Ray of Creation

The Ray of Creation is an esoteric cosmology which was taught by G. I. Gurdjieff as part of his Fourth Way teaching.

The diagram has eight levels, each corresponding to Gurdjieff's Law of Octaves (see In Search of the Miraculous, chapter 7).

[1][2] The first level is "The Absolute", followed by "All Worlds", "All Suns", "Sun", "All Planets", "Earth", "Moon", and "The Absolute": This lineage indicates and compares the construction of all of the levels, matters, and laws of the Universe, placing them in scale with one another.

[3] There are many properties which the Fourth Way relates to the Ray of Creation such as: the evolution of the substances in the Universe, relationship between the cosmoses and the human body, etc.

"Involution" describes the branching out of the Ray of Creation from the level of God to the most mechanical and law-bound, and processes going in that direction.

According to G. I. Gurdjieff, some of the ancient geocentric models don't represent an Earth-centered universe at all, but in reality display the Ray of Creation.