QUALITIES OF THE HEART

STATEMENTS ON THE HEART CENTRE - FOR PONDERING

A compilation taken from the books by Mrs. Alice Bailey,

as has been given by the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul.

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 QUALITIES OF THE HEART

STATEMENTS ON THE HEART CENTRE - FOR PONDERING

CONTENT

Foreword - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3
The Heart: From Bethlehem to Calvary - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 4
The Heart and The Consciousness of the Atom - - - - - - - - - - 6
The Heart and The Destiny of the Nations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 6
The Heart and Discipleship in the New Age – Volume 1 - - - - 7
The Heart and Discipleship in the New Age – Volume 2 - - - -11
The Heart and Education in the New Age - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 16
The Heart and Esoteric Astrology - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -16
The Heart and Esoteric Healing - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 19
The Heart and Esoteric Psychology, Volume 1 - - - - - - - - - - -21
The Heart and Esoteric Psychology, Volume 2 - - - - - - - - - - -22
The Heart and the Externalisation of the Hierarchy - - - - - - - -24
A Suggested Meditation - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -25
The Heart and Glamour: a World Problem - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 26
The Heart and Initiation, Human and Solar - - - - - - - - - - - - - -27
The Heart from Intellect to Intuition - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 27
The Heart and Letters on Occult Meditation - - - - - - - - - - - - - 28
The Heart and the Light of the Soul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 28
The Heart and the Problems of Humanity - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -30
The Heart and the Rays and Initiations - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -30
The Heart and the Reappearance of the Christ - - - - - - - - - - - 32
The Heart and Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle - - - - - - - - - 33
The Heart and a Treatise on Cosmic Fire - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 34
The Heart and the Treatise on White Magic - - - - - - - - - - - - - -37

SOME QUALITIES OF THE HEART - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 37

Quality 1 - ENERGY
Quality 2 – COURAGE & FEARLESSNESS
Quality 3 – BENEVOLENCE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 38
Quality 4 – SOLEMNITY
Quality 5 – PURITY
Quality 6 – LOVE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 39
Quality 7 – CREATIVENESS
Quality 8 – BEAUTY
Quality 9 – LIGHT
Quality 10 – TENSION
Quality 11 – TRANSMUTATION (of energies) - - - - - - - - - - - - - 40
Quality 12 – SILENCE
Quality 13 – PATIENCE
Quality 14 – CAUTION
Quality 15 – FIERY-HEARTEDNESS
Quality 16 – IMAGINATION
Some Conclusions - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 41

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 QUALITIES OF THE HEART

STATEMENTS ON THE HEART CENTRE - FOR PONDERING

FOREWORD

This document “Qualities of the Heart – Statements on the Heart Centre” presents a compilation of
selected quotes, taken from that part of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings, as has been given by the
Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul via His secretary, Mrs. Alice A. Bailey during the first part of the twentieth
century.

To the above compilation has been added a short summary on the same theme of The Heart, which
also includes some of the qualities as has been given by the Master Morya in His books of the Agni
Yoga series, via His secretary Mrs. Helena Roerich.

Many of the aspirants and disciples in the world are in the process of leading their energies and
forces upward, from the solar plexus centre area below the diaphragm to the heart and head centres
above the diaphragm. The lower area relates to the personality, while the higher area relates to the
indwelling spiritual Soul.

This document may support our efforts to raise the energies and forces up to the heart centre.
The western aspirant and disciple usually are very well trained to have his/her consciousness in the
head. But when aspirants and disciples become increasingly able to work with head and heart in
unison, then a great step forward on the spiritual Path becomes a luminous possibility.

At the same time, aspirants and disciples accustomed to live and work in the three worlds of human
endeavour (the mental, astral and etheric/physical realms) may be able to build the antahkarana or
“rainbow bridge” across the mental plane upward.

Or, in other worlds, meditation or contemplation on certain of these quotes may assist aspirants and
disciples to access the plane of buddhi, the fourth sub-plane of the cosmic physical plane, which
relates to the fourth main etheric centre, which is the heart centre – and develop their intuitive
capabilities.

May this document serve that purpose!

A student of the Ageless Wisdom Teachings

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 QUALITIES OF THE HEART

STATEMENTS ON THE HEART CENTRE - FOR PONDERING

From the point of Love within the Heart of God

Let Love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.

The heart is the centre of life.

The heart centre is the seat of life,
of the highest principle, which expresses itself through man.
It is a fact that the heart centre is still un-awakened in the majority of people.

The Heart: From Bethlehem to Calvary

The conscious evocation of the Christ Life in the human heart

and our rapid integration into the kingdom of God
are the immediate tasks ahead,
embodying our responsibility, opportunity and destiny.

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The hearts of men have never been more open to spiritual impression
than they are at this time,
and the door into the very centre of reality stands wide open.

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What the new formulation of truth will be, who can say?
But the light is slowly pouring into men's hearts and minds,
and in this lighted radiance they will vision the new truths
and arrive at a fresh enunciation of the ancient wisdom.
Through the lens of the illumined mind man will shortly see
aspects of divinity hitherto unknown.

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It is the balance of head and heart that is required,
and the intellect must find its complement and expression in and through love.
This needs a most careful re-proclaiming.
Love and sentiment and devotion are often confused with each other.
Pure love is an attribute of the soul and is all-inclusive,
and it is in pure love that our relation to God and to each other consists.

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To cooperate sanely and wisely with God's Plan
and to merge one's will in the divine Will
must call into activity not only the deepest love of one's heart,
but the keenest decisions of the mind.

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The unfolding life of living divine love is held before us in three ways,
each giving us the sequence of the revelation of Christ in the human heart.
1. There is the stage of "Christ in you, the hope of glory;" the Birth at Bethlehem.
2. There is the stage of a full-grown man in Christ;
the deeper unfoldment of Christ consciousness in the human being.
3. The stage of achievement, "Till we all come, in the unity of the faith
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.

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When the Lords of Compassion shall have spiritually civilised the Earth
and made of it a Heaven, there will be revealed to the Pilgrims the Endless Path,
which reaches to the Heart of the Universe.
Man, in at-one-ment with all the Enlightened Ones, help to fulfil
the Law of the Higher Evolution, of which Nirvana is but the beginning.

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The effect of all that is now transpiring upon Earth is
to bring to the surface that which is hidden within the human heart,
and to unveil to our eyes the new vision.
Then we can pass through the gateway of the New Age into a world
which will be characterised by newer awareness, a deeper understanding
of the vital realities, and a truer and higher standard of values.

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In the cave of the heart the divine life can be felt throbbing.

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To all will be added the ultimate revelation of the Presence of God in the human heart,
of Christ born in man, and of each human being manifesting, in truth, as a son of God.

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There is a peace that passeth understanding;
it abides in the hearts of those who live in the Eternal.

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God impresses upon the hearts of men certain great truths,
which are vital to their salvation.
One of these truths is that the love of God is eternal,
and that His love for His people has been steadfast and unalterable.

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"Whenever there is a withering of the law...
and an uprising of lawlessness on all sides,
then I manifest Myself”.

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Through the individual Christ, hidden in every human heart, He must be brought to birth.

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A human heart is made kind through distress and through difficulty surmounted.

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It is through the heart that we find our way to the Heart of God.
Only through love can Love be revealed.

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"Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God."

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Poverty and financial stringency may re-establish
a lost sense of values and enrich the heart with compassion.

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The Christ-life makes the steadily unfolding expression of divinity possible in the natural world.

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 It is deep within the heart of every man.
The Christ-life brings him eventually to the point where he transits out of the human kingdom
and leads him into the Kingdom of Spirit.

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The salvation of mankind has always been close to the Heart of the Father.

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The hardness of men's hearts, the weakness of their love, and their failure to see the vision,
broke the heart of the Saviour of the world –
a Saviour because He opened the door into the Kingdom.

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God is our Father, and we approach Him through Christ.
The inner hidden man of the heart, the unrealised Christ
can approach the Father.

The Heart and The Consciousness of the Atom

There, at the heart of the solar system, the sun, that larger atom, you have
the positive centre of energy, holding the planets within its sphere of influence.

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There is something, which is latent and hidden at the heart of the atom of chemistry,
within the heart of man himself, within the planet, and within the solar system.
It is that something which drives all on toward the goal, and is the force,
which is gradually bringing ultimate perfection out of temporary imperfection;
good out of seeming evil; and that, which we shall once recognise as beautiful, right, and true.

The Heart and The Destiny of the Nations

The true first ray personality who works in response to this Shamballa-influence
will have the ultimate good of the group deeply enshrined in his consciousness and heart;
he will think in terms of the whole and not in terms of the part.
The first ray person is easily strong but not so easily magnetic,
for magnetism is above all else either a heart or a solar plexus emanation.

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The heart, for some reason, is regarded as holier
and more desirable in its expression than the head.

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Through the medium of the light of wisdom shed abroad in our hearts,
through the Ageless Wisdom, we shall eventually see the Light of Life itself.

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Two groups of advanced Minds are both equally illumined
by the light of the intellect, but differ in their direction.
One group, under the divine plan, works with the form aspect entirely.
In this group the light of love and of selflessness is absent.
The other group works entirely with the soul or the consciousness aspect.
In this group the doctrine of the heart and the law of love control.
In this connection, both groups work in opposition upon the mental plane.

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 The second initiation relates the solar plexus to the heart, to humanity to the Hierarchy
and the personality and the egoic rays to the second Ray,
which is ever basically in manifestation.

The Heart and Discipleship in the New Age – Volume 1

The only essential is belief in the spiritual realities and in the essential divinity of mankind.
This belief necessarily involves a heart full of love, a mind open and illumined by right orientation
to truth and a life dedicated to service and to the alleviation of human sufferings.

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May My disciples have the opened, inner ear and true humility of heart.

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At the heart of every nation lies latent the mystical soul and eventually
- after dire struggle and distress - all will be well.

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The submergence of personal interests in the good of the family
or in that of another person is often to be found,
for the beauty of the human heart has manifested itself down the ages.
To find such an attitude in a group of people - and to see
such a point of view maintained with an unbroken rhythm
and demonstrating spontaneously - will be the glory of the New Age.

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At the exact hour of the Full Moon, you can always - silently and interiorly –
lift up your heart and eyes to the Eternal.
But at some hour during the preceding twelve hours, you can make your approach.
When you do so rightly, you will find me waiting.
Go to your work with clear vision, a loving heart and an understanding love.
Much can then be accomplished.

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“Quick response to real need”.
I refer not here to a solar plexus reaction but to heart knowledge.
Ponder on this distinction.

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The prayer of the personality to the soul:
"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be always acceptable in Thy sight, Oh Soul, my Lord and my Redeemer."

