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There are, then, the seven minor Laws which produce the evolutionary unfoldment of man, the person, and man, the Soul. These are:

  1. The Law of Vibration, the atomic law of the solar system.
  2. The Law of Cohesion, an aspect of the Law of Attraction.
  3. The Law of Disintegration.
  4. The Law of Magnetic Control, governing the control of the personality by the Spirit via the Soul.
  5. The Law of Fixation. By means of this law the mind controls and stabilises.
  6. The Law of Love, whereby the lower desire nature is transmuted.
  7. The Law of Sacrifice and Death.

These seven laws concern the form side of life. To these ten laws must be added the seven laws of the Soul which we are here considering. These begin to play upon the man and produce his more rapid Spiritual unfoldment after he has been subjected to the discipline of the Probationary Path, or the Path of Purification. He is then ready to tread the final stages of the Path.

These seven laws are the basis of all true psychological understanding and, when their influence is better grasped, man will arrive at real self knowledge. He will then be ready for the fourth initiation which releases him from all further need for rebirth.

These seventeen degrees prepare the man for the fourth or fundamental degree, taken by a man who is a Master Mason. It can only be taken when the Master is in possession of the true Lost Word. He has risen from the dead; he has been entered, passed, and raised, and now can be perfected. Herein lies a great mystery. These seventeen degrees, leading to the first great step, (taken by the risen Master) are subjectively related to the seventeen laws which we have been considering. There is a parallelism worth noting between:

  1. The eighteen laws:
  1. The three major laws of the universe,
  2. The seven minor laws of the solar system,
  3. The seven basic laws of the Soul, plus what we might call the great law of Deity Itself, the law of God's synthetic purpose.

  1. The eighteen subplanes through which man makes his way:

  1. The seven physical subplanes.
  2. The seven Astral or emotional-desire subplanes.
  3. The four lower mental subplanes.

  1. The eighteen degrees in Masonry, from that of the Entered Apprentice to that of the perfected initiate

                  of the Rose Croix Chapter.

  1. The eighteen centers of force with which the Spiritual man has to work:

  1. The seven centers in the Etheric body.
  2. The seven centers in the Astral body.
  3. The three rows of petals in the Egoic lotus.
  4. The "Jewel in the Lotus", at the heart of the "flower of the Soul", making the 18th center.

An understanding of these symbolic relations will do much to clarify the way of the Soul in a body, and will constitute the basis of all true esoteric psychological study.

It is this realisation of man's fundamental bias or controlling factor that lies behind the teaching given by the Buddha, and which is embodied in the Four Noble Truths of the Buddhist philosophy, which can be summarised as follows:

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