Rays of Masonry
The seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order or Magic. Masons. Financiers. Great businessmen and
organisers of all kinds. Executives are found with these energies in their equipment. DNA-I xiv
... the coming into incarnation of numbers of old magicians and occultists, and the rapid growth
therefore of recognised psychic powers among the people. This psychism, being tinged with
mentality and not being of a purely astral quality, will be even more dangerous than in Atlantean
days, for back of it will be some degree of will, conscious purpose, and intellectual apprehension,
and unless this is paralleled by the growth of spiritual realisation, and by the steady grip of the
Ego upon the lower personality, a period of real danger may ensue. Hence the need of pointing
out and of realising the menace, so that the truth of the inner life and the need of serving the race
as an essential to advancement may be proclaimed far and wide.
Paralleling the incoming of this large band of seventh Ray magicians (some linked to the
Brotherhood and some to the purely manasic groups) is the proposed advent of certain members
of the Hierarchy (initiates below the fourth Initiation) and of certain disciples and probationers, all
on this Ray and all true psychics, who hope through their endeavours to offset the vibrations, and
ward off the menace incident to the advent of the other group. The arranging of this and the
preparing of the way for them in the different countries, specially in Europe and North America, is
occupying the attention at this time of the Master R-- [The Master R. or Rakoczi, is the
Hungarian Master, living at this time in Hungary, and is the Regent of Europe and America,
under the "great Brotherhood." He works through various organisations and movements
including Masonry. He is one of the Masters who take pupils] and the Master H-- TCF 455
Masonry--being on the first ray and emanating, consequently, from Shamballa--aids the
process of visualisation. It gives colour and performance [Page 172] of a tangible kind to inner,
subjective activity. Visualisation is a powerful agent in the evocation of the creative imagination.
DNA-I
As you may have noted from some of our earlier tabulations, there is a definite relation
between the first kingdom in nature, the mineral kingdom, and the final kingdom, the solar
kingdom, the seventh and last to appear in manifestation upon our planet. There is a mysterious
unity of response existing between the lowest kingdom in the scale of nature and the highest,
between that which expresses the densest manifestation of the divine life and that which embodies
its final and glorious consummation. This response is fostered by the play of the seventh ray,
which produces those initial reactions to organised movement and ritual which, at the close of our
great world period, will demonstrate the response of our entire solar system to the same basic
seventh ray influence. What can now be seen in the organisation of a crystal, a jewel and a
diamond, with their beauty of form and line and colour, their radiance and geometrical perfection,
will appear likewise through the medium of the universe as a whole. The Grand Geometrician
of the universe works through this [Page 373] seventh ray, and thus sets His seal upon all form
life, particularly in the mineral world. This the Masonic Fraternity has always known, and this
concept it has perpetuated symbolically in the great world cathedrals, which embody the glory of
the mineral world and are the sign of the work of the Master Builder of the universe. TSR-I
Ray IV: Higher Expression: The Masonic work, based on the formation of the hierarchy, and related to the second ray.
Lower Expression: Architectural construction. Modern city planning.TSR-I 50
The construction of the tabernacle, or the building of the temporary forms is the work of the
Divine Carpenter, whilst the building of the Temple of Solomon, or the construction of the more
permanent structure is the work of the Supervising Architect. One concerns operative, and the
other speculative Masonry in the true esoteric significance of the word. TCF 934
...the Masonic Work is magical work, being a reflection of the processes of initiation whereby
the power of the spirit and the power of substance are brought together through the "magical
work of the soul." DNA-I 636
The new and esoteric psychology will be steadily developed. It will be apparent therefore that A
Treatise on White Magic [Page 365] has a definitely seventh ray import, and this Treatise on
the Seven Rays has also been sent forth in an effort to clarify the incoming spiritual influences.
