Course XXIV - Teaching 11: Disciples of the Great Initiates

Besides being helped by Initiates of other categories, Great Initiates are such thanks to numberless beings that, because of their spiritual progress, are in tune with them and with their work.
In the astral world, when vibrations, which should accompany the Great Initiate on Earth, begin being generated, these vibrations are communicated to those who will be his disciples and in favor of his incarnation.
Not all beings are able to incarnate on Earth when it is their time, even when they desire it fervently; they are retained in that plane because of causes that could be called astral Karma.
The descent of a Great Initiate, by an effect of his extraordinary vibration, always favors the birth of many beings and, over all, of those who have to be spiritually linked on Earth with him.
This vibration is gradually prepared and increases when the moment of incarnation is near, lasting the period of time on which the Great Initiate lives on Earth, and after his death becomes the Great Current of his work.
Many disciples precede the birth of the Great Initiate, or follow it. They have an undeletable sign: an intuitive spontaneity that permits them to meet their Master; simply, they find him and follow his word and his work in an intuitive way that could not be easily explained; they perceive the call of the Master and follow his tracks.
Disciples not always have a direct contact with the Great Initiate, sometimes meet him just once in their lives, and this meeting is enough to decide their vocation; other times, they do not know him and just have heard of him, but perceive in such a way his presence that follow his work.
Even those disciples, who do not live in contact with Great Initiates, form colonies of those who disseminate the works of the Initiates. They are a determined number of men that, called by the same vocation, enter the Great Current of the Great Initiate by keeping, strengthening and defending it. When the Great Work of the Great Initiate must last for long, these disciples –even after his death– come many times to Earth and uninterruptedly maintain the vocational chain, while the Great Initiate watches over them and leads them from higher worlds.
Throughout different lives, some disciples are in search for their Master, but do not find him. These souls have apparently failed in life, but it is not so; their lives consist of a search and preparation for the fulfillment of the mission entrusted to them.