According to esoteric teaching, the path that leads Humanity from a state of ‘minority’ to the full expression of its essence is traversed by moving from an instinctive ‘mass consciousness’ (typical of Cancer) to an intelligent, albeit individual, awareness (typical of Leo), culminating in intuitive group consciousness (which defines Aquarius).

As stated in the Teaching, “you will have, in the early stages of human evolution, that which we might call the atomic stage, in which man comes to a gradual recognition that he is a self-conscious unit, with an individuality all his own. (…) Then, as life goes on, the man passes out of the atomic stage to a higher and a better one, when he becomes cognisant of his group relationships, when he becomes aware that he has group responsibilities, and that he has functions to work out with other separate atoms. The group consciousness begins to make itself felt. Thus the human atom finds its place within the group, the larger unit to which it belongs, and the love aspect begins to show itself. The man has passed out of the atomic stage into that of group coherence. Later comes the stage when the man begins to realise that he has not only responsibilities to the group, but that there is something greater still. He realises that he is a part of a great universal life which underlies all groups, that he is not just a universal atom, that he is not just part of a group, but that, after merging his identity with the group—although never losing it—the group itself has to be blended again with the consciousness of that great Identity Who is the synthesis of them all. Thus he arrives at the final stage of intelligent appreciation of divine unity.” (A. A. Bailey – The Consciousness of the Atom, p. 88-89)

As world events clearly show, we are in a time of transition; the Age of Aquarius is advancing with great force whilst the Age of Pisces is fading away.
Pluto, the esoteric and hierarchical Ruler of the Sign of Pisces, through the power of the 1^st Ray, of which he is the vehicle, relentlessly governs these times in which every previous certainty is shattered, every exhausted superstructure dissolves, and consciousnesses seem no longer to respond to any law.
His passage into Aquarius (1) marks the change underway and clearly reveals the dichotomy between consciousnesses still deeply entangled in the bonds of matter and those wisely and willfully oriented towards the light of the Common Good.
Year after year, Jupiter, the Master of Love, guardian of the solar Heart, marks these steps in consciousness by connecting each individual with the energy that the zodiacal Signs in turn pour into space.
Today, from a heliocentric perspective, Jupiter leaves the nurturing and constructive maternal waters of Cancer and crosses the threshold of Leo, where the Sun, as the triple Ruler of the Sign (2), welcomes Him into its fiery embrace.

“A little thought will make it apparent to you why the Sun is the ruler of all the three conditions of Leo—exoteric, esoteric and hierarchical. It is a correct surmise that the purpose of this solar system is the unfoldment of consciousness, and if for the strictly human being self-consciousness is the goal, then the Sun must obviously rule, for it is the source of physical consciousness (exoteric and symbolic of the personality), of soul awareness (esoteric), and of spiritual life (hierarchical).” (A. A. Bailey – Esoteric Astrology, p. 294)

“Leo – as the Tibetan Master reminds us, it is the – the “birthplace of the individual”, the coming into form of individual self-conscious man who emerges out of the mass and herd in Cancer, substituting, for instinctual consciousness, self-awareness and a sense of responsibility of an individual kind.” (Ibid., p. 102)
“In Leo—The self-centred man becomes eventually the soul in life expression and focussed on the achievement of the spiritual goal of selflessness.” (Ibid., p. 143)

Jupiter and the Sun are united by the magnetic and all-encompassing energy of the 2^nd Ray, which gradually shapes all consciousnesses so that the keynote of this solar System may resonate within them, and so that it may finally be proclaimed with a full voice “… the mark of Love, the victorious!”. (AUM § 201)
Let us not forget, in fact, that according to the Teaching, “Leo is the focal point for the expression of the second aspect [of the divine Trinity], the love-wisdom or consciousness aspect. This, primarily where humanity is concerned.” (A. A. Bailey – Esoteric Astrology, p. 194)
The energy of Jupiter in Leo penetrates deep into every consciousness, awakening understanding and courage, benevolence and majesty. Its enveloping wave lovingly urges the consciousness to free itself from the narrow, self-centred view that has hitherto confined it within the prison of separateness, and ultimately leads it to understand the centrality of the heart—understood as a radiant, warm and shining Sun—which illuminates one’s life and enables one to find one’s ‘regal’ task within the eternal flow of Life.

“Once again we are faced with a series of threatening events. Again I remind you about the Lion Heart. I am not speaking about failures, because grave events are pregnant with many consequences. Be not amazed at the tension and at special alternating waves. One must know the manifestation of derangement of rhythm. Wherever all is well let us not have to reiterate that you hold fast to Me as the only support. Execute My Decree in the most precise manner; precision is essential, for small clefts are very dangerous. One must hold out with the Lion Heart. Let us not think that the enemies are weak, for they are strong; yet I am not speaking to distress you, but only in order to affirm the Lion Heart.” (Fiery World I § 169)

Still in the light of the 2^nd Ray, we find another significant energetic correspondence that leads the human being, and Humanity as a whole, to transcend a narrow, self-centred view of action, knowledge and being, placing it in relation to the entire planet and its evolutionary needs.
“Leo and Aquarius, through the Sun and Jupiter, are related to Ray 2. Development of the individual consciousness into world consciousness. Thus a man becomes a world server.” (A. A. Bailey – Esoteric Astrology, p. 67)
Service to Humanity thus appears as a fundamental milestone on the human journey, an accomplishment that dedicates the consciousness—now mature and free from the heresy of separateness—to working for the common Good, the radiant horizon of the coming Age of Aquarius.

“The low grade and undeveloped Aquarian upon the Mutable Cross manifests through a superficial self-awareness. This matures in Leo and becomes a deep-seated self-consciousness and a profound interest in self and its need and wishes. As the interplay goes on between Leo and Aquarius (for they are polar opposites) there comes a deepening of all qualities and the superficialities disappear until—upon the reversed wheel—the intensive self-consciousness of Leo expands into the group awareness of Aquarius. The individual becomes the universal.

Man, alone and separative, becomes mankind in his reactions and awareness and yet, at the same time, preserves his individuality; he is no longer just a human being, individually self-centred and separative, but becomes humanity itself, losing his personal identity in the good of the whole yet retaining his spiritual Identity. From self-service, he proceeds to world service and yet is always the individualised Son of God until after the third initiation.” (Ibid., p. 135-6)

And it is once again the Leo–Aquarius zodiacal axis that provides us with another important symbol of the path of the evolution of consciousness.
We can indeed imagine this axis as the backbone (or as the antahkarana bridge) of the renewal visible in the Heavens, brought about by the energies radiated by the Luminaries in this stretch of the century; let us recall once more the presence of Pluto in Aquarius, an inexhaustible source of change and profound regeneration, the powerful conjunction (3) between Saturn and Neptune at the beginning of Aries, an impetuous source of the new that infuses initiatory Light and Communion into every consciousness, and the presence of Uranus in Gemini (4), capable of synthesising the ordering power of its rays with the magnetic force of Love with which the Sign is innervated.
Through these powerful energetic influences, receptive Humanity will be able to continue the constant refinement of its consciousness; by placing this at the service of the common Good of all humankind and the lower Kingdoms, it will enable the reconstruction of the human and planetary temple, now in ruins, whilst at the same time allowing the emergence of new ideals and a New Culture and Civilisation.

Leo’s power, therefore, becomes that North Star (5)—both individual and planetary—which enables us to turn, in full consciousness and by virtue of the alignment achieved, towards the source from which all things have emanated.
The brightest star in the constellation of Leo, Regulus, represents the Heart of the Lion, as well as the celestial Lawgiver; it indicates the correct orientation, the legitimate path, the way that leads to the One; finally, it urges us to develop that higher awareness capable of ascending and immersing itself in the divine will, radiating into our consciousness a new dose of universal Love, of cosmic Law or Necessity.
To crown this union between Jupiter and Leo, let us recall that over the next few days (12 and 13 May) Mercury, the winged Muse-guide, is surrounded by the asteroids (6) Euterpe, Urania and Calliope in the fertile and luminous waters of Taurus, where their dances of Beauty intertwine with the fiery power of Vulcan, the esoteric Ruler of the Sign, tracing a path of purifying light through space.
The sacred and solemn song of the Muses thus accompanies the entry of the Lord of Love into the substance of Leo and reminds every consciousness to lend ‘the ear of the heart’ to the new that advances beyond all appearances.

“Glory to the all-embracing heart.”
(Supermundane I § 8)

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1. From a heliocentric perspective, Pluto’s entry into Aquarius took place on 23 January 2024.
2. With regard to the triple Regency of the Sun in Leo, the Tibetan Master explains as follows “… the Sun veils certain hidden planets, and in the case of Leo, the two planets through which the Sun focusses its energy or influences (like a lens) are Neptune and Uranus. The “heart of the Sun” employs Neptune as its agent, whilst the central, spiritual Sun pours its influences through Uranus. (…) Hence the triple relation of the Sun to Leo which is unique in our solar system, and hence the importance of the triangle which controls the man born under Leo—the Sun, Uranus and Neptune. The energy of Leo is focussed through the Sun, and is distributed to our planet via the Sun and the two planets which it veils.” (A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 296-7)
3. From a heliocentric perspective, the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 1° Aries took place on 11 December 2025; from a geocentric perspective, the conjunction began to be effective in the spring of 2025 (Neptune entered Aries in March 2025, followed by Saturn in May). Due to the retrograde phases of the two Planets, the conjunction continued until its peak (20 February 2026), after which the separation phase of the two Planets began.
4. From a heliocentric perspective, Uranus entered Gemini on 9 January 2026, whilst from a geocentric perspective, it definitively entered the Sign on 27 April 2026.
5. According to esoteric Teaching, the Sign of Leo is primarily linked to the North Star (in the constellation of Ursa Minor) and to Sirius (in the constellation of Canis Major). It should be noted that the marking of Regulus in the heavens indicates the path of Life: the straight line that runs from the North Star (a guiding and re-orienting Star) through the pointer stars of the Big Dipper, Dubhe and Merak (another guiding Star), reaching as far as Leo, identifiable by the famous sickle formed by the stars of the mane, all the way to Regulus, its brightest star. Furthermore, Leo is governed ‘in a cosmic sense and independently of the solar system’ by Sirius, the Magnet, the Fire that distributes cosmic Love, the cosmic Heart and primary Ego of our solar Logos. “The influences of Sirius, three in number, are focussed in Regulus, which is, as you know, a star of the first magnitude and which is frequently called ‘the heart of the Lion’.” (A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 300)
6. It is worth noting that the names of these asteroids are derived from the names of the Muses, the Olympian deities born of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Mercury, Lord of Harmony and Intuition, thus joins forces with principles such as the Power of the Heavens (Urania), the Light of Sound (Euterpe) and the Power of Thought (Calliope). For further reading, see the text The Academy of the Muses.

To the loving gaze we lift these days towards the Heavens, a vibrant tapestry of lights is revealed, and this radiance spurs us, with ever-increasing resolve, to close ranks in order to dispel the dark veils of ignorance, separateness and selfishness, welcoming with joy and faith the admonition of the Teaching “At so dark a moment, let us dwell upon the Light!” (1)
The mantle of the Mother of the World is permeated by ceaseless waves of renewal that find their home in the hearts of the Luminaries, and from those hearts they pour out into space, weaving together Communion, Strength and Beauty.
On 5 May, from the heliocentric perspective, Neptune, Mars and Mercury formed a conjunction at the beginning of Aries, and the Fire of the new, which poured with impetus into every atom of the solar System, called upon consciousnesses to a renewed striving towards the Infinite.
On that very day, Heaven has been filled with the rays of Will and Power launched by Vulcan, at the end of Capricorn, and Pluto, immersed in the ‘electric’ substance of Aquarius; the power unleashed by this union also reverberated upon the embrace between the Sun and the asteroid Urania in Taurus, creating a further resplendent lacework in the celestial substance.

“The Heavens are a web of connections, conveying messages and resolving problems at every level. (…) Man must learn to read the Heavens, upon which everything depends, and which do not conceal their decrees.” (2)

Urania, in her capacity as the sacred Muse of the Power of Heaven, has kindled in our minds the inclination to ‘lift up our eyes to Heaven’ in order to behold there the manifold traces of the divine, whilst her connection with the Sun has enabled a heart-to-heart alignment with the supreme fire of the stellar powers.
Preceded and sustained by such an inflow of energy, today, in particular, we celebrate the union between Venus, the celestial Lady of golden thought, and Jupiter, the Master of Love.
Their meeting, which takes place from the heliocentric perspective within the substantial waters of Gemini, magnetises the solar space and prepares it to receive the manifold waves of the becoming of substance, so that they may reveal the eternal steadfastness and unity of the spirit, the two poles of the unfathomable mystery of Being.

“The supreme Source is BEING, from which both Spirit and Substance spring forth. And that is all.” (3)

To grasp the full splendour of the Luminaries’ light and the arabesques that the Being traces across the cosmos, human consciousness has always made use of symbols: iridescent bridges spanning the gap between Idea and Form, capable of whispering to hearts and minds the Truth hidden behind the countless masks of appearance.
The Teaching offers us some insights that can be useful to understand the power inherent in the symbol and its function as a link between the invisible and the visible, between the Model and its formal realisation, between the luminous flash of the Idea and the forms that retain, albeit well hidden within their innermost being, the reverberation of that Light.

“Forms are divine and spiritual in nature and are symbols – that is, the written embodiment – of the universal language that expresses the One.” (4)

“Much that is inexpressible by words may be supplemented by symbols. Thus, in every symbol there will be the element of the inexpressible. It is possible to perceive the significance of secrecy, but words will be inadequate. One should refer very attentively to symbols. As secret hieroglyphs they preserve the essence of the great Universe. (…) The secrecy of the symbol is, as it were, a tension of energy.” (5)

“What is there in this objective world that is not the inadequate symbol of a divine idea? What have we in our outer manifestation but the visible sign (at some stage of the evolving purpose) of the plan of the creating Deity? What are you yourself but the outer expression of a divine idea? We must learn to see symbols all around us and then to penetrate behind the symbol to the idea which it should express.” (6)

“A symbol is a form of some kind which veils or hides a thought, an idea or a truth and it might be laid down therefore as a general axiom that every form of every kind is a symbol, or the objective veil of a thought. This when applied, will be found to refer equally to a human form, which is intended to be the symbol (or made in the image) of God; it is an objective form veiling a divine thought, idea or truth, the tangible manifestation of a divine concept.” (7)

The ‘seed’ of this year – 6.5 – which we must therefore nurture with particular care in our ‘field of work’ – also urges us to understand the quality of symbols as the true generating source of mental power (8):

I read the eternal symbols.
Gradually, I penetrate their universal significance.
I begin to trace some other ones: minor, new, composite.
This is my project to communicate the truth.

Etymosophy also contributes to our understanding of the symbol: the word derives, via the Latin symbolos, from the Greek symbolon, meaning a sign of recognition, a symbol or a pact, which stems from sumballo, ‘to throw together’. For most linguists, this verb is thought to be composed of the prefix syn, ‘together’, and ballo, ‘to throw’, from the Greek root BAL. The linguist Rendich, however, hypothesises that in Greek, at a certain stage of the development of the language, the Indo-European consonant “g”, which expressed the tortuous motion of lightning—the same as in Agni, the god of fire—shifted to “b”: “bal” would derive from the far older and more widespread Indo-European root *GAL-, to throw, which retains the idea of fire. (9)

The very sound of the word thus expresses a fiery synthesis, a flash that dissolves the world of illusion and illuminates the World of Causes. It is astonishing that even the word with which the text of the aforementioned ‘seed’ begins contains within it the heartbeat of the flame: Leggo i simboli eterni (I read the eternal symbols). The scholar Rendich himself states that the term ‘to read’, derived from the Latin legere, stems from the Indo-European root *LAG-, which is composed of the following phonetic elements: “movement that holds [l] in every direction [ag]”, “to gather”, “to connect”. The sound ag of Agni, the god of fire who originally personified the flash of lightning, indicating its zig-zag motion, is thus once again the soul of this root. (10)
The symbolic reading of the world, which is identified with the recognition of the ‘fiery’ or spiritual causes of manifestation, beginning with ourselves—symbols of the divine essence—thus guides us from the unreal to the Real.

This passage from Agni Yoga comes to mind: “The acceleration of manifestations will lead to the realization of the advance of cosmic symbols. Understanding of the entire scope of the manifested cosmic process is eluding humanity. Upon what can life be constructed when the principle of fiery symbols is unaccepted in life! When We speak of the principle of Fire, We have in mind the manifested living force of Cosmos. The symbol of Life is based upon the acceptance of the fiery element, and unlimited is this principle in its cosmic application. […]”. (11)

The symbol is universal; it unifies because it transcends languages; it is a key that serves the dual function of revealing and concealing, and thus conveys a knowledge that cannot be profaned. The symbol is therefore that ‘synthetic Sign’ (12) which veils the Unity of the Whole and through which, from light to light, one may come to contemplate Reality.
The energy of Gemini, whose dynamic mobility is governed by immutable Laws, thus proves to be the necessary condition for moving from instability to stability, from dualism to unity; Venus and Jupiter, today united in that enveloping energy, thereby assume the position of the greater Self which shines and grows whilst, at the same time, the lesser self—that is, the unstable flickers of the personality—declines and loses vigour. To move from form to quality, therefore, a concerted, rhythmic and continuous action is required; ceaseless waves of love are needed, with which to wisely build the bridge leading to the Reality of the One, to the burning flame of the Fiery World where even dualism finds no further dwelling.

“How long will mankind continue to dissect the one body of the Universe?
One may study isolated blades of grass
yet must never forget the great organism to which they belong.
One should examine isolated manifestations
without forgetting that they are but links of one great chain.
He whose thinking is without synthesis
cannot approach the life of the Universe.
The Thinker taught the beauty of Unity,
out of which pour the currents of energy.”

(Supermundane § 486)

01. Agni Yoga Series, Infinity II § 518
02. E. Savoini, Il Sistema solare nello spazio (The solar System in space, only available in Italian)
03. E. Savoini, Commentary on Infinity I (only available in Italian)
04. E. Savoini, Lecture notes of the 3^rd Septennium, Incipit Vita Nova, unpublished paper, January 2003
05. Agni Yoga Series, AUM § 437
06. A. Bailey – Glamour: a World Problem, p. 13
07. A. Bailey – The Light of the Soul, p. 210
08. E. Savoini, Un Nuovo Modello di Spazio (A new Model of Space, only available in Italian)
09. F. Rendich, Comparative etymological dictionary of classical Indo-European languages. Indo-European-Sanskrit-Greek-Latin, 2010
10. F. Rendich, Op. cit.
11. Agni Yoga Series, Infinity I § 111
12. In the Lambdoma of the Genesis of Ideas, Vortex 4.6 has been assigned the Formula ‘The Symbol is the synthetic sign”.

In light of today’s conjunction of «that stupendous Source of our entire planetary life, the sun Sirius, and… the Lodge of Divine Beings Who work from this heavenly Centre.» (A. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations /687) with the planet Venus, “the Earth’s alter ego”, which «in an occult sense… is to the Earth what the higher Self is to man.» (A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire /298), this article is dedicated to those spiritual Beings known as the Lords of the Flame.

«Lords of the Flame [one of the many terms found in occult texts to refer to these spiritual beings: the Agnishvatta, Solar Angels or Solar Pitris, Manasadeva or Manasa Dhyani]. One of the great Hierarchies of spiritual beings who guide the solar system. They took control of the evolution of humanity upon this planet about 18 million years ago, during the middle of the Lemurian, or third root race. (A. A. Bailey – Initiation, Human and Solar /220)

«Man becomes a conscious human being through the instrumentality of the Lords of the Flame, through Their enduring sacrifice.» (A. A. Bailey – Initiation, Human and Solar /19)

In the Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky the role and contribution of these spiritual Beings to the Intellectual evolution of humankind are described as follows:

«[…] there exists in Nature a triple evolutionary scheme, for the formation of the three periodical Upâdhis*; or rather three separate schemes of evolution, which in our system are inextricably interwoven and interblended at every point.
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* Upâdhi (Sk.) – Basis; the vehicle, carrier or bearer of something less material than itself: as the human body is the upâdhi of its spirit, ether the upâdhi of light, etc.; a mould; a defining or limiting substance. [H. P. Blavatsky – Theosophical Glossary]
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These are the Monadic (or Spiritual), the Intellectual, and the Physical evolutions. These three are the finite aspects or the reflections on the field of Cosmic Illusion of Atma, the seventh, the One Reality. Questi sono l’Evoluzione Monadica (o Spirituale), quella Intellettuale e quella Fisica.

1. The Monadic is, as the name implies, concerned with the growth and development into still higher phases of activity of the Monad in conjunction with:
2. The Intellectual, represented by the Mânasa-Dhyânis (the Solar Devas, or the Agnishwatta Pitris) the “givers of intelligence and consciousness” to man and:
3. The Physical, represented by the Chhâyâs of the lunar Pitris, round which Nature has concreted the present physical body. This body serves as the vehicle for the “growth” (to use a misleading word) and the transformations through Manas and – owing to the accumulation of experiences – of the finite into the Infinite, of the transient into the Eternal and Absolute.

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* Chhâyâ (Sk.) – “Shade” or “ Shadow”… Chhâyâ is the astral image of a person in esoteric philosophy. [H. P. Blavatsky – Theosophical Glossary]
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Each of these three systems has its own laws, and is ruled and guided by different sets of the highest Dhyânis or Logoi. Each is represented in the constitution of man, the Microcosm of the great Macrocosm; and it is the union of these three streams in him which makes him the complex being he now is.

Nature, the physical evolutionary Power, could never evolve intelligence unaided; she can only create “senseless forms” […]. The Lunar Monads cannot progress, for they have not yet had sufficient touch with the forms created by “Nature” to allow of their accumulating experiences through its means. It is the Mânasa-Dhyânis who fill up the gap, and they represent the evolutionary power of Intelligence and Mind, the link between Spirit and Matter – in this Round*.» (H. P. Blavatsky – The Secret Doctrine I – Cosmogenesis)
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*Round – The following tabulation should be borne in mind:
Seven branch races make     one subrace
Seven subraces make     one rootrace
Seven rootraces make     one world period
Seven world periods make     one round
Seven rounds make     one chain period
Seven chain periods make     one planetary scheme
Ten planetary schemes make     one solar system
[A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire /63]
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The impress to be set by the first Ray upon our human family on this globe occurred during the phase known as «human individualisation in the middle of the third rootrace. This was produced by a vast destruction of the forms we call animal-man. This point has seldom been brought out in teaching. The advent of the Lords of the Flame, the electrical storm which ushered in the period of man, was distinguished by disaster, chaos, and the destruction of many in the third kingdom of nature. The spark of mind was implanted and the strength of its vibration, and the immediate effect of its presence caused the death of the animal form, thus producing the immediate possibility of the newly vitalised causal bodies vibrating to such purpose that new physical vehicles were taken. That was the Will aspect manifesting in the fourth round in connection with the human family.» (A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire /425)

Individualisation – The work of the Solar Angels

«Let us briefly consider the general construction of the body of the Ego enumerating its component parts and bearing in mind that the form is ever prepared prior to occupancy. From the study of this body, we can get some idea of, and some light upon macrocosmic Individualisation.

