• To respond to vibration
• To provide a body for an idea
• To carry out specific purpose.

1. The vibrations of the cosmic physical plane, viewing it as all the matter of that plane which exists [553] outside the logoic ring-pass-not. It concerns the pranic and akashic fluids and currents.
2. The vibrations of the cosmic astral plane as they affect the physical form of divine manifestation. This involves cosmically the action upon our solar Logos of the emotional quality of other cosmic entities, and concerns the magnetic effect upon Him of their psychic emanation. This, in view of the fact that His dense physical body is not a principle, is of a more potent nature than the first set of vibrations, as is the case also in man's evolution.
3. Vibrations from that which, within the logoic consciousness, is recognized as the logoic Higher Self, or His emanating source. This brings the solar system within the vibratory radius of certain constellations which have a position of profound importance in the general evolution of the system.
4. Vibrations from Sirius via the cosmic mental plane.
5. Vibrations from the seven Rishis of the Great Bear, and primarily from those two Who are the Prototypes of the Lords of the seventh and fifth Rays. This is a most important point, and finds its microcosmic correspondence in the place which the seventh Ray has in the building of a thought-form, and the use of the fifth Ray in the work of concretion. All magicians who work with matter and who are occupied with form-building (either consciously or unconsciously) call in these two types of force or energy.
6. Certain very remote vibrations, as yet no more appreciable in the logoic Body than is monadic influence in that of average man, from the ONE ABOUT WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID, that cosmic [554] Existence Who is expressing Himself through seven centers of force, of which our solar system is one.
7. A series of vibrations which will become more potent as our Logos nears that period which is occultly called "Divine Maturity," which emanate from that constellation in the Heavens which embodies His polar opposite. This is a deep mystery and concerns the cosmic marriage of the Logos.

• Through the factor of time in evolution.
• Through extra-systemic stimulation and intensive training, whether for a Logos or a man.
• Through the process of Initiation, and the application of the Rods of Initiation.

• Through the group to the unit.
• Through a more evolved "Kingdom of Nature" to a less evolved.

1. The ability of man consciously to create on mental levels, and the consequent transmutation of his lower sex impulses into higher.
2. The mental vitalization of another large section of the animal kingdom.

1. Its source
2. Its mission
3. Its method
4. Its objective.

• The period of construction, wherein the form is built.
• The period of utilization, wherein the form is occupied, vitalized by a central Life, and employed.
• The period of dissolution, wherein the form is devitalized, destroyed and dissipated.

• By its color,
• By its vibration,
• By its direction,
• By its keynote,

1. What may be the purpose of the present incarnation of the solar Logos?
2. What is the purpose which may perhaps be working out in our own planetary scheme and what is the basic plan of our planetary Logos?
3. Wherein does it differ from other planetary schemes?
4. What is the purpose lying back of the relation existing between our Earth and Venus?
5. Is the purpose of the animal kingdom, as a whole, in any way to be ascertained?
6. What is the purpose back of the present root-race evolution? Can we realize it?
7. What is the purpose behind the differing national forms? [567]

1. In what type of matter do I usually formulate thoughts?
2. What is the psychic quality of my thought-forms?
3. With what specific purpose do I use mental matter?
4. Do I work in mental matter consciously or unconsciously?
5. Do I vitalize my thought-forms with a high or a low order of entity?
6. Do I study the laws of construction?
7. Do I realize the power of the will to vitalize?
8. Do I destroy thought-forms when they have accomplished their purpose by a conscious act of the will?
9. Do I make forms which bring karmic effects, or do I build those which go to the good of the group?

• The Law of Synthesis – The Will Aspect – 1st Aspect.
• The Law of Attraction – The Love Aspect – 2nd Aspect.
• The Law of Economy – The Activity Aspect – 3rd Aspect.

1. The Law of Vibration, the basis of manifestation, starting on the first plane. This is the atomic law of the system, in the same sense that on each of our planes the first subplane is the atomic plane.
2. The Law of Cohesion. On the second plane cohesion is first apparent. It is the first molecular plane of the system, and is the home of the Monad. Divine coherency is demonstrated.
3. The Law of Disintegration. On the third plane comes the final casting-off, the ultimate shedding of the sheaths, of the fivefold superman. A Chohan of the sixth Initiation discards all the sheaths beneath the monadic vehicle, from the atmic to the physical.
4. The Law of Magnetic Control holds sway paramountly on the buddhic plane, and in the development of the control of this law lies hid the control of the personality by the Monad via the egoic body.
5. The Law of Fixation demonstrates principally on the mental plane and has a close connection with manas, the fifth principle. The mind controls and stabilizes, and coherency is the result.
6. The Law of Love is the law of the astral plane. It aims at the transmutation of the desire nature, and links it up with the greater magnetism of the love aspect on the buddhic plane.
7. The Law of Sacrifice and Death is the controlling factor on the physical plane. The destruction of the form, in order that the evolving life may progress, is one of the fundamental methods in evolution.

1. The three cosmic laws of Synthesis, Attraction and Economy.
2. The Sirian law of Karma.
3. The seven laws of the solar system.

1. We might study their effect as they demonstrate on the path of involution.
2. As they manifest on the path of evolution, or return.
3. We might also touch on the laws as they affect the human and deva organisms that evolve by means of them.

• 4th Law – Magnetic Control.
• 4th Ray – Harmony or beauty.
• 4th Plane – The buddhic. [574]
• 4th Subplane – Buddhic Magnetic Control.
• 4th Round – Dense Physical Magnetism, controlling sex manifestation on the physical plane, and inspired by astral desire, the reflection of the buddhic.
• 4th Root-Race – The Atlantean, in which the above qualities specially demonstrated.

• On the plane of the Monad, as the law of cohesion, the law of birth, if we might use that term, resulting in the appearance of the Monads in their seven groups. Love the source, and the Monad of love, the result.
• On the plane of buddhi, as the law of magnetic control. It shows itself as the love-wisdom aspect, irradiating the ego, and eventually gathering to itself the essence of all experience, garnered, via the Ego, through the personality lives, and controlled throughout from the plane of buddhi. Magnetism, and the capacity to show love, are occultly synonymous.
• On the astral plane, as love demonstrating through the [577] personality. All branches of the law of attraction, demonstrating in this system, show themselves as a force that ingathers, that tends to coherence, that results in adhesion, and leads to absorption. All these terms are needed to give a general idea of the basic quality of this law.

• 35 Thousand million Monads of love,
• 20 Thousand million Monads of activity,
• 5 Thousand million Monads of power,

• System I. Physical, mental, and atmic.
  The atmic was the highest point of achievement in that system.
• System II. Astral, buddhic and monadic.
• System III. Mental, atmic and logoic.

1. The Law of Fixation.
2. The Law of Love.
3. The Law of Sacrifice and Death.

1. The Power-Aspect – Ray 1, Planes 1 and 5, and the Laws of Fixation and Vibration, form one interlocking whole.
2. The Love Aspect – Ray 2, Planes 2, 4, 6, and the Laws of Cohesion, Magnetic Control, and of Love, form another unit.
3. The Activity Aspect – Ray 3, Planes 3 and 7, and the Laws of Disintegration, Sacrifice and Death, make still another group.

• 7 Rays – Major 1-2-7 – Four subsidiary converging on the fifth.
• 7 Principles – 3 Major – Monad, Ego and Personality, synthesizing at various stages the four subsidiary.
• 7 Chains – Major 1-4-7
• 7 Planes – Major 2-5-7
• 7 Manvantaras – Major 3-4-7
• 7 Rounds – Major 4-5-7
• 7 Root races – Major 3-5-7
• 7 Sub races – Major 1-5-6
• 7 Initiations – Major 1-4-5 – if viewed from the angle of human attainment, and 1-5-7 if viewed from a higher. [601]

• The 5th cosmic plane – The cosmic mental.
• The 5th systemic plane – The mental plane.
• The 5th subplane of the physical – The gaseous.
• The 5th principle – Manas.
• The 5th Law – Fixation, the Law of Concretion.
• The 5th Ray – Concrete knowledge.
• The 5th round – The round of manasic attainment. [605]
• The 5th root-race – The Aryan. Mental development.
• The 5th subrace – The Teutonic and Anglo-Saxon. Concrete mind.
• The 5th group of Devas – Fire Devas of the mental plane.
• The 5th Manvantara – Three-fifths of the manasaputras achieve.
• The 5th scheme – The Lord of concrete science.
• The 5th Mahamanvantara (or solar system) – The solar Logos achieves His fifth major Initiation.
• The 5th chain – Principal evolution – fire devas.
• The 5th Hierarchy – The greater Builders.
• Vibrations of fifth order – Manasic.

• First.   The period wherein the fire of matter (the heat of mother) hides, nourishes and brings to birth the infant Ego. This is the period of purely personality life, when the third aspect dominates, and man is in the veil of illusion.
• Second.   The period wherein the Ego, or subjective life within the form, passes through certain stages of unfoldment, and comes to an ever fuller consciousness. This is the period of egoic development, and is produced by the gradual merging and blending of the two fires. It is the life of service and of the Path.
• Third.   The period wherein the egoic consciousness itself is superseded by spiritual realization, and the fire of Spirit blends with the other two.

1. The formation of force centers on the causal levels, those force centers being egoic groups in their various divisions.
2. The concretion of substance, or the building of the dense physical body of the Logos.

• First.   Knowledge of how to build in mental matter in the three worlds, and how to employ the devas of the gaseous plane of the cosmic physical.
• Second.   Realization of how to combine the pairs of opposites, and thus give body and form to concept.
• Third.   Materialization upon the physical plane of the embodied idea.

• The Mental Plane – reflection of the first aspect. The plane of concept, of the union of Father-Spirit-Will and Mother-Matter-Energy. This is the work of the Logos, and this union produces the Son, for Divine Thought takes form. The body of the Ego is there found.
• Astral Plane – reflection of the second aspect, the Son. Materialization proceeds through desire, and the form grows and evolves, becoming more adequate.
• Physical Plane – Manifestation. The thought-form (of man or the Logos) appears in activity. The Son is born on the physical plane, the thought of the Thinker (divine or human) becomes an entity, separated [621] from its originating source, yet energized by the vitality emanating from him.

1. The force which plays through all the manasic permanent atoms, and which produces basically that manifestation which we call the three worlds.
2. The force which animates those groups of "lotuses" [623] which we call egoic groups or centers – aggregations of causal bodies.
3. The force which vitalizes all the mental units and which is distributed thence to all the other permanent atoms.

• First.   The devas who are the substance or force of the astral plane, viewing it as the sumtotal of desire, of feeling and of sensation. They are, therefore, the nerve centers, or nerve plexi, of the logoic physical body, for the systemic astral plane provides the nervous system of the logoic physical body. It is the body of intensest vibration from the physical standpoint, and the vehicle through which all is transmitted to that portion of the logoic physical body which corresponds to the brain [624] in man. I can elucidate this no further, but the few words here imparted open up a tremendous range of thought, and give the key to much which transpires and which is distressing in solar evolution as well as human.
• Second.   Those devas who are the sumtotal of the astral light. They are the agents of the karmic lords, who are in themselves deva entities of an inconceivably advanced evolution and who, in their own substance,
  1. Record.
  2. Produce effects from cause.
  3. Direct force.
  This particular group of devas emanate from a great force center which we generalize by calling it by the name of the sun Sirius. Sirius-kama-manas – the cosmic astral plane and the systemic astral plane – make a close interlocking chain, and form the line of least resistance for a particular type of negative force to pour through.

1. The sacred planets function.
2. Man will eventually function freed from the triple lower man.
3. The true meaning of the words "Divine Hermaphrodite" is there to be comprehended.
4. It is predominantly the plane of life-force, and one of the planes of generation.
5. Here man will for the first time understand and utilize his relationship with the devas.
6. It will see the fruition of the combined evolutionary process of the two solar systems.
7. It is the plane from whence all planetary avatars emanate.
8. The Heavenly Men take the first Initiation on this plane.
9. On this plane the true inner significance of the "Sun" is apprehended.

• As electric fire the Logos manifests as the seven aspects of Will, spiritual impulse or purpose.
• As solar fire He manifests as the seven Rays, or as the Light of Wisdom, the Consciousness, radiating through the form.
• As fire by friction He manifests as the seven Sons of Fohat, the seven great fires, or the active heat of intelligent substance.

• Seven Spirits – sevenfold will.
• Seven Rays – sevenfold quality or psyche.
• Seven Deva Lords – sevenfold form.

1. The seven Spirits who find Their originating incentive on:
   1. The cosmic lower mental levels.
   2. The logoic "Jewel in the Lotus."
   3. The cosmic atmic plane.
2. The seven Heavenly Men are in the line of force from:
   1. The cosmic astral plane.
   2. The logoic nine-petalled lotus.
   3. The cosmic buddhic plane (the seven Rishis of the Great Bear).
3. The seven Sons of Fohat find their vital force emanating from:
   1. The cosmic physical plane.
   2. The logoic permanent atoms (within the causal body).
   3. The cosmic higher mental levels.

1. The seven Fires form the forty-nine Fires.
2. The seven Heavenly Men manifest through forty-nine lesser Rays.
3. The seven Spirits shew forth as forty-nine Existences.

• First.   The building of his body of manifestation, a threefold body.
• Second.   The construction of thought-forms, which he builds of mental matter and vitalizes by desire, and which he holds within his aura, thus constructing a tiny system of his own.

1. Solar system. (Physical Sun)
2. Planetary scheme. (Dense Planet)
3. Human physical body. (Dense Body)

• The four ethers, four subplanes.
• The demonstrably concrete or dense three subplanes.

1. The Raja-Lord. Kshiti. The life of the physical plane.
2. Three groups of Agnichaitans concerned with:
   1. The force or energy of physical substance. That electrical aspect which produces activity.
   2. The construction of forms. They produce the union of negative and positive substance, and thus bring into being all that can be seen, and touched in the exoteric and ordinary connotation.
   3. The internal heat of substance which nourishes and causes reproduction. They form the purely mother aspect.

• Group A. on the first subplane. They are the sumtotal of the atomic matter of the physical plane.
• Group B. on the second, third and fourth etheric subplanes. They are the substance of those planes, the transmitters of prana, through which prana flows to the most concrete aspects of the logoic dense vahan, or vehicle.
• Group C. the lowest three subplanes; they are the devas who are the essences of all that is tangible, visible and objective.

1. That energizing the devas of the first subplane, the atomic. This emanates directly from the first aspect of Brahma, or Agni, considering Him as a self-conscious Identity, the third Person of the logoic Trinity, and therefore Spirit, Soul and Body Himself in His separated essential nature.
2. That energizing the devas of construction, or the form building groups; this comes from the second aspect of Brahma, and is prana, issuing from the physical Sun, and working under the Law of Attraction.
3. That energizing the devas of the lowest three orders, emanating from Brahma in His third aspect. Thus in the dual force, or the aspects of matter itself, interacting the one upon the other, densest forms of all are produced. Yet these three function as one.

