Abbreviations for
Books by Alice A. Bailey
Abbreviations for
Books by Alice A. Bailey
IHS Initiation, Human and Solar
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1922
LOM Letters on Occult Meditation
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1922
CF A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1925
WM A Treatise on White Magic
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1934
DNA1 Discipleship in the New Age - Volume I
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1944
DNA2 Discipleship in the New Age - Volume II
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1955
PH Problems of Humanity
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1947
RC The Reappearance of the Christ
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1948
DN The Destiny of the Nations
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1949
GWP Glamor - A World Problem
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1950
TEV Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1950
ENA Education in the New Age
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1954
ExH The Externalization of the Hierarchy
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 19/19
EP1 Esoteric Psychology I
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1936
EP2 Esoteric Psychology II
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1942
EA Esoteric Astrology
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1951
EsH Esoteric Healing
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1953
R&I The Rays and the Initiations
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1960
LS The Light of the Soul: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1927
LH The Labors of Hercules
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1974
CA The Consciousness of the Atom
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1922
SM The Soul and its Mechanism
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1930
II From Intellect to Intuition
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1932
BC From Bethlehem to Calvary
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1937
UA The Unfinished Autobiography
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1951
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Dynamic Symbols II

The Vortex and the Path to Liberation

by Duane Carpenter


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"The term 'liberation' really means the ability of any conscious atom to pass out of one sphere of energised influence into another of a higher vibration." (CF:1071)

Introduction

T he purpose of these short commentaries and their accompanying images is to invoke the intuition and accelerate an expansion of consciousness.

The Law of the Supplementary Seven has to do with how the seven planetary centers with their unique signatures of color, sound, and vibration, relate to the seven egoic groups of men, and these seven relate in turn to the seven etheric centers within the individual disciples. This will become the study of all those who have undergone the initiations on the threshold. The Law of the Supplementary Seven as well as the Law of Correspondence and Analogy are areas that have relevance only to those who have done the preliminary work. It is these laws that Dynamic Symbols 1 and 2 attempt to clarify. Like all presentations of this nature, the reader must decide what is relevant to his place on the great path of return.

The Law of the Supplementary Seven
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The Law of the Supplementary Seven

Rule VIII.

"For Applicants: When the disciple nears the Portal, the greater seven must awaken and bring forth response from the lesser seven upon the double circle."

"For Disciples and Initiates: Let the group and within itself response to the greater seven groups which carry out the hierarchical will with love and understanding. The group contains all seven, the perfect group. The lesser seven, the greater seven and the planetary seven form one great whole, and these the group must know. When this is realised and the Law of the Supplementary Seven is understood, let the group understand the Three and then the ONE. This they can do with the united breath and the united rhythm."  (R&I:148)

"First let us clearly define the various septenates referred to in this rule. I will first tabulate them in the order of their appearance and define them, and then I will enlarge upon them in order to point out where the training enters in, where the rule applies, and how the embodied rule is in the nature of a Law which the initiate may not evade."

"I would ask you here to refer to what I earlier said anent rules, laws and orders when starting with you this particular study.

1. The seven greater groups - The seven groups or Ashrams within the Hierarchy.

The Hierarchy

  • These carry out the hierarchical will, which is love.
  • They work through love and understanding.
  • Each is presided over by a Chohan and a group is called an Ashram.
  • These major Ashrams have many affiliated Ashrams, presided over by a Master on the same ray as the Chohan, and are capable at any moment of being absorbed into the primary Ashram.
  • The perfect or complete group is the Hierarchy itself, containing all the seven major Ashrams and their affiliates.

2. The Planetary seven groups - The seven rays, the central septenate of energy.

Shamballa

  • These embody the will of Shamballa, which is divine purpose.
  • They work as life energy, as quality, and produce appearance.
  • Each is presided over by one of the seven Spirits before the Throne; by one of the seven Ray Lords.
  • Each of these rays has its seven subrays which relate it to all the other rays.
  • These seven rays can, under divine purpose, be re-absorbed into the Three and then into the One.

3. The lesser seven - The seven types of men and also the seven root races.

Humanity

  • These embody the intelligence of the Logos as it expresses itself through creativity.
  • They are learning to work intelligently with matter in order to develop love in response to divine purpose — which is will or life.
  • Each of the seven types, responsive to one or other of the seven rays, is conditioned or ruled by its prototype, the soul on its own plane.
  • These major types or races of men have many subraces and subsidiary types, developed during the evolutionary process; all will eventually demonstrate the seven major types.
  • The perfect type is the Christ, the Heavenly Man, Who expresses all the major types and Who is the 'pattern of things as they are.'

