The Seven Rays - Keys to the Mysteries

Table of Contents

THE SEVEN RAYS - Key to the Mysteries

Part I THE BASIS OF LIFE

1. Nature of the Seven Rays

The Hylozoistic Theory

The barriers are creaking.

The Whole Planet Is Alive

The Endocrine Glands and the Planets

Origin of the Seven Rays

The Work of the Rays

Physical Manifestation of the Rays

Ray Differentiation

Ray Cycles

2. Seven Ray Psychology

For the Few Who are Many

The Rays in Man

A Brief Analysis of the Seven Rays

3. In the Beginning...

The Inner Call

Ray Correspondences

Septenary Groups

Imbalance of Bodily Organs

4. Seven Ray Qualities

The Two Streams

The Ray of Humanity

Ray Five

The New Age

Assessing the Rays

Soul Age

Misuse of the Rays

The Ray Characteristics

Spirit, Soul and Personality

5. Planes and Energy Centres

Rotating Spheres

The Tapestry of Life

Relation of Rays, Planes and Qualities

Correlation

Our Own Monad and Soul Rays

Relationship to a Master of the Wisdom

The Energy Centres

Part II, THE QUALITIES OF LIFE

6. First Ray: Will and Power

The Creator, Maintainer and Destroyer

The Ray in Politics

Karmic Clearing House

Recharging of Subjective Energies

7. Second Ray: Love-Wisdom

Sublime Love of the Monad

Human Manifestations

Activities of the Second Ray

8. Third Ray: Active Intelligence

The Human Body—Masterpiece

The Rays and the Planes

Correspondences between Rays and Races

Intelligentsia of the Planet

9. Significance of Precious Stones

10. All Is Energy

The Muladara Chakra

Triangle of Etheric Energies

Additional Notes on the Centres

11. The Mysteries of Colour

Atma-Buddhi-Manas

A Great Radiant Sun

Rebuilding of Atomic Substance

Colour and the Organs of the Body

Rationale of Colour Treatment

Colour Application in Children

Methods of Applying Colour

Colour Breathing

12. Two Ray Analyses

Extracts from Ray Analysis of L. H.

Ray Analysis of K.N.

APPENDIX

Some Ray Qualities.

First Ray Virtues

First Ray Vices

Second Ray: Astral Body

Second Ray: Physical Body

Fifth Ray: Personality

Fifth Ray: Mental Body

Sixth Ray: Astral Body

THE SEVEN RAYS -

Key to the Mysteries

by

Dr. DOUGLAS M. BAKER

B.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.

First published in 1977

This printed edition 2001

ISBN 9780906006696

Little Elephant

High Road, Essendon,

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INTRODUCTION

The Seven Rays form one of the keys to the mysteries to be employed in this, the Age of Aquarius, which is now upon us.

This key is one of psychology; it takes into account not only the factors of genetics and personality, but also the factor of the Soul. Dr. Baker has drawn on the wisdom and expertise of H. P. Blavatsky and Alice Bailey to fashion this effective key to unlock the subjective qualities of the personality. The even Rays embrace the whole of our known universe; they are the builders of form. That form in humanity applies not only to your physical body structures, but also to your emotional and mental natures. The psychology of the Seven Rays is thus an ideal mechanism for esoteric students in counselling their subjects in what we now term the Ray Analysis.

Part I THE BASIS OF LIFE

1. Nature of the Seven Rays

The Hylozoistic Theory

The nature of the Seven Rays is inextricably interwoven with the most basic theories of that unequalled classic of occult wisdom, The Secret Doctrine. The most prominent of these theories is that of Hylozoism. Hylo derives from the Greek word for matter, and -zoism means life. The theory propounds that everything lives—from the tiniest atom to the greatest galaxy. Even today, this theory, which is pantheism taken to its logical conclusion, is anathema to the biologist and even our more earnest students of the esoteric sometimes boggle at it.

Mme Blavatsky's proposition came at a time when science was only just beginning to reject the concept that the basic elements were made up of tiny balls of their respective substances ... a concept which dated back 500 years B.C. to Democritus. The possibility that atoms could contain life, or worse, some degree of sentiency or consciousness, seemed absurd then and the position hardly changed for another twenty-five centuries.

