It is not possible for us at present to understand very much about them, but it is clear that what ma^be described as the aim of their evolution is considerably higher than ours; that is to say, while the object of our human evolu- 8 4 tion is to raise the successful portion of humanity to a certain degree of occult development by the end of the seventh round, the object of the deva evolution is to raise their foremost rank to a very much higher' level in the corresponding period. For them,,as for us, a steeper but shorter path to still more sublime heights lies open to earnest endeavour; but \fdiat those heights may be 1 in their case we can only conjecture. * It is only, the lower fringe of this august body that need be mentioned in connection with our subject 'of the astral plane. Their three lower greatclivisions (beginning from the bottom)