Questions in Relation to Solar Angels
What Actually is the
Scope
of the Subject We are
Considering?
Confusion on the Subject of the Solar Angels: The question of these Fire Dhyanis and their relation to man is a most profound mystery, and the entire matter is so clothed in intricate legends that students are apt to despair of ever arriving at the desired, and necessary clarity of thought. Not yet will it be possible entirely to dispel the clouds which veil the central mystery, but perhaps, by due tabulation and synthesis, and by a cautious amplification of the data already imparted, the thoughts of the wise student may become somewhat less confused. (TCF 681)
1. That fifth state of consciousness called the mental plane,
1.
A plane is a state of consciousness.
2. The substance of that plane as it exists
in its dual aspect, rupa and arupa,22
2.
Even the arupa level has form, but the form is not
dense.
3. The lives who ensoul that matter, especially in their relation to man,
3.
Ensoulment is always an interior presence.
4.
Ensoulment means consciousness within a limited field,
or limited consciousness.
4. The Egos or the self-conscious units who form the middle point in manifestation,
5.
“Ego” is a term that is used variously. It often
means the Solar Angel in its own right.
6.
It can also mean the higher aspect of man; the causal
body in conjunction with the Solar Angel—the higher consciousness of man as
it exists on the higher mental plane when inspired by the presence of the
Solar Angel.
5. The building of the causal body, the opening of the egoic Lotus, and the construction of those groups we call egoic groups,
6. The individuality of those Existences whom we call:
a. Agnishvattas.
b. Manasa devas.
c. Fire dhyanis.
d. Solar Angels, or solar Pitris.
e. The Asuras,
Prometheus, “Satan”, Lucifer
f. Additional names: Solar Lords, Agnishvattas, the Ah-hi, Lords of the Flame, Angel of the Presence, Daimones,
Fire Devas, Sons of Wisdom, Sons of Mind, Pillars of Light, Serpents, (Lesser)
Dragons of Wisdom, Sons of Fire, “true Saviours”, “Hearts of Fiery Love”,
the “Triangles”, the “Immortals”,
the “Fivefold Links”, the “Benign Uniters” and “the Producers of the Atonement.”
Esoterically, they are the “Saviours of the Race”,
the “transmuting fires of the system”, [Distillation], Makara, the “Perfect Ones”, Nirmanakayas, “Holy Guardian
Angel”, ‘Alchemists’, his Divine Ancestor,
the “Watcher”. “Divine Manasaputra”:
Minor Lord of Karma. Wielders of the Law.
“Ah-hi” 71: From a Sensa word meaning "serpents." These are the Dragons of Wisdom. See S. D., I, 55, 69, 70.
7.
What is individuality? Here it means ‘distinctive
nature and function’. These beings make it possible for man (of the Earth-chain)
to develop the individuality with which he is possessed. Moon-chain man also
did so, but it took much longer than through the process of divine intervention.
8.
All these beings came to be considered as “demons”
by those who worshipped the form and wished to remain attached to material
process.
9.
We should note how close the word “demon” is to “daimones”.
“The Daimones are -- in the Socratic sense, and even in the Oriental
and Latin theological sense -- the guardian spirits of the human race; ‘those
who dwell in the neighbourhood of the immortals, and thence watch over human
affairs,’ as Hermes has it.” (SD Vol. I 288)
10.
The Daimones are, relatively, the “immortals”.
What are the Solar
Angels?
These Beings are Nirvanis from a preceding Mahamanvantara.
11.
This means from a previous solar system—not just
from a previous kalpa within the same solar system.
12.
They achieved release from the limitations of human
evolution in that Mahamanvantara. If a Mahamanvantara lasts 100 “Years of
Brahma” (and a corresponding pralaya exists, then the Solar Angels were active
well over 500 trillion years ago! Such are the vast stretches of time which
enter when we begin considering the duration of “occult centuries”.
The work of the Agnishvattas (the self-conscious principles, the Builders or constructors of the egoic body on the higher mental levels) is to unite the higher three principles—atma, buddhi, manas—and the lower three, and thus become in very truth the middle principle in man. They themselves originate from the logoic middle principle.21 Thus the esoteric seven is completed. The physical body in its denser manifestation is, as we know, not esoterically considered a principle. (TCF 681)
13.
The “esoteric seven” are the seven principles in
man (which are counted variously).
14.
Solar Angels become “the middle principle in man”.
They have sacrificed their own middle principle to do this. They are therefore,
in a sense, and present in all transactions between the personal consciousness and
the triadal state, though they are not focally attentive until a man
begins to awaken to their presence.
15.
The “logoic middle principle” is the soul nature
of the Solar Logos. This is called the “Heart of the Sun” and is related to
the causal body of the Solar Logos on the higher subplanes of the cosmic mental
plane.
16.
*** On the Creative Hierarchies in General: The symbols of the seven Creative Hierarchies now in manifestation
are all enclosed in a circle denoting limitation and the circumscribing of
the Life. All these hierarchies are
Sons of Desire, and are paramountly an expression of the desire for manifested
life of the solar Logos. They receive
their primary impulse
from the cosmic astral plane. They
are also the expression of a vibration emanating from the second row of petals
in the logoic Lotus on the cosmic mental plane. (TCF 1225)
17.
*** Key Paragraph on the Creative Hierarchies: There must not be confusion as to the distinction between
the hierarchies of Beings and the seven Rays, for [Page 1195] though there
is close connection, there is no resemblance.
The "Rays" are but the primordial forms of certain Lives
who "carry in their Hearts" all the Seeds of Form. The Hierarchies are the manifold groups
of lives, at all stages of unfoldment and growth who will use the forms.31 The Rays are vehicles and are, therefore, negative
receivers. The Hierarchies are the
users of the vehicles, and it is the nature of these lives and the quality
of their vibration which under this great Law of Attraction brings to them
the needed forms. These are
the two primal distinctions, Life and Form, and these two are the "Son
of God," the second Person of the Trinity in His form-building aspect. They are the Builders and equally exist in three
groups with their lesser differentiations. It is not necessary here to place these groups
on certain planes in the solar system. (TCF 1194-1195)
18.
They are a consciousness which becomes
man’s consciousness—in extension.
19.
They are a presence by means of which man comes to
know himself. They are the means by which
the human perceiver registers
himself as distinct.
20.
Their very presence (and the substance-energy they
provide) emphasize the ‘center of perception’, and distinguishes it from that
which is perceived. In a way, according to the fifth ray, They
divide the perceiver from the perceived.
The fifth ray governs the “Law of Cleavage”.
21.
They create a centripetal force within the consciousness
of man.
22.
When the antahkarana is built it parallels
what the Solar Angels do—i.e., connecting the lower triad and the higher triad.
23.
Agnishvattas are “the self-conscious principles”. They are self-conscious
knowers.
24.
Agnishvattas are the “Builders or constructors of the egoic body on the
higher mental levels”
25.
If they originate from “the logoic middle principle”,
can we call this point of origin the Heart of the Sun.
26.
We have to look closely at their origin as different
sources are described. Sirius is one such Source; the “logoic middle
principle” another; and the heart in the head center and heart centers of
the Solar Logos. This last source of origin is found within the logoic personality.
From the buddhic plane (in a planetary or solar sense) comes the vitality and impulse which galvanises the dense physical vehicle into purposeful and coherent action; it is on the mental plane, therefore, that this impulse is first felt and the contact between the two realised. Herein lies a hint which will serve a purpose if pondered upon. (TCF 683)
27.
The Solar Angels are largely buddhic beings, or,
at least, they are especially resonant with the buddhic plane and are profound
expression of that energy. Their true origin is, however, much higher. In
a way buddhic energy reflects the energy of the cosmic astral plane, on which
plane, I hypothesize, the Solar Angels may have their
monad.
28.
The Solar Angels carry a vital
impulse.
29.
The physical vehicle relates to the number four
as does the buddhic plane.
30.
There may be extremely advanced prototypes of the
Solar Angels to be found on the cosmic buddhic plane.
It is on the mental plane (the reflection in the three worlds of the third and fifth states of Pleroma), that the full force of etheric vitality is felt. A hint as to the [Page 684] significance of this may be found in the fact that the etheric body of man receives, and transmits prana directly to the physical body, and that the vitality of the physical frame is to be gauged largely by the condition and action of the heart. The heart circulates vitality to the myriads of cells that constitute the dense physical sheath; something analogous is seen in the fact that these fire devas are “the Heart of the Dhyan chohanic body,”23 for their energy comes from the spiritual sun, in the same sense that the energy of the pranic devas of the etheric body comes from the physical sun. This energy of the Agnishvattas manifests on the mental plane, the gaseous subplane of the cosmic physical just as the energy of the etheric centres on the fourth etheric subplane manifests first and potently on the gaseous matter of the physical body. This is why the Sons of Wisdom, embodying the buddhic principle, the life force, or love aspect, are nevertheless known on the fifth plane as the self-conscious principles; buddhi uses manas as a vehicle, and occult writers often speak in terms of the vehicle. The Ego, or the self-conscious Identity is in essence and in truth Love-Wisdom, but manifests primarily as intelligent consciousness. (TCF 683-684)
31.
They are “fire devas”.
32.
They are the “Heart of the Dhyan Chohanic body”.
The Dhyan Chohanic body may be considered as the subjective Sun (which includes the Heart
of the Sun and the Central Spiritual Sun).
33.
Their energy comes from the “spiritual sun”. The
“spiritual sun” (as the term is here used) is all that is the non-physical
sun.
34.
The Solar Angels are subjective vitality just as the pranic
devas are physical vitality. The
Solar Angels are therefore vitalizers
of self-consciousness and preservers of an independent ‘body of consciousness’, just as the etheric devas preserve the physical
body.
35.
The mental plane is compared to the gaseous plane.
36.
The Solar Angels are “Sons of Wisdom”. Men can be
called “Sons of Mind” but sometimes when Solar Angels are considered in conjunction
with men, they are called also “Sons of Mind”. Because Solar Angels are “Sons
of Wisdom” they are directly related in quality to “Dragons of Wisdom” (the
Planetary Logoi) and are closer to the nature of those Logoi (Who are becoming
pure Love-Wisdom) than are human beings.
37.
Solar Angels embody the buddhic principle; they are
somehow directly related to the buddhic plane. Man
is striving towards the achieved expression of the buddhic principle. Therefore,
man is striving to be as the Solar
Angel is. This is literally true
of about eighty percent of human beings.
38.
They embody the life force. Buddhic energy and the
energy of “life” are intimately connected.
39.
They embody the love aspect
40.
They are the “self-conscious principles”. They ‘live’
in a body of consciousness.
41.
The “Ego” is the “self-conscious Identity”.
42.
Solar Angels are the “Ego” and in essence they are
“Love-Wisdom”. (This may tell us something about Sirius, which in essence
is Love-Wisdom, but manifests as intelligent consciousness).
Note 55: The Ego is described thus in the Secret Doctrine:
Each is a pillar of Light. Having chosen its vehicle, it expanded, surrounding with an akashic aura the human animal, with the Divine Principle settled within the human form.”—S. D., III, 494. (TCF 779)
43.
Fascinating to consider the method of individualizing
from this perspective. That the Ego is a “pillar” says something of its connection
to the higher worlds, and also its bridging function.
44.
What is recounted here must be the implantation of
the spark of mind.
45.
The vehicle chosen is a human animal.
46.
We must remember the tremendous destruction which
occurred at individualization.
They are the Fire Dhyanis, and emanate from the Heart of the Sun.”—S. D., II, 96.
47.
We must consider the “Heart of the Sun” as the Egoic
Lotus of the Solar Logos.
48.
We must be careful to discriminate between the “Heart
of the Sun” as the “logoic middle principle” and the heart center of the Solar
Logos considered as a personality. The “Heart of the Sun” is a much higher
source, however connected with the heart center.
They are the Sons of Fire and fashion inner man.—S. D (TCF 779)
49.
The Solar Angels fashion man as a “Knower”.
50.
One of the main necessary discriminations is to perceive
the distinction between the inner and outer man. Is it not as obvious a distinction
as it may seem.
Note 56: The solar angels (Sons of Wisdom) are entities seeking fuller consciousness.—S.D., II, 176, 177; II, 643.
51.
Much beyond the level of the human being.
52.
Part of that seeking concerns the consciousness which
can be gathered through sacrifice.
a. They had intellect through previous contact with matter.
b. They were incarnated under the law of Karma.—S. D., III, 517.
53.
Their Source, Sirius, is, for us, the origin of the
Law of Karma.
c. They had to become all wise.
54.
All wise with respect to the three worlds and the
normal human evolutionary processes, and presumably the processes of the first
solar system in which they were human beings.
55.
We see here that the Solar Angels are indeed “Masters
of the Wisdom” and beyond.
Read carefully S. D., II, 243 note.
d. These solar angels are high intelligences.—S. D., II, 259.
e. They are Nirmanakayas.—S. D., II, 266. (TCF 780)
56.
Nirmanakayas are initiates of the sixth initiation
and beyond. As members of our own humanity have achieved the status of Nirmanakayas,
it must be a more elevated kind of Nirmanakaya that is discussed. There are
such elevated Nirmanakayas who occupy a position between the Earth and Venus.
“Most of the Nirmanakayas have taken the sixth and the seventh initiations,
whilst the group which functions midway between the Earth and Venus have all taken the eighth and ninth initiations. Some of Them, as I
mentioned earlier, aid the initiate of the seventh degree; a still larger
group of them participate in the activities of the two final initiations.”
(R&I 735)
57.
We do not know the initiatory level of the Solar
Angels or whether their initiatory rank can be compared with the ranking of
human initiates. Different Creative Hierarchies seem to have their own systems
of initiation and it may not be possible to easily understand the initiatory
ranking within one Creative Hierarchy with the initiatory ranking within another.
This fifth Hierarchy of Agnishvattas in their many grades embody the “I principle” and are the producers of self-consciousness, and the builders of man's body of realisation. (TCF 703)
58.
There are many grades of Agnishvattas.
59.
They embody the “I principle”. This means that their
being is inseparable from self-awareness.
They do not lose their awareness of the “center” even as they are identified
with that which is apparently not the center. As well they have learned
that all centers are one center.
60.
They are producers of self-consciousness. They stimulate
‘awareness of the center’. They divide the knower from the known, and contribute
to the culture of the knower.
61.
They build man’s “body of realisation”. Compare the
different bodies of man. A body of realization is much different from a body
of activity, or a body of sentience, or of thought.
62.
In a way, their consciousness becomes
man’s consciousness. They have ‘inserted’ themselves or an aspect
of themselves into man’s energy system and man becomes conscious through their
consciousness. This is an important point and I am trying to rephrase it in
various ways for better comprehension.
63.
Without their presence, man’s consciousness would
not have the possibility of rapid extension (though man would have achieved
eventual extension). They have rapidly
‘lifted’ the consciousness of man, millions of years before it would have
reached its present point of awareness.
In time and space, and on the mental plane, they are Man himself in essential essence; they enable him to build his own body of causes, to unfold his own egoic lotus, and gradually to free himself from the limitations of the form which he has constructed, and thus to put himself—in due course of time—into the line of another type of energy, that of buddhi. (TCF 703)
64.
