“A particle of that fundamental Most Great Great All-embracing, namely, the Most-Sacred-Prana, has already from the very beginning settled in every form of being of every scale, breeding on the surface of the planet, in the WATER, and also in the atmosphere. 1527 BTG XXI

“This relatively independent totality of cosmic substances named there on the Earth WATER, being in itself one might say, a ‘natural mechanical mixture’, can be preserved exclusively only in conditions of conjunction with common Nature. If the connection of this WATER with common Nature is cut, that is to say, if a little of this WATER is taken out of a river and kept separately in a vessel, then after a certain time the WATER in this vessel inevitably begins to be gradually destroyed, or as it might otherwise be said, to decompose, and this process, to the perceptive organs of beings, usually smells very ‘malodorously’, or, as your favorites would say, this WATER soon ‘stinks’. 5852 BTG XLII

“And the same will proceed with the mixture, as in the given case of this said WATER and flour. Only a temporary mechanical mixture or what is called ‘dough’ will be obtained, in which this WATER, after lasting also a relatively short time, will inevitably begin to decompose. 5853 BTG XLII

“Further, if this dough, that is, WATER mixed with flour, is baked over a fire, then, thanks to substances issuing from or formed from this fire — substances which in the given case, as I have already said, serve as the third holy neutralizing force of the sacred law of Triamazikamno — there will result in the given case a chemical fusion, that is, a permanent fusion of substances’, as a result of which the new totality of substances obtained from this WATER and the flour, namely, the prosphora or bread, will now resist the merciless Heropass, that is to say, it will not decompose for a much longer time. 5854 BTG XLII

“The bread made in this way can ‘dry’, ‘crumble’, or even be to all appearances gradually completely destroyed, yet from this process of transformation the elements of the WATER will, during the said fairly long time, bc no further destroyed but will remain active for the said time among what are called the ‘enduring prosphorian active elements’. 5855 BTG XLII

“‘”As my numerous alchemic investigations have shown me, the substance Eknokh participates in the formation of the organisms of all lives, without exception, breeding on the surface of the Earth as well as within its different spheres, as, for instance, within the Earth, in the WATER, in the atmosphere, and so on. 6186 BTG XLII

Individually the life of every man up to his reaching responsible age corresponds to a drop of WATER in the initial flow of the river, and the place where the dividing of the WATERs occurs corresponds to the time when he attains adulthood. 7378 BTG XLVIII

And so when, on account of the unbecoming life of people, Great Nature was constrained to engender the corresponding in their common presences, then from that time on it was so established for the purposes of the common actualizing of everything existing that human life in general on the Earth should flow in two streams; and Great Nature foresaw and gradually fixed in the details of Her common actualization such a corresponding law-conformableness, that in the drops of the WATER of the initial flow of the river of life, which have corresponding inner subjective what are called “struggles of one’s own self-denial”, there might arise or not arise that “something”, thanks to which certain properties are acquired giving the possibility, at the place of the branching of the WATERs of the river of life, of entering one or the other stream. 7383 BTG XLVIII

This something, which in the common presence of a drop of WATER is a factor actualizing in it the property corresponding to one or another of the streams, is in the common presence of each man who attains responsible age that “I”, which was referred to in today’s lecture. 7384 BTG XLVIII

And it is determined, as has already been said, by the fact that one of these two streams ultimately empties itself into the ocean, that is, into that sphere of general Nature which often has what is called repeated “reciprocal exchange of substances between various great cosmic concentrations” through the process of what is called “Pokhdalissdjancha”, a part of which process, by the way, contemporary people name “cyclone”: in consequence of which this drop of WATER has the possibility to evolve, as it is, to the next higher concentration. 7387 BTG XLVIII