Consciousness: The Ultimate Mystery Of God
What is man, after all, but a monad more or less awakened? He indeed, in his present stage of evolution, may be considered as sleeping to monads higher than he; but as compared with the sleeping monads, the sleeping spiritual atoms or consciousness centers which form the material framework and substance of the physical cosmos, he walks like a god. His impulses, thoughts, and emotions, his ideals, aspirations, and instinctive reaching out to higher and nobler things, as well as the vibrations emanating from the different vehicles of his psychological organism in which he lives and works, affect not merely the matter of his own body, but electrically, magnetically, affect likewise the entire physical, mental, and spiritual sphere surrounding him, as far as those human vibrations of his can and do reach.
These spiritual consciousness centers in themselves are absolutely and fully awakened; but those which form the lowest steps of the cosmic hierarchies are in the present stage of evolution passing through the 'sleeping' phase of their long developmentary pilgrimage. They themselves, in the core of their being, are always fully awake in their own monadic sphere, but their vehicles, their lowest 'selves,' are not spiritually awakened to and on this our present plane.
Every minutest speck of even physical matter that surrounds us is built of these sleeping monads, entities of spiritual nature at their core or heart, but spiritually sleeping on this plane, embryos as it were, whose destiny it is to develop into full-grown, self-conscious gods, the inspiring geniuses of future new cosmoi, of universes