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21 existence from three primary entities and that these three entities, again, are evolved out of a single entity or. To take a familiar example, the seven coloured rays in the solar ray are evolved out oi three primary coloured rays; and the three primary colours co-exist with the four secondary colours in the solar rays. Similarly, the three primary entities which brought man into existence co-exist in him with the four secondary entities which arose from different combinations of the three primary entities.

Now these seven entities which in their totality constitute man, are as follows:—I shall enumerate them in the order adopted in the "Fragments" as far as the two orders (the Brahmanical and the Tibetan) coincide:—