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You can see from all the above that this constitutes a definitely planned process of a basic scientific nature, and requires as careful following as the procedure of any scientist in search of some advanced chemical formula. The only difference, scientifically speaking, is that the whole process is carried forward upon subjective levels and in the realm of consciousness, thus requiring a consciousness and a concentration not needed when working more tangibly on the outer plane of awareness. At first it seems complicated, as the disciple tries to master the different stages of the process, but it all becomes entirely automatic when once mastered. Here is a summary of process up to the point of definite projection:
I. Intention, producing focussing and tension.
II. Visualisation, produced by:
III. Projection:
3. He starts in to use that distinctive Ray energy correctly.
4. He then, when all the above is completed, uses the Word of Power which is the agent of his Will.
The bridge to be built is called frequently the "rainbow bridge" because it is constituted of all the colours of the seven Rays. Speaking specifically and from the angle of the disciple, the bridge which he builds between the personality and the Spiritual Triad is composed of seven strands of energy, or seven streams of force; he uses all the seven Rays, having gained facility in so doing because again and again his personality has (in the long cycle of incarnations) been on all the seven Rays many times. But his Soul Ray dominates eventually, and in the rainbow bridge the "colours of his Rays are heard vibrating; the note of his Ray is seen."
The bridge built by humanity as a whole is one bridge composed of the multiplicity of individual bridges, built by the many disciples. It is therefore formed eventually of seven strands or streams of energy coming from the seven Egoic groups (one group of each Ray type). To this bridge the creative work of all human beings who reach the stage of Soul contact contributes. Their dominant strands of light fuse into one whole and their lesser strands are lost to sight in the radiant light of the sevenfold bridge which humanity will eventually complete.
Even in this finally completed bridge—at the end of the world cycle—one Ray light and colour will predominate, the second Ray, with the fourth Ray as the subsidiary Ray. The fourth Ray might be symbolically called "the main cable" for humanity, because it is the dominant note of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy.
The first three initiations are definitely and in a most mysterious way concerned with the creative work, and with the Spiritual expression in a human being of the third aspect of divinity, that of intelligent activity. The fourth, fifth and sixth initiations are as definitely related to the second aspect of love-wisdom as it expresses itself through created forms; the seventh, eighth and ninth initiations are occultly "inspired" by the first divine aspect, that of the Will.
Only, therefore, at the ninth initiation is the human being a full and true expression of divinity; he then realizes that in him all the divine aspects meet. Through them he is consciously, creatively and constructively en rapport with the consciousness of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being. All this is the result of a process and the effect of the inherent livingness which is found in all forms of life from the tiny atom up to Those great Lives Who are little more than names to the disciple.
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