ΝΕW BOOK PUBLICATION 

Study of the Rays as presented in the books

"Discipleship in the New Age I and II"

by Alice A. Bailey 

from a Study Group

A FEW WORDS FOR THE BOOK

The study presented here is the result of an experimental group work. Some 
students studied the books: Discipleship in the New Age, I & II by Alice A. Bailey
(A.A.B.) and specifically ‘what is said’ by the Tibetan Master Djwal Kool (D.K.) 
individually to each of His disciples, in the chapters of the books entitled: “Personal Instructions to Disciples”.

The above chapters include a series of letters with personal instructions, comments, remarks addressed by D.K.  to His disciples trained for initiation. There are also information concerning 

the individual rays of the disciples: the soul ray, the personality ray, the mental, 
the astral and the physical vehicles` rays. The specific conditions, opportunities 
and difficulties that the ray equipment of each one reserves, or manifests are 
also included. At the same time, D.K. points out - sometimes directly and 
sometimes suggestively – the point of evolution and / or consciousness of each disciple, his position in the Ashram and the initiation trained for.
        We treated this information as introductory, simultaneously and in combination,
both on the subject of seven rays and on discipleship.
       For the names of the disciples and the World Service Group (Ten Seed Group) 
with which each disciple was affiliated, we used the file “Disciples who participated in D.K.’s group work experiments” available in https://makara.us/AW-Comps/DINA-Disciples-List, which can be found in the Appendix I.
      For the presentation of the instructions to the disciple –in reference to their rays– the following form was chosen:
a.    The triple name of the disciple, i.e. three initial letters, which indicate three 
qualities needed to be tran – scended by each disciple. The quality in italics shows the main goal.
b.  The disciple’s position on the Path or/and the Asramic position stage or any other relevant information, so that one can follow the disciples process during
their discipleship period, which reached up to 15 years.
c.    The World Service Group in which each disciple was affiliated, e.g. The Group 
of Telepathic Communicators, or The Group of the Magnetic Healers etc.
d.  The rays of each disciple, with direction from the soul to the personality and its three vehicles, presented as follows: e.g., III-VI-5-6-3.
e.  The excerpts from the books Discipleship in the New Age, I & II (“Personal 
Instructions to Disciples”) that contain information associated with the rays of each 
disciple in the five vehicles.
 
      When the listed rays are not accompanied by a question mark, this means 
that the information comes directly from D.K. and the books. Where there is a
question mark (?) the correlations are based on our own study about the rays as 
we attempted to identify phrases and key words in the passages concerning rays.
      In some cases, comments from the Study Group are added.
      Five Appendices accompany the study. The content of Appendix I concerns data
on the disciples to whom the instructions are addressed in Discipleship in the New
Age, I & II, from the file “Disciples who participated in D.K.’s group work
experiments” (https://makara.us/AW-Comps/DINA-Disciples-List). The second 
Appendix concerns information on rays. The third concerns the Six Stages of
Discipleship, the Appendix IV deals with the Stages of the disciples’ Ashramic 
Position. Appendix V includes the World Service Groups (Ten Seed Groups) with which the disciples were affiliated.
      With the use of discrete text characters, ray information concerning future and 
/ or previous incarnations of the disciples is highlighted.
 
      May the present study contribute to the study of rays and discipleship. And to make it possible to express that esoteric psychology that is the main work in 
every Ashram, and that is the underlying purpose of the study.
      For the Study Group, the study operated towards the acquisition of knowledge, 
understanding and recognition of the Teaching of The Ageless Wisdom, but also 
mainly towards group development and group subjective work.

                                                                                        The Study Group 

 NEW MOON MEDITATION ON PISCES 

EXACT TIME 11.00 (GREECE) - SUNDAY 10/3/2024 

PLATERATY EXISTENCES

In considering now the personalities taking part in the initiation ceremonies, the first to be dealt with are Those Who are termed Planetary Existences.  This refers to those great Beings who, for a period of planetary manifestation, overshadow or stay with our humanity.  They are not very many in number, for the majority of the Great Ones pass on steadily and increasingly to other and higher work, as Their places can be taken and Their functions carried on by members of our earth evolution, both deva and human.

