is the same power which has brought the race up to where it is, and which has evolved the individual as part of the race.

All further evolution must result from the conscious employment of the Evolutionary Law by the intelligence of the individual himself. Now it is this recognised innermost creative power that is signified by Solomon --- it must be preceded by the purified and enlightened intellect --- and therefore it is called the Son of David and becomes the Builder of the Temple. For the Master's statement shows that, in its true significance, the Temple is that of Man's individuality; and if this is so with the individual, equally it must be so in the totality of manifested being, and thus it is also true that the whole Universe is none other than the Temple of the Living God.

Symbolising Divine Presence

This great truth of the Divine Presence is what the instructed builders sought to symbolise in Solomon's Temple, whether that Presence be considered on the scale of the Universe or of an individual man. If the Universal Divine Presence is a fact, then the Individual Divine Presence is a fact also, because the individual is included in the Universal; it is the working of a general Law in a particular instance, and thus we are brought to one of the great statements of the ancient wisdom, that Man is the Microcosm --- that is to say, the reproduction of all the principles which give rise to the manifestation of the Universe,