The Revelation Of A Fourth Quality Of Deity

 Behind the three Qualities of divinity with which we are already familiar, theoretically at least, lies a ‘dawning fourth’ for which the whole development of human culture and civilisation on this planet has been merely a preparation.

 This fourth Revelation will have a definite and planned impact upon the fourth kingdom, that of the Fourth Creative Hierarchy on this, the fourth chain, of the fourth scheme, in a solar system of the fourth order. This planned impact will produce potent results that will not only affect the relationship between the human kingdom and other kingdoms on the planet, but will have repercussions throughout the solar system and beyond.

 This fourth Quality has primarily to do with the relevation of Purpose that is made possible by the evolution of consciousness within time and space. It has a primary relationship to the buddhic plane, just as the other three Qualities (Will, Love and Intelligence) relate to fifth, sixth and seventh planes. Divinity is slowly expressing itself from the top down, and being revealed to us from the bottom up. The first three fundamentals of The Secret Doctrine are related to the higher three planes in the system and reflected in the Qualities of deity expressed on the lower three. On the fourth plane, the fourth Fundamental and the fourth Quality of deity come into direct relationship.

On the buddhic plane divinity clothes itself and begins the process of precipitation into what we call matter. Causal bodies on the higher mental plane are the first expression of this manifestation – they are consciousness ‘fixated’ and imbued with specific purpose – behind them lies the quality of consciousness itself.

 In this fourth round the Quality of the Solar Logos which lies behind the manifestation of the solar system is gradually revealing itself. In the same way, when a man finds the quality of the Heavenly Man with which he is associated on the buddhic plane – so a Solar Logos finds the Quality of his cosmic ashram on the cosmic buddhic plane. He then begins to consciously radiate that Quality throughout his entire system, colouring everything with that Quality. That Quality will be primarily expressed through the Fourth Creative Hierarchy – the human – just as the quality of buddhi is expressed, once the antahkarana has been built, through a man’s etheric centres upon the ethers of the physical plane.

 Thus the fourth kingdom, humanity, is the expression on all the schemes of, first of all a triplicity: Active Intelligence (developed in the last system), Love (developed in this system) and Will (to be developed in the final system). However just as with man, these three Qualities are the ‘vehicles’ for higher qualities. “In that light we shall see light”. (DINAI, p.297) The etheric body is a vehicle for manas – thus the solar systemic ethers are activated by that innate intelligent quality of substance that has been developed in a previous system and will allow, in the next system, the Will of the Solar Logos to operate on the etheric/physical plane. This links the etheric plane with the cosmic mental plane. Similarly, the ethers are also the ‘vehicle’ for cosmic astrality. The desire of the Solar Logos flows through the desire body of the Planetary Logos, and thus through the chakras on the cosmic etheric – the ashrams on the monadic and buddhic planes - and from there shapes the consciousness of lives in the three worlds.

 As our Planetary Logos masters the cosmic astral plane – and he is in a difficult stage in the process of doing so, taking the fourth sub-initiation of the Second cosmic at this time - he will eventually bring his desire body under control so that it becomes expressive of the desire body of the Solar Logos (who is preparing for the Third cosmic Initiation and has thus already mastered his astral vehicle). The desire body of the Solar Logos is already able to reflect cosmic buddhi, and this Quality is expressing through (for example) the Venus Scheme, which has already taken the Second cosmic Initiation. As more of this Quality (a fourth Quality of deity) is expressed through the cosmic astral body of the Earth Scheme, it will be stepped down into the etheric body of the planet (and thus the ashrams) in the following way:

  From the fourth plane of the cosmic planes, the cosmic buddhic, being the cosmic ashramic energy of our Solar Logos (related to one of the Rishis of the Great Bear).

  Through the love petals of the causal body of our Solar Logos.

  To the cosmic astral plane, where it has particular effect through resonance on the fourth subplane. This subplane is home to the Aries Hierarchy, ruled by the planet Uranus.

 To the sixth subplane of the cosmic astral plane, home of the Gemini Hierarchy and ruled hierarchically by the Earth. (As an aside here, the energy also flows into the seventh subplane of the cosmic astral plane, thus aiding in the liberation of the Fifth Hierarchy of Cancer).

To the ashrams on the monadic plane, home of the Virgo Hierarchy ruled by Jupiter. (Here is the higher mystery of the birth of the Cosmic Christ in the heart).

To the ashrams on the buddhic plane, home of the Scorpio Hierarchy ruled by Mercury.

This four-fold link creates a relationship between the following signs and planets:

Aries        Uranus

Gemini     Earth

Virgo        Jupiter

Scorpio     Mercury

 Mercury is the linking energy and brings the energy of electric fire, Uranus onto the cosmic physical plane. The principle of cosmic buddhi on the fourth plane is expressed via aligned planetary desire through the fourth ether on the seventh or cosmic physical plane.

 “Mercury is the expression of fourth ray energy and this is, as you know, peculiarly related to the fourth kingdom in nature, the human kingdom. It is the esoteric ruler of Aries (hence it "leads into the mysteries") and is also the exoteric ruler of Gemini, which is the sign of the major opposites as far as humanity is concerned, because it signifies soul and personality, consciousness and form; it is also the exoteric ruler of Virgo, the Mother of the Christ-Child, or the form and that which indwells the form. It is, finally, the hierarchical ruler of Scorpio, which is the sign of discipleship.