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The entire meditation (in its two parts) involves the linking up of heart and head,
of the mystic and the occult approach, and also of feeling and knowledge.
Only from the heart centre can stream, in reality,
those lines of energy, which link and bind together.

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In the New Age, the keynote of the aspirant's progress will be love of humanity;
this will indicate the awakening of the heart centre.
So far, the keynote has been selfless service, which brought the heart centre into activity.
It is love of humanity, which is the major lack in the character of many disciples today.
The transcending of those limits constitutes their main problem at this time.
Ponder deeply on the above statements, for they embody the task ahead;

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 also as you seek to fit yourselves for the first or the second initiation.

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The thymus gland is connected with the heart centre;
the pancreas gland with the solar plexus centre.
The heart centre is between the shoulder blades - not in the physical heart.

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Chelaship (discipleship) involves responsibility, developed through suffering.

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Develop yourself into still greater usefulness through the awakening of the heart centre
and a renewed interest in the Way of the Heart.

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When the heart is full of love and the head is full of wisdom,
nothing then is ever done that can cause distress to others in the long run.
A heart full of love and that loving understanding which is the truest wisdom.
The man who is fearless, wise and loving can do anything
and the effects will be harmless and good producing.

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Preserve your mental integrity and be not influenced
by those whose hearts are bitter or whose tongues are cruel.
Life is initiation and for this you are prepared.
The crises in the life of the soul work out along certain lines as major initiations.
I am giving you a hint; for this too you are being prepared.
I stand behind you with understanding and with strength.
I give you My blessing, My brother.

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“Out of the lotus in the heart springs the flower of love.
Its earliest indication, wisdom is”.

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"Joy settles as a bird within the heart but has winged its way
from the secret place within the head.
I am that bird of joy; therefore, with joy I serve."

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“The Love of the Soul wells up within my heart;
and understanding, pity, love and self-forgetfulness arise.
I carry love to all I meet. I meet men's love with love
and remember not myself”.

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Seek not the reason yet for all that does appear, but learn to love and do.
Work from the heart and not from the head and balance your unfoldment.
With heart and head aligned, the healing force can flow with power to others.

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May the clarity of light guide your heart, your thoughts, and aspiration.

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"I stand within the love of God, and as that love streams through
and from the heart - I magnetise the ones I seek to aid."

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Hold yourself steadily in the light;
constantly lift up your heart unto the Lord of your life;
constitute yourself a channel of light and love to your co-disciples.
This I ask of you.

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“The nightingale is the bird, who sings close to the Heart of God”.

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The heart of humanity is now coming to life and that in itself constitutes a problem.
The relation of the trained mind and the awakened heart constitute the true burning ground.

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Cultivate that understanding heart, which will make you more aware of others than of yourself.
A hard saying and one not easy to express in thought and life!

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In the secret place within the heart, let the personal self meet the real Self face to face;
let it there dedicate itself to the service of the soul with deep consecration, devoted love
and fluidic intent - the willingness to do what the soul requires, recognised by you as duty.

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The Path of Light streams clear ahead. My plea goes forth to reach the hearts of men.
I seek, I cry to serve your need. Give Me your hand and tread the Path with Me.

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"The key is found; and with the pressure of the hands in service of the light,
and with a beating heart of love, the key is turned. The door swings open wide.
With hasty feet the one who hastens towards the light enters the door and waits.
He holds the door ajar for those who follow after. He thus, in action, waits.
A voice sounds forth: My brother, close the door, for each must turn the key
with his own hand, and each must enter through that door alone”.

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“There is a peace which passeth understanding;
it abides in the hearts of those who live in the Eternal”.

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I urge you from My heart to look away from yourself;
Do not dwell with such constancy upon your failures.
Recognise failure with a face lifted to the light;
With a smile upon your lips, turn your back upon failure
and go with steadfastness forward.

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"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
This is a basic Law in Nature;
the heart is the custodian of the power of the imagination;
it brings about the imposition of mental control upon the personality.

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Service: “I tread the lighted Way into the hearts of men.
I serve my brother and his need. Those whom I, the little self, love not,
I serve with joy because I love to serve”.

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 Is your reaction to people in general kindly or critical?
Are you prone to see the good and ignore the weaknesses and errors?
Is there an immediate interest in you caused by some wrong action or mistake,
or do you lock up your knowledge of peoples' faults in the secret of your heart,
loving your brother more because of his frailty and refusing to criticise him even to yourself?
I commend these questions to you and to all in My group of disciples

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Withdraw your consciousness from the physical brain to the astral body.
Withdraw from the astral body to the mind as being an integrated personality.
Withdraw from the integrated personality to the soul.
See the thread of golden Light, which connects these three bodies;
keeping your consciousness steadily at the Ajna centre between the eyebrows.
This dual thread, like two golden cables intertwined, passes from the heart and head;
This thread connects you, as a personality, with the soul.
You are now face to face with your own soul, standing before the Angel of the Presence;
That Angel, Who is yourself.
Your personal self and the Angel, the divine Self, are one essential Reality.
You are, therefore, a reflection of the Trinity of Deity.
There is in reality no separation or duality, no I, or Thou,
but simply a God in manifestation, Whose nature is Light.

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"The heart knoweth its own development. The onlooker tastes the fruit thereof."
This thought, of ancient import, may well mean much to you. Ponder on it.

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“Let the radiance of the heart lead thee to peace.
Desire earnestly the loving, radiant heart,
which showers peace and healing strength on others”.

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Serve all you meet, knowing that "each heart hides its own bitterness."

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“Let silence reign as the result of a heart free from self-questioning,
and not the result of the shutting of a door”.

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“I am the lotus of the heart. The perfume of the heart
must fill the air around me and rest my fellowmen”.

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“Each Pilgrim on the Road must carry with him what he needs:
a pot of fire, to warm his fellowmen; a lamp, to cast its rays upon his heart
and show his fellowmen the nature of his hidden life; a purse of gold,
which he scatters not upon the Road, but shares with others; a sealed vase,
wherein he carries all his aspiration to cast before the feet of Him Who waits
to greet him at the gate - a sealed vase”.

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“The Pilgrim, as he walks upon the Road, must have the open ear,
the giving hand, the silent tongue, the chastened heart, the golden voice,
the rapid foot, and the open eye which sees the light.
He knows he travels not alone”.

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 A clear, focussed mind, a loving heart, and a cultivated simplicity of understanding
of yourself, of life and of others is your great need just now.

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Build with care the antahkarana, from the heart, via the head to the soul.

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In stage six of discipleship, the chela can get his Master's ear at any time.
He is in close touch always. Having taken immediate initiation,
The chela is being given specialised work to do in collaboration with his Master.
The chela at this stage is described as "one within his Master's heart."

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The magnetic pull of the positive centre at the heart of the group
means the magnetic pull of the Master.
At the centre of the Ashram stands ever the Master,
or else an initiate or a world disciple.

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Only disciples close to the Master's Heart (technically understood)
and, therefore, consciously aware of His aura have the right (privilege?)
to direct force in specific directions. When their status is not that,
their task is to act as channels for the general distribution of energy.

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The Heart of the Sun is the organ of this second ray solar system,
and the diastole and systole system of evolution,
which is found in the universal life-process.

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The Master is the heart of His group and the Christ is the heart of the Hierarchy.
The closer one gets to realisation, the clearer becomes the concept
that the point at the centre and the periphery are one.

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The "Master's Heart" is a technical term, indicating the sources of life
and many analogous interpretations. There is now and after a certain major initiation,
a direct line of energy or of life - recognised and utilised - between the disciple and
1. The disciple's heart centre.
2. The heart centre in the head.
3. The egoic lotus, until the fourth initiation the heart centre of the monadic life.
4. The Master at the centre of His group.
5. The Christ, the heart centre of the Hierarchy.
6. The life of the Monad which begins to make itself felt at the third initiation.
7. The Lord of Life Himself, the heart centre of Shamballa.
8. The line of relationship extends to the Life of Earth's "alter ego;" planet Venus.
9. From Venus to Jupiter and thence to the solar Lord Himself.
10. From the solar Lord to a point in the Sun, Sirius;
a stage through the door of Nirvana, beginning the Path of the Higher Evolution.

The Heart and Discipleship in the New Age – Volume 2

Pure reason is of the heart.

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I (Master DK) ask for your wholehearted cooperation in the work of world-salvage.

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The tests of discipleship are severe, and only the pure heart,
true love and mental activity can serve to pull the disciple through them,
and where there is also a determined orientation towards the light.

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There is no separation but only identification with the heart of all love;
the more you love the more love can reach out through you to others.
The chains of love unite the world of men and the world of forms
and they constitute the great chain of Hierarchy.

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With humility in your hearts, persistence in your efforts and love to all men,
pass on your way.

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"Only from the heart centre can stream, in reality,
those lines of energy which link and bind together.
linking the heart centre to the head centre through the medium
of the heart centre which is found within the head centre.
This heart centre, when adequately radiatory and magnetic
will relate you afresh to each other and to all the world.
This - when connected by an act of the spiritual will to the solar plexus centre
will help to produce that telepathic interplay which is so much to be desired
and so constructively useful to the spiritual Hierarchy, provided it is established
within a group of pledged disciples, dedicated to the service of humanity.

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Say with HEARTFELT INTENT (two significant words) the next invocation:

“The sons of men are one and I am one with them.

I seek to love, not hate;
I seek to serve and not exact due service;
I seek to heal, not hurt.

Let pain bring due reward of light and love.

Let the soul control the outer form and life and all events,
And bring to light the love which underlies the happenings of the time.

Let vision come and insight.

Let the future stand revealed.
Let inner union demonstrate and outer cleavages be gone.
Let love prevail.
Let all men love”.

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In the triple transference of the lower energies to the solar plexus, to the heart
and finally to the head, we have a symbolic presentation within the life experience
of the disciple of the interrelation and eventual transference of energy:
* from the personality (symbolised by the solar plexus centre)
* to the soul (symbolised by the heart centre) and
* from soul to Monad (symbolised by the head centre).

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A basic need is the need for Alignment.
You need a more direct contact between heart – head - soul.

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 This is a necessary preparation for a still higher contact:
Reflect upon the antahkarana and its relation to soul-personality and the Monad.

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An ancient writing symbolically said that:
"The point of the triangle is based in the courts of Heaven (Shamballa);
from that point two streams of power pour forth into the realm of soul
and into the heart of the disciple. Thus is the Triad formed;
then are the energies related unto the world of men; thus can the will of God appear;
thus can the Great Lord Who guards the Council Chamber of this sphere of solar Life
carry His purpose to the holy groups (the Ashrams), and thence into the minds of men,
and this, because their hearts are safeguarded by the fire of love."

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The return of Christ will be expressed, in the first place,
by an upsurging of the Christ-consciousness in the hearts of men everywhere;
its first expression will be goodwill.

