The LHP focus on the individual struggles connects to this idea I’ve been thinking alot recently: the RHP dismission of the wordly, the monasticism, the idea of not serving two lords seem to be more or less opposite, yet complementary to the LHP focal point where the connection to the Master on individual level is found from noticeably narrow area. Narrow in the sense of specificity, individual interests, perhaps even passions etc. While the being who reigns our planet is the whole world to us, it is curious how one reaches to a connection to it by the narrowest of gates defined by ethics. This narrowness, on the other hand is more familiar on RHP connections. One might often feel like the boddhisattva(s), the Master(s) through which the transcending trajectory of Uranus-Neptunus appears to break through any given plight at hand, are only (practically speaking) to be found from within this really narrow area, the point where the spirits of Lucifer and Christ meet.
I was wondering here if the challenges, and thus connection to the masters, becomes easier for the whole of humanity in certain areas as human individuals master certain areas to a degree that their state of the boddhisattva, or connection to the body of boddhisatva, is reached in this certain area of their specificity? Sort of becoming a patron saint to ease the struggle in those certain challenges in the anima mundi.
It is a captivating detail in the usual portrayal of the relationship to the masters that when the student falls drastically enough, the connection is obscured or cut on most levels. A close example of this can be found from the Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnet where, if my memory serves me right, the mahatmas cut direct contacts to Hume and even to Sinnet(?), after they fail enough times to meet them according to the conditions the masters have set. One way of looking at those conditions I tried to draw in the paragraph above.
The conditions set by the masters rises the question of unconditional love, which I would suppose defining the masters themselves. But is it not conditional, if there’s certain requirements? No, because the love of the masters is in touch with the understanding of different conditions, and the challenges that must be overcome there. Their unconditional love reaches every condition, and leaves it up to the aspirant to answer the challenge. The unconditional love of the masters is in trusting for human beings to make the choice and truly find the initiations themselves. There is no Love, no unity, in an aspirant’s decisions to actively work against the unity and the conditions drawed out from there, so there’s a fall and a true possibility for failure as surely as there’s a true possibility for an attainment. We may look at this through the masculine virtue as defined by Pekka Ervast (freely translated):
Conquering Evil wrote:He stands like a rock as the tempests try to thrust him down, he knows that he as an immortal human being stands unshaken even if the whole world would crumble down around him. This is the masculine attribute we as humans have to develop in ourselves; one must be able to stand calm, not by defending or flustering, not by taking up the sword or the revolver, nor by attacking the other. One must stand tranquil and calm when the beasts maul and when his brothers might go on and crucify him. There is the masculinity of a human being.
Interestingly we have imagery here not unfamiliar to the Left-Hand Path: the mauling beasts, or fascination towards the demonic beings and vampires ripping one’s flesh is quite usual in the Left-Hand Path imagery. One who is working with such beings can not do it in an upward manner without the solar-phallic virtue demanding oneself a stationary human – ethical – interaction with the peripheral creatures of the night. Without the masculine virtue balancing the night creature’s, who are representatives of the circumference – the feminine principle, the blood thirsty creatures are free to act purely according to their instincts that are largely based on fear. The result is uggly and devastating. But when the interaction is defined by the masculine virtue’s practical representation, and openness to the realities of the feminine nocturnal beasts, then we can see it opens the door to a more direct connection with the masters. While in the wrestle to actuate the balance between the feminine and the masculine, there seems to be almost like a confusion of what is Love when there is problems with remaining within the solar-phallic virtue of the masculine. This means one becomes possessed by the beasts, and fails in attaining the Luciferian Selfhood. Thus the Masters connection remain perhaps solely masked by the beasts, and the idea of the brotherhood of humanity in its essence remains obscure, which means again that the masters are unconditional in their love, appearing also in the lower stages. Only it is a limited connection, although it may remain vital for a long time as mastering these virtues usually takes quite alot of attempt and time. Trough such a window the love of the masters is revealed as an immovable law – a principle – of nature:
buddhi.
Hope the longwinded nature of the text isn't too much. I had alot of thoughts I wanted to write about around the Christmas holidays, and there was so much text that I abhorred to go through them to be posted here. Perhaps I could also think of editing some of them in to article form.