Phần II —Sự tương phản chung giữa Cung 3 và Cung 5

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General Contrasts Between Ray 3 and Ray 5—

Ray 3 vs. Cung 3 so với	Ray 5 Cung 5
1. The philosopher (3A) Triết gia (3A)	1. The scientist Nhà khoa học
2. The theorist (3A) Nhà lý luận (3A)	2. The technician (5B) Kỹ thuật viên (5B)
3. Commercial utilitarianism (3B) Chủ nghĩa vị lợi/thực dụng thương mại (3B)	3. Pure research (5A) Nghiên cứu thuần túy (5A)
4. Abstract (3A) Trừu tượng	4. Concrete Cụ thể
5. Higher mathematics (3A) Toán học cao cấp (3A)	5. Applied mathematics Toán học ứng dụng
6. Meaning; determination of the general significance of the concrete unit within any system (3A) Ý nghĩa; xác định ý nghĩa tổng quát của đơn vị cụ thể trong bất kỳ hệ thống nào (3A)	6. Simple description of what is Miêu tả đơn giản về bản chất
7. Little attention to detail Ít chú ý đến chi tiết	7. Great attention to detail Chú ý nhiều đến chi tiết
8. Theory [especially (3A)] Lý thuyết [đặc biệt (3A)]	8. Fact Thực tế
9. Theorization [especially (3A)] Lý thuyết hóa [đặc biệt (3A)]	9. Verification Kiểm chứng
10. Arriving at revelation via thought alone (3A) Đến với khám phá chỉ qua tư duy (3A)	10. Arriving at revelation via thought and experiment Đến với khám phá qua tư duy và thí nghiệm
11. Dreamer [especially (3A)] Người mơ mộng [đặc biệt (3A)]	11. “commonsensical” Theo lương tri
12. Imaginative Giàu tưởng tượng	12. Less imaginative, more bound to the senses Ít trí tưởng tượng, ràng buộc với các giác quan
13. Generates impractical ideas [especially (3A)] Tạo ra những ý tưởng không khả thi, thiếu thực tế (đặc biệt là (3A)]	13. Extremely practical Vô cùng thực tế
14. Envisions broad implications, Extrapolations Hình dung ra những ý nghĩa rộng lớn, ngoại suy	14. More “matter of fact” Nhiều “sự kiện thực tế”
15. Content with the general idea Bằng lòng với ý tưởng chung	15. Specifically concerned with the “nuts and bolts” [especially (5B)] Đặc biệt quan tâm tới chi tiết [nhất là 5B]
16. Generates broad definitions Tạo ra các định nghĩa rộng	16. Formulates very concrete definitions Xây dựng các định nghĩa rất cụ thể
17. Absent-mindedness (3A) Người hay đãng trí (3A)	17. Attentive to the immediate moment Chú ý tới khoảnh khắc hiện tại
18. Speculation Suy đoán	18. Confirmation, documentation Chứng thực, tư liệu
19. Creative conceptualization Khái niệm hóa sáng tạo	19. Observation Quan sát
20. Creation Sáng tạo	20. Discovery Khám phá
21. Elaboration Tinh vi	21. Detailed description Mô tả chi tiết
22. Ramification Phân nhánh	22. Focalization Tập trung
23. Breadth Rộng rãi	23. Narrowness Hẹp hòi
24. Self-extending Tự mở rộng	24. Self-contained Khép kín
25. Divergency Sự phân kỳ	25. Convergency Sự hội tụ
26. Diversification Đa dạng hóa	26. Concentration Sự tập trung
27. “multi-lined” Nhiều đường	27. Linear Theo 1 đường
28. More random Ngẫu nhiên hơn	28. More methodical Phương pháp hơn
29. Multifaceted Đa diện/nhiều mặt	29. Specialized Chuyên sâu
30. Generalization Khái quát	30. Specification Chi tiết
31. Interdisciplinary Đa ngành	31. “uni-disciplinary” Đơn ngành
32. Great activity Linh hoạt	32. Measured activity Hoạt động có chừng mực/cân nhắc/đắn đo
33. Very vocal Rất lớn tiếng	33. Less vocal Nhỏ nhẹ
34. More inaccuracy Không chính xác hơn	34. More precision Tính chính xác cao hơn
35. Indefinite Mập mờ, không rõ ràng	35. Very definite Rất rõ ràng, chính xác
36. Elaborate, complex explanation Giải thích phức tạp	36. Lucid explanation Giải thích rõ ràng
37. Potential for obscurity Tiềm ẩn sự không rõ ràng	37. Utter clarity Thật rõ ràng
38. Needs truthfulness Cần sự trung thực	38. Truthfulness natural Trung thực tự nhiên
39. Weaving together Gắn kết	39. Separating Chia rẽ
