I would like to consider with you the nature of the three
requirements presented as essential for a certain initiation, because they provide the
link between Law IX and Rule Six. The rule is so clear and concise that it needs but
little explanation, emphasizing, as it does, energy which must be used and that which must
not. It says:
Rule Six
The healer or the healing group must keep the will in leash. It is not will which
must be used, but love.
These three basic requirements concern attainment on various planes of the universe;
though I dealt with them in connection with the approach to the sixth initiation, they
have - on a lower turn of the spiral - their correspondences, and are therefore of
practical application by the initiated disciple, particularly one who has taken the third
initiation. Let us take them, one by one, into our thinking:
- Perfect Poise indicates complete control of the astral body, so that emotional
upheavals are overcome, or at [673] least are greatly minimized in the life of the
disciple. It indicates also, on the higher turn of the spiral, an ability to function
freely on buddhic levels, owing to complete liberation (and consequent poise) from all the
influences and impulses which are motived from the three worlds. This type or quality of
poise connotes - if you will think deeply - an abstract state of mind; nothing which is
regarded as non-perfection can create disturbance. You can realize surely that, if you
were entirely free from all emotional reactions, your clarity of mind and your ability to
think clearly would be enormously increased, with all that that involves.
Naturally, the perfect poise of an initiated disciple and that of the initiated Master are
different, for one concerns the effect of the three worlds or their non-effect, and the
other concerns adaptability to the rhythm of the Spiritual Triad; nevertheless, the
earlier type of poise must precede the later achievement, hence my consideration of the
subject. This perfect poise (which is a possible achievement for you who read) is arrived
at by ruling out the pulls, the urges, impulses and attractions of the astral or emotional
nature, and also by the practice of what I have earlier mentioned: Divine Indifference.
- A Completed Point of View. This necessarily and primarily refers to the
universal outlook of the Monad, and therefore to an initiate of the higher degrees. It
can, however, be interpreted on a lower rung of the ladder of evolution and refers to the
function of the soul as an Observer in the three worlds and the completed all-round
picture such an observer gradually attains. This is brought about by the development of
the two qualities of detachment and discrimination. These two [674] qualities, when
expressed on the Way to the Higher Evolution, become Abstraction and the Will-to-good.
A completed point of view - as experienced on soul levels - indicates the removal of all
barriers and the freedom of the disciple from the great heresy of separateness; he has
therefore created an unclogged channel for the inflow of pure love. Perfect poise, viewed
from the same level, has removed all impediments and those emotional factors which have
hitherto blocked the channel, thus preparing the way for the Observer to see truly; the
disciple then functions as a clear channel for love.
- Divine Understanding must also be studied from two points of view. As a soul
quality, it indicates a mind which can be held steady in the light, and can therefore
reflect the pure reason (pure love) which qualifies the reflections of the Son of Mind,
the soul on its own plane. On the higher Way of the Master, it relates to that
identification which supersedes the individualistic consciousness; all barriers have gone,
and the initiate sees things as they are; he knows the causes of which all phenomena are
the ephemeral effects. This, consequently, enables Him to understand the Purpose, as it
emanates from Shamballa, just as the lesser initiate understands the Plan as it is
formulated by the Hierarchy.
All three of these divine attributes are, in some measure, essential in the development
of the initiate-healer; he must work at their unfoldment as part of his necessary
equipment; he must know that all reactions of an emotional nature create a wall or barrier
between the free flow of healing force and the patient, and that the barrier is created by
him and not by the patient. The emotions of the [675] patient should have no effect upon
the healer and should fail to deviate him from the intense concentration needed for his
work; these emotions of the patient cannot in themselves create a barrier strong enough to
deflect the healing force.
A completed
point of view involves at least the attempt by the disciple to penetrate into the world of
causes, and thus learn (if possible) what it is that is responsible for the disease of the
patient. This need not involve penetration into previous incarnations, nor is that
essential, in spite of what some modern and generally fraudulent healers may claim. There
is usually enough psychological evidence, or indications of inherited tendencies, to give
the healer his clue and to enable him to get a somewhat complete picture of the situation.
It is obvious that this "penetration" into the causes of the trouble will only
be possible if the healer loves enough; because he loves, he has achieved a poise
which brings negation to the world of illusion and of glamor. Divine understanding is
simply the application of the principle of pure love (pure reason) to all men and to all
circumstances, plus right interpretation of the existing difficulties of the patient, or
of those which may exist between patient and healer.
To these requirements I would like to add another factor: that of the doctor, physician
or surgeon who is physically responsible for the patient. In the coming new era, the
healer will work always with the scientific aid of the trained medical man; this is a
factor which causes bewilderment, at present, to the average modern healer belonging to
some cult or expressing some unorthodox phase of healing. |
