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Finite, the immeasurably great with the small. It is the 

 golden chain of Homer, or the Platonic ring.i 



The object of man's existence is to he a real JfaTi, including 

 all that this term implies ; i.e., to re-establish the harmony 

 which originally existed between him and the divine state 

 before the separation took place which disturbed the equili- 

 brium, and which caused the first emanation of the divine 

 essence to be absorbed by the third material emanation and 

 to sink into matter. To re-establish this harmony, Man 

 may bring the will of God to perfect expression in his 

 nature, by learning to know within himself the will of 

 God and being obedient to it, and thereby his own nature, 

 and finally even the whole of the Macrocosm, will become 

 spiritualised and be rendered paradisaical. The individual 

 qualities and temperaments of men will be developed to 

 a certain extent, independently of their surroundings, by 

 the power of the Ens seminis, a formative power (potency) 

 of matter. Adam and Eve (the spiritual dual male and 

 female essence) have received their body through the 

 " creatures " (elemental or astral essences), and through the 

 ^715 seminis, and through this never-ceasing supply men 

 and women will come into existence until the end of the 

 world.^ If there were no planets and stars, and if there 



^ This doctrine of Paracelsus is identical with the one taught by the 

 ancient Brahmins and Yogis of the East ; but it may not necessarily be 

 derived from the latter, for an eternal truth may as well be recognised by 

 one seer as by another, in the East as well as in the West, and two or 

 more spiritually enlightened persons may perceive the same truth inde- 

 pendc ntly of each other, and describe it — each one in his own manner 

 The terms Microcosm and Macrocosm are identical in their meaning 

 with the Microprosopos and Macroprosopos, or the "Short-face" and 

 "Long-face," of the Kabala. (Note made by H. P. Blavatsky.) 



' This "end of the world," i.e., of external bisexual generation, will be 

 when man has again found the woman within himself from whom he has 

 become separated by his descending from his spiritual state and becoming 

 gross and material. " The Lord is not without the woman ; " that means 

 to say that the paradisaical Man (the Karana sharira) is still male and 

 female in one ; but man, having ceased to be "the Lord," and become a 

 servant to the animal kingdom in him, has ceased to recognise the true 

 woman in him, his heavenly bride, and seeks for the woman iti that which 

 is external to him. Therefore man cannot enter into his original state of 



