The energies which emanate from what is esoterically called the "heart of the sun" sweep through the planets in seven great streams and pour into human soul producing what we call awareness. He cannot as yet enter into the consciousness of that basic essential Unity, but he can enter into that of his own ray-life, of the emanating source of his own temporarily specialised life." Man can therefore eventually see, expressing itself through all forms in all kingdoms, a universal septenate, and when this happens, he is entering into world of subjective unity, and can proceed on his way consciously towards the One. She said "The endless diversity of forms hides a subjective synthesis.
"Each of the great rays has a form of teaching truth to humanity which is its unique contribution", Alice Bailey wrote, yet only in their composite do we understand nature of the One, of Deity. Yet the seven emanations came forth from the central vortex, and as such are seven aspects of one whole and therefore interrelated. The seven rays are the first differentiation of this divine triplicity: from three major rays, four minor rays unfold to reveal the sevenfold nature of divinity. Initially, that Life expressed in triple formation: as Life, Quality and Appearance, or Monad, Soul, and Personality Will, Love, and Intelligence. The cosmology of the Ageless Wiscom gives an explanation of the seven rays so profound, so occult that it’s beyond the grasp of the human mind, but to summarise and thereby grossly simplify it: As part of the initial Plan, the one Life sought expansion. All are essentially living forces carrying the one Life into expression – seven great interpreters of the One Essence as it takes on form. Then there are the seven sisters of the Pleiades, the seven Rishis of the Great Bear, and the seven Spirits before the Throne of God. We might begin by asking, Why seven rays? Why not ten or twelve, for those are also numbers of considerable spiritual significance? The number seven features prominently in the human perception of structure of the world: the seven colours of the rainbow, seven notes of an octave in occult cosmology the seven major planes and subplanes of existence, and in the calculation of time the seven days of a week. Alice Bailey then developed the teaching considerably in a number of her books, especially A Treatise on the Seven Rays. Blavatsky and later developed by Ernest Wood.
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Thank you very much for this opportunity to share some of the teachings on the seven rays from the books of Alice Bailey. A talk given at the Theosophical Society of Edinburgh, 30 September 2010 by Sarah McKechnie
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