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1In the lower octave of existence, viz.: the seven degrees of submundane life; countless beautiful worlds are open to the inspection of the spiritual sight. We will briefly recount what we ourselves have witnessed therein, as we speak of each degree. The first degree in the lower octave is that of the crystallized mineral, in which the life atoms are latent, so to say. The rocks and stones are of both sexes, and impregnate each other with their mag¬ netic forces. Their sympathies and antipathies constitute their laws of natural selection; which we see manifested externally by the vege¬ tation they produce from their soil. The second degree pertains to the subjective spaces of the mineral world. The busy races within the higher rounds of the mineral zone (the anima mineralis), are beautiful in every detail; each life atom busy at its appointed task; happy beyond conception in its lowly spiritual state. As yet the scintillating monad knows nothing of the greater worlds above. To 284 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
2it the mineral waves are the alpha and omega of its ideas. The third degree of life passes in review as the vegetable kingdom, of which sufficient is already known to the reader. The higher we go the brighter the little creatures become. When we ascend to the fourth degree of life, we behold the loveliest scenes that fairyland can present to the eyes of the seer. The exquisite form and variety of these dazzling elemental sprites are beyond language to describe. Each vortex or space of the anima floralis constitutes a veritable paradise of beauty; a wondrous world of delights; in which, the nymphs of the flowers and the bright fairies of the floral world, sport like butterflies, in the luminous ether of their round. The fifth degree passes before us as the animal kingdom. The sixth degree of life expresses itself as the semi-human round, the external correspondence of which may be seen in the ape family. This realm of sub-mundane life contains the astral world of the apes. It is these astral forms that are used by certain magicians (after the human principle has vacated them) for occult purposes. They become the trained elementals of magical science. Their chief quality is imitation; and under the influence of their mas¬ ter’s mind they will personate anything; from an angel of light to a goblin damned. The sixth degree is a world in which the soul begins to put forth its attributes of self-consciousness; a realm wherein the struggling monad gathers together the results of past sub-mundane victories; and prepares to graduate to that higher life round; wherein, it may commence to assume the human form. The seventh degree of life is the embryonic human round; a spiritual zone or soul world, wherein exists the multitudes of prepared souls awaiting the condi¬ tions of their final incarnation. It is the realm of anxious expectations and glowing ideals of what external human life may be. It is from this state, or degree of life, that the human soul takes its last plunge into objective material conditions; from which, it emerges to the sur¬ face as the self acting, self conscious, individual man.
3Let us now briefly turn our attention from man to the planet, which he inhabits; and trace the correspondence. The planet, like the man, may be designated as a duplex mirror; reflecting stellar and planetary influx in two directions; 1st., to the various realms of ele¬ mental existence (corresponding to sub-mundane life); termed cosmic elementals; belonging to the four occult elements of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water; 2nd., to the astro-magnetic zones of the planet (correszed jy Google THE UNION OF THE SOUL AND THE STARS 285
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1In the lower octave of existence, viz.: the seven degrees of submundane life; countless beautiful worlds are open to the inspection of the spiritual sight. We will briefly recount what we ourselves have witnessed therein, as we speak of each degree. The first degree in the lower octave is that of the crystallized mineral, in which the life atoms are latent, so to say. The rocks and stones are of both sexes, and impregnate each other with their mag¬ netic forces. Their sympathies and antipathies constitute their laws of natural selection; which we see manifested externally by the vege¬ tation they produce from their soil. The second degree pertains to the subjective spaces of the mineral world. The busy races within the higher rounds of the mineral zone (the anima mineralis), are beautiful in every detail; each life atom busy at its appointed task; happy beyond conception in its lowly spiritual state. As yet the scintillating monad knows nothing of the greater worlds above. To 284 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
2it the mineral waves are the alpha and omega of its ideas. The third degree of life passes in review as the vegetable kingdom, of which sufficient is already known to the reader. The higher we go the brighter the little creatures become. When we ascend to the fourth degree of life, we behold the loveliest scenes that fairyland can present to the eyes of the seer. The exquisite form and variety of these dazzling elemental sprites are beyond language to describe. Each vortex or space of the anima floralis constitutes a veritable paradise of beauty; a wondrous world of delights; in which, the nymphs of the flowers and the bright fairies of the floral world, sport like butterflies, in the luminous ether of their round. The fifth degree passes before us as the animal kingdom. The sixth degree of life expresses itself as the semi-human round, the external correspondence of which may be seen in the ape family. This realm of sub-mundane life contains the astral world of the apes. It is these astral forms that are used by certain magicians (after the human principle has vacated them) for occult purposes. They become the trained elementals of magical science. Their chief quality is imitation; and under the influence of their mas¬ ter’s mind they will personate anything; from an angel of light to a goblin damned. The sixth degree is a world in which the soul begins to put forth its attributes of self-consciousness; a realm wherein the struggling monad gathers together the results of past sub-mundane victories; and prepares to graduate to that higher life round; wherein, it may commence to assume the human form. The seventh degree of life is the embryonic human round; a spiritual zone or soul world, wherein exists the multitudes of prepared souls awaiting the condi¬ tions of their final incarnation. It is the realm of anxious expectations and glowing ideals of what external human life may be. It is from this state, or degree of life, that the human soul takes its last plunge into objective material conditions; from which, it emerges to the sur¬ face as the self acting, self conscious, individual man.
3Let us now briefly turn our attention from man to the planet, which he inhabits; and trace the correspondence. The planet, like the man, may be designated as a duplex mirror; reflecting stellar and planetary influx in two directions; 1st., to the various realms of ele¬ mental existence (corresponding to sub-mundane life); termed cosmic elementals; belonging to the four occult elements of Fire, Earth, Air, and Water; 2nd., to the astro-magnetic zones of the planet (correszed jy Google THE UNION OF THE SOUL AND THE STARS 285
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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