The four fundamental thoughts

From the blue books of our dear Alice Ann Bailey we collect the following fragment:

Four fundamental thoughts can be given here that express the underlying purpose of the creative process and the objective of both, the cosmic Christ and the individual aspirant. They give us the guide to carry out the plan. Taken together they encompass the whole history of the relationship of spirit and matter, of life and form, and of soul and body.

First: "Nature expresses invisible energies through visible forms." Behind the objective world of phenomena, human or solar, small or large, organic or inorganic, lies a subjective world of forces that is responsible for the external form. Behind the outer material cover you can find a vast empire of Being, and it is within this world of living energies, that both religion and science are now penetrating. Everything external and tangible is a symbol of the internal creative forces, and it is an idea that is below all symbology. A symbol is an exterior and visible form of an inner and spiritual reality.

It is with this reciprocal action of the outer form and the inner life that Hercules fights. He knew that it was the form, the symbol, so that the mastery of inferior material nature made its presence felt with the ease of ancient expression. At the same time he knew that his problem was to express his being and spiritual energy. He had to know in fact and in experience that he was God, immanent in nature; that I was in close relationship with the Non-I; he had to experiment with the law of cause and effect, this, from the point of view of the originator of the causes to produce intelligent effects. Through the twelve signs of the zodiac he passed, struggling to work subjectively and trying to reject the temptation and attraction of the outer tangible form.

The second key thought can be expressed in the words: "The conception of a hidden Deity lies at the heart of all religions."

This is the mystical realization and the object of the search that humanity has practiced over the years. The exponents of the religions of the world have embodied in their teachings, an aspect of the search, accepting the fact of God as a basic premise, and with the love of their hearts, devotion and worship demonstrating the reality of their Existence. The testimony of the mystics of all times and races is so vast that it now constitutes in itself a field of proven facts and cannot be denied.

Scientific researchers have sought to find the truth through knowledge of form, and have led us to a position of broad knowledge and at the same time to a parallel conception of our deep ignorance. We have learned a lot from the outer garment of God, through physics, chemistry, biology and other sciences, but we have fought within a region where everything appears as being hypotheses and inferences. All we surely know is that all forms are aspects of energy; that there is a reciprocal action and an impact of energies on our planet; that the planet itself is a unit of energies composed of a multitude of units of energy, and that man himself is also a bundle composed of forces and moves in a world of force. This is where science has so admirably led us, and where the astrologer, the occultist, the idealist and the mystic also meet and witness a hidden Deity, a living Being, a Universal Mind and a Central Energy.

In the development of the drama of the heavens, in the conclusions of the scientific researcher, in the mathematical computations of the astrologers, and in the mystic's testimony, however, we can see a firm emerging manifestation of the hidden divinity. Little by little, through the study of history, of philosophy and of comparative religion, we see the plan of that Deity becoming significantly manifest. In the passage of the sun through the twelve signs of the zodiac, we can see the wonderful organization of the plan, the focus of energies and the growth of the tendency towards divinity. Now, finally, in the twentieth century, the objective and the subjective have become so closely mixed and melted that it is almost impossible to say where one begins and the other ends. The veil that the Deity hides is becoming transparent, and the work of those who have gained knowledge, the program of Christ and his Church, the plans of the group of workers of the world, the Rishis and the hidden Hierarchy of our planet, they are now focused on bringing humanity to the Path of Discipleship, training many of the most advanced so that they can become the connoisseurs and initiates of the new era. Thus men will pass from the Chamber of Learning to the Chamber of Wisdom, from the realm of the unreal to that of the Real, and from the outer darkness of phenomenal existence, within the light that always shines in the realm of the spirit.

The third key thought gives us a guide to the method. Over the years the words have advanced: "I am he ... who awakens the silent spectator." It has become clear to search engines in all fields that within forms there is an impulse towards intelligent expression, and a certain vivacity that we call self-awareness, and that in the human family it takes the form of self-knowledge. This self-knowledge when truly developed, enables man to discover that the hidden Deity in the universe is identical in nature, although quite greater in degree and knowledge, to the Deity hidden within himself. Man can then consciously become the Spectator, the Observer, the Perceiver. It is no longer identified with the material aspect, but it is the One who uses it as a means of expression.

When this stage is accomplished, the great works begin, and the struggle is progressing consciously. Man is torn in two directions. The habit tempts him to identify with the form. The new understanding drives him to identify with the soul. A reorientation then takes place, and a new and self-directed effort begins, the one that is representing for us in the history of Hercules, the Sun-God. At the moment when the intellectual height has been achieved, the "Silent Observer" awakens the activity. Hercules starts his work. The human being, heretofore dragged into the impulse of the evolutionary tide, and governed by the desire to experiment and by material possessions, is placed under the control of the divine Dweller. It emerges as the aspirant, reverts, and begins to work through the twelve signs of the zodiac, only now working from Aries to Pisces via Taurus (in a counterclockwise direction), instead of working on the Ordinary retrograde human form, from Aries to Taurus via Pisces (clockwise).

Finally, the changing approach of life and the firm application to the twelve works in the twelve signs, enables the disciple to become the triumphant winner. Then you can understand the meaning of the fourth key thought and exclaim in unison with the Cosmic Deity: “Listen to this great secret. Although I am above birth and rebirth, or Law, being the Lord of all that exists, for everything emanated from me, yet I appear in my own universe and I am therefore born by my Power, Thought and Will. ” (The Bhagavad Gita).

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Author / origin:
Alice A. Bailey, "The Works of Hercules."
Seen in:
http://el-amarna.blogspot.com/

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