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It deals with the evolution of the petals of the Egoic lotus, and with the blending of Solar Fire and of Fire by Friction.  Reflex action between the lower and the higher during this middle period produces three effects, which will be seen, if carefully studied to convey much information anent the working out of the law of Karma.  These three effects are:

1. The development of the Astral permanent atom with a concurrent stimulation of the physical permanent atom, and thus the growth and evolution of the two sheaths concerned.  

2. The coordination of the threefold man through the innate vitality of the Astral body and its effect upon the mental and the physical.  This is the kama-manasic period, and as this body is the only complete sphere in the threefold lower man, it is the most powerful body inherently for it embodies (as does the solar system) the heart aspect, or embryonic love nature, which it is the object of macrocosmic and microcosmic evolution to develop.  

3. Finally the unfoldment of the nine Egoic petals in three stages.  

In the working out of the law we must therefore note that man is first of all the victim of the impulses of dense substance or of the Brahma aspect, and thus repeats rapidly the evolutionary process of the preceding solar system; in the second stage he is the victim of desire, or of his own love nature.  

In the third stage, the law of karma works through a man's mental nature, and awakens in him recognition of the law, and an intellectual apprehension of cause and of effect.  This is the shortest stage but is also the most powerful; it concerns the evolution of the three inner petals shielding the "jewel," and their ability to disclose at the right moment that which lies hidden.  It covers the period of the evolution of advanced man, and of the man upon the Path.  In connection with the human family it covers the first half of the next round, prior to the great separation.  Electric fire is beginning to make its radiations felt, and the will or purpose of the Ego is now consciously realized upon the Physical plane.  The three permanent atoms form a triangle of light, and the petals of the lotus are rapidly unfolding.  

BUILDING THE CAUSAL BODY

We have studied somewhat the constitution of the Triangles, or Pitris, Who, through self-sacrifice, endow man with self-consciousness, building his Egoic vehicle out of Their own essence.  We have touched briefly upon the lunar Pitris, who endow man with his lower sheaths and principles through which the energy of the solar Lords may make itself felt, and we shall now proceed to study three things:

First, the effect of the higher energy upon the lower bodies, as it gradually makes itself felt during the evolutionary process, and thus simultaneously "redeems" man in an occult sense, and also "elevates" the lunar Pitris.  Second, the effect of this energy on the Mental plane in the development and unfoldment of the Egoic lotus.  Third, the awakening to activity of the central Life within the lotus.  This activity demonstrates in a twofold manner:

1. As the realization by the man on the Physical plane within the physical brain of his divine nature, resulting in a consequent demonstration of divinity upon earth, prior to liberation.  

2. As the conscious activity of the individual Ego on the Mental plane in cooperation with its group or groups.  

It should be kept in mind that:

I.  Man is in essence divine.  This has ever been enunciated throughout the ages, but remains as yet a

     beautiful theory or belief, and not a proven scientific fact, nor is it universally held.  

II.  Man is in fact a fragment of the Universal Mind, or world Soul, and as a fragment is thus partaker of the

       instincts and quality of that Soul, as it manifests through the human family.  

III.  Man in his lower nature, and in his three vehicles, is an aggregate of lesser lives, dependent upon him

         for their group nature, for their type of activity, and collective response, and who - through the energy  

         or activity of the solar Lord - will themselves later be raised, and developed to the human stage.  

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