CHAPTER VIII.

THE WORK OF EVOLUTION.
Ariadne's Thread.

HAVING become acquainted with the Worlds, the
Globes and the Revolutions which constitute the
path of evolution during the seven Periods, we are
now in a position to consider the work which is done in
each Period, as well as the methods employed to accom-
plish it.

The "Ariadne's thread" which will guide us through
the maze of Globes, Worlds, Revolutions and Periods will
be found when it is remembered and kept steadily in mind
that the virgin spirits which constitute the evolving life
wave became entirely unconscious when they commenced
their evolutionary pilgrimage through the five Worlds of
substance denser than the World of Virgin Spirits. The
purpose of evolution being to make them fully conscious
and able to master the matter of all the Worlds, therefore
the conditions embodied in Globes, Worlds, Revolutions and
Periods are ordered with that end in view.

During the Saturn, Sun and Moon Periods and the
past half of the present Earth Period, the virgin spirits
have unconsciously built their different vehicles under the
direction of exalted Beings who guided their progress, and
have gradually awakened until they have attained the
present state of waking consciousness. This period is
called "Involution."

From the present time to the end of the Vulcan Period,
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the virgin spirits, who are now our humanity, will perfect
their vehicles and expand their consciousness in the five
Worlds by their own efforts and genius. This period is
called "Evolution."

The above is the key to the understanding of what
follows.

A thorough comprehension of the scheme of planetary
evolution which has been outlined in the preceding pages is
of immense value to the student. Although some believers
i- the laws of Consequence and Kebirth seem to think
that the possession of such knowledge is quite non-essential
and of little use, it is nevertheless of very great impor-
tance to the earnest student of these two laws. It trains
the mind in abstract thought and elevates it above the
sordid things of concrete existence, helping the imagina-
tion to soar beyond the hampering toils of self-interest.
As stated in our study of the Desire World, Interest is the
mainspring to action, yet, at our present stage of progress,
Interest is generally aroused by selfishness. It is some-
times of a very subtle nature, but it spurs to action of
various kinds. All action inspired by Interest generates
certain effects which act on us, and in consequence we are
bound by action having to do with the concrete Worlds.
But, if our minds are occupied with such subjects as
mathematics or study of the planetary phases of evolution,
we are in the Region of purely Abstract Thought, beyond
the influence of Feeling, and the mind is directed upward
towards the spiritual realms and liberation. When we are
extracting cube root, or multiplying figures, or thinking of
Periods, Revolutions, etc., we have no Feeling about it.
We do not quarrel about twice two being four. If our
feelings were involved we should perhaps try to make it
five and quarrel with the one who, for personal reasons,

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said it was but three, but in mathematics Truth is most
clearly apparent and Feeling is eliminated. Therefore, to
the average man, desiring to live in the feelings, mathe-
matics is dry and uninteresting. Pythagoras taught his
pupils to live in the World of Eternal Spirit and he de-
manded that those who desired instruction from him should
first study mathematics. A mind capable of understanding
mathematics is above the average and is capable of rising
into the World of Spirit, because it is not fettered in the
World of Feeling and Desire. The more we accustom our-
selves to think in terms of the Spiritual Worlds, the better
we shall be able to rise above the illusions which surround
us in this concrete existence, where the twin feelings, In-
terest and Indifference, obscure the Truth and bias us, as
the refraction of the light rays through the Earth's atmos-
phere gives us incorrect ideas of the position of the lumi-
nary emitting them.

Therefore the student who wishes to know Truth; to
enter and investigate the realms of Spirit ; to free himself
from the toils of the flesh, as rapidly as is consistent with
safety and proper growth, is earnestly advised to study
what follows as thoroughly as possible ; to assimilate it and
draw mental conceptions of these Worlds, Globes and
Periods. If he wishes to progress in this way, the study
of mathematics and of Hinton's "The Fourth Dimension"
are also admirable exercises in abstract thought. This
work of Hinton's (though basically incorrect, because the
four-dimensional Desire World cannot be actually found by
three-dimensional methods) , has opened the eyes of several
persons who have studied it, and made them clairvoyant.
Moreover, remembering that logic is the best teacher in any
world, it is certain that the individual who succeeds in
entering into the superphysical World by means of such

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studies in abstract thought, will not become confused, but
will be able to give a good account of himself under all
circumstances.

