“To the One I have been bonded since the
beginning of time”
-Vicente Beltrán Anglada
CHAPTER II
THE ACTIVITY OF THE SOLAR ANGELS IN THE NEW AGE
The study of the Solar Angels attempts to unveil the
great Mystery of the human heart. A Master said: “The matters
related to the Solar Angels, or Fire Dhyans, are deeply
mysterious. There are so many complex and occult legends about
this topic that esoteric students fall into despair when
trying to achieve the desired mental clarity.”
Nevertheless, we can find keys to unlock this apparent mystery
when we attentively follow certain hints. One of them is the
intermediary function lying between man’s personality in
the three worlds and the Monad or Spirit, that immortal spark
with all the powers and attributes of Divinity.
Human beings, subjected to the laws of time, would
have taken many millions of years to reach their
current state of evolution. As we have seen, in the second
half of the Lemurian era they were half-animal, and in that
state it was quite impossible for them to realize their
planetary function and the purpose of their surroundings. They
were performing a definite role within the planetary aura, but
they were not aware of this fact. The intervention of the
Solar Angels, vitalizing men’s rudimentary mental principle
and "embracing them with Their mantle of love and sacrifice for
an infinite period of time," produced the great miracle of the
mind. They gradually became the center of human reasoning and
animal man became a thinking, self-conscious being.
It is not our intention to fully describe this process, but to
provide an overview that will make many readers
more Self-conscious, using the intuition to understand some really
transcendental internal events which, under the name of
"spiritual experiences," are constantly occurring within human
beings.
We need to consider two facts that occurred almost
simultaneously: the coming of Sanat Kumara and His close
collaborators, and the organization of the Planetary Hierarchy
as a center containing and distributing a vast array of solar
internal energies. The coming of the Solar Angels adhered to
the same collaborative principle.
One of the great Solar mysteries symbolized by the Cup and
the Word was materialized by the arrival of the mystical Solar
Angels. The Cup or Chalice, prepared by suffering and
desperation through endless periods of time, “produced a clear
unique note which, tearing the ethers of space, came to the
Lord’s attention,” as it is stated in The Book of the
Initiates. In response, a motion or stirring took
place within the solar sphere of action and “another Note,
which this time came from the Solar Logos Himself, brought
about an stream of life that filled the Universe.” The Solar
Angels, or Fire Dhyans, perfect beings in their essence who
lived in the Peace of the Lord, felt the call in some stratum
of THEIR consciousness and prepared for the sacrifice. Like
“petals of sacrifice torn away from the Deity’s Heart,” the
Solar Angels left their celestial homeland and bonded Their
life, one-to-one, to animal-men. They delivered Their consciousness as
an illumined point within the rudimentary brain of the
animal-men and began shaping their minds and conscious
principles. The Solar Angels know about the pain of
sacrifice--like Sanat Kumara and His disciples… but also like
THEM, they know about the joy of fulfilling the Lord’s Will.
The rest is history, marked by the great Drama of
Evolution. In this drama, it is necessary to acknowledge the
intermediary function of the Solar Angels, or Angels of the
Presence (as they are known in some esoteric treatises) and
Their relationship to the human kingdom.
Everything is an eternal now; the real history of Humanity can
only be found in the akashic records--Nature’s cosmic memory.
Otherwise, history is a distortion of events, as truth can be
conditioned by the opinions and interests of each observer. When
the infinite and true potency of the akashic records is
invoked, only one truth is revealed; we can sense it as
historically real, as clearly demonstrated by the facts that
we are able to witness.
Based on this, and as part of our ashramic training, when
the time was due, the Master helped us to witness the meeting
of the Solar Angels with animal men, who “with their Cup
raised high were waiting for the arrival of the Lord.” In
response to the Master’s mystical invocation, this drama was
enacted in the astral light. We contemplated an event of an
inexpressible beauty and dramatic quality. The solar OM was
impossible to describe. In a sea of fire, the most powerful
electrical discharges were tearing the ethers and were
energizing all the different planes of evolution of the
planet. Resounding everywhere we could hear the sacred OM, the
Voice of the Solar Logos, reproduced by the Planetary Logos.
