Our entire universe is engaged in endless motion and activity; it's a continual Dance of energy. This Dance involves an enormous variety of patterns that, surprisingly, fall into only a few distinct categories. With markedly different interaction strengths:
- The Strong Interactions
- The Electromagnetic Interactions
- The Weak Interactions
- The Gravitational Interactions.
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All things are aggregations of atoms that Dance and by their movements produce sounds. When the rhythm of the Dance changes, the sound it produces also changes. Each atom perpetually singing its songs, and the sound, at every moment, creates dense and subtle forms!
Here is how it works! The Ten Schemes of the Solar System are displayed in the above image. Each Scheme is shown separately with its seven Chains. The Ten Schemes are all in manifestation together, each proceeding on its own line. The seven Chains within each Scheme are actually successive, only one Chain of globes being active at one time. The globes of these chains are also displayed seperately simply for the sake of clarity; actually they can all be regarded as 'seperate' only in the fourth chain of each series.
Of The Ten Schemes, only seven are represented by physical globes, therefore three are unnamed. The One Solar Life functions in all, but is at different stages of growth and development in the different Schemes, and consequently the Schemes differ in age or stage of development. The Chain of globes in each Scheme that is in minifestation now, is known by the name of its densest planet. These are the Seven Sacred Planets, of which our earth is one.
Omitting the Vulcan and Neptunian Schemes, about which very little information is given, the eldest and most advanced appears to be that of Venus, the second is the Terrene, our own, and Jupiter comes next.
Though the Life streams of the Schemes are not inter-connected directly these last-named three are related somewhat intimately.
In the interest of the cosmic economy of the mighty Solar System, Venus has vitally assisted and is assisting our Terrene evolution. We may infer that similar help will be extended by us to the Jupiterian in due course.
With regard to the differing and special task of each Scheme very little is intimated. We might possibly and reasonably surmise the principle and plane, or group of both, with which each is particularly concerned, but it would be largely speculative and merely academic. So we may turn to the fuller information relating to our own Scheme and present Chain.
The Earth Scheme
In each Planetary Scheme there are seven successive incarnations or circuits of the Great Life Waves from The Solar Logos.
On each Chain, from the first onwards, all the stages of consciousness known as the Kingdoms of Nature, from the Elemental to the Human, are present. The broad rule appears to be that, for the span of a Chain, a given impulse of The
Logoic
Consciousness functions through the forms of one Kingdom only.
Success within these forms means that in the next succeeding Chain, that same impulse of consciousness qualifies to enter the forms of the next Higher Kingdom. It should be always remembered that there are no hard and fast dividing lines and as such, considerable overlapping arises, but the general rule is that the Life Wave of the Logos overshadows the forms of one Kingdom of nature and then passes on in the next Chain to overshadow the next and more evolved Kingdom, e.g. the Life Wave that used the mineral forms in a First Chain will enter and use plant forms in a Second Chain period.
Owing to varying experiences, the step from one Kingdom to the next may occur at any period during a Chain's progress. This tendency becomes especially pronounced when the middle period of a Chain is approached. Such overlappiing becomes confusing unless the flexibility of the evolving life is held in mind together with the underlying law of the overshadowing Life Wave of the Logos.
The field of action differs from each Chain, but in each only four planes are touched.
Chain I.
Called
Brahma's Body of Darkness. Field of action : Atma, Buddhi, Higher Manas and Lower Manas. Lower mental matter was the densest and the crux.
Chain II.
The boundaries are life planes and the Chain is known as
Brahma's Body of Light. Field of Action : Buddhi, Higher Manas, Lower Manas, Astral.
Chain III.
Bounded by the higher sections of form planes and called
Brahma's Body of Twilight. Field of Action : Higher Manas, Lower Manas, Astral, Higher Physical.
Chain IV.
Of the seven Chains comprising our Terrene Scheme, it is the fourth on which we find ourselves today.
The present Chain sees the turning point of the Scheme as a whole and is known as Brahma's Body of Dawn. Field of Action : Lower Manas, Astral, Higher Physical and Dense Physical.
The field of experience open to any one Kingdom on a Chain is now identical with that of its successor on the next. The field differs and as such the expereiences are dissimilar. The consciousness functioning through the plant Kindgom of our second Chain, for instance, would have very different experiences from the plant consciousness of the third Chain, for the latter would have a new and denser plane as its basic material. The life within each of the Kingdoms of our planet today, therefore, has followed its own unique course.
