To Light a Thousand Lamps - The Theosophical Society

34 / TO LIGHT A THOUSAND LAMPS
the universal process of Divinity manifesting in terrestrial
spheres — the Word made flesh of Christian tradition —
the Logos seeking imbodiment after imbodiment in numberless
forms for the purpose of bringing into activity the
seed-logos dwelling within the inmost essence of every entity.
Is this not what the human adventure is all about: to
become that which we feel so deeply we really are?
Many have the feeling as their life goes by that there is so
much still unfinished, so much that could be expressed were
there more time. Our body grows older, but we don’t.
How natural, then, for the evolving ego to return to earth
after a rest period to continue inscribing new pages in its
Book of Life. Everything works together, smaller cycles
meshing with larger cycles to enable the fullest growth possible
for each entity in its appropriate time and place. To
this end nature provides ever new forms so that her myriad
children — each a living being, a consciousness-center, a
monad at its heart — may pursue their evolutionary goals.
The cells of our body are born and die many times
within our life span, yet we retain our physical integrity;
family and friends know us even though our entire complement
of molecules, cells, and atoms are continually being
renewed. It’s a miracle: the years pass, our hair turns white,
but we are always recognizable as ourselves. And why? Because
there is a substratum of form, an astral or model body
on which the physical is built; and that astral model is itself
but a reflection of an inner model. You can go further and
further inward until you come to the life-seed, the logos
within every person, the light of the Logos which ‘‘lighteth
every man that cometh into the world.’’