*THE GNOSIS AND THE LAW*

[Denise (Niecy)]

*THE GNOSIS AND THE LAW*

*CHAPTER 6
THE INDIVIDUALIZED "I AM" PRESENCES ENTER "THE SEVEN SPHERES"
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THEIR CAUSAL BODY *

By tracing the past to the very beginning--the Creation of the Universe and,
particularly, our own Planet Earth, we saw how man, as a "Spirit Spark," was
magnetized from the Great Central Sun, Alpha and Omega, and how, by degrees,
he reached the stage where, as an Individualized "I AM" Presence, he was
ready for the next step as an Individualized "I AM" Presence, he was ready
for the next step--the beginning of his Cosmic Education.

His condition at this point was not different from a present day child
which, having gone through all the processes of nature, starting at the
moment of conception, in its mother's womb, and reaching the point where it
is old enough to start its education, is sent by its loving parents to a
kindergarten where by play with other children its age, and little
instruction, it will be able in time to adopt itself to certain disciplines
and study so that, eventually, it will matriculate in the public schools and
start its preparation for its life's work.

Something similar took place with the Individualized "I AM" Presences who,
having reached the stage where they could profit by the teachings given at
the Cosmic "kindergarten" their loving God Parents--Helios and
Vesta--prepared them to enter "the Seven Spheres" from where, after
sufficient study and discipline, they would be ready and qualified to
proceed in their next stage of education--their entrance and matriculation
into the School of Mankind--the world of form.

What these "Seven Spheres" are, what is involved in them, and how they are
conducted will be described for us by no lesser an authority than the Mighty
Aeolos--Cosmic Representative of the Holy Spirit, in our Solar
System,1whose evolution is among the highest. He was formerly the Maha
Chohan, Whose
Office as such is the directing power behind all expression of the Seven
Rays on Earth, and is the Head of the Seven Chohans Who, in return, direct
each Ray to the world of form. It was given in an address to the students
and published by "The Bridge to Freedom Journal" in the issue of February,
1953.

Proceeding, we will present also, the training which the evolving "I AM"s
underwent in going through the Seven Spheres and how their Causal Body was
formed--a prerequisite for their entrance into the world of form.

*THE SEVEN SPHERES *

". . . Thinking of God as a Sun, there are surrounding and enfolding this
Central Focus of Intelligence, Seven Mighty Spheres of Consciousness, each
one separated from the other by its own periphery line which forms the
natural boundary of that particular Sphere. These Seven Spheres are called
the Aura of God, each inhabited by Great God Intelligences, all intent on
doing the Father's Will to expand His Kingdom.

The development and unfoldment of His Kingdom is accomplished by the release
of pulsating waves of His Own Divine Consciousness, within which are the
Spiritual Patterns of all form and manifestation, from the smallest blade of
grass to the most brilliant star in space.

As these God Ideas pass from Sphere to Sphere, they are absorbed by the
Beings and Intelligences within each one. They then move outward to the next
Sphere and the next, ever journeying onward toward manifestation into the
world of form. A constant modification of the god Light, a constant clothing
of the God Consciousness is achieved in each Sphere so that God's Ideas
become embodied in the substance of each Sphere in orderly sequence and,
eventually, reach the Seventh Sphere, or Etheric Realms, where they await
Precipitation into the physical world of form.

*THE FIRST SPHERE *

The First Sphere represents the Heart of Creation itself. The Great Beings
Who form the Directive Intelligence of this Sphere is known as the Manus of
the human race. The Master Who activates Their Will, in the world of men is
called the Chohan of the First Ray (presently El Morya). It is His service
to Life to carry the God Ideas and Directives from the Godhead into the mind
of these Beings in the Second Sphere, Who clothe them into actual workable
form. In the First Sphere, also abide the Seven Mighty Archangels Who have
volunteered to guard and protect the evolving human race. Here is born every
idea, plan or blessing which will one day manifest in the physical world.
Its inhabitants are Beings Whose service to Life is to embody these God
Ideas and carry them on their outward course to the periphery of the First
Sphere and here entrust them to the waiting Messengers of the Second Sphere.