A stupendous scheme is here unfolded, and as more and
more detail is filled in, its complexity becomes almost in-
conceivable. Anyone capable of comprehending it will be
well rewarded for taking the utmost pains to do so. There-
fore, the student should read slowly, repeat often, think
deeply and much.

This book, particularly this chapter, cannot be read in a
casual manner. Every sentence has weight and bearing
upon what follows, and presupposes a knowledge of what
precedes it. If the book is not studied thoroughly and sys-
tematically, it will grow more and more incomprehensible
and confusing with every page. On the other hand, if it
is studied and well thought out as the student proceeds,
it will be found that each page is illuminated by the in-
creased knowledge gained by study of what went before.

No work of this kind, dealing with the deepest phases of
the Great World Mystery that the human mind, at its
present stage of development, is capable of grasping, can
be written in such a manner that it will be light reading.
Yet the deepest phases now comprehensible to us are but
the A B C of the scheme as it will be revealed to us when
our minds have become capable of understanding more, in
later stages of our development as Supermen.

THE SATURN PERIOD.

The Globes of the Saturn Period consisted of much rarer
and finer substance than our Earth, as will be evident from
a study of diagrams 7 and 8, which the student is advised to
keep close at hand for frequent reference while studying
this subject. The densest Globe of that Period was located

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in the same portion of the World of Thought occupied by
the rarest Globes of the present Period — the Eegion of
Concrete Thought. These Globes had no consistency such
as we can sense. "Warmth" is the only word that approxi-
mates the idea of the ancient Saturn Period. It was dark ;
and if a person could have entered into the space it occu-
pied, he would have seen nothing. All about him would
have been darkness, but he would have felt its warmth.

To the materialist it will, of course, seem insanity to call
such a condition a "Globe," and to assert that it was the
field of evolution of Form and Life. Yet, when we consider
the Nebular Theory, we can realize that the nebula must
have been dark before it glowed with light, and that it
must have been hot before it could become fiery. This
heat must have been brought about by motion, and motion
is life.

We may say that the virgin spirits who were to evolve
consciousness and form were embedded in this Globe, or
perhaps better, that the whole Globe was composed of
virgin spirits, as a raspberry is made of a great number
of small raspberries. They were incorporated in the Globe,
as the life ensouling the mineral is in our Earth. Therefore
it is said among occult scientists that in the Saturn Period
man went through the mineral stage.

Outside this "warmth-Globe" — in its atmosphere, we
might say — were the great creative Hierarchies, who were
to help the evolving virgin spirits to develop form and
consciousness. There were many Heierarchies, but for the
present we shall concern ourselves with the principal ones
only — those which did the most important work of the
Saturn Period.

In the Rosicrucian terminology these are called "Lords
of the Flame," because of the brilliant luminosity of their

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bodies and their great spiritual powers. They are called
"Thrones" in the Bible, and worked on man of their own
free will. They were so far advanced that this evolutionary
manifestation could give them no new experiences, and
therefore no added wisdom, and the same may be said of
two still higher order of Hierarchies, to be named later.
The rest of the creative Hierarchies, in order to complete
their own evolution, were compelled to work on, in and
with man.

These Lords of the Flame were outside the dark Saturn
Globe and their bodies emitted a strong light. They, so to
say, projected their pictures upon the surface of that
ancient Saturn Globe, which was so unimpressionable that
it reflected, in a multiple or echo-like manner, everything
that came in contact with it, giving back the images mani-
folded. (This is told in the Greek myth wherein it is said
that Saturn destroyed his children.)

However, by repeated efforts during the first Revolution,
the Lords of the Flame succeeded in implanting in the
evolving life the germ which has developed our present
dense body. This germ was somewhat developed during the
remainder of the first six Revolutions, being given the
capacity for developing the sense organs, particularly the
ear. Therefore, the ear is the most highly developed organ
we possess. It is the instrument which carries with the
greatest accuracy the impressions of outside conditions to
the consciousness. It is less subject to the illusions of the
Physical World than the other sense organs.

The consciousness of the evolving life of that Period
was like that of the mineral of today — a state of uncon-
sciousness similar to that attained by mediums in the
deepest trance — yet during the first six Revolutions, the
evolving life worked on the germ of the dense body under

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the direction and with the help of the different creative
Hierarchies. In the middle of the seventh Revolution the
Lords of the Flame, Who had been inactive since They
gave the germ of the dense body in the first Revolution,
again became active, this time to awaken the highest spir-
itual principle. They aroused the initial activity of the
divine spirit in man.