One of the first lessons that humanity will learn under the potent influence of the seventh ray is
that the soul controls its instrument, the personality, through ritual, or through the imposition of a
regular rhythm, for rhythm is what really designates a ritual. When aspirants to discipleship
impose a rhythm on their lives they call it a discipline, and they feel happy about it. What groups
do who are gathered together for the performance of any ritual or ceremony whatsoever (Church
ritual, the Masonic work, the drill of the army or navy, business organisations, the proper
functioning of a home, of a hospital, or of an entertainment, etc.) is of an analogous nature, for it
imposes on the participants a simultaneous performance, an identical undertaking, or a ritual. No
one on this earth can evade ritual or ceremonial, for the rising and the setting of the sun imposes a
ritual, the cyclic passing of the years, the potent movements of the great centres of population, the
coming and the going of trains, of ocean liners and of mails, and the regular broadcasting of the
radio organisations,--all of these impose a rhythm upon humanity, whether this is recognised or
not. Of these rhythms the present great experiments in national standardisation and regimentation
are also an expression, as they demonstrate through the masses in any nation. TSR-1
The coming in of the violet ray, the seventh or Ceremonial Ray, has rendered this contact
more easy of attainment than heretofore. It is therefore the ray on which approximation is
possible, and in the use of ceremonial and of set forms, coupled to regulated rhythmic movement,
will be found a meeting place for the two allied evolutions. In the use of ritual this will be
apparent, and psychics are already bearing witness to the fact that both in the ritual of the Church
and in that of Masonry this has been evidenced. More and more will this be the case, and it
carries with it certain risks that will inevitably work themselves into common knowledge and thus
affect in various ways the unwary sons of men. [Page 129] As you know, a definite effort is being
made at this time by the Planetary Hierarchy to communicate to the devas their part in the scheme
of things, and the part the human family must likewise play. The work is slow, and certain results
are inevitable. It is not my purpose to take up with you in these letters the part that ritual and set
mantric forms play in the evolution of devas and of men. I only desire to point out that danger for
human beings lies in the unwise use of forms for the calling of the devas, in experimenting with
the Sacred Word with the object in view of contacting the Builders who are so largely affected
by it, and in endeavouring to pry into the secrets of ritual with its adjuncts of colour and of
sound. Later on, when the pupil has passed the portal of initiation, such knowledge will be his,
coupled with the necessary information that teaches him to work with the law. In the following of
the law, no danger lurks. LOM
Under this seventh ray influence the Masonic Fraternity will come into a new and pronounced
spiritual activity and begin to approximate its true function and to fulfill its long-seen destiny.
One point it might be of interest here to note. During the period of the activity of the sixth ray the
Fraternity fell into a crystallised and sectarian attitude, along with the many other grouped circles.
It fell also into the snare of materialism, and the outer form has for centuries been of more
importance in the eyes of Masons than the inner spiritual meaning. The symbols and the system of
allegories have been emphasized, whilst that which they were intended to convey and to reveal to
the initiated has been quite forgotten. Also, the trend of the attention of a lodge of Masons, and
the main emphasis, has been potently placed on the function and place of the W.M., and not upon
the inner significance of the work upon the floor of the Temple. The lodge has not been
regarded as an integrated functioning entity. This must and will be changed, and the potency and
the effectiveness of the lodge work and ceremonial will be demonstrated. [Page 369] It will be
seen that in the regularity of the rituals and the sanctified formality of the ordained
ceremonials lies the true meaning of the work and the use of the Word. The coming era of group
work and power and of organised synthetic ritualistic activity will profoundly affect Masonry,
as the importance of a central dominating figure passes out with the sixth ray influence and the
true spiritual work and function of the lodge itself is understood. TSR-I
Information as to the invoking of devas in meditation cannot yet be safely given to individuals,
though a beginning is being made with groups such as in the rituals of the Masons and of the
Church. Formulas that put the lesser devas under the control of man will not yet he imparted.
