Is not this material world of ours very low down in the scale in the system of worlds that form the creation?
Ours is the material world, but it is not necessarily "low down," at least, not for that reason; if it is low down, it is because it is obscure and ignorant, not because it is material. It is a mistake to make "matter" a synonym for obscurity and ignorance. And the material world too is not the only world in which we live: it is rather one of many in which we exist simultaneously, and in one way the most important of them all. For this world of matter is the point of concentration of all the worlds; it is the field of concretisation of all the worlds; it is the place where all the worlds will have to manifest. At present it is disharmonious and obscure; but that is only an accident, a false start.
One day it will become beautiful, rhythmic, full of light; for that is the consummation for which it was made.
