1. Definitions | a. Initiation Defined
b. Initiate Defined | | |
2. Words, Symbols, Silence | a. Read Carefully
b. Beyond Words, Language Inadequate
c. Not Written
d. Symbols
e. Silence
f. No Claims |
| 3. Normal Evolution vs. Initiation | a. Abnormality of the Process of Initiation
b. Forcing Process | | |
| 4. Three Stages of Spiritual Development | a. Individualization
b. Initiation
c. Identification | | |
5. Cost, Sacrifice | a. Misunderstood
b. Effect on Others
c. Blindness, Darkness
d. Loneliness, Isolation, Solitude
e. Cost, Loss, Renunciation, Sacrifice
f. Pain, Suffering, Sorrow
g. Fire, Burning Ground
h. Crisis, Tension, Conflict, Dweller vs. Angel | | |
6. Preparation, Training | a. Self-discovery
b. Preparation, Readiness, Requirements, Training
c. Schools
d. Hints
e. Tests, Temptations
f. Failures, Faults
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7. Old vs. New Methods | a. Individual vs. Group Initiation
b. 14 Rules for Individual and Group Initiation | | |
8. Laws | (included in the one document)
a. Analogy, Correspondences
b. Being
c. Cause and Effect, Karma
d. Compensation
e. Cycles
f. Death
g. Differentiation
h. Economy, Attraction, Synthesis
i. Expansion
j. Expansive Response; the Lower Four
k. Free Occult Obedience
l. Group Life, Group Progress
m. Inevitability
n. Nature
o. Repulse
p. Sacrifice
q. Schools
r. Service
s. Supplementary Seven, Spirit, Life
t. Vibration | | |
9. Temporal Periods | (included in the one document)
a. Solar Systems
b. Chains
c. Rounds
d. Root Races
e. Ages
f. Centuries | | |
| 10. Kingdoms | (included in the one document)
a. Mineral
b. Vegetable
c. Animal
d. Human
e. Various Kingdoms | | |
11. Astrology | a. Astrologers
b. Full Moon
c. Suns
d. Planets
e. Constellations
f. Crosses
g. Sirius | | |
12. Rays | a. Seven Rays
b. Rays of the Personality, Soul and Monad | | |
13. Planes, Worlds | a. Seven Planes
b. World of Appearances, Meaning, Significances | | |
14. Centers, Kundalini | a. Seven Centers (Chakras)
b. Kundalini | | |
15. Aspects | a. Microcosmic | 1) Personality, Mayavirupa
2) Soul, Causal Body, Egoic Lotus
3) Monad
4) Antahkarana | |
| b. Macrocosmic | 1) Humanity
2) Hierarchy
3) Shamballa | |
16. Vision, Revelation | a. Sight, Vision
b. Light
c. Illusion Dispelled
d. Process of Revelation
e. Intuition, Ideas, Raincloud of Knowable Things, Impression | | |
17. Mysteries | a. Restoration of the Mysteries of Initiation | | |
18. Time | a. Age of Candidate
b. Time of Initiation
c. Time
d. Eternal Now | | |
19. Place | a. Cave
b. Stream, River
c. Mountain
d. Hall, Temple
e. Gate, Portal, Door | | |
20. Process
| a. Self-initiation
b. Process of Initiation
c. Penetration, Polarization, Precipitation
d. Abstraction, Death | | |
21. Ceremony | a. Participants | 1) Initiate or Group of Initiates |
2) Initiators | a) The Soul
b) The Christ, the Bodhisattva, the World Teacher, the Great Lord
c) Sanat Kumara, the One Initiator, the Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, the Great Kumara
d) The Nameless One
e) The Planetary Logos, the Silent Watcher
f) The Ray Lord |
3) Triangle of Force, Three Guardians | a) Three Adepts, Three Hierarchical Department Heads
b) Three Buddhas of Activity, Three Exoteric Kumaras
c) Three Esoteric Kumaras
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4) Sponsors | a) Two Masters
b) Mahachohan and Bodhisattva
c) Two Great Nameless Beings |
5) The Representing Deva |
| 6) Lodge of Masters and Initiates |
b. Revelations | 1) Revelation of the Presence
2) Revelation of the Vision
3) Revelation of Past, Present and Future
4) Other Revelations |
c. Rods of Initiation, Rods of Power | 1) Kinds of Rods | a) Cosmic Rod, Rod of the Cosmic Logos
b) Systemic Rod, Rod of the Solar Logos, The Sevenfold Flaming Fire
c) Planetary Rod, Rod of the One Initiator, Rod of the Planetary Logos,
Rod of Sanat Kumara, The Flaming Diamond
d) Hierarchical Rod, Rod of the Bodhisattva, The Lesser Rod of Power |
2) Interlude of Silence, Stillness and Peace
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3) Application of the Rod
| a) Effect of the Rod on the Initiate's Personality Vehicles
b) Effect of the Rod on the Initiate's Causal Body
c) Effect of the Rod on the Initiate's Centers (Chakras)
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4) Star of Initiation
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| 5) The Rod and the Secrets |
d. Administration of the Oath |
e. The Giving of the Word of Power |
f. The Imparting of the Secrets | 1) Three Lesser Secrets
2) Three Major Secrets (Mysteries)
3) Two More Major Secrets
4) Other Secrets (Mysteries) |
22. Results, Goals
| a. Results | 1) Success
2) Service
3) Healing
4) Love
5) Universality |
| b. Goals | 1) Objective
2) Work |
23. Minor Initiations
| a. Minor or Threshold Initiations
b. Intermediate Stages, Expansions Between Initiations | | |
24. Major Initiations
| a. Higher, or Major, Initiations
b. Cosmic, Hierarchical and Sirian Initiations | | |
25. Initiations of Significant Entities
| a. Significant Entities
b. The Buddha
c. Jesus
d. The Christ
e. Sanat Kumara and the Planetary Logos
f. The Solar Logos | | |
26. Number
| a. Number of Initiation | 1) Nine
2) Eleven | |
| b. Series of Initiations | 1) Five
2) Seven
3) Nine | |
27. First Initiation | | | |
28. Second Initiation | | | |
29. Third Initiation | | | |
30. Fourth Initiation | | | |
31. Fifth Initiation | | | |
32. Sixth Initiation | | | |
33. Seventh Initiation | | | |
34. Eighth Initiation | | | |
35. Ninth Initiation | | | |
36. Path, Way | a. Three Paths
b. Path of Initiation
c. Way of the Higher Evolution
d. Seven Paths, Cosmic Paths | | |
Epilogue | | | |
Charts | a. The Nine Initiations
b. The Seven Planes | | |
| Glossary | |
