EARTH - VENUS - MERCURY
THE
ESOTERIC TRIANGLE
Ray III .Earth...........Positive
Ray V. Venus...........Opposite. Negatively
polarized
Ray IV. Mercury ....Complimentary, "the third"
& dominant
KEYNOTE QUOTES:
Ponder on this. It is the energies of the
fifth, fourth and third rays, pouring through Venus, Mercury and the Earth,
which are productive of the eternally recurring, divine triplicity and its work
of releasing the soul from the influence of form. (DK)
Finally, the student should very carefully
study here the significance of the numbers three, four and five in the
evolution of consciousness. Numerology has hitherto been studied primarily, and
rightly, from the substance aspect, but not so much from the standpoint of
conscious energy. [TCF695]
To sum up: There is a stage in the
evolution of consciousness where the three, the four and the five blend and
merge perfectly. [TCF696]
He manipulates planetary force of a triple
nature:
a. That
which is the product of his own planet, and the most easily available.
b. That
which emanates from the polar opposite of our planet.
c. That
which can be felt originating from that planet which forms, with our earth and its opposite, the esoteric
triangle. [TCF1023]
When men, for instance, know
* The
quality of the force flowing through their particular scheme;
* The
purpose and name of the center they stand within;
* The
center or Heavenly Man with Whom the Logos of their
scheme is allied;
* Which
two schemes form, with their own, a triangle for logoic
force at a certain stage of evolutionary development;
* The
secret of the cycles, or the periods of stimulation or obscuration;
then will the body logoic
begin to achieve its purpose; then will
the Logos of our system begin to blend and merge and coordinate all His
vehicles; then will the force flow through all the centers
unimpeded; and then will the glory shine out, and each cell in every body - logoic, planetary, deva and
human, blaze forth with perfected glory, vibrate with adjusted accuracy, and a
major cosmic initiation be taken.[TCF360]
For instance, an adept can work with forms
and force within the ring-pass-not of his own planetary Logos within the three
worlds, within the ring-pass-not of the polar opposite of his Logos, or within
the ring-pass-not of three planetary Logoi who form a
systemic triangle. He cannot exhibit this power in the higher planes nor within
the spheres of the synthesizing and neutral schemes.[TCF451]
TECHNICAL REFERENCES:
First, that each Heavenly Man holds the
position of a center in the body of a solar Logos;
therefore, the Logos of a scheme will embody some outstanding characteristic.
The ten schemes are the seven, and the synthesizing three - not the seven and a
lower three. The lower centers were vital in the last
solar system (from the esoteric standpoint), and are not counted in this; they
were synthesized and absorbed during the obscuration process of System I.
Secondly, each Heavenly Man is consequently
the embodiment of a particular kind of electrical force which flows through His
scheme as man's force flows through some one of the etheric
centers in his body. Each scheme, as each human center, will
a. Vibrate
to some one key.
b. Have
its own coloring.
c. Resemble,
when seen from the higher planes, a vast lotus.
d. Possess,
according to its vibratory capacity, a definite number of petals.
e. Be
connected in geometrical formation with certain other centers
of Heavenly Men, making systemic triangles.
The planetary lotuses differ in each scheme
and one of the secrets of initiation is revealed when the number of petals of:
a. Our
earth planet
b. Our
planetary polar opposite
c. Our
complementary equilibrizing planet
is committed to the initiate." (C.F. 1018)
There is, first of all, the attractive pull
of the Life of the planetary Logos of this particular planet. This is
necessarily the strongest and is one of the basic factors which have settled
the lines the human form has taken upon this planet. There are human beings, or
exponents of self-consciousness on other planets, but the forms they utilize
are not the same as ours.
There is next, the attractive pull of the
planetary Logos Who is the complementary Life to that of our Logos. This
involves a planetary Logos responsive to a vibration which harmonizes with that
of our Logos but Who, when in union with Him, forms what might be called
"the Third" or His dominant, as the case may be. It is not possible
to reveal whether the blending of the note will mean that our scheme will
absorb that which expresses the note of another scheme, or vice versa. It means
that somewhere in the solar system is a planetary scheme of some kind (not
necessarily one of the seven or of the ten) which has an interplay with ours
and which, therefore, inevitably affects the egoic
groups. We must note also the fact that - in connection with the expression of
a Heavenly Man - the egoic groups are energy centers and make His dense physical body eventually an
accomplished fact.
