186 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
demonstrable fact. The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
combines all three as necessary to full understanding of the
past, present and future development of the System to which
we belong.
THE WORLDS
We might use a homely instance to illustrate the
building of a Cosmos. Suppose a man wants to establish a
home in which to live. He first selects a suitable location and
then proceeds to build a house, dividing it into various
rooms to serve certain purposes. He makes a kitchen, dining-
room, bedrooms and bathroom, and furnishes them all to suit
the special purpose they are intended to serve.
When God desires to create, He seeks out an appropriate
place in space, which He fills with His aura, permeating
every atom of the Cosmic Root-substance of that particular
portion of space with His Life, thus awakening the activity
latent within everyinseparate atom.
This Cosmic Root-substance is an expression of the
negative pole of the Universal Spirit, while the great
Creative Being we call God (of whom we, as spirits, are
part) is an expression of the positive energy of the same
Universal Absolute Spirit. From the work of one upon the
other, all that we see about us in the Physical World has
resulted. The oceans, the Earth, everything we see
manifesting as mineral, plant, animal and human forms—all
arecrystallized space, emanated from this negative Spirit-
substance, which alone existed at the dawn of Being. As
surely as the hard and flinty house of the snail is the
solidified juices of its soft body, so surely allforms are
crystallizations around the negative pole of Spirit.
God draws from the Cosmic Root-substance outside His
immediate sphere; thus the substance within the nascent