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The Stage of Affirmation. Say with your whole heart as a soul the following ancient mantram:

"I am a point of light within a greater Light.

I am a strand of loving energy within the stream of love divine.
I am a point of sacrificial Fire, focussed within the fiery Will of God.
And thus I stand.

I am a way by which men may achieve.

I am a source of strength, enabling them to stand.
I am a beam of light, shining upon their way.
And thus I stand.

And standing thus revolve

And tread this way the ways of men,
And know the ways of God.
And thus I stand."

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Realise the occult Law that "to those who give shall be given" so that they can give again.

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The radiation today of the Christ-spirit, actively present in the hearts of all disciples
is the one thing which can salvage mankind, enable humanity to move forward
on to the Path of Discipleship and evoke that new spirit which will build the new world.

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An integrating formula:
"I am one with my group-brothers, and all that I have is theirs.
May the love, which is in my soul, pour forth to them.
May the strength, which is in me lift and aid them.
May the thoughts which my soul creates reach and encourage them."

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"As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he".
As a result of focussed thinking "in the heart" the spiritual eye opens
and becomes the directing agent, employed consciously by the initiate
whilst doing his work under the Law of Sacrifice. What is meant by "in the heart"?
The soul is the heart of the system of the spiritual man; it is the seat of the life

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 and consciousness, which animate the personality, and it is the motivating potency
in every incarnation, according to the experience conditioning the expression
of the spiritual man in any particular rebirth.
Focus in the soul-consciousness; fuse soul and mind, that at-one-ment takes place
and a man can then begin to think "in his heart."
Then also the "eye of the soul" opens and energy from soul levels pours into "the third eye."
The personality expresses itself as the soul and will, purpose and love begin to control.

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"My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure"

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The light within the human heart
"The light that shines within the heart of man discovers light
and, in these blended lights, comes revelation.
The light that shines within the sacred Hierarchy of Souls discovers these two lights revealed
and they reveal a third - the revelation of the higher states of Being
which hide and veil a Light, which is not of planetary creation.
These are four lights, which reveal a Light Supreme, a Light,
which comes from distances beyond the ken of man.
Yet all these lights have been revealed because a light has burned
- immovable, secure - within the human heart."

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The "Light of Love" flows from the Heart of God (the Heart of the Sun).
The initiate realises a threefold "lighted relation":
* a triangle of light of the [three aspects of the] Spiritual Triad;
* a light which is streaming forth from the "Heart of the Sun" and
* a steadily burning light glowing from the cosmic physical plane.
He blends with these lights the triple light of the Spiritual Triad.
The union of all these lights reveals a light and lights extra-planetary.

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Destroy opposition; burn down barriers (in yourself or presented by others),
and also blaze a trail straight from your heart into the heart of others....

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The massed energies of the solar plexus (the great clearing house) and the heart and throat
will be carried - at the third initiation - to the ajna centre,
and the complete racial "transfiguration" will take place.
The process will then be carried forward and - at the fourth initiation - the energies
will then be centralised in the head centre.

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The activity of the heart centre never demonstrates in connection with individuals.
This is a basic fact. What devastates most disciples is the solar plexus ability
(when purified and consecrated) to identify itself with individuals.
The heart centre cannot react, except under group impetus,
group happiness or unhappiness, and other group relations.
This may give you a needed hint.

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The wisdom of the eye is yours. Let the radiation of your heart follow the eye's direction.
This "eye of direction" relates primarily to the long-distance view the soul.

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The fourth initiation, the Crucifixion, has to be faced clear-eyed,

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 free from glamour, with a heart full of love and a mind released from all criticism.
For this, the second initiation prepares the disciple.

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Let not your heart always determine the issues at stake,
but call in the balancing head increasingly.
The so-called immediate thing, which the student wants
is not always the wise thing or that which will help him the most.

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I, the disciple, turn and pass back - out of the light and warmth –
into the world of gloom and mist and, as I turn, I hear a voice crying aloud:
"Well done. Pass through the gloom; enter the mist; dry up the rain and tears
and find yourself upon the other side, and near My heart."

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Detachment, based on a phase of spiritual dissatisfaction engenders also humility of heart.
Humility of the head is largely theoretical and imposed;
Humility of heart is practical and inherently spontaneous.
I would have you ponder on these distinctions for you will learn much thereby.

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The heart centre is the repository of twelve forces or energies;
seek to develop them by pondering upon the twelve virtues
through which these energies express themselves;
take one force or energy each month for a year.

a. Group love, embracing individuals.

b. Humility, signifying your personality attitude.

c. Service, indicating your soul's preoccupation.

d. Patience, signifying the embryonic immortality and persistence, which is a soul-

characteristic.

e. Life, or expressed activity, which is the manifestation of love because it is essential

dualism.

f. Tolerance, which is the first expression of buddhic understanding.

g. Identification with others, which is embryonic fusion, carried eventually to synthesis when
the head centre is developed.

h. Compassion, which is essentially the right use of the pairs of opposites.

i. Sympathy, which is the consequence of knowledge and of the unfoldment of the knowledge
petals. Such energy then is in touch with the heart centre.

j. Wisdom, which is the fruit of love and indicates the awakening of the love petals of the
egoic lotus.

k. Sacrifice, which is the giving of the heart's blood or life for others.

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To understand impels the heart detached.
And with that understanding there awakes the will to dissipate the pain

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 of those who tread the darker ways of Earth.
On these you do not walk, yet know and see.

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Have you the inner grace of heart to admit error and weakness?
Or to say that you made a mistake in technique or method or approach,
in judgment or in speech - should the need arise to heal a breach,
and in the interests of the work? That has never come easily to many.
My brother, this is a thing, too many aspirants and disciples seldom do.

The Heart and Education in the New Age

The Principles of Life and Consciousness

The life-principle - or the flow of divine energy through all forms - is temporarily seated in the heart.
The consciousness-principle, the soul of all things, is located (temporarily as far as the form-nature
of a particular human unit is concerned) within the brain.
The life-principle controls the mechanism through the medium of the blood stream, for "the blood
is the life," and uses the heart as its central organ;
The consciousness-principle uses the nervous system as its instrument, with the intricate extensions
of the organ of sensitivity, or the spinal column.

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The antahkarana is interwoven with the life-thread or the sutratma,
which emerges from the heart centre.
The life thread, the silver cord or the sutratma, is one of the two threads,
which constitute the antahkarana.
The life-thread, is anchored in the heart; the other thread, principle of consciousness,
is anchored in the head.
The soul-energy, linked with the other threads, has its anchor in the heart.
The triple threads created by man are anchored in the solar plexus - head – heart centres.

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The life thread comes directly from the monad or the ONE.
This thread is anchored in the heart during incarnation.
There is the seat of life.

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The creative thread of activity is initiated and constructed by the human being.
This creative thread itself is triple in nature.

The Heart and Esoteric Astrology

Creative Hierarchy no. 1 (of twelve Creative Hierarchies on Earth,

of which Humanity is Creative Hierarchy no. 4). This first great Hierarchy
is emanated from the Heart of the central Spiritual Sun. It is the Son of God Himself,
the First Born in a cosmic sense, even as the Christ was the "Eldest in a vast family of brothers;"
the "first flower on the human plant." The symbol of this Hierarchy is the Golden Lotus
with its twelve petals folded. Their name: Divine Flames. Divine Lives.

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Creative Hierarchy no. 2 is closely allied with the Great Bear.
They entered within the Sacred Heart; they are the prototypes of the Monads.
They are the source of monadic life, but They are not the Monads;
They are far higher. Their name: Divine Builders conferring Soul.

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The planetary logoic heart is also a twelve-petalled lotus.

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The manifested solar system is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus,
and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature.
We have, therefore, a direct stream of energy flowing through:
a. The logoic twelve-petalled egoic lotus, cosmic mental plane.
b. The solar twelve-petalled lotus.
c. The planetary logoic heart, also a twelve-petalled lotus.
d. The twelve-petalled human egoic lotus on the mental plane.
e. The twelve-petalled heart centre in a human being.

Or, to word it otherwise, energy flows direct from:

a. The solar Logos, via three great cosmic centres:
1. The central spiritual Sun.
2. The heart of the Sun.
3. The physical Sun.
b. The heart centre of the planetary Logos on our buddhic plane.
c. The egoic lotus of a human being on the mental plane (a correspondence to the “heart of the Sun”.
The monadic point is a reflection in the human system of the "central spiritual Sun."
d. The heart centre of a man on the etheric sub-plane of the physical plane; a correspondence to the
physical Sun.

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Gemini – Sagittarius – Capricorn
The sign Gemini begins potently to play its part in the life of the disciples,
with Sagittarius gradually "piercing the heart with his arrows, and then
upon the flight of the arrow, the man reaches Capricorn."
Then comes the Crisis of Renunciation.

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Mind and heart must be coordinated and brought into play, when the great reversal takes place.

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The Heart of the Sun relates to Soul-Consciousness and to the Fixed Cross of Discipleship.
The Central spiritual Sun relates to Life and to the Influencing Cardinal Cross (of the initiate).

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Venus is the union of heart and mind.

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The king of beasts (the human being in Leo) is blinded and killed by the piercing of his eye
and of his heart by the long horn of the unicorn (the human initiate in Capricorn).

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Capricorn symbolically rules the knees, for only when the Capricornian subject learns to kneel
in all humility and with his knees upon the rocky mountaintop to offer his heart and life to the soul
and to human service, can he be permitted to pass through the Door of initiation and be entrusted
with the secrets of life. Only on his knees can he go through that Door.

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The three aspects of the Sun bringing consciousness:
1. The physical Sun - - - - - - -the anima mundi; the animal soul - - - - - - -Multiplicity.
2. The heart of the Sun - - - -the human soul and the divine ego - - - - - - Duality.
3. The central, spiritual Sun - divine consciousness. Awareness of God - Unity.

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The "heart of the Sun" employs Neptune as its agent.
The central, spiritual Sun pours its influences through Uranus.

Upon the Fixed Cross (Taurus – Leo – Scorpio – Aquarius) the "heart of the Sun"
is called into activity and pours its energies through Neptune upon man
stimulating heart, throat and ajna centres.
Upon the Cardinal Cross (Aries – Cancer – Libra – Capricorn) the central, spiritual Sun
is called into play, and Uranus is the distributing agency and the head centre
becomes the centre in the initiate's body through which direction and control come.

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The three influences of Sirius are focussed in Regulus;
This star is frequently called "the heart of the Lion."

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Solar-systemic and human relations of the Heart:
Head centre - - - - - - - - - Heart centre - - - - - -Base of Spine centre
Central spiritual Sun - - - Heart of the Sun - - - Physical Sun.
Sirius - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mercury - - - - - - - - -Saturn.
The Sun - - - - - - - - - - - - Uranus - - - - - - - - - Neptune.
[Note of the composer: do Uranus and Neptune need to change their positions here? The planetary
rulers of Leo are (1) the Sun; (2) the Sun veiling Neptune and (3) the Sun veiling Uranus. This also
relates to (1) the physical Sun, the “heart of the Sun” and (3) the central spiritual Sun].

