Drawing 2: Christ or Higher Manas Crucified between Two Thieves

Philaletheians UK · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 1 page

The second of the five Drawings in the Integrative Theosophical Studies series, presented in April 2017, and the one that gives visual form to the image the first Drawing describes in words. Its subject is the Higher Manas as Christos, set between two thieves — the lower tendencies on one side and the higher aspirations on the other.

The caption states which is which, and the distinction matters: the tendencies on the right are those that after death dissipate in Kama-Loka, while the aspirations on the left are those that survive death. This is the crucifixion the Trials and Triumph of Initiation study calls the most abstruse but the most important mystery of occultism — not a historical execution but the position of the reincarnating ray, pulled downward by Kama and upward toward the Higher Manas at once. The plate carries almost no text, which is deliberate; it is meant to be looked at beside the studies rather than read. Offered as a PDF for printing and a JPG for screen.

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