We are often told that mediation is the key to just about everything, from losing weight to winning the lottery. Jokes aside, why is daily mediation considered such an important habit to develop in one’s life? Let us start by setting an objective for the meditation. In the context of the title of this presentation, meditating daily enables the organic brain and etheric brain, along with mental consciousness to develop synchrony of vibration with our solar deva. This is the goal; eventual communication with our guardian angel. When a monad becomes a mental self and focuses its attention through its 47:4 permanent molecule, it starts to live more and more for unity. It is at this time and not usually before, that the solar deva begins to take a direct interest in their charge.
As this contact slowly develops, as discussed previously, alignments are made, the principal alignment being between the monad and its solar deva. There is also an alignment between the brain and the mental envelope and between the pituitary and the pineal gland. These alignments are made both at the individual and the group level, the basal chakra aligning with the crown chakra, the solar plexus with the heart and the sacral with the throat.
This is an iterative process. Slowly, a rapport develops between the monad and its solar deva and the forces that are conveyed become more powerful. How many incarnations this takes is a variable that is too complex to discuss but the baseline is that it takes a long time and many incarnations. The glamour that can sometimes be associated with meditation, leads many young souls to imagine that they are just weeks away from enlightenment!
Let us assume that the monad’s efforts are rewarded and they manage to reorientate their lives. What are they striving for? The monad is trying to gain a synthesis of their three envelopes, etheric, emotional and mental and then link these three with their causal envelope. This allows all four envelopes to now work towards a common goal. Lars gives us four words to ponder, as they sum up the process of why the monad should meditate. They are conscious contact, response, reorientation and finally union. Meditate on these four steps.
We have talked about the need to meditate regularly. But there is something that also has to be taken into account and that is the periodicity of the meditation cycles of the solar deva itself. It is not solely focused on us. It does have other interests and objectives. For them, we are a sideshow and I suspect a damn nuisance. So the periodicity in the life of the solar angel affects the aspirant. The aspirant receives waves of inspiration that ebb and flow rhythmically from the solar devas. These rhythms are not limited to one incarnation but flow in cycles between incarnations as well. One of the reasons for this is that, due to fate and karma, some lives are going to be more productive for a causal being than others. The object is always to serve Humanity, but the ability to do so may be constrained by extraneous factors outside the control of the monad. When the aspirant graduates to becoming a disciple, the impulses that flow down from the solar deva increase in strength and frequency. Lars tells us that at this stage, the cycles alternate with distressing rapidity. The disciple will experience periods of clarity or greater understanding and periods of uncertainty and diminished comprehension. We are told that the stage of discipleship is considered to be the most difficult stage in a monad’s evolution.
There is an upside; once the aspirant realises that there are rhythms to the inspiration they receive. They come to accept that there are times when the solar angel is going to focus on its own actives in worlds 45:4 to 47:3, before turning its attention to the worlds of the aspirant, 47:4 to 49:7. It is not enough for the solar deva to beam its attention at the aspirant, the aspirant must be in a position to receive and process that inspiration. All the aspirants can work on is making sure that through meditation, they are able to raise their consciousness to a level and for a sustained period, to receive causal inspiration. Once the disciple has gained continuity of consciousness, these fluctuations cease to be an issue. To get to this hallowed state of consciousness, the disciple must walk, what is euphemistically called the “razors-edge”. This takes the monad out of the consciousness of the physical brain and into the world of casual consciousness. This results in escaping the fluctuations of worlds 47:4 to 49:7 into the world of unchanging light, 47:2 and 47:3. It sounds poetic and I guess it is when you finally achieve it.
What has now changed for the monad? The lower worlds have now become a field for serving evolution. They cease to entice the monad through its sensual perceptions. This is the good news. The bad news is that it is advisable to start to live one’s life as if you are already at this stage of evolution. Laurency termed this “living as if”. Lars gives us words of solace when he reminds us that although there may be cycles of lows, these are temporary and day always follows night.
So where are we now? Well, for aeons we have identified ourselves with our envelopes of incarnation and what they allow us to experience. We have been blissfully unaware that the purpose of incarnating is to expand our consciousness so that we can reunite with our causal envelope, whilst still in incarnation. We are aware of effects and not their causes. The aspirant needs to start to think about causes as well. Realise that causes exist in a world of their own and this world is our goal, at least for the time being. It is time to stop being the victim of effects.
Once you realise that causal contact is periodical, then the timing and frequency of meditating make sense. Meditate in the morning, remember at noon and review in the evening. Now you also know why the new and full moons are such significant cycles, amongst even larger cycles.
We face hindrances to achieving our goal of contacting our solar deva but there are ways to overcome these hindrances. Give a thought to our world teacher, Christ-Maitreya and our solar devas. They have a lot to contend with. We are slow learners, even those that are disciples. The objective is to set up a strong connection between the disciple and the Hierarchy, so that accurate and constructive service is possible. This is, unfortunately, hindered by the way we treat our physical and etheric envelopes. Think about what you eat or drink and how much rest you allow yourself. Then there is the worry we pollute our emotional envelopes with. This messes up the vibration of this envelope, making it difficult to adjust to the rhythms and vibrations flowing down from higher envelopes. Last but not least, think of the prejudices, criticisms and pride that lead our mental envelopes to be unsuitable vessels to receive anything. Therefore, the aspirant must strive to maintain an inner serenity and keep their thoughts as uncluttered and pliable as possible. In this manner, they make themselves available as useful tools for the Hierarchy to use to serve Humanity.
It is for these reasons that the following rules are suggested:
- The aspirant is to strive to arrive at an absolute purity of motive.
- Enter a place of peace and tranquillity. Stilling your mental confusion is aided by observing the law of rhythm. Control extraneous thoughts as much as possible. Do this by observing yourself and deciding where to focus your attention and what information to receive.
- Try, as best you can, to maintain inner tranquillity in your daily routine. If you fail to do this, teachers from the causal world (47:1-3) and the Unity/Essential world (46:1-7) can’t reach you through intuition and inspiration. The net result of observing such disciplines is that the monad withdraws inwards and cultivates responsiveness to higher vibrations. With inner poise, the monad is able to hold the vision given to them, whilst at the same time being able to concentrate the attention of their physical brain on the job at hand.
- Learn to control your thoughts! We all know that is easier said than done and often we don’t want to. We enjoy wallowing in self-pity or allowing waves of indignation to sweep through our emotional envelopes. The monad must learn to guard what they think. As causal ideas begin to filter down into the organic brain, this knowledge may not be suitable to share with all if anyone at all. This has always been a golden rule in the ancient knowledge orders, who would carefully guard certain knowledge, for knowledge is power.
In the next presentation, we will look at the relationship between Humanity and its guardian angels throughout history.