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1|00:00:03|120|00:00:06|800Well, hi, everybody. And here we are continuing with the 2|00:00:07|300|00:00:10|680Laws of the Soul webinar commentaries from Esoteric 3|00:00:11|180|00:00:15|520Psychology, Volume Two. We're on number 15. We're on page 139. 4|00:00:15|600|00:00:20|480And we have begun this interesting 5|00:00:20|980|00:00:25|080section talking about the different methods of 6|00:00:25|580|00:00:29|810ray service. The emergence 7|00:00:29|890|00:00:34|610of the new group of world servers today is an indication that 8|00:00:35|110|00:00:38|210there are enough egoic types in 9|00:00:38|710|00:00:42|370physical manifestation, and that a sufficient number of personalities are 10|00:00:42|870|00:00:45|650responding to soul contact. 11|00:00:46|850|00:00:51|250Well, egoic types. I suppose we could say that 12|00:00:51|750|00:00:55|740of all the different seven ray types, there is a sufficiency of 13|00:00:56|240|00:00:59|860those who have contacted the ego as human 14|00:01:00|360|00:01:04|580beings to make it possible to have those egos 15|00:01:05|080|00:01:08|060represented in a group—in a human group. 16|00:01:08|380|00:01:11|340But it is really a subjective group. 17|00:01:13|260|00:01:16|700It says so that a group can be formed that can be definitely 18|00:01:17|200|00:01:21|340impressed as a group. Two things seem 19|00:01:21|840|00:01:26|100to be necessary: a sufficiency of egoic types, 20|00:01:27|140|00:01:32|100perhaps I would say, on all the different rays, but with certain of them predominating, 21|00:01:33|700|00:01:37|340and that there is sufficient contact between soul and 22|00:01:37|840|00:01:41|620personality for a number 23|00:01:42|120|00:01:46|020of these egoic types, so that the soul 24|00:01:47|220|00:01:50|720expression can occur. After all, 25|00:01:51|220|00:01:54|880it does have to work out on the physical plane. It has 26|00:01:55|380|00:01:57|960to work out in the lower 18 sub-planes. 27|00:01:58|680|00:02:02|760And even if there were enough egoic types in manifestation, 28|00:02:03|560|00:02:06|680if the personalities could not respond to soul contact, 29|00:02:08|520|00:02:11|640the formation of such a group would not be possible. It would 30|00:02:12|140|00:02:14|920not be outwardly effective anyway. 31|00:02:16|810|00:02:20|410A group of this nature can be formed that can be definitely 32|00:02:20|910|00:02:25|010impressed as a group, and not simply as individuals. 33|00:02:25|510|00:02:28|090So the Hierarchy impresses the group as a whole. 34|00:02:29|130|00:02:32|650This is the first time that such a situation has been possible, 35|00:02:32|970|00:02:36|490I suppose we could say, in the long 36|00:02:37|050|00:02:41|170history of humanity—a sufficiency 37|00:02:41|670|00:02:45|210of personalities aligned with the soul 38|00:02:45|710|00:02:49|130in such a way that the soul energy can come through. 39|00:02:49|210|00:02:52|330Up to this century, individuals could be 40|00:02:52|650|00:02:55|130impressed here and there 41|00:02:56|250|00:03:00|730in different parts of the world, and widely, and at widely separated 42|00:03:01|230|00:03:04|570times and periods. But today 43|00:03:04|650|00:03:09|220a group can respond, and say, 44|00:03:09|720|00:03:12|020all at the same time, 45|00:03:13|380|00:03:16|020not necessarily separated in time. 46|00:03:17|220|00:03:20|420The response is not necessarily separated in time, nor are they 47|00:03:20|920|00:03:24|900separated in time. A sufficiency of them exists simultaneously. 48|00:03:25|300|00:03:29|220But today a group can respond, and their numbers are relatively so great 49|00:03:30|580|00:03:33|940that there can be formed upon the planet 50|00:03:34|730|00:03:38|450a group composed of a number of persons. Notice he 51|00:03:38|950|00:03:43|330uses the word “persons,” meaning personalities 52|00:03:43|830|00:03:47|210here, that have soul influence pouring through them of such 53|00:03:47|930|00:03:51|450radiatory activity that their auras can meet and 54|00:03:51|950|00:03:55|730contact each other. And I think that's the important thing, because that's what makes a 55|00:03:56|230|00:04:00|910group—that their auras can meet and contact each 56|00:04:01|410|00:04:03|510other. This one group, 57|00:04:04|550|00:04:08|630both subjective and objective—thus one group, 58|00:04:09|430|00:04:13|030subjective and objective as well, can be functioning. 59|00:04:13|530|00:04:16|790It's largely a subjective group, but it needs the 60|00:04:17|030|00:04:20|550objective personalities working on the physical plane 61|00:04:20|870|00:04:23|270to be effective in service. 62|00:04:25|270|00:04:27|830So there are a couple of interesting ideas here, really: 63|00:04:29|330|00:04:34|010that a sufficiency of egoic types exists, and 64|00:04:34|510|00:04:37|930that the auras of these people, impressed as they 65|00:04:38|430|00:04:40|770are by the soul—their auras touch, 66|00:04:41|250|00:04:45|050meet, contact each other, and thus a group is 67|00:04:45|550|00:04:48|690formed. And the whole idea that it can be impressed 68|00:04:50|450|00:04:54|070as a group, definitely impressed as 69|00:04:54|220|00:04:57|620a group. We are no longer, strictly speaking, in the 70|00:04:58|120|00:05:01|740age of the individual, and D.K. 71|00:05:02|240|00:05:06|060has reminded us that if we feel 72|00:05:06|220|00:05:10|460very satisfied about our individual communications with 73|00:05:10|960|00:05:14|620the higher authorities, the higher sources, 74|00:05:15|120|00:05:19|180We are rather behind the times and really existing 75|00:05:19|680|00:05:23|190in the veil of glamour. The Hierarchy is working more 76|00:05:23|690|00:05:26|030with groups now than with individuals. 77|00:05:27|710|00:05:31|790There are today enough centers of light. We're talking 78|00:05:32|590|00:05:35|870about human beings here who are, to a degree, 79|00:05:36|830|00:05:39|230soul permeated, to a degree soul infused, 80|00:05:40|510|00:05:45|070scattered all over the world, and enough disciples and aspirants that 81|00:05:45|570|00:05:49|660the little beams and threads of light, speaking symbolically, which radiate 82|00:05:50|140|00:05:53|980from each of them, can meet and 83|00:05:54|480|00:05:57|540interlace and form a network of light in the world. Here he's 84|00:05:58|040|00:06:01|420giving us a clearer picture of how 85|00:06:02|299|00:06:05|980this occurs. And now, with the Internet, 86|00:06:06|480|00:06:10|060and the possibility, really, of contacting anyone almost anywhere, 87|00:06:10|460|00:06:12|140and increasingly it will be the case, 88|00:06:14|450|00:06:18|450a true network of light can be formed across 89|00:06:18|950|00:06:23|490the world. This constitutes the magnetic 90|00:06:23|990|00:06:27|810aura of the New Group of World Servers, this network 91|00:06:27|970|00:06:31|010of light, okay? 92|00:06:34|850|00:06:38|210Each individual in the group is sensitive 93|00:06:38|710|00:06:41|690to the plan, either through his own personal knowledge, 94|00:06:42|410|00:06:46|810through contact with his soul, or because his intuition tells him that 95|00:06:47|310|00:06:50|770what the group which attracts him accepts as its immediate work 96|00:06:51|270|00:06:54|250is for him right and true. And with it, 97|00:06:54|490|00:06:57|610all that is highest and best in him can cooperate. 98|00:06:58|330|00:07:02|330So what we have here is two modes of 99|00:07:02|830|00:07:04|650being sensitive to the plan: 100|00:07:08|210|00:07:11|650one of them direct and the other 101|00:07:12|930|00:07:16|770more indirect, but still effective. 102|00:07:17|330|00:07:18|530But this is the point. 103|00:07:20|210|00:07:24|290Each individual in the group is sensitive, 104|00:07:24|770|00:07:28|770we would say, at least in some measure, to the 105|00:07:29|270|00:07:32|810divine plan. I'm sure that when 106|00:07:33|310|00:07:37|250we look at the personnel of the New Group of World Servers, that sensitivity 107|00:07:37|750|00:07:40|130occurs along a wide range, 108|00:07:41|490|00:07:43|570some of it on the higher end, 109|00:07:44|530|00:07:48|650very specific knowledge, and on 110|00:07:49|150|00:07:52|850the lower end, more generalized understanding of the kinds of qualities that 111|00:07:53|350|00:07:56|970have to emerge. But all of it related to the divine 112|00:07:57|470|00:08:01|750plan, which is sponsored by the Hierarchy in response to the divine 113|00:08:02|250|00:08:04|470purpose which is put forward in Shambhala. 114|00:08:05|030|00:08:08|790Each individual in that group will work in his own particular surroundings, 115|00:08:09|750|00:08:13|270according to his ray and type. So there is no 116|00:08:14|070|00:08:18|310regimentation here. This is important. There is much 117|00:08:18|810|00:08:18|950freedom. 118|00:08:23|270|00:08:28|030And that again will be coloured by his race. And so 119|00:08:28|750|00:08:31|990we do not… There are 120|00:08:32|490|00:08:36|910many specifics which are left to the individual 121|00:08:38|510|00:08:41|870and are not controlled by 122|00:08:42|370|00:08:46|510any central authority. But the work is 123|00:08:47|010|00:08:50|550the better carried forward as the units in the group meet the 124|00:08:51|050|00:08:53|820need in their own particular environment. 125|00:08:54|860|00:08:58|740This is the thing about service: sensitivity to the need in the 126|00:08:59|240|00:09:04|500manner that is for them the simplest and the best. They belong as 127|00:09:05|000|00:09:08|780they do by habit and training in that particular setting. 128|00:09:09|740|00:09:14|020So this should be remembered, and let 129|00:09:14|520|00:09:17|900us say, if I can get that correct 130|00:09:18|700|00:09:23|700there… No, not yet. There is a great deal 131|00:09:24|200|00:09:28|660of variety in the ways and means 132|00:09:28|820|00:09:33|700of expressing service in 133|00:09:34|420|00:09:37|540particular contexts. None of this is 134|00:09:38|040|00:09:40|980regimented, controlled, ordered. 135|00:09:41|780|00:09:45|780It is the animating interior vision 136|00:09:46|270|00:09:51|990which is of importance and which links these soul 137|00:09:52|490|00:09:56|030infused personalities to each other and creates 138|00:09:56|530|00:10:00|070a magnetic aura which can be simultaneously impressed. 139|00:10:00|570|00:10:04|590A magnetic 140|00:10:04|990|00:10:08|510aura is created by the 141|00:10:09|230|00:10:13|070linked threads of light 142|00:10:13|570|00:10:18|830and love. And this aura can be simultaneously 143|00:10:18|990|00:10:21|550impressed in emergencies. 144|00:10:23|390|00:10:27|709This reminds one of the Triangles network, which is 145|00:10:28|209|00:10:31|390composed, we will say, of members of the New Group of World Servers largely and 146|00:10:31|890|00:10:34|910is organized in a particular manner. 147|00:10:34|990|00:10:39|140It's an increase of organization within 148|00:10:39|300|00:10:43|380the New Group of World Servers and 149|00:10:43|880|00:10:48|020very necessary at this time that 150|00:10:48|520|00:10:52|020this network be activated 151|00:10:53|540|00:10:55|780and ready for impression. 152|00:10:57|460|00:11:01|300In the perilous time in which we live, when the forces of light and dark 153|00:11:01|380|00:11:05|140are contending not only subjectively, but increasingly 154|00:11:05|640|00:11:08|950objectively on the physical plane, the seven Ray types will 155|00:11:09|450|00:11:12|110work in the following ways, which I am stating very briefly. 156|00:11:13|150|00:11:16|670For to do more than that might limit the expression of those 157|00:11:17|170|00:11:21|550who do not know enough to be discriminating as to their characteristics. 158|00:11:23|470|00:11:27|150This is interesting, and might unduly qualify and colour the experience 159|00:11:27|310|00:11:31|310of those servers who recognize, as some already do, 160|00:11:32|520|00:11:36|400their Ray. So he is leaving a wide 161|00:11:36|900|00:11:39|880latitude here, not saying too much, 162|00:11:44|120|00:11:48|920lest it limit the freedom of those who 163|00:11:49|000|00:11:53|240must express in service according 164|00:11:53|480|00:11:58|590to their most natural 165|00:11:59|090|00:12:02|830tendencies. You know how it is. You can 166|00:12:03|330|00:12:07|390bind yourself unduly if there are too many stipulations. 167|00:12:08|190|00:12:12|110Remembering those stipulations, you might stifle that which is natural 168|00:12:12|750|00:12:16|430and spontaneous form of expression. 169|00:12:17|310|00:12:20|870We can see how judicious Master 170|00:12:21|370|00:12:25|640D.K. must be as he has been writing these 171|00:12:25|880|00:12:29|720books. How careful he 172|00:12:30|220|00:12:34|120has to prevision the possible effects on all manner 173|00:12:34|200|00:12:38|000of readers. But he will give enough for us 174|00:12:38|500|00:12:42|000to understand the general trend of the serving Ray 175|00:12:42|500|00:12:46|120types. They might, for instance — he gives us an example — with 176|00:12:46|620|00:12:50|280entirely good intention, seek to force the Ray qualities 177|00:12:51|440|00:12:54|640of their soul into dominance before 178|00:12:55|140|00:12:59|160the personality Ray is adequately known or 179|00:12:59|660|00:13:02|880controlled. They'd be putting the cart before the horse. 180|00:13:05|280|00:13:08|760And you have to have an effective instrument. You have to know how the 181|00:13:09|260|00:13:12|800qualities of that instrument might modify the soul expression. 182|00:13:13|120|00:13:17|370And any attempt to force into manifestation 183|00:13:18|330|00:13:22|090qualities is against the mode of service, 184|00:13:22|250|00:13:25|770which is largely that of a natural and 185|00:13:26|270|00:13:30|570spontaneous outflow of soul contact. Other servers frequently 186|00:13:31|070|00:13:34|330confuse the two rays, as did actually a number of the 187|00:13:34|890|00:13:38|410members of his group. At first, before he 188|00:13:38|910|00:13:42|450told them what their rays were, other servers frequently 189|00:13:42|950|00:13:46|550confused the two rays and deem their soul ray to be of a particular type, 1|00:00:03|120|00:00:06|800whereas it is only their personality ray to which 191|00:13:50|410|00:13:56|310they predominantly conform and 192|00:13:56|810|00:14:00|390by which they are preeminently governed. 193|00:14:01|350|00:14:05|030So the substitution 194|00:14:06|790|00:14:10|400of the personality 195|00:14:10|960|00:14:14|240Ray for the 196|00:14:14|740|00:14:17|040soul Ray in error. 197|00:14:19|440|00:14:23|240So he does not want us to overly manage these 198|00:14:23|740|00:14:26|960Ray types of service. If we recognize our Ray and we know enough 199|00:14:27|460|00:14:31|120about our Ray formula, these may be helpful, but they will 200|00:14:31|620|00:14:35|360not induce the 201|00:14:35|860|00:14:40|550average reader to use force accompanied 202|00:14:41|050|00:14:44|590by ignorance of his own structure. Is it not possible for us 203|00:14:45|090|00:14:48|230to observe here the care with which 204|00:14:48|730|00:14:53|030the teacher… Is it not possible for us to observe here the care with which 205|00:14:53|530|00:14:57|750the teachers of these truths and the custodians of the coming revelation must proceed? 206|00:14:58|250|00:15:01|630Well, I just said that, but maybe I said that because long ago 207|00:15:02|130|00:15:05|510I had read this, you know, cryptomnesia, 208|00:15:06|010|00:15:08|510you know, you've read it, you don't know where, and it becomes a part of 209|00:15:09|010|00:15:13|030you. They have to guard the aspirants from premature knowledge which they might 210|00:15:13|530|00:15:17|630theoretically grasp, but which they are not yet ready 211|00:15:17|710|00:15:22|150practically to apply. So it's not a master. 