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The Three Fires

May 24, 2025May 25, 2025 Joseph Dewey

The Three Fires

DK talks quite a bit about the three fires which he names as follows: Fire by Friction, Solar Fire and Electric fire. I remember when I first started reading the Bailey books, I had difficulty in figuring out what he was talking about, so let us present some explanation here that will assist those who are trying to make sense of the Bailey writings.

The three fires are basically three types of emanating warmth, or fire, created from the three aspects of Divinity. Fire by Friction represents the third, the Holy Spirit, mostly in the form of heat. Solar Fire represents the second, the Son, with love and light. Electric fire is the highest representing the first, or the Father energy of will and life itself.

Here is a breakdown of the three:

Fire by Friction

This is the lowest of the fires that manifest within the seven planes of our existence. The simplest explanation is revealed in the striking of a common match. What causes the fire to begin? It is the created friction that interplays with atomic forces that brings the fire into manifestation.

“Fire by friction is substance with the quality of heat as its predominant characteristic; it is latent heat or sensation. Both these ideas, therefore, convey the idea of duality. An emanation must have its originating source, and heat is but the result of friction, and is necessarily dual.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 803

Fire by friction produces warmth in the physical universe from a point in a center to the circumference. This fire is manifest at the center of an atom, a cell, the heart of a human being, the center of a planet, the center of the sun and finally of galaxies.

Fire by friction is not only manifest in the dense physical plane but also in the astral/emotional one and here the fire is manifest as some aspect of desire. DK says this:

“Therefore, in conjunction with the lowest fire, or “fire by friction,” as it makes itself felt on the sixth plane. These lives are called “the burning Sons of Desire” and were the Sons of Necessity. It is said of them in the old Commentary:

“They burned to know. They rushed into the spheres. They are the longing of the Father for the Mother. Hence do they suffer, burn, and long through the sixth sphere of sense.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 1197

What is the true cause of this fire? Science has not adequately explained it but DK gives us some light stating that:

“It is an effect and not a cause. It is produced by the two fires of spirit and of mind (electric and solar fire) contacting each other through the medium of matter. […] When evolution ends, the fire of matter is not cognisable. It persists only when the other two fires are associated, and it does not persist apart from substance itself.” “Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pages 50-51

Solar Fire — Fire of Mind

All fire involves movement and warmth, but the warmth produced is on different planes. Solar fire creates warmth indeed, not directly on the physical plane but in mind through the motion of rarified mental matter.

DK gives this interesting comment associating light with solar fire:

Electric fire, being an emanation is essentially dual in concept, and so is fire by friction; they together produce solar fire, and thus the esoteric fifth… and this is solar fire or light.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 803

The interesting thing is that mind and love are often seen as either opposing or totally different aspects. Unrealized by many is the fact that the fires of love (solar fire) are created by the awakened mind, the stimulated mind, or mind in motion. Without mind there would be no such thing as love manifested on the physical plane.

When spirit (electric fire) and living matter (fire by friction) blend and merge then soul energy or solar fire is created. The mind must awaken to perceive this merging. In the vast majority of humans this aspect of the mind is asleep. When it awakens the soul (or solar fire) is perceived and spiritual love is enflamed. The seeker is then on the path of discipleship and is capable of seeing and understanding the things of the spirit (electric fire).

DK gives these comments on solar fire:

“To state the whole in terms of fire: The causal body is produced by means of the positive life, or fire, of the Spirit (electric fire) meeting the negative fire of matter, or “fire by friction”; this causes the blazing forth of solar fire. This central blaze inevitably in due course burns up the third fire, or absorbs its essence, and is itself eventually blended with the fire of Spirit and passes out of objective display.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 506

“The Fire or Spark of Mind corresponds to Solar Fire. This constitutes the thinking self-conscious unit or soul. This is governed by the Law of Attraction. This links the monad to the personality and can be the vitalizing factor of thoughtforms…. This is an expression of the evolution of mind or manas. It is the vitality of the soul. As this merges with fire by friction consciousness appears.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 46 & 48

“Solar fire is electricity animating forms or congeries of atoms, and resulting in: Coherent groups. The radiation from all groups, or the magnetic interaction of these groups. The synthesis of form.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 316

Electric Fire

Electric fire is the polar opposite of fire by friction and is its source. When we strike a match we produce fire by friction, but this fire consists in more than a chemical reaction for the fire on the physical plane could not be if the higher electrical, or spiritual fire, were not linked to it.

Electric fire is linked with spirit and fire by friction to matter. So why do we not just use the term “spirit and matter” instead? The reason is that “fire” is an aspect of these two planes, an aspect which is created by motion. Electric fire is thus spirit in motion.

Here are some quotes from DK that give a greater comprehension of electric fire:

“The first Logos is electric fire, the fire of pure Spirit. Yet in manifestation He is the Son, for by union with matter (the mother) the Son is produced by Whom He is known. “I and my Father are One” is the most occult statement in the Christian Bible, for it not only refers to the union of a man with his source, the monad, via the ego, but to the union of all life with its source, the will aspect, the first Logos.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 151

“The abstractions or entities who indwell the form (of the solar system) are “electric fire.” The material substance which is enclosed within the ring-pass-not viewing it as a homogeneous whole, is fire by friction.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 493

“All that we can know of God or of man is the quality of his energy as it demonstrates in force and activity, hence in the Secret Doctrine, the highest aspect of divinity is called electric fire.” Initiation, Human & Solar, Page 350

“Man’s just apprehension of this mystery of electricity will only come about as he studies himself, and knows himself to be a triple fire, manifesting in many aspects.

Monadic fire Electric fire Spirit Will The Central Spiritual Sun.

