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5 Planes of Existence
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Five Planes of Manifestation
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LITTLE CHILDREN, OR LITTLE ONES
A symbol of the spiritual egos or monads which
descend into the forms in order to gain experience and knowledge on
the lower planes. They are the children of God.
“Thereupon they (the Maruts), according to their wont, assumed again
the form of new-born babes, taking their sacred name." - Rig-Veda,
I. 6, 4.
When the way was prepared, the spiritual egos (Maruts) dispersed,
and became germs of spirit descending into the forms and taking to
them the Divine differentiation.
“And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst
of them, and saith, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted,
and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom
of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little
child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven." - MATTHEW
xviii. 2-4.
The Christ-soul called attention to a spiritual monad (atma-buddhic)
set in the midst of the disciplined qualities of the lower nature,
and explained that except the qualities be transmuted into spiritual
states, as is the condition of the monads, they cannot enter heaven,
that is, become conscious on the higher planes. It is necessary,
therefore, that each quality should undergo the discipline of the
lower life, as does the monad, in order that it should be purified
and exalted, and so become greatest among the high but inexperienced
qualities on the higher planes. "Take heed that ye despise not one
of these little ones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their
angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." -
MATTHEW xviii. 10.
The qualities are enjoined to be faithful to the spiritual nature
within them; for the individualities (angels) in the causal-bodies
of the souls are in harmony with the Higher Self, and therefore are
aspects of the Supreme—the Father, the Atman.
“Awake, O sword, against my Shepherd, and against the Man that is my
fellow, saith the Lord of hosts; smite the Shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered and I will turn my hand upon the little ones." -
ZECH. xiii. 7.
At the end of the period of Involution, there comes the awakening of
the energies of conflict (sword). The Divine Will first smites the
Archetypal Man, or involved Self (Man that is my fellow), and he is
dismembered. The higher qualities (sheep),—the "limbs of the
Ineffable," are then scattered, and so the way is prepared for the
incoming of the spiritual monads (little ones), who are now to pass
through the experiences of suffering and sorrow.
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