The SCHOOL of the NATURAL ORDER
The Power to be Conscious
A Lexicon of Terms used in the Teachings of Vitvan
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(Null-A) Non-aristotelian. The _ orientation is characterized by non-identity with substantive images; indicative of a higher level of development. Also characterized by a lack of dogmatism, dogmatic statements, self-opinionations, etc. The consciousness is impressed more with non-allness than with ‘allness.’ Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p.19 & 26 Ibid (Vol 3) p. 21. The world is perceived as an energy-world in structure-function-order. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 70. The advent of consciousness. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 104 See Also: General Semantics
Aarru (Garden of Aarru) The highest psyche. Membership letters (ii) p.1. When the psyche is cleared of its animal qualities and cleared of all motivations in generation we call it the Garden of Aarru, the Ardath. In that cleared state the higher levels can be very accurately reflected. Practices in individual Development p. 9 Where the Light World, the Light Mother, and her differentiated fields are reflected in the psychic nature. There, relative to all levels below, particularly the objective self-conscious state, it is analogous to heaven itself. Studies in Psychotherapy, p. 74. See Also: Ardath, Garden of Eden, Garden of the Gods.
Aborigine types Tribal, pre-aristotelian levels of development, infantilism, submental atavistic types. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p.49.
Absolute rest The seventh level in the abstracting process, which means, no motion; that means no time; and space has long since disappeared in time; and time meaning motion has ceased and there follows a period of rest, the 7th day. Teachers' Guide (Vol 3) p. 55.
Abstract To draw from. Wherever there is an inference, a conclusion reached; wherever there is judgment formed; wherever there appears an assumption or an opinion, etc., those are examples of abstracting. So, to abstract means to draw from and form other qualities, attributes, modalities, appearances, etc. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 3. You draw from this or that quality and out of this quality you formulate a concept, an opinion, a conclusion, an inference. That drawing from and synthesizing is called abstracting. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 13. See Also Abstracting Process, General Semantics.
Abstracting process Students in the SNO, early and at the beginning of their learning, condition their thinking respecting THAT which we label the cosmic process as a stupendous infolding-unfolding process of light into energy and energy into living matter and the reversal -- living matter into energy and energy into light. When thinking has become conditioned in this manner, comprehending as it does everything from the galactic systems to the atom, little by little the multiplicity of details, differentiations, transpositions, configurational processes, representations, relationships, etc., together with descriptions pertaining thereto, are filled in. The First Crossing p.18. See Also General Semantics.
Abyss The Second Crossing or chasm. This diagrammatically separates the lower worlds or levels (symbolized by the moon, lunar, World Mother, Mattergy) from what is generally considered the higher worlds or level (symbolized by the sun, Higher Triad, Diamond Light). Everything below the Second Crossing was symbolized by the moon by reason of the fact that all representations, all configurations, all states of consciousness function only by reflection of that which is above. Everything above the Abyss (Second Crossing) is symbolized by the Sun, the Light worlds. Also The Light Mother vs the Earth Mother. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 69. Every so-called ‘thing’ or person below the chasm functions by reflection; i.e., by the registry of light-energy waves and frequencies. We often describe that as saying we are motivated by unconscious forces. Ibid, p 114. See also Chasm, the
Activity of Mother Substance Equates with state of consciousness. This activity is called wave-frequency on a given level of the electromagnetic spectrum. Activity takes place in more and more individualized or differentiated states of Self-awareness. A Description of the Psychic World p. 52.
Adam (Kadmon) Synonym for the generic term man. The First Crossing p. 80. Adam or Brahma, represents a prodigious expansion of consciousness, and that vastness respecting extensionality cannot be immediately consummated, grasped, it has to be taken in steps, but each step taken is a process representative of the whole....oneness. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 3)p. 42. Adamï·“Kadmon is another label for the real Self on the Mind level (and is androgynous) Practice of the Way p. 5. See Also Androgyny, Brahma, First Born.
Adam-Eve Originally the word for Adam was Jod, and Eve was Hove - Jod-Hove which has been twisted around down the ages and means Jehovah; Jod-Hove. Jehovah is a term representing the Pure Being and its Idea, not the Pure Being. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p. 66.
Adepts of wisdom To rise in consciousness to that level described as "Logoic causation", beyond the three spheres of Nature known to the Master-self, is to pass into that point in development called the fifth degree of initiation. Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 111.
Adhisthana Generative center. When enough energy is withdrawn from value-giving and objective identification, that energy awakens in the generative center. It is the focus of all the creative energy which motivates the psyche, it is the stone which the builders rejected. Understanding the Psychic Nature ( Lesson 5), p.1 See Generative Center.
Aditi The highest power and influence in cosmos, Binah, Aditi, the negative force as a cosmic force that has no consciousness of any individual. It is impersonal and universal. It just shines by its nature. That is what Plato called the Good. Love becomes a synonym for God. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 107 See Also Binah, Love
Advent of Consciousness See Aarru
Affinity Means that the etheric substance and the texture of the cellular structures of the ‘body’ have taken on the influences that have been harbored or cultivated in the psychic nature. A Description of the Psychic World p. 73
Agape From the Greek: Represented the higher, purified, and refined meaning of the influence of Eros. How to Discipline Your Psyche p. 35. (p. 31 new ver.) Love flows and flows like a fountain to everyone and everything; it is a motivating influence from the heights that we call Light’s Regions. This is our referent for the word - Love - Agape. A Description of the Psychic World p. 98. The higher form of love and unity which the pre-Christian Gnostic called Agape. Membership Letters (IV) p. 1. See Also Eros, Love
Ages/Cycles See Kalpas, Mahavantara, Yugas.
Agni In the Vedas, as the highest God... the Power-to-be-conscious. It is the ultimate point toward which a student is developing and which will at one point on his time-line be reached and fully and consciously developed. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2) p.33. See Also Power-to-be-conscious, Force Centers.
Ahriman The dark forces/angel described in the Zend Avesta (Bible of the Parsees or Persians) Studies in Psychotherapy p. 55. See Also Zarathustra
Air Symbol represents the word gas (incandescent gas) ... fire into air. The First Crossing p.67. Air symbolizes a life-giving force approximating fire. This air, meaning force - becoming incorporated into the configuration, not in the sense of its objective appearance, but in its more subtle and its higher level self. Christos p. 21. See Also Cosmic Process, Four elements
All Seeing Eye, The All-Seeing Eye that never sleeps, never goes into darkness ... transferred to the sky, represented Osiris, God, the original creating power; the Mother Substance, Light, and the son, Logos, or Horus is born; One Father-Mother-Son. Christos p. 63. See Also The Great Seal of the U.S.A.
Anahata Sanskrit. The effect of force functioning on the heart level. Characterized by giving. Christos p. 124. This perfection of the power of Christ in human consciousness begins with the release of the fountain of love in that center called Anahata, or the heart. The First Crossing p. 91. See Also, Heart Center.
Analogy, We use the word analogy to symbolize the resemblance between component parts of two configurational representations. For example, we can say the atom is analogous to the solar system because we are relating the component parts of the atom in their ratio and proportion - ratio of parts to sizes (the proportions) - to the ratios and proportions of the component parts of the solar system. Practice of the Way p. 21.
Ananda, An ecstasy, a joy, such an intoxicating happiness it can’t be described. Studies in Psychotherapy p.97.
Androgyne, Describes the Real Self on Mind level - fifty percent positive and fifty percent negative - Adam-Kadmon is another label. Practice of the Way p. 55.
Angels of Light, Those groups of Light-bearers ... heaven-born ones that never descend lower than the etheric level of the World Mother substance. These are real helpers. There are congeries of them and they are eager to help anyone who will allow that help. Practices in Individual Development p. 36. See Also Devas, Light-bearers.
Anima, If we want to see the life force of what we call a tree, the movement must take place within the individual until he reaches that state labeled the vital, the anima, the informing principle. When he has that state developed within himself, he will see it in everything else, and not otherwise. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p.68.See Also Vital, the
Animal field, In the differentiated field in which those individual differentiations eventuate which we label animal, the animal field or group soul has no ultimate differentiation which we label the cosmic egg, or the pneumatic ovum, autonomous field, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p.12.
Animal Soul, The force and influence of this differentiated field that we label animal-soul is labeled the pleasure-pain motive. Studies in Psychotherapy p.98. The lower psyche, under the genetrix. The animal soul, at its purest and best, is the house of the natural instincts, feelings, and desires, but when over cultivated it becomes occupied by those entities, created and/or acquired. Also called "the depths of the unconscious" by the aristotelian psychologists. The First Crossing p. 88. See Also Lower Psyche.
Ajna (center), The Pituitary center. The force center located in the center of the head. After its opening, the Speirema, Kundalini, at the base of the spine opens to awaken the Mind level. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p.23. See Also Force Centers
Apperception, Perception is to know; apperception is to know and know that you know. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 12. Apperception is relative to man born with the differentiation from the animal oversoul. Practice of the Way p. 14.
Arc, Meaning the archetype upon which the configurational process is modeled and governed. We label it the pattern of the field. The arc is that into which all returns in the in-breathing process; positive and negative, two by two, they infold. The positive and negative unfold in the out-breathing which is called another incarnation, as the pattern develops from one outbreathing to the next inbreathing, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p.7. See Also Archetype, Grand Architect.
Arche, Arche in the root of the word Archetypal, a label for that which brings forth everything subsequently to that stage in the creative process. Two synonyms are the "Great Christos" and "Archetypal Gods." The connotation denotes the union of the Positive Power, The Father Principal and the Light Mother ... that which gives birth by being activated by the Positive Power. A label for the Diamond Light. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 109. See Arc, Ark.
Archetypal pattern, A determinative matrix. Respecting a given individual contains the pattern of the basic point of development reached in a preceding incarnation (which in its turn represents a synthesis of all preceding states or stages of evolution); it contains the forces which have eventuated from creation of karma; it contains, in memory-form or as a reflection, the planetary spheres, including the stars through which the Master-self has ‘journeyed’ between death and birth; it contains the forces, in miniature, of the powers and functions of the Logos; and in it inheres the order described as the natural order process of successive states of development; etc. Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 37. See Also Atman.
Archetype, Every differentiated field, particularly the Higher Self of a given man, is characterized by the lines of force that flow from the negative to the positive and beyond the ‘outside’ flow from the positive back to the negative. Those lines of force of a given field we designate the pattern, the arche, the archetype, and the energy that emerges becomes the ensemble of its units of energy. It becomes configurated as a representation of the pattern determined by the state in which the basic self is conscious of itself. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 22 See Also Arc, Arche.
Archetype of all potentiality, The label given to those faculties on the Mind level. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p. 57.
Ardath, Clear and free from feeling, emotional thinking. Mind which represents that level of consciousness, that state of consciousness, clear, Ardath. Practice of the Way p. 45 see Also Aarru, Garden of.
Aristotelian state/influence That this world is a creation, a static, objective thing, that man has been searching for a creator extraneous to the world, etc. Practice of the Way p. 43. That identity with bundles of sensations and images and pictures. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p. 46.
Arithman, See Ahriman.
Armageddon, The true battle of Armageddon is the conflict between the content of the lower psyche and the motivating influences of the higher psyche. The First Crossing p. 91.
Arupa body, The power of forming a mental image of one’s self and functioning independently in this mental thought-form, separate from one’s physical state. One must still discharge his negative energy (generative force) to the positive pole, instead of diverting it on the way to anything else. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 13. See Also Meditative attitude.
Ascending/descending process/(arcs of the cosmic process), A process of conversion of light into energy and energy into living-matter; and then reversing the process, the reconversion, the metamorphosis, which we call the transfigurating process -- the reconversion of living-matter into energy and energy into light. ... represents the cosmic outbreathing and inbreathing in the involutionary and evolutionary process. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 11. The Ascending Arc, the reversal (in the differentiating process) is a step toward oneness, a step toward unity. The point of waking consciousness at which the Power expands. "I prefer using the term descending arc instead of the ‘unconscious.’ " Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 90. When we cannot separate the thought of any configuration from the thought of Mother Substance then we are on the way toward understanding the descending arc. Ibid p. 104. This infolding of the positive Power into Mother substance and the unfolding of the positive Power into Self-awareness has been termed the descending and the ascending arcs of the cosmic process. The First Crossing p. 83. See Also Jacob’s ladder, Mattergy, Prodigal son.
Ascension, It is the transfiguration of all into the Light that represents the ascension. The Christos becomes a creating power that metamorphoses all creations into Living Light and the ascension of the whole into Light is the ultimate. The Christos p. 12.
Atma/Atman, The lowest aspect of the Logoic triad, reflected as the highest aspect in the individualized state, is named Atma, Atman, or Creating-Will. There lie those forces which determine the structure of the psychic, etheric, and physical vehicles of the elemental-self. This highest phase of the Master-self is also called Archetypal because it is like a determinative matrix. Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 37. In the conscious control of frequencies registered under the power of Atma, Will, we will formulate fields and set the pattern of the field by the guna for that configurational representation we elect. The First Crossing p. 94. The Orientals use the term Atman for the first principle of the fundamental basis of individual existence or Be-ing. Studies in Psychotherapy p.4. Atman or the Atmic level denotes the term, Masters, on the grounds that not until one is completely in control of the physiological organism can he be designated a master. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p. 25. (Sanskrit, the Aryan language) the label for the force or power which controls the field and all creativity respecting that field, the Atman. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 12. The Son of the Man, the heavenly man. Ibid p. 59. The term Atma represents Will in Mind substance. The Christos p. 103. See Also Archetypal, Autonomous field, Noetic mind, Will.
Atma, Buddhi, Manas, The Higher Triad, relative to the psychic nature, the ‘inner man’. Atma = Will Buddhi = Love Manas = Mind. Practice of the Way p.41. See Also Higher Triad.
AUM, "The word was made flesh" The word AUM, as light-energy frequency and no-verbal, symbolizes the Trinity: Father Principal, Mother Substance, and the Binding Force (Son). The Father is unconscious and unknown, unknowable, except by the activity in the Mother Substance; the Mother is unconscious and inactive except in contact with the Father; but both become conscious as the Son. Signifies these three in one Self-called the Master (Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva = Becoming, Preserving, Transforming). Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 70. AUM is the "Sacred Word", "the Word of Glory" and "the Pranava." ibid p. 76. "OM" stands for the synthesis of all waves and frequencies. The Christos p. 208.
Atomistic Concept/Consciousness, Identity with representations of a state of consciousness, or with the objective self-conscious state. The Christos p.139. See Also I-Am-I-ness
Aura, Described as the radiance about the field itself; or it might be thought of as a ‘reflection’ or ‘inverted’ representation of that finer substance to which we have referred as the cosmic sphere substance surrounding and interpenetrating all. The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p. 9. Energy -representations of the state which one is conscious. Force, gunas, energies, etc. formulated into the individual’s field. Ibid (Vol.) p. 262. The wave frequencies from the guna constituents of this "content" of the psychic nature establish the psychic field, called the aura of a person. The First Crossing p.87.See Also gunas, psychic field.
Autonomous field, The cosmic egg or pneumatic ovum. Pneumatic ovum relative to a growing and developing person who has not yet achieved consciousness of individualization and his relation to the cosmic process, and cosmic egg, the Higher Self representing the furthest ‘out’ or the ‘lowest’ in eventuation, the essential nature, the True Self born out of the differentiated field. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 6. The source which controls the soul and body - the objective self-conscious state, or man. Self Mastery Through Meditation p.21.
In a given man’s essential nature, he can be described as a differentiated field in the world Mother substance; he can be described as an autonomous field of energy, which exhibits the characteristics of consciousness, of sentience; a sentient differentiated field or sphere. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2) p. 26. And the autonomous field is characterized by its pattern, lines of force forming a pattern; that the emergent energy on these lines of force, like whirls or knots configurate, and the configuration of these units of energy or the configuration of these whirls or knows on or of the lines of force, become the representation of the pattern of the field. Ibid p. 33. The description of the autonomous field is by analogy: sense faculty and reaction. Ibid (Vol 3) p. 57. The differentiated self. Ibid (Vol 4) p. 48. Other labels: The differentiated sphere, individualized field or the I AM which is my true Self. Ibid p. 59. "Autonomous" Field means separate and independent of the psychic-world and of the physical world. Ibid p. 47 An autonomous field is rather like a self-rolling wheel, a self-luminous light, a self-contained intelligence, independent of everything and anything except the field of Mother substance in which it functions. Practices in Individual Development p. 42. The individualizing process operating on the Mind level. Practice of the Way p. 61. See Also Mind level, Mother Substance, Pneumatic Ovum, Spirits.
Avidya, Delusional images appearing substantive which are only appearance. Maya or ignorance. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2) p. 3. See Also, Maya.
Baptism by Fire, This is a Cosmic process operating in your nature; ... this is an awakening from within yourself, it is a higher power which we call the Christos. That higher power that is contacted after the ego-sense has been developed. The Christos p. 100. The transfiguration of generative force into regenerative force, which creates the Noetic-Mind and Noetic mind Functions. Ibid p.169. This power streaming down from "on high" through the purified lower vehicles, literally transforms them. This is the Baptism by Fire, the third initiation, which admits the man to a higher order of beings -- that of supermen. He appears like other men, but in reality, his thoughts, feelings, and acts are the thoughts, feelings, and acts of the I AM, conscious of its divine nature. Bible Lessons p.52.See Also the Third Initiation
Baptism by Water, One has emerged from the domination of these forces (psychic influences - desires, feelings, emotions, giving values, and reacting thereto) which operate on all human planes of manifestation. The second initiation. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 110. After the psychic nature has been conquered, surmounted, risen above, passed, etc. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p.22. Water is the symbol of desire, feeling, and emotional world; water is the symbol of the psychic world. It can function only by reflection of the Light. That which is born must be lifted above the waters. Baptism by water implies a lifting above the psychic world. The Christos p.10. This period may be marked by tears. "...the weeping is the outer expression of the breaking up of old conditions and the birth into new. ...out of it, you will arise, free from the domination of the emotional realm." Bible Lessons p.40. See also Second Crossing/Initiation
Basic point of development, The degree to which differentiation has proceeded as an autonomous field represents what we call one’s basic point of development. Your basic point determines the content of your psychic nature. One cannot build into his psychic nature any quality, entity, substance, which is not comparable to the state in which he is basically conscious of himself, his basic state of development. Practice of the Way p. 61. See Also Autonomous field, Basic State.
Basic Realization, The degree of individual expansion that belongs to you, not the values your mind may hold regarding your state of development. Neither the belief nor the doubt that you can build up about it in the realm of concepts affects it one way or the other. Bible Lessons p. 71. See Also Basic Point/State.
Basic Stat,e At each point in what we call time, the intrinsic Power-to-be-conscious is conscious in a certain state. That state is characterized by an autonomous field which automatically ‘creates’ its own lines of force, independent of either the psychic world or the physiological world. The degree to which the Power-to-be-conscious is conscious is characterized by the structural lines of force of an autonomous field. Expanding States of Self Awareness p.116.
This state of consciousness of the individualized field, or the last differentiation in the cosmic process, is called the basic state of consciousness which becomes determinative respecting all subsequent states--acquired states, psychological states, feeling-desire-emotional-thinking states. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 7.
The content of the unknown part of the psychic nature represents precisely the basic state of development of the true individual. Ibid p. 59. The basic state undergoes very little change throughout an entire incarnation. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p.22 Only as one fulfills the point in which he is now basically conscious of himself can he expand his consciousness beyond that point. The Seven Initiations p. 77. See Autonomous Field, Basic point of development.
Basic structure of the Universe, A positive pole, a negative pole, and the lines of force between the poles. This is the Trinity. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p.9. See Also, Trinity.
Basic Unity, The positive and negative poles of any electromagnetic field. (In any individual field: sacral and conarial axis) Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 12.
Be-coming / Be-ing, We use this word in reference to the individualizing process respecting consciousness. We say that the process we call growth and development is a continuous becoming. Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.3. In the Wisdom Teaching the word "Be-ing", in respect to a given individual consciousness, represents the fulfillment of a cycle. "Be-ing" may also be described as that state of identity of the individual with the cosmic process. Ibid p. 3. The all that is has reference to Be-ing; the all that exists has reference to Be-coming. We’re either Be-coming conscious of Be-ing or, after having attained the consciousness of Be-ing, we are active in Be-ing. Studies in Psychotherapy p.143. See Also Atman.
Binah Hebrew, Light Mother Substance. The Christos p. 87. On the Tree of Life the Negative Substance is called Binah. Practices in Individual Development p. 85. On the Tree of Life chart as Negative Substance. Tree of Life p. 41. See Also Aditi, Light Mother Substance, Love, Tree of Life.
Binding Power / Force, The neutron, the binding power between the negatively charged electrons and the positive charged protons. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 149. Kether, on the Tree of Life, a binding force that holds the positive and negative in union. Practices in Individual Development p.86.
The binding power is a power that holds everything together, and when we come down to the human level it is called love. So love is another label for the binding power. The Seven Initiations p. 5. See also Higher Triad, Kether, Love, Neutron.
Biota, Representations of the World-Mother of (colloidal content.) Cosmology p. 60.
Birth, When the configurational process is accompanied by the development of a new psychic nature. Ordinarily, there are two births: being born into the physiological organism and being also born into a new psychic nature. Your real birth is to be born on the Mind level, the birth of the Christos, the eternal birth. Practice of the Way p. 63.
Birth of the Christ (conscious state), Signalized by the separation in consciousness of Mind from the psychic nature. The Christos p. 23. "Passing beyond" control by the genetrix into Light’s Regions where control of the genetrix becomes one of the functions of Be-ing. The First Crossing p. 105.
With the awakening of spiritual consciousness, the journey is begun. Bible Lessons p. 35. The Power-to-be-conscious fully awakened, fully aware of Itself means to be Born. A Description of the Psychic World p. 112.
Brahma, Sanskrit for the (Hindu) Creator. A part of a three-in-one God-head: Bhrama, Vishnu, Shiva. These are fundamental forces that can be thought of, described, etc., as vital, fundamental facts respecting the dynamic process we call this world, this universe, the cosmos, etc. ... Man represents the Brahma phase of the function representing this dynamic world in which we are integrated. Vishnu represents the sustaining (preserving) power and Shiva the transforming or destructive power ("Destroyer of old patterns"). Understanding the Psychic Nature (lesson 5)p. 4-6. See Also Shiva, Vishnu.
Black magic, Any practice which influences another against his human will or desire or against the law of his being -- is a step on the Lefthand Path, the path of black magic. Bible Lessons p.8.
Body of Light, Means the building of a living-matter representation. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 57. Out of the very depths of the elemental force we culminate in the creative process of building the Solar Vesture, the Body of Light. Ibid p. 67. A psychic body and a configurated-self, the synthesis of which represents a person’s highest point of development. The Christos p. 86.
Brotherhood (of man), Members who constitute a brotherhood, meeting in a fourth dimensional way of synchronization and communication in the frequency world. Practice of the Way p. 11. Comprehends a wide range from babies to adults, with the adults spoken of as Adepts having the consciousness of responsibility for the babies in the brotherhood of humanity. No objective reference can be given to such a conception of a brotherhood. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p.70.
Caduceus, (The staff of Hermes) symbolizes the awakening of force in the generative center and the continuance of that force through the process of awakening and the developing of the other four centers, making five in all. The completion of the journey is labeled the Chrestos. And then awakening of the speirema. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p.23. Two lines running from the genital center to the pituitary or Ajna center. These two lines are diagrammatic of a positive and negative current. Practices in Individual Development p. 53. See Also Force Centers, Staff of Hermes.
Causal Vehicle, the When Mind-substance (chittakasa) is focused by consciousness into an individualized sphere and may be considered with respect to the Master-self as the ‘physical body is to the elemental-self. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.37.
Central Sun of all Existences, The Son or the Son of the Union, which the configuration of the whole cosmos or cosmic process eventuates. The First Crossing p. 46.
Ceremonial Ray, Means order, on the higher levels. Everything has its order and is in its place to one on the Ceremonial ray. The Seven Rays of Development p. 25. The combination of 1 + 2 + 3: 6, but seventh in the order of the rays. Ibid p. 5
Chakras, The force centers are functional foci of the power of consciousness. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2) p. 7. Foci or force centers. Ibid p. 15.
The centers of force through which and by means of which the creative process on all levels and in every respect is brought about. Ibid (Vol 4) p. 10.
The psychic nature is characterized by five force centers: The genital center, the solar center, the heart center, the throat center, and the center in the forehead. Practices in Individual Development p. 4. In every human being are seven centers activated by the forces and powers of universal life, and through this activation, all the operations of his being -- physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual - are maintained. Bible Lessons p. 79. See Also: Force Centers, Four Somatic Divisions of Man.
Change over, the That part of you which continues and endures through all the cyclic process of birth, death, and birth again, the Real Self, will cause an alternation, a rhythm between the positive and the negative within the Self in which it is functioning. For a cycle of seven times round, you will manifest a female body (representation of the negative principal) and next seven times round in a male body (representation of the positive principal). The change over is the point where the cycle begins to alternate. It is observable in women as traits manifesting as aggressive and positive, losing feminine touches or interests, and becoming more masculine. In men as growing more gentle and feminine, leaning more and more to the aesthetic, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 103.
Character, The guna or quality predominant in the urge or drive, is determined by the area, meaning the center in the psychic nature from which the urge originates. ... once these various gunas or types of urge, the drive-force, have been differentiated and sharply so, then the substituted or compensatory forms of expressions, etc., can be determined by the fixation factors in the psyche. All these unfinished experiences in past incarnations constitute the weaker points; like the weak link of a chain. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p.48.
Chasm, the See Abyss, the
Chaos, Whenever the positive and negative are not in union... wherever there is a field, we have order ... cosmos. The First Crossing p. 45.
Chela, Disciple, Veil of Maya p. 56.
Chemo-synthetical Adaptation to environment, The Power-to-be-conscious can develop the Mother substance to suit any environment (different kinds of configurations in order to be. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 29-32.
Children of the Light, The Logoi, those who walk in the Light, those who are conscious of the Light of the logos. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 60.
Chitta, To the seer, means an energy field in which the individualized consciousness functions in all of those respects we label sentient, intelligible, mind substance, etc. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.70 See Also Mind Substance.
Chittakasa, Mind substance or mental space, the lowest level or vehicle of the Master-self, and also spoken of as "the internal organ of thought." The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.36. See Also Energy-waves and frequencies.
Chokmah, The Positive Power, the power of Saturn. The Christos p. 87. See Also Positive Power, Tree of Life.
Chokmah-Binah, The primal dichotomy, original atom: one electron, one proton, Purusha-Prakriti, or Father-Mother God. The First Crossing p. 67.
Chrestos / Christ / Christos, Derived from the Egyptian: Karacas, Karcas, Krst: meant the anointing of the mummies. (Anointing of the carcass). The Greeks used the word Christos for the force, power, or energy which motivates Mind substance, Chittakasa or Manas, Mind as distinct from the mental functions or cortical functions of the psychic nature. Chrestos was used for the naming, quickening, and awakening power which takes place in the psychic nature at the birth of that power. Christ means a quickening, a Light, a higher and more expanding state of consciousness that accompanies the Light when it breaks in you. The Christos p. 25 ff. When we meet a quickening, an awakening power of Light; on the Mind Level, we label that the Christos. Ibid p. 42 The down flowing stream from the throne (Middle Pillar of the Tree of Life) the allegory of Christ entering the temple of God...expurgation of all that is not of Light’s Regions. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 5), p. 3. The Mind level or a Christ-conscious Being. The First Crossing p.86. The Power of the Christos is symbolized by the All-seeing Eye. Ibid p. 97. The Universal Light, the aggregate of the seven streams (rays of development) of life. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 101. Horus (Egyptian), The Son of Isis and Osiris. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p.48. Chrestos: The process of awakening and the developing of the other four force centers and the completion of the journey, making five, symbolized by the Caduceus, the Staff of Hermes. ibid (Vol 4) p. 23. The Power from the Mind Level. The Practice of the Way p. 48.
Church, A label for The Field or group consciousness. The First Crossing p. 77.
Circle, Represents the Unmanifest because it has no beginning and no end, represents the undifferentiated, unbroken continuity of consciousness in its absolute state of Self-awareness. Bible Lessons p. 96.
Clairvoyant, Means "clear seeing", i.e. clear of the veil of Maya. Veil of Maya p. 33. Extended vision. The First Crossing p. 81. The sharpness and clarity of perception on the Mind level. Studies in Psychotherapy p.44.
