Kurt Abraham, Psychological Types and the Seven Rays By Kurt Abraham (Author)

The Seven Rays “cycle through every kingdom in nature and produce all states of consciousness in every field of awareness.” As such, the subject matter is enormously complex. The author, however, enables one to “get a practical handle on the Rays” through exploring and elaborating upon the material given the Alice Bailey books, concerning the Rays of Mind.

Using historic examples, the author illustrates innate gifts and prejudices of prominent people. Each ray type is endowed with certain natural gifts. The fifth ray mind, for example, finds science a path of least resistance. When it comes to writing poetry, however, Darwin had no ability to think creatively. Vincent van Gogh’s fourth ray mind expressed deep feelings for beauty and color. In his words, he had a “violent passion for works of art reaching the highest pitch of enthusiasm.” When it came to business and employment, he had much difficulty. “He had not the slightest knowledge of the book trade and did not make any attempt to learn.”
Extreme or pronounced types were selected by the author in order to make the ray energies more “visible.”

The author explains how a person has a soul ray, a personality ray, a ray of the mind, the emotional body, and the physical body – five rays in total. A person can be a “pronounced type” with more than one “body” on the same ray. Or a personal can be a “balanced type” with rays on both major ray lines.