Fire is Life manifested in each dimension of space.
In the dense physical plane (7.7.5 through 7.7.7), fire is the chemical reaction of a fuel and an oxidant that produces the light of a flame. Such a combustion dissipates heat, the transforming agent between the three known states of matter: solid (7.7.7), liquid (7.7.6) and gaseous (7.7.5).
In the etheric-dense interphase of the physical plane (between 7.7.4 and 7.7.5), fire manifests as a current of electrons, as in an incandescent light bulb or a cool-glowing fluorescent lamp. The Agnichaitans of the third (gaseous) subplane (7.7.5) of the dense physical plane provide the substance of the physical plane electricity.
In the subatomic etheric subplanes of the physical plane (7.7.2 through 7.7.4), fire manifests as plasma, the Quark-Gluon Plasma (QGP) of modern quantum physics. Scientists are just probing the surface of this newly discovered state of matter in order to further reveal the mystery of Energy and Matter, of Life and Light. The Agnichaitans (Group B, Class 2) provide their substance to the QGP.
The Agnichaitans are one of many groups of devas that belong to the Army of the Voice. We are told that exoteric scientists will not be able to probe the mystery of fire on the first (atomic) etheric subplane of physical plane (7.7.1), where the Transmitters of the Word dwell.
Sound is where science and occultism meet. The imminent development of the etheric vision will provide the scientific proof of the etheric subplanes of the physical plane, but it is only through the magic of sound that such knowledge becomes operational. Thus the need for white magicians qualified by LOVE, the sine qua non of spiritual initiation.
Love of the first degree transforms us in Bethlehem to responsibly share our bread. Love of the second degree purifies us with the waters of the Jordan as they render our emotional nature completely harmless. Love of the third degree fully integrates our personality as it becomes radioactively transfigured by the Word itself. However, it requires love of the fourth degree, the utter renunciation of the Adept, to earn the right and responsibility to access the "key devas" of the atomic etheric subplane of physical plane."An adept of the fifth initiation is one who has achieved complete harmony through right knowledge. This takes place at the fourth initiation and is demonstrated or proven at the fifth." -TSR I, 347
As above, so below. The triple nature of the physical plane (atomic etheric, subatomic etheric and dense) is a replica of the three aspects of divinity manifested as the cosmic and systemic mental, astral and physical planes. This triple nature is also replicated in God's dynamic Electric Fire of Will Power, His binding Solar Fire of Compassionate Love and His redemptive Fire-by-Friction of Creative Intelligence.
God is Light. God is Love. God is Life more abundant.God is Fire.
What do we mean by the phrase "esoteric teachings add beauty, coherence and hope..."?We mean, for instance, that when science teaches about the Water Cycle
students will be able to INTEGRATE a measure of esoteric understanding to the facts imparted by science, enabling us to penetrate the dimension of MEANING and to develop a refined sense of BEAUTY. -JB
The (Esoteric) Water Cycle
The action of fire upon water and
the transmutation of desire into thought.
by D.K.
TCF: The devas of water [7.7.6] find for themselves the path of service in their great work of nourishing all the vegetable and animal life upon the planet; the goal for them is to enter into that higher group of devas which we call the gaseous or fire devas [7.7.5]. These, through the action of their fire upon the waters, produce that sequence of evaporation, condensation, and eventual precipitation which—through its constant activity—nourishes all life upon the earth. Thus again can the psychic laws of love be seen at work in the deva kingdom as in the human; first, the withdrawal or segregation of the unit from the group (called individualisation in man, and evaporation in the water realm). Next, condensation, or the amalgamation of the unit with a newer or higher group, this we call condensation for the devas of the waters, and initiation in man; finally, the sacrifice of the group of human or deva atoms to the good of the whole. So does the law of service and sacrifice govern all the second aspect divine in all its departments great [Page 903] or small. Such is the law. But in the human kingdom, though love is the fulfilling of the law, it is arrived at along the path of pain and sorrow, and every true lover and server of humanity is stretched upon the cross until for them the sixth principle dominates, and the sixth type of matter in their bodies is completely subjected to the higher energy. In the case of the devas, love is the fulfilling of the law without pain or sorrow. It is for them the line of least resistance, for they are the mother aspect, the feminine side of manifestation, and the easy path for them is to give, to nourish, and to tend. Therefore, the devas of the waters pour themselves out in service to the vegetable and animal kingdoms, and in the transmutative fires all that holds them on the sixth subplane [7.7.6] will eventually be overcome, and through occult "distillation and evaporation" these devas will eventually form part of the gaseous fiery group [7.7.5] and become those fires which are the basis of the divine alchemy.
