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The human soul : its movements, its lights, and the iconography of ...

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COMMUNION OF THE HUMAN SOULei<strong>the</strong>r to <strong>its</strong> body <strong>the</strong> created universe ;ei<strong>the</strong>r to <strong>its</strong> <strong>soul</strong>, <strong>the</strong> invisible world <strong>of</strong> life;or ei<strong>the</strong>r to <strong>its</strong> spirit <strong>of</strong> light , <strong>of</strong> love <strong>and</strong><strong>of</strong> truth.To suppose for a moment a singleexistenceoutside one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> three divine manifestations,is to suppose two beings to reign,<strong>the</strong> greatillusion <strong>of</strong> perversity, <strong>the</strong> Maniche<strong>and</strong>ualism.Outside <strong>of</strong> God <strong>the</strong>re exists nothing.Every being has <strong>the</strong>n his place in <strong>the</strong> divinehierarchy. <strong>The</strong> effort <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sub-multipleis <strong>the</strong> return towards <strong>the</strong> centre fromwhence <strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> material consummationon <strong>the</strong> material plane ; that <strong>of</strong> fluidic communionon <strong>the</strong> animistic plane <strong>of</strong> cosmiclife ; that <strong>of</strong> love or reciprocal solidarityon <strong>the</strong> spiritual plane ;from whence finally<strong>the</strong> law <strong>of</strong> moral, mental <strong>and</strong> physical purity,to reach <strong>the</strong> supreme fusion, to be onew^ith God.To persist always it is evidently necessaryto renounce terrestrial illusion, perpetualtransformation <strong>of</strong> form <strong>and</strong> matter, to be inconstant communion with <strong>the</strong> Word <strong>of</strong> life,- 163 ~

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