All things move in cycles, from the primal "atom" or "electron" (?) to the whole Universe of suns and systems.

Every form of existence begins, is evolved into association and action, produces either ultimate dynamic effects or generic fruition, and again returns to its primal state - whatever that may be.

The smallest expression of life (motion), the minutest organism, may have less than a second of earthly time for its cycle; while the Earth and its attendant satellite, all planets of the solar system, the sun itself, and all the systems of the universe have their own cyclic periods.

Not only worlds, suns, and systems thus move in rhythmic harmony with their own particular axes and orbits of revolution, but every organic body from Molecule to highest organism has a cyclic a rhythmic period.

Periodicity is the Primal Law of Life, without which there could be no dynamic force, no generic existence.

Beginning of motion, climax of motion, ultimate of motion, recession, return to beginning; all this may occur in less than a thousandth part of a second.

Germination, growth, maturity, fruition, decay; return to primal beginnings.

It would be most interesting, as well as highly instructive, to follow the cyclic classifications of nature (here on this planet) and to note the "seed time and harvest" of greatest and minutest things.

While effects also have their cycles: light, sound, electricity (in action), starting from (or produced from) seeming non-existence, to beginning, culmination, and return to (seeming) non-existence.

One class of Philosophical Physicists teaches, however, that no 207

"vibration" or "motion" of whatever kind is ever "lost"; that its motion never ceases to move surrounding atoms or ethers and goes on and on forever:

"At a pebble dropped into * placid lake Will move the circling waters to the shore. Then vibrant pass through atoms of earth and air. Forever, ever, ever more."

These ideas may be founded on something more than mere "Speculation"; but our Thesis deals with Souls and human embodiments, on this and other planets. We have not time for the alluring theories of psychical scientists.

In view of all that nature presents of cyclic existence or peri-odicity of material things, the wonder, the harmony of it all, we must, in our studies and observations of human life, arrive at definite conclusions concerning the Intelligence that creates, shapes, and governs the cycles or periods for manifesting intelligences, or Souls.

It is no longer a matter of poetic or sacred "imagery" that "every hair in the head is numbered." We know that sound, light, every manifestation of nature, even the primal atom, are each and all associated with perfect mathematical and rhythmic periods - recurrence of beginnings, performance - completion.

It must be equally true that as Souls are also governed by Fundamental Purposes, in their expressions in human life, so each human life or expression has its own cyclic base; its own rhythmic center of existence, to which as an organism, and manifestation of Soul, it is adjusted. As the Soul or entity is, for purposes of manifestation, its own center, all pulsations, impulsions, activities must be "polarised" from that center and adjusted to its place in the world of manifestation.

Time will doubtless be when the cycle of our physical existence can be as readily determined as now are the pulsations of the heart.

Each life has (contains) within itself its own indications of brevity or longevity, that the physiologist will ultimately be capable of knowing, especially the psycho-physiologist.

Incidents ("accidents," miscalled), even the parting of the Spirit from its material form, may be foreknown in that finer and higher period of human intelligence when "Spirit," as well as and superior to "body," is included in the "anthropological" studies of the Schools.

For all the purposes of this teaching, however, the periods pertaining to single personal expressions are not relevant.

The entirety of time for such expressions, from the beginning of a Soul's embodiments to the final culmination as the Angel, would be in entire accordance with the established order of cycles for that Soul (and the group of souls to which it belongs).

Human lives could be more easily adjusted, the spirit attuned with its surroundings, "environment" and instrument of expression (the body) if people knew their real rhythmic and cyclic relations.

The Arch Angels and groups of Angels having charge of the larger Angelic Cycles and Messianic periods, or Dispensations (aeons), were known as Aeonae.

The period between Dispensations was an Man. And among the Ancient Hebraic, Chaldean, Babylonian, Persian, Hindoo, and, in fact, all oriental "Wise Men," "Magians," "Adepts," and recluses, the term or word had a distinctive meaning; this varied according to the astrological (astronomical) interpretations of periods of time, subject alike to the abuses, on the one hand, of "Mysticism," and pretenders on the other.

"Times and Time and half time," blindly translated or interpreted in the Protestant Christian Bible, were among the scholars' definite cycles, periods, or Aeons: the latter especially referring to the Messianic appearance on the Earth.

The Aeonae not only have charge over the angels of the cycles of personal human expressions (in groups of Embodied Souls), but over the culminating periods of those expressions in whatever department of life those Souls may be working toward perfection; but especially over those Embodied Angels that for particular purposes manifest as Leaders, Teachers, Prophets, in Scientific, Artistic, and, above all, Philosophical and Religious periods: the culminating periods in those directions.

Aeon and Aeona, however, also reach far into the interplanetary epochs of Arch-Angelic knowledge and guidance of Souls, upon other planets than the Earth, and include in their vast scope of knowledge and power the Messianic cycles, time of advent and duration; the larger Messianic period of a full and complete Dispensation; the lesser Messianic periods of each Dispensation, twelve in number: each smaller period having also its "Messiah," or expression of Arch Angel, to bear forward the Truths enumerated and personified by the Messiah.

In illustration of this latter statement, the Buddhists are still expecting their last "incarnation of Vishnu," as the ninth, or, according to some Hindu authorities, tenth, "Avater" or expression of the Divine life - "The Preserver."

There are also scholars and "Reformers" in India, among whom was Virchard R. Ghandi (Jainist), who spent many years in this country and in England after the Columbian Parliament of Religions. He distinctly stated that he believed, and that it was accepted by a large number of minds in India, that Jesus of Nazareth, the "Christ" of Christendom, was the last of the Buddhas.

Yet these awns and cycles of Earthly Dispensations are as seconds of time compared with those interplanetary cycles, appearances of Messiahs on other planets, interstellar, intersolar Aeons, that include the Arch Angelic periods of the government, and even the creation of worlds, suns, and systems of suns.

Since Soul Expression includes all those planets, systems, and Universes, when Soul entities can find expression, we pause in wonder, as we do in Astronomy when contemplating the vastness of the starry heavens, at the magnitude and glory of it all.

The cycles of time on Earth, and connected with this solar system, melt and fade into infinitesimal vibrations; and the period during which a Soul begins and finishes its seemingly almost numberless embodiments sinks into an instant of time compared to those vast cycles, those wonderful aeons over which Aeon and Aeoha hold sway:

The birth and decadence and rebirth of suns and their Systems - of universes like that in which we now exist.

As the uttermost distances of stars and systems of suns baffle even mathematical calculation; and as the minutest as well as the largest things in the Universes are still imperceptible and incalculable; so the scope of the powers of the highest of Angels and Arch Angels must remain unknown until larger capacity for knowledge is unfolded from within in the minds of Earth's children. Limitless as Eternity is, so are the powers of the Immortal Soul illimitable. According to the need must ever be the ability to know.

"One world at a time" means all that belongs to that world: inner, outer, material, spiritual; the larger knowledge enfolds the smaller. The vast Man includes the small life of Earth.

If, in the world of human Science, guided by Mathematics, there are those who can determine the distance and period of revolution of your own planets, of systems and comets related to this system; then those more and more distant Stars and Suns whose orbits are so vast that figures, numbers, symbols, all pale before those wonderful, incalculable, unstatable distances; it must also be true that there are intelligences able to know and cope with those spaces; Angels of the Aeons who know with a single thought that which would require ages upon ages for the finest mathematicians of Earth to compute.

Eternity does not seem too long when we consider how vast are the Universes, how much there is to know, and to be.