FOHAT
an Evolving Document of Best Thought and References on Fohatand permutations
version1VSK_15April2005
Much appreciation to Mariana Bjorklund for compiling and essentializing this on Fohat.I’ve done some additional highlighting, combining all commentary into the compilations, and added some Akasha compilation,plus MDR or other learned commentary, where it exists, plus Aether and ether and prana also highlighted.
from Mariana: Descriptive comments were written to aid the search for a definition of Fohat and are not intended to be complete or explanatory.
[NOTE: All compilations and commentary now contained in one, in this version by VSK 15 April 2005.; all MB is in BLUE.]
MDR Commentary:
… we're talking again about our friend Fohat and about the idea of an entity and to me an entity is that which possesses monad. … With Fohat, there is a hidden and dynamic intelligence which is responsible for the coordination of all things upon the lower planes of the cosmic physical plane and in a larger sense, coordination of the three lower planes of the entire cosmic physical plane. … Fohat is behind all of that coordination in the world of form. It appears to be an energy which binds and relates. …
(from PhDE tape transcript, RSF Semester 1) …
Definitions of Fohat
from the compilation on the search word Fohat
Text in blue or red: MB.
Fohat is an Entity. Fohat is God. Fohat is the aspect of God called Brahma, or the seven Raja-Lords or the Devas of the seven planes, who manifests Akasha. Fohat differentiates mulaprakriti into prakriti. Fohat, the primordial light, is both the matter and the energy/fire that transforms that matter. The “matter of Fohat” transcripts the etheric body to the harder physical body. Fohat is cosmic electricity and electric phenomena. Fohat in its aspect of electricity is involved in the power of thought. Many more definitions are given in the compilation on “Fohat/fohat” and summarised below. My impression is that Fohat/fohat can be given different definitions on each of the seven planes
(TCF 41-44; pop-up 11): “Fohat is divine thought or energy (Shakti) as manifested on any plane of the cosmos. It is the interplay between Spirit and matter.”
The inter relationship between Fohat/fohat and Agni may also differ dependent on which plane we consider. We are told that Agni is Fohat, and that Agni is one of Fohat’s six Brothers. Agni is also the Lord of the mental plane. We find tables with Agni and Fohat differentiated from each other, and exactly how is not clear from these quotes. Agni is the Lord of Fire for the human evolution and Fohat is the cosmic Lord of Fire. Will and Spirit are sometimes referred to Fohat, but e.g. in the first table in #22; TCF 628 – 632
Will and Spirit are referred to Agni and not to Fohat. Further study and mapping may elucidate this.
This search on Fohat led to God in manifestation in time and space. The basic triangle for the manifestation is Seven Spirits/ sevenfold will - Seven Rays/ sevenfold quality or psyche - Seven Deva Lords/ sevenfold form (#22; TCF 628 – 632).
Fohat is an energy which is an aspect of the physical sun.
“Secret of Initiation Logos Concerned Source of Energy Planes:
Fohat Third Brahma Creator Physical Sun Seven, Six, Five
[...] the source of the particular energy concerned is one aspect of the sun.” #2: IHS 175
From the glossary in IHS:
“Fohat. Cosmic electricity; primordial light; the ever-present electrical energy; the universal propelling vital force; the ceaseless destructive and formative power; the synthesis of the many forms of electrical phenomena.” #5 IHS 186
“The energies which utilise the akasha(ether) in the universe are divided into three main divisions according to the Ageless Wisdom” (Table by MB):
Fohat / Spirit / The will-to-exist; the determining life principle of God; it is divine Purpose, actively functioning; the sum total of all forms, and of all states of consciousness;
Prana / Soul / the consciousness principle; an effect of the union of spirit or life, and matter or substance; the energy of the form; carrying out divine purpose;
Kundalini / --(The evil connected to materialism and the physical body; the evil snake symbolism//MB) / the force latent in matter itself; the integral life of the atom.