What finite mind could conceive of the beauty, perfection, joy and happiness
of these ideas! Here live the Cherubic and Seraphic Hosts, Messengers of the
Most High, bathing in the Fire of Creation, embodying Its Essence in Their
very Selves and then, begins the great Cosmic Ritual of Cosmic Precipitation
of the blessings of Heaven, from Realm to Realm, which will take Them, in
time, to the furthest borders of the Kingdom and the periphery of the
Seventh Sphere, containing the purest essence of Divinity within Their
Shining Selves. They swing outward in their Cosmic Course, carrying the
Light of Heaven into the consciousness of the Beings in the Second Sphere.

*THE SECOND SPHERE *

The Celestial Inhabitants of the Second Sphere most lovingly receive the
Cosmic Messengers and the Ideas from God's Heart, assimilate them, clothe
them in the form and substance of Their Own Great Light and the Universal
Light substance which forms the atmosphere of this Sphere, and They, in
turn, pass them onward to the receptive consciousness and atmosphere of the
Third Realm.

In this Second sphere, the God Ideas and Patterns of future greatness are
molded into form through the use of the creative powers of the Higher Mind
Force--thus the seed of the Father falls on fertile ground (intelligent
individual consciousness) and begins to take definite form in the world of
Divine Thought.

The God Intelligence Who governs the Second Sphere is the Lord Buddha,
previously known as Lord Maitreya, Who interprets the God Ideas from the
first Sphere through the formulation of World Religions and Faiths. Their
Representative, the Chohan of the Second Ray (presently Confucius) further
consolidates Their Cosmic Service through the educational channels both of
the Inner Sphere and the physical appearance world as well.

So great is the wealth of the Father's Outpouring that this essence must
keep rushing onward, clothed in intelligent thought patterns, ever desiring
to give of itself in rhythmic blessings. Thus the Third Sphere is alerted to
receive of the Divine Outpouring.

*THE THIRD SPHERE *

In the Third Sphere, the glory and radiance of the Second Sphere has already
clothed the divine Immanence in thought Patterns, so that it is better
assimilated by the vibratory consciousness of this Realms. These God Ideas
are ensouled with life and become living, pulsating foci of "things to
come." This is the Realm of Holy Spirit under the direction of that Great
Cosmic Representative of the Third Person of the Trinity, Whom we know by
the title of Maha Chohan (presently Paul the Venetian).

In this Third Sphere, life essence is imported to the thought forms
descending from the First and Second Spheres. Until *thought* is clothed
with the life through the *feeling nature,* it does not become a living
vital force as far as expression in the physical world is concerned. Thus,
the Third Sphere vitalizes all manifestations which will ever externalize on
the Planet Earth.

The activity of the Third Sphere, like the prism, divides the spiritual Rays
through which flows the radiation and gifts of the Third Ray and which then
proceed through the five subdivisions of this Great Ray into the physical
world of form. The Chohans of these five Rays, therefore, serve under the
supervision of Their Overlord, the Maha Chohan.

The First subdivision of the Third Ray is under the direction of the Chohan
known as Lady Master Rowena. (She succeeded Paul the Venetian, now the Maha
Chohan.) Her Cosmic Service to Life is to receive the blueprints or Divine
Thought Patterns, which contain within themselves world movements as well as
simple individual blessings for the human race and, dividing them as to
their subject matter and potential service to Life, She gives them to the
Chohan in charge of the dispensation of those specific activities. These
Chohans, in turn, project them from Their Spheres of activity into the world
of form through conscious or unconscious human Intelligences who are open to
Their Cosmic Impressions and Influence. Thus Lady Master Rowena becomes the
First Lieutenant and Representative of the Maha Chohan and the step-down
transformer of His energies so far as the blessings of God through the
proper channeling facets into the world of form.

*THE FOURTH SPHERE *

A group of Beings from the Third Sphere join the Cherubic and Seraphic Hosts
as they prepare to pass outward with the living embodied thought-forms, into
the Fourth Sphere of conscious life. Again a great diffusion of spiritual
effulgence takes place, a richer radiation pours through the atmosphere of
the Sphere of Visitation. The Divine Ideas pulsate through the electronic
substance and are absorbed by any receptive consciousness within the Fourth
Sphere.

