By George A. Boyd ©2004
We have elsewhere on this web site discussed the process
of becoming a disciple and what discipleship entails [see the articles,
"Becoming a Disciple" and "Thinking
about Discipleship"]. In this article, we wish to discuss what accepted
discipleship in the Mudrashram® tradition entails, and the forms through
which accepted discipleship may express. We will also describe the higher
stations on this Path.
Levels of Discipleship
One may become a disciple at different levels of the
Great Continuum of Consciousness.
Basic Stages
Level of Discipleship |
Band of the Continuum |
Supervising Initiate |
Outcome |
Subtle I |
Lower Subtle Realm |
Kumara |
Mastery of Mythological bands, subtle
causal, subtle astral, and the five Kosas. |
Subtle II |
Middle Subtle Realm
and Lower Astral Plane |
Occult Adept |
Mastery of the archetypes of the seven
civilizations (1) and of the Lower Astral Plane |
Psychic |
Lower Planetary |
Psychic Guide |
Mastery of the Biophysical Universe,
Abstract Mind, and selected Subplanes of the Psychic Realm |
Exoteric I |
First Planetary Initiation |
Minister or Rabbi |
Mastery of the content of the First
Exoteric Planetary Initiation. Expression of this mastery may
take the form of a teacher, pastor, priest, rabbi, evangelist,
healer, or prophet depending on the Ray. |
Mesoteric I |
Saint |
Mastery of the First Mesoteric Planetary
Initiation, granting the ability to guide others through the inner
mystic realms, to inspire the cultivation of virtue, reformation
of character, and to the anchor the Holy Spirit in others' Moon
Souls (2). |
Intermediate Stages
Level of Discipleship |
Band of the Continuum |
Supervising Initiate |
Outcome |
Esoteric I |
First Planetary Initiation |
Hierophant or Magus |
Mastery of a Mystery School: ability
to guide others through its Arcana and present its teachings. |
Esoteric II |
Second Planetary Initiation |
Ascended Master or Superphysical
Adept |
Mastery of the Second Planetary Initiation:
ability to guide others through the stages of this initiation.
Superphysical Adepts additionally gain the ability to guide the
spirit through the third path. |
Esoteric V |
Third through Fifth
Planetary Initiations |
Adept |
Mastery of the Third through the Fifth
Planetary Initiation: ability to guide others through these stages
of initiation. Ability to guide others to union with the Monad. |
Planetary Hierarchical
Attunement |
Lower Transplanetary
to the Planetary Hierarchy |
Adept Master |
Ascension of the Monad to an Office
in the Planetary Hierarchy. |
Transplanetary Attunements |
Upper Transplanetary |
Planetary or Solar Chain
Masters |
Ascension of the Monad to Planetary
and Solar Chain Mastery, up to liberation of the Monad in the
origin of our Lifewave. |
Cosmic I |
First Cosmic Initiation |
Yogi Preceptor |
Ascension of Cosmic Consciousness to
assume the mantle of a Yogi Preceptor in one of the nine lineages, |
Cosmic II |
Second Cosmic Initiation |
Light Master |
Ascension of Cosmic Soul Awareness
to the abode of the light Master. Ability to guide the spirit
through the fourth path. |
Advanced Stages
Level of Discipleship |
Band of the Continuum |
Supervising Initiate |
Outcome |
Cosmic Hierarchical
Attunement |
Third through Fifth
Cosmic Initiations |
Cosmic Master |
Ascension of the Astral Soul through
the entire Cosmic Sphere. Ability to guide and translate the Astral
Souls of others. |
Supracosmic |
Cosmic Sphere through
the highest Plane of a Supracosmic Path |
Guru |
Mastery of a Supracosmic Path. Ability
to guide others in that Path. |
Transcendental |
Transcendental Paths
1 through 7 |
Sat Guru |
Mastery of a Transcendental Path. Ability
to guide others in that path. |
Multiplane Mastery
(accepted discipleship
in the Mudrashram® tradition) |
Subtle, Planetary, Transplanetary,
Cosmic, Supracosmic, and Transcendental |
Adi Sat Guru |
Mastery of spiritual evolutionary potentials
of Subtle through Supracosmic and one of the Transcendental Paths.
