Primarily you are your Monad ray, that unchanging divine spark within you, which secreted part of itself onto the fifth mental plane as your Soul ray. The Soul ray is the deity’s expression, which must be creatively released for your spiritual evolution. Your personality ray is, of course, the impulse behind the exterior motivations. Personality is purified through character perfecting and to serve the Soul’s needs. Governing your learning and eventual service as an invisible helper on the other side, especially during the sleep state, is your astral ray. There are two more rays, one governs your mental body and the other rules your physical or body nature. In all, you express five ray forces, reaching up eventually to be reabsorbed into the primary Monad ray. We are taught that this occurs at the fourth initiation. (One other focusing ray will be added, the ethereal ray, as man evolves to develop his etheric sight and hearing. This time is fast approaching, a few are just beginning to hear and see) The rays give the spiritual preconditioning which prompts bodies into activity.

The Monad ray is that divine life atom to which all other permanent atoms were attached by the attending angel at your conception. Simply, it is the unity of your invisible divine self, being the droplet of spirit essence secreted by the absolute. This is the Deity’s expression within you, which is eternal and unchanging. Your Soul ray evolves from it, serves the Monad’s reasons for evolution, which is the way (one of seven) to perfection.

Man, as he seeks his perfection (reunion with the absolute) is a spiritual being, always progressing forward, regardless of his pace. Once this sought-after perfection is achieved, Soul will be reabsorbed into the Monadic ray, after which it is the plane of intuition upon which he conducts his activities. This occurs after the fourth initiation when adeptship is reached, delusion then has no hold upon him, and separatism is viewed as conflicting with the striven for unity.

The Monad ray, then, is the beam of your spiritual self-consciousness, the divine spark within you. Man is a Monad. You are a Monad. You are spirit and matter threaded together with intellect. Harken to that Monad ray, the dweller of the innermost recesses. Hear the higher self and the whispers of your Soul.

As the Monad is the divine unchanging part of you, understand that it is only response to that which is necessary. Response can only occur when one is aware. Soul and the release of it is another matter. A willingness to quicken that release is necessary to advance spiritually.

Your Soul Ray is important because it is the reincarnating you; it is the dominant impulse if you have acquired spiritual discipline. However the personality Ray forcefully shows itself in outer-world matters. Only with determined effort can the personality ray become submissive to the Soul ray. Bear in mind how the Soul is unfolding through change, eternally striving to return to the monad and the bosom of its originating source.

This originating force is unchanging. The Soul reminds us through conscience and the aspirations to which we are inclined. The Soul is a permanent repository of collective experiences, life after life. Unless your Soul and personality Rays are the same, you involuntarily will to blend them that they may focus through your nativity harmoniously.

The Astral Ray and others

At some point your Soul was baptised in intelligence and, at the same time in evolution, took up its work on the astral plane. That type of service is motivated through your astral ray. Very few remember their astral experiences upon awakening from sleep; nevertheless there were experiences. It takes spiritual dedication to attract knowledge or working out relationships on that plane. Here on earth you work within the confines of body, time or space. On earth the Soul ray in the waking state is the energy through which your Soul fins its joy and release. On falling to sleep your Soul functions in another way. You then switch emphasis to another evolutionary vibration that is revealed by knowing your Astral Ray.

Primarily you are your Monad ray, that unchanging divine spark within you, which secreted part of itself onto the fifth mental plane as your Soul ray. The Soul ray is the deity’s expression, which must be creatively released for your spiritual evolution. Your personality ray is, of course, the impulse behind the exterior motivations. Personality is purified through character perfecting and to serve the Soul’s needs. Governing your learning and eventual service as an invisible helper on the other side, especially during the sleep state, is your astral ray. There are two more rays, one governs your mental body and the other rules your physical or body nature. In all, you express five ray forces, reaching up eventually to be reabsorbed into the primary Monad ray. We are taught that this occurs at the fourth initiation. (One other focusing ray will be added, the ethereal ray, as man evolves to develop his etheric sight and hearing. This time is fast approaching, a few are just beginning to hear and see) The rays give the spiritual preconditioning which prompts bodies into activity.

For an example, an individual having a 7^th physical ray would be highly motivated for physical activity, while the 6^th ray’s physical activity would be motivated by his object of devotion - family, or the like. The 5^th physical ray would be prompted into action by practical reasons.

Looking at the mental ray, taking a 7^th mental ray individual, one would expect his mental motivation to be stimulated by group activity, projects requiring order, and fields in which his mentality could be applied for perfection.

The mental, astral , ethereal and physical bodies are all related to the lower man. The personality ray dominates the natal horoscope. For the Soul to absorb the personality, and this includes integration of the astral, mental, physical and ethereal aspects, one must overcome the weaknesses and conflict connected with the aforementioned. When this total integration is accomplished, you are then Soul conscious, and no longer respond to the lower dictates of the natal pattern but to a far higher frequency level, service-minded and other oriented. You are above the common tests and now self motivated for the hierachial plan, that of co-operating with the Universal vision for the evolution of mankind.

Below are shown the tables for calculating and identifying the Monad Ray, the Soul Ray, the Personality Ray, the Astral Ray, the Mental Ray, the Physical Ray,  and the subrays through which they operate.

 

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