We saw the arrival of angelic hosts (creators of new forms and
situations) and the Solar Angels appeared “with their chariots
of fire.”
While these Angels were performing their bonding mission
between the animal-men and God Himself –represented by the
Monad–, They kept their own peculiarities, facilitating Their
ability –thanks to Their glorious karmic past– to express the
Ray of Love of the Lord of the Universe. For endless centuries,
They have been cooperating with the will of the Planetary
Logos, "Who following His high destiny, made the most
self-sacrificing and generous of all decisions: not to leave
the planet until the last human being capable of responding to
the Law has attained liberation." This is known as the Great
Sacrifice, made by the Silent Watcher Who, age after age,
presides over the fate of the Earth and, specifically, of the
fourth, or human, kingdom. In turn, the mission of this
kingdom is to "raise the vibration of lower or subhuman
kingdoms, thus serving as intermediaries of the Logos, as the Solar Angels link human beings to the fifth
Kingdom of Nature, the Planetary Hierarchy or Kingdom of
Souls.
The Ray of Love of the Solar Entity is implicit throughout the
process of collaboration or brotherhood among the Kingdoms.
Solar Angels are an emanation of His infinite love, something
that cannot be grasped by our little human minds. They always
respond to the great call for spirituality or knowledge
emanating from the Father Creator. Humanity is called the Great Necessity
and men are thus "the Sons of Necessity," or sons of Karma (as defined
in the books of the Hierarchical Archives). Likewise, the Solar Angels are
called "the Sons of the Great Sacrifice ", or Sons of Mind.
Their most important duty in relation to the human kingdom is
to provide the sons of men with adequate minds, having made
the great sacrifice of leaving their comfortable heavenly
abode. This may seem strange but we must silence our minds and
look inward, becoming deeply receptive and expectant, so that
our own Solar Angel can transmit the truth and the spiritual
security we all seek.
After clarifying the role of the Solar Angels as Great Cosmic
Intermediaries, having endowed us with minds through their
divine intervention, the most important question to consider
is the nature and purpose of their special mission in relation
to human beings. This question can be answered by saying
that the function of the Solar Angels (in relation to the
human beings with whom They are karmically linked), is to
preside over their spiritual life by transmitting more and
more refined emanations from the Monad or Spirit to the three
lower bodies in planetary evolution. For inconceivable periods
of time, the Solar Angels have provided lower men with the
cosmic knowledge
needed in each one of the phases of their particular process.
They have presided, so to speak, over men’s conscious karma
and, during this extraordinarily long path, they have created
the necessary situations whereby human beings can acquire
self-consciousness, which is ultimately the consciousness of
God.
In primitive ages, after the great event called
Individualization, the link between human beings and their
Solar Angels remained completely unknown. Only the "life
thread," emerging from the Solar Angel’s loving heart, was
tenuously linked to man’s mind. The loving warmth of this
great, selfless being made the germ of mind grow and develop
over time. The rest is a special process, but common to all,
in which the lower soul of man, regulated by the power of
mind, becomes aware of the existence of this great Entity at
inaccessible levels (the higher Entity which for ages has
given him life and the faculty of reasoning). The center of
consciousness of the lower man, or soul, becomes increasingly
concrete and definite and the process of spiritual union with
the Solar Angel begins; the achievement of this inner union is
the goal of many esoteric schools.
As the souls of men reach out towards their Solar Angels and
become more aware of Them, great expansions of consciousness,
called Initiations, begin to occur in their personal lives. The
best known parts of this process have been explained in modern
esotericism by Madame Blavatsky. The knowledge we possess of
the Planetary Hierarchy, the Masters of Wisdom and Compassion
and about the needed linking work of the human being with his
Solar Angel (or higher self), is referred to as the Initiation
into the Mysteries.
We consider the knowledge of this historical process
–beginning eons ago when men were still half animal and which
will continue until they become fully identified with the
divine inner being– very useful. This task will have a
particular relevance in days to come, as more Ashrams of the
Hierarchy externalize.
