T.N.G. SIGNS
OF THE TIMES - N.M. July 6,
2005 (#146)
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The word “passion” often carries
with it the meaning of: extreme, compelling emotion; intense emotional drive or
excitement; the object of any strong desire or fondness. In general, passion implies a strong emotion
that has an overpowering or compelling effect.
In esoteric terms, passion is not something to engage in. Master D. K. discusses this condition
through out the Alice Bailey books. The
following passages were some of the comments He had to say about “passion”. Aspirants to the Path, should learn to
transmute their passion into the higher term of aspiration.
Passion by DK
Compassion,
the antithesis of passion which is selfish and grasping,
Tenderness,
the antithesis of self-centredness, which is always hard and self-absorbed,
Dispassion,
the antithesis of lust or desire.
LOS
This
Self, the highest, the one and the universal was symbolised on `the plane of
mortals by the Sun, its life-giving effulgence being in its turn the emblem of
the soul—killing the terrestrial passions which have ever been an impediment
to the reunion of the Unit Self (the Spirit) with the All-Self. Hence the
allegorical mystery.... It was enacted by the Sons of the Fire-Mist and of
Light." EA.
"Our
shattered attention — we do not dream how shattered until we begin to
concentrate, until from the practice of concentration, a new fairness and
fixity dawns, in the midst of the seething ineffectiveness of personal
life. In our earlier attempts at
meditation, we jumped over such commonplace instructions as choosing the
subject, and holding the mind closely and faithfully to it; we rushed past all
that, passion for ecstasy, for initiation, for means by which we could shine
and lord it over others. We were
permitted to pasture up in the boggy meadows of emotion, calling them the
bright fields of spirit; we were permitted to think we think...until in the
pinch of lack, or the droop of importance, the breath-taking uncertainties and
instabilities of our ground-work were shown up. Convinced at last, we became very eager to begin all over again
at the bottom, and the word Stability looms." ITI
Libra-Aries.—The
achieved equilibrium, at the point of rest, provides the mental impetus for
soul control. Passion is transmuted into love and the initial desire of
Aries becomes the full expression of love-wisdom. Desire to manifest becomes
the aspiration to be. EA
The
coldness of that light (love) refers to the light of substance, which cannot be
warmed into a glow by desire or by the heat of passion, RAI
The
body of the emotions will be scientifically studied and the laws of water
(occultly understood) will be comprehended.
The significance of the term, "there shall be no more sea"
will be known, and the sea of storm and passion will be superseded by the sea
of glass, which directly reflects the higher intuition, and mirrors it with
perfect accuracy, being unruffled and immovable. The emotional body will be set apart wholly for service, and its
place in the threefold microcosm will be regarded as corresponding to that in
the macrocosm, whilst the occult significance of its being the only complete
unit in the threefold lower nature will be apprehended, and the fact made use
of to effect certain results. Ponder on
this. LOM
You
will see from this how important are the functions of Scorpio and Mars upon our
planet at this time, and you will note also how brief a time remains in which
humanity can (rightly or wrongly) handle its tests. You will realise also
the pressure under which the Hierarchy at this time struggles now that Martian
energy is expressing itself upon the astral plane. Will the world Hercules lift
this problem up into heaven and "elevate the Hydra" of passion and
hate, of greed and aggression, and of selfishness and ambition up into the
region of the soul? Or will it carry the whole matter down on to the
physical plane with the inevitable corollary of world disaster, world war and
death? Such are the problems with which the guiding Hierarchy is faced. EA
Our
solar Logos, and the Heavenly Men, are polarised on the cosmic astral plane,
and the effect of Their life energy as it flows through the systemic
"Heart" can be seen in the activity of the astral plane, and in the
part sex and passion play in the development of man. At the close of this mahamanvantara there
will be ready for manifestation in the coming third system nirvanis who will
be, in very essence, "active intelligent love"; they will have to
wait until the five lower planes of the system have reached a stage of
vibratory development which will permit them to enter, as the nirvanis in this
system waited until the three lower planes became adequate in vibratory
response. We are here speaking in terms
of the Heavenly Men. In the Earth
scheme, the analogy is hidden in the advent of the Egos in the third round, in
the third root race and in the third chain.
Individualisation, as we understand it, was not possible until the
"third state of pleroma" was reached, either universally where a
Heavenly Man is concerned, or relatively in connection with a human unit. TCF
"I
believe that such meditations as 'be still and know I am God,' if strenuously
indulged in may prove disastrous. More
than one unripe personality has opened within itself receptivity to power which
played upon its unfulfillments, arousing secret passions and ambitions beyond
his power to cope with. The
meditation 'I am God' might therefore, be said to be almost too direct and
efficacious until such time as the workman knows exactly what he is about. One cannot play up to the Ego and continue
long to act the part before men. The
end of that is disease and desperate fatigue and loss of the way while shouting
it to others. This is not a matter of
getting something to show men. It is a
matter of understanding what we are made of as personalities; of sensing the
Key to a new potency altogether and of rendering with ardent entirety the whole
human nature to the game of reaching and turning that Key. I realize that this paragraph touching the
'I am God' meditation contains a lure as well as a warning. It is quite true that the time must come for
all of us when we shall operate from the office of the Ego, instead of from the
personality, but a fine integrity of the personality must be established before
we can carry the power." ITI
The
colour assigned to Mars is, as you know, red; and this is a correspondence to
the colour of the blood stream and hence also the association of Mars with
passion, with anger and a sense of general opposition. The sense of duality is
exceedingly powerful. Hence also the necessity for the entire life of man (for
the blood is the life in this sense) to be swung into the conflict, leaving no
side of human nature uninvolved; hence again the need for the disciple to carry
his physical nature, his emotional or desire nature and his mental processes up
into heaven. This takes place as a consequence of overcoming the
"serpent of evil" (the form nature with its promptings and demands)
by the means of the "serpent of wisdom," which is the esoteric name
oft given to the soul. EA
"...
Ancient One dies by drowning. Such is the test. The waters envelop him and
there is no escape. He drowns. The fires of passion are then quenched. The life
of desire ceases its appeal and to the bottom of the lake he now descends.
Later, he re-ascends to Earth where the white horse waits his coming. And this
he mounts, proceeding towards the second death" (that is, towards Pisces). EA
***
Dr. Russell Whitesell pointed out
to his classes that in this epoch, man is to develop his mental body. Man developed his emotional body in the previous
epoch of Atlantis. Consequently man
usually does what he feels like doing rather than what he knows he should
do because the emotional body is much older, stronger, and better developed
than the mental body. Therefore learn
to get out of your emotional body and use your newer mental body.