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CHAPTER III
MAN AND THE METHOD OF EVOLUTIONActivities of Life; Memory and Soul Growthur study thus far of the s even Worlds or states of
matter has shown us that each serves a definite
purpose in the economy of nature, and that God,
the Great Spirit,in Whom we actually and in fact “live and
move and have our being,” is the Power that permeates and
sustains the whole Universe with Its Life; but while that Life
flows into and is imminent in every atom of the six lower
Worlds and all contained therein, in the Seventh—the
highest—the Triune God alone IS.
The next highest or sixth realm is the World of Virgin
Spirits. Here those sparks from the divine “Flame” have
their being before they commence their long pilgrimage
through the five denser Worlds for the purpose of
developing latent potentialities into dynamic powers. As the
seed unfolds its hidden possibilities by being buried in the
soil, so these virgin spirits will, in time, when they have
passed through matter (the school of experience), also
become divine “Flames,” capable of bringing forth universes
from themselves. The five Worlds constitute the field of
ma n's evolut ion, the thr ee lower or dens er b eing the s cene of
the present phase of his development. We will now consider
this as related to these five Worlds by means of his
appropriate vehicles, remembering the two grand divisions
into which two of these Worlds are divided, and that man
has a vehicle for each of these divisions.
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