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1Before going any further we would impress upon our student the fact that there is not a single doctrine within the whole range of Oc¬ cult science that is not susceptible in its interpretation to the well known Latin proverb, “cum grano salis.” Further, that every truth is a paradox when viewed from different planes; this latter fact is es¬ pecially true regarding re-incamation. We now commence at the point where we left off in our previous chapter, in the descent of life into external conditions. From this point we see it enter and successively pass through the mineral, vegetable and animal life waves of the planet. In obedience to the higher and more interior laws of its own especial round, the divine attributes are ever seeking to unfold their involved potentialities. No sooner is one form dispensed with, or its capabilities exhausted, than a new and zed by Google INCARNATION AND RE-INCARNATION 49 still higher form is brought into requisition, each in its turn becoming more complex in its structure and diversified in its functions. Thus, we see the atom of life commencing in the mineral of the external world, working upward and outward. The grand spiral of its evolu¬ tionary life is carried forward slowly, imperceptibly, but always pro¬ gressively, through the higher states. There is no form too simple, no organism too complex, for the inconceivably marvellous adaptability of the human soul in its divine struggles of progressive life.
2Throughout the entire cycle of necessity, the character of its genius, the degree of its spiritual emanation, and the state of life to which it originally belonged, are preserved with mathematical exacti¬ tude. These states correspond, in a general sense, to the four ancient elements. Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. Yet, as a matter of purification alone, each atom must pass through and be a part of all these states upon its upward journey. Not only so, but before the human monad can possibly attain the climax of its material evolution, which is the grand terminus of its earthly incarnations, it must also have passed through certain phases of its existence upon each planet to which its microcosmic nature in the embodied man shall bear a mathematical correspondence. Thus, between the mineral and man there is a per¬ fect scale of life; no one form being parallel with another in the grand chain of cosmic being. Even the insects count, in the links, as progres¬ sive states. In the whole of this chain are seven worlds through which the soul monad migrates, and from whatever point or planet it com¬ mences its toilsome cosmic journey, the seventh planet is the end of its material orbit, and the sphere wherein it attains the human form divine. Here it becomes conscious of life, able to learn and under¬ stand. In no case does the soul monad commence as a mineral and attain unto the animal or human plane upon the same planet. It rests or becomes latent on each alternate planet. For instance, the mineral atoms upon this earth will undergo a purely impersonal cycle upon Venus, which is their next sphere, and then become incarnated within the vegetable plane upon the next planet, and so on; while the min¬ eral atoms of the planet Mars, when they reach the Earth will be purely impersonal beings and will not incarnate here as objective forms but will pass their cycle in the astral spaces, then enter into material conditions again upon Venus. Thus, the soul monad has four objective states, and three subjective states. The objective states are as; 1-3-5-7,
3IP Original fronn ' : V UHIVER5ITV OF MICHIGAN 50 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT viz.; the mineral, vegetable, animal and man. The subjective states are as; 2-4-6, negative states of its embryonic being. The awakening to conscious life with ability to think and understand is carried out by the soul after it attains the objective human form or seventh (7) state. The next state is beyond matter. “Once and only once,” saith the law. After the human state, Nature shuts the door behind her. Eternal pro¬ gression is the anthem of all creative life. Note: We have omitted to note the exceptions to the general laws of re-incarnation which have been set forth. There are three classes of exceptions in which re-birth within the human organism may be the usual course. Class I. Cases of abortion, or of still-born children. These, not having at¬ tained consciousness of external human life, may, and in fact generally do, be¬ come re-incamated. Class II. Cases of natural bom idiots. Though it is very rare that even idiots are so lost to all external consciousness as to make re-birth necessary to them.
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.
1Before going any further we would impress upon our student the fact that there is not a single doctrine within the whole range of Oc¬ cult science that is not susceptible in its interpretation to the well known Latin proverb, “cum grano salis.” Further, that every truth is a paradox when viewed from different planes; this latter fact is es¬ pecially true regarding re-incamation. We now commence at the point where we left off in our previous chapter, in the descent of life into external conditions. From this point we see it enter and successively pass through the mineral, vegetable and animal life waves of the planet. In obedience to the higher and more interior laws of its own especial round, the divine attributes are ever seeking to unfold their involved potentialities. No sooner is one form dispensed with, or its capabilities exhausted, than a new and zed by Google INCARNATION AND RE-INCARNATION 49 still higher form is brought into requisition, each in its turn becoming more complex in its structure and diversified in its functions. Thus, we see the atom of life commencing in the mineral of the external world, working upward and outward. The grand spiral of its evolu¬ tionary life is carried forward slowly, imperceptibly, but always pro¬ gressively, through the higher states. There is no form too simple, no organism too complex, for the inconceivably marvellous adaptability of the human soul in its divine struggles of progressive life.
2Throughout the entire cycle of necessity, the character of its genius, the degree of its spiritual emanation, and the state of life to which it originally belonged, are preserved with mathematical exacti¬ tude. These states correspond, in a general sense, to the four ancient elements. Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. Yet, as a matter of purification alone, each atom must pass through and be a part of all these states upon its upward journey. Not only so, but before the human monad can possibly attain the climax of its material evolution, which is the grand terminus of its earthly incarnations, it must also have passed through certain phases of its existence upon each planet to which its microcosmic nature in the embodied man shall bear a mathematical correspondence. Thus, between the mineral and man there is a per¬ fect scale of life; no one form being parallel with another in the grand chain of cosmic being. Even the insects count, in the links, as progres¬ sive states. In the whole of this chain are seven worlds through which the soul monad migrates, and from whatever point or planet it com¬ mences its toilsome cosmic journey, the seventh planet is the end of its material orbit, and the sphere wherein it attains the human form divine. Here it becomes conscious of life, able to learn and under¬ stand. In no case does the soul monad commence as a mineral and attain unto the animal or human plane upon the same planet. It rests or becomes latent on each alternate planet. For instance, the mineral atoms upon this earth will undergo a purely impersonal cycle upon Venus, which is their next sphere, and then become incarnated within the vegetable plane upon the next planet, and so on; while the min¬ eral atoms of the planet Mars, when they reach the Earth will be purely impersonal beings and will not incarnate here as objective forms but will pass their cycle in the astral spaces, then enter into material conditions again upon Venus. Thus, the soul monad has four objective states, and three subjective states. The objective states are as; 1-3-5-7,
3IP Original fronn ' : V UHIVER5ITV OF MICHIGAN 50 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT viz.; the mineral, vegetable, animal and man. The subjective states are as; 2-4-6, negative states of its embryonic being. The awakening to conscious life with ability to think and understand is carried out by the soul after it attains the objective human form or seventh (7) state. The next state is beyond matter. “Once and only once,” saith the law. After the human state, Nature shuts the door behind her. Eternal pro¬ gression is the anthem of all creative life. Note: We have omitted to note the exceptions to the general laws of re-incarnation which have been set forth. There are three classes of exceptions in which re-birth within the human organism may be the usual course. Class I. Cases of abortion, or of still-born children. These, not having at¬ tained consciousness of external human life, may, and in fact generally do, be¬ come re-incamated. Class II. Cases of natural bom idiots. Though it is very rare that even idiots are so lost to all external consciousness as to make re-birth necessary to them.
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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