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Relations of the “heart of the Sun”:
1. Cancer - - - - physical Sun - - - - - - - - 3rd aspect - - - -intelligent activity of the Whole.
2. Gemini - - - - heart of the Sun - - - - - - 2nd aspect - - - love of the Whole.
3. Aquarius - - - central spiritual Sun - - - 1st aspect - - - -the will of the Whole.

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The planet Vulcan reveals that, which is deeply hidden
and brings it up into the light. Esoterically it is the heart of the Sun.

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Transmitting cosmic energies via the line of the heart to the human centres:
The Great Bear - - - - - - - The Pleiades - - - - - - - - - Sirius
Transmit energy via
Leo - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Capricorn - - - - - - - - - - - -Pisces
These transmit energy via
Saturn - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mercury - - - - - - - - - - - - -Uranus
Reaching the following centres
Planetary head centre - - - Planetary ajna centre - - - Planetary heart centre
From thence to
Disciple's head centre - - - Disciple's ajna centre - - - -Disciple's heart centre
and eventually control
The base of the spine - - - The throat centre - - - - - - - the solar plexus

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The heart must dominate the solar plexus by the withdrawing of its energies to the heart.

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Relations of the Hierarchy (Planetary Heart Centre):
1. Shamballa - - - Power. Purpose - - - Planetary head centre - - - Directing Will
2. Hierarchy - - - -Love. Wisdom - - - - -Planetary heart centre - - - Directed Love
3. Humanity - - - - Intelligence - - - - - - -Planetary ajna centre - - - -Directed Mind

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"[Pluto] the arrow of God pierces the heart and death takes place."
Death is definitely brought about by the soul.
It is the soul, which shoots the arrow of death.
(The upward pointing arrow is the astrological symbol of Pluto.)

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In the case of average man, the Heart Centre is governed by the second ray
and by the Sun as the orthodox or exoteric planet.
In the case of the disciple or initiate, the Heart Centre is governed by the second ray
and by Jupiter as the esoteric ruler.

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"All beauty, all goodness, all that makes for the eradication of sorrow and ignorance
upon the Earth must be devoted to the Great Consummation.
Then when the Lords of Compassion shall have spiritually civilised the Earth
and made of it a Heaven, there shall be revealed to the Pilgrims the Endless Path,
which reaches to the Heart of the Universe. Man, then no longer man, will transcend nature
and impersonally, yet consciously, in at-one-ment with all Enlightened Ones, help to fulfil
the Law of the Higher Evolution, of which Nirvana is but the beginning," (Tibetan Yoga)

*******
"The Pleiades are to the solar system the source of electrical energy
and, just as our sun is the embodiment of the heart or love aspect of the Logos
(Who is Himself the heart of the One about Whom Naught may be Said),
so the Pleiades are the feminine opposite of Brahma" (the third aspect).

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The Trinity is symbolised by the sun:
a. The central spiritual sun - - - God the Father.
b. The heart of the sun - - - - - -God the son.
c. The physical sun - - - - - - - - God the Holy Spirit."

*******
The heart of the Sun, and its relation to the lower & higher mental bodies,
produces that peculiar manifestation, which we call the causal body.
The force, which flows from the heart of the Sun, works through
a triangle formed by the Venusian scheme, the Earth and the Sun.

The Heart and Esoteric Healing

The healer must seek to link his soul, his heart, his brain and his hands.
Thus can he pour the vital healing-force upon the patient. This is magnetic work.
The healer must seek to link his soul, his brain, his heart and auric emanation.
Thus can his presence feed the soul-life of the patient. This is the work of radiation.

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The stream of life itself, anchored in the heart, determines the vitality of the man.

*******
Heart relations (1) for all types of Spiritual People. Dominant after 1st Initiation.
Heart (Anahata) - - Thymus gland - - Heart; Circulatory system; Blood; Vagus nerve - - Life force;
Group consciousness - - Love petals - - Higher mental; Causal body.

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The Heart Centre is related to the 2 Ray, to Love – Wisdom, to Group-love and originates
in the Buddhic or fourth sub-plane of the cosmic physical plane of our solar system.
The Heart Centre becomes the agent for spiritual love, Buddhi.

*******
Heart relations (2):
Astral force - - - Centre - - - Bad Aspect - - - Disease - - - - - - - - - Good Aspect
Second ray - - - Heart - - - - Self-love - - - - - Heart trouble - - - - - -Soul Love.
Love –Wisdom - - - - - - - - - Personality - - - Stomach trouble - - - Group Love.

*******
The heart is the centre of life as the brain is the centre of consciousness.
From the heart, the blood circulates and is controlled.
Thus these three great systems are related.

*******
I should say that a loving heart is one of the most potent of all the energies employed.
The love aspect shows itself through the heart, the circulatory system and the nervous system.
This is in many ways most important for you to understand.

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A Healing group Mantram
"With purity of motive, inspired by a loving heart,
we offer ourselves for this work of healing.
This offer we make as a group
and to the one we seek to heal."

*******
The two major diseases for the intelligentsia and disciples
are Heart complaints and Nervous diseases.

*******
The problems connected with the respiratory or breathing system
are all related to the heart, and therefore concerned with establishing
of a right rhythm and a right contact with the environment.

*******
The heart centre is located between the shoulder blades.
The heart centre corresponds to the "heart of the Sun”
and therefore to the spiritual source of light and love.
It comes into functioning activity after the second initiation.

*******
The ability to think in the heart is the result of the process of transmuting desire into love
during the task of elevating the forces of the solar plexus into the heart centre.
Heart-thinking is also one of the indications that the higher aspect of the heart centre,
the 12-petalled lotus at the centre of the 1000-petalled lotus, has reached a point of real activity.

*******
The heart centre becomes essentially related to the personality
when the process of alignment with the soul is being mastered.

*******
The heart centre in the head is beginning to unfold as a result
of the growing activity of the heart centre up the spine.

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 Just as the life-principle is "seated in the heart,"
so the will-to-be is seated in the base of the spine.

*******
Heart disease is also a disease of stimulation, affecting very largely
the advanced types of humanity who - through interest in business and leadership –
often sacrifice their lives and pay the penalty of misused and over-concentrated energy
by developing various forms of acute heart-trouble.
Disciples and initiates are prone also to suffer from this disease,
owing to the awakening into violent activity of the heart centre.

*******
In the heart centre and the physical heart, the life-principle (the Spirit aspect) is located.
Life and Spirit are one.
In the head centre and the brain, the consciousness-principle (the Soul aspect) is located.
In the heart is focussed the life of the soul in form.
The soul, seated in the heart, is the life-principle, the principle of self-determination.

*******
The life-force works through the heart, utilising the blood-stream;
the consciousness aspect works through the brain, using the nervous system.

The Heart and Esoteric Psychology, Volume 1

Certain correspondences of the heart are of interest:

The vegetable or plant-kingdom - the Heart - the heart centre - Thymus - Lungs - the throat centre.

*******
The relation of Ray two to the Heart centre in the average aspirant might be classified as follows:
The fourth centre - - the Heart centre - - Ray of Love-Wisdom - - Second Ray.

*******
There is today, on a wide scale, a true "lifting up of the heart unto the Lord," and a steady turning
of the eyes towards the world of spiritual values. Hence the present upheaval.

*******
Domestic animals constitute the heart centre in the life of the Entity Who ensouls the animal kingdom.

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A Key to the Second Ray of Love – Wisdom:
"Let all the life be drawn to the Centre, and enter thus into the Heart of Love Divine.
Then from that point of sentient Life, let the Soul realise the consciousness of God.
Let the word go forth, reverberating through the silence: 'Naught is but Me!',

*******
Relations of Ray II: Love-Wisdom
Planet - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Jupiter.
Day - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Thursday.
Exoteric Colour - - - - - - - - - -Indigo with a tinge of purple.
Esoteric Colour - - - - - - - - - -Light blue.
Human Principle - - - - - - - - -The auric envelope.
Divine Principle - - - - - - - - - -Love.
Element - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Ether. "It is spoken." The Word.
Instrument of Sensation - - - Ears. Speech. The Word.
Bodily location - - - - - - - - - -As the life-principle in the heart.
Plane - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Monadic.

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 Sense - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hearing.

The Heart and Esoteric Psychology, Volume 2

After the third initiation, the whole personality, composed of the three aspects,
becomes sensitive to the energy of pure electric fire or life, as it pours through
the "closed bud at the heart of the egoic lotus."

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The "Jewel in the Lotus" is at the heart of the "flower of the soul".

*******
Identification with Ray Two, when the third initiation takes place:
"The Angel of the Presence draws the wanderer to him.
Love divine attracts the seeker on the Way. The point of merging is achieved.
Mouth to mouth, the breath is drawn forth, and the breath is drawn in.
Heart to heart, the beating of these twain is merged in one.
Foot to foot, the strength is passed from the greater to the less,
and thus the Way is trodden.
Force inspires the Word, the Breath. Love inspires the heart, the life.
Activity controls the treading of the Way. These three produce the merging.
All then is lost and gained.
The word goes forth: “I tread the Way of Love. I love the Plan.
Unto that Plan, I surrender all I have. Unto the Whole, I give my heart's deep love.
I serve the Plan; I serve the Whole with love and understanding."

*******
On the Path of Return and in connection with the process of detachment, which marks the progress of
the soul towards release and the ending of the period of appropriation, certain passages give clearly
the intended technique. The technique for Ray Two states:
"Let all the life be drawn to the Centre, and enter thus into the heart of Love Divine.
Then from that point of sentient Life, let the soul realise the consciousness of God.
Let the word go forth, reverberating through the silence: 'Naught is but Me!"

*******
The Law of Service is the expression of the energy of a great Life,
Who, in cooperation with Him "in Whom we live and move and have our being",
is subjecting humanity to certain streams of energy which may do three things:

*******
1. Awaken the heart centre in all aspirants and disciples.
2. Enable emotionally polarised humanity to focus intelligently in the mind.
3. Transfer the energy of the solar plexus into the heart.

*******
This unfolding of what we might call "the consciousness of the heart"
or the development of true feeling is the first step towards group-awareness.

*******
“The Law of Love rejects the undesirable in order to find that which the heart craves,
and thus leads the weary pilgrim from one rejection to another, until with unerring choice
he makes the Great Decision." This is quoted from the Old Commentary.

*******
Service is the mode, par excellence, for awakening the heart centre,
and obedience is equally potent in evoking the response of the two head centres

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 to the impact of soul- force, and unifying them into one field of soul-recognition.
The urge to serve is a basic urge of the soul in man.
Serve and obey - are the watchwords of the disciple's life.

