Vrindavan Das, Nirvana
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The Noonday Glory
“The Higher Mind is the intellectual fruitage and the efflorescence of intellectual self-conscious Egotism in the higher spiritual sense. Thus he is neither God nor Pure Reason but a blending of these faculties with the Soul. Thence he may proceed to the higher states of bliss towards that fourth plane of consciousness wherein human evolution reaches the Divine. ...
And so, from the highest Archangel, or Dhyân Chohan, down to the last conscious Builder of the inferior class of spiritual Entities, all such have been men, having lived aeons ago in other cycles of time on earth in its earlier forms or incarnations, or in other spheres. In the same sense the inferior, semi-intelligent and non-intelligent Elementals are all future men; for all find their origin in these fiery, brilliantly coloured particles. The higher is on the upper rung of the Ladder of Being; he is the Watcher, the Divine Prototype, who observes his Shadows at the lower rung. Between them stretches a golden thread which becomes more radiant with every change in the consciousness of the Shadow as it evolves upward, until the Light of the Morning Sun has become the Noonday Glory.”
— Jean Michaud, The Golden Star