Mars: Karttikeya. Agnibhu "fire born."

Mars: Karttikeya. Agnibhu "fire born." Son of fire electric.

This paper considers the regent of the planet Mars as being commander of the seven sacred brothers of light. As being the informing logos from one of the Seven Rishis thus informing as the logos of the Sixth ray via Mars and as the informing deity and creator of this planet Earth along with Venus.

With regard to Mars and Venus, I postulate Mars as conducting the positive energy of the Seven Rishis and Venus as relating to the negative energy of the Pleiades. JPC.

"The constellations of the Great Bear and of the Pleiades constitute the greatest mystery of occult nature." (S.D. Vol. II, 580)

"Until the mystery of the Great Bear is revealed and is known as it is, and until the influence of Pleiades is comprehended, and the true significance of the cosmic Triangle formed by

The seven Rishis of the Great Bear,

The seven planetary Logoi of our solar system,

The seven Pleiades or Sisters,

is revealed, the karma of the seven sacred planets will remain unknown. All that we can see is its working out in the solar system. The intricacy of the whole subject will be apparent when it is borne in mind that not only do these three groups form a cosmic triangle, but that within that triangle many lesser triangles have to be studied. Any one of the seven Rishis with one of the seven Sisters may form a subsidiary triangle, and all must thus be studied." TCF 801.

"These three groups of solar bodies (The Great Bear, the Pleiades and Sirius) are of paramount influence where the spiral cyclic activity of our system is concerned. EA 642.

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.

"The number seven is closely connected with the occult significance of the Pleiades, the six present and the 7th hidden." (Vol. II, 654) Appendix EA.

Identical with Agni, the fire-god, or Sun. 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*."

Skanda or Karttikeya (god of War, the six-faced planet Mars astronomically), a Kumara, or virgin-youth, born of Agni. SD2 382.

In India they are connected with their nursling, the war god, Karttikeya. It is the Pleiades (in Sanskrit, Krittika) who gave the god their name, for Karttikeya is the planet Mars, astronomically.

As a god he is the son of Rudra, born without the intervention of a woman. He is a Kumara, a "virgin youth" again, generated in the fire from the Seed of Siva -- the holy spirit -- hence called Agni-bhu. SD2 619.

Through the fiery processes of war and strife, brought to the individual through the influence of the planetary ruler, Mars, the God of War, a needed purification takes place. EA 96.

The Pleiades are the supposed wives of the seven Rishis of the Great Bear. They are also the nurses of the God of War, Mars, the commander of the celestial armies." (Vol. II, 579) Appendix EA.

Which would make Karttikeya identical with Michael, the "leader of the celestial hosts" and, like himself, a virgin Kumara. Verily he is the "Guha," the mysterious one, as much so as are the Saptarshis and the Krittika (seven Rishis and the Pleiades), for the interpretation of all these combined, reveal to the adept the greatest mysteries of occult nature. One point is worth mention in this question of cross and circle, as it bears strongly upon the elements of fire and water, which play such an important part in the circle and cross Symbolics.

Like Mars, who is alleged by Ovid to have been born of a mother alone (Juno), without the participation of a father, or like the Avatars (Krishna, for instance), in the West as in the East -- Karttikeya is born, but in a still more miraculous manner -- begotten by neither father nor mother, but out of a seed of Rudra Siva, via Agni, who dropped it into the Ganges. SD2 550.

The Pleiades (Krittika) are the nurses of Karttikeya, the God of War (Mars of the Western Pagans), who is called the Commander of the celestial armies -- or rather of the Siddhas (translated Yogis in heaven, and holy sages on the earth) -- "Siddha-sena," which would make Karttikeya identical with Michael, the "leader of the celestial hosts" and, like himself, a virgin Kumara.

Thus he is born from fire and water -- a "*boy bright as the Sun* and beautiful as the moon." Hence he is called Agnibhuva (Agni's son) and Ganga-putra (Son of Ganges). Add to this the fact that the Krittika, his nurses, as Matsya Purana shows, are presided over by Agni, or, in the authentic words -- "The seven Rishis are on a line with the brilliant Agni," and hence are called Agneya --and the connection is easy to follow. SD2 550.

JC: Mars: Six faced. Six heads. Agnibhuva (Agni's son) of the Seven Rishis.

The age when the symbolism of the Seven Rishis and their connection with the Pleiades began. When Karttikeya was delivered to them by the gods to be nursed, the Krittika were only six -- whence Karttikeya is represented with six heads; but when the poetical fancy of the early Aryan symbologists made of them the consorts of the Seven Rishis, they were seven. SD2 551.

JC: Mars: Karttikeya identical with Michael, the "leader of the celestial hosts" and, like himself, a virgin Kumara.

Lucifer, a fallen cherub from the stars. SD2 501.

Michael was denominated by the kabalists and the Gnostics, "the Saviour," the angel of the Sun, and angel of Light. IU2 489.

"And there was war in Heaven. . . . Michael and his angels fought against the Dragon. SD1 194.

Michael is Prince of Water, who has seven inferior spirits subordinate to him. IU1 206.

They are the Archangels of Christianity, those who refuse -- as Michael did in the latter system. SD1 88.

Hence also the War in Heaven of Michael and his Host against the Dragon (Jupiter and Lucifer-Venus), when a third of the stars of the rebellious host was hurled down into Space, and "its place was found no more in Heaven." As said long ago --"This is the basic and fundamental stone of the secret cycles. SD1 203.