• Reflex action on the part of negative substance for the lower three are negative to the higher four.
• Synchronous vibration, inherent in negative substance, the residue of an earlier system, and embodying therefore past karma for the Logos and for man.
• Vibrations that are gradually being superseded by the imposition of a higher note; therefore for both man and the Logos, they occultly form the "body of death."

• First, they are the builders of the etheric bodies of all sentient existences, and primarily of all the etheric bodies of men.
• Second, they are the transmitters of prana.
• Third, they perform a very definite function in the evolutionary process of linking up the four kingdoms of nature, being essentially the transmuters and transmitters of the lower into the higher. They build between each kingdom – mineral, vegetable, animal and human – that which in each case corresponds to the antahkarana, or the bridge linking higher and lower manas, and which therefore is the channel for the transmission of the life from out of the lower human kingdom into the higher spiritual one. It will be found that between each of the different stages of consciousness (from the subconscious through the self-conscious to the superconscious) there is a period of linking, of building, and of bridging, and this is carried out by the agency of [644] certain groups of devas on all the planes. These three groups on the physical plane find their counterparts and their work paralleled on higher levels. The point to be remembered is that this work of bridging from one stage or from one kingdom to another has to be performed under the following conditions:

1. As the result of an impulse emanating from the lower, or originating in the active desire of the lower to embrace or contact the higher. This is of paramount importance, for all progress must be self-induced, self-initiated, and be the result of an inner activity.
2. As the result of reflex action from the higher stage or kingdom; it is brought about by the activity of the lower which calls forth a response from the higher. All vibration, it must be remembered, travels along waves of living substance.
3. As the result of extraneous stimulation produced by the activity of certain conscious powers, interested in the process of evolutionary development.

• Class 1. The special agents of magic. They are peculiarly susceptible to the building vibrations of the seven rays.
• Class 2. A group of Agnichaitans who manifest as physical plane electricity. They are a group who are coming somewhat under the control of man, and will be more and more dominated by him.
• Class 3. A group who form the health auras of all the three middle kingdoms of nature (vegetable, animal and human) either collectively or individually. Man is coming into contact with them along medical lines and beginning somewhat to recognize them. One of the great errors into which the human family has fallen has been the endeavor to administer mineral drugs to man for medicinal purposes. It has resulted in a combination of deva substances which was never intended. The relation of man to the lower kingdoms, and particularly to the animal and mineral, has brought about a peculiar condition in the deva world and has tended to complicate deva evolution. The use of animal food (and the use of minerals as medicine in a lesser degree) has produced a commingling of deva substance, and of vibrations which are not attuned to each other. The vegetable kingdom is in a totally different situation, and part of its karma has lain in the providing of food for man; this has resulted in a needed transmutation of the life [646] of that kingdom into the higher stage (the animal) which is its goal. The transmutation of vegetable life takes place necessarily on the physical plane. Hence its availability as food. The transmutation of the life of the animal into the human kingdom takes place on kama-manasic levels. Hence the non-availability, esoterically understood, of the animal as food for man. This is an argument for vegetarian living which needs due consideration.
• Class 4. A very important class of etheric devas (as far as man is concerned) who are definitely the constituent substance of his centers. They occupy this position for karmic reasons, and are, from many angles, some of the most highly evolved of the devas of the shadows. They are distinguished by their ability to respond to a particular set of planetary vibrations in a peculiar manner, and in their essential essence, and in their own peculiar sphere enable man to react to Ray stimulation. Each center is under the influence of one or other of the planets. In this fact lies the ability of man eventually – through the agency of his centers – to put himself en rapport with the sevenfold soul of the world.
• Class 5. We have here a very important group of devas, who are peculiarly active and esoterically dominant during this round; they are the Agnichaitans who form the center which vibrates to the measure of kundalini in its many forms and demonstrations; this is the center at the base of the spine. In this center we have a very effective display of the two polarities, for the petals of the center which is the seat of kundalini, and the fire or vitality which animates them are negative and positive to each other. This center is to be found in some form or other in all sentient beings and upon it largely depends: [647]
  1. Consciousness at one of its seven stages.
  2. Continuity of existence.
  3. Perpetuation of species or reproduction on some or other of the planes.

1. A solar Logos.
2. A planetary Logos.
3. Those Entities Who are the sumtotal of consciousness as it expresses itself through the different kingdoms of nature – manifesting through them as a man manifests through his body.
4. The Lord of a chain.
5. The Lord of a globe.
6. Certain Beings Who form the life of specific groups. They are esoteric, and Their function is one of the secrets of initiation.
7. Man.
8. Animals.

• Group A – The plane Adi – Divine evolution.
  Systemic atomic.
• Group B – The three worlds of the Triad – Spiritual evolution.
  Logoic etheric.
• Group C – The three worlds – Human evolution.
  Logoic dense physical.

1. Those which embody the positive aspect, or positive electrical phenomena.
2. Those which embody the negative aspect.
3. That group which – in time and space – is the union of the two aspects and which – during evolution – demonstrates the third type of electrical phenomena.

• Group A – Corresponds to the manifestations of existence as seen on the highest plane, or that aspect which is understood by the term Agni.
• Group B – Corresponds to the Vishnu-Surya aspect.
• Group C – Corresponds to the Brahma or the creative Logos aspect.

1. With each other, thus making seven groups who are the sumtotal of the Brahma aspect of our planetary Logos.
2. With the seven groups who constitute the atomic matter of that scheme which is the polar opposite of ours.
3. With that particular group in that scheme which is one of the points in a systemic triangle of which our scheme and our opposite scheme are the other two.
4. With corresponding groups in lesser degree in all the systemic schemes.
5. With the scheme which corresponds to the first aspect, or the plane of Adi.
6. With those devas who form the spirit-substance of the manifestation of that particular Rishi of the Great Bear Who is the prototype of our particular planetary Logos.
7. With those devas who form the substance of that one of those esoteric existences who are spoken of in the Secret Doctrine (See S. D, II, 579-582) as "The wives of the seven Rishis," or the seven sisters, the Pleiades. One of these seven sisters has a close connection with our Heavenly Man, and therefore we have an interesting cosmic interplay as follows:
   • One of the seven Rishis of the Great Bear.
   • One of the seven Sisters, or a Pleiad.
   • The Heavenly Man of our scheme.

1. The various entities who are the soul of the differing kingdoms, or groups, such as the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, and higher in the scale of consciousness than men – the planetary Logos.
2. Man himself.
3. The plane as a totality.

• First, as the substance of the astral plane in its seven grades.
• Second, as that aspect of logoic manifestation which corresponds to the liquid subplane in the systemic physical plane.
• Third, as the vehicle of the deva lord Varuna.
• Fourth, as the animating lives of that involutionary matter of the astral plane which we call the elemental essence, and as the vitality energizing the desire elementals of all that is sentient. Viewed in this aspect in connection especially with man, they are the correspondence on the astral plane to the "devas of the shadows," for the desire bodies of all human beings are composed of matter of the second, third and fourth subplanes of the astral plane. This is a point which should be closely considered, and the analogy between the etheric body, the vehicle of prana vitalizing the dense physical, and [659] man's astral body, and the method of its vitalization will be found illuminating.
• Fifth, from the standpoint of the physical plane, as the sumtotal of material activity (even though subjective) which produces that which is tangible and objective. Just as the solar system is a "Son of Necessity," or of desire, so the physical bodies of all that exist are the product of the desire of some greater or lesser entity within the system.

1. The planetary etheric body.
2. The mental plane, or the cosmic gaseous subplane.
3. The atmic plane, or the third cosmic ether.
4. The plane of adi, or the first cosmic ether.

1. The buddhic plane, the fourth cosmic ether.
2. The monadic plane, the second cosmic ether.
3. The cosmic astral plane, and thus to the Heart of all Being.

1. The atmic plane, the third cosmic ether.
2. The plane adi, the first cosmic ether.
3. The cosmic mental plane, beyond which it is unnecessary for us to go.

1. The physical sun, and its relation to prana and the etheric body.
2. The subjective sun, and its connection with the astral plane, with the kama-manasic principle, and the astral body.
3. The central spiritual sun, and its relation to the Spirit or atma in man. (S. D., II, 250, 251.)
4. The heart of the sun, and its relation to the lower and higher mental bodies, producing that peculiar manifestation we call the causal body. In this connection it must be remembered that the force which flows from the heart of the sun, works through a triangle formed by the Venusian scheme, the Earth and the sun.

1. Demonstrate somewhat the nature and extent of the forces flowing through our system.
2. Show the close connection we have with the deva evolution.
3. Emphasize the triangular nature and interrelation of all that eventuates.

"The spheres of fire seek location upon the lower three. They originate by medium of the fifth, yet merge upon the planes of yoga. When the fiery essences permeate all, then there is no more the fifth nor sixth, nor seventh, but only the three shining by medium of the fourth."

1. From the point of view of the Heavenly Men, covering the evolutions of the four higher planes, or the etheric levels. Of these we can know practically nothing until after initiation, at which time the consciousness of the human being is transferred gradually on to the cosmic etheric planes.
2. From the standpoint of the human being in the three worlds. Man is the consummating evolution in the three worlds, just as the Heavenly Men are in the higher four.

1. Man is demonstrating the aspects of divinity. The devas are demonstrating the attributes of divinity.
2. Man is evolving the inner vision and must learn to see.
   The devas are evolving the inner hearing and must learn to hear.
3. Both are as yet imperfect, and an imperfect world is the result.
4. Man is evolving by means of contact and experience. He expands.
   The devas evolve by means of the lessening of contact. Limitation is the law for them.
5. Man aims at self-control.
   Devas must develop by being controlled.
6. Man is innately Love – the Force which produces coherency.
   The devas are innately intelligence, – the force which produces activity.
7. The third type of force, that of Will, the balancing equilibrium of electrical phenomena, has to play equally upon and through both evolutions, but in the one it demonstrates as self-consciousness, and in the other as constructive vibration.

"The Sixth retire within themselves; they turn towards the Fifth, leaving the Seventh alone."

1. Their rate of vibration.
2. Their stage of development. [671]
3. Consciousness.
4. Fohatic, magnetic and dynamic force.

• The standpoint of round development.
• The standpoint of any particular planetary Logos as they form His body of manifestation, a scheme.
• The standpoint of the human kingdom.

"When Father approaches Mother, that which will be taketh form. The union of the two concealeth the true mystery of Being.

When the two great devas seek each other, when they meet and merge, the promise of life is fulfiled.

When the one who sees and knows stands midway between his parents, then can be seen the fruition of knowledge, and all is known upon the planes of consciousness.

When Anu, the infinitesimal, is seen to contain Ishvara in His potency, when the lesser spheres and cycles expand into the [672] circle of the Heavens, then shall the essential Unity be cognized and manifested fully.

When the One that holds the life becomes the three behind which that life is hidden; when the three by revolution become the seven and the ten; when the thirty million crores of deva lives repeat the revolution; when the central point is reached and reveals the three, the nine, and the inner blazing JEWEL, then is the circle of manifestation consummated, and the One again becomes the ten, the seven, the three and the point."

1. The liquid subplane of the cosmic physical, our systemic astral plane.
2. The fourth cosmic ether, the buddhic plane.
3. The second cosmic ether, the monadic plane, or the plane of the seven Heavenly Men.
4. The cosmic astral plane, thus getting in touch with the desire nature of the God.

• First. The Raja-Lord of the Plane, the great deva Varuna, Who is the central Life of the substance of the astral plane of our planetary scheme. He is Himself an outpost of the consciousness of that greater Deva Who embodies the substance of the solar astral plane, or the sixth subplane of the cosmic physical plane. He again in His turn reflects His prototype, that great cosmic Entity Who ensouls the cosmic astral plane.
• Second. Seven great Devas, who are the positive force of each of the seven subplanes of the systemic astral plane.
• Third. Various groups of devas, performing different functions carrying out varying activities, and producing constructive results. They might be enumerated as follows, bearing in mind the fact that we are but touching upon a few of the many groups, and that there are numbers whose name is utterly unknown to man and would be unintelligible if mentioned:

1. Those devas who form the permanent atomic substance of all the Monads, both in and out of physical incarnation. They are divided into seven groups according to the Ray of the Monad.
2. Those devas who form the "liquid" aspect in the physical body of the planetary Logos and of the solar Logos. They are myriads in number, and include deva existences ranging all the way from those who ensoul the astral plane, and the astral currents of the highest religious and aspirational nature, to the little water [677] spirits which are reflections of such astral entities precipitated in watery physical matter.
3. A group of devas, who form the desire body of that great entity who ensouls the animal kingdom. They are the total kamic manifestation (divorced from mentality) of animal desire in its incentive impulsive aspect.
4. Certain devas who – being of the third order – form the Heaven of the average orthodox Christian or believer of any faith. Another group – being the seventh order – form the Hell for the same class of thinker.
5. Those devas who form the astral life of any thought-form. These we will deal with later when studying thought-form construction.
6. A mysterious group of devas intimately connected at this time with the sex expression in the human family on the physical plane. They are a group who are, at this juncture, swept into being, and they embody the fire of sex expression as we understand it. They are the impulse, or instinct, back of physical sex desire. They were peculiarly dominant in the fourth root-race, at which time sex conditions reached a stage of unbelievable horror from our point of view. They are gradually being controlled, and when the last of the Lemurian Egos has passed into the fifth root-race they will be slowly passed out of the solar system altogether. They are connected with the passional "fire" of the solar Logos and with one of His centers in particular; this center is being gradually obscured and its fire transferred into a higher center.
7. There is also a group of devas connected with the Lodge of Masters, whose work it is to build the aspirational forms towards which average man may aspire. They are divided into certain groups – three in number – connected with science, religion and philosophy, and through these groups of deva substance the Heads of the three departments reach men. It is one of Their [678] channels for work. The Master Jesus is particularly active at this time along this line, working in collaboration with certain adepts on the scientific line, who – through the desired union of science and religion – seek to shatter the materialism of the west on the one hand and on the other the sentimental devotion of the many devotees of all faiths. This is made possible now through the passing out of the sixth Ray and the coming in of the seventh. It should be borne in mind by all students when considering the planes, plane substance and energy that they are in a condition of flux and change all the time. The matter of all planes circulates, and cyclically certain portions become more energized than others; the matter of the planes is thus under a threefold influence, or – to word it otherwise – deva substance is subjected to a threefold cyclic stimulation:
   1. Ray stimulation, dependent upon any Ray being in or out of power. It is intersystemic and planetary.
   2. Zodiacal stimulation, which is an extra-systemic stimulation, and is also cosmic and cyclic.
   3. Solar stimulation, or the impact of direct solar force or energy upon the substance of a plane; this emanates from the "Heart of the Sun" and is peculiarly potent.
   All the planes are subjected to this threefold influence but in the case of the buddhic and the astral planes, the force of this third stimulation is very great. The adepts – working in conjunction with the great devas – utilize cyclic opportunity to effect definitely constructive results.
8. A group of devas closely connected with the mysteries of initiation. They form what is esoterically called the "path of the Heart," and are the bridge between the astral and the buddhic planes. They are in no way [679] connected with the permanent atoms in the causal body, but are very definitely associated with the central tier of petals in the egoic lotus, or with the "petals of love." Force interacts between these three petals on the one hand, and the devas who form the "Path of the Heart" upon the other, those who are the bridge of astral-buddhic matter whereby initiates of a certain mystic type make the "great approach."
9. Devas of all degrees and vibratory capacity who make up the bulk of the desire forms of every kind.
10. The devas of transinutative force. They are a peculiar group of devas who embody the "fires of transmutation" and are called by various names, such as:
    • The furnaces of purifications.
    • The melting elements.
    • The gods of incense.

