Spirit & Matter
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Figure 44
Humanity is a divine being (or individuality or hierarchy) but that being is functioning or polarised on a much higher level than the human soul. The human soul is able to identify with this greater being however in three ways: 1. Via the antahkarana or consciousness. By linking his or her consciousness or awareness with the consciousness of the hierarchies of lives that express on the intermediate planes a bridge is formed. 2. Via the sutratma or Life aspect. By penetrating into the source of his or her consciousness itself. The source of the life or spirit aspect of the individual hierarchy IS the greater Life 3. Via the permanent atoms. The very substance in which the human soul is experiencing itself is the same substance that has been energised or stimulated by the greater Life. On the buddhic plane the human soul finds its place in an ashram according to ray and subray. That ray carries the consciousness or ‘gaze’ and therefore purpose of the Planetary Logos with which he is affiliated. Here also a process of direct identification begins to take place. This is possible because of the direct resonance between the buddhic plane and the fourth plane of the cosmic astral where the Logos of Earth is polarised. This being literally ensouls the human kingdom and so therefore we live because he lives. The life is not separate from the One universal life and yet that life is transmitted to us through him. Sanat Kumara is not the Planetary 235