This abridgment is dedicated to the Tibetan and Alice A. Bailey,

and to all engaged with the work of uplifting the consciousness of humanity.

The work accomplished by Alice A. Bailey and the Tibetan, since revealed as the Master of Wisdom known by the name of Djwhal Khul, can hardly be given too much praise for in the Blue Books they succeeded in delivering a great deal of the Ageless Wisdom to the world.  Their seven core books, each masterfully presented with the clarity and order of a textbook, represent the essential current of Truth that runs through the sciences, religions and philosophies of Man, and unites them all under cosmic law.  Within their body of work are found the laws and processes that underlie the love of the Christ and the wisdom of the Buddha.  Herein are found answers to the true nature of God, the Cosmos, Spiritual and Solar Fire, the not-self and the true Self.

I demonstrate my gratitude for their service by attempting to apply the essential teachings in my life, and this abridgment is just such an attempt.  I am confident that the work was overseen not only by my Higher Self, but by both DK and AAB, for I felt their presences throughout the process.  The sutratma that they created between themselves and their body of work is strong and alive with vibrancy, and it was their discrimination that I relied upon when selecting text for inclusion.  Yet, the karma for errors and omissions between the Treatise and this humble abridgment, must necessarily rest upon my shoulders.  I freely offer this abridgment to the world in the spirit of love and intelligent service, and I believe it will, as a thought-form rightfully conceived and constructed, succeed in its purpose.

The purpose of this abridgment is threefold:

1.  To coalesce a condensed form of the Ageless Wisdom, and this for three reasons:

a)  To assimilate the data and develop an efficient method of studying the essential teachings.

b)  To circulate, teach and learn the Ageless Wisdom with friends and family.  To create a

study guide and teaching aid.

c)  To transmit the essential teachings to those Seekers who may not take the time to read the

full Treatise, with the goal of transmitting 70% of the essential teachings with only 30%

of the study.

2.  To promote awareness of the Ageless Wisdom within studious occult circles, such as the Hermetic

Qabalists, Christian Mystics, Ceremonial Magicians and Astrologers.  Some within these

groups suffer heavily under dogma and misunderstood tradition, and will benefit greatly by

the study of Cosmic Law.

3.  To quantify, demystify and promote awareness of the Ageless Wisdom in the global population.

This has in mind the following four aspects:

a)  General psychology and self-improvement:  Through a greater perspective of one’s

microcosmic self, as well as Man’s position within the planetary scheme, individuals

will be able to respond to life’s challenges with greater mobility and intelligence.

b)  Unification of science, religion and philosophy:  Through an understanding of the Law of

Analogy, the scientist who studies the Ageless Wisdom stands to gain much when he considers

the living atom of matter.  The orthodox Christian may find illumination as to the nature of

God, the Father and the Son, while philosophers will discover the occult reason behind that

warmth, which is felt as individual, brotherly and group love; all will benefit through

knowledge of the concrete processes and abstract interactions that occur in, and actually

create of their own essence, the seen and unseen worlds around us.

c)  Harmlessness, through right thought and speech:  Through a proper comprehension of the

power of thought-forms, individuals will come to control the lower impulses, to seek harmlessness in all that they do, and to eventually radiate only the true essence of their Egoic Ray.

d)  Intelligent individual and group activity:  Societal reforms based on the Ageless Wisdom will promote enhanced unity within the human collective, and the intelligent organization and

activity that will result is the natural flow of evolution, for the Divine Plan works toward the greatest good of all.

In Unity, Love and Light,

Patrick Westfall    

The story of the many years of telepathic work by the Tibetan with Alice A. Bailey is revealed in her Unfinished Autobiography, published in 1951.  This includes the circumstances of her first contact with him, on the physical plane, which took place in California in November 1919.  Thirty years’ work was planned.  When this had been accomplished, and within thirty days after that period, Mrs. Bailey gained her release from the limitations of the physical vehicle.  The Autobiography also contains certain statements by the Tibetan in regard to his work and some information as to the reasons why it was undertaken.  

The spiritual truths dealt with involved in many cases the expression by the lower concrete mind (often with the insuperable restrictions of the English language) of abstract ideas and hitherto quite unknown concepts of spiritual realities.

The present volume, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, first published in 1925, was the third book jointly produced and carries inherent evidence that it will stand as the major and most far-reaching portion of the thirty-year teachings, notwithstanding the profundity and usefulness of the volumes published in the series entitled A Treatise on the Seven Rays or of any other of the books.

In A Treatise on Cosmic Fire the Tibetan has given us what H.P. Blavatsky prophesied he would give, namely, the psychological key to the Cosmic Creation.  H.P.B. stated that in the 20th century a disciple would come who would give the psychological key to her own monumental work The Secret Doctrine on which treatise the Tibetan worked with her; and Alice A.  Bailey worked in complete recognition of her own task in this sequence.

Tunbridge Wells, December 1950
Foster Bailey

I am a brother of yours, who has traveled a little longer upon the Path than has the average student, and has therefore incurred greater responsibilities.  I am one who has wrestled and fought his way into a greater measure of light than has the aspirant who will read this, and I must therefore act as a transmitter of the light.  My work is to teach and spread the knowledge of the Ageless Wisdom wherever I can find a response, and I also seek to help the Masters M. and the Master K.H. whenever opportunity offers.    

If a teaching can bring forth a response from the illumined mind,

a flashing forth of the intuition, then let that teaching be accepted, but not otherwise.

by Alice A. Bailey

The Treatise on Cosmic Fire has a fivefold purpose:

1. Provide an outline of the teachings.  
2. Express the true nature of psychology.  
3. Demonstrate the coherent evolution of All That Is.  
4. Provide practical information about the centers as focal points.  
5. Impart information about the lives of the devas who are the Fire and who form from their bodies all that manifests.  

This book should tend to an expansion of consciousness, and recognition of its adequacy, as it is the result of the Master Minds of all time.  The book will seek to form a system of philosophy that links Spirit and Matter, thereby linking Science and Religion.  

The student is asked to keep the following four factors in mind while reading:

1. The book concerns the essence of that which is objective, the subjective side, and with the consideration of force and energy.
2. Seek to avoid occultly drowning in the words and phrases which carry limited meaning, and remember that much is lost in the process of translation.  
3. This book should be viewed as a contribution to the mass of thought and data already accumulated and no attempts should be made to 'deify' it.  
4. All attempts to formulate in words what must be felt and lived in order to be truly comprehended, must necessarily prove inadequate.

The teaching which is given in this Treatise on Cosmic Fire might be formulated in the following terms.  These postulates are simply extensions of the three fundamentals to be found in the Proem in the first volume of The Secret Doctrine by H.P. Blavatsky.

First Postulate 

There is one boundless immutable Principle, one Absolute Reality behind all Beingness.  The universe exists within this one Reality and 3 aspects are conceived:

1. First Cosmic Logos: Impersonal and unmanifested.

2. Second Cosmic Logos: Spirit-Matter, Life.

3. Third Cosmic Logos: Cosmic Ideation, World Soul.

Each of these is also triple, creating the nine Sephiroth, or the nine Emanations.  These, with the totality of manifestation or the Whole, produce the ten of perfect manifestation, or the perfect MAN.  These three aspects of the Whole are present in every form.

The solar system is triple, manifesting through the three above mentioned.  A human being is equally triple, manifesting as Spirit, Soul and Body, or Monad, Ego and Personality.  The atom of the scientist is also triple, being composed of a positive nucleus, the negative electrons, and the totality of the outer manifestation, the result of the relation of the other two.  

The three aspects of every form are interrelated and susceptible of intercourse, because energy is in motion and circulates.  All forms in the solar system form part of the Whole, and are not isolated units.  This is the basis of brotherhood, of the communion of saints, and of astrology.

These three aspects of God, the Solar Logos, and the Central Energy or Force (for the terms are occultly synonymous) demonstrate through seven centers of force, - three major centers and four minor.  These seven centers of Logoic Force are themselves so constituted that they form corporate Entities.  They are identified in this Treatise as:

• The seven planetary Logoi.
• The seven Spirits before the Throne.
• The seven Rays.
• The seven Heavenly Men.

The Seven Logoi embody seven types of differentiated force, and in this Treatise are known under the names of Lords of the Rays.  The names of the Rays are:

1. Ray I - Ray of Will or Power - 1st Aspect

2. Ray II - Ray of Love-Wisdom - 2nd Aspect

3. Ray III - Ray of Active Intelligence - 3rd Aspect

(The above are the major Rays of Aspect.  Below are the Rays of Attribute.)

4. Ray IV - Ray of Harmony, Beauty and Art.

5. Ray V - Ray of Concrete Knowledge or Science.

6. Ray VI - Ray of Devotion or of Abstract Idealism.

7. Ray VII - Ray of Ceremonial Magic or Order.

Each Solar System is the form manifestation of the energy and life of a great cosmic Existence that we call a Solar Logos.  It can be viewed in 3 aspects:  

1. Spirit/Electric Fire

2. Soul/Solar Fire  

3. Intelligence/Fire by Friction

A human being is also triple:

1. Spirit/Monad    

2. Soul/Ego    

3. Body/Personality

An atom is triple:

1. Positive nucleus    

2. Negative electrons    

3. Totality of manifestation

These triplicities demonstrate through seven centers of force forming corporate Entities as the seven Rays and the seven sacred planets/logoi.

Second Postulate 

The following Cosmic Laws govern all aspects of Life:

• The Law of Periodicity: Rythmic incarnations.

• The Law of Economy: Governing matter.

• The Law of Attraction: Governing consciousness.

• The Law of Synthesis: Governing the will aspect.

The Laws of the Solar System are:

1. Vibration  

2. Cohesion  

3. Disintegration  

4. Magnetic Control  

5. Fixation  

6. Love  

7. Sacrifice/Death

Third Postulate 

All Souls are an identity or aspect of the Oversoul.  (Identified with the Oversoul)

• Brotherhood is a fact in nature, not an ideal.

• The logos of our solar system is the macrocosm, man is the microcosm.

• Man is the macrocosm to the animal kingdom.

• The atom's goal is self-consciousness as exemplified in man.

• Man's goal is group consciousness as exemplified by a planetary logos.  

• The goal of a planetary logos is God-consciousness as exemplified by a solar logos.

Introductory Remarks

We purpose in these few introductory remarks to lay down the foundation for a "Treatise on Cosmic Fire," and to consider the subject of fire both macrocosmically and microcosmically, thus dealing with it from the standpoint of the solar system, and of a human being. 

I.  Fire in the Macrocosm

The essential nature of Fire is three-fold but is five-fold in manifestation.

1. Ray 1:  Electric/Spiritual Fire of Will, the Father.  

2. Ray 2:  Solar/Mental Fire, the Son.  Demonstrating as the Fires of Mind and Elementals of Fire.

3. Ray 3:  Fire by Friction/Kinetic Fire, the Mother.  Demonstrating as:

1. Active heat
2. Latent heat

First, we have the animating fires of the solar system, which are the fires of the primordial ray of active intelligent matter; these constitute the energy of Brahma, the third aspect of the Logos.  Next are to be found the fires of the divine Ray of Love-Wisdom, the ray of intelligent love, which constitutes the energy of the Vishnu aspect, the second aspect Logoic.  Finally are to be found the fires of the cosmic mental plane, which are the fires of the cosmic ray of will.  They might be described as the rays of intelligent will and are the manifestation of the first aspect Logoic, the Mahadeva aspect.  Mahadeva is literally "great Deva." The term is frequently applied to the first Person of the manifested Trinity, to Shiva, the Destroyer aspect, the Creator.  

These three expressions of the divine Life may be regarded as expressing the triple mode of manifestation. First, the objective or tangible universe; second, the subjective worlds or form; and thirdly, the spiritual aspect which is to be found at the heart of all.

The internal fires that animate and vitalize show themselves in a twofold manner:

First as latent heat.  This is the basis of rotary motion and the cause of the spheroidal coherent manifestation of all existence, from the Logoic atom, the solar ring-pass-not, down to the minutest atom of the chemist or physicist.

Second, as active heat.  This results in the activity and the driving forward of material evolution.  On the highest plane the combination of these three factors (active heat, latent heat and the primordial substance which they animate) is known as the 'sea of fire,' of which akasha is the first differentiation of pregenetic matter.  Akasha, in manifestation, expresses itself as Fohat, or divine Energy, and Fohat on the different planes is known as aether, air, fire, water, electricity, ether, prana and similar terms.  

Fohat is divine thought or energy (Shakti) as manifested on any plane of the cosmos. It is the interplay between Spirit and matter. The seven differentiations of Fohat are:

1. The Plane of Divine Life - Adi - Sea of fire
2. The Plane of Monadic Life - Anupadaka - Akasha
3. The Plane of Spirit - Atma - Aether
4. The Plane of the Intuition - Buddhi - Air
5. The Plane of Mind - Mental - Fire
6. The Plane of Desire - Astral - Astral Light
7. The Plane of Density - Physical - Ether

The fires of the mental plane also demonstrate in a twofold manner:

1. First, as the Fire of Mind, the basis of all expression and in one peculiar occult sense the sumtotal of existence. It provides the relation between the life and the form, between spirit and matter, and is the basis of consciousness itself.

2. Second, as the Elementals of Fire, or the sumtotal of the active expression of thought, showing itself through the medium of those entities who, in their very essence, are fire itself.

II.  Fire in the Microcosm

Fire in the Microcosm is likewise threefold in essence and fivefold in manifestation:

Fire by Friction/Internal Fire:  The vibration of the little system in which the monad is the logos and holds the personality in manifestation, thus allowing Spirit to contact dense matter.  Governed by the Law of Economy.  This is Internal Vitalizing Fire and is the sumtotal of individual kundalini; it animates the corporeal frame and demonstrates also in the twofold manner:

First, as latent heat which is the basis of life of the spheroidal cell, or atom, and of its rotary adjustment to all other cells.  Second, as active heat or prana; this animates all, and is the driving force of the evolving form.  It shows itself in the four ethers and in the gaseous state, and a correspondence is here found on the physical plane in connection with man to the Akasha and its fivefold manifestation on the plane of the solar system.  When the latent fire of the personality blends with Solar Fire and finally merges with the Divine Flame, man/planet/solar system takes the 5th Initiation and completes one of his greater cycles.

Solar Fire/Spark of Mind:  There is next the Fire or Spark of Mind which is the correspondence in man to Solar Fire.  This constitutes the thinking self-conscious unit or the soul.  This fire of mind is governed by the Law of Attraction as is its greater correspondence.  Later we can enlarge on this.  It is this spark of mind in man, manifesting as spiral cyclic activity, which leads to expansion and to his eventual return to the center of his system, the Monad - the origin and goal for the reincarnating Jiva or human being.  

As in the macrocosm, this fire also manifests in a twofold manner.

1. It shows as that intelligent will which links the Monad or spirit with its lowest point of contact, the personality, functioning through a physical vehicle.

2. It likewise demonstrates, as yet imperfectly, as the vitalizing factor in the thought-forms fabricated by the thinker.  As yet but few thought-forms, comparatively, can be said to be constructed by the center of consciousness, the thinker, the Ego.  Most of the thought-forms at present in circulation may be said to be aggregations of matter, built into form with the aid of kama-manas (or of desire faintly tinged with mind producing thus an admixture of astral and mental matter, mostly astral), and largely due to reflex elemental action.  These dualities of expression are:

Active fire or prana, and latent fire or bodily heat.

Mental energy in the mental body, purely mental thought-forms, animated by self-engendered fire, or by the fifth principle, and therefore part of the sphere, or system of control, of the Monad.

Electric Fire/Monadic Flame Divine:  This embodies the highest vibration of which the Monad is capable, is governed by the Law of Synthesis, and is the cause of the forward progressive movement of the evolving Jiva.

When the latent fire of the personality or lower self blends with the fire of mind, that of the higher self, and finally merges with the Divine Flame, then the man takes the fifth Initiation in this solar system, and has completed one of his greater cycles.  When the three blaze forth as one fire, liberation from matter, or from material form is achieved.  Matter has been correctly adjusted to spirit, and finally the indwelling life slips forth out of its sheath which forms now only a channel for liberation.

III.  Fire in Manifestation

1.  Spiritual/Electric Fire:  Little can be said about the evolution of Spirit as yet it can only be expressed in terms of the evolution of matter, except that it is the cause of forward progressive motion which, in its totality, is rotary, cyclic and progressive.

2.  Solar Fire/Mental Fire:  The expression of the evolution of manas, the vitality and evolution of the soul results in consciousness that is spiral cyclic in nature.

3.  Fire by Friction:  Concerns the axial rotary activity and eventual evolution of matter.  The 3 fires blaze forth producing perfected consciousness, resulting in the purification and eventual destruction of the form upon the lower planes.

The internal fires of the system, of the planet, and of man are threefold:

1. Interior fire at the center of the sphere, those inner furnaces which produce warmth.  This is latent fire.

2. Radiatory fire.  This type of fire might be expressed in terms of physical plane electricity, of light rays, and of etheric energy.  This is active fire.

3. Essential fire, or the fire elementals who are themselves the essence of fire.  They are mainly divided into two groups:

1. Fire devas or evolutionary entities.

2. Fire elementals or involutionary entities.

SECTION ONE - Division A

The Internal Fires of the Sheaths

From the very use of the term "sheath" it will be noted that we are considering those fires which manifest through the medium of those externalities, of those veils of substance which hide and conceal the inner Reality.  It is frequently overlooked by the casual student that both the astral and the mental bodies are material, and just as material in their own way, as is the dense physical body, and also that the substance of which they are composed is animated by a triple fire, as is the physical.

I.  The Three Channels (Sheaths)

1. The Fires of the lower vehicles are:

• Physical Body  
• Astral Body  
• Mental Body

2. Fire demonstrates correspondingly in all three sheaths as:  warmth, nervous response and pranic emanation.

3. The fire of Spirit is the essential fire of the 1st Ray Lord of Will plus the 2nd Logos of Love.  These merge and demonstrate as Soul, utilizing the 3rd Ray Logos of Intelligence to aid manifestation.

In the physical body, we have the fires of the lower nature (the animal plane) centralized at the base of the spine.  They are situated at a spot which stands in relation to the physical body as the physical sun to the solar system.  This central point of heat radiates in all directions, using the spinal column as its main artery, but working in close connection with certain central ganglia, wherever located, and having a special association with the spleen.  

In the etheric body, which is an exact replica of its denser counterpart, we have the organ of active or radiatory fire, and, as is well known, the vehicle of prana.  Its function is to store up the rays of radiatory light and heat which are secured from the sun, and to transmit them, via the spleen, to all parts of the physical body.  

The Man:  At the base of the spine lie hid the fires of the human system, or the internal fires of the Microcosm.  The center is located there, and from it the radiations go forth along the three channels, recognizable in the spine.

Bodily warmth:  The channel along which the heat radiates and which finds the goal of its attention to be the heating of the corporeal frame.  This vitalization of the dense matter of the body finds its correspondence in the systemic akasha, and in planetary productive substance.

Nervous response:  This is the vitalizing tenuous fluid which applies itself to the stimulation of the nervous centers, and which creates electrical response to contact between the nerves and the brain.  It should now be more closely studied.  It corresponds to systemic electricity, and to planetary electricity.

Pranic emanation:  The emanation, via the etheric body, which corresponds in man to solar prana and to planetary prana.  This demonstrates principally in the health aura and has naught to do with magnetic qualities, as generally interpreted when considering a personality, or man as a unit.  I make this repetition as it is very necessary that no mental confusion exists between that magnetism which is a spiritual emanation and that which is purely animal.

It might be wise here to point out that this triple manifestation of fire demonstrates in the astral and mental bodies likewise, having to do with the substance of those bodies.  The fire of Spirit is the essential fire of the first Lord of Will plus the fire of the second Logos of Love.  These two cosmic Entities blend, merge, and demonstrate as Soul, utilizing for purposes of manifestation the aid of the third Logos.  The three fires blend and merge.  In this fourth round and on this fourth globe of our planetary scheme, the fires of the third Logos of intelligent matter are fusing somewhat with the fires of cosmic mind, showing as will or power, and animating the Thinker on all planes.  The object of Their cooperation is the perfected manifestation of the cosmic Lord of Love.

II.  Fire Elementals and Devas

The fundamental fact that should here be emphasized is that AGNI, the Lord of Fire, rules over all the fire elementals and devas on the three planes of human evolution, the physical, the astral, and the mental, and rules over them not only on this planet, called the Earth, but on the three planes in all parts of the system. He is one of the seven Brothers Who each embody one of the seven principles, or Who are in Themselves the seven centers in the body of the cosmic Lord of Fire, called by H.P.B. "Fohat."

He is that active fiery Intelligence, Who is the basis of the internal fires of the solar system. On each plane one of these Brothers holds sway, and the three elder Brothers (for always the three will be seen, and later the seven, who eventually merge into the primary three) rule on the first, third and the fifth planes, or on the plane of adi, of atma and of manas. It is urgent that we here remember that They are fire viewed in its third aspect, the fire of matter. In Their totality these seven Lords form the essence of the cosmic Lord, called in the occult books, Fohat.

Lord Agni is one of the seven Lords of Fire which constitute the chakra centers of Fohat in the same way that the seven Heavenly Men (sacred planets) form the centers of our Solar System, the 7 Chohans of earthly Hierarchy form the centers of our planet, our seven chakra centers form the essence of our incarnated selves.

Physical Plane Elementals:

1. Salamanders as seen in the hearth.  

2. Fire Spirits, latent in heat.  

3. Agnichaitans, a higher grade of Fire Spirit.  

4. Pranic Elementals, the tiny elementals able to penetrate through all within the 3 worlds.  

5. Devas of the Light.

1.  The Physical Plane

• Salamanders, those little fire elementals who can be seen dancing in every flame, tending the fires of the hearth and the home, and of the factory.  They are of the same group as the fire spirits who can be contacted deep in the fiery bowels of the planet.

