Functions of the Heart
The activity of the heart center never demonstrates in connection with individuals. This is a basic fact. What devastates most disciples is the solar plexus ability (when purified and consecrated) to identify itself with individuals. The heart center cannot react, except under group impetus, group happiness or unhappiness, and other group relations. (Discipleship in the New Age, V. 1, p. 469).
The heart center is brought into functioning activity after the second initiation. That initiation marks the completion of the process whereby the emotional nature (with its outstanding quality of desire) is brought under soul control, and the desire of the personal lower self has been transmuted into love. It is the organ for the distribution of hierarchical energy, poured out via the soul into the heart center of all aspirants, disciples and initiates; in this way this energy is made available and brings about two results:
1. The regeneration of humanity through love.
2. The relationship, firmly established, between a rapidly developing humanity and the Hierarchy. In this way two great planetary centers - the Hierarchy and Humanity - are brought into a close contact and relationship. (Esoteric Healing, p. 156, 157) As a "man thinketh in his heart, so is he."
Thinking in the heart becomes truly possible only when the mental faculties have been adequately developed and have reached a fairly high stage of unfoldment. Feeling in the heart is often confused with thinking.
The ability to think in the heart is the result of the process of transmuting desire into love during the task of elevating the forces of the solar plexus into the heart center. (Esoteric Healing, p. 157) As the heart center becomes active, the individual aspirant is slowly drawn into an increasingly closer relation to his soul, and then two expansions of consciousness take place which are interpreted by him as events or happenings:
1. He is drawn into the Ashram of one of the Masters, according to his soul ray, and becomes an accepted disciple in the technical sense. The Master is Himself the heart center of the Ashram and He can now reach His disciple, via the soul, because that disciple, through alignment and contact, has put his heart into close rapport with the soul.
He then becomes responsive to the heart of all things which, as far as humanity is at present concerned, is the Hierarchy.
2. He is drawn into close service relationship with humanity. His growing sense of responsibility, due to heart activity, leads him to serve and work. Eventually he too becomes the heart of a group or of an organization - small at first but becoming worldwide as his spiritual power develops and he thinks in terms of the group and of humanity. These two relationships on his part are reciprocal. Thus the love aspect of divinity becomes active in the three worlds, and love is anchored on earth and takes the place of emotion, of desire and of the material aspects of feeling. Note that phrase. (Esoteric Healing, p. 160-161)
The Functions of the Heart The Six-Fold Progression
of Divine Love
The heart center is the focal through which the energy of love can flow. It makes possible a six-fold progression of divine love, from the highest manifestation of Deity down to its appearance through the medium of some focal point in the known modern world. When this alignment is effectively achieved, it will bring about a clear channel or pathway between: Shamballa: The center where the will of God is known; where the will-to-good originates. This will-to-good is essential love. The Hierarchy: The point of love within the heart of God.
The planetary heart center. The Christ: The very heart of love within the Hierarchy. The New Group of World Servers: The initiates, disciples and aspirants who seek to embody the love and light needed in the world today. The hearts of the men and women of goodwill: the sum total of the hearts (symbolically speaking) of all those individuals of goodwill (in or out of the churches and irrespective of their political concepts) who are serving their fellow men, sponsoring human welfare movements, working for the establishing of right human relations, and constantly offsetting the separativeness of the human mind through the inclusiveness of the divine love nature. The focal point through which the Lord of Love will work on Earth: Which is in the nature of a tiny heart center through which the love energy of the Hierarchy can persistently flow.
“If you will study this six-fold progression of divine love from the highest manifestation of Deity down to its appearance through the medium of some focal point in our known modern world, it will be apparent to you that a very definite "structure of approach" has been created, and that a "Path of Return" is being constructed which will bring the long awaited Christ into our midst. Nothing can stop or prevent His return today; the evidence of this structure can be seen everywhere.” (The Rays and the Initiations, p. 619, 620).
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