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1In our chapter upon re-incarnation, we briefly pointed out the actual sphere of re-birth within objective forms, and in doing so, many important features were omitted which appear to belong to that sub¬ ject, but which in reality belong to the present one. Re-birth within progressive forms is not for the sole purpose of evolving and energizing the latent powers of the human soul, as so many ignorantly imagine. If this were true, and man alone was the sole object of development, it would constitute the basis of absolute selfishness. We can safely assert that such human exclusiveness is only an appearance as there is nothing approaching to selfishness in the creative design. When we penetrate below this plane of appearances, we find countless realms of beings, equally as immortal as man, going through their cyclic rounds, obeying the same universal law as our¬ selves. These realms constitute stepping stones for external humanity in its journey towards the infinite. The organisms of humanity, in their turn, form the evolutionary spheres or material means by which these same realms pass through their cycles of progressive life. If we make use of certain planes for our soul’s advancement, it only follows as a matter of reactionary law (justice) that we should render an equivalent service in return, hence, the importance of a true know¬ ledge of our hidden or Hermetic constitution.
2Man, as we behold him by means of our physical senses, appears to us a wonderful specimen of mechanical skill and architectural beauty. Each organic part is so exquisitely formed, and in such per¬ fect unison one with another, and each with the whole. There is little wonder that the human organism has been taken as the finite type of the unknown infinite. If this be true upon the external plane, it is infinitely more so upon the internal plane. Here, bone, flesh, blood, and hair, the externals of the outward body, are seen to be nothing but the crystallizations of ethereal force, held together by mental being. Not held together as a matter of necessity, for the sake of its own es¬ pecial evolution, but simply as the natural outcome, the physical re¬ action of its ethereal activities. In order to present a clear and definite picture of what man really is, we will formulate his Hermetic consti¬ tution, as follows; A. A physical form fourfold in its composition, consisting in a general sense, of bones, blood, flesh, and hair. This form, as a whole, _. . pnnitlp Original from : ' ■ V rKJK C> K UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 56 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT is composed of an infinite number of separate organic cells, each cell constituting a minute system of its own, which in its turn has been formed by the crystallization of imponderable forces around a living spirit entity.
3B. An electro-vital body, seemingly composed of pale phosphor¬ escent light, enclosing a glittering skeleton framework of electric fire. This is the purely electro-magnetic form, inseparable from the physical body during life, because this latter depends for its continued existence upon the active presence of the physical form. The pale phosphores¬ cent light presents a very perfect outline portrait of the physical body, while the fiery skeleton shows the interior electro-nervous system of the organism. The branches of the nerve system, spreading out in every direction from the great trunk lines of the brain and spinal column, present to the trained spiritual sight the appearance of an infinitude of fine pencil rays of light darting in straight lines with in¬ conceivable rapidity toward every point of the compass.
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.
1In our chapter upon re-incarnation, we briefly pointed out the actual sphere of re-birth within objective forms, and in doing so, many important features were omitted which appear to belong to that sub¬ ject, but which in reality belong to the present one. Re-birth within progressive forms is not for the sole purpose of evolving and energizing the latent powers of the human soul, as so many ignorantly imagine. If this were true, and man alone was the sole object of development, it would constitute the basis of absolute selfishness. We can safely assert that such human exclusiveness is only an appearance as there is nothing approaching to selfishness in the creative design. When we penetrate below this plane of appearances, we find countless realms of beings, equally as immortal as man, going through their cyclic rounds, obeying the same universal law as our¬ selves. These realms constitute stepping stones for external humanity in its journey towards the infinite. The organisms of humanity, in their turn, form the evolutionary spheres or material means by which these same realms pass through their cycles of progressive life. If we make use of certain planes for our soul’s advancement, it only follows as a matter of reactionary law (justice) that we should render an equivalent service in return, hence, the importance of a true know¬ ledge of our hidden or Hermetic constitution.
2Man, as we behold him by means of our physical senses, appears to us a wonderful specimen of mechanical skill and architectural beauty. Each organic part is so exquisitely formed, and in such per¬ fect unison one with another, and each with the whole. There is little wonder that the human organism has been taken as the finite type of the unknown infinite. If this be true upon the external plane, it is infinitely more so upon the internal plane. Here, bone, flesh, blood, and hair, the externals of the outward body, are seen to be nothing but the crystallizations of ethereal force, held together by mental being. Not held together as a matter of necessity, for the sake of its own es¬ pecial evolution, but simply as the natural outcome, the physical re¬ action of its ethereal activities. In order to present a clear and definite picture of what man really is, we will formulate his Hermetic consti¬ tution, as follows; A. A physical form fourfold in its composition, consisting in a general sense, of bones, blood, flesh, and hair. This form, as a whole, _. . pnnitlp Original from : ' ■ V rKJK C> K UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 56 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT is composed of an infinite number of separate organic cells, each cell constituting a minute system of its own, which in its turn has been formed by the crystallization of imponderable forces around a living spirit entity.
3B. An electro-vital body, seemingly composed of pale phosphor¬ escent light, enclosing a glittering skeleton framework of electric fire. This is the purely electro-magnetic form, inseparable from the physical body during life, because this latter depends for its continued existence upon the active presence of the physical form. The pale phosphores¬ cent light presents a very perfect outline portrait of the physical body, while the fiery skeleton shows the interior electro-nervous system of the organism. The branches of the nerve system, spreading out in every direction from the great trunk lines of the brain and spinal column, present to the trained spiritual sight the appearance of an infinitude of fine pencil rays of light darting in straight lines with in¬ conceivable rapidity toward every point of the compass.
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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