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The Seventh Lesson: Cosmic Evolution.809
The Seventh Lesson: Cosmic Evolution.
We have now reached a most interesting point in this course of lessons,
and a period of fascinating study lies before us from now until the close
of the course. We have acquainted ourselves with the fundamental principles,
and will now proceed to witness these principles in active operation. We
have studied the Yogi Teachings concerning the Truth underlying all things,
and shall now pass on to a consideration of the process of Cosmic Evolution;
the Cyclic Laws; the Law of Spiritual Evolution, or Reincarnation; the Law of
Spiritual Cause and Effect, or Karma; etc. In this lesson we begin the story
of the upward progress of the Universe, and its forms, shapes, and forces,
from the point of the “moment’s pause” following the ceasing of the process
of Involution—the point at which Cosmic Evolution begins. Our progress
is now steadily upward, so far as the evolution of Individual Centres is
concerned. We shall see the principles returning to the Principle—the
centres returning to the great Centre from which they emanated during the
process of Involution. We shall study the long, gradual, but steady ascent
of Man, in his journey toward god-hood. We shall see the Building of an
Universe, and the Growth of the Soul.
In our last lesson we have seen that at the dawn of a Brahmic Day, the
Absolute begins the creation of a new Universe. The Teachings inform us