The Seven Rays Today - A New Appreciation of the Ageless Wisdom and Esoteric Astrology pdf

THE
SEVEN RAYS
TODAY

A New Appreciation of the
Ageless Wisdom and
Esoteric Astrology




by



Mo Hone









PLUTO NETWORK

BRIGHTON, U.K.

First published in Great Britain 2006
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This book is especially dedicated to Jac,
my soul partner and loving wife,
who has joyfully shared every experience
in our life-long search for this, our truth.

Also to our children,
Niall, Abi and Marcel,
and our grandchildren,
Robyn, Lyla, Arthur, Koen and Toby,
and their parents George, Bruce and Ingrid.

And to our friends everywhere,

you have all been an essential part of our journey ~ thank you!

CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION


Page 3
CHAPTER 1 Seven Rays, Planes, Kingdoms &
Angles
~ 7
CHAPTER 2 Astrology - the Science of

Relationship
~ 53
CHAPTER 3 Angles and Astrology ~ 91
CHAPTER 4 Devas, Angles and Centres ~ 131
CHAPTER 5 Centres and Polarisation ~ 167
CHAPTER 6 The Rays and Human Centres ~ 207
CHAPTER 7 Angles and Consciousness ~ 247
CHAPTER 8 Working with Angles ~ 281
CHAPTER 9 The Seven Rays of Soul,
completing the picture
~ 323

INDEX ~ 365









TABLES & DIAGRAMS

TABLE A THE 7 RAYS AND THE 7 PLANES Page 27
TABLE B THE SEVEN SCHOOLS OF YOGA ~ 33
TABLE C THE THREE ASPECTS OF THE
ABSOLUTE
~ 55
TABLE D

RELATIONSHIP OF THE HOROSCOPE TO
THE SEVEN MAJOR CENTRES

~ 67
TABLE E THE HUMAN CENTRES OR CHAKRAS ~ 71
TABLE F THE ZODIAC SIGNS AMD THE SEVEN
RAYS
~ 77
TABLE G RAY QUALITIES OF THE PLANETS ~ 89
TABLE H ZODIAC SIGNS, HOUSES, RAYS AND
PLANES
~ 325
DIAGRAM 1 THE THREE PRIMARIES OF THE
ABSOLUTE’S CREATION
Page 13
DIAGRAM 2 THE SEVEN RAYS SHOWING THE 4TH
RAY FUNCTION OF “LINKS”
~ 29
DIAGRAM 3 THE CELTIC CROSS ~ 59
DIAGRAM 4

THE ANGULAR INFLUENCE OF A STATIC
PLANET
~ 107
DIAGRAM 5 THE CIRCULAR MOTION OF THE TRINE
ASPECT
~ 115
DIAGRAM 6 THE THREE CROSSES

~ 189

DIAGRAM 7 THE HUMAN ANGULAR STRUCTURE ~ 291
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INTRODUCTION


his book is about a new spiritual philosophy that
is based on two concepts, one old and one new.

The first is the Seven Rays, which can be used to
classify all manner of things both spiritual and mun-
dane, and demonstrates that there are seven different
approaches to spirituality because each individual’s
soul or Higher Self functions on just one of these Rays.
The relationship between each of the Seven Rays and
how these energies work into physical manifestation
introduces the second concept of angles, which are
non-physical energy connections that form the
blueprint of all physical existence, both living and
inert. Angles are responsible for the very fabric of our
existence, but because they function beyond our
objective awareness their variety of specific forms
appear unrelated until their concept is understood,

and for this reason angles do not form part of any
specific occult or spiritual system.

Although there is quite a lot of literature concern-
ing the Seven Rays, the majority stems from the
original source material introduced to the world
through the works of Helena Blavatsky and Alice
Bailey. I personally believe these teachings to be both
valid and indispensable, but one reason I wanted to
write this book was that through my own personal ex-
perience certain accepted ‘facts’ concerning the Rays
have been misinterpreted. In my opinion, much of the
occult information published over the last few decades
has been based on ideas that were only meant as
guidelines rather than as dogmatic fact. This book is
an example of how anyone can search inside them-
selves to find their own answers that are correct for
them at their particular point of spiritual awareness,
even though tomorrow’s ideas may appear to contra-
dict those of today.
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The Seven Rays are the basis of all creation. Their
highest form of manifestation is in distant star form-
ations, and from certain constellations they work
through the cosmos as a series of energies which are
stepped down into normal physical life via a series of
procedures which appear to us as mathematical rela-

tionships between stars, planets and our own planet-
ary environment of Earth, Moon and Sun. Astrology
holds the basic key to the manifestation of the Seven
Rays because it charts the real and apparent movem-
ent of the heavenly bodies, and shows how their ever-
changing positions affect certain energies that are
responsible for conditioning life on Earth. Astrology
also offers an established tradition on which to build
new areas of understanding, such as how angles are
manipulated by Devas to weave the energies of the
Seven Rays into our reality by interacting with both
human centres and planetary centres.

