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This sometimes paralyses his action. He will make a good business man; as a soldier he will work out a problem in tactics at his desk, but is seldom great in the field. As an artist his technique is not fine, but his subjects will be full of thought and interest. He will love music, but unless influenced by the fourth Ray he will not produce it. In all walks of life he is full of ideas, but is too impractical to carry them out.

1. Produce the dual form and veil the life. Let form appear, and prove itself divine. All is of God. Quality......the power to manifest.

2. Conform the shell to that which dwells within. Let the world egg appear. Let ages pass, then let the Soul

                appear. Let life emerge within a destined time. Quality......the power to evolve.

3. Let mind control. Let the clear shining of the sun of life reveal the mind of God, and set the shining one

                upon his way. Then lead him to the central point where all is lost within the light supernal.

Quality......mental illumination.

4. God and His form are one. Reveal this fact, Oh sovereign Lord of form. God and His form are one.

                Negate the dual concept. Lend colour to the form. The life is one; the harmony complete. Prove

                thus the two are one. Quality...... the power to produce synthesis on the Physical plane.

5. Produce the garment of the Lord; set forth the robe of many colours. Then separate that robe from That

                Which hides behind its many folds. Take off the veiling sheaths. Let God be seen. Take Christ from

                off the cross. Quality......scientific investigation.

6. Let the two paths converge. Balance the pairs of opposites and let the path appear between the two. God

                and the Path and man are one. Quality......balance.

Thus the three major Rays sum up in themselves the process of creation, of energising, through the urge of the divine will; and the work of the four minor Rays (as they are called, though with no idea of there being lesser or greater) is to elaborate or differentiate the qualities of the life, and so produce the infinite multiplicity of forms which will enable the life to assume its many points of focus and express—through the process of evolutionary manifestation—its diverse characteristics.

THE FOURTH RAY OF HARMONY THROUGH CONFLICT

Special Virtues:

Strong affections, sympathy, physical courage, generosity, devotion, quickness of intellect and perception.

Vices of Ray:

Self-centeredness, worrying, inaccuracy, lack of moral courage, strong passions, indolence, extravagance.

Virtues to be acquired:

Serenity, confidence, self-control, purity, unselfishness, accuracy, mental and moral balance.

This has been called the "Ray of struggle" for on this Ray the qualities of rajas (activity) and tamas (inertia) are so strangely equal in proportion that the nature of the fourth Ray man is torn with their combat, and the outcome, when satisfactory, is spoken of as the "Birth of Horus," of the Christ, born from the throes of constant pain and suffering.

1. Speak low the Word. Speak low. Quality......power to penetrate the depths of matter.

2. Champion desire. Give what is needed to the seeker. Quality......the dual aspects of desire.

3. Lower the thread. Unfold the Way. Link man with God. Arise. Quality......power to reveal the path.

4. All flowers are thine. Settle the roots in mud, the flowers in sun. Prove mud and sun, and roots and

                flowers are one. Quality......power to express divinity. Growth.

5. Roll and return, and roll again. Cycle around the circle of the Heavens. Prove all is one.

Quality......the harmony of the spheres.

6. Colour the sound. Sound forth the colour. Produce the notes and see them pass into the shades, which in

                their turn produce the sounds. Thus all are seen as one. Quality......the synthesis of true beauty.

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