*******
These are the three major centres for the advanced man:
1. The head centre - - - Monad - - - - - - Life - - - - - - - - - - - -First aspect.
2. The heart centre - - - Soul - - - - - - - -Consciousness - - - Second aspect.
3. The ajna centre - - - -Personality - - - Substance - - - - - - -Third aspect.

*******
When head and heart then link up, then, the spiritual man appears in fuller expression.

*******
Intuition distinguishes the soul-nature and works through the mind, the heart centre
and the head centre. From these three major points the soul may govern the personality.

*******
When the heart of the lotus, "the jewel in the lotus" becomes actively alive,
Then the initiate has reached the period of the final stages upon the Path.

*******
The occult Hierarchy is the heart and mind of the world of souls.

*******
There are two reasons for the present period of excessive difficulty in the world:
1.The thread of consciousness is anchored near the pineal gland.
The thread of life is anchored in the heart.
The turning of the forces below the diaphragm into the heart and the head brings two major
streams of energy (from the Monad - soul body - heart centre, and from the soul to the
highest head centre) to the attention of the mystic. He becomes aware of the wide field of
consciousness and of the extension of its capacity.

2. The inflow of planetary and solar potencies, via the head centre to the heart and from
thence to the other centres. This inflow produces stimulation, the revelation of good and evil
or the dual worlds of personality expression and of soul-expression and thus the existence of
duality, which when the great opposites (soul and personality) are blended, will produce the
at-one-ment.

*******
The rapid awakening of the heart centre is responsible for many forms of heart trouble
and for the various difficulties connected with the autonomic nervous system,
particularly in relation to the vagus nerve.

*******
At this time, potent forces are pouring in the great stars Betelgeuse and Sirius.
To these two influences, the senior disciples of the New Group of World Servers
definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the heart centre (Betelgeuse)
and the head centre (Sirius). The secondary effect of these energies is upon
the mineral kingdom, particularly upon gold, and that enigma, money.

*******
The emphasis is laid upon the heart centre and upon the necessity to hold the forces there
(symbolised by the clasped hands resting upon the heart) because the heart is the centre
of loving, giving energy, and the distributor of life.

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 "I know, Oh Lord of Life and Love, about the need.
Touch my heart anew with love that I too may love and give."

The Heart and the Externalisation of the Hierarchy

One practical thing also I will ask of you. Will you say, each night and morning,
with all your heart's desire and with the attention of your mind the following words.
Their united saying will set up a rhythm and a momentum of great potency.

*******
“Let the Forces of Light bring illumination to mankind.
Let the Spirit of Peace be spread abroad.
May men of goodwill everywhere meet in a spirit of cooperation.
May forgiveness on the part of all men be the keynote at this time.
Let power attend the efforts of the Great Ones.
So let it be, and help us to do our part”.

*******
The most powerful factor in the control of speech is a loving heart.
The silence of a loving heart should be our keynote for the coming year.

*******
The love-force is focussed through the two great spiritual Lords of the Hierarchy,
the Buddha and the Christ are both embodiments of the heart centre of the planetary Logos,
for the Buddha represents the twelve-petalled lotus in the head,
of which the Christ represents the twelve-petalled lotus of the heart centre.
This is a fact seldom grasped.

*******
The Heart Centre relates to the Spiritual Hierarchy - - - to the Kingdom of Souls
- - - to the 2nd Ray - - - to Love and to the Quality of Giving.

*******
The plans of the planetary Logos of the Earth upon the Solar Systemic Path
- esoterically – concerns the Way towards the Heart of the Sun.

*******
THE HIERARCHY represents the energy of Love-Wisdom,
the Planetary Heart Centre and the qualities of Unity and At-one-ment.
Ruling this Spiritual Hierarchy is Group-Consciousness, The Christ; The World Saviour

*******
Repeat in connection with the Great Invocation the words:
“We know, O Lord of Life and Love, about the need;
Touch our hearts anew with love, that we too may love and give”.

*******
This alternative invocation might, however, be suggested and found useful:
"O Lord of Light and Love, come forth and rule the world.
May the Prince of Peace appear and end the warring of the nations.
May the reign of Light and Love and Justice be begun.
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with us."

*******
Christ knows that within each human heart is found that,
which responds instinctively to God, and that the hope

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 of ultimate glory lies hid in the Christ-consciousness.

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The heart of the universe is unalterable compassion - and man is not alone…

*******
The Heart of God - impelled by the law of compassion - sends forth a Teacher,
a World Saviour, an Illuminator, an Avatar. He gives the message, which will heal,
which will indicate the next step to be taken by the human race, which will illumine
a dark world-problem and give man an expression of a hitherto unrealised aspect of divinity.
Upon this fact of the continuity of revelation and the sequence of this progressive manifestation
of the divine nature is based the doctrine of Avatars, of divine Messengers, divine Appearances,
and inspired Prophets - to all these, history unmistakably testifies.
This divine spirit in humanity must ever, and most surely does, respond to the divine Appearance.

*******
Transmitting Avatars are manifestations of divinity; They appear when humanity needs
the expression of a new truth or the expansion of an old one for higher progress
on the evolutionary ladder. These Avatars issue forth in response to demand.
They are concerned with the subjective unfoldment of consciousness of humanity.
Of these Avatars the Buddha and the Christ are outstanding examples.
They were far greater and more important than only human-divine Avatars.
They can act as Transmitters of certain cosmic principles which - focussed in Them
in an extra-planetary sense - could stimulate the hidden and latent corresponding principle
in humanity. They transmitted and brought something from outside the planetary life –
from the very Heart of God to the heart of man. The Buddha stimulated the light in the world
in all forms. He served the soul of man. The Christ transmitted to humanity an aspect and
a potency of the nature of God Himself - the Love-principle of the Deity.
The Buddha demonstrated in His life the fact of God Immanent and as God Transcendent;
the idea of God in the universe and of God in humanity evolved. The Selfhood of Deity
and the Self in the heart of individual man became a factor in human consciousness

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A Suggested Meditation

Each morning, prior to starting the day's activities, achieve an inner quiet, see the Self
as the soul - place your self at the disposition of the soul, of humanity and of your group.

1. Then say silently and with full dynamic intent:

At the centre of all love I stand; from that centre, I the soul will outward move; from that
centre, I the one who serves will work. May the love of the divine Self be shed abroad in my
heart, through my group and throughout the world.

2. Then, focussing your attention and dedication, see the group to which you belong as a
great centre of love and light, irradiating the world of men, bringing relief, light, love and
healing in increasing measure.

3. Brood then upon the plan to be carried out and upon the indicated service for the coming
day. Do this as the soul, keeping the personal lower self in a waiting attitude, like a servant
attentive for instruction.

4. Then say:

The joy of the divine Self is my strength.

The power of the spirit of man shall triumph.
The Forces of Light do control the forces of evil.

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 The work of the Great Ones must go on.
The Coming One is on the way. The Avatar approaches.
For this we must prepare.

5. Close with a minute of dynamic quiet.

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The value of the individual is surely based on the inherent divinity of the human spirit
and on the integrity of the whole. It is founded also on the knowledge, that at the very heart
of the universe is a divine Power, and on the faith that love is the very law of life itself,
in spite of all appearances and the record of the past.

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The Spirit of God works in every human heart and in all groups.
It works through the spiritual Hierarchy of the planet Earth;
it impels the Head of the Hierarchy, the Christ, to take action,
and the action He is taking will lead to His return, with His disciples.

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The divine Christ in the human heart can express itself in many different departments
of human living - in politics, in the arts, in economic expression and in true social living,
in science and in religion. It might be wise to remember that the only time it is recorded
that Christ (as an adult) visited the Temple of the Jews, He created a disturbance!
The Christ of history and the Christ in the human heart are planetary facts.

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The material goal, which all who love their fellowmen and serve the Hierarchy
must ever have in mind and at heart is the defeat of totalitarianism.
I do not say the defeat of Communism, but the defeat of that evil process
which involves the imposition of ideas.

The Heart and Glamour: a World Problem

An ancient symbolic wording:

"The disciple stands and, with his back to the glamorous fog,
looks towards the East from whence the light must stream.
Within his heart he gathers all the light available and from that point
of power between the shoulder-blades the light streams forth."

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Definitely and consciously focus the light available, from all sources, within the heart centre.
Imagine that centre between the shoulder blades as a radiant sun. In the individual,
this sun is the microcosmic correspondence to the "heart of the Sun", which is always directed
by the "central spiritual Sun," localised in the head. Get this picture clearly into your consciousness,
for it involves the dual, synthetic, activity of the head and the heart.

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You have the light of knowledge, the light of wisdom and the light of the intuition,
and these are three definite stages or aspects of the One Light. They correspond
to the physical Sun, the heart of the Sun, and the Central Spiritual Sun.
In this last sentence you have the clue and key to the relation of man to the Logos.

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The Technique of the Presence, when successfully followed, enables the intuition
to flow in and to supersede the activity of the rationalising mind and to dispel illusion,
substituting for that illusion divine ideas, formulated into concepts which we call ideals.

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 The Heart and Initiation, Human and Solar

The planetary head centre works directly through the heart and throat centres,
and thereby controls all the remaining centres. This may show the relation
of the Hierarchy to its planetary source, and also the close analogy between
the method of functioning of a Planetary Logos and of man, the microcosm.

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The World Teacher is the great Lord of Love and of Compassion, just as His predecessor,
the Buddha, was the Lord of Wisdom. Through Him flows the energy of the second aspect,
reaching Him from the heart centre of the Planetary Logos via the heart of Sanat Kumara.
He works by means of a meditation centred within the heart. He is the World Teacher, Master
of the Masters; the Instructor of the Angels. He guides the spiritual destinies of men.

*******
When the disciple stands at the Portal of Initiation and draws nearer to the Master, it is
with his feet bathed in the blood of the heart. Each step up is ever through the sacrifice
of all that the heart holds dear on any plane, and always must this sacrifice be voluntary.

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The esoteric location of the various Rods of Power is as follows:

1. The Rod of the Bodhisattva lies hidden in the "heart of the wisdom" - at Shamballa.

2. The Rod of the One Initiator is hidden in "the East" - a definite planetary location.

3. The Rod of the solar Logos is hidden in "the heart of the sun," which lies back of our
physical sun, being the environing shield and envelope.

4. The Rod of the cosmic Logos associated with our solar Logos is secreted in that central
spot in the heavens around which our solar system revolves: "the central spiritual sun."

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The first two ceremonies take place at Shamballa, the sacred point of planetary manifestation,
that central location in our physical planet, which corresponds to the heart of a human being.

The Heart from Intellect to Intuition

There is no equation between bank-accounts and goodness of heart.