212|00:15:22|650|00:15:27|390D.K.'s teaching is not a tell-all type 213|00:15:27|890|00:15:31|390of outpouring, not a tell-all outpouring, 214|00:15:31|790|00:15:36|270but managed with judiciousness 215|00:15:37|790|00:15:40|950and guarding the reader. He does that so 216|00:15:41|450|00:15:44|030often through the method of hints, 217|00:15:44|590|00:15:48|670by means of which some who know can respond, and others 218|00:15:49|170|00:15:53|230will simply be occultly blinded and thus protected against 219|00:15:53|730|00:15:57|800themselves and how the wrong application of direct knowledge 220|00:15:58|300|00:16:00|680given could adversely affect their lives. 221|00:16:02|040|00:16:05|400Well, now we go into the distinctive methods 222|00:16:05|560|00:16:08|440of ray service. 223|00:16:09|400|00:16:13|000And we are talking mostly about 224|00:16:13|500|00:16:17|440egoic rays here. At first, we 225|00:16:17|940|00:16:21|480are speaking largely of egoic rays, 226|00:16:21|980|00:16:25|300but those on a certain egoic ray can train along 227|00:16:25|800|00:16:29|420a similar line of service. Those who have a personality ray 228|00:16:29|920|00:16:33|940which is the same as the egoic ray—he discusses this. 229|00:16:35|460|00:16:38|340I think it's in relation to the fourth ray 230|00:16:38|840|00:16:42|340souls. Let us see Ray One. Servers on this ray, 231|00:16:42|980|00:16:45|060if they are trained disciples, 232|00:16:46|980|00:16:49|620work through what might be called 233|00:16:51|240|00:16:54|640the imposition of the will 234|00:16:55|140|00:16:57|720of God upon the minds of men. 235|00:16:58|600|00:17:03|000And he does speak of minds here, does he not? He's not talking 236|00:17:03|500|00:17:07|840about limiting and constraining the action 237|00:17:08|340|00:17:11|960of bodies. He's not talking about slavery, which those who use this 238|00:17:12|460|00:17:16|399ray and are not trained disciples might 239|00:17:16|899|00:17:20|559exert. They might enslave others. 240|00:17:20|719|00:17:24|359This is a possibility with the 241|00:17:24|859|00:17:28|479untrained, undeveloped first ray soul type. 242|00:17:29|839|00:17:32|799So with the imposition of the will, there is a direct relation between the will 243|00:17:33|299|00:17:36|559and the mind. We know when we're told 244|00:17:37|059|00:17:40|159to mind somebody, we mean to obey their will. 245|00:17:40|719|00:17:44|690Those two ideas are connected. This they do through the powerful impact 246|00:17:45|190|00:17:48|770of ideas upon the minds 247|00:17:49|270|00:17:52|930of men. You know, they can be called—one of the things that 248|00:17:53|730|00:17:58|210first ray types of this nature can be called is enunciating 249|00:17:58|930|00:18:02|450disciples, not the destroying disciples. And I'm 250|00:18:02|950|00:18:06|330sure there's an overlap between them. But they enunciate 251|00:18:06|830|00:18:10|600the ideas which must impress the minds of men and the emphasis of 252|00:18:11|100|00:18:14|960the governing principles which must be assimilated by humanity. 253|00:18:15|460|00:18:19|360We are allowed at least to offer our 254|00:18:19|860|00:18:24|480ideas and to bring them forward impressively. 255|00:18:24|980|00:18:28|880Then it's up to the possible recipient to decide whether or 256|00:18:29|380|00:18:32|680not he or she will receive. These ideas, 257|00:18:33|180|00:18:38|050when grasped by the aspirant, bring about two developments. First, they 258|00:18:38|550|00:18:42|250initiate a period of destruction and of a breaking up of that 259|00:18:42|750|00:18:46|290which is old and hindering. And this is later followed— 260|00:18:46|790|00:18:49|930okay, this is the first part. This is later followed 261|00:18:50|430|00:18:54|810by the clear shining forth of the new idea and 262|00:18:55|310|00:18:59|370its subsequent grasping by the minds of intelligent humanity. 263|00:18:59|870|00:19:03|300Well, it's a two-phase process, isn't it? 264|00:19:04|340|00:19:08|620First the period of destruction as the new 265|00:19:09|120|00:19:11|940impression encounters the old condition. 266|00:19:13|060|00:19:16|620And then the shining forth of the 267|00:19:17|120|00:19:17|620new ideas. 268|00:19:20|660|00:19:24|140The first ray types may not be well 269|00:19:24|640|00:19:28|750liked for bringing forth the new, because so many of us have strong comfort 270|00:19:29|250|00:19:32|510zones, the contents of which we do not want to change. 271|00:19:34|590|00:19:38|470But they do move things forward. The idea of progress 272|00:19:38|970|00:19:42|670onward is the movement of the first ray, and it drives evolution 273|00:19:43|309|00:19:48|470forward. It is the straight line rather 274|00:19:48|970|00:19:52|430than the cyclic, repetitive motion of the third ray, which 275|00:19:52|930|00:19:56|440tends to perpetuate the same 276|00:19:56|680|00:20:00|840conditions. Maybe we can contrast it by saying—loosely 277|00:20:01|340|00:20:04|760anyway—that it is Uranus versus Saturn, although Saturn 278|00:20:05|260|00:20:09|080does break up the old conditions as well. Any energy can be used progressively 279|00:20:09|160|00:20:13|120or perhaps regressively, or at 280|00:20:13|620|00:20:17|640least non-progressively. These ideas embody great principles 281|00:20:18|140|00:20:22|690and constitute the new age ideas. 282|00:20:26|050|00:20:29|610Excuse me. These servers therefore 283|00:20:30|110|00:20:32|050work as God's destroying angels, 284|00:20:33|970|00:20:37|730destroying the old forms. But nevertheless, 285|00:20:38|230|00:20:42|930behind it all lies the impetus of love. And first the 286|00:20:43|430|00:20:45|490impression is upon the mind. 287|00:20:46|610|00:20:51|970And acquiescence in 288|00:20:52|470|00:20:56|490the mind will lead to the outer destruction 289|00:20:56|990|00:20:57|170of form. 290|00:21:01|489|00:21:05|570In other words, the disciples are not attacking the 291|00:21:06|070|00:21:09|890form immediately. These disciples—they are working first 292|00:21:10|290|00:21:14|090to change through impression the 293|00:21:14|590|00:21:18|050minds of men. And then the forms will naturally 294|00:21:18|550|00:21:21|570respond to that new 295|00:21:22|070|00:21:26|010pattern which occurs in the mind due to the impressed impression. 296|00:21:26|810|00:21:30|490With the average aspirant, however, who is on the first ray — and this can 297|00:21:30|990|00:21:34|850mean the first ray soul, the first ray soul, who is simply the average aspirant — 298|00:21:35|350|00:21:38|940the activity is not so intelligent. And we can 299|00:21:39|440|00:21:43|860say that discipleship grows, 300|00:21:46|020|00:21:49|460well, let's put it like 301|00:21:49|960|00:21:54|020this: intelligence grows as discipleship 302|00:21:54|420|00:21:58|020grows. So we 303|00:21:58|520|00:22:01|620are familiar with the way many first ray types operate in the world. 304|00:22:02|120|00:22:06|030And it's not so wise and still rather, 305|00:22:06|990|00:22:10|630rather selfish. He grasps the idea that 306|00:22:11|130|00:22:14|590is needed by the race, but he will seek to impose it 307|00:22:15|790|00:22:20|270primarily as his idea, 308|00:22:22|270|00:22:25|230because he has not outgrown his personality centeredness. 309|00:22:26|510|00:22:30|380Certainly it's not. Well, it can be dangerous when people 310|00:22:30|880|00:22:34|580say, “Well, it's God's idea,” you know. But so many of the traditional church people 311|00:22:35|080|00:22:38|860don't think maybe that God has any new ideas and there's no progressive 312|00:22:39|360|00:22:43|540evolution, but that everything was said in the revelation of some 313|00:22:44|040|00:22:47|460particular receiver of 314|00:22:47|960|00:22:51|860communication from God at a specific time in history. So the ongoing 315|00:22:52|360|00:22:55|550revelation of Deity is so important to prevent religions 316|00:22:56|050|00:22:58|310from becoming crystallized and outmoded. 317|00:22:59|430|00:23:03|110He grasps the idea that is needed by the race, but he will seek to 318|00:23:03|610|00:23:07|590impose it primarily as his idea, something which he has seen, 319|00:23:07|910|00:23:11|470he and no other. We might say there are some in 320|00:23:11|970|00:23:18|510some faiths that feel that their originating 321|00:23:19|010|00:23:23|720source, their receiver, their prophet, 322|00:23:24|440|00:23:28|920is the only one who is capable of such a high view 323|00:23:31|000|00:23:34|600of what Deity wanted and that was received 324|00:23:34|680|00:23:38|760once and for all, for all time. How stultifying 325|00:23:39|260|00:23:42|720that would be and is. But he will seek to impose 326|00:23:43|220|00:23:47|140it primarily as his idea, something which he has seen and grasped, 327|00:23:47|620|00:23:51|980and which impatiently he seeks to impose upon 328|00:23:52|480|00:23:58|060his fellow men for their good. As he sees it now, 329|00:23:58|560|00:24:14|460this impatience correlates with Mars and with the sixth ray, and 330|00:24:15|340|00:24:18|460has in it not 331|00:24:19|660|00:24:23|180the wisdom required, 332|00:24:23|820|00:24:26|940not the wisdom required. When we have impatience, 333|00:24:27|440|00:24:32|740we do not have with it, usually anyway, wisdom. 334|00:24:33|240|00:24:36|860We can say that impatience usually 335|00:24:37|980|00:24:41|890counteracts wisdom. Not always. 336|00:24:42|130|00:24:45|370Perhaps there is a great urgency forward in some first ray types. They may 337|00:24:45|870|00:24:49|810be wise, but they see the crisis and they at least insist 338|00:24:49|890|00:24:53|090on the immediate implementation of certain things which are 339|00:24:53|590|00:24:56|690necessary at the moment: to act quickly, 340|00:24:56|850|00:25:00|610forcefully, directly. Pushing forward is not necessarily 341|00:25:00|930|00:25:04|770the same as impatience. So he inevitably 342|00:25:05|270|00:25:08|520destroys as fast as he builds, 343|00:25:09|020|00:25:12|640and he finally destroys himself. 344|00:25:13|140|00:25:17|920And this is where the law of repulse will come in, where 345|00:25:18|420|00:25:21|840the garden stands revealed in all of its beauty, its trees and flowers 346|00:25:22|340|00:25:25|440and so forth. And then the wind of God, His breath divine, 347|00:25:25|840|00:25:29|200sweeps through the garden and everything is destroyed. 348|00:25:30|640|00:25:33|800He imposes so much of his own idea upon 349|00:25:34|300|00:25:37|910others that there's an inevitable rebellion here. And he may also destroy 350|00:25:38|410|00:25:42|310his own vehicle — inner and outer vehicles — 351|00:25:43|750|00:25:47|590as he impatiently works at this 352|00:25:47|750|00:25:51|870imposition which is not wise 353|00:25:52|370|00:25:56|190or wisely timed. Many worthy aspirants and disciples 354|00:25:56|690|00:26:00|590in training for service at this time work in 355|00:26:01|090|00:26:04|010this sad way. Okay, 356|00:26:05|370|00:26:10|250well, the first ray types reading this can take 357|00:26:10|750|00:26:14|010the hint. Some of the Masters of the Wisdom and their groups 358|00:26:14|510|00:26:18|090of disciples are actively engaged at this time in an endeavor 359|00:26:19|610|00:26:23|050to impose certain 360|00:26:23|290|00:26:26|530needed — certain basic and needed ideas 361|00:26:27|030|00:26:27|690upon the race of men. 362|00:26:30|710|00:26:35|110And now, let's just say H.P.B. 363|00:26:35|610|00:26:37|990was one. But she was more than that. 364|00:26:39|990|00:26:43|430And much of their work is being prepared by a group of destroying disciples. 365|00:26:43|930|00:26:48|190She was that too. H.P.B. was also a destroying and enunciating 366|00:26:48|690|00:26:53|270disciple. H.P.B. was a destroying 367|00:26:53|350|00:26:57|290as well as enunciating First 368|00:26:57|790|00:27:00|930Ray disciples. So here 369|00:27:01|430|00:27:04|770are the destroying disciples. They come 370|00:27:05|270|00:27:08|770first. And here are the enunciating disciples. Maybe they have more 371|00:27:09|270|00:27:13|450of the Second Ray in them. For these two types of 372|00:27:13|950|00:27:18|330work carry forward their task as a unit until— 373|00:27:18|650|00:27:22|610well, sometimes the annunciation can itself 374|00:27:23|090|00:27:26|850lead to destruction. D.K. seemed to hint at that: 375|00:27:27|350|00:27:31|010depositing the assertion of a higher energy pattern will 376|00:27:31|510|00:27:34|450lead to destruction, to the clearing away of that which stands in its way, 377|00:27:34|950|00:27:39|490and finally to the clear shining forth of that which has been enunciated. 378|00:27:41|650|00:27:44|810So these two types work together. The idea to 379|00:27:45|310|00:27:49|260be dominant in the future is proclaimed in writing and by 380|00:27:49|420|00:27:53|180voice—by the voice, by 381|00:27:53|680|00:27:57|500one group. Okay, well, let's see 382|00:27:57|580|00:28:01|300the order in which he places this. The group of destroyers take 383|00:28:01|800|00:28:05|060it up, and the group of destroyers 384|00:28:05|560|00:28:08|420take it up and proceed to break up the old forms of truth so as 385|00:28:08|920|00:28:12|020to make room and way for the new emerging idea. Well, 386|00:28:12|520|00:28:15|870it's the chicken and the egg, I suppose. What we have 387|00:28:16|370|00:28:18|150is enunciation, 388|00:28:19|670|00:28:23|590destruction, and the 389|00:28:24|070|00:28:29|910shining forth of that which has been enunciated. 390|00:28:31|350|00:28:35|030I suppose the new idea coming forth has its 391|00:28:35|530|00:28:39|230destructive potential. People are seized by 392|00:28:39|730|00:28:43|440the idea, and they proceed to destroy that which is in its 393|00:28:43|940|00:28:48|360way. As the enunciators continue to enunciate 394|00:28:48|440|00:28:51|960and gradually the debris of the old is cleared away 395|00:28:52|920|00:28:58|120and the annunciation can ring through loud and clear and 396|00:28:58|620|00:29:02|520be expressed rightly without the interference 397|00:29:03|560|00:29:06|920of the conditioning which had to be destroyed. 398|00:29:09|000|00:29:12|360Okay, well, those are the First Ray ego types which 399|00:29:12|860|00:29:16|200are serving. And now we go on 400|00:29:16|700|00:29:19|240to those on the Second Ray, Ray Two. 401|00:29:20|840|00:29:24|520A great number of Ray Two souls are in incarnation 402|00:29:25|020|00:29:28|360at this time. And the idea of pondering— 403|00:29:28|860|00:29:32|810it's slow. Sometimes when you say “ponderous,” it does mean slow 404|00:29:33|310|00:29:36|890activity. And we are told that the Second Ray types can 405|00:29:37|050|00:29:39|930lack speed and energy. 406|00:29:42|010|00:29:47|090We're told this in Esoteric Psychology One in that discussion 407|00:29:47|590|00:29:51|050of the seven ray types. It would really be worth going 408|00:29:51|550|00:29:55|010over those. Those ten pages or so are 409|00:29:55|510|00:29:58|670some of the clearest descriptions of ray 410|00:29:59|170|00:30:03|270types and can form a foundation 411|00:30:03|770|00:30:06|950of knowledge for people. Servers on 412|00:30:07|450|00:30:11|630this ray ponder, meditate upon, and assimilate— 413|00:30:12|130|00:30:15|430bring into themselves the new ideas associated 414|00:30:15|930|00:30:19|270with the plan. It's… 415|00:30:19|430|00:30:26|880you know, relatively… relationship… 416|00:30:30|400|00:30:35|200relatively slow assimilation when 417|00:30:35|280|00:30:40|760compared to the action of 418|00:30:41|260|00:30:43|200the First Ray type. 419|00:30:45|280|00:30:49|520Servers on this ray ponder, meditate upon 420|00:30:51|140|00:30:54|660and assimilate the new ideas. It all begins 421|00:30:55|160|00:30:58|460with ideas, because ideas are beings in the higher world. 