304 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



clearly demonstrable that the gross body corre- 

 sponds with orange. The " states of matter " of 

 these seven Principles from one upward correspond 

 closely with fluid or vapor, solid, liquid, gas, ether, 

 'Psychic Force, or magnetism; and Spirit, or elec- 

 tricity. 



Bear in mind that a fundamental difference in 

 these sheaths is the character of the vibrations 

 which, proceeding from the lowest to the highest 

 are increasingly subtle and ethereal in the nature 

 of their atomic particles. The highest cannot act 

 directly upon the lowest. The medium of grad- 

 ually increasing density is indispensable; and only 

 as we purify and refine the lower physical sheaths 

 do we fit them, through making them responsive, 

 for manifestation of the real individuality the 

 Higher Ego and the spiritually alive soul. 



The objective form is the only thing that is per- 

 ishable; the ideal form lives forever. May we 

 not draw the right and hopeful lesson from this 

 fact? We have it in our power to work con- 

 stantly for betterment to improve our ideal forms ; 

 and, by so much as we succeed, to externalize that 

 betterment in our objective physical forms, which 

 are the models of future ideal forms. This is the 

 law of evolution, the law by which the atom is 

 evolved to purer states and to higher power, de- 

 veloping the latent and potential energies, the wis- 



