What it Means to be Human at this Time (2):
Spiritual Being
Man creates his connections to a higher level like a spider spins a web. We draw from ourselves what is required to create the connections that make us part of a bigger picture, which gives us a context and a purpose. What we call up from within ourselves, and the forms that assist this process, will be shaped by awareness levels, both individual and collective, and by systemic need, which determines the cultural trends globally.
This process we call spirituality, and it amounts to giving of our best to a cause higher than ourselves. It is the gift of the Holy Spirit, the third aspect of Divinity, that enables us to respond in this way; and it is the task of those on the Third Ray (who express the third aspect) to understand it, both in principle and in practice. The DK Foundation took up this task of helping people get behind the spiritual forms with which we have become familiar, in order to understand the process itself, and DKF Koruna carries it on.
From the esoteric angle, the point of spirituality is to encourage the transformation of energy in a way that raises vibration efficiently. There are many different ways in which this can be done, and therefore, many different ways of understanding spirituality.
As stated in previous articles, the Sixth Ray has shaped spirituality in our time. Sixth Ray spirituality is focused upon raising energy from the solar plexus to the heart, and is the spirituality of those seeking to escape from the state of separation. As such, it has encouraged the perceptions that to a greater or lesser extent, all of us in incarnation are conditioned by, and with which we will have either a positive or negative, and usually emotive relationship. They include the perception that spirituality is essentially concerned with personal salvation and personal attainment, which is measured by our success in holding down or refining the lower self, in accordance with prescriptive teachings. Keeping our own house in order is the basis of this kind of spirituality and has become synonymous with it. We have lived through times where the most refined people, focusing upon their own development, have had a hands-off rather than a proactive approach to life on our planet, which has left the way clear for the less evolved to stamp their mark in every area of life. Our spiritual perceptions have encouraged this. The Sixth Ray has given great importance to the individual as a factor of isolated importance, whilst emphasising his frailty. When consciousness is present, a retreat from the material realities of life can be called transcendence; when it is not, it is simply self-centredness or escapism.
On the eve of 2012, mankind is at a place in consciousness where the efficient transformation of energy requires us to understand spirituality as something more than a refining process that takes place simply in ourselves. Yet we are not replacing the goals and values of Sixth Ray spirituality so much as extending our terms of reference to include the planet, and adjusting and balancing certain perspectives. We will always need to refine ourselves and be aware of ourselves, but our spirituality has now to call up from us a greater sense of responsibility for the whole (of which we are a part); and as the emphasis shifts from the solar plexus to the throat and brow centre, ‘our own house’ has to become the planet itself.
Greater inclusiveness calls for other adjustments too.
They include the need for a concept of purposefulness to balance out the emphasis on perfectibility. Perfection is an illusion and those who are caught up in it are never ready to take action or responsibility, because they are always preparing themselves, and always in need of more input for themselves. A neurotic concern with personal inadequacy is a very near neighbour of self–importance.
Perfected beings, the idea of which has played such an important role in Sixth Ray spirituality, are perfect from the angle of completion; they are fully developed and all their chakras are open, balanced and functioning. This is something qualitatively different from that of Sunday school ideas of perfection and which, when they cease to inspire, will surely disempower. Plaster saints are not real. A Master, DK said, has walked out of the very heart of darkness, the point being that in walking on, realising and transforming, he kept faith with the process.
We too have to be able to keep going, looking always for the opportunity, which will enable us to apply and express what we have learned, no matter how painful it might be. In the Age of Aquarius man saves himself by what he knows, and we have to know now that there is no a personal failure or shortcoming that cannot be redeemed in this way.
For a coming generation, the spiritual quest will be not for knowledge, but for opportunities to apply what we know in order to assist the planet, and create thereby a bridge between the mental and material, which is a Fourth Ray attribute, and the hallmark of the Aquarian Age. (The moon is the hierarchical ruler of the sign Aquarius.) This will overlay the Sixth Ray emphasis upon transcendence and help to resolve the age-old confusion in the Western mind about individuality and submission.
A more inclusive consciousness permits a better understanding of what it means to be connected, and what are the physical and emotional realities resulting from this. This awareness is needed now. Through our lower chakras we are connected to the material and astral planes and as the vibration is slowing as the higher principles of each plane are extracted, we are pulling into our individual lives a lot of dark, negative and physically punishing experiences. It is ‘our own stuff’ in as much as it is imprinted by the patterns in our psyches, but the force itself is that of humanity collectively. Within those who also have a connection with higher levels of being this onslaught through the lower charkas, which expresses itself as obstruction, is creating much strain, stress and distress. Yet we have to keep going. Our spirituality requires this of us, and we will do this better if we understand what is happening to us and why. We cannot afford to get hung up on perfection and give in to a sense of personal failure when unpleasant, embarrassing, confronting and obstructive situations open up in our midst. We have to be able to recognise that this is what it means to be human at this time and understand that spiritual beings must keep on walking, realising, transforming and keeping faith with the process.
We will help ourselves and others through sharing and laughter.
