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The increasing control of the emotional and physical bodies achieved by an advanced man is indicated by the fact that the third figure begins to become narrower towards its base on the physical plane. As it ascends it widens, until the plane of the abstract mind is reached. Considerable egoic consciousness has been attained, as well as a distinct contact made with the intuitional worlds. The initiate45 is gaining still greater control of his personal vehicles, and the widest portion of the figure is now on the mental plane. The intuitional world has been penetrated, and contact made with the spiritual will. The centre of consciousness is now situated between the planes of intuition and abstract thought. The adept—as portrayed by the fifth figure—has still a physical body, but the major portion of his consciousness is in the egoic and monadic worlds,46 while the centre is in the intuitive, with a possible range from the logoic to the subphysical planes. Diagram (ii) shows the relationship between monad, ego and personality at different stages of evolution. The horizontal lines show the planes of Nature, as in diagram (i). The white line in the realm of logoic consciousness indicates part of the sides and the base of a triangle which represents the Logos. The white triangles in the black field represent the monads, the intermediate triangles below them the egos, and the lower figures the personalities, as in diagram (i). The round white mark in the personal figure shows the position of the normal focus of consciousness, which, as we saw above, in the savage, is between the emotional and physical planes, and in the initiate is between the planes of intuition and abstract thought. Beginning with the left-hand figure, the shape of the personal diagram of the