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| The Destiny of the Nations - Spiritual Life in the New Age |
| It will be obvious to you that seventh ray disciples wield
much power and for this reason the emphasis in all teaching given to them is laid upon purity
of motive. In the past, the emphasis has been laid upon purity of body in the
case of the sixth ray disciples. As was inevitable, they have carried the idea to a
fanatical extent, and have stressed celibacy, asceticism and stringent rules of physical
life, oft making sinful that which is natural. This has been a necessary stage in their
development for it was essential that the physical plane should become a greater factor in
their consciousness and that their attention should be turned from the realm of [132]
abstraction (which is their line of least resistance) and focused upon physical living,
for, again, energy follows thought. Thus their attitude to life could become more
practical and the necessary integration take place. Disciples in the new age will lay the
emphasis upon the mental principle, because it conditions thought and speech. All magical
work is based upon the energy of thought and of the spoken word (the expression of the two
magical centers referred to above) and purity in the realm of the mind and motive is
regarded consequently as a basic essential. The seventh ray influence is that which will produce in a peculiar and unexpected sense the Western School of Occultism just as the sixth ray impulse has produced the Eastern School of Occultism - the latter bringing the light down on to the astral plane and the new incoming influence carrying it down on to the physical. The Eastern teaching affected Christianity and indicated and determined the lines of its development and Christianity is definitely a bridging religion. The roles will eventually be reversed and the shift of the "light in the East" will be over Europe and America. This will inevitably bring about the needed and desired synthesis of the mystical way and the occult path. It will lead later to the formulation of the higher way; of this it is useless to speak at this time for you would not comprehend. None of the foundational and ancient Rules of the Road will ever be abrogated or discarded: just as men used to travel on the ancient highways on foot, conforming to the requirement of their time and age, and today travel by rail or automobile (arriving at the same destination) so the same road will be followed, the same goal achieved but there may be different procedures, varying safeguards and changed protective measures. The rules may vary from time to time in order to provide easier [133] indication and adequate protection. The training of the disciple in the future will differ in detail from that of the past but the basic rules remain authoritative. The keynote, governing the development of the sixth ray disciple, was expressed for him in the words of Christ when He said: "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men." The emphasis of all sixth ray work is Attraction and Repulsion - hence division and cleavage, producing eventually a realization of the necessity for a consciously undertaken synthesis and integration, mentally motivated and produced. The history of Christianity (which is the history of Europe) will stand illumined if the Law of Attraction and Repulsion is studied in connection with its eventful past. The use and misuse of this law and its constant interpretations in terms of material desires, personal ambitions, and territorial control produced the many schisms and cleavages and will account for much that happened. Under the seventh ray influence, these cleavages will end and synthesis will eventually take place. The keynote of the seventh ray disciple is "Radiatory Activity." Hence the emergence in world thought of certain new ideas - mental radiation or telepathy, the radiatory use of heat, the discovery of radium. All this connotes seventh ray activity. |
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