 This, therefore, brings into a close relation four great constellations, each of which has a peculiar relation to the dualities with which man has a definite evolutionary concern. These are expressed in a unique manner for humanity through Aries, Gemini, Virgo, and Scorpio and the following diagram is descriptive of the nature of that relation:

 When visualising these diagrams, the symbol should be seen in rapid revolution. 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, pp.548-9)

 From here the line of energy makes a similar descent through the love petals of the causal body of man, through the astral body to the heart chakra on the second etheric plane, to the chakras on the fourth ether and thence to the physical body via the glands.

 This is the true ‘current of healing’ which brings the principle of cosmic buddhi all the way onto the physical plane where it finds eventually, at the heart of every atom, surprise surprise, cosmic buddhi. This is the equivalent to the energy from the monad finding, via the Love aspect of its expression, buddhi, the kundalini energy lying buried at the base of the spine.

 All is one Spirit/Matter but now, that unalterable fact has become realised within the consciousness of all those lives through which the energy passes. It is not so much that cosmic buddhi is brought to the physical plane – it already exists there and is in fact the foundation of all existence in the three lower cosmic planes. It already forms the inherent Life of all that is found there. It is when this is consciously realised however, that consciousness can bring the highest and lowest together in full realisation of their essential unity. Cosmic buddhi and an atom, are essentially the One Life, and as an inevitable result of that realisation the whole of creation will eventually be consumed in this one great fire – the fire of Agni which is the sumtotal of all the Solar Logoic life in the three cosmic planes of manifestation.

 To sum up the development in the Eternal Now of the three solar systems through which the Solar Logos is taking the Third cosmic Initiation and thus fusing the Logoic triad with the Logoic personality:

In the first system the energy of cosmic manas was brought into contact with the cosmic physical plane through the planetary logoi who have now become the five Kumaras. Their combined expression has a marked effect on the fifth and third planes of the cosmic physical plane and is synthesised on the atmic plane.

In the second system the energy of cosmic buddhi is being used to master the cosmic astral plane via the planetary logoi of this system. That mastery will eventually be expressed through the monadic plane and the human Hierarchy on all the schemes.

The expression of this system is primarily on the fourth and second planes, with a resonant effect upon the sixth or astral plane. The synthetic expression on the cosmic physical plane is via the second or monadic plane.

In the third system the energy of cosmic manas is being used to master and condition the cosmic mental plane, where the planetary logoi of that system will then be polarised.

That mastery will be expressed upon the cosmic physical plane via the first and seventh subplanes. It will result in the bringing together of the highest and the lowest, with the subsequent rising of Logoic kundalini, to be synthesised on the logoic plane. Thus the solar monad works through the solar triad to bring the Will of the Cosmic Logos (of which our Solar Logos is a constituent part) into expression upon the physical plane of this solar system.

 It will be remembered that man, at the Second Initiation, receives energy direct from the monad – it is this energy of Will which allows him to master once and for all that most troublesome of bodies, the desire body. The reason for giving out this teaching is to prepare mankind for the planetary equivalent of this event. The Love aspect of the solar monad will be brought into direct relationship with our Planetary Logos polarised on the cosmic astral plane. That energy will be stepped down in a four-fold manner, as described above, through the ashrams on the monadic plane and the ashrams on the buddhic plane.

The inflow of this energy is what will result in the liberation of vast numbers of the human kingdom from their causal bodies on the higher mental plane, and result in the Fourth Creative Hierarchy becoming ‘radioactive’ within the solar system. This process will reach a culmination at the Judgement Day in the fifth round.

 Of course, as is apparent in the microcosm, man, initiation is the result of persistent effort over long cycles of time within the eternal now of the soul’s fixed design, whether it be a human soul or a solar soul. Hence the value of humanity understanding the process when it can, in its higher reaches, be trusted to intelligently cooperate.

 “The symbols of the seven Creative Hierarchies now in manifestation are all enclosed in a circle denoting limitation and the circumscribing of the Life. All these hierarchies are Sons of Desire, and are paramountly an expression of the desire for manifested life of the solar Logos.  They receive their primary impulse from the cosmic astral plane.  They are also the expression of a vibration emanating from the second row of petals in the logoic Lotus on the cosmic mental plane.

 They are, therefore, one and all an expression of His love nature, and it is for this reason that buddhi is found at the heart of the tiniest atom, or what we call in this system, electric fire.  For the positive central life of every form is but an expression of cosmic buddhi, and the downpouring of a love which has its source in the Heart of the Solar Logos; this is itself an emanating principle from the ONE ABOVE OUR LOGOS, HE OF WHOM NAUGHT MAY BE SAID.” (TCF, pp.1225-6)

 With this overview in mind we may continue by postulating the following four statements about the fourth Quality of deity:

It is related to the Fourth cosmic Path, the path to Sirius and to the Sirian Law of Freed

It is a synthetic expression of the combined life of Shamballa, Hierarchy and Humanity and it is related to the coming Avatar of Synthesis.

Being the fourth Revelation it is related to the Fourth Ray, the Fourth Initiation, the dawning fourth Fundamental and the fourth Law of the Soul, the Law of Repulse.

Apart from its impact upon the fourth kingdom, the human, it will have profound effects upon the mineral kingdom and the physical plane.