411. Esoteric Psychology - Volume I - 54. Some Tabulations on the Rays - THE RAYS OF ASPECT AND OF ATTRIBUTE - A. BAILEY

Some Tabulations on the Rays

THE RAYS OF ASPECT AND OF ATTRIBUTE

The four rays of attribute, which find their synthesis in the

third ray of aspect, produce the varying qualities in greater detail than do the rays of aspect.  It might generally be stated that the three rays of aspect find their main expression in relation to mankind through the medium of the three periodical vehicles: 

Ray I	Power	Life	Ideas	The Monad.
Ray II	Love-Wisdom	Consciousness	Ideals	The Soul.
Ray III.	Active Intelligence	Appearance	Idols	The Personality.

They find their secondary expression in the three bodies which form the personality of man:

Ray I	Power	Ideas	Mental Body	Purpose.  Life
Ray II	Love	Ideals	Astral Body	Quality.
Ray III	Intelligence	Idols	Physical Body	Form.

The rays of attribute, though expressing themselves equally on all the planes, and through the periodical vehicles and the three aspects of the personality, find their main expression through one or other of the four kingdoms in nature.

Ray IV	Harmony through Conflict	4th kingdom	Human. The Balance.
Ray V	Concrete Knowledge	3rd kingdom	Animal.
Ray VI	Devotion	2nd kingdom	Vegetable.
Ray VII	Ceremonial Ritual	1st kingdom	Mineral.

These are their main fields of influence in the three worlds and upon this we shall later enlarge.

In relation to mankind, these four rays of attribute find a wide expression in connection with the four aspects of the personality, or with the quaternary.  The relationship is as follows:

Ray IV	Harmony through Conflict	the physical body.
Ray V	Concrete Knowledge	the etheric body.
Ray VI	Devotion	the astral body.
Ray VII	Organisation	the mental body.