The Law of Solar Union and The Cycle Of Sunship under karmic law:

This paper seeks through order and sequence to show the process of Scheme and Plane synthesis producing the eventual burning forth of the seven suns as the "seven fold light" in a solar system. It also hopes to elucidate the necessity of karmic law in appointing which of the seven brothers, or otherwise, shall take up the sequential title as a "shining face" in a new solar system post pralaya and always due to events of circumstance and necessity worked out in a prior system.

I cannot of course rule out that during the seven partial solar pralayas there is not a change of events or "taking over" by any given Sun/son. We might note that it is during the last full solar pralaya that the "war" took place due to incorrect timing. Whilst in esoteric meditation or perfect abstract obscuration, the seven brothers failed to "create," as keepers of perfect time, as the Seven Rishis, this failure or manifestation of "magnetic corruption" caused much "lost time" as accounted for by DK and HPB. Hence this solar cycle being one of great disruption.

At the end of this system the seven suns absorb all the material and objectivity of the Solar System and then abstract into pralaya. What happens during this abstraction or solar nirvana, we might wonder at, but always upon the initial processes of objectivity do the seven sons or more, manifest as great suns, entering out of pralaya as that which they truly are before descending into the required matter accordingly to the body of incarnation as karmic law demands. Whether that body be a dense material globe, or a more rarefied one such as a gas giant ect. Or, if karma permits, a sun manifesting as a great body of fire.

This paper does not do justice to, or touch upon in the least detail, the stupendous and sacred processes of the planetary and solar logi or the great laws of karma, which they are subject to. It only seeks to kindle the spiritual imagination or intuition of a group of human brothers.

Ideally, this paper should be read in conjunction with two other papers, entitled, "Seven Rishis Seven Timekeepers" and "Mars, Agnibhu." JPC.

Not even Esoteric philosophy can claim to know, except by analogical inference, that which took place before the reappearance of our Solar System and previous to the last Maha Pralaya. SD1 369.

The seven rays of the Sun at the final Pralaya, which expand into Seven Suns and absorb the material of the whole Universe. SD2 611.

Then the Avyaya, say the exoteric scriptures, the eternal life symbolized by Vishnu, assuming the character of Rudra, the Destroyer, enters into the Seven Rays of the Sun and drinks up all the waters of the Universe. "Thus fed, *the seven solar Rays dilate to seven Suns* and set fire to the whole Cosmos. . . . ." SD2 70.

Will be seen towards the close of the mahamanvantara. It will cover the period wherein the lesser four Rays merge and blend, seeking duality, and their polar opposites. Eventually the four become two, the two become one, and all are then synthesized into the third major Ray. The time is not yet, but lies countless aeons ahead. It is the first appearance of the destroyer aspect in connection with the planetary schemes, and marks the beginning of the time when the "Heavens will melt with fervent heat," and the Sun becomes seven suns. (See S. D., II, 746, 747.)   

The microcosmic correspondence can be seen in the following process. The physical permanent atom absorbs the entire life force of the physical body, and its inherent heat and light is thereby increased until at the fourth initiation the seven spirillae are fully vitalized, and vibrant.

The internal heat of the atom, plus the external heat of the egoic body wherein it has its place, produces then that which destroys the permanent atom. Temporarily, and just prior to destruction, it becomes a tiny sevenfold sun owing to the radiation and activity of the spirillae. So with the physical sun of the system; it will in a similar manner become seven suns, when it has absorbed the life essence of the fully evolved planes, and of the planetary schemes thereon.

The ensuing conflagration is the final work of the Destroyer aspect. It marks the moment of the highest development of deva substance in the system, the consummation of the work of Agni and his fire angels, and the initiation of Brahma. Atomic substance will then individualize (which, as we know, is the goal for the atom) and after *the great pralaya, the next solar system will start.* TCF 741.

For the Sun to shine again with *"seven-fold light"* indicates that at some preceding period of activity the *sun in question* with all its burden of life must have been developed to a very much higher degree.  For the seven-fold light here mentioned is the light of the Central Spiritual Sun.  If the sun of our solar system were to shine again with that particular "light," it would be necessary for the energy of each principle of the Central Sun to be focused upon the Solar Orb again - as in some preceding age when the cyclic law permitted such a like focus.  Hilarion. Theogenesis.

