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These various alignments (when functioning with due adjustment) result in the transmission of energy in the first case from the manasic permanent atom, and in the second case from the Buddhic permanent atom.  I would like to enumerate the lines of alignment of the third group which eventually transcends the other two, and effects the final illumination and liberation of the man:

Group III

• The sacrifice Petals.  

• The sacrifice petals in the two outer groups.  

• The three major centers in each of the three planes of the three worlds, producing thus absorption of the lower four centers on each plane.  

• The Head center, or the thousand-petalled lotus.  

• The pineal gland, producing the vivification and irradiation of the entire lower nature.  

These three groups of forces in man, when synthesized, produce eventually that perfect coordination and adaptation to all conditions, forms and circumstances which eventuate in the escape of the liberated vital spark.  

THE EGOIC LOTUS AND THE ETHERIC CENTERS

It remains now to point out the close connection between the unfoldment of the petals in the Egoic lotuses and the Etheric centers in man.  It is through the centers that psychic energy flows.  Students should carefully bear in mind the two following facts:

First, the Etheric body is vitalized, as we know, by prana.  Pranic energy is the stimulator of animal activity, and of Physical plane development.  Its effect is primarily upon the atoms of the physical body and it has a triple effect upon the substance of the physical body:

1. It preserves the animal health of the body.  

2. It constructs and builds in the body, through its energy and force currents, what is needed to replace the daily wear and tear.  

3. It is the medium whereby man comes into physical touch with his brother man.  Physical magnetism is largely, even if not wholly, dependent upon prana.  

It is only when the Etheric centers, the two Head centers and the Heart center, are fully active with their twelve petals completely unfolded that the central circle of petals in the Egoic lotus (the fourth or inner circle) unfolds.  The significance of the four circles in the Egoic lotus, and the eight circles of twelve petals each in the Etheric lotuses on the Mental plane is of great importance.  

The centers with which man has to deal are necessarily five at this stage owing to the following facts, which must be studied if a man desires to awaken his centers according to plan, and if he wishes safely to follow along the line of the true psychic unfoldment:

1. The fact that the energy starts from the fifth plane, the mental, where man is concerned,

2. The fact that it is through the agency of the fifth principle that man can consciously work at his own unfoldment,

3. The fact that the path of evolution is for man a fivefold one, covering the five planes of human unfoldment; and is divided into five stages as regards the Ego,

4. The fact that although this is the second solar system from the standpoint of the Egoic cycles of the Logos, or His second major Egoic cycle, yet it is the fifth when viewed from another angle, that of the lesser cycles.  It corresponds to the fifth period in human evolution, that in which man treads the path.  The Logos is now treading the cosmic Path.

5. The fact that the fifth spirilla is in process of awakening.  This has to be effected before the interplay of energy between the Egoic lotus and the Etheric centers becomes so powerful as to awaken man's physical brain, and cause him to become aware of the inner currents.  This takes place usually when the fifth petal is organized.  

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