1. Two connecting principles are needed. This requires a living spiritual Fire of the middle principle from the Fifth and third states of Pleroma. This fire is the possession of the Triangles.
2. These Beings are Nirvanis from a preceding Mahamanvantara.

1. That fifth state of consciousness called the mental plane,
2. The substance of that plane as it exists in its dual aspect, rupa and arupa,²²²
3. The lives who ensoul that matter, especially in their relation to man,
4. The Egos or the self-conscious units who form the middle point in manifestation,
5. The building of the causal body, the opening of the egoic Lotus, and the construction of those groups we call egoic groups,
6. The individuality of those Existences whom we call
   1. Agnishvattas.
   2. Manasa devas.
   3. Fire dhyanis.
   4. Solar angels, or solar Pitris.
   5. The Asuras.

"When the Heart of the Body throbs with spiritual energy, when its sevenfold content thrills under the spiritual impulse, then the currents spread and circulate and divine manifestation becomes a Reality; the divine Man incarnates."

"The higher Three in cyclic unison sought to know and to be known. The lower Three (for we count not here the eighth) knew not nor saw; they only heard and touched. The fourth had not a place. The Fifth (which also is the fourth) formed at the middle point a cosmic TAU, which was reflected on the cosmic Seventh."

• In terms of the three worlds, or from the standpoint of the logoic dense physical body.
• In terms of force or energy, or from the standpoint of the logoic body of prana or vitality, the four cosmic ethers.

• The appropriation by the sevenfold Logos of His dense physical body.
• The appearance on the fifth systemic plane of the causal bodies of the human Monads.

• For the greater Life it was incarnation.
• For the lesser lives it was individualization.

1. The atomic subplane – manasic permanent atoms – Positive.
2. The fourth subplane – mental units – Negative.
3. The egoic groups – causal bodies – Equilibrium or neutral.

1. It produces a greatly increased vitality in the logoic centers on the fourth cosmic ether, due to reflex action, which is felt both above and below the plane of activity.
2. It stimulates the efforts of the highest specimens of the third kingdom, and a dual effect is produced [695] through this, for the fourth kingdom in nature makes its appearance on the physical plane and the Triads are reflected on the mental plane in the causal bodies to be found thereon.
3. As earlier said, the dense physical is linked and coordinated with the etheric bodies of the solar logos and of the planetary Logos. Therefore, the lower three planes are synthesized with the higher four, and the devas of an earlier mahamanvantara or solar cycle are brought into conjunction with those of a newer order who were awaiting just conditions. The physical incarnation of the Logos is completed. The lower three kingdoms, being negative to the higher force, the mutual attraction of these two and their interaction bring into being the fourth or human kingdom. The three fires of mind, Spirit and matter are brought together and the work of full self-consciousness begun.

1. Those who refused to incarnate.
2. Those who implanted the spark of manas.
3. Those who took bodies and molded the type. [701]

1. Those who implant the spark of manas,
2. Those who fan and feed the latent flame in the best types of animal man,

1. To provide a threefold vehicle capable of the necessary resistance to the force and able to receive and hold it.
2. To transmit it as energy to the world which he serves.
3. To store up a certain amount of it for a twofold purpose:
   1. To provide a reservoir of force for emergencies and for special work as required by the Great Ones.
   2. To act as a dynamo for the immediate group which all advanced souls, disciples and initiates gather around them on some one or other of the planes in the three worlds.

1. In the Moon chain, the gradual evolution of self-consciousness under natural law.
2. In the Earth chain that of achieved self-consciousness through the aid of extraneous agencies. It is the distinctive method of this system.
3. In the next round and chain the method will be abstraction through will power, but this in an embryonic manner.

1. Cosmic Avatars.
2. Solar Avatars.
3. Interplanetary Avatars.
4. Planetary Avatars.
5. Human Avatars.

1. Sirius.
2. That one of the seven stars of the Great Bear which is ensouled by the prototype of the Lord of our third major Ray.
3. Our cosmic center.

1. An expansion of consciousness.
2. An increase of spiritual light and brilliancy.
3. Planetary radioactivity.

1. Those effecting the transfer from the minor schemes or Ray manifestations on to the third Ray; They concern Themselves with the result of the merging of the polar opposites in the four [727] lesser schemes until but one is left; and then with the transference of the life and quality of this remaining one on to the third Ray.
2. Those dealing with the transference and interaction of the life forces between the three major Rays.
3. Those producing the final systemic transfer at the end of the age.

1. The Self, the Not-Self, and the intelligent link in a very vital sense.
2. He is Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma, in synthetic manifestation.
3. He is the medium whereby the Will of God, the Love of God, and the Mind of God become intelligible and apparent.
4. He is positive electrical force, plus negative electrical force, plus the equilibrising medium.
5. He is the Flame, the Fire, and the Spark in essential manifestation.
6. He is electric fire, solar fire and fire by friction. [730]

1. First cycle – savage state.
2. Second cycle – average man.
3. Third cycle – intellectual successful man.

1. First cycle – The Path of Probation.
2. Second cycle – The Path of Initiation (till the third Initiation).
3. Third cycle – That covering the fourth and fifth Initiations.

• Individualization marks one stage of the process in the intensification of "fire by friction." It has relation to the achievement of Brahma, and marks a point in the energizing of substance. Certain forms are ready for self-consciousness. Two cosmic Rays of differing polarities are mutually attracted.
• Initiation marks a stage in the intensification of "solar Fire." It has relation to the achievement of Vishnu, and marks a point in the evolution of consciousness, through self-consciousness to group consciousness, or universal consciousness.
• Identification with the aggregate of all groups might be the term used to express the final stages of the evolutionary process; it marks a period towards the close of the mahamanvantara when all groups begin consciously to work out the eternal Will. It involves a type of realization, incredible to man now but which is conceivable [732] (though not yet practicable) to the Chohans of the Hierarchy now on Earth. They work consciously carrying out the Will of the planetary Logos in the planet, but even They are as yet far from appreciating fully the Will and purpose of the Logos as He works through the system. Glimpses They may get, and an idea of the general plan, but the details are as yet unrecognizable.

1. Cosmic physical plane, in relation to a solar Logos and to a planetary Logos.
2. Systemic physical plane, in relation to man.

1. An increased activity, which is stored in the physical permanent atom.
2. An added coloring, which is stored in the astral permanent atom.
3. A developed quality of strength, or purpose in action, which is stored in the mental unit.

1. Planetary karma.
2. The will of the Lord of his Ray.
3. Orders emanating from the solar Logos which are conveyed to him after liberation via the planetary Logos and through the medium of the chohan of his Ray.

1. They become differentiated into seven groups.
2. They direct Themselves as streams of energy to some particular scheme.
3. Their contact with a scheme is that which produces the manifestation of the fourth Creative Hierarchy, and leads to the Monads taking form in the three worlds. [743]

"The deva shineth with added light when the virtue of the will hath entered. He garnereth color as the reaper garners wheat, and storeth it up for the feeding of the multitude. Over all this deva host the mystic Goat presideth. Makara is, and is not, yet the link persisteth."

• Between Two Globes in a Chain. This covers the period of abstraction of the seeds of all life, and its transference from one sphere to another. The seed manu of a globe gathers all the life forces into Himself, as does the Logos at the close of a system, and as also transpires at the close of a chain, and holds them quiescent in His aura. This covers a period of a manvantara, or of one day of Brahma.
• Between Two Chains. This covers the period of a mahamanvantara, or of one year of Brahma. There are many ways of arriving at the greater cycles, but there is no need to confuse with the intricacies of figures. The ten Prajapatis or Rishis, or [744] the ten planetary Logoi, manifest through Their ten schemes in time and space, the hour of Their appearing differing. Each likewise manifests as does the Logos through a septenate and a triad, making again a ten of perfection.
• Between Two Solar Systems. This covers the period of one hundred years of Brahma, and through the study of the planetary cycles comprehension of these greater cycles may come. Complication comes to the student nevertheless in the fact that two of the schemes cover their cyclic periods in five rounds, while others have seven; one scheme has but three rounds, but a mystery is hidden here: on the inner round one planet has nine cycles to run before the purpose of its Lord is completed.

1. The deva substance out of which they are constructed.
2. The energy which animates them and its source.
3. Their appearance in time and space, or their incarnation.
4. Their disappearance or pralaya.
5. The constructing entities who in a threefold manner produce these forms, utilizing the process of:
   1. Meditation, which is ever the preliminary to construction.
   2. Dynamic force, or the positive energy which seizes upon its polar opposite (negative substance), and utilizes it. [745]
   3. The impartation of color or quality, which moulds that which has been prepared.
   4. A secondary vitalization, which sets in separate motion the thought-form thus created.

1. Those of Avatars.
2. Those of Adepts.
3. Those of jivas seeking development.

1. The devachan of the reincarnating jiva.
2. The nirvana of the Adept. [746]
3. The pralaya of a cosmic Entity, such as the Lord of a chain, the Lord of a scheme, and the Lord of a Ray.

1. Abstraction, or liberation from form.
2. Creative power.
3. Direction of energy, through an act of the will.
4. Future constructive activity.

"From the zenith to the nadir, from dawn to fall of night, from the emergence into being of all that is or may be to the passing into peace of all that hath achieved, gleameth the orb of blue and the inner radiant fire.

From the gates of gold down to the pit of earth, out from the flaming fire down to the circle of gloom, rideth the secret Avatar, bearing the sword that pierceth.

Naught can arrest His approach, and none may say Him nay. To the darkness of our sphere He rideth alone, and on His approach is seen the uttermost disaster, and the chaos of that which seeketh to withstand. [748]

The Asuras veil their faces, and the pit of maya reeleth to the foundation. The stars of the eternal Lhas vibrate to that sound, – the WORD uttered with sevenfold intensity.

Greater the chaos becometh; the major center with all the seven circulating spheres rock with the echoes of disintegration. The fumes of utter blackness mount upwards in dissipation. The noise discordant of the warring elements greets the oncoming One, and deters Him not. The strife and cries of the fourth great Hierarchy, blending with the softer note of the Builders of the fifth and sixth, meet His approach. Yet He passeth on His way, sweeping the circle of the spheres, and sounding forth the WORD.

* * * From the nadir to the zenith, from eve unto the Day be with us, from the circle of manifestation to the center of pralayic peace, is seen the enveloping blue, lost in the flame of achievement.

Up from the pit of maya back to the portals of gold, forth from the gloom and darkness back to the splendor of day, rideth the Manifested One, the Avatar, bearing the shattered Cross.

Naught can arrest His return, none can impede His Path, for He passeth along the upper way, bearing His people with Him. Cometh the dissolution of pain, cometh the end of strife, cometh the merging of the spheres and the blending of the hierarchies. All then is reabsorbed within the orb, the circle of manifestation. The forms that exist in maya, and the flame that devoureth all, are garnered by the One Who rideth the Heavens and entereth into the timeless Aeon."

(From the Archives of the Lodge.)

• The method of over-shadowing.
• The method of embodying some principle. [749]
• The method seen in the mystery of the Bodhisattva, or the Christ.
• The method of direct incarnation.

1. That of a particular center in the body of the planetary Logos in its total force.
2. That of a particular set of vibrations within that center, or a part of its vibratory force.
3. That of the energy of a particular principle, either one of His own higher principles which He is seeking to bring to bear upon the earth, by taking incarnation for that specific purpose, or the energy of one of the planetary logoic principles, as it pours through Him via a particular spirilla or life current in the permanent atom of the planetary Logos.

1. They are very highly magnetized, and therefore have a profound and far-reaching effect when utilized.
2. They act as a focal point for the force of the Lord Buddha and link up the coming Lord with Him, enabling Him to increase His Own stupendous resources by drawing upon still higher force centers, via the Lord Buddha.

• First.   An impression upon the physical brain of the [757] man or woman, of thoughts, plans for work, ideals and intentions which (emanating from the Avatar) will yet be unrecognized by him as being other than his own; he will proceed to put them into action, unconsciously helped by the force flowing in. This is literally a form of higher mental telepathy working out on physical levels.
• Second.   The over-shadowing of the chela during his work (such as lecturing, writing, or teaching), and his illumination for service. He will be conscious of this, though perhaps unable to explain it, and will seek more and more to be available for use, rendering himself up in utter selflessness to the inspiration of His Lord. This is effected via the chela's Ego, the force flowing through his astral permanent atom; and it is only possible when the fifth petal is unfolded.
• Third.   The conscious cooperation of the chela is necessitated in the third method of over-shadowing. In this case he will (with full knowledge of the laws of his being and nature) surrender himself and step out of his physical body, handing it over for the use of the Great Lord or one of His Masters. This is only possible in the case of a chela who has brought all the three lower bodies into alignment, and necessitates the unfolding of the sixth petal. By an act of conscious will he renders up his body, and stands aside for a specific length of time.

1. Physical birth.
2. Appropriation of a suitable vehicle, or body.
3. Direct creation by an act of will. This will be rare.

1. The place of the etheric body.
2. The effect of pranic force.
3. The opening up of etheric vision.

1. An ordinary man demonstrates the third aspect of intelligent activity in his personality life, and is evolving consciously the second aspect, or the egoic manifestation on the physical plane.
2. An adept in incarnation is demonstrating fully the second aspect as well as the third, and in his own internal life is in process of evolving the first aspect, or is endeavoring to bring through the monadic life into conscious activity on the buddhic plane.
3. An avatar demonstrates one of two things, according to his peculiar karma:
   1. The pure light of the Monad, brought through by means of the perfected Ego and personality on to the physical plane. The line of force extends straight through from monadic levels to the physical.
   2. The light of the Logos Himself in one or other aspect, this being transmitted consciously via the Monad straight through to the physical plane from the planetary Logos, or even from the solar Logos Himself.

1. Egoic impulse.
2. The activity of the solar and lunar Angels.
3. Karma, or the place which antecedent action plays in producing manifestation.

1. Avatars, with the intent of disposing of the confusion in the minds of students as to certain types of appearances. In our present study we shall deal only with the process followed by ordinary men.
2. Pralayas, with the intent of arousing in the mind of the student the idea of interludes of quiescence dependent upon the intervening periods of activity.
3. The appearance of the body egoic and its general conformation, with the intent of awakening the realization of the student to the fact that evolution affects that body also, and not only man's forms in the three worlds. The effects of the process are interdependent, and as the lower self develops, or the personality becomes more active and intelligent, results are produced in the higher body. As these effects are cumulative, and not ephemeral [765] as are the lower results, the egoic body becomes equally more active and its manifestation of energy is increased. Towards the close of the evolutionary period in the three worlds a constant interchange of energy is seen to be taking place; the lower forms become irradiated with light, and reflect the higher radiance; the egoic body is the Sun of the lower system, and its bodies reflect its rays, as the moon reflects the light of the solar sun. Similarly the egoic Sun, – through the interaction – shines with ever greater intensity and glory. On the higher levels a similar interaction takes place for a brief period between the Monad and its reflection the Ego, but only in the coming solar system will this interaction be carried to its logical conclusion.