Finally, there is the attractive pull of
that planetary scheme which is esoterically regarded as our polar [1191]
opposite. (What is here said has reference to the other schemes, for the law
persists throughout the solar system.)
Just as Venus is negatively polarized to
our Earth scheme, so the seven stars of the Pleiades are negatively polarized
to our seven schemes. The magnitude of the difference may be seen in the fact
that in our case one globe alone was affected, whereas the influence of our
scheme on the Venusian was such that an entire chain was stimulated. This was
brought about through the positive polarity of the Heavenly Man of the Earth
scheme. [TCF328]
What is the purpose lying back of the
relation existing between our Earth and Venus? [TCF566]
Venus is also the Earth's alter ego, as it is
called in the occult literature, and its true supplementary and complementary
planet. [EA361]
Perhaps some idea may be gained if we
remember that, in an occult sense, Venus is to the Earth what the higher Self
is to man.
A clue tending towards the correct understanding
lies hid in the words: "Venus is the Earth's primary." (S.D., II, 33.
I, 323.)
All this activity is intensified by two
facts: one is that the Earth is the hierarchical ruler of Gemini and the other
that Venus is the esoteric ruler. This intensifies all that goes on and leads
to the unfoldment upon our planet of the consciousness of universality - to
which the word "Hierarchy" is the key. Venus is also the Earth's
alter ego, as it is called in the occult literature, and its true supplementary
and complementary planet. You have thus established a double dual relationship:
that of Gemini itself, the two brothers, and that of the Earth and Venus. The
Earth is peculiarly related to the "brother whose light is waning,"
for it is not a sacred planet, as you know, and to that aspect of divinity
which is material or substantial; Venus is closely related to the "brother
whose light grows stronger cycle by cycle" and thus to the soul whose
nature is love. It is this Gemini-Venus situation which lies behind the fact
that our Earth is uniquely the "planet of releasing sorrow and of
purifying pain," the energy producing these releasing factors being
focused through Mercury and Venus upon our Earth. You will see, therefore, the
significance of that triangle of planets [362] (at which I hinted in A Treatise
on Cosmic Fire): the Earth-Venus-Mercury. From certain angles, these are
related to the Personality of our planetary Logos:
1. The
Earth - planetary vital body.
2. Venus
- planetary astral vehicle, or Kama-manas.
3. Mercury
- planetary mind.
The Earth itself is, on a small scale, also
an intermediary or a relating planet, because it is found ruling both Gemini
and Sagittarius and is potent, therefore, only within the line of this dual
relationship, existing between this particular pair of opposites. In the Earth
a great balancing process is going forward between two great streams of cosmic
energy, emanating the one from Sagittarius and the other from Gemini. This
condition, aided and influenced by Mercury and Venus, produces the somewhat
unusual situation in our planet.
The three planets ruling and conditioning
Gemini (through out-drawn activity, though not through their own influence) are
in this third sign effective in constituting this dual sign a working triplicity;
it is the aid they give to our Earth which produces the appearance in form of
the dual energies of soul and the subjective psychic personality. Ponder on
this. It is the energies of the fifth, fourth and third rays, pouring through
Venus, Mercury and the Earth, which are productive of the eternally recurring,
divine triplicity and its work of releasing the soul from the influence of form
The Venusian scheme is - as stated in the
Secret Doctrine (S.D., I. 187. II, 33-36, 626.) - in its fifth and last round;
its humanity is very far ahead of ours in certain particulars, but the
momentous occurrence in the third root-race was due to the following causes,
and not to the factor of the greater advancement of a certain group of human
beings:
First, the Venus Scheme, viewed as a logoic center, is more active
than ours, and therefore its radiatory magnetism is
far more widely spread. [TCF368]
It was the activity of Venus - under the
influence of Gemini - which produced the great crisis of the individualization
when the two kingdoms "approached" each other. Venus, Mercury and the
Earth then set up a magnetic field which made the intervention of the Great
Lodge on Sirius and the dual stimulation of Gemini effective in producing
significant results of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the expression.