The causal body, called sometimes (though inaccurately) the “karana sarira”, has its place on the third subplane of the mental plane, the lowest abstract plane, and the one whereon the Ray of the third Logos provides the necessary “light for construction”. (This is because each subplane comes specially under the influence of its Number, Name, or Lord).

When the hour strikes and the vehicles for buddhi* are to be co-ordinated certain great Beings, Lords of the Flame, or Manasadevas, through driving external force, come in conjunction with the material of that subplane, and vitalise it with Their Own energy. They form a new and positive impulse which co-ordinates the material of the plane and produces a temporary balancing of forces. Hence the meaning of the “white”, or transparent condition of the new causal body. It remains with the new-born ego first to upset the equilibrium, and then to regain it, at the close of the process, producing a radiant form, full of primal colours.»
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* Buddhi. The Universal Soul or Mind. It is the spiritual soul in man (the Sixth Principle) and therefore the vehicle of Atma, the Spirit, which is the Seventh Principle. [A. A. Bailey – Initiation, Human and Solar /217]
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«[…] the method of individualisation through the coming in of the Lords of the Flame… is the prime method in this solar system; whatever methods may be pursued in the varying schemes and chains*, this—at the middle stage—is the universal rule. Karmic conditions having to do with a planetary Logos may effect modifications, and bring into action manasadevas whose activity may not be the same in working detail, but the results are ever similar, and the divine Egos in their causal bodies have analogous instruments to work through…»
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* Chain—a series of seven globes or worlds which form the field of evolution during the planetary cycle or manvantara. [A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire /383]
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«[…] the work of the Agnishvattas on the mental plane resulted in a downflow of force or energy from the Monad (or Spirit) and this, in conjunction with the energy of the lower quaternary produced the appearance of the body of the Ego on the mental plane. In ordinary electric light, we have a faint illustration of the thought I seek to convey. By the approximation of the two polarities, light is created. By an analogous type of electrical phenomena, the light of the Monad shines forth, but we have to extend the idea to the subtler planes, and deal with seven types of force or energy in connection with the one polarity and with four in connection with the other. A scientific formula for the process of individualisation conveys this dual approximation with its differing types of energy in one symbol and a number, but it cannot here be revealed.

The Manasadevas are themselves energised by force from the cosmic mental plane—a force which has been in operation ever since the individualisation of the solar Logos in kalpas* far distant. They, in Their corporate nature, embody the will or purpose of the Logos, and are the cosmic “prototypes” of our solar Angels.»
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* Kalpa – A single day in the long life of Brahma is called a Kalpa; and a Kalpa is the time that elapses between a conjunction of all the planets on the horizon of Lanka [The Bhagavat Purāna identifies Lanka or Ceylon as the summit of Mount Meru – (H. P. Blavatsky – Theosophical Glossary)], at the first degree of Aries, and the recurrence of the same conjunction. [A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire /40]
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«The solar Angels on the mental plane of the system embody as much of that will and purpose as the Logos can work through in one single incarnation and as They, in Their groups, can develop. They work, therefore, through egoic groups and primarily, after individualisation, upon the mental units of the separated identities who go to the constituency of the groups. This is Their secondary work. Their work in part might be described as follows:

Primarily, they bring about the union of the divine Ego and the lower personal self. […]

Secondly, they work through the mental units, impressing upon the atom that portion, microscopic as it may be, of the logoic purpose which the individual can work out on the physical plane. At first their influence is unconsciously assimilated, and the man responds to the plan blindly and ignorantly. Later, as evolution proceeds, their work is recognised by the man in a conscious co-operation with the plan of evolution. After the third initiation, the will or purpose aspect predominates.

It might here be noted that it is the positive force of the Manasadevas that produces initiation. Their function is embodied by the Hierophant. He, seeing before Him the vehicle for buddhi, passes the voltage from the higher planes through His body, and by means of the Rod (charged with positive manasic force) transmits this higher manasic energy to the initiate so that he is enabled to know consciously and to recognise the plan for his group-centre through the immensely increased stimulation. This force descends from the manasic permanent atom via the antaskarana and is directed to whichever centre the Hierophant—under the Law—sees should be stimulated. He stabilises the force, and regulates its flow as it circulates throughout the egoic Lotus, so that when the work of unfoldment is accomplished the sixth principle at the Heart of the Lotus can stand revealed.

After each initiation the Lotus is more unfolded and light from the centre begins to blaze forth—a light or fire which ultimately burns through the three enshrining petals, and permits the full inner glory to be seen, and the electric fire of spirit to be manifested. As this is brought about on the second subplane of the mental plane (whereon the egoic lotus is now situated) a corresponding stimulation takes place in the dense substance which forms the petals or wheels of the centres on the astral and etheric levels.» (A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire /708-14)

The content of the causal body

«Just what do you mean when you speak of the causal body? Say not glibly, the body of causes, for words thus spoken are oft but nebulous and vague.

Let us now consider the causal body and find out its component parts.

On the involutionary path you have what is termed the Group Soul, aptly described (as far as earth words permit) as a collection of triads, enclosed in a triple envelop of monadic essence. On the evolutionary path, groups of causal bodies correspond and are similarly composed, three factors entering in.

The causal body is a collection of permanent atoms, three in all, enclosed in an envelop of mental essence…. What happens at the moment when animal-man becomes a thinking entity, a human being?  The approximation of the self and the not-self by means of mind, for man is “that being in whom highest spirit and lowest matter are linked together by intelligence”.

What do I mean by this phrase? Just this: that when animal-man had reached a point of adequacy; when his physical body was sufficiently co-ordinated, when he had an emotional or desire nature sufficiently strong to form a basis for existence, and to guide it by means of instinct, and when the germ of mentality was sufficiently implanted to have donated the instinctive memory and correlation of ideas that can be seen in the average domesticated animal, then the descending Spirit (which had taken to itself an atom on the mental plane) judged the time ripe for taking possession of the lower vehicles. The Lords of the Flame were called in and they effected the transfer of polarisation from the lower atom of the Triad to the lowest atom of the Personality. Even then, the indwelling Flame could come no lower than the third subplane of the mental plane. There the two met and became one and the causal body was formed. All in nature is interdependent, and the indwelling Thinker cannot control in the three lower worlds without the aid of the lower self. The life of the first Logos must be blended with that of the second Logos and based on the activity of the third Logos.

Therefore, you have at the moment of individualisation, which is the term used to express this hour of contact, on the third subplane of the mental plane a point of light, enclosing three atoms, and itself enclosed in a sheath of mental matter.

The work then to be done consists of:

1. Causing that point of light to become a flame, by steadily fanning the spark and feeding the fire.
2. Causing the causal body to grow and expand from being a colourless ovoid, holding the Ego like a yolk within the egg-shell, to a thing of rare beauty, containing within itself all the colour of the rainbow. This is an occult fact. The causal body will palpitate in due course of time with an inner irradiation, and an inner glowing flame that will gradually work its way from the centre to the periphery. It will then pierce through that periphery, using the body (that product of millennia of lives of pain and endeavour) as fuel for its flames. It will burn all up, it will mount upward to the Triad, and (becoming one with that Triad) will be re-absorbed into the spiritual consciousness,—will carry with it—using heat as the symbol—an intensity of heat or quality of colour or vibration that before were lacking. Therefore the work of the Personality—for we have to view all from that angle until egoic vision may be ours,—is first to beautify, build and expand the causal body; secondly to withdraw within it the life of the Personality, sucking the good out of the personal life and storing it in the body of the Ego. We might term this the Divine Vampirism, for always evil is but the other side of good. Then, having accomplished this, comes the application of the flame to the causal body itself and the joyous standing by whilst the work of destruction goes on, and the Flame—the live inner man and the spirit of divine life—is set free and mounts to its source.» (A. A. Bailey – Letters on Occult Meditation /29-31)

What are the signs of the Heavens?

Signs of the Heavens year 2026 – 2nd Quarter of Cycle
(click to view or download the document)

In Harmony lies Victory – Adriano N.

Voces8 | Lux Æterna (Nimrod) – Edward Elgar | Enigma Variations
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It is quite just to call the music of the spheres the Song of Fire.
Are not the fiery vibrations concordant?
And is not this resounding nurtured with radiations?
(Fiery World II § 4)
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Edvard Munch | The Sun
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In today’s exciting heliocentric heaven, let us focus on the harmonious splendour of the conjunction between Venus and Calliope in Taurus, the magnificent sign of vision and enlightenment. Venus, the lady of Golden Relationships, the Isis of our solar system, guardian of the Fifth Ray, that Light-bearing Intellect of Love that commensurately unites the Earth to the Sun and the personality to the Soul, harmonises with Calliope, “she who has a beautiful voice”, the mother of Orpheus, the inspirer of initiatory texts, the Muse of the art of speech and occult philosophy. Their celestial encounter urges us to the utmost commitment to deepen the art of constructing thought-forms and to master that sonorous wisdom, made up of metres, rhythms and songs, which allows us to transmute our nature and ascend to Heaven. Let us therefore welcome their inspiration to attune ourselves to the love of knowledge and to honour the music imbued with light that is the very essence of Creation!

Perfection of thought is an expression of beautiful musicality.
(Supermundane § 42)

Look deep enough and you will find that there is music everywhere.
(attributed to Gustav Holt)
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Morten Lauridsen | Dirait-on
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Antonio Canova | Calliope
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Gustav Klimt | Beethoven Frieze – Secession Building | Vienna
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And now, Lanoo, thou art the doer and the witness, the radiator and the radiation, Light in the Sound, and the Sound in the Light. … Behold! Thou hast become the Light, thou hast become the Sound, thou art thy Master and thy God. Thou art thyself the object of thy search: the Voice unbroken, that resounds throughout eternities, exempt from change, from sin exempt, the seven sounds in one, the Voice of the Silence. (H. P. Blavatsky – The Voice of the Silence)

Ólafur Elíasson – The Wheather Project | Tate Modern – London
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The soul is light essentially, both literally from the vibratory angle, and philosophically from the angle of constituting the true medium of knowledge. The soul is light symbolically, for it is like the rays of the sun, which pour out into the darkness; the soul, through the medium of the brain, causes revelation. It throws its light into the brain, and thus the way of the human being becomes increasingly illumined. (Alice Bailey – Esoteric Psychology I, p. 132)

Light is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This is perhaps one of the most occult definitions of the light of the world that has yet been given… Light and substance are synonymous terms. Soul and light are equally so, and in this equality of idea—light, substance, soul—you have the key to fusion and to the at-one-ment which Christ expressed so fully for us in His life on Earth. (Alice Bailey – Glamour: a World Problem, p. 193-4)

When a man literally walks in the light of his soul and the clear light of the sun pours through him—revealing the Path,—it reveals at the same time the Plan. (Alice Bailey – A Treatise on White Magic, p. 355)

Beato Angelico | Glorification of the Virgin (detail)
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There is a higher and better mode of song, actuated by a difference in the point of tension and involving a breathing process which draws the needed energy upon the breath from sources higher and far more extensive than those normally used; this will produce the inspiration which will involve the whole man and not simply his emotional reaction to the theme of his song and his audience. This will bring into being a new mode and type of singing and of breathing, based on a form of mental breathing which will carry energy and consequent inspiration from sources without the personality aura. … The singing in the next century will be by those who will know how to tap the reservoirs of inspiration by means of a new method and technique in breathing. These techniques and exercises will be taught, to start with, in the new and coming schools of esotericism. …
Sound permeates all forms; the planet itself has its own note or sound; each minute atom also has its sound; each form can be evoked into music and each human being has his peculiar chord and all chords contribute to the great symphony which the Hierarchy and Humanity are playing, and playing now. Every spiritual group has its own tune (if I may employ so inappropriate a word) and the groups which are in process of collaborating with the Hierarchy make music ceaselessly. This rhythm of sound and this myriad of chords and notes blend with the music of the Hierarchy itself and this is a steadily enriching symphony; as the centuries slip away, all these sounds slowly unite and are resolved into each other until some day the planetary symphony which Sanat Kumara is composing will be completed and our Earth will then make a notable contribution to the great chords of the solar system—and this is a part, intrinsic and real, of the music of the spheres. Then, as the Bible says, the Sons of God, the planetary Logoi, will sing together. This, my brother, will be the result of right breathing, of controlled and organised rhythm, of true pure thought and of the correct relation between all parts of the chorus. (Alice Bailey – Glamour: a World Problem, p. 259-260)

Gustave Doré | The Divine Comedy – Paradiso, Canto XXXI
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Notre Dame de Paris | North Rose Window
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Rule Four. Sound, light, vibration, and the form blend and merge, and thus the work is one. It proceedeth under the law, and naught can hinder now the work from going forward. The man breathes deeply. He concentrates his forces, and drives the thought-form from him. (Alice Bailey – A Treatise on White Magic)

… sound and color, thought and rhythm are the foundations of the Universe and of our existence. … Absorb all the sounds, all the colors, all the rhythms from the fathomless source of space. These finest vibrations, consciously absorbed, will refine your receptivity and your thought. (Letters of Helena Roerich vol. I)

In life imbibe the source of sound and color, and thus strengthen your mind. (Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 7)

Antoni Gaudí – Sagrada Familia
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The world is one in the consonance of spirit…
Boundless is the World, countless the colors of the Light.
Immersed in its harmony, the spirit sings the song of all hearts.
Therefore, rejoice if you can sense it.
(Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 394)
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Let the song of the soul be sounded forth by me,
and the clear high notes bring peace and joy to others.
(Alice Bailey – Discepleship in the New Age vol. I, p. 565)

You have heard music and singing in Our Community.
They ought to be regarded as part of the work.
(New Era Community § 224)

Let us sing, let us sing that light which leads mortals upwards…
(Proclus | Hymn to the Muses)

The dazzling diamond shining in Space therefore calls us to nurture the awareness that enables us to intuit the world of Ideas, which is intimately related to that of forms, being its primary cause: this is one of our tasks in this year 2026, especially since for the TPS Sowing it resonates with the values of Ratio 6.5, identical to the aforementioned between Neptune and Venus.

We could say that all philosophy is the exploration of Ideas and testify that the purpose of this very blog, starting with the proto-Idea of Heaven, is aimed at their identification, penetration and irradiation: in this ocean of concepts, it therefore seems useful, for the sake of simplicity, to establish and set some cornerstones.

• According to Platonic teaching, as discussed in these pages in the Model Lambdoma, the Idea, in Greek idéa, is an oὐsía, “that which is in itself”, literally the present participle of the verb “to be”: an essence. If we consider that the Sanskrit word for “truth”, satya, comes from the same Indo-European root as the verb “to be”, *AS-/*ES-, it follows that an intrinsic characteristic of the Idea is that it is true.

When we examine the word itself, idea, we see that it expresses the motion of light: it derives from the Indo-European root *ID-, composed of the sounds “light [d] in motion [i]”, and is closely related to the root *DĪ-, which indicates the concept of divinity. Ancient derived languages bear witness to this relationship: the Sanskrit dī, “to shine”, the Greek dīos, which means both “heavenly” and “divine”, theós, “god”; the Latin dies, “day”, dius, “of the sky”, “luminous”, “divine”. [1]

In short, a pure etymological examination of the word reveals that the Idea is true, luminous, heavenly.

We thus rediscover in all its wonder the infinite gift that has been offered to humanity, namely to be able to intuit Ideas, which it can in turn offer for the common Good:

A passage from Agni Yoga suggests [2]:

[…] Comprehend the great gift of love to the One God.

Try to unfold the power of insight,

That you may perceive the future unity of mankind.

The one salvation is to turn the spirit toward the light of Truth. […]

Another definition of Idea, not strictly etymological but deeply evocative, is that it is the “Word of God” [3], and this statement is based on the fact that it consists of the Energy of Sound, “the first creative Agent of Space”, and Light, “the rhythmic motion of Fire” that reveals the work of the creating Sound. This definition has the power to suggest to us the echo of a universal language of Creation, of which Mantrika shakti, the “incarnate Word”, the spatial energy of Language that the Fourth human Hierarchy must express artfully, is a component.

• Intuition, which in the Synthesis Lambdoma is defined as “synthetic perception”, derives from the late Latin intuitio, from the classical verb intueor, “to look carefully”, “to contemplate”, composed of the prefix in-, “inside, towards”, and the verb tueor, “to look”, “to guard”, “to protect”: literally “to look inside penetratingly”, “to have a deep insight”. The root of the verb tueor is the Indo-European *TU-, in which two components can be recognised: [u] “intense motion”, [t] “between two points”, “to move with force”. From this etymology derive, for example, the Sanskrit tu, “to be strong”, and the Latin tutela, “protection”. [4]

When we human beings look deep within ourselves and recognise the divine, we are able to perceive that we are also made of the same substance as Ideas, and that therefore, by living their truth and beauty, we can learn to express and preserve their language.

It is a universal language that embraces all Kingdoms, for the simple reason that Divinity pervades every atom of life and therefore calls us to communion.

Traditional Teaching deepens what we already understand, illuminating the future with confidence: “[…] The intuition is in reality only the appreciation by the mind of some factor in creation, some law of manifestation and some aspect of truth, known by the soul, emanating from the world of ideas, and being of the nature of those energies which produce all that is known and seen. These truths are always present, and these laws are ever active, but only as the mind is trained and developed, focussed, and open-minded can they be recognized, later understood, and finally adjusted to the needs and demands of the cycle and time. […] The minds of the race are in process of training and many are hovering on the borders of a new knowledge. The intuition which guides all advanced thinkers into the newer fields of learning is but the forerunner of that omniscience which characterises the soul. […] Hitherto this has been a slow and piecemeal undertaking. Later, and before so very long, light will pour in, truth will be revealed and the race will enter upon its heritage—the heritage of the soul. […]” [5]

• The Fourth human Hierarchy pertains to the Buddhic Plane, that of Ideas, and ordinary Humanity must learn to recognise its qualities, using the substance of the lower levels of which it is composed – mental, astral, physical-etheric – to express its higher nature and be aware of its spiritual heritage: this is the path of the disciple. Here too, the etymology is illuminating: the Latin term discipulus, “pupil”, derives from disco, “to learn”, originating from the Indo-European root *DIŚ-, composed of three sound elements: ‘to connect [ś] to the continuous motion [i] of light [ś] [6]. It is striking to find the root *DĪ-/*ID- of Idea in this word as well.

This passage from Agni Yoga comes to mind: : […] Initiation is daring to approach the Image of Light and not fearing to look at It. […] [7].

The trained mind, increasingly aware of its ability to deploy its powers of abstraction, is thus able to project itself into the world of Ideas, transcending the level of the concrete mind, which is necessary to discriminate in the world of forms: thus, the synthesis between Love and Intelligence is achieved.

• The etymosophical perspective from which we look at the heavens today prompts us to associate the expression “intuiting ideas” with the word “faith”, which is unusual, but is based on the concept that faith is interpreted not as a blind afflatus, but as an elevation of thought or of the abstract mind to grasp the world of the soul. In any case, this is an affinity of concepts, presented for the purpose of exploring them in greater depth, and certainly not a substitution of meaning. The association arises precisely from the similarity between the etymology of “idea” and that of “faith”.

In fact, “faith” derives from the Indo-European root *DHĪ -, very similar to that of “idea”, *ID/*DĪ- , and is composed of the following sounds: “continuous [ī] movement [h] of light [d]”, “to think”, “to think in harmony with divine light”, “to be devout”, “to have faith”. From this etymology come the Sanskrit terms dhī, “religious thought”, “meditation”; the Greek theoría, “observation”; and the Latin fiducia, “trust”. [8]

Among the various passages from Agni Yoga that we consulted to verify this perspective, the following seemed one of the most significant:

How is it possible to ascertain the verity of the Teaching?  […] One should not believe only in assertions. Faith is the realization of Truth, tempered in the fire of the heart. […] [9]: here it is suggested a synthesis between Intellect and Love, between a loving mind and a thinking heart.

On the path of discipleship, we are guided, as expressed at the beginning of this reflection, by our Elder Brothers, the Luminaries: today, in the initiatory substance of the Sign of Aries, Homeland of Ideas, Neptune’s impulse towards abstract idealism and universal communion is combined with Venus’s intelligence, which multiplies forms; this union is sealed by Mercury, in his capacity as esoteric Ruler of Aries, the Messenger of the Gods, intermediary between soul and personality, Lord of the Fourth Ray, of Harmony through conflict, and Vulcan, guardian of the Will, whose energy is further enhanced by the transit in this Sign governed by the First and Seventh Rays, connected to Will and Order, calling us to exercise the will to think with the heart.

Tomorrow, the conjunction of Venus with Saturn, the great Light of the Third Ray, of Creative Intelligence, offers a celestial device of sublime and omnipotent creative power, on which depend the processes of birth and growth of all forms, of whatever level and world, [10] giving a further powerful impulse to the processes of ideation.

The Sun in Pisces, where the Second Ray is dominant, fills Space with saving energy, helping to enhance during these two days the Energies of the entire rainbow of the seven Rays, from the First to the Seventh, as a bridge between the World of Ideas and the other planes of being.

And so, feeling guided by the Elder Brothers and deeply aware of being “One, in communion” with all those who feel the responsibility to elevate the mind to open new paths, working lovingly and creatively for the common Good, seeking the Truth and listening to the “Words of God”, grateful for the spiritual heritage and creative faculty we have received, let us send together in Space, with solemnity, resonance and joy, today and tomorrow, the related formulas set out in this year’s Ephemerides:

23 February/6.4: I reveal the Art of Union

24 February/6.5: I penetrate and elaborate the eternal Symbols

These formulas are sparks, daily variations that resonate with the dominant notes of the musical score to be engraved in Space, helping to write, with confidence and humility, new pages in the book of human life, illuminated by the Ideas of Goodness, Truth and Beauty:

From the human Centre let the plan of Love and Light work out

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[1] Franco Rendich, Comparative etymological dictionary of classical Indo-European languages. Indo-European-Sanskrit-Greek-Latin, 2010

[2] Agni Yoga Series, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 2

[3] A. A. Bailey – Esoteric Astrology, p. 100

[4] Franco Rendich, Op. cit., p.124

[5] A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on White Magic, p. 16

[6] Franco Rendich, Op. cit., pp. 160-1

[7] Agni Yoga Series, Supermundane § 232

[8] Franco Rendich, Op. cit., p. 189

[9] Agni Yoga Series, Fiery World I § 433

[10] Enzio Savoini – The Solar System in Space (only available in Italian)

“Under My Banners will I assemble new followers. Dedicate yourselves to the task of gathering the people and, with them, erecting My Temple.” (Leaves of Morya’s Garden – The Call § 160)

The celestial banners that support the Master’s urgent appeal today are named Saturn and Neptune.
The earthly gaze (geocentric vision), in fact, today turns primarily to the powerful conjunction (1) between the Lord of creative Intelligence, Saturn, and the Lord of Communion, Neptune, at 1° Aries, the shining Homeland of Ideas and the promoter of every Beginning.
According to Esoteric Astrology, Saturn and Neptune are the two esoteric and hierarchical Rulers of the cardinal Axis Capricorn–Cancer, Gates of Gods and Men: They therefore distribute the initiatory power of the spiritual Summit/Light to illuminate the Valley/Matter from this First Direction and electric Source of Evolution (1^st degree of Aries, Sign connected to the Star/Rishi Merak in the Great Bear, Prototype and cosmic Source of the 1^st Ray of Will-Power).

