MARS

Seven Sacred Planets

The ancients spoke of seven planets which they called the seven sacred planets, and they were named as follows: Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury, and Moon.

Each one of these seven globes is a body like our own Earth in that each is a septenary chain, sevenfold in composition: six other superior globes of finer and more ethereal matter above the
physical sphere or globe. Only those globes which are on the same cosmic plane of nature or being are physically visible to each other. For instance, we can see only the fourth-plane planetary globe of each of the other planetary or sidereal chains, because we ourselves are on the fourth cosmic plane, as they also are.

 

Behold Migmar,* as in his crimson veils his "Eye" sweeps over slumbering Earth. Behold the
fiery aura of the "Hand" of Lhagpa** extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics.
Both are now servants to Nyima*** (26) left in his absence silent watchers in the night. Yet
both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future "Days" again become two Suns.
Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in nature.

[*Mars.] [**Mercury.] [***The Sun.]

 

Every planet is an evolved portion or particle of the sun that was in the previous solar manvantara. Therefore it is that the Tibetan work from which HPB quotes, speaks of Migmar, Mars, as having been once a portion of a brilliant sun. When a sun reaches its term of life and dies, it disintegrates; and the portions of it become the originals of planets, and cosmic dust, meteors, and what not. But as every planetary body is an aggregate of life-atoms, it evolves just as the human being evolves. It is an aggregate of life forces.

 

...the earth as compared with Mars is, essentially, a grosser planet; and in evolution, also, it stands at a lower or more material point of its own planetary cycle than does Mars in its planetary cycle. -- p. 326

The basic rule is as follows: the nearer the sun, the more advanced is the planet in its evolution, and consequently the more evolved are its burden of living beings. The farther from the sun, the more ethereal and in one sense the more spiritual are the planets, but less evolved in their respective planetary manvantaras.

Therefore, Mars is more ethereal than the earth; Jupiter more so than Mars; Saturn more than Jupiter. But Jupiter is more evolved in its planetary evolution than is Saturn; Mars more than Jupiter; the earth more than Mars, and Venus more than the earth. -- p. 327

As for the planet Mars, its physical sphere is younger than the earth, but presently it is in obscuration. It is more than merely 'asleep,' for the great bulk of its living entities have moved
on to higher globes of the planetary chain of Mars. However, certain beings were left there when its globe D went into obscuration. These are the sishtas, 'remainders,' i.e. those who serve as the seeds of life on any planet, until the returning life-wave in the next globe-manvantara shall find these bodies waiting and ready for their use. At present, the vital essences of the Mars planetary chain have left its physical globe D, having ended their third round thereon, and have gone to its other globes. There is a mystery with regard to Mars, and that is why H.P.B. in a certain passage on the seven sacred planets mentions only four (Saturn, Jupiter, Mercury, and Venus), and merely hints at three more (The Secret Doctrine, I, 575). Like the sun and the moon which are substitutes for two secret planets, Mars -- to a certain extent -- is in the same category. -- p. 332

It should be borne in mind that every globe of a planetary chain is surrounded during its globe manvantara with a thick veil of meteoric dust, most of it very fine, some of it, however, consisting of more or less large bodies. Take Venus, for instance, or Mercury: each is surrounded with its own meteoric veil which acts in one sense as a cushion, thus forming a protection to the planet. For that reason, we do not see the real face of Venus or Mercury. Globe D of Mars -- which we see -- has no such veil at present, because the vital essence of that planetary chain has left globe D for its superior globes. -- p. 336

Now the teaching of the ancient wisdom is that Mars is younger than the Earth. Its body, its physical sphere, is younger; but, at the present time, it is in a state of "obscuration." It is what we may call asleep; it is more than merely asleep, actually, for the vastly larger part of its hosts of lives, of its living entities, have left it in order to go to higher spheres or globes of the Martian planetary chain. But this again does not mean -- one has to be very careful in the use of
expressions in our studies -- that there is no life on Mars. When our own physical body is asleep, does it mean that it is in decay, that it is dead? Are there no vital processes going on in the sleeping human body? Of course there are, many: recuperation, reinforcing of the bonds of the inner nature; not of the inner nature itself, but there is the strengthening of the bonds connecting the vital astral entity with it. -- p. 207-8

Neptune, although a "planet" in the sense that it does revolve around the sun, is not a true member of our solar system in any sense. It is a "capture," and its capture changed in one sense the entire nature of our universal solar system; and it will remain captured until the karmic time shall come for it to leave us. It is captured exactly as some of the planets have captured "moons." Why is it, we may ask, in passing, that Venus and Mercury have no moons; and that Mars is said to have two, and Saturn nine, and Jupiter nine, whereas we know by our teaching that each planet can have but one true moon, the others being mere captures, satellites? Now, suppose we were to say that in the past aeons of time, a comet, nearing the planetary stage, passed sufficiently close to the gravitational attraction of our universal solar system on its own plane of being to be captured, and that due to the interplay of various forces it settled into an orbit around our sun; and that long aeons later our astronomers discovered it and named it Neptune. Please consider that as a theory. We will leave it, if you will, for the time, and call it a theory. -- p. 522-3

the planet Mars has two satellites, Phobos and Deimos. Phobos is not a moon; but Deimos is a true moon, but not of Mars. Phobos is a capture, as we may say, by Mars. -- p. 526

Mars has two satellites to which he has no right. . . . . Phobos, the supposed INNER sarellite, is no satellite at all. As remarked long ago by Laplace and now by Faye (see comptes rendus. Tome XC., p. 569), Phobos keeps a too short periodic time, and therefore there 'must exist some defect in the mother idea of the theory' as Faye justly observes. -- 1:165

Mr. Mattieu Willimas emits some quite occult theories about Jupiter and other planets. He says: "Our notions of solids, liquids, and gases are derived from our experiences of the state of matter here upon this Earth. Could we be removed to another planet, they would be curiously changed. On Mercury water would rank as one of the condesible gases; on Mars, as a fusible solid..." --2:136n