Among Those directly connected with our Lodge of Masters in its various divisions upon the planet, the following might be enumerated:-

The "Silent Watcher," that great Entity Who is the informing life of the planet, and Who holds the same position to the Lord of the World, Sanat Kumara, as the Ego does to the lower self of man.  Some idea of the high stage of evolution of this Great Being may be gathered from the analogous degree of evolutionary difference existing between a human being and a perfected adept.  From the standpoint of our planetary scheme, this Great Life has no greater, and He is, as far as we are concerned, a correspondence to the personal God of the Christian.  He works through His representative on the physical plane, Sanat Kumara, Who is the focal point for His life and energy.  He holds the world within His aura.  This great Existence is only contacted directly by the adept who has taken the [Page 105] fifth initiation, and is proceeding to take the other two, the sixth and seventh.  Once a year, at the Wesak Festival, the Lord Buddha, sanctioned by the Lord of the World, carries to the assembled humanity a dual stream of force, that emanating from the Silent Watcher, supplemented by the more focalised energy of the Lord of the World.  This dual energy He pours out in blessing over the people gathered at the ceremony in the Himalayas, and from them in turn it flows out to all peoples and tongues and races.  It may not perhaps be generally known that at a certain crisis during the Great War[WW I], the Hierarchy of our planet deemed it well nigh necessary to invoke the aid of the Silent Watcher, and—employing the great mantram whereby the Buddha can be reached—called the attention of the latter, and sought his agency with the Planetary Logos.  In consultation between the Planetary Logos, the Lord of the World, one of the Buddhas of Activity, the Buddha, the Mahachohan, and the Manu (these names are given in order of their relative evolutionary stage) it was decided to watch proceedings a little longer before interfering with the trend of affairs, as the karma of the planet would have been delayed should the strife have been ended too soon.  Their confidence in the ability of men duly to adjust conditions was justified, and interference proved needless.  This conference took place at Shamballa.  This is mentioned to show the close scrutiny given to everything concerning the affairs of men by the various Planetary Existences.  It is literally true, in an occult sense, that "not a sparrow falleth" without its fall being noticed.

It may be asked why the Bodhisattva was not included in the conference.  The reason was that the war was in the department of the Manu, and members of the Hierarchy concern Themselves with that which is strictly Their own business; the Mahachohan, being the embodiment of the [Page 106] intelligent or manasic principle, participates in all conferences.  In the next great strife the department of religions will be involved, and the Bodhisattva intimately concerned.  His Brother, the Manu, will then be relatively exempt, and will proceed with His own affairs.  And yet withal there is the closest co-operation in all departments, with no loss of energy.  Owing to the unity of consciousness of those who are free from the three lower planes, what transpires in one department is known in the others

As the Planetary Logos is only concerned in the two final initiations, which are not compulsory as are the earlier five, it serves no purpose to enlarge upon His work.  These initiations are taken upon the buddhic and atmic planes, whereas the first five are taken upon the mental.

The Lord of the World, the One Initiator, He Who is called in the Bible "The Ancient of Days," and in the Hindu Scriptures the First Kumara, He, Sanat Kumara it is, Who from His throne at Shamballa in the Gobi desert, presides over the Lodge of Masters, and holds in His hands the reins of government in all the three departments.  Called in some Scriptures "the Great Sacrifice," He has chosen to watch over the evolution of men and devas until all have been occultly "saved."  He it is Who decides upon the "advancements" in the different departments, and Who settles who shall fill the vacant posts; He it is Who, four times a year, meets in conference with all the Chohans and Masters, and authorises what shall be done to further the ends of evolution.

Occasionally, too, He meets with initiates of lesser degree, but only at times of great crises, when some individual is given the opportunity to bring peace out of strife, and to kindle a blaze whereby rapidly crystallising forms are destroyed and the imprisoned life consequently set free.

At stated periods in the year the Lodge meets, and at [Page 107] the Wesak Festival gathers under His jurisdiction for three purposes:

1. To contact planetary force through the medium of the Buddha.

2. To hold the principal of the quarterly conferences.

3. To admit to the ceremony of initiation those who are ready in all grades.

Three other initiation ceremonies take place during the year:—

 1. For the minor initiations administered by the Bodhisattva, all of which are in the department of the Mahachohan, and on one or other of the four lesser rays, the rays of attribute.

2. For the major initiations on one or other of the three major rays, the rays of aspect, which are administered by the Bodhisattva, and are therefore the first two initiations.

3. For the higher three initiations at which Sanat Kumara wields the Rod.

At all initiations the Lord of the World is present, but at the first two He holds a position similar to that held by the Silent Watcher, when Sanat Kumara administers the oath at the third, fourth and fifth initiations.  His power streams forth and the flashing forth of the star before the initiate is the signal of His approval, but the initiate does not see Him face to face until the third initiation.

