Friday, July 18, 2014

Spiritual HierarchyThe Chohans Cosmic Hierarchy is a very ordered system and studying the lifetimes of the Ascended Masters helps us to attune with them. It also shows us how they earned their various positions and offices in the Great White Brotherhood. For example, many of the lifetimes of El Morya reflect his initiations and mastery of the qualities found on the blue ray that include following the will of God, power, and faith. In some lifetimes he held positions of authority as a statesman, in others a king or ruler. El Morya was Melchior (one of the three wise men), Thomas Becket (the Lord Chancellor of England), and Sir Thomas More (the man for all seasons). One of his most recognizable lifetimes was King Arthur of Camelot. The First Ray is the blue ray and the Chohan is El Morya. The blue ray is the ray of power but it also has other qualities like faith, protection, will, and strength flowing through it. El Morya teaches us what it means to follow God’s Will, the wisdom behind it, and how to come into alignment with our Higher Self. The Second Ray is the yellow ray and the Chohan is Lord Lanto. This is the ray of wisdom, illumination, and enlightenment. Lanto guides us on our personal quest for knowledge, wisdom, and enlightenment and helps us to understand many of the wisdom teachings. Having been a wise sage in several of his past lives in ancient China he is highly qualified for this position in hierarchy. The Third Ray is the pink ray and the Chohan is Paul the Venetian. The pink ray is the ray of love and all that we associate with it like compassion, kindness, charity, and beauty. Paul the Venetian teaches us how to set healthy boundaries and cultivate the beautiful qualities flowing through the pink ray. If our heart needs healing he guides us through the process. He also teaches and trains us in the gift of discernment. The Fourth Ray is the white ray and the Chohan is Serapis Bey. Flowing through the white ray are the qualities of purity and harmony. Serapis Bey teaches us the value of self-discipline and how to keep our harmony. These are mandatory if we hope to be successful and gain self-mastery on the path of the seven rays. The Fifth Ray is the green ray and the Chohan is Hilarion. This is the ray of healing and wholeness. Self-healing is a must on the path. You have heard the saying, “Physician heal thyself.” When you work on healing yourself you gain a certain wisdom that is uniquely yours. This then becomes your gift that you offer to others. Hilarion guides us to heal our body, mind, and soul with an emphasis on wholeness. The Sixth Ray is purple and gold and the Ascended Lady Master Nada is the Chohan of this ray of service and ministration. Nada’s teachings are truly lovely. She teaches us the wisdom, beauty, and grace that come from nurturing, helping and serving others. The Seventh Ray is the violet ray and the Chohan is Saint Germain. This is the ray of freedom, forgiveness, mercy and transmutation and the ray of light descending for Aquarius. Many people feel very close to Saint Germain. As the sponsor of the Aquarian Age, he teaches us the true meaning of alchemy and how to use the violet flame, also called the “miracle flame.” The more you use it, the more you will come to understand why it is called this. Next we will look at how the Chohans work with us through seven sacred centers of transformation called chakras. Introduction Masters Path Higher Realms Sacred Space References Bookstore This website is independently owned, designed and produced by two Keepers of the Flame dedicated to spreading the Word of the Ascended Masters delivered through the Messengers Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Copyright© 2009 aquarianpath.com. All rights reserved.

