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The four Cosmic Planes that constitute the Cosmic Ethers (Planes 1-4 of the Cosmic Physical plane) form the Etheric body of a Heavenly Man in exactly the same sense as the four physical Ethers (Subplanes 1-4 of our Physical plane) form the body of a human being.  

The Fourth Ether:

1. Is the Ether used by the violet Ray as a medium.
2. Is that whereof the majority of the Etheric bodies of men are made.
3. Is largely the principal sphere of  the violet ‘Devas of the Shadows’ which are closely concerned with the physical evolution of man.
4. Is the Etheric sphere within which the human and the Deva evolutions will touch.
5. Is the builder of the dense physical body.
6. Is the sphere of physical individualization.
7. In this fourth round, on this fourth chain, must be completely mastered and controlled by the Human Hierarchy; every human unit must attain this mastery before the end of this round.
8. Is the sphere wherein initiations of the threshold are undergone, and the five-fold initiations of the Physical plane are entered upon.  In both the cosmic and solar Physical planes, the plane of Buddhi is ever the plane of at-one-ment, not into a fundamental unity, but into group unity.  Further, the human and Deva evolutions find their group unity upon the fourth Ether as well.

The planes and subplanes can all be studied and divided in two ways:

1. The higher three and the lower quaternary.  
2. The higher three, the 4th as the meeting place, and the lower three as the planes of endeavor.

3.  Manas is that which produces cohesion:  The manasic principle is, above all else, that cohesive quality

      which enables an Entity to work:  

a) through form  

b) by means of progressive development through cycles  

c) on certain planes, they are the battleground of life  

d) by the method of manifestation, which is a gradual growth from a dim and distant dawn through an ever increasing splendor

     of light, to a blaze of effulgent glory; then through a steadily dimming twilight to final obscuration.

4.  Manas is the key to the fifth kingdom in nature:  Man passes into the fifth kingdom through the

     transmutation of the discriminative faculty of mind.  

5.  Manas is the synthesis of the five Rays:  Manas is the united faculty of four of the Heavenly Men,

      synthesized through a fifth, on the third plane of the system.  They were the logoic embodiment in an  

      earlier system and achieved the fullness of manasic life.  

6.  Manas is the intelligent will or purpose of an existence, allowing him to:

1. Intelligently use a form or vehicle
2. Build faculty into the Causal body
3. Reap the benefit of experience
4. Expand the consciousness
5. Make progress toward a specific goal
6. Discriminate between the two poles
7. Choose the direction of his activity
8. Perfect the form as well as use it
9. Obtain control of active substance
10. Coordinate different grades of matter to express the will of the Indweller

In the Hall of Ignorance, man begins to acquire.

In the Hall of Learning, man begins to discriminate.

In the Hall of Wisdom, man blends the two poles producing light.

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