Control and mastery over the astral- emotional body is very difficult and arduous, and will take many incarnations to achieve before the second initiation can be taken.
The fact that the greater bulk of humanity today,- being polarized in the astral body, makes this goal of passing through the second initiation a very difficult long path of sufferings,- a realization of ones short comings , backsliding, agony of mind, along with much ``psychic growing pains``,and much hardship over several lives.
Once the first initiation is taken there are then about 6-7 incarnations in which one passes from being an astral polarized being, to that of achieving total mental polarization shortly after the second initiation. thus shifting awareness to a level above the astral planes and setting one free from the illusions and glamour's from a world we have created ourselves through the unwholesome use of the creative imaginations with it;s phantasms, , emotional bondages , its seductive and beautiful fantasies that many have mistaken as ``mystical experience`s ``… , but, in fact are forms of astral intoxication!!. Take for example the behaviour seen in many fundamental Christian groups who work themselves into an emotional hysteria , shouting ``praise the Lord!!!``, …. `` be healed now!`` ,screaming out their sermons , losing control while sputtering and foaming at the mouth.!!!!. Pure astral intoxication, and yet claiming such morbid behaviour as a spiritual experience.!!?
The goal set forth for man during the Atlantean 4th Root Race was the out- growth and development of the astral- emotional body ,along with the budding germ of Mind or ``Manasic principle``. The astral-emotional body - developed very well ,and so powerful-, that it is still the major polarization for the vast majority of humanity today.
We are in the early epoch of the 5th Root Race. The long term goal for humanity now is the growth and development of the lower mental body. The astral- emotional body of man took 12 million years to develop to what it is today. We all have had thousands of incarnations during this period of the Atlantean Root Race.
The coming labour of evolution now facing humanity will be arduous,- a journey through millions of years,- and will involve not just one root race ,- but will include the rest of this round and into the middle of the next round. Thus the full evolution of the lower and higher abstract mind will come into full fruition , revealing an unbelievable beauty not as yet comprehensible to the masses at this time. The Higher mind is an aspect of the inner Divine Self and must come into full development before the end of the 5th round.
The goal set before us now is freeing ourselves from the glamour's of the astral planes and the achievement of mental polarization as more of the Sons of Men begin to tread the path of initiation and service to both God and Man. As many of you know mental polarization begins at a point between the first and second initiations,- or at about [ 1.6 ] , and is more or less completed at about [ 2.3] when spiritual polarization begins ,and the man or woman prepares for the third initiation and is thus a manifestation of Divinity upon the physical , astral-emotional, and mental planes. From the Spiritual Hierarchy point of view the third initiation is really the first true soul initiation into Divinity.
The most important thing for every aspirant to do is to detach himself from all seductiveness and fantasies of the various levels of the astral planes and to ``see`` from a distance [ so to speak ] and learn its nature ,pitfalls, and the many countless glamour's that seek to snare the unwary. In many ways the astral planes are the fields of glamour and illusion.
Again I say ;- the greater bulk of humanity today are polarized on the astral- emotional planes ,which at this point in evolution , holds man as a prisoner of his own creation. It is this fact that makes the 2nd initiation the most difficult of all initiations to pass through. As the initiate advances forward there comes a time ,-after many incarnations,- where no glamour or illusion can long hold one who has the dedication and determination to fight his way into a greater measure of freedom , pure reason , into the Divinity and Light of His own SOUL,- or Higher Self.
