Seven Rays of Illumination: The ray of consciousness and Spatial Fire.

You are individually sub-divided into Seven Rays, but your aura gives a synthetic color vibration, although continually changing by thought emanations, and by regularly recurring synthetic vibrations conveying the color waves which constitute you a part of that special ray. TT2 142. Hilarion.

Ques : Is the passing from one Ray to another done at the beginning and ending of a Manvantara, or during its progress ?

Ans : That depends upon whether it is a sub-Ray or a primary Ray. The soul passes from one Ray to another, a sub-Ray or a primary Ray according to what its evolution demands. The sub-Rays during the course of the Manvantara ; the primary, only at the beginning or end of the same. TT 343. Hilarion.

Unless you are willing to accept the fact that every color ray, as well as every other division of the Cosmos, is an embodied entity on some plane of existence, you will not be able to accept my statement that there is a corresponding plexus to that of the red color zone of the earth, in the entity we term the Red Ray . TT 125. Hilarion.

It is not easy for the average man to realize that no God, no Master can raise him from the influence of one Ray of Light into that of another until he has gained a controlling power over the inhibiting forces of the Ray to which he belongs. TT 559. Hilarion.

The ray of the Higher Consciousness is united with the rays of the closer consciousnesses through fiery striving. When, in the creation of good, the spirit is tensed in a fiery transport, the spirit is always unified with the Higher Consciousness. The fiery law manifests its might on the Earth, therefore is it so necessary to manifest understanding of the Subtle World. Each action can acquire a double force by the unification of the rays. The unified consciousness is the most immutable shield.

In full striving and fiery understanding the rays will always create by manifesting a single power. The ray can pierce the consciousness, but We call the unification of the rays of the consciousness Hiero-inspiration. The rays of creativeness of the heart manifest the most fiery labor in Cosmos, but the heart must actually be saturated with the striving of achievement. FW3 210.

Spiritual receptivity is established through the prismatic ray. Thus, the ray of the spirit refracts all vibratory manifestations giving evidence of Fire.  Thus is the highest prismatic receptivity confirmed. Inf1 267.

The spatial Fire varies in intensity and in the quality of color of the ray.  These basic qualities express the manifested energies which link the various currents correlating with the Cosmic Magnet. Inf1 331.

The seed of the Hierarch is generated according to a certain ray. Hier 330.

The broader the consciousness, the more vividly glows the ray of consciousness. Inf 8.

Cosmic creation is built upon the foundation of spirit. A discovery comes in a harmonious fusion with a cosmic ray. The rays from heterogeneous elements bring immeasurable revelations to humanity. Inf2 11.

When the ray of consciousness contacts the Spatial Fire, the cosmic vibration enters into life. Therefore, the conscious direction of the ray of the heart will lead to creation. Inf2 199.

For instance, it can be understood as a partial intensive, or even a constant sending of the ray of the Great Spirit to a chosen receiver. That is, a High Spirit who is karmically close to a newly incarnating bearer of a definite mission, can send to him his ray, so that this ray can accompany this soul throughout its entire life. The newborn soul assimilates this ray together with the rays of the luminaries under which it was born. The soul grows under the influence of this ray, and in the course of its spiritual development the soul assimilates this ray completely. Then occurs what we call an "incarnation of the ray," or "hiero-inspiration." LHR1.

Consequently, each great Teacher gathers around him those nearest to his ray, or to the potential of his energies; that is why all waverings, and departures from the Teacher, once he is chosen, are so destructive. LHR2.

All degrees of initiation are in ourselves. When a disciple is ready, he receives a Ray of Illumination, which corresponds with the degree of purification he has achieved, as well as of the broadening of his consciousness and the fiery transmutation of his centers.

For your satisfaction, I shall give you the names of some ancient Egyptian degrees of initiation in their Greek equivalents.

The first degree was called Pastoforis;

the second, Neokoris;

the third, Melaneforis;

the fourth, Christoforis;

the fifth, Balahat; the sixth, Astrologos;

the seventh, Propheta or Safknaf-Pankah. LHR1.

The seven vowels chanted by the Egyptian priests to the seven rays of the rising sun to which Memnon responded, meant but that. Mahatma KH Letters.

The Egyptian priests chanted the seven vowels as a hymn addressed to Serapis; and at the sound of the seventh vowel, as at the "seventh ray" of the rising sun, the statue of Memnon responded. IU 514.

And suppose, for one instant, I were to describe to you the hues of those colour rays that lie beyond the so-called "visible spectrum" -- rays invisible to all but a very few even among us. Mahatma KH Letters.

Rays do, of course, exist, but each ray is nothing but psychic energy and therefore cannot be

limited in its possibilities. SMD3 482.

