AGNI - Way Of Fire

SECTION TWO - STUDY

Chapter Two - The Macrocosm

Fire is not an element but a divine thing. Fire is Divinity in its subjective presence throughout the universe.
(The Esoteric Writings of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, pp.461-2)

Agni has a particular relationship to the cosmic mental plane but his activity is not confined to this plane. He is the pervasive Life behind the whole of the solar manifestation—it is this Life which coheres the three solar systems in time and the three lower cosmic planes in space. He synthesises all lesser lives within the solar ring-pass-not.

In order to grasp something of the synthetic nature of this being we must step outside our linear developmental view of the planes and the systems. We are used to thinking of the three solar systems as evolving over time—the first system is past, we are just past the middle of the second system and the third system is in the future. And so they are, manasically considered. And yet they all exist at once, now. This is the buddhic perspective. The hierarchical lives that function on the planes progress sequentially, mastering the system subplane by subplane. And so they do. And yet their essential nature is fire—that fire which is also the planes which they are mastering and the reason behind their intent.
The paradox is that when we stand in the Presence of this—our God who is a consuming fire—all distinctions are experientially lost and yet there they are, laid out before us in exquisite order.

DK gives a wonderful definition of the intuition as “the applied power of transfiguration”. (GWP, p.171) Transfiguration is simultaneously the infusion of the personality with the life of the soul and the liberation of identity from the personality. Outside the personality the soul is able to see clearly into the personality because it no longer has any confusion between the self and the not-self.
We do not seek through understanding to go deeper into manas, we seek to release ourselves from it through revelation as to its true nature. This revelation simultaneously frees us from the manasic perspective and allows the intuitive faculty to work more powerfully from our essential nature.
Let us begin by examining Agni as a unity in ‘space’.

He is not the solar Logos on the cosmic mental plane, for the egoic consciousness of the Logos is more than His physical manifestation, but Agni is the sumtotal of that portion of the logoic Ego which is reflected down into His physical vehicle; He is the life of the logoic Personality, with all that is included in that expression. (TCF, p.603)

In Figure 20 we can begin by viewing through the lens of the Seventh Ray (violet spheres) and Agni reveals himself as a three-fold being, each of which has a seven-fold division:

• On the cosmic mental plane He is the ‘seven spirits before the throne’ or “the seventongued power of the Will” to quote Aurobindo. (Hymns to the Mystic Fire: The Doctrine of the Mystics: Commentary on the Rig Veda.)
• On the cosmic astral plane He is the seven Heavenly Men, the seven rays of Light.
• On the cosmic physical plane He is the seven ‘sons of fohat’ the great deva lords of the planes.

When viewed through the duality-creating lens of the Sixth Ray, Agni reveals himself as two-fold (the two light blue circles). I call these divisions Agnishiva and Agnishakti. The lower sphere links the cosmic astral body with the etheric/physical resulting in desire for form life. The higher sphere creates a form of cosmic kama-manas or aspiration for the soul.
When viewed in terms of the Fifth Ray we see the synthetic orange sphere of Agni as the solar personality. It is important to remember that Agni himself is the Third or Brahmic Aspect of a higher trinity that includes the solar soul and solar monad. In a sense, Agni wields the Fifth cosmic Ray which is how he is able to permeate the whole of the lower three planes.
When we sum the spheres of Agni we get the following:

Agni as a unity 1
Agni as a duality 2
Agni as a triplicity 3
Agni as seven-fold Will 7
Agni as seven-fold psyche 7
Agni as seven-fold form 7
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Total 27

There are in fact 27 Laws of Fire (TCF, p.427)—one perhaps for each manifestation of this God of Fire.
Now let us briefly consider Agni as a unity in ‘time’ as he expresses himself through the three solar systems.
In System One he is building his forms of manifestation. He is attracting to himself those atoms of substance that carry a vibration with which he can work to eventually fulfil his Purpose and evolve these lesser lives as a result.