Colloid, The etheric world, level, body, substance, etc. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p.27. From the Greek word for glue. Permeable membranes. Cosmology p. 61. See Also Etheric.
Communal Adjustment, Represents the feeling that I have that I belong. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 151.
Compassion, Is breadth and depth and height of understanding, and it doesn’t have any forgiveness or love either in it. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p. 22.
Conarium / Conarial center, That point (that the Master makes with the ‘outer’ man) of contact in the head center. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.82. The Crown Center, the Thousand Petaled Lotus. Practices in Individual Development p.53. See Also Crown Center.
Configurational process, The motion of consciousness followed through atomic structures, molecular structures to the colloidal point respecting the function - respecting motion of consciousness. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p.40. See Also Cosmic Process, Emergent energy.
Configuration, The configuration is a representation of the pattern; the pattern is a representation of the state in which consciousness is conscious. This is based on the axiomatic assumption that there is a power-to-be-conscious that is indubitable, self-evident, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 123. When we think of the configuration we should think of Light-energy-plasm in one act of consciousness. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.104. Configurations of units of energy represent this world in which we live, move, and have our existence, and in which the Be-ing - Power-to-be-conscious - functions. The Christos p. 200. See Also Malkuth.
Configurational level, The third level upon which we function described as a configuration of dynamic units of energy. The configuration in which we function, as in a vehicle, is a representation of the state in which the individualized Self is conscious of Itself, plus the qualities in the psychic nature that have obscured that true Higher Self. How to Discipline your Psyche p. 17 (new ed.) (p.19 old ed.) Represents the state of consciousness of the individualizing field, as well as the content of the psychic nature. Expanding States of Self-awareness p.119. See Also Energy World (level).
Configurational world, Light and energy fields, waves, frequencies, patterns, units of energy, etc. Events in a space-time continuum. This world as a configuration of units of energy, a dynamic process, a continuous creating process, etc. The First Crossing p. 100.
Conscience, Your Dharma operating, functionally speaking, in you as a compulsion urge, which when not understood is called conscience. It’s your own inner sense of decency, your own inner sense of fitness of things, and inner sense of feel and consciousness. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 134.
Conscious, Where functioning in the objective manifold becomes conscious....the third and fourth orders of the abstracting process. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p, 37. The act of being conscious means that one is registering frequency or he couldn’t be conscious. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 115.
Conscious functioning, Awakening to the conscious registry of the guna, the quality of energy-forces registered and which we are motivated. This characterizes those who will participate in the New Cycle. The First Crossing p.93.
Consciousness The act of being conscious and being focused and identified with the power with which one is conscious. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 7. With the term light as representation of that essential nature which again is labeled, the World Mother or nature. Ibid p. 26. The Self or the Power-to-be-conscious The Christos p. 213. Consciousness is the activity of the Mother (light, energy, living matter, etc.) Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 30.
The act of being aware, Cosmology p. 124. Light, or consciousness, pertains to the negative aspect of the Cosmic Process, which we call the Mother. A Description of the Psychic World p. 83. Jiva (Sanskrit) - Light - energy as a field or as a differentiated sphere. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p. 29. That which is called the Field (it is sentient) is also called consciousness. Ibid (Vol 3) p.61. Consciousness represents the totality, the summum bonum of the essential nature of any given ‘thing’, as well as any given individual. Ibid (Vol 4) p. 5. See Also Jiva, Light-energy.
Consciousness-light-energy, The essential nature of any given field and therefore every field. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 27. See Also Field(s)
Content of the psychic nature, Feeling-images, desire-forms, etc. The First Crossing p. 87.
Context of situation, Environment. A person, if influenced by the waves-frequencies around him. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 29. See Also Environment.
Conversion, A complete reorientation of consciousness from objectivity and the psychic world to the realms of reality, the realm of Beings. The Seven Initiations p. 73.
Cosmic Egg, See Autonomous Field.
Cosmic Process, A representation of the creative forces, the epitomization of the whole creative process of the universe. The First Crossing p.42.
Epitomized by man, in his awakening to Self-awareness portrays its every phase. Ibid p. 83. The way it functions (the cosmic process and every differentiation therein functions likewise according to the whole) ... life facts. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 37. God, the whole cosmic process. Ibid p. 49.
What Plato labeled the Good, we in SNO label the Power-to-be-Conscious ibid p. 143. The process whereby all differentiations, all states of Be-ing in lightergy are reflected in mattergy (energy-living matter configurations). Ibid p. 146.
The natural sequential expansion of a given individual’s consciousness from one state to another representing order. There is an orderly process, rhythm, balance, etc., to structure and function which we label the cosmic process. The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p. 3. Reality. Ibid p. 19. Each minute area (group of cells) in the physiological organism, represents a correspondence, microcosmic replica, or epitomization of that macrocosmic organism-as-a-whole we call the cosmic process. Ibid (Vol 2) p. 219. The fundamental basis or reality from which abstractions are made. The Christos P. 193. See Also God, Natural Order Process, Triune Man.
Cosmos Order, The First Crossing p.45. The ultimate or highest of all comprehensive spheres. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 5. The all-embracing actuality discovered is the invariant Natural Order Process characterizing life-facts, which in their totality and as a process, we label Cosmos. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 9. The word order (Cosmos) signalizes number (as quantity composed of many units, vortices of energy, energy system, etc.), configurational representations, hierarchical systemizations, ensembles, etc. Ibid p. 19. See Also Natural Order Process.
Council, The supreme government of the world -- the hierarchy of supermen known as the Council. Bible Lessons p. 106.
Creation, A static view of the world in which we have our existence from the point of view of the objective manifold of values. The First Crossing p.101. ‘Creation’ was not some happening thousands of years B.C. it is creation is in continuum. Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p. 6. See Also Cosmic Process, Creating process.
Creating process, The beginning of the galaxy is the beginning of a creative process. The Seven Initiations p. 3. An ongoing continuing, dynamic process. Bible Lessons p. 4.
Creative force, That force which motivates every form of expression in the individual’s nature. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p. 35. See Also Motivating principle (Force).
Creative Will, See Atma/Atman
Creptoid states, Projection or dissociation of the consciousness form the physiological organism, also hypnotism, and trance states. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2) p. 4.
Crossing, A complete reorientation of consciousness from one ‘level’ or state to another ‘level’ or state. The First Crossing p. 4.
Crown Center, See Conarial center
Crystalloidal state, Described as the peripheral boundary of its Field (or a given field) comparable to the expanding and contracting theory of the universe, as is held by some astrophysicists. Cosmology p. 52. Consciousness focused on ‘objects’ and ‘things.’ Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p.55. When we condition our minds to think only in terms of consciousness and the states, then we label that phenomenal or objective world as the crystalloidal state, which is transferred to everything else; every other configuration is seen accordingly. Ibid p. 67. See Also Objective world, Phenomenal world.
Crystallization, Trying to maintain the status quo in a dynamic process .... results in: e.g. Hardening of the arteries, ossified bones, arthritis, calcium deposits, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p.49.
Crucifixion, After it (the generative substance) has been nailed on the cross of matter, it emancipates itself permanently from the Mother principle and becomes a self-luminous, self-rolling Light, becomes fully individualized; It now becomes logos, the reason in its own self for everything of which it is conscious. The Christos p. 11.
Cycles of seven, The perfected individual is androgynous, both male and female in one representation. The cycles of seven is reflected in the process of transference from the positive to the negative poles of its own field or being ... thus seven times round (in palingenesis) manifestation will be female and seven times round male, until the qualities of each become balanced, brought about by the power of equilibrium. The First Crossing p. 28. Also, the seven cycles are described as mileposts in the process of development of each individual: 7 yrs, 14 yrs, 28 yrs, 35 yrs, 42 yrs, 49 yrs, 56 yrs, and 62 yrs, etc. Practices in Individual Development p. 70 ff.
Dance of Kali, The period between the deep unconscious sleep and the awakening, where the mother principle exerts the predominating influence upon the awakening and emerging power-to-be-conscious. The Seven Initiations p. 14.
Dance of Life The Lila, everything is the play of Brahma, which means action. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 3) p.65. See Also, Lila.
Dark Night of the Soul, That cut off feeling and the agony due to the fact that one can no longer integrate, psychologically speaking, and another group had not yet been found to affiliate with. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 63. See Also Gethsemane.
Darkness, The negative pole. Membership Letters (V) p.6.
Death, The entrance into the consciousness of the man state, the lower quaternary, the psychic world, etc. So death means passing beyond, dying to and being born again ... there are two deaths: the first is withdrawal of consciousness from objective identity, functioning in the psychic nature; the second: is the withdrawal from the psychic nature and functioning in the Higher triad. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2) p. 20. Transition, the aristotelians call death, and after the senses are gone, a reorientation in consciousness takes place ... to the only thing that is real, enduring, and permanent - the Real Self-functioning in the Real World. Practice of the Way p. 24. The transition when the autonomous field withdraws or inbreathes and a disintegration of the configuration takes place is called the first death. Later on, there is the withdrawal of the autonomous field from the psychic nature and the factors, the qualities, the entities break up and go their respective ways ... the second death. Ibid p. 63. The deluge, symbolizes the break up of the psychic nature, the second death. Ibid p. 72. See Also Deluge, the / Transition.
Death of the personality, It is pulling all of the energies, forces, out of the centers which motivate functioning on the psychic level. The application in conscious functioning of that analogy of the grain planted in the earth which "unless it die it bringeth forth no fruit." The First Crossing p. 76. "In an upper room, prepare the last supper." The resurrection of consciousness in the Light. Self-Mastery through Meditation p. 52.
Deliverance, Emancipation; the transvaluation of values, non-identity, etc. or Mukta (Sanskrit) Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 15. See Also Emancipation, Mukta.
Deluge See Second Death.
Demiurge / Demiurgos, The Grand Architect of the Universe. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 4) p. 27. The emerging Power-to-be-conscious, Logos, Demiurgos, to use three labels for that which is emerging out of the Mater of the Cosmic Process. Membership Letters (II) p. 3. See Also Arche, Logos, Real Self, Sa-Guna Brahma.
Descending process (arc), Described as an infoldment (infolding process), an involution, a metamorphosis of light into energy, energy into living matter, of the evolutionary process. The First Crossing p. 66.
Infolding of the Positive Power into Mother Substance. Ibid p.83. The unconscious. Self-Mastery through Meditation p. 89. An individual has an aeonian past, which can be described as the descending arc through successive differentiations until the final, ultimate, autonomous field has become differentiated. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 1) p. 30. See Also Ascending arc.
Desire, The power with which consciousness works on the higher levels is reflected in the psychic nature and is labeled desire. Teachers’ Guide (Vol 2 ) p. 33. See Also Psychic Nature.
Destiny, Two types: Created and Self-created. Created destiny is when your latitude of choices are shaped by your polarized thoughts and other influences that influence you hour by hour, day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year. Thus you build your destiny. A synonym is karma, The way you work, consciously or unconsciously. Self-Created or Discovered destiny is that which is buried in matter and is that eternal Power-to-be-conscious struggling and working to pip its shell and become conscious of itself. .... that destiny is the real purpose of it all, to be conscious of that is our real destiny, to be conscious of the Self. Practices in Individual Development p. 13 ff . See Also Karma, Sortem Suam Quisque Amet.
Detachment, In the political situations of the U.S., we are admonished to retain the position of the witness, the onlooker with great love that enfolds and encompasses all creatures - great compassion that is neither indifference nor involvement. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 52.
Deva / Deva line, We consider the deva line of development an exception to the emergent process in the human line, which proceeds from lowly forms - the animal world and below - into the man-state and beyond. The Deva Line of Development p. 1. Called angels in the Christian Bible. Devas who have incarnated in human form have been called "Heaven-born ones," but could also be applied to those who have never been in human form. Ibid p. 17.
They configurate on the etheric plane. They are free from the "weight" of physical substance. To move, they focus on that frequency and they are there. Understanding the Psychic Nature Lesson 13, p.4. Those who belong to the deva world must develop the psyche the same as those who belong to the human line must develop the psyche before they can leave that point in the cyclic process. The deva line is a parallel line of evolution. The First Crossing p. 70. They are called psychic, ‘intuitional’ people; they are called clairvoyants because they see colors and lights and forms, they are called creators of beauty; by their nature, they are creative. Ibid p. 73 ff. The Deva is easily controlled and the most powerful influence which can be developed for an individual. Their world is complete harmony; music; peace; therefore they do not build up any resistance. Devas much attach themselves to a higher developed one, whether from the human line or another line of evolution. They can function in frequency just as the fish can function in water. Harmony and love are more important to them than food to the objective conscious man. They draw support and sustenance and energy and life from the aura, the field of a higher developed one and they grow by reason of that. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 21. See Also Angels of Light.
Devachan, That state of the Master’s consciousness upon the Mind-level into which one passes when deprived of his psychic ‘body’. It is of a higher order in the process of abstracting, as well as in experience, than the described psychic-level concept of heaven. True "heaven-world" of the Master; which is recognized as "the goal" on the part of many of the sons of man. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 91.
Development, The process of unfolding into conscious the orders of life from the "kingdom" (Malkuth) of the Tree of Life to the Crown (Kether). The natural order or cosmic process. The First Crossing p. 46. The transference of identity from one level to another level which constitutes the individualizing process. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 50. See Also Growth, Expansion, Individualizing Process, Natural Order Process.
Devil, An invention my men that they might have more security and pleasure; out of effort to avoid that which hurts, as an evolutionary motive, a personified evil. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 99. The personification of the powers of darkness. These powers are the emanations of humanity, both incarnate and discarnate. Bible Lessons p. 44.
Devotion Ray, The fifth ray of development but the sixth outpouring of force from the Central Sun. It is a welling up of within us a Power, a force of devotion to IT and to the representations of our state of consciousness which symbolize IT. A force within us that we already have and that force stems right back into the ray flowing forth from the Logos, the stream of force in waves-frequencies that we break into and register, which motivates us. The Seven Rays of Development p. 5. One on this ray is a preserver of the factors and values that have gone into a given culture. Patriotism, the devotional attitude. Ibid p. 25.
Descent of the Host/Fire, When one completely finishes the regenerative process, there is a flowing downward form "on high" of the "divine Shakti", and all of the centers become still more purified by that "descent of the fire." The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 110.
Dharma, The Law of individual Being. When the emergent process of the Power (to-be-conscious) asserts itself strongly to become self-sufficient, individualized. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 11) p. 1 ff.
The bounden duty which one owes to his ‘deeper’ or ‘higher’ Self. "The spirit of the Lord within his soul." The First Crossing p. 6 ff. That which precedes and supersedes all moral codes. The higher motivating force flowing from the intrinsic Self. Intrinsically each occupies or represents a point in a vast scheme of growth-development, a cosmic process and relative to the precise point, state, state, that a given individual occupies there is, at that point, the creative forces of the process itself operating in him which becomes a compulsion urge which he must obey. Studies in Psychotherapy p.132. Bounden duty; function with respect to a given sphere or field; work to do with respect to a given cycle. Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.4. See Also Law of Individual Being.
Diakinesis, A dual-action; a split into two equal divisions of any force. Cosmology p. 58.
Diamond Light, The Light, ‘division of the Mother is altogether too brilliant to reflect or to function as a reflector. Those who have seen the Diamond Light (not the highest aspect) have experienced a psychic shock producing excruciating pain. The First Crossing p. 86. Above the Second Crossing, there are several differentiated regions of Light: Diffused Light, Diamond Light, and Supernal Light. The Diamond Light is pure, un-reflected Light, very painful, and of a very high frequency. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 100. The Arche, The Great Christos, or Archetypal Gods. Ibid p. 109. In the Vedic system of teachings it was labeled Indra. The Diamond Light is of such incredible sharpness that as long as we function in the objective state, the objective manifold of values, we have to leave it out. It’s too intense for the neural system, that means independently of the physiological organism, then can we safely open consciousness on the level of the Diamond Light. Practice of the Way p.30 ff. See Also Arche, Light’s Regions.
Dianetics, A psycho-logical ‘system’ based upon cellular impression, memory, reaction, etc. The Christos p. 174. See Engram.
Diffused Light, Like electricity which is a grosser form of the configurational energy world, e.g. Electric welding spark. Practice of the Way p. 31. After the Second Crossing into the region of Mind. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.101. See Also Light’s Regions.
Dissociation Projection, A lapse of consciousness on the objective side but there is a dissociation of the psychic nature from the configurational self. Going out of your body. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 82 ff.
Divine Mind The Greater Self, Infinite Intelligence, as a universalized state. The process of developing the Self as an Idea; the Power-to-be-conscious becoming conscious of itself as a Be-ing. How to Discipline your Psyche p. 10 ff. See Also Greater Self, Logos.
Dream Images, Those pictures, and images which are not sharply edged. Clearly defined in the consciousness -- and therefore do not appear substantive are called, in the objective manifold-of-values, psychic pictures, psychic images, dream pictures, the dream fabric, etc. The First Crossing p. 99. See Also Psychic images.
Dreams, The basis for dreams are unfulfilled, creative responses and urges, irrespective of the reason for the non-fulfillment of those creative urges. Not carried out because of censorship, belonging to your objective level, your private world, mentalized values about this and that, and about codes, ethics, rules, regulations, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 87.
Dual throng, Polar opposite words such as hot-cold, high-low, far-near, etc. The First Crossing p. 98.
Duration, The continuation of Be-ing. "State or quality of lasting." Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.4.
Dweller on the Threshold, A thought-form created by man since his first appearance in physical form. It is a composite of personal wilings, human determinations, selfish desires, elemental-self indulgences, etc. It is created by the elemental-self and not by the Master-self. It shows up when aspires to function on the Mind-level of the Master-self and can only be dissipated by a supreme exertion of will. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 64. The lower psyche with its content which rises up to bar the way to Light’s Regions. It is the censor which prevents one, in a state of objective identification, from being aware of the content of his lower psyche. The First Crossing p. 88. All of the past, the destiny (that each has created) rolled up into the "now," confronts us. Practices in Individual Development p. 17. The acquired and cultivated qualities of all the past, the ensemble of all the desirings, lovings, and thinkings. Ibid p. 39. A materialization of all your past thoughts and desires. Bible Lessons p. 45.
Dynamic processes Events The First Crossing p.101. We call this world an energy world or a dynamic process.
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Earth, The basic elemental force. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 120. Earth is the symbol for Nature’s formative forces. The Christos p. 18. The earth symbolizes the configurational aspect of man, a dynamic process. The Seven Initiations p.32. See Also Elemental forces, Nature’s Formative Forces.
Ego/ego, Ego is a synonym for Monad. This egocentralizing force, sense, or tendency in the consciousness becomes the ego. Bible Lessons p. 99. (e)go is that sense of I-am-I-ness. Studies in Psychotherapy p.31. That sense of self identity within the frame of reference of identification of images appearing substantive. Ibid p. 47. The personality is only an abstraction from points of reference within the race psyche, oversoul or group field. Intensify that abstraction until the I-am-I sense that we label ego is developed. Ibid p.115.
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The personality pattern that has now become formed. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p.5. The sense of personality is due to a focalization in consciousness of a number of frequency relationships; that is, wave-frequency contacts -- rapports, desires, communal interests, love attractions, etc. The First Crossing p. 8. Consciousness of I-am-I-ness The Christos p. 93. The ego is a pseudo-individual, not a true individual, it is a reflected individual. Ibid p. 111. See Also Monad, Personality Pattern.
Egocentric, The motivating urge in the pursuit of profit, pleasure in extended sense gratifications, etc. The First Crossing p. 24.
Egoism / Egotism, Egoism is the quality of consciousness to become self-centered, a little self, a personal self, or the self that means the person, persona, the mask that we put on in the drama of life. In the early stages (of development), the mental processes accentuate ego centralization, egocentrism, egoism. Egotism is a label symbolizing ignorance. It is a defense mechanism to cover up a lack. Practice of the Way p.55.
Einsteinian Age, The most significant change in cultural thinking when the dramatic effects and considerations of the atomic bomb have passed away and we are more familiar with atomic power in commerce and trade, in the motive power of our facilities, the light, and heating of the homes, propulsion, etc. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p.50.
Electromagnetic field, Consists of three factors: a positive pole, a negative pole, and the lines of force between the poles. This is the basic structure of the universe. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 9. It is not possible to treat the electromagnetic field as separate from matter. Ibid (Vol 4) p.1. The positive and negative poles are labeled the basic unity. Ibid p.12. The lines of force describe a pattern. Upon the pattern of the flowing lines of force (the pattern of the field) between the positive and the negative pole, energy emerges. Studies in Psychotherapy p.149.
Elemental field, The motivating force, energy, by which the elementalistic person functions. Studies in Psychotherapy p.28.
Elemental forces Spirits, autonomous fields. Formerly symbolized as: Salamanders (fire spirits), Sylphs (air spirits), Undines (water spirits), Pixies & Gnomes (Earth spirits) These describe resonant qualities of wave-frequencies. Practice of the Way p.64. See Also Spirits.
Elemental, formative forces See Instincts
Electron, Symbol for all emergent quanta respecting energy, a single electron is a quantum of energy. (A particle of negative charge) Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 40.
Elemental self, A composite of desire - and thought-forms developed out of identifications with objects of sense and representing a synthesis of forces diverted from the (potential) Master-self. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.11. "Bundle" of delusional evaluations and self-created semantic reactions born of identity with sense faculties and ‘objects’, comprehending also the formative forces by which they are motivated. Ibid p. 33. See Also Psychic nature.
Elohim, Logos is another term. The Greeks called the Only Begotten Son "Logos" and if we understood resonance to its ultimate, intrinsic nature, then we could substitute the label "Word" for Logos. "In the beginning was the Word." Membership Letters (V) p. 2. See Also Logos.
Emancipation, The pivotal point, deliverance, Mukta (Sanskrit); transvaluation of values, non-identity. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 15. See Also Mukta.
Emergent energy, Whirls on the lines of force on the pattern of a field which flow from the negative to the positive pole. A part of the configuration process. Studies in Psychotherapy p.7. See Also Configuration, Configurating process.
Emergent process, The emergence of the Power-to-be-conscious from the inconscient Mother substance. The First Crossing p. 99.
En Rapport (French), A relationship between individualized fields that is so close that it can be seen as well as felt. It is a blending of auras, the blending of vibrations, the blending and synchronization of frequencies. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 40.
Engram, From Dianetics (Scientology) ... The ability of cells of an organism - within a very narrow range of frequencies - to receive and retain effects of stimuli. The basis of psychometry (registration upon consciousness at the cellular level.) The Christos p. 174. See Also Psychometry
Energy, A unit of energy is called an electron. Healing Technic p.11. ‘Matter’. Every ‘thing’ that you can point to is called energy, ‘thing’ represents energy in configuration; a dynamic energy-process. The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p. 18. That which Heraclitus called primary substance or fire is now labeled energy. Ibid p. 146. Energy is characterized by gunas or qualities, and we have three primary gunas or qualities; these represent the kinds, the characteristic types of ‘matter’ with which the psychic nature is built. Energy is built upon the lines of force of the field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 26 - 32.
Energy world, The lunar cycle; the development of the lower psyche and the higher psyche is called the lunar cycle because we operate in the reflected light only. Before the Second Crossing into the Real Light. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 100. What we call this world is an energy world, a dynamic process. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 47. The energy world level is designated as the configurational representation. Practice of the Way p. 26. See Also Dynamic process, Gunas, Lunar Cycle, Reflected light.
Environment, Context of situation. A person is motivated by forces and energies according to his background, context of situation. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 29. The non-aristotelian attitude is always in terms of fields, in terms of qualities, gunas of the field respecting both hereditary and environment; the qualities of the physiological organism, or/and the field which is called environment. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 33. A frequency field considered from the energy-world level; environmental surround and what elicits and quickens one’s latent potentials, abilities and forces. Practice of the Way p. 19. See Also Context of situation.
Epistemology, Word knowing. Lower manas, accumulation of ‘facts’ pertaining to that under investigation, concepts derived from observation, etc., but not necessarily knowing anything about the essence, the creative life-forces, oneness in an overall organism-as-a-whole process of emergence out of the nescience into the Light. The Seven Rays of Development p. 15. Epistemological knowledge is based upon manufacturing concepts about that which has been received via light-energy frequency registration. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 115.
Epoptai / Epopté, The stage of development in which we have arrived at the cleared spot in the North Half (of the psychic nature); those with their eyes open. Everything we are conscious of this state is characterized by union. We recognize the Power-to-be-conscious in everything we experience. But at the same time, we feel the presence of the Mother. The Power and the Mother are united in our awareness. We are recognizing the fusion of the positive power and the negative substance and functioning in the awareness of it. Expanding States of Self-awareness p.111. Having one’s eyes open; clearly grasping this world as a dynamic configurational representation of Reality, and the phenomenal aspect as thingified images in the psychic nature. The First Crossing p. 100.
Equilibrium, The power of balance, a cosmic force. The power of equilibrium unifies and develops order in generation. Practice of the Way p. 62.
Eros, Love with more of a sexual connotation. How to Discipline your Psyche p.35 (p. 31 New Ed.). See Also Agape/Love.
Essential Self, Described as a differentiating process in the Light Mother. Practice of the Way p. 70.
Eternal Quest, The search for "something beyond" all of that of which one is conscious. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 9.
Eternity, The absence of time. Expanding States of Self-awareness p.30.
Ethereans, A vast range, orders upon orders, from nature spirits through to the devas or Angelic Hosts. The First Crossing p.76. There are hosts of those in the process of becoming conscious of the self, of their individualized Be-ing in living matter. We label those etherians the heaven-born ones, and a very few of them cross over and take incarnation as earth-born but there are hosts and hosts of them that never cross over. They're called the angels or the devas and their configuration which we call the Malkuth --their furthest out before their return in our up is the etheric substance. Fire in the Heart of the Atom p.1. See Also Angels, Devas, Heaven Born Ones.
Etheric structure, See Vital Dynamism
Etheric world, The colloidal field, between the molecular and cellular structures, the ‘gate-way’ into the psychic world. (Etheric is a word without a referent, an old aristotelian term.) Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.27.
Etheric substance, Etheric substance is the link between the energy world and configurating teleplasm; it reflects the patterns, archetypes from the energy world into the form-building, plasmic state. An ensemble of reflected patterns, it transmits images from the energy world to the form-building world (psychic nature). Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 53. Etheric substance condenses, so to speak; it configurates into what is called teloplasm or ectoplasm, then protoplasm and cytoplasm, the substance of cellular structures. A Description of the Psychic World p. 23. It is the carrier and reflector of gunas in the psychic nature. As carriers of the guna energy-waves, organic functional processes on the physiologicl level are affected, harmoniously or disturbingly. As reflector, etheric substance mirrors psychic radiations of other persons, environmental vibrations, group and race psyche influences, etc. The First Crossing p. 81. Electronics, sonics, radio, radar, electromagnetic field physics, energy-waves, and frequencies, etc. ibid p. 84. Vital dynamism, the vital principal; a segment of the metamorphosing process of light into energy, energy into living-matter, the segment of Mother substance which lies between the energy world and teloplasm, protoplasm, living-matter. Practices in Individual Development p. 13.
Ethnological field, The race psyche, a given race consciousness: e.g. German, Italian, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 151. See Also Race psyche.
Events Dynamic processes. In our course of development, we will begin to perceive living in a dynamic energy world, peopled with dynamic processes (called events). The First Crossing p.101.
Evil, Evil is expressing a degree of naturalness that one has outgrown. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.39. The evolutionary process described as expanding awareness, a process of synthesis of experience. Practice of the Way p. 91. The end of which will be characterized by the use of the mental functions to formulate mental constructs perfect and true to the natural order of the cosmic process. Ibid p.45. Growth and development of the whole race. The Christos p. 55. The transfiguration process in the ascending phase. Ibid p. 90. The expanding process of successive states of Self-awareness. The goal is formlessness, or freedom from the ‘objective’, as well as other tangible manifestations and identification therewith. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.94. See Also Cosmic process, Expanding Awareness.
Existence, To stand out; is all representation of the state in which the Power is becoming conscious. A Description of the Psychic World p. 54.
Expanding Awareness, See Evolutionary process.
Expurgation The casting out of those forces and energies which cannot be used in the individualizing process, or in the building of the new solar vesture. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 36. See Also Psychic Nature.
Extensional, The referent for non-dogmatic, non-opinionated, non-critical attitude, charitableness, and compassionateness. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 22.
Faith, "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Our sense of the essential rightness of all that is the result of an inner knowledge, though that knowledge may not yet be a realization perceptible to our mental faculties. Bible Lessons p. 63.
