Curuppumullagē Jinarājadāsa
1921
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Cambridge-educated Curuppumullagē Jinarājadāsa (1875-1953) was a prolific author of Theosophical works. In his First Principles of Theosophy (1921) the author discusses the Theosophical view of extraterrestrial species in their overlapping but parallel dimensions. In this excerpt, the author explains how ancient astronauts from Venus came to earth more than six million years ago to bestow the arts of civilization. Read more about Theosophy and ancient aliens in Theosophy on Ancient Astronauts, my anthology of Theosophical writings on prehistoric extraterrestrial visitations. |
The Adepts from Venus
The schemes of evolution which involve Vulcan, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus, are behind the Earth Scheme by one Chain; the Neptune Scheme is, like the Earth Scheme, at its fourth Chain; whereas the Venus Scheme of evolution is in advance of the Earth Scheme by one Chain. It must be remembered that though a physical planet may not be able, owing to heat and pressure, to permit life in such organisms as we have on our earth, nevertheless there are types of non-physical evolution which can do their work efficiently on the astral planes of planets where physical life may not be possible.
It is because the Venus Scheme is one Chain in advance of the Earth, and the average Humanity of Venus is near the Adept level, that Adepts from Venus were able to help the work of the Earth Chain at its commencement, as Lords of Worlds, Manus, Buddhas, Chohans, and other great leaders of evolution. In exactly a similar fashion, such of Earth’s humanity as attain Adeptship at the end of the Earth Chain, and care to do so, may begin helping the work of evolution of the four backward Chains of the Vulcan, Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus Schemes. […]
The Head of the Hierarchy [which rules the World] is that lofty Being, the Lord of the World, who rules and orders all events on this globe for men and for angels. Within His consciousness is recorded everything which happens on all the seven planes of our globe. Since His aura pervades the entire earth, He is aware of all that happens within that aura, and no act is so secret but He knows, no injustice too small but He records it. The King, as He is often named, is not an Adept of our humanity; the position which He holds is too lofty an one to be filled by any Adept of our human evolution. He is a mighty Adept of the great Venus Scheme of evolution, and came thence six and a half million years ago to take charge of the evolution of this Earth, after humanity had been transferred from the Moon Chain to the Earth Chain. Without His fiat, none can be initiated into the Great White Brotherhood, and it is His Star which flashes in assent over the head of the Adept Initiator, as a sign that He accepts the Initiate into His Brotherhood. Hindu tradition, which knows of Him, calls Him Sanat Kumara, the “Eternal Virgin-Youth,” for His Body, though physical, is not born of woman, but was made by Kriyashakti or willpower, and it never ages; and He is in appearance not a man but a “Youth of sixteen summers”. He is the Will of the logos incarnate for men, and yet is His mighty Love as vast as the ocean. Round Him stand the Four Great Devarajahs or the Rulers of the Elements, who adjust the karmas of men, and great Devas and Angels are as His courtiers, ready to do His bidding. All earthly kings, whose dynasties have gained His Benediction as a recognition of their selfless service for men, have that mysterious “divine right of kings” as a part of their invisible heritage. When the crown of England is set upon the head of her King, a far-off reminiscence of the tradition as to the Great King of the World is seen in the little globe which is placed in the King’s left hand, and in the sceptre, or Rod of Power, which is placed in his right. For of a truth, this earth of ours, large though it be to us, does lie in the hollow of His Hand, and verily not a sparrow falls but He knows.
With Him are three Pupils and Assistants, who also came from Venus; They are named in Hindu tradition Sanandana, Sanaka and Sanatana, and all the glorious Four are called “mind-born Sons of Brahma” and “Lords of the Flam”. The four Lords of the Flame have been also called “the Head, the Heart, the Soul and the Seed of undying knowledge”. When the life-wave shall pass from Earth to Mercury, it is these Three who will become in turn Lords of Mercury, and guide all evolution on that globe. They are known in Buddhism as Pratyeka Buddhas, the “solitary Buddhas”; for They do not teach, or establish world-religions. They are on the First or ruling Ray, while the Buddhas are on the Second or teaching Ray. But They stand at the level of the Buddha, though Theirs is not the role of the World-Teacher. Hence the curiously misleading description in popular Buddhism of Them as “solitary” or “selfish” Buddhas. Their love is as great as that of the Buddhas, but They give to men Power, not Wisdom.
