Integrating the teachings on the Eight Ray
A dictation by Saint Germain.
NOTE: This dictation was given on 12/30/07 as part of the Shangra-la
conference in Los Angeles, California.
Saint Germain I AM, and I come to discourse with you on what it means
to gain mastery on the seven rays—and thereby qualify to move
on to the eighth ray.
My beloved, in previous dispensations we have given the concept of the
secret rays. And we have spoken about them in vague terms. You might
wonder, my beloved, if these rays are secret and cannot be spoken about,
why mention them at all, why not simply leave it unspoken?
Well, my beloved, there is a test built into this. For we of the Ascended
Host are skilled teachers, and we have observed humankind for a very
long time—thus knowing what it takes to give people the tests
that are appropriate at different levels of the path. And so you see,
my beloved, by talking about something that is secret, something that
is reserved only for special initiates – as we have done in a
number of different religions and organizations – well then we
give people the test of pride—whether they will seek that which
is secret with an inordinate desire to elevate themselves in comparison
to others. Because they now have some knowledge that most people do
not have, and thus these initiates can feel special, my beloved.
Real students and false students
And thus you see, my beloved, the purpose behind doing this is the simple
fact that there are two types of people who come to the spiritual path
and who come to spiritual teachers. There are those who are the genuine
students, who are seeking to grow, who are seeking to overcome the ego
by internalizing the lessons of the teacher.
But then there are those students, my beloved, who do not have a serious
intention of letting go of the ego or the separate self. In fact, they
come to the teacher – be it a true or a false teacher –
in order to elevate that separate self, in order to reinforce the belief
that the separate self can be saved, can somehow be perfected or justified,
so that it can gain entry into heaven.
And so you see, my beloved, you might have had a somewhat one-sided
or naïve view of the spiritual path or of the Ascended Host and
how we teach. You might have thought that all people who come to the
spiritual path must be genuine students. But we of the Ascended Host
can see through all of the smokescreens that people's egos have built
over many lifetimes.
And thus, we see the inner condition, the condition of the heart—of
whether that person has actually genuinely locked into what the spiritual
path is all about. Or whether that person has not yet understood the
essence of the path, namely that it is to rise above the separate self—rather
than somehow perfecting that separate self.
Now, my beloved, we of the Ascended Host do not judge people according
to human judgments. We welcome virtually anyone who has a potential
to change. And thus, we often allow students to come into our organizations—and
in some organizations we have allowed those students to attain high
positions in the organization, even though we see that they have not
yet truly committed to the true path of overcoming the ego. And we see
very well that they are using our outer teachings and the outer organization
in order to seek to create for themselves a position that makes the
ego feel important, feel special, feel elevated above others. Because
they have been in the teachings for so long, they have studied so much,
they have decreed so much, they have had contact with the messenger
or they have this or that outer position, my beloved.
A movement in which no person is more important than another
And so I know that some of you have come into contact with ascended
master organizations and been somewhat shocked by the fact that you
find these ego-centered people who are often abusing their power or
treating others unkindly, which you did not expect to find in an organization
that has the profound teachings of the Ascended Host.
But you see, my beloved, as Jesus
has explained, our previous dispensations were designed to help
people master the initiations of the Piscean age. And one of the initiations
of the Piscean age, my beloved, is precisely that you need to overcome
the illusion, as I have already mentioned—that one person can
be more important than another.
This, my beloved, is why you see that in this new dispensation of Shangra-la
we do not set up a hierarchy that allows some people to climb to a position,
where they can feel they are important for outer reasons. We have indeed
a movement here, but we have the potential to go beyond the Piscean
initiation – and the Piscean focus on the outer hierarchy –
and establish a new movement that sets a pattern, my beloved, where
no one is more important than others and where the ego does not have
room to hide behind outer rituals and outer positions.
For it is a movement that recognizes the subtle games of the ego, and
where people are not afraid to speak out and expose those games. Rather
than the pattern we have seen throughout the Piscean age of those who
are of lower rank always bending the knee and refusing to speak out
against those who are of higher rank, thereby creating a situation where
– once ego-centered people have attained leadership positions
in an organization – it is virtually impossible to remove them
from those positions. And therefore the organization starts going into
a downward spiral that either leads to it being split into multiple
factions, or to it gradually dying out by losing its members as it has
lost the sponsorship of the Ascended Host.