40. Adapting truth Sự thật mang tính thích ứng	40. Applying truth Sự thật mang tính ứng dụng
41. Intellectual; brilliant thought, often without practical application (3A) Đầy tri thức; suy nghĩ thông thái, thường ít tính ứng dụng thực tiễn (3A)	41. Intellect applied to concrete tasks Tri thức mang tính ứng dụng thực tiễn cao
42. Business utilization (3B) Sử dụng mang tính thương mại (3B)	42. Inventiveness through research and development [especially (5B)] Khám phá qua nghiên cứu và phát triển
43. Utilitarian Vị lợi	43. Interest in the thing itself Quan tâm tới bản thân vấn đề
44. Insignificant mechanical ability [especially (3A)] Hạn chế về khả năng cơ khí (3A)	44. Significant mechanical ability (5B) Có khả năng cơ khí cao (5B)

Major Ray 3 and Ray 5 Differences — Sự khác biệt chính giữa Cung 3 và Cung 5

The key differences between these two very related rays are easy to understand. Ray three is the ray of abstract mind, and ray five the ray of concrete mind. Ray three people delight in theorizing, and ray five people insist upon verifying. Ray three people excel at generating possibilities, but it is often up to those upon the fifth ray to determine the truth or falsity of that which is proposed.	Sự khác nhau chủ yếu giữa hai cung rất tương đồng này khá dễ hiểu. Cung 3 là cung của trí trừu tượng, còn cung 5 là cung của trí cụ thể. Người cung 3 say mê lý thuyết, còn người cung 5 theo đuổi việc kiểm chứng. Người cung 3 nổi trội trong việc đưa ra các khả năng, nhưng thường thì những người cung năm phải xác định đúng sai cho những điều được đề xuất.
It should not be thought that ray three people are not interested in truth and in substantiating hypotheses; they are. Those upon the third ray, however, often believe that “thinking it through” according to the laws of logic and reason is a sufficient procedure to prove the veracity of a proposition. Fifth ray people demand not only reason but experiment and tangible proof —proof capable of being registered by the physical senses.	Không nên nghĩ rằng người cung 3 không quan tâm đến sự thật và xác minh các giả thuyết; họ có quan tâm. Tuy nhiên, những người cung ba thường tin rằng “suy nghĩ thấu đáo” theo luật logic và có lý luận là đủ để chứng minh tính xác thực của một mệnh đề. Người cung 5 không chỉ đòi hỏi lý luận mà còn thử nghiệm và cần bằng chứng hữu hình —bằng chứng có khả năng được ghi nhận bằng các giác quan vật lý.
Whereas most ray five people are accustomed to thinking about and working with concrete things , ray three people [especially type (3A)—the more abstract type] do not relate particularly well to the world of things. Such people relate far better to the world of ideas and often dislike descending into the more concrete, material worlds. Type (3B) individuals, who are more at home dealing with material considerations, are not as interested in discovery as are those upon the fifth ray, but, rather, in manipulation and utilization of that which has been discovered. These people are too utilitarian and too commercial to engage in the pure research enjoyed by the scientifically inclined fifth ray individual.	Trong khi hầu hết người cung 5 quen với việc suy nghĩ và làm việc với những thứ cụ thể, thì người cung 3 [đặc biệt là loại (3A) —loại trừu tượng hơn] đặc biệt không quan tâm gì đến thế giới của sự vật. Những người như vậy liên hệ tốt hơn đến thế giới của ý tưởng và thường không thích đi sâu vào thế giới vật chất cụ thể hơn. Những người thuộc cung (3B), thoải mái hơn với những toan tính vật chất, không quan tâm đến việc khám phá như những người cung năm. Tuy nhiên họ tận dụng tối đa những gì đã được phát minh. Những người này quá thực dụng và quá thương mại để tham gia vào các nghiên cứu thuần túy mà những người cung năm say mê.