In System Two he is developing his Love or sentient nature in two directions—through the solarisation of the etheric/physical body and the development of his capacity to respond to the Will.
In System Three he is developing his Will nature so that he will simultaneously be able to transfigure the lower three cosmic planes and liberate himself from them at the same time.
These processes are sequential and yet can be seen operating together in the ‘eternal now’ of the present.
The first solar system is present in the very vehicles we are attempting to work through and manifests its influence as karma. The third solar system is present in all that is not yet manifested and we respond to its call as ‘destiny’.
The best way to get a sense of this is to use the microcosm, man as an analogy. A human being is trying to work out his soul ‘vision’ through the current mechanism with which he is karmically connected. From time to time as a result of the stress of the process, unresolved psychological issues emerge from the past, from the very substance of the unconscious, to be dealt with. At other times the future calls him so strongly that he is able to move forward at great pace. It is a dynamic process experienced in the present.
While Agni is the very substance of the three cosmic worlds it does not mean that he is connected in ‘consciousness’ with all the lesser fires of his manifestation. There are elements of his own nature that are unconscious to him as well as elements that are superconscious. Thus it is also for man.

Some idea of the dynamic nature of the process can be grasped by considering that which is unconscious to the solar personality. We come up directly against an uncomfortable fact. We are unconscious to him. At least that is until after the Third Initiation. As units of solar consciousness trapped within the three lower worlds of the cosmic physical plane, we collectively form no more of a principle to him than our physical bodies do to us. We do not participate in his sentient nature when we are not conscious upon the cosmic etheric planes.
The higher three subplanes of the mental plane form a bridge of light between his unconscious and conscious nature. This bridge also enables him to increase his penetration into these worlds—usually required when he becomes aware of a pocket of resistance to the unfoldment of his Purpose.
On Earth we are in effect ‘behind the Life wave’. Along with Saturn and Mars, we experience the ‘pain of rebellion’ resulting from a refusal to move on and let go of what we are attached to—namely the three worlds.
There are still a large proportion of Third Ray monads working through their karma on Earth—they are called the “failures” of System One (TCF, p.578). Their work was to complete the mastery of the five lower planes of the cosmic physical plane primarily through the exercise of the Creative Intelligence aspect of deity. Similarly many of those stepping on to the Path now are those who individualised on the Moon chain—the time and place of a similar failure to complete the mastery of the lower three worlds.
Closer to home, the lives that make up our bodies are also termed the “failures” of System One:

The work of building forms will never be understood till the true function of the etheric body is realised. It is the attractive agent for those lives which are so low an order as to be occultly inert. These lives, which are not included in the list of hierarchies, are acted upon by the sixth and seventh groups and by the energy emanating from them. They are stirred from the inertia in which they have rested, and are driven to take their place, and to form the concrete vehicles of all that is. They are the lowest manifestation of that which is abstract; they are the densest concretion of Spirit; they are the failures of the system preceding this, and their failure is so complete (from the standpoint of consciousness) that all the response they can make to the positive vibration of the seventh Hierarchy is simply to be attracted. They can be occultly drawn into place but only at the close of this solar system will they be in a condition to pass into and become the seventh Hierarchy of the next solar system. (TCF, p.1210)

If we apply this thinking on cosmic planes we discover ourselves to be the equivalent of inert matter able only to be attracted to the seventh cosmic Hierarchy operating on the cosmic etheric planes and being built into the form nature by our capacity to respond.
The goal for that which is not a principle is that it shall become a vital principle through the play of energy upon it. We are dealing here with that mysterious something which has been called “the refuse of that which earlier was seen” (TCF, p.1210-11) with that latent energy which hid the lowest vibration of the system before ours, and which was so heavy and so inert as to be regarded beyond the ken of the Logos. He was unaware of it, and the object before these peculiar lives which live (and yet are occultly dead) is that they must force themselves into the range of his conscious control by response to those lives which are consciously directed by Him, and who are therefore, the Saviours of the lowest.
Perhaps this lies behind the prevalent view in those that have developed the Intelligence principle to a large degree but not yet balanced it with Love. This view is that God has abandoned man. Further those who tend towards cynicism in the intelligentsia might add ‘if He ever existed in the first place.’
This is a human-centric position that has some truth but can equally be balanced by the alternate view that man has abandoned God. And God might add ‘if he ever existed’ as we slip beneath his consciousness!

