Mantras and invocations, including the Great Invocation, are effective only if used on the mental plane with the mind’s force concentrated on their content and meaning. This intense concentration, supporting the spoken word, is crucial to produce the desired effect. However, their impact is enormous when they are also spoken with the force of the soul.

For years, aspirants worldwide have used the sacred word OM. This user’s effect is seen in the small-scale awakening of creative imagination and spiritual longing in the disciple. However, this use has only impacted the students’ aura and not their surroundings, which is the intention. Nevertheless, the sacred word OM is immensely potent and has a wide-ranging effect if it is used in the right way. In such a case, its use results in two things. Firstly, it dispels undesirable and gross matter from all the personality bodies. Secondly, it works as an attractive force, drawing more refined material into the body to replace that which is dispelled.

If this is true regarding the sacred word OM, it also applies to the Great Invocation. All mantras – including the sacred word OM – originate in the second ray. It is the ray of consciousness and, therefore, the ray of the soul or the expression of the second aspect of Deity. Only the soul, with its potent will, can use mantras and OM, producing the desired result, which, without exception, is in line with the Divine Plan. It is generally forgotten, and the role of the divine will is usually overlooked. The Great Invocation, the sacred word OM, and all mantras must come from the soul, emphasizing its potent will and role in creating a unified thought form from living, illuminated thought material. In this way, Will, Love/Wisdom, and the Active Intelligence of the person who uses them will be activated.

All too frequently, however, the process breaks down. What happens is that the individual generates a thought form of the process in his mental body and nothing more. It is because the brain cannot perform the dual work on which the whole process is based. It is necessary to keep the thought forms stable and reflect the meaning behind the mantras and invocations. Simultaneously, one must send forth their content, embedded in the words and the sound. This dual working must be performed simultaneously by the soul, on its plane, and through the personality’s mental body and brain.