The rays are the seven emanations from the “seven Spirits before the Throne of God”. Their emanations come from the monadic level of awareness. In a certain sense, these seven great and living Energies are, in their totality, the etheric vehicle of the planetary Logos.
We shall now express the ray purpose in the form of ancient teaching preserved on leaves that are so old that the writing is slowly fading. The following translation is in modern language though much is lost thereby.
Ray 1 Will or Power
Ray 2 Love and Wisdom
Ray 3 Active Intelligence or Adaptability
Ray 4 Harmony, Beauty, and Art
Ray 5 Concrete Knowledge and Science
Ray 6 Devotion or Idealism
Ray 7 Ceremonial Order or Magic
Ray 1. Will or Power.
Behind the central sacred sun, hidden within its rays, a form is found. Within that form there glows a point of power which vibrates not as yet but shines as light electric.
Fierce are its rays. It burns all forms, yet touches not the life of God incarnate.
From the One who is the seven goes forth a word. That word reverberates along the line of fiery essence, and when it sounds within the circle of the human lives it takes the form of affirmation, an uttered fiat or word of power. Thus there is impressed upon the living mold of thought of …… (the hidden, inexpressible ray name.)
Let dynamic power, electric light, reveal the past, destroy the form that is, and open up the golden door. This door reveals the way which leads toward the centre where dwells the one whose name cannot be heard within the confines of our solar sphere.
His robe of blue veils his eternal purpose, but in the
rising and the setting sun his orb of red is seen.
His word is power. His light, electric. The lightning
is his symbol. His will is hidden in the counsel of
his thought. Naught is revealed.
His power is felt. The sons of men, reacting to his
power, send to the utmost bounds of light a question:
Why this blind power? Why death? Why this decay of
forms? Why the negation of the power to hold? Why
death, Oh Mighty Son of God?
Faintly the answer comes: I hold the keys of life and
death. I bind and loose again. I, the Destroyer, am.
This ray Lord causes destruction and brings cycles to
an end. Egos upon the power ray are characterized by a
dynamic will, and their power within the human family
works out as the force of destruction, but in the last
analysis it is a destruction that will produce
liberation. The intent of the Lord of the First Ray is
to stand behind His Six Brothers, and when They have
achieved Their purpose, to shatter the forms which
They have built.
Some of the names of this ray Lord which convey his
purpose are as follows:
The Opener of the Door
The Liberator from Form
The Power that touches and withdraws
The Lord of the Burning Ground
The Finger of God
The Most High
Ray 2. Love-Wisdom.
The Word is issuing from the heart of God, emerging
from a central point of love. That Word is love
itself. Divine desire colors all that life of love.
Within the human hierarchy, the affirmation gathers
power and sound.
The Word in the beginning was. The Word hath dwelt and
dwells with God. In Him was light. In Him was life.
Within His light we walk.
His symbol is the thunder, the Word that cycles down
the ages.
Some of the names of this ray Lord are:
The Displayer of Glory
The Lord of Eternal Love
The Cosmic Magnet
The Giver of Wisdom
The Master Builder
The Conferrer of Names
The Light Bringer
The Son of God Incarnate
The Cosmic Christ
Ray 3. Active Intelligence or Adaptability.
Let the Warden of the South continue with the
building. Let him apply the force which will produce
the shining living stone that fits into the temple’s
plan with right exactitude. Let him prepare the corner
stone and wisely place it in the north, under the eye
of God Himself, and subject to the balance of the
triangle.
Let the Researcher of the past uncover the thought of
God, hidden deep within the mind of the Kumaras of
Love, and thus let him lead the Agnishvattvas, waiting
within the place of darkness, into the place of light.
Let the Keeper of the sparks breathe with the breath
divine upon the points of fire, and let him kindle to
a blaze that which is hidden, that which is not seen,
and so illumine all the spheres whereupon God works.
Some of the names of this ray Lord are:
The Keeper of the Records
The Lord of Memory
The Interpreter of That Which is seen
The Lord of Balance
The One Who Produces Alliance
The Three-sided Triangle
The Illuminator of the Lotus
The Builder of the Foundation
The Forerunner of the Light
The Dispenser of Time
The Lord of Space
The Universal Mind
The Great Architect of the Universe
Ray 4. Harmony, Beauty, and Art.
Color, and yet no color now is seen. Sound and the
soundless One meet in an infinite point of peace. Time
and the timeless One negate the thoughts of men. But
time is not.
Form is there found, and yet the psychic sense reveals
that which the form is powerless to hide, – the inner
synthesis, the all – embracing prism, that point of
unity which – when it is duly reached – reveals a
further point where all the three are one, and not the
two alone.
Form and its soul are merged. The inner vision watches
o’er the fusion, knows the divine relation and sees
the two as one. But from that point of high
attainment, a higher vision blazes forth before the
opened inner eye. The three are one, and not alone the
two. Pass on, O pilgrim on the Way.