The previous solar system was not marked only by failure. The harvest of this system were the five liberated Hierarchies who now function upon the cosmic astral plane. Having mastered the lower five planes of the cosmic physical plane they are now both in a position to help those lives who are currently working there, as well as karmically responsible for the quality of material which is to be found there. The cosmic physical plane has become for them a field of expression, of service and of completion.
In the current system the Logos is developing his Love nature. In the first half of the second or middle system the astral nature is related to the cosmic physical plane through the ‘shakti’ nature of Agni. In the second half of the system the logoic astral nature is related to the cosmic mental plane through the action of the ‘shiva’ nature of Agni.

During the second system, a Planetary Logos masters one subplane of the cosmic astral plane with each round of his scheme. The Logos of Venus has mastered the third subplane and is working on the second. The Logos of Earth is currently undergoing the Fourth Initiation on the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral plane. This Fourth Initiation is really the fourth sub-initiation of Air which will culminate in the Second cosmic Initiation taken on the third subplane of the cosmic astral plane in the next or fifth round of the scheme. Venus has already taken this Second cosmic Initiation and is therefore a sacred planet and able to assist Earth in the initiatory process.

The polarisation of the Logos of Earth on the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral is reflected in the fact that the majority of humans are polarised on the fourth subplane of the systemic astral plane and that ‘graduation’ from the Earth School takes place on the third subplane of the astral plane. We will achieve this en masse when the Planetary Logos achieves and vice versa.
We can see the importance of this fourth sub-initiation to our Logos when we see that it marks the shift of emphasis from the shakti to the shiva nature of the Solar Logos. These are the equivalent on the cosmic astral plane to the Spirit and Matter aspects that the initiate stands between at the Fourth Initiation on the cosmic physical plane. Will our planetary God be able to lift his desire nature from its focus on the outer plane of manifestation represented by the three worlds to the planetary soul represented by the causal body on the cosmic mental plane?

We might obtain some insight into the timing of this process of planetary initiation. We know that a Planetary Logos is the Logos of a scheme. If that scheme is to take the Second cosmic Initiation it is likely to do so in the fifth round and on the fifth chain. In the fourth round on the fourth chain therefore we should expect to see the completion of the fourth sub-initiation or the initiation of Air which represents mastery of the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral.
We would expect this to take place in the fifth subrace of the fifth Rootrace, ie. now. The reasoning for this is as follows:
A man is a Master when he takes the First cosmic Initiation on the third subplane of the cosmic physical plane, the atmic plane, and becomes a Master of the five lower planes.
It is likely that this initiation ‘takes place’ upon the third subplane of the atmic plane because:

a) This subplane is where ‘all knowledge’ is developed. (TCF, p.188)

b) It is where merging with monadic consciousness takes place. (TCF, p.582)

c) Two thirds of humanity must achieve in this world cycle. (R&I, p.111). The third subplane of the atmic represents the two-thirds point of the cosmic physical plane counting from below up. 2/3 x 7 = 4.666

A Heavenly Man masters one subplane of the cosmic astral plane with each round (TCF, p.291). Venus is in the fifth round as a scheme, and Earth is in the fourth (TCF, p.368). In the fourth round the emphasis of the incarnating Logos is on the fourth globe, our Earth. Mastery of this fourth globe is therefore likely to occur at the two-thirds point, ie. the fifth subrace of the fifth Rootrace. Here we can expect the externalisation of the Hierarchy as the Logos expresses ‘soul control’. An alternative view would be that a smaller initiation is taking place now and that the sub-initiation of Air occurs in the fifth chain round of the fourth chain and therefore on the Mercury globe. This is a ‘chain judgement day’, with the scheme judgement day occurring in the fifth scheme round on the Mercury globe of the Mercury chain.
This scheme judgement day is likely to mark the taking of the Second cosmic Initiation.

