CHAPTER IV.
THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE All the impulses of life which I have described as building the interpenetrating worlds come forth from the Third Aspect of the Deity.
Hence in the Christian scheme that Aspect is called "the Giver of Life", the Spirit who brooded over the face of the waters of space.

In Theosophical literature these impulses are usually taken as a whole, and called the First Outpouring.
When the worlds had been prepared to this extent, and most of the chemical elements already existed, the Second Outpouring of life took place, and this came from the Second Aspect of the Deity.

It brought with it the power of combination.

In all the worlds it found existing what may be thought of as elements corresponding to those worlds.

It proceeded to combine those elements into organisms which it then ensouled, and in this way it built up the seven kingdoms of Nature.