The Third Sort: This concerns the Glorious Maker and looks to Him. While the benefits and results of everything that look to the things themselves are one, those looking to the Glorious Maker are myriad. For the Glorious Maker beholds the wonders of His art Himself, He observes the manifestation of His Names in beings which He Himself has fashioned. As far as this mighty third sort is concerned, for the things to live even for a second is sufficient.

There is also a mystery of Self-Subsistence requiring the existence of all things which will be explained in the Third Ray.

At one time I was investigating the talisman of the universe and the riddle of creation, which lies in its being a manifestation, together with the instances of wisdom and benefits in beings, and I said: “I wonder why these things display themselves in this way and then swiftly vanish and are lost? I look at their individual features; they have been attired, decked out and adorned in an orderly, purposeful fashion and sent to this display and exhibition. But then they disappear within one or two days, and some of them within a few minutes; uselessly and in vain they vanish. What is the purpose in their being seen by us for this short time?” I was most curious.