Later in the book I suggest ways we can apply this
knowledge both astrologically and magically, by work-
ing with the Rays to balance our life energies and how
we can aid our spiritual development by connecting
with the energies of our soul Ray, as we move towards
a critical stage in humanity's evolution.

The content of this book is based firmly on the
accepted traditions of the ageless wisdom and
astrology, and is presented here as a guide for every
person's unique quest to discover their true spiritual
purpose ~ which today is nothing less than the next
rung on the evolutionary ladder.

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CHAPTER ONE

Seven Rays, Planes, Kingdoms & Angles



he Seven Rays have never become fully integrated
into the New Age Wisdom that has taken over
from the Ancient Wisdom. Of all the subjects that
have been given new life and promised exciting devel-
opments somehow the Seven Rays have been unable
to find a real and meaningful slot, one that would help
to fill the many gaps that still exist in a comprehen-
sive philosophy of arcane knowledge from both hemi-
spheres of the ancient world. This book is an attempt
to give a basic understanding of the Rays and show
that they can indeed find a useful place in humanity’s
heritage of wisdom.
So what are the Seven Rays? Well not strictly Rays
at all, or perhaps they may loosely be seen as relating
to cosmic rays. Initially they were thought of as a
sevenfold stepping down of God’s infinite Will. That

this process was associated with rays was perhaps
more prophetic than many ancients could have seen.
We know today through modern science that this
same stepping down process of energy, coming from
the starry realms of God’s kingdom, is related to the
variety of wavelengths of invisible rays, and our
planet is under continual bombardment of sub-atomic
particles. So we can define the Seven Rays at this
early stage in the book as the sevenfold division of
God’s or the Absolute’s Divine Will affecting all life
seen objectively from our planet Earth’s point of view,
from macrocosmic star systems down to microscopic
sub-atomic particles.
A more useful definition would be the Seven Rays
are the seven natural and precise divisions between
the various states of any singular reality. I will re-
peat this definition later and hope that it will come to
mean more with a deeper discussion of the symbols
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behind astrology. For now we can simplify it and say
the Seven Rays are the seven states of energy and
matter, taking the last two terms as different aspects
of the same reality. So the highest or finest state of
energy or matter is it’s First Ray manifestation and
the lowest or most dense state is it’s Seventh Ray
manifestation. This in no way infers different states
as being inferior or superior to each other, no more

than red is inferior or superior to brown. The analogy
of light is helpful here: the spectrum of colours being
the various states of white light differing only in a
scientific sense by their frequency or wavelength. All
spectrum colours can be equally bright, and whilst
having a separate existence from each other together
they form white light. Such are the Seven Rays, which
are the background to the seven states of matter at
the lowest levels, and the seven states of spirit at the
highest levels.
To see how the Rays are intimately connected with
astrology let us begin at the beginning. All life is sub-
ject to three basic constituents. These are the will or
intention of becoming and remaining alive, called the
life-force; the consciousness or the state and condition
of being alive; and the vehicle for life or bodily form.
All life has at least these three constituents, and
where these three constituents are active the process
of life is being fulfilled. As soon as the will to live goes,
death becomes inevitable. Without consciousness,
awareness ceases, and so the will to live is necessarily
terminated as well. Without form for the previous two
conditions of life, then consciousness evaporates and
the life-force is again bound to disperse.
Will, consciousness and form. Three basic ingred-
ients of life. Three primary conditions for ALL life,
throughout the microcosmic and macrocosmic realms
of existence. We can call these conditions the Prim-
ary Rays of Manifestation, the First Ray of Will, the
Second Ray of Love or Consciousness, and the Third

