Fellowship of Cosmic
Fire
Commentary Semester
IV Section III
TCF 355-369 : S4S3
6 – 21 November 2006
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1.
After considering
cosmic and planetary manas, we now focus on the human level.
We are now to consider
primarily man and the manasic principle, its development in the fourth Creative
Hierarchy, the human Monads, with special reference to our Earth chain.
2.
After many cosmic
and super-cosmic considerations, we are confining our subject to man (not as he is in the solar system) but as he
is precisely on our Earth-chain. Our subject does not even cover manas as
it expresses on planetary chains.
3.
When we consider
manas, we are considering the Spirit manifesting through the forms it has
created.
We have seen that, to
all intents and purposes, manas is the active will of an Entity working
itself out through all the lesser lives who go to the content
of the ring-pass-not or sphere of influence of the indwelling Existence.
4.
We have seen that
DK’s discussion of manas is largely inseparable from will.
5.
Manas emanates
from an indwelling Existence or Entity.
6.
Note the phrase
“content of the ring-pass-not”. What are the lives which go to the content
of the ring-pass-not of any of the atoms currently under discussion?
7.
What are the types
of lives which go the content of the ring-pass-not of the atom of matter-substance?
Are they subatomic particles?
Therefore—as concerning
man on this chain—he is but expressing the purpose and the will in
action of the planetary Logos in Whose body he is a cell or lesser life.
8.
As man develops,
he finds in himself an expression of the Plan of the Planetary Logos in
Whom we live and move and have our being.
certain
mysteries arise consequently for our consideration which are connected with
the life cycles of the Heavenly Man of our scheme, and particularly in relation
to that special incarnation of His which we call the cycle [Page 356]
of manifestation on the dense physical globe, the earth.
9.
Incarnations of
our Planetary Logos are variously described: sometimes rounds are considered
incarnations; sometimes root race or sub-races; sometimes globes and probably
even chains.
10.
A Planetary Logos
or Heavenly Man is a Being with many types of “life
cycles”, many of them occurring simultaneously.
He wears the planetary body as man
wears the robe of the physical body, and by means of this objective form
He works His purposes out on the physical plane, through the factor of mind
achieving certain goals.
11.
It has often been
asked if our “dense physical globe” is only physical. It has been
answered in the negative, by reminding ourselves that Sanat Kumara came
to our fourth globe of the Earth-chain from the second globe of the Earth-chain, and that Shamballa
exists as part of the expression of our fourth globe.
12.
Mind, we see,
is closely related to manifestation. Mind and matter are
a closely interwoven pair.
Incidentally, the
cells in His body conform to that Mind which plays upon them, just
as man, the intelligent principle of incarnation on the physical plane,
brings into conformity with his purpose the atoms of his body,
and stimulates ever more and more the spirillae of those atoms by the force
of his mind playing upon them.
13.
The factor of
conformity is Saturnian, and the mentality which plays upon man has much
of the third ray and first ray forces of Saturn within it.
14.
The definition
of man here given is noteworthy: “man, the intelligent principle of incarnation
on the physical plane”.
15.
The stimulation
of spirillae arises from the imposition of manas. Manas is a progressive force when it comes to promoting the
development of material units.
16.
Systemic planes
are as spirillae to the Solar Logos, and, to a degree, to the Planetary
Logos. The aggregations of similar kinds of vehicles utilized by many men
are as spirillae to the Planetary Logos.
17.
Within humanity
as a whole, the fifth principle is under stimulation. Within the bodies
of the individual man, the fifth spirillae of his individual atoms is under
stimulation.
Here comes the opportunity
to make clear something that is oft lost sight of in the general fog surrounding
this subject.
18.
DK sees the mental
obscurity in which we labor.
The human and deva
units on the upward arc, who are the cells in His body, go to the formation
of the centres, and not to the remainder of the cellular vital substance
of His vehicles.
19.
It may be that
deva units are more inclined to form the lower centers and human units,
the higher.
20.
The body (solar,
planetary, human or other) is hierarchically organized. In the body of the
Planetary Logos, the substance of the centers of force is of greater hierarchical
priority than the “remainder of the cellular vital substance”.
Man has a body made
up of matter which is applied to different uses, yet which forms a unit.
21.
We have in man
(as in all units great and small) a division of labor. Matter is organized
hierarchically within the material nature of man.
22.
This hierarchical
organization may also obtain within the subtle bodies of man.
In this unit there are
certain areas of more vital importance than other areas from the standpoint
of energising force.
23.
We note the phrase
“of more vital importance”. Those areas of more vital importance serve the
purposes of the indwelling Life more thoroughly and accurately. The indwelling
life is the “energising force”.
Such an area as the heart
may, in this connection, be considered and compared (as regards force value)
with such an area as the calf of the leg.
24.
DK is teaching
us through this comparison, as the calf of the leg is ruled by Aquarius,
the sign opposite Leo, which rules the heart.
25.
It is obvious,
but one can live without the calf of the leg, but not without the heart
(or an artificial substitute). Yet the calf of the leg acts as a pump for
blood and serves the heart.
The entity, man, utilises
both, but the heart centre is of paramount importance.
26.
The principle
is clear.
Thus is it also with a
Heavenly Man. The two great Hierarchies—deva and human—are force centres
in the body of a planetary Logos;
27.
The body, of course,
consists of a number of dimensions—not just the physical-etheric.
28.
From the solar
logoic perspective, all that is found upon the cosmic physical plane is
the physical body in its ethereal and dense portions.
29.
With regard to
the Planetary Logos, the deva evolution can be correlated with the sacral
center (a form-building center) and the human evolution (generally) with
the throat center.
the
other evolutions of an involutionary nature extant within the scheme,
and the remainder of the active substance of the globes, and all
contained therein, go to the content of the remainder of His body.
30.
We are differentiating
between evolutionary and involutionary substance (from the perspective of
the Planetary Logos).
31.
All evolutions
exist within the body corporate, but according to their degree of evolution,
so is their importance to the Including Life, the ‘Energizing Force’.
32.
Every vehicle
has its chakras. The chakras are of a higher order of substance than the
general substance of the vehicle in which they take shape as vortices.
a. Man and the planetary Logos. With the deva evolution at this point we have nought
to do.
33.
For the moment,
the Tibetan is focussing His attention on man. He does say quite a bit about
the deva evolution later in the book.
34.
Man, actually,
has much to do with the deva evolution, but not much of their relationship
is yet conscious—from the human perspective.
I seek to concentrate attention on man, as he functions on earth.
35.
This is one of
the practical sections of TCF.
In order to clarify the idea of manas and its relation to a human being
it is necessary to point out certain things [Page 357] in connection with
a Heavenly Man which must be borne in mind.
36.
To see man clearly,
we must also reference the Heavenly Man in Whom
man is a corporate part.
First, that each Heavenly Man holds the position
of a centre in the body of a solar Logos; therefore, the Logos of a scheme
will embody some outstanding characteristic.
37.
As each chakra
expresses a predominant quality—according to ray, impinging astrological
influences and general role within the body corporate, so will each of the
Planetary Logoi (considered as chakras within the Solar Logos) express a
predominating quality or “outstanding characteristic”.
38.
We have speculated
much on which planets can be assigned to which solar logoic chakras. Much,
however, remains to be ascertained.
39.
The entire matter
of assigning Planetary Logoi to chakric positions is subject to ‘temporal
fluidity’.
The ten schemes are the seven, and the synthesising three—not
the seven and a lower three.
40.
Here we are speaking
of ten planetary schemes, among which are non-sacred schemes.
41.
In this enumeration
the three Logoi surrounding the Solar Logos do not seem to be included.
42.
There, are, however
a “lower three” as well as a ‘higher three’. Counting seven, a lower three,
a higher three and a ‘circum-logoic’ three, we have the number sixteen—a
number important to the construction of the egoic lotus and to the throat
center.
43.
DK seems to be
answering regarding whether there are three in addition to the seven or
whether the ten are to be derived from the within the seven, with
the primary trinity counted twice.
The lower centres were vital in the last solar system (from the
esoteric standpoint), and are not counted in this; they were synthesised
and absorbed during the obscuration process of System I.
44.
What do we really
mean by the “lower centres”? Do we mean base of the spine center, sacral
center and solar plexus center? There is reason to think we do not, but,
instead, three still lower centers which were synthesized at the conclusion
of System I.
45.
We note that the
three lowest centers (as usually considered) are very active in this
solar system. The base of the spine center is even active at the fifth initiation,
which our Solar Logos is still far from achieving.
46.
These three (synthesized
at the end of the previous solar system) may in some manner related to the
“eighth sphere” and to a plane which is considered subliminal to our lowest
or seventh systemic plane.
47.
The relationship
between the three and eight is closely guarded. Something about the sign
Scorpio is here suggested.
48.
It would be of
interest to know which planets in the last solar system represented these
centers. We do recall that the Buddhas of Activity were highly manasic Planetary
Logoi in the last solar system.
Secondly, each Heavenly Man is consequently
the embodiment of a particular kind of electrical force which flows
through His scheme as man's force flows through some one of the etheric
centres in his body.
49.
We do not leave
the conception of “electrical force”. Each Heavenly Man is expressive of
some kind of electrical force. This is a predominating quality, and identifying
what it is, is of value when determining the role of that particular Planetary
Logos in the life expression of the Solar Logos.
50.
We have been given
the three major rays of our Planetary Logos—the first ray Monad, the second
ray soul and the third ray personality. (cf. EA 619)
51.
Ray forces are,
it would seem, electrical forces.
52.
The term “electrical”,
or “electric” seems ubiquitous when describing cosmos, mirroring the ubiquity
of Fohat.
Each scheme, as each human centre, will
a. Vibrate to some one
key.
53.
This will depend
upon the degree of advancement of a Planetary Logos as it expresses through
a planetary scheme.
54.
If the Logos functions
as a personality, the key may be ‘pitched’ at a certain vibratory level;
if as a soul, the key changes; if as a Monad, the key changes again.
55.
We might say that
our Planetary Logos is changing key and changing colour, as He moves from
personality polarization toward soul polarization. He is not there yet.
b. Have its own colouring.
56.
We live on a blue-green
planet, which colors are reflective of the personality and soul rays of
our Planetary Logos (the third and second, respectively).
57.
Perhaps within
Ashrams, human beings are organized into groups of seven or multiples thereof,
in order to express certain sub-ray types of the Ashram’s major ray.
c. Resemble, when seen
from the higher planes, a vast lotus.
58.
All units of life
are seen as flowers unfolding—the lotus, due to its structure and appearance,
being the particularly apt symbol. Man, from a certain perspective, is a
lotus (the egoic lotus being paramount at this time); the Planetary Logos
and the Solar Logos, from certain perspectives, are also lotuses.
d. Possess, according
to its vibratory capacity, a definite number of petals.
59.
It is interesting
to consider that each of the planets has a certain number of petals. This
stands to reason as the different chakras of the human being each has a
distinct number of petals.
60.
Whether or not
our Planetary Logos is or ever will be a heart center like the Solar Logos,
it appears that He can be seen as a twelve-petalled lotus.
It is for that reason
that the truly illumined man and all who have taken the three highest initiations
are always referred to as "the diamond souled"; they, in their
totality constitute the "jewel in the lotus"—that twelve-petalled
lotus which is the symbol and expression of the potency of the planetary
Logos. (TEV 91)
8. The points in the third
planetary petal, and groups of others related to the twelve petalled
planetary lotus, (TCF 1082)
61.
In this fourth
chain, fourth globe and fourth round the base of the spine center of the
human being has four petals.
62.
From one perspective,
the Earth-scheme is a base of the spine center, but perhaps is not fully
mature as such a center.
63.
It is reasonable
to suspect that since planetary chains and planetary globes are all chakras
as well, that each of them would have a distinct number of chakras.
64.
