The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 The Synthesis of...

According to this extraordinary piece of religious literature—a true Gnostic fossil—the human Entity is the Septenary Ray from the One,1441 just as our School teaches. It is composed of seven elements, four of which are borrowed from the four kabalistical manifested worlds. Thus:

From Asiah it gets the Nephesh, or seat of the physical appetites [vital breath, also]; from Jezirah, the Ruach, or seat of the passions [? !]; from Briah, the Neshamah or reason; and from Aziluth it obtains the Chaiah, or principle of spiritual life. This looks like an adaptation of the Platonic theory of the Soul's obtaining its respective faculties from the Planets in its downward progress through their spheres. But the Pistis-Sophia, with its accustomed boldness, puts this theory into a much more poetical shape (§ 282). The Inner Manis similarly made up offourconstituents,but these are supplied by the rebellious Æons of the Spheres, being thePower—a particle of the Divine light (“Divinæ particula auræ”) yet left in themselves; theSoul[the fifth]“formed out of the tears of their eyes, and the sweat of their torments”; the Ἀντιμῖμον Πνεύματος,Counterfeit of the Spirit(seemingly answering to ourConscience) [the sixth]; and lastly the Μοῖρα,Fate1442[Karmic[pg 640]Ego], whose business it is to lead the man to the end appointed for him: if he hath to die by the fire, to lead him into the fire; if he hath to die by a wild beast, to lead him unto the wild beast—[theseventh]!1443