Thus, man owes his highest and lowest vehicles — the di-
vine spirit and the dense body to the evolution of the
Saturn Period. These, the Lords of the Flame of their own
free will helped him to manifest, not being under the
slightest compulsion to do so.

The work of the various creative Hierarchies is not
started on Globe A, at the commencement of a Period
or a Revolution. It commences in the middle of one
Revolution, growing in strength and reaching its highest
efficiency in the middle of the Cosmic Night — which is
between Revolutions, as well as between Periods. Then
it gradually declines, as the life wave sweeps on to the
middle of the next Revolution.

Thus the work of the Lords of the Flame in awakening
the germinal consciousness, was most active and efficient
during the rest Period between the Saturn and Sun
Periods.

We reiterate that a Cosmic Night is not to be regarded
as a time of inactivity. It is not inert existence, as we
saw in the case of the individual passing from death to a
new birth. So with the great death of all the Globes of a
Period. It is a cessation of active manifestation, that a
proportionately keener subjective activity may be unfolded.

Perhaps the best idea of the nature of this subjective
activity may be gained by observing what happens when
a ripe fruit is buried in the ground. Fermentation and

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decay of the flesh sets in, but out of that chaos comes the
new plant, sprouting forth into the air and sunshine.
So, when a Period is past, all is resolved into conglomerate
chaos, apparently incapable of being reduced to order.
At the proper time, however, the Globes of a new Period
are formed and made ready for occupancy as man-bearing
Worlds. Hither the evolving life is transferred from five
dark Globes which it traverses during the Cosmic Night,
to commence the activities of a new creative day in an
altered environment, prepared and externalized during the
activities of the Cosmic Night. As the forces of fer-
mentation in the fruit stimulate the seed and fertilize the
soil in which it grows, so the Lords of the Flame stimu-
lated the germ of divine spirit, particularly during the
Cosmic Night between the Saturn and the Sun Periods,
continuing their activities until the middle of the first
Revolution of the Sun Period.

RECAPITULATION.

Before the activity in any Period can be started, there
is a recapitulation of all that has been gone through
before. Owing to the spiral path of evolution, this activity
takes place each time on a higher scale than the stage in
progression which it rehearses. The necessity will become
apparent when the actual work in recapitulation is de-
scribed.

The first Revolution of any Period is a recapitulation
of the work upon the dense body in the Saturn Period,
and is spoken of among Rosicrucians as the "Saturn
Revolution."

The Second Period is the Sun Period, and therefore
the second Revolution of any Period subsequent to the
Sim Period would be the "Sun Revolution."

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The third Period is the Moon Period, therefore the third
Eevolution of any subsequent Period would be a recapitu-
lation of the work done in the Moon Period, and is called
the "Moon Eevolution."

Not until after the recapitulatory Eevolutions does the
proper work of a Period begin. For instance, in the
present Earth Period, we have passed through three and
one-half Bevolutions. That means that in the first, or
Saturn Bevolution of the Earth Period, the work done
in the Saturn Period was repeated, but on an advanced
scale. In the second, or Sun Eevolution, the work of the
Sun Period was gone through again. In the third, or
Moon Eevolution, the work of the Moon Period was re-
peated; and it was only in the fourth — the present Eevo-
lution— that the real work of the Earth Period commenced.

In the last of the seven Periods — the Vulcan Period —
only the last Eevolution will be concerned with real Vul-
can work. In the preceding six Eevolutions the work of
the preceding six Periods will have been recapitulated.

Moreover (and this will particularly help the student
to remember), a Saturn Eevolution in any Period has
always to do with the development of some new feature of
the dense body, because that was started in a first Bevo-
lution ; and any seventh, or Vulcan Eevolution, has for
its particular work some activity in connection with the
divine spirit, because that was started in a seventh Bevo-
lution. In the same way, we shall see that there is a con-
nection between the different Bevolutions and all the
vehicles of man.

THE SUN PERIOD.

Conditions during the Sun Period differed radically
from those of the Saturn Period. Instead of the "warmth-

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Globes" of the latter, the Sun Period Globes were glowing
light-balls, of the consistency of gas. These great gas-
balls contained all that had been evolved in the Saturn
Period, and similarly, in the atmosphere were the creative
Hierarchies.

