In the “Arcane Lessons” you have seen that the individual is but a Centre of Consciousness and Force in the great Life Principle, Cosmic Will or S PIRIT. As Aphorism XII has informed you: “There is but One Life and not Many Lives. Separateness is but relative and partial  ---illusory  --- the creative fiction of the Cosmos. . . In the Cosmic Will there is but One Life in which, and by which, is manifested the Many.”