Lower Devachan

The Lower Devachan, or Rupa-Devachan according to Indian theosophical terminology, is the term used to describe the four lower realms of the spirit land, i.e. the spiritual world in the narrower sense. It corresponds to what we call the heavenly world, the kingdom of heaven or the heavenly paradise according to occidental tradition. The lower devachan is sometimes also called the world of the harmony of spheres or the world of inspiration. In Christian esotericism the Rupa-Devachan is also called the world of the Son (Lit.:GA 100, p. 205). The three lowest regions of the lower devachan correspond to the three outermost planetary spheres, beginning with the Mars sphere; the fourth region, in which the source of primordial thoughts lies, already extends beyond the planetary system (Lit.:GA 141, p. 178ff). This fourth and highest region is also called the Akasha. It is the home of the spiritual world memory, the Akasha Chronicle, in which the spiritual archetypes of all world events are inscribed.

The lower Devachan is divided into four regions:

1. The spiritual archetypes of the physical world (Mars sphere).
2. The archetypes of the living (Jupiter sphere).
3. The archetypes of the soul (Saturn sphere).
4. The source of the archetypal thoughts.

Literature

• Rudolf Steiner: Theosophie - Einführung in übersinnliche Welterkenntnis und Menschenbestimmung, GA 9 (1904), im Kapitel III. Das Geisterland English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Menschheits-Entwickelung und Christus-Erkenntnis, GA 100 (1981), Vierter Vortrag, Kassel, 19. Juni 1907 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org
• Rudolf Steiner: Das Leben zwischen dem Tode und der neuen Geburt im Verhältnis zu den kosmischen Tatsachen, GA 141 (1997), ISBN 3-7274-1410-3 English: rsarchive.org German: pdf pdf(2) html mobi epub archive.org

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