Âtmâ-Buddhi-Manas in man corresponds to the three Logoi in Kosmos. They not only correspond, but each is the radiation from Kosmos to Microcosmos. The third Logos, Mahat, becomes Manas in man, Manas being only Mahat individualized, as the sun-rays are individualized in bodies that absorb them. The sun-rays give life, they fertilize what is already there, and the individual is formed. Mahat, so to say, fertilizes, and Manas is the result.
Buddhi-Manas is the Kshetrajña.
There are seven planes of Mahat, as of all else.
The Human Principles.
Here H. P. B. drew two diagrams, illustrating different ways of representing the human principles. In the first
the two lower are disregarded; they go out, disintegrate, are of no account. Remain five, under the radiation of Âtmâ.
In the second:
the lower Quaternary is regarded as mere matter, objective illusion, and there remain Manas and the Auric Egg, the higher Principles being reflected in the Auric Egg. In all these systems remember the main principle, the descent and re-ascent of the Spirit, in man as in Kosmos. The Spirit is drawn downwards as by spiritual gravitation.