The Secret Doctrine, Volume II. Anthropogenesis

Chapter 637

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It is, perhaps, with an eye to this degradation of the highest and purest Spirits, who broke through the intermediate planes of lower consciousness, the “Seven Circles of Fire” of Pymander, that St. James is made to say “This wisdom (sophia) descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish”; now this Sophia is Manas, the “Human Soul,” the Spiritual Wisdom or Soul being Buddhi, which being so near the Absolute, is, per se, only latent consciousness, and is dependent upon Manas for manifestation beyond its own plane.

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