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Path of Discipleship, Anne Besant, TPH Pub

The document discusses the evolution of the universe and individuals within it. It explains that multiplicity and separateness are necessary for evolution of the whole, and that current individuals are evolving to become guides for future universes. It also addresses why evolution involves difficulty and apparent failures before progress is made.

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Path of Discipleship, Anne Besant, TPH Pub

The document discusses the evolution of the universe and individuals within it. It explains that multiplicity and separateness are necessary for evolution of the whole, and that current individuals are evolving to become guides for future universes. It also addresses why evolution involves difficulty and apparent failures before progress is made.

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Path of Discipleship, Annie Besant, The First effort in the evolving life is to make many,

Theosophical Publishing House Pub to make separate existences – apparently separate –


so that looked at from without there shall seem
1. First Steps many, although looked at in their essence, we see
Higher Teachings: that the Self of all is One. Thus in the process of
(1) Building of Kosmos as a whole, the methods of multiple individualizing, the one as individual
the vast succession of phenomena. comes into manifestation as a faint and limited
(2) Evolution of Self, the Self in man (lower) rather reflection of the Self.
than Self in the Kosmos (higher). How from sheath
after sheath, the (Lower) Self gained experience and Q) What is to be the outcome of this universe?
obtained sovereignty over its lower vehicles – still Q) What it is these many individuals should be
with the man as with the universe, still with the evolved?
individual as with the Kosmos, seeking ever Q) What is that this separateness should be a
reunion with the (Higher) Self, seeking ever THAT necessary part in the evolution of the whole?
whence it had come.
The result of the universe is to be the evolution of
Q) What bearing have these on the life of men in the Logos of another universe, of the mighty Devas
the world, surrounded as we are with necessities of (guides of all kosmic forces of that universe in the
life, activities of phenomenal world, continually future), of Divine Teachers (who will train the infant
drawn away from thought of One Self, continually humanity of another kosmos). Today in all these
forced by our Karma to take part in these worlds of individual existences, a steady process of
multifarious activities? evolution is happening, by which one universe gives
What bearing has the higher teaching on lives of to a future universe its Logos, its Devas, its Manus
men, and how may men in the world rise upward and all those great Ones that will be necessary for
until the higher life becomes possible for them? the building, training, governing, teaching of the
How a man in the world, surrounded by family universe which is yet unborn. Thus are the
obligations, with social duties, with all the many universes linked together, thus does Manvantara
activities of the worldly life, may yet prepare himself succeed Manvantara, thus fruits of one universe
for union and take the first steps on the path that becomes the seeds of the universe that succeeds it.
leads him to the One. In the midst of all this multiplicity, there is a vaster
What are the steps of the path, beginning here in unity being evolved, which shall be the framework
the life of family, community, state, will end in that of the unborn kosmos, which shall be the Power
which is beyond all thinking, and lands the which in the future kosmos shall guide and rule.
traveller ultimately in the home which is his for
evermore. Q) Why so much difficulty in evolution? Why so
How to recognize the goal to be reached, and path much apparent failure in the working? Why should
to be trodden? me go wrong so much before they get it right? Why
should men run after evil that degrades them
A) In the beginning of creation, from the primal instead of following the good that ennobles them?
darkness, there is a whisper ‘I will multiply’. That Was it not possible for the Logos of the universe, for
multiplication is the building of the universe, and of Devas who are His Agents, for great Manus who
the individuals who live in it. In that will to multiply came to guide our infant humanity, to plan so that
of the ‘One which is without a second’, we see the there might be no such apparent failure in the
source of manifestation, the primal germ of the working out? Was it not possible for Them to guide,
Kosmos. As we see the complexity and multiplicity so that the road might have been a straight and
of the universe that results from primal simplicity, direct one instead of so devious, so circuitous?
primal unity, we realize that in each of these
phenomenal manifestations there must be A)
imperfection. (Manifestation of the universe requires
imperfection. Consciousness is unlimited infinite, but
created entities are limited and finite). The very
limitation which makes a phenomenon possible is
also the inevitable mark that is less than the One
and therefore by itself is imperfect.

Then we understand that perfection of the


manifested universe must lie in this variety. If there
be more than the One (for the One decided to
multiply), then there must be infinite multiplicity.
The more numerous, more wonderful, more various
the objects, the more nearly will that universe
image forth That whence it comes though still
imperfectly.

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