4. The supplementary seven - The seven centres of energy in the individual man.

Humanity

  • These together embody the combined forces of the planetary life as registered by the perfected individual. They will eventually enable the man to achieve perfection.
  • They enable the individual to respond to material forces, to soul energy and spiritual life, and they constitute a complete response apparatus to the planetary life, purpose, intent and form.
  • Each of the seven centres is responsive to one or other of the seven rays and their qualities under the conditioning energy of the soul ray and the forces, emanating from the environment.
  • These centres develop progressively and under the impact of circumstances and the Law of the Supplementary Seven, but all will eventually express in some measure the seven types of ray energy.
  • The Law of the Supplementary Seven can be worded as follows:

    "'The Law demands the entrance of that which can effect a change.
    The Law demands that right direction should then guide the entering forces.
    The Law demands that the changes thus effected remove the form, bring quality to light and lay the emphasis upon life.
    The Law demands that this is brought about by the One, working through the Three, energising the Seven and creating the straight line from there to here, and ending in a point which ignores the Three.'"   (R&I:150-52)

"The Law of the Supplementary Seven is the great synthetic Law of Life or of Spirit and is the law with which the initiate works; it is this law he wields. From acceptance of the laws of nature and obedience to the laws of the soul, he passes into the positive phase of understanding and wielding the Law of Life. Because this is a governing law for all initiates, and because we know that the nature of life-energy or of spirit cannot be grasped until after the third initiation, it is exceedingly difficult for me to write in explanation of this law. You have not yet the initiate consciousness. I have therefore had to express this law in terms of form, whereas the initiate understands it from its formless angle."

"This law is concerned with the wielding of energy in the world of the Spiritual Triad and not with the distribution or the transmission of this energy to the three worlds in which average humanity habitually dwells. Right wielding of this law (controlling energy in the initiatory world of causes) automatically brings about activity, movement, force expression, and right distribution of these forces in the lower three worlds. These are, under the evolutionary law, direct reflections of the three higher worlds of the triadal light and life. Motivation, the use of the eye of vision (turned this time by the initiate functioning in the world of causes upon the worlds of human living), and the correct direction of force in cooperation with the hierarchical Plan condition all the activities of the initiate working with this law. Clearer than this I cannot be."

"This Law of the Supplementary Seven is concerned with the inflow of energy from the seven planetary centres to the seven groups or types of men, via the seven groups within the Hierarchy. In this work of transmission the seven centres of the initiate are used as agencies; their work, therefore, is not the interrelated work of right transmission of energy within the septenary constitution of the etheric body of the individual initiate, implementing his life expression, but is the task of being responsive to the seven types of planetary energy which are received in a pure state. It is then channeled through the seven centres in the initiate's etheric vehicle and out into the world of men as regenerative and constructive forces. These living spiritual energies — transmitted by the individual initiate from the planetary centres — are handled by him under a great uniform plan and are the means whereby salvation (to use an old familiar word) can come to the aid of humanity. This is the 'saving force' in its various aspects, of which the Great Invocation speaks: 'The hour of service of the Saving Force has now arrived.' (The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, page 249.) The high Initiates (Those above the rank of Master) work with the energies coming from the seven planets of the solar system at this time active; these feed or implement the seven planetary centres. But the Law of the Supplementary Seven is applied by initiates below the rank of Master, and they are therefore working solely with the seven centres within the Form of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being."  (R&I:157-59)

"In considering this Law of the Supplementary Seven, I would like to point out that the word 'supplementary' is of real significance. It brings in a factor of great interest, from the angle of initiation. You must bear in mind that when the antahkarana is constructed and in use, there is consequently a free play of energy in a direct line between the Spiritual Triad and the personality; i.e., between the Monad and its 'earthly anchor.' You will also remember that the soul body, the form on the higher levels of the mental plane which has 'shrouded' the soul, eventually disappears. This, as you know, takes place at the fourth initiation and is one of the best recognised facts in the occult teaching. In the three worlds, the correspondence to this disappearance of the form of the second divine aspect, the soul, is the dissolution of the astral body — the second aspect of the personality. Then the personality stands free from its control. Sensitivity and reaction to contact in the three worlds has been perfectly developed, but it no longer holds the disciple a prisoner.

