[Lucis Trust] New Moon Meeting, Friday, October 13, 2023 (Solar Eclipse October 14): Theme: The Four Qualities which a group must develop in unison prior to Initiation.
The four qualities which a group preparing for initiation needs to develop, to consider and unitedly to achieve. They are:
1. The achieving of a non-sentimental group interrelation.
2. Learning how to use the forces of destruction constructively.
3. Attaining the power to work as a miniature Hierarchy, and as a group to exemplify unity in diversity.
4. Cultivating the potency of occult silence.
Rays & Initiations, Rule 11, p. 215
- Effective Group Work: The group works effectively as a team, managing conflict constructively, maintaining focus on the group’s overall objectives, and importantly, achieving a non-sentimental group interrelation. This means that group members maintain an objective, non-emotional approach to their interactions, focusing on the common goal rather than personal relationships or emotional responses.
- Use of Destructive Forces Constructively: The group learns to harness destructive forces for constructive purposes. It requires eliminating individual desire, severing personality ties, and working without seeking recognition.
- Unity in Diversity: The group functions as a coordinated unit with each member recognizing and valuing the contributions of others, despite their different stages of spiritual development (a miniature Hierarchy).
- Potency of Silence: This involves controlling the source of speech—our thoughts, ideas, and imagination. The group learns to eradicate unhelpful habits of thinking and to compartmentalize and organize thoughts effectively.
Possible correlations between the four qualities of groups preparing for initiation and the properties of algebraic groups (operator = impersonal love):
- Achieving a non-sentimental group interrelation may be correlated with the Associative Property. This property ensures that the result of operations doesn’t depend on how elements are grouped, which mirrors the concept of maintaining consistent and objective relationships within a group.
- Learning how to use the forces of destruction constructively may align with the Closure Property. The closure property guarantees that the result of any operations within the group remain within the group. This symbolizes the idea of transforming potential disruptions into outcomes that still align with the group’s objectives.
- Unity in diversity, or working as a miniature hierarchy, may be associated with the Inverse Element Property. This property states that every element has an inverse within the group, symbolizing the unity (through the identity element) within diversity (the various elements and their inverses).
- Cultivating the potency of occult silence may be compared to the Identity Element Property. The existence of an identity element that doesn’t change the value of other elements when combined symbolizes the idea of maintaining internal coherence and harmony, regardless of individual differences or actions within the group.
A group is a fundamental concept in abstract algebra, used to model mathematical structures and operations. A group is a set equipped with an operation that combines any two of its elements to form a third element satisfying four conditions or axioms:
- Associativity: For all ‘a’, ‘b’, and ‘c’ in the group, the equation ‘(a * b) * c = a * (b * c)’ holds.
- Closure: If ‘a’ and ‘b’ are elements in the group, then the result of the operation, say ‘a * b’, is also in the group.
- Inverse element: For each element ‘a’ in the group, there exists an element ‘b’ in the group, commonly denoted ‘a^(-1)’, such that ‘a * b = b * a = e’, the identity element of the group.
- Identity element: There is an element ‘e’ in the group such that for every element ‘a’ in the group, the equations ‘e * a’ and ‘a * e’ both return ‘a’.