146 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
has the man; that without the warm blood, no Ego can find
expression.
The proper heat for the real expression of the Ego is not
present until the mind is born from the macrocosmic
Concrete Mind, when the individual is about twenty-one
years old. Statutory law also recognizes this as the earliest
age when the man is deemed fit to exercise a franchise.
At the present stage of human development the man
goes through these principal stages in each life cycle, from
one birth to the next.