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October 29, 1943
Continuing with the Tibetan's commentary on Rule One, this talk and class discussion remain more tightly focused than usual. Perhaps that is because everybody finds DK's chief topics - the clear cold light, the burning ground, the Dweller on the Threshold and the Angel of the Presence - evocative and mysterious. The discussion is particularly intense concerning the group equivalent of each of these discipleship passages.
October 22, 1943
This talk includes extensive readings from Master DK's summarizing comments on the Fourteen Rules. Here he confronts the basic question: What is group initiation? His answer leads to AAB's theory regarding students who have dropped out of the Arcane School during the War. She also expresses her sense of failure in the School's use of the second part of the Great Invocation - of failing to "stand with massed intent." "We used it because we wanted to be obedient," she adds, "and that is not the way to get results." DK introduces three forms of interpretation of the Rules that challenges the group of students and keeps them more tightly focused than usual.
October 15, 1943
Using DK's commentary on Rule One, this discussion hones in on two instructions. What practical meaning is carried in the statement that the basic attitude of the would-be initiate is one of purpose governed by pure reason and working out in spiritual activity? Second, AAB asks how one can live an invocative life, in the context of the statement, "when your life is fundamentally invocative, then there will come the evocation of the will." The conversation concludes with a consideration of the relative power of goodwill and evil in the context of the ongoing World War.
October 8, 1943
This talk continues with Rule One for Group Initiation. The third sentence is under consideration, and the group relates the concept of "cold light" to each burning ground being "colder and clearer" than the preceding one. Initiation, group purpose, and contact with spiritual energy as opposed to Soul energy dominate this discussion.
October 1, 1943
The big question in this discussion is: What is the inner purpose of this group? While leading and deepening the group's thinking on that question, AAB admits that she doesn't know. The group as a whole, using Rule One and DK's related teachings, seeks to intuit the answer. Those present, in trying to function as an invocative group, produce the most focused discussion thus far.
September 24, 1943
Basing this discussion on Rule One, AAB talks about the meaning of initiation, particularly in group formation. She also emphasizes the sacrifices involved in working in a Master's ashram. The concept of Purpose is related to the burning ground, and those present strive to put into words the purpose of the School group.
September 17, 1943
AAB and the student group begin a new cycle of talks focusing on the 14 Rules for Group Initiation that DK was dictating at the time. They use the introductory material as a basis for diagnosing and correcting the recent "slump" in the Arcane School.
Final Talk, Spring 1943
AAB starts this talk with selected readings from the first two Rules for Group Initiation. Here DK defines the "burning ground" as one of the crises of initiation in which all self-will is destroyed. Levels of service within the subjective group and in the Master's Ashram are discussed, based upon the disciple's identification with either the Soul or with the Monad. The group also considers the role of the will in precipitating the crisis of initiation and the nature of the new powers that are evoked thereby.
May 28, 1943
This talk begins with a discussion of the four lines of spiritual teaching that were emphasized through the centuries until 1875. Modern disciples are assumed to have mastered them, and now "new knowledge must supercede the old," according to DK. AAB and the group of students seek to determine what that new knowledge is.
May 21, 1943
This discussion centers on a statement by the Tibetan that the revelation given to the initiate is factual and leads to, among other things, new powers and new modes and fields of service. What are they, exactly? AAB and the attending students utilize the group mind and come up with seven new powers. The evening concludes with a lively discussion about the imminent new modes and fields of service.
May 14, 1943
This meeting served as a group response/discussion on the previous Friday's reading by AAB of the Tibetan's new article, "The New World Religion."
May 7, 1943
AAB reads a new 17-page article by the Tibetan entitled "The New World Religion." This constitutes the first in-depth presentation on this important Hierarchical initiative.
April 30, 1943
AAB talks extensively of her early life and how she came to work with the Masters. In the process she illustrates what contact with the Masters means and how to distinguish between the status of accepted disciple and that of world disciple.
April 23, 1943
What are the requirements for initiation and how do we know when it has occurred? AAB and the group of students probe the psychological and spiritual issues surrounding this mysterious and little-known phenomenon, which is also a major factor in evolution.
April 9, 1943
The nature of the aura; knowing the Masters through their sphere of influence rather than only in theory; defining and experiencing higher consciousness; commitment to discipleship work; the effect disciples and Masters have upon their immediate environment.
April 2, 1943
The use of group energies for protection and for service to humanity during the Wesak and Goodwill Festivals; how the group can cooperate with the Hierarchy and meet world need at this crucial time; how focusing on technique limits our power to invoke and evoke.
March 26, 1943
The higher Will; the meaning of sacrifice; true creativity and the Antahkarana; correspondence of Shamballa-humanity to Monad-personality.
March 19, 1943
Methods of aligning with the Masters.
March 12, 1943
Discipleship, initiation and relationship with the Masters.
March 5, 1943
Group fusion, the distinction between the Plan and the Purpose, requirements for membership in a Master's ashram, becoming invocative of the intuition
