Agni

94:1.4Def­i­nite henothe­is­tic de­vel­op­ments were pav­ing the way for an evolved mono­the­ism. Agni, the most an­cient de­ity, was of­ten ex­alted as the fa­ther-head of the en­tire pan­theon. The de­ity-fa­ther prin­ci­ple, some­times called Pra­jap­ati, some­times termed Brahma, was sub­merged in the the­o­logic bat­tle which the Brah­man priests later fought with the Salem teach­ers. The Brah­man was con­ceived as the en­ergy-di­vin­ity prin­ci­ple ac­ti­vat­ing the en­tire Vedic pan­theon.

94:4.63. Vedic and post-Vedic de­i­ties. Many of the an­cient gods of the Aryans, such as Agni, In­dra, and Soma, have per­sisted as sec­ondary to the three mem­bers of the Trimurti. Nu­mer­ous ad­di­tional gods have arisen since the early days of Vedic In­dia, and these have also been in­cor­po­rated into the Hindu pan­theon.

79:3.4As early as 16,000 B.C. a com­pany of one hun­dred Sethite priests en­tered In­dia and very nearly achieved the re­li­gious con­quest of the west­ern half of that poly­glot peo­ple. But their re­li­gion did not per­sist. Within five thou­sand years their doc­trines of the Par­a­dise Trin­ity had de­gen­er­ated into the tri­une sym­bol of the fire god.

94:1.3The poly­the­ism of these Aryans rep­re­sented a de­gen­er­a­tion of their ear­lier mono­the­ism oc­ca­sioned by their sep­a­ra­tion into tribal units, each tribe hav­ing its ven­er­ated god. This de­vo­lu­tion of the orig­i­nal mono­the­ism and trini­tar­i­an­ism of And­ite Mes­o­po­ta­mia was in pro­cess of resyn­the­sis in the early cen­turies of the sec­ond mil­len­nium be­fore Christ. The many gods were or­ga­nized into a pan­theon un­der the tri­une lead­er­ship of Dyaus pitar, the lord of heaven; In­dra, the tem­pes­tu­ous lord of the at­mo­sphere; and Agni, the three-headed fire god, lord of the earth and the ves­ti­gial sym­bol of an ear­lier Trin­ity con­cept.

104:1.2The sec­ond pre­sen­ta­tion of the Trin­ity was made by Adam and Eve in the first and sec­ond gar­dens. These teach­ings had not been wholly oblit­er­ated even in the times of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek about thirty-five thou­sand years later, for the Trin­ity con­cept of the Sethites per­sisted in both Mes­o­po­ta­mia and Egypt but more es­pe­cially in In­dia, where it was long per­pet­u­ated in Agni, the Vedic three-headed fire god.