"Then, at a later stage upon the Path of Initiation, the causal body also disappears and the initiate stands free in the three worlds. The astral body and the causal or soul body are — in the language of esotericism — supplementary to reality. They have had a temporary reality during the evolutionary process, but (having served their purpose and having endowed man with certain required assets — consciousness, feeling, sensitivity, the ability to establish and register contact) they pass away and the initiate remains, possessed of power over form and a fully awakened consciousness. He is a soul and the fusion is complete.

"What is true of the individual is true too of the Heavenly Man, the planetary Logos. In the long period of a world cycle there comes a time when the Hierarchy itself, as a body organised and functioning in order to implement certain evolutionary ends, is no longer needed. It is then regarded as 'supplementary,' and under the Law its life, its potency and its entire consciousness are absorbed into the planetary head centre, Shamballa. A great process of abstraction or of withdrawal takes place, covering necessarily a long period of time, and which is consummated only when evolution — as we know it — comes to an end and the planetary Life (again as we know it) also comes to an end. This process of abstraction is always going on. Men become disciples and then initiates. Some stay as hierarchical workers, choosing to work with the planetary forces of evolution. Others pass on into the great Council Chamber of the Lord of the World, and still others pass out of our planetary ring-pass-not altogether.

"Thus the Law of the Supplementary Seven is ever in force. It functions in the processes going on in the seven centres of the individual man, gathering energy from one centre into another until all are centred, controlled and directed in the head. In the stage of what the Hindus call 'samadhi' the vital energies from all the centres are concentrated in the highest head centre in the etheric body, in the area just above the physical head. Thus the analogy is complete. The processes of abstraction are (as you may thus see) connected with the life aspect, are set in motion by an act of the spiritual will, and constitute the 'resurrection principle which lies hidden in the work of the Destroyer,' as an old esoteric saying expresses it. The lowest manifestation of this principle is to be seen in the process of what we call Death — which is in reality a means of abstracting the life principle, informed by consciousness, from the form or the bodies in the three worlds.

"Thus, the great synthesis emerges, and destruction, death, and dissolution are in reality naught but life processes. Abstraction is indicative of process, progress and development."

"It is this aspect of the Law of Life (or the Law of Synthesis as it is called in certain larger connotations) with which the initiate specifically deals when wielding the Law of the Supplementary Seven." (R&I:161-63)

Numerous references and connections are made to other sites and teaching venues. This is done in an attempt to give the reader a wide variety of exposure and enrich the subject matter. The quotes scattered through the commentaries should be read in their original context. We make no claim to originality but will let readers determine for themselves the intrinsic value of what is shared here.

Many of the concepts and ideas presented here that have been taken from the works of HPB and AAB are stepped down and bridged for easy assimilation. Hence there can be a loss of meaning or reference in translation. Dynamic Symbols I and II are composed of a collection of several smaller papers that were originally conceived independently. Many of the concepts and descriptions are deliberately repetitive so that a student can gain insights presented from a number of different points of view. The study of motion can be taken on many levels. To isolate the animations in these papers only on a phenomenal level is to fail to envision their extended counterparts that exist on higher and more abstract levels.

What is required for the next decade is a presentation of the ancient yogic teachings in a new language of energy that draws on the best of the past but demands recognition in new and dynamic ways — a language of symbols, color, and sound presented through the most advanced electronic and audio-visual tools available to the modern disciple.

While outlining some thoughts on the nature of the antahkarana the Tibetan has said:

"...in order to express these ideas, we have practically to create a new terminology, for there are no words suitable to define our meaning. Just as modern sciences have evolved a complete new terminology of their own during the past forty years, so this science must develop its own peculiar vocabulary. In the meantime, we must do the best we can with the words at our disposal." (R&I:452)

In another passage the Tibetan has pointed out the need to be flexible and open to other contributions that may depart from our usual familiar approach to the ancient wisdom teachings.

"I have given you this teaching in terms of the Christian presentation as it may be simpler for you to grasp, but there are many other formulations and approaches to these truths and the newer they are the more difficult necessarily are they to present. Only those who are on the immediate verge of initiation will understand; the others will prefer to interpret these truths to themselves in the easier and well-known formulas of the preparatory stage of the at-one-ing of soul and personality." (DNA2:260)