SUMMARIES OF THE SEVEN COSMIC PATHS

Path I. The Path of Earth Service
Attributes	Wise-compassion.
Source	Constellation of the Dragon, via Libra.
Method	Twelve cosmic Identifications.
Hierarchy	The sixth.
Symbol	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.
Quality gained	Luminosity.
Leads to -->	The cosmic astral plane.
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Path II. The Path of Magnetic Work
Attributes	Responsiveness to heat and knowledge of rhythm.
Source	An unknown constellation via Gemini. (Libra is also involved.)
Method	The entering of the burning-ground.
Hierarchy	The third and fourth.
Symbol	A funeral pyre, four torches, and a fivefold star mounting towards the sun.
Quality gained	Electrical velocity.
Leads to -->	The cosmic astral plane.
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Path III. The Path of Training for Planetary Logoi
Attributes	Cosmic vision, deva hearing and psychic correlation.
Source	Betelgeuse, via the sign Sagittarius.
Method	Prismatic identification.
Hierarchy	The fifth.
Symbol	A colored cross, with a star at the center, and backed by a blazing sun, surmounted by a Sensa word.
Quality gained	Cosmic etheric vision or septenary clairvoyance.
Leads to -->	Higher levels of the cosmic mental plane.
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Path IV. The Path to Sirius
Attributes	Cosmic rapture and rhythmic bliss.
Source	Sirius via the Sun which veils a zodiacal sign.
Method	Duplex rotary motion and rhythmic dancing upon the square.
Hierarchy	Veiled by the numbers 14 and 17.
Symbol	Two wheels of electric fire, revolving around an orange Cross, with an emerald at the center.
Quality gained	Unrevealed.
Leads to -->	The cosmic astral plane.
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Path V. The Ray Path
Attributes	A sense of cosmic direction.
Source	The Pole Star via Aquarius.
Method	A process of electrical insulation and the imprisonment of polar magnetism.
Hierarchy	The first and the second.
Symbol	Five balls of fire enclosed within a sphere. Sphere is formed of a serpent inscribed with the mantram of insulation.
Quality gained	Cosmic stability and magnetic equilibrium.
Leads to -->	The cosmic mental plane.
The initiates upon Path III through "piercing the veil" find Themselves upon Path V.
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Path VI. The Path of the Solar Logos
	(Summary not given.)
Leads to -->	The cosmic buddhic plane.
The initiates upon Path I "fight their way" on to Path VI.
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Path VII. The Path of Absolute Sonship
	(Summary not given.)
Leads to -->	The cosmic mental plane.
This Path relates our solar system to the constellation of the Great Bear. The initiates upon Path II "alchemise themselves" on to Path VII.
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Alice A. Bailey. The Rays and the Initiations.
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1960/1988, pp. 426-427.

Summaries of the Cosmic Paths are also in:
Alice A. Bailey. A Treatise on Cosmic Fire.
New York: Lucis Publishing Co., 1962/1925, pp. 1243-1266.