The Great Chohan of the Fourth Sphere is known as the Ascended Master
Serapis Bey. The developed thought-form of the First and Second Spheres,
endowed with the life of the Holy Spirit in the Third Sphere, finds the
first point of contact with the individual consciousness of unascended
beings in this Realm. The far-greater majority of Divine Archetype
(Individualized "I AM" Presences) dwell within this Fourth Realm. Here the
God Ideas, patterns, and designs are received by these Christ Egos and
developed by Them through centuries of endeavor and *projected by Them* into
the world of men, through their consciousness and through advanced
pupils2functioning in lines of endeavor similar to those being
developed and
perfected within this Realm. These Ideas not ensouled by conscious
Intelligences in the Fourth Realm pass onward, carried by the Seraphic and
Cherubic Hosts and the Escort of Honor from the Fourth Realm into the
consciousness of the waiting Beings of the fifth Realm.

*THE FIFTH SPHERE *

Within the Fifth Realm, the seed Ideas of the Father, particularly in
connection with scientific discoveries, inventions and medical research, are
scattered and received by the Representative Consciousness of Those engaged
in this endeavor in the Temples of Science that are active within this
Sphere, and from these Temples they are directed into the minds and Hearts
of those selfless men and women who are working in these avenues of Earth.
The Great Chohan of the Fifth Realm is known as the Ascended Master
Hilarion, Who was Saint Paul of Biblical Days.

As the Fifth Sphere pulsates with the essence of Godliness, we see that the
blessings are no whit lessened and that, even as we watch, the glorious
energies await transmission into the Sixth Sphere to widen their circle of
manifest expression.

*THE SIXTH SPHERE *

Within the Sixth Sphere, we find the causative centers of the Christian
Religion, where in devotional and emotional worship are the particular fount
through which the spiritual energies are being released to bless the human
race. Here dwell the great Celestial Choirs, the Highest Heaven of orthodox
thought, and from this beautiful Sphere flows the inspiration to those men
and women who have responded to the "high calling" of religious leaders and
who are "leading their sheep" to the best of their ability. The Great Chohan
of the Sixth Sphere has been Master Jesus Who, on His elevation, with master
Kuthumi to the station of Cosmic Teacher, has transferred this authority to
Lady Master Nada, Who is now the Chohan of the Sixth Sphere. Through the
Temple Services, Jesus, Nada and Mother Mary are bathing the Christian
world, the Devas who guard and protect the churches erected in His Name and
all who have accepted the Christ, in the spiritual essence of Their Divine
Christhood.

As the Cherubim and Seraphim make ready to bring the blessings of the Father
into the Seventh Realm, we realize that this is, by natural destiny, the
periphery of the Kingdom and that the Third Dimensional World of today
(physical appearance world) *has sunk below the boundary line of safety.*

*THE SEVENTH SPHERE *

It is to the Seventh realm and Its Great Chohan, known as the Ascended
Master Saint Germain, that we must look for the contact between the outer
consciousness and the Divine Patterns of the Will of God and His Messengers.
The Seventh Sphere holds within Itself the etheric pattern of every
manifestation of the God Plan which has been lowered rhythmically through
the six preceding Spheres, and which awaits expression in physical form. It
is the first Sphere above the human Octave of limitation and imperfection
into which the soul ascends on its journey back to the heart of God.

It is, therefore, the office and responsibility of the Chohan of the Seventh
Sphere to provide a way and means by which mankind may again unite its
consciousness with the Inner Spheres and become individual conductors of the
Divine Perfection from these Spheres through the consciousness of the outer
self.

This realm is literally "bursting" with all the good things that have been
handed down from one Sphere to another.

Because of the resistance and refusal of the outer consciousness of man to
accept the Divine Plan of God, the etheric Realm has not been able to pass
on the blessings and glories that have descended from the Higher Spheres and
thus complete the outgoing rhythm of creative endeavor. Any number of the
human family may offer his consciousness to the Chohan of the Seventh Ray
and ask his individual self may be an outlet for the blessings and
perfection contained within it.

Every man, woman and child that lives on the Earth today, or will come here
in the future, has a Divine Presence, a God Pattern, and Archetype, that
dwells in one of the foregoing Seven Spheres. Each such incarnate lifestream
is meant to be a radiating center of the spiritual force from the Inner
Sphere where his "I AM" Presence dwells. He must understand that his own
Higher Self is actually living and serving Life in one of these Spheres,
developing certain God Designs through Its Higher Consciousness, which
awaits the receptivity of the outer mind in order to find expression in the
world of form.

The present characteristics of the individual, no matter how poorly
developed, are indicative of the Ray and Sphere to which he rightfully
belongs, and as the individual purifies his own world, he will raise the
vibratory action of his being to its most powerful and perfect expression
through his personal self and also, become a radiating center of the
Spiritual Force from the Sphere in which His "I AM" Presence dwells and
which has a beneficent effect upon all Life around him.