Speaking generally, it must be remembered that the earth devas of densest matter [7.7.7] become, in the course of evolution, the devas of the waters [7.7.6], and find their way eventually on to the astral plane the cosmic liquid [7.6]; the devas of the waters of the physical plane [7.7.6] find their way, through service, on to the gaseous subplane [7.7.5], and then to the cosmic gaseous, becoming the devas of the mental plane [7.5]. This literally and occultly constitutes the transmutation of desire into thought.The gaseous devas [7.7.5] become eventually the devas of the fourth ether [7.7.4] , and from thence in long aeons, find their way to the cosmic fourth ether, the buddhic plane [7.4]. These three groups are therefore cosmically connected with:[Page 904]
1. The cosmic astral plane [6] and the constellation whence emotional and desire energy originates.
2. The cosmic mental plane [5], and therefore with the constellation Sirius.
3. The cosmic buddhic plane [4], and the constellation of the Pleiades.Thus can the whole process be worked out, if man carefully studies his own nature, and the law of analogy.
Suggested Bibliography
(AAB-DK books: thematic index on Science and Occultism )11: The number of adept, using energy.
TSR I, 346The "entified" nature of all substance is technically known as Hylozoism.
TCF 638
TCF:
Devas: Mother aspect
Etheric body/prana (~ TEL)
SOLAR FIRE (The Fire of Mind): Motion on the plane of mind
THE NATURE OF THE PERMANENT ATOMS (spiritual genetics; relation to astrology)
The atom and occult chemistry
IHS:
Three basic facts to be recognised
The Effect of the Application of the Rod (electricity & magnetic induction)
DN:
6. Spiritual life in the New Age.
DNA-I&2:
Evening Review on the Observer
SIX WORDS FOR DISCIPLES (Radiation)
1. Recollection, resulting in concentration.
2. Response, resulting in an interaction between higher and lower.
3. Radiation, resulting in a sounding forth.
4. Respiration, resulting in creative work.
5. Reunion, resulting in the at-one-ment.
6. Reorientation, resulting in a clear vision of the Plan.
TEACHINGS ON MEDITATION (~ LOS)
ENA:
CIVILISATION AND CULTURE
The basic approach for all who endeavour to grasp esotericism, or to teach esoteric students, is to lay the emphasis upon the world of energies and to recognise that behind all happenings in the world of phenomena (and by that I mean the three worlds of human evolution) exists the world of energies; these are of the greatest diversity and complexity, but all of them move and work under the Law of Cause and Effect.
The Three Major Sciences of the Aquarian Age: Science of the Antahkarana, Science of Meditation, Science of Service.
EOH:
Seed Groups (Scientific Servers)
Discovery of atomic energy during WWII
The Great Invocation (formula)
GWP:
Technique of the Light
Tecnique of the Presence
Technique of Indifference (Maya ~ materialism)
LOM:
THE USE OF COLOUR AND SOUND
LOS:
Stages of Meditation
POH:
THE PROBLEM OF CAPITAL, LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT ~ Nuclear energy (environmental warming)
ROC:
THE TEACHINGS OF THE CHRIST: The Dispelling of Glamour
TEL:
THE SUPREME SCIENCE OF CONTACT: Science of Impression (radio/TV), Science of Invocation and Evocation, Science of Telepathy
THE NATURE OF SPACE
TSR I:
Can the fact of the Soul be proved?
TSR II:
What are Laws and Rules?
Seven Laws of Soul or Group Life
Seven Rules for Inducing Soul Control: THE FACTOR OF ANALYSIS
Cleavage and Integration
New Group of World Servers (Scientific field of service; also TWM)
TSR III:
Math research into astrology
TSR IV:
Causality (Rothman's model) What is a cause? Causes of disease. Brain vs. mind (materialistic) research
Rules and Laws of Healing
TSR V:
Rules and Laws (definition; also TCF: Laws of Thought)
TWM:
Science and Magic: Energy follows thought (energy vs. force)
THE WORK OF THE EYE; THE USE OF THE HANDS; Scientific THOUGHT-FORM BUILDING
CREATIVE WORK OF SOUND
SOUL LIGHT AND BODY LIGHT
Ethics (w. vs. b. magic: PRINCIPLES AND PERSONALITIES)
THE ESOTERIC SENSE