Knowledge is by no means the same thing as wisdom or nobility of spirit....

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In the heart is the seat of the life-principle;
in the head is the seat of the reasoning mind
and of the spiritual consciousness.

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Through the medium of the brain the soul galvanizes the body into conscious, directed activity;
through the medium of the heart all parts of the body are pervaded by life.

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The heart's desire may for those heavenly and transcendental possessions which the soul craves.

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 The real Master, claiming our attention and subsequent obedience,
is the Master in the Heart, the soul, the indwelling Christ. This Master
first makes His presence felt through the "still small voice" of conscience,
prompting us to higher and more unselfish living.

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"When the sun of spiritual Knowledge arises in the heart's heaven
(at the centre of the being), it dispels the darkness (of ignorance,
veiling the single absolute Reality), it pervades, envelops, and illumines all."

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"A clean life, an open mind, a pure heart, an eager intellect,
an unveiled spiritual perception, a brotherliness for one's co-disciple,
a readiness to give and receive advice and instruction; a willing obedience
to the behests of Truth; a courageous endurance of personal injustice,
a brave declaration of principles, a valiant defence of those who are unjustly attacked;
a constant eye to the ideal of human progression and perfection which the secret science depicts;
these are the golden stairs up the steps of which the learner may climb
to the Temple of Divine Wisdom."

The Heart and Letters on Occult Meditation

The heart centre has twelve petals; Its colour is glowing golden.

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Only as the heart enlarges its capacity to suffer with all that breathes, to love
all that is contacted, to understand and sympathise with the least desirable
of God's creatures, can the work go forward as desired.

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"The secret of the Fire lies hid in the second letter of the sacred Word.
The mystery of life is concealed within the heart. When that lower point vibrates,
when the Sacred Triangle glows, when the point, the middle centre, and the apex likewise burn,
then the two triangles - a greater and a lesser - merge into one flame which burneth up the whole."

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The orient is to the evolving race of men what the heart is to the human body;
it is the source of light, of life, of heat, and of vitality.
The occident is to the race what the brain or mental activity is to the body;
the directing organising factor; instrument of the lower mind; accumulator of facts.

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We are so apt to look out at environing circumstances (physical, astral or mental) and to forget
that the inmost centre of the heart hides our points of contact with the Universal Logos.

The Heart and the Light of the Soul

Some correspondences: Soul - - - Son - - - Ego - - - Love - - - Heart - - - Heart of the sun.

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Ishvara is the Christ in manifestation, that Christ or soul may be contacted or known.
Ishvara is God in the heart of every child of God; He is to be found in the cave of the heart;
He is to be reached through pure love and devoted service, and when reached He will be seen,
seated upon the twelve-petalled lotus of the heart, holding in his hands the "jewel in the lotus."
Thus, the devotee finds Ishvara.

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Book 1, Sutra 24. This Ishvara is the Soul, untouched by limitation, free from karma and desire.
Here we have the picture of the spiritual man as he is in reality.

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Book 1, Sutra 39. Peace can be reached through concentration
upon that, which is dearest to the heart.

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1. Raja Yoga - - - - -the yoga of the mind or will,
2. Bhakti Yoga - - - the yoga of the heart or the devotee,
3. Karma Yoga - - - the yoga of action.

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Bhakti Yoga is the sublimation of all the lower loves and the bringing captive of all longings
and of all desire, to the one longing to know the God of love and the love of God.

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Book 3, Sutra 34. Understanding of the mind-consciousness comes
from one-pointed meditation upon the heart centre.

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Words from The Voice of the Silence:
"Let thy Soul lend its ear to every cry of pain,
like as the lotus bares its heart to drink the morning sun.
Let not the fierce sun dry one tear of pain
before thyself hast wiped it from the sufferer's eye.
But let each burning human tear drop on thy heart
and there remain; nor ever brush it off
until the pain that caused it is removed.
These tears, O thou of heart most merciful,
these are the streams that irrigate the fields
of charity immortal."

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In the process of unfoldment, heart-development precedes head-development.
The heart centre opens before the head centre.
Love must ever be developed before power can be safely used.
Therefore the light of love must be functioning
before the light of life can be consciously employed.

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As the lotus centre of the heart opens and reveals the love of God,
through meditation a synchronous unfoldment takes place within the head.
The twelve-petalled lotus in the head (the higher correspondence of the heart centre,
and intermediary between the twelve petalled egoic lotus on its own plane and the head centre)
awakens.

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The heart centre is the reflection in man of the soul.

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The awakening of the heart centre leads a man to consciousness
of the source of the heart centre within the head.
This in turn leads a man to the twelve-petalled lotus, the egoic centre
on the higher levels of the mental plane.

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 The path from the heart centre to the head, when followed,
is the reflection in the body of the building of the antahkarana on the mental plane.
"As above, SO below."

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Through concentrated meditation upon the heart, knowledge of the second aspect,
of the conscious intelligent principle, which makes a man a son of God, is gained.

The Heart and the Problems of Humanity

What really lies at the heart of the modern materialistic difficulty?

This last question can be answered in the well-known words:
"The love of money is the root of all evil". This throws us back
on the fundamental weakness of humanity - the quality of desire.
Of this, money is the result and the symbol.

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The solutions of the critical problems with which humanity is faced at the portal
of the New Age will come by advocating and developing a spirit of goodwill,
creating a right atmosphere, a sound attitude and an understanding heart.

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No man has ever been saved by theology but only by the living Christ and through
the awakened consciousness of the Christ within each human heart.

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The Eastern faiths have emphasized God immanent, deep within the human heart, "nearer than
hands or feet", the Self, the One, the Atma, smaller than the small, yet all-comprehensive.
The Western faiths have presented God transcendent, outside His universe, an Onlooker.
The fact of this innate divinity explains the urge at the heart of every man for betterment,
for experience, for progress, for increasing realization and for his steady moving on
towards the distant height which he has visioned. There is no other explanation of the capacity
of the human spirit to emerge out of darkness, out of evil and death into life and goodness.

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Brotherhood must be taught, from the angle of the divine life,
eternally present in every human heart, and eternally struggling
to express itself through individuals, nations and races.

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The heart of humanity is sound; God in His very nature and with all His power is present
in the person of every man, unrevealed as yet in the majority but eternally present and moving
towards full expression. Nothing can or ever has prevented mankind from a steady progress,
which has been from ignorance to knowledge and from darkness to light.

The Heart and the Rays and Initiations

In the heart of every man lies hid the flower of the intuition.

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There are these analogies between: Heart - - - Soul - - - Buddhi - - - Pure reason.
Initiation 4 - Renunciation - Heart centre - 4th ray - Buddhic plane – Crucifixion – Sacrifice – Harmony.

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The Head (the idea), the Heart (the ideal) and the Throat (the creative agent of the resulting idol,

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 the temporary expression of the ideal, inspired by the idea) came into being;
three great Centres emerged in time and space and - at this point in the evolutionary cycle –
we call them Shamballa, the Hierarchy and Humanity.
They correspond to the head, heart and throat centres in man.

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Within the body of the planetary Logos, humanity is slowly building that,
which they call the antahkarana; this is, in reality, the linking thread between
the head centre of Sanat Kumara and His heart centre. Ponder on these words.

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The magnetic, dynamic energy of the first aspect of divinity is found
at the heart of each of the seven Ashrams, fed from a reservoir of will-energy
found at the heart of the great Ashram itself.
The forty-two subsidiary Ashrams are energised by the reservoir of will-energy
found at the heart of each of the major Ashrams.

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The heart-doctrine governs occult development.
The heart-doctrine is based upon the universal nature of the soul,
conditioned by the Monad, the One, and involves reality;

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The mysterious area of the divine consciousness which we call the "Heart of God";
this is our planetary correspondence to the "Heart of the Sun." The heart of God,
i.e., of our planetary Logos, and the heart of the Sun, i.e., the solar Logos,
are mysteriously related, and it is through this sustained relation, that it
becomes possible for human beings to enter the Hierarchy.

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We have now reached a point, where the inevitability of Christ's return is established,
scientifically and under law. This constitutes a call, which He may not deny and one,
which He must obey. This fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict [starting a new cycle
at the year 2025] works (where the initiatory process is concerned) through what esotericists call
"the heart centre" - the focal point through which the energy of love can flow.
When the Christ founds His focal point on Earth, it will be in the nature of a tiny heart centre,
through which the love-energy of the Hierarchy can persistently flow. The harmony (produced
by the Principle of Conflict) causes an alignment, so that the love - streaming forth from the Heart
of God - enters the hearts of men; so that the Hierarchy (the heart centre where love prevails upon
our planet) is brought into relationship with humanity; so that the New Group of World Servers
(implementing the love of God and enlightened by the Mind of God) are brought also into relation
with the men and women of goodwill in all lands, whose task it is to make men's hearts responsive
to and receptive of the love of God; or receptive to the consciousness of the Christ.
This alignment is now in process of being made.

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The initiate in good standing looks into the heart of things; he has forced his way
to the very "Heart of the Sun" (using those words in a "planetary" and not in a "solar" sense).
From that vantage point, he becomes aware of the "Central Spiritual Sun" and the Way
of the Higher Evolution which leads inevitably to that assured centre of the Most High.

*******
The people hold the ultimate triumph in their hands, for the heart of the people
in all nations is basically sound, fundamentally good and God-inclined.

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The initiate is lifted up by his renunciation - which he makes through the "blood of the heart" –

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 out of the world of material phenomena, because he has freed himself from any desire for them.

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"The Heart of the Sun" reveals to the initiate the quality of the solar system.
When it is realised that our planetary purpose is mysteriously related to the revelation
of love upon our little planet, the Earth, through the process of creation,
the concept emerges that our planet has a unique relation to the Heart of the Sun.

*******
The path that is trodden by the Server is the path of fire that passes through his heart
and leads to the head. It is not on the path of pleasure, nor on the path of pain that liberation
may be taken or that wisdom comes. It is by the transcendence of the two, by the blending
of pain with pleasure, that the goal is reached, that goal that lies ahead, like a point of light
seen in the darkness of a winter's night.

The Heart and the Reappearance of the Christ

The Spirit of God works in every human heart and in all groups.
It works also through the Spiritual Hierarchy of the planet.
It impels the Head of the Hierarchy, the Christ, to take action
and the action He is taking will lead to His return with His disciples.

*******

Christ becomes the awakener of the hearts of men,

and the one who institutes right human relations by being simply
what He is and by standing unmoved where He is.

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The term "little ones" refers to those disciples who are "babes in Christ"
and who have taken the first two initiations of the Birth and the Baptism.
They are aware of the spiritual aspiration, which is indicative of the Christ life
in their hearts, and they have subjected themselves to the processes of purification,
which culminate in the baptismal waters. Christ must prepare these aspirants
for the higher initiations and so nourish and aid them that they can stand
before the One Initiator and become pillars in the Temple of God
(agents of the spiritual Hierarchy and, thus, active, working disciples).

