Updated with comments from Mentor on 05.11.2020
230.1 The 5th Kingdom
What is the 5th kingdom of Nature?
The 5th kingdom of Nature is the spiritual kingdom, which is also called the Kingdom of God or the Kingdom of Souls. The Hierarchy is the living essence of this kingdom.
Correct– (except the Kingdom of God is the 6th Kingdom in nature, which includes the Solar Logos).
a. What are its characteristics?
The 5th kingdom of Nature is characterised by group consciousness/soul consciousness/Christ consciousness and love - wisdom, the second aspect of Divinity.
Exactly right.
b. What part did Jesus play in promoting its manifestation within humanity?
Jesus played an important role as the embodiment of Christ consciousness descending the first time on Earth to initiate the great work of the Divine Plan. He sacrificed His Life to fulfil the Plan, which is bringing Heaven to Earth, realizing the Kingdom of God on Earth.
Right. It’s interesting that Jesus is actually, quote, “an adept on the sixth ray under the department of the Mahachohan, works at present under the Christ for the welfare of Christianity.”– IHS:47
230.2 The Mineral Kingdom
We are told that “The secrets of transmutation are the true secrets of (the mineral) kingdom and the two words expressing the process and the secret are condensation and transmutation.” (EP I 222) Please define or describe transmutation:
a. The processes of transmutation as it occurs in atoms associate with the work of alchemists and the changing of inner structures of atoms that lead to producing a different kind of atoms or substances. This involves 3 stages of (1) fiery disintegration of form, (2) resolving and (3) volating, taking a new form.
b. As it is used in conjunction with the work of the Hierarchy. We can see here the analogy of transmutation in the work of the Hierarchy, which is supporting the transmutation of our Planet Earth into a higher state of being. In this work, every man is like an atom unit of our planet. And thus, each transformation of one single person contributes to the shift of the whole planet.
Transmutation is specifically concerned with the ‘three sheaths’– the third, or form aspect of humanity, though not just with the physical body. For example, we can transmute the quality of our thoughts and desires through meditation.
230. 3 The Vegetable Kingdom
What are the rays and attributes of the vegetable kingdom and why is it important that this should be our source of food more than the mineral or animal kingdom?
The rays of the vegetable kingdom are ray 2, ray 4 and ray 6. Its attributes are magnetism, beauty, attractiveness and perfume. Vegetables should be our source of food rather than minerals or animals because of the following reasons:
• Compassion for animals as they have more subtle emotional bodies that can experience pain.
• Avoiding the karma of killing.
• Vegetables draw their energy directly from the sun, water and the earth and thus they are full of prana as food and good for health.
• Vegetarianism is a way of purification for the physical body.
• Vegetarianism helps in reducing environmental problems caused by livestock farming.
Correct on the rays– and I totally agree with the reasons you give for vegetarianism!
230.4 The Animal Kingdom
a. Discuss the analogy and correspondences of the NGWS to domesticated animals.
There is an analogy in the relationships of the New Groups of World Servers (NGWS) and Humanity vs. the domesticated animals and the Animal World.
• They are both the advanced groups in levels of consciousness as compared to fellows in their own kingdoms.
• They are both the linking bridges between their kingdoms and the next higher kingdoms. The NGWS is the linking bridge between the Hierarchy (the 5th kingdom) and Humanity (the 4th kingdom); while domesticated animals are the linking bridge between Humanity (the 4th kingdom) and the animal kingdom (the 3th kingdom).
• The mode of communications in their rapports are both related to telepathy. The rapport established between the NGWS and the soul kingdom is intuitional telepathy by nature, through the heart chakras; while the rapport between domesticated animals and humanity is instinctual telepathy through solar plexus chakras.
Exactly right. Also, both groups have an allegiance/identification with the next higher kingdom.
b. What role does the 6th ray play in advancing consciousness from one kingdom to the next?
The role that the 6th idealism ray plays in advancing consciousness from one kingdom to the next is that it brings about the aspiration to grow towards an ideal archetype. This is the urge to evolve, to advance to higher levels of consciousness.
Correct. DK says,“The sixth Ray of Devotion embodies the principle of recognition. By this I mean the capacity to see the ideal reality lying behind the form; this implies a one-pointed application of desire and of intelligence in order to produce an expression of that sensed idea.”
This leads to transmutation, and eventual transformation.
Good job, Daisy!
LL&P,
Francis
