Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Letters on Occult Meditation - III

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Letters on Occult Meditation - Letter III - Points considered when assigning Meditation

2. The second group, which is of importance in the life of the pupil, is his family group, involving its special family heredity and characteristics. Every man, who has reached a point in evolution where occult meditation is desirable and possible, has entered some particular family from deliberate choice:

To work off karma as rapidly as may be.
Because of the physical vehicle it provides.

You will easily see, therefore, that in the assigning of occult meditation to be carried out on the physical plane and in a physical vehicle, it will be the concern of the Teacher to know somewhat of the physical pedigree and the inherent characteristics of the pupil, both from the point of view of finding the line of least resistance and of demonstrating what must be overcome. (Some of you who meditate are apt to be so engrossed straining after intuitional consciousness that you overlook the very necessary physical vehicles.) The physical brain and the conformity of the head play a large part in the process and must not be overlooked in the future as they are at present. This is necessarily so, for the dearth of trained teachers in the physical bodies is so insuperable at present.

Therefore the family group is the second thing of moment that enters into consideration, and the matter is of more vital importance than perhaps you think.

In the coming schools of meditation there will be records kept as to the pupil's forbears, his family history, the progress of his youth and life and his medical history. This record will be minutely accurate, and much will be learnt this way. The life will be regulated and the scientific purification of the physical body will be one of the [48] first things attempted. Incidentally (in speaking of these schools) I would like to urge that you picture not some isolated spot for their location. In the world, yet not of the world is the ideal, and only in the advanced stages or just prior to taking Initiation will the pupil be permitted to retire for periods of any length. It is the inner detachment that counts, and the ability to dissociate the self from the environment that matters, and not so much the physical plane isolation.

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