Ability to guide and initiate on behalf of the Mudrashram®
lineage, adopting the form of the disciple on the Bridge Path. |
Multiplane Mastery
(advanced discipleship
in the Mudrashram® tradition) |
Subtle, Planetary, Transplanetary,
Cosmic, Supracosmic, and Transcendental |
Adi Sat Guru |
Ascension on the Bridge Path, leading
to the ability to engage in "Bodhisattwa Projects" (3) and ultimately
to become a Multiplane Master. |
Discipleship in each of levels these leads ultimately
to empowerment and the ability to minister to others or guide them. As
can be seen, accepted discipleship in the Mudrashram® tradition requires
the most extensive spiritual preparation of any level of discipleship.
However, attainment of accepted discipleship in this tradition has a broader
range of operation and ministry than traditions that yield mastery in
other bands of the Great Continuum of Consciousness.
Expressions of Accepted
Discipleship
There are seven expressions of accepted discipleship
in the Mudrashram® tradition once the disciple on the path has worked
out karma and unfolded spiritual evolutionary potentials for Subtle, Planetary,
Transplanetary, Cosmic, Supracosmic, and Transcendental bands of the Great
Continuum of Consciousness. These are shown below.
Type of Expression |
Activity |
Comment |
Initiator |
Ability to activate the energies of
the seven mudras (4) and to teach and initiate in the Mudrashram®
tradition. |
This is the basic form of accepted
discipleship. This allows an individual to teach the Mudrashram®
Master Course in Meditation and to give the seven higher attunements
(5) of this class. This mastery must be gained first in accepted
discipleship. With further spiritual development, one or more
of these other types may be added to this basic form. |
Mouthpiece |
Ability to channel the guidance and
teachings of the Multiplane Masters of the Mudrashram® lineage
through spoken and written words. |
George A. Boyd has assumed this activity
on behalf of the lineage. |
Gifted One |
Augmentation of a talent or gift to
be used for service to others and to the lineage. |
This activates and enhances gifts anchored
in the Superconscious mind. (6) |
Guide |
Ability to assume a guide form for
the spirit and the attentional principle, and to guide and protect
others on the inner Planes. |
This attunement is required to teach
the Mudrashram® Advanced Course in Meditation |
Service Project |
Ability to carry out a structured mission
on behalf of the lineage. |
This might take the form, for example,
of communicating lineage teachings, or establishing institutions
or centers. |
Spiritual Ministry |
Ability to minister the Light to others
from a variety of spiritual platforms. |
In this aspect of spiritual ministry
the attentional principle works from one or more forms of mastery
on the inner Planes. In more advanced stages, it may send out
these spiritual attunements from several forms of mastery simultaneously. |
Bodhisattwa Project |
Ability to assume karma from the universal
reservoir and to consciously work it off using transformational
methods. This spiritual work is done on the highest Plane of the
Bridge Path (7). |
Multiplane Masters use this method
to develop their mantle of mastery. |
Those aspirants that feel resonance with our teachings
and meditation methods can study with us to begin to develop themselves
at their cutting edge of spirituality, wherever they dwell on the Great
Continuum of Consciousness. We start with individuals where they are and
develop them to fulfill the archetypes of purpose and mastery within them.
Rare individuals may have a calling to accepted discipleship in our traditionthese
ones will become initiators, and may express other varieties of accepted
discipleship with further spiritual development upon the Bridge Path.
The Higher Path of Discipleship
In our Satsang Program and the Mudrashram® Advanced
Course in Meditation, we have described the form of the disciple on the
Bridge Path, which marks the stage of accepted discipleship in our tradition.
In both of these programs, we have led course participants into the presence
of this exalted state of consciousness. Beyond this abode of the accepted
disciple are the Adi Sat Gurusthe Multiplane Masters of the Mudrashram®
Lineageseparated by a vast distance from the accepted disciple.
Until now, this higher path of discipleship has not
been elucidated in our public writings. We call it the Transcendental
Initiatic Path leading to Multiplane Mastery, which comprises the higher
stages of the Bridge Path.
