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Ray I:  Will, demonstrating as power in the unfolding of the Plan of the Logos.

Ray III:  Adaptability of activity with intelligence. This Ray was the dominant one in the past solar system; it is the foundation or basis of this system, and is controlled by the Mahachohan.

Ray VII:  Ceremonial ritual or organisation. This is the reflection on the Physical plane of the two above, and is likewise connected with the Mahachohan. It controls the elemental forces and the involutionary process and the form side of the three kingdoms in nature. It holds hid the secret of physical colour and sound. It is the law.

These three Rays together embrace and embody all. They are Power, Activity and the Law in manifestation.

Ray II:  Love and Wisdom, the synthetic Ray which is the goal for this system, holding all in close harmony and relation.

Ray IV:  The expression of Harmony, beauty, music and unity.

Ray VI:  The Ray of Devotion to the ardour of aspiration, and of the sacrifice of the personal self for the good of all, with the object in view of harmony and beauty, impelled thereto by love.

These two groups of Rays might be related to each other as follows:

Rays 1-3-7 are the great Rays connected with the form, with the evolutionary process, with the intelligent functioning of the system, and with the laws controlling the life in all forms in all the kingdoms in nature.

Rays 1-3-7 deal with things concrete and with the functioning of matter and form from the lowest plane to the highest.

Rays 2-4-6 are the Rays connected with the inner life, expanding through those forms, the Rays of motive, aspiration and sacrifice. Rays pre-eminently of quality.

Rays 2-4-6 deal with things abstract, with Spiritual expression through the medium of form.

Ray 5 . . . .forms the connecting link of the intelligence.

A knowledge of the Rays and their tendencies and energies will bring much illumination to the workers in the field of the various sciences. All the sciences find themselves on some one or other of the Rays, and a science is literally the light thrown by a Ray into a particular field of divine manifestation. The four kingdoms in nature are embodiments of four great Lives Who are found, each on one of the four minor Rays.

The blue Ray of devotion passes now into the violet of what we term the ceremonial Ray. What do these words mean? Simply that the great Musician of the universe is moving the keys, is sounding another note and thus bringing in another turn of the wheel, and swinging into the arc of manifestation the Ray of violet, the great note G. These Rays bring with them—in every kingdom in nature—all that is attuned to them: Human beings, Devas of order high or low, elementals of a desirable or undesirable nature, flowers, fruits, and vegetable life of a certain kind, and animals and forms of varying species. It is the passing out of a Ray that signals the ultimate extinction of some particular form, some type of animal life, and leads to some vegetable aspect coming to an end. Hence the confusion among the scientists at this time. The process of coming in is slow, as is all work in nature, and as is the process of passing out. Simultaneously with the cyclic birth and emergence of a new Ray is the slow return to its source of the prevailing Ray, present at the advent of the new.

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