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Working With the 12 Rays!

By Dr Joshua David Stone

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12 Rays

Channelings, Writings, and Vision by Dr Joshua David Stone!

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1st Ray

First Ray of Personal Power & Will

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Red
  • Will
  • Personal Power

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Singleness of purpose, dynamic power, detachment, courage, steadfastness, truthfulness arising from absolute fearlessness, power of ruling, clear vision, strength, courage, determination, leadership, dignity, independence, majesty, daring, executive ability, sense of time, solitariness, love, divine, capacity to grasp great questions in a large-minded way, and the handling of people and measures.

Vices of Ray:

  • Pride, ambition, willfulness, hardness, arrogance, desire to control others, obstinacy and anger.

Virtues to be acquired:

  • Tenderness, humility, sympathy, tolerance, patience

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of physical strength.
  • The glamour of personal magnetism.
  • The glamour of self-centeredness and personal potency.
  • The glamour of “the one at the center”.
  • The glamour of selfish personal ambition.
  • The glamour of rulership, of dictatorship, and wide control.
  • The glamour of messiah complex in political arena.
  • The glamour of destruction.
  • The glamour of isolation, of aloneness or aloofness.

More Glamours:

  • Love of power and authority, pride, selfish ambition, impatience and irritation, self-centeredness, separateness and aloofness

Famous examples and Professions:

  • Luther, Carlyle, Walt Whitman, Napoleon
  • Government, Politics, International Relations, Natural Ruler, Leader, Statesmen, Empire Builder, Colonizer, Soldier, Explorer, Pioneer, Executives

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • The Science of Statesmanship and of Government

Lower Expression:

  • Modern Diplomacy and Partisan Politics

More Information:

  • Type of Person: Power Type—Full of will and governing capacity.
  • Methods of Development: Raja Yoga
  • Correlates with: Crown Chakra
  • Planetary Connection: Vulcan
  • Plane of Operation: Divinity
  • Planetary Operation: Not in Manifestion
  • Type of Government: Dictatorship
  • Universal level: Blue Ray, Power, GOD’s Will, Protection, Faith, Initiative
  • Manu and Chohan and Lord of the Ray: Allah Gobi and El Morya
  • Archangels: Michael and Faith
  • Elohim: Hercules and Amazonia

Glory and Corruption of the first Ray:

  • One either owns their personal power 100% in total service of GOD and unconditional love plus surrenders to GOD’s Will. Or one owns their personal power to hurt, control, and manipulate others for reasons of selfishness and does not surrender to GOD’s Will but consciously or unconsciously follows the will of the negative ego mind; the negative ego has you either surrender to GOD’s Will and not own your personal power or it has you own your personal power and not surrender to GOD’s Will.

2nd Ray

Second Ray of Love / Wisdom

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Blue
  • Love/Wisdom

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Radiance, attraction, expansion, inclusiveness, the power to save, intuition, insight, philanthropy, unity, compassion, loyalty, generosity, universal love, calm, patience and endurance, love of truth, faithfulness, clear intelligence and serene temper

Vices of Ray:

  • Over absorption in study, coldness, indifference to others, contempt of mental limitations in others

Virtues to be acquired:

  • Love, compassion, earnest spiritual study, unselfishness, energy

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of being loved.
  • The glamour of popularity.
  • The glamour of personal wisdom.
  • The glamour of selfish responsibility.
  • The glamour of too complete an understanding, which negates right action.
  • The glamour of self-pity, a basic glamour of this ray.
  • The glamour of the messiah complex in the world of Spirituality or religion.
  • The glamour of fear, based on undue sensitivity.
  • The glamour of self-sacrifice.
  • The glamour of self-satisfaction.
  • The glamour of selfish service

More Glamours:

  • Fear, necessity, a sense of inferiority or inadequacy, depression, constant anxiety, self-pity, excessive self-effacement, inertia and ineffectiveness, negativity

Famous examples and Professions:

