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3. This illumination, coming from the highest aspect which man can conceive follows a direct line of approach, or pours down through a direct channel from:

1. The level of Atma, or that center of Spiritual will which is dynamic and effective but seldom called into play, to the will petals of the Egoic lotus, upon which I touched in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. These petals are the reflection in the Soul of this particular aspect of energy.

2. From this layer of petals to the mind body.

3. From the mind body to the brain.

4. From the brain, in due and set time, to the center at the Base of the Spine, thus arousing the kundalini fire.

It will interest students to note how the first Ray disciple, when employing this first Ray technique of fusion, ends by producing second Ray characteristics of which illumination, producing understanding love and sympathetic cooperation, is the predominant note. The second Ray disciple, through rightly applied technique, produces curiously enough, third Ray results, of which the use of the creative imagination is the outstanding characteristic. The third Ray disciple through the development of the "power to inspire" adds to his innate qualities certain definitely first Ray potencies. All are, however, subordinated to the second Ray nature of the divine expression in this solar system.

The technique of Fusion, employed by the second Ray disciple, will produce the following results:

1. Increased sentient response to the world Soul and to the environment in which the disciple finds himself will increasingly be achieved.

2. This is largely done through the cultivation of the creative imagination. This is one of the great building attributes of deity. It is brought about by the evocation of the love nature and, as earlier noted, brings in Soul power in full tide. In the world of phenomenal appearance, the Soul is the creating agent, the major building factor, the constructor of forms, and, through the Technique of Fusion, the power to imagine or to use imaginative thought power (in conjunction with the faculty to visualise, to wish, to dream into being) is definitely and scientifically developed.

3. This creative tension or one-pointed focus of imaginative dreaming swings the Astral body into complete subordination to the Soul. The Soul is in complete control; no sense of separativeness is again possible.

4. The channel through which this synthesising and creative energy pours down is as follows:

1. From the Monad to the love petals of the Egoic lotus.

2. From these love petals to the Astral vehicle, energising all Astral matter found in the equipment of the phenomenal man. "The Spirit of God moves upon the face of the waters."

3. From thence to the Solar Plexus center.

4. From that center to the Heart center. The needed duality connected with the Astral body thus

                       appears. We have here also a correspondence to the descent of the fire of the will to the base of

                           the spine with its subsequent raising, along the spinal column, to the head.

The third Ray disciple, employing the Technique of Fusion, finds that:

1. It evokes a full functioning of the divine creative faculty. It will be apparent at this point how important is motive, for it determines the line of activity and differentiates man's activity into what is called (by esotericists) black and white magic. It is interesting also to note that it is the very rare man indeed who swings into the field of so-called black magic. This indicates, does it not, my brother, the extraordinarily triumphant work of the Great White Lodge.

2. The fiat which initiated this creative activity, as far as it relates to man, has been inadequately couched in the words: "Let the earth bring forth abundantly", thus inaugurating the age of creativity. This creative fecundity has steadily shifted during the past few thousand years into the creation of those effects of which ideas are the cause, producing within the creative range of man's mind:

a.  That which is useful and so contributing to man's present civilisation.

b.  That which is beautiful, thus gradually developing the aesthetic consciousness, the sense of

     colour, and the recognition of the use of symbolic forms in order to express quality and meaning.

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