As we have written several times in these pages, the act of governing draws, at every level, on the energy of the first aspect of the divine: the first Ray of Will and Power which, for our local universe, comes from the star Merak of the Great Bear, is transformed by three constellations of the Zodiac (Aries, Leo, Capricorn), and anchors itself in the centre of the planetary head (Shamballa), seat of the directive Will and of the real Government of the planet, to which the world Government of Humanity in the new Era should hopefully refer, in order to align with the infinite ruling chain that unites the worlds.
From the etymosophical point of view, the word Will, the agent of Life, has been defined: “the causative and causing energy”.
“This energy of the will is the most potent energy in the whole scheme of planetary existence. It is called the “Shamballa Force”, and it is that which holds all things together in life. It is, in reality, life itself. This life force or divine will (implementing divine intention) is that by means of which Sanat Kumara arrives at His goal.
The Lord of the World is, we are told, the sole repository of the will and the purpose of His overshadowing, cosmic soul. These two words — will and purpose — are not identical in meaning. Sanat Kumara and His Council at Shamballa are the only Beings upon our planet Who know just what is the nature of the divine purpose. It is Their function and obligation to work that purpose out into manifestation, and this They do by the use of the will. The will ever implements the purpose.
The repository of the will aspect of man’s innate divinity is to be found at the base of the spine; this can only function correctly and be the agent of the divine will after the third initiation. The head centre is the one which is the custodian of the purpose; the centre at the base of the spine indicates the will as it implements the purpose. The purpose is slowly, very slowly, revealed to the initiate during the final five initiations and this only becomes possible after the Initiation of Renunciation. At that time the initiate says, in unison with the great head of the Hierarchy, the Christ: “Father, not my will but Thine be done”. […] (1)
“The disciple knows or is learning to know that he is not this or that, but Life Itself. He is not the physical body or its emotional nature; he is not, in the last analysis (a most occult phrase) the mind or that by which he knows. He is learning that that too must be transcended and superseded by intelligent love (only truly possible after the mind has been developed), and he begins to realise himself as the soul. Then, later, comes the awful “moment in time” when, pendant in space, he discovers that he is not the soul. What then is he? A point of divine dynamic will, focussed in the soul and arriving at awareness of Being through the use of form. He is Will, the ruler of time and the organiser, in time, of space.
This he does, but ever with the reservation that time and space are the “divine playthings” and can be used or not at will.
We could paraphrase the last two sentences of this fourth rule as follows: The evocation of the will involves identity with the larger purpose. The little will of the little lives must be merged in the larger will of the whole. Individual purpose must be identified with group purpose, which is as much of the purpose of the Whole or the One Life as the little life can grasp at any given point in time and space”. […]
In the long run, literally when the path of evolution is trodden to its end, what remains will be the divine purpose and the all-enveloping Life as it materialises the plan in time and space. This is the result of the turning of the greater Wheel of life, causing all the lesser wheels — in time and space — also to turn.
In the meantime, the human being is first of all driven by desire, then by aspiration towards some visioned goal, then by his selfish will, which reveals to him the nature of the will: persistent application to some purpose, seen as desirable and to which every power is bent. Having exhausted all tangible goals, the inner life forces the man on towards the intangible, and the quality of his will begins to change. He discovers a larger will than his own and begins slowly to identify himself with it, proceeding stage by stage from one realised purpose to another higher one, each step removing him further from his own so-called will and bringing him nearer to an appreciation of the significance of the divine will or purpose.
It might be stated, in an effort to clarify the method whereby this is done, that by the carrying out of the plan the disciple learns the nature of the purpose, but that the purpose itself can only be grasped by one who is developing monadic consciousness. Monadic consciousness is not consciousness as human beings understand it, but is that state of apprehension which is not consciousness or realisation, as the mystic feels it, or identification, as the occultist terms it, but something that appears when all of these three are appreciated and registered in a moment of time within the orbit of space”. (2)
“Upon the Path of Initiation, the monadic will (of which the egoic will is the reflection and the individual self-will is the distortion) is gradually transmitted, via the antahkarana, direct to the man upon the physical plane. This produces the higher correspondence of those qualities so glibly spoken of by the well-trained but dense esotericist — transmutation and transformation. The result is the assimilation of the individual will and the egoic will into the purpose of the Monad which is the purpose — undeviating and unalterable — of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being”. (3)
“Will is fundamentally an expression of the Law of Sacrifice; under this law, the unit recognises responsibility, identifies itself with the whole, and learns the esoteric significance of the words: “Having nothing (sacrifice) and yet possessing all things (universality)”… Everything is then relinquished in order that everything may be held in trust and used for the good of all; the will-to-good then dominates.
This realisation of identification with both the part and the whole finds its point of tension in the will-to-be which is qualified by the will-to-good and is developed, from the point of view of consciousness, by the will-to-know. These are actually three aspects of the divine will that exists in its perfection in the solar Logos and finds its means of expression through the planetary Logos”. (4)
“The will aspect of divinity can find expression only through humanity, for the fourth kingdom in nature is intended to be the agent of the will to the three subhuman kingdoms. It was therefore essential that the spirit of inclusiveness and the tendency to spiritual identification should be developed in humanity as a step preparatory to the development of response to divine purpose.
It is absolutely essential that the will-to-good be unfolded by the disciples of the world so that goodwill can be expressed by the rank and file of mankind. The will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed of the future.