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In the Ascended Master Teachings, Ascended Masters are believed to be spiritually enlightened beings who in pastincarnations were ordinary humans, but who have undergone a series of spiritual transformations originally calledinitiations.
Both "Mahatmas" and "Ascended Master" are terms used in the Ascended Master Teachings. Ascended Master is based on the Theosophical concept of the Mahatma or Master of the Ancient Wisdom. However, "Mahatmas" and "Ascended Masters" are believed by some to differ in certain respects.
The Ascended Master Teachings refer to the Sixth Initiation as Ascension.[1]
According to the Ascended Master Teachings, a "Master" (or "Spiritual Master") is a human being who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling on the 5th dimension. An "Ascended Master" is a human being who has taken the Sixth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling on the 6th dimension. An "Ascended Master" is a human being who has regained full union with his "Mighty I AM Presence." When a human being has regained full union with his "Mighty I AM Presence," that state of full union is referred to as "Ascension." Technically, a human being "ascends" when he takes the Sixth Initiation, and not before then.
A "Chohan" (Lord) of a "Ray" is an Ascended Master who has been placed in charge of one of the 12 "Rays" (until recently, 7 Rays were generally known, and 5 Rays were "secret"), due to having an extraordinary natural spiritual affinity for that Ray. A "Ray" is a concentrated stream of spiritual energy emanating, ultimately, from the Godhead. Each "Ray" is the embodiment/expression of one of the 12 great God-Qualities, such as Divine Will, Divine Wisdom, Divine Love, etc. The "Chohans (Lords) of the Rays" thus constitute a special grouping of Ascended Masters (Sixth Level Initiates).
Those who have taken the Seventh Initiation hold the Senior Administrative Posts in the Great White Brotherhood on Earth. These senior administrative posts are divided into 3 departments: The Department of the Manu, the Department of the Planetary Christ, and the Department of the Mahachohan. "
A "Lord of the World" is a human being (or a being of some lifewave other than the human lifewave) who has taken the Ninth Initiation. The Ninth Initiation is the highest Initiation possible on a 9d-dimensional planet grid such as Earth and it will be until the end of the 21st of December 2012. Sanat Kumara (a "Lord of the Flame" originally from the higher-dimensional levels of the planet Venus) was the original being who held the spiritual office of "Lord of the World" on planet here on planet Earth.


Ley line

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For other uses, see Ley Lines (disambiguation).

The Malvern Hills in England. Alfred Watkins believed a ley line passed along their ridge.
Ley lines /leɪ laɪnz/ are supposed alignments of numerous places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancientmonuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords. The phrase was coined in 1921 by the amateur archaeologistAlfred Watkins, in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track. He sought to identify ancient trackways in the British landscape. Watkins later developed theories that these alignments were created for ease of overland trekking by line-of-sight navigation during neolithic times, and had persisted in the landscape over millennia.[1]
In a book called The View Over Atlantis (1969), the writer John Michell revived the term "ley lines", associating it with spiritual and mystical theories about alignments of land forms, drawing on the Chinese concept of feng shui. He believed that a mystical network of ley lines existed across Britain.[2]
Since the publication of Michell's book, the spiritualised version of the concept has been adopted by other authors and applied to landscapes in many places around the world. Both versions of the theory have been criticised on the grounds that a random distribution of a sufficient number of points on a plane will inevitably create alignments of random points purely by chance.

Alfred Watkins and The Old Straight Track[edit]

The concept of "ley lines" originated with Alfred Watkins in his books Early British Trackways and The Old Straight Track, though Watkins also drew on earlier ideas about alignments; in particular he cited the work of the English astronomer Norman Lockyer, who argued that ancient alignments might be oriented to sunrise and sunset at solstices.[3][4]
On 30 June 1921, Alfred Watkins visited Blackwardine in Herefordshire, and had been driving along a road near the village (which has now virtually disappeared). Attracted by the nearby archaeological investigation of a Roman camp, he stopped his car to compare the landscape on either side of the road with the marked features on his much used map. While gazing at the scene around him and consulting the map, he saw, in the words of his son, "like a chain of fairy lights" a series of straight alignments of various ancient features, such as standing stones, wayside crosses, causeways, hill forts, and ancient churches on mounds.[1] He realized immediately that the potential discovery had to be checked from higher ground when during a revelation he noticed that many of the footpaths there seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a straight line.
He subsequently coined the term "ley" at least partly because the lines passed through places whose names contained the syllable ley, stating that philologistsdefined the word (spelled also as lay, lea, lee, or leigh) differently, but had misinterpreted it.[5][6][7] He believed this was the ancient name for the trackways, preserved in the modern names. The ancient surveyors who supposedly made the lines were given the name "dodmen".[1][8] Watkins believed that, in ancient times, when Britain was far more densely forested, the country was criss-crossed by a network of straight-line travel routes, with prominent features of the landscape being used as navigation points. This observation was made public at a meeting of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club of Hereford in September 1921.