Now, my beloved, you must understand that we allow people of all kinds
to come into our teachings and movements, even this one. For we give
people an opportunity. And people deserve an opportunity for many reasons
that often go back many lifetimes, my beloved. And thus, you might look
at a person's outer personality and say that this person has some rough
edges, but nevertheless when you see behind the outer personality, you
see that that person still deserves an opportunity to be in contact
with an ascended master teaching.
So, my beloved, do not judge based on human judgment. But on the other
hand, do not be passive and let someone abuse you. Find that middle
way, where you do not judge, but you are – on the other hand –
non-attached to other people's reactions, and therefore have no compunctions
about speaking out and bringing to someone's attention that they are
playing an ego game.
Why some fail the test of pride
So, my beloved, you must understand that my purpose for bringing this
to your attention is to show you that throughout the history of ascended
master organizations, there has been a certain percentage of the students
who came into contact with the organization and who failed the test
of pride. The test of overcoming pride by seeing it as pride, and thereby
surrendering themselves into the humility that really is the oneness
with God, the oneness with all life.
For, my beloved, when you surrender your separate self into the oneness
with your infinite self, well then you see that it is meaningless to
create value judgments based on the beliefs of the separate self. And
thus it is meaningless to talk about one person being better or more
important than another. For truly all are of equal value in the eyes
of God.
So what I desire you to understand from this is precisely that until
you have overcome the subtle test of pride, you cannot even begin to
grasp the concept of the secret rays, the concept of the rays that are
beyond the seven rays that have been known to humankind for a long time.
For you see, my beloved, it is actually possible to walk the path of
mastery of the seven rays while still having some ego left, having some
pride left, even using some of the things you learn on each of the seven
rays to build up the ego and the sense of superiority.
It is even possible, my beloved, to attain some mastery on the seven
rays and thereby attain a certain mastery over the matter realm –
over the Ma-ter Light – being able to manifest certain outer,
visible phenomena, such as psychic phenomena, psychic abilities, the
opening of the third eye, or even an ability to, in certain ways, manipulate
matter.
And you see that there is a certain small percentage of students throughout
the world who have attained some mastery in this respect. And thus,
they can produce a phenomenon that might impress the uninitiated, the
unawakened, for they look only for the outer phenomenon but do not look
beyond to the quality of the heart. And thus they do not see the selfishness,
the self-centeredness of the person who is seeking to build him- or
herself up by claiming or demonstrating some ability beyond the normal.
See the inner mastery beyond outer mastery
So what I desire you to see here, my beloved, is that as you walk the
path of attaining mastery over the seven rays, it is essential for you
to realize that walking the path of mastery does not simply mean that
you attain an outer mastery of the seven rays. It means that you also
attain an inner mastery, whereby you actually come to see that the seven
rays are not separate—that you actually cannot even view the seven
rays as a linear phenomenon.
I know, my beloved, that when we gave the concept of the seven rays,
it was unavoidable that the analytical mind would look at this as a
linear phenomenon. There is the first ray, the second ray, the third
ray and so on. But you see, my beloved, the spiritual world is not linear—it
is spherical, it is One.
It cannot be separated into neat little categories that the analytical
mind can then label and categorize and organize into a system. For you
see, my beloved, what we are attempting to help you realize in this
latest rosary and
in the forthcoming rosaries is precisely the need to go beyond a mechanized
view of the seven rays and lock in to the fact that the seven rays are
creative qualities, not mechanical qualities.
Beyond a linear view of the rays
And thus, my beloved, the reality here is that when you start the path
of initiation on the seven rays, you might start out on the first ray
of will. But when you have passed that initiation of will, you do not
simply leave the first ray behind and then move on to the second ray
as a completely separate initiation.
My beloved, I know – again – that the linear mind creates
certain images, and so many of you have come to believe that when you
are studying on the first ray, well then you are studying under the
master MORE, or El Morya as he used to be named. And thus, you go to
the retreat of Master MORE. And then, when you move on to the second
ray, you study under that master, and go to that master's retreat, and
so on through the seven rays.