One of the seven paths open to the successful humanity of any Chain is that of assisting the evolving life of the following Chain. Indeed if this path be chosen it seems that the assistance is rendered to at least the following three Chains of the Scheme. The humanity of Chain I of the Terrene system, for instance, known as the Fifth Creative Hierarchy (Videinfra), is still in touch with our Scheme.
The Asuras, as they are designated owing to the office they at present fill, have influenced our humanity through the mental, particularly the lower mental, principle. The Sixth Hierarchy, the Agnishvattas of the 2nd Chain, influences us through the emotions and intuitions, the Barhishads of the 3rd Chain assists and have always assisted us in the building of our physical bodies.
The interest and the application of all this to us lie in its indication of our responsibilities to the younger Kingdoms of the Minerals, Plants and to the Animals. For, obviously, applying the Chain-Kingdom Rule, our own relation to the Animal Kingdom is similar to that of the Barhishads to us. Our relation to the plant life is that of the Agnishvattas to us, and to the mineral life is that of the Asuras to us.
Our present and ordinary attitudes to those Lower Kingdoms is evidence of the Major Law Of Correspondence stated above. Our attitude to the mineral life for instance is quite naturally (and unaffectedly) one of cold detached mentality. The emotional nature is seldom stirred and, except in the case of jewels perhaps, rarely stimulated. To the flowering plants, and vegetation generally, our relation is just as naturally emotional. Concerning the animals, regarding the bodily legacy humanity has left to them is illuminating indeed. Thus in the study of the Chains and the inter-relation of the Hierarchies is to be found the key to the undersdanting of our intimate
responsibilities to the evolving life of the Kingdoms below us.
Assisted by the image below, our study of the Terrene Scheme can be continued to better advantage. The seven successive Chains of globes, expressing the form side of conscious manifestation, are clearly displayed, and the periods of Pralaya (the life side) are indicated by the spheres between the Chains.
From a previous Scheme of an earlier System the life commences on Chain I, and all the Kingdoms are therein represented.
The Seven Chains of the Earth Scheme
The Seven Kingdoms of Nature are the first, second and third Elemental Kingdoms, Mineral, Plant, Animal and finally the Human Kingdom. These are all engaged in the work of Chain I. Seven circuits (Rounds) of the globes in a Chain are made, under the general superintendence and within the mighty being of The Root-Manu. A chain of globes may indeed be regarded as The Root-Manu's bodily form, an Incarnation as it were.
At the conclusion of the work of a Chain the life is gathered into the aura of the Seed-Manu for a vast cosmic sleep of assimilation and recuperation. Therein, during the inter-Chain Pralaya, the consciousness of the Kingdoms is smoothed out, disentangled and adjusted, and make ready to engage in the work of the next Chain of globes. The Seed-Manu's aura is sometimes represented in regular bands of colour to suggest the ordered harmony resulting from the Pralaya or rest period.
Though the Chains are successive, each representing practically a reincarnation of the last, so sudden ending or beginning must be assumed. On the last Round of a Chain, as the concentrated effort of the Root-Manu passes from globe A onwards, the earlier globes dissolve (instead of retiring merely into obscuration as on previous Rounds) and their principles are carried over to the construction of corresponding globes of the succeeding Chain. Hence the work of the new Chain is begun long before that of the last is concluded. Even now, as a case in point, though we are only half-way through the 4th Chain, the preliminary work of the 5th Chain is already in hand.
After the period of Pralaya the life of the Kingdoms passes on from the Seed-Manu to the Root-Manu in a regular sequence and a general rule may again be noted. The earlier Rounds of a Chain furnish the field most suited for the younger and less advaced grades of consciousness of all the Kingdoms and the later Rounds for the more advanced and older. Therefore much of the more evolved life taken over by the Seed-Manu towards the close of a Chain is now passed on to incarnation on the succeeding Chain till a late period of the Chain. An environment corresponding in a measure to that experienced in the last Chain is usually first secured. This means that the most advanced individuals and units of life do not enter a succeeding Chain till its middle period or even later.
Indeed we may gather, for instance, that some of the most evolved of the Third Chain are only now coming in - on the fourth globe of the fourth Round of this.
The Chain-Kingdom rule referred to earlier (one Kingdom for the term of one Chain) should be understood as meaning in nearly all cases 7 Rounds, for these 7 Rounds may frequently be spread over two Chains for the reasons set out in the last paragraph.
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