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partake of the life of more than one order) and everyone who perceives a ray of light, should follow it, for it will lead them to the summit of the Mount to which they are called whether it be that of a Planetary or Solar order Adeptship.*[1]
As matter is within matter; spirit within spirit; atom within atom: and as Influx is within Efflux; even so there are orders within orders of Intelligences, both of a Planetary and Solar nature. From these we derive our life, and from them (mediately,) we receive that which form the higher qualities of our life. It matters little how the life quality is divided in its descent or ascent to the atom from whence it came and returns; the line may be extended until the atom becomes invisible to the external man; but invisibility becomes visible in the lives of the whole body of atom who came out from that one which can never be divided into less than one. Even so, it is possible for us to be inducted into a perceptive knowledge of the direct presence of the Angelic parents who gave us birth into the inmost quality of their life, and in which we live, and move, and have our being. By means of such outbirths, we partake of the differentiations of every Father and Mother through whom we came besides that of our own, and these augmented qualities will take eternity to unfold themselves; and in view of such a truth, there can be no place found for annihilation; inasmuch as the annihilation of one atomic quality in the child's life would be the the annihilation of him who gave it birth.†[2] Can a part of God be
- ↑ * I confess to my inability to distinguish between the two kinds of adeptship, called "Solar" and "Planetary" since the terminology is not in vague among Asiatic Occultists, but belongs, most likely, to the new Western "hierosophy."—T. S. R.
- ↑ † Eastern esoteric philosophy denies the theistic idea that "the whole body of atoms" came out from some "ONE atom," and teaches that there is no difference between the 7th principle of man and that of universal nature. "Hence a child may be annihilated as a personality, whereas his 6th and 7th principles, the one divine monad, remain unaffected by this disintegration of freed atoms of still particled matter known as Soul."—T. S. R.