Father in Heaven Another term for the "Only Begotten" or Logos. See Also Individualizing process, Logos.
Father Principle, The forces, energies, etc., of the cosmic sphere, called God, cannot be known except as, by, or in the substance of the solar sphere; i.e., the Father can be known only by the activity - waves and frequencies - of the Mother. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.72. See Also Brahma, Cosmic Field, God.
Field(s), Where consciousness functions in a substance differentiated from other substances. Substance = anything that represents light or the substance in which the wave and frequency called light operates down to living matter, cytoplasm, ectoplasm, etheric substance -- living matter. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 123. Each field has its positive and negative poles or charge with a flow of forces in between. Upon the lines of force, the pattern of the field, energy emerges. Ibid p. 149. The essential nature of any given field and therefore of every field is characterized by that which we label consciousness-light-energy ... the sentient nature. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 27. See Also Consciousness-light-energy.
Fifth principle/precept Manas, the actuating principle of the chittakasa. The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p.36. Fifth precept: Meditatively study analogical representations of the world of reality. Practice of the Way p. 21.
Fire, Symbolic of the dynamism of the autonomous field. The First Crossing p. 66. Symbolic of frequency, activity, and life-giving force, or Nature’s formative forces. The Christos p. 21. See Also Nature’s formative forces.
First Atom, The Hydrogen: One electron, one proton -- exemplifies the original and primal dichotomy, Chokmah-Binah, Purusha-Prakriti, Or Father-Mother God. The First Crossing p. 67.
First Crossing, The first thing that signalizes one making the First Crossing is to find and uncover, or discover, the motivating forces which activate, motivate everything experienced, so-called without and so-called within. The First Crossing p. 39. He just wakes up and discovers that he is motivated by all sorts of influences, even elemental substances, nature’s formative forces, the earth? He becomes conscious of the frequency by which he is motivated. Ibid. p. 75.
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So that which represents what we label the First Crossing is not only to come out from the ‘objective world’ -- the nether world, limited to sense registry, formulated images appearing substantive and values given thereto--but also to come out from giving value to any formulated image whether it appears substantive or not. That is we abandon psychic phenomena completely. ibid p. 94. We are going to treat the lower and higher psychic world in the form of grosser energy (Longer wave and less number of frequencies per unit of time) converted into finer forms of energy, but all the time-oriented to the energy and its guna until the psyche can be clarified of all lower guna quality and is so clear that it can reflect the Mind, the Power of the Christos, the Eye, the All-Seeing I. Ibid p. 97. Accomplishing this at-one-ness ibid p. 101. That dawning culminating in consciousness signalizes the First Crossing, e.g. the third and fourth levels of abstracting. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 39. The movement of consciousness from its peripheral state to its Self sans state. Ibid (Vol 4) p. 69. The point where we cross over from the mentalized, private world into the Real World. Practice of the Way p. 91.
First Precept, Grant freedom to each and claim freedom for yourself. Granting freedom means letting go and surrendering which is a force, a faculty, an aptitude which one has to cultivate until he can let everyone go. Granting freedom to each and everyone with whom we are in association. Practice of the Way p. 2.
Force Centers, That which determines the level upon which one functions, whether or not the instincts, feelings, desires, emotions, or thinkings function, is the degree of force released from the five force centers in the structure of the psychic nature. Objectively speaking there are five: the genital center, solar center, heart center, throat center, and the center in the middle of the forehead - the pituitary center. Those five pertain to the psychic nature. The centers at the base of the spine and the crown of the head pertain to the differentiated field in Light’s substance and do not pertain to the psychic nature at all. Practice of the Way p.73. There are twelve of these Seals or centers through which, when completely developed and organized, the controlling sun-like God or Luminous Self exercises directives to the many other force centers - 144,000 in all. When the Gnosis(Knowledge) was hidden and given only in allegory, parable, symbolical representation, etc., these were called 12 disciples, apostles; described as the 12 labors of Hercules; 12 astrological divisions; 12 tribes of Israel, etc. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.31. In meditation, one starts with focusing his energy in the genital center(Adhishthana) or where he can sense his energy residing and begin to focus attention a short distance above that center until he can sense the energy flowing to the next center, e.g. the Solar(Manipuraka) center, then in the same fashion, moving upward to the Heart(Anahata), Throat(Vishuddi or Pharyngeal) center, the head centers(Ajna or Cavernous, Pituitary), and the top of the head(Sahasrara or Conarial), and beyond, at that point, the energy may descend swiftly to the base of the spine(Muladhara or Sacral); thus awakening the kundalini force which opens all the centers. Membership Letters (III) p. 5.
Focalizations of the seven major streams of the World-mother are represented by the seven chakras, seals, or force-centers. See chart on page 59 The Natural Order Process (Vol 2). See Chakras.
Force, motivational The force with which a given person is motivated does not originate within that person. It originates in that in which he is integrated on the frequency side. He is motivated by forces and energies according to his background, to the context of situation (‘environment’). Studies in Psychotherapy p. 29. See Also Context of situation.
Force of Darkness, The obscuration by excessive cultivation of the feeling-images, desire-forms, thought-pictures, etc., in generation to the degree that these magnetic forces in these images, forms, etc., have become entities of an obsessional nature and have taken over the psychic nature of the many. These ‘things’ once established hate the Light and the Truth. The First Crossing p. 87.
Four Elements Symbolical of the transfigurational process, a transfiguration of living matter substances into energy and energy into light. Fire to air, air to water, water to earth; earth to water, water to air, air to fire. Fire = electricity. Air = gas ( the first atom, hydrogen). Earth = any configuration of units of energy. Water = the psychic nature, psychic forces, the unconscious The First Crossing p. 66 ff In olden times called spirits. Spirits = autonomous fields (field physics). Fire = salamanders (high band-pass, e.g. beyond visible light. Air = Sylphs. Water = Undines. Earth = Gnomes & Pixies. There is a resonant guna, characterizing wave-frequency represented by each of these elements. Out of these qualities we build into the psychic nature with which we affinitize that with which we are synchronized, cultivate. These are the elemental forces making up the psychic nature. Practice of the Way p.64. Those four (elements: fire (sun), air, water, earth) contribute their quota to the configurating process and the configuration. The Christos p. 18. In a description of the 3d. degree: Earth = his configurational level of consciousness; water = his psychic world; air= his mental and intellectual world; fire = the spirit itself. See Also autonomous field, Cosmic process, Spirits.
Four levels of functioning, The highest level = the individualizing process going on in Mind level (the lowest of Light’s Regions)(spirit). The second level = the psychic world (the ensemble of forces which motivate our feelings, desirings, and thinkings) ( it is a synthesis of energies, each one which is characterized by wave frequency.) The third level = the configurational level (represents the state of consciousness of the individualizing field, as well as the content of the psychic nature.) The fourth level = Conglomerate of abstractions which are derived from the other three levels. (A mentalized private world, abstractions from the configurational world plus the values give to those images and the focused psychic force on those values giving them a life of their own and we identify with those images and values. Expanding States of Self-awareness p.118 These four levels are: the mental, frequency registration, the psychic nature and the Noetic Mind. Practice of the Way p. 45. ‘Levels’ = the states in which a given person is conscious; states of consciousness. Ibid p. 51.
Four Somatic Divisions, Correspond to the four elements (Fire, Air, Water, and Earth ... Head, Heart, Navel, and Genital centers). How to Discipline the Psyche p. 9 ff. Level 1 = Field plus configuration (Power-to-be-conscious plus representation of its state. Level 2 = structure plus function (the foci of energy or forces, the nadi or channels). Level 3 = Psychic nature (gunas ‘in’ feelings, desires, thoughts, etc. (Reflected force of consciousness plus semantic reactions). Level 4 = The maya -- ‘physical’ existence (manifold of values evolved out of identity with images appearing substantive.) The Four Somatic Divisions of Man p. 3.
Fourth Cycle, The cycle of Man or Mind. The First Crossing p. 68
The fourth level of the abstracting process The ability to distinguish one of a class. Functioning on the fourth level means to consciously register the frequencies and at the same instant consciously differentiate respecting its level (wave and # of frequencies per unit of time & to consciously know the gunas) . Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 35. See Also Conscious Abstracting.
Fourth Degree of Initiation, Indicated by a change in values, (Amoral); change in space/time functioning, (Sees time spatially; all is now); expanded consciousness to the psychic world. The Seven Initiations Lesson 7.
Fourth precept, (Precepts in Practice of the Way); Practice describing the meaning signified or symbolized by each word used. Practice of the Way p. 14.
Freedom, Is the emergence of the Power-to-be-conscious from the domination of the influence of the Mother. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 7) p. 4.
Frequency, Light-energy waves and frequencies. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 109. We use the word frequency to comprehend both the wave and the number of waves per unit of time and group the two as the referent for the word frequency. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 5.
Frequency registration, Represents the first level removed from the private world, from the objective manifold of values. The first level we break into when we discover the real world in which we are integrated; a function of the lowest level of the real world. Practice of the Way p. 57. You can’t register a frequency unless a similar quality is in yourself (axiomatic). The Christos p. 136 See Also Four levels of functioning.
Function, Represents the activity of substance, action of light-energy, natural activity or action, called the nature of the event, of Cosmos, etc. It is described in terms of wavelengths and frequencies. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 19.
Functional force, The functional aspect of the process-as-a-whole in which we are respectively integrated is called the Holy Spirit or the Holy Ghost. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.49. See Also Holy Spirit.
Functional level In the intrinsic nature, which we very often designate the consciousness of the Self in its own field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 43. See Also Intrinsic level.
Functional progress, The Journey in terms of transference of or in identification from one state to another. (There are seven of them e.g. Plant, vegetable, animal, the man, the Angel, The Christos (Archangel), Logoic , and God.) Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 29. See Also Journey.
Fundamental reality, Is ALL IN ALL; It is that from which everything else emerges. It is undifferentiated, yet it is not void. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 88. Respecting a given person three levels constitute the fundamental reality: The Real Self, the personality, and the configurational self. Practice of the Way p. 23.
Garden of Aaru, (Eden, Gods) Represents the state of the completely purified psychic nature along with the clear reflection of the psychic consciousness of Light’s Regions. The First Crossing p. 91. The highest level of the psychic nature, where the Light World, the Light Mother, and her differentiated fields are reflected in the psychic nature. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 74. Between Mind, the lowest level of Light's Regions, and the highest psyche, (is) what we call the Garden of Aarru. Membership Letters (II) p. 1. Eden, represents the advent of Self-consciousness. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 104.
Generative Center, (Adhisthana) When the psychic nature begins to function our first awareness of registry is in the genital region. The symbol for this center is Jupiter in Sagittarius. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 28 ff. When enough energy is withdrawn from value-giving and objective identification, that energy awakens in the generative center. It is the focus of all the creative energy which motivates the psyche. It is the stone which the builders rejected. The more force and power awakened on that level, the stronger the psyche on all the other levels. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 5) p. 2. It is the foundation of all creativity on the part of the World Mother. When the generative center opens, we can no longer function by neural sensation alone but by sensitivity to wave frequency. ibid (Lesson 6) p. 4. A characteristic of this force irrespective of the center in which it becomes active or resident: all latency in the form of non-fulfillments, suppressions, repressions, etc., are precipitated, thrown into a high degree of activity. It is the creative force which motivates every form of expression in the individual’s nature. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 35. See Also Adhisthana.
Generative Force, Earlier in our development, the generative force was our "crowning glory", symbolized by Pallas Athena. As one approaches the Second Crossing, the generative force becomes a drag back; the Symbol of the World Mother becomes the old harlot of Babylon or the Dragon. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 73. Sex power, sex force; the driving power behind the psychic nature. The Christos p. 88. See Also Genetrix, Sex.
Genetrix, The World Mother, the Mater; the matter (mater) of that world. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 18. The Divine Mother, the generative force or aspect of the universe; i.e., the generative power of the cosmic process. The First Crossing p. 104. The motivation of your sex force, your sex hunger, your sex urge, no matter how much it is camouflaged or how much you live in your objective idealized standards of excellence, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p.59. See Also Generative center/force, Mater, World Mother.
Gestalt, The whole ensemble - meaning the whole structure of the field in which the Light is present and becomes the predominant factor. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 10. The psycho-logical word for wholeness, the synthetical registry. Ibid (Vol 2) p. 39. See Also Wholeness.
Global consciousness, A concept meaning any organism-as-a-whole - consciousness Mind, psychic nature, configurational representation. Any individual motion is perceived as a universal movement. The Christos p. 139 ff. See Also Atomistic concept/consciousness, Organism-as-a-whole.
Gnosis, Clear knowledge of life-facts of this light-energy configurational representation system. Studies in Psychotherapy p.111. Knowledge. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 31.
God, A synonym for the "true self", the "master self" ... the differentiated field constituting the true individuality. A label for the Power-with-which-one-is-conscious. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 50. God is Creative Life (The Power behind the natural-order, creating process). The Power which motivates the creative process. Bible Lessons p. 3. God is a focal point of live, conscious of what you are conscious of being. The Power with which you are conscious of anything. Ibid p. 70. The monad is God, because all beyond it is undifferentiated, Unmanifest. There is not any outside, absolute deity. Ibid p. 100. The Life-force (Logos) evinced by cytoplasmic structural organization in or as cells of plant, animal and man is the nearest or best referent for the word - GOD. Cosmology p. 70.
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Symbol of Power, Substance, Balance - evinced as One in any and every act of Consciousness. Ibid p. 124. The Motivating forces of Light’s Regions. A Description of the Psychic World p. 98. The whole cosmic process in its undifferentiated fields including all of its differentiations. Studies in Psychotherapy p.22. The Father principle, the forces, energies, etc., of the cosmic sphere ... cannot be known except as, by or in the substance of the solar sphere... by the activity - waves and frequencies - of the Mother. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.72 See Also Father Principle, Light, Logos, Master Self, True Self.
"God Geometrizes" Quote by Plato which describes the crystalloidal tectonic level: Reflected Light metamorphosed into living-matter, cytoplasm, protoplasm, colloidal dynamics and into crystalloidal tectonics. The Christos p. 201.
Good, The Plato’s term and our term: The Power-to-be-Conscious and then the label, the Cosmic Process, as a dynamic creative activity in all that is and all that exists. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 143. See Also Cosmic Process.
Grace The effect of a higher octave of wave and frequency upon a relatively lower octave - the force from a higher octave awakens one upon a relatively lower octave. It is not evolution. The Christos p. 73. Comes "Not by conscious election", but by an influence other than you have been conscious of. Ibid p. 93.
Grand Architect The pattern or field of the cosmos and all differentiations therein. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 6. See Arche.
Great Significance, The Culmination of the whole cosmic, or natural order process in the Self-conscious state, the Son of the Living father-Mother-God ... which alone gives meaning to life and existence .... symbolized by the AUM. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.77. See Also AUM.
Greater Ones The Hierarchyï·“ï·“the Greater Ones or Blessed Ones in Light's Regions. Membership Letters (II) p. 2. See Also Blessed Ones, Hierarchy
Greater Self The highest level, relative to our state in the evolutionary process; it is described as a universalized state. Refers to the Logos -- a Universalized State in which all personalities disappear. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 10 ff. When we rise to this oneness of all in the natural order it is called the Greater Self. Practices in Individual Development p. 62. See Also Logos.
Great Illusion, The The maya (Aryans), samsara(Buddhists), "the lie and the father of it" (Christian), The Great Illusion ( by great seers of all times) : It is in this state (man - objective self-conscious) and only in this state, that the shield provided by Nature - the World-mother aspect or substance of the Cosmic-process - to protect the awakening Self from the intensity of Light is mistaken for the True and the Real. The objective manifold of values and the representations thereof which have been developed out of this mistake, or identification. The Christos p. 203 ff. See Also Maya, Samsara, "the lie and father of it."
Group Means a specific, common control of a multiplicity of individual fields in the formative process. ...not consciously individualized yet, but in a formative process of individualization. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 76.
Growth and Development The transference of identity from one level to another level which constitutes the individualizing process which represents what we call growth, expansion, development, etc. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.50. See Also Individualizing process, Natural order process.
Guilt The sense of guilt is developed in the consciousness of a given individual when he fails to give complete and free and unrestricted expression to the creative urge at his point of development. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 99.
Guna Sanskrit: quality. Energy-qualities. Every so-called thing, can be described as aggregations or configurations of vortices of energy, plus qualities. On the cellular level, chromatin. Cosmology p. 91. Our referent for gunas, while comprehending qualities exhibited in blood relationships, extends to and includes ethnic, racial, sub-human, animal, plant, etc., characteristics and/or qualities. Ibid p. 94. Qualities represented in common interests, thoughts, etc., - all are classified as gunas; the range between sweet and sour, good and bad, high and low, vice and virtue, spiritual and material, etc., etc., all represent ranges of gunas. Ibid p.120. Color in the world of analogy, comes the nearest in representation and symbol. The Seven Rays p. 9 ff. Qualities of frequencies registered. The First Crossing p. 94. Energy in action; Three main divisions: tamasic or inertial, tempestuous, virulent, qualities and the quiet, the peaceful, the beautiful, the quality of felicity. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p.30 ff. Energy is characterized by gunas or qualities, and we have three primary gunas or qualities...these qualities represent the kinds, the characteristic types of ‘matter’ with which the psychic nature is built. Ibid (Vol 2.) p. 26. In speaking the Treader on the Path, throws a resonance, a frequency into the words uttered; a quality (resident in his consciousness) that we call meaning or significance is attached to the waves. Practice of the Way p. 15.
Harlot of Babylon See Generative force
Harmonic ray The fifth ray (Love +Will) of outpouring of force from the Central Sun of all Existences, the Logos, Saguna Brahma. Is the Harmonic force in the universe. The Seven Rays of Development p. 5. Characterized by a disdain for inharmony. Ibid p. 21.
Harmonic time The time line respecting a given individual upon which the movement called progress, expansion, growth, development, etc., proceeds. (vs sidereal/linear time.) Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 71. That movement respecting growth and development, is a movement of consciousness, it is labeled harmonic, because a rhythm characterizes that motion. A motion in consciousness abstracted from images appearing substantive is what we call objective time, sidereal time, etc. Ibid (Vol 4) p. 38. See Also Motion, Sidereal time.
Harmonic world of frequency Our referent for the word Heaven, because when you are in perfect harmonic synchronization with structure-function-order of the real world you’re in Heaven and you don’t have to die to get there. It is just bringing harmony into the private world. And that is the great thing to strive for. Practice of the Way p. 93. See Also Heaven.
Hate The reversal of polarity of the positive force of love. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 106. See Also Polarity.
Healing, True Is the bringing to the light of conscious recognition how the Natural Order ‘law-of-being’ was violated, and serious effort put forth not to continue in so doing will be successful; this is what we call the elimination of the cause. Cosmology p. 27. If a practitioner can establish frequency-harmony with his patient, ninety percent of his work is done. The Seven Rays of Development p. 23
Health Each and every organic disease begins with a disturbance in the harmony and rhythm of the vital forces which motivate the functions of a given organ. The First Crossing p. 86.
Heart Center Symbolized by air. The force in the heart center is that which motivates the cortical activities, mental development, intellectual development. How to Discipline the Psyche p.31. Also symbolized by Venus in Libra which motivates the urge to give. The force from heart center motivates mentation only when the mental processes are utilized as an instrument in the hands of the dominating, motivating, creating force of love. Practice of the Way p. 75. See Also Anahata.
Heaven That state of consciousness upon the psychic-level which is the concretion of the longing and desire of religious devotees for rest, peace, and happiness. (Yet heaven on earth represents that state of consciousness in which the third level of egoic self-awareness is developed.) The Natural Order Process (Vol 2) p. 91. Noetic state. Studies in Psychotherapy p.51. Harmony. Practice of the Way p. 93. See Harmonic World frequency.
Helix If we take the scientific developments of the structure of the atom, the molecule, the structure of a given configuration and the findings of astrophysicists and the reports of the seers, we find that there isn’t anything, yourself included which cannot be described in terms of the helix, the spiral form. Any given ‘this’ to which you can point in its ultimate structure represents a spinning helix, a dynamic process. Studies in Psychotherapy p.46. All of which we are conscious is abstracted, received, derived from the fundamental structure-function-order which we call the spirals or the helix or the Cosmic Process. Ibid p. 95 & Chart p. 94. That rhythmic alternation - birth to death, death to birth - on the life line (the Palingenetic cycle) is a helix. Even though it spirals, it is not straight, it’s a sine wave also. It describes a wave, a frequency, a rhythm. Practice of the Way p. 24. See Also Cosmic Process, Spirals.
Hell The totality of engendered and migrating thought forms (cultivated sensations and thoughts molded into and reflected into etheric-substance) we call the "demon world". Thought forms originally developed by over-accentuation of forces of generation beyond natural order requirements in the evolutionary process. One creates his hell ever since he was born in generation.; as soon as he begins to think. A Description of the Psychic World. P. 97.
Here-now ‘Here’ meaning space, ‘now’ meaning time, a space-time continuum. Practice of the Way p.63. Space-time as continuum which is life-facts. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 40.
Heredity Mental capacities and potentialities, character of emotional functions, type of sensations experienced, neural structure of the configuration, body characteristics, etc., which are represented by genealogical guna epitomizations in colloidal-chromatin structures of sperm and ovum cells. The word "heredity" represents a broad referent to cover those mental characteristics and constructs which fall under the categories included in space and time coordinates, factors, etc.; and also the awareness-ability to feel, sense or mentally grasp space-time. Cosmology p. 106.
Hierarchy See Greater Ones
Higher Octave frequency Registered on the psychic nature, leads to the Christos-power. Each for himself must learn to sharply differentiate the levels from which frequencies are received. This (frequency) is never extraneous, but serves as a dependable guide, counselor, organizer and friend. It is registered upon the consciousness functioning in a lower octave (from one’s Higher Triad) and is intrinsic. The Christos p. 155. See Also Higher Triad.
Higher psyche Specific meaning is indicated and understood; namely, that the positive and negative force currents in generation have been placed under control of the Will and directed to opening the heart center, releasing the fountain of love, latent and hidden therein. The First Crossing p. 91. Human personality pattern, human soul, the autonomous field or Master Self. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.79. The higher psychic nature is labeled the mental; it is characterized by conceptual thinking, the development of concepts, the accumulation of information about images appearing substantive, etc. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 5. Developed from 14 to 21 characterized by rationality, judgment, memory. Practices in Individual Development p. 71. See Also Garden of Aarru, Personality Pattern.
Higher Self The Individualizing Process on Mind level. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 9. "Soul". The First Crossing p. 100. Autonomous or differentiated field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 58. Highest relative to the psychic self, the personal self, the body self, or the ensemble of the elemental world and the elementaries cultivated or acquired (the nether world self). See Also Atman, Christ-consciousness, Mind self, Noetic self, Real Self, Soul.
Higher Triad The autonomous field, its lines of force and the force foci of the field, the emergent energy appearing as a configuration. It is symbolized by a triangle with the apex pointing up. The all-seeing eye in the triangle of the great seal of the U.S.A. Studies in Psychotherapy p.9. In the Vedas & Upanishads: Purushattama, Prakriti, Purusha (The neutral, Mother principal, and Father principal.) Hebrew (Kaballah): Kether, Binah, Chokmah (The Crown, negative substance, the positive motivating power.) Studies in Psychotherapy p. 101. Obscured when man’s consciousness is focused in objective identity. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 9. Higher relative to the psychic nature, the ‘inner’ man) of Atma, Buddhi, Manas. Practice of the Way p. 41. See Also Mind .
Holy Spirit (Ghost) The functional force, functional aspect of the process-as-a-whole in which we are respectively integrated ... and "all manner of sin, transgression against man will be forgiven" but transgressions against the functional order, the Holy spirit, will not be forgiven ... etc." Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 49. See Also Functional Force.
Hope Belief founded upon instinctive or intuitional knowledge. It is expectance, but without definite, objective knowledge of what we expect. Bible Lessons p. 69.
Horus Another label (Ancient Egyptian) for the Christos. The son of Isis & Osiris. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 48. The Logos. The Christos p. 63 See Also Christos.
Human line of evolution Characterized by the objective self-conscious state. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 8) p. 4.
I Am, the The Triune Self, is another label for God. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.93. Autonomous field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 56.
Surya, the Ordainer, the lines of force of which everyone says of himself; I AM the power. Ibid p. 73. See Also Atma, Atman, God, Triune Self, Surya.
I-am-I-ness The ego-centralizing tendency; it is holding on to a concept: mentalizing within a manifold of values developed out of objective identity. The Christos p. 139.
Ida - Pingala currents The paraklete - the force in its generative aspect. The currents are in the psychic nature. After this force has gone through the five centers (the "five wise virgins") of the psychic nature it ascends to the crown center - "to meet the bridegroom". Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.63. The two currents spiral around the central axis of a person, positive and negative, twist around this axis as the progression, growth, development of the psychic nature goes on. At higher levels of attainment, the currents rise. They will rise whether you do anything about I or not, slowly. Practices in Individual Development p.25.
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These currents, positive and negative, circulating around the central axis are magnetic forces. Ibid p. 54. See Also Force centers, Paraclete, Psychic centers.
Ideational World Plato’s description of the Logos, or the world of Pure Idea and the concept obtains a dual reflection; so that the concept becomes a reflection of a reflection, which reflection represents the Idea. (A meaningless concept!) Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 64.
Identification (process) The first state in the natural order process where dream pictures, in that span of consciousness called the animal kingdom, become objective: Images in the psychic nature appearing substantive. Images are caused by the inability of the human nervous system to register the intervals between the photons of light (sight) or the intervals between molecular, atomic or electronic tactile impressions (touch). That is to say: we register impressions as continuous instead of discontinuous, as they are in reality. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.28. A picture is formulated in consciousness -- on the psychic level -- and appears substantive, so much so that the dream picture has become like a reality with all of the monumental values built in. The First Crossing p. 50. See Also Images in the psyche appearing substantive.
Identity That which differentiates the man from the animal is objective self-consciousness. Man is fully conscious that he has a body, so much so that one says: "this body is me"; that characterizes the man. The Christos p. 70. The label for the focal point of consciousness which may correspond with the consciousness of nature of the field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 50.See Also Consciousness, Objective self-conscious state.
Illuminati The Logoi, the awakened Ones. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 32. See Also Logoi.
Images We classify all images whether they appear substantive or not as psychic phenomena. First Crossing p. 95.
Images in the psyche appearing substantive Phenomena. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 23. ‘Thing’ or ‘object’. The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.52. The first order of abstraction and remains forever on the unspeakable, or non-verbalistic level. Ibid p. 112. ‘The objective world’. Ibid p. 117. See also Identification, Objective world, Phenomena.
Immaculate conception Esoterically speaking, en rapport, in frequency response, immaculate conception is possible, provided the Christos power is born in consciousness and has cleansed the consciousness focused in the psychic nature of all animalized forces, substances, elemental influences, etc. The Christos p. 121.
Immediacy Means that if the significance is not immediately registered from the frequency, then it continues on into the concretion in the mental level; the concretion, the objectification of the frequency or the mental level is idea, concept. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 23.
Individual That which cannot be divided, no wedge can be driven into it. Studies in Psychotherapy p.57. Refers to the first phase of the developing consciousness after the Second Crossing. Ibid p. 70. The fundamental structure of the consciousness of a given differentiated field is the basis, the factual Reality which constitutes what we label an individual. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p.37.There is no individual apart from the natural order process. Individual is merely a label representing a phase of the entire process. See The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.5. One who is fully aware of Self as individual, in control of his faculties and powers and able to function volitionally therewith. Ibid p.8. Symbolized by "the Sun-God seated on his throne." Ibid p. 10.
Epitomizes the whole cosmic process characterizing the World-mother. Ibid p.61. See Also Christos, Person.
Individualism of the instincts These are the forces in the psychic nature which, without exception, you have reflected, generally from rapports, or the race psyche, or somebody’s suggestion, or a suggestion that you have read or picked up by reflection, emulation, and imitation. These are the forces operating in the psychic nature (unconscious) which the mental processes are justifying, attempting to explain. As the instincts individualize, they quarrel and fight among themselves. Practice of the Way p. 47. See Also Psychic nature.
