The Rays and the Initiations is Volume V of A Treatise on the Seven Rays. The first part of this particular volume (V) contains the Fourteen Rules for Group Initiation, an extension of the teachings given in another Alice A. Baliely book, Initiation, Human and Solar. The second part of The Rays and the Initiations is concerned with the nine initiations by which the disciple progressively liberates himself from the various forms of our planetary life. The possiblility of group initiation is a development of the present era; this volume emphasises the growth of the group idea -- group service, group responsibility, group initiaiton and group absorption into the centre Hierarchy.