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ORDERS OF THE SPACES

The "orders " signify the laws of manifestation of conditions of progressive development. The “spaces" represent the means by which such conditions are attained.

 

ORDERS, FOUR OF MANU

A symbol of four successive states of consciousness on the mental and buddhic planes in the course of the growth of the soul.

'The Student, the Householder, the Hermit, and the Ascetic, these constitute four separate orders which all spring from the order of Householders." - Laws of Manu, VI. 87.

The "Student " represents an ego manifesting in the mental-body as a centre of consciousness on the four lower mental sub-planes. This is the personality either incarnate or excarnate. The "Householder is the ego seated in the causal-body on the fifth mental sub-plane. This is the individuality from which proceed the other three phases of consciousness. The "Hermit" is the ego manifesting in a centre of consciousness on the sixth mental sub-plane. And the "Ascetic" is the ego manifesting in a centre of consciousness on the buddhic plane. The two last "orders are without lower vehicles and receive no vibrations from the lower planes.

 

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ADITYAS
AEONS (Twelve)
CoмPARTMENTS
IABRAOTH
NIDANAS
SAMSARA
TUAT
ZODIAC

 

ASCETIC
ASRAMAS
CONSCIOUSNESS
HERMIT
HOUSEHOLDER
MONK
SANNYASIN
SNATAKA
SPRING-TIME
STUDENT
YELLOW DRESS