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THE SECOND RAY OF LOVE-WISDOM
Special Virtues:
Calm, strength, patience and endurance, love of truth, faithfulness, intuition, clear intelligence, and serene temper.
Vices of Ray:
Over-absorption in study, coldness, indifference to others, contempt of mental limitations in others.
Virtues to be acquired:
Love, compassion, unselfishness, energy.
This is called the Ray of wisdom from its characteristic desire for pure knowledge and for absolute truth—cold and selfish, if without love, and inactive without power. When both power and love are present, then you have the Ray of the Buddhas and of all great teachers of humanity,—those who, having attained wisdom for the sake of others, spend themselves in giving it forth. The student on this Ray is ever unsatisfied with his highest attainments; no matter how great his knowledge, his mind is still fixed on the unknown, the beyond, and on the heights as yet unscaled.
1. The legend tells us that the six Brothers summarise His qualities in the following aphorisms:
2. Send forth the Word and speak the radiant love of God. Make all men hear. Quality......love divine.
3. Let the glory of the Lord shine forth. Let there be radiant light as well as radiant love. Quality......radiance.
4. Draw to thyself the object of thy search. Pull forth into the light of day from out the night of time the one
thou lovest. Quality......attraction.
5. When light and love are shewn forth then let the power within produce the perfect flower. Let the word
that heals the form go forth. That secret word that then must be revealed.
Quality......the power to save.
6. Salvation, light, and love, with the magnetic power of God, produce the word of wisdom. Send forth that
word, and lead the sons of men from off the path of knowledge on to the path of understanding.
Quality......wisdom.
Within the radius of the love of God, within the circle of the solar system, all forms, all Souls, all lives
revolve. Let each son of God enter into this wisdom. Reveal to each the Oneness of the many lives.
Quality......expansion or inclusiveness.
THE THIRD RAY OF HIGHER MIND
Special Virtues:
Wide views on all abstract questions, sincerity of purpose, clear intellect, capacity for concentration on philosophic studies, patience, caution, absence of the tendency to worry himself or others over trifles.
Vices of Ray:
Intellectual pride, coldness, isolation, inaccuracy in details, absent-mindedness, obstinacy, selfishness, overmuch criticism of others.
Virtues to be acquired:
Sympathy, tolerance, devotion, accuracy, energy and common-sense.
This is the Ray of the abstract thinker, of the philosopher and the metaphysician, of the man who delights in the higher mathematics but who, unless modified by some practical Ray, would hardly be troubled to keep his accounts accurately. His imaginative faculty will be highly developed, i.e., he can by the power of his imagination grasp the essence of a truth; his idealism will often be strong; he is a dreamer and a theorist, and from his wide views and great caution he sees every side of a question equally clearly.
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