Individualized field / Self The ultimate and the last of that differentiating process is the individualized field, the Son, born of the Mother substance, activated, motivated, fecundated by the positive power; the union of the positive and negative forces of cosmos eventuating in the Son, born of the Mother egg, the Mother ovum. Studies in Psychotherapy p.5. Represents the true Self, the true individual, the autonomous field; diagramed and illustrated as an electromagnetic field showing the two poles and the lines of force making a sphere (always). The field is demonstrated as the sacral-conarial axis as these two poles constitute the field of the individual. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 60. The Monad, or Son represented by a small circle in a larger circle. It is born of the positive Power and the negative, creating force or Substance, described as two triangles one with the apex pointing up (+) and one pointing down (-). This all represents an operation of consciousness; it is all within a dimensionless plane of Self-awareness. Bible Lessons p. 97. See Also Autonomous Field, Differentiated field, Earth Field.
Individualizing process The Power-to-be-conscious becoming conscious of itself as a Be-ing. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11. The lifting of the creative forces from ‘lower’ to ‘higher’ centers in order to open consciousness upon the highest level we can reach - the Mind, where the Real Man is developed. A Description of the Psychic World p. 101. Operates on the Mind level that sometimes we speak of as the autonomous field. Practice of the Way p. 61.
Applied to the differentiation in the cosmic substance it is relative to our objective self-conscious state, our psychological processes, not at relative tot he cosmic process. Ibid p. 80. See Also Helix, Natural Order Process, Spiraling Process.
Inertia / inertial process Motion in consciousness in contrast to movement of consciousness. Any motion of consciousness is a conversion of the inertial state to the dynamic, expanding, extensional, etc. Unless the focal point of consciousness is Being, everything else is superfluous activity, no matter how fast the activities may be accelerated mentally, educationally and otherwise, it is an inertial system. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 50. See Also Identity.
Infinite intelligence/Mind The Greater Self, Higher Self, the individualizing process on Mind Level. The Power-to-be-conscious becoming conscious of itself as a Be-ing. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11.
Infolding process The idea of rolling up and curling in as applied to sleep. In sleep, your conscious awareness begins to infold and as it does, it pulls away, from activity on the objective level. As it infolds, it becomes active in your psychic nature ... on the psycho-logical level. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 81.
Infolding - unfolding process The loop representing the union of the Positive with the negative principle and the Son, the result of the union. The epitomization as representation of the whole cosmic process. On the atomic level (first outpouring): Represents those configurations of units of energy that we label the periodic table. On the plant level (second outpouring): Cellular structures becoming a synthesis of all that has proceeded. On the living matter level - animal (third outpouring): a synthesis of the two preceding cycles, mineral and vegetable. On the man level (fourth outpouring): culminates in a configuration which synthesizes all of the preceding, but also represents a higher configuration of sensations, feelings, desirings, lovings, thinkings -- the psychic nature .... called the person. The First Crossing p. 49 - 53. A metamorphosis of light into energy, energy into living matter; then the reverse. Ibid p. 66. Infolding process = infolding of the positive Power into Mother substance, earth, any configuration of units of energy, the descending arc. Unfolding process = growth, expansion, self-development, evolution, transfiguration, metamorphosis, or reconversion. Ibid p. 67. Ibid p. 67 and 83. See Also Ascending/descending arcs/process.
Initiation When that Power-to-be-conscious , that consciousness changes its orientation.; A reorientation of consciousness. The Seven Initiations (lesson 1) p. 15. Breaking of the tangled skein of relationships in the race mind. "Come out from among them, and be ye separate."(2 Cor 6:17). It is the beginning of That which endures, the beginning of That which you can take with you and bring back again. It is the beginning of "laying up for yourselves treasures in heaven ..." (Mat 6:20) Ibid p. 16.
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Ist Degree: That reorientation of consciousness, is seldom if ever known at the time. Before that one can only function by neural senses; afterward, one begins to register wave-frequencies and function by response to vibrations, response to wave-frequency context of situation. Ibid p. 17-18.
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2nd Degree: That point in development where one can raise his creative forces above the functional powers of the psychic-nature. He will have lifted his consciousness and the creative powers from the centers which function under the domination and control of the psychic-nature. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p. 110. One is still unconscious of the initiation, but begits a drive to be with others who have attained the 2nd or 3d degree and have a drive to get with one and read, study, talk, or just to be together because of the frequency harmonization that they crave. They lose interest in purely intellectualized, mentalized, forms of literature. One begins to be taught while out of his body. The Seven Initiations (lesson 2) p.19-20.
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Third Degree: In full consciousness, he’s taken out of his body and to a company of higher ones. He sees them; they see him. But he will never see the face of the one taking him out for initiation. He is taken before one of the inner groups, inner orders, and there he is accepted, recognized, inducted into the order with the most solemn ceremony. Ibid p. 21 ff. Realization is reached after the creative energies have been directed from the psychic-nature to the Mind-level. A synthesizing process of these forces of the psychic-nature in the head centers now ensues. This represents a second phase in Self development; and those entering upon this work constitute a second group of disciples in the natural order process. One learns to effect transformation on the different levels of existence. He has effected control in the psychic nature and synthesized those forces in the head centers so as to prepare for conscious functioning on the Mind-level of the Master self. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p. 110-111.
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4th Degree: Controlling the energy-frequencies on the Mind-level. Ibid p. 111. One undergoes a complete reorientation and change in values. He’s amoral. He has transvalued values; he has a higher standard of values than moral values or immoral values. There is a complete change in his space-time way of functioning. All objective identification has been lost/transcended. Time becomes a fourth coordinate in his frame of reference. He sees time spatially. All is now. The Seven Initiations (lesson 7).
Inner Order/Invisible Government/Brotherhood Great White Brotherhood. One being initiated into the third order is taken into one of those inner orders. The Seven Initiations (lesson 2) p. 21. See Initiation (3d degree).
Inner perceptive faculty The awakened spiritual (perceptive) faculty (of the Higher Self) which can be trusted to provide an inner response or reaction to verses of Scriptures/’Holy’ works that will reveal any interpolation or mistranslation. Bible Lessons p. 3
Insane / Insanity When the lower psyche with its entities ("The Dweller on the Threshold") ‘takes over’" and the higher psyche withdraws from the etheric-physical body. The First Crossing p. 88. When one loses the rational balance, the psyche is liable to take over and begin to manufacture pictures called neuroses, schizophrenia and they become possessory. Also: psychosis. Ibid p. 99.
Instincts Deep inside your being, far deeper than the plane of the mind where concepts are formed, there lives a sagacity, a power that knows. In its lesser phases of development, we call that power instinct. Bible Lessons p. 70. Emergent elemental formative forces from the common homogeneous mass or field which fulfill their province in the psychic nature. Practice of the Way p. 66. See Also Elemental formative forces.
Intellect Or thinking-principle, stands for functions of forces in the brain. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.15. See Also Thinking-principle.
Intellectuality Is the end product of the long, long evolution of cortical development: objective self development. Not to be confused with intelligence. Practice of the Way p. 23.
Interior judicial action The ability to be instantly conscious of motivating energies, forces, etc., and discriminate respecting them. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.97.
Internal organ When used in the Wisdom Teaching, it refers to the Mind-level of the Master-self. We should think of organs as focalizations of individualized power and consciousness representative of specific areas of the content of the state of that power. These have their objective corresponding configurations, representations or results; but when we speak of these as appearances, we mean images formulated in the thinking-principle and appearing substantive because of failure to see the dynamic activity of the units of energy composing them. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p. 81. See Also Force centers.
Intrinsic The life-facts (motivating force of the field) which govern, rule, regulate and control, that (motivations) by which it is characterized is the referent for our word intrinsic. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 96.
Intrinsic result The environmental (energy-world level) that elicits and quickens one’s latent potentials, abilities or forces. Practice of the Way p. 19.
Intuitional awareness That functioning unity or bundle of concepts that have been developed from a prodigious amount of work and over thousands of years of developed concepts about everything or about enough ‘things’. The Christos p. 150. In the higher phases of development from deep in your being, far deeper than the plane of the mind where concepts are formed. Intuition is simply animal instinct transformed and raised from the unconscious to the conscious. Intuition is conscious knowledge. Bible Lessons p. 70. See Also Instinct, Mind substance, Shakti path.
Ishvara Sanskrit: That absorption where you forgot the stew on the stove; your forgot yourself. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 59.
Isis Label that the Egyptians gave to the World Mother, the Genetrix. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 19. Symbolized by the Bull (Ancient Egypt). Studies in Psychotherapy p.71.
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Jacob’s Ladder Symbolizes the descending and ascending arcs of the cosmic cycle (Involutionary and evolutionary process of the cosmic process) Studies in Psychotherapy p.11.
Jehovah Represents the Pure Being and its Idea, not the Pure Being. Jod = Adam : Hove = Eve. We have the twain, which is the Logos, the reason for every ‘thing’ else which eventuates in the Light world and in the energy world. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 66. the Admonï·“Kadmon, the Yodhave, Adamï·“Eve; Membership Letters (V) p. 4. See Also Adam-Eve.
Jesus In our School we accept as a historical fact the teaching that Jesus the Christ lived upon the earth and walked among men and taught them. But the importance of his life to us lies not in the historical fact of his existence, but in that he personifies and epitomizes our own potentiality. The Christos p. 28. See also Christos.
Jiva Consciousness - light - energy as a field or as a differentiated sphere. (Positive-negative poles). Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 29. See Also Consciousness, Light-energy.
John the Baptist Symbolizes what has long been known as the positive and negative currents, forces in the psychic nature. They are called the pranas and the tattvas (Sanskrit: tattvas = positive currents and pranas = negative currents). Practices in Individual Development p. 25. See Also Ida-pingala currents.
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Journey Functional progress in terms of transference of or in identification from one kingdom (state) (in development) to another: e.g.: mineral kingdom, plant kingdom, animal kingdom, man state, etc. to the God kingdom. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.29. See also Functional progress.
Jupiter Zeus (Greek), Jupiter (Roman) symbol of the genetrix or generative power, generative force from the Cosmic standpoint in the Cosmic process; it represents the force in generation. The Christos p. 87. See also Generative center, Zeus.
Jupiter in Sagittarius Symbolizes the eclipse of that positive power in you is represented by Saturn; it is the highest power, but it is thrown into eclipse by another power that comes in and takes precedence over it, Jupiter in Sagittarius. The Christos p. 87. Symbolizes the energization of the first force center (Generative); a movement of consciousness from its peripheral state to its Self sans state. (The First Crossing). Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 69.
Kaballah See Tree of Life
Kalpa an age of the world of which there are four and the series of which proceed in succession during the manvantaric cycle. Membership Letters (I) p. 2.
Kama-manas Activity of the emotional department of the psychic nature. Means desire-thought —thinking tinged with feeling motivated by desire force. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.40.
Karma Oriental term which symbolizes action. In the flow and flux (action) of the Whole, each event therefore presents a triplicity, a convergence of lines of force which we may designate cause effect-relation-between. This relation between is dynamic in respect to consequence. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 6) p. 5. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap.": The law of cause and effect. Until a person breaks away from all group affiliation on the psychic level he is no individual and he has no dharma to violate. After the individual is born in Light’s Regions then he has a dharma as well as an individual karma which must be obeyed. Ibid (Lesson 11) p. 5-6. Feedback. Practice of the Way p. 92. Destiny. It is the way you work, consciously or unconsciously, that way you elect the quality that you entertain in feeling, desiring, in your affections and your thinking. Karma means work--the way you work at entertaining feelings and desirings and thoughts. Practices in Individual Development p.17. The beneficent action of which holds man to his evolutionary path during the period when, in ignorance and pride, he would resist his law of Being. The law of cause and effect operative in every relative states. Bible Lessons p. 13-14. (It is a benevolent power which brings suffering, when in our ignorant sense of separateness we stray from the path of our dharma. Ibid p. 16. Karma is the action of the Spirit. Ibid p. 18. See Also Destiny.
Karma yoga The ability to act and have volitional independence in the action. Will, Love, Activity. Practices in Individual Development p. 71.
Karmic law of love The devotee on the path of Truth must lay down all his personality, including his pride and his good opinion of himself, and allow it to be dissolved in the greater consciousness of the Eternal Self. Bible Lessons p.75.
Kether The Crown, The Neutral power, Purushattama. The Binding power, the balancer, that which holds together. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 103.
In the Kaballah, the upper point of the highest triad, the Crown. It is the binding power of the positive proton and the negative electron. The Seven Initiations p. 4. See Also Binding Force, Neutral, Purushattama.
Kingdom Malkuth (Base of the Tree of Life (Kaballah), The epitomization of the whole, the infoldment of the whole cosmic process as epitomization. It is a representation of all Reality, of all Truth, of all that IS, the dynamic, creative force at different levels of evolution; in reference to a given individual, the configuration as representation of the different states of self-awareness. The first point encountered in development after the First Crossing. The First Crossing p. 42. What we call growth, expansion, developing understanding is the unfolding process of all that was infolded into the Kingdom. Ibid p. 44. See Also Malkuth.
Kingdom of Heaven Another synonym for the Kingdom of Mind, or Light’s Regions. You must transform the configuration in order to gain the Kingdom. Stop trying to get up ‘there’ on a ‘higher’ world. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.105. See Also Light’s Regions.
Kingdoms States: Successive states are 1) vegetable, 2) animal, 3) man, 4) Angel or Super-man, 5) Christos, 6) Logoic, 7) God or Kingdom of God. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.30. See Also Tree of Life.
Kundalini Sanskrit: The seers of old of the Orient understood and directly perceived the structure of a given man, and the motivating force which they perceived in that structure they labeled Speirema or Kundalini. (Spirema is a Greek term stemming form the earlier Egyptians and Chaldeans.) Studies in Psychotherapy p. 44. It is what is referred to in the allegory of John the Baptist: "goeth ahead and prepareth the way, but there is One coming after me who is greater than I." The awakening of the a greater power, the Spirema, the Kundalini, the fire. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.52. The coiled power. It is that power which has to be awakened to function in the Noetic Mind. The fire descends to the sacral center and stirs and awakens the latent Power-to-be-conscious until it comes to life in the psychic self. We call this the Second Crossing. Practices in Individual Development p.28. It would be disastrous for this force to be released before the whole physiological-etheric-psychic man has been brought into perfect alignment. Ibid p. 56. See Also Speirema.
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Kurukshetra, plains of From the Bhagavad Gita, the battlefield, where each must fight the battle through... the conflict within each person’s psychic nature. The resultant ‘victory’ is the developed sense of I-am-I, I am independent, I am self-sufficient, etc.(development of the ego). Then you contact a higher sphere, differentiated field, or higher frequency. The Christos p. 98-99.
Last Supper, the Symbolizes the death of the personality, the resurrection of consciousness in the Light. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.52. See Also Death of the Personality.
Latent fire The higher triad is beyond name and form; it represents latent fire. When the positive and the negative are in union and give birth to the Logos (Saguna Brahma in its essence, in its function) it represents active fire. Fire in the Heart of the Atom p. 6. See Also Nirguna Brahma, Para Brahma.
Law We are under compulsion by the cosmic process and the way it functions (which we call ‘law’ to share with others so that the vast majority of the particular stream or life-wave to which we belong and in which we are integrated will go on together. The First Crossing p. 55. You must do your own work if your Higher Triad is going to be contacted. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 11.
Law means the function. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 36.
Law of Adjustment "Waiting upon the Lord." If one’s forces are really withdrawn from a certain psychic focus, the attendant circumstances and conditions supported by those forces will drop away or out of one’s life; and a new set of circumstances will be created by the forces in the new state, displacing or supplanting the old, thereby effecting changes without destructive violence. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.30.
Law of Cause and Affect We have a referent, a yardstick by which we measure what is good and what is bad for us respectively, what is helpful and what is destructive for us respectively, because that is the only so-called good and evil - whether we flow with the functional process or consciously or unconsciously thwart it, work against it, etc. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 49. See Karma
Law of Individual Being Dharma; it is the plan inherent in the innermost consciousness of every being and is fulfilled by the being himself in expanding states of Self-awareness. The plan is consummated when the Being is fully aware of himself as birthless and deathless, as immortal and universal. To follow one’s dharma is to live true to this plan in the full expression of each state of Self-awareness. Bible Lessons p. 17. See Also Dharma.
Law of Periodicity The circuit of return. That circuit characterizes the function of everything from atom to galaxy. ‘Law’: the way it functions. Practices in Individual Development p. 75. See Also Palingenetic Process.
Law of Seven and Four The cycle of the evolutionary process is divided into four distinct periods of seven years each. The quaternary represents man in the four human states--physical, etheric, astral, and mental; the septenary represents the whole being in its four human states together with the three higher states of the Ego. To seven years, the Ego, is organizing its body; from seven to fourteen it is organizing its emotional body; from fourteen to twenty-one it is organizing its mental body. Between twenty-one and twenty-eight there is a rapid review of experiences; the Ego touches certain things it has had in past incarnations, testing itself; at twenty-eight it initiates the new experiences necessary to its development. Bible Lessons p. 28 ff. See Also Quaternary, Septenary.
Law that must be fulfilled The law of Being, is called dharma. Bible Lessons p. 13. The God, in man, individualized, must fulfill himself in universal Self-consciousness--that is the law which must be fulfilled See Dharma.
Lefthand Path See Black magic.
‘Levels’ The states in which a given person is conscious; states of consciousness would be the correct non-aristotelian language, and it’s a concession to the objective mental construct situation to use the word levels. There is no referent for the word; that is, there is nothing in reality, in truth, in life facts, which the word symbolizes. We must translate the word levels into a state in which a given person is conscious, at a given date, because his consciousness will change. Practice of the Way p. 51. This word ‘level’ is counterfeit. These octaves of waves and frequencies we designate as a ‘level’ of functioning, a ‘level’ upon which one can function. The term is counterfeit, because it implies a static connotation. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 20. See Also Four levels of functioning.
Liberation Salvation from the false values given to mental images appearing substantive and has been described as "freedom from sin and the sorrow which comes from sin." No one can reach liberation and go against the law of his own nature. One’s first duty therefore is to get out of every condition which is not true to the heart and soul and law of one’s own being. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p. 11.
Libra That force and power, labeled love, in the constellation (center) labeled Libra, dominates (as motivation) every desire and action of man--objective-self-conscious-state. Libra represents the scales, the balance, the beam with pans to weigh. The force called love--puts everything and everyone in the balance, in the scales, and weights out the naked truth of each. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 35. (p.30 new ed.) See Also Venus in Libra.
Life-facts Are representations of the determinations of the Be-ings in Light’s Regions. Look upon this world around us as an energy-system, having many gradations or degrees of ‘fineness,’ in terms of wave-frequencies. Functional Activities p. 76. The way the organism-as-a-whole functions, not the way we think it functions. Life-facts is the natural order way in which it functions. It is that which we label the cosmic process and every individualization or differentiation therein, the galaxy, the solar system, down to the atom. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 37. These labels we have given to three of the turns of the spiral--animal soul, human soul, spiritual soul--equate with life-facts on the grounds that it is the radiating force and consciousness of these three fields which motivates every ‘thing’ that we are or do or of which we have been or ever will be conscious. The life-facts (motivating force of the field) which govern, rule, regulate and control are here laid out as the three great powers, relative to our present racial state of development. Ibid p. 96.
Light The word understanding is used synonymously with the word Light, and both words symbolize perceptive awareness, not a cortical, mental grasp of meaning. Practice of the Way p. 35. The union of Chokmah and Binah or the union of Purusha and Aditi, bring out that terrific activity in the Cosmic substance, whose first representation is Light; "Let there be Light." Light eventuates from the first wave and frequency stirred in the Mother, the negative power, the negative substance. The Christos p. 87. The symbol of spiritual Wisdom, and even in the relative planes we speak of the "light" or the "lamp" of knowledge. Bible Lessons p. 51. Light is only the first phase of what we call matter, or na-ture. Light is metamorphosed through many gradations into energy, the next broad level in the developing process. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 18. A snyonym for the word "Mind". Ibid p. 109 The very forces of generation become transfigurated or metamorphosed into ‘higher’ waves-frequencies called Light. The First Crossing p. 105. Equate Light with Substance. Substance is a label we use to describe the Mother, Mater or Na-ture, "that which gives birth." Light is that substance from which "all comes forth." Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 97.That which is called thefield is also called consciousness, etc. Light, which we have already established as the basis of energy in the quantum studies, now is used synonymously with the word consciousness, or sentient nature of the field. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 61. When one has gone through the baptism by water already and he's undergoing preparation to be baptized by the fire, the influence of Christ, the influence of Light, the influence of the Mind Level. That is the fire. The Release of the Fire in the Heart of the Atom p.5. Another synonym for Light is Self-awareness. The Seven Initiations p. 8. See Also Consciousness, Mother Substance.
Light-bearers When the time comes for the Light to be born and one has shown by his life and by the brilliance of his Light that he can follow the Christ with no shadow of turning and when one is strong enough, then he can stand before all as a Light bearer. Bible Lessons p. 26. See Angels of Light, Devas.
Light-energy-plasm When we think of the configuration we should think of Light-energy-plasm in one act of consciousness. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 104
Light Mother After the birth of the Christ-conscious state, the World Mother is transformed into a body of Light, the bride of the "Bridegroom." The very forces of generation becomes transfigurated or metamorphosed into ‘higher’ waves-frequencies called Light. The First Crossing p. 105. Not the Mother of Light, but the substance itself is labeled the Light Mother. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 70 Symbolized by Nephthys (Egyptian goddess) Ibid p. 71
Aditi, That substance above the Second Crossing in the realms of Be-ings. That energy, as Light Mother or as Light, is like inertial or potential energy. That energy is converted into kinetic or dynamic energy in, by, through the process of differentiation of that Light. Practice of the Way p. 69.
Light source As exemplified by the Egyptian wisdom teaching; the label used as we use the label Logos, was Osiris, and irrespective of the label for that differentiated field in the Mother substance, the field represents the Source, causative respecting all other differentiations; therefore, it constitutes the Reason for the creative process irrespective of the level. So, we could label it the Light source, identifying the word Light with the word consciousness, the Light source of creativity. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 47. See Also Field, the.
Light Spheres The "journey through the stars." Practice of the Way p. 3.
Light-energy (World) Jiva in Sanskrit for energy as a field or as a differentiated sphere, by analogy: a magnetic field (positive and negative poles). Teacher’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 29. This world as an energy system. Ibid (Vol 4) p.11. See Also Consciousness, Jiva, Noetic level.
Lightergy Light-energy-substances, i.e., energy as a substance in which all waves and frequencies of light-energy function. Studies in Psychotherapy p.146. Light plus energy, the Light-Mother. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 1.
Light’s Regions Above the second crossing there are several differentiated regions of Light: Diffused Light, Diamond Light and Supernal Light. In those regions the Substance of the Mother is too brilliant to reflect anything. By comparison the energy world is coarse enough and dull enough to reflect. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 100. Kingdom of Heaven or Kingdom of Mind. Ibid p. 105. See Also Kingdom of Heaven/Mind, Light.
Lila See Dance of life.
Lines of force Third of three factors that describe an atom. The first two are the positive and negative poles. Energy is merely knots and whirls of the lines of force. Eddies of the lines of forces are what is described as photons, electrons, protons, etc. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 9. Lines of force eventuate where we have a negative and positive pole, so that any given autonomous field must be described in terms of its negative and positive poles, and the lines of force between those poles by which and from which the sphere or field is known; or the concept abstracted constitutes the pattern, the structure of the field. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 3. See Also Basic structure of the universe, Trinity.
Living matter substances A label for Malkuth, the configuration, the turning point of what we call the animal cycle. The First Crossing p. 69.
Negative substance (Light, Energy, and living matter.) Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.19. See Also Negative substance.
Logical faculty Where in the cycle of development, the focus of consciousness was placed on the objective phenomenal appearance in order to develop the analytical, the reasoning, the logical faculty and once developed, used as an asset to synthesize all of your findings, and that synthesis becomes your fortification, the stabilizer in the emotional, love responses to the quickening when it comes. The Christos p. 9.
Logoi Those having identified their respective selves with the force with which they function. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 32. A group of Logos, those who consciously developed identity with the individualized field, pattern, configurating process and have entered upon or begins. Ibid p. 49.
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Might be compared to the Powers and Principalities and things seen and unseen which Paul speaks of in his Epistles or in the Oriental system, Maha-chohans ... those in Light’s Regions who are conscious of being one with the Logos, the creative world. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 121.See Also Logos.
Logoic state Becoming a conscious Logos. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 2) p.34. See Logoi.
Logos Greek: For this power which controls and directs and organizes the field (individual). Teacher’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 12. The Greater Self -- a Universalized State in which all personalities disappear. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11. The creative world Expanding States of Self-awareness p.121.
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The differentiated intelligence. Ibid p. 124. The Reason (Plato),"The Reason" for anything. Cosmology p. 101. One ("Only Begotten") Consciousness, i.e., the reason for every subsequent event in space/time. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.19. It is the reason, the causative factor for eventuations or manifestation. Practice of the Way p. 18. Union of the positive and negative on a macrocosmic scale produces the Son, the Logos the great incomprehensible Father-Mother of us all. The Release of the Fire in the Heart of the Atom p.2. Power-to-be-Conscious, Logos, Demiurgos, to use three labels for that which is emerging out of the Mater of the Cosmic Process. Membership Letters (II) p. 3. See Also Demi Urgos, God, Only Begotten, Real Self, Sa-Guna Brahma.
Love (Ray) The third primary of the seven rays of development. The Seven Rays of Development p. 8. In color, a delicate pastel pink to a crimson; never scarlet, mahogany or magenta. In the aura, the guna indicates one whose heart is full of love and bubbling over with it. Ibid p. 10. This primary Love ray that flows out from the Central Sun of all existences, the Logos, when contacted, creates a powerful motivating force, urge to give without any thought of what one is going to get, even when he gets it in the neck. Ibid p. 11. Represents the highest power and influence in cosmos, Binah, Aditi, the negative force as a cosmic force that has no consciousness of any individual. It is impersonal, universal. That phase of the universal power which rays out like the sun shining on all, irrespective of persons, good, bad and indifferent. It just shines by its nature. It is the creating nature of the cosmic process itself. Love becomes a synonym for the word God. What Plato called the Good. Studies in Psychotherapy p.107. That force cannot be released until that force reaches and opens the Heart center (Anahata), then you are compelled, motivated by the urge to give. Practice of the Way p. 75.
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Love is the power of the Spirit, the grace of God. Bible Lessons p. 11. Agape: represents the higher, purified and refined meaning of the influence of Eros. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 35. Love is another word for the binding power. The Seven Initiations p. 5. Love is that force - impersonal, universal - that is the organ of communication between the mortals and the Immortals. A Description of the Psychic World p. 65. It is a motivating influence from the Heights that we call Light’s Regions. This is our referent for the word - Love - Agape. Ibid p. 98. See Also Aditi, Agape, Binah, Eros, God.
Love-security motive Out of that evolutionary process is coming a higher motive, the one which will usher in the New Cycle, characterize the New Age. That is the Love-security motive. Studies in Psychotherapy p.107.
Lower Buddhi Rationality. The ability to recognize the relationship of that which is known with that which is at present perceived. It is developed when one develops an avid hunger to know, to learn. The Seven Rays of Development p. 15.
Lower psyche The South half, the personality pattern, the psychic nature. Developed out of ‘objective’ identification of consciousness; that is, by thinking of these dynamic processes as ‘things’ and ‘objects’; thingifying this dynamic world. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11. The animal soul, entities of darkness, configurated genetrix forces. The First Crossing p. 81. That which is reflected constitutes the content of the psychic nature. This "content" is called the person, the personality pattern, the person in sense life, the little self in separation from his Greater Self, the intrinsic Power-to-be-conscious, etc. What is reflected are feeling-images, desire-forms, thought-pictures, etc., and influences, wave frequencies, entities, etc., derived from others en rapport, including the race psyche. Ibid p. 87. The animal soul, at its purest and best, is the house of the natural instincts, feelings and desires. Ibid p. 88. The elemental self or vital forces. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.79. Developed from the age of 7 to 14 years on the average. Practices in Individual Development p.70. See Also Lunar Cycle.
Lunar cycle, the The higher/lower psyche, the level below the Higher Self which is described as a reflection of the Light Worlds. Other labels are: personality pattern, the personality per se, the psychic nature. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 19. The energy world. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.100. Constitute the five lower centers (Sacral, Generative, Solar, Heart and throat centers) Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 62. See Also Energy world, Personality pattern, Psychic nature, Reflected light, Unconscious.
Lunar sign A state of development characterized by consciousness integrated in the World Mother. Consciousness is still identified with the basic, fundamental substance of the psychic nature. The symbol of the moon shining only by reflected light Studies in Psychotherapy p. 70-71.
