Laws of Life
Laws of Life
(The Way of Man. 9.33.) The Concept of Law
(9.33.1) By objective laws we understand the existence of constant energy currents in constant material relations. This stability makes it possible for the worlds and the processes of manifestation to endure. What “law actually is” is a problem that occupies even the planetary hierarchy. Probably only the highest kind of cosmic consciousness can perceive it.
Meditation. Guidance.
On guidance and meditation. Sundry notes. The Way of Man.
(8.20.7) Quite intentionally Laurency gives no information about methods of meditation. There are too many already; most of them unsuitable without a knowledge of the individual’s stage of development, exact horoscope, the departments of his causal and triad envelopes, whatever he possesses latently. In any case, everybody has to develop his own method and apply it until he receives personal instructions as a disciple of the planetary hierarchy. Anyone who seeks to contact his Augoeides and observes what is necessary to rouse his active intervention also learns how that tie is to be strengthened.
Control of Consciousness
(The Way of Man, 3.16) Control of Consciousness
(3.16.1) Attention indicates the concentration of consciousness. Attention can be called the visual point of the self. The consciousness content of our envelopes of incarnation is determined by how we use our attention. Control of consciousness is control of attention and the most important factor of evolution.
(3.16.2) The self’s consciousness, the monad consciousness (attention) must be occupied. If it is not occupied with something essential, something that promotes consciousness development, then it must be something different, less useful, often useless, quite often harmful. Hobbies, amusements, etc., thus are only substitutes. The individual’s level of development appears in his choice of objects of his attention. There are physical, emotional, and mental interests. Anyone who has acquired control of thought decides himself what he will think of. Others are dominated by their illusions and fictions.
Mankind
(The Way of Man, 3.19) Our Unique Mankind
(3.19.1) Mankind has not reached farther than that hatred rules between individuals, families, classes, nations, races, religions, the two sexes, etc. And then man is defined as a being equipped with reason. It is a very narrowly developed reason, exclusively concentrated on physical material reality. The consciousness aspect of existence is scarcely discovered yet. So-called psychology is a miserable business.
(3.19.2) Mankind could have been given all knowledge of life by its planetary hierarchy. In their striving after power men knew how to arrange their lives and banished their teachers of wisdom. During twelve thousand years we have reaped our own sowing.
ON MANKIND AT THE STAGE OF IGNORANCE
(The Way of Man, 1.52) Our Epoch
(1.52.1) Esoterics divides the history of the planet into zodiacal epochs of some 2500 years each. Every new zodiacal epoch brings with it other kinds of energies than the previous ones, energies from another constellation. The last 2500 years have constituted the Piscean zodiacal epoch and have simultaneously been the epoch of the sixth department. This information is valuable for those who are interested in esoteric astrology and departments. It explains much of the history of that epoch, an age of horror, the rule of barbarism with clans at the stage of barbarism in incarnation.
On Studying Hylozoics
What Hylozoics is. (The Way of Man, 1.44)
(1.44.1) Hylozoics is the only logically tenable world view, the only one acknowledged by esoteric science. It is the conception of reality that is common to all causal selves.
(1.44.2) Pythagoras, then a 46-self (essential self), was the first one to present hylozoics and to formulate it into a conceptual system, a mental system of knowledge. Pythagoras, now a 44-self, is the future world-teacher after Maitreya. His intention with his formulation of hylozoics was to lay the foundation of a mental world view and life view in agreement with reality; a tenable basis for mankind to build on in its research; a basis of necessary facts.
Meaning and Goal of Life
The Meaning and Goal of Life. (The Way of Man)
(1.36.1) The meaning of life is the consciousness development of the monads in the consciousness of ever higher kinds of matter of ever higher natural kingdoms. The goal of life is the omniscience and omnipotence of all monads in the whole cosmos.
(1.36.2) The monad develops through learning from its own experiences and reaping what it has sown in previous incarnations. Everything good and evil that the individual meets with is his own doing. Nothing can befall him that he has not himself merited. Injustice in any respect whatsoever is absolutely precluded. The saying “life is unjust” is a manner of speech of the ignorant of life and envious.
(1.36.3) In monads of repulsive basic tendency, development can take a wrong course, which appears already in parasitism of plants and in predacity of animals. In the lower kingdoms the monads by and large counteract development, disarranging the order of things, everything on their own responsibility. Unconscious and, to a still higher degree, conscious encroachment upon the monad’s inalienable, inviolable, divine freedom, limited by the equal right of all living beings, results in the struggle for existence and the cruelty of life.