Perhaps the fourth
chain and the fourth globe are also, in their own way, base of the spine
centers, and have four petals. This cannot be confirmed by our present knowledge.
65.
If our Earth-scheme,
with its second ray soul, will ever be a solar logoic heart center, it seems
that it will not be in the immediate solar systemic future.
e. Be connected in geometrical
formation with certain other centres of Heavenly Men, making systemic triangles.32
66.
Each Heavenly
Man functions in relation to a number of planetary triangles:
a.
Earth, Mars, Mercury
is one.
b.
Earth, Venus,
Mars is another
c.
Earth, Venus,
Mercury is another
d.
Earth, Vulcan,
Pluto is another
e.
Earth, Mars, Saturn
is yet another, etc.
[A hint of this triangle
of force was conveyed in Letters on Occult Meditation, page 79-84,
when speaking of man and his centres.]
67.
One of the most
important triangles is Earth, Mars, Venus, in which Venus is considered
the alter-ego of Earth and its polar opposite, and Mars can be considered
Earth’s complimentary planet.
f. Be characterised by
different stages of activity according to the initiation towards which the
Logos may be working.
68.
Things on our
Earth are heating up considerably as our Planetary Logos prepares for a
fourth chain-initiation through His fourth chain, the Earth-chain.
Thus, at one period
one centre or Heavenly Man may be the subject of logoic attention, and of
specialised stimulation, and at another period a totally different scheme
may be the object of vitalisation.
69.
It would seem
that the Earth-scheme is under much stimulation as a result of the occult
attentiveness of our fourth order Logos. It would seem that the Solar
Logos is preparing to undergo a minor (thus, scheme-initiation) through
our planes, the Earth-scheme.
70.
The changing of
objects of attention may or may not be sequential. The old theosophical
approach which held to a rigid sequentiality in terms of solar logoic or
planetary logoic stimulation, is, it seems, not accurate in all cases.
For some time the Logos
has turned His attention to the Earth Scheme and to
Saturn, whilst Uranus is receiving [Page 358] stimulation.
Much is therefore accentuated, and increased evolutionary development is
the consequence of this divine attention.
71.
This is an important
statement telling us much, perhaps, about the present intention of logoic
kundalini.
72.
For the human
being, Uranus (in one of its methods of influence) rules the sacral center
(though other planets like Mars must necessarily be involved). Saturn rules
the throat center. In our solar system we could be witnessing the rising
of the sacral center to the throat center. The solar plexus center (hypothesized
as Venus) may also be involved.
73.
Uranus, of course,
rules other centers—the throat center (because it is a distributor of the
great seventh Ray, the head center, etc.
74.
The Earth we have
assigned to various centers—the mental unit (if the Solar Logos has one);
perhaps the lower point within the solar logoic solar plexus center; the
splenic center and the base of the spine (which, it would seem) it cannot
rule alone.
75.
We remind ourselves
of the potential hypothesis that three planets may be connected with
each of the main solar logoic chakras; such a triangle of planets may also
rotate at different times of solar logoic development.
76.
We remember that
Saturn, at this time, is the expression of one of the super-principles,
and probably always will be, as Venus probably will not. Whether Jupiter
will remain as an expression of one of the three super-principles is debatable.
Much depends on how we understand the manner in which Neptune is to be allocated,
for Neptune (even if it does not strictly belong to
our solar system) is a Logos superior in spiritual status to the Logos of
Jupiter.
77.
From the archetypal
viewpoint, the three super-principles should be ruled by Uranus (first),
Neptune (second) and Saturn (third).
When these facts are borne
in mind it will be seen that the interaction, and the complexity, is of
vast proportions, and man can do no more than accept
the fact, and leave the explanation until his consciousness is of greater
scope.
78.
Well, we are getting
the idea even if we cannot solve all the intricacies,
the solutions to these issues lie in the hands of initiates of high degree.
Third, one of the mysteries revealed at initiation
is that of the logoic centre which our scheme represents, and the type of
electrical fire which is flowing through it.
79.
DK hints at a
number of possibilities which I have covered in previous Commentaries and
mentioned just above.
80.
The base of the
spine center seems an important (though perhaps premature) assignment in
relation to our Earth.
81.
At which initiation
may this be revealed? One of the higher ones, perhaps, as the base of the
spine center becomes truly active at the fifth degree (R&I 340)
82.
Our Solar Logos
has not yet passed through His fifth cosmic initiation, though His fifth
scheme initiation may not be long in coming. When this happens, perhaps
the role of Earth as the solar logoic base of the spine center may emerge.
83.
On the other hand,
since the base of the spine center is, in many ways, a first ray center
and since our Planetary Logos will not be truly expressive of His monadic
ray until the next solar system, it may be only then that a full base of
the spine center function for our Planetary Logos will be expressed. (All
this despite the fact that the duration of a Heavenly Man is said to be
“One Solar System” in the tabulation on TCF 293.)
It relates
finally the lowest centre at the base of the spine to the highest centre,
the head centre. This is a correspondence to the relation of the Earth
to the Sun. Think this out. (EA 25)
The "Seven Brothers," or the seven types of fohatic force,
express Themselves through the seven centres, and
the One Who is animating our scheme stands revealed at the third Initiation.
84.
Each of the “Seven
Brothers” expresses one of the seven rays, but in relation to the third
aspect of the ray. The “Seven Brothers” are usually differentiated from
the Seven Heavenly Men Who are also systemic “Ray
Lords”.
85.
We see, in fact,
that we do not need to wait until one of the higher initiations to find
out which ray or type of fohatic force flow mainly through our Planetary
Logos, and which chakra it represents within the energy system of our Solar
Logos.
86.
Of course, we
may question whether the “fohatic force” of the “Seven Brothers” is ray
force; or, if it is, whether it can apply to any aspect of our Planetary
Logos other than His personality.
87.
A little earlier
in this Commentary it seemed evident that “electrical force” and ray energy
were equivalent. So perhaps the fohatic force here discussed is also equivalent
to ray energy.
88.
One wonders if
the Tibetan revealed the information in question (information for the receipt
of which the third initiation is said to be necessary) in Esoteric Astrology,
which was written some ten years later than TCF.
89.
It would seem
that some revelation along the manasic line would be revealed at the third
degree. If our Earth-scheme plays the role of mental unit to Venus’ manasic
permanent atom, the revelation would be fitting at the third degree.
It is by knowledge of the nature and quality of the electrical
force of our centre, and by realisation of the place our centre
holds in the body logoic, that the Hierarchy achieves the aims of
evolution.
90.
Hierarchy knows
how to plan according to the Divine Plan, by knowing the nature of our Planetary
Logos, His major energy and present place and function within the Solar
Logos.
91.
This is to say
that Hierarchy knows how to plan (in the occult sense) and we do not!
92.
If our planetary
scheme is presently one of the following—base of the spine center, a sacral
center, a spleen center, a lower point within the solar logoic solar plexus
center, or a mental unit—the objectives in planning will be very different.
There are ways to justify all these five assignment and justification has
been offered in recent Commentaries.
It will be obvious that
the Heavenly Man Who stands for the kundalini centre, for instance, will
work differently, and have a different purpose and method, from His Brother
Who stands for the heart centre in the body logoic, or to the Heavenly Man
Who embodies the logoic solar plexus.
93.
Earth could represent
the logoic kundalini (but logoic kundalini is a force greater than that
which could emanate from Earth); Venus could stand as the representative
of the logoic heart; but Venus, too, could be the logoic solar plexus center
and Jupiter the logoic heart.
94.
According to our
nature, so is our function.
95.
From the section
above it would seem that one Heavenly Man stands for one center, and yet,
just as in the chakra rulerships of the human being, two or even three planets
may be assigned rulership at different phases of evolution, so it may be
so for a Solar Logos. It remains to be debated whether a triangle of planets
should be considered in relation to the rulership of any chakra within the
Solar Logos.
From this it is apparent
that:
a.
The type
of electrical force
96.
This may be ray
energy but it certainly is fohatic force.
97.
This relates to
the evolution of the substance composing a particular Heavenly Man.
98.
This relates to
that aspect of solar logoic Will which it is the responsibility of a Heavenly
Man to express.
d. The evolutionary development
99.
This release to
the degree of unfoldment of the Heavenly Man, but not to His spiritual status.
e. The dual and triangular
interaction
100.
This relates to
whether a given Heavenly Man is interacting only with the Heavenly Man Who
is His polar opposite, or whether He is interacting also with the Heavenly
Man Who expressed through a complementary planet (thus interacting with
a triangle).
101.
As an example:
Venus is the polar opposite of the Earth-scheme but the Mars-scheme is complementary
to the Earth-scheme.
of all the
Heavenly Men will differ, and so will the evolutions that form the cells
in Their Bodies differ likewise.
102.
We are being told
of differences between the Heavenly Men and between the deva and human cells
in Their bodies—a subject that will mean something more real to us when
such evolutionary groups (i.e., the Planetary Logoi) are actually acknowledged
and contacted.
103.
In summation:
electrical force can be positive, negative or neutral. Vibratory action
probably has much to do with the key or pitch to which the planes and sub-planes
vibrate, and the general note sounded by the particular Heavenly Man. Purpose
is related to the Heavenly Man’s place within the Solar Logos and the function
it upholds. Evolutionary development can mean either actual spiritual
status or something different—the degree of planetary unfoldment regardless
of the spiritual status of the Heavenly Man concerned. Dual and triangular
interaction relates to the various planets or pairs of planets with which
any Heavenly Man may have interaction. Earth, for instance is much related
to Venus and also to the triangle Earth-Venus-Mars. The same cannot be said
of the closest relations of other planets.
Little has as yet been
revealed anent the types of evolutions which are to be found in the other
schemes of our system.
104.
Something of significance
is said of the various “Schools” to be found on some of the planets, for
a discussion of which go to TCF 1177-1180.
105.
We are also told
something of the evolution of the various humanities found within different
planetary schemes:
“Again, it must be noted
that Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Vulcan are as yet developing manas,
and the stage achieved in each varies, and is not for exoteric publication.
The Heavenly Men of these schemes have not yet succeeded in bringing Their
bodies to the stage where transmutation on a large scale is possible. They
are approaching it, and when the necessary three fifths is
reached, then They will begin to transmute on a larger scale. The Earth
scheme has about one fifth in process of transmutation in one or other of
the globes at this time and Vulcan has very nearly two fifths.” (TCF 403)
Suffice it to say that
in all the schemes, on some [Page 359] globe in the scheme, human
beings or self-conscious units, are to be found.
106.
We are being told
that human beings are to be found in all schemes—an expansive and
inclusive thought. Presumably, this includes such planetary schemes as that
of Pluto and probably, as well, the many undiscovered and, thus, unnamed
planetary schemes.
107.
Is the suggestion
that only on one globe in a scheme human beings are to be found?
This would be highly unlikely and some references point in the direction
of more than one globe per scheme being populated with human beings. The
fact that Earth was recently simultaneously active in its second, fourth
and sixth chains points in the direction of self-conscious life to be found
on all those chains—simultaneously. The subject is occulted, but
hints suggest that self-conscious units are not simply confined to one globe
per scheme.
108.
References to
activity on the fifth chain of our Earth-scheme before the completion
of our fourth chain, points in the same direction. If there is activity
in a chain, that activity must necessarily be taking place on a globe.
109.
The following
reference tends to confirm the ubiquity of man on all globes in all schemes:
A Master transmutes
in the three worlds and principally concerns Himself with the process upon
the eighteen subplanes, the great field of human evolution, and with the
passage of the life throughout the dense physical body of the Logos. The
Chohans of the sixth Initiation work in the fourth and fifth ethers
of the logoic etheric body (the buddhic and atmic planes), and deal with
the passage of the life of Spirit from form to form in those worlds, having
in view the transmutation of units in the spiritual kingdom into the monadic.