The fact that Gemini is the third sign and embodies what is called "a
third potency" enabled it to reach, with its force, the third kingdom and
produce that reaction which resulted in the individualizing or the humanising
of its higher forms of life. You will note that Venus is also the hierarchical
ruler of Capricorn, thus showing the power of the mind and its place and
purpose in connection with both the major human crises: Individualization and
Initiation. [EA355]
c. Mercury, the star of the intuition, or
of transmuted manas, is, at this stage, considered as
the fifth scheme.[TCF370]
In the middle of the fifth round the Logos
of Mercury will, with the Logos of the Venus scheme, and of our Earth, form a
temporary triangle of force. We have here information given that has only been
hinted at hitherto but for which, in this fifth subrace
and in this fourth round, the world is now ready; it holds the solution of the
mystery of this round.[TCF371]
Mercury is the expression of the dual
aspect of the mind as it mediates between the higher and the lower. This
mediation again falls into two stages: the use of the concrete mind as the
mediator within the personality, conditioning the personality life, analyzing and distinguishing between the human self and the
not-self and emphasizing the "me and thou" consciousness as well as
that of the personality and its environment. Secondly, it carries the messages
between the soul and the brain and establishes right relation between the lower
self and the higher self; it is, therefore, the illumined mind, relating soul
and personality. This process of the higher relationship is carried forward
with rapidity upon the Path of Discipleship. There is a third [354] aspect of
Mercury which begins to function when the other two are perfected or in process
of rapid perfecting. Mercury, in this case, is the abstract mind - removed from
all form contact as we understand it - and relates soul and spirit, and this
again in two stages. Mercury is the revealer of the
Spiritual Triad (atma-buddhi-manas or spiritual will,
spiritual love and the higher mind) to the soul, and this carries the disciples
to the stage of the third initiation. It is then the revealer
of the life aspect during the processes of the higher initiations, but upon
these it is not necessary for us to enlarge.
Third. Mercury and Venus are in process of
transmutation, and the manasic principle in both
these schemes, having reached a high stage of development, is being transmuted
into Love-Wisdom. When three fifths of the units (deva
and human) that go to the composition of the vehicles of any planetary Logos
are entering upon the Path, then the process of transmutation is entered upon.
The faculty of MIND is then an instrument for creative use, and not the
"slayer of the real," and a barrier to the free life of the
Spirit.[TCF403]
To continue with our consideration of egoic groups: It might be briefly stated that the egoic groups in connection with our planet may be roughly
grouped according to the stage of lotus organization, as follows:
a. Egos
who were produced through the individualization process in Lemurian
days. They are the Earth humanity, along with the second group.
b. Egos
who have individualized during the Atlantean root-race until the door was shut.
c. Egos
who have "come-in" from the moon chain and who are much more evolved
than the earth humanity.
d. 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:
i. From the scheme embodied by the polar
opposite of our planetary Logos.
ii. 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.
The vortices in each planetary scheme will
be, during evolution, seven. Later, during the period of obscuration, three of
the vortices will approximate their masculine pole and eventually but one will
be left. In man a similar procedure can be seen in connection with his [323] seven
centers during the process of initiation. First there
are seven, then three absorb the lower four through electrical interaction. We
are here viewing the subject wholly from the point of view of our present
discussion. Finally, only the head center is left,
for it is the positive pole to all the others.
This question of the electrical polarity of
the centers is one of real difficulty, and little can
be communicated on the matter. It may be safely pointed out, however, that the
generative organs are the negative pole to the throat center
as is the solar plexus to the heart. The order of the development of the centers, the ray-type and color,
coupled to the fact that during certain stages of the evolutionary process
different centers (such as the base of the spine) are
positive to all the others, not even excluding the head center,
leads to the vast complexity of the subject. Likewise certain of the planetary
schemes are positive and others negative; three of the schemes are dual, both
negative and positive. The same can be predicated anent a solar system, and,
curiously enough, anent the planes themselves. For instance, in connection with
the earth scheme we have a positive polarity of a temporary nature based on the
type of incarnation our particular Heavenly Man is undergoing on our planet. By
this is meant that there are masculine and feminine incarnations undergone by
Heavenly Men as by men, considering the entire subject from the angle of
electrical polarity and not from sex as understood in connection with the
physical body.
Venus is negatively polarized, and hence it
became possible for a mysterious absorption by the Earth of Venusian force.
EARTH - VENUS - MERCURY
As the Old Commentary has it: [EA594]
"He who sees in the dark light of Shamballa penetrates to that which lies beyond our little
sphere to that which can be sensed behind the holy triangle (Venus, Mercury,
the Earth, A.A.B.). These are the holiest three."
