Author: Geoffrey Hodson
Painter/Illustrator/Animator: Ethelwynne M Quail
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing
Year: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788170592921
Description
In this most unusual book Geoffrey Hodson, one of the greatest occultists of our times, gives a fascinating account of evolution as it relates to a kingdom of nature parallel to man, namely the kingdom of the angelic hosts, known in the East as the kingdom of he Deva-s or ‘the Shining Ones’.
Every religion has its angels and archangels. Legends, myths and folklore of every country throughout the world and in all ages speak of angels and nature-spirits, of spirits of mountains, clouds and rivers, and of mischievours imps, which delight in playing pranks on human beings. Yet very little specific information is available about them or their functions and activities.
The Kingdom of the Gods is based on Knowledge revealed in occult books like The secret Doctrine of H. P. Blavatsky and clairvoyant investigations by occultists like Annie Besant, C. W. Leadbeater and the author himself As to the proof of the existence of these invisible beings the author points out that, while there can be no demonstrable proof of the fruits of mystical experience, test by personal research is possible and he says, ‘That test I have attempted to apply, and this book is in part a record of my own findings’.
The graphic descriptions of the various Deva-s – of water, of fire, of mountains and seas, of trees and plants, of music, of individual nations – with the colourful illustrations of their forms as seen by clairvoyant vision, lead one unconsciously into a wonderful experience of the ‘comradeship of the angels.’
Contents
Plate 10 A Mountain God
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART - I
FOUNDATIONS
Definition of Terms
Science, Ancient and Modern
Creative Processes
Man the Microcosm
PART - II
DESCRIPTIONS
The Greater gods
The Earth’s Angelic Hierarchies
The Colour Language of the angels
The Lesser gods
PART - III
THE SEPHIROTH
The Angels of Will, Wisdom and Intelligence
The angels of Beauty, Mind and fire
Life and Form
The Sephirothal Tree
The Inverse Sephiras and the Problem of Evil
CHARTS
The Sephirothal Tree
The Auric tree of Life
The ten Sephiroth
PART - IV
CO-OPERATION
Ceremonial as a Means of Co-operation between
Angels and Men
Angelic co-operation in the Mayan, Hindu and
Jewish Religions
The radiation of Power
PART - V
ILLUSTRATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX