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The ideation of all forms which are included within it is in continuous rapport with the forms themselves in the lower world. It follows, therefore, that the light and power from the ego, which shine upon and quicken the ideations, are at the same time illuminating and strengthening the person, group, or movement in the world below. (By this means an advanced ego, such as we are considering, becomes a source of inspiration and help to very large numbers of people, and exerts a definitely quickening influence upon evolution as a whole. Although the ego is thus continuously occupied in keeping contact with many hundreds of people—and in the case of an adept, many thousands, and of a World-Teacher, many millions—and holds them in the direct play of his consciousness there is “no apparent diminution of the power by which he controls and inspires his own personal vehicles. The entire absence of limiting forms, of fatigue, or of pain, leaves him free to acknowledge the presence of visitors, to withdraw into himself for contemplation, and to send down waves of power and light into his personality on occasions when special work which calls for inspiration is being done by the, physical, astral or mental man. A lecture, a study group, research work, literary and artistic effort, and daily meditations, offer opportunities for this, of which the ego never fails to take advantage. Here, again, we find ourselves faced with a difficulty in describing egoic consciousness, for, paradoxical though it may sound, the ego and the personality are not two separate beings, but are one and the same. The ego puts down only a fragment of himself into incarnation, and as that fragment is ensheathed in “bodies” of mental, emotional and physical matter, three pseudo-entities are formed. The limitations imposed by the relatively dense material of the lower planes are so great that a tendency arises for the mental, emotional and physical “men”, who, together, compose the personality, to escape from the control of the ego, and to express the attributes of the matter, of which they are partly composed, rather than those of the ego of whose essence they consist. The power, freedom and happiness described apply only to the ego at his own level, and at such higher levels as he is able to contact. At each descent of consciousness into the planes below a progressive deprivation of power, freedom and happiness occurs. The nature or egoic consciousness is such that, although