The chakras. A monograph

through which we see it in action. It comes through countless millions of channels, showing itself on every plane and subplane of our system. Yet fundamentally it is one and the same force. It is in no way to be confused with that First Outpouring, which long ago manufactured the chemical elements from which this Second Outpouring takes the material used to build its vehicles at all levels. It appears as though some of its manifestations were lower or denser, because it is employing lower and denser matter. On the buddhic intuitional or spiritual level, we see it displaying itself as the Christ-principle, which gradually expands and unfolds imperceptibly within the soul of the man. In the astral and mental bodies, we perceive that various layers of matter are vivified by it. We note different exhibitions of it appearing in the higher part of the astral in the guise of a noble emotion, and in the lower part of the very same vehicle as a mere rush of life-force energizing the matter of that body.

We find it in its lowest embodiment drawing round itself a veil of etheric matter, and rushing from the astral body into the flower-like bells of these chakras on the surface of the etheric part of the physical body. Here it meets another force welling up from the interior of the human body, which is the mysterious power called kundalinî the serpent-fire.

THE SERPENT-FIRE

This force is the physical-plane manifestation of another of the manifold aspects of the power of the Logos, belonging to the First Outpouring, which comes from the Third Aspect. It exists on all planes of which we know anything, but it is the expression of it in etheric matter with which we have to do at present. It is not convertible into either the primary force already mentioned or the force of vitality which comes from the sun. It does not seem to be affected in any way by any other forms of physical energy. I have seen as much as a million and a quarter volts of electricity put into a human body, so that when the man held out his arm towards the wall, huge flames rushed out from his fingers. Yet he felt nothing unusual, nor would he be in the least burnt under these circumstances unless he actually touched some external object. Even this enormous display of power had no effect whatever upon the serpent-fire.

We have known for many years that there is deep down in the earth what may be described as a laboratory of the Third Logos. On attempting to investigate the conditions at the centre of the earth, we find there a vast globe of such tremendous force that we cannot approach it. We can touch only its outer layers. In doing even that, it becomes evident that they are in sympathetic relation with the layers of kundalinî in the human body. Into that centre the force of the Third Logos must have poured ages ago, but it is working there still. There He is engaged

A detailed circular diagram represents the Navel Chakra. The chakra is depicted as a ten-petaled form. Each segment is filled with vibrant, wavy textures of orange, red, and pale green, radiating from a central hub. This circular emblem is set within a grey rectangular field, which is framed by a decorative dotted-line border on a cream-colored page.