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merged ego and personality, as is shown by the absence of a division between them in the diagram. The centre of consciousness is in the realm of abstract mind and intuition, and the whole personality is pervaded by egoic consciousness. Contact with the monad is very close, and the whole being shines with the radiance which now descends from the monadic realms. The adept has completed the process which he began at initiation, and has united monad, ego and personality, transcended all personal limitations of consciousness, and deprived the personality of all power of initiating action or thought from below. The range of consciousness is now without any limit which the human mind can conceive. From this diagram we see that evolution is accomplished by a gradual raising of the central focus of consciousness, plane by plane, and a fusing, first of the personality with the ego, and later of the ego with the monad. It will be noted that the diagram representing the adept comes to a point at the physical level, showing that a body is still maintained for purposes of work. The savage, The initiate and the adept have also a point of contact with the subphysical world. In the savage this shows itself in primitive magic and witchcraft; in the initiate and adept in the conscious employment of forces which have their sources below the dense physical level. Diagram (iii)50 shows the relationship between the ego and the personality in different states of health and disease, and also indicates the nature of the superphysical factors which determine those states. The two triangles in each of the four squares at the top of diagram (iii) represent the ego and the personality. It will be seen that in the savage, except for the fact that the one triangle is a reflection of the other—i.e., the same shape— there is no apparent connection between them. In the case of the developed man a connection is shown joining the two bases of the triangle representing the ego and the personality. In the case of the initiate the bases are themselves united, showing perfect co-ordination, while in the adept we see them interlaced. In each of these diagrams the relationship portrayed would be productive of perfect health, because it is the natural condition for the level of evolution at which the individuals stand.