It is on the Hierarchies that the mystery of the whole Universe is built. In her writings, Helena Blavatsky talks about the seven Suns as the central bodies of the seven planes of being and the angels that inhabit them:
"They are the Head-group divided into four classes from the incorporeal down to the semi-corporeal, which classes are directly connected-though in very different ways as regards voluntary connection and functions-with our mankind. They are three, synthesized by the fourth (the first and highest), which is called the "Central Sun". Though the seventh principle reaches man through all the phases of being, pure as an indiscrete element and an impersonal unity, it passes through the Central Spiritual Sun and Group the second (the polar Sun), which two radiate on man his Atma. Group Three (the equatorial Sun) cement the Buddhi to Atman and the higher attributes of Manas, while group Four (the spirit of our visible sun) endows him with his Manas and its vehicle-the Kama rupa, or body of passions and desires, the two elements of Ahamkara which evolve individualized consciousness-the personal ego. Finally, it is the spirit of the Earth in its triple unity that builds the physical body, attracting to it the Spirits of Life and forming his Linga Sarira'.
The Hierarchy of Earth as described in the Secret Doctrine consists of ten classes or kingdoms, these forming what has been called "a ladder of life." Each rung of this "ladder" represents a Kingdom, and at any particular stage on the ladder the whole of that Kingdom experiences conditions appropriate to its evolutionary need.
The whole Kosmos is guided, controlled, and animated by almost endless series of Hierarchies of sentient Beings, each having a mission to perform, and who whether we give to them one name or another, and call them Dhyan Chohans or Angels are "messengers" in the sense only that they are the agents of Karmic and Cosmic Laws. The universe is created or, evolved, by a Hierarchy of Beings which are generally referred to as "builders" or "architects". The Builders are those who build the Universe to the small globes like those of our chain. The "Builders" are the invisible but intelligent Masons, who build matter according to the ideal plan ready for them in that which we call Divine and Cosmic ideation. They were called by the early Masons the "Grand Architect of the Universe" collectively.
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