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said, two points will emerge with clarity in your minds in relation
to the initial and immediate activity of these two rays - the
sixth and the seventh. First, that entire groups of people are
increasingly susceptible to their influence and this inevitably
leads to these groups (responsive to either the sixth or the seventh
ray forces) being in opposition to and antagonistic to each other.
The problem is that, owing to the developed sensitivity of the
race, this antagonism is now upon a worldwide scale. Hence much
of the present conflict of ideas, and the opposing ideologies,
and hence also the feud between the old inherited traditions and
the ancient forms of civilization, of government, of religion
on the one hand and of the newer emerging ideas on the other.
These new concepts should usher in the New Age and will eventually
revolutionize our modern life and standards. They will relegate
the old ideas to the same position as the ideas which governed
the race one thousand years ago have today assumed in our consciousness.
Second: The situation is still further complicated by [46]
the fact that both these rays influence and express themselves
(as is ever the case) in a dual manner and have always a lower
and a higher form of manifestation, which is a correspondence
in this connection to the personality, and the egoic expression
of every human being. In the case of the outgoing ray, the higher
form (which is ever the first to manifest in germ) is rapidly
disappearing or is being absorbed into the newer idealism, thus
contributing all that is best to the new presentation of truth
so that the emerging culture will be properly rooted in the
old. The lower forms are, however, tenacious and dominant and
because of this they definitely constitute today the major problem
of the Hierarchy, so much so that they require the calling in
of the first ray (or the Shamballa force) in order to effect
their destruction. Bear this in mind as you study the world
situation. The lower forms of the seventh ray expression are
still in an embryonic stage. This you can see clearly if you
consider the one to which I chose to refer - the spiritualistic
movement - which began to take shape only during the last century
and has achieved its curiously phenomenal growth only because
it started upon the American continent. The United States of
America was the center of old Atlantis and hence inherited a
psychic and ancient religious form which was existent and potently
alive in that part of the world for many centuries.
In spite of these facts, the higher and more living energy
of the seventh ray is the most active at this time and its resultant
idealism and consequent New Age concepts are playing upon the
sensitive minds of the race and preparing humanity for a great
and much needed change. The work of the Ray of Ceremonial Order
is to "ground" or make physically visible the results
of bringing spirit and matter [47] together. Its function is
to clothe spirit with matter, producing form.
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