The peculiarity of Aries lies precisely in providing the initial impulse, that impulse where the idea of starting any activity finds its cradle and its incentive. The creative drive that Aries sets in motion, and which produces a similar movement in the zodiacal circle, has its deep origins in the World of Causes; Aries, in fact, is “… the birthplace of ideas, and a true idea is in reality a spiritual impulse taking form—subjective and objective.” (A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 92)
Aries is therefore the zodiacal vector of this ardent vital impulse; it represents the power that finds expression in the great creative process; through it, the will to do and the ability to create are acquired; through it, Humanity can now turn to a new beginning full of still immaculate energy and p otential; through it, Humanity can finally contemplate the world of Ideas in order to draw the energy necessary to fertilize every future beginning, while at the same time stimulating those initiatory processes that were anchored in the human soul at the December Solstice in Capricorn.
The effects produced and firmly imprinted in the spatial substance by the last heliocentric conjunc-tion (2) of the two Luminaries in Aries are now conquered and stabilized in form, allowing the incessant pull of the Magnet, the One, to be exercised with ever greater power and incisiveness on the whole of Humanity.
“New circumstances require new flights.” (The Call § 198), as the Teaching reminds us.
The Saturn-Neptune conjunction therefore urges us to ‘learn to fly’ in the skies of the higher mind and from there govern every beginning, letting go of rigidity, separateness and illusion in order to advance on the path, both individual and planetary, with the clarity that Mercury, as the esoteric Ruler of Aries, instills in the minds, leading them to the threshold of the buddhic world where Uranus, the Initiator, hierarchical Ruler of Aries, finally consecrates them to Mastery.
Humanity, urged and supported by the invisible but powerful work of the Hierarchy, is thus set on its way to the place of the Fiery Communion, that plane where ‘group consciousness’ prevails and which represents the goal on this present turn of the spiraling evolutionary journey: “I am summoning the wise ones. New and useful ones will gather. And the tree of unity will flourish.” (The Call § 304)

The unfolding of the compound cycles (3) of Saturn and Neptune offers opportunities from time to time for the expansion of inner vision; their meeting today (4) sows in space the creative force of Ideation, the psychic activity that orders the individual acts of thought (Saturn) in the light, and the balm of Ideality, the impetus that leads to the immaterial dimension of existence, to the Vision of Reality (Neptune).
The combined energies of the 3^rd and 6^th Rays, radiated by the two Luminaries, reaffirm the need for a wise and collaborative Humanity that knows how to build the new according to golden principles and how to set its goal in the triumph of Communion. “It is necessary to oppose the destroyers with the power of creation. Learn how to summon new ones to the building. Perform thus your labor for unification.” (The Call § 358)

As already highlighted in these pages, the celestial chart of these times also shows the luminous triangle whose vertices are, in addition to the Saturn-Neptune pairing acting as the central pivot, Pluto in the early degrees of Aquarius and Uranus, geocentrically still transiting between the end of Taurus and the beginning of Gemini.
Pluto, in accordance with its 1^st Ray nature, in Aquarius cleanses of the debris (5) caused by the long period of destructuring in Capricorn, while Uranus, which in its seven-year stationing in Taurus promoted the unveiling of the Beauty and Essence hidden in the depths of Matter, now reaches out towards the substance of Gemini where Mercury, this time as the exoteric Ruler of the Sign, accelerates the processes of understanding and fusion (assisted by Gemini, which conveys the 2^nd Ray), while at the same time activating the golden action of Venus, the esoteric Ruler of Gemini, which permeates the planetary space with the constructive and comprehensive force of the Intellect of Love.

The planetary Temple that Humanity is erecting thus sees its ‘pediment’ in place, on which the word that will be the seal of the future, ‘Brotherhood’, gradually emerges with increasingly clear and distinct characters.

New ones will manifest themselves in action.
They will reveal the shield of Beauty,
And, full of love, will open the doors to those who knock.
The earth will sink beneath the feet of the blind,
And the deaf will be destroyed.
I am sending a living spring to bathe your eyes and ears.
And the Miracle will be manifested,
And a Bridge of Beauty will lead you on your new path.

(The Call § 344)

1. From a geocentric perspective, the conjunction between Saturn and Neptune began in the spring of 2025 (Neptune entered Aries in March 2025, followed by Saturn in May). Due to the retrograde phases of the two planets, the conjunction continues until today’s peak date, after which the separation phase of the two planets will begin.

2. From a heliocentric point of view, the conjunction of Saturn and Neptune in Aries took place on December 11, 2025.

3. The compound cycle between Saturn and Neptune lasts about 36 years. The previous conjunction took place in the spring of 1989 in Capricorn (fall of the Berlin Wall!), the next will be in the summer of 2061 in Gemini.

4. The conjunction of Saturn and Neptune at 1° Aries is unprecedented in recent times. We have to go back to 593 BC to find the conjunction of the two Luminaries at 2° Aries; that’s the closest date to the present, a period that preceded the vibrant intellectual fervor in which the foundations of Western and Eastern philosophy and culture were laid by figures such as Pythagoras and the pre-Socratic philosophers, Gautama Buddha and Lao Tzu. In the Christian era, the most recent conjunction, although at 11° Aries, occurred in 1703.

5. In this regard, let us recall that Hercules’ labor linked to the Sign of Aquarius involves cleaning the stables of King Augeas from the filth that had accumulated over many years of neglect. Hercules accomplishes this feat by diverting two rivers into the stables so that the powerful flow of water sweeps away all the waste. Symbolically, this labor concerns the action of cleaning up the world, giving the right direction to the forces of life operating in it; by removing barriers (mental, emotional, physical), the free flow of the Water of Life that springs incessantly from the jug of Aquarius is allowed.

Atma-Buddhi-Manas:
Will-Love-Intelligence
or spiritual will, intuition and higher mind.* 

We wish to assert them as the foundations of the Science of the Union, as the essential Energies of the Work of Building a Hierarchical One Humanity.

And today it is the turn of ATMA, the First Energy of Life, the “universal Soul”, celebrated in resonance with the ecliptic Direction Sun-Earth-Merak/GREAT BEAR (8 February) and, exceptionally, with the rare heliocentric Direction (every 84 years) between Uranus and the star Alcyone of the PLEIADES (9 February), the pivot according to Esoteric Astrology of our cosmic System of Seven solar Systems.**

These Directions and Dates attest to a powerful time, both for planetary and solar Consciousness, a resonance with these cosmic atmic Prototypes that reverberates down to the physical (= astronomical) level.

Merak is the First Rishi of the Great Bear, the Source of the 1^st Ray of Will-Power for our solar System through the First Constellation Aries; the sevenfold Energy of the Great Bear, via Aries-Libra and Sun/Vulcan, is focused on the planet in the Head Centre Shamballa: it is the impulse of abstraction that initiates to Being. And the first Luminary that transmits the initiatory Fire of Aries to planetary consciousness is Uranus, the Seventh planetary Logos but First Pattern of Synthesis. [1]

The Most High and the Abyssal are One along this Direction of Power.

And Merak, together with Dubhe of the Great Bear, point to the North Star of the Little Bear, the current guiding Source of our Planet.

Ursa Major, Merak, Dubhe, Polaris, Aries, spiritual central Sun, Uranus, Vulcan, Shamballa…: all Agents of the 1^st Ray; all Head (or directive) Centres: Agents of transmission of ATMA.

The cosmic Will and the impulse of Life/ATMA of the Seven cosmic Rays reaches our solar System (and the other six Suns of our cosmic System) from this marvellous Chariot of the Great Bear, which drives and pulls our local universe together with the other two celestial Chariots of the Great Cosmic Man:

“The seven stars of the Great Bear or Ursa Major are involved in an intricate relation with Ursa Minor and the Pleiades… This major triplicity of constellations has a peculiar relation to that Great Being to Whom I have at times referred as the One About Whom Naught Can Be Said. All that can be hinted at is that these three galaxies of stars are the three aspects of that Indescribable, Absolute Monad, the Ineffable Cause of the seven solar systems—of which ours is one.” (Esoteric Astrology, 607-8).

It cannot be merely a figment of human imagination that all three Constellations underlying the “three aspects of the absolute Monad” (Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Pleiades) have “inspired” the shape of the “Chariot”, i.e. a vehicle or driving force, of “cosmic traction”.

In this sense, it is revealing and noteworthy that the two Bears trace the symbol of the swastika, the polar helix of Life, in Space, in the 4 heavens of the 4 discontinui-ties of the Cycle of revolution of each Planet: the two Chariots, like the blades of the Wheel of Life, stir the Summit, distributing the vital energy of the higher occult Centre – the North Pole of the solar Ecliptic burning between the coils of the Dragon.

“Three of the energies [Great Bear–Sirius–Pleiades] work through the head centre but only after the third initiation.” (EA, 23-4)

“The seven stars in the constellation of the Great Bear are the correspon-dences to the seven head centres in the body of that Being, greater than our Logos. Again, two other systems, when allied with the solar system and the Pleiades, make a lower quaternary which are eventually synthesised into the seven head centres in much the same way as in the human being after the fourth initiation.

… The sevenfold head centre [Seven stars of the Great Bear] in its turn finds ultimate expression in the gorgeous twofold centre above the top of the head and surrounding it. Equally so, beyond the above named constellations is still another cosmic centre.” (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 182-3)

The Seven Rishis of the Great Bear are the Head Centre of the Great Cosmic Man, they “push forward and beyond” the entire manifestation and evolution of the Seven solar Logoi, they are the Great Chariot of the Seven Rays that pulls the plough of Life from the North (septentrional comes from septem triones = seven oxen):

“CHITRA SIKKANDINAS (Sk.). The constellation of the great Bear; the habitat of the seven Rishis (Sapta-Riksha). Lit., “bright-crested”.” (Theosophical Glossary)

The evidence of the seven Stars of the Big Dipper is near the celestial Dwelling of the Poles, the area that includes the Little Dipper (the current planetary pole), the Dragon (the solar north pole) and the North Pole of the Galaxy, the Head Centre of our universe.

The Great Bear is therefore the control centre for this part of the galaxy; it is the sevenfold Will of the First Father Aspect.

With regard to the Evolution of Consciousness (Son Aspect), it is the First Sign, Aries, at the solar level, that holds within itself this initiatory and initiating Power of the celestial Bears, exercised through the Law of Libra, “the open gate to Shamballa”.

It is also revealing that this dynamic and electric Sun-Earth-Merak alignment (8 February) occurs for us ‘within the time’ of the Sign of Aquarius (19 January-18 February), i.e. on the Aquarius–Leo axis, because:

“Aquarius expresses the universal consciousness of the Great Bear… synthesis or universal fusion”: ATMA. (EA, 349).

The Synthesis of Being, the divine Life-Will Aspect, ATMA, is neither knowable nor expressible before a certain high initiation, since in the current 2^nd solar System the loftiest goal is the power of Love, that sacrifice/sacrum facere (making sacred), or sacrum esse (being sacred), which sanctifies Matter according to the will-to-good of the Spirit. ‘Currently’, therefore, Buddhi-Love/Wisdom is the ‘electric fire’ (1^st Fire) that “is found in the nucleus of every atom”; but Buddhi is the 2^nd Aspect, ‘solar Fire’, with respect to the dynamic Fire of Atma-Will (1^st aspect), which cannot manifest itself except through Buddhi, just as Buddhi cannot manifest itself to man except through Manas (the 3^rd aspect, the Mind).

ATMA, “the plane of the spirit”, is therefore the highest mystery and principle for human beings, that Will which is what it wants, without time or distance, through identification and identity between Essences, very different from its human refraction, emotional desire, connected to what it desires by a tension, a space, an attraction.

In this year dedicated to Goal 6.5 Communion of Work – The Book of the System, a new chapter is opening up for us World Servers.

Today*, the two Luminaries of 1^st Ray, Pluto and Vulcan, are conjunct in the sign of Aquarius, and Mars, Luminary of the 6^th Ray, joins them, thus propelling the following energies:

– unity between Will, Force and Power.

Pluto, united with Vulcan and Mars, disintegrates forms in order to spiritualise them, and the essence is freer to fecundate consciousnesses. The Will for renewal is aimed at creating the conditions that allow us to build the new lines of the future, of a New Culture and Civilisation, for which we human beings are also responsible and architects.

Be imbued with strength!

Dream of the future and you will see the regeneration of the world.

(Agni Yoga – Leaves of Morya’s Garden, The Call § 248, 333)

In Aquarius, we are invited to abandon ‘individual consciousness’ and strive towards ‘group consciousness’, to attain the consciousness of divine sonship common to every human being and every kingdom of nature, which will enable the progressive materialisation in the future of Right Relationships, of Brotherhood. “… Aquarius is the coming expression of the group consciousness which is the first and immediate revelation of the ever present Christ consciousness on a large scale in humanity.” (A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 155)

As disciples, we are invited to “tend the evolution of the fire; nourish the lesser lives, and thus keep the wheel revolving.

Here comes an injunction to the disciple to remember his responsibility to those many lesser lives which, in their sumtotal, compose his triple body of manifestation. Thus is evolution possible, and thus each life, in the different kingdoms of nature, consciously or unconsciously, fulfils its function of rightly energising that which is to it as is the planet to the sun. Thus will the unfolding of the plan logoic proceed with greater accuracy. The kingdom of God is within, and the duty of that inner hidden Ruler is twofold, first, to the lives which form the bodies, physical, astral, and mental, and then to the macrocosm, the world of which the microcosm is but an infinitesimal part.” (A. A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, p. 195)

“Fire is the sumtotal of that which destroys form, produces complete purity in that which is not itself, generates the warmth which lies behind all growth, and is vitality itself.” (A. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations, p. 82)

Sophia, the Wisdom of the Almighty — Nicholas Roerich, 1932

“… When a synthesis of spirit is built, from the cosmic fires and the psycho-life of the heart, then man can be told that the centers of cosmic fires show analogy to the centers of Cosmos, that this parallel relation can grant a better life, and that the principle of creativeness is established as infinite fire, as infinite vision, as infinite hearing, as the all-containing heart. Strive toward attestation of the Fire of Infinity!”
(Agni Yoga – Infinity I § 200)

“… all work with fire. Fire internal, inherent and latent; fire radiatory and emanative; fire generated, assimilated and radiated; fire vivifying stimulating, and destroying; fire transmitted, reflected, and absorbed; fire, the basis of all life; fire, the essence of all existence; fire, the means of development, and the impulse behind all evolutionary process; fire, the builder, the preserver and the constructor; fire, the originator, the process and the goal; fire the purifier and the consumer. The God of Fire and the fire of God interacting upon each other, till all fires blend and blaze and till all that exists, is passed through the fire—from a solar system to an ant—and emerges as a triple perfection. Fire then passes out from the ring-pass-not as perfected essence, whether essence emerging from the human ring-pass-not, the planetary ring-pass-not or the solar. The wheel of fire turns and all within that wheel is subjected to the threefold flame, and eventually stands perfected.” (A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 97)

Flowers of Timur (Flame of Victory) — Nicholas Roerich, 1931

Thus, together – as One Humanity, agent of the Hierarchy – let’s light the fires of consciousness!

“Thus, upon the principle of Fire the world is regenerated. The fire of the centers, the fire of the spirit, the fire of the heart, the fire of achievement, the fire of attainment, the fire of Hierarchy, the fire of Service—these constitute the principles of the New World. The blended arcs of consciousnesses thus create the Highest Will. Verily, the great Banner of Peace will cover the entire world. Verily, a great time, the time of great fulfillments. Thus the time of great action approaches.” (Agni Yoga – Hierarchy § 375)

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* Aquarius Full Moon (22.10 UTC) – “Water of Life am I, poured forth for thirsty men.”

The expression “Nothing new under the sun” (1), originally a biblical verse and now commonly used in everyday speech, emphasises how the empty vanity of earthly things, which repeat themselves unchanged over the centuries, contrasts with the creative power of divine action, capable of “making all things new” (2).
The renewal inherent in divine creation does not only have an eschatological function, i.e. it does not only affect the future (the end of time), but also deeply pervades the present life, urging Humanity to embody in action the work of the new that stirs in their consciousnesses.
“The new is difficult, and the old unsuitable” (3), says the Teaching, and this feeling is supported and fuelled by the evidence that day after day shows a Humanity not yet sufficiently capable of grasping the Ideas that could lead it on the path of Unity, Brotherhood and Harmony.
On Earth, we just see the succession of effects, often distorted and opaque, of what happens in the Heavens, of the luminous and pulsating interweaving of Ideas and energies radiated by Luminaries, asteroids and stars (4), the agents of the supernal will.
However, in this slice of century, Humanity seems to become more aware of the need for an inner change that can manifest itself in forms adequate to a New Culture and Civilisation.
“Cosmic union will direct all creative forces in the future; this is the principle upon which the new manifested world will be founded.” (5)

In the Heavens, and by reflection also on Earth, the power of the 7^th Ray ascends. Uranus, the ‘occult and mysterious planet’, vehicle of the 7^th Ray in the Solar System, and from today, according to the heliocentric perspective, immersed in the magnetic substance of Gemini, launches its light of renewing will into space, as the Teaching reminds us, “When Uranus strains the rays, a new step is affirmed.” (6)
“The seventh ray” – emphasises the Tibetan Master – “is, in the last analysis, the focussed differentiated energy of Ray One as it expresses the will of the first aspect of divinity on earth through the power to relate and bring into objective manifestation—by an act of the will—both spirit and matter.” (7)
The Luminary uses this propulsive energy as the foundation for the new that gradually takes shape and as a tool for fusion between the highest and the abyssal: “The Angel of the Presence lifts one hand into the blue of heaven. He plunges deep the other into the sea of forms. Thus he connects the world of form and formless life. Heaven to earth he brings; earth into heaven.” (8)
And on the ‘flag’ of the Earth, the purpose and means of this change appear ever more clearly: “It has been decreed to acquaint the nations with the New Word of Love.” (9) And it is precisely Love, the sweet command, that must make room in hearts and minds in order to engrave there the letters of the alphabet of renewal (10), which must take root in every person so that each one becomes a page in the book of the One Life.
“Under My Banners will I assemble new followers” (11), affirms Agni Yoga; men capable of looking at Heaven with loving eyes and penetrating beyond the thick layers of fog and illusions to reach the fiery World of Ideas, the forge of the new and the engine of evolution.
The shift from an egocentric and separatist vision, such as that which currently pervades humanity’s actions, to a collaborative and unified vision, based on the transition from knowledge to wisdom and from the value attributed to ephemeral forms to the imperishable values of the spirit, is the heavenly gift of Uranus, who “… causes the great transference in the human consciousness from intellectual perception to intuitive knowledge.” (12)

To this pulling and ordering energy, which permeates Space and reverberates on Earth, causing chaos and disorder for the moment and harmony and perfection in the future, responds the rising (from 2025) of the 4^th Ray.
Its harmonising force, focused and then diffused by Mercury, the celestial Intermediary, will bring forth from the unripe conflicts of becoming the imperishable and unifying Beauty of Being: “Harmony is restored and the beauty of the Lord of Love shines forth. Such is the Plan. Thus is the Whole revealed. The higher and the lower meet; form and the formless merge and blend, and know themselves as one.” (13)
“It must never be forgotten” – the Tibetan Master reminds us – “that this fourth ray of conflict is the ray whose energies, rightly applied and understood, bring about harmony and at-one-ment. The result of this harmonising activity is beauty, but it is a beauty that is achieved through struggle. This produces a livingness through death, a harmony through strife, a Union through diversity and adversity.” (14)
The emergence of Beauty, and its subsequent recognition by humankind, will therefore be the sign that the new has taken root in people’s consciousness and is beginning to produce formal effects; Beauty will manifest itself as the magnetic centre of all creative work and as the product of the intense harmonisation between old and new Ideas, avoiding divisions and ruptures, but rather making transparent and luminous the process that leads from the past to the new Era.
Such is the destiny of Humanity because “… this fourth ray is preeminently the ray of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, the human kingdom, and therefore has a peculiar relation to the functions, relationships and the service of man, as an intermediate group, a bridging group, upon our planet. The function of this intermediate group is to embody a type of energy, which is that of at-one-ment. This is essentially a healing force which brings all forms to an ultimate perfection through the power of the indwelling life, with which it becomes perfectly atoned.” (15)

Uranus and Mercury work in perfect harmony because the Rays they convey, each in its own way, work to unite spirit and matter on both an individual and collective level: ”Uranus and Mercury in combination are dualities which the disciple learns to resolve and in the process of this resolution he shifts his focus out of the human kingdom into the fifth kingdom, the Hierarchy of souls.” (16)
“The union between the Four and Seven marks the completion of a work of beauty, shining with the regular correctness of its form of infinite content.” (17)
This harmony of intent also resonates on Earth in the Call for Unity, for that fusion of inner energies, at various levels, which is the sign of the long-awaited renewal. “Uranus … initiates a new order of life and conditions and this—when developed in the life of the disciple—in its turn produces an understanding of the causes of things as they are, and the desire to change the old order and the old orientation into the new.” (18)
The energetic intertwining of the 7^th and 4^th Rays is complemented by the golden force of the 5^th Ray, conveyed by Aquarius, the constellation rising on the Earth’s horizon, which will provide the backdrop for the incipient externalisation of the Hierarchy and the return of the Master of Love, the Christ.
The dominant notes of the coming New Age (i.e., the thought forms that will concern Life and not form) will be Love for Humanity, conscious Service free from expectations, a lucid and ‘scientific’ vision of what lies behind phenomenal appearances, and Right relationships that will lead to the construction of planetary group consciousness: “In the New Age, which is upon us, all true work is group work, with the individual subordinated to the group good.” (19)

And if, therefore, the call for Unity, Service and Brotherhood resounds ever more urgently in the Heavens, on Earth, beyond what appears, the seed of Communion sprouts with confidence and tenacity, and the foundations are laid for working together towards a common goal and for building new, ever more perfect and harmonious forms through which the divine will can express itself fully and bring about “a new heaven and a new earth”. (20)
“When … the influence of Uranus is added to the other influences and the seventh ray is at the same time entering into a major cycle of activity on the Earth, there is then present the energy needed to precipitate the crisis of initiation and produce a great rhythmic awakening.” (21)
For thousands of years, the advanced consciousnesses of the planet have pointed to these goals for Humanity, but it is especially at this moment that the combined force of the two Ray energies is pushing every consciousness towards a radical change of course, towards a renewed, profound approach to life and its values, towards a conscious and responsible reply to the essence of what can be called ‘Man’.

