🍀 For those WHO DESIRE TO ENTER WITHIN - For DISCIPLES 🍀
✍️. ANNIE BESANT and LEADBEATER
📚. Prasad Bharadwaj
CHAPTER 8 - THE 20th RULE
🌻 20. Seek it not by any one road. - 8 🌻
438. The disciple rightly puts before himself, as his aim, the realization and purification of the individuality. It is a thing created for the use of its creator. Sometimes it is technically called a creature; then we hear of the man – the true man – meeting his creature.
So also the individual, the creature, meets his own creator. This meeting occurs only in a high stage of evolution. When a man meets his creature be is perfect and transcends individuality.
439. The creation of the individuality takes place at a lower stage; the man is busy building it up for a very long time.
The less evolved members of humanity are for a long period shut up in their lower vehicles – that is necessary for their progress, before the individual is fully built – so the causal body remains an unconscious shell for a long time, while activities are busy in, the personality. Think of the ages taken in building the physical vehicle; think of the rounds and the stages that the pitris went through on the moon chain before becoming fit to pass into human evolution.
There is an immense difference in the time that human beings take in building the individual, though all take long. The building goes on more rapidly in the higher stages under the inspiration of the more evolved ego than in the lower stages; when the intelligence reaches a high stage it is utilizing higher forces and learning not to waste them, and then the building goes on with immense rapidity.
This gives us great encouragement; for in looking back to the moon chain and thinking of the time we have taken to advance, it would seem very long if it had to be repeated, but looking forward we see that progress may become almost incredibly swift.
440. The divine fragment can do nothing by itself; all its development must come by contact with outside forces, and through the vehicles – it cannot grow without them. As H.P.B. said, spirit is senseless on the lower planes. It cannot bring forth any power without a vehicle of expression on the plane in which it has to act.
Further it can only have control of the vehicles when they are perfected. The work of bringing the vehicles to perfection develops the powers of the spirit to perfection, so the two developments go on together.
And when that work is complete, spirit has in itself the power to disintegrate its individual vehicles the moment it leaves them, and to reintegrate them in a moment when it chooses to do so.
441. Think of the perfected Spiritual Beings. Only while they were evolving at and below our human stage were vehicles necessary for Their growth, but when such a one, having drawn all the experiences of that evolution into His essence, wishes to manifest, He can at any time create what He wants for manifestation, and after having utilized the forces of the plane, can withdraw the vehicle again.
When speaking of the Planetary Spirits, H.P.B. mentions that They have come through humanity. They could not appear as helpers if They had not through the human stages drawn up into their essence the experience necessary.
Thus Beings exist who may not be manifest, but who can manifest Themselves, by drawing from Their essence the experience They require and creating a vehicle in which to work.
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05 Mar 2021
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