Spiritual Government of Our Planet Earth

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Spiritual Government

of Our Planet

Earth

The

illustration below

represents the structure of the Spiritual Government of our planet

Earth.  It is based on the teachings of the Tibetan Master Djwhal

Khul given through Alice A and later expanded upon by

Creme. 

The three

white ovals symbolically represent the three Major Centres within this

Government, or the three major groups of beings who are responsible for

the manifestation of the divine Plan on this planet. The purpose of

this plan is to spiritualise matter of our planet and, by doing so,

make Earth a sacred planet.  The three interrelated centres are: Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity.

 

Shamballa

The upper oval in the diagram

illustrates the structure of the Shamballa. " Lotus blossom with flaming

centre " represents God - the great Being, our Planetary Logos - who

ensouls this planet (as we en-soul our bodies). The " eye below the

lotus " represents the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara. The " three

crown " are the three Buddhas of Activity. And the " seven stars " are the

Seven Spirits in front of the Throne.

Hierarchy

The middle oval in the diagram

illustrates the structure of the Hierarchy.  The three

departmental heads: The Manu - Will - first Ray; the Mahachohan, the

Lord of Civilisation - Active Intelligence - third Ray; the

Bodhisattva, the Christ or World Teacher - Love-Wisdom - second Ray are

represented by the " three stars within the triangle " .  The various

Masters heading the specific major ashrams, with their subsidiary

ashrams headed by Initiates and Disciples represented by the colored

circles.

Humanity

The lower oval in the diagram

represents Humanity its various stages of consciousness development

from the unevolved to the new group of world servers (within the white

star).

Shamballa

- the Lord of the World

and His

Council

Shamballa is a Centre of

Energy, the major centre in the planet.  It corresponds to the

crown centre in the head in man, and from it and through it flows the

energy we call Will. In fact, all the energies flow through Shamballa,

but the specific energy which we call the Shamballa Force, is the

energy of Will or Purpose, which embodies the Purpose or Plan of God -

God being that great Being, our Planetary Logos, who ensouls this

planet ( " lotus blossom with flaming centre " ), and Who is reflected on

the physical plane (because Shamballa is a physical centre, in etheric

physical matter) as Sanat Kumara, the Eternal Youth,  the Youth of

Endless Summers, the Fountainhead of the Will ( " eye below the lotus " ).

Sanat

Kumara is to the Planetary Logos what the personality and the soul is

to an individual. He is also the coherent force whithin the planet,

holding through His radiatory influence all forms and all substances in

the planetary form so that they constitute one coherent, energised, and

functioning whole. The basic purpose of Sanat Kumara is to bring about

right relations in every field of His manifested life.

Shamballa

has a shape of a large white sphere. In the ancient books it is called

the " White Island " . It is located in the

Gobi Desort, on the two highest etheric planes. One day this will be

seen and known, when mankind has developed etheric vision. It was set

in place, we are told in the esoteric teachings, some 18.5 million

years ago, when the Logos of our planet took physical manifestation on

Shamaballa as Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the World. The Humanity, as a

kingdom did not as yet exist. Sanat Kumara is a youth, a young man, Who

dwells on Shamballa, surrounded by His Kumaras - His Counsil. 

Forming the

innermost circle of the Council of the Lord of the World is a group of

Lives.  Although, not as far advanced as He is, they are far

greatly in advance of the most highly developed members of the

Spiritual Hierarchy. Their normal contacts are extraplanetary. Many of

these greater Lives found Their way to our planet from our sister

planet Venus.

Among other

members of His Council, are the three Buddhas of Activity ( " the three

crowns " ) and the Seven Spirits before the Throne of God (the seven

seven-pointed stars.  These seven Spirits are in close rapport

with the seven sacred planets in our solar system. They are reflections

of the Lords of the Rays (see the explanation of Ray below). 

