132 Evolution of Life and Form. 



existence showing themselves forth as the powers 

 of Bliss and Being. That is as it were, the moun- 

 tain. Now look at your reflection in the lake ; the 

 middle part of the mountain is reflected half-way 

 down in the water. The shore is the dividing line 

 between object and image, and represents the in- 

 telligence; below that, half-way down, will come 

 the reflection of love showing itself as emotion and 

 desire ; then we see the highest peak reflected in 

 the deepest depth of the lake, the existence above, 

 the power of the real Being, reflected below in the 

 plane of physical matter as that illusory existence 

 which man calls real. Try and keep that picture, 

 for the principle of reflection from above to below 

 is one of the keys to understanding both above and 

 below. It helps you to see why emotional love 

 passes into devotion, and how, in the passing from 

 emotion into the higher love which is devotion, it 

 passes from the kamic plane to the buddhic, where 

 bliss is the distinguishing characteristic ; and you 

 will understand why action, the most illusory of 

 things, has to us the sense of reality. It gives 

 that peculiarly definite sense of reality to us because 

 it is the reflection of the real, of the existence of 

 vhich it is the lower form. 



Now these are the principles. L,et us try to carry 

 them out in our evolutionary study ; for if you hold 