422|00:30:58|960|00:31:00|420And well, 423|00:31:02|820|00:31:07|300we hear about the irresistibility of an idea whose time 424|00:31:07|800|00:31:12|540has come. Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has 425|00:31:13|040|00:31:16|660come, according to the cycles of the plan. 426|00:31:18|440|00:31:21|960These ideas are released into relationship with the 427|00:31:22|920|00:31:26|760field that they must condition. And they have a much higher energy than 428|00:31:27|260|00:31:31|320that field. So gradually they do in fact change the configuration 429|00:31:31|820|00:31:35|160of the lower fields. Servers on this ray ponder, 430|00:31:35|660|00:31:38|800meditate upon, and assimilate the new ideas associated with the plan. And by the power 431|00:31:39|300|00:31:43|080of their attractive love, they 432|00:31:43|580|00:31:47|040gather together those who are at that point in their evolution where 433|00:31:47|540|00:31:50|120they can respond to the measure and the rhythm of that plan. 434|00:31:52|200|00:31:55|960Well, you know, you can look at the Second Ray technique 435|00:31:57|480|00:32:01|080of integration and… 436|00:32:02|680|00:32:03|400let's see, 437|00:32:06|840|00:32:08|280just look at it here for a second. 438|00:32:13|840|00:32:17|040Let's see. This is Esoteric Psychology. Oh, it should be— 439|00:32:18|720|00:32:21|840should be number two and not number one. 440|00:32:26|640|00:32:30|240And they attract, you see, I at— 441|00:32:30|740|00:32:34|600the point sustain, I at the point attract, I at the point direct 442|00:32:35|100|00:32:38|690and choose and dominate. I at the point 443|00:32:38|770|00:32:42|290love all, drawing them. There's that 444|00:32:42|790|00:32:46|130magnetic word drawing them to the center and 445|00:32:46|630|00:32:51|410moving forward with the traveling points of light towards that great center where 446|00:32:51|910|00:32:55|170the one point stands, whatever that center may be. 447|00:32:55|410|00:32:58|450Hierarchy, Shambhala, or beyond. 448|00:32:58|770|00:33:02|970What mean you by that word? We've gone over these techniques 449|00:33:03|470|00:33:06|900of integration which occur later in the book, 450|00:33:07|620|00:33:11|620and they do aspect each other, 451|00:33:12|420|00:33:17|940so to speak. When we look here at the phrase 452|00:33:18|420|00:33:20|580“naught is but me,” 453|00:33:21|780|00:33:25|460we see another idea. 454|00:33:26|660|00:33:29|940“Let all the life be drawn to the center.” This is 455|00:33:30|440|00:33:34|260the magnetic attractive force of this Second Ray. “And enter 456|00:33:34|760|00:33:37|900thus into the heart of love divine. Then from that point of sentient life, 457|00:33:38|400|00:33:42|020let the soul realize the consciousness of God,” and so forth. 458|00:33:43|060|00:33:46|580But all is drawn towards a center. 459|00:33:47|059|00:33:49|620So by the power of their attractive love, 460|00:33:52|180|00:33:56|180because they do somehow reinforce the quality in 461|00:33:56|680|00:34:00|090other people. And people love that when they are recognized 462|00:34:00|170|00:34:03|610for the essential quality that they are, and they 463|00:34:03|930|00:34:07|530approach the source that augments that quality. 464|00:34:08|170|00:34:11|970They gather together those who are at that point in their evolution 465|00:34:12|470|00:34:16|090where they can respond to the measure and 466|00:34:16|410|00:34:18|650rhythm of that plan. 467|00:34:20|490|00:34:23|850They can select, although that is, you know, that's largely… 468|00:34:25|830|00:34:29|190Largely but not exclusively a 469|00:34:29|670|00:34:32|230Third Ray word: selectivity. 470|00:34:34|150|00:34:38|270But they can select and train those who 471|00:34:38|770|00:34:41|510can carry the idea deeper into the mass of humanity. And when you look at, 472|00:34:42|790|00:34:47|470let's say, the work of the University of the Seven Rays or of the Morya 473|00:34:47|970|00:34:51|680Federation, now this is exactly the purpose: 474|00:34:51|840|00:34:55|400to set up the magnets so those who can 475|00:34:55|900|00:34:59|360be trained in the Ageless Wisdom 476|00:35:01|920|00:35:05|560can be sufficiently trained that they are equipped to carry the idea deeper 477|00:35:06|060|00:35:09|720into the mass of humanity. That will, to a degree, require some of the 478|00:35:10|220|00:35:12|880Third Ray to render vocal. As we will see, 479|00:35:13|520|00:35:16|760we should not forget that the work of the Hierarchy at this time and the 480|00:35:17|260|00:35:20|680task of the New Group of World Servers is primarily 481|00:35:21|180|00:35:24|640associated with ideas. In other words, 482|00:35:25|140|00:35:28|560working on the Buddhic or 483|00:35:29|060|00:35:32|880in relation to the Buddhic plane, where for the first time 484|00:35:33|040|00:35:36|240ideas in their purer form can be contacted. Of course, 485|00:35:37|200|00:35:40|680ideas exist all the way up the planes. It's not only 486|00:35:41|180|00:35:44|880the Buddhic plane. The Logoic Plane has its ideas, and every one 487|00:35:45|380|00:35:48|920of the cosmic ethers has its form of 488|00:35:49|420|00:35:53|200ideas. But ideas per se do not really exist in 489|00:35:53|700|00:35:57|240the lower 21 sub 490|00:35:57|740|00:36:02|280planes, but rather thought forms representing those ideas exist 491|00:36:02|360|00:36:05|840on those planes which are the dense physical body of the 492|00:36:06|340|00:36:09|960Solar Logos. So we should not forget that the work of 493|00:36:10|460|00:36:12|600the Hierarchy at this time and the task of the New Group of World 494|00:36:13|100|00:36:16|000Servers is primarily associated with ideas. 495|00:36:17|440|00:36:21|280And so when we are thinking of the way in which we 496|00:36:21|780|00:36:24|240as aspirants and disciples are to serve, this is a big hint. 497|00:36:24|960|00:36:28|800This tells us something about the manner 498|00:36:29|040|00:36:32|160in which we are to serve. Of course, 499|00:36:32|800|00:36:36|120not all aspirants are members of the New Group of World Servers, and they have 500|00:36:36|620|00:36:39|730to maybe at first serve in more outer world ways. 501|00:36:40|850|00:36:44|610The New Group of World Servers should be composed primarily of 502|00:36:45|110|00:36:48|850second degree initiates and beyond. But sometimes he uses the term 503|00:36:50|130|00:36:52|050in a wider and looser manner. 504|00:36:53|810|00:36:56|970The disciples and servers on the Second Ray, 505|00:36:57|470|00:37:01|890largely the Second Ray, are busy building 506|00:37:02|390|00:37:05|900habitations for those dynamic entities 507|00:37:06|400|00:37:10|220whose function it has ever been to charge the thoughts of 508|00:37:10|720|00:37:14|540men and so usher in that 509|00:37:15|040|00:37:18|420new and better age which will permit the fostering of the souls of men. 510|00:37:18|920|00:37:22|300This has the ring of the old commentary, doesn't it? And indeed 511|00:37:22|460|00:37:25|740it is of the old commentary. 512|00:37:26|220|00:37:30|300So the second ray we well know. 513|00:37:36|350|00:37:39|870Let's see. Second ray, maybe not. 514|00:37:39|950|00:37:44|350Okay, second ray is the building 515|00:37:45|550|00:37:49|950ray along with the seventh. 516|00:37:52|030|00:37:56|270So the slow magnetic relating of things in 517|00:37:56|350|00:37:59|870a structure is the ability of 518|00:38:00|370|00:38:02|910those upon the second ray, and that is building. You know, you just don't. 519|00:38:02|990|00:38:06|310When you're building something you want to last, you just don't throw it together, 520|00:38:06|810|00:38:10|150do you? You have to cautiously take one brick, let's say, 521|00:38:10|650|00:38:14|510and relate it to the other brick. And usually with some 522|00:38:15|010|00:38:19|670sort of mortar between them. Unless you are the 523|00:38:20|170|00:38:23|760ones who built some of those amazing edifices 524|00:38:24|260|00:38:27|800and walls in South America and other places where the join between 525|00:38:28|280|00:38:32|280these tremendous building 526|00:38:32|780|00:38:36|120blocks is virtually seamless and needs 527|00:38:36|620|00:38:37|080no mortar. 528|00:38:39|960|00:38:42|920So we build in thought. 529|00:38:45|160|00:38:49|000We say busy building, and we might say 530|00:38:50|780|00:38:54|540in thought… habitations. Thought habitations. 531|00:38:56|140|00:38:58|780We're not really building ideas. Ideas exist. 532|00:39:02|620|00:39:06|220Ideas are more emanations than built 533|00:39:06|780|00:39:10|380structures. They are not so much constructed as 534|00:39:10|880|00:39:15|020they are extensions of a still 535|00:39:15|580|00:39:19|220greater archetypal formulation within the 536|00:39:19|780|00:39:23|820deity concerned. They're busy building habitations for 537|00:39:24|320|00:39:27|980those dynamic entities. And let's 538|00:39:28|480|00:39:30|420just call them ideas. That's what they are. 539|00:39:32|180|00:39:35|780Whose function it has ever been to charge… 540|00:39:35|940|00:39:39|300Now there's… 541|00:39:39|700|00:39:42|130stimulate, excite, 542|00:39:44|680|00:39:45|480electrify, 543|00:39:48|760|00:39:52|400dynamize the 544|00:39:52|900|00:39:55|400thoughts of men, and so to usher in that new and better age. 545|00:39:56|840|00:40:00|120There's always a new and better age possible. But we really are on the 546|00:40:00|840|00:40:04|600threshold of one now to usher in that new and better age which will permit 547|00:40:05|560|00:40:08|600the fostering of the souls of men. 548|00:40:10|140|00:40:14|700That's not a materialistic proposition at all. It's the growth 549|00:40:15|200|00:40:19|580of true subjectivity, the growth of the egoic 550|00:40:20|080|00:40:23|340vehicle of 551|00:40:23|660|00:40:27|580true subjectivity and of 552|00:40:28|140|00:40:31|980the vehicle of subjectivity, the egoic 553|00:40:32|480|00:40:35|340lotus. So runs the old commentary. 554|00:40:36|400|00:40:40|560If I thus modernize its ancient wording by magnetic, 555|00:40:40|720|00:40:41|680attractive, 556|00:40:43|680|00:40:48|440sympathetic understanding and 557|00:40:48|940|00:40:52|240by the wise use… I know, you know, there are a 558|00:40:52|740|00:40:56|640number of typographical errors in 559|00:40:58|800|00:41:02|530the book when transferred to the 560|00:41:03|030|00:41:05|850CD ROM. So this was “the use use.” It should be “the wise use.” 561|00:41:06|570|00:41:09|930And someone going searching for “the wise use of slow action” will not 562|00:41:10|430|00:41:14|210find it because it's probably listed as “the use use of 563|00:41:14|710|00:41:18|250slow action.” Well, I don't think I cut and pasted 564|00:41:18|330|00:41:22|090this. And so maybe… 565|00:41:23|530|00:41:26|490Let's see, let's see how that works. “Use 566|00:41:26|650|00:41:29|150use.” Yes, “the use use.” Look at that. 567|00:41:33|950|00:41:37|070“The use use of slow action.” Well, 568|00:41:37|390|00:41:41|030that's how a reference can hide or 569|00:41:41|530|00:41:44|950be hidden. I often wondered why I couldn't find “the wise 570|00:41:45|450|00:41:49|830use of slow action” when I had memorized that phrase and knew 571|00:41:50|330|00:41:53|710how important it was. But it was because in the transference, 572|00:41:55|210|00:41:59|010a mistake was made. So one 573|00:41:59|510|00:42:02|730has to then remember the other associated words if one is going to find it. 574|00:42:03|610|00:42:04|970And with some of these, 575|00:42:06|810|00:42:10|250the way that the books are presented in computer form, 576|00:42:10|750|00:42:14|170there's no way to change the original text. There are some 577|00:42:14|670|00:42:18|210ways, though, to do that. By magnetic, 578|00:42:18|710|00:42:22|450attractive, sympathetic understanding and the wise use of slow action based on 579|00:42:22|950|00:42:25|710love. Not just… not on lethargy. That's the point. 580|00:42:30|750|00:42:34|550Not on laziness, not on lack of 581|00:42:35|050|00:42:38|110responsiveness, but on love, so that damage is not done, so that… 582|00:42:38|830|00:42:42|750Not on lethargy, but on love, so that 583|00:42:47|070|00:42:52|040harmlessness is sustained. 584|00:42:53|080|00:42:56|320Do the servers on this ray work today? Their power is 585|00:42:56|820|00:42:59|960becoming dominant. And of course, this was written in the 1930s, 586|00:43:01|400|00:43:04|680and we saw what happened with the 587|00:43:05|640|00:43:09|200dominance of this ray 588|00:43:09|700|00:43:13|160type. We had the consciousness revolution. 589|00:43:13|880|00:43:17|830especially as it swept through the western 590|00:43:18|150|00:43:21|110democracies, through Europe, 591|00:43:21|610|00:43:24|870Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada, and so forth. The consciousness 592|00:43:26|310|00:43:30|310revolution did not sweep through all countries. 593|00:43:31|030|00:43:34|630And we do, even now today, 594|00:43:34|870|00:43:38|390find the backlash to that consciousness 595|00:43:38|790|00:43:42|190revolution, the unreadiness of the 596|00:43:42|690|00:43:45|300selfishly inclined to accept it. 597|00:43:46|900|00:43:51|060But this is one of those memorable 598|00:43:52|660|00:43:55|900sentences: by magnetic, 599|00:43:56|400|00:44:00|700attractive, sympathetic understanding and 600|00:44:01|200|00:44:05|300the wise use of slow 601|00:44:05|380|00:44:09|060action based on love. 602|00:44:10|710|00:44:13|430Do the servers on this ray work? 603|00:44:16|470|00:44:19|990There is this caution. You know, 604|00:44:20|150|00:44:23|750Roberto Assagioli was a very strikingly second ray 605|00:44:24|250|00:44:27|950disciple. And he 606|00:44:28|450|00:44:29|990emphasized… Well, I'm probably… 607|00:44:32|070|00:44:36|050Well, he emphasized this phrase, which I'll simply 608|00:44:36|550|00:44:40|410give in the translation in English: “Make haste slowly.” 609|00:44:42|570|00:44:44|650Something like “Festina lente.” 610|00:44:45|770|00:44:47|050I'm not sure what the… 611|00:44:50|010|00:44:54|010What the Latin is for it. Maybe it's 612|00:44:54|510|00:44:57|050possible to find it. Maybe… 613|00:44:58|090|00:44:59|050Let's see here. 614|00:45:02|420|00:45:07|700Google. Okay. “Make haste slowly.” 615|00:45:09|140|00:45:12|420Aha. No, it's not going to 616|00:45:12|920|00:45:15|220be there, but maybe here. 617|00:45:17|300|00:45:20|820“Make haste slowly” in Latin. 618|00:45:22|020|00:45:25|620All right, let's see what this says. “Latin translation, 619|00:45:26|420|00:45:31|070Festina lente. Festina lente means 620|00:45:31|570|00:45:35|030literally, make haste slowly.” 621|00:45:36|790|00:45:40|310Sounds a lot better than “hurry slowly.” I agree 622|00:45:40|810|00:45:44|909with that. Festina lente. So the wise use of 623|00:45:45|409|00:45:49|710slow action — a very important idea when 624|00:45:50|210|00:45:54|070it comes to thinking about how the servers on the second ray do work. 625|00:45:54|570|00:45:58|370Of course, this can be modified by the astrology, 626|00:45:59|090|00:46:03|410by the position of Mars, let us say, by 627|00:46:03|890|00:46:06|970secondary rays. The third ray, 628|00:46:07|470|00:46:11|250always in a rush, in a hurry. So the sixth ray as well, contrasting maybe 629|00:46:11|750|00:46:16|690with the second ray. So there'll be a bit of a conflict 630|00:46:17|190|00:46:20|490there between methods. D.K. did 631|00:46:20|990|00:46:24|460point out the ray chart of one of the first ray disciples. 