Fetching
One moment.
Fetching
One moment.
1In the first place, there are three distinct grades of this exalted state, each grade containing within itself three separate states or degrees of life and power, so that in the whole there are nine states of Wisdom. These principle grades may be designated, in general terms, as the natural, the spiritual and the celestial states, of the soul’s progressive evolutions. The first, the most external state, relates to the world of physical phenomena, and deals exclusively with the elemental spheres of the planet, and the astro-magnetic currents which control them. The powers of the adept of this grade extend from the elemental zones of matter in the world of effects, up to the astromagnetic spheres in the realm of cause. “Beyond this astral world they become powerless. Hence, their highest achievements are within the realms of external magnetic phenomena.”
2The second grade, which constitutes the interior or spiritual state of the first, relates to the realm of spirit, and deals exclusively with the spiritual and ethereal forces of the planet. The adepts of this grade are the translated souls of those who have graduated through the various degrees of the first. As such, they fulfill the duties of the master or teacher to those who are still graduating in the outer degrees of spiritual life. Their power extends from the magnetic zones of the astral world up to the ethereal and spiritual spheres of dis¬ embodied humanity. Beyond these states of spiritual life they cannot m THE LIGHT OF EGYPT pew*trate, hence, their highest achievements are within the spheres of disembodied existence. Occupying as they do, the interior degree of Iiie, they are enabled to combat the hells, on the one hand, and to sustain the heavens, on the other. These spiritual adepts cannot descend to earth (as we understand the termi and manifest their power externally, without the aid of a properly trained instrument, whose odylic sphere they can temporarily occupy. Their chief means of communication with the external world are the adepts of the exterior grade, through whom they transmit such portions of spiritual truth as the world has need of.
3The third grade constitutes the internal or celestial state of the second; and is the highest degree of spiritual life that the embodied human mind can comprehend; and relates to the higher states of purified souls. It is above and beyond what we know as the human. It is angelic and celestial in nature. Of its Deific powers and potenti¬ alities we can not speak. They are beyond the grasp of external life. At this point, it is of the utmost importance that the student should clearly grasp the relation of these three grades to each other, in order to form a correct idea of the nature and functions of adeptship, and also, in order to understand by what means it may be attained.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
1In the first place, there are three distinct grades of this exalted state, each grade containing within itself three separate states or degrees of life and power, so that in the whole there are nine states of Wisdom. These principle grades may be designated, in general terms, as the natural, the spiritual and the celestial states, of the soul’s progressive evolutions. The first, the most external state, relates to the world of physical phenomena, and deals exclusively with the elemental spheres of the planet, and the astro-magnetic currents which control them. The powers of the adept of this grade extend from the elemental zones of matter in the world of effects, up to the astromagnetic spheres in the realm of cause. “Beyond this astral world they become powerless. Hence, their highest achievements are within the realms of external magnetic phenomena.”
2The second grade, which constitutes the interior or spiritual state of the first, relates to the realm of spirit, and deals exclusively with the spiritual and ethereal forces of the planet. The adepts of this grade are the translated souls of those who have graduated through the various degrees of the first. As such, they fulfill the duties of the master or teacher to those who are still graduating in the outer degrees of spiritual life. Their power extends from the magnetic zones of the astral world up to the ethereal and spiritual spheres of dis¬ embodied humanity. Beyond these states of spiritual life they cannot m THE LIGHT OF EGYPT pew*trate, hence, their highest achievements are within the spheres of disembodied existence. Occupying as they do, the interior degree of Iiie, they are enabled to combat the hells, on the one hand, and to sustain the heavens, on the other. These spiritual adepts cannot descend to earth (as we understand the termi and manifest their power externally, without the aid of a properly trained instrument, whose odylic sphere they can temporarily occupy. Their chief means of communication with the external world are the adepts of the exterior grade, through whom they transmit such portions of spiritual truth as the world has need of.
3The third grade constitutes the internal or celestial state of the second; and is the highest degree of spiritual life that the embodied human mind can comprehend; and relates to the higher states of purified souls. It is above and beyond what we know as the human. It is angelic and celestial in nature. Of its Deific powers and potenti¬ alities we can not speak. They are beyond the grasp of external life. At this point, it is of the utmost importance that the student should clearly grasp the relation of these three grades to each other, in order to form a correct idea of the nature and functions of adeptship, and also, in order to understand by what means it may be attained.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
No commentary for this page.