“They are Man himself in essential essence.” Man
of the Earth-chain would not be as he now is without the presence
of the Solar Angels blended into man’s
energy system. The Solar Angels are ‘man-as-thinker’. They participate with
him in the process of knowing, and
their abiding presence allows him to know
that he knows. Such is the gift of the “reflexive” or “self-reflective
consciousness” they provide.
65.
Man would, of course, have ‘found his center’ without
them, but they established man’s centralization in consciousness millions of years
before it would otherwise have been possible.
66.
They enable man to “build his own body of causes”.
Their power has created the Egoic Lotus. Man did not do this. Thus, the Solar
Angels have created man’s repository of consciousness and are sustaining the repository.
67.
They enable man to unfold his own egoic lotus (by
assisting him to garner experientially generated quality).
68.
They enable man to free himself from the limitations
of the form which he has constructed. This they do by abstracting man’s consciousness
into the higher worlds and by providing him with the powers to release himself.
69.
They enable man to “put himself…into the line of
another type of energy, that of buddhi”. The Solar Angels are the ‘bridge
to buddhi’. Later, under their inspiration, a man will create his own bridge.
The solar angel is a dual combination of energies—the energy of love, and the energy of will or purpose—and these are the qualities of the life thread. These two, when dominating the third energy of mind, produce the [Page 9] perfect man. They explain the human problem; they indicate the objective before man; they account for and explain the energy of illusion; and they point out the way of psychological unfoldment, which leads man (from the triangle of triplicity and differentiation) through duality to unity. (EP II 8-9)
70.
The Solar Angels are love and purpose. Love and purpose,
when dominating the energy of mind, produce the prefect man.
71.
They control man’s psychological unfoldment.
Miscellaneous Definitions
of Solar Angels’ Nature
72.
Solar Angels,
Agnishvattas, “attained self-consciousness
in that earlier system, and are the ‘nirvanis’…” Thus, they had attained release
in an earlier system. It is not told whether Solar Angels had the assistance
of other Solar Angels in that earlier system. Perhaps they did not.
73.
Solar Angels
are characterized by “active intelligence”. They have already mastered the
intelligence aspect of divinity. This would stand to reason as they, it appears,
were the product of the first (or intelligence) solar system.
74.
Solar Angels
are: “They are the Manasa
devas and in their totality are the vehicles of the Divine mind, the
dhyan-chohanic forces, the aggregate of the Ah-hi.”
(TCF 696-687)
75.
Solar Angels
are the vehicles of the Divine Mind
76.
They are “Dhyan-chohanic forces”. This means that
they are at least Chohans.
77.
They are the aggregate of the Ah-hi. These are the
high gods found in the Secret Doctrine.
78.
They are “true Saviours who give Their
lives for the good of the race”. (TCF 743)
79.
2. The Son of Mind, the soul, the product of the
thought of the Universal Mind, the thinking, perceiving, discriminating, analysing
Identity or spiritual Entity. This aspect of the One Life is characterised
by pure mind, pure reason, pure love, and pure will. A “Lord of Sacrifice” Who, through incarnating
experience, integration and expression, has undertaken the task of redeeming
matter, and of raising substance into Heaven! (EH 511)
80.
“…they are the “transmuting fires” of the system,…”
(TCF 698-699)
81.
The “solar Lord, the inner Reality, the Son of the
Father, and the Thinker on his own plane” (IHS 186).
82.
They are the fivefold Links, the "Benign Uniters"
and "the Producers of the Atonement." Esoterically, they are the "Saviours of
the Race" and from Them emanates that principle
which—in conjunction with the highest aspect—lifts the lower aspect up to
Heaven. (TCF 1204)
How, Really, did the
Solar Angels Sacrifice Themselves?
These six aphorisms were chanted by His six Brothers at that momentous crisis wherein the human family came into existence and the solar angels sacrificed themselves. Esoterically speaking, they “went down into hell, and found their place in prison.” On that day souls [Page 78] were born.
83.
Consciousness must always exist, but individualized
soul does not
A new kingdom of expression came into being, and the three highest planes and the three lower were brought into a scintillating interchange. (EP I 77-78)
84.
It is through their conscious
participation in man that they are “in hell”—which is another way of saying,
‘the frozen world of form’. We must meditate upon what it means to consciously
participate in man.
85.
They come from the fire and go into the cold.
86.
There is an aspect (or aspects) of the Solar Angel
which is not in hell. Only their
“middle principle” participates in the limitations of man. The
meditator is merging into the consciousness that they have inserted.
87.
Otherwise, they are active in relation to the spiritual
kingdom and are involved in something called the “higher telepathy”.
88.
Let us compare the sacrifice of the Solar Angels
to the sacrifice of Sanat Kumara:
89.
We learn that the Solar Angel has “poured himself
out in sacrifice that man might BE”.
What is the Appearance of the Solar Angels,
(As the Individual ‘Sees’ that Solar Angel at
Initiation)?
These profound revelations shine forth before the initiate in a triple manner:—
90.
Does the initiate see all three at one initiation?
91.
We do not know whether this is the ‘actual appearance’
of a Solar Angel or whether the appearance is determined by the perceptual
mechanism of man.
As a radiant angelic existence. This is seen by the inner eye with the same accuracy of vision and judgment as when a man stands face to face with another member of the human family. The great solar angel, Who embodies the real man and is his expression on the plane of higher mind, is literally his divine ancestor, the “Watcher” Who, through long cycles of incarnation, has poured Himself out in sacrifice in order that man might BE. (IHS 115-116)
92.
The Solar Angel has a literal appearance and is cognized
directly during the process of initiation. To hold concourse with one’s “Holy
Guardian Angel” is not a casual event.
93.
We are seeing that the man of this Earth-chain would
not have his “middle principle” without the participation of the Solar Angel.
94.
We understand, then, that a Solar Angel is a great
Deva and is a member of the
95.
At a certain point of evolution, it would seem that
a man can become a deva and a deva a man. It is really the vehicle of expression
that changes and, in a way, the psychology of the approach.
As a sphere of radiant fire, linked with the initiate standing before it by that magnetic thread of fire which passes through all his bodies and terminates within the centre of the physical brain. [Hint that the implantation of the spark involves the physical brain] This “silver thread” (as it is rather inaccurately called in the Bible, where the description of its loosing of the physical body and subsequent withdrawal is found) emanates from the heart centre of the solar angel, linking thus heart and brain,—that great duality manifesting in this solar system, love and intelligence. This fiery sphere is linked likewise with many others belonging to the same group and ray, and thus it is a literal fact in demonstration that on the higher planes we are all one. One life pulsates and circulates through all, via the fiery strands. This is part of the revelation which comes to a man who stands in the “Presence” with his eyes occultly opened. [Is this hinting at the third degree. Presence may mean three things in this instance.—Initiator, Monad, Angel of the Presence] (IHS 116)
96.
This is a tremendous paragraph. We learn that from
the solar angel there is a “magnetic thread of fire” which terminates in the
center of man’s physical brain.
97.
This “magnetic thread of fire” emanates from the
heart center of the Solar Angel.
98.
We can understand that meditation upon the Solar
Angel and communing with the Solar Angel stimulates the union of heart and
head in man.
99.
Chakra systems are universal in nature, and the Solar
Angel, like a man, is possessed of a chakra system.
100.
‘Where’, we might ask, is the location
of the heart center of a Solar Angel? We are not now talking about the structure
of the Egoic Lotus. Perhaps this becomes visible at the time of initiation
when the communion with the Solar Angel is the most direct and visible.
101.
Here we learn of the linking of the Solar Angels.
Because they are linked to others
belonging to the same group and ray, we also are linked.
102.
As a many tinted Lotus of nine Petals. These petals are arranged in three circles around a central set of three closely folded petals, which shield what is called in the eastern books “The Jewel in the Lotus.” [The initiation is the third or below] This Lotus is a thing of rare beauty, pulsating with life and radiant with all the colours of the rainbow, and at the first three initiations the three circles are revealed in order, until at the fourth initiation the initiate stands before a still greater revelation, and learns the secret of that which lies within the central bud. In this connection the third initiation differs somewhat from the other two, inasmuch as through the power of a still more exalted Hierophant than the Bodhisattva, the electrical fire of pure Spirit, latent in the heart of the Lotus, is first contacted. (IHS 116)
103.
Dany offered a Sequence: First you deal with the
petals independently, then with the tier, and then to the next group of petals
and tier. When the tier functions as a unit you get instrumentality.
104.
This is the picture of the Egoic Lotus with which
we are most familiar.
105.
We note that the “Angel” is appearing as the “Lotus”,
which emphasizes the identification between the Angel and the man, for the
structure of the man upon the higher mental plane is as a lotus.
106.
This reinforces the idea that the term “Ego” can
mean both the Solar Angel, per se,
and the Solar Angel-as-man on the
higher mental plane.
107.
The revelation of the petals seems to be a ‘group-petal-event’
and not related to the specific unfolding of each petal individually. This
is said because the first three petals must be quite unfolded before
the first initiation becomes possible.
108.
It would seem that each of the sacrifice petals is
keyed to one of the tiers, and with the unfolding of the each of the sacrifice
petals the tier to which it is keyed unfolds completely.
109.
Here again we learn that the “Jewel in the Lotus”
is revealed at the fourth initiation.
110.
There is another reminder that the “fire of pure
Spirit” is located at the heart of the lotus. In other references this energy
is called “buddhi”, and may ultimately relate to the quality of our Solar
Logos.
Further Descriptions
of the Solar Angels:
Nine Spokes:
As nine petals of a lotus, radiating from a common centre, and hiding
within themselves three central petals, which conceal a central point of fire.
The radiations from the tip of each petal are those which cause the
illusion of a spheroidal shape.
As nine spokes of a wheel, converging towards a central hub, which is in itself threefold, and which hides the central energy or dynamo of force—the generator of all the activity.
As nine types of energy which produce definite emanations from a threefold unit, again itself an outgoing from a central unit of force. (TCF 818)
The Appearance of Twelve and the Solar Angel:
These great redeeming Angels, who are the Sons of Men on their own true plane, the mental, are ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses—this symbology linking them up with "the Son of Divine Love," the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. (TCF 1204) (
In all these words, “solar angel,” “sphere of fire,” and “lotus,” lies hid some aspect of the central mystery of human life, but it will only be apparent to those who have eyes to see.
111.
It would seem that three aspects of divinity are involved.
112.
Perhaps the three aspects are given in order.
The mystic significance of these pictorial phrases will prove only a snare or a basis for incredulity to the man who [Page 117] seeks to materialise them unduly. The thought of an immortal existence, of a divine Entity, of a great centre of fiery energy, and of the full flower of evolution, lies hidden in these terms, and they must be thus considered. (IHS 116-117)
113.
The general idea can be gathered. It is this existence
with whom we must come into increasingly intimate contact. Our supervision
and training are really in the hands of the Angel.
114.
To materialize them means to think of them too concretely
or inflexibly. All is shifting and changing, and much depends, I would think,
on the ray equipment of the perceiver and perhaps, also, on the stages of
the initiatory process.
115.
From Vyasa on the Solar Angel: They are said to be,
“Goodly to behold, for the sons of God are luminous…”(LOS 300)
116.
This excerpt from the ancient commentator, suggests
the beautiful reality of the Solar Angel.
117.
What about wings? Through service? Fulfilling the
horizontal life.
Characteristics of the Solar Angels According to Vyasa
Vyasa notes that the mind world is peopled by six groups of Gods
(the six groups of egos and their six rays, the six subrays of the one synthetic
ray, which is apparently inferred). These
are the sons of mind, the Agnishvattas (referred to at length in the Secret
Doctrine and in A Treatise on Cosmic Fire) and they are portrayed as:
118.
Vyasa refers to the Solar Angels
119.
There are seven groups, but one is synthetic, just
as there are seven rays, but one is synthetic.
120.
Geometrically, six circles surround a central seventh.
121.
In this case, the Angels are called Sons of Mind
rather than Sons of Wisdom.
. Fulfilling their desires, therefore driven by desire to incarnate,
122.
They desire to incarnate. But this must be understood
in terms of service.
123.
We do not know what they have to gain by incarnation.
As a general principle, we know that there is always great gain through sacrifice.
2. Endowed with atomisation
and other powers, therefore able to create their vehicles of manifestation,
124.
The Solar Angels are creative.
We remember that they are already creative
intelligence.
125.
The factor of “atomization” seems very interesting.
Perhaps this indicates that they can work creatively through the permanent
atoms, influencing them, wielding them, playing upon them.
3. Living for a mundane period, therefore in incarnation during
a world period,
126.
Living on the Earth
127.
This “world period” may be considered a “round”,
although, in some form, they will also be present in the fifth round.
4. “Goodly to behold, for the sons of God are luminous, radiant
and full of beauty”,
128.
The beautiful appearance of the Solar
Angels
5. Delighting in love, for love is the characteristic of the
soul, and all sons of God, or sons of Mind reveal the love of the Father,
129.
Solar Angels
delight in love. They are “hearts of fiery love”, and are representatives
of the buddhic energy.
130.
When a man is under the influence of the Solar Angel,
he also delights in love.
6. Possessing bodies of their own “not caused by parents,” that
body “not made by hands, eternal in the heavens” mentioned by St. Paul.
131.
Their bodies were not created by generation
but, perhaps, by emanation.
132.
In the Secret Doctrine the Yogi Narada, seeks to
keep men from falling into generation; He influences them towards asceticism.
In connection with the fourth world, Vyasa notes that it is the
world of mastery, therefore the home of the Masters, and all liberated souls
whose “food is contemplation” and whose lives are “for a thousand mundane
periods,” therefore who have immortality.
133.
The “fourth world” would seem to be the buddhic plane.
134.
Consider how “contemplation” can be “food”, and relate
it to Rule VI.
135.
They ‘eat’ the perception of unity. They ‘eat’ or
absorb that with which they identify. They derive nourishment from all with
whom they participate through identification. The perception of unity is food.
136.
Perhaps they contemplate that which is higher and
are thus nourished? Relationship to the Sun.
137.
What is a “mundane period”? If a precessional age
of 2,500 years, then it is too short, for the figure would be 2,500,000.
138.
Perhaps a mundane period is 25,000 years, in which
case the duration of a Solar Angel would be 25,000,000, approximately. This
would link the Solar Angel with the number four, (for 25 is the number associated
with 4), and with the fourth path (to
Sirius—which is the origin of the Solar Angels), and also to the fourth System Law, the Law of Magnetic
Control (by which the Solar Angels operate). The figure of 25 million is closer
to the duration of the Solar Angel’s supervision of man.
139.
250,000,000 is about the turn of the Sun around the galaxy.
140.
250,000 relates to the monad. 25,000 to the soul.
Does 2500 relate to the personality.
Then he describes the three highest planes, with the great existences who are the lives of those planes and in whom we “live and move and have our being.”
141.
These are perhaps the Raja Lords in one respect,
but also beings who live within those higher planes.
These correspond to the
three planes of the Trinity and of these existences in their various groups, the following comments by Vyasa are illuminating.
He states:
142.