*THE CAUSAL BODY OF THE "I AM" *

The passing of the Spirit Sparks--as embryonic "I AM" Presences--through the
Seven Spheres, has given them experience, education and benefits; one, the
most predominant of them, being the formation of their Causal Body. This is
the accumulated good which they derive by going from one Sphere to another,
with each Sphere attaching to them the color of Its influence, in their
totality--of seven colors--forming their Causal Body. Since each Sphere
indicated its particular quality by color, by the time an "I AM" has passed
through all the Seven Spheres an aureole of Seven Colors is formed and it is
shown around it. If, in one of the Spheres, an "I AM" has shown a particular
interest and affinity towards it, staying in there a much longer time and
absorbing its qualities in proportion, the Color of that Sphere becomes a
more pronounced in its aureole and is plainly distinguished from the others.
This puts a particular emphasis on that "I AM" as belonging to that
particular Sphere-Ray.

In the newborn Spirit Spark, from the Heart of God, the Causal Body is pure
white. For some reason, many of the Individualized White Fire Beings and "I
AM" Presences, using their freedom of will, never leave the First Sphere.
They are the Holy Innocents whose aura is like White flame and they embody
the Divine Ideas of the Universal which they project downward, but
themselves choosing not to know even the glory of the Second Realm. These
individuals forfeit the right to become, in some future era, Sun and
Creator, preferring to live in holy innocence in that happy estate.

The braver Spirits venture forth from the First Sphere and build the Blue
flame of Faith into their Causal Body, some into the Second Sphere and there
they build the Golden Flame of Wisdom into their Causal Bodies, learning to
draw ideas into form and they work within those great Temples perfecting the
ideas that are catapulted from the Mind and Heart of God. Many remain there
and never go further, and they are the Divine Brothers and Sisters of the
Golden Robe who project the thought-forms into the Third Sphere.

The more adventurous Spirits go forth into the Third Sphere and learn the
activity of the Holy Spirit and breathe into their thought-forms Light, and
these thought-forms become living entities. Many live within this Pink
Sphere of blazing Light and go no further, embodied representatives of the
Holy Spirit Intelligences that people this Sphere.

Some go on further, into the Realm of the Bridge Builders, the Realm of
Serapis Bey--the Fourth Sphere--where they can be summoned then into form;
here they identify themselves with all the many various kinds of endeavors
that serve mankind. Many remain within this sphere--the White Sphere--and
choosing embodied spirits, project compositions to the people on Earth as
well as beautiful prose and poetry, exquisite forms of architecture,
sculpture and painting, and never choose to embody. They generate the
directed beam from within, that some incarnate soul below picks up because
he is sensitized and enjoys the same type of service.

The more adventurous still proceed into the Fifth Sphere, into the Temple of
the Scientists and the Inventors, and add the Green Band to their Causal
Body, just as the advancing members of an army add the stripes and stars of
accomplishment. Here they work with the inventors, doctors, and men of
research. Many remain within this Sphere, finding such happiness and joy
that they go no further.

The adventurous continue on to the Sixth Realm, where they join those who
are interested in carrying the Nature of God into the world of form. These
Beings are the power behind all missionaries, ministers, priests, rabbis,
and metaphysical teachers. Many remain within this Sphere and go on no
further and they add the Ruby Color to the Causal Body while they remain
therein.

Each pulsation decreases the number of adventurous and bold spirits. Some
come into the Seventh Sphere of the Ascended Master Saint Germain and
experiment with Divine Alchemy, and the powers of the Violet Fire of Mercy,
Compassion, and direct the Angels of Mercy into the world of form. These
individuals overshadow men and women who work, particularly with the
"fallen," in places of depravity. Many of these do not embody.

Only those who have proceeded through the Seven Spheres and have
self-consciously created a Causal Body with Seven Bands of Colors within it
can apply for embodiment on Earth. Then, if they are accepted according to
the band of color which is widest in their aura, they are drawn under the
direction of one of the Great Manus to which the affinity of Their color and
Ray will magnetize them, and they become a candidate for one of the Seven
Root Races and its subraces.

