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A Treatise on Cosmic Fire - Section Two - Division D - Thought Elementals and Fire Elementals | ||||||
The Factor of
the Lesser Builders. Here a most interesting factor comes in upon which we shall
enlarge later, when considering the elementals. The specific purpose of a thought-form is
connected very closely with the type of deva essence of which it is constructed, and (in
connection with man on the mental plane), with the type of elemental which he can control,
and send forth as the occupier, or vitalizing agency of the thought-form. Roughly speaking,
a solar Logos works only through the greater Builders, the Manasaputras in Their
[564] various grades on the two higher planes of the solar system. He works through Them,
and sends Them forth upon the mission of constructing, and vitalizing the systemic
thought-form, with a specific purpose in view. The planetary Logoi work primarily
through the Builders of the next three planes (atma-buddhi-manas), who construct and
control the work of the planetary schemes. Men work through the builders of the
lower mental planes, and the astral plane, for the human thought-forms are kama-manasic;
the physical plane builders are swept automatically into action by the force of the
currents, and energies set up in subtler matter, by the great Builders. The [following] tabulation may make this clear. |
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The Building Entities (Tabulation IV) | ||||||
Quality | Entity | Center | Personality | Kingdom | ||
1. | Atma | Logos | Head (Brain) | Grand Heavenly Man | Seventh | Unity |
2-3. | Buddhi Manas |
Planetary Logos | Heart and Throat | Heavenly Men | Sixth & Fifth | Duality |
4. | Mental | Man | Solar Plexus Base of Spine |
Man | Fourth | Triplicity |
5. | Astral | Animal | Generative Organs | Third | Duality | |
6. | Etheric | Vegetable | Spleen | Second | Transitional | |
7. | Dense | Mineral | None | First | Unity | |
If the table is carefully studied, it will be seen
that the fivefold earlier enumeration concerns the most important kingdoms in nature,
whilst the final two are peculiarly interesting in that the mineral kingdom can in no
sense be considered a principle, but simply the densest point of concretion of the
abstract, and that the vegetable kingdom has a peculiar place in the economy of the system
as the transmitter of the vital pranic fluid; the vegetable kingdom is definitely a bridge
between the conscious and the unconscious. Here I am using these words in their broadest
and most general sense. Though it is known that the mineral kingdom has a consciousness of
its own, yet sensation is more distinctly recognizable in the second kingdom, and
the distinction between the consciousness of the mineral and that of the animal is so vast
that their respective consciousness are basically unlike. Between these stands the
vegetable kingdom, approximating more generally the animal consciousness than the mineral,
and having a most esoteric relationship to the deva evolution. All these kingdoms of nature are "forms of thought"; all have body, vitality, quality and purpose, and all are [566] sent out by a greater life than their own upon a specific mission; they are sent forth by those who are self-conscious and are a blend of mind, spirit and objective form. Only the self-conscious can create, and only they are capable of purpose, of coordination, of direction and control. Even though it may seem that much has been left unsaid, yet in due consideration of the above four points in connection with "purpose" in a thought-form, much can be worked out by the student himself. In extending these ideas to a solar Logos, many questions of interest arise which are profitable only in so far as they expand the concept, and widen the horizon of the Thinker. The logoic purpose is not yet comprehensible to man; it does not profit him to meditate thereon, yet in the formulation of ideas, and their apprehension by thinkers may come the gradual dawning of a day of recognition, and a subsequent cooperation with that divine purpose. Let us, therefore, formulate some of these questions, leaving the future to reveal the answer:
Let us next bring the whole idea own o a more practical basis, and formulate questions along the following lines:
Many such thoughts will arise, and in the study of thought man learns the laws of being. |
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