• Fire spirits, latent in all focal points of heat, who are themselves the essence of warmth, and can be contacted in the heat of the bodily frame, whether human or animal, and who are likewise the warmth terrestrial.

• The Agnichaitans, a higher grade of fire spirit, who form a vortex of fire when viewed on a large scale, such as in volcanoes and large destructive burnings.  They are closely allied to a still more important group of devas, who form the fiery envelope of the sun.

• The pranic elementals, those minute fiery essences who have the ability to permeate the texture of the human body, of a tree, or of all that may be found in the human, vegetable and animal kingdoms, and who blend with the fires of the microcosmic systems.

• Certain of the deva kingdom who may be described as ensouling certain of the great light rays, and Who are in Themselves the essence of those rays.

2.  The Astral Plane-Agnisuryans

The fiery essences of this plane are more difficult for us to comprehend, having not, as yet, the seeing eye upon that plane.  They are in themselves the warmth and heat of the emotional body, and of the body of feeling.  They are of a low order when upon the path of desire, and of a high order when upon the path of aspiration, for the elemental is then transmuted into the deva.

Their grades and ranks are many, but their names matter not save in one instance.  It may be of interest to know the appellation applied to the devas of fire whose part it is to tend the fires that will later destroy the causal body.  We need to remember that it is the upspringing of the latent fire of matter and its merging with two other fires that causes destruction.  These elementals and devas are called the Agnisuryans, and in their totality are the fiery essences of buddhi, hence their lowest manifestation is on the sixth plane, the astral.

SECTION ONE - Division B

The Personality Ray and the First Fire

I.  The Work of the Three Rays

Each body or form wherein Spirit functions has, for its focal point on each plane, an atom composed of matter of the atomic subplane of each plane.  This serves as a nucleus for the distribution of force, for the conservation of faculty, for the assimilation of experience, and for the preservation of memory.  These atoms are in direct connection with one or other of the three great rays in connection with the microcosm:

• The Monadic Ray, the synthetic ray of the microcosm.
• The Egoic Ray.
• The Personality Ray.

Each of these rays has a connection with one or other of the permanent atoms in the lower threefold man, and has a direct action upon the spirillae found within the atom.

The relationship between these three rays and the permanent atoms might be summarized as follows:

• The Personality Ray has direct action upon the physical permanent atom.
• The Egoic Ray has a similar action upon the astral permanent atom.
• The Monadic Ray has a close connection with the mental unit.

Each body in which a Spirit functions has a focal point upon each plane called a Permanent Atom.  The Physical atom is linked to the Personality Ray, the Astral atom to the Egoic Ray and the Mental to the Monadic Ray.

II.  The Personality Ray and the Permanent Atoms

The Personality Ray concerns the first four spirillae, Egoic the fifth and sixth, Monadic the 7th.  By life upon the physical plane (that life wherein the physical permanent atom has its full demonstration) the matter is arranged and separated that must eventually be built into the Temple of Solomon, the egoic body, through the agency of the egoic life, the second aspect.  In the quarry of the personal life are the stones prepared for the great Temple.  In existence upon the physical plane and in the objective personal life is that experience gained which demonstrates as faculty in the Ego.

III.  The Personality Ray and Karma

The karma of matter itself is an abstruse subject and has as yet scarcely been hinted at.  It is nevertheless indissoluble mixed up with the karma of the individual.  It involves a control of the evolution of the monadic essence, the elemental essence and of the atomic matter of the plane; it is concerned with the development of the four spirillae, with their activity, with their attachment to forms when atomic, and with the development of the inner latent heat and its gradual fiery increase until we have within the atom a repetition of what is seen within the causal body: the destruction of the periphery of the atom by the means of burning.

Every thing is, in its totality, the result of action taken by cosmic Essences and Entities in earlier solar systems which is working out through the individual atoms, and through those congeries of atoms which we call forms The effect of the personality Ray upon the internal fires is therefore, in effect, the result of the influence of the planetary Logos of whatever ray is implicated, as He works out that portion of Karma which falls to His share in any one cycle, greater or lesser.  He thus brings about and eventually transmutes, the effects of causes which He set in motion earlier in relation to His six Brothers, the other planetary Logoi.

• Karma involves the evolution of Monadic and Elemental essence of the plane and concerns the development of the four spirillae, and the eventual destruction of the periphery by means of burning.
• Karma concerns the building of matter into forms by the interaction of Rays 2 and 3, thereby producing that Fire by Friction that promotes evolution.
• Everything is, in its totality, the result of action taken by cosmic Essences and Entities in earlier solar systems, which is working out through individual atoms and the groups of atoms called forms.  

SECTION ONE - Division C

The Etheric Body and Prana

I.  The Nature of the Etheric Body

In days to come it will be realized that the health of man is dependent upon the health of all allied evolutions, and upon the cooperative action and full expression of the matter of the planet and of the planetary elemental who is himself a composite manifestation of the physical elementals of all manifested nature.

In the study of the etheric body and prana lies the revelation of the effects of those rays of the sun which we will call "solar pranic emanations."  These solar pranic emanations are the produced effect of the central heat of the sun approaching other bodies within the solar system by one of the three main channels of contact, and producing on the bodies then contacted certain effects differing somewhat from those produced by the other emanations.  

Emanative prana does little in connection with form-building; that is not its province, but it conserves the form through the preservation of the health of its component parts.  Other rays of the sun act differently, upon the forms and upon their substance.  Some perform the work of the Destroyer of forms, and others carry on the work of cohering and of attracting; the work of the Destroyer and of the Preserver is carried on under the Law of Attraction and Repulsion.  Some rays definitely produce accelerated motion, others produce retardation.  

The ones we are dealing with here - pranic solar emanations - work within the four ethers, that matter which (though physical) is not as yet objectively visible to the eye of man.  They are the basis of all physical plane life considered solely in connection with the life of the physical plane atoms of matter, their inherent heat and their rotary motion.  These emanations are the basis of that "Fire by Friction" which demonstrates in the activity of matter.

Finally, in the study of the etheric body and prana comes comprehension of the method of Logoic manifestation, and therefore much of interest to the metaphysician, and all abstract thinkers.  The etheric body of man holds hid the secret of his objectivity.  It has its correspondence on the archetypal plane, - the plane we call that of the divine manifestation, the first plane of our solar system, the plane Adi.  

1.  Its Purpose and Description

The etheric body has been described as a network, permeated with fire, or as a web, animated with golden light. It is spoken of in the Bible as the "golden bowl."  It is a composition of that matter of the physical plane which we call etheric, and its shape is brought about by the fine interlacing strands of this matter being built by the action of the lesser Builders into the form or mould upon which later the dense physical body can be molded.

Under the Law of Attraction, the denser matter of the physical plane is made to cohere to this vitalized form, and is gradually built up around it, and within it, until the interpenetrating is so complete that the two forms make but one unit; the pranic emanations of the etheric body itself play upon the dense physical body in the same manner as the pranic emanations of the sun play upon the etheric body. It is all one vast system of transmission and of interdependence within the system. All receive in order to give, and to pass on to that which is lesser or not so evolved. Upon every plane this process can be seen.

Thus the etheric body forms the archetypal plane in relation to the dense physical body. The thinker on his own plane stands, in relation to the physical, as the Logos to His system. In the synthesis of thought it might be expressed thus: The thinker on the astral plane, the plane of desire and of necessity, stands to the physical body as the Logos on the cosmic astral plane stands to His system.

It is with the etheric bodies of all we are dealing, and with their vivification by prana (whether cosmic, solar, planetary or human), with the organs of reception and with the basis of emanations. Here, therefore, we can arrive at certain dicta anent the etheric body which for purposes of clarity might well be enumerated:

Eight Statements

1. The etheric body is the mold of the physical body.

2. The etheric body is the archetype of the physical body, whether the form of a solar system, or of a human body in any one incarnation.

3. The etheric body is a network of fine interlacing channels, formed of matter of the four ethers, and built into a specific form.  It forms a focal point for certain radiatory emanations which stimulate the rotary action of matter.

4. When focused and received, pranic emanations react upon the dense matter that has been attracted to the etheric framework.  

5. This etheric web, in the microcosm and macrocosm, forms a barrier between the physical and astral planes during incarnation, but can ultimately be transcended through consciousness.  

6. In all bodies, whether human, planetary or solar, there will be found an organ which acts as the receiver of prana and its dense physical correspondence.

7. See Tabulation ‘Prana of the Solar System’.

8. When the will-to-live vanishes, when the Thinker withdraws his attention, physical plane existence will cease.  The latent fire of the atom remains but the form is made by two fires, active and latent, aided by the 2nd Logos, and when they are separated, the form falls apart.

II. The Nature of Prana

We have seen that the etheric body formed the foundation of the dense physical form, and in itself constituted a most important link between:

• Physical man, and the emotional or astral plane.

• Planetary Man, and essential emotional quality.

• The Logos, the grand Heavenly Man, and the cosmic astral plane.

We might now narrow the subject down to the consideration of the etheric body of the human being and not touch upon correspondences to things systemic or cosmic at all, though it may be necessary to remind ourselves that for the wise student the line along which wisdom comes is the interpretative one; he who knows himself (in objective manifestation, essential quality, and comprehensive development) knows likewise the Lord of his Ray, and the Logos of his system. It is only then a matter of application, conscious expansion, and intelligent interpretation, coupled to a wise abstention from dogmatic assertion, and a recognition that the correspondence lies in quality and method more than in detailed adherence to a specified action at any given time in evolution.

Science, as we know, is fast reaching the point where it will be forced to admit the fact of the etheric body, because the difficulties of refusing to acknowledge it, will be far more insuperable than an admission of its existence.  Phenomena are occurring all the time which remain in the domain of the supernatural unless accounted for through the medium of etheric matter, and in their anxiety to prove the spiritualists wrong, scientists have aided the cause of the true and higher spiritism by falling back on reality, and on the fact of the etheric body, even though they consider it a body of emanative radiation - being concerned with the effect and not having yet ascertained the cause.

1.  Solar Prana

This is that vital and magnetic fluid which radiates from the sun, and which is transmitted to man's etheric body through the agency of certain deva entities of a very high order, and of a golden hue.  It is passed through their bodies and emitted as powerful radiations, which are applied direct through certain plexi in the uppermost part of the etheric body, the head and shoulders, and passed down to the etheric correspondence of the physical organ, the spleen, and from thence forcibly transmitted into the spleen itself.  These golden hued pranic entities are in the air above us, and are specially active in such parts of the world as California, in those tropical countries where the air is pure and dry, and the rays of the sun are recognized as being specially beneficial.  These solar devas take the radiatory rays of the sun which reach from its center to the periphery along one of the three channels of approach, pass them through their organism and focalize them there.

Relations between man and this group of devas are very close, but fraught as yet with much danger to man.  These devas are of a very powerful order, and, along their own line, are further evolved than man himself.  Unprotected man lies at their mercy, and in this lack of protection, and man's failure to understand the laws of magnetic resistance, or of solar repulsion comes, for instance, the menace of sunstroke.  

2.  Planetary Prana

This is the vital fluid emanated from any planet, which constitutes its basic coloring or quality, and is produced by a repetition within the planet of the same process which is undergone in connection with man and solar prana.  The planet (the Earth, or any other planet) absorbs solar prana, assimilates, what is required, and radiates off that which is not essential to its well-being in the form of planetary radiation.  Planetary prana, therefore, is solar prana which has passed throughout the planet, has circulated through the planetary etheric body, has been transmitted to the dense physical planet, and has been cast off thence in the form of a radiation of the same essential character as solar prana, plus the individual and distinctive quality of the particular planet concerned.  This again repeats the process undergone in the human body.  The physical radiations of men differ according to the quality of their physical bodies.  So it is with a planet.

Planetary emanative prana (as in the case of solar prana) is caught up and transmitted via a particular group of devas, called the "Devas of the Shadows," who are ethereal devas of a slightly violet hue.  Their bodies are composed of the matter of one or other of the four ethers, and they focalize and concentrate the emanations of the planet, and of all forms upon the planet.  They have a specially close connection with human beings owing to the fact of the essential resemblance of their bodily substance to man's etheric substance, and because they transmit to him the magnetism of "Mother Earth" as it is called.  

Therefore we see that there are two groups of devas working in connection with man:

• Solar devas, who transmit the vital fluid which circulates in the etheric body.

• Planetary devas of a violet color, who are allied to man's etheric body, and who transmit earth's prana, or the prana of whichever planet man may be functioning upon during a physical incarnation.

We might ask: What causes the apparent deadness of the Moon?  Is there deva life upon it?  Does solar prana have no effect there?  What constitutes the difference between the apparently dead Moon, and a live planet, such as the Earth?   Here we touch upon a hidden mystery, of which the solution lies revealed for those who seek, in the fact that human beings and certain groups of devas are no longer found upon the Moon.  Man has not ceased to exist upon the Moon because it is dead and cannot therefore support his life, but the Moon is dead because man and these deva groups have been removed from off its surface, and from its sphere of influence.

3.  The Prana of Forms

It must first be pointed out that forms are necessarily of two kinds, each having a different place in the scheme:

1. Forms that are the result of the work of the third and the second Logos, and Their united life.   Such forms are the units in the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms.  

2. Forms that are the result of the united action of the three Logoi, and comprise the strictly deva and human forms.

There is also the still simpler form embodied in the substance of which all the other forms are made.  This matter is strictly speaking the atomic and molecular matter, and is animated by the life or energy of the third Logos.

In dealing with the first group of forms, it must be noted that the pranic emanations given off by units of the animal and vegetable kingdom (after they have absorbed both solar and planetary prana) are naturally a combination of the two, and are transmitted by means of surface radiation, as in solar and planetary Prana, to certain lesser groups of devas of a not very high order, who have a curious and intricate relationship to the group soul of the radiating animal or vegetable.  

In dealing with the second group, the human form transmits the emanative radiations to a much higher grade of deva.  These devas are of a more pronounced hue, and after due assimilation of the human radiation, they transmit it principally to the animal kingdom, thus demonstrating the close relationship between the two kingdoms.  If the above explanation of the intricate interrelation between the sun and the planets, between the planets and the evolving forms upon them, between the forms themselves in ever descending importance demonstrates nothing more than the exquisite interdependence of all existences, then much will have been achieved.

Lastly, all work with fire.  Fire internal, inherent and latent; fire radiatory and emanative; fire generated, assimilated and radiated; fire vivifying, stimulating and destroying; fire transmitted, reflected, and absorbed; fire, the basis of all life; fire, the essence of all existence; fire, the means of development, and the impulse behind all evolutionary process; fire, the builder, the preserver, and the constructor; fire, the originator, the process and the goal; fire the purifier and the consumer.

The God of Fire and the fire of God interacting upon each other, till all fires blend and blaze and till all that exists, is passed through the fire - from a solar system to an ant - and emerges as a triple perfection.  Fire then passes out from the ring-pass-not as perfected essence, whether essence emerging from the human ring-pass-not, the planetary ring-pass-not or the solar.  The wheel of fire turns and all within that wheel is subjected to the threefold flame, and eventually stands perfected.

III.  The Function of the Etheric Body

We will now continue with the discussion of the etheric body, and take up the consideration of its function and its relation to the physical body.  The two may wisely be considered together, for the interrelation is so close that it is not possible to discuss them separately.  Primarily the functions of the etheric body are three in number:

1. It is the receiver of prana.

2. It is the assimilator of prana.

3. It is the transmitter of prana.

1.  The Receiver of Prana

The etheric body may therefore be described as negative or receptive in respect to the rays of the sun, and as positive and expulsive in respect to the dense physical body.  The second function - that of assimilation - is strictly balanced or internal.  The main center for the reception of prana at present is a center between the shoulder blades.  

2.  The Assimilator of Prana

The process of assimilation is carried on in this triangle, and the prana which enters into either center, circulates three times around the triangle before being transmitted to all parts of the etheric vehicle and from thence to the dense physical body.  The main organ of assimilation is the spleen - the etheric center and the dense physical organ.  The vital essence from the sun is passed into the etheric spleen, and is there subjected to a process of intensification or devitalization, according to the condition, healthy or not, of that organ.  If the man is in a healthy state the emanation received will be augmented by his own individual vibration, and its rate of vibration will be keyed up before it is passed on into the physical spleen; or it will be slowed down and lowered if the man is in a poor condition of health.

These three centers are in the form that all centers take, of saucer-like depressions, resembling somewhat the appearance of small whirlpools, and which draw within their sphere of influence the currents that come their way.  The centers should be pictured as whirling vortices with a closely woven threefold channel passing from each center to the other, and forming an almost separate circulatory system.  This finds its point of departure for the entire system at the further side of the spleen to that at which the prana entered.  

The vital fluid circulates through and between these three centers three times, before it finally passes out from them to the periphery of its little system.  This final circulation carries the prana, via the fine interlacing channels, to every part of the body, which becomes entirely impregnated by these emanations, if it might be so expressed.  These emanations find their way finally out of the etheric system by means of surface radiation.  The pranic essence escapes from the circumference of its temporary ring-pass-not as emanative human prana, which is the same prana as earlier received, plus the peculiar quality that any single individual may convey to it during its transitory circulation.  The essence escapes, plus individual quality.

3.  The Transmitter of Prana

Certain facts need emphasis and consideration as we study this static ring and its circulating fires.  Let me briefly recapitulate for the sake of clarity:

• The System receives prana from cosmic sources via three centers, and redistributes it to all parts of its extended influence, or to the bounds of the solar etheric web.  This cosmic prana becomes colored by solar quality and reaches the furthest confines of the system.  Its mission might be described as the vitalization of the vehicle which is the physical material expression of the Solar Logos.

• The Planet receives prana from the solar center, and redistributes it via the three receiving centers to all parts of its sphere of influence.  This solar prana becomes colored by the planetary quality and is absorbed by all evolutions found within the planetary ring-pass-not.  Its mission might be described as the vitalization of the vehicle which is the physical material expression of one or other of the seven Heavenly Men.
• The Microcosm receives prana from the sun after it has permeated the planetary etheric vehicle, so that it is solar prana, plus planetary quality.  Each planet the embodiment of some one ray aspect, and its quality marked predominantly on all its evolution.

Prana, therefore, which is active radiatory heat, varies in vibration and quality according to the receiving Entity.  Man passes the prana through his etheric vehicle, colors it with his own peculiar quality, and so transmits it to the lesser lives that make up his little system Thus, the great interaction goes on, and all parts blend, merge and are interdependent; and all parts receive, color, qualify and transmit.  An endless circulation goes on that has neither a conceivable beginning nor possible end from the point of view of finite man, for its source and end are hid in the unknown cosmic fount.  

We might here note a fact of interest, though of a mystery insoluble as yet to most of us, and that is, that these destructions by fire are part of the tests by fire of an initiation of that one of the Heavenly Men Whose karma is bound up with our earth.  Each destruction of a portion of the web results in a greater facility of exit, and is in reality (when seen from the higher planes) a step forward and an expansion.  A repetition of this takes place likewise in the system at the stated cycle.

4.  Disorders of the Etheric Body

We will now study the etheric body, and its ills and also its after death condition.  This matter can be only briefly touched upon.  All that may now be indicated is a general idea of the fundamental ailments to which the etheric may be subject, and the trend which applied medicine may later take when occult laws are better understood.  One fact must here be brought out - a fact but little comprehended or even apprehended.  This is the significant fact that the ills of the etheric vehicle, in the case of the microcosm, will be found likewise in the Macrocosm.  Herein lies the knowledge that oft-times explains the apparent miseries of nature.  Some of the great world evils have their source in etheric ills, extending the idea of the etheric to planetary conditions and even to solar.  As we touch upon the causes of etheric distress in man, their planetary and solar correspondences and reactions may perhaps be realized.  

We will need to bear carefully in mind when studying this matter, that all the diseases of the etheric body will appertain to its threefold purpose and be either:

• The ills of the microcosmic etheric body can also be found to originate from macrocosmic sources.

• All diseases of the etheric body can be categorized as follows:

1. Functional – Concerning the intake of prana.

2. Organic – Concerned with the distribution of prana.

3. Static – Acting as a separator between the physical and astral planes.

a) Microcosmic Functional Disorders

These arise from either an inability or overability to tap into pranic currents, whether through poor living conditions or larger collective evolutionary choices.

b) Microcosmic Organic Disorders

• Arise due to congestion or over-exposure of prana.

• Etheric congestion leads to the thickening of the etheric web, which may limit contact with the higher Self.  

• Etheric over-exposure may result in the destruction of etheric and physical brain tissue may lead to insanity of many kinds, for the burned-out etheric web may permit the inflow of extraneous astral currents.  

c) Microcosmic Static Disorders

This concerns the etheric body in its connection with the work of providing a ring-pass-not between the physical and the astral bodies.  

1. The ring-pass-not is that confining barrier which acts as a separator between a system and that which is extra-systemic.

2. The etheric web does not constrain the Heavenly Men whose bodies form the seven sacred planets.  Their consciousness is free within the solar ring-pass-not.

3. All that can be pondered upon can be viewed with the following perspectives: Psychological, Astronomical, Physical, Metaphysical, Anthropological, Astrological, Geometrical, Mystical, Symbolical and Numerical.  (Each of these Keys must be turned 7 times.)

4. The ring-pass-not serves as a barrier to those of lesser attainment but not to those who have progressed, according to two factors: a) Karma and b) the dominance of the spiritual indwelling entity over its vehicle.

IV.  Macrocosmic and Microcosmic Ethers

1.  The Planetary Logos and the Ethers:  Man, the indwelling thinker, passes at night from out of his etheric ring-pass-not and functions elsewhere.  Therefore, under the law, the planetary Logos likewise can pass His ring-pass-not at stated seasons which correspond in the planet to the hours of man's temporary repose, or pralaya.  The Solar Logos likewise does the same during stated cycles, which are not the cycles succeeding those which we term solar pralaya, but lesser cycles succeeding the "days of Brahma" or periods of lesser activity, periodically viewed.  All these are governed by karma.