The great stream of living energy which is manifesting itself in our Earth scheme of evolution is conditioned by a temperament, an attitude and an orientation that is that of a "Divine Rebel." It is only rebellion that produces pain and sorrow, but this rebellion is inherent and innate in the Deity of our planet Himself, the "One in Whom we live and move and have our being." It is, therefore, a tendency greater than the individual unit. It is only possible to express this amazing truth about the planetary Life under a veil of symbology and in terms of human thought. In this there is ever a risk, for men interpret all they read and hear and experience in terms of themselves. EP2 98.

The Kumaras, the "Virgin-Angels," (to whom Michael and Gabriel, the Archangels, both belong), the *divine "Rebels"* SD2 246.

The 'Light-bringer,' the Lucifer, the 'Morning Star,' the 'Son of the morning' -- the very highest title 'out of heaven, 'for in heaven it cannot be, but out of heaven it is everything. In an apparently incredible side of his character -- qualities are of no sex -- this archangel, St. Michael, is the invincible, sexless, celestial 'Energy' -- to dignify him by his grand characteristics -- the invisible 'Virgin Combatant. SD2 238.

Mars and Venus: "The Two in One."

Suffice it is to say that the Archangel Michael is called "the invincible virgin combatant" as he "refused to create," which would connect him with both Sana Sujata and the Kumara who is the God of War.[Another Kumara, the "God of War" is called in the Hindu the "eternal celibate"-"the virgin warrior." He is the Aryan St. Michael.] SD3 328.

If the Roman Catholics are right on this point, so are the Occultists when they claim that the angels worshipped in the Church of Rome are none else than their "Seven Planets," the Dhyan Chohans of Buddhistic Esoteric Philosophy, or the Kumaras, "the mind-born sons of Brahm ," known under the patronymic of Vaidhatra.

The identity between the Kumaras, the Builders or cosmic Dhyan Chohans, and the Seven Angels of the Stars, will be found without one single flaw if their respective biographies are studied, and especially the characteristics of their chiefs, Sanat-Kumara (Sanat Sujata), and Michael the Archangel. Together with the Kabirim (Planets), the name of the above in Chald a, they were all "divine Powers" (Forces). Fuerot says that the name Kabiri was used to denote the seven sons of , meaning Pater Sadic, Cain, or Jupiter, or again of Jehovah. There are seven Kumaras-four exoteric and three secret-the names of the latter being found in the S nkhya Bh shya, by Gaudap d charya.

[The three secret names are "Sana, Sanat Sujata, and Kapila: " while the four exoteric Gods are called Sanat Kumara, Sananda, Sanaka, and Sanatana.] They are all "Virgin Gods," who remain eternally pure and innocent and decline to create progeny. In their primitive aspect, these Aryan seven "mind-born sons" of God are not the regents of the planets, but *dwell far beyond the planetary region*.

But the same mysterious transference from one character or dignity to another is found in the Christian Angel-scheme. The "Seven Spirits of the Presence" attend perpetually on God, and yet we find them under the same names of Mikael, Gabriel, Raphael, etc., as "Star-regents" or the informing deities of the seven planets.

Unit or "Rishi of the Superior Constellation" as He is called, who is the informing Life of one of the seven stars of the Great Bear, *and our planetary prototype*. TCF 990.

Now Mars was the lord of birth and of death, of generation and of destruction, of ploughing, of building, of sculpture or stone-cutting, of Architecture . . . . in fine, of all . . . . ARTS. He was the primeval principle, disintegrating into the modification of two opposites for production. Astronomically, too, he held the birthplace of the day and year, the place of its increase of strength, Aries, and likewise the place of its death, Scorpio.

He held the house of Venus, and that of the Scorpion. He, as birth, was good; as death, was Evil. As good, he was light; as bad, he was night. As good, he was man; as bad, he was woman. He held the cardinal points, and as Cain, or Vulcan, or Pater Sadic, or Melchizadek, he was lord of the Ecliptic, or balance, or line of adjustment, and therefore was THE JUST ONE. The ancients held to there being *seven planets, or great gods, growing out of eight*, and Pater Sadik, the Just or Right One, *was lord of the eighth, which was Mater Terra*. ("Source of Measures," p. 186-70.) SD2 393.

The Lord of the World, the Ancient of Days, Sanat Kumara, the planetary Logos, Melchizedek. EXT

287.

In a very real sense, Sanat Kumara is the incarnation of the Lord of the Ray Himself; He is the Silent Watcher, the great Sacrifice for humanity. TCF 728.

VENUS AND MARS

Venus and Mars are Father and Mother to the Earth and *They are in reality one entity*, the *feminine part ruling Venus and the masculine part ruling Mars*. Therefore the regent of the Red Star, known as Hilarion, and Venus, the ruler of the Blue Star, brought this Earth into existence and are protecting it.

Venus was born immaculately from the ocean. That entity is sometimes known as Aphrodite and Astarte. She is also known as the Goddess of Love, Beauty and Music.

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 Earth also has its ruler, but under supervision, direction and protection of the Two in One mentioned.

Venus is the universal feminine principle and gives the Mother touch. Mars is strength and can make and unmake worlds. *Both Mars and Venus are mated, and the Two in One watch* carefully the progress of the Earth and its humanity.

Infinitely more could be said on this interesting subject and relationship but that is left to your interior search and intuition. To know that we are under cosmical protection is in itself glorious and comforting.

Look within and you will know the truth. TT2 298. Hilarion

EVOLUTION OF THE EARTH

The earth is not alone on the scale of evolution. Every atom of the Universe must go through the same process, must win its crown. *The earth has been as high as are some of the other planets in past ages, but it is not now*. The Secret Doctrine gives you all the necessary information concerning its fall. These Books were written by us for you. Mars and Venus have more to do with the evolution of the earth than all the other planets. They are in one sense Father and Mother of the earth. TT3 58.

JPC.

August 2005.

Jeremy Condick. jpcondick@ntlworld.com