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1The whole of these three duads are controlled and carried for¬ ward in their cyclic orbit by the Divine Ego, the absolute atomic spirit entity. Thus, the three duads and the Ego constitute the fourfold microcosm of the Hermetic schools. This is the most perfect system that can be formulated in words because the duads travel in pairs. At death we lose A and B. Then, during our purgatorial process through the sphere of purification in the soul states of the disembodied humanity C and D are gradually thrown off. Not separated, as one would quarter up an orange, but gradually thrown off, atom by atom, as they are ready to move forward upon their progressive journey. The unprepared atoms are liberated and sent forward upon their own special lines, and all gross matter eliminated. The animal principles are no portion of the purified soul and are dispersed as separate cells within the cause world, and ultimately nothing is left but the trinity, E, F and G, the Spiritual form, the Divine soul, and the true Ego; or rather the duad E and F, because the true Ego G does not become a y Google m THE LIGHT OF EGYPT part of the duad until it has ascended beyond these soul spheres. At this point, man is the positive or male spirit of the Ego; woman, the negative or feminine. The true angel requires the spiritual union of both principles.
2Man, as he appears to the outward sight, is, as we have shown, very different from the being within. He contains a universe of life within his organism; countless myriads of spirit atoms are evolving through him and are as independent of him, in reality, as man is of the planet which gave him birth. The truly human being is the most interior or spiritual soul. The whole of the lower nature and the ex¬ ternal organism are only the various realms of being which the human monad has conquered and subjected to its imperial rule during its cyclic journey. We should say, to be true, that the externals are the reflections of those elemental states moulded more or less rudely by the human soul after its own divine form. The millions of separate entities within the human sphere are no more the real man than the forty million inhabitants of France were Napoleon who ruled them with his imperial will.
3A few words now regarding the WILL and the REASON, and we must close. WILL is universal, and it is as impossible to point out where it begins or where it ends as it is to separate the colors of the rainbow. The power of the WILL upon the external plane depends upon the strength of the electro-vital constitution B. While upon the spiritual plane WILL depends upon the activity of the spiritual con¬ stitution E. Within the astral plane the potent WILL must have both of these (B and E) well developed to be successful. If B alone is potent, only the elemental realms can be contacted. If only E is active, then the higher or spiritual world will be contacted, not the astral. Under these circumstances nothing but mediumship can be attained. The true form of training, then, is to evolve that which is the most latent, so as to bring about the equilibrium. In the great majority of eases, of course, it is the spiritual that requires evolving. Considering the WILL as a universal power, it naturally follows that the strength of our WILL must depend entirely upon the capacity we possess for absorbing and reprojecting this power. In fact, Man’s WILL is only limited by his capacity to absorb the one Universal Will. This WILL is nob it itself, a principle; it is only an active result, viz.; transcendental n- *»' ruj u C* nnn[r» Original from THE HERMETIC CONSTITUTION OF MAN 61 matter in rapid motion. Everything utilizes some portion of this WILL in its own peculiar way.
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.
1The whole of these three duads are controlled and carried for¬ ward in their cyclic orbit by the Divine Ego, the absolute atomic spirit entity. Thus, the three duads and the Ego constitute the fourfold microcosm of the Hermetic schools. This is the most perfect system that can be formulated in words because the duads travel in pairs. At death we lose A and B. Then, during our purgatorial process through the sphere of purification in the soul states of the disembodied humanity C and D are gradually thrown off. Not separated, as one would quarter up an orange, but gradually thrown off, atom by atom, as they are ready to move forward upon their progressive journey. The unprepared atoms are liberated and sent forward upon their own special lines, and all gross matter eliminated. The animal principles are no portion of the purified soul and are dispersed as separate cells within the cause world, and ultimately nothing is left but the trinity, E, F and G, the Spiritual form, the Divine soul, and the true Ego; or rather the duad E and F, because the true Ego G does not become a y Google m THE LIGHT OF EGYPT part of the duad until it has ascended beyond these soul spheres. At this point, man is the positive or male spirit of the Ego; woman, the negative or feminine. The true angel requires the spiritual union of both principles.
2Man, as he appears to the outward sight, is, as we have shown, very different from the being within. He contains a universe of life within his organism; countless myriads of spirit atoms are evolving through him and are as independent of him, in reality, as man is of the planet which gave him birth. The truly human being is the most interior or spiritual soul. The whole of the lower nature and the ex¬ ternal organism are only the various realms of being which the human monad has conquered and subjected to its imperial rule during its cyclic journey. We should say, to be true, that the externals are the reflections of those elemental states moulded more or less rudely by the human soul after its own divine form. The millions of separate entities within the human sphere are no more the real man than the forty million inhabitants of France were Napoleon who ruled them with his imperial will.
3A few words now regarding the WILL and the REASON, and we must close. WILL is universal, and it is as impossible to point out where it begins or where it ends as it is to separate the colors of the rainbow. The power of the WILL upon the external plane depends upon the strength of the electro-vital constitution B. While upon the spiritual plane WILL depends upon the activity of the spiritual con¬ stitution E. Within the astral plane the potent WILL must have both of these (B and E) well developed to be successful. If B alone is potent, only the elemental realms can be contacted. If only E is active, then the higher or spiritual world will be contacted, not the astral. Under these circumstances nothing but mediumship can be attained. The true form of training, then, is to evolve that which is the most latent, so as to bring about the equilibrium. In the great majority of eases, of course, it is the spiritual that requires evolving. Considering the WILL as a universal power, it naturally follows that the strength of our WILL must depend entirely upon the capacity we possess for absorbing and reprojecting this power. In fact, Man’s WILL is only limited by his capacity to absorb the one Universal Will. This WILL is nob it itself, a principle; it is only an active result, viz.; transcendental n- *»' ruj u C* nnn[r» Original from THE HERMETIC CONSTITUTION OF MAN 61 matter in rapid motion. Everything utilizes some portion of this WILL in its own peculiar way.
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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