Physical World Physical Plane These will supersede the names given in Vol.

II of _The Inner Life._ This ego is the man during the human stage of evolution; he is the nearest correspondence, in fact, to the ordinary unscientific conception of the soul.

He lives unchanged (except for his growth) from the moment of individualization until humanity is transcended and merged into divinity.
He is in no way affected by what we call birth and death; what we commonly consider as his life is only a day in his life.

The body which we can see, the body which is born and dies, is a garment which he puts on for the purposes of a certain part of his evolution.
Nor is it the only body which he assumes.

Before he, the ego in the higher mental world, can take a vehicle belonging to the physical world, he must make a connection with it through the lower mental and astral worlds.