Excerpt from "Stones of the Seven Rays"

Stone: Sapphire
Ray: 2nd
Metal: Tin
Sense: Intuition
Human principle: Auric envelope
Spiritual principle: Love
Esoteric color: Luminous blue
Exoteric color: Indigo with a splash of purple

WITH SAPPHIRE, which is on the second ray of Love-Wisdom, we are still in the higher triad of the seven rays. It is possible that the initiates of ancient Greece and Rome knew this as they identified sapphire with the planet Jupiter, which is also of the second ray.

The word sapphire comes from the Greek sappheiros (“blue-colored stone”) or the Hebrew sappir (“the most beautiful thing”). This rather translucent bluish gem is a kind of corundum that falls right after diamond with respect to hardness.

While the diamond represents the apotheosis of perfection in the mineral kingdom, the sapphire also enjoys a privileged status. It represents the goal and the means of attaining it. Let me explain. I have said that our solar Logos was of the second ray, which means in our current solar system, the principle of Love is that of re-absorption and the final fusion. Consequently, it is into the indigo blue of Love that we must dissolve, as it was in the green of creative intelligence that the humanity of the old system needed to merge with, and it will be with the red of the will that humanity of the final solar system must fully identify with in order to attain the white of the perfection of the solar Logos. As the second ray is always concentrated in the heart center, the sapphire remains the surest precious stone in terms of correspondence, and also the most useful for the human being at all stages of evolution.

QUALITIES OF THE SECOND RAY

- The power to build for selfish ends.
- Capacity to sense the Whole and to remain apart.
- The cultivation of a separative spirit.
- The hidden light.
- The realization of selfish desire.
- Longing for material well-being.
- Selfishness, and subordination of all soul powers to this end.

This leads to:
- Building wisely, in relation to the Plan.
- Inclusiveness.
- A longing for wisdom and truth.
- Sensitivity to the Whole.
- Renunciation of the great heresy of separativeness.
- The revelation of the light.
- True illumination.
- Right speech through generated wisdom.

The second ray consists of two complementary qualities: love and wisdom. Without love, man becomes cold, cruel, and egotistical. Through wisdom comes the power of understanding and comparing, after which the desire for pure knowledge and absolute truth can develop. Love is obviously the fundamental ray of the World Teacher, the Christ, just as Buddha was the Lord of Wisdom. It is therefore the ray of all humanity’s great teachers. The individual on this ray possesses great tact and foresight and will find success in a career of ambassador or in anything connected with education. His vision is balanced and he can discern the most insoluble problems most clearly. He therefore deals with matters both wisely and justly. Students on this ray are never satisfied with what they’ve learned, and their minds are ever awake and alert. They are constantly aspiring to new knowledge, to an inaccessible beyond.

JUPITER: SACRED PLANET OF THE SECOND RAY

This planet is important for the sign of Pisces as Cornelius Agrippa rightly noted. In fact, Jupiter and Pluto rule this sign, and it is the mutual play between these two powers that produces this sign’s duality, inspiring the great sensitivity of Pisces, a psychic sensitivity. This is also what produces the attraction to the path of evolution, and later to the state of the disciple, which accelerates the transmutation and leads to the definitive liberation through initiatory death.

Jupiter is the force (as is the stone and its ray) that unites all things, and in the case of Pisces what is joined are soul and form. The primary task of Jupiter is to reunite what is in opposition by nature--such as the head and the heart, reason and love, will and wisdom--and bring them into close, harmonious cooperation. The culmination will be a total fusion between the mind and the love principle, which is the essential quality of a savior of the world.

In its lower aspect, Jupiter gives fulfillment of desire and satisfaction of what is requested. In its higher aspect, it is the radiant expression of the love that magnetically attracts to itself what is desired for the good of the whole, a tendency to fuse together, which nothing can stop.

Jupiter is inclined toward traditional virtues, religion, order, justice, and focuses on the philosophical problems connected with these questions.

SAPPHIRE AND HEALING

Chakra: Heart center
Gland: Thymus
Physical organs: Heart, circulatory system, blood, vagus nerve
Force type: Vital force, group consciousness
Vehicle of manifestation: Causal body
Persons specially concerned: All types of spiritual individuals

The second ray has a powerful effect on the heart and its gland, the thymus, as well as on the circulatory and nervous systems. It governs the etheric body’s ability to assimilate pranic energy from the sun via three minor chakras for which this is the specific function, the etheric spleen in particular.

For disciples and initiates alike, the heart center is often the cause of diseases connected with the physical heart. These are caused by being called upon to act too violently, compelled by a psychic pressure that has been maintained too long. Every individual bearing responsibilities and placed in the center of an activity or a group of workers, whether it involves spiritual activities or not, unintentionally attracts pranic energy into his heart center with sometimes negative consequences for the physical organ.

A sapphire placed on the heart chakra (on the back) is extremely effective in healing these imbalances. Placed directly on the chest, it will have a tendency to calm the thymus, with soothing effects on heart palpitations and high blood pressure. Sapphire also has a soothing effect on the nervous system in general and makes it possible to attain a perfectly relaxed state.

Michel Coquet is a scholar of Hinduism, esoteric Buddhism, and Eastern philosophy. An accomplished practitioner and teacher of martial arts, primarily traditional Budo, he is the author of nearly 40 books in French on martial arts, esoteric philosophy, theosophy, and religion. He lives in France.

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Stones of the Seven Rays by Michel Coquet © 2012 Destiny Books. Reprinted with permission from the publisher Inner Traditions International.