JC: Seven Planetary Schemes or Systems of Planes.

This Kabalistic view is here quoted, to show its perfect identity in spirit with the Eastern doctrine. Explain, or complete the teaching of the *seven Suns with the seven systems of planes* of being, of which the "Suns" are the central bodies, and you have the seven angelic planes, whose "Host" are gods thereof, collectively. SD2 241.

JC: An eventual "seven fold light." The seven fold light of the seven systemic planes.

As we know, the planetary schemes (the seven sacred planets) will eventually synthesize, or absorb the life of the planets which are not termed sacred and the numerous planetoids, as far as the four kingdoms of nature are concerned. The absorption of the Spirit aspect proceeds under the Law of Synthesis. The minor four planetary schemes become first the two, and then the one. This one, with the major three, forms a second and higher quaternary which again repeats the process, producing from the four, the two, and from the two, the one. This final one is eventually merged in the Sun, producing in this *prolonged process, and over a vast period of time, the appearance of the "seven Suns* who run together, and thus blaze forth, producing one flaming ball of fire."

On a lesser scale the same law governs the merging of the chains in a scheme.

The Law of Solar Union: When the interplay of the Suns is being dealt with from the material aspect and from the consciousness aspect, this term is occultly used. It is not possible to enlarge upon it, but only to point out the universality of this Law of Attraction. TCF 1173.

This has been expressed in the old Commentary in the following words:

"The seven Brothers love each other, yet each seeketh for many aeons the path of hatred. They hate and kill each other until they find that which dieth not and is not hurt. Together then they stand and serve and through their service the seven suns burn up."

The seven suns are destroyed because when synthesis and unity are reached and when the differentiated forces become one homogeneous force, the attractive or magnetic effect of this coherence is a manifested unit on the physical plane as well as on the subjective side of nature. This produces necessarily the destruction of all limiting forms, the merging of the fires, and the blazing forth into objectivity of the vital body of the Logos prior to the *final abstraction and the subsequent dying out or obscuration of the solar system.* TCF 1249.

The Seven Beings in the Sun are the Seven Holy Ones, Self-born from the inherent power in the matrix of Mother substance. It is they who send the Seven Principal Forces, called rays, which at *the beginning of Pralaya will centre into seven new Suns* for the next Manvantara. SD1 290.

"The seven Sons of Light - called after their planets and often even identified with them - namely, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Venus and presumably the Sun and the Moon." S.D. Vol. I, 628.

When our solar universe came into being, we are told in the allegorical language of the ancient scriptures, there "was war in Heaven"; "*the sun and his seven brothers*" did not function with true unanimity; hence (and herein lies a hint) our Earth is not one of the seven sacred planets. EP1 394.

*Eighth, Rhea (the Earth)* SD2 142.

In the Esoteric Doctrine, one war takes place *before the building of the Solar system*. SD1 419.

The whole of creation was due to, and the result of, that legendary "War in Heaven" brought on by the rebellion of the angels against creative law, or the Demiurge. The statement is correct, but the inner meaning is to this day a mystery. SD2 237.

War in Heaven refers to several events of that kind on various and different planes of being. The first is a purely astronomical and cosmical fact pertaining to cosmogony. SD2 499.

In this the number of those who failed and fell was seven. We meet with those seven in Egypt - *eight with the mother* - where they are called the “Children of Inertness,” who were cast out from Am-Smen, *the Paradise of the Eight*; also in a Babylonian legend of Creation, as the Seven Brethren, who were Seven Kings, like the Seven Kings in the Book of Revelation; and the Seven Non-Sentient Powers, who became the Seven Rebel Angels that made war in heaven. SD3 193.

The seven, whose names are given by Origen as Adonai, genius of the Sun; Tao, of the Moon; Eloi, of Jupiter; Sabao, of Mars; Orai, of Venus; Astaphai, of Mercury; and Ildabaoth (Jehovah), of Saturn. SD1 577.  *Eighth, Rhea (the Earth)* SD2 142.

