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Constitution of Man -
The Spiritual Entity and the Higher Mind - 2
In the following I shall attempt to enumerate and briefly describe the main components
of a total human being, beginning with the triune spiritual entity, the permanent factor in
a series of personalities — the factor that is related to the principle of Unity. In addition I
shall refer the reader to the diagram shown in the previous chapter.
The spiritual entity in Man is a combination of (1) a universal factor, the power of divine
Compassion that is the foundation for all modes of existence; (2) a particular spiritual
Quality of being; and (3) a principle of individualization, the function of which is to
exteriorize, define, and focus the particular spiritual Quality so it may enter into a one-toone
relationship with a human organism produced in the earth's biosphere.
The first factor can be considered simply the reflected light or power of the Godhead
state. In this state the principle of Unity reaches the greatest power it can attain in the
particular cycle under consideration. But because there are cycles within cycles — a
hierarchy of cycles — the degree of inclusiveness and the quality of the Compassion
radiating from the Godhead state of any cycle of being is relative to the level the particular
cycle occupies in the hierarchy. As there can be no state of absolute Unity, so the character
of all-inclusiveness and universality of which we can speak when dealing with the total
being of a particular individual is only relative; it is relative to what is possible in the cycle
of this individual being who operates within the larger cycle of humanity-as-a-whole, the
planet earth, our solar system, and so on.
The second factor in the spiritual entity is related to the creative Word of which the
spiritual Quality is one single Letter. In another symbolism, this second aspect of the
spiritual entity is one "Ray" of the spiritual "Sun" — one of the many Rays or colors of the
spectrum of divine Light. Occult traditions speak of primary and secondary Rays, just as
other traditions distinguish between Mother-Letters and other Letters in the cosmic
Alphabet of being.
The third component in the spiritual trinity is related to the Promethean gift bestowed
upon Natural Man. It is the principle of individualization, the power of exteriorization
required to bring the spiritual Quality to a clearly focalized state. It is closely associated
with the "higher mind" needed to formulate — to give an archetypal form — to the
spiritual Quality. To focus a spiritual Quality so that it can enter into a one-to-one
relationship with a human organism is to "individualize" it. This individualization of the
spiritual Quality polarizes the required individualization of the human person, that is, the
latter's emergence from the collective psychism of his or her culture. The individualization
of spirit requires the operation of the spiritual will, which is the true will; but what most
people today call will is the concentrated energy of desire (kama). Spiritual will is "light"
rooted in Compassion; the ego-will is "heat" generated by the spasmodic nature of desire.
The higher mind gives a steady form to the light of will; the lower mind gives unsteady
and often changing forms to the heat of desire. The process of human evolution consists of
the transmutation of the fire of desire into the light of Compassion, and of the confused
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