Alice Bailey & Djwhal Khul - Esoteric Psychology I - Section II - The Major
Nations and their Rays







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Esoteric Psychology I - Section Two -
III. The Rays and Man





a. The Major
Nations and their RaysAll of the great nations are controlled by two rays,
just as is the human being. With the smaller nations we shall not [382] concern ourselves.
All nations are controlled by a personality ray (if so we can call it), which is dominant
and potent and the main controlling factor at this time, and by a soul ray which is sensed
only by the disciples and aspirants of any nation. This soul ray must be evoked into an
increased functioning activity by the New Group of World Servers, for this is one of their
main objectives and tasks. This must never be lost to sight. Much could be written about
the historical influence of the rays during the past two thousand years, and of the way in
which great events have been influenced or brought about by the periodic ray influence.
But for this I have neither the time nor the inclination. Interesting as it is, and
indicative of the present national trends and problems, all that I can now do is to point
out the rays governing each nation, and leave you to study and note their effect at your
leisure, and to comprehend their relation to the present condition of the world. One thing
I would point out, and that is, that those rays which govern a particular nation, and
which are at this time in incarnation, are very potent, either materially or egoically,
whilst some of the problems may be due to the fact that certain rays, governing certain
nations, are at this time out of incarnation.


 


Nation
Personality Ray
Egoic Ray
Motto


 


India
4th ray of art.
1st ray of government.
"I hide the Light."


China
3rd ray of intellect.
1st ray of government.
"I indicate the Way."


Germany
1st ray of power.
4th ray of art.
"I preserve."


France
3rd ray of intellect.
5th ray of knowledge.
"I release the Light."


Great Britain
1st ray of power or government.
2nd ray of love.
"I serve."


Italy
4th ray of art.
6th ray of idealism.
"I carve the Paths." [383]


USA
6th ray of idealism.
2nd ray of love.
"I light the Way."


Russia
6th ray of idealism.
7th ray of magic and order.
"I link two Ways."


Austria
5th ray of knowledge.
4th ray of art.
"I serve the Lighted Way."


Spain
7th ray of order.
6th ray of idealism.
"I disperse the clouds."


Brazil
2nd ray of love.
4th ray of art.
"I hide the seed."


 


A close analysis of the above will indicate certain
lines of racial understanding. There is a natural rapport indicated between the modern and
present personality rays of Germany and Great Britain, and yet a relationship can be seen
between France and Great Britain through their esoteric national mottoes and also between
the two symbols which are esoterically theirs. The symbol for France is the fleur de
lys, which she adopted centuries ago under divine guidance, which symbol stands for
the three divine aspects in manifestation. The emphasis is upon the third aspect,
producing intelligent manifestation. The symbol of Great Britain, under the same divine
apportioning, is the three feathers, carried as the arms of the Prince of Wales. The
scintillating and brilliant French intellect, with its scientific bent, is accounted for
by the interplay of the third Ray of Active Intelligence with the fifth Ray of Scientific
Understanding. Hence their amazing contribution to the knowledge and thought of the world,
and their brilliant and colorful history. Be it remembered also that the glory of the
empire which was France is but the guarantee of a glory of divine revelation which lies
ahead in the future, but which will never be theirs till they cease living in the wonder
of their past and go forth into the [384] future to demonstrate the fact of illumination,
which is the goal of all mental effort. When the intellect of the French is turned towards
the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, then they will carry
revelation to the world. When their egoic ray dominates the third ray, and when the
separative action of the fifth ray is transmuted into the revealing function of this ray,
then France will enter into a period of new glory. Her empire will then be of the mind,
and her glory of the soul.It is obvious that the governing faculty is strongly the
outstanding characteristic of Great Britain. England is an exponent of the art of control,
and her function has been, as you may realize, to produce the first tentative grouping of
federated nations, and to demonstrate the possibility of such grouping. The United States
of America are doing a somewhat similar thing, and are fusing the nationals of many
nations into one federated state with many subsidiary states, instead of subsidiary
nations. These two powers function in this way and with this wide objective in order to
give to the planet, eventually, a system of groupings within one national border or one
empire, and yet with an international boundary which will be symbolic of the coming new
age technique in government. The second Ray of Love or Attraction governs, egoically, the
British Empire, and there is a relation between this fact and the fact that the sign
Gemini governs both the United States and London. The fluid, mercurial, intuitional mind
is closely allied with the divine aspect of love and understanding, producing attraction
and interpretation.





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