Human beings are not yet to be trusted with that power, for the majority are but animated by
selfish desire and would misuse it for their own ends. It is deemed by the wise Teachers of the
race,--as I think I have before said--that the dangers of too little knowledge are much less than
the dangers of too much, and that the race can be more seriously hindered by the misapplication
of powers gained by incipient occultists than it can by a lack of knowledge that engenders not
karmic results. The powers gained in meditation, the [Page 90] capacities achieved by the
adjustment of the bodies through meditation, the faculties developed in each vehicle by definite
formulas in meditation, the manipulation of matter that is one of the functions of the occultist (the
result of well-adjusted vehicles that respond perfectly to plane conditions) and the attainment of
causal consciousness--a consciousness that carries with it the ability to include within itself all
the lesser--are of too serious a character to be lightly disposed of, and in the training of man
along these lines only those are encouraged by the teacher who can be trusted. Trusted in what
sense? Trusted to think in group terms and not in terms of self, trusted to use the knowledge
gained anent the bodies and the karma of environing associates solely for their wise assistance and
not for selfish purposes, and trusted to use occult powers for the furtherance of evolution and for
the development on all planes of the schemes of evolution as planned by the three Great Lords.
LOM
On a peculiar group of devas who are the agents, or "mediates" between magicians (either white
or black) and the elemental forces. This group is occultly known as "The Mediatory Seventh,"
and is divided into two divisions:
a. Those working with evolutionary forces.
b. Those working with involutionary forces.
One group is the agent of constructive purpose, and the other of destructive. More need not be
submitted anent this group as they are not easily contacted, fortunately for man, and can as yet
only be reached by a particular group ritual accurately performed,--a thing as yet practically
unknown. The Masons eventually will be one of the chief agents of contact, and as men are as
yet not ready for such power as this will put into their hands, true masonry will develop but
slowly. Nevertheless, under the magnetic force of this seventh Ray, the growth of masonry is
inevitably sure. TCH 466-67
The use of coloured lights. These lights are played on the body of the disciple and effect a
shaking-out process and a simultaneous stimulation of the atoms. This cannot be done till further
information is given anent the Rays; when a man's ray is known, stimulation will come from the
use of his own colour, a building-in will be brought about by the use of his complementary colour,
and disintegration of unwanted matter will be brought about by the use of an antagonistic colour.
This knowledge will later on be communicated to the great bodies that hold [Page 336] custody
of the Mysteries, the Church and the Masons. Wait, for the time is not yet. When the Mysteries
are restored some of this information will be in the hands of the two bodies I refer to. LOM
the significance of the coming in of the present Ray of Ceremonial Law or Magic. It is the ray
that deals with the building forces of nature, that concerns itself with the utilisation of the form
intelligently by the life aspect. It is largely the ray of executive work, with the object of building,
co-ordinating and producing cohesion in the four lower kingdoms of nature. It is distinguished
largely by the energy which manifests itself in ritual, but this word ritual must not be narrowed
down to its present use in connection with Masonic, or religious ritual. Its application is far wider
than this, and includes the methods of organisation which are demonstrated in all civilised
communities, such as in the world of commerce and of finance, and the great business
organisations everywhere to be seen. Above all, its interest lies for us in the fact that it is the ray
which brings opportunity to the occidental races, and through the medium of this life force of
executive organisation, of government by rule and order, by rhythm and by ritual, will come the
time wherein the occidental races (with their active, concrete mind, and their vast business
capacity) can take initiation,--an initiation, we must remember, upon a ray which is temporarily
recognised as a major ray. A large number of the initiates and [Page 183] those who have
obtained adeptship in the last cycle, have been orientals and those in Hindu bodies. This cycle has
been dominated by the sixth ray, which is just passing out, and the two preceding. In the
preservation of equilibrium the time now comes when a period of attainment by occidentals will
be seen, and this upon a ray suited to their type of mind. It is interesting to note that the oriental
type attains its objective through meditation, with a modicum of executive organisation and ritual,
and that the occidental will achieve largely through the organisation which lower mind produces,
and a type of meditation of which intense business concentration might be considered an
illustration. The one-pointed application of the mind by a European or American business man
might be regarded as a type of meditation. In the purification of motive lying back of this
application will come, for the occidental, his day of opportunity. IHS
Masonry--inadequate and corrupt as it has been and guilty of over-emphasising certain forms of symbols--is nevertheless a germ or seed of future hierarchical effort when that effort is--at some later date--externalised on Earth. Masonry is governed by the seventh ray, and when certain important changes have been made and the spirit of Masonry is grasped instead of the letter, then we shall see a new form of hierarchical endeavour appear to aid in the restoration of the ancient and sacred Mysteries among men. TSR-III 445-46
