Death
ALICE A. BAILEY: Esoteric Healing, page
501: “We come now to the enunciation of a new law [Law X] which is substituted for the Law of Death and which has reference only to those upon the later stages of the Path of Discipleship and the stages upon the Path of Initiation.”
503 – 04: “My proposition will serve to show you some of the relationships between death and constructive activity, and the wide usefulness of death as a process in reconstruction. It will convey to you the idea that this great Law of Death—as it governs substance in the three worlds—is a beneficent and corrective event. Without enlarging upon it, I would remind you that this Law of Death, which governs in such potency in the three worlds of human evolution, is a reflection of a cosmic purpose which governs the cosmic etheric planes of our solar system, the cosmic astral plane and the cosmic mental plane. The death-dealing energy emanates as an expression of the life principle of that greater LIFE which enfolds all the seven planetary systems which in Themselves express the Life of our solar system.”
Desire
ALICE A. BAILEY: Esoteric Psychology II, page
159: “Once the aspirant upon the Probationary Path has a vision of this [the truth](no matter how slight it may be), then the law of desire which has governed him for ages will slowly and surely give place to the Law of Repulse, which will, in time, free him from the thralldom of not-self. It will lead him to those discriminations and that dispassionate attitude which is the hallmark of the man who is on his way to liberation.
Destiny
ALICE A. BAILEY: Discipleship in the New Age II, page
311 – 12: “What we are dealing with here, in connection with initiate training, is the impending realisation for which any opening cycle attests its waiting, and for the new truths and the expanded spiritual presentations which it is the destiny of the initiate to bring to the people. You will note that I choose the word “destiny” in preference to the word “karma” because in this type of work the initiate is working and practising and progressing under a Law of Destiny. This law affects the Ashram and the Hierarchy as a whole, and neither is under the Law of Karma, as usually understood. This Law of Destiny has been brought into being since the foundation of the Hierarchy on Earth; it is the result of the pledged and united dedication to service which is the outstanding note of the united Ashrams. It is therefore a sevenfold law, for it takes on the seven colours of the seven rays, the seven qualities, modes and methods, techniques and energy expressions of all the seven rays. It is therefore, as far as humanity is concerned, free from all evil, because it is selflessly motivated and is—in a measure—a difficult law for you to comprehend. Pure destiny, devoid of all evil intent, is an enigma to the average disciple. It appears to contravene other laws with which he is familiar. As the race of men achieves increasing purity in the three worlds, this pure destiny will become correspondingly effective. This is an important point upon which to reflect.”
Destruction
ALICE A. BAILEY: Rays and The Initiations, page
75 – 76: “One of the purposes lying behind the present holocaust (World War II) has been the necessity for the destruction of inadequate forms. This destruction could have been brought about by an act of God, such as a great natural catastrophe or a universal epidemic, and such had been the original intention. Humanity was, however, swept by forces that carried in themselves the seeds of destruction, and there was that in humanity which responded to those forces. Therefore the Law of destruction was permitted to work through humanity itself, and men are now destroying the forms through which many masses of men are functioning.”
Differentiation
ALICE A. BAILEY: Esoteric Healing, page
690: “It is at this point that the initiate is confronted for the first time with the Seven Paths, because each Path constitutes a mode of penetrating into realms of realisation beyond our planet altogether.
In order to do this, the initiate has to demonstrate his mastery of the Law of Differentiation and arrive at a knowledge of the Seven Paths through differentiating the seven sounds which make up the one Sound, but which are not related to the seven sounds which compose the threefold AUM.”
Disciples
ALICE A. BAILEY: Discipleship in the New Age I, page
532: “Forget not, that under the Law governing disciples, opportunities will inevitably arise which will enable you to adjust past conditions and any faulty handling.”
Disintegration – 3rd Systemic Law (Law of Dissolution)
ALICE A. BAILEY: Cosmic Fire, page
569: “b. Seven Systemic Laws.—Subsidiary to the three major laws, we find the seven laws of our solar system. Again we find the law of analogy elucidating, and the three becoming the seven as elsewhere in the logoic scheme. In each of these seven laws we find an interesting correlation with the seven planes. They are: …
- The Law of Disintegration.On the third plane comes the final casting-off, the ultimate shedding of the sheaths, of the fivefold superman. A Chohan of the sixth Initiation discards all the sheaths beneath the monadic vehicle, from the atmic to the physical.”
579 – 583: “3. The Law of Disintegration.—This is the law that governs the destruction of the form in order that the indwelling life may shine forth in fullness. It is another aspect of the Law of Cohesion—the reverse side (if one might so express it), and is just as much a part of the divine plan as that of attraction. It is one of the laws that ends with the solar system, for the great laws of attraction, cohesion and love last on into that which is to come. …
On the path of involution it controls the process of the breaking up of group souls; it governs the periods when the permanent triads are transferred from one form to another; it works through the great world cataclysms, and we need to remember that it governs, not only the physical plane catastrophes (as we erroneously term them), but the corresponding cataclysms on the astral plane, and the lower levels of the mental plane. It governs physical plane disruptions, especially those affecting the mineral world; it controls the disintegration, on the astral plane, of thought-forms; it dissolves the astral vehicle when left behind, and the mental likewise. The dissipation of the etheric double is the result of its working.