632|00:46:24|960|00:46:28|540She had a third ray physical body and a second ray 633|00:46:29|040|00:46:33|420astral body. And at that point he talked about how difficult it 634|00:46:33|920|00:46:37|300is for those two rays to work cooperatively 635|00:46:37|800|00:46:41|780together. And yet that's precisely what we have to do now in bringing 636|00:46:42|280|00:46:46|100the soul and the personality together. Because the 637|00:46:46|600|00:46:50|060personality generically represents the 638|00:46:50|560|00:46:55|140third ray, and the soul generically represents the second 639|00:46:55|640|00:47:01|620ray. So this is telling 640|00:47:02|120|00:47:06|140us something about the difficulty, generically, of 641|00:47:06|640|00:47:09|940the task of uniting soul and personality, especially with the third 642|00:47:10|440|00:47:14|590ray so strong from long-range rotary 643|00:47:14|670|00:47:19|230reinforcement. And I think many refuse opportunities 644|00:47:19|310|00:47:22|870to move into and towards the 645|00:47:23|370|00:47:26|830second ray. Well, let's take up this third ray. 646|00:47:28|990|00:47:31|950The third ray, you know, relating to the throat center, 647|00:47:32|450|00:47:36|190second ray to the heart center, first ray in general to the highest head 648|00:47:36|690|00:47:40|270center. Although I think we find all the rays in all the centers, 649|00:47:40|770|00:47:44|390just like a planet is a chakra. And all 650|00:47:44|890|00:47:48|070the rays are found demonstrating as sub-rays 651|00:47:48|950|00:47:52|390through that chakra. 652|00:47:53|190|00:47:58|070The servers on this ray have a special function at this time in stimulating 653|00:47:58|570|00:48:02|430the intellect of humanity, sharpening it and inspiring 654|00:48:02|930|00:48:06|280it. I think we can see that. But although the second ray 655|00:48:06|780|00:48:10|720is largely connected with education, certainly of a kind 656|00:48:11|220|00:48:14|080that inspires people to express their inner nature, 657|00:48:15|360|00:48:19|040the third ray… Let's see, 658|00:48:21|200|00:48:25|600will relate closely 659|00:48:26|100|00:48:29|440to the educational process, as will 660|00:48:29|940|00:48:33|650the fifth ray for the specifics. And we're told that in 661|00:48:34|150|00:48:37|530relation to the will to evolve, it's pretty much the educational 662|00:48:38|030|00:48:41|330process which is concerned. The will to evolve is the third 663|00:48:41|830|00:48:45|530ray expression of will. There are all kinds of 664|00:48:46|170|00:48:48|650modes of education. 665|00:48:49|690|00:48:54|650If we are entering the kind of education that leads 666|00:48:55|150|00:48:58|550to wisdom and to the expression of the 667|00:48:59|050|00:49:02|430inner nature in a constructive manner, we'll be dealing very much with 668|00:49:02|930|00:49:07|270the second Ray. But in terms of sharpening 669|00:49:07|770|00:49:11|070the intellect per se, then the third Ray is 670|00:49:11|570|00:49:11|710very important. 671|00:49:17|390|00:49:20|670So there's a great deal of union 672|00:49:21|170|00:49:25|340between these two rays, which we must strive to bring 673|00:49:25|840|00:49:29|540about. Never an easy task. We are sometimes told that the mind, 674|00:49:30|500|00:49:33|540the intellect, is the slayer of the real, 675|00:49:34|020|00:49:38|100but it can also be the revealer of the real. And when 676|00:49:38|899|00:49:41|620the second Ray is related to the third, 677|00:49:42|900|00:49:46|580it is possible that the mind can become more 678|00:49:47|080|00:49:51|190the true revealer of the real, because then 679|00:49:51|690|00:49:55|150the veils so often connected with the 680|00:49:56|190|00:49:59|310third Ray are dissolved. Of course, it's also possible, 681|00:49:59|550|00:50:02|350through acuity of thought on the third Ray alone, 682|00:50:03|070|00:50:07|310to penetrate, I would say, beyond the mind and 683|00:50:07|810|00:50:11|630into the realm of the intuition. So we do need, among the 684|00:50:12|910|00:50:17|060many secondary types today, the stimulating 685|00:50:17|560|00:50:20|780of the intellect and the sharpening and inspiring of the intellect. 686|00:50:21|180|00:50:24|300But we certainly need that in humanity 687|00:50:24|800|00:50:28|460as well, to help human beings arise 688|00:50:28|540|00:50:31|900from their predominantly astral 689|00:50:32|060|00:50:36|380or astral-kama-manasic polarization. 690|00:50:38|380|00:50:42|430So many people who are involved in the New Age 691|00:50:42|670|00:50:46|630movements seem to think that spirituality can be approached simply 692|00:50:47|130|00:50:50|430through feeling. While feeling, especially of the heart, is very important, 693|00:50:52|590|00:50:56|310the mind must be well trained so 694|00:50:56|810|00:51:00|710that we can understand more clearly what 695|00:51:01|210|00:51:04|670is glamour and what is 696|00:51:04|990|00:51:08|420illusion. So these third Ray 697|00:51:08|920|00:51:13|460servers — I think largely third Ray souls, but always the 698|00:51:13|960|00:51:17|300personality types on that ray can be trained by the soul types 699|00:51:17|800|00:51:21|060and can work as a reflection 700|00:51:21|560|00:51:25|220of that higher type of service that the soul types wield. 701|00:51:26|020|00:51:30|700They work manipulating ideas so 702|00:51:31|200|00:51:34|260as to make them more easy of comprehension by 703|00:51:34|760|00:51:38|820the mass of intelligent men and women who are to be found in 704|00:51:39|320|00:51:43|380the world at this 705|00:51:43|880|00:51:47|580time, and whose intuition is not yet awakened. 706|00:51:48|540|00:51:52|020Along the second Ray and the higher expressions of 707|00:51:52|520|00:51:55|900any ray, really, ideas can be accessed 708|00:51:56|460|00:52:00|230by the intuition. Ideas can be accessed 709|00:52:01|350|00:52:05|110by the intuition. But before 710|00:52:06|470|00:52:10|470that access is possible, the thoughts 711|00:52:12|390|00:52:15|870related to that 712|00:52:16|370|00:52:20|990which the 713|00:52:21|490|00:52:24|610intuition reveals can be 714|00:52:25|800|00:52:29|120somewhat understood. And that's really what's going on 715|00:52:29|620|00:52:33|320in some of our great universities: the great books, the great thoughts 716|00:52:33|560|00:52:37|640that others have intuited, are revealed 717|00:52:37|720|00:52:41|520through the manipulation of thought to the minds of those 718|00:52:42|020|00:52:46|040for whom the intuition is not yet awakened, but whose intellect is sufficiently 719|00:52:46|540|00:52:49|880awakened to at least grasp the theory 720|00:52:53|520|00:52:56|800which eventually will connect with the idea 721|00:52:57|300|00:53:01|400itself — the idea that is within and behind the 722|00:53:01|900|00:53:04|240thought that they can grasp. 723|00:53:06|320|00:53:09|680So there is the manipulation of thought matter, really, 724|00:53:10|400|00:53:12|560in response to ideas. 725|00:53:16|250|00:53:19|490Thought matter in response 726|00:53:19|990|00:53:23|570to ideas, perhaps. I think there are third Ray types, of course, 727|00:53:24|070|00:53:28|170who can grasp ideas. They do work very much — 728|00:53:28|250|00:53:31|450working very much in the higher mind. 729|00:53:34|570|00:53:38|730Okay, higher mind — working 730|00:53:39|230|00:53:43|710very much there, which is not yet the realm of intuition. But maybe 731|00:53:44|030|00:53:47|870some of these people have both the intuition and 732|00:53:48|830|00:53:52|310the higher mind and are particularly adept at taking what 733|00:53:52|810|00:53:56|390the idea reveals and so constructing it, 734|00:53:56|890|00:53:59|630so presenting it, so arranging it, 735|00:54:00|270|00:54:04|990that the intellects of others can grasp 736|00:54:05|070|00:54:09|150the main outlines of the presented 737|00:54:09|650|00:54:13|080thought, which will connect with that which the intuition 738|00:54:13|580|00:54:16|960reveals — that is, with the idea itself. But to really connect with an idea, 739|00:54:17|840|00:54:21|640you get the substance which is found on the Buddhic 740|00:54:22|140|00:54:25|840plane, and beyond it becomes a living idea. And not, 741|00:54:27|120|00:54:28|960just as Hamlet said, 742|00:54:30|560|00:54:32|720“the pale cast of thought.” 743|00:54:34|320|00:54:37|940“Things are sickened o'er.” We sicken things o'er with “the pale 744|00:54:38|740|00:54:41|900cast of thought.” Of course, there is the 745|00:54:42|400|00:54:45|940marvellous fourth ray presentation 746|00:54:46|100|00:54:49|860of Shakespeare. And so the words are 747|00:54:50|020|00:54:52|980colourful and arresting, and they live in their own 748|00:54:53|459|00:54:53|860right. 749|00:54:56|500|00:54:59|380So manipulating ideas until someone gets it, you know, 750|00:54:59|780|00:55:02|340“Do you get that idea?” “Well, no.” “Well, here, let's look at it this way. 751|00:55:02|840|00:55:06|540Let's look at it this way.” And if you arrange it in enough ways, 752|00:55:07|040|00:55:10|780people say, “Oh, yeah, yeah, I think I see that.” At least 753|00:55:11|280|00:55:14|460they grasp the thought you have been presenting. 754|00:55:14|960|00:55:18|740And a grasped thought of an abstract kind is an 755|00:55:19|240|00:55:22|780eventual doorway into the idea itself. 756|00:55:25|500|00:55:29|260So, you know, when D.K. uses the word “ideas” here, he may be 757|00:55:31|550|00:55:34|870somewhat not using 758|00:55:35|370|00:55:38|630it with exactitude. Maybe he doesn't mean 759|00:55:39|130|00:55:42|830those living beings. Maybe he means sometimes the word “ideas” simply does 760|00:55:43|330|00:55:47|190mean thoughts, but they are at least higher thoughts 761|00:55:47|690|00:55:51|550that are manipulated so they can be grasped. And the higher thoughts are representatives of 762|00:55:52|050|00:55:55|630ideas, which are those living beings found upon the cosmic ether. 763|00:55:57|090|00:55:59|490I sometimes look at the way great scientists— 764|00:55:59|650|00:56:03|370Richard Feynman, you know, maybe Isaac 765|00:56:03|870|00:56:07|490Asimov—he was a great explainer, equipped with the third and the 766|00:56:07|990|00:56:11|570fifth ray. And Feynman, probably with the third ray and certainly with the fifth, 767|00:56:13|090|00:56:17|010a lot of fourth—Asimov, too—they could relate, you know, 768|00:56:18|370|00:56:22|250to people. And they presented 769|00:56:22|750|00:56:26|870some of these very abstruse, difficult mathematical 770|00:56:27|370|00:56:30|150concepts from particle physics, 771|00:56:31|030|00:56:34|310nuclear physics, in such a way that the average 772|00:56:34|810|00:56:37|830human being could have the sense that he somewhat 773|00:56:38|330|00:56:42|030understood. And Feynman was funny about 774|00:56:42|530|00:56:45|910that. He had a great sense of humour. There's a book called “Surely You're Joking, 775|00:56:46|150|00:56:51|030Mr. Feynman.” But he 776|00:56:51|530|00:56:55|310was often joking. He had that puckish Gemini 777|00:56:55|550|00:56:59|390kind of look. We don't know his 778|00:56:59|890|00:57:03|830actual rising sign, but it could well have been Gemini. And he 779|00:57:04|330|00:57:07|550had that elephant forehead, you know, which is so often found with Virgo. He did 780|00:57:08|050|00:57:11|870have a strong Virgo in his nature, and he had Sagittarius as well. 781|00:57:12|350|00:57:16|260He joked so much. But in 782|00:57:16|760|00:57:19|860his sense of humour and his adapted 783|00:57:19|940|00:57:23|460way of presentation, he could help other 784|00:57:23|960|00:57:28|900people understand what would otherwise be entirely out of their reach. 785|00:57:30|580|00:57:34|540“So easy, easy, more easy.” Easier of comprehension by 786|00:57:35|040|00:57:37|540the mass of intelligent men. Notice the word “mass,” 787|00:57:38|580|00:57:42|100because there are certainly more of those who are responding to the third ray, 788|00:57:43|610|00:57:47|410at least in a soul manner, than are responding to the 789|00:57:50|730|00:57:54|290So at least the mind will be awakened by 790|00:57:54|790|00:57:57|850this type. “It is to be noted how the work of the true servers,” 791|00:57:58|730|00:58:02|770and this he keeps on repeating, “is largely with the 792|00:58:03|270|00:58:07|050new ideas and not with the business of organisation and 793|00:58:07|550|00:58:11|630of criticism, for these two go hand in hand.” This is why D.K. 794|00:58:13|150|00:58:16|350emphasised the idea of organism rather than 795|00:58:17|550|00:58:18|270organisation. 796|00:58:20|670|00:58:24|350So our work is largely with the new ideas. And once 797|00:58:24|850|00:58:28|030they are sufficiently clearly impressed 798|00:58:28|530|00:58:29|710upon the minds of others, 799|00:58:31|790|00:58:35|630then the results— 800|00:58:37|680|00:58:41|280the forms that must be built in relation to them 801|00:58:41|780|00:58:45|320or must emerge in relation to these ideas—will, without too 802|00:58:45|820|00:58:49|840much difficulty, emerge. So always 803|00:58:50|000|00:58:53|600we seem to be working in the realm of the 804|00:58:54|100|00:58:57|280mind and in relation to the 805|00:58:57|780|00:59:01|360ideas which are meant to condition— 806|00:59:02|170|00:59:02|970condition the mind. 807|00:59:04|730|00:59:07|930Okay, I want to… Whoops. 808|00:59:08|970|00:59:09|770There we go. 809|00:59:13|210|00:59:17|130Okay. So it's interesting 810|00:59:17|630|00:59:20|930too how in the attempt to bring people 811|00:59:21|430|00:59:24|730into a certain configuration, he really 812|00:59:25|230|00:59:28|770seems to have two things going here: the Third Ray of business and the Seventh 813|00:59:29|270|00:59:32|370Ray of organization—the business of organization. 814|00:59:32|690|00:59:35|890He puts those two words together. 815|00:59:37|810|00:59:41|570The Third Ray is said to be extremely critical—maybe not so much the 816|00:59:42|210|00:59:45|650Seventh Ray—but it doesn't like deviation from the 817|00:59:46|150|00:59:49|650proposed organization, the ideas. 818|00:59:52|210|00:59:55|370The ideas are our realm. We must 819|00:59:55|870|00:59:59|830touch them and bring them through in an 820|01:00:00|330|01:00:04|790intelligible manner for those to work with who cannot 821|01:00:05|270|01:00:09|030touch them directly. Ideas are taken by the Third 822|01:00:09|530|01:00:13|070Ray aspirant. It's saying 823|01:00:13|570|01:00:17|310that the Third Ray aspirant may not touch them, but a Third Ray aspirant 824|01:00:17|810|01:00:21|270or disciple such as Einstein certainly did touch the realm of 825|01:00:21|770|01:00:25|600ideas. And the great philosophers 826|01:00:26|100|01:00:29|720do touch those realms. Einstein considered himself more a 827|01:00:30|220|01:00:33|720philosopher than a scientist. Interestingly, ideas are 828|01:00:34|220|01:00:37|920taken by the Third Ray aspirant as they emerge from the 829|01:00:38|420|01:00:41|760elevated consciousness of those for whom the First 830|01:00:42|320|01:00:45|720Ray works. I suppose the enunciating 831|01:00:46|220|01:00:49|760disciples who are penetrating into the realm of ideas 832|01:00:52|400|01:00:56|320and are rendered attractive by the secondary worker—attractive in the esoteric 833|01:00:56|720|01:01:00|240sense. So they have the appeal 834|01:01:00|740|01:01:04|760which orients the consciousness towards new vision and 835|01:01:05|260|01:01:09|080adapted to the immediate need and rendered vocal by 836|01:01:09|580|01:01:12|720the force of the intellectual Third Ray types. Well, 837|01:01:13|220|01:01:17|480this is a wonderful synthetic sentence dealing 838|01:01:17|980|01:01:21|760with the way the first three types work. 839|01:01:23|280|01:01:27|280They work with the First Ray 840|01:01:27|360|01:01:30|560penetrating, the Second 841|01:01:31|060|01:01:34|880Ray taking that which has been accessed and 842|01:01:35|760|01:01:39|480rendering it attractive, the Third 843|01:01:39|980|01:01:44|960Ray catching the thought which 844|01:01:45|460|01:01:48|880has been prepared by the Second Ray type and then 845|01:01:49|280|01:01:53|560working with that in a way which can be understood and 846|01:01:54|060|01:01:59|040which meets the immediate need in time and space and circumstance and 847|01:01:59|680|01:02:04|080spoken and written and put into adaptive 848|01:02:04|580|01:02:08|860words by the intellectual Third Ray types. 