Preamble Letter for
TCF Semester VI Section IV
Dear Fellow Students of A
Treatise on Cosmic Fire,
This fortnight’s reading focuses
on Thought Elementals and Devas with important information about the Deva
Lord Agni. Here are some of the subjects contained:
1.
The fascinating relationship between Agni and the Solar Logos. They are
closely related but not the same. Agni is an aspect of the Solar Logos.
2.
Agni as “the vitality that energises and the Life that animates…”
3.
The forty-nine fires of Agni. In all there are 147 of these fires if one
includes the Ray-fires and the fires of the Spirits of Darkness.
4.
Life as that which substands the three aspects of divinity. Sometimes
the “life aspect” is associated with the first ray, but really is substands
all rays.
5.
The relation of Agni to solar fire. Is it easier to think of Agni as related
to fire by friction? Perhaps, but the fire by friction of the Solar Logos
is equivalent, in many respects, to solar fire for us.
6.
Agni as the blending of the fire of matter and mind.
7.
The paradoxical attributions of Agni. Is there anything He is not? This
type of question is often related to Fohat? Yet, in a way, Agni is
Fohat.
8.
Sanskrit commentaries on Agni.
9.
Agni as the Emanation of the Supreme One.
10. The many divisions of Agni.
11. Agni as the animating Life
of the solar system.
12. Agni is not the Solar Logos
on the cosmic mental plane.
13. The clear, succinct definitions
offered help to clarify the more paradoxical definitions.
14. Agni as the solar logoic
personality.
15. The necessity of studying
Agni through the study of the logoic physical nature—etheric included.
16. The study of history to
discover the nature of the logoic personality.
17. Entry into the fifth kingdom
necessary for the study of Agni.
18. Approaching the psychic
nature of the Logos through polarization within the etheric body of the
Logos.
19. Agni as the vital life
of the cosmic etheric planes.
20. Agni in relation to the
mental plane.
21. A fascinating table of
correspondences involving the number five. We have already had one such,
and so with tens, fours and sixes etc.
22. The relative importance
of various aspects of the Solar Logos’ manifestation. In time and space
certain aspects are more important (apparently) than others.
23. The clue to Agni in the
nature of the ninth, tenth and eleventh Hierarchies.
24. Certain numbers and figures
as clues to the unfoldment of consciousness.
25. Agni considered as a Solar
Lord coming into emergence.
26. The form subsidiary to
Agni.
27. Studying the electrical
nature of all fires.
28. It seems that defining
Agni becomes as elusive as the attempt to define Fohat.
29. It would seem that the
fire within man (or man considered as fire) is even more essential to
the nature of man than the Monad.
30. The proposal of some very
important triple correspondences dealing the three periodical vehicles.
31. The need for humility when
studying these great subjects. Only so much can be known by man in his
present consciousness.
32. Fohat as the cause of the
psychic unfoldment of the Logos.
33. The stages of life ruled
by the three periodical vehicles and the relation of Agni to these three
stages.
34. Agni as Spirit, soul and
personality.
35. The need to study the real
and the true.
Let us continue to apply ourselves
to the synthesis of thought and knowledge possible. We are in the process
of elevating our consciousness. The practical results of doing so cannot
be entirely foreseen, but we know they will be good and will make us far
more useful that we presently are.
In Light, Love and Power,