How the mayavirupa is formed

(RI 101) It might be stated that an intelligent understanding of this sentence will lead to those actions
which "produce the death and dissipation and final dissolution of the personality through the ending of
karma." It must be remembered that a Master has no personality at all. His divine nature is all that He
has. The form through which He works (if he is working through and living in a physical vehicle) is a
created image, the product of a focussed will and the creative imagination; it
is not the product of desire, as in the case of a human being. This is an important distinction and one
which warrants careful thinking. The lesser lives (which are governed by the Moon) have
been dispersed. They no longer respond to the ancient call of the reincarnating soul, which
again and again has gathered to itself the lives which it has touched and coloured by its quality in the
past. The soul and the causal body no longer exist by the time the fourth initiation is undergone.
What is left is the Monad and the thread, the antahkarana which it has spun out of
its own life and consciousness down the ages and which it can focus at will upon the physical plane,
where it can create a body of pure substance and radiant light for all that the
Master may require. This will be a perfect body, utterly adapted to the need, the plan and the purpose
of the Master. None of the lesser lives (as we understand the term) form part of it, for they can only
be summoned by desire. In the Master there is no desire left, and this is the thought held
before the disciple as he begins to master the significance of the fourth Rule.

The sum total of memory is absorbed at the 4th initiation

(RI 507) Then the soul life—as hitherto understood—fades out and the causal body disappears. The
sum total of memory, [Page 507] quality and acquirements is then
absorbed into the Monad. The words "I and my Father are one" become true. The astral
body also vanishes in the same great process of renunciation, and the physical body (as an
automatic agent of the vital body) is no longer needed, though it persists and serves a purpose
when so required by the Monad. From the form aspect, you then have the Monad, the sphere
of the Spiritual Triad and the etheric body upon the physical plane. I would here
remind you that the levels of conscious existence which we regard as formless are only relatively so,
because our seven planes are the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. The centre of
consciousness is now in the Will nature, when this point of attainment is reached, and is no longer in
the love nature. Activity and love are still present in full measure, but the focus of the initiate's
attention is in the will aspect of divinity.

(CF 936) The substance of the highest physical form of a human being is
therefore atomic. The Master's physical body is made of atomic
matter, and when He wishes to materialise it on the dense physical plane, He forms a
sheath of gaseous substance upon that atomic matter, perfect in its
delineation of all the known physical traits. The substance of the highest form of
animal body is that of the second ether, and herein is to be found a clue as to the
relation between all sea and watery forms to the animal. The highest form of body
possible for the vegetable form of life is that of the third ether. These
facts will be demonstrated in the seventh round when the present three kingdoms of nature—the
human, the animal, and the vegetable will objectively exist in etheric matter; that
will be for them their densest manifestation. The mineral kingdom will find its highest manifestation in
matter of the fourth ether, and this transmutation is already taking place, for all the
radioactive substances now being discovered are literally becoming matter of the fourth ether. The
mineral kingdom is relatively nearing its possible manvantaric perfection, and by the time the seventh
round is reached all mineral lives (not forms) [Page 936] will have been transferred to another planet.
This will not be so with the other three kingdoms.

(CF 942) The second stage now takes place, in which the work of building proceeds until the
microcosm, man, makes his appearance upon the physical plane. This is succeeded by a third stage of
evolution, in which the psychic nature of man is to demonstrate through the medium of the [Page 942]
created forms. Then the next two groups of Sephiroth are seen reproduced in man. He is
demonstrated to be nine from another angle (the ninefold division is
connected to the soul and consciousness, not form and the personality) but we are
only concerned in this section with the builders of the form.

These groups of builders are four in number:

1. The builders of the mental body.

2. The builders of the astral body.
3. The builders of the etheric body.
4. The builders of the dense physical.

This material applies very much to the divisional charts (including the decanates)
and their relationship to the subplanes
Each of these groups can be subdivided into four or seven or three, according
to the plane concerned. Students must remember that matter from the two lowest
subplanes of the physical and of the astral planes (these have five
subplanes-hence the five signs of revelation for the four final incarnations leading
up to the 3rd initiation) are never built into the human body as now constituted;
it is of too
low a vibration, and too coarse a grade for even the lowest
type of men on earth at this time. It must be pointed out also that in the average
man, the matter of some subplane will preponderate (and the fourfold
Hindu cast system ) according to the depth of his nature and his place on the ladder of evolution.
The "builders" of the human body work under the direction of one of the Lords of
Karma from the lowest group. These Lords are to be found in three groups, and a Lord
out of the third group has the work of superintending the builders of the human being on the three
planes. Under Him are to be found certain karmic agents, who again are divided into the
following groups:

1. Three karmic agents responsible to the karmic Lords for the work on the
three planes.
2. Five karmic Lords who work in close connection with the Manus of
the various races, and who are responsible for the correct building of the varying race types.
3. Karmic agents responsible for the subrace types of the present time.

4. Certain intermediary agents who represent (within these three groups) the
seven Ray types.
5. Those agents of the good Law who are connected specifically with the work of the etheric centres,
and their response to the different planetary centres.
6. The keepers of the records.

These various intelligences manipulate the building forces through the medium of streams of energy,
which streams are set in motion when the Ego sounds his note. It must be remembered that in more or
less degree upon
his own plane the Ego is aware of his karma, and of what
must be done to promote growth during the coming incarnation. He
works, therefore, in connection with these Lords, but
is only directly in touch with an
agent of the sixth group and of the fourth. Through these two the work proceeds
as far as the Ego is individually concerned, and they set in motion for him (after he has sounded his
note) the machinery of the Law.

The builders of the human personality again are divided into seven main groups; all
devas, just as is the case with the human Monads, come under one or other of the
seven Rays, and are responsive to one or other of the seven logoic streams of fiery energy.
According to a man's egoic Ray, so will be the type of deva substance
influenced.

Council members at Shamballa cannot take a dense physical body

(EH 637) ………This substance is also composed of all grades and qualities of matter, from the very
coarsest up to the very finest, as for instance the quality of the substance which makes the appearance
of the Buddha or of the Christ possible. The Lord of the Earth, the planetary Logos, cannot find
substance animated by the spirit of the earth of a quality and nature pure enough; He cannot, therefore,
materialise or make an appearance, as can the Buddha or the Christ. Few of Those who
form the Council Chamber at Shamballa can find the needed or adequate
substance by means of which to appear; They cannot take a dense
physical body, and have to be content with an etheric vehicle. There are
therefore three types of life, affecting the dense appearance of a human being during his restricted
manifestation or incarnation: