Ishvara in man is that central mystery, the original atom, the magnetic nucleus, around which the atoms first of the triad, and afterward of the quarternary, were assembled through a process requiring ages for its completion. As revealed in an earlier teaching of this series, the process began upon the highest planet, and continued on successive lower ones, and was finished in our humble world.

This pilgrimage of the evolving human was due to Ishvara that not only attracted to itself man's components, but urged him on from planet to planet, until his appropriate sphere was gained. Another reason why man chose this abode is the deeply occult one that the Ishvara of the earth entity vibrates in sympathy with his own.

To inner sight, man's Ishvara is a point of light, comparable to no material object save the diamond of somewhat blueish tint. Moreover, the "diamond soul" of man duplicates in a minute way that "Cosmic Seed" whose appearance announced the dawn of the present great Kalpa. Again, this Ishvara is a tone; in fact so minute a sub-division of a certain note, that, while every member of the race has his individual tone or key-note, these subdivisions collectively constitute humanity's keynote; one identical with that of the earth entity, whose key-note is one of the seven forming the Pythagorean scale of the planetary spheres. The "Cosmic Seed" - ancient ere time began - is the archetypal Ishvara, the original nucleus and diamond point of a universe growing through successive great Kalpas. Now, at the heart of the spiritual Sun, this Ishvara radiates in vastly intensified degree the glory of its human antitype.

Students should disabuse themselves of the notion that man, as at present constituted, has lived either on Mercury or Mars or Venus. Were he transferred to another planet, and could he adapt himself to its physical conditions, a deep-seated unrest would possess him, because the

Ishvara of the planetary spirit there would not harmonize with his inmost being.

In ages to come, when man has finished his evolution here, he will find his Ishvara grown to octave vibration with that of the solar being; so, inevitably, he will exchange this world for the orb from which he issued as a merely potential creature.

Because necessary to each other, the Ishvara of the earth entity and that of the human race as a whole, have progressed together harmoniously for millions of years; but when entire nations incline their hearts to evil, the earth entity manifests uneasiness by seismic disturbances, and other convulsions of nature.

Andrew Jackson Davis located the Summer-land of departed spirits in the regions of the Galaxy, while the orthodox heaven is supposedly somewhere among the stars to which abode Enoch was translated, and Elijah was carried, and Jesus was lifted up. On the other hand, the deeper students of our philosophy understand that no human being can break from the magnetic circle of the Ishvara of the earth entity, until the day "Be with Us."

As for that circle, it impinges on the circumference of the circle of Mars. At this boundary, the repulsion of the Martian Ishvara, together with the attraction of that of the earth entity, tends to force every imperfect posthumous soul back to the material plane. Because free from that attraction, evolved beings in the Nirvana of our planetary chain can, at will, remain for ages upon the buddhic plane.

H. P. B.