Whether our Logos is currently undergoing the fourth sub-initiation or the fourth sub of the fourth sub, the principle is the same. Now is the time when the battle of Atlantis that marked the midpoint of the fourth round is brought to its conclusion. The forces of Light must demonstrate their mastery, and this mastery must become the foundation for a new cycle of growth leading eventually to the mastery of the cosmic astral plane and the Second cosmic Initiation. At this point our Earth will become a sacred planet in the technical sense.
Interestingly, from the point of view of the Planetary Logos, the withdrawal of Hierarchy from the physical plane at the height of the War in Atlantis may have been seen as a successful attempt to abstract his love/desire nature from the three worlds.
Fortunately with the passing out of the Sixth Ray we may be able to drop the whole phraseology of success or failure and see events in the unfoldment of the solar system from a more detached view—as an interesting and dynamic process resulting from the exercise of free will by units within the ring-pass-not. The result of these choices has consequences that can be viewed from a variety of different contextual angles.

In Figure 21 we have a more detailed picture of Agni. I have taken the liberty of continuing the signs and rulers up from the cosmic astral plane as per Esoteric Astrology page 34, reversing Sagittarius and Capricorn in the higher spheres. Whether it is legitimate to extend the signs upwards I do not know, but it does produce some interesting observations. Gemini rules the first subplane of the cosmic mental plane where the causal body of the Solar Logos is found, thus ‘the head of the cosmic Christ’. (See EA, p.348) Earth thus rules the first subplane, with the Sun ruling the third subplane where the causal body of the Planetary Logos is found. The relationship between these two causal bodies is a higher antahkarana. Much of interest can be revealed also through examining the numerical and astrological significance of the subplanes, but that will have to wait for now.

For the present it is useful if we can obtain a sense of Agni as one being who is unfolding through time and space. In the first system the aspect of Intelligence was developed. The result of that development is summed up in the five Kumaras—those liberated Hierarchies on the lower five planes of the cosmic astral plane who are the “returning nirvanis” of the earlier system. (EPII, p.92) The current system which is developing the Love principle is aided by the energy of the five Kumaras pouring in from the cosmic astral plane and carrying with it in its higher octave the energy from the planetary and solar causal bodies. There are five Kumaras because five planes were mastered in the first system, liberation being obtained on the atmic plane. Just as the devic lives of our own etheric body ‘graduate’ to become ‘astral devas’, so the liberated Hierarchies of the first system become the astrally ensouling Hierarchies of the second. In this system liberation is achieved on the monadic plane after mastering six subplanes of the cosmic physical, and in the third system seven subplanes will be the goal. In the third system the five Kumaras continue their evolution on the cosmic mental plane, and those of humanity who achieve liberation will take their place on the cosmic astral plane aiding the evolution of the then humanity on the cosmic physical. When the third system flowers, the antahkarana will be fully built from the solar causal body all the way to the physical plane, and the Solar Logos will then be in a position to take the Third cosmic Initiation. The personality is then an integrated whole in time and space and fused with its soul.

This operation is a clue to the mystery of Makara and the coming of the solar angels to aid Earth humanity. The five fingers of Makara are the liberated Hierarchies from the first system who are in a position to infuse the cosmic ethers with the Love principle derived from the love petals of the causal body of the Solar Logos or the ‘heart of the Sun’. They are synthesised through the Third Ray and act as an astral throat chakra that is fast becoming an astral heart chakra due to the achievement of Venus on the second subplane of the cosmic astral.
As we know, these Hierarchies are not entirely liberated. The fifth or Cancer Hierarchy is still in the process of freeing itself from the cosmic physical plane. This whole mystery is revealed at the Third Initiation; but I can give some further clues that are worthy of consideration:
The most important key to this mystery is the inner realisation through identification, that we ARE these returning nirvanis, or rather, form an integral part of them.

The sacrifice of the solar angels brought the fourth kingdom in nature into being. The "returning nirvanis" (as they are called in esoteric literature), with deliberation and full understanding, took human bodies in order to raise those lower forms of life nearer to the goal. These were and are ourselves. The "Lords of Knowledge and Compassion and of ceaseless persevering Devotion" (who are ourselves) chose to die in order that lesser lives might live, and this sacrifice has made possible the evolution of the indwelling consciousness of Deity. (EPII, p.92)

