Course XXIV - Teaching 5: Solar Initiates of Third Category

Solar Initiates of Third Category roughly point out the work that Humanity should fulfill in the course of a Race and channel this divine force as a Mother-Idea. At the end of their mission they come back to higher worlds, to their Father’s bosom, to the Eternity.
Even if men follow the course indicated, many times have to deviate from the fulfillment of their mission because their nature is more human than divine. Then, in order to keep the flame continuously alive and not to deviate themselves from the true path, many times it is necessary the descent of great beings on Earth and their stimulation to understand and achieve the Mother-Idea.
Solar Initiates of the Third Category fulfill this mission.
From the astral world, where they put on ethereal forms, often they descend periodically on the physical world and more in contact with the work of Humanity.
When these sublime beings appear on Earth, they live isolated and lonely, and Their lives and works never will be written in a human language, since Their work is merely mental.
In order to lead more easily mental currents on vital centers of human life, they choose as their abode magnetic points in the planet. Mystical writers and holy seers pointed out as locations of these beings the most ignored chains of mountains in Tibet. They live in the most inaccessible places, blocked many times by snows, where an ordinary man cannot arrive. They live in islands totally lost in the ocean, whose names do not figure in any map. They live in the widest desert, in the oasis more unknown and more distant from centers of life and population.
Suddenly they appear as a meteor among masses at very urgent moments when terrible wars are bleeding the world and extreme evils overwhelm Humanity. They calm rages, relieve pain, utter a word of command or orientation, and quickly disappear.
Schmiachen, a painter who was able to see once the face of one of Them, painted then an admirable head of a Christ, which symbolized him.
Many people wonder why these Great Initiates come to Earth, since their mission is merely mental and they will not have any contact with the world. What need do they have to take a physical aspect, when they neither need nor use it during their work?
This is so because the mind of man indispensably needs a suitable message transmitted by a similar human brain. Otherwise, thought would arrive through a different wave, subtler, more vibrant and more difficult grasp by the human brain.
Solar Initiates of Third Category are beacons of mankind; periodically they illuminate the mind of Humanity from their mortal abode; they keep the Idea-Mother alive among men, illuminate the Path, which has been darkened by passions, and make human beings to toward the achievement of their destiny.