Here he may mean lives that are higher
even than triadal lives, and definitely higher than the lives of the Solar Angels. We seem to be dealing with the “Triads”, the “Greater
Builders” and the “Divine Flames”, who reside (according to the chart in EA
35) upon the three higher subplanes of the cosmic physical plane.
1. “Their lives are chaste,” i.
e., free from impurity, or the limitations of the lower forms.
2. “Upwards there is no impediment to their thinking and in regions below
there is no object obscure to their thought.”
They know all things within the solar system.
3. “By them no laying down of foundations for a dwelling is made,” therefore
they have no dense bodies.
4. “They are grounded in themselves and live as long as there are creations.”
They are the great lives back of all sentient existence.
5. They delight in contemplation of varying kinds. Our worlds are but the reflection of God's thought;
and they are the sum total of the mind of God.
143.
If they know all things within the solar system,
they know more than do the Solar Angels, though the Solar Angels are
members of the Solar Logos’ “Council”.
144.
The buddhic plane is considered an objective plane
in relation the four higher worlds of the cosmic physical plane. These beings,
it would seem, are not hampered by the buddhic vehicle.
145.
They are essential beings and do not decompose.
Rather we might think that they are withdrawn into their Source at the close
of the Creative Period.
146.
Again we notice that “they delight in contemplation”.
We will have to think of contemplation as a process
of sustainment.
What Can be Said of Members
of the Third Creative Hierarchy in Relation to the Fifth
Hierarchy III. The third Creative Hierarchy (or the eighth) is a peculiarly interesting one. They are called "the Triads" for they hold in themselves the potencies [Page 1199] of triple evolution, mental, psychical, and spiritual.
147.
Establishing the relationship between the Triads
and the Agnishvattas is of prime importance.
A Tabulated
Comparison Between the Members of the Third and Fifth
Manifested Creative Hierarchies.
|
Numbers Down |
Ray |
Name |
Sign |
Energy |
Comments |
Numbers Up |
|
8 |
III |
Lesser Builders, Conferring Form, The Triple Flowers |
3. Libra Planet-Saturn Color: Green |
Jnanashakti Force of Mind |
Water, Atmic Plane |
5 |
|
10 |
V |
Human Personality, The Crocodiles Makara, the mystery |
5. Capricorn Planet-Venus Color: Indigo |
Ichchaashakti Will to Manifest |
Fire, Mental Plane |
3 |
(EA 35
These Triads of Life are inherently the three Persons and the flower of the earlier system from a certain angle.
148.
The members of the Fifth Creative Hierarchy are the
“returning Nirvanees” and the Third Creative Hierarchy are
the “Flower of the earlier Eight”.
From another angle, when studied as the "flower of the earlier Eight," They are the eightfold points awaiting opportunity to flame forth.
149.
That they wait is analogous to the idea that
they must await the development of the intelligence of man in order to manifest.
150.
Because they are associated with the number eight
they are also associated with the Christ.
They are the devas who are ready for service, which is to give to another hierarchy certain qualities which are lacking. This Hierarchy is regarded as the great donors of immortality whilst themselves "standing aloof from incarnation."
151.
Such a donation (of lacking qualities) is common
to all Hierarchies.
152.
The Solar Angels, however, did not stand aloof from
incarnation, but have been very much involved, either through direct incarnation
or implantation (and supervision).
153.
The “immortality” which this group donates is its
ability to link the man with the monad.
154.
The aloofness fits with the planet Saturn which rules
this Hierarchy.
Lords of Sacrifice and Love are They, but They cannot pass out of the logoic etheric body into the dense physical vehicle.
155.
The Solar Angels (at least with the substance/energy)
do pass out of the logoic etheric body and build on the higher mental plane
(wherever else, in addition, they may be focussed).
156.
The members of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy, as
well as those of the Fifth and Third are all, in their own ways, “Lords of
Sacrifice and Love”.
This third Hierarchy wields the third aspect of electric force of the first type of cosmic energy. They stand for a recurrent cycle of that first type symbolised by the number 8.
157.
The number 8 is important because it links to Mercury
(the planet ruling the Fourth Creative Hierarchy). We recognize that Saturn
and Mercury (rulers of the Third and Fourth Creative Hierarchies) are the
planets of discipleship.
158.
The 8 of the Third Creative Hierarchy makes the antahkarana
possible, and is related to the ‘answering vibration’ (coming from the Triad)
during the process of antahkaranic utilization.
The formulae for these electrical energies are too complicated to be given here, but the student should bear in mind that these hierarchies express:
1. Septenary cosmic energy.
2. Cosmic prana.
3. Solar energy or electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction.
159.
The higher ‘contacts’ of these Hierarchies are significant
and cosmic.
160.
We note that “electric fire” is really “solar energy”,
coming, for our purposes, from within the solar system.
Each hierarchy manifests a triple energy or an aspect of each of the above, and that necessitates a ninefold differentiation, for the two first are triple as is the third.
161.
The ninefold manifestation of the Hierarchies relates
to the nine states of consciousness of each Hierarchy.
It is the rejection of the Triadal Lives by units in the fourth Hierarchy, that of the human Monads, which precipitates a man eventually into the eighth sphere. He refuses to become a Christ, a Saviour and remains self-centred.
162.
We must be careful here to distinguish between two
types of rejections—one of the guidance of the Solar Angels and the other
of the lives which will lead to triadal penetration and development.
163.
We note here that the rejection of the Solar Angels
(although such a rejection is eventually possible) is not discussed. The Solar
Angels have been the ‘constant sponsor’ of the developing man, intervening
and guiding throughout the process of elevation). The man (regardless of his
eventual moral quality) has used what the Solar Angels have given in order
to build his individuality.
164.
After being built into a relatively fully developed
human being, it might be said, that the ambitious, selfish man rejects the
Solar Angels.
165.
But the Triads embody the Divine Plan (impersonally
considered), and to reach them requires great sacrifice—correlated
to the number 8—a sacrifice of an individuality that lives unto itself.
166.
The rejection by the man of the Solar Angels does
not require the sacrifice of his individuality.
We have dealt with the first three hierarchies which are regarded as ever "seeing the Face of the Ruler of the Deep," or as being so pure and holy that Their forces are in realised contact with Their emanating source.
167.
Presumably the purity and holiness of the members
of the Third Creative Hierarchy is even greater than that of the members of
the Fifth.
168.
They, too, came from an earlier system, but were
the “flower” of that system. Apparently, this is not true of the Agnishvattas.
Considering the Factor of Pleroma
Pleroma in Relation to the
Fifth Creative Hierarchy and Perhaps the Third:
1. Two connecting principles are needed. This requires a living spiritual Fire of the middle principle from the Fifth and third states of Pleroma. This fire is the possession of the Triangles.
2. These Beings are Nirvanis from a preceding Mahamanvantara (TCF 681)
169.
It is on the mental plane (the reflection in the three worlds of the third and fifth states of Pleroma), that the full force of etheric vitality is felt. A hint as to the [Page 684] significance of this may be found in the fact that the etheric body of man receives, and transmits prana directly to the physical body, and that the vitality of the physical frame is to be gauged largely by the condition and action of the heart. The heart circulates vitality to the myriads of cells that constitute the dense physical sheath; something analogous is seen in the fact that these fire devas are "the Heart of the Dhyan chohanic body,"23 for their energy comes from the spiritual sun, in the same sense that the energy of the pranic devas of the etheric body comes from the physical sun. This energy of the Agnishvattas manifests on the mental plane, the gaseous subplane of the cosmic physical just as the energy of the etheric centres on the fourth etheric subplane manifests first and potently on the gaseous matter of the physical body. This is why the Sons of Wisdom, embodying the buddhic principle, the life force, or love aspect, are nevertheless known on the fifth plane as the self-conscious principles; buddhi uses manas as a vehicle, and occult writers often speak in terms of the vehicle. The Ego, or the self-conscious Identity is in essence and in truth Love-Wisdom, but manifests primarily as intelligent consciousness. (TCF 683-684)
170.
Pleroma and the Universal Soul: This life vibration emanates from the soul of the mother (the correspondence to the Pleroma or universal soul) and is coincident with the awakening of the third spirilla in the permanent physical atom of the infant. (TCF 685)
171.
The
The Solar Angels as Members of the Fifth Creative
Hierarchy
Hierarchy V. The fifth Creative Hierarchy is, as we know from study of the Secret Doctrine, a most mysterious one. This mystery is incident upon the relation of the fifth Hierarchy to the five liberated groups. This relation, in connection
with our particular planet, which
is not a sacred planet, can be somewhat understood if the history of the Buddha
and his work is contemplated. This
is hinted at in the third volume of the Secret Doctrine.34
172.
We are immediately faced with the mystery. The Path
to Sirius, to which this Hierarchy is related, also mysterious.
173.
There is a Cancer/Capricorn connection in this relation
of Hierarchy X to Hierarchy V.
174.
The Buddha sought to help people achieve liberation
from desire. The Fifth Creative Hierarchy has a similar function with respect
to the Fourth Creative Hierarchy. Venus equates with love
and Mars, from which Venus liberates the man, equates with desire. Mars is a powerful ruler in Scorpio,
which is the sign ruling the Fourth Creative Hierarchy.
The relation of the fifth Hierarchy to a certain constellation has also a bearing upon this mystery. This is hidden in the karma of the solar Logos, and concerns His relationship to another solar Logos, and the interplay of force between them in a greater mahakalpa. This is the true "secret of the Dragon," and it was the dragon-influence or the "serpent energy" which caused the influx of manasic or mind energy into the solar system. (TCF 1203)
PATH I. EARTH SERVICE
Attributes.............Wise compassion.
Source.................Constellation of the Dragon, via Libra.
Method.................Twelve cosmic Identifications.
Hierarchy..............The sixth.
Symbol.................A green dragon issuing from the centre of a blazing sun. Behind the sun and overtopping it can be seen two pillars on either side of a closed door.
Quality gained....... Luminosity. (R&I 426)
The adepts who stay upon this Path are distinguished by a dual attribute, which is their guarantee of attainment along this line of spiritual endeavour. They are animated by wise-compassion. These words should be carefully studied for they hold the clue to the nature of this first Path. The adepts who choose this Path are called esoterically the "beneficent dragons," and the energy with which they work and the stream of living force upon which they are found emanates from the constellation of the Dragon, working through the zodiacal sign Libra. This special spiritual energy produces in all those groups which come under its direct influence a profound faculty for identification. This identification does not concern the form nor the soul but only the spiritual point of positive life which in the human unit we call the "Jewel in the Lotus." It should be remembered in this connection that there is a jewel at the heart of every atom. Every jewel has seven facets which are the seven doorways to the seven Paths. (TCF 1245)
Second, in the second solar system, and in connection with the method employed therein, another point merits attention. This fire of mind has its source in a constellation until recently unrecognized by exoteric science as having any relation of an intimate nature to our solar system, owing to its tremendous distance away. The sun "Sirius" is the source of logoic manas in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with the evolution of manas in the seven Heavenly Men, and Venus was responsible for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain. Each was primary to the other, or was the agent which produced the first flicker of consciousness in the particular groups involved. In every case the method was that of a slow evolutionary growth till the consciousness suddenly blazed forth owing to the interposition of force, apparently from an extraneous source,
1. The Logos Solar System Sirius
2. Seven Heavenly Men Planetary scheme Pleiades
3. Heavenly Man Earth chain Venus (TCF 347)
175.
We have a number of ideas to be combined. There is
a good chance that the other Solar Logos is the Logos of Sirius. Sirius, we
know, brings mind energy to the Solar Logos.
176.
It would seem that the Fifth Creative Hierarchy is
related to the interplay between our Logos and the Logos of “Sirius”.
177.
Sirius is involved in planetary redemption (on our
planet) and so is the “Dragon” which inspires those on the Path of Earth Service.
178.
Sirius is related to Libra because Libra is a great
sign of karma and the “Law of Karma” emanates from Sirius (as far as our system
is concerned).
The Intermediate Law of Karma.—There is also an intermediate law, which is the synthetic law of the system [Page 570] of Sirius. This law is called by the generic term, the Law of Karma, and really predicates the effect the Sirian system has on our solar system. Each of the two systems, as regards its internal economy, is independent in time and space, or (in other words), in manifestation. We have practically no effect on our parent system, the reflex action is so slight as to be negligible, but very definite effects are felt in our system through causes arising in Sirius. These causes, when experienced as effects, are called by us the Law of Karma, and at the beginning they started systemic Karma which, once in effect, constitutes that which is called Karma in our occult and oriental literature. (TCF 569-570)
Of the Fifth Manifested Creative Hierarchy: c. The fifth or tenth is closely linked with the five liberated hierarchies, and is an expression of their synthesised life. It might, therefore, be said that the fifth Hierarchy serves as the representative of the five liberated groups and the fourth is the representative group in this system, whilst the second represents (for man, or these two groups united) that which is the Spirit aspect, the Father, the Unknown. (TCF 1203)
179.
It might be inferred that the liberated Hierarchies
have their monads on the higher subplanes of the cosmic astral monadic plane.
180.
The three Creative Hierarchies immediately above
the Fourth Creative Hierarchy, may be hypothesized
as having their monads on the cosmic astral plane, but perhaps not on the
highest levels. The Fifth Creative Hierarchy is also one of those which may
be thought of as having their monads on the cosmic astral plane—HOWEVER, their
monads (along with the human monads) may form the centers in the chakras
of a Planetary Logos.
181.
We have to understand whether it is solar angelic
monads who are in their etheric chakras or the monads
of other kinds of devic lives.
Entangled closely with the karma of these two cosmic [Page 1204] Entities, was that of the lesser cosmic Entity Who is the Life of our planet, the planetary Logos. It was this triple karma which brought in the "serpent religion" and the "Serpents or Dragons of Wisdom" in Lemurian days. (TCF 1203-1204)
182.
The Lemurians worshipped the “God Kings” who were
their Saviours.
183.
The Solar Angels are “Nagas” or ‘Wise Serpents’.
They are ‘serpent Saviours’ and teach man to become likewise—eventually.
184.
Our particular Planetary Hierarchy is much concerned
with the Path of Earth Service. It is inspired from the “Dragon”, but Sirius
also is the great inspiration to our Hierarchy. Thus Sirius (the meaning of
which has been conceived as “making the mundane sacred”) can also be considered
highly influential in relation to the Path of Earth Service.
185.
The Solar Angel is the “winged serpent”. The title
aligns it both with the angel kingdom and the reptile kingdom.
It had to do with solar and planetary Kundalini, or serpent fire.
186.
It is the process of initiation which makes possible
the rising of the serpent fire.
A hint lies in the fact that the constellation of the Dragon has the same relation to the ONE greater than our Logos as the centre at the base of the spine has to a human being. It concerns stimulation, and vitalisation with a consequent co-ordination of the manifesting fires.
187.
There is a triple analogical relation here: The Dragon
is to the OAWNMBS, as the Earth is to the Solar Logos, as the base of the
spine is to the human being.
188.
Libra (related to the Dragon) is closely connected
with the based of the spine. Libra rules the “central channel” (Sushumna)
which is the ‘Pathway to Shamballa’. As well, Libra brings in the third ray,
thus accounting for the two other kundalini channels—the one on the right
and the one on the left, between which Libra attempt to create the balance.
