They inhabit or vivify this world as essential [entities and] intelligences, and their correlates and logical contraries inhabit the third habitable world, called the Asiatic.
These “contraries” are called the “Shells,” קליפות, or Demons,[252] who inhabit the seven habitations called Sheba Hachaloth, which are simply the seven Zones of our Globe.[253] Their prince is called in the Kabalah Samaël, the Angel of Death, who is also the seducing Serpent Satan; but this Satan is also Lucifer, the bright Angel of Light, the Light- and Life-bringer, the “Soul” alienated from the Holy Ones, the other Angels, and for a period, anticipating the time when they would descend on Earth to incarnate in their turn.
The Book of Wisdom teaches that:
All Souls [Monads] are preëxistent in the Worlds of Emanations.[254]
And the Zohar teaches that in the “Soul” is the real man, i.e., the Ego and the conscious I am, the Manas.
Says Josephus, repeating the belief of the Essenes,
[Souls] descend from the pure air to be chained to bodies.[255]
And Philo states that:
The air was full of [Souls], and that those which were nearest the earth, descending to be tied to mortal bodies, return back to bodies, being desirous to live in them.[256]
Because through, and in, the human form they will become progressive Beings, whereas the nature of the Angel is purely intransitive; therefore Man has in him the potency of transcending the faculties of the Angels. Hence the Initiates in India say that it is the Brâhman, the Twice-born, who rules the Gods or Devas; and Paul repeated it in his Epistle to the Corinthians: