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THE COSMIC ANTAHKARANA

It might be added that the factual ceremonial admits the disciple

into full fellowship with the Hierarchy; that the symbolic

representation indicates to the disciple the Way into Shamballa,

and that illumined revelation presents to the initiate the bridge

between our cosmic physical plane and the inner subjective and

cosmic worlds; this entrance to the bridge (I am speaking in

symbols) reveals the existence of the cosmic Antahkarana,

created by the Lord of the World and His group of Executives.

RI 533

The planetary antahkarana is built through the gradual alignmentof three Wills Humanity, Hierarchy and Shamballa. The

human being adds its small thread to this antahkarana when then

wills of the personality, soul and monad are atoned.

For instance, brother of mine, when the third eye, the inner eye,

and the Monad are brought into direct alignment with "the Eye

of God Himself," so that what the planetary Logos sees can be

partially (at least) revealed to the initiate, who can tell whatthat revelation will bring of results and enlightenment? When

the true nature of the will is comprehended and the self-will of

the personality (of a very high order, necessarily), the will of the

soul (as demonstrated by the activity of the highest tier or circle

of the egoic petals), atma, expressing itself as the spiritual will,

and Sanat Kumara are also brought, through initiation, into

direct alignment, who, again, can predict what the revelation

will be? DINA II 349

Gradually the planetary antahkarana will be completed and the

Lord of the World will then take possession of His creation

externalizing representatives of Shamballa within the sphere of

Humanity as well as Hierarchy.

The aligning of wills within the cosmic physical plane has a

higher correspondence within the lower three cosmic planes.

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When we speak of the Planetary Logos of the Earth Scheme we

are speaking of a Being that is expressing on the lower three

cosmic planes. Sanat Kumara is an embodiment or incarnation

of the Logos on the earth globe but the Logos himself is not

limited to his embodiment and functions on higher levels.

The "Silent Watcher," that great Entity Who is the informing life

of the planet, and Who holds the same position to the Lord of

the World, Sanat Kumara, as the Ego does to the lower self of

man. Some idea of the high stage of evolution of this Great

Being may be gathered from the analogous degree of

evolutionary difference existing between a human being and a

perfected adept. From the standpoint of our planetary scheme,this Great Life has no greater, and He is, as far as we are

concerned, a correspondence to the personal God of the

Christian. He works through His representative on the physical

plane, Sanat Kumara, Who is the focal point for His life and

energy. He holds the world within His aura. This great

Existence is only contacted directly by the adept who has taken

the fifth initiation, and is proceeding to take the other two, the

sixth and seventh. Once a year, at the Wesak Festival, the LordBuddha, sanctioned by the Lord of the World, carries to the

assembled humanity a dual stream of force, that emanating from

the Silent Watcher, supplemented by the more focalised energy

of the Lord of the World. This dual energy He pours out in

blessing over the people gathered at the ceremony in the

Himalayas, and from them in turn it flows out to all peoples and

tongues and races

HIS 105

At the first two initiations it is the Christ who presides. At the

third and fourth it is Sanat Kumara. At the fifth and sixth it

would seem an aspect of the Planetary Logos presides while at

the seventh it is the Logos Himself acting on behalf of the Solar

Logos who initiates.

During these five initiations those two great beings, the

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Bodhisattva first, and then the One Initiator, the Lord of the

World, Sanat Kumara, are the administrators or

hierophants. After these ceremonies, should the initiate choose

to take the two final initiations which it is possible to take in this

solar system, a still higher type of energy in expression of the

One Self comes into play, and can only be hinted at. At the

seventh initiation that One of Whom Sanat Kumara is the

manifestation, the Logos of our scheme on His own plane,

becomes the Hierophant. At the sixth initiation the expression

of this Existence on an intermediate plane, a Being Who must at

present remain nameless, wields the Rod and administers the

oath and secret. In these three expressions of hierarchical

governmentSanat Kumara on the periphery of the threeworlds, the Nameless One on the confines of the high planes of