The will-to-good is the Father aspect, whilst goodwill is the Mother aspect, and from the relation of these two the new civilisation, based on sound spiritual (but utterly different) lines, can be founded. I would commend this thought to your consciousness, for it means that two aspects of spiritual work must be nurtured in the immediate future, for on them the more distant hope of happiness and of world peace depends.
The New Group of World Servers must be reached and the will-to-good developed in them, and the masses simultaneously must be reached with the message of goodwill. The will-to-good is dynamic, powerful and effective; it is based on realisation of the plan and on reaction to the purpose as sensed by those who are either initiate, and consciously in touch with Shamballa, or disciples who are likewise a part of the Hierarchy but are not yet able to contact the central Purpose or Life”. (5)
“… Goodwill grows out of love, and will-to-good out of the recognition of the universality of life; one is an expression of the Christ consciousness and life, and the other is a responsiveness to monadic inflow, and yet the two are one”. (6)
“The principal type of energy hitherto used by the Hierarchy is — as you well know — the energy of love. Now, to that must be added the energy of the life-giving will. New methods, new approaches to the human problem and new modes of work will have to be tried; […] The new techniques and the changed approach from that of individual culture to united group progress will bring about many types of development. It is this different approach to the same basic problems which lies behind the new capacities which are emerging among disciples; it is this which enables disciples of experience to work at high speed and with a life potency that is unusual. […]
It is through the disciples that the New Group of World Servers are brought under the stepped-down Aquarian influences; this has to be an individual matter, largely dependent upon the point of evolution. Some members of the New Group of World Servers will not respond in any way; they cannot. Others will respond as fully as their spiritual status permits. This inflow of Aquarian energy is one of the factors which will enable the Christ to complete His task as World Saviour and World Teacher…”. (7)
Let us therefore learn to work with Will-to-good, to prepare the way for the coming Master and build the path of the new world Government of the planet.
“The Spirit of Christ breathes across the desert of life.
Like a spring It wears Its way through the solid rocks.
In the milky firmament It radiates in lights beyond counting,
and rises upward in the stem of every flower”.
(Leaves of Morya’s Garden – The Call § 72)
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Note: This article is published while the apparent Sun passes through the first sector of Aries, a sign that conveys the 1st Ray of Will and Power and the 7th R of Ceremonial Order and Magic into the solar System.
(1) Alice Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, § 714-15
(2) Alice Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, § 107-10
(3) Alice Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, § 31
(4) Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age II, § 269-270
(5) Alice Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, § 110
(6) Alice Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age II, § 270
(7) Alice Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, § 231-32
This is well said, and shows the problem in explaining the way to bring the will into the knowing…When one has taken the higher initiations, the result is the free flow and identification of the will.(not my will but thy will be done)….yet when one tries to explain the will to those who have not yet taken the higher initiations, they are without the ability to understand. There are those who have taken these higher initiations, as I have done, yet they(and the will) remain invisible to those who have not taken them….The whole purpose of my work is to bring a method to the “mind” of the reader/observer, not to directly ascertain the will, but to give a pattern to the mind to follow in its process to get to the point of sacrifice to take these initiations (renunciations of attachment) by free choice, as by this understanding, there would be no other satisfactory choice other than renunciation….It would not only make “sense”, but would follow the logic of the thought process to this fusion and result.(this is a moving “picture”…..a process)…..And to make this even more to their minds, it will be confirmed (as it is, and can be shown, by correspondence even if the will is not yet known) in the universe, which is also hidden, as is the will, until this is done. When one knows and follows the process, which the mind will do if it knows this is the aim (if the person has the development of the 7 ray cosmology background as in the AAB material…one must have a background in the septenate design of the holozoic/hermetic cosmology (as this cosmology contains the building blocks to use the “pattern”), then this pattern of mental movement which shows the relationship of the 7 rays or “parts” of the whole to the Whole (as notes in the scale or colors of the rainbow), would be understood. This accomplishes the fusion which results in the sacrifice (when one “part” is fused with another “part” then they are both “sacrificed” to become the new “part”) which results in the renunciation which results in the initiation which opens the door to the exchange of the personal will for the divine will….This “pattern” to this end, is what all search for (it is your inner intention first attracting as soul, and later as it works in experience it attracts the monad, which is attracted to this soul (and other monads) (as higher Being is monadic)(so higher is attracted to lower, and lower to higher) as this process continues, and this process which “liberates” the monad, so attracts the higher worlds which operate as free “monads” and guide the creative universe both micro and macrocosmic. This hidden transform design is what would be called the Great Singularity. It will entrain the lower mind, which will attract the development of the higher mind, as it is a process of abstraction, which builds the anthakarana, as this is the universal archetype given now to mankind through the Chiron paradigm “Chiron and Group Fusion”…..Energy follows thought, and it is not by the mind itself, but the result of the mental picture in the mind which attracts the energy to it, and this flow of energy does this process of the evocation of the Will…thru sacrifice which comes by understanding this….When this is understood by those who accomplish this, (or realize the purpose of it), so they will teach and guide those who as of yet have not so realized this…So divine will will move goodwill, and the fusion of the whole can be known by the “part”…This is the whole hologram which the paradigm intends and will accomplish….Read Esoteric Psychology II, as it tends toward this, as the third avatar and the 3rd power station of synthesis are fused with the other two love and intelligence (Jesus/Buddha)…into the ONE Power Station (of Maitreya).This can be followed on the Facebook page “The Reappearance of the Christ” IF you take the time to read back on it over time as it has come into Being from my efforts..