849|01:02:09|740|01:02:12|940In this lies a hint for many of the Third Ray personalities 850|01:02:13|820|01:02:17|380to be found working in various fields of service at this 851|01:02:17|880|01:02:21|420time: to render 852|01:02:22|300|01:02:26|380vocal and to commit to the written word that which 853|01:02:26|880|01:02:30|860is received and that which must be applied. So to 854|01:02:31|100|01:02:35|270render vocal and to apply 855|01:02:36|470|01:02:40|070to immediate need adaptively. 856|01:02:42|790|01:02:45|950So ideas are taken by the Third Ray aspirant. Now, maybe he does mean the 857|01:02:46|450|01:02:50|350one on the Third Ray soul, perhaps, as they emerge from the elevated 858|01:02:50|850|01:02:54|390consciousness of those for whom the First Ray works and are rendered attractive 859|01:02:54|870|01:02:58|790by the Second Ray worker and adapted to the immediate 860|01:02:59|420|01:03:03|420need by the Third Ray aspirant. Does he mean the Third Ray personality? 861|01:03:03|920|01:03:07|540Well, it's difficult to see here whether the soul or personality is working, 862|01:03:08|040|01:03:11|540but certainly there is a majority of Third Ray and Sixth Ray 863|01:03:12|040|01:03:16|100personalities among the human beings at this time. The majority of 864|01:03:16|600|01:03:20|460those who are personalities and whose personality Ray has emerged 865|01:03:20|960|01:03:24|300will be found, he tells us, on the Third Ray and the 866|01:03:25|190|01:03:30|310Sixth Ray, which is very interesting, so 867|01:03:30|810|01:03:34|390that these higher states can be applied by the 868|01:03:34|890|01:03:37|990active intellectual Third Ray personalities. 869|01:03:38|070|01:03:42|030And I suppose to some extent the Third Ray souls will be 870|01:03:42|530|01:03:45|710involved in this, but they will be perhaps more in 871|01:03:46|210|01:03:50|110the realm of higher thought, and the Third Ray personalities 872|01:03:50|610|01:03:55|260will carry this out into practical expression 873|01:03:56|060|01:03:59|260through their thought life and 874|01:04:00|940|01:04:04|460through their speech and the way that 875|01:04:04|780|01:04:08|340speech over the media can reach and influence the 876|01:04:08|840|01:04:12|460minds of others. All right, 877|01:04:12|960|01:04:16|260that is what he has to say of the Third Ray, and he 878|01:04:16|760|01:04:20|250gives us a good summary here. We are beyond 879|01:04:20|750|01:04:24|770the one-hour point, but we're going to make this also something 880|01:04:25|270|01:04:29|130approaching a two-hour program—perhaps not completely because 881|01:04:29|630|01:04:34|810we… But we will see. Stimulating 882|01:04:35|310|01:04:39|450the intellect, sharpening it so that people can truly think in 883|01:04:39|950|01:04:44|380this great pursuit of education. It is the Third Ray, 884|01:04:44|880|01:04:48|500the power to think and to think clearly in a 885|01:04:49|000|01:04:52|900manner detached from the aspirational emotions that 886|01:04:53|400|01:04:57|220so many are seeking. I notice the 887|01:04:57|720|01:05:01|220way there are certain heroic young women who 888|01:05:01|720|01:05:05|180are insisting on their right for 889|01:05:05|680|01:05:09|620an education and on the right of 890|01:05:10|120|01:05:13|620education for all the girls in their country. 891|01:05:14|660|01:05:16|420They are living under the threat of death. 892|01:05:17|700|01:05:21|300Their schools are frequently attacked or even burned or destroyed. 893|01:05:22|580|01:05:26|020But they continue to teach. It seems to 894|01:05:26|520|01:05:30|260me a combination of the Second Ray of light 895|01:05:30|340|01:05:34|180bringing and the Third Ray of awakening the mind. 896|01:05:35|310|01:05:39|070And those who are, strictly speaking, motivated by 897|01:05:39|710|01:05:44|030largely the Sixth Ray apply the Martian fire because 898|01:05:44|530|01:05:48|550they do not dare to accept the 899|01:05:49|050|01:05:52|790idea of women whose minds 900|01:05:53|290|01:05:57|270are liberated and who will then begin to think for themselves and will then liberate 901|01:05:57|770|01:06:01|180themselves from the enslavement of tradition. In 902|01:06:01|330|01:06:07|810those tribal societies, it 903|01:06:08|310|01:06:10|770is a great struggle for freedom. 904|01:06:11|410|01:06:14|050And when you can think and can move… 905|01:06:14|370|01:06:17|090Think of the struggle that women in some countries— 906|01:06:17|650|01:06:21|570I'm thinking of one particularly—have in obtaining a driver's license. 907|01:06:22|450|01:06:25|770They're not allowed to drive. In other words, the Third Ray 908|01:06:26|270|01:06:29|500is not for them. They're not allowed to move in time and space as 909|01:06:30|000|01:06:33|660they will. They're not allowed to think 910|01:06:34|160|01:06:37|020for themselves because they would become, 911|01:06:37|740|01:06:41|820as it is said, unfaithful—which is a huge projection, 912|01:06:42|320|01:06:42|460of course, 913|01:06:45|980|01:06:48|860on the part of those who limit their mobility. 914|01:06:50|620|01:06:54|100Well, it is coming. When you think about the air 915|01:06:54|600|01:06:57|530signs that are coming into power, they have a close connection with the Third Ray. 916|01:06:58|030|01:07:00|770Gemini is the third sign. Libra conducts the Third Ray. 917|01:07:01|170|01:07:09|410Aquarius transmits the Third Ray as 918|01:07:09|910|01:07:13|050a constellation itself, as well as the ruling planets: Saturn, Third Ray. 919|01:07:13|550|01:07:17|170Uranus has much of the Third Ray; the moon, Third Ray. 920|01:07:17|810|01:07:21|860In an interesting way, of course, it's usually considered to be Fourth Ray, but it's 921|01:07:22|360|01:07:26|020connected very much with the form and with cycles—repetitive cycles of 922|01:07:26|520|01:07:29|860the Third Ray. And it is the… 923|01:07:30|360|01:07:33|980the moon chain was the third chain, hence again the 924|01:07:34|480|01:07:37|660connection with the third race. So this universal education— 925|01:07:40|060|01:07:43|660that idea will grow, and we 926|01:07:44|160|01:07:48|490will have a widely educated humanity. And they 927|01:07:48|730|01:07:53|130will not be held back by tribal 928|01:07:53|610|01:07:58|490fears and ancient traditions which give to 929|01:07:58|990|01:08:02|250men the only real prerogatives and take them from 930|01:08:02|750|01:08:05|610women. That will be solved. 931|01:08:07|850|01:08:11|810How soon, we cannot say. But I think the next 12 years will 932|01:08:12|310|01:08:16|260be crucial, and certainly the next 50 years. We're told that 933|01:08:17|300|01:08:20|940the energy of the constellation Pisces will be out of incarnation by 934|01:08:21|440|01:08:24|740the end of the 21st century. 935|01:08:26|020|01:08:29|180And the Sixth Ray is constantly being reduced in power, 936|01:08:29|680|01:08:33|020except for its temporary recrudescence, 937|01:08:33|520|01:08:37|300which I think will give many the chance to die for their ideals. 938|01:08:39|309|01:08:42|829So who's to say how the Planetary Logos thinks about 939|01:08:43|629|01:08:47|269this? I've sometimes thought that when 940|01:08:47|769|01:08:51|109you have the opportunity to die for an ideal, even if the ideal is 941|01:08:51|609|01:08:55|709a bad one, the sacrificial part of 942|01:08:56|669|01:09:00|749that dying can be of benefit to the 943|01:09:01|249|01:09:03|789soul. We shall see. We shall see. 944|01:09:05|510|01:09:10|230We live in an age of suicide bombings, which 945|01:09:10|730|01:09:13|510involves so much of the Sixth and First Ray, so much of Mars and Pluto 946|01:09:14|070|01:09:18|030together. And it's definitely a willingness to 947|01:09:18|530|01:09:21|910sacrifice oneself, although the incentive given is not always 948|01:09:21|990|01:09:25|270a high one. Well, 949|01:09:26|550|01:09:31|000there's a great battle going on in humanity at the moment between 950|01:09:31|500|01:09:35|800the sub-diaphragmatic chakras and the super-diaphragmatic chakras. And if 951|01:09:36|300|01:09:40|360an age of darkness is not to supervene, then we can 952|01:09:40|860|01:09:44|160only hope that it will be 953|01:09:44|660|01:09:48|280the super-diaphragmatic chakras which will prevail. In this case, 954|01:09:48|780|01:09:52|480we do not want to be, as the Tibetan has warned us, reinitiated into 955|01:09:52|980|01:09:56|440the Earth. He discusses that, I think, in the Taurus chapter and 956|01:09:56|940|01:10:00|770in relation to the darkness of Taurus, which is in contrast to its 957|01:10:01|270|01:10:03|690great potential as a Light Revealer. 958|01:10:04|730|01:10:08|490Okay, we will go on to the fourth 959|01:10:08|990|01:10:12|250ray mode of service. Let's see what we have here. 960|01:10:18|410|01:10:21|890Right. Okay, this will take us to page 147. I'm not sure 961|01:10:22|390|01:10:25|540that we will finish on this particular program. 962|01:10:26|260|01:10:27|220But we will see. 963|01:10:30|020|01:10:33|380Maybe not now. Ray four. 964|01:10:33|880|01:10:37|780This Ray is not in incarnation at this time, and therefore few 965|01:10:37|940|01:10:41|1404th ray egos are available in World service. 966|01:10:41|640|01:10:45|420Now, there may be some 4th Ray egos, but there is 967|01:10:45|920|01:10:49|300a tendency for those upon the fourth Ray to be 968|01:10:49|980|01:10:53|300within the ranks of the disciples. I think 969|01:10:53|800|01:10:57|780in 1924 there is a statement that 970|01:10:58|280|01:11:04|660the fourth ray began to come into some 971|01:11:05|160|01:11:08|620degree of prominence in 1924. Let's see about 972|01:11:08|700|01:11:09|100that. 973|01:11:10|700|01:11:13|5001924. There's only one reference. 974|01:11:14|620|01:11:18|220The coming into power of this fourth Ray at any time… 975|01:11:20|640|01:11:25|360And such an advent may be looked for towards the close of this lesser 976|01:11:25|440|01:11:29|440cycle, which ended in 1924, 977|01:11:30|960|01:11:34|560will produce a corresponding activity 978|01:11:34|720|01:11:38|400in connection with the fourth subplane in each plane, beginning with the fourth 979|01:11:38|900|01:11:42|760physical ether. And this will result in the following effect. So this is from 980|01:11:43|260|01:11:45|090page 428 of A Treatise on Cosmic Fire. 981|01:11:46|210|01:11:51|770And from 1924 the 982|01:11:52|270|01:11:56|330coming of the fourth ray can be expected. The year 2025 983|01:11:56|830|01:12:00|809is another date given in connection with the fourth ray. And there it 984|01:12:01|309|01:12:04|770enters from its point of view of its monadic aspect. 985|01:12:05|410|01:12:09|970Here we can wonder how it is that the fourth ray came 986|01:12:10|470|01:12:14|120into power following 1924, a gradual 987|01:12:15|000|01:12:19|040building of that ray following 1924. 988|01:12:19|540|01:12:23|320But we're not given the manner in which it does so. And we're only told 989|01:12:23|820|01:12:26|920that there is a stimulation of the fourth subplane in each plane. 990|01:12:27|800|01:12:31|640So certainly a stimulation of the intuition which relates to the fourth subplane of 991|01:12:32|140|01:12:35|320the Buddhic plane and of discrimination, fourth subplane of the 992|01:12:35|820|01:12:39|890mental plane. And what is it on the fourth subplane of the… 993|01:12:41|490|01:12:44|450Well, the fourth subplane of the physical plane is the ether, 994|01:12:45|090|01:12:48|210the lowest of the ethers systemically considered. 995|01:12:49|570|01:12:52|530And when we look at the astral plane, 996|01:12:52|690|01:12:56|450there is some kind of clairvoyance involved 997|01:12:57|570|01:13:00|850there. I think page 188 will give it to us. 998|01:13:03|020|01:13:08|060What comes in there is clairvoyance. 999|01:13:08|300|01:13:11|820Clairvoyance, or rather 1000|01:13:12|860|01:13:15|580psychometry. Okay. 1001|01:13:16|060|01:13:19|900The sensitivity to touch of a psychic nature. 1002|01:13:20|380|01:13:23|820So there is the first ether, 1003|01:13:25|100|01:13:30|580which involves touch or feeling. There is psychometry, 1004|01:13:31|080|01:13:36|020there is discrimination, 1005|01:13:36|100|01:13:39|300yes, and intuition. 1006|01:13:39|800|01:13:43|300And even, of course, it's atmic. And therefore quite out of reach 1007|01:13:44|020|01:13:45|860— perfection, it is called. 1008|01:13:49|780|01:13:53|140So there are a few 4th Ray egos available in World Service 1009|01:13:53|380|01:13:57|490at this time. And he does make a specific mention of 1010|01:13:57|990|01:14:01|210those who may be working with the United Nations. It was founded in 1011|01:14:01|710|01:14:04|850Scorpio. And the fourth Ray 1012|01:14:05|730|01:14:09|170is very important in bringing about the harmony between 1013|01:14:09|670|01:14:13|010the nations. There are, however, many Fourth Ray personalities. 1014|01:14:13|510|01:14:17|490And you kind of wonder if after 1924, 1015|01:14:17|990|01:14:21|330that is the way that the Fourth Ray was growing in power. 1016|01:14:21|870|01:14:25|710With respect to humanity, at least it's a possibility. 1017|01:14:25|870|01:14:29|430The coming in of more 4th Ray personalities. There are, as we said, 1018|01:14:29|930|01:14:33|350the majority presently in humanity of Third Ray and 1019|01:14:33|850|01:14:37|190Sixth Ray personalities, many Fourth Ray personalities. 1020|01:14:37|690|01:14:40|870And they can learn much by the study of the work of 1021|01:14:41|370|01:14:44|910the new group of world servers. And remember, 1022|01:14:47|910|01:14:52|190this is a 4th Ray group uniting 1023|01:14:52|690|01:14:56|390the past and the present so 1024|01:14:56|890|01:14:59|030that a constructive future may emerge. 1025|01:15:00|550|01:15:04|150And what we have here is the 1026|01:15:04|650|01:15:09|190idea that the personalities on a particular Ray learned 1027|01:15:09|270|01:15:12|470from those whose souls are on 1028|01:15:12|970|01:15:16|300that ray. I suppose there are many artists whose personality is on 1029|01:15:16|800|01:15:20|820the Fourth Ray. And they can learn from the truly great artists whose 1030|01:15:21|620|01:15:23|460souls are on the Fourth Ray. 1031|01:15:24|580|01:15:28|340And those people may have an interest in science with their Fifth Ray 1032|01:15:28|840|01:15:33|020personality, but they can learn from the superlative scientists whose 1033|01:15:33|520|01:15:37|100souls are on the Fifth Ray. The major task 1034|01:15:37|600|01:15:38|580of the Fourth Ray aspirant. 1035|01:15:40|570|01:15:44|250And you know, here, here we go again. Is he talking about the soul 1036|01:15:44|750|01:15:48|610or is he talking about the personality? I mean, you can, you can be an 1037|01:15:49|110|01:15:53|130ego on the Fourth Ray and still be an aspirant. Most definitely 1038|01:15:53|630|01:15:58|690we're going to see this as the Fourth Ray types come into incarnation. 1039|01:15:59|190|01:16:02|930Of course, it says from their monadic aspect. And that 1040|01:16:03|430|01:16:06|680is going to be a big question whether it's going 1041|01:16:07|180|01:16:08|800to be the Fourth Ray monads. 