“These three types of energy are therefore aspects of the one universal life, as it expresses itself through a solar system, utilising the ether as its medium or field of activity, and producing therefrom all the objective forms.” #6. SIM 99-100
Fohat, the primordial light, is both the matter and the energy/fire that transforms that matter. This “matter of Fohat” transcripts the etheric body to the harder physical body (association to Cancer the Crab being soft inside with a hard shell, and being connected to incarnation):
“The wheel of life turns within the wheel of outer form.
The matter of Fohat circulateth, and its fire hardeneth all the forms. The wheel that is not glimpsed moveth in rapid revolution within the slower outer case, till it weareth out the form.” #7. TCF 31
Fire Ray Aspect Expression Law Quality
Divine Flame Will Intelligent Forward SynthesisElectric Fire.
Fohat is Akasha in manifestation; divine Energy. “Fohat on the different planes is known as aether, air, fire, water, electricity, ether, prana and similar terms.
It is the sumtotal of that which is active, animated, or vitalized, and of all that concerns itself with the adaptation of the form to the needs of the inner flame of life.”
Akasha: “On the highest plane the combination of these three factors (active heat, latent heat and the primordial substance which they animate) is known as the 'sea of fire,' of which akasha is the first differentiation of pregenetic matter.”
Pop-up 11:
Fohat is divine thought or energy (Shakti) as manifested on any plane of the cosmos. It is the interplay between Spirit and matter. The seven differentiations of Fohat are:
1. The Plane of divine life AdiSea of fire.
2. The Plane of monadic life Anupadaka Akasha.
3. The Plane of Spirit Atma Aether.
4. The Plane of the intuition Buddhi Air.
5. The Plane of mind Mental Fire.
6. The Plane of desire Astral Astral Light.
7. The Plane of density Physical Ether.
—S. D. I, 105, 134, 135, 136.#8. TCF 41-44
“AGNI, the Lord of Fire, rules over all the fire elementals and devas on the three planes of human evolution” and is one of seven Brothers who constitute the essence of Fohat, the cosmic Lord of Fire.
Agni. The Lord of Fire in the Vedas. The oldest and most revered of the Gods in India. One of the three great deities Agni, Vayu and Surya, and also all the three, as he is the triple aspect of fire[Vayu = Fohat?/Brahma?]; fire is the essence of the solar system. The Bible says: "Our God is a consuming fire." It is also the symbol of the mental plane of which Agni is paramountly lord. [Glossary IHS 215] MB bold.
Pop-up: 23
Fohat, or electricity, is an Entity.
He is the primordial electric Entity S. D., I, 105.
He is Will S. D., I, 136.
He is Love-Wisdom S. D., I, 100,144,155.
He is Active Intelligence S. D., I, 136.
Therefore He is God S. D., I, 167.
He is the sumtotal of the energy of the seven Spirits, Who are the sumtotal of the Logos.
—S. D., I, 169. #9. TCF 65-66
Fohat is “the energising Life, the third Logos or Brahma” which differentiates mulaprakriti into prakriti, or undifferentiated ether/matter into differentiated matter. #12. TCF 118
Fohat is differentiating Fire (#12) animating matter.
“Fohat rusheth through space. He searcheth for his complement.”
“The breath of the unmoving one, and the fire of the One Who seeth the whole from the beginning rush to meet each other, and the unmoving becomes the sphere of activity.”
#13. TCF 172-173
“Fohat which is fire of matter plus electric fire”
Fohat is the energy applied by the rod of initiation to the center or centers involved. This brings about ‘definite effects’ between spirit and matter. #14. TCF 212-213
The Seven Sons of Fohat equals the seven centres in Brahma. The centres in Brahma equals “the final differentiation of the forty-nine fires”. #18. TCF 533-534
In one of the last hits, the one with the number 22, the Master puts the different terms in a more clear light. All three parts of the logoic trinity work out through the Deva kingdoms, but the more direct connection between Fohat and the “the seven Raja-Lords or Devas of the seven planes” is for the first time clearly pointed out, and not only hinted at.
