BROTHER OF OLD:

It has been interesting to note how, in your case, the fourth ray mental body (which is a part of your equipment) has used its force in harmony far more often than in conflict, as is the effect in the majority of your brothers' lives. This is due to the first ray activity of your soul which has resolved the conflict in harmony. Most of the conflict in your life has been the result of the activity of your astral body (working under second ray influence) with a reaction upon your third ray physical body. A close relation between the second and the third rays often works out in difficulty, for they express two different ways of building. This I will take up in greater detail later.

I would like to call attention to the fact that many of your co-disciples are functioning with fourth ray mental bodies. This provides a most interesting reason why you were all chosen to work at the dissipation of glamor. The astral plane is the plane of duality, of the pairs of opposites, and it is the interplay of these opposites, plus the energies released by the individual, which has, during the ages, built up the world glamor. Harmony through Conflict is the characteristic and result of fourth ray activity. It expresses itself in fullness on the fourth plane where the major duality of the Spiritual Triad and the threefold personality meet, blend and resolve into a unity. I would commend this thought to you for pondering and reflection; it has a definite bearing upon group activity in connection with group dispelling of world glamor. The fourth ray mental bodies of the members will facilitate this task.

You, having rays one, four and five active in your equipment, can see where your work dovetails into the picture.

I would have you, however, ponder on the following facts.

1. Soul energy is, for you, focused in the astral body.
2. Personality force is focused in the mental body.