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These are the major expressions of the Lords of the Rays:
The energies of these seven Lives however are not confined to their planetary expressions, but sweep around the confines of the solar system just as the life impulses of a human being—his vital forces, his desire impulses, and his mental energies—sweep throughout his body, bringing the various organs into activity and enabling him to carry out his intent, to live his life, and to fulfill the objective for which he created his body of manifestation.
Each of the seven kingdoms in nature reacts to the energy of some particular Ray Life. Each of the seven planes similarly reacts; each septenate in nature vibrates to one or another of the initial septenates, for the seven Rays establish that process which assigns the limits of influence of all forms. They are that which determines all things, and when I use these words I indicate the necessity of Law. Law is the will of the seven Deities, making its impression upon substance in order to produce a specific intent through the method of the evolutionary process.
FIRST RAY OF WILL OR POWER
Special Virtues:
Strength, courage, steadfastness, truthfulness arising from absolute fearlessness, power of ruling, capacity to grasp great questions in a large-minded way, and of handling men and measures.
Vices of Ray:
Pride, ambition, willfulness, hardness, arrogance, desire to control others, obstinacy, anger.
Virtues to be acquired:
Tenderness, humility, sympathy, tolerance, patience.
This has been spoken of as the Ray of power, and is correctly so called, but if it were power alone, without wisdom and love, a destructive and disintegrating force would result. When however the three characteristics are united, it becomes a creative and governing Ray. Those on this Ray have strong will power, for either good or evil, for the former when the will is directed by wisdom and made selfless by love. The first Ray man will always "come to the front" in his own line. He may be the burglar or the judge who condemns him, but in either case he will be at the head of his profession. He is the born leader in any and every public career, one to trust and lean on, one to defend the weak and put down oppression, fearless of consequences and utterly indifferent to comment. On the other hand, an unmodified first Ray can produce a man of unrelenting cruelty and hardness of nature.
1. Kill out desire when desire has fulfilled its work. Thou art the one who indicates fulfillment. Quality......clear vision.
2. Seek out the gentle way, Oh Lord of Power. Wait for thy brother on the path of Love. He builds the forms
that can withstand thy power. Quality...... dynamic power.
3. Withhold the hand until the time has come. Then give the gift of death, Oh Opener of the Door. Quality......sense of time.
4. Stand not alone, but with the many join thyself. Thou art the One, the Isolated. Come forth unto thine
own. Quality...... solitariness.
5. Lead thine own forth but learn to know thine own. Hate not attachment but see its plan and purpose. Quality...... detachment.
6. Through thee the life pulsates, the rhythm is imposed. The life is all. Love life in all its forms. Quality......singleness of purpose.
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