As we come forward into this vibration, we come so that we might share some information…information that concerns the topic of initiation in general. We wish to re-emphasize even more strongly how very important we consider this topic to be in these times you are going through in human evolution. Over the last 15-20 years there has been much discussion about these times you are living in. Many say that these are the “end times” -- times that were foretold many years, and in some cases, many centuries ago. These are indeed times of great challenges for the Earth herself, and all of her lives that live on the Earth…challenges that are presented by the so-called “earth changes.”
Earth changes are natural, whether they are disastrous or catastrophic, all depends on the intensity – be it positive or negative – of the energies that are emitted by collective humanity at any given point in time. The planet affects all the lives that live upon her skin, of course. But it is humanity that affects the earth. Do not forget that when we refer to “Earth,” we are also including the planet’s atmosphere that stretches some 20,000 miles 360° out into space. We consider the earth’s atmosphere as its “aura” -- an aura that is very much a part of the earth’s body. The earth plays a significant role in the planetary system of which it is a part. At this time the earth is serving the role, so to speak, of being the major life-bearing planet. This is not meant to say that there is not any one-cellular life forms that dwell upon other bodies in the solar system, for this is not the case. Many of these are in the earliest stages of life, and will continue to evolve over the coming millions of years. Many of these are in the earliest stages of life, and will continue to evolve over the coming millions of years to the point where life – human life – has evolved to at the present time. To the people that will say that you are living in the “end times,” times when very-bad things are and will continue to occur, making their pronouncements seem as if they are etched in stone and thus will occur, they say that no one has any power over what happens in these times. Well, if this particular perspective is nourished, it will indeed bring about times that could easily and correctly be thought of as “end times.”
Earth changes are natural, whether they are disastrous or catastrophic, all depends on the intensity – be it positive or negative – of the energies that are emitted by collective humanity at any given point in time. The planet affects all the lives that live upon her skin, of course. But it is humanity that affects the earth. Do not forget that when we refer to “Earth,” we are also including the planet’s atmosphere that stretches some 20,000 miles 360° out into space. We consider the earth’s atmosphere as its “aura” -- an aura that is very much a part of the earth’s body. The earth plays a significant role in the planetary system of which it is a part. At this time the earth is serving the role, so to speak, of being the major life-bearing planet. This is not meant to say that there is not any one-cellular life forms that dwell upon other bodies in the solar system, for this is not the case. Many of these are in the earliest stages of life, and will continue to evolve over the coming millions of years. Many of these are in the earliest stages of life, and will continue to evolve over the coming millions of years to the point where life – human life – has evolved to at the present time. To the people that will say that you are living in the “end times,” times when very-bad things are and will continue to occur, making their pronouncements seem as if they are etched in stone and thus will occur, they say that no one has any power over what happens in these times. Well, if this particular perspective is nourished, it will indeed bring about times that could easily and correctly be thought of as “end times.”
I, Albion, say that these are not “end times,” but “beginning times” you are living in. The very first challenge that every life form (but we will focus on human beings) must meet is learning the difference between a natural period of planetary change and a “man-created” time of the same, between natural events, including weather, seismic, storms and other natural events. Keep in mind that the earth is alive! Earth changes have an effect upon the physical body of the planet, as well as its ethereal, emotional, mental, and soul. We will say that by the time the year 2012 AD has come, collective humanity will have reached a point of being on the threshold of one of the most major time of human transformation of consciousness in human history thus far! Not since humanity evolved out of the so-called Dark Ages into the so-called Light Ages…out of the ages of ignorance into the overwhelming capability of perceiving and living by and within Light.
When we say that by the year 2012 AD, those humans, both individually and collectively, will have reached a point of transformation, we speak about a point that we do not want you to forget. It will be a time of choices that each person, each nation, each race, and all sorts of groups and organizations of people, must make. Many will stand at the door of Initiation. Each will have to decide whether to hesitate, to walk through the door, or not to walk through the door that leads one into a higher, more refined level of consciousness. This will be one of the most important decisions concerning the use of one’s free will that one will encounter in their life. This is true because the decision each one will make can and will greatly influence the future, indeed the very “destiny” of the planet. It, in fact, will influence the destiny of humanity and all forms of life that dwell on Earth. And so to understand as thoroughly as possible by the human intellect about initiation is so very significant now.
