| Letters
on Occult Meditation |
We have a recognised cleavage to be bridged in the world today,
usually known as the cleavage between "East and West", but termed
more accurately between "Orient and Occident". Behind the differences
in culture, tradition, religion, ideology and social customs,
however, there is a growing interchange of thought and mental
understanding. One powerful stimulation to this mental rapport
may be in an increasing tendency for the westerner to cultivate
the science of meditation long practiced in the East as an essential
part of religious and spiritual experience. In this day and age,
and as we move on into the mentally oriented age of Aquarius,
with increasing numbers of men and women transferring from an
emotional to a mental focus, the science of meditation as a mind
training technique in concentration and invocation will become
increasingly practiced in the West.
However, there are deeper and more profound areas of life
and consciousness to be penetrated and revealed in meditation.
Meditation, in the occult sense, is not only a training technique
for the mind, but a means of achieving alignment, union and
itlentification with the soul, with the Christ, and ultimately
with "the Father". As distinct from the experience of mystical
union, occult meditation establishes a scientific process by
which causes set in motion will produce identifiable effects,
which can be repeated at will. This is a technique to be mastered
by the mind; it involves intense mental activity followed by
an absolute stillness, with the ability so to control and order
the mind that it engages in action or becomes stilled to "reflection"
at will.
The first purpose of this form of meditation is the conscious
integration of soul and personality, so that the livingness
of the soul may impress and influence the quality of the personality
life. This draws a man steadily into that centre of consciousness
within the planet we call the spiritual Hierarchy, the Kingdom
of God; the spiritual Man then assumes control, and the divine
potential is unfolded.
Since we are dealing in meditation with energy flow which
is literally fiery and impersonal, there are pitfalls and dangers
to be understood and avoided; these, too, are discussed. And
also the colours and sounds corresponding to the various ray
energies which, occultly speaking, are vibrations of different
frequencies.
In looking towards the future, the author predicts the growing
influence of the science of meditation, leading eventually to
the establishing of schools of meditation under the guidance
and instruction of initiated disciples. These schools will be
of two kinds: one, preparatory; and the other actually training
the student for initiation. The ultimate objective of these
comprehensive training schools will be to provide qualified
disciples for planetary service. In all training work inspired
by Hierarchy the motif is service--the spontaneous effect of
soul contact in the selflessly motivated disciple.
"The motive may be epitomised in these few words: The sacrifice
of the personal self for the good of the One Self.
The method may also be shortly put: Wise control of the personality,
and discrimination in work and time.
The resultant attitude will be: Complete dispassion, and a
growing love of the unseen and the real.
All this will be consummated through steady application to
occult Meditation."