Magi/Masdeans The old Masdeans or Magi (the modern Parsis/Persians). Membership Letters (I) p. 2.
Magnetic Field Described like the poles of a common magnet and the lines of force flowing between the positive and negative pole. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 23. See Also Field.
Mahachohans Sanskrit: The highest ones, the Archetypal Gods, the highest Lords of the Flame. The Seven Initiations p. 82. See Also The Christos.
Mahamanvantara The most comprehensive cosmic galactic creative process. The prefix maha - means exceedingly large, great. Manvantara = The beginning of a galaxy is the beginning of the creative process. The Seven Initiations p. 3. A day and night of Brahma, the great cycle of manifestation. Bible Lessons p. 3.
Malkuth The configuration, the man ray from the Central Sun. What is configurated is our objective self-conscious state: sensations, feelings, desirings, lovings, thinkings. The First Crossing p. 52. Malkuth represents the turning point, the reconversion where the descending process undergoes a conversion or reverses and begins the unfolding process. The conversion state, the configuration represents a turning point. Ibid p. 68. We borrow that word from the esoteric teachings of the Rabbis called the Quaballah (Kaballah) because we do not have an English word that we can use. The farthest point out is called Malkuth. It is also the point of return. Membership Letters (V) p.7. See Also Configuration, Quaballah.
Man Means the objective self-conscious state conditioned in sense. Cosmology p. 73. The fourth and lowest configuration which is also Malkuth, but this time the fourth outpouring of force from The Central Sun of all Existences is called Man. The First Crossing p. 51.
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The epitomization of the cosmic process, in his awakening to Self-awareness portrays its every phase. Ibid p. 83. In terms of the lower psyche, under the genetrix, also called the animal soul, the term man here means manas -- mind. This lower psyche or animal soul and its "constituents" is called the depths of the unconscious by the aristotelian psychologists. Ibid p. 88. When the Power-to-be-conscious sufficiently emerges from the Mother substance to become objectively Self-conscious. Ibid p. 101. Described as an objective self-conscious state of the Power-to-be-conscious or as the objective state of Consciousness. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.19. The whole aeonian past is condensed and repeated so that between birth and seven years of age of the body in that dynamic configurational process the whole evolution of the animal world is repeated up to the stature and representation of the state called man. Practices in Individual Development p.70. Man, the microcosm, is the center of the macrocosm. In himself he epitomizes the universe, and through the understanding of himself he gains understanding of the great mysteries of solar systems, of cosmic law, of universal life. Bible Lessons p. 79. See Also Malkuth, Objective self-conscious state.
Manas The actuating principle of the chittakasa, is sometimes referred to as the fifth principle. This is with respect to states which are described as "five modifications of the internal organ"; 1) physical, 2) etheric, 3) emotional-psychic or thalamic, 4) mental-psychic or cortical, 5) manas or Mind. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.36. See Also Fifth principle, Man, Mind.
Manifold of values Symbolized by the dragon. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 4. Developed out of identity of consciousness with the physical ‘body’, man the creator of the values. Ibid p. 14. The identification of the image with the configuration, with that from which the original frequency was received, is the origin and cause of the development of the objective manifold of values. Practice of the Way p. 33. See Objective manifold of values, Value giving.
Manvantara See Mahamanvantara.
Mars in Scorpio Symbolizes the opening of the solar center. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 24. Mars is the symbol for the god of war; Scorpio, the only zootype or totemic symbol which kills itself; the scorpion stinging itself to death. Those personalized and unregenerated forces, which the psycho-dynamism did not eliminate but only controlled, now have to be eliminated. " the axe laid at the root of every plant or tree not planted by my Father" (structure-function-order of the Cosmic process). The Christos p. 122. See also Force centers, Four somatic divisions, Solar center.
Master, The Three in one Self, the conscious representation of these three. Symbolized by Aum: The Father principle (Spirit, unconscious and unknown, unknowable), The Mother substance (unconscious and inactive except in contact with the Father) both become conscious as the Son (Self-consciousness). Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.72. See also Aum.
Master-self Conscious-individualized-Self The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.27. Self, individualized as the Power with which your are conscious, is named the Seer and the Master. The autonomous field. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.79. The differentiated field constituting the true individuality; a synonym for the word "God." Teacher’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 50. See Also Autonomous field, God, True Self.
Masters The term reserved for the Atmic level, Atman. Not until one is completely in control of the physiological organism can he be designated a master. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 25. See Also Atman.
Mastership Represents the next stage in what is called individual development or evolution of the race. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.2.
Mater, the The World Mother, the matter, the Genetrix; under which the psychic world functions and is a part of. How to Discipline the Psyche p.18.Mother Substance. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 7) p.2. Mother--mater, the ‘outer garment’ of the World Mother: mass, or configurated units of light-energy. The First Crossing p. 12. Substance is a label we use to describe the Mother, Mater or Na-ture. That which gives birth. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 97. See Also Genetrix, Mother, Mother Substance, World Mother.
Material The word given to the image which is a ghost, a dream picture. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 111.
Matter. It has no validity any longer, no more referent for it. It is now a symbol for phenomena: any appearance, mirage, shadow, image, or picture, or some ‘thing’ that transpires in appearance only. Teacher’s Guide (Vol 2) p.51. See Dynamic Process, Mater.
Mattergy Cytoplasm, colloidal and molecular structures, cellular structures (World-Mother, The Genetrix. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 1.Nature, energy-living-matter as substance describable by its wave and frequency. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 28. Energy substance, by analogy, electricity. Ibid p. 69.
A universal substance out of which everything is made. (A term coined from a review of a book in the Saturday Review of Literature. The Christos p. 57
Maya An anglicized Sanskrit term meaning "illusion", "deception," "unreality," etc. A state of identity with image-appearing-substantive in the psychic-nature, plus evaluations developed therefrom. The Veil of Maya p. 31.
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The pictures, in whole and in part, existing in consciousness and on the psychic-level, are representative of the objective self-conscious state; this state and its representations, in the awakening process, is called the maya, the not-self, the unreal, the ignorance, etc. Cosmology p. 12. Pseudo reality (Mayaistic veil). The First Crossing p. 11. The Ignorance (the Buddha), "The lie, and the Father of all subsequent lies." from the New Testament. Ibid p. 58. This thingifying--due to inability of neural sense functions to register separate stimuli from each unit of energy of a given configuration--is described as psychic images appearing substantive. Ibid p. 103. The abstracted private world, the mentalized thingifying on the concept level about the three fundamental levels (the fundamental reality) The Practice of the Way p.23. Samsara (Buddhist), The Great Illusion (Seers of all times). The Christos p. 204. See Also the Dance of Lila.
Mazda Light, the Light forces labeled by Zarathustra as opposed to the Dark, Arithman. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 55. See Zoroastrian.
Mechanism of the Myth In the psychic-nature, by the psycho-dynamism working on its mental level, though the Mechanism of the Myth. A thinging on the mental level; energy is converted into living-matter and configurated into "The New Man," for "the old man shall be put off and The New Man shall be put on." The Christos p. 104.
Meditation Can be described as a methodology, a process of reaching or contacting that Power (the fundamental motivating power of our being). That process, must follow the natural order (structure - function - order of Cosmos or the universe), or it will not work at all. (Analogy of the storm cloud and lightening.) The energy used in generation is offered up to the Power which one is conscious. The conscious direction of generative energy and surrender of it is the positive attitude. Release, renounce, let go. This process completes the circuit and the fire descends — then, Light. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 39-42.
Meditative attitude Here is the way we (SNO) meditate, the way we practice co-operation with the Natural Order Process. We sit relaxed, hands resting on our thighs, palms up; the spine is held straight to allow the forces to flow freely. We focus attention upon one or the other of the psychic centers, wherever we happen to be in our ongoing. You function with this energy on the level upon which you want to function.
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With attention focused upon the psychic centers, begin to breathe deeply. Gradually breathe air into your lungs until they are full — a full breath. Keeping your focus on one center, breathe air into your lungs while you visualize, imagine, realize you are charging the battery, you’re taking in energy. So we convert oxygen into fire by the breathing process. You are understandingly co-operating with the process now. Exhale slowly and gradually, and as you exhale feel that this center (Heart), is like a powerful searchlight that is shining in all directions, and that shining is breathing out love to all creation. Breathe it out to everything — not just someone.
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Hold your focus as you do this. Gradually we bring the force up until we focus at the crown. The focusing at the crown awakens the power in the sacral center and the greater One awakens and comes in and turns you over into the Mind Level, into the Supernal Light. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 52-54. The object of this meditation practice is to get the pranic force to the crown center. Ibid p. 63.
Metaphysics If metaphysics means the study of something behind, or other than this world, then there can be no metaphysics. The creative process is characterized by polarity. Metaphysics can be characterized as any departure from the basic, creative process in polarity. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 112.With the disappearance of any and all bases, grounds, etc., for a thingified or objectified concept of this world, there also evaporated all grounds for metaphysics. The First Crossing p. 105. This world is in reality a dynamic world, composed of units of energy configurating in a multiplicity of representations of states of consciousness on the part of a Power-to-be-conscious. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 33. There is no materiality upon which we can base something ‘other than.’ Studies in Psychotherapy p.111.
Mental Body See Arupa body
Mental, the Mental functions pertain to the highest level of the psychic nature. The goal of the end of the evolutionary process will be characterized by the use of the mental functions to formulate mental constructs perfect and true to the natural order of the cosmic process. Practice of the Way p. 45. The higher psychic nature which is characterized by conceptual thinking, the development of concepts, the accumulation of information about images appearing substantive, etc. It is linked to the lower psychic nature by the psycho-logical functions. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 5. The objectification of the frequency on the mental level is idea, concept. Ibid p. 23. See Also Concept, Four levels of functioning, Higher psychic nature, Personality pattern.
Metamorphosis The transfigurating process--the reconversion of living-matter into energy and energy into light. Studies in Psychotherapy p.11. See Transfigurating process.
Microcosm Sometimes called the Master-self and in its structure-function-order epitomizes the whole structure of the universe. On the Mind-level of the Master-self, and in structure-function-order, we witness a miniature reproduction of the macrocosm. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p.37.
Mind Level FORTY-FIRST SUTRA: When perturbations of the psychic-nature have been stilled, by directing its forces to the Mind-level, then consciousness in Mind-substance (like a pure crystal takes the color of that upon which it rests) assumes the characteristics of that with which it becomes identified, whether that be the perceiver, the activity of perceiving, or that perceived. The Natural Order Process (Vol II)
Today we find the consciousness of the average man immersed in identity with the activities of his psychic-nature; i.e., consciousness has been centered in the psychic-nature, called the psycho-logical self. In the traditional Wisdom Teaching, the psychic-nature has been likened to a looking-glass wherein are mirrored 'things' seen by the physical eyes, heard by the physical ears, etc.; and the forces whereby this is done are 'reflected' from the Mind-level of the real Self or individualized field. The Natural Order Process (Vol II)
Mental activities can be steadied, not by conscious exercise of human will, but by directing forces from the psychic-nature to the head centers. As facility in concentration develops or is gained, mental activities become quiet. Concentration in this respect means creating a steady flow of force through the head centers to the Mind-level. The Natural Order Process (Vol II)
THOSE CENTERS CANNOT BE ACTIVATED, MOTIVATED, AWAKENED AND QUICKENED EXCEPT BY THE POWER FROM THE MIND LEVEL, which we label the CHRISTOS. The Christos
Imagine a reflector so highly burnished that it reflects the slightest light. In such a manner the psychic light reflects the lowest level of Light’s Regions. The pure psychic light is very difficult to differentiate from the lowest level of Light’s Regions, the Mind level. It is only after one has developed the faculties of Mind level that he can know the difference between psychic light and the Mind level. To be unable to tell the difference between the reflection and that reflected is a common mistake and will be experienced many times. Functional Activities
This Be-ing on the Mind Level, called Atman by students of the Vedas, can also be called the real Ego, "I AM THAT I AM"; which means, of course, that intrinsic I AM, that indestructible Self. First Crossing
There is no way to avoid developing awareness of the various grades of the lower psychic-nature except remaining sound asleep. In order to make the Second Crossing over into the Noetic-Mind level, one must wake up from the sleep-walker state; as one awakens he first dreams before becoming fully awake. To know that the dreams belong to the psychic-nature, and on its lower levels, is to cross over this period with the minimum of delusional evaluation and therefore confusion. But to mistake the dream pictures for reality leads into a labyrinthian maze of stumbling and groping. Tree Of Life
All of our feelings, human love, thinking--these are the activities of the psyche. When this has been accomplished, and its accomplishment is not a formidable thing, we can get our forces up and out. Then one starts to activate the sacral center--the positive pole of the three-story house, of the pneumatic ovum, the cosmic egg, that is, of the individualized field on Mind level. This is the positive pole of that field, and the power which is latent in or comes through that center, will be awakened. That power is Shakti. That power, fire, represents all that we mean by Will. 7 Rays Of Development
Mind Self Noetic Self; relative to our concept of a lower self. The level of the Higher Self which is the next lower level from the Greater Self. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11. In the analogy of the nut: The Mind-Self is the meat of the nut. The Mind substance differentiates in every individual finishing his trinity or his triad or his triune nature, his triune-self. The Mind-Self is motivated by a yet higher frequency, shorter wave or higher octave of the universal, of the Cosmic substance, labeled the Christos. The Christos p. 80. See Also Christos, Higher Self, Noetic Self, Real Self.
Mind Substance Chitta. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 79.
Mind or Mind-substance means Light, the Light worlds, Light’s Regions. A Description of the Psychic World p.79. Characterized by a differentiating process. It differentiates itself. Practice of the Way p. 79 See Also Chittakasa, Monism (Qualified).
Mitosis The morphology of cellular divisions. A microcosmic aspect of a Great Day of Brahman, the first movement after the interphase is a dichotomy of the centrosomes; these centrosomes when divided are like the two poles of a magnet. These observable poles, together with the lines of force between, are configurated representations of the electromagnetic field which governs and determines cellular structure. There is a power exerted, not only upon the cytoplasmic mass of the cell, but upon the colloidal constituents thereof; for this power exerted through the centrosomes gives us the Source of the Cause for the structure, function and operation called mitosis. Cosmology p. 74. That dichotomy of the centrosome in the mitotic process exemplifies events in the Mind-Self previous to the birth of the Christos. The Christos p. 84.
Molecular renewal Every molecule of the organism is renewed every three years. It can happen in an instant when your power to be conscious is conscious on such a dynamic level that your configuration can be altered and changed instantly. Studies in Psychotherapy p.148.
Monad, the "The Master-self," when a state of synthesis or oneness of Individualized-self with the Logos (Universalized-self) is reached or effected. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p. 94. The Individualized Self, or Son is composed of and is born of the positive Power and the negative, creating force or Substance, and we describe those two principles with two triangles. The triangle with the apex pointing up is the positive, and the triangle with the apex pointing down is the negative principle. This all represents an operation of consciousness; it is all within a dimensionless plane of Self-awareness and cannot be diagramed, cannot be described in words. Bible Lessons p. 97 See Also God, Individualized Self, Master-Self, Son.
Money The nearest referent is faith. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 120.
Monism A concept of oriental teaching necessitating the abandoning of everything to absolute oneness, for all else is maya and illusion. The SNO teaching does not believe in doing this. Practice of the Way p. 40. Absolute monism takes the stand that there is no differentiation in the cosmic substance, none at all, that differentiation only represents our way of looking upon the cosmic process and is not related to the cosmic process; therefore the differentiating process constitutes the maya. Ibid p. 79. See Also Monism, qualified.
Monism, Qualified A differentiating process in cosmic substance. To us (SNO) the differentiating process is not a maya but is an actuality, and can be described in terms of an expanding and contracting universe. We find that there is differentiating, individualizing process at the root, at the heart, at the core of everything which we can consider. Practice of the Way p. 79.
We set ourselves off from the monistic tradition as well as the dualistic tradition. We recognize the integrity of the individual, and we highlight the process of individualizing, we automatically establish a new category: qualified monism. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 29. We never forget the need for cooperation with the Mother. We want to be fully conscious but master of the vehicle which represents that state of consciousness. We work to be master of qualities represented in the Mother Substance. We want to work with all the vehicles of Mother Substance available in the individualizing process. We want to cooperate with the process whereby the Mater becomes pure Light. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 7) p. 6.
Morality Man-made codes, standards of deportment. That which has grown and developed in different groups at different times to facilitate organized society, functional deportment in our relationships, one with another. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 118.
Mother Mater.... can be described as energy metamorphosed into cytoplasm, protoplasm, cellular structures, and living organisms. (Plasm is a word signifying form building. The configuration itself is composed of plasms, form builders. All that is included in our referent.) Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 109. The activation of the Mother substance is called light-energy wave lengths and frequencies in a magnetic field. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.72.Described as the metamorphosis of light into energy, energy into etheric matter, etheric matter into living-matter. The First Crossing p. 83. That which gives birth, that which brings out, that which manifests, that which creates, that which configurates; so, the configurating process we will label the birth, that which gives birth, nature. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 50. See Also Mater, Nature
Mother Substance For the Light aspect of the Mother, metamorphosed into energy, for a referent think of electricity, like a welding torch. The First Crossing p. 86. Nature--the negative principle. Ibid p. 102. The differentiated electro-magnetic field ... is That which motivates all action. The act of being conscious and the representation thereof, on any and all levels, is due to the differentiating process of Mother Substance. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.92. I am using the word darkness as a synonym for the Mother Substance before the Son is born; there is stygian darkness. Membership Letters (V) p. 5. See Also Mother.
Motion Time. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 55. A conversion of the inertial state into the dynamic, expanding, extensional, etc. Movement of consciousness. Ibid (Vol 4), p. 50. See Also Time.
Motivating Process of creativity 1) Holding the force of desire on the psychic level. 2) a) Be very careful what you select and b) be very obdurate. 3) Keep secret your desire; don’t talk about it. 4) Stimulate great enthusiasm, eager anticipation; just burst with eagerness but keep it repressed. 5) Configuration begins to take place and you stand and witness it as you create. The key is the conscious utilization of power called desire. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 36.
Motivating principle (Force) Is labeled desire, and desire in the psychic nature is that which becomes the force in the creating process. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 34. The accumulated forces of elemental substances — instincts, feelings, desires, emotions, thinkings, etc.,—derives form the individuals’ experiences back to the basic race oversoul and its inherent instincts. Practice of the Way p. 100. See Also Creative force, Desire, Personality pattern, Psychic nature.
Motivating world The level of the motivational forces in the psychic nature. Practice of the Way p. 67. Man is motivated from three regions: 1) Light’s Regions (Logoic Bright Beings, Demi-Gods, Mind and Idea, and the Angels of Light. 2) The Genetrix ( Intellectual creations, Love, home, companionship, Preservation of the species, The Builders/Cultivation of the Soil.) And 3) The Region of Hell ( Perverse creations of Man, Elementaries, Entities, and Devils). Practices in Individual Development p. 30.
Mountain A biblical symbol meaning that a master’s spiritual consciousness was intensified and expanded on high. Also symbolized a heightened state of the Christed consciousness. Bible Lessons p. 47. See Also Christ Consciousness.
Movement See Motion.
Mukta Sanskrit. Emancipation, deliverance from the world of value-giving; transvaluation of values. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 15.See Also Deliverance, Emancipation.
Music of the Spheres A poetical expression describing the ‘inner’ hearing of the sound currents. After a night’s sleep in returning from the higher spheres, the "music" is very strong and clear. It is a description left over in the race consciousness from some factual reality experienced by the Pythagoreans. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 71. See Also Pythagoreans.
Mystical Marriage The uniting of the reflected will with love forces in the psychic nature. The Occidental often follows this blended way to the exclusion of the way of pure devotion or the way of pure will. The Natural Order Process (Vol II) p. 120.
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Narcissus complex Self love in the most objective sense. Overweaning focus of consciousness upon and in identity with the physiological organism. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 51. See Also Neuroses.
Natural order process The formative forces of Nature converge into lines of force or what we call a field; then substance which is described as etheric ‘materializes’. First, undifferentiated Light; second, lines of force, converging into a definite pattern. Etheric substance is then formed in the field, and out of this eventuates the configuration. This is what we call the natural order creating process. The Natural Order Process (Vol I) p. 44. There is an orderly process, rhythm, balance, etc., to structure and function which we label the cosmic process. Ibid p. 3 Reality. Ibid p. 19. See Also Cosmic process.
Nature Mattergy, energy-living-matter as substance describable by its wave and frequency. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 28. That which gives birth, Mother. The Christos p. 18 See Also Mater, Mother, Mother Substance.
Negative force Substance plus a Positive-force working ‘upon’ on ‘in’ a Negative-substance which accounts for, creates, produces, etc., effects observed. This holds invariantly true whether the effects produced are ‘in’ or of Supernal-Light, ethereal-light, energy, living-matter (cytoplasm) or in the grosser aspect of configurated forms. Cosmology p. 134.
Negative principle Nature or Mother substance. The First Crossing p. 102 See Also Mother, Mother Substance, Nature.
Negative pole The Mother principle. The negative pole of the cosmic process is referred to as the mother, light, energy, etheric substance, ectoplasm, teloplasm, protoplasm, cytoplasm, living matter. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 9.
Negative Substance/Aspect Light, Energy, living-matter. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.19. Light, energy, etheric substance, living matter. Membership Letters (V) p. 1.
Negative substance of the cosmic process The elements, the constitution of the atoms from which all the configurational processes emerge. Practices in Individual Development p.85.
Nether World The collective result of the multiplicity of private worlds abstracted from the structure, function, order of the cosmic process -- fundamental reality. The objective self conscious state, objective identification, the objective manifold of values, the objective world, maya, etc. The similarities in meanings, values given, reactions thereto, etc., of private worlds, in the aggregate, or collective sense. The First Crossing p. 9-11. When points in the private world are shared in common and become race values, group values, etc. Ibid p. 20. A world built up in the consciousness which functions in and under the limitations of sense. Ibid p. 42. See Maya, Objective manifold of values, Objective World, Private world
Nephthys Egyptian symbol for the Light Mother. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 71. See Also Light Mother.
Neuroses See Insane/insanity
Neutron See Binding power.
New Age / Cycle A higher motive (love-security) coming in to usher the New Cycle, characterizes the New Age. Studies in Psychotherapy p.107. Signalizes a transference from the Aristotelian to the non-aristotelian way of thinking. The Christos p. 157.
New Cycle Gnosis Characterized by the understanding of this new world (the etheric world, the First Crossing / cutting through the Maya...objective self conscious state.) The First Crossing p. 85. Characterized by conscious registry and understanding of gunas (qualities) registered and also the conscious control of the frequencies registered. Under the Will (Atma), we will formulate fields and set the pattern of the field by the guna for that configurational representation we elect. Ibid p. 94. The old sense of separateness and culture or society that represents that attitude will be passing. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 80.
Nireguna/Nirguna Brahma Sanskrit (nir = none) Nirguna (no gunas / qualities) : The unknown God. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 48. Energy locked up and infolded into the heart of the atom -- the body of Parabrahma. The First Crossing p. 102. Beyond name and form. The Release of the Fire in the Heart of the Atom p. 2.
Noetic level Objective Realization and identification with the Real Self. To be a master of one’s forces instead of a slave to them. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 28.
Noetic Mind / Self Functioning in the Power of the Christos. The First Crossing p. 81. Means the sense, the perception, the feel, the realization of the basic Triad, the Real Self, on the Mind Level. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 32.
On that level the acceleration of the perceptive forces and faculties becomes comparable to the acceleration of the units of energy of that observed. One can see and clearly understand the structure of a given configuration....that is seership; it does not belong to the psychic nature. Clear seeing. Ibid p. 44. Your essential nature, the Real Self, the Higher Self. Ibid p. 81. In the individualizing process that differentiated field within the oversoul field. Ibid p. 124. See Also Mind Self.
Non-aristotelian state Functioning in energy forces, in creativity in mind substance. Consciously functioning with ideas in mind substance and to the consciousness as Real. Characterized and differentiated from the man state - to show that goal, objective to strive for. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p.4. Characterized by the absence of dogmatism, dogmatic statements, self-opinionations, etc. Due largely to the fact that this world is a dynamic process and therefore non-static; consequently any statement made dogmatically would be erroneous on the grounds that before the statement could be completed, changes have eventuated respecting that which was spoken of or about. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 21. See Also _.
Now Functioning in a sense of continuum. It is from that deep, deep inner self that we get the feel in life-facts of a continuum, a now. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 38. See Also Consciousness of continuum.
Object The object is an image in the consciousness abstracted from the dynamic process. Practice of the Way p. 44. See Also Images in the psyche appearing substantive.
Objective identification Identification with one’s own objective self-conscious state. The First Crossing p. 23. Living in the consciousness of identification with this body as object vs. identification with a dynamic process, or a configuration of units of energy. Practices in Individual Development p. 21.
It is a state of consciousness in which one looks upon this physiological organism as a thing, and his consciousness is thought to be ‘inside‘ of it. Ibid p. 53.
Objective manifold of values Synonymous with nether world ... developed out of the objective self-conscious state. The First Crossing p.22.
When the picture, the image, in the consciousness of a given person is identified with he configurational world, with Malkuth the Kingdom, that state of identification forms the basis for a yardstick of values which we call the objective manifold of values. Ibid p. 58. The objective world. The aristotelian state of consciousness, when images ... pictures in the psychic consciousness appear substantive. Ibid p. 98. Only the outer representation of the objective self-conscious state on the part of the emergent Power-to-be-conscious from the inconscient Mother substance. Ibid p. 99.See Also Maya, Nether world.
Objective self-awareness A synonym for the word man; also "man" and "mind". So objective self-consciousness differentiated man from animal. A Description of the Psychic World p.41.
Objective Self The private world, meaning our objective self-consciousness and the manifold of values evolved from it. Practice of the Way p.23. See Also Private World.
Objective-self conscious state The next step in the expanding consciousness of the Positive Power, the development of the psyche. Emerging self-consciousness, only exists in the man state. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 40. Functioning in objective identity. The First Crossing p.39.A state labeled "man". Ibid p. 101. Out of the differentiation in the essential nature of man that we label his autonomous field, the objective self-conscious state was the first that was abstracted from it, means identification with that appearance which the configuration creates in our psychic consciousness. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 13. We have the psycho-logical situation, or context of consciousness, for the first conscious identification - belief that the ‘physical body’ as a ‘thing’ is as it seems to sense, and that it is the self. . Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.29. Unconscious, consciousness in identity with the objective appearance, the objective world, etc., as it appears to the senses. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 28. The configurational self, the psychological processes, and the Mind Level, all motivated by the Power-to-be-conscious, whether called vital dynamism, psycho-dynamism or the Christos, represent reality. From that reality we have abstracted an unreality - the private world, the objective self-conscious state, Objective manifold of values. Practice of the Way p. 29. The objective self-conscious state consists of three parts: the configurational self (instinctive awareness), the psychic self (personality), and the noetic self (Individuality). The Christos p. 164 (chart). Means that the Power-to-be-conscious - with which one functions - is identified with the objective appearance of Its own state. The objective appearance of the mental image which one has formulated from frequencies registered. Ibid p. 200.
Objective world The nether world, limited to sense registry, formulated images appearing substantive and values given thereto....psychic phenomena. The First Crossing p. 94. Values attributed to images-appearing-substantive. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 52. Concepts which are labeled variously - opinions, information, assumptions and substantive images. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 64.
Oedipus Complex The basis of which the generative force operates in the generative center, symbolized by Jupiter who overthrew Saturn. You see, the son overthrew the father and took the father’s place. The Christos p. 102.
Omniscience Represents all knowledge, all science, all understanding. The Higher Triad is omniscient, relative to the acquisition of information and understanding that we call education. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 10.
Order The natural sequential expansion of a given individual’s consciousness from one state to another represents order. Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.3. (Cosmos) signalizes number (as quantity composed of many units, vortices of energy, energy systems, etc.), configurational representations, hierarchical systematizations, ensembles, etc. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.20. See Also Cosmos.
Organic disease Functional disturbances should be considered for the reason that every organic disease begins with a functional disturbance. The First Crossing p. 86.
Organism-as-a-whole The awareness poised in, or that which evolves out of, the state labeled atomistic is designated global - another philosophical term - meaning organism-as-a-whole. The Christos p. 139. See Also Global consciousness.
