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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.
There are two groups of Devas working in connection with man:
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:
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.
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