Hint Seven. "One of the marks of readiness for initiation is the ability to see the expanding and inclusive Whole, and to note the law which is transcended when the part becomes the Whole."

This hint is working out today in the consciousness of humanity as a whole: the reason for this is that the perfected [419] Personality of Sanat Kumara - focused at present in his creative throat center, Humanity - is reverberating to the orchestral effect of the formula which embodies this hint from the cosmic angle. To this I need not further refer, for you could not understand. Nor do I to any great extent, brother of mine, being but an initiate of the fifth degree. The reason lying behind all this is that the planetary Logos in this particular world cycle is undergoing an initiation which will shift his focus into the hierarchical center, into that center of energy which we call the Hierarchy; from that point of attained focus he will submit to the cosmic initiation for which his planetary work - creative and magnetic - has prepared him. As he, in his Own essential nature, makes progress, every phase of his manifesting body, his expressive Personality, is involved, with the emphasis of the conditioning energies working out through the two centers at this time pre-eminently active; i.e., the center which we call the race of men, Humanity, in which the energy of intelligence is focused and critically active, and the center where the love of God is demonstrated, the Hierarchy. In these two centers a great activity is on the move and a vital expansion or moving outward is taking place.

Let me list the leading and quite obvious inferences contained in this seventh hint, reminding you that each separated phrase, statement or concept is only the basis or foundation for a new and further understanding. Each grasped inference is like a seed thought in an ordered, concentrated and successful meditation. It is well to remember that the initiate, prior to and during any initiation, has attained a mental attitude of the utmost concentration; this point of tension is something of which you know, as yet, little, and yet you glibly use the words: Meditation and Concentration. Temporarily, and in order to move forward and at the same time to leave behind, the initiate becomes a "static point of concentrated contemplation." He then stands before the [420] Initiator in an intense interior preoccupation with the world of significances. He only moves forward again, dropping then the static attitude, after the application of the Rod of Initiation. His ability to contemplate significances rests upon his trained capacity to move with ease in the world of meaning (the major task which confronts all of you at this time). The objective of the first two initiations is to enable the initiate to live in the world of meaning; the objective of the next four initiations - up to and including the sixth Initiation of Decision - is to enable him to live in the world of significances. This must be carefully borne in mind when pondering upon the temporary static condition of the initiate as he stands in the hall of initiation.