180 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
denser World, which has crystallized and condensed, thus
occupying less space.
The same principle is operative in the Cosmic Planes.
The densest of them is the seventh (counting from the top
downward). It is represented in the diagram as larger than
any of the others, the reason being that it is the plane with
which we are most intimately concerned, and it was desired
to indicate its principle subdivisions. In reality, however, it
occupies less space than any of the other Cosmic Planes,
although it must be borne in mind that, even with this
comparatively restrictive qualification as to its extent, it is
still immeasurably vast, far beyond the utmost power of the
human mind to conceive, comprising within its limits
millions of Solar Systems similar to our own, which are the
fields for the evolution of many grades of beings of
approximately our own status.
Of the six Cosmic Planes above our own we know
nothing, save that we are told they are the fields of activity
of great Hierarchies of Beings of indescribable splendor.
Proceeding from our Physical World to the inner and
finer worlds and up throu gh the Cos mic Planes, we find t hat
God, the Architect of our Solar System, the Source and goal
of our existence, is found in the highest division of the
seventh Cosmic Plane. This is His World.
His realm includes the systems of evolution carried on
in the other planets which belong to our system—Uranus,
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus, Mercury, and their
satellites.
The great Spiritual Intelligences designated as the
Planetary Spirits, which guide these evolutions, are called
the “Seven Spirits before the Throne.” They are His
Ministers, each presiding over a certain department of the
Kingdom of God—which is our Solar System. The Sun is