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Treatise on Cosmic Fire |
Although this book was one of the first to be written by Alice
Bailey in collaboration with the Tibetan, it is probably the most
timeless, profound and least understood. "A Treatise on Cosmic
Fire" deals with the underlying structure of occult teaching for
the present era, with vast cosmic processes reproduced through
all areas of life from universe to atom. It is, therefore, no
book for the proof-demanding concrete mind, or for those who dabble
in the spectacular and the phenomenal. The true student, however,
the seriously applied aspirant, will find his mind stimulated
and his consciousness expanded.
The book is dedicated to Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, and is
said to be "the psychological key to the Cosmic Creation". Certainly
in its revelation of relationship and correspondences throughout
the Cosmos, all aspects of life unfolding through consciousness
are included, based on the aphorism--"Having pervaded the entire
universe with one fragment of Myself, I remain."
The One Life manifests through all form within the universe
as fiery energy; and the three main streams of cosmic energy,
differentiated into seven systemic rays, are shown in relation
to the three aspects of fire controlling all manifested life:
Electric Fire, the Fire of Spirit; Solar Fire, the Fire of Mind;
Fire by Friction, the Internal Fires.
A large section of the book is directed to a detailed exposition
of Solar Fire, the Fire of Mind, since this is the dominant
energy to be understood and controlled during this second solar
system. The cosmic Laws operating through the system are shown
in relation to the lesser laws of planetary origin and the laws
of nature, operating through substance, as distinct from the
life and the consciousness of the planet.
In her foreword to the book, the author mentions a five-fold
purpose within its teaching; briefly: (a) To provide a compact
and skeleton outline of a scheme of cosmology, philosophy and
psychology which may serve as a reference and textbook; (b)
As an elucidation of the relation between Spirit and Matter,
demonstrating as consciousness; (c) To show the coherent
development of all that is found within a solar system and to
demonstrate that everything evolves; (d) To give practical
information about focal points of energy found in the etheric
bodies of the Solar Logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the microcosm;
(e) To give some information of the place and work of those
sentient lives who form the essence of objectivity, and to indicate
the nature of the Hierarchies of Existences who form out of
their own substance all that is seen and known.
These five objectives, and more, the book encompasses; for
the effect in the individual consciousness is such that theories
become transcended and the mind begins to experience through
contemplative thought what the words on paper reveal to the
intelligence. The finite human mind can touch its cosmic origins
and its fiery essence when it opens to the three cosmic Laws
of Synthesis, of Attraction and of Economy.
The fire of love, the flame of life within the heart, is the
touchstone for all intuitive thought, and the alchemist to the
dense materiality of gross substance.