The function of the three Kumaras, or the three Buddhas of Activity at initiation is interesting.  They are three aspects of the one aspect, and the pupils of Sanat Kumara.  Though Their functions are many and varied, and concern primarily the forces and energies of nature, and the direction [Page 108] of the building agencies, They have a vital connection with the applicant for initiation, inasmuch as They each embody the force or energy of one or other of the three higher subplanes of the mental plane.  Therefore at the third initiation one of these Kumaras transmits to the causal body of the initiate that energy which destroys third subplane matter, and thus brings about part of the destruction of the vehicle; at the fourth initiation another Buddha transmits second plane force, and at the fifth, first subplane force is similarly passed into the remaining atoms of the causal vehicle, producing the final liberation.  The work done by the second Kumara, with second subplane force, is in this solar system the most important in connection with the egoic body, and produces its complete dissipation, whereas the final application causes the atoms themselves (which formed that body) to disperse.

During the initiation ceremony, when the initiate stands before the Lord of the World, these three great Beings form a triangle, within whose lines of force the initiate finds himself.  At the first two initiations, wherein the Bodhisattva functions as the Hierophant, the Mahachohan, the Manu, and a Chohan who temporarily represents the second department perform a similar office.  At the highest two initiations, those three Kumaras who are called "the esoteric Kumaras" form a triangle wherein the initiate stands, when he faces the Planetary Logos.

These facts are imparted to teach two things, first, the unity of the method, second, that the truism "as above so below" is an occult fact in nature.

At the final two initiations many members of the Hierarchy who are, if one might so express it, extra-planetary, and who function outside the dense physical and the etheric globe of our planet, take part, but a stricter enumeration is needless.  Sanat Kumara is still the Hierophant, yet in a [Page 109] very esoteric manner it is the Planetary Logos Himself who officiates.  They are merged at that time into one Identity, manifesting different aspects.

Suffice it to say, in concluding this brief statement, that the making of an initiate is an affair with a dual effect, for it involves ever a passing on of some adept or initiate to a higher grade or to other work, and the coming in under the Law of some human being who is in process of attainment.  Therefore it is a thing of great moment, involving group activity, group loyalty, and united endeavour, and much may depend upon the wisdom of admitting a man to high office and to a place in the council chambers of the Hierarchy.

(Alice Bailey, Initiation, Human and Solar, pp. 104-110)

 SOUND THE NOTE OF LOVE,

INVOKE THE SOUL RAY,

PERMIT THE CHRIST SPIRIT ENTRANCE

­DISTANCE GROUP MEDITATION 

– EVERY SUNDAY AT 20.30 – 

 for invoking Soul Ray of Greece, Nations and One Humanity

  March 3, 2024

Text read by brother  I.Ts.

5. The Law of Group Progress

This law begins to function and to be registered in the personal consciousness when the aspirant has achieved certain definite realisations, and knows certain ideals as facts in his experience.  These might be listed in a very simple way [Page 175] and would then connote to the superficial student the simplest achievement of the Probationary Path.  It would, however, be well if we could grasp this fact with clarity, that this simple formulation of requirements and their achievement within the aspirant's consciousness, demonstrate as the outer and veiled reactions of his mind to some deeply esoteric cosmic truths.  This statement contains the very essence of the esoteric knowledge.  The quite ordinary formulations of loving living and of daily instinctive self-sacrifice suffer from being so vitally familiar and yet—if we could only realise it—they are only on the outer fringe of the deepest world truths.  They are the A.B.C. of esotericism and through them, and only through them, shall we arrive at the words and sentences which are, in their turn, the essential key to the highest knowledge.

     A brief example will serve to illustrate this, and we can then consider some simple facts which indicate that the aspirant is beginning to function as a soul and is ready for conscious life in the kingdom of God. 