When the Spark is touched to the four wicks, and when spiritual Fire in its threefold essence meets with that which is combustible, the Flame bursts forth. Faint the flicker at the first appearing, and near to death it seems, but the wicks smolder and glow, and the heat is retained. This is cycle the first, and is called that of the glowing wheel.

The flicker grows into a tiny flame and the four wicks burn, but are not consumed, for the heat does not suffice. The light of these three fires is yet so small that the cave is not illumined. Nevertheless, the flame and the essential heat can be felt by the One Who approaches and watches. This is the second cycle, and is called that of the warming wheel.

The tiny flame becomes a lighted lamp. The fire flares up, but much smoke is there, for the wicks are burning fast, and the heat suffices for their quick destruction. The lamp, set in the midst of darkness, makes the thick blackness manifest itself; the light and warmth are felt. This, the third cycle, is called that of the lighted wheel. [766]

The four wicks and the flame appear as one, and nearly all the smoke is gone, for flame is mostly seen. The cave itself is lighted up, though the lamp is yet apparent. Cycle the fourth is called the hour of the flaming wheel.

The final cycle comes when even the lamp itself is burned, destroyed through the intensity of heat. The One Who watches, seeing the work accomplished, fans the central point of fire and produces a sudden flaming. The wicks are naught – the flame is all. This, so the Sacred Science says, is called the cycle of the wheel consumed.

• First of all, on impulse based on the will-purpose of the Life animating the aggregate of groups on any subray, or one of the seven larger groups.
• Second, on impulse based on the will, tinged by desire, of the Life animating a man's egoic group.
• Third, on impulse, based on the desire of the Ego for physical plane manifestation.

1. The first aspect works through a Word of Power.
2. The second aspect works through mantric combinations.
3. The third aspect works through mathematical formulas.

1. Directing the vibration towards the atomic triangle.   Here a very interesting fact must be borne in mind. The three permanent atoms, or the three points of the triangle, do not always hold the same relative position as regards the center of the lotus, but according to the stage of development so will be the position of the atoms, and so will be the apprehension of the inflowing force. In the earlier stages, the physical permanent atom is the first to receive the inflow, passing it through its system to the astral permanent atom and the mental unit. This force is circulated four times around the triangle (this being the fourth round) until the mental unit is again contacted and the energy becomes centralized in the fourth spirilla of the mental unit. Then and only then do the lunar Pitris begin their work, and commence the coordination of the substance which will form the mental sheath, next working with the astral body and finally with the etheric body.

   At a later stage in the evolution of man (the stage wherein the average man is now) the astral permanent atom is the first contacted, and the energy circulates through it to the other two. At the stage of advanced intellectual man, the mental unit takes the primary place. In this case there is now the possibility of the alignment of the three bodies which will later be an accomplished fact. The fifth spirilla in the lower two atoms increases its vibration. As we know, there are only four spirillae in the mental unit and the moment that that is in full activity, the coordination of the antahkarana becomes a possibility. Changes are now taking place in the egoic lotus, and the petals are unfolding, that unfoldment being partially dependent upon the vibration in the spirillae and their awakening. [776]

   The student should bear in mind the fact that as soon as the mental unit has become the apex of the atomic triangle a condition is brought about wherein force in the future will enter the three atoms simultaneously through the three unfolded petals of the outer circle, and the man has therefore reached a very definite stage in evolution. The direction of force, and its application to the atoms is the work of the solar Pitris. As evolution proceeds, their work in this connection becomes more complex, for the petals are unfolding, and the triangle is revolving more rapidly.

2. Pronouncing the mantram which will make possible the 777 incarnations.

   Each of the figures in this triplicity stands for:

   1. A cycle of egoic, manifestation.
   2. A particular sound which will enable the Ego to express some subray of this egoic ray.
   3. The three circles of petals which will unfold as the result of incarnation.
   4. The particular group of manasadevas who form the causal body of the Ego concerned.
   The mantric sounds are therefore based on these figures, and through the mantram (which grows in volume, depth and number of sounds involved as time elapses) the force is directed, the petals concerned are stimulated into activity, and the lunar Pitris become aware of the work to be done in preparation for any incarnation.
3. Building into the causal body that which is required for its completion.

   In the early stages this work is comparatively small but as the third stage of development is reached, and the man is demonstrating character and ability, their work is rapidly increased, and they are kept fully occupied in the work of perfecting the egoic body, in expanding the egoic consciousness, if metaphysical terms are preferred. All [777] this is accomplished by means of the material furnished by the lower self. When that lower Personality becomes gradually radioactive, these radiations are attracted to the positive ego, and are absorbed into its nature through the activity of the solar Angels.

1. The highest group of all receives the energy from the higher levels, and ensouls the spirillae of the three permanent atoms.
2. The second group, being the positive energy that attracts, builds and forms the body of man on the three planes.
3. The lowest group are the negative aspect of energized substance and the matter of the three sheaths.

1. The response within the permanent atom to the vibration set up by the solar Pitris; to word it [782] otherwise: the response of the highest group of lunar Pitris to the chord of the Ego. This definitely affects the spirillae of the atom, according to the stage of evolution of the Ego concerned.
2. The response of the substance to the atomic vibration upon the particular plane involved. This concerns the second group of Pitris, whose function it is to gather together the substance attuned to any particular key, and to aggregate it around the permanent atom. They work under the Law of Magnetic Attraction, and are the attractive energy of the permanent atom. On a tiny scale each permanent atom has (to the substance of a man's sheaths) a position relative to that which the physical sun holds to the substance of the system. It is the nucleus of attractive force.
3. The response of the negative substance concerned and its molding into the desired form through the dual energy of the two higher groups of Pitris. Some thought of the unity of this threefold work has been given in the differentiation of the substance of any plane into:
   1. Atomic substance.
   2. Molecular substance.
   3. Elemental essence.

1. The Pitris who see, but touch nor handle not.
2. The Pitris who touch but see not.
3. The Pitris who hear but neither see nor touch.

1. The Nebulous.   The stage wherein the matter of the coming sheath begins to separate itself gradually from the aggregate of plane substance, and to assume a nebulous or milky aspect. This corresponds to the "fire-mist" stage in the formation of a solar system and of a planet. The Pitris of the Mist are then active as one of the many subsidiary groups of the three major groups.
2. The Inchoate.   Condensation has set in but all is as yet inchoate, and the condition is chaotic; there is no definite form. "The Pitris of the Chaos" hold sway, and are characterized by excessive energy, and violent activity, for the greater the condensation prior to coordination [784] the more terrific are the effects of activity. This is true of Gods, of men, and of atoms.
3. The Fiery.   The internal energy of the rapidly congregating atoms and their effect upon each other produces an increase of heat, and a consequent demonstration of the spheroidal form, so that the vehicle of all entities is seen to be fundamentally a sphere, rolling upon itself and attracting and repulsing other spheres. "Pitris of the Fiery Spheres" add their labors to those of the earlier two and a very definite stage is reached. The lunar Pitris on every scheme, and throughout the system, are literally the active agents in the building of the dense physical body of the Logos; they energize the substance of the three planes in the three worlds, the mental, the astral and the dense physical planes of the system. This needs much pondering upon.
4. The Watery.   The ball or sphere of gaseous fiery essence becomes still more condensed and liquefied; it begins to solidify on its outer surface and the ring-pass-not of each sheath is more clearly defined. The heat of the sphere becomes increased and is centralized at the core or heart of the sphere where it produces that pulsation at the center which characterizes the sun, the planet, and the various vehicles of all incarnating entities. It is an analogous stage to that of the awakening of life in the fetus during the prenatal stage, and this analogy can be seen working out in the form-building which proceeds on every plane. This stage marks the coordination of the work of the two higher groups of lunar Pitris, and the "Pitris of the Dual Heat" are now intelligently cooperating. The heart and brain of the substance of the slowly evolving form are linked. The student will find it interesting to trace the analogy of this, the watery stage, to the place the astral plane holds in the planetary and systemic body, and the alliance between mind and heart which is hidden in the term "kama-manas." One [785] of the profoundest occult mysteries will be revealed to the consciousness of man when he has solved the secret of the building of his astral vehicle, and the forming of the link which exists between that sheath and the astral light in its totality on the astral plane.
5. The Etheric.   The stage is not to be confined to the building of the physical body in its etheric division, for its counterpart is found on all the planes with which man is concerned in the three worlds. The condensation and the solidification of the material has proceeded till now the three groups of Pitris form a unity in work. The rhythm set up has been established and the work synchronized. The lesser builders work systematically and the law of Karma is demonstrating actively, for it should be remembered that it is the inherent karma, coloring, or vibratory response of the substance itself which is the selective reaction to the egoic note. Only that substance which has (through past utilization) been keyed to a certain note and vibration will respond to the mantram and to the subsequent vibrations issuing from the permanent atom. This stage is one of great importance, for it marks the vital circulation throughout the entire vehicle of a particular type of force. This can be clearly seen in relation to the etheric body which circulates the vital force or prana of the sun. A similar linking up with the force concerned is to be seen on the astral and the mental planes. "The Pitris of the Triple Heat" are now working synthetically, and the brain, the heart and the lower centers are coordinated. The lower and the higher are linked, and the channels are unimpeded so that the circulation of the triple energy is possible. This is true of the form building of all entities, macrocosmic and microcosmic. It is marked by the active cooperation of another group of Pitris, termed "The Pitris of Vitality" in connection with the others. Group after group [786] cooperate, for the three main bodies are distributed among many lesser.
6. The Solid.   This marks the final stage in actual form building, and signifies the moment wherein the work is done as regards the aggregating and shaping of substance. The greater part of the work of the lunar Pitris stands now accomplished. The word "solid" refers not solely to the lowest objective manifestation, for a solid form may be ethereal, and only the stage of evolution of the entity involved will reveal its relative significance.

1. Under the influence of the egoic ray,
2. Under the influence of a particular subray of the egoic ray,
3. And through that influence – [788]
   • Under certain astrological influences,
   • Under certain planetary radiations,
   • Under the influences of certain force currents, emanating from certain constellations.

• Head.
• Two Arms.
• Two Legs.

1. 100 years of Brahma – An occult century. The period of a solar system.
2. One year of Brahma – The period of seven chains, where the seven planetary schemes are concerned.
3. One week of Brahma – The period of seven rounds in one scheme. It has a chain significance.
4. One day of Brahma – The occult period of a round.
5. One hour of Brahma – Concerns interchain affairs.
6. One Brahmic minute – Concerns the planetary centers, and therefore egoic groups.
7. One Brahmic moment – Concerns an egoic group, and its relation to the whole.

1. The Great Bear.
2. The Little Bear.
3. The Pole Star, especially where our planet is concerned.
4. The Pleiades.
5. The constellation of Capricorn.
6. Draco.
7. Sirius.
8. The various constellations and stars of the Zodiac. [796]

1. Consanguinity or blood ties
2. Physical heredity
3. Atavism
4. Intermarriage
5. Family relationships
6. The family unit
7. Soul mates
8. Divorce and many other terms

1. Spirit-matter in dual activity produces the objective universe.
2. Electric fire and fire by friction when brought into contact produce solar fire; it flashes forth from darkness, yet a darkness which is potent with energy.
3. Will-desire is the cause of incarnation; the will-to-be reacting on substance (whose main quality is desire or responsiveness to sensation) produces the forms through which the central Life or Existence seeks expression.
4. Ideas and thought-matter together produce thought-forms.

• The influence and quality of the organ or unit in which it finds a place. In the human atom this means his group force or influence.
• The life influence of the entire physical body of which any atom is a corporate part. In the human atom this means the influence of the particular center in which his egoic group has a place, and the type of energy which it embodies.
• The life influence of the desire or astral body, the strongest karmic agency which has to be considered. [800] In the human atom, this involves the influence of the three centers in the body of the Heavenly Man which form any specific "force triangle," and which have much to do with the liberation of groups of Egos from manifestation.
• The life influences of the mental body, or of that principle which imposes upon the atom the quality of activity in form, which governs the reaction of the atom to its group life, and which enables the quality of its life to be demonstrated. In the human atom this concerns those causes which are incident to a man's Ray, or literally the influence of the life of the planetary Logos as He functions as a self-conscious Life on His Own plane, as He works out His Own plans, and consequently sweeps into activity the cells of His body as mere incidents where He (the basic central life) is concerned.
• The life impulse of the Thinker functioning in the causal body who – though a great abstraction or the Absolute where the cellular life is concerned – is nevertheless a potent and active factor in the imposition of rhythm upon the atom in every body. In the human atom, this brings in the influence of the life of the solar Logos, for that Life imposes rhythm upon every human atom in the system, and does so through the agency of substance and its inherent quality, sensation.

1. The seven Rishis of the Great Bear,
2. The seven planetary Logoi of our solar system,
3. The seven Pleiades or Sisters,

1. Coordinating the physical body.
2. Increasing the resistance of the etheric web, a work which was only carried to the desired point by the middle of the Atlantean root-race.
3. Bringing certain of the lower centers to the necessary stage of expression.

1. The development of the astral permanent atom with a concurrent stimulation of the physical permanent atom, and thus the growth and evolution of the two sheaths concerned.
2. The coordination of the threefold man through the innate vitality of the astral body and its effect upon the mental and the physical. This is the kama-manasic period, and as this body is the only complete sphere in the threefold lower man, it is the most powerful body inherently for it embodies (as does the solar system) the heart aspect, or embryonic love nature, which it is the object of macrocosmic and microcosmic evolution to develop.
3. Finally the unfoldment of the nine egoic petals in three stages.

• First, the effect of the higher energy upon the lower bodies, as it gradually makes itself felt during the evolutionary process, and thus simultaneously "redeems" man in an occult sense, and also "elevates" the lunar Pitris.
• Second, the effect of this energy on the mental plane in the development and unfoldment of the egoic lotus.
• Third, the awakening to activity of the central Life within the lotus. This activity demonstrates in a twofold manner:
  1. As the realization by the man on the physical plane within the physical brain of his divine nature, resulting in a consequent demonstration of divinity upon earth, prior to liberation.
  2. As the conscious activity of the individual Ego on the mental plane in cooperation with its group or groups.