Some of the names of this ray Lord are:
The Perceiver on the Way
The Divine Intermediary
The Hand of God
The Seed, that is the flower
The Light within the Light
The Corrector of the Form
The Master
The Trumpet of the Lord
Ray 5. Concrete Knowledge and Science.
The thunders crash around the mountain top; dark
clouds conceal the form. The mists, arising from the
watery sphere, serve to distort the wondrous found
within the secret place. The form is there. Its note
is sounding forth.
A beam of light illuminates the form; the hidden now
appears. Knowledge of God and how He veils Himself
finds consummation in the thoughts of man. The
energies and forces receive their secret names, reveal
their inner purpose, and all is seen as rhythm, a
returning on itself. The great scroll can now be read.
God’s purpose and His plans are fixed, and man can
read the form.
The plan takes form. The plan is form. Its purpose is
the revelation of the mind of God. The past reveals
the form, but the present indicates the flowing in of
energy.
That which is on its way comes as a cloud which veils
the sun. But hid behind this cloud of immanence is
love, and on the earth is love and in the heaven is
love, and this, – the love which maketh all things new
– must stand revealed. This is the purpose back of all
the acts of this great Lord of Knowledge.
Some of the names of this ray Lord are:
The Revealer of Truth
The Great Connector
The Divine Intermediary
The Cloud upon the Mountain-top
The Heavenly One
The Rose of God
The Door into the Mind of God
The Guardian of the Door
The Dispenser of Knowledge
The Angel with the Flaming Sword
The Keeper of the Secret
The Brother from Sirius
The Master of the Hierophants
Ray 6. Devotion or Idealism.
The Crusade is on. The warriors march upon their way.
They crush and kill all that impedes their way, and
aught that rises on their onward path is trampled
under foot. March towards the light.
The work goes forward. The workers veil their eyes
from pity as from fear. The work is all that counts.
The form must disappear so that the loving spirit may
enter into rest. Naught must arrest the progress of
the workers with the plan. They enter upon the work
assigned with pain and with song.
The cross is reared on high; the form is laid thereon,
and on that cross must render up its life. Each builds
a cross which forms the cross. They mount upon the
cross.
Through war, through work, through pain and toil, the
purpose is achieved. Thus saith the symbol.
Some of the names of this ray Lord are:
The One Who sees the Right
The Visioner of Reality
The Devotee of Life
The Upholder of the Truth
The Imperishable Flaming One
The General on the Perfect Way
The One Who leads the Twelve
Ray 7. Ceremonial Order or Magic.
“Let the Temple of the Lord be built,” the seventh
great Angel cried. Then to their places in the north,
the south, the west and east, seven great sons of God
moved with measured pace and took their seats. The
work of building thus began.
The doors were closed. The light shone dim. The temple
walls could not be seen. The seven were silent and
their forms were veiled. The time had not arrived for
the breaking forth of light. The Word could not be
uttered. Only between the seven Forms the work went
on. A silent call went forth from each to each. Yet
still the temple door stayed shut.
As time went on, the sounds of life were heard. The
door was opened, and the door was shut. Each time it
opened, the power within the temple grew; each time
the light waxed stronger, for one by one the sons of
men entered the temple, passed from north to south,
from west to east and in the centre of the heart found
light, found understanding and the power to work. They
entered through the door; they passed before the
Seven; they raised the temple’s veil and entered into
life.
The temple grew in beauty. Its lines, its walls, its
decorations, and its height and depth and breadth
slowly emerged and entered into light.
Out from the east, the Word went forth: Open the door
to all the sons of men who come from all the darkened
valleys of the land and seek the temple of the Lord.
Give them the light. Unveil the inner shrine, and
through the work of all the craftsmen of the Lord
extend the temple’s walls and thus irradiate the
world. Sound forth the Word creative and raise the
dead to life.
Thus shall the temple of the light be carried from
heaven to earth. Thus shall its walls be reared upon
the great plains of the world of men. Thus shall the
light reveal and nurture all the dreams of men.
Then shall the Master in the east awaken those who are
asleep. Then shall the warden in the west test and try
all the true seekers after light. Then shall the
warden in the south instruct and aid the blind. Then
shall the gate into the north remain wide open, for
there the unseen Master stands with welcoming hand and
understanding heart, to lead the pilgrims to the east
where true light shines forth.
“Why this opening of the temple?” demand the greater Seven. “Because the work is ready; the craftsmen are prepared. God has created in the light. His sons can now create. What can else be done?”
“Naught!” came the answer from the greater Seven. “Let the work proceed. Let the sons of God create.”
Some of the names of this ray Lord are:
The Unveiled Magician
The Creator of the Form
The Watcher in the East
The Temple Guardian
The Representative of God
The One Who lifts to Life
The One Who feeds the Sacred Fire
The Divine Alchemical Worker
The Builder of the Square
The Key to the Mystery
The Revealer of Beauty