There can be no complete understanding of these events until
we analyze the first contact of the Solar Angel –a petal of
sacrifice torn from the loving Heart of God– with unevolved
man. This primitive being was wandering in the dark realms of
unconscious life –completely unaware of himself. Nevertheless,
“he was raising his cup so that the Grail of Consciousness
could be poured into it."
Whoever is able to penetrate
the profound mystery of the Grail and the Word, will enter
into direct communication with the Solar Angel Who guides his
life.
In order to better understand this process, the purpose or goal of the Solar Angel
must be made clear, once man has
reached a certain stage of initiation in which he is "fully
self-conscious." Those who have studied esotericism know that
the causal body is the vehicle which relates the lower man to his
higher self. Both are linked by a thin thread of light called
the sutratma (also known as the life thread), along which
communication becomes possible. It is stated in The Old
Commentary that this gossamer thread is nevertheless "stronger
than the strongest diamond." In more advanced stages of
the process, it becomes the Antahkarana (technically called
the consciousness thread), or the projection from the lower to
the higher mind. At this point, the great initiatory process
of conscious contact between the human self and the Solar Soul
begins.
The permanence of the Solar Angel in man (while he is
passing through this initiation stage) is the greatest of all
sacrifices. For endless periods of time, the Angels live in
the causal plane, "enfolded only with seven thin veils that cover Their
Adept celestial bodies." Their vision is oriented towards the
lower man, constantly meditating on the love impulses and the
heavenly home from whence They come. This kind of meditation,
which cannot be fully understood by man, is based on the
infinite MEMORY of Their solar life, which helps Them to
endure the pain of Their immortal sacrifice.
As lower man attains a fully integrated consciousness and
progressively takes hold of his vehicles and integrates them
into increasingly higher functions, the contact with his
higher Soul or Solar Angel strengthens and becomes more
definite. The causal body becomes a most beautiful sheath
radiating the spiritual fervor of the indwelling Soul. It is a
heavenly abode created by devas with materials supplied by the
expanding human consciousness. It is a body of rare beauty
holding the supreme symbol of the Cup and the Word. The
Angel of the Eternal Presence resides in this chalice, which
is so pure and transparent that it irradiates the essence of
this Great Being. This invariably happens when a human being
is fully aware of the Solar Angel and has integrated his three
lower vehicles into “one mystical body of universal
expression." This represents the ending of a very important
stage of the process for which the Solar Angel incarnated:
Initiation. After this, a crucial stage occurs in the life
of the human being and also in the life of the Solar Soul.
This occurs at the time of the fourth Initiation, as referred
to in the mystical treatises.
At this stage in the evolutionary cycle, the Arhat, the
one who was sacrificed on the cross through the tests of
initiation and selflessness, establishes direct contact "body
with body and soul to soul, with the One who has been the
peace and light of his way from the very beginning." This
phrase, taken from The Book of the Initiates, contains a
message of liberation for the Solar Angel. This direct
contact, this fusion of the fire of the three worlds with the
solar fire, eventually determines the timing of the
destruction of the causal body. Then, a distinctive Note is
sounded that can only be heard by the finely-tuned immortal
ears of the Solar Angel. It is the Voice of the Solar Logos
Himself, transmitted through the planetary Logos, which says
"Your mission is done. Son, return to your Father’s home.” And
so, once again, tearing the veil of the ethers (as the Angels
did millions of years ago when They came to the aid of the
human kingdom by pouring forth the light and fire emanating
from the mystical heart of the Sun), They return to Their
source to rest permanently in the Haven of Love of Their
Father, the Solar Logos.
Having merged his own fire with that of the Solar fire –making
possible the destruction of the Causal Body– the Arhat starts
a new life in which, for the first time, HE is the one and
only master of His life and Path. Now, his mission is to tie
the "loose threads" from the Monad and the pure and
integrated personality, thus forming a new and immaculate,
living entity completely free from human karma, known
esoterically as an Adept or Master of the Wisdom.