We can define initiation as the process that the human soul undergoes the experiences involved with the process of self-development, self-knowledge, as well as the gaining of knowledge, and of the physical universe within which you live. When each major step in the “process” of learning comes about, the person has reached a point where he or she is ready for an initiation that ultimately brings about an elevation and refinement of one’s consciousness. This is what initiation is all about: “I am more aware; I am more conscious; I am in better control of my life’s circumstances; I am more aware of myself and of all the lives around me that share this planetary home with; I am aware that I am a “child of the universe”, and have made it an issue in my personal life to making all of this something more than mere “data,” even if that data be of a personal nature, but to be capable of living this as my “truth” consciously on a personal basis."
However, before one begins the actual process of undergoing an initiation, there is a step that comes first. In the East, it is known as the Path of Probation. When you think about it, the word “probation” indicates that one is being monitored or observed…one’s thoughts being monitored and one’s actions being observed so that the higher evolved Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light Beings can make a decision as to what role can a particular person serve, assuming that the person is deemed to be a capable world server. The Hierarchy will also decide what area of life on Earth is in need of service. Thus, the person is put under a sort of microscope that will allow the Higher Powers to observe and listen to. You may question as to why the Higher Beings have a need to listen and observe potential initiates, since they are such evolved beings. Why can’t a teacher or Master simply judge that immediately in a person’s aura and by one’s frequency or personal vibration? The answer to this is very important for you to understand. On the one hand, the Masters can do what we just suggested that they should do. However, because of the precarious times you are living in, because of the protection and power necessary for the flow of Evolution to continue, one should take whatever steps one can and should be taken in order to assure not the Masters' judgment of the pupil, but the pupil’s judgment of his or her self. When one discovers that they have been chosen and accepted by the Hierarchy, one is more likely to accept that these qualities not only exist, but that they are part of one’s own self.
It cannot be said that the Path of Probation lasts for any given amount of time…not an hour, a day, or a year. It is thus futile to seek to put Probation within a specific window or amount of time. This is oftentimes done incorrectly for there are those who do not feel comfortable and secure unless they have a specific and definite time slot for everything. They want to know when everything is going to occur, how it is going to occur, and why. While one is busy keeping all such information going on and alive in their mind, one easily overlook the importance of what is taking place of the event one is incessantly seeking to time.
Once a person is accepted onto the Path of Probation, one becomes a student, which in the East is known as a chela. The chela will then be assigned under the guardianship of an elder Master like a mother hen taking her chicks under her wings. The Probationer will be assigned an initiate that will be their "Spiritual Companion.” During this time the chela becomes more and more consciously aware of the spirit being / Master soul’s “presence” within their magnetic field or aura. The chela’s awareness of the presence of the Master will increase as time goes on, all of which is the aim of laying the foundation of initiation to occur. Those who are not aware on this level are still a prisoner of the Darkness, you see.
The next thing the chela will begin to experience and learn is how to focus on the issues, circumstances, and concerns the chela’s general thought patterns. For example, you know if you are an optimistic or pessimistic. You know whether you are active or passive, etc. And so, when the normal thought process begins to shift, then the chela becomes consciously aware that he or she is “receiving” information and knowledge from a source other than their own High Self or Soul. Again, the Higher Powers use telepathy to teach from the higher levels to the lower levels. The Masters use telepathy to communicate with their Probationer(s) and their Disciples. The more skillful the chela becomes in being able to detect the “teachings” and “instructions” from the Master into his or her heart and intellect, the more capable the Probationer becomes in doing the work at hand. During the time of Probation, the chela will personally experience all of their karmic condition coming to light. A person’s karmic condition is determined by what “dues” a soul has to pay in order to restore balance to their innermost being…the Soul. Thus, the Soul will guide a person into the right relationships, jobs, places, etc. so that the chela will set up circumstances for their karmic debt to be repaid, assuming that there are debts to be paid. All the chela’s faculties will be harmonized so that their condition is not only recognized, but it also can and should be addressed. It can also go much deeper, when one reaches down inside of one’s self and realizes that all that he or her has been through were not necessarily experiences that I learned something from. So, the chela realizes that because the lesson, whatever it was and is, was not learned, this is something that must be a conscious, deliberate, and conscious goal. So that by the time the Path of Probation comes to an end, the chela is ready to serve and to know what the nature and purpose of one’s service is all about becomes clear. They will have a skilled knowledge of how to receive telepathic thoughts and information from the living, from the world of the Spirits, and from the Master. The chela will also know more about his or her self that has ever been recognized before. Thus, as the chela’s Path of Probation comes to a close, it brings the chela to the “door” of Initiation. By this time, the chela’s life and circumstances could have changed tremendously. Changes that occur this time in the mind of the chela are numerous. For example, the power of color, sound, mathematics, sacred geometry, and much more in the universe will be known and understood. The chela will have come to observe and understand their relationship with the Star Nation. Many will recall past lives, helping them to better understand the past long gone.
