5. According to Radhasoami Faith there are three factors in the creation, of which the first and principal and the prime mover and life-giver is the Spirit, or Word or Sound, the second or the main working factor is Mind and the third the Matter, of which the body and senses (the instruments of action) are made.
The first principle or factor, namely Spirit, is the prime cause of everything and presides over all, and has its abode in the uppermost regions above all and beyond the Mind (the second factor) in the innermost part of the body.
The locality of the Mind or the second factor, is below that of Spirit or outside the innermost quarter, while the flesh or body formed of Matter, the third factor, occupies the outmost portion of the vehicle or human form with the senses attached or human form with the senses attached thereto. Accordingly there are three degrees, and hence three Grand Divisions in the Universe or Macrocosm with corresponding divisions in the human body or Microcosm.
6. The three degrees or grand divisions, comprised in the entire creation, according to Radhasoami Faith are: -
- SPIRITUAL
- SPIRITUAL-MATERIAL
- MATERIAL-SPIRITUAL
Pure spirit, uncontaminated with matter, exists in the first grand division. Here the Supreme Being reigns over absolutely spiritual life. This, the purest possible form of life, has no desire but to love and server the Supreme Being. The joys - the very existence -- of this pure spirit-life are derived from the Supreme Being who is the Ocean of spirit, love and joy. Nothing concerning this degree is known or has been known to the founder of any religious creed. It comprises six sub-division and is called the Dayal Desk or the regions of Mercy.
7. The second or Spiritual-Material degree or grand division is entirely free from all worldly passions and desires of the lower order. Likening to Supreme Being to an Ocean, the president of the second degree is a tide from that Ocean. He is a kind of Viceroy who rules over all life existing in the space comprised in the second and third degree divisions committed to his care. As its name indicates, the spiritual-material degree contains both spirit and matter. But matter is, comparatively speaking, pure and is subject to, and controlled by spirit. Life here is very pure and through clothed in pure material forms, spirit predominates. This degree also comprises six subdivisions and is called the Brahmand or the regions of Universal Mind and pure matter.
8. In the third or material-spiritual degree matter predominates over spirit. Life is composed of spirits wholly clothed in course matter. Having quite forgotten in higher abode from which they originally sprang, the spirits here have acquired carnal desires and passions. THis also comprises six sub-divisions and is called the Pind or the regions of Individual Mind and course matter.
9. This degree is dominated over by a wave emanating from the Supreme Being and flowing through the tide which has already been licensed to a Viceroy. This wave or current may, for want of a better name be called Governor who presides over the material universe and controls matter.
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