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The Rays and The Initiations
Alice A. Bailey

1 "Synthesis is an attribute of the divine will and the outstanding quality of Deity."

2 "Religion is the name given to the invocative appeal of humanity and the evocative response of the greater Life to that cry. It is, in fact, the recognition by the part of its relationship to the Whole, plus a constantly growing demand for increased awareness of that relation."

3 "This evolutionary pushing forward along the Lighted Way, out of darkness into light, from the unreal to the real, and from death to immortality, is an inherent urge in all forms."

4 "Freedom is an essentially spiritual attribute, underlying the entire evolutionary process; this should always be remembered as a strengthening and conditioning reality by all men everywhere. It has survived aeons of opposition from the principle of enslaving selfishness and is largely responsible, at this time, for the struggle in which we are all participating."

5 "Law, Love, Union or Synthesis – all these great energies have seeped into the human consciousness and now provide the platform upon which the new civilisation can be founded, the new approach to God be taken, and new human relations be implemented."

6 "The steady pulsation of the evolutionary rhythm permeates every atom, form, group and centre, producing effect upon the lowest forms of existence and on and up to the very highest; there is naught anywhere but progress and a steady moving forward into clearer light and greater livingness."

7 "Oneness is the major characteristic of the Universal Mind."

8 "The will-to-good of the world knowers is the magnetic seed of the future."

9 "We are all the children of God; we are all equally divine; we are all on our way to the revelation of divinity."

10 "Bliss is associated with complete Being; it concerns the interior attitude of the Whole."

11 "The goal of all the initiatory process is to admit mankind into realisation of and identification with the will or purpose of Deity."

12 "Divinity is all there is."

13 "The urge-to-good pervades every aspect of the planetary Life from the smallest atom of substance, through all the intermediate living forms, on and up to the Logos Himself."

14 "The will is a penetrating power which relates Plan to Purpose and which has in it the faculty of coherent persistence. The reason for this persistence is that it is not dependent upon the content of the form – whether it is the form of an atom, of a man or of a planet – but upon a vital dynamic and immutable purpose, latent in the consciousness of the Being Who 'having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment' of Himself, remains – greater…and firmer in intent than any of His creations, even the most advanced."

15 "The future progress of humanity is aided and hastened because of the attainment and activity of the Christ."

16 "Evil is after all only an impelling sense of difference, leading inevitably to separative action."

17 "In the coming new cycle the emphasis will be upon group work and activity, upon group initiation and group approach to the Center of Life."

18 "Divinity is the expression of the will or purpose of the One in Whom we live and move and have our being."

19 "There is no death. There is only progress from glory to glory, a moving forward from point to point on the divine Way, and from revelation to revelation towards those points and revelations which are part of the Goal of God."

20 "The quality of spirituality is Love."

21 "The goal of the initiate is identification with all forms of the divine life, so that he can know himself to be an integral part of that Whole and can tune in on all states of divine awareness, knowing for himself (and not just theoretically) they they are also his own states of awareness."

22 "The divine Mind spins the thread of connecting light and relates all beings into Itself."

23 "Behind all the successive revelations of divinity down the ages is to found one significant purpose; all of them are and will prove themselves to be aspects of the Great Revelation."

24 "The circle with the point in the centre is symbolic of the perfected man. He is rounded out; he is inclusive both vertically (soul contact) and horizontally (human relationship)."

25 "Age by age the thinking capacity of man and his creative imagination have wrought out the slowly unfolding design, and will continue to do so."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite