For this final outpouring is not like the others, a mighty outrush affecting thousands or millions simultaneously; it comes to each one individually as that one is ready to receive it.  This outpouring has already descended as far as the intuitional world; but it comes no farther than that until this upward leap is made by the soul of the animal from below; but when that happens this Third Outpouring leaps down to meet it, and in the higher mental world is formed an ego, a permanent individuality—­permanent, that is, until, far later in his evolution, the man transcends it and reaches back to the divine unity from which he came.  To make this ego, the fragment of the group-soul (which has hitherto played the part always of ensouling force) becomes in its turn a vehicle, and is itself ensouled by that divine Spark which has fallen into it from on high.  That Spark may be said to have been hovering in the monadic world over the group-soul through the whole of its previous evolution, unable to effect a junction with it until its corresponding fragment in the group-soul had developed sufficiently to permit it.  It is this breaking away from the rest of the group-soul and developing a separate ego which marks the distinction between the highest animal and the lowest man.

Chapter V

THE CONSTITUTION OF MAN

Man is therefore in essence a Spark of the divine Fire, belonging to the monadic world.[1] To that Spark, dwelling all the time in that world, we give the name “Monad”.  For the purposes of human evolution the Monad manifests itself in lower worlds.  When it descends one stage and enters the spiritual world, it shows itself there as the triple Spirit having itself three aspects (just as in worlds infinitely higher the Deity has His three Aspects).  Of those three one remains always in that world, and we call that the Spirit in man.  The second aspect manifests itself in the intuitional world, and we speak of it as the Intuition in man.  The third shows itself in the higher mental world, and we call it the Intelligence in man.  These three aspects taken together constitute the ego which ensouls the fragment from the group-soul.  Thus man as we know him, though in reality a Monad residing in the monadic world, shows himself as an ego in the higher mental world, manifesting these three aspects of himself (Spirit, Intuition and Intelligence) through that vehicle of higher mental matter which we name the causal body.

Footnote 1:  The President has now decided upon a set of names for the planes, so for the future these will be used instead of those previously employed.  A table of them is given below for reference.

NEW NAMES                       OLD NAMES
1.  Divine World                 Adi Plane
2.  Monadic World                Anupadaka Plane
3.  Spiritual World              Atmic or Nirvanic Plane
4.  Intuitional World            Buddhic Plane
5.  Mental World                 Mental Plane
6.  Emotional or Astral World    Astral Plane
7.  Physical World               Physical Plane

These will supersede the names given in Vol.  II of The Inner Life.