The experience of discipleship has brought us to a place of necessary forward movement. The Shamballa Energy impact demands that every effort be made to anchor the Aquarian influence for the New Group of World Servers. No better time to do it than during this long Virgo radiation toward our planet. "I am the mother and the child; I God, I matter am." Know it. Live it. Be it, for humanity and for Hierarchy. The forces of darkness which would hold us back are now rapidly losing their hold. Humanity is responding to the New Group energized through the progressions of Energy from Shamballa, through the Christ and the Hierarchy of Masters, to the Initiates and Disciples, to the New Group of World Servers and to the men and women of goodwill of our planet. Change for Good is inevitable!
From The Rays and The Initiations, pgs. 49, 50, 51:
1. The Word has now gone forth from the great point of tension: Accepted as a group.
I would like here to call your attention to the progressive nature of the esoteric science; it is nowhere better illustrated than in this phrase; nowhere is it more clearly shown and yet, unless the intuition and the sense of correlation are functioning, the idea might escape recognition.
In all the teaching given to the aspirant and to the disciple in the early stages of their training, the emphasis has
We now, however, pass on to another expression and to the next development in the life of the initiate, which is learning to work from a "point of tension." Here lies the new emphasis, and I am bringing it to the attention of humanity as mankind nears the close, the terrible but liberating finale, of his great test in this modern burning-ground. Now men can pass on into the clear cold light, and from there begin to hold that point of tension which will be evocative of the needed "understanding will-to-move forward" along the line of human will-to-goodÑthe first phase of the development of the will aspect. It is the higher sublimation of the aspirational stage which precedes the attainment of the "point of light" through contact with the soul.
The point of tension is found when the dedicated will of the personality is brought into touch with the will of the Spiritual Triad. This takes place in three clearly defined stages:
1. The stage wherein the lower will aspect which is focussed in the mental body--the will-to-activity of the personality--is brought into contact with the higher abstract mind; this latter is the interpreting agent for the Monad and the lowest aspect of the Triad. Two things can be noted in this respect:
a. This contact becomes possible from the moment that the first thin strand of the antahkarana, the rainbow bridge, is completed between the mental unit and the manasic permanent atom.
b. This demonstrates in an absorbing devotion to the Plan and is an effort, at any cost, to serve that Plan as it is progressively understood and grasped.
2. The stage wherein the love aspect of the soul is brought into touch with the corresponding aspect of the Triad, to which we give the inadequate name of the intuition. This is in reality divine insight and comprehension, as expressed through the formulation of ideas. Here you have an instance of the inadequacy of modern language; ideas are formless and are in effect points of energy, outward moving in order eventually to express some "intention" of the divine creating Logos. When the initiate grasps this and identifies himself with it, his goodwill expands into the will-to-good. Plan and quality give place to purpose and method. Plans are fallible and tentative and serve a temporary need. Purpose, as expressed by the initiate is permanent, farsighted, unalterable, and serves the Eternal Idea.
3. The stage wherein--after the fourth initiation--there is direct unbroken relation between the Monad, via the Triad, and the form which the Master is using to do His work among men. This form may be either His temporary personality, arrived at along the normal lines of incarnation, or the specially created form to which Theosophists give the technical but cumbersome word "mayavirupa." It is the "true mask, hiding the radiant light and the dynamic energy of a revealed Son of God." This is the esoteric definition which I offer you. This stage can be called the attainment of the will-to-be, not Being as an individual expression but Being as an expression of the WholeÑall-inclusive, nonseparative, motivated by goodness, beauty and truth and intelligently expressed as pure love.
All these stages are achieved by the attainment of one point of tension after another, and the work thus carried forward into the realm of the dynamic steadfast will. This will, as it is progressively developed, works ever from a constant point of tension.