He ranges himself ever on the side of the higher rather than the lower thought, the nobler rather than the baser. He deliberately takes the optimistic rather than the pessimistic view of everything, the helpful, rather than the cynical, because he knows that to be fundamentally the true view. By looking continually for the good in everything that he may endeavour to strengthen it, by striving always to help and never to hinder, he becomes ever of greater use to his fellow-men, and is thus in his small way a co-worker with the splendid scheme of evolution. He forgets himself utterly and lives but for the sake of others, realizing himself as a part of that scheme; he also realizes the God within him, and learns to become ever a truer expression of Him, and thus in fulfilling God's Will, he is not only blessed himself, but becomes a blessing to all. INDEX Adept, causal body of 45-8 further evolution of 13 is on summit of human evolution 13 level of 13, 119-21 work of 119-20 Adepts, as members of Hierarchy 13 first of Earth 129 from Venus 131-2 Great Brotherhood of 12-4, 117-8, 132 many degrees of 13 men have become 13 some are Masters 14 some remain with mankind 22 some take apprentices 100 Adeptship, older egos nearing 126 Æonian condemnation 119-20, 133 Æther, breath, blown into 19 bubbles in 19-22, 23 density of 19 mean pressure of 19 of space 18 ultimate atoms formed in 19 Age or dispensation 13 Air, nature spirits of 84 _Ancient Wisdom, The_ 1 Androgynous man 130 Angels, approach men through ceremonial 85 guardian 54 hosts of 11 Kingdom of 84 of the law of cause and effect 100 Animals, additional evolution of 131 are our younger brothers 141 distinction between man and 40 domestic 38 heads of types of 38 individualization of 38-40 man's emotions act on 38 man's thoughts act on 38 Moon-, came to Earth chain 128 Moon-, individualize 126, 131 seven types of 37, 38 souls of 33 Animal kingdom 31-2, 37, 141 Animal-men of Moon-chain 127-8 Apprentice upon probation 118 Apprentices, to Masters 14-7 accepted 118 men may become 18, 116-7 qualifications necessary for 116-8 three stages of 118 Aryan root-race 105, 125 Aspects, three, of the Logos 11 three, of man 11, 41 Astral body, after death 68-71, 73-5, 81, 86 cell-life of 65 colours of 56-8 disintegration of 86 effect of thought on 51-2 ego casts off 42, 63 ego takes an 42, 61 entity occupying 66-72 is bridge to mental body 58 man in his, during sleep 62, 71 matter of, is in constant motion 70 never fatigued 62 no separate senses in 69-70 of animal 32 of group-soul 32 permanent colours of 58 reacts on causal body 47 reacts on mental body 47 shape of 56, 61 shell around 68, 70, 78-80, 81 simile of boiling water 69-70 size of 56 temptations caused by 66-8 vibrations of 56-8, 65-7, 75-6