EARTH - VENUS - MERCURY COMPILATION SDP

 

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