He came forth from the invisible part of cosmic being in aeons so far bygone in the past that mankind, except the great sages and seers, has lost all count thereof. Out of the invisible into the visible, like the growth of a plant, comes man, the man-plant of eternity. Such in brief is the history of man, the man-plant of the ages. A human seed comes from the ethereal worlds and is the laya-center through which streams from and builds up from the interior worlds the body to be, cell by cell. This seed grows into the physical body and, as it grows, incarnation of the human energies takes place concordantly, coordinately, and progressively, until maturity is reached, and at that point you see the full-grown man and more or less fully incarnated human soul.
Man has holy loves, aspirations, hope, and vision.
The pane of glass is the vehicle or transmitter of this wondrous quality or force streaming from the sun above. The human soul is like this pane of glass, letting through as much of the golden sunlight of the spirit as its evolutionary development enables it to do. The soul is itself an ethereal vehicle or carrier of the deathless and immortal energies of the productive spirit or monad. No, it advances ever, endlessly evolving and growing. But words fail here to describe this sublime conception, and we can merely point to the evolutionary path vanishing in both directions into infinity and into eternity, as beginningless as it is unending.