| Ray VII This ray provides at
this time an active and necessary grouping of disciples who are eager to aid the Plan.
Their work lies naturally on the physical plane. They can organize the evoked ideal which
will embody as much of the idea of God as the period and humanity can evidence and produce
in form upon the earth. Their work is potent and necessary and calls for much skill in
action. This is the ray that is coming into power. None of these ray participants in the
hierarchical crusade today can really work without each other, and no group can carry on
alone. The difference between the methods of the old age and that of the new can be seen
expressed in the idea of leadership by one and leadership by a group. It is the difference
between the imposition of an individual's response to an idea upon his fellow men and the
reaction of a group to an idea, producing group idealism and focalizing it into definite
form, carrying forward the emergence of the idea without the dominance of any one
individual. This is the major task today of the seventh ray disciple, and to this end he
must bend every energy. He must speak those Words of Power which are a group word, and
embody the group aspiration in an organized movement, which, it will be noted is
quite distinct from an organization. A striking instance of the use of such a Word of
Power being enunciated by a group has lately been given in the Great Invocation which has
been used with marked effect. It should continue to be used, for it is the inaugurating
mantram of the incoming seventh ray. This is the first time such a mantram has been
brought to the attention of humanity. |