Those on still higher levels—the Buddhas and their Confreres of the first
and third Rays—deal with the passage of the life into the sub-atomic,
and atomic planes of the cosmic physical. What has been said applies
to all hierarchical efforts in all schemes and on all globes, for the unity
of effort is universal. (TCF 495)
110.
We note the simple
definition of the human being, having nothing to do with form particularly:
“self-conscious units”.
Conditions of life, environment and
form may differ, but the human Hierarchy works in all schemes.
111.
This reference
simply focuses our minds on consciousness and quality rather than on forms.
Many surprises may lie ahead with respect to the forms which self-conscious
units take, but the factor of self-consciousness unifies them.
It must also be borne
in mind that just as all seven Heavenly Men are found in the body
logoic, and are Themselves under the influence of seven solar Logoi
(using the word "influence" in its astrological sense), so in
a planetary scheme with its seven globes each is astrologically
under the influence of all the seven Heavenly Men.
112.
This is a useful
analogy pointing to the fact that each of the major Heavenly Men in our
solar system is under the supervision of one of the member of the Seven
Solar Systems of Which Ours is One.
113.
This means that
one particular sacred planet in our solar system is under the special supervision
of our Solar Logos. Could it be Jupiter, the planet which, in many
ways, is most like our Sun?
114.
Why does DK speak
of a planetary scheme with its seven globes? Would it not be more predictable
to speak of a planetary scheme with its seven chains?
115.
We would expect
that each of the usual seven chains in a planetary scheme is under the influence
of one particular sacred planet.
116.
Further, we would
imagine that each of the seven major globes in a planetary chain is under
the influence of one of the chains in that planetary scheme and, also, under
the influence of one of the seven sacred planets.
117.
Which is the particular
sacred planet that most influences our Earth-globe and Earth-chain? Certainly
Venus must be considered and Saturn is not to be neglected.
A scheme is but a replica
of a system.
118.
This useful statement
allows us to generalize from one organized aggregation to the other. In
attempting to understand rounds within a scheme and system, this method
of comparison is very useful.
Each of the Heavenly
Men pours forth His radiation or influence, and stimulates in some way some
other centre or globe.
119.
Perhaps the word
“centre”, as here used, means chain?
120.
We must watch
Master DK’s writing carefully, as He often skips one member of a sequence
for no apparent reason. Perhaps, however, there is a hidden reason.
121.
Though it must
be stated that as Heavenly Men are centers within solar system, each Heavenly
Man (as a solar logoic center) influences the other Heavenly Men (also solar
logoic centers).
To word it otherwise,
His magnetism is felt by His Brothers in a greater or less degree according
to the work being undertaken at any one time.
122.
The extent of
a Heavenly Man’s influence on any other Heavenly Man would depend upon their
similarity in quality and also upon the type of work which the influencing
Heavenly Man had undertaken. Each type of work would have its own particular
type of radiation and magnetism.
123.
We can see that
the influence of one Heavenly Man upon another is a constantly changing
matter varying with the development of the solar system and all constituent
part. So it is with the influence of the various planets upon our chakra
system.
At present the Heavenly
Men, representing centres at different stages of stimulation, being not
all equally developed and being not as yet psychically unified,
124.
DK is telling
us of the presently incomplete interaction between Heavenly Men.
125.
The parallel is
easily found in relation to our own chakra system; not all of our chakras
are equally stimulated nor are they equally developed. The stage of psychic
unification necessarily follows upon etheric coordination.
126.
We do not know
the relative degree of stimulation and development of the various Heavenly
Men, but an understanding of a Heavenly Man’s focus upon a particular chain
and round gives some hint, at least concerning development/unfoldment (though
not concerning spiritual status).
127.
The heart chakra,
for instance, has a higher spiritual status than the sacral chakra, yet
the sacral chakra may be very much more developed or unfolded
than the heart chakra if the measurement is taken at a relatively early
stage of evolution. Our Solar Logos is midway through his developmental
career; the measurement concerning the unfoldment of His chakras is taken
at this midway point.
this
magnetic interplay is little realised, and the psychic flow from
one scheme to another is little utilised or comprehended.
128.
We are being told
that while there may be a degree of etheric (and thus electrical) coordination
between the planets, their “magnetic” or “psychic” interplay is undeveloped
by comparison. It would seem that the Planetary Logoi have much to learn
in relation to the astral nature and, thus, in relation to “psychic flow”.
Naturally, some are more psychically developed than others but would be
limited by the development of other Planetary Logoi with which they might
interact.
129.
It would seem
that the establishment of psychic flow is one of the main agendas occupying
the attention of the Logoi of Venus and Earth with respect to each other.
130.
This is microcosmically
true of man and the Solar Angel.
As time elapses this
interplay of force will become more evident and the force will be consciously
employed.
131.
Our Solar Logos
is as yet immature. He is half-way through His developmental process, and
we all know that the development to be found in the second half of any process
is always accelerated.
132.
When man is temporally
half-way through his own developmental process, he may not even have opened
the first tier of petals in the egoic lotus, and so nine would remain to
be opened during the second half. The opening of the final six petals (including
the synthesis petals) occurs far closer to the final tenth of his
developmental process and, more accurately, even closer to the final twentieth.
The unevenness of the developmental curve has to be taken into consideration
in matters human, planetary and logoic.
When men, for instance,
know:
The quality of the force
flowing through their particular scheme;
133.
Do we not know
it—the third, second and first rays?—or is something still hidden from us?
Probably much is still hidden.
The purpose and name of
the centre they stand within;
134.
Do we need to
know the true Name of the Earth-scheme or of Sanat Kumara (considered as
the Planetary Logos)? Or is DK referencing our planetary chain or globe
and their names?
The centre or Heavenly
Man with Whom the Logos of their scheme is allied;
135.
Is our Heavenly
Man not allied with Venus just as our Solar Logos is allied with the Logos
of Sirius? Or could the alliance be with Mars? Mars and the Logos of the
Earth-scheme are certainly closely related.
Which two schemes form,
with their own, a triangle for logoic force at a certain stage of evolutionary
development;
136.
Are we not speaking
of Venus, Mars and Earth? Or could the triangle Earth, Mars, Saturn be meant?
(cf. EP II 99)
The secret of the cycles,
or the periods of stimulation or obscuration;
137.
Yes, these are
very numerous and obscure to us, and not much information has been given.
We know about precessional ages, Great Platonic Ages, and something about
ray cycles related to races and to the planet, but much is left for future
discovery.
-- then will the body logoic begin to achieve its purpose;
138.
Since the body
logoic is only one half through its development, it sounds as if we will
not ascertain the answers to the five points above until some much later
date. It is probably our knowledge of planetary cycles which will retard
us.
139.
We might pause
to suggest that the idea of “midway through His career upon the cosmic Path
of Initiation”, may suggest that, temporally, much more than half of an
occult century may have elapsed. The time required for earlier developments
is must longer than for those that come later.
140.
Our Solar Logos
is focussing on the fourth in a series of nine lesser initiations. While
He is numerically about “midway” through His initiatory process, far less
time may be necessary for Him to complete the series of nine than has elapsed
for the completion of four.
-- then will the Logos of our system begin to blend and merge
and co-ordinate all His vehicles;
141.
This sounds like
personality integration on a logoic level. In human evolution, this phase
of personality integration may precede the first initiation, but not by
too many incarnations—either three, seven or perhaps
eleven, we are told (EP II 16). So again, the blending and merging represents
a relative late stage of logoic development.
142.
Under conditions
of solar logoic integration, it is only natural that interplay between the
various schemes should increase and their relationships to each other be
more fully understood.
-- then will the force flow through all the centres unimpeded;
143.
This sounds like
a relatively high level of logoic soul-culture. It is only the human initiate
for whom “force flow(s) through all centres unimpeded”.
-- and then will the glory
shine out, and each cell in every body—logoic, planetary, deva and human,
blaze forth with perfected glory, vibrate with adjusted accuracy, and a
major cosmic initiation be taken.
144.
This final section
suggests the fourth initiation of our Solar Logos. One could imagine it
to be the third (also a major initiation), but the words “perfected glory”
suggest the fourth. “Perfection” is term associated with the number four.
(cf. TCF 188 re the fourth siddhi on the atmic plane).
b. The Logos of our Scheme.
145.
This is one of
the rare examples of the use of the word “Logos” (by itself) to refer to
the Planetary Logos or Heavenly
Man.
The Heavenly Man or planetary Logos of the Earth scheme can be considered
in various ways,
146.
We note that the
terms “Heavenly Man” and “planetary Logos” are used equivalently. This is
generally the case, but there are some significant exceptions.
and as is our custom we will simply tabulate the statements anent Him
which, when considered at length by the individual student, should serve
to make the FACT of the essential Personality of this great Entity,
the work that He is endeavouring to accomplish, and the relationship of
the human Hierarchy to Him, a greater reality.
147.
What is meant
by the term “essential Personality”? Do we actually mean the personality
of our Planetary Logos found upon the third ray, or does the word “essential”
encourage us to look in greater spiritual depth?
148.
The Tibetan is
trying to make three things more real to us:
a.
The “FACT” of
the essential Personality of the Planetary Logos
b.
The work which
our Planetary Logos is endeavouring to accomplish
c.
The relationship
of the human Hierarchy (the Fourth Creative Hierarchy) to the Planetary
Logos.
149.
The Tibetan counts
on the thought that if He tabulates, we will learn. There is something about
a tabulation that impresses the mind more forcefully.
We must bear in mind in studying this matter that it will not be possible
to reveal for general publication details as to His specific Identity, His
number and His scope of conscious development.
150.
Perhaps details
will not be revealed, but we have already been given much:
a.
It has been hinted
that He occupies the position of the base of the spine center in the etheric
system of the Solar Logos. His connection to the spleen, sacral center,
lower solar plexus point and mental unit may also be reasoned. He is even
to be seen as a twelve-petalled lotus which suggests relationship to the
heart center (which, with a second ray soul, like Jupiter, is convincing).
b.
His number (later
in the TCF book) is given as 777.
c.
As for the scope
of His conscious development, we have been told on TCF 384 that He is midway
through His process of evolution; that He is taking the fourth in a series
of seven apparently minor (at least non-cosmic) initiations; that His goal
is the second cosmic initiation.
d.
We have also been
told that He is bringing under control the fourth sub-plane of the cosmic
astral plane, working on fifth and sensing and responding to the vibration
of the sixth sub-plane.
151.
Perhaps these
are not details, but they are certainly indications.
Such mysteries, as earlier pointed out, are reserved for those who are
pledged to keep silent.
152.
This requirement,
I imagine, excludes most of us.
But some general idea may be conveyed before we take up specifically
this chain and round.
153.
More generalities
will be given. Probably enough is hinted in the generalities to suggest
much detail.
It might be asked wherein
all this information is of use, and what purpose it serves in this hour
of the world's need.
154.
This kind of question
will be asked by those of a strictly practical turn of mind. Some have wondered
the value of studying A Treatise on Cosmic Fire at all. Of course,
close study will reveal the value.
Apart from the fact that
the cyclic giving out of the truth works under the law, and may not be gain-said,
it is suggested for consideration that much advantage will be felt when
men in large numbers conceive of the purpose of specific manifestations,
when they realise that all forms are but the modes of expression of certain
Entities or Beings, Who occupy them for cycles of definite duration in order
to attain a purpose, and that each life—great or small—serves its own ends,
yet subserves the greater ends of the Being in Whose body it is a corporate
part.
155.
DK is telling
us that for the abstruse information to be truly effective, those who use
such information must understand the dimension of purpose, of the
specific manifestations through which purposes works, and the specific Entities
or Beings Whose purpose is being manifested through specific manifestations.
156.
He is saying that
a ‘holistic’ vision is required if the information is to be truly useful.
Fortunately, this type of vision is more and more available to humanity.
157.
The requirement
that there be “men in large numbers” who think in this manner puts the general
usefulness of this type of information rather some years ahead.