  • Spiritual Education and Teaching, Writing, Speaking, Television and Radio, Sage, Philanthropist, Reformer, Teacher, Inspirer, Healer, Servant to mankind, Ambassador, Head of College, Students

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • The Process of Initiation and Ascension as taught by the Ascended Masters

Lower Expression:

  • Religion

More Information:

  • Type of Person: The Love Type—Full of Love and Fusing Power
  • Methods of Development: Raja Yoga
  • Correlates with the Heart Chakra
  • Planetary Connection: Jupiter
  • Plane of Operation: Plane of the Monad
  • Planetary Operation: In Manifestation from 1575 A.D.
  • Type of Government: Democracy
  • Universal Level: Illumination, Wisdom, and Perception
  • Planetary Christ, Secondary Ray Chohan and Lord of Ray, Future Chohan, Inner Plane Synthesis Ashram Leader: Lord Maitreya, Master Kuthumi, Master Lanto, Ascended Master Djwhal Khul
  • Archangels: Jophiel and Christine
  • Elohim: Apollo and Lumina

Glory and Corruption of the Second Ray:

  • Ability to unconditionally love self and others at all times, and the Psychological wisdom it brings to help one do this in all situations and with all people. Or conditional love, being overly loving and not having a backbone, being overidentified with the guru role, being a know-it-all, since the Second Ray is that of education.

3rd Ray

Third Ray of Active Intelligence

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Yellow
  • Active Intelligence
  • Creative Intelligence
  • Physical Action

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Power of manifestation, power to evolve, mental illumination, perseverance, philosophical bent, clear mindedness, perfectionism, comprehension of fundamental principles, understanding, deeply penetrating and interpretive mind, adaptability, recognition of the power and value of silence, capacity for creative ideation, power to produce, synthesis on the physical plane

Vices of Ray:

  • Intellectual pride, coldness, isolation, inaccuracy of details, absent minded, obstinacy, selfishness, overly critical of others, seeing too many details may paralyze action

Virtues to be acquired:

  • Compassion, tolerance, devotion, accuracy, energy and common sense

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of being too busy.
  • The glamour of cooperation with the plan in a selfish or individual way, not a group way.
  • The glamour of active scheming.
  • The glamour of creative work without true motive.
  • The glamour of good intentions, which are basically selfish.
  • The glamour of self-importance.
  • The glamour of efficiency

More Glamours:

  • Glamour of always being busy, materialism, preoccupation with detail, efficiency and self-importance through being the one who knows, scheming and manipulation of others, deviousness, and self-interest

Famous examples and Professions:

  • Finance, Trade, Business and Economics, Arbiters and Peacemakers, Philosophers, Organizers, Diplomats, Strategists, Tacticians, Scholars, Economists, Bankers, Chess Players, Judges, Allegorists, Interpreters and Cartoonists, Mathematicians

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • Means of communication or interaction: phone, fax, email, Internet, television, radio and transportation.

Lower Expression:

  • The use and spread of money and gold

More Information:

  • Methods of Development: exactitude in thought, higher mathematics, philosophy, wise view on all abstract questions, sincerity of purpose, capacity for concentration on philosophic studies, patience, caution, absence of tendency to worry over trivial things.
  • Type of Person: The Active Type—Full of action and manipulation of energy and matter.
  • Correlates with: Throat Chakra
  • Universal Level: Divine love, tolerance, gratitude, adoration, exaltation, reverence, charity.
  • Planetary Connection: Saturn Plane of Operation Atmic Plane Planetary
  • Operation: In Manifestation from 1425 A. D.
  • Mahachohan and Chohan or Lord of the Ray: Saint Germaine and Serapis Bey
  • Archangels: Charmuel and Charity
  • Elohim: Heros and Amora

Glory and Corruption of the Third Ray:

  • Wisdom to put out our God Consciousness into demonstration and action on and in the Earthly world. Or being overintellectual, lack of proper integration of one’s feelings and emotions, being run by the mind instead of being its master.

