| The third initiation is connected with Shamballa
as a planetary center and to the activity of the first ray.
It should be borne in mind that this is the first initiation
in which personality and soul are united and fused so that
the two aspects form one unit. When this initiation has taken
place, it happens that for the first time some of its broader
group implications become a reality and henceforth constitute
the motivating impulse of the initiate's life. Aspiration
ends and the intensest conviction takes its place. It is interesting
also to note that Venus now comes into control in the third
decanate of the Aquarian Age. Venus is esoterically recognized
as that mysterious force which is a blend of love and knowledge,
of intelligence and synthesis, and of understanding and brotherhood.
Within the Hierarchy [141] itself, the two great Messengers
who have embodied the dual Venusian energy were the Buddha
and the Christ. The Messenger Who will later come and express
the Shamballa urge to synthesis, the hierarchical aspiration
towards love and the desire of humanity for intelligent activity
with combined power will gather all into Himself. All these
qualities will focus in Him, plus another quality or divine
principle of which the race of men as yet knows nothing and
for which there is, as yet, no name. He will be a great and
potent Avatar and is not along the line of our humanity at
all.
The numerical correspondences might be noted as follows,
remembering that the third initiation is, in reality, the
first initiation of the soul, after complete identification
with the personality within the life and consciousness of
the Monad, the One and the First.
- The
first planetary center - Shamballa.
- The activity of the first ray - will or power.
- The third initiation which is the first soul initiation,
relating the base of the spine to the head center, and
the soul to the Monad.
- The first major center - the head.
- The first truly divine race - the final race.
- The third plane, which is in reality the first plane
of soul consciousness, the reflection of the highest plane,
the Logoic.
- The first periodical vehicle - the monadic.
- The first divine aspect - will or power.
- The first or highest type of Mediator - the coming Avatar.
- The sustaining Life, the spiritual sun - the central
spiritual sun. [142]
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