The details of the plan
may not be given. [Page 361] The general outline—solar, planetary, and hierarchical—may
be suggested, and by the very suggestion, bring order into the thoughts
of men as they view the apparent chaos of the moment.
158.
This is of the
utmost importance—the introduction of order into the thoughts of
men. Humanity’s chaotic consciousness is one the reasons that it finds it
so difficult to solve evident problems.
159.
One may easily
become carried away by negative reactions to presented chaos, not realizing
that order underlies the chaos and that the chaos is both temporary and
(due to our inadequate perception) only apparent. Could we detect the workings
of the Plan beneath the chaos, much that appears as chaos could be seen
as an incompletely understood process.
Let us not forget, that
when order is brought about, and united thought produced on the mental
plane, then order transpires eventually on the physical plane.
160.
The Tibetan thinks
ever as an occultist. That which is subjective tends to become objective.
It is simply the magical process of manifestation.
161.
DK calls not just
for the orderly thinking of individuals, but for united, orderly thought
of groups of human beings, even large groups of human beings. A consensus
must be reached concerning the nature of the Divine Plan. In today’s world
we are very far from this, yet progress can occur rapidly once certain obstacles
related to glamorous unbelief are cleared.
The planetary Logos of
this scheme is one of the four minor Logoi, or Lords of the
Rays, and is specially concerned therefore
with the development of one attribute of manas.
162.
The minor Planetary
Logoi are developing manas. Mars (and even Pluto,
perhaps) should be included and, according to one reference, Venus.
The Lord of Venus holds
place in the logoic quaternary, as does the Lord of Earth. (TCF 300)
163.
It is challenging
to realize that two of the minor rays (“minor” meaning the four Rays of
Aspect) are apparently ruled by two great Planetary Logoi—Uranus and Neptune—distributing
the sixth and seventh rays.
164.
There may be,
after all, a difference between the “four minor Logoi” and the Lords of
the Rays of Attribute (which may justifiably include, in some sense, Uranus
and Neptune). While Mars may substitute for Neptune,
it is harder (given our present knowledge of the solar system) to find a
minor planet substituting for Uranus on the seventh ray.
165.
The implication
of the Tibetan’s statement above is that the Planetary Logos of Earth is
developing a particular attribute of manas. It would be fascinating to have
the occult name for this attribute. Could it relate to the faculty of “adjudication”?
166.
We also realize
that our Planetary Logos with His second ray soul is clearly involved in
the process of developing more than manas. Note in the following
that the agenda of the Planetary Logos is said to be wisdom and not
manas:
Man aims at becoming a Divine Manasaputra, or perfected Son of
Mind showing forth all the powers inherent in mind, and thus becoming like
unto his monadic source, a Heavenly Man. A Heavenly Man has
developed Manas, and is occupied with the problem of becoming a Son of Wisdom,
not inherently but in full manifestation. A solar Logos
is both a Divine Manasaputra and likewise a Dragon of Wisdom, and His problem
concerns itself [Page 306] with the development of the principle of cosmic
Will which will make Him what has been called a "Lion of Cosmic Will."
(TCF 305-306)
167.
It would seem
that the Logoi of the synthesizing planets (Saturn, Neptune and Uranus)
would be far too spiritually elevated to be focussing only on the development
of manas, when even our Planetary Logos is (through His relationship with
Venus and His struggles on the cosmic astral plane) already seeking to bring
in love-wisdom.
168.
But then, even
a highly advanced human soul will recapitulate the development of a strongly
manasic phase.
Each of the four minor
Rays is, as we know, eventually synthesised, or absorbed into that Ray which
is represented on our earth by the Mahachohan. He is the Lord of the third
major Ray or Aspect, and synthesises the four.
169.
At the time of
the writing of TCF, the change of Mahachohan may have been in process. It
was not in process when IHS was written.
170.
Are Uranus and
Neptune synthesized into Saturn? This is a difficult question. One reference
makes it seem possible—unless one studies the charts carefully, namely Chart
VI, TCF 383
13.
“Saturn is the synthesising scheme for the four planets which embody manas
pure and simple and is the major resolution for the minor four and eventually
for all The Seven.” (TCF. 370.)
171.
It is that statement—“eventually
for all The Seven”—which could give one pause when considering the absorptive
relationship between Saturn, Neptune and Uranus.
172.
However, in studying
Chart VI, we note a sevenfold structure including Saturn (and not Pluto).
Counting those planetary schemes surrounding Saturn, and adding newly discovered
Pluto, we have seven.
173.
Such an absorption
is still far distant and, as we approach it, we will surely know much more
about planetary lore than presently we do.
174.
According to our
present knowledge, it would seem that Uranus and Neptune are greater synthesizers
than Saturn (which is more related to the previous solar system than to
our own).
These four
Rays with their synthesising Ray make the five rays of Manas or Mind.
175.
Note that DK is
here speaking of “Rays” and not of planets. This must be observed carefully.
176.
When comparing
apparently parallel systems of planets and systems of rays, correspondences
may not be as exact as hoped.
a. The fivefold Brahma
Aspect.
177.
The number of
Brahma is always five.
b. They were the five
Rays of prime importance in the first solar system, and were the five individualised
Heavenly Men, called the Mind-born Sons of Brahma.
178.
We seem to be
given a hint that the Planetary Logoi through which these five rays now
work were present in the first solar system. This may or may not
be the case, as the Rays can work through various planetary schemes. We
remember from TCF 293 that the duration of a Heavenly Man is one solar system.
179.
We note here that
DK does not mention planets, per se.
Through the individualisation
of the four in that system the individualisation of the great cosmic Entity
we call Brahma was brought about. He individualised and the four go to
the content of His body.
180.
The kind of individualization
here discussed was definitely not of the order through which a human being
presently passes. It had to have been a cosmic individualization,
either involving the gradual stimulation of a cosmic mental unit and its
approximation to a cosmic manasic permanent atom (thus producing a cosmic
causal body), or through the intervention of a cosmic Solar Angel.
181.
Solar Angels,
however, it would seem, were not so active during the first solar system
as in our present one.
182.
The great cosmic
Entity called Brahma is, in this context, one of the aspects of our Solar
Logos. We are not speaking of ‘Universal Brahma’.
c. They are represented
on our earth by the five Kumaras Who obeyed the Law, and took human
form, as H. P. B. hints in several passages
in the Secret Doctrine. [33: S. D., I, 493.]
183.
This is a fascinating
reference showing the connection between five Ray Lords and five of our
present –intra-planetary Kumaras.
184.
If two of them
disobeyed the Law, it was probably because the Law required that they not
incarnate.
185.
The whole idea
of planetary (or better intra-planetary) Kumaras having human form is interesting.
Sanat Kumara (the Kumara Who is the main focus of the Trans-Himalayan Wisdom
Teaching) is said to be able to express through a form which resembles the
human form. “Man is made in the image of God”.
186.
I do not think
DK is talking about Solar Angels in this context. The Solar Angels may present
themselves as “angels” to the eye of the candidate for initiation. This
is probably as close as they come to expressing directly through a human
form (though, reputedly, some of them did, for a time, in very ancient times
to help mould the racial type).
187.
VSK asks: “Referencing
chart in EA, 34, are these the same five Kumaras? This point
“c”. clearly states those Kumaras took human form, those of rays three,
four, five, six, and seven—the Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, and Cancer
Liberated Lives or Kumaras. What are the implications of that?”
188.
May it be suggested
that this is such a huge and profound question that it is best to pass over
it for a time until we are more certain of the relation of the intra-planetary
Kumaras to the Creative Hierarchies.
This scheme is considered
as the fourth and the one of the most importance in the system during
this particular cycle for the following reasons:
189.
It would seem
that our Solar Logos is undergoing a process of initiation through His fourth
scheme (our Earth-scheme) and thus the temporary importance of our scheme.
Our solar system,
being considered as of the fourth [Page 362] order, and our scheme
being the fourth in order, there is consequently a moment of special opportunity
afforded our planetary Logos through the alignment brought about.
190.
Here we have a
brief discussion of the importance of ‘numerical resonance’. Lines of connection
definitely exist on the basis of number, and the close relationship between
our Planetary Logos and the Solar Logos is numerologically emphasized.
191.
The fourth order
nature of our Solar Logos, may refer to His monadic ray. It may also
refer to his place within the Creative Hierarchy of Solar Logoi. If the
evidence of spectral types is admitted, He does occupy something of a middle
position, just as the number four is the middle of a series of seven.
It eventuates in the
turning of the attention of the logoic kundalini fire towards this centre,
our scheme, and the subsequent results are in process of working
out.
192.
We come to understand
that our Planetary Logos and His scheme are under solar logoic kundalinic
stimulation. Venus and Saturn are also said to be undergoing logoic kundalinic
stimulation (TCF 181-182) forming a triangle with the Earth.
193.
Since Saturn and
Venus are planets of initiation (ruling the sign Capricorn, the major sign
of initiation), we can see that this alignment stimulates the process of
initiation within our planetary scheme.
194.
It is also clear
that Saturn and Venus are the planets most related to Sanat Kumara. He is
the “Lord of Venusian Love”, but the spelling of His name (as we have it)
clearly suggests Saturn. By another permutation, He is “Satan”, understood
as the sponsor of the enlightenment and liberation of humanity. Much study
of the Satan myth must be undertaken in the Secret Doctrine to realize
that the standard attributions of evil associated with that name are due
to inversion and misunderstanding. Evil exists to be sure, with its leaders
in both the East and West, but such evil has nothing to do with the great
process of enlightenment and the stimulation of human responsibility which
the name “Satan” truly entails.
195.
“Satan”, “Lucifer”,
“Prometheus”, “Asuras”, “Agnishvattas”, Solar Angels, Narada and even Kumaras
have many equivalencies. An open mind is required for deeper understanding.
The fundamentalist turn of mind will close the book on this subject before
any historical research is even attempted.
Within the scheme the
chain that concerns us the most, and which is temporarily of the most
vital importance to the planetary Logos, is the Earth chain, the fourth
in order again, thus bringing about another alignment of very grave
moment.
196.
We are speaking
of a threefold alignment:
a.
Our Solar Logos
of the fourth order
b.
Our Solar Logos’
fourth scheme, the Earth-scheme
c.
The fourth chain
of our fourth scheme—the Earth-chain
197.
The gravity of
this alignment is brought to our attention. The Logos of our scheme is moving
through a perilous passage and the results may be temporarily dire for the
kingdoms found within the fourth chain and especially upon the fourth
globe—our planet Earth.
198.
The concept of
“grave moment” suggests the overcoming of death through the fourth initiation.
This carries with it
special opportunity, and permits of the entry of force from the cosmos
itself, or of extra-systemic electrical vitality.
199.
We wonder if Pleiadian
force may be involved, for the term “electrical vitality” is Pleiadian in
nature.
200.
Because the Pleiades
are associated with cosmic buddhi (from the fourth cosmic plane) we see
a further alignment involving the potency of the number four.
201.
On the other hand,
we know that Sirius is powerfully affecting the entire initiatory process
on our planet, and it is the fourth of the seven or nine cosmic paths
that leads to Sirius.
202.
We come to understand
that what is going on Earth is more than just a planetary affair, but involves
the Director of our solar system and even cosmic, extra-systemic Sources.
No wonder the gravity of our situation!
This super-stimulation
results in what looks to us like cataclysms, and a stupendous shattering
of forms, but it is simply the necessary sequence to the vitalisation of
the life within the form, and the breaking of the limiting form unable
to bear the cosmic action.
203.
Note the term
“super-stimulation”; it is dramatic and gives us some idea of the power
of the energies and forces to which we are being subjected. No wonder the
full strength of Hierarchy is needed to guide humanity and the planet through
the process. Shamballa, too, is involved.
204.
We can see that
the shattering of forms is part of a planetary fourth initiation
process.
205.
