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materialised themselves more and more as the creation
proceeded. They are perhaps the first emanations, beings
sent into the universe for special reasons — men call them
“gods” or “demi-gods”. So, one of these beings may have
chosen, for some special reason, a psychic being in forma-
tion — he helps it, follows its development and, when this
psychic is sufficiently ready and sufficiently strong to be
able to support the identification, he unites with it, identi-
fies with it to do some work upon earth. This is not very
frequent, but it has happened and still happens. You find
stories in ancient traditions about gods incarnating upon
earth; some mythologies speak of them. That corresponds
to something true. But all psychic beings are not necessarily
united with a being of the higher planes.
CWM 4: 184

Progress of psychic being
There are in the psychic being two very different kinds
of progress: one consisting in its formation, building and
organisation. For the psychic starts by being only a kind
of tiny divine spark within the being and out of this spark
will emerge progressively an independent conscious being
having its own action and will. The psychic being at its
origin is only a spark of the divine consciousness and it is
through successive lives that it builds up a conscious indi-
viduality. It is a progress similar to that of a growing child.
It is a thing in the making. For a long time, in most human
beings the psychic is a being in the making. It is not a fully
individualised, fully conscious being and master of itself
and it needs all its rebirths, one after another, in order to
build itself and become fully conscious.
But this sort of progress has an end. There comes a time
when the being is fully developed, fully individualised,

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