1042|01:16:10|400|01:16:13|640It's really a sub monadic Ray, but on the 1043|01:16:14|140|01:16:19|760monadic plane that will be taking incarnation at that time following 1044|01:16:20|260|01:16:23|8402025, or whether the Fourth Ray souls will in 1045|01:16:24|340|01:16:28|680fact emerge. He does point 1046|01:16:29|180|01:16:32|720out that the Fourth Ray is coming in from its monadic aspect. 1047|01:16:33|380|01:16:38|420Well, anyway, the major task of the Fourth Ray aspirant is 1048|01:16:38|920|01:16:43|220to harmonize the new ideas with 1049|01:16:43|720|01:16:47|540the old so that there can be no dangerous 1050|01:16:47|700|01:16:50|740gap or break. Because when there's a dangerous gap or break, 1051|01:16:51|460|01:16:55|380cleavage and war 1052|01:16:56|100|01:17:00|500results. If the gulf between different 1053|01:17:01|000|01:17:04|660factions is too wide, it will lead to war. We're told that it's best 1054|01:17:05|160|01:17:08|980for the disciples not to take hold of the world process 1055|01:17:09|220|01:17:12|380and enforce their own vision, as it 1056|01:17:12|880|01:17:16|220would cause a great cleavage between those who 1057|01:17:16|720|01:17:20|260are not disciples and those who are. So the government 1058|01:17:20|580|01:17:24|420of the people seems to have to work through from 1059|01:17:24|920|01:17:28|690the mass of the people rather than be imposed from 1060|01:17:29|190|01:17:32|810above. Even Plato did not manage to impose his 1061|01:17:33|310|01:17:36|810idea of the Philosopher King. I think someone, a tyrant, 1062|01:17:37|310|01:17:43|250was it from Sicily or one of those countries, invited him to determine, 1063|01:17:45|170|01:17:48|370invited him to experiment with this idea of the Philosopher 1064|01:17:48|870|01:17:52|360King. I suppose the tyrant fancied himself as, 1065|01:17:52|510|01:17:57|030as the Philosopher King. And he quickly rejected 1066|01:17:57|530|01:18:00|590Plato's ideas. Plato fell out of favor and was sold into slavery 1067|01:18:00|750|01:18:05|350where he was rescued by friends. So we're 1068|01:18:05|850|01:18:09|110very fortunate in that the friends saw something in him. 1069|01:18:09|610|01:18:13|190I guess. So the major task of the Fourth Ray aspirant is to 1070|01:18:13|690|01:18:17|150harmonize the new ideas with the old again. Again, 1071|01:18:17|230|01:18:19|960working in the realm of ideas. Isn't that interesting? 1072|01:18:25|720|01:18:28|360So that no dangerous gap or break occurs. 1073|01:18:29|400|01:18:33|120And we look back and attempt to salvage the good in the ideas 1074|01:18:33|620|01:18:37|040of the past and relate it to the good in the emerging ideas. 1075|01:18:37|540|01:18:40|760So there is a real continuity. They are those who bring about 1076|01:18:41|260|01:18:43|960a righteous compromise. 1077|01:18:46|210|01:18:49|850A righteous compromise and adapt 1078|01:18:50|350|01:18:53|730the new and the old so that the true pattern is 1079|01:18:54|230|01:19:01|410preserved. Because the true pattern requires 1080|01:19:02|530|01:19:06|130certain elements to be 1081|01:19:06|530|01:19:10|130preserved which were expressed in 1082|01:19:10|630|01:19:15|210the past. So we call these old sound, 1083|01:19:16|330|01:19:19|890old values. They may have been expressed 1084|01:19:20|390|01:19:22|330more in the past than the present. We don't want to drop them entirely. 1085|01:19:22|410|01:19:25|530That's always the danger with Aquarian reformers. 1086|01:19:26|030|01:19:32|890They want to throw the baby out with the bathwater, you know. So the 1087|01:19:33|390|01:19:36|570values of the past which are still sound 1088|01:19:38|050|01:19:41|570and needed to create the 1089|01:19:42|070|01:19:46|170true archetypal pattern below, these must 1090|01:19:46|670|01:19:50|650be preserved. So there is adaptation here. And the adaptive 1091|01:19:51|150|01:19:54|770work of Mercury bringing in the Fourth Ray is also found. 1092|01:19:56|530|01:19:59|970So this is Mercury on the Fourth Ray. 1093|01:20:02|380|01:20:06|060Whoop. Fourth. 1094|01:20:08|300|01:20:11|100And adaptivity or adaptation, 1095|01:20:12|060|01:20:16|220So that the true pattern is preserved. 1096|01:20:20|220|01:20:24|140There are many examples of expression in the past which are not outgrown. 1097|01:20:25|020|01:20:28|600They were well and truly established as foundational in those days. 1098|01:20:29|080|01:20:31|400And must be sustained. 1099|01:20:32|440|01:20:36|400This does not mean hearkening back to all the bad old things in the good 1100|01:20:36|900|01:20:40|760old days. But we know what has to 1101|01:20:41|260|01:20:45|200be sustained here in Finland. I'm thinking about the… I'm learning more 1102|01:20:45|700|01:20:48|960about this culture. And there were so 1103|01:20:49|460|01:20:52|520many principles of sharing, 1104|01:20:54|130|01:20:57|450of strength, of mutual support, and so 1105|01:20:57|950|01:21:01|090forth found in the older days, 1106|01:21:01|890|01:21:04|450before Finland became an entirely modern nation. 1107|01:21:05|490|01:21:09|570And some of those things have been forgotten by the youth of the present day 1108|01:21:09|970|01:21:12|530and have to be sustained. 1109|01:21:13|890|01:21:17|690So the mediator, the bridge, the bridging fourth ray type sees 1110|01:21:18|190|01:21:21|980the value in that which is emerging and that which has been. 1111|01:21:22|620|01:21:23|980I think I'll write that down. 1112|01:21:27|500|01:21:31|660The mediating fourth ray type… 1113|01:21:32|160|01:21:37|340That's first ray type… So fourth 1114|01:21:37|840|01:21:42|460ray type, yes. Sees the value in 1115|01:21:42|960|01:21:46|440that which is emerging as new and in that 1116|01:21:46|680|01:21:52|440which has been, and attempts to 1117|01:21:52|940|01:21:55|000relate them harmoniously. 1118|01:21:56|840|01:22:00|200So they are engaged with the bridging process, for they are the 1119|01:22:00|700|01:22:04|360true intuitives. And you 1120|01:22:04|860|01:22:08|440remember that intuition… Think about bridging. It comes from the fourth 1121|01:22:08|940|01:22:13|390subplane of the fourth plane. Talk about the… the middlemost plane 1122|01:22:13|890|01:22:17|270in the entire cosmic physical plane. The middlemost subplane. That is a real 1123|01:22:17|770|01:22:18|190point of bridging. 1124|01:22:20|910|01:22:21|630What is it? 1125|01:22:24|670|01:22:28|470Plane 25… I guess it's plane 25, which is the 1126|01:22:28|970|01:22:30|030middlemost plane. 1127|01:22:32|430|01:22:37|840Intuition is a bridging factor most 1128|01:22:38|340|01:22:42|840strongly expressed on 1129|01:22:43|340|01:22:46|120plane… on subplane 25, 1130|01:22:47|400|01:22:50|520the middlemost plane. 1131|01:22:52|039|01:22:55|360So they are engaged in the bridging process, for they are the true intuitives. 1132|01:22:55|860|01:23:00|440And the true intuitive realizes the necessity 1133|01:23:01|080|01:23:04|690in the divine 1134|01:23:05|250|01:23:10|050pattern revealed 1135|01:23:10|550|01:23:14|690by the intuition… the need for 1136|01:23:15|890|01:23:19|170all good values 1137|01:23:21|890|01:23:22|850within the… 1138|01:23:25|970|01:23:30|210What does it call it? The pattern… within the true pattern 1139|01:23:30|610|01:23:34|650is seen. And so there is a preserving. Now think 1140|01:23:35|150|01:23:38|370about Germany with its fourth ray soul. Think about the great 1141|01:23:38|870|01:23:42|610arts, the superlative music that has come through Germany. And think of its motto, 1142|01:23:42|850|01:23:45|730a very cultural motto: “I preserve.” 1143|01:23:48|050|01:23:50|850The fourth ray is involved there, because the good, 1144|01:23:51|170|01:23:54|270the beautiful that has come from the past must 1145|01:23:54|770|01:23:58|110not be relinquished. Otherwise, we will fail to learn from history and 1146|01:23:58|610|01:24:00|590simply repeat it—the bad things. 1147|01:24:03|310|01:24:07|030So there is this reaching back to the past. Cancer is the 1148|01:24:07|530|01:24:12|030fourth sign. It has strong fourth ray connected with it. Reaching back to 1149|01:24:12|350|01:24:16|510the past to harvest the values of the past and relate 1150|01:24:17|010|01:24:20|790them to the present and emerging values. 1151|01:24:21|750|01:24:25|510And they have a capacity there, the true intuitives. And they have a capacity 1152|01:24:25|910|01:24:29|510for the art of synthesis. Now, 1153|01:24:30|010|01:24:32|390synthesis comes in on the first ray, on the seventh ray, 1154|01:24:34|550|01:24:38|070and on the fourth ray. And there's also a sense in which the second 1155|01:24:38|390|01:24:41|590ray is involved in this, and the third 1156|01:24:42|090|01:24:43|430ray—synthesis in the world of thought, 1157|01:24:45|360|01:24:48|600as Plato… the synthesis of ideas. Plato, 1158|01:24:49|100|01:24:50|080on the second and third rays. 1159|01:24:52|000|01:24:55|760They have a capacity for the art of synthesis so that their work most 1160|01:24:56|260|01:24:59|880definitely can help in bringing forward a true presentation of the 1161|01:25:00|380|01:25:02|960divine picture, in which… What can we say? 1162|01:25:04|960|01:25:09|600In which no true value is excluded 1163|01:25:10|970|01:25:14|010from the true picture, 1164|01:25:15|690|01:25:18|730which is the divine picture. 1165|01:25:21|050|01:25:24|170So there is the sense… 1166|01:25:24|890|01:25:28|290Maybe… I don't know, maybe the inchworm is kind 1167|01:25:28|790|01:25:30|810of an example. It measures in a way, 1168|01:25:31|770|01:25:35|730but it brings the past forward… 1169|01:25:36|230|01:25:39|840and then goes forward again with the front part of its body and brings 1170|01:25:40|080|01:25:44|080the past up to the front and so forth, 1171|01:25:45|040|01:25:47|440drawing the values of the past along. 1172|01:25:48|000|01:25:50|800The egoic lotus has much of this with all of its colour. 1173|01:25:51|200|01:25:54|960The values of the past are stored and not relinquished 1174|01:25:55|460|01:25:58|560and used in the present and related to the present. 1175|01:25:59|060|01:26:02|800If something really is of value, it will be harmonious 1176|01:26:03|300|01:26:05|960with something else that is also of value, 1177|01:26:06|760|01:26:09|920at least if a wide enough angle of vision is 1178|01:26:10|420|01:26:13|680preserved. So at a 1179|01:26:14|180|01:26:17|840relatively high point of evolution, the rays begin to harmonize 1180|01:26:18|340|01:26:21|880with each other instead of fighting and killing each other. 1181|01:26:23|080|01:26:26|720And it is the Fourth Ray which 1182|01:26:27|220|01:26:30|720is involved in the early combat, but also a kind of combat 1183|01:26:31|220|01:26:35|340which is meant to eventually produce a harmonized 1184|01:26:35|420|01:26:38|980peace. Well, maybe we 1185|01:26:39|480|01:26:43|580have a little bit of an idea there of how the Fourth Ray personalities 1186|01:26:44|140|01:26:48|100will function under the Fourth Ray souls, and the Fourth Ray egos 1187|01:26:48|600|01:26:53|100will function in even a higher way, along the lines indicated. 1188|01:26:54|380|01:26:59|290We might say, or at least I'm inclined to say the 1189|01:26:59|790|01:27:03|330following, that when the new group of world 1190|01:27:03|830|01:27:08|810servers demonstrates in 1191|01:27:09|310|01:27:13|650the future, there will be many Fourth 1192|01:27:14|150|01:27:17|650Ray souls. Let's see, how do I 1193|01:27:18|150|01:27:22|050do this? Many Fourth Ray 1194|01:27:22|550|01:27:26|460souls. And the new 1195|01:27:26|860|01:27:30|220group of World Servers, 1196|01:27:30|380|01:27:34|140being a Fourth Ray body, will be 1197|01:27:34|860|01:27:39|020strengthened by the presence in 1198|01:27:39|520|01:27:43|140its ranks of these souls. After all, we are 1199|01:27:43|640|01:27:44|700having a great renaissance coming, 1200|01:27:46|700|01:27:50|620a new Renaissance. DK promises. And it would seem to me that Fourth Ray souls 1201|01:27:51|120|01:27:54|660will have to be part of that. It's not sufficient, I think, that Fourth 1202|01:27:55|160|01:27:58|820Ray monads, the monad being quite remote from normal human experience, 1203|01:28:00|260|01:28:03|940will be the only Fourth 1204|01:28:04|440|01:28:06|980Ray representative coming into incarnation. 1205|01:28:08|340|01:28:12|340So although the Fourth Ray will come in from its monadic 1206|01:28:12|840|01:28:16|430angle, I suspect that the new renaissance 1207|01:28:16|930|01:28:21|070will require the incoming of 1208|01:28:21|570|01:28:25|390those whose souls demand expression on the Ray 1209|01:28:25|890|01:28:29|550of Harmony, Beauty and Art. Okay, well, we have an idea 1210|01:28:30|050|01:28:33|750there of service along the Fourth Ray 1211|01:28:34|250|01:28:37|830line. And, you know, as we go, 1212|01:28:38|330|01:28:42|450we can see, we can think about our own rays and both 1213|01:28:42|950|01:28:46|130soul and personality, and see in what way we may be 1214|01:28:47|810|01:28:51|090expressing in relation 1215|01:28:51|250|01:28:54|650to what D.K. tells us is the mode 1216|01:28:55|150|01:28:57|729of expression. Now, here's Ray 5. 1217|01:29:00|050|01:29:03|610The servers on this ray are coming rapidly into prominence. It's one of 1218|01:29:04|110|01:29:07|570the rays whose ashram 1219|01:29:08|270|01:29:12|030has emerged prominently along with 1220|01:29:12|530|01:29:16|750the First Ray and Second Ray Ashram. One, Two, and Five particularly have 1221|01:29:17|250|01:29:20|910emerged. And we will 1222|01:29:21|410|01:29:25|390find that the other ashrams will follow. Certainly a Seventh Ashram 1223|01:29:25|890|01:29:29|630will before long be coming into powerful expression. 1224|01:29:31|950|01:29:36|740So they're coming rapidly into prominence, people transferring 1225|01:29:37|240|01:29:40|940their tendency to believe without really knowing what 1226|01:29:41|260|01:29:46|580science is saying to them, at least in 1227|01:29:47|080|01:29:50|380a technical way, not knowing—they believe in science. 1228|01:29:50|880|01:29:53|940It's the Sixth Ray transferred to the Fifth. 1229|01:29:54|440|01:29:58|420So science has become a kind of God and has the 1230|01:29:58|920|01:30:02|730last word for many about truth. 1231|01:30:03|610|01:30:07|130They are those who investigate the form in order to 1232|01:30:07|630|01:30:11|090find its hidden idea. And when you look at the 1233|01:30:11|590|01:30:15|010integration formula for 1234|01:30:15|510|01:30:19|290the Fifth Ray, you see how much there 1235|01:30:19|790|01:30:23|610is the search for the one who dwells behind the form. 1236|01:30:23|850|01:30:27|130God, in a way, is a great idea. 1237|01:30:27|940|01:30:31|380Being the Universa Logos 1238|01:30:31|460|01:30:35|820is an idea emerging out 1239|01:30:36|320|01:30:40|260of the Absolute. So they investigate 1240|01:30:40|760|01:30:43|380the form, you know, that which is immediately before their eyes. 1241|01:30:44|180|01:30:48|700My friend James Davis has concluded that the 1242|01:30:49|200|01:30:52|500focus of the Fifth Ray type is 1243|01:30:52|740|01:30:56|790rather short vision to see what is immediately before the 1244|01:30:57|290|01:31:01|550eyes, rather than the maybe dreamier 1245|01:31:02|190|01:31:05|710third or sixth ray type. Sixth ray type, looking up; 1246|01:31:06|210|01:31:09|990third ray type, looking out into the 1247|01:31:10|490|01:31:13|990great beyond and into the abstractions. Well, 1248|01:31:14|490|01:31:18|750there's no hard and fast rule. We're all such a mixture of different rays 1249|01:31:19|240|01:31:20|040and signs. 