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The law of the coming race is most difficult to express in understandable terms. I can find no better name for it—so as to express adequately its functional effect—than the words, the Law of Loving Understanding.

  1. The Law of Immersion------------------First race

  1. The Law of Capitulation ----------------Second race

  1. The Law of Materialisation-------------Lemurian race

(The Law of Hidden Radiance)

  1. The Law of the Tides--------------------Atlantean race

  1. The Law of Cleavages-------------------Aryan race

  1. The Law of Loving Understanding ----The next race

The functioning of the Law of Loving Understanding will be much facilitated during the Aquarian age, and it will eventuate later in the development of the international Spirit, in the recognition of one world faith in God and in humanity as the major expression of divinity in this world period, and in the transfer of the human consciousness from the world of material things to that of the more purely psychic, leading in time to the Spiritual.

It should be remembered that (for advanced humanity) time sequence of the recognition of these expansions of consciousness is as follows:

1. The world of psychical living. This requires the recognition, by the brain consciousness of the aspirant, of

        the need for mental and Spiritual control as a first step.

  1. The world of mental unfoldment and control.
  2. The world of the Soul or Ego.

When these three recognitions are stabilised in the aspirant, there comes the recognition by the disciple of:

1.  The control of the Physical plane life by the Soul.

2.  The interpretative faculty of the illumined mind.

3.  The functioning and utilisation of the psychic powers, and their place in the field of intelligent service.

4.  An inspired creative life on the Physical plane.

By a right understanding of these laws we can gain an insight into the present world situation as far as the nations are concerned, and can grasp more intelligently the Ray influence which, in conjunction with these laws, has brought about the various typical national units.

The Nations and the Rays

In connection, therefore, with our discussion of the Rays which govern and influence the leading nations of the world, the student should bear in mind the fact that all are today governed primarily by the Law of Cleavages, but that advanced groups in each nation are beginning to respond to the Law of Understanding, a law which will eventually emphasize the eternal brotherhood of man and the identity of all Souls with the OverSoul, in the racial consciousness, as well as the oneness of the Life which pours through, permeates, animates and integrates the entire solar system. This Life functions therefore in and through all the planetary schemes, with their kingdoms of forms, and with all that can be included (throughout our solar universe) under the phrase "form life". That phrase itself contains three great and basic ideas: the ideas of life, of matter and of evolution.

Every Ray produces three major patterns which are imposed upon the matter aspect, whether it be that of a man, a nation or a planet. These three patterns are:

  1. The Emotional pattern. This embodies the aspiration of the man, the nation or the planetary life, and is the sum total of the desire tendency.

  1. The Mental pattern. This emerges later in time and governs the thought processes of the man, the nation and the planet. It eventually becomes the controlling factor of the personality or form life. The emotional and mental patterns are the negative and positive aspect of the Personality Ray.

  1. The Soul pattern. This is the predisposing goal, the ring-pass-not or destiny which the immortal principle, the solar angel, succeeds eventually and much later in time in imposing upon the form life. This Soul pattern finally supersedes and obliterates the two earlier pattern-producing processes.

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