It is as if our
Planetary Logos is stepping into or opening unto a more cosmic environment,
and the adjustment process if far from easy.
206.
When a human being
takes the fourth initiation, he is at last coming directly in contact with
the Planetary Logos—requiring another huge adjustment. His relationship
to the Solar Logos, via the solar logoic fourth plane, is also deepened.
Again within the chain,
the globe at present receiving planetary polarisation, or at present
embodying in a special sense the life of the planetary Logos is the
Earth, the fourth in order. This brings about a still further alignment.
207.
This has been
stated above. The alignment is terrific:
a.
Sirius or the
Pleiades (both relating to the number four in specific ways)
b.
Our Solar Logos
(of the fourth order)
c.
Our planetary
scheme—the fourth
d.
Our planetary
chain—the fourth
f.
Our globe experiencing
its fourth round
g.
Humanity—the fourth
kingdom (having moved from emphasis upon its fourth root race to its fifth).
Add to the above facts
the accepted knowledge that this is the fourth round and we have
a fivefold alignment which is of paramount significance to us all, though
it had even greater significance and force in the fourth root-race, and
brought about that stupendous psychic event—the opening of the door
of Initiation to the human Hierarchy.
208.
We, humanity,
have moved on into the fifth root race, and the alignment is thus not quite
as intense as it was during the fourth root race. Yet the intensity
is sufficient to put the survival of humanity (as we know it) in question.
209.
We should pause
to reflect on the relation of the number four to the initiation process.
Sirius relates intimately to the four and Sirius is the Sponsor of
the initiatory process on our planet and more widely within the solar system.
210.
Initiation is
Yoga, the link, the bond. The number four serves this function as does the
seven.
These very important facts
merit close attention, and the consideration of all occult students. They
hold the key whereby some comprehension of manas and of planetary evolution
may come about.
211.
With these facts
we have often been presented. Have we realized that they hold the key to
the comprehension of manas and of planetary evolution?
212.
It is easy to
see how planetary evolution is related to the alignment.
213.
Perhaps the comprehension
of manas must come through an understanding that the human Creative Hierarchy
is the fourth and is the Hierarchy of manas. Manas—Man, the
Thinker.
What have we, therefore,
in this special cyclic alignment?
1. A solar system of the
fourth order.
2. The fourth scheme in
the system.
3. The fourth chain in
the scheme.
4. The fourth globe in
the chain.
214.
Plus the additional
factors involved in the alignment (mentioned above).
34 Compare also the following
correspondences:
The sacred Tetraktys
The manifested Logos.
215.
In this case the
four are superior to the three. The “sacred Tetraktys” is also a ten
and responsible for all manifestation. It may be related to the four cosmic
ethers and their potencies.
The Fourth Creative Hierarchy
The Human.
216.
The Hierarchy
of human Monads.
The Fourth Principle
Lower Mind.
217.
Manas is usually
the middle principle whether one counts from below or above. Sometimes,
in different enumerations, the numbers may change, depending on whether
one is dealing with the spiritual, psychic or objective way of ‘counting’
man.
The Fourth Race
Kamamanas.
218.
The Atlantean
root race. Although we are now, technically, in the Aryan root race, the
Atlantean consciousness is pervasive as are Atlantean types of bodies.
The Fourth Element
Water, S. D., I, 95. I, 640.
219.
This is an interesting
correlation and not easy to fit with the “fire of mind”. The Fourth Creative
Hierarchy, however, has a water sign, Scorpio, as its ruler. From another
perspective, it is atma that is ruled by water (cf. EA 35).
The Four Truths
S. D., I, 70.
220.
The Four Noble
Truths of the Buddha, suitable for the strengthening of all the alignments
related to four which engage our little globe and its humanity.
The Four Propositions
S. D., I, 107.
221.
A search of the
Secret Doctrine reveals only three. Perhaps a better means of searching
would reveal four. The Tibetan does hint at the emergence of the Fourth
Fundamental of the Secret Doctrine. The first three propositions are precisely
the Three Fundamentals of the Secret Doctrine.
The Four Initiations
S. D., I, 227.
222.
The fourth of
these initiations release the human being from the need to reincarnate within
the fourth kingdom.
The Fourth Plane
Buddhi, fourth cosmic ether.
223.
This is the plane
on which the Fourth Creative Hierarchy is focussed and the plane of its
future complete expression.
The Fourth physical sub-plane
The Fourth Ether.
224.
This is the sub-plane
presently being penetrated and slowly mastered by humanity.
The Fourth Round
The Present.
225.
We are at the
midway point of development both within our planetary chain and planetary
scheme. There are chain rounds and scheme rounds.
All these are found active
within the same cycle, and all therefore bring about a simultaneous alignment
which results in the clearing of a channel direct from the heart of
our scheme through every ring-pass-not to the cosmic correspondence,
found outside the solar sphere.
226.
We can see that
we are dealing with a soft-line alignment. The second ray soul of our Planetary
Logos, linked to the “heart of our scheme” is related to the alignment of
the many fours.
227.
What is the nature
of this “cosmic correspondence”? Will it be that neighboring constellation
which embodies the heart center of the One About Whom Naught May Be Said?
It cannot be a center within the Seven Solar Systems of Which Ours is One
because it is our own Solar Logos Who embodies the heart center of that
great Cosmic Logos.
To the above realisation,
we must add yet the further fact that the fourth Creative Hierarchy is the
one whose evolution we are considering, and it will be apparent to the most
superficial student that in these thoughts lies hidden the clue, not only
to man but to the entire cyclic evolution in which he is taking part.
228.
If we wish to
understand humanity and its monadic source (the Fourth Creative Hierarchy),
the many alignments occurring numerologically in relation to the number
four must be considered.
229.
Man cannot understand
man in a vacuum. The many relationships resonant to the number four
give the broader picture. Humanity must be understood both as a kingdom
of nature and as a Creative Hierarchy. In this process we are invited to
understand the larger context. Naturally, A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
is a superb book to promote such understanding.
The fourth Creative Hierarchy is essentially the Hierarchy of manas.
This is no play on words, but a statement of deep occult significance.
230.
We are Man, Manas,
the Thinker. We see the various ways in which the number four is
associated with manas, even though it is the fifth principle.
231.
Manas (depending
on the perspective from which human principles are counted) is positioned
as the fourth principle; the Fourth Creative Hierarchy is the manasic Hierarchy.
The statement has been
made with entire accuracy that five Hierarchies out of the twelve have
passed out and that seven remain.
232.
Technically, we
are told that the fifth liberated Creative Hierarchy (its number is also
the tenth) has not quite found its liberation onto the cosmic astral plane.
Of these seven, our
human Hierarchy is the fourth, making it literally the ninth when counting
the entire twelve.
233.
The number nine
is definitely a manasic number relating to the cycle of the third ray. Every
member of the trinity (a symbol of the third aspect) is itself threefold,
making nine.
234.
When thinking
about the relationship of the number four to manas, we should always
remember the manasic planet Mercury (“mind-wisdom”) and its strong relationship
to the fourth ray. The ajna center, ruled at a later date by Mercury, is
also, from a certain perspective, a manasic center.
In this connection it
would be well to link up the statements that have been made
to the effect that the five Kumaras or Heavenly Men Who definitely
embody the manasic principle (or the five Rays over which the systemic correspondence
to the Mahachohan presides) developed [Page 364] manas in an earlier
system;
235.
We must be cautious
here and try to avoid confusion. Are we speaking (in the reference above)
of extra-planetary Kumaras, i.e., Heavenly Men expressing through planetary
schemes?
236.
Or are we speaking
of intra-planetary Kumaras?
237.
There are intra-planetary
Kumaras and systemic Planetary Kumaras and it is not easy to keep
them distinct when studying these references.
238.
DK is suggesting
the linking up of certain statements about the “five Kumaras” with what
has been said of the five liberated Creative Hierarchies. So it seems He
may be bringing a discussion of Planetary Logoi into a discussion of the
Creative Hierarchies which He has just been pursuing.
239.
IF we are speaking
of solar systemic Beings (Planetary Logoi) we are then discussing the systemic
Heavenly Men associated with the five brahmic rays.
a.
Regardless of
the rays They express, the less advanced Heavenly Men are those that embody
manas pure and simple. More advanced Heavenly Men begin to embody buddhi.
The most advanced among them are beginning to embody the Divine Will.
b.
We note that DK
does not say the ‘previous’ solar system, but only “an earlier solar system”.
c.
This reference
definitely makes it seem that some of the Heavenly Men expressing in our
present solar system, also expressed as Heavenly Men in an earlier solar
system.
d.
Which, precisely,
were the five Kumaras (as Heavenly Men) Who developed in an earlier solar
system? It would seem that some of them, at least, would be numbered among
the Planetary Logoi of currently sacred planets. At that time, however,
They may not have expressed through sacred planets. Was the Logos of Venus
one? Was the Logos of Mercury? Mercury is old and related to the third ray.
He is a good candidate for previous solar systemic development.
e.
Who is the systemic
correspondence to the Mahachohan? It is Saturn? Is it that Entity represented
in Chart VI, TCF, 373, Who might be called ‘greater Saturn’ because His
circle circumscribes seven Planetary Logoi?
f.
Or is it the perhaps
even Brahma of our solar system, represented as one of three intersecting
circles proximate to the circle of the Solar Logos? (cf. TCF 1238)
240.
IF, however, we
are speaking of the intra-planetary Kumaras our approach will be different
for such intra-planetary Kumaras but represent those of a systemic
nature.
241.
If we are speaking
of the five liberated Creative Hierarchies as having developed manas in
a previous solar system, then our emphasis is different still.
They passed out of the
wave of manasic influence as far as their own Nature is concerned.
242.
It is evident
that we are again speaking of the five liberated Creative Hierarchies. They
were manasically conditioned—hence their number, five. They are,
however, to be correlated with the five planets representing the brahmic
aspect.
243.
Yet these five
Creative Hierarchies are not Planetary Logoi.
244.
The mysteries
surrounding the Creative Hierarchies are deep. From one perspective they
are large aggregations of Monads; from another, they are representatives
of fohatic force (cf. TCF 444)
245.
It would seem
that the Planetary Logoi (the solar systemic Kumaras) have a higher spiritual
status than the members of the Creative Hierarchies (at least the ones which
have been mentioned in TCF).
246.
Within the body
of expression of a Planetary Logos, a number of Creative Hierarchies are
to be found. The reverse cannot be said.
We must remember also
that nine is the number of Initiation, or of the major Initiations of Manas,
wherein man becomes a perfect Nine, or literally is the number of
his Hierarchy.
247.
We are speaking
not only of the relation of the ninefold initiation process to the human
or ninth Creative Hierarchy (by one way of counting), but of the
major Initiations of Manas (there are nine of them, beginning with the Birth
and ending with the Refusal).
248.
There are also
lesser initiations, but when DK speaks of the “great manasic initiations”
or the “major Initiations of Manas”, He is speaking of the nine with which
we are, at least theoretically, familiar.
249.
By passing through
nine initiations a member of a Hierarchy has fulfilled the developmental
promise his Hierarchy. Man, by taking nine initiations, has availed himself
of all the Fourth Creative Hierarchy can offer him.
250.
It may be presumed
that those Creative Hierarchies which have, as a whole, passed out on the
cosmic astral plane, have passed through the Great Refusal—technically the
ninth initiation (at least as that initiation is presented in the context
of their particular Creative Hierarchy).
251.
Each Creative
Hierarchy has nine states of consciousness (or initiations) and seven states
of form.
This is from the standpoint
of the three systems, though his present systemic number may be four.
252.
Of what Entity
is DK speaking when He says “though his present systemic number may be four”.
253.
Of our Planetary
Logos it could be said that His present systemic number is four.
254.
In fact, DK seems
to be speaking of Man and the Fourth Creative Hierarchy. The Hierarchy
of human Monads is usually considered the fourth.
255.
