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You will note, therefore, how this third initiation is a climaxing point and also inaugurates a new cycle of activity leading to the seventh Initiation of Resurrection. I would call your attention to the fact that the third, fifth and seventh initiations are under the control of the fifth, first and second Rays. These, as you might expect, will constitute the emanating energies transmitted through the application of the Rod of Initiation.

Initiation III

The fifth Ray of Science. This inflowing energy produces its major effects upon the mind, or upon manas, the fifth principle; it enables the initiate to use the mind as its major instrument in the work to be done, prior to passing through the fourth and fifth initiations.

Initiation V

The first Ray of Will or Power. At this initiation the disciple appreciates for the first time the significance of the will and uses it to relate the Head center and the center at the Base of the Spine, thus completing the integration started at the third initiation.

Initiation VII

 The second Ray of Love-Wisdom is here active, as the major planetary Ray. The application of the Rod of Initiation by the Initiator (working this time from the highest plane, the logoic plane) produces in a mysterious way an effect on the totality of humanity and—to a lesser extent— upon the allied kingdoms. The effect is similar to that produced in the individual at the fifth initiation, wherein the Head center and the center at the Base of the Spine became closely en rapport—through the use of the will.

Aspirants and disciples should remember that after the third initiation, the effects of the initiation which they may be undergoing are not confined simply to the individual initiate, but that henceforth at all the later initiations he becomes the transmitter of the energy which will pour through him with increasing potency at each application of the Rod. He acts primarily as an agent for the transmission, for the stepping down and for the consequent safe distribution of energy to the masses. Each time a disciple achieves an initiation and stands before the Initiator, he becomes simply an instrument whereby the planetary Logos can reach humanity and bring to men fresh life and energy. The work done prior to and at the third initiation is purely preparatory to this type of service required from an "energy transmitter."  That is why, at the seventh initiation, the dominating Ray of our planet—the second Ray of Love-Wisdom—is employed. There is no energy upon our planet of equal potency, and no expression of it has so pure and constructive a quality as that to which the initiate is subjected at the seventh initiation. This seventh initiatory climax marks another culminating point in the career of the initiate, and indicates his entrance into an entirely different cycle of experience.

You will have noted, if you are comparing these instructions with the outline given by me earlier, that in this third initiation it is the Ajna center (the center between the eyebrows) which is stimulated. This is a fact of great interest, because it is at this initiation that the disciple begins consciously and creatively to direct the energies being made available to him, doing so via the Ajna center and directed towards humanity as a whole. These energies are:

1. The energy of his own Soul. This has a purely group effect and though working through his personality, is consciously directed outward into the world—after the transforming process brought about as the energy received permeates his threefold mechanism.

2. The energy of the Ashram to which he belongs. Both this energy and the one above mentioned are necessarily the energy of his Soul Ray and of the Ashram which is representative of that Ray. The effect produced—according to his capacity of absorption and direction—will further the working out of the divine Plan.

3. The energy of the Hierarchy Itself. The Hierarchy is primarily controlled by the energy of the second Ray of Love-Wisdom, though this dominant Ray is modified and enriched through blending with the other six Rays. His use of this energy will at first be largely an unconscious use and he will register at this point no definite intention. This is due to the magnitude of the great reservoir of energies; he is a recipient of the incoming energy largely because he is an initiated member of the Hierarchy and is also a pure channel for transmission.

4. The peculiar energy which is transmitted to him by Sanat Kumara at the time of his initiation.  This is a totally different energy to that transmitted to him at the earlier initiations. It comes from Shamballa and is uniquely (in a sense undefinable and hence incomprehensible to you) the energy of the planetary Logos Himself. He directs extra-planetary energy (in the initiations which follow the third initiation) from the Ajna center of which He is possessed, to the Head center of the initiate and from thence immediately to the Ajna center of the initiate.  Then this energy is directed outward into its destined field of service. This energy is of so high a quality that there is nothing of a registering mechanism in the initiate's equipment capable of registering its admission and circulation through his three Head centers. Nevertheless, this energy does pour through him and out into the world, in spite of the fact that he remains unconscious of its presence.

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