• The Science of Electricity. The investigations of [809] scientists have been greatly stimulated by the discovery of radium, which is an electrical phenomenon of a certain kind, and by the knowledge this discovery brought of the radioactive substances; the development of the many methods of utilizing electricity has also greatly aided. This science has brought man to the threshold of a discovery which will revolutionize world thought on these matters, and which will eventually solve a great part of the economic problem, thus leaving many more persons free for mental growth and work. This expansion of knowledge can be looked for before one hundred and fifty years have transpired.
• The Science of Psychology. The psychoanalytic theories which (though indicative of progress) are yet tending in a wrong direction, may prove disastrous to the higher development of the race unless the true nature of the "psyche" is elucidated. When the public mind has apprehended, even cursorily, the following briefly stated facts, the trend of popular education, the object of political science, and the goal of economic and social endeavor will take a new and better direction. These facts might be summed up in the following postulates:
  1. Man is in essence divine.²⁵⁹ This has ever been enunciated throughout the ages, but remains as yet a beautiful theory or belief, and not a proven scientific fact, nor is it universally held. [810]
  2. Man is in fact a fragment of the Universal Mind, or world soul,²⁶⁰ and as a fragment is thus partaker of the instincts and quality of that soul, as it manifests through the human family. Therefore, unity is only possible upon the plane of mind. This, if true, must lead to the tendency to develop within the physical brain a conscious realization of group affiliations on the mental plane, a conscious recognition of group relationships, ideals and goal, and a conscious manifestation of that continuity of consciousness which is the object of evolution at this time. It will further produce the transference of the race consciousness from the physical plane to the mental, and a consequent solving through "knowledge, love, and sacrifice" of all present problems. This will bring about emancipation from the present physical plane disorder. It must lead to the education of the public as to the nature of man, and the development of the powers latent within him – powers which will set him free from his present limitations, and which will produce in the human family a collective repudiation of. the present conditions. When men everywhere recognize themselves and each other, as divine self-conscious units, functioning primarily in the causal body but utilizing the three lower vehicles only as a means of contact with the three lower planes, we will have government, politics, economics and the social order readjusted upon sound, sane and divine lines.
  3. Man in his lower nature, and in his three vehicles, is an aggregate of lesser lives, dependent upon him for their group nature, for their type of activity, and collective response, and [811] who – through the energy or activity of the solar Lord – will themselves later be raised, and developed to the human stage.
  When these three facts are understood, then and only then will we have a right and just comprehension of the nature of man.

1. A readjustment of the medical knowledge of man, resulting in a truer understanding of the physical body, of its treatment, and of its protection, and thus producing a juster apprehension of the laws of health. The aim of the physician will then be to find out what it is in a man's life which is preventing egoic energy from flooding every part of his being; to find out what lines of thought are being indulged in which are causing that inertia of the will aspect which is so conducive to wrongdoing; to ascertain what it is in the emotional body which is affecting the nervous system, and thus obstructing the flow of energy from the love petals of the egoic lotus (via the astral permanent atom) to the astral body, and from thence to the nervous system; to discover what is the hindrance in the etheric body which is preventing the right flow of prana, or of solar vitality to every part of the body.

   It is essential that in days to come medical men should realize that disease in the physical body is incidental to wrong internal conditions. This is already being somewhat considered but the whole question will remain but a beautiful theory (even though an incontrovertible one in view of the achievements of mental scientists and of the various faith healers) until the true nature of the ego, its constitution, its powers, and its field of influence are duly apprehended.

   This revelation will come when medical men accept this [812] teaching as a working hypothesis, and then begin to note, for instance, the powers of endurance shown by the great souls of the earth, and their capacity to work at high pressure, and to remain practically immune from disease until (at the close of a long life of usefulness) the Ego deliberately chooses to "die-out" of physical existence. It will come when the medical profession concentrates upon preventative action, substituting sunshine, a vegetarian diet, and the application of the laws of magnetic vibration and vitality for the present regimen of drugs and surgical operations. Then will come the time when finer and better human beings will manifest on earth. When also physicians learn the nature of the etheric body, and the work of the spleen as a focal point for pranic emanations, then sound principles and methods will be introduced which will do away with such diseases as tuberculosis, debility, malnutrition and the diseases of the blood and of the kidneys. When doctors comprehend the effect of the emotions upon the nervous system, they will turn their attention to the amelioration of environal conditions, and will study the effects of the emotional currents upon the fluids of the body, and primarily upon the great nerve centers, and the spinal column. When the connection between the dense physical and the subtler bodies is a fact established in medical circles, then will the right treatment of lunacy, of obsessions, and of wrong mental conditions be better comprehended, and the results more successful; finally, when the nature of egoic force, or of energy is studied, and the function of the physical brain as the transmitter of egoic intent is better comprehended, then the coordination of man's entire being will be studied, and illness, debility and disease, will be traced to their just cause, and will be treated through the cause and not just through the effect.

2. The entire social world of thought will apply itself to the understanding of the emotional nature of [813] humanity, to the group relationships involved, and to the interaction between individuals and other individuals, between groups and other groups. These relationships will be interpreted wisely and broadly and a man will be taught his responsibility to the lesser lives which he ensouls. This will produce a just direction of individual force, and its utilization for the stabilization, the development, and the refining of the substance of the different vehicles. Men will also be taught their definite responsibility under law to their own individual families. This will bring about the protection of the family unit, and its scientific development; it will cause the elimination of marital troubles, and the abolition of abuses of different kinds, so prevalent now in many family circles.

   Responsibility to the community in which a man is placed will likewise be emphasized. Men will be taught the true esoteric meaning of citizenship – a citizenship based upon egoic group relations, the law of rebirth, and the real meaning of the law of karma. They will be taught national responsibility, and the place of the community within the nation, and of the nation within the comity of nations. Men will finally be taught their responsibility to the animal kingdom. This will be brought about in three ways:

   1. Man's truer understanding of his own animal nature.
   2. A comprehension of the laws of individualization, and the effect of the influence of the fourth, or human, kingdom upon the third, or animal, kingdom.
   3. The work of an Avatar of a lesser order Who will come in the beginning of the next century to reveal to man his relationship to the third kingdom. His way is being prepared by the many who in these days are developing public interest through the [814] various societies for the benefit and protection of animals, and through the many stories to be found in books and current periodicals.
   We are told by H. P. B. (S. D., III, 580.) that the sense of responsibility is one of the first indications of egoic control, and as more and more of the human family come under egoic influence, conditions will be bettered slowly and steadily in every department of life.
3. In the educational world an apprehension of man's true nature will bring about a fundamental change in the methods of teaching. The emphasis will be laid upon teaching people the fact of the Ego on its own plane, the nature of the lunar bodies, and the methods of aligning the lower bodies so that the Ego can communicate direct with the physical brain, and thus control the lower nature and work out its purposes. Men will be taught how, through concentration and meditation, they can ascertain knowledge for themselves, can develop the intuition, and thus draw upon the resources of the Ego. Then will men be taught to think, to assume control of the mental body, and thus develop their latent powers.

• As nine vibrations, emanating from a central point, which, in its pulsation or radiations produces three major vibrations of great force pursuing a circular activity around the center; the nine vibrations pursue a diagonal path until they reach the periphery of the egoic sphere of influence. At this point they swing around, thus forming the well-known spheroidal form of the causal body.
• As nine petals of a lotus, radiating from a common center, and hiding within themselves three central petals, which conceal a central point of fire. The radiations from the tip of each petal are those which cause the illusion of a spheroidal shape.
• As nine spokes of a wheel, converging towards a central hub, which is in itself threefold, and which hides the central energy or dynamo of force – the generator of all the activity.
• As nine types of energy which produce definite emanations from a threefold unit, again itself an outgoing from a central unit of force.

1. Electric fire – Spirit – Will aspect – Jewel in the lotus.
2. Solar fire – Consciousness – Love aspect – The nine petals.
3. Fire by friction – Substance – Activity aspect – The three permanent atoms. [819]

• In electric fire, the Monad is represented in its threefold nature, and stands for that type of manifestation which will be brought to its highest stage of development in the next solar system.
• In solar fire, these solar Pitris in their ninefold formation represent and make possible the unfolding of the consciousness of the Monad through the medium of the Ego in the three worlds of human evolution.
• In fire by friction, the lunar Pitris are represented and constitute the lower self, the personality, or those vehicles by means of which the Ego in turn is to acquire experience on the lower planes.

• First. The stage in which the lunar Pitris function primarily, and prepare the lower sheaths for occupancy. The lower vibrations control, and "fire by friction" is that which warms and nourishes to the practical exclusion of all else.
• Second. The stage in which the solar Pitris gradually become predominant, in which the egoic consciousness is developed. The sheaths are occupied by the Thinker, are gradually controlled by him, are bent to his will and purpose, and are eventually discarded. The middle vibrations control and solar fire irradiates; it lights up in due course of evolution the lower sheaths; it gradually increases its heat, and eventually aids in the destruction of the forms.
• Third. The stage in which electric fire is revealed, and through the intensity of its blaze puts out the other fires. The lunar Pitris have fulfiled their work, the solar Pitris [820] have developed the self-conscious unit, man, and the monad (having utilized both) discards both, and withdraws into itself, this time plus the gain of material existence, and plus developed love-wisdom.

The Lord of Life Himself sits at the heart and watches. The Lords of solar fire pursue their task and sacrifice themselves to the lunar Lords of all the lower planes. They die, but resurrect. They pass without, and come again. Yet the Lord of Life sits still.

The lunar Lords begin to die; their power begins to wane with each successive cycle. The solar Lords shine forth in triumph and consign the fourfold ones to fire, – the fire which burns and dissipates the form.

Many times the work repeats itself; the cycles wax and wane, until the day triumphant when the solar Lord acclaims himself and knows himself the ruler.

The Lord of Life then turns Himself, and arises in His might. He consumes the solar Lords, and they perish as did the lunar Lords. He speaks a Word; the fire descends. The blaze bursts forth. Gone is the lower fire through the flame of solar burning, gone is the middle fire through the intensity of fire from Heaven.

Naught remaineth save a threefold flame of violet, indigo and yellow. THAT disappears. Then darkness reigns. Yet the Lord of Life persists, though invisible.

1. The "outer knowledge" triad, or the lords of active wisdom.
2. The middle "love" triad, or the lords of active love.
3. The inner "sacrificial" triad, or the lords of active will.

1. The Buddhas or Lords of Activity.
2. The Buddhas or Lords of Compassionate Love.
3. The Buddhas of Sacrifice, of Whom the Lord of the World is, to man, the best known exponent.

1. The outer "knowledge" triad:
   1. Petal 1 – Knowledge on the physical plane.
      Colors: Orange, green and violet.
   2. Petal 2 – Love on the physical plane.
      Colors: Orange, rose and blue.
   3. Petal 3 – Sacrifice on the physical plane.
      Colors: Orange, yellow and indigo.

      These three petals are organized and vitalized in the Hall of Ignorance, but remain unopened and only begin to unfold as the second circle is organized.

2. The middle "love" triad:
   1. Petal 1 – Higher Knowledge applied through love on the physical and astral planes.
      Colors: Rose, and the original three.
   2. Petal 2 – Higher intelligent love on the physical and astral planes.
      Colors: Rose and the corresponding three.
   3. Petal 3 – Loving intelligent sacrifice on the physical and astral planes.
      Colors: Rose and the same three.

      These three petals preserve the fundamental orange but add the color rose in every petal, so that four colors are now seen. These petals are organized and vitalized in the Hall of Learning, but remain unopened. The outer tier of petals simultaneously unfolds till it is open entirely, revealing the second circle; the third remains shielded.

3. The inner "sacrificial" triad:
   1. Petal 1 – The Will to sacrifice through knowledge on the mental plane, and thus intelligently to dominate the entire threefold lower man.
      Colors: Yellow and the four colors, orange, green, violet and rose. [824]
   2. Petal 2 – The will to sacrifice through love on the mental plane, and thus to serve.
      Colors: Yellow and the four colors, orange, violet, rose and blue.
   3. Petal 3 – The utter sacrifice of all forever.
      Colors: Yellow, orange, rose, blue and indigo.

1. The Monads of power.
2. The Monads of love.
3. The Monads of activity.

1. The permanent atoms have the four lower spirillae fully active (two groups of two each) and the fifth is in process of arousement into equal activity. The triangle is in circulatory action but has not yet achieved its full brightness nor its rotary or fourth dimensional revolution.
2. The two circles of petals are "awake," one being wide open and the other on the verge of opening.

1. The Ego synthesizes or gathers in the life forces of the fourfold lower man.
2. The Mahachohan's Ray on Earth synthesizes the life forces of the lower four. This Ray is the third subray of our planetary Ray.
3. The third major Ray of the solar system blends the minor four.
4. The fifth Kumara blends and unites in Himself the work of the lower four.

1. The permanent atoms become radioactive, and their ring-pass-not is therefore no longer a barrier to the lesser units within; the electronic lives in their various groups escape, and return to the eternal reservoir. They form substance of a very high [831] order, and will produce the forms of those existences who, in another cycle, will seek vehicles.
2. The petals are destroyed by the action of fire, and the multiplicity of deva lives which form them and give to them their coherence and quality are gathered back by the solar Pitris of the highest order into the Heart of the Sun; they will be directed outward again in another solar system.

   The atomic substance will be used for another manvantara, but the solar Pitris will not again be called upon to sacrifice themselves until the next solar system when they will come in as planetary Rays, thus repeating upon monadic levels in the next system what they have done in this. They will then be the planetary Logoi.

3. The central Life electric returns to its source, escaping out of prison and functioning as a center of energy on planes of cosmic etheric energy.

• First. The stage wherein the energy manifested acts outwardly. The Self becomes identified with its sheaths. This is the strictly personal stage.
• Second. The stage wherein adjustment under law is being sought, and the Self is neither entirely identified with its sheaths, nor identified entirely with Itself. It is [832] learning to choose between the pairs of opposites. This is the period of the fiercest strife and turmoil, and the battlefield wherein the adjustment has to be made; it is the laboratory period wherein enough transmutative force is generated by the disciple to carry him to the opposite extreme of the earlier stage, – that stage wherein the energy will manifest within and not without.
• Third. The stage wherein the energy of the Ego is centered at the heart of the circle, and not in the periphery, being applied from thence through the conscious effort of the Ego in group service. The pull of the lower nature is superseded, and the attraction of that which is higher even than the Ego is felt. The earlier process has then to be repeated on a higher turn of the spiral, and monadic energy begins to work upon the Ego as the egoic worked upon the personality. The Monad, which has been identifying Itself with the Ego (its outer manifestation) begins again to seek its own true center "within the Heart," and on the higher levels results affecting distribution and conservation of energy may again be seen.

1. Positive force – Or that which energizes.
2. Negative force – Or that which is the recipient of energy; that which acts or assumes form under the impact of positive force. [833]
3. Light, or harmonic force – That which is produced by the union of these two. The result is radiant energy, and is the result of the equilibrising of the two others.

1. Electric fire – positive energy – Father.
2. Fire by friction – negative energy – Mother.
3. Solar fire – radiant energy – Sun or Son.

1. The solar Angels of a planetary scheme.
2. The solar Angels of the solar system.
3. The lunar lords of the scheme and system.

