The sensed power of Vulcan

The search for Vulcan was fueled by the idea of a hidden planet, a celestial body of immense power and dynamic influence, burning with the promise of discovery. Concealed from sight, it remained elusive, with reports of its existence coming primarily from amateur astronomers. 

In 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz discovered the first exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi b, It shocked astronomers around the world. The planet was located 0.05 astronomical units from its host star, more than seven times closer than Mercury is to the Sun at 0.38 AU. Thus bringing abruptly to the attention that a close planetary proximity to a star is possible and a demonstrable fact.

I was first introduced to the idea of an intra-Mercurial planet in the early to mid-1970s. An amateur astronomer, a friend just 12 years old, told me of his observations during a solar eclipse. As Mercury passed across the Sun, he innocently mentioned seeing another planet also. Was it actually seen, or was it intuitionally sensed as the Tibetan DK illustrates?

I was 13 when he told me, and his revelation shook me to the core. His account, given so casually, left a lasting impression. Years later, when I read about Vulcan, I was once again struck by his sighting and the mystery of this planet. In the third volume of the Secret Doctrine of Helena Blavatsky, an “invisible inter-Mercurial planet" is mentioned, “a sacred and secret planet with the ancients”.

Albert Einstein supposedly disproved Vulcan. Yet the search for this hidden world played a crucial role in the advancement of modern physics and Einstein’s theory of general relativity. 

The story of Vulcan, son of the god Jupiter, dates back to the early 17th century, when Galileo’s observations revolutionized our understanding of the solar system. Reports of dark objects crossing the Sun sparked discussions about an undiscovered planet closer to the Sun than Mercury, perhaps sometimes hidden within its orbit.

In the mid-19th century, the astronomer Urbain Le Verrier, who had successfully predicted Neptune’s existence by studying Uranus’s orbit, turned his attention to Mercury. He observed unexplained deviations in Mercury’s motion that Newtonian physics could not explain. Le Verrier proposed that an unseen planet, which he named Vulcan, was exerting a gravitational anomaly on Mercury, much as Neptune had affected Uranus. 

In 1859, amateur astronomer Edmond Modeste Lescarbault claimed he had observed Vulcan transiting the Sun. Encouraged by this, Le Verrier publicly announced the discovery. However, subsequent observations found nothing.

Despite searches in the 1860s and ’70s, Vulcan remained elusive. During a total solar eclipse in 1878, astronomers James Craig Watson and Lewis Swift independently reported seeing a reddish or ruddy celestial body close to or within Mercury’s orbit.

The mystery remained until the early 20th century, when Albert Einstein provided a ground-breaking take on the topic. In 1915, his theory of general relativity redefined the understanding of gravity. Newton viewed gravity as an “agent” force acting under physical laws producing attraction, however, Einstein proposed that massive objects such as the Sun warp space-time, producing curvature and the bending of light.

Space and time, in this view, are not influenced by an external agent but are shaped by the presence of mass and open-ended geodesics or unclosed curves in space. No substantive agent or spiritual force was required as Newton understood it.

When Einstein applied his equations to Mercury, he found that, in his view, general relativity fully accounted for the planet’s peculiar motion. The need for Vulcan was no longer necessary, and the idea of Vulcan was generally forgotten.

Yet, in the view of others, Vulcan couldn't influence Mercury in the way it did. Reports of Vulcan’s small size suggest it would not possess enough gravitational force to cause such orbital effects. However, this fact alone should not have been sufficient reason to entirely discount its existence. That was not a logical conclusion but rather a hasty one.

For instance, we should account for some of the logged observations of Vulcan, which recorded not only its small size but its colour, often described as reddish or ruddy. It was said in mythology that as a baby, Vulcan was small and ugly with a red, bawling face. This agrees with the description of the planet.

These were independent observations by Swift and Watson in 1878, and they concur with the ageless wisdom, which states that Vulcan is a first-ray planet associated with the colour red and Will and Power. The ageless wisdom also states that Vulcan, Pluto and Earth form a subsidiary triangle of force. This is useful as a reminder that Pluto is farthest from the sun while Vulcan is closest, and both are ruled by and custodians of the first ray.

When DK states, “the recent discovery of Pluto and the sensed power of Vulcan”, he differentiates between actual physical discovery and the sensed presence of a planet. Vulcan must be keenly sensed by many to the point of near sighting; however, to this day, that “invisible inter-Mercurial planet" remains elusive to many, though perhaps not to all. This is a good reason to consider the etheric nature and ‘sensed power’ of a more spiritually advanced planet.

The Vulcan chain (or Vulcan as a planetary scheme) is considered more spiritually advanced than the Earth chain. Earth is a non-sacred planet undergoing intense lessons in karma, duality, and human evolution. Vulcan, on the other hand, is said to be a sacred planet, and sacred planets are further along in their spiritual evolution. Its evolutionary focus is on refining matter and spirit, symbolized in mythology by Vulcan working at the fiery forge. 

Being etheric, those with deep inner connection sense and to an extent saw the elusive and invisible planet whilst others saw nothing. Predictions as to its scheduled orbital appearance rarely, if ever, were accurate or ever materialised. However, this does not mean it does not have a gravitational effect on Mercury, and some say Mars, but being etheric and a transmitter of energy and attractive force may not be as easily calculated.

Vulcan, according to Blavatsky, became invisible during the mid part to latter part of the third root race at the fall of man into physical generation. As we have reached the ascending arc and plane development corresponding to the third root race, the planet Vulcan will begin to become increasingly visible again as a dense physical planet yet more rarefied than being entirely solid like Mercury.

To gain deeper insight as to the constitution and subtlety of this first ray sacred planet an informative piece of information from TCF tells us that the experience of a group of initiates who undertook special work on Vulcan are having to await the fifth round on earth before returning due to the type of rarefied physical body required without resulting in a disastrous incarnation.

Presumably, the fiery first ray sacred planet refined and potently intensified their etheric bodies to an incompatible level with Earth's current vibrational frequency. Their atomic frequency and vibrational structure are so far beyond Earth’s current matter that no physical body here could withstand their entry. They are temporarily out of phase with Earth's evolution.

The variance between Einstein’s and Newton’s theories came to a doubtful conclusion when Einstein stated that his theory of space-time curvature accounted for Mercury’s excessive perihelion precession. According to Einstein, the curvature of space-time by massive objects like the Sun altered the trajectory of Mercury’s orbit, creating its eccentric path through space, an effect caused not by gravitational force in the Newtonian sense but by the warping of space in a “static universe.” The need for Vulcan was virtually eliminated.

This is quite different from gravitational force as Newton understood it, an attraction generated by one body acting upon another through an invisible agent. Newton believed this to be “the work of an intelligent and all-powerful Being.” He was a light bearer, equal in rank to H.P. Blavatsky, according to the ageless wisdom. As HPB herself said, “Only Sir Isaac Newton and Cuvier, as above cited, need fear little from modern science.”

Jeremy Condick.

JPC.  March/April 2025.