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"When spirit has permeated every minutest atom of the seven principles of Kosmos, then the secondary creation, after the above-mentioned period of rest, begins.   Beginning with the metaphysical and the suprahuman, it ends in the physical and purely human natures of Kosmos and man.   Primary Creation is called the Creation of Light (Spirit);  [...]

"In the Sephir Yetzirah, the Kabbalistic Book of Creation, the Divine Substance is represented as having alone existed from the eternity, boundless and absolute; and as having emitted from itself the Spirit.   "One is the Spirit of the living God, blessed be his Name, who liveth forever! Voice, Spirit and Word, this is the [...]

"Esoterically, as well as exoterically, all the above enumerated Creations stand for the (7) periods of Evolution, whether after an "Age" or a "Day" of Brahma.   This is the teaching par excellence of Occult Philosophy, which, however, never uses the term "creation", nor even that of evolution, "with regard to primary 'creation'"; but calls [...]

"The Seven Creations are found in almost every Purana. They are preceded by what Horace Hayman Wilson translates {in the Vishnu Purana} as "the indiscrete Principle" - absolute Spirit independent of any relation with objects of sense.   They are:  (1) the Universal Soul, Infinite Intellect, or Divine Mind; (2) elemental creation, the first differentiation [...]