Instead of the echo-like, reflecting quality of the Sat-
urn Period, these Globes, to some extent, had the quality
of absorbing and working over any sight or sound pro-
jected against their surfaces. They, as it were, "sensed"
things. The Earth does not seem to do this, and a ma-
terialist would scoff at the idea, yet the occultist knows
that the Earth feels everything on and in it. This lighter
Globe was much more sensitive than the Earth, because
it was not limited and bound in such hard and fast con-
ditions of materiality as is our present habitat.

The life, of course, was different, because no forms such
as we know could have existed there. But life can express
itself in forms of fiery gas as well as — in fact better
than — in forms of hard chemical matter such as the
present dense forms of mineral, plant, animal and man.

As the evolving life appeared upon Globe A in the first,
or Saturn Eevolution of the Sun Period, it was still in
charge of the Lords of the Flame who, in the middle of
the last Eevolution of the Saturn Period, awakened in
man the germ of the divine spirit.

They had previously given the germ of the dense body
and, in the first half of the Saturn Eevolution of the Sun
Period, were concerned with certain improvements to be
made upon it.

In the Sun Period the formation of the vital body was
to be commenced, with all thereby implied of capability
for assimilation, growth, propagation, glands, etc.

The Lords of the Flame incorporated in the germ of

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the dense body only the capability of evolving sense organs.
At the time now under consideration it became necessary
to change the germ in such a way as to allow of inter-
penetration by a vital body, also capability of evolving
glands and an alimentary canal. This was done by the
joint action of the Lords of the Flame, who gave the
original germ, and the Lords of Wisdom, who took charge
of material evolution in the Sun Period.

The Lords of Wisdom,, who were not so highly evolved
as the Lords of the Flame, worked to complete their own
evolution; therefore they received the assistance of an
order of exalted Beings who, like the Lords of the Flame,
acted of their own free will. In esoteric parlance they are
called the Cherubim. These exalted Beings did not, how-
ever, become active in the work until it was necessary to
awaken the germ of the second spiritual principle of our
man-in-the-making, as the Lords of Wisdom were quite
capable of doing the work connected with the vital body
which was to be added to the constitution of man in the
Sun Period, but not of awakening the second spiritual
principle.

When the Lords of the Flame and the Lords of Wisdom
had, in the Saturn Revolution of the Sun Period, con-
jointly reconstructed the germinal dense body, the Lords
of Wisdom, in the second Revolution, started the proper
work of the Sun Period, by radiating from their own
bodies the germ of the vital body, making it capable of
inter-penetrating the dense body and giving to the germ
the capability of furthering growth and propagation and
of exciting the sense centers of the dense body and causing
it to move. In short, they gave, germinally, to the vital
body all the faculties which it is now unfolding to become
a perfect and pliable instrument for the use of the spirit.

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This work occupied the second, third, fourth and fifth
Eevolutions of the Sun Period. In the sixth Revolution
the Cherubim entered and awakened the germ of the
second aspect of the threefold spirit in man — the life-
spirit. -In the seventh and last Revolution the newly
awakened germ of the life spirit was linked to the ger-
minal divine spirit, and this was still further worked
upon.

We remember that in the Saturn Period our conscious-
ness was similar to the trance condition. By the activity
of the Sun Period this was modified until it became like
the consciousness of dreamless sleep.

Evolution in the Sun Period added to the constitution
of the evolving embryonic man, the next highest and the
next lowest of his present vehicles. As the result of the
Saturn Period he possessed a germinal dense body and
divine spirit. At the end of the Sun Period he possessed
a germinal dense body, vital body, divine spirit and life
spirit, i. e., a twofold spirit and a twofold body.

We also note that, as the first, or Saturn Revolution, of
any Period is concerned with work in the dense body
(because that was started in a first Revolution), so the
second, or Sun Revolution, of any Period is concerned
with improvements on the vital body, because it was
started in a second Revolution. In like manner, the sixth
Revolution of any Period is dedicated to some work on
the life spirit, and any seventh Revolution is particularly
concerned with matters connected with the divine spirit.

In the Saturn Period man-in-the-making went through
a mineral stage of existence. That is to say, he had a
dense body only in the sense as had the mineral. His
consciousness was also similar to that of the present
mineral.

