National relationships and the major intellectual
cleavages are based also upon the governing ray influences. Spain,
Austria and France, being governed by the seventh, fifth and third
rays, have a close interrelation. This worked out in a most interesting
manner in the Middle Ages, and the destinies of these three nations
were closely related. The newly forming country of the United
States is likewise spiritually and intimately associated - in
its form aspect - with Brazil, Russia and Italy; hence the early
influx of certain types of emigrants into the country and hence
also the pull of the South American countries upon the American
consciousness, and the growth (rightly or wrongly) of the ideal
of Pan-America. These relations are all on the form side and emerge
out of the personality rays or energy of the nations concerned.
The Ray of Love or Inclusiveness, the Ray of Active Intelligence
showing itself so predominantly in the electrical civilization
of modern times, and the fifth Ray of Exact Science are all potently
active at this time, for they are all pouring their energies onto
our planetary life. The incoming seventh [57] Ray of Order is
surely, even if slowly, imposing order and a new rhythm of life
upon mankind. The effect of these incoming energies and of the
rays which are active at any one time is felt in the following
sequential order:
- The
sensing of an ideal.
- The
formulation of a theory.
- The
growth of public opinion.
- The
imposition of the new and developing pattern upon the evolving
life.
- The
production of a form, based upon that pattern.
- The
stabilized functioning of the life within the new form.
It should be remembered that each ray embodies an idea which
can be sensed as an ideal. The rays in time produce the world
pattern which moulds all planetary forms and thus bears witness
to the inner potency of the evolutionary processes. This pattern-forming
tendency is being recognized today by modern psychology in connection
with the human being and his emotional or thought patterns are
being charted and studied. So it is with the nations and
races also. Every ray produces three major patterns
which are imposed upon the form nature, whether it be that of
a man, a nation or a planet. These three patterns are: the
emotional pattern, embodying the aspiration of a man, a
nation or a race; it is the sumtotal of the desire tendency
at any one time; the mental pattern, emerging later in
time and governing the thought processes of a man, a nation
or a race. The emotional and mental patterns are the negative
and positive aspects of the personality of a man, a nation or
a race. The soul pattern is the predisposing and spiritual
goal, the ring-pass-not or destiny which the spiritual principle
succeeds eventually in imposing upon the [58] personality of
a man, a nation or a race. This soul pattern eventually supersedes
and obliterates the two earlier pattern-producing processes.
If, for instance, the energy of the fifth ray, which is the
soul ray of the French nation, can make its potency felt in
the stress and misery of the present world condition, then to
France may be given the ultimate glory of proving to the world
the fact of the soul and of giving a demonstration of soul control.
The soul pattern may be translated by the genius of the French
intellect into terms which humanity can understand and a true
psychology of the soul may come into being. The genius of Germany
has often in the past been expressed along the line of its fourth
ray soul, and through its power Germany has given much of music
and philosophy to mankind. That soul is not at present expressing
itself; a rampant personality has expressed the greatest evil,
but as time goes on and Germany learns the lessons which she
must learn, the soul pattern will again be impressed upon the
German consciousness: Germany must be helped to get again the
vision of this ideal. If England's ideal of justice (which is
the pattern of its personality ray) can be transformed by her
soul ray of love into just and intelligent world service, then
she will give to the world the pattern of that true government
which is the genius of the soul quality of the British. If the
idealism of the United States of America can be illumined by
the law of love and not by personality self-expression, then
the pattern which underlies the structure of the States may
be seen in lines of light and we shall look for future racial
light instead of the many separate national lines. At present
it is the personality ray of the United States which controls.
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