Gathering 2003, Part XV

2003-12-29 04:19:00

For our next session we're going into the seven rays and I've asked three of our intelligent females to participate in this and the first one is Anni. She's going to cover rays one through three and give a brief synopsis of them. Artie just mentioned that some people aren't familiar with the rays so please give a brief explanation of what the rays are.

Anni:
I feel like thirty years ago as I was standing in my first class with all these little children looking at me. At that time I said to myself, "Why are they all looking at me? Why don't they all look somewhere else?" I just wanted to run away and hide. That was thirty years ago and I still feel the same. It's terrible!

What are the rays? The rays are actually energy coming throughout the sun system. They come from far, far away. This sun system is part of a constellation. With seven sun systems with it, it is in a galaxy. From that galaxy there is a spiritual light coming into the galaxy and it's coming through all its sun systems. Our sun system is on what we call the second ray. Each of these sun systems is vibrating on a certain ray. Ours is vibrating on the second ray in this constellation.

What happens is this light goes into our constellation through the sun and it's transformed. It comes out as the seven rays. It's really like a prism. When the light shines through it, it comes out in seven different colors. Really it's just one light shining through it, but it will look like seven different colors to us.

You can also see it when it goes through the water as in the sky with the rainbow. When it's shining through water you can see the seven colors. They're actually energies, very strong energies. They're different energies each having special qualities. None are more important than the other. They're all necessary.

It is through these seven rays that creation is happening, that our lives are happening, that we live. You could ask why there are seven rays and that's a good question. Why exactly seven? Seven is the magic number in the evolution we're in right now. You know that when you think about it because seven appears in many different ways like the seven days of the week. I bet you could mention more like chakras, the great energy centers in the body.

Audience:
Seven notes.

Anni:
Right. Seven notes in the music scale.

Audience:
The seven planes.

Anni:
The seven planes of consciousness, that's true.

Audience:
The seven dwarves? (Laughter)

Anni:
There are lots of sevens. God created the world in seven days as it says in the Bible. We have seven ventricles in the brain. So, seven is the magical number. There will be a time when eight will be the magical number but that's far, far ahead in evolution. One day it will be eight but right now it's seven. We also have the seven rays.

The rays can be divided into two groups. The first three, rays one, two and three, are called the rays of aspect. The last four are called the rays of attribute. JJ taught us the difference. He said you can compare it as the first three correspond to what you can see and the last four correspond to what you can hear or sense. He gave a very good picture of this. He said if you have a guitar string and look at it, it's not moving, it's just sitting there and it's just one single string. Then you pluck it and what happens? It starts vibrating and there's movement and there's a sound. When it starts moving it will look like three different strings, one in the middle one on the top and one on the bottom. You know, because you saw before you plucked it, that it's just one string but the illusion is created that there are really three strings because that's the way it looks when it's vibrating.

These you can compare to the first three rays, rays one, two and three. Actually it's just one ray but to us it looks like there are three. The sound coming out of it can be compared to the last four rays. So that's a good picture, I think, of how it works. There is just one energy, one life, one God, but there is an illusion created that there is more. The rays are here all the time and they influence everything on the earth in the whole system.

They are more or less active. They can go in and out of activity. The second ray is always very important because the whole sun system is on the second ray and it's actually influencing all the seven rays in our solar system, sort of lying behind them. The sixth ray has had a lot of influence the last 2000 years but it's going out now. It's becoming less and less active. The seventh ray is growing in activity. They are combined in different ways throughout history. That's what gives different periods in the history of man the influence that sometimes we have great wars; sometimes we have great artists or other things.

If you look through history you can see the influence of the rays on different times because that's the way they work. They influence all forms including planets, suns, the earth, minerals, plants, animals, human beings and everything. If they were not here we would not even exist. When you think about human beings, I think JJ mentioned this already; we're actually influenced by many different rays. It'd be easy to find our own ray if it was just one thing, but it's not. Our soul is vibrating on one ray and it will keep vibrating on that ray all through our lifetimes. It's stale but the other things can shift from one lifetime to another. The others include the personality ray. The whole personality is vibrating on a special ray. Your mental body is vibrating on a special ray. Your emotional body is vibrating on a special ray, your physical body also and your monad also. So it's really a great mixture. For me it's been really hard to figure out what ray I am.