It is because the Venus Scheme is one Chain in advance of the Earth, and the average Humanity of Venus is near the Adept level, that Adepts from Venus were able to help the work of the Earth Chain at its commencement, as Lords of Worlds, Manus, Buddhas, Chohans, and other great leaders of evolution. In exactly a similar fashion, such of Earth’s humanity as attain Adeptship at the end of the Earth Chain, and care to do so, may begin helping the work of evolution of the four backward Chains of the Vulcan, Saturn, Jupiter, and Uranus Schemes. […]
The Head of the Hierarchy [which rules the World] is that lofty Being, the Lord of the World, who rules and orders all events on this globe for men and for angels. Within His consciousness is recorded everything which happens on all the seven planes of our globe. Since His aura pervades the entire earth, He is aware of all that happens within that aura, and no act is so secret but He knows, no injustice too small but He records it. The King, as He is often named, is not an Adept of our humanity; the position which He holds is too lofty an one to be filled by any Adept of our human evolution. He is a mighty Adept of the great Venus Scheme of evolution, and came thence six and a half million years ago to take charge of the evolution of this Earth, after humanity had been transferred from the Moon Chain to the Earth Chain. Without His fiat, none can be initiated into the Great White Brotherhood, and it is His Star which flashes in assent over the head of the Adept Initiator, as a sign that He accepts the Initiate into His Brotherhood. Hindu tradition, which knows of Him, calls Him Sanat Kumara, the “Eternal Virgin-Youth,” for His Body, though physical, is not born of woman, but was made by Kriyashakti or willpower, and it never ages; and He is in appearance not a man but a “Youth of sixteen summers”. He is the Will of the logos incarnate for men, and yet is His mighty Love as vast as the ocean. Round Him stand the Four Great Devarajahs or the Rulers of the Elements, who adjust the karmas of men, and great Devas and Angels are as His courtiers, ready to do His bidding. All earthly kings, whose dynasties have gained His Benediction as a recognition of their selfless service for men, have that mysterious “divine right of kings” as a part of their invisible heritage. When the crown of England is set upon the head of her King, a far-off reminiscence of the tradition as to the Great King of the World is seen in the little globe which is placed in the King’s left hand, and in the sceptre, or Rod of Power, which is placed in his right. For of a truth, this earth of ours, large though it be to us, does lie in the hollow of His Hand, and verily not a sparrow falls but He knows.
With Him are three Pupils and Assistants, who also came from Venus; They are named in Hindu tradition Sanandana, Sanaka and Sanatana, and all the glorious Four are called “mind-born Sons of Brahma” and “Lords of the Flam”. The four Lords of the Flame have been also called “the Head, the Heart, the Soul and the Seed of undying knowledge”. When the life-wave shall pass from Earth to Mercury, it is these Three who will become in turn Lords of Mercury, and guide all evolution on that globe. They are known in Buddhism as Pratyeka Buddhas, the “solitary Buddhas”; for They do not teach, or establish world-religions. They are on the First or ruling Ray, while the Buddhas are on the Second or teaching Ray. But They stand at the level of the Buddha, though Theirs is not the role of the World-Teacher. Hence the curiously misleading description in popular Buddhism of Them as “solitary” or “selfish” Buddhas. Their love is as great as that of the Buddhas, but They give to men Power, not Wisdom.
Source: Curuppumullagē Jinarājadāsa, First Principles of Theosophy, 2nd ed. (Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing, 1922), 152-153.
