Notes on the Esoteric Group Work

In the teachings of the Master DK as given out in the books of AAB, there is a strong focus on the need for students to achieve soul alignment, becoming a soul infused personality, where the purified, transformed personality has become passive(yin/negative) and the essence/soul has become active(yang/positive). His next focus is on the Group Work. He presents an ideal where active group members step outside of their personalities, becoming fused to soul purpose with the other group members in their work of service to humanity. The fusion of group members on Soul levels, on the inner planes comes about in time where the group members work together achieving a focused, sincere dedication to group service, shared disciplines in occult meditation, and an impersonal love between group members. This can only be achieved by relinquishing the ever-flowing dramas of ripening karmas that normally thrust many potentially successful group efforts into chaos, eventually causing the group to dissolve. Overcoming the need to express negative emotions between or at other group members is very difficult to achieve, but is so necessary. Thus, the Master DK also points out the need to awaken the inner realization of ‘ahimsa’ or harmlessness, becoming conscious of the words that come out of your mouth, especially in the group environment.

Master DK paints an uplifting picture, building an ideal thought-form of the Group Work. This awakens potential disciples to feel their inner aspiration to align themselves to the ‘need of our times’ to want to enter this noble effort of the Group Work. Many aspirants desire to, but how many actually enter into a real Group Work?
A real Group Work requires an advanced accepted disciple to lead the group, and who is already aligned to their soul and the inner ashram of a particular Master. Where there’s more than one accepted disciple in a group effort then the group expression on the physical plane more truly mirrors the inner ashram of the Masters. A true group is hierarchical, and has layers based on the spiritual levels of its members. This follows the law of the occult work and the spiritual Hierarchy. The relation between the Master, the inner ashram, the advanced disciples on the physical plane, and the probationers in the group, constitute what ancient Hermetics called, ‘the Golden Chain of Hermes’, while in the Brahmanical esoteric tradition it is called, ‘the Guru Parampara’, and the ‘whispered lineage’ of the Vajrayana Buddhist.

When this is the case, the group itself becomes magnetic, attracting other advanced disciples. The group grows slowly based on karmic affiliations, expanding its occult service, esoteric knowledge, and building a form, an outward expression, for the future of the Group Work.