As students of the Ageless Wisdom, we are very aware that the cutting edge of human development is the mind. We also know that the soul is made of subtle mental matter. Desiring to align with the soul and have it irradiate the mind, we easily fall prey to living in the head.
Of course, we read that Humanity is polarized in their emotions. But, it is also easy for us to speculate that we are at the forefront of human evolution. Therefore, I and we might subtly denigrate the emotions. We might even paraphrase the teachings and say: "The emotions have no reality and are man made".
However, the Tibetan Master D.K. in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire pg. 660 says: "As evolution proceeds, the astral body should become positive to the mental, and thus prove incapable of being swayed by thought currents, and the separative processes of that plane, and negative to the buddhic plane, or receptive to that plane". In other words, in order to aid in evolution, our work is to heal the emotional body and encourage the development of the higher emotions. Never, are the emotions to be dominated by the mental plane, but if strengthened, they will become the support for the development of the higher mental functioning.
In the Tibetan's description of the preparatory schools (Christ College is modeled on this description given in Letters on Occult Meditation by Alice Bailey) he states that the schools should look out over a body of water. This is because the purification of the personality is ever to be in the student's awareness. And, the purification of the emotional body is of first priority.
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
The New Education
Christ College embraces the following sciences:
1. The Science of the Antahkarana. This is the science of mind which builds a bridge between the personality and the soul and then a bridge between the soul and the true spiritual self. These bridges when built allow an unimpeded flow of awareness. This, in time, ends a fear of death, any sense of separation from others and clear communication with the higher Self.
2. The Science of Meditation. This science develops the tools of bridge building. Meditation is essentially the science of light. The antahkarana is built with the technique of visualization and later by an act of Will.
3. The Science of Service. Service grows naturally out of the development of the first two sciences. The soul comes to dominate the personality. Since the soul is group conscious, the individual identifies with group projects and acts in what we call service. Service is the true science of creativity.
(Much of the above is paraphrasing from pg. 95-97 of Education in the New Age by Alice A. Bailey).
1. The Science of the Antahkarana. This is the science of mind which builds a bridge between the personality and the soul and then a bridge between the soul and the true spiritual self. These bridges when built allow an unimpeded flow of awareness. This, in time, ends a fear of death, any sense of separation from others and clear communication with the higher Self.
2. The Science of Meditation. This science develops the tools of bridge building. Meditation is essentially the science of light. The antahkarana is built with the technique of visualization and later by an act of Will.
3. The Science of Service. Service grows naturally out of the development of the first two sciences. The soul comes to dominate the personality. Since the soul is group conscious, the individual identifies with group projects and acts in what we call service. Service is the true science of creativity.
(Much of the above is paraphrasing from pg. 95-97 of Education in the New Age by Alice A. Bailey).
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