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In the same way, and for analogous reasons, it may be
said that in the Sun Period man went through the plant
existence. He had a dense body and a vital body, as
plants have, and his consciousness, like theirs, was that
of dreamless sleep. The student will fully grasp this
analogy by referring to diagram 4 in the chapter on the
four kingdoms, where the vehicles of consciousness pos-
sessed by mineral, plant, animal and man are schematically
shown, with the particular consciousness resulting from
their possession in each case.

When the Sun Period was past there came another
Cosmic Night of assimilation, together with the sub-
jective activity necessary before the opening of the Moon
Period. This was equal in length to the preceding Period
of objective manifestation.

THE MOON PERIOD.

As the chief characteristic feature of the dark Saturn
Globes was described by the term "warmth," and that of
the Sun period Globes as "light," or glowing heat, so the
chief characteristic feature of the Globes of the Moon
Period may be best described by the term "moisture." There
was no air such as we know. In the center was the hot
fiery core. Next to that, and consequent upon contact
with the cold of outside space, there was dense mois-
ture. By contact with the fiery central core the dense
moisture was changed into hot steam, which rushed out-
ward to cool, and sink again toward the center. There-
fore the occult scientist calls the Globes of the Moon
Period "water," and describes the atmosphere of that time
as "fire-fog." That was the scene of the next forward
step of the evolving life.

The work of the Moon Period was that of acquiring the

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germ of a desire body and starting the germinal activity
of the third aspect of the threefold spirit in man — the
human spirit — the Ego.

In the middle of the seventh Kevolution of the Sun
Period, the Lords of Wisdom took charge of the germinal
life spirit given by the Cherubim in the sixth Revolution
of the Sun Period. They did this for the purpose of
linking it to the divine spirit. Their greatest activity in
this work was reached in the Cosmic Night intervening
between the Sun and the Moon Periods. In the first dawn
of the Moon Period, as the life wave started upon its new
pilgrimage, the Lords of Wisdom reappeared, bearing with
them the germinal vehicles of the evolving man. In the
first, or Saturn Revolution of the Moon Period, they co-
operated with the "Lords of Individuality," who had spe-
cial charge of the material evolution of the Moon Period.
Together they reconstructed the germ of the dense body,
brought over from the Sun Period. This germ had un-
folded embryonic sense organs, digestive organs, glands,
etc., and was inter-penetrated by a budding vital body
which diffused a certain degree of life into the embryonic
dense body. Of course, it was not solid and visible as it
is now, yet in a crude sort of way it was somewhat organ-
ized and is perfectly distinguishable to the trained clair-
voyant sight of the competent investigator who searches
the memory of nature for scenes in that far-off past.

In the Moon Period it was necessary to reconstruct the
dense body to make it capable of being inter-penetrated
by a desire body, and also capable of evolving a nervous
system, muscle, cartilage and a rudimentary skeleton.
This reconstruction was the work of the Saturn Revolu-
tion of the Moon Period.

In the second, or Sun Revolution, the vital body was

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also modified to render it capable of being inter-penetrated
by a desire body, also of accommodating itself to the nerv-
ous system, muscle, skeleton, etc. The Lords of Wisdom,
who were the originators of the vital body, also helped the
Lords of Individuality with this work.

In the third Revolution the proper Moon work com-
menced. The Lords of Individuality radiated from them-
selves the substance which they helped the unconscious,
evolving man to appropriate and build into a germinal de-
sire body. They also helped him to incorporate ;this germ-
inal desire body in the compound vital body and dense
body which he already possessed. This work was carried
on all through the third and fourth Eevolutions of the
Moon Period.

As with the Lords of Wisdom, so with the Lords of
Individuality; though exalted far above man, they worked
on and in him to complete their own evolution. While
they were capable of dealing with the lower vehicle, they
were powerless in regard to the higher. They could not
give the spiritual impulse necessary to the awakening of
the third aspect of the threefold spirit in man. Therefore
another class of Beings who were beyond the necessity of
evolving in such an evolution as we are passing through —
who also worked of their own free will, as did the Lords
of the Flame and the Cherubim — came in during the
fifth Revolution of the Moon Period, to help man. They
are called "Seraphim." They awakened the germ of the
third aspect of the spirit — the human spirit.