1250|01:31:22|440|01:31:26|160So they investigate the form, the garment of God. “Towards 1251|01:31:26|660|01:31:28|680me I draw the garment of my God. 1252|01:31:30|040|01:31:31|880I see and know its form. 1253|01:31:33|560|01:31:37|240I take that garment piece by piece.” You know, it's a short range focus. 1254|01:31:38|760|01:31:42|760Some people who trip over themselves, they don't know what's in their immediate 1255|01:31:43|260|01:31:47|110foreground. Others who see very precisely everything that 1256|01:31:47|610|01:31:51|310lies around them. They are those who investigate the form in order 1257|01:31:51|810|01:31:55|950to find its hidden idea, its motivating power. And to 1258|01:31:56|450|01:32:00|030this end they work with ideas. Well, 1259|01:32:00|530|01:32:04|870here the actual definition of idea is 1260|01:32:05|370|01:32:09|670rather larger, I think, proving them either true or false. 1261|01:32:10|150|01:32:13|360You know, theories, assertions, 1262|01:32:14|640|01:32:17|360thoughts along a certain line here. 1263|01:32:19|360|01:32:22|560Ideas can mean thoughts, 1264|01:32:23|360|01:32:26|880theories, speculations, 1265|01:32:27|380|01:32:30|760hypotheses. They are thoughts, and they 1266|01:32:31|260|01:32:33|280are more of a concrete nature. 1267|01:32:34|720|01:32:38|610I suppose if a fifth ray soul tried to prove 1268|01:32:38|930|01:32:42|210whether an idea, a true idea, were true or false, 1269|01:32:43|410|01:32:47|890he would definitely always find it to be true. Because ideas 1270|01:32:48|390|01:32:52|450are beings. Whether or not they have immediate application 1271|01:32:52|850|01:32:55|170in the context of a particular civilization, 1272|01:32:56|850|01:33:01|330that can be determined. But even if they did not have 1273|01:33:01|730|01:33:05|840an immediately useful application, it would not mean that the idea 1274|01:33:06|000|01:33:10|120was false. Ideas are, in 1275|01:33:10|620|01:33:14|440a way, great truths. So, to 1276|01:33:14|940|01:33:18|720this end, they work with ideas, proving them either true 1277|01:33:19|220|01:33:23|200or false. If we understand ideas in a slightly reduced 1278|01:33:23|600|01:33:27|200manner as more related to thought, they gather into their 1279|01:33:27|700|01:33:31|780ranks—the fifth ray souls do—those whose personalities 1280|01:33:32|280|01:33:35|380are on this ray and train them in the art of scientific investigation. 1281|01:33:36|020|01:33:39|300There's something inherently known by a soul type 1282|01:33:40|180|01:33:44|660which is not necessarily known by a personality type. And the 1283|01:33:45|160|01:33:49|140soul types are the trainers, and the personality 1284|01:33:49|640|01:33:53|540types are the trainees. We've seen this type of 1285|01:33:54|040|01:33:58|370relation. Maybe we have some 1286|01:33:58|870|01:34:02|650experience of knowing what our personality 1287|01:34:03|150|01:34:07|170is and looking in retrospect and seeing that we were drawn for 1288|01:34:07|670|01:34:10|890our training to someone whose soul 1289|01:34:11|390|01:34:14|010ray was the same as our personality ray. I think there is a further stage, 1290|01:34:14|510|01:34:19|810however, where we will be drawn for further training by 1291|01:34:20|310|01:34:24|260someone whose soul ray is the same as our soul ray. 1292|01:34:24|820|01:34:28|260But perhaps look over your life and see whether that 1293|01:34:28|760|01:34:29|460has been the case. 1294|01:34:31|540|01:34:34|940So they are the teachers in a way, or they set the example. 1295|01:34:35|440|01:34:38|860They gather into their ranks those whose personalities are on this ray and 1296|01:34:39|360|01:34:42|780train them in the art. Notice the word “art.” It's almost clever how 1297|01:34:43|280|01:34:46|460he does that. The art of scientific investigation. 1298|01:34:46|960|01:34:50|830The art is the intuitive 1299|01:34:50|990|01:34:54|110application of knowledge. 1300|01:34:54|190|01:34:57|510We might say by the time we reach the 1301|01:34:58|010|01:35:01|870phase of art, the knowledge has become 1302|01:35:02|030|01:35:05|790so well assimilated that it can be spontaneously, 1303|01:35:06|290|01:35:09|870intuitively, correctly, skillfully applied. 1304|01:35:13|070|01:35:16|820I'm sure it's no accident that 1305|01:35:17|320|01:35:20|980Tibetan is using the fourth ray word and the fifth ray 1306|01:35:21|480|01:35:24|420activity in the same sentence. 1307|01:35:26|100|01:35:30|020From the sense spiritual ideas lying behind the form side 1308|01:35:30|100|01:35:33|660of manifestation, because indeed they 1309|01:35:34|160|01:35:37|460can penetrate into the mind of God where ideas are found. 1310|01:35:38|180|01:35:45|870Let us say that these types can 1311|01:35:46|190|01:35:51|630indeed penetrate into the 1312|01:35:52|130|01:35:56|910mind of God where ideas are in fact found. 1313|01:35:58|430|01:36:01|830So, you know, you think about Einstein, and it's 1314|01:36:02|330|01:36:05|510difficult. He seems to have been largely 1315|01:36:06|010|01:36:11|230a third ray philosophical type, but working 1316|01:36:11|470|01:36:15|230in relation to a fifth ray ashram. And perhaps it was the three sub-five 1317|01:36:15|550|01:36:19|350area of the ashram where he was 1318|01:36:19|850|01:36:24|470working. This has yet to be determined. 1319|01:36:24|970|01:36:27|310I think I once speculated that he may have been a second ray monad, but I 1320|01:36:27|810|01:36:30|990think I would take that back now and consider him to be, 1321|01:36:32|190|01:36:35|870well, you know, a third ray monad. And since there are two monadic rays, 1322|01:36:36|370|01:36:39|590at least as far as I can understand at this time, it may have been 1323|01:36:40|090|01:36:43|670that one of them was the 1324|01:36:44|390|01:36:45|750fifth, the subsidiary. 1325|01:36:47|430|01:36:50|870Now, you know, that's the problem. One always learns 1326|01:36:51|370|01:36:54|710more and then one has written something and there it is, you know, 1327|01:36:55|110|01:36:58|950as if one has never moved beyond the error 1328|01:36:59|450|01:37:03|020or the incomplete presentation. I've modified my 1329|01:37:03|520|01:37:05|540ideas quite a bit since I've written some of those early books, 1330|01:37:06|980|01:37:10|380but there they are as stepping stones along the way. I've certainly 1331|01:37:10|880|01:37:14|140used them as stepping stones and others can as well. I would 1332|01:37:14|640|01:37:18|660like to correct those places, or at least to offer an 1333|01:37:19|160|01:37:23|060alternative perspective, but that is difficult 1334|01:37:23|300|01:37:27|250to do. So when 1335|01:37:27|750|01:37:31|330we read what is written by an author in the earlier days of his 1336|01:37:31|830|01:37:35|450life, we can assume that there will be changes of 1337|01:37:35|950|01:37:39|770thought along the way. So these fifth ray types, 1338|01:37:40|270|01:37:46|050the souls, they gather into their ranks those personalities whose 1339|01:37:46|550|01:37:50|010personalities are on this ray, and they train them in the arts of scientific investigation. 1340|01:37:50|410|01:37:54|080And they sense the spiritual ideas in the mind of God lying behind 1341|01:37:54|580|01:37:56|160the form side of manifestation. 1342|01:37:58|480|01:38:03|280From the many discoveries of 1343|01:38:03|780|01:38:07|400the ways of God with man and nature, and from the inventions 1344|01:38:07|900|01:38:11|680which are but materialised ideas. And maybe indeed 1345|01:38:12|180|01:38:16|080they are materialised ideas, true ideas, 1346|01:38:16|580|01:38:20|410not just thoughts. Perhaps the 1347|01:38:20|910|01:38:24|090true relations are found on the Buddhic plane and above. 1348|01:38:24|590|01:38:27|850And the inventions bring some of these 1349|01:38:28|970|01:38:34|569true relations into manifestation. And from 1350|01:38:35|069|01:38:38|610the sense spiritual ideas lying behind the form side of manifestation, from the 1351|01:38:39|110|01:38:42|530many discoveries in the ways of God with man and 1352|01:38:43|030|01:38:46|500nature, from the inventions which are but materialised 1353|01:38:47|000|01:38:50|980ideas, and from the witness to the plan which law 1354|01:38:51|620|01:38:55|220portrays, because they really are on the first ray. In a certain sense, 1355|01:38:55|780|01:39:00|020the fifth ray soul resolves into 1356|01:39:00|820|01:39:04|740the first ray soul, we've been told. So the 1357|01:39:05|240|01:39:08|580fifth ray type has a 1358|01:39:09|080|01:39:14|040close connection with law coming 1359|01:39:14|540|01:39:16|080in on the first ray. 1360|01:39:17|360|01:39:20|400So as they witness natural law and eventually 1361|01:39:21|360|01:39:25|520the laws of the higher realms, they are preparing 1362|01:39:25|840|01:39:29|720the new world in which men will work and live a 1363|01:39:30|220|01:39:34|000more deeply conscious and spiritual life. And we 1364|01:39:34|500|01:39:38|490are told about the method, 1365|01:39:38|890|01:39:43|010methods of uniting the solar angel, which the 1366|01:39:43|510|01:39:45|770fifth ray type, the solar angel with the man, 1367|01:39:46|410|01:39:48|890the personality which the fifth ray type will promote. 1368|01:39:49|770|01:39:54|890Let's call it the technique. 1369|01:39:55|390|01:39:59|930Wow. That's not it. Technicalities of 1370|01:40:00|810|01:40:04|580union are known to this 1371|01:40:05|080|01:40:08|660type. Not a mystical union and not a union which happens 1372|01:40:09|160|01:40:10|900now and then when everything aligns correctly, 1373|01:40:12|180|01:40:16|020but a predictable method of creating 1374|01:40:16|340|01:40:20|980union between a technically understood interior mechanism 1375|01:40:21|460|01:40:24|980and a technically understood exterior mechanism. 1376|01:40:26|580|01:40:29|340So they are so important in the Aquarian age, 1377|01:40:29|840|01:40:33|380Aquarius, bringing the fifth ray constellation into 1378|01:40:33|880|01:40:37|180the picture. And it will be soon the 1379|01:40:37|680|01:40:41|860greatest source of the fifth ray, even as Leo is now. 1380|01:40:44|420|01:40:47|220So they have all of these resources, 1381|01:40:49|060|01:40:52|260the spiritual ideas, the discoveries, 1382|01:40:52|580|01:40:57|480the witness to the plan which the law portrays. 1383|01:40:57|640|01:41:00|920They are preparing the new 1384|01:41:01|420|01:41:04|600world in which men will work and live in a more 1385|01:41:05|240|01:41:09|080deeply conscious, live a more deeply conscious spiritual 1386|01:41:09|580|01:41:13|080life. And this will be predictably 1387|01:41:13|240|01:41:16|600so. Not left to chance, not left to luck, 1388|01:41:17|880|01:41:20|120not left only to good karma. 1389|01:41:22|690|01:41:26|250People will be given the means to make the necessary contacts 1390|01:41:26|750|01:41:29|010for a more deeply conscious spiritual life. 1391|01:41:30|130|01:41:36|370The means will be given to those qualified 1392|01:41:39|330|01:41:42|850to live a more 1393|01:41:43|350|01:41:46|210deeply conscious spiritual life. 1394|01:41:47|010|01:41:51|360And the means, let's call them the technical 1395|01:41:52|240|01:41:55|640means, will be given. Disciples working along these 1396|01:41:56|140|01:41:59|200lines in every country today are more active than at any 1397|01:41:59|700|01:42:03|280other time in human history, because we have gone 1398|01:42:03|780|01:42:07|600into a stage of the growth of mentality. 1399|01:42:08|880|01:42:12|480Widespread education means that we have a humanity 1400|01:42:12|980|01:42:16|650that is better educated in the mass anyway 1401|01:42:17|150|01:42:21|730than at any other time in human history. They are knowingly 1402|01:42:22|230|01:42:26|570and unknowingly leading 1403|01:42:26|650|01:42:29|450men into the world of meaning. This is… 1404|01:42:30|570|01:42:36|290Interestingly enough, the world of meaning is the world 1405|01:42:36|790|01:42:37|290of the soul. 1406|01:42:43|620|01:42:46|820The world of soul. 1407|01:42:48|100|01:42:50|660Well, that works. I know it does, 1408|01:42:51|380|01:42:54|860but for the moment it doesn't. Into the world of meaning. And their 1409|01:42:55|360|01:42:59|700discoveries will eventually end the present era of unemployment. 1410|01:43:00|260|01:43:03|820At first it seems to be the opposite, as if the machine is replacing 1411|01:43:04|320|01:43:08|460the man. But we take the Tibetan at his word. 1412|01:43:10|460|01:43:13|700And their inventions and improvements added 1413|01:43:14|200|01:43:16|860to the steadily growing idea of group interdependence, 1414|01:43:18|140|01:43:23|020which is the major message of the new group of world service, will eventually ameliorate 1415|01:43:23|520|01:43:26|620human conditions so that an era of peace 1416|01:43:27|120|01:43:30|220and leisure can supervene. 1417|01:43:31|660|01:43:34|780Maybe it will not last forever, but imagine 1418|01:43:36|540|01:43:40|620peace and leisure largely the 1419|01:43:41|120|01:43:44|780work of the contribution, or largely simply 1420|01:43:46|460|01:43:50|940the contribution of the fifth Ray types. 1421|01:43:53|660|01:43:57|480You will note, I do not say “will supervene”. 1422|01:43:58|920|01:44:00|520For even the Christ himself, 1423|01:44:02|760|01:44:06|600not even the Christ himself can predict exactly the 1424|01:44:07|100|01:44:10|800time limit within which changes can 1425|01:44:11|300|01:44:14|480eventuate, nor the reaction to any given 1426|01:44:14|980|01:44:18|600point of revelation. Thus the preservation of free will 1427|01:44:19|560|01:44:22|920insisted upon by the Sirian powers and carried 1428|01:44:23|420|01:44:26|740out by Sanat Kumara produces a certain, 1429|01:44:31|220|01:44:35|300what is the word? Unpredictability in this 1430|01:44:35|860|01:44:39|700matter. So human conditions 1431|01:44:40|200|01:44:43|980will be ameliorated. The era of peace, long foretold, 1432|01:44:44|480|01:44:49|180will be contributed to by the fifth Ray types. The leisure 1433|01:44:49|680|01:44:52|850to pursue one's real interests can 1434|01:44:53|350|01:44:56|890supervene. And the employment will not 1435|01:44:57|390|01:45:01|490be that of providing the basic 1436|01:45:01|990|01:45:06|050energy necessities. Employment will 1437|01:45:06|550|01:45:10|170no longer relate to providing 1438|01:45:11|450|01:45:14|570basic energy necessities, 1439|01:45:18|820|01:45:22|460but the employment will be 1440|01:45:22|960|01:45:27|140about self development and 1441|01:45:27|860|01:45:31|780the emergence of the inner nature into 1442|01:45:32|280|01:45:36|260outer expression. A different type of employment. 