Chapter 551
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We have a passage from a Master’s letter which has a direct bearing upon these incarnating Angels. Says the letter: “Now there are, and there must be, failures in the ethereal Races of the many Classes of Dhyân Chohans, or Devas [progressed entities of a previous Planetary Period], as well as among men. But still, as the failures are too far progressed and spiritualized to be thrown back forcibly from Dhyân-Chohanship into the vortex of a new primordial evolution through the lower Kingdoms, this then happens. Where a new Solar System has to be evolved, these Dhyân Chohans are borne in by influx ’ahead’ of the Elementals [entities ... to be developed into humanity at a future time] and remain as a latent or inactive spiritual force, in the Aura of a nascent World ... until the stage of human evolution is reached.... Then they become an active force and commingle with the Elementals, to develop little by little the full type of humanity.” That is to say, to develop in man, and endow him with his Self-conscious Mind, or Manas.