Ray of Form, being the first three Rays of the Seven
Rays. Now this is a minimum requirement for life, but
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to explain the variety of life forms in existence on
Earth, the Third Ray is divided into a further four,
called the Rays of Attribute. To explain more fully,
although form is the third ingredient of life such form
could exist as a single cell, an ocean teaming with life,
a planet or even an idea seen as a thought-form. The
last four Rays put form into perspective.
In this introduction to the Rays, I am considerably
simplifying the system so that you can get an idea of
these new concepts. Later ideas will expand and even
to a certain extent change the concepts. With this in
mind let me use the system invented by the ancient
philosophers and astrologers, the four elements. We
will assume that the Fourth Ray equates with Fire,
the Fifth Ray with Air, The Sixth Ray with Water and
the Seventh Ray with Earth. Zodiac signs are divided
into these four elements, so here lies a clue to their re-
lationship with the Seven Rays. Zodiac signs are also
allocated three qualities, called Cardinal, Fixed and
Mutable. These also figure in a relationship with the
Rays, in this case with the first three Primary Rays.
So already we have a definite relationship between
astrology and the Seven Rays, by saying, for example
that as Aries is a Cardinal Fire sign it exhibits qual-
ities of the First and Fourth Rays. This doesn't alter

what we know of to be typical Aries influences; it just
helps us to understand these influences in a new way.
All life consists of the life-force, consciousness and
form. The life-force maintains the energy of the life of
the entity whilst the consciousness and the form
maintain an equal balance. When a major imbalance
occurs the life-force departs and the entity dies, and
rises to a higher level, with a finer consciousness app-
aratus and a finer form, where it is stimulated again
with a fresh injection of life-force.
The individual Human being is of one Ray, and one
Ray only. In this current life, in past lives and in
future lives he will still be of just one Ray. In cosmic
terms Humans can change Rays, but in our present
scheme we will assume they cannot. The part of the
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individual that relates to their Ray is the Higher Self,
which in turn relates to the even higher 'god-princ-
iple', a Human's true Monadic existence, which is only
subject to a threefold rather than sevenfold classificat-
ion. In the image of this Higher Self is the Personal-
ity, which relates not to a Ray but to a Plane through
it's intimate connection to form. Astrologically, the
life impulse of a Human is shown by the Sun's natal
position, the consciousness type by the Ascendant,
and the form aspect by the natal Moon, although this
is a vast simplification of an obscure subject at this
early stage. The interaction of the luminaries be-

tween New and Full Moon adequately illustrate the
balance between a person's consciousness and their
form, which show as Human bodily desires and needs.
To begin a quick overview of the mystical cosmol-
ogy presented in this book we first have to assume
that the highest level of life is both infinite and etern-
al. To use this concept we also have to assume the
existence of an infinite and eternal being which I call
the Absolute, which we could interpret as God or the
Creator if these terms were themselves not already
replete with various connotations that might serve to
confuse. Initially the Absolute conceives the intention
to experience, and so projects His life into manifest-
ation. But this subjective interaction requires subs-
tantiation to create the experience, so form and consc-
iousness are added to create a separate reality ~ a life
form which is still part of the Absolute as it is made
from and by Him, but He becomes it’s Creator and so
can experience objective life through it’s experience.
He then further conceives the notion of expanding this
objectivity through a myriad of different experiences
by making His creation do as He did and create in it’s
likeness, as this experience was beyond His initial
perception because He was still subjective to the orig-
inal creation. Thus all life is a consequence of one of
the three Aspects of the Absolute; His Will or initial
intention, His Consciousness and His Form.
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However, each of His three Aspects is further split
into seven precise parts. The divisions of the Absol-
ute's first Aspect, His Will, are known as the Lords of
Flame; those of His second Aspect, His Consciousness,
are known as the Lords of Mind; and those of His
third Aspect are known as the Lords of Form. The
seven divisions of the Lords of Flame are the Element-
al Kingdoms of archetypes from star systems to
minerals, the seven divisions of the Lords of Mind are
the Seven Rays of Human motivation, and the seven
divisions of the Lords of Form are the seven Planes of
Devic manifestation. Therefore there are three basic
evolutions of life ~ the Gods who are evolving towards
becoming the Lords of Flame, Humans who are
evolving towards becoming the Lords of Mind, and the
Devas who are evolving towards becoming the Lords
of Form.
In the physical world, the three evolutionary life-
streams work like this. The void between the Absol-
ute and His manifestation as the planet Earth is the
Second Primary Ray of latent consciousness. Within
this void the life-force of the Absolute's archetypal ex-
pression, the First Primary Ray, acts to create vehic-
les for His Will, and in so doing acts upon the Devic
form which is stimulated into manifesting the Seven
Planes through the Third Primary Ray. This inter-
action causes two aspects of life to attain a balanced
condition, and so the void becomes activated into be-
coming the consciousness of the new life. The Second
Primary can be seen here in both it's negative and

positive qualities, as the pre-creative void and the
post-creative consciousness. Also the Planes can be
seen as the result of the interaction of the First and
Third Primaries, although it is easier to think of them
as being formed by the Devic evolution out of the
archetypal structure of the Elemental beings, the
Lords of Flame. This may seem confusing at this
stage, but it will become clearer as we progress. The
important thing to remember is that the three life-
streams function as the Seven Kingdoms, the Seven
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Rays and the Seven Planes. These, in turn, relate to
the Lords of Flame, the Lords of Mind and the Lords
of Form respectively, see Diagram One on page 13.