When one has reached the point of becoming a true candidate of Probation, one is ready to be taught and conditioned to travel into other dimensions of time / space, and to reach into and function from a higher level of consciousness. A probationer must be able to make a sound, solid commitment to the fact that he or she is on the right path and have chosen the right path in life. One gathers knowledge from all that one experiences and subscribes to, including various religions and philosophies, as truth can be found in all. No label needs to be put on one’s chosen path. Losing that “need” is real and true growth. If this is done, the intellect can block the ability to intuit. When one intuits something, one knows that what is being intuited is true.
When one finally comes to the Path of Initiation, one is going to experience what is generally called the “Dark Night of the Soul.” This can be a very negative experience if one chooses to face such with fear. An initiate knows that he or she can and will be ready and capable of overcoming fear with courage and self-trust. This is an important statement that we ask you to ponder carefully and thoughtfully. When one is an initiate, then all that one has learned becomes an integral part of one’s daily spiritual life. An initiate has learned how to deal with and relate to better, how to choose and behave in their relationships, the work, their home life, and so forth.
We trust that you will study what we have said very carefully. Many who will read or hear these words will come to the point of entering upon the Path of Probation in their personal lives. It is also important to realize that many confuse the Path of Probation with the Path of Initiation. This needs to be clearly understood. Probation precedes the Path of Initiation, you see.
When we come together again, we wish to focus our thoughts further on the topic of Initiation. We will speak about the “gap” that exists between the Path of Probation and the Path of Initiation. So be it.
Originally published Sept. 17, 2006
(c) Copyright Page Bryant, 2006 & 2012. All Rights Reserved. Image courtesy of Fotolia.com.
When we say that by the year 2012 AD, those humans, both individually and collectively, will have reached a point of transformation, we speak about a point that we do not want you to forget. It will be a time of choices that each person, each nation, each race, and all sorts of groups and organizations of people, must make. Many will stand at the door of Initiation. Each will have to decide whether to hesitate, to walk through the door, or not to walk through the door that leads one into a higher, more refined level of consciousness. This will be one of the most important decisions concerning the use of one’s free will that one will encounter in their life. This is true because the decision each one will make can and will greatly influence the future, indeed the very “destiny” of the planet. It, in fact, will influence the destiny of humanity and all forms of life that dwell on Earth. And so to understand as thoroughly as possible by the human intellect about initiation is so very significant now.
We can define initiation as the process that the human soul undergoes the experiences involved with the process of self-development, self-knowledge, as well as the gaining of knowledge, and of the physical universe within which you live. When each major step in the “process” of learning comes about, the person has reached a point where he or she is ready for an initiation that ultimately brings about an elevation and refinement of one’s consciousness. This is what initiation is all about: “I am more aware; I am more conscious; I am in better control of my life’s circumstances; I am more aware of myself and of all the lives around me that share this planetary home with; I am aware that I am a “child of the universe”, and have made it an issue in my personal life to making all of this something more than mere “data,” even if that data be of a personal nature, but to be capable of living this as my “truth” consciously on a personal basis."
However, before one begins the actual process of undergoing an initiation, there is a step that comes first. In the East, it is known as the Path of Probation. When you think about it, the word “probation” indicates that one is being monitored or observed…one’s thoughts being monitored and one’s actions being observed so that the higher evolved Brotherhood and Sisterhood of Light Beings can make a decision as to what role can a particular person serve, assuming that the person is deemed to be a capable world server. The Hierarchy will also decide what area of life on Earth is in need of service. Thus, the person is put under a sort of microscope that will allow the Higher Powers to observe and listen to. You may question as to why the Higher Beings have a need to listen and observe potential initiates, since they are such evolved beings. Why can’t a teacher or Master simply judge that immediately in a person’s aura and by one’s frequency or personal vibration? The answer to this is very important for you to understand. On the one hand, the Masters can do what we just suggested that they should do. However, because of the precarious times you are living in, because of the protection and power necessary for the flow of Evolution to continue, one should take whatever steps one can and should be taken in order to assure not the Masters' judgment of the pupil, but the pupil’s judgment of his or her self. When one discovers that they have been chosen and accepted by the Hierarchy, one is more likely to accept that these qualities not only exist, but that they are part of one’s own self.
