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These energies are:

• The direct increasing influence of the solar Angel.  This influence is felt in four stages:

• As the three rows of petals unfold.

• As the "interior jewel" Rays forth more powerfully.  

• The reflex action from the physical personality, or the thought currents sent through in course of time from the physical brain.  

• The activities of the Astral body.  

• The thought currents or energy units initiated by identification with groups, national, family, racial and Egoic.  

• The currents which impinge upon the mental bodies of all human beings as different Rays pass in and out of incarnation.  

• The forces and energies which become active or latent during different cycles.  

• The interplay between planets, or between systems and constellations, of which an illustration can be seen in the effect of Venusian energy upon our Earth

All these energies have their effects, and serve either to speed, or in some cases, to retard the evolutionary process.  

Frictional Activity:  This, as is apparent from the words, deals with the "Fire by Friction" aspect of substance, and therefore with the lowest aspect of the energy of the mental sheath.  The force of the Life within the sheath manifests in the attractive and repulsive action of the individual atoms, and this constant and ceaseless interplay results in the "occult heat" of the body, and its increased radiation.  It is one of the factors also which produces the gradual building in of new atoms of substance (ever of a better and more adequate quality) and the expulsion of that which fails to suffice as a medium for intelligent expression.  

The mental unit is the synthesis of the four types of force with which we are dealing, and of the four expressions of it which we are in process of considering.  

1. Each of the groups of lives which are the living essence of four subplanes and which focalize through one of the spirillae of the unit and thus influence:

2. The sheath itself

3. The man on the Physical plane

4. Part of the Head center

Absorption:  This is the faculty which produces the forms of the mental ring-pass-not, and which (at the close of the cycle) is the active principle behind Devachanic manifestation.  The student, through a consideration of the macrocosmic process, can arrive at a knowledge of the separation of the mental body and its individual functioning.  It is anent the process of "heavenly withdrawal" that we are speaking.

It is in Devachan that the man shapes and polishes the stones which are built into the Temple of Solomon.  It is the workshop to which the individual stones (good deeds and thoughts) are taken for fashioning, after being extracted from the quarry of the personal life.  Being of mental matter, Devachan might be regarded as a center, or heart of peace, within the periphery of the sphere of influence of the mental unit.  

THE LAW OF ATTRACTION

This law is, as we know, the basic law of all manifestation, and the paramount law for this solar system.  It might strictly be called the Law of Adjustment or of Balance, for it conditions that aspect of electrical phenomena which we call neutral.  The Law of Economy is the basic law of one pole, that of the negative aspect; the Law of Synthesis is the basic law of the positive pole, but the Law of Attraction is the law for the fire which is produced by the merging during evolution of the two poles.  From the standpoint of the human being, it is that which brings about the realization of self-consciousness; from the point of view of the subhuman beings it is that which draws all forms of life on to self-realization; whilst in connection with the superhuman aspect it may be stated that this law of life expands into the processes conditioned by the higher law of Synthesis, of which the Law of Attraction is but a subsidiary branch.  

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