THE
ESOTERIC TRIANGLE
Ray III .Earth...........Positive
Ray V. Venus...........Opposite. Negatively
polarized
Ray IV. Mercury ....Complimentary, "the third"
& dominant
Solar Logoic Etheric Centers
Earth.......base of spine...... 777
Mercury...solar plexus ...... 888
Venus......heart...................666
Synthesizing Schemes:
Earth...........Saturn
Venus..........Neptune
Mercury......Uranus
The four schemes which form the logoic Quaternary [406] will merge into their synthesizing
scheme, that of Saturn, while Venus and Mercury will merge into Uranus and
Neptune. No importance need be attached to the sequence of these names. The
dual fact is all that is necessary to grasp.
Neptune, Uranus and Saturn will, therefore,
have absorbed the essence of manifestation and (in connection with the solar
Logos) they correspond to the three permanent atoms in the causal body of a
man. We say "correspond" for the analogy is not in detail. Uranus and
Neptune are reflections of the logoic astral and
mental permanent atoms. Saturn is in fact the correspondence to the logoic physical permanent atom. This is an occult mystery
and must not be separated from its allied truth in the cosmic scheme.
Ponder on this. It is the energies of the
fifth, fourth and third rays, pouring through Venus, Mercury and the Earth,
which are productive of the eternally recurring, divine triplicity and its work
of releasing the soul from the influence of form. (DK)
Finally, the student should very carefully
study here the significance of the numbers three, four and five in the
evolution of consciousness. Numerology has hitherto been studied primarily, and
rightly, from the substance aspect, but not so much from the standpoint of
conscious energy. [TCF695]
To sum up: There is a stage in the
evolution of consciousness where the three, the four and the five blend and
merge perfectly. [TCF696]
From certain angles, these are related to
the Personality of our planetary Logos:
1. The
Earth - planetary vital body.
2. Venus
- planetary astral vehicle, or Kama-manas.
3. Mercury
- planetary mind.
He manipulates planetary force of a triple
nature:
a. That
which is the product of his own planet, and the most easily available.
b. That
which emanates from the polar opposite of our planet.
c. That
which can be felt originating from that planet which forms, with our earth and its
opposite, the esoteric triangle. [TCF1023]
When men, for instance, know
* The
quality of the force flowing through their particular scheme;
* The
purpose and name of the center they stand within;
* The
center or Heavenly Man with Whom the Logos of their
scheme is allied;
* Which
two schemes form, with their own, a triangle for logoic
force at a certain stage of evolutionary development;
* The
secret of the cycles, or the periods of stimulation or obscuration;
then will the body logoic
begin to achieve its purpose; then will
the Logos of our system begin to blend and merge and coordinate all His
vehicles; then will the force flow through all the centers
unimpeded; and then will the glory shine out, and each cell in every body - logoic, planetary, deva and
human, blaze forth with perfected glory, vibrate with adjusted accuracy, and a
major cosmic initiation be taken.[TCF360]
For instance, an adept can work with forms
and force within the ring-pass-not of his own planetary Logos within the three
worlds, within the ring-pass-not of the polar opposite of his Logos, or within
the ring-pass-not of three planetary Logoi who form a
systemic triangle. He cannot exhibit this power in the higher planes nor within
the spheres of the synthesizing and neutral schemes.[TCF451]
"Every sin committed on Earth is felt
in Venus. Every change in Venus is reflected on Earth." (S.D. Vol. II, 35)
(H.P.B.)
In the Earth a great balancing process is
going forward between two great streams of cosmic energy, emanating the one from
Sagittarius and the other from Gemini. This condition, aided and influenced by
Mercury and Venus, produces the somewhat unusual situation in our planet. (DK)
The planetary Logos of this scheme is one
of the four minor Logoi, or Lords of the Rays, and is
specially concerned therefore with the development of one attribute of manas. (DK)
"....there is a relation between Mars
and Pluto analogous to that between Venus and the Earth. Esoterically speaking,
Mars is the alter ego of Pluto; [There has been some speculation on Mars being
the 3rd point of the esoteric triangle with Earth and Venus. This reference
however, re Mars forciably excludes the possibility
of it forming the 3rd point of the triangle with Earth and Venus. The pertinent
question to be asked here is the following: What is the complimentary
planet scheme forming an esoteric
triangle with the Mars and the Pluto schemes?