“A new day dawns over the earth.
The present hour is not a stream but a vortex.
Each personal world reflects the flaming sky aglow
with the Fire that devours old forms.
The Wisdom of the Creator prophesies a New World.
By fiery destruction He creates.
And can we, the witnesses, realizing the Great Design,
count ourselves afflicted?
The deaf and the blind, and the many sedentary ones,
are only bystanders.
The Creator cometh!”

(Leaves of Morya’s Garden I § 241)

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1. The Bible, Qohelet 1, 9-10 (Nihil sub sole novum)
2. The Bible, Apocalypse 21, 5 (Ecce nova facio omnia)
3. Agni Yoga Series, The Call § 340
4. These early days of 2026 are marked by numerous celestial appeals (from a heliocentric perspective), all aimed at bringing about renewal in the consciousness of humanity. Uranus at the beginning of Gemini is in conjunction with the asteroid Clio, sextile to Saturn and Neptune in Aries and trine to Pluto in Aquarius. A perfect circulation of fluid and constructive energies that invoke renewal, tension towards the World of Causes and a clear vision of the new that is advancing. The Earth is in Cancer opposite Mars and Venus, which are in Capricorn: the two Luminaries, bearers of the energies that innervate the Goal of the year, 6.5 Communion of Work. The book of the System (5^th and 6^th Rays) urges “the blue planet” to make a radical change of course that purifies the most earthly desires from the encrustations that prevent the vision of the new. Alongside these aspects, we also note the asteroids Urania and Euterpe conjunct Saturn and Neptune at the beginning of Aries (Urania conjunct Neptune on 13 January and Saturn on 17 January; Euterpe conjunct Neptune on 24 January). The sweet song of the Muses brings to light in all its splendour those aspects of manifestation that are most in need of renewal and call for the emergence of wise, enlightened and harmonious communities.
5. Agni Yoga Series, Infinity I § 93
6. Ibid. § 332
7. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 138
8. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, p. 48
9. Agni Yoga Series, The Call § 384
10. In addition to the aspects already listed, our Earth is in conjunction with Jupiter (considered, together with Uranus, the ‘planet of beneficial fulfilment’), the vehicle of the 2^nd Ray of Love and Wisdom. This conjunction recalls – through some sort of consonance – the Sun-Jupiter conjunction that occurred at the June Solstice of 2025, giving rise to a greater awareness of the Christic principle in all our consciousnesses, as well as a clearer perception of Love, no longer seen as a selfish feeling but as an ardent energy, driving and animating the entire creation.
11. Agni Yoga Series, The Call § 160
12. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 140
13. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology II, p. 47
14. Ibid., p. 92
15. Ibid., p. 363
16. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 438
17. First Vertex, The Distant Goals
18. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 224
19. A. A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age I, p. 343
20. The Bible, Apocalypse, 21, 1 (Vidi caelum novum et terram novam)
21. A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 447

the Triad of Will-Love-Intelligence
or, in Sanskrit, Atma-Buddhi-Manas.

We want to assert them as the foundations of the Science of Union, of the Aquarian common work, and beyond: the Construction of a Hierarchical One Humanity, the central link of Brotherhood; that universal Brotherhood which is the eternal Symbol of the essential Unity of the worlds and of all beings, beyond all size, distance or time.

Let us therefore celebrate Atma-Buddhi-Manas on the three annual Dates or Directions between the Sun–Earth (the Soul–Personality relationship) and the Stars of the three “intimate constellations” indicated as their primary cosmic Sources (Monad) for our solar system:

– BUDDHI: Sun-Earth-SIRIUS Alignment (4 January)

– ATMA: Sun-Earth-Merak/GREAT BEAR Alignment (8 February)

– MANAS: Sun-Earth-Alcyone/PLEIADES (22 November)

“Like the planetary atom, the solar atom not only rotates on its axis but likewise spirals in a cyclic fashion through the Heavens. This is a different activity to the drift or progressive dynamic motion through the Heavens. It deals with the revolution of our Sun around a central point [1] and with its relation to the three constellations so oft referred to in this Treatise:

The Great Bear.
The Pleiades.
The Sun Sirius.

These three groups of solar bodies are of paramount influence where the spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned. Just as in the human atom the spiral cyclic activity [the evolution of consciousness] is egoic and controlled from the egoic body, so in connection with the solar system these three groups are related to the logoic Spiritual Triad, atma-buddhi-manas [will-love-intelligence], and their influence is dominant in connection with solar incarnation, with solar evolution, and with solar progress.

Further, it must be added that the third type of motion to which our system is subjected [in addition to rotation on its axis and spiral revolution/evolution], that of progress onward, is the result of the united activity of the seven constellations (our solar system forming one of the seven) which form the seven centres of the cosmic Logos. This united activity produces a uniform and steady push (if it might so be expressed) toward a point in the heavens unknown as yet to even the planetary Logoi.” [2]

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Today it is the turn of SIRIUS, the cosmic Source of the Second Aspect BUDDHI united with the Third, MANAS.

Sirius, the cosmic Source of Buddhi/Manas

Around 4 January each year, the Earth is at the centre between the Sun and Sirius, which, along this initiatory Direction qualified for planetary evolution by the signs Capricorn–Cancer, emit a vital impulse, sacred to the Return of the supernal Light, to the Construction of a common Home or Consciousness illuminated by spiritual Love.

In particular, this year, a stellium of other solar Centres exceptionally enhances this heliocentric alignment of Sun-Earth-Sirius: the Luminaries Venus (Fifth Ray of Mind and Knowledge) and Mars (Sixth Ray of abstract Idealism and Devotion) at the Summit, opposite the wide conjunction between Earth and the solar Christ Jupiter (Second Ray of Love-Wisdom) in the Valley (at the bottom).

Fiery Mars is exalted or at its maximum power in Capricorn, and Venus is its hierarchical ruler: Venus is the Isis-Sirius of the solar Hierarchy, conveys Buddhi-Manas and is the higher Ego or solar Angel of the Earth: [3]

EARTH : VENUS = SUN : SIRIUS

Today, in a unique and culminating manner, the Formulas of the current quarter of the cycle are inscribed in the Heaven of the Heart:

Love is the Conqueror!

Let the Lord’s command resound!

Love is the conqueror – Adriano N.

Let us assert them and radiate them throughout this proportion of Hearts, penetrating other indications from the Teaching:

“Our [phisical] sun is the embodiment of the heart, or love aspect, of the [solar] Logos (Who is Himself the heart of One about whom naught may be said)… our Logos loses not His identity, even though He forms part of the Consciousness of the Logos of Sirius. In His turn, the Sirian Logos forms one of the seven Grand Heavenly Men, who are the centres in the body of ONE OF WHOM NOUGHT MAY BE SAID.” (TCF, 156 and 572)

By identifying our SOLAR LOGOS with SIRIUS in terms of Ray and Function, it is possible that They constitute the Heart Centre of 2^nd Ray of the Great Cosmic Man (GCM), while remaining distinct Entities from the point of view of consciousness and appearance, but not of Principle: fiery points placed along the same equitonal or harmonic direction, the Way of the Heart.

The cosmic Logos SIRIUS is referred to both as the Source of cosmic Manas (corresponding at the systemic level to the 5^th plane of the human Soul or egoic Groups and causal bodies) and of cosmic Buddhi (the 4^th plane of the spiritual Soul). In other passages of the Teaching, Sirius is referred to as the Prototype of our Sun (and of the other six solar systems?), analogous to the higher Ego for man, or to the Monad for spiritual Man (Ego-Soul). SIRIUS is, in essence, the Second Aspect of the higher Triad of our solar Logos (Ursa Major being the 1^st and the Pleiades the 3^rd); it is the gateway for our solar Logos, Twelve-petalled Heart, towards the higher Three.

In the text The Order of Orion (only available in Italian at the moment), it is hypothesised that the trail of Magnets formed by our solar Logos, Sirius and ORION – a marvellous Entity and Constellation that gives its Name to the galactic arm to which we belong – constitutes the Triad referred to by the Egyptians as Horus-Isis-Osiris, which reflects and veils the GALACTIC HEART in our local universe, along the river of the MILKY WAY.

SIRIUS, the cosmic Isis and Venus, is the cosmic Fire that caused the involution or ‘incarnation’ of our Sun, just as it drives its evolution towards the full realisation of the Second divine Ray, under the impetus of the 3 Chariots (Ursa Major and Minor, Pleiades) and of Her Consort Orion.

It is cosmic Light and Love in action.
It is our universal Magnet and Motive.

“This great Sun [Sirius], which is to our solar Logos what the Monad is to the spiritual man [the Soul], has a peculiar part to play where our Earth [Persona] is concerned. It might be considered by those with a sound sense of occult proportion that our tiny planet with its planetary Logos (one of the “imperfect Gods” of The Secret Doctrine) would be too small to enter in the slightest way into the consciousness of that Supreme Illumined Entity Who is greater even than our Solar Logos. Such, however, is the case. There is a relationship of very ancient date between our Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, and the Lord of Sirius, and this exists in spite of the fact that our planet is not a sacred planet. It might be added that our planet is… rapidly passing out of this category, and on the inner planes and subjectively considered is a sacred planet; [that is, already able to express its 2^nd R. of Soul on the causal levels, and no longer just the 3^rd of the Personality]; … the great White Lodge on Sirius is the spiritual prototype of the great White Lodge on Earth [EA, 350]…
… A stream of energy coming from the sun, Sirius… enters directly into the Hierarchy and carries with it the principle of buddhi, of cosmic love.  This, in a mysterious way, is the principle found at the heart of every atom. (Rays and the Initiation, 414-5)

Sirius is the Magnet of cosmic Love (a manasic Love for the present level of evolution of the solar Logos), it is the Heart of hearts, and Her Lord is closely connected to Sanat Kumara, the current Personality of our planetary Logos, the 12-petalled golden Lotus.

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On a cosmic or monadic level, Sirius presides over Leo (the Sign ruled by the Sun for human evolution): it is the electrical Source (Buddhi manifesting Atma) of the second type of Fire, the solar Fire, focused in the Heart of the Sun (the solar Lotus on the cosmic manasic plane) and expressed ‘locally’ by the physical Sun. Sirius is literally our Sun of suns, our cosmic Lion of Will-to-Good.

“Later, when the new world religion is founded and is working, we shall find that the major, monthly festival in August, held at the time of the full moon, will be dedicated to the task of making contact, via the Hierarchy, with Sirian force. Each of the months of the year will later be dedicated (through accurate astrological and astronomical knowledge) to whichever constellation in the heavens governs a particular month, as Sirius governs Leo.” (Esoteric Astrology, 299) 

On the astronomical level (that of Appearance), joining in a triangle the Sirius–Orion’s Belt–Taurus/Pleiades axis with the Great Bear at the top, the galactic anticenter emerges inside (red circle in the figure), around which Gemini, Auriga and the ‘arm’ of Orion the Hunter preside.

The cosmic spiritual Triad that guards the galactic anticenter on one side and the galactic Heart on the other: what a supermundane wonder are the signatures of Heaven!

Also in relation to the solar or egoic Plane of the Ecliptic, Sirius is intimately connected to the 2^nd Aspect, particularly through Gemini, the “head” of the cosmic Christ: Gemini is the point of entry, in the 12-sign Zodiac of the evolution of consciousness, for the intelligent cosmic Love/loving cosmic Intelligence coming from Sirius.

The presence of Sirius is in fact all-pervading in the Lotus of the Zodiac, a sort of Heart in the Head (Will-to-Good) guiding the Plan of evolution of solar Consciousness:

• it presides over Leo from a cosmic point of view,
• it distributes cosmic Love in the solar and planetary System through Gemini and the Hierarchy,
• it reaches every heart and the Hierarchy through Pisces and the planet Uranus (EA, 444),
• through the Capricorn-Cancer axis and the planet Saturn, it stimulates sensitivity and the Probationary Path in humanity, exercising this cosmic Traction especially at the time of the solstices,
• is the “brilliant Star of Sensitivity” that dominates the Fourth human Hierarchy through Scorpio and the Fixed Cross, and is “the Star of Mercury and the Buddha” that prepares humanity for the first three initiations:

“Scorpio is under the influence or inflowing energy of Sirius. This is the great star of initiation because our Hierarchy (an expression of the second aspect of divinity) is under the supervision or spiritual magnetic control of the Hierarchy of Sirius. These are the major controlling influences whereby the cosmic Christ works upon the Christ principle in the solar system, in the planet, in man and in the lower forms of life expression. It is esoterically called the ‘brilliant star of sensitivity’.” (EA, 197)

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In the Egyptian Olympus, the Sun of suns is the progenitor of all the gods and goddesses of our “local” Firmament, with a receptive function (Isis) with respect to Orion (Osiris), as well as reuniting all his “lost parts”. Once reunited, Osiris returns to fertility with Isis, who then assumes the role of Great Mother. But he is also the Initiator to the Mysteries and God of Wisdom:

“SIRIUS (Gr.). In Egyptian, Sothis. The dog-star: the star worshipped in Egypt and reverenced by the Occultists; by the former because its heliacal rising with the Sun [today around mid-August in our latitudes] was a sign of the beneficent inundation of the Nile, and by the latter because it is mysteriously associated with Thoth-Hermes [the Dragon God], god of wisdom, and Mercury [associated with the 2^nd Aspect and 4^th Principle Buddhi], in another form. Thus Sothis-Sirius had, and still has, a mystic and direct influence over the whole living heaven, and is connected with almost every god and goddess. It was “Isis in the heaven” and called Isis-Sothis, for Isis was “in the constellation of the dog”, as is declared on her monuments. … Sirius is also Anubis, and is directly connected with the ring “Pass me not” [Anubis is the Egyptian Pluto, also son of Isis, the Egyptian god of generation, depicted with the head of an animal, dog or jackal, also called ‘the Lord of the Underworld, of the lower world or Hades’ where he introduces the souls of the dead (the reincarnating entities); since Hades is in a certain sense the womb or uterus]; it is, moreover, identical with Mithra, the Persian Mystery god, and with Horus and even Hathor, called sometimes the goddess Sothis…”. (H. P. Blavatsky, Theosophical Glossary)

Osiris, Anubis and Horus

The Great Heart and Magnet Sirius is also the Father of our Sun and stimulates the head centre of disciples:

“Influential and potent forces pouring in at this time from the great stars Betelgeuse [Orion] and Sirius. To these two influences, the disciples of the world in the senior ranks of the New Group of World Servers definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the heart centre (Betelgeuse) and the head centre (Sirius).” (Esoteric Psychology II, 721)

In summary, the Two Great Origins Isis-Osiris, Sirius-Orion, emanate the Will-to-Good and the Love-Wisdom to realise it.

Thus, in the eternal Symbols of the Firmament, Orion, the Hunter of the heavens, the Great cosmic Soul, pursues the constellation of the Hare, Matter, and dominates it with the help of the two Dogs, Major (Sirius) and Minor (Procyon), the higher Manas dominated by Buddhi prevailing over the lower Manas.

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SIRIUS, Magnet of intelligent Love,

is the lantern of the solar and cosmic Temple,

very high and central,

at the top of the altar of the Heart:

it guides the many to the central Unity,

at the service of the celestial Osiris ORION:

Sirius is the divine Ray of the Great cosmic Christ.

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… And the Sun of Suns shines to the everlasting Song of the Great Labor. [4]

[1] The central point or axis of the evolutionary and orbital spiral of the solar System is, astronomically speaking, the Galactic Centre. Furthermore, according to the Teaching, our solar System would have a ‘gravitation’ of 250,000 years around the star Alcyone in the Pleiades (Taurus), certainly ‘subjective’, but presumably also objective, in the sense of a possible solar precession around that central point.

“Scientists have not yet admitted into their calculations the fact that our solar system is revolving around a cosmic centre [Alcyone?] along with six other constellations of even greater magnitude in the majority of cases than ours, only one being approximately of the same magnitude as our solar system. This cosmic centre in turn forms part of a great wheel [revolution around the galactic centre?] till—to the eye of the illumined seer—the entire vault of Heaven is seen to be in motion. All the constellations, viewing them as a whole, are impelled in one direction.” (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 1084 – TCF)

[2] TCF, pp. 1058-9.

This unknown and mysterious point is somehow ‘veiled’ by the so-called “apex” towards which our solar System is heading, according to astronomers, located between Vega in the constellation Lyra (the Seven-stringed lyre of the Music of the Spheres) and the constellation Hercules – the cosmic Disciple.

[3] “Forget not that relating our planet to the planet Venus is a planetary antahkarana [bridge between personality and soul, and between soul and monad], passing from thence to the Heart of the Sun and later to the cosmic mental plane. There are “rainbow bridges” carrying the sevenfold energies of the seven rays from planet to planet, from system to system, and from plane to plane on cosmic levels. It is over these bridges that the will of the related spiritual Identities is projected, producing that synthesis of effort which is distinctive of the cooperative systemic life.” (Rays and the Initiations, p 406 – RI)

[4] Agni Yoga Series, Leaves of Morya’s Garden I – The Call § 200

This inspiring Model of the Muses has been contemplated and asserted in the Great Year 2025 of the Conclave of the Masters, as these Great Goddesses/Devas of Beauty are here intended as part of our planetary Hierarchy, and now we want to elaborate and penetrate their Symbol and Divine Legend together.

We entitle this journey on the wings of Harmony: “The Academy of Muses“.

The School of Athens – Raphael Sanzio – Vatican Museums

The Esoteric Teaching affirms that universal Unity and Brotherhood, primary Ideas of the Aquarian Age (and beyond), are realized through the understanding of Beauty, Harmony, that Art of living which is the destiny and responsibility of the human Soul, called to anchor Heaven on Earth, through the Fourth Egoic Ray of our Fourth human Hierarchy:

“Humanity has always loved Art, even in those recurrent periods, like the present, which no longer know what it is and do not produce it. When the Muses circulate among them, human beings perceive their superior energy and cultivate it; when they retreat to their Heavens, human beings feel bereft and bleak.

The Greeks, we know, recognized and named them. The Muses come and go, sing and dance and are living rhythms and all peoples honor them, as a scent and balm of existence. … Man cannot survive without Art, even though he has not yet fully understood its nature and Law. Indeed, how can the Infinite be exhausted? … Art is born in the heart and protects man from the disasters occasioned by his brain.

... One seeks it and sometimes finds it not only with the brush, or the compass, or the chisel, or the flute, but with every breath, because it is inseparable from life.

What the one wills and the 2 loves and the 3 plans is reflected by the 4, and it is Art. It is the Art of living, the highest art of all. Man is called to make a work of Art of his existence, in the broadest and most complete liberty. 

… There will be a return to understanding that the ways of real pan-human communion spring forth from Art. Its light and smiling traces will bind peoples together, much better than other pseudo-visions which have cruelly separated them.

… The Light of Art is the clearest. Nothing reveals the imperfect, the incorrect, the weak, the inexact and the false better. … Art is therefore the great hope for the harmonious union of the human race and between this and the other kingdoms of nature. What was never achieved with weapons, the goal not reached by fighting religions, the missed objective of all kinds of ideologies, will be reached by Art and secret Muses who inhabit the spaces and treasure their immensity …”. (From Asserting the Planetary Plan, Goal 6.4)

“The Muses have a very high, indeed unique, place in the divine hierarchy. They are called daughters of Zeus, born of Mnemosyne, the Goddess of memory; but this is not all, for they, and they alone, bear, like the father of the Gods himself, the appellation of Olympians, an appellation by which men used to honour the Gods in general, but – at least originally – no God in particular, with the exception of Zeus and the Muses.”[1]

Clio, Thalia, Erato, Euterpe, Polymnia, Calliope, Terpsichore, Urania and Melpomene –
marble sarcophagus Roman art 150-160 A.D. (Paris, Louvre)

“The voice of the divine maidens does not merely celebrate what has been created, but orders it and, in ordering it, adorns it: it endows it with meaning and beauty. The word is not a supplement that is added to what exists, but a power that fulfils the world and makes it be in all its splendour. By pronouncing and singing the things that inhabit the universe, the voice of the Muses gives them substance and value. … Therefore he who knows the sound-word of each thing and knows how to understand its music also possesses the fundamental knowledge to act upon reality and to modify it: the knowledge of the word is the secret power of a sound that becomes action, moving and transforming, at will, every existing datum. The very body of the gods is interwoven with meters and songs. It follows that he who has perfect mastery of that sound wisdom can, in turn, ascend to heaven: with the right rhythm and the right song, one can transform one’s transient nature and become immortal.” [2]

Esoterically, invoking the Muse is listening or remembering the Voice of Spirit, mastering “the latent force in sound, speech and music”; this is how Language is defined, the fourth force/shakti of Nature, the Mātṛkāśakti or Mantrikashakti, the very nature, energy and dignity of the Fourth Human Hierarchy: ourselves in essence, Solar Angels or Sons of Mind, winged Messengers between the worlds of spirit and matter (Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, is the Regent of the 4th Hierarchy and the 4th Ray of Harmony). We, human Monads, Spiritual Souls called to create the Good, the Beautiful and the True out of Love (Buddhi-Manas).

The Nine Muses, hierarchical and devic Powers who, as the crown of the God of Love, Zeus-Jupiter (the divine Second Ray of our solar system), and guided at the center by Sun-Apollo, make Creation perfect through Their songs and dances, thus teaching the saving Art to the Heroes among human beings, to the disciples of the Art of living according to the hierarchical Principle of Good, Beauty and Truth.

Apollo-and-the-Muses-John-Singer-Sargent-1921-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-Boston

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Here are the dates, topics and registration form for the 9 meetings 2026 (online on Zoom 7pm UT, or 6pm daylight time– video recordings will then be available to registered participants):

The Academy of Muses

* January 27, 2026: Introduction to “The Academy of Muses”

* February 26: Between Heaven and Earth – The Memory of the Celestial Olympus

* March 31: The Creative Power of Sound – The Fourth Force

* April 21: The Sacredness of Myth – The Legend of the Muses

* May 14: Initiated Man = Artist – The Song of the Olympian Virgins

* June 9: The Archetypes of the Muses

* October 1: The Lotus of the Muses

* November 5: Laws and Principles of Beauty 1

* December 3: Laws and Principles of Beauty 2

To register or for further information, please write to info@theplanetarysystem.org.
These meetings are free donation to attend.

