Leadbeater, Charles W.: Man Visible and Invisible: Examples of different types of men as seen by means of trained clairvoyance (London, 1902)

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THE EARLIER OUTPOURINGS.

It is from this Third Aspect that the first
movement towards the formation of the system
comes. Previous to this movement we have in
existence nothing but the atomic state of matter
in each of the planes of nature, none of the
aggregations or combinations which make up
the lower sub-planes of each having yet been
formed. But into this sea of virgin matter
(the true Virgin Maria) pours down the Holy
Spirit, the Lifegiver, as He is called in the
Nicene Creed; and by the action of His glorious
vitality the atoms are awakened to new powers
and possibilities of attraction and repulsion, and
thus the lower subdivisions of each plane come
into existence. It will be seen that this is
symbolized in the diagram by a line descending
from the lowest circle straight through all the
planes, growing broader and darker as it comes,
to show how the Divine Spirit becomes more
and more veiled in matter as it descends, until