Psychological Types and the Seven Rays, Volume 1

ISBN: 0960900209

Author: Kurt B. Abraham

Condition: New

The very abstruse subject matter of the seven rays was presented to the public in "The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy" by H. P Blavatsky (1888), and was later elaborated in a five-volume series of books called "A Treatise on the Seven Rays," by Alice A Bailey. The seven rays have been defined as "the seven breaths of the one Life, the seven basic energies." Through the seven rays, the life or spirit aspect flows, cycling through every kingdom in nature and producing thus all states of consciousness in all fields of awareness. In fact there is nothing in the whole of the solar system, at whatever stage of evolution it may stand, which does not belong to and has not always belonged to one or other of the seven rays. A little study of the seven rays, and months or years of observation, will bring the careful observer to the realization that this is not an arbitrary typology; it is not a speculative system that we seek to impose on nature. It deals, on the contrary, with the fact of conditioning, qualified energies that are visible to most of us not in their pure form but in their effects. The matter, however, is difficult in that the interweaving of the seven rays conditions and permeates all aspects of life and affects a human being on so many levels that it becomes a matter of immense complexity. On the other hand, the seven rays in themselves provide us with a synthesizing simplicity that enables one step by step to discern the majestic order running through the apparently unfathomable complexity. In this Volume I, Kurt Abraham looks primarily at the rays of the mind - first ray (administrative thinker), fourth ray (artistic-intuitive mind), and fifth ray (scientific mind). He takes an in-depth look at each of these types via the historical personages of Jane Addams, Vincent van Gogh, Charles Darwin, Mahatma Gandhi, Henry David Thoreau, and Thomas Henry Huxley.