XV. Inter-Planetary and Extra-Planetary Relationships

The subject of the etheric body of all forms and of the etheric body of the planetary Logos is necessarily of major importance in any consideration of the Supreme Science of Contact. It is this concept of sensitive contact which I seek to emphasize as we study the three points or the three basic concepts outlined in the preceding section. All such terms as planes, groups, creative Hierarchies, and centers are simply word modes of inferring relationship, interplay and mutual impression between the beings or the lives who make up the sumtotal of our manifested universe; they are nevertheless signs of our leading up to a planetary synthesis or a planetary integrity of a nature hitherto not even visioned by man.

The subject is necessarily one of immense difficulty, for all human beings think in terms of their own contacts and relationships, which are strictly limited and are not expressed in terms of the One Life, flowing through all forms and all kingdoms, or through all the diverse planetary evolutions (of which you know nothing) and thus creating in time and space a living intelligent planetary Entity of systemic maturity, qualified by immense attractive and integrating energies, motivated by a supreme Purpose - a Purpose which is part of the vast purpose of the solar Logos, working through the planetary Logoi, and therefore responsible for the well-being and progressive evolution of all lives and groups of lives within the framework and the essential structure of our planet.

The relation evoked is, as you can well imagine, interplanetary and extra-planetary; these terms mean little to [125] the average disciple and he has to wait until the initiatory process puts him in a position where he can frankly evaluate the situation. Of the latter stages, we can know nothing; only in the Council Chamber of Shamballa are these extra-planetary contacts and relationships recognizable. But one basic fact must be grasped, and that is that the medium of relationship and of contact is SUBSTANCE; and the effect of these relationships, carried on through this medium, is the gradual development and progressive unfoldment of the three divine Aspects which all esotericists recognize, and of others which the coming millennia will reveal. The contributing factor, therefore, within and upon our planet is what we might regard as the three major centers of the planetary Logos:

1. The Head Center, the dynamic Agent of the extra-planetary Purpose, the expression of the divine planetary Will as focused in Shamballa. This is the energy of Synthesis, the source of all planetary life; it connotes essential Being.
2. The Heart Center, the Agent of the Plan of evolution. This is the expression of divine Love or pure Reason, the Hierarchy. It is essentially the energy of Attraction, the kingdom of souls.
3. The Throat Center, the Agent of all the three Aspects in relation to the three subhuman kingdoms in nature, the expression also of the divine Intelligence, Humanity. This is the energy of active Mind and makes humanity the macrocosm of the microcosm, the three subhuman kingdoms. Humanity is to these kingdoms what the Hierarchy is to the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom.

These are the elements of the occult science and - for students such as you - contain nothing new. Nevertheless, they [126] need to be seen in their triple relationship if the mode of working of the One Life is to be grasped more clearly than is now the case. The aim of the entire evolutionary scheme is to bring these three Centers into such a close relationship that the synthesis of the divine Purpose can work out harmoniously on every possible (note that phrase) level of consciousness. If this can take place, then the basic Thought, the fundamental Proposition of the planetary Logos can eventually be disclosed to man.

May I remind you of the occult statement that every living being or manifested life - from the planetary Logos down to the tiniest atom - either has been, is, or will be a man. This has reference to the past, to the present and to the future of every manifested life. Therefore, the fact of humanity and of that for which humanity stands is probably the primary and major aspect of the divine purpose. Pause and think about this statement. It is, therefore, the first clear fact which indicates the measure and the magnitude of a human being; and until two other facts are sequentially revealed to us, it will not be possible correctly to gauge the wider aspects of the purpose of Sanat Kumara. Everything subhuman is slowly moving towards a definite human experience; it is also passing through the phase of human effort and consequent experience, or else it has moved out of that phase of limitation and - through initiation - is drafting human nature into a state of divinity (to use a most inadequate phrase).

The keynote, therefore, of the Lord of the World is HUMANITY for it is the basis, the goal and the essential inner structure of all being. Humanity itself is the key to all evolutionary processes and to all correct understanding of the divine Plan, expressing in time and space the divine Purpose. Why HE chose that this should be so, we know not; but it is a point to be accepted and remembered in all study of [127] the Science of Impression because it is the factor that makes relationship and contact possible and it is also the source of all understanding. These are most difficult things to express and to enlarge upon, my brothers, and only the penetrating intuition can make these matters clearer to your avid and active intelligence.