As all life is energy, energy forms and informs all that is in our cosmos, and are referred to in esoteric literature as Rays. Such energies are ceaselessly playing on humanity, producing changes, expressing themselves through successive civilisations and cultures and fashioning the many nations, and account, in their totality, for all that we see happening around us. They have both their higher and lower aspects and humanity responds to them according to their mental and spiritual development, as do nations. In the Alice Bailey book titled “The Destiny of the Nations” she describes the destroying and renewal quality of the powerful Ray One. Excerpts from this book are as follows:
“The most obvious and powerful force in the world today is that of the first ray of Will and Power. This is the force which pours into the world from the major planetary centre, Shamballa [p.12]. This little known divine energy now streams out from this .. centre. It embodies in itself the energy which lies behind the world crisis at the moment [p.13].
There is, at this time, an emergence of certain powerful and dominating first ray personalities into the theatre of world activity. These people are in direct contact with this Shamballa force and are sensitive to the impact of the will energy of Deity. According to their type of personality and their point in evolution will be their reaction to this force and their consequent usefulness…these people are found in every field of human affairs. … Where they flagrantly infringe the Law of Love, their influence may be powerful, but it is passing and undesirable, at least where that phase of their activities is concerned. Where they meet human emergency and need, and work along the lines of basic restoration and the preservation of “units of synthesis”, their influence is good and constructive [ps.14/15].
… the use of first ray energy inevitably means destruction in the early stages but fusion and blending in the later and final results. If studying the nations of the world today from this angle, you will see this Shamballa energy of will working out potently through the agency of certain outstanding personalities. … human beings … would be able to penetrate behind what is going on in key countries in the world and see the gradual emergence of new and better conditions, and see the passing away of the loved, but slowly decaying forms [p.17].”
[to be continued]….
[to be continued]…