A further link in this chain which is offered for consideration lies in the fact that the four rays of mind (which concern the karma of the four planetary Logoi) in their totality hold in their keeping the present evolutionary process for Man, viewing him as the Thinker.  These four, with the karmic four, work in the closest cooperation.  

Therefore, we have the following groups interacting:

1. The four Maharajahs, the lesser Lipika Lords who apply past karma and work it out in the present.

2. The four Lipikas of the second group, referred to by H.P.B. as occupied in applying future karma, and wielding the future destiny of the races.  The work of the first group of four cosmic Lipika Lords is occult and is only revealed somewhat at the fourth Initiation (and even then but slightly) so it will not be touched upon here.

3. The fourth Creative Hierarchy of human Monads, held by a fourfold karmic law under the guidance of the Lipikas.

4. The four planetary Logoi of Harmony, Knowledge, Abstract Thought and Ceremonial, who are in Their totality the Quaternary of Manas while in process of evolution, and who pass under Their influence all the sons of men.

5. The Deva Lords of the four planes of Buddhi, or the plane of spiritual Intuition, Manas, or the mental plane, Desire, and the Physical, who are likewise allied to the human evolution in a closer sense than the higher three.

The fourth plane of Buddhi is the one on which the planetary Logoi begin to make Their escape from Their planetary ring-pass-not, or from the etheric web that has its counterpart on all the planes.  When man begins in a small sense to coordinate the buddhic vehicle or, to express it otherwise, when he has developed the power to contact ever so slightly the buddhic plane, then he begins simultaneously and consciously to achieve the ability to escape from the etheric web on the physical plane.  

Later he escapes from its correspondence on the astral plane, and finally from the correspondence on the fourth subplane of the mental plane, this time via the mental unit.  This leads eventually to causal functioning, or to the ability to dwell, and to be active in, the vehicle of the Ego, who is the embodiment of the love and wisdom aspect of the Monad.

When a man takes the fourth Initiation, he functions in the fourth plane vehicle, the buddhic, and has escaped permanently from the personality ring-pass-not, on the fourth subplane of the mental.  There is naught to hold him to the three worlds.  At the first Initiation he escapes from the ring-pass-not in a more temporary sense, but he has yet to escape from the three higher mental levels, which are the mental correspondences to the higher ethers, and to develop full consciousness on these three higher subplanes.

This fourth earth chain is in this connection one of the most important, for it is the appointed place for the domination of the etheric body by the human monad, with the aim in view of both human and planetary escape from limitations.  This earth chain, though not one of the seven sacred planetary chains, is of vital importance at this time to the planetary Logos, who temporarily employs it as a medium of incarnation, and of expression.  This fourth round finds the solution of its strenuous and chaotic life in the very simple fact of the shattering of the etheric web in order to effect liberation, and permit a later and more adequate form to be employed.

Sutratma:  The "silver thread" which incarnates from the beginning of a period of manifestation until the end, stringing upon itself the pearls of human existence.  It is the line of energy which connects the lower personal man with his Father in Heaven via the ego, the mediating middle principle.  Upon it are found those focal points of energy we call the permanent atoms.

1. The lowest cosmic plane is the cosmic physical and it’s the only one which the finite mind of man can comprehend.
2. This cosmic physical plane exists in matter differentiated into seven qualities, groups, grades or vibrations.
3. These seven differentiations are the seven major planes of our solar system.  (See tabulation)
4. These seven major planes of our solar system are but the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, and therefore even the highest cosmic planes of our system’s physical planes are etheric in nature.
5. Our solar system is of the fourth order, meaning that is has its location on the fourth cosmic etheric plane, the cosmic Buddhic.
6. Hence this fourth cosmic etheric plane forms the meeting ground for the past and future, and is the present.
7. Therefore, our buddhic plane is also the meeting ground, or plane of union, for that which is man and for that which will be superman, linking the past with that which is to be.
8. The fourth subplane of mind (corresponding to the 4th etheric) is likewise a point of transition from out of a lower and into a higher.  The fourth subplane of the monadic plane performs a similar function.  The four lesser Rays blend with the 3rd on the mental plane and upon the atmic.
9. Another synthesis occurs on the 2nd Ray on the second subplane of the buddhic plane and the monadic, while the Monads of the 1st Ray fall upon the atomic subplane of the atmic.  All three groups of Monads work upon the mental plane under the Mahachohan, the Manu and the Bodhisattva; on the monadic plane, they work as a unit, only demonstrating their dual work on the atmic and their triplicity on the buddhic.  

2.  Cosmic and Systemic Ethers

The fourth etheric plane holds the key to the dominance of matter, and it might be noted that:

On the fourth physical ether man begins to coordinate his astral, or emotional body, and to escape at ever more frequent intervals into that vehicle.  Continuity of consciousness is achieved when a man has mastered the four ethers.

On the fourth subplane of the mental plane, man begins to control his causal or egoic body, and to polarize his consciousness therein until the polarization is complete.  He functions then consciously on it when he has mastered the correspondences to the ethers on the mental plane.

On the buddhic plane (the fourth cosmic ether) the Heavenly Men (or the grouped consciousness of the human and deva Monads) begin to function, and to escape eventually from the cosmic etheric planes.  When these three cosmic ethers are mastered, the functioning is perfected, polarization is centered in the monadic vehicles, and the seven Heavenly Men have achieved Their goal.

1. On the cosmic etheric levels, the Logoi of our system repeat the process.
2. The dense physical body (dense, liquid, gaseous) is not recognized as a principle, therefore, the solar system has its location upon the 4th cosmic ether, considering all below that level as maya.

3.  The Protective Purpose of the Etheric Body

1. The etheric web acts as a separator between the astral and the dense physical body.
2. It circulates the inflowing pranic fluid in 3 stages:  a) Solar radiations are received and circulated three times around the triangle, thence distributed to the periphery.  b) Pranic fluids begin to blend with the fire at the base of the spine and drive its heat upwards, from the centers below the solar plexus to the three higher centers; heart, throat and the head.
3. Active radiatory matters (prana) is blended ever more perfectly with the fire latent in matter, producing certain effects:  a) a quickening of physical body vibrations to respond to the note of the Ego and a rising of the fires through the three-fold channel in the spinal column.     b) This fire reaches a center between the shoulder bladders which is the point of complete merging of the fire from the base of the spine and the fire along the pranic triangle.  The result of this merging causes the centers to become ‘wheels turning upon themselves. ’

V.  Death and the Etheric Body

The study of Pralaya, which is the withdrawal of the life from out of the etheric vehicle, is the same for a human, planetary or solar etheric double.  Withdrawal is brought about by the following causes:

1. Cessation of Desire.
2. Gradual cessation of cyclic rhythm due to adequate vibration.  
3. By severing the physical from the etheric on the inner planes, thus shattering the web causing a three-fold effect:

1. The informing life withdraws within the permanent atom upon the plane of abstraction.  For man, this is the causal vehicle.  
2. The etheric body, being shattered, becomes non-polarized as regards its indweller, and therefore permits escape.  It is no longer a source of attraction nor a focal magnetic point.  The Ego ceases to be attracted by its form on the physical plane, inbreathes and withdraws its life from the sheath, and the physical is dropped.
3. The atoms of the etheric body scatter into their primordial condition.  The form breaks up as the magnetism holding is together is no longer present.  Matter persists but the form no longer.

 “The heartbeats of the Logos are the source of all cyclic evolution and hence the importance of the heart or love aspect.  Underlying all the physical sense attached to rhythm, vibration, cycles and heart-beat, lie their subjective analogies-love, feeling, emotion, desire, harmony, synthesis and ordered sequence.  Behind all of these lie the source of all.”

SECTION ONE - Division D

Kundalini and the Spine

Very briefly, owing to the impossibility of revealing much on this necessarily dangerous subject, we will consider the subject of kundalini and the spine.  We must remember here that we are dealing with the etheric counterpart of the spine, and not with the bony structure which we call the spine or spinal column.  These channels are important in connection with the nervous system of the man, but in relation to the matter in hand, they are not primarily so important as the etheric channel, which is the unit enclosing these three.  

Therefore, we must strictly remember that we are dealing with:

• The etheric channel.
• The fire that passes up the channel.
• The conjunction of this fire with the radiatory energizing fire of the physical body at the point between the shoulder blades.
• Their united ascension into the head.
• Their blending eventually with the manasic fire which energizes the three head centers..

I.  Kundalini and the Three Triangles

1. In the head: Pineal gland, pituitary gland and the alta major center.  (Man’s present focus)

2. In the body: Between the shoulders, above the diaphragm and the spleen.  (Triangle of Prana)  

3. Base of Spine: A point at the bottom of the spine, the two major sex organs of the male and female.  (Unconscious action)

4. The merging of the fires of matter and of mind results in the energizing of the total atoms of matter within the body.  

5. Man who is developing thought power has to build a channel in etheric matter to bridge the gap, which is the physical matter reflection of the antaskarana that the Ego has to build between the lower and higher mental, between the causal vehicle on the 3rd subplane of the mental plane and the manasic permanent atom on the 1st subplane.

6. The fires from the splenic triangle are fire of matter with no spiritual effect, concerning themselves solely with the matter in which the force centers are located.  These force centers are directed by manas, or by the indwelling entity, who is held back until the vehicle through which he seeks expression, and their centers, make adequate response.

II.  The Arousing of Kundalini

How this fire can be aroused, thereby blending the pranic triangle with kundalini, are fortunately the work of the past, which was achieved without conscious effort by the race.

Scarcely have men directed the fire up more than one channel of the threefold column; only when the fire has circled unimpeded up another channel is the complete merging with the fire of manas effected.  Only when it progresses geometrically up all three, with simultaneous action and at uniform vibration, is the true kundalini fire fully aroused.

He who directs his efforts to the control of the fires of matter is literally playing with a fire that may destroy him.  He should not cast his eyes backwards but should lift them to a plane where dwells his immortal Spirit, then by self-discipline, mind-control and the refining of his material bodies, fit himself to be a vehicle for the divine birth.  

SECTION ONE - Division E

Motion on the Physical and Astral Planes

I.  Preliminary Remarks

The 1st Logos:  The Ray of Cosmic Will, His mode of action is a literal driving forward of the solar ring-pass-not through space.  His goal is the synthesis of Spirits who are gaining consciousness through manifestation, and gaining in quality as a result.  His function is, by means of will, to hold them in manifestation for the desired period and later abstract them back to their spiritual source.  His work is controlled by the Law of Synthesis, governing the tendency to unification of the 7 into the 3 and into the 1.  His mode of action is a progressive forward will.

The 2nd Logos:  Vishnu, seeking to blend with the principle of Intelligence, characterized by Love.  His motion is spiral cyclic.  Availing Himself of the rotary motion of all atoms, He adds to that His own form of motion, of spiraling periodical movement and by circulation along a spheroidal path, bringing two results:  a) He gathers the atoms into forms   b) By these forms, He gains the needed contact, develops consciousness on the five planes of human development, refining the forms as the Spirit of Love spirals closer to its source.  These actions are governed by the Law of Attraction.

The indweller of the form eventually feels the attractive pull of its own Self, the Ego, which stands to it as the Logos of its own system.  Later, this process is repeated as the Ego responds to the call of the Monad.  Therefore:  a) the goal of the second Logos is consciousness, achieved in cooperation with the 3rd Logos.  b) His function is the building of forms to be His instruments of experience.  c) His mode of action is cyclic and spiral.

The 3rd Logos:  The motion considered in this section is that due to the fire latent in matter itself, a motion that is the prime characteristic and basic quality of the 3rd Ray.  His goal is the perfect blending of Spirit and matter.  His function is the manipulation of matter so as to make it adequate to the demands of the Spirit.  His motion is rotary, this revolution making the material more pliable.  All of these are governed by the Law of Economy.

The Ego:  Man on the physical plane is what the Logos is to His system, and is likewise the animating will, destroyer of forms and producer of pralaya.  The Ego is extra-cosmic as far as the human being on the physical plane is concerned.

II.  The Effects of Rotary Motion

Every sphere in the macrocosm rotates which produce certain effects:

1.  Separation:  The repulsion effect is produced by rotary movement causing the differentiations of a solar system, the planes and the Rays.  The planes rotate latitudinally (east to west) while the Rays rotate longitudinally.  

2.  Momentum:  Resulting in an internal effect, which prevents atoms from directly contacting other atoms by keeping them at fixed points in space.  

3.  Friction:  The environmental frictional effect produces:  a) vitality of the atom   b) coherence of the atom   c) ability to function   d) Heat is supplied to the unit   e) Final combustion or disintegration of form (not matter).

4.  Absorption:  The receptive or attractive effect occurs through the depression at the top of all whirling spheres.  Every atom is both positive and negative; receptive where inflowing force is concerned and radiatory where its own emanations are concerned.

• Force flows into the solar system from three directions:  

     a) The sun Sirius   b) The Pleiades   c) The Great Bear

• Solar radiation can be felt in three currents or radiations; Akashic, Electrical and Pranic.

• The Pleiades are to the solar system, the source of electrical energy, just as our sun is the embodiment of the heart, or love aspect, of the Logos, Who Himself forms the heart of the One higher than He.  The Pleiades are the feminine opposite of Brahma.

III.  The Qualities of Rotary Motion

Every rotating sphere of matter is characterized by the three qualities of inertia, mobility and rhythm.

1.  Inertia:  The state of every atom at the dawn of manifestation, at the beginning of a solar cycle or mahamanvantara, at the commencement of a chain, a globe, or any spheroidal form whatsoever without exception.  Inertia is the result of lack of activity of the fires of matter.  These fires are latent (free from the stimulations of form-life) during pralaya.

Where form exists, the Laws of Attraction/Repulsion make radiation possible.  Then comes stimulation, emanative effect, and a gradual acceleration by which the atom itself, by its own rotary movement, produces the next (higher) quality.

2.  Mobility:  Rotation eventually produces radiation, and in the case of matter, effects other atoms in its environment, whether that is cosmic, system, or the physical sphere of a single man.  This eventually produces coherence of form for a period of time until rhythm is recognized.

3.  Rhythm:  The attainment of the point of perfect balance and equilibrium produces certain effects:

1. The disintegration of form  
2. Liberation of essence which the form confines  
3. The separations of Spirit and matter.  
4. The end of a cycle, whether solar, planetary or human.  
5. The production of obscuration  
6. The reabsorption of the essence with the root of matter.  
7. The end of time and space as we understand it.  
8. The unification of the 3 Fires.  
9. The synthetic activity of matter in the three types of movements (rotary, spiral cyclic and forward progression) are produced by the interaction of the fires of matter, of mind and of Spirit upon each other.  When the point of balance is reached, the occupier of the form is loosed.

IV.  Rotary Motion and Symbolism

Every rotating sphere of matter can be pictures using the same general cosmic symbols as those used for the portrayal of evolution.  

1. The Circle:  Represents the ring-pass-not of undifferentiated matter; the solar system or the body Logoic; the planetary body of a Heavenly Man and human viewed etherically; a single cell within the human vehicle, or the atom of a chemist.
2. The Circle with a Point in the center:  Signifies the production of heat in the heart of matter, the point of fire, the first rotary activity, which produces the first radiation, the first pull of attraction and repulsion which causes the 3rd symbol.
3. The Circle divided in two:  This marks the active rotation and the beginning of mobility of the atom.  
4. The Circle divided in four:  The true circle of matter, the equal armed cross of the Holy Spirit, Who is the personification of active intelligent matter.  It shows the 4th dimensionality of matter and the penetration of fire in the four directions.
5. The Swastika:  Concerns the fire extending not only from the periphery to the center in four directions but also circulating and radiating from and around the entire periphery.  This signifies completed activity in every department of matter until it forms a fiery wheel.

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V.  Motion and the Centers

A word of warning is here sounded; let a man apply himself to a life of high altruism, to a discipline that will refine and bring his lower vehicles into subjection, and to purify and control his sheaths.  When he has thus raised and stabilized his vibration, he will find that the development of the centers has pursued a parallel course.  Much danger and dire calamity attends the man who arouses these centers by unlawful methods.  It is not the part of a coward, concerning careful and cautious movements in these matters; it is the part of discretion.  

Therefore, the disciple has three tasks:

1. Purify, discipline and transmute his threefold lower nature.
2. Develop knowledge of himself, equip his mental body, build the causal body by good deeds and thoughts.
3. Serve his race in utter self-abnegation.  In doing this, he fulfills the law.

1.  The Nature of the Centers

At the close of his long pilgrimage, man will have passed through each of the five kingdoms of nature on his way back to Source:  1) Mineral   2) Vegetable   3) Animal   4) Human   5) Spiritual

Man will develop full consciousness upon:  1) Physical Plane   2) Astral Plane   3) Mental Plane  

           4) Buddhic Plane   5) Spiritual Plane.  

He accomplishes this by the use of the five corresponding senses:  

1) Hearing   2) Touch   3) Sight   4) Taste   5) Smell

The Treatise deals only with five centers:  

1. Base of Spine-Physical  
2. Solar Plexus-Astral  
3. Throat-Mind  
4. Heart-Buddhi  
5. Crown-Atma

The Lotuses of the Centers:

• Root:  4 petals in the shape of a cross.
• Solar Plexus:  10 petals
• Heart Center:  12 petals
• Throat Center:  16 petals
• Ajna Center:  96 petals  
• Crown=12 major petals with 960 around it, totaling 1068, or 356 triplicities.

The evolution of these centers can be shown using the same five symbols:

1. The Circle:  The wheel is dimly lit and has a correspondence to early Lemurian development.

2. Circle with a Point in the center:  A Point of glowing fire and rotation can be seen, as in later Lemuria.

3. Divided Circle:  Rotary motion causes the Point to radiate outward in two directions , appearing to split the vortex in two halves.  This corresponds to Atlantean development.

4. Circle divided into Four:  The center is exceedingly active, with the cross within its periphery rotating as well as the wheel itself.  Its correspondence is in the 5th root-race, wherein man is sensing the spiritual, though functioning in the personal life.

5. The Swastika:  The center becomes 4th dimensional, the inner rotating cross begins to turn on its axis, which drives the flaming radiance to the periphery.  The center becomes more of a sphere than a wheel.

2.  The Centers and the Rays:

All teachers of the wisdom follow the method of imparting a fact and then of leaving the pupil to follow his own deductions, thus developing discrimination, which is the main method whereby Spirit effects its liberation from matter and discerns between illusion and that which it veils.

The life of the Pilgrim can be divided into three main periods:  a) Period influenced by the Personality Ray   b) Period under the Ray of the Ego   c) Period under the Monadic Ray

Venus corresponds to the heart center in the Logoic body and has a inter-relationship therefore with all other centers in the solar system wherein the heart aspect is the one of greatest prominence.  Saturn corresponds to the throat center, the creative activity of the third aspect.  Our solar system, with the Pleiades and one of the stars of the Great Bear, form a cosmic triangle of three centers in the larger body.  The seven stars in the Great Bear correspond to the seven head centers in that same Being, Who is even greater than our logos.

3.  The Centers and Kundalini

1. Kundalini lies at the base of the spine and in the average man functions primarily in the vitalization of the body.

2. Kundalini makes three at-onements during evolution:  

1) With the radiatory fires of the body, or prana.

2) With the fires of mind at the top of the spine   .

3) With the fire of Spirit at a point where these two united fires of matter and mind issue from the top of the head.

3. Each of the three channels within the spinal column blends these fires as they circulate through the triangle.

4. When kundalini has blended with the pranic fire, the centers become three-dimensional; when it blends with Solar Fire, or mind, they are united and become fourth-dimensional.  When it blends with the Electric Fire of pure Spirit after the 3rd Initiation, they take on two more dimensions.

5. Kundalini, as it is aroused, increases the vibratory action, not only of the centers, but in every atom of matter in all the bodies; etheric, astral and mental, which has a dual effect: 1) The elimination of course and unsuitable matter, in exactly the same way as a rapidly rotating wheel casts off matter from its surface.   2) It sweeps into its sphere of influence and builds it into its vibratory content.  

6. Kundalini has two effects upon the etheric web:  1) It purifies the etheric form  2) The web is gradually destroyed and by the time of the third Initiation is reached, man should have continuity of consciousness.  (Unless he willingly forgoes the burning of the web by conscious action of the will.)

4.  The Centers and the Senses

The senses might be defined as the means whereby the Thinker comes in contact with his environment, whereby he makes investigation and buys his experience and thus expands his consciousness.  

The senses in the animal kingdom are ‘group faculty’ and demonstrate as racial instinct.  The senses in man are his individual asset and demonstrate as:  

a) The separate realization of self-consciousness  

b) Ability to assert that individualization  

c) A valuable means to self-conscious evolution  

d) A source of knowledge  

e) The transmuting faculty towards the close of life in the three worlds.

Each of the five senses has a definite connection with one of the planes and also has a correspondence on all planes.

Physical: Hearing  |  Astral: Touch or feeling  |  Mental: Sight  |  Buddhic: Taste  |  Atmic: Smell  

We might here, for the sake of clarity, tabulate the five different aspects of the five senses on the five planes, so that their correspondences may be readily visualized:

1.  The First Sense - Hearing

• Physical hearing
• Clairaudience
• Higher clairaudience
• Comprehension (of four sounds)
• Beatitude

2.  The Second Sense - Touch or feeling

• Physical touch
• Psychometry
• Planetary psychometry
• Healing
• Active service

3.  The Third Sense - Sight

• Physical sight
• Clairvoyance
• Higher clairvoyance
• Divine vision
• Realization

Hearing is the first sense to be manifested, revealing eventually the mystery of:

1. His own sound (physical)  
2. His brother’s sound  (astral)  
3. His group sound (mental)  
4. The sound of the Heavenly Men with whom he is connected (buddhic)  
5. The sound of the logos (atmic).  

• Hearing gives man an idea of relative direction and to locate himself.  

• Touch gives him an idea of relative quantity.  

• Sight gives him an idea of proportion and enables him to adjust his movements.  

