Theos-Talk Archives (June 2005 Message tt00275)

Dear all,

Can anybody provide any evidence of existence of the following
"Master's Table" in any material form, e.g. a letter or merely a piece
of paper? Or was it reproduced from the faithful memory of "the famous
occultist, C.W. Leadbeater"? Or any history of it at all?

The table is taken from the book by Ernest Wood entitled "The Seven
Rays" first printed in 1925.

See http://www.theosophical.ca/SevenRays.htm#18

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A MASTER'S TABLE 

RAY CHARACTERISTIC OF RAY CHARACTERISTIC MAGIC LAST RELIGION
1 FOHAT-SHECHINAH BRAHMANICAL
2 WISDOM RAJA YOGA (Human Mind) BUDDHISM
3 AKASA ASTROLOGY (Natural Magnetic Forces) CHALDEAN
4 BIRTH OF HORUS HATHA YOGA (Physical Development) EGYPTIAN
5 FIRE ALCHEMY (Material Substances) ZOROASTRIAN
6 INCARNATION OF DEITY BHAKTI YOGA (Devotion) CHRISTIANITY,etc. (Kabala,etc.)
7 CEREMONIAL MAGIC ELEMENTAL WORSHIP

(Page 117) The above table of the rays is in the nature of an
historical document. It was given to the famous occultist, C.W.
Leadbeater, forty years ago at Adyar by the Master Djwal Kul, who told
him, and the friends who were with him at the time, that that was all
that it was then permissible to disclose to the world about the rays.
It was not very intelligible at the time, but it has formed the
classic foundation for further information that has been obtained from
time to time. It now appears in his remarkable new book, The Masters
and the Path. It first came into my hands only a few days ago, after I
had written down all the ideas that are embodied in the foregoing
chapters. Yet on looking it over I find that there is nothing to
suggest any error in that work, or to hint at any necessary
alternation. I am reproducing it here, with the permission of the
author, because I think that my comments upon it may be interesting to
students of the rays, and may help to elucidate some of the more
obscure terms (such as “Birth of Horus”) which have been somewhat of a
puzzle to many.
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