Orientation to Mind Level "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." (Bible quote). Living en rapport in the field of one of higher attainment imparts via information-carrying wave and frequency, the consciousness of that field. In consciousness the ‘closer’ one is to the field, the stronger the signal; i.e., the easier to register and the stronger the reception. The Christos p. 183. See Also Monism
Osiris Egyptian symbol for the reflected Power-to-be-conscious in Light’s Regions. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 19. Exemplifies the wisdom teaching; the label used as we use the label Logos, and irrespective of the label for that differentiated field in the Mother substance, the field represents the Source, causative respecting all other differentiations; therefore, it constitutes the Reason for the creative process irrespective of the level. The Light source of creativity. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 47. See Also Logos, Power-to-be-conscious.
Outbreathing The coming back in the palingenetic process. You bring back only what has been built into your basic state which becomes the pattern for the next outbreathing. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 8. See also Basic state, Palingenesis.
Oversoul One of the successive and synthetical fields, one relatively higher to a lower one. We could designate the race psyche as the oversoul of a given person. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 62.
Palingenesis / Palingenetic process/cycle No personality reincarnates. But the power on the Mind level in this individualizing process puts forth again. Each cycle in the palingenetic process, each putting forth, you build a new personality pattern. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 21. The palingenetic process is not the reincarnation of one personality into another. The process is analogous to annual growth of a deciduous tree which cyclicly puts forth its leaves and flowers and fruit and, eventually, sheds them and its sap goes down. Each time round in the palingenetic process we develop a new personality, and the personality that we develop in one cycle, we shed, like the tree sheds its leaves, etc., together with the cycle which is represented by it. The Seven Rays of Development p. 14. The weakest link in your chain of rays now indicates the ray you will incarnate on. Ibid p. 17. A new and different personality -- the guna pattern of the psychic nature -- is brought out and developed on each of the turns in the spiraling process characterizing that which we label palingenesis. The First Crossing p. 25.
The spiraling process. Studies in Psychotherapy p.75.
Parabrahma See Also Nir-guna Brahma.
Paraclete The ida-pingala currents. The reservoir for the pranic currents. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 63. See Also Ida-pingala currents.
Paradosis The handing over (The lifting of the creative forces in the psychic nature above the generative center) bringing the other psychic centers/seals (7) into awakening, action, function, etc., until the twelve powers surmount the Luminous Self on its Mind-level and from that level serve the kingdoms synthesized at that phase of the Cosmic Process. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 32.
Paranoia When the split (pattern of the psychic nature/personality pattern) has developed into such a wide gap or cleavage it becomes psychosis. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 56.
Path, The Following the evolutionary process. When one discovers that there is a process and intelligently cooperates with it, we call it the path. When we intelligently cooperate with the evolutionary process we change our label and say the path of development, the path of attainment, and we enter the path. The Seven Initiations p. 61. See Also Evolutionary process.
Pattern of the field The archetype upon which the configurational process is modeled and governed. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 7. Octaves, bands of waves and frequencies. Ibid p. 123. See Arc, Archetype.
Perception manifold The frame of evaluation described as a frame or manifold of differentiation respecting quality, character, strength, etc. of these energies (or vibrations) which are organized or developed of the Mind-wave, Mind, when individualized (Noetic-mind). The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 53.
Perception Is to know; apperception is to know and know that you know. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 12.
Perceptive awareness The word understanding and the word Light, both words symbolize perceptive awareness, not a cortical, mental grasp of meaning. Practice of the Way p. 35. See Also Light, Understanding.
Perfected Ones Those fully identified with the free and emancipated Power-to-be-conscious, and there function in Light’s regions. School of the Natural Order (introductory booklet) p. 6.
Perfected individual Is Androgynous, both male and female in one representation. In the palingenetic cyclic process it is the unity of the positive and negative in one being. The First Crossing p. 28. See Also Cycles of Seven.
Peripatetic School Set up by Aristotle to walk instead of sitting to study natural specimens and label them. Practices in Individual Development p. 81.
Permanent atom Means the results of all earth-sphere lives of the Master-self, together with a memory-picture of the structure of planetary spheres, are condensed like an energy pattern in the life-germ of a seed. It resides within the consciousness of the Master-self. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 37.
Person Equates and is synonymous with the ensemble of energy substances, each characterized by a specific quality in the individualizing consciousness; this ensemble we label the psychic nature. The First Crossing p.32. One who functions (relative to the person, you can say unconsciously functions) under the motivating forces of the elemental world, nature’s formative forces, operating in his group, race psyche, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 30.
An ensemble, an aggregation of cultural factors in the race psyche in which the person is integrated. Ibid p. 57. A representation of that pattern, lines of force, plus its knots and whorls - its configuration. The person is the belief of being that aggregation. The consciousness abstracts ideas and opinions from the field in which it is individualizing, or differentiating. It then makes a gestalt of those ideas and opinions and identifies itself with it. Ibid p. 150.
Personal level The psychic self. Practice of the Way p. 26. See Also Psychic self.
Personality pattern The totality we label the person and the totality of qualities (gunas) of each center or level we call the personality pattern. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 10. The psychic nature. Ibid p. 11. The qualities in feelings plus the thinkings, synthesized in the consciousness of a given individual at a given date. Cosmology p. 16. Personality comes from the Latin word, persona, mask. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 86. The sense of personality is due to a focalization in consciousness of a number of frequency relationships; that is, wave-frequency contacts--rapports, desires, communal interests, love attractions, etc. When these wave-frequency contacts are abstracted to higher orders - grouped and generalized-- we then label such an ensemble the group psyche, oversoul, race mind, etc. The First Crossing p. 8. Higher psyche, the human soul, the autonomous field or Master Self. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 79.
The ensemble, the total content of the psychic self. We rebuild that personality every circuit, every time around in the palingenetic process. Practice of the Way p. 14. The combined qualities of the psychic nature. Ibid p. 73. That sense of separateness, I-Am-I-ness, that distinct feel of separateness, the state of consciousness we label the ego or the ego-sense. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 5.
A given person is a synthesis of the qualities in the psychic nature and in his configurational representation. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 62.
Pharisees The unconscious psychics, aristotelians (because they call reality the objective world, etc., is an image-appearing-substantive. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 57. See Also Unconscious.
Pharyngeal center The throat center. Sanskrit label: Laya (Still). When unpurified gunas are brought up from the generative center all sorts of perversions can become rampant. Practices in Individual Development p.27. See Also Throat center.
Phenomena The image in the psychic nature appearing substantive. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 23. An illusory image having no reality. Ibid (Vol 2) p. 3. Symbolized by the word "matter". Ibid p. 51. See Also Image in the psychic nature appearing substantive, Matter.
Physical We are dealing with an energy world and configurations thereof, waves and frequencies and bands of waves-frequencies, radionics and electronics. This world is in reality a dynamic world, composed of units of energy configurating in a multiplicity of representations of states of consciousness on the part of a Power-to-be-conscious. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 33.
Physical body The ‘physical body’, per se, doesn’t exist at all, except as an image, a picture in the psychic nature. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 44. The image appearing substantive. Ibid (Vol 2) p. 31.
Physiological organism The representation of the state in which the Power-to-be-conscious is conscious). The First Crossing p. 56. The configurational self. The Christos p. 96. The configuration of a given field is the representation of its pattern, the image appearing substantive. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 79.
Pituitary center It is a center of force representative of the rays from the center sun of Light, there preparation is made for the second crossing where the psyche itself will be destroyed and the greater force that energizes; the Hierophant at the Baptism by water, will also be destroyed; this going ahead and preparing the way for the Greater One which will be awakened. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 72. See Also Ajna, Force centers.
‘Pliant types’ In the formative forces of the psychic nature the etheric substance has no discrimination, no differentiation, no conscious volition over what it reflects; it will reflect anything, just like a mirror. We call this state, in the formative processes of becoming conscious of the psychic nature, pliant. We say of those in that state that they are pliant types. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 4-5.
Pneumatic ovum Autonomous field, Cosmic egg. Developing man was considered to be a developing embryo within his egg, within his ovum until he pipped the shell and his forces streamed through or out beyond the periphery. Pneumatic represents that which motivates ‘breathing.’ The word breathing means rhythm; everything is characterized by a rhythm, by a pulsation, as outbreathing and inbreathing. Pneumatic ovum relative to a growing and developing person who has not yet achieved consciousness of individualization and his relation to the cosmic process; and cosmic egg, the Higher Self representing the furthest ‘out’ or the ‘lowest’ in eventuation; the essential nature, the True Self born out of the differentiated field. Characterized by lines of force of the field. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 6. That which characterizes man and differentiates him from the animal is the fact that his acquired qualities of consciousness do not revert to the undifferentiated field, but revert to his own account or discount. Ibid p. 12. See also Autonomous field, Cosmic egg.
Polarity Feeling-images, desire-forms, etc., are charged with force. When two persons with approximately the same "content" meet for the first time, the one with the strongest charge in the "constituents" of his psyche assumes the positive position in the context of situation, the other the negative. The First Crossing p 87. The Master Self is always positive and the ‘man’ in incarnation negative regarding each other, relatively speaking. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.81.
Pool(s) Differentiated spheres in the Cosmic process (Autonomous Field, the Real Self, the Race psyche, the Oversoul, etc.) A given man belongs to a pool. The pool of the man contains his cultural qualities; he reflects his race cultural background; he incorporates those in his etheric-configurational self. The Christos p. 68.
Positive Pole The Power from the positive pole creates the activity and the substance represents the pattern. "The Father worketh hitherto and I work." (Bible quote). Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 98. See Also Basic unity, Electromagnetic field, Light, Polarity.
Positive Power Power resides as potential, an inertial state..."without form, and void, and darkness upon the face of the deep. (Genesis) Chokmah on the Tree of Life. Power and Light ensues when the inertial state of that negative substance contacts a positive power - Binah making contact with Chokmah. Practice of the Way p. 79. See Also Father principle, Higher Triad.
Power of Balance The Power of equilibrium, a cosmic force. On the atomic level, the neutron represents the power of equilibrium that unifies the positive and negative elements. It is the power that unifies man and woman. Practice of the Way p. 62.
Power-to-be-conscious Activity of basic or fundamental-substance whether called Light, energy or living-matter. The Christos p. 108. Vital-dynamism (a greater release of force or advancing point in evolution); in the developing ego, the psycho-dynamism (The state in which a given person is conscious of himself), and at a higher level, the Christos (the wheel of eternity, the whole Cosmic process). Ibid p. 113. The Self. "Conscious"consciousness = The activity in Light-energy-living-matter substances, described in terms of Light-energy waves and frequencies. "To be" = The constant urge to know; to know in order TO BE...to be conscious; The structure, function and orderly process of the Hierarchial Order in Light-substance. Destiny, the very nature of Being. "Power" = Evidenced in, through and by Mother-substance (Light, energy, living-matter). Ibid p. 211 ff. In the Mother substance, whether that substance is light or energy or living-matter, there is a motivating force, a sustaining, quickening, creating, developing Power. We call it the Power-to-be-conscious. That Power-to-be-conscious constitutes the essential self of each and every one of us. That Power is the one Power of the whole universe. Practices in Individual Development p. 1. There is a Power-to-be-conscious which is beyond doubt, axiomatic, self-evident, needing no proof. Ibid p. 63. That which is causative in the differentiating, creative process of the Mother. A Description of the Psychic World p. 111. As long as we are in the process of development, of raising the consciousness to a ‘higher’ level, then we use the term Power-to-be-conscious. When we offset from the process of self-development and shift our focus to those levels of attainment beyond the psychic world, we drop "to be conscious," and say, "The Power." It is only at every stage, or state of the self-development process that we describe a Power-to-be-conscious. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 7) p. 2. The Power-to-be-conscious is that which is motivating its own awakening form the unconscious to the conscious. Functional Activities p. 58. The triad beyond name and form. It is this unnamed power which moves the negative, the Mother. The Seven Initiations p. 9 That which registers. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 114. The Cosmic process or The Good (Plato). Ibid p. 143. "You can deny everything else in the world, in the universe, but you cannot deny the Power with which you deny." Practice of the Way p. 28. There’s a power plant, the Power-to-be-conscious in the intrinsic Self, in the intrinsic nature, that is the power plant and it is the drive that carries one on the evolutionary course. It’s the drive, the power from the Mind level, that we label the Christos. Ibid p. 48. That power asleep in the mineral, it stirs in the plant; it becomes active in the animal; and it arouses itself in man. In man the power begins to be conscious of itself, to know that it knows. Bible Lessons p. 16. See Also Cosmic process, Good, Higher Triad, Vital Dynamism.
Prakriti Sanskrit: The Mother principle, Binah. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 101
Prana "Is the name for the energy that is in the universe. The sum total of the energy displayed in the universe." Vivekananda Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 60. Prana, vital energy of this earth sphere, functions as the substance of each and every individualized etheric sphere and manifests in the physiological organism as the "principle" of vitality to be expressed therein. These pranic energies or forces represent inverse 'reflections' of substances of the highest level pertaining to Individualized Being, called Atma, and therefore exhibit correspondences therewith. Prana is the Sanskrit word for a vital force which permeates the etheric earth sphere, including every individualized system thereof, and constitutes the motivating force of all forms. When flowing in the energy stream of a given individualized organism we call it vital force or the vital dynamism. Membership Letters (III) p. 2. See Also Vital Dynamism.
Pranava Aum, the "sacred word," "the word of Glory," the sound of conscious life itself, as it is breathed forth into all earth sphere forms. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 76. See Also AUM.
Pranayama Stands for the meaning or science, understanding the use of prana. The term is applied to breath control practices designed to awaken kundalini force and establish control of its functions in the individualized system. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 59. See Prana.
Private World Images in the psychic consciousness, their seeming reality, the values given to them, the feeling-desire-emotional-thinking reactions from values given, etc., make up what we call the private world. It has no existence outside the psychic consciousness. The First Crossing p. 10. What we abstract from the structure-function-order of the cosmic process and its configurations. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 58.The private world is sharply differentiated from the Cosmic Process; i.e., the waves and frequencies which we arrest as stimuli and from which we abstract the image or picture. You register those waves and frequencies either by direct radiation or by reflection of light and energy. Ibid p.108.
Mental or mentalized private world, that giving value to images appearing substantive and reacting to values given until there is a sort of a manifold, a code, a frame of reference built up relative to that image appearing substantive and the identity with it. Ibid p. 133. Objective self, meaning our objective self-consciousness and the manifold of values evolved from it. Practice of the Way p.23. The nether world, the whole synthetical buildup in the consciousness based upon the objective self-conscious state, or based upon identification with things, bodies, objects, etc. Ibid p. 87. See Also Objective self.
Process The absence of all ideas of static objectivity; dynamic flow of energy; with reference to an individual, the "becoming". The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.3.
Process of the Way The purificatory period where in the perfective stages of the individualizing process of the Natural Order these denizens (the content of the unconscious) of the depths must all be brought to the surface and destroyed. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 24. See Also Purification process.
Projection See Dissociation.
Prototype Archetype, the Arche, on the Mind level. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p 56. See Also Archetype.
Psyche An ensemble of all those motivating forces, a sort of composite composition of those energies from sensations to thinkings, we use the label psyche, or the synonym, the personality pattern; that is, the person. The First Crossing p. 64. "Students in the S.N.O, condition your thinking to use these three words as synonyms: soul, psyche, personality. For that word psyche you can also say psychic nature if it is appropriate in the context of a given situation." Practice of the Way p. 98. The content of the unconscious. The Christos p. 5.
All of that from sensation to the force by which you think is comprehended by the term psyche, psycho-logical self, psychic-self or psychic nature. Ibid p. 79.
Psychic Everything that you feel, everything you desire, your human love and affection, your attachment to things and persons and places, your thought about all of that. The Seven Initiations p. 71.
Psychic field See Aura.
Psychic images Those pictures and images which are not sharply edged -- clearly defined in the consciousness -- and therefore do not appear substantive. Other names: in the objective manifold-of-values, psychic pictures, dream pictures, the dream fabric, pure hallucinations. The First Crossing p. 99 See Also Dream images, images.
Psychic Light A unifying creative force establishing the dynamic world which surrounds and interpenetrates each of us. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 102.
Psychic nature The personality pattern : North half = Higher psyche. South half = Lower psyche. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11. Can be described as our entire past including all the palingenetic cyclic processes of putting forth and taking in. The past is rolled up like a scroll and this "scroll" we call the psychic nature. Ibid p. 14. The cumulative results in an individual’s consciousness which has been developed during this span of living in identity: with his physiological organism, with the world as objective, with the values given thereto, and with the resultant reactions. This composite, organized and unified result we label psychic-nature. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 35.
The psycho-logical processes which are the basis of all evaluations. Cosmology p. 17. The totality of that which is reflected, with its gunas or qualities to each sensation, feeling, desire, thought. A Description of the Psychic World p. 99.
We in the S.N.O. use the term psychic nature as a synonym for what the modern psychologists call the unconscious. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 77.
The level upon which and individual’s personality pattern is developed. The First Crossing p. 14. "According to the New Cycle Gnosis, the referent for the word person equates and is synonymous with the ensemble of energy substances, each characterized by a specific quality in the individualizing consciousness; this ensemble we label the psychic nature." Ibid p. 32. "In our school we use the terms personality and psychic nature as synonyms for the ensemble of forces which motivate our functions - all our functions." Ibid p. 38. That total content of our consciousness, the psychic level is called the psychic nature or soul. Ibid p. 53.
That which is reflected constitutes the content of the psychic nature. This "content" is called the person, the personality pattern, the person in sense life, the little self in separation from his Greater Self, the intrinsic Power-to-be-conscious, etc. Ibid p. 87. Your whole realm of sensations, feelings, desirings, emotions, thinkings in varying mixtures and varying degrees. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 19. The ensemble of actions and reactions caused by values attributed to images-appearing-substantive which we call the objective world. Ibid p. 52.
That differentiating process that we call our personality, our individuality, etc., is an individualizing process taking place in that oversoul or race psyche, and that is what we label the psychic nature. Ibid p. 81. Human Soul. Ibid p. 98. The forces that operate in all sensations, feelings, emotional and thinking functions, that’s your psychic nature. Your physiological organism functions, that’s your psychic nature. Ibid p. 105. The seat of feelings and thinkings, ‘psychological’ process of a person. More often the term psychic nature is used in the SNO for this gestalt or total ensemble of feelings-thinkings. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.21. Your basic point of development determines the content of your psychic nature. One cannot build into his psychic nature any quality, entity, substance, which is not comparable to the state in which he is basically conscious of himself, his basic state of development. Practice of the Way p.61- 62. The configuration of units of energy into forms stands as representative of the total content of the psychic nature. Psycho-logical processes is what we call the content of the psychic nature. The Christos p. 56.
Psychic phenomena Images, pictures, which do not appear substantive, Hallucinations, dreams, psychic appearances, any psychic phenomena including the psychic phenomena labeled ‘things’ and ‘objects.’ The First Crossing p. 94.
Psychic Self The personal level. Practice of the Way p.26.
Psychic world This world in which we function is called the psychic world. That psychic world functions under, and is part and parcel of, what we call the World Mother, the Mater; the matter (mater) of that world is also labeled the Genetrix. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 18. The substance of the psychic world are the gradations from energy to etheric substance; that is the band of the whole metamorphosing process of light into living matter; just that band from energy to etheric substance is the energy of the psychic world. Ibid p. 38. An ensemble of forces which motivate our feelings, desireings and thinkings. It is a synthesis of energies, each one of which is characterized by wave frequency, and represented by a definite substance. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 119.
Psychical man, the Called "the veil and prophecy" of the real man or Master. That Power, or force, called Self, together with the activity of its awareness, represents reality. The expression of that force is called spiritual and, in this context, the form of expression represents the psychical-man, "the veil and prophecy of the spiritual man." The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 9.
Psychics Those whose consciousness is focused in the objective manifold of values. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 32. "Conscious psychics" : When interest switches, transfers from ‘things’ and ‘objects’ the psycho-logical phases, functions, etc.,(i.e., to feelings, desires, thinkings and the qualities respecting each) - when a given individual is more involved in what he feels, what he desires, what he thinks and his emotional evaluation, then his consciousness is becoming oriented to the conscious psychics. Ibid p. 58. Not dependable unless you know the psyche has reached the cleared space. Practices in Individual Development p. 9. See also Conscious psychics, Pythagorean school.
Psycho-dynamism When the Power-to-be-conscious motivates all actions and functions on the psychic nature level. Practice of the Way p.28.What hold this bundles of forces having different qualities, properties, characteristics, and gunas together? An organizer, a ruler, an overseer; and we label that organizer and bonder of all of them psycho-dynamism. Ibid p. 98. That activity of the Cosmic process which motivates the psychic-self we label the Psycho-dynamism. Motivates the psychic-self and all of its psychic, psycho-logical activities from sensations to thinking. The Christos p. 80. Symbolizes an activity of fundamental-substance in or on a relatively higher level of the ascending arc....the purpose of the psycho-dynamism is to perfect the ego, independent of everything. When the psycho-dynamism takes over, the individual is constantly in rebellion; he is not a conformist any more; he is a non-conformist. Ibid p. 109 ff. See also Personality, Psyche, Psychic nature, Soul.
Psycho-logical (functions) The meaning represented comprehends the gunas (qualities) of which the psychic-nature of a given individual is composed. ... The qualities in feelings plus the thinkings, synthesized in the consciousness of a given individual at a given date, are called his personality pattern. ... The psycho-logical processes are the basis of all evaluations; and this represents that which we call the psychic-nature. Cosmology p. 16-17. Causes of Psychological maladjustments: The conflict between the higher psyche and the content of the lower psyche is the cause of so many psychosomatic and psycho-logical maladjustments. The First Crossing p.88. Your whole realm of sensations, feelings, desirings, emotions, thinkings in varying mixtures and varying degrees. The term psycho-logical level does not mean the content of the unconscious but means the functional processes of the psychic nature. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 19. The linking together of the lower and higher psychic nature, by reason of the fact that both pertain to the psychic nature as a medium of expression, as a vehicle in which consciousness operates, but in describing the four somatic divisions of man, or of a given individual, they are separated because they constitute two separate and distinct departments of the somatic area. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 5. "Psycho-logical processes reside in what we call the psychic nature" The Christos p. 14. See also Personality pattern, Psychic nature.
Psycho-logically balanced There has to be harmony, rhythm, balance achieved in the psychic nature as preparatory to the real study and real development; in other words, one cannot start from a false basis to fulfill, to accomplish, to achieve the man state, because back of all that we are saying, there is a fundamental ‘law’, which means that is the way it functions, and it doesn’t function in any other way. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 37. See also Treading the Path.
Psychosis The lower psyche with its entities "takes over" and the higher psyche withdraws from the etheric-physical body. The person is then labeled insane. The First Crossing p. 88. When one loses the rational balance, and the psychic manufactures psychic pictures, psychic images, dream pictures, the dream fabric, etc., and they become possessory it is then called psychosis or just plain insanity. Ibid p. 99.
Psychosomatic (maladjustments) Caused by a conflict between the higher psyche and the content of the lower psyche. See Neurosis, Psychosis.
Psycho-therapy The only way to release all blockages, all inhibiting influences, all forces that cause psycho-logical conflicts is to orient oneself to the basic structure of this world, life-facts, this world as light-energy waves-frequencies configurational representations. Once you can see that structure and present it in a comparable linguistic structure so that map fits territory, you will find in that clarity of understanding and perceptional force, a power that removes all blockages and liberates you. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 112. See Also General semantics.
Purification (purificatory process) When one attempts to tread the Path which leads to Light’s Regions, it is the lower psyche with its content which rises up to bar the way. It is then called "The Dweller on the Threshold." The most difficult period of the neophyte’s training or self-discipline is the purification of his lower psychic nature. This is because the effects of results of all experiences of his past are rolled up in the present content of his lower psyche. It is this past which must be revived, re-evaluated and the results cast out before signal progress made or can be made. The First Crossing p. 88. This state of purification, called the Garden of Aaru, is prerequisite to making the Second Crossing as it is the acme of attainment of the First Crossing. Ibid p. 92. In the perfective stages of the individualizing of the Natural Order these denizens of the depths must all be brought to the surface and destroyed. We call this the purificatory period or process of the Way. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.24. Each must stand in the burning, and remember, this burning will be as intense as there is material to burn. ... "Every plant not planted by my Father" - not true to the natural order process - "is cast on to the fire;"; "the wheat is separated from the chaff...."; The sheep are separated from the goats.", etc. These analogies all pertain to the purificatory period in the lunar cycle, until the force is raised to Ajna, the pituitary center. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 70 ff. ‘Kindling of the fire,’ the awakening of the potentialities - the dormant, latent forces. Practice of the Way p. 20. During this period we learn to control the emotions, not by repression but by expurgation of the inharmonious conditions. The old wine of selfishness, desire, and all other destructive emotional conditions, is emptied out of the consciousness before the new wine of the Spirit comes in. Bible Lessons p. 33.
Purifying breath Take a deep full breath and exhale it in short explosive bursts with the lips almost closed. Make the short explosive bursts hiss like steam exhausting from high pressure, about six to eight of these short bursts on one breath. Fling the arms down and back with the wrists held loosely, with each short burst of air through the lips. Stamp the right foot sharply and hard at the same time. Feel, will, imagine, etc., that you are positively flinging all undesirable and impure elements out of your ‘body,’ psyche, and mind. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p.65.
Purpose of SNO: "Public teaching, mailing of class talks/lesson courses, books & booklets on the correlation of non-aristotelian Gnosis with modern scientific developments; training in organic gardening, composting, conservation of the fertility of the soil, etc.; teaching a process or methodology of understanding symbiotic relationships of Nature’s formative forces in plant, animal and man culminating in the perception of Cosmos as Conscious Light-Energy-Living-Matter organism-as-a-whole, Self-governed, as if by a Supreme Intelligence; inculcating and understanding that man (individually and collectively) is intrinsically integrated in Cosmos, and that his highest obligation, therefore, is learning to consciously function in participational cooperation with the Design (Structure, Function, Order) thereof." The Christos p. vii.
Purusha Sanskrit: Individualized-self, the seer or Master-self. Its nature is extreme non-attachment, giving up even the qualities. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 23. The father principle, Chokmah. Studies in Psychotherapy p.101.
Purusha-Parkriti Sanskrit: That original atom--one electron, one proton--exemplifies the original and primal dichotomy, Chokmah-Binah, Purusha-Prakriti, or Father-Mother God. The First Crossing p. 67. See also Prakriti
Purushattama Sanskrit: Represents the neutral. The Crown (Kether). Studies in Psychotherapy p.101. See also: Father, Mother Principle; Negative substance, Nirguna Brahma.
Qaballah See Kaballah, Tree of Life
Qualified Monism Describes the teachings of SNO. When we recognize the integrity of the individual, and we highlight the process of individualizing, we automatically establish a new category: qualified monism. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 29. Qualified: Limited to some degree or other in the expanding consciousness of the substance in the Light. It is not absolutely anything. Monism: The reference to the gradual expanding consciousness in the Substance of the Mother. We work day by day, year by year, in the palingenetic rhythm, until our expanding consciousness is one with the Substance in configuration.. We never leave it. We bring it along and expand it into the Light. Then the great cycle that we call the Cosmic Process is complete. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 106. Qualified monism says there is One that becomes many--many differentiations--and that qualifies the monistic phase, the absolute monistic idea. The Seven Initiations p. 2.
Quality (Value/Guna) Three broad divisions: Tamasic = inertial; Rajasic = tempestuous, virulent; Satvic = quiet, the peaceful, and the beautiful. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 39 See Guna.
Quantum Mechanics Shows that the lines of force in any given field eddy; the lines of force eddy. Each eddy of each line represents a quantum energy. Called emergent energy. The number of eddies on a given line of force of a given field is called quanta and all of the eddies of each of the lines of force of a given field, while called quanta, are also called configurations. So, a configuration merely represents quanta of eddies of the lines of force of a given field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 61. When an electron jumped from a larger orbit to a smaller one within the electron field, there was a quantum of energy emitted from the field; when the electron suddenly and unaccountably jumped from a smaller orbit to a greater one, there was a quantum of energy absorbed by the field. Ibid (Vol 4) p.2.
Quaternary (Law of Four) Represents man in the four human states--physical, etheric, astral, and mental. The law of four: The cycle of man is divided into four distinct periods of seven years each. The septenary represents the whole being in its four human states together with the three higher states of the Ego. Bible Lessons p.28. See also Septenary.
