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War
in Heaven
An
Integral Part of the
Evolution
of the Cosmos
“and with ambitious
aim
Against the Throne and Monarchy of God
Rais'd impious War in Heav'n and Battel
proud
With vain attempt. Him
the Almighty Power
Hurld headlong flaming from th' Ethereal Skie
With hideous ruine
and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In Adamantine Chains and penal Fire,”
From Milton’s
Paradise Lost
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And
there was war in heaven, Michael and
his angels fought against the dragon, and
the
dragon and his angels fought back. But he was
not strong enough, and they lost their place
in
heaven. The great dragon was hurled down –
that ancient serpent called the devil or
Satan,
who leads the whole world astray. He was
hurled to the earth and his angels with him.
From
Revelation Chapter 12 Verses 7 -9
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H
P Blavatsky explains why most religious traditions
have at least one war in heaven with some
having several.
Posted
Wars in Heaven are found throughout mythological and religious
traditions and in many cases several cosmic wars have taken place. The Christian
tradition has a revolt of Angels against a supreme god. In many other traditions
there is a falling out and struggle between rival gods.
These Wars are derived from major and cataclysmic events which have
taken place in the evolution of the universe.
In the Secret Doctrine, H P Blavatsky says;
The "Fallen Angels" and the legend of the "War in
Heaven" is thus purely pagan in its origin and comes from
(Secret Doctrine Vol 1 Page 199)
She also points out that Wars in Heaven are a constant theme in
many other mythologies and can be interpreted on many levels;
“Puranic writers have ingeniously interwoven allegory with Cosmic facts and human events. Any symbologist
may discern the astro-cosmical allusion even though
he be unable to grasp the whole meaning. The great "Wars
in Heaven," in the Puranas; the wars of the
Titans, in Hesiod and other classical writers; the
"struggles," also in the Egyptian legend between Osiris
and Typhon, and even those in the Scandinavian
legends, all refer to the same subject. Northern Mythology refers to it as the
battle of the Flames, the sons of Muspel who fought
on the field of Wigred. All these relate to Heaven
and Earth, and have a double and often even a triple meaning, and esoteric
application to things above as to things below. They relate severally to
astronomical, theogonical and human struggles; to the
adjustment of orbs, and the supremacy among nations and tribes. The
"Struggle for Existence" and the "Survival of the Fittest"
reigned supreme from the moment that Kosmos manifested into being, and could
hardly escape the observant eye of the ancient Sages. Hence the incessant
fights of Indra, the god of the Firmament, with the Asuras -- degraded from high gods into Cosmic
demons; and with Vritri or Ah-hi; the battles fought
between stars and constellations, between Moon and planets -- later on
incarnated as kings and mortals. Hence also the War in Heaven
of Michael and his Host against the Dragon (Jupiter and Lucifer-Venus), when a
third of the stars of the rebellious host was hurled down into Space, and
"its place was found no more in Heaven." As said long ago --
"This is the basic and fundamental stone of the secret cycles. It shows
that the Brahmins and Tanaim . . . speculated on the
creation and development of the world quite in a Darwinian way, both
anticipating him and his school in the natural selection of species, the survival
of the fittest,”
(Secret
Doctrine Volume 1 Page 203)
H P BLavatsky ultimately decides that
the “War in Heaven” concept originated in
The origin
of the "War in Heaven" and the FALL has, in our mind, to be traced
unavoidably to
(Secret
Doctrine Volume 1 Page 419)
These Wars
are derived from major and cataclysmic events which have taken place in the
Universe and H P Blavatsky puts wars from the
“The first
war happened in the night of time, between the gods the (A)-suras,
and lasted for the period of one "divine year."* On this occasion the
deities were defeated by the Daityas, under the
leadership of Hrada. After that, owing to a device of
Vishnu, to whom the conquered gods applied for help, the latter defeated the Asuras. In the Vishnu Purana no
interval is found between the two wars. In the Esoteric Doctrine, one war takes
place before the building of the Solar system; another, on earth, at the
"creation" of man; and a third "war" is mentioned as taking
place at the close of the 4th Race, between its adepts and those of the 5th
Race, i.e., between the Initiates of the "Sacred Island" and the
Sorcerers of Atlantis.”land"
and the Sorcerers of Atlantis.
(Secret
Doctrine Volume 1 Page 418 - 419)
H P
Blavatsky also provides a rationale within the Greek Tradition
“Kronos stands for endless (hence immovable) Duration,
without beginning, without an end, beyond divided Time and beyond Space. Those
"Angels," genii, or Devas, who were born to
act in space and time, i.e., to break through the seven circles of the superspiritual planes into the phenomenal, or
circumscribed, super-terrestrial regions, are said allegorically to have
rebelled against Kronos and fought the (then) one
living and highest God. In his turn, when Kronos is
represented as mutilating Uranus, his father, the meaning of this mutilation is
very simple: Absolute Time is made to become the finite and the conditioned; a
portion is robbed from the whole, thus showing that Saturn, the father of the
gods, has been transformed from Eternal Duration into a limited Period. Chronos cuts down with his scythe even the longest and (to
us) seemingly endless cycles, yet, for all that, limited in Eternity, and puts
down with the same scythe the mightiest rebels. Aye, not one will escape the
scythe of Time! Praise the god or gods, or flout, one or both, and that scythe
will not be made to tremble one millionth of a second in its ascending or
descending course.”
(Secret Doctrine Volume 1 Page 418)
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