4th Ray

Fourth Ray of Harmony and Beauty

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Green
  • Harmony
  • Beauty

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Purity, Artistic Development, Creative Ideation, balance, rhythm, the special faculty to perceive and portray through the arts and through life, the principle of beauty in all things, aesthetics, strong sense of form, symmetry, equilibrium, artistry, the power to reveal the path, the power to express Divinity and growth, the harmony of the spheres, the synthesis of true beauty, strong affections, compassion, physical courage, generosity, quickness of intellect and perception.

Vices of Ray:

  • Self-centeredness, worrying, inaccuracy, lack of moral courage

Virtues to be acquired:

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

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of harmony, aiming at self-centered personal comfort and satisfaction.
  • The glamour of war.
  • The glamour of conflict with the objective of imposing righteousness and peace.
  • The glamour of vague artistic perception.
  • The glamour of psychic perception instead of intuition.
  • The glamour of musical perception.
  • The glamour of the pairs of opposites, in the higher sense

More Glamours:

  • Diffusion of interest and energy, Impracticality and the glamour of imagination, Changeableness, fickleness, vagueness and lack of objectivity. Constant inner and outer conflict causing argument and acrimony. Dissatisfaction because of sensitive response to beauty and that which is higher and better, manic/depressive, need to gain equilibrium on all levels, need for self-control

Famous examples and Professions:

  • The Arts, Sociology, Race and Culture Cooperation and Conciliation, Artists and Musicians

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • City Planning based on Blueprints of the Ascended Masters.

Lower Expression:

  • Modern City Planning

More Information:

  • Type of Person: The Artistic Type—Full of the Sense of Beauty and Creative Aspiration
  • Correlates with the First Chakra
  • Universal Level: Perfection, Resurrection, Purity, Hope, Artistic Development
  • Planetary Connection: Earth
  • Plane of Operation: Buddhic Plane or Plane of Intuition
  • Planetary Operation: Comes into operation in 2025 A. D.
  • Type of Government: Socialism
  • Chohan and Lord of the Ray: Paul the Venetian
  • Archangels: Gabriel and Hope
  • Elohim: Purity and Astrea

Glory and Corruption of the Fourth Ray:

  • Creation of harmony, unity and oneness at all times with self, and in relationship to others and one’s world, creation of the arts in glorification of GOD. Or --on a Psychological Level-- the negative ego thought system creating disharmony and conflict within self which would manifest in conflict with others.

5th Ray

Fifth Ray of Concrete Knowledge and Science

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Orange
  • Concrete Science or Knowledge

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Research, Keen Intellect, Attention to Detail, Truthfulness, analytical, deductive, formal mind, the acquirement and dissemination of factual knowledge, unwavering patience and extreme thoroughness and method-particularly in the repeated examination and classification of intricate and minute details, emergence into and out of form, the power to make the voice of silence heard, the power to initiate activity, revelation of the way, purification with fire, the manifestation of the Great White Light, strictly accurate statements, justice, perseverance, common sense, uprightness, independence, punctual

Vices of Ray:

  • Harsh criticism, narrowness, arrogance, unforgiving temper, lack of compassion and reverence, prejudice

Virtues to be acquired:

  • Reverence, devotion, compassion, love and open-mindedness

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of materiality, or over emphasis of form.
  • The glamour of the intellect.
  • The glamour of knowledge and of definition.
  • The glamour of assurance, based on a narrow point of view.
  • The glamour of the form which hides reality.
  • The glamour of organization.
  • The glamour of the outer, which hides the inner.