• Bud egos.   Our planetary scheme, being at the midway point in its evolution, there are therefore no unopened "buds" strictly speaking. All the egoic lotuses have at least one petal open. All the lotuses are organized, but there are vast differences among those of small development, [841] showing forth in the brilliancy of the permanent atoms, and in the stage of petal unfoldment.
• Brahmic lotuses in which the first or knowledge petal is fully unfolded. They are so called as they represent on the physical plane the fully active intelligent unity, the man of small mental development, the lowest type of workers, agriculturists, and peasants on every continent. They are also, called "third class creators," as they express themselves only through the act of physical creation on the physical plane, and their function is largely to provide vehicles for those of their own group.
• The lotuses of Brahman, in which the second petal is showing signs of opening and the second aspect in its lowest manifestation is showing signs of demonstration. They stand as representing certain groups of Egos from certain planetary schemes, notably Jupiter and Venus, who are a grade higher than the class above, but which have as yet a long way to go. They are called "second class creators," for though they demonstrate on the physical plane in the act of physical creation, yet they are more swayed by love than by animal instinct as in the first case. They are to be found incarnating at this time in the Orient, particularly in India and in the Latin countries, and just lately in America.
• Primary lotuses.   These are a group of special interest brought in under the influence of the Lord of the fifth Ray, and therefore fundamentally allied to the energy which is the special manifestation in this system and the basis of all achievement, that is, manas. They were quiescent during the Atlantean root-race but have come in during the fourth and fifth subraces of this root-race. They are a group a good deal more advanced than the earlier classes but need much to develop the second petal. With them the first and the third petals in the first circle are opening, but the middle petal is yet shut. The middle tier also shows no signs of vitality. Owing [842] to conditions in their emanating planet, their development has been one-sided, and hence their entering on a wave of energy into this scheme in order to "round" themselves out, as it is called. They may be seen in the purely intellectual selfish scientific type. They are responsible for much of the advanced application of mechanical science to the needs of men, and for the introduction of certain types of machinery; they work largely in connection with the energy of the mineral kingdom. By this it must be inferred that the solar Lords who embody this type are linked with a group of lunar Lords who respond magnetically to the devas of the mineral kingdom. Their work for the race has at present a deleterious effect, but when the second petal is opened, the wonders then to be achieved by them in loving service along their own particular line will be one of the factors which will regenerate the fourth kingdom. They will achieve emancipation in the fifth round, four fifths of them passing on to the Path and one fifth set back for another cycle.
• Lotuses of passion or desire.   They are so called because their fundamental nature is embodied love in some one or other form. The bulk of the Monads of Love are among this large group and they are to be seen incarnating in the bulk of the well-to-do, kindly people of the world. They are divided into five groups, of whom three individualized upon this planet, and two were the very latest to individualize upon the moon chain. They have two petals unfolded and the third is for them at this time the object of their attention. Many may succeed in unfolding it before the seventh root-race of this round but the bulk of them will unfold it in the second root-race of the next round, and will stand ready before the close of the round to pass on to the probationary path, having unfolded one tier of petals, and organized the second. All these lotuses of the first circle are divided into groups but interplay goes on between them; energy in any center [843] produces reflex energy in another. It must be remembered that in closing the door in Atlantean times to the animal kingdom, and the consequent temporary cessation of the forming of any more "bud lotuses" the effect was dual, in directions other than the human or the animal. It was the result of the internal decision on the part of the planetary Logos to turn His attention away from the act of creation on the systemic mental plane to the work of progressive evolution. This caused a cessation of certain types of activity, producing a quiescence in certain of His centers, and an increased activity in others. It also had an effect upon the solar Angels, and consequently upon the Heart of the solar system from whence they are drawn. Floods of energy or streams of force from the heart of the sun (the subjective Sun) were arrested and directed elsewhere, while the Pitris already active began to center their attention upon the work begun, and temporarily new beginnings were out of order. It must not be forgotten here that the work of the solar Pitris from their point of view, is not primarily the evolution of man, but is the process of their own development within the plan of the solar Logos. The evolution of the human race is, for them, but a method.

1. System I – was characterized by the organization of a center, and the mysterious life we have been speaking about was produced by the "lowest vibration of the center."
2. System II – is characterized by the activity in three dimensions of this center, and the evolution of three types of consciousness, deva, human and subhuman, in all their many grades and hierarchies. It is the period of the balancing of the forces in the center.
3. System III – will be characterized by the fourth dimensional activity of the center, and the twelve types of evolution will become four types of force. [848]

"Within the Hall of Ignorance kama-manas rules. The man, weighed down by much misplaced desire, seeks for the object of his heart's attention within the murky halls of densest maya. He finds it there but dies ere garnering all the longed-for fruit. The serpent stings him, and the joy desired recedes from out his grasp. All seeking thus the selfish fruits of karma must each despise each other; hence strife and greed, ill-will and hatred, death and retribution, karmic invocation and the thunderbolt of vengeance characterize this Hall. [850]

Within the Hall of Learning intellect rules and seeks to guide. Desire of a higher kind, the fruit of manas and its use, supplants the lower kamic urge. Man weighs and balances, and in the twilight Halls of Intellection seeks for the fruit of knowledge. He finds it but to realize that knowledge is not all; he dies upon the open field of knowledge, hearing a cry beat on his dying ears: "Know that the knower greater is than knowledge; the One who seeks is greater than the sought.

Within the Hall of Wisdom the Spirit rules; the One within the lesser ones assumes supreme control. Death is not known within these halls, for its two great gates are passed. Discord and strife both disappear and only harmony is seen. The knowers see themselves as One; they recognize the field wherein knowledge grows as Brahmic dissonance and differentiation. Knowledge they know as method, an instrument of purpose utilized by all and just a germ of eventual recognition. Within this hall union of each with each, blending of one and all, and unity of action, goal and skill marks every high endeavor."

1. Units and egoic groups.
2. Groups and other groups. [851]
3. Greater groups with still greater or with lesser ones.
4. Egos in one planetary scheme with those in another.

• First, the second plane, where They communicate by means of a spiritual medium incomprehensible to man at present.
• Second, the mental plane, where They communicate with all lesser lives by means of a type of mental telepathy.

1. Egos who were produced through the individualization process in Lemurian days. They are the Earth humanity, along with the second group.
2. Egos who have individualized during the Atlantean root-race until the door was shut.
3. Egos who have "come-in" from the moon chain and who are much more evolved than the earth humanity.
4. Egos who have been swept in since Atlantean days to take the place of those Egos who have achieved liberation, and whose causal bodies have disappeared, or whose lotuses have "died out" leaving a vacuum in force substance which must be supplied and filled. They usually come in from one of two schemes:
   1. From the scheme embodied by the polar opposite of our planetary Logos.
   2. From that scheme which is allied with these two in forming a systemic triangle. [854]
   These cases are necessarily rare at present but will become more frequent as more and more of the human race take the fourth Initiation.
5. Certain rare Egos or lotuses from schemes not enumerated in the above triplicity. They are usually only brought in so that they may perfect certain developments in their own nature, to carry out experimental work in connection with the deva kingdom, or to produce certain group results desired by the planetary Logos. They frequently do not descend into dense physical incarnation but work primarily on mental and astral levels, returning to their own spheres eventually for the final stages of liberation.

1. Other Egos in his group.
2. The solar Pitris who are the substance of the group.
3. The lunar Pitris, who are linked with the solar Pitris through the permanent atoms.

1. Ray.
2. Subray.
3. Department (whether under the Manu, the Mahachohan or the Bodhisattva on our earth scheme or their analogies on other schemes).
4. The Master's group.

• Lotuses of revelation.   Those in which the "jewel" is just about to be revealed.
• Lotuses with perfume.   Those whose occult "smell" or aroma is permeating their environment. They are those Egos who have not yet completely unfolded the final tier of petals, but whose lives are of magnetic force in the three worlds, and whose careers are distinguished by altruistic service.
• Radiant lotuses, or those whose light is beginning to shine forth as lights in a dark place.

1. Their rate of vibration,
2. Their type,
3. Their key number,
4. The particular group of lunar Lords who are concerned with those bodies,
5. The detailed history of the elemental lives who construct the bodies.

1. The rate of vibration.
2. The history of the petal unfoldment.
3. The history of any particular group of solar Angels concerned with the formation of the lotus.
4. The activity of the deva substance out of which the lotus is constructed.
5. Group relationships.

1. It preserves the animal health of the body.
2. It constructs and builds in the body, through its energy and force currents, what is needed to replace the daily wear and tear.
3. It is the medium whereby man comes into physical touch with his brother man. Physical magnetism is largely, even if not wholly, dependent upon prana.

1. Its purpose,
2. Its technique,
3. The effects produced within the lower self of the man himself and also upon others, [859]
4. His ability to employ it or not as he may desire. It is under his control.

1. The head,
2. The heart,
3. The throat,
4. The base of the spine.

1. The four of the quaternary,
2. The four of the egoic auric egg (the three aspects, and the ring-pass-not.)

1. The higher head center,
2. The secondary head center,
3. The heart center.

• The fact that the energy starts from the fifth plane, the mental, where man is concerned,
• The fact that it is through the agency of the fifth principle that man can consciously work at his own unfoldment,
• The fact that the path of evolution is for man a fivefold one, covering the five planes of human unfoldment; and is divided into five stages as regards the Ego,
• The fact that although this is the second solar system from the standpoint of the egoic cycles of the Logos, [861] or His second major egoic cycle, yet it is the fifth when viewed from another angle, that of the lesser cycles. It corresponds to the fifth period in human evolution, that in which man treads the path. The Logos is now treading the cosmic Path.
• The fact that the fifth spirilla is in process of awakening. This has to be effected before the interplay of energy between the egoic lotus and the etheric centers becomes so powerful as to awaken man's physical brain, and cause him to become aware of the inner currents. This takes place usually when the fifth petal is organized.

1. He must align his three bodies so that there is a direct channel of contact formed between the Ego and the physical brain.
2. He must strive to bring about a stabilization of both the astral body and the mind, and must aim at that emotional equilibrium which is produced by the conscious "balancing of forces."

• The etheric web, separating the lower physical consciousness of the brain from the astral plane begins to undergo a lengthy process of destruction, and the first "rents" in the web occur. It is through these that the student becomes aware of the inner planes, becomes conscious in the physical brain of the inner happenings, and can (if a disciple) make his contacts with his Ego and (via that ego) with his Guru.²⁷⁴ This marks a very important development.
• The higher head center increases its activity and becomes capable of receiving flashes of illumination from the higher planes. This happens only occasionally at first but with increasing frequency as the years progress, and the "rents" become more numerous.
• The various triangles become vivified and proceed to increased activity in due geometrical progression, whilst the center between the shoulder blades, the converging point for certain fires, becomes active. This marks a definite stage in the process of transferring the fires into the higher centers. Roughly speaking, this period of the transference of the heat or energy of the lower centers into the higher may be divided into two parts: first, that in which the centers in the lower part of the body (those below the diaphragm) are transferred into the centers in the higher part of the torso. These centers in the torso are three in number, the heart, the throat, and the center between the shoulder blades. We must here note that the throat center is situated in the lower part of the throat, and properly belongs to the torso and not to the head. It should also be stated here that the center between the shoulder blades is not a "sacred" center, but is of a temporary nature, and is created by the aspirant himself during the process of transference. [865]
• The second stage is that in which the energy of the lower six centers:
  1. The throat,
  2. The heart,
  3. The solar plexus,
  4. The spleen,
  5. The organs of generation,
  6. The base of the spine,
  are – in due order according to a man's ray and subray – transferred into the correspondences within the head center. These seven head centers are the reflection in the microcosm of those "mansions prepared in the Heavens" which receive the sevenfold energy of the monad. These are the chambers prepared by the lower energy which are to be the recipients of "soul or the higher psychic energy."

1. Hints as to the right direction of the energy,
2. Suggestions as to the basic mysteries which man has to solve,
3. Indications as to certain correspondences,
4. Practical points for constructive thinking.

1. That the hint may be worth following.
2. That meditation is the pathway to the source of light, and that the hint dropped is the "seed" for meditation.
3. That facts, ill-assorted and uncorrelated, are menaces to knowledge and no help.
4. That every aspect of truth, progressively grasped, has to be assimilated, and welded into the experience of the student.
5. That unless the correspondences agree in an atomic, personal, planetary and cosmic fashion, they are not to be trusted.
6. That much information is withheld until the student is a disciple, and still more until he is a pledged initiate. The reason for this is to be found in the [869] fact that all knowledge concerns energy, its application, and its use or misuse.

1. Knowledge Petals – First circle
   1. Organized in the Hall of Ignorance.
   2. Guided by the force and energy of the Mahachohan.
   3. The third group of solar Pitris affected.
2. Love Petals – Second circle
   1. Organized in the Hall of Learning.
   2. Guided by the force of the Bodhisattva.
   3. The second group of solar Lords affected.
3. Will or Sacrifice Petals – Third circle
   1. Organized in the Hall of Wisdom.
   2. Guided by the force and energy of the Manu.
   3. The first group of solar Angels affected.

1. Inherent energy,
2. Absorbed energy,
3. Group energy,
4. Material energy or that which is hidden in physical plane matter.

1. The mystery of Electricity.   The mystery of Brahma. The secret of the third aspect. It is latent in the physical sun.
2. The mystery of Polarity, or of the universal sex impulse. The secret of the second aspect. It is latent in the Heart of the Sun, i.e., in the subjective Sun.
3. The mystery of Fire itself, or the dynamic central systemic force. The secret of the first aspect. It is latent in the central spiritual sun.

"The garment of God is driven aside by the energy of His movements, and the real Man stands revealed, yet remains hidden, for who knows the secret of a man as it exists in his own self-recognition."

1. Mutual attraction,
2. Complementary suitability,
3. Instinctual appeal,
4. Approach, and recognized cooperation,
5. Union,
6. The next stage is the temporary importance of the material aspect, that of the Mother, the feminine aspect,
7. The withdrawal into a temporary retirement of the Father,
8. The work of creating the Son,
9. The evolution and growth of the Son, both materially and in consciousness,
10. Emancipation of the Son from his Mother, or the liberation of the soul at maturity from matter,
11. Recognition by the Son of the Father and his return to that Father.

1. Conception,
2. Creation,
3. Conscious growth,

1. The different key vibrations.
2. The centers whereby force enters.
3. The channels along which it circulates. [881]
4. The triangles and other geometrical figures which it produces during evolution.
5. The cycles and the ebb and flow of energy in connection with the different types of planetary manifestation, including all the kingdoms of nature.
6. The true significance of those force aspects which we call "periods of pralaya" and those we call "periods of manifestation." It also involves a right realization of the laws of obscuration.

1. Knowledge of the purposes and intentions of the planetary Logos,
2. Realization of the particular and peculiar type of energy, and of the quality of his own Ray Lord,
3. Comprehension of the different groups of existences who are participating in planetary evolution and in solar manifestation,
4. A revelation as to certain cosmic enterprises in which our planetary Logos is acting as an intelligent cooperator. Thus is brought in the factor of extra-systemic force.

