(2.) The “Spirit [or God] of the rayless Depths [Chaos],” which becomes differentiated matter, or the world‐stuff; also the mineral realm. (3.) The “Spirit of the Vegetable Kingdom,” of the “Abundant Vegetation.” (4.) The “Spirit of the Earth” and “the Spirit of the Sands”; a Being of dual nature, the former containing the potentiality of the male element, the latter that of the female element. These two were one, as yet unconscious of being two. In this duality were contained (_a_) Isu no gai no Kami, the male, dark and muscular Being; and (_b_) Eku gai no Kami, the female, fair and weaker or more delicate Being. Then: (5 and 6.) The Spirits who were androgynous or dual‐sexed. (7.) The Seventh Spirit, the last emanated from the “Mother,” appears as the first divine human form distinctly male and female. It was the seventh “creation,” as in the _Purânas_, wherein man is the seventh creation of Brahmâ. These, Tsanagi‐Tsanami, descended into the Universe by the Celestial Bridge, the Milky Way, and “Tsanagi, perceiving far below a chaotic mass of cloud and water, thrust his jewelled spear into the depths, and dry land appeared. Then the two separated to explore Onokoro, the newly‐ created island‐world.” (Omoie.) Such are the Japanese exoteric fables, the rind that conceals the kernel of the same one truth of the Secret Doctrine. (_d_) The _Third Order_ correspond to Âtmâ‐Buddhi‐Manas, Spirit, Soul and Intellect; and are called the “Triads.” (_e_) The _Fourth Order_ are substantial Entities. This is the highest Group among the Rûpas (Atomic Forms). It is the nursery of the human, conscious, spiritual Souls. They are called the “Imperishable Jîvas,” and constitute, through the Order below their own, the first Group of the first Septenary Host—the great mystery of human, conscious and intellectual Being. For the latter is the field wherein lies concealed, _in its privation_, the Germ that will _fall into generation_. That Germ will become the spiritual potency in the physical cell, that guides the development of the embryo, and that is the cause of the hereditary transmission of faculties, and all the inherent qualities in man. The Darwinian theory, however, of the transmission of acquired faculties is neither taught nor accepted in Occultism. Evolution, in the latter, proceeds on quite other lines; the physical, according to Esoteric teaching, evolving gradually from the spiritual, mental, and psychic. This inner soul of the physical cell—the “spiritual plasm” that dominates the germinal plasm—is the key that must open one day the gates of the _terra incognita_ of the Biologist, now called the dark mystery of Embryology. It is worthy of notice that Modern Chemistry, while rejecting, as a superstition of Occultism and Religion as well, the theory of substantial and invisible Beings, called Angels, Elementals, etc.—without, of course, having ever looked into the philosophy of these incorporeal Entities, or