Egoic fire Solar fire Consciousness The Heart

Love-Wisdom of the Sun.

Personality fire Fire by friction Physical man Physical Sun.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 608

A spark of kindness starts a fire of love. – Author Unknown

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The Jewel in The Lotus

May 22, 2025 Joseph Dewey

The Jewel in The Lotus

The vehicle of expression for the Solar Angel is the causal body, which is composed of a twelve-petalled lotus with a jewel in the center.

What is this jewel?

One with higher vision would see “a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue-white hue surrounded, and completely hidden, by three closely folded petals.” More specifically the jewel is represented by a triangle with a point in the center.

The triangle is symbolic of the three aspects of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, or Power, Love and Active Intelligence.

The point in the center represents the one invisible God from whence all life comes.

The Jewel in the Lotus circulates the necessary energies to create life and is the life principle itself. The point in the center is that which we must all pass through to receive higher revelation. It is that which links us all to God and esoterically makes us all one with God and each other.

This lotus is reflected to the centers of each of the seven chakras where a lower octave of the jewel resides. Because of this reflection the seeker can find a partial revelation of God in each of the centers through contemplation. After he finds the seven revelations in the seven centers he will then discover the secret of the jewel in the lotus, the seat of the soul.

Quotes from DK

“The Point at the Centre. This is the “jewel in the lotus,” to use the ancient oriental appellation; it is the point of life by means of which the Monad anchors itself upon the physical plane, and is the life principle therefore of all the transient vehicles—developed, undeveloped or developing. This point of life contains within itself all possibilities, all potentialities, all experiences and all vibratory activities. It embodies the will-to-be, the quality of magnetic attraction (commonly called love), and the active intelligence which will bring the livingness and the love into full expression.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 169

“We have seen that on the third level of the mental plane, the egoic lotus is found and the student should picture it to himself as follows:

“Concealed at the very centre or heart of the lotus is a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue-white hue (the jewel in the lotus) surrounded, and completely hidden, by three closely folded petals. Around this central nucleus, or inner flame, are arranged the nine petals in circles of three petals each, making three circles in all. These petals are formed out of the substance of the solar angels, as are the central three,—substance which is not only sentient as is the substance of the forms in the three worlds and the lunar bodies, but which has an added quality of “I-ness” or of self-consciousness, enabling the spiritual unity at the centre (by means of it) to acquire knowledge, awareness, and self-realisation. These nine petals are of a predominant orange hue, though the six other colours are found as secondary colours in a varying degree. The inner three petals are of a lovely lemon-yellow hue. At the base of the lotus petals are the three points of light which mark the position of the permanent atoms, and which are the medium of communication between the solar Angels and the lunar Pitris. By means of these permanent atoms the Ego, according to its state of evolution can construct his lunar bodies, acquire knowledge on the lower three planes, and thus buy his experience, and becomes aware. On a higher turn of the spiral, the Monad through the egoic petals, and thus with the aid of the solar Angels, acquires knowledge and equally on more exalted levels becomes aware.” TCF, Pages 761-762

“The jewel in the lotus is the director of energy from the monad, whilst the third eye directs the energy of the Ego on the physical plane. … The jewel, or diamond concealed by the egoic lotus, is the window of the Monad or Spirit whereby he looks outward into the three worlds. The third eye is the window of the Ego or soul functioning on the physical plane whereby he looks inward into the three worlds.” TCF, Pg 1129

“This—as the Old Commentary puts it—is “a point of focussed fire, found in the centre of the jewel. It stirs to life the quality of love which permeates the Ashram of the Lord. Radiation then can penetrate to other centres and to other lives, and thus the Lord is served.” It is this point of focussed dynamic will at the very heart of the Hierarchy which in reality implements the Plan.” Rays and Initiations, Pages 375-376

The centers “are awakened in three major stages, though through the medium of many smaller awakenings.

“1. They begin to develop from that of the “closed bud to that of the opened lotus”. This takes place during the period of ordinary evolution.

“2. The petals of the lotus become vibrant and alive. This is the stage of personality integration.

“3. The heart of the lotus, “the jewel in the lotus” also becomes actively alive. This is the period of the final stages upon the Path.” Esoteric Psychology, Vol 2, Pages 338-339

The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. — There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy. – Greville

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The Causal or Egoic Body

May 21, 2025 Joseph Dewey

The Causal or Egoic Body

These two bodies are essentially the same thing called by two different terms. To confuse the issue further it is also called the Karana-Sarira. This latter phrase comes from the Sanskrit. “Karana” means “cause” and “Sarira” refers to “body or bodily frame”.

It is also called the Causal Body because it makes possible for the human entity to initiate causes.

Finally, it is also called the Egoic Body because it is the vehicle of expression for our ego. This is not the illusionary, selfish ego as indicated in some teachings, but the highest part of our individuality, which eternally survives. What is often called the ego here is a lower reflection of this.

Its body is the twelve-petalled lotus, the higher reflection of the Heart Center which is in the head and links the heart to the soul and the soul to the monad.

The causal body is an essential ingredient that causes us to identify with one body instead of many. In the higher realms we can share a oneness because there is no pain, but in the realm of matter where pain exists, we need to associate our identity to only one body. Just imagine how difficult life would be if you shared the pain of only six other people – now imagine billions. Thus the causal body limiting our consciousness to one separate body is essential if we want to function in the physical realm.

“The causal body is that sheath of mental substance which is formed at the moment of individualization.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 506

Just as the physical body is the vehicle to house and allow life expression, even so is the causal body a vehicle of consciousness itself. This vehicle was given birth to you by your Solar Angel when you reached individualized consciousness and as it unfolds consciousness grows until soul contact is established.

