Dear co-worker,

In 1800, the experiments of William Hershel revealed the existence of light beyond the visible spectrum. Because the wavelength of this light was slightly longer than that of the colour red, it became known as infrared – infra meaning “below” and “beyond”. The following year, Johann Ritter discovered light beyond the other end of the visible spectrum with a shorter wavelength than violet. He christened this light ultraviolet – ultra also meaning “beyond”. As the wavelength of light gets shorter at this end of the spectrum, it vibrates at a higher frequency carrying more energy; so it is fitting that over time, the term ultra has taken on the meaning of “extreme”, conveying the sense of energetic intensity associated with ultraviolet light.

In esoteric science and philosophy, the place of violet in the spectrum is of prime importance in connection with great cycles, the energy it carries marking the ending of one cycle and the beginning of another. We are living in such a time now, for the Violet Ray – the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order – is cycling into power and inaugurating a new era. Such a cycle is said to be even more dramatic if it occurs when the Sun is entering Aquarius and the Earth is experiencing “moments of planetary crisis”, as is the case now; for then the right conditions exist for the manifestation of “light supernal”.

This manifestation of light supernal results from the blending of all of the seven rays of life through the “violet Ray of Ceremonial Law or Order”. This is “a synthetic ray when manifested in the…[lower] worlds”, its objective being “to bring about illumination and the establishment of order upon the Earth.” The Alice Bailey writings go on to say that the first step taken to maximise the effect of this precipitating light was the giving out of the Great Invocation; and the second step will be the reappearance of the Christ:

"Who will act as the lens through which the light can be focussed and adapted to human need”.¹

All of this helps to explain why today’s world is so tumultuous – it is a time of transition in which a great new cycle of energy is clashing with an old one. We can also begin to appreciate the significance of ultraviolet light, both symbolically and practically in connection with the reappearance of the Christ. The energy of the seventh ray that this light carries has already been instrumental in the inauguration of the information age with its useful applications in electronic communications and information processing as well as in many areas of science and medicine. Its potential as a new worldwide energy source has also been explored by two highly qualified teams reporting that their experimental research released tremendous amounts of high energy ultraviolet light that could be converted into electricity. As a result, the engineering companies concerned – Aureon Energy and Brilliant Light Power – have acquired significant financial backing and anticipate entering the world market around 2025.²

While many previous claims of new energy sources have failed to produce results, perhaps the time for successful demonstration is now approaching as the influence of the seventh ray of Ceremonial Magic or Organisation continues to intensify? The violet devas ³ are naturally responsive to the influence of the seventh ray to ‘make manifest’ and they may provide the vitality required to externalise this potential on the physical plane. Moreover, we are told that, when the Christ comes, “the group of violet angels or devas who work on the four etheric levels will be especially active”. While this statement may refer to a select group of deva lives, as all of the violet devas of the etheric planes are on the evolutionary path, an overall intensification of their activity through the worldwide implementation of a new ultraviolet energy source could be a portent of tremendous significance in relation to the reappearance.

Expanding on this hopeful vision, the groups of violet angels or devas who are “pledged to the service of the Christ”, have the work of contacting and teaching humanity along certain lines. This includes the teaching of “superhuman physics”; demonstrating the existence of a “superconscious world” and how to expand consciousness to include it; the stimulation of etheric vision so that the infrared and ultraviolet gamut of colours become a natural part of human vision; and the efficiency of violet light in curing sicknesses which originate in the etheric body, including how to:

“nourish the body and to draw from the surrounding ethers the requisite food”.⁴

As we ponder these violet devas in relation to the reappearance of the Christ, a question naturally arises about the new technologies of this era and if they have a specific role to play in the Christ’s work and the implementation of the Divine Plan? There are certainly huge moral issues that surround new, emerging technologies that have the power to manipulate the forms of the fauna, flora and even the microbial life of the planet. And while bioethicists, social scientists, policy makers and risk experts are deliberating the many new issues that are arising from biotechnology, the overall path of development, the direction it should take, and in whose interest it should be taken, are not discussed as frequently and openly as needed.

