A disciple is one who is pledged todo three things.
- To serve humanity.
- To co-operate with the plan of the Great ones( Higher circle) as he sees it and as best he may.
- To develop the powers of the Ego, to expand his consciousness until he can function on the three planes in the three worlds, and in the causal body and to follow the guidance of the Higher self and not his dictates of his three fold lower manifestations.
A disciple is one who is beginning to comprehend group work and to change his centre of activity from himself to the group centre.
A disciple is one who realizes simultaneously the relative insignificance of each unit of consciousness and also its vast importance. His sense of proportion is adjusted, and he sees things as they are. He sees people as they are, he sees himself as he inherently is and seeks then to become that which is.
A disciple realizes the life or force side of nature, and to him the form makes no appeal. He works with force and though forces, he recognizes himself as a force centre with in a greater force centre, and his is the responsibility of directing the energy which may pour through him into channels through which group can be benefited.
A disciple knows himself to be to a greater or less degree an outpost of the Master’s consciousness, viewing the in a two fold sense-
- As his own Egoic consciousness
- As the centre of his group, the force animating the units of the group and binding then into a homogeneous whole.
A disciple is one who is transferring his consciousness out of the personnel into the impersonal and during the transitional stage much of difficulty and of suffering is necessarily endured.
A disciple is one who realizes his responsibility to all units who come under his influence, a responsibility with the plan of evolution as it exists for them, and thus to expand their consciousness and teach them between the real and the unreal, between life and form.
This he does most easily by a demonstration in his own life as to his goal, his object, and his centre of consciousness.
Work to be Done
The disciple has several things at which to aim:
- A sensitive response to the Master’s Vibrations.
- A practical purity of life, a purity not merely theoretical.
- A freedom from care. Here bear in mind that care is based on the personal and result of lack of dispassion and a too ready response to the vibrations of the lower worlds.
- Accomplishment of duty
In involves the dispassionate discharge of all obligations and due attention, to karmic debts. Special emphasis should be laid, for all disciples on the value of dispassion. Lack of discrimination is not so often a hindrance to disciples these days, owing to the development of mind, but lack of dispassion frequently is. This means, the attainment of that state of consciousness where balance is seen and neither pleasure nor pain dominates, for they are superseded by joy and bliss.
He has also to study the Kama-manasic body( desire mind body).
He has also to work scientifically if it may be so expressed at the building of the physical body. He must so strive that he will produce in each incarnation a body which will serve better as a vehicle for force. One of the greatest instruments for practical development lying in the hands of small and great is the instrument of SPEECH. He who guards his words and who only speaks with altruistic purpose, in order to carry the energy of Love through the medium of tongue, is one who is mastering rapidly the initial steps to be taken in preparation for initiation. Speech is the most occult manifestation in existence. It is the means of creation and the vehicle for force.
The disciple must learn to be silent in the face of that which is evil. He must learn to be silent be for the suffering of the world, wasting no time in idle plaints and sorrowful demonstration, but lifting up the burden of the world, working and wasting no energy in talk. Using the tongue for constructive ends, expressing the Love force of the world, It will serve best to ease a load or lift a burden. It is that as the race progresses, the love element between the sexes and its expression will be translated to a higher plane. Then, through the spoken world, and not through the physical plane expression as now, will come the realization of that true love which unites those who are one in service and in aspiration. Utilisation of speech will be translated from the lower/generating centre to the throat centre. This can vision that ideal through united service, loving cooperation and oneness is aspiration, thought and endeavour.
Group Relations
- He is a server because he knows what is in man.
- Be with a pure love which requires nothing back
- Be prepared for loneliness
- cultivate happiness – based on confidence in God
- Suffering comes as lower fold – control that lower self, eliminate desire and all is joy.
- Have patience
I AM THAT I AM
Such an attitude and experience is for all those who persist in their higher endeavour.