THE PURPOSE OF REINCARNATION: Many a soul has gone out in utter darkness in such an hour for want of a little knowledge, for want of an intuitive certainty that his cry has been heard, the longing of his heart perceived, and an assurance of final recognition by some Being higher, wiser than himself. I who speak to you tell you that certainty may be yours. I will try to show you that I tell you truly by means of a glimpse into the Law of Correspondences, the most divine of all divine laws. For immemorial ages the Divine son has spoken from time to time to those who have evolved to the point where they were capable of hearing His voice and interpreting His language. In every message thus given to man, however it may be clothed, the test has always been the same: I am God. Thou art in me, and I in thee. The concept of the Heavenly Man has come down to us from immeasurable ages of time; and the body, soul, substance, force, spirit-matter of that Heavenly Man is made up of every atom of manifest and unmanifest matter and force. Every form of organized life is a cell, an organ, a part of the body of that Heavenly Man, as is every thought, every instinct, every sense, developed or undeveloped, a part of the mind and soul of the same Great Being. When the fiery lives–the elementals–are withdrawn by the disintegration of the physical form, there is nothing visible left. It is but a temporary vehicle through which the interior forces of life may play at the will of the Ego informing it, in order that the experience so gained may aid in the development of a Spiritual Body. Without a Spiritual Body, the Ego (the true I, soul or Self, not to be confused with the lesser ego) could have no individuality, and this is the only reason behind reincarnation; otherwise it would be impossible for the Ego to gain the knowledge and experience requisite for eternal life in form in order to become, in its turn, the loving ruler of races and worlds. Consequently, while it is the least important from one point of view, the physical body is of incalculable importance from another, and some knowledge of physiology is very important in the case of a student if he is to understand thoroughly the principles above enumerated, as the physical body is a microcosm of a macrocosm–a little universe in a greater universe... There are groups within groups, from the individualized groups of a solar system to the minutiae of an ameba, but always the groups are distinct, always do they have marked peculiarities... When the different states of substance which will form the cells of all the organs of sense and volition in all kingdoms of nature have been brought into harmonious relation by interaction, then may they be ensouled in definite form, as is done in the prototypes of all the forms in manifestation. These prototypes were individualized entities. With form comes identity. However, we think there is to be a distinction made between conscious and unconscious individualization, and such difference of opinion as may exist between us and others is probably more in the seeming than in reality, but to our mind conscious individualization comes with the dawning of intuition. If contact with humanity plays any part in it, it must be a secondary part, and we fail to see how it could in any way affect the relation of the individual soul to the group soul of which it is a part. Identification with the Infinite can only be a realization of ones true relation to every other emanation of the Infinite, and a final loss of what we now term identity in the identity of the all... Through an era of manifestation, consciousness is a unity in diversity, as is matter or body. But a body that has been spiritualized, (you will perhaps be better able to understand if I say a Master who has gained a Nirmanakaya Robe, who is one of the Angels of God, as it would be termed in an orthodox church) is one with the All in thought, in feeling, in desire, in will, in motion, but he has a separate conscious existence... We speak of the Ego, the Monad, the Sons of Will and Yoga, and all the other differentiations of the higher realms of thought and being, but they may all be summed up in the two words Identity and Intelligence–the I AM–of the Divine Soul, the knowledge that I as an individual conscious intelligent being, am alive and am evolving according to a definite Divine prototype–a greater I AM. The group soul itself must evolve as well as the atoms of the group; as any one part is developed the whole group is evolved. (Hilarion, Teachings of the Temple II)
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