That atoms can be alive may still seem to the scientist a very foolish speculation, but there are signs that a new thinking along these lines may be taking place. The advent of the electron microscope and the influx of enlightened men like Nobel Prize winner, John Howard Northrop, are throwing new light on to the subject.

Northrop declares:

Today the division between organic and inorganic chemistry has completely disappeared and the mechanisms of a great many of the chemical reactions which occur in living matter are now thoroughly understood.

The barriers are creaking.

Lying between the realm of the cell or of bacteria and that of atoms and molecules is the enigmatical virus. Outside of a tissue cell, in which it has to 'live', the virus turns out to be nothing more than a crystal! The tobacco virus is a typical example. Within the cells of tobacco plants, it is able to multiply and grow; it shows many of the accepted characteristics of life. In The Scientists Speak (Boni and Gaer, Inc., New York), Northrop remarks:

Certain proteins, in fact, provide the best possible evidence for the close relationship between chemistry and life. For among the proteins are viruses, those strange and tiny objects which sometimes act as though they were alive, and which at other times are pure chemical substances, as inert in a bottle as so much sugar or salt.

Speaking of some other proteins, known as enzymes, Northrop has this to say:

Two of the enzymes, pepsin and trypsin, possess the extraordinary property of causing their own formation. These enzymes are not present as such, in the body tissues. Instead, there is present, a peculiar protein, which has no effect on any reaction ... if this inert protein is dissolved under certain conditions and a trace of either pepsin or trypsin added, all the inert protein present changes to pepsin or trypsin. These enzymes can therefore reproduce themselves, a property which has frequently been considered a distinguishing characteristic of living things.

Thus, the criterion of reproduction, which has been used to distinguish the quick from the dead, has failed, and the problem of defining a living thing, always a difficult one, has become even more difficult. It begins to look as though this difficulty is inherent in the subject, and may be due to the fact that there exists no fundamental distinction between living and inanimate things.

And so we see that the teaching of the Secret Doctrine, which only elaborates on the same proposition put by Aristotle, is now far more acceptable in the most respectable of scientists today. Weldall M. Stanley, also awarded a Nobel Prize for his work on viruses, admits in The Scientists Speak that 'Nature has made such a gradual transition from the non-living to the living, that the boundary is doubtful and probably non-existent.'

Crystals are alive within cells and practising the equivalent of animal hibernation when out of them. Are we not restricted from applying this proposition that all crystals are all alive, merely because we lack the scientific know-how to prove it?

The Whole Planet Is Alive

Once we accept that life may exist in even the smallest particles of matter, we must also accept that the whole of the planet is alive. Hylozoism does not stop at the atom; nor does it stop at man. It proposes that atoms live within greater forms than themselves. Some atoms live within the body of the molecule, which we have seen is accepted by many as living. Living molecules sometimes form part of the body of a greater being which is the tissue cell or unicellular organism. Many cells come together to form greater structures like man himself. Each entity, no matter how large or how small, is alive and lives within the body of a greater being somewhere along the scale of evolution.

What lies beyond that living entity which is man? Does he live within the body of a greater being? The Wisdom of the Ages proposes that he is no exception, that man lives within that sentient and great entity which we call a Root Race, at the centre of which is a Manu. And, going even further, the Root Races themselves are not only sensitive living entities, but they form but part of the body of that great, living entity Humanity.

Our Fifth Root Race (whose outward form is so well-known to us who compose it) is, inwardly, a living centre of etheric force in Humanity ... a centre which corresponds to our own throat chakra. And the Atlantean Race, the Fourth, corresponds to the solar plexus centre in that distinguished Being. In the same way, the remnants of Lemuria correspond to the sacral centre, for even in Him, within Whom we live and move and have our being, there is evolution of consciousness, and His is drawing away from His sacral and solar plexus centres and is shifting into that of the throat. Hence the upsurgence of the Fifth Root Race.

And whilst science may laugh over such apparently nonsensical statements, we can wait patiently until that day when it will be intuited by the great masses that even the planets of our solar system and those of others, are but the outward expression of great lives, and so on, right up to the very galaxies themselves. Our Milky Way, the galaxy in which we live, is alive and sentient and has an evolving consciousness governed by the same great laws of Being which rule ourselves and the tiniest atoms.

For centuries, our own solar system has been given the esoteric name of 'The Grand Man of the Heavens' and yet even He is but the heart