The purpose of the new Ashram of Synthesis is complex,
its responsibilities are extensive and unfamiliar,
and in need of some explanation. While the approach
to the Ashram includes ascension to synthesis, the
Ashram and its purpose and functions are realized
via the precipitation of synthesis. That precipitation
of synthesis includes:
The Externalization
“The Ashram … is a new Ashram, a synthesis of First,
Second, and Seventh Ray energies and expressions.
In other words, the Master M., the Master D.K.,
and myself, the Master R., have come together
to form an Ashramic Center.
“With us we have brought into relationship those
of our Ashram, those of our Ashramic membership,
who are karmically (and I refer here, to Service
Karma) related with this particular Ashramic effort,
with that particular expression of the Divine
Plan which we are focusing. So, this Ashram is
made up of disciples functioning on the First,
Second, and the Seventh Rays. The Ashramic Plan
itself (which, remember, is a particular expression
of the Divine Plan for Humanity as held in focus
by the Christ) has to do with the externalization
of the Hierarchy, with which every individual
who is attracted to this teaching and into its
esoteric activity is particularly and peculiarly
related, so that you come to this from out of
the past.” 1
The synthesis of First, Second, and Seventh gives
the Synthesis Ashram a peculiar ability to focus,
relate, and precipitate as a single magical activity.
As a result, while all the Ashrams are responsible
for preparing for the Reappearance, the Synthesis
Ashram has a peculiar role in the Externalization
of the Hierarchy. This may appear to be a fine distinction,
but it is quite important.
The Reappearance is sometimes described as an event
in which the fact of the Christ and the Masters
again become apparent to humanity. In a sense, it
involves both the descent of the Christ and the
Masters (into the three lower worlds and world of
affairs), and the ascent of humanity into conscious
awareness of the fact of their existence.
The effort to bring about this “event“ includes all
the ashrams and the disciples of those ashrams.
The Externalization may be described as an ongoing
process via which the Christ, the Masters, their
ashrams, and the world discipleship, manifest on
Earth. It is one thing for the Christ and the Masters
to Reappear, it is quite another for the Hierarchy
to be in full expression.
From this perspective, the Reappearance is part of
the beginning of the Externalization, and while
the entire Hierarchy participates in the Reappearance,
the Ashram of Synthesis has primary responsibility
for the Externalization. However, the externalization
is only a part of its function.
New Civilization, Organization, and Initiation
“This Ashram carries the responsibility of shifting
the civilization from a Sixth to a Seventh Ray
expression and of shifting the organized life
of the form from a Third to a Seventh Ray expression.
It carries the burden of Hierarchial responsibility
for the shift of human identification from self
to Soul. It is now moving into the responsibilities
which it will assume fully at the turn of the
century and carry over a 2500-year period. … At
or around the turn of the century the new Synthetic
Ashram will include all disciples within these
three major ashrams.” 2, 3
Thus, the Ashram of Synthesis is also responsible
for shifting civilization from Sixth Ray (aspiration
to an overshadowing ideal) to Seventh (precipitating
idea in appearance), and for shifting the organized
life of form from Third (the intelligent activity
of substance) to Seventh. In the process, civilization
will become a moving picture, and substance a reflecting
surface, of Divine Will.
The shift of form from Third Ray organization into
Seventh includes the transformation of throat centers
from Third Ray centers of organization into Seventh
Ray centers of creativity. Thus, the Crown, Ajna,
and Throat will become First, Second, and Seventh
Ray centers, while the point at the center of their
triangle (the “cave in the head”) becomes the center
and instrument of synthesis.
The Ashram’s responsibility for human evolution is
expanded in the following:
“The plan with which you are concerned, which
has to do with the new Synthetic Ashram … constitutes
the major effort of the Hierarchy at this time.
In response to the new realization of purpose
achieved by the Planetary Logos Himself, the First,
Second, and Seventh Ray Ashrams, in their entirety,
have entered into an agreement to … synthesize
their purpose, their consciousness and activity—their
energy, force, and substance—in such a way as
to formulate via this synthesis (and thus to create
within consciousness and substance) the new path
of initiation to be focused via humanity into
the planetary life and affairs. …
“… The vision of mastery which has always here-to-fore
been focused into and through humanity by means
of the etheric network, and the story of initiation
created within that network, has been the vision
of a single, perfect man overcoming death. This
has been the symbol of mastery.
