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THE SECRET DOCTRINE.
on planes wherein the eye of the most intuitional Chemist and Physicist
cannot reach them—unless, indeed, he develops in himself highlj^
clairvoyant faculties.
It is well known that Leibnitz came very near the truth several
times, but he defined Monadic Evolution incorrectly, a thing not to be
wondered at, since he was not an Initiate, nor even a Mystic, but only
a very intuitional Philosopher. ' Yet no Psycho-physicist ever came
nearer than has he to the Esoteric general outline of evolution.
This
evolution—viewed from its several standpoints, i.e., as the Universal
and the Individualized Monad, and the chief aspects of the Evolving
Energy after differentiation, the purely Spiritual, the Intellectual, the
Psychic and the Physical—may be thus formulated as an invariable
law: a descent of Spirit into Matter, equivalent to an ascent in physical
evolution ;
a reascent from the depths of materiality towards its status
quo ante, with a corresponding dissipation
of concrete form and substance
up to the Eaya-state, or what Science calls the "zero-point,"
and beyond.
These states—once the spirit of Esoteric Philosophy is grasped
become absolutely necessary- from simple logical and analogical considerations.
Physical Science having now ascertained, through its
department of Chemistry, the invariable law of this evolution of Atoms
—from their "protjdean" state down to that of a physical and then a
chemical particle, or molecule—cannot well reject these states as a
general law. And once it is forced by its enemies—Metaphysics and
Psychology*—out of its alleged impregnable strongholds, it will find it
more difiicult than it now appears to refuse room in the Spaces of
Space to Planetary Spirits (Gods), Elementals, and even the Elementary
Spooks or Ghosts, and others. Already Figuier and Paul D'Assier,
two Positivists and Materialists, have succumbed before this logical
necessity. Other and still greater Scientists will follow in that intellectual
"Fall." They will be driven out of their position not by
spiritual, theosophical, or any other physical or even mental phenomena,
but simply by the enormous gaps and chasms that open daily
and will still be opening before them, as one discovery follows the
other, until they are finally knocked off their feet by the ninth wave of
simple common sense.
• Let not the word "Psychology" cause the reader, by association of ideas, to carry his thought to
modem " Psychologists," so-called, whose Idealism is another name for uncompromising Materialism,
and whose pretended Monism is no better than a mask to conceal the void of final annihilation—even
of consciousness. Here spiritual Psychology is meant.