Quickening influence Called the Christos by the Greeks and denotes a quickening, energizing, awakening force entering into the content of the unconscious or the psyche; a profound stirring influence that enters into the psyche at a certain period of development. The Christos p. 6.
Race Consciousness The psychic field, a higher level animal group field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p.22
Race, the Each individual functioning in the field-pattern-configuration labeled man epitomizes, exemplifies, is a condensed replica, a microcosm of that in which he functions, that field in which he functions, which we now label the race, or we label man. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 124. Refers to the whole of humanity on the planet, a generic term for man. Practice of the Way p. 99. See Man.
Race Psyche The ethnological field. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 150. Inherited cultural developments, attitudes obtained from our forefathers, etc. Therefore, the background of each person is his race-psyche; the content of it, etc., assumes a greater degree of importance in or to the individualizing process than any so-called ‘personal’ factors. The Christos p. 128. See Also: Ethnological field, Higher psyche, Oversoul.
Radasoami An entire methodology based upon the sound currents. Practices in Individual Development p.50. See Also Sound currents.
Raja Yoga Path The middle path taught by Gautama, the Buddha, the Royal Road to understanding by knowing through or by intuitional-awareness. The Christos p. 160. See Also Gautama, the Buddha, Shakti Path.
Rajas The force manifests as thirst, hunger and enjoyment of personal power - that egotistical sense of ruling or controlling others. This is also the force which motivates one in the pursuit of profit and pleasure. The energy of Ego, the Son, Characterized by an individualizing tendency, mobility or activity on the Mind-Level; and, in the psychic-nature, is the driving force in ambition, to excel, to gain success, etc. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 93-94.
Rajasic See Gunas, Rajas.
Rapport Frequency synchronization. The First Crossing p. 86.
The frequency synchronization that we label rapport and call love or desire is a process of registry and reflection. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 114.
Rapports are caused by affinity of substance in the psychic nature. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.33. Proximity of relationship; one takes on the condition of another. Fall in rapport, consciously or unconsciously, with another one and you are going to take on his conditions or he is going to take on yours, 50-50. Practices in Individual Development p.14. See Also Communal adjustment.
Rays of development Cosmic energy streams (world-force-lines of electromagnetic fields) which cause ‘things’ representing an event in a space-time continuum. Self-Mastery Through Meditation p. 19. The first three = Will, Activity and Love are the like primary gunas and are blended to produce the all seven rays. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 49. See Seven Rays.
Razor’s edge A description of the delicate balance needed to tread the path of growth and development. Practice of the Way p. 22.
Real manifestation as dynamic process A synthesis of energy-systems, energy-fields, etc. in and as organismal activity of the whole; and we reiterate that behind this there is no Life, Power, or Intelligence, known or unknown. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 21.
Real Self The Higher Self .... The individualizing process on what is called the Mind Level. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 11. For the Real Self of you and the Real Self of each and every one is the same One Universal Self, the Logos, Demiurgos, Saï·“guna Brahma, to use several names for That which represents the Creating Center of all existences. Membership Letters (II) p. 3.
The Real Self of any person is the degree of differentiation on the Mind Level, the degree to which he has developed a field autonomous to the race psyche. Practice of the Way p. 62. See Also Demiurgos, Higher Self, Logos, Mind Self, Noetic Self, Sa-guna Brahma.
Reality If we break down any ‘this,’ - anything to which you can point - into its ultimate constituents, we have vortices of light plus energy .... Lightergy - light-energy. That constitutes the Reality all around us and in us; it includes ‘this’ that we pack around and call body. Functional activities p. 36. See also Gnosis, Knowledge, Wisdom teaching.
Realization Ultimate understanding, represents orientation of consciousness to the Mind-wave (Noetic-mind). Functioning in this orientation with direct and clear perception, contact with energy wave-lengths and frequencies, direct observation, cognition, etc., a frame or manifold of differentiation respecting quality, character, strength, etc. of these energies (or vibrations) is organized or developed. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p.53. See also Ultimate understanding.
Reason The word represents the Logos, and those having identified their respective selves with the force with which they function, are labeled Logoi. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.32. See also Logoi, Logos, Neoplatonic school.
Re-conversion The unfolding process, what we call growth, expansion, self-development, evolution, transfiguration, metamorphosis. It means to turn around, turn around and reverse the process, get converted. Turn around and intelligently cooperate with the metamorphosis, with the transfigurational process. The First Crossing p. 67. See Unfolding process.
Referent Is meant, the significance, the meaning. Words have no meaning in themselves; meaning, significance, is that which the word "referent" represents. Cosmology p. 99. That which we experience is labeled "referent." ‘Thing’, quality, relationship or function experienced. Perceptive Insight p. 30-32.See General Semantics.
Reflection (In connection with the race psyche) means that beneath the level of his clear intellectual understanding he is still integrated, synchronized, en rapport, to a greater or lesser degree, with the race out of which he is seeking emancipation. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 14.
Regeneration The deliberate re-creation of a new personality in the midst of an incarnation. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 21. See also Palingenesis.
Registration of frequency/guna Characterizes one of the pivotal points of the instruction as given in the School of the Natural Order. The essential and pivotal point of the (Second Crossing) of the work resides in the statement that instead of functioning in the images formulated, the values given thereto and reaction to values given, we awaken to the conscious registry of the guna, the reality of energy-forces registered. To function consciously the energies by which we are motivated and their respective gunas or qualities characterizes the "way of life" for those who will participate int he New Cycle. The First Crossing p. 93.
Reification / Reify Out of identity of word with thing, one unconsciously begins to give value to a word with no referent. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 35. To, reify, particularly regarding words, is to ascribe a definite objective reality, meaning, value, etc., to a symbol in the absence or unconsciousness of that which is represented by the symbol. To ascribe meaning to a word, instead of treating the word as a symbol, is to reify. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 15.
Reincarnation "According to the instruction as given in the School of the Natural Order, there is no such ‘thing’ as reincarnation; that is, no one as he is now conscious of himself as a personality reincarnates." The First Crossing p. 25. See Palingenesis.
Religion Pertains to the creative process in the individual which is so closely allied to faith (no don’t identify faith with religion and identify faith and religion with the church). Studies in Psychotherapy p. 20. That instinctive, inherent need to pour out devotion to something. Ibid p. 121.
Return, the See Ascending/descending arc.
Revenge of the Will When the dynamic, creative forces of the Cosmic Process are interfered with and do not have a free-flowing outlet in expression (do not identify freedom with license because that is more slavery and bondage than freedom) at a given state of development, those forces will turn negative. Those cosmic forces which should be free and marvelous and creative at a given state will become revengeful. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 114. The compensatory, substituted outlet, is the reflexiveness of the Will. What results in the substituted and compensatory form of expression is called the Revenge of the Will. Ibid p.126.
Reversal, the The Ascending Arc....of the differentiating process. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 90. See also Ascending Arc.
Rhythmic living Just the art of living effectively with the least effort. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 61.
Right perception Described as utilization of the faculty of cognition in envisioning the archetypal structures and the memory or retention of that which has been perceived. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 113.
Roadmap, the From the standpoint of the New Cycle Gnosis, means a clear mental construct, being careful, never to consider the roadmap as being the journey. The First Crossing p. 30.
Rod of Aaron / Iron The Will has been called the "Rod of Aaron," "The Staff of Moses," Atma, etc. It is the "rod of iron" of the second Psalm and elsewhere in the Bible, the rod with which Moses parted the waters of the Red Sea and later struck the Rock in the wilderness from which lifeï·“giving waters gushed. The Will is that force with which Christ blasted the fig tree because it gave so much promise yet yielded no fruit. It is the Will which we must lay hold of it we would escape, escape from the psychic world and from the tangled web of karma with its endless rounds of birth and rebirth. Membership Letters (III) p. 2. "The Rod of Iron," "Thunder bolt of Zeus," that is just the force, consciousness, identified with the creative force of the field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 2) p. 24. Also Atma, Staff of Moses, Will.
Rules of Fundamental Self-development 1) Self-Reliance, 2) Non-reification of words (use referents), 3) Remembrance that every ‘thing’ represents a dynamic process, 4) Mistake not a roadmap for the journey, 5) Development or attainment is signalized by letting go a lower level or state in order to achieve a higher one, 6) Functional progress depends upon conscious control and direction of creative forces through the Seals (chakras), 7) Dare, Do and Keep Silent. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 10.
Root race Indicative of a state of consciousness on the time lined of a given individual and correlated with the abstracting process. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 52.
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Sacral-Conarial axis Represents the two poles of the individual field, the power house, our field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 58. The positive and negative poles, the energy centers by which and through which creativity is effected, by which and through which creative force operates. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 12. The two centers ((Sacral(base of the spine) / Conarial ( crown of the head)) and the force-field between. The Christos p. 101. See Also Force center, Higher Triad, Individual field.
Sacred Word AUM is called the "sacred word," "the word of Glory," "the Pranava," the sound of conscious life itself, as it is breathed forth into all earth sphere forms. It is designated the word symbolizing the substance of the solar sphere united with the cosmic sphere, and is intended to establish the informing powers or controlling energies of these configurations or forms. Membership Letters (III) p. 13. See AUM.
Sagittarius The hunter, the slayer or Tarus. Symbolizes the Sex force, the generative center. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 14. See Sex urge.
Sa-guna Brahma See Demiurgos, Logos, Real Self.
Sahasradala Sanskrit. Orientation of consciousness into the thousand-petaled lotus, the level beyond the cortical level. The Seven Initiations p. 64.
Salvation See Liberation.
Samadhi Sanskrit. The form of meditation "without seed." Attaining a state which is beyond the barrier imposed by the highest mental level of the psychic nature. A world which cannot be known through the medium of the senses but which, by the right use of Mind, can be explored and learned. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 101-102.
Samsara Buddhist. "The maya," "the lie and the father of it," "the Great Illusion." Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 204. See Also Great Illusion, Maya.
Sanction The operation of polarity between a positive electric field and a negatively charged magnetic field. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 51.Unity of the positive and negative. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 61.
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The Father principle, forces, energies of the cosmic sphere, called God, cannot be known except as, by or in the substance of the solar sphere; i.e., the Father can be known only by the activity - waves and frequencies - of the Mother: called "lending the sanction." Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 72. The mater is "without form and void" and "darkness upon the face of the deep" until the Power-to-be-conscious contacts the mater. Sri Aurobindo called that the "sanction." Practices in Individual Development p. 86.See Also Unity.
Sannyasin Sanskrit. An itinerant Teacher. Traditionally, serving as a representative of the Wisdom Teaching and never to sojourn over three nights in any one place. Serving for a period of 14 years. The Veil of Maya p. 56.
Sattva The label for those qualities or forces in the psychic nature which in the object-predicate manifold of the race-mind are lauded, praised and envied, such as serenity, keenness of intellect, and those attributes called spiritual. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 93.
Sattvic The clear Light in the (freed and clear) psyche evidences as pure dynamic energy. The First Crossing p. 65. The highest quality given to substance. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 46. See Also Gunas, Qualities.
Satan At another stage of development (in the book of Revelations) describes the generative power/force, the genetrix. The fiery dragon that stood before the Mother about to be delivered of the Sun-God, the Christos state. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 73.
Saturn Represents the highest power in the Cosmic process; the positive power in the original dichotomy. Hebrew: Chokmah; Sanskrit: Purusha. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 87. See Also Chokmah, Purusha, Zodiac.
Saturn in Capricorn The symbol of the Sun in Leo; represents the very height of power reached when the force reaches the conarium and then comes the descent of the positive power. It is the descent of that positive power that switches the orientation of the individual from the Mother, the negative, to the positive, the Father principle. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.14. See Also Four somatic divisions, Sacral-conarial axis.
Schizophrenia Schiz is a Greek word equivalent to split. Phrenia is the unbalance resulting from the schiz. We label in modern times the effects of the split personality, the split pattern of the psychic nature. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 56. When one loses the rational balance, the psyche is liable to take over and begin to manufacture pictures called neuroses, schizophrenia. The First Crossing p. 99. See Also Insanity, Psychosis.
School of the Natural Order. A label resulting out of that understanding that we have a basic trinity in our School: structure, function, order. The reason order is in that trinity is because we realize that there is order in the universe, Natural Order. The Seven Rays of Development p. 25.
Science (ray) The fourth ray : rigorous, implacable, unvarying, orderly procedure. Four in the order of gunas, in the order of the combinations of qualities. (Activity + Will). The Seven Rays of Development p. 3. The possession of knowledge (self- awareness derived from oneness with that which might be understood, at a given time, in a given context of situation) in contrast with ignorance. Ibid p. 14. See Epistemology.
Scientology See Dianetics, Engram.
Scribes and Pharasees The aristotelians, live by the moral codes. They are those who fear any assault or attack upon moral codes because they can’t see anything beyond; simply because in that objective identity, functioning within that frame of reference based upon objective identification, they can’t see anything outside of it or beyond it. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 133. See Aristotelians.
Second Crossing The chasm or abyss. A point separating the lower worlds or levels form what is generally considered the higher worlds or levels. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 69. Those functioning below the chasm/abyss are motivated by unconscious forces; functions by reflection; registration of light-energy waves and frequencies. Ibid p. 114. After the baptism by water, after the psychic nature has been conquered, surmounted, risen above, passed, etc. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 22. When one has cleared his consciousness from functioning in his own psychic-nature and has lifted all his powers and forces out of that which ties him to his race-psyche, or any race psyche, he has emancipated himself, made the Second Crossing. Christos p. 128. The fire descends to the sacral center and stirs and awakens the latent Power-to-be-conscious until it comes to life in the psychic self. Practices in Individual Development p. 28. See Also Abyss, Baptism by fire, Chasm.
Second Death The breaking up of the psychic nature symbolized by the Deluge. Practice of the Way p. 72. The disintegration of the psychic nature, called the Second Death in the Christian bible. Practices in Individual Development p. 57.
Second Precept (Precepts in Practice of the Way) Respect the integrity of each. Practice of the Way p. 5.
Security It is the polar balance, opposite to the force called love. Whenever you find love you will find security. That is its balance, that is the positive-negative phase in one. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 108.
Seeing "How do you see?" By the registry of radiant or reflected light-waves and frequencies. Then by reference to textbooks on physiology and organic processes of eyes, nerves, brain, etc., the electrical impulses set up by the stimuli, due to registry of light-waves and frequencies can be traced to consciousness which employs these instrumentalities. The First Crossing p. 78.
Seer Self, individualized as the Power with which your are conscious, is named the Seer and the Master. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 79.
Self Whatever the Self is, or where it is, is a representation of his state of self-awareness, because there isn’t anything else to be aware of, etc. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.67. We say, "the Power with which he is conscious." That Power can be described as his essential self, his essential nature, and is commensurate with the degree of his self-differentiation he has power. All power flows through the Self, using the word Self as label for the differentiating process in the Light. Practice of the Way p. 70. See Also Self-Awareness.
Self-Awareness Representation of that Activity we label awareness, the Power-to-be-conscious. Perceptive Insight p. 47. All activity and motion represents the act of self-awareness on the part of the observer. That realization is the ultimate level of attainment that we will all come to eventually. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 49. See Also Light, Self.
Self-development (process) Before Higher development proceeds and the Christos ‘descends’, the main objective in self-development - that is the work which the psycho-dynamism has to do and fulfill - is developing the ego. The Christos p. 93. See Also Psycho-dynamism.
Semantic aphasia The inability to hear any longer that which you do not want to hear. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 52.
Semantic Blockage The inability to distinguish, or separate, the pictures and images form the configurated substances causes identification of the phenomena--pictures and images--with the Reality. In this Identification, if a denial is made of one, it is made of both; that is, the Reality itself is denied and called illusion, maya, etc. The First Crossing p.16.
Semantic Differential/ Structural differential A tool developed by Alfred Korzbyski for the study of conscious abstracting (Science and Sanity) ( Vitvan developed the "camera chart" before the semantic differential was developed. In the SNO, the camera chart is used as a means for learning conscious abstracting. See chart on p. 176 of The Christos, and in Perceptive Insight and Clear Thinking. The Christos p. 175. Chart on p. 78 of Practices in Individual Development p.78. See Also General Semantics.
Semantics Semantikos (Greek) :"significant meaning; that science dealing with the relations between symbols (‘signs’) and what we refer to, and with human behavior in reaction to symbols, including unconscious attitudes, influences of social institutions, and epistemological and linguistic assumptions, and having as an objective the systematization of the language of science and the unification of knowledge." Also called "significs." Cosmology p. 43.
Sense Our sense life -- seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. The way ‘things,’ ‘objects’ appear to us through the medium of sense faculties. The First Crossing p. 42. The five physical senses are only the instrumentality whereby frequencies are registered. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p.5.
Sensuous receptivity Seeing hearing, smelling, tasting, touching. Neural sensation. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 48. See Senses.
Separateness The mentalizing in our private or nether world about our exclusiveness. Functionally we can’t separate ourselves, respectively, from the integrating processes of the whole. The First Crossing p. 55.
Septenary Represents the whole being in its four human states together with the three higher states of the Ego. Bible Studies p. 29 See Also Law of seven and four.
Seven Rays of development Invisible lines of force which represents the True Self’s state. First ray = Will, Second ray = Activity, Third ray = Love, Fourth ray = Harmony, Fifth ray = Science, Sixth ray = Devotion, Seventh ray = Ceremony. Understanding the Psychic Nature Lesson 9. In the rhythmic cycle of birth and death we all reflect these seven rays. They are the qualities which pertain to the Logos, the only begotten Son of the Father-Mother-God. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 102. When that contact of the positive power with the negative substance is made, the negative substance immediately becomes differentiated into seven differentiated fields. The seven original differentiated fields are called the seven rays. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 61. Formula: 2+1 : 3 = 4 in order of gunas: = Science; 3 + 1 : 4 = 5: in order of gunas = Harmony; 3 + 2: 5 = 6 in order of gunas = Devotion; 1 + 2 + 3: 6 = 7 in order of gunas = Ceremonial; The Seven Rays of Development p. 2.
Seven stages of the developing Christos 1. Birth, 2. Hiding in Egypt, 3. Baptism, 4. Gethsemane, 5. Crucifixion, 6. Resurrection, 7. Ascension. The Christos p. 4.
Seventh level of the abstracting process Represents the end of the cycle of creation expressed "And God saw the six days of creation and that it was good and upon the seventh day he rested." Means no motion, absolute rest; that means no time and space has long since disappeared in time. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 55.
Sex See Generative center.
Sex urge/force Symbolized by Sagittarius, the hunter, the slayer or Taurus. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p. 14. The Dragon is the personification of that dominating and controlling force in the race psyche and in every individual who is functioning within that level of the race psyche. Ibid p. 64. See Also Creative force, Generative center, Libido.
Shakti Sanskrit. Will / Kundalini / Hebrew : Kether, the Power of equilibrium. Shakti equates with fire as higher manas equates with air, and as the psychic nature equates with water, and the configuration equates with earth. The Seven Rays of Development p. 6. The Shakti Power comes down from the point of contact that the Master makes with the ‘outer’ man. (That point of contact is the head center called the conarium.) Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 82. See Will.
Shakti Path Is living in the Christos-power until consciousness becomes so completely identified with IT that there seems to be nothing else but IT. In or with this feeling process or methodology one so gradually and imperceptibly merges or blends with knowing, i.e., intuitional-awareness, that nay sharp line of demarcation between does not appear. The Christos. p. 152.The Royal Road to understanding by knowing through or by intuitional-awareness, with conscious control and direction of creative energy in the force-centers. Ibid p. 160.
Shushumna The main axis between the conarial and sacral centers. Through which force flows opening the Thousand-Petaled Lotus to open the kundalini or Speirema. Practices in Individual Development p. 56. See Also Force centers.
Sidereal Time Arbitrary time, space; that time doesn’t exist outside of the consciousness in spatial identity. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 71. A motion in consciousness abstracted from images appearing substantive is what we call objective time, sidereal time, etc. Ibid (Vol 4), p. 38. A motion sensation created by movement upon the objective space. The Seven Initiations p.53. See Also Space, Time.
Silver cord The magnetic link, referred to in the Christian Bible, between the psychic nature and the ‘physical’ brain. Sutratma. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 80.
Sin Refers to a violation of some rule or law. Violations against man-made laws can be forgiven but violations against the Be-ing must be rectified either in this life or in lives to come. To violate the dharma relative to the basic point of the developing Be-ing is to sin against God. The Higher Self, the individualized Be-ing of the Logos, is synonymous with God from the standpoint of the objective state. Understanding the Psychic Nature (lesson 11) p. 6.
Single quotes Used with a word serves as a device, like an abbreviation for :"this word is in general use but in life-facts, i.e., in the Reality we call Cosmos, no referent can be found or established for it." Self Mastery Through Meditation p.16.
Sistere Latin. To stand out The First Crossing p.58.
Siva/Shiva The destroying aspect, or the Son of the Hindu trinity (Sankhya philosophy). Only destroyed that which was not in true synchronization with the structure, function , order of Reality. Represented as the "axe laid at the root of every tree not planted by the Father." Self Mastery Through Meditation p.73.
Sixth precept Bring forth, dig up and disregard whatever reasons, justifications, excuses, or alibis the cortex functions or mentalizes with. Practice of the Way p. 47. See also Psychic nature.
Sleep As consciousness individualizes itself from the animal-state into the man-state, there is a long period in which there is a rhythmic lapse back to the former state out of which it has emerged. This rhythmic lapse to the former state in sleep, and coming out again upon awakening, is a response to and a reflection of a rhythm characterizing all life in the World-mother. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 68. Types:
Ordinary sleep is where the brain does not respond to any sense contacts. This is a withdrawal of the Master-self with its consciousness from the physical vehicle, when it may or may not function in other vehicles or on other levels.
Dream sleep is a withdrawal from the physical into either mental or psychic projection or into psychic or mental functions in the form of dreams. Unconscious / deep sleep wherein the Master-self is unawakened on his own level; a withdrawal into unconsciousness, while the etheric forces of the psychic-nature infold into the subjective state of the animal ... the infolding process. Sleep of the Ego, covers that part of human experience which dates form man’s first human incarnation until he "awakens" to a knowledge of himself as the Master-self.
Sleep of the ordinary medium wherein the etheric substance is partially extruded from the physical body and is likewise separated from the psychic body bringing in a condition of real danger.
Samadhi or sleep of the yogi. This is the result of the conscious scientific withdrawal of the Master-self from his lower sheaths in order to work on higher levels.
Nirmankayas sleep is described as a condition of such intense concentration and focusing of consciousness on the Atmic level that the outward-going consciousness is withdrawn not only form the levels of human endeavor, but likewise from the two lower levels (manas and buddhi) of the Master. Ibid p. 74. The infolding-unfolding process. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 82.
Smell Leads more directly and immediately into the knowledge of the psychic world, than the other senses. The cellular structure of our instrument of smell is such that it can register the frequency; but in each and every case, it is the frequency that is set up on the nerves that is carried to the neurons and consciousness abstracts from the frequency received, draws from, and formulates significances, meanings, in which it functions and to which it gives values. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 7.
Solar center The next seal to open after the Generative center. The force functioning through the solar center is symbolized by water; Symbolized by Mars in Scorpio. Positive characteristics: Courage, fortitude, even pugnacious aggressiveness in a right cause. If not governed by a higher power, one will be whipped and molded by the forces he registers. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 31.
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Solar field Let us name cosmic field "Father" and the solar field "Mother" and the Individualized field in the earth sphere "Son." Mother Substance. Membership Letters (III) p. 10. See also Mother.
Solar vesture See Body of Light.
Solomon’s Seal Symbol of the seven rays of development. A dual triangle representing the Logos; the triangle with apex pointing up, represents the Positive Power united with the Negative substance, held together by the Binding Force. The triangle with the apex pointing down represents the combinations of those first three, making for all existences and qualities, gunas incorporated therein. The Seven Rays of Development p. 1-5. See Seven Rays
Son, the The Mother is unconscious and inactive except in contact with the Father; but both become conscious as the Son. The Son, therefore represents this high and deep significance; represents the significance of the solar and cosmic process. The meaning, ‘purpose’, etc., of that which we call life, existence, etc., becomes established in the risen and Self-conscious Son. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 73. The Monad composed of and is born of the positive Power and the negative, creating force or Substance and we describe those two principles with two triangles. Triangle pointing up the Positive Power and the one pointing down the Negative. Bible Lessons p. 97 See also Binding Force, Earth sphere, Individualized field.
Sortem Suam Quisque Amet Motto of the School of the Natural Order. "Let each one love his own destiny." The word ‘destiny’ describes meaning on two levels: one level each person creates his own destiny; and on another level each one discovers his destiny. Introductory Brochure title page. By love we surmount and overcome the created destiny, the self-created destiny. By love and love alone, we discover the other destiny. Practices in Individual Development p.13. See Destiny.
Soul The total content of our consciousness, the psychic level, is called the psychic nature or soul. The First Crossing p. 53. Soul or Psyche, symbolizes the seat of feelings and thinkings, ‘psychological’ processes of a person. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 21. Any given turn of the spiral, meaning any given differentiated field, can be labeled soul relative to the pattern, meaning the lines of force of that field and the configuration which eventuates on those lines of force. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 93. See Psychic nature.
Sound currents The reflex action that results from the union of the Positive Power with the Negative Substance brings forth all that exists, the Only Begotten Son. The Greeks called it the Logos, which has been translated as the Word. The only justification that we can find for translation of the Greek, Logos, into the English, Word, is in reference to the resonance, the sound, the sound currents. In the sound currents we hear the frequencies of the activity within and of substance. Substance is characterized by waves-frequencies, activity that results in that configuration that we label the Son, the Logos, the Word. The Seven Rays of Development p. 19. When contacted, these sound currents seem to be about or around the head. When one begins to practice focusing attention on the sound currents, he will do well to hold his attention on them for a moment or so at a time. Membership Letters (III) p. 5.
Space The true description of the word space is sphere. Sphere indicates the space in which a given person in whom the Power-to-be-conscious is conscious. Understanding the Psychic Nature (lesson 7) p. 3. Space as a sphere includes the function of time as harmonic time. When we consciously function in harmonic time we discover space as a sphere. Ibid (lesson 8) p. 5. Out of the apparent distance between two or more ‘objects’ a concept in the thinking-self is developed that we call space. When we perceive the world in which we function - not the world in which we think, or think we function - then ‘space’ becomes the periphery or the limit in which consciousness functions. Functional Activities p. 63. ‘Space’ is a concept abstracted from images appearing substantive in the psychic nature. There is no ‘space’ other than the concept abstracted from apparent distance between two or more objects. Practice of the Way p. 44. Space is ‘within’ you as the sphere in which your consciousness functions. Practices in Individual Development p. 21. ‘Objective space’, the apparent distance between two or more objects.
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Space & Time The activity of self-awareness which is called time and substance in which the activity operates called space. Studies in Psychotherapy p.10.
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The wave and frequency in a substance which we label space is the ultimate form of motion from which a sensation is created and abstracted that we label time. Ibid p. 38. Here-now continuum (‘here’ meaning space, ‘now’ meaning time), a space-time continuum. Practice of the Way p. 63. Prior to the 4th Degree: Space is objective due to aristotelian, objective identification and time is only a motion sensation created by movement upon the objective space. After the 4th Degree: Time becomes a fourth coordinate of his frame of reference and he links space-time. Time is seen spatially. The Seven Initiations p. 54-56. See Here-now.
Spark-over, the Comparable to crossing the gap between the negative and positive poles. If you build up enough energy to spark, you can spark across the gap between incarnations; i.e., you won’t have to undergo the laborious process of infolding-unfolding, etc. Studies in Psychotherapy p.115.
Speirema See Kundalini
Spiral (motion) Describes the three dimensions that we call space. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 4) p.40. See Also Helix.
Spiraling form Any given ‘this’ to which you can point in its ultimate structure represents a spinning helix, a dynamic process. Studies in Psychotherapy p.46. See Helix.
Spirit When reference is made to a given person, stands for a differentiated sphere or field of conscious Light-energy. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 21. Every individual is potentially or actually a quaternion made up of a center of power which we call the Spirit, a vehicle in which the Spirit functions in all mental activity, a vehicle in which it functions in all emotional activity and a vehicle in which it acts in the most objective, physical sense. Bible Lessons p. 49. See Autonomous fields
Spirits Symbolized by the four levels in which the psychic nature operates (Fire, air, water, earth). Practice of the Way p. 64.
Staff of Hermes See Caduceus, Force centers.