TECHNICAL REFERENCES:
First, that each Heavenly Man holds the
position of a center in the body of a solar Logos;
therefore, the Logos of a scheme will embody some outstanding characteristic.
The ten schemes are the seven, and the synthesizing three - not the seven and a
lower three. The lower centers were vital in the last
solar system (from the esoteric standpoint), and are not counted in this; they
were synthesized and absorbed during the obscuration process of System I.
Secondly, each Heavenly Man is consequently
the embodiment of a particular kind of electrical force which flows through His
scheme as man's force flows through some one of the etheric
centers in his body. Each scheme, as each human center, will
a. Vibrate
to some one key.
b. Have
its own coloring.
c. Resemble,
when seen from the higher planes, a vast lotus.
d. Possess,
according to its vibratory capacity, a definite number of petals.
e. Be
connected in geometrical formation with certain other centers
of Heavenly Men, making systemic triangles.
The planetary lotuses differ in each scheme
and one of the secrets of initiation is revealed when the number of petals of:
a. Our
earth planet
b. Our
planetary polar opposite
c. Our
complementary equilibrizing planet
is committed to the initiate." (C.F. 1018)
There is, first of all, the attractive pull
of the Life of the planetary Logos of this particular planet. This is
necessarily the strongest and is one of the basic factors which have settled
the lines the human form has taken upon this planet. There are human beings, or
exponents of self-consciousness on other planets, but the forms they utilize are
not the same as ours.
There is next, the attractive pull of the
planetary Logos Who is the complementary Life to that of our Logos. This
involves a planetary Logos responsive to a vibration which harmonizes with that
of our Logos but Who, when in union with Him, forms what might be called
"the Third" or His dominant, as the case may be. It is not possible
to reveal whether the blending of the note will mean that our scheme will
absorb that which expresses the note of another scheme, or vice versa. It means
that somewhere in the solar system is a planetary scheme of some kind (not
necessarily one of the seven or of the ten) which has an interplay with ours
and which, therefore, inevitably affects the egoic
groups. We must note also the fact that - in connection with the expression of
a Heavenly Man - the egoic groups are energy centers and make His dense physical body eventually an
accomplished fact.
Finally, there is the attractive pull of
that planetary scheme which is esoterically regarded as our polar [1191]
opposite. (What is here said has reference to the other schemes, for the law
persists throughout the solar system.)
Just as Venus is negatively polarized to
our Earth scheme, so the seven stars of the Pleiades are negatively polarized
to our seven schemes. The magnitude of the difference may be seen in the fact
that in our case one globe alone was affected, whereas the influence of our
scheme on the Venusian was such that an entire chain was stimulated. This was
brought about through the positive polarity of the Heavenly Man of the Earth
scheme. [TCF328]
What is the purpose lying back of the
relation existing between our Earth and Venus? [TCF566]
Venus is also the Earth's alter ego, as it is
called in the occult literature, and its true supplementary and complementary
planet. [EA361]
Venus corresponds to the heart center in the body logoic, and
has an interrelationship therefore with all the other centers
in the solar system wherein the heart aspect is the one of greater prominence.
[TCF182]
"Light comes through Venus who
receives a triple supply and gives one-third to the Earth.
a. Therefore
the two are called 'twin sisters.'
b. The
spirit of the Earth is subservient to Venus." (S.D. Vol. II, 33)
4. "Venus
is the most occult, powerful and mysterious of all the planets.
a. Its
relation with the Earth is the most prominent.
b. It
presides over the natural generation of men.
c. It
is called the 'other sun.'
d. It
is the Earth's primary or spiritual prototype."
Perhaps some idea may be gained if we
remember that, in an occult sense, Venus is to the Earth what the higher Self
is to man.
A clue tending towards the correct
understanding lies hid in the words: "Venus is the Earth's primary."
(S.D., II, 33. I, 323.)
