_1. Every Form on earth, and every Speck [atom] in Space strives in its efforts towards self‐formation to follow the model placed for it in the __“__Heavenly Man.__”__... Its (the atom’s) involution and evolution, its __ external and internal growth and development, have all one and the same object—Man; Man, as the highest physical and ultimate form on this Earth; the __“__Monad,__”__ in its absolute totality and awakened condition—as the culmination of the divine incarnations on Earth._ _2. The Dhyânis [Pitris] are those who have evolved their Bhuta [Doubles] from themselves, which Rûpa [Form] has become the vehicle of Monads [Seventh and Sixth principles] that had completed their cycle of transmigration in the three preceding Kalpas [Rounds]. Then, they [the Astral Doubles] became the men of the first Human Race of the Round. But they were not complete, and were senseless._ This will be explained in the sequel. Meanwhile man—or rather his Monad—has existed on Earth from the very beginning of this Round. But, up to our own Fifth Race, the external shapes which covered those divine Astral Doubles, have changed and consolidated with every sub‐race; the form and physical structure of the fauna changing at the same time, as they had to be adapted to the ever‐changing conditions of life on this Globe, during the geological periods of its formative cycle. And thus will they go on changing with every Root‐Race, and every _chief_ sub‐race, down to the last one of the Seventh in this Round. _3. The inner, now concealed, man, was then [in the beginnings] the external man. The progeny of the Dhyânis [Pitris], he was __“__the son like unto his father.__”__ Like the lotus, whose external shape assumes gradually the form of the model within itself, so did the form of man in the beginning evolve from within without. After the cycle in which man began to procreate his species after the fashion of the present animal kingdom, it became the reverse. The human fœtus follows now in its transformations all the forms that the physical frame of man assumed, throughout the three Kalpas [Rounds], during the tentative efforts at plastic formation around the Monad, by senseless, because imperfect, matter, in her blind wanderings. In the present age, the physical embryo is a plant, a reptile, an animal, before it finally becomes man, evolving within himself his own ethereal counterpart, in his turn. In the beginning it was that counterpart [astral man] which, being senseless, got entangled in the meshes of matter._