Each atom or molecule of
ordinary scientific hypotheses is not a particle of something, animated
by a psychic something, destined to blossom as a man after aeons. But
it is a concrete manifestation of the Universal Energy which itself has
not yet become individualized: a sequential manifestation of the one
Universal Monas. The ocean does not divide into its potential and
constituent drops until the sweep of the life-impulse reaches the
evolutionary stage of man-birth. The tendency towards segregation into
individual monads is gradual, and in the higher animals comes almost to
the point. The Peripatetics applied the word Monas to the whole Cosmos,
in the pantheistic sense; and the Occultists while accepting this
thought for convenience' sake, distinguish the progressive stages of the
evolution of the Concrete from the Abstract by terms of which the
"Mineral Monad" is one. The term merely means that the tidal wave of
spiritual evolution is passing through that arc of its circuit. The
"Monadic Essence" begins to imperceptibly differentiate in the vegetable
kingdom.
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