Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle

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Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle - The Supreme Science of Contact

It might be said that consciousness itself, which is the goal - on this planet - of all the evolutionary process, is simply the demonstrated result of the Science of Contact. It is likewise the goal in some form or other and at some stage or other of all planetary existences within the solar system itself. The unfoldment of this conscious response is, in reality, the growth of the sensitive awareness of the planetary Logos HIMSELF. The human mechanism and its ability to respond to its environment (as science well knows) has been developed in response to an inner urge, present in every human being and in all forms of life, and to the "pull" and magnetic effect of the surrounding environment. Step by step, the forms of life upon the physical plane, down through the ages, have unfolded one sense after another; one form of sensitive response after another becomes possible as the mechanism is produced, until the human being can receive impressions from the physical plane and rightly interpret them; can respond to the emotional contacts of the astral plane and succumb to them or [55] surmount them; and can become telepathic to the world of the mental plane, thus sharing - physically, emotionally and mentally - in the life and contacts of the three worlds which constitute his environment and in which he is submerged whilst in incarnation. What he gets out of this life of constant impression is largely dependent upon his power to invoke his environment and draw from it (in evocative response) what he needs in all the various departments of his being. This, in its turn, forces him - whether he likes it or not - to produce an effect upon other people; this can be far more potent for good or evil, and from the telepathic angle, than he likes to think or can conceive. You see, therefore, how these sciences of Impression, of Invocation and Evocation, and of Telepathy are naturally concerned with what is inherent in man and in his relation to his environment and circumstances.

The germ or embryonic capacity for all types of planetary contact is inherent in every man and will not be frustrated in the long run. In this knowledge of goals already achieved in the three worlds lies the guarantee of achievement in the more subjective worlds which are present within the aspirant's surroundings but to which he remains as yet unawakened and unenlightened. I am seeking to make the matter as simple as I can, for much of the abstract formulations of the occult sciences and the academic psychologists are incident to the over-activity of men's minds and emotional natures. If you can grasp certain broad and relatively simple facts and recognize that you possess the key or the clue in your already developed capacities, then you will go forward with simplicity, making no undue intellectual difficulties when dealing with these more subtle phases of your ever-existent environment. It is, in the last analysis, just a question as to what "impresses" you at any given moment, and then in what manner it conditions you. [56]

You will see, therefore, how much that I have already said links up with the teaching I have given upon the Points of Revelation. In the very condensed summation of the Science of Impression, I touched briefly upon the three great groups of Lives that are constantly under "impression" and which, in their turn, become "impressing agents." There is little that can be added to this theme with profit at this time; what has already been given should be studied and related to the teaching on the Points of Revelation. (Discipleship in the New Age, Volume II, Section 3.)

Revelation is a generic term covering all the responses to the activities of the eye of the mind, the eye of the soul, and the "insight" of the Universal Mind which contact with the Monad gives. Sight is the greatest of all the developments in this world period in which the Logos is seeking to bring the subhuman kingdoms to the point where human vision is theirs, to bring humanity to the point where spiritual vision is developed and hierarchical insight is the normal quality of the initiate sight, and to bring the Members of the Hierarchy to the point where universal perception is Theirs. Therefore, it might be said that:

Through the door of individualization the subhuman kingdoms pass to human vision, leading to mental contact and intelligent impression.
Through the door of initiation humanity passes to spiritual vision, leading to soul contact and spiritual impression.
Through the door of identification the Hierarchy passes to universal vision, leading to monadic contact and extra-planetary impression.

Each time that there is a fresh vision of a compelling and conditioning nature, it is the result of invocation by the [57] one seeking the new impression. When this invocative spirit is present, the results are inevitable and sure and the response evoked cannot be stopped. This is the basis of all the success of desire (material or otherwise), aspiration, prayer and meditation. Always we get - in time and space - what we invoke; and the knowledge of this fact, scientifically applied, will be one of the great liberating forces for humanity. [58]

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