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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN Man is therefore in essence a Spark of the divine Fire, belonging to the monadic world. To that Spark, dwelling all the time in that world, we give the name Monad. For the purposes of human evolution Monad manifests itself in lower worlds. When it descends one stage and enters the spiritual world, it shows itself there as the triple Spirit, having itself three aspects (just as in worlds infinitely higher the Deity has His three Aspects.) Of those three one remains always in that world, and we call that the Spirit in man. The second aspect manifests itself in the intuitional world, and we speak of it as the Intuition in man. The third shows itself in the higher mental world, and we call it the Intelligence in man. These three aspects taken together constitute the ego which ensouls the fragment from the group-soul. Thus man as we knowhim, though in reality a Monad residing in the monadic world, shows himself as an ego in the higher mental world, manifesting these three aspects of himself (Spirit, Intuition and Intelligence) through that vehicle of higher mental matter which we name the causal body. The President has now decided upon a set of names for the planes, so for the future these will be used instead of those previously employed. A table of them is given below for reference: New Names Old Names 1. Divine World Adi Plane 2. Monadic Anupadaka 3. Spiritual Atmic or Nirvanio 4. Intuitional World Buddhie 5. Mental World Mental 6. Emotional or Astral World Astral 7. Physical World Physical These will supersede the names given in Vol. II of The Inner Life. This ego is the man during the human stage of evolution; he is the nearest correspondence, in fact, to the ordinary unscientific conception of the sou...

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