The Hierarchy is divided into three major groups on the three great lines of force, each one embodying, channelling, being influenced by, one or other of the three major aspects of Divinity that we know – the Will aspect, the Love-Wisdom aspect and the Intelligence aspect.
The department under the Will aspect has as its Head the Manu, the Perfected Man, the Exemplar for our race, the fifth root race. He is the perfect expression of our fifth root race in its completeness. The Manu (the second of two) of the fourth root race is also on the planet, in China. He is the perfect expression of the Atlantean race and His work will be to gradually take the Atlantean aspect of humanity out of incarnation. This will gradually become synthesized into the fifth root race; it will have done its work.
At the head of the department under the Love-Wisdom aspect is the Bodhisattva, or World Teacher, the One we in the West call the Christ. He is known in the East by other names: as the Lord Maitreya to the Buddhists, as the Bodhisattva to the Hindus, the Imam Mahdi to the Moslems, the Messiah to the Jews. Each of these names, religious terms, is the name of the Head of Hierarchy.
At the head of the other department is the Lord of Civilization, the Mahachohan. These three Great Lords, Aspects of God, for that is what They are, have together stimulated and overseen the development of mankind throughout the centuries by the transmission of energies, and the impression of men’s minds with the ideas which embody these energies.
The Hierarchy has changed form, personnel, many times over the ages, as members of the human race became initiate and then Masters, so that the Masters of the higher levels could go on to higher work. Many leave the dense-physical planet and go on to higher spheres, or to higher planets, or even leave this system altogether. Some of the Masters, for instance, if They are on a certain line of work, go to Sirius.
Stemming from the department on the third aspect, that of the Lord of Civilization, are four further groups, on the four secondary Rays of Attribute, thus making seven major groups or ashrams. Each of these has seven subsidiary ashrams, making 49 in all. Not all of these are complete at this time, both as to personnel and also as channels for energy.
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