*******
The Christ pointed to a goal toward which men must make their way,
no matter what the obstacles, which He gave in the Twelve Labours of Hercules,
and which were dramas and not factual occurrences. He thus pictured for those
who had eyes to see and hearts to understand the nature of the problem to be solved
upon the Path of Return to God; He depicted the Prodigal Son's journey back to the Father's house,
and the tests and trials which all disciples, aspirants and initiates have to face and which all Those,
Who today compose the spiritual Hierarchy have already faced. When this statement is considered,
it must include also the Christ Who, we are told, "was in all points tempted like as we are",
but also passed triumphantly the tests and trials.

*******
Progressive unfoldment, under the Law of Rebirth, is largely conditioned
by the mental principle for "as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
These few brief words need most careful consideration.

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Within the world of illusion, the world of the mental plane, appeared the Christ,

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 the Lord of Love Himself. He undertook to dispel illusion by drawing to Himself
(by the attractive potency of love) the hearts of all men, and stated this determination
in the words, "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto Me."

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The moment that the hearts of men are active, that moment
sees the termination of emotional, solar plexus activity.

The Heart and Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle

Later, when group-work in telepathy is undertaken, the centres of transmission

wherein high and consecrated feeling, devotion, aspiration and love are concerned
and where the groups work with pure love, communication will be from heart to heart,
and from a group-heart to another group-heart. The phrase "heart to heart talk,"
often used, will some day be true. At present it is usually solar plexus conversation!

*******
Only from the heart centre can stream, in reality,
those lines of energy, which link and bind together.

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Let Me list the various forms of telepathic work for your general instruction:
1. Telepathic work from solar plexus to solar plexus.
2. Telepathic work from mind to mind.
3. Telepathic work from heart to heart.
4. Telepathic work from soul to soul.
5. Telepathic work between soul and mind.
6. Telepathic work between soul, mind and brain.
7. Telepathic work between a Master (focal point of a group) and a disciple.
8. Telepathic work between a Master and His group.
9. Telepathic work between subjective and objective groups.
10. Telepathic work between the Hierarchy of Masters as a group or a part of the
Hierarchy, and groups of disciples.

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The Heart Centre is the Agent of the Plan of evolution.
This is the expression of divine Love or pure Reason, the Hierarchy.
It is essentially the energy of Attraction, the kingdom of souls.

*******
Humanity, the throat centre of the planetary Logos and the prime planetary creative agency,
invokes the heart centre, the Hierarchy, and then receives the needed impression which will result
in the developing civilisations and cultures as well as the appearance on Earth of the fifth or spiritual
kingdom. The Hierarchy or planetary heart centre invokes Shamballa, planetary head centre,
and the Plan - as an expression of the Purpose - is impressed upon the hierarchical consciousness.
If there is redundancy in these comments of Mine, it is entirely intentional; repetition serves
the purposes of accurate presentation where esotericism is concerned.

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The first ray, or its dynamic life-aspect, is focused in the heart, for the heart is the centre of life.

*******
The Lord of the World is in complete touch with HIS divine intention,
through the medium of HIS three major centres: Shamballa, the Hierarchy, and Humanity.
Shamballa, the planetary head centre;
the Hierarchy, the planetary heart centre;

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 Humanity, the planetary throat centre.

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These three major energy centres are closely related to each other,
and through his own individual major centres (the head, the heart and the throat)
the disciple is in relation with the three planetary centres.
I would have you ponder on this statement for it has practical value.

*******
The three centres in the human being, which are to be found above the diaphragm
(the head, the heart and the throat centres) are the organs of reception for energies
coming from the three planetary centres.

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The agent for the distribution of the energies received via the head, the heart and the throat centres
is the ajna centre between the eyebrows.

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Energy from the planetary centre, the Hierarchy, utilises the heart centre.
This centre is the agent of divine love (expressing basically the will-to-good)
working through the soul of the individual aspirant or disciple; this becomes possible
when contact with the soul has been attained in some measure and the aspirant is on the way
to become a soul-infused personality.

*******
In this solar system, the heart centre is the first usually to be awakened and active;
as soon as there is life in that centre and a measure of activity, the other two major centres
can begin to awaken. The correspondence to this can be seen as the Hierarchy is the mediating
or middle factor between the planetary head and throat centres, between Shamballa and Humanity.
That is why the emphasis is laid upon the heart-aspect in all the teachings.

*******
The doctrine of the heart is the force of truth itself, the radiating of the light of life.

The Heart and a Treatise on Cosmic Fire

The mystery of life is concealed within the heart.

The heart has an occult link with the buddhic plane.

*******
The heart-beats of the Logos (inadequately expressed) are the source of all cyclic evolution,
and hence the importance attached to that aspect of development called the "heart" or "love aspect,"
and the interest that is awakened by the study of rhythm. This is true, not only cosmically and
macrocosmically, but likewise in the study of the human unit. Underlying all the physical sense
attached to rhythm, vibration, cycles and heart-beat, lie their subjective analogies - love, feeling,
emotion, desire, harmony, synthesis and ordered sequence, - and back of these analogies lies
the source of all, the identity of that Supreme Being, Who thus expresses Himself.

*******
When the Christ-child has been born in the cave of the heart, then that divine guest
can consciously control the lower material bodies by means of consecrated mind.
Only when buddhi has assumed an increasing control of the personality, via the mental plane
(hence the need of building the antahkarana), will the personality respond to that which is above,
and the lower fires mount and blend with the two higher.

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 Only when Spirit, by the power of thought, controls the material vehicles, does the subjective life
assume its rightful place, does the God within shine and blaze forth till the form is lost from sight, and
"The path of the just shine ever more and more until the day be with us."

*******
The Pleiades are to the solar system, the source of electrical energy, and just
as our sun is the embodiment of the heart, or love aspect, of the Logos
(Who is Himself the heart of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID)
so the Pleiades are the feminine opposite of Brahma.
Think this out, for much is contained in this statement.

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Venus corresponds to the heart centre in the body logoic, and has an inter-relationship with
all the other centres in the solar system wherein the heart aspect is the one of greater prominence.

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The sum-total of the domestic animals - the animal units brought into closest connection with man –
form the heart centre in the body of that great Entity Who is the life of the animal kingdom.
From the heart flow all the influences, which will eventually permeate the entire body.
These units are those, which will be finally separated from the group-soul at the reopening
of the door into the human kingdom in the next round.

*******
The causal body is the monadic heart centre.
The causal body is the correspondence in the monadic manifestation to the heart centre.
It is a flaming wheel of fire within the monadic auric egg, which embraces the five planes
of monadic manifestation; it is also seen as the twelve-petalled Lotus.

*******
The centre in the cosmic body of the ONE ABOUT WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID
of which our solar Logos is the embodied force is the heart centre

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The central spiritual sun is related to the Spirit or atma in man.
The heart of the sun is related to the lower and higher mental bodies,
producing that peculiar manifestation we call the causal body.
The force which flows from the heart of the sun, works through a triangle
formed by the Venusian scheme, the Earth and the sun.

*******
Only as the heart centre of a Heavenly Man (each in His cycle and each differing cyclically)
becomes vitalised and attains a certain vibratory capacity does the individualisation
of the Monads become possible under the Law.

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The heart will be found to be not only the engine, which circulates the life fluids,
but also the generator of a certain type of intelligent essence,
which is the positive factor in the life of the cell.

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At the very heart of the Egoic lotus, three more petals appear,
which close in on the central flame, covering it closely,
and remaining closed until the time comes for the revelation
of the "jewel in the Lotus." The Egoic lotus is now composed
of twelve petals, nine of these appear at this stage in bud-form
and three are completely hidden and mysterious.

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We have the dynamic force of the "Jewel" at the Heart,
which is itself the focal point for the life of the planetary Logos,
and through the planetary Logos of all the other Logoi.

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"The Lord of Life Himself sits at the heart and watches.
The Lords of solar fire pursue their task and sacrifice themselves to the lunar Lords
of all the lower planes. They die, but resurrect. They pass without, and come again.
Yet the Lord of Life sits still.
The lunar Lords begin to die; their power begins to wane with each successive cycle.
The solar Lords shine forth in triumph and consign the fourfold ones to fire
- the fire which burns and dissipates the form.
Many times the work repeats itself; the cycles wax and wane, until the day triumphant
when the solar Lord acclaims himself and knows himself the ruler.
The Lord of Life then turns Himself, and arises in His might.
He consumes the solar Lords, and they perish as did the lunar Lords.
He speaks a Word; the fire descends. The blaze bursts forth.
Gone is the lower fire through the flame of solar burning,
gone is the middle fire through the intensity of fire from Heaven.
Naught remains, save a threefold flame of violet, indigo and yellow.
THAT disappears. Then darkness reigns.
Yet the Lord of Life persists, though invisible."

*******
The solar Devas (or radiant energy) return to the central Heart
or to the source, which breathed them out.

*******
The four lower groups of solar Pitris return to the heart of the subjective sun,
or to that inmost centre of the system from whence they came. The three higher groups
are carried (by the force and energy generated in the fiery furnace and blaze,
and through the stimulation produced by the blazing forth of the central jewel)
straight to the central spiritual sun, there to abide until another kalpa calls them forth
to sacrifice Themselves as planetary Logoi. Thinking of the Pitris, think in group-terms.
The Pitris who formed the egoic body of a human being do not - alone and isolated –
form planetary Logoi. The forty-nine groups of solar fires concerned in the great work
are those spoken of; they become the forty-nine planetary Logoi
in connexion with seven solar systems.

*******
It is only when the etheric centres - the two head centres and the heart centre –
are fully active with their twelve petals completely unfolded that the central circle of petals
in the egoic lotus (the fourth or inner circle) unfolds. The significance of the four circles
in the egoic lotus, and the eight circles of twelve petals each in the etheric lotuses
on the mental plane is of great importance.

*******
As the heart centre becomes fully alive, the pituitary body enters into activity.

*******
In relation to a solar system, three fires on the cosmic planes are called:
1. The central spiritual sun (essential).
2. The sun (subjective), called 'the heart of the sun.'
3. The physical sun (objective).

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 The same thought can be carried through the monadic manifestation.
The three monadic centres are distinguished by different types of energy:
1. Monadic - - - -dynamic energy - - - -electric impulse - - - - pure fire.
2. Egoic - - - - - -magnetic energy - - - radiatory impulse - - - solar fire.
3. Personal - - - individual energy - - - rotary impulse - - - - - -fire by friction.

The Heart and the Treatise on White Magic

The heart concerns the love-wisdom of the soul, the buddhi or Christ principle.