More Glamours:

  • Constant analysis and splitting of hairs, criticism, overemphasis of form, cold mental assessment and disparagement of feeling, intellectual pride reason and need to prove are sacrosanct

Famous examples and Professions:

  • New Age Science, Medicine, Psychology, Scientist, Mathematician, Lawyer, Detective, Physical Scientist or Occult and Metaphysical Scientist, Chemist, Engineer, Surgeon. Doctors, and Inventors

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • The Science of the Soul and Spirit, Spiritual Psychology

Lower Expression:

  • Modern Education System

More Information:

  • Methods of Development: Exactitude in Action
  • Type of Person: The Scientific Type—Full of the idea of cause and results; mathematical
  • Correlates with Sixth Chakra
  • Universal Level: Consecration, Truth, Dedication, Concentration, Healing Love, Scientific Development
  • Planetary Connection: Venus
  • Plane of Operation: Mental Plane
  • Planetary Operation: In Manifestation since 1775 A. D.
  • Chohan and Lord of the Ray: Master Hilarion
  • Archangels: Mother Mary and Raphael
  • Elohim: Cyclopia and Virginia

Glory and Corruption of the Fifth Ray:

  • On a Psychological level, the use of the mind in a scientific way for the purpose of healing all aspects of a person and our society. Or being overintellectual and cut off from one’s feeling and intuitive nature, worship of science, rejection of religion, too much focus on concrete mind, and not allowing oneself to tap into the abstract mind, the Higher Mind and intuitive right brain mind.

6th Ray

Sixth Ray of Devotion and Spiritual Idealism

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Indigo
  • Devotion
  • Spiritual Idealism
  • Abstract Idealism

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Spirituality, religious fervor, sacrificial love, burning enthusiasm for a cause, fiery ardor, one-pointedness, singleminded, selfless devotion, adoration, intense sympathy for the suffering of others, idealism expressed as practical service and loyalty, the power to transcend desire, the spurning of that which is not desired, endurance and fearlessness, the power to detach oneself, the overcoming of the waters of the emotional nature, tenderness, intuition, reverence, religious instinct.

Vices of Ray:

  • Selfish and jealous love, over-leaning on others, partiality, self-deception, sectarianism, superstition, prejudice, overly rapid conclusions, fiery anger

Virtues to be acquired:

  • Strength, self-sacrifice, purity, truth, tolerance, serenity, balance and common sense

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of devotion.
  • The glamour of adherence to forms and persons.
  • The glamour of idealism.
  • The glamour of loyalties and creeds.
  • The glamour of emotional response.
  • The glamour of sentimentality.
  • The glamour of interference.
  • The glamour of the lower pairs of opposites.
  • The glamour of World Saviors and Teachers.
  • The glamour of narrow vision.
  • The glamour of fanaticism.

More Glamours:

  • Fanaticism, possessiveness and over-devotion. Narrow-mindedness, love of the past and existing forms, reluctance to change, rigidity, too much intense feeling, everything is either perfect or intolerable

Famous examples and Professions:

  • Religion, Philosophy, Ideology, Mystic, Devotee, Saint, Philanthropist, Martyr, Evangelist, Missionary, Reformer, Priest, Minister and Healer

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • The Ascension Movement and New Age Movement guided by the Ascended Masters

Lower Expression:

  • Churches and religious organizations

More Information:

  • Methods of Development: Bhakti Yoga, Necessity for an Object
  • Type of Person: The Devotee Type—Full of Idealism
  • Correlates with the Third Chakra
  • Universal Level: Peace, Ministration, Mercy, Spiritual Idealism, Devotional Worship, Forgiving Love, Grace
  • Planetary Connection: Neptune Plane of Operation: Astral Plane
  • Planetary Operation: Began to pass out of Manifestation in 1625 A. D.
  • Chohan and Lord and Lady of the Sixth Ray: Sananda and Lady Nada
  • Archangels: Uriel and Aurora
  • Elohim: Peace and Aloha

Glory and Corruption of the Sixth Ray:

  • Devotion, Spiritual passion, enthusiasm, joy, idealism; glory of sixth Ray makes us strive for the highest within us, and pursue excellence at all times. Or, being overly Emotional, giving power away, being too idealistic to the point of being a negative perfectionist, lack of Spiritual discernment.