189.
In a way, Sanat Kumara, is a ‘Serpent Savior’, and
the prototype for what all Solar Angels can become (for they are not yet the
equal of Sanat Kumara—who is in advance of the three former Planetary Logoi—the
Buddhas of Activity. The Christ is not yet a Solar Angel and Sanat Kumara
has been so long ago.
A clue to the mystery lies also in the relation of this fifth group to the two contracting poles.
190.
The “contracting poles” are those that are drawing
closer together. Spirit and matter are drawing ever closer, and do so, especially,
through the agency of the Solar Angels.
They are the fivefold Links, the "Benign Uniters" and "the Producers of the Atonement." Esoterically, they are the "Saviours of the Race" and from Them emanates that principle which—in conjunction with the highest aspect—lifts the lower aspect up to Heaven.
191.
It is clear that these Solar Angels serve as a link
between the Hierarchy which includes human beings (the fourth) and the Hierarchy
of Triadal Lives.
192.
Kundalini also, is a lifting up into Heaven.
193.
The term “fivefold Links” relates to the Five Unmanifested
Hierarchies, and to the Fifth Unmanifested Hierarchy
especially.
194.
From these names we can see and understand the buddhic
function of the Solar Angels.
195.
The uniting and atonement produced is between the higher and lower triads.
When these mysteries are carefully studied, and due application made to the lives of the greatest exponents of the at-one-ing principle, it will become apparent how great and all-important is their place in the scheme.
196.
Presumably these “greatest exponents” were under
the direct sway of the Solar Angels.
It is for this reason that the units of the fifth Hierarchy are called "The Hearts of Fiery Love"; they save through love, and in their turn these lives are peculiarly close to the great Heart of Love of the solar Logos.
197.
Of the many rays which it is possible for the Solar
Angels to express, it becomes apparent that the second and fifth rays are
vitally important.
198.
This ‘saving through love’ is also true of those
who now tread the Path of Earth Service.
199.
Solar Angels are, in a way, closely related to this
Path. Indeed, they can tread the Path of Planetary Logoi (because most of
them are to become Planetary Logoi). Perhaps they learn to tread this Path
by helping a Planetary Logos (the Logos of our Earth) with His redemptive
processes.
200.
We are given an important hint that the Solar Angels
are “close to the great Heart of Love of the solar Logos”. Many, as we have
seen come through the logoic Heart, or, if they come from the logoic head
center, it is from the “heart in the head” of the Solar Logos, and thence
to His heart center. However, their truer origin (with respect to our Solar
Logos) is from His “middle principle” (which is His Egoic nature.
201.
When we think of Sirius, we can understand the relation
of heart and head, for Sirius is a seat of both manas and love.
These great redeeming Angels, who are the Sons of Men on their own true plane, the mental, are ever, therefore, pictured as taking the form of twelve-petalled lotuses—this symbology linking them up with "the Son of Divine Love," the manifested solar system, which is said to be a cosmic twelve-petalled lotus, and with the logoic causal lotus, equally of a twelve-petalled nature. (TCF 1204)
202.
There is necessarily a close relation between the
twelve petalled lotuses as a imagistic form for the
Solar Angels, and the twelve-petalled Egoic Lotus.
203.
The numbers 9 and 12 are important. Nine represents
the three tiers of petals in the Egoic Lotus, and is related to the third
ray, or Brahma. When the three interior petals are added (and these three
represent the second aspect, formed
through the downflow of buddhi and detached from the third aspect), there
is a twelve petalled lotus. So the twelve petalled lotus represents a combination of the 3 and the 2. The “Jewel
in the Lotus” represents the first aspect which is guarded or “enshrined”
by the synthetic three petals.
204.
We are told here that the “logoic causal lotus” is
twelve-petalled. This further relates the Solar Angels to egoic lotuses in
general, whether of a man or of a Logos.
205.
These Angels are the Sons of Men on their own true
plane, because without them, man could not function on the higher mental plane.
He would have no manasic body to do so. So the Angels enter the human energy
system and become a part of it. Thus the Angels are man and yet they are not.
We have, therefore, a direct flow of energy flowing through:
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a. The logoic twelve-petalled egoic Lotus. Cosmic mental plane.
b. The solar twelve-petalled Lotus.
206.
This “solar twelve-petalled Lotus” is presumably
the logoic heart center.
c. The planetary logoic Heart, also a twelve-petalled Lotus.
d. The twelve-petalled human egoic lotus on the mental plane.
e. The twelve-petalled heart centre in a human being.
207.
We can see the tremendous heart alignment to which
the Solar Angels are related.
Or, to word it otherwise, energy flows directly from:
a. The solar Logos via three great cosmic centres:
1. The central spiritual Sun.
208.
Here we note that the “central spiritual Sun” is
a center superior to the “heart of the Sun”, and is not listed in the tabulation
immediately above, which begins with the “logoic twelve-petalled Lotus” (presumably
the solar logoic causal body).
209.
It is important to not that the “central spiritual
Sun” is part of the itemization. Some of the Solar Angels do return to the
“central spiritual Sun”.
The four lower groups of solar
Pitris return to the heart
of the subjective sun, or
to that inmost centre of the system from whence they came, whilst the three
higher groups are carried (by the force and energy generated in the fiery
furnace and blaze, and through the stimulation produced by the blazing forth
of the central jewel) straight
to the central spiritual sun, (TCF 878)
210.
2. The heart of the Sun.
3. The physical Sun.
b. The heart centre of the planetary Logos, situated on the fourth cosmic etheric plane (our buddhic plane)
c. The egoic lotus of a human being on the mental plane, which is literally a correspondence to the "heart of the sun." The monadic point is a reflection in the human system of the "central spiritual sun."
211.
We note the terminology “monadic point”.
d. The heart centre of a man on the etheric plane of the physical plane, which is in its turn a correspondence to the physical sun.
Thus the tiny atom man is linked with the great central Life of the solar system.
212.
In this section we are talking about “linking” and
“uniting”.
213.
One of the names of the Fifth Ray Lord is “The Great
Connecter” and the “Divine Intermediary”
This Fifth Hierarchy is equally, under the law, a distributor of energy to the fifth subplane of each plane in the system, only it must be borne in mind that in the three worlds, it is the fifth subplane counting from above downward whilst in the worlds of superhuman evolution, it is the fifth counting from below upwards. This hierarchy wields, as we know, the dual aspects of manas, one in the three worlds and one which makes itself felt in higher spheres.
214.
This is an important statement which relates this
Fifth Creative Hierarchy to the Third Creative Hierarchy. The numbers 3 and
5 are related.
215.
Why does the Fifth Hierarchy not wield three
aspects of manas? Why only two?
216.
We see that they have influence within the realm
of the Spiritual Triad. This will have to be thought through. The influence
would surely connect with the buddhic plane.
217.
Interestingly, the fifth subplane of the buddhic
plane, counting from below upwards, is correlated with the factor of “Idealism”!
218.
On a lower turn of the spiral, the third subplane
of the mental plane must be considered as the place where the casual body
(first built by the Solar Angels) is to be found.
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It is necessary to bear in mind that all these groups are (even when termed "formless") the true forms of all that persists, for all are in the etheric body of the solar Logos or planetary Logos. This is a point requiring careful emphasis; students have for too long regarded the form as being the dense physical body, whereas to the occultist the physical body is not the form, but a gross maya, or illusion, and the true form is the body of vitality. Therefore, these hierarchies are the sumtotal of the vital lives and the substratum or the substance of all that is. We might regard the subject
as follows:
219.
All Creative Hierarchies
are in the etheric body of either the Solar Logos or Planetary Logos.
220.
The fact that they are “vital lives” suggests a monadic nature.
221.
Our ordinary etheric planes are in the etheric body
of the Planetary Logos.
a. The four superior groups are the hierarchies expressing themselves through the three cosmic ethers, the second, third and fourth.
b. The two lowest groups are the lives which are found functioning as the involutionary matter (organised and unorganised) of the logoic dense physical body, the liquid and gaseous, with the living substance of the four higher subplanes of the systemic dense physical body.
c. The fifth Hierarchy has an interesting position as the "mediating" body between the higher four and those which are found on the lower three subplanes.
222.
Again, serving as those who unite and at-one.
223.
We note that only the Fifth Unmanifested Hierarchy
(almost liberated) is on the highest of the cosmic ethers.
224.
We note the term, “expressing themselves
through”. Expression can come one plane lower than focus.
There is a vital and significant correspondence to be found between the seven head centres and the seven groups of Egos on the mental plane, and there is an occult analogy between the three head centres (pineal gland, pituitary body, and the alta major centres) and the expression of these seven groups of Egos in the three worlds. This is a most important esoteric fact, and all students of meditation upon the laws of at-one-ment must take this analogy into consideration.
It is useful to remember the place of these hierarchies in the scheme, and to realise that upon the sumtotal of these vital bodies is gradually gathered the dense manifestation which we regard as the evolutionary matter. The forms are built (from the form of all atoms to the [Page 1207] body of the Ego, from the form of a flower to the vast planetary or solar lotus) because the hierarchies exist as the aggregate of germ lives, giving the impulse, providing the model, and procuring, through their very existence, the entire raison d'être of all that is seen on all planes.
What is the Relation of the Solar Angels to Makara, Capricorn, and Leo (as well as Libra
and Virgo) ?
The mental body itself
has five modifications or activities, and thus is a reflection, or correspondence
of the fifth principle, as it manifests upon the fifth plane, the mental.
The modifications are the lower shadow of manas (or mind in the microcosmic
manifestation), and this mind is a reflection of mahat (the universal mind),
or mind manifesting in the macrocosm. This
is a great mystery but will reveal itself to the man who overcomes the five
modifications of the lower mind, who through non-attachment to the lower,
identifies himself with the higher, and who thus solves the mystery of the
"Makara" and treads the Way of the Kumaras. Herein lies a hint
to the more advanced students of this science as to the esoteric problem of
the Makara, hinted at in the "Secret
Doctrine" by H. P. Blavatsky. (LOS 15)
225.
The Solar Angels are the “transmuting fires of the
system”: “They represent a peculiar type
of electrical force; their work is to blend and fuse, and above all else they
are the ‘transmuting fires’ of the system, and are those agents who pass the
life of God through their bodies of flame as it descends from the higher into
the lower, and again as it ascends from the lower into the higher. (TCF 698-699)
226.
It is clear that the Mystery of the Makara has much
to do with overcoming the “five modifications of the lower mind”, lifting
the attachment of human consciousness from the lower vehicles (and from the
lower mind), and promoting the identification of human consciousness with
triadal awareness and then monadic awareness.
227.
Their task is elevation. Capricorn is the
sign of elevation, and the Law of Group Progress (promoted by the example
of the Solar Angels/Makara/Fifth Creative Hierarchy) is ruled by Capricorn.
228.
The Mystery of the Makara is to ‘right the inverted
pentagram’ until it become the ‘upright pentagram’.
The mystery of the
resolution of the six-pointed star, into the five-pointed star.40,41
The mystery of the Lords of Karma, Who are, in themselves, the sole recipients
of the Mind purposes [Page 396] of that cosmic ENTITY Who enfolds our solar
Logos within His consciousness. (TCF 395-396)
229.
The Lords of Karma are (with respect our solar system)
Sirian in nature. Sirius is one of the cosmic Entities Who enfolds
our solar Logos within His consciousness. The One About
Whom Naught May Be Said is perhaps that still greater ENTITYT Who enfolds
them all within His consciousness.
In any case, the Solar Angels are agents of the Lords of Karma Who are carrying
in Themselves the Mind-purposes of the Sirian Logos.
"The Dhyanis
were connected with the Crocodile and their abode in Capricornus." (I. 239.)
230.
The work of the Dhyanis is to transform man from
the Crocodile into the Goat, into the Unicorn.
Five—This is the pentagon, the Makara,
the five pointed Star.
Compare S. D., I, 218, 219.
Five is the symbol
of a planetary Logos S. D., II, 618.
Five is the symbol
of the microcosm S. D., II, 608.
Five is the symbol
of creation S. D., II. 613.
It is the second
and the third Logos united in evolution.
In the merging of
the five and the six you have the totality of manifestation, the male and
female blended in the Divine Hermaphrodite.
Summing up, S. D., I, 235-239. II, 610, 638. (TCF note #41, 395)
231.
The old Commentary
says:
"The deva shineth
with added light when the virtue of the will hath entered. He garnereth colour as the reaper garners wheat,
and storeth it up for the feeding of the multitude. Over all this deva
host the mystic Goat presideth. Makara
is, and is not, yet the link persisteth." (TCF 743)
232.
The “deva” in this case is the Solar Angel in relation
to the will of the Planetary Logos.
233.
The garnering of color is the capacity to gather
quality and color from the process of human experience in the three worlds.
The color/quality is stored in the causal body which the “deva” has created.
234.
From the gathered gifts of the causal body, eventually,
the multitude of human beings are to be fed as the man pours forth these gifts
in service.
235.
The “deva host” of Solar Angels is ruled by Capricorn
which equips them to “descend into Hell” (also ruled by Capricorn) and to
redeem the lives there ensnared so that the may rise in triumph over matter
until they stand on the mountaintop (with matter under foot). The mountain
top, of course, is ruled by Capricorn, and Venus, the planet intimate to the
expression of the Solar Angels, and inspiring their efforts, is the highest
(or hierarchical) ruler of Capricorn.
12. The symbol for
the sign Capricorn is most mysterious. It conceals the mystery of the Crocodiles,
or Makara. It is constructed in an
inaccurate and definitely misleading manner and should be regarded as a mystery
and therefore not to be defined. (EA 57)
236.
If we did know it, we should not render it clearly.
Aries, Taurus, and
Capricorn are the great transformers under the great creative plan. They are
in the nature of catalysts. Each of them opens a door into one of the three
divine centres of expression which are the symbols in the body of the planetary
Logos of the three higher centres in man: the head, the heart and the throat.
Aries opens the door
into Shamballa, when the experience of Taurus and Capricorn has been undergone.
Taurus opens the
door into the Hierarchy when the significance of Gemini and Leo is understood
and the first two initiations can therefore he taken.
237.
A Taurean initiation may follow the first two initiations.
Capricorn opens the
door into the Hierarchy in a higher aspect when the last three initiations
can be undergone and the significance of Scorpio and of Virgo is understood.
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In these signs and
their relationship upon the Fixed Cross lies hid the mystery of Makara and of the Crocodiles. (EA 157-158)
238.
The Crocodile (in its lower aspect) is the human
personality—the inverted pentagram which results when the gift of manas is
prostituted to lower desire.
3. "There is
a mystic connection between the names Makara
and Kumara.
a. It means and is
connected with the pentagon.
b. It represents
five-fold man and therefore the five kumaras.
c. It is related
to the Ocean God.
d. It personifies
solar fire." (SD II. 609. 610., EA 676)
239.
The Makara are to become the Kumaras.
|
The Crocodiles or the Perfect
ones |
5 or 10 |
The five-pointed Star with the
symbol of System 1 in the centre |
Fourth of the 5th
Cosmic force (Mahat) TCF--1225 |
The exoteric and
the esoteric planetary rulers of Capricorn are the same, and Saturn rules
the career of the man in this sign, no matter whether he is on the ordinary
or the reversed wheel, or whether he is on the Mutable or the Fixed Cross.