But you see, my beloved, these are images that we have given you because
humankind was still so trapped in the linear mind. But the reason I
am giving you this teaching is that so many of you who have been willing
to study the teachings we have given on the AskRealJesus website, the
teachings on IS, and who have been willing to give the rosaries, and
thus you have been prepared. Perhaps you knew this, perhaps you were
not aware of it, but you have been prepared to step beyond the linear
mind and reach for a more spherical understanding of the spiritual reality
and the spiritual path.
And thus, my beloved, we need you to step up and realize that although
there are seven rays that have certain qualities, the rays are not separate.
They are not isolated from one another, they are all intertwined. So
you see, my beloved – again because of the limitations of words
– let us just say that a student begins studying on the first
ray. But you see, my beloved, on the first ray you find embodied all
of the other six rays.
So you are not simply studying will or willpower, you are studying willpower
with the shade of will, willpower with the shade of wisdom, willpower
with the shade of love, purity, vision, service and freedom. So in order
to pass the initiations on the first ray, you have to have some concept
of and mastery over the other rays as well.
And then, my beloved, when you do pass these initiations that are focused
on the first ray and move on to the second ray, it does not mean that
you leave the first ray behind. It means that you take with you what
you have learned on the first ray and incorporate those lessons on the
second ray, where you now begin studying wisdom with the shade of will,
wisdom with the shade of wisdom, wisdom with the shade of love, and
so on.
The false path of outer mastery
Now you see, my beloved, those students who have not locked in to the
reality of the spiritual path as the path of oneness, the path of leaving
behind the separate self, well they cannot understand what I have just
told you. And thus they will walk the path of the seven rays through
the filter of the linear mind and the separate self.
Therefore, what they see as they go through the initiations is not the
holistic picture, the spherical picture. It is a separate picture, because
they look at the ray and its qualities through the filter of the separate
self. And so they see it as a process whereby the separate self attains
mastery on a particular ray. And this is why, my beloved, it is possible
that such students can attain a certain mastery on the first ray of
God's Power. But when they express that mastery, it is expressed in
an unbalanced manner, for it is not balanced by wisdom, love, purity,
and so forth.
So you see, my beloved, when you look at ascended master students, you
might look at certain students that seem to have a very powerful aura
and demeanor about them, who are always very determined and who are
always very good at commanding other people to get things done. But
if you look deeper, you see that they are often lacking in love or wisdom
or other qualities.
And this is precisely because they have not integrated the lessons of
one ray with the lessons of the other rays. And that is why it is possible
to be unbalanced in the expression of one ray. For I trust you now see
that the purpose for the true path – where you integrate all qualities
of the seven rays on each ray – is precisely to help you walk
the path in a balanced manner. So that you do not fall into the trap
of expressing this or that quality in an unbalanced manner.
And so you can now look at the world, my beloved, and gain a different
perspective, where you realize that there are certain people in the
world who have a certain mastery on the first ray of God Power, but
it is unbalanced and therefore they abuse power. You have an entire
class of people in the educational system and in science who have a
mastery on the ray of God's Wisdom, but it is again unbalanced and that
is why they are intellectuals who look at everything through the intellect
but are unable to see the limitations of the intellect.
Then you have a group of people who are very spiritual, very kind, very
loving, for they have mastery on the third ray of Love, but they do
not have the balanced mastery. And thus, as is the case for many students
in South America, they have love without power, and thus they tend to
be passive.
Again, on each of the other rays you see that people are unbalanced.
On the fourth ray of purity, my beloved, you see many people in religious
movement who are so focused on keeping the teachings pure that they
will not allow any creative interpretation of the Bible, or even the
ascended master teachings. And thus, they become like the scribes and
Pharisees who condemned the living Christ, who went beyond their linear
literal interpretations of the scriptures. And this is not to say that
it is bad to keep a teaching pure, but the desire for purity must be
balanced by wisdom, love, and the other qualities, or it will be expressed
in an inharmonious way that is ultimately not constructive and will
actually lead to the opposite goal.
And of course you have people on the fifth ray who are often serving
in the healing arts, or who are visionaries reaching for new ideas.
But often, my beloved, they are unbalanced and do not look at the big
picture. So they can come up with idea after idea without ever carrying
them out, without ever having them come into physical manifestation
so they benefit humankind. Or they seek healing of diseases without
going beyond and looking at why these diseases manifest, what is the
greater cause. So there are many people in the healing field that are
truly dedicated to helping others, but they are seeking to heal symptoms
and not the deeper cause.