Snodhill Castle in Dorstone
His work referred to G. H. Piper's paper presented to the Woolhope Club in 1882, which noted that: "A line drawn from theSkirrid-fawr mountain northwards to Arthur's Stone would pass over the camp and southern most point of Hatterall Hill,Oldcastle, Longtown Castle, and Urishay and Snodhill castles."[9] It has also been suggested that Watkins' speculation (he called it 'surmise')[1] stemmed from reading an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the British Archaeological Association in Hereford titled Boundaries and Landmarks, in which he speculated that "Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe".[10] He published his book Early British Trackways the following year, commenting "I knew nothing on June 30th last of what I now communicate, and had no theories".[11]

Examples of ley lines in Britain[edit]

Alfred Watkins theorised that St. Ann's Well in Worcestershire is the start of a ley line that passes along the ridge of the Malvern Hills through several springsincluding the Holy Well, Walms Well and St. Pewtress Well.[12]
In The Ley Hunter's Companion (1979) Paul Devereux theorised that a 10 mile alignment he called the "Malvern Ley" passed through St Ann's Well, the Wyche Cutting, a section of the Shire Ditch, Midsummer Hill, Whiteleaved Oak, Redmarley D'Abitot and Pauntley.[13]
In City of Revelation (1973) British author John Michell theorised that Whiteleaved Oak is the centre of a circular alignment he called the "Circle of Perpetual Choirs" and is equidistant from Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Goring-on-Thames and Llantwit Major. The theory was investigated by the British Society of Dowsers and used as background material by Phil Rickman in his novel The Remains of an Altar (2006).[14][15]
Perhaps relevant to the ley line argument is the existence of cursus, massive parallel imprints in the ground made by people between 3400 and 3000 BCE. Ranging in length from several hundred metres to well over a kilometre, their exact function remains unknown though they are commonly believed to have been used for ceremonial processions. Many of them do encompass Neolithic graves and monuments. However, while some cursus are relatively straight, others have curves and sharp turns. This may argue that ancient Britons had little interest in moving in straight lines over a landscape.[16]

Criticism[edit]

Watkins' work met with early scepticism from archaeologists, one of whom, O. G. S. Crawford, refused to accept advertisements for The Old Straight Track in the journal Antiquity.[17] Since 1989, refutations of Watkins' ideas have been generally based on mathematical methods such as statistics and Shape Analysis.

Chance alignments[edit]

Main article: Alignments of random points

Eighty 4-point alignments of 137 random points. The graphic illustrates the idea that straight lines between any number of points can be due to chance and not to design.
One criticism of Watkins' ley line theory states that given the high density of historic and prehistoric sites inBritain and other parts of Europe, finding straight lines that "connect" sites is trivial, and ascribable tocoincidence. A statistical analysis of lines concluded that "the density of archaeological sites in the British landscape is so great that a line drawn through virtually anywhere will 'clip' a number of sites." [18]

Shape analysis[edit]

A study by David George Kendall used the techniques of shape analysis to examine the triangles formed by standing stones to deduce if these were often arranged in straight lines. The shape of a triangle can be represented as a point on the sphere, and the distribution of all shapes can be thought of as a distribution over the sphere. The sample distribution from the standing stones was compared with the theoretical distribution to show that the occurrence of straight lines was no more than average.[19]
Archaeologist Richard Atkinson once demonstrated this by taking the positions of telephone boxes and pointing out the existence of "telephone box leys". This, he thus argued, showed that the mere existence of such lines in a set of points does not prove that the lines are deliberate artefacts, especially since it is known that telephone boxes were not laid out in any such manner or with any such intention.[20]

New Age endorsement[edit]

In 1969, the British author John Michell, who had previously written on the subject of UFOs, published The View Over Atlantis, in which he revived Watkins' ley line theories and linked them with the Chinese concept of feng shui.[2] The book, published by Sago Press, proved popular and was reprinted in Great Britain by Garnstone Press in 1972 and Abacus in 1973, and in the United States by Ballantine Books in 1972. Gary Lachmanstates that The View Over Atlantis "put Glastonbury on the countercultural map."[21] Ronald Hutton described it as "almost the founding document of the modernearth mysteries movement".[22]
Michell's mingling Watkins' amateur archaeology with Chinese spiritual concepts of land-forms led to many new theories about the alignments of monuments and natural landscape features. Writers made use of Watkins' terminology in service of concepts related to dowsing and New Age beliefs, including the ideas that ley lines have spiritual power [23] or resonate a special psychic or mystical energy.[24][25] Ascribing such characteristics to ley lines has led to the term being classified aspseudoscience.[26] New Age occultists claim ley lines are sources of power or energy. According to Robert T. Carroll, there is no evidence for this belief save the usual subjective certainty based on uncontrolled observations by untutored devotees. Nevertheless, advocates claim that the alleged energy may be related tomagnetic fields. None of this has been scientifically verified.[27]
In 2004, John Bruno Hare wrote:
Watkins never attributed any supernatural significance to leys; he believed that they were simply pathways that had been used for trade or ceremonial purposes, very ancient in origin, possibly dating back to the Neolithic, certainly pre-Roman. His obsession with leys was a natural outgrowth of his interest in landscape photography and love of the British countryside. He was an intensely rational person with an active intellect, and I think he would be a bit disappointed with some of the fringe aspects of ley lines today".[28]

