The Causal Body and the Ego - Canadian Theosophical Association

The Causal Body and the Ego by Arthur E. Powell
Diagram IV indicates the Monads, waiting on their own plane whilst the world, in which they are to
develop is being fashioned.
These units of Consciousness, known as Monads, are described as the Sons, abiding from the beginning
of a creative age, in the "bosom of the Father", who have not yet been –"made perfect through suffering".
Each of them, is truly "equal to the Father as touching his Godhead, but inferior to the Father as touching
his manhood"----in the words of the Athanasian Creed. Each of them is to go forth into matter in order " to
render all things subject to himself" [ 1 Corinthians xv. 28]. He is to be "sown in weakness" that he may
be "raised in power" [ibid.xv.43]. From a static condition unfolding all divine potentialities, he is to become
dynamic, unfolding all divine powers.
Whilst omniscient, omnipresent, on his own plane –the Anupadaka –he is unconscious- "senseless"-, on
all others; he is to veil his glory in matter that blinds him, in order that he may become omniscient,
omnipresent, on all planes able to answer to all divine vibrations in the universe, instead of only those of
the highest levels.
As the Monads derive their being from the First Logos,
His will to manifest is also their will. Hence, the whole
process of the evolution of the individual "I" is an activity
chosen by the Monads themselves. We are here in the
worlds of matter, because, we as Monads willed to live:
we are Self-moved, Self determined.
This divine impulse, striving ever after fuller
manifestation of life, is seen every where in nature, and
has often been spoken of as the Will-to-live. It appears
in the seed, which pushes its growing point up towards
the light, in the bud bursting its prison and expanding In
the sunshine. It is the creative genius in the painter, the
sculptor, the poet, the musician, the craftsman. The
subtlest pleasure, the keenest savour of
exquisite,delight derives from this urge, from within, to
create. All things feel most alive when multiplying
themselves by creation. To expand to increase, results
from the Will-to-live: the fruition is the Bliss of living, the
joy of being alive.
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