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The Destiny of the Nations - The Nations and the Rays
All of the great nations are controlled by two rays, just as is the human being. With the smaller nations we need not concern ourselves. All the nations are controlled by a personality ray, which is the dominant potent and main controlling factor at this time, and by a soul ray which is sensed only by the disciples and the aspirants of any nation.

This soul ray must be evoked into an increased functioning activity by the New Group of World Servers, for this is one of their main objectives and tasks. This must never be lost to sight. Much could be written about the historical influence of the rays during the past two thousand years and of the way in which great events have been influenced or brought about by the periodic ray influence. Interesting as it is and indicative of the present national trends and problems, all that I can now do is to point out the energies governing each nation, and leave you to study and note their effect and to comprehend their relation to the present condition of the world. One thing I would point out and that is that those rays which govern a particular nation and which are at this time actively working are very potent, either materially or egoically; some of the problems may be due to the fact that certain rays, governing certain nations, are not at this time active.
Nation Personality Ray Soul Ray National Motto
India 4th Ray
Harmony through Conflict.		 1st Ray
Power.		 I hide the Light.
China 3rd Ray
Intelligence.		 1st Ray
Power.		 I indicate the Way.
Germany 1st Ray
Power.		 4th Ray
Harmony through Conflict.		 I preserve.
France 3rd Ray
Intelligence.		 5th Ray
Knowledge.		 I release the Light.
Great Britain 1st Ray
Power.		 2nd Ray
Love.		 I serve.
Italy 4th Ray
Harmony through Conflict.		 6th Ray
Idealism.		 I carve the Paths.
USA 6th Ray
Idealism.		 2nd Ray
Love.		 I light the Way.
Russia 6th Ray
Idealism.		 7th Ray
Order.		 I link two Ways.
Austria 5th Ray
Knowledge.		 4th Ray
Harmony through Conflict.		 I serve the lighted Way.
Spain 7th Ray
Order.		 6th Ray
Idealism.		 I disperse the Clouds.
Brazil 2nd Ray
Love.		 4th Ray
Harmony through Conflict.		 I hide the Seed.
A close analysis of the following will reveal certain lines of racial understanding. There is a natural rapport indicated between the present personality rays of Germany and Great Britain, yet a relationship can be seen also between France and Great Britain through their esoteric national [51] mottoes and also between the two symbols which are also theirs. The symbol for France is the fleur de lys, which she adopted centuries ago under divine guidance, which symbol stands for the three divine aspects in manifestation. The symbol for Great Britain, under the same divine apportioning, is the three feathers, carried as the arms of the Prince of Wales. The scintillating and brilliant French intellect with its scientific bent is accounted for by the interplay of the third Ray of Active Intelligence with the fifth Ray of Scientific Understanding. Hence their amazing contribution to the knowledge and the thought of the world and their brilliant and colorful history. Be it remembered also that the glory of the empire which was France is but the guarantee of a glory of divine revelation which lies ahead in the future; it will never be theirs until they cease living in the wonder of their past and go forth into the future to demonstrate the fact of illumination which is the goal of all mental effort. When the intellect of the French is turned towards the discovery and the elucidation of the things of the spirit, then they will carry revelation to the world. When their egoic ray dominates the third ray and when the separative action of the fifth ray is transmuted into the revealing function of this ray, then France will enter into a period of new glory. Her empire will then be of the mind and her glory of the soul.
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