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It is this period of crisis which presents the major problem to the advanced aspirants of today and evokes consequently the concern of the psychiatrist and psychologist. Instead of treating the difficulty as a sign of progress and as indicating a relatively high point in the evolutionary scale and therefore a reason for a sense of encouragement, it is treated as a disease of the mind and of the personality.

Light reveals, and the stage of revelation now follows. This light upon the way produces vision and the vision shows itself as:

1. A vision, first of all, of defects. The light reveals the man to himself, as he is, or as the Soul sees the

        personality.

2. A vision of the next step ahead, which, when taken, indicates the procedure next to be followed.

3. A vision of those who are travelling the same way.

4. A glimpse of the "Guardian Angel," who is the dim reflection of the Angel of the Presence, the Solar

        Angel, which walks with each human being from the moment of birth until death, embodying as much

        of the available light as the man—at any given moment upon the path of evolution—can use and

        express.

5. A fleeting glimpse (at high and rare moments) of the Angel of the Presence itself.

6. At certain times and when deemed necessary, a glimpse of the Master of a man's Ray group. This falls usually into two categories of experience and causes:

1. In the early stages and whilst under illusion and glamour, that which is contacted is a vision of the Astral, illusory form upon the planes of glamour and illusion. This is not, therefore, a glimpse of the Master Himself, but of His Astral symbol, or of the form built by His devoted disciples.

2. The Master Himself is contacted. This can take place when the disciple has effected the needed integrations of the threefold

        lower nature.

It is at this moment of "integration as the result of revelation" that there comes the fusion of the Personality Ray with the Egoic Ray.

Ray Three

"'Pulling the threads of Life, I stand, enmeshed within my self-created glamour. Surrounded am I by the fabric I have woven. I see naught else. The love of truth must dominate, not love of my own thoughts, or love of my ideas or forms; love of the ordered process must control, not love of my own wild activity.'

The word goes forth from Soul to form: 'Be still. Learn to stand silent, quiet and unafraid. I, at the center, Am. Look up along the line and not along the many lines which, in the space of aeons, you have woven. These hold thee prisoner. Be still. Rush not from point to point, nor be deluded by the outer forms and that which disappears. Behind the forms, the Weaver stands and silently he weaves.'"

It is this enforced quiet which brings about the true alignment. This is the quiet not of meditation but of living. The aspirant upon the third Ray is apt to waste much energy in perpetuating the glamourous forms with which he persistently surrounds himself. To offset this, he must stand quiet at the center and (for a time at any rate) cease from weaving; he must no longer make opportunities for himself but—meeting the opportunities which come his way (a very different thing)—apply himself to the need to be met. This is a very different matter and swings into activity a very different psychology. When he can do this and be willing to achieve divine idleness (from the angle of a glamoured third Ray attitude), he will discover that he has suddenly achieved alignment. This alignment naturally produces a crisis which is characterised by two qualities:

1. The quality of deep distress. This is a period of difficulty and of real concern because it dawns upon his consciousness how useless, relatively, are his weaving and his manipulations, and how much of a problem he presents to the other Weavers.

2. The quality which might be expressed as the determination to stand in Spiritual being.

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