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.
Oct 28,2009 – Quotes added May 2025
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