Note 23 — CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO SETOS AND RAHULA
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A planet runs through its grand period of life from a formless nebula to a globe, which solidifies into a planet with or without satellites. It is involution as long as the planet is in process of formation; but when matter begins to manifest, the first step in evolution is taken, which goes on from protoplasm to man. Then comes the blooming-time, when this flower of space will scatter its seeds, as did the huge planet once revolving between Jupiter and Mars.
Where once was unity, light and power, we have now a confused mass of asteroids moving in eccentric orbits. This was not merely the experience of a planet, but was a tragedy of the solar system; and in it the extremity of individualism finds exemplification. The mind of humanity is broken and divided in a corresponding manner. Both represent the fluid side of nature, and are correlated to the soul on the downward spiral.
No one claims that the ego contacts through the animal kingdom, but the soul of desire may.
When the latter does so, it is lost—until brought back on the upward spiral by aspiration and harmony, where it becomes one with Divinity.