A Treatise on the Seven Rays. Vols. 1-5, complete.

New York/London: Lucis Publishing Comoany, 1950-1960. This set was published with a variety of titles but each volume is part of her famous five-volume A Treatise of the Seven Rays. Individual titles, editions and dates given below:!) Esoteric Psychology. Third edition. New York, 1956.2) Esoteric Psychology II. First edition, second printing, New York. 1960.3) Esoteric Astrology. Second edition. New York, 1953. 4) Esoteric Healing. First edition. New York, 1953.5) The Rays and the Initiations. First printing. New York, 1960All of these are uniformly bound by the publisher in blue cloth with gilt spine and cover lettering, Some light extremity wear and pencil notes, third volume missing its front blank page but a handsome and complete set. They came from a passionate practitioner named Ruth Pennell of Berkeley, California. Ruth was a lifelong practitioner. She bought many Bailey titles form the 20s and became a friend of Regina Keller, a founding member and head of the Meditation Mound in Ojai. In the last volume, Pennel has written on the copyright pages: "Written about 1948-1949. This is the last book dictated to Alice Bailey by the Tibetan. A.B. Died in 1949 and Regina Keller translated the notes taken down by A.B. for this book." This volume is heavily underlined so a second impression of the book is also included.The concept of the seven rays was introduced by H. P. Blavatsky and later developed by Ernest Wood. Alice Bailey then developed the teaching considerably in a number of her books, especially A Treatise on the Seven Rays. 'The cosmology of the Ageless Wisdom gives an explanation of the seven rays so profound, so occult that it’s beyond the grasp of the human mind, but to summarise and thereby grossly simplify it: As part of the initial Plan, the one Life sought expansion. Initially, that Life expressed in triple formation: as Life, Quality and Appearance, or Monad, Soul, and Personality; Will, Love, and Intelligence. The seven rays are the first differentiation of this divine triplicity: from three major rays, four minor rays unfold to reveal the sevenfold nature of divinity. Yet the seven emanations came forth from the central vortex, and as such are seven aspects of one whole and therefore interrelated. "Each of the great rays has a form of teaching truth to humanity which is its unique contribution", Alice Bailey wrote, yet only in their composite do we understand nature of the One, of Deity." (Lucuis Publishing).