When he has taken the third initiation and can consciously mount the Cardinal
Cross, he is then released from the ruling of Saturn and comes under the influence
of Venus, who is governor or ruler of the Hierarchy which is that of the Crocodiles.
A reference to the tabulation heretofore given will show this. It is only
when a man is upon the Cardinal Cross that the significance, purpose and potencies
of the Creative Hierarchies become clear to [Page 164] him and the “doors
of entrance” into all of them stand wide open. (EA 163-164)
What Are the Relations Between
the Solar Angels and the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac
240.
Aries starts the cycle of self-conscious incarnation
which was inaugurated by the coming of the Solar Angels.
241.
Taurus represents the luminosity of the Solar Angels;
they are great beings of light. Their task is the transmutation of desire
(which Taurus represents) into aspiration (again Taurus) and buddhic realization
(the “Greatest Light” of Taurus)
242.
Gemini represents the duality of the Solar Angels.
They are the “Elder Brother” and the human being is the younger brother.
As well the triangle Sirius/Gemini/Solar Logos shows the brotherly
relationship between Sirius our Solar Logos—Sirius being the “Elder Brother”
and our Solar Logos, the younger. The elders are always helping those
who are younger. Gemini was active at the time of individualization.
With respect to Gemini (which rules the antahkarana) it must be remember that
the Solar Angels have provided man (by creating the causal body) with the
seed of the antahkarana, and the first possibility of linking the personality
to the spiritual triad.
243.
Cancer represents the protective and maternal guarding
function of the Solar Angel in relation to its personality. As well, the Solar
Angels are the true builders of the causal body which is the human
being’s “lighted house”.
244.
Leo is related to the principle of “I-ness” conferred
upon humanity by the Solar Angels. This occurred with these angels “implanted”
the spark of mind. As well the matter of the higher mental plane (from which
the causal body was constructed) was tinged with the quality of “I-ness” when
the Solar Angels organized that matter. As well, as far as the human being
is concerned, the Solar Angel is the “Inner Ruler” or king. Leo was active
at the individualization process when the Solar Angels came forth. That the
Solar Angels are called “Hearts of Fiery Love” is also related to the Leonian
energy.
245.
Virgo represents the laborious service in the heart
of matter which the Solar Angels expend in their aeonial supervision of a
human being. As well, the Solar Angels are already deeply expressive of the
Christ Principle (buddhi, or solar love) and are those lives who
stimulate the germination of the Christ Principle (under Virgo) in the heart
of those they supervise.
246.
Libra represents the cooperative partnership (and
even “divine marriage”) which the Solar Angel has with every human being it
supervises. As well, the Solar Angel is a Sirian being and deeply imbued with
an understanding of the Law of Karma; therefore, the Solar Angel is a dispenser
of the Law of Karma to its human subject.
247.
Scorpio represents the “aggressiveness” of the Solar
Angel when it attempts to triumph over the lunar tendencies to which its human
subject is addicted. We are also told that the Solar Angel is an “efficient
surgeon”, when it comes to removing (in its projected personality) impediments
to its expression.
“By the breaking up of old adhesions (to use the language of surgery, and
the soul is a most efficient surgeon) and the disappearance of ancient crystallisations,
it becomes apparent to me that the power of your soul is making itself felt.”
(DINA I 232)
As well, the Solar Angel is a “Serpent of Wisdom” and, in some mysterious
way, is related to raising into power the “Serpent of Matter”—the kundalini
power.
248.
Sagittarius represents the manner in which the Solar
Angels ‘shot forth’ into the human kingdom at the time of individualization.
“The sons of God shot forth like arrows from the bow.
The forms received the impulse and lo!
a God was born.
The tiny babe knew not the great event." (TWM 440) Sagittarius
also represents the prophetic vision of the Solar Angel who knows the next
several lives of its human subject and plans accordingly. Sagittarius was
active at the time of individualization.
249.
Capricorn is the sign most associated with the Solar
Angels, and indeed they must be inspired by this sign which signals for humanity
the power to rise out of matter and triumph over it. Capricorn is the signs
of initiation and is linked to the Solar Angels because, through the
intervention of the Solar Angels, the program of initiation (as we now have
it) could be instituted in Atlantean days. The energy of Sirius inspires our
entire Spiritual Hierarchy and makes possible Their special initiatory cultivation of humanity. A special
relationship exists between Sirius, Capricorn, the Solar Angels and humanity.
250.
Aquarius represents the “group consciousness” of
the Solar Angels. They operate constantly in groups and inspire in the human
being a growing appreciation for and participation in group consciousness.
As well, the manner in which they pour themselves forth for the helping of
humanity is Aquarian. It is not by accident that increasing knowledge of the
Solar Angels comes on the eve of the “group Age”, the Age of Aquarius.
Aquarius, also, is, with Leo, one of the signs of ‘expressed genius’.
A human being fully inspired by the Solar Angel becomes (as advanced Aquarians
are) a “man for all seasons”.
It is important to remember Aquarius as major sign of service, and the manner
in which the Solar Angels have poured forth the “Waters of Life” for the sake
of humanity is an Aquarian act of group service.
251.
Pisces represents the profound sacrifice of the Solar
Angels, who for so many millions of years have selflessly given their substance
and presence to incarnating man. Santa Kumara is the “Great Sacrifice”
and the Solar Angels work in emulation of Him. He has already, long ago, been
through the Sirian method of education (though He is not now on the Sirian
Line) and is the kind of Being towards Whom the Solar
Angels aspire, for these Angels are the “saviours of humanity” and Sanat Kumara
is the “prototype of all world saviours” (DINA II 286). The Makara are treading
the way of the Kumaras (LOS 15) Kumaras in Their higher ranks are Planetary
Logoi.
Of Sanat Kumara it is said, “Sanat Kumara is the planetary logos and yet
he is not.” He is intimately linked with our Planetary Logos and is the
good Companion of the Buddhas of Activity, Who in a previous solar system, were Planetary Logoi. The Solar Angels aspire
to become Planetary Logoi (TCF 844)
In sum, Pisces is the sign of the saviour, and the Solar Angels are
great Saviours. (TCF 743, 1204)
“They emanate from the logoic head centre, or from
the will aspect), are the true Saviours who give Their lives for the good
of the race. (TCF 743)”
Esoterically, they are the "Saviours of the Race" and from Them emanates that principle which—in conjunction with the
highest aspect—lifts the lower aspect up to Heaven. (TCF 1204)
What Are the Different Kinds
of Solar Angels or Agnishvattas?
Much confusion exists in the minds of students as to the distinction between the Agnishvattas who incarnated in man, and those who simply were responsible for the implanting of the manasic or mental spark in animal man. This opens up for us the entire question of individualisation itself, and the incarnation of certain spiritual existences who—when in bodily form—are spoken of as Avatars, as Buddhas of Activity, or as direct manifestations of the Logos. The entire mystery is hidden in the relationship of the individual Monads who form the various centres in the body of a planetary Logos and the self-conscious Identity of that planetary Logos Himself. (TCF 683)
252.
Can human monads (since their major monadic ray can
only be the first, second or third) be focussed in any other planetary logoic
centers than the head, heart and throat?
The Meaning of the Implantation of the Spark: In the early history of humanity there was a great crisis which we call individualisation. At that time the solar angels, in response to a demand or a pull from the race of animal-men (as a whole, note that), sent a portion of their energy, embodying the quality of mentalisation, to these animal-men. (TWM 88)
253.
How is this done? Through meditative focus? Is not
this implantation an act of sustained focusing?
254.
Such a force reveals causes and effects.
255.
It reveals relationships between that which precedes
and that which follows.
256.
It utilizes memory to reveal patterns.
257.
The spark lodged in the brain as indicated immediately
below:
At that time the solar angels, in response to a demand or a pull from the race of animal-men (as a whole, note that), sent a portion of their energy, embodying the quality of mentalisation, to these animal-men. They fecundated, if I might so express it, the brain. (TWM 88)
Contact must be made
by the soul between the lower aspect of its triple nature and the aspect
which has already found lodgment in the brain of man. (TWM 89)
As a sphere of radiant fire, linked with the initiate standing before it by that magnetic thread of fire which passes through all his bodies and terminates within the centre of the physical brain. (IHS 116)
258.
This center of the physical brain suggests the pineal
gland.
The Content of the Spark: This germ, however, carried within it two other potentialities, that of spiritual love and spiritual life. These must in due time make their appearance. (TWM 88)
How the Spark is related to Mind: 1. The lower concrete
mind, which is the attitude of thought held by the tiny aspect of the soul
which was initially “put down” into manifestation at the time of individualisation. (EH 511) The spark
is the gift of mind. It is a gratuitous bestowal that allowed animal man to
be self-aware and to think in a self-conscious manner. The conscious correlation
of experience could begin with this implantation.
The implantation created an ever-present center which
could not be ignored. It remained always noticeable, and it was the one stable
fact of consciousness. Constant within the field of consciousness.
Because of its very familiarity, the consciousness of animal man was magnetized
to it, and identified with it. Animal man noticed the implanted
spark, and did not take his ‘eyes’ off it. When consciousness focuses on something
for the largest proportion of time, that something becomes the ‘ego’ or the
self. ‘Ego’ is thought that becomes a self.
Man’s attention upon this ever-present center becomes the ‘thought which masquerades
as self’. ‘Ego’ is a necessary mistaken identity.
The mystery to be answered, is how
can one consciousness actually be within another.
This—during the long cycle of incarnations—has become increasingly sensitive to its overshadowing Self. This overshadowing Self says to its incarnated aspect: “Having pervaded this entire universe with a fragment of myself, I remain.” The pull of that overshadowing “remaining Self” is what draws the little fragment back to its originating source. (EH 511)
259.
We note that it was only a “tiny aspect of the soul”
that was put down. The spark is a ‘strand of mindfulness’ which remains as
an active presence within the field of consciousness of the individualized
man.
260.
The self-consciousness within us is an aspect of
a much greater consciousness, from which it was originally projected or “put
down” or “implanted”
Result of the Implantation of the Spark: To word it otherwise, through Their work man can become conscious without the manasic vehicle, for manas is but the form through which a higher principle is making itself known. (TCF 703)
261.
This is a fundamental statement about the work of
the Agnishvattas. Man had no manasic vehicle and they provided him with one
through their manasic presence.
262.
We want to see if we can terminate at least some
of this confusion.
263.
There is at least one fundamental distinction between
types of Agnishvattas: one kind incarnated
in man; the other planted the mental spark in animal man.
264.
Only two types are listed in this
reference.. There appear to be more types, however and they are discussed
elsewhere.
265.
When the Agnishvattas are actually incarnated in
bodily form they are called “Avatars, Buddhas of Activity or direct manifestations
of the Logos”.
266.
The mystery is deep. Are there human monads in all
centers of the Planetary Logos?
267.
What about the participation of the monads of Solar
Angels in these planetary centers, for they do
participate.
268.
The brain of animal man was fecundated.
269.
The donated spark carried love and will also.
It was not just a mental occurrence.
270.
To donate a spark means to be aware of that which
has been donated. It is the donation of one’s perpetual presence—a presence
which cannot be withdrawn and which sustains and nourishes reflective self-consciousness.
They come into a scheme on a wave
of manasic energy from the head centre of the Logos, and in the process of
passing through his Heart centre three things occur:
1. They become differentiated into seven groups. (TCF 742) Four steps may be involved. Central spiritual Sun, Heart of
the Sun, Heart in the head of the Solar Logos,
271.
It is probable that their solar origin,
is both the “Central Spiritual Sun” and the “Heart of the Sun”.
272.
Solar Angels are thought to be divided according
to whether they are from the head center of the Solar Logos or from the
273.
Here we learn that they all
originate from the head center of the Solar Logos (at least this is the place
from which they “come into a scheme”.
274.
We are not told in this reference however, what part
of the logoic head center they come from. Below we are.
275.
Apparently, when originating from the head center,
they are in fewer than seven groups. One would think three
groups.
276.
The differentiation at the heart center is interesting,
as the number 7 is related to the number two. The monadic plane is the ‘heart
plane’ of the first three planes. It is there that the differentiation into seven
monadic types occurs (as the chart on TCF 344 will reveal)
277.
Probably on the highest of the seven planes, the
number of monadic types is again three, just as is hypothesized for the Solar Angels.
278.
If we study the chart on TCF 344, we will notice
that three triangles are to be found on the highest plane and seven on the
second plane. The pattern is established.
279.
This pattern relates to Planetary Logoi, to Solar
Angels and to human monads.
They are connected in their highest
groups with that portion of the logoic head centre which corresponds to the
heart, and here is the clue to the mystery of kama-manas. The kamic angels are vitalised from the “heart” centre and the manasic
angels from the logoic head centre, via the point within that centre connected
with the heart. These two dominating groups are the sumtotal
of kama-manas in all its manifestations. The solar angels
exist in three groups, all of which
are concerned with the self-consciousness aspect, all of which are energised
and connected with the fifth spirilla of the logoic permanent atom, and all
of which work as a unit. (TCF 698-699) Connected with Saturn as the Logoic permanent atom of the cosmic
physical plane.
280.
We must remember that each of the origins here discussed
is lower that the “Heart of the
Sun”
281.
Since Saturn literally is the logoic permanent atom for the cosmic
physical plane, these Solar Angels are concerned with the fifth spirilla of
Saturn.
282.
There are higher and lower groups of Solar
Angels. The divisions (as with so many division
in occultism) seem to be along the lines of three
and four.
283.
In their highest groups they are connected “with
that portion of the logoic head centre which corresponds to the heart,
and here is the clue to the mystery of kama-manas.”
Thus they are connected with the heart in the head of the Solar Logos (so
it would seem), if not the Planetary Logos.
284.
Thus there are “kamic” Solar Angels and manasic angels.
285.
No Solar Angels are entirely manasic,
because they emanate from the heart
portion of the logoic head center. Further, all of them, it seems, emanate
from the “Heart of the Sun
286.
”.
287.
The Solar Angels which emanate from the head center
of the Logos (or Logoi) are connected with the stimulation of the manasic
permanent atom. (TCF 698-699)
288.
The Solar Angels which emanate from the heart center
of the Logos (or Logoi) are those which build and are involved with the causal
body. (TCF 699)
289.
All seven types of Solar Angels are related to kama-manas,
and not just the kinds that are vitalized from the heart center of the Logos.
Solar Angels in general underwent much manasic development before
they became “Hearts of Fiery Love”. Man is following the same course of development.
290.
It would seem that these Angels are related to the
fourth ray and that there is always sentiency involved with their mentality.
They are as links between head and heard.
291.
Venus and Sirius are both connected with
292.
Perhaps the kamic Solar Angels are related to the
four Rays of Attribute, and the more manasic Angels to the three Rays of Aspect.
293.
The kamic angels are connected with the heart. The
manasic angels with that point in the head which is connected with the heart.
Together they are the sumtotal of
294.
There are three groups of Solar Angels—
GROUP ONE: One group, the highest, is connected with the logoic
head centre, whether solar or planetary. (TCF 698) Does this include three types?