The Bridge Path is unique in that it is a domain in
the Transcendental Sphere that reaches from the 3rd Cosmic
Initiation through the entire Supracosmic Sphere, then traverses deeply
into the Transcendental Sphere underneath the other seven Transcendental
Paths. It mirrors development in the paths above and below it. It is on
the Transcendental portion of this path that the Mudrashram® Lineage
is anchored. These higher states of initiation are as follows:
Title of Attainment |
State of Mastery |
Mahatma |
Attunement to the First Five Planes
of the 7th Transcendental Path |
Subud Master |
Attunement to the First Seven Planes
of the 1st Transcendental Path |
Sadhu |
Attunement to the Origin of the 1st
Transcendental Path |
Shabd Master |
Attunement to the Universal Mind of
the 2nd Transcendental Path |
SatGuru |
Attunement to the Origin of the 2nd
Transcendental Path |
Will-Merged |
Attunement to the Transcendental Hierarchy
of the 7th Transcendental Path |
Maharaj |
Attunement to the First Seven Planes
of the 4th Transcendental Path |
Trinity-Merged |
Attunement to the Origin of the 4th
Transcendental Path |
Mahdis |
Attunement to the 5th Plane
of the 5th Transcendental Path |
Mahanta |
Attunement to the 12th Plane
of the 5th Transcendental Path |
Dharma Lord |
Attunement to and Mastery of the Entire
Continuum from the Origin of the 5th Transcendental
Path to the Wheel of Time [The Wheel of Time Center is at the
root of all states of consciousness. These centers below waking
awareness are Wheel of Time, Center within the Mineral Kingdom,
Center within the Plant Kingdom, Center within the Animal Kingdom,
unconscious state of death, unconscious state of coma, unconscious
state of sound sleep, vivid and dreaming state, and light, hypnotic
dreaming state.] |
Adi SatGuru |
Mastery of Ensoulment and Incarnation
of the spirit in multiple Domains [One assumes the ability to
act as a Multiplane Master at Hansadesh on the Mirror of the Continuum.
Hansadesh located on the 3rd Plane of the 2nd
Transcendental Path.] |
Bodhisattwa Path |
Taking on karma of multitudes and working
out Bodhisattwa projects [Bodhisattwa projects open a discrete
path with an aim to gain understanding, Grace and Mastery.] |
Finding Your Place
We encourage you to gain a thorough familiarity with
the entire Great Continuum of Consciousness and your place within it.
Ladders of disciplic and initiatic stages are useful to comprehend potential
spiritual development, but more important is that you identify your own
spiritual cutting edge and begin transformational inner work at that level
according to your capacity. Eventually, through continuous gradual transformation,
you will fulfill the spiritual destiny pattern that is your Soul Purpose.
A rare few individuals may have a destiny for accepted
discipleship in our lineage, and to ascend upon the initiatic ladder we
described here to full Multiplane Mastery. Those of you who have this
calling will have this revealed to you by your own Soul when you study
with us.
Endnotes
- These seven civilizations whose archetypes are anchored
on the Middle band of the Subtle Realm are the East Indian, Chinese,
Greco-Roman, Mesopotamian, Medieval European, Tibetan, and Modern Technological.
You may learn more about them by referring to the map
of the Great Continuum of Consciousness on this web site.
- The Moon Soul is a nucleus of identity, which is
often mistaken for the overshadowing Soul. It resembles a round white
disk, in which there is a central receptacle. The Holy Spirit is anchored
in this receptacle during communion with God through prayer, worship,
or Light Immersion. This nucleus of identity is traditionally awakened
during the First Planetary Initiation.
- Bodhisattwa Projects take place on the highest Planes
of the Bridge Path, and sometimes on Transcendental Paths six and seven.
Bodhisattwa Projects are the most advanced forms of attunement with
the Mudrashram® lineage, and lead ultimately to assumption into
the lineage as a lineage holder, or Adi Sat Guru.
- These seven mudras used to transmit initiation in
the Mudrashram® tradition are Kundalini, Nada, Mantra, Raja, Guru
Kripa, Jnana and Agni Mudras. An eighth mudra, Dharma Mudra, is "revealed"
to the aspirant during the Mudrashram® Master Course in Meditation,
but does not involve transmission of the energy of initiation (Shakti).
You can learn more about the role of these mudras in Integral meditation
by reading our article, "What is Integral Meditation,"
also on this web site.
- These "seven higher attunements" are the seven mudras.
These seven higher attunements are decribed in the article, "The Form of the Disciple." Before you can learn to give the higher attunements, you first must be trained in the five basic attunements. You can learn more about the five basic attunements in the article,
"The Five Fundamental Attunements."
- There is a wide range of gifts that express from
the Superconscious mind. These may take the form of athletic prowess;
scientific research and innovation; artistic creativity; business acumen;
special abilities in counseling, therapy, teaching, healing, or religious
ministry; psychic perception; or political or military leadership. Miraculous
powers (siddhis) may also be expressed in some individuals as a byproduct
of their spiritual development.
- This highest Plane of the Bridge Path is a mirror
of the Great Continuum of Consciousness from the bands of the human
personality (Conscious, Subconscious, and Metaconscious mind) and the
Superconscious mind from the Subtle realm to the top of the Fifth Transcendental
Path. It is referred to as Adi Sat Guru Desh or Nubiya.
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