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1INCARNATION AND RE-INCARNATION 53 This subject will be dealt with in the chapter upon Mediumship, Chapter IV. Each race of human beings is immortal in itself; so likewise is each round. The first round never becomes the second, but those belonging to the first round become the parents or originators of the second. Each round constitutes a great planetary family which con¬ tains within itself, races, subraces and minor groups of human souls. Each state formed by the laws of its karma, and the laws of its form, and the laws of its affinity; a trinity of laws. At the expiration of one round, the polar day of evolution is brought to a close and the life wave leaves the shores of the planet. The second round of humanity; offspring of the first, does not commence until the human life wave, having gone around the whole planetary chain again reaches the planet, a period of 15,552,000 years as stated in La Clef Hermetique, Chapter V. The embryonic, impersonal soul becomes the man, just as the acorn becomes the oak; and as the oak gives birth to many acorns or embryonic oaks, so does man, in his turn, become the means of giving birth to many souls. There is a complete correspondence between the two.
2From what has been said the student will perceive that each round of humanity becomes more numerous. As the population in¬ creases the expanding material knowledge of each succeeding gener¬ ation makes it possible for our earth to sustain a greater number upon a given surface. UNIVERSITY QF MICHIGAN CHAPTER II THE HERMETIC CONSTITUTION OF MAN The reader, by this time, should be somewhat familiar with the origin, nature and activities of the divine Ego which gives birth to the spirit monad of man. All things originate as the objective outcome of the divine and subjective idea. The human Ego is the offspring of that celestial harmony, a differentiated atom of diffusive formless spirit. It was brought into being through the angelic activities of parental souls who are representative of Love and Wisdom, intelligence and truth, within the sun sphere of creative life. We have endeavored to make these points as clear as possible, because of their primary im¬ portance in realizing, that, the point in the arc, which is claimed by the Buddhist cult and their followers as the origin of the soul’s formation, is not so, but is, in fact, only the great turning point, the bottom rung of Jacob’s esoteric ladder, upon which the soul makes its ascent and descent.
3The Theosophists of the human re-incarnation school, while ad¬ mitting the absolute divinity of the Ego, fail to account for the genesis of the soul which the Ego evolves, otherwise, than in matter. So far as we have been able to leam, not one of them has any conception as to how, when or where, the differentiation of the Ego takes place. Although, they hold, that, there is a spiritual evolution preceding all material evolution, they consider that the first spiritual manifestation of the soul is an arcane mystery, known only by the highest adepts. These adepts of the Buddhist Cultus, however, totally ignore the state of angelhood, they deny its existence, because they, in their concen¬ trated sphere of absolute selfhood, can form no conception of such a state. The charge of spiritual selfishness has often been made, even by theosophists, against the teachings of their mahatmas, and there is good foundation for the charge when their teachings are critically examined. Such a state is as much above and beyond the grasp of their minds as the doctrine of Nirvana is beyond the grasp of the African bushman. They are particularly fond of applying to outsiders that proverb which intimates that there are more laws in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in man’s philosophy, but they fail to apply THE HERMETIC CONSTITUTION OF MAN 55 this truism to their own august selves.
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.
1INCARNATION AND RE-INCARNATION 53 This subject will be dealt with in the chapter upon Mediumship, Chapter IV. Each race of human beings is immortal in itself; so likewise is each round. The first round never becomes the second, but those belonging to the first round become the parents or originators of the second. Each round constitutes a great planetary family which con¬ tains within itself, races, subraces and minor groups of human souls. Each state formed by the laws of its karma, and the laws of its form, and the laws of its affinity; a trinity of laws. At the expiration of one round, the polar day of evolution is brought to a close and the life wave leaves the shores of the planet. The second round of humanity; offspring of the first, does not commence until the human life wave, having gone around the whole planetary chain again reaches the planet, a period of 15,552,000 years as stated in La Clef Hermetique, Chapter V. The embryonic, impersonal soul becomes the man, just as the acorn becomes the oak; and as the oak gives birth to many acorns or embryonic oaks, so does man, in his turn, become the means of giving birth to many souls. There is a complete correspondence between the two.
2From what has been said the student will perceive that each round of humanity becomes more numerous. As the population in¬ creases the expanding material knowledge of each succeeding gener¬ ation makes it possible for our earth to sustain a greater number upon a given surface. UNIVERSITY QF MICHIGAN CHAPTER II THE HERMETIC CONSTITUTION OF MAN The reader, by this time, should be somewhat familiar with the origin, nature and activities of the divine Ego which gives birth to the spirit monad of man. All things originate as the objective outcome of the divine and subjective idea. The human Ego is the offspring of that celestial harmony, a differentiated atom of diffusive formless spirit. It was brought into being through the angelic activities of parental souls who are representative of Love and Wisdom, intelligence and truth, within the sun sphere of creative life. We have endeavored to make these points as clear as possible, because of their primary im¬ portance in realizing, that, the point in the arc, which is claimed by the Buddhist cult and their followers as the origin of the soul’s formation, is not so, but is, in fact, only the great turning point, the bottom rung of Jacob’s esoteric ladder, upon which the soul makes its ascent and descent.
3The Theosophists of the human re-incarnation school, while ad¬ mitting the absolute divinity of the Ego, fail to account for the genesis of the soul which the Ego evolves, otherwise, than in matter. So far as we have been able to leam, not one of them has any conception as to how, when or where, the differentiation of the Ego takes place. Although, they hold, that, there is a spiritual evolution preceding all material evolution, they consider that the first spiritual manifestation of the soul is an arcane mystery, known only by the highest adepts. These adepts of the Buddhist Cultus, however, totally ignore the state of angelhood, they deny its existence, because they, in their concen¬ trated sphere of absolute selfhood, can form no conception of such a state. The charge of spiritual selfishness has often been made, even by theosophists, against the teachings of their mahatmas, and there is good foundation for the charge when their teachings are critically examined. Such a state is as much above and beyond the grasp of their minds as the doctrine of Nirvana is beyond the grasp of the African bushman. They are particularly fond of applying to outsiders that proverb which intimates that there are more laws in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in man’s philosophy, but they fail to apply THE HERMETIC CONSTITUTION OF MAN 55 this truism to their own august selves.
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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