Deva Tarot
Designers: Herta Drnec and Roberta Lanphere
Publisher: Piatnik, Vienna ...
Deva-duta are Buddhist messengers from the deva, bringing messages of old-age, sickness, and death. According to the Buddha's first experience, they are signals of fate which await each individual, and are thus the first pointers to dukkha. A.G.H.
The deva and human evolution will, during the next five hundred years, become somewhat more conscious of each other, and be able therefore more freely to co-operate.
Deva
In Hinduism and Buddhism, a group of exalted spiritual beings or gods. The term 'deva' is derived from the Sanskrit for 'shining one'.
Deva -- Angel or celestial being belonging to a kingdom in nature evolving parallel to humanity, and ranging from sub-human elementals to super-human beings on a level with a planetary logos.
Deva (Angel) An angel; a god; a celestial being, whether good, bad, or indifferent.
Deva (Sans.) A god, a "resplendent" Deity, Deva-Deus, from the root div, "to shine." A Deva is a celestial being -- whether good, bad or indifferent -- which inhabits "the three worlds," or the three planes above us.
Deva, jiva and jara (inorganic matter) are, in their real, as opposed to their phenomenal and illusory, being, the one Brahman, ...
[A Deva asks:]
"Many Devas and men, when yearning for good,
Have held diverse things to be blessings; ...
Now every concept we use and take for granted in our lives is the manifestation of an angle or deva of appearance, including the concept of good and evil.
I have always thought highly of Findhorn, or at least, of the image of Human-Deva cooperation as presented in the books about the founding of the Findhorn Community, in a desolate part of Northern Scotland in the early 1960s.
 See also: World, Spirit, Light, Ritual, Spiritual
  
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