c.) “Now every individuality will be followed on its ascending arc [towards Spirit, away from matter] by the Law of Retribution — Karma and death accordingly. The perfect man or the entity which reached full perfection, (each of his seven principles being matured) will not be reborn here. His terrestrial cycle is completed and he has to either proceed onward or — be annihilated as an individuality. (The incomplete entities have to be reborn or reincarnated). d.) “On their fifth round … they will be held responsible henceforth in their descents from sphere to sphere, […] This downward course has not yet begun but will soon. Only how many — oh, how many will be destroyed on their way! e.) “The above said is the rule. The Buddhas and Avatars form the exception, as verily we have yet some Avatars left to us on Earth. f.) “… The whole individuality is centered in the three middle or 3rd, 4th and 5th principles. During earthly life it is all in the fourth, the centre of energy, volition—will. […] difference between personality and individuality. The former hardly survives — the latter, to run successfully its seven-fold downward and upward course, has to assimilate to itself the eternal life-power residing but in the seventh [Atma] and then blend the three (fourth, fifth and seventh) into one — the sixth [Buddhi]. Those who succeed in doing so become Buddhas, Dhyan Chohans, etc.” |
Additional References To Ponder: * * * On The Seven Principles Of Man 61.) From Master Morya (who was the Apostle Peter)—now Senior Ascended Master, Head Of 1st Ray Ashram, and Future Manu of Sixth Race— In The Mahatma Letters to AP Sinnett, Letter No. 44 (January 1882): a.) “… Man (physically) is a compound of all the kingdoms, and spiritually — his individuality is no worse for being shut up within the casing of an ant than it is for being inside a king. It is not the outward or physical shape that dishonour and pollutes the five principles — but the mental perversity. Then it is but at his fourth round, when arrived at the full possession of his Kama- energy and completely matured, that man becomes Fully Responsible[;] as at the Sixth he may become a Buddha… […] b.) “Volition and consciousness are at the same time self-determining and determined by causes, and the volition of man, his intelligence and consciousness will awake but when his fourth principle Kama is matured and completed by its (seriatim) contact with the Kamas or energizing forces of all the forms man has passed through in his previous three rounds. […] |