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The Seven Cosmic Paths 		Esoteric Stanzas (CF)

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<table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path I. The Path of Earth Service</strong> <br /><br /> </td></tr><tr><td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' > Attributes </td><td>Wise-compassion.</td></tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;' > Source </td><td>Constellation of the Dragon, via Libra.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;'> Method </td><td>Twelve cosmic Identifications.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;'> Hierarchy </td><td>The sixth.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;'> Symbol </td><td>A green dragon issuing from the center of a blazing sun. Behind the sun and over-topping it can be seen two pillars on either side of a closed door.<br /></td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;'> Quality gained </td><td>Luminosity.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;'> Leads to --> </td><td>The cosmic astral plane.</td> </tr></table>

<table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path II. The Path of Magnetic Work</strong> <br /><br /> </td></tr><tr><td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' > Attributes </td><td>Responsiveness to heat and knowledge of rhythm. </td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Source </td><td>An unknown constellation via Gemini. (Libra is also involved.)</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Method </td><td>The entering of the burning-ground. </td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Hierarchy </td><td>The third and fourth.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Symbol </td><td>A funeral pyre, four torches, and a fivefold star mounting towards the sun. </td></tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Quality gained </td><td>Electrical velocity.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Leads to --> </td><td>The cosmic astral plane.</td> </tr></table>

<table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path III. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi</strong> <br /><br /> </td> </tr><tr> <td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' > Attributes </td> <td>Cosmic vision, deva hearing and psychic correlation.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;' > Source </td> <td>Betelgeuse, via the sign Sagittarius.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;' > Method </td> <td>Prismatic identification.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;' > Hierarchy </td> <td>The fifth.</td> </tr><tr> <td style='color:#cccccc;' > Symbol </td><td>A colored cross, with a star at the center, and backed by a blazing sun, surmounted by a Sensa word.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Quality gained </td><td>Cosmic etheric vision or septenary clairvoyance.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Leads to --> </td><td>Higher levels of the cosmic mental plane.</td> </tr></table>

<table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path IV. The Path to Sirius</strong> <br /><br /> </td></tr><tr><td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' > Attributes </td><td>Cosmic rapture and rhythmic bliss.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Source </td><td>Sirius via the Sun which veils a zodiacal sign.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Method </td><td>Duplex rotary motion and rhythmic dancing upon the square.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Hierarchy </td><td>Veiled by the numbers 14 and 17.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Symbol </td><td>Two wheels of electric fire, revolving around an orange Cross, with an emerald at the center.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Quality gained </td><td>Unrevealed.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Leads to --> </td><td>The cosmic astral plane.</td> </tr></table>

<table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path V. The Ray Path</strong> <br /><br /> </td></tr><tr><td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' > Attributes </td><td>A sense of cosmic direction.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Source </td><td>The Pole Star via Aquarius.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Method </td><td>A process of electrical insulation and the imprisonment of polar magnetism.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Hierarchy </td><td>The first and the second.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Symbol </td><td>Five balls of fire enclosed within a sphere. Sphere is formed of a serpent inscribed with the mantram of insulation.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Quality gained </td><td>Cosmic stability and magnetic equilibrium.</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;' > Leads to --> </td><td>The cosmic mental plane.</td> </tr><tr><td colspan='2' > <br /><br /> The initiates upon Path III through 'piercing the veil' find Themselves upon Path V.</td> </tr></table>

<br /><br /> <table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path VI. The Path of the Solar Logos </strong> <br /><br /> </td></tr><tr><td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' >  </td><td width='73%'> (Summary not given.)</td> </tr><tr><td style='color:#cccccc;'> Leads to --> </td><td>The cosmic buddhic plane.</td> </tr><tr><td colspan='2' > <br /><br /> The initiates upon Path I 'fight their way' on to Path VI.</td> </tr></table>

  <br /><br /> <table style='font-family:verdana,arial;margin-left:20px;'> <tr> <td colspan='2' > <strong>Path VII. The Path of Absolute Sonship</strong> <br /><br /> </td></tr><tr><td width='27%' style='color:#bbbbbb;' >  </td> <td>(Summary not given.)</td> </tr><tr> <td width='22%' style='color:#cccccc;'> Leads to --> </td><td>The cosmic mental plane.</td> </tr><tr><td colspan='2' > <br /><br /> <br />This Path relates our solar system to the constellation of the Great Bear. <br /><br /> The initiates upon Path II 'alchemise themselves' on to Path VII.</td> </tr></table>