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1Commencing at the very lowest point of animated existence, we shall discover only the most rudimentary expression of the simplest functions of organic life, viz.: a desire to live. As we ascend higher the organs become multiplied, and the desire to live increases. This gradual scale expands right up to the perfect human soul in man, where we find a miniature universe, absolute and complete within itself. The central Deific atom, controlling this universe, has traveled all the way up from the lowest crude fire rocks of cosmic evolution. It conquered every state through which it ascended upon its progres¬ sive, toilsome journey. And in each state evolved from within itself a complete attribute corresponding to the state, by virtue of which, it polarized and bound the atoms of life, and annexed them as a por¬ tion of its spiritual empire, thereby forming the means for their progression also. Until, at last, the Deific atom sits upon the spiritual throne as king of the microcosm, capable of thinking, creating and evolving from within itself the glorious states of the angel. 150 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
2It is, therefore, an Occult truth to declare that all things below man are mortal, and all above immortal. Man, alone, of all God’s marvelous creations, contains within himself the forces of life and death, of immortality and mortality. Man, then, contains “the prom¬ ise and potency of life” and constitutes, upon the spiritual plane, what Tyndall’s protoplasm does upon the physical, viz.: the possibilities of infinite progression.
3To attain unto immortality it is necessary, as we have shown, for the central life atom to conquer every state below the human, and then to become externalized upon earth as an individual human being, to undergo the trials and become subjected to the responsibilities of a conscious, reasoning, individual struggle for life. The nature and qual¬ ity of the soul, combined with the polarity of the organism, will launch the individual into the exact conditions and circumstances that are best adapted to arouse all the latent qualities within; both animal and human. It is not a previous karma that determines an individual’s condition in life, but it is the nature and quality of the soul conflicting or harmonizing with external conditions. This turmoil of life, this ceaseless human warfare, is just as necessary for the soul’s final de¬ velopment as are the earlier struggles through the states below. Man possesses the possibilities of immortal life in such a potent degree as to nearly always succeed. There are, however, a few solitary excep¬ tions which will be noted in the next chapter.
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.
1Commencing at the very lowest point of animated existence, we shall discover only the most rudimentary expression of the simplest functions of organic life, viz.: a desire to live. As we ascend higher the organs become multiplied, and the desire to live increases. This gradual scale expands right up to the perfect human soul in man, where we find a miniature universe, absolute and complete within itself. The central Deific atom, controlling this universe, has traveled all the way up from the lowest crude fire rocks of cosmic evolution. It conquered every state through which it ascended upon its progres¬ sive, toilsome journey. And in each state evolved from within itself a complete attribute corresponding to the state, by virtue of which, it polarized and bound the atoms of life, and annexed them as a por¬ tion of its spiritual empire, thereby forming the means for their progression also. Until, at last, the Deific atom sits upon the spiritual throne as king of the microcosm, capable of thinking, creating and evolving from within itself the glorious states of the angel. 150 THE LIGHT OF EGYPT
2It is, therefore, an Occult truth to declare that all things below man are mortal, and all above immortal. Man, alone, of all God’s marvelous creations, contains within himself the forces of life and death, of immortality and mortality. Man, then, contains “the prom¬ ise and potency of life” and constitutes, upon the spiritual plane, what Tyndall’s protoplasm does upon the physical, viz.: the possibilities of infinite progression.
3To attain unto immortality it is necessary, as we have shown, for the central life atom to conquer every state below the human, and then to become externalized upon earth as an individual human being, to undergo the trials and become subjected to the responsibilities of a conscious, reasoning, individual struggle for life. The nature and qual¬ ity of the soul, combined with the polarity of the organism, will launch the individual into the exact conditions and circumstances that are best adapted to arouse all the latent qualities within; both animal and human. It is not a previous karma that determines an individual’s condition in life, but it is the nature and quality of the soul conflicting or harmonizing with external conditions. This turmoil of life, this ceaseless human warfare, is just as necessary for the soul’s final de¬ velopment as are the earlier struggles through the states below. Man possesses the possibilities of immortal life in such a potent degree as to nearly always succeed. There are, however, a few solitary excep¬ tions which will be noted in the next chapter.
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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