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3. The Law of Disintegration
This law governs the destruction of the form in order that the indwelling life may shine forth. It is another aspect, the reverse side, of the Law of Cohesion. It is one of the laws that ends with the solar system, where the great laws of attraction, cohesion and love last on into that which is to come. The Law of Economy holds the key to understanding this law. This law is one of the most difficult for the race to understand, due to the fact that some of its workings are perceived as chaos and destruction.
On the path of involution it controls the processes of the breaking up of group Souls, governs the periods when the permanent triads are transferred from one form to another; it works through the great world cataclysms, not only on the Physical plane but the Astral and lower levels of the Mental plane. This law breaks up the forms and the Law of Attraction draws back to primal source the material of those forms, prior to rebuilding them anew.
On the path of evolution the effects of this law are well known and concern the breaking up of the forms in which great ideals are embodied. The third Ray has a close connection with this third Law. It is through activity that the form comes into being, through activity it is employed, and through that very adaptation it becomes a perfect form. At the moment of perfection loses its usefulness, it crystallizes, breaks and the evolving life escapes to find new forms of greater capacity and adequacy. It is so in the life of the reincarnating Ego; it is so in the rounds and races in humanity; it is so in the solar system; it is so in all cosmic processes.
In the third chain, the moon chain, the point of attainment for the individual was the fourth Initiation, which marks the final breaking with the three worlds and the disintegration of the Egoic body. At the end of the third root-race came the first of the great cataclysms that broke the race form and inaugurated a new one.
4. The Law of Magnetic Control
This is the basic law controlling the Spiritual Triad, for through it, the force of evolution drives the Ego to progress through the cycle of reincarnation back to union with his kind. Through separation he finds himself, and then, driven by the indwelling Buddhic or Christ principle, he transcends himself and finds himself again in other selves. This law holds the evolving lower self in a coherent form. It controls the Ego in the Causal body in the same way that the Logos controls the Monad on the second plane. It is the law of the Buddhic plane and a Master is one Who can function there, Who has magnetic control in the three worlds. The lower is always controlled from above and its effect upon the three lower is paramount, though scarcely even conceded by our thinkers. It is the Law of Love, in the three worlds, that holds all together and draws all upward.
On the path of involution, this law works with the permanent atoms in the Causal body. It is the Buddhic principle and its relation with the lower permanent atom of the Triad is the mainspring of the life of the Ego. The Monadic plane, the Buddhic and the Astral planes are all closely allied as they provide the line of least resistance with regard to Love-Wisdom. Note the correspondences:
System 1: Physical, Mental and Atmic. (7-5-3)
System 2: Astral, Buddhic and Monadic. (6-4-2)
System 3: Mental, Atmic and Logoic. (5-3-1)
This fourth Law is the law whereby sex expression is transmuted and elevated and is closely connected to the fourth Ray.
The Laws in the Three Worlds: The three most important laws affecting the evolving human being as he lives his life in the three worlds are:
1. Fixation 2. Love 3. Sacrifice and Death
These laws are all dominated by the three higher laws in the system and there is a direct connection between these seven laws and the seven Rays:
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