Tree of the Primary Rays

This began as a vision in the in-between place, half asleep and half awake. The three activities Ra calls primary (red, yellow and blue) take the shape of one living tree. Red rises as the trunk, a transparent field spiraling upward from the ground. It rests on the red ray center (the spoked wheel): the trunk sits on the sphere's equator, so half the sphere is inside the tree and half reaches down below. At that equator lies the green ray center, a flat lotus exactly the trunk's width, and the whole tree grows up out of it. Where the red gives way to yellow, the yellow ray center (the many-faceted star) sits embedded at the crown, no wider than the trunk, and from it the branches break open, the one becoming many. Around the whole crown, one very faint blue ray center forms the canopy, and the branches keep growing until they touch its facets. Each facet a branch reaches is a leaf.

The three centers are the same forms drawn earlier in this work from Ra's brief descriptions, under my direction.

The points of light carry the movement. They rise red up the trunk, turn yellow as they run out along the branches, and arrive blue at the leaves. The ground is a transparent plane so the space beneath it stays in view; that's where the roots will go.

"The red, yellow, and blue rays are primary because they signify activity of a primary nature. Red ray is the foundation; orange ray the movement towards yellow ray which is the ray of self-awareness and interaction. Green ray is the movement through various experiences of energy exchanges having to do with compassion and all-forgiving love to the primary blue ray, which is the first ray of radiation of self regardless of any actions from another." 41.25

"This ray may be understood to be the basic strengthening ray for each density. It shall never be condescended to as less important or productive of spiritual evolution, for it is the foundation ray." 39.10

Of yellow, Ra says: "This is the great stepping stone ray." 39.10

Ra gives each center's shape in a few words: red, "the shape of the spoked wheel"; yellow, "again in a rounded shape, many faceted, as a star"; blue, "capable of having perhaps one hundred facets and capable of great flashing brilliance." Of green, Ra says "the lotus-shape." 51.8

The tree as first drawn is the tree before the veil. After the veil, the ground becomes a broad, shimmering silver veil, so what lies below it can no longer be seen from above. The trunk stays red on the outside, but the flow rising inside it turns orange. In the branches, orange and yellow bubbles travel in pairs. Through the lower branches they push at each other, clashing and shaking; in the last third, nearer the blue facets, they settle and circle one another in a coordinated dance.

Roots grow down from the base of the trunk into the ground: orange before the veil, indigo after it. After the veil the silver hides them from above; you have to go below it to see them (the camera preset "Roots · time/space"). Each root ends the way a nerve ending does: a glowing bulb, a narrow gap, and on the far side a pale receiving cup that belongs to the roots of the racial mind. Pulses run down the roots and spark across each gap, and pale pulses rise from the racial mind toward the cups. Below, the racial mind's roots weave into one field, and its deeper roots go on down a short way to touch a much larger silver sphere of many facets lying just beneath: the racial mind. Inside it, half its size and touching at the same point, is an indigo sphere, the mind of the Higher Self. Superimposed on it is a larger, transparent Earth, the planetary mind, around it a golden sphere ten times larger still, the mind of the Solar Logos, and around everything a vastly larger violet sphere dusted with stars, the galactic mind. All four touch at one shared point at the top, where the racial mind's roots reach them. Draw back (pinch out, or scroll) to see them whole; as you draw far back the view sinks toward them, and the Camera drawer has a preset for each.

Before the veil the spheres of mind lie open and luminous. After the veil they are shrouded, seen only as dark shadows. Each still has a heart at its center, a point of light flowing outward. The switch Light the hearts lights them, and each becomes a bright golden sphere radiating in every direction. The switch Roots to the hearts grows indigo roots down to the center of each heart, the Higher Self's first, then the racial mind's, the planetary, the Solar Logos and the galactic.

