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1During the process of the soul’s involution, the monad is not actually incarnated in any form whatever. The soul descends into earthly conditions down the subjective arc of the spiral, and re-ascends upon the objective arc. Rebirth commences, as before stated, when the objective mineral state is reached. The process of the monad’s descent through the various realms, is accomplished by a gradual polarization of its Deifie powers, caused by its contact with the grad¬ ually externalizing conditions of the downward arc of the cycle. At each step the soul becomes more and more involved within the mater¬ ial. “The sphere of re-incarnation,” embracing the birth in an external form, its transient life there, then death, and then, the same soul’s re-birth in a higher and more perfect form of life, is really comprised between the Mineral plane and Man. Between these two planes, the soul must pass through countless forms and phases. It is an absolute truth that, as an impersonal being, “man lives upon many earths before he reaches this one. Myriads of worlds swarm in space where the soul in rudimental states performs its pilgrimages until its cyclic progress enables it to reach the magnificently organized planet, whose glorious function it is to confer upon the soul, self-consciousness.” At this point alone does the soul become man. In every other step, of its wild, cosmic journey, it is but an embryonic being, a fleeting, temporary shape of matter, an impersonal creature in which a part, but only a part, of the imprisoned soul shines forth; a rudimental form with rudimental functions, ever living, dying, then sustaining a brief spir¬ itual existence only to be re-born again, and thus, to sustain the suc¬ cessive round of births and deaths. New organs and new functions are acquired with each birth, to be utilized by the gradually expanding soul as a means of further development. We see it in the fire of the flint and as atomic energy, and as we watch the revolving sparks of the mineral soul, we can see it burst forth to the sun light in the garb of the lowly lichen. It guards the snow white purity of the lotus, and animates the aromatic glory of the rose. It is the butterfly springing
2V ,UU 8 lt UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 52 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT from the chrysalid shell, and the nightingale singing in the grove. "From stage to stage it evolves; new births and new deaths; anon to die, but sure to live again; ever striving and revolving upon the whirl¬ ing, toilsome, dreadful, rugged path until it awakes for the last time upon earth; awakes once more a material shape, a thing of dust, a creature of flesh and blood, but now a man.” The grand, self con¬ scious state of humanity, is attained, and the climax of earthly incar¬ nation is reached. Never again, will the soul enter the material matrix or suffer the pains of material re-incarnation. Henceforth its re-births will be in the realm of spirit. Those who hold the strangely illogical doctrine of a multiplicity
3of human births, have certainly never evolved the lucid state of soul consciousness within themselves. Had they done so, the theory of re-incarnation as held by a vast number of talented men and women, well versed in worldly wisdom, would not have received the slightest recognition at the present day. We would strongly impress the fact, that, an external education is comparatively worthless as a means of obtaining a true knowledge of Nature. Remember, that though the acorn becomes the oak, and the cocoanut the palm; the oak, though giving birth to myriad others, never again becomes an acorn, nor the palm the juicy nut. So it is with man. When once the soul becomes incarnated in the human organism, and thus attains the consciousness of external life, man becomes a self responsible being, accountable for all his actions. This accountability constitutes his earth karma, (which is explained in chapter III} and the reward or punishment, as the case may be, is consciously and divinely administered in the state which each individual soul has prepared for itself. The soul is not ignorantly ushered again into the world, completely unconscious of its past load of karma. Such a means of redemption, instead of being divine, would be void of justice. It would be diabolical. When human laws punish the criminal, he is conscious of the misdeed for which he is suffering. If this were not so the punishment would be horribly unjust. For this reason we do not punish irresponsible children, nor insane people. It is thoroughly useless, however, to deal any further with such a transcendent delusion. We will, therefore, only say that all the socalled re-awakenings of latent memories, by which certain people profess to remember certain past lives can be explained, and in fact are only really explained, by the simple laws of affinity and form.
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.
1During the process of the soul’s involution, the monad is not actually incarnated in any form whatever. The soul descends into earthly conditions down the subjective arc of the spiral, and re-ascends upon the objective arc. Rebirth commences, as before stated, when the objective mineral state is reached. The process of the monad’s descent through the various realms, is accomplished by a gradual polarization of its Deifie powers, caused by its contact with the grad¬ ually externalizing conditions of the downward arc of the cycle. At each step the soul becomes more and more involved within the mater¬ ial. “The sphere of re-incarnation,” embracing the birth in an external form, its transient life there, then death, and then, the same soul’s re-birth in a higher and more perfect form of life, is really comprised between the Mineral plane and Man. Between these two planes, the soul must pass through countless forms and phases. It is an absolute truth that, as an impersonal being, “man lives upon many earths before he reaches this one. Myriads of worlds swarm in space where the soul in rudimental states performs its pilgrimages until its cyclic progress enables it to reach the magnificently organized planet, whose glorious function it is to confer upon the soul, self-consciousness.” At this point alone does the soul become man. In every other step, of its wild, cosmic journey, it is but an embryonic being, a fleeting, temporary shape of matter, an impersonal creature in which a part, but only a part, of the imprisoned soul shines forth; a rudimental form with rudimental functions, ever living, dying, then sustaining a brief spir¬ itual existence only to be re-born again, and thus, to sustain the suc¬ cessive round of births and deaths. New organs and new functions are acquired with each birth, to be utilized by the gradually expanding soul as a means of further development. We see it in the fire of the flint and as atomic energy, and as we watch the revolving sparks of the mineral soul, we can see it burst forth to the sun light in the garb of the lowly lichen. It guards the snow white purity of the lotus, and animates the aromatic glory of the rose. It is the butterfly springing
2V ,UU 8 lt UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 52 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT from the chrysalid shell, and the nightingale singing in the grove. "From stage to stage it evolves; new births and new deaths; anon to die, but sure to live again; ever striving and revolving upon the whirl¬ ing, toilsome, dreadful, rugged path until it awakes for the last time upon earth; awakes once more a material shape, a thing of dust, a creature of flesh and blood, but now a man.” The grand, self con¬ scious state of humanity, is attained, and the climax of earthly incar¬ nation is reached. Never again, will the soul enter the material matrix or suffer the pains of material re-incarnation. Henceforth its re-births will be in the realm of spirit. Those who hold the strangely illogical doctrine of a multiplicity
3of human births, have certainly never evolved the lucid state of soul consciousness within themselves. Had they done so, the theory of re-incarnation as held by a vast number of talented men and women, well versed in worldly wisdom, would not have received the slightest recognition at the present day. We would strongly impress the fact, that, an external education is comparatively worthless as a means of obtaining a true knowledge of Nature. Remember, that though the acorn becomes the oak, and the cocoanut the palm; the oak, though giving birth to myriad others, never again becomes an acorn, nor the palm the juicy nut. So it is with man. When once the soul becomes incarnated in the human organism, and thus attains the consciousness of external life, man becomes a self responsible being, accountable for all his actions. This accountability constitutes his earth karma, (which is explained in chapter III} and the reward or punishment, as the case may be, is consciously and divinely administered in the state which each individual soul has prepared for itself. The soul is not ignorantly ushered again into the world, completely unconscious of its past load of karma. Such a means of redemption, instead of being divine, would be void of justice. It would be diabolical. When human laws punish the criminal, he is conscious of the misdeed for which he is suffering. If this were not so the punishment would be horribly unjust. For this reason we do not punish irresponsible children, nor insane people. It is thoroughly useless, however, to deal any further with such a transcendent delusion. We will, therefore, only say that all the socalled re-awakenings of latent memories, by which certain people profess to remember certain past lives can be explained, and in fact are only really explained, by the simple laws of affinity and form.
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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