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in order to put his project into execution;

3. And, finally, he acts.

This is the essential form of every human enterprise which brings into play the entire
range of its activity.

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Man's acquisition of the higher centres led to the formation in him of the lower
intellectual centre and the appearance of the latter completed the I of the Personality:

this completion, in its turn, enables the man who follows the scale of his evolution, to

clear the interval between the FA and the MI of his scale, and, when he reaches the note

MI, his development begins.
The note MI has the same characteristics in all descending scales of creation,

particularly in those of a positive nature. In the Great cosmic Octave, it corresponds to

the Earth. We must remember also, that the esoteric meaning of this syllable is: Mixtus
Orbis or mixed world. In the octave of human evolution, the interior life of man assumes

this same character of Mixtus Orbis, when growth is achieved and the interval cleared.

This is to say, that, unlike an animal, or a plant which lacks the faculty of individual

development, man ceases to be oriented in one direction only. Animal or vegetable

evolution comes to a halt with fructification. The animal and even more so the plant,
does not and cannot have interior conflicts. They have one aim only: the preservation of

life in view of procreation, and all their efforts are directed towards this aim.

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Supra, pp. 35, 36.