S. BOTTICELLI, DANTE and BEATRICE

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[1] Walter Friedrich Otto, Theophania.

[2] From: Davide Susanetti, “Luce delle Muse – La sapienza greca e la magia della parola” (Light of the Muses. Greek Wisdom and the Magic of the Word) (DSM)

It is a light and a hope that blossoms in the wake of the centennial Conclave of the Hierarchy held in this year that is drawing to a close, in which the powerful impact of the First Ray energy (of the Will–Power of Shamballa) poured into the heart of Humanity and was welcomed, in particular, by the consciousnesses of those who, in watchful anticipation, work for the common Good.

Thus urged, the Disciples feel called to perform a courageous act: to look to the Centre where the Will of God is known, committing themselves to the conscious construction of that section of the antahkarana bridge that connects the New Group of World Servers, intermediaries between Humanity and the Hierarchy, to the Nirmanakayas, intermediaries between the latter and Shamballa.

Until now, in an attempt to imitate the Hierarchy, the Disciples of the world have mainly worked with the sevenfold model, a number that relates to the construction of form (the Stars of Life, the Lambdoma, the Plan). Now, however, understanding that they can and want to position themselves definitively on the soul level, where human and deva evolution (the Solar Angel) meet, they feel they must also begin to assert the number nine, the number of the spirit and the petals of the egoic lotus, which are synthesised in the three petals of the central lotus, vectors of the three fundamental energies (Will, Love and Light), at the centre of which is the “jewel of synthesis”, of a monadic nature, the anchor point of the power of Shamballa.

The nine of the egoic lotus reminds our consciousness of the nine Muses, exalted and co-creating devic Lives, together with the Second Logos and the planetary Gods/Logoi, as Handmaids of the Mother of the World, inspirers of Goodness, Beauty and Truth, and bearers of qualities and powers that have been widely established and celebrated on this blog over the course of the year just ended.

We therefore entrust ourselves to these divine powers to protect, inspire and sustain us along the path to the Summit, which is accomplished in the light of the stars.

At this point, having prepared the station for receiving the energy coming from the Shamballa Centre, we recognise that, inevitably, a fiery thread of that power is already beginning to descend into the consciousness of the Servers who, in response, can then think, going back up the same path, of setting up a human outpost in imitation of the spiritual Triad.

The year 2025 was therefore a watershed moment in the consciousness of the World Disciples and it is interesting to note, in relation to that thought-form we call “The Table of the Plan”, which is being constructed in 49 steps/years, that this year 6.5 inaugurates a ten-year cycle leading to the planned operational completion of this project, and 10 is precisely a number of perfection, recalling a cycle of the power of Shamballa.

Hence, a new stage in the work of building the Sanctuary of human Life is before us, and our joy grows and strengthens in the light of ever vaster, more glorious and renewing horizons.

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The impact on the ordinary world of this injection of Will and Power, an energy that has long been stirring mainly in the most egocentric human minds, is now manifesting itself in an increasingly evident and deleterious way. We are witnessing the arrogance of rulers who have forgotten that politics is the art of the possible, of the pursuit of the greatest common good, of the sacrifice of the personal self; we see the emergence of extreme nationalism, the closing of borders, wars of conquest and bloody conflicts with no dignified way out, entrepreneurs accumulating enormous amounts of money, and therefore power, while part of the world lives in hardship or outright poverty, not to mention the arms race, the abnormal exploitation of natural resources, and the pollution of land, sea and air.

Furthermore, Artificial Intelligence, a glorious human achievement that could support profound changes that are still unthinkable today, currently brings with it widespread insecurity and confusion, as well as fears about future developments.
In particular, we are already seeing its effects, especially in the field of information, where it is increasingly difficult to discern truth from falsehood; in the management of personal data in the hands of a few multi-billionaires who control it; in the field of security and armaments, not only atomic weapons, but also small lethal “intelligent” devices, powerful aircraft, ships and land vehicles with decision-making capabilities; and in the labour market, where robotics is increasingly replacing manual workers.

It must be said, however, that all this, as a reaction, should stimulate consciousnesses to discernment, to a commitment to improving human relations in order to resolve conflicts, to replacing the logic of abuse with that of mediation, to increasing the level of education and to encouraging greater mental polarisation.

In short, at a superficial glance, at the end of this era everything seems to be falling apart, and so it is: the old world order is collapsing, but those who have eyes to see know that its debris is material for building future towers, whose height has already been designed by the Architect.

In fact, while we watch and listen to the din of what is collapsing, amplified and driven by the media, we see and hear with our own means (the eyes and ears of the heart) how great is the number of Men of Good Will and “everyday heroes” and how the seeds of the new world are beginning to grow: a more open consciousness, new ways of teaching and working, greater responsibility and lightness, a One Humanity in universal Communion.

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With regard to the Table of the Plan that has been intuited for Humanity, the year that is beginning, the fifth of the sixth seven-year period dedicated to the New World Religion, is coloured by the relationship that occurs between the energies of the Sixth and Fifth Rays and its Goal, which must be understood by our consciousnesses and filled with meaning. It reads:

Communion of the Work. The Book of the System

Let us begin by examining the etymology of the words that make up this formula:

• Communion. From the Latin communio, commonality, participation, derived from the adjective communis, common. It is a term composed of the Latin preposition cum, together, and the adjective munis, “fulfilling one’s duty”, from the Indo-European root *MA-, which expresses the idea of measuring, distributing, exchanging. The term expresses the idea of energy exchange. (…). Communion means exchange in the unity of Being (see: “Communion”).

• Work (Lavoro in Italian). Labor derives from the Indo-European root *LABH-/*RABH-, which expresses the idea of grasping and turning one’s intention towards a goal: Sanskrit labhate, to take, to obtain; rabhas, violent movement of the soul or body; Greek lambano, to take; German arbeit, work, by transposition of the root from rab(h) to arbh; French labour, ploughing; English labour, hard work, labour pains. (…) To work means to strive with the utmost commitment to achieve a goal.

• System. From the Late Latin systema, which derives from the Greek systema, composed of the preposition syn, “with”, and the root of the verb istemi, “to stand”: “to stand together”. Indo-European root *STA-, which expresses the idea of being firm. System therefore indicates a firm composition of elements (see “Principles for the development of a system”).

Here is the graphic symbol that was intuited for this Goal:

Its seed reads:

“I read the eternal symbols.
Gradually, I penetrate their universal significance.
I begin to trace some other ones: minor, new, composite.
This is my project to communicate the truth.”

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The following are excerpts from Goal 6.5:

The energy of the Sixth Ray tends by nature to move upwards and inwards. In fact it explores the meanings (inner) which lead to the Ideas. That of the Fifth Ray, on the contrary, tends to move outwards and downwards: it constructs the formal dualisms which manifest the Ideas.

Equilibrium is produced when the 5, having exhausted its constructive mission, starts to recall inwards what it manifested, as the 6, having penetrated to the inside, begins to diffuse the light it finds there… 

The relationship between the energies of the sixth and fifth Rays is marvellously effective. Instead of being unstable, it shows itself as pulsating between four directions of Space, or branches of the Cross. It is a creator of tenacity, resistance, renewal and victory. It transmutes form, which is a prison, into a luminous dwelling and instrument of revelation, capable of communicating the joy of being and multiplying it infinitely.

It is then understood that illusion is illusory. Man’s search is dedicated at the beginning to form, which is for a long time understood to be the only reality, then is recognized as illusion and is finally lived in its essence…  

… It is precisely the Vortex 6.5 which holds open the paths of transverse communion.

In the light projected by this Vortex, the System writes its Book, which records the most minute events and the highest thoughts, visions, and sacrifices. On its many pages, the lines of the Group’s mental designs and progression to the Goals are traced and changed.

The true reader reads it with closed eyes, without opening it. Yet the Book is real, and is constantly updated by vertex 6.5, which cares for every sign, shielding and interpreting it. He knows that each chapter is linked to all the others, even the most diverse ones, and that the Book can be read in various ways, having neither end nor beginning: each page is in fact both the beginning and the end, and can be read from bottom to top, diagonally, from top to bottom, from inside to outside.

It is like Nature. Everything that is a sign can and should be read as it changes, illuminating the other signs and all the pages. Thus reading, the text gradually becomes simpler, clearer and finally transparent, and the Book, pages and signs vanish.

 … The Vertex 6.5 must therefore learn to read and write, in this order. It is in fact right that the System, like any creature, first learns from the signs of others and only afterwards traces its own, for other readers.

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The impulse of Goal 6.5, which is powerfully inaugurating the “Shamballa” decade, therefore shows us the way that leads to the completion of the work entrusted to us, and its title is unusual, since at first glance it appears to refer to two distinct objectives. The first statement responds precisely to the solicitations of the Six, Communion (which teaches us that in the Infinite all points are in mutual contact) and the Five, Work (the commitment of the Workers). The second seems to have been added later by the writer, moved by the hand of the Author, and only today do we understand that it could only be placed at this point in the cycle, because this is the right time to definitively detach ourselves, with lightness and simplicity, from the world of form and fix our gaze on the eternal source of the Will.

The Book of Life is written in the akasha by the supreme Author, through the infinite chain of lesser authors who are integral parts of His Being, and each of these continuously translates and retranslates, through their own experience, that Word which, like a song, reverberates incessantly throughout the Universe.

It can therefore be said that the great Author writes with many pens, strictly with invisible ink, and each aspiring author is one of these and will try to rewrite His Teachings to saturate a lower level of consciousness, thus becoming a teacher in turn.

When, at the end of this 49-year cycle, the Book of the System will be completed, its meaning will be understood and it will be released into Space with love and gratitude towards the Elder Brothers. The authors, like the great Builders of the Temple, turning their backs on their work, will once again gaze at the celestial spaces, empty of forms, where everything is One, to engrave in Space a new chapter of the never-ending story.

“In the Book of Life is contained the saturated stream of creative fire. Only upon the higher law can the page of Sublime Be-ness be affirmed. Valiantly must the spirit strive to the realization of all the subtle principles in order to attain higher knowledge. The Book of Life contains every aspiring action. The Book of Life contains the manifestation of all vital fires. The heart carries in itself all imprints of the Book of Life. The heart carries in itself the beauty of Be-ness and boundless cognition. Verily, the attainment of the heart affirms all possibilities. Verily, the attainment of the heart forges all the best steps.” (Agni Yoga Series, Infinity II § 507)

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Finally, let us recall the affirmation that will innerly sustain the mind and heart of the planetary Disciple throughout the year we are inaugurating, the last of the “Group Impact Week”, and that will support it in its service:

I IRRADIATE THE HIERARCHICAL ORDER

This “Group Impact” takes place every seven years from 21 to 28 December, a period in which, according to the Tibetan Master, there is a powerful influx of spiritual energy. It was last celebrated by the Disciples of the World at the time of the Capricorn solstice in 2019, with a powerful global silence. This ritual act, in which many participated, gave an important impetus to the unity of Service in its various forms and degrees and to the consolidation in consciousness of the reality of the one planetary Server, intermediary between Humanity and the Hierarchy, who dares to aim at the point where Light, Love and Power are synthesised in the transcendent fire of the Centre where the Will of God is known.

Finally, let us remember that the hierarchical Order is the guarantee of universal unity: it is governed by Sound, which is Number and Relationship and ensures the Freedom of every creature.
It is generated by the sublime Will of the cosmic Magnet: Order is therefore the unifying Law of the heart.

“ (…) Hierarchy is not coercion, it is the law of the Universe. It is not a threat, but the call of the heart and a fiery admonition directing toward the General Good…” – (Introduction to the Book Hierarchy, Agni Yoga Series)

“The basis of being will be inscribed into the Book of Life, and when the consciousness will reach the level of realization of eternal unity, then will it be possible to tell humanity, “Construct your life upon the principle of unity…” (Infinity I § 69)

Let us then solemnly take this first and decisive step together, which – without motion – leads us steadily towards the summit of Shamballa, whose base rests on our common heart. We must arm ourselves with courage, ardent commitment, detachment and sacrifice, in the knowledge that a spark of the power of the great Lord is already lit within us, at the centre of every heart, to show us the way.
And so, united with the Hierarchy, let us affirm:

(…) The Ruler of Shambhala is the fiery Impeller of Life and of the Fire of the Mother of the World. His Breath is ablaze with flame and His Heart is aglow with the fire of the Silvery Lotus.

The Ruler of Shambhala lives and breathes in the Heart of the Sun. The Ruler of Shambhala is the Invoker and the Invoked. The Ruler of Shambhala is the Sender of the Arrow and the Receiver of all arrows. The Ruler of Shambhala breathes the Truth and affirms the Truth. The Ruler of Shambhala is invincible, turning destruction into construction. The Ruler of Shambhala is the Crest of the Banner and the Summit of Life. Accept the Ruler of Shambhala as the manifestation of life; thrice I say—of life! For Shambhala is the guaranty of human aspirations. Our manifestation is guaranty of the perfecting of humanity. Our manifestation is the affirmed path to the Infinite. (Hierarchy § 5)

In the living Lambdoma matrix of the Plan’s inner Cycle, the next step 2026 is Goal 6.5, the first of the final decade (2026-2035) that brings us to the completion of its first 49-year Cycle (1987-2035). The decade of Synthesis begins.

See the full document presenting the Sowing Work and the beautiful heliocentric Ephemerides for 2026:

2026 Solar Rituality and Ephemerides

For the year 2026, as in previous years, we continue to celebrate the Entrances into the 12 Signs with a common online Ritual, available at the following direct link on Zoom>>>> on the following dates:

See and download the program of Dates and Time here >>>

Signs of the Heavens year 2026 – 6.5
(See or download the attachment)

“Love is the conqueror” – Adriano N.

Christoph Willibald Gluck | Dance of the Blessed Spirits
from Orpheus and Eurydice

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Life is comprised of an eternal succession of ideas and of manifestations of cosmic energies. How can a spirit who does not project his thought into the realm of ideas adopt the concept of Infinity! When thought will take on the significance of something vital and realizable, it will reveal to man where is joy and where is truth. (Infinity I § 96)

[Ideas] are true beings that are not born, do not perish, do not grow or diminish, do not change or become in any way. Ideas are the “Being” in itself. (Plato – Phaedo)

Long ago people understood that for the proper reception of these rays [of sublime energies] it is needful to bring the organism into a harmonious condition. For this purpose the Wise Ones have indicated the power of sacred invocations… Prayer and inward concentration are excellent attainments which render healthful the state of the spirit. Each one in his own way has contributed a manifestation useful to spiritual concentration, whether he sought the solution in music, in song, or in the dance… Fundamentally man was striving to create a particularly exalted state of mind, promoting the reception of the higher energies. (AUM § 4)

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Mercury – photographed on December 8, 2025
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We raise our gaze to Heaven, which is the first Idea. It is the World of Ideas, which dwell there and feed on it.
The study of Forms leads to Ideas, which are their Cause and Models. The study of Ideas, due to the need for balance and symmetry, reveals the process by which Forms appear. Ideas and Forms are not contrasting entities, but symmetrical, and both belong to the divine Reality of Cosmos. The former are unity, essence; the latter are multiplicity and becoming…
When imitation or image perfectly coincide with the real Model, Form and Idea cease to be distinct and become one. (E. Savoini, Man on the Planet and in the Heavens, only available in Italian)

Arise, O day! The atoms dance!
The souls dance ecstatically with joy.
The One for whom the celestial spheres and the wind dance,
I will whisper in your ear, where He dances!
Rumi

NASA – Chandra Observatory | Galaxy Cluster Abell 2744
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Today, in the heliocentric heaven, we celebrate the conjunction in Libra between Mercury, the Solar Messenger, the guarantor of symmetries and correspondences, the Master of Music who harmoniously connects the High and the Low and reflects the Model in all hearts of the System, and the Asteroid Terpsichore, she who delights in dance, understood as a privileged instrument for accessing the solemnity of the spirit, the Muse of movement that prepares us for the Sacred… An apotheosis of harmony and elegance, enhanced by the dazzling light of the pure Third Ray of Libra, an exciting celestial dance that urges us to give wings to our thoughts and fly high towards the first Idea, which can only be Heaven, that Model that Mercury encourages us to contemplate and guides us to imitate, a sublime momentum to bring the rhythms and sounds of Ideas into every thought, word, gesture and relationship of our daily lives, so as to realise – in the words of one of the greatest interpreters of the teaching of the Muses, William Shakespeare – the “music of men’s lives”!!

Supported by this electrifying conjunction, let us express, in balance and with a deep sense of Beauty, the eternal movement of the spirit, to constantly gravitate around the central Fire of all that is Right, Harmonious and Sacred!

Ken Browar – Deborah Ory | NYC Dance Project
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We can find many ways to express the concept of dance, but it is no longer necessary to prove – because it is a theoretical and historical fact that can be demonstrated in many ways – that dance is a form of thought: about the body, about man, about the world and their mutual relationship, about a tension to transcend… The elements necessary for any choreutic discourse are the body and movement, as tangible manifestations capable of showing something different from our everyday vision. The identity of these two elements, however, is not only a question of physical mechanics, but also of the ontology of the body and movement. The dancer, we might say, is a body capable of containing other worlds within the physical world; further worlds of imaginary and symbolic bodies, of possible bodies, visible and invisible… In other words, he enacts the profound interplay between internal and external, between the acting subject and the perceived object, because dancers do not exist separately from the form they are seeking and presenting. This means that, with its own language, dance offers an anti-dualistic perspective that “shakes up” the usual way of considering, thinking about and perceiving the human condition. If we consider what happens when a human body begins to dance, we must admit that its movement is not only physical… Every tiny movement of the dancer shows the traces of a body that is also soul, revealing the signs of a cosmos of possible gestures… (Paul Valéry – Dance and the Soul)

Karl Jenkins – Palladio (first movement)
Vitruvian Man – Choreography by David Fernandez
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Everything is Proportion and Commensure in the World of Ideas governed by the Rule of Art. Exactness illuminates it. Everything, including joy and bliss, is ruled by Number. Therefore every Being shines and the Law leads in all its regions. The World of Causes does not encompass any chance, nor disorder or doubt. There is nothing there created by man, yet he has his causing reason. The World of Ideas does not tolerate violence nor oppression, which are contrary to Harmony, its natural law. (The Distant Goals – Goal 6.3)

The idea is the cause that serves as a model for objects whose structure is written in the nature of eternity. (Senocrates in Proclus, Commentary on Parmenides)

Antonio Canova | Therpsichore
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Therefore, it was taught in the inner temples that this visible universe of spirit and matter is but the concrete image of the ideal abstraction; it was built on the model of the first divine idea. (H. P. Blavatsky, Cosmo-genesis)

How may one affirm the beginning of understanding? The spirit will teach one to apply the signs of straight-knowledge, but let the treasury be filled! Only desire to enter into the rhythm of the cosmic pulsation [dance]! (Infinity I § 19)

J. S. Bach: Mitten Wir im Leben Sind
Choreography by Anna Teresa De Keersmaeker
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Knowledge must be universal and upheld in full cooperation. The paths of communication know no barriers; so, too, the paths of knowledge must blossom in the exchange of ideas. (AUM § 341)

In singing, in poetry, in painting, in sculpture, in architecture, in speech, and, finally, in all manifestations of sound, musicality is expressed. In Hellas a ceremony to all the Muses was performed. Tragedy, dance, and all rhythmic movement served the harmony of Cosmos. (Supermundane § 42)

Igor Stravinskij | Apollon Musagète

Ken Browar – Deborah Ory | NYC Dance Project
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Note that Communion is precisely the set of solar Ideas.
(E. Savoini – Communion)

Beethoven – Ninth Symphony | Choreography by Maurice Béjart

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Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.
Rumi

An invasion of armies can be resisted,
but not an idea whose time has come.
(attributed to Victor Hugo)

A new dose of Infinity approaches the human Heart and pours into it its treasures toward the perfection of Being: of Good, Beauty, and Truth.

All that contributes toward accomplishment of the task of humanity’s advancement in the chain of evolution coordinates its earthly direction with Infinity. The task suggests that creative thoughts be applied toward discoveries in the realm of Space. Great is the loss when designs force the closing of that which induces the perfecting of all forms. Only when the evidence of all spatial riches will be realized will it be possible to give perfection to our earthly forms. Be-ness was affirmed before its full realization by humanity, and all forms of life were then in varying stages. There are as many stages in Infinity as there are steps of consciousness. All things are interrelated. All things are mutually attracted and everything is reflected in the depthless ocean of creativeness.

       The spirit able to assimilate the highest on the planet and cognizant of the incompleteness of one life is an eagle spirit, soaring unfettered in life, in the sun of knowledge above the desert.

         It is given to the spirit to know the cosmic fires! (Infinity I, § 26)

With our gaze raised, inspired by the Fires of Heaven, let us therefore sow a Poem [2] dedicated to the Plan of 49 Fires and Goals, to the hierarchical septenary Model, and to the Design envisioned by the Hierarchy for the evolution of systemic or group consciousness.

The Poem of the Plan

Celestial Muses of Order and Number,

Let the Word be one in rhythm with Heart!

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Sing to me, O Diva of the divine Gold

Of Its immortal destiny origin

Of us the Dragons of love and wisdom.

(for the Poem check the Italian version here – it has been not translated to not loose the poetic rhythm)

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[1] Saturn‘s 30-year cycle and Neptune‘s 164-year cycle intersect approximately every 36 years (9×4), when the two Luminaries of the 3rd Ray and the 6th Ray conjoin. This conjunction at the beginning of Aries is, however, supremely powerful because it initiates new, profound cycles, both of approximately 320 years (the last time Saturn and Neptune conjoined in Aries was in 1703, but at 12 degrees of the Sign) and of 164 years (Neptune entered Aries in 1861, the year of the unification of Italy, a nation with a 6th Ray Soul).

[2] The first draft is from October (in Libra) 2022 and the updates in Capricornus and Leo 2023 and 2025. See also the Celestial Poem from 5 years ago, in 2020.

Today, in the heliocentric heaven, that is the heaven of great causes, we see, in the sign of Scorpio, the conjunction of Venus with the asteroid Melpomene.
Venus embodies the canon of harmonious beauty and is the alter ego of Earth. Scorpio is the sign that presides over the Fourth Hierarchy, the human one, and transmits the energy of the 4^th Ray. Melpomene, she who sings, is the Muse of tragedy.

Let us imagine the graceful Venus joining Melpomene and passing through Scorpio, a sign that loves to dig deep, get to the bottom of things, and remove masks. It is both the agent of deception and the Light of liberation: deceit and triumph, the prevalence first of Maya and then of the Soul, war and peace, are Its secrets.

The result is an atmosphere of beauty that arises from the shadows, and in the company of Melpomene, beauty is tinged with dramatic depth, gravitas and integrity, without half measures, so as to transform wounds into awareness, desire into intuition, drama into wisdom.