In popular culture[edit]

Ley lines appear in various works (both novels and short stories) of fantasy.
  • In Stephen R. Lawhead's Bright Empire Series, multiple alternate realities, interdependent universes in a larger "multiverse", create ley lines where they intersect. In the series, the ley lines are used to travel between the various interconnected universes, thus connecting ley lines with string theory.
  • In Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar Series, numerous cultures access powerful streams of energy to produce magical powers.
  • In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, set in the 18th century, the Mason-Dixon line becomes increasingly confused with the idea of a ley line and with feng shui.
  • In the Darkness series by Harry Turtledove, ley lines are used for transport by ships and trains that harness the planet's magical force and allow mages to cast more powerful magic.[29]
  • In the Vampire Diaries book series by L. J. Smith a large number of ley lines converge under the graveyard and the Old Wood of Fell's Church. The lines allow supernatural forces to become more powerful and also attract magic.[30]
  • Ley lines are also used in The Last Apprentice series by Joseph Delaney to explain how boggarts and other dark beasties get around.
  • In Michael Scott's The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series, ley lines are often referenced, especially in regards to where they intersect. These intersections are referred to as leygates, which allow for teleportation from one such location to another.
  • In Traci Harding's The Ancient Future trilogy, and subsequent books set in the same universe, Ley Lines are areas with a high concentration of spiritual energy, places where rituals and crossings over into the "Otherworld" are most easily performed.
  • The overarching plot of the sci-fi manga Outlaw Star involves the search for a mysterious location known as the Galactic Ley Line.
  • Jethro Tull's song "Cup Of Wonder" on their 1977 album Songs From The Wood includes several references to Ley line, with lines such as "Sung along the Old Straight Track" and "The old grey standing stones / That show the sun his way to bed"
  • In Palladium Games Rifts Role-playing system, ley lines erupt into storms and places where one or more cross can tear a rift or gateway to another dimension.
  • In Neal Stephenson's novel Reamde, ley lines are used as a mode of travel within the fictional MMORPG T'Rain.
  • In Cate Tiernan's Sweep series, ley lines are occasionally referenced as points where magickal power is concentrated, making them prime locations for spells/rituals. This is particularly relevant when more than one of the ley lines intersect at any given point.
  • In Naruto Shippuden the Movie: The Lost Tower, the Ryūmyaku, a focal point of chakra beneath the city of Rouran, is referred to as a ley line in the English dub.
  • In the game Warriors Orochi 3, the death site of the game's antagonist, Hydra, is described as a ley line by Taigong Wang.
  • In the card game Magic: The Gathering, several cards are based and named after the concept. For example there's a Leyline of Vitality enchantment and aLeyline Phantom creature card.[31]
  • In the adventure video game Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon, George Stobbart must track down the secret organization trying to claim the power lying dormant in the ley lines.
  • In the popular online fantasy based strategy game Clash of Clans Elixir is pumped from Ley Lines on which the player's village is on..
  • In The Raven Boys, ley lines are supernatural energy line. Gansey believes Glendower is buried somewhere along it. In its sequel, The Dream Thieves, it is where Ronan got its ability to pull objects from his sleep.
  • In the anime Nobunaga the Fool, ley lines are prominently featured as sources of turbulence for aircraft and mechas, and they are described as being all over the surface of both stars.
  • In the book series The Dresden Files Leylines are sources of magical energy that a wizard can tap into.
  • In the game Shadowrun Returns, ley lines are spots on the battleground where your magical abilities will be enhanced.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b c d Watkins, Alfred Watkins (1925). The old straight track: its mounds, beacons, moats, sites, and mark stones. Methuen & Co Ltd.
