“All physical forces and energies are but transmutations of the life poured forth by the sun, the Lord and Giver of life to his system.
Hence in many ancient religions the sun has stood as the symbol of the Supreme God – the symbol, in truth, the least liable to misconstruction by the ignorant.
Mr. Sinnett well says:
“The solar system is indeed an area of Nature including more than any but the very highest beings whom our humanity is capable of developing are in a position to investigate.
Theoretically we may feel sure – as we look up into the heavens at night – that the whole solar system itself is but a drop in the ocean of the kosmos, but that drop is in its turn an ocean from the point of view of the consciousness of such half-developed within it as ourselves, and we can only hope at present to acquire vague and shadowy conceptions of its origin and constitution.
Shadowy, however, though these may be, they enable us to assign the subordinate planetary series in which our own evolution is carried on, to its proper place in the system of which it is a part, or at all events to get a broad idea of the relative magnitude of the whole system, of our planetary chain, of the world in which we are at present functioning, and of the respective periods of evolution in which as human beings we are interested.”
For in truth we cannot grasp our own position intellectually without some idea – however vague it may be – of our relation to the whole;
and while some students are content to work within their own sphere of duty and to leave the wider reaches of life until they are called to function in them, others feel the need of a far-reaching scheme in which they have their place, and take an intellectual delight in soaring upwards to obtain a bird’s-eye view of the whole field of evoluton.
This need has been recognized and met by the spiritual Guardians of humanity in the magnificent delineation of the kosmos from the standpoint of the occultist traced by their pupil and messenger, H. P. Blavatsky.”
Annie Besant
The Mark Of God: Understanding Your "I AM Presence" 