I would like to pause here and point out that
these forces come into play either cyclically or through demand.
This is an interesting point for students to remember. The work
done through the Great Invocation is not then necessarily [5]
invalid. It might perhaps clarify the subject if I pointed out
that there are five energies (and there are usually five dominant
ray energies active at any time) coming into play:
- Those
energies which are passing out of manifestation, as the sixth
Ray of Devotion is at this time passing out.
- Those
energies which are coming into manifestation or incarnation,
as the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order is at this time emerging
into expression.
- Those
energies which are - at any given time - expressing the ray
type of the bulk of the manifesting humanity. Today these
ray types are predominantly the second and the third. Relatively
large numbers of first ray egos are also to be found acting
as focal points for certain first ray forces.
- Those
energies which are today being invoked as the result of human
need and human demand for succor. This demand curiously enough
remains largely in the realm of the first ray influence for
the desperate need of humanity is evoking the will aspect
and that ray embodies the divine will-to-good and remains
immutable and is - for the first time in the history of humanity
- being invoked on a large scale. This statement is definitely
encouraging, if you study its implications.
You have, therefore, in the present field of divine expression
the following energies manifesting:
- The energy of idealism, of devotion or of devoted attention,
embodied in the sixth ray.
- The energy whose major function it is to produce order,
rhythm and established, sequential activity - the seventh
Ray of Ceremonial Ritual.
- The energy of the second ray, which is always basically
[6] present in our solar system, that of love-wisdom, to which
many of the egos now in incarnation belong and will increasingly
belong. The next one hundred and fifty years will see them
coming into incarnation. The reason is that it is to this
type of human being that the work of reconstruction, and of
rebuilding is naturally committed.
- The
energy of intelligence, actively displayed in creative activity.
The creative ability of the future will emerge on a relatively
large scale in the realm of creative living and not so much
in the realm of creative art. This creative living will express
itself through a new world of beauty and of recognized divine
expression; through the outer form, the "light of livingness"
(as it is esoterically called) will show. The symbol and that
for which it stands will be known and seen. This is the energy
of the third Ray of Active Intelligence, working towards the
manifestation of beauty.
- The
energy of the will aspect of divinity. This has been but little
expressed and understood by humanity up to the present, but
the time has now come when it must be better comprehended.
The demand from our innumerable planetary forces has not hitherto
been adequate to invoke it and for its invocation the great
Lord of the World has patiently waited. The call has now gone
forth. Its first faint notes were heard two hundred years
ago and the sound and demand has increased in volume and potency
until today this great energy is making its presence unmistakably
felt.
I am anxious to have you realize the potency and the effect
of these five energies as they play upon our planet, evoke response
- good and bad - and produce the turmoil [7] and chaos, the
warring forces and the beneficent influences. They, therefore,
account in their totality for all that we see happening around
us at this time. In the books which are being written today
in an effort to solve the problems of the why and the wherefore
of present world conditions, the writers are necessarily dealing
only with effects. Few there are that can penetrate into the
distant world of causes or look back into that ancient past
and see past and present in their true perspective. I, however,
seek to deal with causes - predisposing, effective, determining,
and productive of those events which cause the present state
of affairs. I deal with energies; they are concerned with resultant
forces. I would remind you here that these effects which are
producing so much fear, foreboding and concern are but temporary
and will give place to that ordered, rhythmic imposition of
the needed idealism which will be applied eventually by love,
motivated by wisdom in cooperation with intelligence. All will
be actuated by a dynamic (not a passive) will-to-good.
We will divide what I have to say under two points:
- The situation and its ray causes in the immediate present.
- The situation in the future when the Aquarian Age is really
established and the Piscean influences are no longer dominant.
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