The basic differentiation in the solar system is as follows:
Agni...... Electric fire...... Spirit...... Central Spiritual Sun..Energy
Surya...... Solar fire...... Vishnu....Heart of the Sun...... Light
Brahma...Fire by friction...... Physical visible Sun.... Fohat
[Agni is Fohat. The attributes of Agni and Brahma are exchangeable in the quotes; sometimes Agni sometimes Brahma is the higher octave, pointing at the Oneness of Spirit and Matter. This table could be viewed as a circle, there Agni and Fohat merge with Surya bridging between them. // MB]
As fire by friction, He manifests as the seven Sons of Fohat, the seven great fires, or the active heat of intelligent substance.
Sevenfold electric fire. the seven Spirits before the Throne in Their essential essence; "Spirits of Darkness."
Sevenfold solar fire. The seven Heavenly Men, the sumtotal of Light, the seven Rays of manifestation of the Spiritual Sun. "Sons of Light."
Sevenfold fire by friction. The seven brothers of Fohat. The seven manifestations of electricity, or of electrical phenomena. These are the seven Raja-Lords or Devas of the seven planes; they are the seven Fires, or those seven states of activity through which consciousness is expressing itself. They are the vehicles of consciousness and the seven vibrations. They are esoterically the "Brothers of energy."
The sumtotal of logoic manifestation as it can be seen in existence in time and space is:
Seven Spirits...... sevenfold will.
Seven Rays...... sevenfold quality or psyche.
Seven Deva Lords...... sevenfold form.
The latter are literally the seven spirillae, or force vibrations within the logoic physical permanent atom. This needs to be carefully borne in mind and pondered upon.
1. The seven Spirits who find Their originating incentive on:
a. The cosmic lower mental levels.
b. The logoic "Jewel in the Lotus."
c. The cosmic atmic plane.
2. The seven Heavenly Men are in the line of force from:
a. The cosmic astral plane.
b. The logoic nine-petalled lotus.
c. The cosmic buddhic plane (the seven Rishis of the Great Bear).
3. The seven Sons of Fohat find their vital force emanating from:
a. The cosmic physical plane.
b. The logoic permanent atoms (within the causal body).
c. The cosmic higher mental levels.
/Pleiades? Yet these three are but the expressions of One Existence, for behind the Logos in physical incarnation is to be found the logoic Monad, expressing Itself through the logoic Ego, and its reflection, the logoic Personality. #22. TCF 628 – 632
fohat is the essential energy of our solar system
fohat is connected to “pure astral energy” #24. RI 401
Compilation on “Fohat”
#1. At the third initiation "the secret of fohat" is given to him, and then the mystery of the threefold body of the triple Logos is his, and the why of the phenomena of the dense liquid and gaseous bodies of the Supreme Being is enfolded before his amazed vision.The two secrets previously imparted, and the knowledge which they gave having been utilised, the initiate is now in a position to profit by this greater revelation, and to understand somewhat the following facts:—
1. The creative process of thought form building.
2. The transmission of energy from the Ego to the physical body via the force centres on the various planes.[Page 171]
3. The uprising of kundalini, its geometrical progression, and its vivification of all the centres.
By the knowledge thus imparted, and the progress which the initiate has made in the study of the law of analogy, he can comprehend the manipulation of the same forces on a vastly larger scale in the planetary scheme and in the solar system. The method of development in the three earlier rounds is revealed to him, and he understands, practically as well as theoretically, the evolutionary process in its earlier stages. The key to the three lower kingdoms of nature is in his hands, and certain ideas anent the subject of polarity, of at-one-ment, and essential union, are beginning to come within his range of consciousness, only waiting for the fourth initiation to complete the revelation.