Again we can correlate this law with that of Attraction, for the two interact upon each other. This law breaks up the forms, and the Law of Attraction draws back to primal sources the material of those forms, prior to rebuilding them anew.
On the path of evolution the effects of this law are well known, not only in the destruction of the discarded vehicles touched upon above, but in the breaking up of the forms in which great ideals are embodied,—the forms of political control, the forms in which nature itself evolves, apart from those in which individual consciousness manifests, the great religious thought-forms, the philanthropic concepts and all the forms which science, art, and religion take at any one particular time. All eventually break under the working of this law. …”
ALICE A. BAILEY: Esoteric Healing, page
501: “Disease and death are essentially conditions inherent in substance; just as long as a man identifies himself with the form aspect, so will he be conditioned by the Law of Dissolution. This law is a fundamental and natural law governing the life of the form in all the kingdoms of nature. When the disciple or the initiate is identifying himself with the soul, and when the antahkarana is built by means of the life principle, then the disciple passes out of the control of this universal, natural law and uses or discards the body at will—at the demand of the spiritual will or through recognition of the necessities of the Hierarchy or the purposes of Shamballa.”
Divine Law and order – See also Divine Laws in the section Groupings
LUCILLE CEDERCRANS: Nature of the Soul, Glossary, page
518: “DIVINE LAW: The underlying pattern which the planetary or solar life uses to govern or order its evolution, i.e., its purpose.
LUCILLE CEDERCRANS: Nature of the Soul, Glossary, page
540: “SEVENTH RAY: Divine Law and Order; Ceremonial Magic. This is the interface between the Will and Matter aspect which allows a greater impression of the Will and a greater fluidity or receptivity of matter.”
LUCILLE CEDERCRANS: Applied Wisdom
Divine Law and Order, page 251: “Master M: Each disciple working within this particular group life, and I refer to the overall group life, is given this aid:
This aid is a very simple one but its potency is great and far reaching ‑ that Divine Order which in men is brought into manifestation within the life and affairs via a simple means of discipline. Each disciple knows what constitutes for him right action. Each one knows the disciplines which he must exercise in order to be of service to the Divine Plan. Each knows the disciplines which he must exercise within his own thoughtlife, within his own emotional life, within his words and his deeds. Attention to such disciplinary action creates that order which is the manifestation of Divine Purpose and Divine Love in the outer life and affairs.”
Economy, page 281: “Always qualify all activity in Divine Law and Order. This protects the individual. Understand that any higher energy which you appropriate and give to another individual can only be used by that individual according to Divine Purpose so long as he is unconscious or unaware of that energy. When he is aware, when he is conscious of it, then he himself is capable of appropriation and can then appropriate and direct it as he so wills. In such an instance it is important to qualify, to direct, to place the energy, so to speak, in the jurisdiction of the Soul within the instrument. In such a case, one should visualize the alignment between the overshadowing Soul and the incarnate consciousness within the head. For those daily contacts that you make with average humanity, individuals who are unaware of the existence of such energy, it will follow the Divine Purpose for which it was intended.”
Duality
ALICE A. BAILEY: The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, page
118 – 19: “But the divine plan of evolution was based upon the production of this relationship between spiritually conscious man and the form aspect, and thus the great Law of Duality came into action, bringing about the “fall of the angels,” as they descended from their sinless and free state of existence in order to develop full divine awareness upon earth, through the medium of material incarnation and the use of the principle of mind. This was the divine plan, emanating from the Mind of God and swept into activity and progressive unfoldment by an act of His Will. At its inception, there took place the original “war in the heavens,” when the sons of God who responded to the divine urge to experience, to serve and to sacrifice, separated themselves from the sons of God who responded to no such inspiration but who chose to stay in their original and high state of being. To this truth, Christ Himself bore witness in the story of the Prodigal Son and his relationship to his elder brother, who had not left the Father’s home. It is obvious, is it not, from this parable, where the approbation of the Father lay; a careful study of this story and an intuitive understanding of its implications may evoke some day a response to the “sin of experience,” as it has been called, and a comprehension of the two major laws governing the process: the Law of Evolution and the Law of Rebirth. Here lies the prime initiating cause of what is taking place today.”
Duty
ANNIE BESANT: Laws of the Higher Life*
“What is, then, the Law of Duty? It varies with every stage of evolution, though the principle is ever the same. It is progressive, as evolution is progressive. The duty of the savage is not the duty of the cultured and evolved man. The duty of the teacher is not the duty of the king. The duty of the merchant is not the duty of the warrior. So that when we are studying the Law of Duty, we must begin by studying our own place on the great ladder of evolution, by studying the circumstances around us that show our karma, by studying our own powers and capacities, and ascertaining our weaknesses. And out of this careful study we must find out the Law of Duty by which we must guide our steps.”