The fourth aspect of the seventh energy

In this year 5.7, the last of the fifth seven-year period of the Plan, whose Goal is the “Creative Liturgy of the Group and of the Work”, we intend to focus on the seven aspects of the seventh creative energy, which manifests as Order, Ritual and Ceremonial Magic, publishing excerpts from “The Book of Rituals” (whose translation is underway).

As already mentioned in the previous post, “the seventh quality of Life binds together Spirit and Substance” and, through its intervention, forms come to life “according to the law, with love, in Space, following a programme, in beauty, with multiple measures but faithful to a single Model”.

The fourth aspect of this energy concerns precisely the intrinsic Beauty and Harmony, which are produced by its application; it underlines the importance of addressing, from the fiery depth of one’s being, the eternal Model and Order; it points to Heaven as the supreme model for the ritual Work that every man or human group carries out on Earth, performing the sacred and solemn act of uniting highest and abyssal, One and manifold, Being and beings.

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FOURTH ASPECT OF THE SEVENTH ENERGY

Any spiritual ritual imitates the only Ritual, the one performed and lived by Sanat Kumara, the planetary Logos. However deformed, reduced and clouded it may be, it derives its justification from that: otherwise it would not aim at the Common Good and would not be, in short, a ritual.

Yet the great Ritual of the Lord of the World is unknown even to those who presume its existence and its rhythm, which together hold the planet in orbit. Is it ever possible to imitate what is supposed to exist, but it is unknown?

Yes, of course it is! This is the surest and supreme way to imitate it, although it seems impractical. Imitating what you know, that is, on the same level, is not difficult, but it is useless, it is simple copying. Imitation is true, brave and effective only when you look up, at what is yet unknown.

There is very little information about that sublime Model, contained in a sentence by the Tibetan:

“The ceremonial ritual of the daily life of Sanat Kumara, implemented by music and sound and carried on the waves of colour which break upon the shores of the three worlds of human evolution, reveal — in the clearest notes and tones and shades — the deepest secret behind His purpose.” (A Treatise on the Seven Rays – Vol. V, p. 246)

Great beauty and vast content in very few words.
Numerous deductions follow and a process shines through, which is certainly a component of that Purpose:

1 – There is a planetary Rite, performed daily with sounds and lights from the Logos. This reveals, among other things, that its rhythmic unit of measurement is the day.

2 – A single daily pulse is transmitted and passed on through the various levels of the evolutionary ladder and involves, whether they know it or not, all creatures and regions of the planet.

3 – Sooner or later major and minor consciousnesses awaken to that regular and constant beat, receive it within themselves and begin to imitate it at their own level. Then they begin to collaborate, albeit obscurely, on the higher Purpose.

4 – Step by step this responsiveness improves and becomes voluntary imitation. It is enriched with lights and sounds, it rises and becomes more and more similar to the Model. A chorus is formed and grows, able to produce an ever more consonant, clear, confident and powerful response.

5 – The truth that imitative repetition, however uncertain, is free, just as it must be spontaneous and diversified, is understood and applied. Only with the entirety of infinite multiform reactions can that Call be reproduced.

6 – Life becomes sacred. It turns out that profanity, which seemed prevalent everywhere, exists only out of ignorance, sometimes but not always guilty. The planetary Community is strengthened in all its branches and degrees.

7 – The ritual is established as a unitary law of life, and gradually the purpose of the Logos is revealed and defined. The Seven guides back to the One.

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These concepts are the theoretical basis of the activity of the System,* and show the role and importance that the ritual must assume in its intimate daily life. When it discovers the infinite world of the heart and little by little explores it, then it listens to and understands the divine Word that rules it.

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This article is published in order to orient minds and hearts to today’s celestial direction: Mercury (4^th Ray) – Uranus (7^th Ray).

* By System we mean a human Group structured according to the harmonic principles of Reality (see “Asserting the Planetary Plan”).