All this activity is intensified by two
facts: one is that the Earth is the hierarchical ruler of Gemini and the other
that Venus is the esoteric ruler. This intensifies all that goes on and leads
to the unfoldment upon our planet of the consciousness of universality - to
which the word "Hierarchy" is the key. Venus is also the Earth's
alter ego, as it is called in the occult literature, and its true supplementary
and complementary planet. You have thus established a double dual relationship:
that of Gemini itself, the two brothers, and that of the Earth and Venus. The
Earth is peculiarly related to the "brother whose light is waning,"
for it is not a sacred planet, as you know, and to that aspect of divinity
which is material or substantial; Venus is closely related to the "brother
whose light grows stronger cycle by cycle" and thus to the soul whose
nature is love. It is this Gemini-Venus situation which lies behind the fact
that our Earth is uniquely the "planet of releasing sorrow and of
purifying pain," the energy producing these releasing factors being
focused through Mercury and Venus upon our Earth. You will see, therefore, the
significance of that triangle of planets [362] (at which I hinted in A Treatise
on Cosmic Fire): the Earth-Venus-Mercury. From certain angles, these are related
to the Personality of our planetary Logos:
1. The
Earth - planetary vital body.
2. Venus
- planetary astral vehicle, or Kama-manas.
3. Mercury
- planetary mind.
The Earth itself is, on a small scale, also
an intermediary or a relating planet, because it is found ruling both Gemini
and Sagittarius and is potent, therefore, only within the line of this dual
relationship, existing between this particular pair of opposites. In the Earth
a great balancing process is going forward between two great streams of cosmic
energy, emanating the one from Sagittarius and the other from Gemini. This
condition, aided and influenced by Mercury and Venus, produces the somewhat
unusual situation in our planet.
The three planets ruling and conditioning
Gemini (through out-drawn activity, though not through their own influence) are
in this third sign effective in constituting this dual sign a working
triplicity; it is the aid they give to our Earth which produces the appearance
in form of the dual energies of soul and the subjective psychic personality.
Ponder on this. It is the energies of the fifth, fourth and third rays, pouring
through Venus, Mercury and the Earth, which are productive of the eternally
recurring, divine triplicity and its work of releasing the soul from the
influence of form
The Venusian scheme is - as stated in the
Secret Doctrine (S.D., I. 187. II, 33-36, 626.) - in its fifth and last round;
its humanity is very far ahead of ours in certain particulars, but the
momentous occurrence in the third root-race was due to the following causes,
and not to the factor of the greater advancement of a certain group of human
beings:
First, the Venus Scheme, viewed as a logoic center, is more active
than ours, and therefore its radiatory magnetism is
far more widely spread. [TCF368]
It was the activity of Venus - under the
influence of Gemini - which produced the great crisis of the individualization
when the two kingdoms "approached" each other. Venus, Mercury and the
Earth then set up a magnetic field which made the intervention of the Great
Lodge on Sirius and the dual stimulation of Gemini effective in producing
significant results of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the expression.
The fact that Gemini is the third sign and embodies what is called "a third
potency" enabled it to reach, with its force, the third kingdom and
produce that reaction which resulted in the individualizing or the humanising
of its higher forms of life. You will note that Venus is also the hierarchical
ruler of Capricorn, thus showing the power of the mind and its place and
purpose in connection with both the major human crises: Individualization and
Initiation. [EA355]
c. Mercury, the star of the intuition, or
of transmuted manas, is, at this stage, considered as
the fifth scheme.[TCF370]
In the middle of the fifth round the Logos
of Mercury will, with the Logos of the Venus scheme, and of our Earth, form a
temporary triangle of force. We have here information given that has only been
hinted at hitherto but for which, in this fifth subrace
and in this fourth round, the world is now ready; it holds the solution of the
mystery of this round.[TCF371]
Mercury is the expression of the dual
aspect of the mind as it mediates between the higher and the lower. This
mediation again falls into two stages: the use of the concrete mind as the
mediator within the personality, conditioning the personality life, analyzing and distinguishing between the human self and the
not-self and emphasizing the "me and thou" consciousness as well as
that of the personality and its environment. Secondly, it carries the messages
between the soul and the brain and establishes right relation between the lower
self and the higher self; it is, therefore, the illumined mind, relating soul
and personality. This process of the higher relationship is carried forward
with rapidity upon the Path of Discipleship. There is a third [354] aspect of
Mercury which begins to function when the other two are perfected or in process
of rapid perfecting. Mercury, in this case, is the abstract mind - removed from
all form contact as we understand it - and relates soul and spirit, and this
again in two stages. Mercury is the revealer of the
Spiritual Triad (atma-buddhi-manas or spiritual will,
spiritual love and the higher mind) to the soul, and this carries the disciples
to the stage of the third initiation. It is then the revealer
of the life aspect during the processes of the higher initiations, but upon
these it is not necessary for us to enlarge.
