> Первое исторически зафиксированное деление учителей по лучам имело место в книге "Человек: фрагменты забытой истории", напис. в 1885, изд. 1887.

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The classes of Adepts are seven. This number, it must be remembered, is not seized upon for any puerile or arbitrary reason, but because nature works by septenaries, and all attempts at justifying the great importance attached to this number by the mystics of all ages and countries show that such is the fact; seven is the mystic number, not because it is seven, but because it is a universal law that every natural order is completed by sevens. The absolute wisdom in the universe is the spiritual central sun mentioned in mystical treatises. When the day of nature arrives, this sun sends out seven rays, which are each sub-divided in series of seven. All men, or rather their spiritual selves, lie along some one or other of these seven main rays of wisdom. Hence it is the necessity for the seven types of Adepts. Of these seven, five alone are ordinarily spoken of; the last two are understood only by the higher Initiates. The heads of the five classes are known in Thibet as the Chutuktu, or the jewels of wisdom. All Adepts the world over, excepting a few who belong to the two mysterious orders, must owe allegiance to one of these five, who are associated with no particular lodge of Adepts, but are the recognized heads of all lodges, of which there are now three in existence - one in Thibet,one in Egypt, and the third has its seat in a locality which we are not permitted to mention. The Chutuktu have to visit these different lodges periodically, but they usually reside in Thibet. The two highest Adepts, so far as is known, live in an oasis in the desert of Gobi, where only the Adepts of the higher order are permitted to visit them. Their nature and character are as little understood by the ordinary Initiates as those of the Adepts by the outside world. The different lodges, though pursuing the same study upon the same general principles, have differences of procedure in matters of detail. Adepts, as is well known, owe allegiance to no ecclesiastical system; in fact, at a particular stage of their development they must solemnly declare their independence of all formal religion; nor are they allowed to engage in any ritual of magical efficiency. Adeptship, moreover, is not confined to any country. Among the living Adepts there are Englishmen, Hungarians, Greeks, Red Indians, besides Asiatics of all nationalities.

то и в нём не видно тех "лучей качеств", о которых писали А.Бэйли и К.Антарова. Кстати, здесь написано, как эта книга писалась Mohini Chatterji & Laura C.Holloway, после чего в ней исправлялись ошибки:

During the time that H.P.B. was with us, an American lady, Mrs. L.C. Holloway, came to see her, and H.P.B. found that Mrs. Holloway had certain psychic qualities which would enable her to be used for the Master's work; and although those very psychic qualities brought the danger of mistake, H.P.B. determined to try her. Mohini Chatterji and Mrs. Holloway were told to look back into the far past and sketch out the history of the long distant ages. They did so, and in the little upper room at Elgin Crescent the two new friends. . . gave day after day to the writing of Man: Fragments of Forgotten History. I was constantly with them, and found the delving into the shadows, most fascinating. There may be, I know there are, some mistakes in the book. . . . But the Teachers helped, and manuscript pages were placed before Them, and They made some corrections from time to time.