human evolution, and the planetary Spirit himself at the final

stagewe have the three great manifestations of the Planetary

Logos Himself. Through the Planetary Logos at the final great

initiation flows the power of the Solar Logos, and He it is Who

reveals to the initiate that the Absolute is consciousness in its

fullest expression, though at the stage of human existence the

Absolute must be regarded as unconsciousness. HIS 92

Thus we have three levels of being, three wills which are really

one Will that comprises the manifest Purpose of the Logos of

the Earth Scheme throughout His creation. We might equate

these to the Logos of the Scheme, the Logos of the Chain and

the Logos of the globe. In terms of the planes we would locate

them upon the cosmic mental, astral and physical planes

respectively.On the third subplane of the cosmic mental plane we find the

causal body of the Planetary Logos. On the fourth subplane of

the cosmic astral plane we find the polarisation of the

Planetary Logos and on the first and second subplane of the

cosmic physical plane we find the embodiment of the

Planetary Logos in Sanat Kumara.

If we combine the alignment of the three Wills of the Logos on

cosmic planes with the alignment of three Wills on the cosmic

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physical plane we have an antahkarana that embraces both

planetary and cosmic , reaching from the third subplane of the

cosmic mental to the fifth subplane of the cosmic physical.

The chart below gives an idea of these relationships.

It can be seen that the Existence on an intermediate plane

referred to above relates to the Logos in his astral vehicle or

desire body positioned at the exact centre of the system.

At the seventh initiation the initiate is able to contact however

briefly the Planetary Logos in his causal body on the cosmic

mental plane. At the fifth degree ( or perhaps the sixth as

mentioned in the above reference ) the initiate is able to reach to

the Logos in his cosmic astral body.

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We may be able to get some idea of the building of this lower

half of the cosmic antahkarana which links the cosmic astral and

physical planes by examining how it has been expressed in the

life of the planet as a whole.

The Christ completed the work of the Buddha by manifesting in

its fullness the nature of love, thus permitting the full expression

of love-wisdom in its dual aspectthe one aspect demonstrated

by the Buddha and the other by the Christ. But His greatestwork has not yet been emphasised in the worlds of thought and

of religionthe revelation of the Way of the Higher

Evolution. This entails the bringing through of pure divine will

and the relating of the spiritual Hierarchy to the great Council

at Shamballa. It will be apparent to you, therefore, that He was

the first to carry throughfrom stage to stagethe complete

revelation of humanity to the Hierarchy and of the Hierarchy to

Shamballa. This He did by virtue of a completely finished andconstructed antahkarana, and thus He facilitated the work of all

future aspirants and disciples. He made possible their

unimpeded progress, as far as the opening of each stage of the

planetary antahkarana is concerned. He presented the "first

thread of living substance, irradiated by love, intelligently

woven and energised by will" which any human being of our

Earth humanity had interwoven with the planetary antahkarana.

RI 528

He then focussed in Himself the two major divine attributes and

aspectswill and love (atma-buddhi)and because of this, His

consciousness became extra-planetary as is the consciousness of

the Lord of the World, and He could then touch certain heights

of awareness and contact certain solar Agencies which had

never before been contacted by man. This achievement enabled

Him to put Humanity in touch with the Spirit of Peace. He thus

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Himself became the Light of the World and the Prince of Peace.

In this manner, Shamballa and the Hierarchy were brought into

a close relationship and two great streams of force were

blended and a definite interplay set up between them. The

Buddha, through His achievement of illumination, established

the first major link with the Forces of Light. The Christ, through

His ability to express the will of God in love and as world

salvage, established the first major link with the Spirit of Peace

HIS

The chart below traces the dual alignment of love wisdom from

the mental plane of the cosmic physical to the intermediate

existence of the Planetary Logos on the cosmic astral plane.The human soul is dual comprising the fusion of mercury and

venus, the fourth and fifth hierarchies. The fifth hierarchy is also

dual expressing as both manas and atma and thus we have the

human soul as the triad. The alignments put in place by the

Christ and Buddha reflect the venus and mercury alignments

respectively.