It is therefore true that we are both the failures of an early system AND the saviours who have come to redeem them and atone with God.
We utilise the very capacity to identify which has allowed us to fuse with our lower selves to allow us to remember our higher selves. We remember our mission to Earth as our very own boddhisattvas! We fuse the first and second solar systems in ourselves.
To explain this further I need to draw some analogies—activating this Law of Relative Identity. Our challenge is to understand something of the nature of Agni’s operation on the three lower cosmic planes when our experience of Agni is restricted to the cosmic physical, and somewhat limited even on this!
Let us consider the three synthesising planets—Uranus, Neptune and Saturn. In a certain way these three planets can be related to the three levels of the Solar Logoic causal body and synthesise all life in the three lower cosmic planes into the Son. They relate to the three higher subplanes of the cosmic mental. However, when considering the Logoic personality as a whole we might say that Uranus relates to the whole of the comic mental plane, Neptune to the cosmic astral and Saturn to the cosmic physical. When considering the cosmic physical plane alone we might relate Uranus to the higher three planes, Neptune to the middle three and Saturn to the lower three.

Figure 22 illustrates this using three colours to represent the three Aspects of divine expression operating in different parts of manifestation. Synthesis is only possible because it already exists—indeed forms the basis for existence—and these three are in reality one.
So, on the cosmic physical plane we might consider the planets Mercury, Venus and Earth as the representatives of this primary three within the cosmic physical plane.

The glyphs make this apparent. The upper circle of Mercury is bisected as the monadic or sixth plane is the goal of this system. The Third Initiation is taken on the mental plane and fuses the Second and Third Aspects. The Fifth Initiation of Mastery is taken on the atmic plane and fuses the first and second planets. The full depth of the role of Mercury in the path of initiation has yet to be revealed, and rightly so, as we are still legitimately focused upon Venus. A hint towards the role of Mercury lies in the fact that we are not only our own boddhisattva, but our own buddha as well.

In the second or Love system we have a situation on the cosmic physical plane where there is the lack of a bridge or connecting principle between the monad and the personality—the Will of God and the material substance which had been developed through the action of the the Kumaras in the first system.
Enter the solar angels during the third cycle on the fourth chain. They are us. We are them. And yet we are not only them, and we are only them for a while in time and space. They enter from the cosmic astral plane via the second and third cosmic ethers. They are—we are—the extension of Vishnu into Brahma, Neptune poured into Saturn, Venus come to Earth.

The heart is a centre, not only distributing Love but also Will, and we are this also, as well as being the objects that we Will-to-Love. The human Hierachy as the central Hierarchy on the cosmic physical plane has to unify the three Aspects of our own being.
It is important to realise here that identity is both relative and composite in time and space. We are truly only ‘human’ in the sense of being identified with the Fourth Heirarchy for the period of time between the Third and Fourth Initiations when we have our ‘home’ or locus of indentity on the buddhic plane. Prior to this we ‘are’ the Seventh, Sixth and Fifth Hierarchies, and afterwards the First, Second and Third. The Fifth Ray allows us to identify with three Hierarchies at once, and through triangulation shift our identity from one to the other. Remember that I am defining a plane or deva as intelligent but unselfconscious, a Hierarchy as self-conscious, a ray as ‘group conscious’ and a Logos as God-conscious. On our way to identifying with God we must pass through the other levels.

As extensions of the Love of God from the Heavenly Men on the cosmic astral plane then, our job is to bridge between the monad and personality with the eventual aim of synthesising all three in our consciousness so that what lies behind them can be realised. It is a truism in occultism that we cannot become that which we are not already. We must be God realising himself, otherwise we would be inherently separate from God. We identify with the soul because we are it. We indentify with the monad because we are it. We choose and take a cosmic path to the cosmic astral plane because we already are it. And we have already walked that path, or one similar to it, on the way IN!
Take time to register this. We are and have always been that which we seek. We are, could we but realise it, the Will of the Solar Logos in manifestation—ie. Agni. It is this realisation in fact that allows some members of Hierarchy to choose with confidence the first Path of Earth Service

Figure 23 illustrates the relationship between the cosmic astral and physical planes, seen as a part of one entity.
What is displayed is in fact a section of the antahkarana created by the dual activity of the solar angels and man, Venus and Mercury, between the highest two subplanes of the cosmic astral and the lowest two subplanes of the cosmic physical. We must remember that only five of the the seven hierarchies in the first system were successful in liberating themselves. Two of the Kumaras ‘fell’, which again connotes ‘failure’ only from a certain point of view. The five liberated Kumaras (or ‘liberating’ because the fifth Hierarchy is not yet entirely free of the logoic plane) are continuing to develop on the cosmic astral plane. The Lord of Venus has mastered the third subplane of the cosmic astral and is now working to develop mastery upon the second. The second subplane is the astral correspondence to the heart centre, and so Venus is able to serve as a distributing agent for this energy within the system. Earth is mastering the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral, working towards the Second cosmic Initiation which will be taken on the third subplane.

