In Popular Culture
- Music
- The progressive rock band Utopia performed a song entitled "The Seven Rays." The lyrics of the song center around the philosophies associated with the seven rays concepts popular with the new age movement, with much focus on the colors associated with each ray.
- Another progressive rock band, Hawkwind, have a song about the seven rays titled Seven by Seven.
- Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues refers heavily to the "seven rays" and the "Light of Seven" in his solo album "The Promise".
- Literature
- S.M. Stirling's fictionalized and changed Church Universal and Triumphant believes that the "Light of the Seven Rays" has become stronger since The Change. The Sword of the Lady mentions the Fourth Ray.
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