• Taste gives him an idea of value, and to discriminate.  

• Smell gives him an idea of innate quality, and enables him to find that which is the same

essence as himself.

Cosmic Symbology of the Senses:  

The Circle with the Point:  Consciousness and the not-self where sound alone is descriptive.

The Divided Circle:  Consciousness aware of the not-self through a dual recognition.

5.  The Centers and Initiation

The application of the Rod of Initiation brings certain results:

1. The fire at the base of the spine is directed to whichever center is the object of special attention, varying according to the Ray or special work of the initiate.  This results in a sensitiveness and refinement of the vehicles causing much suffering, but produces a capacity that far outweighs the pain.
2. The center’s activity is intensified, its rate of evolution increased and certain spokes of the wheel brought into active radiance.  This results in the development of psychic faculty, that again may lead to distress, but eventually causes a recognition of the one Self in all selves.
3. The downflow of force from the Ego to the personality is tripled.  This results in a burning away, through a gradual arousing of kundalini and its correct geometrical progression through the etheric web and produces continuity of consciousness.
4. The centers receive access of vibratory capacity and power.  This results in a gradual grasp of the Law of Vibration; the initiate learns to consciously build and manipulate thought matter for the perfecting of the Logoic plan.
5. The fire of kundalini is aroused and its upward progress directed.  

SECTION ONE - Division F

The Law of Economy

I.  Its Effect in Matter

The Law of Economy governs the matter aspect of manifestation and characterizes the work of the 3rd Logos.  It follows the line of least resistance and is the basis of the separative action of atomic matter, the opposite pole of Spirit.

1. The 1st Aspect:  (Shiva)  The will to exist governs by enforced unity and of essential homogeneity, and comes about after Spirit and matter blend and the eventual synthesis of Self with Self and finally with the All-Self.  Governed by the Law of Synthesis.

2. The 2nd Aspect:  (Vishnu)  Characterizes the building aspect, of the attraction of matter to Spirit and the gradual approximation of two poles, resulting in cohesion of form.  Governed by the Law of Attraction.

3. The 3rd Aspect:  (Brahma)  Characterized by the distribution and scattering of matter, its heterogeneity and quality as well as its inherent rotary motion.  Governed by the Law of Economy.

II.  The Subsidiary Laws

These are four in number, dealing with the lower quaternary:

1. Law of Vibration:  Governs the key note of the matter of each plane.  By knowledge of this law the material of any plane in its seven divisions can be controlled.

2. The Law of Adaptation:  Governs the rotary movement of any atom on every plane and subplane.

3. The Law of Repulsion:  Governs the relationship between atoms, their non-attachment and keeps them rotating at fixed points from the sphere of opposite polarity.

4. The Law of Friction:  Governs the heat aspect of any atom, its radiation and effects upon any other atom.

Every atom of matter can be studied in 4 aspects:  

1. An atom vibrates to a certain measure.

2. It rotates at a certain speed.  

3. It acts and reacts upon its environing atoms.  

4. It adds its quota to the general heat of the atomic system.

These general rules relating to atomic bodies can be extended to include all spheroidal bodies within the system, and including the system itself, which is regarded as a cosmic atom.  Initiates must learn to manipulate matter and work with energy or force in matter under this law; they have to utilize matter and energy in order to achieve the liberation of Spirit.

SECTION TWO - SOLAR FIRE: THE FIRE OF MIND

The goal of this section is to establish a general clarity of conception as to the broad outline of the process of consciousness development in regards to:

1. The science of objectivity.
2. The manifestation of the Son through the Sun and its system.  
3. The evolutionary development of consciousness in time and space, therefore, the evolution of Spirit through matter.

I.  What is the relationship of the Son to the Sun?

Man is the approximation of the two poles of Spirit (Father-Ray 1) and matter (Mother-Ray 3).  The result of this union is an individualized unit  of the divine Self, the Son; an exact replica in miniature scale of the All-Self who is in Himself the totality of all units, including the Sons of God.

The Son is the radiant result of the union of Spirit and matter, and may be considered macrocosmically to be the totality of the solar system.  The Son manifests through light and heat, as does the solar Sun.  The Son is the product of the electrical union of Fire by Friction and Electric Fire, is Himself Solar Fire, hence that which is seen and felt.  The Son is the middle manifestation, produced by that which is above and below.  

When the Son has attained full expression, through the sun (perfect light and heat), then He will shine forth upon another plane, the Cosmic Mental.  When a man’s light shines forth and his magnetic radiation has reached the stage of vivid interaction and group activity, he will also shine forth upon another plane.  

II.  What is Evolution and how does it proceed?

The whole method of evolution is simply that of adjusting the matter aspect to the Spirit aspect, so that the Spirit has an adequate body for expression.  During the life cycle of a man, he expresses what is in him at his particular stage and gradually arrives at the period wherein the Self overshadows the matter aspect until the Higher Self takes full possession of the prepared form.  

Extend this idea to one of the Heavenly Men, in which man forms but a cell, and the goal is the same; the attainment of full expression and the development of their vehicles of consciousness to a point where the Spirit may blaze forth as divine light and heat.  Carry this thought further to include the Son, the solar system; His attempt to find full expression may be felt beyond His immediate ring-pass-not.  

The Objective of the Units of Consciousness:

1. Radiate occult heat beyond their own individual ring-pass-not.

2. Occultly blaze forth and demonstrate light or fiery objectivity

3. Expand so as to include that which lies beyond their own immediate sphere.

4. Fuse and blend the two fires to produce the central fire, Solar Fire.

5. Blend Spirit and matter so that a body is produced that will adequately express Spirit.

6. Merge the essence within the form, which is occultly qualified during evolution, with the essential forms.

7. Attain human, systemic and cosmic adulthood.

8. Man must achieve mastery on three planes of the solar system.

9. Heavenly Men must achieve mastery on five planes of the solar system.

10. The Logos, the Son, the Cosmic Christ must achieve mastery on three cosmic planes.

The Manifesting Units of Consciousness:  All have their place within the plan:

1. The Son:  Manifests through the sun and the seven sacred planets, each of whom embodies one of His seven principles, just as He in his totality embodies one of the principles of a greater cosmic Entity.

2. A Heavenly Man:  Manifests through a planet and embodies one of the principles of the Son, the Logos, and is likewise developing through seven principles, which are the source of His essential unity with all other Heavenly Men.

3. A Human Being:  Manifests on the physical plane through form and also has seven principles which he works upon developing during each life cycle.  He also has his primary coloring, dependent upon the fundamental principle embodied by the Heavenly Man who is his originating source.

III.  Why is the solar system evolving along the lines of duality?

This involves one of the most difficult problems in metaphysics and covers the whole mystery of why there is objectivity at all.  The failure to comprehend is linked to the limitations of the physical brain and the lack of development of the mechanism whereby Spirit may be known and eventually contacted.

The problem of duality is the problem of existence itself and requires an understanding that:

1. The entire solar system embodies the consciousness of an Entity who originates on planes entirely outside of the solar ring-pass-not.

2. That manifestation is periodical and that the Law of Rebirth is the method that evolution takes in dealing with a man, a planetary or solar logos.

Man must realize that he stands midway between evolutionary stages:  He is not wholly an expression of the 3rd Logos, but it is part of him.  He does not recognize himself wholly as the Spirit of the 1st Logos.  Man is a product of the two, assuming objectivity in order to express that which is in each of the two opposites, plus the result of their merging within himself.

The Nature of Duality

The evolution of the Son, or the cosmic incarnation of the Christ, is of immense importance in the plans of the Being greater than the Solar Logos.  Just as the planet called Earth is regarded as the turning point, or battleground, between Spirit and matter, so our solar system holds an analogous place in the cosmic scheme.  The cosmic man is wrestling for his individualized, perfected self-consciousness and for freedom and liberation from form and from the not-self.  

Duality produces:

a) Objectivity  

b) Evolution  

c) Development of Quality  

d) Time and Space

IV.  What is Consciousness and what is its place in the scheme?

Consciousness can be defined as the faculty of apprehension, and concerns the relation of the Self to the not-self, of the Knower to the known and the Thinker that that which is thought about.  All of these involve duality; the thing and that which lies behind it.  Consciousness expresses the middle point in manifestation, produced by a union of two poles, and is the process of interplay and of adaptation that necessarily ensues.  

• Through each etheric center man is bringing to perfect vibration some one principle or quality through which the subjective life may express itself.

• Through each chain in a scheme a Heavenly Man is endeavoring to do the same.

• Through each scheme in a system, a Solar Logos working at the same thing; the goal is synthetic quality and not primarily the perfection of the form. The response of the energized form to the qualitative life is naturally - under the law - equal to the demand, but this is of secondary importance and is not the object in view.

V.  Is there a direct analogy between the development of a system, a planet, a man and an atom?

An Atom is:  

1. Spheroidal in form containing within itself a nucleus of life.

2. Contains myriad lives within itself.

3. Distinguished by activity and shows the qualities of: rotary motion, discriminative power and the ability to develop.

4. Contains three major spirals and seven lesser, which ten are in the process of vitalization.

5. Governed by the Law of Attraction.

6. Finds its place within all forms; it is the aggregation of atoms that produces form.

7. Responsive to outer stimulation from electrical energy which affects its objective form, and magnetic energy, affecting its subjective self.  The united effect of both stimulations produces internal growth and development.

An atom is therefore distinguished by:

1. Its spheroidal shape; its ring-pass-not is definite and seen.

2. Its internal arrangement, comprising the entire sphere.

3. Its life activity, or the extent to which the life at the nucleus animates the atom.

4. Its sevenfold inner economy in process of evolution.

5. Its eventual synthesis internally from the seven into the three.

6. Its group relation.

7. Its development of consciousness, or responsiveness.

A Man is:

1. Spheroidal in form, with a nucleus of life at the center.  
2. Contains differentiated atoms within himself, are animated by his life and vibrate to a certain measure that is tinctured by the man’s color, and rotating to the fixed key of his life-cycle.
3. Distinguished by activity on one or more planes in the three worlds and shows the qualities of: Rotary motion, discriminative capacity and the ability to evolve, to increase vibration and to make contact.
4. Contains within himself three principles; Will, Love-Wisdom and Active Intelligence, and the seven differentiations of principles.
5. Governed by the Law of Attraction, is evolved through the Law of Economy and is coming under the Law of Synthesis.
6. Finds his place within the group form.  Egoic groups and the Heavenly Men are formed by the aggregate of human and deva units.  
7. His responsiveness to outer stimulation with electrical energy affecting the outer form, or pranic response; magnetic energy affecting the subjective life and the united effect of the two stimulations.

A Man is therefore distinguished by:

1. His spheroidal shape
2. His internal arrangement  
3. His life activity  
4. His sevenfold inner economy  
5. His eventual synthesis from the seven into the three into the One
6. His group relation
7. His development of consciousness, awareness and of responsiveness to contact

VI.  What is the ‘Mind’ aspect?  Who are the Sons of Mind?

Man, in essential essence, is the higher triad demonstrating through a gradually evolving form, the egoic or causal body, and utilizing the lower threefold personality as a means to contact the lower three planes.  Above the triad stands the Monad, or Father in Heaven, which is a point of abstraction to man as he views it from the physical plane.  

1.  The Monad

2.  The Triad of Atma-Buddhi-Manas

3.  The Egoic/Causal Body, the shrine for the buddhic principle

The three-fold lower nature is in essence the lower quaternary.  This is the lower four, moderated by Mind, and the higher three.

1. Monad, the microcosmic Absolute:

1. Pure Spirit.
2. The one and only.

2. The monadic Trinity:

3. First aspect - Atma or spiritual will.
4. Second aspect - Buddhi, the Christ principle.
5. Third aspect - Manas, or higher mind.

3. The Son aspect in objectivity:

6. The body egoic or causal body.
7. The lower quaternary.
   4. The mental body.
   5. The astral or emotional body. 
   6. Prana, or vital energy.
   7. Etheric body.

The microcosm reproduces the solar system in miniature. The above deals with the objective forms, corresponding to the sun and the seven sacred planets. But the exoteric form is paralleled by a psychic development which we call the seven principles.

The Divine Manasaputras are the seven planetary logoi, the Lords of the Rays, the seven Heavenly Men.  They developed the mind aspect in the first solar system, wherein Brahma was paramount.

1. A Man originates on the monadic level but has his main focal point on the fifth (mental), and is seeking full conscious development on the three lower planes.
2. A Heavenly Man has his source outside the solar system (as man outside the 3 worlds) has a focal point on the second plane (monadic) and is seeking consciousness on the planes of the Triad.  He developed consciousness on the three worlds during the first solar system.
3. A Solar Logos has His origin on a still higher cosmic level, a focal point on the cosmic mental plane but is expressing through the three lower cosmic planes, just as man is seeking self-expression in the three worlds.
4. The Heavenly Men form the seven centers (chakras) in the body of the Logos, they are the spheres of fire which animate his body with one type of force.
5. Human beings, when centered in their groups on causal levels, form one or other of the seven centers in the body of a Heavenly Man.
6. The Solar Logos forms one center in the body of a still greater cosmic Entity.

The seven Rishis of the Great Bear are to the seven Heavenly Men, what the Monad is to the evolving human unit.

VII.  Why is the progress of evolution cyclic?

1.  Certain ideas are involved in the thought of cyclic progression; the ideas of repetition in time, in fact and in space:

1. Repetition in Time:  Cyclic activity necessitates time periods, greater or lesser cycles, but of uniform degree.
2. Repetition in Fact:  Involves the idea of a key measure, or sound of any particular group of atoms comprising a form.
3. Repetition in Space:  This concept concerns the greater concept of karma, which is really the law that governs the matter of the solar system.

2.  Repetition of cyclic action is governed by two laws: The Law of Attraction and Repulsion and subsidiary influences, the Laws of Periodicity and of Rebirth.  When the note sounded by Spirit is stronger than that of matter and form, we observe Spirit repelling form.  It might be expressed as:

1. Period of domination of the form note is involution.
2. Period of the repulsion of form by Spirit is the battlefield of the three worlds.
3. Period of the attraction of Spirit and Spirit, and the consequent withdrawal of form is that of the Path.
4. Period of domination of the note of Spirit is that of the higher planes of evolution.

3.  Two types of cycles:  Rotation upon the axis or around an orbit.

1. Rotation on the axis can be witnessed in a Heavenly Man as the rotation of a globe within a chain, or the period of one incarnation.

2. Rotation around an orbit can be viewed as the wheel of life, or the passage of a man through the three lower planes down into incarnation and back again.

Time may be considered as that process of activity, or that progression in development, wherein the indwelling consciousness is seeking its opposite, and coming under the Law of Attraction, which leads to atomic, human, planetary, spiritual, solar and cosmic marriage.

Space, for the atom, will be the radius of the form in which is found the greater center of consciousness, of which is a part, and it will be both attracted and repelled; attracted and built into the form of the greater Life, yet repulsed and thereby prevented from moving from a certain point within that form.

When more of the human family have their center of consciousness in the Ego, and hence are busy with the work of repulsing matter and the withdrawal of Spirit from form, then only will the transmutative process be comprehended, then only will time (as known in the three worlds) be transcended, and then only will space (as manifested to man in the three planes) be found to be a barrier.

VIII.  Why is knowledge both esoteric and exoteric?

The endeavor of all Knowers is to draw within the zone of their knowledge other units who are ready for a similar expansion of consciousness.  

IX.  What is the relation between the sacred planets, planetary schemes, chains and globes?

Three of the sacred planets represent the major three Rays.  Other planets embody the four lesser subrays.  The seven Heavenly Men, considered in relation to the solar logos, are the seven centers as in the physical body of a human.  Three of these ten planetary schemes, therefore, concern the lower centers of the cosmic Being, and have their analogies to the dense, liquid and gaseous planes, and are the object of the attention of cosmic kundalini at present.

One of these centers corresponds to the solar plexus and is the synthesizer of the lower three, thus making a quaternary.  The center which is analogous to that at the base of the spine has a permanence the other two lack.  The three higher centers, or the Heavenly Men Who correspond to the head, heart and throat of the solar logos, have their etheric analogies on the three higher etheric levels of the cosmic physical plane, just as the Heavenly Man who embodies the Logoic solar plexus finds his manifesting source on the fourth etheric subplane.

When the Heavenly Man who is at present demonstrating through the Earth scheme, has succeeded in vitalizing His middle center, or in directing the force of planetary kundalini away from the lower centers to the solar plexus center, a new cycle will be reached and much of the present distress will be ended.

In connection with the solar logos, the cycles might be called:

a) 100 years of Brahma  

b) One year of Brahma  

c) One day of Brahma

The correspondences in connection with a Heavenly Man are:

a) Planetary Scheme  

b) Chain  

c) Round

Within these three divisions are numerous lesser cycles, or incarnations, but they all fall within one or other of the three divisions.  Some lesser cycles are:  

a) Period of manifestation on a Globe  

b) Period of a Root-Race  

c) Period of a Sub-Race  

d) Period of a Branch Race

Within man, the analogy holds:

a) Monadic cycle  

b) Egoic cycle  

c) Personality cycle

The cycles in a man’s Personality manifestation demonstrate in groups of fours and sevens, and follow the usual evolutionary sequence as:  

1. Differentiation:  the involutionary process, or the one becoming the many.

2. Balance, or the process of karmic adjustment.

3. Synthesis, or spiritualization, the many again becoming the One.

4. Obscuration, or liberation, the end of the evolutionary process, or the freeing of Spirit from matter.

As man progresses, he succeeds in bringing about some notable developments:

• His consciousness expands, be he begins to work intelligently from above and does not work blindly upon the lower planes.

• The building of the causal body is carried to full completion and he begins to shatter what he earlier wrought, finding it to be a limitation.

• He ceases to make karma in the three worlds, but begins to work it off, to literally wind up his affairs.

So it is for the Heavenly Men, for They likewise have a cosmic path to tread that is analogous to that trodden by man as he nears the goal of his endeavor.  We can carry the concept further with exactitude and predicate action of a similar nature by the solar logos.

Man aims to become a Divine Manasaputra, a perfected Son of Mind, showing forth all the powers inherent in mind and thus becoming like unto his monadic source, a Heavenly Man.   A Heavenly Man has developed Manas and is occupied with the problem of becoming a Son of Wisdom in full manifestation.  A Solar Logos is both a Divine Manasaputra and a Dragon of Wisdom, and His problem concerns itself with the principle of Cosmic Will, making him a Lion of Cosmic Will.

I.  Three Manifestations of Mind

This section marks a very important division of the subject of Fire; the fires of matter have been discussed and the study is now to be focused upon the factor of consciousness, the Fire of Mind, considered cosmically, systemically and with regard to man.  Each of the three divisions may be dealt with as a quaternary:

1. The origin of cosmic, systemic and microcosmic mind.
2. The place of mind in evolution in all three cases.
3. The present stage of development of mind in each of the three groups.
4. The future of mind, or of manasic unfoldment.

II.  Definitions of Manas, or Mind

1.  Manas is the fifth principle, which embodies the basic vibration of the fifth plane, either cosmically or systemically considered.  Manas has been defined as that faculty of logical deduction and reasoning, of rational activity, yet it is much more, for it underlies all manifestation, from the discriminative faculty of the lowest atom and upwards.  

2.  Manas is Electricity shown in its higher workings, and not considered so much as force in matter.  Electricity in the solar system shows itself in seven major forms, expressed as: a) Electricity on the first plane, the Logoic or divine, and demonstrates as the will-to-be.  b) Electricity on the monadic plane demonstrates as the first manifestation of form, as that which causes forms to cohere.  

Electric Fire:  Electricity demonstrating as vitality, or the will-to-be of some Entity, and manifests as; Abstract Being, Darkness and Unity.

Solar Fire: Electricity animating forms or congeries of atoms and resulting in: coherent groups, the radiation (magnetic interaction) from all groups, the synthesis of form.

Fire by Friction:  Causes the spheroidal forms of all manifestation, the innate heat of all spheres, and differentiation of all atoms from one another.

Electricity as vibratory impulse, causes the aggregations of matter and the awakening of activity with the ring-pass-not.  This is the first syllable of the Sacred Word.  Electricity as Light, causes spheroidal objectivity.  This is the birth of the Son and covers the enunciation of the second syllable of the Sacred Word.  Electricity as Sound completes the Word.

On the fourth plane, this electrical force shows itself as color.  All physical phenomena has an electrical origin, and an initial vibration on the first subplane of the physical plane.  Physical plane Light has a close connection with, and uses as a medium, the second ether.  Sound functions through the third ether.  Color is allied to the fourth ether in a peculiar sense.

The work of evolution is based on two methods and demonstrates as:

Involution:  Wherein the negative (feminine/receptive) electrons of matter preponderate.  

Evolution:  Due to the action of Manas, the negative atoms are stimulated and either dissipate or merge into their opposite pole, which results in synthesis and homogeneity.

The majority of men function consciously on the fifth subplane of the three planes in the three worlds.  It must ever be borne in mind that each plane and subplane which is numerically allied, is embodying the same type of force and is consequently of the same polarity.  The astral and buddhic planes are related, the astral being negative in relation to the buddhic.  When the polarity and interplay of the planes and subplanes is comprehended, then man will be free, but not before.  A Master has solved the problem of electrical phenomena in the three worlds and has thus earned his freedom.  When the relationship of the negative form to the positive Spirit is grasped, and the joint connection with the cosmic Entities Who indwell the whole system is apprehended, group liberation will result.

The four Cosmic Planes that constitute the Cosmic Ethers (Planes 1-4 of the Cosmic Physical plane) form the etheric body of a Heavenly Man in exactly the same sense as the four physical ethers (Subplanes 1-4 of our physical plane) form the body of a human being.  

