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lower Regions of the World of Thought, the Desire and the
Physical Worlds. Thus this Region becomes a sort of “crux,”
bounded on one side by the Realms of Spirit, on the other by
the Worlds of Form. It is a focusing point, where Spirit
reflects itself in matter.
As the name implies, this Region is the home of the
Archetypal Forces which direct the activity of the archetypes
in the Region of Concrete Thought. From this Region Spirit
works on matter in a formative manner. Diagram 1 shows
the idea in a schematic way, the forms in the lower World
being reflections of the Spirit in the higher Worlds. The fifth
Region, which is the one nearest to the focusing point on the
Spirit side, reflects itself in the third Region, which is
nearest the focusing point on the Form side. The sixth
Region reflects itself in the second and the seventh reflects
itself in the first.
The whole of the Region of Abstract thought is reflected
in the World of Desire; the World of Life Spirit in the
Etheric Region of the Physical World; and the World of
Divine Spirit in the Chemical Region of the Physical World.
Diagram 2 will give a comprehensive idea of the seven
Worlds which are the sphere of our development, but we
must carefully keep in mind that these Worlds are not placed
one above another, as shown in the diagram. They
interpenetrate—that is to say, that as in the case where the
relation of the Physical World and the Desire World was
compared, wher e we likened the Desir e World to the lines of
force in freezing water and the water itself to the Physical
World, in the same way we may think of the lines of force as
being any of the seven Worlds, and the water, as in our
illustration, would correspond to the next denser World