Proposition 3: Sons of the Fire-Mist

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Secret Doctrine's Third Proposition Series · 45 pages

Forty-five pages with a contents page of key concepts. Its subtitle states the event the Third Proposition turns on: *how the Sons of the Fire-Mist quickened the human mind with the dew of their own spirit and essence* — that is, who gave man his mind, and at what cost to themselves.

The image the file opens with is of waters falling upon arid soil: the sparks that vivified the animal frames of man. A section then asks the question directly — who are the Sons of the Fire-Mist? — before the file makes the turn that gives it its force. *We are all fallen angels, gods in exile.* That is not offered as a metaphor but as an identification: the beings who descended to quicken the human mind are the same beings we now are, so the story of the fall is our own biography rather than someone else's crime. From it follows the file's sharpest criticism, in a section headed that the two falls became theology's pitfalls — the argument being that Christian theology conflated two quite different descents, the descent of spirit into matter and the moral fall of man, and made a sin of what was a sacrifice. The later sections deal with who those beings are now: Dhyani-Chohans, Bodhisattvas, Nirmanakayas and Tulkus are named as our true guardian angels, and the Elixir of Life is said to be within their grasp. Prometheus is introduced at the end as a personification of their mind and consciousness, which ties the file to the Prometheus study elsewhere in this batch. Of everything in this section, this is the file that states the Third Proposition most memorably.

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