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(The Gayatri)
"O Though, Who sustains the Universe,
From Whom all things proceed,
To Whom all things return,
Unveil to us the face of the true spiritual sun,
Hidden by a disk of golden light,
That we may know the truth
And do our whole duty
As we journey to Thy sacred feet."

SOME QUALITIES OF THE HEART

The fiery Chalice is the spirit of burning service

“The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your action will be”
(the Dalai Lama)

Quality 1 - ENERGY
The heart centre is the seat of life.
The life-principle - or the flow of divine energy through all forms - is temporarily seated in the heart.
By right direction of psychic energy is poison replaced by a treasure.
OM is the energy of the heart.
Only the energy of the heart makes a man invulnerable and carries him over obstacles.

Quality 2 – COURAGE & FEARLESSNESS

COURAGE IS BORN OF A PURE HEART.
Courage can only be acquired, be accumulated in the heart.
Courage dwells in the warmth of the heart.

Fearlessness, highest self-control, readiness for danger – to meet the fiery spheres.
Patience and the armour of courage are needed to cross by dangerous paths.
The redeeming courage of despair indicates the shortest path.
We constantly insist upon the conquest of every aspect of fear. (Fear creates a negative magnet that
draws the person to the fulfilment of his fears). The man having realised the invulnerablity of his
spiritual essence, should liberate himself from all fears, for all threats are insignificant.

After courage comes calm. How wonderful is the calm of the sword of truth. So repeat about courage
– (gate to truth, calmness, serenity).

Upon a firm consciousness, upon the rock of the heart, build the tower of courage.
Preserve courage – for the impetus to action.
A vast amount of courage builds the forces of the heart – amidst destruction.

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Calmness of the heart is firmness, is un-falteringness of the heart.
Even the tender, most compassionate heart should be courageous! The heart is a rock on which
strongholds can be built – having courage and solemnity. (Solemnity, a cyclic inclusive invocative
appeal to the Heights).

Courage has been tested in the past. Be tiredless in the quest for courage and solemnity. Recall fire,
courage and solemnity.
Love is comprised in pure solemnity. Courage shields love and fire welds its streams into a fiery
sword. Courage fortifies the horizon.
The fire of courage is only a part of the flame of self-sacrifice.

Quality 3 - BENEVOLENCE
The power of Bliss enables the assimilation of poison – for the benefit of the world.
Each one of us has absorbed an unlimited quantity of poison. The heart absorbs Bliss. But the prana
(vital energies) absorbed consciously pacifies the flow of poison.
The heart – ready to resound to the environment – is considered a treasure, when energies are
transformed into resounding crystals – The Covenant of the Himalayas.

If the Chalice is filled, the path of the Teaching is inevitable.

Quality 4 – SOLEMNITY
Solemnity is an inner state of sacred, holy celebration.
Solemnity is a cyclic inclusive invocative appeal to the Heights.
Solemnity is precisely the beginning, determination and progress on the way to Light.
True solemnity is built in the highest tension.
Understand the solemnity of love, which unites the silver thread with the citadel of the Highest Heart.
Let us dwell in solemnity.

The self-development of STRAIGHT-KNOWLEDGE induces solemnity of feeling. Experience the

sacred quiver of solemnity – and understand the harm of prejudice.

Solemnity is powerful; solemnity can attain; solemnity means salvation. Start upon and follow, pursue
the path of solemnity – and see miracles!
Above all achievements of the heart, solemnity radiates.
Multiply solemnity tenfold. Proceed along the path of ascent. Hasten to the summit of the Heart.
Affirm the qualities of the heart and give proof of them in life.
Strain your energy for the glory of the Lord, solemnly and courageously.
Discriminate between conventional habit - immersion in saving grace.
Solemnity combines in itself (1) ecstasy, (2) ascent, (3) defence against evil, (4) turning toward
Hierarchy. Thus solemnity is a salvation – to be absorbed and maintained.
Amidst disintegration and destruction, a solemn consciousness is free from this. It has a cupola of re-
creation with beautiful subtlety.
Solemnity blossoms in purple – thus we gather the garlands of the heart.

Quality 5 – PURITY
The flaming, fiery heart [is beyond] the fires of purification.
For the affirmation of Bliss, an actual tempering of the heart is needed.
Initiation by fire is only for the pure heart.
The (purified) heart is permeated with STRAIGHT-KNOWLEDGE.
The fire of the heart will be the best purifier and protector and guide.
Dignity of spirit is the fire of the heart.
Among the fires of the heart the most vivid is the flame of self-sacrifice.
The pupil must be ready, to have a purified heart.
The purity of the heart is disclosed by fire; the fire of the heart purifies all darkness.
Humanity needs to purify its existence.
Pure thinking is the best disinfectant; the purification of consciousness.
The path of purification gives access to the purified heart.

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The slightest purification of the human heart can manifest a waterfall of Benefaction.
The path of the spirit purifies one’s life – purify the consciousness!
The magnet of a pure heart clarifies the path.

Quality 6 - LOVE
Love is necessary for the path into the Infinite.

Intolerance is a sign of ignobility of spirit. Intolerance contains embryos of the most evil acts.
Intolerance blocks spiritual growth.

Earthly love destroys constructive efforts. Heavenly love inspires; inspiring love is heavenly – without
handicaps or considerations of death. Heavenly, inspiring love is for all worlds. It embraces the
physical world, the Subtle World and all Fiery Worlds.
This love kindles hearts for the highest joy and is thus indestructible. Thus, expand the heart for
Infinity! Love is the impetus for the expansion of consciousness.
Only with love, is the heart aflame, is invincible, is self-sacrificing.
The path of love is the tension of cosmic energy – and people find their place in Cosmos as flaming
lotuses, akin to the Highest World.

Mercy, compassion, pity, love – resplendent qualities connecting one with the highest worlds.

Quality 7 – CREATIVENESS
Creativeness, the language of the Heart.
Creativeness, the fiery potentiality, impregnated with the sacred fire of the heart.
Creative Light is the special light, the heart radiates the light of Bliss, making us creators.
Also substance of the heart produces creativeness.
The quality of the heart is a magnet. Highest creativeness is imbued with this great law.
Thought is the power and co-creator of Existence.
For creativeness of thought, the Cosmic Thought-Frame is necessary.
Only thought-creativeness is the Creator’s co-worker.
Creativeness needs self-perfectment!
Aspire to enter into spiritual creativeness. Aspiration is a creative lever.
A spirit can create, because it is convinced by ideation.
Creation needs visualisation. Man is a creator of subtle vibrations.
The highest energy is only created in tension.
The teaching about creative feeling is the realisation of creativeness of thought.
Reason cannot create if the seed of the heart is not provided.
The first responsibility is to watch one’s feelings.
Not the words, but the feeling of the heart creates the miracle.
Intensification (heightening of tension?) is a source of development of creative energy.
A great spirit assimilates and transmutes a mass of evil.
Creativeness in the Subtle World is accessible to the flaming heart.
The conscious spirit can create without effort.
Awareness and attentiveness prepare us for a vast field of creativeness.
The fixing of an impression upon the third eye is the foundation of creativeness.

Quality 8 – BEAUTY
The ignorance about the temple of the heart has destroyed so much...!
The abode of the spirit is beautiful, if it has chosen the beautiful path.

Quality 9 – LIGHT
Mercy kindles the light, which shines in the darkness.
Light is the symbol of the aura – its parent will be the heart.

Quality 10 – TENSION
Now are the days of great tension!

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The most difficult thing is to coordinate the (1) utmost ecstasy of spirit with (2) inex-haustible action.
For success, extreme tension of spirit is needed. But it should not result in exhausted action.
The manifestation of extreme tension must not reflect itself into desperate actions. The manifestation
of inner energy must not dissolve in action foreign to the spirit!
Cognise this law firmly, in order not to turn into a (stupid) windmill.
Do not waist the gathered forces of the spirit into unbridled actions.
The tension of some, leads to the strengthening of others.
The intensified consciousness carries on beyond the boundaries of danger.
An understanding of the beneficence of tension propels the heart to the highest worlds.
Tension is determined by the general conscious striving of the heart.

Quality 11 – TRANSMUTATION (of energies)

The heart – as a hearth of transmutation – must prompt everyone about the pressure of the spiritual
atmosphere.
The heart pains because of universal agitation. Unite hearts into a harmonious round.
The heart is an accumulator and transmuter of energies.

Quality 12 – SILENCE
Reach the synthesis of the heart. Silence issues from the intermingling of all sounds. Hence, learn to
coordinate the heart with silence.
Silence will suffuse the space with the synthesis of thought.
The prayer of the heart needs no words – the pregnant silence needs no formulas.
Intense silence demands many cumulations of thought and benign desires. Thus, the heart,
intensified by silence, as a dynamo, beats out the rhythm of the Universe. Personal desires are
transmuted into the guiding Universal Will.
The unification through silence is so needed!! Nothing reacts more upon the heart than intense
silence.

Quality 13 – PATIENCE
PATIENCE OVERCOMES ANY IRRITATION.
The intensity of patience creates a special substance, which, like a powerful antidote neutralises
imperil.
Patience is a conscious tension and an opposition to darkness.
Patience is a source of bliss.
Conscious patience is the greatest test for the heart.

Quality 14 – CAUTION
Caution is especially needed! Energy should not be dissipated by superfluous expenditures!
Caution is greatly needed when there is unprecedented tension.
Be on guard against the threat of wavering, causing treason.
Not physical poisons, but spiritual poison is consumed by Agni Yogis for the salvation of the world.
Then courage will combine with caution.
When I speak about caution – also understand it in seven ways.
Special caution in mechanical experiments with the aura. Gradual development and long preparation
are needed.

Quality 15 – FIERY-HEARTEDNESS
Fiery-heartedness is rarely emphasised. Yet it should have our intense attention. For, one pillar of
Light will overthrow all darkness.

Even the Highest Beings must “become aflame” in spirit in order to act. So one must fill oneself with
an abundance of the spirit. Only in drawing the spirit from the Highest Source do we receive renewal
and tensity (tension) of the fiery energy.
One must fill oneself with the power of the spirit, which leads to Light.
Only standing at the rim of the precipice, at an intensifying boundary, on the crest of the waves, will
raise up the spirit and kindle it.

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Quality 16 – IMAGINATION
The heart is the abode of imagination.

Some Conclusions
The heart participates in mercy, compassion, comprehension, love, patience, devotion (all blessings,
all beneficent foundations of life) as well as in other branches (of quality).

When you speak of cosmogony, reason gives a thousand (more) unknown qualities.

Quality lies at the basis of everything that exists – it needs the heart! The heart rejoices at the truth of
quality.

The one and only salvation goes through the path of the heart.

The qualities of the heart need a garden, for their (wise) comprehensive application.

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