      Sacred Planets

        1. Vulcan 1st ray

        2. Mercury 4th ray**

        3. Venus 5th ray**

        4. Jupiter 2nd ray**

        5. Saturn 3rd ray** (veiling a hidden planet)

        6. Neptune 6th ray

        7. Uranus 7th ray

      Non-sacred Planets

        1. Mars 6th ray**

        2. The Earth 3rd ray***the Eighth

        3. Pluto 1st ray

        4. The Moon 4th ray**

        5. The Sun 2nd ray** EA 513.

Mars: In the Mahabharata, Karttikeya, "the six-faced Mars," is the son of Rudra or Siva, Self-born without a mother from the seed of Siva cast into the fire. But Karttikeya is generally called *Agnibhu, "fire born*." SD2 382.

Seven great psychological Lives, qualified by seven types of life force, are manifesting through the medium of seven planets.

        The Sun

        Jupiter

        Saturn

        Mercury

        Venus

        Mars

        The Moon  EA 650. It is a

        substitute for a planet which seems to have disappeared from view."

        (Vol. III, 459) EA 665.

They came from previous kalpas. - S. D., II, 99.

There is an eternal cyclic law of re-births, and the series is headed at every new Manvantaric dawn by those who had enjoyed their rest from re-incarnations in previous Kalpas for incalculable AEons -- by the highest and the earliest Nirvanees. It was the turn of those "Gods" to incarnate in the present Manvantara. SD2 232.

Then it touches upon the mystery of the Devas, and even Gods, having to pass through states which it was agreed to refer to as "Inmetallization, Inherbation, Inzoonization and finally Incarnation," and explains this by hinting at the necessity of failures even in the ethereal races of Dhyan Chohans. Concerning this it says:

"Now there are, and there must be, failures in the ethereal races of the many classes of Dhyan-Chohans, or Devas (progressed entities of a previous planetary period), as well as among men. But still, as the failures are too far progressed and spiritualized to be thrown back forcibly from Dhyan-Chohanship into the vortex of a new primordial evolution through the lower Kingdoms, this then happens. Where a *new solar system has to be evolved these Dhyan-Chohans are borne in by influx.* SD2 233.

"Among the three secret orbs or Star Angels, Uranus... was not included." (S.D. Vol. I, 629)

"Neptune does not really belong to our system, in spite of its apparent connection with the Sun. The connection is imaginary." (S.D. Vol. I, 129, Note)

"Among the secret orbs or star Angels... Neptune was not included." (S.D. Vol. I, 629)

"The seven Gods were divided into two triads and the sun.

Higher Triad - Moon, Jupiter and Saturn. (the Moon standing for a hidden planet)

Lower Triad - Mars, Mercury and Venus. S.D. Vol. II, 484-5.

"The seven planets are the Sun's brothers and not his sons." S.D. Vol. I, 483.

The Seven Beings in the Sun are the Seven Holy Ones, Self-born from the inherent power in the matrix of Mother substance.

It is they who send the Seven Principal Forces, called rays, which at the beginning of Pralaya will centre into seven new Suns for the next Manvantara. SD1 729.

In earlier kalpas or solar systems. TCF 252.

In the present Manvantara the actual period is separated into seven Kalpas. SD2 711.

We should bear in mind that Karma is imposed upon the ensouling entity through the medium of matter or of substance itself (which is colored by it) and that this matter or substance is intelligent material composed of deva essence.     

Cosmic Karma - Imposed upon the solar Logos from *outside of the system.*

*Systemic Karma - The working out by the Logos of effects set in motion in previous Kalpas, and which influence His present type of Body.*     

Planetary Karma - The individual karma of a Heavenly Man, which is just as *different from that of another Heavenly Man.* TCF 469.

Much earlier kalpas... of an earlier solar cycle. TCF 727.

Yet both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas [suns], and may in future "Days" again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in nature. Voice of the Silence. HPB.  Suns..Mercury and Mars jc.

THE DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BRAHMA.

THIS is the name given to the Periods called MANVANTARA (Manuantara, or between the Manus) and PRALAYA (Dissolution); one referring to the active periods of the Universe, the other to its times of relative and complete rest -- according to whether they occur at the end of a "Day," or an "Age" (a life) of Brahma.

These periods, which follow each other in regular succession, are also called Kalpas, small and great, the minor and the Maha Kalpa; though, properly speaking, the Maha Kalpa is never a "day," but a whole life or age of Brahma. SD1 368.

Kalpa or grand period of 4,320,000,000 of years. IU 32.

