Devas - In contrast to the elementals, the devas are already on the evolutionary path. They are the builders of the material system, in which they work in their myriads in 'serried ranks', and where they are grouped into many grades.
Devas seem very astonished and disturbed about man's destruction of the environment. But, they remain willing to work with people who strive to understand the intricacies and harmonies of nature. A.G.H.
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Blavatsky introduced the concept of devas to the West, defining them as types of angels or gods who were progressed entities from a previous planetary period.
Devas - (in the New Age definition inspired by the Findhorn Community) spiritual hierarchies representative of the forces of nature.
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The Daimonic in Psychology ...
THE DEVAS, OR ANGELS.
But little can be expressed in human language about these wonderful and exalted beings, and most of what we know of them has already been written in The Astral Plane.
Devas, Siddhas, and Kinnaras, 1
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May the water of Gangā, who ever charms, sanctify us;
She who has fallen from the feet of the enemy of Mura, 2
Who wanders upon the head of the enemy of Tripurā, 3 ...
They act as the transmitter to men and devas or angels, of the will of the Planetary Logos, and through Him of the Solar Logos.
d. To set an example to humanity.
The Hindûs call them Bhûtas and Devas, and the Persians called them all Devs; the Greeks indistinctly designated them as Daimons; the Egyptians knew them as Afrites.
Through the conflict of unbalanced forces, the devastated earth was void and formless, until the Spirit of God made for itself a place in heaven and reduced the mass of waters.
The mantra, or the rhythmically chanted prayer of the Hindus, has precisely such a meaning, as the Brahmins hold themselves higher than the common devas or "Gods.
Devas are divided into many groups and are called not only angels and archangels, but lesser and greater builders; the builders of the system; Devas are on the evolutionary path, on the upward way; the building devas are the Universal Mind.
In 1605 Field published Gwinne's two Gresham College lectures and in 1612 he brought out Gwinne's devastating dissection of Francis Anthony's aurum potabile, In assertorem., done at the behest of the College of Physicians.
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Mythology distinguishes different kinds of Fire, not necessarily the same distinction as that between light and heat: the Fire of sun and stars and sky gods above, the Fire that Prometheus stole: and the Fire from below the Earth, the devastating ...
And to those who have asked, yes I know about several books on devas, including "The Kingdom of the Gods" by Geoffrey Hodson. I note, by the way, that most of the devas pictured correspond to a vertical column of light.
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One nude woman crouches with her arms over her head, another runs screaming through the devastation. A gray faced demon with a man's body raises a red club, perhaps to dispatch the crouching person.
In turn, this is how enlightenment operates; in a non-rational way that is devastatingly powerful as Parsifal discovers. How can it be otherwise? The Quest is about self-discovery in a mythological sense.
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233, breaks off] and rushing into the world to perpetrate evil, he commits innumerable grievous sins; he swallows down one-third of mankind, cattle, sheep, vegetation, and commits grievous devastation." - (Book 4, ch 3.) ...
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