372. Esoteric Psychology - Volume I - 15. Section Two - CHAPTER I - The Seven Creative Builders, the Seven Rays 3. Three Major Propositions- A. BAILEY

Section Two - CHAPTER I - The Seven Creative Builders, the Seven Rays

3. Three Major Propositions

We have been studying the significance of the work of the seven creative Builders, as They express the life aspect and qualify the phenomenal appearance through which the One Life manifests.  It is the quality in time and space that determines the phenomenal appearance, and this is the third major proposition of which the two previous are:

a. Every ray Life is an expression of a solar Life, and every planet is therefore linked with every other planet, animated by energy from one or other of the seven solar systems, and actuated by a triple stream of force.

b. Every one of the rays is the recipient and custodian of various energies, coming from varying sources.

To these two we add:

c. It is the quality of a ray Life, in time and space, which determines the phenomenal appearance.

In these three propositions you have summed up the basic teaching of this Section.  Here I can point out with success, I believe, the practical efficacy of a true understanding of these rather advanced occult teachings.  If, for instance, you study the first proposition, you will note how a ray Life is an expression of a solar Life.  Now take this broad idea and make it personally specific by referring the same proposition to an individual man, grasping the fact that every personality is intended to be an expression of a solar angel, and is consequently linked to every other solar angel in the kingdom of souls.  Each is animated by the energies coming from all the seven groups of solar angels, and is likewise in touch with the life of the planet, of the solar system, and with extra-systemic [192] force also.  Is this not of vital, practical import?  Does it not warrant close study and consideration of the attitude of the personality towards life, and of the measure of success of the solar angel at any given point in time and space (which is all that the personality is, in the last analysis) as it builds and qualifies its phenomenal appearance?  Here we can see the scientific value of the study of ideals, of concentration upon the virtues and divine qualities, and upon an intellectual analysis of the divine attributes of any of the great sons of God.

Again, the second proposition states that the seven rays, being each the recipient and custodian of energies coming from the universe, bring in the basic concept of inter-relation, of inter-communication, of inter-dependence, of cooperative responsibility, and of service.  These relationships, as we well know, underlie the principle of Brotherhood, which the race is just beginning to grasp and to discuss.  Thus one of the major propositions which govern the building forces of the universe is of real practical application to the mental life and attitude of man today.

The first proposition relates to the ego, or solar angel, and its realisation.

The second proposition relates to the mental grasp of the "inspired" man—inspired from on high by his solar angel.

The third proposition, which states that quality determines the appearance, is intended to control or direct the feeling or desire life of the personality, for according to the quality of his desires will be the gradually emerging appearance.

Man is innately and truly divine, but the quality of the solar angel only makes its presence felt slowly and during the evolutionary cycle; it demonstrates only dimly as yet, and only emerges occasionally; though the sum total of characteristics in any one life is coloured by divine quality according to the egoic capacity to control or express, it is distorted by [193] substance in the early stages almost past all recognition.  These three propositions warrant careful thought and even meditation, for as they express the laws under which the seven creative Builders work, so do they express the laws under which the aspirant can now begin to work.