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1Suppose we have a globe of glass or other material capable of absolutely confining everything within its own circumference, and further let us suppose that it is a vacuum inside. Now, let us fill this globe with steam (not air) which is, as we know, an ethereal form of water. After the globe is filled with this vapor, it is, of course, full and no more can be forced into it. Let us further suppose that the globe has a sufficient temperature to maintain the steam therein at its invisible thermal condition. The capacity of our globe is thus exhausted with the watery element, which we will say is one gallon. We can now put one gallon of volatile alcohol into the globe and the atoms of alcohol will find room amid the atoms of steam. We can also further take a still higher form of matter and insert one gallon of ether (not the ether we breathe but the kind distilled from alcohol) into our globe. We now have three elements filling a globe of which not an atom more of either could be inserted if it was a perfect vacuum. It is a case of one within the other yet being the same size of each other. Of course, we might go on almost indefinitely, so that it amounts to this; there are seven dimensions of matter, and we will suppose them to be cubes one foot square, thus— / - 7 — 7 — 7 — 7 — 7 Z - 7 77 Mineral / Vapor / Aerial / Dynamic / Astral / Spiritual / Celestial /
2Now, within our cube of pure mineral all the other six can be absorbed, although all are exactly the same size, and there will rer'rv^nlp Original from VjUUUIC UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 174 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3main visible the one cube of matter, and, to the physical senses, it will be just the same after as before this absorption, except that it will weigh a little more after the other six are a part of it. It is a STATE WITHIN A STATE, as the soul within the body, the Astral body, the Spiritual body, etc., and the Divine Ego is in the SEVENTH STATE, viz. the Celestial Heavens of our solar system; but we can no more precisely point where, as to a certain point in space, than you can locate the ether and the atmosphere; it is above and around us as well as within. Until the human mind is capable of understanding the terms WITHOUT and WITHIN apart from supposing that, a thing within must be smaller than the object enclosing it, and that the atoms of the one constitute a world totally free and apart from the atoms of the other, no real conception of a true spiritual reality can be formed. The very world in which we live, the houses we occupy, and the streets we frequent, are equally as crowded spirit¬ ually as materially. There are Astral Cities within Material Cities, and the inhabitants of the interior are as unconscious (generally) of the physical inhabitants of the exterior as the exterior masses are of the internal occupants. These lower cities and states are upon the first or earth sphere, and constitute the Hells of the soul world, and stimu¬ late all the real Hells we see in every crowded city. You must not look upon the Divine Ego as some great angelic power. It is a simple Cherub of Innocence, lacking Wisdom and real intelligence, even as a babe. The two parts of itself are the soul monads projected from the little, pure Cherub Sun, like reflected rays; and its powers become crystallized in matter; the Man, the Wisdom or Intelligent and Posi¬ tive force; and the Woman, the Love and Formative or Plastic power; finally the cycle is complete; the Man in his acquired Wisdom and conscious knowledge of Creation; and Woman, in all her matured Beauty and realized Love; then the Soul Ego becomes absorbed with¬ in their own Divine Form, and they become like two suns, which eternally revolve around each other, the CENTRAL INVISIBLE FOCUS of which is the atomic point of contact; and you can no more locate this invisible Deity than you can tell where the Red rays of the spectrum terminate, or where the Orange rays begin. It is a part of each. It is no more a part of one than of the other, and the two form one complete whole. This is as far as language can explain.
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.
1Suppose we have a globe of glass or other material capable of absolutely confining everything within its own circumference, and further let us suppose that it is a vacuum inside. Now, let us fill this globe with steam (not air) which is, as we know, an ethereal form of water. After the globe is filled with this vapor, it is, of course, full and no more can be forced into it. Let us further suppose that the globe has a sufficient temperature to maintain the steam therein at its invisible thermal condition. The capacity of our globe is thus exhausted with the watery element, which we will say is one gallon. We can now put one gallon of volatile alcohol into the globe and the atoms of alcohol will find room amid the atoms of steam. We can also further take a still higher form of matter and insert one gallon of ether (not the ether we breathe but the kind distilled from alcohol) into our globe. We now have three elements filling a globe of which not an atom more of either could be inserted if it was a perfect vacuum. It is a case of one within the other yet being the same size of each other. Of course, we might go on almost indefinitely, so that it amounts to this; there are seven dimensions of matter, and we will suppose them to be cubes one foot square, thus— / - 7 — 7 — 7 — 7 — 7 Z - 7 77 Mineral / Vapor / Aerial / Dynamic / Astral / Spiritual / Celestial /
2Now, within our cube of pure mineral all the other six can be absorbed, although all are exactly the same size, and there will rer'rv^nlp Original from VjUUUIC UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 174 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
3main visible the one cube of matter, and, to the physical senses, it will be just the same after as before this absorption, except that it will weigh a little more after the other six are a part of it. It is a STATE WITHIN A STATE, as the soul within the body, the Astral body, the Spiritual body, etc., and the Divine Ego is in the SEVENTH STATE, viz. the Celestial Heavens of our solar system; but we can no more precisely point where, as to a certain point in space, than you can locate the ether and the atmosphere; it is above and around us as well as within. Until the human mind is capable of understanding the terms WITHOUT and WITHIN apart from supposing that, a thing within must be smaller than the object enclosing it, and that the atoms of the one constitute a world totally free and apart from the atoms of the other, no real conception of a true spiritual reality can be formed. The very world in which we live, the houses we occupy, and the streets we frequent, are equally as crowded spirit¬ ually as materially. There are Astral Cities within Material Cities, and the inhabitants of the interior are as unconscious (generally) of the physical inhabitants of the exterior as the exterior masses are of the internal occupants. These lower cities and states are upon the first or earth sphere, and constitute the Hells of the soul world, and stimu¬ late all the real Hells we see in every crowded city. You must not look upon the Divine Ego as some great angelic power. It is a simple Cherub of Innocence, lacking Wisdom and real intelligence, even as a babe. The two parts of itself are the soul monads projected from the little, pure Cherub Sun, like reflected rays; and its powers become crystallized in matter; the Man, the Wisdom or Intelligent and Posi¬ tive force; and the Woman, the Love and Formative or Plastic power; finally the cycle is complete; the Man in his acquired Wisdom and conscious knowledge of Creation; and Woman, in all her matured Beauty and realized Love; then the Soul Ego becomes absorbed with¬ in their own Divine Form, and they become like two suns, which eternally revolve around each other, the CENTRAL INVISIBLE FOCUS of which is the atomic point of contact; and you can no more locate this invisible Deity than you can tell where the Red rays of the spectrum terminate, or where the Orange rays begin. It is a part of each. It is no more a part of one than of the other, and the two form one complete whole. This is as far as language can explain.
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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