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CHIP OF THE SACRIFICIAL STAKEA symbol of the germ of Divine Life — the Higher Self — which is placed on the fourth sub‑plane of the astral plane of the soul. “He inserts a chip of the stake under the rope with, ‘Thou art the son of the sky.’ For it is doubtless the offspring of that sacrificial Stake.” — Sata. Brāh. III. 7, 1, 22. “Moreover, that chip of the stake is made an ascent to the heavenly world; there is this girdle rope; after the rope the chip of the stake; after the chip of the stake the top‑ring; and from the top‑ring one reaches the heavenly world…. With that part of the Stake which is dug in, he gains the world of the Fathers; and with what is above the dug‑in part up to the girdle rope, he gains the world of men; and with what is above the rope up to the top‑ring, he gains the world of the Gods; and what space of two or three finger’s breadths there is above the top‑ring, the Gods called the ‘Blessed,’ their world he therewith gains; verily, whosoever thus knows this, he becomes one of the same world with the blessed Gods.” — Ibid., III. 7, 1, 23–5. The Supreme places the germ of the Higher Self in the planes below, that it may manifest its nature as the Son of the Highest. For this germ is the seed of the Tree of the Divine Life — the product of the Self‑limitation of God. Verily, the germ of the Divine Life implanted in the soul raises it upward to the buddhic plane. At first, growth is brought about through the outward activities of the emotions (girdle); afterwards the spiritual germ evolves and the personality is perfected; then the personality unites with the individuality and rises to the buddhic causal‑body (top‑ring), and so the consciousness rises to the buddhic plane. By means of the Divine Life working in astro‑physical forms, the personality is developed on the astral plane (world of the Fathers). Then the Spirit within adds the lower mind and emotion‑nature, and the personality gains the mental plane (world of men). The Spirit becoming active in the mind gradually perfects the personality, and so the higher planes (world of the Gods) are gained. Then above the causal‑body (top‑ring) the soul rises to the buddhic plane after passing two or three sub‑planes of the higher mind. On the buddhic plane the ego inherits the results of the experiences below. Truly, the soul who through experience of the lower life has attained to the higher becomes in harmony with the highest ideals on their own plane. It is said that in cutting down the Tree for the Stake, the first chip is taken as “full of vigour,” and this is afterwards thrown into the hole in which the Stake is set up. Signifying that the Tree of the Divine Life becomes the Stake of aspiration, or the Ray from the Supreme which provides the spiritual germ. It is through the energy of the Spirit that all evolution is accomplished. |
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