Third. Mercury and Venus are in process of
transmutation, and the manasic principle in both
these schemes, having reached a high stage of development, is being transmuted
into Love-Wisdom. When three fifths of the units (deva
and human) that go to the composition of the vehicles of any planetary Logos
are entering upon the Path, then the process of transmutation is entered upon.
The faculty of MIND is then an instrument for creative use, and not the
"slayer of the real," and a barrier to the free life of the
Spirit.[TCF403]
To continue with our consideration of egoic groups: It might be briefly stated that the egoic groups in connection with our planet may be roughly
grouped according to the stage of lotus organization, as follows:
a. Egos
who were produced through the individualization process in Lemurian
days. They are the Earth humanity, along with the second group.
b. Egos
who have individualized during the Atlantean root-race until the door was shut.
c. Egos
who have "come-in" from the moon chain and who are much more evolved
than the earth humanity.
d. 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:
i. From the scheme embodied by the polar
opposite of our planetary Logos.
ii. 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.
The vortices in each planetary scheme will
be, during evolution, seven. Later, during the period of obscuration, three of
the vortices will approximate their masculine pole and eventually but one will
be left. In man a similar procedure can be seen in connection with his [323]
seven centers during the process of initiation. First
there are seven, then three absorb the lower four through electrical
interaction. We are here viewing the subject wholly from the point of view of
our present discussion. Finally, only the head center
is left, for it is the positive pole to all the others.
This question of the electrical polarity of
the centers is one of real difficulty, and little can
be communicated on the matter. It may be safely pointed out, however, that the
generative organs are the negative pole to the throat center
as is the solar plexus to the heart. The order of the development of the centers, the ray-type and color,
coupled to the fact that during certain stages of the evolutionary process
different centers (such as the base of the spine) are
positive to all the others, not even excluding the head center,
leads to the vast complexity of the subject. Likewise certain of the planetary
schemes are positive and others negative; three of the schemes are dual, both
negative and positive. The same can be predicated anent a solar system, and,
curiously enough, anent the planes themselves. For instance, in connection with
the earth scheme we have a positive polarity of a temporary nature based on the
type of incarnation our particular Heavenly Man is undergoing on our planet. By
this is meant that there are masculine and feminine incarnations undergone by
Heavenly Men as by men, considering the entire subject from the angle of
electrical polarity and not from sex as understood in connection with the
physical body.
Venus is negatively polarized, and hence it
became possible for a mysterious absorption by the Earth of Venusian force.
Each of these planetary schemes can be seen
as a lotus having seven major petals, of which each chain forms one petal, but
having also subsidiary petals of a secondary color
according to the nature and karma of the Entity concerned. It is in the
enumeration of these solar lotuses that occult students go astray. It is, for
instance, correct to say that the planetary scheme corresponding to the
microcosmic base of the spine is a fourfold lotus and has, therefore, four
petals. There are four outstanding petals of a peculiar hue, but there are
three of a secondary color, and nine of a tertiary
nature. (To students with intuition the hint here conveyed may reveal the name
of the planet, and the nature of its evolution). [TCF1165]
The Planet Venus
References in The Secret Doctrine and A
Treatise on Cosmic Fire
1. "Venus...
has no satellite... and is far older than the Earth."
(S.D. Vol. I, 180 and Vol. II, 35) [673]
2. Venus
is "the little sun in which the solar orb stores his lights." (S.D.
Vol. II, 27)
3. "Light
comes through Venus who receives a triple supply and gives one-third to the
Earth.
a. Therefore
the two are called 'twin sisters.'
b. The
spirit of the Earth is subservient to Venus." (S.D. Vol. II, 33)
4. "Venus
is the most occult, powerful and mysterious of all the planets.
a. Its
relation with the Earth is the most prominent.
b. It
presides over the natural generation of men.
c. It
is called the 'other sun.'
d. It
is the Earth's primary or spiritual prototype." (S.D. Vol. II, 33-35)
5. "The
planetary Logos of Venus loved the Earth so well that He incarnated and gave it
perfect laws which were disregarded and rejected." (S.D. Vol. II, 38)
6. "Every
sin committed on Earth is felt in Venus. Every change in Venus is reflected on
Earth." (S.D. Vol. II, 35)
7. "Venus...is
the light-bearer of our Earth, in both the physical and mystic sense."