295.
Here the matter is cleared up, whether the solar
angels are related to the Planetary Logos or the Solar Logos. They
are related to both. Especially in this highest group.
296.
However, in understanding this, we must not forget
that the relationship is with that part of the head center which is connected
to the heart. This is, presumably, the “heart in the head”. There are, however,
seven head centers which may be independent of the highest three head centers,
and one of these seven would also have a connection with the heart.
They work with the manasic permanent atoms and embody the will-to-be in dense physical incarnation. (TCF 698)
297.
Their focus, interestingly, is on the highest subplane
of the abstract levels of the mental plane.
298.
This group is a link with the Spiritual Triad as
the manasic permanent atom is part of that Triad.
299.
Because of their function they seem to have a largely
first ray coloring, but it is probably the first ray manifesting through many
possible subrays.
Their power is felt on the atomic subplane and on the second; they are the substance and the life of those planes. (TCF 698-699)
300.
These solar angels affect the first two subplanes of
the mental plane.
301.
What does it mean that they are the “substance” and
life of those planes? Did not those planes exist before they began building in mental matter?
302.
Or do they have a special substanding function in
relation to those planes? Contributing to the livingness of those subplanes.
303.
We remember that the Agnishvattas are largely a combination
of purpose and love (EP II 8-9), and therefore would naturally be connected
with the highest two mental subplanes—even though the normal causal body (before
initiation) is found on the third subplane of the mental plane.
304.
We can see that the first two subplanes of the mental
plane are more under the influence
of the manasic permanent atom. The third subplane would be more connected
to the mental unit (even though that unit is on the fourth subplane).
GROUP TWO: Another group is connected
definitely with the causal bodies of all Egos and are
of prime importance in this solar system.
They come from the heart centre, and express that force. (TCF 699)
Are they divided into four groups?
305.
The second group of solar angels are connected with the logoic heart
(of the Planetary Logos or Solar Logos) and not with the heart in the head.
306.
Their importance is primary in this
solar system.
307.
This group, however, is not associated with any permanent
atoms but rather with the various parts of the causal body. Including
, presumably, the jewel in the lotus?
GROUP THREE: The third group, corresponding to the throat centre, show forth their power on the fourth subplane through the mental units. They are the sumtotal of the power of the Ego to see, to hear and to speak (or sound) in the strictly occult sense. (TCF 699)
308.
The third group of solar angels corresponds to the third aspect
of divinity. They affect the mental unit, whereas the first group affects
the manasic permanent atoms. They are concerned with expression as we would expect of a group related to the third ray.
309.
We notice that earlier the source for Solar Angels
was given as only the head (i.e., heart within the head) and heart of the
Logos.
310.
Now the throat center is suggested.
311.
If we follow the way of dividing the second ray (DINA
II 518), we find that there are primarily two groups of souls upon the second
ray, but that the second group divides again into two.
This is an important archetype.
312.
The question might arise: did this third group create
the mental unit, or did that mental unit already exist
and they manifest through it? This is an important question and one that is
answered later. The mental unit pre-existed
the activity of the Solar Angels. It was an instinctual development.
313.
The third group involves Egoic seeing, hearing and
speaking—occultly.
314.
How do these Solar Angels correspond to the rays.
Can it be said that the first group is on the first ray, the second on the
second and the third on the third?
315.
This would be too simplistic. It is probable that
every member of a triad or trinity is, itself, a trinity. Probably, there are three subtypes (and
even seven) to be found in relation to each of the three groups.
The Three Groups of Solar Angels from Another Perspective
Their method of work on the Earth can be studied in the Secret Doctrine and has a most significant interest for men at this time.34 The three groups should be carefully considered from the standpoint of their occult work, which is hinted at under the terms of:
316.
The three groups connecting with the manasic permanent
atom, the causal body and the mental unit have been discussed above and may
well correspond to the three groups of Agnishvattas in the Secret Doctrine.
317.
But we have to examine whether the three groupings
related to the human constitution correspond to the three groups here listed.
a. Those who refused to incarnate.
b. Those who implanted the spark of manas.
c. Those who took bodies and moulded the type. (TCF 700)
318.
These three groups are very important and should
be remembered as such. They are the three major
types of Solar Angels.
319.
Was Vyasa one of the third types?
320.
Those who “refused” to incarnate would seem to have
been the most abstracted types, related perhaps to focus upon the manasic
permanent atom. Triads do not immediately descend; much preparation is required
before the spiritual triad can become actively engaged in the life of the
aspiring personality.
The second group, the intermediate, can be subdivided into two lesser groups:
a. Those who implant the spark of manas,
b. Those who fan and feed the latent flame in the best types of animal
man,
thus again making five. (TCF 701)
321.
We might think of the “latent flame” as the mental
unit.
Implanting the Spark: In the early history of humanity there was a great crisis which we call individualisation. At that time the solar angels, in response to a demand or a pull from the race of animal-men (as a whole, note that), sent a portion of their energy, embodying the quality of mentalisation, to these animal-men. (TWM 88)
Thus we have looking at the entirety of types.
a. Those who refused to incarnate.
b. Those who implanted the spark of manas.
1. those who implant the spark
of manas
2. those who fan and feed the latent flame in the best types of
animal man.
c. Those who took bodies and moulded the type. (TCF 700)
322.
These types added together make only five distinct
type, if there is a differentiation between the
two types who implant the spark of manas. The number of types here presented
can also be reasonably considered as four.
323.
If we consider the sequence of three main types,
and contrast these types with the earlier types (associated with the manasic
permanent atom, the causal body and the mental unit), we would say that
324.
The third major type which “moulded the [racial]
type” would seem to be a special, sacrificial category—in a way analogous
to the “point within the triangle” of other types.
325.
While there are apparent correspondences which seem
sufficiently correct at face value, we will have to watch closely to see if
the correspondences bear out.
These statements have been accepted at their face value, but little attention is paid to the real meaning. Much profit would come if the student would study the subject from the standpoint of energy, and of magnetic interaction. (TCF 701)
Three Groups of Agnishvattas
326.
Below DK is speaking of the
meaning of the three groups of petals.
The first [group of petals] is the summation of experience and developed consciousness;
327.
This statement relates to the first tier of petals,
the knowledge tier.
the second is the application of that knowledge in love and service, or the expression of the Self and the Not-Self in reciprocal vibration;
328.
This statement relates to the second tier of petals—the
love petals.
and the third is the full expression of knowledge and love turned toward the conscious sacrifice of all to the furthering of the plans of the planetary Logos, and to the carrying out of His purposes in group work.
329.
This statement relates to the third
tier of petals—the sacrifice petals.
Each of these three groups
of petals come under the definite guidance of three
groups of Agnishvattas, who form them out of their own substance and who in
essence are the threefold Ego during its manifestation. Through them flows the force and coherent energy
of those mysterious Entities whom (when considering the human family as a
whole) we call— Are there nine groupings?
330.
Now we come to the idea that, perhaps, with respect
to two of the three major groupings, and the second subtype of the second
major type, i.e.,
that each of them might be divided into three further subtypes.
If there is a special group of Agnishvattas who, in general, relate to the petals
as a whole, then these three groups are subdivisions of the group which, in
general, tends to the causal body.
331.
The design would then be as follows:
a. Those who refused to incarnate.
b. Those who implanted the spark of manas.
1. those
who implant the spark of manas
a. those who embody or stimulate the knowledge petals
b. those who embody or stimulate the love petals
c. those who embody or stimulate the sacrifice petals
2. those who fan and feed the latent
flame in the best types of animal man.
c. Those who took bodies and moulded the type.
332.
The suggestion is that a), b) and b1
) may all have three subtypes, but if this is the case, the subtypes
are not mentioned.
333.
Those who fan and feed the latent flame would not
be, so it seems, concerned with the cultivation of the causal body. The ‘men’
on whom they concentrate were not yet there.
334.
Suggestions for subtyping would be
335.
It is possible that those who descended, sacrificially,
and moulded the racial type would be associated with the jewel in the lotus.
336.
Through the Agnishvattas who tend to the petals, the force
of certain Buddhas: of Activity, of Compassionate Love and of Sacrifice express.
a. The Buddhas or Lords of Activity.
b. The Buddhas or Lords of Compassionate Love.
c. Buddhas of Sacrifice, of Whom the Lord of the World is, to man, the best known exponent.
Through these three groups flows that threefold energy which, on the mental plane, finds its medium of expression in connection with the human kingdom, in the three groups of Agnishvattas or solar Pitris above referred to.
337.
Only the group which relates to the petals is here
discussed. I do not believe we are talking about the three major
groups of Solar Pitris connected with man.
338.
But a correspondence to the three main types could
be understood.
These groups form the substance of the three circles of petals, and each group has also a special influence upon the particular petal belonging to their especial scale of vibrations.
339.
Single petals are also stimulated.
340.
A pitri associated with the knowledge tier, would
have a special connection to the knowledge-knowledge petal
341.
A pitri associated with the knowledge tier, could
also participate in the stimulation of the knowledge petal of the love and
sacrifice tiers.
342.
And so it would work with pitris associated with
both the love tier and the sacrifice tier.
For the sake of clarity, we might tabulate the various petals so that the student may get a clearer comprehension of the conformation of his own causal vehicle, and some idea of the various triangular relationships: (TCF 821-822)
343.
The Tibetan enters a fascinating subject here but
one which has more to do with human experience than with the nature and structure
of the Solar Angels.
Two Processes Relating to Two Types of Solar Angels
PROCESS ONE: Those who refused
to incarnate or to energise with their life the prepared forms, were acting
under Law, and their opposition to incarnation in these forms was based on
magnetic repulsion. They could not
energise the forms provided, for it involved the
opposition of that which is occultly the same.
344.
The refusal to incarnate was not, then, selfishness
as seems to be suggested in the Secret Doctrine. Perhaps there was a different kind of “refusal” to
which HPB referred.
345.
We human beings have to build the antahkarana to
the manasic permanent atom. Had the first of these types (associated I think
with the manasic permanent atom) been able to incarnate, this building would
not have been necessary.
346.
We might think of the manasic permanent atom and
the mental unit as “occultly the same”.
347.
What really is this refusal to incarnate? Perhaps
it is a ‘waiting’ in the realm of the spiritual triad until the time when
the building of the antahkarana becomes possible.
348.
Much work has to be done within the causal body and
much work on the part of personal man, before their activity would be called
for.
349.
The refusal to incarnate which is discussed in The
Secret Doctrine, does not, I think, refer to this highest group of Solar
Angels. It would seem to refer more to a group which refused to plant the
spark or to fan the flame. Animal man then had no sufficient guidance and
committed the “sin of the mindless”. Some of the Solar Angels entrusted with
implanting or fanning seem not to have acted quickly enough.
The lesser was not negative to the greater Life.
350.
This would be the case if
we were dealing with two aspects of the same principle—mind.
351.
The Solar Pitris associated with the manasic permanent
atom could not ‘descend’ to associate themselves with the mental unit. That
would be the task of other and lesser Solar Pitris.
PROCESS TWO: Where the Spark was implanted we have the receptivity of the negative aspect to the positive force and therefore the progress of the work. In every case we have deva substance of one polarity energised by another polarity with the goal in view of producing—through their mutual interaction—a balancing of forces, and the attainment of a third type of electrical phenomena.
352.
Polarity is all important
353.
But what are the substances here of different polarity?
354.
The implantation of the spark,
means the implantation of solar pitric presence. The “spark” is a ‘presence-in-consciousness’
of the supervising Solar Pitri.
355.
It would also seem that the “implantation” directly
energized the mental unit. It would not be a fanning or a feeding but a ‘jolt
of enlivenment’ for the mental unit. This
needs to be explored. The spark, it seems, would have to be implanted on the
concrete levels of mind.
356.
It would seem that the Solar Angels involved were
of the second major kind, and thus
colored by the positive aspect of the second ray. The deva substance relating
to that in animal mind which corresponds to the mind would be receptive to
this.
357.
The locus of implantation: With
respect to ‘implantation’ we do not know where
this implanting occurred. Perhaps it is a special stimulation of the mental
unit. Or perhaps it relates to the formation of the “jewel in the lotus”?
As suggested above, the former possibility seems more likely.
358.
But it would seem to have to effect
the lower mental field if animal man could benefit from it.
Three Methods of Work of Three Types of Solar Angel
A third factor differentiating the groups of human units who reached self-consciousness on our planet is hidden in the methods employed by the Lords of the Flame at that time. They, we are told, employed three methods. (TCF 1147)
359.
The three methods of work of the Lords
of the Flame, are to be correlated with those given
above.
360.
We are now talking about the three major
groups again. We are not talking about three groups caused by subdividing
the first part of the second group.
361.
Note below that we are not dealing with the process of those who
refused in incarnate. Thus the three methods mentioned and the three types
do not include the very first and highest type of Solar Angels—the ones who
refused for they were not initially active.
Now, it would seem, with man building the antahkarana, they are becoming active.
FIRST METHOD: First, They themselves took bodies and thus energised certain of the higher forms of the animal kingdom, so that they appeared as man, and thus initiated a particular group. Their descendants can be seen in the highest [Page 1147] specimens of the earth humanity now on earth. They are not even now, however, as far advanced as the groups of units from the moon chain who came in in Atlantean days. Their heredity is peculiar.
362.
This seems to be the most sacrificial process.
363.
This group took bodies, energizing the higher forms
of the animal kingdom
364.
They appeared as man.
365.
They energize and eventually initiated a particular
group of higher animal forms..
366.
The highest specimens of the earth humanity now on
earth are their descendents. Who are these people and how are they noticeable?
The majority of them will be second ray monads.
367.
They have a peculiar heredity
368.
They are not as advanced as the group of units who
came in from the moon chain in middle Atlantean days.
369.
In general these men would have been the leaders
of the Lemurian Civilization. We should not, however, forget the presence
of the Ancestors from the first solar system. They were in Lemuria and were
highly intelligent, but intelligent Moon-chain humanity was not.
370.
One wonders where and in what nations they can be
found.
SECOND METHOD: They implanted a germ of mind in the secondary group of animal-men who were ready for individualisation. This group, for a long time, was unable to express itself, and was most carefully nurtured by the Lords of Flame, nearly proving a failure. By the time, however, that the last subrace of the Lemurian root race was at its height it suddenly came into the forefront of the then civilisation, and justified hierarchical effort.
371.
There was a secondary, less advanced group of animal
men.
372.
This second group of Agnishvattas worked upon them.
373.
The group of Agnishvattas here described is the first
subgroup within the second major group (the major group that comes second
after the major group that refused to incarnate). This second major group,
let us remember, consists of those who are focussed on the causal body—its
maintenance and development.
374.
The second method was to implant the germ of mind
in a secondary group of animal-men. This secondary group must have been less
advanced than the animal men with whom the directly incarnating Solar Angels
associated themselves.
375.
The group was unable to express itself for a long
time and needed to be carefully nurtured by the Lords of Flame. It was almost
a failure.
376.
The highest specimens of the last subrace of the
Lemurian root race must have consisted of the descendents of those who took
bodies
377.
The ones in whom the spark was “implanted” then emerged,
and came into the forefront of the then civilization.
378.
