256 ROSICRUCIANCOSMO-CONCEPTION
organ. Too long a time is required for impulses to travel
from one extremity to the other—from the brain to the feet,
or for impacts on the feet to reach the brain. In cases of
burns, for instance, science has demonstrated that valuable
time is lost, the skin b eing b list er ed b efor e a message can b e
carried from the injured place to the brain and back again.
This inefficiency would be greatly lessened if the brain
were in the center of the body. Sensations and the responses
thereto could be more quickly received and transmitted. In
the spherical planets the Planetary Spirit directsfrom the
center the movements of its vehicle. In future man will bend
over, as shown in diagram 12. He will become a sphere,
directing his energies outward because a spherical form
affords the greatest facility for motion in all directions, and
indeed, for combination of simultaneous motions.
The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception t eaches that there is
a further evolution in store for planets.
When the beings upon a planet have evolved to a
sufficient degree, the planet becomes a Sun—the fixed
center of a Solar System. When the beings upon it have
evolved to a still greater degree, and consequently it has
reached its maximum brilliancy, it breaks up into a Zodiac,
becoming, so to speak, the womb for a new Solar System.
Thus the great hosts of Divine Beings who, until then,
were confined within that Sun, gain freedom of action upon
a great number of stars, whence they can affect in different
ways the system which grows up within their sphere of
influence. The planets, or man-bearing worlds, within the
Zodiac are constantly being worked upon by these forces,
but in various ways, according to the stage they have
reached in evolution.