There are also important differences along the dimension of creativity. The third ray might well be named the “ray of creative intelligence ,” and many are the imagined plans, schemes, designs etc., which the third ray type weaves and then seeks to materialize [especially type (3B)]. Fifth ray people, in general, prefer to see the face of reality—to discover that which is already designed (divinely designed) rather than to weave designs of their own making. Their creativity, however, emerges in their inventiveness which is generally object-centered or instrument-centered. Fifth ray people, type (5B), design implements, tools or instruments for specific use. They stick to working with specific, concrete objects and are not so inclined to create elaborate, far-reaching plans of action.	Cũng có những khác biệt quan trọng về mức độ sáng tạo. Cung ba hoàn toàn có thể được đặt tên là “cung của trí thông minh sáng tạo “, với vô số kế hoạch, hệ thống, thiết kế …, mà người cung 3 thêu dệt nên và sau đó tìm cách hiện thực hóa [đặc biệt là loại (3B)]. Người cung năm nhìn chung thích nhìn thấy bề ngoài của thực tại—khám phá ra những thứ đã được thiết kế (thiết kế thiêng liêng) hơn là tự thêu dệt nên các thiết kế của riêng mình. Tuy nhiên, sự sáng tạo của họ cũng xuất hiện trong lúc họ khám phá—một quá trình nhìn chung lấy vật thể hay công cụ làm trung tâm. Người cung 5, loại (5B), thiết kế dụng cụ, công cụ hoặc vật dụng để sử dụng cụ thể. Họ luôn gắn với những vật cụ thể, hữu hình và không có xu hướng lập ra những kế hoạch hành động hão huyền.
When considering the dimension of activity, we find third ray people [especially type (3B)] very active, and fifth ray people much less so. Third ray people ramify, while those upon the fifth ray concentrate their forces in “laser-like” fashion. Third ray people are involved in linking, spreading, disseminating—they scatter their influence so that many people and many things are affected. ‘Manyness,’ variety and diversity are not priorities for the fifth ray type who prefers a narrower, more specific focus. A phrase descriptive of the functioning of the third ray is: “The many for the use of the one.” This reveals the natural eclecticism of the third ray type. Those upon the fifth ray do not reach so far afield; they concentrate their mental forces and bore through the veil of ignorance so that light may enter.	Khi xem xét tầm mức hoạt động, ta có thể thấy những người cung ba [đặc biệt là loại (3B)] rất tích cực, và những người cung 5 ít tích cực hơn. Những người cung 3 có xu hướng phân nhánh, trong khi những người cung năm tập trung mọi nguồn lực của họ theo kiểu “tia sáng la-ze”. Những người cung ba tham gia vào việc kết nối, truyền bá, phổ biến—họ phân tán ảnh hưởng của họ đến nhiều người và nhiều thứ. Trong khi đó, “tính nhiều”, đa dạng và phong phú không phải là ưu tiên của loại người cung năm, những người thích sự tập trung hẹp và cụ thể hơn. Một cụm từ mô tả về cách thức hoạt động của cung ba là: “Sử dụng một thứ với nhiều cách khác nhau.” Điều này cho thấy chủ nghĩa chiết trung tự nhiên của người cung ba. Những người cung năm không hướng tới điều đó; họ tập trung nguồn lực tinh thần của họ và xuyên thủng tấm màn vô minh để ánh sáng có thể lọt qua.

Major Ray 3 and Ray 5 Similarities—Sự tương đồng chính giữa Cung 3 và Cung 5

Not only are these two rays upon the same line of energy, but they are the two rays which, more than any others, emphasize the intellectual faculties. Workers upon these rays are the natural intellectuals, though this appellation applies most specifically to third ray people who have an ability to live almost exclusively in the mind without focusing upon the testimony of the senses.	Không chỉ có hai cung này cùng trên một dòng năng lượng, mà chúng còn là hai cung tập trung vào các năng lực trí tuệ nhiều hơn tất cả các cung khác. Những người cung này là những người trí thức tự nhiên, mặc dù tên gọi này đặc biệt phù hợp với những người cung ba có khả năng sống thuần trong trí tuệ mà không tập trung vào thực chứng của các giác quan.
There are many faculties possessed by the mind, and those upon these two rays share these faculties in abundance. Both are highly analytical, differentiating, rational and logical, to name but a few capacities. The difference seems not so much a matter of the kinds of mental operations, but the contrasting fields to which these operations are applied. For those upon the third ray [especially type (3A)] the field is quite often the field of thought itself . They think about thinking—utilizing, as they do so, the same analytical and rational abilities which more concrete thinkers would apply to a more concrete, sense-based field of inquiry.	Trí tuệ sở hữu rất nhiều năng lực, và những người thuộc hai cung này chia sẻ nhiều năng lực đó. Ví dụ cả hai đều có khả năng phân tích cao, phân biệt, lý luận và logic… ở đây, chỉ liệt kê một vài năng lực đó. Sự khác biệt dường như không phải ở vấn đề về các loại hoạt động trí tuệ, mà ở chỗ các lĩnh vực tương phản mà các hoạt động này được áp dụng. Đối với những người cung ba [đặc biệt là loại (3A)] lĩnh vực này thường chính là lĩnh vực của tư tưởng . Họ suy nghĩ về việc tư duy, áp dụng những khả năng phân tích và đánh giá tương tự như những khả năng mà các nhà tư tưởng cụ thể hơn sẽ áp dụng cho một lĩnh vực nghiên cứu cụ thể, liên hệ với giác quan nhiều hơn.
