94 "Matter, it must be remembered, is that totality of Existence in the Kosmos which falls within any of the planes of possible perception."—S. D., I, 560.
These Existences might be enumerated as follows:
1. The Seven Heavenly Men.  In their totality they make up the Body of the Grand Man of the Heavens, the Logos.
Other names for these Beings:

		a. The seven planetary Logoi or Spirits.

		b. The Prajapatis.

		c. The seven Lords of the Rays.

		d. The Dyhan Chohans.

		e. The seven Spirits before the Throne.

		f. The seven Archangels.

		g. The seven Logoi.

		h. The seven Builders.

—S. D., I, 115, 130, 152, 535.
They are the informing Entities of the Divine Ray, the Ray of the Second Logos, in much the same sense as Fohat and his seven Brothers are the totality of the Primordial Ray.—S. D., I, 100, 108, 155.
a. Matter is fecundated by the Primordial Ray of Intelligence.  This is the anima mundi, the soul of the world.

		b. The Primordial Ray is the vehicle for the Divine Ray of Love and Wisdom.  The merging of these two is the aim of evolution.

		c. The Divine Ray is sevenfold.  It brings in seven Entities.

		d. These seven are:

     1. The Logos of Will or Power.      5. The Logos of Concrete Science.
     2. The Logos of Love and Wisdom.      6. The Logos of Devotion or Abstract Idealism.
     3. The Logos of Activity.      7. The Logos of Ceremonial Law or Order.
     4. The Logos of Harmony.
 
2. Men, The Monad, The Units of Consciousness.  They, in their totality, make up the Bodies of the seven Heavenly Men.  Each Monad is found upon one of the seven Rays.—S. D., I, 197, 285, 624; S. D., II, 85, 176, 196.
3. Devas.—S. D. I, 308; S. D., II, 107.
Such devas are, for instance:

		a. The deva Lord of a plane.  The sphere of his body is the entire plane.

		b.  Groups of building devas.

4. Entities involved in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms.—S. D., I, 210, 298.

		a. The life of the third Logos—the atom of matter.

		b. The life of the second Logos—groups of atoms built into forms, plant, animal.

		c. The life of the first Logos—the forms indwelt by highest Spirit.

5. The spirit of a planet.—S. D., I, 178; S. D., II, 251, 500.
He is the sum-total of the many involutionary lives upon a planet.
6. The atom.—S. D., I, 559, 620-622.
Summing Up: For the purpose and the goal see S. D., I, 70, 132.