 The first three, you can say the three are one or the one is three. You've heard that expression. If you go to the Hindu language you could also call them Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma. You've probably heard of those identities. We call them the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit or you could call the Spirit, consciousness and matter. They're called by different names. DK tells us all life begins with triangles. So it is with the rays also. JJ has taught us the three sub-aspects of each ray. The first ray is called the ray of power. That's the word we usually use for it. Do you remember the other sub-aspects?

Audience:
Will.

Anni:
That's the second one: Will. Then what's really important? You can use power and will but what you need is?

Audience:
Purpose.

Anni:
Right. Those are the three sub-aspects of the first ray; will, power and purpose. We know these things from our own lives. Also as personalities we know these things. We know if I want to accomplish in education, get a good job, have a family, those are all my goals and purposes. So it is if you go up one step it's a higher octave of the same thing. That's God's purpose, God's will and God's power. They don't always go well with what the personality wants. How can you make your own personality tune into God's will and purpose? You know that. JJ has taught us that lots of time. By using what?

Audience:
Soul contact.

Anni:
Yes, soul contact. That's the way. For example, if I wanted to go to the Gathering I could do it for two reasons. I could say, "I want to meet these people, I love these people, I want to go there." Or I could say, "God wants me to go there. My soul wants me to go there." That's two different purposes really. Mine was the first. (Laughter)

If you tune into the highest you know, the highest you can perceive and get, that's the highest point of God's will you can find, God's purpose, you won't go wrong. Of course, we can not perceive all of it yet, we can get some of it. That's the way to manifest it all. You tune in and get some soul contact on what direction we're going, what's the purpose of God, what does my soul want me to do? You then put some tension on it and it will manifest as long as it's the highest you know and it does not obstruct the purpose of God. God's purpose will happen on earth. We cannot change that as human beings. No way. It will happen. What we can do is to speed it up or slow it down. We can help or we can say, "no! no! no! It's too dangerous. I don't want to do this or that."

The first ray is also called the ray of destruction. It's a very powerful ray. Even the words, the ray of power, say that. It is a very powerful ray. It's like in order for something new to be born something has to die. Think about a big city. There are lots of tall buildings in the city but they get old and people want to put in new things. Beautiful new buildings maybe. What do you need to do? You have to tear down the old, get a bulldozer in there and tear them down. So it is with the first ray. It will go in and tear things down and break down and destroy things. Not for destruction itself but to make room for new things and give birth to new things.

When Atlantis had to disappear first ray went in and wham! It ended it to give birth to something new and better; new civilizations. When I talk about people vibrating on the different rays it's similar to types.

Actually according to DK there are no people on earth right now who are pure first ray people because they would be much too strong for us. We're not ready for it yet. But some of us are influenced by the first ray in some ways. If you're very influenced by the first ray what sort of person would you be? You'd be a leader, a born leader. You'd be a person who would go do it. If you see a goal is there you'd just go do it.

I don't know if I'm right but I was thinking about Tony Blair during the war of Iraq. The British people didn't want this war very much. About seventy percent said they didn't want the war. It was something he had to do. He didn't care about the consequences. There was a goal he had so he went ahead and he did it and he knew it might cost him his job if everything went wrong but he didn't care about the consequences. It was a job to be done. Such are the people who are influenced by this ray. They do the job. They're very responsible people and will take the responsibility and go by themselves. This can be good and bad. Like everything else, it has to be balanced. If they're really strong and good leaders they'll do what's best for humanity, for everybody. They also need to be influenced by the second ray of love and wisdom to be really good leaders. If they go too much to the other side they can become tyrants or people who really want to control and they'll be bad people like Napoleon or someone like that. But of course they aren't only politicians and leaders. I think a guy like Picasso who changed art, he destroyed old ways of painting and created new ways could be influenced by some first ray too.

I have this little book that's an English book called, The Human Temperaments by G. Hudson. He's written about the rays and has this part I like very much. It's a game you can play with yourself to help see the different rays. When you go into a shop and observe the people shopping it's really fun to see how they react in different ways. The first ray person coming into the shop will walk in and say, "Here I am. I'd like a white shirt please." He gets the shirt, turns around and leaves, very calm and purposeful. All business. I'll take the other rays as we go along.