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difficulty experienced in defining and accurately lim- 

 iting the activities and influences of the separate 

 Principles. 



To guard against the possible misunderstanding 

 that these correspondences can be defined with nar- 

 row dogmatism, I shall try to ensure a broad out- 

 look, inviting individual thought and opinion, by 

 giving the student first a glimpse through the men- 

 tal eyes of Mrs. Besant and of Rama Prasad. 



The former says, "It is written in the Mundd- 

 kopanishad that from Brahman the One . 

 comes Life Prana is the word used. I shall 

 show you presently that Prana is Atma in outgoing 

 activity; the mind, Manas, that is the second; then 

 the five elements as we know them ether, air, 

 fire, water, and earth; seven in all. These are the 

 seven regions of the Universe, the seven sheaths of 

 Brahman, as the SELF of the All " ( The Self and 

 its Sheaths}. 



As you already know, man's sheaths corres- 

 pond with these and put him in touch with the en- 

 tire Universe. Mrs. Besant's is a very simple 

 classification, and clearly indicates the specific Tatt- 

 vic action in the five lower sheaths, but she follows 

 them in descent from three to seven, instead of 

 ascent. 



Rama Prasad looks at the subject differently but 

 is equally clear. He gives the human Principles 

 as First, Sthula Sharira (gross body) ; second, un- 