When contact and expression is fully created the causal body is no longer needed and we break free from the parent Solar Angel and become linked directly to our Monad, or our personal Father in Heaven. Our developing soul then takes the place of the assisting Solar Angel.

The causal body is composed of mental substance from the higher part of the mental plane and takes the form of a closed twelve petaled lotus which petals gradually unfold leading to the revelation of the “jewel in the lotus” which is a gateway to the consciousness of the Solar Angel. Here are some additional words from DK.

“At the early stages after individualization, the egoic body has the appearance of a bud. The electric fire at the center is not apparent, and all the nine petals are closed down upon the inner three; the orange color has a dead aspect and the three points of light at the base are just points and nothing more; the triangle which is later seen connecting the points is not demonstrated.” A Treatise on White Magic,” Page 763

“The egoic lotus is now composed of twelve petals, nine of these appear at this stage in bud form and three are completely hidden and mysterious.

“At the same time, the three permanent atoms are enclosed within the lotus, and are seen by the clairvoyant as three points of light in the lower part of the bud, beneath the central portion.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 709

“Petals described with colors As we know, the egoic lotus consists of three circles,—each circle being composed of three petals, and all shielding the inner bud where hides the jewel. It is with the evolution of these petals that we are concerned, with their formation, their vitalisation, their nurturing, and eventual unfoldment…

“These three circles of petals are called in the esoteric terminology:

“1. The “outer knowledge” triad, or the lords of active wisdom.

“2. The middle “love” triad, or the lords of active love.

“3. The inner “sacrificial” triad, or the lords of active will.

“The first is the summation of experience and developed consciousness; the second is the application of that knowledge in love and service, or the expression of the Self and the Not-Self in reciprocal vibration; and the third is the full expression of knowledge and love turned toward the conscious sacrifice of all to the furthering of the plans of the planetary Logos, and to the carrying out of His purposes in group work. Each of these three groups of petals come under the definite guidance of three groups of Agnishvattas, who form them out of their own substance and who in essence are the threefold Ego during its manifestation.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pages 820-821 (Read on to page 824 for expanded comments on the petals)

“The causal body, the vehicle of the Higher Self, and the average causal body is on the third subplane of the mental plane…We must not forget that the causal body contains the three permanent atoms or the three spheres which embody the principle of intelligence, of desire, and of physical objectivity.” Letters on Occult Meditation Pg 3-4

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The Solar Angel

May 20, 2025 Joseph Dewey

The Solar Angel

A very complex treatise could be written on the solar angels, as DK says quite a bit about their history, incarnation into this system and their interaction with lesser lives. We’ll thus keep this defining article as simple as possible while giving the reader a grasp of its essence.

The term “Solar Angel” was made popular in the Bailey writings and has a scant mention in other Theosophical writings. Blavatsky only mentions it a couple times, but also calls them Manasaputras, Sons of God, Mind-born sons, Sons of Wisdom and various other names. They are also classified as Agnishvattas in the Bailey writings.

As it is, most of what we know about them is from DK in the Bailey writings. Here is a brief summary.

The Solar Angels are very advanced entities who went though many incarnation experiences as we do here, but in a previous creation and achieved a high degree of perfection and liberation.

“We must remember that they are the beings who, in earlier manvantaras have achieved, and who—in this round—waited for a specific moment at which to enter, and so continue their work. Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 699

After a long period of advancement, they rested in the great pralaya or “in the Heart of God until the hour was come.” (TCF Pg 702)

Their hour came when there was a need for primitive humans to obtain self-consciousness and eventually become solar angels themselves.

Approximately 18 million years ago they came to assist the primitive humans in reaching self-consciousness through stimulating their minds through their causal bodies. They have been here ever since assisting us in and out of incarnation attempting to bring us upward in awareness to where they are. Concerning them it is written:

“The great solar Angel, Who embodies the real man and is his expression on the plane of higher mind, is literally his divine ancestor, the “Watcher” Who, through long cycles of incarnation, has poured Himself out in sacrifice in order that man might BE.” Initiation Human and Solar, Pg 115

“Their appearance upon the mental plane brought about the union of Spirit and matter, and from this union was born a self-conscious Identity, the Ego.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 702

Slowly the process has taken place in that the human souls have been stimulated and eventually begin to consciously recognize their solar parent. We are finally at the state where a handful of humanity have learned to be one with and adjust to the vibration of the solar angel so they will move in consciousness from the lower lunar control to the solar. When this happens, the solar angel has completed its mission and returns to its Source.

“The sacrifice of the solar angels brought the fourth kingdom in nature into being. The “returning nirvanis” (as they are called in esoteric literature), with deliberation and full understanding, took human bodies in order to raise those lower forms of life nearer to the goal. These were and are ourselves. The “Lords of Knowledge and Compassion and of ceaseless persevering Devotion” (who are ourselves) chose to die in order that lesser lives might live, and this sacrifice has made possible the evolution of the indwelling consciousness of Deity.” Esoteric Psychology, Vol 2, Page 92

“The causal body disintegrates; the personality fades out, and illusion is ended.” Treatise on White Magic Pg 388

“Once he becomes the conscious builder himself, seeking to control the forces and builders of his lower nature, and to construct the Temple of Solomon, then he is no longer subject to the earlier conditions. He becomes a ruler, a builder, and a transmitter, until the time comes when he is one with the solar Angels, and the work of human evolution is accomplished. Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 946

“Then the Bull of God (enlightened human) carries the light in his forehead, and his eye transmits the radiance; His head, with magnetic force, resembles the blazing sun, and from the lotus of the head, the path of light issues. It enters into the Greater Being, producing a living fire. The Bull of God sees the Solar Angel, and knows that Angel to be the light wherein he walks. Treatise on White Magic, Pg 108

From the time that we arrive at self-consciousness to the fourth initiation where the lower self is sacrificed, that which we call the “higher self” usually has reference to the Solar Angel which overshadows our developing soul. But then the time arrives where our own soul becomes one with the Solar Angel and shares in its awareness. When this time arrives, the Solar Angel has completed its mission and returns to its Source. It has not only assisted lives lower than itself, but has gained valuable experience that will aid it its own progression.

