Synthesis is working the three Primary Rays together
by replacing the 3rd with the 7th. It is the solution to the
problem that we are re-active to the level above our polarized
centre, and when considering Heart polarization this would
be the Throat, giving accentuation to the 3rd Ray and its
concentration on devic form and its imaginative content based
on illusionary concepts. This over stimulation of the Third
Ray through our Throat Centre is a significant part of our
present human problem, seen esoterically.
All the time we have been polarised in our Solar
Plexus we have had the centre above as a controlling factor,
the Heart with its conscience, which functions above the levels
of emotion and thought when it is working correctly. When
we are repolarised through the Heart we have the next higher
centre to guide or control us, which is the Throat Centre
as the natural channel for 3rd Ray devic forces.
However if this is seen as separate to the other
two higher centres rather than part of the triplicity which
comprises the Higher Self, it will use it's energies to concentrate
on separative thought; structure rather than ideas; the glorification
of form and sensation; or as a kind of psychism manifesting
as religious / political fanacticism, hearing angelic voices
and seeing alien presences; and encouraging those with weak
wills to act on their illusions ~ "God told me to". These
alternative realities, including many that most of us "take
for granted", are devic based and separative in nature, and
subconsciously condition and 'advise' our responses according
to the nature of the devic forces currently active in the
individual, without the Divine guidance of the complete Higher
Self which includes the 2nd and 1st Primary Ray influences
of Unconditional Love and Divine Will.
Synthesis can be seen as the process of integrating
the higher three centres, the Crown, Head and Throat representing
the three Primary Rays of Will, Consciousness and Form, into
one; and earthing the energies of the triplicate Higher Self
into the life and affairs of the aspirant by working with
the 7th Ray through the Throat Centre rather than the 3rd
Ray. This will secure the 4th Ray firmly in the Heart giving
it a natural foundation on which to work with the dualities
of existence originating on the buddhic/intuitional.
Although our still limited awareness may not be able
to understand it concretely, our Higher Self will then have
gained access to the co-operation of the devic entities of
that 4th intuitional (buddhic) plane who will naturally make
connections between the seemingly independent manifestations
of the Plan working out through the focalized 7th Ray points
of individuality.
Incidentally, this will be the stage prior to that
initiatory point when the awareness can be raised to its rightful
position on the Monadic 2nd plane of pure consciousness as
the fully realized Self.
This transition into group awareness begins with
the 4th Ray as a process, and ends with the 2nd Ray as a realization.
But none of this can begin until the early stages
of transformation and integration of the personality vehicle
are initiated internally by the aspirant, so that the energies
of the Soul Ray can work efficiently and absent of illusion
from the top down in the cycle of manifestation known as the
magic of consciousness.
Moving now from the personal to the cosmic, I'd like
to relate these ideas to the Wisdom teachings of Lucille Cedercrans.
By viewing synthesis as the unification of the three
aspects of the Higher Self, and substituting the 7th ray for
the 3rd ray, perhaps we could use this role of synthesis in
our personal development as an analogy to understand more
about the position of the Ashram of Synthesis, which functions
with the Monadic energy of Shamballa. So just as the Hierarchy
stands between Humanity and Shamballa, so too does the Synthetic
Ashram stand between the seven Ray-Ashrams of Hierarchy and
the three Primary Ashrams of Shamballa which are really One,
Divine Will, the evolutionary process we refer to as Divine
Purpose. The positive pole is Shamballa and the negative pole
is Hierarchy - and the Synthetic Ashram is the connecting
field of synthesized consciousness in its 1st, 2nd and 7th
Primary Ray aspects focalized through the Monad of Synthesis
as soular energy.
"An ashram, while it is a fact in nature, exists
in consciousness only."
( Lucille Cedercrans, The Nature Of The Soul, page
190)
The importance here is that if we identify our consciousness
with our Soul Ray we can learn to respond to Shamballa via
the energies of the Synthetic Ashram and become conscious
instruments of Divine Purpose by developing the group awareness
which this process requires ~ as above so below.
These intuitive perceptions clearly demonstrate that
although the synthetic energy of the Ashram of Synthesis may
be a new energy, because of its unique position it should
not be thought of as an "additional" ray energy ~ but a synthesis
of the triplicate nature at the heart of all seven rays. Therefore
I see one's Soul Ray as the potential carrier wave for this
new Monadic frequency of synthesis.
This
article is dedicated to my dear friend and co-worker Glenys
Lowery, who inspired me to write it and encouraged me to publish
it.
Be forever at peace Glenys.
