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THE FIFTH RAY OF LOWER MIND
Special Virtues:
Strictly accurate statements, justice (without mercy), perseverance, common-sense, uprightness, independence, keen intellect.
Vices of Ray:
Harsh criticism, narrowness, arrogance, unforgiving temper, lack of sympathy and reverence, prejudice.
Virtues to be acquired:
Reverence, devotion, sympathy, love, wide-mindedness.
This is the Ray of science and of research. The man on this Ray will possess keen intellect, great accuracy in detail, and will make unwearied efforts to trace the smallest fact to its source, and to verify every theory. He will generally be extremely truthful, full of lucid explanation of facts, though sometimes pedantic and wearisome from his insistence on trivial and unnecessary verbal minutiae. He will be orderly, punctual, business-like, disliking to receive favours or flattery.
1. Abstract or higher mind, the embodiment of a higher triad.
2. The concrete or lower mind, the highest aspect of the lower self.
3. The Ego or solar Angel, the pure Son of Mind, Who expresses intelligence, both abstractly and concretely, and is the point of unification.
This Life has also much power today in connection with the fifth root-race and with the transference of the consciousness of humanity into the fifth or Spiritual kingdom. Students would learn much if they contrasted the building power of the higher mind with the destroying power of the lower. Just as the personality has no other function in the divine plan than to be a channel for, and the medium of expression of, the Soul, so the lower mind is intended to be the channel for the pure inflow of higher mind energy.
1. God and His Angels now arise and see. Let the mountaintops emerge from out the dense wet mist. Let
the sun touch their summits and let them stand in light. Shine forth.
Quality...... emergence into form and out of form.
2. God and His Angels now arise and hear. Let a deep murmur rise and let the cry of seeking man enter
into their ears. Let man listen. Let man call. Speak loud.
Quality......power to make the Voice of the Silence heard.
sons of men; touch them with fire, then bring them near. Bring forth.
Quality...... initiating activity.
choose; dissect and analyse. All ways are one. Quality......revelation of the way.
its work. Draw man within the furnace and let him drop within the rose-red center the nature that retards. Let the fire burn. Quality......purification with fire.
which causes all to be produce the cause of their cessation. Let one temple now emerge. Produce
the crowning glory. So let it be.
Quality......the manifestation of the great white light. (The Shekinah)
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