Meanwhile, the human soul has progressed to the status of a solar angel and instead of being overshadowed by a solar being the pilgrim is overshadowed by his own monad which has never left its Source.

As a solar angel the entity has a new sense of mission that “Through their sacrifice, matter is lifted up into Heaven.” Esoteric Psychology II Page 93

In other words, the goal is to link heaven and earth, or we could say:

“Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.” Matt 6:10

My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is Heaven, my road is narrow, my way is rough, my companions are few, my guide is reliable, my mission is clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, diluted, or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of adversity, negotiate … at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in a maze of mediocrity. I won’t give up, shut up, let up, or slow up. – Robert Moorehead

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The Lunar and Solar Pitris

May 17, 2025 Joseph Dewey

The Lunar and Solar Pitris

The word Pitris means “Father.” They are called our Fathers because they interact with the negative aspect of matter (Mother) in the physical, astral and mental to create form and consciousness.

The Lunar Pitris are the Fathers of life below the human state and the Solar Pitris are the Fathers of human consciousness and above. An individual’s Solar Angel would be a Solar Pitris that interacting with refined substance to give birth to your consciousness.

The Lunar Pitris interact with matter to build the vehicles (bodies) of man animal and the entire body of form for the Planetary Logos.

The Solar Pitris interacts with higher substance to create the egoic, or casual body of man. As the energy of this refined body unfolds the consciousness expands and soul contact is achieved.

Quotes shedding further light:

“These lunar Pitris embody the substance of man’s lower bodies, just as the solar Pitris sacrifice themselves to give him his egoic body, and his consciousness. They are substance in its dual aspect, and the Lunar Pitris in their higher grades are the positive energy of atomic substance, and in their lower are the negative aspect of the same substance. They might be considered, in connection with man, as triple in their ranks.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pages 779-780

“The solar Pitris, therefore, could give to man his consciousness; the lunar Pitris could give to him the instinctual consciousness of his vehicles. In their aggregate in all the kingdoms of nature, on this planet and elsewhere, they give to the planetary Logos and to the solar Logos the sumtotal of the form consciousness of Their respective bodies.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 781

The Lunar, or Barhishad Pitris have the following function:—S. D., II, 99.

They are the Ancestors of Man.—S. D., II, 107.
They are the Fashioners of his form.
They possessed the physical creative fire.
They could only clothe the human monads.
They could not make man in their likeness.
They could not give him mind.—S. D., II, 82.
They build his external form.
They give the lower principle.—S. D., II, 92.

Temporarily they are the Conquerors of Spirit.—S. D., II, 66.

Spirit becomes immersed in material forms.
Forms are the battle ground.
Eventually Spirit will slay the forms.—S. D., II, 67.
Note the esoteric order.—S. D., II, 88, 92, 100; II, 116. From Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Notes Pg 618

“In solar fire, these solar Pitris in their ninefold formation represent and make possible the unfolding of the consciousness of the Monad through the medium of the Ego in the three worlds of human evolution.

“In fire by friction, the lunar Pitris are represented and constitute the lower self, the personality, or those vehicles by means of which the Ego in turn is to acquire experience on the lower planes.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 819

“It must not be forgotten here that the work of the solar Pitris from their point of view, is not primarily the evolution of man, but is the process of their own development within the plan of the solar Logos. The evolution of the human race is, for them, but a method.

“Perfected men are in the councils of the planetary Logos of their particular ray; the solar Pitris are in the council of the solar Logos.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 843

“The solar Pitris and devas find their force expression most adequately through man, with all that is included in that term. They are the source of his self-consciousness, and it is their action upon the negative aspect which produces the human Ego (on a large scale, viewing them in their totality as cosmic force); it is their action upon the negative or mother aspect which, on cosmic levels, produces that Self-conscious Unity, a solar Logos, functioning through His physical vehicle. From the Christian standpoint, the greater Builders are the Holy Spirit, or force overshadowing and fecundating matter, whilst the negative or lesser Builders correspond to the Virgin Mary.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 617

“The lunar Pitris, and lesser builders from the systemic point of view find their fullest expression in the animal kingdom. When they, as the initiatory impulse, had produced animal man they had performed their prime function, and just as (on a smaller scale and in connection with only one of the Heavenly Men) the moon is a dying and decadent world, so on a systemic scale and therefore covering a vast period of time, the work of the lunar Pitris is slowly coming to a conclusion as the power of the third kingdom, the animal, over the human is being superseded by spiritual power; the systemic correspondence to lunar pitric activity will occultly die out.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pages 617-618

“A hint as to the constitution of these solar Pitris and Manasadevas may come to the student who ponders upon the place of the egoic unit in the body of the planetary Logos, and in the particular centre of which it forms a component part. These Manasadevas and Dhyan Chohans who produce self-consciousness in man are indeed the energy and substance of the cosmic Heavenly Man.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 732

“The Dhyanis (Pitris) are those who have evolved their BHUTA (doubles) from themselves, which RUPA (form) has become the vehicle of monads (seventh and sixth principles) that had completed their cycle of transmigration in the three preceding Kalpas (Rounds). Then, they (the astral doubles) became the men of the first Human Race of the Round. But they were not complete, and were senseless.” Secret Doctrine, Vol 1, Page 183

You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the entire ocean in a drop. Rumi.