It is a configuration that invites us not to flee from intensity but to use it as a sacred fire, with love and sacrifice that renounces personal motives in order to serve the common Good.

It is a situation that evokes love and death, Eros and Thanatos, and their continuous alternation.

Fratelli, a un tempo stesso, Amore e Morte
Ingenerò la sorte.
Cose quaggiù sì belle
Altre il mondo non ha, non han le stelle… 

[Children of Fate, in the same breath
Created were they, Love and Death.
Such fair creations ne’er were seen,
Or here below, or in the heaven serene…]

These are verses by Giacomo Leopardi, for whom Love and Death are primordial forces that accompany human beings along the path of life and push them towards infinity.

Eros, named after the Greek god of love, is the tendency (Desire) for attraction between elements: it generates, unites and warms. Thanatos, named after the Greek god of death, is the tendency for disintegration between elements: it destroys, fragments and separates.

Each growth of spirit requires burdening through circumstances. There exists an ancient legend that out of human sufferings are created precious stones. Thus it is, and when I say, “Burden Me”, it does not mean that I bring a sacrifice, I am only multiplying the power of the spirit… It is time to understand the responsibility and the privilege afforded by earthly incarnations. Yet people often avoid listening to the waves of space and catching the echoes and answers which come from various strata of the Universe… Harken to the Voice of Eternity, which leads to Bliss and Light. Fear not, fear not, fear not! (Agni Yoga Series, Hierarchy § 38)

Eros is the personification of nature’s attractive force that presides over the union of elements and beings, uniting the universe and the perpetuity of species. For this reason, in the human sphere, he is also considered by the Greeks to be the god of amorous attraction, corresponding to the god that the Romans called Love or Cupid. The personality of this deity is very complex: he is what moves us towards something, a divine principle that drives us towards beauty.

Thanatos, in Greek mythology, represents the personification of death and is also referred to as the One who rules death and as the Supreme Legion.

Two opposing and complementary forces therefore contend for the heart of the human soul: Eros, the vital and creative impulse, and Thanatos, the destructive thrust and return to the inorganic.

The relationship between Eros and Thanatos, conceived by Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis as the two fundamental impulses that govern the human psyche and profoundly influence the transformations of the Self, generates a continuous process of negotiation between these opposing forces.

Eros can push the subject to evolve, but the conflict with Thanatos can generate moments of crisis and psychological darkness that test identity.

Eros leads individuals to seek connection with others and with the outside world, which is essential for the expansion of consciousness and the integration of new dimensions of experience.

In this specific phase, individuals begin to feel a unity between their inner and outer worlds, seeking to express their authentic Selves in their relationships with others.

Although Thanatos may initially seem negative, we must recognise that it has its own transformative function, as it leads to the need to change, to transform, to die to dysfunctional patterns, old ways of being, outdated identities and models that are no longer useful to the process of individuation.

Thanatos allows for the exhaustion of what is obsolete and provides an opportunity for renewal and transformation, letting go of limitations, beliefs, fears, phobias, threats and illusions. In this sense, Thanatos is also the possibility of rebirth: the death of the ego to make room for the birth of the Self.

The connection between Eros and Thanatos is central to individuation, since the integration of both forces allows the individual to realise a complete Self. Eros without Thanatos could lead to excessive identification with personality and superficial desires, while Thanatos without Eros could lead to despair and isolation.

These are two energies in constant dialogue: the first builds, embraces and ignites life, while the second dampens, destroys and seeks to return to silence. This dance, like an eternal tango, shapes our behaviour, our desires and even our artistic creations.

We find Eros as a vital, expansive, connective force in many spiritual paths where it is the divine impulse that animates the cosmos:

In Taoism, it is Qi that flows and sets everything in motion;

In Tantra, it is Shakti, the creative energy;

In mystical Christianity, it recalls the idea of Agape, the love that unites everything;

In esoteric traditions, it is the force that drives the soul to grow and seek unity.

Thanatos, as a return to the origin, to silence, to the spiritual desire for total peace, is viewed positively in many traditions:

In Buddhism, it is the movement towards Nirvana;

In Taoism, it is the return to the Void;

In Western mysticism, it is the yearning to lose oneself in God.

On the inner journey, Eros is the spark that urges us towards the search for truth, light, and the desire to embrace existence instead of suffering it. It is the energy that moves, opens, and expands.

Thanatos is the other half necessary to dissolve illusions, to let go of the personality that wants to be right, to renounce what weighs us down: it does not destroy but frees up space, it is not dying but melting like snow in the sun.

An authentic spiritual journey continuously alternates between these two impulses:

Eros: I explore, I understand, I open myself up.

Thanatos: I let go, I remain silent, I empty myself.

A bit like breathing in and breathing out, like a monk who studies texts in the morning and sits in silence at sunset.

Magic happens and the journey flourishes when these two energies become allies: when Eros says he wants to go further, Thanatos responds by letting go of what is not needed to go further.

Then life becomes lighter and we grow effortlessly, like a plant that has finally found light and good soil… Let’s imagine the journey as an inner theatre:

Eros is the enthusiastic actor who wants to inspire, rehearse and learn his part. Thanatos is the Zen director who, every now and then, says to him: “Right, now stop fidgeting and remove everything that is unnecessary”.

When the two get along… the show becomes sublime.

The secret is rhythm, like breathing in and out: Eros fills us with life, Thanatos frees us from the superfluous, and when the flow is balanced, we feel alive without agitation and at peace without fading away.

The achievement of the spirit consists in that amidst earthly difficulties and struggles the spirit develops the higher striving… Thus, when it is said, “the achievement of spirit will be with those who have known the struggle and search for knowledge”, it means this will be a fiery attainment… (Agni Yoga Series, Fiery World III § 37)

Today we celebrate the seventh and final solar alignment of the year 2025* between the Earth and the royal star Aldebaran, the Eye of Revelation, Source of Light and Illumination for consciousness and matter – cosmic presidium of the central one among the Seven Rays or Energies of Life, “the fourth Ray of Harmony through conflict”.

Symmetrically, the disc and Presence of the Sun reveal the red star Antares, the Heart of Scorpio, source of cosmic Ardour or Desire, kamâ (divine Love), fiery garrison of the Sixth Ray of abstract Idealism and Devotion.

Such a fundamental Day (today) and Year (2025), coloured by the energies of the 6^th and 4^th Rays, sacred to power and will-to-Harmony between Love and Light, between divine Desire and Vision, are moments of cosmic possibilities that are realised in the “relative” here and now of our beloved Earth, and at the Centre and from the Centre of every Heart or Soul/Solar Angel.

According to the Teaching, the Ray of Harmony or Art (4^th R.), inherent in the Soul of the fourth human kingdom, is about to gradually “rise” to new splendour starting from 2025, the year of the externalisation of the Hierarchy (the spiritual Model, the closest to humanity); the profound reality or essence of Humanity, referred to as the Fourth Human Hierarchy, is increasingly magnified:

“… the fourth Ray teaches the art of living in such a way as to achieve a synthesis of beauty. There is no beauty without unity … humanity, the fourth kingdom [the central one among the seven]**, expression of the fourth creative hierarchy of human monads, is instinctively drawn to harmony … which is expressed in beauty and creative power, and achieved through struggle, effort and tension.” [From: “The fourth Ray of Harmony through conflict – Compendium, only available in Italian”]

On this Date, therefore, a powerful chord resounds between Heaven and Earth, the One planetary Server contemplates the perfect Harmony of the celestial Spheres and, sharing in the Glory of the Creators of the good, the beautiful and the true, asserts the 4^th Goal of the planetary Plan established by the Hierarchy:

4.4 – Imitation of the Hierarchy

“Imitation of the Hierarchy is to respond and conform to the higher Model.
Hierarchy is the central Reference for all the creatures of the Planet: Humanity must imitate It and gradually identify with the hierarchical Principle. The Canon 1-3-7 of the hierarchical and universal Life is the way to be and become “in the image and likeness” of the Divine, “in united breath and unified rhythm” with the Heart of Infinity.” [Excerpt from: Asserting the planetary Plan]

“[…] To imitate means to create, however surprising, at first. He who imitates a Model goes by increments. […] If one thinks that even the planetary Logoi, sublime Intelligences, pursue Their great Models, and that, copying them, they are elevated from sphere to sphere, drawing with them innumerable masses of a lower consciousness, one understands the power implicit in the act of imitating the Superior creatively and one sees how the evolutionary process appears discontinuous in the effects whereas it flows from a constant impulse.” [First Vertex, The distant Goals, Goal 4.1]

“… It would be unwise to send out a boat without a rudder. But the Pilot is predestined and the creation of the heart will not be precipitated into the abyss. Like milestones on a luminous path, the Brothers of Humanity, ever alert, are standing on guard, ready to lead the traveler into the chain of ascent…” [From the Introduction of the book Hierarchy – Agni Yoga Series]

“… We, your Brothers, know that page of life wherein is inscribed the oneness of Cosmos. We affirm that the manifested evolution is created not in dissociation but in a limitless striving of harmony. The more beautiful, the more high. The more powerful, the more high…” [Infinity I § 71]

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* In this Great Year 2025, Goal 6.4 of the Plan, consecrated to the intelligent understanding or communion with the Beauty and Harmony emanating from the Order of Creators, the universal Hierarchy, Glory and Power of ‘He in Whom we live, move and have our being’, the One Server solemnly asserts the Seven central Goals of the evolutionary Plan, orienting them to Seven primary Stars, cosmic bearers of the 7 Ray Fires (together with the Triad of intimate constellations Ursa Major, Sirius and Pleiades), and ritually does so on their 7 Dates of annual alignment with the Earth from the Sun’s heliocentric perspective: the Ecliptic of the Heart then pulsates and vibrates with even more sublime harmonies, and the planetary Ajna Centre (the planetary Group/Server), the Rose Window of the Temple for Humanity, opens to the supernal Light of Cosmos.

For the previous alignments see:

First Goal – Restoration of the Mysteries

Second Goal – Return of the Christ

Third Goal – Group Initiation

Fifth Goal – New Culture New Civilization

Sixth Goal – New World Religion

Seventh Goal – Order. Restoring the Plan

** The esoteric Teaching of the trans-Himalayan tradition presents the human Kingdom as the central bridge between the three higher Kingdoms (spiritual, planetary, solar) and the three lower Kingdoms of nature (mineral, plant, animal), just as it presents the Idea of Humanity as the third planetary Centre, the Throat or creative Centre, part of the governing Triangle of the Earth together with the second magnetic Heart Centre – the planetary Hierarchy – and the first governing Head Centre, Shamballa, the solar Government of our Planet.

Today, in short, that loving joy that Christ called ‘a special wisdom’ resounds in the heavens, speaking to us of new beginnings, and our grateful hearts respond to that call by opening like flowers and emanating the scent of their beauty.

In this luminous context, let us reflect on that special state of consciousness we call Bliss.

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Let us begin by returning with the mind of the hearts to the time when the Great Master walked the roads of the Earth bringing the glad Tidings. One day He gave a speech, remembered as “the Sermon on the Mount”, in which, speaking to all those who had gathered to listen to Him and to those who would listen to Him in the future, He said:

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven. (…)” (from the Gospel according to Matthew, 5; 3–12)

At the powerful sound of those words, many of those present probably felt heartened, understood the value of their lives and realised that they were, in a certain sense, privileged, that is, that they were on the path to salvation and bliss, and likely decided to increase their commitment to living righteously, without allowing themselves to be distracted by the malice of the world. Bliss here, therefore, is the ‘reward of righteous men’, who can access glimpses of heaven to cling to in the midst of ordinary life.

Twelve centuries later, St Francis made a similar speech to his companions, speaking of perfect Joy, that state of authentic contentment and inner serenity that is found in accepting suffering and injustice with patience, love and gratitude.
As it always happens, some, even those close to him, did not understand His words, but others perceived their value and still today continue to follow Him on the path to bliss.

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In the first half of the last century, at the beginning of the transmission of His Teaching, the Master of Agni Yoga made seven statements that defined its intrinsic nature and established the quality of the relationship with the disciples to whom He was giving Himself:

I am—your Bliss
I am—your Smile
I am—your Joy
I am—your Rest
I am—your Strength
I am—your Valor
I am—your Wisdom

These are impactful phrases that can clearly be connected to the seven Rays, suggesting that they should be understood as different ways of describing that state of grace, that quiet and joyful fulfilment, that relative perfection independent of any external situation, which we recognise as Bliss.
Our Bliss, therefore, is the Smile of the Master, as we see it depicted in paintings or sculpted in statues on the faces of great Beings and which, when it blossoms within us, we perceive as a sense of loving, subtle, inclusive, profound saturation.
The third aspect of Bliss speaks to us of that light and crystalline Joy that emanates from the Master’s aura and that sometimes overwhelms us all of a sudden when we are faced with His Teaching or the beauty of creation.
The fourth is His Rest, that ‘place’ of peace where all opposites are resolved in harmony, that confident and serene tranquillity that comes from the awareness that He is in us now and forever.
And it is from His Strength that we feel that calm, yet determined, and confident certainty spring forth, allowing us to dare to say, looking at the shining stars: “Hail to you, Brothers!”
The sixth aspect of Bliss is the Valour of the Master who dwells within us and erases all remaining fear from our hearts; we experience this in that tense silence in which we are aware that nothing is impossible.
The last aspect is His Wisdom, which allows us to finally recognise ourselves, in turn, as masters.
Let us also remember that the Master affirms that upon each of us “a receptacle of Grace” [Bliss] has been bestowed: it is our treasure, which must be carefully guarded and nurtured in our shared heart.

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During the same period, so rich in teachings, the Tibetan Master, in the Treatise on Cosmic Fire, explains that Bliss is found on the atmic level of consciousness and is the sublimation of the sense of hearing: it is therefore related to the Sound that builds and maintains the Creation in existence.

Here are some excerpts from the text on this subject (see pages 190–192):

Hearing. This, very appropriately, is the first sense to be manifested; the first aspect of manifestation is that of sound, and necessarily therefore we would expect sound to be the first thing noticed by man on the physical plane, the plane of densest manifestation, and of the most marked effects of sound, regarding it as a creating factor. Pre-eminently the physical plane is the plane of hearing and hence the sense ascribed to the lowest plane of evolution, and of each of the five planes. On this seventh or lowest plane man has to come to full cognisance of the effect of the Sacred Word as it is in process of sounding forth. As it reverberates throughout the system, it drives matter into its appointed place, and on the physical plane finds its point of deepest materiality and of most concrete demonstration.

The key for man to discover and turn, concerns itself with the revealing of the mystery of:

a. His own sound.
b. His brother’s sound.
c. His group sound.
d. The sound of that one of the Heavenly Men with whom he is connected.
e. The sound of the Logos, or the sound of nature; of the solar system, of the Grand Man of the Heavens.

Therefore, we note that on the physical plane a man has to find his own note, finding it in spite of the density of the form.

a. On the physical plane he finds his own note.
b. On the astral plane he finds his brother’s note; through identity of emotion he comes to the recognition of his brother’s identity.
c. On the mental plane he begins to find his group note.
d. On the buddhic plane, or the plane of wisdom, he begins to find the note of his planetary Logos.
e. On the atmic, or spiritual, plane the note logoic begins to sound within his consciousness.

(…) Hearing on the astral plane is commonly called clairaudience, and means the ability to hear the sounds of the astral plane. It is a faculty that demonstrates throughout the entire astral body, and a man hears all over his vehicle and not only through the specialised organs, the ears, the product of physical plane action and reaction. 

(…) Hearing on the mental plane is simply an extension of the faculty of differentiating sound. The hearing dealt with on all these planes is the hearing that has to do with the form, that concerns the vibration of matter, and that is occupied with the not-self. It has not to do with the psyche, or the telepathic communication that proceeds from mind to mind, but with the sound of the form or that power whereby one separated unit of consciousness is aware of another unit who is not himself. Bear this carefully in mind. When the extension of hearing becomes such that it concerns the psyche, then we call it telepathy or that wordless communication that is the synthesis of hearing on all the three lower planes and which is known by the Ego in the causal body on the formless levels of the mental plane.

On the buddhic plane, hearing (now of the synthetic quality called telepathy) demonstrates as complete comprehension, for it has involved two things:

1. A knowledge and recognition of individual sound,
2. A similar knowledge of group sound,
and their complete unification. This causes the most perfect comprehension, and is the secret of the Master’s power.

On the atmic plane this perfected hearing is seen as beatitude. Sound, the basis of existence; sound, the method of being; sound, the final unifier; sound therefore realised as the raison d’être, as the method of evolution, and therefore as beatitude.

Based on these indications, our minds might initially lead us to believe that we are far removed from the atmic plane, where Bliss resides. But this is not the case: first of all, because, as we know, distance is an illusion; secondly, because, as a group, we are already firmly established on the telepathic level and are therefore close to the buddhic plane; furthermore, we know that the planes of consciousness are not impermeable and, when our awareness stabilises on a given level, sparks of consciousness are already projected onto the subsequent ones.
Finally, let us consider that, while hearing is transfigured into Bliss, the other senses also begin to transmute their nature and reinforce the process of elevation.
We can therefore affirm that we all know the soundless sound of Bliss, that infinite ocean of silence that the heart absorbs and contains, in which we can suddenly find ourselves immersed, in the midst of everyday noise, struck by the beauty of the earth, the silence of the sky, or the timeless power of a work of art, or when we are surrounded and penetrated by music composed and played with mastery by human minds and hands.

Let us therefore allow ourselves to be led by the aspiration of the spirit which, as the Master says, is the ‘sparkling of Bliss’ and enables us to walk decisively towards the majestic summit of Shamballa.

The universal Eye of Shambhala
brings Bliss to mankind.
The universal Eye of Shambhala
is a Light on the path of mankind.
The universal Eye of Shambhala
is that Star which has guided all seekers.

(Agni Yoga, Hierarchy § 5)

The Seven Formulas of the Fourth human Hierarchy

Here’s the Foreword

Who or what is Humanity?

The esoteric Teaching of the trans-Himalayan tradition presents the human Kingdom as the central bridge between the three higher Kingdoms (spiritual, planetary, solar) and the three lower kingdoms of nature (mineral, plant, animal), just as it presents the Idea of Humanity as the 3^rd planetary Throat Centre or creative Centre, part of the governing Triangle of the Earth, together with the 2^nd magnetic Heart Centre – the planetary Hierarchy – and the 1^st governing Head Centre – Shamballa, the solar Government of our Planet.

Furthermore, the Essence of Humanity is indicated as the Fourth human Hierarchy, one of the 12 creative Hierarchies, or orders of conscious lives, which constitute and build the body of manifestation of our solar Logos. (see the documents La Manifestazione and Le Gerarchie creative e l’Evoluzione, only available in Italian at the moment)

According to these Indications, which are revolutionary compared to common thinking and were only made public at the end of the 19^th century, the current fourth human kingdom is therefore the body of expression of certain solar Beings, an apparent Form actually composed of 4 creative Hierarchies.

Numerous excerpts have already been quoted, in the two documents mentioned above, in an attempt to understand this dizzying vision of ourselves and the field of reality in which we “live, move and have our being”. We therefore refer you to these documents before embarking on this further attempt to establish the seven primary points of our solar Essence.

Addressing this theme of the Teaching is definitely a difficult challenge for the mind, yet it is recognised as a necessary, if not urgent, action to transform and elevate the human conception of reality, of our nature, origin and destiny, especially in this crucial time of 2025.

Let us therefore attempt to compose the Seven ideal Formulas of the Fourth human Hierarchy, in order to fix them on the mental plane, so that they may become, in due course, the common heritage of thought and realisation of Humanity.

We recognise, in fact, the creative power of Thought and Vision (they too are living substances of ‘hierarchies of builders’!). We recognise that deep awareness of the human Essence and Nature is part of the initiatory Path, that awakening of our hierarchical authority and dignity which will liberate human and planetary creative power and guide us back

from darkness to light,

from the unreal to the real,

from death to immortality,

from chaos to beauty.

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Today we celebrate the sixth solar alignment of the year 2025* between the Earth (and her Consort Uranus, the solar Initiator) and the Star Alcyone of the Pleiades, the substantial Origin and pivot of the revolution of the Seven solar Systems of which ours is a part – a primary star connected to Aquarius, the next evolutionary horizon, and to ‘individual’ Service, in the sense of responsible and conscious.

A Date sacred to the generative power of the Third Ray (Pleiades 3rd, Sirius 2nd, Great Bear 1st), the Third Fire of the Divine, active or creative Intelligence at the basis of the Evolution of Consciousness, spiritual Light: “from the esoteric angle, evolution means a steadily increasing sensitivity to light and illumination.” [A. A. Bailey – Rays and the Initiations, p. 642]

On such a Day, therefore, and in the here and now ‘relative’ to our beloved Earth (3^rd Ray), the current ‘evolutionary field of consciousness’ Sagittarius–Gemini (the active zodiacal axis)**, the sweet influence of the cosmic Mother radiates: the rhythmic motion of the celestial Fire illuminates the evolutionary and unifying Purpose, and incessantly propels the Plan forward towards the one Goal.

The common Dream of the human Group, of the One Planetary Server, is made of the same Substance and Energy, the marvellous reality that ensures the unfolding of the planetary Plan established and executed by our Hierarchy.

The planetary Group/Server contemplates this vision and asserts the Third Goal:

3.3 – Group Initiation

“Group Initiation is the new method of the planetary evolution Plan to awaken Humanity (Planetary Throat Center). In the Earth’s evolutionary scheme (as in just two other planetary schemes), an experiment to accelerate the common advancement is underway: carrying out the Plan for Humanity is realized through group initiation, i.e., through the conscious “coordinated cooperation towards the common Purpose”. Humanity, the Center of creative Intelligence, will be structured as a group of groups, a unitary system and hierarchical order to illuminate and administer the Planet harmoniously. [From: Asserting the planetary Plan]

“Group initiation is based upon a uniform and united group will, consecrated towards the service of humanity and based upon loyalty, cooperation and interdependence. In the past, the emphasis was upon the individual, his training and approach to initiation, and his solitary admittance to the Temple of Initiation. But this individual concentration will, in the future, give place to a group condition which will enable several disciples unitedly to move forward, unitedly to stand before the Initiator, and unitedly and simultaneously to achieve the great realisation which is the result and the reward of successful discipleship.” [Rays and the Initiations, pp. 17-18]

“… Group initiation means that the bulk of the members are correctly oriented; that they are proposing to accept the discipline which will prepare them for the next great expansion of consciousness, and that none of them can possibly be deviated from their purpose (note that word with its first ray or Shamballic implications), no matter what is happening in their environment or their personal life…” [Ibid., p. 36]

“Initiation is daring to approach the Image of Light and not fearing to look at It. Uniting with Light requires courage and a high degree of self-denial; this fearlessness is in itself a beautiful initiation.” [Supermundane § 232, Agni Yoga Series]

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* In this Great Year 2025, Goal 6.4 of the Plan, consecrated to the intelligent understanding or communion with the Beauty and Harmony emanating from the Order of Creators, the universal Hierarchy, Glory and Power of ‘He in Whom we live, move and have our being’, the One Server solemnly asserts the Seven central Goals of the evolutionary Plan, orienting them to Seven primary Stars, cosmic bearers of the 7 Ray Fires (together with the Triad of intimate constellations Ursa Major, Sirius and Pleiades), and ritually does so on their 7 Dates of annual alignment with the Earth from the Sun’s heliocentric perspective: the Ecliptic of the Heart then pulsates and vibrates with even more sublime harmonies, and the planetary Ajna Centre (the planetary Group/Server), the Rose Window of the Temple for Humanity, opens to the supernal Light of Cosmos.