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As experience descends into more dense matter,
further
creations are made by the created to return to
the Absolute to complete His experience. This act of
creation comes about through the perfect balancing of
the relevant units of Human consciousness with their
equivalent Devic form, giving the Elemental life-force
the instinctive motivation to imbue the joining with
it’s life giving energies. There are Seven Kingdoms,
which act as archetypal blueprints for creation, and
each one of these is again divided by seven. The
Creator creates the archetype of each sub-division of
each Kingdom and the creatures recreate themselves
according to their own archetype, and further create
within their own environments new creations from
Kingdoms lower than their own. Fundamentally, all
Kingdoms, creations, and life forms are built in God’s
own image evolving back eventually to the Absolute in
a new ‘atomised’ and individually refined state. Every
Kingdom, life form, being, Ray, Plane etc., are inti-
mately intertwined and still one with the Absolute.
It may help you understand this system of King-
doms and Planes by relating them to our ordinary
everyday world. We exist on the seventh subdivision
of the cosmic Seventh Plane of the Physical. From our

standpoint, we can see the physical representations of
the seven Kingdoms have their lowest manifestation
in our normal reality, but also have higher realities
above the physical. The seventh Kingdom consists of
the varieties of mineral life, and this exists only on
our Plane, but holds an intimate connection to the
seventh sub-plane of all higher Planes. The sixth
Kingdom consists of plant life, and it has a secondary
existence on the Sixth Plane and the sixth sub-plane
of all other Planes. This shows that plants have a
potential astral awareness, which is the function of
the Sixth or Astral Plane of Emotions.
You have to appreciate that all Kingdoms of life
have their higher counterparts, or equivalent Higher
Selves, one Plane above the Plane on which they nat-
urally function. Plant life functions on the Physical
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but under the influences coming from the Astral, the
Plane above, which is why it is correct to say plants
have feelings. The two exceptions to this are the
Seventh Kingdom of minerals and the First Kingdom
of star systems, which have an intimate relationship
with each other that is too complicated to concern us
here.
The next Kingdom is the fifth ~ the animal world.
This has it’s Higher Self equivalent on the Fifth Plane
but functions normally on the Astral Plane. Animals
have the potential faculty of thought, and in the more

evolved species, this is quite well developed. So anim-
als function normally on the Sixth Plane, but are open
to influences coming from the Fifth Plane of the Mind,
and the fifth sub-plane of all other Planes. We now
arrive at the Human position in the scheme. Humans
belong to the Fourth Kingdom, of the Etheric or In-
tuition, and function normally on the Fifth Plane of
the Mind, but are subject to influence from their High-
er Selves on the Fourth Plane, and the fourth sub-
plane of all other Planes. So far so good. Not too much
imagination is needed to understand it so far.
However, we now take a small jump in credibility.
The Third Kingdom is the Kingdom of planets, and
these beings function normally on the Fourth Plane of
the Etheric but are subject to influences emanating
from their equivalent Higher Selves on the Third
Plane, and the third sub-plane of every other Plane.
The Second Kingdom is the Kingdom of stars or suns,
and these beings function normally on the Third
Plane of Formulation, but are subject to influences
emanating from their equivalent Higher Selves on the
Second Plane, and the second sub-plane of every other
Plane. Finally, we have those great beings who are
beyond our comprehension and only just figure in our
physical reality. These are the star systems, constel-
lations and galaxies that cover our night skies, the
exalted beings of the First Kingdom, and I cannot
presume to understand the working at this level.
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This leads us onto a very important point that is
central to the understanding of the relationship of the
constituent parts of the cosmos, which is that each
seventh sub-division of the three aspects of the Absol-
ute are closely related to every other sub-division of
the same number in their own aspect or in either of
the other aspects. This may appear complicated, but if
all Rays, Planes, and Kingdoms are given a number
from one to seven, as well as each sub-division, then
each numbered part relates to all other parts with the
same number, no matter where in the system it is
situated. To give just one simple example, there is a
close and definite relationship between the Seventh
Ray, the seventh sub-division of all Rays, the Seventh
Plane, the Seventh sub-division of all Planes, the
Seventh Kingdom, and the Seventh sub-divisions of
all Kingdoms. More specifically, the Seventh Ray att-
ribute of ‘earthing’ is related to the Seventh Plane of
the Physical and the Seventh Kingdom of minerals.
This is an example of the truth behind the old occult
maxim "as above, so below".
There is one more very important point we need to
know before we can complete this picture of existence
we are putting together. Between each level of aware-
ness, each sub-division of each Ray and each sub-
division of each Plane, there is a very real and definite
barrier ~ physical reality as perceived through our
physical senses cannot register any other reality.
This point will need enlarging later, but always bear

