Greetings from Russell's Remnant:

The Lucis Trust recently sent out a flier encouraging the dissemination of Discipleship In The New Age - Vol. I and Vol. II. The following statements about "Group" were recently included in the T.N.G. studies from those two books.

From DNA:

All gained quality of any kind must be regarded by the individual as a group asset and not as a personal achievement.

One of the main uses of group work is the effect of group vibrations upon the individual's vibration.

Work strenuously at contacting your fellow disciples.

Each A.M. - take co-disciples into the light - pour out love and wisdom.

Take those who constitute your group into your aura, and hold them in the light.

Study your fellow disciples. Get into close rapport with them. Study what they say, and try to tune in on their souls and to understand their personalities.

Seek for the symbol to be found above the head of each of your co-disciples.

Direct your thought energy (which is the carrier of love energy) to the ajna center of each of your fellow disciples.

As a soul, link up with your co-disciples. Seek then to see the symbol which blazes forth from the brow of each.

Build the group antahkarana.

Loneliness will end when the inner group continuity of consciousness is established.

When group work is successful, it is because the equipment of the group is enhanced by that which each individual has to give.

A group should endeavor to go through their experiences together. The problems of one become the problems of all. Not idly have you all been brought together.

Establish and hold happy human relations with your chosen fellow workers, a deep and constant humility and an urgent faith.

I ask from you a task of intensification, and this will permit a greater usefulness in the group.

Remember that the incentive, leading to success, must be achievement for the group.

Be content with the path that your soul has chosen for you to follow.

All that any disciple has to do in relation to his fellow men is to stimulate the light that is in them.

As you know, nothing matters but the soul. Nothing counts in the long run but service.

You belong to the work to be done and not to yourself.

From DN2:

Where glamour is present in a disciple's life, it places a real strain upon his co-disciples.

Confine your chief attempt to establishing a measure of intimacy with your workers. This will guarantee the success of your work.

A brother is more interested in the happiness of his brother than in his own feelings or thought.

Your next incarnation is necessarily duly arranged, the needed relations retained and the unneeded discarded.

By the time a man is admitted into an Ashram he has already worked off a very great deal of his karma, both good and bad.

Whatever you do affects your group - either constructively or adversely.

Remember that your only value is group determined.

Exercises:

In utter silence send forth blessing:

To your immediate circle of family and friends.

To your co-disciples.

To your group of students.

To the outer world

To me, your Tibetan Brother.

To the New Group of World Servers.

To the Hierarchy.

Then visualize a vivid golden yellow, ponder on the true significance, value and reward of silence.

Next visualizing a vivid electric blue, ponder on the true significance, value and reward of joy.

Sound the O.M. three times audibly, with the thought in mind as you sound it of:

The cleansing of the aura.
The silencing of all discords.

The expression of joy.

A brief morning exercise to be done prior to the group meditation:

After achieving alignment, see each of your co-disciples in the light.

Then visualize them each with a star between the eyebrows, as the symbol of an awakened ajna center and of an integrated personality. It is a four-pointed star. The star of initiation is a five-pointed star.

Then say something to each of your brothers after you link up with them.

Then rise, go to the window, send out love and light to those who guide the destinies of men upon the earth. Do this with as much love as you can and without much thought, for thought can be separative and critical where there is not adequate knowledge.

Then sound the O.M., raising your consciousness and coming as close to the Hierarchy as possible.

"There is no need to tell me - I ‘listen in’ on the group." - D.K.