Hierarchies are
considered in a solar systemic context, and we must remember that the solar
system, as often defined, does not transcend the cosmic physical plane.
It does not include the cosmic astral plane.
256.
Thus, strictly
in relation to those Creative Hierarchy which are still expressing on the
solar systemic planes, man’s number (his systemic number) is, indeed, four.
257.
From a context
larger than the solar systemic context, man’s number may be considered nine.
In occupying ourselves
with these various statements anent our scheme and its Ruler we have seen
that this particular cycle, or incarnation of His, is one of great
importance, not only to Himself but to the entire system.
258.
Our Planetary
Logos is undergoing initiation through our planetary chain, but our Solar
Logos is undergoing initiation through our planetary scheme.
The planetary Logos
of this scheme is primarily occupied with a particular group of units, or
with those Monads who vibrate to His key, are colored by the same colour
as Himself, answer to the same number, and are esoterically known by the
same Name.
259.
Let us tabulate
how the units here discussed respond to our Planetary Logos:
a.
They vibrate to
His key
b.
They are colored
by the same color as Himself
c.
They answer to
the same number
d.
They are esoterically
known by the same name
260.
Are these necessarily
all human beings? It would seem that our Planetary Logos is not primarily
occupied with all human Monads.
261.
In general it
could be said that the Fourth Creative Hierarchy is very related to the
key, color, number and name of our Planetary Logos, but quite a number of
Monads have their true origin on planetary schemes other than the
Earth-scheme.
262.
Which of the presently
Earth Monads are most related to our Planetary Logos? Perhaps those
originally from Saturn.
263.
It may be questioned
whether Monads can originate within a Planetary Logos Who does not
express throughout the mahamanvantara; the Logos of our Earth-scheme
does not.
One point here needs emphasis:
all Monads pass at different times under the influence
of the different planetary Logoi, and all are found at some time in each
scheme.
264.
At face value
this is a shocking concept. Does each Monad really spend time in each scheme?
265.
DK, however, clarifies
His meaning immediately below.
This does not mean that
every human unit passes a period of incarnation in each scheme.
266.
This sounds like
a direct contradiction of the immediately preceding sentence.
It means that on some
one globe in every scheme, human units will be found either prior
to physical incarnation, between different egoic cycles (a
totally different thing to periods between physical lives), between different
rounds or manvantaras, or between the various root-races and subraces.
267.
Is that “some
one globe” only one globe in a scheme? Very likely, many globes are
involved.
268.
Each of the globes
is influenced by one or another other Heavenly Men. From this perspective
the globe (like any chain found within any planetary scheme) can be considered
a kind of extension of a particular planetary scheme.
269.
The ways in which
the human units will be found are interesting. Let us tabulate:
a.
Prior to physical
incarnation.(If this means prior to particular physical incarnations, we
might also expect to find those who have just left physical incarnation.
This would complete the cycle.)
b.
Between different
egoic cycles
c.
Between different
rounds or manvantaras. (Note in this case, as round is equivalent to a manvantara).
d.
Between various
root races
e.
Between various
subraces.
270.
We note that DK
did not mention that human beings would be found in incarnation on
some particular globe, but this is no doubt the case, as the incarnation
of a Heavenly Man works through the incarnation of human units.
271.
This tabulation,
in itself, shows us that incarnation is not a constant and continuous process
and that there are many intervals when incarnation is not taken.
272.
DK tells us that
human units will be found between different egoic cycles which He sharply
discriminates from individual incarnations or physical lives. We are told
that egoic cycles occur in sevens (major) and threes (hypothetically
minor). These egoic cycles may be associated with changing rounds or rootraces.
In any case, we gather they are of long duration and that much time (as
measured on the surface of our planet) may pass between them. It may be
inferred that the human unit is in a kind of pralaya with respect to its
physical incarnations during the interlude between egoic cycles, but this
does not mean that the human unit is not engaged in some form of higher
activity. We have seen that pralayas are only inactive from the perspective
of the apparently abandoned sphere, but very active from the perspective
of the sphere which the abstracted units inhabit after their departure.
273.
Because of such
interludes (as tabulated above) and because we do not know average or exact
durations of such interludes, it is presently impossible for us to calculate
the average number of incarnations through which a human unit will pass
in its long developmental career, or how many years during that developmental
period it is likely to be technically out of physical incarnation.
274.
There is the implication
that kinds of pralayas also exist between changes of root race or subrace.
These periods, it may be presumed, have something to do with the necessity
to assimilate that which has been gained in a particular race or subrace,
and with the need to prepare for a new type of experience.
275.
Is it customary
consistently to switch races or subraces from physical incarnation to physical
incarnation? The implication is that it is or is not. The tabulation makes
it seem that long periods are spent in a particular race or subrace. Could
we follow the incarnational history of some modern luminaries, we would
see whether switching between subraces occurs with any frequency.
276.
The now Master
R. was born an Englishman (Francis Bacon) and then a Hungarian (Rakoczi).
This is certainly a change of subrace (though there have been so many mixtures
in Europe that pure subraces may be hard to distinguish).
But then, the individual concerned was a high initiate.
277.
Perhaps as the
individual develops, greater flexibility is allowed in such changes so that
needed quality may be selectively gained, karma may be worked off and dharma
expressed where needed.
As stated in various occult
books, many of the present advanced humanity
individualised on the moon chain, and only took physical bodies in the earth chain during
the fourth root-race, thus escaping incarnation during the first
three rounds, and the first two races of the fourth round.
278.
This group probably
includes the majority of modern disciples, though not all, since there are
some members of Earth-chain humanity Who have even become members of the
Hierarchy.
279.
The suggestion
is that one can possibly be a member of advanced humanity without having
individualized on the Moon-chain.
In the interim, they came
under the planetary influence of another Logos of a scheme, and were
occupied during that immense period of time in fanning the manasic flame,
and developing [Page 365] the attributes of manas, so that the Atlantean
root-race found them adequately equipped to cope with life conditions.
280.
This is a fascinating
piece of information. During the interim between the Moon-chain and Earth-chain
(and in a state of pralaya of some kind) these human units, who individualized
on the Moon-chain, came under the planetary influence of another Logos of
another scheme. This does not necessarily mean that they were transferred
to that scheme, but that, even remaining within the Earth-scheme, the influence
of this other Logos became, with respect to them, predominant.
281.
DK speaks of an
“immense period of time” between the Moon-chain period and the Earth-chain
period.
282.
The development
of these human units was (at the point that Moon-chain evolution was interrupted)
insufficient to allow them to be transferred to the Earth-chain (which probably
was not prepared for any such transference). Although the Moon-chain was
a relatively manasic chain, the manasic development of these units
was still far below what would be developed in Earth-chain humanity by the
time of the relatively early fourth root race of the fourth round. We realize
that the development of Earth-chain humanity was (at that time) not really
very high, so we gain some understanding concerning the relatively low level
of manasic development of Moon-chain humanity at the time of the great interruption.
283.
During an immense
period of time they were involved with the “fanning the manasic flame”,
which is another way of saying—stimulating the mental unit and contributing
to the development of a causal body (a type of body which can be created
not only through the intervention of Solar Angels but through steady mental
development during the course of progressive evolution).
284.
Which Logos could
have been the influence? Venus is certainly and candidate and the manasic
nature of Saturn and Mercury cannot be forgotten. Further, both Saturn and
Mercury, by ray structure, were closely related to the Moon-chain.
285.
The Solar Angels
are directly associated with Venus and these Angels were involved not only
implanting the spark of mind in animal man during the fourth round, third
root race of the Earth-chain, but, as well, in fanning the spark of mind
in those type of human beings for whom implantation was not appropriate.
This means that we have a definite association of the Venusianly inspired
Solar Angels with the process of fanning the spark of mind.
286.
If the fanning
of the spark of mind had not been undertaken for these Moon-chain units
during the pralaya between the Moon-chain and the Earth-chain, any entry
into the Earth-chain would have found them far less intelligent that the
Earth-chain humanity that had progressed to that point. As it was, they
entered in a condition of greater intelligence.
287.
The cleavage between
the bulk of transferred Moon-chain humanity and Earth-chain humanity is
a significant source of difficulty on our planet and has largely to do with
the greater intelligence of Moon-chain humanity and, of course, how
that intelligence is used!
This participation in
the life and influence of the different schemes is effected in four different
ways:
288.
We are being told
how human units may participate in the life and influence of the different
schemes.
First, through passing the interim between
egoic cycles of physical incarnation on the particular globe of their scheme,
which numerically coincides with the particular other scheme whose influence
is desired, either from deliberate choice or karmically necessitated.
289.
This is an interesting
idea. Apparently there are large spans of time between egoic cycles. When
egoic cycles re-occur physical incarnation will commence. But in the interim
between egoic cycles, it would seem that physical incarnation is suspended—for
the units concerned. This will vary with their ray, presumably their egoic
ray.
290.
We see again that
not only one globe of a scheme may be the home to human units but perhaps
all forty-nine, depending upon quality, karma and need. It would seem that
the globes of a chain are simultaneously active.
291.
The human Monad
knows what it needs and between egoic cycles may inhabit a globe which is
numerically resonant with a quality needed by the Monad. This can be the
Monad’s own choice or may be mandated by karma of a kind that is interior
and, from our perspective, difficult to understand.
292.
Note that above
DK speaks of a “globe of their particular scheme”. Again, one step
seems to have been skipped. Why not ‘a globe of their particular chain?’
Each globe in a chain is occultly linked with the chain of its own number,
and with the scheme of a similar number.
293.
We see that there
is a double link—globe to chain and globe to scheme. Our fourth globe is
directly linked to the fourth chain of the Earth-scheme and also to the
Earth-scheme, itself, which is the fourth.
294.
The second globe
of the Earth-chain would be directly linked to the second chain of the Earth-scheme
and also to that scheme which can be numbered as the second—perhaps, by
one method of reckoning, Venus.
For instance: Globe 2, Chain 2, and scheme 2 during round 2 are specially
linked and vitalised, and are the focal point of peculiar attention on the
part of the Logos of that scheme.
295.
Perhaps DK is
not speaking only illustratively. Much occurred during the second round
concerning the Solar Angels or Agnishvattas, who, at that time, according
to the Secret Doctrine, evaluated the vehicles they might inform,
and found them wanting.
296.
We do see, in
general, how vitalization is a matter of numerical resonance. This simple
principle must always be held in mind as it offers much of interpretive
understanding.
Similarly (again in illustration) globe 2, chain 2 during round 2 in
any scheme such as the fifth, for instance, are aligned or
connected esoterically with the second scheme.
297.
DK is emphasizing
the relationship between the numbers two and five. These are Venusian numbers
and, again, relate to the rays generically expressed by the Solar Angels.
298.
What may be the
fifth scheme? Perhaps Mercury is a good candidate, though from one perspective
Mars is the fifth scheme (if Vulcan is considered the first scheme) and
Jupiter if Vulcan is not numbered.
299.
If we study Chart
VI on TCF 373, we can see that the schemes are not necessarily numbered
according to their order from the Sun.
300.
Rather than sequentially,
they may be numbered qualitatively, the quality of the number assigned
to them being correlated to the quality of the planetary scheme.
This gives opportunity for the units in the body of any Logos to
come under the influence of another Logos, and within his vibratory radiation.
301.
It makes no difference
in which scheme the human unit may be found, if placed on the appropriate
globe or chain within that scheme, it can come under the influence of any
particular Planetary Logos according to the principle of numerical resonance.
Second, through a direct transference of
the units in incarnation in any scheme (during an interlude) to some globe
in another scheme where they are subjected to the stimulation and vibration
peculiar to that scheme.
302.
We are discussing
how human units may be brought under the direct influence of various
Planetary Logoi other than their own.
303.
If we think of
conditions related only to our Earth-globe, we shall realize how much we
are conditioned by the Logos of the Earth-scheme.
304.
