Occult Cosmology

Transmission Process Let me say something about the way in which this third phase of my teaching project is written. In this first part I am going to project directly and with the authority for which I, as a Master, have accepted responsibility. My work has been to build a bridge on the mental plane for those members of humanity attracted to the Western esoteric tradition—a bridge that will allow them to cross over safely, swiftly and surely in order to find their place within the life of the ashram. This work is not just about the education of humanity, but concerns the much deeper purposes that are subsets of the planetary Purpose and will be revealed sequentially to those who follow and apply these teachings.

The final phase of these teachings concerns the liberation from the mental plane altogether and so therefore will be both an extension and a culmination of earlier teachings. Once the energy of the monad becomes a reality in the life experience of the initiate then no further mental plane teaching is required, as the soul is able to ‘advance in Life’. The teachings as a whole will persist for some time within the consciousness of humanity—in the same way that different stages of development are everywhere present—and should eventually be seen as a synthetic whole. The Secret Doctrine struck a potent blow at the prevailing materialism and opened a pathway to the realisation of spirit. It is a foundational teaching.

A Treatise on Cosmic Fire provided a psychological key to The Secret Doctrine, while this current work is intended to provide a ‘Life’ key to those who have studied A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. The way this text is written is as a conscious collaboration between myself and the author—a shared responsibility. I provide the energising Will impulse on the atmic plane and he provides the clothing of this impulse on the mental plane in the language of ideas. Some careful thought will see that it cannot be otherwise if the ‘light of Life’ is to be presented in some small way to waiting minds in this tradition. This light requires a ‘blending of two lights’ in order to be revealed: the light of the soul and the light of the personality. As a 17