     The disciple in training for these higher realisations is urged to practice the faculty of discrimination.  You have been so urged.  The initial and normal interpretation and the immediate effect of the practice is to teach the disciple to distinguish between the pairs of opposites.  Yet just as the disciple in his early training discovers that the discriminating process has naught to do with the choice between recognised evil (so-called) and recognised good, but concerns the more subtle pairs of opposites such as right and wrong silences, right and wrong speech, right understanding and right indifference and their opposites, so the man who is reacting to these higher laws discovers that the discrimination to be shown is again still more subtle and is—for the bulk of the aspirants in the world today—still a meaningless objective.  This type of discrimination [Page 176] is not even being evoked.  It is that which must he shown in relation to the following subtle contacts:

1. The vibration of the soul itself.

2. The vibration of the inner group with which he is, even if unconsciously, affiliated.

3. The vibration of the Master as the focal point of the group.

4. His ray vibration, as sensed via his soul and the Master.

5. The vibration resulting from the interplay between his soul and his personality.

6. The three different vibrations of his vital body, his emotional body and the mind.

7. The vibration of the groups or the group with which he must work upon the outer plane.

8. The soul vibration of other people whom he contacts.

9. The vibration of such a group as the New Group of World Servers.

      The name "Law of Group Progress" is the phrase given by human beings to a particular type of energy which is producing the coherence of units in a group, thus forming them into one living organism. 

[…]

     I would like here to give you some thoughts anent the new groups which come into functioning activity under the Law of Group Progress.  It must be constantly remembered, as one considers these coming new groups, that they are primarily an experiment in Group Activity, and are not formed for the purpose of perfecting the individual member in any group.  This is a fundamental and essential statement, if the objectives are rightly to be understood.  In these groups the members supplement and fortify each other, and, in the aggregate of their qualities and capacities, they should eventually provide groups capable of useful spiritual expression, and through which spiritual energy can flow, unimpeded, for the helping of humanity.  The work to be done is very largely upon mental levels.  The spheres of daily service of the individual members of the new groups remain as their destiny and inner urge indicates upon the physical plane; but—to the differing [Page 181] fields of individual effort — there will be added (and this is the point of importance) a group activity which will be a joint and united service.  Each person in such groups has to learn to work in a close mental and spiritual cooperation with all the others, and this takes time, given the present point of evolutionary development of the world aspirants.  Each has to pour forth love on all, and this is not easy.  Each has to learn to subordinate his own personality ideas and his personal growth to the group requirements, for at present some will have to hasten their progress in certain directions, and some must slow it down as a service to the others.  This process will take place automatically as the group identity and integration becomes the dominant thought in the group consciousness, and the desire for personal growth and spiritual satisfaction is relegated to a secondary place.

     This contemplated group unity will have its roots in group meditation, or in the contemplative life (in which the soul knows itself to be one with all souls).  This in its turn will work out in some form of group activity which will constitute the distinguishing contribution of any particular group to the raising of the human race esoterically.  Within the group life, the individual will not be dealt with as such by those who seek to train, teach and weld the group into an instrument for service.  Each person will he regarded as a transmitter of the type of energy which is the predominant energy in any ray type, either egoic or personality rays.  Each can in time learn to transmit the quality of his soul ray to the group, stimulating his brothers to greater courage, clearer vision, finer purity of motive, and deeper love, and yet avoid the danger of vitalising his personality characteristics.  This is the major difficulty.  To do this effectively and correctly, we must all learn to think of each other as souls, and not as human beings.

     It will be apparent, therefore, that certain developments must have taken place in the individual before he can consciously become a functioning member of the New Group of World Servers, which is the principal group at this time definitely working under the Law of Group Progress. 

     1. He must have the heart centre awakened, and be so outgoing in his "behaviour" that the heart is rapidly linked up with the heart centres of at least eight other people.  Groups of nine awakened aspirants can then be occultly absorbed in the heart centre of the planetary Logos.  Through it, His life can flow and the group members can contribute their quota of energy to the life influences circulating throughout His body.  The above piece of information is only of interest to those who are spiritually awakened, and will mean little or nothing to those who are asleep. 

     2. The head centre must also be in process of awakening, and the ability to "hold the mind steady in the light" must be somewhat developed. 

     3. Some forms of creative activity must likewise be found and the server must be active along some humanitarian, artistic, literary, philosophic or scientific lines. 

     All this involves personality integration and alignment and that magnetic, attractive appeal which is distinctive of all disciples in some form or another.  In this way from the [Page 198] standpoint of esotericism, certain great triangles of energy will be found in the individual and consequently increasingly in humanity.  Then too the "forces of creative life" will circulate from the "point within the head" (the head centre) along the "line to the heart" and then, with the throat centre, form a "triangle of fiery light".  Such is the Way of Group Progress, and when this is being consummated, then the Law of Group Progress begins definitely to function and to control.  It might be of interest, if we here listed the recognised effects of the five laws with which we have been dealing.

 (Alice Bailey, Esoteric Phychology II, pp. 174, 195, 180-181, 197-198)