To Light a Thousand Lamps - The Theosophical Society

Evolution / 17
sive, in the background. Once the work of building vehicles
is over, the explosive energy of spirit assumes command,
its radiating force intensified. We are all radioactive: atoms,
rocks, humans, and stars. A supernova, in ejecting its
matter-particles, releases a thunderous burst of light far into
space; just so, every time we transmute the iron of our
nature into the bright essence of spirit, we irradiate the
thought-world far and wide. It may be only a gleam, unseen
by ourselves, but light is light, and wherever it shines it
illumines the darkness. When at length we reach the top of
the evolutionary arc, we will have evolved from within our
full potentialities. We will be as gods walking the earth,
having learned everything this planet can teach us. The end
of our earth-experience will have arrived, and we will pass
into a long rest.
But not forever — there is continuous ebb and flux,
endings and beginnings, the death of old worlds and old
experiences and the bringing to birth of new worlds, new
experiences. As the cycles proceed, our human life-wave or
family of monads will seek imbodiment on other planets or
spheres until we have mastered all there is to be known in
our solar system. In the long distant future we humans will
have become suns, each with its own family of beings, while
our present sun perchance will be the temple of a still
greater solar being. In fact, we are ‘‘constantly a¤ecting the
destiny of the suns and planets of the future,’’ and when we
in turn shall have become suns, ‘‘then the nebulae and the
suns around us will be the evolved entities who now are our
fellow human beings. Consequently, the karmic relations
that we have with each other on earth ...will most assur-