The Causal Body and the Ego - Canadian Theosophical Association

The Causal Body and the Ego by Arthur E. Powell
CHAPTER II
THE FIELD OF EVOLUTION
By the "field of evolution" we mean the material universe in which Evolution is to take place. Strictly
speaking, life or Spirit, and matter are not in reality, separate and distinct existences, but rather are
opposite poles of one noumenon; but for purposes of intellectual analysis and study it is convenient to
consider these two aspects or poles almost as though they were separate and distinct, much in the same
way that a builder, for example considers, more or less separately, plans and sections of his buildings,
although these plans and sections are merely abstractions, from the one entity - the building itself.
The field of evolution in our solar system consists of seven planes or worlds; these may be regarded as
making up three groups: [1] the Field of Logoic manifestation only; [2] the field of supernormal evolution
[3] the field of normal human, animal, vegetable mineral and elemental evolution. These facts may be
tabulated as shown on page 5.
The Adi and Anupadaka planes may be conceived as existing before the solar system is formed. The Adi
plane may be imagined as consisting of so much of the matter of space, symbolised by points, as the
Logos marks out to form the material basis of the system He is about to produce.
The Anupadaka plane, symbolised by lines, we may imagine as consisting of this same matter, modified
or coloured by His individual life, His all ensouling consciousness, thus differing in some way from the
corresponding plane in another solar system. These ideas may be roughly symbolised thus:
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