| Mantric Forms connected with Fire August
19th, 1920
Perhaps it would be of value if I touched somewhat upon the part fire plays in
evolution and on the various departments connected with fire that may be found within our
solar system. I especially emphasize it because in meditation the domain of fire is
entered, and because of its prime importance. The departments in which fire plays its part
are five. Let us therefore enumerate them. I will deal first with fire in the Macrocosm,
and later show its microcosmic correspondence.
- The vital fire that animates the objective solar system. For instance, as evidenced in
the internal economy of our planet, and the central ball of fire, the sun.
- That mysterious something called by H. P. B. Fohat, of which some of the manifestations
are electricity, certain forms of light, and the magnetic fluid wherever encountered.
- The fire of the mental plane. [184]
- The fire elementals who, in their essence, are fire itself.
- The vital spark we call the divine flame, latent in each human being, which
distinguishes our Solar Logos from all other Logoi, and which is the sum of all His
characteristics. "Our God is a consuming Fire."
All these differentiations of fire are practically differentiations of one and the same
thing; they are basically the same though in manifestation they are diverse. They
originated fundamentally from cosmic fire found on the cosmic mental levels. In the
Microcosm you find this fivefold differentiation again, and it is in the recognition of
this correspondence that illumination comes, and the purpose of meditation is achieved.
- The vital
fires that keep the internal economy of the human being, - the microcosmic system - in
full manifestation. At the cessation of that inner burning, death ensues, and the physical
objective system passes into obscuration. So it is in the Macrocosm. Just as the sun is
the center for our system, so the heart is the focal point for the microcosmic heat;
similarly, as the earth is vitalized by the same heat and is, for our chain, the point of
densest matter, and of greatest physical heat, so the lower generative organs are the
secondary center in the majority of cases for the internal fire. The correspondence is
accurate, mysterious and interesting.
- The
correspondence in the Microcosm to Fohat is found in the pranic currents that, through the
etheric body, keep the dense physical vitalized and magnetized. The resources of the
pranic fluid are illimitable and little understood, and in their [185] proper
comprehension lies the secret of perfect health. We will touch upon this later.
- The
correspondence to the fire of the mental plane is easily demonstrable. For the work of the
Lords of Flame in implanting the spark of mind has so developed and grown, that now the
fire of intellect is to be seen burning in all civilized peoples. All energies are turned
to the feeding of that spark and the turning of it to the greatest profit.
- The fire
elementals are known in some measure in the microcosm by the thought-forms conjured up and
vitalized by the man whose thought power suffices to do so. These thought-forms, built by
the man who can think strongly, are vitalized by his life or capacity to heat, and
last as long as he has the power so to animate them. This is not for long at this time as
the real power of thought is little comprehended. In the fifth great cycle, which for this
chain will see the culmination of the fifth principle of mind, this correspondence will be
more understood. At present the connection is necessarily obscure.
- The vital
spark latent in each human being which marks him out as of the same nature as the Solar
Logos.
Here you
have fire as it may be seen in the greater and the lesser systems. I would here sum up for
you the purpose of fire in the microcosm, and what must be aimed at. You have the three
fires:
- The vital divine spark.
- The spark of mind.
- Kundalini, the twofold blending of the internal heat and of the pranic current. The home
of this [186] force is the center at the base of the spine and the spleen as a feeder of
that heat.
When these three fires - that of the quaternary, of the triad and of the fifth
principle - meet and blend in proper geometrical manner, each center is adequately
vitalized, every power is sufficiently expressing itself, all impurity and dross is burnt
away, and the goal is reached. The spark has become a flame, and the flame is part of the
great egoic blaze which animates all of the objective universe.
Therefore, we are brought logically to the position that there will be for these three
types of mantrams another mantram which will bring about their union and merging. |
