MY BROTHER:

You have, as you have oft been told by me, only one major problem and that is connected with your physical body. Let me indicate to you your ray forces and then, I believe, increased light will be thrown upon your problem.

Your mental body is a first ray one and this is what makes [370] you a real occult student. Your soul's contact is so definite and real that your mental body builds no barriers between the soul and your personality or between you and your co-disciples. Mentally, you always understand and are inclusive. I do not mean theoretically but in fact. But your astral body is also upon the first ray which is an unique occurrence and rarely to be found. It is here that the sense of separateness enters in, for that first ray tendency does to you two things:

1. It feeds your sense of separateness and thus tends to isolate you.
2. It fosters your fear of attachment.

Thus you are oft emotionally and astral detached and isolated from those who love you and from your fellowmen. Hence there is a continuing conflict between your loving soul and your isolated, lonely, astral vehicle. The solution will be immediately clear to you.

Your physical body is on the seventh ray. Ponder, therefore, upon the interior relations and the exterior effect of your ray forces as tabulated below:

1. The soul ray - the second Ray of Love-Wisdom.
2. The personality ray - the third Ray of Active Intelligence.
3. The ray of the mind - the first Ray of Power.
4. The ray of the astral body - the first Ray of Power.
5. The ray of the physical body - the seventh Ray of Ceremonial Order.