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Transmission meditation: From a talk by Benjamin Creme at a Weekend Transmission Workshop in Holland in 1987.
The disciple is someone who knows there is a goal and who seeks to further his evolution himself in a highly conscious manner. The goal he sees is, of course, perfection -- liberation from the necessity to incarnate on the planet at all. The disciple willingly and consciously submits himself to the necessary disciplines. That is what being a disciple is: to arrive finally at that goal. Until now, I have, on the whole, emphasized the service aspect of Transmission Meditation. By the simple act of sitting in a transmission group and allowing the Masters of the Hierarchy to transmit their energies through the chakras of the group, service of immense value is carried out. But there is even more than service to Transmission Meditation. It is not possible for these spiritual forces to be transmitted through the chakras of the individuals in the group without these individuals becoming transformed by them. As the energies pass through the chakras, they stimulate, heighten the activity of, the various chakras, usually the heart, the throat and the head chakras. Because of this, besides being a service to the world of tremendous importance and value, Transmission Meditation is at the same time probably the most potent method of personal growth open to any individual today. Laya Yoga The Tibetan Master, Djwhal Khul, who gave to the world the Alice Bailey Teachings, wrote about a specialized form of Laya Yoga: the yoga of energies which, He said, would emerge in this coming age of Aquarius. Transmission Meditation is that specialized form of Laya Yoga. It is really a combination of two yogas: Laya, the yoga of energies; and Karma, the yoga of service. It brings together the two most powerful methods of evolutionary advance known. It is a group meditation, and for its correct carrying out it needs the formation of groups. It has been possible to introduce it to the world only now, at the dawn of the new age of Aquarius, because only now are disciples beginning to work in group formation. All forms of meditation developed over the last 2,000 years of Pisces, and therefore under the influence of Piscean energy, have been individual meditations. They have been designed to bring the man or woman into soul contact, leading eventually to at-one-ment with the soul. When, through meditation, the soul is contacted, it can stimulate and eventually grip its vehicle -- the man or woman in incarnation. Through meditation, a channel called the antahkarana is built between the personality and the soul. Simultaneously, the soul, itself, is building that same channel downwards to its reflection, the personality. This process starts just before the first initiation. There are five great points of crisis which mark out the evolutionary process. These are the five initiations to Mastery or Liberation. Having taken them, you do not need to incarnate on this planet. These five great expansions of consciousness, which is what initiation is, cover only the last few lives of the evolutionary journey from animal man to the totally liberated Master. It takes literally hundreds of thousands of incarnational experiences to bring a person to the point of the first initiation. As the soul sees its vehicle coming close to that point, perhaps four or five incarnations yet away from the first initiation, it brings its vehicle, the man or woman on the physical plane, into contact with some form of meditation. In that first instance, the contact might be very slight indeed: the person hears about meditation, tries it for a bit, perhaps spends a little part of his time doing it. Eventually, there comes a life in which the person will spend a considerable part of his or her time devoted to the practice of some form of meditation. It is not the personality who seeks meditation; it is forced in to this process by the impulse of the soul itself. In this sense the soul is the first Master. Great Expansion of Consciousness When, through several lives passed in a more serious approach to meditation, the person becomes ready for the first initiation, the Master steps in and guides, tests and prepares the person for this first great expansion of consciousness. In incarnation (of course there are many out of incarnation who have also gone through this experience), there are roughly 800,000 people who have taken the first initiation. Out of five billion people, it is not very many. Of those who have taken the second initiation, there are only some 240,000 in incarnation; of the third only between 2,000 and 3,000. Of those who have taken the fourth initiation, there are only about 450 in the world at the moment. The numbers are very small indeed. The interesting thing is that the process is speeding up extraordinarily. Today, several million people are standing on the threshold of the first initiation. This is why the Hierarchy, for the first time in countless thousands of years, is returning to the everyday world. The disciples are drawing them magnetically into the world. The probationary disciple is watched and tested by the Master, at the fringe of a Master's ashram. When he has passed his tests and is ready, he enters through the gate of initiation into Hierarchy, and becomes a disciple. That is the beginning of a journey from which there is no return, it is the burning of the boats behind the disciple. He can waste many lives, hold himself back, but he really cannot ever turn back against the tide of evolution. Then begins a period where a great battle is fought out between his soul and his personality. The man or woman on the physical plane becomes the arena of a battle for possession between his personality desire life and the spiritual life of the soul. Eventually, though it may take time, the soul (because it is stronger) wins. The battle can rage for many lives. There is an average of six or seven lives between the first and second initiation. It is a hard struggle, and often a painful one, in the beginning. The disciple finds that he is being stimulated on all fronts: mentally, emotionally and physically. His three bodies are stimulated as never before. The battle has to be fought out simultaneously on all these fronts. As he thinks he is coping with the enemy attacking his physical frontier, he finds himself invaded on the emotional front. He brings all his personality forces to bear to thrust the enemy back, and he finds that on the mental plane and on the physical plane, again, there are forces attacking him from behind. Eventually, by the sheer exhaustion of the battle, he gives in, he accepts the dictates of his soul. He becomes an accepted (accepting) disciple, working closer to the centre of a Master's ashram. Then he discovers that he is not alone, never has been alone, as he thought, but that he is really part of a group, the members of which he has probably never met on the physical plane. He works under the supervision, not immediately of a Master, but of a disciple of one of the Masters. He finds the battle raging more and more fiercely until he comes to a point about half way between the first and second initiation. A Little Glimmer of Light Suddenly, he sees a little glimmer of light at the end of a long tunnel. He finds that the physical body is obeying his will, and that the most unruly body of all, his astral body, is beginning to be controlled. He finds this very encouraging; he sees the way ahead. It is still a fight, but he sees that, if he keeps at it, there is hope. Then he finds that he is put in contact with other people in some group work. He finds that these other people have the same experiences, the same difficulties, and he realizes that this is part of growing out of his ignorance, glamour, illusion, seeing the world and himself as they really are.