One great

Buddha of Activity is responsible to Sanat Kumara for the working out

of the Plan in connection with humanity. In one of their incarnations

this Buddha and the Lord Maitreya were brothers. They were among the

first group of our humanity to take initiation and have been at the

forefront of humanity ever since. This Buddha overshadowed Mithras,

Memnon and the prince Gautama (Who is now on Sirius). He acts as the

Divine Intermediary between Shamballa and Hierarchy, and is deeply

involved in the process of Maitreya's return to the world.

The two

other Buddhas have each of Them an equally important responsibility and

have their own Hierarchies to work through. One works with the Deva Kingdom and the other with the

three lower Kingdoms of Nature (animal, vegetable and mineral).

Thus, the

Council Chamber of the Lord of Shamballa is a unit, with the Hierarchy

being a differentiation of this unit.

The

Hierarchy - The Fifth Kingdom

The Hierarchy is the

second major center in the spiritual government of our world. It the

fifth kingdom in nature in our planetary scheme, known as the Spiritual Kingdom and refered to in the

Bible as the Kingdom of Souls. 

The chief

role of the Hierarchy is to develop self-consciousness in all beings,

and consciousness in the lower kingdoms.  To be an example for

humanity, and to transmit the Will of the Planetary Logos.  They

prepare Their disciples for Initiation and provide them with a field of

service.  They also protect us from an excess of cosmic evil.

They are

releasing energy of one kind or another into the world, all the

time.  They are the custodians of these energies, and release them

in a scientific manner to bring about the changes in evolution of the

world.

The

Hierarchy is divided into three major groups, or departments. 

Each of these departments is on one of the three major great lines of

force (also known as Rays).  Each one embodying, channeling, being

influenced by, one or other of the three major aspects of divinity that

we know — the Will aspect, the Love/Wisdom aspect and the Active

Intelligence aspect. 

The

department under the Will aspect has at its Head, the Manu, the

Perfected Man, the Exemplar for our race, the fifth root race.  He

is the perfect expression of our fifth root race in its

completeness.  He is primeraly concerned with and watches over the

governments of the various nations, to the end that right relations in

each nation and between all nations may become established.

At the head

of the department under the Love/Wisdom aspect is the Bodhisattva, or

World Teacher, the One we in the West call the Christ.  He is

known in the East by other names: as the Lord Maitreya to the

Buddhists, as the Bodhisattva to the Hindus, the Imam Mahdi to Moslims,

the Messiah to the Jews.  Each of these names, religious terms, is

the name of the head of Hierarchy.  His personal name is

Maitreya.  He is concerned with the spiritual destiny of Humanity.

At the head

of the department under the Active Intelligence aspect is the Lord of

Civilisation, the Mahachohan.  His endeavour is to stimulate the

intelligence in human beings so that everyone will seek and appreciate

the true, the beautiful, and spiritual values.  A major part of

His work lies in the direction of stimulating cooperation in place of

competition, and in sharing and distribution in place of

cetralisation. 

These three

Great Lords, Aspects of God, for that is what They are, have together

stimulated and overseeing the development of mankind throughout the

centuries by the transmission of energies, and the impression of men's

minds with the ideas which embody these energies.

In the

consciousness of Sanat Kumara, the Hierarchy constitutes " the noble

middle Path " to which the Buddha refers. It fills the intermediate and

the mediating place between Shamballa and Humanity. It is one great

ashram, and after due absorption of light, understanding, and power

from Shamballa, it radiates this energy to aid not only the human

evolution but all the other evolutions as well. This great ashram is

likewise magnetic in its effect. Through its magnetic potency, " units

of life and devotion " - human beings - are brought into the ashram as

disciples. This great ashram is composed of many ashrams, and the

Christ, aided by the Manu and the Mahachohan, is the coordinator of the

entire life of it. The personnel of the ashram is today entirely

provided from the ranks of humanity. 

Stemming

from the department of the third aspect, that of the Lord of

Civilisation, are four further groups, on the four secondary Rays of

Attribute, thus making seven major groups or ashrams.  Each of

these has seven subsidiary ashrams, making forty nine in all.  Not

all of these are complete at this time, both as to personnel and also

as channels for energy.

The entire

hierarchical ashram is a unity and is guarded by its radiation. The

forty-two lesser ashrams are held together by the magnetic interaction

of the whole. Aspirants are drawn into the ashram through radiation.

