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(''b'') The well-known Kabalistic aphorism runs : — “ A stone becomes a plant ; a plant, a beast ; the beast, a man ; a man a spirit ; and the spirit a god.” The “ spark ” animates all the kingdoms in turn before it enters into and informs divine man, between whom and his predecessor, animal man, there is all the difference in the world. Genesis begins its anthropology at the wrong end (evidently for a blind) and lands nowhere. * Had it begun as it ought, one would have found in it, first, the celestial Logos, the “ Heavenly Man,” which evolves as a Compound Unit of Logoi, out of whom after their pralayic sleep — a sleep that gathers the cyphers scattered on the Mayavic plane into One, as the separate globules of quicksilver on a plate blend into one mass —  the Logoi appear in their totality as the first “ male and female ” or Adam Kadmon, the “ Fiat Lux ” of the Bible, as we have already seen. But this transformation did not take place on our Earth, nor on any material plane, but in the Spacial Depths of the first differentiation of the eternal Root-matter. On our nascent globe things proceed differently. The Monad or Jiva, as said in “ Isis Unveiled,” vol. i., p. 302, is, first of all, shot down by the law of Evolution into the lowest form of matter — the mineral. After a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the Fourth Round), it creeps out of it, say, as a lichen. Passing thence, through all the forms of vegetable matter, into what is termed animal matter, it has now reached the point in which it has become the germ, so to speak, of the

<nowiki>*</nowiki> The introductory chapters of Genesis were never meant to represent even a remote allegory of the creation of our Earth. They embrace a metaphysical conception of some indefinite period in the eternity, when successive attempts were being made by the law of evolution at the formation of universes. The idea is plainly stated in the Zohar&nbsp;: “&nbsp;There were old worlds, which perished as soon as they came into existence, were formless, and were called Sparks. Thus, the smith, when hammering the iron, lets the sparks fly in all directions. The sparks are the primordial worlds, which could not continue because the ''Sacred Aged ''(Sephira) had not as yet assumed its form (of androgyne, or opposite sexes) of King and Queen (Sephira and Kadmon), and the Master was not yet at his work. See Zohar, “&nbsp;Idra Suta,” Book iii., p. 292, ''b. ''The Supreme consulting with the Architect of the world&nbsp;—&nbsp;his Logos&nbsp;—&nbsp;about creation. (“&nbsp;Isis Unveiled,” vol. ii., p. 421.)