The Nations and the Rays
(The Destiny of the Nations, pp 47-58)
In connection with this discussion which governs and influences the
leading nations of the world, the student should bear in mind the fact that all
are today primarily conditioned by the Law of Cleavages; however, advanced
groups in every nation are beginning to respond to the Law of Understanding. This is a law which will eventually emphasise
the eternal brotherhood of man and the identity of all souls with the
Oversoul. This will be recognised in the
racial consciousness, as well as the oneness of the Life which pours through,
permeates, animates and integrates the entire solar system. This Life functions in and through all
planetary schemes, in all their kingdoms of forms and with all that can be
included under the phrase "form life." That phrase contains three basic ideas: the ideas of life, of form and of evolution.
The functioning of the Law of
Loving Understanding will be greatly facilitated and speeded during the
Aquarian Age which we are considering; it will eventuate later in the
development of a world-wide international spirit, in the recognition of one
universal faith in God and in humanity also as the major expression of divinity
upon the planet and in the transfer of the human consciousness from the world
of material things to that of the more purely psychic. This will lead in time and inevitably to the
world of spiritual realities. It should
be remembered that (for advanced humanity) the sequence of the recognition of
these expansions of consciousness is as follows:
1.
The world of psychical living. This requires the recognition, by the brain
consciousness, of the need for mental [Page 48]
and spiritual control, as the first step.
2.
The world of mental unfoldment.
3.
The world of the soul or ego, the
individualised man. When these
recognitions are established in the aspirant, then there comes the recognition
by the disciple of the Master Who should guide him.
4.
The control of the physical plane life by
the soul.
5.
The functioning and the utilisation of
the psychic powers and their place and part in the field of intelligent
service.
6.
The interpretative faculty of the
illumined mind.
7.
An inspired creative life upon the
physical plane.
In that development of the
racial consciousness, the process does not necessarily follow the above seven
stages and sequence. This is owing to
the stimulation and consequent sensitising of the form aspect through the
increased radiation and potency of the dynamic New Group of World Servers;
their ranks are filled by those who have passed, or are passing, through the
stages of aspirant and disciple, thus learning to serve. Psychic unfoldment in the masses parallels
the spiritual unfoldment of advanced humanity.
This can be seen going on today on a large scale everywhere and it
accounts for the tremendous growth of the spiritualistic movement and for the
enormous increase in the lower psychic powers.
Old Atlantean magic and the lower psychism are upon us again in the
great turning of the wheel of life, but this time good may eventuate, if the
world disciples and the spiritually-minded people measure up to their
opportunity.
Today there are many
thousands coming under the influence of this Law of Loving Understanding. Many in every nation are responding to the
broader synthetic brotherly note, but the masses as yet understand nothing [Page 49] of this.
They must be led in right ways gradually by the steady development in
right understanding of their own nationals.
Bear this in mind, all of you who work for world peace and right human
relations, for harmony and for synthesis.
All of the great nations are controlled by two rays, just as is the
human being. With the smaller nations we
need not concern ourselves. All the nations
are controlled by a personality ray, which is the dominant potent and main
controlling factor at this time, and by a soul ray which is sensed only by the
disciples and the aspirants of any nation.
This soul ray must be evoked
into an increased functioning activity by the New Group of World Servers, for
this is one of their main objectives and tasks.
This must never be lost to sight.
Much could be written about the historical influence of the rays during
the past two thousand years and of the way in which great events have been
influenced or brought about by the periodic ray influence. Interesting as it is and indicative of the
present national trends and problems, all that I can now do is point out the
energies governing each nation, and leave you to study and note their effect
and to comprehend their relation to the present condition of the world. One thing I would point out and that is that
those rays which govern a particular nation and which are at this time actively
working are very potent, either materially or egoically; some of the problems
may be due to the fact that certain rays, governing certain nations, are not at
this time active.
[…] […] […]
It is useful to bear in mind that some nations are negative and feminine
and others are masculine and positive.
India, France, the United States of America, Russia and Brazil are all
feminine and constitute the nurturing mother aspect. They are feminine in their psychology — [Page 56]
intuitive, mystical, alluring, beautiful, fond of display and colour, and with
the faults also of the feminine aspect, such as over emphasis upon the material
aspects of life, upon pageantry, upon possession and upon money or its
equivalent as a symbol of the form side of existence. They mother and nurture civilisation and
ideas.
China, Germany, Great Britain
and Italy are masculine and positive; they are mental, political, governing,
standardising, group-conscious, occult by inclination, aggressive, full of
grandeur, interest in law and in laying the emphasis upon race and empire. But they are more inclusive and think in
wider terms than the feminine aspects of divine manifestation.
National relationships and the
major intellectual cleavages are based also upon the governing ray
influences. Spain, Austria and France,
being governed by the seventh, fifth and third rays, have a close
inter-relation. This worked out in a
most interesting manner in the Middle Ages, and the destinies of these three
nations were closely related. The newly
forming country of the United States is likewise spiritually and intimately
associated — in its form aspect — with Brazil, Russia and Italy; hence the
early influx of certain types of emigrants into the country and hence also the
pull of the South American countries upon the American consciousness, and the
growth (rightly or wrongly) of the ideal of Pan-America. These relations are all on the form side and
emerge out of the personality rays or energy of the nations concerned. The Ray of Love or Inclusiveness, the Ray of
Active Intelligence showing itself so predominantly in the electrical
civilisation of modern times, and the fifth Ray of Exact Science are all
potently active at this time, for they are all pouring their energies onto our
planetary life. The incoming seventh [Page 57]
Ray of Order is surely, even if slowly, imposing order and a new rhythm of life
upon mankind. The effect of these
incoming energies and of the rays which are active at any one time is felt in
the following sequential order:
2.
The formulation of an theory.
3.
The growth of public opinion.
4.
The imposition of the new and developing pattern upon the evolving life.
5.
The production of a form, based upon that pattern.
6.
The stabilised functioning of the life within the new form.
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