Consider now the green and orange circles representing the colours of the previous system and the Third and Fifth Rays. On the cosmic astral plane we have the five Kumaras (green circle) with an expression of Agni (orange circle) in their centre being the fused operating of the Ninth, Tenth and Eleven Hierarchies. (Remember the symbol of the five-pointed star with the triangle in the centre).

There are three signs...which provide the subtle or subjective realities of the will-to-be (Aries), the desire-to-know (Taurus) and the establishment of relationship (Gemini), and these constitute the triple incentive to the manifestation of man and of the human kingdom. (EA, p.320)

Under the Law of Reflective Action the light of these higher planes is reflected through the centre and operates inversely in the lower sphere. Thus the energy of Venus is reflected from the third subplane of the cosmic astral into the fifth subplane of the cosmic physical. The direction of expansion is upwards on the cosmic astral, but the unconscious response of man in the three worlds is allurement downward towards the astral and dense physical planes. Man is in effect the inverted pentagram facing matter and penetrating more deeply into it.

Fortunately there is not only Reflective Action at work but also the passing of consciousness down the antahkarana so that the lower Hierarchies can become self-aware and then choose whether to cooperate by becoming a part of that antahkarana.

The green and blue lines in Figure 23 represent pathways through the planes that this consciousness takes. The green line of Venus (—the solar angels are Love, yes, but loving mind—) moves from the third subplane of the cosmic astral to the fifth subplane, to the atmic plane, to the mental plane. Consider the astrological rulerships of this line. Venus is exalted in Pisces and a ruler on one level of Taurus, Libra and Capricorn. Pluto the ruler of Pisces is brought into relationship with Venus, the ruler of Capricorn. The solar angels leave the Father’s house, under law, and descend to retrieve their reflected light.
The blue line is the Mercury alignment and descends from the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral, via the sixth, to the monadic plane and thence to the buddhic. Mercury rules each of the four signs involved—Aries, Gemini (which remember is ruled by Mercury, Venus and Earth), Virgo and Scorpio. This line brings the energy of Uranus, hierarchical ruler of Aries, into relationship with Mercury, hierarchical ruler of Scorpio. The human Hierarchy ‘awakens’ to ‘Life’. The Tibetan has this to say about Mercury:

Mercury, the Messenger of the Gods, carries to humanity a certain type of force and this precipitates a point of crisis; it brings about the next great revolution which will lead mankind on to new experience, and to the revelation of the divinity which it is the destiny of man to reveal. (EA, p.549)

Initiated man is the combination of two Hierarchies—the divine hermaphrodite created from the union of Mercury and Venus, the Fourth and Fifth Hierarchies. These are the energies involved in building the antahkarana because we ARE the antahkarana.
Two astrological triangles are involved:

Gemini is the linking energy. This sign is ruled by Mercury, Venus and Earth—the three energies we are considering that need to be brought into right relationship on the cosmic physical plane. When we consider too that Gemini rules the Fourth Hierarchy (counting from above down), we deepen our penetration into the mystery of the origin of man.

Returning to Figure 23 we must now focus on the red line that represents the sushumna thread of this antahkarana. It links three crucifixions—that of our Planetary Logos on the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral, the Fifth Hierachy, and the Ninth (or Fourth) Hierarchy who is ourselves as we approach the Fourth Degree. It was at the Fourth Initiation that Jesus on the buddhic plane was overshadowed by the Christ on the monadic. The link then extended to Sanat Kumara (consider the central point of Figure 23 as a crown chakra), and thence to the Planetary Logos polarised upon the fourth subplane of the cosmic astral. Thus a great alignment of Will took place.