“The new goal … is that of a telepathic at-oned
humanity having seen into, having in one moment
of perception experienced and overcome the long
drawn out process in the form world of evolution.
… Now, what are the stages of the new process
which will culminate this final act of mastery?
They are totally different and yet they are a
synthesis of the old path of initiation as it
has always been known.4
“To bring this down to specific form at this time
is almost impossible. It cannot be defined as
the First, the Second, the Third, the Fourth,
the Fifth initiation, because it is one initiation.
It is a synthesis of the old path. It is one initiation
which is an experience in consciousness from its
beginning to its completion, and which (at this
stage of the initiatory effort being made by the
new Synthetic Ashram), cannot be outpictured in
symbolic form.
… “The new path has not been created within the
consciousness and the etheric network of humanity.
This is your task. This is the effort of the new
Synthetic Ashram on its own level, the creation
of the new initiatory effort and (through this
incarnate group), the outpicturing, the implanting
of that path for and within both the consciousness
and instrumentality of the whole human family.”5
Thus, the Synthesis Ashram is responsible for synthesizing
the old path of initiation into a new, much more
rapid, initiation process. This new process is part
of an effort, for which the Ashram is also responsible,
to prepare humanity to take initiation, as a kingdom,
at the end of this age. That is, every human being
will, no matter where they are in their individual
growth and development, become aware, from that
point, that they are Soul. Humanity as a whole,
throughout its spectrum of awareness, will be Soul
Conscious.
The method of preparation for that mass initiation
of human consciousness is Group Initiation, and
the necessary teaching for Group Initiation is contained
in The New Thought-form Presentation of The Wisdom.
Energy of Synthesis
“The Synthesis of First, Second and Seventh
Ray energies brings the planet and humanity a
new energy, a new force and a new substance with
which to shape and mold a new civilization.
“The Synthesis reaches us from the Avatar of Synthesis,
Who, acting, under the direction of a greater
Cosmic Life, synthesizes the energies into a lower
correspondence of a Cosmic energy as yet of too
high and subtle a frequency for us to reach.
“The Avatar releases the new Synthesis to the
Planetary Logos and The Christ, Who, in turn release
it to the new Ashram of Synthesis via its focal
point, The Masters M., R., and D.K.
(Applied Wisdom, Introductory, by Lucille Cedercrans,
Wisdom Impressions)
During Wesak there is or has been an overshadowing
triangle consisting of the Avatar of Synthesis,
the Buddha, and the Christ.6 However, the
Higher Triangle immediately overshadowing the Ashram
of Synthesis is formulated of the Planetary Logos,
The Christ, and the Avatar of Synthesis. This Higher
Triangle invokes the Energy of Synthesis, steps
it down in frequency, and radiates it to the Ashram
of Synthesis. The Ashram of Synthesis is then responsible,
via its Group Units or Disciples, for radiating
the Energy of Synthesis throughout the planetary
life.
Meeting the opposition
Since the first response to that Energy is to clarify
existing polarities (in preparation for raising
them into the higher union or at-one-ment of synthesis),
the Ashram is also responsible for the opposition
to synthesis.
“Now, how does the Soul deal with the problems
of human relation? How does the Soul deal with
the problems of finance in this particular world?
How does the Soul deal with any of the conflict
between the ideal and the actuality? This is your
service. You are serving humanity, moment by moment,
as you meet the problems of humanity within your
own life and affairs and resolve those problems.
This is your service. … The way is never made
easy for the disciple who has taken upon himself
the responsibility of initiating a new effort.
The way was not made easy for Jesus and his disciples.
The way has not been made easy for any group or
any disciple who takes his share of the responsibility
for the Divine Plan for humanity and brings it
into incarnation.
“This includes all of your problems. It includes
the problem of the opposition. Certainly you will
meet with the opposition. Why would you, the disciple
who carries the responsibility of the Divine Plan,
be protected from the opposition, leaving the
opposition to work out its wrath within the body
of humanity (who has not the knowledge you have
with which to work)? Certainly you will meet with
the opposition. It is hoped that you will be able
to divert the attention of the opposition from
its focus upon humanity as a whole.
“Now consider this. Is humanity in its present
evolutionary development, as equipped as it is,
capable of handling the opposition? This is a
part of the work of the new Synthetic Ashram,
a part of that First Ray effort which every disciple
will have to carry since it is a synthetic ashram.
