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CHAPTER XI

THE GENESIS AND EVOLUTION OF OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

Chaos

n the previous pages nothing has been said about our
Solar System, and of the different planets which
comp os e it, because it was not u ntil the Earth Period
was reached that the present differentiation was made. The
Earth Period is the acme of diversification, and although we
have been speaking of only one class of virgin spirits—those
who, in the strictest and most limited sense, are concerned
with the Earth evolution—there are in reality seven “Rays”
or streams of life, all pursuing different evolutions, yet all
belonging to the original class of virgin spirits to which our
humanity belongs.
In the previous Periods all of these different sub-classes
or Rays found a suitable environment for their evolution on
the same p lanet. But, in the Earth Period, conditions b ecame
such that in order to provide for each class the degree of heat
and the vibration necessary for its particular phase of
evolution, they were segregated on different planets, at
varying distances from the Sun—the central source of life.
This is theraison d'être of our System and all other Solar
Systems in the Universe.
Before proceeding with the description of evolution of
our humanity on the Earth after its separation from the
central Sun, it is necessary for the maintenance of sequential
order in the description to explain the differentiation which
scattered the planets of our System in space.

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