[split] Yellow ray and power/seeking

[Dtris]

My understanding here is the same as Unity100.  But maybe you are both right, if the Ego is yellow-ray then issues with our Ego will be blockages with the 3rd chakra.  When yellow-ray is balanced enough, our Ego is also balanced.  So this would mean that the goal is not to suppress the Ego, as many new age materials would present it, but to balance it.

Would the "balancing of the ego" be synonymous with the idea of "refinement of personality"?

I have begun reading Edgar Cayce and his notion of personality seems to be much in line with ego.... though I am not sure if they could be called the same thing? Any thoughts?

I think most people have an unbalanced idea of what the ego is. It should be remembered that the modern concept of ego did not really exist until Freud. While ego is usually associated with someone who is "egotistical", self aggrandizing, thinks too highly of themselves, etc. We view ego negatively because we associate it with self centered behaviors and personality traits.

My understanding is that the ego is the part of the personality that we create to interface with third density reality in our present incarnation. We may live multiple lives but each life would have a distinct ego, all of which develop and change over that life. You cannot dissolve the ego, because the true self is much too large to be limited by our present illusion. Which is why it creates the ego in the first place.

Ok, I think I understand what you are saying. Is it that we only come to exercise conscious freewill within the third ray because the unconscious red ray and subconscious/emotional orange ray is animalistic and therefore more acting out of instinct then as a free agent?

I can see how this applies, but it raises more questions i.e. if we are to clear blockages from seratim red to violet, then how do we exercise our will to clear such blockages in rays that are pre-freewill? Actually this is an important question for me personally as orange ray has always been my weak point.

There is the question of how will is employed in the higher rays, and I suppose it can be considered that third-ray always has an active role in directing the will with each higher ray working. Indeed third ray is necessary to allow the M/B/S entity to remain as a separate and cohesive individual consciousness while seated in the eternal unity that is.

It occurred to me reading this that you, myself, and others may make a mistake. We focus so much on the rays and densities here that I think we sometimes place too much emphasis on them, and attribute too much to those rays.

The densities and chakra are energetic structures which are created as a means of manifesting the creator in various ways. The Creator formed the densities and Chakra. We are part of the Creator. We can exist whether or not the chakras or densities exist. The self is not the chakras or rays, and that is why we can effect the chakras and rays with our Will. So Will is a faculty of the self which is an individuated part of the Creator.

Yellow ray has its associations with power, energy, and society. Since the rays can be viewed as generating the reality we experience our will can be associated with the part of reality which most closely aligns to how the will is used. But the correspondence does not mean that Will did not exist until third density, or is in any way generated by third density, yellow ray.