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may be constructed. Not even the architect himself can
destroy it. Even after his death this thought-form can be
recovered by those who are qualified to read the memory of
nature, which will be dealt with later.
Having thus seen the reasonableness of such Worlds
existing around and about us, and having satisfied ourselves
of their reality, their permanency, and of the utility of a
knowledge concerning them, we shall now examine them
severally and singly, commencing with the Physical World.
CHEMICAL REGION OF THE PHYSICAL WORLDIn the Rosicrucian teaching the universe is divided into
seven different Worlds, or states of matter, as follows:
1—World of God.
2—World of Virgin Spirits.
3—World of Divine Spirit.
4—World of Life Spirit.
5—World of Thought.
6—Desire World.
7—Physical World.The division is not arbitrary but necessary, because the
substance of each of these Worlds is amenable to laws
which are practically inoperative in others. For instance, in
the Physical World, matter is subject to gravity, contraction
and expansion. In the Desire World there is neither heat nor
cold, and forms levitate as easily as they gravitate. Distance
and time are also governing factors of existence in the
Physical World, but are almost non-existent in the Desire
World.
The matter of these worlds also varies in density, the
Physical World being the densest of the seven.