To Light a Thousand Lamps - The Theosophical Society

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Evolution
WHO IS MAN? A GOD IN PROCESS of becoming or a biological
sport, a chance production of life in a cosmos otherwise
void of intelligent, sentient beings? How singular that we
should have forgotten our lineage when we are sprung of the
seed of divinity, our souls assigned each to its ‘‘native star,’’
as Plato tells us in his Timaeus (§§41‒2), and when there is
not a single atom in the immensities of space but is a consciousness-point
instinct with life and the will to grow.
Have we forgotten that we are gods currently housed in
human temples; that our destiny is linked with that of every
other human being; that we are, in fact, participants together
in a cosmic procession of unfoldment that bonds us
equally with the atoms of our body as with the courses of
the stars and, by that token, with the heart of Infinity? As
G. de Purucker wrote:
Life is endless, has neither beginning nor end; and a universe
is in no wise di¤erent in essentials from a man. ...
Consider the stars and the planets: every one of them is a
life-atom* in the cosmic body; every one of them is the organized
dwelling place of a multitude of smaller life-atoms
*The monadic life or divine spark animating every atom within the
cosmos.