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Jewel in the Lotus
The vehicle of expression for the Solar Angel is the causal body, which is composed of a twelve-petalled lotus with a jewel in the center.

What is this jewel?

One with higher vision would see "a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue-white hue surrounded, and completely hidden, by three closely folded petals." More specifically the jewel is represented by a triangle with a point in the center.

The triangle is symbolic of the three aspects of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, or Power, Love and Active Intelligence.

The point in the center represents the one invisible God from whence all life comes.

The Jewel in the Lotus circulates the necessary energies to create life and is the life principle itself. The point in the center is that which we must all pass through to receive higher revelation. It is that which links us all to God and esoterically makes us all one with God and each other.

This lotus is reflected to the centers of each of the seven chakras where a lower octave of the jewel resides. Because of this reflection the seeker can find a partial revelation of God in each of the centers through contemplation. After he finds the seven revelations in the seven centers he will then discover the secret of the jewel in the lotus, the seat of the soul.

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Some quotes from the Djwhal Khul teachings:

The detail of the descent of energy or of the process of spiritual inspiration (both these phrases pictorially present the concept of response to the Master's aura) might be put as follows: >> This process will be affected by the ray type of the disciple. Discipleship in the New Age I, P 761
 * 1) The Master's aura.
 * 2) The egoic lotus or soul body.
 * 3) The inflow of ashramic energy, via
 * 4) The sacrifice petals or the will aspect.
 * 5) The love petals or the love-wisdom aspect.
 * 6) The knowledge petals or the mind aspect.
 * 1) The response from the disciple upon the physical plane and the receptivity of his centers to the activity engendered by the soul, under impression by the Master would be as follows:
 * 2) The sacrifice petals would transmit energy to the head center, via the sacrifice petals (three of them) to be found in the ring of petals immediately around the "Jewel in the Lotus"; from thence to the sacrifice petal in the three love petals and in the three knowledge petals. You, therefore, have five transmitting points of will-energy.
 * 3) The love petals similarly transmit love-energy to the heart center, via the love petals, again five in all.
 * 4) The knowledge petals transmit energy, the energy of intelligent activity, to the throat center, again in the same manner, via the five knowledge petals.

Formula Four has a specific effect upon the "jewel in the lotus," awakening it to life; this it does (through effects produced) upon the three planes of the three worlds, this bringing about changes in the seven wheels (centers) so that the "dynamic point at the center of each wheel obliterates the lesser points of force, and thus the wheel begins to turn upon itself." Discipleship in the New Age II, P 249

...Paul was but voicing an occult truth when he enunciated the facts concerning the birth of the Christ within the heart, and the growth of the higher life at the expense of the lower. Thus also can it be taught along occult, and not mystic, lines in the recognition (by science) of the vitalization of the permanent atoms (the force centers of the sheaths or substance), of the unfoldment of the egoic lotus, and the awakening of its petals, and in the final revelation of the jewel in the lotus. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, P 611

//Sevenfold electric fire//. The seven types of spiritual existences, or the seven Spirits before the Throne in Their essential essence; the dynamic force or will lying back of all manifestation. They form on their own plane in a peculiar sense the logoic "Jewel in the Lotus," and [629] hence are inconceivable to our intelligence in this solar system, as They are not revealed until the "Son be made perfect," or the logoic consciousness is fully awakened. They are esoterically the "Spirits of Darkness." A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, P 629

To carry the simile, or analogy, even further back and thus bear in mind the resemblance between microcosmic and macrocosmic development we have:  Yet these three are but the expressions of One Existence, for behind the Logos in physical incarnation is to be found the logoic Monad, expressing Itself through the logoic Ego, and its reflection, the logoic Personality. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, P 630
 * 1) The seven Spirits who find Their originating incentive on:
 * 2) The cosmic lower mental levels.
 * 3) The logoic "Jewel in the Lotus."
 * 4) The cosmic atmic plane.
 * 5) The seven Heavenly Men are in the line of force from:
 * 6) The cosmic astral plane.
 * 7) The logoic nine-petalled lotus.
 * 8) The cosmic buddhic plane (the seven Rishis of the Great Bear).
 * 9) The seven Sons of Fohat find their vital force emanating from:
 * 10) The cosmic physical plane.
 * 11) The logoic permanent atoms (within the causal body).
 * 12) The cosmic higher mental levels.

