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"The Sevenfold Chord of Being"
 (Book 1 Chapter XXVII)

 

-There are eight planes of being in the involution and evolution. There is Existence, Conscious Force, and Delight above in an upper hemisphere, and Mind, Life, and Matter in the lower one. In between is Supermind.

-The involution is a descent of being from the Pure Existent Being (Sat/Existence) to Conscious Force (Chit) to Delight (Ananda) to Supermind to Mind to Life to Matter. The evolution is the ascent upwards from Matter to Life to Mind to Supermind to Delight to Conscious-Force to Existence.

-The involution is the descent amongst the planes from Existence/Sat to Matter. The evolution is the ascent amongst the planes from Matter to Existence/Sat.

V V	I N V O L U T I O N	Existence/Being (Sat)	E V O L U T I O N	^ ^
		Conscious Force (Chit)
		Delight (Ananda)
		Supermind
		Mind
		Life
		Matter

-Supermind is the intermediary plane that sits between the upper hemisphere of Existence, Conscious-Force, and Delight, and the lower hemisphere of Mind, Life, and Matter.

-Supermind renders the Infinite Reality of the upper hemisphere and its three sub planes of Sat-Chit-Ananda into the plans of the lower hemisphere of Mind, Life, and Matter. In other words, the Infinite reality is rendered by Supermind into the universe. (Supermind as the instrument of Sat/Existence will render the Conscious Force/Sat that will be the forms of force of creation.)

-Supermind also is the plane, the level of consciousness that enables beings, including us humans to link to the planes of the upper hemisphere in our evolution.

-The planes of the upper hemisphere have their corresponding planes in the lower hemisphere, as indicated by this chart.

Involution (Descent)	Existence (Being)	Consciousness Force	Delight	Supermind
Evolution (Ascent)	Matter	Life	Psychic Being	Mind

The inversion of Spirit/Existence is the non-spirit of the inconscience of Matter. The inversion of Conscious Force is the Force without consciousness that is Life/Energy. The inversion of Delight is Psychic Being buried deep within us. The inversion of Supermind where Knowledge and Will are one is Mind in living beings/man where they are divided.

-We human beings are manifestations of the planes of the lower hemisphere. Matter takes shape as our physical bodies. Life takes shape as the life force in us, the animated, alive quality of our being. Mind for us takes shape as our mentality. Above that are the planes of spiritualized mind and on to Supermind and the upper hemisphere. In our evolution of consciousness, we move up amongst these planes. The purpose of our existence is to move upwards in our ascent amongst these planes.

[Note: Life in the universe begins at the plane of Life in the descent/the involution. That plane of Life is Energy. It is out of that energy that Matter will take shape, which is the final plane in the ascent, and the first plane in the ascent in the eight chord of being.]

[-An Eighth Chord: There is also the Psychic being in us and life that is an eighth plane. When we as individuals move up from our mentality to spiritual mind and above, there is also a movement within. At the depths within is our Psychic Being. From there we move up in consciousness. In other words, to move up, we need to move within to the Psychic. The Psychic is also where we discover our ultimate purpose in life -- delight of being -- mirroring the plane of Delight/Ananda of the upper hemisphere. It is, however, buried within us and we must discover it for it to be consciously part of us.]