The Fourth Ether:

1. Is the ether used by the violet Ray as a medium.
2. Is that whereof the majority of the etheric bodies of men are made.
3. Is largely the principal sphere of  the violet ‘Devas of the Shadows’ which are closely concerned with the physical evolution of man.
4. Is the etheric sphere within which the human and the deva evolutions will touch.
5. Is the builder of the dense physical body.
6. Is the sphere of physical individualization.
7. In this fourth round, on this fourth chain, must be completely mastered and controlled by the Human Hierarchy; every human unit must attain this mastery before the end of this round.
8. Is the sphere wherein initiations of the threshold are undergone, and the five-fold initiations of the physical plane are entered upon.  In both the cosmic and solar physical planes, the plane of buddhi is ever the plane of at-one-ment, not into a fundamental unity, but into group unity.  Further, the human and deva evolutions find their group unity upon the fourth ether as well.

The planes and subplanes can all be studied and divided in two ways:

1. The higher three and the lower quaternary.  
2. The higher three, the 4th as the meeting place, and the lower three as the planes of endeavor.

3.  Manas is that which produces cohesion:  The manasic principle is, above all else, that cohesive quality which enable an Entity to work:   a) through form   b) by means of progressive development through cycles   c) on certain planes, they are the battleground of life   d) By the method of manifestation, which is a gradual growth from a dim and distant dawn through an ever increasing splendor of light, to a blaze of effulgent glory; then through a steadily dimming twilight to final obscuration.

4.  Manas is the key to the fifth kingdom in nature:  Man passes into the fifth kingdom through the transmutation of the discriminative faculty of mind.  

5.  Manas is the synthesis of the five Rays:  Manas is the united faculty of four of the Heavenly Men, synthesized through a fifth, on the third plane of the system.  They were the Logoic embodiment in an earlier system and achieved the fullness of manasic life.  

6.  Manas is the intelligent will or purpose of an existence, allowing him to:

1. Intelligently use a form or vehicle
2. Build faculty into the causal body
3. Reap the benefit of experience
4. Expand the consciousness
5. Make progress toward a specific goal
6. Discriminate between the two poles
7. Choose the direction of his activity
8. Perfect the form as well as use it
9. Obtain control of active substance
10. Coordinate different grades of matter to express the will of the Indweller

• In the Hall of Ignorance, man begins to acquire.
• In the Hall of Learning, man begins to discriminate.
• In the Hall of Wisdom, man blends the two poles producing light.

SECTION TWO - Division B

Manas as a Cosmic, Systemic and Human Factor

I.  The Origin of Manas, or Mind

1.  Cosmic Manas

Individualization is literally the coming together, out of the darkness of abstraction.

a) The Process of Individualization:  At individualization, the two poles (spirit and matter) are approximated, light streams forth irradiating the cave of matter and lighting the pathway back to source.  This irradiation brings about self-realization, purpose, separation from all other spheres, consciousness, ability to evolve and the capacity to shine ever more unto the perfect day.

b) There are 3 Methods of Individualization:

1. The methods of the moon-chain when, through innate force and energy, the conjunction of the three fires was brought about.  The spark of mind, working through instinct, drove the material form into activity where its opposite pole could be contacted.  Animal-man aspired, Spirit answered, thus was consciousness awakened.  

2. The other method involves the use of the Rod of Initiation, which has certain effects:

a) Stimulation of the latent fires  

b) Synthesis of the fires that brings them within the radius of each other.

c) Increase of the vibratory activity of some center  

d) Expansion of all the bodies but primarily the causal body.

3. The method of occult abstraction will be the method used in the next solar system.

2.  Planetary Manas

A planetary logos individualized in a previous system, a man individualized in this, the planetary entities, now involutionary, will individuate in the next.  From the wider point of view, initiation and individualization are synonymous, both expressing the idea of an expansion of consciousness, or of entrance into a new kingdom of nature.  

3.  Human Manas

Manas is the active will of an Entity working itself out through all the lesser lives who go to the content of the ring-pass-not, or sphere of influence of the indwelling Existence.  Therefore, man on this chain is expressing the purpose and will of the planetary Logos in whose body he is a cell, or lesser life.  The human and deva units on the upward arc, who are the cells in the planetary body, form the centers not the remainder of the cellular vital substance of his vehicle.

Presently the solar system is of the fourth order, earth is the fourth scheme in the system, upon the fourth chain in the scheme, the fourth globe in the chain and upon the fourth round.  The planets Venus and Jupiter are exceedingly closely connected with the Earth and form an esoteric triangle.  Saturn is the synthesizing scheme for the four planets.  Mercury is the star of the intuition or transmuted manas.  Venus-Jupiter-Earth is the feminine pole, Vulcan-Mars-Mercury the masculine regarding the Star of David.  Uranus-Neptune-Saturn form the Trinity with the sun making the ten.

4.  Manas and the Earth Chain

Manas arrived upon the Earth scheme via the Venus chain because Logoic kundalini had vitalized on of the systemic triangles of force.  This produced the individualization of those, particularly in the human Hierarchy, who form a center in the body of the planetary Logos.

The Earth Chain and the Incarnating Monads:  Only one group in the fourth Hierarchy was affected by the coming in of manas in the third root-race, therefore, there are two groups in incarnation on the planet at this time; one group which received the manasic stimulation during this world period and another which received it during the previous chain, who are those who now tread the Probationary Path.  Owing to the difference between the two groups may be traced much of the world unrest.  

(See pages 351-395 of the original Treatise for more detailed information on the chains.)

This should all be studied from the Cosmic and Systemic, Planetary, Chains, Globes and Root-Races:

• Cosmic: Involves the study of the place of the solar logos within His greater sphere, bearing relation to the various suns with their systems, individual polarization and their interaction.

• Systemic:  Concerns the Heavenly Men within the Logoic body, their interplay and cycles.

• Planetary:  Concerns the history of the individual scheme and with the consciousness and evolution of some particular Heavenly Man.  

• Chains:  Students may contemplate the seven globes of the chain of which is he a component as seen in time:  A scheme in its totality, corresponds to the Monad.  A chain corresponds to the Egoic body of a human being, the causal body with its seven great cycles.  

• Globes:  A globe, with its seven races corresponds to a particular series of incarnations in connection with a man, incarnate or discarnate, for all globes are not on physical levels.  A physical globe in a chain corresponds to a particular incarnation of a man, planet, etc.  

• Root-Races:  In a root-race, a Heavenly Man is living out His life, developing buddhi and in the process of experiencing.  He sweeps into his vibratory capacity all cells in His body.  

b)  The Fourth Kingdom and the Hierarchy of the Planet:  Students are aware that manas came present within the human family on Earth during the third root-race by the coming, in bodily presence, of certain great Entities from the Venusian chain and that they undertook the government of the planet, founded the Hierarchy and many have since returned to Their originating source.  

1. This was literally the coming of the Avatar.

2. This was brought about by a systemic alignment which involved the Venus scheme of the system, the Venus chain of the Earth scheme and the Venus globe of the Earth chain.

3. The planetary Logos did not come from the Venus scheme, but from the Venus chain of His own scheme, the Earth scheme.

c)  A Prophecy in seven parts:

1. A systemic triangle will be formed between Earth, Mars and Mercury.

2. Logoic kundalini will circulate between the three.

3. A great Logoic center will be vitalized.

4. A new group of human begins will sweep into incarnation on the Earth scheme.  Three fifths of the present humanity will then have their center of consciousness upon the mental plane, while two fifths will remain focused on the astral and will pass into temporary pralaya preparatory to their transference to another scheme as the Earth scheme will no longer provide for them an adequate place of nurture.

5. Entities will come in from Mars to the Earth scheme and find their necessary field of endeavor.

6. Mercurian life will synthesize and be transferred to its synthesizing planet.

7. Judgment Day in the fifth round, or the point of attainment of our Heavenly Man, will see a period of strife on mental levels.  

d)  Summation: A being’s physical body, composed of many lesser lives, suffers or prospers as its directing Intelligence acts with wisdom-love or otherwise.  The manasic principle actuates all that occurs within his aura and he suffers or makes progress according to the application of that principle.  

II.  The Position of Manas

1.  Manas and Karma

Having seen that manas is the intelligent purpose of some Being, working out in active objectivity, and upon having touched the inter-relation between certain Entities, it may now be possible to envision the manasic principle in all three cases.  

The mystery lies hidden in two fundamentals:

1. The resolution of the six pointed star into the five-pointed star.  

2. The mystery of the Lords of Karma, who are in them selves, the sole recipients of the Mind purposes of that Entity Who enfolds our Solar Logos within His consciousness.

2.  Manas and Karmic Purpose

If it is realized that manas and intelligent purpose are practically synonymous terms, will be apparent that karma and the activities of the Lipika Lords will be involved in the matter.  It will also be apparent that only as the lower mind is transmuted into the abstract, or higher mind, and from thence into the intuition, will man be able to understand the significance of manas.  Man is Spirit working through matter by means of the intelligence.  As man progresses, he realizes that the aim of evolution for him is to consciously build the channel between the planes of the abstract, or the ideal and the concrete ones whereon he normally functions.  

He is literally ‘the Path’ itself, built:

1. By means of the manasic principle consciously applied.

2. By the process of transcending the karmic limitations of the three lower planes, the Personality.

3. Through the expansion of his consciousness through graded steps until it includes the planes he seeks.

The manasic principles, whether cosmic, system or human) manifests in five ways, is transmuted into wisdom after its fivefold manifestation and is eventually resolved into pure will or power.  Students need to remember the distinction between transmutation and the final resolution; between the process of transforming the five elements and the final resolution of the transmuted essences into their synthesis.

III.  The Present Stage of Manasic Development

1.  In the Planets

The 3rd Aspect combined with the second (Brahma and Vishnu) go to the totality of the Divine Manasaputras; they are Will utilizing matter in order to demonstrate Love-Wisdom.  This Brahma aspect is fivefold and with the Vishnu aspect makes the six; or the pentagon having Mahadeva, or Will, in the center of all manifestation.

This fivefold Brahma aspect, or the five Kumaras, are in full manifestation, and with the reflection of the other two aspects, makes the seven of our manifested system.

Mercury and Venus are in process of transmutation and the manasic principle in both schemes having reached a light stage of development, is being transmuted into Love-Wisdom.  When three-fifths of the deva and human units that compose the planetary Logos are entering upon the Path, then the process of transmutation is entered upon.  The faculty of Mind is then an instrument t for creative use, and not a barrier to the free life of the Spirit.  

During involution, the sequence of merging is seen as three, then seven and then ten.  During evolution, the sequence is ten, then seven and finally three.  Both paths originate and ultimately unite with the One.

2.  In the System

Three broad outstanding generalizations might be summed up as follows:  

a) Position:  The place of the system within its greater whole, , and its relation to the corporate nature of the lesser lives in all manifestation.  This involves the concepts of a cosmic system, a solar system, groups or unified bodies within the scheme, aggregations of cells and their subdivisions by group, and the individualized cells or units, of which each is a conscious entity yet has no existence apart from its groups.  

Each of these divisions is characterized by:  

a) An ensouling life  

b) Intelligent Activity  

c) Power to evolve or progress  

d) Capacity to cohere

b) Relation:  The study of the different polarities of the different spheres (from a planetary scheme to an atom) within the solar ring-pass-not and of the relation existing between:

1. A scheme and the totality of schemes.
2. Scheme and scheme.
3. Chain and chain.
4. Globe and globe.
5. Group and group.
6. Subdivision and subdivision.
7. Unit and Unit
8. Cell and cell.

These interactions come under the second aspect, yet self-consciousness itself is the result of the manasic principle and the close cooperation between these two factors; of mind and love-wisdom, or the Laws of Attraction and Synthesis.

c) Limitation:  Presupposes:  a) Capacity beyond that manifested   b) Duality, that which is limited and the limiting substance.   c) Purpose, for limitation persists just as long as it is required to attain certain ends and is succeeded by abstraction.  

3.  On the Earth

a) The Five Kumaras:  They are the sum total of manas on the Earth.  The Lord of the World, the first Kumara, is the planetary Logos of our scheme in physical incarnation.  The three Kumaras that are associated with Him are called the Buddhas of Activity, are but the viceregents upon our planet of those three planetary Logoi Who, with our planetary Logos, make the sum total of the Logoic Quaternary.  There are also the three esoteric Kumaras, Who represent the three other Logoi and so make focal points for all the Logoic forces within our chain.  In each chain, such representatives are found: six focal points embraced by the seventh, Who holds them all within His aura.

Their work is threefold:

1. They are the centers in the body of the planetary Logos.  Each chain corresponds to one center, and the globes are but the lesser wheels within any particular center.  The life of the Logos in this incarnation is flowing through three centers and beginning to stimulate a fourth, hence four globes are involved and the three Kumaras are intelligently active, three are in abeyance and one is beginning to function.  The globes correspond to the chains.

2. They act as transmitters of a particular type of force to those units who comprise any particular center.  They are the agents for the Lords of the Rays to the Monads in any particular chain on any particular globe.

3. They are the agents for:

• The Lord of a Ray  

• The four Maharajahs  

• The planetary Logos  

• The great Deva of the Earth planet.  They work with the law, are the cognizers of the intelligent purpose of the planetary Logos, and know His plans and serve as the link between the chain and the scheme.

b)  The Moon Chain:  The relative failure that was the fate of the Moon chain in our scheme has greatly handicapped Their work and made it imperative for Them to employ drastic measures in order to offset that failure.  Herein lies another clue to the world turmoil.  

The Moon chain with the Earth chain formed two units, or two polarities, negative and positive.  The point of merging was reached and the Earth chain absorbed (or synthesized) the moon chain in the same sense as certain planetary schemes will merge until only three will apparently be left.  Earth, therefore,  is essentially dual in its nature, being the sum total of a male and a female chain.

The Moon chain was a chain wherein a systemic failure was to be seen.  It is connected with the lower principles, which are now superseded and the sexual misery of this planet finds its origin in the moon failure.  The progress of evolution on the moon was abruptly disturbed and arrested by the timely interference of the Solar Logos.  As a result, the conditions of agony and of distress found upon Earth are found in no such degree within any other scheme.

The misuse of vibratory power and the perversion, or distortion of force against the line of evolution, account for much of the moon mystery.  Certain results, such as the finding of its polar opposite, were unduly hastened on the moon chain and the consequence was an uneven development and retardation of the evolution of a certain number of deva and human units.  The origin of the feud between the Lords of the Dark Face and the Brotherhood of Light, which found scope for activity in Atlantean days and during the present root race, can be traced back to the moon chain.

IV.  The Future of Manas

1.  Characteristics of Manas

These might be summed up as:  a) Discrimination   b) Ordered activity   c) Adaptability

a) Discrimination:  The quality of manas by which man is enabled to intelligently distinguish between the Self and the not-Self, exists upon all planes and is threefold in manifestation:

1. Discrimination between the I-consciousness and that which is cognized as the external world.
2. Discrimination between the Ego and the Personality, between his subjective self or soul, and the bodies which hold that soul enshrined.  
3. Discrimination between soul and Spirit.

Only the voluntary merging of interest and of aim is of value, and this only is demonstrated by the man as he nears the final part of the path of evolution.  It is incident upon an earlier stage of intense self-assertion and intense self-realization.  This stage is with us now and is the basis of the preservation of identity.  It distinguishes the Logos and all forms within His body, the planetary Logoi and all forms within Their bodies, as well as Man and all forms within his body.

“I am” refers to the personality consciousness on the three lower planes.  It concerns a man’s realization of his place upon the globe within a chain.

“I am That” refers to his Egoic consciousness and to the planes of the Triad.  It concerns a man’s realization of his place within the chain and his relationship to the group.

“I am That I am” refers to a man’s Monadic consciousness and his relationship to the planes of abstraction.  It concerns his realization of his position in the scheme.  When the Initiate can say, “I am That I am” then he has merged himself with his divine essence and is free from form.

b) Ordered Activity

This is the concept of intelligent purpose, pursuing a fixed and settled plan and working out a preconceived ideal in time and space.  The fifth (Mental) plane, may be considered as holding a position in a Heavenly Man that is symbolically analogous to that held by the causal bodies of the units on His Ray, as a result, some causal bodies are on the third and some on the second subplanes; the intricacy is excessive, producing geometrical forms.  All is ordered activity of the units, each pursuing his own self-centered purpose, until the groups recognize the oneness of self-interest and therefore work actively and intelligently with the corporate body.  

After the fifth round and the passing into temporary obscuration of two fifths of the human family, the remaining units will achieve an approximate standing as follows:

1. 1/5 will achieve the sixth and seventh Initiations and mantrically sound the words

         “I am That I am.”

2. 2/5 will achieve the fifth Initiation and know themselves as “I am That” while they cultivate a response to an even higher note.

3. 1/5 will attain the third Initiation and will know themselves as “I am That” in full consciousness.

4. The remaining units will be those who are treading the Path and beginning to know themselves as the group.

c) Adaptability

The primary attribute of the third Ray, or the Brahma aspect.  It works under the Laws of Economy and Attraction.  This is the work of the Mahachohan and the four Lords of the Ray of Attribute.

2.  Development of the Human Mind

Before the four types of force, or these four planetary influences are studied, students should keep the following in mind:

a) Each of them has swung into power during earlier world cycles.

b) One of them is the major influence or vibration of the planet and is ever-present.

c) Certain of them are passing out of power, others are coming in.

d) The 3rd Ray of Aspect will predominate at the end of the fifth round.  In the sixth it will be paralleled by the 2nd Ray, in the seventh round the 2nd Ray will predominate and the influence of the 3rd will weaken as the 1st Ray will set its second great impulse upon our planetary evolution by the obscuration of 2/5 of humanity, Whose influence might be considered as threefold:

1. At human individualization in the middle of the third rootrace, produced by a vast destruction of the forms we call animal man, thus producing the possibility of the newly vitalized causal bodies taking new physical vehicles.

2. The fifth round, at the so-called Judgment, will bring about the apparent destruction of 2/5 of the human family and the translation of the indwelling unites of consciousness to other spheres more suited to their stage of evolution.  This event will be regarded as a catastrophe at the time, but the Knowers will see and know, and 3/5 of the human family will understand the reason.

3. At the final absorption of the perfected monads into their emanating source in the seventh round.  This will be marked by obscuration and the destruction of the form, although suffering will be practically nil as the human units involved will have reached a stage where they can consciously cooperate in the process of abstraction.

As regards man, it is thus evident that the fourth, fifth and seventh rounds hold the key to the first aspect.  For the devas it is the 1st, second and sixth.  For the involutionary entity whom we call the Spirit of the Planet, it is simply the third.

a)  Ray Effects

Every Ray affects, in more or less degree, the plane or subplane which is its numerical correspondence.  

Fourth Ray Effects:  The second manasic aspect will work out in the following ways:

In the development of the intuition by the means of the knowledge of sound vibration and the higher mathematics.  Music as a means to be employed in building and destroying, will be recognized and the laws of levitation and of rhythmic movement in all forms (from an atom to a solar system) will be studied.  The manipulation of matter by the means of sound will be practiced on the two lower planes, and when the synthesis of the four Rays in the Third is in the process of accomplishment, a similar knowledge will be displayed upon the mental plane and the laws of fire will be gradually permitted exoteric publication.

Healing will fall into two departments:

1. Vitalization by means of electricity, as well as Solar and planetary radiation (prana).
2. Definite curative processes, through the occult knowledge of the force (chakra) centers and the work of the devas of the fourth ether.

Religious students will study the ‘life side’ of manifestation just as the scientist studies the ‘matter’ and both will come to a realization of the close relation between the two.  

1. The magical force of the 7th Logos is felt at the first Initiation.
2. The aggressive fire of the 6th Logos at the second.
3. The illuminating light of the 5th Logos at the third.
4. The harmonizing life of the 4th Logos at the fourth.
5. The blending power of the 3rd Logos at the fifth.
6. The unifying heat of the 2nd Logos at the sixth.
7. The dynamic electricity of the 1st Logos at the seventh.

Fifth Ray Effects

This Ray concerns itself with the building of form, the utilization of matter and the embodying of ideas.  This influence has waxed and waned, dying down during the fourth rootrace and waxing steadily greater during this fifth, or Aryan.  For a period immediately ahead, His electrical energizing force will pour on the planet and bring fresh discoveries about matter and form, and energy in matter.

The fifth Ray was largely responsible for the manasic stimulation of animal man in the third rootrace, so in the fifth round he will be instrumental in causing that great separation which we call Judgment.  The Law of Analogy always serves, as in the fifth round, for instance, the fifth chain (a center in the body of the Heavenly Man) will be the recipient of this fifth type of force and will transmit it to other chains via their fifth globe.  He has his correspondence upon the fifth subplane of all the planes, especially in the three worlds of human endeavor.

Sixth Ray Effects

This Ray of Devotion is passing out of influence at this time and Egos who are on that particular Ray will take form elsewhere on other globes and in other chains, and not on Earth.  A psychical manifestation of this can be seen in the dying down of religious enthusiasm.  It will be apparent how the knowledge of these cycles, and of the force manifestation or obscuration of a Ray will eventually lead to a working with the Law and intelligent cooperation with the plan of evolution.

Seventh Ray Effects

In all that has been given about the Rays with regard to man’s evolution, it is clear that the 4th Ray of Harmony, which is the dominant ray of the greater cycle which includes the fourth round and globe, and the 7th Ray of Ceremonial Magic, which is one of the foremost influenced concerned in all objective manifestations.  These two Rays, or the force of these planetary Logoi, are instrumental in bringing about coherency in our present fourth chain, the fourth scheme and on the fourth globe.  The 4th and the 7th interact, one acting temporarily as a negative force, the other as a positive.

The Lord of the Seventh Ray works with the Ruler of the Building Devas through the etheric body of all forms and His work is fundamentally constructive.  By the united action of the 7th Ray and the Raja-Lord of a plane, all is accomplished.  He manifests in periods of transition and governs the processes of transmutation, incarnation and transference.