In the sixth Revolution of the Moon Period the Cheru-
bim reappeared and co-operated with the Lords of Indi-
viduality to link the newly acquired germ of the human
spirit to the life spirit.

In the seventh Revolution of the Moon Period the Lords

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of the Flame again came to the aid of man, helping the
Lords of Individuality to link the human spirit to the
divine spirit. Thus the separate Ego — the threefold spirit
— came into existence.

Before the beginning of the Saturn Period the virgin
spirits who are now man, were in the World of Virgin
Spirits, and were "All-conscious" as God in whom (not
from whom), they were differentiated. They were not
"self" conscious however. The attainment of that faculty
is partly the object of evolution which plunges the virgin
spirits into a sea of matter of gradually increasing density
which eventually shuts it from the All-consciousness.

Thus, in the Saturn Period the virgin spirits were im-
mersed in the World of Divine Spirit and encased in the
tiniest film of that substance which they partially pene-
trated by the help of the Lords of Flame.

In the Sun Period the virgin spirit was plunged into the
denser World of Life Spirit and more effectively blinded to
the All-consciousness by a second veil of the substance of
the World of Life Spirit. Still, by the help of the Cheru-
bim it partially penetrated this second veil also. The
feeling of the Oneness of All was not lost either, for the
World of Life Spirit is still a universal World common
to and inter-penetrating all the planets of a Solar System.

In the Moon Period, however, the virgin spirits take a
further dip into the still denser matter of the Region of
Abstract Thought and here the most opaque of its veils,
the human spirit, is added. Henceforth the All-conscious-
ness of the virgin spirit is lost. It can no longer penetrate
its veils, look outwards and perceive others, so it is forced
to turn its consciousness inwards and there it finds its self,
as the Ego, separated and apart from all others.

Thus the virgin spirit is encased in a threefold veil, and

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as its outermost veil, the human spirit, effectively blinds
it to the oneness of Life, it becomes the Ego by entertain-
ing the illusion of separateness contracted during involu-
tion. Evolution will gradually dissolve the illusion, bring
back the All-consciousness, and Self-consciousness will have
been added.

Thus we see that at the close of the Moon Period man
possessed a threefold body in varying stages of develop-
ment; and also the germ of the threefold spirit. He had
dense, vital, and desire bodies, and divine life and human
spirit. All he lacked was the link to connect them.

It has been stated that man passed through the mineral
stage in the Saturn Period; through the plant stage in
the Sun Period, and his pilgrimage through the condi-
tions of the Moon Period corresponded to the phase of
animal existence, for the same reason that the two other
similes are applicable — he had the dense, vital, and desire
bodies, as have our present animals, and his consciousness
was an internal picture-consciousness, such as the lower
animals have today. This resembles the dream conscious-
ness of man, save that it is perfectly rational, being
directed by the group-spirit of the animals. The student
is again referred to diagram 4 in the chapter on the four
kingdoms, where this is shown.

These Moon beings were not so purely germinal as in
the previous Periods. To the trained clairvoyant they ap-
pear suspended by strings in the atmosphere of the fire-
fog, as the embryo hangs from the placenta by the umbilical
cord. Currents (common to all of them), which provided
some sort of nourishment, flowed in and out from tLd
atmosphere through those cords. These currents were thus,
to some extent, similar in their function to the blood of the
present day. The name "blood" as applied to these cur-

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rents, however, is used merely to suggest an analogy, be-
cause the Beings of the Moon Period possessed nothing
like our present red blood, which is one of the very latest
acquisitions of man.

Towards the end of the Moon Period there was a divi-
sion of the Globe which was the field of our and other
evolutions, which, for the sake of greater simplicity, we
have not heretofore mentioned, but with which we shall
presently become acqauinted.

Part of that great Globe was so crystallized by man on
account of his inability to keep the part which he inhabited
in the high state of vibration maintained by the other
beings there, and as this part became more inert, the cen-
trifugal force of the revolving Globe sent it spinning into
space, where it began to circle around the glowing fiery
central portion.

The spiritual reason for the throwing off of such crys-
tallizations is that the highest beings on such a Globe re-
quire for their evolution the exceedingly rapid vibrations
of fire. They are hampered by condensation, although such
a condition is necessary to the evolution of other and less
advanced beings requiring lower rates of vibration. There-
fore, when part of any Globe has been consolidated by a
group of evolving beings to the detriment of others, that