Likewise, you have many people who are dedicated to service on the sixth
ray, my beloved, and who have a great dedication. But as I spoke about
in South America, well they think that
a certain level of service is enough. They do not go beyond and realize
that you only give service when you accelerate people beyond the state
of consciousness that has precipitated the particular material problems
they are facing.
And then, of course, you have those who are unbalanced on the seventh
ray of freedom. And you have many, many people in the state of California,
my beloved, who have a certain mastery on the seventh ray of freedom
but because it is not balanced by the other rays, especially by the
seventh, they do not recognize that you cannot be free by doing whatever
you want. You can be free only by – as is expressed in this rosary
– tuning in to your own higher will, the higher will of your infinite
Being. For the separate self, the will of the separate self, cannot
be free and can never give you freedom, my beloved.
Integrating the seven rays
And so what I desire you to understand here is that most ascended master
students have so far had a somewhat limited view of what it means to
walk the path of initiation on the seven rays. For it is not, as I said,
a path of going from one ray to the other, having them all compartmentalized.
To truly walk the path, to walk the true path of the Ascended Host,
you must see beyond the separate mind, the analytical mind. You must
integrate all seven rays – on all seven rays – so that you
do not have an unbalanced mastery of one, or perhaps more than one ray,
but cannot integrate that and express it with love, wisdom and power
and the other qualities.
So the conclusion here is, my beloved, that if you have walked the path
of the seven rays and seen it through the filter of the separate mind,
well then you cannot – you will never – grasp the reality
of the eighth ray and the initiations on the eighth ray, my beloved.
Only when you have integrated the first seven rays, so that you have
mastery on all seven rays but you have mastery on the seven qualities
of each of the seven rays. And you see them all as part of a whole,
where they are not separate, not apart, but they work together, my beloved,
to precipitate what you see in the material realm.
For you see, my beloved, even in some past teachings we have given a
linear view that first the Elohim of the first ray precipitated a certain
level of manifestation. And then the Elohim of the second ray precipitated
upon that foundation a more organized structure, and so on and so forth.
But you see, my beloved, the seven Elohim are in complete oneness. And
thus it is not actually a linear process of one quality and then another
and then another. It is a spherical, unified process, where all of the
seven rays are brought into action from the very beginning—although
there are certain phases where the quality of the particular ray is
dominant. But it is still balanced by the other six rays, so that there
is a harmonious, unified manifestation, my beloved.
And so, I encourage all of you to contemplate these concepts and to
take an honest look at yourselves and to see whether you have mastery
on a certain ray, but whether that mastery is actually balanced by the
qualities of the other six. For I tell you this, my beloved, because
many of you have actually reached a point where you have attained a
very high degree of integration of the seven rays. Which is why you
have deserved a release of these teachings, my beloved. For you can,
by looking at yourself – and seeing if you have any imbalances
left – you can very quickly come into that state of having integrated
the seven rays, my beloved. And that is precisely the point where you
have qualified to begin the initiations of the eighth ray which precisely,
my beloved, is the path of integration.
Grasping the initiations of the eight ray
You will not be able to even grasp what the eighth ray is about through
the linear, analytical mind. For the linear analytical mind, my beloved,
cannot grasp integration.
For the analytical mind is a faculty that is designed to deal with the
material realm, where you have forms that appear separate and in some
cases need to be dealt with separately in order to achieve some level
of organization in society. So I am not saying, my beloved, that you
need to shun your intellect, for it is a valuable faculty—but
only when you recognize its limitations and its purpose.
When you elevate the intellect to a god that can know everything –
and you begin to believe that what cannot be grasped by the intellect
does not exist or has no importance – well then you have become
a slave of a tool. As if you have become a slave of your car, rather
than being the owner and master of the car.
And if suddenly the car started driving on its own, taking you to a
different destination than you had planned – because the car would
rather go to the beach than go to work – this, of course,
you would immediately see as unacceptable. But when your intellect does
the same, many, many people in the world follow along and allow themselves
to become slaves of the intellect and refuse to consider a deeper teaching
than what the intellect can grasp.
