Esoteric V10: July 1896 - Iapsop.com

208 CosMIC EvoLUTION. (November
to stand the test, and depositing the unworthy to again stan
its weary round upward to the point at which it has been unable
to stand.
It will be observed that the completeness and the order of law
is here maintained, that, when the aRCendency was given to the
fire principle, the conditions existed which Capricorn, in the
ascent of life, gathers around itself. In Leo, the life, the fire,
the essence of heing, reaches its acme; in Capricorn the active
principle is in such relation to the inert as to establish the base
of operation for Discrimination and Transmutation.
These principles are found active and controlled by the same
laws, on various planes and with various surroundings, throughout
nature; for example, in the deeay of vegetation, the
the assimilation of food. Thought itself is from the grossP-r material
of the physical organism converted into higher essences.
It is claimed by some of the ultra-scientists that it can be photographed.
In fact, only through the workings of the triangle of
earth, or by means of the •• violet cup," can life ever pass into a
higher stage of development. The highest rate of vibt·atiuu
known is that of the violet principle.
Now, if we admit the universality of law, it follows that
when the qualities of Capricorn gather with sufficient strength
around a planet, she passes into the mysteries of her initiation
into a higher stage of unfoldment. That process is always one
of sifting, or Virgo would have no place with her companions
in the Earthy Triplicity, no work to do on all the various
planes where we now see her so busily engaged. Observation
tP-aches us that what is rejected in the sifting, that which is
discriminated against, is deposited as refUt~e-a."hes, earth
etc.- which again begins to clitub its rounds in the cycles of
life. The ecomony of nature forbids the thought that what is
rejected by a world, when her finer qualities pass upward into
new life, is thrown off into space an«llost. It is in a.ooordance
with the working of law that the life of that which is rejected
should advance, but upon a lower plane, that is, as a smaller
and less highly developed world, which, governed by the mechanics
of the universe, would necessarily revolve around the
parent orb.
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