98 Evolution of Life and Form. 



which the father gives is the seed containing the 

 power of development, and the universe is but the seed 

 of Deity, with every power involved within it, and 

 capable by its evolution of becoming the image of the 

 Supreme : none the less is every power germinal, not 

 developed, potential, not actual ; only at the ending 

 will that seed, grown into perfect manhood, show 

 forth the image of its generating Sire, and give a new 

 Ishvara to the future from whom further universes 

 may evolve. That is the answer to the question : 

 Why this long evolution ? It is this evolution that 

 we are to trace from the germ to the perfect, life 

 given as germ to grow to the God. 



L,et us look first at the matter in which this life is 

 to be clothed not in detail, that is to-morrow's work 

 but just as to the principle involved in the evolu- 

 tion of the matter through which the life is to express 

 itself. We heard the first day about tattvas. We 

 found that they were modifications of Prakriti, the 

 primary matter, brought out one after the other as 

 the regions of the universe were builded. All that 

 we need for our purpose this morning is to remem- 

 ber that five of these are concerned with the present 

 evolution, that the highest of these is the A'kasha in 

 the highest sense of the term, then Vayu, then Agni, 

 then Apas, then Prithivi ; all these are kosmic and 

 they represent vast planes in the universe, but have 



