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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Oct 26, 2009 – DK Quotes added May 2025
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