, magnetic, attractive factor conditioning all of your personal and group relationships. Recognize that you have learned to use your mind in two directions: Increasingly at will you can instantly turn the searchlight of your brilliant mind into the inner world of your soul and also into the world of illusion for the dissipation of glamours.
Do not lose sight of the fact that your soul has deliberately chosen for you the karmic life circumstances that will almost unavoidably or inevitably face you with opportunities for the self-initiated trials and the purging disciplines necessary for your onward evolution. After some progress has been made the fierce opposition of your personality to your inner work will be further tested to provide the opportunity for your soul to fully irradiate your emotional body. After the completion of these specific tests you will no longer feel the usual fear, possess no personal desire and express no personal animosity or hatred. You will be joyous and free from any form of personal angst or delusion and finally released from any entrapment in the worlds of maya, glamour and illusion. This in no way involves the negation or disabling of outward opposing forces, people or conditions, but rather the attainment of joy and inner peace as a result of the establishment of what Buddhists term 'correct view'. Right relations with your environment does not necessarily connote peaceful conditions in the three worlds of human endeavor, but rather an inner state of peace as you fulfil your soul mandate regardless of what is transpiring in the outer world. This is not an easy task because the sum total of all your instinctive tendencies, all your inherited glamours and all your wrong mental attitudes have to be conquered, subdued and overcome before you can move forward. At this stage as you are still dwelling in a personality and have not yet taken the Third Initiation, you have major work ahead.
The esoteric school or group that you lead or to which you belong, is both your proving ground and training ground. You belong to the new school that is entrusted with the task of producing the modern esoteric curricula of psychology, healing, astrology and science. As the established arena of initiatory endeavor, this will prove sufficiently challenging and difficult a battleground. Your soul is asking of you an intensity and a dynamic one-pointed focus. Your salient task is to deepen and enrich the group life of which you are an integral part. Many new experiences and much advanced instruction is being given as training. The forming of your group was not an easy matter, and its continuation will also be difficult. You question your ability to conform to your own self-imposed requirements and to submit to the self-imposed group discipline of your own making. Doubtless you have sincerity of purpose and of life intent, but do you have the necessary steadfast determination to tread the Path towards your Aquarian Group goal with true brotherly love and deep occult recognition? Hold to your decision to form your own group or school in spite of failure at times to achieve even your own standards of spiritual living. Endeavor to conform to the group requirements of your own free will and for the purposes of group unity and integrity. It is wise to make the effort and to accept spiritual opportunity by a temporary acquiescence and voluntary group obedience to prove that there is a purpose and a planned understanding behind group living and the new advanced Aquarian technique of group training. It takes time for adjustments to be made and for the needed subjective unfoldments and revelations to be brought about. Be patient my brother. You have already demonstrated remarkable courage, great restraint and a steadfast will, and can achieve much in this life if you continue to so apply yourself.
Endeavor to grasp in a new and dynamic manner the dual life of discipleship. You must learn to function simultaneously in the field of service and the field of karmic obligation. Your primary responsibility is to set an example for those who are at the first stage of group consciousness and group service. You seldom act without due consideration of consequences. Work with your group so that each person learns intelligently and powerfully to master glamour in their own lives. When you have learned to dominate conditions through the power of your soul, then you can work constructively in the midst of group conditions untouched by glamour. Do not permit this dutiful expression of your high calling, this expression of honor and sacrifice, to weigh heavily upon you, but bear the burden with joy. Be occupied with the problem of sensitive response and not with the glamour of leadership surrounding your role in the group. Deal with causes and not with effects. Strive to dispel fear, doubt and uncertainty in the minds of others. Ever strive to clarify your group field with the illuminating rays of science, logic and clear, precise thought. To the best of your ability use the First Ray of Will and Power to cleanse your group field and to render service on the astral plane, that sphere wherein so much group healing needs to take place among your co-workers and associates. Reveal to others the joy of the soul that is discovered through the pure perception of the illuminating rays of the light of Truth. Accept the limitations of your group field, which is your principal vehicle of world service. In all cases the way to overcome personal limitations in the group field is through the expression of true selflessness. However at present there is still far to go to attain this goal.
Venus guarantees your eventual spiritual victory. Here this means that your whole divine Self, although not yet in perfect expression, will ground itself upon the physical plane with sufficient accuracy and clarity to be pilloried and made example of. Yes even though rent to shreds you must have, as H.P. Blavatsky has said, "the heart of a Lion to scorn the savage barking of the dogs of envy, malice and ignorance and the soul of a dove to forgive the poor ignorant fools". (HPB) The drastic tests of the central decan are designed to ultimately lead you to a state of illumination expressive of the triumph of the soul. Give up your attachment and desire for benefit in this lifetime and concentrate upon your soul's contribution to the welfare of humanity. Your work will take many lifetimes to fulfil so expand the range of your vision to encompass a real understanding and appreciation of what gifts and contributions you have to make to the future. How else can you survive the present, with the memory of your past suffering?
The spiritual imagination is the most creative faculty. Can you picture to yourself by any flight of imagination the task ahead for your spiritual group or school project? For instance, in the 21st century what changes do you envisage occurring? Outer changes mean nothing unless they are the result of new vision, for if they emerge out of criticism of what has been done in the past they will prove useless from the perspective of the spiritual life, no matter how useful they may be from the angle of outer organization. Have you the perception to deeply understand what an esoteric school or spiritual group essentially has to be? What would it be like if you had to be the one to teach, to inspire others, if there was no more advanced initiate to take on this role? From where would you draw inspiration, and how would you make the world of meaning and the spiritual realities real and provocative to the neophyte? What would it be like to have to shoulder all the blame for any group failure, even when you are not personally responsible? How would it be if you had to accept without retaliation the attacks of those you are trying to help, who expect too much from you and who force you to live in the blazing fire of group opinion? What will you do when your co-workers fail to understand or prove disloyal or criticize without warrant or pit their ambitions against you, willfully refuse to see your point of view and gossip about you to others and thus seed resentments and misunderstandings about you without foundation? And what if some of those resentments and misunderstandings did have foundation and some of the criticisms were justified, warranted, applicable and true? These scenarios are not easily and gracefully accepted by the Scorpio personality. Therefore exercise your creative imagination to deal with these problems so that the emerging principles of conduct may stand clear before you. Have you the inner grace of heart to admit error and weakness and to say that you made a mistake of judgment or an error of expression in your understanding of a given teaching, or a mistake of technique, method or approach? Would you be willing to admit your mistake if the need arose to heal a breach and in the interests of the work? Even at the stage of Accepted Discipleship this proves an almost insurmountable task.
In order to increase your output in your group and world service, and to aid you to reorganize both your inner and your outer life, you must work more conscientiously and scientifically with the factor of time. You must also cultivate more definitely than you do the trained attitude of the Observer of life, of people and of yourself. Cultivate the attentiveness of the one who looks on at life and at the life struggles of others. You are a sound therapist, teacher and psychologist, not only from academic training but from rich experiences in former lives that have given you a natural intuitive grasp of people's problems, their motives and their impulses. You know people because you love them. You are developing harmlessness. Your ability to do well along so many different creative lines means that there are many ways in which you can reach others, and this is your chief asset upon the Path. Right discrimination about how to help people is rare, but you can achieve it when the appropriate personal sacrifices have been made. When you can avoid identifying yourself so closely with people, when you can refrain from suffering so consciously with them, you can be of greater service to them and a finer friend and helper. At the fifth step detachment is an outstanding requirement and a quality to be cultivated. This is not the detachment of self-protection or a self-immunization or al