120. Parallel of four stages of life in creation

DISCOURSES ON

RADHASOAMI FAITH

BY

MAHARAJ SAHAB

Pandit Brahm Sankar Misra, M.A.

120. PARALLEL OF FOUR STAGES OF LIFE IN CREATION

            186. As the entire creation has been evolved, in accordance with the theory previously stated, by means of spiritual currents which supply energy in various forms and degrees to everything in nature, it will not be illogical to find a parallel in all the divisions of creation to the four stages traceable to the four stages traceable in the individual microcosm. We have already, by implication, stated that the four stages are due to the flow and ebb of spiritual currents. They would, therefore, exist in that part of the macrocosm which is subject to similar action. In the purely spiritual regions, the creation is immortal and stationary. There is, therefore, no division of the kind referred to, in the first grand division. The second and third grand visions are, however, subject to the actions of contrary forces, and we ought to seek in the parallel referred to. As Brahmanda is subject to changes only at the time of the great dissolution which occurs after an inconceivably long interval, the four stages are hardly manifest there.