The zigzag green and blue lines represent pathwaysthrough the planes that this consciousness takes. The green line

of Venus moves from the third subplane of the cosmic astral to

the fifth subplane, to the atmic plane, to the mental plane.

Consider the astrological rulerships of this line. Venus is exalted

in Pisces and a ruler on one level of Taurus, Libra and

Capricorn. Pluto the hierarchical ruler of Pisces is brought into

relationship with Venus, the hierarchical ruler of Capricorn. The

solar angels leave the Fathers house, under law, and descend toretrieve their reflected light.The blue line is the Mercury alignment and descends from the

fourth subplane of the cosmic astral, via the sixth, to the

monadic plane and thence to the buddhic. Mercury rules each of

the four signs involvedAries, Gemini (which remember is

ruled by Mercury, Venus and Earth), Virgo and Scorpio. This

line brings the energy of Uranus, hierarchical ruler of Aries, into

relationship with Mercury, hierarchical ruler of Scorpio.

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The human Hierarchy awakens to Life. The Tibetan has this

to say about Mercury:

Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, carries to humanity a certaintype of force and this precipitates a point of crisis; it brings about

the next great revolution which will lead mankind on to new

experience, and to the revelation of the divinity which it is the

destiny of man to reveal. (EA, p.549)Initiated man is the combination of two Hierarchiesthe

divine hermaphrodite created from the union of Mercury and

Venus, the Fourth and Fifth Hierarchies. These are the energiesinvolved in building the antahkarana because we ARE the

antahkarana.Two astrological triangles are involved:

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.

Returning to the chartwe must now focus on the red line thatrepresents the sushumna thread of this antahkarana. It links

three crucifixionsthat of our Planetary Logos on the fourth

subplane of the cosmic astral, the Fifth Hierachy, and the Ninth

(or Fourth) Hierarchy who is ourselves as we approach the

Fourth Degree. It was at the Fourth Initiation that Jesus on the

buddhic plane was overshadowed by the Christ on the monadic.

The link then extended to Sanat Kumara (consider the centralpoint of thechart as a crown chakra), and thence to thePlanetary Logos polarised upon the fourth subplane of the

cosmic astral. Thus a great alignment of Will took place.

Between the fifth and the seventh intiations this cosmic

antahkarana is extended from the cosmic astral plane to the

cosmic mental creating a triple alignment between the three

Wills of the three levels of manifestation of our Logos.

The Christ and the Buddha took the third initiation together ( RI386 ) and when the Christ completes his work of the seventh

initiation the cosmic antahkarana will find its place within the

consciousness of mankind and the great Sound of the Planetary

Logos will reach forth on to the physical plane of this earth

globe.

This is concerned with the realisations of the overshadowing

Christ as He registered the Voice which is heard at the third,fifth, sixth and seventh initiations. The Gospel story gives us the

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five Initiations of the Master Jesus, beginning with the first and

ending with the fifth. But it also gives the initiations of the

Christ, starting from the second and ending with the

seventh. The latter is left incomplete, and the Voice is not

recorded, because at the Resurrection and Ascension we are not

told of the hearing of the affirmative sound. That will be heard

when the Christ completes His work at the time of the Second

Coming. Then the great seventh initiation, which is a dual one

(love-wisdom in full manifestation motivated by power and will),

will be consummated, and the Buddha and the Christ will

together pass before the Lord of the World, together see the

glory of the Lord, and together pass to higher service of a

nature and calibre unknown to us. RI 84

The Christ and the Buddha took the third initiation together ( RI

386 ) and when the Christ completes his work of the seventh

initiation the cosmic antahkarana will find its place within the

consciousness of mankind and the great Sound of the Planetary

Logos will reach forth on to the physical plane of this earth

globe.

Bruce Lyon