{"collection":"Esoteric & Occult","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/eso/ihas/ihas03.htm","path":"eso/ihas/ihas03.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/eso/ihas/ihas03.htm","text":"Initiation, Human and Solar, by Alice A. Bailey, [1922]\n \n \nClick to enlarge\nChart\nThe constitution of man, as considered in the following pages, is basically threefold, as follows:\u2014\nI. The Monad, or pure Spirit, the Father in Heaven.\nThis aspect reflects the three aspects of the Godhead:\n| 1. Will or Power | The Father. | \n| 2. Love-wisdom | The Son. | \n| 3. Active Intelligence | The Holy Spirit. | \nand is only contacted at the final initiations, when man is nearing the end of his journey and is perfected. The Monad reflects itself again in\nII. The Ego, Higher Self, or Individuality.\nThis aspect is potentially\n| 1. Spiritual Will | Atma. | \n| 2. Intuition | Buddhi, Love-wisdom, the Christ principle. | \n| 3. Higher or abstract Mind | Higher Manas. | \nThe Ego begins to make its power felt in advanced men, and increasingly on the Probationary Path until by the third initiation the control of the lower self by the higher is perfected, and the highest aspect begins to make its energy felt.\nThe Ego reflects itself in\nIII. The Personality, or lower self, physical plane man.\nThis aspect is also threefold:\n| 1. A mental body | lower manas. | \n| 2. An emotional body | astral body. | \n| 3. A physical body | the dense physical and the etheric body. | \nThe aim of evolution is therefore to bring man to the realisation of the Egoic aspect and to bring the lower nature under its control.","title":"Initiation, Human and Solar: Chart","type":"page"}