In answer to the statement, “we cannot understand how any danger could arise from the revelation of such a purely philosophical doctrine as the evolution of the planetary chain,” she says: The danger was this: Doctrines such as the Planetary chain or the seven races at once give a clue to the sevenfold nature of man, for each principle is correlated to a plane, a planet, and a race; and the human principles are, on every plane, correlated to the sevenfold occult forces—those of the higher planes being of tremendous occult power, the abuse of which would cause incalculable evil to humanity. A clue which is, perhaps, no clue to the present generation—especially the Westerns—protected as they are by their very blindness and ignorant materialistic disbelief in the occult; but a clue which would, nevertheless, be very real in the early centuries of the Christian era, to people fully convinced of the reality of occultism and entering a cycle of degradation which made them ripe for abuse of occult powers and sorcery of the worst description. Mr. A. P. Sinnett, at one time an official in the Government of India, first outlined in this century the real nature of man in his book _Esoteric Buddhism_, which was made up from information conveyed to him by H. P. Blavatsky directly from the Great Lodge of Initiates to which reference has been made. And in thus placing the old doctrine before western civilization he conferred a great benefit on his generation and helped considerably the cause of Theosophy. His classification was: (1.) The Body, or _Rupa_. (2.) Vitality, or _Prana-Jiva_. (3.) Astral Body, or _Linga-Sarira_. (4.) Animal Soul, or _Kama-Rupa_. (5.) Human Soul, or _Manas_. (6.) Spiritual Soul, or _Buddhi_. (7.) Spirit, or _Atma_.