The Rainbow Bridge

“Since, as has been accepted by science, all is energy (or matter, which may be converted into energy, and energy into matter), the Ancient Wisdom is presented by Dwal Khul as ‘The Science of Applied Energy,’ dealing with the mental concepts and processes through which man's evolution may be ‘enforced.’ As the ‘science of Purification,’ it deals with the processes of the emotional nature and the hindering accumulations of mistaken or outworn creations and thoughtforms vitalized by desire in man's emotional nature. Under the heading ‘The Science of Redemption,’ Dwal Khul deals with the release of energy-substance from the accumulation of past creations on all personality levels. In this way, the personal self provides redeemed matter that the Soul uses as a reservoir of power or to build the ‘Body of Light.’ Our closed group has successfully demonstrated, as far as individually possible, the existence and application of the three sciences described briefly above and in the book by Dwal Khul, The Externalization of the Hierarchy.

We have said that all we teach is in what Dwal Khul has written and that he has said it better than we can say it. However, we are trying to fill a gap, not so much in teaching about the subject as in calling attention to beginning techniques, by the use of which the student-disciple can make necessary changes in his personality elements (vehicles)."

The work is not to gather more information, but to purify your instrument, and all will be revealed.

The Rainbow Bridge is a practical manual for building the Antahkarana, the bridge of consciousness between personality and Soul. Written by two anonymous disciples deeply versed in the teachings of the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul [Dwal] and Alice A. Bailey, the book offers clairvoyantly-tested techniques for accomplishing “certain needed changes in the vehicles” that are essential for conscious growth and development. Phase I teaches Soul invocation and construction of the Central Vertical Channel through which higher energies can flow. Phase II addresses systematic purification – the elimination of accumulated thoughtforms, dense emotional-mental constructs that block spiritual flow and prevent Soul fusion. The disciples emphasise that their work entails “practical experiments in the application of the Sciences of Purification, Redemption and Applied Energy, with the assistance of clairvoyant vision.” The Rainbow Bridge is described as “an introductory book” and assures the reader that the techniques will work even without fully grasping the theory behind them. This speaks to the accessibility of the text, however the esoteric philosophy and cosmology may be unfamiliar to some. The work also entails a level of discipline that is characteristic of more advanced practices, and may naturally attract those who are ‘further along the path.’

The Rainbow Bridge was born of a lifetime of direct experience by ‘Two Disciples’ who thoroughly tested every technique on themselves, “with much learning ‘the hard way.’” Their decision to share the work anonymously is itself an embodiment of its teaching: world servers “prefer to work behind the scenes and acknowledge our position only when it serves the purposes of the Planetary Hierarchy.” The disciples explain that their approach is a “modern adaptation” of the teachings from Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul, founded on the principle that spiritual development is not advanced through study of information, but through direct change made in one’s bodies, or vehicles: “the mysteries are revealed and initiate powers gained by changes in the vehicles, not by the accumulation of information.”

Before offering any technique, the two disciples ask something specific of the reader: not belief, but openness. Approach the material “with an open mind, ready to accept that which is good and reject that which is false,” invoking your own Soul and trusting its wisdom to discern the truth for yourself. Real contact with the higher mind, once made, “will not be forgotten” – the student comes to find within themselves “the Touchstone of Truth,” the standard by which to test everything in the book.

The work described is always prefaced with the short, spoken “Soul Mantram”:

I am the Soul.

I am the Light Divine.

I am Love.

I am Will.

I am Fixed Design.

The disciples are emphatic about its importance: “No work should be undertaken until this mantram has been said.” Spoken daily, it strengthens “the Central Channel” – the beginning of a lasting connection between your personality and your Soul, felt over time rather than believed on faith.

Once that channel is established, the work turns to what stands in its way: layers of old mental, emotional, and etheric impressions that the disciples describe as pressing in like a wall – “They stand like a network between him and his environment and interfere with true communication.” In practice, this means learning to watch your own reactions rather than being carried by them – to stand back from a crisis or a difficult relationship, observing rather than reacting, trusting that clarity follows in its own time.

The manual gives further techniques for what this clearing leaves behind. Once thoughtform-debris has been broken up, students are taught to invoke the “Spiritual Whirlwind,” or “Etheric Vortex” – a rotating funnel of energy that sweeps the loosened debris from the field; the disciples compare its mechanics to a tornado, held in shape by the balance of gravity, outward, and inward force. Additionally, students learn to work with colour directly: drawing a specific frequency, such as violet, from the Soul Star and directing it downward through the body, where it acts as “a helpful guardian.” These and other techniques, practised individually, extend into “The Basic Group Meditation” for those working with others, so that each person’s cleared channel adds to a shared field rather than standing alone.

The bridge that is built is the Antahkarana, the channel that the disciple constructs, session by session – widened first by the Soul Mantram, then cleared of resistance by the Vortex and the colour work, until it can carry a measure of energy that an unprepared instrument could not hold. None of this, the disciples explain, is done for personal enlightenment alone. The purpose is to become “a more effective worker for Humanity and Hierarchy” – and, taken together, for many disciples doing this work to “build the world Antahkarana,” so that each person's individually cleared channel adds, however modestly, to a bridge far larger than any one life crossing it alone. Whether you are new to this work or deep into it, The Rainbow Bridge asks the same thing: stop feeling your way toward the Soul, and build, deliberately and through your own effort, the bridge that lets it in.