For the previous alignments see:

First Goal – Restoration of the Mysteries

Second Goal – Return of the Christ

Fifth Goal – New Culture New Civilization

Sixth Goal – New World Religion

Seventh Goal – Order. Restoring the Plan

** From today until 21 December (solstice), the Sun-Earth axis intersects the Sagittarius-Gemini zodiacal axis: the very deep Direction to the galactic Centre and the ardour of the incessant search for the common Good, Sagittarius, and the seat of the cosmic Magnet, the head of the cosmic Christ, Gemini, ‘the point of entry for cosmic energy coming from Sirius’, intelligent Love or loving Intelligence.

(from Ephemerides 2025 – 6.4)

Esoteric Astrology teaches us that Uranus is the Luminary of “Electric Fire”, the Fire that gives life and incessantly renews it.

Uranus stands for the orderly Heaven, the Cosmos, in its organic and hierarchical totality, of living and vital Fire; it watches over the divisions, which are not separative but acts of communion. It organises forms into species and subspecies. It composes hierarchies of attributes, functions and values.

He is the custodian of the Door of Initiation and of the spiritual Hierarchy, those Great Beings who, from behind the scenes, guard and administer planetary and human evolution; he prepares and directs rhythms and rituals, whose unifying magic is the exact binding agent of all communions; he spiritualises or sublimates all forms, guiding them back to the One.

It can be said that rhythm is the progenitor of cooperation; and joint action, as we know, is a powerful driving force. Uranus, the Lord of Order, the cosmic traction, with His fiery touch on the one hand consolidates the bonds with the Sources of the Cosmos and its Laws, and on the other awakens the Mysteries in the depths of the consciousness of the servers animated by the Will-to-Good.

Today in particular, in the dazzling light of Taurus, Uranus, the solar Master of Ceremonies, radiates upon the Earth and into the Heart of the Fourth human Hierarchy the Order of the Seven Rays, the sevenfold Canon that builds true Beauty.

The eye open to cosmic vision recognises the rhythmic and solemn steps of the Plan that leads to majestic Unity.

“A great Oneness reigns in Cosmos as a powerful law.
Only those who adhere to this law can verily
take part in cosmic cooperation.” [2]

The Planetary Server consecrated to Heaven affirms himself in the most abundant Life with renewed tension and, in rhythmic coordination with the solar Brotherhood, saturates Space with the hierarchical Law, the key-idea associated with the 7^th Ray, extracted from the book Hierarchy of the Agni Yoga Teachings.

Today is the last of the 7 dates chosen to solemnly celebrate the Directions traced by our Earth, the ‘sphere of experience’, Humanity as the solar Centre, with its ‘Elder Brothers’, the solar Star of the 7 Sacred Luminaries, the Prototypes of the Seven Ashrams/Planetary Centres.

The energy vortex triggered by their conjunctions fuels the spiritual flame of the Planetary Server committed to giving continuity to the causative creative action and, through its vital tension, to engraving new Plans of universal Brotherhood in harmony with the other Kingdoms of creation.

See the document Hierarchical-Law

“Certainly one can attain only through adherence to Hierarchy. Only the understanding of the great law will open the eyes of humanity. How, then, not to penetrate into the might of constructiveness? Therefore, Our disciples must be imbued with an understanding of the affirmation of Hierarchy. Therefore, one can build only when Our Carriers of Fire carry Our Will and the disciples accept that which is sent. Each builder knows the law of Hierarchy.” [3]

“Of all principles leading to the broadening of consciousness, the principle of Hierarchy is the most powerful. Each manifested change is based upon it. Whither can the spirit direct itself without the Guiding Hand? Where can the eye and the heart turn without Hierarchy, when the Giving Hand of the Hierarch affirms the flow of destiny, and when the Hand of the Hierarch directs one to the best manifested date, and one becomes familiar with even the highest energies? Therefore, the seed of the spirit becomes imbued with the Cosmic Ray of the Hierarch. Since the most powerful principle contains in itself the potentiality of fire, the pure Fire of the spirit of the Hierarch is affirmed as the highest principle. Thus shall we remember our spiritual Leaders. Thus shall we revere the Law of Hierarchy.” [4]

Heaven, with Its Laws, is the true hierarchical Order to be imitated.

The government of the new Culture/Civilisation must recognise the value of the universal creative law: the sevenfold order and the work carried out in contact with the real Government, taken as a model. The septenary order is the key to understanding the solar cosmos and is the key to activating a new way of working together in a coordinated manner towards a common goal. The hierarchical order, that is, the constant movement towards Unity, is the basis of ideal communion and expresses the triumph of the evolutionary spiral according to the canon of beauty.

“Upon Oneness stands the entire affirmed Be-ness. The operating law is so stupendous that all cosmic construction rests upon this principle. In every manifestation this law assembles the parts, uniting those which belong to each other. This great law is the Crown of Cosmos.” [5]

The hero of the spirit, inspired by the Beauty of Heaven and with joy in his heart, participates in the creation of the future and sows sparks of Teaching that already flash in the creative spiral of human order.

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Key ideas towards hierarchical Brotherhood

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[1] Greek mythology tells us that Uranus, the god identified with the starry Heaven (Ouranòs), was married to Gaia/Earth, “She who sings” (from the Indo-European root *GA-): at the height of the conjunction, the Lord of Heaven renews his sacred marriage with his Consort. The etymology of marriage – Indo-European root SPEND – expresses the idea of celebration, of libation to sanction a sacred pact, and spondeo was the name given to the verses of the songs that accompanied the libations; the term responsibility, for example, derives from the same root.

[2] Agni Yoga Series, Infinity II § 48

[3] Hierarchy § 73

[4] Infinity II § 148

[5] Infinity II § 49

In this climate of extraordinary opportunity offered by Scorpio, the Sign that guides the Warriors of Victory to the triumph of Harmony, and by Taurus, the Sign of the new Group of World Servers, the Disciple of the One Humanity, with growing awareness, conquers the role of planetary Artist and, revealing his solar destiny as the fourth creative Hierarchy, realises his masterpiece on Earth according to the celestial Model.

(from Ephemerides 2025 – 6.4)

Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, the Herald with winged feet, swift and tireless, reflects and refracts the Central Light of the Sun in Space, mirroring in all hearts the “model of models”, the most beautiful and complete form of Art: the Art of living. He teaches humanity how to live in a solar way, he teaches us to fly, to give wings to Thought so that it can gravitate intensely around the central Fire of Goodness, Truth and Beauty; he urges us to express the music of the Far-Off Worlds, which is in fact the Art of living of the new solar Culture.

The Planetary Server consecrated to Heaven with renewed tension affirms himself in the most abundant Life and, in rhythmic coordination with the solar Brotherhood, saturates Space with Beauty, the key-idea associated with the 4^th Ray, extracted from the book Hierarchy of the Agni Yoga Teachings.

Today is one of the 7 dates chosen to solemnly celebrate the Directions traced by our Earth, the ‘sphere of experience’, Humanity as the solar Centre, with Its ‘Elder Brothers’, the solar Star of the 7 sacred Luminaries, the Prototypes of the Seven Ashrams/planetary Centres.

The energy vortex triggered by their conjunctions fuels the spiritual flame of the Planetary Server committed to giving continuity to the causative creative action and, through its vital tension, to engraving new Plans of universal Brotherhood in harmony with the other Kingdoms of creation.

“… There is mutual intensification between humanity and the beauty of Cosmos, and only thus can one affirm a cosmically united power. Such striving has constructiveness in it. The creativeness of thought has continuous inner blending, and the spirit of a cosmic creator knows the thought of Cosmic Reason. Thus, a sensitive Agni Yogi knows the flow of evolution, and each spatial thought finds corroboration. Each thought manifested by the fire of a creator imbues consciousnesses. Thus, We create the shifting of the spirit and affirm an enlightened cognizance.” [1]

“In Beauty the Infinite will manifest. In Beauty the teachings of the seekers of Spirit are illumined. In Beauty we are not afraid to reveal the truth of freedom. In Beauty we kindle the radiance in every drop of water. In Beauty we transform matter into a rainbow. There is no ugliness that will not be swallowed up in the rays of the rainbow, the rainbow formed when matter is decomposed. There are no fetters that will not decompose in the freedom of Beauty. How can we find words to discuss the universe? How shall we speak about the evolution of forms? How shall we raise the consciousness to a level where it studies the fundamentals? How to advance humanity to a point where it cognizes the world scientifically? Every cognition is born in Beauty. Learn how to think luminously…”. [2]

“Those who live under the power of Beauty are attracted toward constructiveness. They create by their potentiality the mastery of spirit. They regenerate life through Beauty. … The domination of spirit and heart is a great cosmic law. Therefore the Fiery World creates through the power of spirit.” [3]

The splendid torches of creative beauty from the distant Worlds are our source of light, indispensable and precious for the education of the heart and for accessing the Beauty of Harmony, which is voluntary concord: here is a golden seed of the new Culture to be spread everywhere, as a call for cosmic collaboration among all beings, at every level. The cosmic vision guides to the enlightened progress of the Wisdom of Truth, for “Rulership is in neither crowns nor crowds, but rather in the cosmic expanse of ideas.” [4], ideas that lead to this:

“Understanding Beauty will save the world”

“Learn to understand all the grandeur
of flight in the kernel of the spirit!” [5]

See the document Beauty

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1. Agni Yoga Series. Infinity II § 424
2. Leaves of Morya’s Garden II § 322
3. Fiery World III § 28
4. New Era – Community § 84
5. Infinity I § 22

The Great Renunciation

Renunciation of the causal body: awareness of the Spirit

Revelations and Mysteries:
At the fourth initiation, one understands the mystery of polarity.

Ray: Fourth Ray

Zodiac Signs involved:  Taurus

Plane: it takes place on the buddhic plane

Centre: Heart

The man, now a disciple, having gained control over his astral body and learned how to consciously activate his mental body, finds himself on the threshold of a new evolutionary plane.

At the third Initiation, that of Transfiguration, the entire personality is flooded with light flowing from above. Only from this moment on does the Monad definitively guide the Ego. The Disciple, having freed himself from the limitations of the physical, emotional and mental worlds, has a much broader vision; thus he becomes aware of the Purpose and planetary karma in all its vastness, and consciously advances towards higher expansions of consciousness. [1]

He goes towards the fourth Initiation, called the Great Renunciation. With this initiation, the disciple acquires freedom from all self-interest, and the renouncing of the personal life in the interest of a larger whole.  Even soul-consciousness ceases to be of importance and a more universal awareness, and one closer to the divine Mind, takes its place. [2] He thus manifests the supreme expression of the will-to-liberation from the three worlds—physical, emotional, and mental—with the aim of being able to help Humanity to a high degree by transmitting new energy to it.

The term Great Renunciation refers to detachment — a word that, in Eastern tradition, corresponds to the Western concept of renunciation.
It is an inner process that involves the “crucifixion” of the lower self, made possible only through the constant and daily practice of detachment. In Christianity, this moment is referred to as the Crucifixion, because Jesus, on the Cross, made the Great Renunciation for the salvation of Humanity: it was then that He received the Fourth Initiation. The term crucifixion, therefore, means “suffering with detachment”: the awareness that the soul does not suffer and that, for the Master who has attained liberation, there is neither pain nor anguish.

In this Initiation, the Law of Sacrifice begins to act upon the disciple, producing the destruction of the causal body, the body of the soul, so that the unified personality, infused by the soul, can act directly inspired by the Spiritual Triad, the triple expression or instrument of the Monad. The significance of these “destructive episodes which produce the freeing of the prisoner of the planet” (i.e., the divine, spiritual man) lies in the fact that, after the fourth initiation, the light of purpose is the sole controlling factor in the career of the initiate; he enters then upon a stage wherein he steadily approaches closer to the “centre where the will of God is known”. [3] The action of this Law “destroys all hindrances, breaks down all impediments and removes all individual obstacles, thus releasing the initiate into that vortex of force in which he learns the method of handling the planetary correspondence of that which he has individually overcome.” [4]

The concept of sacrifice has permeated all the teaching anent the Crucifixion or the Renunciation Initiation, both in the East and in the West. This is a sacrifice idea associated with the concept of pain, agony, suffering, patience, prolongation and death. Yet the true root of the word remains the same and gives the true significance: “Sacer”, to make holy; that is what in truth happens to the initiate; he is “made holy”; he is “set apart” for spiritual development and service. He is separated off from that which is natural, material, transmitted and handicapping, trammelling and destructive, and from that which lessens right activity for that which is new. He learns to define the Wholeness which is his divine right and prerogative. [5]

This initiation is therefore, in a unique sense, a culminating experience and a point of entrance into a new life for which all the past has been a preparation. Aspirants and disciples should remember that after the third initiation, the effects of the initiation which they may be undergoing are not confined simply to the individual initiate, but that henceforth at all the later initiations he becomes the transmitter of the energy which will pour through him with increasing potency at each application of the Rod. He acts primarily as an agent for the transmission, for the stepping down and for the consequent safe distribution of energy to the masses. [6]

Revelations and mysteries at the fourth initiation

At the fourth initiation another of the great secrets is revealed to him. It is called “the mystery of polarity”, and the clue to the significance of sex in every department of nature on all the planes is given to him. It is not possible to say much along these lines. All that can be done is to enumerate some of the subjects to which it gives the clue, adding to this the information that in our planetary scheme, owing to the point in evolution of our own Planetary Logos, this secret is the most vital.

Our Planetary Logos is at the stage wherein He is consciously seeking the at-one-ment with his polar opposite, another Planetary Logos. The subjects on which this secret throws a flood of light are:—

a. Sex on the physical plane. It gives us a key to the mystery of the separation of the sexes in Lemurian days.

b. The balancing of forces in all departments of nature.

c. The clue as to which Scheme forms with ours a duality.

d. The true name of our Planetary Logos and His relation to the Solar Logos.

e. “The Marriage of the Lamb” and the problem of the heavenly bride. A clue to this lies in the solar system of S…. which must be read astrologically.

f. The mystery of the Gemini, and the connection of our particular Planetary Logos with that constellation. [7]

The Rays at the Fourth Initiation: 4^th Ray

The fourth initiation… [is in] relation to the fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict. This fourth ray… is out of incarnation, as far as the reincarnating egos or souls of men are concerned.  From another angle, however, it is always active and ever present, because it is the ray which governs the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom in the three worlds of strictly human evolution. [8]

Fundamentally, the 4^th Ray is responsible for the efforts, tensions, and initial conflict between the pair of opposites we call spirit and matter. The Principle of Conflict, latent in every atom of substance, is always present before renunciation. It produces, first of all, conflict, then renunciation, and finally emancipation. [9]

In particular:

1. The fourth Ray of Harmony through Conflict is a controlling factor in human affairs at all times, and peculiarly today.

2. The Principle of Conflict is the agent of the Principle of Harmony and produces the strains and the stresses which will lead, finally, to liberation.

3. The great initiation of the Renunciation, plus the many smaller renunciations, is the result of inner conflict and ever precedes liberation into harmony and peace.

4. Conflict produces: War-Renunciation-Liberation. [10]

The zodiac signs at the Fourth Initiation

At the fourth Initiation, the action of Taurus intensifies in relation to the luminary Vulcan. Vulcan is the ray or planet of isolation for, in a peculiar sense, it governs the fourth initiation wherein the depths of aloneness are plumbed and the man stands completely isolated. He stands detached from “that which is above and this which is below”. There comes a dramatic moment when all desire is renounced; the will of God or the Plan is seen as the only desirable objective but as yet the man has not proved to himself, to the world of men or to his Master whether he has the strength to move forward along the line of service. There is revealed to him (as there was revealed to the Christ at the fourth great initiatory crisis in His life) some definite, active undertaking which embodies that aspect of the will of God which it is his peculiar function to appropriate and make possible of expression. This has been called in the Christian phraseology, “the Gethsemane experience”. The Christ, kneeling beside the rock (symbolic of the depths of the mineral kingdom and of the activity of Vulcan, the fashioner), raises His eyes upward to where the light of revelation breaks forth and knows at that moment what it is He has to do. Such is the test of Vulcan, ruling Taurus, of the soul, ruling desire, of the Son of God, fashioning His instrument of expression in the depths, grasping the divine purpose and so bending the will of the little self to that of the greater Self. The depths have been reached and there is no more to be done. The light from the eye of the Bull which with ever increasing radiance has guided the struggling soul must give place eventually to the light of the Sun, for Vulcan is a substitute for the Sun; it is spoken of sometimes as being veiled by the Sun and at others it stands for the Sun itself. It stands between the man and the Sun, the soul. Therefore, we have in this connection three symbols of the light:

1. Taurus – The eye of illumination or light. The Bull’s eye. Illumination. Exoterically—the physical Sun.

2. Vulcan – The one who reveals that which is deeply hidden and brings it up into the light. Esoterically—the heart of the Sun.

3. The Sun – The great Illuminator. Spiritually—the central spiritual Sun. Thus from every angle, illumination remains the theme of this sign. [11]

The 7 Planes of the Cosmic Physical Plane: the Plane of the Fourth Initiation

At this fourth initiation the initiate begins to function entirely and always upon the fourth plane, the buddhic levels of the cosmic physical plane—our intuitional plane. This is the case whether you count from below upwards or from above downwards. You have here again an indication of the central position of this initiation and of its importance. It is preceded by three initiations and succeeded by three initiations, leading up to that of the seventh or final planetary initiation, because the remaining two initiations are fundamentally not related in any way to our planetary Life.

The buddhic plane is the perceptive consciousness that is the pre-eminent characteristic of the Hierarchy. It is the fourth state of consciousness or intermediate state.

On the buddhic or intuitional plane (the fourth level of the cosmic physical plane) the mind nature—even that of the higher mind or the level of abstract thought—loses its control over the initiate and is henceforth only useful in service. The intuition, the pure reason, complete knowledge illumined by the loving purpose of the divine Mind… takes its place and the initiate lives henceforth in the light of correct or straight knowledge, expressing itself as wisdom in all affairs—hence the titles of Master of the Wisdom… From the buddhic level of awareness, the Master works; on it, He lives His life, undertakes His service and furthers the Plan in the three worlds and for the four kingdoms in nature. [12]

At this point, the Initiate realises that the antahkarana has been successfully completed and that there is a direct line of energy from the Spiritual Triad, along the antahkarana, to the mind and brain.

The Disciple then lays down the desire for life in form and formless life; he lays down the pride of the summit reached and renounces his Causal Body, which is replaced by the consciousness of the spirit. The causal body, as the vehicle of the soul, gradually dissolves through an act of spiritual will, no longer being necessary as an intermediary since, with the fusion of the lower mind with the higher, the entire bridge connects the Soul-infused Personality directly with the Monad. [Giuseppe Filipponio – The golden Door]

The centres at the Fourth Initiation – complete control of the heart centre

During the experience of the initiatory process in its first three phases, the initiate rejects control of the energies which are seated in the three centres below the diaphragm; he renounces their use for personality or selfish reasons. The centre at the base of the spine has received and distributed the energy of self-will (the will of the lower self) and is emptied and stands ready for the dynamic reception of the higher will which—using the spinal channel as the pathway or the symbol of the antahkarana—will pour into it from the highest head centre. The sacral centre which has received and distributed the energy which has fed the physical appetites to a far greater extent than is at present realised, is also under control—a control which is related to normal and proper direction from the throat centre and to the preservation of life on the physical plane, if the initiate chooses to incarnate for service ends. The solar plexus centre, which has received and distributed the energy of the astral plane, the energy of desire and of emotion, is likewise cleansed and purified; its energy is transmuted to such an extent that it can pass under the complete control of the heart centre, which henceforth and until the seventh Initiation of the Resurrection is “that whereby the initiate performs his hierarchical obligations”.

Therefore, at the Great Renunciation, the three lower centres reach a point of utter purification or speaking symbolically—of utter emptiness. No energy of their own (related to the selfish aeonial past) is left; they are simply pure receptacles for the energies of the three higher centres. The three lower centres are related to the three worlds of personality evolution; the three higher centres are related to hierarchical work and living and are under the control of the initiate—a control which becomes increasingly perfect until the seventh Initiation of Resurrection.

At that momentous resurrection, they become no longer of service; the Master needs no energy centres, and His consciousness is transcen-ded and transformed into a type of awareness of which those who have not experienced these initiations know nothing. If He chooses to take a physical vehicle (as many will when the Christ reappears and the Hierarchy is externalised on Earth), the Master will “function from the above to the below” and not (as is the case today with all disciples, though naturally not with the Masters) on “the below towards the above”. I am here quoting ancient phrases to be found in the archives of the Hierarchy. They will therefore need no centres on the etheric levels of our planetary physical plane. [13]

The mightiest lever of Cosmos, and the most sacred, is the heart.

Its consciousness fills Space; its light illumines Cosmos. [14]

[1] Alice A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 602

[2] Ibid., p. 686

[3] Alice A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age Vol. II, p. 397

[4] Ibid., p. 399

[5] Alice A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 699

[6] Ibid., p. 689

[7] Alice A. Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, p. 172-173

[8] Alice A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 603-604

[9] Ibid., p. 607

[10] Ibid., p. 649

[11] Alice A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 392

[12] Alice A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 699-700

[13] Ibid., p. 698

[14] Agni Yoga Series, Infinity I § 79

The year 2025 is drawing to a close, a year during which the Conclave of the Hierarchy of Masters – held once every century – has turned its attention particularly towards Humanity; this date is also indicated by esoteric Teaching as propitious for outlining the steps of the future Externalisation of the Hierarchy. (1)
In this year, which has seen consciousnesses and hearts shaken and frightened, it is becoming increasingly urgent and necessary to invoke the Light and, at the same time, to take up and continue the legacy of those who, over the centuries, have taken on the role of Light Bearers.
The Teaching reminds us that: “The evidence of enlightenment is the best gift to evolution. The Command of cosmic life is a summons to light-sustaining achievement, and this mission is affirmed only by Light.” (2)
“Only the followers of the Hierarchy of Good can harness all energies into a channel of good. Indeed, only the fiery consciousness can take in the horizon of the World; therefore the events which are sweeping away the old accumulations elude the enemy. The manifestation of foresight really can be applied only through the focus of vision of the builders. Thus, the Fiery World has been predestined by the Bearers of Light.” (3)

Lifting our eyes to Heaven, the seat of all Light, our inner gaze, guided by the Soul, sees Saturn (4) crossing the gates of electric fire of Aries, the Initiator, the shining Homeland of Ideas, and in that fiery substance igniting the flame of creative Intelligence, the supernal Light that bursts into human consciousnesses and fills their chalices.
For the evolution of consciousness, Saturn represents the Light of Intelligence and the creative power of manas (5); consciousnesses purified and grown with disciplined awareness have freed themselves from the chilling and depriving influence of the Lord of karma (Saturn) and have “freed” themselves from the gravity of matter, setting out in full responsibility to cross that door that leads into the unlimited, into the “timeless”, into the Light supernal.
Saturn in Aries renews matter from within and leads it towards the celestial heights that make it transparent, purified by the fire of sacrifice, ready to unleash its virtues forged in harsh earthly experience, virtues that can now shine as pure Light and feed the spiritual flame that burns in every human being.