7th Ray

Seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order, Freedom, Magick and Organization

Color / Qualities:

Planetary level:

  • Violet
  • Ceremonial Order and Magic
  • Freedom
  • Ritual
  • Organization
  • Transmutation
  • Divine Structure
  • Structuring of Society Spiritual Grounding
  • Alchemy
  • Violet Flame
  • Invocation
  • Sacred Living
  • Transfiguration
  • Ritual Ceremony
  • Spiritual Tradition
  • Spiritual Protocol

Additionnals Qualities:

  • Nobility, chivalry of character and conduct, splendor of estate and person, ordered activity, precision, skill, grace, dignity, diplomacy, tact, discipline, ceremonial pageantry, discovery, control and release of the hidden forces of nature, order in conduct of life, exactness of appointments, the power to create, the power to cooperate, the power to think, mental power, the power to vivify, courtesy, self-reliance

Vices of Ray:

  • Formalism, bigotry, pride, narrowness, superficial judgements, self-opinion, overindulgence

Virtues to be acquired:

  • Realization of unity, open-mindedness, tolerance, humility, gentleness, and love

Specific Glamours to be avoided:

  • The glamour of magical work.
  • The glamour of the relation of the opposites.
  • The glamour of the subterranean powers.
  • The glamour of that which brings together.
  • The glamour of the physical body.
  • The glamour of the mysterious and secret.
  • The glamour of sexuality.
  • The glamour of the emerging manifested forms.

More Glamours:

  • Rigid adherence to law and order, overemphasis of organization and for love of the secret and the mysterious, psychism, the glamour of ceremonial order, ritual superstitions, deep interest in omens

Famous examples and Professions:

  • Business and Economics, Diplomats, Mystics, Structuring of Society, Stage Director, Pageant Master, Ritualist, Magician, Occults and Priest in Ceremonial Order, Born Organizer, Doctor or Nurse, Sculptor, Military Parades, Naval Reviews, Genealogical Trees

Method of teaching the Truth:

Higher Expression:

  • All forms of Ascension Teachings and Ascended Master Teachings

Lower Expression:

  • Psychism, Fragmented and Nonintegrated Wisdom Teachings

More Information:

  • Profession: Ordering of power through Ceremony, Protocol and Ritual Methods of Development: Ceremony, Observances
  • Type of Person: The Business Type – Full of organization, power; given to Ritualistic Ceremony
  • Correlates with the Second Chakra
  • Universal Level: Purification, Transformation, Ordered Service, Culture, Refinement, Diplomacy, Invocation, And Control over Forces of Nature
  • Planetary Connection: Uranus
  • Plane of Operation: Physical Plane
  • Planetary Operation: In Manifestation since 1675 A. D.
  • Chohan and Lord and Lady of Seventh Ray: Saint Germaine and The Violet Ray Master
  • Archangels: Zadkiel and Amethyst Elohim: Arcturus and Victoria

Glory and Corruption of the Seventh Ray:

  • Emphasis on freedom, Divine structures and systems within self and society that lead to even grater freedom within self and society, Spiritual alchemy, prosperity Consciousness. Or thinking that one is free when in truth they are run by the negative ego, Emotional Body, Mental Body, the inner child, lower-self desire, and the subconscious mind; misuse of structure (having too much or too little), use of magic without Spirituality, misuse of money, poverty consciousness; freedom is not giving free reign to one’s negative ego, Emotional Body, and so on; this is not freedom, but being a victim; true freedom stems from total Self-Mastery of one’s energies in service of GOD.

8-12th Rays

The Higher Rays 8 Through 12

Eighth Ray

Color: Seafoam Green
Quality: The Higher Cleansing Ray

Ninth Ray

Color: Blue/Green
Quality: Joy, Attraction of the Body of Light

Tenth Ray

Color: Pearlescent
Quality: The Anchoring of the Body of Light, Inviting the Soul Merge and Monadic Merge

Eleventh Ray

Color: Pink-Orange
Quality: The Bridge to the New Age

Twelfth Ray

Color: Gold
Quality: The Anchoring of the New Age and Christ Consciousness