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2. God-men, the products of the imagination and will 

 of the divine Logos, the incarnating spiritual entities 

 (St. Matt. i. 23 ; St. Luke i. 35). "They are already 

 born of the Spirit" (St. John i. 14).! 



3. Primordial men, without fathers or mothers and 

 without sex, produced by the thought of God in the 

 matrix of Nature (Hebrews vii. 3). " They are the true 

 images of the Creator, the children of God, without 

 sin and without knowledge" (Luke iii. 38). Being 

 attracted to matter, and desiring to enjoy material 

 pleasures, they gradually sink into matter and learn to 

 know good and evil.^ 



Initiation 



" Initiation," or " baptism," is the growth of the spiri- 

 tual principle, which is germinally contained in every 

 man, into consciousness. " Two germs grow into one 

 man. One comes from the Spirit, the other germ comes 

 from Nature ; but the two are one. One becomes con- 

 scious of Nature, the other one may become conscious 

 of the Spirit. One is the child of Adam, the other the 

 son of Christ. Tiiere are a few whose spiritual conscious- 

 ness is awakened to life, who have died in Adam and 

 are reborn of Christ ; ^ those who are reborn know 



and fructification. The first birth is the natural birth of man ; the second 

 is the awakening of the soul, and the attainment of its power (Ephes. 

 iv. 13) to control the desires and passions ; it is, so to say, an invisible fire, 

 penetrating the whole of the body. The third birth is the regeneration 

 of the spirit, its awakening to spiritual consciousness. The last stage is 

 attained by very few (i Cor. xv. 47 ; St. John iii. 6). 

 1 Krishna, Buddha, Christ. 



* " Adam." The failures of the Dhyan-Chohans. 



* The "flesh of Adam" forms the animal elements of the soul, but the 

 flesh of Christ is the spirit (the sixth principle). All the animal principles 

 existing in Nature exist germinally in the soixl-essence of man, and may 

 grow there and develop into entities. The whole of the animal creation 

 is thus represented in the soul of man, because the growth of an 

 animal passion means the growth of an animal principle in the soul. If 

 such passions are conquered by the power of the spirit, these animal 

 "creatures" will die and be expelled from the organism of the soul, in 



