"....when a Material Universe comes into manifestation, then this Universal Life emanates or differentiates individualized units from its own essence, and every such life-unit, enters upon a Pilgrimage of Evolution in the new universe that is just coming into being."..

Secret Doctrine

HOTEP: "My first proposition is that, at the root of the material visible universe there is an Omnipresent, Eternal, Boundless and Unchanging Principle: a Divine Life-Essence, that is the unseen cause of the visible universe and all life in it.

This Universal Divine Essence is eternal and unchanging. But when a Material Universe comes into manifestation, then this Universal Life emanates or differentiates individualized units from its own essence, and every such life-unit, enters upon a Pilgrimage of Evolution in the new universe that is just coming into being.

The Universal Divine Essence, then, is the fountain and origin of all life. Every evolving unit has at its innermost core a ray of this Divine Essence, just as a sunbeam has its origin in the sun and carries with it some of the sun's essence."

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