There is a dual flow of energy into the great ashram. This dual flow

consists of:

The energizing life from

Shamballa. The energy of active

intelligence from Humanity, thus enabling the Masters to formulate the

Plan. It is the admixture of Love and Will that produces radiation. It

is the Hierarchy's conscious use of the power coming from Shamballa

that results in the magnetic impact and the spiritual " pull " that draws

the soul, incarnated in the body, towards the ashram. 

The

keynote of working in

an ashram is complete freedom from all coercion within the ashram and

from any supervision of daily activity and instinctive reaction to the

ray influences and to the " breath of the prevailing will. "  

The

Hierarchy has changed form, personnel, many times over the ages, as

members of the human race became Initiates and then Masters, so that

the Masters of the higher levels could go on to higher work.

There are

63 Masters connected with the human evolution.  There are many

more Masters, Who are working with the sub-human evolution: the animal,

the vegetable and the mineral kingdoms.  There are also many

Masters involved with the angelic or Deva evolutions, which are vast in

numbers. 

Humanity

- The Fourth Kingdom

Humanity constitutes the

third major Centre in the spiritual world government. It is the Fourth Kingdom in our planetary scheme,

above animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. This is the Centre where

the Intelligence aspect of God manifests.

 

The

Origins of Humanity

According to the esoteric

teachings, the human race began 18.5 million years ago.  At that

time, early animal-man had reached a relatively high state of

development.  He had a powerful, co-ordinated physical body, a

sentient feeling or astral body, a the germ of mind which could later

form the nucleus of a mental body.  The energy of mind, the fifth

principle, was brought to this planet from Venus by the ‘Lords of the

Flame,' and an enormous stimulus to evolution resulted.  The human

egos (souls), waiting on their own soul plane for just such an

opportunity, then took incarnation in early animal-man for the first

time.  The individualization of animal-man became a fact and the

human story began.  The Biblical story  of the ‘fall from

paradise' of Adam and Eve is a symbolic presentation of this historical

event.

The ‘fall'

was not a fall from grace but refers to the decision of the human souls

to come into incarnation for the first time, to leave ‘paradise' — the

souls natural state of perfection known as pralaya, a wonderful

paradisaical state of endless bliss — for the experience of ‘the fruit

of the tree of knowledge.' 

On the soul

plane each soul is an individualised part of one Oversoul.  The

separation we experience on the personality level is an illusion.

Humanity is ensouled by a great Deva of Angel called Lucifer (Lucifer

means Light) and each human soul is part of that Oversoul.  

Nevertheless, each one of us is uniquely individual and contributes

that individuality to the Whole. 

The ‘fall'

was a great sacrifice for the human soul for it involves severe

limitation of its sphere of expression.  This sacrifice was and

still is willingly undertaken, however, to carry further the Plan of

Evolution of the Logos of the planet.

There

exists the century-old controversy between the Fundamentalist Christian

groups and Darwin's theory of the

evolution of the species: if man is created by God and in God's image

how can he have evolved from animal beginnings?  The controversy

arises from a complete misunderstanding — by the Christian groups —

about the nature of the evolution proposed by Darwin.  His theory, of

course, describes the evolution of the physical body of man, which

indeed evolved, over millions of years, from early animal-man. 

The divine aspect in man, the soul, incarnates in that animal body to

bring its divine nature into manifestation on the physical plane. 

Man is the unique condition in evolution where spirit and matter

meet.  In this way matter is gradually spiritualised — the true

purpose of man is to spiritualise matter. 

 

The

Gospel Story and the Path of Initiation

The evolutionary journey

on which we are engaged is marked off by five major points of crisis,

major expansions of  consciousness, the five steps to Liberation

and Mastery.  These are the five planetary initiations which free

us from further incarnational experience on this Earth. 

All of the

Masters have taken these five initiations (some have taken further,

higher initiations), and Their presence in this world is the result of

a conscious decision to serve the Plan of Evolution and not from any

need, through personal karma, to incarnate.