We do, however,
begin to see a substantial variety of possibilities within our solar system;
with such an interplay of energies we have the guarantee that a Heavenly
Man can be influential far beyond His own ring-pass-not.
These two methods are the most usual. This transference will seem mysteriously
impossible unless the student is careful to realise that it is the
transference of the individualised lives and not the transference of
the forms which they occupy.
305.
This is a very
important point. We are not speaking of the transfer of lunar forms but
of units of consciousness. Can it be that causal bodies, as forms occupied
by individualized lives, are not transferred during inner interludes to
other schemes? Can it be that transferences are only possible on the arupa
or (relatively) formless levels.
The whole matter is psychic, and based on the unity of the anima mundi.
306.
When DK tells
us that the whole matter is “psychic” He is not speaking of the astral body,
but of the true psyche, the individualized soul consciousness. Soul consciousness
is transferred from one scheme to another.
307.
Yet, the true
soul is expressed through the spiritual triad on the arupa levels.
It is only possible at those periods when two Heavenly Men are mutually
finding each other—under the Law of Attraction—and thus swinging into the
magnetic radius of each other.
308.
This means that
so-called ‘easy travel to other planets’ is not to be expected. Transfer
is not always possible.
309.
The Heavenly Men
of Venus and Earth seem to finding Themselves in this way, and thus transference
of human units between these schemes may be possible. We have read of the
imminent transfer of units of our Spiritual Hierarchy to another planetary
scheme. Venus may be Their destination.
310.
When the “Judgment
Day” comes in the fifth round there will be a close relation between the
Logos of Earth and the Logos of Mars. It has been inferred that two-fifths
of Earth’s human units will be transferred to Mars. We do not know whether
any units from Mars will be transferred to the Earth-scheme, but there are
hints that this may be the case.
Third, through a conscious passage of
the initiate, [Page 366] through initiation, from one scheme to another.
This is frequently done, and hints of it have been given by different writers
and thinkers, though several have confused the globes of their own chain
with the scheme of the same number, or have mistaken another chain within
the scheme for another scheme.
311.
It would seem
that this possibility would only exist for initiates of high degree. Perhaps
after the fourth initiation it is possible, as after that point, there is
no longer any need for the initiate to incarnate on Earth within the human
family.
312.
DK seems to be
speaking of a radical transference between schemes and not just between
globes or chains of the same scheme.
313.
We read of Schools
on other planets. Those who are preparing to tread one or other of the seven
(or nine) Cosmic Paths are, as part of the process, often transferred to
another planetary scheme where specific training is given for a particular
Cosmic Path. Venus and Jupiter are two such training stations, Jupiter relating
to the Third Cosmic Path (of Planetary Logoi) and Venus perhaps related
to Path Four (to Sirius). Perhaps it should also be considered in relation
to Path Two (Magnetic Work) and Path Six (the Path of the Solar Logoi).
If we study these three Paths we can probably see the Venusian connection.
314.
The following
reference relates not only Venus but Jupiter to Sirius:
“The line of relationship
then extends from these onward and outward, and upward (spherically considered)
to the Life at the very centre of our Earth's "alter ego,"
the planet Venus, to Jupiter and thence to the solar Lord Himself and on
to a point in the Sun, Sirius. (DINA I 768)
Fourth, the fourth method of transference
of consciousness, and the bringing of the life units under the focal
power of a Lord of a Ray, can be brought about through knowledge of certain
mantrams and formulae. On this we may not enlarge as these mantrams
are esoteric and the use of them is fraught with much danger to the uninitiated.
315.
We can see that
these are very potent, esoteric mantrams. They are invocative of extra-planetary
Ray Lords and thus of a category of potency far removed from what may be
wielded by those with a considerable knowledge of effective mantrams.
316.
We do see, however,
how a great deal can be accomplished by knowing the right words or formulae—really,
we are faced with some amazing prospects.
The planetary Logos of
this scheme is called "the First Kumara," the One Initiator, and
the statement is made that He came to this planet from Venus, Venus being
"the Earth's primary."
317.
This is a rather
amazing statement because, within it, Sanat Kumara is equated with
the Planetary Logos of our scheme; elsewhere in the Teaching, He is not.
318.
We realize that
no Planetary Logos can, as it were, “come from” another Planetary Logos.
Each Planetary Logos is His own autonomous centre.
319.
It becomes clear
from ten references that the “first Kumara” is indeed Sanat Kumara, the
One Initiator.
320.
It must also be
remembered that in at least one reference, Sanat Kumara, the Lord of the
World, is known, as well, as the “fourth kumara”. (cf. TCF 74).
321.
The conventionalized
ancient lore is given to us at face value. An elucidation follows.
This needs elucidation
somewhat, though it may not be permitted to do more than convey a few hints
as to the truth. The fact is one of the most mysterious in the development
of our scheme, and in it lies hidden the secret of this world cycle.
It is not easy to convey the truth and words but seem to veil and cloak.
322.
By “this world
cycle” we may mean the fourth round.
323.
Much is said about
the coming of Sanat Kumara to our globe, but beneath the seemingly obvious
statements there lies a great mystery—the greatest mystery in the development
of our scheme. We could pause for a moment to reflect on this.
324.
VSK inquires:
“Who is this first kumara? If he took human form ‘where’ or ‘what’ is he
now?”
325.
The overwhelming
evidence points in the direction we might expect—that Sanat Kumara (especially
when equated with the Planetary Logos) is the “first Kumara”.
Perhaps a hint may be
given in pointing out that there is an analogy between the coming in of
the Ego in full sway and its taking hold at certain periods in the life
of a human being.
326.
The coming of
Sanat Kumara to our globe is likened to the coming in of the Ego in full
sway at certain periods in the life of the human being. In this way, Sanat
Kumara is to be understood as related to the soul or Ego of our Planetary
Logos. Sanat Kumara is, in a way, a kind of Heavenly Man.
At seven years we are
told the Ego "takes hold," and again at adolescence; at twenty-one
that hold may be made still firmer. Again, as lives are passed, the Ego
(in connection with a human being) grips its vehicles and so sways them
to his purpose with more effect and fullness. The same procedure
can be seen in relation to a Heavenly Man and His body of manifestation,
a scheme.
327.
It is being suggested
that Sanat Kumara takes hold of our globe evolution in different phases—at
least three. Perhaps the years seven, fourteen and twenty one can be likened
to the emergence of the three self-conscious root races—the Lemurian (part
of it), the Atlantean and the Aryan.
328.
Every new ‘grip’
may be likened to a kind of initiation.
329.
We note that DK
was speaking of the Planetary Logos but has now switched terms to “Heavenly
Man”.
330.
There are some
who believe that the term “Heavenly Man” should only be used in relation
to the soul aspect of the Planetary Logos, whereas the term “Planetary Logos”
should be used in relation to the Logos’ spirit or monadic nature.
331.
It turns out that
DK does not use the terms with consistency (at least, apparently not).
It must be remembered
that every scheme has seven chains; that each chain has seven globes, making
a totality of forty-nine globes;
332.
This is the usual
manner of enumeration, but there may be times when a planetary scheme has
ten globes per chain or three, or ten chains or three chains. All will depend
upon the point reached in the developmental process of the scheme.
[Page 367] that each
globe is again in turn occupied by the life of the Logos during what we
call seven rounds, making literally three hundred and forty-three incarnations,
or fresh impulses to manifest.
333.
We have implied
an important definition—that each world period or one seventh of a round
is considered an incarnation of the Planetary Logos.
334.
It is perhaps
not insignificant that the numbers 3-4-3 sum to 10. Kabbalistically, we have a three hovering
above a lower seven.
335.
There are also
other ways to describe His incarnations, as for instance in root races or
sub-races.
336.
VSK asks: “In
other words, every scheme, or kumara, has 343 incarnations?”
337.
It may be that
every Planetary Logos has 343 incarnations (by one method of reckoning—more
by others), but that a Kumara (not necessarily equivalent to a Planetary
Logos) does not.
338.
Sanat Kumara both
is the Planetary Logos and is not. In this seeming contradiction
lies much mystery—insoluble to us at present.
We must add to these major
manifestations such lesser ones as those named by us root-races, and
subraces, also branch races, and thus we are faced with a complexity
that is enough to stagger the average student.
339.
DK has added other
lesser incarnations, including even branch races.
340.
Are we staggered?
I would think so.
341.
Let us remember
that, in a certain sense, the Planetary Logos is in incarnation in all chains
and on all globes simultaneously. His Presence is there in all, even
if His particular conscious focus (His ‘incarnational attentiveness’)
is far more localized.
The planetary wheel of
life turns on its lesser scale the wheel of life of the little pilgrim we
call man; as it turns, it sweeps the life of the evolving planetary Logos
into ever new forms and experiences until the fire of Spirit burns
up all lesser fires.
342.
This is a large
summary thought, illustrating how the little wheel of man is swept by the
turning of the “planetary wheel of life”. “The lesser wheels must not for
aye revolve in time and space. Only the greater Wheel must onward move and
turn.” (R&I, Rule IV for Disciples and Initiates).
343.
The destiny of
all lesser fires is to be burned up in the “fire of Spirit”.
344.
Variety will be
abundant but synthesis and homogeneity will prevail.
As earlier pointed out,
each Heavenly Man is linked with one of His Brothers under the Law of Mutual
Attraction, which manifests so degradingly as yet upon the physical plane,
through the life of the human unit, imprisoned in physical form.
345.
The suggestion
is that (in addition to triangular linking) each Heavenly Man is linked
particularly to one other Heavenly Man.
346.
In the case of
the Earth we may reason that the linking to be with Venus.
347.
However, Venus
may be linked with Mercury and Earth with Mars. Jupiter would seem linked
with Saturn and Uranus with Neptune. A reasonable link
for Vulcan would be Pluto. Of course there are a great number of secondary
inter-planetary relationships which can be justified.
348.
DK is speaking
of ‘sexual attraction’ between the Heavenly Men. He obviously does not think
much of how this type of attraction manifests between incarnated human units—imprisoned
as they are in physical form.
349.
Are we dealing,
in this first instance, with a more physical link between Planetary Logoi?
Psychically the
link is of a different nature, and such a link is found between the planetary
Logos of the scheme we call Venus, and the Logos of our scheme.
350.
DK discriminates
a psychic link, different from the kind He mentioned above.
351.
Between the Logos
of our scheme and the Logos of Venus such a psychic link exists. This must
be a link involving far more the consciousness than the form.
352.
If we have to
differentiate between outer and inner (psychic) links, we shall have the
possibility of many additional relationships between the Heavenly Men.
This psychic interaction
has its cyclic ebb and flow, as ebbs and flows all life force. In Lemurian
days came a period of close interaction which brought about an incarnation
on the physical planet of the Logos of our scheme, the Head of the
Hierarchy, and the One Initiator. This could not have been effected
had not the planetary Logos of the Venus scheme been in a position to link
up closely with ours.
353.
Again we have
some interesting and important ideas. We note that several terms are used
as equivalent; elsewhere they are differentiated:
a.
The Logos of our
scheme
b.
The Head of the
Hierarchy (usually considered the Christ, if the term “Hierarchy” is not
expanded). We can explain this, however, through the fact that in Lemurian
times, Sanat Kumara was the Head of the then Hierarchy.
c.
The One Initiator
(usually considered Sanat Kumara).
354.
We are being told
that during Lemurian days a particularly close relationship between the
two Logoi developed (as part of the usual cyclic ebb and flow).
355.
Although the fourth
round in relation to our globe had started long before (and thus, an incarnation
of our Planetary Logos through our globe had started long before, for we
have just—TCF 367—read of three hundred forty three incarnations), DK singles
out Lemurian days as the time when an incarnation of our Planetary Logos
through the physical planet of our scheme occurred. It would seem
that the individualization signaled the preamble to this incarnation.
c. Venus and the Earth Chain. This question of the coming of the Lords of Flame to the
planet Earth is deeply involved (as stated above) in the relationship existing
between the Heavenly Man of the Earth scheme and the Lord of the Venus scheme.
