know well that upon the Mental plane the three aspects of mind, or the three focal points of mental perception and activity, are to be found:

1. The lower Concrete Mind: This expresses itself most completely through the fifth Ray of Concrete Science, reflecting the lower phase of the will aspect of divinity and summarising within itself all knowledge as well as the Egoic memory. This lower concrete mind is related to the knowledge petals of the Egoic lotus and is capable of pronounced Soul illumination, proving eventually to be the searchlight of the Soul. It can be brought under control through the processes of concentration. It is transient in time and space. Through conscious, creative work, it can be related to the manasic permanent atom or to the abstract mind.

2. The Son of Mind: This is the Soul itself, governed by the second aspect of all the seven Rays—a point I would ask you seriously to register. It reflects the lower phase of the love aspect of divinity and summarises in itself the results of all accumulated knowledge which is wisdom, illuminated by the light of the intuition. Another way of expressing this is to describe it as love, availing itself of experience and knowledge. It expresses itself most fully through the love petals of its innate being. Through dedicated and devoted service it brings the divine Plan into activity in the three worlds of human accomplishment. It is therefore related to the second aspect of the Spiritual Triad and is brought into functioning activity through meditation. It then controls and utilises for its own Spiritual ends the consecrated personality, via the illumined mind, referred to above. It is eternal in time and space.

3. The Abstract Mind: This reveals itself most completely under the influence of the first Ray of Will or Power, reflecting the higher aspect of the will of divinity or of the Atmic principles it summarises in itself when fully developed the purpose of Deity, and thus becomes responsible for the emergence of the Plan. It energises the will petals until such time as the eternal life of the Soul is absorbed into that which is neither transient nor eternal but which is endless, boundless and unknown. It is brought into conscious functioning through the building of the Antahkarana.  This "radiant rainbow bridge" unites the illumined personality, focussed in the mind body, motivated by the love of the Soul, with the Monad or with the One Life, and thus enables the divine manifesting Son of God to express the significance of the words: God is Love and God is a consuming Fire. This fire, energised by love, has burnt out all personality qualities, leaving only a purified instrument, coloured by the Soul Ray and no longer necessitating the existence of a Soul body. The personality has by this time completely absorbed the Soul, or to put it perhaps more accurately, both Soul and personality have been fused and blended into one instrument for the use of the One Life.

The point which I seek to emphasise is that only when the aspirant takes his stand with definiteness upon the Mental plane, and keeps his "focus of awareness" increasingly there, does it become possible for him to make real progress in the work of divine bridge building, the work of invocation, and the establishing of a conscious rapport between the Triad, the Soul and the personality. The period covered by the conscious building of the Antahkarana is that from the final stages of the Path of Probation to the third initiation.

In considering this process it is necessary, in the early stages, to recognise the three aspects of the mind as they express themselves upon the Mental plane and produce the varying states of consciousness upon that plane. It is interesting here to note that, having reached the developed human stage (integrated, aspiring, oriented and devoted), the man stands firmly upon the lower levels of that Mental plane; he is then faced by the seven subplanes of that plane with their corresponding states of consciousness.

He is therefore entering upon a new cycle where—this time equipped with full self-consciousness—he has seven states of mental awareness to develop; these are all innate or inherent in him, and all (when mastered) lead to one or other of the seven major initiations.

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