Thus proceed the cycles of the septenary evolution, in Seven‐fold Nature; the spiritual or divine; the psychic or semi‐divine; the intellectual; the passional, the instinctual, or _cognitional_; the semi‐corporeal; and the purely material or physical natures. All these evolve and progress cyclically, passing from one into another, in a double, centrifugal and centripetal, way, _one_ in their ultimate essence, _seven_ in their aspects. The lowest, of course, is that depending upon and subservient to our five physical senses, which are in truth _seven_, as shown later, on the authority of the oldest _Upanishads_. Thus far, for individual, human, sentient, animal and vegetable life, each the microcosm of its higher macrocosm. The same for the Universe, which manifests periodically, for purposes of the collective progress of the countless Lives, the outbreathings of the One Life; in order that, through the Ever‐Becoming, every cosmic atom in this infinite Universe, passing from the formless and the intangible, through the mixed natures of the semi‐terrestrial, down to matter in full generation, and then back again, reäscending at each new period higher and nearer the final goal; that each atom, we say, may reach, _through individual merits and efforts_, that plane where it re‐ becomes the One Unconditioned ALL. But between the Alpha and the Omega there is the weary “Road,” hedged in by thorns, that goes down first, then— Winds up hill all the way; Yes, to the very end.... Starting upon the long journey immaculate, descending more and more into sinful matter, and having connected himself with every atom in manifested Space—the Pilgrim, having struggled through, and suffered in, every form of Life and Being, is only at the bottom of the valley of matter, and half through his cycle, when he has identified himself with collective Humanity. This, _he has made in his own image_. In order to progress upwards and homewards, the “God” has now to ascend the weary uphill path of the Golgotha of Life. It is the martyrdom of self‐conscious existence. Like Vishvakarman, he has to sacrifice _himself to himself_, in order to redeem all creatures, to resurrect from the Many into the One Life. Then he ascends into Heaven indeed; where, plunged into the incomprehensible Absolute Being and Bliss of Paranirvâna, he reigns unconditionally, and whence he will re‐descend again, at the next “Coming,” which one portion of humanity expects in its dead‐letter sense as the “Second Advent,” and the other as the last “Kalkî Avatâra.” Summing Up. The History of Creation and of this World, from its beginning up to the present time, is composed of _seven_ chapters. The _seventh_ chapter is not yet written. T. SUBBA ROW.(413)