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Devas of Emotion and Mind

May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Devas of Emotion and Mind

Agnisuryans

These Devas create form in the astral or emotional world. These create the forms in the heavens and hells in the next world that form the habitation of many souls after death. They also create the forms in the devachan – or heaven as defined by Theosophy.

Even though they exist in a plane above the physical we can still influence them through sound and by our emotional desires. One reason that those who have a powerful one-pointed desire manifest successfully on the physical plane is because these Devas responds to emotion.

Key Statements DK made about Agnisuryans

“The Agnisuryans are the builders on the sixth subplane of the cosmic physical plane, our systemic astral plane. They represent, as I have before hinted, the sympathetic nervous system in the logoic physical body, just as their brothers of the seventh vibration represent the sumtotal of the circulatory or blood system.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 634

“The Function of the Agnisuryans. The devas of the astral plane are those with whom man is very specially connected at this time owing to his astral polarisation, and to the place desire and feeling play in his development. Consciousness expands through contact, through intelligent appreciation of that which is contacted, and through realisation of that which is to be gained through a specific contact. That which is contacted depends upon reciprocal vibration, and the place therefore of desire (which is the going out after sensation) and of feeling (which is the reflex of that desire) is of real importance; they put man constantly in touch—even though he realises it not—with deva substance of some kind or another.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Page 661

(The disciple) “learns to choose the Way of light and to see his form and all forms as custodians of the light. So he buckles down to the work of making the astral body simply a reflector of that light and by the quelling of desire, through the subjugation of the “Agnisuryans” who constitute his astral body and are the living substance of the astral plane, he learns to function as an adept on that plane, to pierce through its illusion and to see life true.” A Treatise on White Magic, Pg 238

“These elementals and devas are called the Agnisuryans, and in their totality are the fiery essences of buddhi, hence their lowest manifestation is on the sixth plane, the astral.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pg 68

“It will again be apparent why the Agnisuryans are of such supreme importance; they embody force which is a direct emanation from the cosmic astral plane and which reveals—when triply blended—the desire nature of our Heavenly Man, and of any particular planetary Logos. In the two opposites, which are called by the theologians “”Heaven and Hell,”” we have two of these types of force hinted at, and in this thought we have indicated one of the keys to the astral plane.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 676

“This angle of the matter should be studied in order to bring out the true meaning of this sixth order of devas, whose symbol is the six-pointed Star set at a particular angle and in full manifestation. The six-pointed star is the sign that a “Son of Necessity” (no matter whether God or man) has sought physical incarnation. The devas of the sixth order, the Agnisuryans, are a prime factor in bringing this about.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire, Pages 669-670

The Agnishvattas

These are lofty devas that create forms on the plane of the mind which is technically called the Fifth Subplane of the Cosmic Physical. The Solar Angels are called Agnishvattas, but is every Agnishvatta a Solar Angel? Not in the way the average seeker understands the work of the Solar Angel, but the terms are pretty much interchangeable.

In a previous system the Agnishvattas passed through the human form and now exist as one of three groups according to DK

The Buddhas or Lords of Activity.

The Buddhas or Lords of Compassionate Love.

The Buddhas of Sacrifice, of Whom the Lord of the World is, to man, the best known exponent.

These great lives create the forms of their own mental substance that are vehicles for expression of our own consciousness. They create the egoic lotus which expands and unfolds as we progress in consciousness.

To put it quite simply the Agnishvattas could be called our “mothers in heaven.” They give birth to our own consciousness by creating organized mind out of their own substance.

Key Statements DK made about Agnishvattas

“This fifth Hierarchy of Agnishvattas in their many grades embody the “I principle” and are the producers of self-consciousness, and the builders of man’s body of realisation. In time and space, and on the mental plane, they are Man himself in essential essence; they enable him to build his own body of causes, to unfold his own egoic lotus, and gradually to free himself from the limitations of the form which he has constructed, and thus to put himself—in due course of time—into the line of another type of energy, that of buddhi.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 703

“That Son of Mind, which we call the Ego or Soul. This is the intelligence principle, and is called by many names in the esoteric literature, such as the Solar Angel, the Agnishvattas, the Christ principle, etc. With this, religion in the past has professed to deal.” Education in the New Age Pg 5

“The Agnishvattas are the builders on the fifth or gaseous subplane of the cosmic physical, and—from the human standpoint—are the most profoundly important, for they are the builders of the body of consciousness per se. From the psychic standpoint of occult physiology, they have a close connection with the physical brain, the seat or empire of the Thinker.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 635

“We start here upon the consideration of the Agnishvattas, or the Fire devas of the mental plane, and are thus launched upon the most stupendous subject in connection with our planetary evolution; it is the one having the most occult significance for man, for these solar Angels concern his own essential nature, and are also the creative power by which he works.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 680

“Where man is concerned these solar Angels, the Agnishvattas, produce the union of the spiritual Triad, or divine Self, and the Quaternary, or lower self. Where the Logos is concerned, whether solar or planetary, they produce conditions whereby the etheric, and the dense physical become a unit. They represent a peculiar type of electrical force; their work is to blend and fuse, and above all else they are the “transmuting fires” of the system, and are those agents who pass the life of God through their bodies of flame as it descends from the higher into the lower, and again as it ascends from the lower into the higher.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 698

“We leave now the consideration of self-consciousness, as it is produced through the medium of the particular type of deva substance which the Agnishvattas provided for the body of the Ego, and pass on to the study of incarnation, cosmic, planetary and human.” Treatise on Cosmic Fire Pg 732

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What Are Devas?

May 15, 2025 Joseph Dewey

What Are Devas?