The force of vibration of any Ray may be summed up as follows:

1. The intelligent purpose of an Entity.

2. His life energy working in, through and upon His body of manifestation.

3. His magnetic radiation as it affects His brothers in manifestation.

4. His peculiar coloring or quality, psychological aspect demonstrating through His activities.

5. The effect of this as it influences His brothers within the greater body.

6. His life force as it radiates beyond His own periphery as active energy and stimulating activity; becoming literally one of the aspects of Fohat.

In all the constructive work of form-building, certain factors enter in which must here be enumerated as they vitally concern our particular Heavenly Man and the particular plane, the physical on which we undergo experience.  These are:

1. The will, or the one-pointed purpose of some Entity.
2. The material through which the life proposes to manifest, and is found within the ring-pass-not in seven grades and in forty-nine subgrades.  
3. The builders who are the vehicle for the divine purpose and who mold matter according to a particular plan, who evolve the forms out of their own nature and substance.
4. A plan by which the work is carried out and which is imparted to the Builders, begin latent in their consciousness.
5. Certain Words, or mantric sounds, which, when uttered by a greater life, can drive the lesser lives to the fulfillment of constructive purpose.

1. A Solar Logos:  The threefold Word gives rise to a sevenfold vibration.
2. A Heavenly Man who, through utterance, sweeps into evolutionary objectivity His scheme and all therein.
3. The Monad, whose threefold Word gives rise to a sevenfold vibration.
4. The Ego, whose, through sonorous utterance, produces a human being in the three worlds.

(The analogy existing between these four should be carefully noted.)

It will be seen that the utterance of sound along the line of force by the trained adept can both utilize deva activity to effect certain results in connection with the form side of manifestation and can drive the life within to definite action.  Hence the extreme danger.  Power over form and force lies always ready in the hand of those who have done three things:

1. Developed the consciousness of the group in which they find themselves.
2. Learned the secret of the notes and tones to which that group responds.
3. Apprehended certain set words and phrases and the due method of chanting and intonation.

Development of etheric vision will be due to two causes:

1. The scientific recognition of the existence of etheric levels, thereby freeing people from the onus of adverse public opinion and thus enabling them to reveal what they know.
2. The increased activity of the devas of the ethers, which throws the matter of the etheric levels into active vibration, with consequent reflex action on the eye of man.

1. Increased mental activity and the spread of education, resulting in increased cooperation between units and groups whose sole purpose will be to synthesize all lines of human endeavor and thus bring about unification of effort and economy of force in all sectors.

2. The schools of medicine will study the etheric body in its relation to the dense physical body and its functions as the receiver, storer and transmitter of the vital fluids of the system.

3. The foundation of the new Church, which will no longer be devotional and idealistic, but which will be an outgrowth of that old idealism, but demonstrating through mental forms.  

4. Increased facility in approaching the Path, based on the fact that so many men will, in the future, have personal knowledge of the ruling powers and forces.

5. The true seeker will be a scientist, a devotee and a philosopher.  When these are not merged, we have the mystic and the danger of black magic, being governed by the intellect and not by selflessness.  There are dangers incident upon contact with the deva evolution and the knowledge of the powers and forces made available through their agency.

6. The coming into incarnation of numbers of old magicians and occultists, and the rapid growth therefore of recognized psychic powers among the people.  This psychism, being tinged with mentality and not being of a purely astral quality, will be even more dangerous than in Atlantean days, for behind it will be a greater conscious purpose.  Paralleling the incoming of this large band of 7th Ray magicians are certain initiates below the fourth Initiation who hope to offset the vibrations and ward off the menace incident to the advent of the other group.

All that has been considered covers the time until the coming in of the new subrace, which will summarize and carry to a temporary conclusion the manasic effort of the fifth rootrace of mental growth and will cause results of stupendous import.

b) Animals and Human Beings and the Rays:  The profundity of interest lies in the fact that in the one case we are dealing with evolution immediately behind the human and from which man is not as yet wholly emancipated; and in the other we are concerning ourselves with a paralleling evolution, one that is of vast importance in the scheme of things.

1.  The animal kingdom holds the same relation to the human as the dense physical body does to the seven principles, and still finds its link with man through correspondences between their bodies of objectivity.

2.  The animal kingdom is the third of the kingdoms and is the mother aspect prior to the overshadowing by the Holy Spirit, the manas aspect.  Note the resemblance and trace the analogy between the cosmic mother, the systemic mother and the same mother aspect as seen in the animal kingdom as a basis for the evolution of man.  Each kingdom acts as the mother to the succeeding one in the evolutionary process.  Any group will receive their objective forms (on some plane) from an earlier group.  From the 3rd springs the 4th, and from this fourth will emerge the fifth, each receiving germ protection, form, gradual development and nourishment.

3.  During the third rootrace, animal individualization took place and the self-conscious unit, Man, came into being.  It is of particular interest at this time that we are in the 4th round in a chain as well as in the fourth round as regards the scheme of seven chains.  It has led to evolutionary possibilities of great import.  On the moon chain, individualization took place during the fifth race of the third round, and in the next chain to ours on the evolutionary arc, individualization will take place during the sixth race of the second round.

4.  In the fourth rootrace the ‘door’ between the kingdoms closed and no more of the animal kingdom passed into the human.  Expressed in terms of fire or electrical phenomenon, the animal kingdom and the human kingdom turned positive to one another, resulting in repulsion.  This repulsion is one reason for the destructive war and the long cycle of cruelty waged between man and the animals.  The mystery is hidden in the karma of that Being, Who for a period during the moon chain, held office as the Entity Who is the informing evolutionary Life of the animal kingdom.  

In Atlantean days, the lives which composed the third kingdom of nature were divided in two groups:

a) A number of these lives were ‘passed’ and they were swept into incarnating in animal form to continue their evolution.

b) The remainder were rejected, and their group will not manifest in physical form until the next round.  In the fifth round a corresponding division will take place in the fourth kingdom, and the lives in that kingdom will be subjected to an analogous test; some will be passed and they will continue their evolution on this planet, while others will go into temporary pralaya.

After the rejection in the fourth rootrace of ¾ of the animal units, the remaining triads (or 1/4) proceeded on their way, holding the promise of opportunity for all in time, and the guarantee of their attainment in the next round.  Just as the human Monads who are passed in the fifth round, will enter into the fifth kingdom before the climax of the seventh, so the animal monads who were passed in this round will achieve individualization during the fifth and enter the fourth kingdom.

By turning his thought-force upon the animals, man stimulates their latent mentality, which leads in due course to the crisis in the next round.  Attention should be paid to the effect of the consciousness of one group upon another group, and the advancement of the lesser by the means of the stimulating power of the greater.  No man, for instance, can make definite and specialized progress without his brother benefiting, in the form of the increase of the total consciousness of the group, the stimulation of units in the group, the group magnetism producing increased healing or blending effects upon allied groups.

The Devas and the Rays

The devas of the higher levels of the mental plane, and of the systemic plane and from there to the divine plane of Adi, cooperate consciously and are of high rank, equal to the ranks and grades of Hierarchy from a first-degree Initiate up to and beyond the Lord of the World Himself.  

Below these higher levels, where the concrete is touched, there are lesser grades of devas who work unconsciously, with the following exceptions who are conscious forces and entities of high position:  

1. The Raja-Lord of a plane.  

2. Seven devas who work under Him, informing the matter of the seven subplanes.  

3. Fourteen representatives of the Rays, Who cycle in and out of power.  

4. Four devas who are the plane representatives of the four Maharajahs (the Lords of Karma) and are the focal points for karmic influence in connection with man.

All the lesser grades of devas, “The Army of the Voice” on each plane, the lesser builders and elementals in their myriads, work unconsciously, being guided and directed by words and sound.  In this way, vibrations are set up in the essence of the planes by the conscious Builders.

Man, while functioning in materials, substantial form in the three worlds may not trespass across the separating line between the deva and human evolutions.  Only on the planes of Solar Fire or on the cosmic etheric levels may contact be permitted; on the planes of the cosmic dense physical plane (our mental, astral and physical) disaster results from contact.

c) Types of Karma:  Karma is imposed upon the ensouling entity through the medium of matter (which is colored by it) and this matter is intelligent material composed of deva essence.  

• Cosmic Karma: Imposed upon the Solar Logos from outside the system.

• Systemic Karma: The working out by the Logos of effects set in motion in previous Kalpas and which influence His present type of body.

• Planetary Karma:  The individual karma of a Heavenly Man is just as different from that of another Heavenly Man as that of different members of the human family.

• The Karma of a Chain:  Bound up in the life experience of that entity who ensouls a chain, and is a center in the body of a Heavenly Man.

• Globe Karma:  Individual destiny of the entity who is a center in the body of the ensouling Life of a chain.

• Plane Karma:  This is mixed with the karma of the planetary Logos and of the Raja-Lord and is dependent upon the interplay between these two opposite poles, the masculine and feminine aspect of the Divine Hermaphrodite.

• The Karma of a Subplane:  The destiny of certain lesser entities who manifest through these planes.

• The Karma of the Human Hierarchy:  The karma of the seven groups and of the individual Monads can be divided into:  

1. World Karma (seven root-races in their totality)

2. Racial (special purpose of each root-race)

3. Subracial (each has its own destiny)

4. National, Family and Individual karmas

3.  Manas in the Final Rounds

a) The Transmutative process, as it involves the power to change through the application of heat, is universally recognized but the key to the mystery of the Philosopher’s Stone will bring revelation and the power to impose the will of the chemist upon the elemental forces, which work in, by and through matter.  Transmutation is the passage across from one state of being to another through the agency of fire.

Radiation is transmutation in process of accomplishment, being the liberation of the essence in order that it may seek a new center, recognized as radioactivity and applied to all atomic bodies without exception.  The process may be tabulated as follows:

1. The life takes primitive form.
2. The form is subjected to outer heat.
3. Heat playing upon the form produces moisture.
4. Moisture and heat perform their function in unison.
5. Elemental lives tend all lesser lives.
6. Devas cooperate under rule, order and sound.  
7. The internal heat of the atom increases.
8. The heat of the atom mounts rapidly and surpasses the external heat of its environment.  
9. The atom radiates.  
10. The spheroidal wall of the atom is eventually broken down.  
11. The electrons (negative units) seek a new center, or form.  
12. The central life escapes to merge with its polar opposite, becoming itself negative and seeking the positive.
13. This is obscuration, the light going out temporarily until it again emerges and blazes forth.

Only the way can be pointed to those who are ready, or who are recovering old knowledge gained through experience upon the Path.  The landmarks indicated must hold sufficient guidance to enable them to penetrate deeper into the arcane of knowledge.  The danger consists in the very fact that transmutation concerns the material form, and deva substance.  Master concern themselves with the soul of things and they reach the whole through the agency of the few centers in a form.

Conscious Manipulation of the Fires:  The two-fold fire of an atom (internal and radiatory) and the fires of mind.  The conscious manipulation of the fires is the prerogative of man when he has reached a certain point in his evolution.  The work to be done in aiding the evolutionary process, is the work of transferring the life from one stage of atomic existence to another, and it involves three steps which can be seen by means of higher clairvoyance.  They are:

1. The Fiery stage:  The blending, fusing and burning period through which all atoms pass during the disintegration of form.  

2. The Solvent stage:  In which the form is dissipated and substance is held in solution, the atom being resolved into its essential duality.

3. The Volatile stage:  Which concerns the essential quality of the atom and the escape of this essence to seek new form.

Radioactivity, pralayic solution and essential volatility might express the thought, for these three steps are followed in every transmutating process without exception.  Little can be shared about the conscious manipulation of the fires owing to the disastrous developments in Atlantean days, and the consequent stultification of spiritual evolution for a time until karma has been adjusted.  

As time proceeds, man will gradually recover past knowledge and power developed in Atlantean days, produce bodies resistant to the fire elementals of the lower kind, comprehend the inner meaning of radioactivity, or the setting loose of the power inherent in all elements, and reduce the formulas of the chemists to sound.  Conscious transmutation is possible only when a man has transmuted the elements in his own vehicles, only then can he be trusted with the secrets of divine alchemy.

The magician or alchemist works with deva essence through the control of the lesser Builders in cooperation with the greater Devas.  Note the following distinctions between the work of the black and the white magicians.  

1. The white deals with positive electrical energy, the dark with the negative.

2. The white occupies himself with the soul of things, the dark upon the form.

3. The white develops the inherent energy of the sphere concerned (whether human, animal, vegetable or mineral) and produces results through self-induced activities of the central life.  The dark magician attains through the agency of force external to the sphere involved and produces transmutation through the method of reduction of the form, rather than radiation.

Five Postulates

1. All matter is living matter, or the vital substance of deva entities.

2. All forms, vibrating to any keynote, are fabricated by the building devas out of the matter of their own bodies, hence they are the great Mother.

3. The devas are the life which produces form-cohesion.  A magician who transmutes metals in the mineral kingdom works with deva essence in its earliest form on the upward arc of evolution and has to remember:  

1. The effect of the backward pull of the involutionary lives.  
2. The sevenfold nature of the devas which constitute its being.  
3. The next transition stage of the mineral into the vegetable kingdom, or the effect of the second kingdom on the first.

4. All deva essences and builders on the physical plane are dangerous to man, for they work on the etheric levels and are the transmitters of prana, hence they set loose upon the ignorant and unwary the fiery essence which burns and destroys.

5. The devas do not work as individualized conscious units as does man.  They work in groups subject to:   a) inherent impulse (latent active intelligence)   b) Orders issued by the greater builders   c) Ritual, or compulsion induced through color and sound.

The true alchemist, therefore, will seek only to stimulate the radioactivity of the element (or atom) and will center his attention upon the positive nucleus.  By increasing its vibration, its activity or positivity, he will bring about the desired end.  The process carried on by the Dark Brotherhood seeks the reverse of this and wherever the attention is centered upon the form and not on the Spirit, the tendency is to deva worship, for the form is made of deva substance upon all planes.  The central factor of Solar Fire in the work of transmutation will come to be understood through the study of the fire devas and elementals.  

The alchemists have largely been unsuccessful owing to three things:

1. Inability to contact the central electric spark
2. Inability to create the necessary channel along which the escaping life may travel into its new form.
3. Inability to control the fire elementals who are the external fire, which affects the central spark through the medium of its environment.

This is the consequence of undue success in Atlantean days, when the alchemists of the time, through color and sound, so entirely controlled the elementals that they utilized them for their own selfish ends and outside their legitimate province.  

This knowledge of formulas and sounds can be comparatively easily acquired when man has developed his inner spiritual ear, because:

a) Every kingdom has its note and mantric sounds

b) That the note of the mineral kingdom is the basic note of substance itself, and it is largely the sounding of the note combinations, based on this key, which produces the great world cataclysms seen as volcanic action.

Every gradation of that note is found in the mineral kingdom which is divided into three main kingdoms:

1. The baser metals such as lead and iron.
2. The standard metals such as gold and silver, which are the mineral manifestation of the second aspect.
3. The crystals and precious stones are the first aspect as it works out in the mineral kingdom; the consummation of the work of the mineral devas.  

When scientists fully appreciate what it is which causes the difference between a sapphire and a ruby, they will have found out what constitutes one of the stages of the transmutative process.  This, however, they cannot do until the fourth ether is controlled.  Man should, in seeking the secret of atomic energy, concentrate his attention on the higher form of life transference through knowledge of the devas, through external pressure and vibration, through internal stimulation, through color applied in stimulation and vitalization and through mantric sounds.

b)  Synthesis:  We have seen that during the coming races and subraces certain very definite development may be looked for in connection with manasic unfoldment; and it is worth while to note particularly that as far as the evolution of manas in this round is concerned its highest efflorescence may be looked for during the next five hundred years.  The coming in of the two final root races marks the point of synthesis, and the gradual utilization of that which has been manasically achieved; this will be brought about by a development of abstract thought, and of intuitive recognition.

Manasic Characteristics and the Planes

I. On the Physical Plane: Here this quality demonstrates as:

1. The selective power of the atoms of the body.
2. The adaptability of the physical form to its environment and to its circumstances.
3. The ordered purpose of the informing Life, as it affects the physical form and atoms.
4. The transmutative power, inherent in man though as yet unrecognized by him, which has brought him to his present stage of physical existence from that of animal man. It concerns also the transference of the life on to manasic levels.

II. On the Astral Plane:

1. The discriminative power of man to choose between the pairs of opposites.
2. His adaptability to emotional conditions, and his power to attain eventual equilibrium.
3. The power of man, through conscious purpose, to clear his astral body of foreign matter, and to ensure its translucence.
4. The transmutative inherent power which transmutes, or transfers the life into buddhic forms eventually.

III. On the Mental Plane:

1. In the selective power of man to choose the form through which to manifest. [501]
2. His adaptability to mental currents and vibration, and his utilization of them to control the lower forms.
3. The working out of purpose through the medium of the two lower vehicles. Impulse emanates from the mental plane.
4. The transmutative power which transforms the entire lower threefold man into a new form, the causal body. This process of transmutation is carried on through the entire series of incarnations.

IV. On the, Abstract Levels of the Mental Plane:

1. The ability of the Ego to discriminate as to time and space in the three worlds.
2. Egoic adaptation of matter and circumstance of time and environment to the specific need under the Law of Karma.
3. The 'Intelligent Purpose', which lies back of all physical objectivity, and which is seen working out in every life.
4. The transmutation or transference into the Triad of the life of the Ego as it functions in the causal body. This results in dissociation from manifestation in the three worlds. To effect this transmutation (which is a point at times overlooked) the Thinker in the causal vehicle has to do three things:
5. Build and equip the causal body.
6. Bring about conscious connection or control of the threefold lower nature through the agency of the permanent atoms.
7. Bridge the interlude between the causal body on its own level, and the manasic permanent atom.

V. On Buddhic Levels:

Discriminative power here demonstrates as ability to distinguish between the abstract and the concrete, and to arrive at conclusions apart from the ordinary apparatus - the mental body and the physical brain.

Adaptability to Hierarchical enterprise shown by the Initiate or Master, and His receptivity to life impulses and spiritual currents emanating from the planetary Logos of His Ray - a thing at this stage impossible of conscious realization.  

In the ordered purpose which guides the choice by a Master of one of the seven Paths of endeavor. Thus choice is based on knowledge, and not on desire.  In the conscious transmutation He undertakes in the work of evolution, and in the gradual transference of His own life, and the life of His group, into the monadic aspect which is reflected in the buddhic.

VI. On Atmic Levels:

1. In the selective work of the adept as it relates to planetary manifestation, and the discriminative power which guides all action relating to His own planet, and the two others associated with the Earth, as a systemic triangle.

2. The adaptation of groups (deva and human) to certain types of influence, and vibration, which emanate extra-systemically, and which from high cosmic levels play upon groups, fostering certain attributes for which we have, as yet, no terminology.

3. The synthesizing work of the Brahma aspect as it works out in the blending of the four minor rays into the third major.

4. The transmutation which results in planetary obscuration in connection with five of the Heavenly Men and which - as in the previous work of synthesis - concerns microcosmic evolution and is participated in by man. I would call attention to an interesting point: as more and more of the Monads are resolved back into their source it produces a gradual obscuration of the particular Heavenly Man in Whose body they are the cells. Though this may look to human vision as extending over a profoundly long period, from the point of view of universal or group consciousness it is occurring NOW. For instance, such an event as the obscuration of the manifestation of the Logos of our Earth scheme is already in process and began in Lemurian days.

VII. As regards monadic discrimination, adaptability, purpose and transmutative power it is needless to enlarge.  All these ideas and concepts are of value only in so far as they produce within the Thinker a more intelligent appreciation of the grandeur of the divine plan, an appropriation of the energy and force which is his by right of participation in the processes of manifestation, and a wise cooperation in the furtherance of the evolutionary plan as it affects him individually and his groups.

The Egoic Ray and Solar Fire

I.  The Nature of the Egoic, or Causal Body

This subject will primarily interest three types of students; those who are interested in the true psychology, or in the evolution of the psyche, those who are on or nearing the path and hence are coming into more contact with their Ego and those who work with the souls of men, the servers of the race.  The reason for this is because, in the due comprehension of this subject, that of the Ego functioning in the causal body, comes the ability to work scientifically with the problem of one’s own evolution, and to do good work in aiding the evolution of one’s brother.

1.  Egoic manifestation is produced through the medium of two fires

In all manifestation there is duality producing triplicity.  Spirit meets and contacts matter resulting in the birth of the Son, or the Ego, the consciousness aspect.  The egoic manifestation is the middle aspect, the place of at-one-ment and of eventual equilibrium.  

We are concerned with the process of making man the perfect six-pointed star; the threefold personality and the threefold Triad merged and perfectly produced through the intermediate point, the causal body.  When the physical body is eliminated, man becomes the five-pointed star, or perfected manasaputra.

In terms of fire, the causal body is produced by the positive life of Spirit (Electric Fire) meeting the negative fire of matter (Fire by Friction) causing a blazing forth of Solar Fire which serves to burn up the third fire, or absorb it into its essence, and is itself eventually blended with the fire of Spirit and passes out of objective display.

2.  Egoic Manifestation is produced at Individualization

The causal body, that sheath of mental substance, is formed at the moment of individualization by the contact of the two fires.  The force that pours through the higher planes of the Monad produces a vacuum, and the sheath of the causal body, the ring-pass-not of the central Life, is formed.  Within this sheath are to be found three permanent atoms; the mental, astral and physical.  They correspond individually to the seventh principle of each of the three persons of the microcosmic triad, a reflection of the Logoic Trinity.

The causal sheath serves three purposes:  

1. It separates one unit of egoic consciousness from another, yet is itself part of the gaseous body (fifth cosmic physical subplane) in the physical body of the planetary Logos, Who is the central life of any particular group of Monads.  

2. It holds hid spiritual potentialities in its inherent ability to respond to the higher vibration.  The life within steadily develops these and produces certain results by the utilization of the three permanent atoms.  

3. It gradually vivifies and awakens them until, on the three planes, the central life has an adequate point of contact which can originate the necessitated vibration in the matter of the plane.