Humanity is the child of Heaven (Uranus, the primordial Light) and Earth (Gaia, the substantial matrix). In the image of the original offspring of the divine spouses, as recounted in Greek mythology (6) and in Plato’s myth of the cave (7), Humanity is initially kept hidden in the dark womb of Mother Gaia because it is inadequate in the eyes of the father, as well as chained in the darkness of matter and unable to turn its eyes, deluded by the changing forms, towards the sun of the spirit.
Each of us, immersed in material density and oblivious to the sky, is initially denied the celestial light that is ultimately conquered through suffering and conscious sacrifice.
But when light has made its way into human consciousness, the Light Bearers arise, first isolated, then increasingly numerous.
“… the Spirits who are Bearers of Light, filled with self-sacrifice, rush to the Earth for purpose of salvation.” (8)

The Light Bearers walk the earthly paths without fearing the darkness of matter. They have experienced the harshness of the material world but have been able to burn away the dross that hinders the splendour of the soul in the fire of Service and Unity.
“All the existing laws of Cosmic Construction indicate this unbreakable unity. How otherwise could the events of the world be explained? All Light-bearers manifest vigilance for this unity. Nourished by the unity of Cosmic Fire, each spirit compares equally with a spark of Fohat. On the path to the Fiery World let us strive with regenerated consciousness for union with the Cosmos.” (9)

The Light Bearers walk the paths of men in joy. Their hymns intertwine with the beauty of the flowers, the brightness of the stars, the purity of waters; their steps are capable of engraving the mark of the spirit in forms and transforming the dragging of existence into the light and luminous rhythm of Being.
Their companions are the dancing Muses, inspirers of solemn musicality, and their Masters Mercury and Venus (10), advocates of fusion and enlightenment.
“How necessary it is to get used to understanding everything spiritual! We can expect nothing from the heart if our thought does not find cause to rejoice in the very mention of anything spiritual. Indeed, we must attain the stage where we radiate light from our innermost being, for it is then that we are true coworkers with the higher worlds. Radiating the light of Grace, we are at the same time doctors, creators, and protectors on the descending line of the Hierarchy. First we see the outer light, and then we come to know the light within ourselves; but only after the kindling of the “torch” can we radiate Light.” (11)

The Light Bearers see the future, whose features are beginning to emerge from the grey rubble of the present. In their gaze there is no anxiety, no judgement, no vengeance.
They proceed steadfastly in the splendour of their vision and lay the first stones of the New Culture and Civilisation, certain that the seeds they have sown in space will blossom in due course, covering the desert with a mantle of life; “… in flowers Heaven settles onto Earth”. (12)
They advance in the footsteps of the Masters, honouring the work of those who came before them, forging new paths for those who will come after them, working tirelessly, in Beauty and Light, to erect the planetary Temple.
“We end one phase with a holiday and begin the next phase with work. Let us determine what to do—to act. In this eternal action is Our holiday. Only, in following Our example you should act without getting upset. Desire to act in calmness, knowing that Our spring trickles through you ceaselessly. And when you ask yourself, “Where are the Ones who made the promises?” We are standing right behind you. And We rejoice, measuring how much the flower of your aura has grown, for this is Our Garden. Beyond the distant horizon, Light unites hearts.” (13)

The Light Bearers are the workers in the Lord’s “field”.
They know the Plan and help to bring Light and Love to building sites around the world. Their wage is joy, the “special wisdom” that resonates within them, and they know nothing of denial or impatience.
Little by little, they recognise each other and rebuild the ancient partnerships that have already seen them work together in the past for the common Good.

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.

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01. According to esoteric Teachings, 2025 will see the centenary Conclave of the Masters of the Hierarchy. As explained by the Tibetan Master, the planetary Logos of the Earth, Sanat Kumara, periodically emits a “Sound”, the imprint of his Will, to which the members of the Hierarchy respond. This impulse: “… is held at one hundred year intervals, and as far as our modern humanity is concerned, these Councils have been held—under our arbitrary dates—in 1725, 1825, 1925. At these Councils, Those Who are responsible for the planetary development, along certain predetermined lines, make Their reports; decision is made as to new unfoldments; certain types of energy, cosmic and solar, are made available for the carrying forward of the Plans which implement the Purpose; the evolution of consciousness in the three worlds receives, necessarily, major attention.” (from A. A. Bailey, Rays and the Initiations, p. 207) Between 1940 and 1950, the Tibetan Master also clarified the future externalisation of the members of the Hierarchy: “Thus a great and new movement is proceeding and a tremendously increased interplay and interaction [between Humanity and Hierarchy] is taking place. This will go on until A.D. 2025. During the years intervening between now and then very great changes will be seen taking place, and at the great General Assembly of the Hierarchy—held as usual every century—in 2025 the date in all probability will be set for the first stage of the externalisation of the Hierarchy.” (from A. A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, p. 530)
02. Agni Yoga Series, Hierarchy § 24
03. Fiery World III § 6
04. Today’s entry of Saturn into Aries relates to the perspective of heliocentric astrology.
05. In Madame Blavatsky’s Theosophical Glossary, we read that Manas is: “the mind”, the mental faculty which makes of man an intelligent and moral being, and distinguishes him from the mere animal; a synonym of Mahat. Esoterically, however, it means, when unqualified, the Higher EGO, or the sentient reincarnating Principle in man. When qualified it is called by Theosophists Buddhi-Manas or the Spiritual Soul in contradistinction to its human reflection—Kâma-Manas.
06. In Hesiod’s Theogony, it is said that the children born to Uranus and Gaia (the Titans, the Cyclopes and the Hecatonchires), appearing monstrous in the eyes of their father, were kept hidden in the dark bowels of the earth, preventing them from coming to light. Gaia, enraged by this behaviour, asked her children to punish their father who was forcing them to remain in her womb; the last of the Titans, Kronos, accepted his mother’s appeal and one night, as soon as Uranus lay down on Gaia to impregnate her, he castrated him with a flint sickle.
07. In his dialogue The Republic, Plato introduces the myth of the cave, which tells the story of prisoners chained since childhood at the back of a cave and able to look only at the wall in front of them. Behind them burns a fire and runs a raised road where men pass carrying various shapes which, through a play of reflections, are projected onto the wall. The prisoners, knowing nothing of this coming and going, believe that the shadows projected on the wall are reality. If a prisoner were freed and could turn his face towards the exit of the cave, he would first be dazzled by the light and his eyes would suffer. He would then notice the shapes carried by the men and would be incredulous and doubtful because they would appear less real to him than those he had contemplated until then on the wall. If this prisoner were then able to leave the cave and be exposed to the light of the Sun, he would not be able to see anything at first because he would be completely dazzled, but eventually he would be able to see the Sun itself and come to understand that it is the Sun that governs the events of the visible world and is the cause of everything that he and his companions saw.
08. Fiery World III § 92
09. Ibid. § 316
10. Again according to the heliocentric perspective, on 5 November we will have the conjunction between Mercury and the asteroids Urania and Euterpe in Pisces, and the conjunction between Venus and the asteroid Terpsichore in Libra. Remember that the names of these asteroids refer to the names of the Muses, the Olympian entities generated by Zeus and Mnemosyne. Venus and Mercury, the factors of illumination, intuition and fusion, thus unite with principles such as the Power of Heaven (Urania), the Light of Sound (Euterpe) and the Light of Motion (Terpsichore). All this is in accordance with the Teaching, which states that “the development of illumination through an awakened intelligence is the first goal of humanity.” (from A. A. Bailey, Esoteric Astrology, p. 37)
11. Heart § 38
12. Illumination § 291
13. Ibid. § 124

On this Date and Direction among Great Hearts, let us therefore assert from the Heart of One Humanity the Return/Reappearance of the World Teacher Christ-Maitreya, Who will restore within us the will-to-good through the Power of Love, the power to make sacred (=sacrifice) all things, life, existence.

As we did in a previous article, let us therefore absorb some excerpts from the text The Reappearance of the Christ, preparing our smiling hearts for this marvelous reality foreseen by the Evolutionary Plan:

Christ in us, certainty of Glory!

See the text with the excerpts:

The Reappearance of the Christ

“What is the treasure of the heart? Not only benevolence, not only compassion, not only devotion to the Hierarchy but consonance with the Cosmic Consciousness when the heart, besides its own rhythm, even partakes in the cosmic rhythm. Such a heart can be trusted; it possesses straight-knowledge, it feels and knows, and as a manifested link with the Higher World it expresses the indisputable …” (Agni Yoga Collection, Hierarchy § 106)

“… The mightiest lever of Cosmos, and the most sacred, is the heart. Its consciousness fills Space; its light illumines Cosmos.” (Agni Yoga Collection, Infinity I § 79)

Inspired by the Muses, let us reflect on the power of thought, which is the emanation of Manas, the divine Mind.

“Manas is, really WILL working itself out on the physical plane, and the truth of this will be seen when it is realised that all our planes form the cosmic physical plane, whereon an Entity, inconceivably greater than our Logos, is working out a set purpose through the Logos, through us, through all Spirit-substance that is included within His sphere of radiatory activity.” (1)

“Manas is the active will of an Entity working itself out through all the lesser lives who go to the content of the ring-pass-not or sphere of influence of the indwelling Existence. Therefore—as concerning man on this chain—he is but expressing the purpose and the will in action of the planetary Logos in Whose body he is a cell or lesser life.” (2)

Thought is Fire, Magnetism, Light, and generates creative vortexes; thought is lightning that flashes beyond earthly limits, cancelling time and distance; thought is sharp as a sword, and the thoughts of all Thinkers intertwine and compose themselves into a network of luminous impulses that connects worlds.

Thought evaluates, orders, creates, radiates; thought lives on the future and sows constructive impulses.

“Verily, life is created only by the power of thought. It is not the voices heard from platforms that create the future, not uttered words borne out in space; it is the power of thought radiating with cosmic striving. Thus, the carriers of fire in spirit and heart powerfully affirm Our Will.” (3)

“The consciousness that encompasses only the present, without any thought of the future, cannot adhere to evolution, because the chain of centuries disappears for such a consciousness. Hence, when the consciousness expands it encompasses the great leading chain of causes and effects.” (4)

Thought saturates Space, and therefore everyone, with their own dose of creative ability, is able to cooperate with the Cosmos.

“If one can confirm the presence of thought even in a stone, then what a clear rainbow of thought fills space! One must become used to the fact that thought permeates all that exists. Certainly this reality, ponderable and not abstract, remains defined as energy but preserves the potentiality of conscious evolution.
Until recently the sensitivity of plants was considered to be just instinct, but after investigation one now can attribute this “instinct” to the domain of thought. Hence, one must observe upward and downward. The human creature shows a characteristic error in presuming to himself the exclusive ability to think. By the most simple examples, one can demonstrate how human thought is affected by age, circumstances, and nationality. It is striking to see how weak is the rudimentary thinking of the average man; yet anonymously-sent spatial thoughts will uplift his spirit. You know that a radio, with slight alteration, can receive thoughts from space. And thoughts, as living matter, can both nourish and be nourished.
Reflect on the manifestation of thought. Realize its omnipresence and rejoice at the laboratory of thought that, from the mineral cell up to the Infinite, links all kingdoms. The magnetic wave, the electric spark, and thought—these three voyagers greet those who strive into the Infinite.” (5)

“Verily, thought is infinite. The domains of the Cosmos are revealed to it. There are no limitations where the spirit rules. Is not thought, which pervades all and manifests the beauty of the Cosmos, miraculous? Thought, emanating from the Depths of the Cosmos, revealing all sources, is the most fiery of the manifestations of space. Even if thought does not find its application upon Earth, nevertheless, it fierily saturates space with these creative records. Thought-forms intensify each vital designation, as a fiery impulse of life. The source of creative power is inexhaustible when life is filled with thought. Therefore, to think means to construct life. To think means to affirm the forms of life. The threshold reached by thought always leads to the destined goal, because thought rules with eternal Fire. Thought, which leads to the might of great Cosmic Constructiveness, is not sufficiently studied.” (6)

On a human level, true Thinkers who operate from the plane of the abstract mind are Servers of Humanity and, in imitation of the Greater Ones, they construct luminous and directive thought forms and launch them in Space as beacons to guide invoking consciousnesses and draw them into increasingly rarefied and elevated regions.

Every thought must therefore have a precise evolutionary purpose. If it is well constructed and supported by a strong commitment, it will endure for a long time in space, joining others of the same nature and producing ever new combinations suited to the times and to consciousnesses.

“A thought unsupported by commitment is of little value, but when spurred towards a well-defined goal, it acts with vigour. People do not usually envisage the goal of their desires, even though this is a necessity that is very difficult to understand. This results in weak and ineffective actions, which fail, because of the lack of remarkable outcomes, to discover the power of thought, and people continue to neglect it. In the vast majority one does not recognise the creative virtue of desire supported by thought. This explains the general slowness of the spiritual progress of humanity, on which the poor ability to assimilate subtle energies depends.” (7)

“When he understands that he has real creative powers, Man will abandon gold and other stones, and his prosperity will be equal to that of the angels, who draw from themselves what they need and know no scarcity. Awaiting this discovery of cosmic value, other entities have been accompanying Man, protecting him, caring for him, preparing him and guiding him since time immemorial, in secret silence. But Space awaits the birth of human creative consciousness, the Crown of Existence.” (8)

True Thinkers are artists, they are visionaries. They have the courage and inner strength to solicit spatial substance in order to draw out what it veils, both on the subtle and physical planes. They produce Beauty and reveal the splendour of Truth. Each of their thoughts implies an assumption of responsibility for the actions that follow, not only towards themselves, but before the entire Cosmos.

“When the spirit develops in the direction of Infinity, then the feeling of responsibility acquires the power manifested by the Creators of Cosmos. Begin to realize personal responsibility and strive toward cosmic responsibility. There is the step of personal responsibility, the step of responsibility for human thought, the step of responsibility for human evolution, the step of responsibility for a better future. When thinking will be perfected, it will be possible to say that the time of construction of a better future is near.” (9)

“When the great Service for the good of humanity is given, responsibility should be carried accordingly. When Our vessel is in the hands of the Carrier, it means that dignity should be preserved, in order that the wondrous vessel may keep its wings. Verily, it is befitting that responsibility be carried by a tempered spirit and with the entire solicitude of the heart.” (10)

If it is thought that provokes action, it is nevertheless the fiery potential of the spirit that creates it, and men are divided according to that potential.

“Fiery thought knows no limits. As a forerunner of infinite creativeness, thought is impelled into space. It is necessary to accustom the consciousness to this endless manifestation. Measuring all concepts against Infinity, one may arrive at the step of Cosmic constructiveness. Only co-measurement can reveal that great step, which is powerful through fiery Infinity. Fire is manifested as impulse in the heart, as movement of thought, as the great Unifier of Worlds. One must understand creativeness as the unification of various energies manifested by the Fire of space and the spirit of man. Science of the future will reveal the laws of these unions, for it is needed to establish the most subtle cosmic cooperation, so as to accomplish that about which the Fiery Servitors are thinking. All fiery formulas live, awaiting their incarnation. Therefore, science can strive to seek out the spatial energies.” (11)

The Servers of Humanity, who are increasingly working together for the common Good, must therefore above all strive to build the future together with the fire of thought, which is the evocative power of the new world, without allowing themselves to be caught up in events, which are particularly tragic today, and in the binary ordinariness of the emotional reaction typical of the masses, which produces a dense and smoky layer around the planet, often confusing even men of Good Will.

Remaining there, in the fire of the air, without distracting ourselves, without deflecting, full of joy and love, let us then distil drops of fiery thought to pour into human hearts to evoke that power that belongs to them and which translates into Harmony.

And so, letting ourselves be carried by the updrafts, on the wave of the words of the Master of Agni Yoga, let us sing together with the Muses:

Soar with your thoughts.
Fly by affirmation.
Fly by love.
And you will realize the joy of flying.
And the gulf of life will remain far below you.
And a miracle of flaming colors will radiate
near the splendor of the Southern Cross.
All is attainable. (12)

1. A. A. Bailey – A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 353
2. Ibid., p. 356
3. Agni Yoga Series, Infinity 1 § 321
4. Hierarchy § 381
5. Agni Yoga § 80
6. Fiery World III § 150
7. E. Savoini, Commentary on Infinity II § 396-7
8. Ibid. § 113/115
9. Infinity I § 73
10. Hierarchy § 341
11. Fiery World III § 161
12. Leaves of Morya’s Garden I – The Call § 328

Capricorn is a symbol of rigour, discipline and practicality; Mercury is the planet of communication and thought, lord of Harmony and Beauty; Thalia, she who is festive, is the Muse of comedy, irony, lightness and Joy.

Among the rigorous lines of Capricorn, Mercury dances with Thalia, bringing ideas and light words along rigorous paths… it is not fleeting gladness, it is not a floating dream, but perfect Joy: that which arises when the mind knows how to organise light, when a smile becomes a concrete gesture and the heart smiles with wisdom.

Thus, creativity finds a home in pragmatism, lightness is clothed in structure and happiness, finally, is not an idea but a possible reality when one moves from self-love to love for others, because the gift of oneself to others expands the Light of Joy.

Maitreya is sending courage. Maitreya will accept the gift. Maitreya feels the love with which it is given. Maitreya blesses the labor done joyously. Maitreya is sending work to the earthly plane in the name of the miraculous. Walk forward radiant! It is a joy for Me to guide those who smile. Discover the Teaching of Light in each manifestation. Resourcefulness is a quality My disciples possess. (Agni Yoga Series, Leaves of Morya’s Garden II § 97)

The mind that organises joy transforms lightness into concrete happi-ness.
Mercury conjunct Thalia in Capricorn represents the mind that, with discipline and structure, manages to bring creativity and lightness into reality. Joy is the end result: concrete, organised and conscious happi-ness.

… We deny nothing, for that which exists is undeniable. But it must be applied. Then there can be neither grief nor despair—only support. (Agni Yoga Series, Agni Yoga § 250)

When speaking of Joy, one’s mind turns to St Francis and his “Perfect Joy”, one of the most famous stories in the Franciscan tradition, recounted in the Little Flowers.

Perfect Joy is a central concept in the spirituality of St Francis of Assisi and represents a state of authentic joy and inner serenity that is found in accepting suffering and injustice with patience, love and gratitude.

In a dialogue with Brother Leo, Francis explains that true joy does not depend on external circumstances, but on our inner attitude and our relationship with the divine.

St Francis was walking with Brother Leo on a cold winter’s day. He explained that perfect joy does not come from converting many infidels, nor from performing miracles, nor from having great spiritual gifts. But if, when returning tired and cold to the monastery, the friars did not recognise them and drove them away with insults, and they endured it with patience and rejoicing for the love of Christ: behold, therein lies perfect joy.

We live in a world where happiness seems to be connected to success and recognition, while Francis shows us that true joy does not depend on what others do or think, but on the ability to remain centred in love, even when facing pain and rejection.

In relationships, perfect joy means remaining calm even when we are not understood; at work and in society, it means not measuring our worth by applause but by the love we put into them; in our inner life, it means choosing to smile even when it is freezing outside, because inside us there is a light that never goes out.

When we feel forgotten or judged, we must remember that joy does not depend on the gaze of others, but on the love of and for Christ, the Principle and Prince of Love-Wisdom.

It is necessary to have a heart that knows how to smile, that does not harden in resentment but opens up like a flower in the snow; we must not seek happiness in success or in praise and rewards, but in the certainty that, even when everything seems against us, we must, like Francis, find perfect joy in humility, patience and a love that no closed door can extinguish.

Perhaps all this may seem too arduous a way of valuing suffering, almost taking pleasure in it, demanding too much of poor human creatures, and the temptation may be to give up sparkling joy for fear of going through terrible pain.

In the end, Francis says to Brother Leo:

And yet, hear the conclusion, Brother Leo. Above all the graces and gifts of the Holy Spirit, which Christ grants to his friends, is to overcome oneself and willingly endure pain, insults, reproach and hardship for the love of Christ; for we cannot glory in all the other gifts of God, since they are not ours but God’s, as the Apostle says: ‘What do you have that you did not receive from God? And if you received it from him, why do you boast as if you had it from yourself?’

Therefore, it is essential to place Christ at the centre of our lives and strive to become like Him! We must prepare ourselves to share not only suffering with Him, but also immense joy!

It is a tough proposition, difficult to put into practice because human beings like to be moved by the sight of a baby in a manger, surrounded by singing angels, but we must always remember that, in the background of the scene, there is a looming cross that is nonetheless salvation for all those who rely on it.

Perhaps we could begin by facing the inevitable hardships of daily life, accepting them with patience and courage, not dismissing them with easy complaints. When greater troubles come, we will already be trained and therefore stronger.

Perhaps perfect joy is not something to be conquered but recognised. Perhaps it is the silence that remains when all is quiet, the light that filters through even on grey days… it is that smile that arises not because everything is going well, but because we have chosen to love anyway.

In the end, perfect Joy is a small daily miracle… it is knowing how to say thank you even when nothing shines… it is discovering that peace does not depend on circumstances, but on a new way of looking at the world and ourselves, and then even the most ordinary day can become a holy place.

As Francis would say, this inner feeling does not dress in elegant clothes, but walks in dusty sandals… sometimes it stumbles, laughs, gets up and continues to sing because true joy is being on a journey, light and free, even with a few pebbles in our sandals but with so much Heaven in our heart!

Let people recall how successful they were because of Our Help, and how they actually felt that a Leading Hand had touched them. Some may have brushed it aside as if it were an annoying fly, but there were those who accepted it with gratitude.
Strong are those who are filled with gratitude, for their wings can grow! They will not be afraid of Our commissions. They know that We are greatly burdened, yet rejoice on the way to the Garden of Beauty! (Agni Yoga Series, Supermundane § 140)