The other class of beings which must be mentioned are called
Archetypal Forces by the Western School of occultism. They direct the energies of the
creative Archetypes native to this realm. They are a composite class of beings of many
different grades of intelligences, and there is one stage in the cyclic journey of the Human
Spirit when that also labors in, and is part of, that great host of beings. For the Human
Spirit is also destined to become a great creative intelligence at some future time, and if
there were no school wherein it could gradually learn to create, it would not be able to
advance, for nothing in nature is done suddenly. An acorn planted in the soil does not
become a majestic oak over night, but many years of slow, persistent growth are required
before[pg 104]it attains to the stature of a giant of the forest. A man does not become
an Angel by the mere fact of dying and entering a new world any more than an animal advances
to be a man by the same process. But in time all that lives, mounts the ladder of Being from
the clod to the God. There is no limitation possible to the spirit, and so at various stages
in its unfoldment the Human Spirit works with the other nature forces, according to the
stage of intelligence which it has attained. It creates, changes and remodels the earth upon
which it is to live. Thus, under the great law of cause and effect, which we observe in
every realm of nature, it reaps upon earth what it has sown in heaven, and vice versa. It
grows slowly but persistently and advances continually.
The
Region of Abstract Thought.
Various religious systems have been given to humanity at
different times, each suited to meet the spiritual needs of the people among whom it was
promulgated, and, coming from the same divine source:—God, all religions exhibit similar
fundamentals or first principles.
All systems teach that there was a time when darkness reigned supreme.
Everything[pg 105]which we now perceive was then non-existent. Earth, sky and the heavenly
bodies were uncreate, so were the multitudinous forms which live and move upon the various
planets.—All, all, was yet in a fluidic condition and the Universal Spirit brooded
quiescentin limitless
Space as the One Existence.
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