Even when third ray thinkers deal with something as apparently tangible as the manipulation of money, they are still focused upon a nonsensory field of abstraction for, in such cases, money is nothing but an abstract, mathematical quantity. For those upon the fifth ray, the field of focus is more concrete and calls for the concentration of mental faculties upon objects of sense. Such objects of sense may be minute as an atom or as gigantic as the “vault of heaven” filled with numberless galactic clusters, and the means of sensing may be a dramatic and enormous extension of the normal senses through the agency of sophisticated instruments (such as telescopes, microscopes, atom smashers or bubble chambers)— but the testimony of the physical senses provides the basis for the resultant mental formulations. For the more abstract thinkers upon the third ray, focused as they often are upon nonsensory fields of inquiry, this need not be so.	Ngay cả khi các nhà tư tưởng thuộc cung ba xử lý một cái gì đó có vẻ hữu hình như việc sử dụng tiền bạc, họ vẫn tập trung vào một lĩnh vực vô tri trừu tượng, bởi vì trong những trường hợp này, tiền chẳng qua là một đại lượng toán học trừu tượng. Đối với những người cung năm, lĩnh vực tập trung cụ thể hơn và hướng tới tập trung các năng lực tinh thần lên các đối tượng giác quan cụ thể. Những đối tượng cụ thể như vậy có thể là nhỏ bé như một nguyên tử hoặc khổng lồ như là “vòm trời” chứa vô số các cụm thiên hà, và các phương tiện cảm nhận có thể ở quy mô cực kỳ to lớn của các giác quan thông thường thông qua các công cụ tinh vi (như kính viễn vọng, kính hiển vi, các máy gia tốc hạt nhân hay các buồng bọt) — nhưng bằng chứng của các giác quan vật lý chính là cơ sở cho những công thức tinh thần được rút ra. Đối với các nhà tư tưởng trừu tượng hơn thuộc cung ba, cách tiếp cận không nhất thiết là như vậy bởi họ thường tập trung vào các lĩnh vực nghiên cứu trừu tượng.
Those upon both of these rays are intent on “making sense” of that which is presented to the field of awareness. The senses (interior and exterior) present a huge number of impacts to the mind; using these impacts as “raw material” many conceptions are formed and the mind then contains a great number of thoughts. A tremendous task of correlating sensory data, of correlating thoughts to sensory data, and of correlating thoughts to other thoughts must be accomplished. The questions which constantly arise are: “What is really happening?”; “Why is it happening?”; “What is the place of this happening within the total scheme of things?” Those upon the third and fifth rays are well-equipped to address themselves to these questions. They link, correlate and seek to make a logical, rational whole out of the apparently unconnected sense impressions and thought-events. This conscious correlation is a labor—some task for the mental nature, but when successful it becomes possible to live intelligently and scientifically with full knowledge of the causes and implications of all activities within the “web” of interrelated energy/events.	Những người thuộc hai cung này đều có mục đích “làm rõ nghĩa” những gì được thể hiện trong lĩnh vực nhận thức. Các giác quan (bên trong và bên ngoài) tạo ra một số lượng lớn các tác động đến thể trí; cái trí sử dụng những tác động này như là “chất liệu thô” cho việc hình thành nhiều khái niệm và khi đó cái trí tràn đầy tư tưởng. Lúc đó, một nhiệm vụ to lớn phải được hoàn thành nhằm liên hệ dữ liệu cảm quan với nhau, liên hệ tư tưởng với dữ liệu cảm quan, liên hệ tư tưởng này với các tư tưởng khác. Những câu hỏi liên tục phát sinh là: “Điều gì đang thực sự xảy ra?”; “Tại sao nó xảy ra?”; “Điều xảy ra có vị trí như thế nào trong phạm vi tổng thể của sự vật?” Những người cung ba và cung năm được trang bị tốt để giải quyết những câu hỏi này. Họ kết nối, liên hệ và tìm cách tạo ra một tổng thể hợp lý, logic từ những ấn tượng cảm quan và các sự kiện tư tưởng dường như không có sự liên hệ. Sự tương quan có ý thức này là một công việc—một nhiệm vụ cho bản chất tâm trí, nhưng khi thành công, ta có thể sống một cách thông minh và khoa học với đầy đủ kiến thức về các nguyên nhân và ý nghĩa của tất cả các hoạt động bên trong “mạng lưới” của các năng lượng/sự kiện có tương quan.