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DIVISION C.  SEVEN ESOTERIC STANZAS. - Part 10

 

People on the Probationary Path.

 

 

 

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   Average humanity of all degrees.

 

 

[cccxxxvi] 35: Students must be careful to distinguish in their minds between these seven cosmic Paths and the seven ray Paths upon which all humanity are found and which have been earlier treated in this Treatise.  As we have already seen the seven ray paths become three when units upon the four minor rays merge themselves into one of the three major rays.  These three form the synthetic ray of Love-Wisdom by the time the sons of men have taken the final systemic Initiations.  When this stage is reached and men realise the unity of the solar system not only theoretically but also as a practical reality with which they have identified themselves, then there is borne in upon their consciousness a something which transcends consciousness altogether and which can only be expressed by the limiting word identification.  This identification is a cosmic and not a systemic process, and is itself sevenfold in nature.  This sevenfold process for lack of a better term we call the sevenfold cosmic Path.

[cccxxxvii] * NOTE: These seven stanzas form only one true stanza out of the oldest book in the world, and one which the eye of the average man has never contacted.  Only the sense is here given and not a literal translation, and certain phrases are eliminated in all of them for one or other of the three following reasons:  Either the manuscript from which these extracts are taken lacks certain of the words or symbols which are missing on account of the extreme age of the material upon which the text is indited, or their insertion would convey too much knowledge to the man whose perception is sufficiently awakened.  Thirdly, the insertion of the omitted words would only serve to awaken confusion and even ridicule on account of the impossibility of translating them correctly; they concern realisations far in advance of the comprehension of man at this time.