356.
This is one of
the fundamental facts of occultism. Two Heavenly Men were aligned to enable
the Lords of the Flame to come to our planet Earth.
Until more detailed information
is permitted publication anent these two great Entities, little more can
be done beyond indicating some probabilities, and pointing out certain factors
which students should carefully bear in mind.
357.
DK is limited
concerning what He is permitted to reveal. The secrets of interplanetary
lore are guarded closely.
358.
It is always to
be remembered that the true details of the Ageless Wisdom are not by any
means fully revealed in even such a comprehensive book as A Treatise
on Cosmic Fire. In fact, the Tibetan is building for the future and
presenting to us only the broad outlines of the magnificent Wisdom. Our
patience is required. Hundreds of years of thought and study lie ahead of
us if we are to assimilate greater detail.
The statement [Page 368]
has been made that (owing to the Venusian scheme being in its fifth round)
its humanity is consequently further advanced than ours, and can help us,
and that this help came in Lemurian days.
359.
This is an interesting
idea. Was it the humanity of the Venusian scheme that came to the aid of
Lemurian animal man or was it the Solar Angels, perhaps inspired
by Venus, but resident at that time within our own planetary scheme?
This is an instance
of a partial truth and its misinterpretation. The Venusian scheme is —
[35 as stated in the Secret Doctrine: S. D., I, 187.
II, 33-36, 626.] —in its fifth and last round;
360.
Usually seven
rounds are required, but the Venusian Logos is said to have accomplished
in five rounds what other Planetary Logoi usually accomplish in seven.
361.
We note that we
are speaking of a ‘scheme-round’ and not a chain round (the kind usually
discussed). We propose that it is the scheme as an entirety that is in its
fifth and last round. The two types of rounds (chain-rounds and scheme-rounds)
must be differentiated. We think we know how chain-rounds work, but it is
not so easy to know how scheme-rounds work; several possibilities exist.
362.
Add to this the
idea of systemic rounds and there is much to decipher about the cyclic
life of such Beings as Chain Lords, Scheme Lords and Systemic Lords (Solar
Logoi).
its humanity is very
far ahead of ours in certain particulars,
363.
Particulars which
are not being revealed to us but may well have something to do with the
cultivation of the buddhic faculty.
but the momentous occurrence
in the third root-race was due to the following causes, and not
to the factor of the greater advancement of a certain group of human beings:
364.
DK is disabusing
us of another misinterpretation which many students otherwise might take
as truth.
First, the Venus Scheme, viewed as a logoic
centre, is more active than ours, and therefore its radiatory magnetism
is far more widely spread.
365.
If Venus were
the logoic solar plexus center, this would make sense. While we do have
an astral-buddhic solar system, and while our Solar Logos is a heart center
within a Cosmic Logos, the Solar Logos has not reached the stage of development
in which His heart center is fully and buddhically unfolded. He would have
to be a cosmic Initiate of the fourth degree.
366.
Further Venus
is said to be (with Saturn and the Earth) under the special stimulation
of logoic kundalini.
367.
Anyway, this is
a good comparison dealing with the relative magnetism of the Earth-scheme
and the Venus-scheme.
Its radiation is such that on the buddhic plane it swept
within its magnetic radius that chain in our scheme which is composed predominantly
of buddhic matter.
368.
Could this chain
have been the second or Venus-chain?
369.
Perhaps a hint
is being give about the composition of the chains within our Earth-scheme
(and others).
370.
It is to be anticipated
that certain of the chains will not have vehicles of lower matter—for instance
physical and astral—and will have developed vehicles of higher matter
(for instance buddhic matter).
371.
Note that, although
the buddhic plane is considered an arupa plane, DK still speaks of
“buddhic matter”.
372.
Where, in our
vast cosmos, does matter end? Perhaps it does not. In one way, the entire
universe is Matter and a Deva, though we must remember that matter
is Spirit and Spirit is matter.
Then, via that chain, it magnetised the corresponding globe in our chain,
and this resulted in a specific vitalisation in the dense planet itself.
373.
This suggests
that via the second chain of the Earth-scheme a magnetic relationship was
set up with the second globe of the Earth-chain.
374.
The easy rapport
between globe two and globe four of the Earth-chain (our planet Earth) contributed
to a vitalization in the dense planet itself
375.
But let us remember
that this vitalization cannot have been strictly physical because
the buddhic and mental planes of our fourth globe were certainly involved
in the work of the Solar Angels.
376.
When DK speaks
of the “dense planet” meaning our fourth globe, it is not to be presumed
that it is strictly dense and has no higher vehicular fields—such
as astral, mental, buddhic, etc. This is an important point and can be substantiated
by numerous references and by reasoning.
Second, just as in the case of man, certain
triangles of force are found at different stages of evolution, or (to word
it otherwise) different centres become geometrically linked, such as the:
377.
We remember from
TCF 169 that this particular triangle represents man controlled from the
astral plane.
378.
Interestingly,
this triangle is not listed from TCF 169-170, yet is seems an important
triangle. It would seem to represent kama-manasic man—nether controlled
strictly from the astral plane nor strictly from the mental.
so, in the case of a Heavenly
Man, or of a solar Logos, a similar event occurs. Such
an event transpires in this round in relation to the centre which
our planetary Logos [Page 369] embodies.
379.
If this center
is the base of the spine center, then the very first triangle listed above—Base
of Spine, Solar Plexus, Heart—has relevance.
380.
It is, however,
no easy matter to determine exactly which center of the Solar Logos our
Heavenly Man embodies—at this time. We do know that at some time
our planetary scheme will embody the base of the spine center, but there
are other possibilities presently. Everything shifts in time and what is
true at one moment in the developmental process may not be true at another.
381.
Here is a reference
which relates Earth to the base of the spine center.
It relates
finally the lowest centre at the base of the spine to the highest centre,
the head centre. This is a correspondence to the relation of the Earth to
the Sun. Think this out. (EA 25)
382.
Yet here is a
reference which suggests a relationship between Venus and Earth analogous
to the relationship between the manasic permanent atom and the mental unit.
The
coming of the Lords of Flame to the Earth was all under law and not just
an accidental and fortunate happening; it was a planetary matter which
finds its correspondence in the connection between the mental unit and the
manasic permanent atom. Again, as the antaskarana is built by individual
man between these two points, so—again in a planetary sense—is a channel
being built by collective man on this planet to its primary,
Venus. (TCF 297)
383.
What is the definition
of “collective man”? Is this term referring to the group nature of our Planetary
Logos, Who is, we realize, a ‘Man’.
384.
Here is a reference
suggesting that the Earth has an association with the spleen and thus with
the splenic center. This reference relates to the microcosm but may have
macrocosmic implications (i.e., implications of the solar system).
1. Two
of the non-sacred planets (the Earth itself and the Moon) are connected
with two centres which in the highly evolved man are not of dominating importance:
a. The
spleen receiving pranic emanations from the planet on which we live and
concerned with the etheric and physical bodies and their physical relation.
b. A
centre in the chest related to the thymus gland. This centre becomes inactive
in the advanced man but has a connection with the vagus nerve, prior to
the awakening of the heart centre. (EA 78)
385.
It is clear from
this reference that the Earth relates to point “a.”, and a planet veiled
by the Moon to point “b.”
It became geometrically
linked with two other centres, of which Venus was one, and logoic Kundalini—circulating
with tremendous force through this adjusted Triangle—brought about
that intensification of vibration in the human family which resulted in
individualisation.
386.
When logoic kundalini
is discussed, the three planets involved are usually the Earth, Venus and
Saturn. Here Earth and Venus are given and Saturn (if it is the planet meant)
is not mentioned.
387.
There is the possibility
that Mercury could be the third planet since it rules the Fourth Creative
Hierarchy (which, incidentally, pre-existed the founding of the fourth kingdom
of nature, the human).
388.
In the example
above we are given two triangles: Base of Spine, Solar Plexus and Heart:
and Solar Plexus, Heart and Throat.
389.
We have to see
whether the three planets linked by solar logoic kundalini are related to
either of these triangles. Pieces of information are, of course, missing,
so we must infer.
390.
There seems to
be no easy fit. Venus can be associated with either the logoic solar plexus
center or the logoic heart center. Saturn can be connected with the logoic
throat center. But Earth cannot be connected with the logoic solar plexus
center (unless we consider the relationship between Earth and Venus as representing
the lower and higher “points” within the solar plexus center—if the analogy
holds good that since man has two “points”, so does the Solar Logos).
391.
If Earth is considered
the base of the spine center, then Venus could be considered the logoic
solar plexus center, but we would need a suitable planet for the heart center.
This would have to be Jupiter, a planet not mentioned as undergoing solar-logoic
kundalinic stimulation.
392.
Of course, just
because the Tibetan has mentioned a triangle which is the recipient of solar
logoic kundalini (namely Saturn/Venus/Earth), it does not mean that others
planets (for instance Mercury or Jupiter) do not receive such stimulation.
393.
If we do not attempt
to correlate the planetary triangle DK is discussing (without telling us
all three members of the triangle), then we could assign the chakras as
follows:
a.
Earth/Base of
the Spine; Venus/Solar Plexus; Saturn or Mercury/Throat Center. One can
associate Mercury with the throat center as the center of speech, though
its associations with the ajna center are also necessary and convincing.
b.
Or, one could
attempt as follows: Earth/Base of the Spine; Venus Heart Center;
Saturn or Mercury/Throat Center. This would have some value, as the coming
of the Lords of the Flame was associated with heart center activity within
our Planetary Logos. These Solar Angels, influential upon the buddhic and
mental planes (where man the microcosm was concerned) also brought the spark
right down into the etheric-physical brain (hence the appropriateness of
the base of the spine center considered as a symbol of anchoring).
394.
We can see that
Master DK leaves much to our intuition. The possibilities are many, and
assigning planets as solar logoic chakras may be correct for one time of
logoic development and not correct at others.
395.
Venus certainly
has heart center functions and capacities and DK even says of Venus:
First. Venus corresponds
to the heart centre in the body logoic, and has an inter-relationship
therefore with all the other centres in the solar system wherein the heart
aspect is the one of greater prominence. (TCF 182)
396.
But this correspondence
must not be taken strictly at face value (as I have discussed when dealing
with TCF 182). Other references re the place of Venus within the “logoic
quaternary” contradict a literal interpretation of the reference above.
The whole question of timing in relation to function is of the essence.
397.
Venus is one of
the planets representing the three “super principles” within the solar system
(along with Saturn and Jupiter)—also discussed at length earlier. But whether
Venus can be correlated with the second ray super-principle when compared
to the other two (Jupiter and Saturn), is up for debate.
398.
So the subject
is veiled. We reason our way forward, gathering the evidence, anticipating
that when there is sufficient evidence and indication, the clear light of
pure reason will shine and the whole matter be clarified.
399.
In any case, a
planetary triangle (greatly stimulated by logoic kundalini) was formed at
the time of the individualization of animal man on our fourth globe, the
Earth-globe. Because Sanat Kumara was involved (though not yet incarnate
on our globe), Saturn and Venus can be hypothesized as two of the planets
linked in the triangle to the Earth-scheme. The Solar Angels (who came some
21,000,000 years ago) are linked directly to Venus, and Sanat Kumara is
linked to both Venus and Saturn.
400.
Because it was
the human family that was created, Mercury (rather than Saturn) could have
been the third planet, for Mercury rules humanity and the Fourth Creative
Hierarchy.
401.
We have, however,
no direct reference to suggest that Mercury was undergoing stimulation by
logoic kundalini. Yet, from another perspective, Mercury is kundalini
and is correlated with “kundalini active” and the base of the spine center.
402.
We will have to
hold these thoughts in suspension until a totally convincing solution precipitates.