II.  The Nature of the Permanent Atoms

1.  The Purpose of the Permanent Atoms

Permanent atoms on each plane serve a fourfold purpose as regards the central, or Egoic life:

1. They are distributors of a certain type of force.
2. They are the conservers of faculty or ability to respond to a particular vibration.
3. They are the assimilators of experience and the transmuters of that experience into quality.
4. They hold hid the memory of the unit of consciousness, and when fully vibrant, they are the reason for continuity of consciousness of the man functioning in the causal body.

The mental permanent atom is found in Logoic gaseous matter, the astral in Logoic liquid, and the physical atom in the dense physical plane.  As each unit of consciousness, through self-induced effort, achieves the goal and crosses the ‘burning-ground’ a microcosmic portion of the etheric web of the planetary etheric body is consumed by fire.  This results in a definite gain for that great Entity, a planetary Logos, through the relatively unimportant liberation of one cell in His body.  When all the units of cells in His body have achieved, He too is set free from dense manifestation, and physically dies.  This stage is succeeded by the comparatively brief one of etheric existence (covering the period of the obscuration of the vehicle) and then He is liberated from incarnation altogether.

Each of the seven Rays, viewed in connection with the causal bodies of men, demonstrates as a unity on the first plane (Adi), a triplicity on the second (Monadic) and as seven on the third (Atmic), which form the fort-nine groups which most concern evolving man.  In the course of his many septenary lives, and as the cyclic sevens pass over him, man passes under the influence of the seven subrays of his own Ray.  Then he begins to synthesize and merge the seven into the major three subrays, thus returning to unity on his own Egoic Ray.

1. The septenary status governs the time from individualization till he enters upon the Path.

2. The threefold status governs the time up till the third Initiation.

3. He achieves the unity of his Ray by the fifth Initiation, and is then consciously a part of the body of the Heavenly Man.

The same idea can be worked out in connection with the awakening of the life forces within the permanent atoms, viewing each atom as the seventh principle in each of the three aspects of the personality.

2.  Their Place in the Egoic Body

a) The Astral Permanent Atom in this solar system, is the recipient of a great flow of force or energy, and receives more stimulation than the others for the following reasons:

1. The center of polarization for the fourth (human) kingdom is in the astral consciousness, viewing this kingdom as a unity.

2. The goal set before humanity is that of becoming conscious units in the body of the Dragon of Love-Wisdom.  This a man achieves when he can function consciously in the buddhic vehicle, or when the astral permanent atom is superseded by the buddhic permanent atom.

3. The second aspect of the Logos, (the manifestation of the love nature of the Logos through the medium of the Son) is the one demonstrated in this system, for the following reasons:  a) This system is a Son of Necessity, or of desire.  b) It is vibrant to the key of the cosmic Ray of Love.  c) The form through which this Ray is expressing itself (duality) is governed by the Law of Attraction, the Monads of Love are the dominating quality.

4. Our solar system forms the center in the cosmic body of the One greater than our Solar Logos equivalent to that of the heart center.  All within the solar ring-pass-not are parts of that vast cosmic heart center, the petals in the Lotus.  This force, when rightly directed and properly controlled, is the great transmuting agency which will make man a Master of the Wisdom and a Lord of Love.

5. This solar system is interpenetrated by His astral body as is the case with a human manifestation.  As the Logos is polarized in His cosmic astral sheath, and has not yet attained cosmic mental polarization, His force or desire nature is the main incentive for the subjective Life and lives that underlie that form.

Therefore, it is necessary to bear in mind the relative importance of the astral permanent atom (the second aspect) of the personality within the causal periphery, and to remember that the force which flows through that atom, and is the animating force of the astral body, is following the lines of least resistance and might be considered as bearing upon his physical manifestation in a manner twice as strong as that reaching him through the other two.

b)  The Atomic Triangle: The causal sheath is a sphere of vibrant living substance containing three fiery points; at the heart is a central blaze of light, emitting seven rays, which play upon these points or circles, (analogous to the electrons) and produce effect upon the astral permanent atom.  

The physical permanent atom has a position relatively close to the center, and the force plays through it, and passes on to the astral permanent atom in the form of five rays of parti-colored light, which blend with the vivid hue of the astral permanent atom, and increase its intensity until the blaze appears as if the two points blended, (or the electrons merged) thus producing such intensity of light that they are seen as dissolving.

The mental unit, having a position within the causal body analogous to the planet furthermost from the sun, becomes vibrant likewise, and the two other points (now considered as one) begin to interact with the mental unit.  A similar process is pursued until these two points, circulating around their positive center, also approach each other, blend, merge and dissolve.  The center of positive life gathers, or synthesizes, the three points and thus the three fires of the personality repeat on their tiny scale the microcosmic procedure as seen in the synthesis of Electric Fire, Solar Fire and Fire by Friction until only a single blazing unit is left.  This unit burns up the causal body and escapes back on to the planes of abstraction.  Thus man is the Path itself, and also the pilgrim upon the Path; thus does he burn, but is also the burning ground.  The analogy holds true, as the same process is used on cosmic levels.

3.  The Spirillae and the Egoic Ray

The spirillae within the permanent atom are to be considered as:

• The interior economy of the life germ on the three planes which concern man.  
• As the seventh principle in each of the three sheaths.
• As the positive nucleus of force which holds the matter of the three sheaths together.

a) The composition of the permanent atom:  The permanent atom of the physical and astral planes is a sphere of atomic matter and is characterized by the following qualities:

i) Responsiveness: Its inherent power to respond to the vibration of one of the Heavenly Men as it is transmitted via the deva, or Brahma aspect, of His threefold nature.  The permanent atom finds its place within the sphere of influence of one or other of the Raja-Lords of a plane.

ii) Form Building Power:  These devas sound forth two syllables of the threefold microcosmic word and are each the coherent agency which gathers substance into form, and attracts matter for the purpose of objectivity.  The astral sound produces the microcosmic Son of Necessity and when it reverberates on the physical plane, it produces physical incarnation and the sudden appearance on etheric levels of the seven centers.

iii) Relative Permanency: In the seventh principle of all manifesting entities is stored up and developed capacity, acquired ability and the atomic memory; the physical and astral heredity of the Thinker.

iv) Heat:  Herein lies the distinction between the permanent atoms on all planes, and the atomic matter of which they form a part.  The distinction between the permanent atom and atomic matter, may be tabulated as follows:

• The permanent atom is one that has been appropriated by one of the lives that form the centers in the body of a solar Lord, whilst atomic matter goes to the formation of other parts of His great body of light.
• A permanent atom has come under the attractive power of the second aspect, whilst atomic matter is vitalized only by the life of the third aspect.
• A permanent atom follows the line of least resistance to force, and is passing out of the control of the Deva Lord and under the control of positive life, and is the evolution of conscious in substance.
• A permanent atom comes under the direct control of the lower of the three groups of Lipika Lords, and is the agency through which They impose karma upon the unit.

b)  The Planes and Fiery Energy

Analogies can be observed on each plane of the solar system, with the seven subplanes.

c)  The Three Fires

1. Electric Fire demonstrates as the prime condition of the higher three.
2. Solar Fire, showing forth as the blaze produced by union on the central plane.
3. Fire by Friction as the most significant factor on the lower three.

A man’s Monad can be studied in its threefold essence on its own plane, his egoic aspect likewise, and the Brahma aspect of the Ego is found within the permanent atoms.  When man has found out how to contact and utilize positive solar electricity in combination with negative planetary electricity, it will result in a very dangerous condition and will eventually manifest in the destruction of the fifth root-race by fire.  It must be remembered that this cleavage will be a part of the natural process, and not a drastic ruling imposed upon an unwilling people.  The Knowers and the students of the Knowledge, actuated by group consciousness and working consciously, will separate into group formation from those who know not and from those who care not.  This will be temporary with a fundamental view of an eventual merging, and will mark the line of demarcation between the lower four and the upper three, and concerns those under the influence of the Solar Lords and those by the Lunar Lords.

The fundamental difference between the mental unit and the other two atoms consists in the fact that it contains only four spirillae instead of seven; for the mental unit is the first aspect of the personality triad.  

At his transference into the spiritual kingdom, these three aspects, the mental, astral and physical bodies, are synthesized into the higher by a dual process:  

a) His polarization shifts from out of the lower three atoms into the Triadal atoms.  

b) The force which these atoms generate and embody is merged/blended into the higher force points.

Negative force forms a receptacle for positive force.  Atoms are but force centers, and the chakra centers are but aggregates of force which have reached a specific point in evolution, and are responding to the first great aspect, Electric Fire.  Until a man is coming consciously under the control of the Ego and is beginning to sense the vibration of the manasic permanent atom, it is useless to expect him to respond to certain ideals, or to grasp certain aspects of truth, for the mental unit suffices for his need, and no bridge exists between it and the manasic permanent atom.

4.  Summary

1. The four lower spirillae are definitely under the influence of the personality Ray.
2. The fifth and sixth spirillae are more specifically under the egoic Ray.
3. The fifth spirillae synthesizes the lower four and vibrates to five types of force.
4. The spirillae are literally ten in number; three major and seven minor.
5. The permanent atoms are not heart-shaped, but a certain number of atoms are of that type but they are not the permanent atoms, which are more definitely spheroidal and slightly flattened at the top where the correspondence to the polar depression may be found.
6. The arrangement of the spirillae within the permanent atoms varies on each plane.
7. The close the approach to Reality, the simpler the streams of force show a septenary arrangement in the lower three permanent atoms of man, while the higher three contain but the three major spirillae.
8. There are but six permanent atoms connected with human evolution, five with a Heavenly Man and only one in the solar system.
9. It should be remembered that we are dealing with a physical incarnation of these great Entities, and that Their permanent atoms, with the exception of the physical, are extra-systemic.
10. The causal body of the Heavenly Men is upon the third subplane of the cosmic mental plane, while that of the Solar Logos, and those of the three Persons of the Logoic Trinity, are upon the first subplane.
11. The permanent atoms of men are upon the atomic subplane of each plane, with the one exception of the mental unit, Those of the animal groups are upon the second subplane, the vegetable upon the third and the mineral upon the fourth.  There is, therefore, a close analogy between these focal points of force of the group and a chain, a globe and a round, and in their due application comes enlightenment.
12. As the permanent atoms become radioactive in due course of evolution, the result within the center is a marked increase in vibration.
13. The permanent atoms concern Solar entities when they are found on or above the higher mental, and concern lunar entities on the lower mental, the astral and physical planes.

It should be noted that in this solar system, the following Entities manifest through:

a)  One permanent atom; the physical:  Solar Logos, the three major Rays, the seven Heavenly Men, the forty-nine Regents of the planetary chains.

b)  Two permanent atoms; the physical and astral: The seven Lords of the globes in every chain, the forty-nine Root Manus, the seventy-seven Embodiers of form, (a group of Solar Lords of the 1st Ray) and certain of the Avatars, selected by the Logos to further the evolution of the psyche.

c)  Three permanent atoms; the physical, astral and mental:  

1. The Lords of the third Kingdom, Who are the seven Entities whose bodies are made up of animal souls, just as the Heavenly Men embody of man the Buddhic principle, so these lords embody for the animal kingdom the manasic principle, which is the goal of the evolutionary process for them.
2. Certain great Entities Who embody a whole range of existences upon five of the planets, of which Earth is not one, but who in due course of time will be recognized as having a powerful effect upon man on the Earth, via the Buddhas of Activity.  (The mystery of the close connection existing between the Earth and Mercury)
3. The Entities who are the sumtotal of those group souls who contain definite permanent Triads; Nine triads constitute the body of one of these Entities.

d)  Four permanent atoms; the physical, astral, mental and buddhic:

1. Eight groups of solar Entities Who form the subjective life of the seven centers in the body of Brahma, dissociated from His two brothers, and the seven Sons of Fohat.  
2. That Entity Who words through the form of the planetary Hierarchy, using it as His body of manifestation and regarding it as the center through which His force can flow.  (All groups on every plane form a vehicle for the life of a greater individual.)
3. A number of Solar Deities Who are the radiators of solar magnetism, and the life of form.
4. Those Beings connected with a certain constellation and the lesser Dragon, who have their habitat on Neptune and work with the sixth principle in the solar system.  They take physical form animated by purified desire controlled by mind, and are the dispensers of Love-Wisdom on the various planets, thus the words Hall of Wisdom describes a stage of consciousness, not a location.

e)  Five Permanent Atoms; the physical, astral, mental, buddhic and atmic:

1. The Lords of certain subplanes Who work under the Raja-Lord of a plane and Who are themselves vibration and activity.
2. The lesser Heavenly Men on the buddhic level, Who reflect Their higher prototypes on the second plane of the system.
3. The Entities Who are the sumtotal of group consciousness on Egoic levels, differentiated and formed of aggregates of seven, until forty-nine groups of seven Egoic vehicles form one group, which is the body of this lesser Solar Deity.
4. The Entities Who are the sumtotal of the vegetable kingdom in its diversity of manifestation in different schemes, chains and globes.

f)  Six Permanent Atoms; physical, astral, 2 mental, buddhic and atmic:  Man.

III.  The Egoic Lotus

This section concerns the subject of the causal body from the point of view of Fire.  By studying the solar system as the physical manifestation of a Solar Logos, we are investigating:  

a) the physical permanent atom of a Solar Logos as contained within the Logoic causal body on its own plane.  

b) The seven types of force, or the seven Logoic spirillae within that permanent atom.  

c)  The close correspondence between the planes and the seven spirillae in the permanent atom of a Solar Logos.

1.  Centers, Chakras or Wheels of Energy

a) Centers of Force:  Man has seven force centers, of which three are paramount, (Head/Heart/Throat) and eventually synthesize the other four producing their eventual obscuration, or their passing out of manifestation.  This is paralleled in the Logoic centers, the planetary schemes, which will one day pass into obscuration and transmit their energy to the major three schemes.

b) The Causal Body as the Monadic Heart Center:  The causal body is the correspondence in the monadic manifestation to the heart center and is seen as the twelve-petalled lotus.  Of these twelve petals, the innermost three are as yet unrevealed, or are embryonic, and hence the causal body is usually referred to as a 9-petalled lotus, or as a wheel of fire with nine spokes.  The inner three which complete the twelve concern the final and essentially spiritual stages of his evolution.  

2.  The 12-petalled Egoic Lotus

Solar Fire is dual; the fire of matter or substance and the fire of mind blended.  This makes man the six-pointed Star of Light, for each of these fires is triple.  The fire of Mind is also dual in essence, bringing in another triplicity and making the nine.  When a man has awakened the nine fires, and has unfolded fine petals, and when he has received the stimulus which is imparted at initiation, through being brought into conscious contact with the electric spark of his own particular Heavenly Man, they all blend and merge.  Each Heavenly Man is also a nine-petalled Lotus in the body of the Solar Logos.

Visualize the nine-petalled Egoic Lotus, the heart center in the monadic consciousness, unfolding each of its petals in groups of three upon the three subplanes of the higher mental.  Their unfoldment is worked out through the evolutionary process, undergone on the three planes in the three worlds, or within the Halls of Ignorance, of Learning and of Wisdom.

a)  KNOWLEDGE PETALS:  First Group of Petals  (Physical Plane)

1. The Petal of Knowledge for the physical plane:  Through the breaking of the Law and the ensuing suffering, the price of ignorance is paid and knowledge is achieved.  This unfoldment is brought about through physical plane experience.
2. The Petal of Love for the physical plane:  Unfolds through physical relationships and the gradual growth from love of self, to love of self and others.
3. The Petal of Sacrifice for the physical plane:  This unfoldment is brought about through the driving force of circumstances and not of free will.  It is the offering up of the physical body upon the altar of desire; low desire at the beginning but aspiration towards the end, although still desire.  

b)  LOVE PETALS:  Second Group of Petals  (Astral Plane)

1. The Petal of Knowledge for the astral plane:  Unfoldment is brought about by the conscious balancing of the pairs of opposites, and the utilization of the Law of Attraction.  The man passes out of the Hall of Ignorance where, from the point of view of the Ego, he works blindly; by a realization of his essential duality he begins to comprehend causes.

2. The Petal of Love for the astral plane:  Unfoldment is brought about through the process of gradually transmuting the love of the subjective nature, or of the Self within.  This has a dual effect and works through onto the physical plane in many lives of turmoil, of endeavor and failure, as a man strives to turn his attention toward the love of the Real.

3. The Petal of Sacrifice for the astral plane:  Unfoldment is brought about by the attitude of man as he consciously endeavors to give up his own desires for the sake of his group.  His motive is still somewhat a blind one, and still colored by the desire for a return of that which he give and for love from those he seeks to serve, but it is of a much higher order than the blind sacrifice, which is the case in the earlier unfoldment.  

As a result, a dual result is observed:

1. The astral permanent atom comes into full activity and radiance as regards five of its spirillae, and the two atoms of the physical and astral planes are equally vibrant.
2. The three petals of the central ring of the egoic lotus come also into full unfoldment, and the heart center of the Monad is seen as a wheel of fire with six spokes in full energetic display and rotating rapidly.

c)  SACRIFICE PETALS:  Third Group of Petals  (Mental Plane)

1. The Petal of Knowledge for the mental plane:  Its unfoldment marks the period wherein the man consciously utilizes all that he has gained or is gaining under the law for the definite benefit of humanity.  
2. The Petal of Love for the mental plane:  Is unfolded through the conscious steady application of the powers of the soul to the service of humanity with no thought of return, nor any desire for reward for the immense sacrifice involved.
3. The Petal of Sacrifice for the mental plane:  Demonstrates as the predominant bias of the soul as seen in a series of many lives spent by the Initiate prior to his final emancipation; he becomes the Great Sacrifice.  This stage is dual in effect:

1. The mental unit becomes a radiant point of light; its four spirillae transmit force with intense rapidity.  
2. The three higher petals unfold and the nine-petalled lotus is seen perfected.

When the fire of matter becomes sufficiently intense; when the fire of mind, or Solar Fire (which vitalizes the nine petals) becomes equally fierce, and when the electric spark at the innermost center blazes out and can be seen, the entire causal body becomes radioactive.  The fires of substance (vitality of the permanent atoms) escape from the atomic spheres, this is the great liberation.  Such a one, in terms of human endeavor, has achieved his goal.  He has passed through the three Halls and in each has transferred that which he gained therein to the content of his consciousness.  

He has, in ordered sequence, developed and opened the petals of the lotus by:

a) Opening the lower three over a vast period of time.  

b) Then the second series of petals are opened during a period of time covering his intelligent

     participation in world affairs.

The order of the development of the petals and the stimulation of the fires depends upon the Ray of the Monad, and the subray upon which the causal body finds itself.  The unfoldment proceeds slowly in the early stages and only proceeds rapidly as the man himself works at the goal with conscious effort.  The Ego takes no active interest in the development until the second petal in the second series is beginning to open.  The ceremony of initiation is only undergone when the causal body is in a condition to respond to the Will aspect of the Heavenly Man and to do this through the willing cooperation of the fully conscious self.

3.  Summary

The permanent atoms are concerned with the substance aspect of existence, or Becoming, while the petals of the egoic lotus deal specifically with the psychical aspect, or the development of consciousness.  The inner three petals and the central nucleus embody the aspect of pure Spirit.

The whole secret of success in any endeavor is primarily based on:  a) The ability of the Ego to work through the personality, using it simply as the medium of expression.   b) The karma of the Egoic group as it becomes more apparent on the physical plane.  An understanding of group karma will lead to more intelligent cooperation and a more sympathetic understanding of group responsibilities and more adequate solutions to group problems.

The study of occult psychology involves a true conception of the nature of the Ego, or the arousing of the Ego to full activity in manifestation; it will necessitate the sound formulation of the laws of egoic unfoldment, of the methods whereby, petal by petal, the lotus may be brought to perfection, and of the triple nature of its evolution.  The laws of fire, heat, radiation and flame will be occultly investigated, and the action of one fire (the result of radiation from once conscious sphere to another) will be realized.

The time is fast approaching when the emphasis will be laid in education upon how best the young can be taught to contact their own Ego, how they can be led to appropriate the knowledge and abilities of their Higher Self for use on the physical plane, how they can ascertain their group formation and thus work in unison with the group.  

Thought Elementals and Fire Elementals

This section is not intended to give interesting bits of information about the devas, but will deal with the matter in its practical application to man, and to give as much of the necessary knowledge as will enable a man to control and build his own system, to understand the method of creation and to comprehend the lesser lives and the paralleling deva evolution.

I. Thought-Forms

1.  Agni, the Ruler of Fire

a) Agni and the Solar Logos:  The study now proceeds to that vitality which energizes and the Life and animates, to the contemplation of the Fire that drives, propels and produces the activity and organization of all forms.  We are dealing with Solar Fire, with the essence of thought, with the coherent life of all forms, with the consciousness in its evolving aspect, or with Agni, the sumtotal of the Gods.  

He is Vishnu and the Sun, He is the fire of matter and of mind blended, He is the intelligence which throbs in every atom, He Is the Mind that actuates the system, the Flame and that which the Flame destroys.  He is the animating life of the solar system and that life is the life of God, the energy of the Logos and the manifestation of the radiance which veils the Central Sun.  

Only as we become polarized in the cosmic etheric body and are no longer held prisoner by a dense material sheath do we come to a fuller understanding of the psychic nature of the Logos.  He is not the Solar Logos on the cosmic mental plane, for the Egoic consciousness of the Logos is more than His physical manifestation.  Agni is to the Solar Logos what the coherent personality of a human being is to his Ego in the causal body.

b) Agni and the Mental Plane:  There is a close connection between Agni, the sumtotal of the life force of the Logoic threefold personality, as He is seen at work on the mental plane and that manifesting driving force, or intelligent will, which emanates from the cosmic mental plane.

c)  Agni and the Three Fires:  In studying Agni in the solar system, we are considering His essential nature as actuating fire.  We have seen that He is the threefold Logoic personality, but He is the threefold Logos in a subjective sense and the form aspect is only subsidiary.  