The passage that leads one from Arhat to Adept concerns the
cleansing of the mental body of the last remnants of the
"causal body," the body in which the Solar Angel had lived for
so many cycles of time. The final release, or entry of a human
being into the Kingdom of God, comes exactly when "the last
ashes of the solar body have melted within the mysterious
crucible of the sons of space, a particular kind of devas
assisting in all Initiation processes.”
The events that follow are already known: the Master of the
Wisdom, or Adept, becomes part of the planetary Hierarchy as a
conscious agent of the planetary Logos, as he has fused
himself with the divine spark we call Monad, the essential
spiritual Being. He is entitled to enter the Council Chamber
of Shamballa and take in the vital electric breath of the Lord
of the World, Sanat Kumara. As a result of this energy, he can
work with his Ray to carve out a path of light that many sons
of men who “yearn for liberation" will tread.
With the dawning of the Age of Aquarius (a highly intuitive
era as far as humanity is concerned), it became possible to
give more specific teachings about the great cosmic
Intermediaries, known under the esoteric name of Dhyans of
Fire, or Solar Angels. The aim of these teachings is to
accelerate human identification with their Solar Angels, in
order to more clearly understand the hidden meaning of life
and build new avenues of access to the glorious Entities known
as the Masters of Wisdom. With Christ leading Them, backed by
the fiery electric power of the Lord of the World, They
constantly work for the perfection of the human kingdom and
the redemption of other sub-human kingdoms. Later on, we will
make reference to the Ashram, the Master, the group brothers,
as well as the angelic hosts who, along with the human
kingdom, take part in the overall evolution of Planet Earth.
Our ultimate aim in doing this is to make readers aware of the
infinite depths of the cosmic Being Who, eons ago, took charge
of the evolution of men and led them through stages of grief,
anguish and sacrifice to the present day when human beings,
"aware of their spiritual destiny, are preparing to resolutely
struggle against the lower tendencies of the personality."
It is also interesting to note that when a more or less
definite contact with the Solar Angel has been established,
then the instructions of any true esoteric school may be
followed, as the Angel is our first and last Master. Their
relationship with us transcend ages and the karmic periods of
time, as Their lives emanate from the very Life of God, the Lord
of the Universe.
We hope that all this information will help readers to have a
clear picture of humanity’s destiny in this cosmic moment at
the dawn of the Age of Aquarius, aiding them to live from
now on as disciples of the Master, with all the glory and
difficulties that this implies. The Solar Angel guides us on this
path of identification and perfection. It is not the time to
disappoint the Angel; we must accelerate the pace of our
spiritual life and thereby consciously contribute to our own
liberation, with the understanding that by doing so, we are
also liberating our Solar Angels from Their sacrifice, as well as
contributing directly to the universal liberation of the
planetary Logos.
If Initiation is one of the most important undertakings in the
Solar Angel’s work, a study of the ashrams takes on a special
interest and relevance as these are the places, in time and
space, where initiation takes place and where lessons are given
to aid us in our evolutionary process. A study of these topics
is the task we aim to undertake with your help.
5 March 2011
Commentary
[JB]
As mentioned in a previous commentary,
VBA's intention is not to
repeat what has already been stated --in much more exact
detail-- in the Secret Doctrine and in Cosmic Fire, but to
provide a simple but accurate historical framework... There
is another reason for this approach... Sometimes, as will be
shown later, they are literally his views of historical
events. VBA was enabled to observe the reenactment of some
historical events, aided by his Master.
This new chapter provides good
support for such claim. Either VBA was endowed with a vivid
imagination or he was able to actually witness a historical
event stored in the akashic records. It is up to the reader to
decide.
As we assimilate the information contained in this book, the
following phrases may well be worth pondering on. I sincerely
thank the co-disciple who shared her meditation on the keynote
of the book, allowing the essence of its keynote to freely
speak for itself.
***
“To the One I have been
bonded
since the beginning of time.”
***
“To the One I have been
united
since the beginning of time.”
“To the One I have been
joined
since the beginning of time.”
***
“To the One I have been
woven
since the beginning of time.”
“To the One I have been
interwoven
since the beginning of time.”
“To the One I have been
interlaced
with since the beginning of time.”
***
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