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Chapter XI.
HOW MAN EVOLVES.
He puts himself down first into the matter
nearest to him, that of the lower levels of the
mental plane. Immediately, and in a certain
sense automatically, a vesture of this matter is
drawn round him, a vesture which is an exact
expression of such qualities as already exist in
him, so far at least as they can be expressed at
that level.
For it must never be forgotten that each stage
in the descent means submission to limitation,
and that consequently no expression of the soul
upon any lower level can ever be a perfect
expression. It is merely an indication of its
qualities, just as a picture painted by an artist
is a representation in two dimensions of a scene
existing (or imagined as existing) in three
dimensions. The picture represents the scene
as nearly as it can be represented on a flat
surface by means of perspective, but in reality
almost every line and angle in it must of
HOW MAN EVOLVES.
He puts himself down first into the matter
nearest to him, that of the lower levels of the
mental plane. Immediately, and in a certain
sense automatically, a vesture of this matter is
drawn round him, a vesture which is an exact
expression of such qualities as already exist in
him, so far at least as they can be expressed at
that level.
For it must never be forgotten that each stage
in the descent means submission to limitation,
and that consequently no expression of the soul
upon any lower level can ever be a perfect
expression. It is merely an indication of its
qualities, just as a picture painted by an artist
is a representation in two dimensions of a scene
existing (or imagined as existing) in three
dimensions. The picture represents the scene
as nearly as it can be represented on a flat
surface by means of perspective, but in reality
almost every line and angle in it must of