A downflow of buddhi takes place along the line of the manasic triangle until it reaches a point at the very center of the lotus. There, by the power of its own vibration, it causes a change in the appearance of the lotus. At the very heart of the lotus, three more petals appear which close in on the central flame, covering it closely, and remaining closed until the time comes for the revelation of the "jewel in the Lotus." The egoic lotus is now composed of twelve petals, nine of these appear at this stage in bud form and three are completely hidden and mysterious. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, P 709

We have seen that on the third level of the mental plane, the egoic lotus is found and the student should picture it to himself as follows: Concealed at the very center or heart of the lotus is a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue-white hue (the jewel in the lotus) surrounded, and completely hidden, by three closely folded petals. Around this central nucleus, or inner flame, are arranged the nine petals in circles of three petals each, making three circles in all. These petals are formed out of the substance of the solar angels, as are the central three, - substance which is not only sentient as is the substance of the forms in the three worlds and the lunar bodies, but which has an added quality of "I-ness" or of self-consciousness, enabling the spiritual unity at the center (by means of it) to acquire knowledge, awareness, and self-realization. These nine petals are of a predominant orange hue, though the six other colors are found as secondary colors in a varying degree. The inner three petals are of a lovely lemon-yellow hue. At the base of the lotus petals are the three points of light which mark the position of the permanent atoms, and which are the medium of communication between the solar Angels and the lunar Pitris. By means of these permanent atoms the Ego, according to its state of evolution can construct his lunar bodies, acquire knowledge on the lower three planes, and thus buy his experience, and becomes //aware//. On a higher turn of the spiral, the Monad through the egoic petals, and thus with the aid of the solar Angels, acquires knowledge and equally on more exalted levels becomes aware. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, P 761

It should also be noted here that the energies projected by the initiate into the world of maya are directed by him from the various centers in his own body and from the central point of energy in each particular center employed. It is the central "jewel in the lotus" from which the initiate works, and these seven central focal points, these seven jewels, so-called, are the correspondence of the jewel in the egoic lotus. The Rays and the Initiations, P 182

The centers are in reality those "crossing points" of energies where the etheric body possesses seven triangles or transformed points. From the angle of Shamballa the centers in a human being resemble a triangle with a point at the center. From the angle of the Hierarchy, conditions are somewhat different. You have the seven centers portrayed as lotuses, with varying numbers of petals; nevertheless there is always preserved and recognizably present a triangle, at the very heart of the lotus; always there is the triangle with its communicating point, and to this we give the name, the "jewel in the lotus." You have therefore the following symbolic presentation of the lotus, and you would do well to study it with care. Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, P 165

1. //The Point at the Center.// This is the "jewel in the lotus," to use the ancient oriental appellation; it is the point of life by means of which the Monad anchors itself upon the physical plane, and is the life principle therefore of all the transient vehicles - developed, undeveloped or developing. This point of life contains within itself all possibilities, all potentialities, all experiences and all vibratory activities. It embodies the will-to-be, the quality of magnetic attraction (commonly called love), and the active intelligence which will bring the livingness and the love into full expression. The above statement or definition is one of major importance. This point at the center is in reality, therefore, all that IS and the other three aspects of life - as listed - are merely indications of its existence. It is that which has capacity to withdraw to its Source, or to impose upon itself [170] layer upon layer of substance; it is the cause of the return of the so-called Eternal Pilgrim to the Father's Home after many aeons of experience, as well as that which produces experiment, leading to eventual experience and final expression. It is also that which the other three aspects shield, and which the seven principles (expressing themselves as vehicles) protect. There are seven of these "points" or "jewels," expressing the sevenfold nature of consciousness, and as they are brought one by one into living expression, the seven subrays of the dominating monadic ray are also one by one made manifest, so that each initiate-disciple is (in due time) a Son of God in full and outer glory.Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, P169

Comments from readers:

Ruth writes: I imagine the Jewel in the Lotus to be symbolic of the All Seeing Eye.

Where duality meets singularity and becomes the Jewel in that Lotus.

Or another example, picture a magnifying glass(Monad), utilizing the Sun's rays and its energy piercing through a piece of paper(form/matter), and then this creates a fire(or the breaking through of that atomic substance) on the mental plane wherein the Spirit/Soul and Personality fuse, hence the pineal gland is activated and comes into full function once again, rather than "wasting" away.

"The pineal gland is gradually brought from a state of atrophy to full functioning activity and the center of consciousness is transferred out of the emotional nature into the illuminated mind consciousness."DK

Now let us look at why particular words are chosen as symbols in this teaching:

Jewel - a precious stone, anything or anyone highly valued.

Lotus - in Greek legend, a tree of North Africa whose fruit made strangers forget their homes. (I use a really old Dictionary, but my newer Dictionary says: Plant represented in ancient Greek legend as inducing luxurious dreaminess and distaste for active life).Hmmm...

The Jewel is hidden in the aptly named Lotus because it is a fruit which was wasting away and because of this, strangers(humans) forgot their true homes (as Sons of God or Souls).

So the Jewel, which must be the precious stone (remember also the stone in the King Arthur myth, where the Sword is embedded into it, the sword being symbolic of Truth/Spirit), is the pineal gland at the physical level, then the Soul at the Mental level and then the Spirit at the Monad level, or something like that.

(Crystal - clear quartz - a piece of of solid material, whose atoms are arranged in a regular pattern.)

The crystal being symbolic of the regular pattern indicative of perhaps the Soul or Spirit and a Molecular Order. This pattern being Triangular for this Earth (and Universe?).

Now the Earth may be a Lotus(chakra/portal etc), but it is not a Sacred Planet. Thus the Jewel in the Lotus for Earth or for the Logos of this Earth, has not been activated fully as yet due to the long, unfolding process of consciousness throughout the human kingdom etc.