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Each class of Creators endows man with what it has to give : the one builds his external form ; the other gives him its essence, which later on becomes the Human ''Higher Self ''owing to the ''personal exertion of the individual ; ''but they could not make men as they were themselves — perfect, because sinless ; sinless, because having only the first, pale shadowy outlines of attributes, and these all perfect — from the human standpoint — white, pure and cold as the virgin snow. Where there is no struggle, there is no merit. Humanity, “ of the Earth earthy,” was not destined to be created by the angels of the first divine Breath : therefore they are said to ''have refused ''to do so, and man had to be formed by more material creators, * who, in their turn, could give only what they had in their own natures, and no more. Subservient to eternal law, the pure gods could only project out of themselves ''shadowy ''men, a little less ethereal and spiritual, less ''divine and perfect ''than themselves —  shadows still. The first humanity, therefore, was a pale copy of its progenitors ; too material, even in its ethereality, to be a hierarchy of gods ; too spiritual and pure to be men, endowed as it is with every ''negative ''(''Nirguna'') perfection. Perfection, to be fully such, must be born out of imperfection, the ''incorruptible ''must grow out of the corruptible, having the latter as its vehicle and basis and contrast. Absolute light is absolute darkness, and ''vice versâ. ''In fact, there is neither light nor