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CHAPTER VI
THE SCHEME OF EVOLUTIONThe Beginning
In harmony with the Hermetic axiom “As above, so
below” andvice versa, Solar Systems are born, die and
come to birth anew in cycles of activity and rest, as does
man.
There is a constant flaming out and dying down of
activity in every department of nature, corresponding to the
alternations of ebb and flow, day and night, summer and
winter, life and death.
In the beginning of a Day of Manifestation it is taught
that a certain Great Being (designated in the Western World
by the name of God, but by other names in other parts of the
earth) limits Himself to a certain portion of space, in which
He elects to creat e a Solar System f or the evolut ion of added
self-consciousness. (See diagram 6).
He includes in His own Being hosts of glorious
Hierarchies of, to us, immeasurable spiritual power and
splendor. They are the fruitage of past manifestations of this
same Being and also other Intelligences, in descending
degrees of development down to such as have not reached a
stage of consciousness as high as our present humanity, and
ther efore t hes e latt er will not b e able to finis h their evolution
in this System. In God—this great collective being—there
are contained lesser beings of every grade of intelligence
and stage of consciousness, from omniscience to an
unconsciousness deeper than that of the deepest trance