Rethink your view of ascended masters
And so you see, my beloved, the eighth-ray initiation requires a complete
rethinking of the spiritual path. Which is why the
last time we were in California I repeatedly said, “Question
everything!” Question your concept of the spiritual path, your
view of the spiritual path, your view of the Ascended Host, my beloved.
For do you really think that Master MORE and I are completely separate
beings who go our separate ways except when we come together in meetings?
Well, my beloved, I can assure you that Master MORE and I have a constant
communion, as do Mother Mary and I, Jesus and I, the Buddha and I. We
are in a constant state of communion.
Even though we can – in certain situations – manifest a
more concentrated aspect of our total beings, we are not linear, separate
beings as you conceive of yourselves on Earth, my beloved. For we are
ascended because we have passed the eighth-ray initiations of integration,
of overcoming the sense of separation, the sense that everything can
be compartmentalized into qualities that are distinctly different from
each other.
And so you see, my beloved, as I have been giving this discourse, you
may – according to your old view of the Ascended Host –
have thought that this is one master, Saint Germain, who is giving this
discourse. But you see, my beloved, when I need to speak about the first
ray, I do not simply speak about the first ray from a separate perspective,
as being a master that is separated from it. When I mention the first
ray I immediately am in attunement with Master MORE so that I, Saint
Germain, speak about the first ray through the awareness of the first
ray that Master MORE is.
And so there is no separation, my beloved. I have no desire to speak
about the first ray without the presence of Master MORE. For I am not
in competition with him on anything. I am in oneness with him. And so
why would I even conceive that I, Saint Germain, could know something
about the first ray without being in attunement with the master of that
ray?
What does it mean to master a certain ray?
Likewise you, my beloved, you might sit here and think that you have
been in the ascended masters’ teachings for many years. You have
studied our outer teachings, you have practiced decrees, you might have
studied all of the dictations that were given by El Morya through previous
dispensations. You might have practiced the decrees on the first ray
of the Will of God, and you might think you have some awareness of the
first ray and its qualities. And you might indeed have that awareness.
But what I am saying is, my beloved, that if you have that awareness
as an intellectual awareness – where you think that I am here,
and I am observing the first ray which is somewhere separate from me
– well then, my beloved, you have not even begun to understand
the first ray. For my beloved, how do you truly come to understand the
first ray?
Well, you can do so only, my beloved, by overcoming the sense of separation
and coming into oneness with the master of the first ray. And so if
you have an intellectual concept of El Morya as the master of the first
ray in the old dispensations, well then you truly have not gone beyond
that—and you have not started the path of integration of the first
ray, of coming into oneness with the living, creative Being of the first
ray.
For you see, my beloved, you might with the linear mind conceive of
a particular ray in a certain mechanical way—that it has certain
qualities that it can be broken down and put in a table with a list
of words. But you see, my beloved, even though that can be a step towards
getting to know the first ray, if it becomes an end in itself, then
it is actually standing in the way of your integration with the first
ray.
But you see, my beloved, the first ray of God's Will is not something
that can be defined in mechanical terms. It can be defined only in creative
terms. For you might think, my beloved, that God's Will is set in stone,
that God's Will is unchanging, that God's Will follows the laws of God.
And this, my beloved, is to some degree true. But what is the most important
law of God, my beloved? It is the law of self-transcendence, the law
of becoming MORE.
And thus, what you see on the first ray of God's Will is that the first
ray is not a mechanical quality—it is a living being who has not
a mechanical will, but a CREATIVE will.
Master MORE has the right to change his mind and bring forth a new teaching
that, for example, goes beyond the previous teaching—for he sees
that some students are now ready for a higher understanding. And thus,
he is not bound by the old days and the old dispensations. He moves
on, he becomes MORE, my beloved. And if you want to be in attunement
with that first ray, then you must become MORE on that first ray of
God's Will, as you must become MORE on the other six rays.
And so do you now see, my beloved, that mastering the seven rays is
not something you can do while you see yourself as a separate individual.
It is something that can happen only as you gradually give up the sense
of separation—and as you surrender into oneness with the living
Being on each of the seven rays.
Beginning the initiation on the eight ray
And then, when you have done that on the seven rays, my beloved, you
can begin the initiation of the eighth ray—which forms the nexus
between the seven rays and the spiritual realm, and the higher rays
of that realm. Which is why it is called the Ray of Integration.
