GOD SAVE ME

Our concept of the third energy does not rest on the principle of the emergence of a third asset with transformative powers that is born out of relationship. The term “third” is not crude in the sense of having three distinct configurations within oneself: the Self that is, the Self that chooses and the right configuration that drives the Self forward.

This is what distinguishes an Office of the Hierarchy from a personal capacity. Knowledge, discernment, force, experience, or spiritual attainment belong to the person who possesses them. An Office concerns the relation within which such capacities acquire hierarchical significance. The distinction is subtle but decisive.

Curiously, human disciples are not mere empty vessels into which Masters insert transformations. Although we have freedom, freedom by its very nature does not induce vertical movement. In freedom, lies choice but nothing within choice dictates why one would experience their present way of being as insufficient enough that they would seek out mastery or the becoming of something that they do not yet have the conscious ability to embody....

he relations made visible through the encounter become internal orientations. They begin to shape what consciousness recognises as coherent, what it desires, what it refuses and what it can no longer mistake for fulfilment. This passage may be understood as the formation of a vertical habitus of consciousness. The world disclosed by the meaningful other becomes inhabitable not because the observer reproduces that person’s existence, but because ....

The Higher is a necessity because it stands above and beyond all events. It is the only one that sees the all and can say: “This is part of your family history, but it is not all that you will be; This is grief, but it will not derail your upcoming relationships; This wounded you but it is not your ultimate destiny.”