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Spirit, by means of the divine creative imagination, A CONCEPT; this concept takes the form of an Idea in
the Region of Abstract Thought, and the Idea is posited before the Lens of the Mind, in the fourth subdivision
of the World of Thought. THIS FOURTH DIVISION ALONE IS PROPERLY AND SCIENTIFICALLY
DESIGNATED "THE MIND." The mind is the lens, but the light emanates from the Life Spirit, while the
slide represents the permanent Idea created by the Virgin Spirit in the Region of Abstract Thought. That is,
this Permanent Idea is the "Germinal Idea;" so called because it is the "seed" from which the exterior
world-objects spring. The light of the Life Spirit projects the living, permanent Idea through the Mind, which
lies specifically in the Region of Archetypal Forces, and, therefore, it is these Archetypal Forces which from
this point on are represented by the beams of light which emanate from the World of Life Spirit. The
Archetypal Forces ray downward through the Region of Concrete Thought and the Desire World, awakening
the driving power of desire, and the image, corresponding to the image cast on the screen by the stereopticon
projector. What are the Archetypal Forces? They are all the living beings who work on the Archetypes in the
Second Heaven, which Archetypes are THOUGHT FORMS. They include human beings between
incarnations, Nature Forces, and the celestial Hierarchies, such as Lords of Mind, Archangels, Angels,
advanced members of our own life wave (Mercurians, Venusians), etc., and Adepts of our own humanity.
Now when we come to the Physical World, where the image is objectified, we are shown seven subdivisions,
of which the four upper are the ethers which are the subject of these chapters; and of these four ethers, the
Reflecting Ether is the uppermost. It is, Max Heindel says, an Hyper-ether. THIS ETHER IS THE SCREEN
UPON WHICH THE IMAGE IS PROJECTED FROM THE MIND. But the forces of the Desire World are
present with the image, just as the heat, light, and electricity of the stereopticon machine are involved in
projecting the image inscribed on the glass slide on to the screen or, in another analogy, the moving picture
projected from the film strip.
But the projected image of the stereopticon or moving picture is flat and two-dimensional. The projected
image contained WITHIN (not on) the Reflecting Ether, is three-dimensional. It is projected in depth, and
with life and force. THE MEMORY OF NATURE AND OF THE HUMAN MIND is comparable, on this
analogy, to art galleries and newspapers which carry pictures and symbols, but these are only a portion of
THE ENTIRE PHYSICAL WORLD ITSELF, the so-called time-space continuum of modern physical
science.
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The time-space continuum as a whole correlates with the Reflecting Ether, and therefore modern scientists
speak of "traveling in time," or "the annihilation or collapse of space," and "the collapse of time." Where the
occultist says that he "reads in the Memory of Nature" particularly the Reflecting Ether the scientists says
that he "travels in time." And many scientific fantasies show this traveling in time as if it were possible for a
person living in the 20th century to return, in actual fact, to a former time and way of life, retaining as he does
his present-day personality and knowledge. The occultist questions such a reversal of the time stream. He
does, indeed, travel backward in consciousness in the course of his Initiations, where he reviews, and
remembers, his previous existences not only his embodiments as a human being in the Earth Period but his
former existences as animal-like, planet-like or even mineral-like beings of earlier periods of evolution.
But whereas those periods were experienced with no self-awareness, the Initiate now views them and enters
into them sympathetically (or with empathy, empathically), in full waking self-consciousness, and in so
doing becomes able to use the forces voluntarily which he then used involuntarily negatively or
passively under the guidance of higher spiritual beings.
Now just as the physical body of man is surrounded by and derived from the world around him, so that
Divine Spirit and Life Spirit are surrounded by and derived from their corresponding macrocosmic worlds of
Spirit; so also the Human Spirit is differentiated within the World of Abstract Thought, and the Mind and
Desire Body from their corresponding worlds; while the vital body consists of the ethers which surround it on
all sides, and the physical body is made up of physical substances as said.
But from another point of view we may say that the universe consists solely of Spirit: the Divine Spirit which
is "reflected" or condensed into the physical body as its representative; the Life Spirit, which is "reflected" or
condensed into the Vital Body, as its representative; the Human Spirit which is "reflected" or condensed into
the Desire Body AND Concrete Mind, as its twofold representative. BUT as we see from a process of
elimination IT IS THE MIND ITSELF WHICH IS THE FOCUS, CONDENSATION, OR REFLECTION,
OF PURE VIRGIN SPIRIT. AND THE REFLECTING ETHER IS, AS IT WERE, A KIND OF LOWER
POLARITY OR OCTAVE OF THE MIND; THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND, IN THE SENSE THAT IT
OCCUPIES A PLANE BELOW THE TRUE MIND.
To call the Reflecting Ether the "lower octave" of the mind is of course a musical analogy, but such an
analogy bears a high degree of accuracy as regards the World of Thought, for that world is the great cosmic
world of tone, or sound; each cosmic sound pattern created in Cosmic Root Substance by a Creative Idea sent
forth by the Three-fold Spirit in the way shown in Diagram 1 of the COSMO-CONCEPTION. The World
Archetype sings a song emanating from the Solar Logos and the Great Spirits before His Throne who are the
Planetary Logoi; and Man, as Virgin Spirit, is part of this Song, and he also sings along with the innumerable
spirits of the celestial Hierarchies.
It is known to musicians and to physicists who have drawn up a science of sound that when a certain note is
struck, say on a piano, other keys harmonious to it will vibrate in sympathy, creating overtones, undertones,
chords, and octaves, as the case may be. (See COSMO-CONCEPTION, pages 122- 123.) So the harmony of
the threefold Spirit sounds, and by sounding creates tone-patterns in the World of Concrete Thought, which
are translated into form and substance in the Physical World. This is why it is said that the reflecting Ether is
the "lower octave" of the fourth or Archetypal Region of the World of Thought, and therefore reflects, or
RESOUNDS WITH the pictures of the Memory of Nature, AND WITH ALL OTHER FORCES WHICH
BELONG TO THAT HIGH REALM.
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