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| A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - Section Two - Division E - Motion on the Plane of Mind |
| There are other streams of energetic force which have an
effect upon the Pilgrim everywhere, but the above enumeration will serve to show the
complexity of the subject and the vastness of the scheme of evolution. All these vibratory
emanations pass through the sphere cyclically; they come and go, and according to their
presence or their non presence and according to the stage of evolution of the emanating
Existence will depend the phenomenal character of all life, will depend the nature of any
specific period, and the quality of the manifesting Monads. It is the appearance or the
disappearance of these waves of life-force (planetary, interplanetary, systemic, cosmic
and inter-cosmic) which sweeps into incarnation the divine pilgrims, and which brings
about the cyclic manifestation of such great Lives as the "Silent Watcher" and
the "Great Sacrifice"; it is this which causes also the dissolution of a scheme,
and its reappearance, and is responsible for the transportation of the life seeds from one
scheme to another, or from one solar system to another. In this great tide of forces, the Monads are swept along; their aggregate is termed the "force of evolution," and the life and persistence of the initiatory Being sets the term for their duration. Man is but the plaything of the forces which gather him up and carry him on, just as the atom, in the human frame is but the obedient servant of the man's imposing direction; yet within limits man is the controller of his destiny; within [1054] limits he wields forces and energies, he manipulates lesser lives and controls lesser centers of energy, and as time slips away his radius of control becomes ever more extensive. The atom controls its own central life; man can control the sets of lives who form his three bodies; the initiate and the adept are controlling energies of many kinds in the three worlds, as the Chohan does on the five planes of evolution. Thus the plan is carried forward until the Army of the Voice become themselves the Sounder of the Words, and the Sounders of the Words become the Word itself. It will, therefore, be apparent, that the "Law of Monadic Return" which we have just been considering, is the sumtotal of those influences which have a direct bearing upon the monadic atoms, which affect its progress cyclically, and which stimulate it, or retard its activity according to the strength of the initiating life. It is only after initiation that the human atom reaches a stage in its development where forces and influences begin to be comprehended. When the methods are understood whereby adjustment is consciously made to extraneous force currents, resistance to retarding forces is initiated consciously and with scientific accuracy, and the man consciously puts himself into line with forces which will swing him along on the path of return. There is in this thought no undue complexity or cause for discouragement, for ever the potent force of electrical energy will offset the more lethargic vibration of solar fire, and solar fire itself in due time will negate the effects of fire by friction." |
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