In referring to this Path, I have stated that Those Who find Their way on to this Path work with fohat, or with the essential energy of our solar system which differentiates into seven major types of energy. Our planet with its ruling Lord is an integral part of the life expression of a still greater Entity, the solar Logos, and it is with the astral energy incident to His cosmic nature that the Master has to work. He learns to direct the currents of this essential energy, and because of His past relation to the Earth, He is part of the directing agency for astral energy within the planetary ring-pass-not. I also said that many Masters Who have reached liberation upon the fifth ray find Their way to this Path, thus proving the statement that it is not the ray which determines decision. These fifth ray Masters (among many others, of course) will be working in a great second ray vortex of energy.

It must be pointed out that, in its original state, this pure astral energy, directed under law into our planetary life, is free from all that is at present associated with the astral plane: glamor and delusion, emotional fog and poisonous deceiving phenomena. These well-known aspects of the astral plane are all the creation of humanity down the ages and present, therefore, an increasingly difficult problem to all aspirants. The tormenting turmoil and chaos of the astral plane are due largely to three factors:

• The force of the constantly developing glamor as self-centered and undeveloped human beings create it.
• The force of those aspirants and disciples who are seeking to combat this in their own lives and in the lives of others.
• The inflow of pure solar astral energy, under cyclic law and the direction of the Master working on the second Path.

You will also note how three types of astral energy are therefore related:

• The astral force of our planet, distinctive of the planetary astral plane in the three worlds of human enterprise.
• The astral force of the solar Logos, the true God of Love.
• The astral energy of the cosmic astral plane.

These forces are symbolized to the manipulating Master by a triangle. In the Old Commentary it says:

"The Master throws Himself - under the liberating Law of Sacrifice - into the vortex of the astral life of the One to Whom our Lord relates Himself with humble joy. And as the Master works, there forms before His eyes a triangle of force in shades of varying rose. By His magnetic power, He concentrates the energy required. Then through this triangle of force, as through an open door, He sends the potency of love into our planet, and till His cycle ends He thus must work."