[[Vol. 1, Page]] 515 THE MYSTIC RAYS.

The Sushumna ray --the first of the Seven Mystic rays of the Sun.*

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* The names of the Seven Rays -- which are, Sushumna, Harikesa, Viswakarman, Viswatryarchas, Sannaddha, Sarvavasu and Swaraj -- are all mystical, and each has its distinct application in a distinct state of consciousness, for occult purposes. The Sushumna, which, as said in the Nirukta (11, 6), is only to light up the moon, is the ray nevertheless cherished by the initiated Yogis. The totality of the Seven Rays spread through the Solar system constitute, so to say, the physical Upadhi (basis) of the Ether of Science; in which Upadhi, light, heat, electricity, etc., etc., -- the forces of orthodox science -- correlate to produce their terrestrial effects. As psychic and spiritual effects, they emanate from, and have their origin in, the supra-solar Upadhi, in the ether of the Occultist -- or Akasa. SD1 515. HP Blavatsky.

Exoterically the seven rays of the solar spectrum are represented concretely in the seven-rayed god Heptaktis. These seven rays epitomized into THREE primary rays, namely, the red, blue, and yellow, form the solar trinity, and typify respectively spirit matter and spirit-essence. Science has also reduced of late the seven rays to three primary ones, thus corroborating the scientific conception of the ancients of at least one of the visible manifestations of the invisible deity, and the seven divided into a quaternary and a trinity. IU2 418. HPB.

This "World of Truth" can be described only in the words of the Commentary as "A bright star dropped from the heart of Eternity; the beacon of hope on whose Seven Rays hang the Seven Worlds of Being." Truly so; since those are the Seven Lights whose reflections are the human immortal Monads -- the Atma, or the irradiating Spirit of every creature of the human family. SD1 120.

(xxiii). "It is on account of his septenary nature that the Sun is spoken of by the ancients as one who is driven by seven horses equal to the metres of the Vedas; or, again, that, though he is identified with the SEVEN "Gaina" (classes of being) in his orb, he is distinct from them,*** as he is, indeed; as also that he has SEVEN RAYS, as indeed he has . . . .

(xxv.) "The Seven Beings in the Sun are the Seven Holy Ones, Self-born from the inherent power in the matrix of Mother substance. It is they who send the Seven Principal Forces, called rays, which at the beginning of Pralaya will centre into seven new Suns for the next Manvantara. The energy from which they spring into conscious existence in every Sun, is what some people call Vishnu (see foot-note below), which is the Breath of the ABSOLUTENESS. SD1 290.

There are seven chief groups of such Dhyan Chohans, which groups will be found and recognised in every religion, for they are the primeval SEVEN Rays. Humanity, occultism teaches us, is divided into seven distinct groups and their sub-divisions, mental, spiritual, and physical.*

* Hence the seven chief planets, the spheres of the indwelling seven spirits, under each of which is born one of the human groups which is guided and influenced thereby. There are only seven planets (specially connected with earth), and twelve houses, but the possible combinations of their aspects are countless. As each planet can stand to each of the others in twelve different aspects, their combinations must, therefore, be almost infinite; as infinite, in fact, as the spiritual, psychic, mental, and physical capacities in the numberless varieties of the genus homo, each of which varieties is born under one of the seven planets and one of the said countless planetary combinations. See Theosophist, for August, 1886. SD1 573.

Why do the seven nervous plexuses of the body radiate seven rays? Why are there these seven plexuses, and why seven distinct layers in the human skin? SD2 92.

The seven rays of Surya (the Sun) are made therein parallel to the Seven Worlds (of every planetary chain), to the seven rivers of heaven and earth, the former being the seven creative Hosts, and the latter the Seven men, or primitive human groups. The Seven ancient Rishis -- the progenitors of all that lives and breathes on earth -- are the seven friends of Agni, his seven "horses," or seven "HEADS." The human race has sprung from fire and water, it is allegorically stated; fashioned by the FATHERS, or the ancestor-sacrificers, from Agni; for Agni, the Aswins, the Adityas (Rig-Veda III., 54, 16, II., 29, 3, 4), are all synonymous with that "sacrificer," or the fathers, variously called Pitar (Pitris, fathers), Angirases** (Ibid, 1, 31, 17, 139, et seq.), the Sadhyas, "divine sacrificers," the most occult of all. They are all called deva putra rishayah or "the Sons of God" (X., 62; 1, 4). The "sacrificers," moreover, are collectively the ONE sacrificer, the father of the gods, Visvakarman, who performed the great Sarva-Medha ceremony, and ended by sacrificing himself. (See Rig-Vedic Hymns.) SD2 605.

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