(S.D. Vol. II, 36)
8. "It
is with the Regent of Venus (the planetary Logos) that occult mysticism has to
deal." (S.D. Vol. II, 36)
9. "Humanity
(which appeared in Lemurian days)... is said to be
under the direct influence of Venus." (S.D. Vol. II, 27)
10. "The
sun Sirius, is the source of the Logoic mind (manas) in the same sense as the Pleiades are connected with
the evolution of mind in the seven Heavenly [674] Men and Venus is responsible
for the coming in of mind in the Earth chain." (C. F. 347)
11. "There
is a psychic link between the planetary Logos of Venus and that of our Earth.
a. The
Venus scheme is more active than ours.
b. Its
humanity are more advanced than ours.
c. Its
radiation includes the buddhic plane as far as its
humanity are concerned.
d. It
could therefore open up, through stimulation, the same plane to our Earth
humanity." (C. F. 367)
12. "Venus
is the second or the sixth scheme, according to whether the schemes are counted
mystically or occultly." (C. F. 595)
13. "Venus
is negatively polarized and hence it became possible for a mysterious
absorption by the Earth of Venusian force...the karmic tie between the two
planetary Logoi (one in a positive incarnation and
the other in a negative) caused a planetary alliance. Light flashed
forth." (C. F. 323)
14. "The
Lord of Venus:
a. Holds
place in the Logoic Quaternary.
b. Venus
is in the fifth round and is therefore further progressed than the other
planets." (C. F. 300)
15. "At
the present stage of evolution in the systemic centers
(the planets) Venus, the Earth and Saturn form a triangle of great interest.
a. It
is undergoing vivification.
b. It
is increasing the vibratory capacity of the planetary and individual centers." (C. F. 181) [675]
16. "Venus,
Jupiter and Saturn might be considered from the standpoint of the present time
as the vehicles of the three super or major principles. Mercury, the Earth and
Mars are closely allied to these three but a hidden mystery lies here."
(C. F. 299)
17. "In
the human system, the right eye corresponds with Buddhi
and Mercury and the left eye with manas and
Venus." (S.D. Vol. III, 447 and 458)
18. "In
the middle of the fifth round, the Logos of Mercury will, with the Logos of
Venus, and of our Earth form a temporary triangle of force." (C. F. 371)
19. "Venus
and Jupiter are closely connected with the Earth and form eventually an
esoteric triangle." (C. F. 370)
20. "Venus,
being in the fifth round, had the mind principle coordinated and developed and
four minor mental aspects had been synthesized and the buddhic
aspect was being provided with a means of expression through the medium of the
fifth principle." (C. F. 376)
21. There
are three planetary schemes in... "which manas
is manifested, and two in which already Buddhi is manasically demonstrating. Of these two, Venus is
one..." (C. F. 377)
22. "Venus
is in her last round and has nearly brought the fourth kingdom to perfection."
(C. F. 742)
Mercury is exalted in this sign because the
mother is necessarily ruled by her son, the Son of Mind who is also the Son of
God. Of this son, she is the protector and is responsible for his development
and slowly acquired experience. Mercury, being the Messenger of the Gods and
the Agent of Their applied control, is therefore the agent of the third aspect
(active intelligence) from one point of view, and of the second aspect
(love-wisdom) from another. He is regarded as embodying in himself both these
aspects of the mental principle, the expression of the concrete and the
abstract mind of God. The lower concrete mind was unfolded in the first solar
system and the higher abstract intuitional mind, the pure reason, is unfolding
in this system. Mercury is the synthesis of manas-buddhi,
mind-wisdom which expresses itself through the human soul; Mercury rules the
bridge or the antahkarana.
[EA279]MERCURY - The pupils in this
planetary school are called "The Sons of Aspiration" or "The
Points of Yellow Life." They have a close connection with our Earth
scheme, and the old Commentary refers to this in the words:
"The points of golden flame merge and
blend with the four-leaved plant of tender green, and change its color to a tinge of autumn yellow. The four-leaved plant
through new and fresh [1179] inflow becomes the plant with seven leaves and
three white flowers."
* VENUS
- The School with five strict Grades. This again is a planetary scheme closely
related to ours, but its planetary Logos is in a more advanced group of
students in the cosmic sense than is our planetary Logos. Most of its
hierarchical instructors come from the fifth cosmic plane, and are a peculiar
group of Manasadevas of very exalted rank. They are
each depicted in the archives of our Hierarchy as holding a trident of fire
surmounted by five green emeralds.