Add Sandhis, i.e., intervals between the reign of each Manu, which amount

to six Maha-Yugas, equal to ............................................................ 25,920,000

The total of these reigns and interregnums of 14 Manus, is 1,000 Maha-Yugas,

which constitute a Kalpa, i.e., one day of Brahma .........................................................

4,320,000,000

When the pralaya of a solar system comes it affects that solar system only. A solar pralaya = 7 minor pralayas. Mahatma Letters.

During a full solar pralaya when neither heat nor light could reach any section of any of the planets belonging to the solar system. Theogenesis. Hilarion.

"The seven Sons of Light - called after their planets and often even identified with them - namely, Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Venus and presumably the Sun and the Moon." S.D. Vol. I, 628.

At one time Mars was a great sun and when its cycle of Sunship ceased it became a planet, and the regent of the Red Ray now rules it.

The planet Jupiter is the largest planet of our solar system and quite self luminous according to Those Who Know. The civilization on Jupiter is more advanced than that of any of our planets, yet the density is no greater than that of milk or other fluids of about the same specific gravity. Therefore its inhabitants must be, to a great extent, on the inner planes as there is no solid matter on it. Being now selfluminous to a large degree is significant.

This means that when the great energy of our Sun and its source is exhausted, which may take hundreds of thousands or millions of years, Jupiter will take the Sun's place in the heavens and all the planets will revolve around it as they do now around the present Sun. Thus we see how Suns are evolved and when they lose the source of their great energy they become planets.  [TT2@298] Hilarion.

When the time comes for a planet to die, it becomes a "relaxed conglomerate" and slowly breaks up or has its matter osmosed to another center, as the moon is now losing its substance to the earth. Its energies -- including the spiritual and psychic, and possessing among their subtle bonds the magnetic Karmic lines of the individual living Egos, of all the now unmanifest life of the system, escape; freed for the time being from the bonds of that sort of matter, it passes through a cometary stage, is finally captured by the body destined to be its future sun and life-giver, and from thence, almost in agreement with the "planetesimal" theory, grows physically and otherwise, and evolves its whole gigantic physical life-system; and even as its visible body augments, so its invisible energies come into full function on their own planes -- a new "planetary chain" of "globes." And many are the Karmic rises and falls of such a body through its successive reincarnations for good or for ill!

Behold Migmar,* as in his crimson veils his "Eye" sweeps over slumbering Earth. Behold the fiery aura of the "Hand" of Lhagpa** extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. Both are now servants to Nyima*** left in his absence silent watchers in the night. Yet both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future "Days" again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in nature.   Voice Of The Silence.  H.P.Blavatsky. [*Mars.] [**Mercury.] [***The Sun.]

THEOSOPHY, Vol. 18, No. 10, August, 1930

Exhaust the law of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth.

If Sun thou can'st not be, then be the humble planet. Aye, if thou art debarred from flaming like the noon-day Sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, O Neophyte, a humbler course. Voice HPB.

Mercury is One with the Sun. SD2 31.

This will take the history, therefore, of a Monad back to the earlier kalpas. Such history it is not possible to reveal, and no purpose would be served by such a revelation. The fact only can be touched upon as it must be considered along general lines if the true nature of the Self is to be accurately known.   

We might consider that the Monad of the human being passes through cycles analogous to those through which the Heavenly Man travels. There is, first, the vast cycle of unfoldment through which a "spark" passes.

This covers the period of three major solar systems - that preceding this one, the present, and the succeeding one. In these three, the totality of the cosmic Past, Present, and Future, embodying the three aspects of the divine Life of the solar Logos, are carried to the point of perfection in an individualized Monad. It must be remembered that in this solar system, for instance, certain developments are only recapitulations of evolutionary processes undergone in an earlier solar system. TCF 1088.

The Monad has cycles analogous, though on a miniature scale, to those of the one Life Who permeates and animates all lesser lives. (Bible. I Peter 2:4.)

Certain of these cycles cover periods of time so vast, and so long past, that their history can only be conveyed to the investigating Adepts through the medium of sound and symbol.

The details of that development are lost in the night of other kalpas, and all that can be seen are the results, - the cause must be accepted as existing, though for us remaining inexplicable until the higher initiations are taken. TCF 1089.

JPC.

August 2005.

Jeremy Condick. jpcondick@ntlworld.com