Life Within Form

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Life Within Form
Each form, from that of the tiniest atom to that
of a vast constellation, is an embodiment of a
life, which expresses itself as consciousness,
awareness, and responsive sentiency ... Thus we
have the establishing of a universe of lives,
interacting and interrelated, all of them
conscious, some of them self-conscious, and
others group-conscious, but all grounded in the
universal mind, all possessing souls, and all
presenting aspects of the divine Life (EP I,
pp. 136-137)
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Seven Kingdoms
Planetary Lives
Solar Lives
7th
6th
Man has his roots in all the three lower
kingdoms all have contributed to his equipment
he is the macrocosm of the lower microcosm he
is the link which unites the three lower kingdoms
to the three higher. (EP I, p. 231)
5th
Kingdom of Souls
Humanity
4th
Animal
3rd
1st
2nd
Vegetable
Mineral
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Humanity

• All sub-human kingdoms are constituted of lives
  progressing towards the human stage
• Becoming human is the goal of the conscious
  element within the mineral, vegetable and animal
  kingdoms
• All super-human kingdoms are constituted of lives
  who were once human
• Man is the essential inner structure of all
  being, which makes relationship and contact with
  other kingdoms possible
• The human kingdom is a receiving and transmitting
  agent for the 3 sub-human kingdoms.

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receiving and transmitting agent
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Group consciousness
Evolution of Consciousness
Spiritual
Self- consciousness
Human
Instinctual consciousness
Animal
Sentient consciousness
Vegetable
Inert consciousness
Mineral
Identified with FORM aspect
Identified with LIFE aspect
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Group consciousness
Evolution of Consciousness
Self- consciousness
Instinctual consciousness
Sentient consciousness
Inert consciousness
Initiation
Individualization
Identified with FORM aspect
Identified with LIFE aspect
Battlefield
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• Each kingdom is dependent upon and draws life
  from the kingdom which precedes it

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Evolution Among Kingdoms
forms
Each kingdom is a laboratory wherein are built
nutrients to build ever more refined
Demonstrate animal instinct as active
intelligence love/wisdom will. Demonstrate
self-consciousness as awareness of being a
separate entity indwelling and impulsing a
body. Goal intuition
Develop rudimentary intelligence embryonic
will. Goal intellect
Develop response to sensation. Goal instinct
Develop discriminative and selective
activity. Goal sentiency
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Evolution Among Kingdoms
Expression Intuition
Expression Experience, growth, intelligence
Expression instinct, adaptability, emotional
aspiration
Expression Magnetism, attractiveness, upward
growth towards light
Rays V II
Rays IV V
Expression Radio-activity
Rays III VI
Rays II, IV, VI
Rays I VII

• Points of contact between kingdoms are
  facilitated
• through shared rays

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SACRIFICE from SACRUM triangular (3) bone
at base of the spine consists of 5 fused
vertebrae. Venus Saturn, 5 and 3 SACRAL
1. Of or near the SACRUM 2. Relating to or
used in SACRED rites. SACRIFICE Giving up of
something valued or important for some one or
something else considered to be of more value or
importance.
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SACRAL translation from Greek HIERON sacred
(bone), from the belief that the soul resided
there. Hiero prefix Holy, Sacred,
Hieroglyphics, Hierocracy, Hierophant, and
Hierarchy formally ranked group, members
arranged in ranks different members of a group
possess different levels of status Venus
school of 5 strict grades)
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SACRAMENT rite believed established by Jesus
Christ to bring gracebaptism and communion
(penance, confirmation, holy orders, matrimony,
anointing the sick.) 1. The first step into
this kingdom (Spiritual or 5th) is through the
new Birth. 2. The second step is through the
baptism of Purification. It is a process of
growth in the characteristics of the kingdom, and
the gradual attainment of that maturity which
marks the citizen of that kingdom. BONUS what
is the Capitol of California? Link of Virgo
California, New Zealand hmmmm
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SACRARIUM SANCTUARY SACRISTYplace for
keeping sacred things, shrine CONSECRATE
Declare place holy, set apart a place as
sacredCONSECRATION CEREMONY sanctification of
communion bread and wineas symbols of the body
and blood of Jesus Christ.COMMUNION intimacy,
connection, fellowship Sacrament that
commemorates Christs Last Supper. Refer to VSK
handout first initiation references
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• The Law of Sacrifice
• the law which governs those states of being
  which grow out of the establishment of right
  human relations.
• find out the meaning of group consciousness
  through the study of the law of sacrifice.
• 7. The Law of Sacrifice and Death. This law
  links itself to the third law, that of
  Disintegration The Law of Disintegration
  controls the fivefold destruction of forms in the
  five lower worlds, and the Law of Death controls
  similarly in the three worlds. The Law of
  Sacrifice is the Law of Death in the subtle
  bodies, whilst what we call death is the
  analogous thing in the physical body. This law
  governs the gradual disintegration of concrete
  forms and their sacrifice to the evolving life,
  and is closely linked in its manifestation with
  the seventh Ray.

