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Yogis are shown in the Purânas to be far more powerful than the gods. Secondary gods or temporary powers in Nature (the Forces) are doomed to disappear ; it is only the spiritual potentiality in man which can lead him to become one with the infinite and the absolute.

Hence, as the higher “ Pitris or Dhyanis ” had no hand in his physical creation, we find primeval man, issued from the bodies of his ''spiritually fireless ''progenitors, described as aëriform, devoid of compactness, and Mindless. He had no middle principle to serve him as a medium between the ''highest ''and the ''lowest'', the spiritual man and the physical brain, for he lacked ''Manas. ''The Monads which incarnated in those ''empty ''Shells, remained as unconscious as when separated from their previous incomplete forms and vehicles. There is no potentiality for creation, or self-Consciousness, in a ''pure ''Spirit on this our plane, unless its too homogeneous, perfect, because divine, nature is, so to say, mixed with, and strengthened by, an essence already differentiated. It is only the lower line of the Triangle — representing the first triad that emanates from the Universal Monad — that can furnish this needed consciousness on the plane of differentiated Nature. But how could these pure Emanations, which, on this principle, must have originally been themselves ''unconscious ''(in our sense), be of any use in supplying the required principle, as they could hardly have possessed it themselves ? The answer is difficult to comprehend, unless one is well acquainted with the philosophical metaphysics of a beginningless and endless series of Cosmic Re-births ; and becomes well impressed and familiarised with that immutable law of Nature which is Eternal Motion, cyclic and spiral, therefore progressive even in its seeming retrogression. The one divine Principle, the nameless that of the Vedas, is the universal Total, which, neither in its spiritual aspects and emanations, nor in its physical atoms, can ever be at “ ab''solute rest ” e''xcept during the “ Nights ” of Brahmâ. Hence, also, the “ first-born ” are those who are first set in motion at the beginning of a Manvantara, and thus the first to fall into the lower spheres of materiality. They who are called in Theology “ the Thrones,” and are the “ Seat of God,” must be the first incarnated men on Earth ; and it becomes comprehensible, if we think of the endless series of past Manvantaras, to find that the last had to come first, and the first last. We find, in short, that the higher Angels had broken, countless æons before, through the “ Seven Circles,” and thus robbed'' them o''f the Sacred fire ;

{{Style P-No indent|which means in plain words, that they had assimilated during their past incarnations, in lower as well as in higher worlds, all the wisdom therefrom — the reflection of {{Style S-Small capitals|Mahat}} in its various degrees of intensity. No Entity, whether angelic or human, can reach the state of Nirvana, or of absolute purity, except through æons of suffering and the ''knowledge ''of evil as well as of good, as otherwise the latter remains incomprehensible.}}