1443|01:45:36|340|01:45:39|740All will be at leisure and 1444|01:45:40|240|01:45:44|280yet impelled forward by the vision to find 1445|01:45:44|780|01:45:47|880the ways to use their energies so as to develop them 1446|01:45:48|380|01:45:51|520and learn more all the time. 1447|01:45:54|560|01:45:58|520So this deals with the emergence 1448|01:45:59|020|01:46:02|160of a very important Ray, a Ray 1449|01:46:02|660|01:46:06|240much related to humanity itself, the human being being Manas, 1450|01:46:07|040|01:46:11|340and finally for us, the possibility 1451|01:46:11|420|01:46:14|940of taking initiation really under this Ray, 1452|01:46:15|900|01:46:19|260and of entering consciously into that domain 1453|01:46:20|220|01:46:22|380that we call the causal body. 1454|01:46:25|180|01:46:28|100So I think what we have seen… I mean, the fifth Ray has given us 1455|01:46:28|600|01:46:31|660so much. It's also, as D.K. says, 1456|01:46:32|860|01:46:36|290certain people functioning under this Ray have provided us with 1457|01:46:37|010|01:46:40|610that which is destructive to humanity, to all 1458|01:46:41|110|01:46:44|850the weaponry and so forth. But man would create weapons 1459|01:46:45|350|01:46:49|570in any case. But when the second petal of the egoic lotus 1460|01:46:49|650|01:46:53|730is stimulated in these fifth Ray types, 1461|01:46:54|230|01:46:57|850who have the first and third ray, first and third 1462|01:46:58|350|01:47:01|610petals stimulated, then the inventions will 1463|01:47:02|110|01:47:05|660really be turned towards constructiveness. And of course we have 1464|01:47:06|160|01:47:10|780seen that as well. So it's a great materializing 1465|01:47:11|280|01:47:15|500energy. It's an energy which causes concretion 1466|01:47:15|580|01:47:19|740and precipitation of the divine ideas 1467|01:47:21|740|01:47:25|500touched and sensed behind the garment of God. 1468|01:47:26|860|01:47:31|450Well, I trust that we can see whether any of our inclination 1469|01:47:31|950|01:47:36|250towards service lies along the 1470|01:47:36|750|01:47:40|130fifth ray line. It will be a 1471|01:47:40|630|01:47:45|370very powerful ray. The ashram of the 5th ray has been somewhat 1472|01:47:45|690|01:47:48|970subdued on purpose between the years 1950 1473|01:47:49|370|01:47:53|730and 2000. Its direct application 1474|01:47:54|230|01:47:58|260has been somewhat withdrawn and the fifth ray reaches us 1475|01:47:58|660|01:48:02|340as an aspect now of the third ray, because knowledge was 1476|01:48:02|840|01:48:06|740just getting way ahead of the 1477|01:48:07|240|01:48:11|140unitive factor. And so knowledge could be used to destroy 1478|01:48:11|640|01:48:15|100the human race. And in fact, we understand the 1479|01:48:15|600|01:48:19|020Black Lodge seeks to do precisely that. It has an alignment 1480|01:48:19|520|01:48:23|390on the first and fifth ray. And the 1481|01:48:23|630|01:48:26|590danger is that an attempt will be made, 1482|01:48:27|090|01:48:30|350maybe it already has been partially made, to destroy the Aryan 1483|01:48:30|850|01:48:33|230race by fire or the fifth root race by fire. 1484|01:48:34|350|01:48:38|590And we can only think of what atomic energy 1485|01:48:38|750|01:48:42|390released in terms of these weapons of mass destruction 1486|01:48:42|890|01:48:47|310can mean in relation to that prophecy. 1487|01:48:49|140|01:48:52|460So wisely an intervention was made 1488|01:48:52|960|01:48:57|060and the fifth ray ashram's emphasis was subdued. 1489|01:48:57|560|01:49:01|020I suppose quite a number of fifth ray souls who would 1490|01:49:01|520|01:49:05|540otherwise have come into incarnation did not come 1491|01:49:06|040|01:49:09|620into incarnation. And I suppose the special stimulus of 1492|01:49:10|120|01:49:13|870the 5th ray ashram to those 1493|01:49:13|950|01:49:19|470who could receive that kind of stimulus was withdrawn 1494|01:49:19|710|01:49:23|230to a degree. But Aquarius, the age of Aquarius, 1495|01:49:23|730|01:49:28|430will be a fifth ray age. And the fifth ray is 1496|01:49:28|930|01:49:32|030involved. The concrete mind is certainly involved under Saturn, the first ruler, 1497|01:49:32|510|01:49:36|110under Mercury, a majorly fifth ray planet in its highest 1498|01:49:36|510|01:49:40|600reaches, and under Venus, whose soul is expressing through the 1499|01:49:41|100|01:49:44|600fifth ray. So we will certainly have that ray, 1500|01:49:45|100|01:49:48|880and it will be the age of scientific miracles, 1501|01:49:49|380|01:49:53|160really, when we compare to what we can do at the present time. The wonder 1502|01:49:53|660|01:49:56|920of the new age will largely be introduced through the 1503|01:49:57|960|01:50:01|400fifth ray. Maybe we have one more chance 1504|01:50:01|900|01:50:05|380for one more discussion here on the sixth ray during 1505|01:50:05|880|01:50:09|180this particular program. And then going on to the seventh ray and a bit more 1506|01:50:09|980|01:50:13|500later. Ray 6: The effect of 1507|01:50:13|740|01:50:17|260the activity this ray during the past 2,000 1508|01:50:17|340|01:50:21|260years, when it has coincided during 1509|01:50:21|760|01:50:25|020the processional cycle with the sign Pisces, has been to train 1510|01:50:25|500|01:50:28|220humanity in the art of recognizing ideals, 1511|01:50:28|860|01:50:32|790something higher, something which are the blueprints 1512|01:50:33|190|01:50:35|510of ideas. 1513|01:50:37|190|01:50:40|630Well, the sixth ray has a gravitation 1514|01:50:41|130|01:50:44|470for the recognition of ideals, which are a kind of concretization 1515|01:50:44|950|01:50:49|110and a 1516|01:50:49|610|01:50:53|390strong concretization of ideas. And they 1517|01:50:53|890|01:50:57|790have been rendered attractive. And there is a… The ideal 1518|01:50:57|870|01:51:01|030is the desire to 1519|01:51:01|530|01:51:05|150put as much of the idea into manifestation 1520|01:51:05|710|01:51:09|310as may be possible. The ideal is less 1521|01:51:09|810|01:51:13|590than the embracing idea, but at 1522|01:51:14|090|01:51:17|790least it has something of the idea which can be 1523|01:51:18|350|01:51:22|600manifested and the strong emotional aspirational gravitation towards 1524|01:51:23|100|01:51:26|200that manifestation. There may 1525|01:51:26|700|01:51:30|680be… The ideal is always a reduction of 1526|01:51:31|180|01:51:34|880the fullness of the idea. Remember that ideas 1527|01:51:35|380|01:51:37|680emerge for the first ray type, 1528|01:51:39|040|01:51:43|520and these are translated into ideals by the sixth 1529|01:51:44|020|01:51:47|440ray type. Perhaps the third ray presents 1530|01:51:48|270|01:51:51|910something of the idea in terms of a desirable thought 1531|01:51:52|410|01:51:56|310form and the six ray type increases the 1532|01:51:56|810|01:52:00|190aspiration towards that third ray presentation and then 1533|01:52:00|750|01:52:05|870seeks to manifest it with full emotional 1534|01:52:06|030|01:52:09|230intensity. The main work of disciples 1535|01:52:09|730|01:52:13|550on this Ray is to capitalize on 1536|01:52:14|050|01:52:18|090the developed tendency of humanity to recognize ideas. 1537|01:52:20|890|01:52:24|010Well, and here we have to say, 1538|01:52:24|810|01:52:28|650does this mean the full idea or 1539|01:52:29|130|01:52:35|050high thoughts presented 1540|01:52:35|610|01:52:36|890as ideas? 1541|01:52:39|530|01:52:43|010So to capitalize upon the developed, already developed tendency of 1542|01:52:43|510|01:52:48|520humanity to recognize ideas and avoiding the rocks of fanaticism 1543|01:52:50|920|01:52:54|440and the… because we will crash against these 1544|01:52:54|520|01:52:58|600rocks and be destroyed. Because so much is excluded 1545|01:52:59|100|01:53:02|200from the fanatic's point of view, he doesn't see the danger. 1546|01:53:02|840|01:53:06|200And the dangerous shoals of superficial desire. 1547|01:53:07|080|01:53:11|770Train the world thinkers to 1548|01:53:12|270|01:53:14|770so ardently desire the good, the true and the beautiful, 1|00:00:03|120|00:00:06|800that the idea which should materialize in some 1550|01:53:19|630|01:53:23|530form on earth can shift from the plane of mind and clothe 1551|01:53:24|030|01:53:27|330itself in some 1552|01:53:27|830|01:53:31|250form on Earth. Okay, 1553|01:53:31|970|01:53:36|210so this is the task of the 6th 1554|01:53:36|710|01:53:40|150Ray workers. To not 1555|01:53:40|650|01:53:44|110be overly intense and narrow, and not simply run 1556|01:53:44|190|01:53:47|470after every superficial desire, 1557|01:53:47|550|01:53:51|070seeing things only on the outer 1558|01:53:51|570|01:53:56|030level and desiring what the exterior demonstrates 1559|01:53:56|510|01:53:58|830and not knowing its true nature. 1560|01:54:01|150|01:54:04|830It's as if one would see, 1561|01:54:04|990|01:54:08|590you know, there is gold and there's fool's gold. 1562|01:54:09|470|01:54:13|030There is that which is the true diamond and there are the 1563|01:54:13|530|01:54:17|630false diamonds. So chasing after the false 1564|01:54:18|130|01:54:22|270diamonds, chasing after the fool's gold. This is superficial desire, 1565|01:54:23|630|01:54:27|670judging on externals, only judging on appearances 1566|01:54:28|170|01:54:30|380and not really the true values. 1567|01:54:33|100|01:54:37|180So, capitalizing upon humanity's already developed 1568|01:54:37|500|01:54:40|540capacity to recognize at least the higher thoughts, 1569|01:54:42|380|01:54:46|460avoiding the crash of fanaticism 1570|01:54:48|060|01:54:51|980and the shallows of superficial desire, 1571|01:54:53|740|01:54:57|070train world thinkers not just to think, but to 1572|01:54:57|570|01:55:00|630so ardently desire the good, the true and the beautiful. Now there is, you know, 1573|01:55:01|130|01:55:04|870ardor. Ardor. That which burns flame. 1574|01:55:05|190|01:55:08|470Mars. Here we have 1575|01:55:08|790|01:55:12|150a word which is so closely 1576|01:55:12|650|01:55:16|630related to the sixth Ray, Ardor. Train the world thinkers so ardently to 1577|01:55:17|130|01:55:21|110desire the good, the true and the beautiful, that the idea which should materialize 1578|01:55:22|160|01:55:26|000— it tends to remain on its own high level, unless some 1579|01:55:26|500|01:55:30|320magical process is applied — should materialize in some form on Earth, 1580|01:55:31|280|01:55:35|440can shift from the plane of mind 1581|01:55:35|920|01:55:39|040and in the white magical process clothe 1582|01:55:39|540|01:55:43|600itself through desire in some 1583|01:55:44|100|01:55:47|720form on Earth. If we desire something intensely 1584|01:55:48|220|01:55:51|920enough, it will have the power to gather around 1585|01:55:53|440|01:55:57|120itself the form which will help it 1586|01:55:57|840|01:55:58|880materialize. 1587|01:56:01|600|01:56:04|880So we do have an intensely 1588|01:56:05|380|01:56:09|680devoted, motivated humanity that may be pursuing things 1589|01:56:10|180|01:56:12|920that are no good for them and no good for humanity in general, but at 1590|01:56:13|420|01:56:17|410least the burning is there and the intensity, requisite intensity 1591|01:56:17|910|01:56:22|810of desire is there. So let it be then, the world thinkers who 1592|01:56:23|450|01:56:27|370become ardent in their desire to manifest the good, 1593|01:56:27|870|01:56:32|010the true and the beautiful. These disciples and servers 1594|01:56:32|970|01:56:36|170work consciously with the desire element in man. 1595|01:56:38|650|01:56:42|740Their main work 1596|01:56:42|820|01:56:47|060is with the astral body, and they work scientifically 1597|01:56:47|140|01:56:50|500with its correct evocation. 1598|01:56:51|700|01:56:53|940Non-fanatical, non-superficial, 1599|01:56:55|140|01:57:00|420non-fanatical and non-superficial. 1600|01:57:01|060|01:57:03|300Their technique is scientific, 1601|01:57:04|820|01:57:09|290in other words, predictable when the right techniques are used because 1602|01:57:09|790|01:57:13|490it is based upon a right understanding of the human material 1603|01:57:14|290|01:57:15|970with which they have to work. 1604|01:57:17|330|01:57:23|010There are… Well, think of the work of 1605|01:57:23|510|01:57:25|170the Master Jesus, 1606|01:57:27|170|01:57:31|330as he attempts to rightly evoke the desire 1607|01:57:31|830|01:57:36|780element in those who follow him and 1608|01:57:37|280|01:57:40|860turn it into correct aspiration. He has a 1609|01:57:41|360|01:57:44|620very full understanding, we are told, of Western 1610|01:57:45|120|01:57:48|700civilization at least, and of the human material 1611|01:57:49|260|01:57:53|820that he attempts to stimulate towards 1612|01:57:54|300|01:57:57|860rising, towards an ascent. That his intentions, 1613|01:57:58|360|01:58:01|590of course, are misinterpreted goes without saying. They are framed 1614|01:58:02|090|01:58:05|310in the old thought form of individual salvation, 1615|01:58:07|550|01:58:12|470in a system of thought which does not embrace the 1616|01:58:12|970|01:58:16|190law of reincarnation and therefore ignores a major truth of evolution. 1617|01:58:16|690|01:58:20|590But all of that will be worn away with the 1618|01:58:21|090|01:58:25|230coming of the hierarchy, and the law of reincarnation will be understood 1619|01:58:25|310|01:58:29|870along with the need for correct 1620|01:58:30|370|01:58:33|710aspiration. Instead of aspiring towards a 1621|01:58:34|210|01:58:38|390permanent and, I suppose, relatively unchanging heaven, 1622|01:58:39|190|01:58:43|390there will be aspiration towards soul growth and 1623|01:58:43|890|01:58:47|750a fuller demonstration of soul 1624|01:58:48|250|01:58:52|370quality. In the three lower worlds, this will be 1625|01:58:52|870|01:58:56|010a very different thing. You know, it's the old debate between faith 1626|01:58:56|510|01:58:59|610and works. Are you saved by faith? Are you saved by works? 1627|01:59:00|570|01:59:04|650Well, perhaps it is faith that 1628|01:59:05|150|01:59:08|490gives us sufficient incentive to carry out the works, 1629|01:59:09|050|01:59:12|650which from the karmic perspective are truly the 1630|01:59:13|150|01:59:16|730agent of salvation. We work out 1631|01:59:17|230|01:59:21|470our own salvation. There's been a tendency to 1632|01:59:23|230|01:59:26|790put the burden upon faith, as if works can 1633|01:59:27|290|01:59:30|790do no good and faith will do all, which is the 1634|01:59:31|290|01:59:33|550emotional acceptance of the Savior, 1635|01:59:35|550|01:59:39|710as if that will make a permanent place in 1636|01:59:40|210|01:59:43|150heaven for the one who thus accepts. 1637|01:59:44|580|01:59:50|260But we see when contrasting that with the age of wisdom, that it does 1638|01:59:50|760|01:59:53|980not seem quite rational, at least in 1639|01:59:54|480|01:59:57|220terms of the worldview which we embrace. 1640|02:00:03|460|02:00:04|580Well, let's see here. 1641|02:00:07|700|02:00:11|190Aha. I guess in order to 1642|02:00:11|690|02:00:17|870keep these programs reasonably contained 1643|02:00:18|370|02:00:21|710within a certain time limit, I will have to stop at two 1644|02:00:22|210|02:00:25|550hours. And even though it is in the middle of a ray 1645|02:00:25|790|02:00:28|910here. A Ray method of service. 1646|02:00:29|410|02:00:33|430But let's just say that this is the end of light, or the not 1647|02:00:33|930|02:00:37|760light. I want to say that Laws of the Soul webinar commentary number 1648|02:00:38|400|02:00:38|80015. 1649|02:00:41|360|02:00:44|024And we're on page 144. 1650|02:00:44|296|02:00:47|360EP2, page 144, and 1651|02:00:47|840|02:00:51|520beginning of Laws of the Soul webinar commentary 1652|02:00:52|020|02:00:55|040is number 16, Ep. 1653|02:00:55|760|02:00:59|3202, page 144. And when I take this 1654|02:00:59|820|02:01:04|050up again, I will repeat a little bit of the first paragraph, 1655|02:01:04|550|02:01:08|490maybe read it so that we can get the segue into 1656|02:01:09|050|02:01:12|610the next paragraph on the Sixth Ray. And I think that the 1657|02:01:13|110|02:01:16|570next program should take us through the 1658|02:01:17|070|02:01:21|130Law of Service, as the Tibetan has presented it here. 1659|02:01:22|090|02:01:25|770Sixth Ray workers are needed, and the Sixth 1660|02:01:26|270|02:01:29|990Ray may be going out of incarnation, perhaps from the soul perspective, but from 1661|02:01:30|490|02:01:34|350the monadic perspective, it is probably still very much in 1662|02:01:34|850|02:01:38|150incarnation. And one suspects that there would have to be, as well, 1663|02:01:38|630|02:01:41|590Sixth Ray personalities during an age, 1664|02:01:41|750|02:01:45|670during the Seventh Ray age, which is not predominantly 1665|02:01:46|170|02:01:49|870Sixth Ray at all. But there have to be those 1666|02:01:50|370|02:01:53|830who are motivated by the ideal, and we'll learn more about that 1667|02:01:54|770|02:01:59|170shortly. Okay, friends, we will go 1668|02:01:59|670|02:02:02|450on to number 15. We'll see you then.