Radiation

Subsidiary law of the Law of Attraction, 2nd Cosmic Law
ALICE A. BAILEY: Cosmic Fire, page
1040: “This spiral-cyclic activity, which is distinctive of all forms, can perhaps be comprehended more practically if we study it as an expression of four laws, taking each one briefly in turn: …”

1060 – 83: “4. The Law of Radiation. It will be found that more time will be given to this expression of divine activity than to any other in this section, as it is the one of the most practical utility.  This Law of Radiation is one that is beginning to be recognised by scientists since their acceptation of the radioactivity of certain substances, and when they are willing to approximate the occult conception of the radiatory, or emanatory condition, of all substances at a specific point in evolution, then they will very definitely approach Reality.

Radiation is the outer effect produced by all forms in all kingdoms when their internal activity has reached such a stage of vibratory activity that the confining walls of the form no longer form a prison, but permit of the escape of the subjective essence.  It marks a specific point of attainment in the evolutionary process, and this is equally true of the atom of substance with which the chemist and physicist deal, when working with the elements, as it is of the forms in the vegetable kingdom, the forms in the animal kingdom, in the human, and, likewise, in the divine.

1. The Cause of Radiation. …
2. Radiation in the Five Kingdoms. …
3. Radiation and Cyclic Law. …”

1170 – 1171: “5. The Law of Radiation.  This is one of the most interesting of the laws for it only comes into activity in connection with the highest specimens of the various kingdoms, and concerns itself with the attraction that a higher kingdom of nature will have for the highest lives of the next lower kingdom.  It governs the radioactivity of minerals, the radiations of the vegetable kingdom and (curiously enough) the entire question of perfumes. Smell is the highest of the purely physical senses; so in the vegetable kingdom a certain series of perfumes are evidence of radiation in that kingdom.

There is, moreover, an interesting link between those who are members of the fifth kingdom (the spiritual) and the vegetable, for in esotericism the two and the five, the Son, and the Sons of Mind, are closely allied.  It is not possible to indicate more, but it is not without significance that certain Rays are, through the initiates and Masters, represented by vegetable perfumes.  It signifies radiation, and to those who have the key reveals the quality of the egoic lotus and the place it holds in any particular planetary lotus, as well as a connection with certain devas who are the sevenfold life of the vegetable kingdom.  We must not forget that man is occultly a “seven-leaved plant, the saptaparna.”

This law in a mysterious manner, inexplicable to those ignorant of the karma of our planetary Logos, is not operative in the animal kingdom during this Cycle or chain.  One of the problems of the next chain will be the bringing in of animal radiation; thus offsetting the method of initiation now pursued.  It must never be forgotten that the chain process of individualisation, and the earlier three Initiations concern the animal kingdom and man is viewed therein as an animal.  In the final Initiation or the offering up of the entire bodily nature, this part of the general karma of the planetary Logos and the Life of the informing Spirit of the animal kingdom become adjusted.  If this is meditated upon, some light may be thrown upon the problem as to why the Adepts of the left hand path in Atlantean days were called “the Trees,” and were destroyed with the entire Atlantean vegetation.  In the oldest of all the Commentaries the mystery is expressed thus:

“They (the Adepts of the Left Hand Path) became thus separated through their own fault.  Their smell rose not up to Heaven; they refused to merge.  No perfume was theirs.  They hugged to their greedy bosoms all the gains of the flowering plan.”