[The Christ] established for the first time in planetary history a contact between the Hierarchy, Humanity, Shamballa and the Spirit of Peace in His Own high place... in the words: "Father, not my will but Thine be done," thus carrying the thought up to the highest plane for He addressed the Father, the first Aspect of Divinity. He then focussed in Himself the two major divine attributes and aspects—will and love...—and because of this, His consciousness became extra-planetary as is the consciousness of the Lord of the World, and He could then touch certain heights of awareness and contact certain solar Agencies which had never before been contacted by man. (Externalisation, pp.161-2)

The education of humanity regarding the science of the antahkarana, both personal and planetary, is crucial to solar evolution. Unenlightened in this regard, man is drawn deeper and deeper into the three worlds which are not a solar principle. Now this in itself is not bad—because man, regardless of his confusion IS the light of the soul and therefore of the Sun, and is thus enlightening matter. It is not the descent of man’s consciousness that causes so much of the problem—it is the fall of his identity.
The cosmic antahkarana allows man’s identity to gradually shift up the planes while his consciousness is able to penetrate further into their depths. The externalisation of the Hierarchy, consciously undertaken, is an example of this on a large scale.

It is Christ’s ability to reach up into the extra-planetary spheres which also gives him the power to fully externalise on the physical plane.
When the Solar Logos is able to demonstrate full mastery of the cosmic physical plane he will have solarised the matter in his ring-pass-not and carried out his Purpose. At that time, the Third cosmic Initiation having been taken, he will abstract his focus into higher spheres.
Agni, as Lord of the Fifth cosmic Ray, is only one aspect of the Solar Logoic triad. He is the loving intelligence of God extended to his creation. Consider this definition of a solar angel:

...those agents who pass the life of God through their bodies of flame as it descends from the higher into the lower, and again as it ascends from the lower into the higher. (TCF, p.698)

We can equally apply it to Agni in the cosmic sense. He provides the coherent sacrificial fiery sheath that allows the Life of the Logos, emanating from cosmic monadic levels, to descend into manifestation and re-ascend into obscuration.
Agni is a cosmic solar angel whose loving sacrifice allows all within the lower three cosmic planes to ‘Live’.
Just as in a planetary sense the solar angels are related to Venus, in a cosmic sense Agni is related to Sirius, which is why the Sirian influence is felt strongly at the Third Degree.
Sanat Kumara is a disciple of the Solar Logos. The Lord of Venus is a disciple of the Sirian Logos.
Venus is to our Earth what Sirius is to our Sun. The Lord of Venus has taken the Second cosmic Initiation and is helping the Lord of Earth to do likewise—to graduate on the third subplane of the cosmic astral.
The Logos of Sirius has already taken the Third cosmic Initiation and is helping our Solar Logos to do likewise—to fuse his triad with his personality and thereby liberate his identity from the three lower cosmic planes.
Just as Venus forms the bridge in consciousness between Mercury and Earth, so Sirius performs the same function between the Great Bear and The Pleiades.

Fourth Dimensional Movement through a Sphere

The building of a conscious antahkarana as illustrated in Figure 23 brings each of the three fires into play—the rotary motion of fire by friction, the spiral cyclic motion of solar fire and the straight line motion of electric fire.
These three fires are one however—three Aspects of a single reality which is revealed on the fourth plane of any system. This fourth energy must be able to permeate the whole of the system even though it remains unrecognised in consciousness until the antahkarana is completed. It is this mechanism that lies behind the truth that at the heart of each and every atom lives cosmic buddhi.
This fourth ‘flow’ of energy predates all of the other three and yet is only revealed when the other three have completed their work. It is in fact the instinctual reaction to the pre-existing flow of this fourth energy which provides the blueprint for the building of the antahkarana via the other three. This fourth flow is connected to the fourth quality of deity and can be represented by the point or eye within the triangle of the three fires.

In simple terms this fourth flow of energy links the centre of any sphere directly to the centre of the larger sphere of which it is a part. (For technical details concerning the nature of this flow try James Perkins’ The Geometry of Space. For the discussion of the fourth dimension as ‘permeability’—see The Secret Doctrine).

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