Indigo ray

The sixth energy center — the adept's gateway to intelligent infinity, opened only through self-acceptance and discipline.

What Ra means

Indigo ray is the center reserved for what Ra calls the adept. Once green ray is achieved and blue ray follows readily, indigo presents a much harder threshold: it opens only through considerable discipline, and the practice is primarily one of accepting the self not merely as a balanced and polarized being but as the Creator itself, as an entity of infinite worth (32.14). Technique alone does not open it; the change must be in how the entity regards itself.

Ra names the indigo center as the gateway — the channel through which intelligent energy from all lawful sources within creation pours into the mind/body/spirit complex. When that channel is blocked, usually by a distortion of unworthiness, the free flow is impeded and healing is directly affected (12.31). The indigo ray is the site of the adept's most significant work: visualization, magical working, and the transmutation of consciousness all begin within it (73.10). Ra describes the indigo-ray body as the gateway body — the etheric body wherein intelligent energy is able to mold the mind/body/spirit complex, a body of substance-as-form visible only as light (47.8). Upon death the entity returns to this indigo form-maker body and rests therein until its proper future placement is made (48.7).

Every visualization and ritual working, Ra says, begins with some engagement within indigo ray, however briefly, because it is the only center that opens directly to intelligent infinity. The degree to which this center becomes crystallized determines how much intelligent infinity the adept can express (74.8).

In Ra's words

Indigo opened only through self-acceptance as the Creator — the step that follows green and blue:

The new material is this: once the green ray has been achieved, the ability of the entity to enter blue ray is immediate and is only awaiting the efforts of the individual. The indigo ray is opened only through considerable discipline and practice largely having to do with acceptance of self, not only as the polarized and balanced self but as the Creator, as an entity of infinite worth. This will begin to activate the indigo ray.

32.14.6-8

Indigo as the gateway receiving intelligent energy, and the unworthiness distortion that blocks it:

The portions of its ailment, as you call this distortion complex, that can be perfected in balance are due primarily to a blockage of the indigo-ray, or pineal, energy center. This center receives the intelligent energy from all sources lawful within the One Creation; that is, lawful in this third-density distortion or illusion. If there is no blockage, these energies pour or stream down into the mind/body/spirit complex, perfecting, moment by moment, the individual’s body complex.

This instrument also experiences some distortion of the green-ray energy center which you may call the heart center. It is overly open due to an intensive desire-distortion on the part of this mind/body/spirit complex towards service to others, or as you may call it, universal love. This entity, therefore, spends itself without regard to its reserves of mind/body/spirit-complex distortion in regard to what you call strength or energy. This distortion is primarily due to the blockage of the indigo ray, as we have said before. The misapprehension-distortion of the instrument responsible for this blockage is the basic orientation towards a belief in unworthiness. The unworthiness-distortion blocks the free flow of intelligent energy.

12.31.8-16

The adept's every working beginning within the indigo ray:

Each visualization, regardless of the point of the working, begins with some work within the indigo ray. As you may be aware, the ritual which you have begun is completely working within the indigo ray. This is well, for it is the gateway. From this beginning, light may be invoked for communication or for healing.

73.10.3-6