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The Rays and the Initiations

 

 
 
  It is the sense of synthesis, putting it very simply, which will be the goal of all the educational movements, once the New Age idealism is firmly established. Physical coordination, personal integrity (which involves primarily the control and later the negation of the astral body), and personality integration will be the essential first steps. To this will succeed processes whereby the fusion of the personality with the soul, of the lower self with the Higher Self, and of form with the divine Dweller in the form will follow next. Then the truly esoteric phase of the educational process will be attempted when the earlier steps or stages have been satisfactorily grasped and there is indication of some measure of real success.  
 

 

 

 

 
 
  The energy of the sixth ray produces two major results:
  • An embryonic realization of the will nature which determines the life of the initiate.
  • A pronounced conflict between the lower and the Higher Self. This reveals to the initiate the ancient conflict between the emotional nature and true realization.
 
 

 

 

 

 
 
  Hitherto he has worked primarily with the thread of consciousness; this is anchored in the head, and through that consciousness his personality and his soul are linked together until he has become a soul-infused personality; he has then attained unity with his Higher Self. Through the building of the antahkarana another thread is added to the soul-infused personality, and the true spiritual individual is linked with and comes under the direction of the Spiritual Triad.