This secret of electricity, which is essentially triple in its nature, deals with the Brahma or third aspect, and is called sometimes by the following names:—
1. The Secret of Brahma.
2. The Revelation of the Mother.
3. The Secret of Fohatic Force.
4. The Mystery of the Creator.
5. The Secret of the Three Who issued from the First (solar system),
and also by four mystic phrases conveying much light to the intuition:
6. The Boat of Mystery which Ploughs the Ocean.
7. The Key to the Divine Storehouse.
8. The Light that Guides through the triple caves of Darkness.
9. The Clue to the Energy uniting Fire and Water.
[Page 172]
In all these names much information will come to the student who carefully ponders them, remembering that they deal with the Brahma aspect in its lowest manifestation and with the three worlds of human endeavour, and thus meditating, the student must relate this present solar system to the preceding one, in which the Brahma aspect dominated, as the Vishnu, or consciousness aspect dominates in this.
The initiate, through the knowledge imparted, is now in a position to understand his own triple lower nature, and therefore to balance it in relation to the higher, the to read records and understand his place within the group, to manipulate the forces in the three worlds and thereby effect liberation for himself, thus helping the ends of evolution, and to co-operate intelligently with the plans of the Planetary Logos as they may be revealed to him stage by stage. He can now wield power, and becomes a centre of energy in a greatly increased degree, being able to dispense or retract force currents. The moment a man becomes consciously powerful on the mental plane, his power for good is a hundredfold increased. IHS 170-172
MB Commentary:
Keywords: Ego and the centres, electricity, third aspect, Brahma, Fohatic Force, First (or three first) solar system(s), lower evolution, creation.
The first reference is very rich with information without giving a clear definition of the word fohat. In this first quote we get the information that "The secret of fohat" is connected to:
- The creative process of thought form building
- The third initiation
- the why of the phenomena of the dense liquid and gaseous bodies of the Supreme Being
- the mystery of the threefold body of the triple Logos
- The transmission of energy from the Ego to the physical body via the force centres on the various planes
- The uprising of kundalini, its geometrical progression, and its vivification of all the centres
- Understanding of the development in the three earlier rounds and the evolutionary process in its earlier stages
- polarity, of at-one-ment, and essential union
- the secret of electricity, which is essentially triple in its nature, and deals with the Brahma or third aspect.
- and that the knowledge imparted allows the initiate to: understand, balance, read Akasha, manipulate, effect liberation, co-operate, wield power, become a centre of energy, dispense or retract force currents, increase power for good. (White Magic.)
- to co-operate intelligently with the plans of the Planetary Logos (- compare with the last paragraphs of reference #3.)
#2. Page 175: Secret of Initiation Logos Concerned Source of Energy Planes
Fohat Third Brahma- Creator Physical Sun Seven, Six, Five
Polarity Fourth Vishnu- Preserver Subjective Sun Four, Three
Fire Fifth Shiva- Destroyer Central Spiritual Sun Two
As the student will observe, the source of the particular energy concerned is one aspect of the sunIHS 175
# 3. It would be helpful if all of us pondered upon the difference between inherent quality and innate faculty; one is the very nature of buddhi, or wisdom, and the other of manas, or mind. The union of these two, through a man's conscious effort, results in a major initiation.
These results are brought about in two ways:—First, by a man's own unaided effort, which leads him in due course of time to find his own centre of consciousness, to be guided and led by the inner ruler or Ego entirely, and to unravel, through strenuous effort and painful endeavour, the mystery of the universe, which is concealed in material substance energised by Fohat. Secondly, by a man's efforts, supplemented by the intelligent loving co-operation of the Knowers of the race, the Masters of the Wisdom. In this case the process is quicker, for a man comes under instruction—should he so desire—and subsequently, when he has on his part provided the right conditions, there is placed at his disposal the knowledge and the help of Those Who have achieved. In order to avail himself of this help he has to work with the material of his own body, building right material into an ordered form, and has therefore to learn discrimination in the choice of matter, and to understand the laws of vibration and of construction. This entails the mastering, in some measure, of the laws that govern the [Page 178] Brahma and Vishnu aspects: it means a faculty of vibrating with atomic accuracy, and the development of the quality of attractiveness, which is the basis of the building, or Vishnu aspect.