Every disciple carries the responsibility for
the expression in a synthesis of all three of
the rays.”7
The Group Units of the Ashram meet that opposition
by embodying it within their life and affairs, and
then manifesting the solutions to those difficulties.
Summary
Thus, the Purpose and Functions of the Ashram of
Synthesis include:
Externalizing the Hierarchy,
Shifting civilization from Sixth to Seventh Ray,
Shifting human organization from Third to Seventh
Ray,
Formulating a new path of initiation,
Preparing humanity to take initiation, as a kingdom,
and Meeting and Transmuting the opposition to
Synthesis.
Relationship to the Ashramic Purpose
"The
relationship with this Plan is not a new one.
The inter-relationships within the group are not
new ones. Your relationship with the Master M.,
the Master D.K., and myself, the Master R., is
not a new one.
"For a long, long period of time, most of you, insofar as the
incarnate consciousness is concerned, have been,
how shall I say it, not exactly cut off, but by
means of karmic necessity, separate and apart
from, away from your Ashram. This Synthetic Ashram
is actually being recreated, for at another time,
that which I can only refer to as not exactly
an analogy, not exactly a correspondence of this
Ashram, was in existence. Certainly those who
are now making up this Ashram were related together
within a group effort, which was Spiritually impulsed
by means of the Overshadowing Christ. The group
was disintegrated, again by karmic necessity,
and on the most part, most of its membership apparently
regressed.
"Remember, there is no such thing as true regression,
but most of its membership was forced to reenter
the evolutionary process almost at the animal
man stage, and to recapitulate the growth and
development achieved up through the evolutionary
process, until you have arrived at this point
in awareness. When and where the Ashramic note
is sounded forth, which gathers you back again
into the former group relationship in order to
recapitulate the path of initiation which we have
tread in times past, all of this being a part
of the externalization of the Hierarchy.
"Now consider, the Ashram (whose responsibility to the Plan and
whose relationship to the Plan had to do specifically
with the first effort of the externalization)
sent the greater part of its consciousness into
incarnation within the body of humanity at the
lowest level possible. That consciousness then
incarnate within the body of humanity, having
no knowledge of its own particular growth and
development or Ashramic affiliation, yet different,
changed by, even in the depths of its incarnation,
being innately Spiritual in nature, being then
the work of bridging (from the depths of the human
condition and circumstance within the world
of affairs) the consciousness of humanity with
that of the Ashram, and traveling back up through
the totality of the evolutionary process, thereby
unconsciously anchoring the Light of the Ashram
within each of these states of consciousness,
within each of these conditions, within which
it incarnated. So that now, as you come together,
it is each one carrying that thread of Light which
you anchored within that humanity, into which
you had been focused in the ascending process.
"Now, these threads are being brought together to create one
vast focus of Light (remember, they have come
this way) which now will be directed upward toward
the Ashramic Center. As you come into a realization
and an awareness of your Ashramic affiliation,
as you expand your consciousness into that fruit
of growth and development which you had achieved
in times past, it is as and with the very depths
of that humanity into which you had incarnated,
and with the relationship, so that you are bridging
the very lowest within which you have lived with
the very highest with which you will attain. Then,
via that bridge, the Ashramic Group Life can put
down and out into objective manifestation, to
radiate the Light, the Love, and the Power of
the Divine Plan for Humanity within the body of
humanity." 8
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1 Ashramic Projections, by Lucille Cedercrans,
Wisdom Impressions, pp. 35 – 36
2 Ashramic Projections, by Lucille Cedercrans,
Wisdom Impressions, p. 41
3 See also: Ashramic Projections, by Lucille
Cedercrans, pp. 47-49
4 See also: The Nature of the Soul, Lesson 40,
by Lucille Cedercrans
5 Ashramic Projections, by Lucille Cedercrans,
Wisdom Impressions, p. 117–120
6 See also: Applied Wisdom – Wesak – Service,
by Lucille Cedercrans (scheduled for publication
in the Fall of 2005)
7 Ashramic Projections, by Lucille Cedercrans,
Wisdom Impressions, pp. 52 – 53
8 Ashramic Projections, by Lucille Cedercrans,
Wisdom Impressions, pp. 36 - 38
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