2.  The Fire Devas, the Greater Builders

a)  Introductory Statements

The devas and elementals are divided into two groups; evolutionary and involutionary Builders.  The greater Builders are the positive aspect of substance whilst the lesser Builders are the negative aspect.  Two types of force are represented in the activities of these two groups and it is their interaction which produces Light, or a manifested Solar System.  They are also the sumtotal of the Pitris, or Fathers of mankind.  These deva activities in relation to Self-Consciousness can best be studied through the consideration of groups, of races and of the life of the scheme, the manifestation of one of the Heavenly Men.

The greater Builders are the Solar Pitris, whilst the lesser Builders are the lunar ancestors, meaning initiatory life impulse.  It is that subjective activity which produces objectivity, and concerns those emanatory impulses which come from any positive center of force, and which sweep the negative aspect into the line of that force, thus producing a form of some kind.

The Solar Logos is the initiatory impulse, the Father of the Son, and is the sumtotal of the Pitris.  The union of Father (positive force) and Mother (negative force) produces that central blaze which we call the form, the body of manifestation of the Son.  A Planetary Man holds an analogous position in relation to a scheme, and a man in relation to his lesser sphere.

The lesser Builders are the negative aspect and are swept into action in group formation through the action of positive force upon them.  The Adept of the Light, working with the greater Builders on the side of evolution, works consciously with the dual aspects of polarity and views substance as that which is negative, and can therefore balance forces in the best interests of the plan of evolution.  The Brother of Darkness, works with negative substance, or with the lesser Builders to bring about his own, selfish ends.

The solar Pitris and devas, the greater Builders, are the source of man’s self-consciousness, and it is their action upon the negative aspect which produces the human Ego.  From the Christian point of view, the greater Builders are the Holy Spirit and the lesser Builders correspond to the Virgin Mary.  The lunar Pitris, and the lesser Builders find their fullest expression in the animal kingdom.  When they had produced animal-man, they had performed their prime function and are now slowly coming to a conclusion as their power is being superceded by Spiritual power.  

The lunar Pitris are the builders of man’s lunar body, and are the sumtotal of the dense physical body of the Logos, or the substance of the mental, astral and physical planes but not including the etheric.  They are the product of an earlier solar system, that is why the physical body is not considered a principle and why the lower nature is considered evil.  Evil is that which can be controlled and subdued, but which is permitted to govern.  The positive can always manipulate the negative, but when the negative line is followed and the line of least resistance is not a principle, evil results.

In the first solar system, the lunar Pitris dominated but this present system is in the hands of the solar Pitris, and this idea runs through all manifestation and the kingdoms of nature, for the form nourishes the germ of that which is the next step on in the evolutionary process and are considered the Mother aspect.  For example, the third kingdom nourishes and preserves the germ of that which will some day be a man; the personality is the preserver of that which will some day unfold into spiritual man.  

It will become apparent how the Heavenly Man, viewing Him as a solar Deity, a self-conscious Entity, works with His negative aspect through positive force, from Logoic etheric levels to the dense physical, thus bringing to maturity the atoms and cells of His Body, fostering the germ of self-consciousness and fanning the flame until each unit becomes fully group conscious.  Each human being works likewise, functioning in the three worlds while developing the conscious cells in his bodies until each atom eventually reaches the goal.  The Heavenly Man works with Egoic groups, pouring positive force upon them while man works correspondingly through his centers upon his sheaths, and has a responsibility to the lesser lives which must be managed according to the Law of Karma.

b)  The Functions of Devas

From a consideration of the devas, certain practical knowledge will eventuate:

1. Knowledge of how to build in mental matter in the three worlds, and how to employ the devas of the gaseous plane of the cosmic physical.

2. Realization of how to combine the pairs of opposites and thus give body and form to concept.

3. Materialization upon the physical plane of the embodied idea.

1.  Manifestation of the Logoic Aspects:  This is achieved through the close consideration of the method pursued by the Logos in giving His conception form and thus working out His purpose, or will, through that form.  In the three planes of man’s endeavor, we have reflected the three aspects of the Logos as they produce manifestation:

1. Mental Plane:  Reflection of the first aspect, the plane of concept, of the union of Father-Spirit-Will and Mother-Matter-Energy, and this union produces the Son; Divine Thought taking form.

2. Astral Plane:  Reflection of the second aspect, the Son.  Materialization proceeds through desire and the form grows and evolves, becoming more adequate.

3. Physical Plane:  Reflection of the third aspect, manifestation, the thought-form (of a man or the Logos) appears in activity.  The Son is born on the physical plane, the Thought of the Thinker becomes an entity separated from its originating source yet energized by the vitality emanating from him.  

All this is possible through the action of the devas who are that which embodies thought, gives it its separated energy as distinct from the purpose which will work out as the form becomes adequate as a medium of expression.

2.  Deva force substance:  As the devas of the seven planes of the solar system are considered, especially those who work in the three worlds, we must bear in mind the following statements:

a) They are the devas who are the dual force-substance of the lowest cosmic plane, hence man is limited to working with those devas who are not regarded as having part in the seven principles of the Logos.  They are those devas who are as yet animated by the life and purpose of the first solar system, which is considered evil from our present standpoint, for it is superseded as far as man is concerned by a different and higher purpose now.  Therefore, identification with that which is past are for a man a return along the path of self-conscious evolution and lead to a loss of the Egoic principle.

They are those devas who are the automatic, subconscious builders, carrying on the work of the dense physical vehicle of the Logos in the same sense as the builders in man’s body work automatically and unconsciously to produce his cells.  This is the basis of the danger to man in tampering with these forces, for he is too close to them and still identifies himself with them and, until he has attained the consciousness of the Ego and established his identity with the Spirit aspect and not with substance, he is liable to be swept into the line of blind force and become a lost soul should he trespass ignorantly and curiously into their domain.

b) The hope for the devas and for the form aspect lies in the fact that each of the subplanes of the cosmic physical plane comes under the influence of cosmic forces originating on the six other cosmic planes.  

1.  Cosmic Mental Plane: 

1. Manifests as the force which plays through all the manasic permanent atoms, and which produces the three worlds.  

2. The force which animates those groups of Lotuses which we can Egoic groups or centers, aggregates of causal bodies.  

3. The force which vitalizes all the mental units and which is distributed to all the other permanent atoms.

These three types of force deal with the substance aspect, permanent atoms, causal vehicle and mental units, and are therefore directly impressing themselves upon the devas who build these forms out of their own substance, thus developing the Divine Plan.  These three types of force affect substance, but with a psychic intent, being themselves swayed and actuated according to divine purpose from high levels.  

2.  Cosmic Astral Plane

1. The devas who are the substance of the force of the astral plane, viewing it as the sumtotal of desire, feeling and sensation.  They are, therefore, the nerve centers of the Logoic physical body, for the systemic astral plane provides the nervous system of the Logoic physical body and are the body of most intense vibration from the physical standpoint.  

2. Those devas who are the sumtotal of the astral light, the agents of the karmic lords who are, in themselves, deva entities of an inconceivably advanced evolution, and who record, produce effects from causes and direct force in their own substance.  This group emanates from a great force center which we call the sun, Sirius.

3.  The Cosmic Physical Plane

This is the force of the solar system itself, and of its environing space and might be regarded as the pranic forces pouring through the Logoic etheric body which form our higher four subplanes, which are positive to the lower three, impregnating them through the union of the Father-Mother, and producing the concrete manifestation.  This is why the physical vehicle has such a strong control over man during evolution, for this force is necessarily felt more strongly than any other.  It is deva force and substance, which is so close to us as to powerfully delude us.  

Here lies the mystery of Maya, the secret of illusion.  Here exists for man the first great stage of the battle for full Self-Consciousness, and for identification with the God aspect and not with the matter aspect.  Here lies the occult reason why man is called by his father’s name and not his mother’s.  When man has dominated the deva essences of the physical plane, he controls next those of the astral and dominates the mental.

4.  The Devas and their Polar Opposites:  In connection with the lower three planes and their many groups of devas, it must be remembered that their polar opposites are to be found in the great devas of the highest three planes.  The particular type of differentiated force which they embody, when brought into union with each other, is that which causes concretion, in space and time, of the dense physical body.

The buddhic plane, the fourth cosmic ether, is the plane whereon:

1. The sacred planets function.
2. Man will eventually function, freed from the triple lower man.
3. The words Divine Hermaphrodite will be comprehended.
4. The life-force emanates, and is one of the planes of generation.
5. Man will understand and utilize his relationship to the devas.
6. Will be seen the fruition of the combined evolutionary process of the two solar system.
7. All planetary avatars emanate.
8. The Heavenly Men take the first Initiation on this plane.
9. The true significance of the Sun is apprehended.

c)  The Devas and the Planes

In this particular section, students must remember that we are not considering those builders of involutionary development which are spoken of in theosophical and occult literature as the elemental essences.  We are discussing those who are on the evolutionary arc, and who are the agents of cosmic force, whilst the lesser builders are the agents of solar and lunar force.  

As Electric Fire, the Logos manifests as seven aspects of Will, spiritual impulse or purpose.  As Solar Fire, He manifests as the seven Rays, the Consciousness, radiating through form.  As Fire by Friction, He manifests as the seven Sons of Fohat constituting Brahma, the seven great fires, or the active heat of intelligent substance.  

• Sevenfold Electric Fire:  The seven types of Spiritual existences, or the seven Spirits before the Throne in their essential essence; the dynamic force or will lying behind of all manifestation.  

• Sevenfold Solar Fire:  The seven Heavenly Men, the seven Rays of manifestation of the Spiritual Sun.  In time and space, these Rays become the nine (the major three with the third demonstrating as seven) and are thus the nine petals of the Logoic Ego.

• Sevenfold Fire by Friction:  The seven brothers of Fohat, the seven manifestations of electricity.  These are the seven Raja-Lords or Devas of the seven planes; they are the seven Fires, or those states of activity through which consciousness is expressing itself.

Therefore, the sumtotal of Logoic manifestation, as can be seen in existence in time and space, is composed of the Seven Spirits, the Seven Rays and the Seven Deva Lords.  The latter are literally the seven spirillae, or force vibrations within the Logoic physical permanent atom.

1. The seven Spirits before the Throne find their originating incentive on the cosmic lower mental levels, the Logoic Jewel in the Lotus and the cosmic atmic plane.
2. The seven Heavenly Men are in the line of force from the cosmic astral plane, the Logoic nine-petalled lotus and the cosmic buddhic plane, the seven Rishis of the Great Bear.
3. The seven Sons of Fohat find their vital force emanating from the cosmic physical plane, the Logoic permanent atom and the higher cosmic mental levels.

Yet these three are but the expressions of the One Existence, for behind the Logos in physical incarnation is to be found the Logoic Monad, expressing Itself through the Logoic Ego, and its reflection, the Logoic Personality.

Man must learn to construct thought-forms, which he builds of mental matter and vitalizes by desire, and which he holds within his aura, thus constructing a tiny system of his own.  Both man and the Heavenly Men, work in deva substance, both cooperate with the devas, both manifest will, psychic quality and intelligent activity as they pursue their work but a difference lies, not only in degree but in consciousness.

The subject of our consideration now is the fire devas of the physical plane, those great building devas who are working out the purposes of the Logos in His dense physical body.  

Agnichaitans:  Ruled by the Raja-Lord Kshiti, these are the devas who build in matter of the densest kind, functioning on the seventh subplane of the cosmic physical plane.  

Agnisuryans:  Ruled by the Raja-Lord Varuna, these are the builders on the sixth subplane of the cosmic physical plane, our systemic astral plane.  They represent the sympathetic nervous system in the Logoic physical body, just as their brothers of the seventh vibration represent the sumtotal of the circulatory system.

Agnishvattas:  Ruled by Agni, they are the builders on the fifth or gaseous subplane of the cosmic physical, our systemic mental plane.  They are the builders of the body of consciousness and have a close connection with the physical brain, the seat of the Thinker.  

The Agnichaitans:  Devas of the Physical Plane

The sumtotal of physical plane substance, divided into two parts; the four ethers and the concrete lower three.  These become the forty-nine through the subdivisions of the seven subplanes of the dense physical plane.

The Agnichaitans are concerned with:  

1. The force or energy of physical substance, that electrical aspect which produces activity.  
2. The construction of forms, producing the union of negative and positive substance and thus bringing into being all that can be seen and touched.  
3. The internal heat of substance which nourishes and causes reproduction, forming the purely Mother aspect.

These three groups are subdivided again into seven groups which form the matter of each subplane, viewing that matter as the body of manifestation of one of the seven devas through whom the Raja-Lord of the plane is manifesting.  These seven groups are again divided into seven, making the forty-nine.  The three groups function as follows:

1. Group A:  On the first subplane, the first etheric subplane, they are the sumtotal of atomic matter of the physical plane.

2. Group B:  On the second, third and fourth etheric subplanes.  They are the substance of those planes, the transmitters of prana and that through which prana flows to the most concrete aspects of the dense physical plane.

3. Group C:  On the lowest three subplanes, they are the devas who are the essences of all that is tangible, visible and objective.  

Three types of force flow through these devas:

1. That energizing the devas of the first subplane, the atomic, which emanates directly from the first aspect of Brahma, or Agni considering Him as a self-conscious Identity, the third Person of the Logoic Trinity and therefore Spirit, Soul and Body Himself in His separated essential nature.

2. That energizing the devas of construction, or the form-building groups, and is prana issuing from the physical Sun and working under the Law of Attraction.
3. That energizing the devas of the lowest three orders.

Group ‘C’ Agnichaitans:  The recognition by science that all forms are built of intelligent lives will come about when the science of magic begins again to come to the fore.  Magic concerns itself with the manipulation of the lesser lives by a greater life, and works with the consciousness that animates substance, and brings under man’s conscious control the forms built of this substance.  When the etheric counterpart of all that exists is known to be of more importance than the dense vehicle, then the role of the scientist and the occultist will merge.  

The three lowest systemic and cosmic vibrations are the result of:

1. Reflex action on the part of negative substance, for the lower 3 are receptive to the higher 4.
2. Synchronous Vibration, inherent in negative substance embodying the past karma of an earlier system.
3. Vibrations that are gradually being superseded by a higher note, therefore, they occultly form the body of death.  These devas are very destructive where man is concerned, for they embody the final vibration of the past system, the conscious activity of dense matter.

The secret of the transmutation of the baser metals into gold will be revealed when world conditions are such that gold is no longer the standard and hence the free manufacture of gold will not lead to disaster; and when the scientists work through the life aspect, or with positive electrical life and not with the substance or form aspect.

Group ‘B’ Agnichaitans:  These are sometimes known as the Devas of the Shadows, and their fourfold function is the basis of motion which is produced by the interplay of the negative and the positive aspects of Brahma.

1. They are the builders of the etheric bodies of all sentient existences, and primarily of men.
2. They are the transmitters of prana.
3. They link up the four kingdoms in nature, being essentially the transmuters and transmitters of the lower into the higher.  
4. They build between each kingdom that which corresponds to the antaskarana, or the bridge linking higher and lower manas.  

All work of bridging from one kingdom to another has to be performed under the following conditions:

• As the result of an impulse emanating from the lower, or in the active desire of the lower, to embrace or contact the higher.  All progress must be self-induced, self-initiated and be the result of an inner activity.
• As the result of reflex action from the higher kingdom, brought about by the activity of the lower which calls forth a response from the higher.  Remember that all vibration travels along waves of living substance.
• As the result of extraneous stimulation produced by the activity of certain conscious powers Who are interested in the process of evolutionary development.

Therefore, there are three subdivisions of these devas:

1. Class 1:  These special agents of magic are peculiarly susceptible to the building vibrations of the seven rays.
2. Class 2:  A group who manifest physical plane electricity and who are coming somewhat under the control of man.
3. Class 3:  A group who form the health auras of all the three middle kingdoms (vegetable, animal and human) either collectively or individually.

One of the great errors into which the human family has fallen is to administer mineral drugs to man for medicinal purposes, which has resulted in a combination of deva substances that was never intended.  The relation of man to the lower kingdoms, particularly the animal and mineral, has brought about a condition in the deva world of complication.  The use of animal food has also produced a commingling of deva substance, and of vibrations which are not attuned to each other.  

The karma of the vegetable kingdom, however, has lain in the providing of food for man and this has resulted in a needed transmutation of the life of that kingdom into the higher stage, the animal.  This transmutation occurs on the physical plane, hence its availability as food.  The transmutation of the life of the animal into the human kingdom takes place on kama-manasic levels, hence the non-availability, esoterically understood, of the animal as food for man.  This is an argument for vegetarian living which needs due consideration.

There are two additional classes of devas:

4. Class 4:  A very important class of etheric devas who are definitely the substance of his centers.  They occupy this position for karmic reasons and are some of the most highly evolved of the Devas of the Shadows.  

5. Class 5:  Another very important group who are particularly active and esoterically dominant during this round, are those who form the center which vibrates to the measure of kundalini in its many forms and demonstrations .  In this center at the base of the spine is a very effective display of the two polarities, for the petals of this center, and the fire which animates them, are negative and positive to each other.  This center is literally a fourfold radiation and the equal armed cross is its symbol.

Group ‘A’ Agnichaitans:  The most important group on the physical plane from the standpoint of creation, and of objectivity, for they are the life of matter itself and the intelligence animating the forms of all that exists on the systemic physical plane, yet they are not self-conscious intelligences.

We have seen that each group can be viewed as:

1. Those which embody the positive aspect.

2. Those which embody the negative aspect.

3. That group which, in time and space, is the union of the two aspects and which, during evolution, demonstrates the third aspect.

The devas of the atomic levels of all the planes in our scheme work in close affiliation:

1. With each other.

2. With the seven groups who constitute the atomic matter of that scheme which is the polar opposite of ours.

3. With that particular group in that scheme which is one of the points in a systemic triangle of which our scheme and our opposite scheme are the other two.

4. With corresponding groups in lesser degree in all the systemic schemes.

5. With the scheme which corresponds to the first aspect, or the plane of Adi.

6. With those devas who form the spirit-substance of the manifestation of that particular Rishi of the Great Bear Who is the prototype of our particular planetary Logos.

7. With those devas who form the substance of that one of those seven sisters, the Pleiades.  One of these has a close connection with our Heavenly Man and, therefore, we have an interesting cosmic interplay.

Agnisuryans:  Devas of the Astral Plane

We start here upon a consideration of those groups of devas who are the substance of the astral plane and who may be initially be considered in the following manner:

• The various entities who are the soul of the differing kingdoms or groups, such as the animal, the human and higher in the scale of consciousness than men, the planetary Logos.
• Man himself.
• The plane as a totality.

We might consider these devas:

• The substance of the astral plane in its seven grades.
• As that aspect of the Logoic manifestation which corresponds to the liquid subplane in the systemic physical plane.
• As the vehicle of the deva lord Varuna.
• As the animating lives of that involutionary matter of the astral plane which we call the elemental essence, and as the vitality energizing the desire elementals of all that is sentient.  In this correspondence, they are the astral Devas of the Shadows, for the desire bodies of all human beings are composed of matter of the second, third and fourth subplanes of the astral plane.
• From the standpoint of the physical plane, as the sumtotal of material activity which produces that which is tangible and objective.  Just as the solar system is a Son of Necessity, or of desire, so the physical bodies of all that exist are the product of the desire of some greater or lesser entity within the system.

Energy enters the system, reaches a particular plane and thus finds its way to all units of consciousness:

The dense Physical plane is energized via:

1.  The planetary etheric body.
2. The mental plane, or the cosmic gaseous subplane.
3. The atmic plane, or the third cosmic ether.
4. The plane of Adi, or the first cosmic ether.

The Astral plane is energized via:

1. The buddhic plane, the fourth cosmic ether.
2. The monadic plane, the second cosmic ether.
3. The cosmic astral plane, and thus to the Heart of all Being.

The Mental plane is energized via:

1. The atmic plane, the third cosmic ether.
2. The plane of Adi, the first cosmic ether.
3. The cosmic mental plane.

1.  The Function of the Agnisuryans:  The devas of the astral plane are those with whom man is very specially connected at this time owing to his astral polarization and to the place desire and feeling play in his development.  Consciousness expands through contact, through intelligent appreciation of that which is contacted, and through realization of that which is to be gained through a specific contact.  That which is contacted depends upon reciprocal vibration, and the place therefore of desire (which is the going out after sensation) and of feeling (which is the reflex of that desire) is of real importance; they put man constantly in touch with deva substance, though he may not realize it.

The astral plane is man’s principal battle-ground and the area of his most intense field of sensation, it is the seat of a man’s most violent vibration and these are a potent cause of his physical plane activities.  If a man only realized it, the devas of the astral plane at present very largely control what he does and says, and his immediately goal of evolution is to liberate himself from their control in order that he, the real Ego or Thinker, may be the dominating influence.  If this deva is of a high order, the vibration will be high and the desires and instincts will be good and right.  If the deva life is of a low order, the man will demonstrate low and vicious instincts and desires.  Nevertheless, if a man is controlled by either, he is yet under deva influence.

In the three worlds, we have the parallel evolutions, human and deva, in their varying grades.  In the higher four worlds, we have this duality viewed as a unity.  Some great devas Who cooperate intelligently with the plan of evolution have their own method of expressing these ideas, the medium being color that can be heard and sound which can be seen, the reverse of the process used by man.  

Man is demonstrating the aspects of divinity, the devas are demonstrating the attributes.

• Man is evolving the inner vision and must learn to see.  Devas are evolving the inner hearing and must learn to hear.
• Both are as yet imperfect, and an imperfect world is the result.
• Man is evolving by contact and experience; he expands.  The devas evolve by means of the lessening of contact; limitation is the law for them.
• Man aims at self-control.  The devas must develop by being controlled.
• Man is innately Love, the force which produces coherency.  The devas are innately intelligence, the force which produces activity.
• The force of will, the balancing equilibrium of electrical phenomena, has to play equally upon and through both evolutions, but in the one it demonstrates as self-consciousness, in the other as constructive vibration.