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tive powers, and that these coming forth from God 

 make models for the future types, each type being 

 related to its ante-type, each concrete object to its 

 abstract idea. Thus also the Greeks taught, Pytha- 

 goras and Socrates and Plato ; thus also many of 

 the Hebrews taught, the doctors of the Kabala; 

 and both the Greek Philosopher and Hebrew 

 Kabalist have declared that the visible world of 

 objects could never have come into existence had 

 not the invisible world of Ideas preceded it, so that 

 the objects repeated in multitude what an Idea 

 presented in unity. That Idea thus coming forth 

 from God and drawing to itself forms in subtle 

 matter, produces the types of forms that are gradu- 

 ally to be worked out in evolution ; and those of you 

 who have studied the Secret Doctrine of Madame 

 Blavatsky may remember that the archetypal world 

 is therein spoken of as the first which is created, 

 and as that on which the whole of the evolution of 

 denser worlds depends. It is made of the A'kasha 

 which contains within itself the possibility of all 

 forms as we are told, and these Ideas are drawn 

 forth and reproduced in greater detail by the 

 Builder on the A'kashic correspondences of Agni. 

 Life is evolved by the modifications in consciousness 

 which Ishvara brings about; the modification in 

 the consciousness of Ishvara preceding the mould- 