in mind this barrier does exist, and that in our normal
physical state we have to remain completely unaware
of realities outside of our own.
By putting all of this information together, we have
a way of classifying and in part explaining life itself,
and the relationship between it’s many parts. If we
can accept this system as a workable truth we will
have a clearer understanding of many spiritual enig-
mas, and we are on the way to an intuitive knowledge
of the true reality of the spiritual path. Intuitive
knowledge is the next stage in Humanity's evolution,
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the use of the intuition as a natural conscious
awareness. And along the way, the true occult work-
ings behind astrology will become clearer, as well as
it’s limitations until science undertakes some serious
research into the subject. Most importantly, we will
learn to know ourselves much better, and how to
apply this knowledge to attune ourselves to our true
spiritual destiny.
It may seem to you that my explanations are ad-
monishing the separateness of all things, when my
real aim is to show their interconnection. We all came
from the Absolute, we are all part of the Absolute and
eventually, and with our full awareness, we will
knowingly become one again with the Absolute.
Also, let me make it clear at this early stage that I
make no apologies for my unscientific approach to

astrology and magic: I think it best to personify such
concepts as Kingdoms, Elementals and Devas, other-
wise we really will lose sight of the wholeness or holi-
ness of the entire scheme. The fact is, there are beings
or entities that are more evolved than Humanity in
the cosmos, and if they are subject to only three
ingredients of life, the life-force, consciousness and
form, instead of the seven operative in our earthly
existence, then how can we limit them to beings that
just exist on the Physical Plane? We cannot, so we
must open our minds to the possibility of the existence
of intelligent forces and energies with self-awareness,
and of forms we are unable to recognise through our
limited sensory apparatus. Such highly evolved entit-
ies can rightly be personified, else we might forget
they are life forms and consider them as mere forces of
nature.
Ancient man understood this well, as his aware-
ness was more developed in that area although lack-
ing in what we call objective intelligence. So to aid
our understanding of the Seven Rays it is easier to
imagine them as mere divisions of any reality, but we
should never forget that such divisions as they
manifest on Earth are still principles of the Absolute,
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and ultimately are close descendants of the beings
known in Sanskrit literature as the Seven Rishis, who
actually embody the Absolute's Divine Principles.

Bearing this in mind, try to appreciate this. Relat-
ive to us on Earth now, Humans are of the Absolute's
Second Aspect ~ as we are creatures of consciousness;
we are also of the Fourth Kingdom; we are the Third
Aspect in relation to the planet Earth, where Sham-
balla is the First and the Hierarchy the Second; and
although we exist predominantly on the Seventh
Physical Plane, we naturally feel through our connect-
ion to the Sixth Plane of the Astral, and think through
our connection with the Fifth Mental Plane. And we
can still belong to any one of the Seven Rays!
The Seven Rays are the various facets of the
Absolute's manifestation beginning their emanation
as His totally abstract Principles, and in the course of
their descent through the levels of existence which are
of their making they become clothed in the substance
of each level. They are consequently the highest re-
presentation of the Absolute's Principles to be found
on each level, and act in their sevenfold manner to
motivate their outer clothing in the direction laid
down by the Absolute. Their reason for existence is
solely to see that His Divine Principles operate every-
where in the cosmos in a way that is suitable for each
situation. Consequently we see a sevenfold division in
all things around us, and know that there is a co-
rrespondence between all things of the same principle
or Ray, although this similarity can be difficult to
appreciate.
Therefore, the Seven Rays, being of the same
essence and coming from a common origin as the

Seven Planes, relate directly to every form of natural
manifestation, including individual Humans.
From the above statement we can see that the
highest functioning part of each individual person, the
soul or Higher Self, cannot be defined by a single set
of qualities, as there are seven basic types of spirit-
uality that relate specifically to the Seven Rays. The