The Kingdom of the Gods

The Kingdom of the Gods is Geoffrey Hodson's report of his clairvoyant observations of angels and "devas," the nature spirits and inner-plane beings of the Theosophical cosmos. Its central claim is that such beings, and the subtle structures of an ensouled, hierarchically ordered universe, can be studied through trained inner perception.

Hodson presents his investigations as a kind of disciplined, repeatable research into subtle reality, in the lineage of earlier Theosophical clairvoyants. He describes the orders of the deva kingdom in detail and elaborates the idea that thought and emotion act as forces shaping subtle matter, treating the spiritual hierarchy and its angelic orders as objects of observation rather than mere doctrine.

The book extends the Theosophical clairvoyant-investigation tradition deep into the twentieth century. Its vivid accounts of devas and nature spirits, and its model of mind as a shaping energy, helped carry the Theosophical picture of an ordered, ensouled cosmos toward later angelic, deva, and energy-healing spirituality.