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4. In the lower expression of the man whose psychological chart we are considering, the psychologist will find a person who is intensely sensitive, inclusive and self-willed. Because of the fact that the second Ray personality and the physical body are related by similarity of Ray, there will also be a clearly pronounced tendency to lay the emphasis upon material inclusiveness and tangible acquisition, and there will, therefore, be found (in this person) an exceedingly selfish and self-centered man. He will not be particularly intelligent, as only his fifth Ray mental body relates him definitely and directly to the mind aspect of Deity, whilst his first Ray Egoic force enables him to use all means to plan for himself, and to use the will aspect to acquire and to attract the material good he desires or thinks he needs. His predominant second Ray equipment, however, will eventually bring the higher values into play. In the higher expression of the same man and when the evolutionary cycle has done its work, we will have a sensitive, intuitive, inclusive disciple whose wisdom has flowered forth, and whose vehicles are outstandingly the channel for divine love.

It will also be apparent that, as the relationships of the different aspects of a man's manifested life appear, his seven centers are related to the seven aspects or qualities which embody a man's essential divinity. The following is therefore of interest:

1. The Head Center                 Monad. Life.                         First aspect.
2. The Heart Center                 Soul. Consciousness.         Second aspect.
3. The Ajna Center                 Personality. Substance.         Third aspect.
4. The Throat Center                 Mind.                                 The mental aspect and energy.
5. The Solar Plexus Center        Emotion.                         The Astral aspect and energy center.
6. The Sacral Center                 Physical.
7. The Root Center                 Life itself.                         Monadic center.

The first three are the three major centers for the advanced man. I diverged briefly for a moment and took up the subject of the Rays of the three bodies of the personality before completing the detail of the outline previously given on the Ray of personality. This I did with deliberation, as I was anxious to have clearly established the difference which will be found existing between the Rays governing the elementals of the three lower bodies and that of the personality. The life of these three elementals is founded primarily in the three lowest centers in the Etheric body:

1. The Sacral Center                The Mental elemental life                 Transferred later to the Throat center.
2. The Solar Plexus Center        The Astral elemental life.                 Transferred later to the Heart center.
3. The Root Center                The Physical elemental life.         Transferred later to the Head center.

The life of the indwelling Soul is focused in the three higher centers:

1. The Head Center                 The mental consciousness.
2. The Throat Center                 The creative consciousness.
3. The Heart Center                 The feeling consciousness.

Two important stages in the life of the man take place during the evolutionary process:

First: The stage wherein there comes the first great fusion or "assertion of control" by the Soul. At this time the Ajna center comes alive. This stage precedes a man's passing on to the Probationary Path and is the stage which distinguishes the average man and woman at this time in the world.

Second: The stage wherein there comes a more definite Spiritual awakening. At this time the center at the Base of the Spine comes into rapport—through its circulating life—with all the centers in the Etheric body. This step precedes what is called initiation and signalises the arousing into activity of the central focus of power at the heart of each of the chakras or Etheric lotuses. In all the previous stages, it has been the petals of the various lotuses, chakras or vortices of force which have come into increased motion. At this later stage, the "hub" of the wheel, the "point in the center" or the "heart of the lotus" comes into dynamic action and the whole inner force-body becomes related in all its parts and begins to function harmoniously.

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