In this presentation, we will look at the relationship between the Solar Logos and the Planetary Logoi. An analogy of this relationship would be that of a Prime minister and a cabinet of ministers. Those ministers we call the Planetary Logoi but they should really be referred to as Planetary Chain Logoi. Ever since childhood, I used to think of our solar logos as being our local area god. This entity represented everything good, right and true. Attributes such as partiality, injustice, jealousy, anger and cruelty were no part of this being. Yet look at how the Religions of the Book, Judaism, Christianity and Islam depict their “god”. All the attributes that should not be part of a God are attributed to their conception of god. How these attributes could have been described in the respective holy books of these religions and not immediately set off a wail of disbelief, I was never able to fathom. Our solar logos possesses omniscience, omnipresence, and omnipotence. The love, the power, the wisdom, the glory, all are there in fullest measure.
It is worth remembering that this mighty being, who locates its monad, most likely on the 29th plane of matter, is not the Absolute. The Absolute is unknowable to us and before whom the Solar Logos is but a speck of cosmic dust.
We become aware of the Solar Logos through its physical manifestation, the Sun. As was mentioned in the last presentation, although our solar system may seem like a mighty formation, it is but a fraction of the total presence of our solar logos. It is worth mentioning at this point that the physical body of the sun is another great monad undergoing its own evolution and is part of a lifestream quite different from our own.
The Bhagavad Gita refers to god by saying ”Having pervaded this whole universe with one fragment of Myself, I remain”. This saying is as true for the Absolute as it is for our solar logos. This mighty monad is often portrayed, as sitting upon a lotus throne. It could be considered the apotheosis of Humanity. This is where we are heading, though not all of us will choose the role of acting as a focus of energy that allows other monads to achieve their evolutionary goals.
One image of the solar logos is that of the “Great Bird”, hovering over his creation, brooding over the waters of space, or darting onwards along lines of its own evolution. It is not beyond fantasy to imagine that we are cells within the body of this mighty being. If the monad of the Solar Logos resides on Plane 29, the first manifestation of the cosmic being in our solar system occurs on Plane 43, where the first aspect manifests itself. On Plane 44, the second aspect comes into play and on Plane 45, the upper half, found on the 3rd triad, manifests the Third Aspect.
In the Ancient Mysteries of Greece, the Logos was symbolised by the child Bacchus, who was represented as playing with certain toys. One of these was dice, consisting of the five platonic solids. These are:
The Tetrahedron, bounded by 4 equilateral triangles;
The Cube, bounded by 6 squares;
The Octahedron, bounded by 8 equilateral triangles;
The Dodecahedron, bounded by 12 regular pentagons;
The Icosahedron is bounded by 20 equilateral triangles.
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Adding to these at one end, a point, World 43 and at the other end a sphere, World 49, and we have a set of seven figures, which correspond to the seven planes of our solar system. Each of them indicates, not the form of the atoms of the different planes, but the lines along which works the power which surrounds those atoms.
This throws some light on the well-known saying of Plato that ”God geometrises.” It seems that the ancients studied the geometry of Euclid, not as we do, for itself, but as a guide to something higher.
Another of the toys of Bacchus was the top, a symbol of the whirling atom.
A third toy was a ball, representing the Earth, that particular globe of the chain to which the thought of the Logos is specially directed at present.
A fourth toy was a mirror, which has always been a symbol of Emotional Plane light, in which the archetypal ideas are reflected and then materialised. Note the term mirror being used. It is not reality you are looking at but a reflection of it. This is why the Emotional Plane is so treacherous.
Whilst the child Bacchus – the Logos – plays with his toys, he is seized by the Titans and torn to pieces. Later these pieces are put together and built into a whole. This allegory, of course, represents the descending of the One to become many, and the reunion of the many in the One, through suffering and sacrifice.
The Hindus have long held that the Deity plays, and they have called the great work of evolution the Lîlâ, or play of Shrî Krishna.
The whole of our solar system is a manifestation of its Logos, and every particle in it is definitely part of Its vehicles. All the physical matter of the solar system taken as a totality constitutes Its physical body; all the emotional matter within it constitutes Its emotional body; all the mental matter, Its mental body, and so on. From the Solar Logos comes forth all life in the successive Outpourings.
In the first few presentations of the Adventures of the Monad, the First, Second and Third Logoi were talked about. Representational aspects of these beings are also responsible for a monad’s transformation from Primary to Quaternary matter, through successive outpouring of cosmic energies. In a similar vein, the First Outpouring from our solar logos comes from Its Third Aspect, giving the atomic matter of each plane, 43 to 49, the energy needed to form the molecular structure of the six subplanes of matter, 42 subplanes in total. The Second Outpouring, from the second aspect of the Logos, formed the group souls of the three lowest kingdoms of nature. This rendered possible our development in the 4th Kingdom. It is at the Third Outpouring that self-awareness is made possible in a monad and is derived from the First Aspect of the Logos’ nature.
We have talked about the concept of the ring-pass-not in our deliberations on the construction of the Antahkarana. We have also mentioned that the Solar Logos uses the same technique when building out the Solar System. The entire scheme for the Solar System is planned out. This is not to say that everything is known and predetermined, but at least there is a sketch that must be drawn over by the rest of the monads who inhabit that scheme, within the cosmic mental framework of the Logos. To the cosmic mental plane, H. P. Blavatsky gave the name the ”archetypal world”; the Greeks seem to have called it the ”intelligible world.”
What we know today is that there are seven principal schemes in our solar system and there are also another three. As Earth is not a principle, it would be one of these three and the other two are unknown. Five schemes are known to have passed out of our solar system and gone on to greater things. In charge of each scheme is one of the “ministers” of the Solar Systemic Government. We know them as the Planetary Chain Logoi. These are individual monads in their own right, yet they are also part of the body of the Solar Logos. Think of them as chakras within the body of this greater being. One way to represent this relationship is to think of a flower. The morphology of each petal in the flower has a focus within the pistil of the flower and a tip that is outside it. At the point of the petal is a physical planet. This elliptical structure has, therefore, a major focus within the body of the sun and a minor focus located in a globe. To be more specific, the active globe of the chain.
Figure: Relation of the Physical planets to the sun.
When we represent the seven globes of a chain in two dimensions, they appear to be distinct objects in space. They are not. To describe how they are connected imagine holding your fingers, forming a cup and balancing a piece of paper on the tips. Where the plane of the paper touches your fingers exists a globe, yet each finger is connected to the palm of your hand. Get the analogy? For this to work, you clearly are dealing with more than three dimensions, but this diagram is an attempt to represent this concept.
Fig: Multidimensional connection between the sun and our planets.
Normally, neither the Physical, Emotional or Mental planes of one of our planets communicate with the corresponding planes of another planet. On the Divine Plane (44), however, there is a condition common to all the planets of our chain.
We are evolving within the body of the Planetary Logos, which itself is evolving within the body of the Solar Logos, which itself is evolving within the body of “Whom Naught May be Said”, and so it goes on all the way back to the Absolute.
In the next presentation, we move on to look at the life streams that move through a planetary chain.