1. The representing deva,
2. The two adepts,
3. The initiator,

1. From the logoic center, or the planetary Logos, to the Monad on its own plane.
2. From that Monad to one of the three tiers of petals, according to the aspect or ray concerned.
3. From the tier of petals, viewed as a unit, to one of the petals in the circle, according to the quality and type of force, using the petal as a transmitting agency.
4. From the particular petal in which the force is momentarily centered to one of the permanent atoms, again according to ray and type of force.
5. From the permanent atom via the atomic triangle, and the mental, and astral centers, to that one of the three higher centers in the etheric body particularly concerned.
6. From the etheric center to the physical brain.

1. The Law of Correspondences.
2. The realizable probabilities.
3. The indications in occult literature of a corroborative nature.

1. Fire by friction, or the negative Brahma Aspect, the third Aspect.
2. Solar Fire, or the positive negative Vishnu Aspect, the second Aspect.
3. Electric Fire, or the positive Shiva Aspect, the first Aspect.

1. The transmitters of the will of God, the originators of activity in deva substance. These are the greater builders in their various groups.
2. The manipulators of the initiated energy. These are the myriads of workers with force who transmit the impulse in their turn to the elemental essence. They are the builders of lesser degree, but are on the evolutionary arc as are the first group.
3. The recipients of force, the sumtotal of the living substance of a plane. These lives are passive in the hands of the builders of greater degree.

1. The elementals of densest matter.
2. The elementals of liquid matter.
3. The elementals of gaseous matter.

1. Moisture, or those living essences which are the liquid elementals.
2. Gaseous substance, or those lives which are linked to all fiery essences, being volatile and the result of heat.
3. Etheric matter, or the lowest orders of the devas of the ethers.

1. The sixth plane, the astral plane, and the sixth subplane of the physical plane, the liquid subplane. [898]
2. The sixth subplane of each plane in the solar system, and their relation to each other.

1. That particular head center which is linked to the heart center.
2. The heart center.
3. The solar plexus.

1. The sex impulse, macrocosmically and microcosmically interpreted.
2. The cessation of desire.
3. The direction of fire to the throat center instead of to the generative organs.
4. Pralaya and obscuration.
5. The meaning of the words "There shall be no more sea" found in the Christian Bible.

1. The cosmic astral plane and the constellation whence emotional and desire energy originates.
2. The cosmic mental plane, and therefore with the constellation Sirius.
3. The cosmic buddhic plane, and the constellation of the Pleiades.

• The salamanders, or the fiery lives which can be seen by clairvoyants leaping in the flames of a furnace or of a volcano; this group can be subdivided into four groups according to color – red, orange, yellow, and violet – the last of which approximate very closely to the devas of the fourth ether,
• The agnichaitans; this is a term applied to the fiery lives, which are the sumtotal of the plane substance, as seen in the first part of our treatise, and also to the tiny essences which compose the fires of manifestation. as the nature of physical plane electricity is understood and studied, and its true condition realized, the reality of the existence of these agnichaitans will stand revealed.

1. The first ether, or atomic matter.
2. The second ether, or subatomic matter.
3. The third ether, or super-etheric matter.
4. The fourth ether, or simply etheric matter.

• Four groups of violet devas, associated with the etheric doubles of all that exists on the physic plane. These four are in two divisions, those associated with the building of the etheric doubles, and those out of whose substance these doubles are built.
• The green devas of the vegetable kingdom. These exist in two divisions also. They are of high development, and will be contacted principally along the lines of magnetization. The greater devas of this order preside over the magnetic spots of the earth, guard the solitude of the forests, reserve intact spaces on the planet which are required to be kept inviolate; they defend them from molestation, and with the violet devas are at this time working definitely, though temporarily, under the Lord Maitreya. The Raja Lord of the astral plane, Varuna [913] and his brother Kshiti, have been called to the council chamber of the Hierarchy for specific consultation, and just as the Masters are endeavoring to prepare humanity for service when the World Teacher comes, so these Raja Lords are working along similar lines in connection with the devas. They are arduous in Their work, intense in Their zeal, but much obstructed by man.
• The white devas of the air and water who preside over the atmosphere work with certain aspects of electrical phenomena, and control the seas, rivers, and streams. From among them, at a certain stage in their evolution, are gathered the guardian angels of the race when in physical plane incarnation. Each unit of the human family has his guardian deva.

• For the violet devas the path of attainment lies through feeling, and through educating the race in the perfecting of the physical body in its two departments.
• For the green devas the path of service is seen in magnetization, of which the human race knows nothing as yet. Through this power they act as the protectors of the vegetable plant life, and of the sacred spots of the earth; in their work lies the safety of man's body, for from the vegetable kingdom for the remainder of this round comes the nourishment of that body.
• For the white devas the path of service lies in the guarding of the individuals of the human family, in the care and segregation of types, in the control of the water and air elementals, and much that concerns the fish kingdom.

• Under group 1 are found all the elementals working with the etheric doubles of men, all the elementals forming the etheric bodies wherein is life, and all the elementals working with the etheric counterparts of so-called inanimate objects. These are named in the order and the importance of their development. The violet devas are on the evolutionary path; the elementals are on the involutionary path, the goal for them being to pass into the deva kingdom of violet hue.
• Under group 2 work the fairies of plant life, the elves who build and paint the flowers, the radiant little beings who inhabit the woods and the fields, the elementals who work with the fruits, vegetables, and with all that leads to the covering of the earth's surface with verdure. Associated with them are the [915] lesser devas of magnetization, those attached to sacred spots, to talismans and to stones, and also a special group to be found around the habitations of the Masters wherever situated.
• Under group 3 work the elementals of the air and the sea, the sylphs, the water fairies, and the devas who guard each human being. Here only general hints are given. This list is not complete and does not include the grosser elementals, the brownies, and those that inhabit the dark spaces of the earth, the cities and the subterranean spots of the earth's crust.

1. The secret of matter itself, that is, matter as we know and see it.
2. The key to the process of creation upon the physical plane, and the method whereby density and concretion on the three lower levels are brought about.
3. The formulas for organic transmutation, or the key to the processes whereby the elements as we know them can be disintegrated and recombined.

1. The atomic or Shiva energy, the energy of the first subplane or the first etheric plane.
2. The vital form building energy of the three ensuing etheric levels.
3. The negative receptive energy of the three planes [918] of the dense physical, the gaseous, the liquid and the truly dense.

• Group 1 includes those transmitters of the Word who are found on the three lower subplanes of the plane Adi, or the logoic plane.
• Group 2 comprises those great builders who transmit the Word on the three next systemic planes, the monadic, the atmic and the buddhic.
• Group 3 is formed of those who carry on a similar function in the three worlds of human endeavor.

1. The transmitter of energy on the physical plane forms the throat center in the body of Brahma, the third aspect.
2. The transmitter of energy upon the astral plane forms the heart center of Brahma.
3. The transmitter of the Word on the mental plane forms the head center of this, the third aspect.

   These three Raja Lords, devas, or transmitters, form the three centers of logoic force in the three worlds. They are the lowest energy aspect of Brahma. [922]

4. The Transmitter of the Word upon the buddhic plane forms the throat center of Vishnu, the second aspect. From thence the Word goes forth that builds the dense physical form of a Heavenly Man or of a solar Logos.
5. The Transmitter of energy upon the monadic plane forms the heart center of Vishnu, the second aspect.
6. The Transmitter of force upon the atmic plane forms the head center of Vishnu.

"Brahma is One, yet includes His brother. Vishnu is One, yet existeth not apart from His brother, younger in point of time yet older far. Shiva is One, and antedates Them both, yet He appeareth not nor is He seen, until They both have cycled through Their courses."

1. 1-3-3
2. 4-3
3. 3-4
4. 3-1-3

• Division 1 can be understood under the law of correspondences when the nature of the atomic plane of the solar system, the three cosmic etheric planes, and the three planes of human endeavor are investigated in connection with each other.
• Division 2 becomes easier of comprehension when the close relation between the four cosmic etheric planes and the three lower planes is grasped. This can be illuminated by a study of the four physical ethers and the three lower subplanes of our physical plane.
• Division 3 finds the clue to its mystery in the constitution of the mental plane, with its three formless levels, and its four levels of form.
• Division 4 can be grasped as the student arrives at a comprehension of his own nature as a spiritual triad, an egoic body and a threefold lower man. He can likewise approach the first division in a similar manner, and view himself as a primary force or Monad, a triple secondary [924] force or Ego, and a threefold lower energy, or personality, remembering that we are here dealing only with creative energy and with the Brahma aspect of manifestation as it coordinates itself with the Vishnu aspect.

1. Those who work on the four higher systemic planes and from thence influence in the three worlds, producing through reflex action the desired results.
2. Those who work in the three worlds of human endeavor, producing directly dense physical manifestation.

1. Divine thought – The cosmic mental plane.
2. Divine desire – The cosmic astral plane.
3. Divine activity – The cosmic physical plane (our seven systemic planes).

• The logoic Breath – First plane – The Sound²⁸⁵A.

  This is the first etheric appearance of a solar system upon the atomic subplane of the cosmic physical plane. The seeds of life are all latent. Faculty inheres from an earlier solar essence.

• The logoic Sound – Second plane – The Sound A U.

  This is the body of the solar system in the second ether. This plane is the archetypal plane. The seeds of [927] life are vibrating or germinating. The seven centers of energy are apparent. The one deva Agni is seen as seven. The form is now potentially perfect.

• The logoic triple Word – The third plane – The Sound A U M.

  The body of the solar system in substance of the third etheric plane is seen, and the three function as one. The triple energy of the Logos is coordinated, and nothing now can hinder the Work of evolution. The three groups of devas are active, and the archetypal form is in process of materialization.

• The logoic septenary Word – The fourth plane – The seven syllabled Word

  The logoic etheric centers become active.

  The etheric body of the solar system is now complete, though it will not be perfected till the end of another manvantara. The greater body of vitality is ready to energize the dense physical vehicle. The seven centers with their forty-nine major petals are vibrant, and consciousness thrills through every atom in the system.

1. Lack of sustained will or concentration,
2. Lack of alignment with the Ego,
3. A weakness of coordination between the two parts of the physical vehicle.

• The logoic Phrase – Fifth plane – The plane of the logoic mantram of 35 stanzas.

  The gaseous body.

  The gaseous form of the solar system now appears, and the energy centers become veiled and hidden. Accretion and concretion rapidly proceeds. The three groups of builders coordinate their efforts afresh and a new influx of energy – bearing devas from the logoic head center – pours in. The lesser builders respond to the logoic mantram chanted anew at each manvantara, and the seven streams of energy from the seven logoic centers are directed downwards.

• The logoic Song of Love or Desire – The Sixth plane – A poem in forty-two verses.

  The logoic liquid body.

  This song or vibration causes the bringing in of a body of devas from the logoic heart center to swell the efforts of those already active. The liquid body of the solar Logos appears, and the form exists in its six differentiations. Concretion is very rapid, and activity is considerably more violent owing to the greater density of the accruing substance.

• The logoic Book of Life – Seventh plane – Exists in forty-nine chapters.

  The entire form stands revealed. During evolution it must manifest its purpose and its nature. A third group [929] of devas from the logoic throat center appear, and cooperate with their brothers. All the fires are burning, all the centers are active, and every petal, forty-nine in number, on the fourth plane of Buddhi is producing a reflex activity upon the dense physical plane.

1. The builders of the human vehicle.

   This is the highest group of lesser builders, who are highly specialized. These will be dealt with somewhat in detail later.

2. The builders of the forms in the three kingdoms of nature in their two divisions.
   • First. The builders of the mineral kingdom. These are the workers occultly called "the elemental alchemists." They are in many groups connected with the differing elements, metals, chemicals, and minerals, and with what are called active and radioactive substances. They are the custodians of two secrets, that of the immetalisation of the Monad, and the secret of the transmutation of metals.
   • Second. The builders of the vegetable kingdom. They exist in many groups and are termed "the surface alchemists" and "the bridging units." They build the doubles of every form of vegetable life, and just as the "alchemists" of the mineral kingdom are mostly concerned with the action of fire, these other alchemical workers are concerned with the liquid action of divine [932] manifestation. They work, therefore, in cooperation with the devas of the waters, or liquid substance, whilst the earlier mentioned group work with the gaseous devas. A hint is here conveyed, but greater expansion of the statement is not possible, owing to the danger of the knowledge to be reached. With them is hidden three secrets: One is concerned with the earlier solar system, or the green solar system; another deals with the laws of bridging, or the interaction between the kingdoms of nature, and the third is connected with the history of the second round; this secret when revealed will make clear why man (under the law) should be a vegetarian and not carnivorous. Scientists are learning already certain things connected with the second secret, and they may hope, as the knowledge of the significance of color is extended, to glean hints as to the first. The third secret will not be indicated more clearly till the sixth race is living upon earth.
   • Third. The builders of all animal etheric forms. These are a group closely allied with those who build the human form. They came in force from a reservoir of energy which was kept in a quiescent condition until the physical condition of any particular scheme warranted their activity. With them came in much that accounts for the present sad condition, for much of the fear, hatred, and destructive condition to be found among the animals is caused by their bodies being built, and the work of evolution carried on by the "imperfect gods" (as H. P. B. expresses it) working in imperfect matter as yet imperfectly manipulated. The secret of fear is hidden in the etheric body, and the particular type of substance out of which it may be built.
3. The builders of the planetary etheric web.

   Their work is exceedingly obscure and exists in three divisions: [933]

   1. The materialization of the web. This is only perfected by the fourth round, and was purposely hurried in connection with our planet owing to karmic conditions, and under the law of spiritual necessity. A correspondence to this can be seen in the case of man himself. The etheric web was very loosely coordinated in man at the beginning of the fourth root-race. Spiritual necessity forced its rapid consolidation, and it is now so constituted that it forms a barrier between the physical and the astral plane.
   2. The preservation of the planetary web. This will be continued until the sixth round. During this period spiritual evolution proceeds with a certain degree of planetary safety, for the web protects from certain solar influences, and acts largely as a sifter and a distributor of solar forces.
   3. The destruction of the web. This takes place towards the end of planetary evolution, thus permitting the escape of the imprisoned planetary life and the absorption of the life essence into its synthesizer. The process of destruction can only be described in the words perforation and disintegration.
4. The builders of the etheric body of the planetary Entity.

   This great involutionary life must remain for many aeons a mystery. His etheric body is now in process of building, and only in another solar system will he assume definite physical form. Sufficient energy has not yet been generated to permit of his manifestation objectively. He remains as yet subjective. He has his solar correspondence. [934]

5. The builders of the planetary body.

   This proceeds under the same law as that of the solar system and of man, but, as in the solar system, it proceeds upon the higher planes. Students are here recommended to trace the relation between the solar and cosmic planes in this specific connection.

6. The etheric doubles of all that man creates.

   These are a special group of etheric builders who, under karma, are forced to act in conjunction with human beings.

Group	–	Plane	–	Kingdom
First	–	One	–	Human.
Second	–	Two	–	Animal.
Third	–	Three	–	Vegetable.
Fourth	–	Four	–	Mineral.

• It is awakened into a specific activity by the sounding of the physical plane word, and it is built into forms by the lesser builders.
• It will, therefore, be apparent that it comes under the influence of two types of force or energy.