The soul is in no hurry. It has aeons of time because it does not even think in terms of time. It is only the personality who has the feeling that this is taking for ever. It seems to us that we will never be free of these physical, astral and mental controls which prevent us from expressing ourselves as the Soul, the spiritual being we know we are, whose spiritual intelligence, love and will is demonstrating and radiant. When that point is eventually reached, the third great expansion of consciousness can be taken. This is a watershed in the evolutionary process. From the point of view of the Masters, this is the first initiation. The first two are seen by Them as preparatory to this first, true soul initiation when the man or woman really becomes ensouled -- and therefore truly divine -- for the first time. Until then, the divinity is there but only potential. Two Factors Two factors bring this about: meditation of some form or other, bringing the man or woman into contact with the soul; the other is service -- some form of altruistic service. Why service? What is so important about service? Perhaps it is easier to see the value of the scientific aspect of meditation, but why service? Service is the impulse of the soul. The soul knows only service; it is its nature. The soul comes into incarnation to serve the Plan of evolution of the Logos, the Heavenly Man ensouling the planet. As soon as a man or woman comes into contact with the soul, that person, spontaneously, wants to serve in some form or other. The person might or might not actually do the service, but the soul will impel it towards service. If, under the impulse of the soul, the person serves, all goes well; the purpose of the soul is being carried out, soul energies are being properly used. If, through meditation, the person receives the stimulus from the soul but does not use it in service, the soul energy 'goes bad' on him or her, produces stress, stasis. The person becomes ill or neurotic. The illnesses and diseases of the world, in particular of disciples, are largely the result of the misuse or non-use of soul energy. You can see how important it is, therefore, in response to soul stimulus which meditation brings about, to use the contacted energy in service. Transmission Meditation provides both of these requirements. The service,
the act of sitting in a transmission group and having the energies transmitted The beauty of Transmission Meditation is that the Laya aspect of it is done for you by the Masters. The karma, the service aspect of it is simple and minimal, in terms of the time and energy involved, so that the laziest person in the world can still act in a powerful way and benefit the world. Considering the Laya aspect of it, the laziest individual can make a potent advance along the evolutionary path because the Masters do all the work. They are Master scientists. Every second of every minute of the day, they are transmitting and transforming energies from one or another extra-planetary source, and protecting humanity from those which would be harmful. Can you imagine having such advanced scientists actually overseeing your own meditation? Yet everyone who takes part in a transmission group enters a field of service so simple that a child of 12 can do it. Yet so scientific that the most incredible advance along the evolutionary path becomes possible. It is literally a gift from the Gods, and it is released into the world at this time because only now are being formed groups of disciples able to handle these energies and to work consciously in group formation. Transmission Meditation brings together, therefore, these two most potent levers of the evolutionary process -- Laya, the yoga of energies, and Karma, the yoga of service. They impel those involved in it fast along the last phase of evolution which we call the path of initiation. The underlying purpose behind Transmission Meditation is to make it possible for the groups involved to pass quickly along the path of initiation. This article was edited from a talk by Benjamin Creme at a Weekend Transmission Workshop in Holland in 1987.
"The aim should be the development of the habit of meditation all the day long, and the living in the higher consciousness till that consciousness is so stable that the lower mind, desire, and the physical elementals, become so atrophied and starved through lack of nourishment, that the threefold lower nature becomes simply the means whereby the Ego (soul) contacts the world for purposes of helping the race." Djwhal Khul "Letters on Occult Meditation" Links
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A disciple is someone who is consciously
taking part in the evolutionary journey. It goes without saying that all humanity is evolving, has evolved, from
early animal man to the point where we are today. For untold aeons, that process takes place more or less
unconsciously; the individual soul comes into incarnation again and again, swept into evolution by the magnet of
evolution itself. The disciple, on the other hand, takes a very conscious role in this process, leading to a very
specific goal.
To bring all of
this about, meditation has been given to the world. It is the catalytic process which allows the soul to create
this situation vis-a-vis its reflection. It grips its vehicle, mentally, astrally, physically, more and more,
making it a purer reflection of itself. Its aim is to bring its vehicle into a perfect reflection of itself. It
does this by stimulating the vibrational rate of each of the bodies, physical, astral and mental, until all three
are vibrating at more or less the same frequency.
through you, allows the Masters to oversee your meditation. It is not possible
to do Transmission Meditation without carrying out an act of service; that is its nature. It is not possible to
serve in this way without at the same time advancing along the evolutionary path because Transmission Meditation
brings together the two yogas -- the yoga of Service, Karma-yoga, and the yoga of Energies, Laya-yoga.