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Michell, John (1969). The View Over Atlantis. Sago Press.
  3. Jump up^ Ruggles, Clive L. N. (2005). Ancient astronomy: an encyclopedia of cosmologies and myth. ABC-CLIO. p. 224. ISBN 978-1-85109-477-6.
  4. Jump up^ Brown, Peter Lancaster (1976). Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology. Blandford Press. p. 221. ISBN 0-7137-0784-4.
  5. Jump up^ Brown, Peter Lancaster (1976). Megaliths, Myths and Men: An Introduction to Astro-Archaeology. Blandford Press. p. 222. ISBN 0-7137-0784-4.
  6. Jump up^ Clive L. N. Ruggles, page 224.
  7. Jump up^ Watkins, Alfred (originally published 1922, this publication 2008). Ley Lines: Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites. Forgotten Books. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-60506-472-7.
  8. Jump up^ Williamson, T. and Bellamy, L., Ley Lines in Question. World's Work Ltd. (1983) ISBN 0-437-19205-9 p.12
  9. Jump up^ Piper, G.H. (1888). Arthur's Stone, Dorstone. Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club 1881-82: 175-180.
  10. Jump up^ Pennick, Nigel; Devereux, Paul (1989). Lines on the landscape: leys and other linear enigmas. Hale. ISBN 978-0-7090-3704-0.
  11. Jump up^ Alfred Watkins, Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps and Sites(1922).
  12. Jump up^ Watkins, A. 1921 Early British Trackways, Moats, Mounds, Camps, and Sites.
  13. Jump up^ Devereux, P. Thomson, I. 1979 The ley hunter's companion: aligned ancient sites : a new study with field guide and maps Thames and Hudson ISBN 0-500-01208-3
  14. Jump up^ Michell, John (1973). City of Revelation: On the Proportions and Symbolic Numbers of the Cosmic Temple. Sphere. ISBN 0-349-12320-9.
  15. Jump up^ Rickman, Phil (2006). The Remains of an Altar (Merrily Watkins Mystery).Quercus. ISBN 1-905204-51-5. Retrieved 8 April 2012.
  16. Jump up^ Peter James and Nick Thorpe (November 1999) "Ancient Mysteries", p,316-9.
  17. Jump up^ Shoesmith, R. (1990). Alfred Watkins: a Herefordshire Man, p. 132. Woonton Almeley: Logaston Press. ISBN 0-9510242-7-2
  18. Jump up^ Johnson, Matthew (29 Dec 2009). Archaeological Theory: An Introduction(2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4051-0015-1. Retrieved 3 May 2011.
  19. Jump up^ "A Survey of the Statistical Theory of Shape", by David G. Kendall, Statistical Science, Vol. 4, No. 2 (May, 1989), pp. 87-99
  20. Jump up^ Clive L. N. Ruggles (2005). "Ley lines". Ancient astronomy: An encyclopaedia. ABC-CLIO. p. 225. ISBN 1-85109-477-6.
  21. Jump up^ Lachman, Gary (2003). Turn Off Your Mind: The Mystic Sixties and the Dark Side of the Age of Aquarius. The Disinformation Company. p. 295. ISBN 978-0-9713942-3-0. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  22. Jump up^ Hill, Rosemary (2008). Stonehenge. Harvard University Press. p. 173.ISBN 9780674031326. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  23. Jump up^ Carroll, Robert P. (2003). The sceptic's dictionary: a collection of strange beliefs, amusing deceptions, and dangerous delusions. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. p. 199. ISBN 0-471-27242-6.
  24. Jump up^ Cowan, David (2003). Ley Lines and Earth Energies: An Extraordinary Journey into the Earth's Natural Energy System. Adventures Unlimited Press. ISBN 1-931882-15-0.
  25. Jump up^ John P. Newport, The New Age Movement and The Biblical Worldview: Conflict and Dialogue, page 304 (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1998). ISBN 0-8028-4430-8
  26. Jump up^ Brian Regal, Pseudoscience: A Critical Encyclopedia, ISBN 978-0-313-35507-3
  27. Jump up^ "http://www.skepdic.com/leylines.html"
  28. Jump up^ "Early British Trackways Index". Sacred-texts.com. 2004-06-17. Retrieved 2012-07-22.
  29. Jump up^ Turtledove, Harry (1999). Into the Darkness. New York, NY: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC. ISBN 0-8125-7472-9.
  30. Jump up^ Smith, Lisa Jane. The Return Nightfall. Harper Collins.
  31. Jump up^ "The Gatherer, cards with the word Leyline in their name". Gatherer.wizards.com. Retrieved 2014-04-27.

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