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1In order to clearly comprehend Nature’s processes in the unfoldment of matter, a careful study of the seven creative principles is very necessary, not studied as so many intelligencies or states of conscious life, but as seven principles or forces, which, though unconscious and blind in their activities throughout their different spheres of operation, yet act strictly in harmony with each other as the refracted parts of a whole, fulfilling the creative design. These seven principles are not in themselves intelligent, but are simply powers directed by intelligence, just as the electric current is a power which, when governed by in¬ telligence, becomes a medium for the expression of that intelligence and capable of transmitting its master’s thoughts and desires, instan¬ taneously, to any part of the globe that has been prepared to receive THE REALM OF MATTER 13 them. The intelligence which directs these powers by the laws of harmony are the seven angelic worlds mentioned in the previous chap¬ ter, and as they are a perfect epitome of the divine law, it necessarily follows that the objective world of matter must be a perfect epitome — a solidified expression of its progenitors, and must contain within itself the latent attributes of its spiritual source.
2Powers, like individuals, are limited in their activities. For instance, before electricity can manifest itself as light or power it must have something to act upon, a point of contact or rapport, at the point or place of manifestation. As stated in the above illustration of the electric current, the place and object of such phenomena must have been prepared for the expression of such power. Hence the necessity (if we may use such a term) of the objective world being a perfect epitome of and containing the latent attributes of the higher and more interior worlds of cause. If this were not so the perfect evolution of matter would be an impossibility, because no subjective power, state or principle can act or react upon an objective form unless a portion of itself lies within that form. We must carry this fine of reasoning a little further.
3Man, in his physical body, is a perfect epitome of the planet upon which he lives, while the celestial worlds find their perfect expression in his soul, and these worlds, in turn, are but the higher and more interior expression not only of mans physical organism, but of the earth on which he lives. We see, therefore, how beautifully har¬ monious Mother Nature is, even in her most secret parts. She has made every known “thing” dependent upon a something else, and all things, therefore, are mutually dependent upon each other. Evolution is dependent upon involution; the objective upon the subjective, and man is dependent upon the earth. All contain the same eternal seven principles; the subjective, in its imponderable essences; the objective, in its solids, fluids and gases; and man, as the spirito-natural medium and meeting point between the two great worlds, treasures up the seven mineral qualities in his body and their magnetic counterparts in the odylic sphere of his soul. In this recondite sense alone can we fullv understand the occult axiom of the ancients; “Man is a microcosm — a universe within himself.” The seven principles of Nature correspond in their chemical affin¬ ities to the seven prismatic rays of the solar spectrum, and also present zed by Google 14 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
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 order to clearly comprehend Nature’s processes in the unfoldment of matter, a careful study of the seven creative principles is very necessary, not studied as so many intelligencies or states of conscious life, but as seven principles or forces, which, though unconscious and blind in their activities throughout their different spheres of operation, yet act strictly in harmony with each other as the refracted parts of a whole, fulfilling the creative design. These seven principles are not in themselves intelligent, but are simply powers directed by intelligence, just as the electric current is a power which, when governed by in¬ telligence, becomes a medium for the expression of that intelligence and capable of transmitting its master’s thoughts and desires, instan¬ taneously, to any part of the globe that has been prepared to receive THE REALM OF MATTER 13 them. The intelligence which directs these powers by the laws of harmony are the seven angelic worlds mentioned in the previous chap¬ ter, and as they are a perfect epitome of the divine law, it necessarily follows that the objective world of matter must be a perfect epitome — a solidified expression of its progenitors, and must contain within itself the latent attributes of its spiritual source.
2Powers, like individuals, are limited in their activities. For instance, before electricity can manifest itself as light or power it must have something to act upon, a point of contact or rapport, at the point or place of manifestation. As stated in the above illustration of the electric current, the place and object of such phenomena must have been prepared for the expression of such power. Hence the necessity (if we may use such a term) of the objective world being a perfect epitome of and containing the latent attributes of the higher and more interior worlds of cause. If this were not so the perfect evolution of matter would be an impossibility, because no subjective power, state or principle can act or react upon an objective form unless a portion of itself lies within that form. We must carry this fine of reasoning a little further.
3Man, in his physical body, is a perfect epitome of the planet upon which he lives, while the celestial worlds find their perfect expression in his soul, and these worlds, in turn, are but the higher and more interior expression not only of mans physical organism, but of the earth on which he lives. We see, therefore, how beautifully har¬ monious Mother Nature is, even in her most secret parts. She has made every known “thing” dependent upon a something else, and all things, therefore, are mutually dependent upon each other. Evolution is dependent upon involution; the objective upon the subjective, and man is dependent upon the earth. All contain the same eternal seven principles; the subjective, in its imponderable essences; the objective, in its solids, fluids and gases; and man, as the spirito-natural medium and meeting point between the two great worlds, treasures up the seven mineral qualities in his body and their magnetic counterparts in the odylic sphere of his soul. In this recondite sense alone can we fullv understand the occult axiom of the ancients; “Man is a microcosm — a universe within himself.” The seven principles of Nature correspond in their chemical affin¬ ities to the seven prismatic rays of the solar spectrum, and also present zed by Google 14 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
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.
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