1. The mental unit.
2. The astral permanent atom.
3. The physical permanent atom.

"As the moon revolves, she reflects. As she reflects, she causes response in that which failed to radiate. These three, the Sun, the Moon, and the Mother, produce that which pursues a tiny cycle, and burns."

1. The work of the building devas during the three and a half months prior to the realization of life. This period sees the third stage of the building of the etheric body entered upon.
2. The building work of the next three and a half months of the gestation period.
3. The final process of concretion carried on through the remaining two months.

1. Those who are connected with the permanent atoms.
2. Those who are responsible for the building process.

1. The triads of the involutionary group soul.
2. The appearance of triple natured man in the third root race.
3. The triads in the causal bodies of any self-conscious unit.

1. Those who build the form.
2. Those who are built into the form.

1. The sounding of the appropriate note, which note is indicative of man's place in evolution, and of the nature of his "psyche," or Ego.
2. The transmission of this note by the solar Angel, and the three groups of devas connected with the three permanent atoms.
3. The vibration set up within these atoms which is in line with the note sounded, and which becomes so strong as to make itself felt in the surrounding deva substance, thus awakening response.

1. The builders of the mental body.
2. The builders of the astral body.
3. The builders of the etheric body.
4. The builders of the dense physical.

1. Three karmic agents responsible to the karmic Lords for the work on the three planes.
2. Five karmic Lords who work in close connection with the Manus of the various races, and who are responsible for the correct building of the varying race types.
3. Karmic agents responsible for the subraces types of the present time. [943]
4. Certain intermediary agents who represent (within these three groups) the seven Ray types.
5. Those agents of the good Law who are connected specifically with the work of the etheric centers, and their response to the different planetary centers.
6. The keepers of the records.

1. The gaseous elementals.
2. The liquid elementals.
3. The strictly dense elementals.

1. A man's note,
2. The color poured forth by the transmitting agents,
3. The karmic agents,

4. Group karma and vibration which will sweep in another group of agencies and builders, and thus affect a man's bodies,
5. Racial karma, an extension of the above,
6. Forces playing upon the planet from another scheme, or through the formation of a systemic triangle,
7. A cosmic triangle of force of some specific kind which may bring in entities and energies of any particular scheme incident upon the karma of the planetary Logos.

1. Groups of lives animated by dynamic energy.
2. Groups of lives animated by radiant energy.
3. Groups of lives animated by atomic energy.

1. Dynamic energy – electric fire – atomic subplane. First etheric substance. Plane adi.
2. Radiant energy – solar fire – three cosmic etheric levels. Logoic etheric body.
3. Atomic energy – fire by friction – three planes of the three worlds. Logoic dense vehicle.

• First, by the aggregate of the evil desires, wicked intentions, and selfish purposes of each individual man. Every wrong thought, when embodied in speech or manifested in action on the physical plane, goes to swell the proportions of this evil entity.
• Second, by the fostering care of the brothers of the shadow, and those representatives of what may be called "cosmic evil" who (under the karma of the fourth or human family, in this fourth round), assume stupendous responsibilities, make possible the secondary vitalization of the thought form and produce conditions of such a dire description that under law rapid crystallization supervenes, and ultimate destruction becomes possible. Students would do well to broaden their concept as to the purpose of evil and the place the evil forces play in the general scheme.
• Third, by the energy still extant and the vibration still to be felt which is the persistence of force from [950] an earlier solar system, and an emanation from that which is no longer considered in this solar system to be a principle.

1. By the strength of Their united thoughts and meditations.
2. By the work of the Hierarchy in training and teaching individuals, who thus break away from blind group activity, and become conscious centers of force and cooperators in the work of destruction. This work has to be carried on from mental levels. Hence the training of disciples to meditate and work in mental matter.
3. By the use of certain mantrams and words which bring in interplanetary force of the fourth order. This force is then directed towards this distorted creation of the fourth Creative Hierarchy (the fourth or human kingdom) and tends to augment the work of destruction. Much of this work is carried on by the Nirmanakayas,
4. By stimulating the egoic bodies of men so that the solar Angels may carry on with greater precision and force their conflict with the lunar gods. This is the true war in heaven. As the solar Gods²⁸⁷ descend ever [951] nearer to the physical plane, and in their descent assume a steadily increasing control of the lunar natures, the thoughts and desires of men are consequently purified and refined. The solar fires put out the lunar light, and the lower nature is eventually purified and transmuted. In time the solar Angels blaze forth in all their glory through the medium of the lower nature on the physical plane, that lower nature providing fuel to the flames. The hated "Dweller on the Threshold" thus gradually dies for lack of sustenance, and disintegrates for lack of vitality, and man is set free.

• A realization of the archetypal plan,
• An understanding of the laws governing the building of processes of nature,
• A conscious process of willing creation, so that man cooperates with the ideal, works under law, and produces that which is in line with the planetary plan, and which tends to further the best interests of the race,
• A comprehension as to the nature of energy, and an ability to direct energy currents, to disintegrate (or withdraw energy from) all forms in the three worlds,
• An appreciation of the nature of the devas, their constitution and place as builders, and of the words and sounds whereby they are directed and controlled.

"The solar Angel must put out the light of the lunar angels and then for lack of warmth and light, that which has served to hinder no longer is."

1. The imposition of the newer and higher rhythm upon men.
2. The dissipation of the murky clouds of half-vitalized indefinite thought forms which surround our planet, thus permitting the entry of interplanetary force, and of force from the higher mental levels.
3. The awakening within men of the power to think clearly, to energize their thought forms accurately, and to hold in vital form those thought constructions whereby they may attain their objective, and [955] bring about desired conditions upon the physical plane.

• The one who conceives the idea.
• The one who clothes the idea in matter. [957]
• The one who energizes the idea, and thus enables the form to preserve its outline and perform its mission.
• The one who – in time and space – through desire and love, directs that thought form, vitalizes it continuously, until the objective is attained.
• The one who, when the desired end has been accomplished, destroys or disintegrates the thought form by withdrawing his energy (occultly, the "attention is withdrawn," or "the eye is no longer upon" it), so that the lesser lives (which had been built into the desired form) fall away and return to the general reservoir of deva substance.

• That emanating in the first instance from the Ego on abstract levels.
• That originating in a secondary sense from the man on the physical plane through the medium of the brain.

1. That of aligning with the Ego²⁸⁸.
2. The process of impressing the egoic will, on the physical brain, or (to word it otherwise) the initial utilization of egoic energy. [959]

• Lower types of humanity use the sutratma as it passes through the etheric body.
• Average men utilize almost entirely that part of the sutratma which passes through the astral plane. Their reactions are largely based on desire, and are emotional.
• Intellectual men utilize the sutratma as it passes through the lower levels of the mental plane, down through the astral to the physical in its two sections. Their activities are energized by mind and not by desire, as in the earlier cases.
• Aspirants on the physical plane use the sutratma as it passes through the two lower subplanes of the abstract levels of the mental plane, and are beginning gradually to build the antahkarana, or the bridge between the Triad and the Personality. The power of the Ego can begin to make itself felt.
• Applicants for initiation and initiates up to the third initiation use both the sutratma and the antahkarana, employing them as a unit. The power of the Triad begins to pour through, thus energizing all human [960] activities upon the physical plane, and vitalizing in ever increasing degree the man's thought forms. The key to the formation of the Mayavirupa is found in the right comprehension of the process.

• Mental quiescence, or stable vibration,
• Emotional stability, resulting in limpid reflection,
• Etheric poise, producing a condition in the head center which would permit of the direct application of force to the physical brain via the center.

• Direct alignment.
• The transmission of the egoic energy or will to one or other of the three physical centers in the head:
  • The pineal gland.
  • The pituitary body.
  • The alta major center, or that nerve center at the top of the spine, where the cranium and the spine make approximate contact. When this congery of nerves [962] is fully developed, it forms a center of communication between he vital energy of the spinal column (the kundalini fire) and the energy of the two head centers above enumerated. It is the physical correspondence to the antahkarana on higher levels.

1. That much of the fire of spirit, or electric fire, which any particular Ego is embodying (relatively little prior to the third Initiation) or is able to transmit, coupled with,
2. That much of the fire of the solar Angel (solar fire) or the egoic aspect which the Ego is able to transmit. This is but little in average man, a good deal in the man on the probationary path, and a full downpour by the time the third Initiation is reached.
3. That much of the fire of substance in its purified state which can penetrate. This is dependent upon the purity of the three sheaths, and in the case of a highly advanced man is the kundalinic fire as it swells the blaze produced by the other two.

1. As the major head center awakens, the pineal gland begins to function.
2. As the heart center becomes fully alive, the pituitary body enters into activity. [965]
3. As the throat center assumes its right place in the process of evolution, the alta major center vibrates adequately.

1. The state of his bodies and their egoic alignment.
2. The condition of activity present in the physical head centers.
3. The circulatory action of the triangular transmission of force.

1. The ability of the disciple to meditate.
2. The capacity he displays for bringing through accurately from the subtler levels the plans and purposes of which his Ego is cognizant.
3. The purity of his motives.
4. His power to "hold a state of meditation," and while in that state begin to build the form for his idea, and thus materialize the plan of his Ego.
5. The amount of energy he can pour later into his thought form and thus procure for it a period of existence, or its tiny "day of Brahma."

1. His place on the ladder of evolution.
2. The condition of his bodies.
3. His karmic condition.
4. The tenuosity of the etheric web.
5. The caliber of his physical body, and its relative refinement.

1. To contact or communicate with the Ego, or solar Angel.
2. To study the process of creation and to make it conform step by step with natural evolutionary law.

• The initial three correspond to the egoic impulse with which we have earlier dealt.
• The secondary group of Sephiroth find their analogy in the work pursued in the stage we are now dealing with, or the impulse of mind-desire, emanating consciously from man's brain.
• The work of the final three is accomplished when the thought form, being clothed in mental and astral matter, passes into objectivity on the physical plane. [972]

1. A dense form.
2. A separate existence.

1. Of thought forms built consciously or unconsciously.
2. Of self-initiated thought forms or of the effect of the thought forms of others.
3. Of responsiveness to one's own inner impulses, or of responsiveness to the impulses of others, and therefore to group thought forms.

• First, owing to his stage in evolution, he is able to enforce his words in a manner which would surprise him could he but see on the mental plane. He builds more accurately than the average men, his subsequent thought-form is more strongly vitalized, and it performs the function whereon it is sent by the "Sound" or speech with greater precision.
• Second, any word spoken and consequent thought-form built (unless along the higher path and not based on personality impulses) is apt to cause a barrier of mental matter between a man and his goal. This matter or separating wall has to be dissipated before further [978] advance can be made, and this process is karmic and unavoidable.
• Third, speech is very largely a mode of communication on the physical levels; on the subtler levels whereon the worker stands, and in his communications with his fellow workers and chosen cooperators it will play an ever lessening part. Intuitive perception and telepathic interplay will distinguish the intercourse between aspirants and disciples, and when this is coupled with a full trust, sympathy and united effort for the plan we will have a formation wherewith the Master can work, and through which He can pour His force. The Master works through groups (large or small) and the work is facilitated for Them if the interplay between units of the group is steady and uninterrupted. One of the most frequent causes of difficulty in group work and consequent arrest of the inflow of force from the Master temporarily is based on misuse of speech. It brings about a clogging of the channel for the time being on the mental plane.

1. The center in the head which corresponds, to the heart.
2. The heart center itself.
3. The throat center.

1. The center in the head corresponding to the throat center.
2. The throat center.
3. The center at the base of the spine.

1. One of the stars of the Great Bear,
2. The Pleiad involved,
3. The planetary scheme concerned,

• Physical Purity. This is a thing not easily to be acquired, but entailing many lives of strenuous effort. Through abstinence, right continence, clean living, vegetarian diet, and rigid self-control, the man gradually raises the vibration of his physical atoms, builds a body of ever greater resistance and strength, and succeeds in "manifesting" forth in a sheath of greater refinement.
• Etheric Freedom. This term does not convey all that [995] I seek to impart, but it suffices for need of a better. The student of magic who can safely undertake the enterprise, will have constructed an etheric body of such a nature that vitality, or pranic force and energy, can circulate unimpeded; he will have formed an etheric web of such tenuosity that it forms no barrier to consciousness. This is all that can be said on this subject, owing to the danger involved, but it suffices for the conveyance of information to those who are beginning to know.
• Astral Stability. The student of magic aims, above all, to purify his desires, and so to transmute his emotions that the lower physical purity and the higher mental responsiveness and transmutative power may equally be available. Every magician has to learn the fact that, in this solar system, during the cycle of humanity, the astral body is the pivotal point of endeavor, having a reflex effect on both the other sheaths, the physical and the mental. He, therefore, aims at transmuting (as has often been said) lower desire into aspiration; at changing the lower cruder colors which distinguish the astral body of average man, for the clearer, purer tones of the spiritual man, and of transforming its normal chaotic vibration, and the "stormy sea of life," for the steady rhythmic response to that which is highest and the center of peace. These things he effects by constant watchfulness, unremitting control, and steady meditation.
• Mental Poise. These words are used in the occult sense, wherein the mind (as it is commonly understood) becomes the keen steady instrument of the indwelling thinker, and the point from which he can travel onwards to higher realms of comprehension. It is the foundation stone whence the higher expansion can be initiated.

"The Brothers of the Sun, through the force of solar fire, fanned to a flame in the blazing vault of the second Heaven, put out the lower lunar fires, and render naught that lower 'fire by friction.'

The Brother of the Moon ignores the sun and solar heat; borrows his fire from all that triply is, and pursues his cycle. The fires of hell await, and lunar fire dies out. Then neither sun nor moon avails him, only the highest heaven awaits the spark electric, seeking vibration synchronous from that which lies beneath. And yet it cometh not."

1. Through the centers,
2. Through the brain,
3. Through the physical plane itself.

The Solar Angel collects himself, scatters not his force, but in meditation deep communicates with his reflection.

When the shadow hath responded, in meditation deep the work proceedeth. The lower light is thrown upward; the greater light illuminates the three, and the work of the four proceedeth.

• First. From that circle of petals in the egoic lotus which the Ego chooses to use, or is in a position to use. This is conditioned by the objective in view, and the state of egoic unfoldment.
• Secondly. The center in the physical brain which is active in meditation. This is also conditioned by the man's point in evolution, and the particular goal in mind.
• Thirdly. The center of force generated by the man upon the lower mental plane, as he proceeds to form the necessitated thought form, and to sweep into activity those builders who can respond to the vibration sent forth. This is likewise conditioned by the strength of his meditation, the fullness of the note sent forth by him, and the strength of his initiated vibration.

The Energy circulates. The point of light, the product of the labors of the Four, waxeth and groweth. The myriads gather round its glowing warmth until its light recedes. Its fire grows dim. Then shall the second sound go forth.

1. Its radiation or warmth,
2. Its active vibration,
3. Its sound or note,
4. Its light.

Sound, light, vibration, and the form blend and merge, and thus the work is one. It proceedeth under the law, and naught can hinder now the work from going forward. The man breathes deeply. He concentrates his forces, and drives the thought-form from him.

• First.   By an unconscious recollection