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Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/quaternaryorfour0000unse  \nThe Quaternary Or Four LowerPrinciples  \nAnnie Besant  \nKessinger Publishing's Rare Reprints  \nThousands of Scarce and Hard-to-Find Bookson These and other Subjects!  \n·Americana·LiteratureAncient Mysteries·Medicine &Pharmacy  \n·Animals·MetaphysicalAnthropology·Music  \n·Architecture·Mystery &Crime  \n·Arts·Mythology  \n·Astrology·Natural History  \n·Bibliographies·Outdoor &Nature  \n·Biographies &Memoirs·Philosophy  \n·Body,Mind &Spirit·Poetry  \n·Business &Investing·Political Science  \n·Children &Young Adult·Science  \n·Collectibles·Psychiatry &Psychology  \n·Comparative Religions·Reference  \n·Crafts &Hobbies·Religion &Spiritualism  \n·Earth Sciences·Rhetoric,Education·Sacred Books  \n·Ephemera·Science Fiction  \n·FictionScience &Technology  \n·Folklore·Self-Help  \n·Geography·Social Sciences  \n·Health &Diet·Symbolism  \n·History·Theatre &Drama  \n·Hobbies &Leisure·Theology  \n·Humor·Travel &Explorations  \n·Illustrated Books·War &Military,Language &Culture·Women  \n·LawYoga  \n·Life Sciences·Plus Much More!  \nWe kindly invite you to view our catalog list at:  \nhttp://www.kessinger.net  \n# THIS ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK:\n\nSeven Principles of Man  \nBY THIS AUTHOR:  \nAnnie Besant  \nISBN 1564596281  \nREAD MORE ABOUT THE BOOK AT OUR WEB SITE:  \nhttp://www.kessinger.net  \nOR ORDER THE COMPLETEBOOK FROM YOUR FAVORITE STORE  \nISBN 1564596281  \nBecause this article has been extracted from a parentbook,it may have non-pertinent text at the beginning orend of it.  \nTHE QUATERSARY,OR FoUR LowER PRINCIPLES.  \nDiagram of the Quaternary;transitory and mortal;5ccSecret Doctrine,tol.i.p.262.  \nWe have thus studied man,as to his lower nature,andhave reached the point in his path of evolution to which  \n·The etheric double is here named the Linga Sharira,a namenow discarded in consequence of the confusion caused by employ-ing a well-known term of Hindu philosophy in an entirely newsense.Before her departure H.P.B.urged her pupils to reformthe terminology,which had been too carelessly put together.andwe are trying to carry out her wish.  \n23  \nhe is accompanied by the brute.The quaternary,re.garded alone,ere it is affected by contact with the mind,is merely a lower animal;it awaits the coming of themind to make it man.Theosophy teaches that throughpast ages man was thus slowly builded up,stage bystage,principle by principle,until he stood as a qua-ternary,brooded over but not in contact with the Spirit,waiting for that mind which could alone enable him toprogress farther,and to cone into conscious union withthe Spirit,so ful6lling the very object of his being.Thezonian evolution,in its slow progression,is hurriedthrough in the personal evolution of each human being.each principle which was in the course of ages succes-sively evolved in man on earth,appearing as part of theconstitution of each man at the point of evolution reachedat any given time,the remaining principles being latent,awaiting their gradual manifestation.The evolution ofthe quaternary until it reached the point at which furtherprogress was impossible without mind,is told in eloquentsentences in the archaic stanzas cn which the SecretDoctrn of H.P.Blavatsky is based (breath is the Spirit.for which the human tabernacle is to be builded:thegross body is the dense physical body;the spirit of lifeis Prana;the mirror of its body is the etheric double;the vehicle of desires is Kama):一  \n\"The Breath needed a form:the Fathers gave it.The Breath needed a gross body;the Earth moulded it.The Breath needed the Spirit of_Life;the Solar Lhasbreathed it into its form.The Breath needed a Mirrorof its Body;‘We gave it our own,'said the Dhyanis.The Breath needed a Vehicle of Desires;'It has it,'said the Drainer of Waters.But Breath needs a Mindto embrace the Universe;'We cannot give that,'saidthe Fathers.‘I never had it,'said 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