Partly because, in order to even get to the eighth ray, you need to
have integrated the seven rays. But also because the initiation of the
eighth ray is to integrate your mastery of the seven rays in the material
world with the higher realms, the spiritual realms, your own higher
being—so that what is here below becomes a reflection of what
is above. Because you are not seeing yourself as a separate being down
here in the material realm, carrying out the will of some remote being
in the sky. You have integrated your higher and lower beings, so that
you know that you are being your Self, your Higher Self in this world.
And thus, my beloved, our other messenger has received teachings on
the eighth ray, where you need to see yourself as the twin flame of
the Archangel Uzziel, who is the archangel of the eighth ray. And I
will not here go into this, but will let her explain and expound upon
these teachings as she will receive them from us. But what I desire
to do here is to bring forth the concept that you need to see yourself
as the twin flame of this archangel, for this is another step towards
coming into oneness—overcoming the sense of separation.
For you see, my beloved, as we have said before many times, any concept
we give you that is expressed in words can be used by the linear mind,
by the separate self, to reinforce the sense that you are separate from
God, separate from your source. And so, in past dispensations we have
given concepts about twin flames, and it was a very linear concept that
might make you believe that there is some other person in embodiment
who is the ideal match for you. And if you only found that person, you
would live happily ever after.
But of course, the true concept of twin flames is that you come to see
yourself, your lower being, as the twin flame of your higher being.
So that you strive for oneness with your higher being and thereby overcome
the sense of separation. So do you see, my beloved, that the concept
of twin flames can be used to build and reinforce the separate self,
or it can be used correctly to overcome that separate self—as
can the concept of mastering the initiations of the seventh ray and
as I have just explained?
And so, the value of this teaching is that you need to contemplate the
concept of integration, of looking beyond the separate self, the images
of the separate self, questioning those images, even questioning your
view of the spiritual path, of the Ascended Host, of the seven rays.
And in order to help you go through that process, my beloved, I will
give you the image that the Buddha you need to contemplate as the master
on the eighth ray is precisely the image of Gautama Buddha. Who is the
Lord of the World, and who therefore is the one who sits at the nexus
between the beings in the material realm and the beings in the spiritual
realm. Holding that position of literally holding the spiritual balance
for all who are in embodiment until they attain that integration with
their higher beings, so they can hold it for themselves.
Non-attachment is the absolute requirement
So, my beloved, contemplate the need to become the twin flame of Archangel
Uzziel, and contemplate the need to go through Gautama Buddha in order
to attain that oneness. And then contemplate what is the most important
element that the Buddha taught, which is precisely non-attachment, my
beloved. For you see, in order to actually move on from the seven rays
to the eighth ray, my beloved, you need to attain non-attachment to
the seven rays and the mastery you might have attained on one or more
rays.
For again, you see the students who are blinded by the separate self,
who are using one particular ray to elevate the separate self and give
them a sense of superiority. Well, my beloved, can those students overcome
their attachment to that particular ray? No they cannot! And that is
why they cannot move on to integration. And so it will help you tremendously
to tune in to the heart of the Buddha, to Gautama, and ask him to help
you see your attachments to any of the seven rays, even your attachments
to having a certain mastery over the seven rays or the material realm.
For I tell you, my beloved, before you can truly integrate on the eighth
ray, you must overcome all attachment to mastery as a separate being.
You must come to that point of surrendering the sense of having mastery
as a separate being, where you surrender into oneness and recognize—number
one that the mastery you can have as a being on Earth is not truly YOUR
mastery, for you of your own self can do nothing. It is the Father,
your I AM Presence within you, who is doing the works. And then—second
that your mastery is not to be expressed in order to elevate the separate
self in comparison to other people. It is to be expressed in raising
up the All.
That, my beloved, is also integration, where you overcome the illusion
of the separate self and integrate with all other people, realizing
that you all came from the same source. And you are here to raise up
the All, thereby giving true service to life by seeking to set life
free.
Thus, my beloved, I have said my peace for this discourse. I thank you
again for your attention, for your presence, that has made it possible
to give these beginning teachings that might open up for you a new appreciation
and understanding for what is beyond the seven rays. And even a new
understanding for what it means to walk the path of the seven rays and
to attain mastery on those rays.
Thus, I thank you for your attention, and I seal you in the flame of
the Eighth Ray of Integration.
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