Evolution of Form. 137 



That is the principle which I am now applying 

 to our system as a whole. According to the 

 density of the matter will be the rapidity of the 

 vibrations which that matter is capable of express- 

 ing ; Ishvara sends out vibrations, and the manasic 

 matter, we will say, is thrown into corresponding 

 vibrations or waves of a frequency identical with 

 those of the life-impulse sent out from Him, so far 

 as it is capable of responding, a limit being set by 

 its fineness on the one side and by its density on 

 the other. Its limit of fineness is the atom of the 

 plane. Its limit of density is the coarsest aggrega- 

 tion of these atoms in the densest solid of the plane. 

 If we take the physical plane for a moment, we have 

 solid, liquid, gas, ether, finer ether, finest ether, and 

 atoms. The lower five are related to the five senses 

 in man as they are at present developed on the phy- 

 sical plane. These five correspond to the sense- 

 organs and the senses that work through them, as 

 is suggested in the names of the tanmatras. The 

 Solid is related to the sense of Smell ; Liquid to 

 the sense of Taste ; Fire to the sense of Sight ; Air 

 to the sense of Touch ; and A'kasha to the sense of 

 Sound. Now these are not stated in the order given 

 "by the western scientist, but I have no time to go 

 into the reason for the difference and to show you 

 where his outer observation fails, because he is not 