Question: Can we explore words that are commonly used in the Bailey writings?

JJ: Actually, we are doing that now. The first four words; Deva, Agnichaitans, Agnisuryans and Agnishvattas are very interrelated. The plan is to proceed in basic alphabetical order but digress as needed to examine key words related to the word in progress or of group interest.

As we proceed in this dictionary I do not want to examine the meaning in great depth as this would make the dictionary very large and take us ages to get through it. On the other hand, we will examine fewer, but important, words, but with more depth than a standard esoteric dictionary.

The basic purpose of the dictionary will be to give the DK/AAB reader an understandable definition as well as helpful background information. We’ll expand some on each word, but not to the fullest extent.

Here’s the definition for a very key word .

Devas

Definition: These beings are sometimes called members of the angel kingdom and sometimes called agents of the creative mind of God which go forth to do His Will in building all form in the universe.

Even though Devas do not live in the dense physical they create the network wherein the form develops. They do this from the etheric, astral and mental worlds.

There are greater and lesser Devas sometimes called the greater and lesser builders. Many of the greater are considered angels on the evolutionary arc and have passed through the human kingdom. The lesser builders are often called elementals and are on the involutionary arc. These create all physical form that we see about us.

Simply put we could say this. Non physical beings that do not presently incarnate into dense physical bodies are Devas.

Humans are polarized in the male energy and Devas the female. There are 300 billion greater Devas for this earth.

Key Statements DK Made About Devas

“It might here be well to point out that, working as members of that Hierarchy are a great number of beings called angels by the Christian, and devas by the oriental. Many of them have passed through the human stage long ages ago, and work now in the ranks of the great evolution parallel to the human, and which is called the deva evolution.” Initiation Human and Solar, Pg 36

“The devas, with the exception of those greater devas who have in earlier cycles passed through the human kingdom and are now co-operating in the evolution of man, are not as yet self-conscious. They grow and develop through feeling and not through the power of conscious thought…The devas follow the line of least resistance, and seek to appropriate and experience in fullest tide of feeling and sentiency the vibration of things as they are. Therefore the method for them is an ever-increasing intensity of appreciation for the feeling of the moment.” Initiation Human and Solar, Pg 97

“The devas who are the sumtotal of the energy of substance itself care not what form they build.” TCF, Page 951

“The devas of the ethers carry on their foreheads a translucent symbol in the form of a crescent moon, and by this they may be distinguished from the astral devas by those able to see clairvoyantly.

“As we consider the devas of the ethers, we find that they fall naturally—as far as manifestation is concerned—into two main groups. Each group is represented on each of the four subplanes, and this grouping must be considered as but one method of differentiation out of the many possible. These groups are, first, those devas who are the transmitters of prana to all forms of life; they are a group of intermediary devas, and may be regarded as the energy providers in their various differentiations; secondly, those devas who form the etheric bodies of every form in manifestation. These constitute the bulk of the lesser devas.” TCF, Pg 915

“A beautiful diamond, a stately tree, or a fish in the water are but devas after all. It is the recognition of this essential livingness which constitutes the basic fact in all occult investigation, and is the secret of all beneficent magic.” TCF, Pg 892

“The deva evolution is feminine, negative and receptive, the human evolution is masculine, positive and aggressive.” A Learning Experience; Mary Bailey, Pg 49

“The devas do not suffer pain as does mankind. Their rate of rhythm is steadier although in line with the Law. They learn through application to the work of building and through incorporation into the form of that which is built. They grow through appreciation of and joy in the forms built and the work accomplished.” A Treatise on White Magic, Pages 532-533

“Through rites and ceremonies you can sense the devas and reach them, but not in the same manner nor for the same reason that you can the elementals. The devas attend ceremonies freely and are not summoned; they come, as you do, to tap the power. When your vibrations are pure enough the ceremonies serve as a common meeting-ground… Speech, as we know it, is not understood by the devas, but impulses, forces, vibrations can be set up by the use of specific forms that lead to the desired result and obviate the need of speech. These forms open the avenues of mutual comprehension.” Letters on Occult Meditation, Pg 176

“The angels and devas are to the vegetable kingdom what the spiritual Hierarchy is to humanity. This is, of course, a mystery with which you have no concern.” Telepathy and the Etheric Vehicle, Page 79

“Wherever attention is centred on the form and not on the Spirit, the tendency is to deva worship, deva contact and black magic, for the form is made of deva substance on all planes.

“This must be considered well in connection with every form for it holds the key to many mysteries.” TCF, Page 491

“It would interest us much could we but understand a little of the point of view of those great devas Who co-operate intelligently in the plan of evolution. They have Their own method of expressing these ideas, the medium being colour which can be heard, and sound which can be seen. Man reverses the process and sees colors and hears sounds. A hint lies here as to the necessity for symbols, for they are signs which convey cosmic truths, and instruction, and can be comprehended alike by the evolved of both evolutions.” TCF, Page 666

“The goal for the devas (below the rank of solar Pitris) is individualisation, and their objective is to become men in some future cycle.” TCF, Page 836

Men would be angels; angels would be gods. – Alexander Pope

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Esoteric Words

May 14, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Esoteric Words

One of the biggest problems in understanding the Alice A. Bailey writings is the strange vocabulary. For a first-time reader sitting down to enjoy the writings this can seem like an overwhelming obstacle. At first, they seem more complex than understanding a medical journal.

I am therefore initiating a new project that will probably last for years and that is going through DK’s writings and perhaps some others and finding, defining and hopefully understanding certain words. We’ll then take the best of the definitions and eventually compile our own dictionary.

That said, here is the first word: Agnichaitans

So, where do you look for understanding?

