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.