On the harvestable service-to-self path the hearts stay dark and the indigo roots do not grow down to them. Ra says that "the negative path is one of separation. What is the first separation? The self from the self." 36.14

"There is a center to infinity. From this center all spreads. Therefore, there are centers to the creation, to the galaxies, to star systems, to planetary systems, and to consciousness. In each case you may see growth from the center outward." 82.7

"...the oversoul, as you call it, or higher self, seems to exist simultaneously with the mind/body/spirit complex which it aids." 36.5

My proposal: the Higher Self belongs to the realm of indigo, so its sphere is indigo and its heart is the nearest of the hearts to the roots.

My proposal: the veil hides the deeper minds, so after it they are known only as shadows. Yet their hearts remain, and the indigo roots of will and faith can grow down and meet each one at its center.

My proposal: these minds are nested rather than stacked, and they meet at a single point. The racial mind lies within the planetary mind, that within the mind of the Solar Logos, and all within the galactic mind, every one touching at the top, so the place where a root reaches the racial mind is also where it reaches the greater spheres.

"Not only did each race add to the planetary mind, but also each race possesses a racial mind." 91.7

My proposal: the veil is what builds and hones will and faith, and indigo is where that work comes to fruition. As it does, the adept begins to see, experience and operate in time/space, which lies below the ground of ordinary space/time. The indigo roots are also how the self connects with the deeper minds, the racial first, then the planetary, solar, galactic and primal. The meeting is drawn as a synapse because it is a living exchange across a small gap rather than a fusion.

"Moving down to the roots of mind we find the progression of consciousness which gradually turns from the personal to the racial memory to the cosmic influxes, and thus becomes a direct contactor of that shuttle which we call the spirit complex." 30.2

"Therefore, although this Akashic, planetary, or racial mind is, indeed, a root of mind, it may be seen in sharp differentiation from the deeper roots of mind which are not a function of altering memory, if you will." 91.7

A second switch picks the path. On the harvestable service-to-others path, the last quarter of every branch, just before it touches its facet, slowly turns green on the outside, while the orange and yellow pairs keep flowing smoothly inside. This is the heart activating: the outside greens even as the two inner colors go on dancing toward the blue. On the harvestable service-to-self path, that same last quarter shows no green. Instead red, orange and yellow wind around one another on the bark, three strands braided tight and bright, while the pairs go on inside.

My proposal: harvestability on the positive path shows up at the far end of the branches, where the dance has already begun, as the green of the heart wrapping the self-aware pair. On the negative path, harvestability shows up in the same place as the three lower rays braided together at full intensity, with no green.

Of the negative harvest, Ra says the entity "will have achieved harvest due to extremely efficient use of red and yellow/orange, moving directly to the gateway indigo" 47.4, and that in assessing it "the intensity of the red as well as the orange and the yellow rays is looked upon quite carefully" 34.16.

My proposal: orange is born from trying to understand itself as a part of yellow and yet an individual apart from it. The struggle comes first, and the dance comes as the two find their way toward the blue.

"Thusly, the experiences, both good and bad, or joyful and sad, of the mind/body/spirit before veiling would be pale, without vibrancy or the keen edge of interest that such brings in the post-veiling mind/body/spirit complex." 105.18

Ra's word is primary; I've been saying primal, and I mean the same three. Ra calls red the foundation ray, and a trunk is a foundation that rises. Yellow is the ray of self-awareness and interaction and the great stepping stone, and branching is how one trunk steps out in many directions at once. Blue is the "first ray of radiation of self regardless of any actions from another" (41.25). A leaf opens to the light on its own terms, whatever the leaves around it are doing.

My proposal: the primaries are one organism, and the ladder of seven is a way of counting what is really a single growth. Red is the One undifferentiated, rising. Yellow is the explosion of self-awareness, where the One differentiates into the many. Blue is the many each made whole again — every leaf its own small field, each one radiating.

The primal mind, beyond the galactic sphere. Where orange, green, indigo and violet belong on the tree. How the indigo roots relate to indigo as the gateway both paths reach (47.4).

Color here is a teaching image. Arguments from how light or pigment mixes don't carry weight. I'm offering these thoughts for what they are worth.