First, if you have the text of the Alice A. Bailey books do a search there first. If you have them downloaded on your computer this will prove very useful.

Secondly, you can Google the word.

Thirdly, there are several online esoteric dictionaries. Here are the address for three of them:

Dictionary 1

Dictionary 2

Dictionary 3

Here are things to look for:

Obviously, the meaning of the word.

Any interesting applications for the word.

Words, phrases and principles in relation to the word that need to be understood, especially as it applies to the AAB writings.

A reader gives this definition and comment: “The Agnichaitans are builders in our physical world and their work can visibly be seen in the growth of crystals and mineral forms.”

“How is it they are the builders? From what science tells us, our physical world is built upon atoms and molecules. These particles bond to other atoms and molecules based on electrical charge, compatible atomic configurations, and many other variables I don’t have the knowledge to expand upon.”

JJ: Science observes what happens when crystals are formed and they describe what they observe but they do not fully understand what causes that which they observe. Tiny lives that operate like complex computer programs guide the creation of all form whether it be a mineral, a plant or a human body.

Fire is at the heart of all life and the Agnichaitans work at the most intense point of all fires and build creatively with fire in the bowels of the earth.

The reader continues:

“[The Agnichaitans] are influenced through sound and can be guided by the adepts toward what is considered magical work.”

“Can you give an example of this ‘magical work’ that is something science is unable to do with its knowledge of manipulation of atoms and/or molecules?”

JJ: Spiritual healing involves the use of the Agnichaitans. When a yogi slows his heart rate and can make himself to appear lifeless, he puts them to sleep. When we speak in everyday life we will influence them to a small degree depending on the feeling and intent behind our words. Adepts on the Left and Right use words of power to direct them, but few of these are in any book.

Reader: “Would you please expand upon what ‘originating point of fire’ means.”

JJ: When you strike a match it does not light unless an originating point of fire is created. Once the match is lit this point of fire remains and will be the last point remaining when the match goes out as long as the fuel remains.

This originating point is the life-giving heart of an Agnichaitan which incarnates into the fire. If an Adept can speak their language he could then control fire.

Reader: “Also, what is meant by ‘this energy of fire is the power that creates the physical activity necessary to move creation forward.”

JJ: Nothing happens without motion and fire is merely very intense motion. The Agnichaitans are the power that causes motion on the physical plane. Motion that does not seem to be fire from our perspective is fire from a higher perspective that sees time from a different reference.

Reader: “How many Agnichaitans do we have in our physical body?”

JJ: Countless numbers in different grades which are a reflection of one greater life.

Reader: “Where inside us do they live?”

JJ: They live in etheric matter. Ask yourself where electricity lives within you and you will have your answer.

Reader: “If I want a healthier, more usable and long-lasting body, I just eat right, take vitamins, and work-out. What is this process you speak of by which we can have the same thing by influencing these Devas with our thoughts? What are the steps of this process? How is this process different than what I currently do?”

JJ: When you eat good food and take vitamins you are providing prana for the Agnichaitans that they will take to the fires in your body. You can also influence them positively with soothing sounds, music and speech. The sense of smell also drives them.

The Agnichaitans are strongly influenced by the higher devas of the astral — the Agnisuryans, and the mental — the Agnishvattas which we will cover shortly.

Be silent, or let thy words be worth more than silence. Pythagoras

Oct 18, 2009

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Loving Relationships, Part 7

May 12, 2025 Joseph Dewey

Loving Relationships, Part 7
Touching the Soul

Audience: “My experience with what I think of as intuition is intuition is the fault process of communication and learning. We learn things most commonly by rote. It seems like to me that when you experience intuition you get the whole picture at once then you verbalize it then add everything else into it. It’s like going backwards from the normal way.”

JJ: It is backwards from the normal way. Basically, to discover a person’s evolution you want to look for a number of things. You want to look for how much love he or she radiates. If he contacts the soul, he contacts pure love energy. There is something higher than soul and that is the Monad. For practical purposes we won’t even go into this because we want to get to the soul before we get to the Monad. The Monad is the projector of purpose. This is different from how we usually think. Purpose is aligning the person in harmony with the divine will. First of all, before we can even glimpse what the purpose is, we must contact the soul. The soul is a stepping stone to the Monad which projects purpose.

Why am I talking about this when our topic is relationships? Before anyone can have a really beautiful relationship, the soul must be contacted in yourself. When it’s contacted in yourself, you’ll be able to see the soul in others. When you see it contacted in yourself then you see it in others, there will be a love between you and that person. This will demand a response.

If the person is under a feel-good state of illusion, the response will often be hard to reach. But if the love energy goes out to the person, and stimulates the soul and the love energy then comes back then contact is made. A good example of this that everyone is aware of in this room is the act of making love. In the Bible it says, “This is eternal life that ye shall know God.” The word for” know” is the same word used for sex in the Bible. All throughout the Bible, the word, “know” is used for the sex act. Somebody knew somebody and he or she begat somebody else.

It says it’s eternal life to know God. Why are the same words used? It’s used because at the highest level of sex, when the climax is reached, you have a breaking of the veil between the two people so there is a knowing of the person’s soul. That’s why it feels so great, because it’s an actual knowing of God. It only lasts a short period of time.

Wayne: “Is that why we cry, ‘Oh God!”? (Laughter)”

JJ: When you’re making love and approaching that divine moment, has anyone ever been able to feel anger toward anyone? Or dislike toward the other person? It’s almost impossible. Try it sometime. When you’re in that state of approaching climax, try to hate anyone. It’s impossible. Even though you may have had a big fight and were throwing furniture around moments before, when you’re in the act and approaching that moment there’s only peace and love. It’s because you’ve penetrated the soul. The two have become one and unity is what produces soul contact. It’s a physical unity but it still produces some flow of energy from the soul. It is an octave lower than contact with the mind, but it is still a form of soul energy.

