To think that we are only inhibited planet... is not to see the meaning of LIFE.... of the functions of different hierarchies, the whole idea of energy, its consciousness base.
The historical process can (and will) reveal the gradual entrance of mankind into ever-expanding "lighted areas" of consciousness; into these areas the way of evolutionary unfoldment has led the race of men right up to the point where there are many, many thousands have been enabled to step out of the lighted field of the three worlds into another area where the light of the mind can be blended with the still greater light of the soul.
"The creative work three energies are brought into a related activity:
1. The energy concentrated in the ajna centre and which is indicative of the personality life.
2. The energy concentrated in the head centre as a result of soul activity.
3. The energy of the LIFE itself. ( each has three aspects : intelligence,sentience, will).
When the threefold basic fire and the threefold pranic fire meet and merge, then evolution proceeds with greatly increased velocity. This is effected definitely at the first Initiation when the polarization becomes fixed in one or other of the three higher centers—which center being dependent upon a man’s ray.
The result of this merging leads to a change in the action of the centers. They become “wheels turning upon themselves,” and from a purely rotary movement become fourth dimensional in action, [1] and manifest as radiant whirling centers of living fire.
The three major head centers (the sequence varying according to ray) become active and a similar process is effected between them as was effected in the pranic triangle.
[2] From being three centers that react faintly to each other’s vibratory movement (feeling the warmth and rhythm of each other, yet separated), the fire leaps from center to center, and each whirling wheel becomes linked by a chain of fire till there is a triangle of fire through which the kundalini and pranic fires radiate back and forth.
Circulation is also carried on. The fire of kundalini produces the heat of the center, and its intense radiance and brilliance, while the pranic emanatory fire produces ever increasing activity and rotation.
As time elapses between the first and fourth Initiation, [3] the threefold channel in the spine, and the entire etheric body is gradually cleansed and purified by the action of the fire till all “dross” (as the Christian expresses it) is burnt away, and naught remains to impede the progress of this flame.
As the fire of kundalini and prana proceed with their work, and the channel becomes more and more cleared, the centers more active, and the body purer, the flame of spirit, or the fire from the Ego, comes more actively downwards till a flame of real brilliance issues from the top of the head.
This flame surges upwards through the bodies towards its source, the causal body. ========================================
As time progresses the fire of mind burns more brightly and thus reaches a point where it begins to burn through the etheric web—that portion of the web that can be found guarding the center at the very top of the head, and admitting entrance to the downflow from the Spirit. By its means certain things are brought about:
The kundalini fire is consciously directed and controlled by the mind or will aspect from the mental plane. The two fires of matter by the power of the mind of man are blended first with each other, and, secondly, with the fire of mind.
The united result of this blending is the destruction (under rule and order), of the etheric web, and the consequent production of continuity of consciousness and the admission into the personal life of man of “Life more abundant,” or the third fire of Spirit.
The downrush of Spirit, and the uprising of the inner fires of matter (controlled and directed by the conscious action of the fire of mind) produce corresponding results on the same levels on the astral and mental planes, so that a paralleling contact is brought about, and the great work of liberation proceeds in an ordered manner.
The three first initiations see these results perfected, and lead to the fourth, where the intensity of the united fires results in the complete burning away of all barriers, and the liberation of the Spirit by conscious directed effort from out its threefold lower sheath. Man has consciously to bring about his own liberation.
Bailey, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, 1925