But to focus on a more positive vision, the manipulation of the mineral kingdom is very much part of humanity’s service to the Plan, which is to develop its sensitivity to the vital force that makes plants grow; in other words, it is to prepare the life inherent in minerals for their future transition into the vegetable kingdom. While the incorporation of electric circuitry into metals may be seen as part of this awakening process, a more advanced stage lies in the direct application of etheric force to machines through the human aura. This possibility was first demonstrated by the inventor John Worrell Keely in 1872; and as Helena Blavatsky commented at the time:

“Keely’s difficulty has hitherto been to produce a machine which would develop and regulate the ‘force’ without the intervention of any ‘will power’ or personal influence, whether conscious or unconscious of the operator. In this he has failed, so far as others were concerned, for no one but himself could operate on his ‘machines’.”⁵

In a book entitled, Scientific Religion, (1887) Laurence Oliphant, author and former member of the British Parliament, related Keely’s “new force” to a “spiritual quickening” taking place in humanity along with certain “organic changes in man now in progress” which signified the beginning of a new moral future:

“A new moral future is dawning upon the human race – one, certainly, of which it stands much in need.’ In no way could this new moral future be so widely, so universally, commenced as by the utilizing of dynaspheric [etheric] force to beneficial purposes in life…”

Oliphant goes on to describe a new divine power descending on earth that we might equate with Alice Bailey’s writings on the “energising Will-to-Good” from Shamballa:

“…a spiritual wave is at present rolling in upon the world of a character unprecedented in its past history… Before very long it will break; and the object of this book is to prepare men’s minds for a crisis in the history of the planet which cannot, I think, be very long deferred… It will… bind together… those who fight for the Powers of Light against those who fight for the Powers of Darkness…” (Introduction, pp.1–8)

The tidal wave of the Shamballa force did indeed break, resulting in two world wars. And two more direct impacts from Shamballa were predicted for 1975 and 2000, which surely account for much of the good as well as the evil that is still rising to the surface of human consciousness. However, behind the dark clouds that continue to obscure humanity’s vision of “the beautiful, the good and the true”, the new morality is shining strong. The aura of the new group of world servers is able to bear the tension of the will-to-good, while millions of individuals are responsive to the inherent energy of goodwill. But how might this all work out in connection with future technology? Perhaps more directly than we might at first think, according to Rudolf Steiner:

“Moral development will enable humanity to generate energies that will be very different from those that are now to be found at the physical level. Keely set his engine in motion with vibrations created in his own organism. Such vibrations depend on a person’s moral nature. This is the first hint of a dawn for a technology of the future. We will have engines in the future that are only set going by energies coming from people who have moral qualities. Immoral people will not be able to set them going. Purely mechanical mechanism must be transformed into moral mechanism.”⁶

The idea of “moral mechanism” gives us much to ponder, and in doing so, the work of Dale Pond deserves some consideration. In the late 1990’s Pond put an engineering team together to build a dynaspheric machine based on Keely’s original model. When it was first displayed at a new energy conference in Denver, Pond recounts how, to his surprise, the machine would only come to life when those gathered around it were of a positive mental disposition – a joyful state – when those of a more concrete-minded, skeptical temperament came close, the energy field collapsed, and the machine stopped working. Furthermore, sensitive people – nearly always women – experienced a quality emanating from the machine that they could only describe as Love. This has led Pond to devote the rest of his life to researching this phenomenon in terms of “sympathetic vibratory physics”⁷

We can usefully apply this physics of sympathetic vibration to an important esoteric triangle highlighted in Alice Bailey’s writings. This is comprised of the energetic Will-to-Good of Shamballa, humanity and the mineral kingdom. These three have a very close rapport with each other from the angle of the Plan. Humanity’s role is to establish a sympathetic vibration between Shamballa and the mineral kingdom, and it requires machines in order to do this. When the “principle in man which can control and guide etheric vibratory force” is awakened and used to control the machines of the future, so will forms be created in the mineral kingdom in line with the following prophecy:

“when perfected forms and organised vehicles and dynamic power are related and unified, then we shall have a full expression, at the point of deepest and densest concretion, of the mind of God in form, with a radiation which will be dynamically effective.” ⁸

In the companionship of the One Work,
Headquarters Group Lucis Trust

1. A.A. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age Vol II, p.426
2. Aureon Energy website, https://aureon.ca/ | Brilliant Light Power website, https://brilliantlightpower.com/
3. Deva: from the root div “to shine”. A Deva is a celestial being – whether good, bad, or indifferent. Devas inhabit “the three worlds”, which are the three planes above us. There are 33 groups or 330 million of them. H.P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary.
4. A.A. Bailey, The Externalisation of the Hierarchy, pp.508–9
5. H.P. Blavatsky, Secret Doctrine, Vol 1, p.562, Kindle edition
6. Hints of Future Etheric Force Technology, Anthroposophy.eu
7. Dale Pond, The Keely Legacy, Sympathetic Vibratory Physics, Extraordinary Technology Conference 2004, YouTube
8. A.A. Bailey, Esoteric Psychology, Vol I, p.226

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