The

esoteric process we call initiation is an artificial forcing process

introduced into our planet in mid-Atlantean times to speed up the

evolutionary process.  Without it we would inevitably arrive at

the same point of development as we evidence today, but it would take

millions of years longer to do so.

Each

initiation represents a definite stage of integration and at-one-ment

reached by the initiate.  The goal is achieved when, at the fifth

initiation, the liberated Master stands in full at-one-ment with the

Monad, His " Father in haven. " each initiation confers on the initiate a

deeper and deeper insight into the Plan of our Planetary Logos, the

plan for the evolution of all kingdoms on this planet.  Only a

tiny fragment of this Plan is grasped at any but the final

initiations.  But, even for a first-degree initiate it confers on

him or her a degree of knowledge and an energy structure altogether

different from that which precedes it.  It is one of the great

turning points in human evolution.

Initiation

is a process, not a ceremony (although it does involve ceremony), nor

the successful passing of an examination.  It is the result of a

gradual expansion of consciousness.  It is a process whereby

successive and graded stages of unification and at-one-ment take place

between the man or woman in incarnation and the higher aspects of our

threefold constitution.

Initiation

indicates a point achieved, but does not bring about that

achievement.  Life itself is the field of development of the

process; it is the experiences, the trials and failures of everyday

life, and the gradual mastering of oneself that brings about the

control over matter and the consciousness on all planes that

characterises the Initiated Master.

Seen from

the esoteric standpoint, the Gospel story is really the story of

initiation, a story presented to humanity again and again, in different

ways, long before Christianity.  The account of the life of Jesus

is the symbolic presentation, dramatically re-enacted for us, of the

initiate's journey to Perfection.

The First

Initiation is called the Birth of the Christ and is symbolised by the

birth of the Disciple Jesus at Bethlehem.  When the

evolutionary energy which we call the Christ Principle or Consciousness

is awakened in the human heart (the spiritual heart centre at the right

side of the chest), the man or woman becomes ready for preparation to

take the first initiation. 

It is

important to realize that the person is already an initiate before he

or she stands before the Initiator. The human soul, the first master,

brings its vehicle to the point of initiation through its life

experience and meditation. Then the Master (of the Hierarchy) steps in,

and by a combination of stimulus, testing and presented service

opportunity, prepares the candidate to come before the Hierophant to

receive the impact of the energy from the rod of initiation which He

wields. The Christ, Maitreya, is the Hierophant at the first and second

initiations, the third and higher initiations being taken before the

Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, at Shamballa. " I am the Way. " " No man

can know the Father except through me. " These sayings of the Christ are

esoterically true, but they have been interpreted by the churches,

quite wrongly, to mean that Christianity (or, more correctly,

Churchianity) is the only religious path; that only if a man accepts

the (man-made) dogmas and doctrines of the Christian Church can he know

God. The Christ embodies the Christ Principle on this planet. That is

an energy which flows from Him to us. It is through the manifestation

of this Principle that we re-orient ourselves and enter the Initiatory

Path. In this sense, He is indeed " the Way. " Likewise, only when one

has stood before the Christ at the first two initiations can one open

up contact with the Monad, the Spirit, the " Father in Heaven, " which

leads to the third initiation before Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the

World. 

The

" born-again " Christian groups have an inkling of the truth, in that the

first initiation is the " second birth " of the Bible; but, of course,

this is an experience shared by millions today throughout the world,

and not exclusive to the " born-again " Christians. 

The first

initiation demonstrates control over the physical body, in particular

over the tiny devic (or elemental) lives which make up the physical

body of man. The second initiation demonstrates control over the astral

emotional body or elemental lives which make up that vehicle. This is

called the Baptism Initiation and is symbolized for us by the Baptism

of Jesus at Jordan. 

The third —

the first true, soul, initiation — is called the Transfiguration and is

symbolized by the Transfiguration of Jesus on the Mount. It

demonstrates control over the mental elemental and body and brings in

Monadic or spirit contact and energy for the first time: " The Jewel in

the heart of the Lotus. "  

Jesus

entered the world at Bethlehem as a third degree

initiate and so simply symbolized these three stages of growth for us.

