| Telepathy
and the Etheric Vehicle |
Occultism is concerned with the scientific facts behind the spiritual
idealisms many accept because of a natural human tendency to idealise.
One of the most highly idealised concepts is that of the brotherhood
of man. Occultism shows that the scientific basis for that ideal
rests on the fact of the one etheric structure underlying all
forms within the solar system, energised and held in being by
one life force. Mankind is, therefore, one in life and in form;
he is merely unaware of unity in his own consciousness. And evolution
is essentially the means by which he becomes progressively conscious
of the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.
In this whole process the faculties of man play an important
part--the five objective senses with their five higher spiritual
counterparts. The mental principle or faculty is of tremendous
importance to humanity at this stage in his evolutionary unfoldment.
The three-fold mind unifies as one faculty the higher or abstract
mind, the soul--the son of mind, and the lower concrete mind.
As this condition of mental fusion and control develops, the disciple
is learning to use the mind in new ways, particularly in wielding
energy which, as it vitalises and animates his etlieric bodv,
influences through radiation his effect on others.
It is through this conscious, controlled use of mental energy
that telepathic communication can be scientificallv established
with other minds by means of the etheric structure common to all.
And by the same means the mind of the disciple, or of a group
of disciples developing group consciousness, can he impressed
by the clarity of thought and purpose of those members of the
spiritual Hierarchy concerned with the working out of the Plan
for humanity. The spiritual Hierarchy, we are toId, works only
through the minds of disciples, using the science of impressiom,
and only for the purposes of the Plan. The impression is conveyed
as a stream of ideas--those ideas inherent in the Plan for man--which
the disciple or the group can then interpret and translate into
self-chosen action.
The form of telepathy now developing within the spiritually
awakened aspirants of the world is not, therefore, that of the
solar plexus centre which is of the animal nature, but the result
of a mental polarisation and penetration in coinsciousness towards
the soul and the Triad. This produces an open channel of communication
in two directions--vertically towards the spiritual Hierarchy
of the planet, seeking to impress the Plan on all receptive minds,
and horizontally towards the minds of men united within the mental
substance of human consciousness as one.
The second part of this book discusses the etheric structure
of the planet and the solar system of which each man and each
form is an integral part; the pattern of the triangle in controlling
energy flow and establishing a continuity of circulation through
the whole system is of immediate importance to humanity. We are
involved in the life of the Planetary Logos--"in Him we live and
move and have our being"--and we are a contributing part of the
present effort to bring the etheric body under the influence of
the soul, symbolised by the triangle. To the extent, and at the
rate, that we succeed, so is the planetary etheric structure changing
in form to become more consciously integrated into the energy
system of which our planet is one small unit.
So the living process of unity is exemplified--the part contributing
to the whole, and the whole effecting the part through every cell
and atom of every grade of substance which it contains.
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