xxix. _The first is the ... __“__Mother__”__ [Prima_ MATERIA]. _Separating itself into its primary seven states, it proceeds down cyclically; when having consolidated itself in its_ LAST _principle, as_ GROSS MATTER,(438) _it revolves around itself and informs, with the seventh emanation of the last, the first and the lowest element [the serpent biting its own tail]. In a Hierarchy, or Order of Being, the seventh emanation of her last principle is:_ _(a) In the Mineral, the Spark that lies latent in it, and is called to its evanescent being by the Positive awakening the Negative [and so forth]...._ _(b) In the Plant, it is that vital and intelligent Force which informs the seed and develops it into the blade of grass, or the root and sapling. It is the germ which becomes the Upâdhi of the seven principles of the thing it resides in, shooting them out as the latter grows and develops._ _(c) In every Animal, it does the same. It is its Life‐Principle and vital power; its instinct and qualities; its characteristics and special idiosyncrasies...._ _(d) To Man, it gives all that it bestows on all the rest of the manifested units in Nature; but develops, furthermore, the reflection of all its __“__Forty‐nine Fires__”__ in him. Each of his seven principles is an heir in full to, and a partaker of, the seven principles of the __“__Great Mother.__”__ The breath of her first principle is his Spirit [Âtmâ]. Her second principle is Buddhi [Soul]. We call it, erroneously, the seventh. The third furnishes him with the Brain Stuff on the physical plane, and with the Mind that moves it [which is the Human Soul._—H. P. B.]—_according to his organic capacities._ _(e) It is the guiding Force in the cosmic and terrestrial Elements. It resides in the Fire provoked out of its latent into active being; for the whole of the seven sub‐divisions of the ... principle reside in the terrestrial Fire. It whirls in the breeze, blows with the hurricane, and sets the air in motion, which element participates in one of its principles also. Proceeding cyclically, it regulates the motion of the water, attracts and repels the waves,_(_439_)_ according to fixed laws, of which its seventh principle is the informing soul._ _(f) Its four higher principles contain the Germ that develops into the Cosmic Gods; its three lower ones breed the Lives of the Elements [Elementals]._ _(g) In our Solar World, the One Existence is Heaven and Earth, the Root and the Flower, the Action and the Thought. It is in the Sun, and is as present in the glow‐worm. Not an atom can escape it. Therefore, the ancient Sages have wisely called it the manifested God in Nature...._ It may be interesting, in this connection, to remind the reader of what T. Subba Row said of the Forces—mystically defined.