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

1. Man is evolving the inner vision and must learn to see.  Devas are evolving the inner hearing and must learn to hear.

2. Both are as yet imperfect, and an imperfect world is the result.

3. 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.

4. Man aims at self-control.  The Devas must develop by being controlled.

5. Man is innately Love, the force which produces coherency.  The Devas are innately intelligence, the force which produces activity.

6. 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.

In the Heavenly Man, these two great aspects of divinity are equally blended, and in the course of the mahamanvantara, the imperfect Gods become perfect.  All Devas of the Physical plane, in all groups, are spoken of as the Devas of the Seventh order, who are linked to the Devas of the First Order on the first plane.  They are the reflectors of the mind of God, of which the first order is the expression, and they manifest it as it has worked through from the archetypal plane.   As the goal of evolution for the Devas is the inner hearing, it will be apparent why mantric sounds and balanced modulations are the method of contacting them and of producing various phenomena.  

The Devas of the Seventh Order:  The Devas of the Physical plane are the Devas the Brothers of the Left-Hand Path work with through vampirism and the devitalization of their victims.  They deal with the Etheric body and by means of sounds affect Deva substance, thus producing the desired results.  The White Magician does not work on the Physical plane with physical substance, he transfers his activities to a higher level and hence deals with desires and motives, working through the Devas of the Sixth Order.

The Devas of the Sixth Order:  These are the Devas of the Astral plane, are under the influence of the Lord of the Sixth Ray of Devotion and are the ones who have the most to do with the forces which produce the phenomena we call love, sex impulse, instinct, or the driving urge and motive for activity.  These Devas are closely linked with those of the second order on the Monadic plane, and with the Heart center of the particular Heavenly Man on Whose Ray they may be found, as well as to the Deva forces on the Buddhic plane, making a powerful triangle of electrical force.  These three orders particularly influence the fourth kingdom and the search for harmony and union which distinguishes man, as well as the sex instinct and its higher manifestation as longing for union with God.

The three orders of the Devas of the lower fifth, the sixth and the seventh, all have a close connection with the moon and are the building agents (working with involutionary building matter of the three worlds) which construct the lower three bodies of incarnating man and differ in their rate of vibration, stage of development, consciousness and fohatic, magnetic and dynamic force.

The seventh subplane of the cosmic Physical plane can be divided into seven, which are our seven physical subplanes.  It is this knowledge which enable a magician to work.  Given a certain physical phenomenon, such as the weight of water upon a planet, an Initiate of the higher orders can form deductions as to the quality of the Life manifesting through a plane.  He does this through a process of reasoning from the liquid subplane of the systemic Physical plane to:

• The liquid subplane of the cosmic physical, our systemic Astral.

• The fourth cosmic Ether, the Buddhic plane.

• The second cosmic Ether, the Monadic plane, or the plane of the seven Heavenly Men.

• The cosmic Astral plane, thus with the desire nature of the God.

The agnisuryans embody force which is a direct emanation from the cosmic Astral plane which reveals the desire nature of our Heavenly Man, and of any particular planetary Logos, and in these two opposites, are the Heaven and Hell of the theologians and one of the keys to the Astral plane.

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