- Office
- Chohan (Lord) of the Third Ray
- Ray
- Third Ray of divine love and compassion
- Color
- Rose pink
- Works with
- Archangel Chamuel and Archeia Charity
- Etheric retreat
- The Chateau de Liberte, above the south of France
- Keynote
- Beauty is love made visible
Paul the Venetian is the Chohan of the Third Ray, the rose-pink ray of divine love. He is the Master of love in action: love as craftsmanship, as care for detail, as the patient making of something beautiful for its own sake.
He is described as tall, graceful and warm in manner, with an artist's eye that notices everything. In his retreat there is said to hang a painting of the threefold flame that he completed after his ascension, and that those who visit in their finer bodies are shown.
Legend and Embodiments
According to the teachings, Paul served in the temples of art in ancient lands now lost, worked as a master builder in Egypt, and came finally to Venice during its great flowering of painting, where he was known for canvases full of light, color and human dignity. He ascended at the close of that life, and has ever since been the patron of artists, musicians, craftspeople and all who make.
Service to the Ascension
The Third Ray has a close kinship with the frequency of Venus, and Paul the Venetian works in harmony with the Venusian Council of Light. His service is to show that the path of ascension is not a flight from the world of form. It is a perfecting of it.
He teaches the initiations of the heart: patience, tolerance, tact, and the willingness to love people as they are while holding the vision of what they may become. These are harder, he says, than any feat of meditation.
What Paul the Venetian Teaches
- Whatever you make with love carries love to everyone who meets it.
- Refinement is not luxury. It is attention.
- You cannot hate yourself into beauty. Begin with one kind stroke.
- The true artist is the one who makes of their own life a work that blesses.
When to Call on Paul the Venetian
- Creative work of every kind, and creative blocks
- Bringing beauty and order into your surroundings
- Patience and tact with difficult people
- Healing harsh self-criticism
- Harmony within families, circles and communities
How to Work With Paul the Venetian
Choose one small act of making: arranging a table, writing a letter by hand, tending a plant. Before you begin, ask Paul the Venetian to work through your hands. Do the thing slowly and as well as you can, for no reward. This is his meditation, and he considers it complete in itself.
An Invocation
Beloved Paul the Venetian, Master of the rose-pink ray,
let divine love flow through my hands and my eyes.
Teach me to make what is beautiful and true.
Refine my heart in patience and kindness,
until my life itself becomes an offering.
A Word From Paul the Venetian
You say you are not an artist. But this morning you set a cup before someone you love, and you turned the handle toward their hand. That is the whole of my teaching.
Do everything as you did that. The temples of light are built of such gestures.
Received by Ilse Varrow