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operation of transcendence which is within human reach. A passive force in conception,
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woman becomes an active force in the creative act . In both cases, the source of
fecundation lies in the functioning of the sexual centre whose nature has something of
that of the higher centres, and which is, thus, capable of throwing a bridge between our
two natures. The passage from bestial love to really human Love leads us on towards
objective Love - the Love to which Jesus refers in the Sermon on the Mount. This
objective Love gives us a new, broader and more refined vision of still more subtle forms
of Love that would reach up to the first impulse of the Creation [missing, see French
original, Gnôsis II, p. 55].
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Let us examine further the propagation of the creative force all along our Ray of
Creation, starting from the Sun. We have seen that this force is qualitatively
transformed as it moves farther and farther away from Absolute I, as it is said in the
Scriptures:
There is one glory of the Sun, and another glory of the Moon, and another glory of
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the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory .
Situated between the Sun and the Moon, the Earth plays, the role of a transmitting-
station. This is due to the application of the universal law according to which the source
of the active force, from which life proceeds, in a given cosmos, is to be found in the
nearest higher cosmos.
3 Ref. T. I, pp. 204-205, French original version, pp. 216-219, English manuscript.
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I Corinthians, XV, 40-41. Quoted according to the Slavonic text which corresponds with the
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Greek text: glory δόξα The Vulgate uses the word glory in the 40 verse and replaces it with
claritas in verse 41. In the Slavonic and Greek texts, the use of the word glory is uniform.
The meaning of "glory" is obviously much wider than just splinter which could otherwise be
misunderstood in a restrictive sense of luminous intensity.