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10. The quality of this energy of concrete knowledge or science is twofold:

1. It is extraordinarily responsive to impressions coming from some source or other.

2. It is rapidly thrown into forms in response to impression.

11.  The impressions received come from three sources and are sequentially revealed to man. These are:

1. Impressions from the three worlds; these come, first of all, from the individual and then,  

        secondly, from the levels of planetary consciousness.

2. Impressions from the Soul, the Son of Mind, upon the level of mentality itself.

3. Impressions from the Spiritual Triad, via the Antahkarana; these come when the Antahkarana is

        constructed or in process of construction.

12.  This energy is essentially a lightbearer. It responds—again sequentially in time and space—to the light of the Logos. It is for this reason that the mind is regarded both as illumined when higher contacts are present and as an illuminator where the lower planes are concerned.

13.  This energy is (from the human standpoint) awakened and brought into activity through the action of the five senses which are the conveyors of information from the three worlds to the Mental plane. It might be said that:

1. Five streams of informative energy, therefore, make their impact upon the concrete mind and emanate from the physico-Astral plane.

2. Three streams of energy from the Soul, also make an impression upon the concrete mind.

3. One stream of energy—during the initiatory process—contacts the mind. This comes from the Spiritual Triad and utilises the Antahkarana.

14.  The energy of this fifth Ray might be regarded as the commonsense, because it receives all these impacts of varying energies, synthesises them, produces order out of the many ceaseless impacts and interprets them, thus creating the multiplicity of forms to which we give the name of "world thought".

15.  This energy transforms the divine ideas into human ideals, relating the knowledges and sciences of humanity to these ideals, thus making them workable factors in human evolution, its cultures and civilisations.

I will now summarise the effects of this fifth Ray energy in relation to humanity and the individual initiate:

1. I gave, first of all, fifteen items of information anent this fifth Ray energy, or fifteen definitions of its activity. These will warrant careful study.

2. The effect of this fifth Ray energy upon humanity in this fifth root race was considered; it was noted that this Aryan effect was dominant and dynamic in the extreme and that it has greatly hastened human evolution.

3. I pointed out the close relation between love and mind, as follows:

1. Ray II and Ray V
2. Plane II and plane V
3. Solar system II and root race V

In all of these relationships, the fifth in order is the prime agent and the revealer of the second type of Spiritual energy.

4. The fifth Ray energy produces three major areas of thought, or three prime conditions wherein the thought-form-making energy expresses itself:

1. Science                Education         Medicine
2. Philosophy                 Ideas                Ideals
3. Psychology         In process of modern development.

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