He had to undergo the fourth initiation and did so in full physical

fact to dramatize, symbolically, for our sake, the experience of

Renunciation. In the West this initiation is known as the Crucifixion;

in the East it is called the Great Renunciation, when all is renounced

— position, family, even life itself if necessary — for the higher

spiritual life. 

Then

follows (and this is the core of the Christian gospel story) the fifth

initiation, the Resurrection, symbolized by the resurrection of the

body of Jesus after the Crucifixion. Each initiation attracts to the

bodies of the initiate matter of sub-atomic particles — literally,

light. By the fourth initiation the bodies of the initiate are

three-quarters sub-atomic or light. This process is completed at the

fifth or Resurrection Initiation, when the initiate stands free from

the pull of matter forever, a perfected Master. The evolutionary goal

has been achieved and the Master has finished his life experience on

this planet. His choice of whether to remain on this Earth and so serve

the Plan of our Planetary Logos is His alone.

There are

higher initiations which call the Master to further effort. The

Ascension, symbolized by the ascension of the Christ after His

appearance before the disciples in the resurrected body of Jesus, marks

the sixth initiatory experience and confers Cosmic Consciousness and

total immortality of the body to the Ascended Master.

Seen in

this way, the Gospel story holds before humanity the promise of

Divinity, a Divinity realized not alone by one extraordinary man, the

" Son of God " but a Divinity attainable by all who necessary effort to

expand their consciousness to include the spiritual levels; a Divinity

achieved, too, by a scientific process, of which the Christ and the

Masters are the custodians, the process of initiation.

 

Some

statistics

There are approximately

5.7 billion people in incarnation at the moment, and around 850,000

people in incarnation who have taken the First Initiation.  There

are about 240,000 people in incarnation who have taken the Second

Initiation, and about 2,300 - 2,400 who have taken the Third

Initiation.  About 450 only, of those in incarnation, have taken

the Forth Initiation.

Some

millions are now standing on the very verge of taking the First

Initiation.  This is the enormous step forward in evolutionary

development which humanity as a whole has taken, and is the opportunity

for the Christ to reappear now with the Hierarchy of Masters.

 

The

New Group of World Servers

This group is made up of

Initiates and Disciples of various degrees, of men and women of

goodwill, and exists unorganised in every country. With their clarity

of vision and understanding they are the interpreters of the newer and

truer values and ideas that always aim at the production of worldwide

goodwill, of intelligent and loving understanding and unity. They

recognise the value of the individual, as well as the significance of

group work. They work for right human relations, for the basic oneness

of humanity and for practical brotherhood. 

 

The

Externalisation of the Hierarchy

Today all three centers

interrelate and demonstrate great activity (indicated on the diagram by

the blue ribbon, running virtically through all three centres).

Shamballa, Hierarchy, and Humanity today are much more closely related

than ever before and are now ready to enter into a new historical

period. 

Soon

Hierarchy and Humanity will meet and know each other. Many of the

Ashrams will be externalised and so will most of the Masters. Maitreya

and 13 other Masters have already taken their posts in Their various

energy centres around the world (Master Jesus is one of them). Slowly,

gradually,  over the next few years, some two thirds of them will

externalise.  The remaining group will remain esoteric. 

Their meditative gaze will be turned upward, towards Shamballa. They

have taken special training which allows Them to come to a deeper, more

intense awareness of the Will aspect of God.  Through them that

aspect will be transmitted to Their Colleagues in the world - so that

they will be kept en rapport with the Will of God and with Shamballa.

Many of the

Initiates of the Hierarchy will work openly, outwardly, on the physical

plane, known to all men.  The Mystery Schools will be re-opened

and men will go to them as they now go to University, to learn and to

take the disciplines which will prepare them for Initiation, and so

into the Hierarchy.  This will become the aim of advanced humanity

in this coming age.

When Humanity and

Hierarchy can work in full cooperation, then Shamballa will take form

and no longer exist only in cosmic etheric substance.