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No. Exoteric Esoteric Name
Name Symbol Ray Energy 1. The Law
of The Law of those A rosy
Cross Outpouring fourth sacrifice.
who choose to die. with a golden ray,
at-one-ing bird.
energy. This law of sacrifice,
which is the first of the laws to be grasped by
the human intelligence, and is therefore the
easiest for man to understand (because he is
already governed by it Page 88 TCF and,
therefore, aware of it) came to its first major
expression during this slowly disappearing
Piscean age. The theme of all the world
religions has been divine sacrifice, the
immolation of the cosmic Deity through, the
process of universal creation, and of the world
Saviours, by Their death and sacrifice as a means
of salvation and eventual release and liberation.
this dominant world law governs the appearing
and the disappearing of universes, of solar
systems, of races and of nations, of world
leaders and world rulers, of incarnating human
beings and of revealing Sons of God. It was
this aspect of sacrifice which led to the
creation of the worlds and to the manifestation
of the divine Creator. a. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE LAW OF SACRIFICE It means the impulse of
giving. The whole secret of the doctrines of
"the forgiveness of sins" and of the "at-onement"
lies hid in this simple phrase. It is the basis
of the Christian doctrine of love and sacrifice.
Hence the emphasis Page 89 laid, in the Piscean
Age and through the influence of Christianity,
upon just these two things, forgiveness and
atonement.
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1. Energy follows thought and the eye directs the
energy. Involves the physical plane. Relates to
the first initiation. Concerns the ajna centre
and the so-called third eye. 2. The will is an
expression of the Law of Sacrifice. Involves the
astral plane. Relates to the second
initiation. Concerns the heart centre, the
"advancing point of Light.
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• The Law of Sacrifice
• Governs the death of that which is lower in order
  to release that which is higher
• Governs the service of that which is higher
  towards the evolution of that which is lower.

• Step 1 Sacrifice of Lower to Higher
• Form purification
• Reorientation
• Identification of form with consciousness
• Sacrifice of the form

• Step 2 Sacrifice of Higher to Lower
• Stimulation
• Illumination
• Direction
• Service

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Human Kingdom as Saviour

• Preparation
• rendering of the personality subject to the soul
• development of an aptitude for service
• understanding his part in the Plan

7th
6th

• Stimulation of soul in all forms
• Effects in mineral kingdom radio-activity
• Effects in vegetable kingdom increased beauty
  and diversity
• Effects in animal kingdom elimination of
  suffering
• The transmission of light to the soul in all
  forms
• knowledge, wisdom, understanding
• The transmission of energy from higher kingdoms
  to the lower kingdoms

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Humanitys Influence as Saviour to Lower Kingdoms

• Mineral Kingdom
• Skilled utilization of metals
• Alchemy - Metallurgy

• Animal Kingdom
• Stimulation of intellect
• Purification of animal form
• Initiation process changed from liberation
  through bloodshed to liberation through mentality
• Through impact of 7th ray animals will be better
  understood, trained, considered and utilized.

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• Vegetable Kingdom
• Foster perfume-producing faculty
• Adapt and specialize plant life for use by man
  and animals
• Evolution of new species
• Production of nutritive forms

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Humanitys Influence as Saviour to Animal Kingdom

• Preparation for Individualization
• Impressing agent
• bonds of affection and devotion
• bonds of service
• mental stimulation
• liberation through mentality
• purposeful activity -- applied will
• physical, emotional and mental relationship
  stimulates development of intellect (Ray V
  influence added to rays II, III, VI)

• Effect of Mans Own Development
• Purification of personality vehicles raises
  vibration level of physical, astral and lower
  mental matter, thereby enhancing vibration level
  and consciousness of animal forms
• Healing radiation of Mans soul stimulates
  consciousness within animal forms

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