The “ancestors” as stated were no doubt powerful.
They stood at the forefront of discipleship at that time. (EP I)
THIRD METHOD: Thirdly, They fostered the germ of instinct in
certain groups of animal-men until it flowered into mind. It must never be forgotten that men have within
themselves (apart from any extraneous fostering) the ability to arrive, and
to achieve full self-consciousness. {Fostering, Feeding,
Fanning} Germ of Instinct—Mental Unit.
379.
This fostered germ, which was fanned and fed, did
indeed flower into mind.
380.
The method of work here discussed relates to the
second subgroup of the second major group (whose general focus was upon the
causal body)
381.
This method is called “fostering the germ of instinct”,
until that germ flowered into mind.
382.
This may also be called “fanning the flame” or ‘feeding
the flame’—the “latent flame” which the mental unit represents. It probably
increased the working of the principle of correlation—already active in animal intelligence
(but with animals and animal learning, this correlation factor is unconscious.
383.
We do not know the method of this fostering, but
it means to quicken instinct into mind.
384.
Reminder that men can, without any extraneous fostering
or fanning, achieve by themselves full self-consciousness.
385. Of the origin of the mental unit, let us remember: “There appears a triangle on the mental plane, produced by manasic activity, and this triangle of fire begins slowly to circulate between the manasic permanent atom, and a point at the centre of the egoic lotus, and thence to the mental unit, which has appeared upon the fourth subplane through innate instinct approximating mentality.” (TCF 709)
386.
We see that the appearance of the mental unit was
not the work of the Solar Angels,
although they stimulated it.
387.
The last group of men resulting from this third process,
are those who are farthest behind in their development.
“Mankind is obviously divided into god-informed men and lower human creatures.
The intellectual difference between the Aryan and other civilized nations
and such savages as the South Sea Islanders, is inexplicable on any other
grounds. No amount of culture, nor generations of training amid civilization,
could raise such human specimens as the Bushmen, the Veddhas of Ceylon, and
some African tribes, to the same intellectual level as the Aryans, the Semites,
and the Turanians so called. The "sacred spark" is missing in them
and it is they who are the only inferior races on the globe, now happily --
owing to the wise adjustment of nature which ever works in that direction
-- fast dying out. Verily mankind is "of one blood," but not of
the same essence. We are the hot-house, artificially quickened plants
in nature, having in us a spark, which in them is latent. (SD II 423)
388.
The types of men here discussed do not have the “implanted
spark”, or (in some way) the spark is “latent” and presently ineffective.
There is, therefore, a very significant difference between them and the more
progressive groups of human beings. They do not have the
implanted presence of the Solar Angel within them.
389.
A very serious question remains whether those human
beings who individualized on the Moon-chain or in the first solar system are
today tended by Solar Angels?
390.
We might say that, even if they have achieved self-conscious
intelligence in those earlier days, the presence of an assisting Solar Angel
would be of great use in hastening their evolution.
Three Types of Work
to be Correlated
with Three Types of Solar Angels
These types of work, do not relate to fanning, feeding, fostering.
The Solar Angels are supervising these lives. Instead, they relate to the
work done by the Solar Angels who actually work at evolving the man, over
a long period.
A Very Good Question: Do the earliest men have a causal lotus? This is a very good
question. It seems that they do have a lotus, and that the lotus must
have been created at the time of their fanned individualization.
Perhaps the answer to this question
can be hinted below:
It must also
be remembered in connection with our planet that Egos appear in those groups whose lotuses are not produced as the result of the Law of Attraction
working between the animal kingdom of the globe and the higher Triads,
but which are Egos who have individualised
elsewhere, and who therefore come in with their petals already organised,
and perhaps with several petals unfolded.
(TCF 853)
391.
The statement above could refer to a natural process
of attraction, or, it could refer to a process where the natural attraction
between animal man and the higher Triads was aided and abetted by the coming
of the Solar Angels.
The work of the solar angels is of a triple nature:
392.
We must determine which groups of Solar Angels are responsible
for this work.
393.
We seem to be describing three
modes of work of those who are supervising the development of the causal
body.
(1.) Directing the vibration
towards the atomic triangle. Here
a very interesting fact must be borne in mind.
The three permanent atoms, or the three points of the triangle, do
not always hold the same relative position as regards the centre of the lotus,
but according to the stage of development so will be the position of the atoms,
and so will be the apprehension of the inflowing force. In the earlier stages, the physical permanent
atom is the first to receive the inflow, passing it through its system to
the astral permanent atom and the mental unit. This force is circulated four times around the
triangle (this being the fourth round) until the mental unit is again contacted
and the energy becomes centralised in the fourth spirilla of the mental unit.
Then and only then do the lunar Pitris begin
their work, and commence the co-ordination of the substance which will form
the mental sheath, next working with the astral body and finally with the
etheric body.
394.
First work of the Solar Angels.
These would seem to be the Solar Angels which are most important at this time—the
group tending the development of the causal body. Not only that, but the first
subgroup within this major second group. Those who refused to incarnate and
those who took bodies are not here mentioned.
395.
The work described in this section is proceeding
in reversed order. First, comes a general attention to the two
permanent atoms and the mental unit. This is the stage under discussion. Later
stages attend more to the unfoldment of the petals of the Egoic Lotus and;
finally to the completion of the Egoic Lotus.
At a later stage in the evolution of man (the stage wherein the average man is now) the astral permanent atom is the first contacted, and the energy circulates through it to the other two. At the stage of advanced intellectual man, the mental unit takes the primary place. In this case there is now the possibility of the alignment of the three bodies which will later be an accomplished fact. The fifth spirilla in the lower two atoms increases its vibration. As we know, there are only four spirillae in the mental unit and the moment that that is in full activity, the co-ordination of the antaskarana becomes a possibility.
396.
The mental unit can be correlated with Mercury and
the number 4.
397.
It is as if the building of the antahkarana corresponds
(in relation to the mental unit) to the stimulation of the fifth spirilla
in the lower two permanent atoms.
398.
When the mental unit receives the inflow of energy
first, then alignment of the three
bodies becomes possible.
Changes are now taking place in the egoic lotus, and the petals are unfolding, that unfoldment being partially dependent upon the vibration in the spirillae and their awakening.
399.
Petals unfolding depend upon the spirillae. The unfolding
of the fifth spirillae, in particular, are important.
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The student should bear in mind the fact that as soon as the
mental unit has become the apex
of the atomic triangle a condition is brought about
wherein force in the future will enter the three atoms simultaneously through
the three unfolded petals of the outer circle, and the man has therefore reached
a very definite stage in evolution.
400.
Are we talking about the first planetary initiation?
401.
Sequentially, the physical and astral permanent atoms
and the mental unit become prime receptors.
402.
Then, at a certain point, there is a simultaneous
entry of force into the three atoms.
403.
Note that the force enters through the three unfolded
petals of the outer circle.
404.
It is the three outer petals that are most associated
with the mental unit, the astral permanent atom and the physical permanent
atom.
(2) The direction of force, and its application to the atoms is the work of the solar Pitris. As evolution proceeds, their work in this connection becomes more complex, for the petals are unfolding, and the triangle is revolving more rapidly.
405.
Directing force to the three atoms is the work of
the Solar Pitris (not, the
Solar Lords or the Solar Angels).
406.
The main point brought forward in this second mode
of work is increasing complexification.
The force is not just directed towards the atomic triangle, but there is an increasingly sophisticated
application of force to this triangle.
(2.) Pronouncing the mantram which will make possible the 777 incarnations.
407.
This is a mantric responsibility and is the second
and higher level of responsibility. The previous responsibility had to do
with directing forces toward the three permanent atoms.
408.
We are now dealing with the unfoldment of the petals
and it is mantrically promoted.
Each of the figures in this triplicity stands for:
a. A cycle of egoic manifestation.
b. A particular sound which will enable the Ego to express some subray of this egoic ray.
c. The three circles of petals which will unfold as the result
of incarnation.
409.
Each of the three circles of petals (the three tiers)
correlates to 700,70 or 7
d. The particular group of manasadevas
who form the causal body of the Ego concerned.
410.
It is necessary to know more about the manasadevas.
There seem to be so many of them and they are ranked.
411.
They seem to be divided into three groups, and probably
each of the three into three more.
412.
This is the work of the “Solar Lords” (if this differentiation
means anything)
413.
We must remember when thinking about the groups of
Solar Angels that each Creative Hierarchy is divided into seven groups with
respect to form and nine with respect to consciousness.
The mantric sounds are therefore based on these figures, and through the mantram (which grows in volume, depth and number of sounds involved as time elapses) the force is directed, the petals concerned are stimulated into activity, and the lunar Pitris become aware of the work to be done in preparation for any incarnation.
414.
The opening of the petals is mantrically controlled.
(3.) Building into the
causal body that which is required for its completion.
415.
The Solar Angels are the architects. These Solar
Angles are differentiated from Solar Pitris and Solar Lords. Although these
differentiations can be confusing, something of importance is hinted.
In the early stages this work is comparatively small but as the third stage of development is reached,
416.
In which the mental unit is the first to receive
the force from above
and the man is demonstrating character and ability, their work is rapidly increased, and they are kept fully occupied in the work of perfecting the egoic body, in expanding the egoic consciousness, if metaphysical terms are preferred.
417.
In this last type of Solar Angelic work, the Solar Angels work to
*** All [Page 777] this is accomplished by means of the material furnished by the lower self.
418.
Working in the “quarries” of lower life.
When that lower Personality becomes gradually radioactive, these radiations are attracted to the positive ego, and are absorbed into its nature through the activity of the solar angels.
419.
A story of force absorption is here told. A radioactive
personality will have radiations which are attracted to the “positive ego”
(which probably means the egoic lotus) and through the solar
angels are absorbed into the nature of the egoic lotus.
420.
It may be that that category of manasadeva called
“Solar Angels” (rather than Solar Lords or Solar Pitris) is responsible for
this absorption.
These three activities are the main work of the solar Pitris where man is concerned.
421.
Three activities: directing, sounding and building.
422.
These three types of work are progressive.
423.
There is a lot of blinding going on with respect to the terms
“Solar Pitris” and “Solar Angels”
Solar Angels, Solar Lords and Solar Pitris
I. Knowledge Petals. First circle.
a. Organised in the Hall of Ignorance.b. Guided by the force and energy of the Mahachohan.c. The third group of solar Pitris affected.
II. Love Petals. Second circle.
a. Organised in the Hall of Learning.
b. Guided by the force of the Bodhisattva.
c. The second group of solar Lords affected.
III. Will or Sacrifice Petals. Third circle.
a. Organised in the Hall of Wisdom.
b. Guided by the force and energy of the Manu.
c. The first group of solar Angels affected. (TCF 82?)
[Are the 5 above just as there is a 4
below? Is there a dominating Solar Angel, just as there is a dominating Lunar
Angel (called the “Personality”].
424.
A strong hint seems here to be given concerning the
“solar Pitris”, “solar Lords” and “solar Angels”. They seem to be progressive
in their development. These changes in terminology must be deliberate and
must hide some developmental scheme.
425.
We are told that the Fifth Creative Hierarchy is
a dual Hierarchy. Perhaps, it is,
in fact, triple, with the second grouping begin itself
divided into two.
The Highest and Lowest Groups of Solar Angels
Where the group, and not the individual, is concerned, their work lies along the line of adjusting the egoic units in their groups, and of making them group conscious, but this is only possible towards the final stages of evolution when the work of the highest group of Agnishvattas is in order.
426.
The highest group of Agnishvattas may be those who
refused to incarnate. It would seem that before this point, the work of the
highest group is not in order.
427.
This concerns the highest group of Agnishvattas
in relation to group work
428.
The various groups of Agnishvattas have been listed in three classifications
from a number of perspectives. They have to be correlated with each other.
429.
Because we are dealing with a Creative Hierarchy,
it would seem that there are fewer members of the higher groups and more members of the lesser
groups.
430.
The mystery of the formation of group
beings is
here suggested.
From an earlier reference, these are GROUP ONE: One group, the highest, is connected with the logoic head centre, whether solar or planetary. They work with the manasic permanent atoms and embody the will-to-be in dense physical incarnation. (TCF 698)
Also from an earlier reference:
(3.) Building into the causal
body that which is required for its completion.
The middle group who form the nine petals are always the most active.
431.
The middle group of Agnishvattas, are those
who form the nine petals.
432.
They are the most active.
433.
They should be linked to the “implantation of the
spark of mind”, and neither to work with the manasic permanent atom or the
mental unit (at least, to the fanning or feeing of the “latent flame” which
the mental unit represents.
434.
When thinking of the “implantation of the spark”,
one also seeks for a location for the implantation.
From an earlier reference these are GROUP TWO: Another group is connected definitely with the causal bodies of all Egos and are of prime importance in this solar system. They come from the heart centre, and express that force. (TCF 699)
Also from an earlier reference: (2) The direction
of force, and its application to the atoms is the work of the solar Pitris.
435.
This type of work concerned, among other things,
the unfolding of the petals.
[A Lower Group] They work in connection with the lower group who are the direct transmitters of energy to the atomic triangle, receiving it from the middle group.
From an earlier reference these are GROUP THREE: The third group, corresponding to the throat centre, show forth their power on the fourth subplane through the mental units. They are the sumtotal of the power of the Ego to see, to hear and to speak (or sound) in the strictly occult sense. (TCF 699)
Also from an earlier reference: (1.) Directing the vibration towards the atomic
triangle.
436.
Even though the discussion of transmission to the
atomic triangle was discussed as the first type of work of the Solar
Angels (directing, sounding and building), it seems to be the work
of the lowest group.
437.
Note again, we are not talking about those who are
simply fanning or feeding the latent flame.
438.
A question arises: once the latent flame has been
fanned sufficiently to become self-conscious mind (as it has for some), and
once these animal men are actually individualized, will the Solar Angels then be involved with them in
a new way? Or will they be left to pursue their own way of development. These
types of human beings are, we learn, not subject to the process of initiation.
Will then the Solar Angel need to be involved with them?
439.
I have tried to group the functions of three categories
of Solar Pitris/Lords/Angels
The Work of the Lowest of the Three Groups
The three groups of Agnishvattas concerned with the evolution of man on the mental level have each a specific function, as we have already seen, and the lowest of the three deal primarily with the transmission of force or energy to the three permanent atoms.
440.
The three groups here discussed are really a subgroup
of those who implanted the spark. They are concerned with the unfoldment of
the petals.
441.
Those that are most concerned with the unfoldment
of the outer tier have the closest
relation to the three permanent atoms.
442.
All, this is a reiteration of the fact that the lowest
of the three groups of Agnishvattas deal with the transmission of force
(let us say the directing of force) to the three permanent atoms.
443.
We are not here dealing with the lowest of the three
main groups of Agnishvattas who fanned and fed rather than implanted.
In the dual sounding of the egoic mantram by the lowest of the three groups changes are brought about and the lunar Pitris (who concern themselves with the lower three vehicles) enter upon their work, the key being given to them by the solar angels.
444.
An egoic mantram is sounded by the lowest of the
three groups.
445.
The “key” or perhaps “keynote” is given to the lunar
pitris by the solar angels.
When Do the Solar
Angels Appear—Historically?
