Ray Five
"The Angel of the Presence serves the three - the One above, the one below, and
the One who ever is. (This refers to the fact that on the fifth plane the Angel is
definitely met and known, and the three aspects of the higher triad, buddhi, the abstract
mind and spirit, plus the ego in the causal body, and the lower mind are here blended and
fused.) [47]
The great
Triangle begins its revolutions, and its rays reach out in all directions, and permeate
the Whole.
The man and
Angel face each other, and know themselves to be the same. The light that radiates from
the heart, the throat, and from the center which stands midway meet and merge. The two are
one.
The Voice
that speaks within the silence can be heard: 'The power that reaches from the highest
point has reached the lowest. The Plan can now be known. The Whole can stand revealed. The
love that stretches from the heart, the life that issues forth from God, have served the
Plan. The mind that gathers all with wisdom into the boundaries of the Plan has reached
the outer limits of the sphere of God's activity. That power informs my life. That love
inspires my heart. That mind enlightens all my world. I therefore serve the Plan.' "
Ray Six
"The Angel of the Presence reaches down, and, at the midway point, pierces the
fog of glamor. The Path stands clear.
The One who
treads the path and stops to fight, who wrestles blindly with the two who seek to hinder
and to blind, sees the Way free. It stands revealed. He ceases from the clamor and the
fight. He finds his way into the Presence.
Knee to
knee, and foot to foot, they stand. Hand to hand, and breast to breast, forehead to
forehead, see them stand. And thus they merge and blend.
The trumpet
call goes forth: 'The warfare is no more. The battle ends. The glamor and the clouds have
disappeared. The light and glory of the Day is here. That light reveals
the Plan. The Whole is with us now. The purpose is revealed. With all I have, I serve that
Plan.' "
Ray
Seven
"The Angel of the Presence lifts one hand into the blue of heaven. He plunges
deep the other into the sea of forms. Thus he connects the world of form and formless
life. Heaven to earth he brings; earth into heaven. This the man, who stands before the
Angel, knows.
He grasps
the meaning of the painted sign which the Angel holds aloft. (Then follows a phrase which
is incapable [48] of translation into modern language. It signifies that complete merging
which the mystic endeavors to express in terms of the "marriage in the heavens",
and which has been wrongly twisted into the false teaching anent sex magic. This phrase,
expressed by a painted symbol, symbolizes complete unity between the outer and the inner,
the objective and the subjective, between spirit and matter, and between the physical and
the essential.)
The two are
one. Naught more remains to grasp. The Word is manifest. The work is seen complete. The
Whole is visioned. The magic work is wrought. Again the two are one. The Plan is served.
No word need then be said."
These
phrases are an attempt to express some of the realizations of the true initiate when he
stands - at the third initiation - before the Angel and sees that Angel also pass away, so
that naught is left but conscious knowledge and realization. Although this statement may
signify but little to us at present, it will, nevertheless, serve to demonstrate the
futility of dealing with the secrets of the mysteries and with initiation through the
medium of words. When this is better realized, the true work of the Masonic dramas will
begin to measure up to the need.
This section expresses some of the basic emerging truths which will carry meaning to
the senior disciples and the initiates of the world, who are battling, at this time, in
the service of the Plan. They are present in the world at this time, and their work is
bearing fruit, but they need at times the incentive of the future achievable glory to aid
them to carry on.
This treatise is, therefore, somewhat abstruse and quite symbolical. It may appear
difficult to comprehend, and it may mean little to some and nothing at all to others. If
the disciples of the world are truly struggling and if they are applying practically the
teaching given, as far as in them lies, they will find as time elapses, and their reason
and intuition awaken, [49] that such symbolic and abstruse statements become clearer and
clearer, serving to convey the intended teaching. When this happens, the Angel of the
Presence approaches ever closer, and lights the disciple on his way. The sense of
separateness diminishes until, at last, light permeates the darkness, and the Angel
dominates the life. |