Those who are Guardian Spirits passed through a similar period of
experimentation in the Seven Spheres of some other Planet, Star or Sun,
otherwise there would not be within the lifestream sufficient energy to
warrant Earth life. You will see then, that even in the first people born on
Earth, even the innocent souls, have had tremendous training in inner
levels. . ." *(From an address of Beloved Jesus to the students. "The
Ascended Masters Write the Book of Life")*

*FOOTNOTES - CHAPTER 6*

1. In the following, we give excerpts of Holy Aeolos' life on Earth, as was
given by Him in an address to the students at the Chateau de Liberte Retreat
of the Chohan of the Third Ray, Paul the Venetian, on October 15, 1953.

It should be remembered that Holy Aeolos, in His last embodiment on Earth,
was the blind Greek poet Homer, author of the Odyssey and the Iliad.

". . . I came from another planet to this Earth, along with many of you, to
guard this evolution and I, along with most of the Guardians, eventually
became caught in the creations of thought and feeling which made the veil of
human creation. I was born, finally, in the beautiful country of Greece, and
it was there that I received My Illumination and in that embodiment, My
physical sight was not functioning.* It was considered an affliction by My
family and early in My youth, I had to make My way by caring for sheep on
the hillside. There was no one to show Me the path because in those days
afflictions of the flesh and weaknesses were considered "curses," imposed by
God, and those so afflicted were more or less outcasts and they either died
in bitterness or worked their way back to understanding God as best they
could. I walked along those rocky hillsides, deep crevasses on one side
where a faulty footstep would have meant death, with a herd of sheep, and
the wool from these sheep I sheared with My own hands and the produce
thereof gave Me the humble fare that I required. I was fortunate in living
in a land where there were no extremes in temperature, and a little goat's
milk, the olives from the trees and the warm sun and the grass were
sufficient for My bodily needs; but I suffered because of My affliction, and
because of the code of the day which said that those afflicted were
cursed--I did not understand in those days that the curse was because of our
own use of life--and God sent Me friends to help Me, to guide Me, to show Me
where to place My staff, to tell Me of the blue of the sea, and the green
grass, and I came to be grateful that because My physical eyes could not
see, My soul was turned always toward the Law--this inexplicable
"something," which had given to My brothers and sisters sight but had barred
Me from it, and I contemplated and there was born the heart of the Psalms,
that I later recorded through David."

The late Mrs. Frances K. Ekey, formerly associate editor of "The Bridge to
Freedom Journal," and one of the pioneer members of the organization, in one
of the issues of "The Lighthouse to Freedom," *(Vol.2, November, 1961,
p.2)*relates of a fireside conversation they had with Aeolos, then the
Maha
Chohan, and how then, besides telling them of the above, He added that
through the mercy of one of the Ascended Masters, he gained His vision.

It was with inexpressible gratitude and joy, says Mrs. Ekey, that the Maha
Chohan was relating the event to them. The first thing He saw with His
vision "was the face of the Master, the blue of the sky, the green of the
grass, and the beauty of the sea. . . "

2. Example to this we have in the radio, discovered by Leonora, and which
was used by Saint Germain to contact Mighty Victory on Venus. Reminiscent of
this, the latter related that when first he heard Saint Germain's voice, he
thought that it was impossible that the "jungle" that was the Earth could
develop anything that would annihilate space. Scarcely his thoughts ended,
however, when the voice of Saint Germain was heard again telling him that
the Earth was not "dull"; she had "wisdom," but she needed help and
encouragement. "Would you like to give us assistance?" "With all my heart,"
was the immediate response, and that's how Mighty Victory came to Earth.

Years later, in 1965, the same Leonora who discovered the aforesaid radio,
an unascended being then, but "Ascended Lady Master Leonora" now, talking to
the students, said that "she was holding for humanity the key to the
scientific unfoldment. . .

". . . If I were to shower upon man all the wisdom which the Father has
granted Me in keeping for the mankind of Earth, they would not know how to
use it, and it would be abused in some cases or ignorantly put aside in
others. . . "

Continuing: "We look to the present and We see the thralldom of the senses,
and We see the frantic searchings of the scientists of the world who are
looking for some new invention with which to conquer neighbors. How do you
think We can grant the requests of men's hearts when all they are given is
used to fight one another, to gain victory over one another, to gather
spoils, to conquer nations. Indeed, the lust of the flesh has grown in
proportion, and mankind are even more greedy than they were in the latter
days of Atlantis. . . "

May you always have walls for the winds,
a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire,
laughter to cheer you, those you love near you,
and all your heart might desire.
--Irish Blessing--