Audience: “Is that a point of tension that gets reached?”

JJ: Right, that’s a point of tension and this is soul energy coming down. It’s on a physical level. Sexual climax is the one that everyone is familiar with and it is actually a divine energy. It’s the first contact with soul energy that most of us feel. The second one is the born-again experience.

Audience: “Why doesn’t it last?”

JJ: That’s because the soul is no longer in contact. The soul has to be in contact in order for this to be felt. When there is complete soul contact then you will almost always be in a state of euphoria. You will feel really good all the time. When there is complete soul contact and the illusions have all been broken through it will not go away though the intensity will be cyclic due to the attention we have to give to normal life. You’ll be in a state that feels similar to the sexual climax all the time but on a more refined level. Wouldn’t that be nice? Think back to this statement again. In this divine moment when you have achieved some soul energy down flow, in the sexual climax, have you ever felt any anger?

Audience: “It doesn’t last long enough.”

JJ: Right, when it’s over the anger might reappear but not actually at that moment. That’s why when we contact the soul, it’s the same thing. You cannot hate anybody. You only feel love because you pass beyond the illusion. When you hate somebody, you hate something that doesn’t exist. When you contact the soul, you contact something that does exist and is real and it’s impossible to feel any disturbance of peace. Isn’t that a great teaching?

Wayne: “I could get off on that (Laughter).”

JJ: Sexual climax is something that everyone can identify with. The higher levels of soul contact are not things that everyone can identify with. There is a handful who have felt some inflow of soul energy. Most of you in this room have felt it in one degree or another. When you feel the soul energy it feels really great. Would you say it felt even better than a sexual climax? Doesn’t it feel better? Have you ever felt anything that felt better?

Wayne: “So if you’re premature you’re a little more spiritual or what? (Laughter)”

JJ: This is probably the strangest approach anyone ever heard of for establishing relationships but it is one that will work. What’s the normal approach? They say you have to treat your partner really good and buy flowers. I bought flowers but that does not necessarily avoid an argument. When you reach soul contact, you can do it. I remember the first argument we ever had. I thought soul contact had to be reached so what did I tell you about it?

Artie: “You taught me to tell you I love you three times.”

JJ: I had her look in my eyes and tell me she loves me three times. It takes more effort to do that now, but when we first fell in love we’d do about anything. The first time she says I love you and I say, say it again with greater feeling. So she mumbles I love you again, and I say with more feeling. By the time she says it a third time, she forgets what she is angry about. All of a sudden negativity just disappears. The soul was touched.

That’s a good way to dissolve an argument. Look in each other’s eyes and with feeling, pretend that you’re an actor if you have to, send out your love. You have to do that. Say I love you three times. Each of you say it to each other. All of a sudden you don’t need a winner of the argument, you don’t need to resolve the problem, you don’t need to decide what color to paint the walls. All of a sudden you just feel good with each other. Energy follows thought. You have to think I love you more than say it. When you say it and say it like you mean it, all of a sudden, the energy follows thought and the love returns. The same thing if you don’t feel like being affectionate, be affectionate and energy will follow thought.

So the soul has to be reached. We have all these veils of illusion around us. If the solution is so simple, why don’t we do it? When you’re really angry why is it hard to say I love you? It’s almost like a person says, “I’m angry and I’m happy to be angry. I’m unhappy and I’m happy to be unhappy.” It’s really difficult to break through that.

The only way to break through is by the exercise of will. I’m going to tell a nasty secret about the energy of love. People have a very ephemeral view about love. They feel like love is something that is sometimes there and sometimes not there. It’s mystical. When it’s not there there’s nothing you can do about it, it’s just not there. You have to wait for the fight to blow over, the winds to cool down then maybe a few days later, love will return. So you just have to wait for love to show up. Or you have to wait to find the right one that you can love. You have to just wait around then like magic, out of the blue, here comes love. Is that how love works? That’s what people seem to think, isn’t it?

Audience: “What I can’t understand is that you’re talking about the love coming from the soul and where is the romantic love coming from? Where do you get the category of romantic energy?”

JJ: We’ll go into that in a minute. So we have this love energy that seems so mystical and magical but if it is an energy like electricity then it can be turned on and off. If love is an energy we can do everything with love that we can do with lights. We can turn it down halfway, or way down so you can barely see it, or all the way off, or up to very bright. How can we do that? Can we do that with anybody?

Love is an energy and it can be manifested by an exercise of will. If you’re in an intense battle with your mate or your best friend and you feel very bitter feelings and you want to hate him instead of loving, by an exercise of will you can turn it off or on. The energy of love is the great lesson. Two people, once they learn to turn it on can turn it off or on at will. Love never needs to be gone unless they turn it off at will. It feels so good, why on Earth would anyone in his or her right mind not want it around? It feels so great. Has everyone in here been in love with somebody? It feels so great, who wants it to go away? I know I don’t, it feels really wonderful. Once we understand the will, we can make it come back anytime. We can keep it.

Audience: “It’s a lot easier to get it to come back when you get rid of all the garbage, the anger, bitterness, the things that get in the way. Once you get rid of that it’s like the cup in the story, it overflows if you don’t get rid of some stuff so there’s room for the new stuff. To be able to accept love, you need to empty your cup of all the garbage.”

JJ: The key is to look beyond the garbage, for if we look for the negative it will always be there, for none of us are perfect. Look beyond the imperfection to the perfection of the soul and the imperfect will fade away.

We’ll end on that note.

I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes. – Sara Teasdale

Oct 14, 2009

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