It cannot be said that the Path of Probation lasts for any given amount of time…not an hour, a day, or a year. It is thus futile to seek to put Probation within a specific window or amount of time. This is oftentimes done incorrectly for there are those who do not feel comfortable and secure unless they have a specific and definite time slot for everything. They want to know when everything is going to occur, how it is going to occur, and why. While one is busy keeping all such information going on and alive in their mind, one easily overlook the importance of what is taking place of the event one is incessantly seeking to time.
Once a person is accepted onto the Path of Probation, one becomes a student, which in the East is known as a chela. The chela will then be assigned under the guardianship of an elder Master like a mother hen taking her chicks under her wings. The Probationer will be assigned an initiate that will be their "Spiritual Companion.” During this time the chela becomes more and more consciously aware of the spirit being / Master soul’s “presence” within their magnetic field or aura. The chela’s awareness of the presence of the Master will increase as time goes on, all of which is the aim of laying the foundation of initiation to occur. Those who are not aware on this level are still a prisoner of the Darkness, you see.
The next thing the chela will begin to experience and learn is how to focus on the issues, circumstances, and concerns the chela’s general thought patterns. For example, you know if you are an optimistic or pessimistic. You know whether you are active or passive, etc. And so, when the normal thought process begins to shift, then the chela becomes consciously aware that he or she is “receiving” information and knowledge from a source other than their own High Self or Soul. Again, the Higher Powers use telepathy to teach from the higher levels to the lower levels. The Masters use telepathy to communicate with their Probationer(s) and their Disciples. The more skillful the chela becomes in being able to detect the “teachings” and “instructions” from the Master into his or her heart and intellect, the more capable the Probationer becomes in doing the work at hand. During the time of Probation, the chela will personally experience all of their karmic condition coming to light. A person’s karmic condition is determined by what “dues” a soul has to pay in order to restore balance to their innermost being…the Soul. Thus, the Soul will guide a person into the right relationships, jobs, places, etc. so that the chela will set up circumstances for their karmic debt to be repaid, assuming that there are debts to be paid. All the chela’s faculties will be harmonized so that their condition is not only recognized, but it also can and should be addressed. It can also go much deeper, when one reaches down inside of one’s self and realizes that all that he or her has been through were not necessarily experiences that I learned something from. So, the chela realizes that because the lesson, whatever it was and is, was not learned, this is something that must be a conscious, deliberate, and conscious goal. So that by the time the Path of Probation comes to an end, the chela is ready to serve and to know what the nature and purpose of one’s service is all about becomes clear. They will have a skilled knowledge of how to receive telepathic thoughts and information from the living, from the world of the Spirits, and from the Master. The chela will also know more about his or her self that has ever been recognized before. Thus, as the chela’s Path of Probation comes to a close, it brings the chela to the “door” of Initiation. By this time, the chela’s life and circumstances could have changed tremendously. Changes that occur this time in the mind of the chela are numerous. For example, the power of color, sound, mathematics, sacred geometry, and much more in the universe will be known and understood. The chela will have come to observe and understand their relationship with the Star Nation. Many will recall past lives, helping them to better understand the past long gone.
When one has reached the point of becoming a true candidate of Probation, one is ready to be taught and conditioned to travel into other dimensions of time / space, and to reach into and function from a higher level of consciousness. A probationer must be able to make a sound, solid commitment to the fact that he or she is on the right path and have chosen the right path in life. One gathers knowledge from all that one experiences and subscribes to, including various religions and philosophies, as truth can be found in all. No label needs to be put on one’s chosen path. Losing that “need” is real and true growth. If this is done, the intellect can block the ability to intuit. When one intuits something, one knows that what is being intuited is true.
When one finally comes to the Path of Initiation, one is going to experience what is generally called the “Dark Night of the Soul.” This can be a very negative experience if one chooses to face such with fear. An initiate knows that he or she can and will be ready and capable of overcoming fear with courage and self-trust. This is an important statement that we ask you to ponder carefully and thoughtfully. When one is an initiate, then all that one has learned becomes an integral part of one’s daily spiritual life. An initiate has learned how to deal with and relate to better, how to choose and behave in their relationships, the work, their home life, and so forth.
We trust that you will study what we have said very carefully. Many who will read or hear these words will come to the point of entering upon the Path of Probation in their personal lives. It is also important to realize that many confuse the Path of Probation with the Path of Initiation. This needs to be clearly understood. Probation precedes the Path of Initiation, you see.
When we come together again, we wish to focus our thoughts further on the topic of Initiation. We will speak about the “gap” that exists between the Path of Probation and the Path of Initiation. So be it.
Originally published Sept. 17, 2006
(c) Copyright Page Bryant, 2006 & 2012. All Rights Reserved. Image courtesy of Fotolia.com.