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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.

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.

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.  

1. 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.  

2. 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.

3. 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.

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