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1, but will be that divine force plus the veil of the matfer of plane No. 2. When a still further descent is made to plane No. 4, the atom becomes still more complex, for it will then have a body of No. 4 matter, ensouled by spirit already twice veiled— in the matter of planes 2 and 3. It will be' seen that, since this process repeats itself for every subplane of each plane of the solar system, by the time the original force reaches our physical level it is so thoroughly veiled that it is small wonder men often fail to recognize it as spirit at all. •
Now suppose that the monadic essence has carried on this process of veiling itself down to tlje atomic level of the mental plane, and that, instead of descending through the various subdivisions of that plane, it plunges down directly into the astral plane, ensouling, or aggregating round it a body of atomic astral master; such a combination would be the elemental essence of the astral plane, belonging to the third of the great elemental kingdoms—the one immediately preceding the mineral. In the course of its two thousand"’four hundred differentiations on the astral plane it draws to itself m^ny and various combinations of the matter of its several subdivisions ;