When the WORD sounded forth which produced desire in the Triad for self-expression, and when the sound of the lower manifestation had blended with it*, and had risen up into the Heavens, as the occult books express it, [Page 702] an effect was produced which caused a response in certain allied constellations; this set loose energy which swept into the solar system, carrying with it those solar angels who “rested in the Heart of God until the hour was come.” (TCF 701-702)
446.
When they appeared on the mental plane, Spirit and
matter were united.
447.
The Ego is a self-conscious Identity born from the
union of Spirit and matter.
448.
We note that “desire [arose] in the Triad for self-expression”.
This means that there is a monadic impulse registered in the triad (which
is the personality of the monad).
449.
Desire would not have arisen in the Triad unless
there were a movement in the Planetary Logos, and unless the monads who
constitute centers in the Planetary Logos were affected.
450.
It was sound that called in the Solar Angels
Only as the heart centre of a Heavenly Man (each in His cycle and each differing cyclically) becomes vitalised and attains a certain vibratory capacity does the individualisation of the Monads become possible under the Law. (TCF 684)
451.
This means that the coming in the Solar
Angels is related to the development of the heart
center of the Heavenly Man.
452.
Individualization is not just a mental theme. It
is a process stimulated by the planetary heart center.
453.
The “Heavenly Man” in this instance may be seen as
the soul aspect of the Planetary Logos.
Again, it is only as the threefold dense physical body of a planetary Logos (as expressed by our three worlds, the mental, astral and dense physical planes) has reached [Page 685] a corresponding vibration and retraced the cyclic development of the previous mahamanvantara, that there is produced that vibratory contact which causes the shining out upon the mental plane of the egoic groups. It brings forth a manifestation of the heart impulses of the Heavenly Man, and thus swings into objectivity those Monads (energised by the life of the Heart) who form various centres.
454.
The shining forth is a heart activity.
455.
Nomads=First Solar System Monad
456.
The time for the coming of the Solar
Angels requires a retracing of the cyclic development of the previous
mahamanvantara (with its emphasis upon intelligence and form).
457.
What has this to do with the retracing of the previous
incarnation in the life of incarnating man? The matter aspect of the Planetary
Logos must be ready before the heart center of that Logos can come into expression.
458.
The Solar Angels are linked to the “heart impulses”
of the Heavenly Man.
459.
When Monads appear, they are energized by the life
of the heart of the Planetary Logos.
460.
The appearance of the monads, their swinging
into objectivity could mean the beginning of their work in correlation with
Solar Angels.
The old Commentary says:
“When the Heart of the Body throbs with spiritual energy, when its sevenfold content thrills under the spiritual impulse, then the currents spread and circulate and divine manifestation becomes a Reality; the divine Man incarnates.” (TCF 685)
461.
Dany: Our life thread is anchored in the heart. Animation
comes via the activity for the heart. Individualization is an animation. Animation
means ensoulment. Buddhic enlivenment.
462.
The “Body” in this case is the Body of the Planetary
Logos.
463.
This “Heart” has a “sevenfold content”.
464.
We remember that the “Jewel in the Lotus” which is
the heart of the lotus, is sevenfold.
465.
The Solar Angels are coming in on “currents”
The physical plane analogy is seen at the life stimulation which is felt between the third and fourth month during the prenatal period, when the heart of the child thrills with life and individual existence becomes a possibility. (TCF 685)
466.
The stimulation occurring after
the third and before the fourth is significant. The curriculum
of the number three (associated
with a completed recapitulation of the threefold progress of the previous
solar system) has been completed.
467.
A kind of incarnational individualization is occurring
when the heart throbs.
It must be borne in mind that just as in each round all the preceding stages are rapidly recapitulated, and just as in the prenatal period the foetus recapitulates during the formative process the history of the preceding kingdoms, so in the solar system a similar procedure can be seen. When a certain point is reached and the lower three planes are vibrating, or energised, then cosmic incarnation becomes a possibility; the “Heart” occultly awakens, and the “Son of God,” the expression of the desire and love of the Logos, is born.24,25 (TCF 685)
468.
So Solar Angels are definitely related to heart activity.
469.
Solar Angels
are an expression of the “desire and love of the Logos”.
470.
We are told that the soul makes its impression at
the age of thirty-five. Is it also possible to consider the importance of
twenty-one years of age?
Method and time may vary according to the nature of any particular planetary Logos, but for each and all the “Heart of the Body” has to thrill with awakening life before the response comes from the lower. The lunar Pitris have to carry on their work in our scheme and system before the solar angels, thrilling with expectancy, take possession of the forms prepared through their endeavour, and stimulate them into self-conscious life and separated existence.
The threefold work of the lunar pitris
precedes the possible work of the Solar Angels.
471.
Solar Angels
thrill with expectancy as they “take
possession of the forms prepared through their endeavour, and stimulate them
into self-conscious life and separated existence”.
472.
One thinks in this connection of the “vivid, flaming,
drenching life”.
In considering the Entities33 who gave the manasic principle to man, we must remember that they are the beings who, in earlier manvantaras have achieved, and who—in this round—waited for a specific moment at [Page 700] which to enter, and so continue their work. A parallel case can be seen at the entry—in Atlantean days—of Egos from the moon-chain. The parallel is not exact, as a peculiar condition prevailed on the moon, and a peculiar karmic purpose brought them all in at that time. (TCF 699-701)
473.
They achieved in earlier manvantaras (does He mean
“mahamanvantaras”?)
474.
We see the principle of right timing at work in great
spiritual enterprises.
The Meaning of the Implantation of the Spark: In the early history of humanity there was a great crisis which we call individualisation. At that time the solar angels, in response to a demand or a pull from the race of animal-men (as a whole, note that), sent a portion of their energy, embodying the quality of mentalisation, to these animal-men. (TWM 88)
475.
From a lesser perspective, the “pull from the race
of animal men” brought in the coming of the Lords of the Flame.
476.
But many factors were involved—especially larger
planetary factors.
What is the Origin of the Solar Angels?
They themselves originate from the logoic middle principle.21 (TCF 681)
They are the Fire Dhyanis, and emanate from the Heart of the Sun.”—S. D., II, 96.
b. The petals are destroyed by the action of fire, and the multiplicity of deva lives which form them and give to them their coherence and quality are gathered back by the solar Pitris of the highest order into the Heart of the Sun; they will be directed outward again in another solar system. (TCF 831)
They pass cyclically through the schemes and under Law—the Law
of Karma for the planetary Logos, for They are essentially concerned with
His Life as it actuates His centres. They come into a scheme on a wave of manasic energy from
the head centre of the Logos, and in the process of passing through his Heart
centre three things occur:
1. They become differentiated into seven groups.
2. They direct Themselves as streams of energy to some particular scheme.
3. Their contact with a scheme is that which produces the manifestation
of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, and leads to the Monads taking form in the
three worlds. (TCF 742)
477.
How manasadevas enter—from the head center or the
Logos and then pass through His heart.
478.
They are emanating from the Solar Logos
479.
Their differentiation into seven streams concerns
determines which of the planetary schemes they will go towards.
The human evolution. To become the solar Pitris of another cycle. To follow any of the paths earlier enumerated. Those who become solar Pitris, being the bulk of humanity, return to Sirius to be breathed out again into activity. (TCF 844)
480.
The majority of human beings treads the Path to Sirius
to be breathes out again into activity as Solar Pitris. This would suggest
that Sirius is the source of our present Solar Angels.
481.
The fact that they “return
to Sirius” suggest that they were once there! Does this relate to the 7 and
9 Paths of descent?
They are connected in their highest groups with that portion of the logoic head centre which corresponds to the heart, and here is the clue to the mystery of kama-manas. The kamic angels are vitalised from the “heart” centre and the manasic angels from the logoic head centre, via the point within that centre connected with the heart. These two dominating groups are the sumtotal of kama-manas in all its manifestations. The solar angels exist in three groups, all of which are concerned with the self-consciousness aspect, all of which are energised and connected with the fifth spirilla of the logoic permanent atom, and all of which work as a unit. (TCF 698-699)
482.
Daniel: Buddha represents heart in the head of humanity.
Christ is the heart of humanity.
483.
One of their major points of origin is the heart
and head of the Solar Logos
These entities who sacrifice Themselves for the human Hierarchy (and we must note here the accuracy of the fact that They emanate from the logoic head centre, or from the will aspect), are the true Saviours who give Their lives for the good of the race. (TCF 743)
484.
It is repeated that the Solar
Angels “emanate from the logoic head centre, or from the will aspect”
What Can Be Said About the Return of the Solar
Angels?
Sacrifice is the faculty which will be his in the future,
which he will intelligently focus through the highest head centre and thus
apply. It is dependent upon his development
of consciousness, and therefore upon his recognition of the esoteric purpose
of his group, and of the planetary existences. As it involves what is termed "a solar
and lunar act of abnegation" it involves, therefore, a due comprehension
of solar and of lunar energy, and a bringing of both these two groups to a
stage of co-operative activity. It
concerns, therefore, the nature of the Jewel in the lotus, and it
is only when the three sacrifice petals in the three tiers are unfolded that
this particular type of energy is released. The
lunar Lords of the three bodies have been controlled, and their vibration
synchronised, so that the great act of sacrifice finds them ready [Page 878]
for the final process of renunciation. The
solar Lords, in their three major groups, are equally ready for the final
sacrifice, which involves the "rupture between the sun and the moon"
as it is called. This results in the
breaking of the magnetic link between the true man, and the vibratory sensitive
substance of which his three world bodies are made. The need for incarnation is no longer felt,
the chains of karma are broken, and the man is liberated. The "lunar Lords return to their own place"
or—as the Christian expresses it—"Satan is bound for a thousand years,"78
this meaning only that pralayic peace is the lot of these entities until the
return of manvantaric opportunity.
The final sacrifice
involves also the disappearance of the lower triangle, or the severing of
the connection between the three permanent atoms in the lower part of the
causal body or egoic lotus, and the central unit of energy. The energy of these atoms is set loose through
the intense heat produced by the union of the three fires and is reabsorbed
into the general reservoir in interplanetary space. The fiery triangle is lost sight of in the general
blaze, and the deva essences who temporarily formed
it cease their activity.
Again, the solar
Angels complete their initial sacrifice by a final one, and offer themselves
upon the fiery altar. The causal body is completely destroyed. The four lower
groups of solar Pitris return to the heart of the subjective sun, or to that inmost centre of
the system from whence they came, whilst the three higher groups are carried
(by the force and energy generated in the fiery furnace and blaze, and through
the stimulation produced by the blazing forth of the central jewel) straight
to the central spiritual sun, there to abide until another kalpa calls them forth
to sacrifice Themselves, this time as planetary Logoi. The
student must bear in mind that [Page 879] in thinking of the Pitris, he must
ever think in group terms. The Pitris
who formed the egoic body of a human being do not—alone and isolated—form
planetary Logoi. The forty-nine groups
of solar fires concerned in the great work are those spoken of, and they become
the forty-nine planetary Logoi in connexion with seven solar systems. In them is hid the mystery of the three who
become the sixteen—united or synthesised by the seventeenth—a correspondence
upon cosmic levels of the seven with the eighth sphere. This must remain practically an insoluble mystery
to man at present.
The four groups who found
their way to the Heart of the system will reappear as the four planetary Logoi who are the twenty-eight and
who thus produce the possibility of the ten of perfection in another series
of manifesting systems.
The seven types of
solar energy find the "path of return" to their central emanating
source; by the disruption of the tie between them and the lunar lords (who
are esoterically spoken of as "dead or dying on the field of battle")
the great sacrifice is consummated, and they are free to return in triumph.
(TCF 877-879)
This has been expressed
in the old Commentary in the following words:
"The seven Brothers
love each other, yet each seeketh for many aeons the path of hatred.
They hate and kill each other until they find that which dieth not
and is not hurt. Together then they stand and serve and through
their service the seven suns burn up." (TCF 1249)
The Final Sacrifice of the Solar Angels:
It is not possible
to give students an adequate idea of the beauty of the egoic lotus when it
has reached the stage of complete unfoldment.
The radiancy of its colour is not here referred to, but the brilliancy
of the fires, and the rapid scintillation of the ceaselessly moving streams
and points of energy. Each petal pulsates
with quivering fire "points," and each tier of petals vibrates with
life, whilst at the centre glows the Jewel, raying forth streams of energy
from the centre to the periphery of the outermost circle.
The fires of living
energy circulate around each individual petal and the method of interweaving
and the circulation of the fires is (as may be well realised) sevenfold in
nature according to the sevenfold nature of the Logos involved. Each circle of petals becomes, as evolution
proceeds, likewise active, and revolves around the central Jewel, so that
we have, not only the activity of the petals, not only the activity of the
living points or the deva lives within the petal circumference, but likewise
the unified activity of each tier of the threefold lotus. At a specific stage in evolution, prior to the
opening of the central veiling bud, the three tiers of petals, considered
as a unit, begin to revolve, so that the entire lotus appears to be in motion.
At the final stages the central circle of petals opens, revealing that
which is hid, and revolves around the Jewel, only in a contrary direction
to the rapidly circulating outer lotus. The
reason may not here be revealed for it is hid in the nature of the electric
Fire of Spirit itself.
The Jewel itself
remains occultly static, and does not circulate. It is a point of peace; it pulsates rhythmically
as does the heart of man, and from it ray forth eight streams of living fire
which extend to the tips of the four love petals and the four sacrifice petals.
This eight-fold [Page 1119] energy is atma-buddhi.
It is this final raying forth which produces the eventual disintegration
of the body of the Ego. The knowledge
petals, not being the subject of the attention of this central fire in due
time cease to be active; knowledge is superseded by divine wisdom and the
love petals have their forces equally absorbed.
Naught is eventually left but the desire to "sacrifice,"
and as the vibratory impulse is akin to the nature of the living Jewel, it
is synthesised in the central living unit and only the Jewel of fire remains.
When all the petals have merged their forces elsewhere, the process
of revelation is completed. The lower
fires die out; the central fire is absorbed, and only the radiant point of
electric fire persists. Then a curious
phenomenon is to be seen at the final Initiation.
The Jewel of fire blazes forth as seven jewels within the one, or as
the sevenfold electric spark, and in the intensity of the blaze thus created
is reabsorbed into the Monad or the One. This
process is paralleled at the final consummation of solar evolution when the
seven Suns blaze forth before the great Pralaya. (TCF 1118-1119)
What is the Relative Status of the Solar Angels
When Compared to Men?
They stand in relation to the totality of the schemes as the Occult Hierarchy of any particular planet stands to men upon that planet. (TCF 743)
485.
The Solar Angels are as a higher type of Occult Hierarchy.
486.
In some ways, they seem to be higher than our Spiritual
Hierarchy, being members of the council within the Sun.
Perfected men are in
the councils of the planetary Logos of their particular ray; the solar Pitris
are in the council of the solar Logos.69 (TCF 843)
What is the Analogy Within the
System of the Solar Logos To the Coming of the Lords of the Flame
Planetarily and in
Relation to Man?
Thus the four great schemes in the solar system, which are the vehicles for four of the planetary Logoi (Who constitute the logoic Quaternary), have to reach