112 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

appears to be an economy of nature, for each
insect, each plant, each animal does not go
through every experieiwe, but is able thus to
share it -with its own kith and kin.

Group-souls at any level or at all levels arrange
themselves into seven great types, according to the
Minister of the Deity through whom their life has
poured forth. These types are clearly distinguish-
able in all the kingdoms, and the successive forms
taken by any one of them form a connected series,
so that animals, vegetables, minerals and the
varieties of the elemental creatures may all be
arranged into seven great groups, and the life com-
ing along one of those lines will not diverge into
any of the others.

ITo detailed list has yet been made of the
animals, plants or minerals from this point of view;

but it is certain that the life which is found ensoul-
ing a mineral of a particular type will never vivify
a mineral of any other type than its own, though
within that type it may vary. When it passes on
to the vegetable and animal kingdoms it will
inhabit vegetables and animals of that type and no
other ; and when it eventually reaches humanity it
will individualise into men of that type and of no
other.

Individualisation is the breaking away from
-the group soul and becoming a separate entity ;

is possible only for domestic animals and only
for certain kinds of these; for the life wave
spends a long time in each kingdom and evolu-
tion is a very slow (as we count time) process.
In the case of domestic animals it is to lovers of