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Before leaving this branch of the subject it may be well to Wclrn the student against the confusion of thought into which some have fallen through failing to distinguish this elemental essencfe which we have been considering from the monadic essence manifesting through the mineral kingdom. "It must be borne in mind that monadic essence at one stage of its evolution towards humanity manifests through the elemental kingdom, while at a later stage it manifests through the ihineral kingdom ; but the fact that two bodies
* of monadic essence at these clifferent stages arein manifestation at the same moment, and that ©ne of these manifestations (the earth elemental) occupies the same space as and inhabi&s the other (say a rock), in no way interferes with the evolution either of one or the other, nor does it imply any relation between the bodies of monadic essence lying within both. The rock will also be pernfeated by its appropriate variety of the omnipresent life principle, but