DINA II: Let me now give you six statements which can form, if you so desire,
six seed thoughts upon this particular theme during the coming year.
1. The Ashram pulsates with life. Its radiation penetrates the outer gloom and
dark; waiting aspirants, one by one, and all alone, appear within
the beam of light.
2. Along that beam the chela travels towards the central [Page 561] point of
light, the Master in His Ashram. The Master waits. He moves not forth but
quietly radiates.
3. The chela enters through the door into the Ashram and stands before the
Master of his life. He knows himself to be a soul. He knows that now his mind
and all the lower natural forces must radiate the light he has attained.
4. As one by one the chelas find their way into the Ashram and to the central
Light, the light therein intensifies. The radiation of the Ashram waxes to a
great intensity. The tiny beam of light focussed within the chela's heart,
directed by his eye, penetrates in turn the outer gloom and is seen by those
who wait.
5. Within the Ashram I have taken my place. My little light is merged and
blended with the greater light, for thus I best can serve. I face the Master
and know His light and mine to be the same. I turn and send my light into the
dark, to guide some wanderer home.
6. Grant me the light that I may shine. Let me throughout the world of time
and space radiate light, create a light, transmit the light, and treading thus
the Lighted Way (which is my Lighted Self), enter the light and so return the
light to those who need, to Those likewise from whence it came.
Thus, my brother and my friend, travel life's way; work in my Ashram; aid your
fellowmen, and know the joy of constant service and sacrifice.
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I am a point of light within a greater Light.
I am a strand of loving energy within the stream of love divine.
I am a point of sacrificial Fire, focussed within the fiery Will of
God.
And thus I stand.
I am a way by which men may achieve.
I am a source of strength, enabling them to stand.
I am a beam of light,
shining upon their way.
And thus I stand.
And standing thus revolve
And tread this way the ways of men,
And know the ways of God.
And thus I stand.
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GLA: Before I close this particular instruction upon glamour, I would like to
call the attention of the group to the occult sentences which I gave to D.L.R.
prior to his leaving the group. They have a definite relation to the group
work and I would like you to give them careful consideration and study. The
Old Commentary, in speaking of the work of those whose dharma it is to
dissipate world glamour, uses the following illuminating sentences:
"They come and stand. Within the midst of whirling forms—some of beauty rare
and some of [Page 151] horror and despair—they stand. They look not here or
there but, with their faces turned towards the light, they stand. Thus
through their minds the pure light
streams to dissipate the fogs.
"They come and rest. They cease their outer labours, pausing to do a
different work. Within their hearts is rest. They run not here and there,
but constitute a point of peace and rest. That which upon the surface veils
and hides the real begins to disappear and from the heart at rest
a beam of dissipating force
projects, blends with the shining light and then the mists of man's creation
disappear.
"They come and they observe. They own the eye of vision; likewise they own
the right direction of the needed force. They see the glamour of the world,
and seeing, they note behind it all the true, the beautiful, the real. Thus
through the eye of Buddhi comes the power to drive away the veiling,
swirling glamours of that glamorous world.
"They stand, they rest, and they observe. Such are their lives and such the
service that they render to the souls of men."
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The Technique of Light
GLA 219: Brief Outline of the Formula
1. The four Preparatory Stages:
a. Recognition of the glamour to be dissipated.
b. The stage of focussing the light of the personality, a dual light.
c. The stage of meditation and the recognition of the greater light.
d. The unification of the dual light of matter and the light of the soul,
creating thus the searchlight of the
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2. A process of alignment and of recognised integration.
3. A deliberate turning of the searchlight of the mind to the astral plane.
The Formula
4. Soul activity and the retention of the light.
5. The generating and visualising of the searchlight.
6. The evocation of the will behind the searchlight of the mind.
7. The generated unified light is turned upon the glamour by the power of
thought.
8. The naming of the glamour and the triple affirmation.
9. The Act of Penetration.
10. The Process of Withdrawing.
GLA 202: The power to use the light not only through absorption and projection
but also by a conscious use of the will, carrying energy upon
the beam of projected light. To
this they add a persistent and steady focus. This beam, thus projected, has a
twofold use: It works expulsively and dynamically, much as a strong wind blows
away or dissipates a dense fog or as the rays of the sun dry up and absorb the
mist. It acts also as a beam along which that which is new and a part of the
divine intention can enter. The new ideas and the desired ideals can come in
"on the beam," just as the beam directs and brings in the airplanes to a
desired landing place.
I would commend these lines to your careful thought. They convey to you not
only the field of your group service but also the desired attitude of the
personal life of every member of the group.
GLA 202: Having, as far as possible, achieved the needed concentration,
realisation and relationship, the aspirant then (by an act of the will and of
the creative imagination) turns on the searchlight and sees
a vivid beam of light stream
forth and pierce the glamour. He must visualise a broad brilliant beam,
pouring forth from the illumined mind on to the astral plane. He must believe
that this is so.
GLA 218:
The power of the light prevents the appearance of the glamour (Naming it).
The power of the light negates the quality of the glamour from affecting me.
The power of the light destroys the life behind the glamour.
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