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THE SIXTH RAY OF DEVOTION

Special Virtues:

Devotion, single-mindedness, love, tenderness, intuition, loyalty, reverence.

Vices of Ray:

Selfish and jealous love, over-leaning on others, partiality, self-deception, sectarianism, superstition, prejudice, over-rapid conclusions, fiery anger.

Virtues to be acquired:

Strength, self-sacrifice, purity, truth, tolerance, serenity, balance and common sense.

This is called the Ray of devotion. The man who is on this Ray is full of religious instincts and impulses, and of intense personal feeling; nothing is taken equably. Everything, in his eyes, is either perfect or intolerable; his friends are angels, his enemies are very much the reverse; his view, in both cases, is formed not on the intrinsic merits of either class, but on the way the persons appeal to him, or on the sympathy or lack of sympathy which they shew to his favourite idols, whether these be concrete or abstract, for he is full of devotion, it may be to a person, or it may be to a cause.

Curiously enough, this sixth Ray Lord has always been a loved enigma to His six Brethren. This comes out in the questions which They addressed to Him on one occasion when They met "under the eye of the Lord" to interchange Their plans for united, divine, harmonious action. They asked these questions in a Spirit of heavenly joy and love, but with the intent to throw some light upon the somewhat obscure quality of Their loved Brother.

  1. Why is desire red? Why red as blood? Tell us, Oh Son of God, why thy way is red with blood? Quality......power to kill out desire.

  1. Why do you turn your back upon the sphere of earth? Is it too small, too poor? Why kick it as a ball upon

                a playing field? Quality...... spurning that which is not desired.

  1. Why set the cross from earth to heaven? But earth can be a heaven. Why mount the cross and die? Quality......self-immolation.

  1. Why battle thus with all that is around? Seek you not peace? Why stand between the forces of the night

                and day? Why thus unmoved and calm, untired and unafraid? Quality..endurance and fearlessness.

  1. See you not God in all, the life in all, and love in all? Why separate yourself and leave behind the loved

                and the well-known? Quality......power to detach oneself.

  1. Can you arrest the waters of the sixth great sphere? Can you stem the flood? Can you recover both the

                raven and the dove? Can you, the Fish, swim free?

Quality......overcoming the waters of the emotional nature.

THE SEVENTH RAY OF CEREMONIAL ORDER OR MAGIC

Special Virtues:

Strength, perseverance, courage, courtesy, extreme care in details, self-reliance.

Vices of Ray:

Formalism, bigotry, pride, narrowness, superficial judgments, self-opinion over-indulged.

Virtues to be acquired:

Realisation of unity, wide-mindedness, tolerance, humility, gentleness and love.

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