Star (five pointed) Symbolizes the perfected Master in all his glory. The five planes of human and super-human evolution are controlled, and Atma or the "Will of God" stands clearly perceived through the medium of Buddhi (called the Christ-consciousness or the intuitional state of consciousness of the Master-Self). The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 120.
State The quality or nature of awareness respecting one’s Self. The Natural Order Process (Vol 1) p.3.
State, the In the microcosmic Self we call the Idea-awareness, the ultimate differentiated field, which is the individual field. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 72. See also Individualized Field.
"Still Spirit" The Power ‘beyond’ or ‘behind’ will. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 119.
Stimuli Are always in the form of light-energy waves and frequencies, and the dynamic configuration of any given ‘object’ represents that from which we receive light-energy waves and frequencies. It makes no difference to the point being considered which of these instrumentalities may be employed or involved (senses), as it is the light-energy waves and frequencies registered or stimuli received from which we formulate pictures or images. Cosmology p. 47.
Structural differential To be used as a relief diagram. Structure = a synthetical whole having co-ordinate parts; Differential = That which differentiates respecting levels in the abstracting order or in the order of abstracting. Teachers’s Guide (Vol 3) p. 3. See Also Semantic differential.
Structure Stands for fields or spheres of Light-energy-substances and their electromagnetic lines of force, force pattern, etc. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 19. See Fields.
Structure - Function - Order Structure = Will, Function = Love, Order = Activity. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 4), p. 10.
The word cosmos is often substituted for order, signalizes number (as quantity composed of many units, vortices of energy, energy systems, etc.), configurational representations, hierarchical systematizations, ensembles, etc. The word structure stands for fields or spheres of light-energy-substances and their electromagnetic lines of force, force pattern, etc. The word function represents activity of substance, action of light-energy, natural activity or action, called the nature of the event, of Cosmos, etc. It is described in terms of wave lengths and frequencies. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 19-20 See Cosmic process.
Structure qualities Color of eyes, texture of hair, texture of skin, etc. are representations of the gunas, and these qualities or gunas held in the psychic nature become representations in the configuration, and the configuration eventuates in the seed, the chromosome; so, the chromosome becomes the electromagnetic field of the guna - not a ‘thing’, not an ‘object.’Teachers’s Guide (Vol 1) p. 31.
Subjective Means the intermediate state between incarnations. ‘Subjective’ as opposed to the word ‘objective’ belongs to the dual throng. Subjective consciousness, therefore, arising from the natural cause of passing out of the objective state, is possessed by those who have laid aside their bodies, "they are absorbed into subjective nature". The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 104.
Sublimation Substitution in other forms of creative outlet, particularly on the mental level. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p.42.
Sub-lunary frequencies Formative forces pertaining to the etheric-world and therefore governed by the moon-sphere. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 15. See Also Lunar cycle
Substance Descriptive of energy content, medium which carries or transmits waves represented by thought, electrical force as in a charged field, etc. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p.249. See Light.
Substituted outlets Brought about by the thwarting of the urge to fulfilling, to completing the man state which becomes the basis of all psycho-logical conflicts. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p. 36. See Sublimation.
Sun in Leo The very height of power is reached when the force reaches the conarial center, and then comes the descent of the positive power. It is the descent of that positive power that switches the orientation of the individual from the Mother, the negative, to the positive, the Father Principle. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 14. See Also Four somatic divisions, Sacral - Conarial axis.
Sun-God The full emergence of the Christos. This is the "One that was to come," the Messiah, the Savior, the Redeemer. The force-release of the Power-to-be-conscious. The Christos p. 118.
Supernal Light Negative-force, of which all ethereal-light, energy-substances, living-matter, etc., represent the grosser status. It is because all differentiated or autonomous fields, archetypal-patterns, energy-substances in fields and configurations, etc., emerge out of this Negative-aspect or Supernal-Light and its many grosser forms that it is designated The Virgin Mother or the Light-Mother. Cosmology p. 134. See Also Light’s Regions, Negative force.
Surrender (of the ego) Allowing the dynamic process to operate in you at your evolutionary state of development, and what is yours will come to you and nothing will keep away from you. Surrender, letting go of your fixations which we call the objective manifold of values where there’s no understanding. Practice of the Way p. 37. No one can surrender his ‘self’ to Cosmic Consciousness until he has a self to surrender. The Christos p. 137.
Surya The Ordainer, the lines of force of which everyone says of himself, I AM the power, I AM the determinator. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 73. Surya is a label for and symbolizes or represents the power of the individual field, the determinative force of an individual field - that determinative force for which we have the Sanskrit word, Surya. Surya would therefore represent the higher degree of individualization. Ibid p. 77.
Sustaining Force The Mother / Vishnu. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 73 See Also Mother substance, Vishnu.
Sutratma The Silver Cord that connects the ‘sleeper’ with his physical body; if broken a person ‘dies.’ Studies in Psychotherapy p.85. See Silver Cord, Sleep.
Synthetical thinking When one can think in universals, impersonally, altruistically and particularly when he begins to think synthetically, not analytically. Pure intellectual thought - thinking from the whole to the part or the particular; not from the particular to the whole. Functional Activities p. 57.
Synthesis Characterizes methodology in the search for knowledge. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 47. See Also Abstracting process.
Taking the Journey Treading the Path. Membership Letters (v) p.6.
Tamasic A name for a cosmic primary force, frequency, stream of energy manifesting throughout nature as dark and brutish natures. Manifested in the aura by a dark-cloud effect. Tamas, the energy of that which has commonly been called matter, the configuration of units of energy in response to and in conformity with the matrix or pattern determined by the state of Individualized-self-awareness, or the tendency thereto in the homogeneous state of the planetary organism-as-a-whole; and in the psychic-nature, elemental-self, or on the personality level, as inertia, laziness, idiocy, slothfulness, etc. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p.93-95. The inertial quality (guna); the tempestuous, virulent, qualities. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p. 30. See Also Gunas, Qualities.
Tanmatras Finer substances of World-Mother composing any given configuration, a knowledge of which the purpose or plan for the micro-cosmic or macrocosmic manifestations eventuates; and with this knowledge and contact with the frequencies pertaining thereto comes bliss. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 99 See also Tattvas.
Tattvas The highest positive energies or principles. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 99 See also above (Tanmatras).
Taurus Symbolizes the World Mother substance. The orb of the sun resting on the horns of Taurus the Bull. The Bull represented the World Mother. Studies in Psychotherapy p.71. Taurus, a fine looking bull with an image of a full moon between his horns; the bull representing that primal drive, or force, in the Lunar Cycle, the psychic nature. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 18. See Sex force, World Mother.
Taw (Tau) Egyptian label for Brahma, or the power with which one is conscious; the supreme creating power. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p. 43. See Brahma.
Telekinesis The production of motion in a body, apparently without the application of material force. Understanding the Psychic Nature (lesson 10) p.1.The metamorphosing process, which means that all creative activities are produced and motivated by deep inner forces; not through a development from reaction to environment. The telekinesical process will adjust the organism and the psychic-nature to any environment. The Power-to-be-conscious will bring out and adjust the organism to any environment. Functional Activities p. 89. Plato’s word for this emerging, expanding power to be self aware was telekinesis. Telekinesis simply means that all growth and development is from the within out and never from the without in. Steps in Self Unfoldment p. 11.
Teleokinesical That which motivates us to our ultimate goal. Teleos, meaning final end or purpose. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 51.
Teleos is the Greek word for end and purpose. Kenesis implies movement toward that end and purpose. To surrender to that force means surrendering to the responsive motivations which impel us towards our ultimate purpose -- Self-awareness. Ibid p. 118. The Greek word for transfiguration. (Teleos: goal, perfection) The transfiguration of living matter into the Light is the goal of the individualizing process. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 7) p. 6. Synonym : Be-ing, The lower level of Light’s Regions. Ibid (lesson 10) p.1.
Teleplasmic substance Very similar to the pupas mass in the metamorphosis from the larvae stage to the butterfly, etc. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 30.
Teloplasm A substance easily molded into forms by thought or by pictures held in consciousness. There are certain pliant types of persons who exude this substance from their physiological organisms and it can be used in materializations. Also called ectoplasm. Functional Activities p. 75.
Telestic The perfective stages of the individualizing process. The First Crossing p. 29. Tending or relating to a purpose or end. Used by the Greeks with specific reference to the work preparatory for initiation. The Natural Order Process (vol 1) p.4 See Also Teleokinesical.
Telestic Work That great problem of transformation of generative energy into regenerative energy. Studies in Psychotherapy p.115. The individualizing process. The Christos p. 144.
Territory The structure, function, order of the states in which the irrefutable Power-to-be-conscious is conscious, and described in terms of Light-energy-living-matter waves and frequencies, which in the totality of their fields, patterns and configurations we label the Cosmic-process. The Christos p. 207.
Thalamic impression When you do a thing with your hands you establish a thalamic impression; whereas if you do it mentally, it registers cortically; i.e., as a concept. Impressions, suggestions, etc., thalamically registered have immediate access to consciousness functioning on the level of the psychic-nature, on ‘in’ the psychic nature. You will retain something longer by writing it out rather than just by hearing it. The Christos p. 175-177.
‘Thing’ & ’object’ Represents the dynamic process that we call in our abstracted private world, the ‘thing’, the ‘object’. Any given ‘thing’ to which you can point, any given ‘this’ is an ensemble of positive and negative points of light, electrons and protons held together by the binding power. The Seven Initiations p.32.
Thinging / thingify / thingification, etc. Due to inability of neural sense functions to register separate stimuli from each unit of energy of a given configuration -- is described as psychic images appearing substantive. The First Crossing p. 103. The unconscious identification of images with that from which rapid unit impressions (creating stimuli) are received causes ‘thingification’ of the dynamic configuration; i.e., the dynamic energy system appears as a ‘thing’ or ‘object.’ Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 29. Thing-ing: In the tribal times, partly drawing pictures and partly pantomime. Later evolved into hieroglyphics, ideographic language. The Christos p. 16. Totemic, ideographic, hieroglyphic symbolical representations that evolved out of the elemental and primitive picturing, thinging of that perceived. Ibid p. 76.
Thinking & functioning: differences You can think about things - tables, chairs, pianos, flowers, and what have you - but when you function you feel, you desire, you react, you want, you don’t want. The Seven Initiations p. 12.
Thinking principle Energy-frequencies in mind-substance reflected or functioning in cortical faculties. While it does represent higher levels of consciousness in the personal or man-state, it pertains to the psychic-nature. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 15.
Third Aspect of Reality It is that which is abstracted from the Third Aspect of Reality that establishes grounds for illusions, delusions, maya, etc. The First Crossing p. 103.
Third Crossing Is characterized by a complete unconsciousness of one’s separate individuality, Ego-sense. The First Crossing p. 5.
Three-in-One The three worlds or spheres constituting the dynamic structure of Reality. In the consciousness of the Master it also represents the three ‘times’ -past, present and future - a synthesis of ‘time’ into the NOW. The three dynamic powers of His Individualized Field expressed as Becoming, Preserving, and Transforming. Symbolized by the word made "flesh"...AUM. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 75. AUM, therefore, signifies these three in one self called the Master; the conscious representation of these three. He it is who synthesizes them into that Oneness we speak of as His consciousness. Membership Letters (III) p. 11. See Also AUM.
Three Wise Men, The Represent the triune nature of relative man-thought, desire, and action. Bible Lessons p. 34. See Also Triune Self.
"Thing-in-itself" Immanuel Kant quote: Every individual field. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 16.
Third order of the abstracting process Represents a change in the developing consciousness; it also represents faculty to differentiate respecting classifications not only in respect to the first order, but in labeling the classifications; therefore it is classification of the 2nd order in the abstracting process. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 32. See Also Conscious abstracting, General semantics.
Third precept The value one gives reacts upon him according to the quality of the value given. The quality that you put into the value that you give reacts upon you and disturbs you or expands you or glorifies you. Practice of the Way p. 7.
Thobbery A combination of think, opine and believe. From Frontier magazine. Practice of the Way p. 45. See Mental.
Three temptations Using spiritual power, Using the power for self-glorification, and Tempted by the power when others are drawn to the spiritual radiance for financial gain. Bible Lessons p. 45-47.
Time Activity, the rhythm which gives the appearance of dualism. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 30. In objective identification: To the left of a given point we call the past, the point is the present, and to the right is the future. Functional Activities p. 65. A rhythm characterizes motion characterizes harmonic time. A motion in consciousness abstracted from images appearing substantive is what we call objective time, sidereal time, etc. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 38. See Also Harmonic time, Sidereal Time.
Time-line The palingenetic cycle, growth line. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p. 8. See Also Palingenetic cycle.
Tiphareth Symbolizes on the Tree of Life the perfection of the power of Christ in human consciousness begins with the release of the fountain of love in that center called anahata, or the heart center. The First Crossing p. 91. The power which opens the way to the Christos. Practice of the Way p. 75.
See also Kaballah/Qaballah, Tree of Life.
"To be" To-be-conscious - i.e., to be Self-conscious - is the method of developing the status of Be-ing. The succeeding states of consciousness are called the Becoming; the state of Be-ing is to have Become. The Christos p.217.
Totemish Zootyping, animal representations by pictures, transferred to the skies, and became uranographical, or zodiacal representation. Representation of that perceived, experienced. The Christos p. 62.
Transfiguration of the Christ When an individual that has reached the point where he has re-metamorphosed all the previous states. He has gradually climbed ‘up’ to functioning on Mind Level, in Pure Light. At that point he can transfigure Mother Substance in one instant. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 105. See Also Mind Level.
Transfigurational process When one’s consciousness turns to Light’s Regions, the etheric-substance picks up that quality and builds it into the living-matter structure that we call the configuration. "The Word becomes flesh," the Logos becomes actual flesh in the process. A Description of the Psychic World p.96. We call that transformation, that remetamorphosis, the transfigurational process. Ibid p. 110. We look upon this world as a process of conversion of light into energy and energy into living-matter; and then reversing the process, the reconversion, the metamorphosis, which we call the transfigurating process--the reconversion of living-matter into energy and energy into light. Studies in Psychotherapy p.11. See Metamorphosis.
Transition The You are turning to something that seems like a cloud of nothing; you are turning away from all that you have known in the objective manifold, so it is a "Cloud of Unknowing." Forget all of the objective manifold, all of the values and every ‘thing’ and ‘object’ in it, all of that information - wipe it out and forget it. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p. 11-12. See Also Death.
Transvaluation of values Value is transferred from thing or object, goods, chattels, lands or titles, to what it serves. That is, if it serves the purpose which he represents, it has value. That is transvaluation of values. The Seven Initiations p. 75.
Tree of Life Those letters of the alphabet (Greek & Hebrew) are correlated with the twenty-two to twenty-six paths of the Tree of Life and when we are thoroughly conditioned in the minute studies of the origin and the development of the letters of our alphabet we will find with no exception that they go back to the totemic, ideographic, hieroglyphic symbolical representation that evolved out of the elemental and primitive picturing, thinging of that perceived. The Christos p. 76. A synonym for the "School of the Natural Order." A description of its application to a given individualizing process; each student can, therefore, relate it to himself. The Tree of Life p. 14-15.
Treading the Path A Treader - one who has proceeded to some measurable degree on the path of becoming. Practice of the Way p. 11. What we call growth, development, treading the Path, taking the Journey. Membership Letters (v) p. 6.
Trinity, The Great Positive, negative, binding power; that is the great trinity. Expanding States of Self-awareness p. 6. Among certain cults of the Sankhya philosophy in ancient times, this trinity was represented as the creating force, the Father, the sustaining force, the Mother, and the destroying force, the Son. Membership Letters (III) p. 10. The trinity must be grasped as a unity and in respect to the field, the pattern and the configuration respecting the other two sides of the triangle, the triplicity or the trinity, which of course, in submicroscopic or individual field is merely an epitomization or representation of any field to the cosmic level. Applied to the atom, it is to understand the atom in its essential structure or nature is to understand all; to understand the individual in his essential nature is to understand all, because it never varies; it is an infinite repetition in structure and in nature and in function. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 12. See also Basic structure of the universe.
Triplicity Power, Substance, Consciousness - is present ‘in’ every ‘thing’; or IS THAT which constitutes every event, from atom to man, from man to solar system, etc. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 19. Higher triplicity: Field of the undifferentiated consciousness-light-energy. The Light and energy representing modes of consciousness and constituting the higher triplicity. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p. 2. See Arche, Oversoul, Triplicity.
Triune man The cosmic process. Is a complete epitomization of the whole cosmic process and if we understand the microcosmic epitomization of the whole process, macrocosm, we understand the whole cosmic process in its structure-function-order. Practice of the Way p. 30. See Cosmic Process.
Triune Self The Triune Self is composed of 1) The True or Higher Self, 2) The Psychic Self, & 3) The Configurational Self. Self Mastery Through Meditation p.84. The Triune Self is also described as a "three-story house": 1) {the top} The Christos, 2) Psycho-dynamism (Psycho-logical level, & 3) the Vital-dynamism (configurated-self/physiological organism). The Christos p. 80. See Also Trinity, Three Wise men.
True Self The intrinsic Self. Understanding the Psychic Nature (Lesson 4) p. 2. The differentiated field constituting the true individuality. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p. 50. The autonomous field labeled the Higher Self. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 58. See Also Atman, Christ Consciousness, God, Higher Self, Master Self.
Truth "There is no referent anywhere for ‘Truth.’" Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 29. The structure-function-order of the cosmic process. Practice of the Way p. 45.
Typhon (Set) In Egyptian mythology: the personification of the unexpurgated forces in the psychic nature. He was the ruler and controller of darkness, of the nether regions of the dead; that means of ignorance. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 48.
U-Z
Ultimate differentiated sphere The Ovum. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p. 9.
Ultimate understanding See Realization.
Unconscious A label used by the psychiatrists and psychoanalysts for the psychic nature, the psycho-logical self. That differentiating process that we call our personality, our individuality, etc., is an individualizing process taking place in that oversoul or race psyche. Studies in Psychotherapy p.81. "In the unconscious" means this: during the long, long time that we have been in objective self-consciousness we’ve been objectified, and that habit of objectifying everything - ‘thingifying’, we call it - hangs over long after the psychic centers are awakened and stirring. We still persist in objectifying, and that constitutes a heavy wall, a heavy veil, between the mental, cortical, objective thinking and the psychic functions. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 49. You are unconscious of that which is deeply buried in the psyche. The Release of the Fire in the Heart of the Atom p. 4. Consciousness in identity with the objective appearance, the objective world, etc., as it appears to the senses. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p.28. When consciousness is in identity with the objective world, any function in its psychic nature or in its mind level is labeled unconscious; so, the word, unconscious, is only relative to state in identity with the objective. Teachers Guide (Vol 3) p. 37. Refers to those influences and accumulated qualities which our lower psyches have cultivated for eons and eons. See Also Objective self-conscious state, Psychic nature.
Unconscious psychics In ages past the Pharisees; today in certain circles they are labeled aristotelians. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 57. See Also Pharisees.
Understanding Used synonymously with the word Light, and both words symbolize perceptive awareness, not a cortical, mental grasp of meaning. Practice of the Way p. 35. See Also Light, Perceptive awareness.
Unexpurgated forces in the psychic nature See Typhon.
Unfolding-infolding process Infolding process = descending arc; unfolding process = what we call growth, expansion, self-development, evolution, transfiguration, metamorphosis, or reconversion (to turn around). The First Crossing p. 67. See Chart p.29 The Seven Initiations. See Also Cosmic Process.
Unified Field From the lifting of our forces forming a field of waves and frequencies we label our Group Consciousness. Studies in Psychotherapy p.1. As one approaches the Second Crossing he comes into the realization of the unified creative force of the World Mother called the unified field theory. The forces of the field, the forces of magnetism and the forces of gravitation are unified in one described as one in a mathematical formula, the unified field theory. Ibid p. 72. See Also World Mother.
Union (Refers to the 1st. Sutra of Patanjali) Means oneness - a state reached or developed by expansion of present awareness into the awareness of the Power-to-be-conscious as Self - One without a second. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 10. Steps in Self Unfoldment p.70.
Units of energy Called electrons, protons, photons, neutrons, etc. The First Crossing p. 101.
Universal Light The aggregate of the seven streams (seven rays of development) we label the Christos. Studies in Psychotherapy p.101. See Christos, Seven Rays.
Universalized-self Means the same as when we speak of entering the realms of undifferentiated Light. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p.101.
Uranographical and Zoological symbols The key in which the scriptures of the Bible were written during a period of race-psyche development when the prior totemic representations and zootyping symbols had been transferred to the starry skies. The Christos p. 128.
Urges of the psychic nature 1) Urge for creature comforts - food, protection, security, mating, etc. 2) Egotistic satisfaction. 3) Urge to fulfill the basic state of development; the urge to become identified with the primal source of power, the urge to higher development. Teachers Guide (Vol 1) p. 52. See Psychic Nature.
Value giving The quality that you put into the value that you give reacts upon you and disturbs you or expands you or glorifies you. Practice of the Way p. 7. See Manifold of values.
Veil of Isis (Maya) The "mist which arose from the earth"....represents the distorted ‘physical’ and ‘objective’ version of the Creating Process. Veil of Maya p. 3.
Venus The Goddess of Love. (The symbol of ) that force and power, labeled love, dominates as motivation every desire and action of man--objective-self-conscious-state. How to Discipline the Psyche p. 35. Venus in Libra symbolizes the forces in the Heart center (Anahata) Ibid p.37. Venus is the power, the beauty and glory of love. Practice of the Way p. 75. Venus in Libra symbolizes in the individualizing process...the Goddess of Love coming to dwell in the heart of the devotee. Love is the effect of force functioning on the heart level vs desire (force functioning on the solar level). The Christos p. 124. See Also Anahata, Heart center.
Virgin Birth Symbolizes the result of the union of the positive and negative. The first thing that is developed in the field, in cosmos, is a condensation or configuration called the Son or Logos. That is the first eventuation out of the virgin substance of the negative, motivated and activated by the power and influence of the positive. The First Crossing p.45.
Viruses Objective representations of the repressions of the repression of the evil. Evil is the negative form due to the repression of the creative forces in love, in communal adjustments, in the person, and the recognition of the person. Studies in Psychotherapy p.153.
Vishnu Sanskrit. The sustaining influence of the Trinity. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 73. See Trinity.
Vital, the The anima, the informing principal, the life force. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 68. See Anima.
Vital Dynamism The vital forces which motivate the functions of a given organ and reside in the etheric structure of the organ. The First Crossing p. 86. The force that motivates the configurated-self. The Christos p. 80.
Etheric substance, the vital self are also synonyms for that segment of the Mother, of nature, which lies between the energy world and teloplasm--teloplasm, protoplasm, living-matter. Practices in Individual Development p. 13. See Also Etheric substance, Mother.
Vrittis Is a word given to the whirlpools, waves, frequencies, etc. in the field or substance called Chitta (an energy field in which the individualized consciousness functions in all of those respects we label sentient, intelligible, mind-substance, etc.) The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p.70.
Those intermediate functions of the nervous system in sense-perception, and the functions of consciousness between the sense organ and the object, including the energy frequencies obtaining between the object and the sense-organ, together with other modifications of the mental process, such as an assertion of the I-AM-I (the ego sense which is involved in the process.) Ibid p. 71.
Water An ancient symbol which describes the third phase of the involutionary movement: a coalescence, consolidation, etc., of single units (electrons, protons and neutrons) into energy-systems called atoms, molecules, colloids, etc. Cosmology p. 126. Symbolizes the psychic nature and the psychic world in which it functions. The word water symbolizes a vast world of elemental entities, beings, forces with which everything is surrounded and which enter into the configuration as the inherent pattern emerging into actuality (the pattern inheres in the life germ. The Christos p. 21. Symbolizes the sensations, feeling and desire level. Ibid p. 22. Through all the Scriptures (Bible), water symbolizes the emotional realm--and very accurately symbolizes it. Bible Lessons p. 33. See Also Elemental forces, Psychic nature, Psychic world.
Wave-Frequency The activity of Mother-substance on a given level of the electro-magnetic spectrum. Description of the Psychic World p. 52. Light-energy-plasm. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 102. On the Structural Differential the Parabolic figure at the top represents the world of Waves-frequencies. Practices in Individual Development p. 79. A wave is flowing, whether you call it form crest to crest or from trough to trough. The number of waves that will traverse this instant, this moment of time, is called frequency. The Seven Initiations p. 61. See Also Consciousness, Light, Semantic differential.
Motivation of the Whole As the motivation - for the greatest possible individualistic survival-value, security, existence etc., will characterize the age or cycle upon which we are now entering. The Christos p. 151.
Wholeness Represents the individual as a completed self-conscious being. The First Crossing p. 28. See Also Gestalt.
"Whore of Babylon" A label from the Bible applied to the Mother when her substance is loaded with the perverse creations of man...who stands in wait to devour the Christ the moment He is born. Practices in Individual Development p. 19. See Also Genetrix.
Will The power of equilibrium, Kether. In Sanskrit, Shakti which equates with fire as higher manas equates with air; "the Word made flesh." The Seven Rays of Initiation p. 6. The Power of Atma. The First Crossing. P.94.The functional operation of forces in the individualizing process. Studies in Psychotherapy p.126. Creative force. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p. 23. Active force on the highest level of individualization. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p.119. See Also Atma, Noetic mind, Power of the Christos.
Will of the Father The flowing with the individualizing process as a function of the cosmic process. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 49. See Also Cosmic process.
Wisdom Teachings The Gnosis which means the supreme Knowledge or Reality. Teachers Guide (Vol 2) p. 1. See Also Gnosis, Knowledge, Reality.
Word The word is the symbol, or a carrier of the wave and frequency; it is a symbol representing the meaning. Practice of the Way p.17.See Also Frequencies, Guna, or Quality.
World Dharma The duty that we owe to the greater cycle in which we’re integrated, the duty that we owe to the world. Studies in Psychotherapy p.140. The world’s work, entering into whatever is necessary to enter into for a livelihood, to engage in work, activity, business, commerce, trade and what-have-you. The First Crossing p. 104.
World Mother Differentiated fields of energies having a universal character. The Natural Order Process (vol 2) p. 15. Nature. Teachers Guide (Vol 4) p. 27. The negative field, the genetrix. Practice of the Way p. 70.
That energy (configurated into forms (atoms, molecules, colloids, crystalloids, cells, etc.) In its total planetary ensemble. The substance with which the central Power-to-be-conscious clothes itself and functions on the levels determined by the gunas of the energy-substances incorporated in the configurations. Cosmology p. 55.
The world of becoming. Steps in Self Unfoldment p.80. Symbolized by Isis (Egyptian goddess). Studies in Psychotherapy p. 71. Configurational differentiations of Light-energy-living-matter-substances. Self Mastery Through Meditation p. 29. See Also Configurated Light-energy substance, Genetrix, Mater, Negative field.
Yod-Hove Adam-Eve, the androgyny, Adam-Kadmon. Practice of the Way p. 55.
Yugas Ages or cycles of time. Membership Letters (I) p. 1.
Zend Avesta The Bible of the Parsees or Persians. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 55. See Also Zarathustra, Zoroaster, Zorosterians.
Zero The Chasm. When identity with image appearing substantive and the objective manifold of values abstracted from the image appearing substantive is dropped; the negative is below zero. As soon as energy in a given individual is built up to spark across zero and becomes identified with the Power which generates frequency, rather than the receiver of frequency generated, then he is on the ascending scale, the widening consciousness of more and more Power as Self, the positive sign. Studies in Psychotherapy p. 116.
Zervan Akarana (Limitless Time), mentioned by Zarathustra, is the Kala, out of space and time, of Parabrahm. Membership Letters (I) p. 12.
Zervan Daregho The old Masdeans or Magi (the modern Parsis) had the same calculation (Yugas). Their "Sovereign Time of the Long Period" (Zervan Dasregho Hodata) lasts 12,000 years, and these are the 12,000 Divine Years of a Mahayuga as shown above (Yugas of the Hindus). Membership Letters (I) p.12. See Also Magi, Ages/Cycles.
Zodiac Zootyping, totemism, animal representation by pictures, transferred to the skies, becoming uranographical or zodiacal representation. The Christos p. 62. Written during a period of the race psyche development when the prior totemic representations and zootyping symbols had been transferred to the starry skies. Ibid p. 128. No longer necessary for understanding the Cosmic process. Ibid p. 131. See Uranographical.
Zoroastrian referring to Zarathustra, Persian Prophet. Studies in Psychotherapy p.55.
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Compiled by John B. Woodyard
School of the Natural Order
April 1977