Part 9
Event:
The Inner Group communion starts with the enactment of the experience of the new state of triadal consciousness… for a time the Group “becomes” this new state of consciousness, with the most experienced Initiate Disciples stabilizing the experience so that the less experienced ones can participate in it… it is a blending of one’s identity with The Oneness… it is being The Oneness… embracing All, yet untouched by naught.
Dialogue:
The dialogue begins with a question regarding one of the thoughts shared during the communion last week:
What does it mean “to align and identify oneself with the Purpose at the core of the Group”? How is it done?
The answer to this question comes from several “foci of consciousness” within the Inner Group:
As the question states, there are two aspects involved in this process of ‘becoming the Purpose’… the Divine Purpose. One refers to alignment, while the other refers to identification. Let’s consider each of them:
Alignment is the destiny of the personality’s three levels of substances — mental, astral, and etheric-physical devic lives — and of the forces impressed upon these substances.
Alignment implies an “outside” power or identity doing the alignment. In other words, alignment implies the presence of a self-conscious entity or identity with the power to direct the forces or tendencies of the personality’s substances. This “outside” self-conscious identity is the expanded self of the human being. The self identified with the condition of the personality’s substances is incapable of re-aligning the forces that move them in the direction of the Divine Purpose. It is only the expanded self in the human being who has this power — that self is the identity who knows itself to be divine, timeless and boundless; this self is free from identification with the form side of life; hence, free from any separative attitude.
Alignment is, hence, the re-orientation of the “normal” use of the forces of the personality’s substances towards that “purpose” which the expanded self of the Disciple is now aware of. This “purpose”, on the first stages of the Path of Return, usually means for the Disciple to become the manifested soul — unselfish, loving, and light unto others. However, when a great degree of progress has been accomplished on becoming this “purpose”, the Disciple starts the road of aligning with the larger “purpose” of the Divine Plan. At this stage, the re-orientation which the Disciple gives to the forces impressing the personality’s substances involves…
aligning the personality’s intentions in life with the triadal purpose.
aligning the personality’s thinking life with the ideation of the triadal purpose.
aligning the personality’s feeling life with the at-one-ing power of the expanded self.
aligning the personality’s brain activity with the inner experiences of the triadal state of consciousness.
All the work of alignment is done by the imposition of a new rhythm upon the old rhythm of the personality. This process takes time and constant efforts, and it constitutes the first half of the Path of Return. However, all Disciples eventually arrive to a point in which they intuitively feel and understand that they can experience “a transference of identity” from their imprisoned self in a form to a spiritual self master of form — the triadal identity. When this transference of identity is realized as possible, Disciples are nearing the transfiguration of the personality. It is the transference of identity to the triadal identity what produces, as an effect, the transfiguration of the personality. This transfiguration of the personality is nothing more than a finalization in the alignment of the personality forces with the triadal purpose.
Disciples know much today of practices aimed at imposing a new rhythm upon the old rhythms of the personality’s tendencies in its substances. However, not much is known regarding what to do when the opportunity comes to the consciousness of Disciples to experience a transference of their identity to the triadal identity. The reason is that this transference of identity does not happen by focusing on the known practices that work at the personality level.
Then, how does the transference of identity to the state of triadal consciousness happen? This takes us to the second part of the answer to the question presented at the beginning of this dialogue:
Identification is the destiny of the self-conscious identity which the Disciple essentially is.
Identification has to do with the transference of the core of self-identity to a higher core of identity. It is thus a process in consciousness. It is accomplished through a planned movement in consciousness aimed towards an intuitively-perceived higher state of identity. The usual meditation practices do not work here… the usual aspirations do not move the Disciple forward here… the usual physical practices and rhythms do not lift the consciousness here. It is only the spiritual intuition that endows the Disciple with the power to energize the needed movement in consciousness and to reveal the direction in which to move.
The key to accomplish the transference of identity to the state of triadal consciousness is to realize and work (in consciousness) with the understanding that it is Life or Being the one and only one who experiences identity at all the levels of consciousness. It is thus the efforts to identify with the One Life or Pure Being what moves or transfers the Disciple’s identity from an individualized self-identity to the state of triadal consciousness.
As we saw before, alignment has to do with a re-orientation of the forces moving the substances available at the personality level. It is accomplished through planned, intelligently designed activities (at the mental, astral and physical levels) aimed at imposing a new rhythm and direction to the usual tendencies found in those substances.
Alignment is needed and important because it frees consciousness to the point in which identification with the One Life or Pure Being can start. But it is the effort in consciousness to identify with the One Life or Pure Being what releases the identity imprisoned in the personality so that it can find a higher core of identity — the triadal identity.
As we can see with this dialogue, identification and alignment are efforts in two different fronts. Identification has to do with a remembering, via intuitive expansion, of one’s essential state of being. Alignment has to do with one’s mastery, via intelligent activity, of the forces in the substances available within one’s sphere of experience. Both are needed in their proper time and place upon the Path of Return to the purity of Being. At some point on the path of the Disciple, both seem to converge. Blessed are those who know within themselves when to shift their attention from alignment to identification.
Journal Note:
From this communion with the Inner Group, we now see the reason and the importance of practicing in consciousness the expansion provided by the intuitional movement described by the words…
There is no soul.
There is no time.
There is no space.
There is only Life…
One Life.
This Life I am.
My Will is for all my lesser selves
to know me at their core as the essence,
the beginning and the end of their existence.
It is thus, as the One Life, I live.